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65 Y"ti liifi" f-:-1*" 'T+Iimuii-* . UlWfi lii lMMb- nf land, tu fonnd •0iL4lte:':ltRfl ^ Mete, and arrested Sheriff Mfem allowed tOW®. being merely jail three times the United i»«M»tieated Prwwtttt tor Eliflu. •' Grote ,£' Church .#? KUfr closed a deal with Chicago did l&tff York capitalists for t|ie «ale «f the Hl^in stewing machine aiwMbieyde factory, a large and finely in the south part of The purchase, vrtose napies •W not 3*et made public, will form a Stpck company far tj^jnanufacture of It is saul there i» ualim- itedcapital behind the concern, and that ajWigeforce will be employed. The place jbe occupied at once. £.,;•• ; . B«I<1 for Mr*. Carr*s MnrAtri The four negroes, James Hicks, ISd Eli Booker and James Durton, in jail at Marion charged with the murder of Mrs. Anna CJarr, had a heading under a writ of habfea* corpus. The judge refused them ball and remand­ ed them to jail to await the action of the grand jury at the September term of court. The prisoners are charged with b«ilt|r.« part of the mob that tired into the coach load of negro miners and their families at Fredonia mine on June 30. Start Fire that Ends Life, }r, Jtrs. Caroline, the widow of a wealthy fWOW* who lived near Nolling, committed anicide in a most terrible manner. Aris- before other members of the family, entered a large barn on the premises, ked herself in a corn crib and set fire to the building. The fire was not discov­ ered until the barn was almost consumed. Kothing remained but the trunk of the /toman when found. Mrs. Caroline was 65 ^eara old and no causa is known for deed. New Road* Are Incorporated. i/4. The Secretary of State has licensed the pt. Louis and Belleville Traction Com- .ftay, with headquurters at Belleville, to incorporate. It is proposed to construct H line of railway from Belleville through & St. Louis and from Collinsville to ? ^Trench village. The capital stock of the f|'$ompany is $1,500,000. The Wisconsin ^Jptallroad Company was licensed to in- -lorporate in Illinois with a capital in this ; 0tate of $1,920,000. Sip m 1 Won Id-Be Betcner Drowned. Irffke Horrel, aged 23 years, and Henry ; |poettker, 22 years old, were drowned in •^""e Kaskaskia river at Eva'nsville. Hor- |el was swimming a horse in the river hen it threw him off and Boettker went save his friend and seized him as he as going down for the third time. As e could not release himself, both per- hed. " " ; Lockjaw Causes Boy's Death. , . , G e o r g e S a x o r , J r . , 1 5 y e a r s o l d , d i e d ;>; #t the residence of his parents, Mr. and ~ Mrs. George Saxor. in Springfield, of lockjaw. He accidentally shet himself " In the right hand while handling a re- js^-Tolver on the Fourth of »fi<i, * grating and lockjaw set in. ;/V- amet toiuic Berwick is to have a bank.. • •. . A button factory will be established at /'"IMeyer. ' Plans have been drawn for a new $25,- >•'., *|)00 Presbyterian Church at Kankakee, x * Moline h*s the promise of one of the Raptured Spanish guas allotted to Iili- r, Bois. . .' Mftninouth counts among -its recently (acquired industries a $25,000 pottery gr 4>lant- J V A celebration of Irish societies of cen- tral Illinois is bfcing arranged for at Pe- V; s ®ria, to be held July 30. .'-J, V Galesburg manufacturers expect to fur- : liish $200,000 worth of brick for street ^ paving contracts in Chicago. t Edmond F. McCanahan, a prominent ' Ramsey business man, died. He was an |;4,,/":;-Odd Fellow and Woodman. P£. , Upon the request of the sheriffof Wil- • .Jiamson County, Acting Gov. Warder has ient 200 guns and ammunition to Marion, ' .jo be used by the sheriff in preserving the s • J peace at Carterville. . £ t f i T h e t h i r t y - f i r s t a n n u a l r e u n i o n , a n d p i c - f|'l?y|iic of the old settlers of La Salle Coun- ^ ty will be held at Allen park, Ottawa, »' " Aug. 17 next, Instead of the 24th, as first k announced. The annual sddryss will .--Jlelivered by A.=J. Hopkfes of Aurora. *f Suit has bettor conffoenced at Quincy .y - , .'l>y the heirs and administrator of the An­ drew Elmore estate to dispossess his \ • iilaughter, Mrs. Sarah J. Hitchcock. She i,;<«""-%laiins a farm of 2(JO acres and all per- ^ ,i«$oual property left by Elmore as a gift from her father's spirit since his death. Both were Spiritualists and the daughter , _ • liolds full possession now Ind says she ^ Will defend the property with a shotgun . ,* * if necessary. The estate is valued at $20,000. y Haunee Ebefbardt, whil# riding a bicy­ cle at Arthur, ccflMeu,--»\vitli a team and Carriage and was instantly killed. The ^parties who were driving the team did not «top and their identity is not known. The Attorney General of Illinois has t-if1' given his opinion of the status of non- , resident members of hunting and fi«hine ^ , clubs In Illinois under the new law. He » holds that non-resident members of Illi- \nois clubs must pay a license fee of $10 4^ iu each county in which they follow the gff?.Reports. The same lajr applies to elubs j; organized outside of the State and own- p\ ing or occupying grounds in the State. * • Congressman Prince announpes the ap- ' V pointment of James A. Mars of Gales- ^h1' Iburg as the West Point cadet for that district and R. M. Danford of Mercer County as alternate The election was jjf?