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Great Simplon Tunnel Now in Full ion Next Weefaesday toSeleefc ' i f . V f LAST OF FRENCH ARISTOCRACY- •' v ; A ----- Princess de Valmont Clafmed-Distino^ f /Hon on Her Deathbed. X! ^ 'The old French aristocracy dies with me," cried tite^Priniess de Val- ^moQt op her deathbed. She "was, a ibitter/old soal who,v born of a long line of uncontaminated ancestors ald^VlfJlj' iccAmhW t>4 married to a noble-of equally super^ - 1 *5S0f?!0ie HI fine strain, had, through her h»s- band's death in financial .faculties," Si:.marry her five children oo "aboln-able person^', of high character, btj,t;,wlth the flight of trade or iadtis-' Vy in their blood. Her last years Were made mourtiful to her b^ this pitiful descent, and Just befor£ her ^randios last utterance^ looking with a fitter smile at her ^children*.. and andchildren^ia. /'tears , round her deathlj%dv-^8he br^ke silence in the following t#rib^/ reflection: "We Jjave here," counting on her fingers, "representatives of carriage-making, wholesale grocery^ confectionery, coal mining andthe stock exchange"^ and all grafted jg> the old tree qf the Df V^mofifsT"--NeWYork Herald. > i. ^ First Train Through the i tunnel is now open for traffic and is in operation. The first train made a successful and unevent- ( ful trip through it. This is the third ._ ppreat tunnel through the Alps, the s; ' two others being the St. GGthard and Mont Cenis. "the Simplon is the most h • „ ixpen^Ive of all and will have th% |nost traffic. It will make the Jour- K Qreat 8implon Tunnel. ney over the mountains monasteries unnecessary. Napoleon led his army into Italy over the sur­ face of^the ground under which the Simplon \runs. The Italians have m^de arrangements to blow up the tunnel in the ereot Of' war irltb France or Germany* • > folSSOURI ADDING TO WEALTH." flanks High as Manufacturing ae Well as* Agricultural State. ^ - For many years Missouri ranked .jfcext to Illinois and Iowa for corp acre­ age; it took high rank as a fruit, and wine producing Jrtate and was fourth on the list of American states in line. Missouri uorn, Missouri apples and Missouri grapes were admittedly ex­ cellent products. Within five years, however, the manufactures of Mis­ souri have increased 30 per cent. In MARKING HISTORIC OLD TRAILS ;|ieglect of that industry. Missouri has faken up meatpacking, to the amount of $60,000,000 last year. Tobacd^ yielded $30,000^000 and malt liquors $25,000,000. TBe trade in boots and shoes in which St. Louis is a formid­ able rival of Boston, was $25,000,000 and in foundry and machine shop products, made profitable throughjthe recent development of Missouri's Iron, lead and zinc mines, "$20,000,000. In­ stead of being a distinctively agri­ cultural state Missouri has become one of the chief manufacturing states of the country.--New York Sun. Eastern Journal | Praises Movemen N0W §e;neral in vest. f A » movement'- is • spreading »througi i"$ke WfeSt which h^is for its object th( permanent marking of ttite old trails along /which the country was pene­ trated and crossed by adventurers and emigrants in the period hef^m th# construction of railroads. Tins is a' highly praiseworthy undertaking and to degree that the object i§ JDaith- fully accomplished will be av more place of corngrowing, but not to £he*j Noteworthy contribution to/ history METHODS ON FARM. BUSINESS T ' Agriculture No Longer Profitable Con­ ducted in Haphazard Way. Thousands of farmers in the more opulent agricultural regions of *he country still conduct their farms in a haphazard way, but everywhere the Advantage and necessity of the busi­ ness sfiirit are being recognized. The west has been warned, for example, that the fertilizer problem of the east and the south will have to be met vfe fore many decades unless the soils are put under better rotations and econ­ omy of land is being preached. It ip now generally accepted as a truism that the better the business man the agriculturist of to-day becomes, the more profitable will be found that oc­ cupation which once was described by a keen, though not wholly wise farm­ er, in the statement that "farmi^' ain't all keepin' books, by a long < shot"--Boston Globe. FARMS AWAIJING THE F/U*MER. \ - e Glprious Chance