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ttfiifirfii ri'tiw sin J. UK SLTKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY. - - - ILLINOIS SEASON ON THE LAKES VESSEL-OWNERS HAVE DONE A VERY LIGHT BUSINESS. > «* «t» BMU Htm VkttH to Pay Banning KipaniM. to Say Nothing of Interest on the Money Invented--Tbre® fluted by Dynamite. - Been n 'Bad SMUMW. $U..I : WITHIN two weeks moro the ship* ping season will have come to an e ;d, and within another-two weeks nearly all the bier boats on thrt great lakes will bo tied up to the decks after the most unp ofitaole season lake shipping has known in \earrf. There is at least $60,- O00,<>00 inve-ted in ships and craits of one size and another upon the waters of the lakes, and it is doubtful whether this vast investment h;is ] aid a cent's worth of dividend during the wh le season. Profits usually ran^e frcm ti to 8 and 10 per cent, after faying all costs of O) eration and insurance out lucky is tne man wtio tias oeen au:e to find cargoes for his vessel this year that would pay a fair return on his in- v© tment. This depression in business has been due to the hard times, for naturally shipping respond * at once to every change n the pul e of business* and. inasmuch as it has been general the effect has boen the more dis­ astrous. , Port Arthur Doomed. THE Chinese army of the north has retreated to the mountains, where the soldiers are reported to be starving and suffering severely from cold and expo­ sure. The Japan se army is reported to be encamped at 1? ong Wang Cheng.. The ta. anese are pursuing some 15,0U) Chinese, mostly law recruits. Port Arthur is not exp cted to make a de- termii ed stand against the Japanes?. Ad niral Sir E. R. Fremailtle. in com­ mand of the Bri ish flrfot, consideis that Port Arthur will probably be the scene of tho last c ngagenrent of any importance bjtween the C hinos a and Ja anesi. -isar - wi track. TWO patMOCWt are reported killed outright and several others injured. " ' TRAIN No. 5, Baltimore and Ohio limited, ran into the first section of No. ($-1, a fast cattle train, at Rosen- steel siding, two mile * east of Reek- wood, Pa., at 5:40 Wednesday evening. Six men worp killed in the collision and several others badly hurt. Th« railroad officials say no passengers were hurt. Both trails were going at the rate of forty mile:? att hour, una came together while rounding a curve. Neither crew had time to jump or sound a warning. The mail ear was reduced to kindling wood. Only the heavy vestibules of the passenger cars saved them "rom a similar fate, Fully a dozen cattle cars were piled up in ithe wreck, killing and maiming many .of the dumb brutes. » . K V *' Killed by l>yn*mtt*. AT Huntington, Ind, three men were killed and many others injured by the explosion of a box of dynamite. The men were employes of Keefer & Hall. c< ntractori for the con truetion of the big Hint creek sewer. The ex­ plosion happened as the men were warming the explosive. The dead are: Jack J?hnn, John Hartman and Mar­ tin Keif- r. So powerful was the con­ cussion. lifty pounds of dynamite hav­ ing been in the box, that' the damage to houses in the neighborhood will amount to several thousands of dollars. MM ' i f ! ' - • • • • $$$& r* •v' 1 !» Ftlled to Craok the Sif*. ROBBERS broke into the First No­ tional Bank at C berlin, Ohie, and got away with ab^ut $400 in silver. The front doorJ were opened by the use of crowbars, aad the locks of the vault' were blown off with dynamite. The thieves then stole two* rigs to make their escape sure. One of the rigs was found at Elyria. There is no trace of the robbers. The vaults were opened, but the safe, which contained $25,0J0, waaiiat torched. BREVITIES. GOVERNOR WAITE, of Colorado, threatens to move to Illinois and run for governor. TEXAS , Populists claim to have elected their State ticket and two Congressman. A COMMISSION has been organized in • Nebraska to outline a plan of relief for drouth sufterers. TRAIN robbers stopped a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train hear Hy- anuis, Neb., but abandoned any at­ tempt to rob it It i6 believed their nerve failed at the last moment CHARLES F. PITT & SONS, importers of chemicals at Baltimore, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Assets about $150,000. The liabilities, it is said, will not exceed that amount. TALMAGE has resigned from the Brooklyn Tabernacle, giving as his reason that the church edifice has al­ ready been destroyed three timeapv fire, and that it is too much t > ask Inat his congregation build a fourth one. TBE schooner Annie M. PI id bound from Mabou C. B., to Halifax, N. S., was driven ashore at the entranc; to Halifax harbor. All on board, includ­ ing the captain's 10-year-old bov and two female passeng ers, were drowned. THE Rt. Rev. Abbot Bernard, Abbot of St. John's Abbey. Stearns County, died at Stillwater. Minn., after a lin- feving attack of Bright's disease. A fo­ot Bernad was born in Austria forty- six y^ars ago and came to this country early in the :ws ATTORNEY GENERAL HANCOCK, CF New York, ha* given an opinion that in the matter of selling liquor on a train the law is not violated if the commodity is sold in the buifet or li- cen-ed <ar, though after i eing pur­ chased in the buffet it may be taken to any other car. • THE Eev. C. A. Brandt, pastor of the Firsts Presbyterian Church, of Barnum, Minn., ha? renounced the Presby te> ian faith and cut loose from all denominations and creeds, claiming they are in direct violation of the * teachings of C hrist. Mr. Brandt is •widely known in Minnesota, and wa* supposed to be one of the stro gest ministers of the 1 resbvterian doctrine in the State. INCENDIARIES made an attempt to destroy the town of Addison. W. Va.. by fire. THE family of Fred Rew, a Cornell student frcm Buffalo, who was believed to have been drowned in Cayuga Lake, now believe the young man was mur­ dered. Tho body cannot be found. OBITUARY: At Boston. Mike Kelly, the ballplayer.