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OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. THE tive Sunduj Laborers Badly Injured --Little Boy Beaten by a Drunken Father--Porkpack&ra ut Jackson­ ville Assign. •" Fell with the SWall. Forty men were busy Sunday forenoon pulling down sections of a building at the corner of Market and Washington street®, Chicago. The brick was piled deep on the second floor at the noon hour. Five men mounted the pile after lunch and threw their rope over a section of the north wall. One man mounted the wall to set the hook, and when the four com­ panions were ready to pull he walked hack on the coping. With the additional weight of the section of brick that fell the floor gave way and -went into the basement with a crash. The wall tottered and the man dropped to his knees, held for an in­ stant and then pitched headlong through the mass of splintered joists and broken studding, with the crumbling wall about his shoulders. When taken out five men were "found to be badly injured. ILLINOIS STATE Philip Holdernitter, 74 years of age, was killed- by a passenger train on the. "Wabash Railroad at Edwardsville. r The Rev. Henry T. Miller, of Chicago, has been called to the pastorate of. the First Presbyterian Church of Quincy. At Mount Sterlings Edward Buskirk, 21 years of age, committed suicide by scooting. The cause was a love affair. At Anna, the 2-year-old son of W. H. Garrett was playing about a fire. His clothing caught fire and he was burned to death. ' , . The Attorney General says that it is the duty of city treasurers to obtain as large interest.ajs possible on public funds. Though he knoWs of no process by which such oflitrers can be compelled to advertise for bids, it is their plain duty to go to the banks and make the best possible arrange­ ments. At Ramsey. Barnel Hanley buried'$490 for safe keeping. 'His boy Hugh knew, of it and revealed the hiding place to his comrade. Homer James. The boys took a trip. James returning first, Hanley a few days later. Hanley accused James of taking the money arid James left again. He was arrested at Decatur and held for trial. He is of a good family. „ • The wall paper trust is to have its right to do business in Illinois tested in court. Attorney General Moloney announced he. Would begin a proceeding in chancery, the object of which would be to exclude the trust from the State as a violator of the laws against combines which affect public policy. He would file the papers at an early day and Would push the suit vigor­ ously. Frank E. Antrim, a baggageman in the employ ot the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad at the Quincy -Union de­ pot". received word from Dublin, Ireland, that his claim as an heir to the wealthy Antrim estate in Ireland, which has been in the Dublin courts for four years, has been proved, and that he is entitled tJ a share of it. the estate being estiniM^Hl at /inn a..* _ _\. • .rJr- .• . BREAK IN THE WALL. DISASTROUS RESULT OF PRO­ TECTION'S OVERTHROW. Our Purports of Foreign Goods Be­ come Larger While Exports De- Crease--One of the Results--Interest* ing Statistics. Ravages Are Caused by Lightning. Reports show that the recent electric storm was the most terrific that has been seen in McLean County in many years. It was especially violent about Colfax and Cropsey. Near the former place Rob­ ert Abbey's cattle barn was burned, with seven head of steers, hay, and 700 bush­ els of oats. Asa Putnam's barn was burned, with all its contents, including nine horses, four cows, vehicles, farm ma­ chinery. etc. His loss is $3,000. Martin Williams was knocked down and stunned. Horses and cattle were killed on a num­ ber of farms. The barn on the farm of William J. Rhodes, four miles southeast of Bloomington, was burned, with its con­ tents, entailing a loss of $1,500. Nearly Kills His Son. Sunday, while J. R. Lawler. of Vera, a small station six miles north of Vau- dalia, was under the influence of liquor, he became angry at his 11-year-old son at $7:>.0<K).000. Antrim's share in tfif^estate. will be between $100,000 and $500,000. He is 26 years of age, married and has two children. He will not go to Dublin to press his claim, as a relative in Missouri will be intrusted with that matter. » The State entomologist writes that very some trifling disobedience, punishing him|*many of his correspondents are reporting an unmerciful manner, beating JfiES# extraordinary numbers of chinch bugs in. about the head and face with his fist until the boy was almost unrecognizable. The boy was carried home in an unconscious condition, and it was thought for a time that he would die. Lawler was arrested, waived examination and gave bail for his appearance ill court. The neighbors will prosecute the father. C. H. Widmayer & Son Assign. The firm of Charles H. Widmayer & Son assigned at Jacksonville to Owne P. Thompson. The senior member of the firm was recently elected Mayor. He has been engaged in the pork packing business for many years. The liabilities are placed at6$38,(X)0, the Jacksonville National Bank being the principal cred­ itor. The assets are placed at $50,000. and include the business block in which the market is situated, a fine residence, the packing house and cold storage, with all machinery, half interest in 100 acres of farming land, and about $10,000 in book accounts. Elopes with a Wealthy Bride. Ulysses S. Allheimer, of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Miss Ophelia S. Schurff, of St. Louis, eloped to Springfield and were married by Judge Kane. The bride's parents objected to the match. The fath­ er, John Schurff, is a wealthy wholesale liquor dealer in St. Louis, and it was in­ tended that the young woman should go to Europe to finish her education. The Kroom is manager of his father's planta­ tion. one of the largest in Arkansas. The couple went to Chicago, and from there will go to Fine Bluff. State News in Brief. Arch Allen, colored, was drowned while fishing at Quincy. The Illinois annual conference of the Methodist Church will begin at Jackson­ ville Sept. 11, and Bishop Isaac W. Joyce will preside. Fred Remann, Congressman from the Eighteenth district, is lying at his home in Vaudalia dangerously ill, and there is but little hope of M&reeovery. At Quincy, William Whyers, formerly of the milling firm of Allen & Whyers, fell through a rotunda at the Newcomb Hotel and fractured his skull. Ed Millard, aged 10, died in Aurora from the effects of poisoning. He was taken violently ill after eating a meal in a Chicago restaurant several weeks ago. At Rockford, Judge Shaw overruled a motion to quash indictments against George Jacob Schweinfurth and three of his "angels." and they must stand trial. E. D. McMaster, of Princeton, Ind... member of a camping party at Edge- water Park, near Grayville. was drown­ ed while bathing in the Wabash. The body was recovered. The reports of crop correspondents re­ ceived at the office of the Department of Agriculture indicate a favorable condi­ tion of affairs in Illinois as regards the crop prospects of the State. At Centralia, Newton Weldon, blind, was drowned in the Big Four pond while bathing. Another blind boy was the only person with him and could not swim. Weldon was seized with cramps and went down in fifteen feet of water. Bishop Spalding, of the Peoria diocese, dedicated St. Boniface Catholic Church in Peoria with elaborate ceremonies. The church is one of the most beautiful in 'ho city and was erected at a cost of nearly $50,000. Father Aloysius is the pastor. The Rev. W. O. Shepard, one of the foremost Methodist pastors of Rockford. who has been pastor of Court Street Church for four years, will be transferred at the next conference in Elgin to one of several Chicago churches which have been desirous of securing him. At Springfield, Quint Work, colored, committed suicide > by drowning himself in a Cistern. His father and sister had recently died of consumption and he fear­ ed the same fate. Throughout Fayette and adjoining counties the chinch bugs are playing havoc with many of the wheat fields. This, with the reduced acreage, will result in a very small wheat yield. . Mrs. Sarah M. Moffett, the richest woman in Quincy, died Sunday, aged 70 years. She leaves an estate of nearly $1,000,000, consisting largely of property in the western part of Chicago. Three of the twelve people injured in the- Sherman street, Chicago, explosion, have died. ' Near Alton, Maurice Hartnett was in­ stantly killed while sinking a well for Louis Bunsee. He was using a alow fuse w hich failed to ignite the dynamite, and when he entered the well to relight the fuse the dynamite exploded, tearing him to pieces. Nevius Post, No. 1. Grand Army, of Rockford, has secured George W. Bryant, a colored editor of Baltimore, to deliver the Memorial Day address. Mr. Bryant is a prominent Grand Army man, being past junior vice-commander of the De­ partment of Missouri. various portions of the State, asking in all cases for material with which to intro­ duce the contagious disease of this insect among the chinch bugs now in the wheat. A simple method of distribution will be used this spring--more simple than that of last season. Either artificial culture of the fungus or chinch bugs found dead with it in the fields will be distributed di-: rcctly to applicants, a plan which will make unnecessary the sending in of in-; sects for infection. Applications will be: filed in the order of their receipt. Some time ago Representative Lowen- thal introduced in tin1 Ilftuse Committee^ on Building and Loan Associations a reso­ lution making serious charges of misman­ agement against the officers of the Inter­ state Bubbling and Loan Association, of Bloomington, of which Vice-President, Stevenson is president. The sub-commit-i tee made a report as follows: "Your com­ mittee. after a careful research into all the affairs of said association, believe- that the charges made in no way reflect on the business integrity of its officers oii its standing as a safe institution as a building-and loan association, and we find its standing as a building and loan asso­ ciation to be one of the best in the State." Chicago commission men admit that rumor kills all the fruit regularly every May. This year it is different, they say. They estimate their losses by frost at $500,0(H). Strawberries will be scarcer, poorer and dearer. This will not affect the man who eats strawberry shortcake at the down-town lunch counter unless he finds his berries under ripe. The baker and the lunchman will lose money. Ship­ pers at Centralia, Walnut Hill arid Rich- view report the strawberry crop cut off by one-half to one-third. Southern Illinois suffered less. Blackberries and raspber­ ries there are killed outright. Consid­ erable damage to strawberries waifc re­ ported from Humboldt, Tenn., and the available supply was being bought jrreed- ily. Michigan fruit shippers say cherries will be as scarce as pomegranates. Peaches bid fair to make amends for oth­ er shortages. Early vegetables are suf­ ferers. Corn and potatoes above ground were cut down and must be replanted. Peas and beans have been greatly injured, but the tomato, cucumber and cabbage (props of the truck farmers will not be hurt, as these are transplants, and hardly any of this truck had been taken from the greenhouses. At Springfield. Senator Morrison, chair­ man of the special committee appointed to ascertain to what extent the feeding of caftle on distillery slops is carried on in this State, made his report as follows: The testimony given demonstrates that cattle from which milk is taken, and also those intended for human food consump^, tiori, arc fed on refuse from breweries, distilleries, starch and glusoee factories, the refuse of the first two. however, being as nine to one. It also demonstrates that this refuse, on being analyzed, is found to be very largely composed of the hull of corn, or whatever grain was used, the nutritive materials being almost nil. * * <• ..This, wet refuse is shipped by freight, and it is claimed that if exposed to the air for three days it sours and ferments and be­ comes putrid, and when in this condition the medical experts were agreed that it was an unfit food for cattle; that it had a deleterious effect upon the milk, and also upon the flesh. « * * Your committee recommends legislation which will pro­ hibit the feeding of wet refuse from breweries, distilleries or factories to ani­ mals of the bovine species. It recom­ mends this, having in view the public health. * * * Your committee recom­ mends legislation which will absolutely prohibit the feeding of animals in large numbers on the premises of distilleries. The practice is inhuman, and should never be tolerated in a civilized community. * * * In a late Sunday night brawl James Dukes, of Godfrey, fatally shot George Stringer, of Alton. The victim is dying, and the man who did the shooting is lodg­ ed in the city jail. He claims that his act was done in self-defense. Both are young, unmarried men. David Cohn, a peddler from Chicago, committed suicide by hanging himself to a limb of a tree in a grove six miles north­ west of Mount Morris. Mr. Cohn had a horse and wagon and about $40 worth of yoodfc Work of Tariff Tinkers'. During February our imports of for­ eign goods were much larger in almost every line of trade, notably so of bar- ley, brushes, buttous, potash, clocks and watches, raw cotton, cotton manu­ factures, earthen and china ware, eggs (407,000 dozen more in a month), glass and glassware, bay, hides and skins, hops, leather and, its manufactures, paper, meat products, cheese, rice, seeds, silk manufactures, bags and bag­ ging. tin and wood and its manufac­ tures. The gain in the latter, though not quite so large as in January, was still so important as to warrant the pro­ duction of our woolen imports in detail: Imports of woolen goods: ' February. February, that wages will have to be consider­ ably reduced or that works will be closed, land will lie idle, and the num­ bers of the unemployed will be largely increased. * * * I find that there are a number of people, and I think an in­ creasing jiumber, who under the pres­ ent conditions of trade are coming to the conclusion that our free-trade pol­ icy* lias,,been a failure, and who would therefore be ready to go back in the direction of protection--Mr. Chamber­ lain, on British depression in trade. 1894. Carpets ......... $55,324 Clothing, ready made 47,534 Cloths Dress'goods. . Knit fabrics.. Shawls ....; .. cause is known for his committing the act. He was about 21 years of age. Because of trouble with Mayor Conk- liu about appointments,' Decatur now has a double set of police-officers on duty. The City Council declared that the new men were not-appointed according to law. The administration will fi«ht for its rights. Dr. J. F. Cook, the venerable president of La Grange College, was quietly'mar­ ried at Quincy to Miss Drusilla. M. Hir- ons, teacher of elocution at the college. It is the groom's third uiijrriage and some­ what of a surprise to his friends. Dr. Cook is about 04 years old. Miiss Hirons is 30, and is well connected. They evaded giving their ages when applying for the marriage license, simply swearing that they were over 18. •, 020,074 070,072 39,340 0,581 33,195 02,900 1895. $105,983 77,204 2,258,812 2,022,933 50,952 30,573 172,954 123,808 All other. ....... • • p. ; -- Totals:.... ... .$1,541,086 $4,903,279 During the two months of January and February we have bought nearly $8,500,000 worth more of foreign woolen goods than in the corresponding months a year earlier. The importance of the lower tariff on woolens will be best ap­ preciated, or otherwise, by those who gain their livelihood working in the woolen mills when they understand that we bought over 100,000 square yards more of carpets in two months and must consequently make that much less. We also bought, in two months, 5,SOO.OOO pounds more woolen cloths, besides the larger quantities of ready made clothing, dress and knit goods. These larger quantities will be sold in our markets, and every yard of them will supplant a yard made in an Ameri­ can mill by an American laborer. The competition in the woolen trade is both enormous and unnatural. The result must be as disastrous as the tariff re^ formers intended it should be. It is the outcome of breaking down our wall of Protection and giving the other fellows a chance to get in. An Industry Disturber. Will the Republican organs and politi­ cians never get over their passion for tariff tinkering? Do they mean to go on forever disturbing industry and unsettling the revenues with their endeavors to get one more President out of ProtectionV-- N. Y. World. We are glad to note that the World acknowledges the agency of tariff tin­ kering-as an industry disturber. Many free trade organs denied the responsi­ bility of the late tariff legislation for the fearful depression which is still so hard pressing; The World ought not now to complain of the expressed purpose of the friends of protection to restore protective duties, for, according to its own editorial report on March 20, "the feeling in every deparmeut of business is distinctly better." Ought not the World to conclude that this im­ provement. coming together with the higher tariff talk, is really because of that kind of talk? The difference be­ tween free trade tariff tinkering and protective tariff talking, is that, under the free trade kind, industry becomes disturbed and revenues unsettled, while under the protective kind confi­ dence aud stability become marked features. Fortunately we have object lessons at hand to which we cite the World, viz.: The period in which the Mclvin- ley law was under discussion and the period in which the Gorman tariff was under discussion. The same causes which operated to give tone and stabil­ ity to business in the tariff changing period of 1S90 will operate in the com­ ing tariff changing period of 1897. Whenever changes are made for the better protection of industry, industry with all its correlated activities will thrive, and, together, shed their bene­ ficences upon all. On the other hand the same causes which operated in the free trade tariff tinkering period to depress, and even destroy, industry, have always operated in the past, whenever tried, in the same way. Interesting Statistics. A half-year's operation of the tariff reform free-trade bill gives interesting statistics regarding our imports of for­ eign cutlery, which were as follows: Value of imports of cutlery, Sept. 1 to March 1: 1894,95. 1893-94. Increase. $1,080,055 $393,002 $08(5,943 During tli" first six months ending Feb. lis, 1895, we bought from other countries over $1,000,000 worth of cut­ lery, as compared with less than $400,- 000 worth during the corresponding six months a year earlier. The actual increase was $080,943, which is at the rate of $1,373,880 a year. We do not believe that the improved condition of trade will create a demand for this excess over nnd above the full amount of our own cutlery factories. If it does not there must be a glut in the market--a surplus of cutlery, which will result later on in lower prices, so that manufacturers and importers can exchange their stocks fox money.. If this be not done the surplus stocks will increase. The workers in our cutlery factories know what this means. If the manufacturers are stocked up with more cutlery than there is a mar­ ket for. they must close down and the hands they employ must be idle. IT kn-y -secttr&rrtlre- trade,' then our manufacturers must either shut up shop or reduce their expenses in some way. The only way in which this can be done is by reducing wages. The outlook is not a lu*igli| one for those who work in our cutlery factories. Overproduction Not Responsible. The friends of free trade cannot at­ tribute the low: prices of wool last year to any increased supply, because from an annual review of the woOI trade for 1894-'95, issued by Goldsbrough, Mort & Co., of Australia, we find the sup­ plies given as follows: . w 1892. 1S93. Bales. Bales Australasian and Cape.2,120,000 River Plate 415,000 Other sorts. 497,000 British pro­ duction (in equiv­ alent of colonial bales .... United States (in equivalent of colonial bales) . .. 1894. Bales. 2,07*^,000 2,152,000 414.000 443,000 470,000> 497,000 050,000 03S.000 000,000 823,000 900,000 82(5,000 GREAT RACE TRACK. GALESBURC COURSE ONE NATIONAL DEPUTE. 4 'A:: •• . t> ,iov- - tt Was Here t&t Pretty Little A1 f x Reduced the Trotting Record 2:03 3-4 -- Arrangements Made f«Jl Notable Attractions This Season. Total sup­ plies availa- ble .......4,511,000 4,502.000 4.51S.OOO It appears that the 1894-'95 wool sup­ ply was only 7,000 bales larger than in 1892, but our farmers know only too well there has been a great difference between the prices paid for their wool in the two periods. Free Trade a Kuilure. I am inclined to think that in our staple trades--for instance, in the coal trade, in the iron trade, in the cotton trade, and, above all, in the greatest of all our trades, tl^e trade of agricul­ ture--the margin of profit has entire];: disappeared. Up to the present time Adages have not fallen at all in propor­ tion, but if the present state of things continues it is* simply inevitable either Put to Flight. One of the Results. One of the largest Canadian lumber dealers is about to establish an agenc'j' in Pittsburg for the stile of Canadian lumber. This is one of the results of the pauper tariff act which the Cleve­ land administration has loaded upon the people. Just how the introduction of foreign lumber is going to start up the American lumber interest is just as foggy as the boom of American wool by the introduction of foreign wool. No­ body but a Democratic editor can ex­ plain it and nobody but an ass believe it.--Tribune-Republican, Meadyille, Pa. Glass Workers Interested. The glass manufacturers of the Unit­ ed States, as well as the wage earners whom they employ, will learn with interest tlurt we imported at New York, during the first half year's operation of the new tariff. 1,520,000 pounds more of C. C. and C. unpolished glass than in the corresponding months a year earlier, almost 1.000,000 square feet more of C. and C. polished, silvered glass, and over 1,000,000 square feet more of unsilvered plate glass. Flyers Are in Trim. ; r - Galesburg, 111., correspondence: , ITTLE more than a year ago the, Gales- burg race track ex­ isted only in the im­ aginations of a few men. Many will re­ call the lengthy cor­ respondence aud the many negotiations which were neces­ sary before C. W. Williams decided to move to Galesburg from Independence, Iowa. On April 3 of last year the track was staked out. In the past year what was once a pretty pasture land has become a fait* grounds of"na­ tional repute, for it was here on Gales- burg's dead level track that pretty little Alix reduced the trotting record to 2:03%. The first year cannot be said to have been more than ftn experiment, but the result was so satisfactory that the Williams race track is one of the solid institutions of the beautiful college city of Central Illinois. The outlook at. the present time is very flattering, and it seems as though many records must fall here'before the Beasou closes. The first eveiit which will, draw the pub­ lic attention to the Galesburg track this year will be the State bicycle meet to be held June 19, 20 and 21, where $2,500 will be given away in prizes. The first day "there will be eight races, >vith premiums worth $000; the second day, $1,000 will bo divided among ten races, and the last day $900 goes to eight races. Besides several local championship events, the program includes a quarter, one-mile, two-mile and five-mile L. A. W., Illinois Division, cham­ pionships. Thousands of wheelmen and many thousands of spectators will be present at that time. The next attrac­ tion will be the Fourth of July celebra­ tion, which, as Mr. Williams does things, will be elaborate and complete in every detail. It will be the day to eutertaiu the people from all the surrounding coun­ try. Then comes the great trotting and pacing meeting, Aug. 20 to Sept. 7. For this meeting thirty-eight of tho $2,000 stakes are filled, showing the en­ tries of over (500 trotters and nearly 400 pacers. These animals represent about all the leading stables in the country. Monroe Salisbury, the owner of pretty Alix and other fast ones, has about thirty- eight entries here. A few of the entries in the fast stakes will give an idea of the quality of licyses t</be gathered here at this meeting. In the 2:10 pace there are such individuals as Vera Chapel, 2:10*4; Belle Mahone, 2:101/4; Col. Thornton, 2:11- Coleridge, 2:09%; Albert E„ 2:10%; Fidol, 2:1014; Frank Egan, 2:10*4; -Ethel A. 2:101/4; Gazette, 2:09%: Ella T., 2:12, and Fleetwood, 2:12. In the 2:12 trot we find such names as Cicerone, 2:12%; Sen­ ator A., 2:13Vi; B- B- F-, 2:13%* Ken­ tucky Union, 2:11%: William Penn, 2:12%; Senator Conkling, 2:12%; Miss and Cha :V Willia Iras bee: THE STATE CAPITAL' WHAT ILLINOIS' LEGISLATURE) IS DOING. Five French dramatists are at pres- engaafed on plays dealing with lis XATI,"--Sardou, Pierre Decour-. e^ Henri Ceard, Henri de Welndel, (les Buet Watson, the English poet, granted a pension of $500 a year by/Rosebery'g Government. The Gladstone regime had already provided him wilth a pension of $1,000 a year. Tolstoi's new story is called "Master and Man," It describes with pathos and simplicity the way in which a com­ monplace', money-loving man sacrifices his life In a great storm to save that of his servant ~ Among the comparatively recent ac­ quisitions of the British Museum are a number of unpublished tales by Char­ lotte Bronte, written under the pseu­ donym of "Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley." The museum also possess­ es a letter in which Miss Bronte re­ fused to allow a London publisher to bring out her portrait Admiral Sir R. Vesey Hamilton, of tiie British navy, is arranging to bring out a collection of letters from naval officers of all ranks, from midshipmen to admirals, containing something more of their daily life than can be learned from official reports. It is believed that the graphic stories of officers describing to their friends and relatives scenes of which they were eye-witnesses, with their observations, would be interest­ ing. | An interesting book is announced in "The Tragedy of Fotheringay," by the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott, of Abbots- ford. It is founded on the recently pub­ lished journal of D. Burgoiug, physi­ cian to Mary Queen of Scots. It will contain a photogravure of the Blair por­ trait and illustrations from the Cal- thorpe manuscripts, among them being contemporary drawings of tho trial and tho execution of Mary at Fotheringay, aud lists of names, in Beale's writing, of those present on each occasion. of the Worlc An Impartial Record Accomplished by Those Who Onr Laws--How the Time Has Been* Occupied Dnrins the Past Week. - ' Doinjj TheTTotree^c Which Is the Wiser? Which is the wiser, the sounder, the more profitable, the more patriotic plan--to continue to pay $100,000,000 a year to foreign ship-owners, and see almost every dollar of it lost to us, or to speud two, three, four or five milliou dollars to encourage American citizens to carry American commerce under the American flag. To the American mind this question admits of only one possi­ ble answer.--Boston Journal. LITTLE ALIX. Democratic Garments. Judging from the wool sales thus far this season the consumption of that article in the United States will be but about 70 per cent, of the normal. That doesn't look very much as if the Demo­ crats had accomplished their expressed purpose of putting woolen garments on the backs of all the people. They might have succeeded better if they had not rendered It impossible for the people to buy any kind of garments.-- The Cleveland Leader. It's Different Now. President Harrison paid off $290,- 000,000 of the public debt and turned over to Mr. Cleveland's adminstration $124,000,000 surplus. There was not a moment from the inauguration of Mr. Harrison to the second inauguration of Mr. Cleveland in which we did not col­ lect for every day of every year suf­ ficient revenues to pay every demand and obligation of the Government.-- Gov. Wm. McKinley. Don't Want It Changed. If-we do our work at home our labor at home will be employed, and the wages paid at home will be spent at home. This is the pliilosoply of pro­ tection and it cannot be abandoned, amended or abated. --Governor William McKinley. More Foreign Tobaccos. Of wrapper tobacco we imported at New York 512,000 pounds more, and of other leaf tobacco 2,520,000 pounds more during tlie first half year's opera­ tion of the Gorman tariff than we did a year earlier. Comins to the Rescue. Nelson, 2:12Vi: Klamath, 2:12I/4; Mam- brino Queen, 2:13%; Benzetta, 2:12%; Jack, 2:12; Aunt Delilah, 2:121/^, and Nina Medium, 2:14V4- Besides the advertised stakes, numerous specials will be arrang­ ed later, which will include many of the record breakers of the season. The fact that the Williams track is going to bo the speediest in the country will draw such horses Irere for time races. Imme­ diately following; this meeting will come the Breeders' meeting, which will run from Sept. 9 to Nov. 2. The program con­ tains 138 races, with $300 purses. Entriea close Aug. 20. The trainers are just beginning to let the horses step along a little and some good speed has been seen. The Allerton family are doing fine work, and if they hold up through the season, several of them will gain enviable records. As. Mr. Williams goes down th.« track with somo one of this stripg hitched to a "bike," the boys all want to stop their work to see him go by, for he has some fine steppers. Allerton, who holds the stallion record to n high wheel "r, so far has worked well nnd shows g"?at promise of lowering his record of 2:"))^. Ferron and Falfa also do fine woTi. There is a two-year-old sorrel pace?, Rob Milliard, a full brother to Falfa, by Allerton, who is moving about is nice a» any horse at the track. In Ed Trask's string there is Dale, 2:21 Vl>, the fine looking brown pacer who itepped off a quarter in 32 seconds the other day. Then there is Florisand, a 3-year-old by Allerton, dam by Robert McGregor, who will get around in tho :20 crowd this year. Ed will soon aave Starr Wilkes, with a two-year-old record of 2:39%, but who will probably see 2:20 this year. Ab. Fullagar, of Omaha, is here with a promising string of eight or nine. The leader is Nina Me­ dium, 2:14V4, who is. entered in the :15 classes. He has a green pager, Attempt, which is showing good imunise. The others alsO are well wortli watching. Ab. has his string entered in about $S0,000 worth of stakes. Billy Mclvers expects to start out in June with four pretty nice individuals. There's Lee Ward, wtio stepped a half in 1:12 and a quarter in 32% the other day; Prince Edward, Jr., 2:3S, who is fast and steady; Tip Wall, a promising two-year-old, aud Oak. Leaf, 2:39%, who steps along at a good clip this year. Chas. Tevbush, besides a likely string of young ones, has Domino, 2:1914, who stepped a nice half recently. Joe Johnson has in his string Minnie Max, who they think will come in under the 2:12% company, and Senator Conkling, 2:12%, who is go­ ing strong and steady. Within a few days W. A. Boggs. of Leb- anon, Ky., has located here with Major Cleland, 2:30%; Norvadine, 2:25%; Col. Thornton, 2:11, and four or five green ones. W. A. Hogan has a 4-year-old bay mare, Bell Pilot, who can speed a :20 clip, quartered at the track. George Redfield will shortly put his famous pacing dog, Sport, who holds the world's record on the eighth, the quarter, the half and the mile, to regular work at the track. Frank Law­ rence is quartered at the track with Star Hawk, 2:17Vi; Jessiona, 2:2914; Bret- wood, 2:34*4, and a promising black stal­ lion with a mark of 2:29%. Chas. Shank has Frank Stickney's horses this year. Several strings have applied for quarters at the Wiinams.track and will be here in a few days. ; July 24, Pioneer Day, is a holiday la Utah. » ' Wonders thai Never Cease. - Wonder why it is that the lame'man nnd the man with the rheumatism take such especial pains to be the first to possess themselves of tiie car platform when the train reaches the city, and, having attained it, arc so careful not.to leave it until all the other passengers have lost their patience and, some of their temper in their attempts to get past the obstructing bodies of the lame man and the man with the rheumatism aforesaid. Wonder why it is that the man who knows nothing should be so eager, upon all possible occasions, to parade the knowledge which lie does not possess. Wonder why it is that when the elec­ tric car conductor says; "Move' upj please," we regard the request as ad­ dressed to others exclusively, and in our mind make comparisons iK)t at all com-; pllmentary to the swine to whom wo liken those obstinate passengers. ! Wonder why it is that when children' quarrel it is inevitably those bdfrfd young ones who belong to our ueigh- bor who are the cause of all the trouble.' Wonder why it is that people will persist in talking about something in which they are interested when we are set upon talking about something which Interests us. j Wonder why it is that our country cousins will persist upon Vailing upon us in the city in the winter time, when they have such abundant opportunity to see us at their' own homes every summer. Wonder why it is that things are-.al- ways just as we don't want them to be, and so often just what somebody else seems to $eslre.--Boston Trans­ cript. "If He Hadn't 'a' Dodged." The pioneer lawyer, in whatever country his fortune may be cast, is cer­ tain to have experiences worth remem­ bering. Officers there are usually not elected for any special qualifications, but because better men are not avail­ able. A correspondent offers a case in point. In -a Western village a certain "Squire" Thomas was elected justice of the peace, and as his bailiwick was many miles distant from the country site, he was furiiished with blank affi­ davits for use in cases returnable to the county court. These blanks con­ cluded with the statutory words, "con­ trary to law and against the peace and dignity of the State." The first affidavit the county court received from the newly elected justice read: "Before me, a justice of the peace, appeared A. B., who, being duly sworn. deposes and says that on the day of C. D. committed an aggravated assault upon the person of A. B. by throwing a rock the size of an egg at the head of the said A. B., which would: have hit the said A. B. on the heftd and killed him, If he hadn't 'a' dodged con­ trary* to law and against the peace and dignity of the State." ' '?sqt knowing whether to indict C. D. for throwing the rock, or A. B. for dodging contrary to law and against the peace and dignity of the State, the attoruey compromised the matter by dropping the case. Doings of State Dads. convened at 5 o'clock Mon­ day afternoon with sixty members pres-* ent. The Senate bill (Crawford*8) provid- ing for the consolidation of corporationat was read a second time and advanced to third readiugv ,, Mr. ChallacGpibe^a Wll; amending tiie fish law was advanced to third reading. The bill prdbibits the sein­ ing of fish from March 1 to Sept 1 of each year;-prohibits seining nnder ice; provides that the meshes of seius shall be two inches square; and authorizes the Fish Commissioners to seize and destroy the nets and seins of persons found violat­ ing the law. Mr. Miller's bill to abolish all costs, fees and perquisites in criminal and quasi-criminal cases, and in proseeU- tions for violations of city and village or­ dinances, and iii all other cases in whichV? fine or imprisonment may follow convic­ tion, was advanced to third reading: Other bills, under a suspension of the rules, were called up and advanced to third read­ ing as follows: Kelly's bill making a labor­ er's claim for wages due from any person' <jr corporation becoming insolvent a pre- , ferred claimf--the Senate bill providing, that the indorser of a negotiable instru­ ment may be sued before or concurrently, with the-maker thereof, nt. the option of the plaintiff; Berry's bill providing that " railroads may purchase or lease connect-" ing lines; Dougherty's bill to provide that notaries public shall be citizens of th» United States. The Senate did no work-i Tho Senate Tuesday listened to Gov.' Altgeld's veto of three bills--"An act to* regulate the granting of franchises and! special privileges by cities, villages and! - incorporated towns," "An act concerning elevated railways and to regnlate the same," and "An act concerning street railroads, and to repeal a certain act: therein named." The Goyetnpr said3 ""While the three bills relate to different^ subjects, they all Involve the same prin^ - ciple and are subject to the same funda­ mental objections, in this, that they legal-1 ize monopoly." In the House* Senate bill authorizing cities, villages and iucorpo*; rated towns to levy a tax not exceeding 2 per cent, on the receipts of foreign flrj! insurance companies doing business there-?*"" In, for the benefit^of the organized fire de-. partments of such cities, villages and! towns, passed without opposition. V Consideration of the Chicago drainage? bill, which was a special order for Wed-i nesdny" morning in the House, was post-< poned for one week. The Senate bills to! fcstablish northern and eastern Illinois' State normal schools were passed by the! House. Fifty thousand dollars is appro­ priated for each institution. Ingersoll'^ bill appropriating $180,000 for each of .the next two years'for the^ Illinois Na­ tional-Guard was amended so as t^ pro-, vide for the mustering into service of a, battalion of colored troops and advanced to third reading. Mr. Butler introduced a resolution calling attention to the incon­ venience resulting from the variance in . laws among the several States and asking? the Governor to confer with the Govern^ ors of other States concerning the advisa-> bility of a convention to consider the sub-: ject. By a vote of 27 to 15 Senator Littler secured a reconsideration of the vote whereby his bill amending the anti-trust law was beaten. ; The Senate Thursday passed Dwyer's bill to insure the better training of horse- shoers. Senator Higbee's effort to get consideration of his bill fixing sleeping car rates, introduced in conformity with the Governor's message, was defeated by a vote of 20 to 15. Senator AspinwalPs pool-selling bill, which has been with the special orders for nearly two months, was again postponed for two weeks. Tho House passed the Senate bill providing for the erection of monuments to mark the positions of Illinois troops on the battle­ fields of Chickamauga. Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain; also the Senate bill appropriating $13,000 for the expenses of the statutory revision commission. ."-'The Last English Decapitation. The last occasion of decapitation for high treason In England was, I fancy, th#t of Thistlewood and Ills four com­ panions for the Cato Street conspiracy. I take the following from Thorubury's "Old Stories Retold:" "Exactly a quarter of an hour after the last man was hung, the order was given to cut the bodies down. T] heads were then haggled off with brut­ al clumsiness with a surgeon's knife, 'i he mob expressed loudly their horror and disgust, more especially when the turnkey who exhibited the heads drop­ ped that of Brunt. 'Hallo, butter-lin­ gers!' shouted a rough voice from .the rolling "crowd below. The day has gone by for such useless brutality." This horrible scene was enacted on, May 1, 1820.--Notes and Queries. i';f " ; The Metal of the Standards. There are no products of human skill on which a greater degree of care Is expended than the standards of weight and measure In use among the civil­ ized nations of the globe. Two things In particular have to be considered-- accuracy and durability. Nature does not furnish any single metal, or mine­ ral. which exactly answers the re­ quirements for a standard of measure or weight that shall be, as nearly as possible, unalterable. The best substance yet produced for this purpose is an alloy of 90 per cent, of platinum with 10 per cent of irldi-' um. This is called iridio-platinum, and it is the substance of which the new metric standards prepared by the In­ ternational Committee of Weights and Measures are composed. It is hard, it is less affected by heat than any pure nietal. 't is practically non-oxidisable, or not subject to rust, aud it can be finely engraved. In fag£ the lines on the standard metres are hardly visible to the naked eye, yet they are smooth, even, sharp and ac­ curate. . If our civilization should ever be lost, dlid relics of it should be discovered In some brighter age in the remote fu­ ture, there is nothing which would bear higher testimony to its character than these standard measures of iridio- platinum, for the production and pres­ ervation of which the science of our day has done its very best. A Big Dance. * i In 1489, at the marriage of the Duke of Milan, a ballet was presehtedT ofj such magnificence that it Was talked of all. over England. It is stated that therft were over 1,200 dancers ill this entertainment. No Check, No Wash. What boy or girl understands what is written on a Chinese laundry ticket? The Celestials have a system of their own. It is based on the many gods and goddesses of the laundry. Although the system Is very complicated, seldoiu does a Chinese lauudryman deliver a, package of washing to the wrong per­ son. „ .. If the ticket is lost the chances are that you will not get your linen, unless vou be a particular friend of the pro­ prietor. The Chinese laundryman at the be­ ginning of each week makes out a batch of checks in duplicate, to be used as wash tickets. He selects the aame of some god or goddess or of some ob­ ject, as the sun, the moon or the stars. To this name he puts a number, as "Moon No. l.V-Muoa No. 2," and so on. In the space weon the two writings he has his own name, as, for instance. "Wah Lee." - v When a customer takes a bundle of washing to the laandry the Chinese*, first tearing a ticket in two in a ragged fashion, puts oiie-half on the packet for reference, the other half he gives an a receipt to the person who has brought the package of laundry. "