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ABOUND A BIG STATE BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. Congratulations to Governor-Klect Tanner-Mrs. Ryan Gets Out the Fire Department--Chicago Woman's Unlucky Experience, John B. Tanner to Be Married. The marraige of John R. Tanner, Gov­ ernor-elect of Illinois, and Miss Cora Edith English, of Springfield, will occur on Dec. »30 at high noon in St. Paul's Church, Springfield, the ceremony be­ ing performed by the Rev. Frederick Tay­ lor. The lady was christened in( St. Paul's, and will be married at the altar where she so lolig worshiped. Miss En­ glish was born and raised in Spring­ field. She is the daughter of Turney En­ glish, a prominent business man. Her family is one of the oldest in the United States, tracing its ancestry through Vir­ ginia and MarylanC^gStk to England, whence her ancestors- s&iled about 1622. Her mother was Miss Jane Pyncheon, the daughter of a prominent officer in the Brit­ ish army. Her grandfather, Gen. James Turney, was one'of the , early circuit judges of the State. Among the lady's near relatives are W. H- English of In­ diana, Dr. Norviri-Gregn. who was presi­ dent of the Western Union Telegraph Company; Gov. Peter Turney of Ten­ nessee; Judge W. R. Hoke, of Louisville; Gen. J. B. Fry, United Stated Army, and Gen. Daniel MeClure, ex-Assistant Pay­ master General of the United States Army. After the ceremony Gov. and • Mrs. Tanner will take a short trip to the South, returning to. Springfield in time for the'inauguration-. sThis marriage will add greatly to the public interest respect­ ing the incoming* administration. The gubernatorial mansion will be refitted and will be for the next four years the scene of many festivities. Lake Death List Is Sixty-six. The season of navigation on the lakes, now just closing, has been remarkably free from disasters where a large loss of life was involved. The most serious dis­ aster was the wrecking of the schooner Waukesha, off Muskegon, Nov. 7, when six lives were lost. The schooner Mary D. Ayer went down with five of her crew May 17. The schooner Sumatra foun­ dered off Milwaukee Sept. 4, carrying down four seamen. A boiler explosion on the Rhoda Stewart, off Alpena, ended three lives, and three were burned with the City of Kalamazoo Nov. 30. July 9 the schooner Little Wissahickon went down with three seamen. Twenty-six sailors fell overboard and were drowned. Six fell through open hatches and were killed. One diver was suffocated. Mis­ cellaneous causes make up the remainder of the death list of sixty-six. One passen­ ger only was lost. It is believed to have been a case of suicide. Her Fire Alarm. Letter. No sign of fire could Marshal Donohue, of Chicago, find the other day, when, with Engine Companies Nos. 31, 36 and 66 and Chemical and Truck Companies No. 12 he dashed up to the glaring red alarm box at Ogden avenue and 12th street. In searching for a cause for the alarm Marshal Donohue opened the box, which yields when one turns a convenient knob. On the inside the firefighter found a letter. In the upper left hand corner was Tthe following address, evidently that of the writer: : Mrs. J. Ryan, : : No. 786 Rockwell street. : » • * *• » * * * <c A fireman went with the letter to this address. Mrs. Ryan appeared at the door. '"Sure," she said, when handed the mis­ sive, and asked if it were hers. "I wrote it myself and flut it in the letter-box. Where did you get it?" Her Confidence Coats $2,000. Mrs. Paul Freese, of Chicago, had $4,000 on deposit in one of the city banks. She feared a panic, .and, drawing the money from the bank, locked it up in the First National Bank safety deposit vault. Her confidence in the bank was restored «'£& she drew the money out and started with it to the bank. The money was in two equal packages. One of these was in the bosom of her dress. The other was in her pocketbook in her dress-pocket. When she arrived at the bank she discovered that the purse and $2,000 were gone. It is supp^sed«that a pickpocket robbed her or that she lost the bills. Crush el by a Turntt.ble. Prof. John Moore, a teacher in the Metropolitan Conservatory of Chicago in "txie Isabella Building, was so frightfully crushed bv a turntable of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company that he died an hour later in the County Hos­ pital. The friends of Prof. Moore are at a loss to account for his being in the vicinity of the turntable at such an un­ seemly hour. He was not addicted to the use of intoxicants, and it is the belief of his friends that he had been sandbagged and robbed, after which he was thrown into the pit where he was fatally crushed. State News in Brief. The Markley Shoe Company, of Quin- cy, has made an assignment. Liabilities, $9,000; assets, not known. Albert C. Worms, a Chicago veterinary surgeon, shot and killed a thief. Worms detected a man in the act of stealing a horse blanket from his carriage, and after giving chase he fired the fatal shot. The Cicero volice are investigating the sudden death of Mrs. Nora C. Blanchard, who died in the home of Mrs. Mary H. Philbrick, a Christian science healer, liv­ ing at Austin. Mrs. Blanchard went to Austin three weeks ago and put herself under the treatment of Mrs. Philbrick. She is said to have been suffering from general debility. Saturday evening as she was going from the second to the first floor in Mrs. Philbrick's house she sud­ denly collapsed, and when picked up was dead. Joliet society, circles were arosued on learning that Miss Susie Scliott and John Raible, of that city, were secretly mar­ ried in Kenosha, Wis., two months ago. Frank J. Boyle, 27 years of age, a farmer residing near Princeville, died Saturday morning as the result of inju­ ries inflicted some days ago by a stranger. He was found at his home Wednesday evening in an unconscious condition. The post-mortem showed death to have re­ sulted from a blow on the head, supposed to have been inflicted by a stranger who was given a place husking corn. Robbery was the motive. Gov. Altgeld pardoned John B. Sad­ dler, who was convicted in Cook County in 1895 of working a confidence game and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. His time has almost expired, and the Governor thought he had been suffi­ ciently punished. The Illinois State Live Stock Commis­ sioners held their last quarterly meeting of the year at Springfield. Dr. M. R. Trumbower, the State Veterinarian, re­ ported no present cootie diseases of a serious nature in the State; cattle gener­ ally were suffering les? from sickness than for any time during the past year. He reported hog cholera as raging in the northers part of the State. An earthquake shock was felt at Cairo Tuesday afternoon. The Sheriff has taken possession of the •drug store of John P. Thornton at Joliet on executions. * Max A. Schweind, a traveling salesman representing the Pratt Shoe Fastener Company of Chicago, became violently insane at the Halliday House in Cairo. He was sent to the insane asylum. EJe is 36 years old and has a wife afyl three children at Springfield, Mass. At Joliet in the condemnation suit of the sanitary board against the Western Stone Company the company was award­ ed $146 an acre for 135 acres of bottom land between Lockport and Joliet. The board offered the company $75 an acre, but the company demanded $2,000. In Ford County Wednesday morning a German farm hand named "Fred Geddy, employed by a farmer named John Stroh, choked his wife to, death and hanged her dead" body to a door with a cord. His lit­ tle daughter, aged 6, found her mother hangings-lifeless, and with a pair of scis­ sors cut the body down. Geddy, who is believed to be insane, escaped. The great work of constructing the dou­ ble deck section of the Union stock yards is finished. The new section covers for­ ty-nine acres and will accommodate 220,- 000 hogs. In its construction 18,000,000 feet of lumber was used, thirteen carloads of water pipe, eighteen carloads of nails, and from 500 to 700 men were employed on the work. Under the old system of unloading stock only 250 cars could be accommodated, but Under the new ar­ rangement 525 cars can be unloaded. In the section just completed 356 cars of stock can be unloaded simultaneously. . William and Patrick Barry, well-to-do farmers, residing six miles south of Har­ vard, were poisoned Tuesday by taking strychnine. In the absence of their moth­ er, who was their housekeeper, they were preparing the noonday meal. They found a saucer that contained flour, in which Strychnine had been mixed by their moth­ er to kill rats. They used the floyr to make the gravy, and sat down to eat the meal, being joined by their two hired men and a nephew. Shortly afterward all were taken violently ill, and it is prob­ able that three of the five will die. Four masked men entered the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jacobsen, 1106 Florence .avenue, Evanston, Monday morning at 2 o'clock and cruelly Vent and maltreated the two aged occupants, and finally by slow torture vainly endeavored to extract from the feeble old woman a confession of the hiding place which held the small savings of the household. The robers found but $8 and three silver watches, valued at $30. After they had in a spirit of revenge for the smallness of the booty, overturned and demolished the meager furniture of the hut, they freed the quaking prisoners aud escaped, hav­ ing indited a chapter of crime that in some respects has no equal in the history of lawless exploits along the north shore. A notice was posted in the Chicago, Biiil'ington and Quincy shops at Gales- burg reducing the hours of the large force, of workingnien to thirty-two a week.; This is but part of a general order that, has been applied over the system, and. supplements one made a month ago. There were also laid off some men in each department, although the company kept as many men as possible, preferring to cut the hours rather than throw a large force of men out of work at the beginning of winter. Skilled machinists, who four! years ago were making $16 to $20 a week, are now making but $8 a Week, and oth-' ers in like proportion. The men are very blue over the situation. The train de­ partment also has suffered, a number of crews having been laid off. The coin-! pany's officers say that the cut results from the extreme dullness of business. Supt. F. C. Rvee thinks that the reduction will be temporary. ) r " Tlic-re have just .begn interred in the; Carlyle cemetery the remains of the* largest man in Clinton County, and prob-j ably in Southern Illinois. They were those of Johann Heinricli Budden, whoj weighed 400 pounds. Three years agoi his body became so heavy that his limbs refused to carry the ponderous weight, and since that time he was almost lielp^ less. A few months ago he fell, and it required the efforts of two strong men, aided by an improvised derrick, to get him on his feet again. Budden's waist measurement was 130 inches, one of hia arms was larger than the legs of an ordinary man, and his lower limbs abovq the knee were each equal to the circum­ ference of any medium sized person's body. He required a coffin six feet long, twenty-six inches wide and twenty-foui inches deep, which is double extra size. The deceased was born in Prussia iq 1824. He had lived in Clinton County fifty years, and had acquired a small for­ tune. It might be said that Bryan polled the "heaviest vote" in Southern Illinois, as Budden cast his ballot for the "boy orator." The official vote for President, cast at the recent election held in tiiis State, lias just been tabulated by the Secretary of State, and the following are the official footings: William McKinley (Rep.) 607,130 W. J. Bryan (Dem. Pop.) *.404,523 W. J. Bryan (middle-of-the-road) . 1,090 Joshua Levering (Pro.) 9,796 Charles H. Matchett (Soc.-Lab.) . 1,147 Charles E. Bentley (Nat. Party) . 793 John M. Palmer (G. S. Dem.) .... 6,390 The following are the official footings on candidates for State officers: For Governor-- Tanner (Rep.) 587,587 Altgeld (Dem.) 474,270 Gere (Pro.) 14,582 Forman (gold Dem.) 8,100 Higgs (national) 723 Baustian (Socialist Labor) 9S3 Lieutenant Governor-- Northcott (Rep.) .601,829 Crawford (Dem.) ... 464,477! Kepley (Pro.) 11,354 Babcock (gold Dem.) 7,158 Davis (Socialist Labor) . 1,084 Kirkpatrick (national) 724; Lloyd (midde-of-the-road) 1,010 Henry Budde, a well-known Carlyle citizen, died Friday. Corpulency caused his death. His weight was nearly 400 pounds. He was 65 years of age and a native of Prussia. J. Reilly Sharp and Louis H. Smith, agents of the Phoenix Insurance Com­ pany, have each brought suit in the Mont­ gomery County Circuit Court against Ja­ cob Poland, an aged farmer living east of Hillsboro, for malicious prosecution, each claiming $4,000 damages. They were recently acquitted of forging a pre­ mium note on a di«?ge brought'by Mr. Poland. John Akin, a convict la the Joliet peni­ tentiary for nineteen years, who was pardoned by the Governor, gone to his family in Colorado. Akin snu sen­ tenced for a murder committed thirteen years before he was arrested, and was one of the oldest convicts in term of sen­ tence in the prison. Carlyle will be the scene during the holidays of a unique entertainment. The originators are the members of the Car­ lyle Literary and Social Club. Next month, as a sort of a diversion from the regular channel of anfcsement, these young men propose to give a minstre! show, and have already commenced prep* arations for the event ANXIETY IS ASSUMED. DEMOCRATS NOT SINCERE IN CLAMOR FOR REFORM. Their Present Hysterics Are Counter­ feit and Are indulged in for the Purpose of Puttins Republicans in a Hole--Republican Press Comment. 'Democrats and the Revenues, Democratic organs are becoming seri­ ously disturbed about the deficiency iu the Government's revenues, and insist that it should be met at once. These organs are supporters of the adminis­ tration. It is passing strange that they have so recently made the discovery of the evils growing out of insufficient revenue. These evils have existed for several years--in fact, ever since the passage of the Wilson tariff bill. They are not new, and they are not as harm­ ful as they have been. The crowning evil was the passage of a revenue bill which did not provide the requisite rev­ enue. This led to the borrowing of money at usurious rates of interest, the weakening of public confidence and the periodic runs on the treasury's gold re­ serve, but the people have decided to place the Republican party in charge of affairs, and the country is rapidly re­ covering from the effects of bad states­ manship. ' : ':"V'^ -'v, • ' Gold Is accumulating in the treasury, confidence has been to a large extent restored, and the remnants of the enor­ mous loans effected by.-, Mr. Cleveland will meet the deficiency until a Repub­ lican administration lias had time to pass a proper revenue law. If the Dem­ ocrats are so much alarmed about the deficiency, they have it in their power to meet it and wipe it out. They can do this within a month. They have a pig­ eon-holed bill, prepared and passed by the Republicans of the House at the last session, in response to the almost pan­ icky demand of the President. It was a temporary expedient, passed as such, and was only intended to cover a Cer­ tain period, and may, therefore, need revision in some particulars, but it will stave off an imaginary crisis just as well as any bill that the Democrats can prepare. They have only to rescue this measure from the parliamentary entan­ glement in which they involved it and pass it, and there will cease to be a de­ ficiency during the interval between the regular sessions of Congress. But they have not the slightest idea of taking such a step. The anxiety of the Democratic organs is assumed. Their hysterics are counterfeit. They would like to put the Republicans in a hole, and if they cannot do that they hope to produce an unfavorable impres­ sion on the public mind. They will do neither the one nor the other. The Republicans have done all in their pow­ er to. relieve the present administration from the embarrassments into which it deliberately plunged, and nothing more will be done until the party gets control of the government and becomes actual­ ly responsible for the management of public affairs.