--At Medjanicsbur", III., Banker Andrew Todd Thompson, aged 67.--At London, Dr. Chalmers, ex-principal of t.ie London Presbyter* Ian College. EASTERN. M> E. MOOREHEAD indorsed a note of $160,000 for the iron, firm of Moore­ head & McOlean, Pittsburg, Pa., three years ago, thus enabling the business to continue. The note has just gone to protest. THE finishing department of the Edgar Thompson steel works at Brad­ ford, Pa., is idle, owing to a refu al of tike rail straighteners to work without helpers, the latter having all been dis­ charged. on the BAadlnz J WESTERN. Own&KNS o" Cushing, *aave jailed Joseph and Patsy Beck, identi­ fied as Rod Rock tra'n robbers. THE 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Hare, near Kingsland, Ind., swallowed a chestnut and choked, death ensuing in an hour. S. J. DUNLAP, Postmaster at Red Forks, fifty miles east of^St ill water, Okla., was shot to pieces by tho Cook gan?. Dunlap owned the store and the caner ordered him to unlock the postottice safe. Me refused. They robbed.the store and postottice, EMERY COULSON, a watchman em- p oyed at the plant of the G. H. Ham­ mond Packing Company, at Omaha, confessed to havin? set fire to the building. He said he did it that he might win promo;Ln by discovering the t1a v.es before they did materitd damage. DK. C. F. SIMMONS, President of the Simmons Medicine Company and Su­ perintendent of the Centennarv Meth­ odist Sunday-school, St. Louis, Ma, was convicted of assault to kill John Mci:ane, a clerk »in his employ. The punishment wa& fixed at three years in the penitentiary. THE high rate of taxation on vessel property in Milwaukee, Wis., will re­ sult in an exodus of all the large ves­ sels which hail from that city to Chi­ cago, Det oit and other ports where they will be treated more favor­ ably. Among the fleets which are to go a e the Inter Ocean Transportation Company, to Chicago; the Milwaukee Steamship Company, to Detroit, and the R. P. Fit/gerald & Co. tleet. These removals will take from Milwaukee $of vessel property. The Milwaukee Steamship Com] any has issued a circular to its stockholders proposing to dissolve the pie-ent company and organ ze a new corporation in some other State whe e it will be i ermitted t6 exist without being taxed to death. THE tears of pretty Maude Cullen were the cause of a strike of 250 girls employed as packers in the Detroit pearl button factory Friday afternoon. The factory has been having trouble with its employes, about 10J of its men now b.nng out on 6trike. An effort to get the girls to strike failed until the foreman ordered Maude to pack some buttons that had been finished by non­ union hands. She re used, whereupon he ordered her to quit work altogeth-1 er. . She donned her wraps and then sat down at her place and had a good cry. Over -U0 girl workers imme­ diately surrounded her, and after a brief indignation meeting walked out of the factory. Another 200 girls joined them in the morning. The primary cause of the trouble is the discharge of a foreman whom all the employes liked. SILAN LEWIS, the condemned Choc­ taw murderer, was shot at Wilburton, L T., Monday morning, by Sheriff Pursley. The bullet from the sheriff's Winchester missed the condemned man's heart. It went c^ean through the murderer's body, and Lewis, throwing back his head, sank groan­ ing to the ground. To end the horrible work the sheriff was fi ially compelled to take hold of the man's nose and smother him to death. He lived thirty min­ utes after being shot. Twenty-six other Indians are under indictment tor tho sampi murder for which Lewis was exected. When they come to trial trouble is anticipated as their sympa­ thizers are aroused. Lewis wias 54 years old. He had been given fre­ quent chances to escape because of the Sheriff's dread of car ying out the law, but refused to take advantage of them. SOUTHER^ THE Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train, St. Louis to San An­ tonio, was wiecked near Luling, Tex. The engine struck a hor.-e and the en­ gine and mail car, with the passen­ ger coaches, were derailed. Several passengers were injured. A HURRICANE, accompanied by hail and lightning, passed over Brenham, Tex., from the northeast.