^' decided by a competitive examination. •f. - Abo«v Franklin, a well-known farmer, | „• shot himself through fhe head at Sterling. He was a bachelor, 37 years of age, and tilled himself because Cora Aungust, a jSsvU pretty girl c€ 17, refused his hand- in -marriage. On his body was found the jr, | - following note* "I die for she went bs<-k ? ft1 on me. I caa have the pleasure of dyhkg " for Cora and she can think of me. .' dearest, she can take my M Good-by, Cora, think of me.** / William Henry Bandera tefl WfcSde at Marengo by taking Despondency o?« coflflaued illness If thought to be the cause. year* of age. Mrs. Ida Becker, wife of AM* Beck, er, who was sentenced reetSw to b< hanged for the murder of Ikit fottter wif« Theresa, has begun aait fbr divwee is the Circuit Court in OsieUo- At Fairfield, the brick thw hira own­ ed by Mayor W. g. Dipbs lmrned. en tailing a lois <k . sarance or ̂ ,0d>i,ins. mIitm except th '̂ ftied' :inKred In' the It is reported ibm±WktoiU& fohin, WIM killed Maj. Fit*p*trick of the Natk»uj Cemetery at Mototd City werics ago, is in the cowaty jail at Omiro, having been captured hi Mississippi by a Chicag* detectiT®»'""' • '» The twi«a^*W0r«^mHl at the Spito» field Iron: now owntd by the #nd Steel Com­ pany, haa »^ s«lttted ntt<* w Olfitpsi of severity fwkra. Two hm^lred addi­ tional men wlll be given employment. A wedding «t unusual interest took place in village of Lernn, wlien Dr. H. B. Vai|tiî «fcd Dr. Jten%iWalkei were madf <in« bf Kf*. ;l|f. 'H^arick* Thla partnership represegii twfe acho<di of oiiAiMifhy The Bev. Dr. S. A. McKay, pMtor oi the First Baptist Cluirc^ t̂ Blootainr ton, has been re^ppifidjfA. tee as president^ jVlWnR per Alton, to sucbefd tin Kennedy da wln>' dwigneik. Ted Anderson, whose home Is at Rock- ford, was drowned in the Cedar rivei near Waterloo, Iowa, while hunting for pearls. Anderson was with a party o1 young men from Rockford who were tak« ing a trip through Iowa and to the west by wagon. A body found in the Mississippi at Quincy proves to be that of Hiram D, Hart, a stockman of Loraine, who parted from his sweetheart, Mrs. Belle Hughes, in anger. He is believed to have commit­ ted suicide, the woman having said sh« was tired of him. At Moline, Mrs. Charles A. Almgren and a young daughter of William Dow* ney both had their lips badly swollen from the effects of a bite or sting by soma insect. The attending physician is at a loss to account for the painfql injuries in any manner except that they were caused by the kissing bug. Herman G. Hansgen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chartap Hanagen of Rock Island, died suddenly under rather mysterious circumstances In the village of Port By­ ron, where he was condmcting a photo­ graph studio. The physician who was called said death was caused by heat apoplexy. Neighbors, suspicious because of the absence of life about the prem­ ises, forced entrance to Hansgen's apart­ ments and found him lying in his bed in a dying condition. His relatives say that he overheated himself in running to catch a train. Hansgen was 31 yean of age. n*rn9*mm* i fiwppp- fiffftiaM Bftftoiviw IS'iit Tatogja*-- a>t,pa»«fc Wa^klagtoa apeetal: •Tin protest received «f l| Hong Kong., t . _ a profoimd sen&fttkra In Gorerih The protest seta £«r«k thnt.news fta» mm suppressed a ^ ^ s' P#l' have been w »«««-- m t.*ft ^^^Pfe^entation** by the Action of the Shg waa 09 in ^ext£iing or alteri^OMBContro- »frtcd ststeuients of fact." The protest is signed by John P. Dunning, Rabert M. Collins and L. Jones of the Associated Press; E. S. Keene of the Scripi>s-McRae Association, Oscar Iv. Davis and P. G. to tfcat the G " side of #* . and AMI PWlpota, the faction in n n t a t an. r i n g sided ..iiyters. ed ate morning: cently and was shot whp|(vhig « be*tL A general fMUl*«s ltott»wed, in five men were killed, and the sixth, &d*> ard Loven, waa J0tt»i Vhr«« miles tnaHl town with his head severed from his body. Deputies are being harried from all over the State into Clay County and TOM BiKSt McDonnell of the New York Sun, John more shooting is expired. The dead on F. Bass and Will Dinwiddie of the New York Herald, John T. McCutcheon and Harry Armstrong of the Chicago Record, and Richard H. Little of the Chicago Tribune. That the telegraphic reports of Gen. Otis were cehsored at the War Depart­ ment was well known, but the impression has been that newspaper eorrosisoudeats were permitted to scud about what they* wanted to, provided they avoided men­ tioning future uiilitar^ movements.; The disclosures of the extent t<» which Gen. Otis has deprived the country of pio[K»r information have confirmed a Quiet bt'lief that the general in