Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

la the Conatitntion «i Fictiou? One of the essential demands of a Lemocracy is that the different departments of government shall be subject to the limitations of a written Constitution. The theory of a Democracy upon this point is very simple. It is presumed that the right of sovereignty resides in the people; that they delegate certain powers to government and that all powers not so delegated continue to reside in the people, and that the delegated powers are explicitly enumerated in a written Constitution. In so far as no generation can be wise enough for all'posterity provision is made whereby the fundamental law may be so altered as to meet any contingency that may arise. The object is to protect the people from the arbitrary ambition or caprice of unwise or unscrupulous rulers. The Constitution draws a line of dcmarkation about each officer and "declares, “Thus far shalt thou go and no further,” Thus the victims of despotic government have always looked upon Hie adoption of a written Constitution as a blow at absolutism and a step toward political liberty. That such was the conception of our '•evolutionary sires is universally admitted. The different departments of government were carefully kept independent of each other. And it was considered of especial Importance that the Supreme Court should be absolutely indc,pendent of the executive department and all other transient political influences. This was made decidedly clear in the early decisions of John Marshall, which came frequently in collision with the expressed wishes of the administration. It was considered proper then that the Constitution should be interpreted rather than that an administration should lie vindicated. Nor was the Supreme Court the tool of Congress. As early as 1800 John Marshall, in tlie case of Marbury vs. .Madison, held that any law of Congress coming into opposition with the Constitution was void. And every law that came before him for his consideration was tested impartially and courageously In the tight of the Constitution and accepted or rejected in accordance with that light.

Hut times have changed. The court lias seemingly degenerated into a political machine and by its action justified the query of the jurist: "Is the court abdicating its judicial character and assuming an anomalous political function?” It would certainly seem so, and if the constitution is to be so construed as to coincide with the policy of tbe executive department then it has lost its.character and become a fiction, and If the Supreme Court Is to Invariably echo the verdict of an election it can no longer pretend to be tbe conservative ballast whereby the people are preserved from the irrational enthusiasms of the hour. If the people intelligently desire that which the constitution forbids they have recourse to a constitutional amendment, and during Ihe deliberate process of the change they are given an opportunity to weigh well the meaning of the change. The isissihlilty of the structure of government Iteing altered by one popular election where minor considerations and local causes play an important part is dangerous. As things now stand the constitution is a Action.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

Republican Revolt in Wisconsin. The movement lu progress Junkie the Republican party of Wisconsin has uo precedent In any other States. A majority of the Republican members in both houses of the Legislature have Issued an address to the people, and especially to Republicans, denouncing the interference and dictation of the Governor iu the passage of bills pending before the legislative bodies. This action is inspired by indignation against Governor La Toilette for his attempts to coerce the Legislature into the passage of his pet primary bill at tiie late session. His method adopted for that purpose excited the resentment of members of the Legislature and widespread opposition iu the Republican party. The authors of the nddress and their Republican sympathizers have formed a permanent organization, with headquarters In Milwaukee. Officers of the organization are in constant attendance and a press agent lias been appointed. The address is a strong document. It starts out by quoting the constitution of Wisconsin, which says: “The legislative power shall lie vested In a senate and assembly.” As representatives of the people the signers of the address “view with alarm the persistent efforts to strengthen the executive at the expense of the legislative department of the State.” They charge that “many uuwnrrnntalde Interferences with the exclusive powers of the Legislature and attempts to coerce acquiescence in unreasonable nets and unwise experiments” occurred at the late session. Of course the charge rests agnlnst Governor La Toilette, and his policy Is said to be contrary to the welfare of the people,of Wisconsin, while creating "bitter factional differences In the Republican party.” The primary bill which Governor La Toilette tried to force through tha Wisconsin Legislature was revolutionary and set aside all previous usages in party politics. Town, city, county, district and State conventions were absolutely abolished. The delegate or rep^

resentative system was superseded. All nominations were to be made by a direct vote of the people at the primaries. The primaries of both parties were to be held at the same time and place under rules for umpiring the contest in each party. But the scheme was far deeper than that. Precinct committees were to be chosen at encii primary. With from two to five primaries in a town or ward, the chairmen of the precinct committees were to form the town, ward or city committees. The chairmen of the town and city committees were to form the county committees. The chairmen of all the county committees were to form the State committee. There never was such elaborate provision to build up an all-powerful party machine. The plan applied to both parties. it Is notorious that Governor La Follette lias been at work for several years organizing In each precinct a little force of politicians devoted to his interests. It was his personal machine and in perfect working order. If his bill had passed the most formidable political organization that ever existed in the State would have been established and it would have been under his supreme personal control.—Chicago Chronicle.

