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EE VIEW OF ELECTION. RESULTS GENERALLY GRATIFY­ ING TO REPUBLICANS. fights in Neve York, Ohio and Mary­ land Very Hot and Personal -- The Senate Will Gain in Bepubliean Mem­ bers hi -Dingley Law Doing Well. f Democrats Disappointed. Special Washiugtou correspondence: Off years iu politics, with a Republi­ can President iu the White House, do not., as a rule, favor Republican suc­ cess, but the Republican party iu the great contests wbie. have been waged iu several States has well withstood the reaction which always follows a Pres­ idential victory at the polls, The light has been strong and bitter, and while both heavy losses as well as satisfac­ tory gains are seen, the Republicans here feel in a good frame of mind over the result. The general result is look­ ed upon as a vindication of the cause- of sound money and an upholding of the administration. New York,, where was the most; con­ centrated tight, through division'In the Republican ranks, has been handed over to the control of Tammany, and the management of that city will short­ ly undergo a radical change. Outside of New YorE, where the lighting was bitter to an extreme, the State of Ohio furnished the. most exciting and an portant Campaign. In that S,:-t > the tight was "tierce and the methoOr") ni rty. Every possible abuse- was aimed at Senator Hanna. whose confirmation for the Republican vote singled him out as a target for Democratic orators and methods. Tnere is no doubt as to how the State would have voted had the question been simply%lvote on Re­ publican principles and the McKinley administration. But a number of local matters came into the tight in whose interest national issues were lost to a large extent. The turbulence * f the coal strike had barely subsided when Bryan's tierce speeches arraying class against class again started it into ac­ tion. The great play of John McLean to become United States Senator pour­ ed money into the State. In Cleveland and Cincinnati there were factional splits, owing to local matters, all tend­ ing to decrease the normal Republican majority; yet. notwithstanding all these things, Ohio elected a Republi­ can Governor and will elect a Republi­ can Senator, thus giving her a solid Republican representation in the Sen­ ate for the tirst time in many years, prior to Senator Banna's appointment by Gov. Bushnell. In Maryland the tight was only a lit­ tle less determined and the interest but slightly less. Gorman was defeated in his very stronghold, Baltimore city. Maryland also will have a double R<>- publican representation in the Semite for the first time in history. On the whole, while the Democrats profess jubilance and satisfaction at having carried New York City, they are really sorely disappointed at their fail­ ure to capture the Legislatures of both Maryland and Ohio. It is stated on good authority that it was the intention of the Ohio legislature, in case it had been Democratic, to immediately pro­ ceed to.redistrict the entire Stare in such manner as to give to the Demo crats in the nrsxt Congress at least eight or ten numbers' from that Stale. But that little! patriotic scheme was knocked in the head by the Republican voters of the Buckeye State. Treasury reports show a considerable growth in the internal revenue receipts. which is due to two causes, th" im­ provement in business and the inereis > in certain taxes. The combined receipts from t'he customs and internal revenue will not probably for some two or throe months equal the expenditures of the Government, but the one is steadily climbing up on the other, and that re- •sull will be reached early in the new year. Long before the law shall have been in operation a twelfth-month, it will be producing a surplus instead of a deficit. Democratic editors, and oth­ ers are making their usual howls about the Dingley deficit, but (lie difference between the Wilson deficit and the Dingley deficit is that in the presort case nobody is at all alarmed. Tic shortage is believed by everybody, even those Democratic editors, to be merely temporary, and the gold reserve is meanwhile piling up. Reports recently received show that silver in many places, notably New South Wales, is produced at a cost of -25 cents per ounce and less. The Brok­ en Hill'Company of New South Wales lias for the past five years been putting silver on the market at a cost of 12^:, cents per ounce. This company (lite­ rates immense copper and lead mines and the silver extracted from tli:» ore is produced at a much less cost than in most mines which produce silver exclu­ sively. The Anaconda mine of Mon­ tana. which, by the way. is owned by British capitalists, is a copper, mine, but the ore contains a largo per cent, of silver. Last year the mine paid a profitable dividend through its copper production, and yielded in addition •(1,(300,000 ounces of silver, which, of course, was all net profit. ALBERT B. CARSON. The "Kndless Chain" Scare. Washington, Oct. IS.--"Within a year the gold reserve in the treasury will reach 5180,000.000, 1 believe, and per­ haps $200,000,000," said a prominent treasury official to-day. "It is now. in round numbers, $150,000,000. and is bound to increase."--New York Even­ ing Post. This is published by a paper, which, during the free trade administration of President Cleveland, was creating a treasury panic with t.. result that, a sale of United States bonds was made privately to a syndicate of New York bankers. Then the gold reserve was nearly §100,000.000 less than it is to­ day, and it was steadily decreasing. Now, under protection, we have a gold reserve of $150,000,000. with prospects of its increase to $200,000,000. besides more gold in the banks than they care to handle. But we have no panic, no secret, deals with bankers about bond sales, and no scare about the cum^ey. The currency scare vanished with the "endless chain" scare- and free trade administration. frocks from Europe, except on pay­ ment of heavy duties. It is really too bad.--The County Gentleman, London. If the County Gentleman could only be spared from looking after his crops, don't you know, he would find more better dressed women in any city of the United States, and all of them wearing American made dresses, than lie could find either in London or Paris? What, can beat our tailor-made gownsV "It is really too bad^you can't leave your farm, old chap. Took the Right Turn. The fact of the cordial feelings in Great Britain toward the United State$. of the desire to stand in tlif most amic­ able relations toward the people of the {Treat Western republic, does not forbid criticism of their fiscal system, or re­ gret that our transatlantic cousins should have once more so decidedly taken the wrong turn in tariff matters. --Northern Whig, Belfast. Ireland. This is very kind, indeed. We are very much obliged, we assure you. Put then we look at our legislation from an American standpoint, 'and to' us it seems that Ave took the right turn in tariff matters. At any rate. Congress did What the people ordered. , Behind Kuropeajra Nations. Secretary Wilson expresses it as his opinion in his annual report that every foreign embassy • should have a man thoroijghly familiar with- the methods and ditties of the Department of Agri­ culture so that lie can, when called up­ on by the department, make ail intelli­ gent report upon the agricultural com ditions of the country to which lie is accredited. The Secretary claims that were eer in its actions ti mates eial ut.tt rather tl ident: Whe ion Pa Iwick inter jxfravagant. * Congress urally followed the es- departments as the offi- ctf the administration, i:preachings of the Pres- ad After All. toed, the sale of the Us- ailroad will have paid " government principal and II"per cent This "invest­ ment? was made about thirty year* ago, how many investments o_ that length of'rime could have panned out better? When the national advan­ tages resulting from the construction of this foad are considered the invest­ ment o® the part of the United State# wouldjuk have been a bad one if no part <tt the principal or interest had been .repaid. • It is probable, however, that the Democratic wallers will con­ tinue to talk of the "steal" that has been perpetrated. - TOPICS FOE FARMERS 2 A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Don't Attempt to Fatten Shoats in the Pasture-Give Milk Cows Good Care- Beans Are a Profitable Crop--Fowls Should Be Fed Slowly. Political Paragraphs. Silver hasn't reached the dollar mark yet. ' , • 'r.. -..;. " Calamity-criers this; year are keep­ ing away from facts and figures. 1 The calamity shrieks died away in the distance as wheat floated up to the dollar mark again! Those editors don't expect to convert anybody to their way of thinking when they -say that the operation of the Dingley law has nothing to do with tlie ret.uin of prosperity. ' • . According to figures taken from the official reports of the Cleveland admin­ istration. the farming element of the A TEN-STRIKE: ALL DOWN. he has great difficulty in obtaining spe- | cific and technical information from I most foreign consulates when iuforma- j tion is wanted by the department for the benefit of the agriculturists of this j country. All foreign countries, he says, have their representatives of ag- j rieulture here to gain the benefit of the experiments conducted by this govern­ ment and the prominent agriculturists and horticulturists throughout the Uni­ ted States. We, he says, are far behind the nations of Europe iu this important matter. California's New Industry. San Francisco is to have another ob­ ject lesson in tariffs. It is announced that the largest jute bag manufactur­ ing concern in the world is to estab­ lish a branch factory, here. The reason why this was not done long ago is ex­ plained by the local representative of the industry, who says, notwithstand­ ing the Paci f ic coas t used :{() , (>( i t t , ( HMI jute sacks every yefir, the Gorman-Wil­ son law gave nearly the whole trade to India. Americans could not coinjHde for it. Now, under the Dingley act. the money spent for the ,'!0.(Mto.OOo bags, less the 4,000.000 made in the prisons, is to remain at home ami part of it will go to American mill hands. As competition is pretty sure to keep the price of bags within bounds, the American voter has reason to congrat­ ulate himself over his latest tariff de­ cision. It was a good thing for the country, as this example helps to show. --San Francisco (Cal.» Chronicle. An ICarly Prediction. The, statistics for September show that under the most adverse conditions the Dingley bill promises to dissipate the Wilson deficit.--St. Louis Star. The decrease of dutiable imports of merchandise for September, ISitT. as compa/ed with September, 1890, amounted to $<>.55;}.<il!», while the de­ crease of nearly $2.(HM».000 in non-du­ tiable imports swelled the total falling off for the month to $N,445,972. Every­ body knows why this decrease occur­ red, and everybody but the free trade malcontents knows that as soon as the country shall have worked off its big accumulation of foreign goods that were crowded in during the last four mouths of the Wilson bill, imports will reach a normal basis of demand and supply, and revenue will be increased accordingly. Should Carry Our Freight. Had we the-spirit of our forefathers we would not be standing idty by watching and lamenting over the trans­ atlantic liners which go rushing across the ocean breaking records and vying with each other in the splendor and adequacy of their appointments and rates of speed, and also meditating over the additional cues now under construction and the immense cargo steamers that will soon go into com­ mission to carry the freight that Amer­ ican vessels should be carrying, but we would be up and doing and wrest our share of it from the foreigners.--New York American Shipbuilder. AVnit a Hit. The truth of the matter is that the Dingley bill is a gigantic fraud and failure, a miserable botch potcli.--Bir­ mingham (Ala.) News.0 You must be thinking of that miser­ able "rag-bag production"--the tariff for revenue only of the Democratic par­ ty--which was denounced by President Cleveland and to which he refused to attach Ilia signature. As to the Ding­ ley bill, it is just as well to wait and learn something- of its' results before denouncing it. country lost by decreased consumption and decreased values during Cleve­ land's last administration something like four thousand million dollars. Personally, young Mr. Bryan did pretty well in Ohio. It is said that he charged $200 a speech and expenses, and he made a dozen speeches inside of four days., so that lie is probably feel­ ing the return of prosperity. With loo.ooo tons of Alabama coal going to Mexico for her railroad loco motives in competition with the Eng­ lish coal, it looks as though the South was putting in a bid for her share of the world's market. The number of business failures in the last week of October, in the fir year of McKiuley's administration, was 21N. while the average number of the last week of October during the four years of Cleveland's administra­ tion was 287. The free silver theory of Mexican prosperity is for a Mexican to take $25 in Mexican pesos, every one of which is as hard for him to get as is a gold dollar for his American neighbor, and purchase with them something which is worth $10 in American money. Mr. Bryan says that "the first six months of the McKinley administra­ tion were the most disastrous in the history of the country." That's a pret­ ty stiff one, even for Bryan. But it in­ duces a cold shudder to think what would have been the first six months of the Bryan administration. A d m i t s T i m e s A r e B e t t e r . At last Mr. Bryan has admitted that times are better. But he says they are due to the foreign "scarcity" and to gold being taken from the Klondike. The foreign scarcity affects directly but the one article of wheat, and that is only one-of a great list of farm arti­ cles which have advanced, and as for the Klondike gold, four tilings as much money has been expended in fitting out Klondikers as has been brought in by t hem. They Buy, We Sell. Foreign nations are obliged to buy our wares whether «e purchase theirs or not.--Minneapolis 4Minn.i Tribune. Certainly they are. all free trade the­ ories to the contrary notwithstanding. It IH Just High Enoueli. THE WALL O F PR(0T£(CTil<0iN. Seen, Through a Monocle. America, which has ̂ had .reason to boast! so long of its beautiful and well j gowned womankind, h:isfftrrr!; them a [ savage blow by the clause in its tariff bill preventing them from taking over { Move in the Right Direction. Early in October President McKinley] directed.'the memjp>rs of his cabinet to reduce their department estimates to Congress to an economical basis. This is a move in the right direction. Presi­ dent Cleveland urged upon Congress [ the necessity of economy while at the same time the estimates from t,lie treas- j ury department and other departments t 'A*AN I Fattening Shoats. The shoats fot butchering should be brought in out of the clover and woods pasture and put in the pens for fatten­ ing. It is a great waste of feed to try and fatten them in the pasture with the sows and pigs. Clean the pens out; then, if possible, give them a good coat of whitewash. Put four shoats into an eight-by-ten pen;, this will give them plenty of room to exercise iu. and also plenty of room at the trough. If they are lousy, pour a little coal oil down the back over the head and bellifut the ears, and down the legs. One good sprinkling and rubbing will answer. Give the shoats thick mill feed slop night and morning--all they will eat up clean, and no more. Then give a few ears, of soft corn to each; 5.1ft-' mence with a little corn at first, but gradually increase the amount until they get all they will eat. At uoo.ii give cabbage leaves or boiled pumpkin and small potatoes. They should have a little hard coal to eat every second day. Bed with leaves, keep the pens clean and dry. A half peek of flaxseed meal added to each barrel of slop after the meal has been well scalded, will in­ crease the fattening process. It is very nourishing. By four weeks of feeding the shoats will be fat enough to mar­ ket. It is best to send them to market in a large covered wagon, instead ot driving them on foot.--Exchange. the nuts are green to bring them down will disfigure and injure the trees, so that after a few years the trees will yield dittle or nothing. Chestnut trees, if the fruit is of good quality, are valu­ able property, and their fruit should be protected. There are several im­ proved varieties of chestnut, some of which will begin bearing when three years old. These should be chosen if new plantations of chestnuts,.are to lie made, or scions of the new varieties should be grafted onto native stock. AROUND A BIG STATE BRI^F COMPILATION OF NOIS NEWS. ILLI- Foot Rot in Sheep. Sheep naturally thrive Wst on dry uplands. On wet grounds, or in a wet "summer, their feet treading wet grass and soil become soft and easily bruis­ ed. This, if not cared for, will develop into foot rot. It used to lie the practice of good shepherds to dress their sheep two or three times during the summer, by applying blue vitriol to those of them whose feet were in any way sore. This was done long before the doctors had begun to talk learnedly about microbes and germs. It is knqwn now that foot rot is a germ disease, and blue vitriol, which is a sulphate of copper, is one of the best germicides known. It is a curi­ ous, fact that the practical cure of foot rot was discovered through experi­ ments .made by farmers long before the scientists had found out What caus­ ed the disease, or could devise any t he- ory .whereby it might be cured; Unknown Body Found in Field Near Galesburg--Two Murderers Receive Penitentiary Sentences -- Returned Home After Many Years. Care of tlie Milk Cows. When there is heavy frost on the grass, keep the milk cows in until the frost is dissolved by the sun. \oung cattle and cows that are left out at night should have a rough shed built for them to go under at night and when the weather is stormy. A roof made of polos and covered with two feet of straw will answer. If the pasture is abundant, the young stock may be left out until after Thanksgiving. After two or more hard frosts, there is not much substance in the pasture; the cows should be grain-fed night and morning, and at night give to each one an armful of corn fodder. An excel­ lent grain ration for large cows in milk Is eight quarts of bran, four quarts of corn chop and one quart of linseed meal. Divide into two feeds and give half in the morning and the remainder at night. During mild weather mix this feed with cold water; when the weather becomes cold mix with warm waiter, and add one tablespoonful of salt daily.--Baltimore American. Beans a Profitable Crop. Beans are a profitable crop, as much so as any raised; almost every farm has land well adapted to bean culture. 1 have raised beans on a small scale, and found them very profitable. They have not proved very difficult to grow than most other crops, and were read­ ily sold to private customers at ten cents per quart. In harvesting they will not bear much delay; a wet spell will spoil many. They should be treat­ ed to the fumes of carbon, as the wee vil is apt to destroy them. Peas, green or marrowfat, may also be made a spe­ cial crop, as large quantities are con sumed in all cities, and but very little produced near some. Few farmers raise what they themselves use, pre­ ferring to buy, yet retail dealers pay $1 per bushel. This season I have been very successful with a novelty in the bean line; it is New Kidney Wax; beans are pure white and firm; the stalks hold up from the ground well while young; pods are of a rich golden yel­ low, buttery flavor and n novelty of de­ cided merits. I also raised the Lazy Wife; these are very nice. I salted a half barrel down. They are also white and firm when ripe, and are equally useful as a snap, shell or soup beau. For dry'peas for winter, 1 like the Ear­ liest of All, a smooth pea: it cooks done when dry in half an hour, and has a pleasant flavor. I have never had any to sell, but could have sold live or six bushels af home. As a green pea, they are profitable, as they are so very early, bear w< 1 and ripen even. The ground can b cleared for some other crop.--Farm and Home. Apple Trees by Roadsides. The owner of land through wnich a highway runs is also the owner of the land, and is entitled to make any use of it that will not interfere with 1 lie right of the public to travel on it. It is not generally practicable for farmers to crop land beside the roadbed, though sometimes a patch of corn or potatoes beside a road not much used will give' paying crops. Perhaps the best ,yse such land can be put to is to plant it with apple trees or other fruit, trees, protecting the young trees while small from attacks of wandering stock. Isol­ ated trees, planted where they have plenty of room to spread and plenty of sunlight, often yield more fruit than do apple trees in closely planted orchards. Relative Cost, of Beef and'Butter. Prof. T. L. Hacker of the Minnesota experiment station has been testing the comparative cost of. making beef and butter. So he fed four steers along with his herd of cows, giving them, however, a ration for making beef, while to the cows was given the feed appropriate for milk and butter produc­ tion. After six weeks feeding he fig­ ured the cost of the butter at three cents per pound, while the beef was 3 4-10 cents per pound, as nearly as he could estimate it from live weight. It is fairly to be presumed that in tlie cost, of butter the labor required to make it was not estimated. It is prob­ able also that the cows experimented on were in full flow of milk, and there­ fore could, for a short time, produce butter at very low rates. But the ani­ mal has to be kept twelve mouths with much less product of milk, iu order to enable it to make tills low record. Endeavor Meeting. The Keystone League Christian Endea­ vor convention of the Illinois conference of the United Evangelical Church closed a two days* session at Aurora. Officers were elected as follows: President, Rev. H. Moser of Shannon; vice-president, C. W. A. Lmderman of Ottawa; recording secretary, Rev. J. G. Eller of Chadwick; CortespcBiding secretary, Miss- Anna Mar- SOlf of Aurora; treasurer, Mrs. C. G. Umaiigst of Geneseo; superintendent of union work, Rev. J. 0- Fiddler of Na- perville. Organizers--Chicago district, . Rev; M. C. Morlock; Naporville district, Rev. W. A. Caton; Frwport.district-, Mrs. O. W.'Franks; South Illinois,'the pre-' siding elder. - Fattening Yearling Lambs. Both sheep and lauibs are much high­ er than a year ago. Hence there is less inducement for farmers to buy sheep and lambs to fatten. , With so good prospects for wool it is likely that sheep and lambs will be dear for some time to come. Still those who like spring lamb will have it. no matter what the price, and the fattened lamb a year old is quite as good as that dressed when only three or four months old. It requires more careful feeding to keep these yearling lambs in fattening condition than it does three or four year old sheep. But the lamb when well fed will gain twice as many pounds per week as the sheep, and the gain in price per pound will be considerably higher.--American Culti­ vator. Found Bead in a Field. The body of an unknown mail was found in a field eighteen miles northeast of Galesburg. His head was lying on a revolver and there was a bullet wound in his forehead. It is thought his name is Johnson afad thai-he has an aunt in New Wiudsor. He had been dead about three days when found. Slot Machine War. The operators of slot machines in Otta­ wa. Streator, La Salle, Pern and other cities of the county of La Salle are in hot wit or, with about $100 each to pay. Fif­ teen men were indicted in Ottawa and the other towns have adopted rules which practically prohibit the jingle of the nim­ ble nickel. The trouble is a result of the Rock River conference. Nearly all of the clergymen in the State are working to have the late law strictly enforced. Sent to the Penitentiary. In the Circut Court at Waukegan, Judge Donnelly sentenced Daniel Can­ to indefinite imprisonment in the peni­ tentiary for the murder of John Dillon about two years ago. Carr was indicted for murder, but^his 6ffer to plead guilty to manslaughter was accepted by the State's Attorney. Carr is an irritable farmer, who accidentally shot the man he killed when firing at an enemy who had greatly annoyed him. Mourned as Bead Many Years. Mrs. Cecelia Jones Arnold, mourned as dead for twenty years, surprised her friends by returning home to Freeport a few days ago. She appeared in the Coun­ ty Court and received her portion of the estate left by her father, who died many years ago. Another member of the fam­ ily, her brother,, is also missing, and his money is held in trust for him. Feed Fowls Slowly. One of the difficulties in feeding fowls is that, as given by the poulterer, the food is in a mass and can be gob­ bled down far too quickly. In its nat­ ural state, the fowl hunting for food is obliged to eat slowly, one grain at a time.. Usually, after each mouthful, the hen is obliged to scratch for more So ingrained is this instinct that a hen with chickens will scratch and cluck when shf»eomes to a pile of grain. One of the reasons why coru is a bad feed for fowls is that the grain is large, and if shelled and thrown out by handfuls, the fowls eat it much too fast for fheii> good. The true way to feed hens is to mix their grain with chaff or straw, so that they must,scratch for jt. If cov­ ered with mellow earth, it will be still better, as the dust thus raised will rid the fowls of vermin. Chestnut Trees Profitable. • Those who have a chestnut 'grove and keep it free from depredators may find it a source t»f profit. We know of one or tSvo such groves which are duly natural fruit, but which yield returns with no labor except fbr gathering the nuts better than could be got for usual farm crops. But to secure profitable re­ turns the -public must bi* excluded. Men and boys who club the trees while Care of Seed Corn. Probably no better place for the braids of coru saved in the ear for next spring's seeding can be found than to hang them beside the chimney, where the heat from the stove or fireplace will protect them from freezing until fully dry. About as good a place as this, and some think better, is in the smoke house, where the hams and bacon are cured. But in either case the braids should lie visited often to see that noth­ ing gets at them. The squirrel is the worst enemy of sweet corn, because lie only digs out the chit or germ of the very soundest and best corn. He will leave an entire corn cob full of corn more or less damp, and feast on that which has been thoroughly dried for seed. The germ of sound, dry corn has a flavor much like a nut, and it is verv nutritious. efi Test New Varieties. Every season the farmers receive so­ licitations or temptations to purchase seeds or plants of some new variety, and yet if they will read the circulars and descriptions, as well as the claims, in favor of the new varieties of the past, they will find wonderful claims ! in favor of some that are barely recog- 1 ni/.ed now. This Is because something better comes every "season (though some new varieties are worthless), but the production and quality of all kinds of fruit have been improved by the in­ troduction every year, of new candi­ dates for favor. No farmer or fruit rower should accept the claims in fa­ vor of a now troe or vine, but should test it himself by procuring only one or two for that purpose. Linseed vs. Cottonseed Meal. Both fiax and linseed meal are now so cheap that there is no reason why cottonseed meal should be brought [ North to feed. No young animals nor j hogs of-any age should be fed cotton­ seed meal. It is very difficult of diges­ tion. The loss of animals killed by cot­ tonseed meal more than counterbalance the gain from feeding it where it does not prove injurious. Of course linseed meal must be fed in small quantities, but it is not so dangerous for young stock as cottonseed meal, which for calves and pigs is ofteu fatal in very small doses. Warm Stalls for Cows. Take two cows and give one a warm stall, with clean bedding, allowing the other a stall in which there is a crack in the wall, which lets the wind come through. The cow that is comfortable and warm will give more milk than the other, because she has warmth in her favor. Burn Field Refuse. ' Wheat stubble and refuse may be the harboring places of chinch bugs and J other engmies. As soon" as it can be i done rake up all refuse and fire tlie pile. The fall of the year is a good time to fight the enemies that do the most damage in spring and summer. A Fraternal Tie. "I make 'em see double," qudMi the brandy bottle. "And I double 'em up,"_quoth the .watermelon, v "Shake!"--Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Live and I.,et Live. City Physician--How in the world did you happen to become such a pro­ nounced vegetarian 7 . Country Doctor--That's the way a majority of my patients pay me. Waukegan Lowes Its Case. The Circuit Court has decided the an­ nexation case of the city of Waukegan regarding the Washburn & Moen prop­ erty against the city. As a result the village of North Chicago is declared reg­ ularly organized and wins a victory over the city of Waukegan and the Washburn & Moen company.j Fourth of a Century. Twenty-five years in the penitentiary is the verdict ill the Appleton murder case at Tuscola. Appleton was charged with the murder of Wiufield Scott Swart alias Scott Deuunc, on April '20 last at Areola. The attorneys for the defense will K've notice of api>eal to the Supreme Court. Crushed to Death. Bud Dooley. a farmer living three miles southwest of Vienna, a man named Parks and all of Dooley's children were crushed to death by the falling down of Dooley's fann house. Stste News in Brief. Cjipt. W. E. Robinson died of paralysis at Mattoon. The Illinois paced amateur mile record is now 1.41) 3-5. The l/ovejoy monument has been dedi­ cated with great eclat at Alton. At Decatur, It. M. Tolladay shot him- wltf because of financial difficulties. F. A. HIKII is to be postmaster at Ha­ vana and Christian A. Kulil at Pekin. An organization has been formed to work for a Government building at Elgin. C*pt. J,. A. Ithineberger, proprietor of the Arlington Hotel, died at Beardstown, aged 71 years. The immense strawberry bods of Han­ cock County lay about Nauvoo, and the long drouth has injured them to an alarm­ ing extent. Mrs. Celia Wallace, a wealthy widow living in Chicago, wishes to adopt Miss Gisneros. the Cuban girl recently liberat­ ed from a Spanish prison. The young woman favors the proposition. Four 'HTsons were injured, one perhaps fatally, in a collision at Ilalsted and j Twentieth "streets, in Chicago, between a huge wagon owned by .Libby, McNeill & Libby and drawn by four runaway horses, and a cable train. The Marsden Cellulose- Company will commence work on its factory at Cheuoa at once. The Toledo, Peoria and West­ ern Railway is laying a switch for the plant. An exhibition of cornstalk cut­ ting was had on the farm of C. 1). Can- born. A committee of farmers weighed the stalks, hand-picked and shocked a week before. They weighed H.(><><) pounds to the acre. The machine cut and gath­ ered weighed 2,880. The stalks were down badly, but it was demonstrated that the stalks would run from a ton to a ton and a half an acre, which heretofore has been almost a total loss to farmers. By selling to the factory this will bring them a gain of from to an acre. The com­ pany wants 30,000 tons of stalks, for which they will pay £00,000. The post office at lpava was broken into and robbed, $300 in stamps and $25 iu cash being stolen from the safe. There was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wil­ liam Van Steenberg of Quiney a sou, who weighs two ounces less than two pounds. The child is well proportioned and appar­ ently in as good health us any new-born babe. I»wis Alderson and John I^aue of St. Louis have been in Genoa with proposals to engage in the condensed iuilk industry, in connection with which they expect to niak" caramels: They ask a bonus of $14,000 and five acres of land. Rev. C. S. Spanlding, who was tried and suspended for six months by .the Free Methodist conference at Freeport for having an organ iu his church at Franklin Grove, has withdrawn from the denomination. He is the°oldest pastor iu Benjamin Hartman of Muscatine, Iowe^ was killed at Afbingdon by a freight train. Kankakee is to have a ffew Illinois Cen­ tral depot, costing from $20,009 to $30,- 000. Jacob Siebert, a farm hand, was found dead ,|n the road three miles west of La- Salle. Heart disease. . , At Aurora, Henry Wheeler had his arm drawn into a corn-shredder and torn oft at the shoulder. He died. Alee Bohinan, a 4-year-old boy of Gales­ burg, was shot and killed while playing with, a neighbor's revolver. Ajcall for a State conference of the ad­ vocates of the Initiative and Referendum has been issued, to meet in Chicago on Thursday, Nov. IS. Stewart Young made a brief and fatal balloon ascension at Chicago. His airship was blown swiftly out over the surface of Lake Michigan and he was drowned. I>r. ,T. B. McMichael, late president of Monmouth College, has received and ac­ cepted a call as pastor of the United Pres­ byterian congregation at Sugar Creek, O. Alexander Morrison, a train hand in the employ of the Northwestern road who went to Madison. Wis., from Belvidere, was struck by an engine a ad instantly k i l l e d . : • - x - , ' Fire was discovered in the Bwfchet & Nance stove works., Quin'cy, and ik a feiSir. hours the entire plant was wiped ooL^ loss is $75,000: insurance, $00,008. The- • firm is an old one. • " - Stanley Yesteck of Chicago was thrown - down three flights of stairs at « wedding feast at 1 o'clock in the m&rsdag- and. fatally, injured. He g<k into a quartet with another wedding guest. William Woods, who in 1896, during at drunken quarrel at Barber and Canal streets, Chicago, killed Tom Mocahan, has been found guilty and seatsaced to fourteen years' imprisonment. ;• ' The other morning a Chicago pojiceman discovered the body of a man hanging from the limb of a tree at Forest Glen. A stout leather strap adjusted about the man's heck pointed conclusively to sui­ cide. k Commissioner McGann has agreed to give the Lincoln Park board the land surrounding the Chicago avenue pumping station in Chicago to be improved and made into a public resort, the city, how­ ever, retaining the title. The Kankakee paper mill, abandoned several years ago, when it became the property of the AmericaR Strawboaid Company, is to be started again. Con­ tracts have been let for rebuilding the walls nud smokestack and overhauling the plant. In the Shannon murder trial held at Wheaton the jury rendered a verdict of murder in the first degree and fixed the punishment at death by hanging. Ed­ ward Shannon shot and killed his wife Sept. IS, 1800, as she was Warding a train at Belvidere for Chicago. The remains of a man were fannd by Henry Scries and his brother Fraak while walking through a swamp oa the western limits of Winnetka. There is strong evi­ dence tending to show a murder was com­ mitted. Within a few feet of the body hvy the carcass of a dog, which had been shot through the heart. Emsley Peach, an electric lineman who recently went to San Bernatdina, Cal., for his health from Greenville, was fatal­ ly hurt. While working i at the tap of a forty-foot pole he touched a live wire and was hurled to the ground, coming in con­ tact with other live wires in his fall. Both, legs were broken and he was othervise injured. Three officials of the Kankakee insane asylum have been discharged for com­ plicity in the late affair, when the male attendants broke up a Halloween party of the female employes. The discharged officials are I)r. A. Ii. Schier, H. A. Koh- ler, chief electrician, and Fred S. Breen, assistant business superintendent. T*.e design of Architect Robert A. Bal­ lard of Springfield for an §18,000 monu­ ment at Missionary Ridge battlefield to mark the location of Illinois troops in the battle, was accepted by the board of com­ missioners of ChickamaUga and Chatta­ nooga battlefield. The monument will be 80 feet high to the top of statue. It will be of Barre, Yt., granite, circular on a square base. At the (base will be figure** representing the four fmns of the military service." A winged tigilre of peaee will surmount the whole. The recent law increasing the fees for notary public commissions from $1 to . and that of companies and societies "not for profit" from $3 to $10 is bringing in quite a handsome revenue into the State treasury. During September, 1S96, the fees for notaries were $295; for this year under the new law they were $734. For September, 1890, the receipts for "not for profit" companies were $144, while the same monih this year they were $310. The number of companies chartered and notaries commissioned were the same in both months. the I Hi no ••nte'mi t Prospe: A1 t on rn1 is any ori !>renee of the is try iu 1805 sect, having y has struck the Chicago and . if the wages of the employes "Hon. It is announced that the pay rolls for October are the heaviest of any like period in the road's history. The average wages of tlie engineers were $200. The firemen drew $L10; the euow^uetors $190. and the brafcemea $100. The pre­ vious'average has been $40 less. The Elgin Milkine Company has ap­ plied for license to incorporate^ with a capital stock of $50,000. Its chief stock­ holders are ex-Mayor Grote, E. D. Wat- dron. A. B. Church. W. W. Sherwin. L. ; B. Ilamlin. all of Elgin; Thomas Mead- j ows and R. F. Hetherington of JanesVille, 1 Wis. The latter two are patentees of the ! process of preparing aa infant and in- ! valid fowl from milk-malted cereals ami I beef, and for three years have ia a small j way been doing business at Jaaesvilfe. ' I Space has been leased in the Elgin Pack- I ing Company's factory. . I As the Wabash fast train for Chicago pulled out of the depot at Litchfield three masked robbers entered the smoking ear and with drawn revolvers commanded the occupants to throw up their hauds. They then relieved the passengers *f their money and valuables. Whea the train reselled the northern city limits they pull­ ed the bell cord and as the traia slowed down the robbers jumped off and escaped. They secured about $80 in money and sev­ eral watches and diamonds. Early in the evening three men held up a farmer near the depot, and after beating him into in­ sensibility robbed him of $20 *uti a gold watch. The other night, while live men were playing cards m Lawrence Helleruag's sa­ loon in Alton, two masked robbers en­ tered. stood the men up in a raw ami robbed them of £100 and five gold watches. The robbers escaped. The Supreme Court at .Springfield has handed down opinions in sevea cases, af­ firming the judgment of the Circnit Court of Cook County and the Appellate Court j based upon the finding that the Koflrd of Railroad and Warehouse C-omiaiijsitaiers vhaS no power to revoke the Seease of a i warehouseman, this po.ver heloaging to the court's. An important decision was handed.down f by the Supreme Court at SprtngfieM I which involves the right of a physician t» j receive a fee for giving expert testimony, j The court decided that the physician was i in contempt in refusing U> testify umtil a fee for expert testimony was.paid. ! Drainage police "in Chicaga faand the ! body of a man. dead some five »e six.days, 1 under a clump of bushes, near Summit, a ! station on the Chicago and Alta* The j body was in such a state of deeompyskiott. i that identification of the face was impos­ sible. There were no evidences ia the i surroundings to indicate whether tie man I came to his death by foul means or by hia ] own haud«.