* Dwellings, barns, fencing, and trees were blown away. A number of peopls were badly injured. Shreveport, La , was visited by a disastrous storm. Much loss has been sustained, but as far as known nobody was killed. DEVELOPMENTS in the New Orleans, La., labor troubles show the • desjre a- tion of the white men who work along the levee. Sunday afternoon the torch was applied to the wharf of the West India and Pacific Steamship Company on the levee at the foot of Nun street, and before the flame i were subdued there was a loss of 0.000 in merchandise, cotton, and damage to one of their Bteamships. About half was insured. The tivuble is a race war between the white and colored screwmcn and longshoremen. It resulted Saturday in a riot, In which one negro was killed and several wounded. The police are almost powe - less, and it is likely the Governor will order o-.it troops. JOSEPH LYNCH, W. J. Chandler and Mrs. Sarah E. Collins have been con­ victed at Accomac Court House, Va , of lasciviousness in carrying out their so-called religious beliefs. Lynch, a Delaware ma i, and the hea l of the band, was sentenced to eight months in jail and to pay fine of $^o0. Chandler was sent to jail for six months and fined *150. The woman Collins was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $100. The trial of these people has i.ttracted widespread attention. Their doctrines wore that all mar­ riages were unholy in divitf j "sight. The sanctified ones lived and carried on their meetings on the beautiful li'tle island ot Chincote&gae, in the Chesapeake Bay. iss- aays: "Arthtfo*ekUL, aii^kiabla to the promotion of bank notes, bonds, etc., has not advanced with time. Bank aoteft prepared twenty-five years ago are as finely engraved as tho e of to-day. The bank notes produced by this bureau ana by the bank note com­ panies of the country appear to have reached the h ighest standard of engrav- iu'r and printing Knt tKn Hooinrn^ n« a rule.- are weak and meaningless. ' The conventional design for bank notes, which luio been used for mnuv years, appear* to bo wholly lacking in artistid merit, consisting, as it does, o a patch­ work of engraving, including a por­ trait, the title and the lathework counters, having no connection with each other, and a vast improvement can be made in designing the future issues of the (Government. I consider the artistic beauty of a design for a bank note to be as essential to protec­ tion against counterfeiting as the manner In which either the engraving or printing is executed. In fact, they must all be of the hi: host standard of excellence to afford perfect protection. To attain this standard of excellence I have se­ cured the service^ of some of the best engravers and prYnters, and have re­ ceived aid from some pf the most tal­ ented artists in the country in prepar­ ing designs Jor a new issue of silver certificates, and the result, in my opinion, will not only be a creditable work from an artistic standpoint, but a series of notes which will be bevond the skill of counterfeiters to imitate in a way to be at all dangerous to com- ' - PORSZGNi THE Minister of the Interior and the Minister of War in Argentine have resigned. THE London Telegraph says that Japan will demand as the terms of peace the cession to her of the Island of Formosa and the payment of an in­ demnity of £o0,0iX),000* or £40,000,('00. F( reigners who hale arrived at Che Foo from Port Arthur say the Japah- ese are attacking tho latter place by land and by sea. A Chinese fieetrie's inside the harbor. THE Chinese army has been thrown into a panic by the Japanese victories and is still fleeing before the Japanese. The Chines troops in Manchuria are robbing the natives and committing horrible atrocities wherever they pass. Tho Japanese. on thG ether hand, are treating the Chinese well, and are consequently received with open arms by the natives, who are furnishing them with supplies of various kinds. Viceroy Li Hung Chang has been or­ dered to Pekin. THE governors of the southern prov­ inces of Morocco, pressed by the rebels in their ' respective districts, have sought refuge" in Morocco City, fleeing fr jm tho outraged Kabyles, their long- suffering. oppressed and despoiled sub­ jects. The sultan has ordered them back to their districts. To obey means death at the hands of these people, who have laid siege to the southern capital and plundered the surrounding country. IN GENERAL DEAN SAMUEL REYNOLDS HOLF, D. D., of Rochester (England) Cathedral, an intimate of Dickens and Tennyson, has arrived in this country, where he will speaK in the interests of his cathe-' draL ROBERT FULFORD, of New York, the theatrical manager, arrived at London. Int., with the ashes of his wife Annie Pixley, the actress, who died in Eng­ land last winter. They will be placed in the lot with the remains of her only son, Thomas, and a handsome monu­ ment will cover both. Mrs. Fulford. visited London every summer to renew* the liowers on the grave of her child, whom she adored. R. G. DUN & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: . .i iuai, week, with tho excitement of an election, could not Indicate much of the true condition of business. In some trades the season is too fur advanced for great activity and in otheis the supposed effects of tho voting hinder operations. But It is satisfactory that the volume of production Is well maintained and In one or two branches Increased; that no monetary difficulties disturb; that breadstuffs are a little higher; and that no material decline npptant during iu« Week, in uimiufituiured products. At present the volume of btiBi-r ness transacted la on the whole smaller than last year, and much smaller than in 1K02, though a Presidential election waa th»»n cl^se a* hand. THE lumber tchconer Fanny Dutard, Capt. Peterson, just arrived at Port Blakeiy, Wash., report* the missing Ivanhoe, with Frederick J. Grant, ex- Minister to Bolivia, on board, prob­ ably sank the afternoon of Sept. 30. "We left Port Blakeiy," said Capt Peterson, "Sept. 20, bound for Santa Parbara with lumber. We sailed out under light wind and arrived at the Cape the 2! tb. We saw a tug towing out a ship the same evening and drop it otf the Cape. That night a storm came up and the morning of the 30th moderated. Tne ship was in company with UB, but too far away for us to make out its name or cargo. It ap- Seared to have a terrible list to star-oard. We could ^ee that something was w-ong, for the list was in the wrong direction. That night the ves­ sel disappeared from sight." MARKET REPORTS. S CO « 00 300 48 63 8 00 S 00 ao I WASHINGTON. THERE are gocd reasons to believe the removal of the President's family from the White House to their 'coun­ try place was undoubtedly due to the smallpox scare prevalent throughout Washington. Mrs. Cleveland and the children have been vaccinated? C .AUDE M. JOHNSON, Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, CHICAGO. CATTL,*--Common to Prime $3 75 Hotis--Shipping Grades 4 00 SHEEP--Fair to Choice... 2 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Red 03 CORN--No. 2 61 OATS--No. 3 IB (4 RYK--NO. Z 47 & HIJTTEE--Choice Creamery 33<4<9 Ecios-Freah is & POTATOES--Car-lots, per bn 65 & INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping Hoos--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to Prime WHEAT--No. 2 Red .' COBN--No. 2 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOIJI8. CATTLE Hoos WHEAT--No. 3 Bed COBN--No. 'J OATS--No. 3 RTE-NO. 2 CINCINNATL CATTLE Hou 8 SHEEP... WHEAT--No. 2 Red... .......... CORN No. 2 Mlied OATS--No. t Mixed RYE--No. 2 DETROIT. CATTLE HHEKP WHEAT--No 1 White COBN-NO. 2 Yellow*......' OAT8--No. 2 White ' TOLBDO. W HEAT--No. 2 Red ilORK- N« •) V^llnw OATS--No. *2 White..... .7....... RYE--No. 2..... BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. L White • No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White _ MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 SPRING COBN--No. 8 OATS-- No. 2 White lUHl.EY--NO. 2 i RYE- No. 1 POBK--Mess......... NEW TORS. CATTUJ.J Hoos ...: HHEEF \VH EAT--No. 2 Red.. . CORN--No. 2 UATH- White Weatera BCTTBB--Creameijr..... I. Eoos--Western 41 S 50 & 6 00 liS 3 75 <£ 64 Si Hi 48 i»H 20 ' 06 & 6 76 & 4 75 3 00 48% ® 63 S1H<4 32& §6 00 6 00 & SI a 4<>» si r 8 60 & li 60 4 00 4 7S 2 00 @ 3 00 61h& 62% 63 & 63 31 & 82 60 u* 63 SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. SflScSs.1 riiam tTpoa the PaUi« Sefeoate;--' Report ot tne State Board oit Charities --Shocking; Tragedy at Lincoln--Made o|r with veoo. 84*0 &U 76 0 6 60 & 3 76 Ililqpttn PnMto Sflhofll Flgtirae, Fmm statistics prepared by Sififte Superintendent of Public Instruction Raiab, it appears that there are in the State 1,3 a ,8s§ persons of school age-- between <i and 21. Of these, 855,i?38 were enrolled in public and li(5,(i3(i in private schools. They were taught by 2-V 51 taachers of the public t^chooui and by 3,i26 private school teachers. The total enrollment of puoils in schools consistad of 4:9,992 males and 4$:',582 females. Cf the 25,483 teachers, 6,522 were men and l*V>(il were women. There are ll,tfl>> public school dis­ trict in the State and 12, aid publio school buildings. There are 10,"i 3* un­ graded schools and 1,784 graled. The number of ungraded school haj diminished twenty-eight in two years, while the number of graded schools has bee.n increased by ll«. The latter include 3^s» high schools. Tlse attend­ ance of ungraded schools consisted of li 0,71)7 boys and liL',0i>3 girls. The average daily attendance of the pub­ lic schools was 565.107, or (15 per cent. ot the whole. The enrollment has in­ creased 5.7 per cent, in two years, and t»(i per c nt. of the ch ldren enrolled were in daily attendance for every day of the school year. The average term of all the schools was 15K days and the average number of days which each child enrolled was in school was 114.7. The amount paid the te&chers of the State was $8,fc09,yt>0.08: of Cook-county, $3,350,82J.38; of Sangamon county, $141,500.30; of the city of Qhicago, it3,034,255.07; of city of Springfield, $55,089.50. The total cost of the schools of the Stale was $10,051,499.92; of Ccok county, $7,2^,9(55.19; of San­ gamon county, ^20;',342.21: of Chicago, #<>.5.0,394.4*. ; of Springfield, $79,732.9*. The enrollment of the high schools of the tate was 8,508 males and 15,1^5 fema es. Tho average cost per pupil enrolled in the high schools of the Stite fort ition was $2.". 78. The av­ erage cost, (ountihg all expenses, was $3 .07. These items were highest for Calumet, Cook county; namely, $103.74 and $103.74. They were lowest for Tallula, Menard county, where the figjres are $5.ss6 and $5.8(1 The lowest iu Cook county is the West Division High school, in which t)ie coat per pupil enro led i3 $28.2t>. Student Killed bv Minhop. Vivian Church a student frcm Fair- mount. was accidentally killed at Lin­ coln. In company with several other students he had baen throwing water into the room of two fellow-students, one of whom was R. G. Schafer, whose, home is at Petersburg, Ind. in order to frighten them away Schafer fired a Shot through his window. Just a? the bullet was fired young Church rushed past the window and the bullet, en­ tered his body just above the heart, cau ing his death in foi ty minutes. Schafer surrendered himself to the Sheriff, but was released from custody after tho verdict of the coroner's jury, which exonerated him from any crim­ inal intent. EIP«MM of IlllnoiH Institutions. The regular quarterly statement of the expense of the State institutions subject to the control of the State Board of Public Charities ehowj that the total amount of the appropriations drawn during the three months past wa9 $34V,023. During the ouarter the total number of days'board lurnished to inmates of the institutions was t 85,- 782, an I to officers and employes 107,- 070. The average number of inmates was ^,153, the "average cost per capita (gross) was $39. 8, and the average cost per capita (net) $35.30. St. Jacob*' Pnntmaeter Decamps. Michael Bernhardt, Postmaster at St. Jacobs, Madison County, has left for parts unknown. He :effc Wednes­ day for O'Pallon, ostensibly for the purpose of getting some money, but investigation revealed that he did not go there. A postottice inspector was bet to work on the books, and has found a shortage of $600. A warrant is out for his arrest. Mrs. Beruhatut has been sworn in as postmaster Record of th« Wntflt. VANDALIA is arranging to put in a system of water-works to cost $30,010. MEYER'S toy store in Springfield burned from the explosion of a lamp. HENRY . HJNDELMER, Effingham, aged 14, killed himself by accidentally discharging a shotgun. *( OFFICER JOSEPH SEYLLER was shot and killed at Bartonville, where he was tent to arrest Husel Hopmeyer. AT RockfordAthe wholesale brick grocery 6tore of b\ G. Shoudy & Co. was destroyed by fire Sunday. The loss was about $io,t00; insuran.e, $22,- 500. Gov. AIITGELD has restored the rights of citizenship to Robert F. S llers, of Shawnee town, who served two years in the penitentiary for forgery, A MARN, eignt horses, several hun- died bushels of c at3, and thirty tons of hay were burned on the farm 'of John Babb, near Champaign. No insur­ ance. Most of the lo.8 falls on a i enter tamed Welch. CHARLES A. FULLER, a well-known newspaper and city rireotory man of ,l>>liet, was found dead in his bed. He died of heart failure and leaves a brother, S. Fuller, at 437 Orchard avenue, Chicago, and a sister in Al­ bany, N. Y. MAX WESENTHAL, a traveling sales­ man of ths Chicago Supply House, was found in his room at Rock Island, hav­ ing succumbed to an overdose of mor- phine. He was 30 years of age. He had been despondent of late and the case shows string symptoms of suicide. C. M. AVEKY, President of tho Avery Planter Company, of Peoria, lost his hand on' his farm in Reno County, Kansas#. He got it caught in an ensilage cutter. Gov. ALTGELD has is ued a requisi­ tion upon the Governor of Nebraska for the extradition of Christ Holler, alias Laub, wanted in Chicago for embezzle­ ment and under arreit at Omaha. JOSEPH WOODWARD, of the Allaire- Woodward Chemical Company, was marTied in Peoria to Miss Elizabeth Grier, daughter of R. C. Grier, Secre­ tary of the Peoria Board of Trade. i n v/f, ri T~ T>«-_ _ . T uvodpu and L. B, Morgan were seriously in- jured at Roberts by a falling brick wall. Two MASKED men entered the Chi­ cago and Northwestern depot at Ros- coe. and, covering the Agent with re­ volvers, compelled him to give up the contents of the safe and money drawer. Only a small amount was se­ cured. MR!-\ CATHERINE GRONAU, the wealthiest widow in Collinsville, has married Louis Kreela, a ccal miner. Mrs. Gronau, besides having an income of over $37,000 a year, is 62 and has buried two husbands, while her third is of few worldly good*, but only 38. ton. ILLINOIS has recently authorised th«< ment of a naval militia KNK DE KEEN, who was onoe a citizen of Eellevllle died in Portland, Or& « CORN crop near Morrisonvilie wilV yield Bixty to seventy busheU t3 the acre. HERMAN and Mary Koch, of Ger- uiautown, cs-cbratcd their ^5tb anni­ versary. Miss MARY BXTECKMAN and Mr* Herman Hoimbuokle were married at Chester. COMPLAINT is made that the bricks furnished for paving purposes at Quinoy are soft. THE Lebanon eora meal plant just erected turns out 100 barrels of dors meal a day. ° HERBERT LEE, aged 1& was acci­ dentally shot and killed wnile hunting near Murphysboro. HORACE CLARK, the 7-year-old boy who disappeared from Peoria, was found in the river dr jwned. UNKNOWN robbers ai Saylor Springs tortured an old farmer with fire in an effort to get his hidden money. A !T-YEAK-OLD child named Trim­ mer was struck by an Illinois Central train near Decatur and badly injured. COMBINED resources'of Illinois State tanks were $118,44( ,833: loan» and de­ posits, $82, fcOO, 072; surplus, $5,225,712. OWING to the sttempt to compol elevation ot tractcs at Joiiet, five rail­ roads have decided to move out of the city. THOMAS HARGITT, aged 69, of Anchor, died from injurie /received by a fail into a cellar. He was a wealthy farmer. WITH the possible exception of Mc- Gann, all the l emocratio candidates for Congress in Cook Coupty districts were defeated. MADISON COUNTY oTcials Ktopped the Tracy-Needham fight by arresting the principals of a preliminary bout and the referee. COMPLAINT ^ made by ^farmers of Central Illinois that they cannot get help in'husking corn*, although they offer good wages. G. CHAMBERS, a drug clerk in Aus­ tin, was seriously injured in a fire which damaged the Cody Block to the extent of $lo,o00. A MANTEL closk in a box in the Pacific Express office at Decatur the REPARATION DEMANDED FOR THE CHUNQ KING AFFAIR. Great1 EHtiWi Znaiai* fl»t Vk«t«| Be Degraded afod that » Money In- demnltjr Be Paid for the Setswra of *«p. M. VlMMaffegM. • . Cbtnerte