The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

*' " • "" vi'-' " "-T ' ' - 'V' •: '"A? „ .V "•• r •! i y * ' ' * y s : ^ t * - . . V * > r i -y - W «aK r- W PLUM GAASfAJHt *t the hotel: i CHAPTER XXIV.--Cont inued. I took Frances home, then returned, passing the swaying horror far on the ether side of the road. I got the lodge-keeper, and he and I went back together. I had them , tele­ phone from the lodge for the cor­ oner and personally saw to It that the corpse should be reported as found In the open woods a long distance from my place. But Granby had left a message "to the public" in his room Senator Sayler ruined me and drove me to death. I have * gone to hang myself In his park. Down with monopoly!" In spite of nay efforts, this was published - throughout the country--though not In Fredonia, Such of the big oppo- sition papers as were not under our •§/ control sent reporters and raked out Xj, the whole story; and it was blown ~ up hugely and told everywhere. Our organs retold it, giving the true color and perspective; but -my blundering attempt to avoid publicity had put me in too bad a light. It was the irony of fate--rmy power thus ludicrously thwarted by a trivial­ ity. . Within 24 hours I realized the danger to our campaign. I sent Wood­ ruff post-haste to the widow. He gave her convincing assurances that she and her children were to be lifted from the slough of poverty into which Granby's drunkennes had thrust them. And in return shewrpte at his dictation and issued an ap­ parently uninspired public statement, exonerating me from all blame for her husband's reverses, and saying that he had been acting strangely - for over a year, and had been in­ sane for several months. In brief, I did everything suggested by sin­ cere regret, and such skill at influ­ encing public opinion as I had and commanded. But not until my re­ ports began to show the good effects of the million dollars Woodruff put into the last week of the campaign, did I begin to hope again. • Another hope brightened toward confidence, when, on the Saturday be­ fore election, I sprung my carefully matured scheme for stiffening those of our partisans who were wavering. The Scarborough speakers had, with powerful effect, been taunting us with our huge campaign fund, daring us to disclose its sources. On that Sun­ day morning, when it was too late for the opposition to discount me, I boldly threw open a set of campaign ledgers which showed that our fund was just under a million dollars, with the only large subscription, the hun­ dred thousand dollars which I my- seslf had given. Tens of thousands of our partizans, longing for an ex­ cuse for staying with us, returned cheering to the ranks--enough of them in the doubtful states, we be­ lieved, to restore the floating vote to its usual balance of power. Each horse of my team had taken a turn at doing dangerous, even menacing, threshing about; but both Were now quietly pulling in the har­ ness. Partizanship as docile as Plu­ tocracy. The betting odds were six to five against us, but we of the "in­ side" began to plunge on Burbank and Howard. grave responsibility. ! the help of every friend--the true help of every tree friend. And I know what I owe to you just as clearly as. If she were here to remind me." I was too moved to venture a re­ ply. Woodruff and I drove to the ho­ tel" together--the crowd hissed me whenever it recognized me. Woodruff looked first on one aide then on the other, muttering at them. "The fools!" he said to me, with his ab rapt, cOol laugh. "Just like them, isn't it? Cheering the puppet, hiss­ ing its proprietor." I made no answer--what did it, mat­ ter? Not for Bur bank's position and opportunity, as in that hour of emo­ tion they appeared even to us who knew politics from behind the scenes, not for the reality of what the sound­ ing title' of president seems to mean, would I have changed with him, vfould I have paid the degrading price he had paid. I preferred my own position-- if I had bowed the knee, at least it was not to men. As for hisses, I saw in them a certain instinctive tribute to my power. The mob cheers its servant, hisses its master. and at last the harvest! And what a harvest it will be! * For under the teachings of experience 1 have sown not starlight and moonlight, bat seeds. The next morning I cottld not rtse; it was six weeks before I was able to leave my bed. During that sav­ age illness I met each and everyone of the reckless drafts I had been drawing against my reserve vitality. Four times the doctors gave me up; once even Frances lost hope. When 1 was getting well she confessed to me Iiow she had warned God that he need never expect to hear from her again if her prayer for me were not answered--and I saw she rather sus­ pected that her threat was not unas sociated with my recovery. Eight weeks out of touch with af­ fairs, and they