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VOL BALDWIN. IN COMMAND OF AN EXPEDITION 10 t PUNISH THE MOROS IN THE PHILIPPINES ££ ;.k . ' iii.." .1 • , •• ••••• A « 1 |S A i CoL Baldwin, who for many years Was stationed at Chicago and Fort Sheridan as inspector of rifle practice, la in command of the battalion which has gone into the interior of Minda­ nao after the Moros, who attacked a party of American soldiers. Col. Bald­ win is a veteran of the civil and In­ dian wars, and bears the distinction •f being the only man ever twice nam­ ed by congress for the Medal of Hon­ or. The first recommendation was for gallantry in an Indian fight in Texas in 1874, and the second for conspicu­ ous personal bravery in the battle ol Wolf Mountain, Mont. He has also been brevetted several times for bra­ very. Col. Baldwin was born in Michigan, and after serving in the civil war as a volunteer was given a commission in the regular army. Wives by Purchase. Wives are still obtained by purchase iflu parts of Russian Europe. In the jftusslan district of Kamyschin, on the Volga, for example, this is practically the only way in which marriages are brought about The price of a pretty ,flrl from a well-to-do family ranges from |56 to $100, and in special cases a much higher sum is obtained. In ithe villages the lowest price is about '$25. It Is customary for the fathera ot the intending bride and bridegroom to haggle for a long time over the price to be paid for the lady. A young former whose father cannot afford to pay for a wife for him need not think getting married. American Women In Germany. Of the fourteen ladles who took *4ostors' degrees at one or the other of the German universities last year sight were Americans and only six Germans. He Had Noticed It. Bridget and Pat were sitting In an armchair reading an article on "The Law of Compensation." "Just fancy exclaimed Bridget, "according to this, whin a mon loses wan iv 'is sinses an­ other gits more developed. For in­ stance, a blolnd mon gits more slnse av hearin' an touch, an--" "Shure, an It's quite thrue," answered Pat. "01*ve noticed it meself. Whin a mon has wan leg shorter than the other, be- gorra the other's longer." Arables A man had plundered a bee-hive, carried home the dripping combs and was just engaged in getting on the outside of some of the honey--when a hungry little bee came buzzing around to eat a little of 1L "The idea!" indignantly roared the Infuri­ ated man, "Stealing my honey"--and struck it dead.--From the German of Relnhart Volker, "The Whim." JOHN BURNS. THE ENGLISH LABOR LEADER, WHO HAS INCURRED THE WRATH OF ASTOR. .vromr E>ui2n<D IRITMJH LABOB LEADER John Burns, who has drawn upon his head the wrath of William Wal­ dorf As tor for daring to advocate the building of a street car line on the Thames embankment, where Mr. As- tor has offices, represents the con­ stituency of Batter sea in the British parliament and is the foremost labor leader in the United Kingdom. Mr. Burns is a self-educated statesman Old Geography of Illinois. Illinois is always classed as a north- are state, which is proper, for its northern boundary is on the same par­ allel as Windsor, Canada. In spite of this classification, however, Cairo, at the southern extremity of the stats, lies on the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude, and this parallel forms the northern boundary of Texas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. It runs through the state of Virginia near Fortress Monroe, and cuts the state of Kentucky forty miles north of Tennessee and Arkansas. Cairo is seventy-five miles south of Frankfort and Louisville, in Kentucky, and is over a hundred miles south of Covington, In the same state. While Illinois is truly northern, it extends Into the very heart of the south. Mexico Waking Up. The adoption in Mexico of Ameri­ can styles in clothing has been very marked in recent years. Well-to-do Mexicans are discarding the old "charro" suits, high sombreros and pointed shoes for American-style slothing, hats and shoes. and is proud of the fact. He says of himself that he "came into the world struggling, and is struggling now, and has a prospect of continuing the struggle indefinitely. Mr. Burns Is a radical. Much of the labor