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ilVE ANDDKADISSD1S •fl^LITIfSAI^ SURPRISES IN THE ' fECENT-ELtGTlOks, 4Rbw Republican Control of Congi Was Gained by the Strength of the jfariff Imm In States Wedded to Free Cilveh ,"V., •;!P ^/v~* I 3?>L .... t\K' Ic, j ' ' p.:,-, iir-M-, '.At A1 • The potency of the tariff issue in de- termining the results of the November Sections becomes more and more ap­ parent from a survey of the leading events of the campaign and of the marked changes wrought thereby. It was in the Middle West and the far West, in States where the free silver Ctaze had been the strongest, that the •battle was fought and won. Party man­ agers were never before so completely 4kt fault. They figured that the East would be found more solid than ever for the gold standard, and that the West was and would remain unsound •on the money question. They were dia­ metrically wrong in both calculations, la the Eastern States the losses to •sound money and the gains to the free coinage ranks were sogreat as to whol­ ly reverse the alignment of parties in the House of Representatives, giving •the control of that body to the Demo­ crats. Populists and other free silver- ftps by a safe working majority. In the West, on the contrary, there were enor­ mous gains for Republicanism and sound money, and by these gains the control of the House was saved to and ' *bw rests with the Republican party. ' What caused this extraordinary re- ""fersal of political form in the States of ithe West and far West--in California, ^Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota. Utah, Color­ ado, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri? -Wherefore the gain for sound Republi­ can doctrines and the loss for Pppulis- Itic heresies in these twelve States? Let .the question be answered by the {Chronicle, op ably conducted dally newspaper of Spokane, Wash. No­ where in the country has the case been more plainly or more truthfully stated - {than in the following, from the paper 3|list mentioned: 'I t There is something vastly more impor­ tant to this section than free silver, even 4f this were not the delusion that it is. |That something is a proper protective [tariff. Why was it that the West was so {prostrated that it grasped at free silver »r any other remedy that even promised a •relief? Because Democratic policy had enacted free wool, and Hocks of sheep (that cover our mountains and feed in our Valleys were a burden rather than a source of profit. Because Democratic pol­ icy had declared for free lumber, and the jmighty wealth of our boundless forests jwas unclaimed and could not be realized. [Because a Democratic policy had made lead free, and our richest mines lay idle since it would not pay to work them in competition with the cheap lead brought |ln from without. , These three items of ^Democratic free tpde meant depression jand ruin to the Wefct^And that section, its misery and distress* knew not cer­ tainly what was its disease or what the remedy, but sought blindly for relief, from free silver or from anything that might Remove the new conditions and restore the old. It distrusted both the old parties; •and the Republicans, remembering the •lump to free silver, distrusted it. y After adverting to the fact that in 'Some of the old tariffs the interests of -Itbe West had been "slaughtered by the •cry for low duties on raw materials," 'Whereas in the Dingley tariff the bal- : Utice was held equally and the Western -producers of lumber, coal, wool and lead received fair treatment, the Chron­ icle continues: Now comes the proof, and these States, supposed to be devoted to the worship of -cheap money and Populism, wheel solidly Into line. The answer to a Republican iprotective tariff, which for almost the first time does full justice to the West and £ives it its rightful place in the national economy, is a Republican victory in Wash­ ington, another in Oregon, another in Cal­ ifornia. It is the redemption of the Da- (kotas. It is success in Wyoming. It is such a tremendous gain in Idaho that the State is sufely Republican at the next election. And all those gains are-won not only without any compromise or conces­ sion to the cheap money sentiment, but on filatforms that declare outright for the maintenance of the gold standard and against the free coinage of silver. This is the magnificent answer of the West to the offer by the Republican party of a scheme of protection that protects all adequately and equally. This is its answer, to the charge that it was so infected with the cheap money virus that it would never return to sound national policy. This is its auswer to the Democratic claim that the WTest had renounced its Republican­ ism permanently. And that answer is proclaimed at a time when it means most for the party and the country; at a time when it saves the House from a Demo­ cratic majority, and restores the United States Senate to Republican control. It Is, in all ways, a most happy event for us. It comes at a time and in a manner when ft will be most to our advantage. The West will be restored to its old seat of honor in the Republican party. It has shown that it needs but consideration and be loyal when others falter. It has proved that it can lay aside manfully ap error and accept its party gospel from the lips of a majority, if only it believes that equal justice will be done >• >tO all and that it is not to