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ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. • ' • SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. i)rownine Seems the Fate of a Joliet Family -- Pleasant jnlversarj -- Jury Acquits BlooMincton's Mayor --Freak of Uazers at a Medical Colleee Fatalities Follow a Single Family. John McGratli of Seneca, Ivan., the father of the. six children who were drowned while attempting to ford a creek, is a cousin of the McGratli brothers of Joliet, and the terrible affair recalls the Hogan catastrophe on Lake Genera near­ ly two years ago, when another division of the McGrath family was swept into eter­ nity by drowning. The Lake Geneva ca­ lamity of July, 1895, caused the death of Father-Hogan of Harvard; his sister, Miss Hogan; a brother. Dr. Hogan of the medical staff of the Elgin insane asylum, and Dn Hogan's wife and child. The party was in a pleasure boat, when it was capsized by a sudden squall, and all were lost. Mrs. Hogan was a sister of the Mc­ Grath brothers of Joliet,- and they are considerably exercised over this Kansas calamity, making eleven of their family who. have met death within two years in a watery grave. < \ • ' v.- ' ' Greased Btid Left on the Roof. ' The windswept roof of, the College of Physicians .and Surgeons .at - Chicago is sometimes -a summer resort, • but when used ori chilly April days for the cooling, or refrigeratipn-of a naked and unwilling­ ly exposed man, it ceases to be,a place of pleasure. A. .T. Felton, a student in the college, is said to have spent three hours there Saturday evening as the prisoner of four fellow students who took from him his clothes and barred the trap doors against him as a method of hazing. Mr. Feltonjs a member of the junior class and was seized upon by the seniors as„ a rep­ resentative subject for the class ven­ geance, and, as he alleges, four men, Peter Smith. Frank Jones, Thomas Brown and Fred Rogers, laid hold of him about the time the college closed for the day, and by main strength hauled him to the roof, where they stripped'off his clothing, daub­ ed grease over his body and left him to cower behind the chimneys. Two or three hours later some of the liazers are said to have found him. Felton swore out warrants for the quartette mentioned, ; charging them with assault and battery. Later Felton relented and asked that the warrants be not served. Pioneer Event Celebrated. John W. Dawson and sister, Mrs. Ma­ ria Paist of Blooinington, celebrated with a large dinner party the seventy-fifth an­ niversary of the settlement at Blooming- ton Grove, now Orendorff's Springs, two miles southeast of Bloomington. Mr. Daw­ son and Mrs. Paist are the only sur­ vivors of the arrival of the party in the Grove, and they have lived in McLean County ever since that date, April 1. 1822. The Dawson and Hendrix families' cabins in Bloomington Grove were the first outposts of civilization in central Illi­ nois north of Elkhart, where Col. Latham built a cabin in 1822. The Dawsons, orig­ inally from Ohio, came from Sangamon, Sangamon County."IIF. Mrs. Paist was 5 years old and her brother 2^> years. They are both in good health and in the enjoyment of all their faculties. flavor Foster Acquitted. Mayor Foster of Bloomington was ac­ quitted when the jury returned a verdict finding him not guilty of malfeasance and assisting a prisoner to escape. Foster was overcome and broke out in tears. He was soon surrounded by a crowd shaking hands and congratulating him. On the street the same demonstration was also enacted. The trial of Philip Carey, alias Paddy Ryan, was then opened. Carey is the pickpocket whose release from the city jail was the cause of the trial of Foster. Carey is under indictment for grand lar­ ceny. A number of witnesses testified to the fact that Carey was arrested while engaged in picking pockets and that he al­ most killed a special officer with a coupling pin. Carey on the stand, made a com­ plete denial of guilt. He swore he never saw the man he was accused "of robbing. Stele News iu Brief. a.d,?3f Weislcoff was run down by a Chicago fire engine and injured so severe Iv that a-few hours later he died. The State Live Stock Commission re­ ports the following as the result of the cattle inspection at the Union stock yards, Chicago: Inspected, 132; passed in the yards, 102; held for post mortem exam ination, 30; passed on post mortem exam­ ination, 14; condemned as unfit for food and ordered tanked, 10. Dr. Charles R. Parke of Bloomington Sunday celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his beginning the practice of medicine, lie is 72 years of age and is still one of the most active doctorsjn central Illinois For seventeen years he has been at the head of St. Joseph's hospital. He has been in practice in Bloomington since 1852, except three years spent in the South and two years as an army surgeon in the service of Russia in the Crimean war. During this service he Was one of the surgeons who cared for the wounded of the charge of the light brigade at Bala- klava. Representative Daugherty, in the House of Representatives at Springfield, said a pernicious practice had grown up among members--that of ordering supplies for committee rooms and then carrying them home. "I know, last session," said he, "that all except three of the typewriters purchased for the committee rooms were carried away. Some of them were sold and the money was put into the pockets of the men w1"' carried them away. At the present session many typewriters have been purchased for which the members have no more use Than a wa'goirlfas^or a fifth wheel." Mr. Dsfugherty also com­ plained that there had been much pilfer­ ing from the desks of members during the present session. Mrs. Regina Wecker, aged 52 years committed suicide at Peoria. She sent her daughter from the house and then jumped in the cistern, which was filled with water. Efforts to settle the strike at Eugene Vallens & Co.'s two factories in Chicago tin?