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ILLINOIS, This Bank receives deposits, bays and sells Foreign and Domestic Exchange, and does a General Banking Business We endeavor to do all business en­ trusted to our care in a manner and upon terms entirely satisfactory to our cus­ tomers aud respectfully solicit the public patronage. MONEY TO LOAK: OQ Real Estate and other first class security. Special attention given to collections. INSURANCE In First Class Companies at the Lowest Rates. Yours Respectfully, PEKRY&OWEN. Notary JPul>lio BARGAINS IN ROBES AND BLANKETS. FOR THE KEXT 301 DAYS GUS CARLSON, At his Harness Shop, near the Bed, ^Bridge, will sell his entire sti ck of Rob s and Blankets at Cost for Cash. We have the finest stock in this line to be found in McHenry County, and we must close i hem out. They are all big b irgains and I mean just what I say. Also on band a fine line oi SINGLE & DOUBLE HARNESS I. Which will be sold cheap. REPAIRING Promptly Attended to ^ Do not fail to call at once andget the benefit of our bargains. CUS CARL8QN I McHenry, 111., Jan. 18. 18»9. J. W. BONSLETT, Plumbing; Contractor. ill IMs of Sanitary Ploibins FBOMPTLY ATTENDED TO Has just received a very com plete stock of Plumbing Coeds, Bath Tubs* Closets, lavatories and Fixtures. Complete stock of all sites Galvanized •id Black Pipe and Fittings on hand. Office and Sbow Room in Jacob Roc- akrtt's Agricultural Implement Building, McHENRY. ILL. PAV IF YOU'RE PLEASED ao DAYS AHTER SHIPMENT; IF NOT, RETURN. NO MONEY WANTED IN ADVANCE With cveryQnaker Kitchen Cabinet we so ml, free, a copy of "The Ev pry- Day Cook Book." containing 315 pages of the most practical re clpes ever com piled, substantially bo u 11 (1 la cloth. The top of cabinet la 27 Inches by 42 Inches: height. 3l) Hakes Kitchen Work Easy. IsC •*/? ~'f Inches- has two mc-tal-bottom bins, one holding 50 lbs.. tlie other partitioned for curn-incal, graham, sugar, etc.: one large drawer; one bread board, which elide® luto frame Price, complete, only ?5. on board cars Ir. Chi­ cago, with the cook book free. Pay In 30 days If you Had the Cabinet the most useful, labor-saving piece of 'i- kitchen furniture you ever SAW ; If not entirely pleased, return at our expense. No deposit, no guaranty re­ quired frov-i any reliable person. In ordering be sure T " to say you're a reader of this paper--this is very Import- ant--and that you accept our Kitchen Cabinet Offer No. (. J, Order to-dav; or. send for illustrated circular ISo. 8. M1AIER VALLEY MFG. CO., 355 W. Haniacu 8t, Chicago. t p s Genuine Quaker Valley furniture Is never Bold through retailers--always from factory toJlrelde at Wbolu*&le prices. Don't accept a worthies* Imitation. GEORGE W. BESLEY, WEST McHENRY, ILL., --DEALER IST---# DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, TOILET ARTICLES. Pure Wines and Liquors for Medical Pur* poses, also Bottted Ale and Porter. The best brands of Cigars and Smoking and Chewing Tobacco aUwaya on hand. Physicians' Prescriptions Carefully Compounded C. W. BESLEY. West McHenry, Jan. 6, 1S99. • JACOB JUSTEN, The Reliable Furniture Dealer ' j Can still be found at his old stand, four doors north of the Bank of McHcnry, with a full stock of furniture of all kind*, to which he invites the attention of the buying public. Rsrlor and Bed Room Sets. Lower than the same goods can be bought anywhere in the county. In short, I WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD on any class of Furniture, quality of goods considered. Call and see me vi hen in want of anything in my line. WE CABRT A FULL LINE OF Gaskets, Coffins, Burial Robed, Etc. We guarantee first class work Ln every respect. Call and see me J>efore purchasing. JACOB JUSTEN. McHenry, 111., Sept. 7, 1898. ASSBSSOBS FOR THIS YBAB. • iiiia it in • DKALBB II, ' DRUGS and MEDICINES • ruu LINK OF ! CHEMICALS. DYE STUFFS, Paints, Oils and Colors CONST AltTkl' OK BAMtK FtntX Ltws or MTI4T MEDICINES. TOILET ARTICLES. Stationary and brugglats* Sundrlea. Physicians' Prescription^ • Caref ully rotn pounded by a Hflglitered Pharmaolat. Tour Patronage Is respectfully aolloUad mm m . 1J . y / U 7 0ft &*»** * I I J I ft. • ID AIT EJ^OXJI^SIOlSrS Ills Old Out Will Make the Assess nrat m Provided- The following is from Editor Burke, of the Antloch News, and is relative to the assessors for the coming year: EDITOR NEWS:-- Please answer the following and oblige many readers of yo ur valuable paper. 1st. Will the assessors elected in the spring of 1898 hold their oiltce this year and assess the property of their town- township? l' Sad. Wlll.it be necessary to elec| an assessor this year? ANSWER: lit, YM, the assessor elect­ ed last year will hold over and assess tbe property this year, unless physically, mentally or otherwise disqualified. 2nd. Unless an assessor is elected this spring the one elected last spring would hold over and assess tbe property also in the year 1900, That part of the act relating to assessors which passed the General Assembly at a special session held during the winter of 1807-8, and which became in force July 1st, 1898, reads as follows: "§24. Thetjwnshtp assessor elect­ ed and qualified at the township elec tion last preceding the date on which this act shall take effect, or in case of any vacancies in such offices, the per- sons appointed to (ill such vacancies, nhall hold their offices and perform all the duties thereof until January 1, next following the date of election ot th«ir successors, and thereafter their successors shall enter upon their duties on the first day of January next follow­ ing their election, and perform the du­ ties of said office tor one year or until their assessors are elected and quali­ fied." From the foregoing it is evident that the rssesaor elected last year will assess the property this year and unless an an assessor be elected this spring the old one would hold over, as his successor as his successor could not asoume the duties of the office on the first of Janu­ ary, as contemplated by the law. The assessor elected this year will not assess the property until the spring of 1900. WILL BUIZ.0 RESIDENCES. KeEwty to Have 8oaa« New Oosy Homes Erected. Through fl-st class and Tourist Sleeping Pars to points In California aud Oregon every day iu the jear via the Chicago, Union Pacifh and Norlh-wastern Line * Personally Conducted Excursions Every Thursday. LOW ST ATE9 8HO TEST TIME ON THE ROAD FINEST SCENE Y. Oily rout* by which you enn leave home any day in the week and tr*Tel in touriet cars on fastest trains all the way. For pamphlets and information inquire of nearest agent. si ./?> :-*< * -' The prospects are that McHenry will 'ere autumn arrives have a great many nice residences added that are now beiug planned. Last year sevsral new house? were built and at the gait that has beer taken at this season in the year the prospects are that the season of 1899 will be a rich one for the contractor and builder. Wo. cjtoffel has sompleted the plan for a new residence and will have ODP erected just south of Jamss B. Perry's residence. John Kennebeck has everything in readiness to havs a new home built or bis lot on tbe corner of Kim and Green streets. Peter B. Freund will erect a business block between the Jacob Bonslett imple ment building and tbe Journal office. The members of 8t. Patrick's catholic church are to build a #2500 parsonage This will be erected during the spring season. - trie to tbe Letter. Arthur J. Mullen, who is first assistant in ths law office of Attorney C. P Barnes, returned from Springfield on Friday, where he has been attending to legal business for his employer. Mr. Mullen is fast gaining a reputation a? being able to transact legal busineps in s manner satisfactory to all, and will, we understand, soon apply to have hie name inscribed on the roll of attorneys and counselors of this state. Bepubliean Town Caucus. The Republican voters of tbe Town \>f McHenry are requested to meet in Town Caucus, st tbe City Hall, in the village of McHenry, on Saturday, March 18th, 1899, at two o'clock p. M. for the pur pose of putting in nomination candi­ dates for town officers, to be supported at the coming Town Meeting and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. J. VAN 4' YKE, W. A. CRISTY, JCHN I. STORY. Republican Town Committee. ProceedlBga of the Village Board. COUNCIL ROOM, Mar. 6, 1899. Regular meeting. , Present: Baer Freund, Granger, Heimer and Went worth. Absent Miller. Minutes of last meeting read and ap proved. The following bills were approved by the finance committee. Tboe Halpin, work on main*, $1 95 Wilbur Lumber Co., coal & lumber,.. 4 95 John Walsh, police service 40 00 M. M. Neisen, " " 40 00 Wm. Schreiner, labor, ,...10.00 lif. Engeln. oil,.. 1.65 Simon Stoffel, " .' 1 70 Simon Stoffel order of McHenry Plain- dealer for publishing proceeding 37 50 M. J Drummond, valve rings 20 70 M Engeln, services on Board of Health. 10.00 Ur. A. E A irioger, the same 10 00 Rollin Waite, the same 10 00 i io motion by Wentwortb seconded by Freund the bills were ordered paid. On motion by Wentworth seconded by Heimer the board adjourned. W. A. CBISTY, Pres. J. STOFFEL, Clerk. MINOR IS A6AIH ON TRIAL. HBASING BEFORE MAGISTRATE JONS8 OF WOODSTOCK. Indioationa are That He Will be Bound Over to the Qvaad Jary--A Itesperate Defense. WOODSTOCK, 111.., Mar. 8.--Aurgu- ments in ths Gainor case wera com­ menced this afternoon. States Attor­ ney Lumley appears for the people aud C. P. Barnes and F. K. Jackmau for the defendant. The hearing is before Police Magistrate Joues and was begun last Saturday and continued until Tuesday. It appears now that Gainor will be bound over to the grand jury but in case he ie not he will be arrested again and brought before Judge Gillmore. Richard Gainor, *be man who was sent to the penetentiary at Jolict in October 1897 for manslaughter, is on trial once more for his liberty. He was released from prison on a writ of habeas corpus ;>y Judge Dunne, of tbe f'ook county circuit court. It was based on an error of Judge Fuller, who sentenced Gainor at Woodstock in 1897. Judge Fuller sentence 1 Gainor to five years in tbe penetentiary when the sentence should have been rendered in accordance with the indeterminate sentence act, and in -a;nor's case the sentence would be from one to fourteen years at ths court's descretion. ft was atirgusd by Gainor's attorney's that under an indeterminate sentence the detend.int would be entitled to make application to the board of pardons at the end of the first year for a release and that under the five vears' sentence he was denied this right. While on the other hand the attorney's for the prose­ cution maintained that under an inde­ terminate sentence tne maximum of tbe sentence was the one understood. Judge Dunne held that the prisoner had been illegally sentenced and he was released. Gainor was then arrested on tbe charge of murder and wis taken to Woodstock jail for a time. A diffi­ cult legal question arose as to the right to try Gainor a second time. The con­ stitution of the United States says that a person can not be placed twice In jeop­ ardy of his life for the same offense. Prominent Chicago attorneys gave as their opinion tbat Uainor can be tried for murder, as he has never been in jeopardy of his life. A person can be held on a second charge for a crime greater than the first but not of a les ser degree. People who have seen Gainor say he* looks fully better than he did btfore being placed in the Woodstock jail ir September 1896, shortly after the mur- bar of his wife So far as bis health is ia no way injured and from all appear­ ances Joliet life did not seriously change his robust health. ABOUT THE VMXT OMMBVB. The School Entertainment. The entertainment for the benefit of the public school library^ given at the City Hall, on Wednesday evening last, drew out a full house, and was a grand saccess,iboth financially and otherwise. From start to finish the programme was interesting, and each part was greeted with hands of applause. Where all done so well it; is hard to particularize, but we cannot refrain from mentioning the elocutionary selection of Misses Francss Osborne, Lenora Stevens and Jennie Smith, which were exceptiouably fine, as also were tbe singing by the quar­ tette, composed of Uhas. Fret, F. G. Karges, J. J. Barbian and J. D. Lodtz In short the entertainment from begin­ ning to end was ons highly creditabls to those who had it in charge as well as to those who took active part in the same. Tbe receipts fatened up the handsome sura of about #45, while after paying ex­ penses we learn a good balance for the benefit of the library fund. What ths New, Oeiina Aot Beqalrss and Its Improvements. The oensus of 1900, if taken under the provisions of the bill passed by the house, will differ materially from.its pre­ decessor of 1890. A separate bureau, headed by a director of the oensus, is to manage it, instead of the interior de­ partment. The clerk® of this bureau will number only 62, against 93 employ­ ed in 1890, with aggregate salaries of 9163,865 instead of $116,500; but on the other hand ths cumber of supervis­ ors will be raised from 175 to 300. In the subject matter of the census the changes will be of special public interest and importance. Tbe inquires of the census proper are restricted to popula­ tion, mortality, and manufacturing, mechanical, and agricultural industries and products. It is true that many de­ tails are embraced in thess general di­ visions. Thus, the population schedule includes "name, age, color, sex, conjug­ al condition, place of birth, and place of birth of parents, whether alien or natur­ alised, number of years in the United States, occupation, months employed, literacy, school attendance, and owner­ ship of farms and homes." The agricul­ tural schedule includes the "name and color of the occupant of each farm," its tenure, acreage, quantity and value of products, and number and value ot live stock." Inquiries about manufac­ turing and mechanical establishments must embracs their name and location form of organisation, date of beginning operations, character of business or goods, capital, number of owners, offi­ cers and employes, with salaries and wages, materials, mashines and power used, miscellaneous expenses, quantity and value of products, and times in oper­ ation during the census year. REPUBLICAN TOWNSHIP CAUCU8 Has Mean Oallod to Meet la tba Oity Hall, Marofc 18. Now Beady for B <ainess J. V. Buckland, King wood's nurseryman, has j'ist had his annual spring calander issued from the PLAINUEALER office and is now ifeady to submit his prices to the public. Mr. Buckland has lived in Ring- Ringwood for more than a quarter of a century and has done a thriving nursery business, all during those years. He handles an up to-date stock in the nur­ sery line and always, famishes his cus­ tomers with a superior grade. James Pichen Recovering. James Picken, the Nunda man who was taken to Elgin insane asylum a few weeks ago, is said to be now docile and practically sane. Picken, it will be re­ membered, made an effort to kill his brother and parents, and for the time being was a maniac of the worst kind It is'said that be seems rational nearly all of the time and is thought he will be soon well enough to return home. Tbeir Spring Vacation- The McHenry public schools will doss on Friday of this week for the spring va­ cation. which will be for a week. Prof. Angevine will spend tbe time at Baring- ton and Chicago and will attend the principals' meeting at Woodstock. Miss D. J. Cooper will return to htr home at Palatine, as will Miss Jessie Baldwin to Nunda and Miss Fraikxs Osborn to En- glewood. The Republican township caucus has been called to meet in the city ball Sat­ urday afternoon at 2 o'clock, when nomination for township offices will be made. The offices to be Allied are those of supervisor, assessor, collector, town clerk, and highway commissioner. Ths rstiring of E. H. Thompson, who held the office for the past six years leaves a vacancy on the board of a vep efficient member. His success <r must come from the same part of the town. B. H. Harrison is mentioned in connec­ tion with the plaos. If he can be pre­ vailed on to accept, he will make a splen­ did man for the plaos. A Mew Soheme % During the "cold snap" in the fore part of February frozen water pipes in cities caused no small amount of trouble to residents therein, who were compelled to go water lugging. Nearly every city that had a system of water works was so afflicted. We might go into detail and give the sufferings and sayings of many who will remember this from so many different causes that it will b» hard for them to forget it. But this is not the part played by electricity and this part is the sweet with the bitter. A Madison man dis­ covered that electricity would thaw out frozen stand pipes and Ruckford heard of the scheme and set at once to test it. The electric wires attached to either end of the water pipe, making a circuit, then a current of 250 amphres was turned on. it took seventeen minutes to thaw the service pipe out and at the end of tbat time the water passed through it as freely as on a summer day. This has since been tested in Waukegan and other cities and found to be a success. The Madison man in speaking of his scheme says "tbat the process, when it is properly used, is entirely safe and ex­ peditious and permits the thawing to be Accomplished without in anyway dis­ turbing the streets and lawns. The source of electric power which is required in thawing service pipes should be cap­ able of producing 300 amperes of electric current with a pressure of from fifty to sixty volts. In Madison the price of thawing service pipes is ordinarily be- tweew 15 and 910 per pipe." Test The Oity water. Senator Granger has mads arrange­ ments with the chemistry department of the University of Illinois to have the water of the McHenry water works test­ ed, and tbe test will be made in a few weeks. A detailed account of this will appear in TBE PLAINDEALER, which our readers will be able to get. ln connec tion with THIS THS PLAINDEALEB cau state tbat the managers of other water water works plants, or even individuals, may have this opportunity of having such a test made by notifying Senator Granger. sf- Women may vote--that is sometime in the future. Several western states have come to her rescue and have given her many privileges at the ballot box. How ever the subject of Woman's suffrage is gaining a foot hold in Illinois and if Representative Martins bill now pending in the Illinois legislature, becomes a law, women will havo more rights than ever. This.bill provides that all women who pay taxes are granted tbe power of vot­ ing on questions concerning the taxation of.property and the levy of assessments TBE HEN AS i HONE! THE EGGS INDUSTRY REPRESENT* ED BY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS The Boeent Famine Haa Shown flreat Fosalbllltlea, la this Smi Interior Bnaineas, , v The expression that hca's teeth sea scarce has been the past two weeks supplimented by the words, as scarce as hen's egg*, and no one will question ths truth of the simile. Right here in Mo- Henry the egg market was such that the product of the hen was a scarce and for a time they sold, to use a ern expression, tor a couple of bits. This did not last long however and they ars now selling at a reasonable rate. There was a reason for this, however, ~ as during the February blizzard the heaa were driver} to roost instead of laying, and right here we wish to say that cold waves do a great deal more harm than burst water mains and make people feel ugly. This one in particular made eggs scarce all over tbe country and at many places where eggs could be obtained at all it was necessary to pay from 50 to 65 cents a dozen for them. In this connection it may ba all rlgfct to mention the value of the hen and also speak of her as a money maker for mea. Eggs may seem small and of little valns to many. To see a case of eggs on a grocer's counter doesn't represent modi value, but it is these make up a mighty sum of money wben properly computed. Statistics drawn Horn tbe United States herein reveal the cash rains of the product of the United States for ons year as follows: Cotton, 9410,000,000; hay, 9436,000,000; dairy products, 9254,000,000; wheat, $488,000,000; poultry and eggs, 9560,000,000. This shows that wheat, the greatest agric^K tural product of this country, is sur­ passed by the poultey product, seventy two mfllions; be it also remembered, ths latter is the only product we do not ex­ port; during the year sho*n above wa imported 95,000,000 worth of eggs. These facts and figures Buccest that hers is one industry that is not over dons, and that opens up to capital and busi­ ness competency right here fu Illinois, the most magnifieent possibilities, lor the industry is only in its infancy. ,/ „/• COST OP SMALL SUITS ^ What'Triylal Law Oasss are liable ^ Ooat the Fartiea. It is sometimes amusing to small cases tbat get to the appellats court. A person would naturally think that for a case to get to the appellats court it would be of more than ordinary legal complication. But such is not ths case and the fact that it costs no small amount of money to get a case before this court has not lessened ths bringing of petty cases to such a high tribunal. Two cases now before the appelate court at Mt. Vernon illustrate to what extent of costs the litigants are willing to go to back their opinion as to ths relative merits of their respective sides of the case. The first is from Crawford oonnty end is an appeal by Medfori Fox, a school - ; . teacher, who was fined 95 and costs lot excessive punishmsnt administered to pupil. Fox carried his case to the cona- ty court where his fine was reduced to $8 but his costs were multiplied to 9&14-3& He now brings the.case to the appelate court, with a fair chance for doubling .' t this sum before a verdict is rendered. ^ - The second case comes.from the circuit court of Johnson county, where a jury had awarded G. F. Stoue a damags judgement of lc in a disputed fence lias with his neighbor, George W. Ragaia. It reached the appeliate court with a "rider" in the form of a 9400 bill at costs, not including attorneys' fees. First Spring Conoor*. It needs little comment. It itself in the very large audience present and their frequent Encores, It is eaqy to succeed when success is guarantied hgr united effort and favorable circumstan­ ces, but when every inch gained must be fought for, then successs deserves double praise. The many young artists as well as the older ones, who assisted Prof. Scott and wife at the city hali on the evening of March lst« all met unquali­ fied commendation. We hear that an effort is being made to induce Mr. aad Mrs. Scott to commence another class ia voice culture and musical notation. Acorn)** New OaaoUne Baffin*. T. J. Walsh has about decided to place a thirty horse engine in the Bishop mill, as the occupant, S. Reynolds, finds it difficult to manage affairs during th* cold weather when everything is up and it is especially on this that the new improvement is to be This is perhaps the oldest mill in Mb* Henry county any has served the psfc* tie efficiently durtng all these years. Oonnty Court Iwtore. C. W. Harrison, WailafM Colby Hohenst* in and Geo. Sfll^ding are at Woodstock this we**k as jurors in Judgs Gillmore's court, this beiug tbe Hsisll term of the McHenry county court New stock of fancy Shirts, ColNH^ Culls, Neckties, etc., at M. J. Walsh's* '•"M v >: f 1