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wSiSS&Stil ILLINOIK Iran/ man reject aroditerr, »y F that token notbiog great or high shall ever come out of that man's •-llfck . » THREE murderers under sentence of death Id Indian Territory got into a light and only one survived. Now that is what might be called obliging. Even a murderer sometimes exhibits commendable traits. B DR. PARKHURST has made ft rather <novel innovation in reform work by addressing a gathering of the most radical New York anarchists and urg­ ing them to co-operate with him in his efforts to improve the govern­ ment at the city. Telearraphic re­ ports of the meeting indicate that the anarchists), &moug whom was Emma Goldman, agreed to join in the work, though why an anarchist, who denounces all government, should care whether government be good or had is not apparent. *1 ! 1 * HUNGARY alone has spoken tne true word about sympathy with a despotism. A number of Hungarian representatives will oppose passage of a resolution in Parliament sym- fiathizing with the Czar, giving as their reason that a country without a Parliament is the proper object of sympathy on that account; but that a country with a Parliament stulti­ fies itself by professing to condole for a grief or congratulate for a joy a sovereign who denies bis people a voice in their own Government There will probably be toadle; enotigh to pass the vote of condolence with a despot, but at least truth and de­ cency will have had a chance to speak out in Europe about despotism. BVER since dynamite came into general use it has been recognized as the most dangerous weapon with which private vengeance can wreak destruction on those who are objec­ tionable to any classes. ; This has al­ ways beea a possible danger; but the attempt, happily unsuccessful, of some Irish laborers near New Bo- chelle. N. Y., to blow up a shanty where 100 Italian laborers were lodging, shows how easily this dan­ gerous explosive may fall into the hands of those who are wholly unfit to ase it The public safety may re­ quire that the sale aud use of es­ pecially dangerous explosives shall be regulated by laws more strict than that have heretofore been needed. EUROPE IS filled with suspicion that the brash young Emperor of Germany is gradually working down to a figure-head Chancellor. JR * LBABNINO maketh young men tetn- Tjiifcte, is the comfort of old aiie. standing for wealth with poverty, 4U$d ..serving as an ornament to riches. THAT Philadelphia woman 'who wilted that she be buried in her seal­ skin sacjue couldn't have been troubled with brooding over a mis-, spent life ' ..'J.; and reform the civil service. Is no natton in the world mora afflicted with tax-eaters than Italy. Staff are literally devouring the sub- stance of the people. If three-fourths of the* were removed it would be a stroke of economy jrhich would go far towards wiping out the deficit, or, at least, would reduce it so that its har­ den could be endured. Whether the Government has the courage to take this radical course and thus antagon- RESULT OF ABROGATION RECIPROCITY TREATIES. Vhm of Boclprooltr Cmm. D«- tnsnd for Oar Hum Prodaet«-D»l«at of the IWlMf «* Uw Pre® Trcdo tariff BUI. Petition bjr Merchant* A. special meeting of the Board'of Dl- ize a C0Bs!3er&bte army of politicians ! sectors of ,the Merchants' Exchange of remains to be seen. Hut that is the problem Crispt, which confronts Premier BOOKS, remember, are friends; toooks affect character; and you c* r mtetiitiUu youi duty iu to this as you can safely neglect any other moral duty that is cast upon jrou. AMBTBIFIED man has been discov­ ered near Kansas City. He is sup­ posed to have been a non-resident property-owner who had visited the city to inquire into the state of the xeal estate market. SOME persons live in a perpetual «tate of fret. The weather is always objectionable; the temperature is never satisfactory. They have too much to do, and are driven to death, or too little, and .have no resources. If they are ill, they know t.bey shall j never get well; if they are well, they j expect soon to „ be ill. Their daily i work is either drudgery, which they i bate, or so difficult and complex that j they cannot execute it. In contrast! to these we sometimes meet with men and women so bright and cheery that their very presence is a positive pleasure They discover the favor­ able side of the weather, of the busi­ ness, of home surroundings, of social relations, even of political affairs. They will tell you of all the pleasant things that happen, and give voice to all the joy they feel. Of course they are sometimes annoyed and worried by petty troubles, bufijj|tie very effort they make to pass JKem over silently diminishes tur un­ pleasant effect upon themseMis, and prevents the influence fronr extend­ ing. -. - A DISPATCH from Rome again sets fortft the fact that at the forthcom­ ing session of the Chamber of Depu­ ties the financial situation, as usual, will be the distracting problem. The deficit is now calculated at BO, 000,000 lire. To meet this it is proposed on