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ILLINOIS INCIDENTS THAT DOLLAR WHEAT resu.1t, the State of New York to-day has a model constitution. and its laws have jbeeh revised in many ways, es­ pecially as to election Methods, so that each voter can vote once ffnd have that\ vote counted. Hand in-hand with those happy results a carefuL-andr thoiHWgh reorganization of the iSart.v of protec­ tion was secured in the city of New York with the largest enrollment of voters ever known to a city in this country. Recognizing that Republi­ cans were a minority in -New York City, a combination • of till the anti- Tammany interests was secured her, and a sterling Republican, Colonel William L. Strong, was elected as Mayor of New York'on a non-partisan,- business men's platform. Undof^ese favorable conditions'-bosses are a thing of the past, and , with 'Crokoris.ni and Plattism, which are synonymous to the different parties, relegated to the rear, we may look forward with great hope Jfor. continued victories for. the prirty that represents industrial and national prosperity.--American Economist. CAPITAL. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH r FULLY RECORDED. V' FARMERS* HAVEN'T , REALIZED DEMOCRATIC PROMISES. The Alton Sued for $20,000-" Big Four1' Settles with a Victim of th? Wann Disaster--Bad Old Man from Arkansas Breaks Loose.1-- Poor People Can't Aftord tq Buy as Much Bread as Under Protection-- Labor Here and in England--'Those Foreign Markets. 1 An Impartial Record" of the Work 'Accomplished by. Those "Who Make <Qur Laws--How the Time Has Been i)<ccupied During the Past" Week. Damages Wanted from a Railway. The trial of the case of John 'E."Wight- man.against the Chicago and Alton Rail­ road was begun at Bloomington. The plaintiff sues for $20,000 for the burning of his business block ih Chenoa, a town on the line of the road, "twenty-five miles., northeast of Bloomington." Last July fire destroyed almost the ehtire business portion of the town, entailing a loss of -$400,000. It is alleged that the fire orig­ inated from a spark from a passing ent- gine on that road falling on dry straw., A bi.rge... number. ,of suits similar to this grovving °ut of this fire are pending, and jt.he " damages claimed aggregate over $200,000. It is said more suits will be jcorhinehced. >•; , Aged-Desperado Is Captured. John Johnson, aged 72, /an Arkansas trapper who came to Alexander County . recently; was put„in. jail at Caft-o, charg- 'ed' with burglary, larceny and attempted .murder. Tuesday he broke into a. farm-, ihquse near Wheatland'and stole a quan­ tity of goods, including a shotgun. Fri­ day.night he forced an entrance to the residence, of John Ivilgore, a dairyman. Hearing some one in the room, Mr. Kil- gore attempted to'forc.o him out, but was savagely attacked by Johnson with an ax and severely wounded oh his right arm, which he had thrown up to ward off the blow. The aged desperado was then overpowered by Kilgore and his two sons and taken to town. Mullanc's Crtse Is Compromised. - The Big FfUir Railroad Company com­ promised another of the many damage^ suits instituted against them for the ter­ rible Wann disaster in 1893. The case was'one of the strongest against the com­ pany, being that frf John P. Mullane, a young farmer 20 years old, whose face is a hideous red scar from burning oil at that wreck*. He clearly proved that lie was not on the company's right of way and bid.fair to secure his claim of $20,000. The company, however, secured a compro­ mise for $4,000 and costs of the suit. There remain two more suits of a similar nature against the company. Will Free-Traders Explain:* i The annual report upon the farm crops of 1894, just issued by the De­ partment of Agriculture, suggests an investigation"is to the i\ ilizatipn of those dollar wheat promises that .were made, by the free-traders during the Presidential campaign of 1892. We accordingly take the averages for, the three McKinley years of protection and compare them" with the average during the two years that the free-traders •have had,the opportunity to give the farmers their dollar wheat. Thus: Total Per Per Years. cfop. bushel. acre. '1.890-92. ..... . .$;?}«). 119.423 $0,707 $10.10 1893-94, 219,o3C»,703 0.515 0.32 During, the three years of protection, 1890-1S92;, the farmers ̂ of the United States received an average "of.