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TTVf. Wnvmm W§&% C* "j^SI THE MeHENBT PLAUCDKALER, McHEJTRT, ILL W ^5$ % $ How Belle Boyd won a vic­ tory for Stonewall Jackson- Exploits of Ttm Webster and Elizabeth Van Lew for Union cause-Many interesting personalities of those other war times brought to mind by Me­ morial Day. *4 ̂ (i BANK BILL IS QUICKLY FUSSED Legislature Also Adopts the Buck Civil Service Measure With "*• •' Little Opposition. ;<£ tffos Pauline Cushmsrt TONEWALL JACKSON'S Valley campaign was one of the great deeds of history- Not since ' Na­ poleon's time have men been so dazzled as they were by that great exploit of his. Yet Stonewall might have gone"down the Valley in defeat had it not been for a little college girl named Belle Boyd. On May 23, 1862, after Jackson had routed Banks and driven him in confusion up the line of the Shenandoah, he wrote this letter: "Miss Belle Boyd: I thank you for myself and for the army for the Immense service that you have rendered your country today." The Union General Shields was quartered at Miss Boyd's house. He held a council of war there. Miss Boyd bored a hole in the floor of her chamber, which was over Shield's room, and lay there with her ear to It throughout the night. The next morning Stonewall Jackson was in full pos- sion of the plans for a great battle, and was able to defeat the Union army. She kept up her valiant work for the Confed­ eracy until the Union officers began, to suspect her, and Jackson ordered her to move from her Shenandoah home to Winchester. She had been arrested by the Federals and had flirted her way to liberty--for she was a pretty girl, despite the libelous photographs of her. In Winchester, Jack­ son conferred upon her a commission as cootaln in the Confederate army. By this time the vrtiole North had become aware of the services she was rendering the Confederacy, and every officer and private was on the alert to get her. Yet she es­ caped until 1864, when she was caught on a block­ ade runner. Her captor lost his heart to her, deserted the navy, and married her, and the prince of Wales, afterward Edward VII, attended the wedding. Belle Boyd is the most famous of the spies, but there are many others who deserve at least as much fame as she won. One of them was Ellba- beth B. Van Lew, who had the incredible courage to act as a Union spy in Richmond throughout the war. There was not a moment during those four years when Lizzie Van Lew could hear a step behind her on the street without expecting to have somebody tap her on the shoulder and say, "You are my prisoner." She did not confine her activi­ ties to spying and reporting what she had dls-j covered to the Union generals; she hid escaped prisoners in her house, she dealt out messages to soldiers in Llbby from their homes; her resources were endless. One of her favorite devices was A metal platter with a double bottom, In which she used to pretend to convey food to the prisoners. Once a Confederate soldier, whose suspicion had been aroused. Insisted on examining it; but that day Llasie, who had been expecting some move of this kind, had filled the false bottom not with secret messages but with scalding water, and the soldier dropped it with a shriek. Lizzie Van Lew had a secret recess in her house, a hiding place for dispatches. Sometimes she would move a hand idly toward this recess, and an hour or fwo later some old negress, ap­ parently dusting the room, would slip her hand back of the mantel and find a dispatch which would go to Grant that day. It was Lizzie Van Lew who wtole the body of Col. Ulrlc Dahlgren and smuggled it out of Richmond, one of the most 1aring exploits of the war. Rosa B. Greenhow was a Confederate spy in Washington who dazzled the Union in the early days of the war. It was one of her assistants, a; Miss Duval of Washington, who brought Beaure­ gard the first news of McDowell's advance and en­ abled him and Johnson to foil the Federal plans for the campaign of Bull Run. Mrs. Greenhow sent Miss Duval to Beauregard on July 10, giv­ ing him the first news of the contemplated ad­ vance, and on July 16 "she sent him word of the forces and the contemplated movement of the Union army. He promptly wired the information to Davis, arid the word was sent to Johnson, which resulted In his advance and the terrible downfall of the ^Northern cause. * , The Northern secret service was technically under the direction of Gen. Lafayette C. Baker, a man without scruple. After the war Baker in­ sisted on taking to himself most of the credit for what had been done in detective work, but as a matter of fact the best work done in the war was done by volunteers, men and women, who were willing to risk a shameful death to serve their country. Many of them were private soldiers; some were enlisted among Allan Plnkerton's de­ tectives: Of these the most famous