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- * ( \x. V". ti ̂ * ^ --S.. C ;;v~ •i.'-t'Jf'o LUM W"M x* >> »:1 A4(r/» Atrms 9r THtCOST. nr£i>££V*£ etc. corratcttreo • /scs ay Bbeas-Mettfttu. Conrrwv* CHAPTER XX.--Continued. "Paroda iiia," I intqiTuyted. "We ^o not need him. On the contrary, we '|nust put him out of {he party coun­ cils. If we don't, he may try to help Scarborough. The senate's safe, no tnatter who's elected president, and Goodrich will rely, on it to save his frowd He's a mountain of vanity, ^Anii th© two defeats we've given him have made every atom ot that vanity quiver with hatred of us." "I wish you could have been here when he called," said Burbank. "I am sure you would have changed your mind." "When does he resign Ms chair­ manship of the national committee?" asked.. "He agreed to pl&ad bad -health and resign within two weeks sifter the convention." Burbank gave an embarrassed cough. "Don't you think, Harvey," said he, "that, to soothe his vanity, it might be as well for us--for you--to let hira stay on there--nominally, of courses? I know you care nothing for titles." ' « Instead of being angered by this attempt to cozen me, by this exhibi­ tion of treachery, I felt disgust and pity--how nauseating and how hope­ less to try to forward one so blind to his own interests, so easily frightened Into surrender to his worst enemies! But I spoke very quietly to him. "The reason you want me to be chairman --for it is you that want and need it, not I--the reason I must be chairman is because the machine throughout the country must know that Goodrich is out and that your friends are in. In what other way can this be ac­ complished ?" He did not dare try to reply. \ I went on: "If he stays at the head of the national committee Scarbor­ ough will be elected." "You are prejudiced, Harvey--" "Please don't say that again, gof« ernor," I interrupted, coldly. "I re­ peat, Goodrich must give place to me, or Scarborough will be elected." "You don't mean that you would turn against me?" came from him, in a queer voice after a long paude. "While I was in St. Louis, working to make you president," said I, "you were plotting, behind my back, plot­ ting against me and yourself." "You were at St. Louis aiding-In the nomination of" the strongest can­ didate," he retorted, his bitterness distinct though guarded. > "Strongest -- yes. But strongest with v/hom?" "With the people," he replied. " "Precisely," said I. "But the people are not going to decide this election! The party lines are to be so closely drawn that money will have the deciding vote. The men who organize and direct industry^ and en­ terprise--they are going to decide It. And in spite of Goodrich's traitor- ' ous efforts, the opposition has put up the man who can't get a penny from them." In fact, I Ji&d Just discovered that Scarborough had instructed Pierson, whom he had made chairman of his campaign, not to take any money from any corporation, even if it was offered. But I thought it wiser to keep this from Burbank. He sat folding a sheet of paper again and again. I let him reason it out Finally he said: "I see your point, Harvey. But I practically .prom­ ised Goodrich--practically asked him to remain--" I waited. ** "For the sake of the cause," he went on when he saw he was to get no help from me, "any and all personal sacrifices must be made. If you insist on having Goodrich's head, Iv will break my promise and--" "Pardon me again," I interrupted. My mood would not tolerate twaddle about "the cause" and "promises" from Burbank -- Burbank, whose "cause," as he had just shown afresh, was himself alone, and who prom­ ised everything to everybody and kept only the most advantageous promises after he had made absolute­ ly sure how his advantage lay. "It's all a matter of indifference to me. If you wish to retain Goodrich do so. He must not be dismissed as a per­ sonal favor to me. The favor 1b to you. I do not permit any man tQ thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him." Burbank seemed deeply moved. He came up to me and took my hand. "It is not like ipy friend Sayler to \ use the word indifference in connec­ tion with me," he said. And then I realized how completely the nomina­ tion had turned, his head. For his tone was that of the great man ad­ dressing his henchman. I did not keep my amusement out of my eyes. . "James," said I, "in­ difference is precisely the word. I should welcome a chance to with­ draw from this campaign. I have been ambitious for power. You want place. If you think the time has come to dissolve partnership, say so -- and trade yourself off to Goodrich." He was ,angry through and through. n6t so much at my bluntness as at my having seen into his plot to help him­ self at my expense--for, not even when I showed it to him, could he see that it was to his interest to destroy Goodrich. Moral coward that he was, the course of conciliation al­ ways appealed to him, whether it was wise or not, and the course of cour­ age always frightened him. H« bit his lip and dissembled his anger. Presently he began to pace up and down the room, his head bent, his hands clasped behind him. After "perhaps five minutes he paused to say: "You insist on taking- the place • yourself, Harvey?" I stood be/ore him and looked down a* 'Yo«r suspicion that I have also a personal reason is well- founded, James," said 1. "I wouldn't put myself in a position where I should have to ask as a favor what I now get as a right. If I help you to the presidency, I must be master of the national machine of the party, able to use it with all its power and against any one--" here I looked him straight in the eye--"who shall try to build himself up at my expense. Personally, we are friends, and it has been a pleasure to me to help elevate a man I liked. But there is no friendship in affairs, except where friendship and interest point the same way. It is strange that a man of your experience should expect friendship from me at a time when you are showing that you haven't for me even the friendship of enlighten­ ed self-interest." "Your practice is better than your theory, Harvey," said he putting on an injured, forgiving look and using his chest tones. ,"A better friend never lived than you, and I know no other man who gets the absolute loyalty you get." He looked at me earnestly. "What has changed you?" he asked. table. That wretched game with Its counterfeit stakes; and the more a man wins, the. poorer he is. She seemed calm enough as she faced me. Indeed, I was not sure when she had first caught sight of me, or whether she had recognized me, until Mrs. Liscombe began to in­ troduce us. "Oh, yes," she then in­ terrupted, "L remember Senator Say­ ler very well. We used to live in the same town. We went to the same school." And with a friendly smile she gave me her hand. What did I say? I do not know. But I am sure I gave ao sign of the clamor within. I had not cultivated surface-calm all those years in vain. I talked, and she talked--but I saw only her face, splendid fulfillment of the promise of girlhood; I hardly heard her words, so greatly was her voice moving me. It was an unusual­ ly deep voice for a woman, sweet and with a curious carrying quality that mad« it seem stronger than it was. In figure she was delicate, and radiant of life and health--aglow, not ablaze. She was neither tall nor short, and was dressed simply, but in the fash­ ion--I heard the other women dis­ cussing her clothes after she left. And she still had the mannerism that was most fascinating to me--she kept her eyes down while she was' talk­ ing or listening, and raised them now and then with a full, slow look at y<m- 4 When Mrs. Liscombe asked her to come to dinner the next evening with the people she was visiting, she said: "Unfortunately, I must start for Washington in the morning. I am overhauling my school and building an addition." It had not occurred to me to think where she had come from or how she happened to be there, or of any­ thing in the years since I was last / "\ Only Know--I "Why are you so bitter and so--ao unlike your even-tempered self?" I waved his question aside--I had no mind to show him my uncovered coffin with its tenant who only slept, or to expose to him the feelings which the erect and fearless figure of Scarborough had set to stirring in me. "I'm ffcareful to choose my friends from among those who can serve me and whom I can therefore serve," I said. "And that is the sen- timentalism of the wise. I wish us to remain friends--therefore, I must be able to be as useful to you as you can be useful to me." "Goodrich shall go," was the up­ shot of his thinking. "I'll telephone him this afternoon. Is my old friend satisfied?" "You have done what was best for yourself," said I, with - wholly good- humored raillery. And we shook hands, and I went. CHAPTER XXI. An Interlude. I was glad to be alone where I could give way to my weariness and disgust; for I had lost all the joy of the combat. The arena of ambi­ tion had now become to me a ring where men are devoured by the beast in man after hideous battles. I turned from it, heart-sick. "If only I had less intelligence less insight," I thought "so that I could cheat myself as Burbank cheats himself. Or, if I had the relentlessness or the supreme ego­ tism, or whatever it is, that enables great men to trample without a qualm, to destroy without pity, to en­ joy without remorse." My nerves began to feel as if some one were gently sliding his fin­ ger along their bared length--not a pain, but as fear-inspiring as the sound of the stealthy creep of the assassin moving up behind to strike a sudden and mortal blow. I dis­ missed business and politics and went cruisingon the lakes with rest­ ful, non-political Fred Sandys. After we had been knocking about perhaps a week, we landed one noon at the private pier of the Liscombes to lunch with them. As Sandys and I strolled toward the front of the house, several people, also guests for lunch, fcwere juat descending from a long buckboard. At sight of one of them I stopped short inside, though I mechanically continued tu walk toward her. I recognized her instantly--the curve of her shoulders, the poise of her head, and her waving jet-black hair to confirm. And with­ out the slightest warning there came tumbling and roaring up to mo a tor­ rent of longings, regrets; and I sud­ denly had a*%lear understanding of my absorption in this wretched game I had. been playing year in and year oat, with hardly a glance from tfea Had to Come." with her. The reminder that she had a school came as a shock--she was so utterly unlike my notion of the head of a school. I think she saw or felt what was in my mind, for she went on, to me: "I've had it six years now--the next will be the sev­ enth." "Do you like it?" I asked. "Don't I look like a happy woman?" "You do," said I, after our eyes had met "You are." "There were 60 girls last year-- 63," she went on. "Next year there will be more--about a hundred. It's like a garden, and I'm the gardener, busy from th -ning till night, with no time to think of anything but my plants and flowers." She had conjured a picture that made my heart ache. I suddenly felt old and sad and lonely--a forlorn failure. "I, too, am a gardener," said I. "But It's a sorry lot of weeds and thistles that keeps me occupied. And in the midst of the garden la a plum tree that bears Dead Sea fruit." She was silent. "You don't care for politics ?" said I. "No," she replied, and lifted and lowered her eyes In a slow glance that made me wish I had not asked. "It is, I think, gardening with weeds and thistles, as you 3ay." Then, after a paUse: "Do you like it?" "Don't ask me," I said with a bit­ terness that made us both silent thereafter. That evening I got Fred to land me at the nearest town. The train she must have been on had just gone. In the morning I took the express for the east. Arrived at Washington, I drove straight to her school,. A high iron fence, not obstructing the view from the country road; a long drive under arching maples and beeches; a rambling, fascinating old house upon the cr^st of a hill; many windows, a pillared porch, a low, very wide doorway. It seemed like her in its dark, cool, odorous beauty. She herself was in the front hall, directing some workmen. "Why, Sen­ ator Sayler, this is a fuirprlse," she said, advancing to greet me. But there was no suggestion of sur­ prise in her tone or her look, only a friendly welcome to an acquaintance. She led the way Into the drawing- room to the left The furniture and pictures were in ghostly draperies; everything was in confusion. We went 6n to a side veranda, seated outselves. She looked inquiringly at me. • "I do not know why" was my an­ swer. "I only know--I had to come." She studied me calmly. I remem­ ber her look, everything about her-- the embroidery on the sleeves and bosom of her blouse, the buckles on her white shoes. I remember also that there was a breeze, and how feood it felt to my hot face, to my eyes burning from lack of sleep, At last she said: "Well--what dp you think of my little kingdom?" "It is yours--entirely?" "House, gardens--everything. I paid the last of my debts in June." "I'm contrasting It with my own," I said. "But that isn't fair," she protested with a smile. "You must remember, I'm a woman." "With my own," I * went on, as if she had not interrupted. "Yours Is --yours, honestly got It - makes you proud, happy. Mine--" I did not fin­ ish. She must have seen or felt how profoundly I was moved, for I pres­ ently saw her looking at me with an expression I might have resented for its pity from any other than her. "Why do you tell me this?" she asked. "There Is always for every one,** was my answer, "some person to whom he shows himself as he is. You are that person for because --I'm surrounded by people who care for me for what I can give. Even my children care to a great extent for that reason. It's the penalty for hav­ ing the power to give the material things all human beings crave. Only two persons ever cared--cared much for me just because I was myself. They were my mother--and you." She laughed in quiet raillery. "Two have cared for you, but you have cared for only one. And what de­ votion you have given hfm!" "I have cared for my mother--for my children--" "Yes -- your children. I forgot them." "And--for you." She made what I thought a move- meint of impatience. "For you," I repeated. Then: "Elizabeth, you were right when you wrote that I was a coward." She rose and stood--near enough te me for me to catch her faint elusive perfume--and gazed out into the dis­ tance. "In St Louis the other day," I went on, "I saw a man who has risen to power greater than I can ever hope to have. And he got it by marching erect in the open." "Yet you have everything you used to want," she said dreamily. "Yes--everything. Only to learn how worthless what I wanted was. And for this trash, this dirt, I have given--all I had that was of value." "All?" "All," I replied. "Your love and my self-respect." "Why do you think you've not been brave?" she asked after awhile. "Because I've won by playing on the weaknesses and fears of men which my own weaknesses and fears enabled me to understand.'* "You have done wrong--delib­ erately?" "Deliberately." "But that good might come?" *"So I told myself." "And good has come? I've heard that figs do grow on thistles." "Good has come. But I think, in spite of me, not through me." "But now that you see," she Bald, turning her eyes to mine with appeal in them, and something more, I thought, "you Will--you will go on?" "I don't know. Is there such a things as remorse without regret?" And then my self-control went and I let her see what I had commanded myself to keep hid: "I only know clearly one thing, Elizabeth--only one thing matters. You are the whola world to me. You and I could--what could we not do together!" Her color slowly rose, slowly van­ ished. "Was that what you came to tell me?" she asked. "Yes," I answered, not flinching. "That is the climax of your moral* izings?" "Yes," I answered. "And of my cowardice." (TO BE CONTINUED.* Our Springfield Letter Special Correspondent Write# of Things of Interest at the Slate Capital. LAND WEALTH OF NEW YORK. Greater In Aggregate Than That of Many a Nation. Few people realize the tremendous land wealth of New York city to-day, says a writer in Moody's Magazine. The. total land valuations of the city by its recent census reached the enormous figure of $5,800,000,000; this Is an ' increase of $400,000,000 in 1967 over 1906, and 1906, in turn, showed an increase of $480,000,000 over 1905 Within a decade the increase has been considerably over 100 per cent New York real estate is to-day val­ ued at more than one-twentieth of the entire wealth of the United States. It is greater than the entire wealth ot many states and even of many for­ eign countries. It is 25 per cent, more than the entire wealth of Holland. Spain, Sweden and Norway; 60 pe: cent ®ore thaa Bwitierlaad, Ota Springfield.--That the property of the Central Illinois Traction company and the Mattoon City Railway com­ pany. now in the hands of a receiver, since the disastrous wreck recently, will eventually become a part of-the Illinois Traction system, is the belief among interurban officials in this city. Both companies went into the hands of a receiver following the filing of suits aggregating several hundred thousand dollars by relatives of vic­ tims of the wreck which killed so many passengers last summer. It is known that the McKiniey company Is keeping in touch with the affairs of the two roads, and as soon as the re­ ceivership is ended probably will en­ ter the field as a purchaser. The road has been for sale for some months, and at one time officials of the Charles­ ton-Paris line had an option on it This concern, however, is hardly in a position to compete with the McKin­ iey company, and it is generally be­ lieved that the next few months will see the latter company In possession of the Central Traction company and the Mattoon City Railway company. Other rumors are afloat that the De­ catur, Sullivan & Mattoon Electric company, which is soon to start con­ struction work at Decatur, will event­ ually be taken over by the McKiniey syndicate. Construction men em­ ployed by the Illinois Traction sys­ tem at Litchfield were stopped from their labor for a short time by Chief of Police Meyers and members of the city council of that place. A mistake as to the portion of the pavement that was to be torn up for the construction work was the cause of the trouble. The company purchased a tract ot land in Litchfield for the purpose of constructing an express office. A squad of men was sent to the place to excavate for the construction of a side track. The mistake was-made in the workmen tearing up the pavement without a permit, and outside of a certain boundry. The city officials of Litchfield say that it is necessary for the council to pass a resolution grant ing a company the right to construct a siding before the work can be com­ menced. Sherman Scores Senate. When the senate convened Tuesday Lieut. Gov. Sherman, In a characteristic speech, attacked that body for its past policy on the primary election subject. He called upon the members to lay aside politics and act within reason. In part he said: "Give the state a direct primary election law. Let the people try the nomination of their candidates. They have succeeded In other governmental undertakings. The delegate convention system and the direct primary cannot both sur­ vive. Choose this day whom you win serve. We are at the parting of the ways. Will coming political contests be settled by the people at a peace­ able party primary or by the Creden­ tials committee armed with a dark NEWS OF ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. MAGILL TRIAL BEGINS Letters Left by Mrs. MagiW Thieatepr lag Suicide Are Basis of State*.. Opening Attacks--Difficult te J Prove Them Forgeries. *C7< 1 J; Decatur.--The Magill Jury wan «oia»." pleted Thursday afternoon after three days' fight and the opening state­ ments were made by the lawyers. The first testimony of the state was heard Friday. The strong card of the defense $89 the letters left by Pet Magill In whieb she declared she was going to com­ mit suicide and that it was because of the unkind treatment of FredTa mother and his step-sister, Mrs. Nel­ lie Pond. Both women are referred to by name in the letters. There fa nothing but the most tender refer ences to Fred, Fay or Marguerite. The state is having difficulty la ef­ forts to prove those letters forgeries- Handwriting experts are not permit­ ted by law to testify la cases of this rm lantern and sustained by an arbitrary j sort that Is comparisons of hand- chairman. The direct primary may writing are not allowed in criminal, be delayed, byt it cannot be forever cases Persons who have seen the In­ dented. Rise to the level of statesman- ! ters and are familiar with the han«- ship and forget yourselves. Who, j writing of Pet Magill, declare wnaaf- after the last contest for United ! mously that they are genuine. It if •T XtM j. • States senator, settled by the people, would return to the riotous madness of the old method with state wide scandals and contempt for the peo­ ple's will? It ought to be done now -at this adjourned session. Whose fault is it that the bill passed in May, 1906, rah afoul of the constitution? All of you who voted for It, so helped frame It. If the structure fell by Its own weakness, ought not those who reared it replace It with a lawful sub­ stitute? You were paid for one spe­ cial session to'do better things than that. footers, Urbana Coal Men Complain of Cars. Two cases, each Involving charges of unjust and discriminatory regula­ tions respecting ®he distribution of coal carrying cars among shippers, were filed with the interstate com­ merce commission at Washington. The complainant in both caseit was the Illinois Collieries company Ot Chi­ cago, and the defendants were the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis railway in the one case and the Chicago & Al­ ton Railroad company In the other. The complainant alleges that the rail­ roads discriminate unfairly against it In the distribution particularly of "private" and "foreign" cars, and the commission Is requested, to compel the defendants to conform to the law and to issue regulations that shall be equitable and just to all shippers. mark or Portugal; It Is one-third that of Italy, one-fourth that of Austria- Hungary, one-fifth that of Russia, one- seventh that of Germany, one-eighth that of France, one-tenth that of great Britain and Ireland. It is In* deed an imperial city in an empire state. Continual Scheming. They were calling on the > garret bard. "And I suppose it is essential that you poets should have wonderful imaginations?" ventured the pretty girl. "Well, I should say so," replied the poet, as he lashed off another spring sonnet. "If we didn't have wonderful' imaginations we could never create the yarns we tell our creditors when they come around looking for money." ; v Pleasure. The man whp stops to dissect his pleasure* nevrfr wears a glad look Prepares Nsw Primary Bill. A comprehensive direct plurality primary bill will be laid before the house by Representative Oglesby, chairman of the primary elections committee. Col. Oglesby will begin work on the measure Saturday with the assistance of the attorney gen­ eral's department. The bill will be sufficiently comprehensive to satisfy the most ardent champion of direct primaries. Included in its scope will be the nomination by plurality vote of delegates to national political conven­ tions, state and judicial officials, in­ cluding justices of the supreme court and all county, township and munici­ pal officers. Party conventions are ab­ solutely abolished. Rainey Scores Canal District. Congressman Henry T. Rainey re­ newed his deep waterway address be­ fore the house. His remarks were de­ voted to a severe arraignment of the Chicago sanitary district, and especial­ ly of President McCormlck and En­ gineer Randolph. He denounced their project as the most cruel proposition ever advanced in a Christian land, placing beneath the sword of Damo­ cles every citizen of Joliet and the neighboring community. 1. Sugar Beet Harvest On. The sugar beet harvest has com­ menced in central Illinois and the crop is the largest ever known, many beets weighing from six to seven pounds. The crop this year will yield from 15 to 20 tons to .the acre. The sugar refineries pay five dollars per ton for the beets delivered on board cars. The central Illinois growers will average $75 an acre for their crop. Bond Issue for Waterway. A resolution for a constitutional amendment authorizing the state to issue $18,000,000 bonds for the pur­ pose of prosecuting the gulf-to-lakes channel project as it relates to Illi­ nois is declared to be the agreement reached by senate and house leaders as a solution of deep waterway legis­ lation at the adjourned session. This is the idea promulgated by State Sen­ ator Barr of Joliet. This movement took definite form at the session of the senate sitting In committee of the whole. All Bills May Come In. The house undid the knot formed by laBt winter's recess resolution and opened shop for general legislation. Seven bills were introduced. Two, by Allen, are deep waterway measures, one is Congressman Rainey's bill, slightly modified, giving the federal government $25,000,000 in revenue from power developed along the deep waterway channel, the other, drafted with the assistance of Lyman S. Cooley, recognizes the Desplaines and Illinois river# aa atYigakia streams. Pin Faith in Old Tradition. University of Illinois:" thronging Illinois field at nightly to watch their eleven trot through "its paces for the Chicago game there October 19, are finding a lot of comfort in the tradition in the orange and blue camp that Illinois has a world-beating eleven one year in three. While Napoleon's saying that providence is generally on the Bide of the strongest battalions surely applies to football, still the Illini en­ thusiasts say that the pet supersti­ tion has all the earmarks of being a veritable omen. Back in 1901 Illinois had a famous eleven which walked over the Maroons to the tune of 24 to 0. Jake Stahl, Lowenthal, Lind- gren, Cook and other famous state team stars made their uames in that contest. In 1904, when Illinois was supposedly weak, it required all of Chicago's efforts and the best kind of luck to escape defeat at the hands of the IUlnl. The Maroons were glad to get away with a tied score. Now It Is 1907 and Illinois' football pros­ pects are the best since 1904. Won­ derful football weather has permit­ ted more rigorous practice than ever before at this time of the year. Everything seems to be breaking right for the Illini. So the rooters may be pardoned for taking stosk la the ancient tradition. Busse Has Two Bills. Mayor Busse came to the capital with two vehicle tax bills which he hopes the assemblymen will act on. One is an amendment to the cities and villages act empowering all mu­ nicipalities In the state to levy by ordinance an annual vehicle tax. The other is a new act and carries with it a referendum clause. , It is esti­ mated that thie act would give Chi­ cago additional $500,000 annual rev­ enue. Representative Cermack and Senator Jandus are busying them­ selves in behalf of the former's bill increasing the compensation of the members to $2,000 a session. The bill was passed last wirier, but because the senate concurred in the house amendments by a viva voce vote in­ stead of a roll call, Lieut. Gov. Sher­ man adjudged the act unconstitution­ al and did not certify it to the gov­ ernor. It is still in the hands of the lieutenant governor. His friends hope to suspend the senate rules and pass It in a proper way. said that one of the lawyers for tho state has gone on record as declaring: that the letters are in the handwrit­ ing of Pet Magill. The fight over jurors was bitter. Attorney M. C. Griffin took up the- questioning for the defense, and* Lot R. Herrick of Clinton, general coun­ sel for the state, took the lead in the* prosecuti^p. Attorney Griffin probed the minds of the talesmen along the- lines of the weight of their suspicions.. Would they consider it an evidence- ' of guilt because Fred H. Magill. and. Faye Graham violated social custom to the extent of getting married threw weeks after Mrs. Pet Magill's death;? Would they consider It evidence ot' guilt if the state showed that Fred Magill and Faye Graham had violated) other laws before their marriage? A new witness for the state omthia- point appears in Decatur. She is Mlas Maude Fellner, deputy county clerk of Denver, Col. Miss Fellner will tea* tlfy that when the Magills appeared! before her to secure their marriage license Fred Magill swore he waa> from Decatur and Miss Graham dfr» clared she was a resident of Chicago. An entire floor of the Decatur hotel has been engaged by the party. Mrs. Magill was joined In the courtroom, by her father, W. R. Graham ot Clin­ ton, and her mother. She studied carefully all the prospective Jurora and advised often r.ith the Irwyer®. Her opinion in the selection of a juror appears to have more weight than that of Magill. Marguerite Magill waft? by her stepmother's side all day. " < GAMBLERS GET JOLT. Combination of Buslneaa Men and- Pol­ iticians Alleged. Delegates to Mining Congress* - The following were appointed by Gov. Deneen as delegates to.,4he American mining congress to he held in Jofrlln, November 11 David Ross, Springfield, secretary of the state board of labor; lochard NewBam, Peoria, president or ~ the state mining board; Hugh Murray, of Equality, G. W. Traer, Chicago, presi­ dent of the Illinois Coal Operators' association; EL. T. Bent, Chicago, sec­ retary of the Illinois Coal Operators' association; W. D. Ryan, Springfield, secretary-treasurer of the Illinois dis­ trict of the United Mine Workers of America, and C. S. Rice, H. L. Hollls and J. H. Janeway, Chicago. Deneen Replies to Shurtreff. Bitter feeling is cropping out here, not only among cliques in the house, but between leaders in the two branches. Speaker Shurtleff in an in­ terview charged that supporters of Gov. Deneen in the senate and house are endeavoring to bring about a sine die adjournment without anything be­ ing accomplished in the way of legis­ lation. Gov. Deneen denied the Shurt­ leff charge. He said: "There is not the slightest foundation for such an accusation." Will Free Many Convicts. The supreme court held that the municipal court in Chicago has not criminal jurisdiction in any cases ex­ cept where the indictment specifically states that the crime was committed in the city of Chicago. The decision was rendered in the habeas corpus case of Miller against the people, and will result in the release from the state penitentiary of all criminals who were sentenced in the municipal court of Chicago, under indictments which did not specify that the crime was committed la tha city of Chicago. Joliet--Gamblers received severe jolt when It became known that a combination composed of hand­ book operators who have pulls, politi­ cians, and others, Including a number of business men, is in existence, and' that gamesters have been compelled) to pay tribute for the privilege of op­ erating. Disclosures of a sensational natnra- followed the closing of the place oper­ ated by Van Dusen Hartong, an old' offender. It Is alleged that Hartong has been paying the combination |200 monthly for protection, which provedi to be no protection at all when the- gambling squad discovered the exist* ence of his place. It is claimed that the combination has been conducting a clearing house in Chicago with a professional In: charge, and that gamesters desiring* to operate here have been competed to fix things firsCBoth city and cbu»* ty authorities are investigating. Illinois Bankers Meet. Mollne.--The seventeenth annual' convention of the Bankers' Associa­ tion of Illinois was held here. Four hundred delegates are in attendance,, many of them being from Chicago. Mayor Olson -of Mollne welcomed the delegates and E. D. Durham ot Ornago responded. Festus J. Wade, president of the* Mercantile Trust company ot St. Louis delivered an address on "Cur­ rency Reform." He explained the re­ forms sought by the bankers' commis­ sion and urged cooperation ot the financiers. Prices Advanced! Chicago.--Beer is going te ooat more after this. The brewers say they'll have to squeeze out another 50 cents a barrel. So if a man: want® to buy a barrel of the> foamy bever­ age he will have to pay the Increased cost pt malt and a few other things. A nickel will buy a glass at beer, though, just the same. Engine Falls in Blvee.. Darby.--Two west-bo tin<* ft eight trains collided on the long tseetle SB the Wabash railroad here. The new mogul engine on ane of tbe trains was thrown Into the- river 20 feet below. Seven loaded freight earn and 100 feet of track were destroyed by fire. The crews eeceped by iuneptag. Kilted WiTe and Self. ^ Pana.--J. M. Elgan. a farmer Br­ ing eight miles, north of GujfflW. shot and killed his wife, than turned the weapon upon himself. Fire Veterene Meet. Chicago.--Veterans of the gtea* cage fire of 18T1 met In their fourth annual reunion In the restaurant ot the Fort Dearborn bullsiicg. Monroe and Clark streets. Of the 187 firemen who served during the great conflagra­ tion that left the city la ashea haft <9 atili survive. . Show Man Dies In Taylerville. Taylorvllle.--Col. Spencer, a her of the "Cow Punching" show troupe, died here very swddealy at Vh attack of asthma.