ILLINOIS
Money for Hospital.
—Evanston Hospital has received an anonymous gift of $25,000. The money has been applied to the endowment fund, which now amounts to $86,000.
No Provision for Pay of Experts.
—The Illinois Occupational Disease Commission, which had made arrangements for an exhaustive study of the conditions in the factories of Illinois, finds its hands tied because the bill enacted by the state legislature, which provides for an appropriation of $15,000, fails to specify expert and medical aid in its list of the purposes for which the money may be used.
Personal.
—Dr. Arthur C. McIntyre and family, Troy Grove, have returned from Europe.—Dr. Edwin J. Gause, Unity, county commissioner-elect of Alexander county, took the oath of office November 5.—Dr. Charles B. Fry, one of the oldest practitioners of Mattoon and local surgeon for many years of the Illinois Central and Big Four railroads, announces that he will