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TRAPPED IN A STORMj FOUR CHILDREN CRUSHED TO DEATH IN A BARN. Cyclone Finds Victims'at Illinois Stat« Home for Feeble-Minded--Louisville Suffers Severely--Spq l̂inc Freed of One Charge--Treaty Must Wait, Death in Its, Wake. Death rode on the wind which passed " over Lincoln, 111., Friday. In a terrifies storm a barn on the grounds of the Stat® home for feeble minded children was crushed like an eggshell, and when a res­ cuing party cleared away the ruins four dead and three injured boys were found, besides two attendants, one of whom ami possibly both will die. The dead are: Syl­ vester Baker, Coatesville, HI.; Cassie Leb­ anon, ward of Mrs. J. K. Carter and J. G.i Cooper, Chicago; Cornelius Mackenzie* Chicago; James O'Brien, Chicago. The injured are: Robert Aseott. Chi­ cago; He:nrich Berger, Chicago; Miltom Garrow, Ottawa; Lemuel Gleason, at­ tendant; W. E. C. Witham, Gray's LakeJj Jacob Wilmert, farm superintende«t, fa~ tally hurt. • •• • • ;v Factory roofs and chimneys were blown' away, houses were damaged ami tree® dismantled. The center of the storm,. however, .was about the asylum, just? west of the city. The roof, of the north.! wing of the main building was injiired aai a chimney on the custodial building waa. blown over. It was at the farm, however, that the) greatest damage was done. There arei sixty boys employed,, under the directions of Superintendent Jacob Wilmert, to ears : for the GOO acres owned by the State. Besides these, other boys are hired to as­ sist on extra work. Friday a party of twenty-six, averaging 14 years of age,i were taken down to pick peas, under; charge of Attendant Lemuel Gleason. The day was intensely hot and whenj the work was done Gleason took the boyai to Salt creek and treated them to a swim.. As they started back the storm cloud was* seen, and the attendant hurried the boys* into the farm barn. This was the biggest? barn in Logan County. It was 175 feetj long by 28 feet wide, and was erected four years ago at a cost of $3,000. Falls Withont Warning. Scarcely had the boys entered than the^ storm centered its fury on the structure. Without warning the timbers gave wayj and the barn fell, crushing its human oc­ cupants. The storm continued for thirty minutes, but before it was over the work, of rescue was begun aud four bodies brought from the ruins. The financial loss to the State is $4,500 upon the different buildings and grounds,, but the loss of forest trees--large ones inf. the park being lifted out by the roots-- cannot be estimated. Former Chicago Banker Acquitted of Charge of Embezzlement. Charles W. Spalding, former treasurer of the University of Illinois and president of the late Globe Savings Bank of Chi­ cago, slipped through one of the loopholes of the law Friday and escaped a sentence to the penitentiary on a technicality. Charged with the embezzlement of eight bonds belonging to the endowment fundi of the university and valued at $7,500, he was acquitted on the grounds that he had been improperly indicted, and that while he might have been found guilty of an im­ proper use of the funds intrusted to hia care, he was not guilty of embezzlement^ Spalding is still in the county jail. He has missed only one of the twenty-nine chances that threatened to brand him as a criminal. There are twenty-eight in­ dictments stiU hanging over his head,, charging him with embezzlement of uni­ versity funds and receiving deposits at the Globe Savings Bank after it became in­ solvent. Attorney Deneen intends t» make the former banker run the full- length of the gauntlet of the law before the prosecution shall cease.1 NO ACTION ON TREATY. Storm Wrecks Many Buildings and Hurts Fifteen People. A thunder, rain and hail storm, resem­ bling in many respects a cyclone, swept over Louisville, Ivy., at 5:28 o'clock Fri­ day morning and lasted until 6 o'clock. From 5:2S o'eloek to 5:32 the wind blew, fifty-five miles an hour, demolished sev­ eral frail Structures, unroofed scores of residences and business houses, smashed* windows, tore down wires, uprooted trees, and caused thousands of people to get*-, from thedr beds into the debris-strewi* streets. Fifteen persons were injured,, but no one fatally. The property damage is estimated at $45,000. East of the cityi wheat fields were ruined and cattle killed by falling trees. In New Albany two. Catholic churches and Wsventy other build­ ings were unroofed. The storm was ther worst experienced since the cyblone of ISOO. Diminishing Stature in Europe. This relation between stature and' healtii is brought to concrete expression in the armies of Europe through a re­ jection of all recruits for seryiee who fall below a certain minimum stand- ard of height, generally about 5 feet* The result of this is to