St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 January 1895 — Page 7

MATTHEM'S’ 51ESSAGE. MANY IMPORTANT SUBJECTS VIGORO_SLY DISCUSSED. The Governor Tells the Legislature of Conditions in the State — The Militia Complimented for Their Conduct During the Strikes—Roby Denounced—State Institutions — Finances. Fte. Governor Reads His Message. Gov. Matthews appeared before a joint convention of the two branches of the Legl-latun* at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning and delivered his biennial message to the body in person, thus ; departing from the usual custom' which has been ; for the executive's private secretary to read the : document. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Repre- I sen natives: Once again yon are assembled, the chosen ■ representatives of an intelligent ami progressive ' people, to consider the measures which concern i and may promote the general welfare of the peo- I pie, ami enact such laws as may advance the in- । terests of your State. I trust you may realize to the fullest extent the ; grave res|H>nsibflities which rest upon you. <>ur legislatures have done much in recent years to place Indiana in the front rank of States in adop- j tion of great reform measures, by keeping step 1 with the advancing march of a more perfect j civilization, and meeting the increasing demands ) of a people growing rapidly in wealth, in general | prosperity and enlightenment. It Is to be hoped that the work of the Fifty-ninth General Assembly may not fall short of those that have passed. It becomes my duty under the constitution t<> give such information touching thb com 11 non ot the State, and recommend •such measures as . shall be Judged to be expedient. the ' Os the linanclal condition of tin SMh .{< | management of Its public Institutions, and of thi several state offices during the past two J ears, it . will not be expected that 1 should in this paper . go into the fullest details, and 1 would, therefore, refer yon for this more extended Informa-, . tion to the’ several reports, which will be sub- | । mitted to you. , Finances. It affords me unqualltied satisfaction to an- 1 nonnee that the finances of the State are in a sound and healthy condition. Aotwitlistanding the fa t that the last General Assembly reduced ’ the levy 2’ t cents, a greater revenue was derived L than under the old levy. This was largely due j to the assessment of property under the tax law of 1891. lam of the opinion that a still further | reduction can be safely made at least 2 cents in । I Im GOVE K NOR M ATT H E XV S. the school tax levy. The State institutions have been generously provided for under their judicious and economical management : there has not been the annual deficit. It has not been necessary to borrow money to meet the annual interest upon the State debt; but. on the other hand. (luring the past tiro years, demands upon the treasury have been promptly honored, interest met. and the sum of $910,000 already paid upon the State debt, ami the further sum of $400,000 called in and will be canceled in a few days, making a total paid on the State debt of $1,310,000. Domestic Troubles. ——TuunmonTnT of the militia to stop its progress at a eost of about $4,000. and he adds : “I would here earnestly urge upon you the importance of enacting a more stringent law upon prize lighting, making it a felony to those who may participate, either as principals or seconds. It should also bo more clearly defined as to what may lie considered prize fighting, ami what exhibition contests in places of amusement. Ihe advertising of a prize fight should be unlawful and punishable with fine." The Strikes. After dealing with the troubles in the coal regions of the State and the calling out <>f the militia to guard against and suppress violence, he deals with the more recent railway troubles. "A strike originating at Pullman, 111., was in sympathy joined in by the American Railway I nion In Chicago, ami from there spread to the towns ami cities of Indiana. It is often true a vicious element, unable to appreciate the institutions of a free people, whose only idea of liberty is license am! respecting no law save that of fori e, availed themselves of the opportunity to commit depredations.’’ The 750 Indiana troops in tlds strike cost the State $52,807 and this amount the Legislature is asked to provide. The message commends the support of the Loval Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic in their prompt offer of service to suppress the strike troubles. An Increase of tiie Governor s contingent fund is asked for. Section 40 "should be amended," the message says, “so that a military officer in command [ would have more discretion in giving the order I to Are, when it becomes necessary, rather than to leave him entirely subject to the discretion of ' the civil officer." He pays high compliment, too. to the militia of the Slate, in these words: "It will not be unbei oming here to say that Indiana's militia compares favorably with that of other States, ami in proportion to the mom y expended by the state is surpassed by none. I On eaeh occasion when it has become necessity . to call them into action, their