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REE-H Itraoh fpMNT amount was promptly paid ^CAPITAL CITY CHAT. WOMAN IN THE CASE, TARIFF BILL BEING PUSHED IN SENATE COMMITTEE. BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLI NOIS NEWS. CAUSED THE DOWNFALL OF A CHICAGO BANK. £oth Field and Factory Are Making; Themselves Heard in Its Support- Comment , on the. Measure -- The Bailey«Bryan Fend Grows Apace. Evidence of a Horrible Mnrder Near Monnt Vernon--Singular Accident Upon Chicago's Busiest Street--Re­ mains of Arthur T. Wallace Found. tTniveraity of Illinois Badley Crippled 'by Failure of the Globe Savings-- Recreant Agent of the People's Trust Turns Over Assets. Boys Find the Hetjd of a Woman. ' Boys passing through some woodland on the Volney Osborne farm, live mjles northwest of Mount Vernon, Saturday found a woman's head lying near the pub­ lic road leading from Mount Vernon to Richview. They reported their discov­ ery and a party was organized for a 6earch for the body. It was found 200 yards from the spot where the head lay with the flesh stripped from the bones, both the trunk and head being so badly decomposed as to reikier recdgnition im­ possible. The testimony at the inquest went to prove that the body was that of a woman who was in that locality early last November. She was apparently-40 years of age, rathef under medium height, with black hair, was dressed iji a dark suit, with light colored jacket, and wore a black straw hat; She appeared in that locality about the 1st of last November and staid iH the neighborhood two or three days, She refused to divulge her name," but said her home was in Garmi, 111., and that she was going OR foot to St. Louis. The last seen of her was when she lef t the Osborne residence, taking tbe road on which the body was found. A man,- who passed 'the. womarf shortly after she hird entered the wood when seen last Novem­ ber, about a quarter x)f a mile further on, encountered a hoop pole cutter, to whom lie mentioned the fact of the woman's ap­ proach. The pole cutter said ho would take her in his wagon, as he was going iu the direction the woman was .traveling. They were never seen together, however. The theory is that another Pearl Bryan murder has been committed. It is said a .suspected party left the country about the date of the woman's disappearance. Spalding Assigns. Charles W. Spalding, ex-president of the Globe Savings I?ank of Chicago, and ex- treasurer-of the University of Illinois, made a voluntary assignment to the uni­ versity trustees of realty and bond se­ curities approximating $400,000. Much •f this property is already nTthe hands of the Chicago Title and Trust Company, receiver of the Globe Savings Bank. Only $124,000 of university bonds have been found in the Globe Savings- Bank and in tiie Globe safety deposit vaults, where ex-Treasurer Spalding is supposed to have deposited his securities. -- The banks which hold university securi­ ties as collateral for loans made C. W. Spalding announce, they will resist ahy effort the university trustees may make to CHAUI.ES W. SPALDING. D1NC-LEYJ31UJ I Fafc ' ' -'ij I ANVEK | 1 PROTECTION] (BEFORE A \ ' Washington Political Gossip. * Special Washington correspondence: The Senate Financial Committee, •which is considering the Dingley bill, finds the chief opposition to it coming 7 \froin importers, and its chief support •cominjf-from farmers and workingmen. "The factory hands' have had their way," said one of the framers of the tariff bill, talking to your correspond­ ent about that measure.» "People who assume that the working men and women of the United States are not pleased with the Dingley bill show that they know very little about what has been happening in this country in the past few weeks and months. No class ^ of citizens .was so widely represented and so fully beatd by individuals or representatives before the Ways and Means Committee as the working men, unless, perhaps, it may be the farmers. Those two classes of the community hot only had their say, but had their way. and the,"free-traders wiip are throwing stones at the bUKnow in the attempt to create dissatisfaction with it among the voters of the country, ' show very poor judgment and are pay­ ing anything but a compliment to the intelligence of that class of citizens." "Do you find any opposition or pro­ tests againfet the bill, now that it has , been thoroughly digested by the pub- lie?" "Yes. Solemn protests are being filed with both committees by the importers and sueli other people as the importers can influence. And that is all. The im­ porters, of course, are against the bill, for it will cut down their business and start the factories of this country at work. As. a result they are fighting it by every process. Each separate in­ terest i« working its separate class of .citizens. The tobacco importers, for instance, have sent out ready-made pro­ tests t» the manufacturers of tli^s coun­ try, and in this way are getting cer­ tain working men, who have not had an opportunity to personally examine the situation, to sign these formal pro- tests. It is so apparent, however, that these people are being "worked" for the benefit of the importers, that the effect j£ not appreciable, and there is M little prospect that the bill is going to be materially changed. Of course there will be, minor changes, but the thor­ oughly protective features of the bill for which the working men in the rfian- * xifactories and fields have asked are going to be retained :>fid even strength­ ened." Warehouses Crowded with Imports. Reports from New York show that the warehouses of that city are over­ flowing with foreign goods and import­ ers still seeking for more storage ca­ pacity. It is by this process that the free trade Democrats hope to put not only many millions in their own pock­ ets, but cripple the Dingley law and render it unpopular in the first months of its operation. By importing enor­ mous (jpantities - of foreign goods be­ fore the Dingley law goes into effect they expect to be able to reduce its earning capacity during the first year of its operations. Japan and Silver. Mr. Bryan, who lias been here this week, admits that lie and his silver as­ sociates were in great luck during the campaign period. Had the events of the five months since the election oc­ curred iu the five months preceding it, the collapse of their silver proposition would have been much more complete and crushing than it was. Japan, Rus sia and China, to which they constantly referred as tiie chief props in support of their silver theories, have all, smco the election, announced their desertion of the silver standard. This leaves Mexico and the South American couu- tries about the only ones now main­ taining the standard of the white met­ al and several of these are making preparations to go to the gold standard as quickly as possible. $100,000 a I)ny Gained. One hundred thousand dollars a day- is a neat sum to add to the earnings of the working people of one State in six months' time. The Labor Bureau of Pennsylvania reports 100,000 more men employed in that State to-day than were so employed prior to the election of McKinley, This means $100,000 £ day increased earnings by them, to say nothing of the increased wages paid to those who wrere employed, or work­ ing on short time. Multiply this by the number of States or by their pro­ portionate populations and you get a practical demonstration of the im­ provement going on in business since the election of last November, which assured a protective tariff and increase in employment. A. B. CARSON.- THE DINGLEY TARIFF. Commendation from Republicans and Responses to Democratic Criticism. The Democratic contemporaries that refer to the measure as a poorly di­ gested piece of legislation do not point out that the Ways and Means Commit­ tee had been at work on the measure fully three months before the bill was reported. They forget, also, to state that during its consideration by that committee everybody sufficiently inter­ ested to seek a hearing on the subject- was given a hearing by the committee, and that the long period from the time the committee began its work until it reported was onejyt practically contin­ uous suggestions comparison and dis­ cussion.--Pittsburg Commercial Ga­ zette. , ' , - , ,o' ,- Commenting on the Dingley bill, the lull text of which lias been published in Germany, a leading Berlin journal says: "If this bill becomes a law Europe, especially Germany, must feel it to be an intentional blcfw in the face. A large part of our exports are thereby prohib­ ited and another part are rendered ex­ tremely difficult. Many of our indus­ tries will be forced to reorganize com­ pletely their system of production, raise the quality of their goods and specialize. This will require a period of experiments - and delays. In the meanwhile much of the commerce and industry will be lost." is pitiful, indeed, from a German standpoint, although it does not much differ in horrors from what the enemies of the bill say about its effect here at home.--St. Louis Star. What Professor Wilson has to say concerning the tariff is of interest to no one, except, possibly, himself. His own district repudiated him in 1894, and at the same time the country repu­ diated the theories and imbecilities of the whole "cuckoo" school. Mr. Wil­ son is in a political graveyard, and he should observe the proprieties of the place by keeping silent.--Commercial Advertiser. There is a general opinion among them that the duties on the raw ma­ terial are unnecessarily high. But it must not be forgotten that tariff legis­ lation, like most other legislation, is, after all, in the nature of a compromise of conflicting interests. The wool growers, or rather those of them for whom Judge Lawrence of Ohio is a mouthpiece, have asked for even higher duties that they have received.--Boston Journal. It is believed that this schedule on the basis of the present imports will produce a revenue of $44,000,000. But revenue is by no means the only objec­ tive. The increase in the duties on raw and lowering of those on refined sugar is proposed for the specific pur­ pose of encouraging the beet sugar in­ dustry in this country, and as a slap at the sugar trust. In spite of very strenuous attempts on the part of the trust to have the present rate retained, and a still more determined effort for the retention of ad valorem duties, un­ der which very general fraud is said to have been practiced, the committee has pursued a course openly and av.ow- edly hostile to the trust's interests.-- Pioneer Press. When Democrats charge that the Dingley tariff bill is a parasite meas­ ure and so rankly offeusive that only the rankest Republican partisan can vote for it, they must be in error. On the vote in the House five Democrats and a silverite supported the bili, and twenty-one of the so-called opposition were not sufficiently opposed to the bill to vote against it and declined to vote at all. This is prettyj^ood testimony to the esteem in which the measure is held, seeing that it received in addi­ tion the solid vote of the Republican side ;Of the House.--Wheeling Intelli­ gencer. The reciprocity features of the bill are much bi'oader in its scope than the reciprocity law of 1S90, and is framed in a more conciliatory tone, with the very evident purpose of restoring,' so far as possible, the friendly commer­ cial relations' that were recklessly de­ stroyed by the repeal of the McKinley law. The new bill provides l'or treyaty negotiations iu a friendly spirit and with iji) threats of suspension of the provisions of the act where unjust ex­ actions are imposed upon our products. There is every reason to believe that the enactment of the bill will open up a new and expanding market for the products of the farm and the factory and secure in greater measure the in­ dustrial benefits t,hat accrued to the country from the first experiment with this policy.--Chicago Times-Herald., That feature of--tlie Dingley bill which puts the measure in effect from April the first is the feature which quickens it instantly with life and starts it on its career equipped for the greatest good. It is a revenue-serving provision and looks to securing at the earliest date the benefits of protection. Without such a provision we should go ,, through the old experience of having the country flooded with products un­ der lower rates, and it would be nec­ essary to work off that vast accumula­ tion before any of the advantages of the new bill would be realized by the treasury or the people. It was to meet this situation that the retroactive feature of the bill was matured.--Ex­ change. Our Heavy toss. Few people in the United States are aware of the fact that the carrying ca­ pacity, of American vessels in the for­ eign trade of the United States--that is to say, the tonnage of our own vessels carrying our' own imports and exports --is less in 1897 than it was in 1S07. Such is, however, the fact. The value of the imports anil exports of the Uni­ ted States has increased twenty-fold, and yet there is a slightly less aggre­ gate of American tonnage in our .for­ eign trade now than there was ninety years ago. Such comparisons as this Strikingly convey to our <«tfnds what a fearful loss the nation suffers from the lack of doing its own carrying iu its own ships, in its own foreign trade. Send to Yoiir Senators. We earnestly urge that all friends of protection will give the Dingley bill the most careful study, with a view to any changes which would benefit American labor or industry. Any amendments to the bill which are deemed necessary should be imme­ diately forwarded to the Republican members of the Finance Committee of the Senate, and in this connection we urge the greatest care and simplicity. First, quote the section and the num­ ber of the seel ion of the bill which you desire changed. Second, rewrite the section as it should be. Third, briefly give the reasons there­ for and the facts supporting the same. Statements prepared as above should be forwarded to the Republican mem­ bers o£ the Finance Committee at Washington, as follows: Hon. Justin S. Morrill, U. S. S. Hon. Win. B. Allison. U. S. S. Hon. Orville H. Piatt, U. S. S. Hon. John P. Jones, U. S. S. Hon. Nelson W. Aldricli, U. S. S. Hon. Edward O. Wolcott, U. S. S.-» American Economist. Protection to Shipping. Gradually we excluded foreign ships from our coastwise trade by prohibi­ tive tonnage dues and finally in 1817 we absolutely prohibited, by law, for­ eign vessels from engaging in any trade between American ports. The consequence of this more than century- old prohibitive protection of our domes­ tic shipping is that we have the largest domestic water-borne commerce in the whole world, our freight charges for inland water-borne transportation are lower than anywhere else in the world, and the magnitude of our shipping is only equaled by its utility, its safety and its beauty. Why not do as well by our foreign shipping? What a Mess. A Safe Risk. A "species of insurance" is one of the British terms for discriminating du­ ties. It is a pretty good term, too, and we should like to see a "species of in­ surance," for the protection of Ameri­ can shipping, put into effect without delay. It would be a first-class risk, covered by a good policy, with the pre­ miums payable by foreigners. What Labor Wants. Labor cares not a jot for the rate per cent, of a tariff schedule. Labor is .only interested in knowing that it is high enough to enable work to be done here. Make it so. It's All Right. -- The Dingley bill is all right. Its rates are not too high. In some cases they are too low and may fail to protect American industries. Illinois State Fair Races. 'N The following is the race program for the Illinois State fair, to be held Sept. 27 to Oct. 2, inclusive: Monday, Sept. 27-- 2:28 trot, purse $500: 3-year-olds 0r_jj.as. der, pace, eligible to theJJ:20--thissPAug. 1, purse $400; 2:11 pace, purse $600; run­ ning. one mile, pin's*' $200; running, live- eighths of a mile, purse $200. Tuesday, Sept, 28--Three-year-olds or under, trot, eligible to the 2:25 class, Aug. 1. purse $400; 2:18 pace, purse $500; 2:19 trot, purse $500; running, three-quarters of a mile, purse $300; running, half mile and repeat, purse $200. Wednesday, Sept. 29 --2:15 trot, purse $500 ; 2:23 pace, purse $500; 2:11 trot, purse $000; one and one- quarter miles, Illinois Derby, purse $200; running, seven-eighths of a mile, purse $200. Thursday, Sept. 30--2:14 pace, purse $500 ; 2:23 trot, purse $500 ; 2:08 pace, purse $700; running, five-eighths of a mile and repeat, purse $200; runuing, one mile and repeat, purse $200. Friday, Oct. 1--2:34 trot, purse $500; free for all trot, purse $700; 2:30 pace, purse $500; running, three-quarters of a mile, purse $200; running, one mile, purse $200. River Gives Up Body. Arthur T. Wallace's body was found in the river at Chicago Wednesday. He dis­ appeared Nov. 28, 1S90. The only con­ clusion to be drawn from the circum­ stances is that he was slugged, robbed $nd thrown into the muddy stream, whose sluggish current has concealed many a murder mystery. Arthur T. Wallace wrfs only 10 years old and the son of Rev. T. D. Wallace, pastor of the Eighth Presby­ terian Church. He had been a strident at St. John's Military-Academy, Delafiekl, W is. While there he made a reputation as an exceptionally promising young man. Socially he was much sought after on ac­ count of his musical attainments, he be­ ing a proficient performer on the cornet. He also stood high as a student, excelling in Latin and Greek. During the Thanks­ giving vacation Arthur T. Wallace came back to Chicago to pass the holiday with his parents at their home, 682^ Washing­ ton "boulevard. The Saturday evening af­ ter Thanksgiving he left home to visit friends on the South Side, intending to stay there all night. That was the last time he was seen alive. Struck by a Cornice. •Half a ton of icon cornice and a twenty- r >ot wooden sign fell with a resfnind- • rash from the front of Mandel Brotli- •; dry goods establishment, State and Mi lison streets, Chicago, Saturday after­ noon at 1 o'clock, and carried to the side­ walk in its wreck two women and a little girl who were on the point of entering the store. Each was more or less badly bruis­ ed, and the girl will probably be disfig­ ured for life. It was one of those inex­ plicable accidents attended with almost miraculous features. Nobody can ex­ plain why the cornice fell, neither can anybody understand why so few persons Were injured. State street was alive with Saturday shoppers, pushing and elbowing each other in their hunt after bargains. The <foors of Mandel Brothers' store were constantly swinging to and fro to admit of the passage of customers, while the sidewalk immediately in front of the store was packed with pedestrians. Those who saw the tremendous weight of iron and wood fall will not cease wondering for days to come over the fact that no deaths resulted. * " CNQV& TO ^ -Tovtta ftot- Stale News in Brief. At Joliet. the safe of the Standard Oil Company was bloWn open by burglars and about $300 and many valuable papers were taken. The burglary was the most daring ever done in the city. The door of the safe was blown to pieces. . Ezra Annis of Chicago collected from the West Chicago and the North Chicago Street Railway companies jointly a judg­ ment of $15,000, with interest, for per­ sonal injuries received iu May, 1892. The amount, was awarded by the Superior Court and the suit has only recently been settled by an appeal to the Supreme Court. Jeremiah Welch, a farmer and breeder of fine horses, died at his home near Bloomington, a'ged 70. He was a native of Vigo County, Ind„"~and had lived in jJVIcLea# County since 1830. He leaves JI ^p^idow and large family. Dense smoke in a fire at the auction and storage house of Pomeroy Son & Co., No. 82 Randolph street, Chicago, imperiled the lives if twenty firemen. Chief Denis Swe- uie was one of them. As it was, eleven of the number were earned from the building in an unconscious condition. Chief Sweuie himself rescued half a dozen of these from death. Despondeht because his rich young wife had left him, D. G. Porter attempt­ ed to end his life by drinking an ounce of laudanum in the barroom of the Sara­ toga Hotel at Chicago. The board of trustees of the Btadley Polytechnic Institute at Peoria opened bids and. let the contract for the buildings to be erected this spring. Out of sixteen bid*, ten of which were by Chicago con-„ tractors, Jonathan Clark Soas Company of Chicago for $106,494 was the lowest,- and the contract was awarded to that firm. Adams & Kimbark of Chicago was awarded the contract for electric wiring. The total cost of the buildings is esti­ mated at $123,000. . At-Tjfceoria, the "revenue collections for March-were $1,469,593. Althea McCreight, S years old, was crossing a Chicago street and ran directly In front Of a wagon. The driver made every effort to stop his horse, but the child was knocked down, causing inju­ ries from which she died. William Drury, a millionaire land own­ er of Joy, who died recently, provided in his will for the establishment of an insti­ tution to be known as the William and rVashti College, named for himself and wife. It is now said that his widow has renounced the will, and it is her intention to contest it. .A horrible tragedy occurred at Jackson­ ville early Thursday morning. When Charles Walker, janitor of the Kirby block, went to his work about 5 o'clock he found the body of Charles L. Hastings, chief clerk iu Judge Kirby's abstract of­ fice, lying on the floor in a pool of blood, with his throat and wrists cut and gashed in a dreadful manner, while all about the room were traces 6f a violent struggle. Chas. L. Draper has been.,arrested. It is alleged that business difficulties existed between the two, and a woman is also said to figure in the case. Miphael J. O'Brien, of Chicago, who murdered his wife, went to the Joliet pen­ itentiary to serve a life sentence. O'Brien's first wife, Mrs. Kate O'Brien, from whom he secured a fraudulent divorce some years ago, has called upon him frequently since sentence was passed and cheered him with the hope of. a pardon eventual­ ly. O'Brien 5s 39 years old and of quiet bearing ordinarily, but quarrelsome, erra^ •tic and violent when drunk. The crime for Which be will spend the rest of his days in jail; was the killing of his Wife, Nov.. 19, 1895, at 8iJ5 West Madison ; street. tO'Brhjn was a salbou-keepr and ward politician. Horace G. Bird, the founder of musical organizations in Chicago, died Wednesday at his :home. The news of his death will revive recollections of many stirring events in the history of music in the city. It was Mr. Bird who induced Patti |o come to Chicago the first time. It was he who led the music in the Wigwam when Abraham Lincoln was nominated for the Presidency of the United States, andi it was he who organized the Musical UniOn --the first in the history of Chicago. At the dedication of the Bunker Hill monu­ ment iu Boston Mr. Bird had the honor of ^ijie solo part in the dedication song. ^ Orringtou Luut, the foundor'ot Jp.vans- ton and the father of Northwestern versity, died at his home Monday morn­ ing. The members of the family were at the bedside and the end came as he had often wished it might, peacefully. Mr. Luut was a pioneer of Chicago, and there he amassed a fortune. His connection with Methodism dates from the time he was 20 years old, when he became a mem­ ber of the church. He always gave freely to the building of churches, and his dona­ tions were not always confined to his own denomination. For many years he had been a trustee of the First Methodist Church of Evanston. - Mrs. Rebecca Forman died at O'Fallon Sunday, aged S7 years. She was the widow of the noted ̂ Methodist divine, the Rev. Isaac Forman, who died a number of years ago, and over whose property was made one of the greatest legal battles ever known in Southern Illinois. Forman lef): property valued at $200,000. His otuy daughter, Mrs. Robert Price, was cut off with a pittance and practically all the property was left to the American Bible Society and the Methodist Mission­ ary Society. The daughter's sin was her marriage to a poor man against her fath­ er's will. She contested the will and finally won it in the United States Su­ preme Court. A C., B. & Q. Railroad train killed a farmer's cow near Bloomington. Nothing being heard from the owner of the cow, the company wrote asking the value of the animal. He replied that it was just a common cow worth about thirty-five dol­ lars. and in the letter of remittance the farmer was informed that his letter had been placed in the archives of the company as evidence of an honest man. It said fur­ ther, that the company had killed a great many head of stock, but this was the first critter that was not a very high-priced thoroughbred. It is really remarkable what an unaccountable habit seems to come to the choicest beast in a herd to walk on railroad tracks. Conscious of an order to vacate the premises, and unable to further contend with ill-fortune, William II. Gage and his wife, two aged and almost poverty-strick­ en people, inhaled chloroform and died side by side on a bed in their home, 253 Western avenue, Chicago. The dead man and woman were dressed in their best clothes, and were lying in a shabby but scrupulously neat bedroom. In fact, the house had evidently been thoroughly cleaned and everything put in the best of order preparatory to the demise of the aged couple. This is the letter left for the landlord. "When I received notice from your agent I commenced to make immediate preparations to get out as quick as I could. My wife and I talked the matter over, and we concluded that even the time the law allows was all too long for you to wait. So we then decided to take the shortest route. In an envelope addressed to you, which you will find on the front room table, covered with a news­ paper, is one month's rent--all I have been able to raise. You will also find a letter addressed to the coroner, in which my "wife has inclosed $25 for the cremation of her body, the aforesaid iuclosure con­ sisting of one $10 gold piece, one English sovereign (which you refused the other day), and one $10 United States note, series of 1880, No. A4967029. For all your many acts of kindness to me I wish to thank you. All that I leave is yours. I am sorry that it has come to this, but as "it is, it is better so. With our great eter nal Father is patience and mercy. My dear wife and I, after traveling through this world together for more than a third of a century, go away still hand in hand, with our lov©|undimmed. With kind re­ membrances to yourself and all your faim- ily. yours faithfully." At Milledgeville, Whiteside County, Samuel M. Inglis, State superintendent of public instruction, was stricken with apo­ plexy. Prof. Inglis was attending the county teachers' institute. In a moment of childish playfulness Russell, the 2^4-year-old son of Richard Freely of Chicago, thrust a redhot poker into the eyes of his baby 'brother, Ed­ ward, 1Q, months old, during the absence of the mother. Physicians at the hos­ pital say the little victim's eyesight is not entirely destroyed, and although the eye­ lids were terribly burned it is thought he will recover. „ « Some idea of the importance of .the fish­ ing industry in Illinois rivers may be had from the fact that the Illinois Fishermen's Association reports 7,252,811 pounds of fish caught in the Illinois river alone dur­ ing 1896. The total value is placed at $207,687.22, a tremendotis sum to come from the work in a single stream. Mrs. Julia Nelson, 7;8 years old and the possessor of $100,00%^ died some time Monday night in a hard, uncomfortable bed in a rear cottage on Erie street, Chi­ cago. and which, from its outward af»- • pearance and interior furnishings,-might have been the home of the meanest beg­ gar. Asphyxiation by coal gas is sup- cosed to have been the cause of death- recover the collateral placed with th'em by Spalding. Ex-Treasurer Spalding de­ clared in a star-chamber meeting that is" was obliged to hypothecate the iHiiversity k«nds in order to meet the drafts of the •niversityjor.^y.r.r-'^'texpenses. Spalding iPi.r^G as false and malicious the charges that have been made against him, declar­ ing that the Globe savings depositors will ¥e paid in full. Unless a loan is negotiated by the trus­ tees of the University of Illinois, an ap­ propriation is made by the State Legis­ lature or money is given to the institu­ tion it will be compelled to close its doors. It develops that Bank Examiner Hayden advised State Auditor Gore as early as Jan. 9, 1897, to close the Globe Savings Bank. The above, briefly stated, comprise the chief developments fh one of the most gi­ gantic financial scandals in the history of Illinois. In connection with the matter has been a great deal of gossip concerning Spalding's relations with Miss S. Louise Ervin, a stenographer in the bank. This alliance broke up Spalding's home and caused the retirement two years ago of two officials from the Globe Savings Banl% A feeling of drea'd for the inevit­ able .outcome led Vice-President Cilley and Cashier Jackson to resign their re­ spective positions within three days of each other in the spring of 18&5. Horatio N. Cilley said: "The chief motive impell­ ing me was a conviction on my part that Mr. Spalding's relations with Miss Ervin would end disastrously both for his busi­ ness interests and his reputation socially. I always found him honest and capable ia every business transaction, but his con­ duct as regarded Miss. Ervin. leading to MISS S. LOUISE ELLVIX. (Protege of C. W. Spalding.) his estrangement from his wife and fam­ ily, was being unfavorably commented on and undermined the confidence and regard of even his lifelong friends. Those mat­ ters reacted on his business relations." Charles Jackson resigned the cashier's desk of the Globe a few days after Mr. Cilley quit tiie vice-presidency. Mr. Jack­ son very frankly admitted that he re­ signed his place in the Globe Bank solely because he knew that Spalding's relations with Miss Ervin would ultimately ruin the bank'president. • ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS .'• * In the Senate Friday Senator Lundin introduced u bill to repeal the libel law, and by unanimous consent had it read a - first , time, advanced to second reading and made a special order. The following bills were introduced: Repealing the law " providing for the payment of bounties for the killing of English sparrows; to regu­ late saloons, being a copy of a bill intro­ duced in the House. In . the House Mr. Murray of Sangamon made a favorable report on Mr. Hatumer's bill ,to establish a State board of schoolbook commission­ ers and to provide for a uniform course of school text-books. Most of the session of the House was occupied with the con­ sideration of appropriation bills on secohd reading. oBoth houses adjourned to 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. In the, House Monday a bill was intro­ duced amending the municipal civil ser­ vice act by giving ex-Union soldiers and sailors ;the preference in the making of appointments. Mr. Anderson's bill limit­ ing th§ number of employes of the Gen­ eral Assembly was advanced to third reading. All of the House bills on the calendar on the order of first reading were advanced to second reading. Owing to the absence of a quorum no business was transacted in the Senate. v In the Senate Tuesday the libel bill provoked sharp discussion and was re­ ferred. The bill to ratify railroad consoli­ dations made under the law "of 1874 and prior to lSSS ahdto equalize their rightstin- der the present law, and the bill appropri­ ating $1,000,000 for the salaries of the State officers and of the officers.and mem­ bers of the n^xt General-Assembly wete passed. The House did not complete con­ sideration of any. measure. The Governor transmitted to the Sen­ ate Wednesday the following appoint­ ments, which were confirmed: Trustees of the Eastern Illinois Normal School-- H. A. Neal of Charleston to succeed A. J. Barr, resigned; L. D. Wolfe of Peoria to succeed Calvin L. Pleasants, resigned; A. H. Jones of Robinson to succeed M. P. Rice, resigned; W. H. Youngblood of Carboudale, resigned, to be own suc­ cessor. Trustees of the- Southern Illinois Normal University- Thomas S. Ridgeway of Shawneetc^n to succeed F. W. Dun- naway, resigned; F. A. Prickett of Car­ boudale to succeed William R. Ward, term expired; S. P. Wheeler of Springfield to succeed Charles W. Bliss, term expired; A. C. Brookins of Duquoin to succeed Charles W. Terry, resigned. Trustees of the Illinois Home for Juvenile Female Offenders--A. K. Perry of Aurora to suc­ ceed William Prentiss, resigned; Mrs. Vic­ toria M. Richardson of Princeton, resign­ ed, to be her own successor; Mrs. J. G. Harvey of Geneva, resigned, to be her awn successor; Henry Wliittemore of Sycamore to succeed M. J. Carroll, term expired; Mrs. F. H. Blackman of Geneva to succeed Frank M. Annis, resigned. A joint resolution providing that when the Legislature adjourns Friday it stand ad­ journed until Wednesday, April 21, was adopted. Immediately after the House net Mr. Merriam offered a joint resolution providing for sine die adjournment May 5; consideration was postponed one week. Mr. Avery was given Unanimous consent and introduced a bill which repeals the indeterminate sentence parole law, ap­ plicable to the Illinois reformatory at Pontine. The judicial apportionment bill with the emergency clause failed to pass, the vote standing: Yeas, 85; nays, 59. The emergency clause was then stricken out and the bill was passed. In the Senate Thursday several amend­ ments to the Humphrey street railroad bills were adopted, and the measure sent to a third reading. In the House the proposed pardon board provoked a warm debate, but nothing definite was done. That Stump W as a Bear. John Quick, of Morris, had a fierce fight with a black bear a few days ago. Quick was gunning for pheasants on the mountains, near Susquehanna, Pa. through a swamp that was hemmed in by heavy bemlocks Quick spied what he first thought was a stump not more than half a rod ahead of him. But the stump began to move, and then Quick saw that it was a bear, and it was coming toward him. He thrust two buckshot shells Into the gun, and fired both at the bear. But bruin's progress was only momen­ tarily delayed, for the shots seemed to make him more eager to hug the hunt­ er. From a shamble he increased hi^ gait to a trot, and went at .Quick witty his teeth showing like tbe ivories of a mastiff. Quick started on a run load­ ing bis gun with shot-filled shells as he ran. Then, turning, he let the bear have both barrels of lead, and much to his satisfaction tbe bear came to a standstill. The next moment it wheel­ ed face hbout, as though to start the other way, when suddenly it shambled over to one side, and toppled in a heap, dead.--New York Press^ CHILDREN GET MARRIED. Yonthful Couple Who Kloped Receive the Parental Iitesains, Perhaps the youngest couple united in marriage iu this country ~are Ada Bird, the 14-year-old daughter of a wealthy publisher in Atlanta, and John P. Atkin­ son, the 16-year-old son of Gov. W. Y. Atkinson of Georgia. The youthful bridegroom is private secretary to his MR. AND MRS. J. P. ATKINSON. father and draws a salary of $1,200. When the amorous relations between him and Miss Bird were discovered an effort was made to break them off and the young lady was sent to relatives at Aylmer. Here young Atkinson - followed her and the couple eloped and were married at Kings­ ton by a justice of the peace. After their elopement aud before their marriage the families of the" couple made every effort to prevent the performance of the cere­ mony, but in vain. The situation was then accepted by the parents of the'youth­ ful groom and bride, and a second cere­ mony--a religious one--was performed. * Notes of Current Events. Earl Stanhope protests against the gift of the log of the Mayflower to America. ^According to -an agreement among Western distillers the price of spirits was advanced one cent a gallon. Jose Curbelo, a naturalized American, who lias been imprisoned in Cuba on a charge of conspiracy, has been released. While mass was being said in a church at Castres, France, the roof collapsed. Seven women and one lUian were killed •nd thirty persons were seriously injured. How to Tell a Lady. A company of women was discussing lately how to know, a lady in a casual encounter. "You may tell her," said one, "by her boots, gloves and hand- kerchieft." Another thought her skirt binding told a story, and a third de­ clared' that her language would betray her, "and it's words, not ideas, that concern this particular test," the speak­ er added. It is undoubtedly true, while the nicety of the small essentials of a woman's toilet indicate a certain de­ gree of refinement and taste at least, tliey are not the unmistakable hall­ mark of birth and breding. Many would much more quickly give the pref­ erence to the intonation of the voice and the use of words as a surer sign. A tine detail in clothes now is possible to almost any observing person; an un­ mistakably coarse, not to say vulgar, looking woman is. often Irreproachable in the matter of boots, gloves, gkirt bindings, etc. The charm of a well- modulated voice, using good English, undefiled by slang or provincialisms-- this is not often acquired without the right of culture. It Might Have Been "Worse. They were all so sorry when they gathered round the girl in blue. "We'$> just heard of the acident that happened last week," said the girl In gray. . "So very sad," said the girl in dark brown. 'The man who broke his leg was your fiance, wasn't he?" asked the girl in the picture hat, anxious to be sure of the facts before becomiug too, dem­ onstrative in her expressions of sym­ pathy. 'He was," admitted the girl in blue. 'Think of it!" they all cried together. "A broken leg! How horrible!5*' , "That's what I thought," said thelgirl In blue, demurely, "until George ex­ plained to»me that .it might have been worse." 'Might have been worse!" •Yes; -suppose,. It was an arm that he couldn't use." /a . They all said, "Yes, yes, of course/* and the girl in blue blushed a littla deeper red.--Chicago Post.