legislation lately passed by parliament was fa­ thered by him and he is prominent in all the great London strikes. He is 48 years old. Language! of th« Philippine*. Here are the languages they speak in the Philippines: Ilocano, Igorote, Pangaslnan, Pamgangan, Tagal, Bls- col, Bicol. Visayan, while in the north- era part of Luzon there is still an­ other tongue, and the Jolo tribes speak still another, making 10 languages for the 10,000,000 people. The dialects and languages of the "non-Christian tribes," as Gov. Taft designates a large proportion of this 10,000,060, are be­ yond comprehension. Some LI|«or Statbtlek There are 3,745 distilleries la fee United States, annually producing 124,530,599 gallons of alcoholic spirits. The total cost of aging the 142,119,231 gallons of whisky annually carried in bond in the United States, Including loss by evaporation, interest, storage insurance, etc., is estimate at about $14,000,000 a year. Forest Destruction Costly. - The famines in the interior of Rus­ sia are coincident with a decline In the humidity, due in great measure to the destruction of forests. a#.# & A ^ ^ A Ajar aftr I IPiLLINOIS ITEMS I * $ < > • « * * CHICAGO WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT §§ - «• fcill® J The executive committee of the S t ate's Attorneys' association of Illi­ nois met in the office of Attorney Gen* eral Hamlin and arranged the pro* gram for the annual convention of the association to be held in Springfield June 23, 24 and 25. Headquarters will be established at the Leland hotel, the sessions being held in representatives* hall In the statehouse. On Monday . night a reception will be tendered the 1 visitors by Gov. and Mrs. Yates, and on "Tuesday night Attorney General and Mrs. Hamlin will receive in their honor. On Wednesday evening Wil­ liam R. Stead of Ottawa, former state's attorney for La Salle county, will de­ liver his lecture on "The Trail of the Yankee." William S. Stllwell, a carpenter of Springfield filed a petition in bank­ ruptcy in the United States district court, scheduling liabilities to the amount of $552.75, with no., assets. Eight Springfield saloon keepers bave been fined $25 and costs each for keeping their places of business open on Sunday. Some time ago the state's attorney filed Information against seventy-five on this charge, and these' are the first to pay the fines assessed. The extension of the Indianapolis, Decatur and Western railroad now has rails laid through East Springfield to within a few feet of the tracks of the St. Louis line of the Illinois Central but difficulty with that road is causing a delay which bids fair to be Indefinite. Terms for crossings with the Balti­ more and Ohio Southwestern and the Wabash are also being held up, and the new road is still a mile and a half from the tracks of the Chicago and Alton, over which it is to enter Spring­ field. Bsra Brant, aged 80, died at Neoga. He waa a member- of the G. A. R. Mrs. O. M. Gwinn. wife of Mayor Gwinn of Oakland, is dead. Mrs. Salinda Brokaw, wife of J. B. Brokaw, is dead at her home near Salem, aged 45. ( Alfred B. Purinton die3 at his home in Jerseyville, aged 69 years. On May 10, 1865, Mr. Purinton was brevetted first lieutenant of United States volun­ teers, for meritorious service in the oapture of Jefferson Davis. The Bureau county Republican con­ vention indorsed J. V. Graff of Peoria for congressman and J. W. Templeton •f Princeton for state senator. At a special meeting of the commit­ tee for the 44th senatorial district, it was decided to change the date of the senatorial convention from May 7 to May 21, the convention to be held at Sparta. There will be 133 delegates, with representation as follows: Jack- eon, 41; Randolph, 30: Washington, 24; Perry, 23; Monroe, 15. The agreement between miners and operators of Pana was signed after a wrangle of thirty days. It should have been signed April 1. The miners held out for a raise In the grippers' wageB from $1.80 to $2.10 per day. This the operators refused. The operators final­ ly carried their poist By reaching an agreement a strike of 600 men was averted. Adam Shanafelt, a prominent farm­ er living southeast of Salem, met with an aocident which resulted in both of bis legs being broken. He was hitch­ ing to a plow and the team ran over him. One of the investigations being un­ dertaken by Messrs. Hasselbring and Btuben ranch of the department of agriculture, University of Illinois, who have established a laboratory at Sa­ lem, has reference to the matter of spraying fruit trees In bloom. Prelim­ inary experiments made last year indi­ cate that the blossoms which are hit by the spray before being fertilized fall to set fruit, owing to the fact, that the pistils are injured by the spraying ma­ terial. The experiments to be made here have In view the determination of the nature and extent of the injury to both pistils ahd pollen, and the ef­ fect upon the quality and quantity of the crop. A large sum for the support of two charitable institutions was raised at the eighty-third anniversary celebra­ tion of the Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodges of Illinois. The celebration was held at the First Regiment armory, ^Chicago, and was attended by members f&of the two lodges from all over the state. Mrs. Maud L. Hayward of Au­ rora, president of the Rebekah assem­ bly of Illinois, delivered one of the principal addresses. She has long been prominent in lodge work. She spoke for the upbuilding and enlarge­ ment of the two institutions for whose benefit the fuhds were raised--the old folks' home at Mattoon and the or­ phans' home at Lincoln. George Allen, son of T. C. Allen of Shiloh township, is in a precarious condition, as a result of having drunk a fruit spraying mixture, mistaking it for an emetic. He is twenty-three years old and unmarried. Stockholders of the Tricounty Tel­ ephone Company will hold a meeting at Tamaroa on May 16 to vote upon a proposition to increase the capital stock of the organisation from $15,- 000 to $25,000. About seventy-five boys of the Trapp School have organized a militia com­ pany similar in character to the Yates cadets, and will study military science under the officers of the Fifth regiment I. N. G., of Springfield. Their effort will be especially patronized by the members of the governor's guard, com­ pany C. Tte Illinois Glass company at 'Al­ ton began work of erecting the big •moke stack for the new No. 6 con­ tinuous tank glass furnace. It is ex­ pected to have the furnace completed within three months from this time. It will make an important addition to the glass output of the Illinois Glass company. Cvil service examinations will be held at Springfield June 3 for the posi­ tion of matron, seamstress and physi­ cian in the government Indian service , and for assistant engineer in the peni­ tentiary service. f1 J T-" <* > -rV;r. n . •• » Aged, crippled from injuries sus­ tained In a mine accident years ago, and in an almost helpless condition, Joseph Fletcher of Springfield has been deserted by his wife and two sons, Fred C. Fletcher aged 20, and Louis W., aged 16 years. The trio left for parts unknown taking with them half the savings of a lifetime. The only reason assigned for their leaving is because the father expostulated against Fred's devotion to church work. The old man says he appre­ ciates the fact that he was cross and irritable at times, but he holds his physical sufferings are accountable for these tendencies, and he declares he has always tried to restrain his feel­ ings in ths direction. MRS. MAUD It. HAYWARD. (President of the Rebekah Assembly of Illinois.) The following officers have been elected for the ensuing year by the interstate Odd Fellows' association, which bac just closed its seventeenth annual session at Murphysboro: Presi­ dent. Hon. A. B. Garrett, of Bast St. Louis: ice-president, Joseph Stea- gala, of Cairo and John L. Powell, of Paducah, Ky.; secretary. W. H. Geisen- hof, of Cairo; treasurer, T. J. Kerth, of Cairo. The eighteenth annual meeting will be held at Cairo. Makan- da lodge No, 405 was awarded the prize for having present the largest per cent of membership, as was the Rebekah lodge at that place. Pomona No. 798 secured the prize for the best appearance on parade, as also Herrin Rebekah lodge. The searcning party made up of the friends of half a dozen victims of the City of Pittsburg disaster, who have been spending their private meanB in the search for the bodies of their rel­ atives^ were rewarded for the recovery of a body for which they have been se^c^ing. This is the thirty-eighth body So far to be recovered. It was the charred remains of Mrs. Bmil Kupfcrschmldt of Cincinnati. The plant of the Pittsfield canning factory caught fire and in less than an hour waa burned to the ground. The plant was erected in 1900 at a coat of $10,000. It stood idle last year, but was to have been operated this season. No insurance. The death of Andrew McGiffigan, aged 93 years, occurred at his home in Carlyle. He had been a resident of Clinton county ft>r fifty years. William Barbre, an oia resident of Sangamon county died at hB residence near Curran at the age of 79 years. He was born in Posey county, Indiana, in 1822, and came to Illinois in early boyhood residing first in Edgar county and then coming to Sangamon. Upon his arrival here he got work as a farm hand at wages of $3 per month on the same farm wheh he afterward owned, adding to its area at various times un­ til it was one of the largest farms in the county. Mr. Barbre was a veteran of the civil war, and has held many political offices in his towsship. Ground was broken for the new high school building to be erected on Semi­ nary square in Alton. The contractors, a Chicago firm, arrived in Alton and began with a big force of men. The new school building will cost $50,000 when completed and will be one of the finest buildings of its kind in Southern Illinois. The terms of the contract provide that none but union labor shall be employed oa the build­ ing, and Alton men will be given the preference. The Illinois board of railroad and warehouse commissioners has decided on a reduction in freight rates in this state. The amount of reduction re­ mains to be determined by confer­ ences with shippers and the railroads. The board has notified shippers and railroads of a number of conferences to be held to discuss the rate sheets and classification. The first will he in Chicago about-the middle of May. The Montgomery County Christian Endeavor convention will be held at Nokomls, Saturday and Sunday, May 10 and 11. • The Democrats of Perry County will hold a mass convention May 17 at the courthouse in Pinckneyville to select delegates to the state, congressional and senatorial conventions. The con­ vention to nominate candidates for county offices will be held at a later date. Lieut B. V. Cross man has received orders to have the Alton division ready to go on its annual cruise on Lake Michigan, beginning August 9 and ending August 16. The Alton division will begin drilling for the cruise at once. Governor Yates has issued a requi­ sition on the governor of Arkansas for the extradition of Chet Pool, under arrest in St. Francis County, Ark., and is wanted in White County for burglary. C. A. Tlppey, residing near Fredonia, upon reaching Carbondale found that lie had been robbed of over $200 after boarding an Illinois Central train at Murphysboro. No clew to the pickpocket has been secured. Rev. J. B. Rogers, for five years pas­ tor of the Baptist church at Mowea- qua, has accepted a call to Springfield! At Collinsville Mrs. Jemima A. John­ son celebrated her ninetieth birthday anniversary in the house where she has lived for seventy-four years. She was born in Tennessee in 1812. Her parents came to Collinsville when she was a child. At the age of sixteen she was married to Stephen Johnson, who had come west from Worcester, Mass., in 1818. Mr. Johnson served as a drummer in the war of 1812 and his widow is one of the few surviving pen­ sioners of that war. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, all of whom are living and were pres­ ent at the celebration. They are: Sum­ ner, rffced seventy-two years; Edward, aged seventy; Frederick, aged sixty- seven; Matilda (Mrs. A. F. Johnson of Walshville), aged sixty-four, and Wal­ ter. aged sixty-one. The Democratic senatorial conven­ tion of the Fifty-first district will be held at Vienna on Tuesday, May 20, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for senator and one candidate for rep­ resentative in the general assembly. On May 22 the Republicans will hold a senatorial convention at Vienna to nominate a candidate for senator and two for representatives. The Republican county central com­ mittee met at Shawneetown and Issued a call for a delegate convention to be held at Shawneetown Aug. 8, for the purpose of nominating a county ticket. Dr. James H. Crain, the oldest prac­ ticing physician in southern Illinois, died at his home near Beech wood, aged seventy-three years. He had practiced forty-five years. Jacob Hoark, a section hand on the Illinois Central railroad at Springfield, was bound oven#to the grand jury on the charge of receiving stolen proper­ ty. It is alleged that Hoark Induced boys to steal car brasses from the rail­ road, showing them where they were kept, and afterward buying them back, remelttng the metal to prevent identi­ fication. Two of the boys testified against Hoark. By the death of Miss Wilhelmlna Ketterer, which occurred in Frieburg, Baden, Germany, some time ago, sev­ eral Springfield people will be mater­ ially benefitted. They are John G. Dlrkson, Jr., Mrs. George Kern and Dr. R. G. Hunn, all relatives of the de­ ceased. Mrs. Lawrence Brown of Can­ ton, Ohio, is'the remaining heir in this country, seven others residing In Germany. It is understood that tbe estate was valued at 500,000 marks. JOHN H. SIRES. (Grand Secretary I. O. O. F. of Illinois.) Gabriel McDaniel, colored, died at Springfield at the age of sixty-two years. Mr. McDaniel served through­ out the civil war in the 160th Illinois volunteers. The Decatur Chautauqua will open July 25 at Riverside Park and ajajftinue ten days. Rev. John J. Roach of Aurora, Neb., will become the assistant pastor for Rev. S. H. Bowyer at the Decatur Bap­ tist Church. William Sefton, aged thirty-five years, of Stanford township, while in a fit of mental aberration, cut his throat with a knife. The attending surgeons pronounce his condition as critical. Fred C. Goodnow of Salem, director of the farmers' institutes for the twenty-third district, has ' an­ nounced dates for holding coun­ ty Institutes as follows: Richland county, Olney, Oct 16, 17; Clinton, Carlyle, Nov. 11, 12; Marion, Salem, Nov. 12, 13; -Jefferson, Mount Vernon, Nov. 13, 14; Wabash, Mount Carmel, Dec. 2, 3; Lawrence, Lawrenceville. Dee 3, 4 and 5. The annual congres­ sional institute will be held In con­ junction with the Lawrence county in­ stitute. A settlement of the controversy over $40,000 of water fund certificates, is­ sued by the city council nearly two years ago In payment for the water­ works system, has just been made. All the certificates, with coupons attached have been returned to the city, and tbe city has delivered to the Carbon- dale Waterworks Company a quit­ claim deed to the property. Capt. N. B. Thistle wood of Cairo, commander of the G. A. R. depart­ ment of Illinois, will deliver the Dec­ oration day address at Pinckneyville. Chaplain Jacob Cole, a well-known Baptist minister of Duquoln, will preach the memorial sermon tbe Sun­ day preceding Decoration day. The offices of the judge, clerks, dis­ trict attorney and marshal of the United States courts at Springfield will close at noon, and there will be no session of the court in the afternoon. This rule will prevail0during the heat­ ed term. The auditor of public accounts has issued a permit for the organization of the Northwestern Trust and Sav­ ings Bank at Chicago, with a capital stock of $250,000. The stave mill in Keysport, operat­ ed by Walker and Fellars, was the scene of an accident. While the mach­ inery was in operation one of the large wooden pulley wheels flew to pieces and scattered in all portions of the mill. Rev. Charles Fry, pastor of the Methodist church, who was em­ ployed in the mill, was struck on the head and seriously injured. » OF INTERNATIONAL KINDERGARTEN UNION. <R\ n ZGedi MLXCEH. PUTTZRIT Mrs. Alice H. Putnam o* Chicago, has been elected president of the In­ ternational Kindergarten union. The election was held at Boston, where tbe organization, however, waa con­ ferred upon a western woman. The other officers choeen were: Vice Presidents, Mrs. Laliah B. Plngree, Boston, and Miss Nora A. Smith, New York; corresponding secretary and treasurer, Miss Fanniebell Curtis. Brooklyn; recording secretary, Mlw&./I Evelyn A. Holmes, Charleston, Si. auditor, Miss Harriet Niel, Washing* ton, D. C. Mrs. Putnam has long beets prominent in kindergarten work. jVVVWWWH'I ^ ̂ ̂ ̂ ******' Prodigious Pore* of a Cyeloae. Careful estimates of the force of a cyclone and the energy required to keep the full-fledged hurricane in ac­ tive operation reveal the presence of a power that makes the mightiest ef­ forts of man appear as nothing in com­ parison. A force fully equal to over 400,000,000 horse power was estimated as developed in a West Indian cyclone. This is about fifteen times the power than can be developed by all tbe means within the range of man's ca­ pabilities during the same time. Alligators utf CroeodUe*. The alligator never leaves fresh water, while the crocodile often goeB to sea. and In the West Indies has sometimes been found many miles from land, heading directly for an isl­ and, possibly out of sight. Bead Speeches of Mtasata The small attention paid to most speakers in the senate and house of representatives is often commented by visitors to the galleries. But whilst. speakers are not listened to they ar«?| >< read. A great many senators and rep-i-. resentatlves read not only newspapertr; ̂ reports of congressional proceedings^'. but the official report contained in tha;< Record as well. They devote the firstf^ hours of the morning to this labffe ; Heat from a Start •'f The star Arcturus, the hottest ofik celestial bodies, gives us as much heat- as a standard candle alx miles away.: ̂ This fact was ascertained by the radi-t.. ̂ ometer, an instrument which wiH"? ̂ show the amount of beat gtraa oflf:,̂ from a man's face at 2,000 feet dis­ tance. GEN. BRllGERE, HEAD OF THE FRENCH ARMY, X0 FAY A VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES. t 0$ (I "I/ !1!'"11' 0IMUK HI a W GEHJ3RCT6EEE, COnriAXIDEP-TK- CHIEF o f - rnfi foe wen Aorcr. At the head of the French mission to attend the dedication of the Ro- chambeau monument in Washington, as officially announced, Is the name of Gen. Brugere, the commander-in- chief of France's army, and vice presi­ dent of the superior council of war. Gen. Brugere IB regarded as the strong­ est man In the French army of Janit Settled It Two boys in a rural Scotch district were one day discussing what sign it was when the cuckoo is heard for the first time in the year. One of them •aid it was a sign of getting married, while the other said it was a sign that you were going to be rich. A farmer, overhearing them, said, "That cannot be true, because I have heard it many times, and I am not married yet, and I am certainly not rich." Just then a local worthy, known as "Daft Jamie," was passing by, and the farmer said: "Jamie, can you tell us what sign It is when you hear the cuckoo for tbe first time!" "Yes," •aid Jamie, as be took his pipe from his mouth, "tl's a sign you're not deaf." Meaalag of "Hairs «ye. A small boy in liondon was asked to give the various meanings of the expression "bull's eye." Having writ­ ten down all the ordinary meanings quite accurately, he continued: "There Is yet another bull's eye, as when you go up in a balloon you are said to have a bull's eye view of everything." to-day. Since he was "discovered" by President Carnot less than ten years; ago and made secretary general at their Ellysee, he has steadily advanced in, positions of great importance, lnclud-'. ing that of Governor of Paris, durlcgt, the critical times following the return of Dreyfus from Devil's Island, until he has become the chief ot tha army. Ckinki of Useless laforaatha Camille Flammarion, the well- known French astronomer, has an­ nounced the fact that 1,000,000,000 minutes since the beginning of the; Christian era had elapsed on Friday- last at 6:10 p. m. Nobody probably < experienced any sensation whereby the billionth minute of the. Christian era could be differentiated from any that went before or that have come after. The man who knows how many com­ mas there are in the bille or how many times the article "a" is repeated in Shakespeare will doubtless seise this ^ chunk of French astronomical wisdom _ with gusto. Oaaada Makes casese» There are today in Qanada saaaa 3,000 cheese factories, with an annual aggregate output of ISO.000,000 pounds of cheese, or an average of aWftt, 000 pounds per factory. * Th« Mother Ftnt A Chicago woman has declined a proffered nomination for school trttfr- tee on the ground that her two-year ̂ old baby requires all her ttaia