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ILLINOIS STlTE NEWS* ~ Ira Day, of Pliolps, accidentally sTiof himself through the heart while hdnting. Fairbury, by a ljnnjoFlty of nearly 200 votes, declared for a t*n^jgpu of ment. • ' . Coal miners in the Sangamon district^ threaten to strike,rather than accept a ' reduction. , . At the special election held at Fairbury the proposition to erect another school building at a cost of $10,000 was carried. . Two men w-ere killed by the north-bound Denver express on the Chicago and Al­ ton Railroad three miles south of Pon- tiac.* " H While attemptifeg to--g<>-t-on-thtt elevator at the Walston Sanitarium, Decatur. 'Miss Josie Hopp,-of. Emory,»was crushed to death. Lewis- II. MoKinnie disappeared from Decatur. His body Was found in the/loft of a barn. Business reverses -drove.him to shoot hims^^ - • • ,A| The Washburn and Sloen Manufactur­ ing Company lias made a cut in the wages of some of its employesyat Waukegan, and 100 have quit. Joseph Briley, aged 65; watchman at the Rentchler coal,mine near Mascoutah, was fQund dead in his office. Heart dis- J ease was the cause. Silan Sellers was thrown, off of the Chi- i cago, Burlington and Quincy train near j Jacksonville and killed. Both legs ail ft an arm Were ciSt off. ,W. H. Newcoinb, postmaster and ex- ! • Mayor of Peoria; a pioneer and Deiiior | era tie leader, dropped dead in his store j of 'neuralgia"-of the heart. ' " . - , . ! Governor Altgeld has restored the rights 6f citizenship to' William J.'Wallace, of i Chicago, who. served four years in* the I State prison for burglary. Ross & Son, of Chicago, have purchased I the Elgin gum factory and will work over- j time and manufacture butter. '"They will employ about forty men. Webster Grigslcy, aged 20. killed him­ self at Quiucy by taking morphine. He had recently quarreled with his wife... His parents live at Milan,.Mo." The Santa Fe Railway Company locat­ ed a station five miles south of Lacon to be known as Holton, and have made con­ tracts foi; an elevator and depot. Isaih Best, of Freeport, who sustained serious injuries by falling off a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train in Chicago, will sue the company for damages. Rev. Alexander Allen, rector of Calvary Episcopal Church, of Sedalia, Mo., who handed in his resignation, has received a call from one of the largest churches in Springfield. Superintendent of Insurance Durfee li­ censed the Commercial Mutual Accident Company, of Philadelphia, I'a., to do an accident insurance business on the assess­ ment plan in Illinois. Edwin A. Berlin, of Anna, Union County, has been lodged in jail at Spring­ field to await the action of the United States grand jury on a charge of passing cou nterfeit money. Mrs. Timothy Baker, of Quincy, gave birth to triplets. Mother and children are getting along nicely through the as­ sistance of, neighbors. The Baker fam­ ily is in destitute circumstances. Fred Williams and Charles Allen, con­ victed of robbing the post office at Cur- ran, were sentenced at Springfield to Jol- iet prison for one year each. Edward Raymond, for grand larceny, got one year. Burglars entered the Holeomb post of­ fice and blew open the safe of 1). II. La- mont, hardware dealer and postmaster. Several hundred dollars' worth of stamps" in the safe were overlooked, and only a few dollars in change secured. | The Forest City furniture plant at Rockford is idle on account of the strike of men. numbering 200, who refuse to go to work on account of the announcement of the intentipn of the company to cut down the wort; to eight hours instead of ten, as formerly. A. Doerr. who recently' conducted Doerr's Opera House at Quincy, secured an attachment against Hanlon's "Fan- tasma." It is claimed that they canceled a date at Doerr's Opera House fifteen months ago. The Hansons declare that Doerr received the proper legal notice of the changed date, and that they hold liis registered letter receipt to that effect. At Bloomington. the jury in the ease of Wightnian vs. the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company reported their failure to agree and were discharged. The case was brought to recover $10,000 damages. Wightnian claimed that his- property in Clienoa was destroyed by lire caused by sparks from an Alton locomotive, it be­ ing alleged that the company's right of way was negligently