Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — Page 3

AFFAIRS IN INDIANA.

’INTERESTING FROM VARIOUS-SQURCES? 1 ' ’s'ua »i 4! «’• .•’ *- ■'■■” ‘What Our Are Doing—Matters of General and Local interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes Will HitmUaw,' U HlftlTWdtrt tweniy*eight years.of. ages-who has of late been in the agricultuy^litf'jfijm^nt, .bupinejH; mt was .murdered- by tfn-* knownlparbieej Lyhmtb.irteeje miles morth of Richmond, while returning from the borne nf bin riwf fthi. Mamie Bond, pf .William Bond, a pr'osperous' rarmer living near : Johnston’s- Station.! body was discovered by d’pfrienfi’, Tom Nqf- 1 , zton, who .Ift&d -fetilhW’D I g ,I! lfbintl ! abb’ut' midnight.'l •'He'itUoifce gavd'tlffe alarm and the riAfrdered" intin Johnston £ fctaticAi? 'where It J was found that he had .been ,shpt,, tF^^cs, through the'hbad and through thq abdomen. Hinshaw’s clothing h£d either caught or been set ■on fire, aud Xbe right side of the body* was burned 8 crisp. ./There- is ird clew to the murderers and their motive is a mystefy., The body had been robbed' of a gold watch 1 dn<| finger ring, and an amount of money the ■murdered saan is kuuWS-'to have had Was also taken. This gives credence to the theory of robbery as the sole ■while the fact that a few weeks agm Hinshaw received a regulation Whit<j (Jap letter warning him to cease Mis' visit to that part of the country throws another light on the matter. The murdered man was well known' apd liked, and tragedy in PoisfclclfttjJjvAMing jjejfejl J | At the cast of Mun™, Bev. J. S 7 McCarthy was united in Wirriage to Miss Margaret (Jultice, by Bev. Kemp, of Selma. Alter the o|xemmuy.-tbe wedding- partywent to fine of MeeEtf, brother-inftfcws»f*thl (bride, ’Where anelegant wffdfffffg" supper" was 'served.’' The bridal couple left on an Eastern wedding trip, and nothing has been heard from Hmn, buWhostly after they< had left, the guests begimlo show signal of poisoning, and in the course of a few hours all but or more present were deathlvsickt vomiting and Tld : riv^' of many weJK dsmuAfti. ot£ during ■ jhe night, called in to relieve the sufferings of the many victims. Thd fraternity was unable to determine the cause of the si eared some of the cases «rt . -rUSf —Mrs. killed by a train at H aWp-rmer near Greenville, , —Mrs. suicide with .w. —Charles of his chair at his haftte.-.-irbAr’Evhhsvlle. —Taylor Mhllettivas drowned in White Biver near Huntingdon while bathing. —Ed BranlmfgV.'-agdd l(\.wasdrowji’ad while bathing i .jp..jthe (i _nyer ) ,..^ ;: ,Terre. Haute. ' r * >■ r --Henry Juergejyfc pf Allen County, was killed by a fail from ‘a hay wagon. z —The Lebanon City Council has reduced the saloon license from SSOO to $250 per year. —There are 198 schools in Montgomery County, and only 192 persons holding teachers’ t j «j —John, the 4-year-old son of Edward Scholl, fellover-a highdiff- nearAfadrson, and was finally injnfed. —Harry Wils a4k4.bf MMaa Stab bed in the leg by a companion in a playful scuffle at Jeffersonville and crippled fqr —The State Vet/rhitrry’ decided that six tine horses belonging to Joseph Kapps,who lives five miles south of Vincennes, have glanders.. —Mrs. Emipa E. Boulton, a female physician of jplymouth, enjoys the distinction of having been married to eleven husbands. She is fifty-four years old. << —ln a saw-mill three miles south of Lebanon, William Egbert, aged 23, fell backward against the large circular saw cutting one arm entirely off and fatally injuring himself. —Valcon, Hibben, of Knightstown, was preparing timber for finishing when his left hand came in contact with a circular saw* necessitating the amputation of three fingers. —Alfredt<jJ* .'Patterson, under arrest at Goshen, Atcinirged 1 * irith perjury in making an affidavit to obtain money for sheep killed by dogs, whjnh are died>bf i -Eddie ~ Wnb tfpit; 12 was drowned^wffHef -ewiynmin g } unrigM White Water-Biverp at comp am ons. ahade attfMflßHWtt rescue -While tkkfo near . UU. under the literally tdS injuries e xCfthdnd^avnc..jheiwhole, body-*. It is tered the •ase he will hardly recover.

