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"Are We Losing the West?" is the title of a njew pamphlet that has ap­ peared in Boston. Theanswer is in the affirmative. What was called the West Is now the center, and, in fact, rapid transit is playing the dickens with all j made for the use for wliich it is want- of our points of the compass from Sitka 1 tV>"* vntu *•" the island of Trinidad, , which iiaa Just! been seized by the latter country. The island is little more than a bare rock lying in the South Atlantic about 1,000 miles southeast of Rio de Janiero. It was tak<*n possession of in the year 1700 by Great Britain, but was regard­ ed by Portugal as one of her transat­ lantic possessions, and when Brazil was separated from P6rtugal the Island of Trinidad was ceded to the new em­ pire. Great Britain had ceded back to Portugal the island, before the separa­ tion of Brazil from that country, so that the elaim of Brazil to the island is rather well established. For more than a century the island has been a sort of no-man's liindy and is of no benefit or value to. Brazil as a posses­ sion. What has given it a temporary importance now is that it is needed for a station for a submarine -cable being constructed by English parties to the Rio de la Plata, to connect Montevideo, in Uruguay, and Buenos Ayres, in the Argentine Republic, with Europe. Bra­ zil has never occupied the island, al­ though she has a right to do so, and its only importance or value to Great Brit­ ain is for a telegraph station. -It is likely that gome arrangement will be to Key West The typewriter has made great In­ roads upon the business of ink maters, and they have been obliged to go into gift enterprises; to retain trade. One of these concerns displays an imposing array of glass inkstands, which is giv­ en to those' who purchase a qiiart of Ink, though why one should need ink­ stands when they do not need ink is not very clear. ed that will be satisfactory to both governments. Nations have passed the period when they go to war about trifles! The coming man in Turkey is Tur- chan Pasha, the new Foreign Minister, who has had a remarkable career and Is in high favor with the Sultan and the Grand Vizier. He was educate'd in France, and his wife is one of Tur­ key's rare "new women." At her hus­ band's official receptions she stands by his side unveiled, dressed in the latest European style and wearing eyeglasses. FREAK80FFBEEW00L A MANUFACTURER PREDICTS THE CLOSING OF FACTORIES. Report from England that Indicates His Astuteness--British Goods Sold Here Below the Cost of Stock-Large Increase in Foreign Exports. time. If farmers were to grow sugar beets, and sugar factories were general­ ly established throughout the country, this labor would, later In the season, find employment in thinning and weed­ ing the young beet plants. We have been assured by a* gentleman of expe­ rience that no State in the Union has soil, in one locality at least, that is bet­ ter adapted for the successful cultiva­ tion of sugar beets than the State of Missouri. Professor Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, says that Niagara Falls will run dry at some near period in the future; But this is not a much Wilder prediction than that of the sci­ entific and commercial bodies at the east, which express fears that the Chi­ cago drainage channel will draw the water away and leave the lower lake harbors dry. Wiggins is not without rivals as a phenomenal scientific crank. The "bicycle face" of anxiety or de­ spair is never seen on the boys who have learned to ride the wheel. Little chaps with smiling faces may be seen riding gracefully and easily without a sign of any disturbance of' spirit. Those who acquire a thorouglruknowl- edge of the art of wheeling in their early youth possess a great advan­ tage over the people who take their first lessons in it after the muscles have hardened; ' When the mother of M. Max Lebaudy sought to throw his fortune into chan­ cery unt'l he had arrived at years of greater discretion, his advocate urged a plea on his behalf that decided the French tribunal in his favor. He con­ tended that the government had no right to interest itself in the preserva­ tion of colossal fortunes, and asserted that the racecourse was an important economic factor in helping to dissipate them for the benefit of the community. It is the theory of not a few natural­ ists that the increase in insect pests that plague the farmer and horticult­ urist is due to the slaughter of birds. In the Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, where birds are undisturbed, sixty-six varieties have taken up their home, and among the number are many ori­ oles and thrushes. If State legislatures were so constituted as to be of any ac­ count, they would give attention to the conservation of birds and other useful animals. In a certain degree there is a historic continuity in England's foreign policy, through all changes of party. There is more of it, for example, than there is in the United States, so far as the Unit­ ed States can be said to have a foreign policy at all. Still, even in the matter of foreign policy, a transition from Lib­ eral to Tory Government will invvolve some divergence. The Tory is a strong government man in external as well as in internal politics. He has more swag- x ger and truculence than the Liberal, Changs on to old conquests more firmly, and seeks new ones more earnestly. He was a jingo long before that term in its political aspect was invented. ^Venezuela, lMizilf*Nicaragua and the other Latin-American countries in whose neighborhood England owns or claims territory, would do well to keep this change of government in Great Britain in mind. "An amusing farce," is tlie express­ ion applied, to the late great Indian campaign, by one of the officers who were dispatched to the front. No doubt it was an amusing farce to the officers and soldiers who were sent on a sum­ mer's camping trip at an expense of between $50,000 and $100,000 to the country. And perhaps this is not too large a price to pay for tho soldiers' outing and for the delectation of the particular public that dotes on sensa­ tional newspaper reports of fake Indian wars. But it was a decidedly sorry farce in its effect upon the dignity of our government. Antonio Apache, the educated Indian attache of Columbian Museum in Chicago, was sent with the expedition as a newspaper correspon­ dent, and his letters are very droll. After stating that the command had encountered a 15-year-0ld boy carry­ ing the Jackson's Hole mail over the mountains, and that the boy had seen two unarmed Indians within a week, he remarks: "The campaign against Indians, in which five companies of the Eighth United States Infantry and four troops of the Ninth Cavalry are engag­ ed, promises to be the most memora­ ble of the Indian campaigns in the his­ tory of the country, for as the seat of the reported trouble is neared it be­ comes more and more evident that there are no Indians to be fought and there is not a man in the expedition who expects to hear a hostile gun fired." At the same time there came a dis­ patch from Governor Richards, of Wyo­ ming to Washington alleging renewed danger to settlers in the Jackson's Hole district and calling for the Indians to be sent home to their reservation It will be noted that the Governor tele­ graphs from a,point no nearer the scene? of danger than Cheyenne. The big crops which may no^**be quite safely counted upon west of the Mississippi will go far towards reliev­ ing the pressing embarrassments of many lines of railroad. Word comes from the Northwest that to take care of the wheat crop of Minnesota and the Dakotas the roads will be able to provide 50,000 cars. They say that more than that number will be* need­ ed, but they hope to get along without an actual car famine. In this part of the West there is not so much wheat, i but the enormous yield'of corn in sight gives assurance that the transportation lines will have all they can do. There has been a great deal of idle rolling stock constantly on hand for the past three years, and the business of the roads has suffered to such an extent that about one-third of the operatives have been without employment as well. The natural result of this has been that there has been close times in ev­ ery town having the distinction of a division terminus, and repair shops have been running on short time with greatly reduced forces. Coming albng with the shipment of the new crops will be a largely increased demand for railroad labor. Old bills will be paid up, money will begin to circulate where it has been almost unknown for months, and better times will set in both from the good fortune of the far­ mer and the cost made necessary by getting his products to market. Much of the money paid out for grain and for the labor of carrying it away to the consumer will return in the railroad earnings through the transportation of merchandise which will be again in good demand throughout the favored region. So there is a good prospect that there will soon be a better feeling in railroad circles as well as among all other classes, and the Cities will come in for their share of the benefits. Labor Bears the Loss. As an illustration of the manner in which American woolen manufacturers ire faring with free wool, says the American Economist, we have been ad­ vised by a manufacturer at Franklin, Mass., that "had I thought Grover would have allowed such a bill (the Gorman tariff) to become a law. I would have stopped and retired. There is nothing in the business to-day for a worsted maker." ! This manufacturer was in receipt July 22, of a letter from Bradford, ac­ companied by samples <>f serge and fancy worsteds. The serge is sold in grease from the loom by the manufac­ turer at 28 cents per yard. It is woven, burled and sewn and ready to dye. It is 04 inches wide. The American man­ ufacturer cannot buy yarn, or stock, necessary to1 make similar goods and place it in his loom at the same price, 28 cents per yard, at which the Brad­ ford serge is sold, the stock alone cost­ ing here 35 cents; yet the Bradford manufacturer can buy his yarn, weave it, sell it at 28 cents per yard and fig­ ure out a profit. The; same is the case with fancy worsteds, selling at 51 cents by the Bradford maker. As we have free wool and the English manufacturers have free wool, the mills in both countries can start upon nearly the same footing as far as their raw material is concerned. What, then, is the difference? It is, as was clearly shown in the Economist of last week, in the labor of spinning and manufac­ turing, which in weaving is 112 per cent higher hi the United States than in Bradford. This simply confirms the argument of protectionists that the bulk of the cost, in this case fully 00 per cent, of a man­ ufactured article is the labor etnployed in making it Free wool affords no pro­ tection to American labor in the woolen mills. Our Franklin correspondent states that one Importing house has sold for a Bradford firm, this season, to the ex­ tent of 10,000 pieces of fine worsted cloth «t $1 per yard, and he anticipates that "in less than eighteen months there will be more machinery stopped than in 1893, unless the tariff is ad­ vanced." Confirming this opinion of the manu­ facturer at Franklin, we append, with­ out any comment, a letter received from a correspondent at Bradford, England: Bradford, July 115, 1895. The great manufacturing districts of Yorkshire, but more especially Bradford, are full steam ahead. Work is plentiful, competition is keen, wages low. That may seem to be a paradox to some readers of the Economist, but it nevertheless is so and must continue. On every hand our merchant princes and the press claim, as one of our leading daily papers said last week, that our manufacturers have taken your market by storm. Whether that be so or not I will leave your readers to settle, but it does appear to me that when 1 consider the amount of exports that are leaving these shores destined to your market, the English operators must be re­ ceiving a fair share of patronage, which patronage your own operators and em­ ployed have a just right to demand. The few returns which I have hurriedly gath­ ered and put together, showing what we sent across to your side in June.only, is indeed a splendid object lesson to all true- hearted Americans. It should promote ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH- FULLY RECORDED. Flag Law Does Not Affect Parochial Institutions--Gas Well with Draft Both Ways -- Singular Law-Suit Founded on an Ante-Beliuiriliicident. An incident occurred in New York the other day which is of some interest, as an illustration of the enrichment of the American blood by immigration. Giovanni Bianclii, an Italian barber, sent Frank James, an American boy, to get some clothes from the Chi­ nese laundry of Gee Lee. The boy tendered Gee a 50-cent piece, which the Chinaman pronounced "countefliet" and kept, along with the clothes. When Blanch!1' was informed of this mishap he undertook to chastise the China­ man. In the course of this proceeding he became involved in a controversy with Satebro Zebro, a Greek, who kept a coffee stand, and drew a razor on him. Zebro threw a bottle of. pepper-sauce at Blanchi, who dodged, and the bottle struck Abraham Lelbovltz, a Russian Jew. An Irish policeman named Mal- loy arrested Zebro, who was taken be­ fore Justice Vecrhis, a magistrate of Dutch descent, and fined three dollars. The case thus happily settled Involved seven nationalities, one of which, re- ' markable as it may seem, was the American. In the next hundred years all these races except the Chinese may be happily blended, but the resultant type can hardly be exactly the same kind of American that we have known in the past And while the blending process is going on, the national dlgest- tion inay expect to be preceptibly strained. ' "- The newspapers give indications that / Brazil threatened to go to war with Great Britain rather than surrender \ alL The Use of Mineral Oil. Tins in the kitchen feel the magic of mineral oil, and where long scouring was necessary to keep them bright and shining in the past to-day the up-to- date cook dips her flannel cloth in kero­ sene, then into powdered lime, or com­ mon whiting, and with these scours her tins into a likeness of the kerosene cleaned mirrors, and all with only half the labor. Of course they want a thorough rins­ ing in hot suds afterwards to free them of all odor, but the real toil of scouring is what she dreads and not the quick and easy rinsing. If she has an oilcloth on her floor she adds a gill of kerosene to her scouring water, dips a mop in the pail, passes it quickly over the painted surface, dries it with a flannel cloth^nd with this slight effort leaves It bright and polished almost as new, and an oilcloth treated In this manner will outlast one scrubbed up in the old way twice over. Many a housekeeper's heart has gone nigh to breaking in despair over painted floors and.balconies which showed ev­ ery footmark, and were only made dingy and dismal by all efforts to wash them out. A flannel cloth wrung out in cold water ana well sprinkled with kerosene makes a painted floor almost as easy to keep as one of the costly hard woods, and the odor of the cleansing will pass completely away In half an hour: On balconies indeed, or where the wimdovfs of the room are left open during the process, the smell evapor­ ates so. quickly as not be noticed at Time to Begin Business. Business men ought to take a great­ er interest in politics. The reason is obvious; political 0partSes affect the business of the country--especially tar­ iff and currency legislation. The ex­ perience of the past few years lias cer­ tainly taught the country that its best interests are best served by serving ourselves. Tariff legislation that has contributed to the promotion of our own business interests, agricultural &nd manufacturing, has Invariably ad­ vanced the welfare and prosperity of the American people as individuals and as a Whole. On the other hand, tariff legislation that has been enacted with the direct purpose o£ promoting pros­ perity among manufacturing produc­ ing interests of other countries, has Very naturally served to depress our American interests. This fact should urge business men to give more atten­ tion to legislation. The late Congress afforded, a depressing example of detri­ mental legislation, and that Congress Was sadly lacking in business experi­ ence. But a small number of its mem­ bers were business men who under­ stood^ business affairs or appreciated business methods, ft is not wise to leave in the hands of such men the national legislation in which the pros­ perity of the people in America is at stake.. Our experience has taught us that it is the business men of the coun­ try, as a rule, who are standing by its best Interests; hence, a large number of business men should be in Congress to held shape legislation.--Burlington Hawkey e. Public Schools Only; Assistant -Attorney General Newell, of Illinois^ gave his opiaiaiuthat the new law requiring the United States flag to be placed on public buildings and ^school houses does hot aftply to so-called paro­ chial schools or to Sunday schools under the eh'arge of religious denominations where religious instruction is imparted. While declining to discuss the constitu­ tionality of the act he declared the Sen­ ate bill to be a vicious one. • f ohe igx IMPORTS ARE RISING." thought and reflection in all those who have the power to think, and especially among your own responsible parties. The following are the increased shipments when compared with the corresponding month of June, 1S94: Bradford . .. .£293,531 12 7 Glasgow . . . . 3 0 , 5 0 8 3 10 Sheffield 41,910 0 2 Leeds 40,109 0 9 Manchester . .. . . . . 8 5 , 7 3 7 13 0 Total . .. .£497,923 2 10 The exports from Bradford alone dur­ ing the half year reached £2,109,2G5 12s. 9d. more than during* the same period in 1894. Further remarks just, now are needless. Consider these figures soberly and rationally. My sketch speaks loudly the fact that foreign imports are rapidly rising. How long is this to continue? YANKEE. Where Labor Is Idle. We have in our town a good large num­ ber of laboring people Who are without employni&nt fully one-half, and possibly two-thirds, the year. They are mostly women and children and quite a number of men. * I employ 50 to 150 hands of this class in my fruit business for a few weeks or months each season. I am anxious to find employment for them for the most of the year. Can you suggest something that we can make that will use this labot? It is not skilled labor and can be ob­ tained at low figures. I have means to engage in any work of moderate propor­ tions, but do not care to engage in an ex­ tensive work or to use much, if any, ma­ chinery. I prefer to employ this labor at piece work, letting each earn in propor­ tion to the work done. It is only raw labor, but willing and anxious to work. We are located on Mo. River and C., B. & Q. Railroad. WM. H. THOMAS. La Grange, Mo. --We~gladly publish the foregoing let­ ter and trust that some of our readers may be enabled to suggest to Mr. Thomas how the Idle labor of which he speaks can be employed to the best ad­ vantage of all Interested. There is a great deal of this class of labor thr^igh- otit the country for which employment can only be found at certain periods pf the year, such as at fruit picking Failures and Liabilities. With about 355,000 manufacturing concern in the country, the failures for the first half of 1895 were 1,254, or 3.5 in eyery thousand. In 1894, with subj stantially the same number of con­ cerns, the failures in the first half were 1,501, or about 4.2 In every thousand. But with about 83S,000 traders the ra­ tio of failures was 6.4 per thousand in both half years. The risk of failure, the death rate, so to speak, is nearly twice as great in trading as in manu­ facturing. But when magnitude of liabilities of firms failing as defaults, the amount for every firm iu manufac­ turing averaged in the first half of 1895 $113 and $117 in the first half of 1S94. But the trading defaults averaged only $54 for every trading firm In the first half of 1895 and $02 in the first half of 1894, the average not being half the av­ erage in manufacturing.. Substantial­ ly the same fact is brought out if av­ erage liabilities for every failure iu each class are noticed, as follows: Average liabilities. 544,390.99 934,950.80 140,035:00 224,147.44 138,042.28 119,217.32 300,455.18 59,220.29: 320,307.00 159,208.75 30,509.29 25,202.09 25,928.95 12,744.05 0,097.58 19,754.31 What Public Schools Cost! The sum of $0,334,333 was paid by the city of Chicago to conduct its public schools last year. Over half of this amount was paid out in teachers' salaries, $934,950 was for new school buildings and $140,035 fOr new building sites. The principal items of expenditure were: Teachers' salaries in primary and grammar schools.,,.. .$2,948,7^5.50 Salaries to teachers in high school and s^e^Vai- Studies ! (not included in the above) "New school buildings. .. New school sites.-.. . . i « . i. . General, repairs..'»•». Evening schools.. German .. T.. . : 4 • »'ih High j?ehoolsi including sab ; aries . ... ......-.. ,vi,. Office employes........... Engineers and janitors:. ... Fuel „... Manual training.. Music Drawing Physical culture College preparatory........ Kindergartens . There was an increase of 15 per cent, in the teachers' salaries last year over the preceding year. It was due principally to a horizontal raise of the salaries of all primary teachers for the first and second years. The Finance Committee says in' its report in reply to charges that the teachers of Chicago are underpaid and overworked, that they receive better pay on an average than do the school instruc­ tors of any other city in the country. In manufacturing. Iu trading --Dun's Review. 1895. .$32,139 . -8,500 1894. $27,500 9,090 Home Industries Protected. The Manufacturers and Producers' Association secured two great victories that entitle them to the thanks of every loyal Californian. The committee on fireworks of the Fourth of July celebra­ tion were released from their contract with an agent of an Eastern firm, and the order given to the California Fire­ works Company. The Police Commis­ sioners, after examining the sample of cloth offered for their inspection by the Golden Gate Woolen Mill Company, gave an order for 100 police uniforms, and Police Commissioner Alvord, struck with the magnificent appear­ ance and undoubted quality of the cl^tli, gave instructions to his tailor to make him an overcoat out of the ma­ terial.- This is a record for one day that the association may well feel proud of. The Golden Gate Woolen Mill Com­ pany are to furnish the cloth at $5.50 per yard. The police have formerly been paying $7.25 per yard for a for­ eign cloth of poorer quality than the home manufactured article. The Police Commissioners instructed the. repre­ sentatives of the mills to put on a large extra force of men if need be, toJiavft the cloth ready in time.--Journal Commerce, -San Francisco, Cal. of A Word of Warning. Every growing, ambitious Western or Southern city desires more factories. It wants them of different kinds, also, so that one may be busy while another is dull, and skilled labor will be iu active demand. In order to attract Invest­ ments all such towns should help elect protectionist Congressmen, and make their influence felt by chambers of com­ merce and the press in favor of protect tiou. Such displays of the industrial spirit impel manufacturers to establish factories and encourage their wealthy friends to invest therein. When a town votes for a rampant free trader for Congress, and through its board of trade denounces manufacturers as "monopolists," it is likely to be left se­ verely alone, despite all probable un­ doubted natural advantages. Free Trade in figgs. Free eggs are of great assistance to the British farmers. The imports of eggs into the United Kingdom .during 1894. were worth $18,420,118. With a pratectlve tariff upon eggs most of this money would have been retained in the British Isles instead of being sent to France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark and Russia. The Same Old Issue. There will be no new issue until a Republican protective tariff has taken the place of this Democratic tariff of debt and destruction. There will be no new issue until American industry stands where It stood in 1892 and Amer­ ican wages have been restored to the high standard that then prevailed.--The Press, New York. The Romans had two-great holidays in January, six in February, five in March, five in April, four In May, five in June, seven in July, four In Au­ gust two in September, two each in October and November, and one, the Saturnalia, which lasted a week, in December, so that, on the whole, they were as well supplied with holidays as we are with Sundays. \ Wants to Be Paid for Twelve Slaves. A lawsuit that is both antiquated and unique was commenced in the Circuit Court a4 Bloomington. George A. Hill, a colored lawyer, filed papers to recover the price of twelve slaves, the sale of whom was made thirty-seven years ago. Samuel Lewis, a wealthy slave owner in Western Tennessee, died in 1858, and among his personal estate were twelve slaves. The heirs brought the slaves to Illinois, and, it is claimed, at Geneva the negroes were sold to William Ferre, who is made defendant in this lawsuit Will­ iam Lewis, the plaintiff, is a son and heir of Samuel Lewis, and claims he never transferred his interest in the slavesj' and that Ferre is indebted to him in the sum of $5,000, the amount he sues for. Lively Gas Well Struck at Lacon, 111. While digging for water at Lacon An­ drew Kelrn struck gas at 117 feet. A lantern was let down and the gas took fire, the flame shooting into tl|efej3flfll 200 feet. A terrific explosion followett After the explosion the suction was so strong back into the well that hats on the heads of men standing thirty feet away were lifted and drawn into the well, together with tools and much rubbish. Horses and cattle near by became frightened at the strange sound and scene and stampeded. Chickens and geese flew for their lives. The force of the explosion put out the fire,, and not being familiar with gas, Mr. Ivelm had about ten tons of rock and dirt thrown into the well to choke the gas. Munia for Suicide. A mania for self-destruction seemed to prevail in Chicago Sunday. Within twenty-four hours four cases of suicide and two unsuccessful attempts were re­ ported to the police. Connected with one of these attempts was also an attempt of a married man 35 years old tof murder a 15-year-old girl of whom he was insanely jealous.' Relief for Chicago's Poor. Last year 517 Chicago families applied for assignee and 429 of the cases were approved. Of these &04 were German,, 08 American, 50 Polish, 39 Swedish, 23 Irish, 10 Euglish, 8 Canadian, 4 Nor­ wegian, 3 Scotch, and other nationalities 8. As to habits, 381 were habitual drink­ ers, 32 were downright drunkards, 87 were temperate, and 17 were total ab­ stainers. As to the causes of need, 183 applicants said they were unable to get work, 120 were sick, 103 were women, heads of families, and in 23 tho drunken­ ness of the husband was given as the cause. State News in Brief. Hon. Thus. I. Donovan was the big speaker at the harvest home festival at Fairbury. The store of W. H. Whitesides, of Jos- lyn, was robbed of $300 in checks and a small amount of money. F. H. Hewlett, of St. Louis, and Miss Carrie Dugger, of Trenton, went to Car- • lyle and were niarried. George Stewart, a farmer living near Quincy, was appointed by Gov. Altgeld a member of the State Board of Equaliza­ tion to succeed Campbell S. Hearne, of Quincy. Hiram Jones, aged 50, a Well-known farmer residing just south of Ashland, Cass County, is lying in a precarious con­ dition, the result of a serious skull frac­ ture. received at the hands of Lewis Bailey,'aged 20, a neighbor boy. Jones was building a fence, and young Bailey tantalized and provoked the old man be­ yond endurance, and ,Jones threatened to attack young Bailey with a spade unless let alone, whereupon Bailey threw a stone at .Tones, breaking the skull and exposing the brain. Jones is still unconscious. JDr. Henry R. Dorr, a prominent physic cian "Of" Worden, where he has been prac­ ticing his profession for nearly twenty- five years, is charged with violating the pharmacy law and with selling poison not labeled. He is also a member of the County Board of Madison County.1'" * '* Earl Sholes, receiving clerk of the Deere & Mansur Corn Planter-Company at Moline, died at his home in Rising City, Neb., from paralysis of the spine, due to too much bicycle riding. With a friend he had made the journey from Moline to that city, a distance of 500 miles, in two weeks on his wheel. James D. Phillips, an instructor at the University -of Illinois, and Miss Darley Howse, wene married at Champaign. At Chester a stranger was found lying dead under a tree. No means of identifi­ cation were found on his person except a rubber stamp bearing the imprint of the W. R. Lowell Art Oompany, 112 Ran­ dolph street, Chicago. Word comes from Clay City of the kill­ ing of a young man named Haynes by his father, Loke Haynes, living about five miles south of that placg^ in Wayne County. It appears that the father had been indicted fbr crime, and that the murder was committed to prevent the son from testifying against buna 1 James Richards, aged 70, of uower Hill, while shingling a barn, fell from the roof thirty feet, sustaining injuries from which he died. • . . < ! • • Despondency over the fact that the highway commissioners had turned a stream of water so that it flowed through his premises prompted William Mass, a well-to-do farmer at Rock Island, to com­ mit suicide. - -- ~ At Rock Island a negro named Jesse Taylor has been arrested for the murder of the colored woman and child at Cor­ dova some days ago. A negro, whpse name is unknown, has also been arrested at Carliiisville. Both are being held awaiting developments. / . ' is. . »• (~ A bloody duel with knives took place near Warrenhurst between two tramps, one known as Jim Barnes, the other as "Texas Ivid." Both received some terri­ ble cuts and gashes.- Barnes was injured- .the worst. The Ivid made his escape. The fight was overj(a novel. Hogan, Goodwm, Rogers, Burns, Elr liott, and Keller, of Debs' staff have com­ pleted their terms of sentence at Wood­ stock , and, left for Chicago, They all speak of their imprisonment as being pleasant under the circumstances, and go away, with great praise of their treatment! by Sheriff Eckert Debs has three months yet to serve. Their release will mark &' n'cw departure in the work of organizing railway employes. District headquarters will be established in all large railway Centers throughout the coiintry. Iii each of these districts solicitors will be em­ ployed to obligate members, keeping their names absolutely secret Since their .im­ prisonment 150 local unions that Were shattered by the strike ! of last summer have been reorganized and twenty-seven new ones instituted. , Burglars, entered the apartments of Mrs. Ivate Claymore at Chicago last Sun­ day afternoon while the family was ab­ sent. They Secured over $300 worth of jewelry and about $150 worth of clothing. Among the jewelry was a pair of diamond bracelets, one of which the thieves dropped in the hallway. Tuesday after­ noon a well-dressed young man called at the Claymore apartments and said lie-was a policeman from the Central Station and that the police had recovered what they thought was a part of her property, among which was a diamond set bracelet. He desired to take the bracelet lost by the thieves to compare it with the one re­ covered, Mrs. Claymore obligingly made the loan, but so far the police department has not seen the bracelet. The annual meeting of the Northern Illinois Beekeepers' Association was held in Rockford Wednesday, with ah attend­ ance of over fifty. This has been a poor year for bee men on account of the drought, which will also affect the honey crop next year. Reports wer*.given from 300 colonies of bees, which have pro­ duced-5,320-pound^ of honey since spring, against last year, when 900 colonies owned by association members produced 20,000 pounds. The annual election of officers resulted as follows: President, Leroy Nighbarger; Vice President. Otto Sweezy; Secretary, Basil Kennedy; Treas­ urer, O. J. Cutumings. Many topics of interest to beekeepers were discussed, the majority of the members being opposed to the feeding of sugar for the production of honey. Tho association also took a strong stand against the sale of manufac-; tured honey, for purchasers soon get tired of it and will not then buy the pure article. The first annual interstate reunion of Mexican war veterans was held at Belle­ ville Monday and Tuesday. Tim recep­ tion committees were kept busy receiving the gray-haired veteraps as they arrived on various trains. Their headquarters were at the courthouse and they were re­ ceived by a speech of welcome by Mayor Fred Sunkel, to which Major S. P. Tufts, the Mayor of Centralia, replied. The fol­ lowing veterans were appointed on per­ manent organization: George Level, Job Fitzsimmons, E. H. Ilobson, William Wy- att, and Captain Creel. The day was spent in renewing old acquaintance and seeing the town. In the evening an en­ tertainment was given at Liederkranz Hall in compliment to tho visitors, vet­ erans of Hecker post, Grand Army of the Republic, and members of the Woman's Relief Corps being present on special in­ vitation. In addition to music addresses were delivered, by General E. H. Hobson, Major S. P. Tufts, General W. H. Powell, the commander of the department of Illi­ nois, Grand Army, and G. W. Perrin, of Lebanon, an honorary member of the as­ sociation. . Permanent organization was effected oy electing Major S. B. TuftS president, Colonel W. J. Wyatt of Illi­ nois first vice president, General Hobson of Kentucky second vice president, J. Fitzsimmons of Indiana third vice-presi­ dent, George Level of Missouri fourth vice president, Captain J. W. Hartley sec­ retary. The mammoth Coliseum, in course of construction on the old site of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, near the World's Fair grounds, is a wreck. At 11:10 o'clock Wednesday night ten of the eleven huge cantilever roof trusses swayed and fell uto the ground, and were twisted into a mass of worthless iron. The only truss left standing was the last one put into place,, at the south end of the partially completed building. Thp loss, it is be­ lieved, will reach $125,000. The wreck covered a space 350x530 feet On top of tho roof was piled from 30,000 to 50,000 feet of green lumber, ready to be used for roofing. The falling of this lumber is f,thought to have played havoc with the contents of the building. . Over 000 men have been - employed on the structure. They were working in three shifts. One shift of 400 men stopped at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday night and the second shift would have gone to work at 3 o'clock Thursday morning. The cause of the ac­ cident could only be conjectured. It was said the foundation being made of piles was, defective and the builders were not careful enough in the construction of the roof. The Coliseum was designed by ,S. S. Beman in Italian Renaissance style. It was to be 770 feet in length by 300 feet wide. This great area of 240,000 square feet, or nearly five and one-half acres, was to be inclosed and covered with a great roof. The building was to have been opened by the Barnum & Bailey circus. Near Galena Michael Cassady and wife, overtaken by a storm, stopped at Henry McGuire's house for shelter. While go­ ing from the barn to the house lightning killed Mr. Cassady and severely shocked Mr. McGuire. Mr. McGuire's mother, who was on the porch, was also shocked. It cost. John Maynard, of Freeport $8.50 to go from the Illinois Central to the Northwestern depot in Chicago. He refused to pay a cabman the price he asked and was so loud in denouncing him that he was arrested. The fine that Jus4 tice Kersten Imposed--court costs and other fees--aggregated $8.50. The State Board of Live Stock Com­ missioners has been notified by wire that Texas* fever has appeared in Brown County, and that some seventeen head of cattle have died of the disease during the past week. ; 1 ------ Mrs. Isabelle Kenegy, a divorcee and former resident of Freeport, was married to Charles Han ley, a wealthy Omaha grocer, , by Father L. X. Dufour of St.' Mary's .Catholic Church. There was much surprise shown that a priest would Cele­ brate the nuptials of a divorced woman, but, as the first, marriage was not made Under the church service, it was consid­ ered no marriage so far as tlie church was concerned.; v...*- •c . '. • ; --...v. ..j, The road-fax system of personal ser­ vice or commutation is unsound as a principle,unjust in its operations, waste- fill in its practices, and unsatisfactory, in its results. Some system" should be devised, based) upon property, and prop­ erty-owners should not exempt o# ac­ count of age. As'tlie case now stands, some families escape any road-tax year after year, all of the members being either too young or too old, but they are abundantly able to do their share, and use the roads quite as much or more than any one. In the meantime their poorer neighbors, tenants It may v be,: or young men without land, must leave the crops in a critical condition, at the whim and convenience of the roadhiaster. Often the wonst piece of road is. Untoiiched'arid a bit suitbag the road master or his friends is worked v after a fashion--M. S. ' S., Cherokee county, Kausa.s. ' • - ' . f iey Motor Movements.' Doctor Chancellor, United StatesVice Consul at Havre, looked'at the motor experiments in France and reports that petroleum, in one form or another, promises to quicklj' solve the problem of motors for small vehicles. His report indicates that he no lon­ ger doubts. The gasoline motors, as he saw them, have Cached the practi­ cable degree of compactness, economy and simplicity. Wagons, carriages and even bicycles are propelled with ease and cheapness. ••?. a What is all this to Americans? Our town pavements are bad and our coun­ try roads in most sections little more than rut-paths made by travel in the virgin clay or sand..-- - : Maybe the motor will do what the horse and mnle never did do. It may compel the construction of smooth pavements and hard roads. As motors are introduced on a com­ mercial scale, we shall quickly see whether the saving is so great that all who do not use them will be at a con­ spicuous disadvantage. If that is the case, American shrewdness may assert itself and begin to have a level, firm surface and proper grades wherever men travel. Convicts for Road Building. The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a bulletin on the subject of usiug convicts for road- building. In North Carolina, the bul­ letin says, the employment of convicts for this purpose has proved exceed­ ingly satisfactory. The State of New York has tried it, and so far as it has gone, is pleased with the experiment. We have been urging for years the em­ ployment of convicts on the roads; and if the proposition had not every­ thing to recommend it, and if it were not plainly practical, it is probable that the legislatures of different States would have acted favorably upon it long ago. But the average legislature appears to liatte to do anything that is recommended by common sense. In every State there is an army of con­ victs, and their employment Is usually a .bone of contention. But.every State has thousands of miles of road that need improving. The labor agitators will not do this work; mechanics will not do it; and even the common labor­ ers of our towns and cities yvill not do It without bankrupting themselves/ Here is a class of work that nobody wants to touch. Why not turn the con­ victs on it? Why not furnish the stone *nnd machinery and permit the crimi­ nals to do something and yet not come into competition with the outside world?--Farmers' Voice. ^ ^ ^ Perpetual Sunshine. • This occuris ou the coast of Peru, where, although it may perhaps be mis­ ty occasionally, the blue sky is always visible through this whitish veil. Per­ petual sunshine, when the sun is above the horizon, also exists in the Sahara, the great desert of Africa, and in the other rainless regions of the earth- namely, the high lauds of Iran, various tracts of Turkestan and China, the plateau of Gobi, and also in Australia, between the southern colonies and the Gulf of Carpentaria. Should clouds appear in any of these districts the heat of the sun is so intense that they are dispersed almost before they have form­ ed. He Kept in the Middle. » In a day when sliam misogynists are as plentiful as blackberries in summer, it is refreshing to read of a man whose misogyny was real and consistent He was a rich old bachelor of Vienna, and his dislike of women was so strong that lie always purchased three seats at a theater and sat in the middle one to avoid the possibility of sitting next'to a woman. When he died it was found that he had continued his prejudice to the grave and had ordered the purchase of three graves, in the middle one of which he desired to be burled. -• "Sri < M Their Signatures. In one of the fashionable "Kurorte" on the Rhine, reports a writer in the Realm, he came across some queer en­ tries in the visitors' book of the prin­ cipal hotel. One of the Paris members of the Rothschild family had signed "R de Paris." ' i . I It so happened that Baron Oppen- heim, the well-known Cologne banker, was the next arrival, and he immedi­ ately capped the above signature by by signing "0. de Cologne." Valuable Tortoises. The villa of a French nobleman who lives in the vicinity of Paris Is Chiefly remarkably for its magnificent conser­ vatory, which is used as a banqueting hall. Creeping among the plants In this winter garden are to be seen a number of little tortoises, which their eccentric owner has had enamelled and studded with precious stones. •• ' - t - I . V ' '