The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-18

Y egeS, peath6, and Funerals, OU cep'7 e '
 Local Notices. 15 ceE.s per line. .,.
 Yearly advertisers are limited 70 tne'r
 own immediate business (all matter 10 ue
 unobjectI0nabIc). and their contracts do not
 Include Wants, To Let. For Sale. efc.
 An insane patient in Chicago hos-
 pital jumped through window few
 days ago and fell to the ground, sixty
 feet below. She was somewhat bruised
 and her nose was broken, but the fall
 Is said to have completely restored her
 reason This "cure" is not expected to
 become popular.
 We are great. The volume contain ing a statement of the appropriations
 of congress during the last session
 shows totals of $115, ,7S4,O49 for the army
 S7,364,011 for Notifications, $772,653 for
 the military academy, $7s,1O1,791 for the
 navy, $l45. .245, ,23O for pensions, a grand total of 47,217,7S4 in payment for past
 wars or preparations for wars of the future
 Sam Jones, the evangelist, is doing good and incidentally making little
 money. He started out as circuit rider at salary of $500 a year, and now makes not less than $1,O00 a week, 1t is said, from his evangelical labors. His wealth is rated at $500,000, invest ed in plantations, stocks and bonds. He recently built and furnished hand some residence at a cost of over $5O,- 00o.
 Chief Medical Inspector Spalding of Chicago says you must keep your mouth closed during housekeeping, s'ct1erwise the streptococcus and the staphylococcus will have an excellent chance to make trouble for you" The Boston Globe adds: Apart from danger from disease germs, it is not well, when you are cleaning house, al ways to say what you are thinking"
 One difficult item which King Ed ward now has to deal with is the large quantity of souvenirs and mementoes of every description which had accu- hlulated during the lifetime of the late queen, most of them interesting in themselves and possessing some senti- mental associations, but otherwise of no intrinsic value. Some sort of classi- Iication has already been made of these and 1t is probable that l rooms will be set apart in which all the personal souvenirs dear to the late 1ueen will be carefully preserved.
 The sustaining of the anti-lynching let of the Supreme court of Ohio will | end to discourage lynching in that State, The court affirmed the judg- nent of the circuit court of Cham oaign county in the case of the county 1 commissioners vs. Benjamin F. Church, | of the estate of c. w. "Click" Mitchell, a negro vas lynched at Urbana. June 4, 1S97 His administrator, Benjamin Church, brought suit against the commissioners If Champaign county to recover the Ium of $5,0OO under the special statute making the county liable in such cases. He was given verdict for the full amount, and the decision has stood he test of all the courts of the State.
 The oldest family in Philadelphia, &C., Ording to the Record of that city, is he Shoemaker family, the original ar- estors having emigrated from the Pal- tine in 1884. He died on the voyage, ut the widow, Sarah, and twelve chil- ren settled in the neighborhood of , and Sohemakertown. 'hree of the descendants were mayors Philadelphia before the American {, levolution. The lineal ancestor of he present head of the family was reasurer of Philadelphia for eighteen uccessive years. Two of the sons of arah, the widow of the Palatinate, ' pened drug stores. One is in Shoe lakertown, where it still stands. after vo hundred years, with the family anne as proprietor. One of her sons randsons established drug store near D econd and Vine streets. Only two , the family, Samuel Shoemaker, who F vred the Randolph mansion, remained Royalist during the Revolution. He | ,uld not consequently give up his al- Il glance, and went to England. He re- lrned later, when peace was declared r he present head of the family, Benja- in II. Shoemaker, has been connected U ith the Pennsylvania hospital longer an any other of the board of direc- p rs. u
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