allowed to be littered with straw. The jury stood 7 to 5 in _favor of mulcting the railway. A total of $300,<XK) lies behind the decision of thin case. Judge Wilderman has sustained the ap­ peal taken by Henry Arnold, of Smithton, who was sued some tithe ago by Carl Tim- mig. of the same place, for services ren­ dered in seftrching for a wife for Arnold. Timmig sued for $100 and was allowed $55. Timmig's work proved unsatisfac­ tory, and Arnold started out on his own hook and got what he wanted. Timmig was left out of the deal, .aiul hence the suit. Arnold is old and weHjthy. The appeal was granted upon the gXnmd that matrimonial brokerage is not a k%al busi­ ness in the State of Illinois. Mrs. Witti keeps a boarding house at 478'North Lincoln street, Chicago. Mon­ day afternoon a well-dressed man called, selected a room and handed her a $20 counterfeit bill. Mrs. Witti gave him $15 in change. He departed, saying ho would return that night. When Mrs. Witti asked her butcher to give her credit for the $20 bill she learned she had been duped. In the drug si ore of Richard .Tentz, Oakley avenue and Twelfth street, the police arrested a man who said his name was Frank Livingstone, for passing a silver dollar, alleged to be a counterfeit, in payment for a porous plaster. Living­ stone answers a description of Mrs. Wit- ti's prospective lodger. Dr. Willis B. Cauble, who was sen : 'tenced in the Vermilion'-County Circuit Court to one year in the Joliet peniten­ tiary for forgery, wtfS pRffloned W <iov. Altgeld. It was charged that the jury was improperly influenced. Emma Wier and Mary Wagner, "-the last of the notorious Wier gang of sliop- \ lifters, were arrested' at the Fair store, Chicago. Emma Wier has been a shop­ lifter fifteen years and served two terms in the Detroit House of Correction. She owns a residence at 117 Fullerton ave­ nue, and is said to possess considerable money. One-day of the Morgan County Fann­ ers Institute was devoted to the discus­ sion of hog and cattle feeding. Later •A. II. Sturtevant read a paper on "Ensi- - ^ . 0>_ --v)';-?- on , '. 'AppleL. Culture." President Bradley, of Illinois College, delivered an address. * The prisoners in the DeKalb county ^jail in Sycamore sawed the steel bars "and removed part of the mason work from a window in the night in ah"effort to es­ cape, but their plan was discovered by Sheriff Shatter and the prisoners lodged in separate cells. Among those confined in the jail is William Kerwiu, charged with the murder pf Barney-Shoo at Cort­ land. i THE STATE CAPITAL. THE MONEY MARKET IS GRADU . ALLY HARDENING. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. WHAT JLLINOIS* LEGISLATURE ; IS DOING. Murderers of Jas. Towle Convicted-- "James MurpJjy May Die--Anthony Maher's Sad Fate--Sentence of Sus­ pension at Champaign ls Lightened, When the Government in Debt the Individual Borrower Must Suflfer- Smaller Crops and Lower Prices than in M^KixileyPralection Times, » An . Impartial Record of the Work ' Accomplished by Those Who Make Out Laws--How the Time Has Been Occupied During the Past Week. / " Result of the Bond Issue. Bankers say- the money market is gradually "hardiniing, and looks like being permanently better.,-Wall Street Daily News. This is the result of an increase in the Government debt and the" compul­ sory issue of bonds. The money mar­ ket hiis^joen easy for upward of twelve months bec'ause, owing to the threaten­ ed establishment of the free-trade policy by the present administration, which unsettled every branch of pur manufacturing industries, there was but little demand for money, manu­ facturers. being, compelled for their own salvationcurtail their output. This same free-trade-policy has not only disturbed private enterprises and the employment of labor Which enter­ prise requires, but it has also reacted directly upon our national Treasury. §6 that,, after our national- debt was Two Men Convicted of- Murder. Frank Jeffry' and Arely Douglas Hen­ derson were convicted at .Murphysboro of murdering James. Towle, Dec. 20, 1894. found only two silver dollars on his person. Each charged the crime on the other, but de­ nied his own guilt. At the trial the peo­ ple; presented- an unbroken chain of evi­ dence, while, not one witness was s pre­ sented by the defense. The verdict fixed the death penalty.' This will have been the first legal execution in" Jackson Coun- Doings of State Dads. Representative Re veil has prepared and will introduce at the first opportunity a bill to compel gas companies, to- supply to;-consumers prepayment motors.'