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' . • ' .. Oft STARTLING, ^.•?:^OU.Y RECORDED. SOBER Iwrtly B«rt»d At » Boaflr»-Thre»teDwl to Hint » Womn-SehMl BtotiiUM- ; Mtoted Sttvattoa In Coat Mfcsfam Mailers --Bicycling AeeMmt /-" fflj-Year-OW Gtrt BBrned to Death, < A 6-year-old daughter of James , Stout, of Ripley, was burned to death. Some tinners had been at work at Mr. \ Stout's residence, and when they fin- . ished and started to return to Mount * Sterling they dumped their fire pot into a hole in the road a short distance frotu the house. The little girl and an ielder brother found the coals and heap- > ing dry leaves and twigs upon them built a bonfire. The little girl's cloth- , in ^ ignited, and before assistance could reach her she was enveloped in flames •and burned so severely that death re­ sulted in a few minutes. Mr. and Mrs. Stout are very unfortunate, as they lost a child two years ago by falling Ircm a gate and breaking its neck. Condition of Iltfcols School**. State Superintendent Raah gave ., out some public scho l statistics for ^893. The total enrollment in the pub­ lic schools of the State for the year was 826,025, an increase of JtS,#38 over that of 1892. The enrollment is dis­ tributed as follows: Graded schools-- Ma'es, 228,412; females, 23o,8?5; total, 484,297. Ungraded school* -- Males, 189,851: females, 171,937; total, 361,788. The total number of males of school age is 622,9r>l; females, 605,744; total, 1,2-35,705. Number of school districts in Illinois, 11,600. Schocl houses built during the rear. 272. Total uurn- ber of public free schools main- , tained, 12,45^. Average length of session of all the schools, 7.4 months. Highest monthly wages paid to any male teacher, $2G0; to any female teacher, $250; lowest monthly wages . paid any male teacher, $15; any female teacher, $10; average monthly wages paid male teachers, $60.90; average paid females, $47.07. In the 967 pri­ vate i-chools reported there were en­ rolled 121,050 pupils--58,460 males and 6?,590 females. These pupils were taught by 1.228 male and 2,109 female teachers. There are 2,105 districts having school libraries containing 19,- 16r> volumes. The total receipts of the school districts, includingthe halanc e loft from If92. were $18,931,256. The dotal cost of the schools for the year Amounted to $1-1,442,288. Amount paid teachers, $8,420,ISO.57; for new school- . houses, $1,838,584; for school-house -site and grounds, $225,416; repairs and improvements, $910,626: school furni­ ture, $225,945; apparatus* $$9,138; ;i books for poor children, $7,927; fuel and incidentals, $1,416,549. The Coal Miners' Strike. f • Toluca may settle the coal mining fe - strike so far as the Northern District of Illinois is concerned. The miners, a large majority of them at least, are '•determined to work, regardless of the wishes of Spring Valley, LaSalle, and ! Streator. They had another meeting, i' -and all but forty-five of the white men , decided to return to their labors. The t -colored men, 135 in number, came out / flat-footed, and said they were going | back whether any of the white miners did or not. President Davis assured the men the company would do every­ thing in its power for their protection. He relies on the word of Acting Govern <fr Gill tof urnish such protection,if again"cal ed upon to do so. The latter promised that he would call out an armed force if the miners were inter fe red with. All miners except those ,»t Muddy Valley in Halliday's mines are .now out in Jackson County; 475 men of the Carterville Coal Company, of St. I* uis and the Big Muddy and Fredo- nia mines went out to day. All miners on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad are now out. The road has a month s sup­ ply of coal. About 1,500 miners em­ ployed in th > sixty-six coal min JS in St. Clair County quit work. The men At Fairbiiry are still at work, and from present indications they will n^join the strikers. Many Baptist* at Ashland.. . . The Baptist Association of Central Illinois concluded a well-attended ana interesting two-day Sunday school con­ vention at Ashland. The program in­ cluded devotional exercises conducted tty Rev. S. H. Crutn, I. Woods and .Jo­ seph Zirkle, and the following instruct­ ive papers: "Mass Sunday School," Rev. J. M. Coons; "The Harvest," Rev. A. Harnley; "The Abundance of the Harvest," Rev. G. W. S. Bell; "The Laborers," J. M. Billingsly; "Sower •and Reaper Receiving Wages," Rev. Oeorge Hart. .The reports of commit­ tees on Sunday school work in the as­ sociation were exceedingly gratifying. Summer School at Champaign. Arrangements have been made by the University of Illinois at Champaign after the close of the current school year to continue with a summer school, wnich will last four weeks, commenc­ ing June 18. A tuition fee