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AROUND A BIG STATE TRov.\G. W. •Skillitiff, of tho>Peop!e*» Church, ofr Springfield, has accepted a ('•jfrH to the People's Church^ of Decora hi Io>va. 1 Charles Jones, aged 17, son of Ira P: .Tones, of Savior Springs, was seriously wounded by the accidental discharge of a revolver. .. • The Rev.Tl,. W. Dorn, pastoij, of the Rockford German Lutheran Church, has resigned his charge" to take a church at Belleville. - 0 \ Joseph Kelly, of Chicago, has been re­ stored to citizenship qy Gov. Altgeld. He .served a term of fourteen years in the •penitentiary for burglary I • Gilbert Siddell, a farmer four miles east of Carlyle, was digging a well near his residence when a horse fell in on him. Siddell-i%seriously injured. ^ j The office of F. N. Hood, the grain mer­ chant at La Rose, was entered and the safe, blown open. There are conflicting rumors as to the amount of money se­ cured,-but the most general report is $2-,000. • ' . • (' • ' " The South Dakota Legislative has de­ feated the fast and lcjose divorce bill and it is, therefore, necessa ry to have a resi­ dence of at least twenty-four' hours in that State before being eligible to a, di­ vorce. ' Cony Of the opinion of the United States ' Supreme'Court, in the case of the Citi­ zens' Savings- and I^oan. Association ..vs. Berry County has" been received at Ben­ ton. The decision saves the county over $150,000. Prof, and Mrs. James D. Bruner, mem­ bers of the University of Illinois faculty, have resigned their positions. Prof. Bru­ ner has accepted .the chair of assistant professor of languages at the University of Chicago. } Assistant Attorney , General 'New-ell holds that, under the building and loan association laws a charge of 8 pejj ceht. interest, without any premium, would not be construed as in conflict with the usury laws of the State. As the first result of the agitation over granting a telephone franchise to some new company the Rockford Bell Com­ pany will reduce its rates from $48 to $42 per year for business houses and from $36 to $30 per year for residences. Rockford Camp, No. 51, Modern Wood­ men of America, held a big celebration ht the opera house in Rockford, attend­ ed by 2,000 people, the occasion being the presentation of a handsome national banner, awarded by the head camp. The reports made to the State Board of Agriculture show that during the last week 147 cattle were inspected; 117 were passed in the yards, 9 passed on post­ mortem and 21 were condemned as unfit for food. One case of tuberculosis was shown by the post-morkem examination. At/? o'clock Wednesday morning a rear- end collision took place at Hinckley, on the Chicago and Iowa branch of the Chi­ cago, Burlington and Quncy Railroad. A fast merchandise freight dashed into a stock train while going twenty miles ar hour. Fireman Ben Williams was crush­ ed to death. Engineer A. L. Spencer, of Aurora, saved his life by jumping, but one-arm wjis broken, Several cars were demolished, and the loss to the railroad company is heavy. The other men of both trains and several stockmen who were passengers escaped uninjured by jrinping. The Burlington train was mak­ ing up time. The other train had stopped lit the station. At Rock-ford George Jacob Sehwein- furtli was interviewed in regard to the suit of George W. Coudrey against him, in which Coudrey seeks to recover $5,000 damages for the loss of his home, his wife having taken up abode in the "heav­ en." Schweinfurth said that the suit was ridiculous, and that Coudrey had no claim against him. He said he met Mrs. Coudrey in 1880 and that she resided on his place until three years ago, when she left. -Schweinfurth claimed not to know her whereabouts, and said he did not get any property. He laughed at Coudrey's threats against his life and said that hex could always be found on Weldon farm. In spite of Sehweinfurth's denial it is asserted Mrs. Coudrey is at his "heaven" and is dangerously ill. Tuesday evening Miss Anna. < ldest daughter of Dr. A. M. Miller, superin- 'ciidcnt of the State Institution for fee­ ble-minded children at Lincoln, was burned to death in her room in the build­ ing. She was found on the floor by an attendaht^ho was carrying her meal to her. The room was full of smoke which, when let out. disclosed the unfortunate lady prostrate on the floor, her body burned, to a crisp. The mats on the floor and a portion of the chamber furniture were on fire. The flames were quickly extinguished and the body cared for, but life was extinct. The dreadful occur­ rence happened inside of fifteen minutes, during the time her sister, Mrs. Garland, was absent to procure the evening meal. Miss Miller waq 40 years of age. She was a teacher of kindergarten up ro her recent illness of nervous prostration. In her chamber was a tire place and when last seen alive she was standing close to the grate. The supposition is that she approached too close to the tire and was stifled by smoke. Vice President Stevenson will leave Bloomington for Europe the 