be a sacrifice to older and more influential sections. The West knows now what it owes to the Republican party, and the Republican **party knows what it owes to the West. There will be, we predict, no more misun­ derstandings between them; and' hence- _JCorth there will be none more influential lit the national councils of the party than the representatives of that section where the great, decisive and unexpected vic- jepes of this campaign were won against appeared to be overwhelming odds. the government. It simply means that there shall be no discrimination. All the questions raised by the anti-ex­ pansionists have been thought of and taken luto account by those wifco be­ lieve in growth. Assistant Secretary of State Meiklejohn sees no difficulty In treating the Philippines as a colony and legislating especially for them. It can be depended upon that whatever the outcome, existing industries in the United States will neither l>e destroyed nor disturbed.--Utica (N. Y.) Press. An Anti-fixpaasionist View. Hf we can seil steel rails to foreign tuntries, and locomotives, and har-sting machines, and bicycles, and about everything else we make, there is no reason why we cannot make mer­ chant ocean steamers, and run them, too, as cheaply as anybody does. And it is high time to take hold of our mer­ chant marine and do our own carrying across the ocean. And if England se­ cures her business by subsidizing her steamship lines, we must subsidize .Odrs. That's much cheaper than it is to buy distant islands, and pay heavy expenses in caring for them.--Lowell (Mass.) Courier. It* Heal Meaning. „ real meaning of the open door Is simply a guarantee of equal opportun­ ity to trade and under like conditions aid K does not exclude tariff for rev- Hftae or protection which may be fbought necessary for the support of -- LixM Bad for Spanish Merchant*. ' : Porto Rico continues to buy large quantities of supplies from Spain. That is because under existing arrange­ ments the Spaniards are the most fa­ vored nation dealing with Porto Rico. WThen the Porto Ricao tariff is the same as that of the United States, some of the Spanish merchants who have been getting wealthy off the trade with the islands will discover a sudden and dis­ astrous falling off in their business. The majority of the ships delivering goods at Porto Rico will be sailing un­ der American register soon after the tariff Is extended to our pew posses­ sion.--Buffalo Review. PEACE TREATY HERE. Popular with the Masses. It was noticed that Mr. McKlnley made more speeches during the cam­ paign of 1896 than were made by any other candidate who was ever elected. AH of them were pointed and appro­ priate, however. Since his election he has gone among the people to a greater extent than any other President ever did in the same length of time, and con­ sequently has had to talk more. Here as in his campaign speeches he always says something worthy of the occasion and of their author. No man ever in the White House was more popular with the masses than is the present oc­ cupant. A National Necessity. "The part which American merchant vessels and their seamen performed in the war with Spain demonstrates that this service (the American merchant fleet), furnishing both pickets and the second line of defense, Is a national ne­ cessity, and should be encouraged in every constitutional way."--President McKinley's message to Congress, Dec. 5, 1898. Under the American Flee. "There should be established regu­ lar and frequent steamship communi­ cation, encouraged by the United States, under the American flag, with the newly acquired islands."--President McKinley's message to Congress, Dec. 5,1808. Words Will Be Remembered. "Integrity and industry are the best possessions that any man can have, and every man can have them. No­ body can give them to him nor take them from him." The President puts a truth In a form likely to be remem­ bered. Majority tor Expansion. A canvass of leading newspapers throughout the country gives 305 for expansion and 193 against it. Every section of the country is for it except the South, and that is nearly a tie in newspaper sentifnent. Primpt, Curable, Liberal. "It will be conceded that tile, present situation calls for legislation (on the subject of American shipping! which should be prompt, durable and liber*!." --President McKinley's message to Congress, December 5, 1898. I*ixie Praises McKinley. The South cannot but concur in the sentiments expressed by Mr. McKin­ ley, and applaud him for his courage in delivering them.--Arkansas Gazette. Mr. McKinley's public addresses have been so full of generous Senti­ ments beautifully expressed that the people have been moved to enthusi­ asm.--Richmond Times. He is the first Republican President who has been regarded as truly the Chief Magistrate of the entire union. He Is so regarded, and has been treat­ ed accordingly.--New Orleans Picay­ une. This utterance from President Mc­ Kinley, a Republican and an ex-Union soldier, Is authoritative. It marks the end, not only of sectional Ill-feeling, but of sectional mistrust.--Nashville Banner. President McKinley's patriotic trib­ ute to the heroic dead of the Confeder­ ate cause, paid in the course of his speech "to the Georgia Legislature, will be much appreciated by the people of the South.