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WORK OF THE SESSIO& ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. ME ADMINISTRATION IS USED OF BEING SLOW. BILLS PASSED BY FORTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY. SOBER OR STARTLING. FAITH- FULLY RECORDED. In the History of No Previous Ad­ ministration Has tha* Work Been More Rapid--Pressure for Action Is Great--The Cuban Question. Laws Knactcd and Signed ta Date of Adjournment--^orrcns Land Title I*aw Changed--Candidates Have Sin* •t Bits Showing Upon Official Ballots. Exemplification of the Old . Adage Concerning a Fool and His.Money- Pathetic Snicide in Chicago--Ladies Net a Handsome Charity Fnnd. Hecordi a Good One. Special WtishingtoSI^Vfesp&ndencp: "The present demands for immediate legislation are the most strenuous which the public has presented for many years. I do not remember to .have ever before witnessed anything like this great impatience on the part •of people and newspapers generally." This from a man prominent in national politics. "Some of the demands made," he Continued, "are not altogether rea­ sonable. There never was in the liis- 'tory of the country a case in which a new administration had accomplished as much in so short a time as has this one, or in which a tariff bill was as well under way or likely to be so early completed. That Congress should have been called together, framed, and pass­ ed the tariff bill through the House and got it Well under consideration in the Senate, that a bimetallic commis­ sion should have been sent abroad to pave the way for carrying out the pledge of the platform, definite steps taken with reference to Cuba which will bear equally definite fruit within •a few weeks, and plans matured for the proper and thorough consideration of the currency question--all during the first three months of the adminis­ tration, is without a precedent in the history of the country. No such-rapid progress ever was made by a new ad­ ministration, and when you consider that this administration has been espe­ cially hampered by the fact that all the offices were filled with people appoint­ ed by an adverse administration, and that under the civil service law they •cannot be replaced with men of the administration's own selection, the speed with which this work has been accomplished is something remarkable. Yet the country is in that state repre­ sented by air individual suffering from nervous prostration, and people are im­ patient of a day's delay, more impa­ tient than they have ever been known to be. And it is an impatience which would be unreasonable if it were not for the conditions under which they are suffering, conditions brought^about by Democratic misrule, low tariff, enor­ mous importations, silent factories, lack of employment!! a depleted treas­ ury and a generally depressed condi­ tion." Protection Gaininc: Ground. The growth of protection sentiment in the South which lias been frequent­ ly evidenced during the consideration of the tariff bill is again indicated by the utterances of that sterling Demo­ cratic paper, the New Orleans Pica­ yune, on the recent visit of the rice growers to this city in behalf of in­ creased protection. Commenting upon the demand for an increase in the duty on rice, it says: "The industry has suf­ fered severely under the Wilson law, as, the low rates of duty do not protect domestic rice producers from the for­ eign rice raised by the pauper labor of the Orient. The industry can thrive under nothing less than the protection accorded by the Dingley bill; hence it is much to be hoped that the House schedule may be adopted." Here is protection sentiment, with a genuine protection ring, and coming from a genuine Democratic newspaper. A few more such speeches in the Senate as that with which Senator Vest opened the tariff debate, would probably convince even the members of his own side of the advantages of protection. He quoted a series of statements showing the exportation® of manufactured articles in the fiscal year 1896, claiming that the increase in exportations was due to the Wilson bill. A comparison, however, of his figures with those under protective tariff, show that in nearly every case the percentage of gain in exportations Avas greater under protection than un­ der the Wilson law. If Mr. Vest's ar­ guments are a sample of those to be presented in support of the Democrat­ ic free trade theory, the public will give them little weight. It is intimated here that the anxiety of the Democrats and Populists to force action under President McKinley in