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< i *',r^ f 7 -«-.7\.-7 *;j^ttsr y'^p • a < > V,^ *.r ^SK'SSE %v%3 M 1WMMB. A •ssSVwtSee^wBB ¥M*SS fV^'/ " A ^ #|I8 wire teaches hiM a a J t, v SON IN CONSISTENCY. •'**'•• - ftfl °* the tariff Eohuc^d the Value of ^ke thcep He Sold la 0*der to In- *Mt in Some of tils Govern meat W«r Bond*. "rr- T In argument my Populist friend sel- \ - do™ knows when he Is beaten. He had chafed sorely over his gentle wife's re­ minder of the vivid contrast presented ^ by the facts of history and the dismal foreshartowings of the calamity-croak­ ers whose lead he had followed for sev­ eral years i>ast. She had, you will re- V member, in the last conversation point- \ f ed out the splendid achievements of a great nation in the war Just closed, and / the splendid outlook for progress and humanity growingout of those achieve- * merits, and had asked him how he rec- ; oneileil these things with the declara- ^ tion of the Populist platform: jr>" "We meet in the midst of a nation ... brought to the verge of moral, ma&erl- ;V #1 and political ruin." % And when he had apologized for this ridiculous asseveration as among the first utterances of a new party six • years ago, the good wife reminded him of something more recent in the . asme line, when, only two years ago, , he had carried a banner which declared that "a vote for McKinley means 25 cents a bushel for wheat and 10 cents f . • bushel for corn." * J Bo my Populist friend had retired " front the controversy hurt and humili­ ated. But he had bepn thinking of things over nlgii^ ^nd the peStt day he sought to recover s^jue of his lost ' ground. "Tell fye cried, pointing his linger scornfully :at his jyifp, "Tell If you can, what McKinley: has to The BniincM of It. Under the Wilson bill all importations of lead ore from Mexico and British Columbia to the United States, when the shipment was over 50 per cent, ad valorem of silver, were admitted free of duty, and as the tariff was three- fourths of one cent per pound, or $7.50 per 1,000 pounds, the shipments were always mixed to save paying the ddty and, therefore, admitted free. Under the Dingley bill, all lead ore imported into the United States must be assayed and a tariff of one and one- half cents per pound, or $15 per 1,000 pounds, paid. Lead ore in the Joplin district is now worth $23 per 1.000 pounds, and Mexican or British Colum­ bian lead, after paying the $15 tariff, would have only $8 left to pay for min­ ing and freighting to the Mississippi Valley. Now if the Mexican and Brit­ ish Columbian lead mines can mine and pay freight for $8 per 1,000 pounds, even without a profit, they could, under the Wilson bill, have a net profit of $15 per 1,000 pounds, and such a profit to a foreign miner would give such an im­ petus to the business of importing lead ore to the United States from these two countries that the Joplin miners Would soon find their lead ore price where it was under the Wilson bill in 1806--$14 per 1,000 pounds. If thq Joplin miners are willing to see this result they may have it by helping to elect Free Trade Ronton. But if they like $23 or $24 per 1,000 for lead ore, a vote for Major Frank E. Williams will show their ap­ preciation of these prices. There is nothing in politics to the luaag of voters 4 except business, and $24 for lead ore, instead of $14, is the business of It.-- Joplin (Mo.) News. !"hOW CANTOU Bit SO INCONS1STBWT." - do with the prosperity of the farmers; jpidint out, if yop know how, where the toiling masses on the farms get one di- ... reet benefit from him and his protective Jw*iff policy." i f - { f O h , h u s b a n d , " a n d s h e s t a m p e d h e r foot lightly, betraying the impatience ? which she felt, "how can you be so in- j consistent? Where did you get the money to buy the few hundred dollars' worth of Government bonds, which made you feel so good? What did you L 3^115" ' i"- ' "Sheep." And he flinched before the argument which he knew was coming. » • \ "Yes, sheep. Your business sense was i : letter than your political sense, thank goodness. WThen McKinley's election was assured didn't you buy sheep? Didn't you think they would go up? What made you think that? Was it be­ cause you thought that more wool or Jess wool would be imported under the laws he would give us? Didn't you know that his tariff law, his protective • "tariff law, on wool would shut out most of the cheap wool that was com­ ing from the four corners of the earth, and that the law would enable our home farmers to raise wool at a profit? - . Hasn't that made sheep go up in price? Isn't that where you get your profit? Answer me." But he answered not. "Now, think of this," she proceeded. "Taking the average of all our people, the country over, it takes the wool of one sheep to Bupply the needs of each person; possibly a trifle more. In 1897 it took about 8% pounds to each person, while the average weight of a ll.vce of ' *#ooI was about 6V4 pounds. Yet on a basis of the amount used in 1894. 1895 and 189G that quantity would have t Very nearly supplied each person. Then we have it, one person, one sheep need­ ed. We have over 72,000,000 inhabit­ ants, but how many sheep? Look up , 4he Government records and you will find that In 1893 we had about 47,000.