Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-08

his father was arrested with him as an
| accomplice. The evidence against either
was weak, but that fact made no differ
ence to the mob, of course composed of
the 'fbest citizens" of Shelbyville, which
broke into the Jail, took out young Bates
and hung him, and only spared the father
at the appeal of a few men who kept their
heads.
AS in the blast furnaces of Great Britain
something like 12, ,000, 900 tons of Stag are
made annually, it will be seen that the
question of utilizing this product, now for
the most part clear waste, is an important
one. The many attempts to solve the
problem appear to have been but partially
successful, although of late promising ad-
vances have been made in the way of me-
chsnicsl devices for running the Stag into
blocks and utilizing it for building pur
poses. At a discussion of the subject at
the recent annual convention of the Insti-
tute of Mechanical Engineers in Great
Britain an interesting point was brought
out by calling attention to the enormous
amount of heat Get free in the cooling of
the Stag. 1t was estimated that the heat
thus wasted from 10000, 900 tons was
equivalent to the consumption of 653, 900
tons of coal.
An interesting and friendly custom is
that of the San Francisco carpenters, who
build homes for one another without
charging the owner for tLeir labor. A To-
cal paper tells a story of how such dwell
ing was put up in one day. At sunrise
thirte' n members of a carpenters union
appeared on the ground, bringing their
tools, and before dark they had raised
structure whose exterior at least was fin
ished. 1t was not a Queen Anne villa of
course, nor was there much taste of any
kind displayed in the design, but it af-
forded comfortable home to the mechsn-
ic and his family, and the burden of rent
paying was no longer to haunt him.
"That is the seventh house built this way
for members of carpenters' unions |
here" said one of the workers when they |
were packing up their tools. "My house |
you see over there on that hill was the first |
one. The boys put it up for me about
year ago. When bought my material l
had only $40 left, and if bad had to pay
for getting it built where would 1 have
beena We believe in turning in to help
each ohter along"
The year book of the Young Mems Chris
tian association of North America gives /
some idea of the magnitude and work of
this popular organization. In it are an
nual reports from corresponding members |
of the International committee in fifty diff |
ferent States and provinces, indicating the |
general activity and growth in their re-
spective fields, while the statements of |
some twenty of the committees Office and |
secretaries show the important /
work of supervision and extension carried
ON through this central management. |
The reports of the secretaries for India and |
Japan are specially interesting, and show
marked success in this new department of |
work for young men. Another item of
interest is the fact that 100000 francs
(s160, ,00O have been given for a building
IOI tuc rEcuCu hoSOCiatlou III ailrr rEaHSe.
The statistical tables, which occupy fully |
half of the book, include list of general
secretaries, physical directors, and other
paid officers, numbering in all about |
1900; list of buildings. endowments,
etc., including 26S buildings and net |
property valuation of about S13, 1000, 900; |
and the general statistics of the town and |
city, college, railroad, German, colored |
and Indian associations. The tables have |
an increased value from the thorough sys-
tenn of summaries and comparative state |
ments accompanying them. The book is
embellished by ten or twelve plates of re-
Gently erected association buildings.