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VOLUME XXVI. •' v • V"" V. x. > McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1900. NUMBER 3 GENERAL COUNTY NEWS, INFORMATION • GATHERED FHOM VARIOUS SOURCES.' Some of the Happentnp In our County In Condensed Form for Busy People-- Exchange Gleanings. Ernest Merchant, of Ridgefield, had the misfortune to lose part of one finger in a trap door at Westerman & Garri­ son's store, recently. Pearl Lines, a prominent resident of Hebron and well known throughout the county, dropped dead in that village Tuesday. Heart disease was the cause and his death, sudden and unexpected as it was, is mourned by a large circle of friends. Friday night, June 6th, at 1 o'clock, occurred the death of Mrs. Stephen J. Andrews, of Hebron, who died of can­ cer of the stomach. Her age was 68 and she had been married 48 years. Mrs. Andrews was the mother of two children, George and Nellie. J. C. Button, of Ridgefield." had the misfortune to injure his eye last week. He was using a hammer and a part of the steel broke and Btruck him in the eye. He was taken to Woodstock and Dr. Windmueller was obliged to cut the particle of steel out. Mr. Button is doing as well as could be expected, al­ though his eye is very painful at present. Win. Rokite, almost a gibbering idiot, was picked up by Marshall Henderson Friday of last week. William was prowling around residences, shaking windows and making himself a nuisance on a hot day. As he explained it, he forgot that he had 2 cents in his pocket or he would not have been trying to beg something to eat. The marshall shipped him on the afternoon train to his brother at Oak Park.--Nunda Herald. With an even half dozen fresh pullets' eggs, Ahira Thompson placed on our table a specimen of hen's egg, "hard to beat," measuring 6± inches around the short way, and 9 inches the long way, that is the long and short of it. It is a double yolker of course, and while Mrs. Biddy ordinarily does not lay out her sisters, she once in a while puts on airs and shows them what she can do. In all other respects she is a model of pro­ priety.--Marengo Republican. At the farm of M. McAuliffe is Sen­ eca, on Friday last, occurred the death of Julius No. 20712, a fine thoroughbred Percheron stallion belonging to the Kishwaukee Horse Go. This fine ani­ mal was purchased from A. H. Briggs, of Elkhorn, last January, as a 3-year- old, and was valued at $1,800. The veterinary who attended him pro­ nounced it a case of poisoning, as the animal was ill but a few hours, but its owners dislike to believe that anyone would be guilty of such a heinous of­ fence. Mr. McAliffe and his fellow- losers are entitled to the sympathy of all in the severe loss they have sustained by the death of this fine animal.--Wood­ stock Sentinel. HERE AND THERE. About Newspapers. The Ghenoa Gazette, formerly owned by H. O. Hedges has been leased by L, R. McDonald, Mr. McDonald is an old - newspaper man and will no doubt give his readers a good paper. J. W. Hardy has leased the Capron Sentinel to E. E. Vail. Mr. Vail says: "I do not afsume the management of this office 'with fear and trembling,' for I have'spent my lifetime in a print­ ing office and know that it takes more hard work than running a threshing machine and more, far more discretion than is required of the minister pleni­ potentiary and envoy extraordinary to Turkey to make a newspaper acceptable to allf' From the looks of the first paper issued under Mr. Vail's manage­ ment we should say Gapron will have a local paper as good as*any of 'em. ,ry-"" Church Note*. * Presiding Elder. F. A. Hardin, will preach at the M. E. church next Sunday evening. The fourth Quarterly Conference of the M. E. church will be held next Sat­ urday, at 11 a. m., at the church. All trustees and stewards are requested to be present. Services have been discontinued in the Universalist church until the .'first Sunday in September. Mrs. William Hutson will give ar. ice cream festival at her hotjne on Friday evening, July 27, for the benefit of the M. E. church. Let every one' t and enjoy a good dish of ice creai a pleasant social time will be th: Remember the date, Friday, Ju; The M. E. Sunday School will hold their annual picnl Thursday, one week , from tod takee Bay has been selected as Rev. J. Straub represented Ifenry and Ringwood Y. P. Oft. A MtceelLaneouii Aggregation of Informa­ tion Interesting to All. The Modern Woodmen are agitating the question of building a national home for aged and helpless members. The plain is to levy a per capita tax of $1 for a building fund and to tax each member 10 cents yearly for the expense of main­ tenance.--Ex. Lombard University at Galesburg has recently received a bequest of $8000 from Judge Sylvanus Wilcox, of Elgin. William G. Waterman, of Barringtou, also made a bequest to the same institu­ tion of $25,000. Lombard university is a universalist institution. Great preparations are being made at Glenwood Springs, Lake Geneva, for the dedication of the new steamer owned by Gapt. Johnson, which is to be called the City of Aurora. It is expected that Samuel Alschuler, Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois, will be present and make a speech. E. P. Klemn, a brakeman in the em­ ploy of the Northwestern road, was killed Tuesday in the transfer yards at West Chicago. He ran ahead of the train to open a switch and caught his foot in a frog. The engineer was un­ able to Btop And he was run over and badly mangled. His home was in De- Kalb. . He sat in the dOor on noonday, lone­ some and glum and sad, and Hies were buzzing around him, led by a winged gad, not a shadow darkened his portals, IN THE GRAIN THE HUM OF THE THRESHING MA* CHINE AGAIN HEARD. Corn Looks Very Promising ('rup» Gener­ ally will be above the ATerage--Farinerft not Finding much Fault. This month is the dullest in the whole year in many occupations, but there are other occupations in which the month is the busiest and most important of the whole twelve. T^Jie farmers and threshers Are now beginning to hustle: for of what, use was the tilling of the soil, the planting of the seed and all the toil; expended on their crops, if the ripened grain is not secured ? Last week here and there about the country were harvesting machines cutting oats, but these were exceptions, and some quit after a few acres were cut the oats being found too ?reen. But this week, weather favoring, the oat harvest commenced in earnest. There has been this year, as there is every year, a variance of opinion as to the condition of crops. Some sincere farmers are sure to think that because their oats are down or their corn un­ even that the same condition prevails all over the country and the crops will be poor. The people who do much driving through different sections of the coui.- try are best able to judge. They say that the oat crop is well above the average. Some oats are down, but the proportion as to .the wh )le crop is sinal1. Corn gives every promise of an abun- BRIEF NOTES. Regarding What Is Going on In Around. ie World 1 Inoculations for the plagne are made in Bombay at the rate of about 5*000 a week. Germany^ Austria, Sweden, Norway and Italy are now training dogs for use in war. The total casualty list in Chicago for the six days of intense hot weather is as follows: Deaths, 52; prostrations. 85. Wood-pulp paper as military cloth­ ing is used by the Japanese troops. It is marvelously tough and has a neat ap­ pearance . The coral roads of Bermuda are the finest in the world for cycling. They are as smooth as a dancing floor and are never dirty. Douglas Walker, was shot and killed by his brother-in-law, Albert Boyle, at Kingman, Kan., as the result of a family quarrel. Ten years ago New South Wales and Victoria were about equal in population but the former is now considerably ahead of its sister colony. Since 1842 the population of England, Scotland and Wales has increased 75 per cent, while Ireland shows a de­ crease of nearly 45 per cent. Ella Grne, aged 18 years, aninmate of the Massillon, O., state hospital for the insane, committed suicide by strangling herself with her stocking. She came from Akron 1 mm 3) \\Vf i m\u ,vVv\#\W second place on the list, Belgium being third, with 478; Germany fourth, with 484; Great Britain fifth, with 412 r and Austria sixth, with 408. Virgil Earp, youngest of fourbrOthers of that name who gained national fame by bloody affrays with cowboys in Ari­ zona, was killed at Wilcox, Cal., by John Boyett, between whom and Earp bad blood had existed for years. A flower kqown as the laughing plant which grows in Arabia, is so called be­ cause its seeds produce effects similar to those produced by laughing gas. The flowers are of a bright yellow, while the seeds resemble Small black beans. A wealthy engineer recently talked his last will and testament into a phono­ graph. Then with a hot copper wire he signed his name on the wax roll of the phonograph, the witnesses doing like­ wise. and the document was thereupon completed. George Sclioening and Willian Grab were killed and Fred Frige Was prob­ ably fatally injured at Columbus, 111., Saturday. The three men were in a buggy that was demslished by a train at Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern rail­ way crossing., JThe practice of taking arsenic in mi­ nute dos*s is very prevalent among the peasantry of the mountainous districts >f Austria-Hungary and France. They declare that this poison enables them to ascend with ease heights which they could not otherwise climb. A requisition was issued by Governor Tanner this morning on the governor of Michigan for the return to this state of J. Bader, under arrest at Kalamazoo. Bader is wanted at Chicago to answer to a charge of obtaining money by false representation. The body of Joseph Guepe, of Fonddu Lac, Wis., was found floating in the lake at Briggsville. Guepe was married six weeks ago and was visiting his wife's family near Briggsville when he myster­ iously disappeared. He was subject to heart disease, and it is supposed that he died from an attack of the trouble and fell from his boat into the lake while fishing, as the lungs contained little or uo water. , • A Lawn Party. Miss Edna Story gave a very delight- ful lawn party in honor, of. her friend, Miss Vera Fitzsimmons, of Chicago, last Thursday evening. The grounds surrounding the pleasant cottage home presented a very picturesque appear­ ance. A large Japanese umbrella was suspended in the center and the twink­ ling lights of many Chinese lanterns most beautifully illuminated the scene. Dainty refreshments were served. guests were: Messrs.