- 600 in the entire country--enough to supply a little over half our wool. Did the tariff reform party that was in power then try to help you and me by having our home market for us? You know as well as I do !har they put wool op the free list, so that it could come from everj*where; and iu four years our flocks dwindled down so that iu 1897 there were only about 36.000,000 sheep In. the country--not enough to supply half our wool. "Why this decline? It was because -.' the American farmer could not produce Urool at a profit and compete with the cjheap wool of the world. Think of it, liusband--think of it. We, an agricul­ tural people, suffering hardships during those tariff reform tildes, looking for diversified branches of agriculture, ac­ tually sending everywhere for wool, -when we could have produced it in abundance on oqr own pastures. Why, that coat you have on, you don't know whether the wool came from Servia, or Turkey, or China, or some other conn- try of cheap labor and cheap living. In the last year of that free trade in wool policy England sold us over $28,000,- 000 worth, not raised in England, but bought of Russia and Servia and Spain and Turkey and Argentina and Peru and Falkland Islands and Africa and > Australasia, and goodness only konws „ where not. That wool was gathered from all over and brought here for you and other farmers to wear. "Think of It. What nonsense! Yet too true; over $53,000,000 worth in a single year. That Is raw wool alone, to say nothing of the nearly $50,000,000 worth of manufactured goods that came in. Can you wonder that there was a great reduction in the size of American flocks and a greater reduc­ tion in their value, which went from •*er $125,000,000 to about $07,000,000 tn tjiose same four years? Think of tlutt, will yoo, andthea say that ftwr trade doesfrt hurt the farmer? "What malCfes sheep values good again? Yon know and I know thai It was the protection given wool by the Dingley law. Taking into considera­ tion the raw wool used in our factories and the manufactured wool imported, our flocks will have to get considerably above the 75,000,000 notch before they will produce enough wool to supply our own people, with but about 36,000,000 left from our free trade experiment to start on. Any one can see that it will take some time to get up to that notch, and we can look for continued profit in sheep and wool raising. That is 'one way in which the McKinley tariff helps the farmer, and I can name other ways." And she went into the house.-- E. Q. Pipp, in American Economirtj!^ A Bright Prospect. Evidences of substantial prosperity are abundantly supplied by the com­ mercial statistics. Dun's Review draws attention to the enormous volume of business done in .August, a month us­ ually one of the most Inactive of the en­ tire year, and remarks: Postponement during the months of war of some contracts and purchases which have now come forward explains part of the increase, and the strong absorption of securities explains part, but there has also been a great decline in the average of prices for all commodities, so that it takes a much larger volume of business in tons or bushels to make up transactions amounting to a million than lb 1892. It is therefore strictly true that business is larger than in the very best of all past years, and yet there is every prospect of much further increase. Each year of settled protection prom­ ises to eclipse in business and indus­ trial activity every preceding year. It la High Time. Although Americans have Invariably shown the highest degree of skill and proficiency in everything pertaining to ships and <to seamanship, although in every contest on the sea Americans have led the world, yet almost all of our ocean carrying trade is done iu for­ eign bottoms. We lag behind all the world in tha»t in which we might lead all the world. It is high time for such a state of affairs to come to an end. It is high time that there should be given (to our shipping interests the encourage­ ment' and protection which are given to all other American interests. f trainee. Indeed. The old theory of free trade, or such tariff laws as the Wilson-Gorman, is directly antagonistic to (he comforts and conveniences which now lie-long to ithe workingmau according to his standard of living. It needed but one experiment to show the laborer and farmer both that protection produces mills and factories; these give work to the laborer, and a great amount of labor insures a great con-sumption of agrk'S'tural product. It will be strange indeed if ever the country permits such a law as the Wilson-Gorman to go into force again.--Stillwater Y.) Jour­ nal. President in the West. The President is not the* advance agent of prosperity on this trip, but he is out to see the country, to which gen­ eral prosperity is cqme.--ludianapolis Journal. > , President McKinley expresses some decided views aliout the people who are trying to obscure the glory of the army and navy by malicious accusations of official mismanagement of die war.-- Omaha Bee. "In this age of frequent Interchange and mutual dependency," 'said Presi­ dent McKinley at Omaha, "we cannot shirk5 our international responsibilities if we would. They must be met with courage and wisdom, and we must fol­ low duty even if desire opposes." The people approve the sentiment. They believe In honorable expansion when duty backs It up.--4St. I^i&- &k»be- Democrat. - In his eloquent tribute to the Ameri­ can soldier and sailor, In his affirmation of die lofty purpose of the nation in going to war with Spain, and in his re­ proachful allusions to those who would detract from the glory which the nation has won through the heroic deeds of the acters iu that war, President Mc­ Kinley's utterance at-Omaba will meet with the approval of the country.--De­ troit Free Press. And so it comes to pass that a Re­ publican President has honored by name in a public address Confederate heroes. Truly the civil war is a splen­ did memory, and the bravery of t2ie Federal and the Confederates is the glory of all citizens of the republic. President McKinley has honored him­ self by paying tribute to valor, whether it moved to battle the man who wore the blue or him who fought under the stars and bars of the Confederacy.-- j Memphis Commercial-Appeal. p j m jPEACE JUBILEE. CLOSE OF THE WAR CELEBftAT* ED BY CHICAGO. President McKinley aad the Nation's Dtsnitaries Participate in the Great Festival--City la Filled with an Itn- ptenae Thro** - v/v? • Chicago tperlal: Not since the World's Fair has Chicago witnessed such stir and enthusiasm, such decorations and marchings and festivities, or such massed and cheering crowds as during the peace jubilee week. In some respects the peace jubilee has discounted any of the World's Fair festivities. The President and a large part of his cabinet took part in the exercises, with numerous Congressmen, statesmen and diplomats, and all the leading war heroes except those in the far-off Philippines. In its military features the jubilee has surpassed anything Chicagoans have seen since the days of the civil war. The city donned holiday attire such as it has never worn before, the display of electric lights alone breaking the world's record on that score. President McKinley and most of the other high officials, soldiers and civilians who were to take a leading part in the "week's exercises arrived in the city Satur­ day afternoon, coming direct from a tour of the middle West, which they found brimming over with patriotism. They found in Chicago the same sentiments which animated the people all the way from Washington to Om»ha, but reflected on a larger scale. If the .West taught the visitors that all other sentiments are merg­ ed in the one feeling of patriotic pride Chicago emphasized the lesson. Streams of visitors from all over the country poured into Chicago. Hundreds of thousands of men and women all over the West turned their faces toward the great commercial capital, and everybody who came has been fortunate. It was worth coming a long way merely to see the males of bunting, the million flags, the decorated arches, and the myriad electric lights that spanned the line of march for the great civic and military parade. Per­ haps never again will there be an equal opportunity to see so many high digni­ taries of the nation at once, and so many of the generals and other officers whose names have become famous in battles on Cuban and Porto RiVan »oih It is not likely that the present generation will see the celebration of the close of another foreign war or any other kind of war. Those who witnessed or participated in the Chicago jubilee took part in a unique historic function. Years afterward they can tell a younger generation of the dra­ matic scenes and events witnessed in Chi­ cago at the great peace jubilee at the close of the Spanish war. Its memories will be worth cherishing, for it has been an or­ ganic part of a great chapter in American history. Chicago's peace jubilee, which began with the thanksgiving services at the Auditorium Sunday night, was a fitting commemoration of the deeds of valor that swept the Spanish flag from the western hemisphere. Amid the cheers of six thou­ sand people President McKinley entered the Auditorium and quietly took a seat in a box. The peace jubilee was formally begun. The enthusiasm and interest disk- played at the thanksgiving services which constituted t&e first event of the great celebration of the return of peace were'aus- picious auguries of a memorable week. The atmosphere was electric with respon­ sive enthusiasm, and notwithstanding tihe religious nature of the gathering at the Auditorium, every speaker was roundly cheered whenever the results of the war or any of its heroes were mentioned. But this enthusiasm, which seemed warm enough at all times, grew to a white heat whenever the President was referred to. Several times the President was moved by the spontaneity and warmth of the greetings to rise and bow. Then the de­ light of the crowd burst all bounds, and the cheers would last for five minutes at a time. Jews and gentiles, Catholics and Prot­ estants, united their voices in a mighty Te Deum.in gratitude for peace. The praises of the Lord were sung that the sword was sheathed. Glory to God in the highest was sounded that the red stream of strife was stopped in its flow and war was at an end. All the churches of Chicago were represented in the assemblage that filled the vast auditorium from the recesses of the great stage to the highest perched seat in the topmost gallery, and they were represented, too, in the speakers and the singers who gave voice to the services in honor of peace between the United States and &pain. The President of the United States was there listening to Jewish rabbi, Catholic priest and Protestant minister, standing when others stood and singing when oth­ ers sang. The Chinese plenipotentiary oc­ cupied another box and rose and sat as others did, making himself one of the cele­ brants of peace. In another place was -*$he