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klNETO5COPE PRIZE FIGHTS.
UiIl ia illinois Legislature Prohibit
! Ing Such Exhibitions.

iUill ia illinois Legislature Prohibits
o., Ing Such Exhibitions.
Springfield ILL.,, March 19.--Friday was the
final day for the introduction of bills in tho
house, and most ofthe members made haste
TO dump their last batch Of measures on the
clerks. There are now G57 bills pending In
the house. 1t was practically the last call
for ..reSula tors and not few of this class
put in a tardy appearance The committees
will begin to clean up their dockets next
week, and when their work Is finished the
republican steering committee Will endeav-
or to persuade the house to hold two ses:
sions daily until a sine die Adjournment Is
taken. -=,-- r.: e.. 49,
g Springfield, ILL.,, March 2O.-Representa-
tive, I.aMonte, of Cook county. has In
troduccd bill in the house prohibiting
the exhibition in the state of Illinois OF
fight at Carson City. II the bill is passed
1T will stop Dan Stuart's kaleidoscope eN-
!hibitions and deprive the big fight pro.
moter of the rich harvest which he surely
would have reaped from this state Rep
!rcsentative J.aMonte is the author Of the
bill, and says he means to push 1t to 4
passage. The bill is not a long one. In a
=. short preamble the reasons for Its intro.
duct,on, the demoralizing effect of such
proposed exhibition, and 80 forth; are set
out, and then severe penalties are provided,
mot only for those who show the pictures,
!but also LOT peisoHs a1eehu"6 peAA
,ances Mt which such pictures are dis
,played Representative Revell presented
board of trade regulator, drawn after the
same pattern that has been familiar here
for years. 1t prohibits gambling In grain
and stocks, and sprescribes hair-rais'ns
penalties for the most trivial violations OF
its provisions. Mr., Thiemann came also
TO the front. He had a bill compelling milk
dealers to give bonds and otherwise provtd,
Ing for Il strict watch on them to prevent
the sale OF impure milk. No business was
transacted by the senate Friday, as most
:of the members were at Champaign inspect
Ing the state university. e .s
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generations, he finds absolute confusion
in racial origin. Allsthat can be done is
to assume that a. person is Scotch. If the
family have lived in Scotland for one or
two generations; that he is English il
the same condition hold true Of his
residence III that counery, or Irish, or
American under like application Of
the foregoing rule.
We are all of us the resultant Of a
great many different and apparently an
tagonistic races. We commonly become
Irish, English, Scotch or American as
the ses,slt ot the az ngs of two ar
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:. A COSTLY FIRE.
Rust a css building at Peoria Burned
.. Loss. 100000. d.

Busincss BUILDING at Peoria Burned
- LOSS, 100000.
Peoria, ILL.,, March 22.-Fire at three
o'clock Sunday morning destroyed the
Conigisky building, in the heart OF the
business center and entailed an aggre-
gate loss Of 100000, upon which there
IS IN insurance Of about 5000. The
ground floor was occupied by NJ. Gum
biner & Co., dry goods, whose stock,
valued at $4,000, and which was in
sured for at,oat one-half, is total loss,
while the second floor was devoted to
Offices, the occupants of which lose
about $1,000, with an insurance Of 81
600. The third floor was used as lodg-
ing house, the loss aggregating $4,000
and the insurance being given as $1,000,
The building was owned by silas Con.
iglshy and was valued at $4,000. It
was insured for $4,000. There were
about 40 dodgers in the building at the
time of the fire and It was with the
greatest difficulty that they were res
cued. The fire is supposed to be of in.
cendiary origin, although this is not
definitely known to be the case.
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persisted By FIRE.
Home Of Tennessee Farmer Re-
duced to Ashes.
FIVE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH.
It IL Believed That They Were First
Murdered by Robbers-Fivs Chill
dren Lose Their Lives by
Fire In lows.

:
,,lars Of what appears to have been q
horrible and brutal murder were re-
ceiyed here from Paradise Ridge
Wednesday morning. Jacob AIDE, one
of the oldest and best known farmers
OF the Ridge settlement, his wife, his
eldest daughter and son and a little
4 daughter of Henry Moirer were prob
ably murdered and their bodies Gre
mated in AIDES house, (which was burned
to the ground The theory of MURDERS
strengthened by the fact that all the
bodies were found in the same room,
but scattered around over the space oc-
cupied by this room. 1t was first
thought that the old man was killed
for his money, as he was known to be
we'll to do and always kept supply
OF money on hand, but this cannot be
positively stated, as the old mans
money, or at least the ashes of what
was once a big roll of money, has been
discovered in the ruins Of the house.
The Victims.
The dead are: Jacob AIDE, Mrs J..
AIDE, Lizzie AIDE, aged 20; Henry AIDE,
13 years old; Rose Moirer, aged 10.
jacob Ade lived IS miles from this city
near the Cheatham county line. The
house sits back half mile from what
is known as the old Gainesville turn
pike.
The first indication Of the tragedy
was the fire which was discovered at
ten o'clock Tuesday night by Justice
Simpson, who lives half mile from the
AIDE place. He at once rode. over to
the scene and found the house in ruins.
Finding no one near, Simpsons suspi-
cious were aroused, and upon a closer
inspection he saw the bodies of several
people in the ruins. He went to work
at once TO rescue the bodies and sue
ceeded in getting, four of them out.
These proved tool be the bodies of Mr..
and Mrs. AIDE, Miss Lizzie AIDE and
Rose Moirer. After this Mr.. Simpson
rode around and notified a number Of
the neigh bors, and in short time quite
a crowd collected about the ruins. Hen
~ AIDE, the 13-year-old son of Mr.: AIDE.
was also missing. A search of the ruins
in the morning disclosed his body.
burned to a Crisp. -.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. AIDE, Miss
Lizzie AIDE and Henry AIDE were burned
10 Il crisp. The limbs and heads were
. burned off, and in fact only small mass
of flesh and bones remained. The ola
man ard his wife were more horribly
burned than the others. The body of
Rosa Moirer was not burned SO badly
as the others. The little girls legs
were burned off, one arm was raised
over her head and the hand of this was
gone.
Disposjng of the robbery theory. it
is very hard 10 find motive for the hor-
rible crime, as Mr., AIDE was very pop
ular man and we'll liked by all his
neighbors. The only en1nity which
might have existed between him and
any of the people living in. that section
is that which resulted from charge he
made against man who;was arrested
in Cheatham county a few days ago.
charged with stealing hogs from AIDE.
This man was tried before magistrate
in Lheatham county and bound over to
the circuit court. There is, however,
no evidence against this man which
wou!din any way connect him with the
murder,
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three generations. In fact, it is often
commented upon by those who represent
an American descent Of. seven or eight
generations, and who, therefore, may be
said to be in position to judge Of and.
criticise the characteristics Of newoona-
ers, that the so-callcd Scotch Irish have
precisely those traits Of character which
have marked most Of the admittedly
Irish since they first began coming "a the
United States, showing that Il Il carly,
surroundings md local y. irenc ll .er
than blood, that det ernai IL the XII asncter
#of a man Or III s ss2s1
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ent generation am American beyond
the least possibility Of foreign admixture,
and if this is the case in the United
States, why not in Ireland?
Then, too, if those living in Ireland for
centuries are to be called Scotch Irish
simply because their remote ancestors
may have come from Scotland, then on
the same ground those whose early
ancestors came from England or 2 Nor
mandy should be called nglish-I irish sor
Norman ITigh. u the - eanbers S. sthe
illiips Gus =
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AS to definitions, we are all conglom-
crates in the matter of descent. There
was no marked distinction in the early
days between the Scotch and Irish peo-
pie, they were of a common race, hav-
ing the same raical customs and tradis
.tions. The loyalty. of the Scot to the
head of his clan was the same spirit
that animated the Irish tribespan in
his devotion to his chief. Upon this
primitive original stock, both in Scot
land and ireland, various foreign g
strains OF blood have been fed,
"a thai, beck A.. f 'e''
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on for Cuba.

New York, March PA Press spe-
cial from Punta Gorda, Fla, says at
midnight Friday night one Of the
largest expeditions that ever left this
coast sailed for Cuba from here laden
with arms, ammunition, hospital sup
plies, 1000 pounds OF dynamite, band
Qrenades and many other articles Of the
kind. The supplies have been coming
here for the last week and were hidden
by good and trusted agents up the
Pence river on the islands there. This
is the fifth expedition, 1t is said, that
has been sent of here undetectcd in the
last two months.
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their name implies, Of Norman descent,
while as intermarriages have taken place
throughout the entire island, and as in
TOO years.. or, say, twenty-five genera
tons, it-can be shown that each one OF us
has some thirty million of ancestors, 1t
is safe to say that since the Fitzgeralds
first went to Ireland the intermarriages
have been such that practically every one
in Ireland whose family has been there
more than two or three generations has
his 81 her proportion 81 Norman French q
blood; and III sht fairly call him or her
ssp1f Morn, an-Iris
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ton of the Scotch-Irish Is that they
have right to this designation be-
cause they are the descendants of those
persons who, 200: years ago or more,
went over from Scotland to settle III Ire
land. Buttransfers of this kind are TAX
ing place all over the world. How many
Of us would be genuine Americans if we
had to prefix to that title BY hyphen the he
foreign country IN which some Of our an an
5oestors we're born or we're living 200
years d 50 It il assumed in the United q
States That one 81 two craft &, y
q d u. s|lI
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Two Men Lost on Hunting Trim,

Chesaning, Mich, March 25.--W. i.
Ireland, manager of the Greene ele-
.vator; B. C. Eldred, druggist, and Chef
Slight, a barber, left here in a small
boat early Monday, to go down the
Shiawassee river, on q duck hunting
trip. Since then nothing has been
heard of them, and it is feared that
they are lost. A heavy storm and very
high water has prevailed for the past
two days. A searching party is looking
for the missing men,,
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Honor to tho. Clevelands.

Princeton, N. j., March 24.-The tea
given in honor of ex-President and Mrs.
Cleveland at Prospect Tuesday after
noon, by President and Mrs. Patton, was
one Of the most important social func-
lions held in Princeton in some
time. The faculty of The uni
versity was fully represented, as
well as The leading families In town.
The attendance was very large, nearly
600 persons enjoying the hospitality Of
DR.. Patton. and taking advantage of the
opportunity to welcome Mr.. and Mrs.
Cleveland to Princeton.
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THE FLOODS.
Further Reports of the Damage by
: High Water.

Further Reports OF tho Damage by
High Water.
Cascvillc, Mich, March 23.-The Pig
enn river. is overlooking her banks,
doing considerable damage to property
On the fats. The POINTING, Oxford &
Northern railroad depot was badly
wrecked. About 100000 feet ofslogs,
which were anchored further up the
river. broke and came down with ire
1nendous force and lodged against the
bridge, forming dam. The south APP
proach was entirely washed away and
many of the logs have gone ont into Sag
inaw bay. Nitt's bridge, four miles
south Of here, was swept away, and
Newman's bridge, still further south,
is badly damaged. Flach and Conley.s
dam, just above the village, was washed
out. The damage is heavy.
! In Wisconsin,.
Madison, Wis, March 23.-T4nke Men
t!ota is OVERLOOKING its dam and the
river leading from lake to lake has
overRowed it's northern bank and the
lowlands northeast, embracing many
hundreds OF acres are overlooked. The
lowlands between the river and the
business part Of the citynre under water,
several houses being completely sur
rounded by water.
) Baraboo, Wis, March 23.-Heavy
rains have caused very much damagein
this city end vicinity. From E!roy TO
Baraboo the Baraboo river has over
flowed It's banks, washing out tracks
md causing the foundation Of buildings
to. cave in. The ice in the river in the,
lower part of tho city is gorged and'the
water has backed up until the entire
eastern portion OF the city Is inundated,
the water standing three feet deep in
the middle Of the streets.
i Three Drowned.
! La Crosse, WIS. March 2S.-News. OF
& drowning accident, the only fatal one
SO far as the result of the recent foods
1 in this vicinity, reached here Monday
afternoon. Bernhard Koch. farmer
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Must lpay.

Sedalia, Mo, March 25.-The Sedalia
school district must pay $4,000 to the
holders of the school bonds issued in
1883 and fraudulently sold TO eastern
people after they had been paid ten
years later. This was the decision of
the circuit court Wednesday,. j. c.
Thompson, who was cashier of the First
national bank, was the dishonest agent
for the school bonds and resold them
when he should have destroyed them.
The swindle was only detected when the
bank failed and johnson absconded to
Mexico
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swept By Fire.

Ottumwa, Ia, March 22.-Fire which!
started at $3.50 p. N. Sunday bataed the
attempts of the frcmen until midnight,i
when it was gotten under control, after
having destroyed property valued III
SITS, 900. Cullin's dry goods store went
first, the loss being 100000. Prugh q
Co., wholesale queensware, loss SIG, 600!
The building in which these fires were
located suffers . loss of $4,000. The
balance Of the losses are sustained by
other firms doing business in the block,
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victim OF Heart Disease.

Berlin, March 24.--Grand Duchess
Sophie, wife Of the reigning grand duke
of Saxe-Weimar, died suddenly Tuesday
from heart disease at Weimar, the CAPT
tai Of the grand duchy. The grand
duchess, who was the daughter of the
late King William H., of the Neither
lands, was born April 8, 1924, and was
married at The Hague. October 8. 1s4e.
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Echo of a Campaign Episode

Frankfort, Ky. March 2o.-W. II.
IMorgnn,,s, bill. introduced in the. house
Friday, makes it a high crime and a mis-
!tlemeanor to interrupt public speakers
,by throwing eggs or other missiles, or
felony. if injury,is done to the speaker.
Mr. Morgan had in view the treatment
LOT Carlisle at Covington, and Lewis III
his congressional race.
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Acquitted.

Anderson, Ind, March 2o.-Barney
Van Hoorebeke, indicted for murder in
the first degree, following the death
of his wife, was found not guilty. He
was released, and he's gone back to his
farm. The jury was out 20 hours.
There were IA ballots, the first being
nine to three for acquittal. The only
question was whether broken nose
would cause death. The jury decided
that pneumonia was the cause OF Mrs,
Hocrebcke's death.
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Banks. 70 Pay Taxes.

>. Frankfort, Ky, March 25.-!The court
of appeals has reversed it's former de-
cision on bank taxation, and hereafter
: hanks will have to pay taxes the Same
as. other property. The state will have
to pay back thousands to the banks.
,,and these institutions will have to pay
large. amounts to the city and county
tax receivers. Heretofore the only tax
. on banks has been 81 state levy.
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IT PASSES THE SENATE.
Shore Dill Adopted
Xnts. Of IN To 4

Antl-DeDArtmentapH b1A Auopteu
by vote 81 80 to 4.
Springfield, H., fMareh 25:-By vote Of
,anti-department stdrs1bill and sent it to
the house, where Is Wassplaced ON the order
of first reading Eognd dozen Of the sen,
firm conviction thas2 itsis unconstitutional
for the PURPOSE ,aa giving the supreme
Springfield Ill, March 25.-Chairman
Selby, of the house cbf1mittee on revenue,
"Wednesday morning seported favorably
the two revenue bills prepared: by the
Chicago real estate board and the civic
grand assessmen teyery five years and fix
the basis OF assessment at ten per cent. of
the actual cash value. The provision for
the election of board of assessment re-
view was STRICKEN out4 by,tt 1retoommittee.
which sat until: midnight considering the
hills
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MET. AN AWFUL FATE.
Man Falls Into a laundry Machine
and In killed,

and In Killed.
New Orleans, March 25.-.A curious
and horrible fatality occurred here
"Wednesday at the American laundry.
a young man working in the laundry
accidentally fell into machine used for
,wringing out clothes and was crushed
and whirled to death in ten seconds.
The wringer. is a machine built on the
centrifugal principle. 1t is a metal
drum, in the center of which rotates
a perforated reservoir at the speed Of
1900 revolutions per minute. The I'M
fortunate young man was attempting
to, shift belt just above the wringer.
In getting down, he slipped and fell
partially into it. His right arm was
caught in the cylinders and was torn
from his body at the shoulder.
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New .po.tmn.ter for Chicago

Washington, March so.-The presi.
dent, after consideration of the subject
.by the full cabinet, on Friday accepted
the resignation Of Washington Hesing
as postmaster at Chicago. Later the
president sent to the senate the NOM
i}nation Of Charles U. Gordon to I'LL the
'vacaucV, t yss ..,E
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Ate Birthstone Matches.

Rridgeton, N. j., March 22.--Chewing
birthstone matches caused the death
Saturday of Lulu Decher. the two-year-
old daughter of John Decfer, and the
child's sister, Rebecca, aged six years,
is in critical condition. The children
obtained " box of matches and each ate
Q large number.
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Death OF MAJ. A. M. wins.

Chicago, March a4.-Tbe death of Maj.
Andrew NJ. Wills, at his residence, 791
Monroe street, removes another hero Of
the civil war and q well-known business
man Of this city. Maj. Wills was born
at Fredericksburg, Pa, and was con-
nected with titled families in England.
Sir Arthur Guinness, of Dublin, was re-
lated TO the family, and the deceased
was also cousin Of the distinguished
English divine, Dean Stanley.
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Missouri Bank Fails.

Marysville, Mo-, March 25.-rhe doors
OF the DE Kalb county bank failed to
open, and notice posted on them stated
that the bank was IN the hands. OF the
secretary of state. The, bank has not
transacted a heavy business lately, and
this action was taken at meeting Of
the board of directors. No state
ment of liabilities is given, but the d.
rectors claim that every depositor will
10 maid In full ~
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SEEKS A NEW TRIAL,
Theodore Durrant's Reasons for ASH
f. ing n RchcurinE

The odore Durrant'a Reasons for Ask
f. ing Rchcnring
:. San Francisco, March 24.--Theodore
,Durrant, the slayer of Blanche Lamont
and Minnie Williams, petitiored the
supreme court Tuesday for rehearing.
The petition alleges that many of the
jurors impanelled at the time of his
trial were deaf, could not speak English
or were incapacitated from jury duty
from other causes; that it was the
Judges dirty to see that only competent
jurors were impanclled; that by reason
of this neglect the petitioners inter.
ests suffered severely. Another point
raised is that by reason Of the ''un-
bridled license" of the press the public
was unduly prejudiced against the pris'
Oner.
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Killed Himself.

Columbus, o., March 22.-While In .
frenzy from jealousy and drink early
Sunday morning Edward Born, aged
80. drove his wife from the house with
. revolver ard then, In the presence OF
his children, sent bullet through hts
head, dying instantly. u
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SIGNS TheffJ is; missions.

Washington, March, 25.-rhe presi-
dent Wednesday Sighed the commission
of John Hay, ambassador to the court
Of St. James; Horace Porter, ambas-
sador to France, and Henry White, first
secretary OF embass5'at London. The
commissions were sent to the state
department where they will be deliv-
cred to the new diplomats.
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N.1J J z
Ac0uftted.

Anderson, Ind, March 25.-The sensa-
tional Joe Davies murder trial ended
Wednesday afternoon in q verdict OF
not guilty, the jury having been out
"a hours Four months ago Davies shot
and killed John Landers, his wife's
paramour.
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Coke Works Busy.

Johnstown, Pa, March a5.-The Nc
Creery coke works at Graceton. Indiana
county. have fired every oven this week,
and they expect to work fill time for
months ahead. Over 800 men are now
at work,
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-atul storm. In Germany.

(: Berlin, March so.--High winds and
severe hailstorms prevailed throughout
the greater part of Germany Thursday
night, doing great deal Of damage in
many places" Several lives We're lost
sad many persons were injured.
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Earuera object.

Racine, Wis, March 25.-Racine coun-
ty farmers object to the extension Of
the Sheridan drive and have -petitioned
the governor to veto the bill now before
the Wisconsin legislature.
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coal Mines to start q

Coal Mines to Start Up.
Louisa, Ky. March rs. Tho operators
in the New Came! coal fields, on Greary
creek. announce that they viii put 1000
miners at work April l.
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SCOTCH

Srhe Term Conveys No Intelligent
# j- Idea.
!. The term sscotch-Irish is one which
gives a great deal Of annoyance to 9
iraumber Of Americans Of Irish descent,
\ who, with not a little shcW Of reason,
that they cannot. understand how
i slbe perly applied ",