ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL

See Canal.: tional institution, the oldest in the state, established in 1829 at Jacksonville, Iilinois, under the auspices of a group of seven eastern college men known as the ‘Yale Band.’ A conservatory of music is a feature of the college, and there is 2, preparatory department, Whipple Acad- | emy. Endowed funds, $455,000. President, 1922, Charles W. Rammelkamp, Ph,D. Men students, 195; women, 289. Faculty, 13 men and 9 women. of Algonquin tribes, once inhabiting 8S. Wisconsin, N. Illinois and sections of Iowa and Mi ouri. Almost constant wars with the Sioux and Fox tribes, and traders’ rum, reduced them in 1750 to. about 2,000. In 1800 only 150 remained, | the Kankakeas and Peorias, who. sold their lands to Tilinois and moved, first to Mi ouri, and now are settled in the N.H, corner of Oklahoma, and number between 200 and 300. It was their custom to practice polygamy and to ‘wrap their dead in skins and attach them to trees. Their huts consisted of wooden frames covered with mats or rushes, ~