-- Harry Fay Charlie Fallows Frank Cobb Charlie Lasch Will Rosing Charlie Slimpin Grover Kimball Misses. -- « Rose Justen Florence Howe Katie Heimer - Etta Siuies Vera Fitzsimmons. Martin Howell Frank Price George Howe Will Bitner Orten Gilbert Elmer Francisco Rosina Reynolds Lillie McGee Pearl Lincoln Winnie Dermont KESIDENCE OK ATTORNEY CHARLES P. HA8NE8, WOODHTOCK, IUUNOIS not a sign of bnsiness the flies kept on a buzzing about the old man's hair; at last in misery he shouted "Great Scott! I'm covered with flies." And the zephyrs that toyed with his whiskers whispered: "Why don't you advertise?" Frank Howard Collier, the eccentric Chicago lawyer, has filed a suit for di­ vorce against Miss Carrie B. Hayes, daughter of a former superintendent of schools at Elkhorn, Wisconsin. She was stenographer in his office two years ago and a short time since fled from Rock Island to avoid his attentions. The filing of the divorce proceedings is the first intimation the public ,?has re­ ceived of any claim of marriage. Farmers south of Sterling report that cattle are going blind in large number?, d they are unable to find a remedy check the strange malady. All ilasses of cattle, from the calf to the w, are attacked. The symptoms are st noticeable when the eyes begin water. This lasts about three days and is followed by a white "scum" or skin forming over eyeball, closing the sight. After this peculiar formation the pupil turns red and disappears from the eyebalL I M?1 dant yifld, though their is occasionally] A piaze has been offered by a German sociew' for the best design for an elec-a bad field of »corn, and a little that is uneven It is not likely that there will be any great cut in prices as the cost and ex­ pense of operating for threshing ma­ chines will not permit. There are a large number of threshing outfits in this vicinity and competition will be brisk. The PoiRonona Pineapple. "It is a noujuious fact," says The Na­ tional Pnjg&ist, "that the pineapple is consi&r^l flie least healthy of all the edible fruits of the tropics by those who know anything of the matter. The juice of the green and growing plant is credited in Java, the Philippines and throughout the far east geuerallj; with being a blood poison of a most deadly , He announces that he will leave the nature. It is said to be the substance Rockford heaven at once. trie railway upon which trains can tra­ vel at the rate of 125 miles an hour. Oliver Mills, of Wabash, Ind., was kicked in the head by a horse and fatally injured. His skull was fractured and two deep gashes were cut over the right eye. The Telephone was first practically used In England in 1876, when over 115 miles of wire existed between London and Norwich, but no telephone exchange was established until 1879. George Jacob Schweinfurth, claimed by followers to be the Messiah and true Son of God, has renounced his failh. with which the Malays poison their | krishes and daggers and is also credit- ! ed with being the 'finger nail poison' ! formerly in use among al>original Jav- • anese women almost univei sally. 1 These women formerly (or some thir­ ty odd years ago), and possibly do yet, cultivated a nail, sometimes more, on each hand, to a long, sharp point, and the least scratch from one of these was certain death." For results, advertise in this paper. The death of Earle Walter Blodgett, at Manila, is announced. He was for years a leading merchant in that city, and was involved in many difficulties owing to the Spanish hatred of Ameri­ cans. According to the Automobile Al­ manac for 1900 there are at present in use in the United States 688 automobiles, or about one-tenth the number in France. The United States occupies School Entertainment. At the city Hall on Friday evening of next week, July 27, will be given an entertainment which our citizens both young and old should not fail to attend. The proceeds are to be used for the purpose of decorating and beautifying our school and is a cause well worthy of your patronage. A fine program is being prepared, and the committee having this in charge are sure to get up something that will both interest and please you. After the program ice cream and cake will be served and a real social time may be expected: The admission, includiag the enter­ tainment, ice cream and cake will be only 15 cents. Let every body turn out have a good social time and make it a rousing bene­ fit for tne school. Remember the time and place. City Hall, Friday evening of next week. July 27. . Id Fifty-four Year* Old. George W. Besley celebrated his fifty- fourth birthday last Tuesday, July 17. Mr. Besley has been in business in Mc- Henry for twenty-one years and during that time, by upright and honest deal­ ing, has made a host of friends who trust he may live to enjoy many more anniversaries and that each milestone will be passed here among his friends. . Ojpen Air Concert. The McHenry Military Band gave the second open air concert of the season, in the park, last Tuesday evening. These concerts have been very popular and the people deeply appreciate the efforts made for public entertainment. The Lady Forresters served ice cream to the pleasure seekers. IS ACAINST THE WORLD fftANY COMPLICATIONS LIKELY TO ARISE, 'jU, The Boxers Issued Their First Proclama­ tion--China Prepared for a Long Siege-- Horrible Crimea Committed. While evidence accumulates* daily' > that China has long been preparing formidable military organization in an- ticipation of the present conflict, and * that the area of rebellion is continually V i extending, harmony among the allies, 1^ ;; which is necessary to meet such a grave situation, is still deplorably lacking. The Russians have refused Admiral Sey-' mour's request to" hand over the restored Takn-Tien-Tsin railway to the English company, and it is rumored that Ger­ many purposes taking a serious inde­ pendent step--namely, to patrol the Yang-Tse-Kiang with German men-of- war. Such a step would be greatly re­ sented by England. Still more alarming news has been conveyed to the Daily Express from Tokio, to the effect that the apparent reluctance of Germany and Russia to consent to a Japanese commander for, the army corps has led the Japanese' government to delay the forwarding of* the division already mobilized. The London Standard editorially sayB: "It is useless any longer to hide from ourselves the fact that China has de­ clared war on civilization, and has plunged into the conflict with rabid frenzy. It is equally futile to discuss whether hostilities are being waged by the Chinese government, inasmuch as it is evident that an administration of • some kind exists and is directing the anti-foreign movement. Unless un­ mistakable evidence exculpating the Pekin* government is promptly forth­ coming, the powers should treat China as a belligerent stale and act accord­ ingly. " The first Boxer proclamation has made its appearance in Shanghai. It declares that Kwan, the war God, de­ sires the blood of foreigners, and threat­ ens ten plagues if the Boxer tenets are not followed and spread. The Governors of the provinces Hn Nan, Hu Pi, and Ho Nan have now •openly j©ia«*L.Prinea Tuaou and marching overl&sd with their armies to Pekin. A German relief column, sent into the interior of the province of Shan­ tung to endeavor to rescue a party of thirty missionaries, German, American, and English, has returned without hav­ ing obtained any tidings of their where-- abouts, and it is feared that all have been slain. Admiral Seymour's dispatches give the latest news regarding the situation at Tien-Tsin. The moral effect of the successes of the allied forces npon the Chinese is believed to be very great. General Gazelee and staff, with aforoe of Punjab infantry, arrived yesterday at Hong-Kong and proceeded for Taku. The French consul at Shanghai, at a reception Saturday, made an im­ passioned speech. He said: "The history of the world Can show no parallel to such a situation, and if the abominable crime, the mere thought of which makes us shudder, has been perpetrated, then it is our desire that swift and summary punishment shall fall upon the perfidious nation which committed it. Our government is fully aware of the danger in which we are placed, and I can assure you that we are doing all in our power to avenge the noble victims of Chinese barbarity." Following is the text of an appeal of Americans in China, assembled in mass meeting in Shanghai, to their fellow- citizens at home: "Urge the government to send adequate forces to act effectively in con­ cert with the other powers. At present the American forces are quite dispropor­ tionate to the interests involved. Our commercial interests in the northern provinces are paramount, and we con­ sider it a humiliating policy to instruct to other powers the chief task, that of protecting Americans. "Anti-foreign outrages are multiply­ ing daily. Officials and missionaries are massacred. The fate of the Ministers and their families in Pekin is not known, but a general massacre is apprehended. Wholesale massacres of native Christ­ ians continue. The whole country is terrorized. Trade is paralyzed. On a Hot Sabbath. This story is told of a prominent preacher: On a hot sabbath as he was preaching he took from his pocket what he thought was his handkerckief, shook it out and wiped his face, intently talk­ ing all the' time. To his surprise, a broad smile was on every face in his audience, when he discovered that what he had put in his pocket for a handker­ chief that morning was a pair of his little child's drawers, the legs of which were (juite visible as he wiped the per­ spiration from his face.-- Homiletio Re- ^ t I view.