soldierly bearing. ‘ gentlemanly conduct, courtious behavior, an I ■ brave, yet tolerant spirit ba- comim-u b-j them | to their fellow citizens. To l oth officers and men the highest commendation is due." A new code of military law' is suggested. Winter Racing. Winter racing is deplored by the Governor.and I a law forbidding meetings between the Ist day of November and the Ist day of April should be en acted. Whitecapism is decreasing, and belief is expressed that strict enforcement of present laws will finally eradicate it. School for Feeble Minded Youth. Concerning the School for Feeble Minded Youth, he says: The report of the Indiana School for Feeble Minded Youth, to which I invite your attention, shows tills school to be in a satisfactory condition. The zeal and earnestness of the .superintendent. with tiie sympathetic co-operation of the Board of Trustees. Ims contributed much to its presenl biah sUunlutg. The trustees have I conducted tlto nffntve of Um« wuta.. i< - x.. \ There Wil's sin hicrea-e in the number of pupils during Ibe past year of thirty three. Th e total number eared for at tills time is 488, rhe experiment in dairy farming during the past year has proved satisfactory, the receipts exceeding the expenses. Aside from tile pecuniary conslderation.it affords a healthful pleasant and needed work to the pupils. The success is so gratifying that tiie recommendation to purchase a farm for tiie use of the school merits your consideration. Eastern Hospital। for the Insane. Tiie report of the Eastern Hospital for the lnsaue show s that its capacity to receive patients lias been reached. Tiie number of patients ihirmg 1833 was 422, and lor 1894.431. I lie district tributary to this hospital embraces sixteen connties, and it is estimated that thure are now igo insane people needing treatment in tills district, an average ot ten Io tile county, who cannot be receiv'd. Many of these are in the poor houses or confined in tiie county jails, quite a number probably curable if given immediate hospital Indiana lias practically declared that it is the duty of the State to care' for the insane. 1 would ask your prompt attention to the recommendation of tiie medical superintendent for addjtiunal room. Fortunately, this hospital is so constructed that an increased capacity can be obtained much below the cost of establishing a new hospital Especially do I recommend the suggestion that separate buildings be provided for tiie treatment of tuberculosis patients, owing to tiie infectious nature of the disease. Highways. There will probably come before you numerous measures concerning the improvement of roads. There are few questions of greater importance that will engage your attention. It is being

: widely discussed by the people of the entire country. National and State road congresses are I being held, the discussions taking a wide range. Many of the remedies proposed would doubtless accomplish the result. 1 fear in too many of the propositions that in the desire to secure im- । proved roads, due consideration may not lie ; given to the cost, nor to that class of our citizens —the farmers upon whom will necessarily fall tiie heavier burden in the expense of construction. I Ido not underestimate the value of a system of good roads to tiie public, and believe there is ■ great need for such improvement, but in the I framing of laws to this end. the Interests and de- ; sires ot those who will at least have the cost to ! bear, should be chiefly considered, especially at a time w hen the profits from farming are not so large as they should be. In this day of electricity we may reasonably expect, in tin' near future, electric lines to branch out through tiie country. A law should lie enacted restricting County Commissioners in their j right to grant rights-of-way along our public I thoroughfares, to their injury and ruin, for tho : travel of those compelled to use (hem. and who have born the eost of their const ruction. The Tax I.i»w. I Time and experience have approved the wisi dom <>f tiie tax law of 1891. It met with an active : opposition from a large an Influential class of our [ citizens and taxpaxers. and caused expensive | litigation to the State. But in all the courts its I validity lias been sustained from the box er courts j to the Supreme Court of the Fnited States. I The application of tills tax law was the means i ' of adding considerably and justly to the taxable* I of the Slate. Property not heretofore properly i assessed, or not assessed at all. «as placed upon I the tax duplicates, adding millions in value to ; assist in bearing the burden of tax. and relieving the tax payer who had been more fully assessed upon his property. By means of this law. annual deficits in the State Treasury have ceased, the State debt is being extinguished and a low er levy for Slate purposes is made possible. Indeed.there is reason to believe that n reduction In the levy could bo made in all the counties, unless for the most extraordinary local necessities. XX Idle the law has been sustained by the courts and indorsed by the people, yet there are i few ■mints wherein it could be strengthened, or at least its provisions more clearly defined. Fees and Salaries. In response to a needed and demanded reform, the General Assembly of I*9l enacted a law regulating the fees and salaries of Slate and county , officers. Through a clerical blunder, whether intentional or otherwise, the pittposo of this I law are Hable to be defeated. The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the State relative to this law places it in the condl- J tion which calls for your earnest eonsiderallo >. That the public demand tills law to be perfected so that it may stand the test of the courts, there can be no doubt. It therefore becomes your i duty to remedy the w eaknesses or inequalities of Illis law at the earliest moment While it is right and proper that no greater ! amount should be taken from the people in the way of fees and salaries than Is necessary, yet

the public will lie found to bo just and willing to , allow compensation. l>ut no more, which will give efficient and reliable service This lawshould be just to both the official and the public, ( and should not be delaxed in the time of its ' taking effect. Relative to ship canals, the message recommends that Indiana representatives in Congress lx l urged to secure from the general government a survey for a ship canal connecting Lake Michigan with tiie < Ihio River. The Legislature is asked to pass a resolution calling upon Indiana Fnited States Senators to combine to advocate the election of I nited States Senators bj a direct Vote of the people. Met huseisih’s b'nte. While studying the earlier chapters I in the book of Genesis the other even- ; ing, and more particularly those chapters which treat of the gem-rat ions of Adam, I was led to investigute the life of Methuselah, xvhose yt-ars have i out-spanned any other recorded human J life, and much to my surprise I found I that all we know of this long life is found in live verses, the txventy-tirst, twenty-second, twenty-fifth, twentysixth, and twenty-seventh, of the tilth | chapter of Genesis. In the course of i | my investigation, however, 1 chanced i i upon some curious figures, which seem I I to me to shed light upon the cause of ■ ! his death, and to indicate that Mei thuselah was drowned in the flood. I If/ Hppears !from the twenty-fifth I ver>._ of the^Ufth chapter that A*' - • | iftuweWi whb uie nimvr tn j^inem;and | that alter the birth ot T.amech hi-lived I 782 years. Lameeii was the father of I Noah, and was IH2 years old at the ' the birth of the latter. Hence MethuI selah lived just 60‘Jyears after the birth . ' of Noah. ‘ . In the sixth vers-' of the seventh I chapter we read: “Noah was Too years | old when the flood of waters was upon ■ | the earth.” Therefore we are justified, claims the contributor to the San Francisco Ghronicle, in surmising that the ancient patriarch Methuselah, was among those who were swept from the earth by the great deluge, and more particularly so when we read a little ' further on that it was in the second ! month of the sixth hundredth year that ; j the flood occurred. For Methuselah . ( must have died within those two I j months, and it is therefore almost a ' certainty that he perished in the “flood ; of waters.” Not only do these calculations point • to the probable cause of the death of I Methuselah, but they also f urnish an . explanation for the silence of the sacred : nararative regarding his life, for the ; verses immediately succeeding those - I already quoted are to tin- effect that the peopie of the earth were destroyed j because of their corruption, and weare i thus driven to the conclusion that the i | gray in the cause of righteousness, and I that, therefore, there was nothing good j to be written concerning him such as ' [ was written of his godly father Enoch or his righteous descendant *<oah. llainiest Spot on Earth. “Speaking of heavy rainfalls,” said i a weather crank on Wednesday night, as he came dripping into a basement restaurant where a very bad dinner may be had with equally bad wine for a very low price, “there is a place out in India called Cherrapongee, which has i held the rainfall record eversince there ! \ !V raintall record, and it. holds it so tight that no other spot on the i face of the earth has a ghost of a show ! to loosen it. Here in New York we’ve ' i had a fall of over o inches in the past I thirty-six hours, and the afternoon ]>apers say that that breaks the local recI ord, but that, of course, is only a little spurt on Farmer Dunn’s part, and he | can't keep it up. 'J’he average annual ; i rainfall in New York is somewhere I under 30 inches, and out in ( 'herrapon- : i gee it is over till) inches a year. The j nearest approach to that fearful splash I is at Jingapore, where they get about ■ 190 inches per year, and there is a place ! in Honduras where the yearly fall is . about IGO inches. Cherrapongee is on - 1 the Cossya i I ills, overlooking the Bay 1 . of Bengal, and the stockholders in the i < herrapongee I mbrella Company are J among the richest natives in ‘ that - neighborhood.”—New York Mail and i ' Express. 3 | __ There are forty-eight different ma- ' terials used in constructing a piano, s from no fewer than sixteen different ;; I countries, employing forty-five different < I hands.

BLAST OF DEATH. Awful Explosion of Giant Powder at Butte. SLAIN BY THE SCORE. Seventy-five Killed and One Hundred Injured. Entire Fire Departmetit, Including Men, Horses and Machines, Wiped Ont of Existence — Explosive Was Stored in a Warehouse, Contrary to Law, nnd the Victims Were Unwarned AH the Glass in the City Demolished and the Property Lose Will Reach Enormous Fiuures. During the progre.H of a fire nt the Keiiyun-t’ornell 1 liirdware Company s ' w uretiouse ill Hutte, Mont.. Tucsduy I right a terrilii- explosion occurred, as a rt suit of xvhieh it is estimated that sev- I < iity-tive persons have lost their lives, When the sni-ike had cleared axvay the | i< rrhied survivors were sickened at the sight of the ground for a block around the score of the explosion sircxvn with the I quivering and dismembered flesh of men nnd horses, pinned doxvn by fragments ■ of the tire engines and burning brands . from the detmdisheil warehouse. I’fsm I the site of tie- w nrelu'lise there was a | ghastly hole filled with debris, blazing in : hundreds of places, with here ami there j | the fragments of an unfortunate fireman. I The noise of the explosion broke Illi the ■

glass iii the i-ity and caused the houses to : r-x k so violently that the residents were stricken with fear. They did not know f: -tn xx hut quarter tin- disaster had come, and as the explosion had almost destroyed tie- burning warehouse there wns little to mark tin- scene of terrible destruction. The news spread like xvildtire. however, nnd hundreds were s-> -ii around the spot. Second mid Third Explosions. After tin- first explosion hundreds ~f people hastened to the scene and this accounts for the great loss of life. While they were endeavoring to render assist amv- to the injured the si «-ond explosion occurred, moxving down the crowds of men. women and children, as with n sickle of dentil. The survivors were hateiiing from the scene when a third < x ■ plosion occurred, adding to tho list of I victims, a- many of the terror sfricken I people. Hoeing from tin- 3- I lie of destruc- | tion. were mowed down by the tiling Ie ; bris. It was speedily b urned that the entire , tire department, including the chief, men, I horses and ail the machines, bad his-n I utterly swept out of existimco. Owing to the nature of the tire and its dnugcrous locality th»* entire force was called out to prevent a spread of the flames to adjoining warehouses and all of the men were at work. Thn-e |M>licemen were di-titiled to Deg tjic s|.. . tutors back, and w.-rc id-oTi^TT^Tnn;;- .o u,. tutors were instantly kilhai nnd several i were hurled back rods from tin- seem- of the lire ami rcndensl unconscious by th, ■ force of the shock. Dozens of men were ; found rods away from the warehou.st • bruised, blinding nnd uuconscious, and i a number of them w ill not recover. The fire started in the Royal Milling Company's wan-house and spread to the Kenyon-t ornell warehouse in which was stored a carload of giant powder. The 1 first explosion was the most terrific and i killed ,-very tireman in the immediate vi. initj save two belonging at the Central j station. < tne ot these was standing be- | hind the hose - art h.-rses and tho other : was at a water hydrant some distance I away. ' It is estimnt(sl that about 1m» addi- ! tional persons wen- injured, several of i whom died after being' taken to the hos- ' pitals. The list of dead will possibly : reach seventy-five, and the damage done to property will b - more than sl.<n»o,ootL In all three ear loads of powder exploded, one of which was stored in the Butte Hardware Company's warehouse, which adjoined tin- Kenyon <'ornell w arehouse. Every Fireman Killed. The fin men wh > had est aped in explosion immediately rallied and were beginning another attack when a second cxphisT-n, mor.- violent than the firs-, took pla-e. The people in the vieini'y were mowed down as with a great scythe, and tl-e streets for half a block around looker like a great battle field. Debris was thrown high in the air, coming down half a mile away. Many people on the streets in the center of the city were thus injured. A few of the reuriining firemen were gathering themselves together nnd attempting I<> escape to a place of safety when the third and last explosion occurrtul. This, 100, killed nnd injured many people. There were several cars of the powder and all of them explod -d. The whole heavens were lighted up and the city shook as if an earthquake was in progress. Immediately after the first explosion the entire hospital corps and police force were summoned, nnd ninny of the detach-nn-nls of these conqianies me mnong the killed ami injmeil in the subsequent explosions. T he giant powdi-r. which was for use in blasting in the mines, was stored in the waic>ouse contrary to law, ind the firemen had no warning of its presence. After the first explosion it was supposed that there bad been a single ear of the explosive, but tin- subsequent horrors del velo’H-d the fact that there were several cars stored in the warehouse sheds. Sixteen bodies were taken out of one ' spot, clinging together, as if welded by ' the hand of cruel death, tind so maimed and disfigured as to be totally unrecognizable. Handel was a stupendous egotist. When the musical correctness of a passage he had written was doubted he said: "When I write anything, that makes it right.’ He xvas once under restraint for insanity caused by business troubles. The Galera tunnel, 3,800 feet long, at an altitude of LT.GUO feet in the Andes, is the greatest elevation in the world at which a piston rod is moved by steam.

