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10 DEED IS APPROVED County Boards Final Action in Normal School Matter. TERMS OF AGREEMENT Contract for the Halsted Street Viaduct Is Let Noticeable Decrease in the Number of Deaths from Typhoid Fevei City Hall News. The deed for the Cook County Normal School, as drawn up by County Attorney lies and Attorney Morrill for the board of education, was presented to the county board at III meeting yesterday afternoon. It was approved by a unanimous vote. The deed conveys all right and title to the property from Cock County to the City Chicago, with the provision that the board of education shall maintain upon, the premises, as a part of the general educational system under its care and coDtrol, a normal school for the training -of teachers, which shall le open to pupils residing outside of the City oj Chicago, and within the limiu Cook County, subject to the same qualifications for admission prescribed for pupils residing within the limits of- the City of Chicago.

It is further conditioned that upon the refusal neglect of the board of education to maintain a normal school upon the premises, the property shall revert to the county. The county agrees, according to the conditions of the deed, to pay the city "a tuition fee at the rate of $20 per annum for each semi-school year of the attendance of any pupil a resident of the county, but not within the city limits." tuition fee is to be computed and paid semiannually. Any schools which may be main tained by the board of education, ether than the normal schoolehall be open to all pupils of lawful tee residing In a district to be formed in the vicinity of the school. P. Keneflck Co.

again drew some atten tion to themselves by presenting a communi cation to the beard, which referred it to the public service committee without dlssen They ask for a settlement of a bill submitted tome time ago. The Jury In the Marzen case sent In a petition asking that they be given better accom modations. The contract for the proposed viaduct over the tracks of the Union Stocks Yards and Transit Company on Halsted street, will not be let until the matter cf its construction is further discussed. A committee of twelve citizens of the Sixth Ward waited on Mayor Swift yesterday morning, to object to the viaduct, which was to have been erected between Thirty-Ninth and Root streets. The committee consisted of Alderman Charles Martin and Henry Stuckart.

Father Kelly. P. J. O'Reilly. Michael McCauley.

J. M. Cartas. Frank McKuhn. Antholm Stulte.

Samuel Burkart, John Flaherty, and Michael McCarthy, representing the citizens, and Attorney Maher on behalf cf the company. Plats for the prrprsed structure were brought bo-fore the mayor, and the discussion began. Father Kelly maintained that the erection of the viaduct would be a bad precedent for other railroads, would necessitate the erection of ether viaducts to the scuth of the present proposed viaduct, and would probably bring bout the closing of some streets which are necessary to the people. Halsted street was spoken of as the most abused street in the city. He said what the people wanted is elevation, and the placing in of subways.

At the supgeftion of the mayor the citizens and raiir ad men retired Into his private office to ccme to an amicable agreement. Father Kelly requested that the mayor do not allow the contract to be let and Commissioner Kent was instructed not to award the contract until the question in dispute is settled. After the committee had left the office of Mayer Swift, and later In the afternoon. Attorney Winston for the railroad compaay, returned to Mayxr Swift to effect a eetfetmeru of the viaduct question, and after some discussion the contract fcr the work was awarded. John Ruddy was awarded the contract for building the substructure cf the viaduct fcr 135.

700. The viaduct is to be 1.34S feet long, extending from Thirty-Ninth street to a point 225 feet south of Forty-First street. As anticipated by the health department, the typfcoid fever deaths. which were occasioning so much concern ten days or two weeks ago. are now diminishing.

During the week ending Feb. 1 there were thirty-nine deaths from this disease. iJist week, ending Feb. there were twenty-one. The maximum, which had been reached from an average of about twelve a week prior to the middle of last mrnth.

is directly attributable to the December pollution of the water supply, which has been referred to before as the cause of an Increased mortality from the intestinal diseases. Although the water for the past week or tin days has been above suspicion the Intestinal diseases have still been rife. This is due. however, to the atmospheric conditions, the high humidity degree, and the wet, sloppy streets and sidewalks. These conditions have also Increased the number of deaths from diseases cf the respiratory organs, including consumption.

These furnish mere than one-fcurth cf the total mortality for the week. On the other hand, the deaths from diphtheria and croup are steadily decreasing, and. for an average of more than four weeks, these have been very largely below the absolute number of deaths in New Tork. Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Boston, and very much fewer In number relative to population. The total deaths for the week were 459, an annual death rate of 14.68 In the thousand of population, estimated at 1,600,000.

Commissioner Kent yesterday gave positive orders to Superintendent McDonald of the street department to clear State street of the venders carrying on business on that thoroughfare. He said that If the men do not get off the street as ordered they will be arrested and fined for each time they violate the order. Some of the venders say they will not move, but It Is thought that a fine will change tbeir views of the matter. The committee on streets and alleys south held a short meeting yesterday afternoon. A request from the property-owners in the vicinity of Halsted street and vincennes ave nue for permission to connect with the sewer was placed on file.

Several revocations of frontage and protests against the granting of a franchise to the General Electric Railway Company on Forty-Third street and on Plymouth place and Dearborn street were pieced on Die. An ordinance was recommended to the council granting the Southwest Chicago Rapid Transit 'Company permission to lay tracks on Sixty-Third street, from Ashland avenue to Central Park avenue. The ordinance permitting the laying of a sewer in Prairie avenue, from Fifty-Fifth street to Elxty-Thlrd street, was recommended for repeal. Mayor Swift yesterday gave orders to the police department to hereafter prevent all soliciting on State street. He said the custom bad assumed such proportions and had caused so much complaint that he had determined on its suppression, and hereafter the police are expected to arrest all such characters on sight A report on the feasibility of the plans of City Electrician Barrett will probably be Bade to Commissioner Kent today by City Engineer Jackson.

The plans of the city electrician are for the solution of the problem of increasing the pressure In the water mains In the outlying; districts of the city by the use of electric pumps. The city engineer has for soma time had the plans of the electrician under consideration, but has not yet been ready to report on them. The plan is to fears In the city eight pumping stations, located at such places where the re-enforcement el the power given by the present pumping stations would be desirable. It is estimated that (5.000 will equip a station. The new plan does Dot increase the volurae.

but only the pressure cf the water in the mains. Mayor Swift yesterday morning Issued the circling proclamation: Mayor's CT.ce. Feb. 10. Whereas, the annl versery of me birth of Abraham Lincoln is onsen ed throughout this stats aa a legal holldaj, therefor Gooree B.

8wlft. mayor of the City of Chicago, do hereby proclaim the 12th day of February Inst, a legal holiday, and all the departments of the city government will be closed on that day. with the exception of the police. Are. and health departments, which will re ma I a open for the transaction of all necessary and ui avoidable business.

Mayor Swift received answers yesterday morning afrom the mayors of Pine Bluff, Baltimore. Parkersburg, W. Charleston. Montgomery, Louisville, Fort Smith, Dallas. Texas, and Richmond.

stating that they are now preparing to send delegates for the Chicago at Cotton States Exposition, to be held in Chicago next August. Mayor Swift said he expected more answers shortly and thought a full representation of delegates would be present at the convention. EXHIBIT OF THE SWEDISH MASTERS To Be Opened the Art lastltate This Evening with a Reception. An informal reception will be given this evening at the Art Institute. The occasion will mark the opening of the exhibition of the works of Swedish artists, which the art lovers of the city have long looked forward to.

Arrangements for this exhibition were made at the time of the World's Fair. It ill be remembered the Swedish pictures attracted a great deal of attention, and Anders Zoni. commissioner from Sweden, undertook to get up a special exhibition of the work of representative northern artists, and bring it to this country later. He was promised the co-operation of the Art Institute of this city, the St. Louis Museum, the Cincinnati Art Club, the Boston Art Club, and the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn.

At each one cf these institutions the collection will be shown ID turn. Today it will be bung in the Art Institute in the gallery in which August Franzen's work has been exhib ited for years past. Yesterday a glimpse of some of the pictures waa obtained, and it can be said, without exaggeration, that nothing more stunning has been seen in this city since the Fair. The exhibition will undoubtedly excite much comment. It will please a few, prou-ably disgust some, but will surely possess an element of Interest for all.

At the first glance one thinks of It as impressionistic, but that term, as generally understood, hardly applies to it. With the exception of some of the Zorn pictures, it It hardly a sunlit exhibition, and we are beginning to look for great effects of sunshine in impressionistic galleries. There are a number of night effects whicn sre weird In the extreme, and which are full of the mystery of the land of the midnight sun. Some of the portraits are superb. One by Zorn Is particularly striking, and shows the broad handling of the brush for which that artist is noted.

There are 180 pictures in the collection. The artists represented are: Karl Nordstrom. "who is one of the strongest, technically speaking, of the artists of Sweden. It is said of him "At first sight be mar not seem sympathetic, but he will leave a strong lmpres sion. and you will end Dy loving nis art.

Richard Berg, who la a alow bat sure genius man of intense feeling and one who has influ enced his contemporaries. Bruno Llllefors. the great animal painter. Acke Anderson, whose art is poetical and wb peoples forest and stream with fantastic beings from bcandinarian sagas. Carl Larsson.

the famous decorator and draughtsman. Nils Kreuger. who holds profound views in re gard to nature and life, and whose art shows the: influence. EuKen Janson. who began as a still-life paint er.

but who has developed Into a landscape painter. Oscar Biorok. the court painter. Gustaf Cederstrom. noted for his treatment historical subjects from the time of Charles Xll Wilhtlm Geeerfeklt, who Mints sunny Vene tian views, as well as bolder pictures of French and Swedish coast scenery.

Per Eskstrom. who Is said to hare one aim in life to paint the sun ar.d who delights In misty and nebulous effects. Charles von Saltza and August Framen have pictures In the collection, and two women. Mrs Paulll and Miss Ea lionnier. are represented.

SHORT OF SAILORS. In Case of War Two Hundred Ship Co old Not Be Manned. Lock at the plain facts of the case. Parlia ment provides fcr about 52.000 seamen and petty officers, excluding officers, boys, and marines. Now, It Is calculated, that if we commissioned all our existing battle ships we should absorb the whole of these 62,000 men except 12.000.

That Is, we should only have 12.000 men 'to man over 300 cruisers gunboats, torpedo destroyers, and all the other craft on which we have spent sc much money in building. But the cruisers take quite as many men as the battle ships and are quite as Important. The idea of 12,000 men to man them alone is utterly ridiculous. We might, with the aid of the reserve, Just manage to man some thirty of tbem, and ab ut seventy gun boats and torpedo destroyers. That done, we should have the pleasure cf seeing some 200 vessels lying Idle and useless in our ports, monuments of our futility and want of common sense This is what would happen as things are now.

If we add half a dcxen more battle ships and ten more cruisers, and thirty or f.rty more smaller craft, without adding more men, we shall simply be increasing the blcck of uselesrships in our dockyards should war be declared. That this is no wild or sensational talk may be shown by ieference to a single fact When our fleet was mobilized last year our harbors were full of ships that might have gone to sea, but could not because there were no men to put on them. Practically we had used up all our men, and still, had dozens of good ships left over of ships, that is, good for service In every way, and not mere survivals from early days. But even this does not disclose the whole weakness of our nary in the matter of men. Even If we had enough men to man all our ships and to put them on the sea to case of war we should not be in a proper position, because we should have no reserve.

Considering the loss of men, not only In action, but by disease and ordinary causes, you must, unless your war Is going to be merely a six weeks picnic, look forwsrd to your crews gradually shrink ing and wasting away. But that shrinking means the need for renewal, and the need for renewal means a force from which re newal can take place. In other words reserve for filling up the gaps Is abso lutely necessary, and that reserve must be cf large dimensions. It Is no good, as at present, to have a few thousand men called the reserve, which are not a reserve, for the very good reason that they would have, directly war was declared, to be called up and used In the first fighting line. A reserve is a reservoir on which you can draw when your first can gets empty not merely a little extra bucket which has to be used to fill up the can directly ycu need it.

What Is wanted Is to give the admiralty a call upon at least 60,000 or 70,000 sailors. London Spectator. i Gastric Irritants. repressor Henton B. Turck, M.

whose ro bust appearance Indicated that he practiced what he preached, told a big audience In the Jefferson Medical College amphitheater last night what he knew about lunch counters as promoters of gastritis. Dr. Turck is professor of diseases of the stomach and intestines at the Cook County Hospital, Chicago, and la engaged for every evening this week at the Jefferson, having a different outline of treatment each time for tne one subject of gastritis. Large quantities of canned fruits, the professor said, are prepared by manufacturers "wh? have not the first knowledge of bacteriology or chemistry." Some canned chees. meats, vegetables, and sausages, he declared, develop saprophytic germs producing deadly pot sons.

Paying his res pec ta to the Ignorant or careless cook, the professor spanned a wide range of gastric Irritants, and the took from his pocket a handful of bills of fare from restaurants and lunch counters of all classes. From tteee he read off the various articles which Irritate the mucous membrane and propagate microbes. Two dogs upon which the professor had tried some of these things gave unmistakable evidencs of not feeling well, and be explained that he had given them gastritis from chicken croquettes. Philadelphia Record. hoppers, tUsAfeirsooffsesjtdroUsJeaiaMat.

THE DAILY OTTER OCEAN, TUESDAY MOKNTNGy FEBUTJAIIY 11, lSb6. THE RAILWAY WORLD Ruling of Joint Traffic Pool Stirs Up "Western Roads. THE FAVORED ELEVATORS List of Those That Will Be Allowed Transfer Charges. The East-Bound Lines May Restrict Through Tickets to Hour and Train General News. And now comes George R.

Blanchard, and says that, as commissioner and keeper of the great seal of the Impregnable Joint Traffic pool, he is sutborized to promulgate the rul ing of the all-powerful board of control re garding the allowances for transferring of grain at Chicago and outside Junction points. As slready published In The Inter Ocean this ruling says thst no more than $2.50 on oats per car and J1.60 on other grain per car shall be allowed shippers as transfer charges, But the ruling says something else. It says that as these transfer charges will mean a big less of money every year to the pool lines the Western roads connections of the Joint Traffic lines must stand tbeir proportion of the expense of the transfers, or thst the cost of transferring shall be pro-rated be tween the Eastern and Western roada from the originating point to destination, except on trans-Mississippi River grain, when tin pro rate shall be from the Mississippi River on the authorized percentages. Never before have the Western roads been forced to stand any part of the charges or allowances made for the transfer of grain and, pool or no pool, tbey do not propose to submit to the dictates of the Joint Traffic Association, and commence to shoulder any part of this transfer expense now. Tbey say the grain is consigned to the Eastern roads, and that after it is delivered to tbem the Western lines should be to no further expense; the Eastern lines can either haul the cars through or have them transferred.

The Favored Elevators. ine western roads are up In arms over the arbitrary ruling of the Joint Traffic officers, and the question will be made a sub ject for special discussion at the meeting of the estern lines In Chicago today. Chicago officials of the east-bound roads yesterday finished their work of figuring out the elevators at which allowances for transfer charges are to be made. The following are the favored elevators, with the roaas on wtucn they are located: Baltimore and Ohio Calumet Grain and Ele vator company. His Four-C.

Meliff a Co. Erie Lines None. Grand Trunk Chicago and Grand Trunk Transfer Elevator Company. Grand Trunk elt-vator at Elsdon, and Elevator Company at Harvey. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern None.

Michigan Central Two Michigan Central elevators at Kensington. Midland elevator at Mat-teson. Michigan Central transfer. Michigan Central Elevator Company, and Midland Elevator Company Union elevator) at Jollet. Nickel Plate Nickel Plate elevator at Stony isiana.

Panhandle Owen Austin's elevator. Fort Wayne None. Wabash Pratt Frank Marshall. Requa ana vtaossn i ranirer t-ievator Company nion stock lards and Transit Company Adams' elevator. Belt Line Calumet Elevator Company (Bart lett.

Frazler a O'Nell Grain Company's elevator. Farmer Harris A Little's ele-elevator. Leet ft Fritz, South Chicago elevator I), and Kitcnourg elevator. Milwaukee and St. Paul Atlantic elevator.

Burllneton Morgan's elevator. Rock Island and Pacific Englewond elevator. At Kankakee Carrinrton a Hannah and Kankakee Elevator Company. OF INTEREST TO TRAVELERS. Eaal-nooad Roads May Restrict Tickets to Hoar and Train.

The reads east of Chicago are now consid ering a move that is of great interest to the traveling public. East of Chicago there are now but two forms cf ordinary tickets, the lim ited and the unlimited. The former Is good for only a certain number of days. The latter Is at a higher rate, and is good until used. It Is now proposed to not only entirely abolish the unlimited form, but to restrict the use of the limited tickets to certain hour' and specified trains.

For example, a through New York ticket sold in Chicago tcday would specify on, Its face that it must be used on a certain numbered train leaving Chicago at a certain hour today; and, further, that. If the passenger has to change cars en route, th ticket will be good only on the first connecting train. This form aLicket is now used west bound from New i ork. but has never been in troduced east bound from Chicago. The railroad officers say that the unlimited tickets are the prey of scalpers; thst con ductors fall to punch them, and, being good until used, they are easily disposed of to brokers.

It is argued that, as a very small percentage of travelers buy these tickets, they could, therefore, be withdrawn from sale without hardship to the public. But the further restriction of the limited tickets In the manner proposed Is sure la cause trouble. The tickets are now so closely limited that the railroads sre reasonably protected against scalpers. By confining them to hours and trains, travelers would be subject ed to much inconvenience. For Instance, if a traveler were compelled to change cars, as a coach passeDger would hare to on nearly all lines between Chicago and New Tork, and he missed his first connecting train, his ticket would not be accepted on the next train.

This question will be considered by the gen eral passenger agents of the Eastern lines at their meeting In Chicago tomorrow. East-Doaad Traffle Increases. All the grain that can be diverted from the Canadian Pacific's cut rates to the route via Chicago is being taken East from this city via the Grand Trunk, by the latter' 25-cent through rate from the Twin Cities to Boston. Several of the east-bound roads from Chicago are anxious to met the Grand Trunk's rate, but cannot do so until they are authorised by the board of control. East-bound snlpments last week from Chicago amounted to 80.078 tons, compared with T8.32 tons the previous week, snd 61.632 tons for the corresponding week or last year.

Laat week a traffle waa divided. In tons, among the competing lines aa follows: Mlcnigan Central, S.463: Wa bash. 7.432: Lake Shore. 8.216; Fort Wayne. 8.S99; Panhandle.

6.774: Baltimore and Ohio. 6.81S: Grand Trunk, Nickel-Plate, 7,235: Erie, 2U6; Big Four, J.4W. Stockholders Oat la the Cold. Milwaukee. Feb.

10. The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company today Bled Its second amend ed and supplemental bill against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in the United States Court. The bill Is for the purpose of covering the amounts which hsve fallen due under the different mortgages, and the payments of which have been defaulted, so as to bring them In the decree which Is expected to Issue shortly In the proceedings. It comes very close to being death-blow to the hopes of the stockholders of the company who may nave entertained hopes. if there sre any, that they would be able to realise anything on their holdings after the cost of the proceedings and the bondholders have been satisfied.

Iaereased Baslaess, laereased Taxes. St, Psul, Feb. 10. Thanks to the enormous crop snd the general Improvement In business, the State of Minnesota will receive this rear about 1100.000 more In taxes on the gross earnings of the railroads than was received laat year. Last year tne aggregate taxes rrom tnis source amounted to The reports thus far received indicate that the state will derive at least 2960,000 from that source this year.

Ths reports from nearly all tne companies are now is. Geaoral Railroad Hews. Ths Western lines at a special meeting In Chicago today will reconsider ths limits of tick ets to tne u. A. k.

encampment. The net earnings of the Illinois Central for the six meatus ending Dee. to, gives oat yesterday, were 065.220, an Increase ot SU87.S1 sver ths corresponding period of 18M. The gross earnings increased 437.204. The estimated in.

crease in aet aaralngs for January is 19,27. a I la v- i This company has declared a oer cent dlvl- dend os the capital stock, payable March 2, to siocsnoioers of record on reo. a. The cross earainsnof the entire St. Paul sys tem lor the nrst week In February were wi.m, aa Increase of $100,857 over the corresponding week of last year.

Conductors K. P. Fox and M. Burns have won the Alton's annual Drixe of 120. riven to con ductors wno take up and report tne largest number of misused annual and trip passes during the year.

Colonel Aldaea F. Walker, chairman of the Santa Fa board of directors, who waa In Chi' cago yesterday, said there Is no foundation for tne report that the Santa Fe company intends to enter into a contract with the Adams Express Company. By a time card which went Into effect on the Erie Sunday tae vestibule limited train from New tork bow arrives In Chicago at 5 o'clock p. Instead of 5:16 o'clock. This gives through travelers more time to catch connecting trains on the estern roads.

AROUND AXD ABOUT EVASSTO. Rev. Dr. Backley Leetnres at the Garrett Biblical Institute. Rev.

James M. Buckley, D. LL. of New York, editor of the Christian Advocate, began a series of four lectures before the students of Garrett Biblical Institute yesterday. His sub ject waa "Common Sense Elocution." This afternoon at Memorial Chapel Dr.

Buckley will speak on "The Philosophy of Gesture." Tomorrow his subject will be "The Reflex Influence of the Audience Upon the Union of the Divine and the Human In Preaching the Gospel." In the final lecture on Thursday the theme will be "The peculiarities of Great Orators." The distinguished editor wsa greeted yesterday by a large audience. In which were a score of Methodist preachers from Chicago, and others from suburban points twenty-five and fifty miles distant. Dr. Buckley said In substance: "Elocution Is not a popular subject except with professors of elocution. Elocution teachers dlJ not live when Demosthenes was master, ye; most great orators have studied elocution, either under sn Instructor or by observation of othes A little study of elocution spoils one: but If hs studies it until it becomes his second nature.

he improves upon his first nature, mere are three ways of speaking, the declarative, th dramatic, and ths theatrical. No great actor uses the last. An actor cannot tesco one now to speak in public, for he does not address the public, but only another actor. The purpose of speaking Is to instruct, convince, persuade, sur emotions, entertain. Ths conditlona of agree- sble speech are first to be heard, and second to be heard easily.

Every bird's voice Is sweet to Its owner. No man ever heard nis own voice umu the phonograph came. I have made a special study of the cry sf animals in America, Europe. and Asia, and I nave neara uie voice oi animal with which I am familiar Imitated in tne pulpit and on tha platform. "The throat, lips, shape of mouth, the bead, the position in which one stands, what he stands upon, all these effect the voice.

Each one should study his method of making sounds. Ever human voice la cspaoieot low, roeaium, ana mgu rsrge. When one wisnes to oe nearu nun d'stlnctly he shoald not raise his pitch, but he should put more volume into nis meaium tones. Dr. Buckley brightened his lecture with practical mnA often humorous illustrations of nasal dental, squeaking, cavernous, and sepulchral tones, sa well as Dersonal tones, and th n.ititar trt various eellrious denominations.

At her Dome, rs. juasou Alexander Clark last evening entertained; ner associates fthe South Evanston board of edu- cation, the teachers of the district, and a few other friends. A parlor talk on art was given ny Mrs. Mary H. Ford of Chicago.

1 ne guests were Messrs. and Mesdam N. L. Stowe. F.

W. Cleveland, W. M. Green. G.

W. Marquardt, Ovlngtoa Koss. William Hardy, A. W. Adair, F.

W. Nichols. Chsrles Bsrtlett, M. M. Drury.

W. Brough. I). L. Thorpe.

T. L. Pansier, Mesdames Inrersoll. Xathrop. Misses- Boltwood.

Ruth Longman, Agnes Smith. Jennie Foster, Msca. iNenis oiowc. Mary Wells. Nellie Sickles.

Mamie Brants. rssran uarry, Davis Jennie Adair, Mary Morrison. Oliver. Benedict. i norpe.

Snaulding. Tena M. Haines, Gertrude Morris, Rebeeka Adslr, n.f uertruae Aaair. a valentine Dsrtv will be given in the parlors of Asbury Avenue CongregsUonal Church nest Friday evening, Pearson will be principal at the summer session of the Cumnock School of Ora tory. The Northwestern Association will meet at University Hall tonignt.

sr. m. Boutelle of Kvsnaion will deliver an saaress on "America Debt to tsamunu tiurss. Si. Helena Guild will nave a special meet tri at i he suildrooms foment MIks Kena Decker entertameu tne Harmony rinh lm evenlnr.

Mrs K. R. Grover or iso. lww snerman avenue the Homer Club last evening. Mayor W.

A. Dycne will preside at tne KepuD- llcan masa meeting to be neld at uauey upera iimiu mnlithl Addresses will be made by Con gressman George E. Foss, E. L. Harpnam, ani others.

Much Interest Is manifested In Evanston over the coming of Henry Wstterson. who will lecture on Abraham Lincoln st the First Methodist Church next Thursday evening. Colonel Wst terson will be Introduced by lr. lienry wade Rogers of Northwestern nlversity, RAILROAD BRIDGES XOT EXEMPT Caarsre Asraiast Iosra Code Commis sioners Proves Cafosaded, Des Moines. Iowa, Feb.

10. Special Telegram. A sensational charge against the code comrals sioners, started by Senator Pusey of Council Bluffs through error. Battened out today under the Interpretation placed upon the section of the new code in controversy by Commissioner Dale. Senator Pusey found a clause Inserted In the re vision slating that all bridges serosa the Mis sIssIpdI and Missouri Rivers owned and used exclusively by railroad corporations shall be exempt from taxation.

It appeared on the face that the commissioners had inserted the clause for the benefit of the railway companies, and that it waa a plain at tempt to get the law through by Its escaping the attention of the General Assembly. The an nouncement brought acstnlng denunciations nnon tne commission, ana every one aeciarea It would take the Legislature but a few mlnutea to right It. Horatio r. Dale ot tne code commls sion. when seen, showed the section wss 'n serted for a directly opposite purpose than the motives attributed.

He said: Had Senator Pusey turned but a few pares he would have found another section covering the eiemDtlons at the point he settled down upon. The section he discovered related to property to he assessed by the township assessor. In au other place It Is provided that thla class of bridge shall be assessed by tne executive council. We Inserted ths clause In that place because John T. Stone said a bridge at Council Bluffs which was not owned oy a railroad company wss escaping taxation, and we arranged the law so that none of the thirteen bridges crossing the Mississippi and Missouri Rivera could escape.

THEY FOCGHT AT CHIRCH. Pead Between Dardette and May Families Caases Two Deaths. St. Joseph, Feb. 10.

In a light between members of the Burdette and May families Sun day at Sugar Lake, a few miles south of here, two ot the Burdettes were mortally wounded. The trouble between the two families wss of long standing and culminated shortly after noon. when young Burdette rode up In front of the church, where reflgloua services were In prog ress. Charles May was standing at the door and began quarreling with Burdette. You are always killing some one with your mouth," said he, "but you were never known to hurt anv one.

At that young uuraette leaped rrom nis horse and grappled wltn stay, ueorge May. attracted by tne scume, ran iron ine ennren and was immediately followed by W. J. Burdette. vonne Burdette's father.

The senior Msy picked up a fence rail and struck the elder Burdette on the head, frscturins his skulL Charles Msv drew knife and stabbed young Burdette, mortally wounding him. Tne religious service Dross up in confusion and a crowd surrounded the belligerents. There was talk of lynching the Maya, but aa officer present at once placed tnem under arrest and took tbem to St Joseph, where they are now In Jail. Hewer Base Himself Before. The London Globe relates a story of an old Hampshire peasant farmer who cam to town to buy a hat, and was requested to look fa ths glass to see If ths suited his taste.

The customer stood before ths glass ss though fascinated by his reflected Image. Presently hs slowly Inquired-. "Wull Is that ms?" "Of course It Is, guv'nor," waa the ahopman's reply. 'Why don't you know yourself "i ha so rs old." said ths ancient, after another pause, "and dunno as sver I see say faeeafore!" And when his purchase completed, hs turned to depart, hs walked-ap to the looking-gtaas again, saying: 1 11 isks jusx one mora jooa ax meser. for I dunno aa ever I shall aa ths chance again." FARMING BEGINS IN MARCH ths Bear River Valley, Utah," and those who wish to get the heat results from their purcs sees this season should make their arrangements withoat delay.

There la ao land offered la the United States that offers greater Inducements for the homo seeker than do these" extra fertile lands of tna old Lake Boaneniis basin. -Vnr lull particulars send to Charles W. Greene, 41- xns utar uceaa cuiiaing, aicago, ot on of INSURANCE CIRCLES Dennis and Davis Retired from the Travelers'. CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE Pacific Coast Underwriters Are Organizing. Lloyds Agents to Hold a Meeting Today German National Reinsures Chicago Business.

The special committee appointed by the directors of the Travelers' Insurance Company of Hart ford reported Saturday In favor of retiring Sec retary Rodney Dennla and Vice President O. F. Davis. The directors -accepted the report, thus permanently retiring the above-named officers. John E.

Morris was re-elected assistant secretary. special committee, consisting of Pres-Idsnt Batterson. J-. L. Howard, William B.

Clark. Austin C. Dunham, and George Roberts, wss continued. The special committee will report on the elec tion to All the vacancies at a future date. Rodney Dennla Is 70 years of age and has been sec retary of the Travelers' since 18CL For some time there has been considerable friction between Secretary Dennis and President Batter- son.

Mr. Dennis Has a legion ot rnenas. ne has submitted with muoh patience to the autocratic dictation of President Batterson. The rock on which they split was the question ot the employers' liability department of the company. President Batterson wss determined to nave it continue.

Mr. Dennis did not think it fair to those who had Interests in the company to de plete Its funds, which he claimed the employers' llabilltv buslnesa was doing. He argued mat life comnur has no business to engage in aide Issues, the results of which were likely to oe disastrous. Another question of difference waa the investment ot certain securities. ORGA.X1ZATIO 171 VIEW.

Paelae Coast Matters Assamlnsi a More Peaeefal Phase. San Francisco. CaL. Feb. 10.

Special Tele gram. The Insurance rati adjourned Saturday thalr meetlna- In Monterey to assemble again 10 morrow In this city, when they hope to nave their provisional compact formed Into a perma nent one. At the meeting In Monterey thirty-three gen eral insurance offices were represented by th agents or officers, and the remaining tve were represented by proxy. When the vote waa takes on Friday evening upon adoption of the con atitution, thirty votes were cast for adoption and three against. The men who voted In the negative did not repudiate the constitution nor announce their Intention to refuse to sign The probability Is that they will sign the con stltutlon.

If, on the other hand, they should decide not to bind themselves by the constitution, the compact will not be formed, for without these comoaniea a anion would be useless. Ths votes In the negative were cast by Arthur E. Maglll. representing the Home of New York and the Phoenix of Hartford; C. F.

Mulllns, repre senting the Commercial Union, and Harry K. Belden. representing the Hartford. Tbe cooperation of these big companies Is necessary to compart. The separator and commission ques tion are tbe causes of tne disagreement.

Then the five companies represented at the meetlna by proxies must be considered, Tne votes cast by those to whom the proxies were riven do not bind tne agenta to sign tne const. tution. These companies are the North German Walter Speyer agent. I. Gutte proxy; Helvetia Swiss and Baloise.

8yze A Co. agents. Frankfoi J. Devlin proxy; North British and Mercantile Tom C. Grant agent.

C. D. Haven proxy: Aachen Munich. Vosa. Conrad at Co.

agents. D. E. Miles proxy Union Assurance Company. Catton, Bell A Co.

agents, George E. Butler proxy. The proxies for every one of these voted to sdopt toe constitn tion. and the expectation among the thirty who are ready to sign the constitution is that no objection will come from these fire agencies. The effloers elected: C.

D. Haven, president: wniism J. Dutton, vice president: George E. Butler, treasurer, and E. U.

Mobrhardt. secretary are nominally to serve pro tempore, but If tbe com pact becomes binding by the signatures of all the thirty-eight agencies, they will be chosen to serve for tbe year. No executive- committee was elected at the meeting here, because the desire Is te hsve one and possibly two of the three, who voted In the negative on the motion to adopt the constitution on tbe committee. If tbey will sign the compact law. Tne underwriters want Arthur Magill in the board, and probably will sak him to take the trying position of chairman of the rating com mlttee.

the principal duties of which committee 111 be to prepare a new scale of rates to te charged for Insurance. Until the existence of a compact ts certain, nothing will be done to rc store rates or amend the present compensation to city agents In San Francisco, local agents else where on the coast, brokers, and solicitors. The constitution adopted provides that future appointments shall embrace only representa tives of minor companies. It also makes so Im perative cancellation of all excess commission contracts. The indications at present sre that the perms nent organisation will be effected at an early date, embracing all prominent comoaniea.

and that rates will be restored. Tbe representation In tbe new organization will be by companies, la stead or managers. Interviews were bad today with managers ot the three companies whose names have not been appended to the constitution of the Pacific Board of Fire Underwriters and whose signatures are necessary to convert the provisional compact into a permanent one. c. Mulllns of tbe Com mercial Union ssld "I will not sign that contt tution of my own free will.

I have submitted the matter to my head office. If It Is considered there best that my company become a member of the new compact, then It win enter the board. I am opposed unalterably to allowing the minority to rule. It Is against the principle of right and justice, and that is just what the law will per mit, wnicn gives an agent representing more than one company from two to three votes In the board." Arthur K. Maglll of tbe Home and Phoenix of Hartford summed up his objections In the state ment that be will have nothing to do with compact which maintains a non-Intercourse law, Henry K.

Beldea ot tne Hertford Fire Insur ance Company declined to give any reason for not joining the compact. He said: I have the matter under serious consideration. It will be a week before I announce my decision." There are those who think that all three gen tlemen are waiting to hear from their home offices. Without these signatures the compact cannot exist. The chances are that they will be obtained, though it may take two or three weeks to get them.

Xrw England Jfews. Boston. Masa. Feb. 10.

Special Telegram. Tbe Agricultural of Watertown. has joined the New England Bureau of United Inspection. The Atlas Mutual ot Boston gets about 2123. 000 of United States bonds recently bid for.

Dr. Hardle, Dedham, who died and was inclner- sted, recently was Insured for 226,000 in New Tork Life. A bin has been Introduced Into the Legis lature aaklng for retaliation against German Insurance companies on the same lines aa the New York bill. Tbe bill Is accompanied by a petition signed ny many lire insurance men Tne central Mutual or Boston held its annual meeting today and re-elected its directors and officers. It voted to amend Its by-laws and make the liability of policy-holders one time the premium Instead of three times.

Next week the Bureau of United Inspection win rote upon the suggestion that companies be al lowed to suoacnoetor sprinkled or non-sprinkled inspections. Lloyds Represeatatlres to Meet. A meeting of all the agents representing Lloyds called for thla morning at 10 o'clock In ths office of John A. Barnes Co. Ths call la Issued In view ot the tact thst Attorney General Moloney recently began proceedings against John A.

Barnes ft Co. to collect a fine, charging tbem with issuing policies for Institutions not suthor-tsed to do business in Illinois. This is understood to be a test case, although the motives that prompted the suit were probably political. The meeting will no doubt be well attended, and after the agents hsve discussed the situation they will take such action as may seem prober la view of tbe hostile attitude of the Attorney General. Myron H.

Beach will be present and im part the results of his investigation as to the rights of Lloyds to operate la this state without being regularly admitted. Leasterts Mataal Makes aa Assessment. Philadelphia, Feb. 10. Special Telegram.

The Eastern Mutual Fire Insurance Company this city, which was organised and managed by a Bea Cochran, has levied sa sasessment ot aaaaal premium on each one of the policyholders. This Is the first one of ths recent erop motusis ot in is city wnica ass seea roreea to assessment. After tk Fire Jackson, Feh, 10. Special Telegram. or several months past incendiary Area la Jackson County hava destroyed large aumbers barns and houses, nearly all Insured la the Jackson County Farmers' Mutual Insurance CI R9AY IE MED A Case in Point, Carefully Verified, by a Careful Paper.

Paralysis is Often Only Nerve Starvation and This is True of Neuralgia and Sciatic Rheumatism. From the Courier-Herald, Among all of the ills that human flesh is heir to none sre more terrible then those lin gering dlsesses thst fssten themselves upon tbe victim snd give dsily evidences of tbe ravages that they are effecting. Some of them are not accompanied by physical pain, but tbe sure snd visible progress of tbe disease unnerves the sufferer, who lies with sword cf Damocles suspended over him, powerless to stay the hand of death, and watching in mental agony the end of the unequal contest. Of this nature is creeping paralysis, thst gradually enfolds the victim in Its clutches, snd renders him more snd more helpless from day to day. A case ot this character and Its speedy cure recently csme under tbe observation of a Courier-Herald representative while at the village of Markel.

Tuscola County. Michigan. Mr. J. E.

Hallenbeck. a leading farmer there, was the spesker, an I ss Mr. Hallenbeck was telling the story of his oJn case we give it in his own words. To our represent stive he said: "About three yeara ago diphtheria raged in my family. I loat one child, and was myself stricken down with It, "After a few weeks' illness, I was able to be out again, and attended to the work on my farm; but In a short time, ss result of my illness, creeping paralysis sttacked my lower limbs, snd soon reached up Into my arms, rendering me entirely helpless.

The sdvsnces ot the disesse were such that I saw in a short time I would be entirely paralyzed. I tried skilled medical attendance, but it of no use. Finally I was taken to St. Mary's Hospital at Detroit, where I had th best of nursing, snd all that medical science could render. I remained there for two weeks, but got no better, and was taken back to my home.

"Here, a neighbor who had taken great Interest in my case Insisted tbst I should try Dr. Williams' Pick Pills for Psle People, ss he had used them himself with perfect success for similar illness. I had little faith in Pink Pills. However, I got box snd continued taking them. At the end of the third box my condition was wonderfully Improved, snd within six weeks I was so well that I was again able to attend to my work on my farm.

All traces of the paralysis hsd disappeared, and I have had no return cf tbe trouble. "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills scted in my esse In a wonderful manner, and quickly, and to them I ascribe my relief from paralysis and its attendant ilia. During my illness I suffered no physical pain, but was in mental agony as the disesse progressed from day to day; and Its progress was clearly marked by my perceptibly Increasing helplessness. "In sll I took eight boxes of Pink Pills, and since I took them I have been well and strong, and able to do the hard work re quired on my eighty-acre farm.

I now keep a bcx of Pink Pills on Hand to use in case feel at all "ailing, and do not fear a recur rence of my troubles ss long ss I them In tbe house. As be concluded Mrs. Hallenbeck added that she cordially indorsed sll that her husband had said in favor of Pink Pills, and that she had herself used them with perfect success In a case of liver trouble. She was well pleased with them, and the mild, easy snd quick way In which they operated. Company.

andlast week a meeting of the stockholders was held, with a large attendance, at the courthouse, to consider the best means for the detection of the Incendiaries, and. If possible, ti ward off future depredations of this character. The matter was thoroughly discussed, and It was decided to offer rewsrds and to hire special detectives whenever desirable to ferret out these barp-burners. Relasares Its Caleaaro Baslaess. Louisville, Feb.

10. SpecisI Telegram. The German National Fire Insurance Company of this dty has reinsured its Chicago business with the Orient and will abandon that field, hav ing found it unprofitable. The risks there only amounted to tjon.000. The Kentucky business will be continued, as last year waa a successful one.

Tbe German National capital Is and it. carries risks of $3,000,000. Steward. French A Co. are the Cook County agents for the German National, and William C.

Magill ft Co. have a local agency. According to its last statement the company showed as sets of 2iS.6o.$3: surplus to policy-holders. premiums. S3t.135.Z4.

lasnraace Xoles. Charles J. Russell A Co. have been appointed general agents for the Lafayette Fire Lloyds of New lork. Z.

H. Austin A Co. hsve been appointed gen eral agenta for the New York and Massachusetts Lloyds and Monarch Lloyds. Among yesterday's visitors were: James Brewster, assistant United States manager of the Scottish Union and Nations), snd H. S.

McPall of the Buffalo Fire and Marine Under writers. S. S. Eaten of St. Paul was here yesterday endesvoring secure new rates on the Great Northern elevators A and at nest Superior.

Negotiationa are pending for tbe equipment of tne elevators witn sprinklers. The Fire Reeord. Boston. Feb. 10.

Special Telegram. The Mllls-Knlght lire. Pesrl street. Boston, of Saturday midnight, destroyed property agrregst Ins $100,000. A conflagration waa narrowly averted.

Insurances sre aa follows: William N. Goddard. oipe-nttlna. basement and first floor: Phenlx of Br Queen 11.500 ivationai. s.oxii New 2.H! Total Aa-rtcultural 2.A0u: 12.5Xi Damage considerable.

White a third floer. man mounters. North British. S2.000: damage very heavy. L.

c. Heath a fourth floor, publishers: Provld Wssh S1.2SO London Assur l.SiKI Lumbermen Z.Ch! 3. () Phoenix of S.Oi Northern 2,000 Sun 1 OII1 Continental 1 ft Ml Aetna Horns ot N. T. 8.7501 Total 122.000 Loss about per cent.

Wllhelm. Ptckhardt a KntlroCT dealers In anl. line dye stuffs i Royal IS OrtV United States Ins. Co. of N.

5.0OOiSL Paul r. a 15lll Home. N. 5.000 American. N.

2.500 Com'w'lth. N.T. Pennsylvania n.onoi 2.5001 Total 134.000 9 R.M. Lancashire 2.5UU Damage about 15 per cent. Furniture and fixtures ot SI (Mr).

American of Boston. Mills. Knlrht a manufacturing nrlntsrs. fifth and sixth floors: Aetna S2 MM, Palatine St BOO Rutsers 2.000.Glena Falls 1.000 Connecticut l.SOO; Newark l.UJO Koebesc-Germ I.60O1 Orient L0UU Provld. Wash 1.5M Commercial Union Total tlt.800 Mllls-Knlght on machinery in same building: Phoenix of II.

MOiImperial gl.BOO Fire Assa l.rxWiCltlxens' of Firemen's 1.500! Fltchburg 1.5O0 Western I.fxW Pacific of N. l.Oiw 1 1 sens of N.T. 1.600, Security. New Ha l.uuO British-Amer j.500Grenlta Stats 1.000 Hartford l.fXV! Capital of N. l.Ouo Northern 1.5tioCoBimercial Union l.OOu Caledonian 1.5uui Total S24.aog Damage very heavy.

PLAIN TALK. TThaea la a iw 1 1 nrfnelnla Hi RYVynrWIVY that effect sally preserves the teeth from decay. auca ana poor tnaorse it. mo way ever tnea it withoat approving ita cleansing and purifying properties. It outsells all other dentifrices.

Ask tor. S0Z0D0NT, and take ao Saginaw, Mich. While In Markel. Tuscola County, fear days sgo a Courier-Herald representative heard of the case of Mrs. Levi Jerome, who bsd been sn Invalid for many years, and how she had been restored to health, strength snd happiness by tbe use cf a remarkable medicine that has performed many wonderful cures, where msny other remedies snd skilled medical sttendsnce hsd been unavailing.

Calling upon her aaNher cozy home he found a tall, handsome woman, wboee.ciear complexion and lithe, active form gave no evidence of previous suffering. Asked rn regard to her esse. Mrs. Jerome told the story of her Illness ss follows: "For about fifteen years I was troubled with rheumatism, and my condition finally became so bad that the only way I could get around the bouse at times wss by pushing a chslr In frcnt of me. I suffered great deal and tried various remedies, but they did not give me sny relief.

"Finally, after reading many accounts ot the wonderful cures effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, about two years ago I determined to try them, and got a box. when I began to get better, and In a short I had not taken over two boxes of these Dills time I was so well that I went with my husband to the World's Fait at Chicago. "I had read with grest Interest of the rrand preparations there, snd hsd yearned for the pleasure of seeing tbe wonderful sights. "You csn readily Imagine what a change has been effected In ay condition to allow if such fatiguing Journey.

A short tima befcre I had been confined to the bouse, a helpless invalid, but I was then, sfter usieir, ix boxes cf Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, able to enjoy all the pleasures cf a trl? to Chl--go and the World's Fair, with sll its at tendant exertions snd fatigue. From the day -hat I began to use these pills my condition Ueadily improved, and 1 am now entirely ured of my ailment cf fifteen years' Hew did I feel after my return from hat trip? Why. I felt as well as ever, ail ill of the jaunting and sightseeing, the hurry tnd bustle had so 111 effects on me. "I cannot tell the wonderful amount of eood that Pink Pills hsve been to me.

and whenever I see any of my friends suffennj from rheumatism or other blood or nervn troubles I slways sdvise them to use Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I am always ready to let all others know how I suffered md how my sufferings were cured. Pink Pills are a grand remedv for troubles sdeh ss I had. and now I readllv believe all the good things that I hear said of tbem.

and the many cures thst sre reported following their use. They are wonderful remedy, snd should be used in many troubles." This snd much mere did Mrs. Jercme say, to shew how highly she esteemed Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. She was grateful for a remedy thst had so speedily and happily ended her years cf suffering.

To her earnest words Mr. Jerome also added hia testimony as tr the benefit that followed his wife's use cf Pink Pills, and added that he had himself used them with great benefit. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale PeopI are now given to tbe public as an unfailing bleed builder snd nerve restorer, curing ail forms of weakness arising from a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves. The pills are sold by all dealers, cr will ba sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box.

cr six boxes fcr 12.50 (they sre never sold In bulk, or by the 100). by addressing Dr. Wlllisms' Medicine Company. Schenectady. N.

Y. FOR PROTECTION OF MINERS, State Board of Exasaiaers Now la Sessloa at Jollet. Jollet. 111.. Feb.

10 Special Telegram. The State Board of Examiners of Mine Managers and Hoisting Engineers met this morning la this city. There were about 200 mine managers, hoisting engineers, and fire bosses; all of whom are working In different mines and for differentmining companies in this mining district, wfilch includes Braid wood, Bracevtlle. Coal City. Carbon Hill.

Spring Valley. SeatonTlIIe. and all ths Northern Illinois mines and mining towns. The meeting will continue for several days. The board of examiners Is composed as follows: J.

M. Browning, coal operator, president: D. Dishon. Murpbysboro. secretary L.

F. Lumsxhl. Colllnsville. coal operator. W.

E. McDonald. Braldwood. miner: A. Grabama.

Jacksonville, miner: J. E. Crane. Murphysboro. engineer.

The next meeting will be held at Decatur In May. WILL OF. W. H. ENGLISH PROBATED.

Mast of His as.000.000 Estate Gses ta Son aad Daasrater. Indianapolis. Feb. 10. The will of William H.

English was probated today. The estate Is said to be worth 5.W,000. He leaves S3. 09 to Crown Hill Cemetery. he interest to be used in keeping up the English monument: C50D to the Indiana Historical Society.

SIO.OOO for the completion ot the history of Indiana: to Miss Ruth Hedges, confidential clerk. S5.000 in money and certain real estate in this city, this to be accepted and receipted tor as final settlement. The remainder of the estate is divided between his son and daughter. The son and daughter are made executor and executrix, to serve without bond. The provision Inokinc to final settlement with the confidential clerk is supposed to preclude any contest, even If one were contemplated.

MRS. ELLIS HELD FOR TRIAL. Is Charged with Adnslalsterlaa; Poison to Hrr Hsikasd. Erie. Feb.

10. The grand Jury has held Mrs. Kate M. Nellis snd Edgar C. Gardner of Girard.

for trial on the charge of administer- ing poison to Peter H. Nellis. the former's husband. Josephine C. Stowell.

the Cinclnnstl spiritualist, has been indicted on two counter -barges, one of conspiracy and the other of being accessory to the fact, Fralt Growers Want Lower Rates. Grand Rapids. Feb. 10. Special Telegram.

At a recent convention of fruit-growers' associations in this cKy a committee waa appointed to compile statistics of the fruit segments from Western Michigan last season. TS' committee will report Wednesday that the shipments aggregated 4.575 cars of 400 bushels each, and will recommend that a committee be sent to New York personslly to present arguments for mora favorable freight rates to polnta beyond Buffalo and Pittsburg. Letters to the traffic managers setting forth the facta aad claims seem to receive little or no attention. The Oldest Mason. Geneseo.

I1L, Feb. 7. To the Editor. In your Issue of the 5th I saw an article claiming that Freeman Graham was the oldest Mason in the lolled States, aa he was made one In 1S28. K.

Demlng, my father, waa born in 104 and waa made a Masoa at Medina, Ohio, in 1S2S. He is living with me. H. A. DSMING.

Whist Toaraasaeat at Oak Park. Rockford. IlL, Feh. 10. Special Telegram.

The Rockford Whist Club has accepted the chal lenge of the Oak Park Whist Club for tournament to be plsysd st Oak Park Saturday evening. Feb. ZZ. Fifty ladies and gentlemen rrom taia city, ail expert players, will take part. Scares! hy Their Own Exaleelen.

Earl villa. Iowa. Feh. 10. Special Telegram.

Ths safe la the Earlvills Bank, containing S10.800, was shattered by dynamite about 4 o'clock this morning. The explosion shook the building and tna mgJkUBSd burglars nso. leaving ins isomer.