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Founders*-®*?- was observed at Illinois College, -Jacksonville, with all due eclat. John Gudekunst, a carpenter at Rock Island, was killed in a fall from a build­ ing. David Ellsworth Bates lias been found guilty of bigamy in two cases at Chi­ cago. - The Northern Insurance of New York has been licensed to do a fire insurance business in Illinois, The Variety wood works of Rock Isl­ and assigned, with liabilities of $8,000 and assets of $8,600. The annual celebration of Jackson day was observed in Charleston with a big banquet, with speeches and music. Cieotis Simpson was sentenced to Ches­ ter penitentiary for three years for rob­ bing the postofflce at Marblehead. The Rockford baseball club held a week's carnival, in order to raise money to put itself on a sound financial footing. Miss Anna' Hinckcliff, aged 25, of Beardstown, was adjudged insane and was conveyed to the asylum at Jackson­ ville. Fire in an artesian .well nearly suffo-. cated three men and, put a stop to im­ provements being made in Rockford's water system. -: Forty indictments for gambling have been returned against officials of the county and town ^of Kankakee and promi­ nent business men; The PeOria Board of Trade elected Sam. uel Woolner president and reelected Rob­ ert C. Grier and B. F. Blossom, secretary and treasurer, respectively; ®the Rev. John C. Kiest, presiding elder of the Elgin and Naperville district, Ev­ angelical Association, married Mrs. Hen­ rietta Batterman of Elgin. Gov. and Mrs. Stephens of Missouri visited Springfield and enjoyed a ride through many of th£ principal streets. Later they visited the capitol. F. B. Reinmund, A. J. Perry and J. T. McKnight have been chosen delegates to the Indianapolis monetary convention by the business men of Galesburg. Henry Glark, 8 years old, was drowned at Rockford while skating. He was the sou of the Rev. E. Warren Clark, noted traveler and lecturer on oriental topics. A 14-year-old boy employed by Walter Phillips, a diemaker in. the Schoeneman building, 303 Dearborn street, Chicago, was crushed to death by the freight ele­ vator. The officers of the Aurora Humane' So­ ciety have taken action against the win­ ter shearing of 50,000 sheep at the Mont­ gomery pens, and President Shortal} of the Illinois Humane Society has been no­ tified. At Galesburg, Judge Glenn deified the motion for a new trial in the case of Ida Johnson, convicted of the murder of her husband, C. F. Johnson, and sentenced her to the Joliet penitentiary under the indeterminate sentence law. - Search for V. S. Villars, the missing Lake Bluff grocer, resulted in the police finding him at a lodging house under an assumed name. He had become physical­ ly and mentally impaired by taking a ca­ tarrh cure containing cocaine. John F. Burke, a conductor for, the North Chicago jstreet Kailway Company, was killed by falling-under a car in the LaSalle* street tunnel. He Was remov­ ing the gates near the Randolph street entrance and lost his balante. Lizzie Kenyon of" Carlinville, niece of John R. Richards, who was shot and killed by Capt. F. Y. Hedley, has sued her uncle's estate for his fine residence. She claims that Richards handed her the deed sli6rtly before he was killed and she returned it to him for .safe keeping. Polo \Vas shaken by a terrific explosion of dynamite eight miles away, which, cracked windows and plastering, fright­ ened inhabitants and worked destruction to cisterns and chimneys. Six pounds of dynamite had been secured by some young men to celebrate a wedding and it explod­ ed accidentally. No one was injured. Manager Jones of the Rockford opera house has made a vigorous protest to the City Council, claiming that the churches and private halls, which are not required to pay an annual license, as the theater is, have ruined the Matter's business by en­ tertainments and - concerts. The opera house company asks that either its license be rebated or the churches be charged $100 a year, threatening to put in variety shows Sunday afternoons and evenings if this is not done. J. J. Risdon, a Chicago lawyer, is in Savannah, .Ga., hunting for some trace of Fred Robinson, a sailor, who is heir to $1,000,000 in that city. . The story is a peculiar one. Curtis Robinson, his fath­ er, and he disagreed gome time ago and separated. Robinson's mother died and his father began to live With a dissolute woman, at the time being proprietor of a saloon. Between them they amassed $1,- 000,000, and now the elder Robinson's" sisters and brother want to make sure that the son is dead before they take pos­ session. The Illinois firemen's convention was held at Champaign. Decatur was select­ ed, after a hot fight, as the location of next summer's tournament. Clinton Wasi selected as the convention city for 1899. Tlie election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President; O. D. Wi'cox, Monmouth; secretary, VE. W. Barknlan, Decatur; . treasurer, C. F. Buck, Monmouth; statistician, B. F. Staymates, Clinton. After adjournment the delegates were given a banquet, which was followed by a ball {it the Walker Op­ era House,. Fire broke out on the second floor of a four-story building at 59 and G1 Canal, street, Chicago, one recent afternoon and damaged the building and contents about $30,000. The building is owned by A. S. Sherman of Waukegan and is occupied by manufacturers of machinery and genT eral supplies. The Central School Supl ply Company is the heaviest loser. Other occupants of the building were Easter^ Lakman Company, McDowell, Steeker & Co., Chicago Ink Company and Edward Lynch, leather belting. The fire started from the explosion of chemicals in the rooms of the Easter-Lakman Company. Adjti Gen. Reeee has issued an order confirming the following elections: Em­ erson L. Cook, as lieutenant; Hiram H. Martin, as lieutenant, junior grade, and Carl Uyginst, . as ensign, all of the 2d di­ vision, 2d battalion, naval militia of Illi­ nois at Moline. Mrs. May C. Campbell, who once be­ fore attempted to kill herself by the same method, jumped through a window on the third floor c2 her apartment, 3546 Forest avenue, Chicago. She fell thirty feet, striking on her head and side and breaking her neck. She died before a physician reached her. In the United States Court at Spring­ field, L. E. Schaeffer 'of East St. Louis was appointed receiver of the Denverside Tool Company upon the application of at­ torneys for Henry C. Smith of Michigan. The defendant company is indebted to complainant in the sum of $7,180, and a bill to foreclose a mortgage has been filed. Five non-union millwrights employed in the construction of the Armour eleva­ tor on Goose Island, Chicago, were in­ jured in a battle with strikers. Bricks, stones and clubs were effectively used in an attack by a crowd of men and boys on fifteen of the non-union artisans, whose J feet were put to dextrous use to save theiz J bodies £svtn further Hnrjinjr i ILLINOIS STATE NEWS DEAD LINE IS PASSED ILLINOIS LA WMAK OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. 'DECEMBER REVENUES EXCEED GOVERNMENT EXPENSES. Verdict Against a Railroad--Rockford Indicted for Kinbezzlement A f- ter Making Up His Shortage-- Boys Assault Their Teacher--Killed at a Crossings Imports Beginning to Resume Normal Proportions and the Dingley Tariff Is Vindicated, Both as to Protection and Customs Receipts. Deficit Shouters Are Dumb. In the matter'of the complete vindi­ cation of the Dingley law as furnished by the record of revenues collected dur­ ing the month of December, 1897, the American Economist claims an especial right to say: "We told you so!" Stren­ uously, in season and out of season, the Economist has insisted that with the return of anything like normal condi­ tions as to imports the law would yield ample revenue. In fact, the explicit prediction has been made in these col­ umns that with the month of December the dead line of comparison between the Wilson and the Dingley laws would be passed. The dead line was passed in Decem: ber, the revenue for that month being more than $2,000,000 in excess of the revenue for December of the previous year. The revenue receipts for the first five months of the Dingley law and Illinois Central Must Pay. A jury in the. Kankakee County Cir­ cuit Court gave Dyke Andrews, an In­ dianapolis negro, a verdict of $1;000 against the Illinois Central Railroad. The case was peculiar in many respects, and was bitterly contested by both sides. Dyke Andrews and three negro companions Mere beating their way from Indianapolis to Chicago last spring and had reached Kankakee. They were in the Illinois Central storage yards awaiting a chance to steal a ride from there to Chicago, when they were discovered by Illinois Central Detective Cronin and were or­ dered out of the yards. They showed fight, and the testimony showed that three of the negroes attacked Cronin and then ran away. Andrews claims to have taken no part in-the fight, but was leaving the right of way when Cronin drew his re­ volver and shot him in the back. Ex-City Clerk Is Indicted. Five indictments were returned against Frank G. Hogland, ex-city clerk of Rock­ ford, by the grand jtiry, charging him with the embezzlement and larceny of $14,000 of city funds. Mr. Hogland serv­ ed as city clerk six-years, but was beaten last spring. During his administration he was appointed collector of special assess­ ments; the work being without remunera­ tion. When he retired from office it was found that there was due the city from him $14,000. Mayor Brown notified him of the deficiency and Hogland turned over $10,000 the next day. The balance, with interest, he returned to the city within the time specified by the Mayor. Coal Companies Indicted. The grand jury of the Sangamon Cir­ cuit Court indicted several of the com­ panies forming the alleged Springfield coal trust. They are charged with conspiracy to defraud. The companies formed the Springfield Coal Association and advanc­ ed the price of coal 50 cents a ton, claim­ ing they were compelled to advance the price to consumers because they had ad­ vanced the wages of their employes. The advance in wages to their employes, it is said, was 7% cents a ton. Engineer Is Killed. James McDonough, a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad freight engineer,- was on his way to the round hoUse at Fortieth avenue, Chicago, to take out his train for his evening run when he was struck by an engine and instantly killed. His body was hurled fifty feet ahead of the engine, and, alighting on the track, was run over by the locomotive and the one car attached to it. Boys Assault Their Teacher. II. B. Millsap, U hi Liie ^Tayior school, six miles northeast of Hillsboro, was assaulted and beaten by six large boys, some of whom used brass knuckles. The assault was committed in revenge for the punishment of some of their num­ ber in school. The six boys were arrest­ ed and placed under bonds to answer a charge of riot. Robbers at Harvey. Burglars entered the Harvey postofflce and blew open the safe with a charge of powder that threw the steel door through a*large desk and half way across the room, scattered cans and jars in every di­ rection and cracked nearly every window, in the building. The burglars got only 60 cents in money and about $10 worth of groceries. Miners Don't Like Carson. The coal miners' strike inaugurated at the Alma mines at Mascoutah on account of the appointment of James Carson, the deposed State president of the Miners' Union, as mine superintendent, has been settled and the mcu have returned to Avork. The miners gained their point, which was the retirement of Carson. ON GUARD, ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN MEET. tlon and prosperity made their appear­ ance together, and the Immense volume of the holiday trade shows how widely and evenly the Unproved conditions are distributed among the people. Two Killed at a Crossing. Carl Beekman and Frank Ivingsberg, aged 70 and 16 years, respectively, were struck by an Illinois Central train at a crossing at Rockford and instantly killed. Peoria Waterworks Is Sold, The Peoria water works were s.old un­ der decree of court to the bondholders' committee for $1,500,000. Brief State Happenings. Tom Jackson accidentally shot and kill­ ed Grover Morris at Louisville. Townsend Linsman was killed by a train while walking on the track near Verona. "Grandma" Page of Oswego, one of .the oldest white settlers in Kendall County, is dead at the age of 90. The infant child of Ed Jackson of Mo- weaqua was probably fatally burned while playing with matches. The plant of the Bartlett Milling Com­ pany a tvRoclcford burned. The loss is $20,000; the insurance $10,300. Noyes B. Wood, a veteran of the Fifty- second Illinois regiment, and liis wife died within 24 hours of one another. Rural free delivery will be established around the towns of New Berlin and Isl- nnd Groye in Sangamon County. Madison O. Snyder of Littleton and C. F. Bennehoff of Rock Grove have been appointed as fourth-class postmasters. John Mitchell of Illinois has been elect­ ed vice-president of the United Mine Workers of America, vice John Kane, de­ ceased v Gov. Tanner has pardoned Ernst Lar- sen from the Joliet penitentiary. Larsen was convicted in Chicago in 1895 for burg­ lary and sentenced to three years. S. G. Coleman, an old and respected citizen of Galesburg, in a fit of insanity tried to burn himself alive. Help came before he succeeded, but he was badly injured. The Normal Town Council has con­ tracted with George Cadogan Morgan of Chicago for plans and specifications for a complete system of water works to cost $100,000. Frank Harris was found dead on the railroad tracks at Ivewanee. A small hole, such as would. have been made by the thrust of a knife, was found just above his heart. The railroad aud warehouse" commis­ sioners have rendered a decision in the caw? of the Illinois Central and Peoria and tlie Decatur and Eastern Railroads con­ cerning, a crossing of roads at Mattoon. The decision orders the roads to construct an interlocker and share expenses of con­ struction and operation equally. James Disbrow, a farmer living two miles west »of Clinton, set a vicious dog on three boys who were hunting on his farm. The boys shot the dog to save ^hemsclves. Disbrow opened fire on them with his revolver, pursuing them to a neighbor's farm. Arthur Caplinger, one of the lads, was brought down with a dangerous wou<d in the thigh. A Fault Admitted. All kinds of things happen in news­ paper offices. Here is one, chronicled by the Atlanta Constitution: A Georgia farmer had a son who writes verse, but Is too modest to sub­ mit it for publication. One day, when the farmer was goln to town, lie took a bundle of poems along .with him and luinded them to an edi|or. "They're pretty fair," said the editor. "His rhyme is all right, but there's something wrong with his feet." "Well," said tUe farmer, "I won't deny it; he has got corns!" Fun with the Bicycle. The funny men of the newspapers are making good use of the bicycle craze. One of them says that a pedes­ trian's rights are funeral rites, and an­ other makes a boy define a pedestrian as "a feller that gets run over by a bi­ cycle." Horse Came to Dinner. A horse astonished the diners In a Newark (N. J.) restaurant the other day by jumping through the show windows and landing in the dining-room. What Croquet Is. "What do you think of it?" asked-a lq.dy of "Campmeeting" John Allen, who was looking over the fence at a game of, croquet. "Humph!" said be. with a twinkle in his ,^ek"billiards gone to grass!" He Bought It Che^ Five acres of land at Charing Cross, now owned by the Marquis of Salis­ bury, were bought 250 years ago by his aneestprs for grazing purposes, «at a grouud rent of 10 shillings an acre for 500 years. , u i o Pleasant and Inexpensive. In Denmark there is a curious sys­ tem of exchanging children during the summer. . * „ .• The country people send their little ones to the city people, and =the latter send theirs to the country. The state delivers free tickets, and the schools send their children according to the applications from families. The children travel alone, each one wealing a ticket of identification pin­ ned on the jacket or bodice. Should any of them go astray they are lodged at the first station while inquiries are made. The young trav­ elers are met at their destination by the peasants and their wives. Treated with affectionate care by these good-hearted people, the children often enjoy privileges they have never known at home. There is no severe discipline, no irksome restraint. They return home full of tales about their adventures, and their mqthers are delighted to find them looking rosy- cheeked, fat and healthy. The peasant women feed them well and often make them fresh clothing. i The latter send their own children into the towns, and volunteer guides show them the monuments and sights.^ Last year the" principal restaurant- keepers of Copenhagen gave them a series of feasts, and organized little dancing parties for their amusement. Both categories of children benefit by this mode of exchange, which, it may be noted, is conducted on inexpensive lines. The first weeping willow in England was planted by Tope, the poet. Viscount Poiliugton, eldest son of the Earl of Mexborough, has openly professed Buddhism. ' , The crown princess of Denmark and the queen of Portugal are the two tallest princesses in Europe. Great Britain has raised by popular subscription $10,000,000 for the relief of the starving in India. The trees in the streets of Paris are looked after by a public official appointed solely for thq* purpose. » A Russian admiral, hag invented an ice- plow capable of breaking through ice from 12 to 20 inches thick. A German professor reports that he has found living, bacteria in wine which had been bottled 25 or. 30 years.