was Timothy Webster, one of the greatest detectives who ever , lived. Webster succeeded In getting the South to believe in htm to such an extent that he came near being mole the colonel of an Alabama regiment, and in Baltimore he was a member of the Knights' of Liberty. He even became a trusted emissary of the Confederate war department at Richmond, and at Pittsburgh a Union mob tried to lynch hlnj. as a Confederate spy. Nothing saved him but the arrival of Allan Pinkerton, with a drawn revolver, and Webster and Pinkerton backed against the wall and stood off the mob until help arrived. Webster was finally captured in Richmond, and was betrayed by one of his associates, who con­ fessed to a man he supposed to be a Catholic priest. The man was not a priest, but a disguised Confederate soldier; The secrets "of the confes­ sional, of course, did not apply in such a case, and the brave spy was hanged. Hattie Lewis, Web­ ster's sweetheart, got an audience with Mrs. Jef­ ferson Davis and begged her, with tears In he* eyes, to save the man she loved. Instead, Hattie Lewis herself was convicted of being a Union spy and served a year's imprisonment. There was one girl who won the rank of major In tjje Union army: She was Pauline Cushman, an actress, who became one of the best and most famous spies in the Union army. Often and often Major Pauline acted as a sort of advance guard to the Federal army. Twice the Confederates captured her, but on both occasions she escaped. The first time she came near being released after a first search, but a second revealed the fact that in a hidden recess In her garters there were orders from Thomas. She was about to be hanged when Thomas captured Nashville and saved her. Secretary Stanton commissioned her as major In the Union army, and she was the only woman who held that rank except Maj. Belle Reynolds, the wife of a captain in the Seventieth Illinois, who went to the war with her husband and performed such prodigies of valor that Stanton honored her with a commission. Sam Davis, the boy spy of the Confederacy, left an imperishable record of heroism. He was only fourteen when he joined the Confederate service, at first as a private soldier. His talents as a spy were great, and throughout Bragg's long war­ fare In Tennessee he continually made use of the brave little fellow; Davis was finally betrayed and captured In Nashville. He was taken before Gen. GrenviUe M. Dodge, whose story of the hear­ ing makes a companion piece to the last days of Nathan Hale. Here is the story as General Dodge tolls it: "I took him to my private office and told him It was a very serious charge brought against him; that he was a spy, and from what I found upon his person, he had accurate information In regard to my army, and I must know where he obtained It I told htm he was a young man and did not seem to realize the danger he was in. Up to that time he had said nothing, but then he replied in a most respectful and dignified manner : " 'General Dodge, I know the danger of my situation, and I am willing to take the conse­ quences.' * " *1 know that Til have to die, but I will not tell where I got the Information. And there Is no power on earth that can make me tell. You are doing your duty as a soldier, and I am doing mine. If I have to die, I do so feeling that I am doing my duty to God and my country.' "I pleaded with him and urged him with all the power that I possessed to give me some chance to save his life, for I had discovered that he was a most admirable young fellow, with the highest character and strictest Integrity. He then said: 'It is useless to talk to me. I do not intend to do It. You can court-martial me, but I will not betray the trust reposed in me.' He thanked me for the interest I had taken ki him, and I sent him back to prison. I Immediately called a court-martial to try him." Even then the boy received offers of liberty if he would betray his confederate. He would not. fifes Q&//& Boy d The only thing he wrote was a short note to his mother saying that he had been captured and was to be hanged and was not afraid to die. As he stood on the scaffold a messenger arrived from General Dodge promising him Immunity if he would reveal the Identity of his confederate. The rope was around his neck; the boy answered: "If I had a thousand lives I would lose them all here, before I would betray my friends or the con­ fidence of my Informant." Then he turned to the executioner and said casually, "I am ready." The trap was sprung and one of the heroes of the Confederacy was dead. He was then sixteen years old. There was ah underground railroad of Confed­ erate sympathizers running through Maryland and Virginia, headed by Custls Grymes of Virginia. He came of the family which gave a wife to George Washington, and many of his emissaries were high-born women. One was a clergyman. Rev. Dr. Stuart, an Irreproachable Episcopalian. When the dashing but hopeless raid on Vermont by a Confederate force In Canada was ordered In 1864 Grymes sent a girl named Olivia Floyd, who concealed the order In her hair. It was the fash- Ion then for women to wear a curly net over their locks, and Olivia hid the documents there and made a wild ride on a bitter cold night Into the lines, where she delivered the orders that resulted In the attack of St. Albans. Gen. Jim Lane had a woman spy named Eliza­ beth W. Stiles, whose 'husband was murdered be­ fore her eyes by Quantrell's guerrillas In 1862. Border warfare was merciless; there was some­ thing Indian about it. Mrs. Stiles devoted her life to vengeance. She was quite deliberate about It. She wen.t East and put her children In school, and then came back to the West and put herself under Lane's orders. She faced death many a time; once she was arraigned before Sterling Price himself, but she made him believe she was a Confederate spy, and he gave her a horse and fire­ arms and sent her on her way. One Union spy, Mack Williams, found himself In the Confederate line face to face with his own brother, a Confederate soldier. "Fm a Yankee spy," said Williams; "you're a rebel. Betray me if you want to; it's your duty." It was a hard and delicate question, but the ties of nature won out over patriotism. General Baker has recorded the fact that for two years a farm near Fairfax Court House was frequented by Union officers, none of whom had the least suspicion that a daughter of the house was a Confederate spy. She was, Baker says, "a young and decidedly good-looking woman, with pleasing. Insinuating manners," She appeared to be a violent Union sympathizer, yet at night she used to go out and meet Colonel Mosby and give him the Information she had gained from .the credulous Union officers. Baker finally caught her by sending a woman spy who gained her con­ fidence.--New York Times. ULYSSES S. GRANT--MAN AND SOLDIER By a practically unanimous verdict, Ulysses S. Grant Is fiamed as one of the few great military chieftains of the world. And the closest scrutiny of his work Will convince us that his fame rests upon the most substantial foundation; upon suc­ cess unqallfled and unquestioned; upon tlie car­ rying through to Its fulfillment of the most stu­ pendous projects, Involving such perplexing and elusive problems as are only to be encountered in the art of war, Henry E. Wing writes in the New York Christian Advocate. • And he won his success without, any of the purely personal advantages with which, in the {Ktpular fancy, the ideal hero is endowed. Grant was not a handsome man. I mean there was nothing specially attractive in his bearing. He has the reputation of having been a wonderful horseman; and he was, of a certain sort, riding, occasionally, the most fractious animals, and rid­ ing always like one of the furies. But. mounted or afoot, he had a careless and almost slouching mpnner. and he cut a pretty poor flgurfe by the side of the stately and dignified Meade and Burn- side. or the splendid and dashing Sheridan and Hancock. His habitual conduct was exceedingly, quiet and reserved, giving one the Impression of Innate diffidence, bordering on real bashfulness. His ordinary conversation was on the most com­ monplace topics, and I have no recollection of his ever giving expression, by look or language, to the extraordinary genius with which he was certainly endowed. . The trait for which he was best esteemed, at the time I knew him. was his tenacity. But I am certain that It was hot appreciated. How, while sturdily holding to his main purpose, he sub-- mltted the details of the campaign to almost fend sometimes most radical changes. His message to General Halleck, from Spottsylvanla, "I purpo ?e to fight it out on this lin<? If it takes all summer," was interpreted to mean that he vould not alter his course one lota, whatever might happen. This, did him great Injustice, as representing him to be a very stubborn man; while, on the contrary, among Grant's most valtmble characteristics were his open-mIn»3edness and his wonderful faculty of putting leasons once learned Into practice. Behind that Impassive face this silent man was holding a substantial scheme for putting down the secession. This scheme embraced the general movements of all the great armjes of the United States and involved the Intelligent co-operation of half n score of loyal general commanders. Grant had evidently such Implicit confidence in this general plan that no incident of battle, march or siege could disturb his equanimity. Only once In my presence In that whole cam­ paign did Jie betray the slightest perturbation or vexation. That was with his chief subordinate on the fatal morning of the Petersburg mine ex­ plosion. After the mine had been fired It was absolutely necessary that the assault