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THE NEW TARIFF BILL llT IS HIGHLY COMMENDED BY FARMERS. President McKinley Makes a Good ' Record in Dealing with the Cuban Question--Progress of the Work in Behalf of International Bimetallism. Week of Interest. Special Washington correspondence: , . This lias been a week of unusual in­ terest in Washington-, not only at the White House, where the applicants for •office are numerous and active, but also at the Capitol. The tariff bill has been under discussion and no farmer could have listened to the discussion " without being able-to clearly determine who were his friends and who were not his friends. The; strong, vigorous argu­ ments of the Republican members of s;«the Ways and Means Committee in be­ half of those features of the bill which are especially beneficial to the farmers on the one hand, and the covert sneers of the Democratic and Populist Orators relative to the very features of the bill on the other, show that the farmers of the country made no mistake when in last November they voted the Republi­ can party in power and the protective system in Operation. The Republican members of the committee have, shown that the bill was framed with the in- , terests of the farmers constantly in - mind, while the attacks upon that .measure by the Democrats have been specially leveled at those features which were beneficial to .the farmers. Chairman Dingley in his opening ad­ dress called especial attention to these features, and Gen. Wheeler, of Confed­ erate fame, who led off the debate fdr the free trade wing of the Democracy, attacked fiercely those features of the •bill which are intended to be especially valuable to the agricultural communiJ ty. Congressman Hopkins, of Illinois, devoted a large share of his speech to an explanation of the reciprocity fea­ tures, showing that under the reciproc­ ity treaties made in pursuance of the McKinley law, great advantages>slwere gained in foreign markets for our agri­ cultural products and that even great­ er opportunities are offered by the new bill; while Populist Bell, of Colorado, who followed him in opposition to the bill, especially attacked the wool sched­ ule and denounced the effort to give the home market to the American work­ men, and thus to the American pro­ ducers. Mr. Bell's speech was freight­ ed with sneers at the wool tariff, the sugar tariff, the tariff on flax and hemp, and indeed everything in the bill which is Republican in doctrine, and which is intended to benefit the farmer, and these attacks were coupled with admissions on his part that even his own State had good beet growing soil, great opportunities for wool pro­ duction and other agricultural possibil­ ities of extreme value. Populists and Democrats seemed to vie with each other in their denunciation of the tariff measure, and all because it is the pro­ duction of the Republican party. The Cuban Situation. An interesting development of the week has been the additional evidence of the fact that the attitude of the new administration with reference to the protection of American citizens abroad is being promptly recognized by the Spanish Government. The contrast be­ tween the present conditions in Cuba with reference to American citizens and those which prevailed under the Cleveland administration is strongly marked and is the subject of much comment on all hands. As everybody knows during the late administration scores of American citizens were im­ prisoned in CuM, and whatever pre­ tence at a demand for their release was made was of such a feeble character as to fail in results. The ringing utter­ ances of Senator Sherman, now Sec­ retary of State, in the closing days of his service in the Senate, in which he said that American citizens abroad must and should be protected at all hazards, cdupled with the clear declar­ ation of President McKinley on this subject, in his inaugural address, have had a marked and prompt effect in the attitude of the Spanish Government and in the few weeks since the new ad­ ministration came in, the prison doors in Cuba have been thrown open and large numbers of American citizens who were imprisoned there on the slightest pretexts, have been given their freedom. All this has happened without any bluster or protest on the » pftrt of the new administration, but simply a clear, vigorous statement of policy which the Spanish Government has been wise enough to recognize and act upon without waiting for further developments. International Bimetallism. While there has be&i no official an­ nouncement as to the immediate policy of the administration regarding inter­ national bimetallism the developments have been such as to warrant the con­ clusion that the negotiations for an £1- ternational conference are to be under­ taken through authorized representa­ tives of this Government at a very early date. Whether this will be by the appointment of special representa­ tives selected for this specific purpose or through the ministers to the foreign Governments is not yet clear, but it is known that negotiations are being set on foot already and that the