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( l%- PEOTECTION UPHELD. V PROSPERITY HAS REIGNED DUR­ ING HIGH TARIFF PERIODS. Decrease of American Home Market Under.Wilson Law-Corn Consump­ tion Fell Away Over a Pillion -Hnshe'.s. < , Treasnry Bnrean Fisjnres. e Special Washington correspondence: What few statesmen arid politicians have been compelled to stay over the summer in Washington are discussing among themselves what the Democrats will have for an issue in the next Presi­ dential campaign. Protection has gain­ ed such ground among members of their own party that they, dare - not make that a further issue as against the Republicans, while the bottom has absolutely dropped out of their free sil­ ver poposition by reason of the devel­ opments of the past few months. The fact that they are finding it necessary to Seek for a new issue is shown by the recent utterances of various mem­ bers of their party favoring postal sav­ ings banks, single taxes; the initiative and referendum, and other issues of that sort as a possible basis for the next year's declaration. The latest thing, perhaps, which is being discuss­ ed. as a possible basis for Democratic oratory in 1900 is the initiative and ref­ erendum. „Tlie initiative means that laws may. originate with the people. Upon the request of a certain per cent, of voters, the State and municipal leg­ islatures must pass any bill that the petitioners ask for. Referendum means that these laws must be submitted to the popular vote and indorsed before they shall be operative. By this .meth­ od every question would be submitted to the popular vote, and legislatures would be simply figure heads, and the -community would be in a constant stew and uproar over every question. In this connection the latest state­ ments of Governor Boies, of Iowa, are interesting. He was for free silver last year, but he now insists that free •coinage at 10 to 1 is folly in view of recent developments, and that a plan for the warehousing of silver and the issuance of certificates based on its market value is the only method by which it can be utilized as a basis for •currency. With Mexican dollars only worth 40 cents, as compared with American money, which is upon a gold basis, the Mexican workingman can­ not be having an easy time. The report made from the Trade and Labor As­ sembly of Chicago last fall shows that workingmen got but about one-half as much per day in Mexico in the silver •coin of the country as the workingmen of the United States got in our cur­ rency upon the gold basis. When it is remembered that the dollar in which these people are paid is now worth only 40 cents, compared with our own 100-eent dollar, their condition can be imagined. Thife condition of the work­ ingmen of Mexico is being made use of by those arguing in favor^f a gold standard. Another thing which is calculated to damage the cause of silver in Ohio and elsewhere is a table just issued by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, the highest authority on matters of this kind, showing that Ohio XX wool, which, in August. 1890, was worth 17 cents per pound, was, on July SO, 1897, worth 22 cents per pound, while silver, which, in August, 1890, was worth 09 cents per line ounce, was on July 31, 1897, worth 58M> cents per fine ounce. This condition of prices does not, of course, coincide with the oft-repeated silverite statement of last year as to farm products and silver. In view of the prediction of the return of the American home market to the producers of the country, a glance at some of the crop statistics of the Treas­ ury Department during the period of prosperity up to the enactment of the Wilson law and the subsequent era of depression under that law will be profit­ able. In 1891 the wheat produced in the United States amounted to 011.000,- 000 bushels. At the close of 1S90 the consumption of wheat was 0.09 bushels per capita. In 1894 it had decreased 3.41 per capita, showing a loss of 2.(58 bushels per capita in 1894 as compared with 1890. The population of the Unit­ ed States in 1894, as shown by the school census, was 08.275,000, making a loss by under-consumption of wheat in 1894 as compared With 1890 of a little over 182,000,000 bushels. Of the corn crop in 1890 the consumption of the United States was 32.09 bushels per capita. In 1894 it was only 22.70, or a loss of 9.33 bushels per capita, making a total loss of over 037,000,000 bushels of corn in 1894 as compared with 1890. Again, in 1890, the last year of the Wil­ son law, the consumption of corn in this country was reduced to 14.73 per capita, and the total loss to the country in under consumption was 1.229,280,000 bushels of corn. The increase of exportation of man­ ufactures under the Wilson Tariff law, about which the free traders were jubi­ lant, is a fact, but is not altogether in­ structive unless It is considered in the light of some other facts. The increase of