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The Macomb sewer pipe factory burned; lOSSy 150,000./ ; " Fredfcflcik Brandt, a prominent German citizen, dropped dead at Freeport. Amos Watts, chairman of- the Board of Supervisors of Carlisle, is dead. The State Board of Health is idvised of two additional eases of small-p6x at Villa Ridge, Pulaski County 1 '/• The collections for the fifth internal rev­ enue district for the fiscal year just elided amount to $16,205,408. For the month of June the collections were $458,433. Joseph Lee, a colored plasterer of Champaign, has sued Richard Ballenger, a colored barber, asking $500 damage* •because the latter refused to shave him on account of ,hi6 color. ' A new superintendent of public schools, Professor Russell K. Bedgood, of Lafay­ ette, Ind., has been chosen by; the Board of Education of Jacksonville. He is one of the foremost educators of the Hoosier State. At Huntley a village committee took William Ptithresh from his home to the woods, stripped him and gave him ! a sound whipping. This was done because he had beaten his wife. He was left to return home as best he could. The Rockford Council has reduced the pay of all officers on the police force who 'have not served two years $200 per year, making it $600 instead of $800- This follows the cut made ia the salaries of the principals in the 'publift schools. The Aldermanic con^st at Fairbury in the Third Ward has been decided in favor of Messrs. Walton and Gatton, the prohibition incumbent^ : Morrison and Henderson, the license candidates, were defeated by one and two votes respec­ tively. • ' ' • Eight yeard||go Darst, of De­ catur, gatejiis-infani,daughter Orpha to his mothen^Nfrs. .TfclyMcCullough, to rear and educate. Darst instituted habeas corpus proceedings to regain possession of his child. Judge Vail heard the evi­ dence and gave the girl to her father. The auditor of pubTfc. accounts licensed the following banks to do business in Illi­ nois: State bank of Carlyle, at Carlyle; capital-^tock, $40,000; William A. J. Sparks;/president;* August S. Chlafley, cashier, "Western State bank of Chicago, at Chicago; capital, $300,000; Andrew Peterson, president; Lawrence Nelson, cashier. Manager Pettigrew of the Illinois Steel Company at Joliet announces the signing of the new seale«by the employes of the rod mill and adds that it represents an average increase in wages of 15 per cent. In the billet mill the increase, according to the scale--alrgadysigned. will amount, to 13 per cent, during the coming three months. The trustees of the Anna Insane Asylum spent a day in examining bids for the erection of the new buildings for which an appropriation has been made by the •General Assembly. It is understood that the question at issue between the Gov­ ernor and some of the contractors bidding for the work is the employment of union labor, upon which the Governor insists, claiming that in his private business he has found it to his interest, and in the case of the State he considers it his duty to observe the same policy as in private affairs. Until Tuesday morning Thomas J. Kean, an ex-policeman of Boston, was janitor at the Sherwood apartment build­ ing at Chicago. Tuesday Kean fled from the city, despite the vigilance of half a score of policemen from the Stanton ave­ nue station. Then S. J. Sherwood, man­ ager of the building, discovered that Kean had collected several hundred dollars in rents and had taken it with him. The occupants of the building also learned, upon taking an inventory, that jewel cy, tableware, clothing and costly bric-a-brac had also disappeared when Kean took his departure. Three times within two hours Tuesday night carefully planned attempts were made to burn down "The Mecca" flats at State. 34th, and Dearborn streets. Chi­ cago. The incendiary was scared away and escaped just as he was on the point of applying a match the fourth time. The Mecca contains ninety-two flats, and al­ most every one is occupied by a family. 'Many of these families take in roomers, so the lives of several hundred people were endangered, both by the panics fol­ lowing the alarms and by the tires them­ selves had they gained good headway. The building is four stories.,high and has a large open court on the south side lacing 34th street. This naturally divides the building into three parts, surrounding, as it does, this court on three sides. Each of these parts has an air shaft running from the basement to the roof, and it was at the bottom of these air shafts that tha fires were started. A new poorhouse is to be built at Van- dalia. A band of 500 Freeport citizens seren­ aded Gov. and Mrs. McKinley, who ar­ rived Monday on a visit to Mrs. McKin- ley's uncle, John Dewalt. The Governor made a short speech, saying this was a time when patriotism and common sense were needed more than anything else. A reception was tendered Gov, and Mrs. McKinley at the Freeport Club. W. L. Sachtelben, who is conducting the expedition in search of information as to the fate of Frank F. Lenz, the lost American cyclist, has written another letter to his sisters in Alton that throws more light on the matter. The letter bear* the date of June 10 and was mailed at Erzeroum. The writer states that he is now located in that city, and is doing all lie can by sending out spies to ascertain the exact place where Len? was murdered. He has found out that the crime was com­ mitted at a point about sixty-six miles from Erzeroum, and on this side of Dahar, instead of on the other side, as published. He also knows who the murderers are, but dares not make a move or intimate the fact of his knowledge, because to do so would be to spoil the final object of his mission. He is quite sure that the motive* for Lentz's murder was entirely mer­ cenary and states that several of the as­ sassins were members of a Turkish regi­ ment. The trustees of the "Norwegian Lutheran College, in session at Ottawa, decided to locate the proposed institution in that city. Ottawa gives the college thirteen acres of ground and about $12,000 in cash. At the twenty-third bimonthly dinner of the Chicago Real Estate Board, the Torrens law was the special subject of discussion. In addition to some seventy- five menibers of the board, a number of Stvgj.jrJt§islaturs and other invited guest3 were pr&s^ent. Resolutions indorsing thfe law and hedging the earnest support of the board members were passed. Josiah Richardson, a wealthy resident of Bloomington, died from asthma, aged fifty-seven. Leslie Hazard, who it was supposed was drowned the other night at Rockford. was restored to consciousness after being rolled on a barrel for seven houra. He was under water ten minutes. lie may possibly recover, although congestion of the lungs is feared. Hazard could not swim and was pushed into a deep hole by a companion, George Pratt, older, than himself, who ran away when he saw what he had done, leaving the boy to drown. Men came from the other side of the river with a hook and fished the boy out. MINE AND FACTORY quite" plainly bow the McKinley bill aided .him.. , He lives a, thousand miles from pal- ton, j-et, for all that the effect of" a Canadian hay- sale in' that little New England town is felt at a small way station on the Chicago and Iowa Rail­ road, fifty miles west of Chicago. B. THINKEN. Another proof of the foregoing is found in the following business card addressed to a large feed establishment in Jersey City: , , "Montreal, Canada. Dear Sir: With the reduction In the tariff I am able to reduce prices on hay, No. ,1 timothy, from $17.25 tp $14.25." How does this strike the American farmer? ' •" ; M. J. Dowling-. EDITOR WANTS A SERVANT GIRL. Nebraska Man Minutely Described His. Needa-in-TJf€t Line. We want a girl!/Not a girl to love, to fill with ice cream and soda water, to act as bookkeeper, typewriter, or check drawer, nor on\to wear bloomers and show us how w rid^ a bicycle, read .Ibsen and "Coln's"Financial School," or to teach us lawn tennis, the Rye waltz or the sublimity of the sub­ lime, but a plain, everyday maiden, who has a face that would scorch the sun, a hand that would act as a stove lid and a foot that would give the God- dess of Liberty odds and then beat her in the race for the prize as-a. Trilby model. She need not be as tender as a newly cut onion or a Restaurant porter­ house, nor as pert nor as flippant as the wren, or as intelligent as the lady's maid who plays the piano and goes into ecstasy oyer the latest foreign arrival while the baby of the house is upset­ ting the spittoon and lacquering its an­ gelic face with the nicotine contents or trying to imitate the ostrich in filling Its stomach full of tacks or mamma's hair pins, but we would like.to see her as tough as the trunk of an elephant or a heavy tragedian, that she may look on a little work without experiencing an attack of vertigo or a desire to marry an Italian nobleman; as lively as is nec­ essary for one to be to arise before sun­ up to cook a plate of ham and eggs or a dish of summer flapjacks by the time the family arose at 8 o'clock or there­ abouts; and intelligent enough to distin­ guish a napkin from a baby's hood, or to tell the ward policeman that it is the •parlor and not the kitchen where she receives her company. She is not .sup­ posed to sleep over fourteen hours a day, as there are times when we might •want her to go out and tell the tramp to levant or to assist us in getting a lunch when our restaurant asks for a small payment on account, or to enter­ tain our unexpected friends while Ave are changing our toilet. As there are only seven evenings in the week we can allow her that many off to take in Mauawa or the ball game, while we, unable to raise car fare, sit at home and wonder when our landlord Intends to send us our usual notice. If the girl we ask for will come to this office and satisfactorily answer a few orthodox questions put to her by the religious brownie his political leg-pulling part­ ner may afford her a position of ease and refinement In his kitchen, provided her ideas of a good salary are limited and not subjected to union rules. P. S. --Wanted--A good servant girl. Apply at this; office. Good wages.-- South Omaha Tribune. MATERIAL FOR A NEST. A Bird Stole a Ten-Dollar Bill and Uaed It as a Ltjiinjg. A $10 bill, which had mysteriously disappeared, was reco^efSa by Assist­ ant Coin Teller"PhiTffurpin of the Sub- treasury in a peculiar manner. He has a beautiful farm out on Cliff Creek, near the Little Miami River. In that section birds fairly abound. One even- lug, about the beginning of May, Mr. Turpi n was getting ready to attend a soiree at his next neighbor's in New­ town, about two miles distant. The weather, it will be remembered, at that time was unusual 1 yjrarm. and he left the windows of his room open. Mr. Turpln had taken his money, among which was a $10 bill, and laid It on a center table, intending to put it in a pocket of his other trousers. The room is at the corner of the house, and has windows on both sides. He stationed himself at one of the windows and commenced to shave. The birds were.siuging outside and fly- - ing al^gut the house and through the open windows, joyful, no doubt, at the advent -of spring, while others were busy in trees building'nests. It was lux­ ury to shave amid such aiirrortiidiiigs. and when Mr. Turpin finished he .look-, ed sleeker than ever: After washing he prepared to don his Sunday-go-to- meeting clothes. After he arranged his "necktie to give the best effect he went to the center table and began picking up, his money, but was not a little sur­ prised to find a $10 Ibili missing. He thought that the wind might. have blown it on the floor, And he began look­ ing there for it. . . After a long time spent in vain, he gave up the search there. He then went out into the yard and began hunt­ ing among the flowers and grass for It, thinking that it might have been blowa through the open window, but he had to go to that soiree minus a $10 note. Day befote yesterday the severe wind storm blew a robin's nest out of a tree near the front porch. Mr. Turpin pick­ ed the nest ftp, and was about to cast it away when he noticed what seemed to be a piece of paper of peculiar color. He examined it. and found it to be currency of some denomination, but it was not until he had carefully torn the nest apart that he discovered it to be a $10 bill. It was apparently the one he had lost a couple of weeks ago, a bird having flown into the room and snatch­ ed up the money. The bill was in pretty bad condition, and he redeemed it at the treasury yesterday.--Cincin­ nati Enquirer. :ENCES DURING THE , PAST WEEK. INDUSTRIAL IMPORTANCE OF TWO GREAT INDUSTRIES. LEADER OF THE HOUSE PASSES AWAY AT FREEPORT. Justifiably Well Kn| * Reason tion Back! Greater Value of Our Factories to , Capital and Labor--Their Products Worth a Hundred Dollars Every Year to Each Inhabitant. tie Knew He Could Not Live and Told His Friends So, Yet Hie Death Was a Surprise--Prominent in Republican Politics. . - Railroad Ma^^H Bun. Joseph Taylor,' a lfl^^^^^Hbgad was shot and Hk, by Mattie Medford,' the SjHH the right shoulder just bel$^| bone. Taylor was mto^icated,^^||^ftt to the woman's house and demanded ad­ mittance, and on being refused kigSf.d the door dowu. Asl he entered the room she fired three shots, which caused him to ran, and she fired a fourth shot as he ran from the yard. He fell a block from the house and died within an hour. The cor­ oner's verdict was "justifiable homicide." Will Talk to Monkeys. Articles for the incorporation of the Africa fund were filed with the Secretary of State Saturday. The capital ^tock is to be $30,000, and the object is to send Professor R. L. Gamer to Africa again to enable him to continue his investiga­ tion of the monkey language. The pro­ fessor's friends in Chicago and elsewhere have arranged to send him to "central: -Africa within three weeks. He proposes to remain in his steel cage for several months and will try to return with nu­ merous specimens of monkeys and the na­ tives, to show that the intelligence of the. two are about equal. ,, „• Man Hunt Is Ended. The; mufderfers of Carey-B. Birclv re­ ceiver of the West Division Street Rail­ way Company at the Arimtage avenue barns, Chicago, are behind the bars at the _ West Chicago Avenue Station. Inspector Schaack is positive be lias sufficient evi­ dence to convict them. Their names are Julius Manow and Joe Windrath, both ex-convicts. They have made a specialty of, "holding up" cashiers. Windrath is one of the men who relieved, the cashier of the Calumet Electric Railroad at Drexel avenue and Ninety-fourth street of $1,000 July 18, 1S93. State News in Brief. Martin Mann, aged 18, was drowned at Marion. At Quincy, Bernard Lechtenb-.irg, aged 14, was drowned in the river while bath­ ing. Miss Bessie Ross was fatally burned at Elgin, by her clothes catching fire from a stove. ° William Graunwell, a contractor, fell from the roof of a building at Dover and was instantly killed. B. F. Arnold, of Anna, aged 02, fell from a load of hay, breaking his neck, dying a few minutes afterward. The 5-year-old son of Henry Stringer, residing near Rockford, was goted by a cow and probably fatally injured. At Rockford Leslie Hazard, a well- known young man, 16 years of age, was drowned in the river while bathing. At Camp Point Wesley Collins arose from the dinner table, and, going out in the back yard', cut his thoat with a. razor. He cannot recover. Edna, daughter of Charles Wolfers- berer, of Galesburg, died in consequence of burns resulting from her clothes being ignited by a firecracker. The population of Moline, as shown by thi school census, is 15,007, exclusive of nuburbs. This is an increase of 3,007 in five years! or over 25 per cent. The safe injG. M. Reed's store jit Days- ville was blown open by burglars and sev­ eral hundred dollars in cash taken. The safe door was blown several hundred feet. At a special election Vandalia voted 227 to 53 to do«ate.$5,000 to the Vandalia Coal and Coke Company, to be used in completing the coal shaft started two years ago. , Dora Weigart, a Freeport servant girl, was arrested, charged with setting fire to the residence of Dr. G. S. Kingsley, which was found ablaze four different times last week. She protests her inno­ cence. The Palace Folding Bed Company at Rockford was closed by the sheriff on a judgment note in favor of the Rockford National Bank for $12,000. Claims amounting to $19,500 are entered against the company by local creditors. Joseph Sudcliff, a 12-year-old Chicago youth who wanted to see the wild and woolly West and hunt Indians, was pick­ ed up by the Milwaukee police. Young Sudcliff when arrested told the police how he stole a ride on a Northwestern train. Mayor Widmayer, of Jacksonville, is again actually a free man, as he has been virtually since the day of his arrest. His case was takeff "before Judge Herdman on a writ of habeas corpus, and the judge gave a decision exonerating him and his policemen, and saying some very strong things regarding the men who were op­ posing the powers that be. , Charles H. Weise and George H. « Frutag, who started two weeks ago from Cincinnati to walk around the globe, ar­ rived in Mount Vernon Tuesday. Their proposed route mil take them through St. Louis, Kansas City, Topeka, Salt Lake and Sacramento to the Pacific coast. One is a musician and the other a platform lecturer, and by a combination of these two qualities they are expected to sur­ mount all financial obstacles. At an early hour Thursday norning the east side residence district of Rockford was startled by cries of murder, and citi­ zens who ran out saw a man dashing down the street in his night garment. He woiind up at a restaurant in the business section and excitedly explained that a man had attempted to scalp him. It was Dr. Davis, a well-known physician, who came some time ago from Mineapolis. During the night he fainted in his room, «ind when he came out of the spell his mind was gone and he is still in that con­ dition, being confined in the jail now. The trustees opened the bids for re- g building the burned buildings of *he Illi­ nois Southern Hospital for the Insane at Anna, and found the 'owest bid tQ be $143,000, from Anderson Bros., of St. Louis. The appropriation is $172,000. Two confidence men were trying to bunko William Jury, a wealthy farmer .Jiving southeastn.of Lacon, out of $10,000 'SKvith cards, when John Gould and James Hoyt, horse buyers, happened along the --nnfrequented road where the deal was in progress: and tried to hold the swin­ dlers. In escaping a few shots were ex­ changed. Emmett Shedd, aged 10, was fatally shot by Vincent Drunella, 14 years old, at Chicago. The boys were playing and Drunella had a 22-caliber revolver; the weapon exploded when he was carelessly handling it. The bullet pierced young Shedd's abdomen and he died one hour (later. '• Fireman James B. Wheelaud, of the * Illinois Qentral, saved the life of a little child at Red Oak, Thursday. The child was on the track and the engineer was unable to stop the heavy freight train, seeing which the fireman, leaped upon the cow-catcher, and, holding the draw­ bar with one hand, drew" tfr» child to safety with tljie other. Higher Wages in Mines, According to the 1890 census report, the, total output of the gold mines was 1,590,809 ounces, of coinage value of $32,886,744. The total output of the silver mines reached 51,354,851 ounces, Df a coinage value of $66,396,988, though the value of all the silver at thje mine's mouth to the mine owner woUld prac­ tically. be about the same worth as tlio. value of the gold that was mined. Combining the coinage value of the gold and silver output in that year, it was slightly less than one hundred mil­ lion dollars, as compared with the out­ put of our manufactures, worth more ;than six and a quarter billions,of dol­ lars, as shown below: Gold and silver product: Ounces. ^Coin value; Gold 1,590,809 $32,880,744 Silver ....... .51,354,85166,396,988 Had Long Been a Sufferer. The Hon. John Meyer, Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, died at Freeport Wednesday morning at> the residence, of his father-in-law, C. Or ColJ- tnan, where he has been since the closer Df the last Legislature. His death was rather unexpected although his health has been poor for some time. D>eath was di­ rectly caused by liver complaint and en­ largement of the spleen, troubles with which he has been annoyed for several •^ears past. Mr. Meyer had been confine^ to the bed ^for two days and was reported as doing tiieely Tuesday night.' About 3 o'clock Wednesday morning a change for the worse was noticed, and he sank rapidly until life was extinct. Mrs. Meyer had bepn constantly at his side, and the death of her husband has prostrated her. After opening: the special session of the Legis­ lature at Springfield two weeks ago Mr. Meyer went to the home of his father-in- law, C/O. ('oilman, at Froepoft. To his Total coinage value. .. .. .$99,283,732 Value of manufactures, .$6,278,338,476 According to the census report the value of the gold and silver plants was $465,900,560, to. which must be added the values of the mills and reduction plants; worth $20,362,772, > making the total mining plant value to bo $4S0,- 323.338. On the side of the manufac­ turing industries we have hired prop­ erty worth. $833,173,008 and direct cash investment aggregating $3,990,705,734. Thus while the total gold and silver mining plant value of the United States was worth four hundred and eighty- six and one-third millions of dollars, the total value of the investments in manufactures was ten times as much, or nearly five billions of dollars. There were at the time of taking out­ last census 180,000 more factories in the United States than gold and silver mines; the amount of capital invested reached nearly $5,000,000,000 in the manufacturing industries, while it was less than half a billion dollars in the gold and silver mines. "" Where' the gold and- silver mine;s gave employment to 57,307 people the factories found work for fifty times as many, or 2,907,882 hands. Where the amount of wages distributed to those who worked in Connection with the gold and silver"miues reached $43,180,- 096 a year it was nearly forty times as much in the case of the factories, which in the same year paid out over a bil­ lion and a half of dollars in wages. With thirty times as many factories as there were gold and silver mines; .with ten times as much capital invested in factories as in the mines, it is still surprising to learn that the total value of the products of the factories was,, almost seventy times as great as the Jentire value of the product of our gold and silver mines, the latter reaching less than $100,000,000, while the pro­ duct value of tli? factories exceeded six and a quarter billions of dollars. In the item of miscellaneous expenses, too, where the mines disbursed $20,270,440, the factories disbursed nearly Hventy- three times as much, or $454,844,850. It must further bo remembered that the factories paid out $3,363,177,034 for raw material purchased for their own use, whereas the gold and silver mines supply their own raw material, from which alone tliey can derive their pro­ duct. Now let. us glance at the average out­ put and earnings of both mines and manufactures per annum for each em­ ploye. and that this exhibit may bo more interesting we give the average output and earnings of the coal miners and of the workers in the granite mines as follows: Average output and earnings: For employee per annum. Output. Earnings. Gold and silver .$1,732 $72!) Coal 675 474 Granite '.. . . 648 431 Manufactures 2,159 539 Naturally one would anticipate that the average value of the output of the gold and silver mines would be more per man than the output of bur facto­ ries. but we confess surprise at having discovered that such is not the case, the output of our factories exceeding that of our gold and silver mines by $427 per employe per annum. The out­ put of the coal and granite mines, it will be noted, is but little more than one-tliird of that of the gold and silver mines. As far as the average earnings of the employes are concerned, the gold and silver mine workers have by far the best of it, receiving nearly'$200 a year more than the average earnings of eacli man in the factories, $250 a year more than the coal miners and nearly $300 a year more than the workers in the granite mines. This gives an idea of the relative values of the products per man. The product of our gold and silver mines was worth, at its coinage value, $1.58 per capita of our population.- In the same year the products of our fac­ tories were worth over $100 per capita of our population. For each $1.58 per capita of , wealth added to the country through the gold and silver mines there were $100, more than sixty times as much, added through the products of our manufacturing Industries. It should be remembered, however, that every dollar of the precious metals produced is an enduring addition to the world's wealth. They aid the industries of the East and agriculture everywhere. The products of factories, on the other hand, are not generally of lasting val­ ue, being consumed from month to month and from year to yeaf\ Elected Secretary of the National League of Republican Clubs at the re­ cent convention In Cleveland. The Price of Wool. The American farmer will be interest­ ed in studying a comparison of the prices paid for his wool in the open market this month and in June of last year. Taking four of the principal grades of domestic wool, the quotations are as follows: June Prices. Loss 1894! 1S95. per Grade. Cents. Cents, lb. Indiana quarter blood unwashed ...I7V-> 10% 1 No. 1 medium unwashed.16 13 3 Fine unwashed. .14 HVi 2% Fine territory, 70 per cent, shrinkage 10 9 1 It was thought that prices could not fall below the liguce%« of a year ago, when it was hoped That the effect of free trade in wool had been fully antic­ ipated. But the result Is even worse than the anticipation. A Monument to Free Trade. JOHN MEYER. most ultimate friends lie confided the be­ lief, thilt his days were numbered, but many of his friends did not realize that Jus condition was so uerious. John Meyer was born in Holland on Feb. 27, 1852. He attended school in his native land, and when 12 yearS'old came to, America with his parents. They settled in Chicago, and here his younger days were passed, but his parents did not live long in their adopted land, and the boy was left an orphan. Ho attended the public schools and by determined effort he succeeded in entering Northwestern Uni­ versity, where he supported himself by strenuous labor during vacations and teaching night schools until the close of the third year, when he entered Union College of Law. In 1879 he was admitted to the- bar, and shortly afterwards formed a partnership with J. S. ('oilman, whose sister afterwards became his wifq. Although regarded as a careful lawyer, Mr. Meyer has devoted most of his atr Jentioji fo£ some years to politics, but he held no office of importance imnl 1884, when he was elected to the Legislature. Ho was successively re-elected to the Thirty - sixth. Thirty - seventh, Thirty- eighth and the Thirty-ninth General As­ semblies, and always occupied a prominent .position in those bodies. For the past two years Mr. Meyer's health has .been steadily failing. Serious illness was first indicated in liver and kidney troubles. Being of a nervous dis­ position and an indefatigable worker, he doubtless hastened his end by drawing too freely upon his nervous energy, and so was unable to withstand the stress of disease. Since the adjournment of the regular session he has been physically un­ able to attend to any business whatever. Taking his wife and daughter he went to Freeport to visit his father-in-law, Mr. Uollman, in the hope of finding perfect rest and regaining health. But his strength had been too nearly exhausted, and death came quickly. News of Minor Note. Frank Grey and Jack Brueck were sen­ tenced at Springfield to five and two years in prison respectively for an assault and robbery of J. Adams McGraw. The Rockford insurance men have ex­ tended an invitation to the State Under­ writers' Association to hold its next an­ nual convention in that city in August. In the case of Ole Olson>^or the murder of Swan Swanson, at Galesburg, the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and fixed the sentence at ten years at the peniten­ tiary. Charles Kruuimer, of l^lgin, struck a match in his outhouse, and an explosion of sewer gas followed, which blistered his face and arms until fatal results are expected. E. L. Nordgren, of Euglewood, and Miss Nellie Jacobson, of Moline, were married by the Rev. J. Nordgren, of. Galvn, father of the groom. They will re­ side in Englewood. General D. W. Flagler, ?hief of ord­ nance for the nrn^; has approved the plans for a bridge over the Mississippi River from the United States Arsenal at Rock Island to Davenport. Mrs. Alma Winn, wife of Alonzo Winn,, of Decatur, and her niece, Miss Nora Brown, have been notified thatrthey have been awarded $60,000 each in a contested, will case which has been pending in Ken­ tucky for some years. Winn lias been an employe in a factory. Mrs/ Mi L. Pinkley, of Sofllth Rockford, 70-years of age, suddenly became insane and. attacked her husband, who was Asleep on a couch, striking him with; a hammer. Then she used a pair of shears and would have killed him had not a son interfered. Her1 liifsband is in a very critical condition. The old Commercial Traders' Building, Cliicago, southwest corner of Madison and Franklin streets, was badly damaged by fire at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, caus­ ing a loss on buildings, and Interests esti­ mated at $75,000. The building, which is a five-story brick, occupies numbers 234, 236 and 238 Madison street and 142, 144, 146, 148, 150 and 152 on the Franklin street side. " ."1 The Northern Trust Company of Chi-* ^.aga has increased itsjiepQsifs of seenri- tiejf with the State Auditor from $200,000 to $500,000. The increase was made nec- e'ssary by the increase in its trust busi­ ness, the amount of personal property and cash now held in trust being over $2,000,000. The securities consist of first mortgage bonds on improved Chicago real estate. At Peoria, George Cochran, aged ll, and Cleve Morton, 13, have been abound over to await the action of the United States Grand Jury oil a charge of robbing •the Peoria postoffice. They pickedj the lock of the box of Bourland & Bailey, real estate dealers, and stole among oth­ er things a draft for $1,115, whicij found in their possession \Vhen- arrested. The, < êft ha? been going on for a tong time, and there is ho means of kh&glHg how mauy letters they'have stolen/If] A New Cnre for Appendicitis. Of late years a fearful dread has gone abroad that every one who eats fruits with small seeds in them is pret­ ty sure to run the risk of dying a fear­ ful death by appendicitis or be forced to undergo a dangerous operation. So strong has this dread taken hold of the public mind that thousands refuse to eat small fruits when seeds have to be eaten with them. Grapes are always pitted by tliem, and blackberries, and even raspberries, with their small, in­ sidious seeds, are taken entirely from the bill of fare. The fact Is that appendicitis occurs very rarely, and the percentage of peo­ ple who eat fruit with seeds in. them that are caught is insignificantly small. .When the complaint does seize one it Is not necessary to resort to aii opera­ tion, except In severe cases, nor is it absolutely necessary to die. The latest and most successful cure Is to admin­ ister internally from one to two ounces of sweet oil every three hours until the pain and fever are relieved. The seed which causes the trouble irritates the muscular tissue so that congestion fol­ lows, and this may soon cause inflam­ mation of a very serious character. Sweet oil. administered in time and faithfully, allays the inflammatory con­ dition, reduces temperature andrelaxes the tension of the muscular coating of the intestines and appendix. Besides that it takes the seed or all foreign sub­ stances with it, and effects a complete cure. Tiie patient should be kept In bed and poultices should be applied Very hot over the seat of pain. How She Keeps Her Freshness. Until the physiological principles which account fo# the phenomenon are understood, it must remain a very puzzling fact that an actress' life should be more favorable to the preservation of good looks, and even of girlish fresh­ ness, than the life led by women who occupy their natural sphere, and who cultivate (as they think) all the physi­ cal and moral virtues. A successful actress must work ex­ tremely hard, generally by artificial light, and in a gas-befouled atmos­ phere. Her hours for work, meals and sleep are all utterly bad from the hy­ gienic point of view, and not unfre- quently she makes bad worse by fall­ ing into those bohemian habits which are an immemorial tradition of her class. Her secret, apart from the laws regulating the expression and nutrition of the face, consists chiefly of avoidance of monotony and petty worries--those arch-enemies of feminine good looks and good temper. Her work, If ardu­ ous, Is generally performed both with earnestness and lightness of heart; and, above all, she gets a sufficiency of bod­ ily exercise of the kind (although not under the conditions) most conducive to health, viz., exercise involving quick and general movements of the muscles, combined with a certain amount of mental excitement.--Blackwood's Mag­ azine. Labor Seeks Knowledge. A significant Item of news comes from Columbus, Ohio, and one full of encouragement, indicating as it does that the organized labor of this coun­ try is beginning to realize that free trade put in practice is the enemy of American industry. This item reads thus: "A delegation representing the Illi­ nois Federation of Labor called upon Governor McKinley to-day and in­ vited him to be present and deliver an address at the great Fourth of July celebration which Chicago organized labor purposes to give this year. The delegation was composed of Richard Powers, of the Sailors' Union, W. C. Pomeroy, representing the State Fede­ ration, and W. M. Groves, secretary of the same body. The Governor was unable to make the delegation a definite answer at this day, but will try to make arrangements to attend."--Sunday In­ ter Ocean. Free Trade's Foothold. Primitive Illumination. From the moment when people ceas­ ed to observe the regular bedtime of animated nature aud began to sit up nights, there began a new era in hu­ man affairs. We don't know much about the Paleolithic man who hunt­ ed boars, rhinoceroses and such small deer about our primeval forests; cer­ tainly not enough to say whether he used lamps or caudles, or perforce con­ tented himself with the ruddy glow of the fire, around which he would sit with his family, toasting mammoth marrow or grilling hyena steaks or other toothsome morsels. Perhaps our primitive man was too fond of fat as an article of diet to care to waste it in experiments, else he might easily have invented the rusli light, so simple and primitive is it, and still made aud used in primitive house­ holds such as you find now and then among the Welsh hills. A bundle of dried rushes dipped sev­ eral times in melted mutton fat, there is all the process, and a capital minia­ ture torch Is the result, which the most boisterous winds can hardly extin­ guish. - Now, something of this kind our primitive man may have known how to make. If he had not arrived at his muttons the fat of the cave bear or the bison might have served his turn. To Women Who Ride Wheels. It has often been asserted that cycling is injurious to women. There is a lit­ tle truth in the assertion. Paraphras­ ing one of Lincoln's sentences, 1 would modify it and say that cycling is harmful to some women all of the time; to all women some of the time; but not to all women all of the time. There is no reason to think th'at a healthy woman can^ Injured by using the wheel, provided she does not over­ exert herself by riding too long a time,j or too fast, or up too steep hills, and pro-? vided she does not ride when common sense and physiology alike forbid any needless exertion; aud provided also she does not get the bad habit of stoop­ ing over the handle bar; and there is reason, not merely to think, but to know, that many women are greatly benefited by the exercise. There are certain anatomical and physiological peculiarities which make It far more dangerous for a woman than for a man to undergo excessive physical strain; but if she be careful to avoid strain, cycling Is both beneficial and safe for any woman who Is free from organic disease.--J. W. Roosevelt, M. D., in Scribnor's Magazue. s •< On Intimate Terms with Him. The professor of a New England theological (Evangelical) seminary in­ vited recently the neighboring pastors to a complimentary reception and din­ ner at the hotel. , In addition to the banquet there was a sermon and dis­ cussion. The serm,pu,was given by one of the ablest members of the faculty, who is an ideal gentleman and scholar. His subject was: "The Temptation of Christ." In the course of his sermon lie said, by way of illustration: "You find yourself, some gloomy day, near its close, in a vast and dreary jvaste. There is no living thing to be seen. You look about y6uv- discouraged, hungry, and almost disheartened, when suddenly the tempter appears. 'What!' said he. 'you disheartened? Wi^y don't you call upon these""rocks to turn into bread, that you may^appease your hun­ ger and grief?' Your reply wouldCbe: 'My dear sir, I can't do it' " "Here a witty professor interrupted: " 'My dear sir!" Humph! humph! It seems to me that Prof. S. is upon vei-y intimate terms with the devil." The effect of this interruption can be imagined.--Boston Journal- ."Drought and Democracy coming at the same time is an uuparalleled calam­ ity/; writes a farmer from Farragut, Iowa. ' ' The Donkey Vanished. In general we may say that the don­ keys belong to a vanishing state of hu­ man culture, to the time before carriage ways existed. Now that civilization goes on wheels, they seem likely to have an ever-decreasing value. A century ago they were almost ev­ erywhere In common use. At the pres­ ent time there are probably millions of people in the United States to whom tho animal is known only by description. In a word, the creature marks a stage in the development,,of our industries which Is passing away as rapidly as that in which the spinning-wheel ahd the hand-loom played a part Antiquity of Beds. The ancients slept on the floor or ort a divan covered with skins. Duripg the middle ages beds were made of rushes, heather or straw. It Is believed that feather beds were known to the Rom­ ans, since a mention in one of the poets of men so luxurious that they slept on feathers is supposed to refer to this kind of beds. Heliogablus had an air cushion, and also an air rUattress, 21S or 222 A. D. Feather beds were employed by the better classes in Efhgland during the days of Henry VIII., though they were considered luxuries and were expen­ sive. The bedsteads of the Egyptians, Romans and Greeks closely resembled our couches. The Russian peasants place their IHMIS on top of the family oven for tljjj«^ake of the warmth given, forth by the firt. To. the present day \bedsteails im Hol­ land and some parts of Germany are fit­ ted up with two feather beds, on one of which the sleeper lies, while the oth­ er is used for covering. A Farmer Lsaras a lessan, --~- A few months ago a farmer friend shipped a carload of horses to Corn­ wall, Conu., aud before returning vis­ ited Dalton, Mass. At this point he made a partial bargain with a dealer to ship him several carloads of hay. His son, having occasiou to. visit Massachusetts, was instructed by my friend to call on the Dalton man and close the hay trade. He did so, only to find that, after the passage of the Gor­ man bill, hay had gone off $2 a ton, which shut out Mr. S. L. Judd's Illinois hay, because the Dalton dealer was being stocked up from Canada. Mr. Judd has on his hands hun­ dred tons of as fine timothy hay as was ever mowed away, and he now sees & Too Much .for a Meal. ^ The average weight of the egg of the ostrich Is three pounds. Its con­ tents equal those of about twenty-four hen eggs. New Thing. An English Inventor has devised an automatic air brake, In which the weight of the train supplies the power to set the brakes. \ r The feeling of sleepiness when you re not In bed, and, can't get there, la te meanest feeling In the wortd. Htte society. ) A bust head from eating too much Is harder to get rid of than a,bust head from drinking too inach.