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. yw* HT> COHGRESS 07 SOUTH I imntTflAW REPUBLICS, " " '***'< ' Scheduled to Convene at Bio de Jan­ eiro on July 20--American Dele- •\ • ?*;:>-|flfctes and Matters to B« in • Considered. For the third time delegates from the Central and South American re­ publics are to oome together for con­ sideration and discussion of matters of mutual concern. This time the congress, which come to be known as the Pan-American congress, is to meet at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Plans long under consideration have been perfected, the programme adopted, the delegates appointed and the represent­ atives from the United States prepar­ ing to sail early next mouth, so as to be present At the opening session on 'July 21. The regular meeting of the congress Islthe outgrowth of the'organization of the bureau of American republics effected in 1890, and the first congress was held at Washington in . 1902. Mexico was the place of the second meeting, and this year Brazil has . pre­ pared to entertain the congress. At the two previous sessions much time was wasted in deciding on the rules which should govern the body, and to avoid a repetition of the same at the coming congress, it has been agreed that the flve-minUte rule shall prevail' thus making it possible to prevent in­ terminable debate on the many ques­ tions to be considered. It has also been agreed to close the sessions of the congress on September 1, in or­ der that delegates may leave South America in time to reach The Hague in case it is decided to hold the peace conference there in the early fall. The principal propositions which will be considered by the congress are as follows: 1. A resolution recommending that the second peace conference at The Hague be requested to consider the extent to which the use of force is admissible tor the collection of public debts. 2. There will be a renewal of the adherents of the American republics to the principle of arbitration for the settlement of disputes arising between them and the conference will doubt­ less pass a resolution express^-ig its hope that The Hague conference will agree upon a general plan of arbitra­ tion that can be approved and put into operation by every country. 3. The recommendation of the sec­ ond conference at Mexico for a per* manent court for the arbitration to settle claims of citizens of one country against another will be renewed. 4. It is proposed to create a com­ mittee of jurists to prepare a code of public and private international law for the consideration of the next con­ ference. 5. It is proposed to adopt uniform laws concerning naturalisation, cus­ toms and shipping regulations, pat­ ents, trademarks, copyrights, sanitary and quarantine police and to secure the recognition by all the American nations of the diplomas of the princi­ pal universities and colleges of Amer­ ica in the practice of the professions. The Monroe doctrine will not be discussed, in fact it is to be studious­ ly avoided, for the United States does not want its policy defined by other nations and the other nations do not care to have an exact definition of its scope and meaning thrust at them. The delegates from the United States are as "follow: William I. Buchanan, of Sioux City, la., chief of the department >of agri» T'^i/ "/'sy WILLIAM I. BUCHANAN. (One of Our Delegates to the iCongress.) cultare at the World's Columbian ex­ position, minister to the Argentine Re­ public. director general of the Pan- American exposition at Buffalo, first minister to the Republic of Panama, delegate to the second international American conference at Mexico, and now in charge of the interests of the Wpstinghouse Manufacturing company in Europe. Paul S. Reinsch, professor of po­ litical science in the University of Wisconsin. Prof. L. S. Rowe, head professor of political science in the University of Pennsylvania. Julio Larrinaga, of Porto Rica, grad­ uate of Troy Polytechnic school and the University of Pennsylvania. Van Leer Polk, of Tennessee, one of the leading lawyers of his state. A. P. Montague, recently governor of Virginia. The secretary of the commission will be Charles Ray Dean, chief of the bureau of appointments of the department of state. Frank L. Joannini, of the bureau of American republics. wiH be interpreter for the American delegation. Secretary of State Root will attend some of the sessions of the congress but not In the capacity of a delegate. QUEENS OF SPAIN GLIMPSES OF THE LIVES SOME HAVE LIVED. Advent of the English Princess In­ to Spanish Royal Family Leads v to Hope That Brighter Page - Is to Be Written. ' There Is a new queen over Spain now, and as the sweet and good young English princess takes her place upon thu throne it is with the expectation that a new chapter will be written in the history of Spain's queens. Certain It is that much of the eccentric and unsavory conduct which marked the conduct of former queens will never disfigure the life of the bride of King Alfonso,-and hopeful is the world that much that has marred and scarred the lives of some other queens, who have Buffered under the scandalous conduct of their royal spouses, may never como to sadden and darken the life of ARANJUEZ PALACE. s 1 {One of the Beautiful Places Where Part h-'-i Of the Honeymoon Will-Be Spent.) Flincess Victoria, of the house' and lineage of Battenberg. 