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UNITED STATES '8fniiiioi? Mfio? . .Dollars AROUND- A BIG STATE BRIEF COMPILATION <DF ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. Springfield Man Commits Murder and Suicide--Officers of W. G. T. U.--Af­ fairs of the Kvangical Association-- Comical Suit at Kdtvardsville. "Win. Henry, Murderer, Found Dead, Sheriff Baxter and several deputies searched Springfield for William Henry, the railroad engineer who shot his wife. Early Friday morning he was found in a cornfield south of town with a bullet in his brain. Mrs. Henry died Friday morn­ ing. Henry is said to have been confined in aii insane asylum several years ago. Recently he ha® been on a protracted • spree, • Y. P. S. C. E. , Springfield has won at the Blooming- ton meeting in the contest for next year's convention of the State Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor. Peoria was an active candidate and the large delegation from there felt certain of suc­ cess. For the reason mainly that Peoria has already had one State convention, Springfield was chosen by the Board of Directors and the representatives of the capita.! city are jubilant. The avowed candidate for President, Rev. Oliver-W Stewart, of Eureka, came very near beint defeated by President A. E. -Turner, of Lincoln, whose name was suddenly sprun by the opposition. Rev". Mr., Stewart won by the narrow margin of one vote, the totals standing: .Stewart, 11; Turner, 10. The marked success of the ninth annual convention has not been disputed. The Blooinington unions are naturally elated over the good attendance and the unusual interest manifested. It is estimated that 1,500 delegates and visitors were present at one day's meeting. The attendance at the various meetings under the auspices of Endeavorers reached 20,000. The,new and retiring State officers express their satisfaction over the great success of the convention, and have nothing but praise for the efforts of the local unions to promote the best interests of the gather­ ing. Will Meet in St. Paul. The next general conference of the Evangelical Association will be held at St. Paul, Minn., in 1899. There was a lively contest at the Elgin meeting be­ tween Cleveland, Ohio; Berlin, * Ont.; Reading, Pa.; and St. Paul. The report of the business of the denominational pub­ lishing house at Cleveland showed re­ ceipts for the last four years, $948,301; expenditures, $735,182; gross profits, $213,119; dividends apportioned among the annual conferences during the- four years, $20,000; paid beneficiaries, $7,- 085. The receipts for the last four years were an increase of $7,975 over those for the preceding four years, notwithstand­ ing the loss of 40,000 members by the church division, and, adding the reduc­ tion in expenditures of $50,999, makes a gain of $04,975. Wants Heavy Damages. L. Roberts, of Godfrey, has filed a suit in the Circuit Court at Edwardsville against Miss Harriet N. Haskell, prin­ cipal of the Monticello seminary, for $100,000, alleging that she placed a boy­ cott on his confectionery business by for­ bidding her pupils to chew gum and eat confections. Roberts also sued E. P. Wade, of Alton, alleging slander. He claims Wade told damaging stories about Roberts in relation to his suit against Miss Haskell. Roberts says he had the trade of the seminary girls and that a young lady used his store as a surrepiti- , tious postoffice to correspond with "lady friends," contrary to the rules of the seminary, although he claims that at the time he received mail for the young wo­ man he did not know the regulations. Convention of the W. C. T. U. The State Woman's Christian Temper­ ance Union convention at Quincy warmly indorsed and approved a paper by Mrs. Hughes of Table Grove on "Why Wo­ men Should Vote," and welcomed Mrs. Long, a delegate from the Equal Suffrage Association. These officers were re-elect­ ed: President, Mrs. Louise Rounds, of Chicago; Vice President, Mrs. Carrie Grout, of Rockford; Corresponding Sec­ retary, Miss Helen Walker, of Blooming- ton; Recording Secretary, Miss Ada Bell, of Jacksonville; Treasurer, Mrs. A. E. Sanford, of Blooinington. The report of the Treasurer showed a membership of 14,033, and in addition there were 40,000 members of the Loyal Temperance League. The reports from the several departments showed much work done dur­ ing the year. State News in Brief. Leonard Preston, a youfig bank clerk, find George Ashbrook, of Janesville, Wis., were drowned in the river at Rockford by the capsizing of a canoe. All the pastors of Rockford, in news­ paper interviews, express sympathy with the Cubans, and urge the United States to recognize them as belligerents. At Peoria the property of the Paving Brick Company was sold by the sheriff to E. Lammers and the Peoria Savings, Loan and Trust Company for $5,440. At Rockford Sheriff Oliver, while re­ moving some prisoners iu the county jail, discovered a whole kit of tools with which they were about to make their es­ cape. Charles N. Smith, who killed his child, Louise, and sister-in-law, Edna Buchert, at Decatur, pleaded guilty to the charge as to the child, but not guilty as to the sister-in-law. Rundquist Brothers' clothing store in Rockford was closed by the sheriff on judgments in favor of George Johnson, of Rockford, for $735, and Ivuh, Nathan ifc Fisher, of Chicago, for $415. At Stockton burglars looted the safe of Sheckles & Glanville's hardware store and then set fire to the building with the supposed purpose of covering evidences of the robbery. The safe contained only $41. The fire was subdued before much damage was done. Officials of the Chicago and Northwest­ ern Railroad have announced that in the future the monthly pay car will be dis­ continued ou that road. Tj}\s move has been decided on because of tue'iliquency of train robberies. The Barbers' Association of Chicago announces that no further attempt will be made to enforce the Cody law and Sunday shaving will be resumed. Tha barbers can't repeal the Jaw in this sum­ mary manner, however, and it is just pos­ sible some wild, cantankerous tonsorial Roosevelt may arise and shake a brim­ stone bag over them. Rev. F. A. Hardin, the newly appoint­ ed presiding elder of the Rockford dis­ trict, will remove to Rockford to live. Al­ though presiding elder of the Freeport dis­ trict for six years, he has always resided at Englewood. The Graham Cotton Mills Company at Rockford has confessed judgment for $3,940. Since the failure of the Graham Brothers, the concern has fought bravely to defer final action, but it was finally de­ cided to list the court straighten out its affairs. The plant is bonded for $100,- 000 and will not sell for much more at this timo, hence the $200,000 in claims will get a narrow slice of iVra proceeds of the '•'sale. / William Sumner, -a" mining engineer* was rhn over and killed Hear Sti eator by a Santa Fe train. V Mrs. John. Peterson, of Knox County, gave birth to three daughters, all of whom are doing well.. Guy Mitchell, a desperate forger under arrest at Rockford, was detected in a scheme to esca&e by killing his jailer. Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan were visited by killing frosts, but the crops were so fap^najtured as to escape injury. ... I At Greenville an epidemic of diphthe­ ria has broken out, and several deaths have occurred. The Board of Health closed the schools. John Bailey, alias Bennett, was arrest­ ed at Rockford on a charge of having re­ lieved guests at a number of hotels .of watches and money, . C. N. Smith, who killed , his sister-in- law. Edna Buchert, and his 5-year-old daughter. Louise,, was sentenced at De- catur jo be hanged Nov, 29. ' A William Waddell. at Joliet, was sen­ tenced to the penitentiary for twenty years -for killing Samuel Benson on the drainage channel in May. Both men col­ ored. William J. Maineke and George Kauf­ man, two Chicago printers, were up be­ fore Justice J. J. Burke at Antioch on charges preferred against them by Dep­ uty Game, Warden Crandall for shooting before sunrise on Grass Lake, They pleaded guilty and were fined $25 and costs, which they paid. •••'.; ' Marion Heckard. aged 40, died at La- con, in great agony: he was the victim of his own credulity. He was a spiritualist, and believed himself to be a ihedium. He fell sick= and the spirits ,moved him to use certain drugs and herbs to effect a , cure. The mixture was so strong ami poisonous that Heckard djed in a few minutes, • Officer Golden returned to Rockford from Wisconsin with Mrs. W. H. Derham and the girl she is charged with abduct­ ing. Maud Medlar. Mrs. Derham was placed under $500 bonds, which,were fur­ nished. The prisoners are defiant and say they will run away again if they gc-t a chance; as they are determined to go on the stage. W. D. Staplin, a prominent attorney of Rockford. was arrested by Deputy Uni­ ted States Marshal John A. Logan, of Chicago, charged with writing an offen­ sive dunning postal card to Harry C. Soutligate, formerly of Rockford, but now employed in a Chicago bank. Stap­ lin, who said he did not know there was a law against it, was taken fo Chicago for a hearing. A body found near Alta Monday, with a bullet hole in the temple, was that of Edward Wadsworth, of Hutchinson, Kan., who disappeared from the Clarin- da, Iowa, hospital Sept. 17. Wads- worth's mind was affected and for nine months he was confined in the Indepen­ dence, Iowa, asylum. It is supposed he beat his way to Alta. A letter was found which clears up the mystery. For five months Lewis Justice has lin­ gered in the Marshall County jail for stealing a bicycle. On every available occasion he made love to Rachel Green, a pretty domestic, who served the prison­ ers their meals. The romance developed until prison bars were the only barrier to his happiness. Then Justice pleaded guil­ ty to a charge of petty larceny, paid a fine of $10. and in a half lidur Rachel had her Justice, too. Conductor Mun Dowell, of the Short Line, says a man living at Simpson lost $900 to green goods men, who met him at Pinckneyville by agreement through cor­ respondence. A bargain was struck by which the Simpson man was to give $900 good money for $10,000 of the "queer." The work of counting the money was be­ gun and when the $900 was up one of the sharpers grabbed all the money in sight and, stowing it away in his pockets, in formed the Simpson man that he was un­ der the ban of the law, and if he "squeal­ ed" he would surely accompany them to the pen. The man was easily frightened and, with a sigh, he gave up all claim tc his good" money and started for home. The wedding guests assembled at St. Joseph's Church in Peoria Tuesday morn­ ing and the wedding breakfast had been prepared, but Anton J. Thiers, the groom, came not, and Annie Burlet, the bride, fainted and the guests departed from tint church. Father Roetter, who was to hava been the officiating clergyman, addressed the congregation and bade them return to their homes. Friends of the brido sought to console her, but for hours she remained unconscious. Thiers has been drinking recently, but no one supposed lie did not intend to appear at the proper time. It is reported lie received $500 from his father and $300 from the bride's father with which to set up housekeeping. The first jail delivery Peoria has expe­ rienced iu a long time, occurred at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday night, four prisoners, William O'Brien, perjury; Patrick Hart, three charges of highway robbery: Bedo Brown, larceny, and James Redon, bur glary and larceny, escaping. It is not known just how they got out, but they picked the dpek in some manner. They were in the female corridor, to which place they had been transferred on ac­ count of the crowded condition of the jail. Rev. James Preston Green, a Presbyte­ rian minister at Shelbina, Mo., was clan­ destinely married at Quincy to Sallie Bush, a wealthy girl of Monroe City. Miss Bush has been kept in confinement by her father, although she is of age. Her father objected to Green because he was poor. Twice the couple tried to elope, and the groom had marriage licenses in three counties. Saturday the girl got away from the house where her father had placed her and came to Quincy to visit friends. Mr. Green came Tuesday to a ministers' conference, heard Miss Bush was in the city, drove„j.ip to her stopping place in a hack and carried her off by foi»ee. They crossed the river and were married by a country Justice near West Quincy. Some weeks ago Mr. Green threatened habeas corpus proceedings to get Miss Bush from her father's control, but the matter was dropped. The bride is 22 years of age, pretty, and has a large fortune in her own right The resignation of Seymour J. Thurber, of Chicago, as captain and adjutant of the Sixth Infantry, Illinois National Guard, has been accepted by the comman­ der-in-chief. Gov. Altgeld has requested the Board of Trustees of the new Eastern Illinois Nor­ mal to abrogate the contract awarded Bowman & Patterson, of Indianapolis, Ind., for plans and construction of the school. The Governor objects to the con­ tract being awarded outside the State,^ •and also to the style of the building. The contractors will hold the board to the contract. Gov. Altgeld has appointed M. Ni Gish, Bernard Cremer, Col. Sam Harper, John H. Hall and Charles F. Hudson a com­ mission to erect a monument over Gov. Ford's grave in Springdale Cemetery, in Peoria, an appropriation of $1,200 having been made for that purpose by the last General Assembly. * Three little girls named Kummer, pick­ ing^ up coal in the Panhandle yards at Chicago, were struck by a work train which came upon them just as they stepped from behind some still care. They had their baskets filled and were just starting home. Rose was hurled some dis­ tance and fatally hurt; but her sisters were thrown on one side of the tracks. FREE WOOL WOOL MEANS FOREIGN arkeled in tlie United States 200;' nmion June fiscal year endwj 30 <s 6o Tqy rnicm South America 'em Jt m UT' WcKinls Chma m at i BASIS TAXATION. ASSESSED VALUATION OF THE ENTIRE STATE. Board,(£X>f Equalization Finishes It* Work--Increase of $12,500,OJO Over Last Year's Figures--Cook County Stands One-third of It. Ready for the Tax-Roll. The following table shows the rate per cent, of additions to and deductions from the assessed valuation of each class of property in each county of the State as adopted by the State Board of Equaliza­ tion • * .'?/ • : •». FREE WOOL FRAUD. American Farmers Fleeced Throngh the Fleeces of Their Flocks. Many newspapers have republished a significant table prepared by Messrs. Justice, Bateman & Co., wool comthis- sion merchants of Philadelphia, show­ ing the comparative values of wool on Oct. 1, 1S91, one yeai^after the passage of tlie McKinley law, and Oct. 1, 1805, one year after the passage of the free wool Wilson-Gorman law, as follows: Comparison of prices for leading grades of " Oc after the passage of the Wilson free wool bill) with prices foi the same grades in Oc­ tober, 1801--about one year after the passage of the McKinley law. American Wool. Philadelphia and Boston Prices. *">o i a> -- Z-i XX Olilo washed 30^c IS'/jC Ohio medium washed... ,30c* 21c" Ohio coarse washed (>>4 blood) ,3,1c 22c Ohio tine unwashed 2iy_>e 13c Ind. & Mo. tine unwashed.20c 12c Ind. & Mo. med. unwd. (Vi blood) 27c 15c Ind. & Mo. coarse (Y2 blood unwd.) 25c 17Vic Oregon & Col. fine, shrink 70 per cent 18Vic 10c XX Ohio scoured 65c 30V..C Oliio medium scoured.. . .60c 35c Ohio ]4 blood scoured 44c 29c Ore. & Col. fine scoured. .61c 33l/»c SVa 25Vi 125 15 and under McKinley law protection, was GOO pounds, the value of which was 00 cents per pound. Under Cleveland's administration and Gormau tariff free trade the value of the same has been 30 cents, per pound. The net gain to each farmer by reason of cheaper free wool clothing (allowing three pounds of purej scoured wool to eight annual new suits of clothing to each family) would be $7.20. Giving credit for cheaper cloth­ ing, the net average loss on the wool and sheep by reason of free wool has been $4£2.80, as the following table will show: March, 181)3. and previous, 600 pounds scoured wool at McKinley price, 60 cents 5360 00 October. 1895, and previous, 600 pounds scoured wool at Wilson law- price, 30 cents 180 00 Loss on woo'. $180 00 March. 1893, and previous, 200 sheep, at $4 ?800 00 October, 1895, and previous, 200 sheep, at $2.75 550 00 Loss on sheep $250 00 27 Vi Commenting upoti the foregoing, a newspaper defender of Grover Cleve­ land's ruinous free wool policy said: "Any newspaper disposed to be fair in discussing wool values would have Total loss on wool and sheep ?430 00 Clothing, eight suits at *3 pounds on each suit, 24 pounds, McKinley price, 60 cents.. . ?14 40 Clothing, eight suits, at 3 pounds on each suit. 24 pounds, Wilson law price, 30 cents 7 20 Saving on eight suits of clothing by free wool 7 20 Net loss to each wool grower by free trade in wool $422 SO The same paper said: "But the worshipers of the McKinley tariff idol are rapidly diminishing among the farmers of this country." If "the worshipers of the McKinley tariff idol" are diminishing, why did many hitherto Democratic farmers last THAT SHODDY TARIFF. Fiscal tjear ending Jane 30 I89M -Import $113,001 lUcKinlejlariff i Shoddy Produced in Foreign Countries and TTlorkctccL m tti€ United States • Dollars:-'.'-'.." ; : ; . D O I I o t s : '12 million'/ • Dollars Fiscol jear ending June 30 1895 Gorman "Tarif Dollars-' uouars •_ taken into consideration the fact that during the past two years the price of all agricultural products has been un­ commonly low. In that period, for ex­ ample. cotton reached the lowest rate on record, though cotton is not protect­ ed by the tariff at all. Wheat likewise reached its minimum figure. Every country in the world has been affected by this decline in the value of agricul­ tural commodities, and wool lias fur­ nished no exception to the rule." Bucli a statement is the product of an unduly stimulated imagination for, in point of fact, foreign wool is not only no lower than in October, 1S91, when the McKinley law had been in force for one year, but is higher In the markets of the world, as will be seen by the fol­ lowing table of London market quota­ tions for eight of the leading London grades of wool that are most like American wool: Foreign Wool. o Jo London Prices. z=j S | * | c I c-> a- a port Philip greasy (similar to XX Ohio) '.. .lli^d 12d y^d New Zealand crossbred greasy (similar to Ohio medium) .ll%d 12V-><1 Id English Shropshire hoggets (similar to Ohio quarter blood).' lid 12d If Cape grease ,. 6V4d 6^d Port Philip scoured 23d 24d Id N. Zealand crossbred scour­ ed 19d 20d Id English Shropshire hogs scoured 14^cl 16d iy2 Fine Cape scoured .15'/4d 15^4d Since this table was prepared foreign wools have advanced. American, wools are un­ changed. In 1S93 the farmers of New York State averaged 200 sheep each. They can easily see how they have be«n rob­ bed by a glance at tlio following state­ ment: The average prod<i^tion of clean scoured wool by eaqh farmer in Ohio, Michigan and New york States during President Harrison's administration, year join the Republican party? It was to repudiate Grover Cleveland, and all that he stands for, and for nothing else. They ranged themselves with the Republican party for protection. If the coming session of Congress don't try to give them protection sufficient to pro­ tect, these former Democratic farmers will have no further use for the Repub­ lican party, and these Democratic news­ papers know it. This is why they art shrieking so loudly that McKinley pro tection is a dead issue. They want it to be a dead issue, otherwise they are beaten. These former Democratic farm­ ers want the law that made the Ameri­ can people under Gen. Harrison's ad­ ministration not only the most pros­ perous in its history, but the most pros­ perous people in all the world. Judce Lynch Trial Needed. Gov, Carr of North Carolina ob­ serves: "The new tariff has not had a fair trial yet." Most people are now convinced that it ought not to bave re­ ceived any trial at all. Yearns for Himself Only. While yearning for the good of all mankind, the free trader will try to re­ duce the wages of his own help to the European standard. A Greedy Bedfellow. Counties, Adams Alexander . Bond Boone Brown ...... Bureau Calhoun Carroll ..... Cass Champaign Christian Clark Clay Clinton Coles Cook ....... Crawford . Cumberland . De Kalb l)e Witt..... Douglas .... Dupage Edgar; Edvgjseds .. . Ettingham-.. P-nyette .... Ford . . . . :. Franklin Fulton ., . Gallatin .. .7 Greene Grundy... Hamilton ... Hancock Hardin ..... Henderson .. Henry Iroquois Jackson .... Jasper Jefferson ... Jersey Jo Daviess. Johnson . ... Kane Kankakee .. Kendall Knox Lake ..:.... La Salle Lawrence ... Lee Livingston . Logan Macon Macoupin . . Madison .... Marion Marshall .... Mason Massac McDonough, McHenry .. McLean Menard Mercer Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moultrie . .. Ogle Peoria iWrv .... Piatt Pike Pope Pulaski . ... Putnam . .. Randolph . . Hicliland . . ltock Island Saline Sangamon . Schuyler ... Scott Shelby .... Stark St. Clair. .. Stephenson Tazewell . . Union Vermilion .. Wabash . .. Warren Washington Wayne White Whiteside . Will Williamson Winnebago Woodford . Personal Property. Add Dedv 13 .5 . 10 ! i Lands. >ed 11 Lots. Add Ded. Add Ded. 13 6 19 18 12 •2- . •ji io •«» t is 1 ,, is 14 . . 10 10 15 ,, 10 2 1 i-2 i-2 ,. i'2 it 11 •,, 11 10 ,, 5 87 0 i-s 17 it ii 20 . .. r 17 ' 11 30 1 • • . ii . V- v • 2 a 4 3 13 14 18 3 2 3 10 3 8- •Ji 20 20 46 10 7 S us 7 0 • i i 30 is -i 3 45 15 50 12 11 12 15 14 14 lti 10 10 it'; XI 20 7 7 's 7 7 '7 3 3 4 1(5 15 15 i 32 12 7 13 i3 58 i<3 is io 1 • • ii 22 30 io is io io 10 ri i3 14 r> l 2 21 ' 2 35 •j 25 25 10 5 ir> 10 0 IO 40 2& 40 14 ii 20 i'j 20 3 0 14 14 15 5 •i 'f) io i 7 8 30 ! 2 10 20 20 20 4 14 5 5 0 4 5 4 3 4 !) 5 ii 17 17 10 o-1 * 5 4 5 o 24 10 2 r 10 AN ANCIENT ELM. It Stood for Centuries, and, Falling, Brought Bain to a Bailyraiy Train. For more years than anyone can re­ member an elm tree of extraordinary size has stood in the village of New Milford, Fa. It was there when the first settlers arrived, and,as the woods were cleared away it was left untouched by the woodman's ax. Its trunk was nearly four feet in diameter , and its branches cast their shade for more than a hundred feet around. When the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad was built through New Milford, more than forty years ago, the track ran close to the old tree, and the station was erected almost in its shade. Its great height and wide spread of branches offered a favorable mark for storm and tempest, but while other trees were up­ rooted from time to time this grand old tree defied the elements. It seemed as sound as it was when the pioneers first saw it, and was a famous landmark. One night last week, as the locomo­ tive of a west-bound freight train was opposite it, the great elm fell and crushed the engine. - Not a breath of air was stirring at the time. The en­ gineer, Timothy Connon, and his fire­ man were buriedrin the wreck of the locomotive, and s^eeral freight cars were piled up and mingled with the ruins of the tree and engine. Both tlio engineer and fireman were taken from the wreck, and it was found that neither had received as much as a scratch. Fred Ball, a brakeman, jumped from his car and was badly hurt. There was nothing revealed in the structure of the great elm to in­ dicate why it should have thus fallen without warning. It had broken in two half way up the stem. Only one min­ ute and a half before it fell the fast New York express, No. S, bound east, had dashed by, running forty miles an hour. --- "It is not pleasant to speculate on what the consequences would have been," said a Delaware and Lacka­ wanna official, "if that tree had fallen a minute and a half sooner."--New York Sun. It can be said that the aggregate assess­ ment of the State for 1805 will be 201.511. That for 1894- was $821,051,- 028. The assessment of Cook County is nearly $5,000,000 higher this year than last, and in the equalization between Cook and tlie other counties tlie addition made to Cook is, therefore, less than those of last year, but leaves the net re­ sult about the same. So far as the princi­ pal railroads are concerned few changes will be made; but the aggregate assess­ ment will be increased somewhat by rea­ son of small additions to their mileage and the addition to the list of a new short road. The aggregate assessment of all the roads is $79,81$dS5. The report of the Commitee on Cubital Stock will show a net assessment of $4,795,509 this year, aghiust $4,994,777 in 1894, an apparent fqefn^tion qf $199,208. This is not due to a reduction ou tlie assessment of any of tho big corporations, but to the fact that thir­ ty-two corporations that were assessed last year have been dropped from the list because proijf was presented that the corporations had been dissolved or wero insolvent and going through bankruptcy- Most of these victims of tlie panic car­ ried large capitalization, and the reduc­ tion made by dropping them from the list is only partially offset by the addition of new corporations, because tlie capitaliza­ tion of tlie latter is smaller. Last year assessments were made on the capital stock of 203 corporations, and this year on 274. a gain of eleven, but for the rea­ son stated tlie aggregate assessment is smaller, although no reductions were made. Minor State News. Operators in the Springfield coal district agree to pay 40 cents a ton. gross weight. Baptist churches of Freeport are ar­ ranging to celebrate the founding of the society in that city fifty years ago. Gov. Altgeld has restored the rights of citizenship to George Garze, of Streator, who served one year in the State prison for burglary. .At Champaign the case of Williamson against Wliitlock was settled in court, the jury giving Williamson $1 damages. He was whipped by Wliitlock. John II. Robnison, of Champaign, who killed Jacob Geiser, as the latter wjib try­ ing to rescue him from a ditch wher^ he had fallen in a drunken stupor, has been indicted for murder. Gov. Altgeld has honored the requisition of the Governor of Wisconsin for Frank H. Escher, wanted at Mukwanago, Wis., for embezzling $700 from Amanda D. Rice, whose agent he was. Escher is in Chicago. At Springfield Frederick Beard, o&e of the victims of tlie machinery hall tower accident, brought suit for damages for $2,500 against* the State Board of Agri­ culture and James Westwater & Ca., of Columbus, Ohio. Daniel Lizer, living near Lincolnrille,< found in an old trunk the first manacles worn by John Brown, of Osawatomie. during his imprisonment at Harper's Fer­ ry. Mr. Lizer's brother was in charge of the armory at the time and so got tlie handcuffs. - r t The Rock Island Civic Federation was organized at a meeting of tlie citizens in­ terested in the cause, and the papers of incorporation were, filed at Springfield. The object of the organization, which is non-sectarian and non-political, is Jc. pro­ mote good citizenship and elevate the moral condition of the city and the com- pjunity. The Federation is the outgrowth of the recent action of the Rock Inland Council with reference to tfie Sunday closing of saloons. v , Where Nothing Is True. It is not only with regard to litera­ ture that exebssive strictness of the censorship has a disastrous effect. In Russia it is impossible to believe what one reads, for everything bears the im­ press of falsity. Statistics, published by supreme, orden, are falsified and no one knows what is going on in the coun­ try, whether the cholera p raging or the peasants are famine stricken, Con sequently the people suffer indirectly for want of relief during famine, while the cholera may be spread broadcast over the land. For instance, in the present year the writer visited Nijni- Novgorod at the time of the great fair there, and found that tlie cholera was raging there, and had been for some time. Notwithstanding this, the Gov­ ernment published no statistics of