representative of the distant and iso­ lated king of Corea, looking with amaze­ ment at a gigantic and brilliant gathering that rose upward from the proscenium line like sweeping hillsides that are rich with the crimson ajid gold of autunm. And above these were the galleries rising higher and higher and painted with the flutterings of ribbons and feathers and flounces like the harvest colors on the hilltops. All the scene was as if it had been arranged to its very details by some great artist who would fix for the eye a living picture that brought to mind the time of gathering the fruit and gram, for that is a time of peace. How many othcrtfhoi^>auds would have lent their ribbons and feathers and flouuees and the lights of their faces to make the picture greater can only be vaguely estimated. The streets all about the Auditorium were jammed so that even in the cool, clear and bracing October air women were suffocated and crushed and were carried away fainting from the surg­ ing crowd struggling in vain to get admis­ sion to the building. This jubilee, which was projected as if by a spontaneous impulse and developed unexpected proportions as the plans nedr- ed Completion, surprised even its project­ ors. The President upon his public ap­ pearances WAS greeted by crowds which were counted not by thousands, but by hundreds of thousands. It has been a week of festival uproar--a week of im­ mense parades. great mass meetings and glittering illuminations, the streets sound­ ing with the tread of soldiery and the blare of bands, naval and military officers in the places of honor, the nation's digni­ taries at the head €f ; But greater than all this was the out­ pouring of the people. In the minds of even the idlest spectators it was not the spectacle but the occasion which made this jubilee an event. Many persons wfio , would have been willing to miss the dis­ play, a»a display, felt that they,must not fail to witness a historic episode. Pa- rades>.aud public eeremonials may be seen often enough to become tiresome. The formal celebration of a nation's victorious peace may come only once in a lifetime. THE CANTON TRAGEDY. Chqr JBachelor with a Fondness tor Women, Which Led to His Death. The tragedy at Canton, Ohio, by which George Saxton lost his life has aroused the interest of the entire nation because of the fact that the victim was the only brother of Mrs. Mc­ Kinley. The story of the crime in- . volves a recital of ,j scandalous incidents and Acts which do ^ „ not ca 11 forth a l<7 great measure of k sympathy for "the deed man, whose moral record seems J®8- gkorqe. to have' been badly spotted. George Saxton started in life with all the advantages Idnged for by the average young man. He was the only son wealthy parents and the idol of his sisters. Born in Canton forty-five years ago, his whole life was like an open Iwok to his fellow citisens and he made little effort to conceal the soiled pages. Graced with a fine physique and easy manners, he was much sought by society, GKOttGB SAXTON. and was a favorite with the ladies. It is said that several young ladies of excellent families, at various time#', won his heart and hoped to wed him, but he proved cru­ elly false. One of them pined, grew mel­ ancholy and died. The affair which is commonly believed to have led to the tragedy begnn six years ago, when Mrs. Annie George moved to Canton and opened a dressmaking estab­ lishment in the block owned by Saxton. She was attractive of face and bad a be­ witching form. Her husbaud was an hon­ est, industrious man, who furnished a shabby contrast to the polish of Saxton. The dressmaker and her landlord were soon on friendly terms. The gossips used their names a good deal and finally Mrs. George went to Dakota and secured a di­ vorce from her husband. She always mid --and few disbelieved her statement--that Saxton paid the expenses, and, further­ more, that he was going to marry her ulti­ mately. When the husband learned that he had become a domestic has-been by decree of A Dakota court, he brought suit against Saxton for $30,000 for alienating his wife's affections. This suit was com­ promised when Saxton paid George $1,- 825. c Meanwhile Saxton and Mrs. George had had trouble. They finally got to quarrel­ ing over rents and articles of furniture and the cases were aired in the local courts of Canton. Then Mrs. George be­ gan to say that she would get revenge; that Saxton had promised to marry her and that--so it is said by one or two per­ sons--she would kill him if he did not do so. She carried her threats further and recently was arrested upon a charge made by Mrs. Eva B. Althouse. u friend of Saxton, that she had threatened violence and death to Mrs. Althouse. The evening of the tragedy, shortly af­ ter dark, Saxton rode on his bicycle from his place of business to the home of Mrs. Althouse, on Lincoln avenue. Saxton dismounted, leaned his wheel against the curbstone and started across the sidewalk THb althouse homk to the steps that lead to the terraced lawn in front of the AJthouse home. Just as he put his foot on the lower step a shot was fired at him. A second shot followed in rapid succession and Saxton fell to the ground. Mrs. George was at once suspected. She manifested no surprise when arrested and has shown no concern since her incarcera­ tion in jail. She pleaded not guilty to the chargo-of murder and does not talk about the case. CLINGS TO CUBA. Four major generals