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LYME, Ctfiter tad njrjwfti s m , A REAL poet does not rcqu»F«a<8fa- feet jimmy with which to break into i#0D8- % A MAW never realizes what an an |fie can be until he goes on » picnic and tries to help entertain the party. % * T: MWf LBSLIE misjh t have been con ' a divorce from her hus- *ttbout throwing her repug inanceforhim in his false teetfci. JOHN HABE of Elkhart, Ind., has an fljfSfeight dollar bill, which he claims to v Jbe the oldest specimen of United g states money extant It was issued i^Vjin m8. THE San Francisco Examiner has ^ published a 120-page souvenir num - , jber. It was a glorious effort in ^journalism and we intend to take a week off to read it. P&&' 1% f? v . . g-1, \ Ir the Montana statue of Justice is Teffll*v bowlcgged the fault is in the pr ? ^oikmana&ip, of course. Thousands of bald headed men will testify that there is nothing of that sort the * , matter with the model. H ONE man |n if urem burg turns .but ^ 69,904,000 lead pencils every year. piThis doesn't seem at all an unneces : jsary number to the man who has just whittled one of them all away in the v^afrtempt to sharpen if Wii&iAM BBNM'b ^host must have heaved a deep, hazy sigh when the Massachusetts was launched at the fly love, with a more ttery and a more efficient any other vessel^ ̂ $he world. jn decided by an Ohio > a marriage ceremony per fjMMNPKjT'i book agent is not bind­ ing. It is likely, though, that' elopment with a book agent still con­ stitutes: adequate grounds for a di­ vorce, even in the Buckeye State. WB are born in hope; we pass our childhood in hope; we are governed by hope through the whole course of our lives, and in our last moments hope is uatteriug to us; and not until , the beating of our heart shall cease *rill its benign influence leave us. KATE FIELD'S WASHINGTON is of the opinion that we ought to be proud Sthat we are able to "take the wind out of the sails" of all other nations With the battleship New York. *Thab expression has become an­ tiquated. "Take the steam out or their boilers" is more it IMh h'n~ "OH being introduced to a young lady you should bow and express your pleasure at meeting her," the New York Advertiser editor tells an anx lous correspondent Did the editor «xpect, perhaps, that the correspond «nt would turn a handspring back- 'ward and sing "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de- W?" IT is decided that a washerwoman *who sells the clothes given her to wash is not guilty of larceny. Of coursa The technicality on which this dec'sion rests is one of the dear­ est of the antiquities cherished by the law and has shielded more thieves in high places than almost any other hair-splitting absurdity of U» Law, with a big, big L. E A THRIFTY and literary burglar was I' : r>$aptured in New York, in his rooms booty, labelled and inventoried with K-. the names and addresses of the own- t'"'" ore, was found that had been collected k In all parts of the Country. His diary, "^torhich was carefully written, con­ tained the names of the people whose jiomes he bad entered, and two lead­ ing citizens of. San Francisco led all the rest THOSE wbo are striving merely for approval may be cast down, those who care only for the prizes of life may be disappointed; but the delight which is taken in the effort for excellence ban never he shaken while the effort Continues. The consciousness of earnest endeavor, the knowledge that we are doing our best, is a joy which no envious tongue^ no bitter criticism Can banish. IT is said chat a series of experi­ ments will soon be made designed to test the applicability of electricity to $he propulsion of boats on the Erie jeanal and that power may be fur- £* lushed by the Niagara Falls. A few Jjrears ago such a suggestion would v , nave been deemed a very wild flight ^ ;^f imagination, but the rapid de- | ielopment of electrical science shows |-;i that it is not impossible. ANOTHER Chicago policeman, all too quick with his revolver, has L ' ••killed the wrong maaM Of cofirse |t was an accident, but it showed V jsriminal negligence jnst the same. If "" ~ * $oiue citizen should 4'kill the wrong '. txMeeman" by mistake he'd have a . Mheavy score to settle; the investiga- , ' tion and punishment of the careless th# extravagantly exaggerated American variety. lis tendency, however, has been to stir the Chinese to riot, and