--Savannah News. McKinley will still be a gainer, for he has put a sympathetic finger on a soft spot in the hearts of Southern men and women, and by doing so has laid them under an obligation which they will not cease to give grateful recogni­ tion.--New Orleans Times-Democrat. Whatever the primary meaning of his words, the interpretation that will be put upon his utterances everywhere throughout the South will be their true meaning--the close union of all the people of the United States in loyalty to the country.--Charleston News and Courier. DOCUMENT GIVEN OVIR ?"/:• PRESIDENT M'KINLEVr Commission Formally Presents the Paris Compact to the President--Re­ port from the Klondike Indicates Great Increase in the Gold Outpnt. Bryan Leaves the Army. Colonel Bryan makes it quite clear that be Is an expansionist opposed to Imperialism.--Milwaukee Sentinel. Posterity must remember that Mr. Bryan's book, "The First Battle," is not a treatise on his military career.-- St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Colonel Bryan will return to politics with his Influence in leadership neither weakened nor strengthened by bis army experience.--Springfield Repub­ lican. It is a misfortune that such a man should be keeping alive in the West and South the financial anarchy which he would impose upon the nation.-- Baltimore American. It can make no particular difference to the country whether Colonel Bryan resigns or does not, bnt it Is a fact that one-half of bis party wishes that he were out of politics for good.--Indi­ anapolis Journal. Colonel Bryan, the man who believes in unlimited expansion of money, now that be is no longer obliged to remain silent, announces his antagonism against territorial acquisition and has gone to Washington to begin' a fight against the retention of Porto Rico and the Philippines. Republicans should welcome his advent.--Galesburg Re­ publican-Register. The American peace commissioners ar­ rived in Washington from New York shortly after 4 o'clock Saturday after­ noon. They were driven in carriages to the White House, and at 4:40 o'clock were received by President McKinley in the blue parlor, together with all the attaches of the commission. All the commission­ ers were present: William R. Day, Sen­ ator Cushman Davis, Senator William P. Prye, Senator George Gray and White- law Reid. Accompanying them, besides the attaches, were Mrs.'I}ay, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Frye. , , The peace treaty brought in a sep­ arate carriage by John; Bassett Moore, secretary of the commission, and Mr. Michael, chief clerk of the State Depart­ ment, who met the party at the Pennsyl­ vania railroad station. Few persons were at the White House when the commission­ ers and other members of the party arriv­ ed, except a number of newspaper corre­ spondents, who stood on the porch of the executive mansion when the party drove up. The commissioners stopped to shake hands with the newspaper men, and re­ mained in conversation with them for several minutes while one of the guards at the door announced to the President the arrival of the commission. There was no formality in the reception by the President. The commissioners re­ mained half an hour, President Day of the commission presenting the treaty, which was brought in a good-sized satchel. President McKinley congratulated the commission on the result of their mission in Paris, and for each one had a special word of commendation for the successful manner in which the delicate negotiations leading to the peace settlement were con­ ducted. GIRLS DYING OF LEPROSY. BANK'S VAULT IS LOOTED. Burglars at Lima* Ohio, Carry Off $18,IBS, Gold and Paper. At Lima, Ohio, the American National Bank was robbed Sunday night of $18,- 168. The bank is located at Main and !. High streets and was considered fire and burglar proof. When the janitor went to the bank Monday morning he discovered the outside door of the vault standing open. The officers were notified and an investigation was made, which disclosed that the other doors were locked, but that the vault had been entered and all the currency and gold coin taken, while sev­ eral hundred dollars in silver was hot mo­ lested. There were two doors to the vault, the outer one being operated by a time lock, while the inner door was se­ cured with a combination lock. The inner door was opened. "a A large rack containing $1,000 in silver coin was found on a chair, where it had been left. Sacks containing several hun­ dred dollars more in silver were found in­ tact oh top of the bank safe, while a pri­ vate safe was also found not to have been molested. Saturday night about $16,000 in paper money and gold was deposited in the vault, but it, as well as about $2,000 in paper money, which had been thrown on top of the safe after it had been lock­ ed, was missing Monday morning. The directors of the bank held a meet­ ing, at which an assessment was levied to meet the deficiency. Other banks of the city offered whatever assistance might be needed to help the b&nW open business. The robbery is shrouded in profound mys­ tery. RIOTOUS TIME IN PAN A. Oread Scourge Claims Two Victims in Ohio, Near Columbus. Two Ohio girls, Hattie Garry, 32 years old, and her sister, 12 years of age, are slowly dying of leprosy in a remote part of the Perry County hills. Dr. Charles O. Probst, secretary of the State Board of Health, has investigated these cases. He found the girls to be genuine lepers. Hat- Nonunion Miners Undertake to Ter­ rorize the Town. Monday was terrorizing day in Pana, 111. It was observed by both union min­ ers and non-union miners.. The mines did not work, and the non-union miners, principally negroes, becoming intoxicated, paraded the streets. As a result of the Saturday night riot David McGavie, union miner, is in a dangerous condition, and two negroes who were badly cut with knives are expected to die. Negroes arrive daily in companies of six and ten and openly defy the whites, but the presence of the militia serves to prevent trouble. The provost guard ar­ rested twenty persons. Chief Kiely ar­ rested two negroes armed with hatchets. Two negroes fought a duel with knives In West Plains Sunday evening, both being carried from the field of battle. James Meyers, non-union miner, was assaulted by unknown persons. His injuries are reported fatal. A negro miner named Snyder attempted to shoot his wife. A STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION Illinois Pedagogues Convene in th£v Capitol Building at Springfield. The Illinois State Teachers' Associa­ tion met at the State House in Springfield, with the largest attendance in the history of the organization. Twelve hundred teachers were present on the floor and the galleries of the hall were crowded with visitors. Former President J. W. Hayes of Urbana presided at the opening of the session. Prayer was offered by Rev. D. F. Howe of Springfiekl and the Spring­ field high school chorus, under the direc­ tion of Miss Stella R. Root, sang. Gov. Tanner was then introduced. The Gov­ ernor was very weak and could stand only long enough to formally welcome the teachers and announce that his address would be read by Dr. Richard Edwards, former State Superintendent of Schools. The address spoke of the just pride .taken by the people of Illinois in their public school system, the cost of which > - PBOV. J. H. COLZ.U7S. PtMident Illinois Teachers' Association. LABOR-SAVING SUGGESTION TO HOBSQN. irmmn --Detroit Journal. for one year had been over $18,000,000, of which" over $16,000,000 was met by tax­ ation. The willingness of thp people to be taxed for such an amount was an evi dence of their love for the school. President Collins followed Gov. Tanner. His address made reference to the war with Spain as having had a great influence on the educational world. The school teacher, he said, must meet a new condi­ tion of affairs and must shape all work in accordance with it. America, he said, had new duties before it, and the coming eiti zen must be educated in a*way to prepare him for these duties. The necessity for moral training was emphasised and the teachers were urged to take up the study at sociology. Bishop Spalding's address closed the opening sessktn. It was impromptu and eloquent and it took the assemblage by storm. The bishop declared the proposi­ tion that the teachers are the school and he followed out this line throughout his address. He did not underestimate the value of the science of teaching, for, he said, there was a right way to do every­ thing, but he insisted that the teachers personality was, after all, the life of the school. Bishop Spalding declared himself as against the proposition to furnish free text books to children. BLOOMINQTON QUITE HAPPY. Grand New Coliaenm Building Is .Opened to Public. Fully 3,000 persons attended the dedica­ tory exercises at the new Coliseum in Bloomington. Hundreds were present from adjacent cities. The magnificent auditorium was a scene of beauty, light­ ed by 500 incandescent lights. The inte rior is finished in light wood and is deco­ rated most artistically, and the curtain closing the vast stage is a masterpiece. The entertainment given on the opening night was a grand concert by Phinney's tie, the elder, has the disease in an ad­ vanced stage. Her right hand lias been eaten away bone by bone and joint by joint, until now nothing is left of it. Her toes also have begun to slough away. Not until long after the red marks had become white, scaly patches, did the moth­ er suspect what the trouble was. Then she secreted Hattie, and later little Han­ nah also developed the same symptoms, and she, too, was kept a close prisoner at the Garry cottage. With the utmost care the mother hid the children from suspi­ cious eyes and concealed the disease from the public. Mrs. Garry, with all the rest of her trouble, had to struggle to make a triple living. Finally she could not contend against her straitened circumstances long­ er. She told her story to the county au­ thorities. New Lexington became a panic- stricken town. Then came doubts of the disease really being leprosy. But experts were summoned and it was found to be only too true. Then the case was report­ ed to the State Board of Health. The mother, in going with her children to the refuge, agrees not to leave the lines set about the place or to mingle with the out1 side world. The township authorities will keep her supplied with the necessaries of life, delivering them near the house. Mrs. Garry is a soldier's widow, and the leprosy in the children is hereditary, the father having contracted it in the South while a soldier in the civil war. COST OF NICARAGUAN CANAL. Cot mission in Its Report Estimates It at 9135,000,000. The preliminary report of the Nicara- guan canal commission, consisting of Gen. Haines, Admiral Walker and Prof. Haupt, has been completed. The report gives as a conservative estimate of the entire cost of the canal $135,000,000, thus nearly agreeing with Gen. W. Ludlow's report of 1896. It-is-estimated that the excavations necessary will be 12o,00Q,000 cubic yards, exclusive of all dams and em­ bankments. The report also gives many details of con­ struction in regard to the proposed route. The eastern harbor and jetties will re­ quire 9,000,000 cubic yards of soft excava­ tions. The Greytown section, which ex­ tends from the harbor to the east divide, will require 16,000,000 cubic yards of earth and clay excavations and three locks in this section will cost about $10,- 000.000. The section is thirteen and one- half miles in length and 700 acres of clear­ ing of the jungle will be necessary. The divide section goes through a high rocky range of hills for twenty-four miles. Then for thirty-four and one-half miles the excavations will be slight. The cost of the Ochoa dam, upon which rests the entire feasibility of the route, has not been accurately computed. bystander turned the gun, and the charge entered Snyder's right breast, making a fatal wound. H. Foher, principal stockholder of the Pana Coal Company, informed Julius Broshl. superintendent, that if matters are not more satisfactorily adjusted by Jan. 15 the two Pana mines will be closed down indefinitely. CUBAN JUNKET GIVEN UP. FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER John Henry Collins 8aid by a Jnry to Have Killed His Father. John Henry Collins was found guilty of the murder of his father in Topeka, Kan., May 13, 1898. Every juryman said guilty. The vote was unanimous for mur­ der in the first degree. When the verdict was read John Collins showed no signs of surprise. He was perfectly cool and smiled when one of his attorneys ap­ proached him. Attorney Godard immedi­ ately filed a motion for a new trial. The crime for which Collins was con­ victed is punishable by death, but the law requires that the Governor shall sign the death warrant. This was never before done by any Governor, and persons sen­ tenced to death spent a lifetime in the penitentiary. The Collins trial lasted just four weeks and was full of interest and sensation from the start. War Investigating Commission Pre' paring Its Report. The war investigating commission will not visit Cuba and Porto Rico. The idea has been abandoned owing to the fact that a great number of witnesses have been examined who took part in the cam­ paigns in both islands. The examinations have covered every possible point, and thousands of pages of printed testimony are before the commission for review. The members of the commission have commenced the preparation of the report which is to be made to President McKin ley. It will probably be completed during the latter part of January. The under­ standing is that in addftion to the con­ clusions reached on the conduct of the war with Spain, the commission will sub­ mit a number of recommendations for the future, and these will be based upon the suggestions of the officers of the various grades, whose opinions were requested. VETERAN BURIED ALIVE. John Clark, Believed to Be Deadf Sur­ vives His Interment. John Clark, an inmate at the Veterans' home at Dodge City, Kan., was supposed to have died Wednesday of typhoid fever. The doctor pronounced him dead, and the veteran, who is past 70 years of age, was buried. After the funeral an old com­ rade named Hazen came forward with the theory that Clark was not dead. He insisted that Clark was only attacked by a sinking spell, to which he was subject, and that he had been buried alive. So great a disturbance did Hazen create that on Friday afternoon the supposed dead man was taken from the grave and, after a vigorous rubbing, he recovered. He said he was half conscious of all that was hap­ pening during the burial, but could not make a move to prevent it. CRIED "VIVA ESPANA." ~Two~Bpaniard» Killed for Uttering It in Havana's Streets. . In Havana, two men belonging to the Ceuta battalion were killed in an affray which occurred in Zulueta street. Each of the men was stabbed four times. The fighting lasted for an hour. Different versions are given of the cause of the trouble. The one most generally accepted is that a number of colored peo­ ple, in a house on Monserrat street, who were celebrating Christmas eve, shouted "Viva Cuba Libre!" as a number of Span­ iards were passing. The latter responded with the cry of "Viva Espana!" and im­ mediately afterward a shot was fired, by whom is unknown. This precipitated a general fight, during which the two Span­ ish soldiers were stabbed by somebody in the crowd of combatants. SOUTH DAKOTA DIVORCE LAW3L More Stringent Legislation to RM State of Matrimonial Misfits. Among the measures which will come before the North Dakota Legislature dur­ ing its session will be one providing for a nvore stringent divorce law. A large ele­ ment of the peopie are ashamed of the record gained by the State on account of the laxity of the present law on this sub­ ject, and are anxious to shut off the ex­ cursions thither of matrimonial misfit* BLOOMIXOTOV'S NBW COLISEUM. United States band of Chicago. Before the rendition of the musical program May' or. C. Fred Koch, who is one of the origi inators and promoters of the Coliseum, delivered a brief address outlining the his* tory and object of the building and dedi­ cating it to the use and pleasure of the people of Bloomington. The concert open ed with "The Stars and Stripes Forever." As the concluding number of the first part a violin solo--"Tannhauser"--was render­ ed by Miss Delia Phillips of Bloomington, NEW COURTHOUSE UNDER WAY. Corner Etone of Coles County Building Laid with Ceremony. . The corner stone of Coles County's new court house at Charleston was laid a few days age, with due ceremony. The Board of Supervisors had the matter in chargo and a big banquet concluded the day's ex­ ercises. The contract for the new strncture was let last September and calls for an expen­ diture of about $100,000. llie new build- COLES COUNTT'S 1 K*W COUETBOUSK. ing stands in the center of the public square and will be an imposing structure and will add much to the appearance of a city fast becoming famous for its fine churches and school buildings. The new building is to be completed within one year xrom the date of letting the contract. Short State Item*. At Kewanee, Warren G. Wood, a retir­ ed capitalist, dropped dead of heart dis- ise. A special election of officers for the new towns of Grant. Berwyn and Oak Park has been ordered for Tuesday, Jan. 17. Because a car cut off his arm Arthur J. A. Akerstadt was awarded $8,000 dam­ ages by a jury in Judge Hanecy's court against the Chicago City Railway. William Lynn, aged 37, a well-known farmer, residing ten miles northeast of Virginia, in a fit of despondency commit­ ted suicide by taking carbolic acid. At a shooting match at Ramsey the gun of Ral Beck was accidentally discharged, the bullet striking James Beeman, pro­ ducing injuries from which he died. A number of the most intelligent and cultured people in Nashville have followed the example set by people in a number of Eastern cktes and have organized an anti- breakfast society. The organisation is the outcome of experiments. Members of the society are at present enjoying most excellent health. It is claimed upon the part of the members that the stomach has ho rest when three meals are eaten and jpleep is art ft huager-causiag proetaa. ILLINOIS IflCIjp^. SOBER OR STARTLING, FULLY RECORDED. Efforts to Break a Will Fail--Polyga- mist at Aurora--Novel Suit at Spring­ field--Miners Agree to Arbitration- Contest for Legislative feats. After having been out twenty-four hours and failing to agree the jury which heard the case of Henry F. Dees and thirty-one other collateral heirs of the late Jesse A. Dees, in an attempt to have the letter's will set aside, was discharged at Mount Vernon. The jury stood three to sustain the will and nine to set it aside. There are nineteen defendants in the suit. The testator died in February, 1897, and left, with the exception of a few minor be­ quests, the bulk of an estate estimated at $80,000 to the school fund of Jefferson County. The principal grounds of contest were that *he bequests to the county school funti were in violation of the law of perpetuities; that the testator was not of sound mind when he made the will, and that he willed large tracts of land he never owned. The testator was an illiterate man, whose education was limited almost to reading and writing. The case will be retried at a future term of court. . ^ . Conteyts for Legislature* Two election contests for members of the General Assembly have been,, filed with the Secretary of State. Both are from the First senatorial district. Albert E. Ebert, Republican, contests the elec­ tion of Dennis J. Leahy. Democrat. James Hackett, Democrat, and Albert J. Ketter­ ing, Republican. His reasons for the con­ test are general. The count of the votes shows as follows: Eberts, 12,058; Ivetter- ing, 12,355%; Leahy, 14,654%; Hackett, 14,553%. This is a House contest. The second contest is that of John C. Sterchie, Democrat, agaipst Daniel J. May. The vote was: May, 9,238; Sterchie, 8,990. Admits He Has Four Wives. William Wright walked from Downers Grove the other day and surrendered him­ self to the Aurora police. He said he was a bigamist and his conscience kept him awake nights. By his own confession Wright married Sarah Jones in Danville thirteen years ago; Ella Wilder of Pontiac he took as wife tw^ years later, and under the name of William Davis; Lutia Laugh- lin of Pickering, Mo., he wedded as Wil­ liam Porterfield; finally seven months later he moved to Peoria and'married Lena Horman. Wright says he is glad to be safe behind the bars. To Arbitrate Mining Troubles. In accordance with a previous agree­ ment between the adverse parties, the sec­ retary of the State board of arbitration has notified the coal miners and oj^yptors that the board will meet in Mount Ver­ non to arbitrate the differences t^at^ have arisen there. Under the agreement the miners, who have been on strike, resumed work and have been laboring at the old rate of wages until such tim£ as the board of arbitration shall determine what would be just for the operators to pay. Bnjoins a Gambling Honae. H. K. Ha'liiday has commenced a suit in the Circuit Court at Springfield to ob­ tain a perpetual injunction against Ches­ ter M. Lane to prevent the latter from operating a gambling House in the'vicinity of his property. Lane, it is claimed, has a sort of monopoly on the business in Springfield. His house is next door to Halliday's property. So far as known this is the first suit of this character ever brought in Illinois. Body Hangs from Hay Loft. The body of a man was found hanging from the swinging beam of a hay loft in the barn of Mrs. J. A. Jones, three miles east of Chatham. The suicide had se­ lected the most prominent place in the vicinity to hang himself, having gone to much trouble to climb to the dizzy height from which he swung off. The suicide has been identified as William Bell, a Spring­ field clerk, who was ill and slightly de­ ranged. Brief State Happening* James G. Tuttle, a clerk of the Elgin city court, died of dropsy, aged 49 years. The Lee Line steamer City of Osceola was sunk in twelve feet of water near Avenue landing. The steamer was valued at $70,000. At Mascoutah, Mrs. Peter Scheck was found dead in her bed. Death, due to heart disease, came while she slept be­ side her husband. While skating on the Pana Coal Com­ pany's reservoir William Reitz, Jr., aged 14 years, skated into an air hole, sank into the water and was drowned. Robert Howard of Chicago has been found guilty of the murder of Frank C. Metcalf and his punishment fixed at death. Howard is a colored man. Mrs. George Dieterich, one of Gales- burg's oldest residents, was found dead in bed. H«r son, G. C. pieterich, was the only one living in the house with her. Adjutant General Reece has confirmed the election of Joseph C. Wilson as cap­ tain of troop A. cavalry squadron, Illinois National Guard. An election for first and second lieutenant of this troop has been ordered for Jan. 13. The Illinois State Board of Health will hold an examination for such funeral di­ rectors and embalmers as desire to re­ ceive the certificate of the board entitling them to prepare for transportation bodies dead of contagious diseases, in the Lov- ington Building, East St. Louis, Tuesday, Jan. 24. Another examination will be held in Chicago, at the Great Northern Hotel, about Feb. 14. At the examination' held Dec. 6 and 7 in Chicago 340 candi­ dates presented themselves. Of those thirty-four arrived too late, and so but 306 took the examination. Of this num­ ber 263 passed successfully, six passed the written examination but have not as yet done the practical work required, and thirty-seven applicants failed to pass. Gov. Tanner has made the following appointments in the Ninth Illinois volun­ teer regiment: Robert E. Hickman, cap­ tain Company F; Simon Moore, first lieu­ tenant Company F. Areola boasts of an entire family en­ listed in the United States army. A1 Skinner, a bright young man. enlisted in the Areola company and fell ill at Sa­ vannah, Ga. His mother went south to nurse him and enlisted as a nurse. His father, Rev. Mr. Skinner, applied for and received an appointment as chaplain of his son's regiment, and has gone to Savan­ nah to begin his new duties. W. R. Neighbors, an extensive dealer in furniture at Duquoin, and also manager of the opera house there, was married to Miss Sadie L. Cook of Carbondale in the parlors of the Thompson House in Car- tersville the other day. C. E. Handle, jeweler at Litchfield, is out $75 worth of goods as the result of a neat confidence game played upon his mother, who was assisting htm as clerk. While Mrs. Handle was alone In the store a man, with groceries under his arm and every appearance of a citizen, entered and requested two watches and a diamond riag on approval, giving a name" and ad­ dress. He secured the goods, bot failed to return them. A steer weighing 2,700 pouads was re­ cently marketed from HincoeK County. 'The Pana Coal Companies have resign­ ed their membership in the Illinois Coal . Operators' Association; The Smith-Hill elevator sho(Mi are to be removed from Quincy to Chicago. They are a part of the Otis elevator combine. Rev. Guy F. Shields, pastor of the Christian Church at Virginia, has accept­ ed a call to the Central Charch of Christ at Kansas City. Rev. G. W. Montgomery died suddenly at Charleston. He was born in East Ten- . nessee in 1824, and had preached the gos­ pel for over fifty years. During the past year the sheriff's office of Brown County has paid into the coun­ ty treasury nearly $400 more than the expenses of the office amounted to. Sangamon County Supervisors have voted unanimously to remove all the rec- ords and documents bearing the name of ' Abraham Lincoln from the court house ^ to the historical library at the state house. < The $200,000 estate of James E. Power, who died at Pasadena, Cal., goes by his '.i will, dower and homestead to the widow, "• and the rest equally to the three children. .H ; There is $40,000 of personal property and 2,000 acres of land near Cantrall. This is the second largest farm in 8ang&- mon County. / vt In the contested election case of O. H. Brigham against P. C. Stanford at, Springfield, the court lays down the rule . that alien-born women become naturalized r when they marryi, citizens of the State. y The appellant was elected a member of a board of education in Livingston County, ^ > and his election was contested on the \ ground that a number of alien women, the^T1"** wives of citizens, had been permitted to- ~r vote at the election. The court declares -1 that the marriage of an alien-born woman v to a citizen is sufficient to make her a eiti- i; zen, and that she may vote under the same laws that other women vote. A meeting of the Illinois Coal Opera­ tors' Association was held at Springfield, with about one hundred representatives in attendance from varions parts of the State. The meeting is preliminary to the interstate convention to be held at Pitts- 4-^ burg in January, when the conditions ex- , - isting in the Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohto; ' ' a n d I l l i n o i s f i e l d s w i i i b e c o n s i d e r e d . T h e ^ following officers were elected for the en- s t 'A suing year: President, S. M. DalseD, .J Spring Valley; vice-president, A. J. Mooreshead, Mount Olive; secretary- ( ^ treasurer, J. A. Agee, Riverton, Chicago and Kansas City; recording secretary, O. ' ̂ L. Scroggs, Chicago. Miss Nellie Anthony, daughter of «& / Y.ij? Senator Charles E. Anthony, fought dea- perately with a highwayman in JBv ana- - J ton the other night and drove him away. , She was passing along Dempster street* when a thick-set mah sprang upon to from the darkness of an alley. Miss Ai? thony was carrying a package under one ~ arm. Her hands were in a muff. Con- sequently she was unable to check her fall when the man struck her violently on the head. Her head came in sharp con ­ tact with the stone sidewalk. She lost consciousness. Suddenly her senses be* gan to return. She screamed for help and fought the man with all her strength. Sh% knocked off his hat and scratched hi# - f| face. Her struggle was so vigorous that' ^ the robber decided to quit the fight and. ; make his escape. s * Referring to the claim of New Twit ir,|j health board officers In respect to the <Hs- ^ J covery that grip is contagious, Dr. T. J. Burrill, dean of the general faculty of the . - University of Illinois, says the probabili* »*•;! ty of the contagiousness of that disease is ~ -4! no new thing. Eight or nine years ago, bj^ microscopical investigation at the univer* - *j| sity, the faculty had found in the saliva ;f| of grip patients a germ which was prer '. ̂ sumably the cause of grip. "Over and over again," said he, "we found these or* ^ ganisms in the saliva, but we never car* 1 ; ̂ ried the matter to a final and conclusive • demonstration, because we did not like te J try the .experiment on any person. Yet . 3 I have no doubt that what we round IS the grip germ, and the reasonable conclu­ sion therefrom would be that the disease is necessarily contagious." At Woodstock, Mrs. Olive Baraes, wife of C. P. Barnes, a prominent attorney, swallowed poison, dying a short time lat- t er. Mrs. Barnes had dressed preparatory for a trip to Chicago, where she intended to do some shopping. Before going to the station, however, she called at her hu»*. band's office, where she remained a short time. When she left the office she waa weeping, and instead of going to the de­ pot she went directly home. At no time before her death did she express any re-. gret for the deed. The inquest was held5 in the afternoon and it was shown that strychnine, not arsenic, was the poison, used. Two letters were found, one ad­ dressed to her mother, Mrs. Mary Stoner, > Capron, 111., and the other to "My Dear Ones." Mr. and Mrs. Barnes were ried in the summer of 1896. Mrs. was 20 years old. She was raised in Bei- videre, and as Miss Olive Green went toi | Woodstock, where she was employed as a milliner. w The State of Illinois is undoubtedly ia the throes of a small-pox scare, and the * breaking out of the disease at several ; points far distant from each other is giv- ; : ing the health authorities some uneasi­ ness. Dr. C. S. Nelson of Springfield, ;Ci who went to Biggsville as special isnpec- tor for the State Board of Health, reports ; that he found a farm laborer named Wolf, who lives with the family of James Camp- • bell, suffering from a virulent type of ^ small-pox. Wolf came to Biggsville from Marshallfield, Mo., about Dec. 1, and while en route fell in company with some soldiers lately from Cuba, from whom, it is thought, he may have caught the infec­ tion. The State Board of Health has or­ dered a general vaccination of persons in the vicinity of Biggsville. It is feared the disease will spread, as Wolf was sick some days before its real character was recognized. A farm hand named Sterling, who left Campbell's house, has been traced to Monmouth, where he was appre­ hended, vaccinated and placed in quaran­ tine. One case of supposed small-pox is reported to the State Board of Health from Bethel. The patient, a child 7 years of age, recently came from St. Louis. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. George Walker cel­ ebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at Nashville. They were married near Beaucoup and have resided in Nashville ever since. Both are now more thaa 70 years old. The Kessinger-Donahue contest over the election of superintendent of Macou­ pin schools closed at Cartinville. Man­ ning M.Kissinger had been declared elect­ ed by the official canvassing board by a majority of twenty-four. The contest in­ creased this by thirty votes, making hia complete majority over Arthur B. Dona­ hue (Rep.) fifty-four votes. Mrs. Mary Quick, supposed to be the oldest resident of Jo Daviess Coaaty, died at Galena. She was born 100 years ago in Ireland and came to Galena in 1834, where she had lived ever since. Her hus­ band died forty years ago. % An attempt was made to blow- ^ the Terre coal mine at Lentzberg. The at- tVUlpt WftS UOt irtpJv ik* derrick only being damaged to tU* extent . of $500. William 11. Perry ft Sons own the mine, which is being ruu with aonr- union men. Several months ago the un­ ion men struck for better wages. Only tbe watchman was aboat the mine the explosion occurred and nobody injured. Mi M-