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u J UI IJIII v-t'--:r\ mmm mmm* I>*>*ih& PAST WEEK. / m THE Ketr Town site Located Xear Gard- aer>Xjiterion» Death of a Younjj Farmer--Combine to Govern Soft Oeal Price*--Telephone War Likely. A new town, to be known as Sooth Wil­ mington, is springing up in the coal fields upon land owned by the Chicago, Wil­ mington and Vermilion Coal Company. It is situated in a beautiful wooded dis­ trict on Mazon creek, less than two miles southeast of Gardner. A shaft 200 feet deep has been put down in the midst of 640 acres of coal land. Tfacks hare been laid, mining buildings erected, machinery instilled, streets laid out, and a large number of five-room cottages built. Stores, church and other public buildings are in project, and it is estimated the place will hare a population of between 2,000 and 3,000 by next fall. Myetery in a Farmer's Death. The body of William Meyer, Jr., one of the wealthiest and most prominent young farmers of Washington County, whose disappearance from his country residence 4 few miles west of Nashville was a cause for wonderment to the community, was found near his home with a bullet in his brain. The horse which Meyer rode when he left home was hitched to a tree and had apparently been there for some days. Twenty feet from the spot an empty pis- torwas found. Whether Meyer commit­ ted suicide or was murdered is not known, but the latter theory is advanced as the cause of his death. Illinois Soft Coal Truati The Central Illinois Soft Coal Associa­ tion has been formed at Peoria to regulate the output, price and wages. The nego­ tiations-have been in progress for two months, but the deal was closed by the election of these Officers: President, Isaac Wantling; vice-president, James Sholl; commissioner, Stephen Wolschlag; secre­ tary, Alexander Royster. All the ma­ chine mines in the Peoria district are in­ cluded. The Lynch Coal Company of Pe­ oria will baudle all of the output. Telephone War in Washington Connty. At a special meeting of the Washington County Board of Supervisors the Clinton and Jackson Union Telephone companies were granted franchises to erect their lines along the highway in the county. "Within a few days these companies, the Central Union and American Long Dis­ tance, will begin the erection of a verita­ ble network of wires. The plan is to fight the American company, and a lively war • will be begun when the lines are com­ pleted. School-Warrant Swindle. The arrest at St. Louis of three men who admit that they hundled some of the alleged fraudulent paper develops what appears to be a gigantic swindle in school warrants, in which the names of the presi­ dent and clerk of the school district No. 2, St. Clair County, were repeatedly forg­ ed. The sum of th,e alleged fraudulent transactions will aggregate at least $30,- 000, and may reach .$(10,000. Farmers' Institute Dates. The time of holding farmers' institutes in the counties composing the Twentieth congressional district- is as follows: Wavne, Oct. 23, 24; Clay, Oct. 24, 26; Wabash, Oct. 26. 27, 28; Gallatin,' Oct. 30, Nov. 1; Hardin, Nov. 2, 3; Franklin, Nov. 14, 15; Jefferson, No. 15, 1C; White, Dec. 12, 13. * Murder Ends a Quarrel. Henry Milner, late of the Twenty- fourth United States infantry, shot and killed George Williams at a dance in Quin- cy. The murder was the culmination of a quarrel over a girl. Milner gave himself up. Brief State Happening* At Leory, J. B. Henninger's shoe store and stock was burned. Loss $7,000, fully insured. At Fairbury, the largo farm residence of Christian Kierurch burned with all the contents. The next supreme court of the Royal Neighbors will be held at Springfield May 11. 1901. At a special meeting the Council of Highland Park voted to annex Kavina, a suburb adjoining on the south. Rev. Isaac Hodgeu Elkin, a Louisville pioneer, aged 79 years, is dead. He came to this State from Indiana in 1848. Wm. R. Kerr, Chicago, ex-commission­ er of health, has filed a petition in bank­ ruptcy. liabilities $149,237; assets, $1,- 000. Edward H. Rorig, Representative from the Fifteenth senatorial district, Chicago, was married to Miss Norine Costello, also of Chicago, a few days ago. Prof. Arnold Tomkins, head of the de­ partment of pedagogy of the University of Illinois, has been tendered the presidency of the Siate normal school at Normal. The Methodists of Harvard dedicated their new church, which cost $18,000. Nearly $3,000 of this was raised at the dedicatory services, which were conducted by Dr. Lewis Curts of Ciucinnati. Company C, which has been on riot duty since April 10, has left Pana for Spriug- field. This leaves Compauies H of De­ catur and D of Bloouiington, numbering seventy men, still doing duty in Pana. The Rev. Adin A. Ivendrick, D. D., pas- tor of Immaiinel Baptist Church._St. Louis, has been unanimously elected dean of the theological department and pro­ fessor of systematic theology of Shurtleff College, Upper Alton. Dr. Ivendrick was president of the college from 1872 to 1894. The Rockford Insurance Company has been sold to a syndicate of capitalists rep­ resented by Joseph E. Callender. The con­ sideration is $384,000, or $320 a share. John Lake retires as president of the company and will be succeeded by W. B. Barbour of Rockford, now vice-president. Martin Kingman, head of the Kingman Plow Company, Peoria, says that his,com­ pany was not in the combination effected at Chicago. The new Kingman plow works in Peoria will be completed as fast as m*n and money can do the work. The people of Dale township are greatly alarmed over the appearance of smallpox in that community. The illness of Charles jtieise was diagnosed as smallpox and a 'second case was diagnosed, the sufferer being a young lady. Miss Mamie McHugh, living one mile from the Geise place. Both cases are carefully quarantined. The neighboring schools are closed. The tournament of the Rockford Gun Club was attended by a large number of marksmen from Freeport, Dixon, Amboy, Beloit, Belvidere and other cities. The handsome diamond badge was won by Dr. Cowles of Elizabeth, who scored 43 out of a possible 50 points, with the wind blowing bard. . Col. J. S. Lord, chief clerk in the bu­ reau of labor statistics at Springfield, has resigned to accept the position of chief of the division of population in the twelfth census. He received his commission with instructions to report at Washington on June 1. His successor will be U. G. Hin- man, president of the State Federation of PSbrfa wants tbe Grand Army WM»iag» Samuel L. Cratty, a well-known busl- ness man of Litchfield, died, aged 41. Joseph Pekerek, the Bohemian laborer who was bitten by a rabid dog in Chicago, died of hydrophobia at the county hos­ pital. At Waynesville, Raymond Kasey, 4 years of age, drank carbolic add, suppos­ ing it to be cough medicine, and died in a few minutes. Burglars entered the grain warehouse of S. W. Edwards & Son in Chicago, broke open the safe and took about $20 in currency and stamps. At Carthage, Henry Springer, a young lawyer of Springfield, and secretary of the State Board of Charities, was married to Miss Jennie S.vmpson. From the 33,000 namegte^betq th#"hew director^ of Peoria it is c&timated that!" the population of that city is 74,250, show­ ing an increase of 4,000 the past year. The Rockford City Council extended an official invitation to the Grand Army of the Republic of Illinois to hold the depart­ ment eucampment in Rockford next year. The fifty-sixth annuol meeting of the Illinois Congregational Association was held at Kewanee with an attendance of 500 delegates. The session lasted three days. The plan to present a Washington resi­ dence to Admiral Dewey as a testimonial from the people of the nation is meeting with hearty response from the people of Chicago. At special election In Carmi a proposi­ tion to issue $5,000 in bonds was defeated by 314 majority. The license question was submitted and the majority for li­ cense was 236. The receipts for One day recently at the County Treasurer's office of Knox Coun­ ty amounted to $56,666.46. This included $44,504.02 from the various railroads run­ ning through the county. At Peoria, Annie Tracy, 16 years of age, ran away from home, and when her moth­ er sent an officer to arrest her the child swallowed a dose of tincture of iodine. She is in a hospital and will probably die. Louis Gathmann, ^hose successful work in the making of cannon and shells for the use of high explosives may revo­ lutionize modern warfare, has moved away from Chicago, after living * there twenty years, and will make his home in Washington. The stock yards fork of the south branch of the Chicago river was set afire the other day. The tug O. B. Green had just towed the schooner Ford River to a dock at Thirty-eighth street. Either sparks or a lighted match ignited the gases stirred up from the bottom by the tug's propeller. The fidmes burned all the rope fenders from the sides of the schoon­ er. Col. Culver of the Fifth infantry has ap­ pointed a court of inquiry to investigate the shooting of Jack Wall by one of the soldiers on duty at Pana, and also to in­ vestigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Private Earl Herring of Company C, which occurred at Pana in March last while on riot duty. It was claimed at the time of his death that it was accidental and was caused by the dis­ charge of a gun in his own hands. Ho was found dead in a coal shed with'his gun a few feet from him. Later developments tend to show that his death was not acci­ dental. Charles Morton forsook the parental roof and the much-hated school at Irving, Pa., to plunge into the great world. He was close upon 18 years of age, and he thought he had had enough of learning. He made his way by slow stages across the intervening States, and after more than a week he reached Chicago. He saw all the sights, then determined to visit the Northwest. Just after dark he enter­ ed the yards of the Northwestern Rail­ road and swung himself up on the side of a freight train that was moving out of the city. Before he gained the top, though, he was struck by the girder of an iron arch and thrown beneath the wheels of the cars. His left leg was so badly man­ gled that the surgeons at the hospital found it necessary to amputate the in­ jured limb. Cora Palmer, 16 years old, disappeared from her home in Wilmington several da ago under mysterious circumstances. Hs?r mother, Mrs. Henry Palmer, writes to Chief of Detectives Colleran in Chicago saying she believes her daughter is in that city, as she hafe received a letter which only adds mystery to the case. On tht day of her disappearance Cora went te school as usual, and when at night she did not return, search was made for her. It was learned that she was at the railway station with a well-dressed woman and that the stranger had purchased tickets for Chicago. No word was received from the girl until Mrs. Palmer got the follow­ ing letter postmarked "Chicago": "Mrs. Palmer--Just a few lines to let you know that your daughter, Cora Palmer, is all right. I have taken her in and I will treat her right as long she does right, and if she does not live right I will let you know at once. Yours, respectfully, A. S. M." The State Sunday School Association held its annual meeting at Decatur. The report of the treasurer. R. W. Hare, show­ ed a total of $8,637.65 received and $9,- 584.88 expended in the last year, leaving a deficit of $1,372.34. An effort was made to raise this amount, and $876 was pledg­ ed, leaving a shortage of $500. Ten thou­ sand dollars was pledged for the work in general. The following officers were chos­ en for the year: President, John B. Joy, Joy Prairie: first vice-president, the Rev. M. B. Spayd, Decatur; second" rice-pro§P dent. Dr. W. E. Buxton, Edwards Counr ty; recording secretary, the Rev. MarioA Stevenson, Decatur; treasurer, R. W. Hare, Chicago; general secretary* W. Bw Jacobs, Chicago: assistant secretaries, Mary I. Bragg, Chicago, and Mrs. Edita Burnham, Wheaton. The following ex­ ecutive committee was announced: B, IP. Jacobs, Chicago, chairman; R. H. jGrilj- fith, Rushville; John Farson, Chicago; H. R. Clissold, Chicago, and A. H. Mills, Decatur. ; . . A troop of artillery now stationed at Fort Sheridan will take part in the Phila­ delphia horse show by arrangement with the Secretary of War. The exhibition will commence on Decoration day and extend to June 13. , . ! At the State Medical Society's meeting in Cairo Chairman J. W. Pettit of the committee on medical legislation reported that by the law enacted by the last Leg­ islature, making a diploma no longer a license to practice, Illinois was raised frdm twenty-eighth to fourth place among the States in the requirements for medical education. A large block of the stock in the old Ot­ tawa, Oswego and Fox River Valley Rail­ road Company has passed into the hand9 of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Company. Supervisor Battle of Aurora sold to the highest bidder 230 shares of the stock, which the town had long held in trust. The Burlington bid $750. John W. Jorgensen, called "Jack the Hair Clipper," committed suicide at his home in Chicago by shooting himself. The bullet lodged in the breast near the heart. Jorgenson was recently tried on a charge of clipping the hair of Erna Fran • sky. It is supposed that his suicide waj due to dread of the penitentiary, which was one of the possibilities before kin* OUR OFFEI ' • • f a y •'x. ' a i.,-" sas, CNVUZKno* •ife'.* •--St. LOuis Globe-Democrat. Room for Improvement. in the very elaborate and costly menu provided for the distinguished company of statesmen and men of business present at the complimentary dinner tendered to Senator Frye of Maine In recognition of his successful efforts In behalf of New York's marine commercial interests there was much that appealed to the palate of the epi­ cure. The eating and the drinking would class as Al, judged by the standards of gastronomy. But it might have been very much better, judged by the standards of practical patriotism and pride in our own coun­ try and its products. The opportunity for Improvement lay In the accessories to the banquet. Out of six wines on the card not one was an American wine; out of an as­ sortment of liqueurs not one was an American liqueur; out of the cigars smoked not one was an American-made cigar; and the single table water fur­ nished bore a foreign label. Everything In these lines of refreshment had a for­ eign trade-mark. The producers of American wines, waters and cigars of the highest grades of excellence justly complain of such discrimination. They rightly ask for a fair chance to com­ pare their goods with those of foreign production, and It is full time their rights in this regard obtained some rec­ ognition. Bryan's Soul Being Tried. Poor Bryan's soul is being tried in various ways these days. Even silver is going back on lilm. It is going up like all other things, especially wages, in these days of Republican prosperity. Bryan got a bad blow just after his de­ feat in 1896, when wheat and many other commodities advanced in price. The advance, as every one knew, was largely due to his overthrow. A year or so afterward, when Republican leg­ islation began to operate, wages started upward. Now silver has Joined the procession. The consequence of this last advance will be that if it continues much longer Bryan will have to drop talking about silver. When silves goes above the 50-cent dollar line, as it may do if the advance continues a little longer, he will have to abandon it. It Is not a silver dollar primarily that he wants for the wage earners of the coun­ try, but a dishonest dollar. The moment that sliver gets above the 50-cent dollar mark his faith in it will begin to wane. It will be getting too near the honest money line then to be of much use in his business. If we are to have the 16 to 1 trickery in the canvass of 1900 sil­ ver will have to start downward long before that time.--St. Louis Globe- Democrat. of Manila. The clock of time will not be turned backward at the bidding of Bryan or any other reactionary. Amer­ ican sovereignty over the Philippines, which was guaranteed by the peace treaty, will be agreed to by the Fili­ pinos, who will have all the home rule they can stand with safety to the in­ terests of the United States and of themselves. This self-government will from time to time be extended as the Filipinos become fitted to use It. All this can be promised with the utmost confidence. Long before the Demo­ cratic convention of 1900 meets Aguin- aldo and his men will be so thoroughly satisfied with the American connection that they would fight against anybody who would want to end It. In every direction fate is hitting the doomed Bryanite. Tired frsm a Different Cause The Dingley tariff must go--there Is no help for that. Here, while it is still in the most active state of operation, the Reading Iron Company announces its fiendish intention to reopen the old Reading Rolling Mill, which has been idle for some years, and to start opera­ tions at the new Keystone furnaces in the same city. Then the Chambersburg Repository comes in dally insisting that there never was such activity with­ in manufacturing lines in Franklin County as there is at this very time, and proves what it says by figures from pay rolls and the tonnage reports of the shipping roads. And so it goes. People went to bed tired enough dur­ ing the period of the Wilson act, but from another cause. Then they wore hemselves out looking for work. Now they grow tired forking--Philadel­ phia Inquirer. The Flng. O say. do you see it? Do you want it lowered? Any political party in the United States that shall go to the people with a platform demanding that that flag shall be hauled down anywhere, where it now floats, whether at home, or in Cuba, or in Porto Rico, or in the Philippines, or in Hawaii--well, do you know what will happen to such an unpatriotic, doc­ trinaire, mugwump party? Why, it will get everlastingly left, that's all. The American people, south or north, east or west, are not cowards, are not chumps, are not blind bats. Let all parties beware how they copperhead- lze.--Washington Iowa) Press. Western Prosperity* "* During the year 1898 Nebraska made a net reduction in its real estate mort­ gage indebtedness to the amount of $1,907,825.42. This does not include partial payments on mortgages that were not canceled. The total number of mortgages canceled during the year was 11,872, while only 934 of them were foreclosed. These are not the statistics of a year of sporadic or fraudulent prosperity.--Sioux City Journal.*. A n t i-Expansion Issue Dead. Anti-expansion as an issue is dead. Expansion is here, and it will stay. Americans are not in the habit of fight­ ing facta. Even its opponents will see that nothing can be accomplished by trying to pot Agulnaldo In possession Protection and the Farmer. The report of the Agricultural De­ partment showing the Increasing ex­ tent to which foreign countries were in 1898 purchasers of the agricultural products of the United States presents some interesting facts illustrative of the wisdom of an economic policy which promotes the foreign trade and domestic trade at one and the same time. Domestic exports of all kinds in 1898 exceeded imports of-all kinds by the enormous sum of $594,242,259, which was more than double the ex­ cess of the preceding year, the largest reported up to that time. Agricultural exports for 1898 amounted to 70.93 per cent, of the whole, being a gain of nearly 25 per cent, over 1897. There was, on the other band, a marked de­ crease in 1898 of purchases of foreign agricultural products as contrasted with the fiscal year 189T, when under the free wool provisions of the Wilson law we imported $53,243,191 worth of foreign wool, against less than seven­ teen million dollars' worth under the Dingley tariff in 1898. The American farmer had much the best of the situation in the first eleven months of restored protection, as his sales to foreign countries more than doubled the value of our imports of for­ eign agricultural products, the excess amounting to $544,216,146. Altogether, the agricultural export and import fig­ ures for 1898 show well for protection and its benefits to the American farmer. 'Van Wyclc and the Tariff. Judge Augustus Van Wyck, who was put forward to make an exposition of Democratic principles and intentions at the $10 dinner in New York, attacked the present tariff as the first and chief offense of the party in power. Under this tariff the American farmer was able to export eight hundred millions of dollars' worth of produce in the year 1898 and the American manufacturer more than three hundred millions of locomotives, machinery and other prod­ ucts of the American mechanics. There has scarcely been 9. month since the Dingley law went Into effect that the value of manufactures lifts not in­ creased, despite the prophecies of Judge Van Wyck's party. With nine-tenths of the Democratic party clamoring for a fight on the free silver platform and the oilier tenth basing their hopes of j success on attacking the Dingley law, j the election next year will be an easy I triumph for President McKinley.--Phil­ adelphia Press. Hard to Get Over, A trih"t<» tl>A pflW'tirnnnna ftf- th" protective policy in adding to the gen­ eral welfare of the United States is paid in a recent report of the German imperial commissioner at Bremen, as follows: "The strong tendency toward the United States, in spite of immigration having been rendered more difficult, finds an explanation in the fact that American industry has largely devel-. oped In consequence of the Dingley tar­ iff, and that the demand for experi­ enced artisans has therefore greatly in­ creased. Moreover, German manufac­ turers have, in order to save the cus­ toms duties, established branch houses of their works in the United States." Facts like these are, like a barbed wire fence, "hard to get over." Free trade writers don't attempt to get over them. They dodge and ignore them. The Kffect of the Meeting. The malcontents who got together In Central Music Hall in Chicago to cheer Aguinaldo and denounce McKinley and set up a lot of scarecrows labeled im­ perialism and militarism, probably thought to fire the popular heart. They have fired it but not with their kind of fire. The results of that meeting are plainly visible In Increased manifesta­ tions of devotion to the flag and to the cause for which our soldiers are now lighting from every portion of the great West.--Cedar Rapids Republican. ProdncinK Kxrecte<l Results The Treasury Department of the government continues to sling unpteas-» ant facts at the free-traders and others » who assert that the Dingley tariff is!* a failure and the national expenditures ] beyond our income. For instance, in the month Just ended* the ordinary re­ ceipts from all sources--customs, Inter­ nal taxation and miscellaneous ($46,- 030,224) were.larger than those of any previous March in the last ten years, the heaviest having amounted to $44,- 115,810, in March, 1893, under the oper­ ation of the tariff apd internal revenue laws of 1890. The present tariff is pro­ ducing exactly the financial results ex­ pected of it by its framers. As for Its stimulating effects on the country's in­ dustries the condition of the nation to­ day speaks with sufficient force.---St. Louis (Mo.) Watchman. ? : Bring on Yonr Anti Issue., Republicans can well afford to hid defiance to such Democratic leaders as propose to frighten them with threats of an anti-expansion issue. As Patrick Henry put it, "Let it come, and let it come tjulckly." The more em­ phatic their declarations against the present policy of the administration, the more vicious their assaults upon the President, the larger will bo the majority rolled up against them. He is dull to the point of stupidity who cannot observe that the whole trend of public sentiment is in favor of the administration. We do not mean by this that the sentiment in fa­ vor of Federal possession of the Phil­ ippine islands as an abstract proposi­ tion is by any means unanimous. But as a concrete proposition the sentiment is overwhelmingly in favor of such possession, and this sentiment 1b in­ creasing every day. v The country realizes more and more that the conditions now present are inevitable conditions; that we could not have escaped from them with honor. Realizing tjiat we are face to face with a difficulty which is at the same time a duty, the loyal people north and south are ready for this dif­ ficulty and this duty. Those who are opposing belong to one of two classes: They are either im­ practical men who ignore facts that do not suit their preconceived ideas, or else they belong to that element which is always found In opposition to prevail­ ing tendencies and conditions. Old Mrs. Partington trying tq sweep back the tides with her broom cut a less ridiculous figure than the anti-expan­ sionists who are attempting to stay destiny with their mouths and their arms.--Cedar Rapids Republican. Will Not He an Issue. The trusts will not be an Issue next year. The Republicans, who are In control of both branches of Congress for the first time In several years, with a safe working majority in both the House and Senate, will take care of the trusts during next winter. Attorney General Griggs has already taken steps to test the powers of the Federal courts In dealing with trusts, and the industrial commission which is now sitting in Washington has announced its purpose to begin an investigation of the general subject of trusts about the middle of May, and its findings are expected to furnish data upon which Congress may act intelligently next winter. The Republican party is in no danger, but the light between the Bryan and anti-Bryan factions of the Democratic party between now -and the national convention will be very interesting and important.--Cleveland (Ohio) Leader. Miles' Censure Deserved. The beef Inquiry has ended, and the findings of the court leave Gen. Miles in the position of a commanding gen­ eral who made serious allegations that are not sustained. This fact has been evident to the country for some time. There was no embalmed. beef and no experiment in the supply of the beef ration. It is plain that Miles spoke without due consideration and regard to facts. The findings of the court end the beef question. The public have bad quite enough of it. From the first it has been distorted for political effect. The administration is vindicated, and the censure of Miles is entirely de­ served.--Exchange. Gratifying Testimony. While our exports are increasing in volume our fiscal management of the imports question is all right. The March showing--customs receipts, $21,- 000,000--was a most gratifying testi­ mony of the efficacy of the Dingley tariff law, and there are no signs that the prediction that expansion would mean free trade conditions is to be a true one. --Woonsocket (R. I.) Re­ porter. The Governinent Conld Fay. McKinley sold 3 per cent, bonds to the people; Cleveland sold 41/.. per cent bonds to a syndicate of bankers. The total of our public debt is a mere baga­ telle compared with our wealth and re­ sources. The continuation of the Re­ publican party in power, which would mean continued prosperity, would en­ able the government to pay it off in a few years.--Western (Xcb.) Always Rel iable . The business and finances of the na­ tion always have been in satisfactory shape when the management of Gov­ ernment affairs is intrusted to the Re­ publican party, the only national or­ ganization which ever has demonstrat­ ed its capacity to eonduet them suc­ cessfully.--Springfield (111.) Journal. THE STRONG MAN. G. A. R. AT DANVILLE. WORK OF THE ILLINOIS STATE ' ENCAMPMENT. Fifteen Thousand People View Orand Parade-Gen. Black's Address--Jack­ sonville Gets Next Kncampment-Of fleers Cl^cted by Three Societies. The thirty-third annual encampment of the Grand Army of the "Republic of Illi­ nois was formally opened at Danville Wednesday morning with a meeting at the armory. In his annual address Depart­ ment Coftunattder John C. Black reviewed the history of the war with Spain, dwell­ ing with stress upon the sweeping changes that had occurred since the department had assembled a year before in the same place. After speaking on the subject of peace for some time Gen. Black took up subjects more closely related to the de­ partment and which involved the question of admitting soldiers in the last war to membership. He closed with a descrip­ tion of the work done on the memorial hall and a tribute to dead comrades. The grand parade was witnessed by 15,- 000 people. There were 2,000 veterans in line.. The procession was reviewed by Gen. Black and staff and Senior Vice and Acting National Commander W. C. John­ son of Cincinnati. A large stand upon the public square held a thousand school chil­ dren, who sang patriotic songs as th# vet­ erans marched past. Resolutions were adopted supporting the present national administration. The val­ orous deeds of the army and navy in the late Spanish-American war are applaud­ ed, and the victorious march of American arms in the Philippines means, it is held, the reign of human liberty where Spanish outrages have held sway for centuries. The camp reaffirms the resolutions adopt­ ed at Cincinnati by the national body re­ garding service pensions to honorably dis­ charged soldiers who have attained the age of 62. The annual election of officers, which was held Thursday, passed off quietly, the following comrades being elected: Department Commander--John B. Inman, Springfield. Senior Vice Commander--A. F. Walcott> Chicago. Junior Vice Commander--Nathan Smoot, Danville. Chaplain--J. H. Crowder, Bethany. Medical Director--E. 1*. Bartlett, Spring­ field. Assistant Adjutant General--C. A. Part­ ridge, Waukegan. Assistant Quartermaster General--W. H. Rose, Chicago. Chief Mustering Officer--W. H. Cotfman, Champaign. Trustee--A. H. McCracken, Chicago. Council of Administration--A. S. Wright, Woodstock: B. F. Lee, Uockford; A. D. Cad- walader, Lincoln; F. A. Free, Galesburg; O. F. Avery, Pontlac. Jacksonville was selected as the next place for holding the encampment, and by a large majority over Peoria. The fact that Jacksonville had never had the en­ campment was greatly to the advantage of that place. The following are the delegates and the alternates to the national encampment: Delegates nt-Lnrge--E. B. Hamilton, Quln- cy; Z. It. Wlnslow, Chicago: James O'Don- nell, Chicago. Alternates--Charles B. Loop, Belvidere: L. Krauglioff, Nashville; B. F. Funk, Bloomlngtou. First District--Eil Kirk, Chicago. Alter­ nate--Charles I*. Swlgart. Chicago. Second--Frank Milllgrtn, Oak Park* Alter­ nate--H. D. Fulton, Chicago. Third--John L. Maunlng, Chicago. Alter­ nate--C. H. Telibets, Chicago. Fourth--Theodore F. Brown, Chicago. Alternate--<ieorge L. Merservey, Chicago. Fifth--George W. Heed, Chicago. Alter­ nate--J. L. Locke, Chicago. Sixth--Michael Kutikel, Chicago. Alter­ nate--A. J. Brachtendorf, Chicago. Seventh--J. A. Mason, Prairie View. Alter­ nate--John 1'. Fyfe, Chicago. Eighth--H. H. Slater, Genoa. Alternate-- W. H. Br.vdges, Elgin. Nlnth--Z. T. F. liunner, Freeport. Alter­ nate--J. M. Fraley, Kockfoird. Tenth--C. B. Knox, Hock Island. nate--A. E. Thumuiel, Sterling. Eleventh--J. C. Hunter, Streator. nate-- L. W. Brewer. Ottawa. Twelfth--W. It. Jewell, Danville, nate--Michael Galiner, Jollet. Thirteenth--8. A. Porterfleld, Sidney. Alternate--(\ F. Webb, Bloomlugton. Fourteenth--Philip Smith, Peoria. Alter­ nate--D. \V. Vlckery, Mason City. Fifteenth--William Somervllle, Quincy. Alternate--D. M. Sapp. Sixteenth--A. C. Matthews. Plttsfleld. Alternate--O. B. Edwards, Greenfield. Seventeenth--R. P. I.ytle. Decatur. Alter­ nate--J. F. King, Springfield. Eighteenth--W. D. Matney, Sorrento. Al­ ternate--D. C. Zimmerman, Vaiulalia. Nineteenth--S. M. Campbell, Mattoon. Alternate--J. S. Cochenour, Olney. Twentieth--Jasper Partridge, Carml. Al­ ternate--H. J. Strawn, Albion. Twenty-tirst--James Adams. Centralis. Alternate--L. KrukhofT, Nashville. Twenty-second--Robert B. Stlnson, Anna. Alternate--N. B. Thlstlewood, Cairo. The Women's Relief Corps met on Wed­ nesday and the first thing was the report of the president, Mrs. Alexander, who was presented with a diamond studded badge, the presentation speech being niad^ by Mrs. Jennie Bross of Chicago. rest of the session was taken up in hearing the reports of officers, appointment ol committees and the receiving of the com mittees from the other organizations, who brought friendly greetings. The following officers wore elected: Department President--Mrs. Elizabeth Means, Chicago. Senior V;ce I'r<:8 dent--Mrs. Bessie Jen­ kins, Pontlac. Junior Vice President--Mrs. Delia Clark, Peoria. ^ Treasurer--Mrs. Rebekah D. Lewis, Au­ rora. Chapla'u--Mrs. Margaret Robinson, Ore­ gon. Executive B ard--Mrs. Ella Zers?, Dan­ ville; Mrs. Helen F. Bristol, Quincy; Mrs. L. B. Evans, Taylorville; Mrs. Sophia Lln- SCiJtt. Chicago: Mrs. Klla Kri.Wa, l-;|gjn Delegate-at-l.arge--Mrs. Manila K. Bax­ ter, Springfield. Alternate-Mrs. Auu.i B Tuck, Plynj^uth, De'esates to Nat'ocal Convention at Pitts burg In Septemb;r--Mrs. Johanna T. Lor- re.v, Belleville; Mrs. Susannah Weber, Mon­ mouth; Mrs. Rose Clark, Chicago; .Mrs Anna Spoor, Oregon; Mrs. Marv E. Elliott, Peoria; Mrs. Laura Saddler. Cairo; Mrs. Martha Robins >11. Vernon: Mrs. Margaret R.s\ Streator; Mrs. Cora B. Davld-oa, Newton; Mrs. Alice Martin. Salem; Mrs Mary E. Casseli, Quincv; Mrs. May K. Van Alstine, Rockford; Mrs. Sophronia Wehlner Ottawa. The Sons of Veterans had their business meeting in the I. O. O. F. Hall, and most of the delegates were present when Pres­ ident William T. Church called it to or­ der. The session was harmonious. No contests of any moment occurred except for the office of senior vice-ci^nnander. G. M. Cunningham of Champaign and Dr. E. Lt James of Oblong were candidates, and the latter was clected by a close vote. The election of officers resulted as follows: Division Commander--William H. Schnei­ der, of Kankakee. Senior Vicp Commander--L. E. James, of Oblong. Junior Vice Commander--Charles E. Ells­ worth. Division Counsels--George G. Campbell of Lincoln, W. S. Ekvall of Chicago, and Geo. C. Powers of Peoria. Delegate-at-Large--Isaac Cutter of Sorlne- field. • Delegates to National Eucampment--J D Black of Chicago. Dr. E. H. Abbott of Elgin! John Simpson of Lincoln, and Clark J ru dall of Chicago. 118 Past Division Commander W. T. Church was presented with a solid silver badge by the members of the Illinois di­ vision. Notices were posted the other day at the South Chicago mills of the Illinois Steel Company annouueing an increase in wages. Common labor will be advanced from 13% to 13 cents an hour, and all the other hands, except the tonnage men, wili te increased ia proportion. Alter- Altcr- Alter- Kia *U8 HORWWK**^^ ^ DB. JAMSSOK. Viola* fTorlocker, the handsottfl7 jrditiig !i' ? stenographer of Hastings, Neb., who Is ' accused of attempting to poison the wit* of her employer, has been bound over to the District Court in the sura of $0,« 000. The prosecu­ tion claims it has a clear case. It is un­ derstood that it will be argued that the girl was infatuated with her employer and sought to re­ move his wife. Miss Horlocker's friend! repel with indignation the allegation that she is guilty, or contend that if she be guilty she was insane. This interesting young woman, until her arrest, was one" of the social leaders of Hastings, Her at­ torneys sought to have the preliminary hearing at her home, alleging that she was too ill to appear. Judge Bowen said that if she was not produced within the hour he would send the sheriff after the young woman and pnt her in jail. A carriage wee at once Bent and the defendant was brought "in. - . The arrest at Johannesburg of seven English officers indicates that the Boera. have decided not to give the Uitlanders a chance to organize an­ other Jameson raid. The plans for that ill- fated expedition were laid in the early au­ tumn of 1895. Rifles, Maxim guns and field pieces were gathered and a military camp established. Dr. Jame­ son fully believed that when he appeared with his men thon- sands would rally to his aid. He set oat on Dec. 29, 1895, with 560 men. On Jan. 2 the invading party were met by the Boers, who, after thirty-six hours of fight­ ing, forced them to surrender. Jameson and his band were arrested. They were received as heroes in London, and, after a trial, were sentenced to a few months* imprisonment without hard labor. Congressman A. J. Hopkins of Illln^ftlfc3 who is a candidate for Speaker of the next Congress, was born near Cortland, De Kalb County, 111. His father, C. H. Hopkins, was a well-to-do farmer, having come from Ireland in the early '20s. The son began life as a farm hand. When 17 he wont to col­ lege. He became a lawyer, then got elected to Con­ gress, and the W / SW f-HR lanky, red-headed young lawyer from HOPKINS. Aurora has become one of the most polish­ ed and attractive figures in the House. When Chairman Dingley of the Ways and Means Committee died the Illinois delega­ tion presented Hopkins' name for the place, but by right of seniority it went to Payne. •:--:- Admiral Kautz is the commander of the American naval forces in Samoa. His letters to his near relatives in this coun­ try severely criticis­ ing the German con­ sul general embar­ rassed the Navy De­ partment. Kautz. is one of the"oldest offi­ cers in the service. His record during the war with the South Is e x c e p t i o n a l l y b r i l ­ liant. He negotiated the first exchange of prisoners authorised by President Lincoln and his cabinet, and ADMIKAL KAUTZ. it was he who hauled down the Confederate flag from the city hall of New Orleans. He was made a commodore in 1897 and an admiral since the outbreak of the war with Spain. Frederick W. Schneider, late of tlfe First South Dakota infantry, has return^ ed to Milwaukee. He says: "It is well known to every sol­ dier in the Philip­ pines that the insur­ g e n t s , w h e n t h e y catch an American, inoculate him with the virus11'of leprosy. It is known definitely that a member of the First California regi­ ment and another one who was attached to MB. SCHNEIDEB. another regiment were taken prisoners outside the walls of Manila, and while they were in captivity leprosy seeds were pumped into them. The inoculated men were turned loose and allowed to rejoin our forces." Captain Albert S. Barker of the Oregon, who relv-ves Admiral Dewey of the com­ mand of the Asiatic station and will serve in that capacity rival, was in ?om-, maud of the Ore-' gon when it was on the Pacific station before the war. He was relieved of h£s command by Cap­ tain Clark, who brought the vessel around Cape Hem £ti i t s record-; breaking trip, ready to enter th« battle of Santiago, in which it took such a conspicuous part. Clark's health broke down, aud under the command of Barker the Oregon was s ̂ ut to Manila in response to Dewey's significant message, which read: "Send Oregon for political reasons." Col. Harry C. Egbert of the Twenty- second United States infantry, the fifsfc. officer of high rank who lost his life in the war in the Philip­ pines, was among the last of regular army officers to be commissi on e d a brigadier general in the volunteer forces during the war with'/ Spain. and was among the first to be discharged from the volunteer ser­ vice aud restored to his command in the regulars. He was the ranking lieuten­ ant colonel, and -therefore when Cok koff was killed at Santiago he came int® command of bin regiment by the regular '<• pnxvss of promotion. It seems the iroay of fate that the killing of Col. Egbert umde the vacancy which enabled the President to appoint a son of the late volGftd^S,, second lieutenancy. ^ • * IW:: . . . ' J .1 iff i . "?l̂ 1 -•V- ^ ' J , • *.-A1 . '1^1 CAPT. BABKEI5. COI.. EOBBBT.