preclude the possibility of marriage for all the fuUy developed^men during their three yeaxa In the barracks, while th<» undersized individuals, exempt from service oxu this account, are left free to propagate the species meanwhile. Is it not ap­ parent that the effect of this artificial selection is to put a distinct premium, upon inferiority of stature in so far a» future generations are concerned? This enforced postponement of marriage foe the normal man implies not merely* that the children of normal families are born later in life--that would not be of great" moment in itself--it means f&r more than this. The majority of* children are more often born in tho earlier half of married life, before tsbe> age of 35. Hence a postponement oC matrimony means not only later chil­ dren, but fewer children. Herein lies* the great significance of the phenome­ non for us. Standing armies tend la. this respect to overload succeeding gen­ erations with inferior types of uwol-- Popular Science Monthly, HONOR THEIR QUEEN. 4-OYAL BRITONS SHOW LOVE FOR QUEEN VICTORIA. •Cheers Sh-ake the Ground aa She Pasafea in tlie Diamond Jubilee Pa- rade-Peopie frqm All Parts of the Eartii Help CeKsfSkte. Wonderful Sight in London. The crowning feature of the official cel­ ebration of the fixtieth anniversary of the coronation of Victoria as Queen of the United Kingdom hf Gi:eat Britain and Ireland has eome acd gone, and all Lon­ don is congratulating itself upoil the com­ plete success of one of the greatest popu­ lar demonstrations of modern times. A religious service of brevity and simplicity, a royal pageant of unprecedented bril­ liancy, a mighty outburst of patriotism and evidence of personal iove--these were the principal characteristics of the great­ est day that London has 'ever seen. The most stupendous pageant in his­ tory, a concourse of the millions from the ends of the earth, gathered to do hon­ or to the queen and to add to the glory of her diamond jubilee parade, has filled its part without a hitch and without a flaw in all the marvelous effect. Most imprest sive, perhaps, of all the sights of the great day was the mighty 'multitude of people --spectators packed almost to the point of suffocation into every available niche of the six-mile route of the great -parade; Eight . million souls, representing every civilized and almost every savage .nation oh the face of the-globe, shouldered' and elbowed at every point of vantage, and the aged queen as she was borne amid ; the throng was given homage such as never Pharaoh nor Caesar received from the myriads of the olden time. The pro­ cession itself was the greatest, most mag­ nificent, that ever passed between the ranks of admiring multitude^. It moved in three sections, consolidating as the di­ vision moved into Picadilly, while--fitting order of parade--the colonists of Eng­ land's mighty empire led the van. The procession moved from Bucking­ ham Palace nearly on time. The roar of cheers that marked its course up Consti­ tution Hill told the beginning of the story of the queen among her people, while the artillery in Hyde Park, by a royal salute of sixty guns, thundered the faot to wait­ ing thousands elsewhere. The queen had actually started. The procession was practically in three sections as far as St. Paul's, though the FOUR 0EKERATIOSS. THE QUEEN'S PROCESSION PASSING THE NATIONAL GALLERY. -^5 M'KINLEY CONGRATULATES QUEEN VICTORIA. PRESIDENT M'KINLEY sent the following personal letter to Queen Victoria, which was delivered to her bv Mr. Whitelaw Reid, special envoy: To Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great 1'ritaln and Irel n<t and Empress of India: Great and Hood Friend--In the name and on behalf of tho people of the United State" I present their sincere felicitations upon the sixtieth anniversary of your maje ty's accession to the crown of Great Britain. I express the sontlmenis of my fellow citizens in wishing for your people the prolongat'on of a reign illustrious aud marked by advance in science, arts and popular well-being. On behalf of my countrymen. 1 wish particularly to recognize your friendship for tho United States and your love of peace, exemplified upon Important oc asions. » jt is pleasing to acknowledge the debt of raatltude and respect due to your personal vir­ tues. Mjiy vour life be i rolonged and peace, honor and prosperity bless tin i eople over whom you have been called to rule. Slay liberty flourish throughout your empire, under just and equal li.ws, and your government continue strong in tho artections of all who Uve under It. And 1 pray God to have your majesty in His holy keeping. Your good friend. By the President: JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of ttato. WILLIAM M'KINLEY. two last, en route to the cathedral, were consolidated