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P«WSS*:*? . /•A- -i*fl:̂ «<- WjWPT'lSip! />»*». j^ssssa* . •• ^ • $ THIS MAP SHOW^ THE a" Ths riots arose in an anti-Carlist J|emonstration, earned by the marriage #f the Princess of Asturlas with a inan of supposedly Carlist sympathies. SPAIN General Weyler has established a rigid press censorship. El Heraldo has been suppressed, with many other papers. For all that, the news leaks out that The birthplace of Abraham is to be lug trp, and the work of excavation ill be tupjfcn within a few weeks "at Jr, from 'Which city the great ancestor the Hebrews originally set out, with lis family and relations, on the way to lestinfe. A flood of light is expected be thrown upon early narratives of lesis by the expedition organized for the purpose, which is led by Dr. _ J. Banks and backed by the Sloyal University of Breslau, Germany. ^The ancient city is represented at pres- pat by a group of mounds, the most ispicuous feature of which is the re- of a gigantic pyramidal tower, led by Assyriologists as the most ct specimen of Babylonian archi­ tecture knowtf. This structure, which is built In a series of rectangular stages, like the famous Tower of Babel, with a flight of broad steps running up the outside, once supported the temple of the Moon God--a fane which for more than 3,000 years was the center of moon worship in Assyria. The Moon God was a great divinity anciently in that pert of the world, and exerted a powerful influence over the minds of the people. Indeed, the tower was hardly more than an Immense altar, and the adoration of Sin, the lunar deity, was so profound that his name has survived in Sinai, the "Mountain of the Moon God in Palestine, as it is exiled. * y* A.' Tnt GQE.AT TtMPue AT U» A3 IT PF?Q&APi v APPBAR6Q IN ITS GLORV. |A Baltimore Mystery. i~ % The case of Miss Frances Caspari, 'C Who was recently tried in Baltimore | '• |\-jaupon the charge of obtaining money fe^^under false pretenses, involves a mys- ' V \>tery which Hawthorne would have liked to analyze and Conan Doyle's *'^friend, Sherlock Holmes, might well ; , return to earth to unravel. ^ *-ri^ Miss Caspari has been principal of a public school in Baltimore, a promi- H^'z/inent church worker, and secretary to ^ " &he pastor of one of the leading Uni­ tarian churches in that,city. During ; V%er service in the latter capacity she "^Hbecured sums of money from the mem- 1 * --.iters, until the total reached $180,000, vjisipon the assurance that the money would go to the Leaflet association of I# MarylandV JSxtra Jwjiw. The extra session of the Maryland ^ legislature, for which Governor Smith fc; f^has issued a call, will be the first spe- / ' cial session in that state since April, i '<?1861, forty years ago, when the ex- >%< igencies growing out of the then ig. I threatening war of the rebellion made ISf^-pthe extra session necessary. The ses- 4 - * Vision was called by Governor Thomas £ ^. 'Holliday Hicks, and because of the s* 'presence of federal troops at Annayo- ^ ^Hs It was held in Frederick. * Great J^anial Arch. if The triumphal arch which is to *5"., % The triumpnai arcn wmcn is to be i«rseted in Battery Park, New York, as ||t monument to the glorious deeds of H'the American navy, will be a reproduc­ tion in a general way of the Dewey fjpMh, only it will be much larger and be built of stone. It is planned to flank the arch with an avenue of Statues of naval heroes reaching to the &L-J water's edge, suggesting a gateway to P (he country of the great republic. The If ... • funds which will pay tor this somo- "What pretentious monument have been !•*•> (•'praetieally subscribed by the people. " Admiral Dewey has warmly approved U-rj •- New York, which would pay the inves­ tors a dividend of from 8 to 10 per cent. Such confidence'was reposed it Miss Caspari that most of the mem­ bers advanced the money without ques­ tion, not even asking for a receipt. For a time some dividends were paid, but when they ceased investors grew suspicious and made an investigation. They found there was no such associa­ tion and demanded a settlement, with the result that Miss Caspari was un­ able to make good about one-half the amount invested, and that many of tht checks were found to be worthless, be­ ing either forged or drawn upon banks where she had no money. Then she was arrested, tried first upon the ques­ tion of Banity. and found sane, then the plan, and Mayor Van Wyck has promised that the city shall not be backward in its support The affair ARB MOST SERIOUS. - Spain is at present in worse shape and facing a graver crisis than at any time in her history, not excepting the pe­ riod of the Spanish-American war. upon the legal charge and found guilty. The mystery of the case is, first, that Miss Caspari is a woman of irre­ proachable character and of decided in­ tellectual ability. She insists upon it that the Leaflet association will make the deficiency good, even when con­ fronted with proof there !b no such association. She will not say where the money was Invested or by whom. She has not used the money herself, has none of it in her possession, nM it cannot be found that she has been benefited a cent's worth by her work. Yet still she insists there is such an organization and that it will pay la time, while saying she knows no one connected with it and nothing about it. Her own counsel is as much in the dark as any one else, and his theory is that she Is the tool of some stronger- minded person, upon whose suggestion she has acted. It is apparent that M'm Caspari either is mueh shrewder thw the ordinary criminal or that she has been the victim of hypnotic suggestion Which? "Reflected Clary Club. The suggestion that it is time to or­ ganize a Reflected Glory club comes from a Chicago man. He neglects to say whether he would be eligible for membership, but he very carefully out­ lines his plan, as follows: Something is certainly due to the husbands of women who are constant­ ly in the public eye. It is unfair to them that all the glory that is lying around loose should be hoarded by their better halves. In many instances they have to work hard to support thsir wives, and the accumulation of (lory merely adds to the burden. Just a plain woman is worthy of any man's effort, but a woman wrapped up in the self-importance that usually ac­ companies fame is nothing short of a terrible load, and as some slight rec­ ompense for his labors in her behalf the husband should have a little of the glory shed upon him--at least enough to let the public know that such a man exists. To this end I think 'a Reflected Glory club should be or­ ganized, and it seems to me it would be quite appropriate to make Mr. WI1- helmina of Holland the president of it, with either Mr. Ella Wheeler Wil- 40X or Mr. Charlotte Perkins Stetson as vice president. They are all estim­ able and accomplished gentlemen, I believe, but in the language of the day they do not seem to "cut much ice" just at present Among the charter members I would include. Mr. Alice Blac^well Stone, Mr. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mr. Mary Elizabeth Lease and Mr. Carrie Nation. No doubt some of your readers will be able to suggest others who should be included in the list, and I think you would confer a lasting boon upon some very deserv­ ing men if you would give a little space to those who are entitled to a place on the roster of the club. IT I think of any others I certainly shall 3end in the names as a mere matter of justice to them. 90 r* NAVAL ARCS, is now in the hands of the naval my rial Committee. Aloilaa Farm Lands. Governor Brady of Alaska and other persons familiar with the genersi feat­ ures and natural reeourees of that northernmost possession of the United Westbrook seminary, a Universalist school at Portland, Me., has received a legacy of $10,000 from the estate of Miss Eunice A. Niles of North Jay. The legacy is divided into two funds of $5,000 each; the income of one Is to be used by the trustees as they think best, and the income of the other is to be used in aiding worthy and needy stu­ dents. The latter fund 1b to be known as the Eunice A. Niles fund. Everything yields to industry. States have frequently asserted it# soil and climate are far more amenable to the processes of & high civilisation than is generally supposed, and have predicted that the time would come when Alaska would be the home of a large and prosperous agricultural pop­ ulation. Official confirmation of these views is furnished In a report just made by a special agent of the United States agricultural department, who has had charge of an agricultural ex­ periment station In Alaska. He that the territory will ultimately be as promising a field for agriculture and stock raising as it is now for The results of experiments wt»n/nn. over two years have established be­ yond a doubt, he says, that such staple products as flax, wheat, oats, rye, and barley can be grown with success and profit in almost every part of Thus one after another of the old ar­ guments against the purchase of "Se­ ward's tolly" are made to give way in the light of the facts. Before ths class of ths twentieth century vU, In all probability, rank among Mm m| HUDSON BAY. For yê tM** has been much talk of b«IU^^|^ihi;^between Mani-• Bay as a new outlet tor ths vhsat af the Canadian North- It SSSMS likely that this project will new be carried out but the new schema* anwnnccri only a few months •fo, of conneetiM the toot of Lake Su­ perior at Sault St*. Marie with the southwestern shores of Hudson Bay is now advancing at the rate, of half a mile a day. This is the Algoma Cen­ tral railroad, building mostly with United States capital, but assisted by the Canadian government, which has made Invaluable concessions to the company. About seventy miles of the *oad are now completed. Some years Mr. R. Bell and other Canadian explbrers first revealed the region to the southeast of Hudson Bay. They declared that it contained a great abundance of spruce and other valu­ able timbers and also much flne, arable land. It was thought that the corres­ ponding region to the southwest of the bay must be equally valuable, but very little was known of it until early last summer when a number of min­ eral and timber experts were sent out on the proposed route to ascertain the possibilities of the country. There was reason to believe that spruce abounded and the main purpose of building the road was to secure large supplies of wood pulp for the paper mills at Sault Ste. Marie. But it was thought that investigation would re­ veal other Important resources and this belief is justified by the reports now coming in. The prospectors say that vast forests of spruce, pine, hard woods and other cedar lie all along the route. There are also great beds of pottery clay, iron ore, copper, gypsum and other minerals besides millions of acres timbered with maple, beach and oak that will make fine, farming lands when once cleared. The Ontario gov­ ernment has made a contract with the company to locate on these lands sev­ eral hundred families a year for the next ten years. An emigration office has been established in England and it is expected to send out the first party in the coming spring. It is said there is spruce enough along the line of the road to supply pulp tor large paper interests for many years. Consul Har­ lan W. Brush has reported from Ni­ agara Falls, Ontario, that it is the in­ tention to establish a "seaside hotel" at the terminus of the railroad on Hud­ son bay. Game is plentiful there, scores of lakes and rivers teeming with fish may be easily reached, and the scenery, the bracing climate and the hunting and fishing are expected to at­ tract thousands of tourists.--New York Sun. . Work in loth Houses ct Sprin*- 1 ••CfttL SOME QUEER NAMES. of the wealth United States. O f t f e f t Hew Mfcitoo Hd Virtus, fn^ MM. SxtTMM KxanptMb To any one who frequently consults the United States official postal guide, which is a dictionary of post offices, the number of peculiar and mirth-pro- voklng names used to designate places where mail is handled is an unending source of astonishment. Many of these names are plainly suggestive of -their origin. "Mud," Texas; "Mule,", Ore­ gon; "Sodom," New Mexico; "Yellow- jacket," Idaho, and "Loyalsock," Penn sylvania, are among them, but the de­ sirability of their selection is a matter of serious doubt, "Panther" is enough to depopulate most any town, but six atytes have used it to designate post of­ fices. Iowa has made a post office of "Wax," Florida of "Sawdust," Ken­ tucky of "Seven Guns," Texas of "Twin Sisters," Tennessee of "Virtue," North Carolina of "Wit," Mississippi of "Ze­ ro," Colorado of "Love," Pennsylvania of "Mountain Sunset," South Carolina of "Oats," Virginia of "Pluck," Mis­ souri of "Pure Air," and Maryland of "Sassafras." Mail ia left at "Option" In Pennsylvania. The only "Pious post office is in Ohio. If "Quality" is what you want, go to Butler county, Kentucky, for it. "Rolling Stone" is in Minnesota. "Rockycomfort" is the contradictory name of a Missouri vil­ lage. If Uncle Sam's employes catch the spirit of the place, mail is handled with more than ordinary promptness at "Rushmore," Florida to Alabama: "Yours is not the supposed to be a hot place. Says Minnesota. "Peppertown," Indiana, is only ^'Pebble!* jifc ' the beach." --. -4,-, . Sanitary loJitudi. ./ An iron bed, with wire springs, is the best of beds from a sanitary stand point It can be easily kept clean and may be washed with hot water as often as necessary. A hair mattress and hair pillows, made over sufficiently of­ ten to keep the hair curly and springy, will afford the most comfortable sup­ port to the body. The bed covering should be linen and wool--sheets and blankets, in other words. A bed cov­ ering much in use in this country is the "comfort"' (?) a most unsanitary item of bed furnishings. Many persons associate weight and warmness in bed coverings, and these "comforts" are oft$n df great thickness and very heavy. It is so difficult to wash them that there is reason to suspect they are often handed down from generation to generation without ever seeing ths laundry.--Ohio Sanitary Bulletin. A Mcaoriat Church Gift. lira. Augustus J. Smith Weeks, of Patchogue, N. Y., recently made a not­ able gift to the Congregational church of that town. She presented it with the property known as the Ocean Ave­ nue Chapel, valued at $10,000. The chapel was built by her sister, Char­ lotte G. Smith Keech, in 1876, in mem­ ory of her father and mother, Micah and Betsey Newey-Smith. She died in 1887 and left it to Mrs. Weeks as a sacred trust, apd the latter has now given it in the same way. It can never be sold or mortgaged, and is to be al­ ways used as a house of prayer, kept insured, and, in case of fire, to be re­ built Mrs. Weeks' great-grandfather was one of the charter members and helped to build the first Congregational church of Patchogue in 1793. Fiaph--I-- DwIihUM mt Antli. In Austin, Texas, a negro street preacher is prophesying the destruc­ tion of the city this year. He says that the great "judgment is on and this year will be the worst we have ever seen and next year will be worse. Build storm houses and g»ak* boaSti" & ft '*•1 OF THE PROCEEDINGS. •Utt Gomld of Chicago PnpwM • KU to FiBhk Wife BMtm *ad Wtfo D»- Mrtera with the U*k- Tooftday, nifllllj 1* The senate passed bills as follows: By Juul of Cook--Preventing the group* In* in tax deeds of descriptions of prop» •rty sold for taxes. By Stubble field of McLean--Provldin* tor the marking of ballots oast at primary elections. By Evans of Kane--Providing that the penalty attending the offense of wife abandonment shall apply to husbands who refuse to maintain their Wives and minor children. By Coleman of Fayette--Repealing the law giving a bounty for the killing of Kngllsh sparrows. In the house Mr. Trautmann offered a resolution £or the creation of an educa­ tional commission, consisting of the Su­ perintendent of Public Instruction, the president of the University of Illinois* and Ave additional members, to be ap­ pointed by the Governor, one of whom Shall be the principal of one of the state normal schools, one a county superin­ tendent of schools, one a member of the ••sate, and one a member of the house. This commission Is to revise the school laws of the state and report the same with amendments to the next general as­ sembly. The members of the commission Will get neither salaries, fees nor com­ pensation. It was referred to the com­ mittee on education. Wodnaadar, Pobroary SO. ANseng the bills introduced In the sen­ ate was one by Senator Fowler defining basing as a felony and providing for its punishment by Imprisonment in the peni­ tentiary. The senate was In a humorous mood and for an hour It engaged In a discus­ sion of Senator Davidson's bill, which oc­ cludes the dehorning of cattle from the limitations placed on the practice of vet­ erinary surgery. The matter was amus ing to every one except the author of the bill, who was surprised and mystified by the sudden and seemingly violent oppo sition to his harmless measure. He could not understand the situation until the debate closed, and those who had oppoesd it voted for It. Every one voted for tKt bill. Among the bills introduced in the house were the following: By Cummlngs, to prohibit non-resident physicians from practicing medicine by proxy In this state. By Gould, to provide penalties for Wife-beaters. The bill provides that "any person who shall brutally assault and beat his wife shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to be whipped, not exceeding forty lashes, or be Imprisoned In the county jail for a term not exceed­ ing one year, or both, in the discretion et the court." Thnnday. February SI. Senator Mahoney of Chicago introduce! a bill in the senate which is designed to put an end to most* of the justice-shop evils in Chicago. The title of the bill sets forth Its purposes, and reads as fol­ lows: "A bill for an act making any act done with willful intention of unduly an< noying, harassing or oppressing any pfir ty or parties to any legal proceeding, a crime, and to prevent agreements with judicial officers as to their fees." The terms of the bill are designed to make criminal any collusions between justices of the peace and constables and the crooked crowd which generally Is found hanging around Jujstlce shops In Cook county. Some of the bills Introduced are as follows: By "Ik n a tor Hunt--To mak« kidnaping a felony, punishable by im­ prisonment in the penitentiary. By Mr. Lichtenberger--A bill making it unlawful for a corporation to engage in the prac­ tice of law. The bill makes it unlawful for any corporation to engage an attor­ ney for services in a suit to which it la not a party, or to furnish directly or in directly any money, advice, counsel <* legal services,"or pay for the services oi witnesses, doctors or experts, or to ex­ amine abstracts of title to real estate^ or to give or furnish opinions of title to real estate except in cases in which the corporation has a direct interest. By Mr. Swigart--Providing for a uniform sys­ tem of school textbooks. The bill pro­ vides that in counties where the act li adopted school textbooks shall be pur. chased by the directors of each school district and paid for out of the school fund, the amount so expended not to ex­ ceed #1.50 per annum for each pupU. Friday, February The University of Illinois was Inspect­ ed thoroughly by the legislators and all now think that a number of new build­ ings are needed. On the arrival of ths legislators at the university grounds they were met by the corps of cadets and ths regiment formed for review and inspec­ tion. After the review of the battalion the lawmakers, headed by President Draper, inspected each building. Aftei all the buildings were inspected the body was collected in the malrt building and s convocation was held, all students and many town people attending. Interesting and encouraging speeches were made by the legislators. The inspection was then finished and the body bf lawmakers, well pleased with the institution, departed at 2:S0 o'clock. , ; NOTKS Of THE SKSSHMT* The house on motion of Mr. Curtis adopted a resolution memorialising Con­ gress to amend the federal constitution so as to make United States senators elected by the direct vote of the peoplsi Representative McCulloch of Peoria Is pushing a bill allowing courts which com­ mit girls to a training school to dlschargs the same at any time that It may appeal proper. President Templeton, of the Illlnola Pan-American Exposition Commission, has appointed the following commit­ tees: Executive, committee, Stanton, Brenton, Smyth, and Templeton; hor- ticulture, Stanton and Davidson; ag­ riculture, Brenton and Grier; manu­ factures, Smyth and Brundage; educa­ tion, Smyth and Evans. The commis­ sions will be assigned to an office In the south end of the state library In the state house until the time comes for them to be on duty in Buffalo, which will be some time in May. Senator Campbell Introduced a bill . vidlng for municipal ownership bf street railways, being the bill drawn by the Street Railway commission of Chicago and a copy of the bill Introduced In ths house by Mr. Mueller. , Senator Payne of Rode Island iatro- duced a bill providing that Insane crim­ inals in the state reformatory may be sent to the hospital for the criminal in­ sane at Chester. Representative Kettering of Ceek intro­ duced a bill requiring life lnsuraaoe com­ panies to Invest In securities with this state 90 per cent of their net reserve on all policies issued to residents of the state. Representative Benjamin Marlon Mltob- eli of Cook haa Introduced a Mil depriv­ ing the canal commissioners of the power to sell any lands owned by the state other than those connected with the water power on the canal and the 80-foot atrip along the canal. Representative Tlppitt of'Rlchlaad ef- fered a resolution, a copy Of the McKen- zle resolution pending in the senate, pro­ viding for a constitutional asseadmsat limiting the representation of Cook coun­ ty In the General Assembly to oae-thlrd of the membership thereof. A proposi­ tion to suspend tbe rules for its consid­ eration was lost by a vote of, yeas, «•, to nays 46, and it was referred to the eess- nittee on Judiciary. • Ml If MM M MM MM »M I! Current Topics aaaaaX T f f f f ? Appealed to Conjre*r. There is a bill before the present ses­ sion of congress directing the com­ missioner of patents to issne a patent to James Selden Cowden of Virginia^ Mr. Cowden asserts that he has com­ plied with ail the requirements in the application for the patent, but al­ though the time in which ths applica­ tion should be acted upon has expired he is unable to secure such papers. This he regards as unjust, inasmucl. as a machine built practically on ths same lines as the one described in the patent application has for some time been in actual operation! and has been purchased by a foreign government for army use. He also says the inabil­ ity to secure an American patent is the only thing in the way of making a very profitable deal in which he will ssrars $600,000 in cash, and another amount in stock for his patent. He says his machine is worth $50,000,000. At the patent office It is explained that a patent was granted to Mr. Cowden some time ago, and this he failed to avail himself of for the lack of funds. WEEK State illaa.lnipeiif• K t»* the Head* Wttian tMfar tTrust. Charles M. Schwab, president of the Carnegie Steel company, who has been selected for the presidency of the great billion dollar steel combination just formed, began his career in the steel business at 17, his age when he enter­ ed the Carnegie works as a stake driver at $8 a week. He is 37 years old, and was born in Pennsylvania. He CHARLES M. 8CHWAB. , received a common school education, and at 15 went to work driving a nail wagon. For a year he was a grocery clerk, and then secured work driving stakes for a new building for the Car­ negie works at Pittsburg. In six years he became chief engineer of the works, a few years later general man­ ager, and in 1896 a partner in ths firm. tVanf the Ti£er Rjtecuted. The ferocious Bengal tiger Rajah, which killed Albert Neilson, an at­ tendant at Bostock's zoo in Indianap­ olis, last week, is still alive, although bearing many wounds of red-hot irons, and has seven bullets in his head and body. There is a demand of the at­ tendants of the zoo and of the people generally that Rajah shall be Killed, and it is understood that shall be his end. The proprietors of the soo and. its animal trainers are specially inter­ ested just at present to see if the fierce animal can survive so many injuries. "The tragedy of the mangling and the death of ybung Neilson still horri­ fies the public," says an Indianapolis telegram, "but the attendants of the too find cause for rejoicing in tho fact that Captain Bonavita did not most a somewhat similar fate from the troop of sixteen lions which he was exercis­ ing. They heard the roar of Rajah tipd smeUed the fresh blood of young s ALBERT NDILSON. Neilson add Bonavita bad just thhe enough to escape their attack. The terrible incident at the too appears to have aroused the savage nature of all the wild beasts, but extra precautions are taken to keep them under con­ trol.' • Deftendarrtjtf Madison. Mr. E. C. Madis|j on, who represent! 1 Newport News, Warwick county, Williamsburg, New Kent, Charles City, James City, and York, in the Vir­ ginia house of dele­ gates, Is a grand- nephew of Presi­ dent James Madi­ son. He served his political apprenticeship with Tammany hall in New York. A Murderous "Rifle. A soldier can, it is claimed, firs 280 shots per minute without removing from his shoulder the new rifle invent­ ed by Lieut. Cei, of the Italian army, & weapon which discounts the liquefied gas Gilford rifle, which fires but 140 shots per minute, and lays completely in the shade such guns as the Martini- Henry and the Lee-MetfOrd rifles, with a capacity of 11 shots, and the Win­ chester, with its 84 bullets per minntSw - Tw- Iteads - «|»I|ii»litl| The secretary of stats hift the Geneva, Batavia way company, whose in Chicago, and the capital ^ock at which is $100,000, to be trucied from Geneva, Kane county, Kane county. The ini first board of directors are made •p'Of L. J. Wolf, Cleveland, Ohio; E. E. rett, Western Springe, 111.; Charles Jones, Wheaton, 111.; W. T. Hapeman J ind A. T. Long, Chicago, III. The Batavia and Eastern Railway •'/ company, whose principal oOeo is Ms# " |j In chicaco and the capital stock at Aj | which Is $10,000, was" also lksawd t» be constructed from Batavia, Kane - ^ county, through the counties of Kaao i and DuPage, to a point on the Aurora, Wheaton and Chicago Railway com- pany between Wheaton and Aurora. The incorporators and first board directors are as follows: L. J. woa, W. T. Hapeman, A. T. Long, IB. Bar- ^ rett, Charles Jones. Tlx Case 1*' KeefSeil. " The Supreme court at Springfield reversed and remanded the case of William EL Hayward against the board of review of Christian county, which had ruled that Hayward was on April' - 1,1900, owner Of credits to the amount , h? of $145,845, which were liable to as- sessmentfor taxation in Christisai ty, and which assessed him ly. Hayward admitted owning crsdlta to the amount named, but daixped ho was a resident of Indianapolis, Ind^ having removed from Pans, Hi., and that therefore he was not subject to assessment by the Christian county board of review. The Supreme held that while Hayward had llshed a residence for bustnSss poses in Pana, 111., it appeared from ¥}*j the facts cited 4>y the board Of re- /-i view that the domicile of Hayward was : .j Indianapolis and was so conceded v / .fj the attorney-general. The court therefore held that the *credits * ^ are sot subject to taxation in Illinois, t"' •} Teaeh ra of Stat* The annual Teachers' . association ,f| convened at Shabbona tor a tfcno days' session. The opening ins given by Professor Bdwin afciiito* of Chicago university, his subject bo- ̂ ing "Chief Justice Marshsdl and ths Constitution." An address was wi by Professor Stout of Sycamore oi»|p "The Teaching of Physiology in ths High School," followed by Professor, Chsurles of Normal. Professor Charlsa y Wotbert of Aurora "English Literature." Other ptomi- vjl nent speakers were Supeirint8&d*n& "n Bright, author of the language series; : '• Professors Gilbert and Keith of Nor­ mal and many other prominent edu- cators. Dr. John W. Cook lectured on "The New Profession." Many" other prominent educators took paft. : & _ Oak ASvteod So .... Hkllnburg, near Pans* has % Oarrto t ,-N Nation club that is bsooming thnab> snlng and which it is believed is about' - to emulate the deeds of its namesake • ̂ ' j and do a little smashing at home. De- 'J spite a cold add blustery day the elpfe marched in a body to Attorney Pep*** ' gj office, and then to the office of Jmfioa Berry, where it adjourned. , TaylfiSfiMo Jr attorneys, who have been have advised the club members to fst '"t their hatchets and begin to smash. Wit " the outcome is expected to devdop Sk ^ sensation. It js charged that two osr * ». three residents of Edinburg have sold * " liquor illegally for a long time. 1 i 8. IHgrtoB Is Psad. Edward 6. Baston died at Peoria aft' the age of 59. Mr. Easton had bint a resident Of Peoria for more than tor years. He was at the head of the W- ward S. Easton company, one of the founders of the Peoria board at trade and for several years a director of tho ; ; whisky trust. He was foiinder ̂ f ths Edna Easton home for youhg Gov. Tanner appointed hislt a, irifttphsy, of the board of commissioners focv the new asylum for the incurable in­ sane at Bartonville. While acting on this commission Mr. Easton's health; broke and his mind weakened. He is survived by a widow and two ions. Waat to Kiaot ,4B effort will <be made by ths of Illinois to secure legislation provid­ ing for the election of the state mine in­ spectors instead of their appointment by the governor. A resolution direct­ ing the legislative committee to work to this end was unanimously adopted by the convention at Springfield. Most of the time of the con was occupied in a discussion of to force the operators of the mine at Carterville to recogniss thn ">.? uniasL " •MlWIl i t J Mrs. Ella Ruddell, of Mattoon, wife - of Dstniel Ruddell, a Big Pour flrs» man, Who was killed at Terre Hants recently, has compromised with ths " railway and secured $3,500 d : ffwsldep* S««toa Calls-- . " A meeting of the Illinols-̂ owa-Indl- ana Baeebsdl league directoro bss been called by President M.*H. Sexton st< Dsnrenport, Iowa, March 1, when first li plans for the opening at tho Vtii be formulated. fwHst HeUI far HaifSi William C. Wood, the Jolist tiary convict who was Adam Geyer, a fellow convict, is as a result of the wounds inflicted. 1fca; Inquest was held and Geysr tor anrdsr. •Mi • ' & * ' * :i v f »*- -.v'V ** ji v^.»: Thomas J. Evans, Jr., a bookbinder living at 6020 Monroe avenue, Chicago,; ooaunttted suicide by shootJogr hlmsalf in a voofi in McCoy's hotsl, Clark and Tan Bnrsn streets. lei * hi I i* V 4 - O, ̂~3?'" * t V**