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ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. :'Wri Pi |l SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH- FULLY RECORDED. •Finds & Defunct Rodent in the Staff of Life--Few Volunteers to Assist in a Skin-Grafting Operation--Seven­ teen Persons Made 111. SL"»- * Mouse in a I*oaf of Bread. O'Brien street residents of Chicago, as «t rule, are not easily disturbed, but a little mouse caused the greatest excite­ ment the other day in the Meyer family, •and the neighbors are still discussing the incident, for the mouse was found inside A loaf of bread which had just come from the baker's. It had evidently been baked In the loaf. M. Meyer, the head of the household, is a Geripan Jew, and keeps a. butcher shop. Sunday morning one of the little Meyers was sent to the bake CUTS A LOAF OF BREAD AND FINDS A DEAD MOUSE IN IT. shop around the corner for a loaf of rye bread, and after it had served for break­ fast and dinner there was, only an end •of the loaf left for supper. Meyer cut into it once or twice, when his knife •struck a substance which proved to be the body of a small_mouse. The housewife •set up a shriek, and the-five little Meyers and a couple of customers from the meat shop, together with sympathetic friends from the vicinity, ran to the scene, and all claimed to be greatly shocked to see that a loaf of bread was also a tomb. Com­ plaint was made to the health department that the baker was baking occasional mice in his loaves, and the department may investigate. As for the Meyer fam­ ily, they are now eating bread baked at ihome, and, though Mrs. Meyer admits that she can't make good bread, the, bake shops are receiving none of her patron­ age.--Chicago Chronicle. Men Give Up Their Skin. Out of 100 men who were asked to give tip pieces of their skin for a grafting op­ eration on Emijtia Qtiliaghor only eleven agreed to part with the epidermis at St. Elizabeth's hospital at Chicago the other day. The other eighty-nine declared that The annual report of Jailer Whitman, of the Cook County jail, shows that O.'.Ki'i prisoners were received at the institution during the year. The largest number re­ ceived during a single month was 640 in December and the smallest in September, when 512 prisoners were entered upon the books. At present thpre are more prison­ ers in the Cook County jail than there are convicts in the penitentiaries of Minne­ sota or Wisconsin. The charges for which the prisoners were held during the year are: Larceny 2.072 Burglary - 1,334 Robbery 601 Assault to kill 327 Assault to rob .., 57 Assault 340 Murder 08 Criminal assault 101 Riot r\ 5 Abandonment of wife 90 Disorderly conduct 308 Assault and battery 118 Arson ... 20 Embezzlement 90 Larceny as bailee 91 Confidence games 34 Debtors . „.. 41 Perjury . 30 Contempt T.61 Forgery 79 Malicious mischief ............... 82 Conspiracy 58 Receiving stolen property .. .1 .'J ... 07 Making threats ; , 01 B i g a m y . . . . . ; . . . . . 1 8 L i b e l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Mayhem 7 Writ he exeat 4. A b d u c t i o n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 M i s c e l l a n e o u s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 5 ; The number of prisoners now confined in the jail is double what the jail was intended fo accommodate. The only part of the new jail now occupied is the kitchen. Theodore C. Wakefield, traveling sales­ man for the Rock Island Lumber Com­ pany, died at St. Anthony's Hospital at Rock Island Tuesday of concussion of tht*brain, the result of injuries sustained at the hands of footpads in East St. Louis Dec. 5. He was leaving the yards of a lumber company there when he was set upon, beaten into insensibility and robbed of his gold watch and chain and a large sum of money. He was partially re­ stored and for some days wandered about in a state of delirium, when? a brother in St. Louis took him in charge and sent him to his,home. He was 40 years old and leaves a wife and one child. Barnard Krauss, of Chicago, would have committed suicide the other day but for his fear that Policeman Max Kreuger would kill him. Krauss was busy drown­ ing his woes and himself in the cold, cruel waves off Lincoln Park when Policeman Kreuger rushed down to the edge of the water and, brandishing a pistol, threat­ ened the would-be suicide with immediate death if he did not quit trying to kill him­ self. While the idea of drowning in the lake had been a sweet one to Krauss, the prospect of being shot by a sparrow cop was so heartrending that he immediately swam to shore. Henry Funk, successor to the White & Funk Grocery Company, Pana, made an assignment in the County Court for the benefit of his creditors. The assign- .menfctrWas caused ,by inability to meet pressing demands or to secure loans on realty.with which to pay the same. Lia­ bilities, about $8,000; assets, $20,000. D. THEY WERE NOT THAT KIND OF "GRAFTERS." they had not more skin than they needed, and refused to help the physicians out. The applicants came in response to an advertisement which called fpr "twenty- live healthy men for grafting," and few of those who came knew what was required " of them. Emma Gallagher was badly burned at her home, 285 Canal street, and