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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. For the Week Ending Dee. 20. Prof. E. A. Gastman, of Decatur, has been elected president of the IIlinois state board of education. The German bundesrath approves the tariff bill in the form in which it passed its third reading in the reichstag. Comptroller of Currency Ridgley, in an address before New York bankers, says more elasticity is needed in the monetary system. Congressman James A. Hemenway has announced himself a candidate for the republican nomination for governor of Indiana. South American republics are not likely to side officially with Venezuela. Newspapers of Peru, Bolivia and Salvador urge united resistance The Nebraska supreme court has decided that the marriage of divorced persons within six months of the granting of a decree in that state is void. The French steamer Modoc with 223 pasengers on board. collided with a cruiser in Toulon harbor and grounded on the rocks in a dangerous position. While walking on the tracks at Warren, III., George Oatway and Karl Kurth were struck by the west-bound flyer on the Illinois Central and killed. Martin H. Bakkedal has been appointed receiver of the Bank of Westby, Wis.; the liabilities are placed at $160,000 and the assets at $155,000. A St. Louis hotel keeper was held responsible by a jury for the death of a guest who perished in a fire, and the widow was awarded $5,000 damages. Unrequited love Is said to have been the reason why Herman Helscher shot and mortally wounded Voltairine La Cleyre, a noted anarchist, at Philadelphia. Because of the high wages paid to mechanical help, the Santa Fe and other western railroads are retrenching by cutting down the salar.es of office employes. The will of Mrs. Martin Adams, widow of Charles Kendall Adams, former president of the University of Wisconsin, gives a large part of the estate to that institution. The post office of Grandville, O., was dynamited and robbed of nearly $1,000 by two men who escaped. The post office at Big Stone Gap, Va., was robbed of $1,200 in money and stamps. A group of New York financiers are said to be desirous of assuming Venezuela's debts, providing the United States will assist in collecting the money from customs recéipts. At the presentation of credentials by Ambassador Tower to Kaiser Wilhelm his majesty promised a very good, though not a very large, exhibit for the St. Louis exposition. Payment of $365,000 insurance policies on the life of R. C. Whayne, found dead at Louisville, Ky., from a gunshot wound, will be refused. The question of suicide is still unsettled. The United States Steel company bought the Union steel mill, near Pittsburg, and the Sharon mill, at Sharon, Pa., from the Union company, and $45,000,000 bonds are to be issued in payment. The house eight-hour labor bill. providing a penalty of $5 against government contractors for each day and every laborer allowed to work over eight hours, was agreed to by the senate committee. Fulton (Mich.) citizens headed off a hotelkeeper who planned to open a barroom by incorporating as a cemetery association and locating a plat 80 rods away. The law of 1869 forbids saloons within that distance. The demand for coal grows more strenuous in Chicago, and the charge is made that mine owners are discriminating against the west. Railway officials say they are doing their utmost to get supplies to market. The tobacco trust will fight Chicago independent cigar dealers with a new factory employing 500 union hands, and by employing 200 solicitors after January 1. Labor unions are expected to