of volunteers and twenty-five brigadier generals of volun­ teers a<ce to be mustered out if the United States service BOOH. > ;•... j* Spain Assert* Evacuation Does Not Carry Surrender of Sovereignty. The Spanish military commission at Ha­ vana sent a reply to the American note concerning the evacuation of the island. The Spanish note declares that evacua­ tion, according to the terms of the pro­ tocol, means only the withdrawal of the military from the island, and not the sur­ render of Spain's sovereignty in Cuba. This latter question is a matter to be set­ tled by the peace commissioners in Paris. Until it is settled the Spanish Government claims it is as sovereign in Cuba as it was before the protocol was signed, and the commission has no other power than to ar- range for military evacuation of the isl­ and. The note concludes with the declar­ ation that it is a physical impossibility^for the Spanish troops to leave for several months. BRINGS 1,000 MEN. The Minnswsska Arr'res from Porto Rico with Troop*. Brig, Gen. O. H. Ernst and staff, with about 1,000 tuoops, including the Sixteenth Pennsylvania regiment and convalescents and men on furlough from the Third Wis­ consin, Sixth Massachusetts and First, Kentucky regiments, arrived at New York Monday afternoon on the transport Miunewaska from Ponce, Porto Rico. There were also fifty civilians. With few exceptions the men were in good condition, and their spirits were high. Gen. Brnst lost thirty-eight pounds during the cam­ paign and said his health had been re­ markably good for such a climate. Told in a Few Line*. Japan has sent two formidable cruisers to Chinese waters. During the yellow fever epidemic a cur­ few ordinsnee In Meridian, Miss., requires everybody to be at home after 8 p. m. An hour later is permitted to the people of ILLINOIS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. THE Chicago School Childrem Csntrlhate Nearly 910,000 to a Lafayette Mon- ament Fnnd-Y. M. c. A. Plan* for State Work--Rioted Architect Pead. "Lafayette day" was celebrated in Chi­ cago. The date was advanced on account of the peace jubilee celebration. The 250 public schools of the city all held special exercises in commemoration of the revo­ lutionary hero in compliance with the sug­ gestion of the Lafayette memorial com­ mission, and each school contributed hand­ somely to the fund for the monument which is to be erected to the great patriot's memory. The total amount contributed to the fund by the public schools will ap­ proximate $10,000. Noted Architect Dead. ^ William W. Boyington, an old resident of Chicago, died of old age at his home in Highland Park. Hie was born in Springfield, Mass., over eighty years ago. Mr. Boyington was an architect. Among the buildings he has designed and super­ vised are the Board of Trade, Columbus Memorial, Lake Shore-Rock Island and Northwestern stations, Illinois building at the World's Fair, the exposition build­ ing on the lake front, the State building at Springfield and the State penitentiary at Joliet. Y„ M. C. A. Vote* $34,000. ; At the meeting of the State Y. M. C. A^ in Galesburg, several committee reports were made; also pledges for the coming year's work. The amounts pledged are large, and very promising for a successful year. The work will be conducted next year along the same lines as it has been in the past. The executive committee was complimented for its work the past year. Seventeen thousand dollars was voted for the State work in each of the years 1809 and 1000. Qeeka a Line Into Kockford. President A. B. Stickney of the Chicago Great Western Railroad is looking up the matter of running a spur of his line into Rockford. Several plans have suggested themselves, one of which is to come up from Byron over the track of the Rock River Electric Railway, which is now be­ ing hiiiltj and the other to come over the Burlington tracks from Holcomb. The Great Western has been anxious to get into Rockford for some time. Knn Down by a Train. H. F. Schneider, who has been Sight watchman of Woodstock for about fifteen years, was struck by the Woodstock pas­ senger train and instantly killed. He was about 45 years of age and leaves a wife and large family of children. New Church at Charleeton. The new Catholic church of Charleston was dedicated Sunday. The corner stone of this structure was laid June 5, and it is one of the most imposing and beautiful church edifioes in that portion of the State. Brief 8tate Happening*. Detective Timothy McKeough of the Hyde Park police station died suddenly. Twelve hundred Joliet convicts Sunday asked Dwight L. Moody to pray for them. The Fifth Illinois regiment was formal­ ly mustered out of the Federal service at Springfield Sunday. Chief Sweiiie, while directing his men at work on a fire at 341 Dearborn street Chicago, fell into a manhole and was severely injured. The annual meeting of the Illinois As soeiation of Baptist Churches opened Monday evening at the Park Place Bap tist Church at Aurora. Gov. Tanner issued a requisition on the Governor of Missouri for the surrender of Harry McAuliffe, wanted in Chicago for burglary and under arrest in St. Louis. John Meldrum, engineer for the. W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago, was scalded to death by escaping steam from an ex­ ploded pipe in the boiler room of the firm. The Alton lodge of the Order of Sisters of the Mysterious Ten has n quarrel in its midst that promises a