Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There will be no spring vacation at Wa~ bash College this year, and in consequence college will close one week earlier than last year. The First National Bank of North Manchester has been organised. It will succeed to the business of, and occupy the house of the Manchester Bank. Et.tka Henderson, a oolored woman of Rockport, Spencer county, acknowledges that she has killed five of her children directly after they were born. Mbs. John Long, of Jefferson township, In Sullivan county, twenty miles north of Vincennes, was burned to death, her clothes having caught fire from a grate. John Geld, of Port Fulton, Clark county, ■ now 77 years old, a few days ago received 11,700 bock pension due his father, Joseph Gill, for services in the war of 1812. W. F. Clem, husband of the notorious Nanoy Clem, has just filed a petition for divorce from his wife, who is confined In the reformatory, her time being nearly out Bt the explosion of a boiler at John Casely fe Son’s flax mill at Knightstown, the engineer, Con Cleary, and his assistant Frank Brosius, were terribly mangled, both dying in a short time. W. D. Richardson, of Illinois, has brought suit against Grant county, Ind.’, to recover $30,000 for material famished for the new Court House at the oounty seat, payment of whioh has been refused by the county. Bight Rev. Joseph Dwenoer, Bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne, will sail for Liverpool on the steamship City of Berlin, April 3-*, and will spend three months abroad. Before returning, he will visit the Papal See John Guthrie, an aged resident of Lawrence county, who claimed that he was the first white child bom north of White river in the then territory of Indiana, died at his house a few miles from Belford a few days ago. Hereafter Purdue University will be the headquarters of the meteorological and weather-service work of Indiana, to whioh all the Indiana stations will report and from which the reports will go to the department at Washington. Dr. A. W. Bingham, brother of H. S. Bingham, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and son John, were stabbed in an altercation at Alfordsville, Daviess county, by James Gold John was killed instantly and the doctor was fatally hum Gold is in jail. Samuel Dawson, who has lived alone as a hermit within two miles of Gloriwood, Rush county, for twenty-five years, died a few days since. His nephew, Robert Dawson, and a neighbor, forced their way into the miserable little hut to find the old hermit lying in bed dead John P. Frenzel, V. T. Malott and John W. Murphy, two Democrats and one Republican, have been appointed Metropolitan Police Commissioners for Indianapolis by the Governor, Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer, who constitute the appointing power under the law recently enacted The elevator of Mr. John Nading, on the Cambridge branch of the J., M. A I. railroad at Flatrook, was burned early one morning last week, together with 25,000 bushels of grain. The loss is about $25,000 on tho building, with an insurance of #24,000. One frelght-oar loaded with malt was also burned The fire is supposed to have originated from friction. The Indianapolis Journal has roceived special reports from over 100 points in Indiana and Illinois concerning the growing wheat crop, the general tenor of which is decidedly discouraging. The universal opinion, as expressed by the Journal correspondents, is that the crop has been very much damaged by the unfavorable winter season, and that the injury inflicted by the winter storms has been greatly aggravated by the freezes of the post few weeks. A n average opinion Is, the crop will fall one-third short of that of 1882. Of the surplus of thatcr ->p from 10 to 20 per cent yet remains in the hands of the farmers.

