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FRE H. BIETH. Publisher STATE 1 HAPPENINGS CORRESPONDENTS- Tho quickest 'way to 'bo relieved of your debts is to John L. Sullivan has nothing left but thoughts of the time he has had. The czar must look with envy at that new picture-of the six sons of the ataiser-.

Unfortunately President Castro is in no position to many a lady with ILLINOIS TAXES ARE REDUCED Rate for Is Fixed at Forty Cents on Each Hundred Acting Northcutt arid the skate auditor of public accounts have fixed the state rate of taxes for. 1902 at 40 on each jiOO'of valuat'on of tax- cents on $100 able property in the state. The divi- They've made the gold dollar tho unit of value- In the Philippines. Have you unit? The rtvan "who teaches women to smoke always marries one who won't Jet him do -It himself. Steps aro being taken to cultivate American -oysters in Europe, Where the invasion end? of Bacolod continues to remain behind the fence and hurl his defiance through a knot hole, man is about to proclaim himself president of Hayti.

Their methods save lots of spfll-blndlng. Marconi confirms the statement that Tie has talked across the Atlantic, Now why he toll us what he said? A Michigan man went to jnil for a.girl six times. Ho said it -was worth.it. rare is such love! San Francisco has 230 divorces to every marriages. No homo Is complete there without its misfit par- sion as between the revenue fund and Btate school fund is as follows: 'For general state purposes, -designated "revenue fund," 2.88 mills on each dolr lar and for state school purposes, des Ign'ated "state school fund," 1.12, mills on each dollar.

The amount of money required for state the. next year is approximately but on account of the $1,000,000 recently received from the federal government it will be necessary to raise by taxation only $3,611,852. For the last 'two years the rate has been 50 cents on the $100. Senator Clark of Montana has given 'Ills baby grandson $1,000,000. Fa'u'ly employment, being Clark's grandson.

is in high favor with tho modern Indian. This is a case where civilisation has scored a tardy Philadelphia man died the other night while suffering with nightmare. Really, the people of Philadelphia 'ought to wake up. wero ISO weddings in Chicago day. We do hope that these IS!) couples will be just as thankful next year.

'KINLEY MINE STOCK GOES UP Price Advances to Five Times the Original Figure. Stockholders in the Crystal Spar mining company, owners of tho Bm- nire mines ifl- Saline and Pope counties have been notified that the stock has'been advanced in price and is now worth just five times the original price at which the first block was sold last summer. This properly is the old Saxton of Mrs. Mc- Klnley mine, and was recently reopened by the company above named, composed principally ot relatives and friends of the martyred President in Canton, Ohio. The first'car load of zinc ore over mined in the state of Illinois was recently shipped from this mine The output of the mine is high- grade lump gravel and ground flour spar, load, nine, barium and kaolin, Prominent Woman Passes Away Mrs.

Hamilton Spencer, one of the most prominent women of Bloomington, is dead, aged 85. She came to Bloomington in 1S45 from New York her father was stationed as colonel In charge of the fort at Sackett's Harbor He was a famous soldier ot the war of 1812. Gen. S. Grant was a lieutenant there and attended marriage.

Her was the first vice president a.nd general manager oL the Chicago and Alton road and was largely instrumental in its i-Vtrt "nnctTiv" Had tho visits of Mrs. been to the trials of Job it Is not unlikely that the patience of that worthy would have given way. It-looks as if tho social standing at of Mrs. Smoot is going hinge largely on tho question as to how jna'ny there arc of her. A man who fought at the battle or lias just died hi Pcnnsylva- nla.

This seeniti to rob tho world of a to have another book on Napoleon. tion. He was construe- the "nestor" of the ANCIENT COPPER WEAPON. Relic of 'Prehistoric Is Unearthed at Waynesville. William Shipley, a prominent farmer of Waynesvliie, has his possession a remarkable relic of prehistoric man, which he dug up on his: farm while plowing recently.

This, relic.is a large-sized spear of pure copper. The metal 1 is highly tempered, and, when suspended by a cord it gives, forth a clear, ringing sound when struck by some metal instrument. It is said that this-science of tempering copper has become one the lost arts, and, proves conclusively that the weapon of warfare was' made by a race of people which roamed this continent long before the Indian. It is claimed tliat the spear found by Mr. Shipley has but one counterpart, and that exists in an Eastern museum.

The' former is quite slender, and as one end is tapering, it is presumed that it was fashioned to' fit into a of wood. The head of the weapon is 3 inches broad and, hurled by a man of strength, would make a wound that could hardly help from proving fatal. The finder will probably turn the relic over to the Wesleyan university of Bloomington and it will prove a valuable addition to the museum. FALLS FROM TWELFTH STORY a VAccident to Young Man Writing to His Mother. While writing a letter of Christmas good cheer to Harrison a crippled from St.

Joseph, dropped pen and paper in his room at the Great Nrrthern hotel, Chicago, in order to get A i i I'M Ten men Bloomington bar and one of the most famous 'lawyers of the state, being contemporaneous with Lincoln, Douglas and other notables, been dead eleven years. He hr.s A lunatic in Poughkeepsie was restored to sanity by hearing an orchestra. It must have been the playing of other orchestra that made him insane. King Hid ward has wished Mrs. "Langtry success In America.

Are we to regard this as a royal command? II so," society, may weir begin to hump itself. Negroes in a Christmas Fight. A party of negroes employed at the Dodge-Huston railroad camp in the construction of the East and West 'Illinois railroad through Jackson county Murphysboro and celebrated Christmas eve by drinking gin. After returning to the camp a quarrel was Btarted, and Robert Williams drew a 38-callber revolver and shot Henry Rousy in the left side of the chest and left hand and Amos Lee through the righ hand, HITS TEN MEN IN ONE SHOT Ulinoisan Accidentally Wounds Companions at a Turkey Shoot. Alto Pass, 111., dispatch: Ten were shot by the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of Mastin Batson at a turkey shooting match at Phillip Creek, four miles west of here.

Abe Norton received twenty-three shot in the head and face and is more seriously wounded -than the others. Seven shot struck James Brookes, a boy, in the neck, cutting the flesh away almost to the jugular vein. Others received lesser wounds. Santa Visitc Orphans. Santa Glaus turned 500 inmates of the soldiers' orphans' borne at Bloom- irgton frantic with delight.

Thanks to the generosity of (the Illinois members of the Grand Army of the Republic, worth of toys were distributed among the children'and the night was a merry one. A large number of quests from abroad, including prom-, fnent figures in the Grand Army, were present, and special entertainment appropriate to tlie season was given in their honor by the children. Natural Curiosity. Louis Korlkamp, president of the Kortkamp coal company has a piece or the trunk of a tree found by coal diggers in a new pit near Hillsboro at a depth of 100 feet, The trunk of the tree is in its natural state, although it had been buried for ages. Mr Kortkamp broke off a large section of the trunk and is keeping it as a curiosity.

a breath of "fresh "alr at the 1 window. He slipped, fell twelve storiea to the stone pavement below, narroly missing woman passing on the street, and was picked up mangled and 'dead. Strange as it may seem, tJiif young man, in the last few lines, of letter- to his motlier, said he had met with an accident; that he felt faint, and would stop writing- until he bad revived himself at the window. His mother is Mrs. C.

B. Potter, 723 Pearl street, St. Joseph, Mich. The sheets of paper, with still wet, lay on the dresser when an officer entered it to gather facts for a report. The last lines traced tra the paper were these: "I just hit my head such a smash on the door I will have to lay off jvriting a minute or so.

me dizzy to look. A bit or fresh air will Here the note ended. Tlie last word was poorly penned. Evidently Potter had been seized with a fainting spell, had struggled to reach the window, which he was able to push, and then had fallen headlong into the frosty air. His crutches stood in a corner near the dresser.

Decatur Ball Team. The Decatur ball team in tlie Two-I league about completed. The players will' be Henry Gass, Tony Witt- kow and Ross Thornton, outfielders; Albert Jacobson, Weigand and Wright, pitchers; Fred Krebo, Pipes of New York, first base; Roxy Waters, second base; John. Hankey, third base. The shortstop is not yet fcnown and it is not settled that George Reed will be the manager.

Rural free delivery costs Undo Sam ttbout $8.000,000 a year. The young man who has just received a letter from liis'best girl thinks that sum Is not exorbitant. Since WHUam T. Stead is opposed to It, it is probable that Emperor William and King Edward will promptly abandon their project an Anglo- Crerman alliance. Th'- doctor who defends vivisection because it enabled him to save a football player's life Is laboring under an orror U' life thinks that will make any friends for vivisection.

Four thousand dollars' worth of ens- tuines wero worn by eight actresses on one New York stage last week, and, people who looked at them felt impelled to exclaim, "So much tor so little!" A Russian duke, ofllccr In a German regiment, nan lost his place under the kaiser because lie married a divorced v-oman. ft would keep more than au emperor busy to try to adjust such matters here. M. Dclyanni lias the qualities of fiiatesman. Campaigning in Greoce, ho tells the Greeks that tlieir country is or.

tho brink of financial ruin arid will topple over into the abyss unless ho accedes to Agriculture Is now science, says Secretary Wilson, How does the change affect tho boy who Is forced to "pick up potatoes" when ho lias an engagement with the boy on the adjoin- Tng farm to go somewhere something? and do Patti Is going to mako another "farewell tour" of America. She says this is positively to.be the last one. But without wishing to cast any re- ections upon the lady's veracity, we say that she has made similar rations before. Supremo Court Decision. The supreme court has handed down a decision in the case of the city of Pana against the 0.

railway company, which sustains the county court of Christian county, The city council of Pana levied a tax of 4 mills on the dollar against the railway com- pauy to help defray the expenses of lighting the streets of the city. The county court uphold the action of the city council, The tax amounted to Feeds the Poor. The Alton branch of the Salvation Army kept' open house 'on Christmas day and fed a large number oi' poor people who had no means of providing for themselves a good Christmas dinner. The Salvation, Army soldiers were assisted in serving the dinner by Alton ladies, who volunteered their services. Freight Wreck.

While running at a rate of speed down grade six miles south oE 4.1 to Pass, a north-bound Mobile Ohio freight jumped the track and eight cars were piled up in the ditch and badly wrecked, One flat car was hurled across, the telegraph wires. Some slabs of lumber were hurled through both ends of threo empty box cars. Damage Suit. James A. Jackson, ex-city marshal of Centralia, has commenced suit against Mayor Robert Rohl the Marion county circuit court for damages to the amount of $10,000 for alleged The suit is the" outgrowth of testimony given before tho last grand jury by which the mayoi indicted for misconduct iu office was Smallpox in Negro Family I The.

United, Supreme Court sustains''jth'o Missouri law. Six hundred delegates' attended the Weevil Convention at Texas Boll Dallas. A Texas. Judge holds that women are no- entitled practice, law in A. Gaetraftn of Decatur is elected -president of Illinois of Ucv Edwin R.

Stuart of the. of on' at, Westf Point, th? yfear of the, institution. him, Education. Dr. Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, arid Primate of all dead.

The losses of the Sire at Knoxville, aggregate 1340,000, with $251,000 insurance. Highland, 111., citizens are working to. secure street car connection with East St. Louis. distillers wil enter into no agreement to limit the production of whisky'next year.

A serious grain crop shortage in Finland is great suffering among the inhabitants. Citizens of. Vincennes, have asked the Navy Department to name a warship for their city. And.ijan, a town of 30,000 inhabitant in Russian Central Asia, is totally destroyed by an earth-quake. The Senate passed the pension bill, carrying $139,847,000, and the urgent 'tendency appropriation of $1,148,400.

Six girls leaped from the third floor a St Joseph candy factory which burned. All of them were seriously injured. Albert G. Wells of Fayette, is under arrest at MartinsviHe, charged with the abduction of his own son. A bttl to open the Colville Reservation, in Washington, containing 1,500,000 acres, has been introduced in the House.

Mme. Humbert and her gang of swindlers, who bunkoed the banks of Paris out of $12,000,000, are captured in Madrid. Justice oi! "has the gold: prize medal a life membership in the'Institutions." and the sum of- $100 for his essay, being "Disappearing Italy. 'According to number of cases of murder in Italy range front 0,2 per million of the population to 156.7 in Naples. Offenses afftlnat property are reversed, Milan showing per million, The increased value of sealskins In WOO Induces the lessees ol thU'Pribi-: lof Islands, the breeding grounds ot the herds, to kill 13,009 two-year- old seals, -whereas the rule has not to kill any seal which reached the of at least three If this killing of two-year-olds is al-ft, lowed to continue it Is certain owe con tho seal herd will sooa be nated.

In Countries. In Paris male domestic servant encouraged to marry, as they are served to be more settled and' attentive to their duty than wherilf bachelors. In London'such To Prevent Contagion. The Springfield health authorities are taking unusual precautions to prevent the spread of diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox, keep these diseases during the winter months. One case of diphtheria and one of scarlet fever were reported to the board oi' health and quarantine regulations were immediately established.

They hope to within, bounds Weds an Apple. William E. Welch and Miss Versa Apple, both of Keyesport, were -united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents in that place. The bride is a daughter of ex-Alderman B. F.

Apple of Keyesport, one of the most prominent citizens of that village. The groom is employed as station agent for the Jacksonville St. Louis railroad at Greenville. the Peace A. F.

Long Fatal Accident to Miner. Andrew McNavitch, an employe of the Taylorville coal company, died from, the effects of injuries received by coal falling upon him while ne was at work. John Switzer, who worked with McNavitch, had his right leg so badly mashed at the same time that will have to be amputated. McNav- itch is survived by his wife antf seveu children. Troubles of tlie Moser Family.

Benedict Moser of Morton filed a petition in the county court, asking that his son Daniel, brother of Sam Moser, murderer of bis wife and three children, be tried-for insanity. Daniel Moser claims the constant nagging of his father, -who endeavored to convert him to the new Amish religion, has driven him insane. Knew He Was Hurt. Sam Bates, a negro, office of an Alton' surgeon and said he had been 'stabbed or shot some time during the night before. The surgeon discovered, a bullet wound in Bates' side, and extracted bullet from tho hole.

Bates said.he was so intoxicated he could not tell definitely how he was injured. Centralia's Library Opens. TKo new library has been opened to tho public of and scores of citizens called to inspect the very handsome and convenient building. Miss Laura Wright is librarian. Fisn Warden.

Springfield, 111., dispatch: Acting Governor Northcott has appointed John A. Ruger of Kankakoe county to be a deputy state fish warden. Several cases of smallpox have developed in the family of David Williams, colored, of Edwards ville, supposed to have been brought from Granite City, where one of the boys has been employed. Tho authorities have quarantined the family-and taken drastic measures to stamp out the disease. Wins Apple Premium.

Dr. K. Van Home of Jerseyville was awarded, first premium on Ben Davis apples at the annual meeting of the state horticultural society, held in Champaign. Miners Resume Work. Work has been resumed at the Taylor mine at O'Fallon after a brief suspension, owing to a fall rock, which closed.up a main entry.

Death of a Banker. John W. Arnold, aged 7-i, a banker of Colfax, is dead. He came from Virginia in 1850 and amassed 'a by farm investments. He was also, heavily engaged in stock breeding.

Three children survive. Child Plays With Knife. A little daughter of Charles Giiriti-, of Alton, cut the ra'dical artery and t.he tendons in her right''wrist while playing with a nocketknife and nearly bled to death before surgical attention To Attend State Encampment. William Carson of O'Fallon. has been chosen by Col.

Raith post, G. A. as representative to tire state encampment of tho G. A. R.

or- and Apple Growers to Organize, A movement is under way to ganize the Flora apple growers others interested in the various lines of horticulture. The county has no horticultural society and the promoters feel that such an organization would be of inestimable value to the fruit growers. Death of Wealthy Farmer. Robert Taylor, a wealthy farmer of Sangamon bottom, died at his. home 86 years.

He leaves a could be given her. i four daughters 'and five sons. Has Lucky Fall. Mrs, John Huebner fell from a window in the second story of her home Alton, She was working in the window, and, becoming overbalanced, fell backward, a distance of 12 i'eet. She landed on her feet, sustaining a fracture of her right ankle a bad sprain of her left ankle.

Pensioner Attempts Suicide. Henry Burr, living near Ceiitralia, attempted suicide by Jumping into a cistern'. He had been suffering from intense pains in his'head and it'is thought that his mind became unbalanced. He is a pensioner and a cripple, To Extend Traction Lines. The Decatur traction and eleclric company will expend $40,000 the coming year in making extensions- cf the street railway system.

Dynamite Postoffice Safe. Leroy, 111., dispatch: The postoffice was plundered and all the stamps were carried off. Dynamite was used to blow open the safe. Buy Tennessee Lands. Decatur parties have purchased 25, 000 acres of timber land in Washington county, and will organize a stock company with a capital of $200,000.

J. F. Given and Eben Jones are connected with the property as heavy investors. Black Leg. Black leg, has appeared in a herd oi cattle owned by Charles Kemmer oi Flora.

Eleven head have died and the state veterinarian has taken fitepE to stamp out the pest. and four codefendants are found guilty of blackmail at Paris, and sentenced to jail. Joseph Foleyi a farm hand, shoots Mrs. James B. Wilson, without provocation, near Liberty, and then killed himself.

Safe-crackers start a fire at San Augustine, which destroys one whole side of the square, en-tailing a loss of $40,000. Tho Assistant State Veterinarian of Illinois suggests that the Federal Government prohibit Southern cattle cars from being used' for any purpose north of the quarantine line. Mrs. C. P.

Bowdish of Eiburn, 111., who had been summoned by her Husband at Marcelinc, finds him a suicide when she arrives. The libel suit of Mrs. Tingley, head of tho Universal Brotherhood at San Diego, brings oul much sensational evidence. The Russian Government is preparing a system of relief for the starving multitudes, who are suffering from the crop failures. The agHcuHural associations ol New York will receive $170,000 as their share of the total receipts from horse racing in the State this year.

The Assistant Botanist of the Agricultural Department announces thai he has discovered that thirty poison, ous plants exist in the United States. The Federal Court reverses the Iowa State courts in their ruling that an express company sells liquor when it carries the goods 'into the State C. O. D. American competition for raw material has compelled French shoe manufacturers 'to raise their prices and take steps to bring about a change in tariff rates.

Daisy Carleton is acquitted of the charge of having murdered Mrs. Joseph Leslie at Bloomington, 111. Cheers broke from the audience when the verdict, waa 1 read. The Philadelphia chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution has offered the Government $10,000 to erect and equip a recreation building for soldiers. The pretender to the throne of Morocco has defeated the imperial army.

The Sultan has now ordered his soi- diers to spare no one in the city where the pretender, his brother, makes headquarters. Formal announcement of a state ol war is made by the Acting Governor of Island of Trinidad, in order to- legalize -the seizure of vessels on the Venezuelan coast by -the blockading fleet. The followers of Mrs. Carrie Natjon at Topeka, have organized a "Prohibition Alliance." The secretary of organization achieved notoriety last summer by horsewhipping Mayor Parker. The two largest manufacturers ol electrical Germany form a-combination as a resultof the trade crisis in -that country.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has granted a new trial to James Howard, under sentence of life imprisonmenl for the Goebel killing. The missing Crown Princess of Saxony is located at Geneva In company with a French tutor formerly employed at court. Her brother, who eloped at the same time witii a Vienna woman, Is with her. are discouraged, as reader more attentive to their families thar to those of their masters. Saw klacoln Judge Manning of Armourdalc was a newsboy in Philadelphia the Civil War.

He recently told reporter he was in Fox's Amerie theater in Walnut street when the sassination of President Lincoln announced from the stage and can remember the effect upon the eace; Popular in Iowa. Grand View, Iowa, Dec. most complete satisfaction is ed in this district over results ed recently by using Dodd's- Pills for those complaints resulting from diseased Kidneys. This tlon finds frequent expression words. People who have teen cv eeem to take pleasure in telling of Take what Mrs.

Lydia Parker for example: "I was trouble with JJJ says Mrs. Parker. "And all when I was stooping over a stitch would take me in the back, and I could not straighten up for a while. "I sent and got a couple of boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills before I had finished taking the first, the stitch had gone and it has not been back since." Oilier people here have had similar experiences with Dodd's Kidney Pills and their popularity is steadily on the increase. "Candy Crazo" In England.

A London paper says the "candy craze" 'is the latest fashionable- importation irom America. "No theater narty" it is announced, ol the name can exist for half an hour without the comfort of the appearance of chocolates and sugared ai- In Winter Uae Allen's Foot-Ease. 'A powder. Your feet feel uncomfortable, nervous and often cola and damp If you have sweating, sore feet or tight shres, try Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold by all druggists and shoe 25 cents.

Sample sent free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. x. Some Folks Can't Slerp, It very seldom occurs to persona who sleep badly that their sleepless-- ness is due to hunger.

Many persons take their dinner or supper at 7 or 8 o'clock, and their breakfast at or even 9 o'clock next morning; this gives an interval of at least twelve hours in which no food is taken, and Jt is this interval without food that is the cause of many a sleepless night. The want of nutriment renders the body weak, causing headache and a eral feeling of lassitude gen A. Chip tho Old lilockl Richard Elkins, son of Senator Stephen B. Elkins, is described as a chip of the old block. On Jan.

1 he eold his father a tract of coal land in West Virginia and cleared up 000 on the deal. A friend secured tho options for young Elkms and engineered the deal with his father. Have Xo British railway travelers cannot re- ccive damages if they their, fingers in the carriage door when the porters suddenly close it. "A railway company," says the judge, "cannot act as dry nurse to every passenger." POSITIVELY CURES Rheumatism Neuralgia Backache Headache Feetache All Bodily Aches AND.