$170,- 583.720 a year more money- for their wheat crops than they.did in 1893 and 1S94 -under the free trade administra­ tion, The wheat crop was. worth $3.84 an acre.more under protection than ill the free trade times. The average price was 70 7-10 cents per bushel on the farm under protection, but only 51 ̂ cents a bushel since the - free-traders have had the opportunity to pay the farmers.that dollar a bushel. It must not be thought that thge low price during 1893 and 1894 Was due to unusually large crops. It was not. The average harvest during the three years of protection was 508,997,000 bushels a year, whereas it averaged only 428,- 199.570 bushels a year for 1893 and 1894. Under protection the yield aver­ aged 13.2 bushels an acre, but during the two years of the free trade adminis­ tration the yield averaged only 12/f bushels an acre. The, free-traders ha\&. everything in their favor for high prices, yet the farm value 'of their wheat has been just 48V, cents a bushel short of that promised dollar. Can this be the result of selling in the. mar­ kets of th(f world? WILSOK, The new Postmaster General, Carlisle iSa 1802. TO TEACH FARMERS. A n"Appropri atttTit Ask&d ttt* -Tn's'tffuCt Them in, Scientific Agrijcultjire. A bill prepared by Jonathan Periam, one of the best-known, writers on agricul­ tural topics in the West, has, been intro­ duced in the Illinois State Senate' by. Senator AspinWail appropriating" $0,000 for farmers' institutes. .The bill author­ izes the trustees of the University of Illinois to hold institutes for the instruc­ tion of the citizens of the State in the various branches of agriculture. So far as practicable one such institute shall be held in each county. The course of in­ struction is to be so arranged as to present to those in attendance the most recent investigations in scientific and practical agriculture. Mr. Periam says of the bill that the only unsatisfactory thing in it is that it does not make a large enough appropria­ tion. It should .be twice as large. New York appropriates $15,000; Wisconsin, $12,000; Missouri, $8,000; Minnesota, $10,000, and Indiana, $5,000. There is another bill before tlie Legislature ap­ propriating $100 to each county holding an institute. If each county in the State holds an institute it wohld require $10,400 to pay the bill, but when institutes are held independently none realize the ad­ vantage except those in attendance. To be made practically and permanently use­ ful there should be a printed record kept. This Wisconsin and Minnesota do. After a trial of eight years both these States are inclined to raise, rather than reduce, tlie annual appropriaton. The concerted work of the institutes in Wisconsin has made that State one of the foremost in the West, notwithstanding its extreme north­ ern position. An appropriation of $10,- 000 would allow an institute of two days' duration, print 50,000 copies of a well- edited digest of each meeting, and possi­ bly aid toward the organization of a sec­ ond institute in such counties as might wish to undertake the second one." Cause and Effect. In eighteen hundred and ninety-two the times were mighty good, And the reason, I can tell you, is every­ where understood; Jt takes no deep and subtle mind to ex­ plain why this perfection, Engrafted in our country's laws was the magic word, "Protection." "Protection" to'the fireside, to the farmer and the mill. "Protection" paid the workman, gave em­ ployment to his skill. No idlers then were standing 'round with- out a situation. There was work in plenty, work for all < of every occupation. Record of the Week. Champaign is in fear of a diphtheria epidemic. . Horses near Moweaqua are being kill­ ed by cerehro spinal meningitis. The Methodists of Cantomhave raised $20,000 and will build a $30,000 church. The Methodists at Old Stonington, near Moweaqua, will erect a church to cost $4,000. Peter Obert, o{ Welburn, was arrested on a charge of selling liquor without a license. Alva T. Chetiflter, of Burlington, Iowa, was held in bonds of $10,000 at Quincy for assault. Annie Poison, 10, was drowned in Hick­ ory Creek at Joliet. She was playing on the bank and fell in. The First Congregational Church of Bloomington decided to extend a call to Dr. Richard Edwards. Lawrence Harrison, sent from Kane County to the penitentiary for one year for, larceny, has been pardoned. George Williams, a farmer near Canton, has sued Mrs. Florence Negley for $5,000 damages for accusing him of theft. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Clay City, are holding successful revivals. E. L. Mann has resigned his position as oditor-in-chief of the Iliioi, the University of Illinois weekly publication at Cham­ paign. The coal operators iii the Belleville dis­ trict have agreed upon 40 cents a ton as the rate for hand ininiiig for six months from March 1. At Springfield, Gen. John A. McCler- nand is confined to his bedAvith a severe attack of the'grip. The intending phy­ sician reports the case serious. Charles Lernberg, a tramp, was sen­ tenced to four years at the Joliet peni­ tentiary for a criminal assault on Mrs. Allendorf, a farmer's wife, living near Bloomington. . 'The West Dundee B()?iM"ha?s ;d'('?<fdedvtt)" begin an action against Representative Ilawley for the misappropriation of pub­ lic moneys. When his bank failed he had. $4,700' belonging to the town. Joseph Hcffarth, a well-known farmer residing near New Memphis, and his wife have both become insane over the teach­ ings of faith cure. Neighbors have taken charge of the couple and their four sinall helpless children. Henry B., the i7-year-old son of Henry Ilornback, a prominent and well-to-do Fairbury farmer, committed suicide by blowing the top of his head off with a shot­ gun. Despondency brought on by finan­ cial affairs was the cause. Illinois veterinarians met at Peoria in semi-annual session. Two sessions were held with a large attendance. A resolu­ tion was adopted asking the members of the State Legislature to support the bill how pending before them recognizing vet­ erinarians. The affairs of the broken bank of Mas- coutah have been wound up by Assignee Smith, of Chicago, with a final payment of 8 per pent. A dividend of 10 per cen-tr was delivered some time ago, and^the 18 per cent, covers the whole amount paid the creditors. The bank of Mascoutah wa& one of the 111inois _banks es tab 1 isiied by ;T. N. Hagins four years ago. They all went down with the Columbian National, of Chicago. Owing to the fact that a run was made on the Mascoutah Bank,prior to the collapse, the deposits here did not exceed $10,000. Benjamin C. Mead, a well-known ownei of blooded horses at Genoa, was killed by being thrown by, a runaway horse. , Shirley C. Smith, a Moultrie County farmer, for passing counterfeit silver dol­ lars, was sentenced at Springfield to im­ prisonment for ninety days and to- pay a fine of $100 and costs. J ' • \ It is stated ^n good authority that the ,General Western Electric Compuiiy 'of Chicago has purchased t}ie factory build­ ing of the Mason, Air Brake Company at Elgin and Will move its entire plant to the new quarters. William Calvert, 28 years old, tfas caught in a revolving shaft :^t the Han­ over woolen mills at Galena and instantff ^killed. - . ' Residents of Mount Zion, Macon Coun­ ty, shipped a .carload of corn and oats worth $400 to the drouth sufferers of Brinkleman, Neb., and the merchants of Decatur helped to raise $100 for the freight charges. „ Jo0hn and, Howard Seymour were prov­ ing a traction engine a short distance east of Jacksonville when, without warning, the boiler exfffcided, scattering parts, of the machinery in all, directions. John lost his eyesight, while Howard was Severely Injured. • ' .- „. . Wage.s Here and There. The following figures froip the last English census reveal some interest­ ing facts concerning the economical situation of Great Britain. About 250,- 000 persons in Great Britain have an annual income of $ 1,000 and 2,000,000 have an income of $500. Thus it would appear that only one Englishman out of every five is.capable of supporting a family. It is to be borne in mind that $500 a year amounts to only $1.37 a day, which is not very much for a fam­ ily of four persons. On the other hand, there are in the United Kingdom 123,- 000 families having an income of about $3,000, and 5,000 families with an in­ come of more than $25,000. In the United States, according to the statistics compiled by T. G. Shearman, there are 400,000 families, or about 2,000,000 people, whose annual income, amounts to $2,OO0 and more than 10,000 families having an income of more than $25,000. Taking into aeount the difference in population between the United States and Great Britain, it still will bq,-evi- dent that not only can America boast of a greater number of rich people than the United Kingdom, but that wealth is more equally distributed and less centralized in the United States.--Bal­ timore Journal of Commerce. But in an evil moment the scenes were changed again, A slick and sly professor of economics fooled these men. And deluded by this theorist hi the nine­ ty-two election, They voted do\yn their dearest, friend, "American Protection." --t. And now distress and want prevail, pros­ perity is no me»eC ia \ No work employs the idle lWjds, "the wolf is at the door;" And as tlie cold and wintry chill sweeps through his threadbare pants, The workman wants to vote again, but he hasn't got the chance. MINISTER TO MEXICO. Senator Ransom, Who Has B<\en Ap­ pointed to Succeed Isaac P. Gray. Senator Matts&W. Ransom has been ap­ pointed Minister to Mexico to succeed Isaac r. Gray, recently deceased. The nomination was made by Senator Sher­ man and was unanimously confirmed by ^the Senate, in which Mr. Ransom is very popular. Ho was born in Warren Scanty, N. C., Oct. 8, 1820, and received a colle­ giate education, graduating in IS 17 from the University of North Carolina. He chose the profession of law and was also^ a planter for several years. He enteral politics in 1852 as a presidential elector on the Whig ticket, but a few years later joined the Democratic party. When his State seceded he enlisted in the Confed­ erate service as a private, having previ­ ously done what he could to. avert the war. lie received several promotions and when ,he surrendered with Lee at Appo­ mattox, held the rank of major general. Tlien honest, noble sons of toil, just wait and wa|-h and pray, * The good old times are coming at a not far distant day; "They are coining now .a humming;" at the ninety-six election, We will have the good old standard stuff, "American Protection." --Will S. Greenlief. Labor and Revenue. Secretary Carlisle has informed Con­ gress that the revenues of the Govern­ ment will exceed the expenditures by the close of this year to the extent of ^22,(MX),000. This is satisfactory in as -Tar as it should stop the necessity for the issuing of further bonds. It is luydly so satisfactory, however, when we remember,..that it. implies an in­ crease in. our customs revenue, which implies larger imports of foreign goods, which implies a s'maller manu­ facture of American goods", which im­ plies less work and lighter earnings for American labor, which implies less money to spend for- the-..purchase .of goods, which implies smaller trade and less prosperity all over tlie coun­ try. November IWoqes "Duties Review" MATT. W. RANSOM IT SHATTERS A TOWN Theory and -Practice. The theory of the Democratic tariff is j that it will produce a surplus. The fat t is that it. produces a deficit.". Mr'. Wil­ son sticks to the theory and ignores the I fact. That was the way with the law­ yer who tried to convince his client who was in jail that under the law impris- I onment for the offense charged was J impossible, "The'Tdieut's condition dis­ proved the counsel's theory. By no amount of talking can Mr. Wilson con­ vince the country that it is growing,, rich by taking in $7 and paying out $10. --Troy (N. Y.) Daily Times. Lots ot Them. The only American industry which has prospered under Democratic rule i$4, the gold exporting "business.--New York Commercial Advertiser. Not the only one; There are also the industry of the Sheriff, the soup-house industry, the free bread industry, the free clothing industry and the general freedom of labor from industryi-'Wliich have all prospered since 3ffprch, 1893, Loss of $400,000 Caused by an Ei- plosion at Anderson, ,Ind. The most destructive natural gas explo­ sion in the history of the Indiana gas belt occurred in Anderson at 4 o'clock Tues­ day morning. A $75,000 business block on the court house square was blown all over the central part of the city. In the building were the WlT^n clothing stores Pratlier's shoe store, Hadley's drug store, and a large number of business oflicei and halls on the upper floors. Eire fol lowed the explosion, which was like an earthquake, and the remains of the debris began burning fiercely. The entire fire department was called out and prevented the fire from reaching the new cour|; house. Attorney Ballard and County Commis­ sioner Metcalf lived in rooms above the When store, and, the dispatch says, it is feared they have perished. The loss on the building and contents is total, and will reach $400,000. The fronts of ail the business houses in tlie neighborhood of the explosion were demolished, paved streets' ripped opeir and telephone cables torn down. Two .skeletons wer^ discovered in a cave near Coinslock, Tex. They are believed to be those of two young men from Kan­ sas City, who left San Antonio about six years ago on a horseback trip through West Texas. „ _ . ' --• --: :--:-- Seten boys at Huntington, Pa., played with matches and a keg of powder. Georgt Rupert and Chester Harton were 1mriled ' thirty feet and will die. The others will live. • _ ' All the "insurance agents--w#o~euteFe(T into - a compact! to raise rates in Lexing­ ton, Ivy.,' have been indicted ,£or con- .spiracy and they ̂ threaten to cancel all policies. ' • ' - ^ j ' • - • The Grant Monument Association re>' ports $330,482 on band--enough'to tiui&b its work. . r . •• , - The blizzards that annually sweep over the country come from the White River section of Manitoba, Canada.' This is the coldest place on the Ameri­ can continent, the thermometer regis­ tering at rimes as low as 02 degrees be­ low zero It is not, however, the cold­ est place on the globe. The lowest tern-" perature ever reported was at Wer- sehojonsk. in the Ulterior of Siberltu on Jan. 15, 1SS5. It was' 90 degrees below zero. This place is within tile latitude*1 of perpetual cold. The earth here Is frozen 100 feet in depth and never •thaws on top. . - ' - V-r • Invisible Wire. : \ Platinum has been drawn into smdotl* wire so fine that it could not be dis­ tinguished by the naked eye, even when stretched across a piece of white card­ board. >6 . If a boy earns ten cents' be wants U; he isn't willing to trust,tlwi Richest man alive. < ' •