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DAIRYMEN ARE AGITATED WRITES OF HI8 TRIP. AT THE BREEZY BAY. FARMER8 TO BE COMPENSATED FOR COWS KILLED*, tooj- HotuF.L. Hatch Tells of Hte AmM Vbit lac CollegM. LN UNCLC 8AM HAS MADE A PRESENT OF A POSTOFFIC3L l»itlrytnen Meeting to B« Held M stock Monday, to Dlncnti Pluii for Abat­ ing Spread of Tuberculosis. \ Tuberculosis is the question of the hour. It is the subject of conversation I Mr. Hatch was not prepared to give out ^everywhere among dairymen and few I an account of the trip after his arrival Several weeks ago Hon. Fred _ Hatch, of Spring Grove, made a tour of the east to inspecting colleges and Uni­ versities in the interest of the Universi- of Illinois, of which he is a trustee. ^ - P>' ; 8t:f*-"^j&re they who have not heard of it and destructive effects. Notwithstand- ' 3ng that there has been so much said I »nd written about tuberculosis, milk I lis not lessened in quantity one gill. V Every time you look at a nice herd I pf cows you will naturally think about this awful tuberculosis and whether) jp V this herd has it or not. If a person 'jj'ftells you that he has a nice Jersey cow j -* " worth $150, ask him if it has tubercul­ in j J<ms and if it has you can tell him that i | jit is not worth half of it. Tuberculosis ^will make a great many men poor un-1 leas some remedy can be conceived to || fully remunerate the dairymen. A meeting will be held at Woodstock |t'^: next Monday for the purpose of discuss- ing and hearing addresses by eminent men who thoroughly understand the disease, tuberculosis. This will be for home as he preferred to await the ifested at all the institutions we visited, especially along the lines of industrial education, and in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio we found the near­ est approach to ideal industrial schools." "The Michigan Agricultural College leads all the rest. At this institution manual labor at least two hours a day, /the benefit of the dairymen and they I is compulsory,. Great strides have also Several Parties H«M During th« Big Display of Fireworks Saturday Evening. j /The extreme heat of the past few dayf nas made life at the Bay the fairest ana loveliest in the land. New people ard final / arriving each day and swelling the decision of the board of trustees with \. already large crowds winch are hero reference to the new agricultural build- Nfiff tha season. \ ing's erection. The~yacht raoes of the regatta week In speaking of the trip Mr. Hatch closed Friday. Henry L. Hertz's boat, says: "Sometime ago you asked me j "Pistakee," won in the races of the first for an accout of the junketing trip of a class, "Faraway" in the second and party of trustees and professors from I "Fortune Teller" in the third, ths University of Illinois. The trip is j Pistakee Bay is to have a postoffice. of the past and even the details are no It will be at the Mineral Springs Hotel, longer news to those interested in the and Miss Simes will have charge of it. university's welfare." j Besides conducting the postoffice she "We found great enthusiasm man-1 •will have charge of the ice cream room should be present. Attorney J. F. Casey, of Woodstock, prosecuted a claim for ten farmers, whose cattle were slaughtered by the state board without their consent, and won the case. The state board settled the claim, allowing all the way from $10 to $60 per head for the cows killed. In compliance with a request of the State Board of Health for a report of the work done by the State Live Stock Commisioners relative to tuberculosis, C. P. Johnson, Secretary of the board, has compiled a condensed statement for the period between May 17 and July 1. The statement follows: During this period 2,061 cattle (cows, bulls, heifers, and calves), constituting dairies and cows of * individual owners, were tested. Four hundred and twenty- seven of these animals reacted the test two or more degrees in excess of the highest preliminary normal temperature and were condemned. Twenty-six re­ acted more than 1.5 degree and less than 2 degrees and were quarantined and held for a retest. The number of herds | been made in the study of soils, soil physics etc. Also much attention is paid to horticulture. Several breeds of I live stock are well represented. We cannot now go into details in regard to the institutions visited, but will say that the committee returned with a full deter- i mination to put the University of Illinois ! at the head of these schools instead of at the foot. They also returned with fully | matured plans for the new building for the College of Agriculture and a well I defined coriculum of study that will be | up-to-date in every particular. At the first meeting of the Board of Trustees after the return of the com­ mittee not much was accomplished. A | lack of faith in the college and an .indis­ position to act on the new lines on the part of the majority of the and the «andy store. She .is already serving as postmistress. The fireworks, which were intended to be used on the evening of July 4, were used Saturday evening. Mrs. Louis Hanson jjave an afternoon luncheon at the Mineral Springs Hotel Monday afternoon to Mesdames A. P. Johnson, Capt. Nickolson, Capt. Ander­ son and Misses Nickalson and Hertz. • The ladies of Pistakee Bay gave an afternoon party at the club house Wed­ nesday for the purpose of organizing a social club. They will meet once a week. The following ladies were present from McHenry and art1 members of the club: Mesdames J. I. Story, S. S. DROWNING AT FOX LAKE. CkMitL Kuisom Meets. With An Acci­ dental Death. N Chas.lL Ransom, the thirteen, year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ransom, of Chicago, met with an accidental death by drowning in Fox Lake Saturday. His parents were out from the city to, spend the season at Abbot's Island an< it is supposed that the young boy weni to the pier to adjust some fish lines ancK in some way fell from the pier. BIG HOUSE GREET THEM. QUEEN ESTHER GIVEN AT RICH­ MOND SATURDAY EVENING- cHenry Talent Presents the Cantata at Richmond to an £lghty-8lx Dollar v \ "Queen Esther" the fascinating can­ tata, was given at Richmond Saturday evening by McHenry talent/ With the -exceptiou-of «Br nr two'chtmges it was . . . t h e s a m e p e r s o n a t i o n a s a p p e a r e d i n i t His hat was seen floating in the river here when it was so nicely presented at the Riverside hall a few weeks ago. It was given under the direction of M. E. Robinson, the gentleman who had charge of it here. The Richmond opera and on investigating the deceased was found in about aiglit feet of water. Dr. David G. Wells, of this place, was called, but medical aid was of no avail. The remains were brought to this city Sun­ day evening and taken to Chicago, where the funeral services were held. IGNORE GAME LAW. Dealers LA SOBS Birds Hold the Law Uaeon- * stltatlonal. Local bird dealers are not takJiH the law against traffic in native songsters with a bit of seriousness.' They say the new statute which become effective July 1 is unconstitutional, and it. will be a matter of surprise to them if State Game Warden Loveday attempts to enforce it. The new game law strictly forbids the killing of song birds, but the bird deal­ ers claim that the only birds native so far as Illinois is concerned is the robin, bobolink and wild canary and they are not extensively handled. If the law is carried into effect wom­ en's hats will be lacking the usual bird. Chapell, L. H. Owen, Elmer Gorton I* this campaign we hope the birds will and C. C. Chapell. CLARENFE E. CURTIS MARRIED. Takes Miss Wlnnlfred Hall as His Fair j . W l ¥ t -- -- -- / AA \ V*! (From the Woodst<x'k Sentinel.) At 6:80 o'clock on Monday evening, July 8, 1899, at the residence of ReV. N. A. SunderliiiAthe officiating dtfergyman, the lives of Miss Winnifred E. Hall and trustees I Clarence E. Curtiss were united in one win. BIG INSTITUTION. Uncle Sam's Mall Service the Biggest *n the World. seemed to prevent, but an adjourned j meeting, held in Chicago a week ago, after a very stormy debate the com­ mittee seemed to have their own way and very good work was done, and it iVyian Postmaster-General Charles Emory Smith has recently written an article on Uncle Sam's big postoffice, which is, he says, the largest in the world, meas­ ured by amount of business done and Farmers Will Be Paid for Stock Killed. seems now as though the College of j tested, ranging from 5 to 136 in each I Agriculture would be put on a standing herd, was sixty-two, while there were | with every other department of the forty-five cows owned by individuals and kept for domestic use. You will notice that the percentage ^Pf-of condemned animals reacting to the "4*> test is twenty plus. These animals in- elude the herds at the various state Cv institutions, the herds at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Quincy, blind asylum at Jacksonville, the reformatory at Pontiac, Southern Hospital for the Insane at Anna, and the southern Illi­ nois penitentiary. Those of the Hospital for Insane Criminals at Chester were free from disease. The herd at the Western Insane Asylum at Watertown is being tested this week, but no report has yet been received. The herds where the largest percent­ age per herd was found are located in the great dairy counties in the northern part of the State. The largest percent­ age of any institution cattle was found at the Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee. It is a fact worthy of note that in no herd tested south of the Wabash railroad during this period has any disease been found, save in the towns on that line--viz.: Springfield and Jacksonville. The management of the various State institutions, in replenishing their herds will only admit cows that have been tested, and the same rule, we are ad­ vised, will be followed by all owners of tested herds. Great care is exercised by the veteri­ nary inspectors under the supervision of the board in taking temperatures and conducting tests in ordor to discover if the rise in temperature is possibly due to any other cause than tuberculosis, and where any doubt exists the animals are isolated, quarantined and held for a retest. Of the sixty-two herds tested twenty-six were found free from the disease, and of the forty-five individual cows forty-two were found to be healtfry. M'- University. First the board voted definitely to set aside one half of the entire fund received from the Morrill law for the development of agricultural science, which will amount to about $25,000 a year. To give practical effect to this action the dean of the College of Agriculture was authorized to take steps to secure additional professors and assistants for instruction in Agriculture. These additions to the present force of in­ structors will give the College of Agriculture a teaching force of great strength and more men can be sent to do institute work during the winter months. There seems now to be a great future,, in store for the College of Agriculture and should its success be as great as seems possible now it will be a great addition to our state University. In fact the dog's tail may yet wag the dog. Surely the farmers of Illinois are to be congratulated. But we must not forget that it remains for them to complete the splendid work thus begun. Let them see to it that the two years' free scholar­ ship is filled from each county through their farmers' institute. Let them see to it that their sons and daughters fill this new building for the College of Agriculture, which is soon to begiu the new collegiate year under conditions so auspicious." ^ We Have Tramp. ^More tramps have appeared in Mc­ Henry within the past week than have tjeen seen here in years. / In conversion with Tme We found that he had been all the way from San Francisco to Buzzard's Bay and Was on his way j once more to the coast. It did not matter what coast he got to so long as I he was able to get something to eat. He said that at Woodstock he was given | several nice lunches, but Harvard had the meanest city marshal that ever wore a blue jacket. Nice lunches are I exactly what tramps are looking for ! and let McHenry people see that these nice lnnches are not given to them. | Drive the tramps out of town. Don't | even give them a friendly look. Richmond Road Race. (From the Harvard Herald.) PEOPLE in this section of the state are still greatly agitated ever the apparent prevalence of tuberculosis in cattle, and inquir%< regard­ ing it are numerous. The new law, which went into effect on the 1st inst., will do much to stop the importation of the disease from other states, but may place serious difficulties in the way dairymen wishing to get a new supply of cows to replace those killed. In regard, to the pay­ ment provided by,r*he" ^tate to the dairymen whose cows are ordered killed the stat/authorities have sent out notices that such animals shall be apprais£(M»efore they are killed. After the post mortem they shall be di videdtiito classes as follows: Class A shall include all animals amount of the appraisement. For all animals of the B class he shall be entitled to receive 75 per cent of the appraisement. For all animals of the C class he shall be entitled to receive 60 cent of the appraisement. For all animals of the D class he 85 per that shall, upon post mortem exami­ nation, fail to disclose the presence of tuberculosis in any of their organs. Class B shall include all animals affected with the disease in its incipi­ ent state. Class C shall include all animals apparently affected for a peroid of 8haU be entitled to receive one year. cent of the appraisement. Class D shall include all animals For all animals of Hie E class he apparently affected for a period of shall be entitled to receive 25 per two years. cent of the appraisement. Class F shall include all animals For all animals of the F class he apparently effected for a period of shall be entitled 10 receive 15 per three years. cent of the appraisement. Class F shall include all animals Provided, That in the event that apparently effected for a period of the proceeds from any carcass shall more than three years. exceed the percentage of valuation For all animals of the A class the determined, the owner shall receive owner shall be entitled to the full the full amount of such proceeds. house was filled and the evening's receipt" amounted to $86, Richmond people could do no more had it been a home talent entertainment. Then there was a large number of people who went from McHenry, which made up no small part of the audience. The changes in the personation were in the parts of Mordecai, the Jewish Princess and in the scarf drill. The part of Mordecai was taken by Wm. Gates, of Hebron, that of the Jewish Princess by Miss Dora Besley, of Mc­ Henry; and Miss Florence Mathews took the part of Miss Florence Searles in the scarf drill. The M. E. church society of Richmond received one half the pro­ ceeds, and the remaining portion was equally divided between the Universa- list society and Mr. Robinson. THE PL.AINDEAL.ER at the time the enter­ tainment was given here gave an exteusive write-up of it, and nothing further can be said more than that the rendition of it at Richmond was equally as good, if not better, than when it was given here. Miss Rosa Justen acted as accompanist and performed her part well. Miss Jus- ten is quite proficient in instrumental music and her services are in no respect lackihg." CHANCE FOR A BOY OR GIRL. FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Free Scholarship Will lie Given to Ill­ inois I'niversity* The Kissing Bug. Beware of the kissing bug. Every now and then he springs into public notice and does some harm. He isn't particular just who he kisses. A Chi­ cago street car conductor was kissed by ope of them a week ago and he is carry­ ing a thick lip today. It is a question IxThe road'race over the Richmond as to wheather it is a kiss or a bite, but i(3j.enoa COUrse last Saturday was a "big those who have had the experience I j^pcf glory" for Richmond ."The race W think it is a good sting. Will Enjoy a Rest. Editor Burke, of the Antioch Ne1 will enjoy a vacation next week, and his force put in so much time 11 setting up the assessment rolls that he deemed it fitting to give his men a rest, Mr. Burke is certainly a friend of labor. " Must Keep the Peaee. ttia-a^d thatf a number of the summer r resort hotel keepers at Fox Lake have been pulled for selling liquor without license/ It is further intimated that stnctTegularity will be exercised this ear to compel such places to refrain Inliqtton. was won by N. Osmand, who made the 5J miles in 18:87 minute^ Shultz, of Chi- I cago, won the time prize, covering the course in 16:87. Lane, Of Kenosha, was j second time winner. Geo. Slimpitt. oft McHenry, was seventh in the r$j£*r and would have done better were it not for the fact that he fell from his wheel. | Newell Colby had the misfortune to punc­ ture his bicycle tire. Osmand had a three minute handicap while Mr. Slim- pin had a minute and a half handicap | and Mr. Colby only one minute. Prices of Mllh. The Milk Shippers Union have fixed j the price of July milk at 75 cents per 1 can and 85 cento for August. common IxnyL/ Miss Belle Furer officiat­ ed as bride's maid and Fred Wynkoop as best man. After the ceremony the worthy couple repaired to the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Belle McEwan, where they were serenaded by the Oli­ ver Typewriter band, who enlivened the event by discharging a number of large cannon crackers. Of the real worth <A these estimable young people it seems hardly necessary for THE SENTINEL to speak. The bride is the eldest daughter of Mrs. Belle McEwan, who has resided in Woodstock all her life. For several years past she has been serving the public very becom­ ingly as city librarian, a position which she filled with rare aptitude and uniform courtesy. Mrs. Curtiss' beautiful con­ tralto voice, combined with her uniform lady-like bearing, has made her a gen­ eral favorite in local social circles, where she has always freely given of her tal­ ents for the benefit of others. Mr. Cur­ tiss, whom everybody knows as "Cal" is a native of McHenry, but has been a resident of this city for several years, being at present employed in the Oliver Typewriter factory. He is solo cornet- ist in the band that bears that name, and is a musician Whose skill is greatly admired. He is a clean-minded, hon­ est and ambitious young mfen, who is worthy of the hand of the bride he has chosen. & Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss will make their home with the bride's mother, and THE SENTINEL and hundreds of friends say, "Bless you, my children." Mr. Curtis is well and favorably known in this city, being the son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Curtis, and spent his boyhood days here. mails - despatched and delivered. Throughout the year 12.000 letters and packages are mailed every minute of time. In 1897 on an aAerage 17,000,000 pieces of mail were handled daily. There are at present 28,421 money order postoffices in this country, and in 1898 money to the amount $91,854,000 was issued in these orders. When postal cards where firsf issued in 1878 they were accused of being vulgar, and met with but little favor. In the year 1898 over a half a billion were mailed in the United States. Our free delivery system costs the government at Washington $18,000,000 a year. i • - Choice KntertaJnment. The elocutionary entertianment given -by Mrs. A. M. Richer in Stoffel's hall last evening (Thursday) was an exception­ ally fine entertainments Mrs. Pilcher is the mother of Mrs. Dr. Auringer a fid Mrs. W. F, Gallaher and her home is at Menominee, Wis. Her recitations were well selected and were handled by ready master of the art. In justice to Mrs. Pilcher we copy a few press clippings which speak of her abilities as an elecutionist. "The Milwaukee Sentinel says: ^The meeting of the last evening of the 'Fanners' Institute held at Mineral Point, was entertained in part by Mrs. Dr. Pilcher, who gave some select recitations with excellent effect. She is a lady of large natural dramatic powers and evidently cultivated them to some purpose. This is one of the few worthy comments that has been given Mrs. Pilcher, and is nothing more than she richly deserves." PiBifil'Ifl Interesting News Items froia All Parts of the County. At the request of the Illinois Fanners' Institute, the Trustees of the University of Illinois have granted a free scholar­ ship, good for two years in the College of Agriculture of the University of Illi­ nois, to one person from each county in the state. Also to one person from each of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh congressional dis­ tricts. Those wishing this scholarship should apply to C. D. Bartlett, of Bartlett, Kane county. Mr. Bartlett is the director of the Illinois Farmers' Insti­ tute for this district, and the award will be made by him. I ; Ontiug For Kditors. The Eighth District Republican Edi­ torial association of Illinois will take its annual outing this year at Lake Harbor, Mich., July 27 to 81. It is one of the finest resorts on the lake, and is situated about six miles from the city of Mus- kegan. Half-rates on the boat and at the hotel have been secured. It will be open to all who are invited by any mem­ ber of the association. No one who re­ ceives an invitation should miss going. The Goodrich line of steamers, the finest on Lake Michigan, will take the party, leaving Chicago at 7:80 p. m. Thursday, July 27, and arriving at Muskegan at 8 o'clock, Friday morning. Returning, the party will leave at 4, o'clock Mon­ day evening, July 81. The lake fare for the round trip is $8.75, including state room, and passengers will be landed a, Lake Harbor hotel. Flies are Not What They Seem. The old fasliioned idea of flies was that they were necessary nuisances, whose function it was to clean up dirt and keep things healthy; the new and better idea is to have no dirt for them to clean up, by putting all food and other attractions out of the way as soon as they can be spared from uf e, and to keep every place as clean and dry as possible during the summer. Far from its being healthy to have plenty of flies, it has been demonstrated that they carry dis­ eases as may be readily understood. Typhoid fever, for instance, is a disease incurred by eating or drinking the germs. On the fly 's feet are tiny hooks and hairs which may be seen through a microscope, and with a moist gelatinous substance on the soles enables them to walk over a ceiling or a smooth wall. They are fond of impurities, and may/ alight on diseased matter thrown off bjj a typhoid patient, pick up some of it on their feet, and then call in a neighboring' house, where a plate of butter, a jug of cream or a slice of bread may attract them, and on which they leave some of the filtli collected elswhere; not an appe­ tizing thought. . Races at Richmond. Last Saturday was the opening day of the races at Richmond. The events were held at the driving park and were witnessed by a large crowd. The races were all won in straight heats.: It ap­ pears as follows: Free-for-all trot--Maggie E., first. Nina V., second: Johnnie D., third: Birdell, fourth--best time 2:24J. 2:45 trot--Bibbie, first: Jessie Sur- gert, second; Mark Meg, third; Hiero­ glyph, fourth--best time, 2:36f. Gentlemen drivers--Flora Gray, first; Klondike Girl, second; Waspie Boy, third--beat time, 2:30. An experiment is being made down in Warren county which will be closely watched by all who are interested in the general good roads movement. ^ A time is to come, without question, When Illinois, like the older eastern states, will demand and secure perma­ nent roads. This will be the case, es­ pecially on the main country roads: within a very few years. Agitation is going on now which will lead up to that state of affairs. The Warren county experiment is this: A contract has just been let*" for 4,500 feet of road which will have a center of brick nine feet wide, with three feet of. crushed stone on each sKtef making a roadway fifteen feet wide. The con­ tract was let for $8,329.20, but the com­ missioners will do the grading, which will be extra. The road lies along the line of the city of Monmouth. The cen­ ter of the road will be composed of brick blocks 8± by 4 by 9 inches. They will be laid in a four inch bed of sand Monmouth township now has nearly seven miles of crushed stone road, and the taxpayers are satisfied with the ex­ periment --Bel videre'N orthwestern. The New Potato Pest. The ash-gray blister beetle is its name; it does severe injury to beans, peas clover, patatoea, tomatoes, sweet po­ tatoes, chrysanthemums, etc. They are actively destructive for a month or more, in this latitude making their ap- pearanoe atfont the middle of June. While they are a serious damage to the potato crop here, they are not an un­ mixed evil in the West, where they feed upon the eggs of locusts and grass­ hoppers in preference to vegetation. Paris green is one of the best remedies for blister beetles where they occur on potatoes and other crops. It may be ap­ plied dry, mixed with from 10 to 20 parts flour, plaster, or air-slacked lime, or in the form of a spray, at a rate of a quarter of a pound of the poison to 40 gallons of water. The addition of lime mitigates the danger to plants by burn­ ing or scalding. Repeated applications are sometimes necessary, since the poisoned beetles are sometimes replaced by others. The remedy should be ap­ plied at the first appearance of the beetles, as they do their ipischief rapidly. The outlook for a large cfop of potatoes was never better at this season of the year than it is now, and it is greatly to be desired that this foe be met and vanquished in short offtfr. The facts about this beetle wfr" obtain through the courtesy of Prof. John A Parkhurst, who has favored us with the experience and observance of the as­ sistant State Etymologist, Prof. F. H. Chittenden.--Marengo Republican. Weather report for June' 1899* as kept at Sycamore, 111.' by Roswell Dow, offi­ cial observer. Highes t temperature, 92 on the 19th; lowest, 48 on the 16th: range; 49; greatest daily range, 88 on the 80th, least, 15 on the 9th; highest daily mean, 79.5 on the 6th; lowest, 60 on the 10th; mean for the month, 69 which is one degree above the mean for June for past 19 years, of which the warmest was 71.15 in 1890 and 1894 and the coldest, 68.9 in 1899. Prevailing winds s. e. Precipitaton, 1.19 inches, which is but little more than one fourth of the mean for the past 19 Junes, which is 4.61 inches. The greatest June rainfall was 1L40 inches in 1881 and the least 1.12 in 1887. Rain fell on 10 days and the greatest in any 24 hours was .48 of an inch on the 2d. There were 12 clear, 15 fair and 8 cloudy days.-- Sycamore Republican. The maddest man in Carroll county resides at Lanark. He attended a social and during the evening the ladies in­ augurated a hugging bee, the proceeds to go to-a Sunday school. Prices were graded according to the person hugged For instance, for hugging a young in­ experienced girl, the bidder had to give up to ten cents, married women brought fifteen cents and a widow a quarter. Well, he was blindfolded, and giving up to fifteen cents he said he would take married woman. After he had hugged fifteen cents worth the bandage was removed from his eyes, and, lo behold he was hugging his Wife. Then he kicked and wanted his fifteen cents back. Marengo Republican. EQUALIZATION OF TAXES. BOARD OF REVIEW 18 NOW IN* 8ES8ION AT WOOD8TOC*. " Thirty-Six Cases Have Been DaolM#iift Investigation--Most Complaints oa As-.' •esH^ntu of Real Estate. ( > %. „ The board of review began work i:̂ | Monday morning and they have had a r very busy week of it. Chairman Cristy ^ 5 convened the board and as soon as the session properly opened complaints began to pile in. Up until Wednesday even­ ing there were thirty-six cases* placed on the docket and the board wOir consider them in order. Of the thirty-six complaints filed the majority of them are grieveances- which tax payers have made against the' ̂ ;*<? assessment of real estate. Still not all" of these have been made by the tax** payer. The board of review, in canvas-' , t jj| ing the different assessment rolls, have found many complications have notified the parties assessed to appear and explain. It now seems that the real estate assessments is to be the "boneof content- " ion." More complaints have been filed ;;5|| on this than any other kind of property. '* The board of review has a good work > before it and it will bring about- - good results. It is now investigating . ' personal property assessments and . j]: a great deal of personal property will be V ferreted out which the assessors failed * ' ̂ to get. t 'y The board will canvas the MMnnart ^ of each township carefully and make ' . * such altercations as they see fit. They ^ are at present holding their meetings in "t-5"4 the county treasure's office, bat will ? have permanent quarters in the county clerk's office or in the oounty court room next week. ^ ^ HE 18 YET AT LARGE. % \ Deaals O'Connor Has Not Been Aygmfcajjjf. dad for His Criaa Dennis O'Connor, the man who struck the fatal blow which resulted in the - death of Peter Marks, of Dunham, is , - \ t s t i l l a t l i b e r t y a n d t h e o f f i c e r s a r e s t i l l ~ - pursuing him. It seems that Marks and O'Connor "' * met at the home of a neighbor in Dun-/ , ^ ! ham a week ago or so and in a dispute^;** g O'Connor struck Marks a heavy blow oi#», the head with a club, which at first did^ rji,j| not seem serious, but later became mora ^ dangerous and the victim died last week \ ^ Monday, thus surviving about eighth- days after receiving the blow. A coron-fvSi,}^ er's jury was summoned and brought in ' - a verdict to the effect that the decedent , ;*i had com^to his death from a wound in^ f flicted by one Dennis O'Connor. O'Connor remained around for a few , days and in the meantime was fined fid - \ and cost, for assault and battery, but on"*' ; learning of the offense he at once dis-i- : IS appeared and as yet his whereabouts is '̂! not known. 'it | This man O'Connor is a bad pill. A., few years ago he stole $6,000 from Crow-', „ ley Bros., who are residents of Marengo township. They kept their money'*' -* - > in the house and O'Connor wa»>'- in their employe and knew where thef ' money was kept. Finally after being, labored with by detectives he confessed v t; ^ and was Sentenced to the penitentiary - u*; and was released a few years ago on par- ? \ >2; ole. / pk ' , . o t Bower Beats K rouse. In the 100 yard dash at Richmond Saturday between John Krouse, of this place, and Mr. Bower, of Richmond, the the latter gentleman won by running the 100 yards in eleven seconds. Cost of a Celeb ration. The Chicago Tribune compiled some facts in regard to casualties and property losses from firearms and fireworks on the Fourth of July. The list, which included returns from 250 cities and towns, gives the following figures: dead, 85: injured, 1,851; fire losses, $422,570; injured by cannon crackers, 849; injured by powder explosions, 248; injured by toy cipnon, 259; hit by stray bullets, 60. Summer Vacation. ^ Bev. Dr. Straub, pastor of the Uni versalist church, will have a vacation until the first week in September There will be no Sunday service until that time. The Y. P. C, U. will also take a vacation until the first week in September. TODAY AND TOMORROW. July Baees at Woodstock Belag HeM Yhig Week. v This is Urn week ot July faces at ^ Woodstock. Yesterday was the open- --% ing day. Today and tomorrow will conclude the events. The following ara • "A the entries: ' " FRIDAY, JC» 14, MM. , No. 6--2^9 class trotting...;..' .ParseISO# •« <$ No. 7--2:50 class pacing Purse in# j. 9- V No. 8--6 furlongs running, all ages, 2 ; in it Purse US# ^ ^ No. 9-4 furlongs running, all ages, 2 /' % in 3 -....I:, SATURDAY, JCL.IT 15, UN. . "•*. No. 19--class trotting --Purse tM J No. 11--2:23class trotting...... PurseMOt No. 12--1 mile running, all ages,2 in 3Purse $15# i y2 No. 13--1H mile hurdle race, all ages, ^ one dash Purse tM# >,». - Will MeH«»ry Take It t Secretary Zimpieman, of the Farmerŝ Institute of McHenry county, is seeking- propositions from the different town# in regrad to the holding of the nex$ county institute meeting. The session is to be three days in length McHenrjr has a chance to make a bid for thia. meeting and it will prove a vast benefit to this place if it is secured, asMcHenrjf is. situated in one of the best farminj| regions in the county. We hop# that McHenry can be accorded thig privilege and we can assure the mana­ gers of the Farmers' Institute of on# thing and that is that it can not be held / at a better place. The executive- committes of the Fanners' Institut#^ recommended the action of the McHenry county Agricultural Society in calling a meeting to discuss the tuberculosia question. - ^ Stoffol U Noticed. The Richmond Gaaette says:' the most interesting features of laspr week's issue of THE PI>AINBKALIKK from a newspaper man's point was the half page ad of Simon 9WW» the West McHenry general w#tcltfH» and insurance agent, and <me of most enterprising and suecepfnl waafe. ness men in the county. - x .i: *«. --T-'ijf "•