command W-fls afraid to have the truth known, and it i» I relieved his. ollicial dispatches have ^)etn distorted to conceal his mistakes in the l eiief that the censorship would pre­ vent the preiss cm-respondents from send­ ing tfco facts. It has bf«>ii a general maxim among ani:y men that newspaper torrespondents ar» privileged to give aitual results of buttles iu thvir own langsiage, the censor­ ship Iteiug rt strhted to thi» prevention of the news of future military movements from reaobiuy the enemy. , Ot!» hi-ico he >eV)r# Gr'ii. (Xis has apparently pmceedpd fat* beyond this, and has assumed to dictate what MTUOI be sent ahd how tiws story Shall be told. It seems to be well under­ stood about the department that Gen. Otis h.is made a serious blunder iiir at­ tempting to deceive the people of the United States as to the situation in the Philippines, for now even his truthful repoits will not be believed, and the peo­ ple will naturally thiuk the conditions on the island much worse than they really are. It has been painfully felt at the War Department that Get;. Otis made "a - mia- 'tabe iu not getting out to the firing Hue u»>w and then, but as the insurgents were north, south and east of Manila it Was supposed that he felt he could best direct operations from the city. The failure of o«e strategical movement after another^ was plainly evident, and yet the geueraP continuad to ceod in the most o^tlniilsMi.' reports. » . - Th« result of the forms/1 protest by the correspondents has been to cast suspicion on tho official reports of Gen. Otis as to the situation, and it is admitted that now the only course will be for ths President to interfere and modify the oensorship at Manila/'so that the correspondents may be permitted to describe the sltnstion as it is, which will be a salutary check on the c<) iu mailing generpl. It would not be at all surprising if the expW^iwn should result in the recaH of Gen. Otis before the rainy season ends, It is recogni«pd that his uaefulne«9 will be destroyed as soon as the people learn the White side are Hugh Griffin, James Griffin and Edward Stshev. The Baker allien dead are Robert Philpot, Aaron MorriR and Richard Loven. Besides the dead several merobem of both factions are seriously rfounded. The liaker-IIoward ffeud- began in Dt- cember, 180", ovar the purchase / by Tom Baker of a judgment for $40 that had been hand- i ed. down against 1- ^ A. B. Howard. Ba­ ker had some Of Howard's -goods seized, and tbns originated a bad feeling Which devel­ oped into quarrels. From quarrels it went to fist fights, . •HERIKF •naiti, then clubs, then revolvers and rifles and knives.' Tom Baker is the eleventh man to lose his life in the feud and the end is not yet. It is said there are not twelve men In Clay County who are not person­ ally interested in the feud to the extent of doing desperate deeds if the occasion seemed to demand it. If the trouble Is not soon straightened oat it looks as if Clay County would, before long, be this thr " liMH kanksan iMn^BYna m taw can «a _ _ lis ttMB» tbnaimMfaav a- coaitdstr 4Na jApa H tiw gudn lines alost t OM fi-lfep nsntl wnUr -of can IMV*' ban **». - wera mf tew demonstrations *9 **»*• 9M& tMr sympathizers, lift Mpa WM «t a serioos duuact«. At Lib- «*y iiid Bodkaway avenues a crowd car, hut the paoce were <pijk l̂y scsne in force and the mob was dispersed. Ssveral arrests Obs<ii,i<gln-- mm, -placed on tb* :U|. * Plattts, soaie of ths wî -?WM3a_pat, ,but the company iweparsd ^or acts of this Und and ••so had ganga^mai at work repairing m» breaks. TM jK^Ice 'ftave had the sit Jftion well in band, 0OT. Roosevelt at us home in Oyster Bay was kept prompt­ ly informed of the progress of the fight, •o. that in case„of emergency lie would be able to act at once. , The first serioui! effect of the strike G® the public came Monday morning when the thousands of p««ons who live ua Brooklyn and work in Manhattan had J® start for the ferries and the bridge. Tfce elevated roads run every train that they could put together afed nan. Every train was crowded to the doors and a* were the few trolley cars which wain running. Thousands walked rather than risk waiting for cars, whUe other thon- sands rode to Manhattan on their blcy- cles. The people generally took the In­ convenience good naturedly. The sympa­ thy of the pubiic is with the men. COMPLAIN OF CENSOR. The premium list of the Illinois State* that he has systematically dcueived t&em fair for 1899 is ready for distribution. There is but little change in the classifi­ cation from that of last year, when ft was pronounced the most satisfactory list, taken as a whole, published in the United States. The prospect for the com­ ing fair is all that its most sanguine friends could wish for, and there is no doubt about the exhibit and attendance being larger than that of 1898, The dtl- to great expense in providing for a week of fun for visitors attending the fair. The entire week will be taken up by the fair in daytime and the carnival