• ffihe' -prepayment meter is operated on the slot machine plan. "The consumer drops .in a coin and a certain quantity of gas is produced. These meters are in use in some of the. cities of Europe. -The House convened at 5 o'clock Monday, with'about a score, of members in their seats. Alex J. Jones introduced a bill amending the practice, act. It strikes out. the clause whiqh allows non-residents to put in a plea of the general issue 'Without a verifi­ cation, arid also provides that where the., affidavit of ^meritorious defense is only a part of the plaintiff's, claim judgment may be entered for that" part without waiving the balance of the claim. Mr. Needles. presented a petition asking the passage ,of his bill to-prevent the. coloring of substitutes for butter. The Senate convened with only eight members. After the reading of the journal Senator Hun­ ter introduced a bill to authorize county boards to- erect and maintain at comity seat$ soldiers' and sailors' monuments and memorials. •' The bill griyitmg women the right to vote for certam^fownship officersfwas de­ feated Tuesday in the Senate by one. vote. The Senate committee decided to recommend an appropriation of $15,000 to provide for the representation of IHi- ' riois at the Atlanta fair. Senator Littler -has introduced a bill calculated to reform the tax laws of the State. Some members of the Legislature are displaying a de­ sire to delay an investigation of official corruption in Chicago. A bill introduced" against high theater hats, by Representa­ tive Jones, has been killed in committee. Wednesday, by a vote of 30 to 11, the Senateipassed the bill putting the police under .civil service rules. A delegation of Chicligo real estate men appeared be­ fore the Hoqse committee in advocacy of the Torrens land transfer bill. The bill to extend the term of the Mayor of Chicagiffto four years was passed by the House after the emergency Clause had been stricken out. Sevenj bills were passed by the Senate Thursday morning. They include all those tfeat.wcrf ^n third reading except SenatotjEitUer'g bill-to prevent Students gaining'a permanent jtbode for Jjje pur­ pose of voting in a place where they are attending school. ( On roll call Littler's bill failed to pass by a vote of 3 yeas' to 37 nays. The bills passed by the Sen­ ate wert^as follows | Abolishing the three days of grace; the bills appropriating $50,* 000 each to establish and maintain State normal schools in northern and Eastern Illinois; to prevent, the adulteration of food of domestic animals by means of corncobs, sawdust, etc.: to authorize cir­ cuit courts to wind up corporations on petition of a majority of the stockholders; to prohibit the carrying of dangerous weapons, amended to read that such weapons be destroyed. The House did nothing of importance. The Loss von (Porn. -J* • The American farmers igcemnl oi ly fifty-one cents on the dollar for their dollar wheat during the two years that the free-traders have allowed them to s^l'l their crops in "the countries of tbe world that Stand ready to take our "entire surplus of products," as the Democratic platform of 1S92 told them. Let us now see what they got for their corn crops during the three, years of Me-Ivinley protection, and -r^-so during the two subsequent years under the free-traders;- ' • ~ . Here are. the figures: v . ~ Average Average Value Period, - Crop vaL bushel;-peracre. 1890-92... .$744,339,770 $0,435 $10.18 . 1893,94 '573,172,4.15. .411 8.S4 Students Can Return Next Term. Recently nine students qf the Cham­ paign University were suspelide'd_ fqr the remainder of the'college year for kidnap­ ing Reiuhart, president Of the freshman class,, The faculty gave out the follow­ ing. which- "vyill end the matter: , Resolv­ ed, 'That iif view ofNthe explicit assurance that hazing practiced at the university :wiil be definitely, abandoned conveyed to .the faculty by the soph&moipe and fresh- niaii classes; the sentence b,t\ suspension •pronounced' a gainst certain ...students for •hazing shall terminate with the beginning of the next term. Died.of Injuries Got at Sea. Anthoiiy Ma her arrived in Ottawa two weeks ago from Ireland. During the voyage, which was at the time of the