regard to the Cuban question is due to a hope that his action might lead to a Avar with Spain. The demand for additional futnte<wliich would natural­ ly follow the inauguration of war would give them r.n, opportunity to press their proposition for an increase in the currency of the country. Senator Hanna, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, has authorized an explicit denial of the re­ cently published statement that funds were contributed to the campaign last fall upon any agreement looking to the passage of the railway pooling bill. The Cuban Situation. The demand for instant action upon the Cuban question has materially de­ creased since people began to under­ stand tiiat it is unreasonable to expect that the President could formulate .and put into operation a definite policy in so short a time as he has had for that work. It is probable that some defin­ ite ̂ developments as to policy will soon be announced, and t^..they will be satisfactory to thc&eople of this coun­ ts- President Lincoln's first Congress did not meet until July 4,1861, four months after his inauguration, and many months after the secession of States had begun and after Fort Sumter had been fired upon. Yet people are impa­ tient now because the Congress under President McKinley's administration has not met, framed a tariff bill, passed it in the House, digested it in the Sen­ ate, and passed it through that body, before the date at which President Lin­ coln thought it wise to even assemble his Congress, in the face of the at­ tempt to destroy the nation which was then being made. The Republican Senators who framed the tariff bill have denounced as false the published charges that the sugar trust controlled the formation of the schedules of the tariff bill relating to its product, and have challenged a pub­ lic, investigation Of the statement.. A. B. CARSON. Done at Springfield. The following is a summary of bills passed by "the Legislature and signed by the Governor up to date of adjournment: Dividing the State into seventeen Judicial circuits outside of Cook County. Providing for the appointment of a resi­ dent trustee of the Eastern Illinois State Normal at Charleston. Providing for an additional term of the Circuit Court In Boone County. Providing for the election in Evanston of an additional constable for every additional 10.000 Inhabitants, as now provided by law: Providing that one judge of the Superior Court of Cook County shall he elected the first Monday in June, 1897, and every six years thereafter, and that six Judges vf the Superior Court shall be elected the first Mon­ day of November, 1898, and every six years thereafter: and four judges on Tuesday next after the first Monday iu Novembet In 1899, and every sis years thereafter; and one Judge on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. 1901, sad every six years thereafter. Each Judge, so elected shall enter upon the duties of bis office on the first Monday of December.next succeed­ ing hl» election. • • Providing for an additional term of the Circuit Court In Saline County. Torren* l<and Title B{11. The Torrens land title bill. The. bill amends the law passed in 181)3 ir> rt'ieet the unconstitutional provisions as decided by the-Supreme Court Under the act of 1S95 the title holder made his application to the Registrar. This was referred to h board of examiners, who examined the abstract, or evidences of title submitted. tJpon their Report the Registrar, having been satisfied as to the applicant's title to property, issued a certificate of registration, the operation of which was to set running a statutory period of limitation of five years, after the expira­ tion of which the title would be beyond at­ tack. • The Supreme Court held that the ex­ ercise of discretion on the part of the Regis­ trar was judicial in its nature. Tills bill sat­ isfies the objection raised by the Supreme Court by providing that the application shall be made to a court of record. The applica­ tion is then referred to a board.of examiners appointed for tli© purpose to examine the abstract or other evidences of title submit­ ted and. thereafter report to the court. The report is made the fqundation for a decree. This being certified and filed with the Reg­ istrar, the latte?, then issues a certificate. -All parties having adverse claims having been legally summoned In. thVcourt- are re­ quired at the hearing and before the issu­ ance of the decree to make their objection to the application. The decree has the ef­ fect of barring all those who have had actual notice of