for the Suffering Residents of City Slums. All t over <the cdhntry therg are farms-crying for tilling and there are few responses. The lure' of "the city has absorbed thousands of thetjiest young people of\the agricultural dis­ trict. H no plan is found for keeping young men anil wAmen on the fafrms, then a large scheme^of emptying the cifcles of their ^poor and helpless should be evolved. It is one of the in­ comprehensible phases of the situa­ tion that, no matter, how poofVand suffering^ the average family of th? •j^city slums' may bef it prefers to suffer the miseries of^tne tenements rather than go in the country^ where healthful/ employment awaits all and whfre the pure air will revive de­ bilitated bodies flnaM^e sunshine- win back the feeble tides of life^Kansas Ci% Journal. * r - i Milliners and Theater Men War. London theatrical managers view with concern this new wrinkle of women wearing, hats witirtujl dress evening toilettes and thereby trans­ porting what is termed the "restaur­ ant dress" to the stalls of playhouses. jJothing can Induce this elaborately put together person to disturb the Composition by removing its crowning Itlory, her $50 hat. The great milliners lire in league with their patronesses find "create" such evening millinery It is sinful to abandon it even for an j^our or so. It is expected that some Slaves to® the beautiful would even llleep in their hats if they could. The tendon milliner and the London man* ager are at odds. It Is war to the kniffcdfcetween them. • ' Senator Good Judge of Character. While seated at luncheon with Sen­ ator Nixon of Nevada, Senator Anck« ^#ny of Washington, who has been in the senate three years, remarked 'that fce had been attending meetings ofrh^ canal committee and had been much impressed with^ the ability of "a short, smooth-face^^ young A--fellow" wh9 seemed to nave some^Sort of connec­ tion with the committee. Said Mr. jinckeny: "I believe that young ffeP low has a fine future. He is working for the committee apparently aid- why, there he is now." Senator Nixon glanced in the direction indicated and «aid: "That is Philander C. Knox, former attorney general of the United #tates and now senator frofe Penn­ sylvania." Music's Many Uses. It is a reasonable proposition that music intelligently administered will .produce definite results in disease &eatment. It supplied a stimulant, lloth psychic and physical. In melan­ cholia and insanity music stimulates #xe attention centers, withdraws the attention from self and so effects a |jure. Take the business man, so fagged that he cannot control his at­ tention. Let music softly and con­ tinuously played; his attention will be ^entered, then tired and he will sleep i # phild.--New York Hail Caine's Fad. Hall Caine, the novelist, Is a con­ noisseur in old oak. If he can Iftelp it, lie never allows his eyes to rest on any article of furniture which does fiot at least carry the thought back ^peveral generations. His quaint chairs were made for him by William Mor- §ls, and among his greatest treasures la the ancient and richly-qarved casket fin which Rossetti used to preserve\is Bianuscripts. Mr. Caine, who was vetx Intimate with Rossetti, also*p«ssesf|p ,that painter's armchairs. W than many c>f5 the bpoks that are so Classed. Out to Kansas they have a "trail day," JFhijph is observed In the Kansas public schools.* This year 1l day was ,observed last month. Th purpose it is, 40 instruct the fhil- tt^fen in the history of the old S&nta J'e trail, with, its significance in the gtpw^h of the west and through the int^sgst* thus aroused "in the commW nlty to raise money for mtoking^lie course of the trail which stretched for 400 miles across what is now the state of Kansas wheii It was 4'wilder­ ness.--Boston Herald. Goat Dairying Is Profitable. I have often Wondered why English agricultural laborers do not keep goats for the? sale . of the rich milk they yield. They cost very little to ireep. as goatfr will eat any kind of veg­ etable food, so Jong as it is clean and fresh, p We learn from Woman tlpit two Frenchwomen have made a great success of goat farming; one, Mme. la Comtesee tde la Boullaye, especially has created in Brittany: a large indtis- trjT^f butter and cheese 'making from tfcje imilk o^ her Jarge herd of goats. The butter is Such a delicacy that she can hardly meet the demands for it. and is just ahofct to turn her private- enterprise into a company, so that means can be taken to supply the qulptity Treqiiired by the public.