should be In­ stantly made. We waited a long time to hear the cheers of the men as they would charge through the breach. At last, facing the stalwart com­ mander of the army, he cried: "Why don't the boys go in?" And on Meade--to whom this seemed a new idea--starting to stammer some reply. Grant gave him one look of Intense disgust, and,, wheeling his horse, rushed headlong to the front. An example of thfa resolute faith occurred at the Wilderness. When affairs were In the most terrible confusion on our left, an officer rode up and reported. In an excited manner, that Han­ cock had been cut off and captured. Grant was sitting «»n the groujid with his back to a tree. He did not even get to his feet. He quietly took his pipe fron. his mouth and said that he did not be­ lieve It. And he was right. It was during this battle that he gate me a characteristic message to insert in my dispatch to the Tiibune. "Tell the people that everything is going swimmingly down here." This was in the midst of an engagement which was at least Indecisive, and in which all his plans were being frustrated. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS F A method by which metals which lliave been absorbed by a human body can be withdrawn by electrolysis h*s been developed by an Englishman. An English patent has been issue* for a process for rolling hollow steel bars from Ingots that are drilled and filled with heat-resisting sand. There are marvelously Jeweled combs of Spanish shape and size, some in shell, others In metal, gold* silver and composition. Plum pudding in a bladder container is a great delicacy In southeastern Europe. A stove that Is rubbed with * rag that has been' soaked in paraffin in­ stead of with ordinary blackening be­ comes bright and glossy. The shine will not rub off. The use of zinc wire In Germany is a subject of much discussion at pres­ ent in the electrical circles of Ger­ many^ due to the increasing scarcity of copper, and because Iron wires are not alwars satisfactory. Electric locomotives have been built for a German railroad having heavy grades that draw loads of 230 tons at a sp< ed of 42 miles an hour. It has been estimated that an In­ vestment of $860,000,000 vould be re­ quired to produce mechanically as much nitrogen as Peru's nitrate de­ posits yield every year. The tower of a tall church In Switz­ erland hus been equipped to receive the ft me signats sent out by wireless telegraph from the E2ffei tower In Paris. The United States geological sur­ vey last year carried on investiga­ tions In 47 states, Alaska, Hawaii and the Canal zone. Steel trough decking, Invented for concrete flooring or roofing by no Eng­ lishman Is so formed that it can be riveted from one side and given water tight joints. The German government now pays froir. $243,300 to $438,000 for a Zeppe­ lin dirigible, while the average pric* paid a few- years ago was only $121,- 700. ' x BIG- MAJORITIES, TOR* BOTH Austin Bill Provides for the Regula­ tion of All Private Banks of the State--Governor Lowden's Ap­ peal Gets Results. fi . m--mm, ; Springfield.--important actions fea­ turing a busy day ip the legislature In­ cluded the following: State-wide private bank bill passed by the senate by a vote of 87 to 6. Senate bill amending state civil serv­ ice law as desired by Republican state officials passed by the house by a vote of 84 to 55: Cook county civil service bill defeat­ ed in house with 40 affirmative and 48 negative votes. Chicago municipal court civil service bill defeated in house with 44 affirma­ tive and 62 negative votes. The private bank bill was passed with more votes than were expected. The big fight now will come In the house. Speaker Shanahan announced that he would refer the bill to the commit­ tee of the whole Instead of to the com­ mittee on banks and banking, which al­ ready has voted adversely on state­ wide private banking measures. Amend Civil 8ervice Bill. The state civil service bill as passed by the house contained a few amend­ ments added after It left the senate. The senate will concur in the amend­ ment. Representative Shurtleff, chairman of the Republican steering committee, led the fight for the passage of the bill and all but about half a dozen Repub­ licans voted for It. Four Democrats-- Gorman, Griffin, Jones and McGloon-- voted with the Republicans for the bill. Two Republicans--Lyle and Wal­ ters---voted against the bill, while a few others remained silent. The bill eliminates the trial clause, permitting department heads to dis­ charge employees without a trial ex­ cept where political, religious or racial' causes are Involved. Exemptions in the present lnw are increased. Minority Leader Igoe led the fight on the bill, describing It as the most vicious measure ever Introduced In the house. He declared it would result In the emasculation of civil service and enable the Republicans