frr-eat sjorms at sea, he was thrown vio­ lently against the.side of his stateroom. He was suffering when he arrived in Ot­ tawa, where a brother lives. He grew worse and died Friday. Mailer was 55 years of age. and intended to make Ot­ tawa his future home. Fatal Row at Row at Roelcford. In a free-for-all fight at Rockford, in which .half a dozen participated, a num­ ber of shots were exchanged and James Murphy was beaten over the head with a quilting pole until unconscious. He-will probably die. Clifford Cooling, who did the shooting, is in jail. The others es­ caped. Record of the Week. Miss Ida Olsen. one of the most promi­ nent musicians of Bloomington, and John Z. Miller, of Erin, Tenn., were married in Bloomington. A requisition was issued c.n the (Gov­ ernor of Iowa for E. S. Appleby, who is in custody at Marshalltown, Iowa, and is wanted at Springfield for fongery. - At Decatur. William II. Reed, aged 2."i, despondent, in love and oiit of work, shot himself in the left breast after returning home from church. He cannot recover. D. C. Knapp, who became crazy at De­ catur on a train, was taken to Harris- burg, Fa.! by his brother, Fred F. Knapp. Five of Ivnapp's relatives died in asy­ lums. The annual convention of the district Epworth League was held at Freeport with a.largo attendance of delegates. Re­ ports sliowyd the league to be in a flour­ ishing Condition. A colored man arrested in Sprimrtioid as a vagrant has been identified as Wil­ liam Guthrie, wanted at Streator for the murder on election day, last November, of William Higgins. Four car loads of seed wheat were for­ warded to the Nebraska drought sufferers by the towns of La Moille, Van Orin, Ar­ lington. Mendota and Maiden. Two more car loads will be sent. •John L. Gregg, who for several months has acted as agent for the Jacksonville, Louisville and St. Louis Railroad at Greenville, was arrested on a charge of embezzling about $125 of the company's money. The grand jury at Hennepin has indict­ ed Constable George Williams for mur­ der. Williams shot Bob Thompson last January during a quarrel over some iish belonging to Thompson, which the consta­ ble attached. Mr. Bussee. postmaster at Irvington, resigned his office some weeks ago and ~it--post office inspector ffhind him sho»t over $400. His bondsmen made..good the amount. Business carelessness caused the shortage. The grand jury at Lacon did not indict William Simmons for shooting Dr. Bickel at Florida six weeks ago. Bickel, it. is said, will not prosecute Simmons, as the trial would air a sensation. Bickel is still confined to his bed. II. E. Gedney. Sr.. of Ottawa, has made an assignment to his son-in-law, Thomas Godfrey, placing liabilities at $10,000. A judgment secured Vgainst him by his daughter-in-law. Mrs. II. E. Gednel, Jr., for $3,500 is the cause. Eighteen ETgiV people- hre passengers on the Friesland, ashore in the Mediter­ ranean at Port Said, Egypt. They in­ clude Dr. A. P. Clark, Prof. Bennett and wife, Mrs. David C. Cook, wife of thb publisher, and two sons. A special train left Decatur for Storm Lake, Iowa, having on board nearly 100 Macon County farmers who have bought land in Buena Vista County, Iowa. They took their families, household goods, im­ plements and stock with them. Henry Brady, 19 years old, the son of a well-known farmer residing near New Baden, was drowned in the Kaskaskia river above Queen's lake. Brady and a companion were duck hunting in a skiff ami in some manner the boat was upset. Burglars entered Conductor YV\ H. Mc- Dougall's home at Des Plaines! Mrs. Mc- Dougall fired a shot at a maq whoni she saw coming upstairs. The ball went wild and the thief escaped. This is the third time this winter that the house has been visited by burglars. * At Alton. Edward Evans, colored, aged 32, was run over and fatally injured-by a Chicago and Alton switch engine. , Mr. and Mrs, August Unruh, among Beardstown's, most highly respected and. prominent citizens, celebrated the twenty- fifth anniversary of their marriage in that city. Trouble with the striking employes at the rolling inills of the Tudor Iron Works at Springfield is still feared, and United States Marshal Briuton, at the request of President Mysenber of the Tudor Iron Works, ordered Deputy Marshal Bur­ roughs to remain on duty there. Corydon C. EJrown died at Fosterburg, aged 74 years.. The deceased was a di­ rect