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id! CMM of • BeU«ville at C»ln P»W«t« BMWM tm • BeaMttMuU tout. nutle ta k Thcstw -u*t& There'# <HM man in Belleville wno will probably not bs so free with his voiosin the future. A big church en- progress In the . hooee, a»d tkere was a lull ia On# pumpkin-headed Idiot in the aadf- to 1st ti»e di- >showrunII, toheBegan caltln* »wiiy for Miss Nile*, a popu­ lar elocutionist. His bellowing was tninikes for an alarm of fire, and in the panic that ensued many people narrowly escaped death. • C« the fMek of Incendiaries. An arrest was made at Aurora Satur- _ that may lead to the apprehension of the ftmbugs who destroyed O. M. M. Bobbins' dwelling last September. The house was burned to the ground while the Doctor and his family were at Kel- ley Lake. It was thought that all the contents of the house were destroyed. Some time ago Mrs. Campbell noticed that the linen napkins on the cakes baked by Mrs. Faxon bore Dr. Robbing' initials. This excited Mrs. Campbell's suspicions, and led to placing the mat­ ter in the hands of Chief of Police Demmer. This resulted in the arrest of Mrs. Faxon. Mrs. Faxon was wear­ ing one of Mrs. Bobbins' dresses at the time she was arrested, and in the house was found nearly all of the Doctor's household goods, including fine silver­ ware and jewelry. In a trunk was found a large quantity of jewelry, and a large number of riners from which the diamonds had been removed. Fax­ on and another man who lives with him are out of the city at present Killed While' Seeking Revenge. At Cairo, I1L, Bob Henderson shot and killed Charley Curtis during a quarrel at Hodges Park. Two years ago Curtis killed a man near the same place and Henderson was the principal witness against him. Curtis was ac­ quitted, but held a grudge against Henderson ever since. He attacked him Sunday and was killed. Hender­ son was arretted. Another murderer is also in jaiL Alex. Gibson was as­ saulted by John Henry at the Singer factory Wednesday and struck over the head with a club. The attack was unprovoked and unexpected. Gibson's skull was crushed and he died. All the parties in both crimes are colored. New Life for Crop*. Within the past few days timely and refreshing1 rains have occurred Jn all the Northwestern and Central States. From Michigan, Ohio, Indiana. Illi­ nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, the Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska, and Missouri had come reports of severe drought, but all have been relieved. The benefits are enormous. After several weeks of scorching weather the change wa^ gar- ticujarly welcome to farmers. J. •" Cyclone Brings Kola. About 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon a a terrific cyclone passed over the north­ ern part of Bond County, destroying the nouse of James Merry, twisting trees into splinters, and ruining other property. Henry Ferguson and son, who were driving in a wagon, were caught by the cyclone and carried half a mile, both sustaining injuries. The storm lasted about twenty minutes* Record of the Week. FREDERICK BILLINGS was struck by bridge at Aurora and killed. JGBANK MILLER, a Shirland boy, ac­ cidentally shot and killed himself. JAMES BRADBURY, aged 24 years, •on of Supervisor Bradbury, of Belle Flower, is dead. AT a wedding feast at Suffesnville, John Macori shot and killed two man, the result of an old feud. THE Supreme Court of Illinois de­ cided that it had no jurisdiction in the Senatorial apportionment cases. MICHAEL TOOMEY, aged 82 years, one of the first Irishmen to locale in Bloomington, died Wednesday. CHICAGO'S population, according to the school oensus just completed, is 3,562,790. In 1892 it was 1,438,010. COMPLAINTS of a lack of water have caused Chicago authorities to consider means for checking the immense waste. MAYOR MILES, of Paoria, rigidly en­ forced the Sunday law, to the great, disgust of the majority of the citizens. C ATHESINE GREER, who was 87 years old when she left Ireland to seek a new home, died in Chicago, aged 107. AFTER brooding over his discharge for a year, Henry Vaughan of Chicago fatally shot Frederick F. Swain, his former employer. AT Ainsboro, Louis Qpllier was stabbed and fafelly wounded by a boy named Trailer. Collier was fighting with Trailer's father. MRS. DORA E. BECKER, wife of Chas. J. Becker, J&, of Lexington, attempt­ ed to commit suicide by drinking car­ bolic acid. She will die. AT Chicago, Grocer Jofen Gerber ob­ jected to tiie impounding of his pet poodJR and caused a small-sized riot, for which he wa9 arrested. A WAGE-SCALE was adopted by the Illinois miners, in session at Sprinfi- fleld, and if acceptable to the operat­ ors, work will be at once resumed. DEPUTY sheriffs attempting to arrest strikers at Mount Olive, were driven out of the place by a mob of sympathizers. The 7th regiment is out. HER earnings being insufficient to support herself and husband, Ida Martin, of Chicago, secured credit by assuming the names of society women. She is now in jaiL MRS. LUCY S. LOVELL, a pioneer of Elgin, is dead, aged 88 years She i was the mother of Judge E. C. Lovell. BUSINESS in Judge Windes' court at Chicago, was suspended because one of the jurors had been exposed to small­ pox. TWELVE elevators, with a capacity of 10,600,030 bushels, are to be erected this summer on the banks of the Calu­ met. W. A. BROWN went into a Desplaines drug store and helped himself to what he supposed was whisky. He died in agony. I THE body of Edward Verbeke, a Bel- Igian about 40 years old, was taind ly- ling near the Rock Island tracks east I of Moline, having evidently been struck I by a train. I JOHN HOFFKLD, a cabinet worker, | took laudanum at Quinoy and died. He 46 years old and the head of a fam Illy of seven. He had been out of work I for some time. FRED HASSELMAN, living four miles •south of Pearl City, shot his sister |three times. Her condition is critical, quarrel arose over the division of sir father's property. Hasselman giving the name of H. L. or McDaniel)-from Nebraska POLICE KENT, of Cham- whipping ^ 21 years of age In Chicago the names of 23?, 711 do not appear on the lisle of registered voters. GOVERNOR ALTCWLD has declined, to prevent the manufacture of cigars by the convicts at the northern HOneis penitentiary. AT Aurora Curry's brick and tile factory closed down, throwing a large number of men out of employment On account of shortage in oo£L IN a letter to Gov. Altgsld President Perkins> of the Cigmrmakeffc' Union, of Chicago^ protect* against tike pro­ posed competition of oonvict " Frafe starte d In the Shabbona Hotel barn and spread in every direction. The Shabbona House, five barns, and an ice-house were burned. Damage, $6,0C0. GENERAL MANAGER SIMPSON, of the Consolidated Coal Company, declares the scale adopted at Springfield would handicap the men in mines using ma­ chines. IN a general row in Brenn's saloon in Kampsville, John Bitter, James Avery and Clarenie Swan were stabbed and several others were severely bruised. LEONARD APPFEL, a young farmer who resided near Marine, while, des­ pondent over the death of his mother, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. FORTY Mount Olive strikers were arrested alter across-country chase for miles, by deputy marshals, who were emboldened by the presence of the Seventh Illinois. THE mandamus suit against the St. Louis, Alton an»l Terre Haute Railroad Company In Benton was taken under advisement by the ceurt. A decision is promised in ten days. AT Raymond Jamas B. Seward and his wife were thrown from their car­ riage by their horse running away and both killed. Seward was prom­ inent in a political as well as in a busi­ ness way. WHILE John Klunp, a farmer, and his wife word driving to their home in Hudson, their wagon was struck by a train. Mrs, Klunp was killed and her husband fatally injured. Both horses wfere killed. A MAN MoDowns (or succeeded in swindling a number of farmers and Moline merchants by means of bogus checks on the First Na­ tional Bank. He was captured. THE Haney family held its annusl reunion at Moliae. Rev. Richard Haney, D. D., of Monmouth, I1L, 82 year 4 old, one of the oldest living Metfc- dist circuit riders cf Illinois, and still in active work, is the patriarch head of the family, the members of wine}* fathered from all over Wisconsin and linnesota. Miss EKFYAN R. WAMBAUGH, of Kearney, Neb., a student at the North­ western University, was an unsuccess­ ful competitor for the $100 Kirk prize in the oratorical contest, of the univer­ sity held in the First Method ist Church at Evantton. She will endeavor to have the judges' decision reconsidered on a ground somewhat novel In de­ livering her oration she suddenly paused for a moment or two. The judges, assuming that she had suffered a lapse of memory, awarded the prize to J. Mark Ericson. Miss Wambaugh claims her memory was not at fault, but that she was deprived of speech by a sudden sharp pain in the heart. THE capture of Fred Hasselman has brought peace to the homes of the western part of Stephenson County. Everyone there was afraid of the Texan, ranger who made such a des­ perate effort to kill his sister Lena and who threatened to shoot others of the family. He is a t ample of the typical cowboy, straight as an arrow, strong and wiry, brown as a berry, and pos­ sessing a look that is dangerous. Asa boy he was the terror of the school­ master and his companions; he run the neighborhood with a high hand and it is said his acts drove his father to suicide. The family came to Stephen­ son county twenty-five years ago from Germany. They have prospered and possess a farm of 160 acres. EDWARD KOHN, a letter carrier who was arrested at Chicago for stealing a letter from the mails, was tried in the United States District Court and ac­ quitted, because the letter which was taken was a decoy, or what is known in postoffca parlance as a "test" letter. Juage Grosscup instructed the jui that unless it believed the letter taken was mailed in good faith, to be carried