the crucial eight weeks of all my years of thought and action! At last the harvest, indeed; and I was reaping what I hadrsown. In the second week of January I re­ volted against the doctors and nurses and had my political secretary, Wheelock, telephone for Woodruff-- the legislature had elected him to the senate thfee days before. When he had sat with me long enough to realize that I could bear bad news, he said: "Goodrich and Burbank have formed a combination against you." "How do you know?" said I, show­ ing no surprise, and feeling none. "Because"--he laughed--"I was in it. At least, they thought so until they had let me be safely elected. As nearly as I can make out, they be­ gan the plot about ten days after you fell Bick. At first they had it on the slate to do me up, too. But-- the day after Christmas--Burbank sent for me--" "Wait a minute," I Interrupted. And I began to think. It was on Christmas day that Burbank telephoned for the M I 3 & 'I Believe the Man and the Opportunity Have Bless You." Met Mr. President. God CHAPTER XXV. An Hour of Emotion. It was after midnight of election day before we knew the result, so close were the two more important doubtful states. Scarborough had swept the rural districts and the small towns. But we hatjl beaten him in the cities where the machines and other purchasable organizations were powerful. His state gave him 42,000 plurality, Burbank carried his own state by less than 10,000--and in 24 years our major­ ity there in presidential campaigns had never before been less than 40,000. By half-past one, the whole capital city knew that Burbank had won. And they flocked and swarmed out the road to his modest "rotreatf" until perhaps 30,000 people were shouting, blowing horns, singing, sending up rockets and Roman candles, burning red fire, lighting bonfires in and near the grounds. I had come down from Fredonia to be in Instant touch with Burbank and the whole na­ tional machine, should there arise at the last minute necessity for-bold and swift action. When Burbank finally yielded to the mob and showed himself on his porch with us, his im­ mediate associates, about him, I for the first time unreservedly admired him. For the man inside seemed at last to swell until the presidential pose he had so long worn premature­ ly was filled to a perfect fit And in what he said as well as in the way he said it there was an unexpected dignity and breadth and force. "I have made him president," I thought, "and it looks as if the presidency has made him a man." After he finished, Croffut spoke, and Senator Berwick of Illinois. Then rose a .few calls for me. They were drowned in a chorus of hoots, toots and hisses. Burbank cast a quick glance of apprehension at me--again that hidden conviction of my vanity, this time shown in dread lest it should goad me into hating him. I smiled reassuringly at him--and I can say in all honesty that the vsmile came from the bottom of my heart. '*£,• ' An hour later, as I bade,him good night, I said: believe the man and the oppor- - 'fUnity have met, Hr. President God bless you." 5 Perhaps it was the unusualness of my speaking with feeling that caused 4 the tears to start in his eyes. "Thank ^ V % yo°' Harvey," he replied, clasping my / I y i n both his. "I realize now ths •jr-i®* ' , • - • , • . ...... Stir* Doc," said I, "do you want to go to the senate Instead of Croffut?" By the flames on the torches on either side I saw his amazement. "Me?" he exclaimed. "Why, you for­ get I've got a past." "I do," said I, "and so does every one else. All we know is that you've got a future." He drew in his breath hard and leaned back into the corner where the shadow hid him. At last he said in a quiet earnest voice: "You've gfven me self-respect, senator, I can only say: I'll see that you never re­ gret it." I was hissed roundly at the hotel entrance, between cheers for Croffut and Berwick, and even for WoodrufT. But I went to bed-in the most cheer­ ful humor I had known since the day Scarborough was nominated. "At any rate"--so I was thinking--"my presi­ dent, with my help, will be a man." CHAPTER XXVI. "Only ah Old Joke." On the train going home, I was nearer to castle-building than at any time since my boyhood castles col­ lapsed under the rude blows of prac­ tical life. My paths have not always been straight and open, said I to myself; like all others who have won in the conditions of thiB world of men till thrall to the brute, I have had to use the code of the jungle. In climbing I have had to stoop, at times to crawl. But, now that I have reached the top, I shall stand erect. I shall show that the sordidness of the struggle has not unfitted me to use the victory. True, there are the many and heavy polit­ ical debts I've had to contract in get­ ting Burbank the presidency; and as we must have a second term to round out our work, we shall be compelled to make some further compromises. We must still deal with men on the terms which human nature exacts, but in the main we can and we will do what is just and right, what helps to realize the dreams of the men and women who founded our country-- the men and women like my father and mother. And my mother's grave, beside my father's and among the graves of my sisters and my grandparents, rose be­ fore me. And I recalled the pledge I had made there in the boyish begin­ nings of my manhood and noy career. "My chance and Burbank's," said I, "comes just In time. We are now at the age where reputation Is fiied; and our children are growing up and will soon begin to Judge us and be judged from us." Tears* of patient sowing, thought I, first time in nearly three weeks, in­ quiring about my condition. I remem­ bered their telling me how minute his questionings were. And I had thought his solicitude was proof of his friendship! Instead, he had been inquiring to make sure about the re­ ports in the papers that I was cer­ tain to recover, in order that he might shift the Yactors in his plot ac­ cordingly. "When did you say Bur­ bank sent for you?" I asked. "On Christmas day/' Woodruff re- : plied. I laughed; he looked at me inqulr- | ingly. "Nothing," said I. "Only an : old joke--as old as human nature. Go j on." "Christmas day," he continued; "I didn't get to him until next morning. I can't figure out just why they in­ vited me into their combine." But I could figure it out, easily. If I had died, my power would have dis­ integrated and Woodruff would have been no use to them. When they were sure I was going to live, they had to have him because he might be able to assassinate me, certain!} could so cripple me that I would-- as they reasoned--be helpless unddt their assaults. But it wasn't neces­ sary to tell Woodruff this, I thought. "Well," said J, "and mhat hap­ pened?" , "Burbank gave me a dose of his 'great and gracious way*--you ought to see the 'side' he puts on now!-- and turned me over to Goodrich. He had been mighty careful not to give himself away any further than that Then Goodrich talked to me for three solid hours, showing me it was my duty to the party as well as to myself to join him and Burbank in eliminat­ ing the one disturber of harmoay-- that meant you." "And did they tell you they'd de­ stroy you if you didn't?" "Oh, that of course." lie answered. Indifferently. "Well, what did you do?" "Played with 'em till I was elected. Then I dropped Goodrich a line. 'You go to hell,' I wrote. 'I travel with men."" "Very imprudent," was my com­ ment "Yes," he admitted, "but I had to do something to get the dirt off my hands." "So B-vbank has gone over to Goodrich!" I went on, presently, as much to myself ae to him. "I always knew he was one of those chaps you have to keep &v*rM to keep straight," said WoodruR 'They think your politeness indicates "^ar, and your friendship fright. Besluos, he's got a delusion that his popularity carried the west for him and that you and I did him only damage.* Woodruff interrupted himself with ft laugh. "A friend of mine," he rs» sumed, "was on the train with Scat* borough when he went east to the meeting of congress last month. He tells me it was like a president-elect on the way to be Inaugurated. The people turned out at every cross-roads even beyond the Alleghanies. And Burbank knows It. If be wasn't clean daft about himself he'd realize that if it hadn't been for you--well, I'd hate to say how badly he'd have got left But then, If it hadn't been for you, he'd never have been governor. H# was a dead one, and you hauled hiat out of the tomb." True enough. But what did it mat ter now? "He's going to get a horrible Jolt before many months," Woodruff went on. "I can see you after hlio." "You forget. He's president," Ian swered. He's beyond our reach." "ftot when he wants a renomlna tion," insisted Woodruff. "He can get that without u<*--If," I said. "You must remember we've made him a fetish with our rank and file. And he's something of a fetish with the country now that he's presi* dent. No, we can't destroy Wm- can't even Injure him. He'll hav# to do that himself, if it's done*. Be-- sides-**" I did nut finish. I did not cafe to confess that since Frances and I saw Granby swinging from that tree In my grounds I had neither heart nor stomach for the relentless side of the game. Indeed, whether from cal­ culation or from sentimentality or from both--or, from a certain sympa­ thy and fallow feeling for all kinds of weakness--I have never pursued those who have played me false, ex­ cept when exemplary punishment was imperataive. "Well--" Woodruff looked bitterly disappointed. "I guess you're right" He brightened. "I forgot Goodrich for a minute. Burbank'll do himself up through that--I'd ha«e to be in a saloon to feel free to use the lan­ guage that describes him." "I fear he will," I said. And it was not a hypocrisy--for I did not, and could not, feel anger toward biro. Had I not cut this staff deliberately because it was crooked? What more natural than that it should give way under me as soon as I leaned upon it? "Your sickness certainly couldn't have come at an unluckier time," Woodruff observed just „ before he left. "I'm not sure of that," was my re­ ply. "It would have been useless to have found him out sooner. And if he had hidden himself until later, he might have done us some serious ml* chief." As he was the president-elect, to ge to him uninvited would have been in fringement of his dignity as well as of my pijlde. A few days later 2 wrote him, thanking him for his mes­ sages and inquiries during my illness and saying that I was once more tak» ing part in affairs. He did not reply j by calling me up on the telephone, as he would have done in his c&dial, ltt" timate years preceding his grandeur. Instead he sent a telegram of con­ gratulation, following it with a note. He urged me to go south, as I had planned, and stay until I was fully re stored. "I shall deny myself the pleas­ ure of seeing you until you return." That sentence put off our meeting in­ definitely--I could see him smiling at Its adroitness as he wrote it. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Two Theories of the Acquirement--- Unselfishness and Conventionality. Most mothers hold, consciously or unconsciously, one of two theories about the acquirement of manners by their children. One mother says, "^Manners are only the outward sign of the inner nature. * If my daughter has a kind heart and a well trained mind she will behave in a gentle, charming fashion. I will teach her compassion, respect for age, unselfish seal for helping With the world's work. Her manners will take care of themselves." Another mother says, "My girls will never get on without conventional manners. They shall be taught from babyhood to emulate the speech and bearing of ladies. They shall be instructed In "the proper be­ havior for every occasion. They shall walk and dance and write and speak with graceful perfection." Neither - method, says the Youth's Companion, produces altogether satisfactory re­ sults. Unselfishness Is truly the foundation of good manners, but not the superstructure. Many convention­ al restrictions have crown a boat se- cial relations. Some can be explained by the dem&nd of kindness and some cannot. Women of Great Bravery. Women are not, as a class, either moral or physical cowards. In per- sonal bravery they far excel the ma­ jority of men when faced by an emer­ gency. Some of their achievements are worthy of record among the he­ roic deeds of the race. Lady Baker an • English woman, was such an ab­ solute stranger to fear that she would walk alone into the tents of the most ruthless slave dealer and calmly lead off his captives from under his very eyes, and Mrs. Marion Mulhall, whs risked death a dozen times and tri­ umphed *over the strongest man in the dark wild country that lies between the Amazon and the Andes, is a worn* an of such a frail and delicate appear* ance that one might think a March wind ,would blow her away. Clothes. Once in a while some matt gets hit position in society so firmly estab lished that he can wear shabb* clothes and still be envied. No won aa has ever apbieved ths* di**l»eti» Our Springfield Letter Special Correspondent Writes of Things of Interest at the State Capital. Springfield.--A reassuring state­ ment regarding conditions existing among the state banks in Illinois was made by State Auditor James S. Mc- Cullough who is the statutory super­ visor of 400 state banks in Illinois. Discussing the troubles in banking circles In the east and the condition In Illinois, Auditor McCullough said: "The disturbance in New York fur­ nishes no cause for apprehension in this section. Our state is blessed with a bountiful crop which, in the next five months, will be converted into money contributed from all parts of the world. The banks in the coun­ try are loaded with funds prepared not only to furnish the money required to move this crop, but ready to invest in first-class commercial paper offered in t£e market. The feature of the last bank report in response to call was the unusually strong reserve, despite the general understanding that money is tight. In this report the 24 state banks in Chicago made a magnificent showing. Notwithstanding there is no legal requirement in the state bank­ ing act, and although the federal act requires the national' banks in the larger cities to carry a reserve of 25 per cent., the 44 state banks in Chi­ cago showed an available reserve of approximately $100,000,000, represent­ ing about 30 per cent, of all charac­ ter of deposit. In addition the re­ port shows high grade bonds aggre­ gating over $70,000,000--a resource ac­ knowledged the most readily convert­ ible because there are daily market quotations thereon. Sixteen of these banks, qualified under the trust act, have on deposit with this department about $5,000,000 in high class secur­ ities. The situation warrants an op­ timistic view, and confidence should continue undisturbed." SECRET OF GOOD MANNERS. Bill to Stop Football Prize Fighting. A bill to restrain the authorities from permitting prize fighting in Kan­ kakee public schools was filed in the circuit court there by Stephen R. Moore, dean of the county bar. Attor­ ney Moore filed his bill after he had watched the high school football team play one or two matches. He failed to see any difference between the gridiron game, as the boys played it, and prize fighting, except that possi­ bly it was rougher and jnore danger­ ous to life and limb. To Attorney Moore's vision the high school grid­ iron is simply an enlarged prize ring in which two sets of youths pommel one another till one side is so mauled and disabled that the other is declared winner. And since prize fighting is illegal Mr. Moore fails to see why the subterfuge under which it is car­ ried on should be permitted. The bill for an injunction is directed against L. W. Smith, principal of the high school, and F. N. Tracy, superinten­ dent of city schools. It is specifically designated "a bill for an injunction to restrain prize fighting in the public schools." Attorney Moore carefully ignores* the polite term "football." Wliat he objects to is the encourage­ ment given by the school authorities to prize fighting. Ho points out In his bill that the purpose of the board of education is to provide a common school education for persons between the ages of S and 21 years, and that no authority has been conferred upon the board or on any teacher or prin­ cipal to train the pupils as prize fighters. The bill declares that "L. W. Smith, employed by the board of education in the capacity of principal of the high school, has organized team out of the ..school that travels from place to place in the 6tate of Illinois and engages in contests of prize fighting with scholars of other schools." Principal Smith and Super­ intendent Tracy, the bill charges, at­ tempted to hide the fact that the pupils are prize fighters by calling their contests "football." That, de­ clares Attorney Moore, "is simply sub­ terfuge. In all Its purposes and ef fects it is purely a contest of brute strength, and force, and fighting." In support of his plea to the court to re­ strain this prize fighting Attorney Moore calls attention to the fact that since October 1 there have been eight fatalities and many serious injuries have been received by participants in the game. -------- Ends Long Missionary Labors. The executive board of the Women's Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church has ac­ cepted the resignation of Mrs. J. T. Grarey of Rochester, N. Y., for 39 years a member of the central com­ mittee of mission study. Her place was tilled by the election ot Miss Elizabeth Northup of Boston, editor, of the Wo­ man's Missionary Friend. Launch Cannon Presidential Boom. Speaker Cannon's boom for the presidential nomination was started at a meeting of the congressional dele­ gation from Illinois held in Chicago. It was decided to put Congressman Cannon into the race whether he ac­ quiesced or not, and when he was called in at the finish and told what his colleagues had done he threw up his hands and said: "Well, boys will be boys. Do as you please." Con­ gressman McKinley was made chair­ man ot a committee which is to have the Cannon canvass in charge. Strife In Fifth Regiment. « Trouble in thg ranks of the Fifth regiment as the result of the election of Col. Woods of Quincy last summer threatens to disrupt the organization. Woods was elevated to the rank of colonel from that of regimental adju­ tant. He defeated Lieut. Col. Cabanis of Kinmundy by one vote. Coiv Lang presided at the election, and refused to delay the count though it was known a number of . officers were 'hastening to &ptfngfleld to vote for Cabanis. Chicago and Republican Convention. Chairman Harry C. New of the Re­ publican national committee was in Chicago last week discussing the ques­ tion of locating the next national con­ vention. He met the Chicago people who have been interesting themselves in getting the gathering there, the meeting being held in the office of President Thomas D. Knight of the Hamilton club. No decision was reached. The main question is the procuring of a hall which is capable of seating the number of"people--15,000 --which Chairman New thinks ought to be accommodated at the convention. The intimation is that if Chicago can provide this kind of a hall the conven­ tion will go there; otherwise it will go to Kansas City. At a meeting held at the Hamilton club in the afternoon the hall question was gone into in a preliminary manner. Col. Moriarity of the Seventh regiment and State Architect Zimmerman were there to speak for the new armory of that regi­ ment which is being erected at Thirty- third street and Wentworth avenue. They reported that the building would be done by May, in plenty of time for the convention, but the question of the money to change it into a convention hall came up to make trouble. Archi­ tect Zimmerman reported that in order to arrange it to make it capable of seating 15,000 persons extra balconies would have to be put In and the cost would be any way from $25,000 to $50,- 000; If the money could be found there would be no trouble in making the building fit the requirements. Hie state had largely contributed toward the cost of the structure, appropriating $120,000 for its erection, but it could not be expected to meet this additional cost. E. H. Allen for the "Stadium," the building contemplated by the Com­ mercial association in Thirty-ninth street between Wabash and Michigan avenues, said that structure, if it were completed in time, would meet all re­ quirements. It was intended to be 250x370 feet on the ground floor and would seat 25,000. But under oresent financial conditions it was doubtful if the building could be put up before the convention meeta. Cannon Scoffs at'fwkic. "A number of people have created In their own imagination a ghost, and then started to run away from it As soon as the public realizes this fact their fears will disappear and every­ thing will go on the same prosperous plane as before." In these words "Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of the national house of representatives, summarized the prevailing financial situation in an informal talk made before the Springfield Admen's club. He said that the recent disturbanc originated among the bulls and bears of Wall street. "Whether the bulls might be successful or the bears might win in their speculative manip­ ulations is of no real importance to the solid business interests of the country," said Speaker Cannon. "The business of this country is done large­ ly on credit," explained Mr. Cannon, elaborating his argument. "Ninety per cent, of the business of this coun­ try is transacted on credit and the re­ maining ten per cent, represents ac­ tual cash transactions. Credit condi­ tions have been affected recently by a number of different conditions. One thing here, another there, and some­ thing else In another place, brought about a disturbance for which, in my opinion, there is no foundation in fact." NEWS OF ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST PROM ALL OVER THE STAT#. ARREST JUDGE GROSSCUP Seven Bench Warrants Issued , i Traction Officials Implicated ,|H ; the Mattoon Wreck WHick * f> ^ $ Killed Eighteen. \ Pharmacists Stand Test. At a recent examination conducted by the Illinois state board of pharma­ cy in this city, an unusually large per­ centage of the applicants for regis­ tered pharmacists and assistant phar­ macists passed the tests. In the for­ mer class, 13 out of a class of 17 were successful and in the latter, eight out of ten passed. The names of the suc­ cessful applicants for registered phar­ macists are as follows: T. S. Alexan­ der, Decatur; Ella Butler, Carbon- dale; D. L. Duty, Marion; Menzie E. Gilbert, Jacksonville; G. Gruenwald, Belleville; James Kelley, McLeans- boro; C. D. McKinley, Mason City; Walter J. Pfaff, Centralla; Bertha Reisman, Chicago; John E. Rogers, Champaign; B. J. Rozanski, Chicago; S. L, Stevens, Dalton City; S. Wil- helmy, LaPlace. United Societies Send Lobby. A delegation representing the United societies of Chicago, composed of aldermen, representatives and others, have come to Springfield to urge the passage of senate bills 570 and 571, which cover the special bar permits and the Sunday closing law. Rush New McKinley Line. Officials of the McKinley system an­ nounced that the new lifte from Lin­ coln to Mackinaw will be completed by January 1, 1908. A large force of men is engaged in rushing the work. The iron is laid eight miles north of Lincoln. The length of the division is 27 miles. An overhead crossing of the Chicago & Alton and a subway under the Big Four tracks have been mapped out. - C. F. Hardshy/ superin­ tendent of transportation for the Illi­ nois Traction system, is rushing gravel to the Champaign line. Charleston.--Seven bench warrants were issued from the Coles coanty circuit court Tuesday for the arrest of officials and employes of the Mat- toon City Railway company, operating the Charleston and Mattoon interur- ban line, as a result of a wreck near this city last August in which 18 pas­ sengers were killed. Sheriff E. H. Glover of Coles county went to Chicago and formally arrested Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the TJnfted States Circuit court on a charge of manslaughter, for which he and ffve other Chicagoans--officers and direc­ tors of the Cbarleston-Mattoon Inter- urban railway company--were to- dieted. Judge Grosscup was not taken into custody, but furnished $5,000 boft&» for his appearance in Charleston on Nov. 14, when he will have to plead: to the charge. All of the Chicagoan* indicted, surrendered to sheriff Glover r on his arrival in the city, gave bends, and prepared to fight the case at once. The others indicted were: Directors Underwood, Sampscd? sad Rose, of Chicago. President E. A. Potter, Superintend­ ent Moore and Motorman Charte* Botts, of Charleston. Francis S. Peabody, director. Motorman McClara, fcho, as claimed* by the company was responsible for the accident by running an express car between stations without orders, has not yet been indicted. „ Criminal negligence tending to pro* duce manslaughter is the charge against the seven men named, and it J is not believed the indictment against McClara, if one is returned by the present jury, will be upon a more se* rious charge. The bonds of the in­ dicted men were fixed at $5,000 each and security was furnished la eMfe * MUST PAY $14,000 FOU NAZmQ. Five llllnolsana to Give Damages to Youth Tied te Tombstone. Kewanee.--For hazing Chart-- Stoner, of Bradford, a student of a school there last spring, five young men of that town must pay $14,000 damages. This verdict was brought In by a jury here. The defendants are William Real, Karl Lappin, Avie> Harwood, Earl Howe and Francis Long. They, with two others who have left the state, are said to have tied Stoner to a tombstone In a cemetery. Stoner was frightened so badly that he pulled the tombstone over on him­ self in his efforts to get free. A bone in his leg was broken and he was kept in a hospital, a nervous wreck, for several weeks. The hazers have been Indicted for con­ spiracy and will have to atand a crim­ inal trial. , Magill Relative Disc Decatur.--Clyde Long, of nephew of the late Mrs. Pet Magill, of Glinton, and son of Mrs. George H. Gengnagel, of Dayton, O., died of ery­ sipelas at St Mary's hospital. He had been critically ill all week. Mr. Long came here about October 7 to attend the Magill murder trial. His mother, Mrs. Delia Gengnagel. emme from Dayton to attend the trial. Before the end of the trial Clyde Long went to St Mary's hospital for a slight operation for the removal of aa abscess on his face. He failed to re- cover from the effects of the tion. Runaway Car Causes Death. Joliet.--Death and destruction were- caused by a heavy steel coke ear, which became detached from its train in the plant of the Illinois Steel com­ pany and dashed over runaways at tremendous speed. Workmen were badly injured la -ef­ forts to stop the car, which finally crashed through the boiler room of the main works, crushing to death one laborer and fatally wounding named Donnelly. Charged with Wife Murder. Pana.--J. M. Elgin, of Pana, who several weeks ago killed his wife and made an unsuccessful attempt at sui­ cide following the act, was arrested at Guymond. Okla., and placed in the» county jail to await his trial on a charge of murder. The parents of the slain wife, whe> reside in Pana. will appear against Elgin. Elgin's parents also reside ltt Pana. ; f§f Smallpox in Illinois. In spite of the energetic campaign which the Illinois state board of heatth has carried on almost continuous against smallpox since the close of tho Spanish-American war, the disease continues to appear with more or less frequency in various parts of the state. At the present time cases are reported in at least 14 counties of the state, bo, distributed as to starve as foci for most extensive epidemics during the winter months It not carefully watched and controlled. The form of the ease is not particularly sever*. ~ Big Fire In Rockton, lit. Ill Rockford.--The business part of Rockton, 111., was destroyed by ffr® early Friday with a loss excee4Uj$^ $50,000. 4 * . Youthful Hunter Is Killed. Harrisburg.--Royston Beal, I*>, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun. A rabbit, which he had been chasing, ran into a hollow tog. In tak­ ing up his gun to chase the rabbit oat, the weapon exploded, the shot striking him in the abdomen and killing hfm In­ stantly. » Vli Goes to Take New Pastorate ̂ J Nashville.--Rev. W. H. Carver, who has been called to the First Baptist church at Carlyle, has goat* 4S$um* his new duties. Sells Farm for $TO.OOO. Taylorville.--John B. Cole grove Ma jold a 100-acre farm in Locust town* ship to E. F. p'Farrell, of Pana, for a consideration of $10,600. The land went in on the deal for the Flint hotel at Pana. which OoleKrcv* g*ai^ chased of O'Farrell. ^ Te Begin Reconstruction. Pima.--The contract for the ereeawi' of the new tipple for the Peuw«ll mine was awarded to Roberts A Shaf­ fer, of Chicago. The work KttJt lilt completed wlthia ate vMfes * 7'"" ' ' id". JtC-l*