As opinion of the Supreme Court, delivered by Judge Elliott, is of general interest to newspaper publishers of the State. It Was In the case of Thomas J. Shaw vs. John K. Williams, from the Tippecanoe Circuit Court, and the judgment of that court is reversed. The court Bay: “The chief question presented in this case Is whether a legal advertisement of Sheriff’s sale published in a Sunday newspaper is valid. The Sheriff is charged with the duty of giving due notice of sales,, and it is one of the ordinary duties of his vocation and an act of common labor. The publisher of a Sunday newspaper undertakes to circulate his paper on that day to subscribers and customers, and as the publishing of such a newspaper is his vocation, it necessarily follows that he engages in it when he circulates the paper owned by him, and the engaging in each ordinary vocation is in the inbibition of the Sunday law. An officer has no more right than a private citizen to do an act in violation of law, and an ordinary official act which can be done on one day as well as another without endangering the rights of any person Is an act in violation of the Sunday law. An act done in violation of law can not constitute a legal notice. The circulation of a Sunday newspaper, its delivery to subscribers, its Bale to newsboys or customers is necessarily done on Sunday, and is therefore in violation of the law ” Thebe is great curiosity to see the new Dog law that takes the place of the one passed two years ago. We give a synopsis of the main features of /he law: .“The law provides that the township Assessors shall list all dogs over six months old, between the first day of April and the first day of Jane each year, and that each male dog shall bp taxed #l, each female $2, and each additional dog owned by any person, $2. Any Assessor failing to list any dog shall be fined not exceeding #5 in each and any one making a false statement of the number of dogs harbored may be fined #IOO. Any dog that kills sheep may be killed, and any person who harbors a dog after it is known to have killed sheep may be fined #IOO. The killing of any listed dog which has violated none of the provisions of the law is a misdemeanor subject to a fine of #IOO. Any persons owning or harboring a dog known to have propensities for killing or maiming sheep is made subject to a fine of #SO, and the law authorizes anv one to kill mad dogs on sight. The law does away altogether with the system of tagging licensed dogs. It makes it a misdemeanor to kill, maim, Injure or steal a dog for which the yearly tax has been paid to the county. For the mischievous or wanton injury, or the stealing of a dog which has been duly .listed for taxation, and which is not known to be a.sheep-kllling dog, the punidv ment is fixed at a fine not exceeding with imprisonment for not more than thirfcy daya Owners of sheep which aft dogs are required to report their losses to the township Trustee within teu days, and any person making a false statement of the amount of damages may beflned #IOO, and imprisoned in the oounCy Jail for thirty days. *Tbe surplus paid over the amount paid for damages to sheep shall bo applied to the school revenue of the township."

Hon. Carter Harrisen was re-elect-ed mayor of Chicago with » Demo* (•ratio majority of over 10,000. Cincinnati. Cleveland aad other prominent cities have elected Democratic administrations. The metropolitan police system Is being inaugurated in Indianaoolis. — The Council has decided to not fight the new law. Kerttland Gazette, How generous and law-abiding! Even Democratic papers are yet discussing and criticising the late a vful legislature. Kentlund Gazette l’ot,, they are criticising, with a vim that faction of the legislature styled tlie lieutenant governor. The radical pres commenced with criticisms on Democratic members; but “lei up” so soon as they discovered s:»me thing serious “was the matter with Uanua-rl” ■ ■ Senator Reiser, of »be Winama Republican, discussing the failure the appropriation bill, says: |j.The Lieutenant Governor’s sigr.a*» tuae to the bill would have done no good, for the Governor could not, un der the Constitu lon, sign it; neither could it become a law without his signature. On the other hand, Representative Moody ha 3 this to say: The Legislature on the 11th day of March, 1863 passed the law admitting parties to suits to testify as witnesses in'Oourt, which day waa the sizty first day of the session uud the day of the general adjournment of the JLegisla- . t.ure. Now. Governor Morto filed this bill io the office of the Secretary of State on the same day the Lftffis lature udjourned, and the Supreme Court say in the 18th ludiana, on page 24, a ter quoting Section 14, Ar tide 5 of the Constitution: “When the Legislature, on the day of its final adjournment, in the due course of legislation, sends a bill to the Governor for bis official action and he on the same day, and after the final adjournment of the Legisla-ture,-flies tt in tne office or the Secretly of State without approval, or o jectiocs thereto, it becomes a aw from the hour the same was filed io the office of the Secretary of State." Considering the case cited, and the opinion of the Supreme Court sustaining i , we rather think Bto. Keh. soi is left. F. A. Conkling. Republican,charges that the Knit Goods Association raised $9J,000, most of which he declares a Congressional inr stigation would show went “into the pooaets of ocr upright legislator.” He also said there was an organized coDspir scy represented by the Knit Goods Manufacturers’ Association to cheat both people and Govt rnment out of enormous sums of racuey by manipulating importations of knit goods Demc ratio members voted against the knit goods monopoly every time. It might be well for the next Congress to go into a general roform es the - tariff, and also investigate this charge of Mr. Conkling.