--The HSfise Beautiful. - sey's 0c naval bris . Union Looked Upon a^LIdeal. Tlie romantid jeareer of the marquis of Oratara reached a climax when liis engagement jfias announced to Lady Maiy HamiTton, the richest heiress in England.\H^iS 27, has been before the mast, has served on Lord %as- , ha$ w%rAed with the de in South Africa and has­ -been presicensor at Cape Town. He is tfery ^ood looking, while his future hifi I^e can^best be despribe^as come­ ly. alphas 225,000, as well as an annuity fff ^|,000, while her Estates are worth $123,000 a year more. From a Scotch point of view a union of the heir of Montrose to the only child pf a duke of Hamilton is positively in- spirin^ and id^al. „ Description of Waterspout. * A scieBAist says of a waterspout, that passed over a certain district in France last summer: "Its passage w^s aCcompanied with a sound which is described as resembling that of a battery of artillery Jarawn son the gal­ lop <),ver a paved s&eefi At the bale of an Extended nimbus hung the re-| versed cone characteristic of phenom­ ena of this kind. A .strongs wind was. then blowing; froifr the. south-south-^ west. The ^watei^nrjut Was p^ecede^ by a storm and folloWii^^f aV-show- .er." \ • . 'V v FAULT WAS LACK OF BOLDNESS. • ^ \ French Military Authority Criticises Russian Commandtnii. Gen. De Negrier; at one time com- mander-in chief of the French arpy and a high authority on military mat­ ters, has been studying the history of the Russo-Japanese war and ha$ pub­ lished in a leading review an article* ^ was stated in which his conclusions are em- that the chances*|lre the IlHndisnj^ bodied. They deserve the attention f those who are,. Interested in the subject to which they relate. In Gen. De Negrier'8 opinion the great lake to which, more than any other influence their unbroken series of de­ feats is attributable was that of con­ tinually acting on the defensive. The Fpench writer does not say so", b'tit this is' a critidOTa which -^applies with equal force to their operations both on sea ai^ Wd.--Philaciskphia Itt- qulrer.v_ - ,, ' THEORIES TENNY-»®X DEATH. Boxer's Relatives Maintiin . That HH Poisoned. ' Three theories have been advanced in explanation of the death of Harry Tenn€baum, better known as Tenny, the prize fighter,, who died at\ San Francisco nine hours after; a" gruelling battle with Frankie Nell. '1*he dead • ^ T -1.- man's relatives charge thj^t he^Waa poisoned; his trainers think he died of epilepsy, and that Autopsy Sur­ geon Kucich declared that death wai due to hemorrhage of the brain, the direct result of/a blow or falL, Which of these theories is correct will require further time to deter­ mine The stomach of the dead boy is in: the hands of the city chetolsL" One Use for Waterbury Watch. Joha Wesley Gaines, who harf been called "the inventor, of perpetual^ mo- tion in conversation," went .to CO necticut some time ago to? tlteliver sl speech. He made a hit with the cit­ izen^ pt the nutmeg state and they presented a Waterbury watch to him. Mr. Gaines was talking about it and wondering why they gave him. -a Waterbury Instead of a#|^ld, watch. "They had read about ywr habits, Gaines," said a republican friend; "and they gavec^ou that watch so that you would be kept so busy wind­ ing it up youTwould not have time to make any speeches in the house." Appeal to Burgli * Tl^p following *' advertisement apP pears in the colsmns of a Romgfe newspaper: "The honorable burglars who visited the office of the firpi of , / I Vahoni, and took away their safe, are requested to return to the address of fhe firm or to the post'offlpe the -docu­ ments which they r found inside the safe, and which ctfn be of no value to them. The directors of the firm, wfa> feel quite sure that this fivot be granted t<j them. exprc»- their sincere thanks .anticiyatiou,' Libel on State of lArka^aas. ' C. E. Speer of Fort S%ith 9fcy* while the average Arkansas citizen is good-natured and slow to wrath*, there is one- story which is sure to make him fight. It 1s about the stranger who got oil at a little Arkansas town and found a gathering of citizens of the ^Hce In the ; public square. "What's gotng on here?" he asked.