Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1906 — SIXTY-CENT GAS A CERTAINTY [ARTICLE]

SIXTY-CENT GAS A CERTAINTY

Indianapolis to Have a New Deal in Fluid Fuel Since the Chicago Decision. Indianapolis. Feb. 9.—Sixty-cent gas Is now regarded as a certainty under the decision of the United States circuit court of appeals at Chicago. The Citizens’ company which wa sorganized with a view to getting the Consumers’ Gas company mains.and which contracted with the city for its option on the plant, is receiving subscriptions to the stock hourly, and is confident of being able to manufacture a fuel gas at the ordinance price of 60 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. As a result of the adverse decision to the Consumers’ Gas company was seen on the local exchange, when Indianapolis gas stock fell from 73, at which it has been quoted for weeks, to 40. Local investors seem to think that a competing company, such as now seems assured, will make a great difference in the earnings of the Indianapolis Gas company, Harrison Monument Design. Indianapolis, Feb. 9.—A design for a monument to the late President Harrison, submitted by Charles Niehaus, of New York, to the Benjamin Harrison monument commission, has been selected, and will occupy a position in University park, near the point where Harrison addressed so many people during the campaign of 1888. The figure represents the ex-president standing in front of a chair, from which he has just risen, and in the act of addressing an audience. He holds a manuscript In the left hand, and the right is slightly extended. He wears a Prince Albert coat, closely buttoned