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GREAT STATE TENT, roll has now reached., the formidable fig­ure of 181^743 members. This prosper­ ous and popular order was founded by Major N. S- Boynton, its present supreme record keeper, and it was incorporated June 3,1, 1881. The first year of the or­ der's existence saw the modest beginning of a membership of 700; five years later this had 'grown years resulted in bringing the rolf'Sp to 39,001 members. Then! it took, in the three subsequent years, a phenomenal leap and added more than 100,000 mem­ bers. and 1894 closed with a membership of 178.727. During this period it "has paid to .beneficiaries on disabilities the- sum of $89,218.91), and on deaths $4,152,- 789.10. The.objects of the order, as briefly told in its official literature, are: "To unite fraternally all white persons of sound bodily health and good moral character, who are socially acceptable, between 18 and 70 years of age, and to provide for death, sick, funeral, 'accident, disability and old age benefits to those between the ages'of 18 and 55 years, and to educate the members socially, morally and intel­ lectually." A BIG STATE Oty "Winemillec, a young man liying five miles east of' Benton, was found dead in an old well. It is supposed he com­ mitted suicide. . ij* Robert H. Moore committed suicide at Peoria by taking a dose of morphine be­ cause his wife threatened to leave him on account of his bad habits. ' Alma, the, 5-year-old daughter of Mrs. Lars Olson, of Elgin, while playing with matches, ignited her clothing and was so badly burned that she will die,n* The Peoria .Presbytery concluded a two days' session in Peoria. A number of interesting papers were read and con­ siderable important business transacted. Prank Moffat, a farm hand living west of Lacon, placed a revolver to his head, sayiug, "No more work for me," and fired, killing himself. No cause is as­ signed for the act. Assistant Attorney General Newell says a man cannot execnte pension vouch­ ers by reason of his being a fourth-class postma^er. If he is a notary public or justice of the peace he can do'so. The ten years' sentence of Harry Feath- erstone. of Chicago, who was sent to the penitentiary iu .Tune1, 1891, for burglary, lias been commuted to five years by Gov. Altgeld. This is the equivalent of an immediate pardon. The State auditor of public accounts : has issited a permit to J, H. Eversole, W.-J. Hearn and M. F. Stacey to organ-, ize the Hindsboro State Bank, at Hinds­ boro, Dougias 0punty. The capital stock .is placed at $30,000. • At, Elgin, a wire supporting the trolley wire of the "electric railway fell- upon two horses hitched- to an iron post in a tflnncipal. street and they Were -almost instantly killed. Some of the spectators came near being shocked. Joseph Pierce, aged (50 years,' familiarly known as "Uncle .Toe," committed suicide at Beardstown by drowning in the Illi­ nois river. He came from Wisconsin about two years since, where he was a prosperous grain merchant. The executive committee of the National Wholesale Saddlery Association met in Decatur and decided to recommend an advance of from 5 to 20 per cent, in prices. Advance in the price of raw ma­ terial is the reason for the action. Work was begun on the demolition of a two-story brick building at Blooming- ton, which wa$ erected fifty-five years ago. It was for many years occupied as a -law office by David Davis, and was the headquarters of Abraham Lincoln on his numerous visits to Bloomington. Attorney General Moloney says that where a State's attorney brings suit and enforces the collection of funds from de­ linquent county officers and pays the amount so collected to the county treas­ urer he is entitled to retain 10 per cent, of the sum collected for his services. Mrs. Otto Herbig died at Freeport. On der death bed she made a statement be­ fore an attorney and witnesses that her husband struck the blow that killed Au­ gust Altmeyer in Freeport last October. Tier brother, Thomas Beverly, was found guilty of the crime and sentenced to hang on March 15 last. Gov. Altgeld com­ muted liis sentence to life imprisonment a lew days before the date of the execu­ tion. Her husband was convicted of be- ins an accessory and given eighteen years. Mrs. Herbig saw him strike Altmeyer, but did not relate the story of the crime -until a few hours before her death. Martha l'\ Davis, the 18-year-old daugh­ ter of Joseph Davis, of Farinington town­ ship, shot John Ellis, of Wayne County, who lived a short distance from the Jef­ ferson County line, the shot passing al­ most entirely through his'body. The shooting was.directly in front of a Mount \ ernon newspaper office. Ellis was tak­ en to an office, and a physieiqft p^pnounc- ed his .(condition to be critical. The griev­ ance of the Davis girl was that she had been betrayed by Ellis, who had been a fugitive and returned but recently to stand trial, when his case was dismissed. M iss Da vis is in jail. L. E. Fritz, a young man in the shoe business in Kingfisher, O. T., arrived at Staunton a few days ago to be married Wednesday to Miss Emma Bauer, a wealthy young woman, living with her mother on a farm near Bunker Hill. In­ vitations had been issued, extensive pre­ parations were made for a wedding and invited guests from Kansas and Missouri were to witness the ceremony. The pros­ pective groom went to the home of Mrs. Bauer Tuesday night and next morning all the family were startled by the dis- covery that the bride was missing. She had eloped during the night with Charley Berner, a hardware merchant of Bunker Hill. The cablcs announce the arrest in Paris of an American-named Wing for obtain­ ing money on bogus railway securities. The man arrested is Dwight L. Wing, of Springfield, formerly president of the St. Louis and Chicago Railroad, which he built. The road for which he was nego­ tiating bonds in France was the Iiock Island. Peoria and St. Louis. It was in­ corporated Nov. 29. 1890. in this State, with E. S. Orr, R. L. Hodgen. C. F. Me- Farland, H. E. Wilson and C. E. Tate, of Charleston as directors. Congressman James A. Connolly, who formerly lived at Charleston, says that the corporation is a bona fide one, and that Wing's ar­ rest may have been made at the instance of rival railroad men who do not want the road built. Wing has had a brilliant ca­ reer as a railroad builder and a promoter of big enterprises, all of which have brought him into court at some time. He started out with no backing but his own wits, and for awhile his exploits dazzled all central Illinois. First lie built an im­ mense flouring mill at Litchfield, then he built the St. I/ouis, and Chicago Railroad and founded the town of Mt. Olive, where he sunk a number of coal shafts. The litjgation that sprung from these enter-' prises has kept the courts busy for some ---The-Roek I shmd, -Peoria and St. Louis road is declared to be intended for the connecting link of the Santa Fe sys­ tem. to give that road a line between Chi­ cago and St. Louis, and this leads to the supposition that competing lines had something to do with the arrest of Wing. Trustees of Rock ford College are ex­ pected to open the doors of that institu- .,tion. which for years has been a high- grade seminary for young ladies, to young men also. >•'/ Pete*1 Kuntr, wife and four children. 7Uv'ing near ArcnzviiJe, were poisoned by ' bating diseased meat. Two of the chil­ dren1 have died and other members of the family are in a critical condition. Charles Silland, a prominent young farmer residing near Bothalto. accident­ ally shot..himself while feeding his ,stock. The charge from his gun entered his head^ resulting in his death two hours later. The faculty of Augustana College, Mo- line, which has been investigating charges against a number of students for several days, expelled Rudolph Soderholiu, of Jamestown, N. Y., for frequenting sa­ loons in Davenport. It is rumored that several others will be permitted to leave the college quietly. After a year or more of incessant plan­ ning and " working, with a heavy outlay of money and a great deal of anxiety, the question of an abundant and permanent supply of water for city purposes for Bloomington has at last been solved by the completion of the air-lift plan recent­ ly adopted. The city now has a daily sup- ' ply of 4,000,000 gallons of water. FORECAST OP WORK. MACCABEES OF ILLINOIS HAVE ORGANIZED. W.ILSON'S VAGARIES HAVE COST THEM FIFTY MILLIONS. MEASURES AT THE FRONT I N THE LEGISLATURE. Phenomenal Growth of This Great Order--Has Over 70,OOO Beneficiaries in Michigan, anil 173,727 Altogether --Ranks Second in the Country. Agriculturists Should Note These Fig­ ures and Contrast the Actual Per­ formance of th£"- Free-Trade - Law with Proinises Made in 1892. Jbull Tiiriea in Prospect for Several Days--But Few Appropriation Bills Now Before th^ Senate-- Bill* Continue to Come. That Foreign Commerce Again. What has become of the brave peo­ ple wlio were going to "tear down the Chinese wall of protective duties that shut lis out from the commerce of the world?" Since 1S92 7>ur foreign com­ merce has shrunk in the following pro­ portions: Imports . s Dutiable free Domestic Year, imports. • of duty. exports. 92 $393,95-,024 $-446,978,931 $923,237,315 93 ,358,904,750 417,344.174 854,729,454 94 292,938,742 383,373,3(52 807,312,953 Total shrinkage in foreign trade under two years of "Tariff reform" ..... ...•••» 2S0,543,213 At this rate of decline, if it were con­ tinued, six years more of "tariff re­ form" would put an end to our imports and exports altogether, and leave us as barren of iforeign commerce as the Cost of Wilsohis-m. "Advance sheets of our exports of. raw cotton and breadstuffs during February afford an opportunity for still further showing bow the process of ' letting ourselves out" into foreign mar­ kets progresses. Dealing first with ra w cotton, we give the figures as follows: Exports of raw cotton: i ' 4 • February, February, -- 1S94. 1895. Decrease. Bales u-491,075 475,704 15,971 P'nds 247,175,802 238,244,577 8,931,225 Value $18,852,389 $13,484,218 $5,36S,171 Six months, Sept. 1 to Feb. 28: Per pound. . Pounds. Value. cents. 1893-94 2,048,29k),803 $102,411,788 7.93 1894-95 2,660,204.5(53 151,832,755 5.70 Inc 611,973,760 *$10,579,033 *2.33 •Decrease. ' * ~ . The first table slioWs ! that our ex- Ad J t. Mcpajiielv*iiesigri8, The trouble?/at ,the/Quincy Soldiers' Home was ended wh€n Adjt. McDaniel tendered his resignation. It was prompt­ ly accepted by the 'Board of Trustees. Adjt. McDaniel and Surgeon Montgom­ ery have been at war for some.time. The adjutant accused the surgeon of slovenli­ ness in the operating room at the hps^. pital and of cremating in the furnace the amputated legs and'arms of old soldiers, and the surgeon retaliated by saying that the adjutant was drunk. The Board of Trustees found there was no basis for the adjutant's charges. They intimated ,to McDaniel that his resignation would be acceptable and he tendered it at once. Willing to Tell All He Knows. George Jacob Schweinf-urth, the bogus Lord, has transferred all his property at Rock ford. He is said to fear that the Coudrey suit at Chicago for $50,000 dam­ ages will go against him. Coudrey sues for alienation of his wife's affections. Lynn Grandy, the young man who, in company ; with Schweirifurth's nephew, ran away from the bogus messiah and his heaven last Christmas, taking with them a pony, harness, snddle and other articles, wafe taken to Rock ford from Chi­ cago by Chief Bargen and placed in jail. Young Grandy is very bright, and was taken to the heaven to live when only 5 years old. In jail young Grandy said: "This is simply a little game of Scliweln- furth's to keep me out of the way, as I am an important witness in the suit of George W. Coudrey. Schweinfurth is worse than you people in Rockford have any idea of. They have him sized tip in ^Ctaicago all right, though." Grandy says that Schweinfurth is richer than people have any idea of. The Legislative Grind. The week in the House is likely to be a dull one. The calendar is crowded with Eftftr'se billion second reading and a freshi batch is added to the list nearly every legislative day/" *It is expected that tJze greater share of the time of the House, will be devoted to getting these bills ad­ vanced to third reading. The committee work will be pretty much cleared up at the end of three weeks, and then the House will begin, homing afternoon ses­ sions. Mr. Kitzmiller's resolution de­ nouncing the pension policy of the pres­ ent -national administration, after several postponements, has been made a special order. After being discussed it is ex-' pected it will be adopted by a party vote. The Senate will be engaged with a num­ ber of measures of general interest and ' which are sure to excite considerable de­ bate. The dispatch used last week iu the transaction of Senate business has accomplished a great deal iu the way of removing important bills. There remain , but few appropriation bills on the calen­ dar. One is Senator Dunlap's omnibus bill, making appropriations for the ex­ penses of the various State charitable institutions. The others are Senator Herb's bill, appropriating $68,400 for the erection of a monument to Illinois soldiers killed at Chickamauga; also his bill ap­ propriating $20,0(}0 for a soldiers' widows* home, and Senator Mahoney's appropriat­ ing $25,000 to erect a statue in memory of Marquette. As there is little opposition to this measure it will probably pass. There are a number of special orders. Sen­ ator Crawford's bill to amend the phar­ macy law and the four park bills of Sen­ ator Morrison are among them, and also Senator Anthony's bill to amend the law in regard to the exercise of the right of eminent domain. All are on third read­ ing. The park bills are introduced at the instance of the West Park Board of Com­ missioners, of Chicago. The bill of Mr. Crafts to aop$md the law regarding the incorporation of cities and villages was favorably recommended Tuesday. A House bill to permit cities to tax insurance companies for the benefit of the fire departments was called up, but there was objection to its considera­ tion because a similar bill had already been reported out by the insurance com- ' mittee. When the arbitration bill was I called up iu the J3ouse by Jones pQ?k I Representative Berry asked to have the bill made a special order, as he wished to offer some amendments. Capt. Farrell was granted unanimous consent to intro­ duce a bill prohibiting the use of slot machines where used as gambling devices. A similar bill was introduced in the Sen­ ate by Senator Bartling. The House kindergarten bill of Mr. Bryan passed the Senate and only awaits the Governor's signature to make it a law. j" The House spent nearly all of Wed­ nesday morning debating amendments to the arbitration bill. Mr. Berry secured the adoption of his amendment providing that the first board appointees, like all others, must be confirmed by the Senate. The Jones ameudment providing that "if, at the time this act goes into "effect, the General Assembly shall not be in session the Governor may appoint ad interim three persons as aforesaid to constitute said board of arbitration, who shall hold their ollice until the next session of the General Assembly," was beaten by a strictly party vote. The emergency clause then carried unanimously. Ber­ ry's amendment that not more than two members of the board should be of the same political party carried. His amend­ ment requiring a unanimous vote for a decision was hotly debated, but when it came to a vote no one favored it but Mr. Be'rry himself. Amendments to reduce the salary to $2,000 were defeated. Jones, of Cook, offered an amendment making the law applicable to disputes where the employes number fifty. This was carried and the bill was ordered to a third read­ ing. The four West Park bills were passed by the Senate despite the objec­ tions of Senator Morrison, who introduc­ ed them. Senator Johnson introduced a bill to prevent bribery in the passage of ordinances in cities and villages, pro­ viding that a taxpayer who has,reason to believe the ordinance was secured by improper means or without sufficient con­ sideration may petition and bring court proceedings looking to its repeal. ' The Torrens bill for land transfers was favor­ ably reported by the House Committee on Judiciary. The Senate transacted a large amount of business Thursday morning. The rev­ enue hill was a special order, but it was not called until just befofl& the hour for adjournment. Then barely more than the enacting clause was read by the clerk, and on Senator Littler's motion the bill was made a special order for Wednes­ day. All the appropriation bills on third teading. except the bill appropriating $25,000 to erect a monument to Jacques Marquette in Chicago, were passed. Ia the House the Senate joint resolution pro­ viding for an adjournment of the two ^houses from Friday to Wednesday was concurred iu. Mr. Kitzmiller's resolu­ tion denouncing the pension policy of the present national administration was adopted by a party vote--yeas S9, nays 54. The report of the conference commit­ tee on the bill making an appropriation for the. rebuilding of the insane hospital at Anna, making the amount $180,000, was concurred" in. The Committee on- Judiciary reported adversely Sir. Wylie's bill requiring patients in the State hos-^ pitals for the insane to pay for their board and other expenses in every case in which they are financially able to-do so. On motion of Mr. Wylie the House . refused to concur iu the report andthe bill was placed on the calendar. ^ HE ISSUES THE CALL. YOBVt JEftCH liiSuSTKT fRKASJ INMSYRT Are Well-Known Crooks. The expert thieves who looted the Springfield post office are known. A half dozen men have identified their photo­ graphs and Government detectives are after them. Three of them are well-known New York crooks and the fourth is one of the cleverest of England's bank sneaks. The stupidity of one of the deputy sher­ iffs has been the means of allowing one, if not all,"of them to escape.. The four men have been in and out of Springfield "for a month and during that-time they have robbed a wholesale furniture house by blowing the safe open, and by drilling open the bank safe at Auburn, a few miles south, made another haul. Four men are known to have done the work and all of them have been identified. FRENCH ylOBB^ Old Capitol Needs licpairing. Otiaccount of the dangerous condition of the^^t wall of the Fayette County court house at Vaiidalia, the County Board has decided it unsafe to again con­ vene court or hold public meetings in the court room until the building is repaired. Time is beginning to tell on this land­ mark. The building was erected in isl­ and was used as the State house of 111K liois until 1838, when the seat of govern­ ment was removed to Springfield. Since that time the building has been used as the Fayette County court house. Officers Purse Masked Men. Four masked men entered the bakery building of E. G. Cook ih Centraiia. bound and gagged Cook's young son, who was in charge, and then proceeded to blow open the safe. This was done quick­ ly, the robbers obtaining about $50 for their work. The explosion aroused the family in the upper part of the house, who came to the rescue a few minutes after the robbers had gone. They were all strangers. Officers are in pursuit. F R E E S 1 H I P S ports of cotton were 8,931.225 pounds less than iu February, 1894, but the loss iu value reached $5,368,171. Tak­ ing our exports of cotton for sis months since the Gorman tariff be­ came law, as shown in the second table above, we find that since the wall of protection was broken down we have exported almost (512,000,000 pounds of cotton more than a year earlier but at a loss of $10,579,000, the money paid for the larger quantity shipped this season being that much less than was received for the smaller quantity a j ear ago owing to a decrease of almost two and a quarter cents per pound in its export value. Looking next to our exports of breadstuff's, we give the lig-f pres and values for February iu cacli. year as follows: Exports of breadstuffs: Bushels-- Feb., Feb., 1894. 1895. Barley 288.081 42,775 Corn 5,(543,050 2,501,4(5(5 Oats 37,493 31,1(52 Wheat 4,010,056 4,600,92(5 Flour, barrels 1,133,(532 947,793 Value-- Feb., Feb., 1894. 1895. Barley $124,590 $20,01(5 Corn 2,567,947 1,248,674 Oats 13.651 10,338 Wheat 2,497,177 2,513,53: Flour 4,581.2(59 2,952,85 Antarctic continent which Professor Cook is fitting out an expedition to dis­ cover.--New York Press. Why Hogs Were Cheap. The Salt Lake Daily Tribune thinks the enactment of a new tariff has noth­ ing to do with the lower price for hogs; yet in the same article says, "the peo­ ple have become so poor that the un­ derconsumption of the country is some­ thing enormous." This applies equally to hogs as it does to wheat, corn and sugar, of which government statistics show that decreased quantities have been consumed by the people since the present administration came into leaver. People who are out of a job, /M/jwliose wages have been cut down, hjyve not been buying pork very freely Wiring the last two years. Their sup­ ply of currency was not elastic enough to afford them even the usual quantity of bread to which they had formerly been accustomed under protection. London's Mud. TT"!? Some ingenious person lias been ana­ lyzing samples of London mud. with curious and interesting results, the mud showing distinct traces of Lon­ don's life according to the part of the town it conies from. In the city, for instance, there are found traces of gold aud silver from the wear and tear of the coinage, and'also a good deal of animal matter, especially bones, no doubt from the meat eaten. In poverty- stricken parts there are no traces of gold or silver, and very little animal re­ fuse. but the vegetable refuse becomes considerable, clearly pointing to the scarcity of money and of meat among the Inhabitants of those parts. The annual cost of repairing the sil­ ver coinage is thirty-one thousand pounds, which represents six tons of sil­ ver scattered over the surface of the kingdom every year, or eighty-six pounds of waste each day. The waste from the gold coinage amounts to about sixteen pounds daily. Of the sixty million pyunds of bread baked iu Lon­ don (lal'O* it is computed that one and three-quarter millions--half an ounce for each pound--are thrown away as waste. It is also said that five hun­ dred pounds' worth of vinegar, one hundred pounds' worth of sugar, eighty pounds'S^'orth of salt, three hundred pounds' worth of gas. and one hundred pounds' worth of mustard are wasted daily in London. MA.J. X. S. BOYNTON. had spoken a minute he had everybody laughing. He began by talking about Chicago. "Chicago is a wonderful city," Major Boynton said. "There is but one Chicago on the face of God's earth. I understand you are spreading your lim­ its; that you intend taking in the whole of Illinois. Michigan and Indiana, and that finally you will include the whole world. I'm not going to tell you that your women are the best looking women in the world--for they are not! 1 ve got one at home who is the best looking woman in the world, and she thinks I'm the handsomest man in America." This was too much for the vast audience to stand without finding some sort of relief. A tumult of laughter filled the great the- jjgBJsjtegggo^ ater, which grew in intensity when Ma- / v\ •'or Boynton remark- flgwyfc, NSfgwk ed that he adiyired fW fiBBy his wife's taste From that time until ^ 0 ^ n ' 8 0 ^ ^'s \ speech the audience was ready to laugh •gl||giLx Afy at a moment's notice. Y" H's remarks were V \' i\ / /i morons, however, for ^ \ ii I 7 / ' / he presented the ad- HON. I>. P. MARKKA'. vantages of the fra­ ternal beneficiary order so plainly that all could understand him. Miss Bina M. West, supreme record keeper of the Ladies of the Maccabees, also addressed, the audience, paying par­ ticular attention to the organization she represented. The Business Session. There were 153 tents, or lodges, repre­ sented by delegates when, the conven­ tion was called to order in the morning. The proposition to form a great camp of the tents of Illinois was discussed from one standpoint only. Every delegate was in favor of its adoption, and when the formal vote was taken it was unani­ mous. More tinie was necessary for the settlement of the question where the great camp should have it* headquarters, but the Cook County delegates carried their point, and Chicago -was agreed"upon, as the best place. A-'constitution and by­ laws were adopted and the following otii eers chosen for the great camp: Sir Knight J. F. Downer to be great com­ mander, and lieutenant commander. Sir Knight J. H. Stickling, 1(5, Elgin. W. C. Bryan, of Sheridan Tent, No. 32. Chi­ cago, was elected great record keeper, and John L. McLean. Globe Tent. No. 97. of Quincy, was chosen great finance keeper. The ladies of the Maccabees met in convention also, in an adjoining hall, and elected Mrs. J. F. Downer representa­ tive to the national convention of the supreme hive, which will be held in Port Huron, Mich., May 15. Mrs. Emma O'Connell, of Elgin, was chosen' alter­ nate. ; Objects of tliu Order.- * Although the names of other secret or­ ders of similar character, organized for the purposes of protection, insurance and society, may be more l'aniiliar.to the gen- i that of the order ol^ fat <§§&. ^pl|| the Knights of the Maccabees," its mem- '^SHL numerical strength among the societies of its kind in the United State«. »nly the Ancient Order of United Workmen 5IRS' J* F'.DOWSra' having a larger membership. Its total Record of the Week. Mrs. Edward Mason was fatally burned while raking a pile of burning leaves at Jacksonville. A quarantine has been declared against ShawneetJwn by neighboring towns be­ cause,of !?KiIlpox. George M'"er has been appointed sup­ ervising architect of the new post office at Bloomington, to cost $75,000. Surrey Sharp, colored, shot and m- stantly killed Frederick Crowe, a glass blower, at Alton, and made his escape. Governor Altgeld has restored the j rights of citizenship to Elisha Kirby, of Murphysboro, sent to prison in 1883 for murder. The elevator and granery of Hasen- winkle & Cox at Hudson was burned with its contents. Loss, $15,000. Fully insured.' The Waukegan Council has let the con­ tract for paving 15,300 square yards of city streets for $20,700 to M. L. McCar- son, of Detroit. The trial of Frank Adkinson for the murder of Lena Zipper Feb. 4, has been commenced in the Circuit Court at Pe­ oria. The defense twice pleaded insanity. The-Jerseyvjlli? Republican newspaper office was closed by the First National Bank of Jerseyville on a chattel mort­ gage and will be sold at public auction. George Tucker, on trial at Decatur for killing Louis Wilson Jan. 11. was given one year ill the penitentiary. Wilson at­ tacked Tucker and was shot and killed by ihiin. Members of the Shiloh Battlefield As­ sociation feel indignant- that the asso­ ciation has been ignored in the appoint­ ment of the secretary of the Shiloh com­ mission. August XIiltgT of- X?vi}0--hon i r - Friday evening, saying lie would return in an hour. The next morning his life­ less, body was found near his home with a gash in the head. Murder is suspected. The deceased leaves a widow and four. children. The Illinois Swedish Baptist conference adjourned after a two days' session at Moline. Rev. G. A. Haghstrom and E. J. Nordlander, of Chicago," were the prin­ cipal speakers, each delivering able ad­ dresses. " - At Peoria, in the case of Frank Ad-" kinson, the jury found him guilty and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. Last February Adkinson visited Lena Zipper, his sister-in-law, and asked her why she would not marry him as she had promised. She refused to have any th ing to do With him. He killed her and.at­ tempted suicide. The Democratic State Central Commit­ tee has issued a call for a convention at- Springfield. June 15, to discuss the cur­ rency question. . Charles Donohue, one of the proprietors of the Empire Laundry of Champaign, was instantly killed by the bursting of a centrifugal.clothes wringer. . Miss Cordelia Nelson has brought suit for $5,000 damages against Mrs. Alber- tina Carlson, Andrew Carlson and Charles Carlson, all of Moline, for alleged defamation of character. The parties are all prominent in Swedish Lutheran Church circles, and the suit follows an ac­ quittal by a church council of charges •feainst the young woman.1 • ° ' Buy the American Silk. Why, inquires an esteemed contem­ porary. should your wife buy an im­ ported Japanese silk dress? There are American factories that are making silks just like the Japanese patterns. The Japanese men work for a few cents a day. The Americans cannot do so. There is no difference in the price or quality of the two different silks, so why hot encourage the home silk in­ dustry by buying a dress pattern made in your own country?--The American Silk Journal. A Meal with the Sultan. Like the Pope, the Sultan eats by himself. Turkish houses have no din­ ing balls, and bis majesty of Stainboul orders his meals served in whatever apartment he happens to be. A silver table is brought in. and the cook's aids carry in dishes one after another. Waiters take each platter, let his ma­ jesty see that the seal is unbroken, take off the cover and place the steaming dish before the grand Turlf The seal is attached to every disli by the grand vizier. The Syltan's table is most bountiful­ ly and -Variously supplied. He eats generously *67 meats, swe.-ts, vegeta­ bles. sorbets and ice cream. Ilis ma­ jesty is a total abstainer. At state dinner's, when the guests are in the same room, but not at his table, wines and champagne are. however, freely dispensed. The Sultan spends annu­ ally one million francs for his table. When Representative Merriam's bill re­ pealing the acts of 1845 and 1S61 making the Roman Catholic bishop, of Chicago a corporation sole for the purpose of holding real estate for charitable and religion?* purposes was reported in the House Fri­ day morning it was recommitted to the' Committee on Education. Mr. Merriam was absent." When Le arrived lati^B he would not allow his bill to be killed in committee. There was considerable de­ bate and some opposition al the Senate to Senator Crawford's bill providing for the incorporation and regulation of pawners" societies and limiting the rate of interest on pawns and pledges. Consideration of the bill was postponed. Senator Littler' was unsuccessful in his effort to have his revenue bill made a special-order. In the course of the discussion Senator Hum­ phrey said he was opposed to the bill and wanted to see it defeated. Senator Lit­ tler might as well, understand that then as at some other time. Senator Bogardus* train robbing bill\and the House bill au­ thorizing the establishment of kindergar­ ten schools were advanced to third reac­ ting. Senator .Fisher introduced a bill providing for the taxation of dining and sleeping cars operated and used on rail­ roads in this State and not owned by corporation utsing them- 1895.--The British Bond-Age.