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Eureka Harness Oil is the best preservative of new leather and the best renovator of old leather. It oils, softens, black­ ens and protects. Use Eureka Harness Oil on your best harness, your old har­ ness, and your carriage top, and they will not only look better but wear longer. Sold everywhere in cans--all sizes from half pints to tive gallons. Made by STANDARD OIL lO. HISTORY OF WEEK (terns of Interest from All Over the World. PREPARED tN Ct>XDK.\SKD FOR*. Event* Reported by Telegraph Given In Short Plf^graphi--One Week's Happen­ ings Chronicled to SOlt the ttnsy Reader --Crimen, Casnnlties and Other Matters •fifablic Interest. • v It is not our desire to carry­ over a stock of horse blan­ kets and to prevent this we have put the prices down to the lowest possible notch. -60 cents to $3.00- Wehave a good assortment at all prices from 50 cents to $3.00. Horse owners should , take advantage of this op­ portunity at once. \ WM. MERZ, - McHenry. H. n. Jensen FLORIST Cut Flowers in all Varieties. Funeral Designs on short notice and at reasonable prices. Potted Ms Potted Plants of all kinds constantly on hand. We would be greatly pleased to have the public give us a call McHENRY, ILLINOIS. It Touches t the Spot 1 B"B*A !Vf For Cuts, Burns Bruises, Sores, Pimples, Chapped Hands and Lips, Etc. Etc. end for sample. Large box, 25c DOBBINJIFQ. CO. Station S, Chicago, 111. --Don't wait for \he Casualty!-- Be Prepared! F. WATTLES (Successor to R. R. Howard) Proprietor of the West Side Meat Market All kinds of Fresh and salt Meats always on hand Oysters in their season. Vegetables and Canned Goods. Come and give me a trial. This Bank receives deposits, buys and sells Foreign and Do­ mestic Exchange, and does a GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. We endeavor to do all busi­ ness entrusted to our care in a manner and upon terms entire­ ly satisfactory to our custom­ ers and respectfully solicit the public patronage floney to Loan on real estate and other first class se­ curity. Spec- mmmmmmmammmmial attention given to collections, and promptly at­ tended to INSURANCE in First Class Companies, at the Low­ est rates. Yours Respectfully, PERRY & OWEN, Notary PubUc. THIS BOER WAR. Lord Roberts is reported to have ceased active operations to await nego­ tiations looking to submission of the .Free Staters. President Steyn In denying accusa­ tions made by Lord Roberts of treach­ ery of the burghers makes counter Charges against the British. The government of Queen Welhel- 111 iua has declined the request of the Transvaal to intervene in the South African war. Colonel Plumer admits being re­ pulsed by the Boers north of Mafe- kiug, and Lord Methuen appears to be eequally unable to relieve the be­ sieged town. It is now believed the Boers will abandon Kroonstad and make their first stand at Johannesburg. General Clements has entered Phil- ippolis and declared British authority. Many burghers took the oath of alle­ giance. The impression is growing In London that the Boers are less inclined to peace than has been reported. Early and serious fighting is looked for. A commando of 400 Boers has reoc- cupied Papkuel. forcing the rebels in the Herbert district to rejoin the fed­ eral flag. Extensive looting is re­ ported in that direction. THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES. The Paris Intransigant has a tele­ gram received by Agoncillo, Agulnal- do's envoy, announcing that the Fili­ pino General Pavin has routed the Am­ ericans near Cubat and taken the town. Filipinos on the island of Leyte be­ headed* Michael Porgorzleski, Forty- JThird United States volunteers, who was a prisoner of war. WASHINGTON NEWS. The house by a vote of 116 to 86 Insisted on the original Puerto Rican relief bill. Third-class mail matter improperly registered as second-class caused a loss of revenue to the government last year Of over $24,000,000. Secretary of War Root says there will be no hurry about withdrawing American troops from Cuba until the Cubans l<?arn self-government. The house naval appropriation bill is about $18,000,000 in excess of any previous naval bill. The executive council of the Ameri­ can Federation of Labor appeared be­ fore the house committee 011 labor to urge the passage of the eight-hour bill. The senate has adopted the confer­ ence report on the Puerto Rico relief bill, which appropriates $2,000,000. The president has nominated Walter H. Chamberlain, of Chicago to be as­ sistant commissioner of patents. IN THE POLITICAL FIELD. The New Hampshire Republican state convention to elect delegates to the national convention will be held April 22. The South Carolina Republican state convention elected delegates to the national convention, instructed for President McKinley. The Arkansas Republican state con- •vention, held at Little Rock, declared In favor of expansion and elected delegates to the national convention, instructed to vote for President Mc- Kiuley's renomination. George N. Wiswell, of Wisconsin, -has been selected as sergeant-at-arms of the Republican national convention. Prohibitionists In Minnesota named B B. Haugon for governor and a full list of state candidates. The South Dakota Democratic con­ vention to select delegates to the na­ tional convention will be held at Cham­ berlain June 6. Ex-Governor Oates has withdrawn from the race for United States sena­ tor in Alabama, leaving the contest to Senator Morgan and Mr. Johnston. Representative Bailey has opened his campaign for the United States senate from Texas in opposition to Senator Chilton. Senator Teller has come out as a candidate for governor of Colorado. THE CRIMINAL RECORD. A Chicago actress attempted suicide In St. Louis rather than play a part in "bapho." Miss Annie Strotlier, cashier in Swan's restaurant. 150 Twenty-second street, Chicago, was shot and killed by a veiled woman, "who escaped. Because her father married a second time Emma Troost, 18 years old. of Chicago, committed suicide by drink- ing carbolic acid. The examination of the books of Frank E. Bundy, the defaulting El- mira. N. Y., city chamberlain, showed a deficit of $33,000 in one tax roll. Bert Finch, 10 years old, shot and killed his father at Chicago to pre­ vent him from stabbing his mother. Olga Nethersole. the actress, has been indicted by a New York grand Jury for playing "Sappho." The police department of Kansas City will pay $25 apiece for the corpses of dead Kansas Ciiy thugs. Robert W. Gilchrist, a Chicago bar­ ber, was murdered in his shop by an unknown man. Tom Jones, a negro, murdered Ella Joi.es and five of her children, and thom cremated the bodies, also de­ stroying the woman's residence, at Garner, near Raleigh. N. C. The mur­ derer was arrested. Two negroes were hanged by the sheriff in Texas yesterday for murder. Mary Magoon, 15 years old, swal­ lowed carbolic acid and died, presum­ ably because of homesickness. She lived with an aunt in Chicago. Burglars stole $5.(KM) from the post- office at Nogales, Ari. In the Goebel murder case at Frank­ fort, Ky.. Wharton Golden testified: "John Powers told me they had two niggers tere to kill Goebel. They were Hookersmith and Dick Combs." Ex-State Senator J. F. O'Malley shot and seriously wounded ex-Alderman W. H. Lyman at Chicago after ,a po­ litical argument. The Merchants' National bank of Rutland, Vt.. closed its doors, and the cashier, Charles W. Mussey, is under arrest. James Baxter, who was well known In Chicago twenty years ago and tied to Canada after committing a revenue swindle has been convicted,.of .con­ spiracy to wreck the Vlele'Marie bank of Montreal. BUSINESS NOTES. Stockholders of the Illinois Vehicle Transportation company will consider a proposition to reduce the capital stock from $25,000,000 to $2,500,tX)0. Alfred A. Marcus & Son. real estate and diamond dealers of Boston, have filed a petition in bankruptcy. Lia­ bilities. $lt»4,lKM): assets. $5<5. The St. Louis Steel Barge company has filed articles of Incorporation, with a capital stock of $110,000. D. Appleton & Co.. publishers. New York, are in the hands of a receiver, with a scheme "on" for reorganiza­ tion, etc. S. M. Breed & Co., lumber dealers of Lynn, Mass., have gone! into bankrupt­ cy.' A receiver has been appointed for the Joseph C. Godfrey company, manufrict- urers of tissue, paper at Raubsville. Pa. Reindeer E. Wekman, an immigra­ tion agent of St. Paul. Minn., has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabili­ ties of $51,020.58 and no assets. The Chicago Carpenters' district council has decided to demand, after May 1. wages of 30 cents an hour. Isaac Stephenson, of Marinette, Wis., sold the Edward Hines Lumber com­ pany, of Chicago, the season's product of two mills for $1,000,000. Bradstreet says the general outlook retains most of the encouraging fea­ tures. Many telephone companies are re­ ported to be consolidating for a great fight with the Bell company. The York cotton mills in south Caro­ lina have announced that they will on next pay day take 3 per ceat. from the annual dividend and add it to the wages of the operatives. Chicago interests are the chief cause of recent activity and buoyancy in Wall street. The lime manufacturers of the south have completed the details of the com­ bination to be known as the Consoli­ dated Lime company, with a capital stock of $3,000,000. MISHAPS AND DISASTERS. • New York elevator fell seven stories and seriously hurt three of its occupants. One hundred and fifty persons were poisoned at Lima. O.. by chicken salad served at a church dinner. One man was killed and four serious­ ly injured by an explosion in the pho­ tograph supply establishment of Thomas M. McCollln & Co. in Phila­ delphia. By the burning of the family dwell­ ing four children of John Borden were burned to death in Houston county, Tex. The Norwegian three-masted schoon­ er Triton has been wrecked at Dun­ kirk, France, and ten of her crew drowned. William J. Smith. Peter F. Bowen and John J. Grady, fireman, were killed, and two others wounded by the floor of a burning building giving way at New York. Express Messenger Reuben Slln was killed in a railway accident on the At­ lanta and West Point road In Ala­ bama. - NOTABLE DEATHS. John Boie. the renowned German musical composer, is dead at Hamburg. John Nagle, editor of the Manitowoc, Wis., Pilot is dead. Otto Huber, a millionaire brewer of Brooklyn, N. Y., is dead. Edward Hlckox, the father of Free­ masonry in Illinois and the oldest liv­ ing member of the order in the state, Is dead at the county infirmary in Mo- line. Ills. John French, 85 years old, a retired and wealthy builder, known as "Hon­ est John" French, is dead at Brooklyn. Captain Thomas Wilson, the million­ aire vessel owner of Cleveland, O., is dead at Jerusalem. J. M. Stone, for ten years governor of Mississippi, died at Holly Springs. Miss., after a short illness of erysipe­ las. Rev. Samuel E. Hewes, the oldest Methodist minister of the Rock River conference, is dead at Crete, Ills., of heart failure, aged 33 years. # Mrs. A. Bronwell, a pioneer settler of southwestern Michigan and the old­ est resident of St. Joseph, having lived there for sixty-five years, is dead, aged 85 years. THE FIRE RECORD. Barteldps & Co.'s se^l house and of­ fice building at Lawrence, Kan., was destroyed by fire. ODDS AND ENDS. Bulgaria and Rou mania having dis­ agreed over an island in the Danube, the former country has decided to sub­ mit the dispute to a board of arbitra­ tion. Russia's entire Black sea fleet was mobilized In ten days as an experi­ ment. The Advertisers' Guarantee com­ pany charges the Chicago Inter Ocean with deceiving it regarding its circu­ lation. A diplomat in touch with China's affairs declares England and the Unit­ ed States must move in concert to pre­ vent aggressions by Russia and Ger­ many. A vast assemblage of Puerto Rlcans called on General Davis and petitioned congress to settle the island tariff is­ sue at once to relieve business stagna­ tion. The New York senate cofiimittee on public health will report favorably the Stevens pure beer bill. It is stated that England will ac­ cept the Hay-Pa 11 ncefote treaty, with the amendment permitting the fortifi­ cation of the Nicaragua canal. Active work will begin at once In Chicago to secure better tenements for the ijoor. F. J. Filbert, cashier of the Pala­ tine, Ills., bank, who was attacked by Dr. W. L. Lewis on Sept. 20, is dead of his wounds. Russia is sending more troops to the borders of Persia and Afghanistan to check the British advance encouraged by the ameer. FOR WOMEN BEEFSTEAK PUDDING. Cut cold cooked steak into cubes of half an inch. To each pint of these, al­ low half a pint of milk, six tablespoon- fuls of chopped suet. r Put the flour into a bowl; beat th4 eggs, add to them the milk, then gradu­ ally add to the flour, rubbing perfectly smooth. Cover the bottom of a baking- dish with a layer of the batter, put in the bits of steak, sprinkle over the suet, hen a little salt and pepper, and if you like a little onion juice; now put on the rest of the batter, and bake in a moder­ ately hot oven one hour and a half. JAM SQUARES. ' Rub a half-cup of butter into two *nps of sugar, and when it is soft and white add to it gradually, six eggs­ hell beaten. Now stir in a pint of flour which has been sifted with a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat oa smooth batter and turn into a greased baking pan. This pan should he of such a size that the batter will f e about a half-inch in thickness before baking. In cooking it will rise to louble that height Bake in a steady »ven until done to a delicate brown. Remove the cake carefully, lay upon a pastry board, split it, and divide into three parts.. Spread one part of the >plit cake with raspberry jam, another with strawberry jam, and the third vith orange marmalade. Fit the upper ind lower parts of the cake together *nd ice. Now cut all the cake into •unall squares of uniform sizes. You hns have a number of small cakes, with three different kinds of fillings. MOLASSES COOKIES. One cupful of melted lard, two cup- fuls of molasSes, one cupful of boiling water, three teaspoonfuls of soda dis­ solved in the water, three teaspoonfuls of ginger sifted with the flour and flour enough to roll them out. Roll them very thin, cut in rounds and bake in a quick oven. APPLE SAUCE. Wash two dozen firm, jnloy apples and cut them--without peeling--into pieces. Put them in a porcelain-lined saucepan with a pint of cold water and bring to a boil, Cook steadily, stirring frequently, until the fruit is soft and broken into bits. Romove from the fire and run through a fine colander to free the sauce from all . bits of ski_n= Sweeten the apples to taste, and stir over the fire until the sugar is melted, but do not allow the mixture to boil. Add a teaspoonful of lemon juice and set aside until cold. Apple sauce made in this way is better in flavor and color than that made from the peeled fruit. The best part of the apple is that lyiug close to the skin, and it con­ sequently loses much of its flavor in the peeling. " " MAPLE CANDY. Break a pound of maple sugar into bits and then crush it fine with a roll­ ing pin. Stir it into two cups of hot milk, put over the fire and stir until the sugar is melted. Now boil hard stirring all the time, until the syrup-is brittle when dropped into cold water; stir ip a lump of butter the size of a small hen's egg, and as soon as this melts pour the candy into grease^ pans. Cut into large squares before it har­ dens. PUFF OMELET. Stir into the yolks of six eggs and the whites of three beaten very light one tablespoonful of flour mixed into a tea- cupful of cream, with salt and pepper to taste; melt a tablespoonful of butter in a pan, pour in the mixture and set the pan in a hot oven; when it thickens pour over it the remaining whites of ggs well beaten; return to the oven and ke a delicate brown. Serve very hot. We have saved many doctor bills since we began using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in our home. We keep a bot­ tle open all the time and whenever uny of my family or myself begin to catch cold we begin to use the Cough Remedy, and as a result we never have to send away for a doctor and incur a large doctor bill, for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy never fails to cure. It is cer­ tainly a medicine of great merit and worth.--D. S. MEARKLE, General Mer­ chant and Farmer, Mattie, Bedford county, Pa. For sale bv Julia A. Story. TO THE DEAF.--A rich lady, cured of her deafness and noises in th9 hea l by Dr. Nicholson's artificial ear drums, gave $10,0JO to his institute, so that deaf people, unable to procure the ear drums, may have them free. Address No. 18,823. The Nicholson Institute, 780, Eighth Avenue, New York,. tf» o ~ BMTI the Sigzutu* of The Kind You Have Always Bought KHHU'H, AVegetablePreparationfor As­ similating theTood and Regula­ ting the Stooachs and Bowels of IM A M S < H I L D R K N Promotes Digestion,1Cheerful­ ness andRest.Contains neither Opum,Morphine nor Mineral WOT NARCOTIC. jrn^mrodiysxMEnjmma Aiytbii Ssti§m Mx.Xenna * JMtfU SAi, , Anitt. JSwrf • • Mm vrmimt St Gu imok ftirmSteJ A perfect Remedy forConstipa tion. Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions ,Fevcrish- o£S5 and Loss OF SLEEP. TacSimile Signature of dL&StfZii5ST • NEW YORK. A t b i n o i i l l t s o l i l J 5 D o s r s - ] JCI \ r s EXACT COPY OF WRAPPEft. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought V * , ' - * V- ; ; * * : - * -«y.. 'i • * „ -n , Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THl eCNTAU* COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Wall Paper Our line of wall paper is complete and we can probably show a nicer line of samples than any other store in town. Call and s^e them. Shoes We can sell very dressy shoes for ladies, in black or tan, at $1.50. Do not fail to see our line of $2.00 shoes--an elegant shoe for the money. Our line of shoes for men and boys is very complete. Shoes that will wear. Dress Goods and Silks Do not buy the material for your spring gown . until you look over our stock. Never before have the ladies of this vicinity been offered such an assortment of dress goods and silks to pick from. Would be pleased to have you call and examine them. Prices are right. Prints and Percales Prints, Percales and Ginghams can always be found here in hundreds of styles', but this spring finds us with a larger stock than ever. Many styles at consistent prices Shirts and Cies .The gentlemen of McHenry have discovered that this store is slways up to date in its line of Shirts, Neckties and everything in gent's furnishings. A new lot of shirts and ties has just been received, and they are beauties. Spring Clothing Ready-made clothing is usually hard to buy in the country, with satisfactory results, but by giving us a call we will convince you that we can p lease in s ty l e , qua l i ty and pr i ce . . . . Flour We handle Pillsbury's and Sleepy Dye Flour, the two best brands on the market. Special prices in large lots All kinds of seeds in sowing season. SlflON STOFFEL, W. McHenry 4 M: * B13 THIS And be assured that others will notice that well displayed advertisement of your's Aug. Buchholz, The West McHenry, 111. Don't beflistaken If you want a stylish fitting Suit or pair of pants go to Buchholz, That is the Place He makes no humbug fit and workmanship is the best. 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