--Springfield Union. tions In Tennessee. They look upon opposition as impious. Many of them belieye that tfiey ate fully justified In resorting to any method to defeat such opposition. They have more than once stolen the State, and they are proud of it." Bryan Should Study This. While Bryan is receiving the con­ gratulations of his free-silver friends in the mining States for not being elect­ ed^ wheat has quietly slipped up to a dollar. This ought to be an awful blow to the Boy Orator's self-sufficiency. His •plea during the campaign was that, as silver advanced in price so wheat would advance, and vice versa, aud by adopt­ ing free silver coinage the farmers would get a dollar for their wheat, or more. The sudden and rapid advance of wheat about midway the campaign while silver continued to drop gave Bry­ an a body blow and temporarily knock­ ed the pith out of his eloquence, but lie soon recovered his volubility and evolved from his prodigious imagina­ tion some explanation of the phenome­ non. But free silver has now been over­ whelmingly defeated. There is no more hope of its adoption than of any of the hare-brained theories that have run their course and been filed away in the pigeon holes of memory, and yet wheat persists in going up until it has reached a dollar a bushel. Many thousands of intelligent persons predicted that wheat could never again reach that price, and they had plausible grounds for believ­ ing so. But Bryan was going to bring it up with free silver. Possibly lie would have brought it up in this coun­ try, but the price would have been paid in depreciated currency. Wheat, at a Bryan dollar per bushel, would have been worth fifty cents, but wheat now isx worth a hundred cents. Free silver didn't have anything to do with the rise. The law of supply and demand ar­ ranged it. Was Too Ardent. An Iowa postmaster, who is a free silver man, warmly advocated the elec­ tion of Mr. Bryan. In the course of his business he discovered that some­ one was sending through his office large quantities of literature on the nefarious subject of ' sound money. This was directed, to farmers, and the postmaster discovered to his horror that the latter were reading the docu­ ments, and that the attendance at the free silver meetings grew less and less. The postmaster made up his mind that he would save the farmers and the country was going to the demnition bowwows, and lie promptly confiscated all the matter of this sort which after­ ward came to the office and burned it. In spite of his'lieroic efforts Iowa went overwhelmingly against him. and now a heartless administration is actually going to prosecute him.--Chicago Chronicle. Not Surprised at Fraud. The Louisville Courier-Journal ex­ presses no surprise at the revelations of fraud in the Tennessee election and declares that no one familiar with the politics' of Tennessee was surprised. "On the contrary," says the Courier- Journal, "it would have been surprising if the election in Tennessee had been free from fraud." The paper makes it empluatic by adding: "The Courier-Journal speaks from a thorough knowledge of Tennessee, and, speaking thus, we Jiave not the least doubt that Bryan, as well as Taylor, was beaten in the State. 'Rotten' is the one word that best, describes the polit­ ical conditions there. The element of the Democratic party which supported Bryan have long prevented fair elec- Sevenue Will Be Provided. 3oqae of the papers are making hys­ terical appeals to the President-elect not to call an extra session of Congress for the purpose of passing *a revenue bill. They say that a large number of Democrats voted for him, and, there-' fore, the tariff ought not to be reformed on protection lines. 'These journals should stud£ the' treasury statements. They would then be in better condition to give advice. The deficit for this month is already more than seven mill­ ions of dollars, and if all that belongs to this month is included in the month's expenses, it may be double that amount before the first of December. This will give some notion of the general deficit, and the paramount need of revenue leg­ islation. The Government must have funds to pay its daily expenses, or there will be a recurrence of the distrust which upset finance and business. Out. of the large amounts borrowed bj Mr. Cleveland's administration, in round numbers, about $300,000,000, there is left, perhaps, enough, with the a|d of the receipts from the Wilson bill, to rim the Government. until the first of July, 1897, and then, unless Congress passes a revenue bill meanwhile, more bonds must be sold, and the foolish pol­ icy of the present administration re­ vived. The present revenue act is a piebald affair, an incongruous mixture of protection and free trade, which em­ bodies all the defects of both systems, but its worst feature is that it does not provide the Government with enough money to meet its current expenses. But, say these papers, the Democrats voted the Republican ticket, and, there­ fore, the Cleveland policy should pre­ vail--rather a queer conclusion under the circumstances. The Democrats de­ serve credit for severing patty ties and voting as their consciences dictated, but if they expected a Republican ad­ ministration to do as they wished, they certainly do not deserve any credit whatever, for they did nothing but what was agreeable to them, and there was no merit in their act. As a fact, they voted the Republican ticket, know­ ing full well what the Republican pol­ icy was. They voted to save them­ selves and their belongings from de­ struction, and they felt that the Repub­ lican party was their only hope. Their confidence was based on the past action of the Republican party, a part of which was its thoroughly practical and American management of the revenue question. We don't think the President-elect or his advisers will be moved by these hysterical appeals. They may be moved to laughter, but not to tears or fears. The country is sorely in need of reve­ nue, and it will be provided as soon af- ter the fourth of March as expeditious legislation can furnish it.--Baltimore American. LAND IS GOING FAST. SECRETARY FRANCIS* ANNUAL . REPORT. - His Statement Shows that the Country Is Being Rapidly Settled--Bis: Sums for Pensions--Problem of the Bond- Aided Railroads. A Demand for Hanna, Major McKinley will make one of the greatest Presidents in the history of the country, but he must have great men to help him, and among these must be Mr. Hanna. No excuse will avail when the call comes, and the call has already come from the millions of citizens who voted for McKinley. Sec­ retary Hanna was elcvted along with President McKinley.--Baltimore Amer­ ican. It Is Terrible. Here is a leading0English paper urg­ ing the British Government to put a tariff on beet sugar, for the benefit of tlie West India planters, and adding that if it doesn't do so the planters may Seek annexation of their Islands to the United States. Shade of Cob- den! Isn't it terrible?--New York Tribune. Nothing Rational. Mr. McKiuley's alleged determina­ tion to call an extra session evidences that, like the rest of us. he expects nothing rational from the present ag­ gregation of Senatorial incompetency. --Dulutli News Tribune. A Hint to Watson. Tom Watson might begin at once on the preparation of his letter of accept? a nee for 1900, so as to be able to de­ vote all his time to getting it before the public during the campaign.-- Washington Star. Such Dense Silence. We would be much more pleased if the Bryan Democrats in the various departments would make a little more noise. They can't keep up the fight for 1900 by such dense silence--Washing­ ton Post, Protection a Good Thins. And now Sweden, too, after a brief trial of partial free trade, decides to go back to potection. There seems to be something like an epidemic of "Mc- Kinleyism" all round.--Boston Journal. Condensed Comment. It will be mighty hard to convince Democrats next year that the appoint­ ments.of the White House are perfect. The free silver Democrats of Chicago are going to celebrate Jaclcso^ Day-- probably because Jackson is dead and cannot help himself. Bryan does not seem to be enough of a lawyer to understand that it is a waste of breath to go on arguing a case that has been decided. David Bennett Hill feels very confi­ dent that he could place his hand on a first-class nucleus for a new Democratic party, without jumping out of bed. Tom Watson announces that lie "now is entirely out of politics." In the in­ terest of the public it is to be hoped that he will not order another suply. Senator Peffer once wrote about "The Way Out," and now the Kansas Popu­ lists are threatening to show it to him by electing another man td the place he occupies. o Illinois is now the banner Repub­ lican State of the West, and her sens­ ible and loyal people have reason to be very proud of the action by which this distinction was secured. It is becoming more evident every day that the farmers were raising dol­ lar wheat last summer while the free silverites were trying to persuade them that the gold standard would send them to the poor house. Uncle Sam's Domain. The annual report of Secretary of the Interior Francis was made public Fri­ day. It proposes a solution of the vexed problem of the bond-aided roads, deals exhaustively with the pension administra­ tion, reviews the progress of the Dawes commission negotiations and touches up­ on varioiis matters of especial significance in the West. The report opens with a discussion of the public domain. It shows that the total number of acres dis­ posed of up to June 30 last was 940,000,- 000, leaving public domain still vacant estimated at over 600,000,000, not in­ cluding the district of Alaska, with an area of over 309,000,000 acres. Since the homstead act was passed, on May 20, 1802; there have been 102,891,132 acres entered by homestead settlers. Of this almost 103^000,000 acres will all be pat­ ented wlien the legal conditions have been made. Of the remainder 42,000,000 acres represent entries cancelled. The total number of mineral entries, up to date is 29,820; patents to railways and wagon roads since tije first grant was made reach So,729,751 acres. There also have been 335,091,752 acres disposed of by pre­ emption, cash sales, scrip, locations', mili­ tary bounty land warrants, town sites, desert land, timber culture, timber and stone entries, Indian allotments and do­ nations to settlers. Rapidly Settling the Country. The total grants of lands to the various States and Territories up to March 12 last,/ffggregated 181,SOS,030 acres, in ad­ dition to agricultural college scrip for 7,830,000 acres. The total of all lands segregated from the public domain agge- gates 940,219,100 acres. The report says: 'These figures demonstrate that the country is being settled with great rapid­ ity and that the public domain is being diminished by great strides. If the rate of disposition of the last thirteen years, which is 23.000,000 acres a year, is con­ tinued for thirteen years to come, there will be little of the public domain outside of Alaska in possession of the govern­ ment at the expiration of that time." Discussing forest reservations, the re­ port says no permits to cut timber on pub­ lic lands should be granted for any pur­ pose other than to supply the nee$s of actual settlers in the neighborhood of the forests where timber is to be cut and should be accompanied by all possible safeguards. Secretary Francis urges up­ on Congress the necessity for legislation for the reclamation and disposal of lands within the arid regions. Unless the Carey act could be amended so as to give the State power to pledge lands for their re­ clamation, he says, it would be better to place the lands under the direction of the States only so far as may be necessary to secure their reclamation for the bene­ fit of actual settlers. The total amount paid by the govern­ ment in pensions and the cost of disburs­ ing the same for the last thirty-one years is $2,034,S17,709. This lacks only a little over $340,712,500 of being equal to the high-water mark of the interest-bearipg public debt. The present number of pen­ sioners. which is 97®,07S, is greater by 4,000 than in 1893, when the maximum annual cost was reached, and is greater than ever before. This is due to the death of old soldiers and the continued payment of allowances to their heirs, while the amount paid is decreased through the death of in\*klid pensioners leaving no dependents. The pension policy of the department has been to make the pension list a roil of honor rather than to save money to the government; the effort has been to de­ feat the designs of impostors, while recog­ nizing the claims of the needy,and deserv ins. General public sentiment, however, is that the obligation of the government is confined to those who fought for its maintenance and those dependent upon them. The total number of our pension­ ers in foreign countries was 3,7S1, who were paid $382,735. Increase of from $8 to $12 a month is recommended for all wholly disabled and destitute Mexican war survivors. Treatincr with the Indians. Under the head of Indian affairs the Secretary repeats the recommendation of his predecessor for a commission of three, one of whom shall be an army officer, to take the place of the commissioner and assistant commissioner of Indian affairs. With regard to the dispute over the Un- compahgre Indian reservation in Utah, in which valuable deposits of asphaltum have been discovered, Secretary Francis expressed the opinion that the commis­ sion which treats with the Indians for the allotment of their lands totally misun­ derstood the agreement of 1880, by which the Uncompahgres were removed from Colorado. The Indians declined to pay $1.25 an acre for the lands allotted to them because they were led to believe that the purchase money would come out of their trust fund of $1,250,000, which fur­ nishes them $50,000 per annum. This is not the case. The purchase money would not disturb the trust fund, but would eventually come out of the proceeds of the sale of their Colorado lands. The commission was dissolved last February. Under the head of bond-aided railroads the Secretary says he has complied with the joint resolution of June 10, 1890, -requiring him to continue the issue of patents to bona fide purchasers of lands sold by bond-aided railroads, but he says lie declined to issue patents to all sur­ veyed lands on the application of the Central Pacific. With regard to tha Nicaraguan Maritime Canal Company chartered by the government in 1889, th* Secretary says a preliminary report of the company submitted to him shows that no work was done during the present year. • . In conclusion the Secretary calls atten­ tion to the cramped quarters in the In­ terior Department, the large sum paid for rent annually--reaching $40,000 last year --and earnestly recommends the erection of another structure on a block adjacent to the present building adequate to ac­ commodate all branches of the depart­ ment. Sparks from the Wires. Fire in the coal sheds of the Boston and Maine Railroad at the rear of the State prison at Cliarlestown, Mass., did $80,000 damage. ltev" J. Morgan well, of the First Bap­ tist Church, died at Fort Worth, Texas, of apoplexy. He was one of the leading ministers of Texas. The United States gunboat Benning­ ton has finished taking on coal at San Francisco and will sail for Callao in the wake of the Philadelphia. The canals of the State of New York were officially closed by order of the Superintendent of Public Works. Active ^work on the improvements is to be begun at once. 0 At a meeting of the Royal Society at London medals were presented to Prof. Roentgen for his ray discoveries, and to Prof. Moissan for his discovery of the iso­ lation of the element fiourine. INFLUENCE OF ATHLETICS.. Baron de Coubertin Believes the Olympic Games Will Do Much Good.' ' On the world at large the Olympic^ games have, of course, exerted no In­ fluence as yet; but I am profoundly' convinced that they will do so. May I be permitted to say that this was my reason for founding them? Modern athletics .need to be unified and puri­ fied. - Those who have followed the renaissance of physical sports In this century know that discord reigns su­ preme from one end of them to the other. Every country- has its own1 rules; it is not possible even to come to an agreement as to who is an ama­ teur, and who is not. All over the world there Is one perpetual dispute, which is further fed by innumerable weekly, and even dally, newspapers, In this deplorable state of things pro­ fessionalism tends to grow apace. Mer^ give up their whole existence to one particular sport, grow rich by prnctio; ing it, and thus deprive It of all no­ bility, and destroy the just equilibrium of man by making the muscles prepon­ derate over the mind. It is my belief that no education, particularly in dem-! ocraiic times, can be good and com-< plete without the aid of athletics; bat athletics, in order to play their proper educational role, must be based oq perfect disinterestedness and the sen­ timent of honor;* . " V If we are to gua rd them against these threatening evils, we must jiut an end to the quarrels of amateur's, that they may be united among themselves, $n(J willing to measure their skill in fre­ quent encounters. But what country is to impose its rules and its habits oq the others? The Swedes will not yield to the Germans, nor the French to the English. Nothing better than the in. ternational Olympic games couid, therefore, be devised. Each country Wt111 take Its turn in organizing them. When they come to meet every four years in these contests, further enno­ bled by the memories of the past, ath­ letes all over the world will learn to know one another better, to make mu-. tual concessions, and to seek no other rewrard in the competition than the honor of victory. One may be tilled with the desire to see the colors of one's club or college triumph In a n'a-; tional meeting; but how much stronger is the feeling when the colors of one's country are at stake! I am well as­ sured that the victors iu the Stadion at Athens wished for no other recom­ pense when they heard the people cheer the flag of their country in honor of their achievement. It was with these thoughts in mind that I sought to revive the Olympic games. I have succeeded after many efforts. Should the Institution proper --as I am persuaded, all civilized na­ tions aiding, that it will--it may be a potent, if indirect, factor in securing universal peace. Wars break out be­ cause nations misunderstand each other. We shall not have peace until the prejudices which now separate the different races shall have been outlived. To attain this end, what better means than to bring the youth of all coun­ tries periodically together for amica­ ble trials of muscular strength and iigility? The Olympic games, with the ancients, controlled athletics and pro* nioted peace. It is not visionary to look to them for similar benefactions, In the future.--"The Olympic Games of 1890," by Baron Pierre de Couber­ tin, in the Century. m ill Differently Educated. In old times the same man often spell ed ffis name in several different ways, and even now members of the same family sometimes vary the orthography 'of the family cognomen. This may be for one reason or another. Sometimes it is a matter of taste, sometimes it is a matter of education. At a wedding in an English town, says the New York Tribune, the offici­ ating clergyman asked one of the wit­ nesses how his name was spelled, and was told "McHugh." "But how is that?" inquired the cler­ gyman. "Your sister spells her name "MeCue." "Please, sir," was the answer, "my sister and me didn't go to the same school." How He Knew His Mother. The Prince of Wales is not averse to having a little fun over his august mother's propensity for giving away India shawls. At the recent Henley regatta he had his attention drawn to an elderly lady who, the Prince's friend said, bore a striking resemblance to the Queen, and might be her Majesty's in­ cognito. As the Prince leveled his field- glass on her, she rose, and taking the shawl on which she had been sitting, threw it around the shoulders of the young girl who was with her. "It Is undoubtedly the Queen," the Prince replied, quietly; "she has be­ trayed herself. She has just,presented one of her India'shawls." Two Preferences. The Marquis del Carplo, Viceroy of Naples, was once going into a church at Madrid, and saw a lady entering at the same' moment who wore an ex­ tremely beautiful diamond on a very ugly hand. "I should prefer the ring to the hand," said he, with no expectation of being heard; but she immediately touched the collar of his order, which he was wearing, and said, "I should prefer the halter to the donkey!" A family with a hereditary mania for suicide by hanging has been dis­ covered by Dr. Brouardel, of Paris. The father, a farmer near Etampes, hanged himself without apparent cause, and subsequently his four daughters and six of his seven sons followed the example, but not until they had mar­ ried and had children, all of whom like­ wise hanged themselves. One son, now 08 years old, is the only survivor of this ill-fated family. The gas engine, which in Europe has now supplanted the steam engine for moderate power, Is being used In France for ships. A new gasboat on the Havre-Rouen-Parls line is 100 feet long, with seven feet draught, and at­ tains a speed of seven knots. The gas is stored in steel tubes under a pressure of ninety-five atmospheres. The en­ gine is a two-cylinder one and is of forty-horsepower. V After a man has saved up a few dot, lars it is impossible for Mm to be oa good terms with everybody. • - 'mm m m sfi • m THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE* New York. So he presents a heaping peck of tron* ble||; withjsearcely a hint as to how then may be leveled to the rim of the meas­ ure.--Press. His conclusions show beyond a dotibt that he will leave to"~hrs successor the honor of taking the first step to assure Cuban liberty.--Journal. We should mind our own business, re­ store domestic prosperity, faithfully com­ ply with the neutrality laws and let Cuba alone.--Commercial-Advertiser. The message writes the history of an administration and writes it with dignity and calmness. It is one of the most in­ structive documents ever prepared fas perusal.