T HE SUNDAY SCHOOL. <1 INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. flections of nn Elevating Character—v fholcHome Food for Thought—Study. *’ Ig the Scriptural Lesson Intelligently • Jd Profitably. I.chsoii for Jun. 20. C olden text—“lie gave them bread fro n heaven to ent.” John G: 01. ( hrist the Bread of Life is the subject of his lesson, which is found in John I “And when they had found he lust words of the preceding se on “seeking for Jesus.’’ "Seek hall find.” And vi-t it wns a t of seeking. They were stirten they saw him, for they did of his mir.iculous passage of •'Rabbi,” they say, "when enmlihher It j H the word of star•hTment that springs, tell tn le, n lips, even when we have been ing and praying for him. e finding; it was not w hole nnd It was only the charitable st they so ight. am! they found ;to their seeking. The Words vionr. in the light of this truth, grave and searching force, took ye?” What is the charaeir quest, fri -nd? Stop nnd think Our Saviour's nnswer to their Strangely arresting and revenlknows how to interpret quea--1 he answers the heart oftener locs the tongue. "When earnest er," they w r<> saying. And bis Is be looks them in tho eye. is, : me, m>t tM-canse ye saw the but because ye did eat of tho id were tilled.” s something liottor than enting; ug, disx-ertiing, or rather eating iTiinicnt. as l’aul says, "discernlord's body." We nil of us, in a o permitted to ent nnd partake ly benefit* here. None in this generation and on the farther hills ij., of the Christian dispensation are Tho ly deprived of the blessings that I conn with the Christ lif'. But O, howfew ent with spiritual sight, di- -erning the D»rd s body, partaking and iwri eivhuFj Is there any emphasis to be laid on . the pord “filled''" I’l-rlinp*- s.-, and per- - Imps* it may explain a bit the crossness nnd dullness of the people. The word ■ literally means gurgl’d. '1 hey tilled themseh fs to the full, a* if there w -re m>thiug Hsc t, do but ent. Well. So a grc.lt i.nnuk <lt> with the good things of this '■’•rM and of this Christian disp--ns.ition, nndthMb-c-d of the D.rd s Iwuse. Is there I i ot fa caution lurking in these words of the faster? A|d possibly there wns n little sernm blin| for it. or. at leist, n reaching out. ’ C’-rtnlnly there was n wild flight across cjsea to somehow eome up with this I l«matind hnml again. “Lnls.r not” I »rgnzo; t - -trn- i. stirs Cbn-t, I "fm* th., meat whu h perisheth.” Alas, t l.sd. alsmt. Who* ar- the most of us doping nil the um<- and all of us the most of j the time? We may w i-.-lj pause w ith tho expression. "M‘at whi. h pcrisheth " i In the original it stands, the meat, the l»-risliing. i o the n>w** of perishing, thrt i-h h is - onneet i w ith this I- dv »f , death. Tv be of tho earth earthy, mid to ; court denth we ne--d but g-- on feeding this lower, sensuous nature. “To be j coruuHy minde-1 is death.” l»«t there is meat that “endureth" <>r I retnaiiHth. We r- all the twelve bas- ‘ kits that nmnine-l over. Hero in an- । otUfT mid liirg- r sense is a remainder unto life everlasting. Ah, the baskets full that we shall gather up yonder, after all the multitudes on earth’s billsides shall haxi’ been fedi “Him hath G<«l the Father scaled.” But a seal signifies a purftose, a designation, or a destination. Sealed , for what? Sealed for bread. Such is evidently the system hero. There at the .lonian came the Spirit mid the Voice say ing, "This is my beloved Son. in whom 1 n*i well pleased" the sea! of designation or adoption. But then later eamo i that other voice at the transfiguration, I whi h said. “This i- my beloved Son. in i whem 1 am well pleased, hear ye him.” Seized for service, the seal of purpose or destination. Bread. Huth is evidently first and foremost. “WJmt shall we do?" they were saying. ‘Believe," answered Christ. "What Works?" they cried, thinking ]>ossibly both of signs of attestation mid deeds of serv- | ice. "This is the work of God," said i Ch^st, that "ye believe on him whom he { hath sent," i. c.. let him in. mid let him , work. In other words. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness (the righteousness that is in Christi and I all these things shall be added unto you.” But how? Straightway they talk of Moses and tho manna, or traditionalism : and ceremonialism. .Not that, said Christ, i nor even the word of Scripture, save as ■ it winveys tin- thought and life of Christ. “Moses gave von not that bread from ; heaven: but my Father giveth (is giving) you the true bread from heaven." And now they are looking straight nt him, ami our Saviour answers the hunger of I thitu' eyes rather than of thine lips as | he 11 >eaks the word thm tells it al], “J ' a ni% he bread of life.” Here we pause. \i jit does he mean? Take him for what i ' 6 kv is tv us an<l know. T.-iki- him mss word, take him in faith, daily, h' liT’'’ ’' VP ’ n h’ m nn( l by him. ••j pannot tell how precious the Saviour : is to me, I only can entreat, you to come and taste mid see.” “Christ the blessed one gives to all, Wonderful words of life. Sinner, list to the loving call, Wonderful words of life. All so freely given, M ooing us to heaven; Beautiful words, wonderful words, Wonderful words of Life.” Next Lesson—“ The Great Confession.” Matthew 1G: 13-23. r —Fisehbein. the pain (er, spent his childh md in a baker's shop. His first ! signs of a taste for art were shown by his skill in giving peculiar and some- ! times vi'ry artistic shapes to the little । cakes his father baked. The shop beI camo famous for them. Handel, the composer of the “Mes- . siah.” was educated among tint pillboxI os of his father, xxTio xvas a country doci tor, ami intended George Frederick to j follow the same profession, xvhieh,howI ever, the latter soon deserted for music.

GOV. ALTGELD’S MESSAGE. Buys the Machinery of JuHtice Wa* Made thu Tool of Corpora!lona. Governor Altgeld's biennial message xxas trnnsinitted to the Illinois General i Assembly on Thursday. The message is I an exhaustive one, containing nearly 25000 words. The first half of tiie message is devoted to the details of State institutions Tho other half treats of tho labor troubles. The situation in Chicago and elsewhere during the railroad riots is reviewed. and the Governor attempts to prove that the State militia were thoroughly competent to handle any uprising that might take place. He asserts that the President mid Mr. Olney were in(lueed to send troops by false representations of trouble; that the sending id' troops before the strength of the State had been I spent wns a perversion of the constitutional prerogative; that most of the trouble arose after the troops arrived; that it was quelled by the militia; and that even nt its worse it was no more disastrous than the rims in Buffalo and PennsyL vnnia, in which the Government did not dare to interfere. The power which Mr. Cleveland ex. reised, Mr. Altgeld says wns no more than Eniperor William mid I the Cznr of Russin eluim for themselves The judges of the Fnited States court* I cc.me in for a vicious scoring. They are denounced as usurpers. The Governor deI chires that their punishment for contempt is not inly unconstitutional, but that it violates the usage of years. He asserts that nn attempt is on foot to Russianixo the G«x eminent, that tho foundations of the state are undennined, that we are I tending toward a “cruel oligarchy op- ! pressing the spiritless poor." "The constitution divides the poxver* of government into the legislative, judic- [ iary ami exc- ntivo, and contemplates that no txvo of these shall be lodged in the same person, but during the last two years the people of this country have repeatedly witnessed the operation of an entirely new form of g->vornment. xvhieh was nex^r before heard of among mon in eitl > r monarchy or republic that is, government by injunction whereby a Fedet il judge, not content with deciding controversies brought into his court, not e-mtent w ith exercising tho judicial functions of government, proceeds to legislate mid then administrate. Ho issues a ukase which he < nils mi injunction forbidding whatever he pleases and what tho law does not forbid, mid thus legislates , for himself without limitation." Govitnor Altgeld dismisses ns a stale pretense the contention that the Federal judges bus,- the injunct ions on the interstate comm- reo ln> . This net he de- * rib. s ns " is harml 'ss ns a dead rabbit," so fat ns it regulated or controlled the railroads. IL- dei lared that the Federal judge- pr- • eded to hold section after se. 'ion ..f the law to be unconstitutional so far ns it affected the roads. “Then," he continues, “after having thus nullified an ne: ..f Congress intended for the protection of the people, they turned around m -l :• ole > f it n club with which to break the bm ks of the men who toil with their Imnds men whom Congress did not think of legislating ngmnst." The Governor also has something to say nb..ut the control of railroads by the Federal courts when receivers have been npieiiuted by those courts. "Anything done to the railroad is treated as con- i tempt <»f court." he exclaims. “If you : rninmit nn offense against a railroad that I . is m the hands of its owners you w ill be : tn the rnTinty wlw ro thr» of- ' leu-, is . mmltted mid may be seat to I the penitentiary. But if you ’tread on the grabs' or throw a-stone on a railroad th,it ' I has lieen robbed by speculators mid then • put into th.- hands of a receiver to freeze out stockholders yon w ill be guilty of con- j tempt of some (our: sitting several hnn- , deed miles away, and you will be liable to be carried thither, there to be tried, not by a jury but by that court whose ; awful dignity you have offended. It is ’ in connection with these bankrupt roads that most of the outrageous injunctions were issued during the last two years.” The qm-tion of President Cleveland's, authority to send Federal troops into the State of Illinois .- debated briefly. Gov. Altgeld declare* that Mr. Cleveland’s action was an entirely new departure in the hist'-ry of our Government an 1 a vi-> h-tioii ,-t the Constitution as it has been underst 1 for a century. "The old do.-trii:-' of State rights is in no way involved,” declares Gov. Altgeld, •'Nobody for a moment questions the ru- j I-remaey of the Union. But it does involve tiie question whether, in connection with Federal supremacy, there does not go hand in hand the principle of local self-government. One is just as sacred, just as important as the other. Newsy Paragraphs. The first snow in two years fell at Mobile, Ala.. Wednesday. It melted. The mail rider between Linwood nnd Brandon, Miss., a young man named Jones, is believed to have been murdered. The President has signed the act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River near Jefferson, Mo. Daniel and James Wilkinson were convicted at Mobile, Ala., of the murder of Ed Ch( stang, a negro. They are father j and son. Ex Deputy Marshal Swain shot nnd ■ killed Carl Vincent in a tight nt Purcell, i (. 'J'., and was then killed by the latter’s I son Charles. F'irenian Ray Johnson wns killed hy an accident to tho fast express on the Queen | mid Crescent route near Attala, Tenn. ) No passengers were injured. J. B. Tyrrell, a geological surveyor, has ■ arrived at Winnipeg after a six months’ ; exploration of Hudson Bay territory nev- ■ er before visited by a white man. 55 . A. Pew, Collector of the Port nt Gloucester. Mass., denies that cargoes of i Newfoundland herring are brought into ' this country, as the product of American । fishermen, free of duty. Adam Burke and Charles Dietzel aro entombed behind a big mass of coal in Richardf.on colliery, Pottsville, Pa. The : voice of Lut one man can be heard by the : men xvho are xxorking to rescue the vic- ! tims. James Doran, a Koibite at Birming- j ham, Ala., xvas killed in a fight with Van i Parvin The city pastors at Little Rock recently J passed resolutions condemning Governor i Fishback’s viexvs in regard to the regu- j lation of the social evil. The Governor has addressed a lengthy reply to the min- । isters, in which he says: “There are not ; wanting men of your type who are ready I to pass resolutions against the purity of j the Savior himself because his honest ■ common sense dared to rebuke certain ■ impure men who would have stoned to j death ths fallen woman.”

INDIANA INCIDENTS. GOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Tnter< ,tin K Summary of the More Im. portant Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed dlngaand DrathH-Crlmo 8 , Casualties and General News Notes. Condensed State New*. 1:1 Iskni> llad “'t’r UM) funerals, last Nai i ,\x,.si people are. anxious for an opera house. I Ihe business portion of Carpentersville । xxas visited b.x a st>,oon tire. Tin. CoAimbia Rifles of Anderson, will remaster in the .'state militia. । Hi MißEiis of people have signed the ; p• 1 g( at a* t harlottsville temperance re । viva I. Im Smdiers Home at Marion is so ! crowded that not another man can be reI reived. Ax unknown benefactor of a Catholic, ehureh in Haniinoml lias donated nn altar to the vhuic'i. A <i a swell burst its anchorage at Elxvood and nurled the easing out, causing considerable damage. A i.m ui M AKBEitiiY has lieen arrested (it Ai J 'rson charge 1 with stealing twogold baptismal cups from the altar of Nt. Mary’s ; < at! die I'lmreh. :Ie confessed his guilt. ' wo ( onomin men entered a South Bend hardware store, the other day, and asked to see some revolvers and cartridges. They j loaded the weapons, covered the proprietor, ; looted the money drawer and skipped. The Jefiersonx iile Board of Police Commissioners lias decided that. in tiie future, all saloons must be close ! on Sunday. A demand to this effect was made on the Commissioners several days since by a conmiitte (d'th l ministers. This will lead to a bitter fight, as it is expected that the i saloon keeper-xx ill retaliate and demand ! that busim-s of all kinds lye entirely suspended en Sunday. Tin two storx frame farm residence ot David Darrah, four miles southeast of Noble-x i]l< . was badly wrecked hy an explosion of natural gas which had accumulated from leaky pipes in the cellar. sVindow.3 were blown out, doors blown from hinges and the building generally wrecked. Mrs. Darrah and I.er step-son, Roy Darrah, H years old. were badix burned and otherxvise injured. I’he full extent of their injuries is not known, but they are reported serious. Nt xx Year’s evening Amsie Burke; Stanlex Rus.'i y.and \lbert Johnson,clerks in a giccerx at Muncie, made a xvager xvhieh if observed will prevent any of them from partaking of food or any kind of num isl.niriit except milk during the present >ear. It is given out by medical authority that such a feat is possible if the ! x oung men do not get sick of the nourishment. If they succeed tiie total cost of their food f< r tiie year xvill lie less than $75. Thex are not allowed to drink over a half pint of milk l'ach hour. The lioiler in the saxv-mill of Charles Davis, at Rosston, ten miles east of Lebanon. exploded. The escape of tlie five employes was the remarkable thing aliout it. They were called out into the mill yard to assist in rolling a log and had gone but a short distance when the ex plosion occurred. : One side of the building xvas bloxvn fully 21*1 feet, while part of the machinery xvas ihrfnn umeh farther. Although the debrts fell all around tiie men in the yard, not one was seriously injured. The mill ’ xvas complet.dy wrecked. There was a touching funeral cortege arrived at Beech Drove Cemetery, at Muncie, recently. The child of a poor family : in a remote part of the city died, and the family could not afford a funeral. The father made i neat box in xvhieh tiie child : xvas placed, and it was conveyed to the cemetery on a small hand sled drawn by two brothers, xvho had dug the little grave. 'Die father and mother : xvalked along behind the sled. The burial xvas conducted by the family, xx ith no other spectator except Sexton Jewett. Soxie lime ago theßoard of Commissioners of Montgomery County brought suit against ( iiarlc- E. Davis, sheriff, for failure to pay the fees collected by him, as Sheriff, into the county treasury, and to make a report to tho County Auditor, as provided for by the fee and salary laxv of 1891. Davis claimed that, under the recent decision of tiie Supreme Court, in relation i to treasurers, recorders, and auditors, the salary part of the law is inoperative, but that the part of the laxv fixing the fees to be taxed is valid, and he, thererore, claimed ! that, as the laxv fixing the salary xvas void, : the fees taxed belonged to him, and that the j board had no right to require him to pay i this money into the county treasury or to - make him report to the County Auditor. : The case xvas up before Judge Harney and be sustained sheriff Davis, ruling that, by reason of the recent decision of the Supreme Court .the salary part of the laxx - is inoperative and void. He holds that the law I is so connected together that if the salary ! part of the laxx- is unconstitutional as to these officers, it cannot be enforced against the Sheriff or Clerk. Patents have been awarded to residents of Indiana as follows: James M. Allison, In lianapolis, assignor of one-fourth to A. A. Banks, Marion County, illuminated street ear sign; William 11. Bailey. Muncie, annealing box: William A. Cochrar . assignor of one-half to M. Clune, Indiana- | polis, curtain stretcher; George 1.. Collis Muncie, machine for straightening and setting axles: Frederick P. Maus, Greenfield, assignor of one-half to F. B. Whitehead, Indiananolis, rolls for reducing railxxxr^^^ | . ■—x»itomxs_F Me.NanghfTit^Tp^^^^" । fersonville, and G. E. Seymour. Silver —- J Grove, dust separator; Edward S. Morgan, Richmond, assignor to H. Cochrane, Cleveland. Ohio, and G. Cochrane. St. Thomas, Canada, xvire xveax ing fence machine; James Nortney, New Albany, and F. i Schefold, l’a kersburg, A'a., electric lamp ‘ supporter; John Pfender, Evansville, ; pump; Francia 55'. Robinson, assignor to i Robinson & Co., Richmond, thrashing ma- । chine and stacker attachment therefor; Frank Schefold and J. Nortney, New Albany, electric lamp support; M'illiam If. : Sholl and J. Schneider, Valparaiso, whiffietrei;; Charles IL M'oodbury, Mishxvaka, machine for finishing wool boots. A sox of John McClintick, xvho resides west of Albion, xvas putting a colt in harness, xvhen the animal became frightened and ran axvay, catching the young man in the harness and dragging him over the ground until death resulted. A i.itti.e excitement occurred in the Morrison xvill case at Richmond the other day. Congressman Johnson, attorney for the defense, took objection to a ruling of Judge Black, and said that the fact of exPresident Harrison being on the opposite side should have no additional weight with the court. To this Mr. Harrison arose and. said that there xvas no ex-President in the case, as he was there as an attorney only.