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VOLUME XXVI. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1900. NUMBER! 4 JENERAL COUNTY NEWS. INFORMATION GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Some of the Happenings in oar County in Condensed Form for Busy People-- Exchftnire Gleanings. Omer T. Rhodes, a welldigger by trade, died at the home of West. Fore­ man, aged 52 years. He was a member of a Pennsylvania regiment and served throughout the war of the rebellion. George W. Bennett, of Marengo, has been appointed a special agent of the rural free delivery service, on the recorr - iuendation of Congressman Hopkins. His salary will be $1,400 a year, with $4 per diem for expenses, and he will be assigned to duty in Illinois and neighbor­ ing states. Asad Udell, of Harvard, has just been appointed a deputy United States- ^mar­ shal. He was tendered the position by United States Marshall John Ames, un­ der whom hfe will work The portion is one of responsibility and pays a fair salary. Mr. Udell's headquarters -will be in Chicago. Geo. Smith, a farmer residing south of Capron, was bitten by a rattlesnake >ne day last week. Mr. Smith was mowing and while reaching to the ground to raise the sickle bar the ser­ pent struck him between the first and second fingers. For a time the hand swelled and turned the color of the snake, but after receiving medical aid the wound began to--heal.--Harvard Herald. Mrs. Sally Cotting, widow of C. J. Cotting, will celebrate her 97th anniver­ sary this month at Richmond, 111. Her great granddaughter, Miss Jennie Ben­ nett, of Elgin, is spending a few days with her. Mrs. Cotting comes from a re­ markably long lived family. Her hus­ band died wheh past the 80th mile stone of life. He was a Chicago pioneer and built the first grist mills at Burlington, Wis., and at Richmond, 111.--Nunda Herald. Lightning struck the barn on the W m. Brandt farm three miles east of Algon­ quin, Monday afternoon, of last week, and in a short time the building burned to the ground, with a lot of hay and farm tools. Chas. Albright is a tenant on the farm. Two hired men standing near the barn when the bolt struck were stunned and fell to the ground. They soon recovered and were uninjured. Mr. Albright had just hauled the last load of his hay harvest into the barn, and was able to save the load by back­ ing the wagon out. Church Note*. The Willing Workers will meet with Mrs. E. M. Owen on Thursday afternoon o!: next week. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Ring- wood M. E. church will give an ice cream social at the home of Mrs. Win. Coates Thursday evening Aug. 2. A good program will be rendered at eight o'clock. The Ladies Aid society of the M. E. church will meet with Mrs. A. E. Auringer on Friday afternoon of this week at the usual hour. All are cor­ dially invited. Presiding Elder, F. A. Hardin preached in the M. E. church last Sun­ day evening. Services were held in the German Luthern church last Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Hutson will give a lawn- festival at her home on Friday evening of this week. The proceeds will be used for the benefit of M. E. church. Ice cream and cake will be served and a good social time is expected. Children'* Tea Party. Little Miss Myrtle Cobb entertained a number of her young friends at a tea party Wednesday afternoon of last week, the occasion being the annivei - s try of her ninth birthday. Games and music passed the time away very pleas­ antly until five o'clock when a dainty sapper was served. Miss Myrtle was the recipient of numerous gifts from her little friends which will serve as mementos of this delightful occasion. The guests were: Misses Clara Stoffel, Maggie Ward, Vera Barbian, Julia Stoffel, Marguerite Granger, Nellie Newman, Theresa Barbian, Freda Ber- ner. Masters Gerald Newman, Edwin Owen, Artie Keef, Charles Schoonmaker, Charles Newman, Lee Keef. A Family Dinner. A very pleasant family dinner was given at the residence of Hon. and Mrs. F. K. Granger last Sunday. The occa­ sion was planned in honor of the birth­ day anniversaries of the sons. <A. C., of Chicago, who celebrated his thirty- ninth birthday and Edward, of Mc- Henry, his twenty-sixth. An agreeable surprise was in store for Mr. A. C. Granger when he was presented with a life size crayon portrait of his father, which was the thoughtful gift of the mother. BRIEF NOTES. Regarding What Is Going oK^in the World Around. * Clement Lee, 78 years old, died at Washington, Ind. Mrs. S. D. Wack died at Carthage, 111., aged 85 years. Con Carver, 20, years old, was killed by a railroad train at Petersburg, 111. Alexander Proctor, a founder of the Campbellite Church, died at Kansas City, Mo. "*J" v v. •- .