prolonged warfare and, perhaps, the disruption of the lodge. The Mattoon City Council unanimously voted a reward of $25 to Policeman B. F. Perklser for his prompt work in arresting Carter Martin and his accomplices, charg ed with the murder of Albert Buser. A freight train was wrecked near Breeds, on the Toledo, Peoria and West­ ern Railroad. Charles Maxwell, conduc­ tor, had both legs cut off pnd the lower part of his body was terribly crushed. He died in an hour. Orders were received from Gen. Bacon, commander of the department of the lakes and Dakota, to have the Fourth infantry at Fort Sheridan held in readiness for im­ mediate service at the scene of the Indian troubles in Minnesota. H. D. Fulton, president of the Fulton Coal Company of Englewood, was held up by three negroes, beaten intet insensibility and robbed of $400. The assault and rob­ bery occurred in the offices of the company shortly before 0 o'clock. Yellow fever refugees from Mississippi and other Southern districts continue to pour into Chicago. All agree that the quarantine is a greater affliction than yel­ low fever, and are anxious for a national, instead of a State, quarantine. Oliver T. Morton, youngest son of for­ mer Gov. Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, died at the Metropole Hotel, Chicago, af­ ter an illness brought on by mycotic stomatitis. He had been clerk of the Unit­ ed States Circuit Court of Appeals , in Chicago for several years. Ole Lee, a carpenter of Chicago met a horrible death in a manhole. He was making repairs when his coat was caught in a revolving shaft and he was whirled around with frightful rapidity. Every bone in his body was broken and his Cloth ing torn off. David Tj( Devin, a well-known insurance adjuster of Chicago, shot himself fatally while hunting at Dead lake, Minn. He was in a boat and drew a loaded gun to­ ward him. f T. A. Fraxer, superintendent of the Wells & French Company, manufacturers Of cars, shot himself in the head at his home in Chicago. He bad been sick and despondent. A large, roomy yacht, fitted with gaso­ line engines, is being completed in an Illi­ nois Central slip at Chicago for Edward H. R. Green, vice-president of a Texas railroad, and son of Hetty Green. It is said that the site now occupied by the Lrbby prison museum in Chicago is to be utilized for the erection of an immense auditorium, similar to the Coliseum. Frank L. Iforan, chief engineer of the Western Indiana Railway Company, and the man who planned the track elevation at Sixteenth and Clark streets, died Sat­ urday at his residence, 6832 Union ave­ nue, Chicago, of tuberculosis of the brain. After a search of several days the re­ mains of Mrs. Maria Frey of Brighton were found in a well on her premises. Upon her person was secreted $310 in gold and $95 in paper currency. She had threatened seven'.l liv-fs to end her life because <rt doa»n- ' ' es. Ed Floyd, aged 35 years, a miner era* Ployed at the Brickyard mine, Coltinsviile, had his back broken Sunday by a descend­ ing cage. Patrick Condry, 15 yars old, who was injured by falling from one of the wagons of the Metropolitan Express CompSny'in Chicago, is dead. Col. Young's troopers of the First Illi­ nois volunteer cavalry have been mustered out at Fort Sheridan, and .quit the service of the United States. The 108th Illinois volunteer infantry held its annual reunion at Peoria. Maj- Warner, the first colonel of the regiment, made the address of welcome. Mrs. J. F. GuiBe, the first woman to open a restaurant in Dawson City, regis­ tered at the Great Northern Hotel in Chi­ cago Tuesday with her husband. The Edwardsville street fair and farm­ ers' institute was a success in all respects. A conservative estimate of the first day's attendance was between 25,000 and 30,- 000. Agnes Sehern, 6 years old, 1154 West Adams street, and Jennie Hanning, 8 years old, 1132 West Adams street, Chi­ cago, were bitten by a dog supposed to have been mad. Frank P. Sargent of Peoria, grand mas­ ter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, has tendered his resignation to President McKinley as a member of the industrial commission. Dressed in the uniform of the Chicago police department, Officer Axel I. Mikkel- sea of the West North avenue station' took his own life over his wife's grave in Mount Olivet cemetery. George H. Jacks and John Druggan were hanged together in Chicago Friday. Jacks killed Andrew F. McGee. Druggan shot down Robert F. Gudgeon in the course of an attempted hold-up. What is supposed to be Mpink eye" hss made its appearance in several different herds of cattle northwest of Mount Ver­ non, and is causing much uneasiness among th^farmers of the county. The Chicago 'sanitary district trustees were defeated at Joliet in their efforts to prove that the commissioners of the Illi­ nois and Michigan canal have no right to water power on the Channahon level. Two new blast furnaces and an exten­ sive ore shipping dock, additions which will increase the working force nearly 1,000 men, are to be built by the Illinois Steel Company at its South Chicago plant. Miss Annie M. Fowler, who served as a Sod Cross aurse in Cuba, was married in Chicago to Albert Van Shelle, a Bel­ gian nobleman, delegate general of the Red Cross Society on the. staff of his ma­ jesty, Leopold II. Miss FoWler is a daughter of Dr. E. S. Fowler df Spring­ field. Frank A. Cleaveland, justice of the peace at Ayondale, was arrested while hearing