of $10 wifl be charged for attendance, but as this will not be enough to defray expenses an opportunity will be made by the trustees to defray all expenses. The faculty will give instruction in botanyi zoology, physiology, chemistry, En­ glish literature, pedagogy, jsvuhology, history and athletics. • • - Record of the W«*fb NEAR Yorkville, Henry Armbust3r. son of a wealthy farmer, committed suicide by shooting himself. AT Rockford Dr. Thomas Kerr {ireached to several hundred Odd Fel-ows in recognition of the order's anni- uersary. THE Board of Construction of the State Board of Agriculture, after an all day session at Springfield, awarded the contract for the construction of the exposition building at the State fair grounds to F. W. Menke, Quincy, for !i,60,0U^ The size is to be 342x219 feet. THE last weekly crop bulletin reports very great improvement of all crop prospects, and that spring work is well advanced. AT the annual township meeting in Engelman Township, St. Clair County, the citizens passed resolutions instruct­ ing the Assessor to place in practical operation there the single land tax theory of Henry George. Adam J. Friess, the Assessor, has made a state­ ment in which he says that he will carry out the work in accordance with the iaw of the State regardless of any instructions issued by the citizens of Engelman Townshipi THE preliminary examination of John B. Creekmur for the murder of Rolta Boyd April 9 ended at Decatur in Justice Hammer holding the de­ fendant for trial at the June term of court. It is n >t a bailable case. THE summons which was issued at Rockford for "Al" Schmauss to serve as petit juror for this term of court was carried around by Deputy Sheriff Anderson for several days, he being not quite positive who it was he "wanted. However, the deputy served the summons on Miss Alice Schmauss, and she can present herself for jury duty. Miss Sweet, the Deputy Cir­ cs tit Clerk, declares she will pay Mis* I'-i-ihmauss' clain for fees. DSt. G. W. NESBITT, Mayor of Syca­ more, died of pneumonia, aged 57 years. - . AUPHONSB DECOURK was arrested at Moline, wanted at Green Bay, Wis., for conspiracy. Miss JENNIE WOOD was married at Bloomington to George P. Kessbsrger, of Springfield. MARTIN ROWE, a, resident of Rock­ ford for forty-eight years, died sud­ denly, aged 80jrears. ; AUBRAY NOWELL, arrested in At­ lanta for stealing horses in that vicin­ ity, has been ar.ested. THE jury in the trial of Robert Smith, charged with setting fire to a hotel at'Louisvllle, failed to agree. FOUR horses, value! at $1,000, were' killed by lightning at Bloomington/ Peter Stuckey, their owner, was in­ jured, but not seriously. MARSHAL HAWKINS has taken Turk Murphy from Springfield to Indianapo­ lis to answer a charge of making and passing counterfeit coin. MORRE and Waterworth, indicted upon the charge of highway robbery, were found guilty and sentenced to one year each at Bloomington. WILLIAM TOSOKOWSKI, a Polish boy, 8 years old, while sliding down a wind­ ing stair rail at Chicago was impaled on a projecting gas jet and killed. THE Grand Jury at Rockford re­ turned three indictments against M.s L. Knapp, who forced Dr. Fitch to sign notes for $3,200 at the point of a pistol last January. THE trial of Thomas Gallagher, who was accused of killing Charles B. Tay­ lor, of Glfford, Feb. Z, was concluded at Champaign, the jury acquitting Gal­ lagher on the plear»nf self-defense. AT Quincy Edmund Bouquet, 10 years old ana weighing eighty pounds, was racing on a bicycle and collided with a horse. The boy was hurled ten feet in the air, but escaped serious injury. The horse fell dead from the shock. HENRY GOODART, who, at Mount Car me 1 shot and killed Constable John S. Lelntz while resisting arrest in August last, was sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary in the Circuit Court. Tne case occupied several days in hearing. AT the Demorest silver medal con­ test, under the auspioes of the Fair- bury Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the medal was awarded to Miss Maggie Kelly. There were seven com­ petitors for the prize. Mrs. Dr. 6. C. Lewis presented the medal. Miss AMANDA IRVIN, a young woman of Macomb, has mysteriously disap­ peared. After she left a letter was found, evidently written by a young man living at Cairo, saying that he could not do without her any longer. From this it is believed that she left home to meet him. , , ALL railroads in Illinois running into adjacent States have issued circular letters to ail conductors, station and depot agent*, requiring these officials to promptly report to their State Boards of Health the appearance of suspected passengers, baggage, and other matters, regarding the preven­ tion of the infection of disease. A SHORT time ago the residence of Andrew Watkins, near