- have been exerted for three.weeks by representatives of the Cigaryiakers Union, have ended iu success. The 600 men, women and children who have been idle for six weeks cheered and clapped their hands when they were told to re turn to work Monday in a body. Some of them cried for joy. Secretary of State Rose partially re­ lieved the- demands =of an empty State treasury and made possible the. payment of regular State employes by turning into the treasury $06,331.56, the total receipts of his department for the last six months, In a fit of temporary insanity Dr. J. H Walton of Dubuque, Iowa, committed suicide in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Sunday by cutting his'throat. With a friend, also a physician, ."Dr. Walton was taking a stroll through the park. Suddenly he turned away from his companion and darted up a path. • Drawing s. razor from his pocket, be slashed his throat from ear to ear as he ran and, falling, died in a moment Insurance Superintendent Durfee ha« licensed the Knights of Columbus of'New Haven, Oonn., to do-a fraternal benefi­ ciary business in Illinois. *•' There were 100 ministers in attend­ ance on the mid-year session of the board of examination of Rock River Metho­ dist Episcopal conference at Rockford. After being out ninety hours the jury in the murder trial of Ben McCoy, ac­ cused of killing John T. Bullock, at Shir­ ley, last Mdy, was unable to agree and was discharged ;by the Judge. McCoy will be admitted to bail. Mrs. L. M. Beck, the State organiser of the woman suffragists, convened a two days' county convention at Freeport Mon­ day afternoon with a very good attend­ ance of equal rights advocates. A local! organization was effected. 1 4 A probably fatal shooting affray took place in the saloon of Patrick McKeon, in Braidvvood. Jacob Talmage, -while engaged in a quarrel with Fred Smith, received -two bullet wounds, one in the thigh and one in the kidneys. Boyd, a helper at the saloon, was arrested but af­ terward released. : ? - William Lennand has brought snit against, the five saloonkeepers of Areola for .$2,000 damages for the loss of an arm. About two years ago Lennand, while in­ toxicated, fell asleep at the side of the Illinois Central .track and a train inflicted upon him the lbgs for which he wants damages. The saloonkeepers have com­ bined and wili fight the case., ' | Burglars entered the First National Bank at Biggsville at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning, blew open the safe with dyna­ mite and secured from $500 to $700 in cash. One apartment containing $1,000 was untouched. The. noise of the ex­ plosion awoke people in the neighborhood, but the burglars, escaped on a hand car and have not yet been apprehended. In the Circuit Court at Bloomington Tom Purcell and John Martin were found guilty of highway robbery and William Pearson and Charles Hendryx of lar­ ceny, the two last named having pleaded guilty. Judge Tipton, because9 of the recent decision of tlfe Supreme Court to the implied effect that the law for inde­ terminate sentence was unconstitutional, delayed the sentencing of these prisoners. He will decide whether it is best to give them a definite term of years or an in-, definite sentence. He has written to the cjerk of the Supreme Court for the text of the decision in order that he may more closely examine the legal points. At the trial of Mayor Daniel Foster, in progress in the Circuit Court at Bloom­ ington for allowing a criminal to escape from the city prison and another for mal­ feasance in office, Sergt. Dunn testified that at 10 p. m. on the day of the arrest of Pickpocket Ryan he was called to the police office telephone and recognized the voice of Mayor Foster speaking. Fos­ ter asked liim how he (Foster) could get man out of the city prison, and he (Dunn) told him to get two magistrates and give a bond. Soon therafter the May­ or by telephone ordered Dunn to release the man "when nobody was around." This he did. Next day the Mayor told him to "stand pat" and deny the whole affair and it would soon blow over." Crazed with anger, jealousy and much brooding over fancied wrongs. John W. Bowers attempted to murder his wife and her sister, Mrs. Wurthmann, at No. 1039 North Clark street, Chicago," Wednesday afternoon. The two bullets BoWers fired at the women went wide, but he turned his revolver upon himself and put a shot into his right temple, falling dead across the threshold of his wife's home. The shooting was the culmination of a long series of family troubles. Bowers lived in La Grange when his wife left him last October^ He came to Chicago in the hope of effecting a reconciliation with her. He was evidently prepared for failure in this, and was determined, if she would not live with him, that his wife must die, for he carried a revolver in his. overcoat pocket. According to Warden McClaaghry, of the Joliet penitentiary, the recent decis­ ion of an Illinois court declaring the inde­ terminate imprisonment law unconstitu­ tional will cause the release of 600 pris­ oners from that institution. This state of affairs also will occur at the other pen­ al institutions. Warden McClaughry says there is no money in the State treas­ ury to pay tlie expenses of releasing the prisoners in the Joliet penitentiary, say­ ing nothing of the others. Each prisoner receives $10 bounty money, a suit of clothes and $2 for railroad fare, a total of $13,200 for this prison alone, and not one cent is appropriated for that purpose. Such a condition of penal affairs has never before been known in the United States. A couple of thousand or more criminals starting out will appall the po­ lice of every large city in the country. Rock Isiand County's new court house was dedicated Wednesday. People, many from out of town, thronged the building all day, and at night an informal recep­ tion was given by the county' officers. Judge G. W. Pleasants presided, his asso­ ciates being Judges A. A. Smith of Gales- burg. J. J. Glenn, of Monmouth, Hiram Bigelow of Galva and Lucian Adams of Rock Island. Supervisor J. G. Brittoa, chairman of the Building pommittee, no­ tified the Court that the new building was ready for occupancy, whereupon a mo­ tion to adjourn to the new temple was made by C. M. Osborn of Chicago, the oldest active practitioner of the Rock Island County bar, who in a speech re­ called many notable incidents which are interwoven in the history of the old struc­ ture. Thereupon Judge Pleasants passed upon the motion to adjourn. A proces­ sion was formed and headed by the judges, the crowd moved into the new building and proceeded to the court chamber, where court was reconvened by Judge Pleasants. The keys of the court house were then presented to Sheriff F. F. Hem- enway by W. R. Carey, chairman of the Board of Supervisors. Addresses by Wm. Jackson. W. H. Gest and C. L. Walker, of Rock Island, and W. J. Entriken, of MoTine, followed. Lithographs, each beautifully framed, of the eight chief jus­ tices of the United States Supreme Court were presented by a committee and now adfirn the walls of the court chamber, The large and handsome parochial resi­ dence of St. Augustin's Catholic Church at Ashland. Cass County, burned Friday. Rev. Father McGuire narrowly escaped death. He was found by friends wander­ ing about his room in a dazed condition His face and neck were badly scorched. A receiver was asked for the H. A. Vandenboom Furniture Company of Quin cy. One of the stockholders filed the pe­ tition, which alleges fraud in the man a*gement and insolvency of the company. It is one of the oldest arid largest manu­ facturing concerns in Quincy. The as­ sets are reported to be about $50,000. The Quincy city finance committee opened bids for refunding $314,000 in city bonds at 4*£ per cent. Seven bids, each for the full amount, were received The First National Bank of Chicago will get +he bonds on their offer of $1,050 premium. -u-; After sixty days cigars will no longer be manufactured in Joliet penitentiary. The Board of Commissioner's has given the contractors notice to suspend their works and advertised the plant for sale. This step is considered but "the first toward the driving out of the penitentiary of ail the, industries which come in competition with free labor, which the labor organizations have been fighting for so long. THE FARM AND HOME MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM- ER AND HOUSEWIFE. Cheese Considered a Healthful Article of Food--Three Horses-Can Often Be Profitably Used--Have Variety in Pasture--General Farm Gleanings. Making Cheese ai Home. Until within a comparatively recent time, all the cheese made in this coun­ try has been of home manufacture. The method usually was where only two, three or four cows were kept, to -use two messes of milk, skimming that twelve hours old, at which time proba­ bly one-half of its butter fats, and those containing least casein'e matter, would have risen to the surface," and mixing this with the new milk of either night or morning, this was heat­ ed to 140 degrees or 150 degrees, and as it cooled rennet was added. This was usually from a calf's stomach whose digestive juices, dried and fine­ ly powdered, when put into the milk quickly coagulated it. If the "stomach of calves could not b£ bad those of pigs were equally good, as each con­ tained the pepsin, whose use. was to partially digest the milk. In Holland there was general use of hydrochloric acid, which answered the same pur­ pose. Thus while milk and especially scalded: milk is hard to digest, the cheese'made from it is'generally con­ sidered an aid to the digestion of other substances eaten with or before it. Hence it is regarded as a healthful ar­ ticle of food, especially for those with weak stomachs.--American Cultivator. ducting $500 for food, leaves a profit of $281.20. "Southern farmers do not pay enough attention to their poultry. A number Of the Northerners who have come South recently have taken up the poultry business and are pushing it in­ dustriously.--A. B. Cook, in American Agriculturist. Feeding for Flavor. A New York station bulletin says that at the station dairy it has "generally been customary to feed once a day some dry fodder, preferably clover hay, and silage .twice,.with grain. Feeding of corn silage did not produce any in­ ferior quality of milk so far as chemical composition would indicate, and no ob­ jectionable flavor was noticed. If rad­ ical changes in the ration were made gradually and raot suddenly, and no spoiled or moldy silage allowed to reach, the cow, it is probable there would be little complaint of any un­ pleasant flavor from silage. Of course, milk should not be exposed long- in a stable fllleil with odors of ?:ia£t*'or any others objectionable. - vt tlie Kansas station tlie occasional taint noticed, in the milk when silage was fe^ was en­ tirely avoided by feeding the silage im­ mediately after instead of before milk­ ing. * Draairiuc with Three Horses. There are many farm operations where three horses can be profitably used. While the work of plowing, espe­ cially in spring, is comparatively light, if grass laud or' stubble has to be plowed in the fall for wheat, three horses will do enough more work to make it advisable to use them. If horse labor is cheaper than hand labor, as it surely is, to enable one man to use three liorges instead of two increases the advantage. But the work of drag­ ging, especially with the spring tooth harrows which tear up the soil, is bet­ ter done ^vith three horses than with two. Variety in Pasture. In seeding laud to grass it would be much better if greater variety of plants were growrn. Some kinds succeed bet­ ter than others under special condi­ tions of soil, so that the greater variety sown, the better the land is likely to be covered and the larger the quantity of feed produced. But the advantage of much greater palatableness of pasture or hay which contains a variety of grasses is even more important. As an aid to make all hay more eagerly eaten, some sweet-scented vernal grass seed ought to be sown. It will be eaten close to the soil by every kind of stock, and when left for hay the aroma from it will penetrate the whole mass and in­ crease its feeding value. Cherries. The Early Richmond is the prime fa­ vorite. It is a rapid grower, healthy, vigorous and always fruitful. When planted on different slopes the time for picking this one variety may be extend­ ed over twenty days. The cherry is not as freely planted as it should be. It perhaps gives better satisfaction for the cost involved than any other fruit. Suitable varieties like Early Richmond, Montmorenci, English Morello and Wragg, planted on average soil and freely and frequently cultivated, will bear in three years, and in the sixth year will ordinarily yield forty or fifty quarts to each tree. The Early Rich­ mond and Montmorenci are the strong­ er growers and ultimately yield the most bushels per tree because they have the largest number of branches and grow to a larger size and can set and carry more fruit than the English Morello, and when in full bearing at the age of nine or ten years the maxi­ mum crop of the Early Richmond is about three and a half bushels per tree, that of the English Morello about two bushels per tree. With fair care these trees will live and do well until the age of IS or 20 years, and may be destroyed sooner by neglect and lack of cultivation and the result of severe drouth without cultivation.--Green's Fruit Grower. • V . The Idaho Pear. - The Idaho pear is a pear of great hardiness and will grow where scarce­ ly any other pejir will. The editor of the Plowman visited the originator of the pear two years ago. The pear in shape is more like an apple than a pear. It is above medium size, and is of good flavor. It is not an extra keeper, but it is a fine pear for as late as say the first of November. As grown in the East, or Middle West, it is described as being of medium to large in size-- 9, 10 and 11 inches in circumference, of Ducliesse shape, though rounder, flesh finer grained than that variety, quite as good as the leading market pears, flesh flue-grained, buttery and melting, with a "very good" flavor,-- Western Plowman. CHICAGO'S NEW MAYOR. Carter Henry Harrison Fleeted by an Overwhelming Vote. Carter H. Harrison has been elected Mayor of Chicago after one of the most remarkable and [exciting municipal con­ tests in the history of the city. The vote given Harrison was "overwhelming, and with him was elected the entire Demo­ cratic city ticket. Harrison's victory was practically a landslide, his plurality ex­ ceeding 75,000 votes. The citizens' can­ didate received 66,840 votes, while judge Sears, the Republican nominee, received but 59,009 votes. Washington Hesdng's candidacy was supported by-15,021 voters. Carter Henry Harrison was born on April 30, I860, at the home of his parents, in Chicago. He received his early edu- Flower Beds. Lay your plans, so there will be no delay when the time comes for plant­ ing, says an exchange. There is no in­ vestment you can make that will bring a larger proportionate return of pleas­ ure than a small sum devoted to flower seed. It is a good time, while the men have leisure, to prepare the beds. If the ground is poor and the subsoil com­ pact it will pay to dig it out at least two spades deep and fill in good soil. When it is done once it is done forever, and an occasional top dressing is all it will need while you live. The men and teams have leisure now; this work can be done wherever the ground is not frozen. If the soil is fairly good throw out a spade deep, and then take out another spade deep and haul it away, replacing with good surface soil from the woods or fields, mixing in some sand, if needed, and some old manure, or chip dirt froiii wood pile. A bed pre­ pared in this way, if the water does not stand in it, will produce a vigorous growth and abundant bloom in most garden flowers, and well repay the labor. Some few kinds do best in poor soil, or in special locations, but the great majority thrive best in a deep, rich, moist, but not wet loam. When such a bed is once prepared It needs only an occasional top dressing to keep it in fine condition forever.--Farmers' Review. Successful Bsgft arniing, Egg farming, when properly carried on, has proven to be one of the most profitable branches of the poultry in­ dustry. The writer has in mind a young farmer who runs a fruit, truck and egg farm, and in a recent conversa­ tion with him, learned that the income from his egg farm supported his fam­ ily, while that from fruit and vegeta­ bles was put in bank. Five acres are devoted to poultry, on which are kept 500 hens, divided between the Brown Leghorn and Black Hamburg. The five acres are sub-divided into ten yards, giving 50 hens to the jrard. These hens average 125 eggs per year apiece, mak- iqg 5,208 dozen, which bring an average price of 15 cents, making $781.20. De- IJestroyinjc Potato Scab. It has long been known that flour of sulphur applied to anything was a good germiicde. The experience of a practical farmer, as told by Horace F. Wilcox, in the New York Tribune, shows how this knowledge saved his potato crop from destruction, though planted on land where, a year before, tht? potato scab had entirely destroyed it. He first cut the potatoes, and while in the pail with the sut surface fresh, he put a pint of sulphur on top of the heap, allowing It to sift down so that all got some of the sulphur. The crop was entirely free from scab, and many of the cut pieces, used for seed, were yet yellow with sulphur in the hills when the crop was dug. Horticultural Notes. Plant fruit ,first for the family and then for the market. Get that rotten apple out of the pile in the cellar if you have to sort the whole pile. Keep the house plants in health. An occasional smoking with tobacco will do them good. Frozen fruits and roots are not as valuable as when they are not frozen, are they? Keep them from freezing, then. We insist that on a farm that is near a market more money can be made from gardening than from general farming.--Western Plowman. Gleanings . > No inexpensive thing will insure quality in butter as a quantity of dry earth to use freely about the stable. It absorbs odors as well as liquids. ^ When hogs die from cholera, the safest_plan is to burn rather than bury the carcass and all that has been in contact with it. Fire is a certain puri­ fier. If a cow loses her appetite, treat her as you do yourself (if you are sensi­ ble), give her a change of diet. By the way, a warm bran mash is an ex­ cellent "change of diet." Chicks hatched in September and Oc­ tober will be better for market than those hatched in spring. But for show purposes and look at and admire, hatch early--before the peach blooms appear. An overffd steer now sells in most markets about as slowly as a lialf-fat one. What is really wanted is the well-fatted steer. The public will not now buy any over-fat meat. The neat, level, well-shaped, fine bone animal sells best at present. The intelligent poultry raiser, like the dairyman, never fails in business. There is always a market for his pro­ duct, and the conditions are such that he can keep up production despite the hard times; the constant income does the business. It is not cold, but wet weather that doubles up the sheep. Dry cold is a tonic for them, but when the thick woolen coat becomes soaked with water, and then the cold wind strikes them, look away to the east for buz­ zards. Therefore make shelters for sheep, that are always accessible. Many farmers purchase farming tools without any assurance-that they will meet the requirements of soil and crop, the purchase price-being, in many "cases, virtually thrown away. This is not business. Judicious men do not let the craze for something new to thus get away with their judgment. Turkeys are the nearest self-sustain- ,/lng of all domestic fowls. Give them room enough out doors and they will keep fat the year round. But it is pru­ dent to teach them that "there is no place like home," and that there is al­ ways a little corn there later in the evening. Turkeys need a little looking after or they may "take up with some other fellow." If there were no thieves outside of the penitentiary, there would be more profit in raising turkeys. CARTER II. HARRISON. cation in the Chicago public schools, then was sent to Germany, where he spent four years, and became thoroughly acquainted with the German language., On return- X home lie was graduated from St.. Ig­ natius College, and then went to Yale, and was graduated from the law school of that university in 1SS3. After a brief period spent in travel he returned to Chi­ cago and took up the practice of law, which he continued for five years. He then,; went into the real estate business withjfhis brother, William Preston Harri- sonT After the assassination of Mayor Harrison, in 1893, the two sons conducted the Times until after the strike of 1S94, when they sold it, just before it went out of existence. Since that time Mr. Harri­ son has been in the real estate business exclusively except for one year that he spent abroad. Mr, Harrison's wife is a Southern wo­ man, the daughter of Judge Ogden of the Louisiana Court of Appeals. She is a fine German scholar, and uses the lan­ guage frequently in conversing wi'fih her husband. She has traveled much in Europe and in this country. She met Cartel* H. Harrison in Chicago, and was married in December, 1888. She has two children, Carter H. the third, now in his 7th year, and Edith Ogden, 14 months old. City elections in Wisconsin show the Democratic vote was in the ascendant. St. Louis, Mo., remains Republican. The result in Michigan seemed to favor the Democrats, and in Illinois also heavy Democratic gains are reported. Many Kansas cities chose Democratic Mayor* and Councils. BATTLE OF BALLOTS, « Municipal Elections Are Held in a Number of States. City elections were held Monday in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and sev­ eral other States. At Cincinnati the Re­ publican ticket was headed by Levi C. Goodale for Mayor and the Democratic ticket by Gustav Tafel, the latter being elected by a plurality of 7,320, while th^ city gave McKinley a plurality of almost 20,000 last November, and Caldwell (Rep.) for Mayor three years ago a plurality of 6,755. There was a total vote of over 65,- 000, as compared with 78,000 last Novem­ ber, being "an unusually large vote for a local spring election. Canton, the home of McKinley, went Democratic, Mayor Rice, for re-election, carrying it by over 400. The Democrats also carried Spring­ field, the home of Gov. Bushnell/electing John M. Good Mayor by 600 majority. The rest of the Republican ticket".was elected. Cleveland returns'give McKis- son 2,500 over Farley. The other candi­ dates on the Republican ticket have ma­ jorities ranging up to 10,000. William C. Maybury (Dem.) was elect­ ed Mayor of Detroit by about 50.0 ma­ jority over Captain Albert E. Stewart (Rep.). Returns from the State indicate the re-election of Judge Charles D. Long (Rep.) as justice of the Supreme Court, and the defeat of George L. Yople, fusion candidate. Charles D. Lawton and Wil­ liam J. Cocker, Republican candidates for" regents'of the University of Michigan, are also elected. V , Dubuque citizens re-elected Mayor Duf­ fy,' Recorder Langstaff' and ,, Treasurer Gniffke. The Democrats elected Henry Duffy, city attorney, "and three out of the' fire aldermen. The citizens, will control the Council. Mayor Duffy had only 196 majority over J. M. Kenety, Democrat. OLD TRINITY CHUKCH. CHAS. R. WALTERS. The Man Who Wants to Incorporate the Ten Commandments. Charles R. Walters, the^tatesman who wants to incorporate the ten command-, ments in the statutes of Kansas, is an Illinois man. He went to Kansas from Table Grove, Fulton County, 111., in 1S79, and settled at Oswego, where he has resid- CHA ~. R. WALTERS. Leave Their "Wives at Home. It is a strict rule with the big trans­ atlantic steamship companies that the wife of the Captaiiushall not travel in his ship. The company strongly pro­ hibits its Cap'tains from taking their wives aboard with them. The suppo­ sition is that if anything should hap­ pen to the ship the Captain', instead of attending to his public duty, would de­ vote his attention mainly to the safety of his wife. So that if the wife of a Captain wants, to go abroad she must take passage In some other yessel. This rule also holds in many of the freight line* ed ever since. Mr. Walters is not a law­ yer, but he is a lawmaker and he knows exactly what he wants. When he proposes to inflict the penalty of death on any per­ son who believes in any god other than the God of the scripture he uses no figure of speech, but means literally what his re­ markable bill provides, Mr. Walters is a very religious man, and his convictions are deep and strong. That he is not merely eccentric and alone in his extreme views of what he conceives as liberty is evidenced by the fact that he has been deluged with letters from all parts of the country commending his proposed law in the warmest terms. These letters are from persons who, like him, are devoted Christians. He contends that his law is perfectly constitutional and that it can easily be enforced. Mr. Walters • is a leading member of the Congregational Church in liis home town and is a highly respected and upright citizen there. He is 45 years old and has never before held an office. In business he is the manager of the Deming .Investment Company's office at Oswego. He is .a Democrat, but was supported by the Populists. He is mar­ ried and has three sons and one daughter. Telegraphic Brevities. The steamer R. T. Qole sank in the Cumberland river at Hunter's Point. She had a full cargo. Three negro roustabouts were drowned. Miss Mary Morton, who was injured by a bicyclist at Washington, is the niece of ex-Secretary Morton, and not his sister, as was stated. Miss Morton is improving. Six persons, including the owner and chief chemist of the mine, were killed in a fire damp explosion at the Borsig col­ liery, near Zabrez, Germany. The mine is still burning. ~ a At Springfield, 111., Special Master Col­ by sold the St. Louis, .Chicago and St. Paul road, known as the. Bluff line, under foreclosure on a mortgage, for $500,000 due Eastern bondholders. The body of the man who committed sui­ cide at a hotel in New Orleans has been identified-by his brother as that of Frank" D. Steger, the defaulting secretary of the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia. Ex-Mayor William R. Grace, his wife, Lillius Grace", ^and his son, Joseph P. Grace, of New York City, have jointly set aside-$2Q0,000 for the-funding of a man­ ual training school for young women and gin's, Will Celebrate in May the Completion of Two Centuries of Kxlstence. Of all the churches in this broad land not one is as interesting as old Trinity of New York, which next May will celebrate the completion of its two centuries of ex­ istence. The church was founded by the British crown when Washington read the Declaration of Independence to his sol­ diers on the site of the present New York city hall. Trinity by no means indorsed the sentiments in that document and stood fast by its royal founder. The British troops six weeks later reopened it and Anglican services were held.within its walls protected by the bayonets of the foreign soldiers. At a later date Trinity became an American institution and emerged from its troubles to be one of the most prolific mothers of churches in the world. The royal grant had given to Trinity a large tract of land, which at that time "OLD TRINITY" CHURCH. was without the city gates. As the city grew parcels of this land were given away for purposes of charity. Such little of it as yet remains in the hands of the parish has been estimated to be worth about §25,000,000. This consists of buildings, town lots and tenements. While London condemns its church­ yards in the city's heart and turns them into parks and breathing spots for the City's poor, New York cherishes Trinity's moldy old tombstones, and dotes on its graves within which sleep 160,000 dead people. As long ago as 1832 burial in the churchyard was forbidden. But under its sod beneath the trees repose the bones of the ancient vestrymen who lived at a time when the home of Shakspeare at Stratford was still commonplace. There also are buried members of „New York's best families. There, too, are the tombs of Gen. Kearney, of Robert Fulton, of Al­ bert Gallatin, of William Bradford, of Hamilton. And "Trinity chimes" may still be heard, but not always. Their sweet tones ordinarily are drowned in the thunder of Broadway, but when there is. a lull in the storm their notes are clear and a thousand times more dulcet because of the incongruity of their surroundings. The celebration of Trinity's bicentennial will be a great affair. Eminent Episcopal prelates and priests from all parts of the country will go to New York to take part in it. . .(reras1-* One trquble with Greece is that she is out of soap. The weather prophet evidently consid­ ers variety the spice of existence. If some parents could they would make the State nurse their babies for them. A great many people of this generation do not seem to know how to save any­ thing. Happily for GenrGrant, it has not need­ ed a monument to keep his memory green all these years. . Chicago is boasting of a citizen who is 112 years old. But he has not lived all that time in Chicago. The Michigan Supreme Court has de­ cided that Mr. Pingree must plant all his potatoes in one patch. There seems to be a disposition among most of the State Legislatures this year to work by the day and not by the job. The Progressive Barbers now propose a tax on beards. Their next progressive step will probably be to tax women for having none. •Americans who are anxious for martyr­ dom will have to try Turkey hereafter. Cuba is no longer available, thanks to Consul General Lee. The fact that the American flag is never seen in Cretan ports does not Kelp the blockade business as much as it hurts-the commercial reputation, of America. Weyler's remarkable silence during the past few days is probably to "be accounted for by the fact that he is packing up for ILLINOIS LA WMAKERS Gov. Tanner Friday signed the bill con­ solidating the &upremerpourt at Spring­ field. In the House Mr. Needles, chair­ man of the Committee on Appropriations, called up Mr. Fuller's bill creating a State Board of Pardons and making an appro­ priation for its maintenance. After a long debate the bill was advanced to third reading and will probably be called up on that order next week. When Senator Kanan called the Senate to order at 5 o'clock p. m. he was the only member present and immediately announced the Senate adjourned to Wednesday, in ac­ cordance with a joint resolution adopted. The Bogardus compulsory education bill was passed by the Senate Wednesday. It is understood to be acceptable to all ; classes and sects. The following appoint­ ments by the Governor were confirmed; Members of the Illinois Commission of . Claims---J. C. McKinzie, Elizabeth, to succeed H. G. Reeves, resigned; Walter , Louden, Carlyle, to succeed William A. Dawdy, resigned; W. C. Jones, Robinson, to succeed Samuel Alschuter, resigned. Grain Inspector a,t Savanna--F. C. Lew­ is, Thompson, to succeed J. M. Strata- man. The Sduate also confirmed thii ap­ pointments for the Illinois reformatory at Pontiac. -The following bills, among oth­ ers, were introduced: Senator Campbell-- To repeal the civil service law; appropria­ ting $50,000 for extraordinary expense® of the Illinois and Michigan Canal; to re^ peal the law requiring public officers hold­ ing State fnnds to publish statements in the newspapers. The' House did nothing if importance. The Humphrc-y railway bills were a# special order .in the Senate Thursday, but .the matter, wits again postponed. The Chicago Real Estate Board revenue bills were taken up as a special order. Sena­ tor Littler offered a substitute bill for the bill providing that all property shall be assessed at one-fifth its fair cash value, and moved a postponement, which was agreed to. Senator Granger's bill to per­ mit graduates in osteopathy to practice medicine, and the bill to enable park com-, missioners to enlarge and connect public waters were passed. The child labor bill was called back to second reading for the purpose of amendment. In the House Mr. Horn's bill making incurable insanity a ground for divorce was discussed and finally killed on inotion of Mr. Allen by striking out the enacting clause. Sent After Matches. "Sirrah!" exclaimed the president of the match trust to his trembling agent, "have you bought all the match fac­ tories in England?" "Yes, sire." "And all iu France and Germany?" "Yes, sire; as well as those In all the balance of Europe, Asia, Africa, Aus­ tralia, and North and South America." "It 'is well," said the Match Magnate. "You liaye done your work nobly. But tlie end is not yet. Prepare to die. John, bring the electrocutionary chair." In spite of his struggles the agent was bound in the chair and the dyna­ mo set in motion. "Wait!" he cried. "One moment! May I know Why Lam thus sent to my last home?" ; It was the president 6f the, Match Trust who answered him. "You uirty^' he said. "Yon are a good man. When you die your soul will fly to the liappy realms above, and there you will still find work to do for our trust. Until you have done your work there our monopoly will not be com­ plete, for seer-" and here he drew forth a papet, evidently a page from a book of poems--"see, here it is stated that 'matches are made in heaven.' Good- by and good luck! You arc expected to secure control of all the match fac­ tories across the dark river, no matter what the cost." With a glad smile the agent arranged himself in the chair and died. "If," said the president of the Match Trust, "if by any chance he should not reach the realms above he will at least be in a position to negotiate for large quantities of brimstone." Learn to Grow Old Gracefully. There is a most admirable lesson contained in tlie following extract from Hannah More's "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education:" "Since, then, there is a season when the youthful must cease to be young, and tlie beautiful to excite admiration, to learn to grow old gracefully is, per­ haps. one of the rarest and most beau­ tiful acts that' can be taught to wom­ an. And it must be confessed, it is a most severe trial for those women to lay down their beauty, who have noth­ ing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resource;?. However disregarded they may have been, they will be wanted now. When admirers " fall away and flatterers become mute, the mind will be driven to. retire with­ in itself; and if it finds no entertain­ ment at. home, it will be driven back again upon the world, with increased foijce. Yet, forgetting this, do we not seem to educate our daughters exclu­ sively for the transient period of youth, when it is to maturer life we ought to advert? Do we not educate for a crowd, forgetting that they are to live at home--for a crowd, and not for themselves--for show, and not for use--for time, and not for eternity?" patches Soon the time will come when the ama­ teur fanner who tries to plant seeds and raise chickens at the same time will be wanting to plant chickens and raise the Dickens later on.--Baltimore American. The Government is said to be spending $2,d00 a day in strengthening the leveee below Memphis. The levee system is one of the costliest failures, that have ever added to the burden "of our taxation.--St. Louis post Dispatch. Fond of Water. Cleanliness is one of the first factors in Japanese civilization. The poorest citizen bathes every day, even twice a day. There are over 800 public baths in the city of Tokio, and it is estimated that over 300,000 persons patronize -them daily-at a eost oM sen. 3 rins per head--about 1 farthing. A reduction of 3 rins is made for children. In addition to this, every private bath has its own bath room. In the villages which are not provided with either bathing estab­ lishments or private bath rooms, the people take their tubs out of doors and bathe before their own houses. Cooking in Cheshire. During my recent stay in Cheshire, an amusing Incident happened at a neighboring , farm, where the people were noted for making very hard and unpalatable crusts to their pastry. One £ay a tramp came to the door begged for something to eat. He was given a custard, with crust so hart that it lifted out of the dish whole. He was seen to go down the yard, and. having devoured the contents, returned home and is too busy to compose dis- portly afterwards with the crust, and said: "Please, mum, I've brought your pie-dish back,and thank your--London Answers. The Greek Premier. Theodore Delyannis, the Greek pre­ mier, is, now over 70 years old, but h« Is still vigorous in every respect. Ho belongs ta an old family of Morea; bafc his first start in public life was. as * copyist in the civil service of tiio G£ «ian Government • . sis m ' , ' • • :• ' -.V * V T