to get rid of all Democrats who are under the merit system. Democratic Vote Solid. The fate of the Cook county and Chicago municipal court clvlt service bills was exactly as forecast by civil service reformers, who made a vain effort recently to retain a blanket clause desired by the Democrats. The Republicans at that time elimi­ nated the blanket clause from both bills. Many Republicans who voted formerly to cut out the blanket clause voted against the bills. The Demo­ crats were almost solidly against both bills. Senator Wright introduced a bill restoring the court of claims, which was abolished by the consoltdatlob bill. The administration will support this bill, as it alms to give the court broader powers than formerly. N The Barbour bill revising the corpo­ ration laws was advanced to third read­ ing In the senate after an amendment eliminating a provision enabling a cor­ poration to hold stock In another cor­ poration was voted down, 22 to 1ft The senate passed the" Barr bill per­ mitting the retirement of Judges on half-salary after the age of seventy and after 24 years' service. Conference committees were named on the $60,000,000 good roads bond Is­ sue bill. The committees are expect­ ed to eliminate numerous peuate amendments Increasing the mileage of the proposed roads. Must Work or Go to Jail. Idle men between the ages of nine­ teen and fifty In Illinois durlnfc the war with Germany would be compelled to do useful work or go to jail, under the provisions of a bill which may be Introduced in the senate by Senator Dunlap of Champaign. In West Vir­ ginia the state council of del'euse has recommended a drastic law to elimi­ nate "chronic Idleness." It Is highly possible, Senator Dun- lap said, that the Illinois council will make a similar recommendation. The measure will suggest that unemployed men on days when idle must report to authorized agencies. These agencies will attempt to obtain employment for them. If th^y refuse to work they will be Jailed as vagrants. Senator Dun- lap believes such legislation would do much toward solving the problem of conserving the resources of the state during the trying period of war. Wants Board of Claims. State Senator Wright offered a bill In the senate to recreate the State court of claims, which was abolished by a provision of the state consolida­ tion bill. The board is to be com­ posed of three members who shall serve for a period of four years.- It went to the Judiciary committee. There will be no subway under the race track at the state fair grounds this year. At a meeting of-the senate agricultural committee the Item of $25,000 for the work was eliminated and the appropriation bill was report­ ed out favorably. Favors First-Aid Roams. Members of the senate committee on labor voted to report out with recom­ mendations that it pass, senate bill No. 520, by Senator Latham, which proposes that operators of all mines of the state shall provide and maintain at convenient places at all mines, suit­ able rooms where first aid to the in­ jured may be given. The senate com­ mittee on civil service recommended the passage of a measure which would make the civil service law apply to em­ ployees of .public institutions for the treatment and cure of victims of tu­ berculosis. Antrifrat Bill Up to Qevemef. Senator Turnbaugh's antlfrat Mil prohibiting -students in the common schools of the state from joing school fraternities and sororities is now in the hands of Governor Lowden for his •approval or veto. By a vote of 125 to 8 the bill wan passed by the lower branch of the general assembly. It was passed by the senate early in April. A measure similar to the bill that passed the house suffered the loss of Its enacting clause when It was consid­ ered oih second reading in the house some time„ago. Some members of the lower branch changed their attitude on the question and Senator Turnbaugh's measure was given favorable action. The original merisure offered in the liouse was presented by Representa­ tive Benson of La Salle. Lee O'Nell Brown opposed the Turnbaugh, meas­ ure and declared that it should be de­ feated on the ground that a large num­ ber of fraternities are organized for the purpose of holding debates with the result that they very frequently turned out able orators* Addresses in favor of the bill's pass­ age were made by Representatives Mil­ ler, Benson and DeYoung. Represent­ ative Weber said that the enactment of the bill into a law would only clog the statute books with another meas­ ure that could not be enforced. The antlfrat bill had the backing of the Illinois Teachers' association and other school bodies, while at the same time a great deal of pressure from oth­ er sources was brought to bear against the bill. For this reason It Is consid­ ered likely that Governor Lowden will be asked by representatives of both factions to act in their favor