features at night. The grand pageant, the "fete of the fairies," costing $25,000, will take place on Tuesday night, Sept. 26, and will probably excel anything of the kind ever attempted in this country. About fifty sheriffs from as many conn- ties in the State met at Springfield and organized the Illinois Sheriffs? Associa­ tion. A constitution and by-laws were adopted and the following officers were elected: President, M. J. McGoWan, Lee County; vice-president, David Turnbull, Warren; second vice-president, James Sloan, Vermilion; secretary, Thomas Manson, Jefferson; assistant secretary, William Gorhan1, -Bond; executive com­ mittee, Ernest J. Magerstadt, Cook; Charles M. Woods. Sangamon; William Byen, Coles; Levi F. Crawie, Rock Isl­ and, and J. B. Moore, Franklin. The next meeting of the association will be held in Chicago in July, 1900. The Illinois Chickamauga Park com­ mission passed a resolution inviting Pres­ ident McKinley, Secretary Alger, Gov. Tanner, ex-Gov. Altgeld of Illinois, Gov. Bradley of Kentucky, Gov. Mount of In­ diana, Gov. Caudier of Georgia, Gov. Me- Millin of Tennessee and Gov. Johnson of Alabama to be present at the dedication of the monument at Chattanooga Park Nov. 24 and 25. Several thousand dollars will be spent on the dedication. The last of the Illinois monuments on'the battle­ fields about the city have been completed. The bronze figures for the group statue at Bragg's hill, Mission ridge, have been placed. The figures represent the four arms of the service, to be placed at the base, the whole to be surmounted W a bronze figure of the goddess of peace. John W. Allen and James Glenn Join­ er, aged 12 and 13 years respectively, had a quarrel at Meyer. Joiner struck Allen on the right side of the jaw and the lat­ ter fell dead. The blow was delivered right on the point of the chin. The Mundy Settlemire Company of Litchfield has begun suit in the CircnK Court of Sangamon County against E. R. Ulrich & Sons of Springfield, to recover damages in the sum of $50,000, which plaintiff claims to have suffered by reason of injured credit, on account of having been blacklisted by defendant. Igbe par­ ties are All grain dfealers. The dead body of Richard Powers, for­ merly a policeman, was found in his bed­ room in Chicago, with a bullet in the heart. After considerably cross-question­ ing Mm Powers -confessed thitft^She had shot and killed her hu^band/ '11' ^ In the United States Circuit Court at Springfield, upon , the application of the Farmers* Loan an$. .^ri^t Cpmpjtny of New 'fork, trustee for t^ifS,boiders of. the first and second Jnotf«u»* bonils. Judge Allen appointed of Sparta as jm^ls f'uel and Power Company orTJparth. The bonds, first and second mortgage, on Which i»t»csat-,ift dî Eanltad. smpant to $130,000. • ̂ - as to the situation in Luzon. Artny men say the published prot«t will do a vast amount of harm, and they think the correspondents should have ca­ bled the President direct, and thus have avoided scandal. I«Mr« Bsand KfMn, At the regular nmi-weetir cabinet meeting Tftesday an extraordinary prob­ lem of the Philippine war presented it- c:!-. TL; ctr,v:; : fMnnd robin* was by far the most per­ plexing question the President and his cabinet had met in many days. The cabi­ net was divided as to the manner of deal­ ing with it. The meaabers condemned it to & man. in private conversation. Two members expressed amnions in favor of deporting the correspondents. But in all these expressions there was a sober ad­ mission that public opinion as to the rights and limitations ef the press in war have greatly changed since Gen. "Tecum- seh" Sherman disciplined Whitelaw Reid and Gen. Jeff C. Davis sent the late "Joe" McCullagh out of camp in a rag­ ing Rnowstorm one night. It was stated at the War Department Tuesday that no attention whatever would be paid to the "round robin" of the Manila correspondents. The protest was not sent, to Gen. Otis, and it Is said will not be, and Gen. Otis will not be called upon for an explanation, In addition to this ft was intimated that very encour­ aging news had been received from the Philippines, _____ ACOUSE6 SECRETARY CfcMBE. VortWnctM C. Ford of BH*M t«tU Taiaa Om* at SotMSk Secretary Lyman J. Gage is accused of oslsstatsscents by Worthingtos Cv Ford of Bostoa, former chief of the bureau of statistics. Mr. Ford declares that he was requested to resign his office in the bureau of statistics without any excuse being assigned, but that the position Was desired for another man. Ford says that his place wm tafcen by O. P. Austin, a Washington journalist, who was not required to pass any exam­ ination. Austin has been given, Mr. Ford declares, five "emergency" appoint­ ments, thus keeping him in office ever since. OUTLAWS KILIp A SHeWt̂ Searching for Train ••bbara Falls Into Amboslv Sheriff E. J. Farr and a posse of five men searching for the outlaws who held ap a train at Folsoin came upon them unexpectedly near Cimarron, N. M., Sun­ day and a desperate battle ensued. Sher­ iff Farr was killed, two of his posse. Dep­ uties Love and Smith of Springer, N. M,, were seriously wounded, and the others, including W. H. Reno, chief of the secret service department of the Colorado and Southern Railway, were badly wounded TeleerapMc Gallagher's Hotel, Laporte, Pa., ttyurifr ed. Loss about $50,000. Electric train at Norfolk, "Ta., fatally Injured Edwatd Holmes. Miss Helen Gould sent $290t» the New Tichmond, Wis., tornado safferers. United States Worsted Cttgpany, Louisville, Ky., will go into the trust Charles Swartsfager is wanted aft Erie, Pa., for killing Clarence E. 6h«ttuck. Pennsylvania coal operators may intro­ duce American anthracite in Europe. Samuel.Schwartz, New York, was kill­ ed while trying to jSmi» frtn an elevator. CLAY COUXTY OOtflST HOOTS. scche of a small but bloody war. Judge Onear of Mount Sterling says troops will have to be withdrawn, and that thf only way will be to let the Howards and Ba­ kers fight it out among themselves, pr * vWlpVE TOWARD PEAC& AgabaMo and of Mia baadan - HMICC Overture*. A Washington special on Tttnday says: Important cablegrams have bail receiv­ ed at the State Department from the Philippine commission and at the War Department from Gen. Otis concerning a new moflfe in the direction of peace. These dispatches have been in the hands of the President for several days, but lie has declined to make them public because the ultra optimistic views heretofore re­ ceived from the same source have not been borne out by subsequent events. The latopt dispatches,' however, are more encouraging than the previous ones, Lui. W' A < X.....U. -»L J--! Z tO1 I'i'VC £*T:~C positive results before making them pub­ lic. All that can be learned definitely about them is that direct overtures for peace have been made to Gen. OtiB by Aguinaldo and some of his principal lead­ ers. It was said by a cabinet official that if the promises are fulfilled the volunteers now being enlisted will not be needed. CMftn Paul will doubtless feel a Httla sheepish when he lies down with the lion. It is understood that rain only made Gen. Funston'a swims the more agree­ able. When fhe war is OYer, Aguinaldo should form a baseball team. It's the runs that count. They say the electrical show is the most shocking thing oh the boards in New York. Nsw York's last horse shew was a fail­ ure. That city should- now hold a bone­ less show. Soldiers in the Philippines i» to wear tan shoes. Corbin desires to match their complexions. Why should any one want to cause Congressman Roberta trouble? He haa three wives. The Boston Globe asks how it would feel to be run over by an automobile. Probably it would produce that rubber tired feeling. Thirty people at Detroit wen poisoned by ice cream. This is enough to make one shiver with horror. The Pittsburg Telegraph cadis Agui­ naldo a dictator. He is certainly a great chap for running things. ^ The sublime porte distrusts the peace conference, likings may be .coming Hi* Convalescency's way, but it looks Ar­ menia. Of course, there will be people mean enough to call attention to the fact that those Western cyclones sneaked in on the weather bureau. If that Chicago river catcbea fire many more times the old thing will have to be soaked till it is wet. Aguinaldo has not lofet all his capitals yet. He still haa the one he wears at the front end o£ his name. What a long time it haa been^iuce any mention of "the European concert" haa been printed in the newspapers! Still, it will probably be better to poet- pone the arrangements for the wakes of both Aguinaldo and Luna, in order to pre­ vent their disturbing the proceedings. The manufacturers of wooden pumps have been holding a convention, and the public is quite prepared to base that tjbqi •oaaaadad in punip'.aK cx> pries*. pondents in the Phtttpptm** Take JKadtcal Action. The constantly increasing strictness of the censorship of press dispatches from Manila, which has prevented the cabling to the United States of anything that did not reflect official views of important events and conditions, resulted in a unlt- fd effort on the part of correspondents there to secure an abatement of the rigor of the censorship. The Initiative in tills direction was tak­ en a month ago, and resulted in the fram­ ing of a statement, which waa presented j to Maj. Gen. Otis, commanding the raili- i tary forces of the United States in the Philippine Islanda, with a request for par* mission to telegraph it to the United States. The toorreepoBdettts also asked that they be aifywed to cable to their re­ spective paWrs kit f&cts' ahd the differ­ ent phases of -events an they transpired there. The c0rrei$ra&&its had two long Interviews with Gen. ?