Fres Tend - w Trmt Goo is. —— Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, lias just returned from a trip to Europe, tilled with fierce indignation at the “false impression’' which has lieen” created on the other side of the Atlantic by Representative Babcock's bill to put articles manufactured or controlled by trusts on the free list. Mr. Grosveuor is a protectionist of the most orthodox and narrow type. lie doesn’t believe in giving the foreigner an opportunity to sell anything In the United States. Incidentally, as an influential Republican member of Congress, what bo says about Mr. Babcock's bill is significant as an expression of the views of the extreme protectionist clement in his party. “I told Mr. Wilson, a Member of Parliament,” says Mr. Grosvenor, “that Mr. Babcock's hill, if it ever materialized, would in all probability never be considered by the Ways and Means Committee of the House; that Mr. Babcock was not regarded in any sense as a leader on the tariff question, and that I knew personally that President McKinley does not approve the bill.”

It seems, according to Mr. Grosvenor, that if articles manufactured and controlled by trusts were deprived of protection, “the tide of prosperity would lie cheeked,” the business of the country would be distuned and tbe “march of enterprise” would he halted. If any concessions at all were made in the matter of the tariff those terrible freetraders would be encouraged to begin another campaign against protection, and then the country would surely go to the dogs. Mr. Babcock is a good Republican, but these awful forebodings which Mr. Grosvenor’s fertile imagination lias conjured up have never occurred to the Wisconsin Congressman He belongs to the elementary school of statesmen who believe that when American industrial enterprise has driven the foreigner almost out of business in his own market it no longer requires protection by a paternal government. Mr. Grosvenor has difficulty In finding words to express his contempt for such crude statesmanship. The central fact In Mr. Grosvenor's denunciation of the Babcock bill is that he and Ids party are resolutely opposed to any legislation which will protect the American consumer from the trusts. A bill which might prove beneficial to the interests of the people who buy trust products will, according to the Ohio statesman, “never be considered, probably, by the Ways and Menus Committee.” Mr. Babcock might ns well begin to prepare now for the snubbing which the lenders of his party have in store for him. They have no Intention of letting id m pose as n tariff reformer In the Republican party. He must swallow the whole program, trusts, protection and everything else, if lie hopes to escape expulsion from the loyal fold. It now remains to be seen whether Mr. Babcock can he ns easily squelched ns Mr. Grosvenor thinks, or whether he is a man of grit and determination.—Baltimore Sun.

The Congo Under the Ocean.

On the coast of Africa, opposite the mouth of tlio river Congo and continuous with the course of that river, lies a submerged valley, the existence and shni>o of which have been ascertained by means of soundings made by the British Admiralty. Tills valley, through which the Congo probably flowed at a time when the western coast of Africa was more elevated than It is nt present, is 122 miles In length, extending to the edge of the platform of submerged land which borders the continent. Its sides arc steep, precipitous aud well-defined, indicating that they arc formed of solid rocks. Other suhmrgcd rtver valleys are found on the western coast of Europe, and similar phenomena exist In various parts of the world where tho edges of continents have sunk.

Now, D'on’t Ask Us That Again.

Miss Wunder—Why do they have that deep crease In the new panama hats you meu are wearing. Mr. Knowslt—Why, that represents the Panama canal.—Baltimore American.

MARVELS OF ARCHITECTURE.

Anclea’a Built Impo ing and Durable Buildings—Plsa’a Leaning Tower. The,earliest builders appear to have been architects, in the sense that they sought to make their designs beautiful or imposing as well as durable. The inclination, iu ancient times, among the first architects, was to make all their works exceedingly massive, as witness the Pyramids, the Temple at Thebes and the Celtic monuments of the Druids. First attempts at architecture were tombs and temples, and then followixl'palaces. The earlier kings and chieftains were regarded as semi-celes-tial beings, and although they were housed little better than their subjects, when they died it was deemed imperative that they should have imposing sepulchre. At first caves and natural cavities were used for such purposes; then came rough cairns and finally mighty tombs. The Acropolis of Sipylus in Asia Is the first notable tomb on record. It formed the grave of Tantalus, King'of Lydia, who died about 1400 It. C. Of course the Pyramids antedate this Acropolis, but the Pyramids arc not strictly tombs. Although used for burial purposes by the kings of

LEANING TOWER OF PISA.