chol­ era in Nijui, but gave the town a clean bill of health at the risk of spreading the disease all over European Russia and Asia, and with the benevolent ob­ ject in view of not interrupting the business of the mnrket. Thus all this secrecy causes material harm. Distress and famine, existing in outlying districts, are kept secret, and the wretched peasants perish for want of that assistance which they would receive from charitable people if their requirements were made known. Further, no comments are allowed to be printed on the actions of civil or military officers, police, or any govern­ ment officials, and there is, consequent­ ly. little to prevent them abusing their power, a privilege of which they fre quently avail themselves. Such being the case, and the Russians being an Asiatic nation in many of their char­ acteristics, it is not surprising that the administration of the country is cor­ rupt to the core.--Temple Bar liSve Letters of. Great Men. Lord Nelson's letters to Emma, Lady Hamilton, are historic. Here is »- very brief specimen: "Victory, Oct 7,1804,2 p. m. "I wrote you, ray dearest Emma, this morning, by way of Lisbon; but ia boat, ^hicjj is going to Torbay, having brought out a cargo of potatoes, will, I think, get home before the Lisbon packet. I shall only say, guzelle gan- nam juste.m--and that 1 love you be- yond all the world! This may be read by French, Dutch, Spanish, or English­ men ; for it comes from the heart of, m> Emma, your faithful and affectionate "NELSON AND BRONTE." Mozart wrote most tender arid amus­ ing letters to his wife. In one of them, written from Dresden, on April 13, 1789, he says: "If I were to tell you of all my follies about your dear portrait, it Would make you laugh. For instance, when I take it out of its case, I say to it, 'God bless you, my Stanzerl! God bless you, Spitz- bul, Krallerballer, Spitzignas, Bogatel- lerl, Sqhluck und druck!' and when I put it away again, I let it slip gently into its hiding-place, saying, 'Now, now, now. now!' but .with an appropriate emphasis on this significant word, and at the last one I say quickly, 'Good- * night, darling mouse, sleep soundlyI' I know I have written something very foolish (for the world at all events), but not in the least foolish for us, who love e a c h o t h e r s o f o n d l y . " _ , , - f Beethoven wrote passionately to the Gountess Gililetta Giucciardi: "Goodriuorniitg. Even before I risfe my thoughts throng to you, my im­ mortal beloved! Sometimes full of joy, and yet again sad, waiting to see whether fate Will hear us.' I must live either wholly with you or not at all. Indeed, I have resolved to wander far from you till the moment arrives when I can fly into your arms and feel that they are my home. Continue to lov« me. Yesterday, to-day, what longings for you, what tears for you! for youl for you! my life! my all! Farewell! Oh, love me forever and never doubt the faithful heart of your lover--I* " "Ever thine. :< * . i, 1 "Ever mine. I ' ' "Ever each other's." - Edmund Kean, who had been volun­ tarily separated from his wife for seveil years, wrote to her in 1S33: "My Dear Mary--Let us ho longer be fools. Come here. ' Forget and forgive! If I have erred, it was my hearf; not my heart, and most severely have I suffered for it. My future life shall be em­ ployed in contributing to your happi­ ness; and you, I trust, will return that feeling by a total obliteration of the past. Your wild, but really affectionate husband, EDMUND KEAN." "Theater Royal, Richmond."--New York Mercury. Butler's Quiokness of Wit In one of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's political campaigns he was to speak in a hall which had a small aperture over the speaker's desk. Some of the younger and dare-devil element secret­ ed themselves in the loft from which the hole opened, and at an impressive mo ment in the General's speech a huge wooden spoon suspended by a cord was seen descending slowly from the ceil­ ing The effect upon the audience was instantaneous, and amid roars of laugh­ ter, in which even the dignified occu­ pants of the platform could not help joining, the spoon pursued its down­ ward course, halting only when direct­ ly opposite tlie speaker's face. Mr. But­ ler gazed calmly at tlie cause of the merriment. Then, "Hello! There's one I didn't get." and, pocketing the prize, he resumed his address.--Boston Budget. Printing in Ancient Rome. According to a Roumanian newspaper the "Foia Diecesaua," Adrian Diaconu, an architect and archaeologist, has found in the ruins of the ancient Ro­ man fortress at Bersovia. near Tyines- var documents proving that the credit foi tlie invention c" printing is due to the Romans. From the researches of Mr. Diaconu it w-juld seem that the Fourth Leg'ion, Fiavia Feliv. which was stationed in the flourishing province of Dacia Ripensis, was familiar with the use of typography, with movable types. Two members of the Bucharest Scien­ tific Academy have examined the dis­ covery of Mr. Diaconu and .admitted its value. Queer Way of Living. A queer trade is followed by half a dozen sidewalk merchants outside the Philadelphia house of correction. Ev­ ery person discharged from the institu­ tion receives on leaving a pair of'new shoes. Traders lie in wait for the dis­ charged prisoners and offer them a pair of old and comfortable shoes and 25 and 50 cents for their new pair. In a great majority of cases the trade is made. The house of correction shoes are well made and strong, and the traders get a good price for them from Kvorkingmen.--Indianapolis Journal. "I love you passionately Maud--be mine." "I cannot, Gerald. 1 always said I (would marry a brunette, and you are a pronounced blonde." "That will enable me to prove what I have so often told you. I will dye for your sake."-- Harper's Bazar. Musician (ironically)--I am afraid my music is disturbing the people who are talking over there. Hostess--Dear me, I never thought of that. Don't play BO loudly.--New York Weekly. - The Fatal Letter "M." i "Speaking of the burning of the Big Sandy in the recent conflagration on the river," said Steamboat Inspector Dameron, the other day, "it is an inter- ing fact to note that the engineer of the boat, Willard Alexander, is one of the river men who have been pursued by disaster wherever they have. gone. Rivermen as a rule are more or less su­ perstitious, but in some cases they cer­ tainly have grounds. One of these su­ perstitions is that a boat the name of which begins with the letter 'M' is bound to meet with misfortune. In the case of Engineer Alexander this is the third boat which has been burned un­ der him. The other two boats were the Mary Huston and the State of Mis­ souri. I have known a number of cases where men were actually compelled to leave the fiver just because they had such a record for ill luck that no one would employ them. Prominent among these was Captain Ghenowitli, of St; Louis. Every boat he had charge of was destroyed, until finally he could find no one who would employ him and he was obliged to go into a different business."--Cincinnati Commercial-Ga­ zette. „. . Jumbo Wheels. In Western Kansas and other cyclone regions of the West they are utilizing their inconveniences in a characteris­ tic American way. By the use of "Jumbo wheels," something like the Ferris wheel at the World's Fair, or like the paddle-wheel of a stern-wheel steamboat, they get 100 horse power out of a 15-mile wind. This force they are using for irrigating purposes, and there are those who think that the Jumbo wheel has such a future that it Is likely to make fanning profitable in the whole arid regidn. Slaves in Zanzibar. If* , Mr. Mackenzie' estimates the number of slaves in Zanzibar and the adjoining islands of Pemba, both under British protection, to be 266,000, these being the survivors of oyer 1,000,000 souls, the others having lost their lives in the course of transit from the places of their capture. "You say the trout weighed teh pounds?" "Yes, sir; it was the biggest trout 1 ever saw." "And it got away from you?" "Yes." "WHl you make in oath to that?" "I'll take no mqro oaths; I swore enough abotit ft when fie got away."--Tammany Times. Guests at a Hotel. "It may surprise you," said an old hotel clerk, "but we can tell a man Mot used to stopping at hotels at the nrst glance. His unfamiliarity with the way to register,, with the way to ask for his letters,/telegrams, or how to give up his key to his room, gives him away immediately. Now, to-day a middle- aged man who is stopping at this hotel came up to me and asked me if I would keep tlie key to his room for a little while. That was the one sure way of telling that he had probably not been in half a dozen hotels in his life. Then we can always tell the minute a man comes up to ask for his mail whether he is a hotel liver or not. The commer­ cial traveler, before his name is writ­ ten down in the register, will ask to' see the letters in the box bearing his initial. He will grab up the telegrams and pore over them as if he were going to catch a train that left in ten minutes. Then he will take his armful of um­ brellas and canes and throw them at the belboy and tell him to take them to his room. The man unacquainted with hotel life will be< exactly the oppo­ site. He is usually as bashful as a schoolgirl with stage fright He doesn't know how to do any thing. "~^ Buffalo News.