its proceedings; those who do not have actual notice of the proceedings and are summoned by publication are given two years irt which to appear and enter their ob­ jection. After this period the title becomes absolute and the certificate is prima facie evidence of title. To Prevent Fusion. To prohibit fusion. The bill amends the election law and provides that the names of candidates spall not be placed upon a ballot more than Qace for the same office or under more tli«\n one party appellation. The bill further provides: "Any person whose nauie has been presented as a candidate, or who has been nominated by more than one con­ vention, caucus or meeting of qualified vot­ ers, may cause his name to be withdrawn from any such nomination by his request in writing, s-gned by him and duly acknowl­ edged before an officer to take acknowledg­ ments of deeds,,nnd filed with the Secretary of State i.ot less" than fifteen days, or with the proper clerk not less thau eight days previous «.o the day of election, and no name so withdrawn shall be printed upon the bal­ lot under the party appellation or title from which a candidate has withdrawn his name. Amending the law regulating the adminis­ tration of trusts by trust companies. It pro­ vides that each company In all cities and towns oi less than 100,000 Inhabitants shall before accepting any such appointment or deposit shall deposit with the Auditor of Public Accounts the sum of $50,000. The deposits are to be for the benefit of the creditors of the company, and to consist of bonds of the United States or municipal bonds of this State, or in mortgages on im­ proved and productive real estate in this State. To allow the alternate election of alder­ men in the cities of Pekin and Watseka un­ der the minority representation plan. Authorizing the City Council of Chicago to make a contract for the disposition of garb­ age for more than one year and not exceed­ ing five years. Fixing the salary of the judges and clerks of election in Cook County at #5 per day. Providing for the consolidation of the Su­ preme Court at Springfield. Fomc Appropriation Bills. The following appropriation bills passed: $9,714.93 to pay for repairs on the chemical laboratory at the University of Illinois; ?S0,- 000 for deficiency In the Illinois National Guard for the year endlngjJune 30, 1897; $1,- 300 for deficiency In the office expenses of the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Com­ missioners; $203,000 for the expenses of the Illinois National Guard and repairs on the rifle ranges; $15,000 for the Incidental ex­ penses of the Fortieth General Assembly, the care and custody of the State House and grounds: $47,493.07 to provide for the ordi­ nary and contingent expenses of the State government ; $293.40 to pay the State's Attor­ ney's salary of Mason County from April 1, 1895, to Dec. 25. 1895; $97,556.49 for defi­ ciency In the ordinary expenses of the South­ ern Illinois penitentiary at Chester and for repairs on buildings damaged by fire; $20,000 for the participation of the State In the Tennessee Centennial and International Ex­ position at Nashville, to be held from May 1 to Oct. 31, 1897; $7,500 additional for the in­ cidental expenses of the Fortieth General Assembly and for the care and custody of the State House and grounds; $1,000 to pay the claim of Frederick Ivlor, allowed by the Commissioners of Claims; $50,000 to pay the employes of the Fortieth General Assembly; $500 for office expenses and $400 for travel­ ing expenses of the members of the State Board of Arbitration, the existing deficiencv to July 1, 1897; $31,000 for the furnishing of a memorial hall in the public library at Chi­ cago; $60,000 to pay the employes of the Fortieth General Assembly; $150 to Nicholas Bleas for damages to his land caused by an overflow of the Illinois river at Henry on account of the dam at that place; $2,264.40, t,he deficiency In the expenses In the State Board of Equalization during 1895 and 1890; for the ordinary expenses and Improvements at the Southern Illinois penitentiary at Ches­ ter; ordinary expenses and to keep the con­ victs employed till Juno 30, 1899, $100,000; contingent, $10,000; material for stone wall around prison, $10,000; for repairing and re­ furnishing warden's house, $14,000; for a Storehouse and repairs to the engine room, $45,000: for additions to the knitting depart­ ment, $3,000; for cows and cow barns. $2,- 000; horses and mules, $1,600; machinery, $>,500; library purposes, $500; authorizing the Governor to make a loan of $250,000 to meet deficits or failure In revenues; $9(5,500 for a new cell house'and for other Improve­ ments at the State reformatory at Pontl'ac; $2,500 to pay employes of the present Gen­ eral Assembly; making appropriations to the University of Illinois made necessary by the defalcation. of .Charles W. .Spalding, late treasurer of the Institution. The bill obli­ gates the State for tb» endowment fnnd for tho university, amounting to $456,712.91, and provides fbr the payment of Interest thereon at the rate of 5 per cent; $47,600 for the ordinary expenses of the Southern Illi­ nois University at Carbondale; $200,000 for the ordinary expenses of the State govern­ ment; $31,000 to repair tho executive man­ sion. Preference to Old foldiera. Giving ex-Union soldiers preference In civil service examinations. To legalize the judicial, proceedings of the March term, 1896 and 1897, of the Clay Coun­ ty Circuit Court. Giving the widow of an alien the right In the homestead and to clear titles under the act of 1887, and providing that an alien may acquire land by purchase, devise, or descent, and may hold the same for six years after such alien shall become 21 years of age, and If at the end of such period such lands shall not have been conveyed to bona fide pur­ chasers or such alien shall not have become naturalized the lands shall be sold. • . Extending the time for levying the drain­ age tax lMi per cent to the end of 1899; and providing that swinging bridge.^ shall be con­ structed over the canal, but shall" not be operated until seven years after the water •shall have been turned Into the channel; that any individual or the authorities of any mu­ nicipality may file with the Attorney General a verified statement setting forth that the sanitary.district has failed to comply with the provisions of this act, whereupon It shall bel the duty of the Attorney General to file a petition for mandamus In the Supreme Court to enforce compliance with the provis­ ions of this act. Providing that the owners of sheep dam­ aged by dogs must appear before the chair­ man o€ the County Board of Supervisors and make affidavit to the amount of damage sus­ tained; it shall be the duty of the Super­ visor to appear before the County Treasurer and collect the damage. Provided, how­ ever! that not more than $5 shall be paid for *uh animal damaged. Throws Money to the Wiadf, James Berry, a young man who trump­ ed into Salem last fall, received notice a month ago that he had inherited a for­ tune estimated at $500,000 by the death of an uncle in Pennsylvania. He made proof of his identity and got the money. Since then his career has rivaled that of Coal Oil Johnny. Wednesday lie married the daughter of a former employer there and threw money to the winds. . Friday he was arrested for fast driving. He was taken before Justice Marshall, who per­ formed' his $50 marriage ceremony, and was fined. $6 and costs. Early in the morning he had his $20,000 horse hitched to a light buggy and began to take in the town. To a boy he gave $1 for picking up a glove; to a tramp $1 for tipping his 'hat to him". He visited the saloons a number of times. In his glass he would, drop a $5 or $10 gold piece; drink the .liquor and then hand.the glass containing the money to the barkeeper. At the hotel he would , give ti dollar for a drink of water* another dollar for the brushing of l»ls5silk 'hat!- another to the porter for blacksng his shoes r r a.aie^tra napkin at the table, and still another for a tooth­ pick. He paid fancy prices for flowers to be used In decorating his horse. Berry says that when he gets through wit fit his present jollification, as he '.evils it. his wife and he will take a trip to Europe and visit all the great cities of the old world, when he will return to the United,States, settle down and be a man. During twen­ ty-four hours he expended prob&biy $3,- 000, Women Run Kockford's Street Car?. Rockford society women took charge of and ran the street cars of the city Satur­ day, the occasion being the second annual trolley day of the Woman's Union .