Egypt, it is known that they were also astronomical observatories. These marvels of architecture were built 40C0 B. C. On either hank of the Nile for hundreds of miles are temples, palaces mid tombs, the vastness of whose ruins proves that a mighty civilization existed upon the earth at a time when the Persians and Greeks herded their flocks on tlie shore of the Caspian Sea. The Pyramids are undoubtedly the most stupendous work of mau, and the Palace of Karuak is not much inferior. It covers two hundred and seventy acres, and in the Hall of Columns there are pillars, high as the tallest trees, surmounted by capitals on which one hundred men could stand without crowding. It may be noticed that in no other country have architects had such scope for their vast ideas as in Egypt, because in no other country lias human life ever been held so cheaply. For twenty years one humlred thousand men toiled on the Pyramids, anil millions of lives have been sacrificed to erect tbe wonderful temples ami palaces over whose ruins we sigh to-day. The ancient cides of Babylon and Nineveh, although not built of enduring stone, were triumphs of architectural power. Who can picture to themselves Nineveh, with its wall sixty miles In circumference, and one hundred feet high, studded with fifteen hundred towers, each two hundred feet high? or Babylon, greater still, with Its hundred brazen gates, its walls three hundred and ninety feet high and ninety-eight feet thick? Josephus. who saw the temple of Jerusalem In all its glory, describes is as a marvel of architecture. It was built by Solomon 1000 B. C.; was world renowned, and yet to-day its very site is unknown. Some wonderful architects must have flourished in ancient times in India, if we may judge by the colossal ruins and the remaining monuments of their skill. A single illustration will suffice. The Temple of Kailusa Is an Immense build ilig. three hundred and forty feet long, one hundred and ninety-five feet wide, and rising to the height of one hundred feet. It is of stone, hut not put together in the usual way. It is made out of a single isolated rock hollowed within and ear veil without, and contains halls, galleries, rooms and statues iu profusion. There is no other building like it In the world.

Tito Greeks were wonderful areliiteets, and left behind them as legacies of greatness the Acropolis with its beautiful temples, and the Temple of Diana, at Ephesus, which was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Rome borrowed her chief architectural ideas from the Etruscans aud Greeks, hut improved on them in massiveness. The most Imposing and the most enduring of these’ architectural marvels Is the Colosseum, built by Titus about 80 A. I>. Tiie building covers a space of sixty five thousand square feet, and when complete accommodated ninety thousand spectators. In China, the Great Wall will at once occur to the reader, hut flint was an engineering feat hud displays no architectural skill. The famous Porcelain Toiver, throe hundred nml fifty feet high, "as a wonderful building and the only one of Its kind. It Is no longer In existence, having been destroyed by the Talplng rebels. America hns no distinct style of architecture and England Is not much better off: Human life is dear, and although we could no doubt build a higher pyramid than Cheops, if we wanted to, wc don’t want to. Italy contains three marvels of architecture at the present day In tiie shape of leaning towers that will continue to attract for many years the wonder and admira tlon of travelers. Near the exchange in Bologna is a

large space from which four street* branch off to thy principal gates. This space contains two leaning towers. The tower of Asinelli is two hundred and seventy-two feet high and lias a deflection of live feet from the perpendicular, anil Its companion, the Tower of Gariscuda, is one hundred and thirty-eight feet high and has a deflection of nine feet from the perpendicular. These towers are both plain structures, devoid of architectural beauty, and at a distance look to the American visitor like factory chimneys. The same reproach cannot apply to the famous leaning tower of I’lsa, which is beautiful as well as odd. ,

The Campanile, or Leaning Tower, is the noblest specimen of Southern Romanesques art. It is one hundred and seventy-nine feet lilgjb, the walls are thirteen feet thick at the base and six feet thick at the top, and the entire structure is built of white marble, which time has toned down to a beautiful cream color. The basement is surrounded by a range of semi-circular arches supported by fifteen columns, and above these rise six arcades with thirty columns each. The e'glith story, which contains the bells, is of much smaller diameter and contains but twelve columns. The ascent to the top is by a stairway in tlxe wall and is so made that the visitor hardly perceives the inclination until lie reaches tho top and looks down njt the base. This tower was built In the twelfth century by the architects Bounanno and William of Ilaashruck, and it is not believed that the tower was made to lean designedly. The most reasonable supposition is that the foundations settled while the tower was in course of construction, and this supposition is strengthened by tiie fact that the upper portion is built so as to correct the slanting appearance of the tower. At any rate, it does lean to the extent of thirteen feet eight inches from the perpendicular—euough to excite the liveliest apprehension in t-lie minds of visitors who make the ascent and look down the short side. Most engravings exaggerate the leaning of the tower so flinch as to make it look absurd. The Illustration given herewith- is correct in detail. There is no danger of the tower falling, however, as a line dropped from the center of tlie top will fall inside ils base, and therefore it obeys the law of the center of gravity, and so preserves its balance. It lias not settled any since the first settling, and is not likely to do so.

DIAMOND’S “SELF-FLAME.

Remarkable Phoiphorcicent Property of ilie Precious Stone. A traveler for a diamond house was taJking shop the other evening, and. speaking of gems, said: "The most overworked expression used by the unsophisticated anil deeply impressed diamond purchaser is: “It actually looks as if it glows of itself.’ Now, it is not generally known that such is actually the case, although not, of course, in the way the public intends. The beauty of the gem in light is, of course, in its remarkable refractive power, but under certain conditions the diamond hns more, for it may gleam even iu tlie night with a pale but extremely beautiful light. In short, it becomes phosphorescent. Heated to a certain temperature the internal fire shows itself, and under pressure the same is true. Some years ago I went to Amsterdam to purchase some special stones for a California millionaire, who had ordered them through our New York house, and while there I the inside workings of the famous diamond-cut-ting establishments of that city. Of all that I saw, however, the ‘self-flame’ of t lie stones under pressure most surprised me. The manager placed a large rose-cut gem between the Jaws of a vise ami carefully applied a certain amount of pressure. He then extinguished all the light iu the shop, and as soon as my eyes had become accustomed to the darkness I saw the diamoml emitting a soft radiance of its own like a very jiale glow worm. As I rememlier It, he said that the yellower diamonds were slightly more phosphorescent than the first-water stones. New Orleans Times-Demoorat.

Vacant Lots.

Vacant lots have been successfully cultivated hi Philadelphia under the direction of the Philadelphia Vacant Lots Cultivation Association. During the past years gardens were provided for four hundred and eighty families, consisting of two thousand four hundred and eighty-six persons. The aggregate receipts from the various farms showed a total of nearly twentyfive thousand dollars. This is six times the amount expended by the association on the lands. Five families became so adept at gardening that their savings enabled them to hire ample farms of their own. Thirteen families were given Belgian hares for exiierimont lost year, and the successful results attained will cause the association to take up this line of Industry on the farms tills year.

Why He Kicked.

Milkman—Say, do you know where the family that used to live here have moved to? Policeman—No. Wlint do you want to know for? Milkman—Because they have gone away without paying me sll that they owed for milk. Policeman—Well, I suppose these was about stl worth of water In that lilll, anyway. Milkman—No, there wasn't; that’s wlint makes me so blamed mad. They were new customers, and I hadn’t begun to water the milk.—Boston Herald.

What lias become of the oid-fnnhion ed dinner bell? Formerly nearly every bouse had one. Some were hung on posts. Have you seen one lately? l

FRIEND OF THE SPARROWS.

Tells of the Good They Do to 1 Their Human Slanderers. I see In magazines and papers so many articles denouncing the sparrow that I feel it my duty to tell of my 35 years of close companionship with this little chap. While I read the aocounts of his alleged murders and depredations on other birds, I have yet to see any such disgraceful acts i*u his part. My experience with him lias proved to me that he is the farmer's best friend. He is the first little fellow in the spring to pounce ou and destroy all the caterpillars aud insects that are destructive to the farmer’s crops, and he keeps pegging away at these vermin until the grain is ripe. Then the crops are so far advanced that they are safe. All lie then asks in return for the benefit he has been to Hie farmer is a little grain to carry him through the fall and winter.

•So few know tiro reason for the iutroduction of the English sparrow to this part of the world that I wish to give it. Many years ago the streets of New York were lined witii beautiful trees. In tfie spring, as soon as they began to put on their summer foliage, they were attacked by an ugly looking green worm called the inch worm. These would devour all the leaves, leaving the tree perfectly hare, aud then liaug from the trees iu millions by a silkeu thread. They became such an intolerable nuisance that a great many people had the trees cut down to get rid of them. After introduction of the sparrow this nuisance ceased to exist, lie did it is work bra vely and well. This certainly is a proof of the benefit he is to the farmer. You can depend on it that he destroys more harmful insect life in proportion than he takes hack iu P4y for what grain lie eats. While now and then there may be eases of disgraceful acts on his part to others of our most beautiful feathered creatures, lie has always behaved himself tu my presence. At this writing lie is living in peace with the catbird, robin, brown thrush, oriole and many other birds iu and around my premises. The little chap cheers us with his presence and cheery note all winter. Thousands of them ure killed off by deep snow, cold aud Want of food. Not only is he a benefit to us in tlio way above mentioned; lie is a shield, a protector to ail the otiier birds, iu that he gives up liis life to tramp cats, hawks and the boy with the rifle. If he were not with us surely all the other birds would have to suffer.

I saw an article iu one of our magazines advising the wholesale destruction of the sparrow with grain soaked in poisoned water. What a terrible combination that is to get in the hands of some idiot who would use it and destroy numberless other feathered songsters. Last winter one of my neighbors soaked corn iu poisoned water and scattered it for the destruction of crows. Ho killed a bevy of quail. I saw the dead birds. Besides, many other birds have suffered with the quail. Before condemning this little chatterbox make your home with him summer and winter, aud the more you see of him the more you will see his value to the farmer, and you will find on the long, cold and dreary days in tlie country in winter, when all the other warblers are in the sunny South, these little innocents will brighten’ your pathway with their cheerful notes.—Forest and Stream.

Wealth of the United States.

Wealth of t lie United States is computed every ten years from the census returns. The total wealth in 1850 was put at $7,135,780,228, or S3OB per capita. and iu 1870 at $30,008,518,507, or S7BO per capita. This amount rose in 1880 to $43,042,000,000, or SB7O per capita. and again in 1800 to $05,037,001,197 or $1,030 per capita. Expert statisticians estimate that the amount for 1900 will he nt least SIK),000,000,000, or nearly $1,200 per capita. When it is considered that the latter amount represents accumulated savings of SO,OOO, or nearly four times the average of 1850, for every family of five persons, it Is evident that the world is growing rich at an rate under tho operation of machine production.—World’s Work.

Throwing the Shoe.

The peasants of Southern France have tiie credit of originating tiie familiar custom of throwing an old shoe after the newly-wedded pair. It was, moreover, the rejected suitor who first made it popular. The peasant bride is conducted by her friends to her new home, while tiie young husband Is mnde to halt at a couple of hundred yards from the house. If there is a rejected suitor, he then arms himself with an old wooden shoe ami flings it, with ids aim, nt the bridegroom as he makes a dasli for the house. When tiie shoo is thrown it is understood that tiie last feeling of ill will lias Ih*cii flung away with It.—New York Tribune.

Frenchmen In Paris.

Statistics show tliat of the population of Fails only 2(1 per Cent are natives, whereas the figures for tiie other principal eapltuls »f Europe are as follows; St. Petersburg, 40 per cent; Berlin, 41 per cent; Vienna, 45 per cent, and London, 05 per cent.

“Brick-Tops.”

Three out of every 135 English speaking people liave red hair.

When the average person decides to do anything rash, be lets his best friend know In time In order that his best friend may put a stop to It.

Bookish people know so many ualnterwtiug things.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. I ecision Will Help Rural Sclioo'.s—Typhoid Fever Ainonn Nana at Olden* burs—Reclaiming Kankakee Swamp Married at Fifty Miles an Ildur, The centralization of schools b; rural districts and the free transporta'ioa of the pupils in public conveyances to and from schools is rapidly growing in favor throughout Indiana. This experiment was first tried in Delaware County, where the schools were consolidated, and proved a great success. The plan was originated by Charles A. Van Matre, the youngest School superintendent in the State, being only 51 years of age. 'The authority of trustees to transport school children to school lias been the only hindrance to the succes.sltjf the plan. The question is one that lias been long pending and great interest attaches to tile recent decision on the matter which State Superintendent Jones lms handed down. It is regarded as final, ip the matter and trustees have only to act.’ Mr. Jon-s says that it lias been .conceded .fur years that township trustees have almost -unlimited powers an i rights to organize and conduct their scliopls. In loueluss n Mr. Jones says it would lie just as reasonable for one to assert that the trustees cannot buy a bell for 1 is school house or nails with which to make repairs or an encyclopedia as to assert that the trustee cannot transport children to school at public expense. Typtiol t Fever Ratre* In Convent. An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging within tile eon fines of the Catholic convent of the Immaculate Conception at Oldenburg. Thirty nans have fallen victim- to this dread disease and several have died from its effects. The epidemic is more serious from > lie fact that no men physicians arc allowed within the walls of the convent, the rules of the institution being strict in the extreme. Th • source of the epidemic is believed to have Im.ii in the four weds which supply the convent with drinking water. Kankakee Sw n.ipls l'ee’ainie". Tin Kiinkifkcc swamp, so famous twenty years ago for its vast stretches of morass, is now ■ practically reclaimed to cultivation as the result of'patient work. The myriads of water fowl now only pay the region fleeting visits to the disgust of sportsmen. The broad river of oliLhas dwindled to an ins : gniticant stream, choked with sandbars. The swamp now produces some of tiie best corn ill the country.

XVc 1 tit Fifty Tiles an Hour. John Santlersuii and M;>s Josephine Lreitenbaeh of Greentown were married on the Clover -Leaf passenger train, between that place and Kokomo. At a given signal of the engineer, .while the cars were going fifty miles an hour, the couple stood up and were married by Mayor Rogers of Green .own.

Within Our Borders. Richmond lias seven smallpox cases. Cnuvfordsvilit may get an ice plant. Anderson is to have tt new business college. Henry John, 72, Lnporte County pioneer. is dead. A freight wreck at Salem blocked the Motion six hour*. The Modes-Turner glass factory, Terre Haute, lias resumed. Montgomery County is broke, and the tax levy will have to be raised. Thomas Huey, Muueie, lost a foot by ladug run over by an L. E. & \Y train. William Cr ig, Evansville, stnblied by his brother-in-law,-Ollie Funk, is dead. Willie Swift. 12, Yorktown. was klied by a Big Four engine in the Yorktown ya rds. The GotilJ steel mill at Irondale lias started and will run a double force all winter. Flora’s biggest factory, the sawmill and planing mid, owned by R. D. \ oorhees, burned. A| AV. Swanson, aged 45. was killed by a train at Terre Coupee, bis body being cut iu two. Farmer Tilton of Ciay township tired at melon thieves'and one In I got a shot through his ear. The C.. It. & M. Railroad will cross the center of Marion on elevate J tricks, on a trestle 2,100 feet long. Rev. Dr. J. \V. Turner of Evansville has accepted a call to the First Methodist Church of Decatur. 111. Mrs. Louisa Sehnatzmcier, I'M), Col limbus, is dead. She leaves a sou, 71, and a daughter, 70. She was horn iu Frussia. Durilig a severe storm seventeen out of a herd of nineteen cattle belonging to Alfred Nickey, near Clnirubuseo, were killed by lightning. The 10-months-old child of Fred Erdmnn and wife, Greenslmrg, swallowed a beauty pin ami chain, with the pin open. It lodged in the child's throat, but was finally swallowed. The child will recover. Thomas Shepperd, who was released from the Michigan City prison after serving a sentence of twenty-two years for murder, hns just been married at Sullivan to a Miss Johnson, the sweetheart of his youth. State Gas Inspector Leach said, at Marion, that the oil wells are not wasting as much gas ns supposed. The law, he says, gires the well owners fortyeight hours in which to shut off the gas escaping from newly opened wells. The Collier Shovel Company of Washington has been consolidated with the Chicago Steel Manufacturing Company of Chicago, and the plant will probably lie moved to Hammond. The capital of the consolidated concern will lie soso,'K>o. William Darnell, Evansville, hied to death after cutting an artery on u pant of glass. The McCloy lamp Hue factory and the Central Bottle Company, El wood, have started up. Dr. Sol C. Dickey of InJlanapoEs la elected secretary and general manager of Wincna assembly. B. &(>. laborers and engine wiper* in Washington hare demanded an inereipje of 2V4 cents an hour. J. B. Williams, insane man at the Richmond asylum, hanged himself with Strips of his clothing.