a case in his Chicago office. Tht justice was dragged from his bench, in spite of protests and threats, by Consta ble Thomas Murphy of Justice Hartin'a court. The charge against the village jus­ tice is robbery. Edward Owings Towne and John L. Mo watt were convicted in Chicago of conspiracy to wreck the Lumberman's Building and Loan Association. Towne's punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary, for two years and a fine of $1,500. Mowatt must pay a fine of $2,000. The case was appealed. The body of Edward Coleman, for whom relatives and the police have been ssarching for six months, was discovered among the subjects for the dissecting ta­ ble at the Rush Medical College, Chicago. After having lain uniddntified in the coun­ ty morgue since Aug. 8, the body had been turned over to the medical school. After eloping with a man twice her age and deserting the young fellow who had paid court to her for ten years, Edna M. Stafford, a pretty girl of Clio, Mich., for­ sook the man she had eloped with before he could take out a marriage license, fled to her former lover, Fred Buyett, a tailor living in Chicago, who forgave and agreed to forget. Joseph Corcoran of Carlyle playfully pointed a revolver at MiBS Rosa Smith, while out walking. The firearm was dis­ charged, and the bullet entered a Miss Shade's thigh, and she fainted. Corcoran, supposing he had killed her, placed the muzzle of the revolver to his left temple and blew out his brains. Corcoran was 20 years old and Miss Shade is 19. Many Illinois people will remember George W. Balch, who shot and killed himself at Memphis, Tenn., Saturday. He was for years in the engineering service of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway in Elgin and elsewhere, and af­ terward served with the Illinois Central. Lately he had been working on the Yazoo extension of the latter road in the South. Albert Stanley and George H. Ritter, the latter a son of former Superintendent of Streets Nicholas Ritter, were arrested in Springfield, charged with robbing Fred­ erick Leka of $14,000. Stanley confessed, Leka is a wealthy retired farmer. Of Ijtte he has been living with the Stanleys.in Springfield. , He buried his wealth*iu'jjfljR barn and yard hack of the Sfanl|^h<ra&e at night. In an effort to relieve the pain of her son James of 311. West Fifteenth street, Chicago, who was suffering from stomach trouble, Mrs. Morrison administered a dose of whisky and carbolic acid, which causd his death. Mrs. Morrison mistook the carbolic acid for castor oil, and the mistake was not discovered until several minutes after the drug had been svfaal- lowed. A report by the auditor for the Post- office Department shows the following in­ crease in receipts of the principal post- offices in Illinois during the last fiscal year as over those of 1897: Chicago $503,454 Decatur ..... 4.622 Freeport 859 Eljcin 6,212 Alton 1,4!>3 Evanstoa ... 3,686 Galesburg-irv--2,571) Jacksonville . * 1,022 Anrora ...... •'18,238 Joliet 1,355 Belleville ... 1.205 Motlne 7,590 Bloomlngtoa 2,700 Monmouth ... 325 Cairo 831 Peoria 5,886 Champaign . 1,256 Qulncy ...... 7,042 Danville .... 798 Kockford. .... 7,814 E. St. Louis. 2.U24 Springfield .. 485 Snow fell in Chicago Thursday night. Large, feathery flakes whitened the air before 10 o'clock, and for half an hour a snowstorm that would have done credit to midwinter pelted the belated citizen. It was the earliest snowstorm in twenty-six years. John Slusser of Kankakee, a 16-year-old son of the tankkeeper on the Kankakee and Seneca Railroad, committed suicide because he was censured by his mother. He laid across the rails of the track and ' faced an approaching train. The engineer was unable to stop. His body caught in the wheels and was terribly mangled. Thirty molders, comprising the force at the works of the Rock Island Plow Com­ pany, struck because the company declin­ ed to re-establish last year's scale as to wages. Last year the men worked piece work, and averaged $2.50 to $2.75 a day. The men went to work Monday under pro­ test at 22V& cents an hour. ' When Postmaster W. H. Hutchison en­ tered the Oak Park postoffice Thursday morning he found the outer door of the rault wide open, while papers and boo&s were littered on the floor. The safe had withstood the efforts of burglars to open it. The outer doer of the vault was open­ ed by the aid of a file and the lock was j One of the officers of the battleship Iowa tells of a thrilling scen«» which oe- ,'^.; curred on its deck soon after Cervera xnd > ""jf" his officers came aboard after the destine- tioa of their squadron. Captain Eulate ( haa offered his sword to Captain Evans ^„ and the latter had returned it, saying that / *>* f, he could not accept it from so brave m - «•. 'jtf man. The party was invited down t» the skipper's cabin to "take something." '^•*3 As Eulate entered the companionway he stopped and turned, lifted his cap and in - a most dramatic way extended bis arms and exclaimed: "Adois, Vizeaya." At VX" that instant, as if In response to his fare- a well, there was a tremendous erfcptkra from the burning cruiser and immediately after a deafening explosion. One of the magazines had blown up. Eulate buried -4t his face in his hands and sobbed. It was - some moments before he recovered from •' ,. - his agitation. , ... v v# • •* After our regiment had marched seven i ^ * miles toward Santiago, writes a soldier, *:'v we were ordered to go into camp on the crest of the high hill which overlooks the % valley in front of San Juan. We scarcely pitched our little shelter tents %•. when a fierce rainstorm came up. It pour­ ed down in torrents. I naturally supposed * the soldiers woiild be disgusted that this " should happen just after their long, tire­ some march, but when the storm was at its highest I heard shouts of joy outside, and I ventured to look from under the sheltering canvas to see what the commo- - tion was about, and there stood about half of the regiment, stark naked, taking what ',*,/.ig,. they called a bath, and the harder it rain- ' ed the more pleased they geemed. Msj. Smith looked out and conld not resist the <4fi* t e m p t a t i o n , a n d i n a f e w m i n u t e s h e , t ' - f f v was enjoying a nice, cool bath. ' ' • * * •'<'..»! , 1 A correspondent who journeyed to San- I 4^ ^ tiago on the transports with the regulars J*- and the volunteers who set sail from - r'/J Tampa describes the way in which the men whiied away the rime. At night the -> # chief occupation was singing. He says . . * v4» that "if you want several hundred or 1,000 ^ \ men to sing one sing, that song must be ^ either a hymn, a Sunday school song ©r ^ 'The Suwanee River.' * * * Almost i ^ every man in the fleet could sing the first • verse of •America.' Nearly, all could sins the first verse and chorus of 'Suwanee . River.' But when the leading singer started up 'Rock of Ages,' 'Hold the Fort.* 'Just as I Am Without One Pleat' or *Je- " sus Loves Even Me,' nearly every man oarf the ship would lift up his voice and siag ,' ^ the song with vigor, fervor and deligfct.** ' , , ; * 5V The Wasp, which goes to the naval re- , Serves at Chicago, was the first vessel to enter the harbor of Ponce, and Midship­ man Curtin, the grandnephew of ex-Gov. ? I Curtin of Pennsylvania, went ashore sad demanded the surrender of the place la a most audacious manner. He acted as if *„ s\ he had a fleet of battleships instead of the little yacht behind him. The cose- •***? mandant replied that he was only a sub- „ * • ordinate officer and was not authorized to ^ surrender. The boss was up at the city, $ three miles away. ,fGet him on the tele- ; phone!" roared the midshipinite, "and tell \ J him that if he does not surrender in half -• '•<$' ^ an hour I'll bombafd the towp." It waa~V 3 ,r,t? lucky for the Wasp, and particularly for » vjj young Curtin, that the rest of the feet I . arrived very soon. , ^ | ̂ » • • • ' : . -v.4 A soldier at Montauk Point gravely lated the following incident as an Illustra- tion of the terrific heat duriug the summer * Ms at Tampa. He said that the company that he belonged to was on the firing range """-VJ going through their regular target prae- ' tice, and although every one took the -0 greatest possible care with his aiming, ^ and the company he belonged to was the • best shooting company of the regiment, ' - " every shot missed the target. The captain could not make it out, so he ordered the bugler to sound "cease firing," and waa walking up to the targets to see what was wrong, when, about half way up the range- he saw a great stream of molten lead. The sun was so hot that it had melted the lets before they could reach the target. Its "•<*%*! "r Admiral Dewey's son engaged in base­ ness in New York at a salary of $20 a month, beginning at the bottom, at his father's request. An unscrupulous editor of a paper saw an opportunity to use the son of the great hero for advertising par- poses, and offered him a position on hia editorial staff. "You need write no arti­ cles, .nor do any reporting," said he; "jwst sign your name to an article every day aud I will pay you $200 a month." Bat the son of the Manila hero positively re­ fused to lend bis name to any such dis­ honesty. He preferred hard work at fSSt a month. • • * When Theodore Roosevelt was his farewell address to the rough ridtra at Camp Wikoff he concluded with this little story: "Several persons called on me yesterday and said: 'Oh. you were bmva to lead your men up that hill.' 'Why, I didn't lead them,' I answered; 'I had ta run like the dickens to keep, running over me.' " ,5 ,r> : Dwight Moody, the evangelist, is umI ta have received $1,250,000 for his "go*pef* hymns. General E. H. Hobson. the newly-eieet- ed president of the Veterans of the Mexi­ can War. served also in the civil war. Miss Ruth White of- San Francisc% im said to bear so striking a resemblance ta the Liberty on the new dimes that..her friends supposed her the model. The death of Bayard recalls the tact that he and his father were the two Sena­ tors from Delaware just after the close of the civil war. This is a political fact without a parallel. Miss Mary French McKay has become prominent in Denver by claiming to be tfc* best woman fencer in the world, and e#> fers to prove her titie anywhere and at any time. - ' 1 Jean Francois Millet, fils, who is aosr traveling in America, has said that what impressed him most in this country is. the "just veneration" in whfch his thwarts work is held. . Miss Anna BoriKgny.' of New Orleans, who assisted Miss Chanler as a nurse j* Puerto Rico, is the great-great-gra**- daughter of the Lieut. Bienville ark* founded her native city. The commission of John Hay te he Sue* retary of State credits him to the District of Columbia. This is the first time that* citizen credited to the District has SVSST affoiated t+m Cabinet »ssit>-- ^-gis4' Ml