the one hand that the Government shall economize to the amount ot 20,- 000,000 lire and raise the remaining PROCESS AMX of Hesse was taken to Livadia. where, In the presence of a moribund sovereign, she was be­ trothed to an unwilling bridegroom, already known to live in the marriage relation and to be father of children by another wife The marriage is one of the regulation royal contracts. The Circassian slave dealer that pre­ sents his veiled captives in the market performs his brutal work in his oripnt.nl nnrt "rannn" Thoaa '•royal" parents, •'Christians," barter off aons and daughters with equal brutality in their way. Rather than lose bis right to the crown of Russia the san of the Emperor breaks his rows to another woman, stigmatLes his own children and sets to the young men of his country an ex­ ample of licentiousness they will not fall to make the most of. It has been frequently boasted by apologists of thfc present era of royalty that moral* are improved at courts. Thert is not a court in Europe, from thataf England to that of Russia, the latest to scandalize decency, that is not shameless. It may be that in the routine performance of public functions externals of decency are more observed. The Czar that is to he, the Duke of York that is, need not r«nd wives to the headsmen to get rid of them and make wav for new consorts. They can both, with the full sanction of the representa­ tive State churches of their realms, infringe the moral law to whatever extent they please and inflict upon womanhood disgrace and shame worse than immurement in dungeons or decapitation. The greatest of rev­ olutions < was finally precipitated by the profligacy of one "Chris­ tian'* Court The reigning fam­ ilies of Europe to-day are as thoroughly immoral by their general adoption of the "morganatic" social relation as the court of old France when the "morganatic" euphemism was not deemed necessary. It is no marvel that the common people who cannot afford to employ "Christian" churchmen, archbishops and patri­ archs to consecrate what the Chris­ tian law condemns as foul, are full of fury toward rulers who live in idle­ ness off the sweat ot industry and who do not return an example of even common decency in their idle lives for revenues they have no part in creating. St. Louis was held last month. The representatives of the city mills and general flour dealers appeared before the board and asked the board's in­ dorsement to a petition which they had gotten up. The petition, which was read, was as follows: St. Louis, Mo.--The Hon. Walter Q. Gresham, Secretary of State, Washing­ ton, D. C.: Dear Sir--The undersigned merchants, manufacturers and pullers of St. Louis desire to respectfully call your attention to the condition of trade in our respective branches of business between the United States (especially the Mississippi Valley States and the city of St. Louis) and Cuba and other Spanish- fWWtm&im New I York have not yet forgotten Mr. Peck's report of the rise in wages under the i MMcKinley bill, nor are they blind to the .f OP I present wide-spread disaster under Democratic rule. Even Senator Hill could not save his party this fall, and by his extreme inconsistency he hat killed liimseif. • " . 'P t : ifi A Kfatorlest VnralK*. ' The sweeping defeat of the Demo­ cratic party at the polls has but one parallel in the history of this country, That was the election of 1840, when similar causes to those which recently have been in operation worked out the Ranie result. The compromise tariff of 1883 provided for a steady, gradual re­ duction of the import duties year by year during the following decade. 'Im­ mediately after the passage of the law the manufacturers and merchants of the United States began to do business upon a steadily falling market. Every year they had to mark down the sell­ ing values of stocks on hand at the time when the tariff reductions for that year went into effect. After a few years of an effort to carry on business under these disastrous conditions the panic ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER. OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. fiMlttm Praetlee of Drainage Cual Con­ tractor®--Dr. Drjfjgijtg; Ambidm Control at State _ Unlv^jwty -- Turn Given a Bad 8eara.teg ' _____ Frojr on the Sick. Drainage canal contractors--nol if can be said to the credit of soi them--are ponging $1,500 to $2,000 every month out of their workmen for medtefit attendance and hospital fees, and they are turning the sick and injured men over to the charity of Cook County. The hos­ pital fees represent just so much clear gain to the contractors--gain squeezed oat of the small pay of a lot of ignorant workmen, the most of them foreigners. This is going to make trouble for the con­ tractors. The County Commissioners are after them; so are the members of the Drainage Board; so are the hospital of- ficials. \ SWEPT OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH.--SClnneapolls Journal. The Snake Catcher. The selling of snakes to scientific men, to manufacturers who use the skins, and to museums, is a business which a man and his wife, who live In a Mississippi houseboat,' engage in. The strange couple were inter* viewed tbe other day by the reporter for a New Orleans paper. The man does most of tbe snake-catching, and, altbougb he has been bitten several times, he considers the experience only a trifling incident. A rattle­ snake, for instance, when pursued, he says, coils and is ready to defend himself. I flip a stone or a small piece of stick at him; he uncoils and starts off, but before he can again coil I have him back of the neck. No, I use no stick--nothing but my bare hands. You may laugh, too^ when 1 tell you that our snake lore teaches us not to hunt when the wiod is in the northwest. If we do, we And no snakes. The-principal reason of the year for us are spring and fall; the snakes are then fat and produce lots of oil. Of all tbe snakes in the tnited States only three families, he savs, can be classed as deadly. But, he adds, these families comprise about thirty-two species, distributed as follows; Kattlesnakes, seven; cottonmouths, eight; copper­ heads, seventeen, the two latter be­ ing moccasins and dwellers in the swamps and low places. The snake- catcher's method of treating bites4s as follows: When bitten, I imme­ diately tie a band above the wound, cutting tbe latter deeply in order to cause it to bleed freely, and to reach below the extremity pierced by the fang. The cut is then sucked, oi warm, newly killed flesh is applied, the remedies are then rubbed into the wound, neutralizing the poison. Males That Squat. Bid you ever bear of a squatting mule? asked a prominent coal up» erator. Well, I don't blame you for not knowing what 1 mean, for, aftei fifteen vears' experience in tbe busi­ ness I did not know of such a mule until recently. One ot our men sent me wcrd that on one of the workings there was a steep incline over which it was difficult for the men to push the cars. Try a mule, said I. In reply he stated he had purchased a squatting mule. In mines it meant a good deal of money to get a mule that can do the work, and at the same time small enough to walk through the low workings of tbe mine. Sometimes for hundreds ol feet the tunnels will be high enough to allow a mule to walk through them; then at some paints the cell­ ing may get so low that the mule cannot crawl under it. Now to make American countries, since the abrogation of the reciprocity treaties by the passage of the Gorman bill during the last days of August. While these treaties were in effect we were able to do a very large business with these countries. It is estimated that dur- ] ing the twelve months previous to the ! abrogation of the reciprocity treaties ! about 3,250,000 barrels of flour were ship- | ped from the United States to the West I Indies alone--mostly to Cuba--equal i-.i ! consumption to about 15,000,000 bushels j of wheat. About 1,000,000 barrels of this flour were shipped from St. Louis, and from mills owned and controlled in this vicinity; about 1,500,000 bushels of corn, besides large quantities of hog products, together with agricultural im­ plements and other manufactures. | It is estimated that the value of Ameri­ can exports to the countries in question during the year ending June 30, 1894, amounted to nearly $22,000,000. On account of cheap water transpor­ tation from the Mississippi Valley and the establishment of a line of steamers from Pensacola to Havana and other Spanish-American ports, the trade was exceedingly profitable and satisfactory, giving a new outlet for our surplus pro­ duction, and, we may say that it has been entirely cut off by the abrogation of these treaties. From information at hand we are sat­ isfied that these countries with which we hare been trading are suffering as much as we nre on account of the interruption of mutual commercial intercourse, and we believe them to be as anxious as our­ selves to have such treaties again entered into as will enable all interested to pro­ ceed with their commercial intercourse as heretofore. We may say that under the reciprocity treaty the duty on a barrel of flour was about 92 cents, and since its abrogation it is about $4.75 per barrel into Cnban mar­ kets, and on corn and other grains it is prohibitory. Under the circumstances which we have narrated, would you allow us to urge the'importance of the negotiation of com­ mercial treaties, particularly with Spain and Brazil, to renew the business made possible by the reciprocity treaties; or to make such new commercial treaties, or urge these countries to make such tariff reductions, as will enable us to re-estab­ lish our commercial relations? The Board of Directors of the Ex­ change adopted a resolution indorsing the petition. 40,000,000 by fresh taxation imposed upon a people already taxed almost to ! the passageway high enough for tbe death. It is extraordinary that the ' mule would entail a great expense. Tfhtr* Ar« They? Among the many glorious iresults, which, according to our free trade friends, were to be attained by tariff reform was the opening to us of the "markets of the world." Over these "markets of the world" the free trade orators have waxed eloquent aml-thcir auditors became enthusiastic. Just what the "markets of the world" stood for in dollars anil cents was not en­ larged upon; just how they were to be secured by tariff reform was not clear. The free traders are as weak in giving reasons as they are strong in giving promises. According to their belief their elevation to power was to be an "open sesame" to the "markets of the world." To others than the elect it looked as though the throwing down of the, barriers of protection would give our market to the world instead of giv­ ing theirs to us. But the voters in 1892, apparently believing that "we walk by faitli not by sight," placed the Demo­ cratic party in power. The "open sekinie" has been tried, but where are "the markets of the world?" Governme nt does not realize that the the only way out of the difficulty is via economy. It is probably as long as tbe alliance with Germany and Austria continues that it is hopeless to expect any retrenchment In mil!-' tary or naval expenditure. All the mnrn ImnnrUnt, then tg it. that t.h» But a squatting mule obviates tbii by crouching down when it. gets te the low places, adapting itself to th< height of the tunnel as mucft as pos* sible. So a squatting mule to miners is much more expensive thah on* that Is not so trained. of 1837 came upon the people. In one respect it was worse than that of 1893, The industrial panic of last year was preceded by a bankers' panic due to fears of bad" money--a fear which hap­ pily was dispelled by the cessation of the monthly purchases of silver. But in 1837 there was a reality of bad money. President Jackson had strick­ en down the United States Bank, the notes of which had circulated at par everywhere, and had advised the wild­ cat State banks to run wide open. They took the advice and a mass of currency, consisting of shlnplasters dif­ fering only,In degree of depreciation, flooded the country. The first opportunity the people had to, express themselves fully in rela­ tion to the business status was in 1840. Then they turned out Van Buren by a tremendous vote, installed Old Tippe­ canoe, and two years later passed the tariff act of 1842, the beneficial effect of which upon the industries of the country was instantaneous. Mer­ chants and manufacturers, no longer compelled to do business on a failing market, went to work actively and in­ dustriously to build up their own for­ tunes. The hard times of 185)3 also resulted from an attack on the policy of pro­ tection to American industry, and in 1894, precisely as their ancestors had done fifty-four years earlier, the peo­ ple arose in their might to free them­ selves at the ballot-box from their troubles by voting to restore the protec­ tive policy. They have hit the Demo­ crats about as hard a blow as was dealt in 1840, and for the same reason, 'there will, however, be this difference in the result: The lessons of the panic of 1837 soon were forgotten, the slavery question being the dominating one which threw all others into the shade. No such overshadowing is likely to occur now. There is nothing at pres­ ent to disturb and distract the atten­ tion of the people away from 'the great Issue as between protection and free trade. It is safe to say that with the lessons of the last two years stamped upon their memories the last man of the present generation will be gathered to his fathers before another successful attempt can be made to" turn tue faces of the American people in the direction of free traded * ? -- v-** •I iM*-. ' Insane Hospital Keeper Clubbed, J. The other morning C. J. Richards, night keeper at the criminal insane hos-nit.,1 nu.,1 , . .. . ... .it ^ uuju-4 , (w uuiljit-iuuaj.v lUJUi'eU in a conflict with a colored insane con­ vict named Thomas Cook. Cook had se­ cured the iron leg of a bath tub, with which he pried open the door of his cell, and when Richards made his appearance in the cellhouse on his round Cook sprang from his place of concealment and struck Richards a blow on the forehead with the iron leg. A conflict ensued, in which Richards received several more blows on the head and was left for dead on the floor. He recovered in time to fire five shots at the convict as he was making his escape through k window. The shots were without effect and the con­ vict escaped. Richards may recover. Cook is a burly negro sent from Chicago to the Joliet penitentiary about a year ago for murder. Last August he was transferred to the asylum, having been adjudged insane. New Man In Charge Dfc Andrew Sloan Draper -«was on Thursday officially installed as President of the University of Illinois* at Cham­ paign before 5.000 persons. Visitors from every quarter of the State and many from other States attended, members of the Ahlmni Association.^prominent edu­ cators from other institutions, and men of note in professional and business life. Among them Governor Altgeld, .T. T. Findley, President Knox College; W. S. Chaplin, Washington University; B. P. Colton, State Normal University; Dr. Bayard Hohnes and Gen. Sooy Smith, of Chicago; Nathaniel Butler, Chicago Uni­ versity; A. E. Turner, President Lincoln University; C. G. Neeley. John C. Ellis, S. W. Stratton, W. T. Merrill, Gorham H. Knottt, Mary D. Olsen, Mrs. J. M. Flower, Trustee of the University-elect; O. T. Bright and Fred Deland, of Chi­ cago; S. M. Inglis, State Superintendent- elect; W. F. M. Goss, Purdue Univer­ sity; C. C. Duflvy, Ottawa; and President Schnefer, Iowa University. National Orange la Good Shapa.:- M Springfield the National Gringo Executive Committee submitted its an­ nual report, which showed a healthy 'con­ dition, ample membership, and a large amount of work done. Leonard Itohne, of Pennsylvania, was elected to succeed himself as a member of the Executive Committee for the ensuing two years. The standing committees were announc­ ed. The State Grange concluded its ses­ sion and' adjourned. A resolution was adopted condemning the charges made at the Chicago Stock Yards as extortionate. The terms of George R. Tate of St. ('lair County and J. R Shaver of La Salle County as members of the Executive Committee having expired, Mr. Tate was elected to succeed himself aud Robert Eaton of Joliet was choaen succeed Mr. Shaver ̂ , ? Ten Poisoned by Kiting; Cookies. There is much excitement in the neigh­ borhood of Shobonier, south of Vandalia, over what appears to be wholesale pois­ oning of Martin Sasse, his sqn Herman, and their families, ten in all. Mrs. Mar­ tin Sasse baked some cookies and sent some of them over to her son Herman. Both families partook of the cake and soon afterward all the members became ill and began vomiting. The illness in each case was attended by swelling of the face. It is thought by the attending physician the flour of which the cookies were made contained poison and a chem­ ical analysis will be mad% Two mem­ bers of Martin Sasse's family are still confined to their beds. Attempt to Wreck an Alton Train. The other night an attempt was made to wreck the midnight passenger train, south bound, on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, a half mile north of Joliet. Ties were piled on the track, but they were observed in time to save the train and probably many lives. This is the second time within a month that attempts have been made to wreck this train. There is thought to be a gang of men whose object is to rob the passengers. No arrests have been made, but extra de­ tectives are at work on the case. The Best of It. The crowning gory of this great vic­ tory for protection lies In the defeat of Congressman Wilson, the father of the 1 safe of $1,500 worth of watches. most-radical free trade bill that was re­ cently before Congress. Mr. Wilson, the man of letters, the baby in busi­ ness, was selected as the mouthpiece and the tool of the administration, to act as a foster father for the creation of radical and mischievous brains. He has been relegated to the hamlet whence he emerged. His own district would have no more of him, and it is, therefore, not surprising that his very presence should be resented by the American people from whom he sought political indorsement while he yet smacked of the flavor of that British banquet--American Economist Record of the Week. Inoculation is said to have < been tried successfully at Fairburjf as a preventive of hog cholera. Mrs. A. S. Cox, of Canton, dropped a lamp, setting fire to her clothing and burning her to death. The miners employed by the Hillsboro Coal Company went out because the com­ pany has refused to pay them every two weeks. At Decatur thieves broke into Charles White's pawn broker shop and robbed the They MANT a woman who suooeeds as « -V T **' • A'Sonator'sSalcbtP. The hiflierto invincible THI1 liSs tiiet his first defeat this fall iu spite of the desperate fight that he made. Even his record of opposition to the Gornpiu i<ill did not save him from being Bragged down with his party. His opposition lost half its force when he subsequent­ ly gfttd that the Gorman bill, though pot "perfect,** yet was far tttfcter than Could Not Find One. The next day after the Maine elec­ tion a Democrat was standing by the roadside when he saw a Republican friend approaching. Expecting to be gibed tlie Democrat began nervously to poke with the toe of his boot la«llie leaves by the roadside. "What are you looking for?" asked the Republican. "Another Democi^t," was the quick reply. did their work in a hurry, because they left as much stuff as they took. Fire in the Okataw bottoms south of Vandalia came within one mile of the river, which is the eastern city limit. Everything in the path of the fire was de­ stroyed and considerable young timber was ruined. --Ben Robertson, a teacher in th$ Frankfort public schools, was .killed by the foolish handling of a revolver. He and five companions were returningjfrom a donee in a hack when young Day Craw­ ford 4 commenced to flqprish an old pis­ tol. The weapon went .off accidentally. The ball passed through Robertson's head, killing him instantly. The Illinois Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners announce an early change in the schedule and classifi­ cation of roads in Illinois. There will be four classifications instead Qf two. This will give the smaller roads a better per cent on freight rates. --A Freeport society event of much im­ portance was the marriage of Dr. Orville O. Witlierbee of Athambra, Cal., and Miss Margaret A. Rhody, at the bride's home, by Rev. Edgar P. Hill. Miss Belle H. Pyle, of Youngstown, Ohio, was the bridesmaid, and O. B. Bidwell, Jr., of Freeport, best man. Many Chicagoana Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Armington's house in Liacohi F<TfTiff 1 PTT I TYV FPH I burned "from a defective flue. 1>wf, vllll*A IlIiAl/ X JL\r * ? V : 'V Mv. ^sgl8; IMPOLITENESS is derived from two sources--indifference to the divine and i were among the guests, contempt &w the hajmattr. defective $2,000. John Sbergel, of Jonesboro, general merchandise, assigned, with liabilities of $10,000. Louis Glyre. of St. Jacobs, claims to have been victimized oat of $4,000 by confidence men in Chicago. Mount Vernon, which been a prohibition place' for a year, has again granted licenses to saloons. William Kennedy, of Waukegan, shot an eagle on Big Dead River measuring seven feet from tip to tip Of wings ' Elizabeth Stroh, wife of the 8ldest. Lutheran minister in the United States, died at Mount Morris, aged 8(> years. John Welsh, of Peoria, aged 15, was caught in a belt at Hutchinson's cooper shop and so badly mangled he will die. Judge Kellum sentenced Geo. Thomp­ son at Sycamore to one year, in the peni­ tentiary for complicity in the robbing of a bank in Genoa. A Chicago packer reports that wheat fed to hogs makes better and firmer meat and more of it and also a finer quality of lard. Mrs. G. W. McMurray, matron of the W. C. T. U. Home at Qulncy, died of strangulation caused by a piece jof meat sticking in her throat. twe-nl.v -S»c'iwtutu ui powder ploded in Stearns' coal shaft near Spring­ field and frightfully wounded Nathan lvuhl, whfi^wuM opening it. •T. J. Higgins, an electrician of Chicago, murdered Ivate McLaughlin and then committed suicide. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the murder. Near Curran, a team with which Win. Sutton was gathering corn, got scared, and ran the wagon over Sutton, who was so severely hurt that he died shortly after being found. Governor Altgeld has called a special election, to be held on Jan. 7, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Smith in the Tenth Judicial Cir­ cuit, composed of Rock Island and other counties. The equity in the defunct St Charles Evaporating Cream Company's property was sold at Geneva to John Stewart, of Elburn, for $5,000. Mr Stewart says the milk creditors will get about 50 cents on the dollar. According to the estimates of the di­ rectors, the Springfield electric light plant, including electrical apparatus, engines and boilers, will cost about $53,- 000, and the site and building $10,000, a total of $63,000. The eighth annual reunion of the 73d Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, widely known as the "Preacher Regi­ ment," was held in the G. A. R. Hall, at Springfield, with fifty members pres­ ent, representing twenty different States. James D. Baker, Warden of Southern Illinois penitentiary, will retire from that office it ud be succeeded, it is understood, by J. J. Sneider of Effingham, who is at present a member of the Board of Peni­ tentiary Commissioners. Baker will in turn succeed Siieider and become Com­ missioner. Secretary Bur ridge, of the National Butter and Cheese Makers' Association, which will hold its annual meeting in Rock ford next February, has announced the following appointments: Superintend­ ent of Exhibits, L. W. Beard: Judges, A. H. Barber, Chicago: Orrin Douglas, Boston; and George Reifsneider, New York. For several years a surface vein of coal has been known to exist in an abandoned field in Massac bounty. A stock compa­ ny will sink a shaft and build houses. Should the venture prove a success, the St. Louis and Paducah Road will doubtless run a spur from its main line over to the spot andt.-wake a specialty of providing the river trade. The report of the late State Treasurer, Itufus N. Ramsay, shows that from Nov. 1 to 10, inclusive, receipts were hs follows: State revenue fund, $20,838.71; State school fund, $20,101.29; total re­ ceipts, 50,000. Total amount of State warrants paid for all accounts, $42,- 1)20.72. The next report will be from the recently appointed State Treasurer, Eli­ jah P. Ramsay. While the Rev. James W. Ashby, of Chicago, was preaching Sunday night burglars entered his residence and ran­ sacked every room from cellar to garret. The marauders got away with a .sealskin coat and considerable jewelry; the whole valued at $(300. But the burglars met with swift retribution. The Rev. Mr. Ashby reported his loss to the police. De­ tectives located two suspicious charac­ ters, whom they placed under arrest. One carried a bundle containing the seal­ skin coat while the other had the jewelry. Both are ex-convicts. The Illinois Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows elected officers at Springfield as follows: Grand Master, Henry J. Phillips, of Virginia; Deputy Grand Master, Charles F. Mansfield, of Mansfield; Grand Warden, George C. Rankin, of Monmouth; Grand Secretary, .Tames It. Miller, of Springfield; Grand Treasurer, T. B. Needles, of Nashville; Grand Representative, J. Otis Humph­ rey, of Springfield. The annual appro­ priation for the expenses of the Grand Lodge, amounting to $01,000, was passed. Of this $15,000 is for %the Or­ phans' Home. The contest over the will of the lata Risdon A. Moore ended at Belleville, the will being sustained. The estate, worth ait least $55,(KK), will not be divided at present, and Moore's son and daughter, who are actually in want, will not be provided for. Risdon Moore was a pio­ neer who located at Belleville on his re­ turn from California, where he went with John C. Fremont on the memorable trip of the pathfinder. He'died a year ago at the age of 85, leaving a life interest in his possessions to his widow. He was married three times and had a son and daughter by his first and second wives, who were not provided for in his will. Since his death his son has earned a scant living as a day laborer, while his daughter has been in extreme poverty iu Kansas. Bert Conway, a Chicago and North­ western brakeman, was killed by fall­ ing between the cars at Sterling. His home was iu Vail, Iowa. James H. Robbins, the defeated Re­ publican caudidate for Sheriff of Adams County, filed a petition asking for a re­ count of the ballots cast iu the second precinct at the Soldiers' Home. The poll books of this precinct show that there were seventy-four more ballots cast than were shown by the tally sheets. Mr. Robbins, says he has reasons for be­ lieving that the seventy-f«ur missing ballots were £ast for him. At the coroner's inquest the testimony -failed to show that the man found wounded beside the railroad track near Lake Forest, on election day, was mur­ dered. His name was thought to be John Engles or Engleston, and his trade that of a cooper. t A strange demented lad, aged prob­ ably 18 years, who gives different names and places of residence, has been wan­ dering about Hillsboro. He thinks he is a railroad train. Several times l^e ran from Hillsboro to Litchfield and back on the Big Four track. At _ wagon-road crossings he Blackens speed, whistles and toots like aa engine, then proceed* WILL OPEN PEACE NEGOTI/U TIONS DIRECTLY WITH JAPAN. China Skid to Be Willing to Pay mm Indemnity of One Hnndred MHHo# Taels Besides All japan'* Kipemef --Special Envoy Dispatched. ' mm ^ > V v ' * - ,<! !*'•*' * L ft * , mm - ... - > Bears an Olive Branch. , De Ting, the chief of the imperii cusfe> toms at Tien Tsin, who was recently sum^ ' moned to Pekin in order to confer witl^ the government as to ways and means fo# raising money for the war, has left for Japan in order to arrange terms of pea«v ' The departure of the Chinese custom® * chief for Japan is regarded by. officials i*^ ^ ashington as the result of japan's de» tnand for a direct offer from China. Thtr De Ting mentioned in the cable is sai<S to be Dietering, a German, who occupies the position of commissioner of cuate toms. That he should be sent as the peace envoy is accounted for by officiala on the ground that an indemnity wonldT • probably be secured on the customs re*- f, eeipts. It has been one of Japan's con.- 1 ,' tentions that she would expect to receiv* " 1 the customs receipts of the big Chines* , "re­ ports in case an indemnity waa arranged. V It is said that the Chinese envoy will >"'a probably be the guest of United States • % *. U£ , •), Minister Dun at Tokio. Japanese officials have been accorded every courtesy. t i Although Japan shows no signs of ex£ !* •> ' / > V haustion, fiscal or military, her Govern* e ment and people ought to be satisfied s ' with the magnificent progress already achieved in humbling a power ten timea J ' more formidable as to numbers and allied -i -W with the most aggressive imperial sov* ereignties of Europe and Asia. ling?* land' interests are implicated with Chi- ^ na^fc; Russia's are complicated with Chi* $ /"£ na s. If Japan can arrange peace which*. r •, cj first, shall completely detach Corea from » '* *,"<? i Vt China; which, secondly, shall give no - x ^ ^ new footing to Russia on the northeast - *,\ nor to England in the ports and mine*. 1". - of Corea, Japan will prove herself nofe . ^ only a war power of distinguished rank^ ^ ^ notwithstanding her insular insignifi- . . V- cance and her comparatively small UUIUK^ \V;T V!V bers, but she will have outwitted the , '" ' " t entire array of European diplomatiste ,4. , "f^ ^ who have been hovering over the coa» " > \ .if.Cl test like vultures expecting to prey 4, jk, * both contestants. # "" «j§ China will bear watching in all state* ' Jj|. ^v| of negotiation for peace. Shameless hi'* - 1 ' * % treachery, recreant to pledges, savage t# y A captives, barbarous in all respects iq| «* " \ which she has not been partially civilized V by force, her diplomats will not hesitate, v '4'\| - J J to cheat even their own agent in the na* * < -, gotiations. • %rf ' 1 i KILLEO LIKE BEASTS. ' V<-; •*' Two Thonitnd of the Unprotected Vni pie Bctoliered In tikisnn. A dispatch to the London Times froi& t /ft. Vienna says that a letter has been re- 1 . t ^ ceived there from Smyrna reporting that V4 Zeki Pasha, a Turkish marshal, with a,> • ' » 1 , d e t a c h m e n t o f N i z a m s a n d a f i e l d b a t - - + - - 4 tery, massacred 2,000 Armenians^I SasK t sun. The bodies of tbe dead were left un-. •« > 1 if| buried and their presence has caused ai§ .* h outbreak of cholera. Many Christiana, , are reported to have fled by secret paths ' ~ across the Russian frontier. So far there has been no official conn? ^ r3g' firmation of this uews, but if it is true ifc . ^ : v, is time the powers share in the response bility by their failure to enforce article 01 . „ . of the Berlin treaty, which imposes oft* > ** them the duty of seeing that the Porta f A takes measures to protect Armenians, , The latter declare that they hope fof -w"", nothing from Europe, but that they still 6 ' have confidence in Great Britain. Nu» ,\ : ji' merous appeals have been made Uy the » >- ¥2 Armenians to the British foreign officei . * " V The laSt appeal received says that the 'fl| Armenians do not wish to see more of „ their territory annexed by Russia, bat. if Great Britain is unable to help then! ' ' * 1 £ they will be compelled to look to Russia^ -- . 1 under whose yoke they would be beiieif % J off than under the yoke of Turkey. I s ~ A dispatch to the London Daily Newjflt , f from Constantinople says that the erieBi % 'vS getic action of Sir Philip Currie, the BrUKr. ' fJf ish Ambassador to Turkey, has cause#\ consternation amoug the members of the : i- Turkish . Government. * Everything hall, been done to keep secret the facts of thjt outrages. Information from varioue sources tends to prove that the SasstUi > affair was most serious. A dispatch from Constantinople to tl* . Standard says that in response to tha protest made by Sir Philip Currie, Britisl|;V Ambassador to Turkey, the Porte haa i unreservedly withdrawn the charga . against Mr. Hallward, the British Const#' at Van, of inciting the Armenians aft Sassun and elsewhere to revolt. Th*„ charge grew out of the investigation made by Mr. Hallward into the Armenp. ian massacres and his report to the Brit*: ish Ambassador. The Governor of Bitli% - who is seriously involved in the outrage « made the charge, it is said, for the puri-t* pose of revenge. * C 3 The Sultan has decided to send a com- ^ ^ mission composed of three- members ot „ - - j his military household and one civilian t«fr 0 j 1 % Sassun for the purpose of making an im- ^ f partial inquiry into the outrages on Ai> . ̂ menians. The latest news is to the ef- | feet that many of the Armenians who • • 4!"V " were supposed to have been killed fletl , jf ^ ^ from the soldiery and are now returning. M Brleflets* .Dr. L. T. Holder was found dead at at'" hotel in Memphis, Mo. He had takeq, an iS overdose of nerve medicine. ^ Frederick Cronenberger was cmsh»dp ! , * to death by a block of stone that fell from| t { yiM the new Chamber of Commerce Building? > * v V ? at Toledo, Ohio. ' Judge J. T. Terrill was shot and killed!; ' ' \i| at Jonesboro, Ark., by Amey Seymour, * *! Ji stock raiser. Befom falling a corpse Ter­ rill knocked Seymour down with a club, inflicting serious wounds. , ; Mrs. Blanche Kaufman, a French ae-'; tress, was sentenced at Cincinnati. Ohiov to three months' imprisonment aud to pay $200 fine and costs for shooting her hus­ band several months ago. Two more dead, burned in the foresfe fires of Sept. 1, have been found in the most northerly portion of the burned dis- trict. One was Capt. L. Brook, of PineH|s,li| City, Minn.; tbe other cannot be identic 4 Bed. . t : The trial of the would-be tram robbers ̂̂ Overfield and Abrams, wajs postponed un- - t i l February a t Memphis} Mo. , because* ' s ' t Abrams is not sufficiently recovered to ap- •" w pear. • " " u 4 >» ^ | General MeCook has ordered a couR H"' - ̂ martial for the trial of Captain TheophU v i ; & lus Morrison, Sixteenth l«faiitry, Oii" I-'f; 1 ^ charges growing out of the [erratic ctm* v- duct of the officer during summer** ^ v campaign. .ik; *• •; The body of Sam Sing, tbe ̂ Chinese leper, who lived for more than four yearn alone in a cell at Snake Hill, N. Y., wher^* \ . doctors watched his disease, helpless t»" aid him, was buried Monday in quick-, , lime at Snake HilL President Cleveland has granted si another respite to Thomas St. Clair, oa«i of the mutinous sailors of the bark Hes-S per, who was to have been handed in£. San Jose, Cal., for the murder of Fitz­ gerald. The President now grants a respite until Dec. 21. The execution of St. Clair will be deferred {tending the trial of St. Clair's accomplices, Sparf awl Hanson, and in the event of a sentence the three murderers will he executed to- i - j t ~ i . \ r- A i v • i ...