importation of foreign manufactures during the time in which our exporta­ tion of home manufactures increased was three or four times as much as the growth in exports. Naturally with our own markets filled with foreign manu­ factures at low prices, our manufactur­ ers were either compelled to seek a market abroad Or close their establish­ ments. The effect of legislation cannot be determined by the study of a single year or a term of years. Those who want to examine this subject closely can get a better view of it by noting the imports and exports of the United States during the past half century. In the past twenty-five years, which has been a season of constant protective tariff with the exception of the three years just ended, the excess of ex­ ports over imports amounted to about $2,500,000,000, while in the preceding quarter of a century, which was one of low tariff excepting the war period, the excess of imports over exports was $1,- 400,000,000. These figures which cover two twenty-five year periods, one of which was characterized by low tariff and the other by protective "tariff, are convincing as to the effect of protection upon our foreign commerce. A.B.CARSON. Seek New Novelties. The Democratic bargain counter be­ ing in a seriously depleted and unat­ tractive 'condition at the present mo­ ment, the leaders of that party are now searching for new novelties. Free sil­ ver and free trade have lost their at­ tractiveness despite the advertising which they have been given, the ex­ periments by the public in that line having nauseated them with that class of cheap goods. It is probable that the next assortment'of wares which these gentlemen will offer will be Henry George's single tax, a denunciation of "government by injunction," a propo­ sition to adopt the initiative and i lie referendum system by which the peo­ ple of the Country may be kept in a constant uproar by having an oppoiv tunity to initiate legislation or to pass upon measures enacted before these measures can come actually into ope; ration. •* 1 ' Wool--Protection fttid Free Trade, Imports of woolen manufactures: Fiscal year. Value. 1891 .$41,000,080 1892 35.505,879 1893 38,048,515 1894 19,439,372 . Protection average, $33,528,401. 1895 .:1s... . .$38,539,890 '1890• 53,494,400 1807 ........... .. .. .V... .. 49,102,992 Free trade average, $47,005,527. The average annual increase in our imports of manufactured woolen goods, during the Democratic policy of Free- Trade in wool, was $13,537,000. Consid­ ering the shoddy character of the for­ eign goods imported, and the idleness of our people, since 1894, it is safe to say that the excessive imports for the three years, aggregating $40,500,000, have displaced the product of fully $100,000,- 000 worth of woolen products from American looms that would haVe been made here if the American policy of Protection had been maintained with­ out interruption. The loss to workers in American woolen mills alone has been fully $70,000,000. The New Sign. A Goal Month's Gnin. Business is Improving; prosperity is at hand. Study the following totals of bank clearings for the United States for the month of July in each year since 1894, as given by "Bradstreets:" Total United States bank clearings: July. Amount. 1S94 $3,504,793,438 1895 4,550.335,150 1890 4,350,791,715 Democratic average . 1897 (Republican year) . .$4,135,300,7(58 . 4,780,004,357 Republican business gain in one month $050,097,589 I?epreciat«d Dollars. Workingmen in the United States may congratulate themselves that they rejected last year the proposition to place the American dollar upou the same basis as the Mexican dollar. The working people of Mexico now find their dollar worth but 40 cents and yet are not receiving any increased number of them as their wages, while the prices of articles which they are compelled TO buy with them have advanced as meas­ ured by depreciated dollars in which they are paid. They Are Well Off. The fifteen countries from which hints of dissatisfaction with our Tariff have come have sold us in the past de­ cade §4,843,943,523 worth of goods, and bought from us only $3,059,220,782 worth, a balance in tliir favor of $1,- 784,722,841. It is scarcely probable un­ der these circumstances that they are going to take any steps which will em­ barrass or complicate commercial rela­ tions so advantageous to them.--Clin­ ton (Iowa) Herald. London's Hie Business. There Was a large volume of business transacted in London last May, the to­ tal of that city's bank clearings,aggre­ gating $2,958,277,219. This was $040,- 000,000 greater than New York's clear­ ings in'tlie same month, and greater by $140,000,000 than the April business iu London. Political Notes. The nation is now listening intently for Mr. Bryanl? voice from the Wilds of the Yellowstone Park to inform it how it is that wheat can go up while silver is going down. Iowa Populists also have placed a distinct State ticket in the field, and their platform, like that of the Ohio Populists, ignores the Chicago plat­ form.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The second largest nugget of gold ever found in California is just report­ ed from Trinity County. It is worth $42,000, and Klondike is invited to pro­ duce its biggest nugget for comparison. Mexico is letting interested friends in this country do the boasting about her prosperity and admirable financial sys­ tem. She is kept on the keen hustle try­ ing to pay her debts in 100-cent dollars while collecting her dues in 40-cent dol­ lars. It is quite a trick.--Detroit Free Press. Better times began as soon as tlio Republican party got in power. Better government will be secured for this city when the Republican party con­ trols it. There is abundance of Demo­ cratic testimony to show that nothing could be worse than we have had under Democratic rule.--Louisville Commer­ cial. W ith American tin plate not only sup­ plying the markets of our own coun­ try. but actually making a bid for the markets of the world, the Democratic assertions of six years ago that protec­ tion could not make this industry suc­ cessful in the United States are any­ thing but pleasant reading to the men who made them. IS THE WOMAN DEAD? LUETGERTS LAWYERS CLAIM IT CANNOT. BE PROVEN. Upon that Point Hinges the Fate of Chicago's Rich Sausage Maker, W'ho lai Being Triel for a Most Hideous Crime. Case of Great Inter?«t. Not since the celebrated Cronin case has Chicago had a trial which promised so much in the line of Sensation as that of Adolph Luetgert, tlie rich sausagemaker who is accused of murdering his wife. The trial, which is now oh, will probably eon- tinue.two months. The long trial and the extraordinary1 features involved will give the case a place-among the most famous crimes of the century. The theory of the prosecution, represented by State Attor­ ney Charles S. Dencen, is that Luetgert. who was not on good terms with his wife, murdered her arid disposed of her body by dissolving it in a sausage tut filled with caustic soda and crude potash. The de­ fense will set up the claim that Mrs..Luet­ gert is not dead, that she wandered away from - home while demented and is still alive. The strength of the prosecutor's case depends upon the ability of the at­ torneys and police to prove that Mrs. Luetgert is dead. The difficulties in­ volved in establishing the corpus delicti gives the ease a resemblance to the Park- man-Webster murder in Boston half a century ago. • Luetgert is about 50 years old. He used to be a saloonkeeper, but after, his marriage, to 18-year-old Louise Bickner ADOI.PII I,. MJETGEIIT. about twenty years ago he went into the sausage manufacturing business. He had a knowledge of chemistry, and by using it in his business produced a supe­ rior article and rapidly accumulated money. He was once worth $300,000. but his fortune has dwindled somewhat. Dur­ ing the last few years he and his wife lived unhappily, and though he ate at home he spent his nights in the sausage factory, which stood in the rear of the house. At 10 o'clock Saturday evening, May 1, little Louis Luetgert bade his mother good-night and left her sitting in the back parlor of their splendid home. man said that he had met a dementefl woman in Kenosha, Wis., who answered Mrs. Luetgert's description and who said that she had a sister in Chicago named Mueller. ^ Mrs. Luetgert has a sister by that name. Subsequently it was report­ ed that Mrs. Luetgert was seen in New York and that she had sailed for Europe. Luetgert's lawyers claim that these re­ ports are true and that the murder theory is an outrage. In the course of preparation for the ill THK T.l'KTGRKT HOME. trial, 'and for the purpose of demonstrat­ ing that it is actually possible for a hu­ man body to have been entirely disinteg­ rated within the time limit set by the po­ lice in their theory of the crime, an ex­ periment was made at Rush Medical Col­ lege a few weeks ago under the supervis­ ion of Profs. Haines and Delafontaine, sind in the presence of State's Attorney Dencen and representatives of the police department. The body of a pauper who had died at the hospital, weighing about 130 pounds, was dismembered, placed in a boiler containing a strong solution of caustic soda and potash and boiled for three hours. At the end of that time prac­ tically nothing was left except a few pieces of bone, which easily crumbled un­ der ptessure, and the bottom of the boiler was found to contain a thick brown ooze, sini'lar in composition to that in the bot­ tom of the sausage factory vat. To offset this experiment the defense ask to be permitted to make an experi­ ment in court. The cadaver used by the State, say the attorneys for the defense, was several days old. In it there was not the resisting power of nerves and muscles that a body from which life has. just passed would offer to the action of the so­ lution. Acting upon this belief the de­ fense wants to conduct experiments with a fresh body. EXTRA DUTY MAY BE IMPOSED. Question as to the Meaning of the Discriminating Tax Clause. Involved in the question of the interpre­ tation of section 22 of the new tariff law with regard to the 10 per cent discriminat­ ing duty on foreign goods coming into the United States from Canada or Mexico, which is now before the attorney general for decision, is another question of equal if not greater magnitude. This other m E3 LUETGERT'S BIG SAUSAGE FACTORY. Her husband was, as usual, spending the night in the factory. When Louis and the other children came down to breakfast the following morning their mother was missing. Luetgert was informed, but re­ marked that she would turn up all right. Days passed, but Mrs. Luetgert did not return and finally lier brother notified the police. Luetgert suggested suicide. The river was dragged and the country round about searched, but no trace of her could be found. Accnsed of Murder. Finally Inspector Schaack grew suspi­ cious and when the night watchman and engineer at the sausage factory told him that the night Mrs. Luetgert disap­ peared, Luetgert had been doing unusual things at the factory his suspicion grew into a belief that Luetgert had murdered his wife. The engineer said that, con­ trary to the usual order of affairs, Luet­ gert had him keep the fires at the factory going that night and that he saw Luetgert moving around the place mysteriously un­ til 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Luetgert was arrested and his factory was search­ ed. One of the sausage vats showed evi­ dence of recent use. At the bottom was found, in a very much diluted form, a so­ lution of potash and caustic soda. There were also found two of Mrs. Luetgert's rings, several pieces of bone, an artificial i00th which a dentist identified as one he had made for Mrs. Luetgert, and, in the nenp can rest assured that under hie iervision everything will be done ac­ ting to plans and specifications, and ft the material used will be euch as d plans call for. As we said before the pointment is a good one. JF there is anything that gives us a aging for eternal rest and sleep, and mp solitude, it is a man who^comes to -.own or county and builds up a good |ving business, grows rich from the re- urces of a prosperous country, and sn squats down on his wealth like a eking hen on a door knob and is too prnal stingy to even let the gravel nd in his own gizzard. IERE is the way an exchange sounds I trumpet of distress: "Persons iwing themselves indebted to this ce are requested to call and settle. All fse indebted to this office and not l.wing it are requested to call and find \ „ All those knowing themselves in- Ited to this office-and not wishing to v are requested to stay in one place 5 enough for us to catch them. All c-je who are not indebted are requested tiftll and get indebted. v. , anglish "breakfast and gunpowder teas, o per lb, 2 lbs for 35c. At Uwen & I ftpell's. question has almost entirely escaped pub­ lic notice, but it is giving the treasury great concern. It was referred to the at­ torney genera] by Secretary Gage for in­ terpretation along with the other features of section 22 which are in controversy. It involves the question of whether this discriminating duty of 10 per cent does not apply to all goods imported in foreign vessels landing at United States ports which are not exempt from discriminating tonnage taxes by express treaty stipula­ tion. The question arises from another slight deviation in section 22, which, if made intentionally, would seem to indi­ cate that it was designed to discriminate against three-fourths of all the big trans­ atlantic and transpacific steamship lines, as well as many of the South American lines. SAFE IS ROBBED OF 332,000. liurglare Loot the Domlbion Bank in the Ontario Town of Nipnnee. Burglars entered the Dominion Bank at Napa nee, near Kingston, Ont., and know­ ing the combination of the vault, opened it and stole $32,000. When the officials reached the bank iu the morning they found the vault locked, ^he burglars changed the combination, and the man­ ager of the bank thought that one of the clerks had made a mistake in locking the vault. An expert was brought from To­ ronto to open the vault and he occupied the whole day. In the meantime the hurglars got a good start. In the evening about 7 o'clock the doors were opened and the bank officials missed the money. Where the burglars got the information concerning the com­ bination of the vault is a mystery. Misi Wal of t M Manitoba Wheat Crop. 'Ail of the 25,000,000 bushels of wheat L Manitoba is cut. There has been no ost sufficient to damage the wheat. The rop will be the largest in the history of „ i>e Canadian northwest. The yield will a un as high as thirty-five bushels to the Agi ere, while in Ontario it is as high as for- visi y. The total wheat crop of Canada this ear will be fully 00,000,000 bushels of rime wheat J are! Notes of Current Events. 1 The National Liquor Dealers' Associa- ^ jn has decided to meet next year at De- Unrfoit. ser J Gri En an< at' P 1 so sch lea ful 111 Albert Yoiers, one of the notorious ewis gang of murderers, under sentence > be hanged at Fayetteville, W. Va., roke jail and escaped. Of the Jwenty-six Senators who served an<|erms in the lower house before coming the Senate, Senator Mills of Texas erved longest, his term being from 1S73 j1892. Rev. J. H. Houghton, pastor of St. auias' Episcopal Church at Huntington, was found dead in bed at his resi- ence. Rev. Houghton, was a native of >alt Lake City, Utah. The popular enthusiasm over the visit f the Duke and Duchess of York to Ire- vtll and is unabated. Their royal hlgfinesses jjr rere again the recipients of a warm ova- ion at Dublin at the opening of the. ex- Pai ibition of Irish textile industries and ma uring their visit to the horticultural He now. READY TO OPEN MINES. Arrangements Perfected for Working with Imported Men. Coal operators of the Pittsburg district have decided to start several mines along, the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The preliminaries have all been completed. One of the first moves was to get in touch with the rail- road companies. The officials of the rail­ roads at once agreed to co-operate with the operators in bringing about, if possi­ ble, an era of activity in the coal-pro­ ducing industry of the Pittsburg district. It was made very apparent that the rail­ roads were losing a large amount of busi­ ness and that they were fellow sufferers with the coal operators. The question of the expense of getting imported labor into the district wa,k discussed, and the railroad companies agreed to share their portion of the outlay. After this agreement was made the work of hiring imported labor was taken charge of by a special sub-committee. Just when they will be brought into the dis­ trict could not be learned. One of the principal reasons for selecting the Wheel­ ing division of the Baltimore and Ohio is the fact that men can be brought in and unloaded in close proximity to the pit months. . ^ Another reason advanced is the fact that the mines along this road have been supplying coal for the locomotives of the railroad, and if coal is not furnished Unit­ ed States mail trains could not be. run and the wheels of the national government would be interfered with. Protection would be forthcoming with no cost impos­ ed on the operators, as the Government would be bound to protect and maintain its property at its own expense. These plans have all been completed and the work is well under way. GOBIN THEIR NEW LEADER Pendsylvania Man Is Elected Com­ mander-in-Chief of G. A. R. Brevet Brigadier John P. S. Gobin of Lebanon, Pa., was elected commander-in- chief of the Grand Army on the second ballot at Buffalo. i The new commander-in-chief has for a long time been a prominent politician in Pennsylvania, having been State Senator OKN. JOHN p. S. GOBIX. for sixteen years, and for several years president of the Senate. He was a mem­ ber of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Infan­ try, and fought with the Nineteenth Army Corps in the Red River campaign and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. He is now 59 years old. He has long been prominent in Masonic and Grand Army circles. Cincinnati has been selected for holding the next encampment. The only other city contesting for the place was San Francisco. The vote resulted: Cincin­ nati, 520; San Francisco, 214. FARMERS' INCREASED RECEIPTS Crops Will Brine $500,000,000 More thati Last Venr. Assistant Secretary Brigham of the Ag ricultural Department has expressed the opinion that the American farmers this year would receive in the aggregate from $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 in excess of the amount received last year for their fa mi products. Col. Brigham also predicted that the increase in the price of farm products would benefit the laboring element. "The price of labor," he said, "did not decline with the price of farm products, and for some time the farmer was forced to pay as much for the services of those who did his work as ever, while his receipts were cut in two. Inasmuch as wages did not decline, I see no reason why tlidf should be expected to rise to correspond with the advance of farm products, which are now bringing only fair prices. Still, the labor­ ing man will be benefited by this advance in prices. The farmer will discharge his Indebtedness and make improvements which will require labor. He will pur­ chase more of the products of labor, put­ ting a vast amojint of money in circula­ tion, and this will create a demand for la­ bor in all lines, and men who have been without employment, or only partially em­ ployed, will workrtitJl time at fair wages." | The Duke of