Greenville, was mysteriously burned while the family was away from home. Alva Watson, a 15-year-old lad, was at work near the house, and at first said a negro had fired the house, but as his story was not plausible he was arrestel and bouna over till the September term of court. The house of the boy's father was burned under similar circum­ stances several months ago. Gov. JOHN P. ALTGELD and wife ar­ rived at Springfield from Eureka Springs. Ark., on Wednesday, after an absence of nearly two months. The Governor ha3 entirely recovered his health. He a-rsumed charge of affairs at once. Lieut. Gov. Gill and wife came up on the same train with Gov. Altgeld from Alton, where be offici­ ated in the steel bridge openirg. Gov. Gill and wife continued on to Chicago, where they attended the one hun­ dredth anniversary of Kosciusko, given by Polish societies. ALTON is happy over the completion of the new Burlington bridge spanning the Mississippi between that city and her big neighbor, St. Louis. The opening Wednesday was made the oc­ casion of great rejoicing, the business men of the two towns suspending busi­ ness to engage in the festivities. The work of construction has extended over four years. The new bridge is con­ structed of steel. It was built by the St. Clair, Madison and St. Louis Belt Road on the modern drawbridge pat­ tern. There are eight spans, the draw span being on the Illinois side of the river. The bridge is double-tracked. *a§i (4 ^DIGGIira ¥ns GRAVE 'Oh, what was I begun for, if I'm so soon to be done for?9 WOULD GAG THE SENATE* ILROAD BHIUrta mm It connects the Burlington, the Alton, the Big Four and the Chicago and St. Paul Roads in Illinois with the Bur-} lington and the Missouri, Kansas and ! Texas in Missouri. It forms a new en­ trance into St. Louis via the Burling­ ton's Bellefontaine bridge over the! Missouri River. The distance from Bellefontaine Junction to Alton is but three miles and between St. Louis and that city the Burlington has inaugu­ rated an express ' suburban service, having secured especially for it an outfit of the mcsf modern exuipment. Fast trains will be run at short intervals, and everything will be done to bring these two cities into closer relations. DURING the month of April there were 233 animals at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, agected with lumpy jaw, 105 animals were held for post­ mortem, 71 were condemned as being unfit for food, 1 was found to be in­ fected with cancer and 3 with tubercu­ losis. The State veterinary surgeon reports that during the month chronic glanders were found existing among animals in Rock Island, DeWitt and White Counties. The animals were ordered slaughtered and the premises disinfected at once. The. rest of the State is reported comparatively free from disease. THE sixty-eighth birthday of Will­ iam Newby was celebrated at Fairfield by many of his old comrades on the farm he made fifty years ago and left to go to the army. About 3G0 neigh­ bors and friends were present for din­ ner. They brought him many tokens of remembrance. ON account of the scarcity of ooaH due to the strike, the Peoria Grape Sugar C'om .any closed its works. It uses 150 tons of coal a day. The com­ pany is behind in its orders. Miners of the Peoria district held a mass meeting and decided to quit work un­ til May 1. Another mass meeting was held at Bar ton villa, when the men de­ cided to remain out another week. "Caokoo** Giaj'i Outrageoat Attempt to Silence Patriotic Speaker*. Mr. Cleveland now proposes to gag the Senate of the United States -in order to secure the passage of the Wil­ son bill. Senator Gray of Delaware, the leading mouthpiece of the White House, introduced an amendment to the rules providing that "no Senator shall read a speech, nor shall he read from any book or paper except it may be to quote an authority or illustrate a point or argument which he is mak­ ing, without unanimous consent." The object of this proposed amend­ ment is, of course, to silence those patriotic Senators, belonging to both parties, who Are determined to perform their duty of resisting by every means in their power the en­ actment of a measure intended to de­ stroy the industries, impoverish the wage earners and paralyze the business of the North. The right to read a speech is as manifest as the right to deliver a speech without the ^id of notes to assist the memory, and to make quotations from books and other authorities bearing upon the subject discussed is clearly the privilege of any orator. Mr. Gray's proposition is simply a proposition to f»ag the Sen­ ate, ana the intimate relations between that Senator and the White House leave no doubt as to where he received his instructions to make such an effus­ ive and outrageous attack on the rights and dignities ot the upper branch of Congress. Not