as they moved into Picadilly. The scores of rroops and companies were literally too numerous to mention ex­ cept as a brilliant whole. It seemed like nothing so much as some stream of bur­ nished gold flowing between dark banks of human beings gathered to witness its passage to a land of light. Then the first part of the sovereign's escort rode into view, the Second Life Guards. As their well-known brilliant uniforms appeared the whisper ran elec­ trically: '"She's coming." The guards j were soon succeeded by the escort of British and foreign princes. Many faces were known, recognized and cheered. This brilliant escort was composed of the flower of Europe's thrones. Following the princes came the Guard of Honor. A cheer broke forth that seemed, to shake the ground, renewed again and again, as her majesty's carriage approached. The carriage in which her majesty rode now came abreast. It was built about a quar­ ter of a century ago. The body was dark claret, lined with vermillion, the mold­ ings outlined with beads of brass. Be­ side her majesty rode the Princess of Wales, opposite her majesty, her royal highness Princess Christian. On the left of her majesty rode his royal highness, the Duke of Cambridge, on the right, his royal highness, the Prince of Wales, who was followed by the Duke of Connaught, the general officer commanding. Services at St. Paul's •The great bells of St. Paul's broke out in happy chorus as the queen's carriage started from Temple bar and only ceased as her majesty's carriage stopped in front of the steps of the cathedral. With the stopping of the queen's carriage the pic­ ture was complete and the swelling hymn that had risen on the summer air from five choristers of her majesty's chapel, roy­ al, Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's ceased its gf-a.nci harmonies in one long- drawn soft "jiuien." The service was about to beginV The bishop of London, in full canonicals. rea,d-*a short Collect, af- v, ter which, as her majesty sat with bowed \head, the archbbishop of Canterbury an- no'upced the benediction. Then," amidst the further ringing of bells, the national anthem was stiiig, and the queen drove on- into other scenes. As her majesty entered the' gates of the palace at '2 o'clock a distant gun in Hyde Park announced to so much of the world as was tiot^before the gates that the,great procc^pj^vvas over. -The event so long prepared had passed into history. *>*32-2 :-333 -2:-53:-3H3:-32 333 333 333 5-fc | SIXTY YEARS | 1 A QUEEN. 1 flp ay ^333*)3333533333333333333&fr- THE celebration of the sixtieth anni­versary of the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne of Great Brit­ ain atid Ireland makes pertinent u review of the caieer of this great and venerable ruler, this good queen ar.d mother, whose life has been ;.n example and an inspira­ tion to Iter peo?:e. . • The story of the sixty years of Vic­ toria's reign cannot be briefly told. Its theater has been the world; its actors, in principal and auxiliary parts, the ma­ jority of the Human Tace. And yet the , personal history of the queen lias been singularly uneventful. It is only when one reaches oat to the peoples $nd coun­ tries, with which her government has had relations, and considers the duration^'and importance of those relations that one be­ gins to realize the vast influence Queen Victoria has exercised over so many hun­ dreds of millions of people. Only three of Queen Victoria's prede­ cessor^ ruled over fifty' years/ These 'were Henry III, fifty-sax years; Edward III, fifty years six months, and George III, her grandfather, fifty-nine years. But during the last ten years of the latter's life his mind was weak and the virtual sovereign was the prince regent. Sketch of Her Carger. Victoria Alexandrina, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, was born at Kensington Palace, London, May 24, 1819. Her father was Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth somof King George III, and her mother was Victoria Mary Louisa, daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and a sister of the late King Leopold of Belgium. Before the present queen-empress had completed her first year her father died, leaving the care and training of the young princess to the Duchess of Kent, and so far as the adage, "How the twig is bent, the tree's inclined," is true, the training given the Princess Victoria must have been both good and wise. She was edu­ cated under- her mother's watchful eyes and was grounded not alone in intellec­ tual pursuits but on moral and religious principles. On attaining her eighteenth year a grand ball was given in her honor at Buckingham Talace and for the first time, having reached her majority, she took rank of her mother. Within a month ®lier uncle. King William IV, died and as he left no issue, the crdwn devolved upon Victoria. The following day, June 21. 