through the mails, and not for the mere purpose of seeing whether some­ body would steal it. it was its duty to acquit the defendant. Kohn was re­ arrested on the charge of stealing a letter containing two railroad tickets and another belonging to a Miss Car­ rie Berger which had $10 in it. These letters were not decoys. Kohn gave $1,5GC bail for a hearing on the new charge, but was cleared. , THE weekly crop bulletin issued by the Illinois Weather Service for the week says: "Wheat appears to have suffered but little from the drought. In a few sections, where planted on poor land, the straw is firing uni like­ ly to cause shriveled wheat. The har­ vesting of this crop is now in progress in the southern counties and the yield and quality are good. The Hardin County correspondent says: 'The qual­ ity of the wheat is very fir e: the best since 1881.' Chinch bugs and flies are damaging this crop in many of the cen­ tral and southern counties. Oats have suffered from the drought, and it is feared that the yield will be much be­ low an average. In some counties, however, they are reported in fine condition. Notwithstanding the ab­ sence of rain, corn is holding its own, is advancing well, of good color, will be greatly benefited by the recent rains. Clover hay is light." FIRE, supposed to have been caused by lightning during the storm Tues­ day, visited Lerna and destroyed M. B. Ewing s general store, the Lerna Weekly Quiz office, Mrs. W. H. Wool­ en's millinery store and the household effect* of W. H Woelen. The build­ ings were the property of R. P. Os­ borne and were insured for $700. Ew- ing's stock was covered with $1,200 in­ surance, whila none of the Woolen property was insured. The loss is es­ timated at nearly $5,000. Lerna is a village of 500 population, located at the crossing of the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville and Clover Leaf Railroads. CHICAGO POST: Rockford has just completed a new, modem and efficient waterworks system. Let us annex Rockford at once, or, if Rockford re­ fuses to be annexed, then, in the in­ terest of a drought-stricken people, let us be annexed to Rockford. MICHAEL MOUNT, conductor, and Thomas Jenks, engineer of the train that killed Mrs. Young in Bushnell, were tried on complaint of a member of the coroner's jury for involuntary manslaughter. The original complaint was murder, but was changed. The case against Mount was dismissed, Jenks was bound over t j the Septem­ ber Circuit Court in S:\0150. GOLD - BUG* COME DOWN. Thm JRepmhUeaa Party aBlood-8ackef« to Their KMM ' IkMd Is AlwndaMt-IlM DMUM ta the MM of Wool. A Feasible The platform adopted by Republican State convention of $he recent Indi­ ana, in Indianapolis, contains a propo­ sition that is worthy of more than a passing notice; it 4s not the declaration of any new doctrine, bat the tion of an old and well-defined pie into a new field. 'The platf< said: We favor the Imposition of Increased tariff duties upon Import* from all forelf n countries which oppose the coinage of sil­ ver upon a basis 10 be determined bj aa International ooafress (or such purposa This is simply a proposition to use the taxing power of the Govertanent as a means to coerce the nations of earth to agree upon what basis silver shall be coined and used as money through­ out the civilized world. What more could the most radical silver man hopa for? What more could the mono metallist ask than that silver if used as money, and it will be so used, should be on a basis that will forever maintain the parity of value of the two metals? Gold will not thereby be depreciated, but silver, on the other hand, will at once acquire and maintain a true and permanent value in the monetary world. Ex-President Harrison ad­ dressed the convention before that platform had been read, and he used this very forcible language, whioh is direotly in harmony with the plat­ form: The Republican party Is friendly to a restoration of silver to a place of honor among the money metals of the world.' Some of my friends in the West thought I was uttering new doctrine when I declared that I believed the free use of silver, upon an International agreement that would assure Its continued equality with gold, would do mure than anything I know of, save the establishment of the protection principle, to bring again prosperity Into our oommerca The trouble upon this question has been that some of our western friends would not receive any man a* the friend of silver who believed that we could only coin it freely and maintain its parity with gold by coming into an arrangement with the other great com­ mercial nations of the world. They should have been more liberal. I believe to-day that we can see In England--the nation that has stood against the larger use of silver; in Germany, a nation that has followed England--the clear indication of the growth of a sentiment for an international agreement upon this question is Increasing in power, and I X elleve if rightly and wisely encouraged from American It will finally bring other nations, by the com­ pulsion of their own necessities, into accord with ns upon tht* subject Thus wo have srgerested a perfectly feasible plan whereby those nations which stand opposed to the use of silver on the basis proposed can be brought to their knees and the best interests of the American republio subserved. It is a notice to the American Congress that the province of Consrress is to legislate for the ex­ clusive benefit of the American people as against the world. We shall hear more of it.