the doctors decided that nothing but skin grafting would be available in cur­ ing her hurts. Most of the men, when told what was wanted of them, declared they had important business elsewhere. Of the eleven who underwent the opera­ tion there was not one that ftinehed. The skin was taken from the arm just above the elbow. Poisoned by Sausage. Seventeen persons, members of four families living in Euglewood, were poi­ soned last week, the result of eating smoked sausage. One of the victims, Mrs. Hugo Bock, may die. The others are out of danger, having received timely med­ ical aid. -The sausage was smoked and sold by Herman Papke, a butcher in Six­ ty-eighth street. He purchased forty pounds of meat from Roberts & Oake at the stock yards. Fifteen pounds of the meat was converted into sausage and sold to two customers, one of whom gave a •part of her purchase to a neighbor. All those who ate the sausage were taken violently ill, except the butcher and his family. One of the physicians who was called decided the sickness was due to something the victims had partaken of. He suspected it was the sausage. Secur­ ing twro cats and a duck he fed the sus­ pected food to them. The cats were tak^ <en with convulsions and the duck laid •down and died. State News iu Brief. Excessive joy caused the death of Mrs. Eaura Bromley in the office of the Met­ ropolitan Life Insurance Company at Chi­ cago. Arrest and disgrace threatened her husband, and when she received the as­ surance that no legal action would be taken against him, her fears gave way to a transport of delight. The reaction was more than her heart could withstand Z. T. Turner, proprietor of the Ninety- nine CAt Store at Freeport, has con­ fessed judgments aggregating $2,585. The stuffed figure of a man swaying at the end of a rope thrown over a rafter frightened Richard Spencer, who lives in the Waite Building, Chicago, into a fainting fit as he entered his room at midnight the other night. Spencer was unconscious nearly half an hour and suc­ ceeded in frightening three practical jok­ ers nearly as badly as he himself had been. When Spencer did not recover the jokers called in a physician, who succeed­ ed in restoring him. -- The dry goods stores of L, M. Churchill of Keithsburg and Monmouth were taken possession of on a chattel mortgage aggre­ gating $0,400, of Drury, Burgett & Co., of Keithsburg, and H. B. Claflin. of New York City. Other unsecured claims swell the liabilities to about $10,000. It is now learned that the general cut in wages of the Illinois Steel Company will afEect the Joliet works. The wages of about 75 per cent of the men will be reduced from 10 to 20 per cent. There are about 1,800 men now employed, and most of them will be affected,, except 450 men in the rod and billet departments, who are under contract and are knoxyn tonnage men. H- Travis is named as assignee. Funk is a retired farmer and ex-vice president of the First National Bank of Pana. White retired from the firm recently. An important occasion in tlie progress? of Bloomington was the formal opening, of the new and massive Government building at the corner of Jefferson and Bast streets. The business of the post- office has been transacted in the new b u i l d i n g f o r m o n t h s , b u t t h e w o r k o f f u r nishing and finishing the interior has BLOOMINGTON'S NEW FEDERAL BUII.DING scarcely been completed yet. The build­ ing. ground included., has cost, so far. $72,000, leaving $3,000 of the $75,000 ap­ propriation unexpended. It is of stone and pressed brick. The main floor is occupied wholly by the postoffice. The upper floor has apartments for the busi­ ness uses of postal clerks who run in and out of Bloomington, for visiting postal inspectors and for civil service examina­ tions. The interior is finished iu oak, with frescoed ceilings. The creditors of the defunct Ramsay bank at Carlyle are angry. The $200,000 bond of Elijah P. Ramsay as adminis­ trator of the estate has mysteriously van­ ished. It is a matter of record, but the original cannot be located. Judge Jones has demanded that young Ramsay fur­ nish a new bond for $220,000. Many ex­ planations are offered for the disappear­ ance of the highly valuable document. It has probably been misplaced, but there are some people who think it has been ab­ stracted from the Ramsay papers. Prof. R. A. Morley resigned the presi­ dency of the Northern Illinois College at Fulton and the Board of Trustees elected Prof. J. E. Bittinger to succeed him. Prof. Bittinger at once assumed control. He made many changes in the govern­ ment of the school, and the attendance has been materially increased. Prof. Bit­ tinger was formerly a member of the fac­ ulty, and is no stranger to the college. The trustees have a force of men at work on the main building, which was partly destroyed by fire a few weeks ago. They will thoroughly overhaul it, and put in the repairs on a modern plan. The annual meeting of the State Board of Health was held at Springfield and the routine business of the last year closed up. Officers were re-elected as follows: President, Dr. B. M. Griffith, of Spring­ field; Treasurer, Dr. Sarah Hackett Ste­ venson, of Chicago; Secretary, Dr. John W. Scott, of Springfield. The wholesale and retail crockery