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A Sleeping Qirl. A girl named' §labon, called "The Sleeping Girl of Sofnifza," is creating a sensation in Upper Silesia. - She fell ill about eight Vfeeks ago of heat apo­ plexy and has suffef-ea ever.sirice fr<fm hysteria.' She professes to haye receiv­ ed different communications from the Virgin Mary, and thousands have been flocking to her daily IiTtfre hope of wit­ nessing the "miracle," in spite of the fact that the priest has warned them that it is all an illusion. She is now in an insane asylum. ' AROUND A BIG STATE At Yandalia John K. Brtmner Is dead, aged 84. He was a member of the Phila­ delphia city troop during the Rlackliawk war, Oates Crow, Son of K. W. Crow,--was killed by the accidental discharge of a •shotgun while rabbit hunting near De­ catur./ During a figlit* at Windsor. Oliver Byrnes knocked Wallace Decker through a window, cutting his jugular vein. Deck­ er will die. _ - Carl A. Peterson was arrested at llock- ford. •>- He is accused of having forged the name of G. X. Safford $ Co. for quite an amount. -v ' ; ill i am Black, of Fairfield, tried to murder his stepmother by shooting* but the.bullet lodged in,'her arm. He is be­ lieved fd be.insane. The (J. A. R. post of Elgin has secured the services of Congressman Edward P. Allen of Michigan tif deliver the oration 011 next Memorial day. 1 Ed Campbell, a Mobile and Ohio fire­ man. was crushed beneath the cars at Mill Creek station. He was unTnarried and lived at Murphysboro. Belleville Monday, a ear occupied by the Al.-(}. Field Minstrel company, was -damaged by collision. George Wib son sustained a fractured arm. The government secret service, bureau has' discovered a new photographic; coun­ terfeit $.5 bank .note on the Fort Dear­ born National "Bank, 1,*-Chicago.-; The people of Johnston City 'weEe. joined' by a" number from adjoining com­ munities "to celebraite"th«> opening of the White.Fre])haut^e«al mines at that pljjtce. < 'npt. Wheeler, of the Chicago jjglhie,. made a raid upon jhe junk shop of R, Rosenberg, *227 .West 'Kith place, a"nd- • found $-20,000, worth of. brass cas'ti-ngs, -copper opiate,- copper wire,, brass' signs, and sheet lead and pipe.MOST of the brass was identified iiy different; railroad •officials as property stolen. A peremptory mandamus has been or­ dered to issue by Judge Shirley in the Circuit Court of Montgomery. County to the Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company compelling it to stop its regular passenger trains, and especially the train known as the "Knickerbocker Special." at Hillsboro, to receive and discharge passengers. The railroad company set up the defense that the travel 1o and from Hillsboro was am­ ply provided for by other trains, and that the "Knickerbocker Special" was a train devoted exclusively to interstate passen­ ger traffic, and that Illinois courts had no power to enforce a law requiring such trains to stop at county seats. Officials of the Big Four Company say they will abandon the train referred to if they are forced to abide by the mandamus. Victor Lake, a young Swede'from Ann Arbor, was shot in the breast by a party of tramps near Lincoln-,-'.Jj'.hile beating.his way to St. Louis. Lake and his partner had been working for H. Larger for sev­ eral days. Four tramps were in the car and as soon as they left the city they held up the two newcomers, who offered resist­ ance. Lake was shot twice and forced to jump froifi the train, which was in motion, but not until he had wounded one of his assailants. His partner carried the money of both and the tramps had hi 111 down and were .beating him when Lake jumped. Lake believes him to be dead. The Springfield police have the tramps under arrest. This is the fourth case of robbery and possible murder by tramps this year in that county! Two of the victims were tramps, the other was Farmer Lewis McAfee. The twenty-fourth annual convention, Illinois State Crange,'Patrons of Hus­ bandry. convened in Representatives' hall at Springfield Tuesday. .One hundred and sixty-five delegates were in attendance at the grange, while sixty-five delegates were in attendance 011 the annual conven­ tion of the Pomona grange, the organiza­ tion-of the grange devoted to women. Twenty new granges have been organized in the State during the last year, with a membership of .'!(KI. The total number of granges "in the State is LTOt.V with a total membership of almost 10,000. The treasurer's report shows that #2.2Ki.l. 'i has been received during the year from various sources, which, with #1.2<>0 due from loans, brings the amount on hand at this time up to $.'5,41,").4.'!. There has been paid out $1,704.22. Governor Alt- geld addressed the convention briefly Wednesday, lie urged the farmers to organize and thus protect their interests as other industrial bodies do. Several important changes wer$ made in the by­ laws of the grange, which have not been revised for several years. The annual report of the Illinois Rail­ road and warehouse commission shows the number of railroad corporations in the State to be 117 ami the number of miles of track 10.401. There are S.otjti loco­ motives, 0,710 passenger cars and 202.- 047 freight cars in service. Tlfero are »>2,7.V) officers and employes of railroad companies, against 01,200 last year. The total railway capital in the State is $2.- 2t>o.70X1 Oil, or $<«),:{!•.". per mile of road. The capitalization is $!i78,."i(>3,84N com­ mon stock and $LlS!UlS.:.ir» bonds; S.->7.:i00.1.">l earned nothing for holders and $40N,40;?,01S earned dividends. The average dividend 011 all stock was r»Vt> per cent. The income of all roads \yas $21,707,544. against $2.'Vi74.!t72 in lS;/4. The average gross earnings per mile of road were $17,772 and the average operat­ ing expenses $14.SIS. The gross earnings from passenger service were $20,(>05,823 and from freight service $45,243,045. During the year .020 persons were killed and 2.048 were injured in railroad acci­ dents. Of -the killed 175 were employes. 12 were passengers and 44.'! were other persons. Of the injured 1.44.'! were em­ ployes and 155 passengers and 4t!0 other persons. It appears that one employe out of every 350. w as killed, as against one in 450 the year previous, and that one passenger was killed out of each 5.- 200.451 carried and one injured out of each 409,583. Salaries, averaged: Gen­ eral officers, $0.40 a day; clerks. $2.07: en­ gineers. $3.40;.firemen. $2.07: Conductors, $2:91; trainmen, $1.93: station agents, $1.95; station men, $1.50: machinists, $2.20; section foremen. $1.70; switchmen, flagmen, and watchmen, $1.77; telegraph operators and dispatchers. $1.03: labors. $1.03. Fred Reno-is, a farmer of Cahokia. has been arrested at the instance of an in­ surance company charged with burning his house. .Mrs. Frank Nigh'tlinger. aged 35, living near Marshall, disappeared with Charles Minix, employed by her husband. Charges have been made to the -$frat»' Board of Charities by Miss -K nines, of Rockford. She says her brother, who was taken to the. Elgin asylum a few weeks ago. has been brutally treated. She claims he is strapped in a chair at night with 110 covering over him. Au in­ vestigation will probably be made. At Decatur Judge Vail fined Frank Cain $900 011 eighteen counts "'for gam­ bling. The court said, he would begin now to make an example of the regulars. Cain is in jail. Complaints were tiled with the railroad and warehouse commission by the Chi­ cago Live Stock Exchange against the .following roads; Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern./ -Chicago, Burlington and Qniney, and the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul, in which they are charged with extortionate terminal charges in handling cars«carried by them for the Union Stock Yards at Chicago. The commission has set Jan. 8, 1896, for the hearing of the cases. • • The Modern Mother Has found that her little ones are Im­ proved more by the pleasant laxative. Syrup of Figs, when in need of the laxa­ tive effect of a gentle remedy than by "any other, and that it is more accepta­ ble to them. Children enjoy it, aha it benefits them. The true remedy. Syrup of Figs, is manufactured by the Califor­ nia Fig Syrup Co. only. BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILL! NOIS NEWS. \ c\\&fc\mess Va\s weva % \s \tu\v^ uwrvvaWsA Expense of Caringr for Small-Pox Pa­ tients Not Entirely the Dnty of a City -Chicago Mnn's Will Provides for a Communistic Institution. Coilnty Must Pay Half the Bill. An important decision has been handed down by the Appellate Court which es­ tablishes a precedent in the matter of caring for small-pox patients. Several years ago there was--'a-t*ase -at-J&Mdyford and the total cost of treatment was $1.- 150, which amount the city paid. The City Council asked 'the county to pay half the amount, claiming the patient w as as much a county as a city charge. The county supervisors refused the request and tiie matter was taken to the Circuit Court, where the city won a victory, se­ curing a judgment against the county for $580. The county appealed and asked the Appellate (c '°urt for a rehearing, which has just been denied. Important Legal Point Involved. An important case will be heard in the Peoria Circuit,Court.1 It will be a dis­ cussion of a mulch.disputed point of law.ot whether a township collector- has a right to retain as fees an' amount;over aud above his-salary and for clerk hire.: This, suit is instituted .'by Supervisor Phil­ lip' Smith to test the- right of Collector' Allen to retain the, full 2-peivcetiL of all tax collected lit the township. Accord­ ing to the books in t'he hands'of J he coun­ ty treasurer. Collector Alle'n retained. $7,535 for the service of -himself and aids. The law allows but $'1,500, so.that the amount to be restored is $0,035. It is generally allowed that $1,500 is too small a salary for the collector and his clerks, and the town board tried to compromise by offering him that sum and paying his Clerk hire. The matter will be decided in the courts and will establish a pre­ cedent for future guidance. THEIR CONFIDENCE OFTEN LEADS TO SUFFERING. An Ohio "Woman's Experience, as Here Related, is Interesting to. Every American Woman. [SPECIAL TO OCR LADT HEADERS.] - It is a very sad fact that the more a tyoman trusts to the skill of her physician in treating her female complaints, the longer she is apt to suffer. r - Lydia E. Tinkharn fully realized this fact when she commenced that exhaus­ tive study that has enabled the women of the world to "help themselves. She dis­ covered, the source of female complaints, ami produced the Vegetable Compound, which is their absolute cure: - When, such testimony as the'following is given, the woman who thinks should act quickly,- and no longer permit herself to trust- to incompetent doctors. The Vegetable Compound is' sord by all drug­ gists,- afid every vvoman should hlive it. ; : Mother of Pearl. ' . .Mother of pearl is the hard, silvery, brilliant substance which forms the internal layers of several kinds °of shells. The interior of our., common oyster shells is. of this uaturt\ but the mother of pearl used in the arts is much more variegated with a play of color's. -The large Shells of the Indian Seas alone* have this' pearly 'substance of sufficient ; th ickness to be of, use. ' • To Found a Peculiar School, Charles Burton Phillips, of Chicago, who died in New York Oct. 25, left a will which was tiled in the surrogate's office in holograph. After making the bequest of certain property in Cairo and in John­ son County to his daughter iiqd son re­ spectively. the will directs that the resi­ due of 'his estate be applied toward the establishment of a polytechnic university upon land which the testator owned in Johnson County. This school, the will provides, shall include the community doctrine, or. as the words of the will put it: "The firganizing of the human family into a vast partnership, and through whose agency 110 member, would ever want." The Oneida community of this State, Thomas P>. Bryan, of Chicago, and the senior justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois are named as trustees of the proposed uriversity. " The doctors had told me that anl'ess I went to the hospital and had an opera­ tion performed 1 could not live' I had falling, enlargement, and ulceration of the womb. "I was in constant misery all the time; my back ached; I was always tired. IK. was impossible for me to walk far or stand long at a time. I was surely a wreck. I decided that I would give ybur Compound and Sanative Wash a trial. " I took three bottles of Lydia E. Pinlcham's Ve table Compound, and used two packages of Sanative Wash, and I am now almost we'll. I am stouter.and healthier than I have ever been in my life. My friends and neighbors and the doctors are surprised at my rapid im­ provement.--Thave told them all what" I have been taking." -- Mrs. Annetta Bickmeier, Bellaire, Belmont Co., O. Well Said. Two capital retorts which !,re well worth remembering arc .attributed to the venerable chief justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas, t<ie Hon. Charles I'. Paly. At one time a delicate question its to the construction of a statute was discussed before him. and after elabor­ ate arguments on each side the chief justice decided the question in open court, giving his reasons in a few well- timed remarks which caused a lull In the court-room. . The silence was speedily broken by the successful attorney, who stood, and said, with an air of patr< nizing ap­ proval: "May it please your bono?, 1, for one, agree with you entirely." The chief justice, with a 1 \vmkle in his eye which betokened his enjoyment of the joke, but a perfectly grave face, quietly removed his glasses, and amid a breathless stillness said: "I have, counsellor, generally found in niv ex­ perience that the successful party agrees with the court." I'pon another occasion a young at­ torney was trying to convince the chief justice that lie did not know the law. The judge listened to the young man's harangue, but at last lie became weary. '. 'My young friend." he said, with an Ironical smile, "before you are as old as I am you will have learned that it jls about as well to read Chesterlield as |Blaekstxme." PLUG i be largest piece of Good toJoacc o ever sold for 10 cents A fair lady becomes still fairer by us­ ing that salutary beautifier, Glenn's Sul­ phur Soap. --^mill's Hair-ami Whisker Dye." Blaek- er Brown. 50c. Wholesale Theft of Diamonds. Over $1,000,000 worth of diamonds are stolen every year from the South African diamond mines. The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. The Most Simple and Safe Remedy for a Cough or Throat Trouble is "Brown's Bronchial Troches." They possess real merit. Bryant is said to have written "Thau- atopsis" in a week. TfceWork of trans­ lating Homer consumed four or live of his best years. Piso s Cure for Consumption is an espe­ cially good medicine for Croup.--Mrs. >1. It. Avent, Jonesboro, Texas, Mav Oth, 1801. Marshall Pass, on the Denver and Bio Grande Railroad, is the highest point yet attained by a railroad in the United States; elevation, 10,855 feet. SCETOEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. An old-tashioned way of getting there. Slow and safe, but liard work. Most women, have got beyond this kind I, of traveling--^found something better. Cv 11 Now, why can't you look at that other old- I r\ fashioned proceeding in the sanie light-- (Wj washing things with soap and hard rubbing. vi\ l s slow enough and tiresome enough, everybody knows, and it's not as safe as washing with Pearline. It's really, destructive, in fact, the wear of that; nilv ul constant rubbing. Break away froni\ \l\l these antiquated ideas. Use modern' - \ v r ? i m e t h o d s . P e a r l i n e s a v e s a t e v e r y point. Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you " this is as good as"r or "the same as Pearline." IT'S FALSE--Pearline is never peddled, 1 and if vour grocer sends you something in place of Pearline, be ^ honest-and it back. ' JAMES PYLE. New York. ro NEW YORK •u. MILES XT Hall's Hair Renewer is pronounced the I best preparation made for thickening the J growth of the hair and restoring that i which is gray to its original color. Who waits until circumstances com- j pletely favor his undertaking will never ] accomplish anything. FITS.--All FltsBtoppedfrer by Dr. Kline's Grant .Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day's use. Mar­ velous cures. Treatise and $.00 trial bottle tree to X' it cases. Send to Dr. Kline. 981 Arch St., Phi la, Fa,.. It is waste of breath to talk any louder than we live. Height of Literary Art. A certain well-known "blood-and- thunder" producer arranged with a cheap firm of Paris "awful" publishers fto receive week by week the blocks they had used for the illustration of a thril­ ling seventeenth-century novel. ; By some sort of mistake, one Thursday an up-to-date somi-soeiety block was sub­ stituted. Said the luckless, serial-cre­ ating creature whose duty it was to write up to the blocks as they came in, "Really, Mr. -, how can I possibly work it in? This is a nineteenth cen­ tury subject, and my story is Louis Treize." With much indignation, the publisher burst forth with. Louey Trays--trays or teapots neither! I pay you good money, and you do your work. If you ain't got the imagination for it, why do you take my money} Have the kindness to 'and over that there proof; I'll do the hunderline ray self." And the "hunderline" appeared tliuswise: "They retired into the wood and disguised themselves in modern costume." Forbid a Fool a Thing and That He Will Do." Don't Use SAPOLIO Always Taking cold is a common complaint. It Is due to Impure and delicient blood, and It often leads to serious troubles. The remedy is found in pure, rich blood, and the one true bfood purifier is Hood's Sarsaparilla "I firmly believe that Piso's Cur» kept me from having quick Consumption." -- Mrs. H. D. DARLING, Beaver Meadow, N. Y., June 13, 1895 BIAS VELVETEEN SKIRT BINDINGS It's easy to prove it for yourself. Don't take any binding unless you see "S. fi. & M." on the label, no matter what anybody tells you. If your dealer will not supply you, we will. Send for samples, showing labels and maie- riais. to the S. H. & M. Co., P. O. Box 699,New York City. 1 World's Fair! HIGHEST AWARD. § Hr»r»rl'c Pillc act harinou'ously with Hood'sSar IIUUU to rms saparltla. 25c. Charlotte Made a Hit. •Charlotte^ Cushman was once filling an engagement at the opera house in Belmore. A man in the gallery created such a disturbance that it seriously im : peded the progress of the play, and finally brought*it to a stand-still. Im­ mediately the audience, furious with anger, cried: "Throw him over! Throw him over!" Miss Cushman stepped to the edge of the footlights, and, in a sweet and gentle voice, exclaimed: "No, I beg of you, dear friends, don't throw him over. Kill him where he is!" This story has been Jabl.. of a good many other actresses beside Charlotte Cush­ man. But we will let it go at that. The Fly. A writer in a Ixmdou weekly says it is not true, that flies are enabled to walk I>n the ceiling by means of sucking discs. Each of the six feet are provided with, a pair of little cushions and two hooks. The cushions are covered with hairs, which are kept moist by a, secretion oausirg them to adhere to a smooth surface. The hooks help the insects ito walk over smooth surfaces. Cures Where All Else Fails. BEST COUCH SYRUP TASTES GOOD. USE IN TIM"E. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. 35 CTS. Mr. Frank Ratliff, residing at Keyser, North Carolina, under date - of June 10, 1S95, says: "I was troubled with dyspepsia and my physician gave me Ripans Tabules and now I can eat all I want and It does not hurt me like it used to. I think they are gpod medicine. You can use my name if you want to." Klpans Tabules are sold by druggists, or by malt it the price (50 oents a boi) is sent to The Klpans Chemi­ cal Company, No. 10 Spruce Street, New York. Sample vial. 10 cents. THE AERMOTOK CO. does half the world's windmill business, because It has reduced the cost of wind power to 1/6 what It was. It has many branch houses, and supplies Its goods and repairs iSHwi at your door. It <»n and does furnish a better art!clo for less n.oney than others. It makes Pumping and Geared. Steel, Qalvanlzed-atter- Completion Windmills, Tilting TMy and Fixed Steel Towers, Steel Buzz Saw Frames, Steel Feed Cutters and Feed Grinders. On application It will name one HI of these articles that It will furnish until January 1st at 1/3 the usual price: It also makes Tanks and Pumps of all kinds. Senfl for .catalogue. Factory: 12th, Rockwell end Fillmore Streets, Chicago. Double 1 •GRANUM Many competing F00DS| have come and gonet^ been missed by few or| none,™ popularity of this \ FOODsteadily increases!! Sold by DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE! 5 John Carle & Sons, New York. J |f|b the satisfaction « f § y o b t a i n e d f r o m MSa ordinary soap and only half the expense W and bother. That's why ^ thousands of thoughtful, *" thrifty women use Santa Claus Soap. They have learned by practical, thorough tests that for washday or every­ day use there is no soap in the world that nearly equals Whispering:. The whispering gallery at St. Paul's Cathedral is approached from the body of the church by 260 steps. Here a lo\f whisper, though uttered at a distance of 140 feet-by the guide who conducts visitors over this part of the church, is heard, not only distinctly, but loudly Can He Earn It? i A person can live in splendid style Jn Japan for $5 a week. Every tlme -I eat. those cavities and spaces between the teeth are packed full, and it takes half of my time to pick them. Our Floss Holder will cleanse thoee t'-eth. space • and cavities In one-tenth the time, and far better, than d brush or toothpick It will improve ttist horrid breath, preserv • your teeth and save y<nr hours 1 f torture from teeti ache, as well as from the dentist Every man. .woman and child should use them. 25c for one. SOc for throe. Agents sell them to everyone. Ad­ dress I'erry and Wilkin*. Shelburne Falls, Ma-s ' S. IV. U. -• • >0. 51--95 Sold everywhere. Made only by The N. K. Fairbank Company, - Chicago. i to meution this paper. Advertisers like to know what mediums pay tkem best.