the missionaries are teaching with one hand op their hooks and the other on weapons of physical defense. Tax Legislature of Ontario recently passed an act forbidding the spraying of fruit trees during the blooming period with "any mixture containing paris green or any other poisonous substance Injurious to bees." As fruit-growers and bee-keepers differed in opinion as to the wisdom of this act the Ontario College Station issued a bulletin giving information regard­ ing the functions performed by bees in the pollenation of fruits and their relation to the destruction of fruit Evidence was given showing that spraying trees in bloom with paris green is likely to be very injurious to bees and in some degree damaging also to the fruit THE LANDMARK Mr It* >M Qm&m -mo Shoy 8o# X* from Afar--How it b Mads wivt It Ctaat -- Air&ngeneats fs»~ CBqOt that- THE discharge of 4,000 laborers by a Northwestern railroad company is unfortunate. When business is good such corporations begin a series of improvements and extensions , calling for large numbers of laborers, which they accumulate in a part of the country which has no occupation for! But the gigantic toy on the Midway Away Up ta Affe. Wotlfl* s Fair correspondence: V "What on earth is that?" This is the astonished ••eiy passenger on the Illii the L," and the steamboat lines on the lake make# as soon as he geta his first sight of the Ferris Wheel. And he asks It afar off, for the wheel is the landmark of the Fair. His inquiry should be, "What in the air is that?" for if there is anything on or near the Exposition grounds besides the captive balloon that is not on earth it is the Ferris Wheel. At first it looks as the great trusses of the Manu­ factures Building used to look before the roof was on. But, as it towers higher and is seen to be circular in­ stead of semi-circular, the spectator can form no idea what it is until he is told. It ia beyond all question the crowning novelty of the Exposition as the Eiffel tower was of the Paris Expo­ sition. To that it ia superior in some respects, fci^it has the element of mo­ tion Instead of being an inert mass, and presents engineering difficulties with wliich man never before grappled. When was made the first wheel similar to this in construction, in a general way, and for amusement purposes, no one knows. The idea is an old one, Iff' concrete, arfd the feet of the tower are oanneoted with ami bolted to-them with iron rods. The wheel is never left to itself, hut is always directly and constantly con­ trolled oy a stean? engine. The wheel points east Mid west, and the engine, which is a 1,000 horso-power^reversihle Blooming train engine, is located under the east naif of it, and sunk four feet in the ground. The machinery is very similar to that used in the power-houses CONVENE IN WMHINpTPN, Who Action of the British CkwUnmcnt bi Brought M»tters to * Cri»l*--Ekh Man la tfcn Kertbwwt ML Jtami MTUttl "MIMICKI* OB CBURCH. them when discharged. Such cor­ porations discharge that labor when there appears to be a pinch in their business, thus turning upon the country through which their roads run thousands of idle men. Asa matter of business it is not goon policy, because it inflicts a blow upon the business of the country which is felt far beyond the discharge of the men, and hastens aud intensities a business and industrial stagnation which otherwise might have been es­ caped THERE has a new danger come in with the general adoption of the ^heel as a»means of locomotion. One of the most frightful things you can encounter is a cross-eyed man com- ing straight at you on a bicycle. This is especially true when both of his eyes focus on the end of his nose. They are as awe-inspiring as a pair of derringers. You cau gather no idea of what his Intentions are by looking at him. You want to dodge the on- dashing juggernaut, but realize that ycu would be trusting to a lottery. To jump the right way means free­ dom, but to trust to the other side of the dead line means anything from a broken back to a last call. As a rule you will stand paralyzed and trust to the man with diagonal oculars. If he would only wear blue goggle* the danger would be decreased by at least 75 per cent „ No REASONABLE person can blame Prof. Wiggins for casting the mantle of weather prophecy from his shoul­ ders. He has received but little honor and less profit in his own country, and outside the Dominion of Canada be has met only the finger of ridicule* Wiggins, who by the way is a Gov­ ernment employe at Ottawa, and also a scientist, as measured by the Cana­ dian standard, made some fairly good weather guesses a few years aga He was shrewd enough to garnish and nearly smother his guesses in "ifs' and "buts," and with abnormal cheek he would claim success regardless of the weather output. But he is dis­ couraged now, and he leaves the bus­ iness of prophecy in disgust The present season has been too much for him. Adieu, Wiggins. No act of your prophetic career became you like the leaving of It #£ I" ould be meted out to such a citizen. I THE Chinese humorists are again draining reputations at the expense of the European and American mission- They charge the Christians 1th kidnapping children whom they Into sheep, in order that they be carried off tfitHoot discovery. THERE is good reason to believe that the days of "tipping" are num­ bered. This emancipation of the traveling public from a grinding tyranny will come from an unexpected quarter, namely the waiters them­ selves. Inasmuch as the waiters themselves are the point in the vi­ cious system with which the public have come in contact with it, the common opinion has been that the waiters are the real tyrant in the case. On the contrary the waiters are preparing for a general uprismg against the system, and, strange to say, they are looking for a hard fight to attain their freedom. Recently the two most powerful organizations of waiters in New York City--the Waiters' Alliance and the Interna­ tional Hotel and Restaurant Em­ ployes' Association--have united with the avowed purpose of conquering their right to do business on business principles. . They will demand from employers fair wages for a fair day's work so that there will be no neces-; sity of levying blackmail ontheguests of their employers. It is said that the waiters will actually publish fen appeal to the public to help them in their enterprise of avoiding tips. The public will doubtless be.there when the reform begins. " t Three Seri es of Cranks. A French vegetarian society has become divided into three parta One wing calls itself cerealite, to indi­ cate that it believes only in eating cereals; another will be known as fruitarian, because it thinks fruit the only proper food, and another has been dubbed tuberile, because It be­ lieves in eating roots. Each wing thinjes that the happiness and stabil­ ity of the human race depends on the adoption of its views. Oranalf of the world doesn't know how the other half lives. Jt is just as well, perhaps. It saves thousands of divorces and cyclones of family troubles centrally, i Plaisanoe was born two years ago in the mind of George W. G. Ferris, a 36- foar-old Pittsburg engineer. The wheel is composed of two wheels of the same Bize connected and held to­ gether with rods and struts, which, hoover, do not approach closer than twenty feet to the periphery. Each wheel ha* for its outline a curved, hoi- low, equaro iron beam iiiCliwi, of the cable car companies, and runs with the same hoarse roar that' they do. It operates a north-and-south iron shaft, twelve inches in diameter, with great cog vrheela at each end, by means of which the power is applied, at each side of the wheel. How ta Get mm Board* ,,, It is arranged to empty and refill six cars with passengers at'a time, 30 that there will co six stops in every revolu­ tion. Accordingly six railed platforms of varying heights*haye been provided on the north side of the wheel and six more, corresponding with these, on the south side of it. When the whbel stops each of the six lowest cars has a plat­ form at eaoh of its doors. The passen­ gers step out of the south doqrs and other passengers step in at the north doors. Then the next six oars are >Wv ctovtiraArAcf*.' President Cleveland has issued » proflamation convening the LUId Con­ gress in extraordinary session on Aug.7, and the State D^araicmii has sent to every Senator and Representative a* ofOaial notice of the extra session. Aooording to a special ̂ spateh the |m- nnamwiiAiil & nfimmd 8QI1B&" ^TwaAn. ™ lobbies of the hotels were crowded with Congress­ men and politicians discussing the un­ expected turn of affairs. On every hand the deep significance of the Presidents action as affecting tl8s Jpresent financial situation was ell. The Cabinet was in session for three hours. Tho gravity of the financial aituation was dis<? enssed freely from every standpoint. The President and his Cabinet had been overwhelmed with messages urging an immediate session. While there was general aoquiescence in the President's views at the Cabinet meeting and no objections advanced to the calling cf thoorttrasosaloa, the sewfchnent wasgm entirely unanimous that it waa strletly necessary. A few members of the Cabinet have held the opinion that the' circumstances did not justify an extra session earlier than September. Secre­ tary Lamont was strongly in favor of calling the session immediately. Before the Cabinet meeting ad­ journed the President requested his adviser8 to observe secrecy regarding the proposed proclamation. Even while the President's proclamation was being prepared denials were semi-of- fioially given out. The departure of the belief'that nothing would he done, so that the first bulletin of the procla­ mation caused nothing short of a sen­ sation. The action of the British Govern­ ment in India, the dispatch says, brought matters to a crisis. Previous to that startling event Mr. Cleveland hatfmanifested a firm determination to iadhinrift tn plan of exiling Congress together in September. After the suspension of silver coinage in India the President resolutely declined to speak further about his intentions un­ til he should be prepared to act, and each of his Cabinet officers maintained similar silence. It may be stated, how­ ever, without violating confidence, that from the day when the announcement of the action of India was made the President took stops to keep him­ self forewarned through the press dis­ patches of the slightest approach to panic in the money market, prepared at any moment to take the course which he has now adopted. When he found telegnuns on his table not only from Eastern and Middle States, but also from the South and even from some of the silver States, urging that Congress be called together at tho earliest day possiblo to end the uncer­ tainty, he determined to delay no longer. • , There ted with ikia, a memory of 6,000 pioneers of that part of the Mis­ sissippi valley. The remains of many of these people had re* e e n t l y b e e n transferred from the old ceme­ teries in the low grounds at the foot of Fort Gage to the top of a hill, a spot immortalized by General George M HONIII MONUMENT, company of vol- KASKASKIA. unteers, capt­ ured Fort Gage from the British. The ceremonies of dedication com­ prised a speech by Cyrus L, Cook, of Edwardsville, one of the commission­ ers of the State; response by Wm, Gartzell, of Chester; addresses upon "The Historical Reminiscences of Old Kaskaskia" and "History of the Ap­ propriation for the Removal of the Dead;" the reading of "The Declara­ tion of Independence" and a poem, 'The Capture of Fort Gage." The is a granite shaft, -with /and bases in appropriate Ading twenty-six feet high, and hearing the following inscription: i "Those who sleep here were first buried at Kaskaskia and afterward re­ moved to this cemetery. They were the early pioneers of the great Mis- sissipi Valley. They planted free in­ stitutions in a wilderness and were the founders of a great commonwealth. In memory of their sacrifices Illinois gratefully erects this monument 1892." To the sentimental reader these cere­ monies suggested much more than the setting up of a monument. They had. wans FIRST ILLINOIS LKOISLATURB MKT. SELL STORED WHEAT. THE GREAT FER&3 WHEEL. rty fe circle is another 01 a lighter beam. These beams are called crowns and are connected and held together by an elaborate trusswosk. Within this smaller circle11* there are no beams, and at a distance there appears to be noth­ ing. Bbt at the center of the gopat wheel is an immense iron axle 32 inches thick and 40 feet in length. Eaoh of the twin wheelf where the axle passes through it. is provided with a large iron hub 26 feet in diameter. Between these hubs and the inner "crowns" there are no connections except spoke-rods inches in diameter, ar­ ranged in pairs, 13 feet apart at .the crown connection. At a distance they look like mere spider webs, and the wheel seems to be dangerously devoid of substantial support The explanation of this is that the Ferris wheel--at least inside the smaller orowns--is constituted on the principle of a bicycle wheel. The naif is suspended from the axle lower half is suspe: by,the spoko roas running downward, and the upper half of the wheel is sup- torted by the lower half. The only ifference is that the Ferris whee hangs by its axle, while a bicycle wheel rests on the ground, and the weight is applied downward on the Bow Fkacniwi An Canted. • The* great wheel has thirty-six car­ riages for passengers hung on its pe­ riphery at equal intervals. Eaoh car is ISflftUI BOWOIO BJtrORK TBI TOMB OF THB SACRED OX. thirteen feet twenty-seven feet long, tn wide, and nine feet high. It has a heavy frame of iron, but is covered ex­ ternally with wood. It has a door, and five broad plate-glass windows on eaoh side. It contains forty revolving chairs, made of wire and screwed to the floor It weighs thirteen tons, and with its forty pasnongofti will weigh threo tons more. It is suspended to the periphery of tho wheel by an iron axle six and ofie«half inches in diameter, which runs through the roof. It is provided with a conductor to open the doors, preserve order, and givo information. All the oars together will carry 1,400 people. To avoid accidents from pan- UJS, and to prevent insane people from jnmOiiy out, the windows will be cov­ ered with an iron grating. It is prob- served the same way, and the next and next all day. ~ rnsMhlni at tiie Fair. Rev. Dr. Thomas, facing an audience of 5,000 persons in Festival iDSll,1 preached the first sermon within the gates ol the Columbian Exposition. He cafod the attention of his hearers to the text, taken from the twenty-first verse of the seventeenth chapter of St. John: "That all may b© one: as Thou Father art in,me and I in Thee; that they may be one in utf; that the world may believe that Thou hast sent me.* The service was made musical by the help of the Apollo Club, 500 Strong. Dr. Thomas said in part: "Man stands alone in himself. He is self- conscious of his being; this being estabUSh^ thr,Tiifferent race* as th intelligence dictated. Conscience their is the same everywhere. Conscience tells us to do what we think is right, and what is not right. The prayer of Christ wm that ail these people be one and they "eventually will. It is only by labor that th© masses can be 'enlight­ ened and we must have teachers Land ot^jeots for all these to profit by, for they are needed to make the world." Dr. Thomas then reviewed the con­ structive era of tho Fair and told how the present beautiful oity of white pal­ aces had been erected in what was three years ago a marshy waste. It took all kinds of labor to reaoh this result, he said, and added: "We are all one person working toward one com­ mon end. Man is the helper of man. Notwithstanding the queer talk over religion oonsideired in its multifarious beliefs, at the bottom of all great re­ ligions who have bible? and temples all believe one fundamental principle and that truth is somehow^that is so like God that it is possible for human and divine to come together. Men sha%yet be one." >T mmEs or THE XA^. for smokers. The wheel, with its cars and passen- tons, and substantial up. its axis is supported therefore on two skeleton iron towers, pyramidal in form, one at each end or it. They are 40x50 feet at the bottom, and 6 feet square at the top, and about UOlwiltiga, tin sUto aezt to the 1 Notea PMM*Up»t tho World's Great--t Show. In the Cape Colony exhibit are 40,000 raigh diamonds. Tae crown laces of Italy contain some specimens 1,800 years old. . . The air broke is applied to 100 cars. Ten complete-trains ahd & model depot are features of the Transportation Building. In the Woman's Building a model kindergarten occupies a room 80 feet long by 60 feet wide. Thirteen enormous Ion bom Canada contain 1,600 feet of lumber. In the French collection there is a cabinet of bronse and ebony, with •enamel of Limoges and Grecian fig­ ures. It has a seoret spring "and a labyrinth of drawers. The valuation is 920,000. The valuation of $30,000 is given to two vases which the Spanish Comm>/~ sioaera keep under look and These vaees are of iron, four £eet-"ffh; one Etrusoaa, the other Grecif* mented with geld hammered ***> the iron so as to snow vines, owf» 3114 fig­ ures of women in !lowin«"$*Pe,T-, A Spanish woman did thiiP®"1}' Pr4zed- work. A fewyears *^®* working girt; How Many Warehousemen Speculate la Grain. It was reported at Minneapolis that an indefinite quantity of wheat, repre­ sent by some as }i igh as 2,00CMXJft bush­ els. has been surreptitiously shipped out of the elevators of Dulutn, leaving holders of warehouse receipts with nothing to show for thSir property. The country elevator capacity in the Northwest back of Duluth and Minne- apoUs iq about 30,000,000 bushels. The production of these States as officially estimated at Washington ranges from 90,000,000 to llOjOOO.000 bughels, but iit i&muOh as rec&pis at the principal spring wheat points run over that limit, it is safe to assume that the esti­ mate is 20,000,000 to 80,000,000 bushels short. Wheat raising is the great industry of the North- weffo ft is the one crpp the farmers rely on for cash returns. From Sept. 1, which is usually the beginning of their harveBt, until the end of the year it is a rush and a scramble to get the wheat under roof. Railroads are overtaxed and warehousemen have more than they can attend to. The whole crop is rushed to market. The usual thing is far the farmer to bring his wheat to the nearest elevator sta­ tion and either sell it outright' to* representative of the. big milling and elevator combines, or to put tjie grain in store, taking therefor flie receipt of the warehousemen. Tfeeow^Oally-, the. wheat remains in store until sudh a time as the holder of the receipt may decide to sell and ship it, but it dcosn't. The warehouseman, a Minneapolis dispatch alleges, sells the farmer's grain the minute he gets it into his warehouse, making contracts to deliver it in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Duluth at com© fu­ ture time. If his elevator gets full he forwards the grain to one of the three points mentioned, and fills his bins with fresh wheat, going through the same process of issuing receipts for it and collecting carrying charges and insurance on the property. Many warehousemen are satisfied with the profits resulting from collect­ ing storage charges on the capacity of their elevators, but others, more avari­ cious and less careful, not only sell out their customers' property, but "short* the market an amount equal to the quantity represented by outstanding certificates. Then when the property is ordered sold by the people who fancy they still have it to sell, the ware­ houseman reduces his short line to just that extent. Not all warehousemen are agdictcd to these practices, but it is alleged that many of them in the Northwest are. much to cause the patriotic Illinoisanto think. _ A brilliant galaRy of statesmen, politicians, soldiers, jurists and lawyers gave Kaskaskia a place unique in his­ tory. Gen. Shields, warrior, statesman and. Senator of three States, ie buried in Carroll County, Missouri, almost ia sight of the Missouri River. The body of Elias Kent Kane, one of tho first United States Senators elected by Illi­ nois, lies in the bluffs above Kaskaskia, three miles from the monument. The rve is isolated. It is marked a stone giving the date of birth and death, but little more. The re- giams of Judge Sydney Breese are uried in Clinton County. Those of Governor Ninian J. Edwards lie in St. Clair County. The late General John Pope, the son of Judge Nathaniel Pope, born in Kaskaskia and reared therej lie in BeHefonlalne CemeteryT Those of Judge Pope, his father, were buried at Kaskaskia. The body of Daniel Pope Cook, one of the first Congressmen elected by the new State, is buried in Northern Illinois. These men came to Kaskaskia when it was the territorial capital, and when it was thought to be the coming capital of the coming State. Some of them even drifted there after the territorial ad­ mission In JU&8. When the capital was located a£ vandal ia, and it was evident that ttiere was no future for Kaskaskia, the men with political ambition turned away. - < At that time cemeteryW kaskia. The town was then much more e the population of the larger than that of Kaa- THE liabilities of Sheldon '&'C6.",""of Kew York, now foot up to$3W,U00. The assets are less than $150,000. GOTTLIEB MUELUSJR shot himself at St. Louis, Mo., leaving a note saying that he was tired of life and willing the 12130 on his person to the man who should find him. ANTOY MULDOGN, an oil well shooter, was hauling 200 quarts of glycerine tJ Guffey Station, Pa. The wagon overturned ana an explosion erased, which left nothing of Muldoon Ma his horses but shreds of flesh. TWEJCTY plantations wore hooded be­ low New Prieaxis by a break in the lev.ee, fhe loss will amount to $1,000,- 000. <|HS new financial clauses of the fl<Ni home rule biU provide that the revenue shall be divided into general and special. A 5-YBAB-oiiO apn of William Ather- ton, of Guthrie, O. T., while playing about son* building stone, .pulled ^the pile dows'on himself and was killed THE Aiprema Oourt Of Ohio, in the Deslrfer will oaaa, Juas . decided that brothers and sitters pf fill blood in­ herit bgfift^e fulif brothers or sisters. l^vJlMa nearly 41,000,000 to the IEA%P-T«RILLIIMW than a century old. Since the date of baptism of the ohild of Michael and Mary Aco, March 20, 1695, a century and a quarter had passed. In that long time the fathers of the church had sung as many masses for the dying as they had seen new souls brought to tho baptismal font. While Kaskaskia was,' for yesrs hpfore the founding of New Orleans, the chief town of the Missis­ sippi valley, and while she remained the head of navigation for years after New Orleans and years before St. Louis i« S t ' THE OLD KASKASKIA IKK. became her successful rivals, her popu­ lation never exceeded 1,000. The ceme­ tery grew much faster than the town, and the time following the exodus of 1820 would have found it considerably ahead if a comparative census had been possible. The fate of the town oould then be foreseen. In 1766 Capt. Philip Pittman, a British army jSogi'neer, writing of Fort Chartres, ojf tho Mis­ sissippi River, about tMrfeen/ miles from Kaskrfskia, saw and predicted the encroachment of the river on'the Illi­ nois shore. Kaskaskia was doomed if engineering skU'l could not be brought to her protection. The nigh vater Qf 1844, which cut a i new ch&nnsijacjFQg«^hs point, made it clear tha* CfcptT rlllnan's prophesy of the destruction of the city would in time <>e fulfilled, and the question of removing the dead from the doomed cewfeterie8 was discussed. Nothing yA8 done, however, till about nine years ago, when Father Ferland suc­ ceeded In interesting the State authori­ ties in the matter. A plat of ground was purchased, and the monument just dedicated was agreed upon. ^ One of the graves left untouched was that of Pierre Menard. When the State dedicated the monument to Men­ ard at Springfield it proposed to take up his remains and remove them, at ite ( own expense, to the State capital and ! bury them with appropriate honors ' and ceremonies at the foot of the monu­ ment. His descendants objected to the removal at that time, and promised, when reminded of the danger of their being carried away, to remove them. Last year the relatives again objected and renewed the promise to have the corpse disinterred and taken to a place of safety. With that understanding the body of Menard was left almost alone in the old burial ground. The water is now nm huadra* iset away from it. . ^ " QO&EM m 8TAITTLINQ. | *1>LLV RECORDER Coneon at Madison Ooe* der-On* of the Chicago Hat-Snatching Qans to Flee* on Hie Safety. From Iter and Hoar. BY an explosion in the Clear Lake coal mine, near Springfield, Charles Whit taker was instantly killed. AT Shawnee town dr. E. C. Coivard died Saturday. He was oils, of the old* est residents of Gallatin PRESIDENT SHORTATA-, cFue Illi­ nois Humane Society, has liiMlMpfl a it'il gratulatory letter to the pub^C con* cerring the recent cowboy race. WHILE insane or under tiie infiuenoe ; of liquor, Officer Thomas Motan, of J ? Chicago, ran through the street*,«I shooting at everyone who crossed Ms path. IN a heroic attempt to save the Uvea ? of others Stephen In ester, a carpenter, t residing at Chicago, lost his own life. Nester was trying to stop a runaway team. GRIEF over the death of his son two years ago is the only reason that can be assigned for the attempt of William > Becker, a Chicago butcher, to commit suicide. A. A. PETERSON, a brakeman on the Chicago and Alton Road, was almost Instantly killed at Larosc. The train was going under a bridge, which it Stf presumed he did not see. ATTORNEY GENERAL MOLOHKT ap­ pointed ex-Senator M. L. Newell his second assistant. Several days ago the Sisition was tendered to Wesley H. anier, but he declined it after having the matter under consideration for a - time. IT has been decided that Jamison, the Quincy neg',*o murderer, is sosc, though he cunningly counterfeits in­ sanity. He is sentenced to hang Aug," 18, and threatens that if the sentence is executed the city of Quincy will be destroyed. ; WILLIAM WHITMAN, cashier for tha American Express Company at Spring­ field. left Thursday afternoon and not been seen since. He carried the keys to the safe, and it is rumored that he also took 87,000. He left town on a bicycle. Two hundred and fifty dollars is offered by the company as a reward for his arrest and detention until an • officer from Illinois can reach him and requisition papers be procured if "tne State IRENE MOORE --as convicted of larceny in Judge Ewing's court at Chicago ana sentenced to two years' impriaomant in the ' " -- " "• Dr. ley was walking on Dearborn street ' u near the Polk street depot when the). woman 'seized his hat and threw it iaiuj prehended outside of hois, u ap- ofnfi- e penitentiary. The woman robbed; J r. Hiram T. Smiley of 840. Dr. Smi- a hallway. He went to recover it,wheat he was set upon by several woinetuwho robbed him of the money. The Moore woman was the only one who caught, and Assistant State's At Knight succeeded in proving her beyond a doubt. • THE Madison Car Company of Madi­ son filed articles of assignment in the Recorder's office at Edwardsville on Saturday. Paul A. Fusz is the anfrfgnoa;' The liabilities of the company ans $918,000; assets, $1,122,000. The nails created consternation among St. Lcuda brokers, as all the parties Interested are heavily concerned in a number of big enterprises in that city. TheJMbsSi* son car works are controlled by wBfcfew" known as the Granite MountaaTOfiQ- pie, who are also behind the Mer* chants' Bridge, Scrutiny Building, a number of mining enterprises. months ago the company bonded it for $500,000. This was used W pay off all outstanding indebtedness and en­ large the plant, and was known to have left the company with plenty of work* ing capital. The wor" to their full capacity* tween forty and fifty cars a day. The coital stock of the company is 1500,- ^ THE new Catholic Church at Maa^, •/ - coutah was dedicated. y*; y# s . ' iWP4" £"** > Sj ^ As > *:v-- P." 'A.K '..J mm MISS NORA PATTERSON, of Sullivan, was married Sunday evening to C. M., Lane, of Decatur. < CAPT. PETER died Monday. Capt. FMlupa of the best-known Grand Army the State and was a successful mer­ chant. ALBERT CRANE, a Troy Grove fi mer, worth $90,000, committed su~ AT Carlyle the team of Wi Faulke, a farmer 50 years ol away, throwing him out. He nHfeived serious internal injuries wltfth may prove fatal. f f FRANK BROOKSB had his eyos ai>> most destroyed by a powder explosion at Lincoln. Tom Murphy received burns and cuts in the*'face which will' disfigure him for life by the premature explosion of an suavil at Elkhart. Miss MARY BK?LKLEY. daughter of the Rev. Dr. Justin Bulkley, pastor oft the Upper Alton First Baptist Church- and President of Shurtleff College, died at a sanitarium at Berwyn front, injuries which were self-inflicted. Two. months ago Miss Bulkley was forced to abandon the study of music and return, to Upper Alton much broken in health.; It was evident that intense application; to her work had affected her mind, and she was sent to a sanitarium, but without benefit. Then she was taken, to Berwyn in the hope of bringing about a change for the better. Miss Bulkley procured a lancet in some way, and opened the veins in her left wrist in two places. It was some time before she was discovered, and then the *loss of blood had been so great that the physicians could do nothing for her,, ana she died in eighteen hours. SIMON* WEISE was found in the lake, at Chicago with a bullet hole in his head,, jji JgJiseiieved -he vwumiued sui­ cide. * HUGO MENZEL, a 41-year-oti). Liaeete boy, was cut in two by a train on thoi Peoria, Decatur and Evaaaville Rail­ way. He lay asleep on the tr*ek, and the trainmen are not blamed for the accident. JOHN A. CRAWFORD died at Benton . aged 92 years. Mr. Crawford came to this State in 1818, and was surrounded ' by a host of descendants at the time of his death. He wf^jUwroidest pioneer in Egypt. MARGARET RUPE, aged H w died Sunday in Decatur at the home her son. Dr. M.~ Brandorm. She was the mother of twelve children Sxtd lived to see five generations of her fam­ ily. There are now more hundred of her direct di * " * State session of the Army olose4| at Jacksonville good attendance. Several were changed and a made. The rneetin by Staff Captain City. The reports over the Stale are the prospects are bettor tor •us yew thaaever before. k J