$ti&, In the course of which- they complained that the evi­ dent ptirpoac < Af the Censorship was not to keep information from the enemy, but to keep from the public a knowledge of the real condition of affairs there. It was made clear to Gen. Otis that the ob­ jection was to' the< *£•*•« and not to the censor. j'1 Gen. Otis finally promised greater lib­ erality,, agreeing to pass all matter that he might. Cflliider net-detrimental to the interesjai of tfc^Unibgl) States. Gen. Otis appointed Captain Green of his staff cea- TEXAS Fl^OOb CO$$ • tO,000,000 Weather Bayoa the Batna Ware like CtOtfotftif'Bta. • apecial bulletin has been issued by the weather bureau oft the recent flood in the Brazos river district, Texas. The ire- port was prepared by I. M. Cliue, in charge of the Texas service of the bu­ reau. Mr. Cline's report says: "The flood moved southward very slowly, and it was fourteen days from the time the crest of the flood was noted in central Texas un­ til it passed oat into the gulf of Mexico. It must be said that, after allowing for all the conditions, we still have a most serious difficulty in accounting for such rains, which are analogous to so-called cloudbursts, about which almost nothing is known. The damage to crops has been very great. All crops on the immediate river bottoms from McLtnsss County south are a total loss. Farming imple­ ments, stock and many of the small tene­ ment house^ in the ,bottoms have been washed away. The total losses, judging from {wss 'reports ccd otbci &7ui!at!c is. formation, will aggregate nearly $10,000,- 00°." ;. ; FEW SOLDIERS SICK. Aanerlcan Army at Manila la in <|nod Condition, The general good health of the Ameri­ can forces at Manila is shown by the hos­ pital report for the past week, issued by the medical department. The report shows a total of 1,889 men tinder medical treatment, of whom 1,378 are in hospital and 511 in quarters. This gives a sick rate of less than 10 per cent, and it is also to be noted that more than one-fourth of the men reported aick are not in such condition as to re­ quire sending them to hospital. These conditions compare very favorably with the experience of other countries in the tropics. At its highest sick rate has not exceeded 12 per cent, and the serious cases have never exceeded 0 per cent. ' The total number of Americans wpund- ed in action to date is 1,580. The number killed in action and died from wounds is, 374. The losses of the rebels have been about five times those of the Americans, notwithstanding the fact that the rebels did most of tbeir fighting from intrench- ments. , . • ELEVEN DROWNED "NEAR ATLIN. L OFFERING tfceXHScnas- lt» Fluire. [tary , thank offering * Methodist con- ttfr With the subcorn* mitteof ft^ik'th^ hlne different districts in Ht» cohtprenei. About fifty persons were present. Organisation was effected tar electing J. ArlfclBploek, chancellor of Wealeyan Unlve?«ity at Bloomington, and B. Taylor of Bloomington secretary. The purpose of the committee Is to raise a part of the •130,000,000 that tho Methodists of the world expect to seenre in the next three years. The snoney will be distributed MMM* diffe«eate^Cjj|^fiiftflcharita- We institutions, the direction Of the givers. A adopt­ ed by-the committee, .M^p.-'dlatklet will be organised under it ami afterward each church so that every fcttftwr of the church may be called on to contribute. FIND REMAINS OF MR* MEIER. Wealthy Widow Believed toHlaveBeen Murdered and Body fpNMd* The charred remains of Mm Catherine Meier, aged 50 years, a wealthy and well- known widow, who lived five miles north­ west of Irvinton, were found in the de- brig of the large barn ou her farm 'which burned up a few days ago. At the time of the burning of the barn there was no one at home but her, her two sons, who lived with her, having been away during the day. Upon their return home late they found the barn in ashes. A careful search of the premises failed to reveal the whereabouts of their mother. They searched, assisted by the neighbors, and by digging in the debris the discovery of her charred remains was made. Foul play is suspected. SUICIDE OF MRS. «J. C. Wife of b Monmouth Merchant Tnrned On All the G«a Jeta. The wife of John C. Allen, a dry goods merchant of Monmouth, committed sui­ cide by asphyxiation. For some time past the health and mind of Mrs. Allen have been such that constant attendance was required. Th4 other morning her husband drove to Burlington. Later Mrs. Allen persuaded her attendant to go to church. Upon her return the doors were locked and a strong odor of gas pervaded the premises. Breaking open the door the body was found locked in a room where were four open gas jets. Investigation showed that every jet in the house had been turned on full force. -- . 'H- he law JUMPS INTO RIVER AND DROWN8 Pekin Man Commit* Suicide While on Steamboat Trip. JL V. Bening, a promlneat resident of Pekin and district deputy to the Knights and Ladies of Honor lodge, committed suicide by jumping overboard from the St. Louis steamer Bald Eagle on its trip from Havana. He left home In the morning, bidding his family and friends good-by, stating that they would not see him again. Captain Leigh was notified of Bening's intention, but he eluded the crew and leaped into the river. He leavea a Wife and several children. GOOD ROADS THE TMENU5* Convention* Will Be Held in Twelve Illinois Towns This Fall. The Illinois district good roads conven­ tions will be held this fall as follows: Momnouth, Sept. 5; Rockford, Sept. 7; Bock Island, Sept. 9; Alton, Sept. 11; Quincy, jSept. 12; Jacksonville, Sept. 13; Danville, Sept. 12; Jacksonville, Sept. f3 Bloomington, Sept. 19; Joliet, Sept. 20; Ottawa, Sept 21. The State convention will be held in Springfield Sept. 23, at which delegates will be chosen to frame suitable legislation, calculated to advance the movement in favor of good roads. ILLINOIS BANKS PROSPEROUS. Party En Route to the Klondike Per­ ishes in Lake Bennett. A party of eleven men and women go­ ing from Atlin to Dawson were drown­ ed in Wind Arm, the dangerous portion of Bennett lake. News of the disaster reached Victoria, B. C., on the steamer Tees, but details were lacking. The party had spent the winter in Atlin, and, be­ coming disgusted with that country, or­ ganized to try their fortune in the Klon­ dike. Passengers on the steamer say that John Wilson, ex-Mayor of Coolgardie, West Australia, and party, arrived in Dawson early in July from a loi^g trip via the Edmonton route. The party, con­ sisting of nine Englishmen and Cana­ dians, left Edmonton about July 1, 1898. Last September It arrived at Rat river and was frozen in at McDougall's pass until June 5 last. Four or five, men 'of different parties died at Bat ,0 jtlver of scurvy. MP.-PI I » II •.*> RAILWAY TfE-UP IMMINENT. Strike Pending that Will Involve 16,- OOO Men in New Bogload. ' A strike that will involve from 12,000 to 15,000 men and promises to tie up both the Boston and Maine and. the Newr York, New Haven and Hartford railroads seems the inevitable outcome of the labor troubles at Boston. The, Order erf Railway Telegraphers is responsible for the present phase of tb situation in seeking the adjustment of what the members consider grievances. The employes of other departments also have grievances, though, and will proba­ bly aid in a general movement to put the railroad employes of New ^^landjtn || iMWrfitaiaMi " . • """ ' Auditor of Public Accounts Figures Up the Qaarter's Totals, The aggregate resouig&s and liabilities Ul all Slate bauks 3£ Il'lSSiS W3S I5S1- piled by the auditor of public accounts to July 1 show an increase over the report of March 6 of $10,306,596.40. Of this $6,756,831.50 is in loans and discounts. Xiie savings duput>Uia iLc .* &a iiiCinlJC .0* $5,446,175.13. The report showa 148 banks, an increase since the last report of two, ________________ STATE TROOPS ATTACK WOMEN. eoldler Escort Stabbed in sn Affray at Camp Lincoln, Two young women of Springfield and their soldier escorts were set upon by a crowd of militiamen at Camp Lincoln, Springfield, and subjected to indignities sufficient to cause a sensation throughout the camp. Private Trabine of Company C was badly beaten and was Stabbed through the upper lip with a bayonet, receiving a wound that will disfigure hiih for life. DRAGGED,TO DEATH BY MULES. Farmer Pnta the Halter Aronnd His Neck W hile Fattening a Gate. William Cruikshank, aged 70, a wealthy Heyworth farmer, was dragged to death by a team of mules. He was leading the animals, whose halters were tied together. Stopping to fasten a gate, he threw the halters around his neck. The mules ran away and dragged him 300 yards. Cruikshank's neck was broken and he died in a few minutes. JUMPS FROM BRIDGE AND DIE& Bhclbyville, I1L, Merchant finda His Life Because of Bad Health. E. T. Prince, 70 years old, sprang from a railroad bridge into the Okaw river at Shelbyville and his neck was broken by the fall. Prince was in ilT health and had recently talked of ending his life. He was formerly in business in Shelby­ ville, being connected with one of the banks and afterward engaged merchandising. New Revision is . If only it cavbe sanred from its it will certainly win.--New Times-Democrat. So, Dreyfus is to be' Willi by "keeping the story ilWa ̂ papers say, for JanesvUle Gazette. Dreyfus is to be retried. demands the trial and com forgers and perjurers first time.--Atlanta There is little or no. quel fus will be brought!" bome ; It will have to bl'WT j ducted, and then a 'gteat fear and conscious evu-d< ed off the French nation ̂ Leader. r- The interest in the comet's, great. That in the genera! j| bfmter. But greafrff" fis the ffnally underlying vast villainy. Mere mtttty* aasigned by eeema hardly definite •ach an elaborate'scheme of persecution.--New iTork, Dreyfn* nay b«. it wfil not be hes h«d She for somethlns it BDMt lM i eons the work of pr fus have %een fiat ed with the poiiticar than with the moral Tribune. The army i® to bej deem itself. It mtifet _ _ __ The officers dare not rceort to the trttMite, which have been so thoron l̂y^ îMaisi, and there is reason to beBeve ||S î3b|Sl. will be no case at aU. In the. American the army will stift W ft way from having proved tit but it la. li£eiy that the will accept this action of wrong as a sacrifice which the wrong-doing of the past.--Deuiw wjK publican. > ':f %| The Alaskan Bosuidaryw In the matter of dispute, England la's colonies That Alaskan boundary be settled by the time all the en out of the country. Canada, it seems, clings eld role of mischief maker hjitit̂ ji; United States and England.--Boil Journal. The Dominion's idea of arbitration akin to the fortn of compromise that'* lia the hone of husband, who ezpliinsd that wlM| wanted a green carpet put down ta parlor and his wife wanted a *id 'they always compromised on troit Ft** Press. Ttoe la but one course for the States to ftarsue, aiul timt la, firmly on its rights. We 0B0{ mlsed away several degicei tf ~ coast, and we have no nknee ta _ It is within the power of this country soon bring Canada taftns, and without war.--Denver "News, . The difficulty unquestionably th$ greed of the Canadian " Wnich is inordinate aial and the best that we miy foreign office at bassador Choate may out of the hands of the settle it reasonably.--BoOtOn _ It is extremely difficult *- Great Britain's stubborn Alaskan boundary dbpate of a strong desire lot the of uninterrupted pleasant the United States Govemmei ords in the case attest̂ the ness of our posiinm, concessions this ~ ""'**? must impreas embattled idea of national code of ton Times, • - > Pickle Fiwactt " A French crisis would seeni to more^serlous thing if it were not so fre quent.--Evening Wisconsin. The ease with which a can be upset Is the admiration spair of the American peoj phia Ledger. The French ministry whisks in and out ' with all the pensive grace and crierity c/t a cow's tail in fly time, and with Utt% more significance as a rule.--Buffalo Coo- \ '• rier. Somebody ought to take a a gourd full of nails and make a for the Frenct repuldlc that Will hold the cigars and decanters.--Memphis Conv» -r mercial- Appeal. ,"4%' In France, now it is different. Thorn alleged police outrages cause a cabinct^ *;• to resign. Here they merely result hi " Mazet committees and a whole lot amusement to the public.--Albany Argus» -' President Loubet may belong to the - " bourgeois, but it is quite evident that h* r has a two-ltae pica cinch. Even - it ft bourgeois Loubet looms up like a 72-poiat letter among the agate aiistocraey o( France.--Omaha World-Herald. ,* \ The rumor that the French Govern- • ment wiii in pujiu« Dreyfas his. of salary deduct 1,507 francs for ' expenses at one franc per day," hie J ing being a cell on Devil's credible. A people that this is lost American. ' : State Items of Interest The' Pana Modem Electric Light and Street Railway Company and the Pana Telephone Company have sold their plants and franchises to a Chicago syn­ dicate represented by S. W. Gregg. W. D. Ryan, State secretary of the United Mine Workers of Illinois, and the operators of the Niantic Coal Company's mine at Springfield, have signed the scale Of 30 7-10 cents for %iachine mining, equivalent to 40 7-10 cents for hand min­ ing, and thus ended the nine months' strike. tentiary for life by a jury In Chicago. Andrew Nelson was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to the peni- Aaron Wolf, president of the Exchange Bank, Parkersburg, Iowa, and interested in other Western institutions, died at his home at Freeport, aged 79 jrears. Steiat & Son's pork packing house at Mattoon was destroyed by fire. The firm lost a large quantity of ice as well as meat and lard. Loss $20,000, insurance about one-half. At Peoria, Col. Edward C. Young of Ctieafo, of the newly organized cavalry regiment, mustered in Troop G, composed of forty privates and three off <X fcripp was elected captain. i. beyond recall.--Naahvitl* Kisslns Bus's Exploit*. The kissing bug is much talked abonf A , these days, but hfppily it is not at end of everybody s tongue.--St. Paul Die* patch. »j It seems to be a well-developed fact that the girls who are used to ki&dng bees exhibit not the least fear at tUa ; kissing bog.--New York Press. . There is generally believed to he soon' intimate connection between the Meiano- M, lestes pieipes and the Bacillus prevariea- '^ ; torus.--Sioux City Journal. There is one redeeming feature about. V the kissing bug. He never makes a con, '• ' talk about her ruby lips and ail that sort of thing---Central Illinois Democrat. f The story that the kissing bug only , attacks person* when they are sleeping out doors is supposed to have been start- -> -,i>- 3 ed as a warning to policemra.-^Oedar ^ y3 Rapids Republican. The literature of the kising bug la ta| -v coming quite voluminous. One at ^ latest additions to it is that its (antitl - victims are those- who have been ent^B# onions or garlic, and that it will seMeta*. if ever, "kiss" one who uses tobacco, - ft'. there is any moral in this, it would WW . to be. avoid onions and garlic aa# tobacco--as long as the kissing bug 1» |fcl£f, fad.--Savannah Xews. . %xirke from the Wlree. Lem Kohu, Winchester, W. V»„ i J. E. Foyer to death. f * A fatal malady is killing dncka by hundred on L«ag KfMV-: