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tin Measures Into Laws by the Forty- gf Ninth General Assembly4*- MEMBERS WILL RECONVENE •eth Upper and Lower Housei to Meet on June 30 to Find Out WHagt Action Governor Has Taken*' •* on the BiH*. "v'lipringfSeld.--The Forty-ninth geri- fcirifllTsBenibly has concluded its work save the return trip to receive ayay vetoes or other messages from the governor's office. On June 30 the members again will meet in their places, and if they jdnd some of the measures passed have been vetcjed by the governor they wil! have the opportunity to exercise the constitutional power of passing such measures by two-thirds vote of each house, in which event they will be­ come laws despite the veto. The following la a summary of the laws passed by the Forty-ninth gen­ eral assembly: Appropriations. rBbr expenses, employees and Inci­ dentals, present session of general as­ sembly, $160,500. For general expenses of the various departments of state government for the biennium beginning July 1, 1915, $15,309,887. For the. biennium beginning July 1, 1916, $115,150 for the state board of agriculture, $2,500 for the State Bee­ keepers' association, $51000 to the Illinois State Poultry association, $3,000 to the Illinois Live Stock Breed­ ers' association, $4,000 to the -Illinois State Academy of Science, $10,000 to the Illinois State Horticultural society. Deficiency appropriations-t-various state departments, $187,823. Thirty thousand six hundred dollars for the payment of awards made by the state court of claims during the sessions of 1913 and 1914. Deficiency appropriation of $35,000 for the state public utilities commis­ sion. For state and county fairs and agri­ cultural societies, $85,000. For the installation and extension of equipment in the state light, heat and power plant at Springfield. $140,- 000. For mileage of members of the gen­ eral assembly, $26,270. For the purchase of land in Spring- Held for sites for additional state buildings, $125,000. For the salaries of members and of­ ficers of the next general assembly, • $3,171,236. Courts. JfcESORTS--Makes ft a npisanee to maintain a disorderly house and pro­ vides for abatement by injunction of such houses. FALSE STATEMENT--Makes ft person making a false statement re­ garding his financial condition, in or­ der to .procure credit, subject to im­ prisonment for one year, a fine of $2,000, or both. FAKE BEGGARS--Makes it a mis­ demeanor for anyone to represent hiihself as blind, deaf, dumb, or other­ wise afflicted for the purpose of pro­ curing alms. JUDGES AND SECRETARJES--In­ creases the salaries of private secre­ taries to judges of the supreme court from $2,000 to $3,000 a year. CHILD MENDICANTS--Prohibits children under ten years from begging or peddling. FAKE "ADS"--Provides a fine for fraudulent advertising. MORTGAGE RECORD-Gives five days in which to record mortgages and makes sale of mortgaged property within that time fraudulent and void. CHILD DELINQUENCY--Provides & new child delinquency act, providing a fine of $200 imprisonment or one year, or both, for taking a male child under seventeen and a female child under eighteen into disorderly houses, gambling rooms, pool rooms, or saloons. FAMILY DESERTION--Makes child and family desertion a continuous of­ fense. *.... Waterways. * CHANNEL--Provides for1' Hie con­ struction of an eight-foot channel waterway from the power plant of the sanitary district near Lockport to a point in the Illinois river near Utica, under the direction of a board of five commissioners to A named by the governor. LEVEES--Appropriates to the use of the rivers and lakes commission $25,000 for levee work at Cairo, $10,- 000 for' levee work at Mound City, and $10,000 for levee work at Shaw- neetown. Revenue. ^UfcRTIPICATES -- Exempt® from i HIDE MOVEMENT OF TROOPS Elaborate Precautions Taken by Eng- Authorities to Prevent, I nfor- *:£ £ niation Reaching Enemy. ftovements of troops are taking place all over England, some leaving for the front and others moving from the towns where they have been bil­ leted to encampments in the open country. But when a battalion is or­ dered to move, not even Its ofBcers know Its destination. On any of the Guarding Italian Secrets.* ' Of late years no country--not even Germany--has guarded the secret of its defenses with such care' as Italy. Many &n innocent tourist loses bis v camera through ignorance of the reg- illations enforced' near the frontier. If c"; you are taveling by train straight p- it s*-,; through from Modane to Turin you may safely take a camera with you. But should you get out at Bardon- tmtkp the net va«e of benefit CONSTRUCTION--Permits the tarn- •traction of drains, dftches .and levees across the land of another tor agricultural, sanitary, or miniog pur­ poses. INTEREST PAYMENT--Appropri­ ates $260,000 for the payment of in­ terest on bonds to be issued by the states for the building .of the deep waterway. /. ^ tificates of fraternal beneficiary so­ cieties. ASSESSMENTS--Permits five in­ stallments for the payment of all spe­ cial assessments. UNPAID TAXES--Pithibits the sob- dividing of property on which taxes are unpaid. PRO PERT Y REDEMPTION -- Al­ lows seven years for the redemption of property sold for taxes. REVIEW POWERS--Enables boards of review to go back any number of years and place on the tax duplicate property which may have been omit­ ted. BARRED TAXATION---Excludes from taxation the property of bene- ficient and charitable organizations. INHERITANCE TAX -- Provides that the percentage of Inheritance tax collections now retained by coun­ ty treasurers hereafter be ;taid into the county treasury. Yv-, . 1 Highwa|» STATE AID--Appropriates $1,000,- 000 a year for the next two years from the road fund for the building and maintenance of state aid roads. BALANCE--Appropriate the unex­ pended balance of the appropriation made by the last general assembly for the building and maintenance of good roads. WORK--Appropriates $500,000 for the use of the state highway commis­ sion In building state aid roads. CONTRIBUTIONS -- Allows coun­ ties to accept voluntary contributions for the building of state aid roads. OIL TREATMENT--Provides for the oil treatment of state aid roads. TYPE--Gives county boards , the right by majority vote to specify the type of state aid roads to be construct­ ed in the country. ISSUE--Enabling counties to vote bonds for the construction of roads. MOTOR--Amends the motor vehicle act; provides for license fees for elec­ tric vehicles on a sliding scale, accord­ ing to horse power, reduces the else of the number plate, and makes other minor changes. POLL TAX--Authorizes the use of one-half of the poll tax collected in towns and villages for road purposes. IMPROVEMENTS -- Provides for the laying out, widening and vacating of roads upon petition of not leBs than twelve interested land owners. LIVE STOCK--Charges the high­ way commissioner with the duty of enforcing the law prohibiting turning loose of live stock on highways. BRIDGES--Requires county boards to build bridges in municipalities of less than 15,000 population. Corporations STOCK--Gives the state public util­ ity commission authority to fix the amount of capital stock any corpora­ tion under its jurisdiction may issue. FEE--Authoriz.es the state to collect a fee of $1 a thousand on bond issues of public utilities. REALTY--Permits . the incorpora­ tion of real estate agencies, bat not to own or control real estate. INSURANCE--Permits the organi­ zation by twenty or more persons of mutual insurance corporations other than life. CASUALTY BUSINESS--Permits the organization of fire insurance stock companies with power to carry on cas­ ualty business. ASSOCIATIONS--Provides for the incorporation of co-operative associa­ tions upon petition of ten or more per­ sons. CAPITAL INCREASE -- Provides that as cities increase in size the capi­ tal stock of-^uildlng and loan associa­ tions shall be increased proportion­ ately. INSURANCE CHANGE -- Enables the organization of life insurance com­ panies to do business on a mutual or co-operative plan; permits existing corporations writing assessment plan life insurance .to qualify under act. Parks BONDS--Enables park commission­ ers to issue bonds for the completion, improvement and maintenance of parks, boulevards and pleasure ways. DISTRICT -- Legalizes Wilmette park district, embracing 40 acres at junction of Sheridan road and north shore channel. TOWNSHIPS -- Authorizes town­ ships to acquire and maintain lands for park purposes; gives township thorities right of eminent domain acquire not to exceed ten-acre tracts for parks. PARK TAX--Provides for a three mill tax for small parks in towns or townships. Memorials STATUES--Creates tae Vicksnurg military statue commission and appro­ bates $50 000 for the erection of %tatueS to Gen. U. S. Grant and other Illinois generals from Illinois who par­ ticipated in the siege of Vicksburg to main highways of England troops may be seen on tlie march, generally in bri­ gades. To conceal the movement of troops, constant practice marches in full equipment are held, and the men do not know whether they are return­ ing to camp until they are actually back there. Often they march to some point, entrain, and in the course of a few hours find themselves on board a transport. If their quarters are crowd­ ed, they may be sure it is only to cross the channel. But if bunks are pro­ vided and ample deck room, it means your camera is confiscated. Anyone "bicycling, tramping or motorfng across the frontier with a camera is forced to hand it over, no matter what his destination may be. Of course, the camera can be recovered if you return the same way, but It is lost if you leave the country by another route. be placed in the National cemetery at Vicksburg. OGLESBY MONUMENT--Makes an appropriation for the erection of a monument jn Lincoln park to the memory of former Gov. Richard J. Oglesby. * NEGRO--Appropriates $25,000 to the Illinois commission for the observ­ ance QtJJXkJiaLf century ^ ***• • "• • : ? 4 vf ' M' . ' i E lect ions ; 1 BALLOTS--Plames names of judi­ cial candidates upon separate ballots. VALIDATION--Makes valid any elections held by counties or munici palities for the issuing of bonds for state aid roads and validates such bonds. MAJORITIES--Limits sanitary dis­ tricts in borrowing money and issuing bonds to five per cent of the valua­ tion of taxable property of the^district and requires a majority vote in an election for bond issues. Education TAX--Authorizes boards of educa­ tion and village authorities to levy an annual tax not to exceed one-half of 1 per cent for educational purposes and !*.% per ceut for building pur­ poses. Raises the taxing rate in Chi­ cago from six-tenths of a mill to tnill in other cities of the state from 1.2 par cent to 2 per cent for library purposes PENSIONS---Creates a state teach­ ers' pension and retirement fund and provides for participation lit the same •after twenty-five years of teaching service. GUARANTY--Requires that all book publishers deposit a bond with the state department of education as guaranty that they will sell text books in this state as cheaply as they are sold in any other state before they may sell any books in the state, UNIVERSITY--Appropriates $5,000,- 000 for the use of the University of Illi­ nois for the next two years, and money granted to the State for educational purposes by congress DELINQUENCY SCHOOLS--Per­ mits boards of school inspectors to es­ tablish and maintain schools for delin­ quent children. Prisons UPKEEP--Appropriates $487,770 per annum for the use of the two state penitentiaries and the state reforma tory for the biennium beginning July 1, 1915. ALLOWANCES--Permits jail pris­ oners, except those serving sentences for felonies, to procure food, clothing, and other articles at their personal expense and permits time allowances for good behavior. PAROLE--Provides for the parole of life and other long term convicts, ROAD WORK--Permits all convicts to work on public highways. JAIL LOCATION--Makes It unlaw- . ful to erect a jail within 500 feet of a school or church. PONTIAC COMMITMENT--Changes the age of commitment to the Pontlac reformatory from twenty-one to twen­ ty-five years and permits the transfer to the penitentiary of refractory re­ formatory prisoners. Charity FEEBLE-MINDED--Provides better care and detention for feeble-minded persons. CARE OF BLIND--Makes duties of county boards regarding the blind mandatory instead of optional. 1 Municipal FUND--Authorizes municipalities under 50,000 population to set aside for the municipal firemen's pension fund the entire proceeds of the 2 per cent tax on the business of foreign fire in surance companies. • GOVERNMENT CHANGES--En­ ables municipalities to abandon the commission form of government. UTILITIES--Authorizes the con­ struction of municipally operated util­ ities. TOWN CLERKS--Allows boards of town clerks to allow larger compen­ sations for assessing property. PERPETUAL LIENS--Makes judg­ ments for local improvements per­ petual liens on property. ART COMMISSIONS--Makes it op­ tional with city councils whether the approval of city art commissioners shall be had on civic improvement projects. CHOLERA SERUM--Requires that the state veterinarian furnish hog cholera serum at cost. OFFICE DATE--Provides that coun­ ty superintendents of schools shall take office on the first Monday in August following their election. POSTERS--Legalizes the use of posters in park district elections. UNITING TOWNS--Enables two or more incorporated towns to unite upon a majority vote. •„ National Guard EXPENSES--Appropriating $389,917 for the ordinary and contingent ex­ penses of the Illinois National Guard and the Illinois naval reserves, to­ gether with an emergency fund of $50,000 for use of the governor in case of emergency for the biennium begin­ ning July 1, 1915. ARMORY--Permits commissioners of Lincoln park to convey certain lands Egypt, the Dardanelles or some other far point. Every farewell a soldier takes of family and friends he ex­ pects in any case to be his last until his return from war. So secret and sov complicated are the movements of the new forces in England that no authen­ tic information could possibly be col­ lected for the enlightenment of the enemy.. to the cityforau armory. (First Cav­ alry armory in Streeterville.) ARMORIES--Appropriating $34,60Q for the completion of armories now un­ der construction at Aurora and Otta­ wa and the Eighth infantry armory in - Chicago. Appropriates $50,000 for a' site and to build an armory at Mon­ mouth. Same amount for an armory: at Peoria. SALE--Ratifies the sale by the state of the old Second infantry armory building and ground in Chicago. Ap-> propriates $125,000 for completion Of new armory. FIELD ARTILLERY--Increases the number of batteries of field artillery in the National Guard from three to six. • Labor _ COMPENSATION -- Extends the workmen's compensation act to include additional employments; raises the minimum of compensation for death and of weekly indemnity ; broadens the powers of arbitrators, and authorizes circuit court, to review arbitrators* findings. ASSIGNEE--Provides that employer may become a part defendant to ac­ tion by assignee of wages. UNEMPLOYMENT -- Appropriates $1,000 for the expenses of the commis­ sion cn unemployment. I STATE AGENCY --'Establishes a state free employment exchange. MINE INSPECTORS--Requires that state mine inspectors have had at least ten years of practical experi­ ence. DAY OF REST--Providing for a one day's rest in seven for persons work­ ing an average of eight hours a day, seven days a week. FIRST AID--Makes it the duty of railroads to provide first medical aid and to carry first aid kits on all en* ginea and trains. Health PHYSICIANS--Authorizes the state board of health to revoke licenses of physicians engaging in improper prac­ tices. EYES--Requires a report to the state'board of health within two weeks after the birth of an infant having sore eyes and providing for free dis­ tribution of silver nitrate; designed to prevent blindness of infants. SAFETY--Provides more stringent regulations for health, comfort and safety of employes in factories, mills and workshops. REGISTRATION--Requires registra­ tion of birth and death certificates. CATTLE BARRIER--Prohibits ship­ ment into state, except to stock yards, of cattle without tuberculin test. JAIL CURE--Makes immoral wom­ en subject to one year's imprisonment for the purposes of curing contagious diseases. ANIMAL DISEASES--Provides for the prevention and spread of conta­ gious diseases among domestic ani­ mals. FOOD--Makes possession or control of food manufactured in violation of the state pure food act a misdemeanor and provides for standards for certain brands of foods. HOSPITAL INSPECTION--Provides for state inspection and regulation of maternity hospitals. Miscellaneous FLAG--Provides for the return to the women of New Orleans of a flag presented to General Jackson and cap­ tured in 1863 by Illinois troops. CIVIL SERVICE--Gives veterans of the Spanish-American and other wars the same civil service privileges that are accorded veterans of the Civil war. LIMITATION--Provides that where the personal property of an estate does not exceed $4,000 the clerk's fee shall not exceed $10; where the estate does not exceed $1,000 the court may re­ mit fees. TIPS--Prohibits the renting of "tip­ ping" privileges. REPORTS--Requires uniform sized reports of state officers. MOTHERS' PENSIONS -- Amends the mothers' pension act to Include mothers whose husbands have desert­ ed them for more than two years and to Include mothers whose children oth­ erwise would be committed to depend­ ent institutions. EMBALMERS' LICENSE8 -- Re- quires that applicants for embalmers' licenses shall have had two years of practical experience under a licensed embalmer. ROGUES' GALLERIES -- Prohibits the taking of pictures for rogues' gal­ leries before conviction. LOAN INCORPORATION--Author­ izes the incorporation of co-operative loan associations. DENTAL STANDING--Amende the dental act so as to give holders of Illi­ nois certificates standing in other states MORTGAGE LIMITATION--Makes mortgages or trust deeds lapse twent- ty years after maturity unless extend­ ed by a written agreement. FARM NAMES--Permits the reser­ vation of farm names and provides for the recording of the same with the county recorder. PERSONAL MORTGAGES -- Pro­ vides that mortgages on personal proD- erty may be acknowledged by either mortgagor or a person authorised to act as his attorney In fact. LEGISLATURE OF FORTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEM­ BLY COMPLETE8 IT8 WORK,' MAY RECONVENE JUNE 30 Women on the Job. ., It is becoming more and more evl- neefcia, the first station on the Italian d«nt in England that occupations slde, or at any other station between erto supposed to belong exclusively to th^t and Susa 19 miles farther on-- | the sex masculine are now being Ailed 4 --we seem to be rapidly nearing the Cost of University Education It has been figured out that when the graduates of 1915 at Yale get their hy women, and that as tor as the daily work is concerned in mSJiy vo­ cations, the men who have gone to the front will not be missed. Many of the big hotels of London have smart­ ly uniformed women as door attend­ ants and mob-capped waitresses in­ stead of waiters. London Opinion says: "Now that the fair sex has taken <T,to its competent hands so many masculine vocations--we have gtrl« rh bank clerks, bookstall clerks, motorvan drivers, and even milkmen diplomas the men will have spent $1,» 070,111 during the four years of their university life. The most affluent mem­ ber of the class spent $4,500, and the most frugal only $200 in actual cash during the freshman year. Foolish Creatures, " Those two women fell n o t h i n g . " ' " ; v "Are you sure?" j,h j >""y "Yes. They quarrel*! ore# their social standing and neither one hgs any." conditions that ruled in that delect­ able Btate, hitherto only existing in Gilbertian fancy, In which even the cock-crowing at dswn was performed ty'an ivccomplished hen!" £ '• ~ • ' V . Excess of Caution* * v "Do you always say what.y«U think in your speeches?" 'No," answered Senator Guff. "I find it safer to say what I think ray constituents want me to say, and In such a way that it is subject ip »t least two interpretations." Members of the Both Houses Will Gather to Consider Action of J; the Governor on Bills ami , to Adjourn Sine Die. vvY. Springfield.--The Forty-ninth gen­ eral assembly of Illinois completed its work and adjourned. Members of both houses will reconvene on June 30 to consider the action of the gov­ ernor on bills and to adjourn sine die. For a time it appeared as if the deadlock between the house and sen­ ate over appropriation bills and other matters would keep the legislature in session, but the members, tired out by their long hours of work during the closing days, finally compromised all differences. As a result of the work of the ses­ sion 316 bills have been or will be submitted to Governor Dunne. A total of 1,548 bills were introduced, 994 in the house and 554 in the senate. Agreement was reached on the nor­ mal school appropriation bill, which was the cause of the failure to ad­ journ. The senate had been holding out for the addition of an amendment appropriating $600,000 for new build­ ings at practically all of the five nor­ mal schools in the state. However, the compromise agreed upon provided for an addition of only $350,000. Un­ der the agreement the Macomb nor­ mal school will receive $95,000, the Carbondale school $185,000, the school at Normal $95,000, the DeKalb school $10,000 and the Charleston school $15,- 000. Among the bills that died in the closing hours was the one requir­ ing 24 consecutive hours of reBt in every seven days for employees. An amendment placed in the measure in the senate caused its defeat. When the bill was passed It was re­ ferred back to the house, but that body refused to concur in the senate amendment. After a determined fight In the sen­ ate against the passage of the bill increasing the salaries of circuit court judges downstate, the measure was passed, but it went down to de­ feat through the failure of the senate to recede on amendments, that body had placed In the bill. The county uniformity text book bill was a third important measure to come to an untimely end after pass­ ing both houses. The Benate refused to recede from its amendments to' the bill, making it Impossible for the two branches to concur, in its provisions. The free hog serum bill also failed of passage. The determined battle made by the "normal school" senators forced the deadlock which caused the hangover sessioh of the general assembly. There was not the slightest suspicion in senate or house at midnight that final adjournment would .not be reached before dawn. The house passed the 8wanson sen­ ate bill concerning the Calumet lake harbor. Representative J. W. Ryan (paused the house to strike out the Hull amendment, which would have kept a 300-foot strip around the har­ bor from lease for commercial pur­ poses longer than for twenty-year periods. The senate receded from the Hull amendment and tho bill now goes to the governor. In some quarters this bill was considered a revival of the old Kleeman bill. > The house killed the jury, commis­ sioners' bill, which would have permit­ ted citizens drawn for jury duty to designate four terms of court at which they preferred to se/irve. The bill received only 68 votes in the house. The newspaper transportation bill, amending the public utilities ^act to permit newspapers and railroads to exchange advertising and transporta­ tion, was sent to the governor. The senate refused to stand for the house amendment for passes for all state officials and the house finally receded. The conference committees on the armories bill and the pure food bill reached agreements and both reports were adopted by senate and house. The armories bill provides for the completion of armories already under construction in Aurora, Woodstock and Ottawa and the Second regiment armory in Chicago. The Curran bill concerning struc­ tural engineers, which was forced into conference, was agreed to in confer­ ence committee. The senate receded from amendment No. 4 and the house from the first three, ftll of technical detail. BO-Car Measure Loses In House. Springfield--The death-knell of the '50-car-limit bill was sounded when the house for the second time refused to suspend the rules for consideration of the measure. Speaker Shanahan had been induced by the backers of the bill to give it one more chance, and it was decided upon to give the measure its final try- out. c The state and congressional primary is to be held In June instead of Sep­ tember, under the provisions of the Curtis bill.y which passed the senate, 33 to 1. The bill changes the pri­ mary election law in several other particulars. Under it the preferential primary on presidential candidates Is to be. held the first Tuesday In April preceding the general election. Instead of the second Tuesday In ApriL The last Tuesday In June is made the date for the primaries for the state and congressional candidates, which are now held on the first Wednesday after the first Tuesday in September. There 13 considerable divergence of opinion regarding the best date for the 8tate primary, and the probabil­ ities are that numerous amendments changing the date will be offered when bill reaches the hbuse. By a vote of 31 to 5 the senate passed Senator Keller's bill appropriat­ ing $25,000 to meet, the expenses of a committee to be appointed to inves­ tigate the state's election iaws and to report to the next general assem- . bly. The Fran* bill, reducing the number of voters necessary on petitions for referendum on the question of aban­ doning the commission form of city government law was passed by the house, 88 to 14. Under the present law a petition requires 55 per cent Of the voters' signatures. The Frans bill reduces this per cent to 25. Within the last few years numerous cities have adopted the commission form of government, Springfield being among the number. Falling short 30 votes of the neces­ sary majority, the house defeated the bill Introduced by Representative Ed­ ward -L. Merritt of this city, and which would have practically repealed the civil service law. Under the bill all state employees, with the exception of nurses and trained medical help at charitable Institutions, would have been removed from civil service. Thir­ ty-eight members voted against the bill. State mine inspectors mnst have at least ten years' practical experience In mining, two years of which shall have been in Illinois, under the bill introduced by Representative John D. Turnbaugh of Mount Carroll and which passed the house, 88 to 1. A fight was made against Repre­ sentative D. D. Donahue's bill ex­ empting county elevators and rural telephone lines from the jurisdiction of the state utilities commission on the ground that the bill provided home rule for down-state districts and the house has refused to grant home rule to Chicago. By a vote of 3S to 5 the senate passed the Manny bill, allowing town­ ships, upon referendum vote, to make the township the school unit. The publication of pictures of per­ sons accused of crime, before convic­ tion, is prohibited under the pro­ visions of a bill introduced by Repre­ sentative Turner of Chicago, one of the negro members, and which passed the house by a vote of 119 to 2. The bill also prohibits the taking of pictures for rogues' galleries of persons prior to their conviction. The senate, 34 to 3, defeated the bill Introduced by Senator Cornwell of Chicago, providing for state licensing of insurance brokers. By a vote of 34 to 1 the senate passed Senator Roos' bill, making a court order necessary before a lunatic shall be discharged from an asylum. The Lyle child delinquency bill, which failed to receive a majority vote, was reconsidered in the house and passed by a vote of 104 to 1. The bill provides a penalty of fine or im­ prisonment or both, for any person taking children into resorts, gambling houses, pool rooms or saloons. The nomination of Dr. St Clair Drake as secretary of the stRte board of health, to succeed himself, was sert to the senate by Governor Dunne for confirmation. timmmmmmmrnmrnmi NEWS OF ILLINOIS !•*£ HEWS OF THE STATE Ne'f Corporations. The following corporations were licensed by Secretary of State Steven­ son: Walter G. Williams & Co., Chicago; $2,500; manufacture food products. Hans A. Abt, Walter G. Williams and Ulpiano Casal Valdes. Ponn-Scott Illinois Coal company, Hilisboro; $10,000; general coal min­ ing business. J. R. McDavid, Amos Miller and F. L. McDavid. Ackerman-Johnson company, Chica­ go; $25,000; manufacture and deal In merchandise. Security Elevator company, East St. Louis; $5,000; warehouse and ele­ vator business. Frederick N. Young, George C. Martin, Jr., and Albert J. Rogers. The Perfection Shade Adjuster com­ pany, Cbickgo; $15,009. Alton Steel Hoop company, Alton ; $5,000; manufacture and deal In hoop steel. W. C. Fownes, W. C, Fownes. Jr., and J. D. Orr. Richey-Oerwig Manufacturing com­ pany, Chicago; $25,000; manufacture machinery and appliances.- Arnold D. McMahon. Joseph A, Graber and Stan­ ley M. Veseljr. Carterville.--Rev. Ad win Sabln, for four years pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Ava and Campbell Hill, 111., has been called to the pastorate of the Carterville Presbyterian church, and has accepted. Mr. Sabin is the only son of Dr. F. A. Sabin of Anna, who ha8 served 50,years as a Presby­ terian elder. Springfield.--John W. Workman, farmer and stock raiser, is at liberty on a bond of $1,000 as the result of threatening to kill, it is alleged, a deputy federal revenue collector, who attempted to tell Workman he had to pay his Income tax. Workman was indicted by the federal grand Jury on a charge of resisting the officer, Inspector O. A. Saal of Chicago. Harrlsburg.--Mrs. Mary Beltz of Grayson was killed by an interurban car on North Jackson street. She and her husband had cat down near the track to wait for a car and It Is presumed fell asleep. The woman be­ ing nearest the track the front steps struck h«r;v breaking tttr neck and arm. Galesburg.--Construction of Gales- burg'B new armory will begin not later than July 15, according to members of the building committee who visited this city. Johnston City.--One company of Illinois National Guard was patrolling the streets here to quell a race dis­ turbance between American and for­ eign miners growing out of the lynch­ ing of one of'the foreigners. Several hundred members of the mob which hanged Joseph Strando carried arias and ammunition in expectation of a threatened mass attack from the for­ eign quartef. At Marion, near here, extra precautions were taken to muke raobproof the jail, which housed three miners arrested for alleged complic­ ity k* murder of W. E. Chapman. ' •' • Champaign.--Degrees were COB* ferred upon 964 graduates at the for­ ty-fourth annual commencement of of the University of Illinois. Romuio , ^ Naon, ambassador from the Argentine 7$$ Republic to the United States, was tha ' ^ qrator. ViYl "It does not appear that human his- "7' ̂ tory can show a time more difficult than that through which we are pas»- '. it ing, nor does it seem that we can draw from its pages a more fruitful ^ lesson than that presented to us by , Y|| the sad events of the European war," j-nS said Mr. Naon. "I believe that I merely affirm a fact when I say that v* its consequences, for many years to ; ; ^ come, will affect, without exception. all the nations of the world. "In the face of this enormous catas- trophe the bearing of America cannot ^ but be expectant and reconstructive * if, as I believe, there Is still reason to _ : M trust that the idea of human soiidar- ity is the final end of social evolution. ^|1 May God will that, inspired by that - ^| Idea and prompted by our community \/j;Jj of interests, all the nations of Ameri- :|S ca before long will co-operate In the ...V errand, a thousand times blessed, of restoring lasting peace and friendship *£>1 among the peoples of Europe, togeth- ^ er with the sentiment of that soiidar-,: ity as the basis for their future action. Y|| "At the present hour It is for us-- Yl the countries far removed from the I scene and aloof from the interests ln'" tl the midst of which the European dls- '-m sensions have been growing until this V terrible climax--to take up the ardu- Y|fi ous but glorious task of reincarnating |p modern civilization. But to do this it • becomes essential to readjust the sys- jiff tem of our political ties; to correct, J until they are made to vanish, the causes of possible disagreements; anu, \ finally, to cement American soiidar- ity, founding it upon the only lmmov-. able base in the relations of countries * --that is to say, upon the mainten­ ance of the principles of right, of jus-; tlce and of reciprocal tolerance." Springfield.--Rock Island was choe- en as the next meeting place of Illi­ nois Eagles by two votes in the final day's BesBlon of the ninth annual con- ' vention of the Illinois Aerie F. O. E., after one of the hottest fights ever ; witnessed in the order had been waged by Joliet. The final vote stood: Jollet, 65; Rock Island, 67. Frank U. Correa of Jacksonville was unani­ mously elected worthy state presi­ dent while L. D. Wells of Peoria, the, retiring president, received one hon­ orary vote. Emil Johnson of Moline was elected state vice-president and Frank Sullivan of Chicago was elected Worthy si&ts chs.p!sin_ In a rowarlr. able rally John Fuelbier of Quincy was re-elected worthy secretary, de- featlng M. J. McCabe of Springfield by a wide margin. Other officers elected were: William Corbett of Wil­ mington, worthy state conductor; ' Tom Robertson, Chicago Heights, re­ elected state treasurer; Oscar Wosley, Benld, state Inside guard; A. R. El- rick, state outside guard; A. H. Alli­ son, Granite City, state trustee, and John -O'Keefe of Island Park, delegate to the annual grand aerie meeting. Monmouth.--The heaviest hailstorm ever known In Warren county visited the region about Gorlaw, six miles north of here. A strip half a mile wide and four mileB loi j was devastat­ ed. Growing corn and grain were de­ stroyed, fruit was knocked from the ' trees and windows in houses were broken. Two hours after the storm hail was several inches deep on the ground. Vandalia.--The severest wind and rain storm of the season struck here, >|| uprooting fruit and shade trees, and >J| wrecking buildings. Many streets and ^ sidewalkB were blockaded by the de- bris. The electric lights and tele- phone systems were put out of com- , mission. At Ramsey the Carey hotel § was demolished and other property •. <i~m damaged. Many fields of wheat ready ;J|p for the harvest were blown flat. Y|| Springfield.--The state live sto&k "$| commission Issued order removing ,,i|| Sangamon, Fulton and Will counties from the restricted area in the foot- and-mouth disease quarantine and jpa placing them in the free area. Bu- reau and Joe Daviess are removed ,-Jji from the modified area to the re- stricted orea. DuPage is placed In the free area. Murphysboro.--The body of Robert | Wood, stableman on the Foster form ?||J near here, was recovered from Big Muddy river. He was a member of ^f| the switchmen's union and of the East ff| St. Louis Eagles. Murder is suspected. •13 The body had been in the river two or three weeks. Y^ll Bloomlngton.--The annual convea- tion of the young people of the IUl- nois United Brethren church ad- . =4.^ journed to meet next year in Free- ^ port. Rev. R. C. Maim of Dalton City ||jj was chosen president. Miss Nellie Velander, G*esburg. vice-president. ? and Miss Mary Middongh of Fr«mMnrt. secretary. Mount Vernon.--More than 100 chil­ dren, Inmates of the German Evangel­ ical Orphanage at Hoyleton. near here, were rescued when fire destroyed the building. The loss was $30,000. about one-third of which is covered by insurance. The fire was due to a defective Hue. ' Harrisburg.--Mrs. Mary Belts, wtfe of Fred Beltz of Grayson, was killed by an interurban car. She and her husband had sat down near the track to wait for a car and it is presumed they fell asleep, the woman being nearest the track. The front steps hit her. Rock Island.--The Illinois Depart­ ment Woman's Auxiliary, United Span­ ish War Veterans, at the closiug ses­ sions of Its eleventh annual encamp­ ment. elected these officers: Presi- i£nt, Mrs. Oliva Reid, Moline; senior vice-president, Mrs. Wilhelmina K. Borgmeir. Chicago; Junior vice-presi­ dent, Mr§. Clara Snow, Elgm: secre­ tary, Mrs. Eugenia Franks, Rock la- land: treasurer, Mrs. Emma Mcllenry Sheesley. Hock Island; instituting and .nstallhig osficer, Mrs. Margaret Hen­ ry. Peoria. Mr*. Maui Comer of Pe­ oria was eteetNl ; * member -oil tfc* covikfcil. A" k.l •£? •ftps itiiy