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CLAIMS AGAINST CHILL.
The Report of Foreign Minister Malta &c
the Chiliaii Congress.

The Report of Foreign Minister Malta TO
the Chiliah Congress
New York, Dec. IA special cable
dispatch to the Herald from Valparaiso
saws Foreign Minister Malta has made
a report to congress relative to the
claims made against Chilli by foreigners,
in which he says the government is not
bound in duty to administer strict
Justice. The Chiiian ministry, how
ever, he adds, rejects all attempts
to formulate claims which at times
have been allowed in America,
owing to the circumstances un-
der which the government against
whom such claims were preferred, were
nlaced toward those in whose favor they
were formulated. TO countenance the
present attempts would be to create Ill
favor of foreigners privileges that are
allowed neither by state nor interna'
tional law. While there is no doubt, he
concludes, that the claims of prominent
British merchants are in several cases
greatly exaggerated, still, in the end,
the Chilian government can not refuse
to paw large portion of the claims
made for the saclxing and looting OF
Valparaiso, Vina Del Mar and Santiago,
as well as for damages as to the nation
nj railroad and the detention Of steam
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AN explosion occurred In the boiler
mill at Buffalo, n. Y, on the 8th, caus=
ing the death Of one man and the in
jury of several others.
II. B. JACOBS Cleveland (O.) theater
was destroyed by fire, early on the
morning of the 9th, entailing a loss of
about S75, 900. The flames started in
the basement shortly after 6 o'clock,
and had gained considerable Roadway
before they were discovered. Ken
nedy's "White Slave" company, which
was playing weeks engagement at
the theater, suffered @ loss of about
$500
The treasury department has begun
the payment of sugar bounties.
THE John Dunlop silk mills at Pater-
son. n. j., which were occupied by six
manufacturers, were damaged 500, 900
by fire on the Sth. The loss is partially
covered by insurance. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
THE National Bar association began
its fourth annual meeting in Washing.
ton on the 9th.
THE following card was found at
tached to the door bell of the residence
of w. III. Burridge, S31 Euclid avenue,
Cleveland, o., on the evening of the
9th: Get your horses out of the barn.
The barn is on fire. By order of the
captain of the white caps" Investiga-
tion showed the warning was true.
A DISPATCH from Tien-Tsin, China,
says: ''Some Christians have been
massacred near Pakouscibe by ban
ditti The commander, who connived
at the massacre, has since committed
suicide. A magistrate implicated in the
affair has been arrested and committed
for trial.
The greater portion of the business
section and twenty-five dwellings of
Ardmore, l. T., were destroyed by fire
on the 9th. The losses will aggregate
500. 900, on which there is an insurance
of about $50, 600.
A TERRIBLE explosion took place in
the Friellings- Hoffnung pit at lIenners-
dorf-in-Seifen, Saxony, on the 10th, kill
ing twenty miners and severely wound
iny number of others.
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TIME TABLE,
CHICAGO & AItcn Rv

Depot corner Third and Jefferson
streets. Three through trains between
St. Louis and Chicago. On and after
Sunday, this date, trains will leave
Springfield as follows:
NORTH.
No. | Ex. Mail, daily ex. Sun. ii :55 a. m.
No. 3 Lightning Ex., daily II 30 pm.
No. Z Through Express, daily $40 Pun.
SOUTH.
No. 2 Ex. Mail, daily ex. Sun. $50 p. IN.
NOD Lightning Ex, daily 3:45 am.
No. Through Express daily 6:45 am.
No. leaves St. Louis daily at4 30 p.
m. takes sleeping car from Springfield
and arrives in Chicago at a. m
No. s leaves Chicago at 1l:c0 p. m.
daily with sleeping car for Springfield
and arrives in st. Louis at 10 :4O a. IN.
No. 3 and 4. Lightning express trains
stop only at principal stations. Close
connection male in ST. Louis in Union
depot with all roads and in Chicago with
all points east. west and north.
No. ! makes close connection for Peo-
ria and Rock Island via Bloomington.
Two trains for Kansas City, connecting
there with all trains north, south and
west.
Fare always as low as by any other
route and time much quicker, chair cars
on passenger trains free
Baggage checks to all principal points
For passenger and sleeping car tickets
and ali information apply at the depot
ticket office. Call and see ticket agent
before purchasing tickets elsewhere.
j. Z. LINDLEY, Agent.
JAMF CHARLTON, Gen. Pas. agent.
III. CuAtPELL. Genera Manager.
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.

DR. E. L. CooMBs, of tile Kentucky
school of medicine, has concluded his
investigation of the case of Mrs. Mary
Stucl1enburg, the woman who, while
apparently in cataleptic state, exhib-
tied upon her person the stigmata, or
marks Of the Passion Of Christ He re-
fuses to indorse the manifestations as
genuine, but say that the phenomena
may be due to the woman's intense
mental concentration upon the Passion
and the death of the Saviour.
The wheat blockade is embarrassing
grain dealers at Winnipeg, Man. con.
siderably. They are losing heavily. be.
ing unable to get their shipments for
ward to fill their contracts. The mem
bers of the grain exchange fully dis
cussed the situation at meeting on
the 18th. 1t was stated that unless the
railroads came to their rescue at once
they would have to lower the price of
grain in the country ten cents bushel
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended on the 18th, numbered, for She
United States. $50, and for Canada 40, a
total of 500; as compared with total
of $40 for the previous week. For the
corresponding week of last year the
figures were 374, representing 347 fail
ures in the United States and 81 in the
Dominion of Canada.
The British Columbian & Southern
Railroad Co. has discovered new pass
at Crows Nest, B. c., 600 feet lower
than the present one, at an altitude of
4,275 feet Fifty different seams of coal
have been discovered in the vicinity of
four distinct kinds, one magnificent
camel coal.
A STEAM pipe burst in the southeast
corner of the hall of the house of rep
resentatives few minutes before l
o'clock, on the 18th, causing much COM
motion, as it was at first feared that
some crank had set off a dynamite
bomb
Two ARMED and masked men COM
peeled the Wells-Fargo express agent
at Shingle Springs, Cal, to surrender
the keys of the Office safe, on the 11th,
and took watch and about S1OO and
escaped.
The London Times dispatch from
Singapore reports the loss of large
number of Chinese vessels during gale
at HongKong. Hundreds of native
sailors were drowned.
LORD DUFFERIN, formerly governor
general of Canada and more recently
viceroy of India, has been appointed
British ambassador to Paris.
SECRETARY BLAINE is expected to ad.
dress the Boston merchants on the oc-
casioa OF their annual banquet
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The Unidentified Head.

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Although a
week has passed since the crank ex-
ploded the bomb in the office of Rus
sull Sage, no one has yet identified the
head. There were only few visitors
to the morgue yesterday to view the
ghastly relic. The features are becom-
ing more and more indistinct every
dav. and if the head is not identified
soon the identity of the mysterious per-
son may never be known. The officials
at the morgue are confident that
among the visitors who viewed the
head there were some that identified it
but were afraid to speak out.
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ANOTHER LIE Nailed,
The London Times Correspondent in Chill
Caught at II Again.

The London Times Correspondent in Chill
Caught at 1t Again.
VALPARAISO. Dec. IL, via GALVESTON.
The statement recently sent to the
London Times by it's correspondent to
the effect that United States Minister
Egan had, during the recent CORE
spondence between the United States
and the government at Santiago
sent several insulting notes to
Minister of Foreign Affairs Malta,
which had caused a proposition
to be presented to the Chlllan
congress looking to the suppression of
Chilian legation at Washington, which
proposition had only been defeated by
the government exerting its influence
to the utmost, is unqualitiedly false.
The matter has not even been discussed
by the government or by congress, and
all indications point to desire on the
part of congress to keep up the amlcable
relations which have existed for so long
a time with the United States.
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ILLINOIS STATE NEWS.
Deadly Typhoid.


Reports to the state board of health
show that although there was marked
decrease in the prevalence of typhoid
fever at the close as compared with
the beginning of November, the disease
still prevails in many localities of the
state.
1.-THE cause of this unusual prevalence Is to be
found in the long continued drought and con-
sequent scanty and impure water supply.
Recent rains have modified this to some ex-
tent Bit there is still occasion for the exer-
else of caution in the use of water not posi-
lively known to be pure. 1t is recommended
that in all such cases the water be boiled be.
fore being used for drinking purposes, In
this connection the beard again calls attention
to it's repeated injunction concerning the dis
infection Of the de1ecta Of typhoid fever pa
tients. A small quantity Of this infectious mat
ter is sufficient TO poison not only the contents
of we'll or cistern. but running stream and
thus give rise to an outbreak among those who
depend upon such source of supply. Or this
water may, as has frequently been proved, be
used for dairy purpOsas, and so introduce the
infection into families supplied with milk from
such dairy, miles away from sources of danger
If these discharges were promptly de-
stroyed by fire or thoroughly disinfected in
every case, typhoid fever would sooH become
one of the rarest OF diseases. The responsibility
for destruction ef disinfe6tion rests with the
attending physician, and the board is ready to aid
all physicians in such work by furnishing print
ed copies of instructions concerning the restric-
ton and prevention of this disease, the aggre-
gate sickness and deaths from which in the
northern states are far greater than those caused
by yellow fever in the south.
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Treatment of Slaves in Morocco.

MADRID, Dec. 12.-Much indignation
is felt here at the news of the atrocious
treatment of slaves in Morocco and es-
pecially of the children captured in re-
cent raids by the sultan. 1t is said
that the sultan is preparing for siini-
lar raid early in 1892 upon tribes that
have not complied with his orders
Advices from Fez state that of hun
dreds of children sold at Fee since the
return of the sultan from his recent ex-
pedition, all had been subjected to bar
barous treatment. The Spanish minis.
ter will probably be instructed to res
morstrate with the snltan.
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4 New Bank,

The auditor of public accounts has
issued final certificate of authority to
begin business to the Corn Belt bank.
located at Bloomington. The capital
stock is $4,000 and the officers are;
Gen. John McNulta, president; James
T. Smell, vice-president; A. S. Eddy,
cashier; Alvin Schureman, assistant
cashier.
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A Missing Man.

New YORK. Dec. 12.-Frederick
Krousler, "a years old, son of Arnold
Krousler, the wealthy broker in brew
ers' supplies, has been missing since
November 30. The missing man was
mt in charge of the McCormic brewery
in Roxbury. Mass. in March last. On
the day of his disappearance he was
seen by one of the employees standing
in front Of the brewery. He has not
been seen since. Young Krousler car"
ried brown macintosh coat, and had
between S7O0 and $500 in mis- pocket.
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Onions Go.

In Chicago the other day two children
of r. H. Grinnell were sent home from
school, and pretty Miss Merrill, who
teaches the children, sent this note to
Mr.. Grinnell:
DEAR SIK-It is too cool in my room most of
the time to have the windows open, and the
breath of your children, after taking their medi-
cine with onions in it, makes the air very Of
fensive. l think that the medicine would do
them just as much good if the onions were left
out. / am very sorry to be obliged to send you
note of this kind, but think you will see the
reasonableness of it,
Then Papa urinnell went to the school
and exchanged compliments with Miss
Merrill. The next morning the children
ate onions and were sent home again
by the plucky little school ma am. Mr..
Grinnell laid the matter before the
board of education, and the board de-
cided: "Teachers can not regulate a
pupils diet. If they want to eat onions
there is nothing to prevent them from
so doing and attending school," And,
also. that it was simply an error of
Judgment on the part of Miss Merrill" p"
1t is supposed that Miss Merrill's cute
little nose will suffer martyrdom this
winter.
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"a MAN
CHICAGO, Rock Island & Pacific Ry,

The Direct Route to and from Chicago, Joliet. Ottawa.
Peoria, La Sale, Moline. Rock Island, in lLLiNoIs'
Davenport Muscatine, Ottumwa. Oskaioosa, Des
Mones Winterset, Audubon, Harlan and Council
RIuHs in IOWA; Minneapolis and st. Paul IN MIN
NEsOTA: Watertown and Sioux Falls In DAKOTA; !;
Cameron St. Joseph and Kansas City. In MISSOURI:
Omaha Lincoln, Fairbury and Nelson, in NEBRASKA;
Atchison, Leavenworth, Horton, Topeka. Hutchhsons
wichita Bel,eyile, Abilene Dodge City. Caldwell, in
KANSAS: KingAsher, FL Reno and Mnco. In INDIAN
TERRITORY; Denver. Colorado Springs and Pueblo
in COLORADO Traverses new areas of rich farming
and grazing lands aording the best facilities OF inter-
communication 10 all towns and cities east ana West
+bwest AMI southwest of Chicago and to Pacific and
trans-oceanIc seaports.
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Illinois River Delegates.

Gov. Fifer appointed the following
named delegates to the river improve
ment convention, to be held at Kansas
City, Mo-, December Is and 16:
Col. Isaac Taylor Peoria; Hon, Robt. Moir,
Oquawka; Hon. VIM. Cullen, Ottawa; Capt. H.
S. Brown, Quincy; Hon. Jas. Handley, Quincy;
Hon. VIM. H. Gest, Rock Island; H. c. Hull,
Prophetstown, Whiteside county :tJoseph Fuess,
Belleville; c.. B. Carroll, East st. Louis; Hon.
T W. Holiday Cairo
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Transferred n Library.

The trustees of the Chicago academy
of sciences have voted to transfer their
valuable library and museum to the
new Chicago university, of which DR..
Harper is president
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O.. & M.
OHIO & MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY
Fast Time
Cincinnati, louisville and all points
East and southeast.
But one Night Out

10 Washington, Baltimore, Hhlladel'
phla and New York.
Pullman. Buffet sleeping Cars.
from Flora, On Main Line, to above
points, without change.
The Ohio g. Mississippi Railway IS the
pnlv line running its own trains over its
own rack to Cincinnati and Louisville
where they make direct connections in
Union DepOts with through trains for
the East and for Jacksonville, Fla and
all points i'm the Southeast. Our trains
make the best time and connections tOr
Tore Haute, Greencastlp, indianapolis,
New Albany, Evansville. Nashville,
Tenn. -, Cairo, and all poiDts South via
Cairo
The 0 & NJ. Ry. Is the direct 1cutcs
with new and inn rovcd train service. ter
Kansas CtY Omaha. ST. Paul, Denver and
all points west. northwest and southwest
Passengers desiring tickets to any
point East, West, North or South, should
call on or address the unde:s gned, who
will cheerfully furnish information as to
rates for tickets and freight. time OF
trains. connections. ETC., and will attend
20 shipping freight and checking
baggage through to destinations
Passengers will save money by pur-
chasing tickets before entering the cars,
as the ticket rate is ten cents less tha.
the train rate. N, j. NEER,
Ticket Agent 0. Sc M.
Springfield, Illinois.
c. q. JONES, District Pass'r Agent,
Vincennes, ind.
IT Brainard w. B Shattuc
Pres g. Gen'l Mangr. Gen Pass Agt
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THE Boston fre-cracker house of
Hasten & Wells was blown upon the
9th. One man was reported killed and
two injured. The explosion was heard
all over the city.
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NEWS reached New York, on the Sth,
OF. The death of Walcott Balestier, who
died from typhoid fever in Dresden two
days before Mr.. Balestier was joint
author of the story, "The Maulahka, !"
The associate author being Rudyard
Kepling. lie was comparatively
young man.
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THERE are 5000 cases Of influenza
reported in Hamburg, and the death
rate Of the city is considerably higher
owing to the prevalence Of the dis
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THE removal of the remains of Gen.
Grant from New York to the National
cemetery at Arlington will be proposed
again during the present session by
Senator Plumb.
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MRS. MAVERICK was allowed to re-
ceive visit in Woking prison, on the
10th, from her mother, Baroness Rogue,
who informed her of the efforts being
made to secure her release.
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A LARGE number of arms are missing
from the barracks in Santiago de Chill,
and it is feared that some conspiracy is
on foot.
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RUSSELL. SAGE was able to leave his
house for the first time since the at
tempt on his life, in New York, on the
Sth. He took drive in the park,
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Mrs. CLEVELAND is in very serious
condition of health, all the means en-
ployed for her improvement failing ut
terlv to afford relief. She is described
as looking like ghost, colorless, blue
Tipped, hollow-eyed and with sunlSen
ehaelyS
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ACTING SECRETARY GRANT has re-
lieved Maj. Overman from duty as en-
gineer in charge of government works
at Washington, pending the investiga-
ton of his accounts for the district Of
Cleveland, O., from which district he
was recently transferred.
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Mr.. BRICE was sworn in as United
States senator from Ohio, on the 7th,
but not before Mr.. Sherman had given
notice that his eligibility would be con-
tested on the ground that at the time
of his election he was not an inhabitant
of Ohio
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ADvICEs from Honolulu report the
arrival there, on the 10th, of the United
States steamer Albatross which had
made survey from San Francisco to
Hawaii for the proposed cable,
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THE Chilian minister had an audience
with Secretary Blaine, on the 9th, at
which the matter of indemnity for the
killing of the Baltimore's sailors was
further discussed
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THE presidents annual message was
submitted to both houses Of congress-
on the 9th, and was Immediately read
in each, the reading occupying about
one hour and a half.
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On a Rad Charge.

A. W. Shilton, IA high-toned Chicago
man, was arrested and jailed at Kan
kal1ee few days ago, charged with
burning his house for the insurance.
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Fatally Burned.

Mrs. Abraham Kaufman, aged %,
wife of wealthy farmer of Mclean
county, was fatally burned by the igni-
tion of a pan of stove polish and gaso-
line.
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ACCORDING to the returns received at
the Dominion fisheries department, the
actual catch of seals this year has ex-
ceeded very considerably that of 1890,
which was looked upon as a good sea-
son. The number taken during the
present year is 40, 49S. an increase OF
@. 800 over last YEAR
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naafh nf A L Roll

Senator A. J. Bell died at Peoria. He
was stricken with apoplexy on the lst
inst No one stood higher in public
esteem at Peoria than Mr.. Bell.
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HENRY MILLER, son of joaquin Mill
ler, who robbed stage in the north
ern portion of California last month,
was taken to San Francisco, on the
9th, for trial. He acknowledged his
guilt and says he was driven to crime
because of the failure of his father to
remunerate him for work performed.
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Might Have Been a Holocaust.

At Galesburg some unknown person
threw a lighted lamp into the elevator
of the Union hotel. There were l25
guests in the hotel at the time.
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Mrs, Hiram j, DUNLAP,

A cablegram was received at Cham
paign the other day from Furth,
Bavaria, announcing the death of Mrs.
Hiram j. Dunlap.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dunlap had for many years
been residents Of Champaign. Since the death
Of Col. George Scroggs, some years ago Mr..
Dunlap had control of the Scrogg estate, inc1id-
ing the Champaign Gazette, one of the leading
republican journals of central Illinois. After
the election of President Harrison Mr.. Dunlap
was appointed consul at Bre5lau, Germany,
where he and Mrs. Dudlap resided until Mr..
Dunlap was transferred to Furth, Bavaria,
where Mrs. Dunlap died. Mrs Dunlap was very
cultivated and intelligent.
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THE Indian bureau has no advices OF
the reported outbreak of Cheyenne
Indians and the story is not credited.
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Winter Wheat.

The winter wheat is said to be look
ing bad throughout southern Illinois,
and fairly good in the central section of
the state.
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Licensed to Practice.

The state board of health has issued
certificates emitting the following to
practice medicine:
E. S. Atwater, E. G. Bandalin, G.. NJ. Bibbee,
VIM. L. Brown, E. V. Deyoe, w. L. Downing,
A. R. Elliott, w. A. Evans, F. e. Ford, G. A.
Graves, c. G. Mccullough, w. A Mason, G. L.
Reason, J. S. Robinson, II. NJ. Spaulding, j. B.
Sumner, II. G.. Tandy, 1. N. Washington, VIM.
Wolsford, Chicago; S. P. Berns Bible Grove; I
c. Burlington, Attica, Ind; James A. Denney
Galesburg; S. J. Giers, Jerseyville; Max Cru
Der, Quincy; G. G. Hoxel, Fowler: T. S. Hession,
Hamilton; w. P. Kelly, Efflngham; W, D. Scott.
Danville; A. L, Travers, Roclford J. w. Willis,
Lake City
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Death of Col. Edmund d. Taylor.

Col. Edmund D. Taylor died at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs Rogers,
in Chicago.
He was one of the leading men of the little
settlement which has become Chicago. Col.
Taylor had been resident of the state of Illinois
for over sixty years, and was at the time of his
death in his ninetieth year. Lately he had made
his home at Mendoza. The deceased was made
land agent in 1885, and sold land for the govern
ment right in the heart of the city for 81 .25 an
acre. Col. Taylor was veteran of the Mexican
war, and personal friend of both Lincoln and
Douglas. When the first Chicago bank was
ganzed, in 1885, he was one of the officers. He
died of old age.l
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Found Lead.

Henry Hough, aged so, a deputy
sheriff, was found dead in Mclean
county with bullet in his brain. Some
believe it case of murder.
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