( "Is it a fair\>fja Celebration of some kind?11 "Nope," said a resident, "^taln't that, but Judge Brown's son is'21 years old to-day and they are going to catch him and put some .clothes on him.--Chicago Chronicle. OPPOSE CONCESSIONS Oiterater'avFeeE Mlnefs¥- Are Responai 'able for^l^tsage^of .fi^ho^irer^, ^ and ShouWt'&Of' Mails to ̂ fttj^'^r ^ the Extra Help. ~. V-";t ^ ^ , Chicago^i^pftiei^ <M||ie -Owners/of-•' Illlndtij-^Mil', meet liere. at 10. o'clock nex fesday morning to ffecide on . their'vattitude toward the demands of miners, 1 Tha':, call was issued Thursday | by Coal ^^r- „ ators' association? through -itf (^»nMnls- signer, Herh|a^ Jn'Sti-., .. At the conference the Illinois oper­ ators will select their delegat^^to the coiifei^nce of the mine owners In the competitive states^ which ig to be. held In Indianapolis March ' 19. These delegates will practically re­ ceive their instructions at Ae phi' cago meeting. ~ one in authority ; *» w I ll^< 1 jWEWS Choice lt«ms from ov«r <t*t«.*p«oUllt Mlaxoted (m our rM4r* HUNf^OR GOVERNOR'S UNCLES gates wi^r oRpOsM concessions of any kind. While the Illinois operat^rg ,a$e as anxious as those of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, the other states which will be represented at the con- ferfence^to avoid a strike, Wiey ^fiave more grtev^nces against the miners.. ^ ...t- Mining Expensef Increame. Even at t^e present time' they ar# at a disadvantage as compared with the operators in ojther states, as the cost of operating their, mines has* been arbitrafriiyi increased by the passage of the shotfirers' bill by the last state legislature. tiThis inta-eased the cost of mining coal by 3 jfer cent and also increased the proportion of sCreen- ings turned »out by the mines b# 3 per cent. The screenings sell for lgss than ordinary mine run coal and the expenses of the operators were there­ fore increased about 5 per cent bf.the. passage of the Mil. ^ Shotfirers' BUI Is Blamed,. The operators clalm the miners' "ptfe ion officials were responsible for the passage of the shotfirers' bill. They demand that the miners shall be com­ pelled tv pay the entire expense oc­ casioned by the passage of the hill, or p.sk for its repeal,-before they Con­ sent to. Increasing wages even to -the amount provided for in the old scale" in force before the redaction was ae^ cepted by the miners. * . Should the shotfirelrg* trouble result In the instruction of their delegates •against voting for an "increase to the old scale It is believed all .hope of averting a general strike will disap­ pear and nearly all the mines in the country will be obliged to close, down AiMl 1, the day that the agreement between the operators and th« BtiaeBs exp i r e s . • , . m V - ' . . Search Is Being Made fdr Relatives of - Minnesota's Executive. Search .Js t(eing made at Aurora far Andrew and Jo.hn Hadden, brothers of Mrs. .LC' Johnson, mother of Gov. John Ai Johnson of Minnesota. Mi-Bf Johnson, whose maiden name was Caroline Hadden, and her three ^brothers came to America from Swe­ den |n 18S6, and located in Chicago. Shortly afterward their parents died, leaving the children without a guard- Ian. The girl went to St^Peter, Minn., 'where she married. ' The boys were- placed in a Chica-. go orphans' home, and since then Mrs. Johnson has heard nothing of them. Not long after leaving Chicago sht^ vfsited the home t<3 inquire con­ cerning her brothers' whereabout^,' .but the only information .^he could se­ cure was that they had befen adopted. She learned that Andrew was living with an English family either in or near Aurora. Lars, she found, had been adopted by a Chicago family, and John by a Scotch family In Ge- • ne'va, twelve miles north of Aurora. The information was not of materi­ al assistance, as she was unable to \ secure the names of the families- For years Mrs. Johnson waited to hear from her brothers, but no letters ever have reached her. Last Friday a letter was received from Miss Hat- tie I, Johnson, sister of Minnesota's governor, soliciting the aid of Aurora attorneys in the search for the three ,iaen. The <5ase is a most interesting one, and seyeral Aurora people have taken up the inquiry. If the, Aurora attorneys who have taken up the case locate the Hadden boys Gov. Johnson will visit Aurora to identify them. 8hoitld Cultivate a Mustache. Because of his youthful appearance Congressman- J^aWes of Ohio has been a victim of embarrassing - circum­ stances more than once since his ar- Cival^n Washington. The other day he war struggling through a cr$w£ which hung around the mail/entrance to the house when an assistant, door­ keeper called te One ot< the attdbehea: "Say, stop th§t young) fellow. Don't l§t him in therfe.". JSxplanations fol­ lowed and Mr. iDaVeSj looking five years younger than-, ever Jbecause oi " 1^18 blushing cheeks, \|ittrried inside. Helen (teller Needs Complete1 Rest, ' .Helen' Keller, whose, career ha« been watched "for a~decade all over the civilized world, ion broken down tender the sev^e strain of her studies, and her efforts since leavitt| college In behalf of the deaf* and bl&d. TW doctors say that it will possibly l^e months before she will bej able again to undertake the work Shehas mapped ouffo^ herself in behalf of he^ellow sufferers. It Is said that she is -now mentally alert and-cheerful, but re- CON^fABLE If SHOT BY WOMAN Threatens toi Use Revolver, But of- - fi^er and Asslltant Ignore Her. Chicago dispatch: In ah effert to serve an es^cution at the fiat of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Baker; Joseph Slais, a cousiable, was shot and killed by Mrs.. Baker*. Adolph Blazek, an a%> sisfcatit acting with the constable as custodituii, narrowly escaped th« same fatte.. ^ Mra, Baker insists that she was un aware that Slais\was a coristable, that no paper was rean to her and no star or other badge of ayitnority^was dis­ played. ' The men made two calls at the liouser on the first of which ^Mrs. Baker found Blazek sitting in hef par­ lor. Blazek says he told" her he was t$erk as a custodian and that he woul<f call the \constable to explain matters. When they returned, accord- Blazek's statement, Mrs. Baker flung open the dgor of her fiat; and as they reached the head of the jrtairs she raised a revolver and threatened to shoot. * f They continued to advance and Mrs* Baker fired three shots. One struck the flqor of the little hallway, another entered the wall and the third struck Slais in t|ie chest near the fieaft,?'-. As­ he fell he said: V- "I didn't think you'd shoot, Bqt you did." ' # ~ " T!. _•> ... - KENNEY BANK ROBBER8 CAUGHT •-S ^ Twc( of Five Bandits Dlseovered*Hld- Ing Near Montlcello. , ,4 . MonUSello, 111., dispatch: jPoWer^ and George Schr6eder, two of the five robbers of the Kenney^ 1H:, ink; were" discovered hiding in 6 rn seven miles southwest of here edneBdTay afternoon. ' Sheriff cfVjw organized a poifee and captured them" after an exciting chase. Over V$300 of the stolen coin was found in i stray stack The sheriff is on the trail of the other three, who headed toward Chicago. . , • « ' ^ \ " ' V"V Easy for Crumpsrcker. Lafayette, Iml., dispatch: For the sixth ponsecutive time Representa­ tive Edgar D. Crumpacker of Valpa­ raiso ^as nominated for congress by the Eepuhlicans of the.Tenth d% trict. * :i .. . " : ! ANTI-8AL00N CRUSADE ON r Churches of Henry County to Unite, . 1 In Fight on Intemperance. ID anti-saloon crusade, which has for its purpose the purification of «!'Henry county, and In which it is ex­ pected every church organization in the county will be enrolled, has been started at Geneseo. The matter has been agitated for some time by dele­ gations from the Geneseo and Cam­ bridge ministers,/ and plans have reached the stage Of organization. -- To get the organization on a formal footing a convention of temperance advocates has been called for Cam­ bridge next Thursday morning in the Congregational church, at which the Henry County ^nti-Saloon league will be organized. The abolition of, the saloon is the sole aim of the proposed organization, which the promoters declare will be non-partisan and non-sectarian. An invitation to participate in the con­ vention has i»een issued to every church and pastor in the c6unty. ilhe speakers for the convention wrfl be the Rev. John N.. Nelson, pas­ tor of the Congregational church of Kewanee; the Rev. Dr. P. J. Brodine, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church of Orion; the Rev. Mr. Whit­ ing, pastor of the Baptist church at Kewanee; J. F. Burke and J. K. Shields, officers of the State Anti-Sa­ loon league, Chicago; and President W.> B. Millard of the Geneseo Minis­ terial alliance.' WAUKEGANT8 LAW HAS "ERROR Omission of Saloon Closing Hour in New Code Causes Flurry. . Wy, officials of Waifke^an are ln a flttiry over the discovery of a serious error in the saloon ordinance in the<r Paris by Mrs. ka*y D. Rennick, with new revised city ordinances, whereby ttie closing Hour was^joaritted and saloons -can thus keep open twenty- four hours i£ tney desire. This was doe to the dropping^if a line in copy­ ing the old* ordinance foe the new code. Mayor^Bullock says he will not allow the saloons to overstep the lim­ its, however,- and an amendment at once will be made to the ordinance to correct the mistake. The saloon men show no disposition to take advantage of the situation. GAME WARDEN GAIN* HONOR. Sportsmen of Illinois ahd the west are applauding the efforts of State Game Commissioner J. A. Wheeler of Bloomington to prevent the extinction 6t native quail and prairie chickens. He has won national renown through his efforts to save these friends of the > -"V>; MOTHER'S PLEA FOR HER CHILD R^ov^fred froni Insanity, She Wishes It From Foster' Parents. An, interesting story lies back of a petition filed Ip the county court at f 4£.vV a view tb obtaining possession of her infant child, Victoria, aged 2 years. When the child was only one month ^Id-Its mother, who had been desert­ ed by her husband, was committed to a hospital for the insane, the baby being sent to the Edgar County Chil­ dren's home. After remaining there .a year it was. legally adopted by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. ECkerty of Newman, DOuglas^ county, in whose keeping it now is. Mrs. Renni9k was discharged as cured from the "hospital- recently, and Immediately made a demand for pos­ session of the child, which was re­ fused. She then filed a petition, ask­ ing that the order adoption grant­ ed by the county court be vacated and the child restored to her pos'ses- sipn. The foster parents are deter­ mined to keep the child if possible, and say they will take the C$S* lit the court of last resort. /* Northwestern Telegraph Line. ^ fibbing, Minn., dispatch: A -com- pany of range meji is preparing *to establish a telegraph line from Duluth to the iron rangfe towns, to niake <*8n- nection With the Canadian Pacific, line. /I Landls Is Renominated. ^ Tipton, Ind.„ dispatch;,t^ReP"esenta> tlve Charles ' B; Landis was renomi­ nated tfor the sfxth time ̂ by, the. Re­ publicans of the ninth congressional district Thursday. The" nomination was^ |)y acclamation ' lasonic Sbr&s. PasserA^niytf/' 'assopolis, Mich., special: G|orge gsbury, grand scribe of the grstrd >tei^ Ro|al Arch Masons of MlcM- i.^died at^^his home her^ pf SHTOU neceaaity tor aKnniftto Mun®t!ott. : :j (\. /' \ Farmer Pleads Guilty to Murder. William Leduc, the farmer who on Oct. 28 last entered a bank,, at Chenoa and and^short and killed Mayor Chas. Nickel, cashier of the bank, and Hugh Jones, a depositor, pleaded guilty to both barges at Bloomington and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The trial had been set for March 19, and the sudden action of the defense^ being entirely unexpected, created^ a sensation. Woman's Clubs Elect... « •- Ths annual convention of the Feder­ ation of Woman's Clubs of the Nine­ teenth congressional district ad­ journed at Farmer City after electii^; the following officers: President, Mrs. Emma C.^uil, Clinton; vice president, Mrs. Georgia Hopkins, Shelbyville; J?j4. ' agriculturist and is receiving the en­ thusiastic support of hunters ami farmers alike. His campaign against unscrupulous hunters has won him the admiration of all true sportsmen. The establishment of the state game pre­ serves and the importation of quail and pheasants from .the southern and western states is entirely due to the work of Commissioner Wheeler. , OFFERS 75-CENT GAS TO TOWNS 8erve Traction Syndicate Plans to Several Illinois Cities. The corporation known as the Mc- Kinley Syndicate that owns and con­ trols a number of electric railways in this vicinity is planning to enter the gas business in Bureau county and will make gas for a number of to^ns and sell It at 75 cents a thousand feet The company Is planning to erect a central gas plant at Mendota, south of here, and proposes to pipe gas to Earl- ville, Somonauk, Leland,. .Sandwich and Piano. In these towns the com­ pany Is now .asking for franchises on a 75-cent basis. Senator Gardner of Mendota. is the prime mover in the syndicate. HEAD CARPENTER IS OUSTED -Stats Civil 8ervlce Commission Qlves Verdict Against Hensen. The civil service commission has made its report on the charges against Head Carpenter Joseph Hen- sen at the institute for feebleminded at Lincoln. It finds >that Hensen was guiky of insubordination and that in the interests of discipline he be not continued In the service. The com­ mission further finds that Hensen was not given an opportunity by Supt. Taylor and his subordinates to display any ability he may possess. Hensen is jl brother of State'Senior Hensen of Decatur. secretary, Mrs. Mary Butler, Homer j^&hat when the detectives entered the treasurer^ Mrs. G. M. ftinkald? Farmer City. ^ Forges School Order Checks. ' Harry Batdorf wag. found guilty at Bleomington of negotiating. forged school order checks. He is als<3 wanted in Macon, Champaign and other counties in (he state for the same offense. Batdorf operated^upon an extensive scale. - Offteiated-at Bryan'# Birth. Dr. William Bill, a widely known surgeon and medical practitioner of central Illinois for the last half cen­ tury and prominent in Democratic politics, died at Bloomington,, aged 77. He officiated at the birth of W. J. v.Bryan at Salem., For Assaulting Rural Cargltf. Deputy United States Marshal D. G. Williams returned to Danville from Covington, Ind., with Charles -Scott, arrested there for an assault on . John C. Long, a rural route mail icarrier. Scott met the mall carrier between Danville and Ferrysville, Ind., and proposed a horse trade. When the latter refused he assaulted him with the heavy end of a buggy whip. Scott was arraigned beforlh United States Commissioner Guy Mc­ Dowell and held to the federal grand •jury. •' "* ' * Raise Pfiy of .Firemen. • wages of About 800 firemen on the Illinois Central railroad have been in- leased bj[ from 10 to 30 cents a day as the result of a conference between officers of the road and represent­ atives of the general adjustment com- fjeptfttee of the firemen: Farmer Killed by a IVsifn. ^ Harvey Drake, a farmer of Carmi, was killed at the same place his bro­ ther met de^th two years ago. He was run dovyn by a Louisville & Nash­ ville train. Arrest Counterfeiters. Bait St. Louis detectives '"arrested James A. Sapp, 31 years old, and his brother Jesse, 18 years old, on the charge of counterfeiting. It is stated room James held a ladle of molten Imet- al in his hand ready to pour into a •pla8ter, mold. The police stated that James %d confessed that he and hia two brothers had been engaged In making counterfeit dollars. The Sapp brothers formerly lived in Xenia, O. Floyd, a third brother, suspected of being a "lookoi^t,"-was also taken in£o custody. 5 Waterloo Qity Ticket The following city ticket was, nomi-^ nated at the Democratic primaries at Waterloo: For police magistrate, A. C. Douglas; alderman First ward, "Fred Lutz; Second ward,,P. Bremser; Third ward, H. Lang. As no other ticket has been named the nomina­ tions are equivalent to election at the polls next April. NAMED FOR SUPREME BENCH Wilkin at 8prH^gfieltft Farmer fp.. Pana and Thomas at Cairo. Nominations for the state supreme ' bench were made in three districts March 1. Justice Wilkin, who was nominated by the convention la Springfield, has served twelve years on, the "Supreme bench, and it is not expected that he' will be opposed by a Democratic candidate. Judge < Thomas was named by the Cairo con­ vention on the one hundred and eighth ballot after the candidates had v personally appeared and released the V delegates from their pledges and af- ter Judge O. A. Harker had with- I drawn from the contest. ^The second judicial district*5 Democratic conven­ tion at Pana nominated Judge Will- 1 lam M. Farmer of Vandalia by ac» | clamation. The nomination is ceo* yl sldered equivalent to an election, as ^ the district is/overwhelmingly Dam- * ocratic. BUY# ILLINOIS PHOfift LINES New Company Takes Over Duquoin, Anna and Marion Properties. „v;vp. At midlnight Wednesday the Du* - fquoin, Anna, Marion and Carbondale » telephone companies ceased to exist ' ^ or do business. Their properties and 1 * franchises were taken over entire by <• the Ohio and Mississippi Telephone t company, with a capital stock of $100,- * £ ] 000 and general offices at Carbondale. ' o j; ,1 This is a new company and was formed especially f6r the purpose of 'A f \) taking over the four companies. The new oompany is one of the largest south of Springfield. The holdings extend from Duquoin to the Ohio and the Mississippi river, and on the east from the Illinois Central to Marion, «cith a direct |ine to Cape Girardeau, Mo. • ' ' ^ 3 :. ft ^ •m.. y ' Plan to Boom Aurora. Two hundred Aurora men signed the charter membership roll of the cham­ ber of commerce at a maea oieeting. A committee on organization was ap­ pointed, consisting of D. W. Simpson, I. C. Copley, W. S. Beaupre, H. L. McWethy, William George, 1L S. Hobbs, O. L. Wilson, H. J. Cooper, Herman Felsenheld, J. A. McCredie, Andrew Welch and M. E. Plain. In­ corporation papers will be applied for and the organization Will then pro­ ceed to boom Aarora. Newsboy Falls from Train. Thomas Berry, a newsboy, hsd • narrow escape from fatal injuries by falling from a Bluff Line passenger train at the Alton depot. The boy had an armful of papers, and was thrown to the platform of the depot and rolled along until he dropped across the track in such a position that his body would have been cut in two had the train gone a few feet further. • *$ '%* I ..Jl 4s| Sues Teacher for Heart Bains."*-*: Miss Ida Ray, a young woman of Berwick, has filed a suit alleging breach of promise and asking $5,000 damages against A. S. Hawley, recent­ ly retired as a lawyer of the Warren county bar and now principal of the pubjic school at Biggsville. The suit has <Jreikted,-a sensation in Henderson and Warren ^counties, owing to tfci prominency of the principals. " >'. Masher Is Fatally founded. 'Otto Berschell, aged 27, is fattfty wounded, and Guy Smith, who shot him because he had spoken to Smith's wife, is in $11 at Cairo. Mrs. Smith complained to her husband thai Ber­ schell had spoken to her on previous occasions. - .1 . --vf,*-; '* * , Want Internal Revenue Branch. Alton cigar manufacturers and others will petition for the establish­ ing of a branch internal revenue of­ fice. It is claimed that the business has increai8ed to such an extent that there should be 'facilities at ^lton for obtaining supplies of stamps. Oldest Railroad Station Agent. R. B. Keyes, a prominent settler, aged 76, died at Rlchview. Mr. Keyes was the oldest station agerft on the entire Illinois Central^ haying served thirty-eight years at one point. Dairymen Wguld Advise Deneen. " Directors of the Illinois Dairymen's association met. at Chicago and re* elected«the secretary and treasurer. The matter of appointing a dairyman as assistant state food inspector, fts required by law; was, discussed and a committee was appointed to suggest names to Gov. Deneen of .men who would folflU the requirements. • Fire Qrlpplas Mine. # ^ Tfce Klondike mme, two £i1T<9 southwest or Springfield; was dam­ aged $25,000 by fire. • , Salvation Army Officer in Troubls« . B. F. Jenkins, a Salvation Army offi­ cer, -yas convicted at Sycamore of se­ curing money under false pretenses. He was fined $25 and sentenced to tour months in prison. He will be held as a deserter from the regular anny at Fort Sheridan. ^ * % yfS ; - Justice Wilkin Is Named. Judge Jacob W. Wilkin of Danville Was renominated by the Republican judicial convention for the Third dis­ trict, held in the senate chamber at the state house at Springfield. *, What Stumped Him. •, 1: - The Dwarf--The lightning calettet' or seems te be off In his work. The Giant--Yes. Ever since last pay day he has been trying to figure out how he can pay a $10 board bill out of a salary of $7.50. m|nus $3.25 in finetL --kludge. ,Se ' So to Speak. "Mrs. Binks is a* leader in the dreaa reform movement, isn't she?" "Wtell, I guess yoa might call W that. Sh> runs a deanlng and dyeisf establishment." / " -VSv A v.* -" s '1 JAf, • *! A* '.f " Urf5