adminis­ tration hopes to be able to bring about a conference in the coming autumn which will be participated in by the great nations of the world. Meantime the friends of free coinage in the Uni­ ted States without the co-operation of other nat|ons are losing ground arid, many of them recognize the fact that international actioli is the, only prac­ ticable method of restoring the use of silver. The old theory that silver and . farm products have kept pace in values and that silver money was therefore the true measure o.f value has lost its hold by reason of the fact that wheat continues high, while silver has con­ tinued«to depreciate, reaching almost the lowest'point in its history. ^Tariff Legislation JJelnjj Pushed. The Republicaps in the House are showing their desire for prompt action ontiv: tariff, by the hours which they are putting in upon the Dingley bill. The House, which is accustomed to meet at 12 o'clock noon, and adjorun at 5 p. in., now begins its sessions at 10 a. m. and closes the day's work at 11 p. m„ de­ voting all of its time to. t^jfone subject ,©f the discussion of the^feingley bill. It U expected that the discussion will WHAT THE FARMER WANTS. THE MOST AMPLE PROTECTION FOR WOOL. '! REPUBLICAN PLATFORM 1896. 7 ILLINOIS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. THE Supreme Court Upsets the Law Pro­ viding for Indefinite Sentences of Convicted Persons--Death of Brother Brines a Peoria Miui $2,000,000. be completed and the bill pass<?d by the end of the month. Meantime, the Re­ publicans of the Senate Finance Com­ mittee, recognizing the fact that the bill will reach them in about its present form, have begun their examination of it, paragraph by paragraph. Their work will occupy necessarily consid­ erable time, as was the case with the Ways and Means Committee, which it will be remembered, has been months at work on the bill, but it is hoped that the bill, which will pass the House "about March 30, will get before the Senate by the end of April and become a law by the end of the fiscal year, June 30. A. B. CARSON. Smashing' the Trusts. One of the notable utterances of Pres­ ident McKinley's inaugural was the promise that the anti-trust laws will be enforced, and that new statutes will be recommended to strengthen them, thus rendering them more effective. When this paragraph of the inaugural reached Wall street the to was a tum­ ble in all the trust stocks. Sugar trust stock lost 2% per cent. Leather 2, Chi­ cago Gas 1%, Consolidated Gas IVi, General Electric 1, and Tobacco Hs- Large blocks of thees stocks were thrown on the market and the decline sympathetically affected the entire list of stocks. The new Attorney General, McKen- na, is a California man, and he, in com­ mon with all other residents of the Pa­ cific coast, understands thoroughly the evils that are. inherent in- any monop­ oly. The Pacific railroad monopoly has cursed that section for a generation, and without doubt Mr. McKenna coipes to his new position with a deter­ mination to do his best to execulAtlie laws dealing with all monopolies. J do strong utterances of the President's in­ augural shows that in all that he may do he will have the earnest support of the executive head of the Govern­ ment.--Toledo Blade. Business Improvement. The trade journals report very large sales of steel rails, in part at the very low rate of $15 per ton, but latterly at the better, though still cheap, price of $20 and $21 per ton. In all not far short of a million tons are ordered from the Illinois Steel Company and the Carnegie Company, the division be­ ing pretty near equal. Smaller firms also have taken up contracts at like rates. This insures several mouths of steady employment to a large number of men. The demand for woolen goods has improved and there is a slight bet­ terment in the cotton manufacturing industry. The boot and shoe factories are busier than they have been for a long time .and the.T>p^ospects seffcfcfa- vorable to a continuance of heaifhj$ac- tivity. The prices of wheat, cotton, and iron are a shade higher than, a week ago, and this, in conjunction with a money market that is .well'adapted to the encouragement of Industrial en­ terprises, should lead to an Increase in the purchasing power of the people.-- Chicago Inter Ocean.. * /v. fr*"* Professor Wilson's Inaccuracies. When Professor William L. Wilson declares that the tariff of 1890 "swept us headlong from a large surplus to a deficieney"he utters a statement which he, above all others, should know is a bald perversion of fact. There was no deficit in 1801. There was 110 deficit in 1S92. There was no deficit in 1893. A deficit did not make its appearance until 1894, when the approaching en­ actment of the Wilson-Gorman bill threw its blighting shadow over the in­ dustries of the nation. Government re­ ceipts under the McKinley law were $00,000,000 greater in 1891, $28,000,000 greater in 1S92 and $59,000,000 greater in 1S93 than they were in 1890 under the Wilson-Gorman act, and during those three years raw sugar was on the free list at that. If the West Vir­ ginia politician has any. regard for his | reputation for candor he will be care- " ful how he indulges in such reckless assertions.--Commercial Advertiser. Major McKinley was elected President of the United States in consequence of this pledge. - . American in the White House. The country can again hold up its head. We have once more an Ameri­ can in the White House--A man who believes in America and in Americans, who is the friend of the American peo­ ple and not the pliant tool of their shrewd foreign rivals; a statesman who puts American interests and American prosperity first and who will give protection to American labor, to American industries and to the Ameri. can home. Save This $100,000,000. "The Republican party favors such protection as will lead to the produc­ tion on American soil of all sugar which the American people use, aud for which they pay to other countries more than $100,000,000 annually.--Prom the Re­ publican platform of 1S90. ' And the Republican representatives in Congress will endeavor to enact such legislation as will result in "the produc­ tion on American soil of all sugar which the American people use," so that an­ other, and a paying crop, may be grown upon our farms, and that $100,000,000 annually may be distributed among our own people instead of among foreign­ ers,. '? „ • » Bedeem This Promise. - "To all of our products, to those of the mine and the field, as, well as those of the shop and the factory, to wool, the products of the great industry of sheep husbandry, as well as to the' fin­ ished woolens of the mill, we promise the most ample protection "--Prom the Republican platform of 1896. Now, Republican repres entatives in Congress, redeem this promise made to the. American people last year, because > Thankful that It's Over. They said we'd be in clover, With four years more of Grover; They fooled lis then but now we sigh It was another Free-Trade lie. The four years more of Grover, We thank the Lord they're over; They've brought us naught but idleness, Disaster, failures and distress. We've had enough of Grover, And now lie is a rover; We're glad, and thankful, as can be, At last we'll have prosperity. The Qnest'on of Rates. President McKinley's platform said, "The question of rates is a practical question, to be governed by the condi­ tions of time and of production." This ought to be a sufficient answer to the free-traders who are now so exercised to learn the rates of the new tariff law, whether they are to be "high" or "low." But,nothing ever is a sufficient answer to the free-traders, nothing ever can end their empty clamor, not even such a landslide as struck them last Novem­ ber. What We Have Lost. Two hundred and eighty million dol­ lars has been lost to American farm­ ers. during the years 1895 and 1S96. through importations of hides, wool and sugar, all of wlycli might have been produced in the United States un­ der a policy of protection. The exact imports were: Wool. $50,191,573; hides, $57.14(5.517; sugar, $1(55,982,236. Total, $279,320,320. The Meaninsr of McKinley. "Equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination and individual favorit­ ism," is what President McKinley's platform said about the policy of pro­ tection, and that is what" McKinley's inauguration meant to the country. Protection for SMppins. By long odds the tariff is the measure that should afford protection to Ameri­ can ships, or yield ne^ed revenue to the' Government, or ^re. both protec­ tion and revenue, just as 'a protective tariff does when applied to other Amer­ ican industries. • V Help It Alone. Republican administration has al­ ways meant American prosperity. De­ mocracy has always meant foreign prosperity. Let us all help the Mc­ Kinley administration to restore Amer­ ican prosperity. Tor a Tariff on Hides. Hides need protection. There is no reason why this important farm prod­ uct should be longer subject to the Democratic free trade doctrine. Protection and Prosperity. Free Trade Times. Indeterminate Act Void. The Supreme Court of the State render­ ed a decision which attorneys assert prac­ tically holds the indeterminate sentence law to be unconstitutional. The decision was handed down in the habeas corpus ease of David A. McDonall and John H. Clements against the people, an appeal from Clark County. The men were con­ victed of manslaughter last October and sent to the penitentiary under the new law, the duration of their sentence not being fixed. A new trial having been de­ nied, they applied for a writ of habeas corpus, asserting that, the law is uncon­ stitutional. This was also denied. They appealed to the Supreme Court, which or­ dered the court;below to issue the writ. This, in the opinion.of attorneys, amounts to a • declaration, that the law is invalid, and indicates'that the court, when the ease again comes before it, as it will when the court below hag passed upon it, will release the men andfijeeiare the measure unconstitutional. The courf'<s aetion„wiii be eagerly watched by the State's attor­ neys and police of the State, who are al­ most unanimously against the new law. In the opinion of Chief of Police Badeuoch of Chicago the indeterniinate sentence and parole systems are among the greatest ob­ stacles to the prevention of crime. Stereotyper Pnfffnbarger in Luck. John C. Poffenbarger, a Peoria stereo­ typer, has fallen heir to $2,000,000. There are only two families of the Poffenbargers in existence and John C. Poffenbarger of Peoria is a member of one of them. The other branch of the family wandered down to South America half a century ago and nothing was heard of him until re­ cently, when the information came that he was dead and had left a fortune esti­ mated at $10.000,(XK). As he died intes­ tate his vast fortune will go to the Peoria branch of the family and about $2,000,- 000 of it will go to'John C. Poffenbarger of Peoria. The estate comprises coffee plantations and banana farms in Brazil, cattle ranges in the Argentine Republic, water frontages along the Amazon river, an excellent summer resort near the peak of Cliimborazo in the Andes range of mountains, gold mines in Venezuela and city property in Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, Bahai, Pernambuco and Caracas. State News in Brief. Jacob Leibenstein, 72 years old, a re­ tired Chicago lumber dealer, died sudden­ ly while making a call at the home of a friend, of apoplexy. Benjamin Luchmau, No. 300 Bowen avenue, Chicago, was asphyxiated, the result of hanging his trousers 011 the gas jet. He had ofte^ been' warned that he might accidentally turn on the gas if he continued this practice when retiring. A falling embankment in the basement of the old Chicago postoffice building crushed to death C. O. Erickson, a der­ rick hand, who was working near by. The embankment had been left unprotected by the removal of the foundation and Erickson had been warned to keep away from it. Peoria may enter the race for the lo­ cation of the consolidated supreme court. Senator Pitzpatrick of Chicago suggested it to Mayor Allen, who may call a meet­ ing of the citizens. Springfield and Ot­ tawa are after the location and the Sen­ ate committee thought Peoria could be se­ lected as a compromise. A cloak caused the1-death of Elizabeth Paulson, 16 years old, at Chicago. The fright occasioned by the garment, which to the girl lying sick and nervous in a dimly lighted room took on from its plat\e against the wall of the room the guise 01 a man, drove her into hysterics. Sh^ "was already suffering from heart disease* and the added violence of the hysterics proved too severe a strain upon her vi­ tality. The new State Board of Public Chari­ ties appointed Rev. Dr. F. H. Wines of Springfield as secretary of the board..The newboard of trustees of the central hos­ pital for the insane at Jacksonville ap­ pointed Dr. Frederick C Winslow of Jacksonville as superintendent, vice Dr. Walter Watson. The secretary of the State Board of Labor sent notices throughout the State stating that the Board of Mine Examiners will meet at Springfield April 13 for the purpose of examining applicants for appointment as mine managers, fire bosses and hoisting engineers. A general reduction in operating ex­ penses he been inaugurated by the Chi­ cago anc Alton, commencing with the shops am. offices at Bloomington. Satur­ day three train dispatchers were, relieved. The remaining dispatchers will be given longer hours or longer mileage of train service. Several stenographers and clerks have also been dispensed with. A gen­ eral cut of $5 per month has been made in the salaries of the operators and a num­ ber of night telegraph offices closed. It is understood that the force in the road and bridge department will be reduced. Orders rigorously to cut expenses have been issued. Grewsome evidence of an untimely and violent death was revealed by the finding of the headless trunk of a man in a catch basin of the Cook County poor farm. Peter Hengle, assistant foreman of the grounds, while removing the lid of a large eatch basin, discovered the body floating in the water. The basin is located midway be­ tween the insane building and the poor- house of the Dunning institution. An inquest was held by the coroner, and a verdict- was returned that the unknown man met his fate Jby. drowning. The find­ ing of the body only adds another to the' long list of trq^dies that have marked affairs at Di«nfin£. Towns along the Mississippi have suf­ fered greatly byr flood. Metropolis was especially unfortunate and' from 'all in­ terior sections of. the State come reports of roads impassable because of mud. In some places there was a famine in the ordinary farm products. The Welden family, owners of the big tract of land south of Rockford, occupied by Schweinfurth's famous "heaven," have just given a trust deed for $12,000 on the property to Henry J. Bosworth of Elgin, running ten years. Times have been hard in the "heaven" for two years, the recruits, with money being very*«carce. With all possible speed for men who a.re either bowed down with the weight of many years or maimed by the loss of limbs or sight over a score of the inmates of the poorhouse at Dunning made a gallant and successful effort to extinguish a fire near the entrance Of ward No. 1 of the. men's quarters the other afternoon. ' J. D. Crane, a capitalist of Rock Island', was held up and robbed of a watch and $25 at Chicago. He saw. two men strug­ gling, one of them apparently trying to rob the other. Crane ran to the assist­ ance Of the supposed victim, but the men quipkly separated and attacked him, beat­ ing him over the head with a club until ka could not resist. At Vandalia, a slight earthquake shock was felt Monday night. At Oak Park,' Benard & Moreney's planing mill burned down, with a loss of $18,000. V George Schustrum, a cigarmaker at Sycamore, committed suicide by swallow­ ing two ounces of laudanum. Joseph Jennings', aged 80 years, died at Ellsworth. He waS'a pioneer settler, hav­ ing resided in Illinois thirty-nine years. Too many cigarettes unbalanced the mind of William Leland, a young real estate dealer living at the Vincennes Hotel, Chicago, and caused him to attempt suicide. „ - Earnings of the Milwaukee and St. Paul for the third week of March aggregated $50S,53S, as against $625,811 for the cor­ responding period of 1896, a decrease of $117,273. John Menekel, a Cass .County citizen for forty years, died suddenly at Virginia, aged 61.. He served during the civil war in Company E, Sixty-first Illinois Infan­ try, and was in Andersonville prison. The engine and four cars of the north­ bound local on the Chicago and Texas Railway went down with the bridge across the Big Muddy river at Aldridge Station, south of Grand Tower. Engineer Joe Forester and Fireman James Anderson drowned. At Elgin, the New York Condensed Milk Company contracted for a decreased sup­ ply of milk for its. several factories in the Fox river valley, at an average of 80 cents per 100 pounds, or 6 8-10 cents per gallon. A.year ago -it paid 90 cents per 100 pounds. :v ' , The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission appointed William M. Mal- loy of Chicago assistant secretary of the commission, vice Dave R. Levy, resigned. It also appointed Secretary Ray of the commission auditor of the grain depart­ ment at Chicago. Police Operator Harry Greenhoff of the East Chicago avenue Station narrow­ ly escaped death while making heroic res­ cue of a child from beneath the wheels of a St. Paul engine. So near did he come to being crushed that his overcoat was caught by the cars and torn from his body TOWN IS WIPED OUT. CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, DE­ STROYED BY A CYCLONE. - Forty People Reported Killed and Over One Hurfdred Hurt -- Nearly Every Building Demolished --Fire Starts in the Ruins. Three United States prisoners sawed out of jail at Joliet during the night and escaped. Their names are Jacob John­ son, John Albert Skoog and James Foley. Johnson is one of the most dangerous counterfeiters in America. The sheriff never allows anyone to see the Federal prisoners without an order from the Unit­ ed States marshal. Some time ago a crook called with an order to see these counterfeiters, and it is presumed he brought saws and muriatic acid with which the prisoners effected their escape. The prisoners doubtless had outside con­ federates. For the first time in four years, the offi­ cers and guards at the Joliet penitentiary were paid in full for their services Mon­ day. During the Altgeld administration everj* officer endured a levy of 25 per cent 011 his pay, which has caused many offi­ cers to resign rather than submit to con­ tributing to a campaign fund. John D. Leland of Joliet was appointed purchas­ ing agent of the Joliet penitentiary. Mr. Leland hold this office until the Altgeld regime. Since he retired, four years ago, the duties have quadrupled. He has now to purchase for State shop supplies, where before contractors had the shops. Carlin Wheeler, a. graduate of West Point, 35 years old, sou of John Wheeler, a wealthy citizen of Lima, O., was found dead in his room at a Chicago lodging house. It is thought death resulted from heart disease. Wheeler had confided to his friends that he had become partly es­ tranged from his family seven years ago, on account of his ungovernable appetite for strong drink, yet his father constantly made him a weekly allowance of $10 on which he principally lived. It was re­ ported from Lima that he had married a Chicago woman of means several years ago and had spent her property. The first tests of the new sheep shearing machines, which the Northwestern Rail­ road has introduced at its sheep yards at La Fox, 111., were made Wednesday af­ ternoon. The tests were satisfactory, and those who have the process under their control consider that a complete revolu­ tion in the methods of sheep shearing in the United States will be brought about thereby within a very few years. The plant which the Northwestern company has ready for operation consists of only ten machines, but a very large number will be put in so as to be ready as soon as the shearing season actively opens. The machine used is the "Wolseley," invented in part by a nephew of Lord Wolseley and brought before the public by that noble­ man himself. It has become the standard means of shearing in Australia, Tasma­ nia, South America, and in all other large sheep raising countries. It is expected that 1,000,000 sheep will be sheared by the machines this season in the North­ western States. Leonard Johnson, 16 years old, tucked a note under the door of flat 9 at 4522 Cot­ tage Grove avenue, Chicago, Wednesday afternoon. In the next moment he pulled a bottle of carbolic acid from his pocket and drank and spilled the contents. He fell unconscious. The note was addressed to Laura Jarvis, 16 years old, who at the time was an occupant of the flat. When the youth dropped from the effects of the poison the sound alarmed the persons in­ side the flat. Laura Jarvis opened the door. She saw at a glance the corroded lips of the prostrate young man, who, it is said, had been her youthful lover for four years, but only screamed with fright. Not a tear showed itself in her eyes--a condition which is explained by the an­ nouncement that she had found a new lover. The same announcement explains Johnson's attempt at suicide. When John son opened his eyes, after physicians had given antidotes, Laura Jarvis was look­ ing at him. She neither smiled nor wept. An hour later^Johnson left the house vow­ ing, it is said, that the next dose would be fatal. At midnight he had not appear­ ed at his home and his parents feared that he had taken a second quantity of poison. At Joliet, Frank Atwell and Frank Sul­ livan were fatally burned by an exploding furnace at the Illinois Steel Company's mill. As a result of the newspaper account of the attempted murder of Mary Weisenahl by Charles Young in Rockford a short time ago. the former's father, Jacob Wel­ senahl, has discovered the whereabouts of a brother, lost for twenty years. Ad olph Weisenahl of Cincinnati read the account of the affair and wrote to ascertain wheth­ er Jacob Weisenahl was his relative, re­ sulting in a reunion after l<$ng years of separation. B. L. Garber, 45 years old, a traveling salesman whose home is in Belleville, O., was found in an all(?y near Van Buren otreet and Fifth avenue; "Chicago, Wed­ nesday night in an unconscious condition. There was a bullet wound iii the back of his head. Garber was conveyed to the county hospital and the authorities there have doubts as to his recovery. Patrol­ man Walter Perry found the man and his identity was learned from papers in his pockets. He was lying face downward in a pool of blood, and near by was a re­ volver with all the chambers leaded. His pockets were turned wrong side out and he had neither watch nor money. It is supposed he waa ^attacked by robbers. Wrecked by Wind.. At 6 o'clock Tuesday evening' a ter/ific cyclone, followed by hail and flood, swept through the town of Chandler, O. T., completely devastating the town. Three- fourths of the residences and business houses of the town were wrecked and it is said forty lives were lost and nearly 150 people injured. Darkness at once came on and the work of rescue was car­ ried on under greatest difficulty. The telephone office was carried away, and at 10 o'clock a telephone was connected with the" wire two miles out and a message sent to Guthrie for assistance. 5 " The cyclone struck the courthouse while court was in session, twisted the build­ ing aroui|d_and hurled it into a street a complete wreck. Fifteen or twenty peo­ ple in the" building were badly hurt "and several are missing. Ex-Mayor McEl- her.ny, of Guthrie, and one member of his family were killed and the others injured. But two buildiiigs are left standing, the Mitchell Hotel and Rock Island More. Up to midnight the list of injured had grown largely, but ao more known dead had been reported. The wrecked build­ ings took fire and burned fiercely and many of the injured met death by fire while pinned fast under debris. In one building five injured people were burned to death and at another place the incin­ erated bodies of three unknown children were taken out. All physicians were kill­ ed or injured but one. Chandler is a town of 1,500 people, built on a hill in thick timber, and the mass of torn trees and wrecked houses made it impossible to reach near all of the people in the dark. On every side could be heard groans and cries for help, and the scene was indescribable. A large .num­ ber of physicians and other citizens went from Guthrie with surgical, instruments, drugs and other supplies. Twenty-five dead bodies were taken from the ruins up to midnight. Reports indicate that the cyclone which destroyed the town of Chandler also, passed across the State of Kansas, though in lass destructive force. Florence, Kan., reports a severe windstorm between 5 and 6 o'clock that unroofed a portion of the Santa Fe roundhouse, blew down sev­ eral wooden buildings and blew box cars from the tracks. At Haven box cars were blown from the railroad tracks. Bar­ ton reports a very heavy wind, which wrecked several small buildings and blew cars from the tracks. -, Telegraph ser­ vice throughout the State was badly crip­ pled. M'KINLEY'S BABY M'KEE. Grandniece of the President to Oc­ cupy the Position. » The Baby McKee of the McKinley ad­ ministration will be Majorie McKinley Morse, the grandniece of the President. This charming miss is a special favorite of Mrs. McKinley, and in order to be persona grata at the executive mansion it will be necessary for every one to conciliate the little lady. It is said, however, that Miss Morse is easily won over, and is a stanch friend of any one who gives her that def­ erence and attention she demands from all her subjects. But woe to the fortunes of those Who neglect her. As the pet of the administration she will be a power at the. White House, and office seekers who are wise will first conciliate her and then present their cases to the President. Little Miss Morse is not the only Intimate child friend of Mrs. McKinley. That lady is very fond of the little ones, and surrounds herself often with trotsy, babbling guests who own and control the McKinley house­ hold while under its roof. This will no less be true of the White House, and the children in Washington, may . look forward MARJORIK M'KIJiX.ET MORSE. to gorgeous times during the next four years. Among her special favorites who will visit „her in the executive mansion Mrs. McKinley has Miles Bingham of Columbus, Ohio, grandson of Judge Bing­ ham of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Then there are John A. Logan, III., and his sister, 'Mary Louise. Two more of Mrs. McKinley's pets are Brent Harrison Farber of Baltimore and Kath- erine Endsley of Johnstown, Pa. As child mistress of the White House Miss Morse will certainly entertain on a stu­ pendous scale, if Mrs. McKinley has any­ thing to say about it, and she undoubtedly will. News of Minor Note. Premier Laurier of Canada has ac­ knowledged the letter of congratulation sent him by the Frenchmen of Chicago. The directors of the Delaware. Lacka­ wanna and Western Railway have declar­ ed the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent. Nail works at Cleveland were closed to permit the men to attend a funeral. After the funeral the men held a meeting and decided to go on a strike. The crew of the scurvy-stricken ship T. F. Oakes has been notified that it will be paid off at the office of the United States shipping commissioner in New York City. Eleven of the men are recovering slowly in the marine hospital on Stat en Island. Hop and Wall, Chinamen, were found murdered in their laundry at Clayton. N. M. The murders were committed with a club, an ax and a knife. Robbery,,was the motive. Several arrests have Been made. The sheriff says he has evidence that a conspiracy had been formed for the niurder and robbery of a number of wealthy people. The Clement Toy.Company in Cincin­ nati assigned to Edward Ritchie. Assets, $35,000; liabilities, $43,000. L. E. Booker, ex-State Treasurer and president of the Grand Forks (,N. D.) Na­ tional Bank, and H. F. Salyards, presi­ dent of the First National Bank of Minot, have been indicted by the Federal grand jury for illegal banking methods; Both men have been arrested. The sinking fund commission of New York City has granted a tract of land in the southern part of Bronx park as a site for a new zoological garden. The grant calls for 261 acres and there the New York Zoological Society proposes to' found the biggest and best "zoo" in the world. 1 ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS The anti-department store bjll failed to make any progress in the House Friday. An adverse report was presented upon the bill requiring railroads to accept bi­ cycles as baggiige for free transportation. A motion to non-concur was carried, and the bill placed on first reading. Senator Baxter galled the Senate to order with scarcely a quorum present. ' Several re­ ports from standing committees 'were of­ fered. among which were the revenue bills prepared by the Chicago Real Estate Board. Senator Dunlap made an effort to have the bills advanced tb second read­ ing, but Senator Crawford objected, and Senator Dunlap withdrew his .motion. The bill providing for the consolidation of townships in Cook, County under one township organization was advanced to third reading. The Senate then adjourn­ ed to^Monday at 5 pTWsi=^=^ The House convened at 5 o'clock Mon­ day afternoon. Mr. Nohe introduced a bill to prevent fire insurance companies organized in States and .countries foreign to the iState of Illinois from reinsuring or disposing of by treaty or otherwisa any liability for insurance bn property lo­ cated in the State of Illinois. Thirty House bills on the order of first reading .were read a . first time and advanced .to second reading. This left seventeen bills . still on the order,of first reading, the bi­ cycle baggage bill being at the bottom of the calendar on that order. The Senate met at 5 p. id. without a quorum present. No business was transacted and imme­ diately after the reading of the journal an adjournment was taken. The Stale loan bill, which authorizes thef Governor, Treasurer and Auditor of Public Accounts to borrow $250,000 to meet casual deficiencies or failures in State revenues was passed by the House Tuesday without the emergency clause after a long debate by a vote of 81 yeas to 47 nays. The Senate bill increasing the pay of the judges and clerks of elec­ tion in Cook County to $5 pe»> day was passed, as was also the Senate bill ap­ propriating $31,000 for the furnishing of the Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial Hall in the public library building at Chicago. In the Senate flip bill-providing-that the widows and orphans of aliens shall have the rights in the homestead and legaliz­ ing titles and conveyances made since 1887, was advanced to third reading. Senator Sawyer presented a petition against the passage of the bill providing, for free text-books. A bill was introduced! providing that all present city employes in Chicago who have not passed a civil' service examination shall have the same standing as though they had passed such examination. Mr. Buckner's bill appro­ priating $20,000 for the participation of- the State in the Tennessee Centennial and Industrial' Exposition at Nashville, which opens next May, was passed. By a vote of 32 to 12 the Senate Wednesday amended the Supreme Court consolidation bill,, which was recently passed, bjf striking but the word Ottawa and substituting Springfield. Considera­ tion of the Humphrey railroad bills was postponed one week. A bill affecting sal­ aries of State officials was introduced^ The Governor transmitted to the Senate a message appointing Francis Gilbert of Chicago a member of the Board of Man­ agers of the State Reformatory at Pon- tiac, to succeed Thomas C. MacMillan, resigned. In the House the resolution providing for an investigation of the causes of the treasury deficit and of the management of the State institutions un­ der the late administration was again postponed for one week. Mr. Sullivan moved to suspend the rules to introduce a resolution, the nature of which he did not explain. There was a clamor on the Democratic side for the yeas and nays, but the motion was put to a vive voce vote and lost. The resolution which Mr. Sullivan desired to introduce proved to be one assailing the Chicago gas trust and appropriating $5,000 to aid the at­ torney general in the prosecution of the same. , "'• ... ' : The House bill consolidating the Su­ preme Court at Springfield passed the Senate Thursday without a dissenting vote, and was also passed by the House with but twenty-one nays against it. The Torreus land title bill passed the Senate by a vote of 34 yeas to 1 nay. In the House the anti-department store bill was read and referred to the Committee on Municipal Corporations. The Senate bill appropriating $50,000 to pay the em­ ployes of the present General Assembly was passed with the emergency clause. The Senate bill appropriating $7,500 to pay the incidental expenses of the pres­ ent General Assembly and to provide for the care and custody of the State house and grounds was passed. Stepped It Off. ; It is a commonly accepted theory that a man steps three feet and many a tract of land has been "stepped off" instead of measured with a chain. In the West they obviate the difficulties of surveys by the land being divided. In­ to sections, but in Pennsylvania much of the property, especially in the moun­ tains, must still be described by metes and bounds. In one of the counties In Western Pennsylvania are two brothers, one of whom is tall and lank, the other short and fat. Many years ago they pur­ chased a tract of mountain land calling for a mile square. They divided the labor of measuring it, one stepping off one side, the other the other side. Theh they fenced it in and were perfectly satisfied until recently when suit was brought to recover a considerable tract of the land. Each brother swore that they knew the measurement to he right, and told how it had been done. Then, as the spectators saw the short legs of the one, scarcely long enough to reach the floor when he sat in a chair, and the elongated extremities of the other, there was a general laugh, in which the Judge and attorney joined. Upon surveying, it was found that one line was a mile and a half long, and the other only a little over hal®3i milel A Soft Answer. r, - *-j At a little up-town card party a night or two ago whist was the game. Allt the players were experts except one lady. She played in a decidedly erratic- way, and, finally, with diamonds trumps, she trumped clubs the first time round. A little later on she her­ self led a small club. "Why, hold on,r said the other lady; "you just now jtrumped my ace of clubs!" , J "Yes," said the club trumper, "I re­ member--wasn't f lucky?" What <?an you say to a player like that?--Cleveland Plaindealer. In the Polar Regions. Seal oil, when necessary to l>e stored,1 ~ - Ls buried in the ground in bags of skin. Meat is heaped upon the platforms built among the trees, which are peeled of bark, in order to keep hears from ' climbing up them. LKtle sticks with ' sharp points upward are buried In the Ice to distract the attention of the bears from the provisions overhead. Another kind Of storehouse is in the shape of a strong pen. the main sup- - 74 ports of which are standing trees, with bush and logs piled on the top to keep out wild animals. - ' ®