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US STATE NEWS JITDGE MARKETS OF THE T i i -- • • . .«• ILLINOIS JUSTICE PASSES AWAY AT FREEPORT. - OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WE^K.-- • . ' o. . . Shopping on High. --- William H. Hale is at the head of a movement of State street, Chicago, prop­ erty owners to build aii elevated side­ walk on both sides of that thoroughfare, between Lake fend Madison streets, with the purpose of connecting the center of the great shopping district with the Union elevated loop. The sidewalk, as projected, will be built on a level with the second floor of the State street business houses. It will be entirely inclosed with glass walls and roof, so thfet pedestrians making use of it will not be exposed to the weather. It will not shut out light from the adjoining business houses. It is held by the projec­ tors' that the new institution will well- nigh double the value of State street frontage-and that it will furnish an in­ valuable boon to ladies who come into the downtown district to "shop" in the big stores. They will be able to reach the State street shops from almost any part of the city and do their buying without having to wade through snow or slush or to face any fierce Winds from; the time they enter the elevated train until they leave it on the return trip. Pounds gfoilliori Pounds 6~ftnlii0T) . Pounds 6tniHio« Fbunde: iru] dune 3.0 The building is still intact, but it, will be sold piecemeal. If one/Wishes to buy a window the sign invites purchase. The man in charge of the building said he would rather sell the whole thing, but he couldn't, and therefor* v he would sell as much o/ it as he could. "if spme one wanted to buy the froat " door, would you sell it?" he was asked. '.•Yep." <• V *WouId you leave the place open?" "No; board it up." "Supposing some one wanted to buy the weather boards, the outer portion®" oi the walls, would you sell them?" "Sell anything." 'i. "The roof ?" ^ "Ypsi-Gt the foundations." "Have you sold any part of the build­ ing yet?" "No; just put the sign up." "Supposing one wanted to buytto roof and take It away immediately, would you sell it on that condition?" "If you want it just try me." "Why are you trying to sell the house at retail?" " "Because It's for sale, and there ain't no qualification on the word 'sale.* It's for sale at wholesale, retail, hi Job lots, or on the installment plan." "Would you make a discount if one would buy a good deal of it?" "Cert-a-i-n-l-y. Didn't you see the little sign out there?" , The little sign read: 1 ' j; •- 'J:f tlWillion Pounds 4 million Pounds; hrlhc f&' :uga Pounds. Favors. Private Homes. • Governor Altgeld is dissatisfied with the present system of caring for depen­ dent children in State institutions arid will soon take action that may result in the practical dismemberment of the Girls' Industrial School at South E^anston. In a letter written to Harvey B. Hurd, of Chicago, presiden£.*6f the Children's Aid Society, he suys in part:' "I am con­ vinced that the best method yfet devised for dealing with homeless children is t® place them at once in private homes, where they may be treated as members of the family, and begin early to learn the hard realities of life and the best ways of meeting them, and for this purpose they should be detained in an institution only until it is possible to find some place for them. If there arc any legal difficul­ ties in the way the law should be changed as speedily as possible, so as to put an end to the herding of children together in institutions where they are prisoners without being guilty of any offense ex­ cept that of beiug friendless and poor." enue; it would prevent the utter extinc- tioij-of" sheep farming; it would check -woolen manufacturers in their compul­ sory journey to bankruptcy; and it would provide steady work\for tens of thousands of wage earners whose mode of existence* lias recently been both precarious and uncertain. The enact­ ment of such a law should be quick and decisive; no time need be lost in discuss­ ing it; the Republicans in Congress thoroughly understand the situation and know the remedy. Their duty is to save two important industries for American farmers and manufacturers. Let President Cleveland veto such a bill, if he dare! What Everybody Needs. The American Protective Tariff League has just issued a document en­ titled "Tariff Facts for Speakers and P anient s." It covers 100 pages of of­ ficial and reliable statistics and incon­ trovertible facts. Almost one-half of the book is devoted to agriculture iu this country and in Canada and its re­ lation to the tariff question. This docu­ ment, known as Defender No^,0, Is sold at the nominal price of ten cents a Copy. Foreign Cattle Trade Declines. The raid upon tkt* markets of the world that has*been made by American cattle growers seems to have fallen short of expectations during the current fiscal year. From returns of the Bu­ reau of Statistics of the Treasury De­ partment we find that, last July* we shipped abroad 18,013 head of cattle less than in...,Tuly, 1S94, while in Au­ gust we shipped 14,302 head less than in the preceding August, the total de­ crease being 32,915 head for the two months of this year and the money loss being $20,887,53S. as can be seen from the following figures: 1884 . . .41.420 35,414 70.834 1895 ...22,807 21,112 43,919 Changed Names at Joliet. Henr^* Phalen and Newton Lee were arrested and sent to Joliet for a term of one year each, the year expiring Friday. In addition to the crime fo^ which Phalen was imprisoned he was wanted at Keo­ kuk, Iowa, for forgery. The two crim­ inals changed names' upon arrival at the prison, and for the last year Phalen has been known as Lee and Lee as Phalen. Their time expired Friday and the sup­ posed Lee was released early in the day. Phalen was held, for Sheriff MeCormick of Keokuk had notified the prison officials that he had a warrant for Phalen for the forgery at Keokuk. When he arrived at noon, however, he declared that the sup­ posed Phalen was not the man lie want­ ed, and an investigation disclosed how the trick had been worked by the two prisoners to save Phalen from sure arrest and probably a long term in prison. So far nothing has been heard from Phalen. Lee was held for assisting him to escape. Value. July. August. Total. $3,752,644 $3,310,382 $7,063,020 2,171,351 2,004,137 4,175,488 CHEAP IN LARGE AMOUNTS* FOR CASH. Loss, '95.$1,5S1,292 $1,306,245 $2,887,538 We did not look for such returns as these. They are hardly in keeping with the promised capture of the world's markets. We surely cannot be getting a tight grasp upon them when we are losing at the rate of nearly $1,500,000 a month in our foreign trade in c:\ttle alone. Workmen Still Waiting. American Workingmen to the number of several millions are still waiting for a restoration of the wages which they received during protection times in 1892,and they know they will not get them until the tariff law has been re­ vised 011 protection lines by a Republi­ can Congress, and the bill has been signed by a Republican President- Leader. Cleveland, Ohio. Elgin's New Industry. If the plans of Dr. C. F. P. Ivorssell, Edward F. Cragin, of Chicago: George 11 Bowen, of Elgin, and others are carried out Elgin will soon have a plant for the production and bottling of sterilized milk. The product will in 110 sense be a con­ densed milk, for the specific gravity of the fluid will be the same as that which comes from the cow. Dr. Korssell claims that he has invented a process which will revolutionize existing methods for treat­ ing milk for the purpose of killing the bacilli and germs, in that his sterilized milk may be shipped to distant points and preserved in air-tight bottles for an in­ definite time. The sailent features of his process are the bottle and paraffin cap whicii rests immediately 011 the surface of the milk in the bottle. The glass bottles are of two sizes--quarts and pints--and are made strong and heavy. Good News and Better News. Recently six locomotives, built In the United States, were sent to Valparaiso foi* the Chilean State Railway. This is gratifying. But when we are informed that these locomotives are to displace those of English construction, which have proved wholly inadequate, it be­ comes more so,--Hawkeye, Burlington, Iowa. The Farmer's Sound Sense. The farmer is often a more zealous protectionist than the manufacturer or the wage earner. He knows the value of a good home market from actual ex­ perience. He Is a Free-Trader. The citizen who wants labor and ev­ erything eilse cheap, his own goods ex­ cepted, is not a true American, even if his ancestors came over on the May­ flower. The Mean Man. He who complains loudest of high prices because of the tariff, is never in any hurry to reduce the prices of his own commodities. Liiars in Demand. If Ananias and Sappliira were now alive, they would never lack engage­ ments from the free trade press. What Tliey Are Used To. Undervaluation is treated lightly by the free trade press, yet it involves per­ jury and fraud. An Ass of Some Kind. The patriot says: "I am a protec­ tionist," but the free trader has many aliases. Tin Plate Trade-1892. Murderer Sentenced. The trial of Frank W. Harris for the killing of Charles Bengel on the 9t^i of last May was brought to a close at l<1ree- port Saturday morning, the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty and fixing tl\yt pen­ alty at death by hanging. When ̂ le ver­ dict was read the prisoner groaned aloud and fell limp and unconscious from his chair. The condemned man lay helpless during all the other proceedings and had to be carried to the jail 011 a stretcher. He remained two hours in a stupor. The verdict was expected, as the murder was cold-blooded and the only plea interposed by the defense was insanity. The death watch was placed over Harris, fears be­ ing entertained that lie would attempt suicide. State News in Brief. Mrs. Nancy Cosner, a well-known Cass County pioneer, died, aged 77. She was born in Kentucky and "settled at Virginia in 1820. Failure tolneet a$2,300 note due a bank caused the implement house of Collins & Stevenson, at Lacon, to be closed. All liabilities will be fully met. Neal McTaggart, a prominent merchant of Divernon, lias been missing from his home since Oct. 3, when he started to Springfield to serve 011 a jury. Three unknown men, thought to be rail­ road men, are badly wanted by the En ply­ wood police. Late Tuesday night they broke into the house of Eugene Mc­ Carthy, night yardmaster for the Union Stock Yards Company, and after abusing Mrs. McCarthy and her family stole $35 and escaped. Coal miners at Norris are on a strike because the operators refused an increase of 5 cents a ton. Memorial services were held at the Ramsey Methodist Episcopal Church for Dr. G. W. Stoddard,, a young physician who died Friday of consumption. The largest assembly of people ever seen at a funeral there attended the services. The State superintendent of insiteauce has granted a license to the Security Trust Company, of Philadelphia, Pa., to transact a life insurance business in Illi­ nois. Norman Kellogg, of Chicago, is at­ torney for the company in Illinois, At Rockford the will of Jonathan Pea­ cock, the brewer, was filed. It gives his fortune, estimated at over half a million dollars, to his two sons, with the excep­ tion of some small bequests. 1 Gov. Altgeld has issued a px'oclamation offering $200 reward for the arrest and conviction of the murderers of John J. Malone, of Cairo, April 17. George, Masten, one of the two Uni­ versity of Illinois students arrested this summer on the charge of attempted train wrecking in Douglas County and who left town recently, has returned and claims that he simply was looking for work. His bondsmen believe him and will continue to stand good for him. * Decrease Gov. Sheldon's Sound Sense. Governor Sheldon, of South Dakota, says: "The Wilson tariff law is not favorable to wage earners." He also says: "No man in this country ever saw really good times except when every laboring man who wanted em­ ployment could get it at reasonable wages. That can never be as long as we go abroad to buy what we ought to make ourselves." Gov. Sheldon's head is level. He sees that South Dakota could produce much that is imported wastefully. How to Raise Kevenue. With a tariff for deficiency only iu ex­ istence, what is so simple as the passage of a brief law placing a protective tariff upon wool and increasing, from a pro­ tective standpoint, the tariff upon wool­ en goods? ".Such a law would atfd up­ ward of $10,000,000 a year to the rev- Tin Plate Trade-1895. Altitude of Observation. The very highest observatory in the world is that situated on Mont Blanc, at a height of 14,500 feet above sea' level. The highest in Asia is that on the side of Point Everest, 10,000 feet above the Mediterranean's level, and the high­ est in the United States is that on the top of Pike's Peak, in Colorado. It is 14*147 feet above the level of the GU»f ofifMexico. The highest on the Atlantic coast of North America is the one sit­ uated on Mount Washington, height 0.2SS feet. J ( "I wctnder," said' Tommy, who had been reading the poem about the Arab' who refused a purse of gold for his be­ loved steed, "I wonder what he would have did if th^y had offered to trade 'im a bysicle."--Indianapolis Journal. A roasting pan made of paper is something new. The paper Is com­ pressed and coated with a wax prep- aration. In appearance it resembles parchment. The inventor clhlms that paper can be used for baking, and where the fire does not come in contact with the pan it will be found to be far superior to iron. ' "The Fastest Afloat. The sea-going torpedo boat Forban underwent its preliminary trials reeept; ly off Havre, and proved itself the fast­ est, vessel afloat. The contract speed was 29 knots, but despite a heavy sea and high wind the Forban easily ac­ complished 30.2 knots, which makes her faster than any other ship in tb» world. d News of Minor Note* The Brazil amnesty bill, as amended, contains a clause in violation of the con­ stitution; ~ '~r" William A. Reed, a Wealthy Bowery hardware merchant, committed suicide by shooting at New York. The cause is un­ known. Edward J. Gibbons, a prominent poli­ tician and real estate owner of Wilkes- barre, Pa., was killed by the fall bf a ro<%s * Appeal has been allowed to the United States Supreme Court at Seattle, Wash., in the case of Henry Craemer,,who "was to have been hanged on Nov. 1. At Washington, D. C., it was rumored that Mrs. Elizabeth Flagler, the society girl who shot a fruit-stealing negro lad last summer, had been indicted by the grand jury. .