when the bill is before him for his approval or rejection. Would Reduce Price of Beef. Senator Frank B. Wend ling of Shel- byvllle Introduced a bill in the senate which he says will have a tendency to reduce the price of beef if enacted into law. The proposed measure would make it unlawful to sell or purchase meat of calves under twelve months of age and would prohibit the selling and purchasing of such animals for slaugh­ tering purposes. Fines of $25 to $100 are provided for cases of first offenses and $50 to $800 for subsequent viola­ tions. The bill was sent to the judl- clnry committee. ,If passed its provi­ sions would Increase the state's beef supply. Senator Wendllng said. Hunters of Illinois will be permitted to kill rabbits at any time during the year if an amendment adopted by the senate is made Into a part of the state flsh and game code. The measure to revise the game law as altered by amendment presented by Senator Wood, proposed that the entire closed season for hunting rabbits be removed from the bill. Senator Roos made an attempt to have the amendment tabled, but his motion to this effect went down to defeat. Senator Wood, in explain­ ing the object of the proposed change in the game code, said that he was of­ fering the amendment because of the fact that rabbits in southern Illinois had ruined many trees In apple orch­ ards. Kill Anti-Injunction Bill. The anti-Injunction bill, GW «f the principal pieces of labor legislation backed by organized labor In the gen erul assembly, was defeated In the house. The vote was 73 yeas and 57 nays, 77 required to .pass. The roll call came after a long and heated debate. The point that swung the tide was the assertion that the courts should not be weakened in the present time of national crisis. Two Chicago Jurists, Judge Baldwin and Judge Jesse Holden, were at­ tacked for their acts when called upon to decide labor injunction disputes In the debate. Representative Tuttle of Harrlsburg, Introducer of the Injunction bill, made the attach on Judge Baldwin. Money for Marker. ** A bill to appropriate $1,500 to erect markers over the neglected graves of Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lin­ coln, father and stepmother of Abra­ ham Lincoln, was Introduced In the house by Representative Howard ot Mat toon. The graves of the two are located at a small private cemetery at Pleasant Grove, Coles county. Illinois Solons for Free Ireland. The Illinois assembly Is for Irish home rule. The senate passed the house resolution introduced by Repre­ sentative Donahue, memorializing con­ gress and the president of the United States to do all in their power to se­ cure the freedom of Ireland and Po­ land. The vote was 35 to 3. Barbour, Dunlap and Turnbaugh were the thre« who voted against It. They said they did not believe that this* was the time to meddle with„the Irish question. Senator John Dally and Senatot Wendllng made striking speeches on the question of Irish freedom. House committees slaughtered nu­ merous bills, among them Mayor Thompson's bill proposing a peniten­ tiary sentence for third violations ot the Sunday closing law, the Burns bill putting a ban on birth control propa­ ganda and the Franz full crew, street railway bill. Boosts Vocational Study. Prof. Henry Hatch of Chicago ap­ peared before a public hearing in the senate chamber to advocate legislation for the establishment of a system of vocational education in Illinois. The speaker urged the senates present to enact a law by which the state would be able to take advantage of the edu­ cational appointments made by th* federal government |o such of th«f states as comply" with the condition? of the Smith-Hughes law. The meet Ing, which aroused great interest anil was very well attended, was presided over by SenUtor Harold C. Kissinger. The Cure Found. JISItfcato.-- 'The problem has been solved; the Cure found." This is the view of the grain sitiatiou held by Joseph P. Griffith, president of th« Chicago Board of Trade. It was ex­ pressed in comment on the actios taken here when officials of the big American wheat pits continued the bac on wheat futures. "We've established maximum prices, killed the specula tors and dealt hysteria a death blow,' Griffin continued. "There isn't atij famine in anything. W« have ----" wheat and can spare some. ILLINOIS EVENTS i TOLD IN Interesting Tidings From City, ^ Town and Countryside. ILLINOIS'BUTTER METLOYRl! Offer Their Plants and Services to Gov* . ernment--Master Bakers Stop Re­ turn of Stale Breat Player Hurt Galesburg.--Illinois State Butter Manufacturers' association has offered -ft.j the government their plants and serv- ' ; i c e s . • ' • • • - • > . ' $ Peoria.--Illinois Master Bakers' as- soclation has ruled that hereafter stale bread cannot be returned. / \ Peoria.--Second Baseman Syell of. "• the Peoria team broke his leg in sliding to second. x ^ • New Memphis.