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Falling rains and melt­ ing snows had swollen rivers Into lakes and creeks into torrents, and in hundreds of valleys the spreading waters caused destruction and death. .Manufacturing plants by the hundreds were forced to suspend; mercantile houses were flooded; thousands of peo­ ple were driven from their homes; tens of thousands of people were thrown out of employment; railroad traffic, electric and steam, was para­ lyzed and in many cases absolutely abandoned; bridges were swept away; expensive public works were ruined; telegraphic communication was inter­ fered with and in places totally sus­ pended; lighting plants were flooded •nd communities thrown into dark- mess; farmhouses and barns were car­ ried away; live stock perished and was drowned in the cellar of her .home. V At Philmont, near Chatham, a freight train on the Harlem division of the Central plunged into a washout, and three of the train crew perished. s At Elmira the Chemung river was higher than at any time since the memorable flood of 1889, when south­ ern New York and Pennsylvania were flood-swept. Half of the city was un­ der water. Railroad traffic was at a standstill and hundreds of persons were driven from their homes. At Binghamton, Rochester and Ba- tavia, Dansville, Buffalo, Geneseo and other New York state towns and cities tne higher water did ' considerable damage. At Syracuse the overflowing oi Onondaga creek drove 200 families from their homes. Pennsylvania, as is usual at a period of high water, suffered enormously. At Pittsburg the flood was the worst since 1884, and two-thirds of lower 'jr^tsburg and Allegheny were' sob- millions of people were subjected to great inconvenience. A summary of the disaster, owing to the wide sweep ef the floods, it is difficult to give; but It may, conservatively, be stated that thirty lives were wiped out; that 20,- 000' people were driven from their homes; that 75,000 persons were thrown out of employment and that a direct monetary loss of at least $15,- 000,000 was inflicted. Surely a disas­ ter as great as this establishes its claim to lasting remembrance. New York state Suffered heavily. Aiong the Delaware and the Neversink rivers great damage was wrought. At Port Jervis and at several towns in Sullivan county the water flooded fac­ tories and business places and forced many persons to flee from their homes. At Middletown a Newfoundland dog saved a girl from perishing. While crossing the lowlands, with her broth­ er, in a boat, the boat capsized and both were thrown into the water. The brother managed to cling to the boat, fcut the girl was rapidly swept with • the current She finally reached a cake of ice, and was thus able to keep her head above water. At this junc­ ture the family dog swam to her as­ sistance and seizing her by the should­ ers dragged her to the shore. Great damage was done to hand­ some residences along the course of the Bronx river in Westchester county. At White Plains, Tuckahoe, Mount Vernon and other places cellars were flooded and handsome lawns washed out. At Wakefield a little girl Stood Swept Area at Iltoa. View from a photograph looking across the dyke at I lion, N. Y. merged. Street car traffic between the two cities was abandoned and scores of mills were forced to shut down, in some places the water covered the sec­ ond floors of buildings, and many structures collapsed under the great pressure. The tracks of several rail­ roads were flooded, and traffic had to be abandoned. The damage may ex­ ceed $1,000,000. In northwestern Pennsylvania the property loss occasioned by the floods will probably total $5,000,000, while over a score of lives were sacrificed. In the vicinity of Wilkesbarre, twelve persons were drowned. The Susque­ hanna river, usually 1,200 feet wide, stretched out for two miles and a half, reaching from the first floors of the houses on River street to the mountains on the other side of the valley. Throughout the Susquehanna and Lehigh valleys the damage wrought was heavy. Farm houses were swept away and hundreds of do­ mestic animals were borne along in the terrific current. In,the Wyoming valley the loss to property was heavy. Mines were flood­ ed and fully 25,000 miners were thrown into Involuntary idleness. It is esti­ mated that 18,000 persons were forced to leave their homes and seek Bafety in high places. At Kingston two men were drowned by the capsizing of a boat, and at Hazleton a school teach­ er, Franklin Brohl, was swept away with a bridge and perished. At Easton heavy damage was inflicted by the high water, one plant alone suffering to the extent of $160,000. •mlHnn'f Dr. Rowaton believes that Montezu­ ma's long-buried millions, billions or trillions will some day be found in the hills of Yucatan, down in the country of the Polyucs, near Lake Chichanka- nab. He estimates that the fund still unaccounted for amounts to 450,000,- 000,000 pesos, worth in our gold abont $180,000,000,000. This mysterious fund has been growing these 60 years, start­ ing at something like 1,000,000 pesos. Many lives have been lost in the im­ penetrable forests of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala and Honduras in the search for this treasure, which, in the opinion of most folk, is a myth. Last year a young explorer from Chicago declared that he had traced its hiding place <to the vicinity of Quezaltepeque, which is at the base of the Mirandon Moun­ tains. Here he contracted the scqurg? and barely escaped with ids life. WOT Oar* of Consumption. With regard to the glass hospital which is to be erected at Philadelphia for the cure of consumption, with iso­ lation for each patient and a constant supply of rarefied air, a similar experi­ mental hospital is already in use in London. The patient sits in a glass cubicle, breathing an atmosphere spe­ cially treated by ozone. The value of oxygen, or ozone, in the treatment of ulcers,, burns, wounds, hipus, etc., has been proved there by several cures of hitherto Incurable cases during the past five years. Great as has been the actual relief thus afforded, this oxygen hospital exists equally for pur­ poses of demonstration and experi­ ment. for Aaothor Feaee Coafoi mfc A contributor to the Calcutta Eng­ lishman proposes to have peace by the holding of another peace conference barred to all soldiers, diplomatists, gunmakers and their relations, and the organization of an international police which shall keep the peace after it is made. The Continental powers are to abolish their armies, and England and all the other powers are to sacri­ fice their navies. The reason for the retention of the British army Is not disclosed. London w attaching some Import­ ance to a report that Alfred Lyttleton, member of parliament, is likely to be appointed ambassador to the United States. Mr. Lyttleton has been a member of parliament since 1895. He is a barrister, and for several years was legal secretary to the attorney general of England. Mr. Lyttleton, who is 47 years old, was famous in his younger days as a tennis player, crick­ eter and football player. He was the leading athlete of bis time at Cam­ bridge, being captain of the Eton and Cambridge elevens and representing his university in several internation­ al matches, and was for several years amateur tennis champion of England. Brewery for Capo Towa. - Orders have been placed In the United States for all the machinery and woodwork for an immense brew­ ery to be established at Cape Town. * AniTrer to Woman QhmHoi. Jk. woman's club in Berlin offers a prise of 1,000 marks for the best "cat­ echism of the woman question.*' . What loo Will Support. Ice one and one-half Inches thick will support a man; eighteen Inches thick arailway train. Formed Artificial Lake. North Genesee street at Utica, N. with flood at its height. Kleilif by Wholesale. In a description of a wedding in the olden time in the district of Voer, in Denmark, appears the following: "When they had eaten the parish clerk got up first, put his arms around the parson's neck and kissed him on the mouth, saying: 'Thanks for your hos­ pitality, sir priest.' Then the parson planted himself against a chest of drawers and all the women, old and young, went up to him one after the other and kissed him on the mouth. 6ome of them could not quite reach him, for the priest was a big, tall man, and they had actually to climb on to his boots, though he stooped down to them slightly." Wool la nratoh Towaa, Nearly 1,000 tons of South amcm* and Australian wool has passed through Dover and Calais recently, consigned to manufacturing towns in northern France. * LMC-duuim rowan. The electrical power transmitted 200 miles from the Yuba, California, ha# nrfoctly TP Ha hi P U Operation That la Not ae Vaey aa It Soema. A familiar example of the vagueness of . our mental ideas on the dimensions! of familiar objects is the trick by which a number of people are Induced to measure off upon the wall what they consider to be, the height of a top hat Success in this feat is rare, and the estimation in yards or miles of distances in the open air is no less difficult, though often considerably more useful. Generally, of course, it is the level surface or one filed with monotonous features many times repeated which is most under-estimated, while diversifi­ cation seems to impress the mind with a greater notion of extent Even so, the usual tendency ' is greatly to underestimate distances of more than a quarter of a mile, while the differences between the guesswork computations of various members of the same party ate often extraordi­ nary. In our ordinary life we have rarely need for ascertaining in actual yards the distance of objects under observa­ tion, and our faculty of estimation is- not developed much further when we have once left the stage behind at which all the objects in a room, for instance, appear to the infant to be equally within its grasp. The difficulty of judging distance is much increased over an undulatory or hilly surface, whether it is desired to find out the actual superficial measure­ ments or the "air line," as the Ger­ mans term it, for rifle shooting in sport or war. Ih this last application the training of the faculty is extreme­ ly important, and in actual fact often extremely imperfect A THOUGHTFUL MAID. r dark's Art Qmm Wae Mat Properly Appreciate*. Senator W. A. Clark is an enthuslas- Ic collector of paintings, especially of he nude. Not very many months ago he received a number of friends at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Culver, in Fifty-eighth street. Especially for that occasion the senator had bought what he declared a fine little piece of nude art daintily framed and set consplcu ously on a mantel, so as to catch at once the eye of any person entering the room. The senator hjul personally picked the spot where to place his new ac­ quisition and was not a little surprised to find a short time afterward that huge bouquet of roses had been care­ fully placed so as to hide the picture. The owner of the picture removed the bouquet, but within 10 minutes, as he passed the spot to cast a loving glance at his pet, there Was the bou­ quet again. Twice more the operation was peated. Then the senator decided to lie in wait to catch the culprit Before long he discovered the miscreant in the maid in waiting at the door. "Please sir," she exclaimed, blushihg pink, "I thought what 'ud the people say if they saw a thing like that star- in' them in the face as they came into the room, an' I thought I'd like to Save the repitatlon of the house. I - -- , Beainalaa Wae Soma*. ! Onee, When Wayne MacVeagh had finished arguing a tedious technical case before the United States Supreme. Court, speculation arose between Mr. MacVeagh and his colleague, as to whom Chief Justice Fuller would as­ sign to write the opinion, and a wager was made. Just then Chief Justice Fuller came down the corridor of the court build­ ing. Mr. MacVeagh stopped him and told him of the wager, asking the Chief Justice to tell whom he would assign, as that would settle the bet "On whom have you placed your wager, Mr. MacVeagh?" the Chief Jus­ tice asked. "Mr. Justice Gray," was the response. "Why did you choose Mr. Gray?" queried Chief Justice Fuller. "Because," replied Mr. MacVeagh, "I noticed he slept through the entire ar­ gument." Tmlalag the Child. The hand and eye of the child can be trained by means of paper cutting. This should be led up to by paper tearing, until the little one is old enough to'hold a pair of scissors. It is a good practice to take a picture containing many objects, cut them out and arrange them on colored pa­ per. If the picture represents a farm­ yard, for instance, all the animals must be cut out and pasted on the colored paper in positions similar to their original ones. Minor details can be copied on the background in pen and ink. In this way children un­ consciously get an idea of proportion and prospective. BCro. Lob* a Oood WHkn Mrs. Long, wife of the secretary, is about the only woman of the cabinet contingent who goes in for walking. Nearly every morning ehe accom­ panies the secretary to his office, and not infrequently meets him there and walks home with him in the afternoon. Advantage* of Hoapltal Treatment, In a majority of instances, and with very few exceptions, indeed, it is far better to be treated in a hospital than at home for any trouble requiring the knife. To those who by actual per­ sonal experience or by observation of relatives and acquaintances who have been patients in a hospital, are con­ vinced of the facilities existing there for heading the sick, no argument is needed to prove that the hospital is a place of luxury, convenience and com­ fort. The ordinary home cannot com­ pare with it in a singular particular.-- Margaret E. Sangster in the Ladies' Home Journal for February. * ' At - Makanda G. W. Patterson, ft prominent grain dealer, stockman anA farmer, is dead of pneumonia. He wSS also a large manufacturer of barrels and fruit and vegetable boxes. Up to October, 1899, "he was extensively elk- gaged in di*y goods and clothing. Tha funeral was under the. auspices of tho Masonic fraternity. Charles Willonghby, aged 26 year*, committed suicide by hanging himself in the barn on the term of George McQuade, near Carlyle, where he was employed. Mrs. Charles G. Powers of Decatnr has won the championship prise i* the ladies' Florida championship gott tournament at Palm Beae^s, Flat Thert were twenty-five contestants eightesa holes, over a three-mile coarse. 5'i F. M. Montgomery, siged 7$ died at Decatur. The Illinois Central railroad has completed its double track from Ce#» tralia to Richview and the extension to Ashley is now under way. William Wiese has been appointed postmaster of Nashville. The new postmaster is chairman of the Wash­ ington county Republican central camr mittee. At the last meeting of the Mmphy^ ; ^ boro Elks lodge Secretary W. S. Rob* * • ^ erts was presented with a valuable diamond-studded charm in recognition of his services. Doctors Bens and Berns of Ste. for attendance on a number of pox patients in that township present­ ed a bill to the county board at Its meeting for $285. The board cut ths amount to $85. This the doctors re­ fused and notified the board that eatt would be instituted to recover the full amount Other physicians hare had similar claims refused and will also institute suit against the county if Drs. Wens and Berns should get judgment Oscar Klinke of the Anheuaer-Buseh brewery in St. Louis has been appoint­ ed superintendent of the Mascoutsh brewery. The mine of the Kolb Coal company has been shut down, throwing abont 125 miners out of employment Tha Lyau Gage's Loif lerrlea Lyman D. Gage, who has just re­ linquished the secretaryship of the treasury, served longer at the head of that department than any of the sec­ retaries . except Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin. He served for nearly five years, while Gallatin's rec­ ord was nearly twelve years, and Ham­ ilton's about five years and four ?Ki.v rti '" The practice games of the Decatur club in the Three I league will begin April 13, when Manager P£effer will take the Chicago White,, Rocks to that city. • f The head offices , of the American home circle have been removed from Champaign to Springfield. Thomas Cuttle, son of Michael Cut­ tle, the contractor of Decatur, fell from a Wabash train south of Litchfield and was killed. The body was taken to Decatur. The Mpunt Vernon band, formerly 4th regiment band, I. N. G., and one of the oldest and best musical organ­ isations in southern Illinois, has dis­ banded. Rev. I. R. B. Arnold, the evangelist, has purchased the little steamer Katie Adams of Quincy, and will soon leave and inaugurate a series of mission meetings in the towns on the Mississippi river south of Quincy. The Anna Fruitgrowers' association hSs elected these officers for the ensu­ ing year: Matt Allmon, president; Robert Lambert, vice president; A. J. Shreffler, secretary; Tellmore Nichols, treasurer. * Reports from the wheat-growing country north of Alton are to the ef­ fect that the growing crop was never in better condition than It is now. Wheat passed through the winter well. The Alton commercial club has de­ cided to advertise Alton as a desirable manufacturing site, and to that end will assist the business men in pro­ moting the publicity of the city. The natural advantages of the city and its future as a manufacturing center will be pushed. J. L. Dollar, a representative of the government of Great Britain, has closed a contract with E. K. Sweet of Quincy for the purchase of 500 head of horses.. Carbondale officials believe that one. of the gang who have been operating throughout southern Illinois in burg­ larizing banks has been caught in the person of Thomas Williamson, charged with robbing the Willlsville postoffice last Tuesday night. The pupils of the public schools of Cairo were asked by Statee Superin­ tendent Alfred Bayllss to contribute to the McKinley memorial fund. The 2,200 school children contributed $28. At a meeting of the senior class of the Cairo high school a vote was taken to elect a member of the class to rep resent the high school at the inter- scholastic oratorical contest to be held at Champaign in May. The vdting re­ sulted in the election of Monte Sad­ ler. A most excellent outlook for apples is reported throughout the state, al­ though it is a little early to estimate this crop. So far as can be inferred now 92 per cent of an average crop may be expected. The Big Four railway has begun work putting in more double-tracking at East Alton and a steam shovel with a big force of men are at work. The Btate board of health has been notified of a serious outbreak of scar­ let fever at Ridott, in Stephen­ son county. There is renewed uneasiness over the smallpox situation at Springfield, which a few dayB ago was said to be Improving. On Wednesday seven new cases developed and were taken in charge by the health authorities. It Is said that the continuance of the epi­ demic is due to the failure of af­ flicted persons to take ordinary precau­ tions. A badly decomposed body of an in­ fant white child is in charge of Cor­ oner Baer at Springfield and efforts are being made to locate the mother. H. H. Adams, a prominent farmer of Assumption township, Is dead. He was 74 years of age. It is propable that the Wabash rail­ road hospital will be removed frdm Springfield to Decatur as a more cen­ tral and accessible point Parties of Alton hunters have been killing many ducks at the Horse Prairie preserves and report many ducks flying. The Alton board of education is con­ sidering a name for the new high school building, which will be erected on Seminary square within the next six months at a cost of $50,000. It is proposed to name the building the Mc­ Kinley high school building of Alton. Arthur E. Looelcy, son of Edwin E. Loosley, a prominent mercaant of Murphysborough, died at the home of his parents, of consumption. He was 82 years of age. Acting Governor Northcott honored the requisition of the governor of In­ diana tor the extradition of Frank Mc- Kinney, under arrest at Kankakee and wanted in Indiana for violating his parole from the reformatory of the state. At Cora, just north of Springfield, a mad dog bit two little girls. Lulu Mathls, daughter of Thomas Mathis, and a daughter of James Merry. The girls were brought to Springfield for treatment The dog was killeH before inflicting further injury. Jacob Strong, aged 78 years, a pioneer, was found dead in bed at his- home near Mason. The large barn on Gilderoy R. Set­ tles' farm, near Rushvllle. "was de­ stroyed by fire together with its con­ tents. The loss is $3,000. The fire was of inoendiary origin. At the Republican township conven­ tion at Okainville the following ticket was nominated. Supervisor, William Schenmetzler; clerk, A. R. Ochs; asses­ sor, Her Brockmeier; collector S. 8. Huckaby; highway commissioner, Louis Grennert; school trustee, George Giesel; pound master, John A. Lietz. The Republican county central com­ mittee convened at Litchfield and is­ sued a call for a county convention to be held In Snell's opera house, on Monday, March 24. The primaries of Tarious townships will be held on H»n»* Dow & King's grain elevator at Pittsfield, together with 40,000 bushels of wheat and. 5,000 bushels of corn, was totally consumed by fire. There was $28,000 insurance. Charles Cox, a youth living near Diona, ten miles north of Greenup, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Nancy A. Cole of Alton has entered suit for divorce from William Cole, whose arrest she caused one week ago o na charge of nonsupport and ill treatment of his family. Cole is in jail, and the divorce will be procured while he Is serving a sentence of 108 days for being a "lazy man." Alfred Bush, son of Alderman Bush, of Carbondale, who was injured by falling from a train, died from his injuries. A trophy shoot will be held by the Illinois gun club at Springfield Thurs­ day of next week. The contest will be a twenty-flve-blrd race. , This will be the last shoot before the grand American handicap, which will take place In Kansas City the first week in April. Alderman S. F. Connor., of the 4th ward of Alton has fathered a resolu­ tion in the city council providing for the appointment of a city council com­ mittee to devise means of purchasing a site for a public park to consist of from 60 to 150 acres. The committee is also authorized to selected a loca­ tion. 1 It is * practically settled that the questWn of issuing county bonds to fund the large floating indebtedness now being carried will not be sub­ mitted to the people again until the November election at Springfield. The stone cutters have resumed work on the court house building at Taylorvllle, after a strike lasting three days. M. H. BoalB, a prominent Alton lum­ ber man, has laid claim to a large tract of land along the river which has been claimed by the city for many years, and he has requested that the city refrain from attempting to exer­ cise control over the land. Thieves stole two horses, a springy | company recently arranged to wagon, two sets of harness and others property from Cicero Moore, a farmer residing on the Pickneyville and Tamaroa road, six miles east of Plckneyvillp. Fred Rohs, aged about 27 years, was adjudged non compos mentis by a med­ ical commission at Carrollton, and was taken by Sheriff Conlee to the hos­ pital for the insane at Jacksonville. It is said by the managers of tne Alton baseball association, which owned and controlled the Alton Blues baseball team last year, that there is a poor prospect of Alton having the Blues back again next season. The reason given is that the baseball park can not be had for the same rental as last year and that the baseball asso­ ciation can not pay increased rent. City Marshall I* A. Talbert at Sparta arrested Thomas Williams, of Percy, 111., who was wanted in Perry oounty on the charge of robbing the postoffice at Wlllsville. Williams Was turned over to the sheriff of Perry county. A mass meeting of prominent busi­ ness men was held at Peoria and steps were taken to secure the next Repub­ lican state convention. The Underwriters' association of Il­ linois held a meeting at Peoria, there being about 150 members present The meeting was held behind closed doors and no information given out The mines of the Kalbs Coal com­ pany at Muscotah, 111., are still shut down, because of trouble with the miners over the use of machinery. Rev. Joseph Wilson, aged 88 years, died at Neoga. He was a minister of the Presbyterian church for several years. Alfred Bush, aged 18, son of Alder­ man Bush, of Carbondale, was prob­ ably fatally Injured by falling from a moving freight train. The First National bank building In Herrin was" destroyed by fire, to­ gether with a Becond-hand store ad­ joining. The loss is estimated at $14,- 000, most of which is covered by in­ surance. There is a great battle on between the St. Louis Valley and the Illinois Central railroads for possession of lands for their right of way at Olive Branch. Each road is after the same land. For this reason the Valley road filed its condemnation proceedings for a crossing over the land of W. W. Wil- burn. They were afraid that if they delayed to make the usual negotiations the Central would get in ahead cf them. Mr. Wilbourn of Olive Branch says that the Valley people are talking of putting in an overhead crossing there. The land laid out by the Val­ ley people from Gale to Olive Branch is over some of the highest hills in the country, and over some of the deepest hollows. The Munich Reinsurance company, of Munich, Germany, commenced a suit in the circuit court at Springfield, to prevent State Superintendent of In­ surance Yates. from revoking Its li­ cense to do business In the state. The force of workmen engaged in getting the rolling mills, north of Springfield, in shape for operation has been materially increased, and it is announced that the work will be com­ pleted within a month or six weeks. The mills are owned by the Republic Iron and Steel company and have been idle for nearly two years. At a meeting of the Alton ministe­ rial alliance it was decided to hold anion revival services in which five of the Alton churches will participate. It is planned that the revival services be conducted under the auspices of the Presbyterian, Baptist, Congrega­ tional, Methodist and Cumberland Presbyterian churches. Arthur Roland, the colored man ar­ rested at Murphysborough on suspicion of being a murderer^ who was wanted In Jackson, Tenn., was Identified by Sheriff Mayo, of that city and was taken te lor tHaA>, '•Mdi I'rfi f i '•V % "t'M V %) % .a •S • 'hi _ mining machines, bat the men to operate them. • y%;•$ The board of directors of tha Charleston public library has asked ^ the city council to Increase the yearly : y allowance from $1,200 to $1,500, and it _ '.-$M this Is done Mr. Carnegie «"? !»«ked ^ to increase his gift from $12,000 to $16,000. The latter sum, with $10,000 the city will donate, will give Charlsa- ,|f ton a fine public library. A marriage license has been issued ' .-^5 at Charleston to Martin Rennels, aged 75, and Mrs. Alice Snyder, aged 54. The Perry County Bar association has been organized with Jadge R. W» S. Wheatley of Duquoin as president;* yj John Boyd of Pinckneyville, vice presl* dent, and I. R. Spilmaa of Duquoia, |f| secretary and treasurer. J q§ The Mount Vernon district mlsslgpn ary conference will be held at tha :. w! First Methodist Episcopal church in Duquoin April 1 and 2. Bishop Tho- burn, who has just recently returned > from India, will preside over the con- ference. ' . The second' term of the McKetfdrsa ;•'< College closes March 24. The thiM term , will open March 23. / . ^ Dr. J. L. Baker of the state board Of V health' has visited Louisville and tnsU- ' tuted a rigid quarantine against tha * ' ̂ seventeen cases of smallpox existing in the town. ^ Herman Oertel, a termer residing ̂ six miles east of Jerseyvflie, brought to town for exhibition a lemon ha raised on a tree that grew from a seed planted eight years ago. Tha lemon weighed one pound and four- ̂ teen ounces and measured 15ft inches in circumference. * Jjjj The Southern Illinois school of In- ̂ struction of the Illinois Sunday sthoot J association will be held In the First 5,̂ | Presbyterian church at PinckneyviUa on March 20 and 21. : Ducks are reported in large numbers ^ In the Okaw river bottoms. During tha <>| past week dozens have been killed by Carlyle hunters. Wild geese are also plentiful. -4'4 The farmers residing in the vicinity Jt| of Sebastopol have effected the organ- , ization of a branch of the Farmenf ^ ^ League and Federation. • ~ , $ Brass thieves have been operating tar S many towns along the Baltimore & ^ Ohio Southwestern railroad. They have stripped machinery in the Clinton ^ Switch elevator, a sawmill in Huey, ^jj the engines in the sawmills of Car- M lyle of lubricators, etc. They have oh- tained brass which was valued at $15fc ' ̂ rt is apparently the work of an cap- ganized gang. * £ *2^ A committee has been appointed to secure signatures to a petition asking ' the city council of Jerseyville to sub- ^ s mit the saloon license question to a vote of the people at the city electiop :uj|| in April. It is announced that the repairs t$ > t the cathedral at Alton will not be coni- pleted until after Easter Sunday and the regular Easter services will not be held. The interior of the catheral v S is being redecorated handsomely to re- pair the damage done several months , •, ,'V^a ago by fire and water. 3 The auditor of public accounts hag t issued a permit for the organization of % the Fulton bank, of Fulton. Whiteside ^ county, with a capital stock of $50,000. The organizers are Thomas B. Ingwer- son, Gustav Gradert, T. and George Mattes. William Hays, an Alton glass work- er, received notice a few days ago that he will receive a legacy of $2,800, left-, him by his grandmother, who died re- M cently at his old home in Ohio. Hajt* j w a s a c o o k i n a n A l t o n r e s t a u r a n t u n r ^ ^ til a short time ago. The Carlyle Rock Crushing company has purchased a stationary engine amt,. r_/j a steam drill. Operations will be com- 'H menced first at the Schlafly quairy; one mile south of the city. It is estimated that the strawberry crop of the Farnia district will be on|j? * - ̂ one-half of last year's^ , . W. • SchroedjjW/