1 While the royal pair are enjoying £•... their honeymoon at the Aranjuez pal- ••• •*<*. shut away from the gaze of the world, we are prone to delve into the history of the past and see just what t kind of lives have been led by the for­ mer queens of Spain, not so muph with the thought that history may repeat it­ self, and that the past is a prophecy Of the future, but that we may appre­ ciate how much the Spanish royal tam- i Ily has to regret in its past record, and Jhow much it has to hope tor trom the v. ̂ introduction to the royal stock of such f a substantial and worthy scion as the %„,»«w queen will doubtless prove to ' be. When the history of the Spanish jg', jqueens of the twentieth century ia |£ -written there will be a different story • to tell from that of the nineteenth ^ century. Princess Victoria is the tirst p/ Q»een of the twentieth century, and it j.-. is to be hoped that she will pfove a R tright and shining example to all who fchall follow her. H* - The record left b^j^e queens of the • last century is on£ long storj' of ln- J trigue, dissipation, war and exile. In | " 1(829 Ferdinand VIL married Crlstina of Naples, who soon became known throughout Spain as "the woman oi reason of her .wild life October, 1836, *, girl child, after ward Isabella, queen of Spain, was born. Over her the long Car list wars originated. After the death of her husband she was secretly married to a private sol­ dier named Munz, by whom she had ten children. She, made her soldier husband a duke, and spent her days and evenings in singing and dancing with him. Because her best general, Espartero, refused to subdue the peo­ ple of Valencia and Barcelona with cannon and -sword, Cristina flew into a rage and went off to Paris, where ohe led a gay life. Eppartero was appointed regent, but from her house in Paris Cristina In­ trigued against him, so thai event­ ually he resigned and at the age of 13 little Isabella was crowned queen. Then Cristina came back to Madrid and ruled the country in her daugh- ters name. Isabella was only half educated. Her mother allowed her to indulge her whims and Impulses, however fool­ ish. At the age of 15 Cristina married her to her cousin, Don Francisco, a puny, shy and squeaky youtn. Isa­ bella called him "Fanny," and always hated him. Almost immediately she began to emulate the unsavory life her mother had led. In 1851 Isabella bore a son and he was proclaimed heir to the throne of Spaiu. That son was Alfonso XII., the late king of Spain and father of the recent bridegroom. Isabella reigned and revelled, to the amazement of^ Europe and the disgust o[ many or Jier own subjects, for 35 years. When Alfonso XII. came to the throne, in 1874, he married his cousin, Maria de las Mcrcedes, the sweetheart of his boyhood, but she died of gas­ tric fever after five months. Alfonso married secondly Maria Cristiua, niece of the emperor of Austria, but after «!>e had bore him two daughters his in­ fidelity caused her so much grief that she fled with her children to Vienna. And it is in the ranks of these queens that Ena of Battenberg has taken her place; and all friends of the sweet young English girl pray that her lot may not be beset with so many thorns as have- those of her forenun- uers. It has been remarked that the American people consume more paint, both in the aggregate and per capita, tfran any other people in the world. In a recently published article on the subject It was figured that our yearly consumption is over 100,000,000 gal­ lons of paints of all kinds, of which over one-half is used in the paintings of houses. The reason for this great consump­ tion is twofold: a large proportion of our buildings, especially in small towns and rural districts, are con­ structed of wood, and we, as a people, are given to neatness and cleanliness. For, take it all in all, there is noth­ ing so cleanly or so sanitary as paint. Travel where we will throughout the country, everywhere we find the neat, cheerful painted dwelling, pro­ claiming at once the prosperity and the self-respect of our population. , Fifty years ago this was not sd; painted dwellings, while common lit the larger cities and towns, were the exception in the rural districts; be­ cause, on the one hand, a large pro­ portion of those buildings were tem­ porary makeshifts, and, on the other hand, because paint was then a lux­ ury, expensive and difficult to obtain the out-of-the-way places, and re­ quiring special knowledge and much preparation to fit it for use. The introduction of ready mixed of prepared paints, about 1860, changed the entire aspect of affairs. As the Jack-of-all-trades told the Walking Delegate in one of Octave Thanet's stories, "Anyone can slather paint." The insurmountable difficulty with our predecessors was to get the paint ready for "slathering." That the country was ready for paint in a con­ venient, popular form is shown by the immediate success of the indus­ try and its phenomenal growth in 60 years from nothing to 60,000,000 gallons--the estimated output for 1900. Some pretty severe things have been written about and said against this class of paints, especially by painters and manufacturers of cer­ tain kinds of paste paints. Doubtless in many instances these strictures have been justified and some fearful­ ly and wonderfully constructed mix­ tures have in the past been worked off on the guileless consumer in the shape of prepared paint. But such products have had their short day and quickly disappeared, and the too- enterprising manufacturers that pro­ duced them have come to grief in the bankruptcy courts or have learned by costly experience that honesty is the best policy and have reformed their ways. The chief exceptions to this rule are some mail order houses who sell direct to the country trade, at a very low price--frequently below the wholesale price of linseed oil. The buyer of such goods, like the buyer of a "gold brick," has only himself to blame if he finds his purchase worth­ less. With gold selling at any bank or mint at a fixed price, owners of gold do not sell it at a discount; and with linseed oil quoted everywhere at 50 to 70 cents a gallon, manufac­ turers do not sell a pure linseed oil paint at 30 or 40 cents a gallon. The composition of prepared paints differs because paint experts have not yet agreed as to the best pig­ ments and because the dally results of tests on a large scale are constants ly improving the formulas of manu­ facturers; but all have come to the conclusion that the essentials of good paint are pure linseed oil, fine grind­ ing and thorough incorporation, and in these particulars all the products of reputable manufacturers corre­ spond; all first-class prepared paints are thoroughly mixed and ground and the liquid base is almost exclusively pure linseed oil, the necessary vola­ tile "thinners" and Japan dryers. The painter's opposition to such products is based largely on self-in­ terest. He wants to mix the paint himself and to be paid for doing it, and to a certain class of painters it Is no recommendation for a paint to say that it will last five or ten years. The longer a paint lasts the longer he will have to wait for the job of repainting. The latter consideration has no weight with the consumer, and the former is a false idea of economy. Hand labor can never be as cheap or as efficient as machine work, and every time the painter mixes paint, did he but know it, he Is losing money, because he can buy a better paint than he can mix at less than it costs him to mix it. Prepared paints have won, not only on their actual merits, but on their convenience and econotiy. They are comparatively cheap and they are in­ comparably handy. But when all is said, the experienced painter is the proper person to apply even a ready mixed paint. He knows better than anyone else the "when" and "how" and the difference between painting and "slathering" is much greater than it appears to a novice. Every­ one to his trade, and after all paint­ ing is the painter's trade and not the householder's. There is a fascination about the merry-go-round, with its music and Its animals, which we cannot resist. The diagram here will show how a minia­ ture one may be constructed at little or no expense, much to the gratifica­ tion of everyone concerned. Any bright boy can build this merry-go- round from articles obtainable ia his own back yard. „ ' The mainspring of the whirl is a stout post, driven far enough .o the ground to insure its steady and un­ varying position. It should be about six feet in height and smooth on top, with an iron pin set squarely in the middle. Much after the fashion of a seesaw, next place a good, stout plank, from parts of the whirl. The diagram show* just how these small swings may be arranged, although there are many schemes by which the same result may be obtained. * . Now, for elaboration of the whirl, so that it may have a holiday appearance, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean. A bar­ rel from the grocer's can be placed over the pin in the center of the board and festooned with bunting and flags. It will turn with the plank, and give# a fine suggestion of spinning, whirl­ ing color. More flags can he stuck in the plank wherever they will not In­ terfere with its free action or tae oc­ cupants of the swings. An additional feature can be made by driving two more posts, smaller * THE HOME-MAD E FLY-AROUND. 18 to 20 feet in length, upon the post, a hole for it being bored, thus holding it in position. Two or three whirls around will give the plank free action upon the pin, and a little ordinary axle grease might complete the spin­ ning powers. Four more smaller holes now are to be bored, two in either end of the plank. Ropes, knotted here, and sus­ pending small seat planks, as shown in the diagram, complete the technical than the first, on the outside circle, far enough away from the flying whirl to prevent striking them. Slender sticks fastened to these will serve as a target for rings, which the children, as they whirl around, can attempt to throw upon them. The proprietor of this pretentious amusement scheme is expected, of course, to start the whirl, running around several times until its speed is sufficiently exciting. SOME NEW MARBLE GAMES Suitable for Indoors When the Weather Will Not Permit of Outdoor Play. An Indoor game of marbles is a good thing for a rainy day, when outdoor sport is impossible. There is the bat­ tle game, for instance, which is full of possibilities. In its simpler form it 13 played by two boys, each using the same number of marbles, which repre­ sent the soldiers. The two boys sit on the floor at op­ posite sides of the room, so that the seams in the carpet or the cracks in the wooden floor run to their right, and left. The seam or line nearest the middle of the room forms the enemy's line to both players. The line next to that, on each side is the dead line. Each player may place his marbles as he chooses between the enemy's line and his own dead line. One marble is selected as a sharp­ shooter and is used by the tvro play­ ers alternately, each of whom tries to shoot his opponent's men beyond their dead line. All men so driven beyond the dead line, either directly by the shooter or by being struck by another marble, are "dead," and the player who first "kills" his opponent's men is the winner of the "battle." The hand must never be advanced beyond the dead line In shooting; and if, by accident, a player hits one of his own men and drives him beyond the enemy's line into his opponent's field that man becomes a prisoner and may be placed by the opponent among his is Like a Mule. Sirs. Bacon--When my husband stubborn, he's just like a mule. : Mrs. Egbert--Is that so? "Yes, when I begin to back him up he kicks,--Yonkers Statesman. In Three Vols. The Elder Miss Spinster--Oh, £ear, there are volumes' in that kiss! Her Friend--Yes; it is rather h novel experience, of course. my tirst Goal Far Ahead. Timmlns--1 only want to live until I can become famous. Simmons--I would not mind living 20 or 40 centuries myself.--Tit-Bits. For. Bums.' ' -vii Apply white of eqs at oat* % wltf five relief. Still Spiteful. Her--Yes, she married him to spite another girl. Him--But why did she divorce hlmt "So he could marry the other girl, and thus spite her some more."--Chi- cago Daily News. Only Rich in Embryo Yet. The Bud--How did you get your, start in life, senator? « The Senator--Why--er--I haven't really got started yet, you know. I am only worth $10,000,000 as yet.-- Jfcudge. Best He Could Say. "What do. you think of these peek- a-boo shirtwaists the girls are wear­ ing?" "Well, they're almost clothes,"-- Louisville Courier-Journal. A N£W MARBLE GAME. own men. When a game is Over pris­ oners may be exchanged, if both play­ ers so desire. "The Pyramid" is another good game, says the People's Home Journal, In which one boy Is selected as "bank­ er," another becoming "banker," in turn, after each game. A ring about four or five feet in diameter is drawn, and the banker places in it at tne be­ ginning of the game four marbles, three close together and the fourth on top of them, to form the pyramid. Each player takes a shot, in turn, from a point agreed upon outside the circle, and whoever hits the . yramid can have as many marbles as he knocks out of the ring, his turn con­ tinuing until he falls to knoca. one outside. If any player falls to hit the pyramid he must give a marble to the banker then in charge of the rikg. When all the marbles are out of the rlng H new game begins, with another hanker, who, in turn, supplies the four marble* for the pyramid. Order of turns may be agreed upon as in the ring game, as it might hap­ pen that only one would have a chance to shoot under a certain banker, if he were expert enough to konck ill four marbles but of the ring at one tgp*,, TW0 SIMPLE TRICKS. The Perambulating Toothpicks and the Key That Remains Upright. To find out if a person's hand is firm and steady, which it never is, split the ends of a match (not _e sul­ phur end) and smooth the end of an­ other match so that it will fit Into the split one. Then bend the matches so that tney will look like the figure 1. Then place them over a knife blade HOW THE TRICKS ARE DONE. just to show how steady the Land is. If the person holding the knife should then lower the blade so that the ends of the matches will touch the table, the matches will walk along on the knife blade. A key, one of the kind that stand erect, is required for the second trick, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Place it as in figure 2 upon a strip of paper about six inches long' and not more than an Inch wide near the edge of a table, remove the paper without mak­ ing the key fall. It is easy enough. Just strike the paper a sharp tap. Too Much So. "•Whydo you call that ferocious bull­ dog of your 'Icy?'" "Because when he once attaches himself to a person he clings to one so."--Baltimore American. A CAPITAL GUESS. From the way some men prepare to go to heaven they must imagine that all they need Is a letter of credit frgno thelt^badkei*, *** "For whom wa« our national capita! named?" the teacher asked one day. And Johnny Jones responded, In his hesi­ tating way: « But. clearly proved beyond a doubt he had the fact, at least-- t "Our Washington, D. C., was named for Washington, deceased." --Nixon Waterman, in St. Nicholas. Planting a Tree. When we frlant a tree, we are do­ ing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwell­ ing place for those who come after us, if not for ourselves. As you drop the seed, as you plant the sapling, your left hand hardly knows what your right hand is-doing. But nature knows, and in due time the power that sees and works in secret will re­ ward you openly.--Holmes. Two Ears and One Mouth. The teacher told the children how a wise man once said that we have only one moutb and two ears so that we may listen and hear twice as much as we speak. Afterward, to see how much of the instruction was remem­ bered, she asked: "Why is it that we have two ears and only one mouth, Frances?" "Because we would hot have room In our face for two mouths and we v. culd look too crooked if we had only one ear." "No; that Is not the reason. Tou know, do you, Rosie?" "Yes, ma'am. So that what we hear may go in one ear and out of the oth­ er."--Chicago Daily News. UNHEABD OF. a Illinois State News Recent Happenings of Interest in the Various Cities and Towns. w Brigham Young's Home Sold. Nauvoo.--Brigham Young's old home in this city has been sold. Capt. Jos­ eph Reichtmann, an old river man, has purchaf-ed the property for $400. The structure is built of brick and contain six rooms, two halls and a large ce lar. It was erected by the aggressiv leader of the Latter Day Saints in 1839. Three of the rooms were used as individual bed chambers for three of his favorite wives and the other three were utilized as sitting rooms for the master. The names of the three wives, the only three who ever were allowed privileges in this house, were Lucy Decker Young, Amelia Partridge Young and Harriet Cook Younj^ These wo­ men occupied the house 70 years ago. The house has been forsaken since the Mormons were driven from Hancock county in 1846. ^ V Barn and Horses Burned. New Berlin.--A barn on the farm of George M- Coons was struck by light­ ning and in a few minutes was burned to the ground. Four horses, one of which was valued at |200, were cre­ mated in the building. Two others es­ cape!. There were also 300 bushels of 'corn, 100 bushels of oats and three or four tons of hay destroyed. Twenty* five hundred bushels of corn in rail pens located about 75 feet from the barn also caught fire, but were saved before much damage resulted. There was $500, insurance on the bam,,, but the horses and feed will b* . V -(dear loss. \ "Oh, these men are dreadful! 1BJ husband tears all his shirts!" "And my husDand even expects - m« to mend his!" "Not Yet." Young Queen's Lace. Queen Wllhelmiria of Holland boasts the finest collection of lace in Europe. On one of the popular automoblU routes from Portland to the Whlta mountaias, and just beyond the village of Bridgton, Me., a large car drew up one day last summer. It con­ tained, supposedly, fclur gentlemen, evidently from the city, who were going to have some fun with the gray-haired farmer who was mowing by the roadside. After obtaining in­ formation as to their route, one of the occupants boisterously cried out: "Well, uncle, I suppose you have lived all your life here, haven't you?" "Why, no; not yet," was the the quiet answer, and the car started OB. --Boston Herald. Deaths. Decatur.--Jtobert Meredith Was ill and rubbed himself with what he thought was coal oil. It Was gasoline, and later when he struck a match the whole upper part of his body was en­ veloped in flames. He was burned so badly that death followed In a short time. Jacksonville.--W. J. Hemphill, late general manager of the Evans ft How­ ard Fire Brick campany, of St. Louis, died while on a visit here. Bloomington.--Mrs. Hester Fell is dead, aged 87. She came to this coun­ try in 1820. Her husband, Jesse Fell, was a partner of former Vice President David Davis and was the most inti­ mate friend and adviser of Abraham Lincoln. Windabr.--Alexander Bow, Che of the oldest and best known residents of this county, died at the family home, three miles northwest of here, as. a re­ sult of a stroke of paralysis, Which he sustained about a year ago. Springfield.--Thomas R. Owen, aged 61 years, five months and 2i days, is dead. The decedent had been in fail­ ing health for a long time. He was a veteran of the civil war and had been a resident of Springfield since 18S3. Mr. Owen was born December 20, 1844, near Owensburg, Ind. He came to Il­ linois when nine years old, traveling in a "prairie schooner" to Abingdon, Knox county, where he lived from 1854 until 1865. Farmers Organize Society. Chicago.--The department of fruits, vegetables and dairy products of the American Society of Equity was or­ ganized by 50 farmers. The object of the department will be the systematic handling of the prod­ ucts in order that the best price pos­ sible may result to the producer. The following committee was ap­ pointed to perfect the details of organ­ ization: R. H. Thompson, Mississippi; Fv W. Ploetz, Wisconsin; J. A. Everitt, Indianapolis; H. T. Bradford, Arkan­ sas; George C. Wattles, Michigan; P. L. Schrlstmler, Wisconsin; H. L. Glea- son, Michigan, and J. Van Fleet, Mich­ igan. To Establish "Tent City." Chicago.--Mrs. Edward L. Gaylord, who returned recently from a tour of eastern camps for tuberculosis suffer­ ers, announced that she had secured 300 .teres of land near Naperville, 111., and within a month an outdoor "tent, city" will be established that will take the place of the camp operated by the Visiting Nurses' association at Glen- coe iast summer. Mrs. Gaylord In­ spected especially the camp at Liberty- ville, N. Y. Last fall Mrs. Gaylord gave |25,000 to the nurses' association for the consumption camp at Gleneoe. This camp was discontinued because the owner of the land feared detriment to the value of his property. Hen Kept Busy on. Journey. Alton.--When a carload of hay from Wisconsin was opened in Alton a Ply­ mouth Rock hen hopped out and pro­ ceeded to hunt for a puddle of water to get a drink. The hay was consigned to an Alton firm, and when the car was unloaded it was found that the hen had been laying eggs while she had nothing else to do on the way from Wisconsin. For each of the five days the car had been on the road there was an egg in a nest the hen had built for herself. Found Guilty of Murder. Edwardsville.--After deliberating 22 hours the jury in the case of Joseph Nolan, saloon keeper, on trial for the killing of Fred Haynes and William Sonnet, two fishermen, on the night of March 12 last, returned a verdict of guilty. Nolan was sentenced to 37 years' imprisonment. Accident Results Fatally. Springfield.--Frank Gaines, aged 14, son of a farmer, is dead at his home at Middletown as the result of the ac­ cidental discharge of a shotgun. The firearm exploded while his ojder brother was examining it The load struck the boy in the breast and he died In 60 minutes. Railroad Granted Franchise. Sullivan.--At a meeting of the Sul­ livan city council the Decatur, Sulli­ van & Mattoon interurban railway was granted a franchise. Central Illinois Golf Dates. Bloomington.--Announcement was made of the date for the annual tournaihent of the Central ftlinois Golf association, the time being .fixed as July 17*20, at Galesburg. The An­ tral Illinois Tennis association will hold a tournamnt In conjunction. Pastor Charged with Arson. Murphysboio.--The Rev. Mile Gor­ don Cummings, pastor of the First Christian church of Murphysboro, has been arrested on a charge of having set fire to a residence owned by his wife. Raise Wages of Hospital Employes. Elgin.--Acting upon the recommen­ dation of Superintendent Whitman, the trustees of the Northern Illinois insane hospota) have raised the wages of sev­ eral classes of employes. The action included the following resolution passed at the meeting of the board: "All Supervisors, nurses and Attend­ ants who have been in the service of the institution for a year or more will receive an increase of $2.50 a month, beginning June 1. All head attendants of the wards will receive the same in­ crease, irrespective of their time of ser­ vice. Gets Long Penitentiary Sentence. Galesburg.--Reuben Good was sen­ tenced to 25 years in the penitentiary for brutal mistreatment of Lizzie An­ derson, a girl placed in his family by the Illinois Home and Aid society. Judge Thompson, in pronouncing sen­ tence, scored Good unmercifully, de­ claring him to be worse than a mur­ derer. Mrs. Good, who is under heavy bond as an accomplice, pleaded with the court to let her go to prison in her husband's place. The Anderson girl was in the hospital for some time In a precarious condition as the result of the attack. i Fatality at Pleasure Paris. Iiacatur.--Ralph Porter, aged 15 years, was drowned in the presence of hundreds of pleasure seekers at Dream­ land park. The lad was bathing In the park lake. He could not swim and got beyond his depth. Other bathers no­ ticed him disappear beneath the surf­ ace, and a young man named Raven Seerforth attempted to rescue him, but in vain. „ In the struggle to save Portei Seerfoith became exhausted and was almost drowned himself. home was at Stonington, 111. Electrical Contractors' Officers. Rock Island.--The Illinois Electrical Contractors' association held its annu­ al meeting here, closing the business session with the election of the follow­ ing officers: President, John T. Marron, Rock island; vice president, F. B. Bolte, East St. Louis; secretary, C. R. Kreider, Chicago; treasurer, E. E. Gib­ son, Dccatur; directors, Henry Ntw- gard, Chicago; Charles Stap, Peoria; J. W. Tanner Danville; delegate to na­ tional convention, John T. Marron, Rock Island. Roosevelt to Visit University. Champaign.--The citizens of Cham­ paign and Urbana and the authorities of thof university will a year from now be called upon to entertain the chiet magistrate of 90,000,000 people. This formation was received in a telegram from Col. John C. Eversman, which stated that Congressman McKinley had received assurance from the White House that if the president makes his contemplated trip to the middle west next spring he will include the IMr' versity of Illinois in^fijj^itlnerary. Carlinville Knights of Pythias. ' Carlinville.--The Knights of Pythiaa of this city met and elected the follow­ ing officers: Chancellor commander, Walter Dey; vice chancellor comman­ der, F. E. Gibson; prelate, Theodore Surman; master-at-arms, B. M. Burke, master of work, J. W. Kessinger; inner guard, C. T. Woodward; outer guard, E. C. Cookson. The newly elected of- cers will be installed the first meeting in July. Has Villa Grove Pastorate. Villa Grove.--Villa Grove is to be in­ cluded in the pastorate of Rev. Father Quatman, who recently was trans­ ferred from Pana to Tusoola, where he is now stationed. Father Quatman is a polished orator and has made him­ self fexteremely popular wherever he ^as had charge of a rectorate. Found Not Guilty of Murder. Lewiston.--The trial of Dr. Robert Emery of Peoria and Leo Shunk and Earl Buauer of Farmington, charged with the murder of the infant child of Pearl Weaver at Canton, has closed, the verdict being not guilty. The state railed, it is said, to get most of its im­ portant evidence before the Jury^^,^ Horse Show Well Attended. J Lltterberry.--The annual horse show was held at Lltterberry and was wit­ nessed by a thousand people. This is a big event in Morgkn county, and had not a heavy rain interfered seriously with the programme of the day seversu thousands would have been in attend­ ance. • Child Killed by Train. Beardstown.--Mamie Redshaw, aged six years, was struck by a B. & O. pas­ senger train and received injuries that resulted in her death two hours later. Charged with Assar ting Husband. Paris.--Mrs. Alice Mings has been indicted by the Egar county grand jury on a charge of assaulting her husband, William Mings, a member of the board of supervisors, with an attempt to kill. She was placed under a bond of $3,000 for ner appearance at the prosit tapp / of the circuit court. ' 4*%' Death of Aged Woman, carlinville.--Mrs. Sylvia Dews, aged 87 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Janies Hall, at Chestfc* eld. . • ' V. *