--John C. Wele, pas- . j tor of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran. church, has resigned following alleged. * disloyal remarks. East St. Louis.--Centennial associa- i ^ ] tion has formed permanent organiasa* * V/; tion, and will hold a pageant in 191$ :, ^ and erect a memorial to General Clair, first governor of Illinois. - Mollne.--Mollne Plow company will give 20 per cent Increase to all its 1,700 employees getting less than $2,000 • year. Grand Tower.--Duff Cady, marshal, killed an unidentified burglar. Shelbyville.--William Porter, col­ ored, one of the best-known horsemen of the state, dropped dead while exer» ^ clslng a trotting stallion. Jacksonville.--William Nunes, a. ' 4 , wealthy contractor of this city, struck . /V by train and killed while riding In • buggy. ' Casey.--Roy Hartman, farmer, %• backed out his auto from garage and ' crushed to death his boy. Elgin.--Rev. V. D. Atchison, eighty five, oldest member of Rock River con- . ference, is dead. - Chicago.--Pet ostrich at Lincoln- park zoo layed a four-pound egg. J Springfield.--The Court of Honor, n fraternal insurance lodge, will buy ill { m-. • $ ' $50,000 worth of "liberty bonds" through a Spiiugfleld bank. Chicago.--An ordinance prohibiting free lunch will be introduced at tty next meeting of the ^city council aa a result of a request , for such action frottj saloon men. *; . . «( Chicago.--Marie Droege, nine month* * ' old, killed by swallowing open safe*! V>. pin. ' •• Dlvernon.--O'Neal school won flnli ' j; place In the athletic and educational . \; contests of the South Sangamon EdU> v. i f cational and Athletic association. *• v | Johnston City.--This city has seal <•/ • 28 of, its best young men to the army 15 . and eight have entered the officer#* training camp at Fort Sheridan. f 3 Assumption. -- Bolt of lightning : which struck the earth tearing out a ' six-foot crater, just missed hitttn| John Reed and hired man who working in the field. - ^ i Danville.--Mrs. Grace Mauck, pronar * 4 s inent social worker, Is dead. : J -*• Bloomington.--Pitcher James Blue^ % jacket has been turned over to tfttt Clinton team. , *ff .j Bismarck.---Joseph T. Smith, prom* ; nent farmer, dislocated his neck by fall In the dark and was dead whe«f _% •, found. •>, *! Chicago.--Sloan Baking company hat quit business owing to high price <4 j flOUr. _ Chicago.--Oscar F. Nelson, chief factory Inspector for last four year^ tendered a loyalty dinner by his ia- spectors. i / ̂ Westervelt.--Harry Goodman, nine* teen, shot fine golden eagle while it was making off with a three-poun# . V shoat. ' J-gtl Springfield.--James L. Waterhuri 4ias presented to navy department dak; vice to fight submarines. « Grlggsvllle.--Willie Ator, ^ thl!Pte<Hi|..'.';|^|j k i l l e d b y W u b a s h f r e i g h t h e w a s t r j p f ^ ing to board. * . . . Danville.--State council. Knights of Columbus, has selected Rock Island alt fj the next meeting place and elected Ltt» ;> roy Hackett, Chicago, state deputy. . Belleville.--Strike of foundry mes : | is beginning to weaken ami tuea $ returning to work. ^ | Lincoln.--John Krause, fifty-six, Sjj mine inspector, killed by gas explosion ' flC' * i in the south mine. " Jacksonville.--Frank Mallory vaudeville fame Is dead here. Aurora.--This city gets the next nols Mothers' Congress and Parents* * "> Teachers' association. ' ' Springfield.--Illinois Historical w> . V* ^ clety has elected Clarke E. Carr, Gales^ ^ burg, honorary president and Dr. Otto " •'« ^ . L. Schmidt, acting president. * ^ Carlinville.--Louis P. Daled, defeat* V4" ed Democratic candidate for mayor, ' f has filed petition contesting electiotf"'. ij of Robert Whitely. Jr. ' Champaign.--George J. Squler. fbotf ball star. Is taking officers' training af Fort Sheridan. • * Beason.--Lawrence William Griffin^ young farm hand, shot himself dead. <||v Galesburg.--Seventy-fourth aunuafe rjS ,s conference of the Illinois Congrega* tionalists ended here after chosing. . ^ Hinsdale for the 1918 meeting piaeif . and electing Rev. M. A. Meyers mod* erator. - \ Quincy. -- Reform citizens, wha "" 4 ,i elected John A. Thompson mayor on a closed-town platfcrin, are up in anna over appointment of Lewis J. Melton* saloonkeeper, as chief of police. Chicago.--Mrs. Stella Thompson, sentenced to prison for defrauding boarding-house keepers. ~ Vl ^ Carlinville.--Mayor Robert White ley. ^ .1 re-elected, was sworn into office with < t J1 the other city officers. • "ir/, Springfield.--Bishop Greenwood will: *. ^:, preside over the Episcopal synod that convenes here May 23. Springfield.--Reports being circulat­ ed to the effect thai there will be no state fair this year are dented in a circular letter being sent out, by the state board of agriculture to the ous live stock and industrial fcodlrf$ 'Illinois and to all newspapers. -Su-- W~ L '̂: