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'KIN LEY, W GERE! llOAGO. ?V •* -v . &3i"h ir-Z *}{' i¥t.; JjpleMUi m SiWer Trowel la the Eur* #tae« at th* New Kedtrcl Building-- Great Parade Followt-SoMl̂ a mi fkrn Wara ln Line. V; Under a bright sky, in an atmosphere , «jf Indian summer, with flags waving and 'tt® strains of the national anthem pealing forth and viewed by throng* at window* and on roofs, thecofner ŝtone of the new Chicago FederatoulTding was laid by the President of the United States Monday nwrttlag, President ItcKinley spread a traMM of gray mortar upon the foun­ dation stone of the grist Federal struc­ ture. He.received it frcsn a shovel hand- ed him by a hod carrier. Workmen more in the art of rearing mighty spread other mortar upon the base.'* The corner stone, white and mas- five in the sunlight, was lowered from a flag-entwined derrick upon the founda­ tion stone, dropping upon and hermetical­ ly sealing the copper box containing doc­ uments and coin® which may not see light for another tentmry.' v:" Secretary of the Treasury Gage waved Slit hands to the multitude. Then, as a band played "The Star-Spangled Banner" and a battery on the lake front boomed the national salute 10,000 persons, stand- big with uncovered heads, cheered the tuition's ruler and the nation's anthem. Thousands from the windows and tops of the fcigh buildings about--from the flag-bedecked turret of the Union League Club, the dizzy cornices of the Great Northern, the massive heights of the Mo- sadnock building--took up the mighty re­ frain. These persons numbered fully 15,000. Following the example of those who had points of vantage, the tens of thousands who could not see, and had not heard a word, but held back from the proximity to the Federal building by lines of bluecoats, had patiently held their (round for hours, sent up a hoarse cheer. As the stone was falling to its bed, and inch by inch closing the sunlight from the precious box, a member of the First ar­ tillery, 1 . N. G., signal service, who stood In the presidential stand, wig-wagged his flag thrice. A man oh a sky scraper in the vicinity wig-wagged another flag, and a third man, farther east, waved his flag. And two seconds by the stop watch after the corner stone of the new Federal build­ ing was laid the deep-toned salute of the cruiser Michigan and Battery D echoed from the lake front and mingled with the acclamations of the populace. When silence reigned again Secretary Gage, white-haired and distinguished, stood over the huge block of Illinois lime- atone and said, with dignified emphasis: ( v LAYING OF THE POST OFFICE CORNER STONE. LID BT THK PRESIDENT. Grand Clvio and Military Pageant Follows Nation'* Chief. The ceremonies attending the laying of the corner stone of Chicago's new post- office building were followed in the after­ noon by a pageant which surpassed all similar civic and military displays in the history of the city. It was viewed by thousands who formed two compact* walls of humanity miles in length. Theru were no threatening skies to mar or conceal the lavish decorations of the Court of Honor or to dampen the patriotic ardor of the hosts of people. Veterans of three wars received their proper measure of ap­ plause. Gray beards of the Mexican war and the aged warriors of the civil con­ flict heard echoes of the bugle, fife and drum which fired their heroism at Buena Vista, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Rich- CHICAQO'S GREAT BUILDING. It Will Be the Moat Dignified Public Structure in the West. The nation is spending more than $4.- 000,000 t6 provide quarters in Chicago for the Federal courts and for the trans­ action of its mammoth business in the district. The new United States Gov­ ernment building which will accommo­ date the several Federal departments is designed in the form of a great granite cross, covering an area of 386 by 310 feet*, and it will be the most dignified public structure in the West. Three of its floors --the basement and first and second stories--will cover the entire block bound­ ed by Adams, Dearborn and Clark streets and Jackson boulevard. Upon this base the cross-like structure rises six stories higher, or 128 feet* in the air. Then comes the huge dome, a building in it- CHICAGO DAY PARADE IN THE COURT OR, HONOR. ;. & 1 \ - gr" I r : ' . **1 now pronounce the laying of the cor­ ner stone complete, and ask Rev. Frank Gunsaulus to ask God's blessing." And the thousands and the tens of thousands bowed their heads as Rev. Gunsanius called upon the supreme being to hold the great structure-to-be in his keeping. The trowel was an insignia of holiday Chicago. With this deft turn of the President's wrist and the falling of the Wet mortar upon the stone was completed that little act about which all other acts, great or small, of the fall festival cen­ tered. With the laying of the corner atone at the northeast corner of the struc­ ture which is to be Chicago's magnificent postofflce--the most imposing huilding in all this city of giant structures--the cli- mond; the veterans of the strife yet fresh in meniwj still showed the scars of bat­ tle, while scores of semi-military and civic organizations gave additional weight to the significance of the parade. The distinguished visitors from Canada, Mex­ ico and from this country all received and were made to realize that Chicago has a heart in proportion to its size. President McKinley's appearance along the line of march was attended by a con­ tinuous wave of applause, while with bared head he bowed to the throngs. From the appointed place through the maze of downtown streets to the review­ ing stand the President looked into a sea of faces. Vice-President Mariscal of Mexico, sur- GOVERNMENT BUILDING AND POSTOFFICE AT CHICAGO. of a week's festivities had been reached. "Eloquence from jurists, states­ men and divines, the presence of the pre­ miers of three great governments, and the representatives of a dozen other na­ tions made the occasion one calculated to clinch the memory of every spectator. Without a hitch, without a blemish of any sort, the ceremonies were performed Chicago witnessed Saturday an event Without parallel in the history of the North American continent. She welcom­ ed to her hospitality within a few hours of each other President McKinley of the United States, Vice-President and Min- kfter of Foreign Affairs Don Ignacio Ma­ riscal of Mexico and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Canada. They represent the power and authority that rules all of the people between the Iathmus of Tehuaute- pee and the inaccessible arctic region. Their presence in Chicago as the guests of the great city almost midway in the •ast territory over which the flags of the three nations float testified to tlM anbroken Cat half a century. rounded by a cavalcade of horsemen in brilliant colors; Sir Wilfred Laurier, pre­ mier of Canada, escorted by another cav­ alry guard; distinguished generals of the American army in their sashes and regi­ mentals, members of the President's cab­ inet ia severe black, and scores of other distinguished guests were paid for their visit by greetings given them. The great concourse of people which witnessed this military pageant was doubtless one of the largest gatherings in the history of the city. The color ev­ erywhere, the bright, clear sky, th« sol­ diers passing by and the presence of high dignitaries of this and other governments all combined to make the military parade a success beyond all sanguine expecta­ tions. Maj. Gen. MerrHt, chief marshal of the parade, estimate*! that 1,000,000 per­ sons saw the pageant. A banquet given at the Auditorium to President Mcjvrnley and distinguished guests of the' city was tfas ceremonial cli­ max of the flay. self, reaching eight stories farther to a height of 295% feet. Rising from each pavilion formed by the first three floors, and supporting each arm of the cross, are four massive monoliths, fifty feet high and five feet in diameter. The doorway will be arched, thirty-six feet high. From the immense rotunda, extending from the basement nearly to the top of the dome, will run two granite stairways and six elevator shafts. This rotunda is to be light and roomy, and will be sixty-five feet in diameter. The building will be constructed of rough granite from the quarries of Maine i. ' *1. • • I.v . i k ' " vti k i . . . . y I'M » : < • Brief Paragraphs from 1 Chicago Banquet Tofests. | President McKinley--Has patriotism died out lu the hearts of the people? Witness the 251),<JOO men springing to arms and in thirty days. organized into regiments for the Spanish war, and l,0iX),(KX) more ready to l-esjn.iid; and the more recent enlistment of <0,€0u men. Has American heroism declined? The shattered and sinking fleets of the Spanish navy at Manila and Santiago, the charge of San Juan and El Cauey, and the intrepid valor and determination of our gallant troops In Luzon attest the fact that the American soldier and sailor hare lost none of the qualities which made our earlier army and navy illustrious and invincible. ' Premier Laurier--Between your eountiy and my country the relations have reached that degree of dignity and respect and af­ fection that even the word "war" is never to be mentioned in a British assembly or an American assembly. Can we not hope that If ever the banners of England and the ban­ ners of the I'niteil States are again to meet on the battlefield they shall meet entwined together in the defense of some holy cause, in the defense of holy justice, for"the de­ fense of the oppressed, for the enfranchise­ ment of the downtrodden, and for the ad­ vancement of liberty, progress and civiliza­ tion. Minister Mariscal--Less than forty years ago we had to battle against Napoleonic In­ tervention, and In spite of our heroic resist­ ance, prolonged for five long years, we might have succumbed, yielding vtu force measure, had it not been for the powerful influence of the United States, which promptly settled the matters In our favor. That historical fact has not been forgotten by any true Mexican, and we all keep it en­ graved in our hearts. Secretary Long--You cheer for the men behind the guns, you give swords and ban­ quets here and' tbpre to an admiral--and both most richly d>-serve the tribute--but remember that all up and down the line there are individuals whosa names never got to your ears--or. If so, are already for- Rotten^-who have earned unfading laurels The navy is full of heroes unknown to fame Mayor Harrison--May 1 call your attention to the waterway which will soon wed the fresh waters of the great lakes with the •briny waters of the Mexican gulf? On be­ half of Chicago I would say to you, Mr. President, ana through you to the nation, that at an enormous expense of $30,01)0,000, borne by Itself, Chicago offers to the repub­ lic the giant share of a splendid ship canal which, wherever Congress sees fit to join in the; undertaking, will land the shipping of the great lakes at every wharf of the Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexleo, and the At­ lantic Ocean. 1 m -V.VU ^ tA .. RATIO* OF ISSUES. -feemserats Are Kesfflrnlag the CJ»t- . cago Calamity Platform of 188$ in Isrnorant DiartRurd of It* Aboard Inconsraltle*. t It being the fashion of Democratic State conventions in 1889 to '^reaffirm the Chicago platform of 1890," the St Louis GHobe-Deiaocrat shrewdly raises the question whether all or any of these unanimous reaflinners have actually read the declaration of principles which they now adopt as their own. Probably they have not. To suppose otherwise would be to assume a degree of asinine absurdity qaite beyond that which is commonly characteristic of Democratic making. Take, for example, the Ohio Demo­ cratic convention. Must one believe that the Committee on Resolutions knew what it was that they reaffirmed word for word? Is it possible that In the presence of conditions which give the laugh to calamity croakers and which show a state of individual and general prosperity far beyond any that has ever been experienced by the peo­ ple of the United States, or by any oth­ er people on the face of the earth--is it possible that the Buckeye Bourbons remembered that in the Chicago plat­ form of 1896 which they reaffirmed it is gravely asserted that the demoneti­ sation of silver has resulted in "tbe prostration of Industry and the Impov­ erishment of the people?" Where are the prostrate industries and the Impov­ erished people? They existed in 1896 at the time the Chicago platform was promulgated, aa the result, almost wholly, of free trade experiments in tariff making, but they do not exist in 1899, after two years of Republican tariff making. Much has happened since the Chicago platform was written which makes amonnrtng to an average 15 percent ,«ut they fafl to to also fully state that wages have, vanced fully 25 per cent, at tbe time and the number of unemployed 'dwindled to insignificant proportions. The present industrial policy of the nation has, In its practical working, in­ dicated the wisdom of its principles.-- Minneapolis Progress. Woold Benefit the Country. The nomination of Bryan next year now being accepted as a foregone con­ clusion, there is no doubt that many of tiie sound money Democrats will wel­ come such action by the National Con­ vention as a ftnal disposi tion of the sil­ ver Issue and its chief champion. Men who desire the reorganidation of the Democratic party on old Demo­ cratic lines realize that they can never accomplish their purpose until silver Is dead and Bryan is out of tihe way, and they are begimiiiig to realize that the surest method to bring about the desir­ ed result is to be4p the BepubUcaai* ad­ minister another defeat to the cause of repudiation next year. One thing certain is that if Brayn Is nominated next year an the Chicago ptetform t he silver issue wlH be brought to the front, and every man wfao voted against him three years ago will have as good cause to oppose his election then as he did in 1896. Every voter who opposed Bryan then will be against Mm next year, with the possible exception of the mugwumps, who are bound to oppose President McKinley on the ex­ pansion issue, and the silver champion will go down to defeat again. Thus it appears that Bryan's nonUnajtiom would be beneficial to the country.--Ctevhuad Leader. Product of Republican Policies. The Lehl sugar factory started its season's run yesterday, with unusually rich promise. The season's product of sugar there will be greater than ever, because of the better quality of the beets and the satisfactory yield, and already the plans for next season con- FULFILLMENT OP REPUBLICAN PLEDQE5. IN 1*896. --Ohio State Journal. IN 1890. that dismal apolo|tite "look liUe thirty cents;" and yet tiwyparty which "never learns and never forgets" keeps right on reaffirming that platform. It is as­ serted, seriously assorted, in these days of wonderful well-doing, that monomet­ allism "has locked fact the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard time*." it is such rot as this that Democratic conventions are now "reaffirming." Well and truly the Globe-Democrat remarks that "The Chicago platform was made In the last year of a Democratic adminis­ tration, under a chaotic Democratic liiriff Jlaw, and in a period of distressing democratic degression. With the pass­ ing away of the Democratic blight the clouds vanished. • • » When the Chicago convention met that hybrid absurdity, the Wilson tariff law, was In force, throwing out of balance all form* of American Industry, and at the same time producing insufficient rev­ enue. Yet the Chicago platform con­ tains this clause: 'We denounce as disturbing to business the Republican threat to restore the McKinley law." The Dlngley law has been In operation two years, and the people are familiar with its results. It has revivified our manufactures without oppressing any one and assisted in bringing about an era giving employment to all. The rev­ enue from the Dingley law is a fourth larger than that of the Wilson law. Yet the Chicago platform said the Mc­ Kinley law, Upon which the Dingley law, Ib patterned, "enriched the few at the expense of tbe many, restricted trade, and deprived the producers of the great American staples of access to their natural marketa." Nevertheless, our foreign ttade for the last two years has been enormously larger than ever before, in manufactured articles as well as the products of agriculture." Democratic resolution writers would do well to read up on the platform of 1896, and endeavor to evolve something for present use that is not absolutely ridiculous in the light of known facts and conditions. template operations a good deal more than douhle those of this season in magnitude and product The pioneer sugar factory is a great Institution, sure enough; and an especially gratifying feature of It is that it is a direct prod­ uct of Republican policies.--Salt Lake City Tribune. No Departure from the Old Infamy. It is apparent that there Is to be no abandonment of the silver Issue by the Democratic leaders who raJUed around Bryan three years ago. It is thedr pur­ pose to put Bryan on the Chicago plat­ form again next year, and fight the bat­ tle ail over once more. Tbe ratlk-al sil­ ver men are unwilling to admit that anybody can be a Democrat unless he accepts Bryan and the Chicago plat­ form. They are getting ready to drive out of the party every man who is op­ posed to repudiation and in fa,vor of the maintenance of private and public financial honor. It will be the same rabid crusade against honesty and prosperity that Bryan made in 1896, and the result wKl be the same. Of course these sllverites are willing to odd imperialism to the Chicago plat­ form as a vote catcher, but no man who opposed Bryan's election three years ago will be able to find a good excuse for votLng for him next year, If he is nominated in accordance with the program the sllverites have laid down. He will deserve defeat for the same rea­ sons he deserved it In 1896. , T'Oyal Black Men. The sentiments entertained toward the administration of President Mc­ Kinley by the colored people of the United States are indicated by the res­ olutions adopted by the Iowa confer­ ence of the African Methodist church, in session at Ohlcagb, Sept 11. With much enthusiasm the conference placed on record its indorsement of the Gov­ ernment's policy regarding the Philip­ pines, Cuba and Porto Rico. On the subject of economic policy the resolu­ tions declare: "We would congratulate the country upqn the fact that the present wise and economical administration of national affairs has brought a return of pros­ perity. "Millions of wheels of Industry, which two years ago were idle and still, are now rapidly revolving, the stream of commerce is once more flowing through­ out the land, and future prospects are bright for increased prosperity in all lines of industry." Free traders, mugwumps and copper heads are scarce articles among the col- orett^men of this country, r *"' ' Wajte* aud Price*. Those who refuse to confess the truth take pleasure in pointing out the fact - - McKinley la to Blame. :- A number of construction concerns have had to close their works tempora­ rily because the iron iand steel mills of the country are unable to keep up with their orders. If it wasn't for the pres­ ent administration, the Chicago Post says, this never would have happened. The iron and steel mills would have more material on hand than they could conveniently dispose of, and, incident­ ally, most of them would be shut down. Thus it is plain that this man McKin­ ley must be defeated at the next elec­ tion. OCCURRENCES DURIN# ' PAST WEEK. - Necro Mlnero Fight with Striker* at Decatur -- Farmer's Wife Capture* a Burglar-Thieve* Steal Filk at Ot­ tawa--Mother of Twin* Ha* Triplets. 'Fourteen colored non-union coal miners on their way to work at the new shaft of the Decatur Coal Company, were met near the shaft by 200 strikers, who sought by persuasion to get the negroes to return home. The negroes refused to go back. Henry Williams, a negro, snatched a cane from the hands of a crip­ pled striker and felled him to the earth with the stick. Immediately there was a rush for the negro, who defended himself with a kuife. Several men were cut, but the negro was severely pommeled. But for the hurried arrival of the police there might have been a serious riot "this Time Triplet*. Mrs. Josephine Orinby of Chicago, who attained celebrity a year ago as the moth­ er of the smallest twins ever known, has presented her husband with triplets, two boys and a girl, whose combined weight is only nine pounds. Moreover, the little phenomena are lively and healthy and perfectly formed. Mrs. Ormby was for­ merly Josie True of Canton, Ohio. Her brother, Harland True, was so small when he was born that he could be placed in a quart can. Thierea Oet Silk at Ottawa. . During the street fair "at Ottawa thieves got away with over $2,000 worth of silk and satin from the dry goods store of J. E. Scott & Co., in the busiest block of the city. There were over 20,000 strangers in the city and the city police raked in a number of suspicious charac­ ters. The burglary occurred after mid­ night and how the thieves got in is a mystery, as there are no broken locks er windows. Woman Capture* a Burglar. Mrs. William Frentress, Wife of a farmer residing below East Dubuque, en­ countered and subdued a burglar who was robbing her home. As Mrs. Frent­ ress entered the house the robber at­ tempted to run by her and for ten min­ utes a fierce struggle continued, resulting in the plucky woman knocking down and tying her adversary and laies handing Mm over to the sheriff. , Prairie In Flames.s Prairie fires three miles west of Pana destroyed hundreds of acres of meadow and corn, a thousand tons of hay, fences and buildings. The loss will be many thousands of dollars. Brief State Happening* St Joseph Woodmen will erect a busi­ ness and lodge building. The pickle factory at Dundee used 12,000 bushels of cucumbers this season. Charles McCarthy was arrested at South Chicago on the charge of attempt­ ing to pass a bogus check. A Pekin Jury found John Blackburn and Henry Wyatt not guilty of the mur­ der of Perry Green at Delavan over three years ago. Adam Kukanitisch, Chicago, aged % was seised with rabies. He is the second child to suffer from the bites of a small dog, which bit a number of boys and girls. Helen Yott, the first to suffer, died Livingston County Supervisors have or­ dered a levy of $50,000 for county pur­ poses, 915,000 less than last year. A county debt of $23,000 has been paid off Snd $7,000 was left in the treasury ept. 1. . Clarence P. Britton, who is under in­ dictment with Dr. E, S. Rosekrans for alleged complicity in the burning of the Melrose flats in Chicago, returned from New York in custody of Lieut Healy of the Stanton avenue police station. £• IHfferent Conditions. Larceny of'labor will be the next crime charged to the Republican party. In St. Paul contractors are charging each other with stealing men in order to secure needed help to finish con­ tracts. This is very different from the conditions that existed under the Cleve­ land administration when wage earn­ ers who held positions could not be in­ duced to leave them for a single day In fear that they might lose them and never again secure employment.--Liv­ ingston Enterprise. An, Admirable Fit. The annual convention of Hhe State Bankers' Association was held in Chi­ cago. W. J. Calhoun delivered an ad­ dress on "Cuba," which embodied the In­ formation he gathered as the President's special commissioner to the island before the outbreak of the war with Spain. Mrs. Marion Bradbury of Chicago has concluded a stove is not a safe place to hide money and jewelry from a burglar. Wednesday night she put a diamond ring, two watches and $50 in the stove for safe keeping until she returned from viewing the fall festival display. When she re* turned she found the money and jewelry missing. The celebrated suit brought by the re­ public of France against the Columbian exposition for the recovery of the value of property lost in the manufactures building fire and which resulted in favor of France for $57,000, must be tried again. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago has set aside the verdict and ordered a new trial. Capt. J. M. Parker, a Chicago chemist and packing expert, says he is collecting evidence which will revive the "embalm­ ed beef" scandal and show that boracic acid was used in the treatment of beef dispensed by the Federal commissary de­ partment. Capt. Parker says he began collecting evidence in June and will lay his findings before Congress this winter. Six non-union coal miners, who were on their way to work at Decatur, were at­ tacked by a crowd of striking coal min­ ers and badly beaten. Clubs were used End the timely interTeuticu cf the police probably saved their lives. The strikers dispersed rapidly and no arrests were made. Sixteen non-union men went to work the previous day, but the attack made by the strikers caused all the non­ union men to stop work. A coal famine prevails, owing to the action of the State Miners' Union in shuting off the importa­ tion of outside coal. The street car line was forced to suspend operations for lack of fuel, and the city water works has only a month's supply. Reports from Peoria and the Gales- bnrg district show a yield of twenty to twenty-five tons of sugar beets per acre, when the farmers were only assured of fourteen by the introducers of sugar beets in that part of the middle West. The 4-year-old daughter of Mrs. Ellen Baizinski, Chicago, was fatally burned and died. The mother, who went to her aid, is not expected to recover. The moth­ er was hanging clothes in the yard in the rear of her home, leaving the daugh­ ter in the house, in company with a play­ mate. The child set fire to her dress by striking matches. Fire destroyed the Winchester school house. The 300 pupils in attendance got out safely. A part of the furniture and most of the books were saved. Charles Lenham, 14, an incorrigible Springfield lad, deliberately'set fire to the j | clothing of Carrie Cartwright, 12, daugh- ||!ter of Henry Cartwright Monday, the girl receiving burns which resulted in her death. Henry R. Sanderson, who in 1858 en­ tertained Abraham Lincoln at his home on the occasion of the Lincoln-Douglas debate, died at Galesburg of creeping paralysis, aged 70 years. He was for seventeen years deputy collector of the f - 4' ^ Jif •vfc / Alt A IkiS- lij&l ! ^ ^ M * r ' A*" .A • mu. T *' Hie snlwt csal shaft, ownedby the pany, have gone oot oa a ComptrtBer Dawes has First Xatkial Bank of business with a capital of G. A. Wilmarth of president of the Workers of Illinois at it# first William Dillon, a farmer, resi Fremont, committed suicide by into an old well on the farm. 40 years old and unmarried. Because the price of steel has advanced so materially within the last threeawotfis the manufacturers of wire fene«aJ|^S been compiled to advance the gripQaf these goods. ;f ! ' In an address before the omic association, D. M. Lord* _ .... of the Chicago Athletic AsaociatfoiC d** cried the Philippine situation from evety point of view. At a meeting of the Southern Tlifjsits Millers' Association it was decided to adopt the cash basis in selling Sour. -Hfw erybody present pledged himself to sttf»:; cutting prices. An attempt was made to blow open tbe safe of the Easton Bank at Easton. Xhe robbers were frightened away before His? finished their job. The ««fe gontained * large amount of "money. ' An elaborate reception and banquet was given to Prof,, Arnold Tompkin% the new president of Normal University. For- mer President Cook was among those who responded to toasts. The forty-sixth annual session of ike Illinois grand lodge of Good Templars be­ gan in Grand Army Hall, Decatur. Hot are now 115 effective lodges la TllfrwyH, a loss of 103 daring the last year. Th* total membership is 3,428, a lews of 4,145. The decrease is ascribed to the gtewth-of fraternal societies having insnranee fea­ tures. ^ The Chicago delegation to the de«p waterway opnvention at Peoria bad a narrow escape from death. Th* and Alton train jumped the cf Dwight and sped a thousand the ties. It demolished a eeetk* bsoss and tore up a portion of the tliieBt • delay of three hows ensued. No asm was injured. The village of Makanda was visited tor a disastrous fire the other worming, Thlr«* teen business houses and two rtatdSMf were destroyed, leaving the village with only four stores. The total mated at $41,800, with only surance. The burned district Hes eftst of the Illinois Central tracks and lsdifas all of the business houses on with the exception of H. L. Beirs gen­ eral store. The Woodard House In Pekin, owned by Otto Koch, and leased by John St. Cerney, was entirely destroyed by fire, with its contents. There were about six­ ty boarders in the hotel. Fir* caught from the kitchen and so rapidly did it burn that several of the occupants escap­ ed in their night clothes, jpntpiBg from the second-story windows. Some down the fire escapes. Many lost all their belongings. The total loss $25,000. At a meeting of the unsecured credit­ ors of H. D. Griswold 4k Son, of a large department store In S] who recently 6!ed a petition ft* ...... ruptcy in the United States.. llliiiitet Court, the proposition of Sen to settle the case by the pay&ent of |35,- 000 and the costs, which latter Will amount to $4,000, was accepted by the creditors. The secured liabilities Of Gtis- wold & Son amounted to $90,000 and the unsecured liabilities to $60,000. The Sangamon County grand jury («• turned an indictment against Mayer jSai* ren E. Wheeler charging him with "will­ ful, corrupt and palpable neglect of duty" in allowing gambling houses to be Con­ ducted in the city of Springfield* She grand jury also returned an against the Mayor, Chief of Police Castles and John P. Mockler charging them with conspiracy. Tlte allegation in this indictment is that the three llefe named formed an agreement with the gamblers by which the latter were atti|W- ed to conduct their places upon the pajr» ment of certain sums of money. Morris Goldfon, Reuben Miller, Goldman and Floyd Carey of have been indicted for perjury at kee. Goldfon is a detective. LMij he testified that Sidney had confessed to the murder of Mrs. Emil Chiniquy at St. tober, 1898. Ringo was in St. a few hours before the murder and was on trial for the crime. Goldfon hoped to. secure $700 reward offered for t3»e aftttl and conviction of the murderer. The oth­ ers who were indicted corroborated Gold­ fon's story. Ringo proved that he Was in jail when the purported confession wil ;!| made, and was acquitted. Two children of the family of Nl<^>le Sevio, an Austrian coal miner of Ogles- by, died within a space of twenty-fbttr hours and were buried without legal pe^ ; mit. Now the La Salle authorities are : , investigating the case and the exhuma­ tion of the bodies may result. The firs£ child died and Sevio told the local uttdee* taker that a La Salle doctor had been ̂ attendance. The child was buried, and on the return from the cemetery it was found that Nicholas, the 9-year-old so%; had died during the absence of the fatt* ily. The undertaker at once took chat^t ;• of the remains, thinking the could easily be located should it be net* ,4 essary. The sudden deaths and funerali *'<f attracted the attention of Dennty .. .J ner T. Donoghue, who followed up the . . story told by the undertaker and found that no doctor of La Salle had been in at- : tendance. The exhumation of the remain* - - and arrests will follow unless the SeviQS explain satisfactorily to the authorities. " Some fear is felt that the deaths were- caused by infectious disease, which may spread through the city, owing to the pub­ lic nature of the funerals, services far both of which were held in the CathoTe church in La Salle. ~ City Marshal William Karr of Gilman ^ was murdered in the yards of the Illinois 3 Central Railroad. He was shot through the breast and died within five minutes without being able to give a description of his assailant. > The people of Marion are greatly dia*' turbed over the smallpox news from Car%| bondale and Cottage Home. Keports-^ from the former place say there are over": forty cases of the disease there and that five deaths have occurred. From Cot*. tage Home comes the report that there are fifteen or twenty cases in that neighs borhood. The auditor of public accounts has is­ sued a permit to Delos W. Baxter, M. D. Hathaway and James C. Feslcr to organize the Pwple s Loan and Trust Company at RocheLle, with a capital of $30,000. j As the result of repeated family quar rels Henry Lewis shot his wife in street at Marengo, and theu ran to home ami barricaded himself in house. The town marshal and HtliiiHl surrounded the place, but were away until daylight by the report |£ji§ gun. In the morning they broke house and found Lewis dead. -Mis. was with another man when her kusbaaif shot her. She will recover. * | .a