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£ Newest Ideas In Yokes. Quite the newest thing in fofc»"ls the square outline, although many pre­ fer to cling to the pointed yoke, find­ ing it more becoming. The yokes are jpade of lacs or eyelet embroidery With stock attached. The square yoke kas also made its appearance on the itrictly tailor-made suits. Here, how­ ever, it is made up of starched ehemi- gette order, with upright collar, such used to be worn exclusively with iievere shirtwaists half a dozen years ^go. At the front of the collar oh: each Corner are embroidered beautiful mo­ tives, such as flowers, butterflies or a Resign in eyelet embroidery. This Cfjives a truly feminine touch on so Sncompromisingly stiff an affair. | To state what colors are to be worn to impossible There is a perfect JCraze for vivid shades of yellow and orange, which%comes under the name * Of coque-de-roche. A touch of It is generally flattering to the face, its brilliant coloring often bringing oat tidden charms of color in completion, hair and eye?. lij ."'•i""1 " ; Ribbon Cuffs*' -f ettffs are a novel feature of tome fine evening coats. V A lovely creation in biscuit broad­ cloth (it looks white in the evening) fhows the very broad sleeves to be fathered into correspondingly broad .Jfcuffs. And these cuffs are of ribbon. Of the very broad ribbon but one {width Is required, the pretty, figured -.ituff being draped down to a width of jjive inches. In this way nearly three- •fourths of a yard would be required •for each sleeve. The delicate greens Wnd pinks are especially exploited on the ivory grounds of these lovely rib- j>ons. Naturally, the striking novel- ties here suggested do not exhaust the Uses to which ribbon is ptit, though r^the others are not as surprising. Lovsly Hats In Violet. The violet hats!--too definite for day wear, but at night they come out In soft, bewildering, beautiful shades tnd styles. Yet the violet refused to ibe pushed back for street wear entire­ ly, so those dark, rich "plums" have i|some to the fore. Made of velvet, and primmed with roses of varying shades, that tone in perfectly, the "plum" hats $iave a certain beauty and suggestion of conservatism in their make-up. Pretty Fancy In Scarfs. There are new scarfs of soft, creepy stuffs, fringed, and printed with great shadow flowers, or with tiny groups sedately ranged along the borders. ~ New Kind of Zlbellne. I Closely sheared zibeline, not the long-haired kind first introduced, is the madlsh stuff for the coming sea- • Dainty-Little Frock. Guimpe dresses always are attractive end this one is peculiarly so owing to itS novel sleeves and square neck. The dress itself is shown in blue mer­ cerized chambray with bands of white jcmbroidery, the guimpe in dotted ba- •tiste, but many other combinations ijjnlght be made. All the seasonable llinens and cottons are desirable for jthe frock of immediate wear while all sphildish wools will be admirable for Ider weather and the guimpe can properly be of any pretty washable White fabric. To make the dress for Design by May Manton. £i girl of 10 years of age will be re­ quired 4^4 yards of material 27, 3% ards 32 or 2H yards 44 inches wide sjrtth 16 yards of banding and 1% jrards 32 inches wide for guimpe. i Parisian Feature In Costa. In Paris long coats fitted in at the back and sides, but made plaited or full, with the fullness shirred or belt­ ed, are in evidence. They are, as one Importer expresses it, "a cross be­ tween a directoire redingote and a Russian moujlk," and are slightly bloused. Cloth of Many Virtues. Tfce silk-warp Henrietta cloth has been seen lately made up in modish m -gowns for afternoon wear, and very handsome it is, too. It has the lustre of silk, the warmth of wool and much body, while it drapes in graceful xolds. Bonnets for Little Girls. 