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mrnmrnmm- Beettre 92,000--To Sock Ri*er Into a Canal fcille Returned Aggloit Paaa wncr* -CrMli«d to Death/ 'MP »ro blew open the safe of the Banic at Frankfort, and car­ away «ea*l#. $2,000 in currency. W«£tii|«*hKnipple was first dis- \ at tuy tfif thieves, who sprang upon an alley. He was blindfolded, aad thrown into a ditch, while stood guard over him with In­ to shoot him if he made a •wire. Then the bank was broken into and work begun on the safe. Three ex­ plosions were necessary to blow off the door. The first aroused a family living above the bank, but the terrified people •w* ordered not to make an outcry or stafke a light under penalty of death. Saving secured the money, the robbers •departed, leaving the night watchman helpless in the ditch. No trace of them *** been discovered* but it is thought they went toward Joliet, as a handcar which they stole was found near Ingalls' race track, three miles east of that city. i* *V • ' Call for a River Convention. -'J^t a meeting of the„ manufacturers an#" Irasiness men of Rockford W. L. Eaton, Ralph Emerson, M. B. St. John, L. A. Weybnrn and E. H. Keeler were appoint­ ed a committee to request Mayor Brown to hsvite the appointment by mayors of cities and towns in the Rock river valley eff delegations to a river convention to advocate the converting by the Govern­ ment of Rock river into a canal from Bockford south to connect with the Hen­ nepin canal in accordance with surveys made years ago. There is much enthu­ siasm over the project and the convention will probably be held the last week in October. Congressman Hitt says the Canal is feasible and has promised to give 1t hearty support. It is estimated the work will cost about $1,000,000. • - Coal Operators Are Indicted^ - The September grand jury, now la" eli­ sion, has indicted the following coal op­ erators for inciting riot in Pana April 10 last: C. T. Penwell, Warren Penwell, G. "V. Penwell and Louis Schlerbach, of the Penwell Coal Company; Louis Overholt, 1>. J. Overholt and J. W. Kitchell, of the Springside Coal Company; Walter Put- terbaugh and Julius Broehl of the Pana Coal Company; also Capt. D. H. Hart •nd wife and Mr. Prorer of Lincoln, of tiie Pana Coal Company. Considerable evidence has been secured against the op­ erators and the indictments have created a great deal of excitement in the city. I & •" r' . - Saloonkeepers Form a Trust. "Twenty saloonists who do business in '"ihte business district proper of La Salle have begun the formation of a trust. The idea was brought there from Ottawa, where several men already have one formed. The league is absolute along •11 lines of saloon business and the mem­ bers pledge their support to the organiza­ tion and to each other. When developed the trust will be managed from an estab­ lished center and will do all business from headquarters. The combination will in­ vest $100,000. • Farmer Mysteriously Shot. Henry Dam, a prominent and wealthy farmer residing south of Carlyle five miles, was dangerously injured in a mys­ terious manner. About 12 o'clock the other night the members of the' family were attracted to Dam's room by groan*. The bed clothes were soaked with blood, which was pouring from a frightful woand in the head of the aged man. He had evidently been shot by some person who was standing in the yarjl, as a hole aeveral inches qquare was found in the screen door. Soldier's f on Seeks I>eath, William Morgan, son of Gen. James D. Morgan, famous in the civil war, made a deliberate attempt at suicide on the prin­ cipal street of Quincy. He is about 50 years of age and has been suffering from illness for some months. He threw him­ self in front of an electric car. The car was traveling at a rapid rate of speed and before the motorman could reverse the power Morgan had been rolled along the track for a distance of ten feet, seriously lnjaring him. «, ^ : Decatur Coal Minars Strike. Four hundred miners and coal haulers employed by the Decatur Coal Company Went on strike for an eight-hour day. Two weeks before the miners demanded an eight-hour day and an increase In wages from 50 to 56 c^nts a ton and from $1.50 to $1.75 a day. The company made an advance to $1.65 a day and 55 cents a ton, but refused the eight-hour day, in­ ducting on, ten hours. i y ; Crushed to Oeath on a Bridget As the result of an accident caused by the overturning of a derrick on a bridge on the Chicago Great Western Railroad at North Hanover, Carl Nelson, an en­ gineer of Milwaukee, Wis., was crushed to death and three members of the crew were seriously injured. Two workmen who were on the derrick were huried off ; V* the bridge iitto the stream forty feet be- Millions of army worms in the pupa \f state are being destroyed in the Chicago \ ti' parks. Work has begun* on the new agricul- curat building at the University of Illi- * >•*"*' noisat Champaign. I. \ Rev. Grant E. Pike of Barnesville, O., ; "* '* has been called to the pastorate of the [»'•> Waukegan Christian Church and has ac- -v', 1 cepted. Merritt Hoblit, formerly of Atlanta, now of Monterey, Mexico, has been ap- Srinted professor of Spanish in Drake uiversity, Des Moines, Iowa. The good roads convention called to iqeet at Alton was abandoned, as only three delegates appeared. Hauser & Tolle's cider and vinegar fac­ tory at Litchfield, the largest in southern Illinois, was destroyed by fire. Loss $7,- 600, insurance $3,500. Origin unknown. The daily capacity of. the Great West­ ern distillery at Peoria has been increas­ ed to 12,000 bushels of corn. This will be the largest amount ever ground in a single distillery in the world by 4,000 bushels. Some years ago a local distil­ lery ground 8,024 bushels of corn, but this was kept up only for a few days. The Clear Lake Coal Company's works, including the engine house, boiler house blacksmith shop, office and sheds, were' burned. The loss is $12,000 and the in­ surance $7,000. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. The shaft 1b at German Prairie. Four principals of the Chicago anh^u accompanied by the Rev. W. E. Watt; have been to Marinette, Wis., and de­ cided to erect cottage® on a ten-acre tract of laad donated to the teachers of the city for summering purposes. A large num­ ber of other teachers will follow their ex­ ample, add the summer home of the ̂ teachers of Chicago has practically been " located on the shores of Green bar. •i^iwSKS4' on of «Jf* llerthwest- ern depot. •' > Just as the' smallpox epidemic at Downs was believed to be under control a case of th* «Beease fs reported in the Browning faiilfip neat* Heyw&m and the schools in ifce localTty have bcSto dos­ ed. The Browmng family and premises rhave been quarantined. " James S. Ticknor, aged 75 years, a res­ ident of Rockford since lftH, secretary of the Rock River Electric Railway Com­ pany, past grand master of the Illinois I. O. O. P., and a trustee of and treas­ urer of the orphans' hoioi of this order, died suddenly of apoplexy. In the United 8t*tes Court at Spring­ field, Judge Allen continued the contempt cases against Zeke Morgan and Roy Bowman to the January term. The de­ fendants are charged with violating the injunction of the court restraining them from interfering with the operation of the St. Louis and Big Muddjr coal mines by Receiver Bosworth. The University of Illinois at Cham­ paign began its thirty-second college year under encouraging conditions. The at­ tendance exceeds that of any previous year by several hundred studente. and is an increase of 10 per cent over last year's enrollment. The total number of'students enrolled in the university and its pro­ fessional schools will be about 2,200. Geraldine Schweinf urth rebelled against what she considered the severe conditions at the "Heaven," escaped and walked to Rockford. She is 14 years old. She made her way to the home of G. W. Patrick, where she was taken in. Late in the night Mrs. Schweinfurth, the child's mother, and Mrs. Teft of the "heavenly host" drove up to the door and demanded the child. She was given up and was taken back to "heaven." She told a story of hard treatment, complain­ ing most that she was not permitted to go to school and waa compelled to work from 5 o'clock in the morning till late at night. ' White County will open the next term of its Circuit Court with a criminal docket that will go far to find a parallel in the history of Illinois jurisprudence. Six boys and girls, all under 18 years of age, will be brought to trial for murder. One is charged with killing a companion in a quarrel. Another shot a playmate. A 17-year-old girl is charged with the mur- dey of an old negro. Another is charged with the murder of a companion. A 16- year-old girl put rat poison in the coffee which she gave to four persons, killing one and making physical wrecks of the others. And one boy, 14 years of age, charged' with murder, is out on bail. ' Aurora has had more mayors in the last forty years than any other city in the United States. For more than thirty years Aurora has the distinction of hav­ ing never elected a mayor to succeed himself, and for ten years prior to that such a proceeding happened only once. Since 1857 Aurora has produced in all thirty-four ex-mayors, fourteen of whom are still living. For this distinction the geographical division of Aurora is respon­ sible. The Fox river flows through the middle of the city, and so bitter has been the rivalry between the two sides that all public buildings have come to be built on neutral ground on the island, and it has become an unwritten law that the mayors must alternately be chosen from the two sides of the river. Party politics has never entered into the munipical elec­ tions. For the purpose of promoting the con­ struction of a waterway of the largest practicable capacity between the great lakes and the Mississippi river by way of the Illinois river delegates from Chicago and St. Louis and the intermediate coun­ ties along the proposed route are invited to assemble in convention at the city of Peoria Oct. 10. The time has now ar­ rived, say the promoters, to procure the co-operation of the Federal Government for the purpose o{ constructing the nec­ essary works in the Des Plaines and Illi­ nois rivers from the end of the ship canst of Chicago to the head of the alluvial val­ ley at Utica, and to secure the removal of the dams and the dredging of the chan­ nel thence to the Mississippi in order thai the great flow of water from Lake Michi­ gan may be utilized to the best advan­ tage, and the rich valley of the Illinois saved from needless alarm. The discus­ sion of these questions and the best means to attain the desired end so as to benefit all interests and injure none is the subject matter for the deliberation of the convention. At a joint conference of representatives of the operators and striking miners of the Chicago and Alton sub-district, an agreement was finally reached, and the strike, which has affected over 1,000 men since April 1 last, is declared off. The agreement is in the nature of a compro­ mise drawn up by a committee and reg­ ularly adopted by the convention. It pro­ vides that the strikers return to work at $1.47 per yard for an eight-foot entry, a reduction of 0% cents from the prices demanded by the miners and an increase of 12 cents from the scale offered by the operators. The operators pay the Sta>te scale fixed for the district of 40 cents a ton. i President J. M. Hunter of the State Union Mine organization has had a con­ sultation with Messrs. Boehl and Over- 'holt anent the resumption of work at the Pana mime. He made them the following proposition: The operators ta pay 40 cents per ton foe mining, the miners to concede the fojiowiiig: Yardage, 10 cents per yard reduction; room turning free; % cent per ton off for pick sharpening; allow opera­ tors $1.75 per ton foir powder; miners to buy all their own supplies; allow opera­ tors 45 cents per gallon for oil; make a less per cent of slack; miners to continue to lay their own tracks. The operators claim they cannot accede to this proposi­ tion, which is equivalent to 36 cents per ton. Henry Eggemeier, a wealthy farmer and resident of Randolph County since 1853, residing near Blair, committed sui­ cide by hanging himself to a beam in his barn with a halter strap. He had consid­ erable gold hoarded away, which was found after his death. The Peoria cavalry troops are to have the finest armory of any troop of cavalry in the State, on eight acres of land near the grand entrance of Bradley Park, and will be fully equipped. On the same tract will be located sheds for the horses, of­ fices for the officers, rooms for equipment, lockers, etc., and a 500-yard rifle range. The twenty-seventh annual reunion of the Thirty-first Illinois volunteers, of which John A. Logan was the first col­ onel, was held at Mound City. Capt. A. Loonly of Vienna presided. The address of welcome was made by William A. Wall, and Capt. William M. Morris of Golconda made the response. Burglars entered the postofflce at Wil- mette and looted the safe of $500 and a small quantity of large denomination postage stamps. The thieves gained en­ trance to the building by forcing a rea$ door. Three hoies were bored in the heavy steel safe' and a charge of nitro- ĵreiftin waa exploded, which tore the door from its hinges. The flag does not mean one thing in the United States and another thing In Porto Rico and the Philippines. There has been doubt expressed in some quarters as to the purpose of the Gov­ ernment respecting the Philippines. I can see no harm in stating it in this presence. Peace first, then, with char­ ity for alii an established government of law and order, protecting life and property and occupation, for the well- being of the people, in which tbey will participate tinder the Stars and Stripes. --Wiliiam McKinley. So the Wheel Goes Round. It Is reported from Duluth that the retail business of that city Is double •what ft was a year ago. Thisr state of affairs has been brought about chiefly by the largely increased purchases made by the families of wage-earners. There has been such a growth of In­ dustry tn that vicinity that there Is said to be more work to be done than there are laborers to do it, and the In­ dications are that this condition of things will continue for some time. With such a demand for labor, wages are necessarily high. The high wages mean liberal purchases on the part of the laboring men and their families, and the retailers profit by it They in their turn make large sales for the whole­ salers, and the increased demands oil the wholesalers make more business for the manufacturers, and so the wheel of prosperity goes round. The description of the state of affairs in Duluth reveals only a few links in the "endless chain" by which the protec­ tive tariff brings prosp#s4ty 4» >ihe whole American people. Nothinor Klse to Howl About. The Democrats dare not go before the people on the question of tariff for protection--they repealed protection and plunged the country into hard times and poverty, and they dare not go before the people on that issue. Tbey are afraid to raise again the cry of free silver and dishonest money-- they were beaten out of sight on that issue in the last campaign, and they wish to get up some new issue. What shall it be? Why, say the Democrats, let us howl against the trusts. True, the Republicans have legislated against trusts, and the Democrats, when they had the power, did not, but we can fool the people and get Into power if we howl loud enough and long enough against the trusts. At any rate, we have got to try it, for In these bloom ing times of Republican prosperity and plenty there is nothing else left for the Democrats to howl about.--Free port <IU.) Journal. - ' w ofiii too much prosperity •#%nt:uv other than Istration." "It is the 'consent of the governed' by the way, that Mr. Bryan needs, but as an aid to his presiden- ;tl«f -.^iwniillsnis,*' remarks the Roches­ ter DeiNb&'ttt and Chronicle. "American history affords no In­ stance of the. success of a party-con­ ducted to pail down the flag or re­ nounce territory gained by treaty," ob­ serves the St Louis Globe-Democrat." The Kentucky Democrats have adopted as a war cry, "Thou shalt steal." The Portland Oregonlan says Tammanys has used this as a. slogan, adding, by way of appendix, "We can do til of that that is necessary." This is the Memphis Commercial Ap­ peal's Idea of a Kentucky political meeting: Chairman--Have the niud batteries all been loaded? Chief of Ar­ tillery--Yes; to the muzzle. Chairman --Has the audience been provided with bath robes and life preserver*? Chief of Artillery--It has. Chairman--Then I will call the meeting to order. With a male population of voting age of 271,000 by the last census, the total vote of Mississippi in the presidential election of 1896 was only 70,500, a smaller proportionate vote compared With the population than in any State of the country. Mississippi enjoys the distinction of being the State which gave Bryan in 1896 the largest propor­ tion of totes--more than 90 per cent of the total cast Getting Round a Difficulty. Sir Frederick Goldsmld tells an amusing anecdote about the construc­ tion, under his superintendence, of a telegraph line from Bagdad, in Asia Minor, to the Persian capital of Tehe­ ran. The frontier line between Turkey and Persia was so undeflnable that a tract of no less than seventeen miles of land over which the telegraph would have to be carried was in dispute, each of the two countries claim iugrthe right to its possession. 4 Now, the engineering stores which our Government supplied to the Turk­ ish Government differed from those supplied to the Persian Government. The former had wooden telegraph poles, the latter iron ones. The Persian Government, In their jealous hatred of the Turks, feared that If wooden poles were erected across the disputed territory, posterity would re­ gard them as a proof that the territory was Turkish. On the other hand, the Turks objected to iron poles being used, lest in the far future they should be adduced by Persia as evidence that the land was hers. The way Sir Frederick contrived to get out of the difficulty did credit to his Ingenuity and resource. He set up first a wooden pole, then an iron one, then another wooden, then an iron again, and so on--alternating wood and Iron--for the seventeen miles. ' New Industries. w The newspapers hav£ busy recording the number of in stances of the increase of wages and of the reopening of factories since the passage of the Dingley law. They have had a hard task to keep track of them all, but there is a harder task before them. They will be obliged now, and In a constantly increasing number of cases in the future, to turn their atten­ tion to another phase of the prosperous times which have come to the country, viz., the building of new mills and the establishment of new industries. One commercial paper published in a single issue recently, In addition to its numer­ ous reports of increased prosperity la different cases of industries already es­ tablished, the announcement of a new pulp mill of mammoth size in Wiscon­ sin, a new wall paper plant In Massa­ chusetts, and a new fertilizer factory in Georgia. '? " -1>' •' Nothing to Mke. The originality and boldness of the Iowa Democratic convention are shown in the anti-trust plank. The remedy for trusts is the "repeal of the protective tariff"--of the whole tariff, not merely of the duties on trust-con­ trolled goods. This alone indicates with what deliberation and thoughtful- ness the platform was framed. Is there a Democrat who really believes that Iowa will vote against a protective tariff and the pacification of the Phil­ ippines? The platform was drawn and adopted by men who know that they had nothing to lose.--Chicago Evening Post. Brjranitea Are Blind. It irould be quite proper for some of the Bryanized conventions to congrat­ ulate the farmers on their good crops and the, fair prices in prospect; the manufacturers on the merry music their machinery is making; the work- ingmen on having more to do than they have had for years; the borrowers of money on the declining rates of inter­ est; the railroads on the car famine they are contending with--but none of these things move the Bryanltes.-- Davenport Democrat ->. * Tronblestme Proaperit; When the Wilson-Gorman bill was getting In its deadly work, nearly all of the railroads in the country were in the hands of receivers; now that the agent of prosperity is oh deck they are troubled because of their Inability to revive all the freight which offers it­ self.--San Francisco Chronicle. Political Points. Bryan is the logical candidate of the Democrats, in the opinion of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, because: "His logic matches that of the party to a shade." A Zanesville, Ohio, saloonkeeper says: "We made more money out of the Democratic convention in one day than we did out of the Republican convention in three." Senator Foster of Washington says: "Washington Is henceforth to be class­ ed as a reliable Republican State. Fui eion between the Democrats and Pops eannot be consummated any more, for Flue Restraint. The courtesy and the tine artistic 1q»; stilict of the Japanese are to be found' in every detail of their private life. Not only do they make beautiful pieces of work, but they insist upon beauty of behavior. Even their funerals are controlled by this unerring instinct. A writer In the New York Ledger saya that he once tried to comfort a poor Japanese woman who was cronching beside her dying husband, and con­ trolling herself by an effort which seemed to shake her very being. "Cry," I said; "it will do you good." She laid her slim brown finger upon her trembling red lip and shook her head. "It might disturb him," she whis­ pered. The next day came and the man was dead. Then the wife lay prostrate un­ der extreme grief and the strain of this long-enforced self-control. Again I said to her, "Cry! It will do you good." But the soft reply came quick­ ly: "It would be most rude to make a hideous noise before the sacred dead." ft TO nit Great Sahara Desert Mar Soma PaV Become mn Inland £ea Again. •3MfW peopte roallse how complete of bits years the surface aspect ot this wessened old globe of ours has been al- tered and improved. And* what baa been done is but an Infinitesimal frac­ tion of that Which may, and doubtless will, be done. Who can doubt, for in­ stance, that the great Sahara Desert- that mole upon the world's face--will one day be but a memory? It was an inland sea once. It would not be a very difficult matter to convert It Into one again. A canal sixty miles long coimecflng with the Atlantic, the vast depression which rims close up to the coast nearly midway between the twentieth and thirtieth parallels of latitude, would do the business beautifully. The water would not of course, cover the entire surface of the desert Here and there are portions tying above the sea level. These would become the Islands of the new Sahara Ocean. What would be the results that would ensue upon this stupendous transfor­ mation? Some would be good and some bad. Among the latter may be men­ tioned the probable destruction of the vineyards of southern Europe, which depend for their existence upon the warm, dry winds from the great Afri­ can desert. As some compensation for this, how­ ever, the mercantile marines of the nations affected would be enabled to gain immediate and easy access to vast regions now given over to barbarism, and a series of more or less flourishing seaport towns would spring up all along the southern borders of Morocco and Algeria, where the western water­ shed of the Nile sinks into the desert, and on the northern frontier of the Congo Free State. In a Similar manner the greater por­ tion of the central Australian desert covering an area of fully a million square miles, might be flooded. The island continent would then be recon­ verted into a gigantic atoll, and would resemble, roughly, an oval dish, of which the depressed central portion would be covered with water and only the "rim" Inhabited. In this connection it may be interesting to note that a company has actually been formed for submerging the Yuma Desert in south­ ern California. If the plan as at pres­ ent proposed Is carried out a tract of absolutely uninhabitable territory com­ prising nearly 13,000 square miles, and the greater portion of which lies be­ tween 500 and 1,000 feet below sea lev­ el, wHl be submerged, v r ^ ,, The Weak Eyes of Humanity. It has been reckoned by good author­ ities on the subject of eyesight that only In one case out of fifteen are both eyes in good condition. In seven' cases out of ten people possess one eye which Is stronger than the other. In two cases out of five there Is more or less astigmatism Or distortion of the visual image, while nearly 50 per cent have only an imperfect appreciation of colors. Much poring over books In badly lighted rooms Impairs it; work In the open air Improves it. Shepherds and sailors have good eyesight, and In gen­ eral savage tribes, which depend upon hunting for subsistence, have the keen­ est eyesight Of civilized people, the eyesight of the Norwegians Is the best while the wretched and despised "Bushmen" of South Africa have vis- Ion so sharp as to deserve the name of •human telescopes." Color-blindness Is far leas prevalent among uncivilized races. Costly Book No One Beads. Over 100 volumes of the Rebellion Records have been published by the government, at a cost of $2,600,000. A public library In a town near Boston has a full set and the librarian says In his report: "When Henry B. Pierce was alive he used to look at some of them once In a while, but now there is only one man who ever calls for any of the set. He seems to be greatly in­ terested in the battles in which his father fought We can hardly afford the space for the Rebellion much longer."- -Boston Journal. Potato Crop First. Of all the staple crops of the world the potato takes the first place, the an­ nual crop being more than 4,000,000,000 bushels, against 2,500,000,000 bushels of wheat and 2,COO,000,000 bushels of corn. Of the total potato crop Europe produces fully seven-eights, and one- half times as much as her wheat and all the cereals together are but 50 per cent. more. Advance of Religion In AfMoa. Twenty years ago there was a missionary in Uganda, Africa, where there is a population of 10,000.000 now. There are 500 churches and 600 teach­ ers. Gilbert Parker Is gathering materia* in Egypt for a new novel. George W. Cable's book, "Strong Hearts," Is mid to be having good sates In England. Sir Walter Sett's "Kenllworth" has been abridged Mary H. Norrls for school reading, .., Over 100,000 copies of Kipling's "Cap­ tains Courageous" and "Jungle Books" have been sold thus far this year. "How to Cook Husbands" Is,as might be expected from the title, a story brim­ ful of clever, felicitous hits. It is by Elisabeth Strong Worthington. According to Literature: "Mr.' Doo- ley" is a favorite with the English pub­ lishers. He appears under all sorts of covers, and $t ap^ price, from one pen­ ny up. Mary J. Saffofd has translated Georg Ebers' folk story, "The King and Queen of Mollebusch." This is said to be the first appearance in English of this charming tale. John Kendrlck Bangs attended a crowded reception recently, and, on coming away, told his wife he "realized exactly how a nickel felt when It was dropped Into a slot" Rider Haggard has written a book called "A Farmer's Year," which Is an account of the author's own observa­ tions on his farm in Surrey. Mr. Hag­ gard has lived the life of an English squire and son of a squire since long before be was heard of as a novelist. When Stevenson first visited the edit­ or of a prominent magazine in New York, presenting a letter of Introduc­ tion, and asking to be allowed to write something, the editor eyed blm dispas slonately and told him that his stufi would hardly do. Nine years passed In the meantime the "stuff" had been disposed of elsewhere, and the literary journals were filled with notes about the new author. In the full blaze of his fame, he paid another visit to Amer­ ica. Among the first to leave cards at Mr. Stevenson's hotel was the aforesaid editor of the aforesaid magazine. Mr. Stevenson had a very retentive mem­ ory. He rolled a cigarette and repeated the incident "How provoking!" said the editor. "I wonder which of my clerks could have been so discourteous to you." Stevenson lighted his cigar­ ette, and replied mildly, and with his usual beautiful smile: "Why, now I re­ call his face. You are the man I saw." AflLDCVt MONUMENT DEDICATED Qvsst flukft to Pead Soldlere Views* hy Thoasanda of Visitors. ThsAia Indiana monuments and mark­ ers and the Wilder brigade monument at Chickamanga Park were dedicated at Chickamauga Park in the-presieoce of 10,- 000 people. About 4,000 old soldiers from Illinois and Indiana were present The ceremonies began with the dedication of th* Indiana monuments and markers. These represent an expenditure of about $80,000, by the State of Indiana. Gov. Mount delivered the address, formally turning the monuments over to the Gov­ ernment. An address was also delivered by Gen. James R. Carnahan, a member of the Indiana park commission. The monuments were received with^ an appro­ priate speech by Gen. H. V. Boynton on behalf of the Secretary of War. Following the dedication of the Indiana monuments the Wilder brigade tower was dedicated. This tower represents an ex- THE WILD BR MONUMKNT. When a woman worries herself to death about her husband's getting so thin It's generally because she Is get­ ting so stout--New York Press. Kxcbautre of Compliments. A dime museum had among its Cari­ osities an "Armless Wonder" and a "Legless Marvel," whose peculiar claims to the notice of mankind may be inferred from these titles. The manager of the museum promul­ gated a rule that all excuses for ab­ sence on the part of the living "freaks," caused by sickness or accident must be handed in two days before pay day. "He says they must be 'handed in,'" remarked the Legless Marvel to the Armless Wonder. "I should think you would come down flat-footed against that." "Perhaps so," replied the Armless Wonder, "but at any rate you p^t kick.*** • Y, ̂'̂ ^Iknocteed1 Jtini out: • Stubb--Listen to this: "A player sent a ball out of sight, but a minute later It came down on a bleaclierite's head." Perm--Hin! That must be one of penditure of $18,000 by the members of the Wilder brigade, and it is the most imposing and massive monument on the national battlefield. At the Wilder shaft Maj. James A. Connolly of Springfield, 111.; Gen. Smith D. Atkins.of Freeport, 111., and others spoke. The speech of Col. Tomlinson Fort of Chattanooga was the first ever delivered by a Confederate veteran on Chickamauga battlefield at the dedication of a monument to Union soldiers of the civil war. N. B* Forrest Camp, Confederate veterans, was pres­ ent clad in uniforms of gray. The monument is constructed of lime­ stone quarried from the hills in the vi­ cinity of the park. It is seventy-five feet high and is an embattled circular tower resting on a square base twenty-feet In dimension. A spiral stairway on the in­ side leads to the top, from which a view of the entire park is obtained. The cost of the monument completed was about $10,000, the entire amount having been contributed by the members of the brig­ ade, Gen. Wilder himself being the most liberal contributor. ASKS QUEEN TO INTERVENE. President Kruger Appeals to Victoria to Prevent Bloodshed. London advices say that President Krager's cablegram to the Queen, asking for peace will likely prolong the delay and possibly result in a conference. The pres­ ident of the Transvaal assumes high mor­ al grounds and argues with great earnest­ ness. It is difficult to see how the Queen can ignore the appeal. There are con­ siderations that will modify the effect of the petition--its tardiness and the fact that the Transvaal Government had ap­ pealed to the continental powers previ­ ously. A Meanwhile the preparations for war continue with every evidence of bellicose industry on both Bides. Double forces are working at the royal arsenal and dock­ yards to equip and transport tseops to the cape. All factories making the par­ aphernalia of war are working overtime on large orders. The reply of President Steyn of the Orange Free State to the note of Sir Al­ fred Milnef is far more diplomatic than pacific. It Is thought that the Free State raad will plunge into war at its first opportunity. The Boer activity in preparing for hostilities is not lew than the British. Hie distribution of rifles goes on with increased* rapidity and the massing on the frontier is nearing com­ pletion. The Uitlander council, as the result of meetings held at Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg, decided to address a com­ munication to the British high commis­ sioner, Sir Alfred Milner, urging the in* periai Government to break off negotis* tions with the Transvaal. The reasons for this action are that "the severe dis­ tress prevailing may compel the remaia* Ing Uitlanders to accept any compromise offered, that loyal British subjects are becoming discontented and that great un­ rest existsamong the natives." WHITE DOLLARS ARE SCARCE. mt JefTersoh, Fayette K:uie ....... Calhoua .... Kendall .... Will M<nroe Edwards it.. White ...... Alexander V, Lee Lawrence .., Whiteside .. Randolph ... Perry Putnam,.... Itond Jasver ,4..,, Washington Bureau ..... McLean .... Jacksoli .... Wabash .... •*83,76# 57MR 47*^837 vsM* 283,856 349,785 8MI0 -IM&ik: 4&134 The auditor of public a ceived reports of the asa«nmi||||' the new revenue law from- se#eilA«| coitnties since the last repc^^fti' in this column. The reporte d!!* total assessment and the inoisie m f*. create a*,«ompared with last year, lot- , Total ... assessment. In& Henderson $2,497,804 . . . 2 . 0 2 3 , 0 3 6 ... 2,626,728 ...14,283,627 ... 984,333 ... 3,281,852 ...... ...13,275,048 1,836,410 ... 1,943.512 ... 1,113,803 ... 1,988.615 ... 1,784,271 ... 8,22*,692 ... 1,531,638 ... 7,571,420 ... 2,742.678 1,781,737 ... 1,061,712 .... 1,406,672 . . . 1 , 7 3 1 . 2 8 1 .... 2,280,047 . . . 8 , 7 1 * 1 , 7 6 2 . . . . . . ...17,588.966 1,808,312 2,131,705 .... 1,412,986 74,990 581,518 280,72B ai&Mi 17,1 . . ssMar 906,90* m,nm 118,086 25&W2 Uncle Earn Will Not Mow Take Gold is Kxcbauee for r liver. It may he an astonishing statement to say that the United States Government refuses to accept gold of its own coinage In exchange for silver dollars, but that is what at least one sub-treasurer is ac­ tually doing. The complaint comes from St. Louis, where the sub-treasurer de­ clines to exchange silver dollars except f >r silver certificates. Neither gold nor bank notes will tempt the white coins from his vaults. It is quite possible for the United States treasury to reach a point where a general order will be is­ sued to all sub-treasurers forbidding them to exchange silver dollars for gold, na­ tional bank notes or any other form of currency except silver certificates. Uncle Sam presents the remarkable spectacle of trying to get rid of gold and of hoarding silver. The treasury stock of fractional silver is down to $8,456,899, and there is no law for buying any more bullion for this coinage. Government officials fear the entire stock of small silver will be called into circulation be­ fore Congress can take action to meet the great demand. A SUICIDAL RACE. In accordance with the recommendation of the board of pardons the Governor has refused clemency to the following appli­ cations: Fred Bock, Kane County, con­ victed of murder; Samuel Filiger, Cook, receiving stolen property; Daniel North, Livingston, manslaughter; John Bell.and William O'Neill, Cook, highway robbery; John Lenly, Massac, murder; Jesse Ad­ ams, Christian, manslaughter; Best Shrieve, Champaign, grand laroeay; Jhuft- ford A. Shaw, Jersey, murder; WUBam Johnson, Alexander, murder;. PtWSk man,, Cook, larceny ; Thomas Perkins ̂ Cook, assault to rob. The game laws of the State provide that prairie chickens, which are unusu­ ally plentiful this year, may be shot, be­ tween Aug. 31 and Oct 1; mourning doves between Sept. 1: 1; squirrels between Sept 1 and Dw. 15; snipe and plover between Sept and April 15; wild geese, docks and BMAttaa between Sept 1 and Apm is. ». (*» game law went into effect OB It provides that the game watdlik imef/ Vt- rest persons violating its ptoyMwU lilt^. ont a warrant A committee of citisens Of which George E. Adams Is raised $1,800 toward purchasing a fljtttic* of plate for the battleship Illliwte,-liiftk& is soon to be placed In subscriptions being limited to n&:: amount of $200 is still lacking f»|j the requisite sum and Gov. TattHi^l sent personal appeals to a of prominent men throughout the Stat*, aak- ing them to subscribe $25 each toward the remainder. The State Board of Equalisation has adopted a resolution providing for the ap­ pointment of two clerks tot each eosamitr tee instead of one. These Jft per diem and are distributed-aftM# the committees as follows: Battroads, 9L & o--i "^6^" <sas^ ney, Toulon; general equalisatkm* |«ola Cass of Danville and Minnie B. Dq||U of Champaign; corporations, EL C. Clark of Rock Island. Attorney General Akin rendered an opinion the other day that the medical practice act of 1899 does not prohftft the treatment of disease by mental or spirit­ ual methods by Christian sciential* or others where no medicine is ttM^ iad that where a person dies dui$aff soch treatment it is not an offense U criminal code of Illinois. Gov. Tanner has appointed (X worth, Resident of the Beorit kin Union Railroad, his sped*! examine into the accounts of nois Central Railroad in the Illinois, as provided by the coi and statutes, to make a report findings to the executive. whttt completed the work. ;1;% Adjt Gen. Reese has issued an-: ei&er accepting the resignation of AittW/O. Mcintosh as first lieutenant of H, Sixth infantry. An honoratSe. die- charge has been granted Private R. C. White, Troop A, First cavalry. Gov. Tanner has pardoned Walter Hal-' hurt, who is serving a sentence in Joiiet penitentiary for killing William at Westville, Sept 13,1898. The paidon is granted on the ground of previous good character. •c; Bohemians Organise Many tatleMe Clubs. A plan by which it is sought to revolu­ tionise the social customs of Bohemians In the United States has been undertaken among the 100,000 members of the race in Chicago, by the Bohemian brotherhood of America. The brotherhood, which is a secret organization and represents a va­ riety of religious beliefs, makes the bold declaration that the prevalence of agnos­ ticism among Bohemians has resulted in suicides in such numbers as almost • to threaten the extermination of their race. The brotherhood asserts that Bohe- ^rnians are accustomed to form bands se­ cretly among themselves for the express purpose of inducing suicides by the wholesale and the plans of the crusade, set forth with explicit frankness, con­ template a movement that will check this wu-tvri Short State item . .: Peoria merchants complain of a Car famine. Galesburg h|s twenty miles of brick pavement--more than any other city the world. ; William H. Rose, brother of James Rose, Secretary of State, died at his home at Golconda. He was about 70 years old. The explosion of a gasoline stove cau»- ed the destruction by fire of six dwellings occupied by Swedish people In Irving Park. In 1871 John A. Harris, a law student, died and left an estate valued now at $25,000, which he directed by will be used to found a law school in Cartbs- ville bearing his name. The fund waa im accumulate for fifteen years. Ex-United States Senator John M. Palmer and the four other trustees say the property haa not increased sufficiently to carry out the plan as originated and they have filed a " bill in the Macoupin County Circuit Goeit % asking that the will be contsrued no that the fund can be turned over to Blackburn University or to the distant heirs. Ca*> - ", ; linville citizens are working to have the ; t $25,000 turned over to Blackburn. \ * Work will be commenced at once Ml " * • the new cellulose factory of the Marsdefc " % Company at Peoria. The company t£ prepared to pay when its plant is coat" pleted $6 a ton for corn stalks. ' ^ The annual Wheatland plowing match was held on the William Stark farm, southeast of Aurora. The attendanse was fully 5,000. The sweepstake pria* was won by Cyrus, Stark. % M. B. Carroll, agent for the United States Express Company at Jolie^ Sa whose accounts a shortage is said to have been found, committed suicide in Ja<9p{Nk Park, Chicago, by djiuking poison Edward C. Allen, lumber manufacture! of Cairo, has iiled a voluntary petit! in bankruptcy in the United States trict Court. Liabilities $29,299.84. sets not given. The days of chivalry have not in Rock island. A highwayman city who had relieved a lady of hi took therefrom a dainty lace chief and banded it to her with a bow. Thomas Levan of Peru, a the priesthood, has been the archbishop to a course highest ecclesiastic school Catholic church, that is sit is ggldom given ;