store of H. Ridder & Co. was closed at Quincy by the Sheriff on judgments aggregating about $8,000. The total assets are $40,- 000 and the liabilities $30,000. The busi­ ness will be resumed. The house was closed to satisfy, local creditors, who have; claftps amounting to $8,000. The-stock ated to be worth $35,000. TANNER IS SWORN IN. . • FORMALLY INSTALLED AS GOV­ ERNOR OF ILLINOIS. ^ ;V : ; Tremendous Crowd Throngs the Cap­ itol to Witness the Event--Civic and Military Parade Declared a Complete 8uccess in Kvery Particular. _ Tanner Now Chief. Springfield correspondence: The inauguration of John R. Tanner, as Governor of the commonwealth of Illi­ nois was attended by the usual pomp and ceremony of such notable occasions. The military and civic features/of the impos­ ing spectacle, with the attendant display of flags and flowers ands the inspiring strains of martial music, equaled any previous similar event ii^, the history of the State. From early dawn the streets were thronged with visitors from all parts of Illinois, the farmers from the adjacent country adding, with their vehicles^ to the crush in the streets of marching clubs, fraternal organizations and militia regi- mtents. • ;•••••/ The city was in gala day attire. Flags and bunting floated from all the windows in the buildings in the commercial center of the city. Crowds of people swarmed the streets. The windows and even tops of the surrounding buildings wore occu­ pied, from which vantage-points the peo­ ple waved flags in honor of the occasion. The review stand was on the south side of the square and was occupied by Gov.- elec-t and Mrs. Tanner and other State officials and their wives. When Gov. Tanner took his position in the review stand hats came off and lusty cheers came from the throats of the thou­ sands crowded around. Removing his hat, Gov. Tanner bowed to the multitude in acknowledgment of the good will so sten- toriously accorded him. Promptly at 10:45 a. m. the deep, res­ onant boom from the signal gun an­ nounced the moving of the column and the thousands of people who had been pa­ tiently waiting began crowding and jost­ ling in their endeavors to catch a glimpse corted by their predecessors and their Wives, and the party passed to the bar of. the House, before whibh the officers and their wives ranged. Behind them in rotation stood their predecessors and their wives. By the side of the Speaker of the House, Edward C, Curtis, sat Lieut. Gov. Gill, and at the Clerk's desk in front of them sat Chief Justice Magruder, who ad­ ministered the following prescribed statu­ tory. oath of office to each State officer- elect: I do solemnly swear far affirm) that I will support the Constitution or the United States and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully dis­ charge the duties of the office of accord­ ing to the best of my ability. Gov. Tanner raised his right hand and steadily gazed into the efes of Chief Jus­ tice Magruder while the oath was being repeated and at its conclusion he bowed his head as a token that he reverentially accepted the high position of trust be­ stowed on him. After all the officers-elect had been sworn the entire standing party, with the exception of Gov. Tanner, took seats that had been reserved and the Hon. John R. Tanner, Governor of the State, delivered his inaugural address. K labor ate Decorations. The capitol never looked prettier than in the inaugural dress. The decorations were the most elaborate ever seen in the capital city and were mu§h admired by the thousands who saw them. No pains or expense were spared to fittingly dec­ orate for the auspicious event. Something of the magnitude of the decorations can be imagined from the amount of material used in the work. The list includes 400 flags, 500 yards of drapery, 200 pieces of cambric netting, 100 wreaths of ever­ green, 1,800 yards of evergreen, twenty- five shields, fifty needle plants, twelve shields with silk flags, 100 feet of plush drapery, 100 satin banners, fifty rolls of crepe paper and twenty-five flags with gold fringe. The illumination was a special feature. Sixteen hundred extra incandescent lights were used jn brightening up tlie building, and, together with the 4,000 gas jets and 1,500 incandescent lights regu­ larly .used in lighting, made a brilliant scene. Seven hundred white and blue iights were used on the outside of the building. The top of the dome was sur- Y 0 '• <t jiRI *. GOV. TANNER TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE. of the head of the column. During the march of the parade there was a contin­ uous firing of salutes of artillery, which did not cease until Gov. Tanner alighted from his carriage at the State house en­ trance. Mounted troops acted as escort to the Governor and State officers, and the members of Gov. Tanner's old regi­ ment, the Ninety-eighth Illinois, acted as his personal escort. The Inaugural Parade. The inaugural parade was more than an hour in passing the grand stand and it was estimated the column was more than two miles in length. The procession con­ sisted of but two divisions, the military division and the civic division, the latter composed of civic organizations and clubs. The military division, under command of Gen. A. H. Wheeler, headed the proces­ sion. Col. George M. Moulton command­ ed the Second Infantry, and Col. J. S. Culver commanded the Fifth Infantry, and both regiments presented an impos­ ing appearance. Following came the military battalion of the University of Illinois, under command of Maj. Capt. Daniel H. Brush, of the Seventeenth United States Infantry. The naval division of the Illinois National Guard was under command of Lieut. Edward Crossman. Maj. Col. A. M. Ja­ cobs commanded the Western military academy cadets. Cavalry Troop B of the Illinois National Guard jvas com­ manded by Capt. W. P. Butler and acted as a mounted escort. The oivic division, commanded by Col. Theodore Ewart, was headed by the Cook County Marching Club of 300 members and the Pullman band. The civic divis­ ion was the longer of the two divisions. As its end passed the review stand on the south side of the court house yard, the State officers-elect and their wives left the stand and entered their carriages, joining in the triumphal march to the State house to receive the administration of the oath of office. Gov.-elect lanner's carriage led the van and he was personal­ ly escorted by 100 members of his old reg­ iment, the Ninety-eighth Illinois, who ar­ rived early in the morning°from different parts of the State. It was almost impossible to clearji pas­ sage through the crowd that tilled the State house to secure the entrance of Gov. Tanner and his escort to the House of Representatives where both houses were assembled in joint session lor the ad­ ministration of the oath that installed John R. Tanner as Governor of Illinois. The scene was impressive and a deep silence swCpt over the spectators as the officers-elect arranged themselves before tlie bar of the House. With the tolling of; the noon hour by the bell of (lie city clock the oath of office was administered inj the presence of the retiring State offi­ cers, judges of the Supreme Court of the State and other distinguished visitors. During the administration of the oath the Governor's salute was fired by Battery D of the Illinois National Guard. . Sew Governor 'lakes the Oath. The inaugural ceremonies, though sim- plte in form, were solemn and impressive and as the State officers-elect, accom­ panied by their wives, entered the audi­ torium of the House of Representatives a silence prevailed that was broken only by the distant deep reverberating intona­ tions of the guns of Battery D, Illinois National Guard, that were firing the Gov­ ernor's salute. A« the State officers-elect passed into the auditorium they were met and e^- mounted with a star, five feet in diameter, formed of incandescent lights. The na­ tional colors were distinct in the star and blended harmoniously. On the south and north side of the building a strand of 125 red, white and blue lights ran from the ground to the top of the dome. A cluster of thirty lights was arranged above the north and east entrance, while a festoon of forty colored lights extended between the turrets and the north and south wing. A similar festoon adorned the base of the arch of the dome. In the interior the illumination was equally grand. The interior of the dome was ablaze with vari-colored and frosted lights. Sixty fancy lanterns toned the dome decorations. The eight massive gas- post fixtures in the rotunda were decorated with lights in addition. Green pre­ dominated in the banquet hall or library. The tables were freshened with cut flow­ ers, smilax and ferns. Streamers of ever­ green were stretched across the liall, nu­ merous fancy lanterns suspended from the streamers, shedding soft light on the ta­ bles. "The bookcases were beautified with cambric netting. The Governor's reception rooms pre­ sented a pretty sight with the floral and other decorations. In the center of the reception room a large white dove cen­ tered in a wreath of gold was suspended from the ceiling, presumably to remind the visitors of the late marriage of the State's chief executive. The walls were adorned with silk banners and flags, grouped together. A dove, similar to the one iu the Governor's reception room, was suspended in the center of the Hall of Representatives. Grand Bail, at the State House. The inauguration ceremonies ended with the inaugural ball in Representative Hall in the State House. A reception tendered to the newly installed officers paved the way to the more brilliant func­ tion, which brought hundreds of hand­ somely gowned women, twice as many men and scores of officers, who were daz­ zling in all the bravery of full-dress uni­ forms. The people of Springfield say that Gov. Tanner's inaugural ball was the most brilliant affair ever given in Illinois outside of the Chicago charity balls. By Indirection. A new story of roundabout telegraph­ ing is reported by the Boston Herald: The other day a man in Bangor, Maine, wished to send a dispatch from that city to Portland, Maine. On ac­ count of the destruction of the bridge at Benton, direct communication with Portland was impossible,, but the. West­ ern Union got the message through all the same, and this is the way it was done: ° <• It was telegraphed from Bangor to North Sidney, Cape Breton, thence to Heart's Content, Newfoundland, thence to Valencia, Ireland, thence to Land's End, England, thence to Dover, thence to Brest, France, thence to St Pierre, Miquelon, thence to Dixbury, Mass., tbence to Boston, and. thence to Port­ land. George Legg, the defaulting treasurer of Pike County, Ohio, who embezzled about $17,000 of the county's money, pleaded'guilty and was-sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary and to pay a line of twice the amount of the defalcation. NEW PLAN OF FINANCE WORK OF THE CONFERENCE AT INDIANAPOLIS. i -- - „ m Declares for Gold, for the Retirement of Treasury Notes, for Freer Bank* ing; and for a Monetary Commission to Bugflrest Reforms. .