descendant of the original immigrant family, of that name and one of the <Jd : residents of-Madison, County. He leaves a valuable estate in Johnson County, Iowa. ' W. S. McCriull and John A. Nemeek, of"Aurora, officers of the newly organized Western Interstate League, say the new league is sure to be a go. George Mc­ Dowell, of Chicago, will be manager and - backer of the Aurora,team, and has most of his players signedf Aurora has had no baseball for two years and will give-the games good patronage. iJtWYORK REC6RDER MARCH I.IS05,1 CUCKOO being gradually paid off without inter­ ruption for a quarter of a century, we find, under this free-trade administra­ tion, there has been a necessity to in­ crease the national debt almost to the extent of $200,000,000 within the two years that the present, administration has been in power. The effect of the increase in the na­ tional debt has been to harden the money market, so that those who are striving to operate their industrial en­ terprises in order to meet the increased competition forced fipon them under the Gorman tariff, are compelled to pay a higher rate of interest for the money which they borrow in conducting their business. This, in itself, increases the cost of production of American manu­ factured goods, and also of American farm products where farmers are ob­ liged to seek pecuniary assistance. Meantime the tariff rates remain un­ changed, and the foreign manufactur­ ers and producers are given a still further advantage over our own manu­ facturers and producers. There are very many industries in which a frac­ tional additional cost" will involve an actual loss, consequently any in­ creased burden of expenses that our manufacturers and producers may be called upon fo bear must result in effectually compelling them , to retire from business, which would render more labor idle, still further lessening the demand for goods, and .increasing the existing stagnation of trade. Thus, again, it would appear that "the policy of free trade, inaugurated by tiie present-administration, is con­ tinuing its work of destruction, inas­ much ;^s the administration, having involved our national Treasury in debt", and being compelled from time to time to borrow enormous sums of money, has forced an advance in the rate of interest on money that has to be paid by the manufacturer or pro­ ducer who is a borrower in the reg­ ular course of his business, and who is at his wits' end to make his income meet his expenses. This additional in­ terest charge is thrust upon him by the incompetency of a free-trade admini­ stration whose policy has- been, throughout, to administer American affairs for the exclusive benefit of foreign countries. Friends of protec­ tion in Congress .should vote unhesi- .• tatingly for any bill that will lessen the interest charge upon the new bond j issue and flitrs rend to lighten-the bur- 1 dens of our American people in more \\avs than 01S® The Value of Sheep. The Department of Agriculture has- furnished 11s with the number and val­ ue of the sheep in the United States at tlie begihiiiiig of this year. We find there are 2,753,953 less sheep in the United States than there were 011 Jan. 1, 1894, tout their value has decreased by $22,500,343, which is at the rate of forty cents per head. Sheep that were worth $1.98 on Jan. 1, 1894, were oniy worth $1.58 on Jan. 1. 1895. This was the result of free trade in wool. But to carry the comparison bactc a little further, so as-to make it still more interesting, we give the number of sheep in the United States 011 Jan. 1. 1892, with their total value and their average; value per head as follows: 1892. 1895. . Xuml38f 44,938,3t>5 42,294,064 Value ....... .$110,121,270 $06,685,707 Value, each. .. . $2.5S $1.58 This shows that the total loss in -the value of the sheep flocks of American farmers was almost $50,000,000 within three years. Since the country was en­ joying undisturbed protection at the beginning of 1S92, when there was no talk of free trade and no free trade The average value of the corn crop was $171,167,355 more.dining each of the three years of McKiuley protec­ tion than under the present adminis­ tration of the free-traders. The aver­ age price was over two cents a bushel more 011 the farm, and the. harvest from each acre was worth $^34 more to the farmer under protections; The farmers, no doubt, would be glad'fo have that