'Tfce most charming old-fashioned g£-,poke bonnets (the 1830 shapes) are $ ishown for children. They are for the jmost part done in all white, but pale blue and dainty pink shades are also shown. The trimmings consist of silk trawn on cords, folded ribbons, Anted laces and ostrich tips. Nothing can be more picturesque and lovely than a little girl dimpling and smiling in one of these quaint bonnet*. V . Novel Chair Baefe. Here is a charming design for a chair back, which can be strongly recommended, not only ad a comfort­ able head rest, but also as a cover to disguise a shabby or faded chair. It may be made from odds and ends of cloth, silk, velvet or lengths of rib­ bon, and is composed of a series of seven divisions or rolls. Each of these is first made up separately, and filled with feathers, vegetable down, wad­ ding or any other stuffing that Is available; then afterwards sew them together. Cloth and velvet placed al­ ternately of harmonious shades of sage green or terra cotta would have a pleasing effect--Montreal Herald. Bit of Unique Contrast. A white evening coat has a bit of color in Its collar, which Is of sky- blue velvet. Another goes a step further and uses strong' royal blue. In the prettiest of ways. 8HE SQUARED THE ACCOUNT. Little Debt to Bank Wiped Out In Easy Manner. "I have a profound admiration for women," remarked Col. John S. Fla­ herty, manager of the Majestic thea­ ter, New York, "but as business men they fail to impress me. One of my friends recently deposited $100 in a bank to his wife's credit, introduced her to£the cashier and paying-teller, gave her a check book, and started her on a financial career. "Within K week she received a no­ tice by mail "saying that her account was overdrawn and asking her to call She took the notice and went to the bank and asked what it meant. "It took some time for the cashier to explain, but he finally told the 'woman plainly that she had no more money in the bank. " 'How can that be?" she demanded. 'I still have a lot of checks left' " 'That may be,' replied the cashier, •but you owe us eight dollars.' 'Is that all?' she asked. 'I will fix that.' And she took a pen, wrote a check for the amount, and handed it to the cashier."--New York Tele graph. 8TORY TOLD BY EZRA KENDALL. Actor Relates a Comical Experience -in a Pennsylvania Town. "I have had discouragements," ad­ mitted Ezra Kendall the other day. "Once, just once, years ago, I was ar­ rested. It was in a little Pennsylvania town which we sought to elevate. But it refused to be elevated. We rented the hall for $20, and there was just $19.40 gross in the house. The man­ ager, or janitor, or sexton--I forget which--was a kindly looking old gen­ tleman, and we had it all framed up to ask him to help us out of town. He came around after the show. " 'Boys,' he said, 'you're shy on the rent What are you going to do about it?' "We explained the situation, and he seemed deeply touched. 'Well, boys, it's too bad,' he said. 'You just wait here about twenty minutes.' About three-quarters of an hour later he came back. " 'It's all right, boys,' he exclaimed. 'I've fixed it You see, I ain't got all the say, and I had to consult the trus­ tees. It's all right. They'll trust you for the sixty cents.'" Was He Vain? * In one of the big stores the othei day a woman stood in a little booth demonstrating the value of somebody's complexion lotion and face powder A long line of women, with complex­ ions of every degree of beauty, were waiting in line to "get a try" at it After thirty or forty women had been "beautified" a fat little bald-headed man stepped up to the demonstrator. "Do you mind fixln' me np, too?" he asked. "Certainly not," said the demon­ strator. "Well, I shaved myself this morn­ ing and I did a bad job of It I wish you'd paint me." The demonstrator grabbed up a cloth dipped it in carmine, And smeared it over the little man's fat face. Then she smeared on the white lotior. When she was through with him he looked like a beauty mask. "He looks real purty, don't he?" said the woman just behind him. "Oh, what ar lufly complexions," said the little German woman who came next "Say, are you klddin' me?" asked the little fat 4nan as he turned to walk away. "Who says men aren't vain?" asked the demonstrator as she made a quick swipe at a woman's face who was waiting to be ipade lovely in ajgp^r- ance.--Chicago Inter Ocean. In Memory of Shakespeare^ ^ A 9lip from Shakespeare's mulberry txetf at Stratford-on-Avon Is to b« set out opposite the town hall of the bor. ough of Southwark, London, which is a stone's throw from the Old Newing- ton theater, where Shakespeare acted In 1594-96. Nan Patterson, now on trial at New York for murder, had achieved some notoriety before her arrest as a chorus girl in "Florodora." She is charg­ ed with killing "Caesar" Young, - a bookmaker, in a hansom cab last June, using a pistol in the deadly work, but there are witnesses who allege that th-3 man shot himself. The face of th# accused is said to be that of a weak, thoughtless girl. The illustration shows the accused woman in court with her father. It 16 copied from a drawing made by a staff artist of the New York Herald. The father's grief is pitiable. RU88IA FACING A CRI8I8. Significance of Demand Made by Rep­ resentatives of Zemstvos. When the czar of Russia permits a meeting of the representatives of the1 zemstvos in St. Petersburg for the obvious if not avowed purpose at agi­ tating for a constitution, and when that body by a vote of S6 to 10 boldly informs him that the country urgently nefeds "a specially elected body to par­ ticipate in legislation," it is plain that a crisis hag arrived in the history of the Russian bureaucracy. It' is true the meeting had to be held without official auspices and the representatives are said not to be hopeful of immediate success, but, on the other hand, this is only the be­ ginning of the agitation. The zemstvos themselves will meet One Theory of the Killing. |T HAV* VHt VWAY tiOoeopv > RACE WILL BE AMERICAN. the Dec. 14 for the purpose of urging for­ ward the movement and the czar must either suppress it or permit it. In either case the result, sooner or later, will be that Russia will have a consti­ tution and a parliament. To people living in free countries this apparent groping and creeping of the Russians toward civilization and liberty is tantalizing. What we would all like to see In that country Is a sudden upheaval which would over­ turn autocracy in a moment and for­ ever, and possibly we may yet see it. Everything indicates that the fuel is well prepared and that when the match is applied the conflagration will be fierce. Russia will yet be a free country. These hopes seem to have a reason­ able foundation in the disastrous war which Russia is waging in the far east. That she will ultimately over­ power and drive back the Japanese Beems probable enough, unless inter­ national complications should arrest her, but this will not altogether pre­ vent the uprising at home. It is not now conceivable that Rus­ sia should emerge from the conflict without a pitiable loss of prestige and badly crippled in her resources, and these effects can not be without seri­ ous effects on her domestic institu­ tions. There is nothing like a war to let In the lfght. France never knew her­ self or Germany until the Franco- Prussian war. Both sections of this country had their eyes opened by the civil war. The Spanish war was an admirable instructor. The internal policy of Great Britain has been sha­ ken to the foundation by the Boer war.--Chicago Chronicle. Future Status of the People of United States. The peopleof the United States are often called Anglo-Saxons. It is a mis­ nomer. They speak the language of the Anglo-Saxons. Their laws and many of their institutions are but the modified laws and institutions of the Anglo-Saxons. Many of them are of English descent. But their personality already widely differs from that of Englishmen, and the difference is bound greatly to increase. President Roosevelt brought out this fact and one of its causes in his ad­ dress at the unveiling of the statue of Frederick the Great. The blood of almost every civilized people--of Irish­ men, Englishmen, Germans, Italians, Frenchmen, Slavs, Greeks and Scan­ dinavians--runs in American veins. This unprecedented intermixture of the. practical genius of the English­ man with the imagination of the Ital­ ian, of the steady industry and somber temper of the Teuton with the mer­ curial habits afid joyous disposition of the Greek and the Latin, could not fail in any circumstances to produce a race essentially different from any of those from which it sprang. But not only is this intermixture of races unprecedented. The conditions under which it is happening also are unique. Henry Thomas Buckle believed that the climate of a country formed, in the long run, the minds and characters of its people. The inhabitants of the tropics were indolent and unprogres- sive because the bountiful earth pro­ vided for almost all their wants, while the industry and progressiveness of those of temperate regions were born of their successful struggles to make niggardly nature yield them a living. Buckle's generalization was too sweep­ ing, but unquestionably peculiarities of ^limate have helped mold the per­ sonality of all nations, and are help­ ing shape the personality of ours. History, language, institutions will Theory the Police Repudiate. Prof. Koch Fighting Disease. Prof. Robert koch'has recently been Investigating an outbreak of typhoid fever for the German government, and has since been at $eris, where he was entertained by the Pasteur institute. In the course of the winter he will proceed to German East Africa in order to continue those studies of tropica* aB<J other diseases which be had not completed during his recent visit to Rhodesia. In particular he will continue to investigate the part played by ticks In conveying the in­ fection of various cattle diseases. tell. Our history, language and insti­ tutions being mainly Anglo-Saxon, we ,, shall probably always be more English than German or Italian. But in the main we shall be neither English, nor German, nor Scandinavian* nor Italian, but a composite of all. We shall be American--a name which it should be our chief business to make stand for as many as possible of the good qual­ ities of the races from which we are derived and for as few as possible of their faults.--Chloago Tribune. Tax on Theater Tickets. Victoria will probably be the first British community to levy a tax on amusements for the support of local charitable institutions, says the Lon­ don Chronicle. Mr. Bent, the premier, proposes a tax of a penny on every shilling spent in the purchase of thea­ ter tickets. The Melbourne theatrical managers are alarmed at this proposal which they say means a levy of 8 per cent on their gross takings. They have had a long conference with the premier, but did not succeed in con­ verting him to their way of thinking. Knew His Business. "Yes," acknowledged the welt-dressed man, I have a very good income, but I do not feel able to keep an auto­ mobile." "But I am sure J'tStS&ld interest you," argued the dealer. "A man who has the money you are said to have sure­ ly ought to afford a good touring ma­ chine." ~ "No; I'd lose too mttch on the re-' pairs. You see, my income arises from a couple of auto repair shops 1 was lucky enough to start a year ago." Disease That Comes to All. " "A* foreign diplomat in conversation with Secretary Hay was expressing satisfaction over the announcement that the latter was to continue in the cabinet. He also congratulated the secretary, who is 65 years old, on his excellent appearance. "Ah," said Mr. Hay in sorrowful fashion, "you forgot that I suffer from an incurable dis­ ease." The diplomat expressed aston­ ishment at this statement and asked the nature of the| malady. "Old age,"^ said Mr. Hay. 1 - Closing of Steel Mills at South Chi- i cago Was a Surprise. • More than 3.000 men, including hun­ dreds of highly skilled workmen, are idle in South Chicago through the clos­ ing of the rail and steel mills of the Illinois Steel company. . ; A notice was posted on the gates of .the plant announcing that these mills would be closed indefinitely. Lack of orders is the reason given by officials of the company for the ̂ hut-down. The men declare that the action is the first step toward a general liquidation of wages. • When the Illinois Steel company's plants resumed operations a year ago, after a period of idleness, wages were cut in every department with the ex­ ception of the rail and steel mills. In i these departments the skilled work' meh had a contract with the company This contract would have expired on Jan. 1. '• * | The closing down of the mills at this time comes as a Surprise to the Wen. They declare that they fully expected a cut of from 30 to 40 per cent in the wages which they have "been getting according to their con: tract. This would mean a reduction Joff the highly skilled men's wages from about $10 to about $6; a day. It is expected that the mills will start up again some time after the begin­ ning Of the new year. STATE TROOPS FOR JOE LEITER 'Allegation Is Made That Mine Owner's Attorney Was Shot At. The situation at Joseph Letter's coal mines at Ziegler has gotten be­ yond the control of the local authori­ ties and state troops have been sent to Benton, within a few miles of Zieg­ ler, to assist in preserving order. The request for troops was made to Gov. Yates by Sheriff Stein, who confessed that he was unable to longer cope ,with the situation. | This is the direct result of the at­ tack made upon Letter's attorney, Hi R. Piatt of Chicago, who was fired upon from ambush while riding across country from this place to Benton. i The attorney declares that he was attacked by three men and that as many as twenty-five shots were fired at him. He returned the fire, but does not know whether or not any of his assailants were wounded. • An order was issued by Adjutant General Scott at Springfield directing Captain Wilbur Satterfleld, comman­ der of Company F, Fourth infantry regiment, of Mount Vernon, to proceed at once to Benton. : Adjutant General Scott Js of the opinion that the sheriff is unduly alarmed, but as the call for troops was properly made he did not hesitate to meet the request DEATH CLEARS UP A MYSTERY. Man Who Mysteriously Disappeared Found Dead on Railroad Track. The disappearance of William Funk, a well-known insurance and real es­ tate agent of Bloomington, which has been creating much comment, was cleared up upon receipt of a message from Galesburg stating that his dead body has been found on the railroad between that city and Knoxville. The dead man had been complaining of pains in his head for some time and it was supposed that he had wandered away while mentally unbalanced. He was fifty years of age and had resid­ ed most of his life in Bloomington. His accounts are in good condition and his character of the best New Baptist Organization. A second Baptist church has been or­ ganized in Mount Vernon, with 125 members, as a result of the evangelis­ tic services recently held. The follow­ ing officers were eletced:, Clerk, John E. Throgmortou; trustees, Harrison Marquis, Charles Webber and William Hicks; deacons, Charles Webber, James Miller, Perry Lowery and W. L. Coats. A buildin gcommittee has been appointed. Golden Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. James Walsh cele­ brated their fiftieth wedding anniver­ sary at Areola. The event was ob­ served with nuptial high mass at the Catholic church. The ceremony, in which they again plighted troth just as they did a half century ago, was witnessed by 250 persons. Mr. and Mrs. Walsh are among the pioneer res­ idents of Areola. 8ues Road for $10,000.„ i George Corzine, administrator of the estate of Jiles Canady, has commenced suit in the circuit court at Taylorville for damages in the sum of $10,000 against the Illinois Central railroad company. Canady was struck and killed by an Illinois Central engine while crossing the company's tracks in Assumption. Engineer Is Hurt. • In a rear-end collision between freight trains on the Lake Erie ft Western railroad in the yards at Bloomington, Engineer Charles Carl­ son of Rankin received a broken hip and internal injuries that may prove fatal. Farmer Retires. ! John Hamilton, an old resident of the Anderson neighborhood, has re­ tired from active farming and re­ moved with his family to a new resi­ dence. . -- ' j" Get Printing Contracts. { Schnepp & Lauer of Springfield have been awarded a contract for state printing, which will aggregate $8,900. The Illinois State Journal company of Springfield has been awarded the con­ tract for second-class printing, aggre­ gating $66,400. Voluntary Bankrupt. ! w. A. Hoff of Clinton filed a volun­ tary petition in bankruptcy in the fed­ eral court at Springfield, scheduling liabilities $620, assets $130. Emblem Commemorates an Eccentric Citizen of Newman. The Burgett block, now under con­ struction in Newman, bears an unus­ ual memorial. The exterior of the cor­ ner stone is embellished with a carv­ ing, representing a 'coon perched upon a limb. This carving was suggested and put in place to commemorate a well-known, but eccentric citizen. The ground was formerly owned and was occupied for thirty years by an aged German shoemaker, a recluse, known to the commercial world as Conrad Carnot, and to the general public as "Cooney." Although full of quaint- ness ever suggestive of practical jokes, the old man accumulated much property, all of which was claimed by strangers after his death, in 1888. The tablet is designed to immortalize the quaint citizenship of "Cooney," and it never fails to bring a smile from the passerby familiar withits history and Its' purpose. o Vi '•> CHARIT Y*WORKER DIES. John JipBrown, the newly elected president of the Illinois Conference of Charities, died at St. Mary's hospital, Decatur, following an operation last Friday for a mastoid abscess. He had m Roosevelt's Plurality Exceeds TfMtt | Deneen by 4,692 Votes, „ \ ./V With the finish Of the canvass for Chicago and Cook county the official returns of the vote cast in the state at the last general election ara com­ plete. Roosevelt's vote in the whole state was 632,745, against 328,006 for Par- ' ker, giving the former a plurality of 304.739. Deneen ran ahead of Roosevelt berth as to total number of votes received and in the size of his plurality in Chicago and Cook county, and ended down the state with a total vote ofi 634,029--1,284 more than the candidate for president received--and with a plu- rality of 300,047, only 4,692 leas than io that received by the head of tha ticket; Stringer's vote for governor was - greater than that received by Parker. In Chicago he received 2,398 more - votes than were cast for the head of > the Democratic ticket; in Cook county his vote exceeds Parker's by 2,647, ^ and his vote in the state as a whole is 5,976 greater than Parker's. The total vote of the state on presi­ dent was 1,076,998, and on governor 1,071,983. For presidential electors the Socialists cast 69,225 votes, the Prohibitionists" 34,759, the People's party 6,725, the Social Democrats 4,- 708 and the Continental party 830. . The Socialist candidate for governor ran 10,000 behind Debs* candidate toe president. ^ Watson ran somewhat more than 2,- 000 ahead of the People's party's state ticket. In the case of the other minor parties the national and state ran about the same. i"- 0 WAS GENEROUS TO THE CHURCH ; fc * f* been a resident of Decatur many years, and was master in chancery of Macon "County for fifteen years. He always had been a Republican, and became interestedjn charity work shortly after his appointment as trustee of the Illi­ nois Institution for the Blind. Farmers' Relief National Officers. The semi-annual meeting of the Farmers' Relief Association closed one of its most successful meetings at Johnson City; Eighty-seven local lodges were represented by 101 dele­ gates. It has a membership of over 3,000. The following officers were elected: National president, C. I* Mil­ ler,"of Marion; national vice president, T. R. Berry, of Creel Springs; na­ tional secretary, George W. Bennett, of Benton; national treasurer, E. E. Entsmingef, of Crab Orchard; nation­ al director, Thomas Crawshaw, of Car- bondale. The national assembly ap­ proved the formation of a mutual ben­ efit insurance company, which has been organized for Williamson county. The next meeting will be held at Vi­ enna, beginning May 9. Hospital Is Opened at Paris. St. Joseph's hospital, given to Paris through the efforts of the Benedictine sisters, has been formally opened and is the only institution of its kind in Paris. Twenty patients can be easily accommodated, and in cases of emer­ gency some of the larger rooms can be converted into waids and thirty can be accommodated. Exclusive of the furnishings, the hospital cost about $12,000. Requisitions Honored and Issued. Qov. Yates has honored a requisi­ tion for Jodie Wolf, under arrest at Cairo and wanted in Mississippi coun­ ty, Missouri, charged with assault with intent to kill Ben Stevison Nov. 12. Gov. Yates issued a requisition for Virgil West, under arrest at Indian­ apolis, and wanted in Cook county on a charge of robbing the billiard room of John E. Jeffrey, Chicago. Affirms Verdict for $5,000. •The appellate court has affirmed the decision of the Christian county court decision of the Christian county cir­ cuit court in the suit of Arnold Broad- man against the city of Pana. Broad- man received injuries while walking along the streets of Pana by coming in contact with an electric light wire. A jury in the circuit court rendered a verdict for $5,000 in his favor. The Late Mrs. Winstanley Made Many Contributions to Charity. Mrs. Elizabeth ^Winstanley of Win­ stanley Park, a suburb of East St Louis, is dead, aged 74, after an ill­ ness of many weeks. Mrs. Winstanley was foriherly Miss Elizabeth Trendley and was born near the present north­ ern limits of Eost St. Louis in 1830. Her father, Capt. John Trendley, op­ erated the first ferryboat propelled by horsepower across the river from East St. J^ouis in 1848. She was married to Capt. E. J. McLean, who died two years later. In 1851 she became the wife of Col. Thomas Winstanley, a wealthy farmer and financier. Mr. Winstanley was killed by a bull about fifteen years ago. There were no chil­ dren born to either union. Mr. Win­ stanley made large donations to char­ ity and also gave the ground upon which St. Elizabeth's church and con­ vent now stands. She leaves a broth­ er, Capt. Henry E. Trendley, and two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Renshaw and Mri- Nicholas Boul. BOODLE RUMORS 8TIR VILLAGE South Elgin Residents to Investigate | Granting of Franchise. South Elgin is discussing rumors of boodling in the village board. Threats of a rigorous investigation promise to •' £ develop into a probe of the alleged corruption. At a meet ing the board 11 voted to allow the National Gas com- • pany a right-of-way through the vil­ lage without compensation. President Doxey cast the deciding vote, because the board was tied. At a previous meeting the gas company offered $200 for the franchise. Officials of the gas company deny the use of boodle. The villagers are aroused over the inci­ dent, and committees for investigation have been formed. Elgin Woman an Heiress. Miss Mary McElroy of Elgin is tkft sole heir of her brother, the late James McElroy, who died a short time ago in St. Louis, leaving an estate valued at $125,000 with a monthly income of $500. McElroy was interested In a manufacturing enterprise and owned real estate in Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Texarkana, Tex. He also owned a part of a business block in St Louis which was being completed at the time of his death. - Lineman Is Killed. B. D. Hall, a lineman, fell from a telephone pole at Springfield and was instantly killed . Hunter's Gun Explodes. Frank Brochard, aged 36 years, who recently went to Quincy from St. Louis and was employed as a pattern maker at the Quincy engine works, was shot and instantly killed by a premature explosion of his gun while hunting. Aged Man Gets Damages. William Cosgrove, aged 75 years, has been awarded $300 damages against the city of Carlyle. He was injured three months since by a rail­ ing on a bridge within the city llmita givng away. • Retail Merchants Elect. The annual election of officers of the Retail Merchants' association of Jacksonville resulted as follows: President, William Babb; vice presi­ dent, E. E. Bavington; secretary, Thoma$ H. Buckthorpe; treasurer, Ed­ gar E. CVabtree; trustees, C. L. Bart- lett Frank Byrns and John Merrigan. t Glassworks Shut Down. The Finley & Shonfield glass and bottle works in Litchfield are shut down because of the scarcity of coke, throwing 108 men out ef employment Alleged Counterfeiter Is HeldL..... « Charles Clemmons, said to 'be"if' noted counterfeiter, was arrested at Aurora, charged with attempting to pass $1 bills which were raised to $10. Clemmens is declared to have made a small purchase in a millinery store, of­ fering a spurious bill in payment While waiting for change he became suspicious and fled, but wm after a chase; Charge Couple With Murder. William Davis and his wife Mary, of Hebrin, were placed in jail at Woodstock, charged with complicity in the murder of Jacob H. Effertx, of Chicago, whose body was found in & ditch, near Wilder, Ind., on Oct. with "a bullet hole in the head. Fails to Touch Judge's Heart. In an effort to touch the heart off Judge C. H. Donnelly at Waukegan and secure a light sentence Patrick Lynn of Chicago, leader of the gang which recently robbed the American Steel and Wire Company of a largo sum by pay roll stuffing, changed his plea to guilty and begged for a jail sentence. The Judge was unmoved and sentenced him to the penitentiary. Peter De Young, another of the gang, pleaded guilty and got thirty days to, jail. The others, Gallagher, Conrode^ and Bixby will fight their cases. VVs Monument to Col. Mersey., The survivors of the 9th Illinola volunteer infantry at Belleville have taken action on a movement to erect a monument to the msaory of the late Col. August Mersey, who is buried at Walnut Hill cemetery. Upon a mo­ tion of Capt. Fred Dilg of Mascou&ah, a committee consisting of Low Born- man and William Schlott of BeHville and Fred Scheeve of Mascoutah waa appointed to select a design. It is in­ tended to have the muiu with all possible haste. - ? * i