--F. B. Pfaff, Noblesville, Ind. The Ass Carrying the Image. An ass carried through the streets of the city a famous wooden image, to be placed in one of its temples. The crowd as he passed along made lowly prostration before the image. The ass, thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect for him, bristled un with pride and gave himself airs, ana refused to move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lastly about his shoulders and said: "O you perverse dull-head! it is not vet come to this, that men pay worship to an ass." , They are not wi?e who take to .them­ selves the credit due to others. Our Wool Import Trade. A study of our aggregate of imports of wool and their value at different periods in the history of the county is very interesting. It is as follows: Net imports of wool. Yeas. Pounds. Value. 1823 1,718,690 ft87.ua 1830 «63,64l 93,m HMO Ml3,'il'i 010,830 18C0 18,696,294 1,690,3*0 I860... 2#.8»>7,043 MU.tfM 1870..., 47.630.U6 6,681, 1880. 19ME3,K7 SS.090,064 1A142.81H 14,707,610 18»1... ,....l*.Cfl\525 17,870,112 1892 . .146,668,089 19,344. 77 1893 . :. 168.215.201 30.648,710 Ouf receipts of wool fro.n Europe never exceeded 50,000,000 pounds in any one year up to 1879, since when they fluctuated from 79,616,031 pounds in 1880 to 107,727,736 pounds in 1893. From British North America the larg­ est quantity ever received in any single year was 4,72i,2(M> pounds in 1872. From Mexico we imported 2,334,- 651 pounds in l*-86w From all South American countries our greatest im- Eorts were 38,40t>,516 pounds in 1872, ut last year we took only 17,157,149 pounds, of which the Argentine Re­ public supplied only 13,842,868 pounds. A$ia shipped us as much as 34,492,- 218 pounds or wool last year, which was by far the largest quantity we ever re eeived from there, and was due to the increase in our manufacturing of car­ pets. From Africa we obtained 16,- 173,465 pounds Of wool in 1894. but last year only 2,168,415 pounds. The larg= est quantity of wool ever imported from the Australasian colonies was 15, £59.722 pounds in 1892, but last year we took only 9,176,282 pounds from there. These figures, however, show only the direct shipments from the colonies, as much of our imports of Australian wool is included in the figures of receipts from ~J6 ' wool is England. raid decline in the plainly shown in the foregoing table. In 1«80 we bought 124,483,327 pounds ol wool for $2^,0.10,064. In 1890 we paid out $5,200,OOo less money, but got 2,200,000 pounds more wool. In 1893 we got 44,500,000 pounds more wool than in 1880 from foreign coun­ tries, and paid for it $2,500)000 1MS money than in 1880. - % ' Pt n«lon Frand Hunt Abandoned Gen. Coggswell, who id one of the hardest workers on the House Appro­ priations Committee, says that the largest saving this year will be in pen­ sions. The reduction will be over 820,- 000,000, and the way the saving is ef­ fected is by slowing down the pension work. Every possible method is used fcajt . this way md -mam. j* den. Cogswell oorats hare thrown up the sponge completely on their claim that the pen­ sion lists are filled with fraudulent cases. They have rummaged through the lists, but cannot find the frauds. "They almost admit," says General Cogswell, "that there are no such frauds as they have been shouting over." And they have cut down the aporopriation for investigation, on the ground that nothing is to be gained in that direction, as there is nothing to discover. This must be particularly interesting to Mr. Cleveland, who has laid great stress on alleged pension frauds. Perhaps he will send in an­ other message to stir up the faithful to new insults to the old soldiers of the te-na«fc 8ing a song of Tariff i V A bottle full of rye, :5-;V flbur hundred odd amendments Baked in a pie. When the pie was openedpf The birds began to singLc t\ Singing for Protection ' From the Free-Trade British Want Protection*. The free trade system that is so ardently advocated by the pro-English section of the press of the United States because it will benefit England and injure this country, is really ad­ vocated by England herself, when it hurts some other country fcr her bene­ fit. Such a system can only be aptly described by using one of President Cleveland's favorit J expressions: "Greed and selfishness. * England is for free trade, owing to her inordinate "greed" for gain, and her surfeit of "selfishness" would p eclude all idea of any other country being a participant in prosperity. In the markets abroad where Eng­ land wishes to sell the products of her pauper labor she desireB free trade, knowing that she can undersell other nations, the United States in particu­ lar, by grinding down her slave labor to a starvation point. But when other countries endeavor to sell their goods in John Bull's shops it is a horse of an­ other color, and the British manufac­ turer must be protected. If l;e cannot secure protection by legislation ha does not hesitate to appeal to home sympathy. An American who was in. London a few weeks ago bought a penny box of matches from a match vender on the Strand, and on op >ning it he found a slip of paper on top of the matches, of which the following is a reproduc­ tion: WWWM'-j ir . JM ........ Why bay FOBKION MATCHES ? Barely it Is better to help BBITISH WOBKPKOPLB To eun their living, by IONOBTINO HOME lxoosimi. See that you get R. BELL A «Jo.'s. It thus appears that the system ad­ vocated in this country, of Amerioan gocds for Americans, has been found a good one across the Atlantic, where the Swedish matches are proving too much for the British match-makors. If the British would only openly preach what they inwardlv practice, and leave us to mind our affairs for our good, they would lose the name of British mischief-makers, which they have so deservedly earned, Mid we could re- spect the efforts of their match matters. The Democratic Times. These are the Rood old Democratic times, lbs prosperous times that Democracy sought* When the finest wool clothing from ovet> tbe way By high paid mechanics tor a song eoald be bought Tea Democratic times with toee soup for a diet And militia on tap to keep labor quiet. Yon don't have to work, for there's noth­ ing to do; Too might go fishing, like Graver, that's true. Or join Coxey's army, live on the town, Peddle tin cups, if the price would go down, Work for a dollar, ten hoars a day. For that is the highest that Democracy pay. Mortgage your home yoar family to feed. Take to the pawn shop things that yoa need. Live on the rooster that does nothing bat crow, Fight for the wages of two years aga Yes, these are Democratic times without any lying With factories all closed and business dying. With honest mechanics branded as pau­ pers and knaves. More wretched, la fact, than once were oaf slaves. B. Dxx. 'TfjfUt the Portland the Deep Sea. FEDERAL MARSHALS AT MOUNT OLIVE TAKE FORTY. Isftsth Regiment FBI* Strikers with Fear sad They Offer Mo Resistance to Officers --GoUty Oaee Beta# Appgehssde* Wher- CeweA by the Troopa Among the ooal-mining districts Which refused to abide by the Colum­ bus agreewas Mount Olive. III. Strikers thftine interfered with the running of c^al trains on a road which is in the hands of a receiver, and threatened other lawlessness. Deputy United States marshals from Chioago went down to enforce order, but ware rout'd Saturday in a pitched battle. Governor Altfreid then order© i out the Seventh Regiment, I. N. G., and the troops reached the scene Monday morning. Then the marshals revenged themselves on the strikers. Forty ar­ rests were made, and the troops took charge of the prisoners. It Is expect­ ed that fully as many more will be ap­ prehended. Almost without exception the miners arrested are non-English Speakintr Slavs, Huns, Italians and Germans. The miners were fright- ene 1 even before the arrival of the boys in blue. In the morning a large­ ly attended meeting had been held and a telegram had been sent to Governor Altgeld asking him to have the troops called home and agreeing to surrender all the prisoners that had been taken fr> m United States Marshal Br nton and his deputies Saturday night. Those who were foremost in the as­ sault upon the marshals were now in mo t abject fear of the troops. They knew enough to be aware of the fact that in interfering with a government otft- elal they had committed a grave offensn. Deputy She. iff Henry Hillier has State warrants for more than ona hundred additional strikers. He has a large fbrce of deputy sheriffs with Lim, and he will prosecute the search until he is sati.Hod that every man in Mount Olive who intimidated train crows or interfered with traffic in any way has been arrested. It Is feared that muiy ©f the guilty #111 secretly liave the city. t . After the troops arrived and pitched ©amp in the yard of the /'ion Evangel­ ist Church, the real work began. Mar­ shal Brinton had United States war- rauts for the f ur men whom he and nis deputies had under arrest for a short timo on Saturday. He also had an order from Judge W. O. Allen, o: the United States District Court at Springfield, to arrest everybody who could be identified as having aided in the rescua < f the four prisoners oh Saturday evening. 'If you want t.> make some arrests," sai l Colonel Colby, "I have some men ready to take care of them. This was addressed to Marshal Brinton and Act­ ing Sheriff Hillier. By this time the old-fashioned board fence around the churchyard b >re a wall of humaeity. The deputy marshals and deputy sher- ifls had been carefully watching the faces of the men along the fence. Among them was an old man with a sneer on his face, and in broken Ger­ man he was mocking the o^mmands of the officers of the guard. Two deputy marshals walked out to where he was standing. One got each side of him and he was made a prisoner. He pro­ tected against his arrest, but he was hurried back to the' west side of the churchyard and placed in oare ot the gnard. "I'll never forget that fellow," said Marshal Brinton. "For an instant last Saturday evening I was of the opinion that he was the instrument by which I was to be ushered into eternity. In the thick of the fight, when we were trying to retain our prisoners, he Ihovcd, a revolver into my face and leld It tnere long enough for me to feel its mizzle grating against my teeth. How it happened I 0o not know, but one of the deputing managed to knock the gun from his murderous grasD. I am sure that this action saved my life." Rapidly the prisoners were brought in, and as familiar faces ap­ peared the mob of women around fence jeered at the soldiers in a frenzv. The prisoners are in jail at Springfield and Carlinville. THERE are in England and Wales "87,545 public paupers--that is, persons er inmates ol the alms who are either houses or who receive anca. outdoor assist- MOST people fefet TOO'much, and dm't sleep enough. - r LIKE HARNESSING OF NIAGARA. The Dos Moines Bipldi to Bs Mad* to Work. Progress has made one more stride, and one ot the greatest schemes of the century is well started toward realize tion. The contract for the proposed developments of the Des Moines Rap­ ids water power has been signed and work will SOQU begin on the canal and dustry as they never turned before in that locality. I'ormoze than twenty-five years it has been the dream of engineers and Others to harness the immense natural power of the Mississippi River as it llows over the rapids at that point. Many surveys have been made and many plans drawn, but for some reason or other the matter was dropped in every instance until two years ago, When Capt. -lamei Anthony, an aole engineer, took the project in charge. Then it began to assume practical form. The scheme is to confine the water as it flows over the rapids in a wide canal, and use it in the operation ol turbine water wheels, which in turn shall operate dynamo* for the genera­ tion of electrical energy, which is to be transmitted bv wires to ths sur­ rounding localities. The Illinois shore is to serve as one wall of the canal. Beginning at the mouth of Larry's creek, near the Senora stone quarries, %wall similar to that of the govern­ ment canal at this point is to be built. This wall is to be 20,000 feet in length, with an average height of 17 feet, l eini 13 feet 4 inches high at the head and tyfeet high at the lower end. theie a natural fall in the river of 13 feet 4 inches in that distance. At the j head the canal is to be l,^;ii feet wide, and the width is to he gradually re­ duced toward the narrows, where it will be 400 feet. The wall will then parallel the shore fo:- some distance, then the c inal will gradually widen to 1,485 feet. At the head of the canal a permanent ice boom of solid masonry 1,512 feet long?, 10 feet high, and with an average width of 8 feet, is to be built. It will extend 100 feet beyond the outer wall, and will be 675 foot above the end of tbe wall. At the lower end the caoal is to be closed with a dam 930 feet ioogexlend- ing out from the shore, 24 feet high, 51 feet at the base and 5 feet at the crest. Extending out from and at an ngle of 45 degrees with this dam will be the foundation for the power house, which will be 200 feet long an.i 80 feet wide. There is to be a capacity of 20 turbine water wheels, cash developing 387 horse-power, capable of operating dynamos generating: by the direct cur- rent system 27,000 electrical horse-' power. At each side of the power, nouse will be thiea flood g -tes, each 20 feet wide, set between t-olid masonry piers 20 feet high, with a 40-fcot base and 10-foot crest. By opening these gates the canal may be emptied in 12 pours. The working head of water tlte eoifal lie op­ ts fcottra Wlth the atumly on It is estimated th#l 4m> im- prweme&t will eoat 9500,0u0> It Is in­ tended to have the canal otmpleted and in working order by January 1, 1898. * ' THIS REVOLUTION SUCCEEDED. The O+wsmanseat of Stlndor Onrtkim by Rebels. After a i evolution of but a month's duration the government of Salvador has been overthrown and the Presi­ dent, Gen. Carlo* Ezeta, has fled the country. The Vice President, Gen. Antonio Ezeta, brother of the Presi­ dent, and the principal general of the government army, was killed about three weeks ago, but his death has been kept SoCrfet until now. Had he lived, it is Safe to say* the outcome of the revolution would have been differ­ ent, for up to his death the govern­ ment had everything its own way, and its enemies could make little progress with the rebellion. The leader of ihe revolutionists is Gen. Rafael Gutierez, and it is believed that ho will assume the Piesidency. Gen. Ezeta, who is now a fugitive, became President in l»*Jp, when he was successful in overthrowing the Gov­ ernment of Gen. Menandea, whose ar- CtRI* >8 AKO ASTOHIO KUTl [The f< Finer was Vice President and Boa-' inanded the army. He was killed. The latter, the Presideof, is a fugitive. J bltrary methods had reduccd the coun­ try to a condition of ferment and ex­ citement. Strong efforts were made to oust Gen. Ezeta from the position he had gained, but without success, and eventua lv the Salvador Congress met and ratified the choice of the army. As soon as the country was once more tranquil Gen. Ezeta and his brother, Antonio, wbo was made Vice President, directed their energies to promoting .the advancement of Salva­ dor in QV,er>- direction, and succeeded in. piacihff it in an enviable position. , roads, were made and new parks open?d, telegraphs were constructed froiu state to state, telephones from cit,* to cit/--in short, the whole ad­ ministration was one of progress. However, the risks of one-min power are as treat for the ruler as the ruled, and Gen. Ezeta hat not escaped the fate which so oommonly befalls auto* crats. A DARING SCHEME. To tlnk Hudson Bay and the Mexico. Representative McCleary, cf Min­ nesota. who is a member of the com­ mittee on rivers and canals, has laid the foundation of a scheme to connect the Gulf of Mexico with Hudson bay. Mr. McCleary proposes that the United States and Canadian government* carry out the project together. . His plan is to have the survey made by way of the Minnesota river, whose headwaters and these of the Red River of the North nearly join through Big Stone and Traverse lakes. In high water boats of considerable size have crossed from one lake to the other and it would not require a very large canal to connect the waters of the Red and Minnesota rivers. While the difficulty of connecting the Red and Minnesota Rivers is not great, it is claimed that the rapids in the Winnip?g River have always dis­ couraged the Canadian government from tha undertaking. Ttygre have been several Conventions of citfzens of northern Minnesota, North Dakota and Winnipeg looking to the opening of the Winnipeg River, in the nope that they might find a short water outlet to the seaboard. Eaoh of these conven­ tions hai been confronted with the obstruction in the Winnipeg River, but Mr. McCleary thinks that if the United States should take some steps toward opening up a channel on this side of the boundary the Canadian gov­ ernment might be inclined to take some action looking to opening the Winnipeg River. A RADICAL INNOVATION. To Bleat Federal Senators by the Battels of the People. A Washington dispatch says: The utter incapacity of the Senate, as demonstrated in its treatment of the tariff bill, has led to a scheme chang­ ing the manner of choosing this co-or­ dinate branch of Congress. As now constituted, these officials are chosen by the Legislatures of v the different States. As pioposed it is meditated to have them voted by tha State at large, the same as the commonwealth officers are selected. In the House of Repre?entatives Mr. Tucker, of Vir­ ginia, reported favorably a resolution to amend the constitution to allow the Senators to be voted for directly by the people. Tha House of Representatives of the Fifty-second Congress passed unani- m usly such a resolution. The neces­ sity for the passage of such an amend­ ment to the Constitution has increased rather than diminished since that time. Indeed, each year adds to the strength of the argument that the Senate should, by a change in the mode of it i election, be made more sensibly responsible to the de;ra: ds and voice of the p&ople than heretofore. The present Congress has greatly intensi­ fied this fetjiing, and t"'ie change seems tp ^ demanded by every dMMrtdc?1** tiott of propriety and justice. V ; The Knault of VncrtnnMon. Mrs. William J. Garrity, of New York City, is violently insane as the suit of being vaccinated three weeks Immediately following- vacclna- she began to manifest unmistak­ able signs' or insanity, and her condi­ tion has become such that she is nov in Bellevuo Hospital.« u" *//, *!» Woedartfce The diseovmjr thai deputies have teen ac( or* of tbe bandits In Homer shows the which robbers have "The bandits," says a Bert "understand how to win «»# thies of the Greek officials. the Mayor of Duzesti recently gave a dinner in the City Hall in hsant lf s robber band A few days VaiK» was announced that the two Gleek deputies, Ghianussis and were arrested on the dMurft»*f4p|ii!ir processional robben. The coai|ftaint against these twodepntles UaiUttQue document, reading as follows: 'At the beginning of August, 1892, a band of robbers, under tbe command, of the Messrs. K. Tsanaka and Gs. Tsouka, armed with Chassepot rifles^ crossed the Greek border at Kastanka and appeared upon tne Turkish es­ tate of llairedden Bey. After steal­ ing everything possible, the robbers took possession of the landed pro-, prietor, Hairedden Bev, and took him back to Greece. The deputies Ghianussis and Hadjigakas bad al­ ready informed the border soldiers that their friends, eleven in number, would cross the border with a Turk­ ish prisoner, and made arrangements that they facilitate as much as pos­ sible the return of the Greeks to their native country. The soldiers carried out the wishes of the deputies in the mosfc friendly way and even supplied the hand with victuals. One night was passed on the Turkish border. On the following night the band with the prisoner proceeded to the village Teka, which belongs to Deputy Ghinussis, where the deptity and his two brothers, Constantio and Alexander, awaited them. After % short rest the robbers took their prisoner to the village of Duzesti. On Oct. 3 the two deputies, accompanied by Kristodolos Dimakis, the Mayor of Kastanea, who was charged with the pursuit of the robbers, appeared in Duzesti, where a long conference with the prisoner followed. It waa Anally told him that he wou<d fc* held captive until his family sent a certain ransom for him. This hap­ pened, in fact* in November. The money was divided among tbe two deputies, the Mayor of Kastanea and the band of robbers. It is certainly small wonder that- travel in parts of Greece is reported! unsafe, when even members or the National Legislature, called to make laws, are accused of being profes­ sional bandits. UWl - i * 'i • J XV. f'ti craT v Ezponsive ThackerayKt f Some months ago, for example ̂a oo py of ThacKeray'S AiKiore et Zephyr," 1836, reali.ed £90 at public auction; true, it was a fine copy, but that was the only intrinsic or other merit which could be cl&imeJ«fofc% publication which would be an inn position at sixpence. Another poor thing of Thackeray's which fetches large sums when it occurs in the market is "The Second Funeral ot Napoleon," 18u, a trifle which Mr.; Michael Angelo Tltmarsh, in the quiet seclusion of the shade, would be surprised to hear realises over 2(1 guineas. > With "Vanity Fair" (as with some other celebrated books) there are what may be descr .bed as two first editions, but the valuable one is that with the woodcut of the Marqnto of Steyne, which was suppressed after the Issue of only a few copies; aeop* of this example, wBeo accompanied by the original wrappers and adver­ tisements, fetches about £1?--or about ten times as much as an ordi­ nary first edition--for wbich amount a splendidly-bound edition de luxe copy of Thackeray's works in 24 vol­ umes, with 1,500 wood engravings, 270 steel engravings, and 88 colored illustrations, can be obtained. Upon what grounds, therefore, can tills species of collecting be defended?-- Jfortnlghtly Rev ew. y{ ( ^ ^ No Forgery for Him* , Among the candidates fof tt^t^pf# ment to vacancies on the police force in Dublin, was one Patrick Murphy, whose appearance before the Marsha! was hailed with cries of "He can't write." The Marshal said he was only there to take down tne names of applicants, wbo would come up a fortnight later for examination. • friend set Murphy In a fair round hand the copy "Patrick Murphy." and then kept him practicing assldo- °"sl*. len the eventM day ar- rived, f,rtako that pen," said tbe Mayor, "and write--write your name*" As Pat took up tbe pen ex­ clamations arose: "Pat's a-writea'; he's £ot a quill in his fist! Small good will itao him: he can't writ* with it." ' ,<• • •; All were dumfounded when Mur- phv recorded his name in a bold, round hand, and the Marshal de­ clared, "That'll do;" bct one of them shouted: . "Ask him to write somebody els** name, yer Honor." "Write my name. Murphy," said the Mayor. "Write yer Honor's name!" ex­ claimed Pat. "Me commit forgery, and goin' into the police! I dare**t do it, yer Honor." •A :.*5. •Sill! » -J ' i ' s/- M • £ 4 -W* result «rV : tion, R i-VXf & Old Sol -- tbe cold, eh? 1 ko this?" ja complifinin' about Well, then, hpw do you Uncle Sam's Expenses. Some curious items enter into tha expense account of Uncle Sam. Away out in Arizona, near the city of Florence, there is a ruin of the dwelling place of some prehistorie people. It is caltai Ofcsa Grande. The Government pays a man **80 a year to watch Case Graade aod see that some Chicago ^aroh tciegtst doesn't carry it awajr for S»I>M%I purposes. . v. The vaodnattop of 4wU*as<Ji a regular charge of »1t00Q a year to the United States Treasury* The condition of Lo, the poor In­ dian, is the inspiration of much sympathy among certain Caucasian philanthropists- The regular budget for the red man this year reaches $1,931,158,61. Next year it Is ex­ pected to go to $7,098,41. This cov­ ers a multitu e o) things which civilize 1 people have never thought of. For instance, everyone of tha tiOO meu Crows gets a $10 suit of "goo', substantial woollen ciotbin* consisting of a coat, hat, pantalcoa%£ flannel shirt and pollen socks.'V?-? Cincinnati Commercial Ua ette WB like nearly any sort of ft hotter than a thoroughbred. IP, • " ' I '--J " "V. " $ : - •- . -v..\