-vid Society, Rockford's greatest charitable' or­ ganization. The Weather was perfect* an# the affair the oiggest kind of a success, socially and financially. The women went on duty at G o'clock in the morning and remained iu charge until midnight. The cars were elaborately^decora ted by mer­ chants, who paid for the^dwertising priv­ ileges on them. Not ail accident occurred to mar the festivities, and the aid socie­ ty's receipts will be not far from $1,000- Last year t'hey were $000! Iu the after­ noon there were many trolley parties and everybody in town took a ride for chari­ ty, the dead head list being suspended'. The streets presented1 a gala holiday ap­ pearance, many business places being dec­ orated. At uiglit there was a band con­ cert at Harlem Park apd the women col­ lected fares from hundreds of passengers who attended. C. I), Peraon Dies to Pay a PnM. That Charles D. Person, a former Kan­ sas banker, swallowed poison in the Grand Central Hotel, at Chicago, and died in the County Hospital to pay a debt seemed to be shown iu a letter left by the suicide. In a letter addressed to L G. Bowman, St. Louis, Person indicated that he preferred to die in order that the pro­ ceeds of his life insurance would cancel a debt held against him by the St. Louis man. The desperate Kausan recalled that Bowman was the last of his credit­ ors, and reproached him for pressiug his claim for the money at a time when the once prosperous banker was destitute. His wife and two children stitl lire in Belle Plaine, where. Until two years ago, he w«s at the 1# ad of a small bank, which bare an excellent reputation. people of the country ask no more thau that the Senate will act as worthily as has the House, and that the Dingley bill, when it passes the Senate,-will em­ body the true principles for which the voters declared last November. " criminating' duty policy for the protec­ tion of American shipping in the for­ eign trade, there , has been opposition, to the policy nevertheless. T,he opposi­ tion Vwas confined to a very few people, however, and the latest information indicates that this has disappeared. It now looks as though there would be a common understanding among all Americans in behalf of the discriminat­ ing duty policy, and the opposition will be felt and shown by the foreign ship­ ping interests alone. Trouble* of Farmers. On Oct. 9, 1891, corn sold in McLean County, Ohio, at an average price of 49 cents a bushel. Empire township, ac­ cording to the assessor's return, pro­ duced in 1894 a total of 159,100 bushels of corn. The crop of 1896 was practi­ cally the same. At 49 cents a bushel this corn brought the farmers $77,959. The average price on Oct. 9, 1896, in McLean County was 18 cents a bushel; so that the actual value of the current crop is $28,638--a loss of $49,321. In 1S91, oats sold at an average, on Oct. 9, of 26 cents a bushel. The yield in Empire township in 1894 was.S0,9p0 bushels. Assuming that the production was the same in 1896, the crop realized? on the basis of 1891 values $21,034. The average price paid on Oct. 9 was 10 c&nts a bushel, or $S,090, a loss of $11,944 on oats, or $61,265 on oats and corn alone. There was purchased iu Leroy, in 1891, 130,000 pounds of wool. The production has declined over oue- half since then, but that is fairly chargeable to the Democratic free- trade policy--to the enactment into law of the Wilson bill. The loss on the wool Crop of Empire township this year, as compared with 1S91--the price theai being 18 cents a pound and 10 cents in 1896--is $10,400. On these three items alone the farmers of Em­ pire township were $71,665 poorer in 1896 than they were in 1891. And still we wonder at hard times among the farmers, distraint for rent processes, and inability of men who own land to pay their debts. Calling a Spade a Pitchfork. Calling a spade a pitchfork does not make it such. Democrats, when they want the products of their sections pro­ tected, speak of the rates proposed as a "revenue duty." Nevertheless, they are perfectly willing to accept the rates of the Dingley bill, which everybody knows and recognizes as a thoroughly protective measure. The Texans make no objection to the Dingley rates on wool, the Louis­ iana and Florida people approve the rates on sugar, and those of South Carolina ap­ plaud the rice tariff and want a duty plac­ ed on cotton, and so on through the South. In all these cases they insist that the particular duty they ask is only a "reve­ nue" rate. Nevertheless, they know that the figures named are a part of the pro­ tective system of the Dingley bill. Reveni|e and Protection, The tariff protects the industries. i,p the United States which are subject to foreign competition. But it does not protect American ships which are sub­ ject to foreign competition. The Elkins discriminating duty bill proposes to remedy this defect by imposing a high­ er duty on imports in foreign than in Americau vessels. The Elkins bill ought to be a part of the new tariff bill. It is the same kind and quality of pro­ tection. It will also increase the rev­ enue. Individuality. Mr. Cleveland's Reform Club spefech had the usual amount of phrases about "sordid greed," "selfish interest" and "partisan ambition." There is little wonder that these phrases occur so of­ ten in Mr. Cleveland's speeches. It would be strange if those things which have dominated his life should be lack­ ing in his speeches. Game's Speech. All that is necessary cannot be ac­ complished at once, and the country ought to be willing to wait patiently for the solution of the serious problems with which the mew administration was confronted, especially when such good progress already has been made and such positive assurances of its plans for the future are given.--Illinois State Journal. It is not imprudent to feel certain both that Mr. Gage has said nothing which Mr. McKinley does not approve, and also that the administration, in venturing thus to make what amounts to a promise, is not speaking without evidence that Congress will not be un­ willing to take some step iu the direc­ tion of currency reform.--Milwaukee Sentinel. The so-called currency reformers are impatient of delay and falsely accuse the administration and the Republicans in Congress with being indifferent to the currency question, alleging this to be the chief reason for the tardiness of industrial and business recovery. Sec­ retary Gage refutes the accusation, and his assurance will be received by the country with satisfaction and confi­ dence.---Omaha Bee. The Republican party is opposed to the free coinage of silver.except by in­ ternational agreement, and ds such an agreement is out of the -question the business world should appreciate the fact, and show by its hopefulness that it has confidence in the President. At the same time, if we are to have a re­ newal of prosperity, CoflgCess must act promptly on the tariff and 'must enact such a measure as will, while yielding an adequate but inextravagant reve­ nue, properly protect American labor without promoting monopolies at home or abroad.--Philadelphia Ledger. Popocrats Have No Use for Democrats The Bryanites are apparently deter­ mined not to receive "gold" Democrats back into the fold. Bryan protests against the attempt of the latter to raise the tariff issue this year. He is reported to have said recently that the tariff issue is no more prominent this year tilisin it was last, and it then failed to keep the "gold" men loyal to their party. For that reason he sees no cause for raising the tariff issue this year. As a matter of fact, there seems to l>e no ground upon which the gold and silver Democrats can compromise their differences. They are as far apart as ever. The Bryanites are determined to make free coinage the issue again. That wi\l be the case in Ohio, and it will doubtless be the case iu other States. The Democratic party in 1897 will be under Popoeratic control the same as it was in 1S96. It follows, then, that the "true Democrats," as they call them­ selves, will either have to still their conscience and turn in witili the Bryan- ites, go it alpne, or give their support to the Republicans once more. If the gold men are anxious to de­ stroy the influence of the Bryanites they should assist' the Republicans to restore prosperity by passing a protect­ ive tariff law and then help to admin­ ister another overwhelming defeat to the party of cheap money and repudia­ tion. That would do the business.--Ex­ change. The Cuban .Policy. Thus far there can be no difference of opinion in regard to the course of the President. ItHs true that he has not ac­ knowledged the belligerency or the in­ dependence of Cuba. There has been a grave conflict of statement in regard to the status of the Cuban insurgents^ It is admitted that there has been suf­ fering and hideous cruelty; that lives have been ruthlessly taken; and that gross and disgraceful practices have gone on. \ The President is appealed ̂ o by a large element of humane and lib­ erty-loving people of the United States to interpose our, power and prevent a continuance of these barbarities. Some there are who seem impatient at his de­ lay. But when the reasonable people of America consider the vast amount of difficult and important questions which have urged themselves upon the Presi­ dent's attention, his course needs no apology. He has set out to thorpuglily sift the facts of the situation. That is the first, requisite. When he has fully satisfied himself from reliable sources that the condition in Cuba demands American interposition he may be ex­ pected to act in a wise and judicious manner.--Ohio State Journal. Business Improvement. A recent dispatch reports that after an idleness of nearly three years the Maryland Steel Works, at Sparrow's Point, have started up. This means work for 2,000 idle men. Dispatches of this character have been frequent ever since the election of President Mc­ Kinley and the assurance of a return to the system of protection; and tiiey are the strongest possible evidence of the prosperity which is'sure to return when protection, along true protection­ ist lines, is pnee more established. The State News in Brief. Mrs. J. H. Peck, wife of a Bloomington cigar merchant, was fatally idiot. A re­ volver fell from the dressing case to, the floor and' was discharged. A Wabash avenue, Chicago, firm dis­ plays a sign reading: "A $5 man's shoe for $2.50." Five-dollar men will do well vto bear tills offer in mind. ' W. E. L<wvis, 42 years of age, a native of Virginia, and for the last twelve years city attorney and editor of the Prairie City Herald, is dead. He died' of con­ sumption. The will of Mat-hew Laflin was admit­ ted to probate in Judge Kohlsaat's court at Chicago. The property devised in­ cludes real estate valued at $1,590,000 and personal estate consisting of notes and uncollected rents to the value of $22,000. With the exception of a num­ ber of minor legacies, all the property is left to the testator's two sons and only heirs. Salter S. Worden, who is to be hanged in San Quenfcin prison, California, for wrecking a train during the American Railway Union strike in 1S94, is a former resident of the town of Normal, this State. He is a son of John Wordc-n, who for many years was a prominent Citizen of that place, John Worden went to Normal from Young America. Warren County, Illinois, about thirty years ago, and lived there about ten years. He was retired farmer and had accumulated,a large fortune. Besides the gas,' consolidation and gas frontage bills the Governor "Saturday signed the following bills: The general appropriation bill; making an appropria­ tion to defray the expenses of Senate com­ mittees; making an appropriation for the Illinois Farmers Institute and for county farmers' institutes; making an appropria­ tion for the ordinary expenses of the Southern Illinois Normal University at Carbondale; amending the State banking law so as to provide that where a, loan is made in excess of 10 per cent, of the cap­ ital stjck of a banlc'-the fact shall iiot be set up by the borrower as a matter of defense in any action to recover the amount of the loan; creating a State board Of pardons. The State street merchant who in an elaborate display announcement adver­ tised "straw hate and furs" apparently has a pretty clear notion of Chicago weather. An insane woman caused a panic among, the Sunday school children in the First Swedish Methodist Episcopal, Clysrch Sunday morning, and in the scramble fot safety several little boys and girls re­ ceived' bruises on their faces and bodies, but no one was severely injured. The woman, who gave the name of Mrs. Aiza Alivia Oskos, was placed1 under arrest, but later was taken home by her friend's. Miss Elizabeth N. Roosa, of Jackson­ ville. and Howard C. Ogdeu. of Chicago, were married. Mr. Ogden is a teacher of elocution, and his wife has appeared. at a number of entertainments in Chicago as a reader. She graduated from the Soper school a year ago. They will re­ side iu Chicago. A man who was killed at Chicago by a Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul train was identified as Thomas Kelly, an em­ ploye of Kobn Bros.*, wholesale clothiers. Kelly attempted to get off at Oakley ave­ nue. For some reason the stop was not mado. and Kelly ventured to jump. He was thrown beneath the wheels aW his akull was crushed. Protection to American Ships. Famous When Young. Scott entered the fair realm of liter­ ature at 25. At 34 he was the most popular poet of the day. Byron's first poems appeared at 19. At 24 he had reached the highest pinnacle of his lit­ erary fame . Barns' first volume was published at 27. At 30 critics acknowl­ edged him to be the most richly endow­ ed by nattire of any living poet. Na­ poleon at 27 commanded the army in Italy; at 35 was emperor; saw Waterloo at 46. Tennyson at 33 ]took that high stand among the poets which he held till his death. Longfellow's first poetry was published at 13. At 32 he was ranked with the best American i>oets. Washington was prominent at 21. At 43 he was commander of the American army. At 57 b® was President. Opposed by Foreiun Shipowners. ' While the great majority of. the -American ^people approve of the dis­