10th of April with his family, where they will spend the entire summer, making London and Paris their principal abiding places. Mr. Stev­ enson is looking very well since the ad­ journment of Congress, and as he grows in years becomes stouter. The health of Mrs. Stevenson is poor, and since the death of her daughter Mary, last Janu­ ary, she has been resting quietly at the home of her brother-in-law, with the ex­ ception of a brief trip to Danville. Ivy., her old home, where she used to reside- when her distinguished husband was a struggling student in Center College. The engagement and approaching nuptials of Martin Hardin and Mr. Stevenson's sec­ ond daughter. Miss Julia, is extensively discussed in society circles. Miss Julia is the handsomest and cleverest of the three Stovcnsfcft girls, and always was a great _favorite. Her intended husband is a son of Attorney General Hardin, of Kentucky, and is described as a brilliant young man. who has chosen the ministry, as his calling", being at present a student in the theological seminary at Louisville. Pneumonia is making sad ravages in Freeport and throughout Stevenson County. Five deaths occurred in Free- port. in one day, three being caused by pneumonia. '* Superintendent of Insurance Durfee has chartered the Garden- City Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Chicago. Thompson Ware is president and T. J. Brown secretary. Assistant Attorney General Newell holds that it would be against public poli­ cy for one person to hold the offices of justice»of the peace and village attorney at the same time. The Governor has restored the rights of citizenship to Reuben Landisi of Piatt County, who has-served two years at the Joliet State prison for burglary. Lottie Hargraves, a Rockforil inmate of the insane ward of the county house, wandered away and spent the night in the Woods, benair-'.found next day nearly frozen. - 5 " i * ' Maj, Joseph K, Lemon died at Carlyle. He was born in Shiloh, St. Clair County, Illinois, "seventy-eight years ago;, and served in the Mexican war in the same company with Grant and Jefferson Davis. He earned the title of major1 in the civil war. I Hs remains were taken to St. Clair Cuuntj- for interment. FIGURES OF A FOOL that hare done so much to disgrace the Fifty-third Congrca^ Mve nearly all been given an opportunity to Engage in soine other occupation for which they are btetter fitted They might look for jobs as importing agents. LI HUNG CHANG SHOT THE MEN'OF MARS. THE STATE CAPITAL. BRIEF ; COMPILATION OF ILLI NOIS NEWS. "J STUDIES ECONOMICS WITH DIS­ ASTROUS RESULTS. > WHAT ILLINOIS' IS DOING. / famsay's Creditors to Fight for the Assets -- Death of Mrs. Margaret McDonald--Broker McFarlin Could Not Stand His bosses on Trade. s- For the Benefit Of the Farmer *Ke . New York Herald's Sweeping False­ hoods Are Exposed--Samp.le of Dem­ ocratic Financiering--Loss to Labor. The. Affair Creates the Greatest Ex- citemeiit--Km peror and Em press Kx- press. xffeir Regret--China May Now Get Better Terms of' Peace. , Aj* Impartial Record of the Work Accomplished J»y. Those "Who Make Our Laws--How the Time Has Been Occupied During the Past Week. Will Contest Bondsmen's Claim. •*T7 Two hundred of the depositors in thje Ramsay bank held a meeting at, Carlyle for the purpose of discussing the advisa­ bility of contesting the $363,000 claim of •RamSoy's Chicago bondsmen - and also raising a fund to pay court costs. The creditors all expressed a desire contest the claim and subscribed enough cash to pay the costs of'suits. The creditors will fee represented by Messrs. VanhoorebecV- and Ford, Darius Kingsbury and J. J. McGaffigan. This case, which will come up for trial during the May term, of the Circuit Court, will be of unusual interest. Another meeting will be held. Brazen , Mendacity. Recent statistics show in a very strik­ ing way the disastrous- effetet of our high tajriff on the export trade in Amer­ ican products. Official reports-pub­ lished recently by the. United States "Treasury Department show-that dur- ing 1894 there was a large falling off in our "exports to Germany of agricul­ tural implements,' sewing machines,- manufactures of cotton and flour, and a falling off of more than 50 per cent, in our exports to Germany of seeds*- butter, beef products and bog products. --The New York Herald." We do not know whether the failure of the popular loan scheme has so soured the stomach of Mr. James Gor­ don Bennett that he has cabled: to his editors -to--resort to-deliberate false­ hoods in the columns of his paper, but the foregoing is the most barefaced and brazen piece of mendacity that we have ever seen published on the equivo­ cating,; shifting, evasive ami un-Ameri­ can editorial page of the New York Herald. ? We take the exports of the/ United States, as published by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department for 1894 and for 1893, giving the values of the above mentioned articles ex­ ported to Germany in each year, as fol­ lows: EXPORTS TO GERMANY. Values. Articled. 1894. 1S93. Agricultural im- . plements .... $530,443 $379,437 Sewing ma­ chines 22S.126 378.19S Cotton ma nu- faetures 177,687 126,863 Flour 875.852 1.477,130 Seeds 908,339 1,3CK>,400 Butter 10S.841 7,730 Beef products: Canned beef. : 486,SOO 559,935 Salt or pick'd. 505,897 320,940 Hog products: Bacon 1,054,867 484,692 Hams 180,270 79,482 F'rh and pick­ led pork.... 197,552 70,937 Lard ... 8,707,398 0,112,063 Broker Ends His Life. Defeated and disheartened by adverse changes on the Board of Trade, Frank M. McFarlin, of Chicago, wrote a warn­ ing against the course of speculation he had been pursuing and ended his life Sun­ day morning with two bullets through his heart. The letter was written upon the stationery of the Lexington Hotel, in both ink and pencil. The portion in ink was dated March 16 and read as follows:, "I have tried and failed so often since I came on the board that I am at last dis­ heartened and give up. This act may look cowardly, but, thanks to some1 more gen­ erous people, opinions differ on' that sub­ ject. No one knows what death is but the one who uses it as; the only escape from fate. I met defeat ag&in yester­ day, which was more than I-can endure, and I wish to warn all honest men to be­ ware of the board. My heart is too heavy and my brain too much intoxi­ cated to write. ,. Good-by, everybody. F. M. McFarlin." On the back of one of the pages was scrawled, in pencil, in a hand hardly legible, the words: "I hSd intended doing this act yesterday, but that I saw a hope of getting some mon­ ey with which to fix up my losses, but was disappointed, and have waited for to-day. Mac." This letter was marked "public" in ink? Tlie Wall of Protection Down. Lived Nearly a Century. Mrs. Margaret McDonald Ewing Smith, mother : of ex-Representative C. G. Smith, of Vandalia. died Thursday at her home in Vandalia. The deceased was born in Butler County, Ohio, March 2S, 1803. She was the sole survivor of the old stock0 of the Ohio, and Kentucky Ewings, and was also,a cousin of the late Senator^ J. E. McDonald,1 of Indiana. She was well acquainted with Gen. Will­ iam Henry Harrison, and in her girlho.pd days was a frequent guest at the Gen­ eral's hospitable home in N&rth Bend, Ohio. She was married in 1828 to Will­ iam Lewis Smith, at that time a promi­ nent merchant in Miamisburg, Ohio, and resided there until 1862, when she re­ moved to Vandalia. She was related by ;b!ood and marriage to the most promi­ nent families in the .Miami Valley, be­ tween Hamilton and Dayton, Ohio. Democratic Financiering. • On March 1, 1893, there was in the United States treasury, as shown by the monthly-statement: Gold coin... $137,837,900 00 Gold bullion. 79,835,048 00 Gold certificates 7,7S2,260 00 Totals $13,968,213 $11,306,807 The foregoing is a list of the articles, mentioned by the Herald, that show \"a large falling off in our exports to Germany." The values are taken from a report by Mr. Worthington C. Ford, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department. The "large falling .off" of the Herald's imagina­ tion is an actual increase of $2,661,316. In agricultural implements the "large falling off" was 'a gain of $157,006. In sewing machines the "large falling off" M as $150,072, due in great part to the very much lower price at which sewing machines are now selling ow­ ing to the expiration of patents. In cotton manufactures the "large falling off" was an increase of $50,824, which is very remarkable when we consider that Connany bought from us in 1894 over 63,000,000 pounds more raw cot­ ton than she did in 1893. In flour the "large falling off" was $601,278 be­ cause Germany bought 11 ore wheat from Argentina and made her own flour under her policy of protection t<Pher home industries. In our exports of seeds to Germany the "falling off of more than 50 per cent." was less than 50 per cent., but the Herald forgets to state that the protection on seeds was reduced 50 per Cent., so that we sold loss when the markets of the world were open to us. and the same was the case with flour. But look at the "falling off of more than 50 per cent." in our exports of butter to Germany, which were only $7,730 in" 1893, and incrbased^tb $10S,- 841 in 1894, a gain of nearly 1,400 per cent. Then, again, the "falling iff of more than 50 per cent." in our exports of -beef products resolves itself into an increase of $111,882, our shipments of canned beef being lighter, but of salt or pickled beef $185,000 more than in 1S93, leaving the net gain in our beef export trade at $111,822, as above stated. Si ill further the "falling q,® of more than 50 per cent." in Germany's pur­ chases of American liog/products is represented by an increase of $3,392.- 913, which was exactly|a gain of 50 per cent, in this branchW our trade, every article of bacon, fresh and pickled pork and lard being in greater demand than in 1893. As the Herald was correct in noting smaller exports of sewing machines and flour to Germany last year, tlie^ writer of the article cannot be excu^eo" on the ground of an ignorance of addi­ tion and subtraction. We must assume, therefore, though we do so with regret, that the article was a cheat, pure and simple, the deliberate concoction, as they say in Paris, d'lin menteur a triple efage. It is worthy of the atten­ tion of Mr. James Gordon Bennett. -Total .