--Brooklyn Eagle. The only political value of the doca- ment is in its incidental disclosures of Mr. Cleveland's frame of mind as intlt eating Ms probable course during the brief period of power remaining to him.-- S u n . ' " - " • • v . The message as a whole is a creditable document. Its style is open to criticism, but it is evidently animated throughout by a sincere desire to avoid offense with­ out a sacrifice of personal dignity.--Mail and Express. As to Cuba, it is noteworthy that th« hypothetical condition which he sets forth as one that would justify and compel American intervention is wholly indis­ tinguishable from the conditions now ac­ tually existing as described in the "mes­ sage itself.--World. '-r- . Chicago. His threat to Spain will present to the European power a very Clear view of this nation's attitude.--Record. The intimation that the United States will be compelled to protect American interests in Cuba and the interests of civ­ ilization and peace is important in its sig­ nificance.--Chronicle. - . Most Americans believe that the situa­ tion is at hand and- they Will be incensed rather than placated by the fatuous nego­ tiation which the administration has un­ dertaken in lieu of decisive action.-- Journal. Reduced to its essence, he has given Spain until March 4 immunity from in­ tervention by the United States or any other power and permission to continue its hideous work of murder and ruin.-- Tribune. Of the prospect of armed intervention, in case of allr other means of pacifying Cuba fail, the President speaks with the utmost frankness and good sense. It is a contingency that, however deplorable it may be, has not been overlooked by level­ headed people.--Times-Herald. ! Liondon. Spain had better accept Mr. Cleveland's friendly counsel as Mr. McKinley is not likely to be less exacting than Mr. Cleve­ land. - Altogether, it is a dignified and able message.--Standard. President Cleveland's argument is clear enough. No country possesses the right to foster a-perpetual source of trouble, and Spain must either grant autonomy or sell. Spain, however, will probably refuse to do anything of the kind.--Daily News. We believe the time has passed when the Cuban insurgents will accept any so­ lution placing Spanish officials over them, even nominally. There is no mistake, however, about the warning President Cleveland addresses to Spain.--Chronicle. The tone and spirit of the message are worthy of all praise. It is a pity that the moderation and balance of mind which Mr. Cleveland has just displayed were not more conspicuous last year, when he startled two continents by a menace of war.--Times. In General. On the whole, the message will be re­ garded as rather commonplace.--Indian­ apolis Journal. President Cleveland adds to his well- earned reputation as a sound financier in his attack on our financial methods.--St. Louis Star. Mr. Cleveland's last message will add nothing to his fame, and will be a source of gratification to his enemies.--Kansas City World. It is characterized by the same strong common sense that has been such a marked feature of all his state papers.-- Peoria Herald. President Cleveland's message is a for­ cible reiteration of views that he has long held in most of the subjects treated.--In­ dianapolis Sentinel. The President gives very little encour* agement for any hope that this Govern­ ment, under his administration, will fa­ vor the annexation of Cuba.--Minneapo­ lis Journal. It maintains (in regard to Cuba) a calm judicial attitude, which disregards neither facts nor obligations founded on them. Sentiment is acknowledged, but not ad­ mitted as a ground of action.--Milwaukee Journal. Mr. Cleveland is in accord with publio sentiment in the United States when he declares that this Government should ob­ ject to any other nation interfering in Cuban affairs or acquiring the island.-- Toledo Blade. Until the inability of Spain to end the war is manifest, until her sovereignty in Cuba is extinct, or until "the situation is by other incidents imperatively changed,'* Mr. Cleveland will do nothing. This the true policy.--Milwaukee Sentinel. In every feature and detail of the mes­ sage Mr. Cleveland maintains the invin­ cible loyalty to the American publie which he has manifested from the first moment of his advent into public life- Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. President Cleveland's last annual de­ liverance to the Congress of the United States is a sober, thoughtful and states­ manlike survey of national affairs.--Der troit Free Press. Especially noteworthy is his statement that "by the course of events we may be drawn into such an unusual and unprece­ dented conflict as will fix a limit to our patient waiting for Spain to end the con­ test, either alone and in her own way or with our friendly co-operation." Spain cannot fail to understand the warning conveyed in these words.--Duluth Her- aid. Notes of Current Events. The packing house of the Sioux City} Stock Yards Company is said to be haunt* ed by a ghostly pig-sticker nine feet tall* Loren H. Hixon, one of the best-knowa men in Northwestern Indiana, died of Bright's disease, aged 78 years, at Val­ paraiso. The schooner Red Wing, of Philadel­ phia was lost sixty miles south of Pen- sacola, Fla. Her crew and passengers were saved. The two factions which have beeak dividing St." Stanislaus' Polish Catholitt congregation in Bay City tame together Sunday in a pitched battle, in whiclfc clubs and missiles were used and nearly a score injured. 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