Northumberland, the old­ est peer in England, will be 88 years old in October. The Horticultural Society of Shrop­ shire, England, will erect a $G,000 statue to Charles Darwin at Shrewsbury, his birthplace. Prince Victor Napoleon completed re­ cently his 35tli year in Brussels, when a family gathering took place at his hotel, in the Aveuue Louise. The bullet which killed Lord Nelson at Trafalgar is still preserved. It is mount­ ed in a crystal locket and reposes in a Crimson bag with gold tassels. The porter of the Paris bourse recently died, leaving a fortune of $50,000. He had been employed thirty years at a sal­ ary of $240 a year. He evidently got rich on "tips." Francois Coppe, the French poet and academician, who recently underwent a severe surgical operation, causing grave fears that he would not recover, is now doing well. The wife of the Korean minister is well educated in her own language, and is a student of the Chines^ classics. She does not understand English, but is about to fomfnence the study. The Duchess of Cumberland, Princess Thyra of Denmark, sister of the Princess of Wales and of the dowager czarina, has again broken down and been taken to a private asylum near Vienna. 1 Telegraphic "Brevities. At Newark, O., a wreck train struck and killed Thomas Day of Ivirkeraville. The Havana police have found a print­ ing outfit which has been used to print the proclamations issued by the insurgent leaders. James R. Quigley, an ex-fireman, was killed at St. Louis by John O'Donnell, an ex-deputy sheriff, in a fight over a game of quoits. ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH- FULLY RECORDEa Great Price for an Illinois P«rker-- Costly Fire at Virginia--Farmer Fights Twenty Greek Picnickers- State Game Law Enforced at Noble. Illinois Ho? SeM* for $5,lOO. At a sale of Poland China hogfc held at the State Fair Grounds by George G. Council of Williamsville, a boar named Klevers' Model sold for $5,100. This is the hugest price ever paid for a liog. the next highest b^ing $4,300, at a sale held several months ago. The hog sold, Klevers1 Model, was purchased by a syn­ dicate known as the Klevers' Model Breeding Association. Costly Blaze at Virginia. TJhe principal business block in Virginia, situated on the south side of the square, was burned to the ground early Saturday morning. The loss is $100,000. The city is without waterworks, but the bucket brigade made a yalliant fight and got the fire under control after burning the entire block, thus saving two adjacent blocks of business houses. The fire departments of Springfield and Jacksonville were asked for assistance and each sent a special train with fire engine and other apparatus, arriving at 4:30 a. nr., but the tire was then under control. The origin of the fire, is unknown, but it is generally believed-to be the work of safe blowers, who fired the buildings to cover up their work of rob­ bery. Fisher Fijrhts I wenty (Jrcks, Armed with a double-barreled shotgun, L. D. Fisher ran across the field of liis farm at Seventy-ninth street and St. Law­ rence avenue, Grand Crossing, in search of three Greeks who had attempted to shoot him because he ordered them off his grounds. Just as he caught up with his assailants Fisher was attacked by twenty Greeks who formed a picnic party, and was severely beaten over the head, thrown to the ground and brutally kicked. During the scuffle Fisher's shotgun was accident­ ally discharged, but no harm was done. Fisher regained his feet and ran across the corn fields to his house. The police arrested four of the Greeks. Illino's Gamo Law Enforced. Lee Mitchell of Noble was fined $50 and costs for killing and shipping quail and prairie chickens out of the State. Mitch­ ell is a justice of the peace. The agent of the United States Express Company at Noble and his messenger were also fined for handling the birds. This is the first time the game law lias ever been enforced in Richland County. It lias been impos­ sible to convict illicit hunters hitherto. More arrests will be made. Noble is a small village. It is said that over 1.000 birds have been shipped east from that point. Hurled from a Scaffolding. A scaffolding on the new Peter Fries building at Rock Island gave way, hurling the four men Who were standing on it to the cement sidewalk thirty feet below. William H. Willis, the bricklaying con­ tractor, was killed, his skulL being frac­ tured. C. J. W. Sehreiuer, the building contractor, was hurt internally and may die. John H. Lowe, a bricklayer, and Jo­ seph Criulup, a hod carrier, were seri­ ously injured, but will probably recover. New Cause for Pnicide. Leuceka Board of Viola was found in an unconseius condition at Galesburg in the yard of II. J. Roberts. When found she was dressed in her bicycle suit and the wheel was near her. At her feet was a revolver and in her right temple a bullet hole. She had intimated that she would kill herself if an attempt was made to