long ago, when Mr., Cleveland was endeavoring to force the accept anc9 of unfit nominations for high office made to gratify his personal spite, and in utter disregard of the public inter­ ests, one of his newspaper organs, in an article plainly inspired from the White House, stated that he intended to "mastar" the Senate and "to knock down and trample upon" those who should oppose him. The Senate re­ fused to lie mastered, and the attempt to "kncck down and trample upon" tne opponents of Presidential dictation was not strikingly succdtsful. It is quite certain that the attempt to gag the Senate will be equally unsuccessful. Republican Senators will speak for their States and their constituents, for the North, its industries and wage earners as long and fully as they shall see fit, and Democratic Senators who are not willing to betray their great trust at the behest of a repudiated President will not be silenced by the Cleveland-Confederate combination. The more desperate the efforts of the Clevelandites to force the passage of the Wilson bill, the more resolute and aggressive should be the champions of the people in their resistance to the plot for the degradation of the people and the impoverishment of the repub­ lic. The Wilson bill cannot be im­ proved; it must te killed.--New York Press. * The "Overwhelming Verdict." Chairman Carter, of the Republican National Committee during the cam­ paign of 189J, has an article in the North American Review which shows the falsity of the claim made by the Democratic press that tarift revision was overwhelmingly demanded by the people as a result of the second elec­ tion of Grover Cleveland. Chairman Carter shows that Cleveland's percent, of the popular vote was 45.98 in 1892, which was the smallest since 1872. In 1885 his percentage was 48. <53 and he was not elected. In the Northern States, in spite of the People's party movement, Harrison s vote was only 148,27H behind his vote of 1888, while Cleveland, the legatee of all defections, received 72,431 votes less in 18:)2 than in 1888 in the same territo >. That was not much of an "overwhelm­ ing verdict." A change of 27,426 votes properly distributed in California, Del­ aware, Idaho North Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and West Virginia would have given these States to Harrison and elected him. The al­ leged sectarian school law lost Wiscon­ sin to the Republicans, and with the illegal vote in Chicago gave Illinois to Cleveland. In Indiana several thou­ sand Republican farmers kept their agreement to vote the Populist ticket, while the Democrats, who led in these negotiations under the direction of the Cleveland committee, broke their pledges and in the i-ecret ballot booths marked their ballots for Cleveland. Thousands of Republican votes were lost by the Homestead affair, and in Kansas, Colorado, Nevada and other States an adhesion to the financial heresies of the Populists did the work. The artiole cf Chairman Carter is chiefly valuable for disproving the charges made in Congress nearly every day that the country in 1892 voted over­ whelmingly in fa^or of tariff revision. It did nothing of the kind, and the very full and interesting statement of Chairman Carter shows the utter falsity of the Democratic claim. The campaign of 'frl, like that of '84, turned on several things, and "tariff reform" was the least of them. Supposing. Supposing that, through the recreancy ot a few Democratic Senators, the Repub­ lican magnates at Washington should suc­ ceed in keeping the McKlnlejr tariff tn operation for a few months longer. Does any man believe that the friends of tariff reform would tamely give up the fight merely because traitors had been found In fielr camp? If so, he is the mo*t mistaken of mortals. --Boston Globe. Suppose that the Wilson bill should be killed, and business should return to its normal channels with a rush, the factories and mills should be opened and the unemployed should go to work at good iiving wages. Does the Boston Globe believe that the voters of the country would ooon forget the oWJfcct lesson in tariff reform from which thay have suffered since the Cleveland ad­ ministration came in? The "friends of tSriff reform" might try to keep their agitation going, but they would find it very tiresome work. The country is deathly sick of $)emocratic tariff' re­ form. Others May Follow. Something of a sensation prevails !n Democratic circles in Washington since the publication of Senator Mor­ gan's U tter to an Alabama Democrat advising the Democrats of his State that the party should not indorse President Cleveland's administration in the State convention. This action is likely to be followed by similar let­ ters from other Democrats in Congress who have taken issue with the Presi­ dent on his public policy. Mr. Morgan objects to the indorsement of Presfc* dent Cleveland's administration: 1. Because his Hawaiian policy was un­ democratic and antagonistic to tho senti­ ment* of the people of the United States. & B jcause his attitude toward silver money is contrary to the Democratic plat­ form and the interests of the people. 