1836, she was publicly proclaimed queen, but it was not until June 28 of the following year that she was crowned at Westminster. From the beginning she endeared her­ self to her people. She bore her dig­ nities gracefully and manifested a sound judgment in dealing with affairs of state. companion could be, and their nine chil­ dren were growing up, healthy, happy and dutiful. All that the world could grant, of wealth and honor, were hers, and her eldest daughter had been happily married to the heir of one of the most powerful kingdoms of Europe, Frederick of Prus­ sia, a prince whose amiable virtues and intelligence added luster to his brilliant rank. In May. 1861, the queen lost her mother, and in December came a far greater blow in the death of the Prince Consort. The queen met her bereavement with that vehemence of grief so often manifested by those who have a life of unruffled happiness suddenly interrupted by a great sorrow. Her loss So-preyed up­ on her mind that for a number of years she lived in absolute retirement, avoiding as far as possible all public and social duties, indulging her melancholy to the fullest ext >nt. This spectacle of incon­ solable grief amid the gorgeous surround­ ings of royalty produced a great effect upon the English people, and gave the queen a hold upon their affections which nothing else, perhaps, could have done and which remains to-day unchanged and unbroken. Becomes Empress of India. For fifteen years after the death of her husband the queen did not appear before Parliament. In 1876 she again appeared at the opening of that body, but did not attempt to read her speech as she had done in the earlier years. In April. 1786, an act of Parliament authorized her ma­ jesty to assume the title of Empress of India. In 18S7 the jubilee of her reign was celebrated with much rejoicing, with processions, speeches and flags galore. A new coinage was adopted at the mint to Oxford; another in May, 1842, by Johni Francis, who was sentenced to be hang­ ed for the offense, but the sentence was commuted to transportation for life. The third was in July of the same year by one .T. W. Bean, whose only punishment was eighteen months in prison; the fourth in 1S49 by William Hamilton, an Irishman, who was transported for seven years; the VICTORIA, SIXTY YEARS A QUEEN. A new sense of royalty and admiration arose in the minds of the English peopl'e, for, it must be said, that the record of the HOUR1 of Hanover, to which Victoria belongs, was very bad before her time, the kingly members of it when not corrupt being stupid, lm 1840 Queen Victoria was married to her cousin. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha. The union was one of love and not of state policy and a happy and model union it proved. The English people did not take kindly to it at first. Although Prince Albert was a man of rare mental gifts as well as personal attractions, he failed in the beginning to impress his worth upon the subjects of has queen. They disliked him because he was not an Englishman. In Parliament the wise heads wrangled over the question of his naturalization, quarreled over his allow­ ance, his place next to the queen, and over the bill to constitute him regent in case of the queen's death. They would not give him the title of Prince Consort until 1857. Four years after this Prince Albert died, Dec. 14, 1861. but by this time tlie> nobleness of the man's charac­ ter was established in the public heart and his death-jvas deeply mourned in the court and in the nation. Up to the year 1S61 the life of Queen Victoria had bgen one of unbroken, tran­ quil happiness. Her mother, to whom she was deeply attached, was spared to enjoy a peaceful old hge. Her husband was to l/.er all that a devoted and loving commemorate the year. Ail the poten­ tates, governments and great men of Eu­ rope showered gifts and congratulations upon the fortunate queen. If the queen has set herself strenuously to any one task in her life it has been to maintain the purity of her court. Before her time the English court was not gen­ erally immaculate and the same was true of the continental courts. But the queen has changed all this. Her relations as wife find mother wer^ a noble example of what true womanhood should be. and the very purity of her life shamed others into patterning after her. On the subject of court etiquette Queen Victoria is the most exacting sovereign in Europe. She insists upon the observance of every min­ ute detail of ceremony, and ihe conse­ quence^ that every one who comes into contact with her has to be thoroughly drilled in the observance of "forms." As to her personal appearance the queen has herself said that she is "rather small for a queen," for she is but 4 feet 10 inches in' height. But, despite that, she is, on occasions, a woman o*f extraordinary dig- uity. Attempts Upon Her Life. Although the. queen, from the time of her succession to the throne, has enjoyed to the fullest extent the respect and af­ fection of her subjects, no less than five attempts, all, fortunately, unsuccessful, have been made to assassinate her--the first iifjune, 1840, by a crazy lad named PRINCE ALBERT. fifth in April, 1S82, by Roderick McLean, a Scotchman, who Was ordered to be con­ fined during her majesty's pleasure, and is, we believe, still in prison. As nearly everybody knows, the queen is very fond of mnsdc, and Whether she is at Windsor, Osborne or Balmoral she frequently invites distinguished musi­ cians to entertain her. She is also an ex­ tensive reader and keeps well posted on the topics of interest. She is very con­ siderate of others, and it was this consid­ eration which led her ten years ago, or at the age of 68, to undertake the task of learning Hindustani. Like other royal personages, she is considerable of a lin­ guist. speaking several of the European languages; .but she is probably the only royal personage in Europe who has under­ taken to master an Asiatic language. For this purpose she went under the instruc­ tion of an Indian teacher, and she under­ took the difficult task in order that she aiight converse in their own tongue with the Indian royalties who from time to time visit England to pay their respects to their empress. The queen is very wealthy, in fact, the wealthiest woman in all the world. Dur­ ing the sixty years that she has been on the throne she has been able to save from her civil list and the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster sums, which, with in­ terest added, now amount to close upon $100,000,000. She inherited from her hus­ band property which is now valued at $25,000,000, and from time to time sub-, jects die who leave her all or nearly all) their property. It is estimated that her fortune to-day amounts to $150,000,000. The Queen's Family. Of the queen's nine children seven sur­ vive. These are Victoria, Dowager Em­ press of Germany aud mother of Kaiser William II; Albert Edward. Prince o? Wales; Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg* Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig- Holstein; Louise, Marchioness of Lorne; Arthur, Duke of Counaught and Beatrice, whose husband, Prince Henry of Batten- berg, died of fever during the Ashantee war, in 1896. The Princess Alice, Duch­ ess of Hesse-Darmstadt, died in 1878, and the Duke of Albany in 1884. A list of her grandchildren and great­ grandchildren would fill half a column. By marriage into the.great reigning fam­ ilies her descendants will sit upon many of the leading thrones in Europe. Her grandson. Emperor William of Germany, is the most powerful monarch an the con­ tinent, with the possible exception of the Czarf and the latter is married to her granddaughter, Princess Aljx of Hesse. Another granddaughter is Crown Princess of Roumania, her son Alfred is ivuler of Saxe-Coburg, and a grandson is Grand Duke of Hesse»Darmstadt. During the reign of the queen the do­ mains of'Great Britain have been greatly increased. In India there has been an increase of SO,000 square miles; in the rest of Asia, 200,000 square miles, and in Af­ rica 1,000,000. Notes of Current Events. If a man liates to do a thing, it should not be Ms duty. Mrs. Hxyiry Scott of Chicago and Mrs. Maria Hay, formerly of Chicago, Were killed by a runaway at Dubuque, Iowa. Albert Sickmiller, Louis Sickmiller, Charles Faile and George . Steinhelder were run over by an Erie fast express near Mansfield. During a volunteer parade at Liverpool the crowd, which numbered 100,000, over­ came ..the handful of police, who were keeping aider. The mounted police then charged and injured many, i? in feared, fatally. • : r ILLINOIS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. State University Library Buildin g and Contests Damaged by Lightning-- Results of an Attempt to Burn Dy­ namite at Decatur. Licktning Hits Illinois University. Thursday morning the natural history building at the University of Illinois alt Champaign, was struck by lightning, re­ sulting in damage to the building, furni­ ture apparatus and library of probably $(5,000. The building itself is damaged to the extent of $7,500 and the loss on the contents cannot be accurately ascertained at present. Everything in the building was water soaked. The building was erected' in 185)1 at a cost of $62,000. and •the .value of the furniture and apparatus was over $125,000. The building is occu­ pied by the departments of botany,, zoolo­ gy, physiology, mineralogy and geology. It also contained the office and equipments of the Statfe laboratory of natural history and of the State entomologist; and the offipe and library of the agricultural; ex­ periment station. Work of repairing the damage, will be commenced at once. . • ; Decatur Shaken by Dynamite, A representative of a powder company went to Decatur to destroy a quantity of dynamite which was, presumed to <- be worthless. The resuit Aj&s an-explosion which- shdtfk the city. There were 1,500 pounds of •fihe explosive in a magazine near the southwestern limits of the city. Fifty pounds were first set tire and burn­ ed as a trial.. There was no explosion, and then the rest of the powder was put in one iheap and set on fire. The men re­ tired a short distance and stretched (them­ selves on the grass to watvh the fire, going barely out of range of the heat. Almost immediately there was a terrific explosion, the force of Which rolled them over and over in the grass, but did not injure them. The nearest 'house, 150 yards away, up a steep hill, has almost completely wrecked, but the occupants were hot injured. Win­ dows were broken in houses half a mile away and chimneys were knocked down. Marshall's IMurdcrer Discovered. Charles T., better known as "Stubby" Hicks, who is under sent once to the peni­ tentiary, confessed at Chicago that Wil­ liam Sullivan shot Thomas Marshall, pro­ prietor of the Golden Rule store, in West Madison street, in an attempted robbery May 7, 1S!)6. He also implicated John Onne, who as, with Sullivan, now in the Pontiac reformatory, arad John Meggs in the raid and murder. Hicks also confess­ ed' that he was one of tthe four men impli­ cated in a recent robbery of Banker Gra­ ham in front of the 1 after's house in Washington boulevard. He claims the other robbers were George Miller, John Nolan and Amlhony Cameron. Hicks said his only connection with the affair was to receive the watch taken from Che bank­ er, and told State's Attorney Deneen where to find it. Cowards Rob a Cripple. William G. Deale of 701 West A'an Buren street, Chicago, attorney and no­ tary public, who has lived in an invalid's dhaiir for the past twenty-<three years, was brutally beaten Saturday and robbed of $790 he had saved in order to pay off a mortgage on his little home. The perpe­ trators are two men, whose identity the West Lake street police have not yet re­ vealed. Mr. Deale is an attorney, notary public and commissioner of deeds, and has, by reason of his infirmities, acquir­ ed a considerable clientage in the vicinity in which he lives. Many persons patron­ ize him and, while confined to an invalid's Chair, unable to go to a downtown office, and' maintaining a headquarters in his home, he has built up a practice of no mean proportions. Old Settlers Hold a Reunion. The old settlers of Kane County held their annual reunion Saturday in Lord's Park, Elgin. Many pioneers from up and down the Fox River valley were present, making a total attendance of over 300. Among the number were men and women who settled as far back as 1835. Tlhe day was devoted to music, short addresses and reminiscences of an early day. The fol­ lowing officers of the Old Settlers' Asso­ ciation were elected: President, M. H. Thompson; vice-president. Adiu Mann; secretary, John B. Newcomb; treasurer, E. K. W. Cornell; marshal, D. F. Duui- ser; executive committee., S. E. Weld, J. A. Palmer, C. H. Larkiu. State News in Brief. Explosions, shouts of "murder," and other uproarious noises are so common in Chicago that when people hear them in the night, a grunt and roll-over in bed is about ali the attention given. So Thurs­ day morning early, when burglars got in-to Korbel & Brother's wholesale liquor store, blew the door off t'he big safe with dyna­ mite, wrecked the office, broke nearly ev­ ery window in tihe block, and d'ecamped with $135 and a lot of mileage tickets, no one in the densely populated vicinity gave any heed to .the ma tter, though the shock of the 'blasting awakened many. Mr. Korbel was the first to discover the burg­ lary, wlhen he opened the store at 8 rt'clock in the morning. Harry Hennessy, a young farmer resid­ ing five miles from Paris, was murdered by "bis hired man, George Devers, Friday nigiht. Both returned from town on Fri­ day evening. Hennessy was intoxicated and had a quarrel with his wife at the supper table, but was too inebriated to l>e dangerous. Devers followed Hennessy to his room when Hennessy retired and1 fired three shots into his employer's head. The wife of the murdered man rode with De­ vers in a buggy to Paris immediately after the tragedy to her father's house and De­ vers gave himself up to the authorities. Mrs. Hennessy made application for a di­ vorce at the hist term of court, but friends effected1 a reconciliation. The dead man was a son of a Missouri ranchman and a brother-in-law of a bank cashier in Paris, W. D. Cole. Thirteen-year-old Fred Yager lost his life at Chicago while trying to save a string of fish. The fish slipped into the water, and young Yager plunged in after them. He struggled about for a f?w minutes aind then went down. Rev. James Baume died at Rockford, aged 73. He was the pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago When it erected its edifice on Clark street; was a pastor at Evanston during the Chi­ cago fire. and afterward spent many years in foreign fields as a missionary, much of the time in India. He was the farther of Judge James S. Baume of Galena, At Peoria, a. cut of cars was pushed into a large crowd of people who were stand­ ing on the trestles of the Terminal Rail­ road watching men drag.the ri ver for the body of Willie Mittendorff, who was drowned. Nancy Berry, aged 17 years, was run over and horribly mutilated. The Joliet City Council rescinded it9 ac­ tion recettily adopted making tramps \\;ork on the streets with bail anu chain. The method was adopted two weeks" ago. and everybody took sides one way or another, and1 finally the labor * unions asked' the Council to abolish it. The city was over­ run with tramps for months until the dhain gang was started, and this his driv­ en them away. ... Ui. dj SPALDING NOT GUILTY. Annexation Cannot Be Settled This Session of Congress, Senator Davis, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said? Friday that he would not make an effort to press the Hawaiian treaty to fihal con­ sideration in the Senate during the pres­ ent session of Congress. "While," he said, "the opposition to the ratification of the treaty is not formidable as to .numbers, it has already been made evident that it will be quite determined,, and this fact, coupled with the impossibil­ ity of holding a quorum for any length of time after the passage of the tariff bill, has already forced the conclusion that aa effort to secure immediate action wonjif be futile; hence it will not be made. We shall, however, be able to get the treaty reported to the Senate. We shall also have it formally taken up so as to have it well to the front at the beginning of the next session." Henry F. Eames,_a veteran banker ot Chicago, is dead, aged S3. He was presi-' dent of the Commercial National, and was actively at work until Tuesday. At Bloomington, Charles Cramp died Wednesday. He leaves a fortune of $100,- 000. He gave largely toward the fund of the Illinois Wesleyan University, the total gift of himself and wife being $40,000. A special election was held at. Percy for the election of a Mayor to till a vacancy The result was the election of James W. Short, candidate on the license ticket, by a majority of 44. At the spring election Percy went dry by 4 majority. Wh'le digging on his farm in the north­ west pirt of Adoms County, W. M. Reed, a well-known farmer, discovered gold- bearing quartz. , He sent his find to a mine/alogist, who pronounced it paying quartz. Farmers about Mr. Reed's farm have set to digging to ascertain the ex­ tent of the ledge. President Francis. M. McKay of the board of trustees of the University of Illi­ nois. said: "Now that Gov. Tanner has signed the university appropriation bills, this places the University of Illinois in a better position'than it was ever in before, with more money to spend than it ever had before. Not only art all the ordinary expenses of the institution provided for, but it has funds for. the establishment of its new department of law, it hag $20,000 for additional equipment for its engineer­ ing department and $20,000 for additions to its library." Comptroller. Eckels issued a statement showing the condition o.f the 100 national banks in Illinois outside of. Chicago on May 14. It shows that the individual de­ posits .now aggregate oyer $43,000,000, which is the greatest sum in the: banks at any time since May 7, 1$06. They then held, nearly $45,000,000. In Dcem- ber last the deposits were" only about $38,000,000, The loans and discounts are now a trifle more than the deposits, or $43,240,320. The other items of the re­ port do not show a great change during the last year, except in the average re­ serve held, which has increased to 36.05 per cent--the largest in several years. This is an encouraging sign of more sta­ bility among the country bankers. Hamilton Howard, who for seven years has been employed getting out timber over the river in Kentucky for Charles Finley of Cairo, has gone to Owensboro in re- s]xmse to a notice that lie is heir to $50,- 000 in cash and real estate. Before leav­ ing his Owensboro home ten years age he was given $10,000 by his uncle, John Howard, with which to go into business. Instead lie had a big spree and then left the Sfate. He failed to notify his rela­ tives of bis whereabouts. His uncle died three months ago and the nephew has only now been found. An agent repre­ senting the executor of the estate was in Cairo a few days ago and accidentally learned that there was a man named Hamilton Howard at work as a common laborer on the Kentucky side of the river. Sheriff Pease of Chicago received a let­ ter asking for information concerning a little girl 7 years old. who is said to be heir to an estate worth $100,000 at Aus­ tin, Tex. The letter was from James B. Goff »!c Sons, lawyers of Austin, and the heiress who is sought is Alma GreeA. The letter says that the estate was left by George M. Kasson, who died in 1805. Kassen married Mary Hayden in St. Louis and had one child, a daughter, named Mary. She married a man of the name of Green and went to Missouri with him. Subsequently, on the death of Green, she married a second husband, whose name was Mann, and he also died. She had but one child, Alma Green. If living she is now 7 years old. Efforts have been made to trace Mrs. Mann and her child in the places where she is known to have lived, but without success so far. Arrangements have been completed and the penny savings system is ready to be­ gin its work of encouraging thrift among the children of Chicago. The plan is the same as that whicn has been in vogue in oilier cities and in the old country for several years. Books of engraved stamps are to be sold to such children as desire to start small saving funds and this money is to ue deposited in a responsible bank. If the safeguards put around the system are adequate there is no objection to the scheme, but the public school teachers should not be made to act as agents for the collefs^n of the funds from the chil­ dren. 'These people have too- many duties as it is, and it is an imposition to ask them to keep tihe accounts of twenty or more pupils in addition to their other work. Besides this, teachers are often transferred from school to school and from room to room. This is sure to result in trouble. The hand of death smote Chicago Wed­ nesday in the fury of the heat and the violence of the storm. Two died upon whom the sun hud cruelly glared, r.nd a third was killed by lightning, whose ter­ rors tempered the benedictions of the cool­ ing rain. Three were prostrated. Then rain came. Strange visitant with the rain was liail which fell heavily in the south end of the city. Terrifying lightning flashed and played queer freaks, and thun­ der roared. Fatalities were supplemented by damage to property and by broken and surcharged overhead wires. Persons were shocked and injured by the electric fluid. The rain fell in sheets and choked up sew­ ers and flooded basements over the city. In the midst of the heavy rainstorm pas­ sengers on a Harrison street car had an exciting experience. The car was sud­ denly enveloped in a sheet of fiame, which seemed to pass downward through it, reach a climax of brightness under the car and vanish. Simultaneously there was an explosion as loud as the report of a cannon, which shook the car and stop­ ped it. Lightning had struck the car. The twelve women and one man who con­ stituted the passengers were pahic strick­ en and hastily scrambled into the street. The bolt struck the roof of the car wher? the iron trolley pole joins it. The fluid followed the course taken by the current from the overhead wire and went through the car without doing much damage to the motor, but with a great amount of pyro­ technics. The explosion was caused by the unusually strong voltage striking the motor. No one was injured. Having written a six-page letter to his wife telling' her he was about to commit suicide by jumping into the lake and set- ffng forth his reasons for the act, Jean Wiener of Chicago confided in a store­ keeper and was prevented from carrvjng out his idea. • 5 Frank Flood, IS years old, and ;i strang­ er. apparently about the saw age. at­ tempted to board a rapidly moving freight train in the Pa^andle road at Chicago. The men eollured and both were thrown under the wheels. The unidentified man was killed and Flood was so'severely in­ jured that he is not expected to recover. A. S. Edwards of Springfield was ap­ pointed custodian of the Lincoln Home. He is a grandson of the first territorial gover ior of Illinois, and a cousin of Rob­ ert T. Lincoln, his mother and Mr. Lin­ coln's mother having been sisters. It is understood that the appointmeut was made at "the request of Mr. McLean County farmers are greatly alarmed over the great abundance and ac­ tive operations of potato bugs. They are more numerous throughout the county than they have been before in txerty years. Active warfare is being waged upon the pests, with pitch a run upon the drug stores for poison that the stocks ant exhausted1 in evec? town. DAMAGE AT LOUISVILLE.