take away the bicycle, for which she had not yet paid. Despondencv caused by this debt drove her to suicide. Striker* 1'efy the Injimct'on. A rumor reached the camp of the strik­ ers near Sandoval that an attempt would be made to commence operations in the mine. They then invaded the town. 100 strong, regardless of the injunction is­ sued. No effort was made to work by the operators. Deputy Sheriff Meisenlieimer notified the intruders to evacuate the town. Mayor McKnight also gave them notice to leave at once. The officials used no coercive measures. Killed in an KxploSioii. At the plant of the Gibson City Canning Company one of the cookers exploded, killing Fred M. Spalding, who was super­ intending the cookers, blew out the end of the building and shook everything for sev­ eral blocks. Spalding was knocked against the side of the room by one of the iron doors, where the escaping steam scalded him in a frightful manner. Ilis left l<?fe was crushed above the knee. Florence Kelley Displaced. Governor Tanner has appointed Louis Arrington of Alton as State factory in­ spector, vice Mrs. Florence Kelley of Chi­ cago, term expired. Louis Arrington is a retired green glass blower now engaged in the shoe business in Springfield. Paris Green :or PO'la. Mrs. Lewis Savage of Iiussell died from the effects of paris green, taken by mis­ take for baking soda. At once the mis­ take was noticed, three doctors were called, but efforts to save her were fruit­ less. State News in Brief. In Areola the Sunday closing law is be­ ing rigidly enforced. The thirty-sixth annual reunion of the Eighty-sixth Illinois Volunteers was held at Peoria. Singing societies held a picnic at Iveitel Park, near Lebanon. Fifteen societies from as many different places took part in the programme. The eighth anniversary of the Knights of the Globe was celebrated in Sterling and 0,000 strangers, members and friends of the order, were present. Physicians at the Cook County Hospital are puzzled over the case of Sen Pay, a Chinaman, who was admitted to the in­ stitution suffering from symptoms reseinb- ing those of leprosy. Attorney Clemens B. Kettenhofen of Chicago lias been arrested on a charge of forging his parents' names to a convey­ ance of their homestead, and with trying to mortgage the property. Federal authorities arrested Charles Buckland of Chicago charged with rifling mail boxes. In his possession were found stamps to the value of $25. taken from mailed packages, and a mail box key. Fisher, a small town in Champaign County, was raided by burglars. The men entered five residences, carrying consid­ erable plunder from each. The burglars, who did their work barefooted, were tracked several blocks in the dusty streets. Two unusually sensational divorce cases; have been fikd in the St. Clair County Court. Mrs. Anna Schouder charges that her husband, John Schouder of Belleville, has been drunk for two years and has thrown hams, chairs and other" weighty articles at her without cause. Mrs. Mar­ tha Pykirt, who enters suit against her, husband, John Pykirt of Flora, charges that he tried to end her life twice, once •with tat poison and once with chloroform. Ex-Mayor John E. Rode of Vandallfli died unexpectedly of congestion of the stomach. William J. Johnson, a Chicago private watchman, was shot and fatally wound­ ed by a robber. "Deacon" Elijah Johnson and wife of •Kankakee celebrated the sixtieth anniver­ sary of. their wedding. " " The college town of Lebanon is greatly wrought up over the fight inaugurated re­ cently to secure Sunday closing. Rev'. William It. Webb, one of the pion­ eer Baptist'ministers of the State, died of paralysis at Rockford. aged 82 years. Henry McKinney, alias.Henry Brown, was arrested on a farm neat Paris. He had escaped from a jail at Greenfield, Ind. Michael Vereelli, a boarding house keep­ er at Ladd, was shot and mortally wonnd- ed by a colored man who was robbing the house. The Cass County second annual fish fry, watermelon barbecue and Illinois river valley convention held a two-day celebra­ tion and convention at Beardstown. Judge Willis of Elgin refused an in­ junction asked by Fulton representatives of the Modern Woodmen, restraining, the removal of the head camp, from^ Fulton. Porter Parks of Quincy, 13 years old, committed suicide by hanging himself to a door with a shawl strap. His mother had punished him for some trivial mat­ ter. Near Mowequa, the outlook for the new corn is splendid, and this year's crop of oats is threshing out about fifty bushels to the 'acre. There was no wheat raised in that section. . - Miss Minnie Braun of Belleville fell, head foremost, into six feet of water in a cistern and for thirty minutes struggled for iife. She finally managed to climb to the top. While working in the tank room of Nel­ son Morris & Co., Chicago, Thomas Roo- ney slipped and fell into d vat of boiling grease. He was so seriously scalded that he will die. Edith, the only daughter of Dr. J. H. Bates of Chicago, was secretly married to Ernest A. Whitney, a poor young man, at Kenosha, Wis., five weeks ago. Her parents are wealthy. Major Moses P. Handy, special commis­ sioner of the United States to the Paris international exposition of 1900, has ap­ pointed Col. Louis M. Hamburger of Chi­ cago as his assistant. At Peoria, Mrs. Mamie Keifer, an aero­ naut and parachute jumper, was drowned in the river while boat riding with three companions. The boat was overturned, but the others citing to it and were finally rescued. Near Galena, an unknown assassin lay in wait for Michael Cole, a farmer, as he approuched his home Sunday night and shot, him in the back, wounding him -fatal­ ly. There is no clew to the murderer and no reason for the crime is known. Gov. Tanner has appointed the foil ing members of the State Board of Ex iners of Architects: William H. Ree of Peoria, N. Clifford Ricker of Ch paigu, Dankmnr Adler, William Zimmer­ man and Peter B. Wight of Chicago. At Minonk, E. Hakes, proprietor of the Rutland mines, was imprisoned Saturday- night in a store surrounded by threatening miners. The cause of the trouble was that Saturday was pay day at the mines, but Mr. Hakes failed to furnish the nec­ essary cash. A. G. Porter died at Lamoille Satur­ day, at the age of 83. He came to Illi­ nois in 1837 and during slavery times was a conductor on the underground railway, working in unison with Owen Lovejoy. He was very friendly with the Indian chief Shaboua. The Comptroller of .the Currency has declared a fourth dividend of 5 per cent in favor of the creditors of the National Bank of Illinois at Chicago, making in all 70 per cent within eight months from the date of closing. This dividend amounts to about $5(50,000. The electric light works has closed at Carlinsville owing to no coal being ob­ tainable. and the city streets are in dark­ ness. The merchants who used electric lights are burning coal oil lamps. The water works are kept in operation" by using wood for fuel. The Latter Day Saints have invaded the streets of Chicago and have adopted the methods of the Salvation army. Ev­ ery evening and Sunday morning a little band of the apostles of Mormonism gather in front of the Newberry library and hold curbstone gospel meetings. The city of Lake Forest has been trou­ bled with a number of cases of typhoid lately. The Board of Health has endeav­ ored to locate the source of the infection, but so far without satisfactory results. The lake water furnished the city, al­ though filtered, is under suspicion. Peoria authorities are confident they have "Peggy" Noonan, the notorious postoflice burglar, under arrest at Con- eaut, O. About a year ago Noonan broke jail at Peoria, where he was detained under five years' sentence in the peniten­ tiary for robbing the postoflice at Forest. The marriage of John G. Schmohl, Mayor of Galena, and Miss Bertha M. Prince at Leicester, Mass., is announced. There was much surprise over the event, of which Mr. Schmohl had given no inti­ mation beforehand. He is a well-known capitalist, w ith extensive interests in Chi­ cago aud Milwaukee. Robert C. Boehme filed a bill in the Sangamon County Circuit Court for an injunction restraining the State Board of. Education, State Treasurer Henry L. Hertz and State Auditor J. S. McCul1 lough from paying over to the State nor­ mal university at Normal any of the ap­ propriation made by the last Legislature for that institution. In tlie document filed with the clerk of the court Mr. Boehme declares that in his opinion the university is a private corporation; that it has been so declared by the Supreme Court of Illinois, and that the institution is now exercising the powers that ordi­ narily appertain to private corporations. Police Magistrate W. R. Timmons of Danville, who sentenced a woman to the rock pile for thirty days, has imposed as a punishment on three boys--Harry Sid-: ler, Carl Schmit and Ed Calberg--an hour's reading of the Bible each day at the police court. At Metropolis, Fred C. Sanders and Miss Jennie Warren were married in the study of the Christian Church. A' corre­ spondence was begun three months ago through an advertisement of Miss War­ ren and answered by Mr. Sanders, vyho is prominent in commercial circles in Dear ver, Colo. The na val recruiting station at 20 Mich­ igan avenue, Chicago, was closed Satur­ day. In three weeks 227 candidates were examined, with a result that 121 raw sailors will be added to the United States navy. Lieut. Hawley, who has had charge of the station, will open a recruit­ ing station in Milwaukee. A meeting of the representatives of a number of sash factories was held at Rock Island. The meeting was for the purpose of petitioning the railroad com­ missioners of Illinois. Iowa and Minn»> sot a with a' view to having freight rates adjusted, it being alleged that there fa discrimination between the East aud West. t