extra $171/000,000 a year, or $342,000,000 that the/ havelost during the two years th:i.1 the free­ traders enabled them to sell their own in "the com.tries of the world that stand ready to take our entire uurplus of products." Let us see if we can ascertain why they lost it. During the three years of protection the corn crop averaged 1,726,196,000 bushels a year. This was 110,000,000 bushels more each year than the aver­ age crop in our free-trade times. The average..viold per acre was more, being 23.6 bushels under protection and only 20.9 bushels to the acre when "the countries of the world" stood "ready to take our entire surplus of products." Evidently the price should have been higher these two latest years, our crops being short and "the countries of the world" waiting for it. We are very much afraid that when the free- trade platform of 1892 told our farmers that they would be able to sell their corn in "the countries of the world that stand ready to jake our entire sur­ plus of productthe free-traders for­ got. t<A" add that "the countries of the worhf" would take it at their price, not at our price. Fireproof Celluloid. The dangers attending the manufac­ ture of ordinary commercial celluloid are well known. It is now stated that an English firm has devised a method of manufacturing a perfectly fireproof celluloid from spent fibers from paper- mills, which they are proposing to man­ ufacture on a large scale. The pulp, consisting of fibers collected from washing water of the paper mill, is sub-, jected to the action of certain chemi­ cals which reduce's it to a glutinous state. It is then sent through a centri­ fugal pump, which gives it an even sub­ stance, and any shade of color is then imparted to it at the same time by ani­ line dyes. It is then strained through flannel iuto square boxes, and after a time assumes an almost solid consist- ?ney. The celluloid can then be cut intb slices or molded when the composition is in a liquid state. It is proposed to make printing surfaces for illustra­ tion, for stereotyping, together with its utilization for the manifold varieties of purposes to which the ordinary cel­ luloid of commerce is now applied. The perfect safety of the new substance is shown by the workmen being allowed to smoke 011 the premises during the course of manufacture. Mustard Plasters. How many people are there who real­ ly know how to make a mustard plas­ ter? Not one in a hundred at the most, perhaps, and yet mustart^ plasters are used in every family, and physicians prescribe their application. The ordin­ ary way is to mix the mustard with water, tempering it with a little flotH-; but such a plaster as this is simply abominable. Before it has half done its work it begins to blister the patient, and leaves him finally with a painful, flayed spot, after having produced far less effeyx in a beneficial way than was intendefl. a*<Bt Now a milstard plaster should never blister trL all\^it\a blister is wanted there are/ther plasters far better than aiustardiplasters. Use 110 water,- but mix^t^e mustard with the white-of an. aud the result will be a plaster which will "draw" perfectly, but will aot produce a blister on the skin of an infant no matter how long it is allowed to remain on the part. Wh.v the Gold Goes. A second measure to prevent the out­ flow of gold is to check the inflow of commodities we can make for our­ selves. We will reduce the power of the foreigner over our gold supply by reducing our purchases of the foreign­ er. That means that we must restore the protective duties upon foreign com­ modities. aud otherwise discourage the use of foreign articles where home made will serve the purpose.--Irish Liable to lie Misunderstood. Liable to misunderstanding are such nteresting adornments of shop win- lows as "Superior butter; one shilling aer pound Nobody can touch it"--, jwbably not!--or the tempting notice >f the' dealer in cheap shirts ; ^"They ivoh't last long at this price!" Worse »till was the admonition which appeajr- h1 in the window of a cheap restati- rant: "Dind here, and you will never; line anywhere else." The viands of\ :his restaurateur must have been ail- aiost as deadly and unerring in 'thelr^s ?ffect as the. whisky kno\fn ||tfi?thi$ Western States as "forty rod," iecaus^r hat was the distance beyond whKdi 10 drinker could walk after its imbi- Idtion.--Cornhill Magazine. 1895,