The Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 8

1 A Saturday Evening, July 6,1912. DJHLY Payroll Will Be Double Here Before Long. Thirteen extra gangs, consisting bout 45" men, arc now employed 1 maintenance work on the Decatur vision of the Wabaah. Within anothe as many more nangs will be pu on. providing' the men can be securei At present the vxtru sans payroll the Decatur Division runs around a day.

When the other gangs are pu on this will be Increased to tl.400. ON SOUTH END. The Wabaah has two extra gangs the hlxth one laying new ral the other working sidetracks. Ther also nn extra side track gang- on tli branch. Another gang at work at Curru.

Gordo laying i rail, i two s'anKS ar employed in similar work at Decatu At Blue Mound is an extra gan at the gravel pit. i throe gang employed jit Palmer. Morristonvtll a Olarksdnle. respectively, on th new RCL-cmd a work. There is a IK mine track gang a an two gangs at Granite City, tne i new rail, the other a i rock lial last.

The Jicw gangs to put on will a be engaged in secorul i a I'o I the eoritrai-lors i i week releas I pome lung stretches of grading' CAPTAIN ARK BEGINS. a who has the gradln eoatract.between Deuntur anil Knights started work. His shovel arrive come days ago and is now.sot up read work. He' also lias his foreme and'a of mea on the ground. Hall l.nld.

New i i pound rail is bnn laid on the Peorla i i i of the Van dalla between Midland Ciiy' and Ken ney. lh is a five miles new a i be put In. When the pres rail laying job is completed the, ei lire m'est end of the Peoria division been relayed i pound rails. The old rai iras considerably i a tlie ncv and has been down for many years. Dig ImcroNC.

hundred and i i i more passengers were handled on th llvislon nf the Vandalla th I fourth' -on the same day a yea The total a i was pas i 1 aengers. 'No reason can he assigned for th 'Increased handling. Weather condition! 1 frtsre about the same, while the nnmbe ef celebrations were rather fewer i than last. Pour-Cera Derailed. Four cars In a Wabash i train were derailed between and Kin 'HBCrhook shortly before 6 p.

Friday yBjjCause of the' accident, eastbouhi liassenger train No. 2 had to be detour e'd via (Juincy and Clayton to Bluffs This resulted In an hour's delay to the train. i minutes was made between'Bluffs and Decatur. CARTRIDGE WAD IN BOY'S LEFT HAND Vietlm Anti-toxin-- Hnve Trouble. fifteen year old son of i i a 11.

a SS3 Broadway, re X'elved one of the worst Fourth of inJufle.H. in point of possible results, any happened in i locality. The a toy pistol. While he was loading it was discharged, the wat going i the- base of tlie fureflngei and lodging deep the flesh attains the bone. The gun cocked hard and the J)oy wus i the trigger back, i his left hand pushed hard against the tnuxzle.

when hfg right a slipped of the liammer.and it waB released. The 'accident happened Thursday morning and thinking i of ii i i i began 'cause pain, IK 1 id not go to a physician i afternoon. Realizing its seriousness the. physician cut the wound open the bone'-b'oth ways and extracted twc ivads. The wound wag cauterized and dressed the'best way possible, but the victim refused to a the physician to anti-toxin and the result It doubtful.

A TOV PISTOL. 'li8s Nellie Buck, residing i the cor. of "-Broadway and East North i palm anil forefinger of her' left hand i powder. the badly, whon discharge from came back through a poorly constructed and broken a-nn. The accfflent happened a even- Ing, and no serious are expected.

SPARKS CAUSE $25 FIRE DAMAGE Blavr on Hoof of Cllito. Sparks a i from chimney on the I oof $2r, fire damage at the hornf of. Ben Roberts. 1027 Xorth i ton street at Saturday afternoon. The fire department wns called and ex- t-tinguifihed the blaze.

BY AN OPTIMISTIC NEWSPAPER MAN Look! Listen! Are you hot? you are not so hot as you were' yesterday at this time. for. according to Professor H. Coonradt's heat register. It Isn't so hot today as it yesterday by three degrees.

The official thermometer was only up to SSat noon today, while at the same liovf yesterday it was up to 91. and one year-'ago Jt was at 95. -Aren't we glad thai i Isn't last jear' On 4 last year the mercury hit mark, the nnjtt day it slowly came down to the 100 degree post since then It has been so far down to think of It seems like a -Jfrlnk of cool water. -'When you get really warm the next time, Just think of that Sunday morn- Ing that you woke up to find that It below. Can't you remember how pipes were frozen up and when you ytnt down to fix.the kitchen fire how It wds.and how you did wish that -those dear summer months would Well thev re here and now lots oflis are wishing for winter once more.

up cheer up and take what it won be half so hot as jftuf think It Is It Is cooler today than It was esterday and yesterday jks, cooler than the same day a year ft It keeps going on that way aoon be wearing overcoats and slcatlng "on the Fourth. Never the heal loday just'look forward weather tomorrow. City Threatened With Sui at Result. Fire Chief Devore Saturday-mornine stopped the work of erecting an "air dome" just north of the McNabb build Ing on North Main street. The i was being erected by Kelllngton i Roby who now threaten the "city witl lawsuit.

PERMISSION REFUSED. Some time ago, those people sough a permit to erect this building and were refused on the ground that it was in violation of the i i ordinance governing buildings Inside the fire Urn its. They then petitioned the counci telling plans; -which first provided for walls to be built of lumber on much the same order as sign boards around town. In a later petition the wanted to put up the same kind walls with steel supports but this was not allowed. I IT BY D15GREES.

Then the petitioners started to "slip It over" the council by degrees. First a part of a signboard was placed up on the rear of the lot and a piece'of fence built. Saturday i carpenters were i i benches or seats a other work was-bcing 1 done about ihe ground. A passerby, who knew it hat been prohibited i who was not taking any special interest in it, stepped in see the work. Ho had been there a fe seconds when lie was informed if he didn't like it, lie could say so.

tip i this lime, lie not much about it being' a violation but this invitation irritated i "All right, 1 will." he said, and he in- Formed Commissioner Shade, who in i i rire chief. The latter stopped the work. C. OF C. CHOOSES THREE DELEGATES Directors of the a of Com- me'rce for the next three years were elected at ihe i held in the Chamber oC Commerce rooms last night C.

M. Hurst. .1. is. Holt and .1.

M. Allen were elected and i serve tor the next three years. Both Mr. Hurst and Mr Holt were reelected and Mr. Allen was elected to succeed Frank M.

Merldlth The annual election ot officers will be held next Friday afternoon at the reg ular meeting. The question of sending delegates to the International Convention Chamber-of Commerce in Boston will come up. The convention is to be held September and probably two delegates will go from here. TETANUS PATJENT MAY RECOVER NOW Eleven days have passed since Cyrus Watklns, the fifteen year old boy residing at West Decatur, first show- 3d th symptoms ot tetanus, and hav- ng lived this long, physicians feel that le Is going to recover. Usualy death 'rom tetanus results In four to six days, ind a good chance for recovery is glvei the patient lives after that time.

The boy can take nourishment, has but Ilt- le fever and has no convulsions. The muscles of the neck and Jaw are, however, still perfectly rigid. LARGEST CROWD OF SEASON AT CONCERT No band concert of the season was more thoroughly enjoyed than that given by the Goodman band in Central park Friday evening. It was listened by what is believed to have been the argest crowd of the season. People sat on the srass, a i up nearly every foot available space In the park.

It looked like a huge picnic par Not nearly so many children were a i about the bandstand and their absence was a relief to everybody, SAYS HE ABUSED THEM FOR LAUGHING Mnttle Burke Stream Out Warrant for Jeff Bonsier. Bonner. chef at the Decatur ho- cl. was arrested Friday night on com- i of Miss Muttic Burke, who harged him with assault and-disturb-' ng' the peace. He gave bond for his ppearance before Justice Gllc at 2 'clock Monday afternoon.

It was a very hot night and Bonner as well. Three of he girjs occupy a room ear that of Bonner. It was no hot they ouldn't go to sleep, so they lay awake nd talked and laughed and tried to maglne were enjoying It. Bonner called them down" for making so luch noise, and Miss Burke said that entered their room and abused them nl struck her. -e- GLASS AWNING FOR POWERS BUILDING HUT Be Built to Protect Wax The management of the Powers block contemplating the rrectiftn of a glass oofed awning 1 much the same as that the Henry Bachrach building.

he canvass awning around the Linn nd Scruggs windows often has to rawn up on a sunshiny day If the. wind too strong and the sun affects the ax figures In the window. i DEAL ON Home Telephone 'Stock No Sold to Bell. DR. COLLINS TALK a Positive Statemen About, Rumored Sale.

Collins, president of th Decatur Home company, re turned Friday night from Lincol where he spent the Fourth. Concern Ing the report that' the Central Unio Telephone company has acquired con trol of the local Independent compan he said: "I can state positively that such not the case. The Bell company ha not controlling interest hi tli Home co'mpkny nor'any. interest. ther 'lias' the Bell company secured a option any stock "of tlie Home con pany.

There wan a i ot the Horn company's stock sold some time but It was not bought by the Bell eon pany." ONLY INQUIRIES. Dr. Collins was asked if there wer any negotiations under way looklu toward the purchase of the Independer company by the Bell. He said ther were none. "Oh," he said, "there have been a along from time to time Inquiries from the Bell company concerning som means by which the two companle might fret together.

These'have' no resulted'In anything." CONSOLIDATION POSSIBILITIES. Another telephone man said thi morning, a man who has no connectio whatever with either the Bell or th Decatur Home company, that any con solldation of companies woul coriie the other way about. The Bel company would not buy the Home com pany, but the Home company would bu he exchange. "That is a thing which is happenini ill over the' country," continued thi man. "The Bell company doesn't wan buy out the independent coinpanj The Bell company Is trying to get of itj small exchanges everywhere.

Th Bell people don't want the local tx hange business. They are after th line business, tlie long haul. Ther 's more money for them In the tol ines. There i a no money for th Sell company in a local exchange, whll is money'for an independent com pany. COMPLICATED MANAGEMENT.

This telephone man explained the ap parent paradox that an independent tel ephone company can make money wit local exchange while the Bell com pany can not, as follows: 'The Beil company's organization 1 too complicated and expensive. For merly the local manager of ah exchang was the whole thing. Now the local ex change has been dapartmentlzcd wit separate heads for each department Then there are district superintendents state superintendents, Inspectors, audl ors and an army of other officials. Fi nally there are the home offices witl ill of their expensive machinery. Al ogether it Is an elaborate and coetlj machine, a large part of which is obvi ated in the Independent exchange." A CONSOLIDATION.

Dr. Collins was asked if the Decatu: lome company: has purchased the loca Bell plant, ft has hot, lie said. 'He ad mltted 'that it is a more likely outconv han a the Bell should purchase tli lornc company. He stated that In Lin oln. where the Bell company hat exchange of some 8,000 subscribers hat company had sold out to the Inde endents with an exchange of about the ame size.

The Bell company In Urn ase retained Its toll lines and the in ependent company relinquished none Its toll lines. THE ONLY WAY. Dr. Collins admits that tlie two cx- hanges, must inevitably become one ut the way that this will come about rill be for the independent company to take oveY.th'e Bell. This arrangement owever, Is nowhere' In sight a i me.

The independent company In De- atur, he says, represents the greater hyslcal value. The chief tangible Blue of the old exchange is In its bus ness. Telephone circuits above grouni cities, he says, are antiquated and all ut a thing of the past. A large part the Bell circuits in Decatur are bove ground, while a large part of the ome company's circuits are under round. The Bell company has In De atur twenty manholes for controlling he underground cables while the Honie ompany has This, he states, LAPPED HER FACE, WAS KNOCKED DOWN A husky looking fellow walked Ini the sheriff's office Saturday mom- and let loose of the following: "1 want a warrant for a fellow.

apped my wife" out here on the street nd this fellow walked across the street nd knocked me down," Sheriff Nicholson was standing by. became rather at this. "Is It the first time you ever slapped tr?" "No, It ain't." "Get out of here." said the sheriff, Ixing In a little choice brimstone to nd effect to the order, and the fel- went. DEEDS RECORDED. .1.

Frantz to Florence E. -Heer. lot 9. ock 4. TIUCB King's addition: $8.000.

Donahue to A AllarO. lot ick 15. C. H. Moore's addition (4100.

Edna Abraham, to 3 W. Stevens, south lot block. 1, May Bro Traver 1 Krnenl Hull lo llhamar Arnold, lots 22 'd. 23, block 1, P. Boll's first addition to Sarah Smlin Vo 'j.

J. Miller, let a i i F. E. NfTtfhmn to Theodore Fisher, lot 4 Semen Place; W. A.

Cadwallnder to George Schulti lots and 8, block 13, Wsrrennburg. MOO fair basis for comparing the physical properties! of the two companies In thin uity. WELL WATER BLAMED FOR GIRL'S ILLNESS Another case against the well water water Cor drinking purpose has been practically proven, through the Illness of Miss Kate Buckley, I50J5 Bast Main, with pronounced symptoms of typhoid fever. The family has been drinking water from a well In the yard for some time, and, It Is that the comes'ffom 'UHe -walei The ypu.ng woman has" been for: several weeks, but the ailment has rssolv- ed Itself Into typhoid fever within the last few days. MEETINGS.

1. O. O. of Decatur lodre No. 65.

I. O. F. i meet at their hall at 1 o'clock Sunday to attend the funeral of Brother Charlei IX Joheai of No JUKI brothers Invited M. -W, A Dectitur Carnp No 144' will meet Sunday at the Cramer bicycle at 1 la uniform to attend the funeral 'of Charlenur'Jfftmi.

BORN. To Mr Mm Byed Brummell 845 North 'Friday, a dauKhter. Porch Party. Miss Josephine Oonaghan Informally entertained with a porch party Thursday afternoon Miss Dorothy Pasjev of St Louis was the out of guest Claude McGullom, Messenger, Dragged SomeDistance. His presence of mind in holding to the front axle-probably saved Claude McCullom, aged sixteen, a Western Union messenger boy, from serious In- or death under the wheels of a swiftly moving taxlcab on North Water street, Saturday morning.

As It was the boy was badly bruised -and the bicycle he was riding when the collision wrecked. MESSENQKR BOY'S STORY. "I was riding south on the west side of Water street in the 20V block," said the hoy after" the accident, I turned across the street to start north on the other side. As I reached the middle of the street, one of Sam Mai- leos' taxlcabs, driven by Ed-Williams, eame along at a fust gait. MAGGED HAL.F BLOCK.

"Before I could get out of the way, It struck me and though I managed -to get hold of the axle, 1 was dragged half a beCqre thc.taxL was stopped. My Knocke.d all to pieces. I went around to.see Sam Malleos refused'to make good for the wheel. a seen the driver. Williams, since.

1 was on the riglit side of the street 'at ail times and -the taxi driver was responsible for the crash." SAY HE REFUSED TO STOP. McCullom lives at 606 South Webster street. One of the witnesses to the accident said that Williams, after he had struck the boy, refused to stop the and dragged the lad a considerable distance until some one ran out Into the street and ordered him to stop. The driver seemed to pay no' attention to the screams, Scraps Of News, FOR A REST. Dr.

and S. E. McClelland (01 Chicago Friday to spend two weeks in the Hinsdale sanitarium. Dr. McClelland la going there as his regular vacation trip, and-seeks thii place to get a complete rest.

POSTPONED IT. Commissioner Harry Ruthrauff bad to. postpone nig fishing, trip Thursday. Ke hat a-little son who Is a ball fan, and the boy Insisted on taking his father to the baseball game. WELQOME GIFT, D.

E. Baucom presented the police department with a gallon can of ice cream Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. James N.

Sampson, 1696 North Water street, returned homo Wednesday from Broadlands where Mr. Sampson has been Inspecting a job of paving for the last two months. WHY WE CELEBRATE. Cheer UP. There is no snow to shovel off sidewalks.

Charles E. Rinehart's Neck Was Broken. Charles Edward Bineliart. familiarly known as Bert Rinehart, met with an accident shortly after 9 o'clock Friday i that caused his death Uvo hours later. He was sitting on the railing at the south side o'f the National Bank of Decatur whon he lost his balance and tell backward to tile concrete floor at the bottom of the stairs.

NECK CKOKEN. a i to the hospital In an ambulance and a physician was picked up on the way. Kfrorts to restore him were a a i i and he died at 11:30 without regaining consciousness. His neck seemed to'have been broken. The body was removed to Moran's undertaking establishment and prepared for burial, and the Inquest was held Saturday.

LKAVES WIFE AND CHILD. "Bert" Rinehart was employed at the Jnlon Iron works, was. twenty- eight years old and is survived by his wife and a four months old Tin: fun-illy home is in the 1500 block Eas Main street. He is also survived is parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John Rine lart, and the following sisters an brothers: Mrs. R. Miller, Mrs. Nel larlow. Miss Gpldie Rinehart, John linohart, and Robert Riiiehsrt, al Decatur.

for- the jfun eral have riot" been completed. BWING BETTER. After a sickness ot several weeks during whic.li he was- threatened with an attack of typhoid Percy S. Bwlng has recovered Is again. O'BRIEN iWINS.

Catcher George O'Brien of the Decatur baseball won Che five-pound carton of tobacco offered by Virg Sanders to the player who ina'de the fills In Sunday's double-header. O'Brien made four hits I two games. MOVED. George B. Wtteelhouse and a i have moved from West North 'street to 130 North Edward street.

HACK FROM NOPtMAL. A Niedermeyer, who Is attend- ng the Illinois State Normal university. Is expected home from Vormal for a short visit. Ttev. Frea Vledermeyer is 'visiting: here frpm New York.

DOG Two dog licenses were issued Friday, making the total to date 518. MISSIONARY IN PULPIT. Rev. A. 15.

who was recently appointed a missionary to India from Pennsylvania and who will sail in October, will be in the i of the Church of God Sunday morning' LEFT1SJIFE, Decatur Township Shows Increase of Books Finished and Ready For Board of Review. -Assessor Foster finished bis work Saturday forenoon and turned his books over to County Treasurer J. I. Lebo, who Is supervisor pf assessments. In few days they will be in the hands of (he board of review.

The assessment in the city and township this year'dhows an Increase of (591,633, value, over the assessment of 1911, dl- vjde4 as follows: Increase in city real estate $210,703 Increase city personal property 102,366 Increase outside real estate 174,661 Increase outside personal 104,004 Fined In J. 1. Courts. George Williams, a Greek, was fine! 5.30 Friday by Justice John L. Wad on a charge of disorderly conduct The warrant was sworn out against him W.

J. Nanna. Williams was laying kyrockets on the-pavement and shoot- ng them. One caught Nanna in the icel and burned him badly. Edward Von Endev, charged with isturblng the peace by shooting a re- olver on the streets, pleaded guilty icfore Justice John L.

Waddell and was Ined Walters, cfiargod by 'Johrt '-Finch ith flghlng, pleaded guilty before Jus- ice Waddell and was fined $5.30. BIRTHDAY CLUB HAS DAY AT MACON HOME The Birthday club of the Order of tie Eastern Star of chapter No. Ill of "lecatur was entertained by the old la- les who reside in the 1 Eastern Star Home at Macon. The Birthday club Is organization of women In the Decar chapter of the Eastern Star who eh have one of the aged women of he home whom they remember on tlieli TJiese. nyited the Decatur.

come nd spend the with them at the ome in Macon. About forty of the women went down or the day. They each took their own Inner and the women of the home erved supper to them. Both meals were erved 4n the Isiwn were greatly njoyed b'y the Decatur party. The rowd spent their time between meals i sewing 'and looking over the home.

he Decatur chapter presented the orne with a lawn swing, which was one the things that was needed at the ome ind i be enjoyed by the wo- en more-'than any else that ould' bet given. Friday -being birthday of the matron of the Decatur chapter IB -was -presented i a 'beautiful and bag. The woman at the horn the worthy matron had chosen remember on her birthday made the reservation speech. The husbands of the Decatur women erit down to. Macon on.

the afternoon aln and the entire party returned in evening at 7:45 o'clock. CONGRESSMAN MALBY OF N. Y. FOUND DEAD oily DlMnvereel On Cimch. In Hoora At Hnrmr Hill Hotel.

New York, July R. Malb Ogdensburg, N. representative in ngresn front the Twenty-sixth Now district, was found dead on a uch in his room at" the Murray Hill otel here last night The coroner was notified, and an In- ulrr Into the cause ot dean was instituted. i Clinton, July William H. Armstrong returned, to this city Friday evening at 12:30 in company with Fred Brown and his mother.

Marietta Brown, who were taken Into custody by officials at Freeport. Brown is wanted here-on a warrant issued from the court of Justice Murphy by his stepfather, Andrew Hazelett, of Wapella, charging him with wife abandonment. Brown was i vray to Dubuque, la. GREY-WALDEN William Grey 'and Mies Lela E. Walden were married Thursday at 12 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. G. Walfien, In Wilson township. Rev.

George Reed of th Methodist church of Normal officiated They will visit In. iputhern, Illinois, aiii return to Dewitt county to'make the! home. SMITH Funeral services for Mrs, Olive Smith were held this morning at th late home 517 North Grant o'clock. Rev. W.

F. Fulton of th Presbyterian officiated. Interment wa in Woodlawn NEW PJfE ORGAW. At a. meeting of the Committee ap pointed to select'the organ for the Presbyterian has report ed that it has'decided upon''an organ made by the Hook Co.

of Bos ton. The present organ 'lias been in stalled eighteen years. The new on will be installed In October. HA1NES FUNERAL. The funeral services for Mrs; Oliver P.

were held this afteVnoon a 2:30 o'clock at the home, 210 South Madison street. Rev. J. E. Hart of the Baptist church officiated.

Interment was In Woodlawn. PROPERTY TRANSFERS. W. B. Hunter to B.

S. Miller, lot 11 block Snail's addition to Clinton Joseph Munch and others Lena Dlllavou, northwest '4, soiithwesjt 36. 19. 3, McCuddy's-addition to' Clinton: Lena' Dlllavou to Lina Munch, same Otho F. Barnett to Titus Hlnchcliff lot 3, block 3.

McCuddy's addition; f400 BRIEF'MENTION. Mr. Mary Corder was Injured Friday when she stumbled and fell over a wire In the al ley at the renr of the residence and injured her hip and-foot. Because of her advanced are the Injury Is tboufht ae- rlouB. An appeal will be taken In the case of the People vs.

Keith Tull and Russell Huddleston; who were recently fount nullty In the county court on the of defacing--buildings In Farmer City at the recent school election, Friday was pension day for the veterans the officers ln the office at the county clerk were kept busy. Two more dogs were killed-Friday for run- inic on the streets without' Beatie Pen! wne assessed" a -fine and-costs mounting to $12 for carrying a. revo.ver uly 4. Four men were orrested for drunksnneis Friday. SOCIAL EVBNT6 About were entertained Wednesday afternoon a't the' home Mr and Mrs.

W. 206 South Elm street. In honor -of -'Mien Gloria, mho was of age and for Miss Marlen. who left Friday Tor -an extended. visit in Los Angeles.

The Dixie mlnstrelA will gtvo nr. entertainment hi city July 13. The Woman's 'Mlsslonsry- society of the Methodist church met this afternoon a 3 o'clock at the home of C. 'H. Church, South Jackson, avenue.

number ef friends of Misses Louise Mnrdock Abellne cantrell and Bessie Raton were entertained Thursday evenlnjr a home of ihe latter. The Chattering. Churns'" Embroidery 'club TTW this afternoon with Miss Edna Hoff- nn, members ot the Widow club spent at the home of Mrs Qano, 412 West Main street Among those who composed the partv were Mettfamas eli Stone Margaret Mattlx. Hannah Anna Bennett Inary Bennnett. Nancy Cobb Margaret Atterborn and Martha Arthur Miss Helen returned-to her Deoatur Friday after a visit with her Intel-.

Mrs Floyd Needham Mr sd Mrs, Halllhan and Mrs Toe Wyroff attended the Grey-Wftlden weddlmr Thursdis A McHenrv of Center street ac- jmpanled bv his daoffhters Dr L. Thorpe end Kpraete left Frtdnir Tota) Increase in i and city J531.C33 TOTAL PERSONAL The total personal assessmciit in the city, valuation, is The people will pay taxes jn one-third of this amount, or I Increase in the amount of taxes over last year Is In the neighborhood of $10,000. Only 479 dogs were scheduled in the city. A good a failed to include their dogs, a.s Is evidenced by the fact that City Clerk Leach has Issued licenses already for G1S dogs. There are.

1,802 pianos in the city. 'The assessment is the best ever made In the city and township. IN OUTSIDE TOWNSHIPS. The personal books for all outside townships were turned over Lo the board of review several days ago, The total full cash a of all personal or a three weeks' visit to "Mrs. D.

role, s. rtaughter of Mrs Henry, In St. Paul 1 Minn, Mr and Mrs. Lebls Alexander and family a returned an automobile tour hroug-houC the southern part of the 1 state COFFEE'IMPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES More than pile-third of the two and one-half billion pounds of coffee annually entering the International commerce of tlie world Is consumed in the United States, its imports of that article being twice as those of Germany, times those of Netherlands, four times those of France, nearly ten times those of Great Britain and lialf as much as those of all Europe, next to the United States tha great coffee consuming section of the world. The world's leading importer? of coffee, according to the latest official reports of the various countries thus far received by the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor, are: the United States.

S75 million pounds; Germany, 4 0 1 million; Netherlands, 265 million; France, 245 million; Austria-Hungary. 127 million: Belgium. million; the United Kingdom. SS million; and Sweden, 65 million. Italy, Norway, Switzerland and Denmark also consume considerable quantities, ranging from 45 to 25 million pounds each.

IMPORTS NO LARGER. While the United States Is the world's largest consumer of coffee, the imports have not increased-during recent years. In the fiscal year 1902, for example, the imports aggregated 1,091 million pounds: in 1905, 1,048 i i in 1909, 1,050 million; in 1911, 875 million; anil In the present year will probably aggregate approximately 800 million pounds, or considerably less than the annual'average of the period since 1900. In. 1871 Imports of coffee amounted to US million pounds; in 1S81.

455 million; In 1891, 530 million: In 1901, 855 million; and In 1911, 875 million. Cocoa has to a large extent supplanted coffee as an American beverage, the imports having increased from 3V4 million pounds in 1871 to over 140 million pounds in 1911. The world's leading coffee-producing countries are, according to the Department of Agriculture, Brazil, billion pounds In 1909; Venezuela, 94 million pounds; Mexico, SO i i Colombia, million; Porto Rico. -15 million; Haiti. 41 million: Dutch East Indies, 35 million: British India, 2S million; Arabia, 154 million arid Abyssinia, 10 million.

The world's supply In 1909 aggregated nearly 3 billion pounds, but In 1910 fell below 2 billion pounds, due to a decrease of about 950 million pounds In the exports front Brazil. Brazil Is now and has for many years been the chief source of the coffee imported Into the United States. Of the 875 million pounds Imported last year, 651 million pounds wero from Brazil, as against 224 million from all other parts of the world, chiefly American countries. The second largest source of our Imported coffee is Colombia, 55 million pounds, followed in order by the Central American states, 52 million; Venezuela, 40 million; the United Kingdom. 27 million; Mexico, 25 million; the Dutch East Indies, 9 million; Haiti and San Domingo, 4 i lion; the British West Indies, 2 million; Netherlands, 2 million; Aden, million; Turkey In Asia, 11-3 million; and Germany, 1 million pounds.

Less than 15 million pounds, it will be observed, are imported from Asia, even including the arrivals from European countries whose exported coffee is, presumably, largely the product of Wielr Asiatic colonies. PRICE HIGHER. The averare price of the coffee Imported Into the country has greatly Increased In tlie last few years. During the present fiscal year so far as elapsed the average import price has been IS cents per pound, as against 10 cents In 1911, 8 cents In 1910 and cents In 1903. Present import prices are still, however, somewhat below the high level which prevailed In the period 1890 to when the average import price ranged from 14 cents to over 16 cents per, pound.

Domestic consumption per capita reached Its hiKhest total in 13.34 pounds ns a a i 8 pounds in 1891, pounds in 1901 and 9 in 1911. Porto Rico and Hawli are the only portions of the United States in which coffee Is produced and from which It exported In any considerable amount. I r0m Hawll the exports to foreign Countries last year aggregated about 1 million pounds and the shipments lo he mainland about 2'A million. From Porto tofco the exports to foreign coun- property In the county, including city of Decatur, It There is 1798,003 worth of on hand in the county. The number of dogs li 2,512.

The number and value-of the various kinds of live stock county, le as follows: Horses, ll.KO.'iOt. Cattle, Mules, 1196,323. Sheep, Hogs. 1137,327. PERSONAL BY TOWNSHIPS.

The total full cash value of personal property In the various townships Is as follows: 230,487 512,739 5.764,869 Austin Blue Mound Decatur township City ot Decatur Friends Creek Hitrristown Hickory Point Illinl Long Creek Maroa Mllam Mt. Zion Nlantlc Oakley Pleasant View South Macon South' Wheatland Whltmore Total 441,426 266,205 564,993 291,600 599,745 114,963 333,777 290.9IK 208,380 421,857 259,044 JAIL DELH HT Three Prisoners Saw Their Way Out--No Glue to Whereabouts. Clinton. July prisoners, Roy Green, Edgar Hurley and Charles Anderson, made their escape early this morning from the Dewitt county jail, and up to this afternoon no clue had been discovered as to their whereabouts. The delivery was made by sawing off the rivets on the cell bars, and then sawing three bars on the west window on the front jail floor.

SLICK JOB. The sheriff was in the jail about 1 o'clock when he placed Fred Brown there for safe keeping and saw nothing out of the ordinary. Deputy L. E. Forbes was at the jail a short time- later and he saw no indications of trouble.

OUTSIDE HELP. Green, who Is a Wilson township product, was In jail an charge of assault. Edgar Hurley was the partner of Charles Gregg, when. It is alleged, robljed the hardware store of John. Kelloug-h last February.

Gregg was released recently on J3.UOO cash bail. He purchased a i for Cincinnati, but it is alleged that he got off at Lin- coin, went to Springfield and stole back to Clinton and got the saw and file to the prisoners. The sheriff delivered a. card to Hurley recently from Gregg i read "Everything The sheriff supposed It meant he had arrived home all right. Evidently it had another meaning.

Charles Anderson was in jail on charge of robbing several Greeks employed in construction work on the I. C. recently. SECOND ATTEMPT. Gregg and Hurley were principals in an attempted jail delivery about two months ago.

They were dressed In overalls at' that time and escaped with nothing but their prison attire on last night. The Decatur bloodhounds sent to rearly this morning but noon' they had not arrived ONE REMAINED. There was one prisoner who did.not go out with the "strikers." He la Charles Hlldebrandt. He refused this morning to throw any light on the escape of his fellows. PRESIDENT WILL VISIT LODGE G.

W. Bernard, grand president of the Brotherhood of Intel-urban Trainmen in the United States, will be in Decatur one day next week to visit the ocal Liberty lodge. He is traveling visiting many lodges and will probably be here only for a day. At a meeting of the Decatur lodge and representatives of the Springfield odtre Friday night, talk for a big united picnic of these two lodges was had and committees appointed to make arrangements. rles In pounds.

1911 amounted to 34 million Soldier, WeU. Metropolitan Magnclne Oen Funstontolls a of a soldier In the Philippines who was nurwd the fever On his SENATE SIDETRACKS HATPIN BILL Mfcc Her Tongue It'a Weapon of Defense, Sajli Senator. Baton July hatpin Irf woman's weapon of defense," It's her tongue," said Senator Vincent on the senate floor today. "I'm afraid both and the man who doesn't want to stuck had better get out of the way. I'm opposed to the Dnjjont hat pin bill" Other eenatois a i i and the bill providing that hat pins be either protected or shortened was slde- trartted Indefinitely.

UKED CHICKEN. Miss Amanda Johtislng--AramlBta, dey say. am" aftah Mtstsh Scarem's heart. Miss galena Jackson--I done heard dat be was chickea.hejfcrtML.