$342,835,490 00 On Feb. 1, .1895, the monthly state­ ment showed: Gold coin $51,343,230 00 Gold bullion... 46,010,546 00 Gold certificates 337,060 00 in Washington is that Japan will suffer greatly in consequence of the assault, and that the position of China will be so strengthened that she may be able to secure better terms of peace than she could otherwise have hoped for. The incident may lead to the breaking off of peace negotiations, which were proceeding so satisfactorily, or at least may postpone further action in this di­ rection until Japan has guaranteed the safety trf < 'hinesC envoys and made prop­ er reparation. The Clwnese legation received promnt notification of the matter,, but their40- vices contained nothing not in the prea^ "dispatches. Minister Yang Yti did not care to discuss the subject. It was stated at the legation that it was not believed that it would lead to the total• breaking off of the peace negotiations, although it might cause them to be interrupted for a time. The Attack 011 the Czarowitz. The attack on Li Ilung Chang calls to 1 mimi the attempt made 6T1 Slay 11, 1S91, to kill the czarowitz. now the Emperor, of ! Russia. In November, 18!X>, the czaro­ witz, in company with his cousin. Prince George of Greece, started on a tour of the world. They visited Vienna, Athens, Cairo, Bombay, "Calcutta, Madras, Cey­ lon. Bangkok, ,.§dani, various places in China and Japan. While at Otsu, Japan, the czarowitz was attacked with a sword by a fanatical Japanese othcer and quite severely wounded. He would in all like­ lihood have been killed had it not been for the bravely of Prince George, who sprung upon the would-be assasshwind felled him to the ground. The affair caus­ ed the greatest excitement, and the mika­ do traveled to Otsu to visit the czarowitz and express his regret for the attack. Total . $97,690,836 00 Total withdrawals in 23 months . ...245,144,654 00 An average annual with- »••••• drawal of. 127,901,558 • 73 An average monthly with­ drawal of 10,658,463 00 An average dailv with­ drawal of. . . 355,282 10 An average withdrawal for each hour of 14,803 42 An average withdrawal for each minute of.... J 246 72 An average withdrawal for-reach second of...... 4 11 At the above average it would only require nine months, three days, twen­ ty-two hours, thirty-one minutes and fifty-seven seconds -to withdraw the entire amount now remaining. Cheap Goods and No Wages, The Loss to Labor. The total amount of dutiable goods received at New York from September, 1893, to January, 1894, was $(>8,349,116, and the value of similar goods received at New York from September, 1894, to January, 1895, was $100,956,512, an in­ crease of $32,607,396 under the Gorman tariff. May Heal, Demo<?£ntic Soreheads. Our imports of salt last year exceeded 420,000.000 pounds, as compared with Imports of 333,000,000 pounds in 1S93. Salt is now upon the free list, although its price was so greatly reduced under Protection, which stimulated the Amer­ ican salt industry. Labor's Side of the Picture. The tin plate industry got so good a start under the McKinley tariff that Democratic reform cannot kill it off. But it is holding its own only by re­ ducing wages, which is not so pleasant a side of the picture.--Rochester Demo­ crat and Chronicle. A Lesson of the War. Average editors and newspaper writ­ ers have referred to the battles of Yalu and Wel-Hai-Wei for lessons, but they overlooked the supreme lesson of the Chinese disasters. This is astonishing, as Mr. Gladstone has called attention to the necessities of shipyards in which lost vessels can be replaced. China has now lost its fleet and can­ not for love or money replace it. From the time war was declared war ships became contraband of war, and even ^hose that were nearly completed in European yards could not be delivered. In England the case is very different. All the world--except the United States -- buys ships there. ^Agreat part of the world buys war ships there and, as a consequence, England lias such sources and appliances for building ships that she boasts she can complete a battle ship within a year from the time the keel is laid. \ It has been the efforts of Messrs. Fitbian, Tracy and others to increase the power and resources of England, and at the same time reduce us t:> the "position of China. Neither the country, their colleagues in Congress, nor their constituents would have it. They have been elected to stay at home by very large majorities. As a mattpr of fact •the superserviceable tools of England An Honest Man Again. Honest Uncle Sam is able to hold his head up again since Congress has ena­ bled him to pay his just dues and hon­ est liabilities to our sugar producers. ... United States Product of Pig lronv