Soldiers The British officials in Shanghai have sent an ultimatum to the Chinese Viceroy demanding a .Settlement of the Chungking aflair The Briti h demands are that Taotai Sheng be dis­ missed and degraded, the Chung King is to be ealuted with twenty-one guns from the Tuku forts, and a money in­ demnity is to be paid to the < wners of the Chung King. If these demands are not complied with within the speci­ fied time, reprisals upon the part of the British fleet are threatened. The Chrng King afair is one of the remar able incidents of the war be­ tween China and Japan, and may have serious results. On Aug. 4 lasr, a Tien Tsin dispatch announced that thirteen Japanese eoldiera, who had been forci­ bly lemoved by the Chinese from the British s eamship Chung King, were returned immediately upon the \ ioe- roy, Li Hi ng Chang, being notified, and it was added that the Vic«rov enoio. gi/ed to the British Consul. On Aug. however, a dispatch from Shanghai announced the arrival there of the steamship Chung King, and the Cap­ tain of that vessel gave his version of the affair, which gave it a more seri­ ous aspect. The Captain. said that while his ship was at Tungku on the Gulf of 1 e Chi Li. Chinesa soldiers went on board of her for the purpose of teizing the Japanese passengers. They found on board that steamship sixty Japanese, mostly women and children, and at once began to hunt them down. The Chinese pursued the Japanese all over the vessel, bound them hand and foot an soon as caught and Hung them ove • on the wha f. Li Hung Chang eventual y, upon the pro­ tests of the British Consul, commanded the Japanese to be returned on board the Chung King and ordered the Chinese soldiers who had made the raid to be severely punished. S DAY TO GIVE THANKS. UU+*i other day struck for Jour continuous ̂ Tldent Cleveland Set. Apart Thnndar, hours without taking breath. Nov. 89, for Praise and Gratitude. A LITERARY society is to be started at Green Valley and with it an amateur dramatic company, who will present several plays the coming winter. Gov. ALTGELD has issued a requisi­ tion upon the Governor of Indiana for Charles H. \ ogel, wanted at Chicago for obtaining money under false pre­ tense. He is under arrest at Indianap­ olis. THE feature of the election in Rock Island County was the vote on the proposition to issue bonds to the amount of $1.5,0J0 to build a new court houfe, and which carried by u majority of 1,800. ? GUSTAV COLIANDEP, who was shot in the raid on a Chicago Twenty-third Ward polling booth, died from his w und. "Majcr" Sampson, "dabby" Burns and ten other men with crimi­ nal records are suspected. ED MANSFIELD, while out hunting with Henry Gregory Sunday after­ noon, accidentally shot the latter through the head. killinijf him instant­ ly. both are prominent young men and members of the Rockford Riles. AT Rcckford Judge Shaw granted a divorce to Mrs. Alfred CrilL Alimony to the amount of $7,000 was a lowed her. The case had been in litigation several terms. Crill is a wealthy stock buyer and is well known in Chicago. MRS. JACOB RUBEN died near St. Paul, aged 70 years. She waj the mother of Miss Annie Ruben, who was so brutally murdered with her father, Jacob Ruben, by Fred Moichow, the girl's jealous lover. Moichow after­ wards committed suicide. CAPT. MCDANIEL, Adjutant of the Quincy Soldiers' Home, has been re­ moved by Superintendent Fogg for failure to properly perform his duties. The principal charge is dereliction in duty in not properly keeping the rec­ ords of the men out on furlough. TDERE is considerable stir at Jolieu over the resignation of Alderman Andy Adam. Adam was elected a year ago last spring. Mayor Stasson ap­ pointed him Chairman of the* !• inance Committee and Adam spent his entire time for the past six months in t e City Hall. Everything was supposed to be all right until it was alleged that he had been stuffing the street pay roll and drew money for people who Clever were employed by the city. Adam has lived in .loliet all his life and stood high. He has had domestic trouble with his wife, who left him a year ago. A special election will be called to till the vacancy, and there will be a bitter fight, 4s the Fifth vVard is considered a lighting tne. --^ Gov. ALTGELD has Issued the fol­ lowing Thanksgiving proclamation: Xue time approaches vvnea it is ttie cus­ tom of our people to huve a day set aside to be devoted to thanksgiving for tbe bounties of the last year, and to meditate upon the dangers to be avoided, tbe diffi­ culties surmounted, and tbe alms attained during this Interval. 't he year we lo >k back upon has been free from famine and pestilence, and the fields have yielded abundantly to the industry of the hus­ bandman. Now. therefore, I, John P. Altgeld, Gov­ ernor of the State of Illinois, do appoint Thursday, the 29th day of November, 1804, as a day of thanksgiving for the blessings of the year, and call upon the people to lay aside tbelr usual vocations and to re­ turn thunks for the manifold blessings be­ stowed upon them by Divine Providence. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my han4 *nd caused to be affixed the great seal of the State, this 6th day of No­ vember, A. r> 1804. JOHN P. ALTOBLD. Governor. By WILLIAM IL HINRICBSBN, Secretary ol State CORONER BURKHARDT held an in­ quest at New Berlin over the remains of Harvey Young, the young man who was found on the Wabash tra k near that place with a bullet wound in his head, and who died shortly after being f und. The jury returned a verdict of suicide. A LITTLE son of Allen Wood, of Carmi, while walking oh the top rail of a picket fence, slipped, causing him to sit down suddenly, and one of the picket point* iniiicted a very serious flesh wound. The accident caused great alarm at first, as it was feared a fatal wound had been received. GOV. AijTO£L'i>'Cuaxmut6u tO inipriS* onment for li e the sentence < f Gustav H. Mankhausenof St. (..lair County, whe killed his wife about a year ago and was sentenced to bo hanged. In grant­ ing the commutation the Governor sug­ gested that there is a po sibility that the woman committed suicide and was not murdered. JAMES D. HOPKINS, of Springfield, has receive 1 a pair of homing pigeons ftom D etroit, Mich. They wore orig­ inally imported from Antwerp. The male bird has a record of a 500-mile trip and the female 325 miles. They are registered. The man that owned them in Antwerp refused $60 ioc the male bird alone. The President has issued the follow- ing: J.lie American people should gratefully render thanksgiving and praise to the Su­ preme Kuler of tbe universe, who has watched over thorn with kindness and fos­ tering care during the year that has passed. They should also with humilky and faith supplicate the Father of All Mercies for continued blessings according to their needs, and they should by deeds of charity seek the favor of tbe giver of every good and perfect gift 't herefore I, Grover Cleveland, President of tbe United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 20th day of November, lnstait, as a day of thanksgiv­ ing and prayer, to be kept and observed by all the people of the land. On thatduy let our, ordinary work and business be suspended, and let us meet in ;Our accustomed places of worship and give thanks to Almighty God for our preserva­ tion as a nation, for our immunity from disease and pestilence, for the harvests that have rewarded our husbandry, for a renewal of national prosperity, and tor every advance In virtue and intelligence that has marked our growth as a people. And with our thanksgiving iet us pray that these blessings may be multiplied unto us, that our national conscience may be quickened to a better recognition of the power and goodness of God. and that In our ntitional life we may clearer see and closer follow the path of ri?bteousnes^ And in our places of worship and praise, as weil as in the happy reunions of kin­ dred and friends, on that day let ua in­ voke divine approval by generously re­ membering the poor and needy. Surely he who has given us comfort and plenty will look upon our relief of the destitute and our,, ministrations of charity as the work of hearts truly grateful and as proofs of the sincerity of our thanksgiv­ ing. Witness my hand and the seal of the United States, which I have cansed to be hereto affixed. Done at the city of Washington on the first day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and of tbe Independence of the United States the one hundred nnd nineteenth. GHOVER CLKVXLAWD. By the President: W. Q. GBEBHAK. Secretary of Stats. Tftlegraphto Clleks. THE Southwester/i Association of Hallway Surgeons met at Memphis, Teztn. SAMUEL WHISTLER was killed at Noblesville, Ind., by a falling limb of a tree. SVAKE-CHARMER MATLOCK was bit­ ten by a cobra at Dallas, Tex. He can­ not recover. t THE White Wings sailed from Baltl more for Rio de Janeiro with a targo valued at $4^,000. _ THE force no .v at work on the Cubebra branch of the Panama canal will soon be increased to $1,000 men. DA. J. B. CHARLTON was shot at Clear Lake, Iowa, by robbers. Pocket instrument stopped the bul et. JULIUS CAESAR and William Shakes­ peare are the na i es of two political speakers at Kalamazoo, Mich. FOR refusing to betray Outlaw Bill Goode, Edd e Marl in wiw hanged by a mob In Crittenden County, Ky. THIRTY-FIVE cases of malarial fever are reported among Wesleyan Univer­ sity students at Middle town, Conn. MRS. ROHF.UT SHEPARD. an aged and feeble widow, was attacked at Jas­ per, Ala., by three hogs and killed. GEORGR COLLIER, a well-to-do citi­ zen of Anderson, Ind., is missing, and it is feared he ha3 met with fcul play. PRESTON WEST, a well-known turf­ man, died at Charlestown, Ind. He was 94 years old and a Kentuckian by birth THE National Union Bank is sending notices "to its < ountry bank cor espoiiu- ents reducing interest on balances to 1 per cont. LUIGI REVELLT, of an ancient and nob e Italian house, attempted suicide by shooting in the editorial rooms of the paper Cristofero Colombo, at .New York. MRS. MCKEE and three ether teach­ ers in the Western Female Seminary at Oxford, Ohio, Were swindled out of *60 by a stranger, who pretended ' to sell dress r<at e ns. *!»