> The Scheme in Detail. The work of the monetary conference at Indianapolis is finished. After all the States had submitted plans for reforming the currency, it was clear that there was no substantial agreement as to what should be done, and that there was considerable difference of opiniua as to the proper mode of procedure. The committee on resolutions, composed^of One delegate from each State, examined care­ fully all the manuscripts filed with it, and, after a session of twelve hours, the following resolutions were unanimously recoipmended: This convention declares that It has be­ come absolutely necessary that a consistent, straightforward and deliberately planned monetary system shall be inaugurated, the fundamental basis of which should be: 1. That the present gold standard should be maintained. 1 2. That steps should be talcen to Insure the ultimate retirement of all classes of Uni­ ted States notes by a gradual and steady process and so as to avoid injurious contrac­ tion of currency or disturbance of the busi­ ness interests of the country? arid that until 6uch retirement provision shall be made for a separation of the revenue and note issue departments of the treasury. 3. That a banking system be provided which should furnish credit facilities to ev­ ery portion of the country, arid an elastic cir­ culation, especially with a view of securing such a distribution of the loanable, capital of the country as will tend to equalize the rates of interest in all parts thereof. For the pur­ pose of effectually promoting the above ob­ jects: Resolved, That fifteen members of this convention be appointed by the Chairman to act as an executive committee while this convention is not In session--with the full powers of this convention. ' The executive committee shall have the power to increase Its membership to any number not exceeding forty-five, and five members thereof shall at all times constitute a quorum of said com­ mittee. The Executive Committee shall have spe­ cial charge of the solicitation, receipt and disbursement of contributions voluntarily made for all purposes; shall have power to call this convention together again, when and whore it may seem best to said commit­ tee to do so, and said committee shall con­ tinue In office, with power to fill vacancies, •until discharged at a future meeting of this convention. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of this Executive C minlttee to endeavor to procure at the special session of Congress which, it is understood, will be called in March next, legislation catling for the appointment of a monetary commission by the President to consider the entire question, and to report to Congress at the earliest day possible; or, failing to secure the above legislation, they are hereby authorized aud empowered to se­ lect a commission of eleven members, ac­ cording to the rules and plans set forth In the suggestions submitted to the convention by Mr. Hanna, of Iudianapolis, as follows: Article 1. The commission shall eonslskof eleven members, to be named by the Execu­ tive Committee appointed by this conven­ tion. The Executive Committee shall have power to fill vacancies iu the commission as they may occur. Art. 2. The first meeting of the commis­ sion shall be held at a time and place to be designated by the Executive Committee of this convention In a call to be issued there­ for; and at such meeting the commission shall organize by the election of such officers and the adoption of such rules and by-laws for its O'rtrn government as may be agreed by a majority of Its members, and thereafter It shall be governed by such rules and by­ laws, subject to these articles. Art. 3. All rules and by-laws of the com­ mission and all Its proceedings shall be di­ rected toward the accomplishment of the ob­ ject of its creation, which is to make a thorough investigation of the monetary af- • fairs and needs of this country, in all rela­ tions aud aspects, and to make appropriate suggestions as to nny evils found to exist, and the remedies therefor; and no limit is placed upon the scope of such inquiry, or the manner of conducting the same, except­ ing only that the expenses thereof shall not exceed the sums set apart for such purpose • *by the-Exacutive lOommlttee. ,v. Art. 4. The Executive Committee of this convention shall use so much of the volun- tary contributions made to It as may be avail­ able for that purpose, to defray all necessary expenses of the commission, aud shall notify the commission from time to time of the amount so available. In order that It may regulate jts expenditures accordingly; and no liability shall attach to said committee or to this convention beyond the amount so notified. Art. 5. When the labors of this commission have been completed so far as practicable, the Executive Committee, if it deems it ad­ visable, shall Issue a call to bring this con­ vention together again at a time and place designated In such call, and at the meeting so convened the commission shaJl make re­ port of Its doings, and suggestions in such manner and form as it shall deem best adapted to present to this convention and its members for action; and, if legislation la deemed impossible, shall accompany such re­ port with a draft of such bill or bills provid­ ing for such legislation. ItesoIved, That all resolutions and com­ munications as to methods of currency re­ form which have been presented to this con­ vention be referred to such commission when formed. This plan was put together by W. B. Dodge of Minneapolis, M. E. Ingalls of Ohio, Rufus B. Bullock of Georgia, N. E. Fletcher of Michigan and Charles I. Lib- bey of Maine. In committee there was a long debate. • Congressman Fowler of New Jersey de­ clared that any commission appointed by the convention or at its suggestion would seem to the Committee on Currency and Banking and the Senate Finance Commit­ tee as bearing the assumption that the members of those committees are not able to draw a bill for bringing about the re­ form sought. "The members of Congress are not absolutely ignorant," said he, "and all tlie wisdom of the country is not out­ side." J. H. Rhodes of Massachusetts sustain­ ed the plan in a speech that charged Con­ gresses for ten years back with indiffer­ ence to petitions, appeals and popular demand. "Suppose you get your committee to­ gether and suppose you frame a bill, what are the chances of passage in this Con­ gress? The mercantile and banking inter­ ests of this country, which represent ev­ ery interest in this country, from the poor­ est man to the richest, have been at the doors of Congress for the last ten years. We have sent delegations there; we have passed resolutions; we have pleaded and we have begged "of your committee, and now we have asked for help. The coun­ try to-day lies prostrate. We are tired of it. s We ask what chauce is there from the present Congress or the Congress to come, if you refuse to consider the reso­ lutions of this convention? Is it not true, at the close of the nineteenth century, that the people of this country cannot get their rights from Congress yuless they buy them with the promise of re-elec­ tion?" There was uproarious applause from all parts of the hall. When it had subsided Mr. Walker said: "If this sentiment is to be applauded in this convention, I have nothing more to say." •" TBe previous-question was demanded. Congressman Fowler, seeing that the con­ vention was against him, withdrew his proposed amendment to the report of the committee, and the committee report was adopted. ' - Mews of Minor Note* The. new Banigan rubber works at Olneyville, R. I., have started up. About 750 hands were given employment Frederick Blocker, aged 44 years, a wealthy stock dealer from Halle, Ger­ many, died at the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia from a gunshot wound, self inflicted. Obedient to his father's last wish,, Ernest Rosen stood on the center arch of the Eads bridge at St. Louis and scat­ tered the ashes of his father's remains to the four winds. W&0mi Illinois LAW-MAKERS. In the Senate, Thursday, the Mani­ fold (Dem.^ and Berry (Rep.) contest was referred to committee. The usual bills covering salaries and current expenses of the session wet-e introduced; also a bill appropriating $31,000 to famish memorial hall in Chicago public library. Five thou­ sand copies of the Governor's message were ordered. In the House the Speaker, by resolution, was authorized to appoint a superintendent of ventilation at $3 a Say and two assistants at" $2 a day, and twenty-two janitors for the hall of the House and coramittee rooms. Speaker Curtis laid before the House the papers in two contested election cases, which were referred to committee. Mr. Allen of Vermillion introduced two appropria­ tion bills--one appropriating $50,000 for the pay of members and employes of the General Assembly and the other $18,000 to defray the incidental expenses of the session. Senate and House then met in joint session to canvass the election vote* and then adjourned untij Monday. A brief session of the Senate was held Tuesday morning, with Lieutenant Gov­ ernor , Northcott in the chair. Senator McCloud offered a resolution fixing a date for the election of a United States Senator. On motion of Mr. McCloud the rules were suspended and the resolution adopted. The Senate then adjourned un­ til Wednesday morning! In the House immediately after the reading, of the journal the reading of Governor Alt- geld's message, which was commenced Thursday, was resumed. Wheri the read­ ing was finished there was applause on the Democratic side of the House. A few unimportant resolutions were passed, after whiPh the House adjourned till 3 o'clock - Wednesday afternoon in order that a dancing floor put in for the in­ augural ball might be removed and th'e seats placed in position. Secretary of State Rose made the following appoint­ ments: Harry Clenahan, chief clerk; Edward Merrick, second assistant cor­ poration clerk ;.S. L. Spear, chief of the index department; .Tames S. Francis, chief anti-trust clerk, and Mrs. Bostick, first assistant; G. H. Switzer, shipping clerk; R. J. Beck, chief janitor, and Al­ bert Neal, assistant: N. C. Evans, assist­ ant electrician. Auditor James S. Mc- Cullough made eight appointments: W. H. Eubanks, chief clerk; Capt. Harrison Black, revenue clerk; H. D. Williams, warrant clerk; George Thomas, chief clerk of the banking department. O. C. Jones and Joseph McClellan were ap­ pointed to succeed Bank Examiners Haden and Roberts. In the House the Speaker was author­ ized to appoint four additional members of the Committee on Rules. The speak­ er appointed Messrs. Cochran, Sherman, Powell and Johnson of Whiteside. Speak­ er Curtis then announced the following appointments: Speaker's private secre­ tary, Len Small; speaker's stenographer, F. C. Dodds; mail carrier, R. E. Mabrey; policemen. Ned C. Slierburn, Phil S. Ha- mer, L. R. Robinson, James W. Rus- sel^ T. B. Scouten and W. C. Campbell; pages, Judsou Lord, Frank Houston, Ma­ rion Gray, Harry McLean, Wayne Smith, Clifford Beam, De Witt McConnell, Earl Roberts, D. W. Norris and Harry Lew­ is. A joint resolution was adopted pro­ viding for the appointment of a joint Corn- niittee on Rules, eOnSfettng tof three memr bers of the House and two Senators. The House then adjourned until Thursday morning. A brief session of the Senate was held. The bill appropriating $50,000 for the payment of the employes of the Fortieth General Assembly was passed, together with the bill appropriating $15,- 000 for the payment of the incidental ex­ penses of the session. What He Wanted. < One bitterly cold nigh^jn £beirvnpter of '91, a lot of actors were gathered around the big stove of a rough-and- tumble saloon in Chicago. It was after the theater, and they were going on a "slumming" expedition. A lean and hungry-looking fellow walked into the place and looked hard at them. Some one in the party divining his purpose turned upon the stranger and said: "We have no money to give you to buy a cup of coffee and a night's lodging, for we're all flat broke." The stranger looked up with a pleasant smile and quickly responded: "I was not going to ask for money, gentlemen, but I want­ ed to know if one of you would lend me a sand-bag, so that I might go out and make a little." Ham Bones to Order. Parisians are immensely fond of ham --so much so that the number of hams eaten in Paris could not be furnished by all the pigs killed in France. The de­ mand is supplied by buying up old ham bones and ingeniously inserting them into pieces of pickled pork, which are trimmed into shape, covered with grated bread crusts and then sold for ham. In this way.a bone does duty for hundreds of times. Still, the supply of bones is limited. So a man conceived the idea of manufacturing ham bones wholesale, and made a fortune from the sale of these artificial foundations. Nowadays, therefore, ham is plentiful in Paris. Farm Depression in Germany, Germany shows an increase of popu­ lation since 1SS2 of about 0,500,000. In that period the number engaged in ag­ riculture has diminished, while there has been a large increase in the line of commercial and industrial pursuits. The earnings of the latter exceed those of the rural workers in the proportion <of a little more than three to one. The urban population furnishes 77.00 per cent, of the taxable property of the na­ tion, and the rural but 22.40 per cent., showing there, as in some other Euro­ pean countries, the advance of indus­ trialism and the diminishing prosper­ ity of the farming class. Figures on Electric Power. The ever-increasing multiplication of the uses to which electric power is be­ ing put is strikingly illustrated by the report of one of the large electrical manufacturing companies of this coun­ try, which states that during the first six months of l^st year they had re­ ceived contracts for over 4S.000 horse­ power in power machinery alone, which aggregate is greater than the total out­ put for 1895. Each successive year has shown a large increase in the power of machinery thus supplied, but last year the increase was unprece­ dented. ~"w Some Hope, Anyway. VT wonder;" said Mrs. Noletop, mus­ ingly, as she and Mr. N. sat at supper one evening, "if married people will re­ main married or not in the hereafter?" "No, I think hot," replied Noletop. in an equally thoughtful tone. "Isn't there something about rest for the weary?" ... And then there was a sound of crock­ ery by night.--New York Journal. TOO FOND OF POTATO PATCHES Trouble Which a Hnnaw»jr Pig's Ap­ petite Got .Him into. In the old home we once had a fanny little pig. He was generally to be seen in the act of running away. Hardly ever do I remember seeing his face to^ ward me. He also had a knack of get­ ting away from all the other pigs. The field next the house--the "home field," as we used to call It--was a kind of commons for the hogs, cattle and fowls. The next was a potato field, and the little pig had taken it into his head to get into that one. How he got in no one could tell, for the field was well fenced and there was no opening through which he conld enter. H6w 4id he get in? -- One day I watched. He wanderei' In a sort of unnoticeable way toward a crooked old log, across which the fence had been built. - , Suddenly, though closely watching, I lost sight of my little friend. But before I had recovered from my surprise I was astonished to see him in the potato field. "Well, now, that is very strange," I said. . "How did he do it?" I went to the old log, and, lo! it was hollow. The whole trick became quite clear to me. I went Into the potato field to drive him out, intending to steer him toward the end of the log, so that he might get out the! same way he got in. Here he had the best of me entirely.. He either could not or would not see the log, and maintained §uch an air of Ignorance on that point that I had to give up the task in despair, drive him out by the gate and bring him home by a long, round­ about way. *- * * - . The next day I made up my mind to play a trick-on him, and I did. I went out very early and moved the log just a little, so that both ends would be in the home field. Then I stood at some distance off and watched. I never was more amused in my life. He separated himself from the other pigs and then went toward the old log and got in and through it, and (as he evidently thought) got out into the potato field! I could understand this by the way he immediately began to sniff for the potatoes. But, finding none, he seemed somewhat puzzled. Somehow it dawned on him that he was still in the home field, and he con­ cluded that he had not gone through the log. So he went through it once more, but only to find himself again in the home field. This seemed to puzzle him more than ever. He looked around in astonish­ ment. I could clearly see the expres­ sion on his face. For a moment he stopped and was evidently thinking very hard. Once more he got through the log, with the same result of finding himself in the home field. This time, I am sure, if he could talk he would have cried out: "Spooks!" He stood quite still for a few sec- ondsKsniffed. the air, and I could dis­ tinctly see the bristles on his" back gradually rising up on end. Suddenly he uttered a peculiar kind of "bock" and ran with all his might toward the other pigs. The little pig was never seen in that part of the field again. Many a time we tried to drive him to the old log, but we could not get him to go.--Ladies' Home Journal. •'iS- VSmm f . HM - *;j ' . ipSf if "I -"M- Unrecognizable. There was ohce in Massachusetts a very pious and earnest, but somewhat eccentric, evangelist named Williams, who was everywhere familiarly known as Parson Williams. He came and went as he pleased, and his remarks to the crowds on the streets as he passed were often a kind of evangelism. He once arrived at the old town of Wrentham, where he found several men standing in front of the tavern, some of them evidently the worse for liquor. One of these, a man named Cobb, well known to the evangelist, stepped up to him and, unsteadily extending his hand, said: "Why, how de do, Parson Williams? How de do, old friend, I say?" "How do you do, Mr.--Mr.--" hesitat­ ed tlie evangelist, as if unable to recall the m*n's name. This turned the laugh on Cobb, who began to resent it. "Why, what you thinkin' 'bout, par* son?" he protested, unsteadily. "Yott know me perfectly well." • . "And your name is " "My name is Cobb!" , « "Why, so it is! How do you do, Mr. Cobb? You'll excuse me, but the fact is, there was so much of the corn that I really couldn't make out the Cobb!" tMm Curious Phenomenon in Weights. The shelless limpet pulls 1,984 times its own weight when in the air, and about double when measured in the water. Fleas pull 1,493 times their own dead weight. The Mediterrean cockle, Venus verrucosa, can exert a pulling power equal to 2,071 times the weight of its own body. So great is the power possessed by the oyster that to open it a force equal to 1,319.5 times the weight of its shelless body is required. If the human being possessed strength as great in proportion as that of these shell fish the average man would be able to lift the onormous weight of 2,- 976,000 pounds, pulling in the same de­ gree as the limpet. And if a man pulled in the same proportionate degree as the cockle he would sustain a weight of no less than 3,100,500 pounds. r! ' V.V: «> 'V-i. A •Mm •t. Politeness Too Much for tne Dog. A good story is told of a dog that one day discovered an organ grinder's mon­ key seated upon a bank within his mas­ ter's grounds, and at once made a rush for it. The monkey, which was attired In jacket and hat. awaited the onset in tranquility, so undisturbed that the dog halted within a few feet of it to consider. The animals took a long stare at each other, but the dog was evidently recovering from his surprise, and Vas about to make aspring for the intruder, when the monkey raised his paw and saluted by lifting his hat. The effect was magical. The dog's head and tail dropped, and he sneaked off to the house, refusing to leave it until his po­ lite but mysterious visitor had de-: parted. Some people think that if they would go away from home, they would be bet­ ter appreciated. Usually, they are the kind who wouldn't amount to anything anywhere. There are so many wortlriess peopto In the world, it is a wontt^r the few decent people do not get along hettee. Hi ' :