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trree acre liie new home at Dan which $200,00usn-as appropriate) House and the amount cut down 000 in tittt»§UMiatal also wenjhfag tt One of the impb^tant itotfns vvhfi to be enacted into nhr"tfas the at sU'ees. uprooted ri^s killed. I beelk rendered stremns throug troduced w£ Stubbletield ture and sa BILLS THAT FAILED, troduce*} w£ Stubbletield ture and sa ILLINOIS STATE NEWS . OCCURRENCES 1 DURING THE PAST WEEK. Nearly a Million Bushels of Grain Deed of a Chi Patriotic. Peoria KTevator la Bnrned. At about , 9:45 o'clock'Thursday night fire amis discovered near the roof of the Union elevator, in the extreme lower end of the city of Peoria, by the watchman, who extinguished'the flames. Iu*the mean­ time an alarm had been sent'in, and the city department responded. When it ar­ rived the fire was apparently out, but al­ most immediately smoke was seen issuing from one of the conveyors. A. hole was chopped into it and two streams of water turned in. Hardly had this been done _t,When the entire roof buret out in a toass of "ffilmes. A general ~atarin was sent in,; but the immense building was doomed to destruction, and the firemen were com­ pelled to. beat a hasty retreat from the building. The Union elevator was the property of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, and was erect­ ed fourteen years ago by that company and the grain firm of Grier & Co., who subsequently retired from ownership. It had a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels, and as nearly as cfln be ascertained contain­ ed about 900,000 bushels of grain. The loss is estimated at ?400,000, but no state­ ment of insurance can be given. Nearly all the grain firms of the city had stocks in the elevator, - «. • . • ----* • " Greeks Willing to Go. Five hundred Greeks in Chicago are eager to respond to the call to arms issued by M. Skouzes. the Greek minister of, for­ eign affairs. They want to go at once, but the lack of means stands in their way. Some of them are subject to military <Iuty in their native country, but the ma­ jority belong to the reserve force. But all want to fight for Greece against the Turk and at a mass meeting fiery speeches were uttered which were full of the ardor of battle. The problem which is facing the Greeks in„Chicago is that those sub­ ject to military duty and those belonging t*> the reserves must return to Greece at their own expense. If they do not the penalty is Jwp.yeara' imprisonment with hard labor if they ever return to their own country. Shoots Wife and Felf. James Powers, a Chicago hackman, 2S years of ago, after quarreling with his wife Mary in t.heir home Sunday night, in « a fit of passion snot her dead with a re­ volver. and. -turning the weapon upon himself, sent a bullet into his right tem­ ple. inflicting a fatal wound. The tragedy took place at midnight and in the pres­ ence of the couple's two little boys. The couple had lived unhappily for several years, and up to three months ago had lived for some time apart. * Greut I"amaze in Fayette County. Reports from all over Fayette County show the damage wrought by Thursday night's flood to be very great. There' is scarcely a bridge or culvert left intact, and great chasms have been cut through the public roads and thoroughfares, ren­ dering them impassable. The overflow was the greatest in the Okaw Bottom since the big flood of 1885. State News in Brief. At Altona. Cal Nelson is dead and John Carlson fatally injured by being struck by a Burlington train. Near Ramsey, Henry Nail, while brac­ ing the second floor of his barn, was caught and crushed to death. Charles Parkin, aged 50 years, who went to Rockford from Chicago to accept a responsible position with a big dry goods house, dropped dead in the office of the Rockford Traction Company while wait­ ing for a car to his home. Levi Davis, Sr., the oldest lawyer in -:^the State, died of apoplexy at the home of his son, Dr. Charles Davis, in Alton, aged 89 years. Judge Davis had lived in retirement for many years, but was in his time one of the foremost members of the Illinois bar. He was the friend and as­ sociate of Lincoln, Douglas and Trumbull, and served with Lincoln in the Black Hawk war in 1832." " J" iai Denizens of the "levee" in. Chicago were furnished gossip the other evening in a rumor that the wife of Charles Leonard, better known as "Diamond Charlie," had left him and taken with her a large por­ tion of her husband's wealth. Leonard is a diamond setter. He lives at No. 339 Clark street. Sunday evening he declar­ ed that his wife had abandoned him and taken $S,000 worth of diamonds with her. A heavy thunderstorm, with rain and wind, struck Cairo at 5:30 o'clock Friday morning. Roofs were torn off, plate glass windows smashed and a frame church un­ der construction was destroyed. One house was blown down1 and the wreckage burned. Eight persons were injured and one of the inmates was killed and the body burned in the ruins. No other lives were lost. The wind reached a velocity of from iifty-six to eighty miles an hour. The appellate court, in session at Mount Vernon, decided against the creditors of the Ramsay bank in their contest with the Chicago bondsmen. When Ramsay was State Treasurer he Arranged with a syndi­ cate of Chicago, l/ankers to indorse his bond as sureties. When he died he was a defaulter as State Treasurer in the sum of $303,000. The bondsmen p&id this amount over to Ramsay's successor, aid filed a claim for the amount against the Ramsey estate. The claim was classed a preferred one By Probate Judge Jones of Carlyle. The creditors contested before Judge George W, Wall of the Circuit Court. He declared the $363,000 claim of the bondsmen was illegal, and that the bondsmen were the parties to a conspiracy in manipulating State funds; It js this decision that has be«%a reversed and re­ manded in the appellate court. The case will be reopened at the May term of the Circuit Court. • . , •r Chicago cigarette dealers now say the Coughlin ordinance cannot prevent them giving away the "coffin nails" if a gener­ ous fit attacks them. They also declare that they are still at liberty to sell wrap­ pers and tobacco used by the veterans who roll their own cigarettes. Mrs. Amelia Kaiser, of Galena, who was born the day that Washington was first elected President, celebrated -her 108th birthday on the day that William McKinley was inaugurated as the twenty- fourth" President. She lives in Jefferson township, where her home has been for more than fifty years. . ! . The Peoria City Council has just com­ pleted the annual appropriation bill.- It appropriates more than $500,000, of which $125,000 is for the building of a new city hall. This is for the building without any furniture. " •'* *1' Divorce was granted to a daughter of the murdered Chicago millionaire, A. J. Snell. She was "Mrs. Grace S. Coffin, wife of Frank N. Coffin, gnd gained her free­ dom from a husband she no longer cared for, with the assistance of Judge Dick at Waukegan. It was. a Milwaukee wed­ ding, which took place in-1881. They have live®, for several years in Ocbnomo- woe. Drunkenness and non-support were the grounds for divorce. The revenue collections from the Peoria district for February were $1,265,398. ' Near Sycamore, Lesler W.\dley, a pros­ perous farmer, committed suicide by shootinghimself. j & At Olney, Byer's elevator; Adeu Knoph, burned. Loss, $16,000; in­ sured for $5,000. William Bartlaw, aged 65 years, one of Joliet s best known citizens, was struck by a Rock Island passenger train and killed. " Dr./S. F. Ferguson, of Joliet, was ap­ pointed physician of the Joliet peniten­ tiary. He was penitentiary physician un­ der Gov. Fifer. -r Bill Carpenter, a desperate character, wanted in Hancock County, Missouri, was captured at Quincy by Deputy Sher­ iffs"Lyle and MoGinley. • w. « The steamer Cherokee, which left St. Louis Saturday, arrived at Peoria Mon­ day morning on its first trip of the sea­ son, and opened navigation. At Gome, two miles west of Sterling, Ferdinand Stntzke, a German farmer, at­ tempted to kill Mr. and Mrs. S, J. Wil­ kin?. Mr. Wilkins had his throat cut across and cannot live. Mrs. Wiikins may recover.: Fire in the steam fprge building of the Farrell & Lempe refrigerating machinery factory at Chicago nearly destroyed the forge building. One car was burned and the damage to the steam fprge and build­ ing was about $50,000. Frederick William Tapped manager of Gardner's military band, committed sui­ cide at Quincy, The day before he made a report in an estate in which he was con­ servator. He draped the banner of his lodge in mourning and then went home and took morphine. A. J. Morehead, general manager of the Mount Olive and Madison Coal Company, has filed with the Railroad and Ware­ house Commission a complaint against the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City (Clover Leaf) Railway' Company, alleging dis­ crimination in coal rates. .Cigarettes were given a terrific blow by the Chicago Council. Every deaier in them in the city must pay an annual li­ cense of $100. He or she cannot sell cigarettes within 200 feet of a school house. All'3sold by licensed dealers must have been inspected by the Commissioner of Health and received his approval as to their purity. No cigarette can be sold which contains opium, morphine, gypsum or other poisonous matter. Any violation of these provisions of an ordinance passed by the Council subjects the dealer to a fine of $50 for the first offense and $25 for each subsequent violation. Commander Booth-Tucker talked to University of Chicago students on the Sal­ vation army plan of caring for the poor. The Salvation army leader said there are in the cities of America 3,000,000 people who should be removed to farms. He wanted the university to indorse his plan of teaching the poor how to farm. Around the city were thousands of acres of land that could be cultivated in small patches. Scientific lectures would be given, seed furnished them free of charge and a profit of 400 per cent reaped every year. After a successful cultivation of these plots the people could go out in the country and farm on a larger scale. The grand aggregate of standing and business of all insurance companies doing business in Illinois shows: Paid tip capital $74,616,630 Admitted assets 280,806,695 Liabilities, including capi­ tal and unearned premi­ ums, etc 196,699,S04 Surplus 158,727,528 Surplus over liabilities, etc.. 84,110,891 Income ....... 148,053,685 Expenditures . 129,845,137 Business in Illinois: Risks written 1,095,482,020 Premiums received 12,674,350 Losses paid 6,681,368 Losses incurred 5,947,935 Risks in congested Chicago districts 85,118,893 A great deal of excitement exists at Marshall over the fact just developed that no further appropriations can be made by the Board of Supervisors or orders issued for one year, or until the taxes of 1897 are assessed and collected. The county has been behind in finances for several years, or since the organization of the Farmers' Alliance, which controlled the County Board and cut down the tax levy one-tliird and left a deficit of $5,000 or $6,000. Since that time the full limit has been levied, 75 cents on each, $100, but the extravagance of the board has in­ creased expenditures and appropriations until the county is just one year in ar­ rears. It will take every dollar of taxes when collected to pay outstanding orders, and a section of the statute barring fur­ ther appropriations Until another levy is made and collected has been dug up, and the Attorney General has written the County Treasurer that the statute is in force. When neighbors heard two shots in the rear rooms of Fred Roessler's saloon, No. 5028 Ashland avenue, Chicago, the other afternoon, and rushed into the building, they found the bodies of the saloonkeeper and his wife stretched across the little hall. A revolver clutched in the dead man's hand, and a ghastly bullet wound in the head of each one, told the story of murder and 6uicide. Overturned on a table near by was a photograph of two girls in gay masquerade costumes. The horrified spectator^ who stood staring at the bodies upon the floor and a tiny rivu­ let of blood which was stealing across the hall, did not notice the picture, which was the innocent cause of the tragedy. Roess- ler was of a peculiarly moody and unhap­ py disposition. He quarreled continually with his wife and step-daughter, Paulina Ibach, 20 years old. He frequently had said that some time he would kill his family and then himself. He never liked Paulina.-When she went to a masquerade ball a week ago he was more than ever incensed at her. Then1 he found her pic­ ture in masquerade costume and declared he would kill her. The girl became so frightened by her stepfather's threats that she slipped away from home. There is no doubt that if she had remained she would have shared her mother's fate. The offer of $10,000 by the town of Al- hanibra to have the State Odd, Fellows' Home located there has beeh considered as among the best bids. As much as 500 acres of land can be purchased at about $50 an acre within half a mile of the de­ pots of two railroads. ' In the receivership proceedings against the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Rail­ road Judge Allen in the United States Circuit Court at Springfield overruled the objections of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to the master's report, which disallowed the Santa Fe's claim of $26,000, Judge Allen, in the United States Cir^ cnit Court at Springfield, issued a decree of foreclosure of the second mortgage bonds of the Peoria, Decatur and Evans- ville Railroad and ordered the sale of the road. The mortgage amounts to $2,- 088,000. , The Lacon Fur Company was organized at Lacon for the purpose of raising Malt­ ese and black cats. A farm of 160 acres is to be purchased. In one year's time the cat family is expected to number 10,- 000 and in two years 100,000. The furs sell for 10 and 15 cents each. The com­ pany is officered by,A. R. Hancock, presi­ dent, and L. T. Wood, Secretary. -A sim­ ilar industry is in California. A VEGETABLE GARDEN BEST LOCATION IS ON HIGH LAND FACING THE SOUTH. Directions as to the Proper Fertilizers to Use- It Is Best to Grind the Corn lor Stcck-The Farmer's Tool % Chest. Mellow Soil Is Keccsaary, The ground for the garden should face the south or southwest, and should be high and dry hfnd. If the ground is low and flat, it should be drained. The best garden soil is a sandy loam for the early vegetables, and a clay loam foi* mid-summer and late vegetables, and a clay loam for mid-summer and late fall vegetables. Sandy lands are easy'to work, have fewer weeds, and are quick­ ly warmed up; but they quickly lose fertility and suffer badly from drouth. «t5uch lands can be greatly, improved by spreading a thin coat of clay over the g^und in the fall, and by keeping the soil covered with a cfop of rye, to; be plowed do\yn early in the spring. By following this system for a fe\V years, the ground can be deepened every fall about half an inch, and the rye. will fur­ nish a good part of the vegetable mat­ ter that will be needed in growing the crops. After such crops are tilled with vegetable matter, the fertility of the soil can be maintained by a yearly ap­ plication of 500 pounds of dissolved bone and 400 pounds of kainit spread to the acre. The bone should be used in the drill, and the kainit spread broad­ cast in November. Clay loams are particularly suited to growing late peas, cabbage, tomatoes, pole beans, and all the root crops. Ground that has never been in garden should first have an inch coat of long manure spread over the soil. The early fall is best. If the work is delayed un­ til spring, have the manure well rotted. The manure should be flowed down with a strong team of horses, plowing the land at least six inches in depth. Let the ground be well harrowed both ways, and after each harrowing give the land a good rolling., The secret of profitable vegetable culture is in hav­ ing a deep, rich, mellow soil, planting the crops that suit that soil and cli­ mate. putting the seed in at the right time, with the proper quantity of ma­ nure, and giving frequent and thor­ ough culture. Grind the Corn for Stock. Ground corn is more -easily, and much better, digested than whole corn.' Where the corn is grown on the place, and most of it is to be fed out at the barn, it will pay to buy a Jood horse­ power mill. The steel sweep mills that can be had for $50 will grind two thou­ sand bushels of ear corn with one set of plates. With two heavy horses four­ teen bushels of ear corn can be ground per hour. If the,corn is sent to the mill, half the day is lost going and coming, and the grinding has to be paid for in addition. The same time spent in going to and from the mill -would do the grinding. Where twenty cows and young stock are wintered, and corn commands $1.40 per barrel, it will pay to grind the corn and mix it with bran. Better feeding results? can be had, and the full value of the corn and bran will be utilized by whatever stock to which it may be fed, and a far richer manure made from the stock so fed. Some of the small dairymen slice their ear corn, and then boil it for sev­ eral hours; it is then mixed with mill- feed and cut hay and thrown into a heap to ferment for a few hours befo^> feeding. The grain and cob is made quite soft, and is very palatable to the stock. The corn and the water that it is boiled in being mixed with the hay and millfeed is easy of digestion, and there is scarcely any waste. Those farmers far from a mill, and having a mill of their own. will find this method of preparing their ear corn a very safe one. Farmer's Tool Chest. No good farmer, especially among the younger ones, should do without a suitable work bench, furnished with the common kind of tools most wanted for use. Have a place for those where work can readily lie done as wanted. Haa supply of hardwood sawed in different dimensions for whiffletrees, eveners or many other things that will be wanted in the way of repairs or oth­ erwise. Have also receptacles for nails of different sizes, as well as for screws and bolts. These are all cheap, are often wanted on the instant, and, if at hand, will save vexation and expense. A supply of copper wire, rivets, clout nails or tacks should be kept constant­ ly on ban*, and will be found of great convenience. A combined anvil and vise, weighing forty pounds, can--or could once--be bought for $5, and will be found one of the handiest appliances in the shop. Thus equipped at little cost, the farmer will be able to do many small jobs that will effect a con­ siderable saving in time, travel and money that would, necessarily, other­ wise be incurred. Besides this, the moral and educational effect upon the boys on the farm will be of a beneficial kind and should never be lost sight of. --Practical Farmer. _ f,, -Experience Last spring I sorghum for tween four and makes one of the Horses and cattle acres of yielded be- and obtainable, and, in the winter whenever no other green stuff can be obtained pigs will eat it Sow four or five pecks per acre. It will then grow thickly and be fine and easy to handle. Let it stand UntilVipe, flslhe sugar will be fornied and the fodder relished, by the stock. It is very diffi­ cult to cuife. -Sometimes it will lie in the field three or fo*ur"weeks "while' ti)e wijatTiePSs comparatively dry and yet be too green to-be put <i«t© « ^stack. After cutting, allow it to remain until wilted, then rake, leaving It in the windrow a c-ouple.of days, when it will be ready to shock and use. If not want­ ed until late in the winter or spring it may be stacked after it has stood in the shock for six or eight weeks.-- Orange Judd Farmer. The Tamworth Hoi;. This British breed ha^been coming forward rapidly the past two years. The agricultural papers cry that scrubs, must go, and they ought to, but what breed of swine will be put in their place? The majority of farmers want a/breed which will develop rapidly, MiiLwill raise With little ©are moiSe pork \S . v'-i \ i in. a brief time, with less feed, than the present standard breeds. I believe that between the fancy breeds and the scrubs lies a large field, which Is claim­ ed for the Tamworth hogs. They are red In color, have long, straight bodies, well sprung ribs, full neck, full jaw, are wide between the eyes, have1 good backs, good bams, good bone and stand straight on their feet. With .ordinary care they are quick growth, can be fat­ tened at any age) and reach large size, if kept to maturity, at nine or ten montlis. They are very vigorous, al­ ways ship well, and will rough It better in any kind of weather than any other known breeds.--Agriculturist. An Electric Farm. * A farmer in Germany doe3 all his work by electric power. A small flirn!c<1lAO nil Af fl><\ nA»./VM 4a V1 t . _ -furnishes all of the power needed to run the dynamos, which, in turn, drive all of his farm machinery, pump his water, and light his house and out­ buildings. Every operation for which steam or horse-power wa^s formerly used-is now performed . as-A well, or better, by this, electric plant, which has also ..the advantage of being, always ready for any call upon it. The brook, is .dammed, and, with a six-foot fall, drives an eighteen ho.rse-powef turbine, the prime mover in the circuit of ma­ chinery.--Massachusetts Ploughman; Klack Walnuts for Fowls. Take n hammer and mash up a buck­ etful of black walnuts,. throw them in the poultry yard and you will see the fowls leave any other food to get at the walnuts. A bushel of these walnuts-- in the hull--is worths as much as, or more than, a bushel of oafs for poultry food, yet the farmer will allow twenty- five bushels Of them to wash away down the hollows and at harvest will "skin around" among the briers and bushes to get the last head of his oats crop.--Portland Transcript. Kaffir Corn. ; Indian corn has a foreign cousin that is coming to the front rapidly in the West--Kaffir corn. Over a hundred thousand acres will be garnered this year in Kansas--twice the average of last year. It grows where the old va­ riety will not, and Is sure to make a crop if it has half a chance. It makes fine feed, and the- cattle are, fattened on it as easily as on the Indian maize. It bids fair to help revolutionize the farming of the semi-arid region. And it strengthens the power of the princi­ pal ruler--strength-giving, prosperity- bringing King Corn. Shelter for Pies. The Kansas experiment station has been experimenting with hogs shelter­ ed and without shelter. The sheltered hogs made a gain of one pound of flesh for every five pounds of corn fed, but the unsheltered hogs made no gain at all. The station also refers to the ne­ cessity of having shelter in summer, as the animals suffer as well from too much beat as from too much cold.-- Agriculturist. Bones for Grapes. Bones buried near grape vines will be found encircled with »>ots, from which they draw the phosphates, and lime. They thus consume the entire piece.--Massachusetts Ploughman. Odds and Knds. Sprinkle coal liberally with salt, as it is put into the stove or furnace; it will burn more evenly, last longer, and there will be fewer clinkers. To clean a sewing machine, cover all the bearings with kerosene, run the machine rapidly a few minutes, then with a soft cloth remove all the kero­ sene and ajiply machine oil. Use a; candle in a sickroom in place of the kerosene lamp, which emits a disagreeable odor when turned low. A small, steady light may be secured by placing finely powdered salt on the wick until the charred part is reached. In buying table cloths an extra quar­ ter of a yard should be allowed on the length, ̂ jisa cloth will wear almost twice as long^ if the places where the center folds come and those that come over the edges of the table are changed when they show signs of wear by cut­ ting off a few Inches from one end. Table cloths that show signs of "wearing through" near the center can bo prepared.for longer service by cut­ ting several inches from one end, re- liemmiug and using the pieces cut off to put under any thing places. These places should, then be darned "With the ravelings saved when drawings threads for open work or hemming. To remove iron rust spots in the ab­ sence of sunshine, soap them well, place a wet cloth on a very hot iron; when the steiini rises lay the spots on the cloth and immediately rub with a crystal of oxalic acid or a damp cloth dipped in powdered crystals. When the spots have disappeared, wash at once In several waters. GunriJ the_acid well, as it is a deadly poison. c ^~ Where there is no bathroom and the bath must be taken in the bedroom a bathing rug will prove a great con­ venience. It should be about a yard and a half square. The upper side is made of Turkish toweling and the un­ derside of heavy colored^cotton flannel. The two are tied together here and there, the tie coming on the underside with colored linen floss. The e<lge can be simply bound with braid or worked around in buttonhole stitch with yarn, or a scallop can be crocheted. Table linen of course should be hemmed by hand. A very satisfactory way is to fold as for ordinary hem­ ming. then fold once more in such ,a manner that the edge of the hem* come against the body of the lotlivand then hem as if sewifig anovei and^iver seam. In this way the thread used in hem­ ming lies the same wqy as those woven in the cloth, and hardly shows at alL; A letter in old English or script ca» be worked in the corner of each nap- -"feiafr--Tt-ishbuld be about an Inch long and done with linen floss. > v English Judjjes"Wi»Q May Retire. Eight judges on the ^>nglish bench are entitled to retire, having served fif­ teen years. They are Lord Esher, Mas­ ter of the Rolls, who was born in '1315; Lord Justice Lihdley, horn in 1828; Lord Justice' Lopes, born in 1828; Lord Justice Key, born in 1822; Baron Pol­ lock, born in 1823; Mr. Justice ^&awr kins, born in 1817; Mr. Justice Mathew, born in 1830; and Mr. Justice Cave, born in 1832. The poorest woman extends invita­ tions to visit her as lavishly as if her home were a castle and her husband a millionaire. v WORK FOR THE EXTRA SESSION OF 00NQRES8. •*V <-r"-iSv'-'t ..... • ••'?..« • • ; ad Illinois Affected by the Delay in Usual Lecislation-Sundry Civil Bill Was Pocket-Vetoed--Riv­ er- and Harbors Left Oat. For Immediate Attention. WaRbington correspondence: When the sundry civil bill was pocketed' by President Cleveland most of the im­ portant Government appropriations in Illi­ nois for the next fiscal year fell to the ground^ and if Congress should fail to people now in the employ of the Govern­ ment will have to go out of business or take their compensation on tick. This bjg.appropriation bill is the catch- nil for things not regularly included under the departments, and it provides the money for an infinite variety of things which hare' lift apparent relation to«eoch other. President McKinley himself would be personally affected, for one of the items vetoed by his predecessor is that which provides for heating and lighting the executive mansion and its grounds, and it is to he presumed the family of the new President will not care to go to bed in the dark after the 1st of July. Col.:Bill Morrison.- of the •IntersttSft' Commerce Commission would find himself .without a- salary. and the Government would be tin- able to print any more greenbacks if a new law were not enaetedt * The appropriation in Which Chicago Is most interest is that of $113,000 for the improvement of the river. More impor­ tant than the amount of the money itself is the paragraph which was inserted in the Senate, and only accepted by the House after a hard fight, construing the item in the river rind harbor'bill so that the money to be expended on the Chicago river can be paid for other work than dredging, as is now held to be the law. All of the river and harbor items fail, and among th^ hhniber are $1,000,ObO for the Hennepin canal, $073,333 for the im­ provement of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Oliio to the mouth of the Missouri, and $826,006 from the Missouri to St. Paul, in both of which Illinois is deeply interested. Rock Island would suffer severely because items of $12,500 for the bridge and $48,000 for the arsenal are involved. The Chicago publTc biTilding iV not~ af- fected, becjiuse, under the original appro­ priation contracts may be entered into, and there is money enough to keep up the construction until the regular session. Unless a new law is enacted there will be no money to pay the keepers of the lighthouses or the life-saving stations at Chicago and Evanstou or elsewhere on the lakes. The appropriation of $200,000 for the completion of the two new revenue cutters has also gone by the board. There is now no provision for paying the rental of the Government offices- in the liand- McNally building after July 1, although the annual rental is $10,345. Wash Hew­ ing would find things uncomfortable at the postoffiee if Congress did not step in to help him, because the appropriation for fuel, lights and Water for public buildings concerns the temporary structure on the lake front, and it has failed with the other items. The Federal Court in Chi­ cago will be without .money after July 1, an(I the marshal, district attorney, com­ missioners, clerks and their-subordinates will become the creditors of the Govern­ ment unless Uncle Joe Cannon starts the ball rolling once more and pushes through another appropriation bill sufficiently free from jobs to secure the approval of the President. 1 he newsrrh^iers' home at Danville, for which $20o,000s«-as appropriated in the House and the amount cut down to $150,- 000 in tha^enata also weiitrh^- tjie board. One of the important itams vvhfkh failed ^ mt* uuiuuuriH tion of $150,000 for making the nary surveys looking toward the of a deep waterway from Chicago and Dnluth to the Atlantic seaboard, as recom­ mended by the commission of which En­ gineer Cooley was the expert member. The work of improving the channels of the great lakes from Chicago to Buffalo is now in progress, and to continue this the sum of $1,000,000 was provided by the bill which failed to become a law. Such of these items as are deserving will, of course, be included in the new ap­ propriation bill,' and there is not much ground to fear that the Government em­ ployes will not get their money, There is, however, a much more press­ ing urgency in Regard to the appropria­ tions carried by the deficiency bill. This measure was hung up in conference. Presi­ dent Cleveland did not veto this measure, but undoubtedly would have done so if it had been presented to him. It carries among other things a lump appropriation, $1,200,000, which is a deficiency in the amount previously provided for collecting the customs revenues. If immediate ac­ tion is not taken every employe of the custom house in Chicago will find his sal­ ary^ withheld after April 1 until July 1, for the treasury has no money to pay ordi­ nary customs expenses after that time. There is no doubt that speedy action will be taken to re-enact all the appropriation bills which failed to become laws. For instance, the agricultural bill, which Pres­ ident Cleveland pocketed; because of its seed appropriations, which he has always refused to approve of, carries with it tiie salary of the Secretary of the department, and, of course, "Tama Jim" Wilson of Iowa would hardly care to keep up his end in Washington social life without his expected stipend of $8,000 per annum. President McKinley is partieulairly anx­ ious that the passage of the belated ap­ propriation bills shall not interfere with the tariff measure which he hopes to have enacted- into law nt an early date. DELUGE IN THE WEST. Awftt! Mis- " / i The St. Petersburg newspapers ' an­ nounce that the King of Siam will visit there ^next summer, A memorial to' Elizabeth Barrett Browning is about to be placed in Kelloe Church. Durham, where she was bap­ tized. ' V The Princess of Wales and Princess Victoria are.expect,ed .pt Copenhagen on a •visit, to Prince, and Princess Charles of Denmirrk- -."f/ " It is stated by a Vienna paper that Eleo- norp Duse. the famous Italian actress, has arrived in Vienna to undergo a'serious o p e r a t i o n . , , ^ r , ' - ^ * ; ' " ' • • \ Tbe hereditary grand duke of Baden; a first cousin of rhe^Geruian emperor, has been appointed general in command of the eighth a^ipy j^ofcfts. \/- The budget'committee of'the Norwegian Storthing has u^aiiimmiBly nominated Dr. Xaifsen, aii -ivrofess&r "bf ^.oology gt the Chfistianitt' iu>i wrsity;"1- Herr Gnstav Him. th^'Czech politician, writer "and party Inuler. died rather sud­ denly in Florence white making a tout for the benefit of his liealijj. Sweeps Over the ppi Valley. . Reports from southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri and Kentucky indicate that the worst rainstorm known in years has swept over those sections of the coun­ try. In many places the rainfall, which began Thursday night, registered six ahd seven inches within eighteen hours, and as a result entire communities were flood­ ed by overflowing streams. At St. Louis two .lives are supposed to have been lost and several persons are missing. The damage to property in that city will foot ;up into the hundreds of thousands. At Cincinnati no lives were lost, but the dam­ age is said to be enormous. From all points in the State named news has come of disastrous washouts which practically paralyzed-jajlroad traffic, and numerous wrecks are reported. By t̂he collapse of ft building one child was killed at Cairo, 111. At Cincinnati' there has never been a precedent in the history of the local weather bureau for the amount of rainfall. Mill creek and the Big and Little Miami are raging torrents. Mill, creek is sweep­ ing down, carrykig everything'before it;. Its normal width is twenty feet. It is how from one-half to n mile Wide, engulf­ ing a broad territory. Scores of factories and hundreds of gardens are under water. Great damage is reported from the valley, and many have been compelled to fly for their lives. The Ohio river rose seven feet in twelve hours; No flood in the his­ tory o.f the Ohio has so ^completely cut off Cincinnati from the outside world as the present. The only railroad; not tied up were those entering Cincinnati from Ken­ tucky---the Queen and Crescent, the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Louisville and Nashville. The flood in' southern Indiana is the worst since 1S75. Twenty streets in In­ dianapolis were under water, and in the entire northeastern part of the city many people, got up to find their clothing floating in a foot of water, on the first floors. In four hours White river rose six feet. The railroad service throughout the southern half of the State was fearfully crippled. At Langdon station, on the Pennsylvania road, fbe flyer train, south bound, had a narrow escape. The water was pouring over the rails when the flyer passed that point in safety. A minute later the em­ bankment for a distance of 300 feet dis­ appeared as if by magic. Advices from every quarter of the State tell of great damage by the flood. Nearly all the wag- 0n bridges in the vicinity of North Ver­ non were washed away and the loss will be atariy thousands of dollars. Portland suffered a deluge and the town was partly submerged. Martinsville has be^n com­ pletely "isolated and three-quarters of a out. Half of Washington is flooded and many families are homeless. The fire bells weVe ringing for relief of the sufferers. Bridges are washed away and trains are delayed by washouts. At Anderson White river is out of its banks, and washouts are reported on the Panhandle, Big Four' and Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton railroads. At Vincennes the Wabash riv­ er rose one foot an hour and railroad traffic is seriously impeded. The hardest rain in forty years fell at Madison and hundreds of homes were flooded. The Ohio river has been rising four inches an £<mtv > • In the vicinity of Cairo, 111., tornado and inundation went hand in hand. Roofs were torn off by the storm, plate-glass windows smashed, a frame church un­ der construction destroyed, and one house blown down and wreckage burned. Eight persons were injured and one killed and burned in the ruins. The wind ve­ locity was from sixty-five to eighty miles.' Mrs.-James Darnell had her back broken. Mrs. Ca,ry, injured internally, will prob­ ably die. Sol Pettis' child burned to death, but others in the house escaped with slight injuries. The storm was terrific at Winchester, Ky. The track of the twister was about half a mile wide, and came from the southwest. Houses were blown down, and many domestic ani- Hundreds of families have rendered homeless, and creeks and throughout the inundated coun­ try rising. ICAGO'S MAYORALTY To Be Fiercely Contested by Republi­ cans, Democrats and Independents. Chicago is on the eve of a fierce fight for municipal offices. There will be at least three candidates in the field and more may develop. The Populists have already nominated Carter Harrison, sou IILIN0IS LAW-MAKERS.! Acting Speaker Selby and Representa­ tives Merriam, - Buckner, Lamont and Murray of Sangamon were present when the House convened at 5 o'clock Friday, the Democratic side being entirely unrep­ resented. News of the death of Senator Wellb was received, and it was decided that a committee of five be appointed to attend the funeral at Quiney. Tbe Chair appointed Representatives Bnckner, Kin- cheloe^' Perry. Merriasa mud Murray of Sangamon. The House then adjourned to 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. After a week's idleness fhe House man­ ifested a disposition to work Monday af­ ternoon, when it met at 5 o'clock. For an hour the clerk read bills a first time, and severnl motions for adjournment y^ere voted down. A number of bills were in?r$dneed, oae of them' for the suppres­ sion of mob violence and lynching. -It provides thai a person attacked and in­ jured by a mob may secure judgment from the county in which the act is done from $1,000 to $5,000- IU' the absence of Lieut. Gov. Northcott and President Pro Tempore Fisher;. Senator Harding called the Senate to order. There was-hot a -quorum present" aild no business* Was transacted. Immediately after; the read­ ing of the journal an adjournment was taken until Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Senator Wells' desk was draped in crape. In the center a beautiful floral wreath rested, expressing- the esteem in which members of the Senator held their* de­ ceased associate. By. a vote of 55 to 52 the House Tues­ day adopted Mr, Reveli's resolution- pro­ viding for the appointment of a commit­ tee to investigate the drainage canal trus­ tees. A long debate preceded the vote. When the session of the House Wa\ gun there was a flood of petitions present­ ed, the batch including a number of equal suffrage memorials and a protest, by Mr. Needles against the passage of a uniform- text-book bill. A bill was introduced re­ moving the limit of $5,000 upon the dam­ ages which may be awarded in actions for death pf any person from neglect Or wrongful act. During a short session of the Senate business was resumed in earn­ est, after a ten days' vacation. Several bills were advanced on the calendar and a number introduced. Senator Temple- ton offered a substitute for Senator Gran­ ger's resolution asking that six sub-com­ mittees of the Committee on Appropria­ tions be appointed to visit State institu­ tions for the purpose of determining the necessity of appropriations. Each sub­ committee is to consist of three members. The resolution was adopted. A 2-cent fare bill and a bill to regulate pawn brokers and chattel mortgage men were introduced. ., • - .. In the House Wednesday among the mile of the Big hour tracks was washed* -bills introduced were the following: Fix- of the great Mayor whose assassination shocked the country, and the Democrats have talked of endorsing him. The Re­ publicans have named Judge Nathaniel C. Sears. Postmaster- Washington Hes- ing, editor of the great German Demo­ cratic paper, the Staats ^eitung, will be ,-au independent candidate. It will be the hOttes't election since Carter H. Harrison downed Pork King Allerton four years ago. Judge Sears, the Republican nomi­ nee. is 43 years old, an Ohioan by birth,• and has practiced law in Chicago since 1S80. For three years he has been a judge of the Superior Court. „ " Sparks from the Wires. :• 'Chief .Constructor' Hichborn, who has just returned to-'Washington from an in­ spection of the battleship Iowa at Cramps' ship yards, reports that the ship will start on her trial trip on March 29. A terrible mining catastrophe occurred at Sombrerete niine at Zacateeas, Mex., occasioned by the breaking out of fire in the working of two of the company's mines in which 175 miners were employed at the time of the fire. Howard C. Benham, the banker of Ba- tnyia, N. Y., was held to await the.«ctiou •tff i®r^E«Jul jury, being charged with murder intnb>fivst degree in having caus­ ed the death ofms wife, Florence J. Ben- ham, by means of poison. A carnival of crime reigned in Anacon- ,da, Mont,,'a double murder and a gam­ bling house hold up making the record of the day. The victims of tne murder ape Mrs. Ftank Dressier and Sherman Ran­ som, who were caught together V>" Frank Dressier, the wronged husband. Articles were «t Trenton, N. J., incorporating the Marsden Company, with anVauthorized stock of $3^5^00,000.' The company is organised to manufacture, tell and cferil in products from cornstalks, in accordance with the letters patent se­ cured and applied for by Mack Marsden. iiig the minimum compensation of labor­ ers on public works at $2 per day; ref quiring all custodians of public funds to publish annual statements of receipts and disbursements; to prohibit the play­ ing of baseball on Sunday outside of in­ corporated cities, villages and towns; pro­ viding for the incorporation, regulation and management of pawners' societies, etc.; to prohibit the sale of cOcaifie or preparations consisting of cocaine, except upon the prescription of a physician or dentist; providing for the creation of the office of inspector of beer and malt liq­ uors; in the Senate a number of bills were reported back from committees and several petitions were presented. One by Senator Stubblefield was from the rail­ road employes of Bloomington asking that the railway bill fixing the maximum rate of fare at 2 cents per mile do not pass. Among the bills introduced were the following: Authorizing the §t&te Treasurer to pay Isaac R. Hitt and the. administrator of the^estate of John A. Logan and the administrator of the es­ tate of W. W. Wiltshire $10,000 each for attorneys' fees and"'expenses attend­ ing the refunding and collection from the United States of the money advanced by the State: to prohibit the coloring yellow of any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter; amending the flag law so as to leave it to the discretion of the school directors when the flag shall' be displayed. The only notable incident in the House Thursday was the following prayer byj the chaplain, David G. Bradford: "Lord,' bless and pity us; shine on us with thyi face, that Republicans and Democrats and Populists and Prohibitionists and! socialists and suffragists and lobbyists may all know thy saving grace. (Respon­ sive aniens.) Then the song prayer and the prayer song of the sweet singer of Israel will be our prayer and song--let the whole earth be filled with thy glory. Amen and amen!" The bill to raise salJ aries of Chicago officials was up for dis­ cussion. Gov. Tanner transmitted to the Senate the following appointments as trustees of the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insiine at Kankakee: Len Small of Kankakee, to fill vacancy heretofore existing; John J. Magee of Chicago, to •succeed Edward Sill, resigned; George T.. Buckingham of Danvillp, to succeed J. W. Orr, resigned. Among the bills in- was the following: By Senator prohibit the manufac- sale of cigarettes and imposing a fine of not less than $100 or more than! $200 and imprisonment for violation of the act. The Senate went into executive session and confirmed the appointment: for trustees of the Uliuois Eastern Hos­ pital for the Insane at Kankakee. Hawaii's Commerce. It has been the boast of the people of Lahaina that In days gone by as manyj as 200 sail have been seeh in the hay) there at one time. This was when whal­ ers made this their headquarters, and' Lahaina was the capital. Honolulu residents remember when, the bay was dotted with merchant ma?- rine, and they remember, too, during: the past few years, when the harbor has been practically without a sail, , During tbe past year the shipping inj Honolulu has increased to a wonderful degree, and to the old-timers along the water front it is an indication of a re­ vival of the days when Honolulu was considered a Boon to shipping masters. During the past week there have been! three steamers flying the Japanese flag; in port at one time, a circumstance that; never occurred before in the history of Honolulu. In connection with this it) may be noted that within two daya seven foreign steamers arrived' In port.; •No better evidence of the commercial! importance of Honolulu is needed than: this. • ' •' There are in port at thia timfe thirty; vessels discharging or waiting cargoes* the majority being vessels plying be­ tween the Pacific coast and Honolulu, most of them being vessels which have been running in this trade at Intervals, when the business warranted It for years past--Honolulu Advertiser. Bin Version. One evening the boys' cooking class at an industrial school had a lesson on eggs, including an omelet. John McK. was particularly Interested, as he had a few hens in the yard at the back of his miserable home in a tenement bouse. He asked many questions arid- carefully wrote out the recipes. The next t,lnie he came in swelling with lm* portance. and ^announced that be bad mq,de ."one of'them egg ornaments at home. &nd It was tfrst rate, too,"*W American Kitchen Magazine. >