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BRIEF ILLI- . *r. , r-'5Mcnr*^f«r Separate Court at Peoria-- ^ Granite City Wire Plant •Ho Resume f?f Operation* - Henry Bam Had Many Wives.-Body Found la & Bitcb. \fV-. Central Illinois countlea are planning r^ia method for clearing up the immense gj amount of work on the dockets of the jf. ^'Federal Court. With a view to expe- ^ I JJditing business, Senator Cullom and Con- f gressiuan Graff are to present and urge 'e, I the immediate passage of a bill creating a central Illinois Federal court district • W'tk 'n Peoria. The district will ^ " comprise the counties of Bureau, Cham- hi, . v paign, Dewitt, Fulton, Ford, Grundy, Hancock, Henry, Iroquois, Knox, Logan, ' s , La Salle, Livingston, Marshall, Mercer, ' , Mason,, McLean, McDonough, Peoria, - Putnam, ltock Island, Stark, Tazewell, "• . * Vermilion, Warren and Woodford. Two candidates for the position of judge al- ff /;' ready are in the field. Attorney John S. J „ Stevens, who was a candidate when ! Judge Ivohlsaat was appointed, is a can- I, - didate and is indorsed by Republican: P'fe!"'Headers of the district.' Oliver J. Bailey, IV' 1 Pre8idpnt of the Bradley Polytechnic In- siitute, is urged by his friends for the >'5 /" 'honor. & ' \ 't 'f ** . Lewis 51. Henry a Bigamlgt. Lewis M. Henry deserted his wife, Ol- lie Musgrove of San Francisco, in Peoria Nov. 11, after taking $3,000 which she had deposited in the Illinois State Bank there in his name. They were married in San Francisco oniy«a few months ago. Since Henry's disappearance it is learn­ ed that he married a young woman in Joliet and deserted her the same way. In Springtield he has a Wife, who claims that she is not divorced from him. He succeeded in getting some of her money, but she refuses to say how much. Mrs. Henry of Springfield was formerly Miss Derbing. The marriage ceremony was performed in 1895 by Rev. Dr. Troxell, pastor of the Grace Lutheran Church, in Springfield. Henry married Miss Derb­ ing on sh&rt acquaintance and lived with her about a year. Henry also had a wife in Honolulu. In Wire Plant to Start tip. the case of S. Ix?onard Boyce jfef; 11 Jj 'h an order was entered by Judge W. J. Al- <J f «' len in the United States Circuit Court at Springfield authorizing Receiver Boyce ® ;>to enter into an agreement with the Mer- • „.. chantWire and Nail Company, to op- ^^S^erate thfi plant at Granite City. The agreement provides that all expenses of *•. - > operating the plant shall be paid by the Merchants' Wire and Nail Company, and f - company shall i Cceive the prpfits of $ ; n' the plant. The receiver shall be in no '?way responsible for the debts contracted k/'V "fry tfre company. He shall receive a sal- */"- •' - ary of $2,000 a month for one year. The '" " plant at Granite City has been closed V*,"1 .down two years and the American Steel 4V nnd Wire Company oppose the order of x" the court, which means additional oppo- §f^;Iogitk>n to the trust.' Murdered for His Money. While walking through a corn field a » *" mile west of Champaign Jerry Lawrence, * farmer, found the body of a man cov- ** 4s ^"*'ere<l w corn sta'^8' *n a small ditch. The police were notified, and the investigation which followed showed the r - man had been murdered. The back of /the head was crushed, and appearances ;-f\ ' .indicated that he had been dead less than if./,'. Jv forty-eight hours. His identity has not -*f been established. It is believed he was a corn husker who was murdered for his 'money. ^ Insane Patient Is Stabbed. William Wiley, 35 years old, a colored patient of the Kankakee hospital for the : :• insane, was found in the dormitory stab- ke(* to freart. He is believed to have *' * been murdered by a fellow-patient, fifteen * * of whom sleep in the dormitory. A kitch- " en knife was found iq,,» closet with some papers belonging to a vicious patient. The * act was done during the night watch's absence. Wiley was sent' from Paris, 111., i - in 1888. £§/ Struck by a Freight Engine. ; :, William and Elizabeth Craig, brother »and sister, met with a serious accident. ^ >} They were en route to a party at Indian- • ola. and while crossing the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad at that village the buggy was struck by an east-bound (freight engine, totally demolishing the rig " and fatally injuring the occupants*. i'-l Brief State Happening*. . ' -'s. Influenza is epidemic among horses In £ J Chicago. Burglars raided the postofflce at Sher- ^:i^v< mijn, securing a considerable amount of \ money and stamps. ni ; Pr £ ;; Charles Jacobs, unmarried, while out ^ hunting near Dix, accidentally received »<;</ * a wound from his own gun, from which Jj^^'he died. ^|l ^toftiftgton wag burglarized the other Tonight and a large amount of goods and -•y-. t money obtained. Nine houses and stores .#• ' were entered. hjfc i A broken wheel wrecked a fast freight ' train on the Milwaukee division of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad 300 <,jr'yards north of the Kenilworth depot. The shipment of salt pork which was intend- - i ̂ , ed for the British army in South Africa '-«was scattered over an area of an acre. All of the ears were completely wrecked. sJJ- • '• With Bis head swathed in bandages -and his right arm in a sling, August Has- fe* * *' selbring, an alderman of Milford, was jfu : married to Miss Amelia Hartberg at the , home of Charles Froetisch in South Chi- cago. Hasselbring was on his way to the wedding celebration when he--was . ' knocked down by a horse and wagon. His ^*5" right shoulder was dislocated, his scalp <;*'« ti was cut, and he sustained other painful Injuries about the upper portion of his body. Hasselbring was unwilling to poet- pone the wedding, and after he had been eared for by a physician he went to the Froetisch home, where he was married. The Tri-Count'y Teachers' meeting con­ vened at Centralia with 280 teachers in attendance. It is now expected thtot the new line )|*$®f the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road ^ from Marion to Thebes will not be ready for use before February. The expecta- * tion when the work was started was th'at k trains coul(Lbe operated over the line by ,»Jjj the first of the new year, but such an un ^ dertaking cannot be figured upon by eon- tractors to a day, and the lines interest- Qsfted. the Eastern Illinois and the Colton Belt, will be glad to see the new track ready for service by Feb. 1. ||L 1 The boys of the Second regiment, JIII- nois volunteer infantry, presented to Mrs. J V George M. Moulton, wife of their former , «. colonel, a gold medal as a tribut^ of their Ityremembrance of her deeds of kindness to the soldiers under her care in the hos- /pitals at Jacksonville, Savannah and Buena Vista. t ' llliuois State practice commission of leading lawyers, selected to revise the T code of practice and procedure in the State, ljeld its first meeting at Galesburg since its organization in Chicago. It will &-•; Visit each appellate court district. Law- yers from all over the district have been §1, 1 in conference with ' the commlasion dis- caMins pr^o«ed ebange% r^r,, . .A: r Jf?*; 1^**^ M • xm: Mr. Vfe-LSk.'i, • •! . r4-'J Wincktmm was shot ttnf near a ifUkiew of his hon^ |DHnr miles from Vienna. The Central Trust and Savings Bank at Rock Island has been granted a permit to begin business, with a capital of fl00,- 000. Ten thousand dollars was raised at the dedication of the chapel built for the Eu­ clid Avenue Methodist Church of Oak Park. A broken car wheel caused the ditch­ ing of a freight train on the Northwest­ ern road at Kenilworth. No one was hurt. Adjt. Geo. Reece has issued an order accepting the resignation of Mahlon O. Ivasson as chief of staff of the naval mi­ litia of Illinois. \ Roy Tharp, the 10-year-old son of John Tharp of Kewanee, was accidentally shot and killed by a bullet from a rifle held by his little sister. •• Attorneys for the Glucose Sugar Refin­ ing Company made a motion for a rehear­ ing before the Illinois Supreme Court in the so-called glucose anti-trust case. The Elgin National Watch Company surprised its 2,400 employes by giving no­ tice of a restoration of the wage scale of 1892. The advance was unsolicited. The State board of law examiners met at Mount Vernon to take up the cases of applicants for admission to the bar. There were eighty-eight applicants, one of the largest classes ever assembled there. The trustees of Monmouth College elected L. E, Robinson of Carthage, Mo., to fill the chair of English literature. This is the second chair established in Mon­ mouth College under the provisions of the law endowment. Ellis Glenn, the woman who while im­ personating a man was convicted of for­ gery and sentenced to the Chester peni­ tentiary, has had her case continued un­ til the next term of court by Judge Dwight at Hillsboro. With weather conditions unfavorable the inventors of the Pollak-Virag sys­ tem of telegraphy made a successful test from New York to Chicago. A message of 200 words was transmitted at the rate of 65,000 words an hour. Edward Couture, a switchman in the Three-I yards at Kankakee, was instant­ ly killed by falling beneath the wheels of the engine upon which he was riding. The engine was running quite slowly at the time Couture fell from it. Matt Hair, local manager of the Jordan Poultry Company, committed suicide at Greenville in the office of the company, by shooting. Despondency caused by drinking is assigned as the cause. He leaves a widow and several children. J. J. Matzenbaugh of Iroquois County, indicted by the grand Jury for false re­ turns on property, was fined $2,000 and costs. An investigation revealed that he had over $140,000 worth of valuable prop­ erty. He made returns on $2,000 worth. Mgr. Leon Bouland of Chicago, who recently was made the head of the Re­ form Catholic Church of America, will extend the domain of his work to include Cuba. He expects to go to the island to spend six weeks in organizing the church. P. A. Winkelmann was given a verdict for $1,400 against' the city of Chicago be­ cause the latter condemned his property and after five years abandoned the con­ demnation, meantime preventing the owner from building or selling the ground. Leah Atkinson, said to be the daugh­ ter of a Chicago undertaker, committed suicide at Belleville, where she had been visiting. She had fallen in love with a soldier named, Barry, who, despite hfcr pleadings, started to the Philippines. 8he swallowed laudanum. Prosper Brulfe, a retired farmer at St. George, was found drowned in a large stock watering tank on the farm of Mr. Barril, his grandson-in-law. The deceas-, ed was 96 years old, and it is supposed that in his feeble condition, caused by old age, he was unable to save himself. State Senator Fort of Wenona is fur­ thering a project to have the Federal Government construct a deep waterway via the llliuois river and the canals from Chicago to the Mississippi. Delegates will be sent to Washington to urge Con­ gress to take favorable action. Spalding Institute, the new Catholic high school for boys built at Peoria by Bishop John L. Spalding of the Peoria diocese, was dedicated with elaborate ceremonies. The chief feature was the address by Bishop Spalding on "Oppor­ tunities," which was given to a large au­ dience. This school is of the nature of most parochial academies, its course be­ ing especially strong in the languages and iu English literature. There is also a business course. The institute was built by the bishop at a cost of $75,000, and it will be maintained on a high standard. The Brothers of Mary are in charge of the school, and the faculty, though small, is large enough for the sixty students. Miss Helen Sherman, Waukegan, fourth daughter of A. S. Sherman, Chi­ cago's oldest living ex-Mayor, is dead. Deceased was 52 years old, and was born in Chicago. Because the 1,800 signatures to the pe­ tition asking arbitration all were in the same handwriting the State Board of Arbitration gave up trying to settle the piano workers' strike at Chicago. The last will of Charles M. Gilmer, the Quincy attorney, has been filed for pro­ bate. Gilmer left his estate to his widow, who is named as executrix and who is requested by the will to use the estate to settle up his accounts. He had transfer­ red much of his property in settling up claims against him recently; and just prior to his death transferred the remain­ der to preferred creditors and clients, so the widow has little left to settle wit. Mr. Gilmer until recently was considered well-to-do financially. It deveiops that he carried on his business wholly with­ out system and that the Banner in which he handled money of otfcers was careless. It seems that he kept no record of his acts and before he knew it he was seri­ ously involved. Mrs. Trevett, wife of Henry Trevett, a Champaign business man, was found dead in bed. She had taken an overdose of medicine by mistake. At Champaign, Ernest Pierson, a Cen­ tral Union Telephone Company lineman, fell from a forty-foot pole and was killed. His home was in Chillicothe, Ohio. E. D. Wheelock, a Chicago promoter, has secured options in Benton township on about 3,000 acres of land. The latest purchase is about three miles from the lake. It is rumored the Federal Steel Company is behind the big deal, but the object of the purchases cannot be learned., D. W. Vittuni of the State Board of Agriculture, petitioned the Illinois corn growers, in session at El Paso, to make an exhibit at the State fair and abandon the corn exposition at Peoria iu 1-900. Committees were appointed to confer with the State Board of Agriculture at Springfield January. The Illinois Society, Sons of the* Revo­ lution, in session In Chicago, elected the following officers: President, Edward Payson Bailey; first vice-president, Albert Crane Barnes; second vice-president, Frank Kimball Root; third vice-president, John Henry Brown; secretary, William Sydnor Gilbreafh; treasurer, Harrison KeHey; registrar, Frederick Dickinson. . ttwse*) *• > WHAT THEY AN. I -- . V ' fro* Significance of 4*»Xte»1t«of the November Among right thinking and fair mind­ ed people there is and can be but one conclusion formed as to the true signifi­ cance of the elections of November, 1899--namely, that the country is in cor­ dial ac'cord with the national adminis­ tration in matters of national policy. This conclusion Is well expressed by the New York Evening Post, as follows:. : "Although no Federal officials were chosen yesterday, except in four Con­ gressional districts to fill vacancies in the House of Representatives, a nation­ al aspect was given to the campaign in so many States that the result must be accepted as a verdict of the country on the McKinley- administration, and especially on its policy of expansion. The judgment of the people was so clearly expressed that no room is left for doubt as to the attitude of the na­ tion." This, coming from a newspaper noted for its hostility to Republican doctrines and measures, and especially noted for its bitter antagonism toward the policy of President McKinley in reference to the acquirement of new territory for the expansion of American trade and In­ fluence, is an unlooked for^ recognition of the plain meaning of the verdict just rendered by the American people. It is a recognition of the fact that the voters of this country have condemned Bryanlsm and indorsed McKinleyism. There can be no doubt of it. The fact that so conclusive a verdict has been rendered in an "off year," when the successful party was deprived of the advantage of contesting the issue on national lines, is at once a compll-, ment of which President McKinley may well and doubtless does feel proud, and an assurance that the hearts and minds of the people are In thorough sympathy with an administration that has proven itself to be an American administration in the broadest, deepest, grandest sens? of the word. A Kanaaa KeminiMseace^ During the recent campaign the editor of a Kansas paper found a Bryan ban­ ner which had been carried in many processions during the year 1896, which bore the following inscriptions: A vote for McKinley means move tramps. ? McKiiiley's election mean®-- f ' ,Ten-cent corn. ^ ^ - Twenty-five-cent wheat, j ? f ' Eight-cent oats, ^ One dollar per ton for hay. I, r| Five cents per pound for butter. „• - Three cents a dozen for eggs. fL;; « Two-cent hogs. < > One and one-half cent for fat cattle. No money to carry on business. Corn to-day is worth 20 cents in Kan­ sas and from 29 to 32 cents in Indiana. There has not been much change in the price of wheat, hut the price is far Jibove 25 cents. Oats are worth 24 to 26 cents in Indiana. Hay ranges from $10 to $11.50 here and must be worth $5 or $6 in Kansas. Choice butter, wholesale, is quoted at 14 cents, but those who get a good article at retail pay from 17 to 25 cents. Eggs are 17 cents, hogs $4.04 to $4.07% a hundred, and prime steer* $5.75 to $6.50 a hundred. As for mon­ ey, the rates of Interest have never been eo low; it can be obtained on se curity which would not have been re garded as good in 1896, and is in ample supply at the present time. • Anyone but a Bryanite shouter who had made such prediction in 1896 would retire from the vocation of prophet in view of such failures as are set forth above, but they will not. They are al­ ready prophesying and showing how Mr. Bryan can be elected on the Chi­ cago platform with a few amendments. They should have no believers, and they will not if Republicans will clip the foregoing inscriptions from the Kansas Bryan banner and read them whenever one of that breed of politicians begins his chatter. Frequent readings would discredit them.--Indianapolis Journal. "That's Mei." The Iowa volunteers have brought back from the Philippines a slang ex­ pression with a moral. During their experiences about Manila the boys came in contact with a good many Mex­ ican silver dollars. They looked just as good as the honest money dollar of the United States mintage, but they were- not, and the soldiers quickly learned to Avatch for them and accept them only at the regular discount rate. Any attempt on the part of the foxy Filipiuos to work off a dollar that was not backed by the gold standard in the place of a dollar that had the backing was met with a contemptuous rejection of the cheap dollar and the comment: "That's Mex." The scope of the expression broadened, and now when the returned volunteers see anything that is masquerading for what it isn't they size it up with the same contemptuous expression: "That's Mex." The moral is plain. Neither the returned veterans nor their fellow citi- zents want to take any chances on hav­ ing the dollars of their own country tossed back to them in any part of the world where they may be with a simi* lar slang phrase.--Sioux City Journal. Kxpaneion a Winner. owa's immense Repubttcan plurality, taken in connection with the sweeping Republican victory in South Dakota, shows that expansion will be a winuing issue for the party in 1900. The great gain Sa the Republican vote in Iowa over that of two years ago, when Shaw was first elected Governor, Is a signifi­ cant indication of the popularity of ex­ pansion. * The Republicans should use their best endeavors to bait the Demo­ crats on to make a fight next year on "anti-expansion." The louder the flag furlers howl the next twelve months the larger the Republicain majority will be In the electoral college <ot 1900.--St Louis Globe-Democrat. A Riotous Demand. In a late interview the Western'mau- ager of one of the chief watch-making factories of the world stated that he could sell the entire output of the works, 2,000 watches a day, out of band for cash, and furthermore added that tl»e demand was for the better movements. The demand he described as "little less than desperate." If McKinley prosper­ ity continues at this rate we may biiye riots in the cities on the part of peoplw who are una^ble to get rid of their mon-^ ey fast enoffgh.«-Topeka (Kan.) Capital. What Does This "EveiTE wool ffgpwer sjhould aatfc his Coj^resj hether "^he cu®tc hroughout the he duty odSjFool Dlnglejr Tbls Is the statement of a rellfcbto ftatherity in close touch with domestic wrobl interests. What does it mean?--American Economist. It means that the Wilson-Gorman tariff act that allowed wolves to run at large and destroy sheep has been super­ seded by an act that has fenced up the wdlves so they will either have to de­ vour one another or go hungry. They cannot feast on mutton to any great ex­ tent while the Dingley bill remains in­ tact.---Peoria (111.) Journal. Bryan's Cold Comfort. Mr. Bryan in 1890 carried twenty-two States, including all the old Southern States, except Kentucky and West Vir­ ginia, and the States of Colorado, Ida­ ho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Ne­ vada, South Dakota, Utah, Washing­ ton, and Wyoming. In the last elections held in the several States Kansas, South Dakota, Washington and Wyom­ ing have given Republican majorities, while Maryland has joined the Demo­ cratic column. On the record of elec­ tions held in 1890 and 1898 the Repub­ licans have control of twenty-six States, with 285 electoral votes, and the Democrats nineteen States, with 162 electoral votes, and yet Mr. Bryan and his associates pretend to be well satisfied with the result of the elections of Nov. 7. An attempt has been made to torture the figures in Ohio, which gave the Re­ publican candidate for Governor a plu­ rality of 50,090/^0 an indorsement of Bryanism. It is contended by some of Mr. Bryan's supporters that the vote for McLean in Ohio did not represent the full Democratic strength, but that if the vote of Jones be added to that of McLean it will be shown that Ohio is Democratic. And yet the Democrat­ ic newspapers told us the day after the election that Jones received on a per­ sonal and local issue more Republican votes than he did Democratic. This was certainly trfce in Cleveland. If there is so little comfort for the Demo­ crats in Ohio figures there is less com­ fort in Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. . In 1896 South Dakota gave Bryan a plurality of 183; in 1S98 the State gave the fusion candidate for Governor a plurality of 370. In 1898 the Republi­ can majorities for candidates for judges of the Supreme Court ranged from 5,000 to 10,000. In 1896 Kansas gave Bryatt a plurality of 13,509; in 1898 the Republican plurality was 15,- 870. In 1896 Washington gave Bryan a plurality of 12,493; in 1898 it gave a Republican majority of 13,114. Wyom­ ing gave, Bryan in 1896 a plurality of 593; in 1898 it gave a Republican ma­ jority of 1,894. By the vote of Nov. 7, 1899, Ohio, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are as strongly Republican as they were in 1896. On the record of the elec­ tion returns for 1898 and 1899 Mr. Bryan would have 162 electoral votes and the Republican, candidate for President 285, a majority for the Re­ publicans of 123 votes in the etasfcip!^ college. No More DM for Populism. '-1' Edgerton, S. D., £ept. 30, 1899.--To the Editor: I have noticed of lat«f sev­ eral statements in the Journal relating to the deposit per capita of residents in different parts of the country. I do not consider any of them, taking into account our handicap of no railroad towns, as good as Charles Mix Coun­ ty's. There are four banks in the old part of the county now having deposits of over $20 per capita. There are no manufacturers', large ranchers', stock or grain buyers' deposits, and half of the merchants keep their accounts at their railroad shipping points, or use the "sock." Ninety per cent of the de­ posits belong to the farmers, and the balance to a part of the merchants. This county went Populist last year, but It will never happen again as long as the present conditions of the country will last. T. E. ANDREWS. When prosperity comes in at the door Populism flies out at the window. That is the burden of a brief but significant communication from Charles Mix Coun­ ty, South Dakota. The statement that the farmers of that county have nearly $20 per capita laid away in the banks before marketing this year's fine crops forms the basis of the prediction.-- Sioux City (la.) Journal. Have Used American Goods. There is bitter complaint among the manufacturers of woolen goods in Eng­ land that Americans have practically ceased to buy of them. Under the Wil­ son low duty tariff we purchased wool­ en manufactures in one year to the val­ ue of $49,162,992. With the freight and other charges added these goods cost the American consumers $60,000,000, and the profit went into the pockets of the foreign manufacturers. Under the preseut tariff law we purchased but $13,831,967. Is it strange that the for­ eign manufacturers should grumble at the loss of this trade? We have used all the woolen goods we needed, we have found no fault with the quality, and the prices have not been unreasonable. The difference is that we have used American goods, made In American factories by Ameri­ can workingmen and women and have kept our money in the American family instead of paying to foreigners.--San­ dusky (Ohio) Register. The Wafte-Earner's Sl^re, A dispatch from Youngstown, Ohio, redds as follows: "At a wage conference between James H. S'utt, of the Iron Manufacturers' As­ sociation and a committee representing the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, the wage scale for November and December was placed on a basis of 1 6-10 cents, which makes the wages of puddlers $5.50, an increase of 50 cents per ton. This is the highest price paid for puddling since 1880." Thus does' the wage earner come In for his share of the general prosperity. He has not been overlooked in the di­ vision of benefits. It is one of the glor­ ies of the protective system that It al­ ways looks after the wage earner. The Great Promoter*. To-day we stand at the head of Iron producing nations, and the great pro­ moters of our unexampled advance have been protective tariffs and stimu­ lated inventions.--Moravian Falls (N. C.) Yellow Jacket. \ 'jL Good Auctioneer. A Nodaway County farmer had a pub- Less than two years ago the Xirierican people grieved with Senator Thurston of Nebraska la the death of his wife. They had been to Cuba to investigate the con­ dition of affairs and the horrors the re- concentrados were enduring so worked upon her sympathetic nature that her health gave way and death called her upon her return to this country. The separation was a severe hardship for the brilliant Nebraskan, and for a time his grief threatened his future, but conscious of the duty he owes himself and his moth­ erless children, he has now taken a new helpmate, and those who sorrowed with him in affliction now rejoice with him in his happiness. The bride was Miss Lola Purman, a Washington belle. She is a highly gifted young woman, whose moth­ er was Miss Leadora Finlayson of the well-known old Southern family of that name. Her father, Maj. William J. Pur- BEJTATOB THURSTO* Avt) HIS BRIDB. COJfe.fr. MACRUM. man, at the breaking out of the civil war, entered the army and served with distinc­ tion under Gens. Meigs, Crane, Sprague and Meade. He was a leading member of the constitutional convention of Flor­ ida and in reconstruction days was elect­ ed to Congress from that State. The "bride of the Senate," as the newest wife in that body is always called, is more than ordinarily good looking and has a sweet soprano voice. Charles E. Macrum, the United States consul to the Transvaal, was a glass manufacturer of East' Liverpool, Ohio, which is In Presi- d e n t McKinley's old congressional district. He was appointed in 1898, upon the recom­ mendation of Sena­ tor Hanna, Senator Foraker and Repre­ sentative Taylor, and is said to be a very good man, but he insists upon com­ ing home just when his services are most needed and will neither wait for permis­ sion nor the arrival of his successor. He has made two applications for leave of absence since the war broke out, both of which have been refused, and has aow deserted his post and left the interests of the United States and the archives of the British consulate, which were intrust­ ed to him, to a minor named Atterbury. There is no explanation of Mr. Macrum's persistency, and it is naturally suggested that he is frightened. The President di­ rected Adelbert Hay, son of the Secre­ tary of State, to start at once for Pre­ toria and take charge of the consulate. United States Senator William P. Frye of Maine, who, as president pro tempore of the Senate, will fill the function that had been the chief duty of the late Vice-President Ho- bart, does not by reason of this fact stand in any suc­ cession whateyer to the presidency. That succession is fixed by law and falls upon the mem­ bers of the cabinet, beginning with the Secretary of State. sumed his duties when the Senate con­ vened Monday. Mr. Frye has occupied a seat in the House or in the Senate since the Forty-second Congress. He was elected to the Senate to fill the seat va­ cated by James G. Blaine when that statesman was appointed Secretary of State. He was elected president pro tempore of the Senate in 1896 and he was a member of the commission that was sent to Paris to adjust terms of peace between the United States and Spain. While Gen. Elwell S. Otis is away off in the Philippines his family, consisting of his wife a^d three charming daugh­ ters, make their home in the old Otis homestead in Rochester, Hereto­ fore they have al- Way^ moved about SK NATO!'. FBI'*. President Frye as- lfe sale recently which aruoun A/m nrm untrv tKK), of which $5,000 ~k. -.General Prosperit elioneered the sale.--Spri ublieaMi with Gen. Otis from post to post, but he declined to take them to the other side of the w o r l d , a l t h o u g h they were anxious mi<s makt Otb. to go. Perhaps the handsomest of Gen. Otis' three daughters is Miss Mary Otis. She is a tall-young woman of good figure and is about 19 years old. . Miss Laura Otis is a year or two older, and "Bobbie," as Gen. Otis calls the third sister, is the youngest of the group. There is a touch of pathos in the hard luck of Lieut. Matthew F. M, MHkle- john, senior subaltern of the Sei oml Gor­ don Highlanders, son of Prof. Mei- klejohn of St. An­ drew's University. He had been fight­ ing on the Indian frontier with the First battalion for the last five years and was one of the heroes of Dargai, w h e r e h e w a s w o u n d.e d twice. Exchanging into the Second battalion, he went to Natal, to lose his right arm at Elands Laagte. As he is left-handed, it is hoped by his friends that lut may remain on the active list. V;1- Ensign Gherardi, who, with J. J. #imi- nez, distinguished himself during the ter­ rific hurricane in Porto Rico by saving the lives of over 150 people, is the son of Rear Ad- miral Gherardi. who became a mid­ shipman in the navy in 1S46 and made a distinguish­ ed record during the rebellion. A na­ tive of Louisiana, he entered the Nr- val Academy from Massachusetts and served for the first KNMi.i four years after his graduation with the Pacific squadrou,. The younger Gherardi got wit of the Nar a I* Academy just iu take W* the war with Spoil*. LI KI T. HEIKMEJ. BX. rgwr tsgggft-rrrSgaB g^aB'wajigssa; »",t' ai.TS KBIM SPtCMLMMiff ptS; tUnstratfon shows, trblch jo can fr-rm nnmn trtw n*tf mIM wtrter bbttciJ iom<lydBCor»te<l and ornamented, «ss» feet 6 incins binX ASS i*CB*mr*d dtnetfNBk NHHM appMiw Nk, aattaa* ftaiah lltWt lift itfl*. «-- mnmmvmma mumOinCMI IS inchM looirfe tBdM *Ul and nMis tffrpovada. WuioMm UBtopa, MftUovs: IMmhh. Til«d» «Matfa, tiliii. Oani, Baaa Ctsyier, Trcbfe 0»flw, Slay--a Tmri» faMtj • OcUtf Canlrrv. Itailnlj, lSraaiSmai Ml, 4 IMiOKkaMtmt S----tuy n>»<i«IHy aitto. t SM «TS1 rare SwMt liMk >«»*», 1 iat aftl Omhi^Mfealtilablmk, 18«t n: IIIMNlHrlaaaailh|WBMk 1 B«t mt 24 rtraitr MtBaMtaatMacIfal Baais. TStlOME Ql!£E\ k- Hon conatatof the celebratedBanll !««•>, which are oniy uaed in the hlfbeet grade ImmwllMi; fitted with H=a- •al Onthw ad Tax Baaiaaa. aba tart Dolge >!U. tea therm, etc., bellow* of the bast robber cloth. >-plv hallow* stock and finest leather k vaTvee. THE ACME QtJEKH to tarnished wfth a Mxlt be<rele£ ptatarrenoh mirror, nickel platsd pedal frames, and every modern improvement. We lankl fr*e a k: . . i • * -- i -- ' a f l i f t , • " .V lair v 8UAHAHTEEP 28 YEARS. lama a written binding at-year tornu tad oondltloaaoi whlchjf aTaknga. ---money if -- aay "an clvaa out «*mtlr|tftHaf«kai((. Tnrit doe month xad we will refund your money if you a»o not perfectly s»&i 5=1 T&- OUR RELIABILITY IS ESTABLISHED g.y.* mrnummmmmm--•--•g----H • • • ttfiprl thepabU Bank, orOorn •ompaajr In Chicago. Cktaft, aad eaploy > «aMWMi ^ Chicago; or <iawjj>a««*hang« Bank, New Terkt criM? imtlree* • --««• •**••>» occupy entire one of the latgaat >mI«m *y>»..ptotnaurown bolldteff.wi imomn *t ut.ee ead « fUM an* dealt with «a aak your natehhor about w. write of thla paper or Metropolitan National ~ " )Nat. B ' ~- r* hate . -- --a --arly M60people laeur own botldtac. «.» •! ••*.«•»• aad apt ato everything In mnrtcal instruments at loweet wheleeala ptiees. Write for fr«ei ^^i»^taucg'Tb^£.l. F.,^,.>^^^5.rc8lOACio. SEND NO MONEY fotnd periSetiy nHihilw, exactly at reprweated, aaaal tamthlaee atw* miHUikM MO.M, ul fli, SSSATSS* SUMUII in BTOtUAU OrTpaj year Of we «".i™|" « »«f •"»»" at ss.M>sio.ei, sii.ee, •lt.OO*a« ap, all Mhlnahilii Ser Vfrte InhtJMilM Catalan*, SJ!!i!a£«3,SSSJKIfrSAfaEr BEWARE OF IMITATIONS Yerttamant*, offering aakaewa •Mhla-- nnder varloa* namet, with Tarloua Inducementa. Write awaa (Heed In Cfclcace and lean wke are baa erery •SUMS nBraOTSMarr. r srm araii - mi tse aitUSUi AU WHO ASS sot. THE BURPICK uncn or HOIK. MASEBT nui«iki> <uu»a aAooss pet and oopy our T MATERIA!. •eaa with (nil length table drawm. Mat lWe iHtUlaa decorated cabinet flntth.flnatTnfeto)'dn'Mr'puUa,net*oa« ,a g ter*.ballbearingadjattablatreadle.gcnwlge8»yU>lronHwt ' 1 ftnti, pMwTlniiji - fiewuHr foot, laqwwved rtrnMSa " „•»> .« earner, patent needle bar, patent dreaaguard, head la haartm--ly SicaimHa •ai». Siery fcaewa aW»*h««at lalhialihed aad ear IV-- IttatrueUpa jitt taUe Juat how anyone can ran It aad do either plate or t» kind of IBM* wort. _ Aso-TSASta' mtmmta anAB^KS U sasf with yrary imitfriTsa I IT COSTS YOU NOTHING to (60.00. and'then If convinced yea ar»w<^ <11.eo a* WSaWg-'fWf: .60. wi TO Turret* toil* «tt.SO ir It IIm wttiUa Utne •mil jm «aj . MH DKLAT. (Sean, Roebuck 4 Co. are thoroughly reliable.--Bdttor.) AMrtss, SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.) Chicago* III. ml I I I il l, I all i I it iliililil . . SEND ONE POLlJMr; Cntttked. out and atad to c«; atnta rnWum* fad wlfcl l^ar amine it at yoor ezpreraoSeea aetHatUy wHaheten, *>aaHy *a the aaoct waadmfhl valae mnwi or heard of, equal to bteycfatM JM aihigh asgM^ee. lfyonthirt jwefctot MMUt tlfW. ••••ill, MMk, (M -- mm. YOl, SEARS, ROEBUCK A CO. (be.) Chicago. PANTS AT HALF PRICE and 44.16 Waabau etoaaeat ear eatiraaUehaf X«a*a eat and made to meatfura raato, whlc uraattt-OS, tS-OQ M.00 end a&00 In oompMIUon wltl) penta thattallM«fanl>hatM.eetaS10i. •Asura «ra i,oss runs daily, meaqpe error* CTeep In end mm •St paataaaeaaialale, aaatabMpaar aAask •aawaalate thea eat at M.WHILH, IrallaaiMlatdtmalwa. A big Iwtau. by letter, color wanted, give yoor Rrifht, W*«*M, aaaber af faakaa araaa* Ml at We will aeJeotpasta naareat your exact Sea^ure, re-cat aad re-Ullor them to yonr -- ;t aUe, send to you by ezeraea C. 0. MnetaUe,sendtoyoubyexL ^ factory, geaalaa taller naaAe, the *ama ,aa if flratmade to year ewa n'--aie, per- fectly trimmed, sewed end Snlued, Sflrd'thepr aM*t«wmS>laan a«t»rie«ailai>wa*ir«Mi LIT K. artS>.aalat»a»aaiHI*awMhaaat*lhaltallsriaat•*. leg*.ft*. .gTH nnirUTS ATsa. eo from hlghgrade teparM 1 wawuh aad aawlaana pautt* fabrlca we never " n M.00 and Ullon get R.W and upward*. rAStS A* SS.*Oaade.ta-aaMafe by aeatSA. »trj Sent a^Mlal tagartad eaat* Mriwla nNMWMfc aa laDw«**tSS.S*teilS.OOtar. aoldatlejattan UT M. ™" io your maaaure, exactly the seme as It ] them at daebla the yrtee, and *neh *alue yon never before saw or heard of, then Seat take the*. •Nit >2.76 Cr wei^tasd belght, alio nunt-of inches atioondbedy at beat aad bhI, and wewlUiend this •EABTirsuaiTimiito imvii Gllfn M>l «o you by ttpnw, C.O.D., aubjcct to examination. You cat. examine and try It on ' your nearest expi«*a of­ fice and If fonna perfectly satlslhetenr, exaellf as rap- nesated ul tlieraMl weaderfkl >«lor jn ever saw or britrd ef, pay the eipres* aeent our »p<><'lat offer price $ 2.7 S, and exprria cbarKM. Ksprcsa charge* wiil avoraKC 40 to 60 cents for each 1,000 miles. THI8 CAPE IS LA­ TEST STY LK FOR PALL and WINTER, made from an extra Sae aes keaif *U weel MtckerMae gtnilae Rarlton Bes* ver cloth, 27 inches lonp. very Cull rwaep, lJ-inch uppaar cape, extra full. I'pper (wr aad large <ta*a aellar. biautl- fully trimmed with black Baltle saal Ibrj upper cape trimmed with three rows and collar with two rows of Sae Mbalr braid; cloth button ornaments. Ski* eaae la Sae taller aade tfcroa^rfceat and equal to capes that sellet more than double the price. WHte far free Gleak Catalafe*. SEND US ONE OULUB cook sto^by frS^t^^S^h^to^mtyiliifc inmin# i% VvKi&S A«S!<T aav sransia. rsics, $13.00 less the SIX* Ant with or­ der or tlt.00 end freight charges. This stave Is staeR MHxltxTl. top Is Mxl3; made froei best pig lauv* flees, hMrtjr oorera, heavy lim - large wen shelf. Mny tin-lined o«ea alckel-platea ortuuneutatlona and tr laige deep, genuine »<a* Ma I »aiaal*tilla«d some large ornaaseawl base. Beat saai b we furnish VSSS aa Am woed grata." feet wead bamsav^MUSSSS A DMN erery stove H^wune safe dallTery to roadatatloa. TdWKal iHHim would chegji. for such • atoaasthe freight S* only abt ~ each MS ralleaj^Btwu* r«a at Mea* llt.W. SEARS,MMIPK * CO.dK.) <S*s*e, maebtbhi Vt 3 SEND ONE DOLLAR gkAT AJWSMSS. SI _ . _ . nscs un mn ifna « |i. ; to as, a lange or small forage eaal wee •" i aelt by exntwa, C. O. P. ~ laatlon. f«* «*i expresa oiBceaad 111 factory and afaal ta aalla SS. Mki^ryourexp ^ gsfts. MadewlthBOCBUSSATI latnt 1 •pedal Staatna (•ne Italian lining', (. stajlaa tad nlabniat, tkraaakoat.a salt any hey er | FRKK CLOTH SASPLK8 < IV TRAK8, write far Sasaple BMk H*. Ml, contain*SashteR plates, tape measure and ful 1 Instructlona how tp order. McnV Snlla aaadc to order fr*a IS.M WJ>, Samp pies sen t free on application. Address, ; SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.), Chicago, it| (Scars, Rattack A tie. are tkarwachlj r*UaMe.--kiMav.) _sts > ws,aSM* agae( baa end 1000 style aa lUasttaM, *m«* Rasa • 1 beaiy wrigkt, wear-italallag, aB asst a Caaalaaare, nest, handsome pattern. ; 0\\ .1 -ur CUT THIS AD. OUT and Mad teaa, state your ktljrtl, weight, number Inches around body atbreaat, tu*en over vest, under coat, close up under arms, number inches around body at waist and hips, ai!J length ol leg'in.slcle iiants Siain from tigkt la croifh ts hf»I, ttate wlietfcer you wish ,aach op frock coat andcolor wanted, and ke will tend you by express,C. O. B., Bl'BJECT TO KXABIMTION, a Uilor atade aalt to ;oiir«xaf (mr*t,art. Vou ran examine and trv it on at vour expr.-s oftlre, and If you find it tbe'best made, uiost stylish suit YOU ever had. equal to anythinjrycur tail'"r v> ouki make you for giO.OOand the moht wonder] u I vahu> you ever heard of, R» the erprpss BS^Bt OXK HAIF OCR RW» rnit'K er SG.SS and etprcaa Cbara*e less the »l.W» si3nt with order. AT CI 9 tin we eat aad nake (bsas sails ta A» »lt.au .„,ore |. eoapatltlaa wMh HAIR SWITCH ON CASV CONDITIONS. Cut this ad. out and mail to oa. tMode small sample of your hair,cut cloee to the 8BKB HO SOBKTt we wUISUkSMf - r j send you by mall, postpaid, a RSI MUMI HAIR SWlfCH, aa exaat saat4. ra^dTll tnehe? lon(f ---- *~" selected human hair. ~ tnetoeft tx ounoes, short stem. We will I In package with switch ruflcientpostage to return it to osVawtpsHkcUy setMhsl**f^v but if found • xactly as repreaeotadajM| most extraordinary vale* mat yoat wiah to keep it,riNMraMMeaSl.Mbf a " 10rfaya«-TAKS MNH m SI AT ii.m luca ausong yxmr Meads •end to us ahkaal eay aiaaay, we to the 3 switches to them dnettf i to be paid for » aSiig perfectly satisfactory. Mid gsatie tbaaba i the switch w» seed|aeheeltt|sei liaalla »»|ha Haa««, Oriaaa. S*wt*g gsibliig Msb**, Vweltaio, WvtSbsa, Slnsls^""' CaaMras awl atbar faaehaa Ibr 'taUaS arSara fsr Oer SwMehaa. twUfwai a Maa» In Mlsae days, aaaaaSawtaglaeblHt - i«a sen. Salei a IwlUh at aere si write ta^ay for KKKK PkEHICHarreB. I Ha aay Ladi--' Hair Imporlum, Oh TRUSSES, 6§s, >1.25 MB toilers ftrt gtfU.OO fur. They are all line I.H.. but making over 3, ooe aatta Sally jneasn-e emirs creep In and some misilt auits accuma- late and to keep our stock clcan we shall close them t'ut'&t ONK half PRItK and less than cost of cloth jtlonc A l>J|r loss io St. These suits were made to measure at $12.60 ta $14.00 from fine Foreipn and lioraestic ail wool cat*iiBe*vs. worsteds, meltoos ajid cheviot cloths, in light, medium anduark shades, also plain effects, made In very latest sty le,with (Inn linings and trimmings,coats aatlu piped, f alicv arm Bhiel ds.sil t and linen sewintr.beitefeterjtklaa. We will select the exact kind and artyle €>f suit VOU w&iit.rMut and refit St id jreareiat taaeaseraauid. when vou aret it, if vou do n.>t say it Is to every pmrpese •xaetlV the same e» t( originally made to your measure 1)V us at $82.501« S14.00, or by your oivntatflorattSe.OO to t25 00, retnra at oar Ordrr tarfay. halNg, Write for free Cloth Samples of men's tailoring. iddma. Soars, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (.Sears, hoenoek A Co. are taoraBftdy g<M*«k) SEND ONE DOLUB WBiTKPLlINLV WM.VTED, and wt * ill send you by freight, FKKIdllT PAID, C. O. D., Bubjeot to examination, tbis haud>*ome Baral Btae 9crb!e Gr&te- •lonf, guaranteeing safe delivery. J-iiamlae it at your freight and if found, pepfecil • faLb»faetory% •saet!/ r^prcseatMi, and eqcal to tkftt rctu.ll at 920.00 ta $a<).00, pay frtMt a^est Our ^pedu) Offer S9.98* ihv $1.00 sent with order. prepay Hit freight to point ot the Eocky Hoaetalaiu t •las Class firala Martlr, la htfkiy fsHakaS, aafMlaa tSlaskaswKa atkasa. W SEMItr *-* .STsnawjasiTSE^^ "Saltafct, Sea, fcenrlcm? yon ! rsparvli Urge c r suwl!: alsoj erOond Use body or a lint" wtUk iniptwre. *« Vk«Unr mature Is on rijjht or teltaMe , and^ will smmI either truss to you with the undetf steading. If It ts a*i a perfect St aad eqaal ta !«»« tkafciy. retail at tkvee ttesea oa r prI<*,you can return It and will raturn your money. ,h.». WRITE fOW FHEE TRUSS CAT0LQ6UE rBT«tkS tt* ty traeed, let- including the Saw SlS.ee l« fmn tkalaarsa ataaaat aay «•». >N »>• >HI far a u«ka«SEARS, ROEBUCK & Co. C« 'iinniuMi »IMI S*.3 Send No Money. >tato your k*i*t.» aad »*igk*. saaai;? fhiinbcr ff l:..arottud aoaty sf;. arfiM takt-n ^ »"t uuSar WH ' closet up limits* aud will , aaigt^t toriaia nitwa; exawhSt ul trv li i><> at r-'iswaat eSte , oftu-tf ».r-d (I r •xmtftf • rrpjv-' * «N».w *• t l to any 1 i S for ***** **tifty1 f x s 5 fUid ttntng. lt>n« r,>ll.'i'. l-t'» , . rfwt-d. »ir«i»l».l and ft'-r Uith raises tts or *»•,* «a<». »5.WJ, arJ *a.l«aje-. and Overcoats at fr- m to »m.«, ' *»k .•>«. S*C. Addtj j».