3. Uecause the issue of bonds was in the interest of money-changers aud in viola­ tion of the sentiments of the people. 4. Because the President nominated a negro as Envoy Extraordinary and Mials- ter Plenipotentiary to a friendly govern • merit who was no more suitable as a rep­ resentative of the people of the United States than a Chinaman or an Indian. & Because of the opposition of the Pres­ ident to the removal of the State bank tax, N The Cleveland Balge. A lady in Macomb, wife of one olSoftr mechanics who voted for Cleveland and reform, was down town the other day doing some trading at one of the lead­ ing grocery stores. She was well ac­ quainted with the proprietor and when tnrough ordering goods fell into a chat with that gentleman. After a while she suddenly started up and said, "Well, this won't do! I must hurry home and finish my husband's Cleve­ land badge." The grocer is a Republi­ can and he flew up in a minute, saying, TH* CLiriUHD BADOm MI should think you would be thinking of anything but making Cleveland badges these hard times and I can't imagine what sort of a bad ire you would make." "I'll tell you what it Is, sir," the spunky woman retorted: "it's a patch about the size of a palm leaf fan on the seat of his trousers; it's the prevailing fad up in the Second Ward since the present administration came in. Why. even the Republicans ate putting them on. And there never was a more -appropriate badge in the world." And with a smile tne woman passed out, while the somewhat sold grocer soliloquized:, "That woman diagnosed the case precisely. It's as appropriate a badge for Cleveland and reform as the skull and crossbones is the proper coat-of- arms for a poison label. "--Macomb Journal. STATISTICS FOR THE COOK. tin# Things _ Boiled, ssd Fried* BAKING. • • . Beans, 8 to 10 h^unt Beef, sirloin, rare, 8 to 10 minates ptv pound. Beef, sirloin, well don^ If to 15 minutes per pound. * Beef, long or short fillet, 20 to 30 lainutes. Beer, rolled rib or ruipft 1$ minutes per pound. Biscuit, 10 to 20 minutes. .Bread, brick loaf, 40to60mintitas. Cake, plain, 20 to 40 minutes. * Cake, sponge, 45 to 60 minutes. Chickens, 3 to 4 pounds, 1 to l| hours. Cookios, 10 to 15 minutes. t.^ Custards, 15 to 20 minutes. ' ; * I)uck, tame, 40 to 60 micut^b^ Fish, 6 to 8 pounds, 1 hour. ? gingerbread, 20 to 30 minutes. J (iraham gems, SO minute*. ' t;' Lamb, well done, lu minutes |jet pound. Mutton, rare, 10 minutes pound; well done, 15 minutes pound. Pie crust, 30 to 40 minutes. l urk, well done, 30 minutes pound. Potatoes, 30 to 45 minutes. ' Pudding, bread, rice, and tapioca/ I hour. ^Pudding, plum, 2-tofc hours, !#| Roils, 10 to 15 minutes. Turkey, 10 pounds, 3 hours. Veal, well done, 20 minuUi |iei pound. BOILING* Asparagus. 15 to 20 ttilputefc jg| Bass, 10 minutes Beans, shell. 1 to 2 hour& |?»f - Beans, string, 2 hours. Beef, a la mode, 3 to 4 hour^ x, Beets, young, 45 to 60 minutes^ Btuelish, lo minutes per pound. Brown bread, 3 hours. Cabbage, young, 30 to 45 ml nuts* Carrots, 45 to 60 minutes. * Cauliflower, 30 to 45 minutei, . ... CaU.. 41) «- 5;*,. pet Ptr Broke and Oat of Work. . . When I working steady, ; Bad a pocket full of tin. « ' ' Whjr. I was a stanch «retorme&* ' Helped to usher Grover to; gV;':' Aad 1 argued that "^rotertlojSpi*^' Was a robber aad a bluff, And tbe Democratic party And low tariff were the stuff; So I voted and I waited * . For the change 1 now would And it came so very different That I'm broke and out of work. $6 to 7ft high oTstandard varieties that I |will close out to clear ground at 20 cents each. Also have a quantity of Norway Sproce. Arbor Vitae, Scotch Pine, Aus­ trian Pine, White Pine and Red Cedar at 25 per cent discount. Above stock is ail No. 1 well rooted stock. Now is your time to get an orchard and wind break far small money. Gome at once as sea- son is gettipg late. Price list sent on I application.. * I 43 w 2 J. V. BUCKLAKD, Celery, 30 to 45 minutes. Chickens, 45 to 60 minutes, Clams, 3 to 5 minutes. 1 | Codfish, 6 minutes per poun4» Coffee, 3 to 5 minutes. , Corn, green, 5 to ti miiiutes. Corhed beef; 4 to 5 hour* Eggs. 3 to 5 minutes. Eggs, hard boiled, 15 to 20 minutes. Fowls, 2 to 3 hours. Haddock, 6 minutes per pound. - Halibut, 'It* pound. • Ham. VftoiifflL • V.' HomW l t0 2h«u^ Lamb, 1 hour. . i Macaroni, 20 to 30 ruinutM. oatmeal, 1 to 2 hours. Onions, 30 to 45 minutes. Oysteis, 3 minutes. / Oyster plant, 30 to 60 minutiriiWv Parsnips, 30 to 45 minutes. Peas, 15 to 20 minutes. Potatoes, 20 to 30 minutes. Bice, 15 to 20 minutes. Salmon, cubical, 15 minutei Pi' pound. Small flsh, 6 minutes per pound. Smoked tongue, 3 to 4 hours. Spinach, 20 to 30 minutes. • Squash. 