• 4KIM^Kt^HiffiH^j|PPp|!'0i. cote «utdl . .f»t«ro«te. Will uobttMHi,#flo tt in charge of the Hotel Johnson darlfig the absence of the proprietor, E. L. Johnson, who is at Atlantic City, received g dis­ patch from the latter which read: "Ship forty cats at once" Mr. Johnson was nil /led. Hec*a!d not imagine wbat his relative could want with cats at Atlantic City, so lie consulted with a few of his assist­ ants, and the only solution they could arrive at was that rats must have been discovered in the Atlantic City hostelry. They unanimously de­ cided, however, that it was theirs not to reason why; theirs but to get cats and ship them to Atlantic City without delay, A rush was made for all the establishments in town which deal in pet animals, but all the cats on band were of the Maltese or An* gora variety, and it was decided that they were too expensive. As a final result the genus boy was called into requisition, and before nightfall there were eighteen feline prisoners at the Johnson.. There were no more in sight though, so it was decided to ship the first installment that night aud make a further consignment next, day. A telegram was sent to Mr. Johnson at Atlantic City, which an- nr>unc«»d* is;';;- "Shipped eighteen cat*; more to­ morrow." , y Mr. Johnson has a reputation for wanting things in a hurry when ha does want them, so his assistants at this end of the line returned well sat­ isfied that thev bad acquitted them­ selves with great credit in a sodden emergency. Early the next morning another dispatch arrived which in­ fused every one concerned with a de­ sire to sneak away somewhere and begin life anew, it read: "To Shanghai with yourcats. It's rot's, cots, cots." To complete the story it Is only fair to 3t;ite that Mr. Johnson writes a notoriously bad hand, and those in­ terested here says the operator must have mistaken cots forc&ts."--Wash­ ington Post. The Retired Burglar. *'1 always was fond of little c&U- (TrelS," said the retired burglar, "and once I served a term on that account. I had gone into a bouse in the west­ ern part of the State and rummaged about downstairs, and finally got up and got into a room where there was a roan and his wife and a little baby, all asleep. The baby was in a cradle that stood at the foot of the bed; not far from its cradle, standing asainst tbe wall, was the bureau. I trans­ ferred whatever there was of value iu the bureau and then I tured to the baby; I couldn't help it. X turned mj light on the kid to look at him, and it woke him up. He stared at me a little, aud then he began to smile and double up his dsts at me. "Wei!, he looked so funny that seemed to tickle him immense; he threw up his legs and his arms, and laughed more'n ever, and tried to say something; all he could say was •Goo--o--o,' but that was enough. You've heard of women SJ tired you couldn't wake 'em up firing a cannon in the next room that would wake up in a minute if the baby turned in its cradle? Well, when this baby said 'Goo--o--Or • its mother not only woke up instantly but she began to get up before she was fairly awake; and all the time she saw the light long before i could douse it. Then she screamed and 1 made a great break for the door. "But the man got there before I did; and, besides being veiy quick, h€ was very able-bodied and not the least bit afraid; in fact, he was a better man than J. was, and the up­ shot of this business was that I got four years and six mouths just for stopping to chuck a little shaver ua- der the chin."--New York tun. , Unnecessary Self-Denial. There are people who not only af-' ford to be indifferent to their per­ sonal comfort, but who seem to feel a positive pleasure in making them­ selves uncomfortable. They deny themselves aggressively. They sit. from choice, in the coldest corner of the room: they select the driest bit of cake or bread; they decline all the small pleasures of lile with an air of virtuous resignation, as if they were entitled to praise for their small sac­ rifices. Yet those who know them best have scant respect for their self-denial. In speaking of one of these self-elected ascetics, her sister remarked, with a quizzical glance, "You know, my dear, Kate always will be a martyr." Is it wise to slight the small comforts of lifeV Of what use is unnecessary self-denial either to one's self or others? The kindly disposed like to feel that everyone about them is comfortable and at ease. When Anne deliberately sits in adraught in order to bo "out of the way," or eats Johnny's slighted crust, she is hurting those who love her more than she hurts herself, to say nothing of spoiling Johnny; tor a martyr in the family makes the younger members of it thoughtless, and sellsh, and they quickly appro­ priate to themselves the comforts and privileges cast aside by their rightlul possessor. It is clearly right to scorn material advantages If they cost ua our peace of mind; but it is only the part of common sense to take personal comfort when it is to be muL without such cost. /---- Origin of Postoflloes. The invention of the postolfice ia • ascribed to Cyrus, King of Persia, who lived about tiOO B. C. Cyrus re­ quired all his governors of provinces to write to him exact accounts of everything that occurred in their several districts and armies. The l'ersian empire was ot vast extent- ant some means bad to be provided to render that correspondence sure and expeditions.; Cyrus, therefore, caused postotlices to be built and messengers appointed in everjtpror- ince He found how far a Hood horse, witb an experienced rider, could travel in a day without being hurt, and then had stables built in propor- tipn, an equal distance from each other. At each of these places he also appointed postmasters, whose duty it was to receive the letters from the carriers as they arrived and give them to others, and to give them fresh horses in exchange for those that had pei formed their part of the journey. t • UNCERTAINTY is painful for aU e*- Hons and for all men. •.a - ?! V sa c • ' > .rjg