« Bernard Bosman, aft years old, was. drowned, while biith|ng at Holland, Mich. In a severe storm in the vicinity of Adrian, Mich., Charles Loomis was killed by lightening. Mrs. Anna M. Jones, of Marcus Hook, Pa., swallowed a lizard while drinking water and soon died. The 6-year-old daughter of Charles McCutcheon, near Canton," 111., has a li^ht case of smallpox. NO GROUND FOR HOPE. LONDON SATISFIED THAT ALL FOREIGNERS ARE DEAD. China Credited with Systematic Mendacity In Order to Complete Their Preparations For War. A dispatch dated London, July 26, says: Mr. Conger's letter, the substance of which has been transmitted to the United States Secretary of the Navy, through Captain Thomas of the United States cruiser Brooklyn, has increased the belief in London that there is no hope for the foreign legations in Pekin. and that the elaborate fabric of the dis­ patches which the Chinese are building to persuade the civilized world that tfce Ministers are still alive is only intended to enable them to gaiu time to complete preparations for warfare. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily mail asserts that a Chinaman who B A N D C O N C E R T iThe McHenry Military band will give another of those popular open air j concerts in the park Tuesday evening, July 81. The public is cordially in- • vited to be present and enjoy the music. The following is the program: j I 1. Medley Overture, "Living Pictures" Dalbey • 52. March, "From the Ameer"... f. Victor Herbert I 3. Waltz, "Carmen" J. Rosas • • 4. March, "Roaring Lion" Warren Bepbe • } TWENTY MINUTES INTERMISSION. G 1 5. Baritone Obligate). "Marengo". .W. A. Ripley j 6. Quick Step, "A Jolly March" .Dr. Otto Juettner i • 7. Comique, "Mr. Thomas Cat" Milt. H. Hall j j 8. Drum Solo, "American Guard March" Dr. G. C. Conterno | One of the warehouses of the Huttig Sash and Door company, of Muscatine, la., burned. Loss $80,000. Nicholas Heren, of Pekin, 111., a con­ tractor, was killed by a Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis passenger train. Miss Susan H. Landis, of Euphrala, Pa., recovered her speech after being dumb for six years, and died soon after. Victor Hahn in getting off a train at his home, Mount Vernon, la., stepped in front of another train and was killed. Edward Branger, of Buffalo, a deck hand on the tug C. E. Maytham, fell into the river at Fairport and was drowned. L. E. Chittenden, Register of the Treasury during the Lincoln adminis­ tration, died at Btirlington, Vt. He was 77 years old. David Brown, a hostler, shot and killed Mark Robinson and fatally wounded Frank Murphy at Newton, a suburb of Cincinnati. John Connor, of Erie, Pa., and Peter Kelly, of Steubenville, O., were struck by a train on the Ohio River railroad while driving and killed. John Eden, a coal miner, was shot and killed by Edward Martin, his brother-in-law_, at Decatur, 111, Martin gave himself up to the police. Seventy-five towns are represented at ^he annual meeting of the Indiana agents of the Ohio Farmers' Insurance company at Winona Lake, Ind. The death sentence of Lewis Thomas, a negro, who killed Joshua Sheldon in Cairo, 111., has been commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Tanner. At a mass meeting in Nashville, Tenn., to aid the India famine sufferers $100 was raised and committees were ap­ pointed to canvass the city for more. C. C. Mead and his wife, of Williams- ton, Mich., are held under $1,000 bail for alleged cruelty to their daughter, Lois,. 9 years old. The child tried to lirill herself. An east bound passenger train on the T., P. and W. railroad was derailed near PeOria, I1L Walter Ostenhout, engineer, and Louis Brink, fireman, were injured. The 7-year-old son of William Smith, a farmer, was burned to death, and Mrs. Smith and a 5-year-old son were fatally injured in a barn fire near Barae&ville, O. Peter Dennison was found near Park- ersburg, la., with his throat and wrists cut. A razor was found a short distance away. He is a carpenter, 23 years old. He cannot recover. King Alexander, of Servia, has pro-, claimed his betrothal to Mme. Draga Maschin, a widow, who was formerly a lady in waiting to Queen Natalie, the King's mother. , The barn of Moses Perry, near Pana, 111., was struck by lightening ahd de­ stroyed, together with seven horses, hay and farming implements. Twenty years ago Perry's sister was killed by lightening on the same spot. For results, advertise in this paper. was employed at the British legation as a writer and interpreter has escaped from Pekin to Niu Chwang and that he declares that at the time he left Pekin most of the members of the legation were dead and the condition of the others was hopeless He says that Sir Robert Hart, director of Chinese imper­ ial maritime customs, died on July 3. The correspondent goes on to say: "No other dates are given in the mes­ sage from Niu Chwang. The leading Chinese newspapers here published yes­ terday a dispatch declaring that it was all over with the members of the lega­ tions. The president of a minor board at Pekin wrote to a relative in Shanghai under date of July 9, saying: "The foreign legations are still un captured, but, owing to the daily fight­ ing, it is reported that only about 300 persons are left alive in the legations, and if there is any delay in the arrival of the relief force I fear that none will be left to receive it." "This letter is regarded in Shanghai as authentic. Strangely enough, it says nothing of any assistance to the legations by Prince Ching or General Yung Lu." While these brief side lights as to the fate of the Europeans leave little ground for hope, Shanghai sends a batch of reports indicative of preperations for hostilities on the part of the Chinese. It is alleged that the Yangtse Viceroys have sent deputies to Shanghai to in­ quire as to the prospect of raising a foreign loan, ostensibly to pursue mili­ tary operations against the Boxers,' whose movement is extending rapidly south ward with constantly growing strength and had reached a point where the provinces of Shantung, Honan, and Shansi meet, leaving behind it a trail of burned missions and murdered Christians. Auditors' Report. The following is the report of the Auditors of the M. W. A., from Janu­ ary 1, 1900, to June 30, 1900, inclusive: At the close of business December 30, 1899, there was in the benefit fund the sum of $156,503.50. During the six months covered by this report there has been paid into the benefit fund, as the proceeds of six assessments, the sum of $2,274,695.45, making the total of $2 431,- 198.95. The amotmt disbursed from said sum and paid to the benqjlciaries of deceased Neighbors during this period was $2,159,614.30, leaving a balance on hand, at the close of business, June 30, 1900, of $271,584.65. MIM Covell Entertains. Miss Jennie Covell very charmingly entertained a company of young lady friends at her pleasant country home Wednesday afternoon. The time was spent in social conversation until five o'clock when a dainty tea was served. The guests were: Misses Florence Searles, Lois Whiting, Carrie Colby, Lettie Ste­ vens, Ethel Smith, Mary Raymond, Hattie Howard, Stella Nordquist, Bernioe Perry, Eleanor McGee, Nellie Clemens, Jennie Covell, Alice Waite, and Mrs. W. C. Besley. HERE AND THERE. A Miscellaneous Aggregation of Informa­ tion Interesting to All. The wealthy widow of the late Adam Forepaugh lately married a poor bank clerk. It was real nice of her to give the young man a show. Fred Miller, who resides west of Dun­ dee, was kicked on the knee, Monday, by a horse. Luckily the knee cap was uninjured, and it is thought there is, np danger of permanent stiffening of the Knee. Love Bros.' Architectural Iron works turned out and shipped last week the enormous quantity of 350 tons of build­ ing steel. Their factory in crowded to its fullest capacity with orders ahead. -- Aurora Beacon. Lucius W. Parks has a very rare freak of nature at his home in Nel­ son. It is a five-legged pig. The little animal is healthy and fat and uses his extra leg and foot just the same as the regular ones. Mr. Parks says he would not take a large sum of money for the pig. --Franklin Grove Reporter. Edward Kosloski, aged four years, fell into a tub of scalding water at the home of his parents in LaSalle, recently, and before his mother could rescue him, he had been fatally scalded. Parts of the body were literally cooked and it is said the child suffered untold agony from the time of the accident until death. The Rockford district camp meeting will be held at Epworth grove, August 16-26. Dr. F. A. Hardin, the presiding elder, will be in charge. Bishop Joyce will be present Saturday and Sunday, August 18th and 19th. Eight new cot­ tages are being erected and the new tabernacle is almost completed. A large attendance this year is expected. Mrs. Martha Cleveland Harrison, Bloomington, HI., wife of George B. Harrison, died suddenly Thursday from heart disease, aged 57. She was promi­ nent in church, literary, and social cir­ cles. She was a relative of ex-President Cleveland and her husband, who survi­ ves her, is a second cousin of ex-Presi­ dent Harrison. She was born in Roch­ ester, N. Y. Sycamore had her second jail delivery within a year Sunday evening when four prisoners made their escape. The DeKalb county jail is in very poor con­ dition and it required only the use of a stove poker to pry out the bars of the window to allow the men to get away. The absence of the men was discovered five minutes after the escape. One has been recaptured. While William Olp wl*o liy^d^iear Springfield, was mowing {Sat­ urday afternoon a bolt of lightning killed him and both his horses. It was the only flash of the afternoon and came almost out of a clear sky. He was a young man about 28 years of age and highly respected in the neighborhood she is now suffering has been coming upon her. Her father, Lucius Town- send, committed suicide in Rock river many years ago. He that whoopeth up hiB own busi­ ness in the newspaper should reap a bountiful harvest in golden shekels. He that readeth the advertisements and profiteth by them shall have abundance of this world's goods |or little money. He that chooseth not to subscribe for his home paper shall wonder at the in­ tellect of his neighbor. He who adver­ tises liberally gets the cream of; the trade. Old fogies get the skim milk. Henry Cooprider, aged but 18 years, presented himself for a marriage license in a Kansas county recently. The pro­ bate judge informed the young man that the consent of his father would be required, whereupon the boy presented the following note: •'Judge, Sir: I turn t in* boy loose. If he makes a burn he can sit 011 the blister. Let him have his papers. Yours truly. Albert Coop- rider." ___ HOWELL'S VILJ-AS. An Ideal Place lit Which To Pass The Sum­ mer I>ay*. FLUSKY - CLANCY CASE WILL BE DECIDED BY THE 8U- %• PREME COURT. The beautiful Howell villas are very popular this year every one being occu­ pied. Bishop Fallows came out from Chicago Friday evening and is pleasant­ ly domiciled in one. A more perfect spot in which to rest and while away the summer days could not be found. The estate comprises some fifty acres most delightfully situated on the banks of the Fo* river. Mr. Howell's resi­ dence is a typical English country house with broad verandas and surrounded, by a magnificent park. Nestled here and there among the trees are the charming Howell villas, which are complete in every respect and furnished even to the minutest detail. The lawn is scrupu lously neat and is brightened by the choicest of flowers. The feature which is perhaps most striking to the city Vis­ itor is the presence of myriads of birds of every hue and description. It seems as if intuition must have told these tiny creatures of this secluded spot and they had selected it as a place in which to be happy and free. Boating, fishing and bathing can be indulged in to the heart's content. Mrs. Howell never tires of planning for her guests' pleasure and entertainment. At present the cottagers have a Thurs­ day afternoon literary club which makes a very pleasant break in the country sports. • ® The Good Samaritan. Chicago, July 19, 1900. To THE EDITOR,-- Dear Sir--Early last winter I was in your town "dead broke." I, together with a friend arrived late at night, and was taken in by your village marshall, fed (by the way it was an oyster supper) and given a place to sleep and in the morning we were given a breakfast and * * * i 1 * l i if The McHenry Plaindealer and Chicago Weekly inter Ocean | All the Home News, and the News of the World. One Year, $1.50 The above offer is made to all new subscribers and all others who will pay one year in advance. The Plain- dealer, as a local news medium, speaks for itself. The Inter Ocean has no equal as a metropolitan weekly. All the news of the week can be found in it's columns, mak­ ing it an excellent paper for farmers and other busy people who wish to keep posted on the current events. Both papers one year for $1.50. where he was born and grew to man­ hood. ( The directors of the Belvidere Farm­ ers' Insurance company at their meet­ ing on Saturday last adjusted and paid the loss of Geo. E. Sergent amounting $1,075 for barn and other buildings burned on the morning of July 5th in the town of Flora and also adjusted and paid the loss of Luther P. Lane for hay, grain and farming utent i s at the same fire, amounting to $408. Mrs. Eva Townseed Clark, widow of the late Dr. D. Selwyn Clark, of Rock- ford. was placed under police protection in Chicago Tuesday night while on her way to the lake with the avowed inten­ tion of drowning herself. She was tem­ porarily deranged. Mrs. Clark was f ormerly one of the most prominent lit­ erary and charitable ladies in Rockford, and a leader in literary society. Sever­ al years ago her husband, who was an army surgeon during the civil war, died, and it is believed that ever since that time the melancholy with which with a few kind parting words from tie mirshall we left. We wish to express our thanks to him and hope to be able to again meet him. We are working in Chicago and each holding good jobs and will some day visit your little town as we understand it is quite a summer re­ sort. Respectfully yours Two TRAMPS. One cold night last winter while pas­ sing the city hall we dropped in to see why the hall was lighted and then found policeman Walsh arranging things to make the "weary travelers" as com­ fortable as possible for the night. John has a big heart and we believe has about as many friends as any man in this part of the state.--[ET>. In Honor of Mitts Pierce. Mrs. C. C. Colby gave an informal tea at.her residence, in honor of her niece, Miss Marion Pierce, of Chicago, July 25th. Those honored with invitations Were the Misses Jennie and Bessie Smith and Mildred and Lucie Stevens. As they took their unwilling departure, all joined in saying they had spent a most delightful afternoon. > • • Titles Given For Promised "Mansions in the Skies"--One of the Most Notable CMOI Ever Tried in McHenry County In the spring of 1892 the records of McHenry County show that John Flusky, Sr., had title to three farms in Nunda township, viz: The so-called Gracy farm, in the Holcomb neighbor­ hood of 105 abres; the Gates farm of 393 acres, an»l the Kittle farm of 177 acres. He also had some two thousand dollars or more in the State Bank of Wood­ stock. Mr. Flusky was at that time about 93 years old and could neither read or write and was feeble in body and mind. During the last part of April and early in May, 1892, he was very sick aud weak and at this time resided on the Kittle farm and was cared for by his niece Mrs. Portman and others. During the month of May he was visited several times by the Rev. James F. Clancy, of Woodstock, who, so it is said, always brought him something for his stomach 8 a k e ( t ) Ou June 4th of the same year, Mr. Clancy called and with him was Hugh O'Gara McShane, a priest from Chica­ go. All that took place at that time is not fully known but the records of Mc­ Henry County show that John Flusky executed several papers--a deed to James F. Clancy of the Gracy farm, a will giving all his personal estate to the this same Clancy. This will, which was kept secret for a long time, was witnessed by Robert Johnson, of Wau- conda and John Dermont, of McHenry, who happened to be passing the house. Hugh O'Gara McShane wu named a* executor of this will. Mr. Clancy evidently did not consider his title to the Gracy farm very good for he shortly afterwards conveyed the farm to his sister (who was also his housekeeper) Eileen Rose Clancy, who placed a mortgage on it and afterwards sold it to a third party. It now appears that on this same day (June 4, 1892) Mr. Flusky was induced to make still another deed, and this one was the deed of the Kittle farm, con­ taining 177 acres, to his nephew Patrick Flusky. This deed was not delivered to Patrick nor was it at all certain that he ever saw it, for when proceedings were held in the probate court, of this county, which resulted in a sale of the Kittle farm to p^y the debts filed against the John Flusky estate, Patrick Flusky was made one of the defendents and called upon to show if he had any title to or claim on this form. This he could not do. This deed, John Flusky, Sr., to Patrick Flusky, dated June 4, 1893, was also kept secret, and it was not re­ corded until July 5, 1900, more than 8 years after its execution. This deed was placed on record by Bastrup & O'Neil, of Chicago, attorneys for Clancy, with directions to be returned to them when recorded. Shortly before this deed was recorded Patrick Flusky gave a trust deed on the same farm to Nicholas Grady, of Woodstock, to secure a loan of $2,000, which was recorded at the same time as the deed to him. It is not likely that Pat. Flusky ever had any of this money but somebody holds his note for it. About the same time that these deeds to Clancy and Fusky were made John Flusky had a certificate of deposit in the bank at Woodstock, for $1,000 or more, this he indorsed to James F. Clancy, who at once deposited it to his own credit and drew it out from tiiae to time for his own use. About June 20, 1892, Mr. Clancy went to the Kittle farm, took Mr. Flusky to his (Clancy's) house in Woodstock and kept him there several days. On the way over Mr. Clancy lost his hat, got out of the bugfey to look for it but could not find it, so borrowed the one Mr. Flusky had and put the lap robe over Mr. Flusky, either to protect his head from the sun's rays or to conceal his face, and in this way they drove through Nunda where they were seen and recognized. On June 25 John Flusky drew $593 47 from the bank at Woodstock. Who got 'his money? A i'v.v day.-s later Mr. Clancy, very early in the morning, sent the old man in a closed carriage from Woodstock to Nunda, he himself going by train where Mr. Flusky was put in the train and Clancy taking him to Chicago to the offices of Alexander Sullivan July 39, 1892, where Mr. Flusky was induced to make a deed of the Gates farm, for the pretended lum of $10,000, but • in reality never paid one cent, which was also conveyed to Clancy. This deed was acknowledged by Alexander Sullivan, as Notary and witnessed by (Continued on page eight) ' /