20 to 30 minutes* Sweetbreads, 20 to 30 tuinutifc Tomatoes, 15 to 20 mihutea Turkey, 2 to 3 hours. Turnips, 30 to 45 minutes. / * Veal, 2 to 3 hours. Wheat, 1 to 2 hours. BROILING. * Ctrckena, 20 minutes. Chops, 8 minutes. > Steak, 4 to 8 minutes. v» Fish, 5 to 15 minutes. I? FRYING. Bacon, 3 to 5 minucea " Breaded Chops, 4 to 6 minuti|: , Croquettes, 1 minute. K Doughnuts, 3 to 5 minutes - Fish Balls, 1 minute. f Fritters, 3 to 5 minutes. , Muffins, 3 to 5 minuter Small Fish, 1 to 3 minutes. Smelts, 1 minute. WllGftfS AND MKASURE& 4 teaspoonfuls of liquid equal 1 tablespoonful. 1 p nt of liquid equals 1 pound. 2 gills of liquid equal 1 cup, or I pint 2 round tablespoonfuls ot flour equal 1 ounce. 4 cups of bread flour equal 1 quart, or 1 pound. 1 cup of butter equals 1 pound. 1 pint of butter equals I pound. 1 tablespoonful of butter equals 1 ounce. 0 Butter size of an egg equals 2 ounces. 10 eggs equal 1 pound. > 2 cups of granulated sugar «qaat 1 pound. 2} cups of powdered sugar equal l pound. Wealth In Agriculture. Uew Zealand presents a striking example of the dependence of public prosperity on agriculture. Not many years ago New Zealand appeared to be crushed under a heavy debt, in­ curred by an extravagant system of borrowing and by the Maori war. In­ stead of issuing more bonds the peo­ ple and statesmen of the colony set. themselves to developing its agricul­ tural resources. Tbe dairy and frozen meat industries have reached great magnitude and nowhere is the farmer more prosperous, lu a single decade the annual exports of frozen meat have risen i'rom less than $600,000 to over $5,000,000, and the exports of butter and cheese htye doubled In half that period. T HO i urea and Return Homtt, The striking miners arrfcwa**lb- lnca. III., with the blare of brsea tends d drum corps. The™ were nearly 4, <*00 of them. As they filed into town they we re met by the citi­ zens. Although footsore and weary they had not lost any enthuslasm. Most of the color­ ed miners at work at Toluca had left for other places to J ttipt GOT. oitfc avoid a skirmish. As soon as the men arrived they as­ sembled on the commons near Super­ intendent Duergan's house, but ad­ journed again to await the arrival of the army from Streator and Kangley. This wine arrived later, having marched all the way from Streat- pr. A fe~w minutes previous to their arrival Lieut. Gov. Gill, Presi- **» or TH* Tpi.ucA MTXUTO DISTRICT. font J. A. Crawford, and Vice Presi­ dent .Tames W. Murray arrived in a special train from Joliet. A confer­ ence took place between the men and Charles J. Devlin in the letter's pri­ vate car, The miners' officials wanted Mr. Devlin to address, the miners, but he declined, raying he had not invited them there and consequently had nd de­ sire to address them. The meeting ing was called to order by Chairman O'Connor, of Spring Valley, and was addressed by Messrs. Gill, Crawford, and Murray, who counseled peace and urged the army to leave, and told the Totuca miners to decide for them­ selves, Finally this was agreed upon, and Mr. Devlin at once arranged for a special train to take the army home. It is the general impression there that the Toluca miners will not return to trork. If they do not, the mission of the army is successful. A, ODD FELLOWS' UUBILEE^V ; A Oreat •( the BtwtyBftt Annlvtornmry ot the Order. The celebration of the seventy-fifth .anniversary of the founding of the In­ dependent Order of Odd Fellows was fittingly observed throughout the aountry. * The founder of American Odd Fel­ lowship was Thomas Wildey, who was born in London. .Ian. 15, 17^2. On reaching manhood he was initiated into the order. He came to this country in 1817 and settled in Baltimore. He sought the acquaintance of a few strag­ gling members of the order who had preceded him here and March 27, 1819, he inserted a notice in a Baltimore papet* a^liiftglor the mem bays Qi I r 5# mn BIRTBPI.AOX or ODD mu,OW8HIF. ' T&E first main thing a man has to do in this world is to turn his possi­ bilities into powers, or to get the use of himself. J; A FcssSbie rcnVtet ' A- /> A fovlble Besalt* -r [odnfan--I head Edison's distenv- 1 a scheme for doing away with p. Trowles--Hsh! For goodness* e, don't let the boss hear sbout it ie'l! be having us work twonty- 1 r hours a day. Order to meet for the purpose of form­ ing a lodge. Five responded, and on the memorable 26th of April they or> ganized themselves into the Washing­ ton Lodge of Odd Fellows at the his­ toric old Seven Stars tavern. The sub­ sequent growth and spread of the order can be seen in the .following table oi figures made for the annual encamp* ment of 1893: JlTStSOICTION MEMBEBS. Alabama 4,ooo lowa 32,000 Arliona...... 75o|Kanaas 23,000 Arkansas 4,fco Kentucky. »,000 Hrittsh Colombia 3,0OO|Loulsiaiie i,40Q California 82,000 Labrador i.ooc olorado e.ooo Maine 22,O#J Connecticut 18,000 Manitoba 2.000 Delaware 3, i«>o Maryland 10,000 Dis't of Columbia 2,0m*i Massachusetts.. 49,000 Florida. 1,4 o Michigan 25.000 OeorKla. c.soo Montana..3,000 . 1,900 1)0,00:1 . 61,000 SS.U00 Nebraska /... O.iofl Nevada 2.008 New Hampshire. 12,200 Idaho. Illinois....,:;.. Indiana. New Jersey.... New Mexico.. New York. North Carolina . North Dakota.... Ohio C4,«» 0 Ontario 5w,MW Oregon £.. 6,W;o Pennsylvania... .112,'XK) Quebec 1,400 Khodti Island...', ti.w.o South Carolina.. 90» South Dakota.... 4,000 Vast as is the growth here shown, it does not do justice of percentage of in- creaee, as only round numbers are given, and thus many lodges are not represented in the figures. Tennessee *o 1 Texas ^ $6.CH:O Utah ,J... 4,900; Vermont . 2,300 Virginia. Washington.... West Virdnia... Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Wlsoousin XT,000 Wyoming, 1,000 s.oeo 7.00a 2,000 4.109 6.0M 7,6 « K,0(IQ 14.000 1,706 24.001 ou can't tell anything aboutnrbat an has dooe for God l>y wbat you on his monument. I 0k A. R. Encampment at EockfOrd. „rew wauii I On account of the Annual Encamp- , of his life. ^""Flenty'wor'k and bappy mind. Yet I listened to the theories ^nd the MtarifT tinkers' n wind, Aad the sting my conscience gives me. And the debts I cannot shirk. Will be soothed at next election. 1 hough I'm broke and out of work. --AaMrican Economist. VE day spent with Clirist Sftade irew want to |Work for hinPt^s THK less a preacher knows tbe Lord, ttte more he OeDends on his bead in tbe {.ulpit. STRIP off all masks, and thSte is hardly a man who would know bis next door neighbor. RO«SAUND--Are you engaged al­ ready? Beatrice--No, but I'm ready to be engaged. WHOLE LINE TIED UP. Great Northern Employes at St. Paul and Minneapolis Stop Work. The strike is on ai last in St. Paul and Minneapolis. The American Bail- way Union called out all its men in the employ of the Great Northern Road in the two cities. Te'egrams were sent to all unions On the line to stand by their guns. All effort* to settle the strike failed, and President Debs of the A. R. U. issued orders for a strike on all the Minnesota divisions of the Great Northern. This completes the strike from St. Paul to the coast. Pres­ ident Hill, of the Great Northern, again proposed his plan of arbitration at the last conference between the men's committee and the road, but it was refused. The strike inaugurated in Minneapolis and at St. Paul includes all train employes.. yard hands, shop men. anl all other classes of railway employes, tod ties up the system from "St. Paui ami Minneapolis to the Pacific coast ; 1 Spsrtcs from th« Wins. AN army of 700 Ooxeyitef has been organized at El Reno, 0. T. THE St Louis, Mo., industrial has only ninety men enlisted so far. A COXEY reserve army of 250 men will be organized in Crested Butte, Mont. REPORTS of a small-pox epidemic in Texarkatia, Ark., are £aid to have been exaggerated. POLICE OFFICER AU8T*N, of Port­ land, Oregon, shot and killed an un­ known burglar. AT Hammond) Ind., William Bard, a Wabash conductor, fell under his train and was killed. W. H. OGLE, Northern Pacifioata- MOB or COKE STRIKERS ̂ WITH BULLETS. etf Strikers rndpltsto Ceafitet--Onards vim M tho ClOlMMSt Mow Troabl* Fndietedb ' ..nfteon iAld IMm. - \ Thereto* Strike resulted tail riot at the Painter works, near Seotfr» dale. Pa., in which fifteen persons, in­ cluding a number of women, were shot, several of them fatally. The trouble was started by a mob of wom­ en, w ives of the strikers, who had: de­ termined to drive out the "blacsktiOigM^ at work for the McClure Coke Compaagr. The. women assembled about six o'clock in the morning, aud with tin pana, clubs, coke forks, and brooms marched to the cokeyard. San ford White, mine superintendent; Ewing B. Roddy, book-keeper, and a lot of deputies wera on gua^-d. A shot was fired to scaria the women. In less than a minute the men living in tin houses near by. rushed to the scene and White opened' fire on the crowd, that numbered oves* one hundred. The affray occurred between blocks of ovens, and at th* first fire frj>m White and the deputies three men fell, wounded. One was shot, through the thigh, one through both laps and the third in the nedc. The women carried off the wounded, and the now inlwiatftd man s«+. t*pos W hite and Roddy, whom they seemed to regard as responsible tor the shoot­ ing. Before a sufficient number of deputies could be massed at *hfe point Sanford White wis completely sur­ rounded. He was brutally beaten over the head, knocked down, kicked and bruised about the body. His recovery is doubtful. While all this was going on the deft* uties had begun to use their Winches* ters, and shot one woman. Roddy, the bookkeeper, was thought at first to be badly injuted, but he escaped with only slight bruises. There is great excitement throughout the entire re­ gion. The strikers are becoming dea» perate, and mobs are assembling at various points to raid the plants now in operation. The operators and lead­ ers of the strike predict turbulent times within the next few days. Ik ^ *4^ 'c i' i DEMOCRATS VOTE OH ; , '• - ; » >» ' «' Senators fas Canens Agree Upon tlM OMk* _ promise Measure* Incomes will be taxed and tbe tariff bill will soon pass the Senate, says a Washington dispatch. By a vote of 37 to 1 the Democratic members of tbe Senate adopted a resolution in caucus agreeing: to support the tariff bill ot the Finance Committee, including tba compromise amendments that have been agreed upon in the conferences of the last two weeks. The e amendments do not materially affect the income tax provision. as follows: The vote in the canons was Bate.. Berry, Blaakmoa. Bukbee4. Brloe, Caffery, Call. CamdMfe Ceektw, Coke, '* DaaleL Fawlkoer, Ueorge, HU1-1. Absent TEAS. Gordon, Gorman, $&.. HttUtOB, Jarvta. •Jones, McLanfta, MePherson, Martin, Mitchell. Morgan, Palmer, NATS. Pasoe* Pug*. Ransom. Vllaa, VeoAees. 'Walsh, White--87. Met Vqtinjr-Httapky, 'jftaht - Lindsay, Irby, Butler. Gibson--e. The resolution was presented by Senator Gorman of Maryland, the chairman of the caucus, and was dis­ cussed at some length, a* the session lasted from a few minutes alter four o'clock until nearly seven o'cToci ̂ II was claimed that the six absent Sena­ tors were all accounted for, aad assur> ances were given that they would sup» port the tariff bill. The only persons in whese absence there might be any significance are Senators Murphy ana Mills. Senator Mil!s was not at the Senate during the day. and the call for the caucus was sent to his house. It is believed that he has some objections to the concessions that have been made, but he has previously announced that he would support any bill that provided for reductions in the present law. In presenting tV.e resolution and stating the object of tbe caucus, Sena­ tor Gorman made a conciliatory speech. He said it wa9 necessary to make concessions in order to seeurs the united support of the party, and be further asserted that it would need a Democratic majority to pass the bilL Secator Smith said, while he was not satisfied with the bill, and was unalter­ ably opposed to the income tax, he was ready to support the measure with the amendments whieh had been agreed upon. , : ^ 1 f i 4. ' V. PUTTING DOWN THE RIOTS. **' HsfutaM Broken Opea and srQoantlty ^ Dynamite Stolen. A Duluth, Minn., special says: Then* fi has been considerable rioting on the Mesaba range. Gov. Nelson called out the militia, and latest reports are ta the effect that- they are quelling tbe trouble. Word was received f <©m Vir­ ginia that 700 strikers were mar i*hing up and down the streets denouncing the owners of the mines and the men still at work in the most violent termfc Much excitement was caused at Vir­ ginia when it was learned that a mag­ azine at a mine near the village had been broken open during the night and a number of kegs of gunpowder and some dynamite seized. About 500 men were out. The militiamen were greet­ ed with hoots and jeers whiie they were forming in line. The seat of greatest trouble seems ta be at the Franklin mine, where the men claim that the wages paid are oot sufficient to live on. They have beea getting 20 cents a car. At th® Oliver and Auburn mines and on the Auburn spur $1.&> to day was paid. Tbe moa uoiuauu *!.&> fur suu oLot* for common labor. A strikers' committee was in confer anca with the owners and managers oi the mines nearly all the afternoon aai evening. Sheriff Sharvy and the mili­ tia have been called to Mountain Iron, where an outbreak in wbteb there vnto -some shooting is reported, and prepa­ rations were made to move at once to that place, ieavin; Virginia for tba time being to the mercy of the strik­ ers. As the strike covers much terri- tory it is quite probable that more if Duluth's militiamen will be called onfc The men are in waiting. j > ----- ' ArMferatMa Setn-- If. ^ ration as proposed by pany has happily settled the differenca between employes and the Groat Northern Railway, and wheels am Again turning on ail parts of the line. The company now announces half-fare excursions for home.-eekers and invest* ors May 8 and from St. Paul, Minna- fcpolis,*Du'uth, and West Superior ta points in Minnesota, th© Dakotaa* §oA •• - -v m * h Wt * 1 - <i >:>U* / , „ *-• *• I l- ' 'i* > tion agent at Belg**, killed by a burglar. > . . iaya, vith «t jp-over pi<ivilege.v , ^ .4 -A * a, A'. . ...: