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PLA1NDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. HENRY. ILLINOIS. ' WHEK a murderer nas no snow for ptovioe an alibi be generally tries tUc insatifty dodge,. The plea of "Ir­ resistible impulse" has come to cre- ate suspicion whenever it is made. ^JCBKBBXDKNT MCLEOD is no doubt a lioBt railroad man, but since the Stew England has gone the way of the Beading there will be a preva­ lent idea that he has been given the hardest nut to crack or that he is a iioodoo. 'JS^ MI'- THE cost of the Lehigh strttce •inounted to nearly $1,000,000 for both sides will be paid ultimately by the public. And yet the public is •opposed to have nothing to do with •hese squabbles. According to cor­ poration theory the public is not in­ terested in corporation affairs after the charter, granting valuable privi­ leges, is once procured. AH error, grave and deplorable,has wen committed. A wife with a troublesome tooth sought a Chicago dentist- The man of pincers, follow­ ing a practice well-founded in medi­ cal dentistry, killed the nerve under the tooth, not, however, without se­ vere pain to the wife, who reported Che matter to her husband, The chivalric nature of the husband was tiled, and straightway he sought out the dentist and admistered to him a sound thrashing. The error lies in the dentist not killing the husband's aervfe „ iv's :|C; QUEEN VICTOUIA has evidently ; pandered Well on the saying that «iian must eat to live. At Balmoral, where she lives in the simplest pos­ sible way, she begins her day at 8 o'clock with tea, chocolate, or coffee, tod dry toast. At 9: 30 she has break­ fast, small trout freshly caught from the River Dee being an invariable dish. At 12:30, after her morning outing, she haa a little refreshment --an egg beaten up in milk, some soup and a little fruit She lunches 4t 2. Later in the afternoon there Is the invartabie afternoon tea, and between 8 or 9 dinner is served. Thus on six meals a day does Her Majesty manage to sustain nature. If: v!p=~- RECKLESS drivers continue to en- <$§nger life in the downtown streets In Chicago when no policeman is in sight They have no regard for the rights of pedestrians. Their sole ob­ ject is to reach their destination as quickly as possible. Charles King, while alighting from a cable car at Randolph street and Wabash avenue, was almost crushed to death by a heavy wagon that was driven de­ liberately over him. This is a favor­ ite performance of the juggernaut driver. He whips his horses over a street crcssing when passengers are slighting from a car and flattens the ctitfortunates against the steps or forces them to scramble upon the platform in order to save their lives land limbs. . VERMONT has the largest ;• wool clip of any State. In >" average 1890 it averaged 6.72 pounds per sheep The next highest average was in Sew Hampshire, where sheep averaged k#2 pounds per head in 1890. These high figures are the results of im­ proving the American Merino^ which will now produce a greater weight of tcoured wool per hundred pounds of carcass than any other sheep ever held. The Merino sheep has in this sountry reached nearly perfection as S wool-bearing animal, but so many tall-blooded rams have been shipped to Australia by Vermont and West­ on New York breeders that very Ine and even wools are now produced In that quarter of the world. Some tnc wool sheep have been sent to South Africa, but there the climate las not proven so good for wool pro- iuction as that of Australia. this one--as having taken place under his very eve, or the eyes of some strictly principled intimate friend whose veracity it were insult to im­ pugn. History does indeed, repeat it­ self in the chronicles of wit all over the world; if these side-spliting events have occurred at all the places,, and at all the times, when and where each historian isO'ums, THERE are some stories which are iSrennial, sempiternal, ubiquitous and ever recurrent. They turn up snexpectedly in remote regions, but anecdotes. If the events truthfully recorded in them have oot happened °io the recorder personally, they are always the actual experience of his tether, intimate friend, or, possibly, tf some local, statesman personally known to him. For instance, a Bos­ ton man makes Rufus Choate, Ed ward Everett, or Tom Appleton the hero of his "star" stories; a New Yorker selects William Travers, upon whose devoted head and elastic stutter half the anecdotes in the world, at one period or another, hinged. Stories without stutters, when they grew too stale to be dished up without a new sauce piquante were furnished with a rich one, and immediate be-: >^i|i«is-Travers' stories. 4' THE funny story is, as a rule, very «d. It is expected, led up to and, ten to one, disappointing. Besides that it has invariably been told be­ fore. No matter how true, how loyal, how noble your friend may have been during his whole past life, no matter how courageous a soul you know him to have been at great crises, at moments of danger even in tn battle; how scrupulously exact in matters of business. He will vouch for the facte in the veriest old chest- out of a tale--something you could swear you had heard in a previous «xistan<'4l it is much too ancient fcr A FRENCH engineer named Bozin comes to the fore with a scheme for a steamship on rollers or drums. These rollers are to be supplied with paddles, or creepers, and driven by engines, so that the craft will pro­ gress more like a street roller or a locomotive than like <tn ordinary ship. Thi»; jscheme is spoken' as something novel and startling. In fact it appears to be identical with a scheme invented and carried for­ ward to an experimental stage some two or three years ago. The inven­ tor appeared somewhere in the West, and later was engaged in building a craft on this plan not far from New York. Of late nothing has been heard of him and his drum ship Did M. Bozin steal the idea from the American, or is this another of the instances in which great discoveries are made independently and almost simultaneously by different persons far removed from one another? Be that as it may, we may depend upon it that the American, if alive and compos mentis, I will bob up as a claimant in case M. Bozin makes a success of his ocean high-roller. THE New York and New En$ Railroad has gone into the hands of a receiver after a checkered history of twenty years, during which it has attained to a mileage of 508 miles, 136 of which consisted of leased lines. The road rose into newspaper promi­ nence about a year ago inconsequence of its being used by Mr. McLecd, its President, as a lever with which to lift his Reading scheme into control of the anthracite coal interests of the country. The resulting wreck of Beading generally was attributed to McLeod, and he bad to fall back on his New England pet, which hds now passed out of his hands and those of the other stockholders because of in­ ability to raise the money to pay the January Interest It is stated that the company has had no working capital for the last Ave or six years, so that its collapse was only a ques­ tion of time when a little extra pres­ sure should throw it over "the ragged edged" of the precipice at the bottom of which lies bankruptcy. The poor estimation in which the affairs of the company are held may be inferred from the fact that the stock had fallen to 15J before the receivership was applied for. Of course it went lower than that when the crash came. THE United States and Great Britian have been promoting among governments for some time the pro­ ject of arbitration for the settlement of all disputes not adjustable in the ordinary course of diplomacy. In doing this the governments that represent the stablest forms of repre­ sentative institutions cannot hope Immediately to induce great military powers or peoples suffering keen cha­ grin to agree that armies shall be abolished, at least for aggression, that new territory shall not be ac­ quired except by purchase and that wars shall cease to be among the incidents of civilization. But war has already been humanized to a con­ siderable degree by the influence of the same conviction that between these two great countries arbitration has made it reasonably certain war shall never occur again. This influ­ ence permeates slowly but convinc­ ingly the consciousness of all en­ lightened human beings. Despotism may flout it Emperois with vast military establishments and medieval traditions of splendor may look upon it as unsuitable for a practical world. Yet its growth is bound to go on and in time it must minimize the mili­ tary spirit even in its strongest cen­ ters. v'C The Typical American The typical Americans have a!! been Western men, with the excep­ tion, let us say, of Washington. -way. - perfect!, novel aador^na, | cuSe."0' C that made him a great commander and a great President were qualities which would have made himjan equally great frontiersman. You cannot imagine Hamilton, or Madison, or Livingston, or. John Adams, or the Plnckneys living tolerably on the frontier. They are not Americans in the sense in which Clay and Jackson and Lincoln are Americans. We may wish that the typical Americans of the past bad had more knowledge, a more cultivated appreciation of the value of what was old and estab­ lished, a juster view of foreign nations and foreign politics; that they hdd been more like Webster and less like Jackson; and we may hope that the typical American ot the future will be wiser and better poised. But in the meantime the past is to be under­ stood and estimated as the facts stand, and only a thoroughly sympa­ thetic comprehension of these men who have actually been the typical Americans, will enable us to effect that purpose. The fact that Clay rather than Webster, Jackson, and not John Quincy Adams represented the forces which were really predomi­ nant and distinctively American in our development to commentary enough on any theory that makes either of the peculiar sections of the Atlantic seaboard the principal or only theater of American history. -- The Forum. THE trouble is that as we giow older, we cant't shut out our ghosts by putting our heads under the cov­ ers. ' . *ORTTH FA 0T\KNT/\ /& 9A*'\ l.O:, \0S QOLtfi* H f \ i • jpi;.' r'-y \.. \ 'J ' nM.'iv* PUBLISHED GRovt R CLEVELAND WASHINGTON ^ j. < t , , ̂ THAT THERE IS OF U. a if - * At;. ACCORDING TO GROVER CLEVELAND. My Country 'tis of ME, . Bweeet land of liberty, Of ME I Sing. s' < i> >V * IFTH --From Juiglr THE END OF "MY PLANS.'* At-Prealdent Dole Demolishes Grover's tempt at Throne Restoration. The latest news from Hawaii does not afford a particle of consolation for the opera boutfe statesmen at Wash­ ington. The failure of "my plans" is complete, and Don Quixote' Cleveland and Sancho Panzh Gresham are left sprawling on their backs amid the ruins of the throne which they tried to re-establish. The full text of President Dole's re­ ply to Minister Willis' demand on the provisional government shows it to be a strong, dignified and conservative paper. His array of facts is convincing, and his arguments are unanswerable. The President of an independent gov­ ernment, which has been formally rec­ ognized by every civilized power on earth, would have been justi­ fied in showing tome indignation at Mr. Cleveland's underhanded attempt to overthrow it, but he contents himself with a calm and con­ clusive argument to prove that the at­ tempt was unjustifiable. "We do not recognize the right of the President of the United States to interfere in our domestic affairs," says President Dole. He declares that such right could only be conferred by the action of the provisional government, or ac­ quired by conquest, and as it has not been acquired in either of these ways, it does not exists. In the long list of stupid blunders that Mr. Cleveland has made in this business, none has been more indefensible than his assumption of the right to sit in judgment on the affairs of Hawaii ani to arbitrate the provisional government out of exist­ ence. The sole question presented to him was the acceptance or the rejec­ tion of the proposition for annexation. Indeed, that was not presented to Mr. Cleveland, but to his predecessor. Mr. Cleveland only obtained jurisdic­ tion of the question at all by recalling the treaty from the Senate. When he got it in his possession the only question before him was that of ap­ proving or rejecting the treaty. He had no more right to attempt to re­ store the monarchy in Hawaii, than he has to attempt to re-establish the monarchy in Brazil or restore Alsace- Lorraine to France. President Dole's argument on this point is so strong that the Secretary of State is driven to notice it in his last intructions to the minister. He says the Pi esident has never claimed tne right to act as an arbitrator "in the_technical sense." If he did not claim the right, he ex­ ercised it when he undertook to sit in judgment on the controversy between the Queen and the revolutionists, and to decide that the Queen should be re­ stored. President Dole, like every other reputable witness who has spoken on the point, denies that Minister Stevens or the United States forces had any­ thing to do with making the revolution successful. He asserts that if the American forces had been absent, the revolution would have taken place just the same Even if the Ameri­ can forces did assist in establishing the Provisional Government, which he does not admit, that was a matter to be settled between this Government and its officers.' And if the United States, by the action of its officers, in­ curred any obligation to the Queen, that was a matter to be settled be­ tween the United Utates and the Queen. "This Government," says President'Dole. "a recognized sovereign the places from which the reports were received, thus presenting the picture of distress in a still stronger light. The New York Press has supplied the deficit in the following statement: No. No.Unem- No.Do- Popn- Cities, ploved. pendent New England 21 W.SW I5MI»O N. Y. and N'.J.... U 92»,250 565,750 Pennsylvania 13 l M,BOO 449.2"0 Central Western. 24 227,340 «s,aio (14,900 26,800 43,065 Northwest 14 Far West 10 Southern......... l? 176.800 47.000 122,650 lation. 1.12 .048 8,465,004 1.531,848 3,778,731 1,(531,581 686,818 4,311,183 Totals. ...119 801,055 1,1)66,110 12,430,773 According to these figures there is an army of over 800,000 persons out of employment in a population less than 12.500,010. This represents a depend­ ent population of naarly 2,000,01*0. or about one-sixth of the entire number without the means of sustenance. What a contrast to the condition of affairs a little more than a year ago, when President Harrison sent his mes­ sage to Congress congratulating the country upon its unexampled and un­ paralleled prosperity. The picture is not a pleasant picture for the voters of the United States who demanded a change in the administratioo--'-and se­ cured it with a vengeance. The Treasury Deficit. In reply to the question what the Ways and Means Committee pro­ posed to do to maintain the solv­ ency of the United States treas­ ury, Chairman Wilson said: "I have not had an opportunity to give two, minutes' time to the consideration of what shall be done." Meanwhile the gold balance in the treasury ha* declined to about $75,000,000. a loss of nearly $6,000,( 03 within a week, and claims for payment amounting to mill­ ions of dollars are piling up. One of our esteemed Democratic contempo­ raries views this matter lightly, and thinks the government should cut down the pension payments, but does not ex­ plain by what authority that can be done. The pension bureau has done its best, but is obliged to abandon its pol­ icy as unlawful. We suspect that this plan summarizes the financial wisdom of the Democratic part v. The treas­ ury is in a hole, and all that can be suggested to get it out is something thai cannot be done. It is certainly discreditable to the majority in the House and to the ad­ ministration which is pushing that ma­ jority, that it is willing to leave mill­ ions of the Government's obligations unpaid, until a bill can be passed which will m<tke payment all the more diffi­ cult. As things look it will be months before the proposed revenue measures can be carried into effect. The Treas­ ury is drawing upon the funds laid aside by Republican administrations as a guarantee of the currency, to meet current obligations. There is no hope of increased revenue for months to come, and yet the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee has not had two minutes to devote to the con­ sideration of this state of affairs. If the people of the United States were not confident in themselves and in the resources of the country, nothing would prevent a new panic.--Spring­ field Union. ShaU History Repeat Itself? The tariff reformers, who point back to the good old times of the tariff of '4<i in justification of their attempt to re­ move protection from our industries, are probably too young and green to remember those times. History might teach theifi something if they cared for history, but they regard Barley. Beans..., # Buckwheat Corn Oats Potatoes, 10c per bu, equal Rice, cleaned, l'sc per lb. equal.. Rice, uacleaned, lc per lb, equal. Rice, paddy, ?4c per lb, equal Rye Bye flour Wheat ; Wheat floor. Rice . . _ ,,_ - -- they regard their power, equal in authority with tne theories as better than experience. In United States Government, and enjoy- - • - - -- - ing diplomatic relation-} with it, can­ not be destroyed by it for the sake of discharging its obligations to the ex- Queen." Mr. Cleveland's idea of "righting a wrong" seems to have been that two wrongs make a right. President Dole's reply completely demolishes "my plans" in Hawaii and leaves the administration in a state of abject humiliation. The annals of diplomacy do not contain any record of a more miserable fiasco.--Indianapo­ lis Journal. • Census of the Unemployed- Several efforts have recently been made to secure an approximate census of the unemployed in the country at the present time, with a view to meas­ uring the distress that must follow the enforced idleness of such an army of people. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor esti­ mates that there are not less than ',((00.000 people idle now, and utterly unable to eret employment. That well- known financial journal, Bradstreet's. that has no conceivable bias in the matter, has furnished a report of the number of unemployed in tne cities of the country, without attempting to complete its estimate by the inclusion of the unemployed outside the cities, where estimates are most easily ob­ tainable. One fault of this inquiry was that it did not show the population of his last message to Congress President Millard Fillmore presented the follow­ ing mcture of the lesultsof the Walker tariff, which our tariff reform friends declare was the most efficient and pop­ ular tariff the country ever had: The first ia the effect of large importations of foreign goods upon our currency. Most f the cold of California as fast as it i» coined finds its way directly to Europe in payment for goods purchased. In the second place, as our manufacturing interests are broken down by competition with foreigners, the capital in­ vested in them is lost, thousands of honest and industrious citizens are thrown out of employment, and the farmer to that extent is deprived of a home market for the Bale of hiB products. In the tjiird place the destruction of our manufactures leaves the foreigner without competition in our own market, and he consequently raises the price of the arti- cfes sent here for Sale, as is now seen in the increased cost of iron imported from .En­ gland. This is history and history repeats itself when the conditions are favor­ able. The Walker tariff was intended to protect the South and hamper the industries of the North, and it suc­ ceeded in the latter result without ac­ complishing the former satisfactorily. Fillmore's hard times were similar to ours, except that the distress of those times was hopeless and despairing, while we still hope that disaster may be averted. Turned to 8tubble, When President Cleveland was nomi­ nated for the third time by a Demo­ cratic national convention, somebody belongs to the South just as Wheat and corn does in the West, yet it receives more than a double per cent, of protection. . A Lome Defense. Chairman Wilson, in spite of the fact that every government officer, Republican or Democrat, who knows anything about the subject, has said and repeatedly reiterated that the ad valorem system promotes fraud and discourages honest importers, declares his belief in it, and endeavors to main­ tain that it is a more equitable system than collectable specific rates. This fact alone should indicate to practical business men acquainted with tariff administration how little Mr. Wilson reallv knows about the subject he has n hand. Should Care for Their Own. Of the 11,000 immigrants coming to this country last month, nearly one- half had no regular calling, and a large part of them could not read. Un­ der the present conditions of labor it is a great injustice to permit suoh peo­ ple to land. Every government should care for the kind of people its systems produce. Democrats Repudiate It. TAKING revenue and _ anti-revenue together the Wilson bill is a fantastic and personal bill. It is a jumble of un­ constitutionalities and favoritisms, compounded to gratify the more power­ ful applicants for license to rob, and to vindicate the hobbies of Grover Cleve­ land put on record previous to the Chi­ cago platform. It is the greatest hum­ bug of the age.--New York Sun. IT is to be hoped that the Finance Committee of the Senate will compre­ hend in its fullest degree the necessity of amending the Wilson bill, or of pro­ viding a new one that will be fair to all the industries of the country; that will have a line of logic running through it so strong for revenue anc^. incidental protection that many firm minded me I, both Democrats and Republicans, will come forward and support it.--Cleve­ land Plain-Dealer. hu • v . The fact that Adlai is never invited to participate in those duck-hunting expeditions indicates that Adlai doesn't drink.--Kansas City Journal. ABOUND A BKJ STATE. BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLINOIS NEWS. ®oelrford ' tiasnbter** foolish More--P*e- posed Changes la Laws--State Fair Has » -- Wh" W«»» S*an Maggie ft;"'. './-J Wanted His roker Chip* Returned. Feveral days ago, when the Rock- ford police raided the gambling houses and confiscated the paraphernalia, the y did not catch Doc Walsh, propri­ etor of one of the places. Walsh fool­ ishly went to Chief Tisdale and de- man Jed the chips taken frcm his Elace, claiming them as his property, [e was promptly at rested for running ~ gambling house, taken before A CI at Campus. AT Jacksonville, Mrs. UNOI Henry died, leaving a baby AN unknown woman thre^WI before a train near Belleville instantly killed. r f : THE Virginia canning factory and contents were burned. Loss, $15,090: insurance, $11,000. J. P. WATKiVf'. Sheldon, sitsi Aflic were marritd at Fairbury. OTIS WREX. 14 years old, sen of m ^eal.hy farmer at Ramsey,, cmminltted suicide with a gun. Cause ummoirn. MARY CLANCKY died Thursday morning at Jacksonville. She was KB years of age, artd (was a native of Ire­ land. THE Steto fkecntive Committee of the W. C. T. U., at Blocmiagton, rati­ fied the change of headquarters and decided on the new di^rict. ,/r WEST HARRIS, colored, waa «ei*» tenced at Mascoiitab to ninety-nine: double the amount of costs allowed by law. One of the victims went to Shoudy, and, on demanding the amount, was remitted his fine and costs of $14.*50 It is understood the ether sixteen will do likewise. made a great hit by circulating in the hall full of happy Democrats a cam­ paign song, the retrain of which was borrowed from a well-known comic opera. The chorus ran thus: Giover, Grover, fonr years more of GiWfctl • In he aoes, Oat they go. Then we'll be in clover! This parody proved viiwy popular with hungry Bourbons throughout the campaign, and was sung with intense earnestness by impatient spoilsmen. Now Grover has gone in, and many thousands of Republicans then in office have gone out, but what kind of clover has the Democratic party found? Is it not starving on the dry thistles of idle­ ness, poverty, and discontent? Will its diet of distress put it in good fettle for another national campaign? Verily, the inviting clover of 1892 has turned to wretched stubble. : s , A Beautiful Tariff Picture. . The Wilson bill is a joy forctcr *lo the rice-growers of the South, says the Ohio State Journal. It protects" them with a vengeance. In fact the whole spirit of the measure, in so far as it has any protective feature at all, is for the benefit of the few industries of which the South can boast. The whole protective theory, in the minds of the builders of the Wilson bill, is uncon­ stitutional and utterly wicked, but its unutterable badness is only shown, ac­ cording to the tame able opinion, in the industries of the North. The Northern farmer must pay a duty on the hoops of his pork barrel, but the cotton ties used by the Southern plant­ er must be free. The Louisiana sugar- growers are to be protected by the bounty, if the beet and sorghum rais­ ers of the West are not "encouraged" too much by the game law. The tariff tinkers are very solicitous for the industries of the South, but those of the North are to be protected with an ax. The duty imposed on rice by the Wilson bill furnisnes a case in point, as it is given marked protection over every other growth of field or farm. The following table gives a comparative schedule that will Jje of interest: valorem. Fer cent 20 20 ;*........80 ao » .......'...10 TO ...rf so .50 .; 20 ..........ao ao 20 Springfield Gets the Fair. t Single-handed, alone and without friends except within her own house­ hold Springfield defeated "all comers" in the race for the State Fair. In the final ballot she received 11 votes nec­ essary to secure the prize. Blooming- ton, where statesmen are made; Deca­ tur, of warrior fame: Peoria, with its oceans of whisky; Chicago, queen of the Western world, and fair Aurora were all defeated by Springfield, wise in the ways of wily politicians. The contest has been a spirited one and has brought out the stiength of the four principal cities in competition. Peoria, Bloominaton, Decatur and Springfield. While Chicago and Aurora received votes, thej' were not candidates for the institution at any time. The citizens of Springfield are naturally elated. They have paid well, however, for their victory. They have donated 155 acres of land adjacent to the city, which is worth perhaps $250 per acre, •50,00') in cash and agree to light and water the grounds free of cost to the State Board of Agriculture. There is a movement on foot to purchase several acres of ground south of the Capitol and d nate it to the State to be in­ cluded in the Capitol grounds. It is suggested that the city purchase it ostensibly for a park, and afterward sell it to the State for a nominal sum. The movement has a strong support, and will doubtless in the near future be given effect. _ Supervisors Sn&gest New IAWI. Among the recommendations of the convention of Illinois Supervisors and Highway Commissioners, at Aurora, were these: That the legislature be re­ quested to amend the revenue laws on the line of full and complete assess­ ment of all property at its fair cash value, limiting at the same time the total of all levies to 100 cent? on each $100 (f valuation; accommodation and care by the State of all insane persons in the State; raising the limit of tax­ ation for the construction of bridges from 40 cents cn the $100 to <50 cents; construction of what are known as hard roads. The following committee was appointed to present the rectm- mendations to the l egislature: J, R. Miller of St. Clair, C. E. Mann of Kane, A. C. Baldwin of La Salle. CoL Merri- am of Tazewell, O. D. Allen of Cook. A. L. White of Vermillion, and Harral of Hardin. v,V Mre Destroys Llda's Wood Hall. Lida's Wood, the young ladles' boarding hall of Eureka College, was totally destroyed by fire the other evening. In 1888 W. J. Ford, of Chi-' cago, gave his beautiful mansion in Eureka to the trustees cf the college t > be used as a memorial hall for his daughter Lida. An addition was built by the trustees at a cost of $12,000. Tne fire was discovered at 4 o'clock and was soon under such headway that by (i o'clock it was in ruins. The fur­ niture was removed and the belong­ ings of the students were saved. The homes of the citizens were thrown open to the students, and they are comfort­ ably provided for. The loss Is $18,000, Eartly covered by insurance. It will e rebuilt. • Streator, 11L, Girl Is MlMlng. > ' * Maggie, the 12-year-old daught of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reynolds, residing at Streator, is mysterioiisly missing fr >m the family Residence. The last time she was seen was three weeks ago, whrn she was at Mr. Peratt's, on Illinois street. Her parents and many friends supposed she would return, but as she has been gone so long without anyone hoarinu of her wheieabouts they fear that she has been kidnaped or some other evil has befallen her. Thieves Break In and Steal. The residence of John RUdd, S*., at Fairbury was ransacked the other night. Nearly $100 ia cash was taken: also notes fo- large amounts, and cer­ tificates of deposits in the banks of Beach & Domiuy of Fairbury and S. A. Hoyt of Forrest. The amount taken in paper was several thousand dollars. The thieves, without a doubt, resided near by, as enough evidence was left behind by them to show. Numerous other small robberies have also taken place. - , a jus-! tiee and fined $100 and costs amounting | tY $30. The gambling raids may re- ] suit in the impeachment of Justice ; . _ . • , Shcudy, who tried the seventeen young year8 J* the penitentiary for killing men, and, it is alleged, charged them Samuel Chase at Lart St. Lcuis. THE Chicago Milk Dealers' Associa­ tion secured judgment for $50 against Hudson D. Smith.at Valparaiso, bkb' The r mount was forstcck subscription. JEFF ANDERSON, aged 19, while at* work felling timber near Balcom, wtm instantly killed by a falling tree, which struck him on the head, breaking his neck. jfj THE First Lutheran Church of Bock: ford celebrated its fortieth anniver­ sary. It has a membership of 2,066, the largest of any Swedish church in the United States. JACOB KOTH, who was arrested In Marshalltown, Iowa, charged with stealing $fi00 from his uncle, in Elgin, was acquitted and has sued his ancle for $10,000 damages. JOHN TODHUN TER, an order clerk for the Isaac Walker Hardware Company, Peoria, fell three stories down the ele­ vator shaft, al;ghting on his head and receiving fatal injuries. AT a special meeting of the Board, • of Trustees of Eureka College, it m decided to rebuild Lidaswood, the women's boarding hall, which was de­ stroyed by fire. The buildiuK wilioOBa $15,000. C. PORTER ELLINGTON, of Peori*, was in an intoxicated condition, and in crossing the tracks in front of a trolley car stumbled and fell, and was run over before the motorman could bring the car to a stop. He died soon. AT a Jacksonville marriaee the con­ tracting parties were James Hunt and Mrs. Nellie Walters. The groom passed through the trving ordeal for the fifth time. He has buried two wives and has been divorced from two. FLOYD SHEPARD. of Salt Creek, in­ dulged in abuse of his wife, and she shot him fatally. His father also got in the way of a bulled and lost a thumb. Mrs. Shepard was arrested, but it ia thought she will be exonerated, as two reputable witnesses say she acted in self-defense • - ' *V - '• J- J " 41 \ a*. 'v Record of the Week. CHARLES SHARP, 18 years old, broke through the ice at Quincy and was drowned. CITY MARSHAL MYHRE, of Elgin, went to Marshalltown, Iowa, to bring back Jacob Koth, who robbed a farmer by whom he was employed of $600. REV. HENRY ROHLAND and wife, of Freeport, celebrated the fiftieth anni­ versary of their marriage. Rev. Roh­ land hai been a minister of the Evan­ gelical Association for fifty years, and is one of the pioneers of the county. THE Auditor of Public Accounts is­ sued a certificate of authority to com­ mence business to the German Bank of Freeport, with a capital stock of #150,000. C. O. Collman is President. The divorce suit of Clara Staplin Hamilton, daughter of W. D. Staplin, of Rockford, against Adelbert Hamil­ ton, a Chicago attorney, was heard In the Circuit Court. The young couple had a brilliant wedding last summer, but their married career covered less than two months. The plaintiff's bill alleges various acts of cruelty and too much mother-in-law. Judge Shaw took the case under advisement. IN the United States Court at Spring­ field, George Castleiuan was sentenced to a year In the penitentiary for pass­ ing counterfeit money. CHICAGO: An alleged investment company, selling lets in "Streeter's Lake Shore drive addition," was re­ fused registry by the Recorder. Five persons narrowly escapod death in a fire at 3238 Cottage Grove avenue, which was discovered by a passing gripman. Shut in with smallpox pa­ tients and refused food, 100 men quar­ antined in the Ironsides Hotel threat­ ened to break out. Postmaster Hesing threatens to move his office from the ernment building \tnleiB XM are at once made. As A result of the entertainment by Silver Leaf Camp, No. 60, Mcdern Woodiren, $500 worth of groceries, provi i ns and fuel was received for the benefit of the poor of Elgin. The camp had t.03 ir embers Jan. 1, and is after the prize offered by the Head Camp for largest subordinate camp. WHILE the funeral procession was carrying the remains of Mrs. F. G. Snerly from Vera to Vandalia, John Wren, the 14-year-old son of the de­ ceased. who remained at home, acci­ dentally shot himself dead. Charles Long, about the same age, started on horseback after the boy's parents. horee stumbled, crushing the boy's leg and injuring him interra'ly. A NOTABLE sale of Waukegan resi­ dence property has just been closed. C. E. Loss, of Chicago, has bought frcm W. P. Kennard for $20,000 the property known as Glen Floss, con pris­ ing nineteen acres in the north part of town, with a frontage of about 50u feet on State street. This makes 950,000 that Mr. Loss has put into Waukegan realty, mostly since the dull tinea set in. THE Century Piano Company, of Minneapolis, has purchased the busi­ ness of the Anderson Piano Company, of Rockford, which made an assign­ ment recently, and will resume the manufacture of the instruments, also making Rockford a general distribut­ ing point for their goods. ThecooN pany will at once .give employment to about forty hands. AT Mount Pleasant, lewa, I.C. Taylor, formerly in the employ of G. R. Lampard, of Burlington, is under trial for embezzlement and forgery. He has been found guilty of the latter charge. Mr. Lampard's looses through his shady transactions amount to fully $2,500. When the crime was discov­ ered Taylor fled to his home in Ver­ mont, this State, where he was arrested and brought back. NEAR . Ames. 18-year-old Bertha Haynes diei after a*ten days' illness without iredical attendance. The fam­ ily are believers in Christian Science, and when their daughter was taken ill they telegraphed to St. Louis for two women professing to be Christian Science "healers." The women took charge of the patient with the result mentioned. The matter has aroused the indignation of the neighbors. THE Auditor of Public Accounts finds the affairs of the Petersburg Building and Loan Association in such bad shape that he may have to wind up its ao- : counts. The asscciation has nominal assets of $20,000, but these have been impaired to the extent of $4,000 by the stealings of Secretary Strodtman, which have been going on for a long tine. It is reported that the associa­ tion has liabilities on matured stock* loans have been made cn insufficient security, borrowers are not paying, shareholders are withdrawing, ana the concern is rapidly going to pieces.. Auditor Gore will give the association the sixty days' notice required by lav to straighten its assets and leform ita business methods. AT Rocdhouse fire destroyed the stores of H. C. Deck, general dealer, the hardware stores of H. Wilson, »««• the Nebo Hardware Company, the bakery of John Deinhardt, and tKa Globe Hotel. The loea is 125,000; in­ surance. $15,COO. NOT in ten years has game been so plentiful or so cheap as it is now in Ch?cago. Small markets and gri cries that in ordinary years display no game for sale and do not think ofjteepiug it, now offer venison, prairie ehiekens» ducks, and wild geese at prices that in many cases make them cheaper than beef. Miss RossiE BELLE STONE KING, of Macomb, has sued Noah Willey for $2,000 f< r damages she alleged that Mr. Willey has been responsible Boar by making insinuations regarding her 1 character. THE work of construction of the new $1(50,100 engiueering building of the University of Illinois, at C'hampnijni* has been stopped on account of a strife* of the bricklayers. In order to have the structure completed within the time specified it would necessll hours work per day. The 1 even though they were to t*is the extra time, refused to' union permitted hut eight hours' •day.