—The iciiy school trustees of GrawforasviHe are going to purchasefiagsfor the four school buildings of that city for the purpose of having th&n’hrffsfed' from the ttopM Of the buildings ompaMic days. , tn r sh’.i '» James Breedlove, an escaped prisoner/ wanted in Boone County for robbery committed at Elizabethville four weeks ago,. was arrested by .Sheriff Pierce, of Orang’e County, at French ~ banineM men of CraWfhtdsville' have madqjja proposition to sequre-the Barnum show this fall. They wilj pay the Shb’w license and buy the hay needed for ene day'if thb show Will Vibit that place.- . > . .t/ ur —Of the seventy-two for a teacher’s'license’^the last examination in Montgomery County, fifty failed; One 1 W,as given.a license for three yeamu two, years; firteen for ope year and six. for six months. , n-The general' store of Stratton & Nixop at Qpmo.- Jay County, was,nearly,: wrQck?d by an explosion of powder. Tjhnjgpods w'erfc badly ' dainfiged, • EossJ $1,501); ihsUredifOr that ■ hmobnt in the Citizens’ of Evansville. -i; • —Charles Lopp was engaged in unloading merchandise from a car, at Corydon Junction, -bn the Air Line, miles frojn New Albany, when he was caught under a falling barrel of sugar, and received injuries which will prove fatal. —An open switch caused the wreck of a freight train at Salem. Five cars and engine were ' difclied. No ouq was 41 urt. I The section foreman was to jtilame for the accident..- . The wreck was Iqulckly cleared,, pnd trains were but a few hours.,, , , t) ~. . —John O’Toal, a patriot, who resided at Brownsburg,died at the advanced age of 87 years. Mr. O’Toal Bom<d , thir'ty yenrß ago| 'with hfs family, thfe builds* of the BritisE’‘’M6^'riiment J by Ending’ his way to-ASnerica 1 . J , ’J - x r/l —The erf Jojp-jz athan Essirg, jPepry- &©npty,,lwaß as-r ssnlted by jan upknpwn tramp,who •threw Jier uncopgpious fwm ifito a fence, srn!er; where! twin cl fbyrhet. father.; Her. fefi was:broken and «be uS' Thought toybe dying. 4 ’l'4 graph lin'ehfitetb ifi the ‘’einfiloy ' of 1 "'ttie Fo?t. Wayffe ’Electric were wires across'tli& flt’/JlOe ’fefveV at Fort Wayne, workiri’g"*in*'a' small skiff, "liieir boabwas cArtied bvWrithe falls af l the faidißilil dp'», i pnd :i Good, ( who wrts dnaffe toj i^im, ; j Fps drewned-.. .Lk«wr ■ c|lun£;tp the overturned boat andjßpfy . Good from Kahsas Citv. . I i > '.Li 1 1 —Amos Bichards, of Gregg Township Morgan County, died very mysteriously and , nnexfte|#ed'fei : He andf.his son ' Frftfik 1 hadliiMrieh'. from wodc in, the 'fieild,* : Mrhen he decided to go after the cdWs while Frank would do tiie chores “abdtit” the barjit—Nat-returnina-ev-aa-trfrerihg the ” (mils ; He'was found dead ulaiow • pasture. There were no indications of fbu'l’i>lay. —3. 0. jVijliams ,nnd William-Hiatt ' and son were returfiiflg; ville from Alamo, Montgomery-County, and Vere oVertitken 'byf a stonp. They took.ehelter under a twee in -order to let down the Jbuggy cutUifih. While there the tree was struck by ligtning, and the arm of Mr. W illiams wh'p parse 'lyzed, andiremained So for two 'hOtfrS. The son of l Mr.' Hiatt insensible for ‘ -Several hours, and is yet suffering much pain in hip head, ' : • —J. J. Stone of- Franklin, is at Indianapolis, searching for- an unknown rag buyer, who visited Ffduklit|i, a few , days ago. n,stone had deposited S4OO in a rag bag for safe , keeping, but said nothing to his.wife about; the matter. When he went to look for the money hF" could not fifid The" bag/*lfiSulry developed the his W«4fc ; .'oM it to.a rag buv^H A fe ce fits. Shtecofild %fVebut a poor description ofthe buyer, awd it’ts not at&lprobable thpthe will be —The other nigbMßkUer dusk, as a s onflta Muncie ronta. was movfng alonjj near Sparingport, twelve miles south of Muncie, the engineer noticed an obsfafuction on the trick and reversed his engine, stepping the train before he, a half dozen hogs niciHj|»iled upon the! track. They were remdW4d and the tiain moved on to the station. - The hogs are supposed to haye died of cholera, and it - is the supposition that the auimaWwerft 1 * placed bn the track, where they would be mhniated .and the shrewd fanner get< pay for thpnT. The case will ba investigated. —A quiet wedding took place at the residence of the bride, on Union street, Thomas Mark, bf New , Castle, to Mrs. Sarah Bfibofk-*' ville. ver? r(yn ? •SlWnbßide are. gach about pO. Thejr were raised-in Putnain Indiana, and were lovers, over j jfimM(y|Hearß' ago/- , and'-betrothed/ Some ■fivALmatter separated them, and eablP i *<Hpht and fpgsd jeowfort with j o}hei< iM rs IWued first to Elijah Hives, and second, |to Joseph SkedAi After the Meatn pf ttffHWMji hns*ftArtd kho wMnt ‘dfi h yisit id’ J.#enrx..£ oarit y* tAWndUd-tUk l iUAAj&'i of ThAmas aptrl& pf }ovfcu«er&lisrin reI newed resulting in a happy marriage.

HOW WE ARE TAXED.

,ib. t ffiTOsar’WSfcupsets alii of bimpravioiu claims respecting the tariff, the Boston Post proves Uy tftteliiices of thb'£eiktie- e man himself, Im}he, famous J?aris in-,< tervierw of Dec. 7, 1887, in reply to the’ tariff retorm message of‘President Cleveland,'Mr. Blaiqe said: . “I 'should seriously object to'the repeal of the duty on wook o.To repeal 'that'Would work great injustice to many in-, tepasts knd' would siriousfy-drsebhrage what' we. ehqnld eai/iestly egcouragfi, namely, the sheep culture among farmers thronghodt' the AJniott.- To break down*' wool grqwjngand be dependent on foreign , countries fotthe blankets unler which we sleep andithftceat|hat covers bur backs is* -not a wise policy for the National. mapt to dhfottAj;'” ' * 1 ' 11 Such was -yiew of the; question of free wool two years and a half ago, and‘ifWds.in aeec/rdKnce-with' View that the B^qpublican, platform was.. drawn, and that the Bepublican tariff biKl i-has-, been -prepared. -At that time’, 1 also. Mr. Blaine predicted the.qffeqf of fret wcroi’ npoii but' ex'jSo'Jt trade.' He wis asked if this trade crease if Mr. Cleveland's recommendations were'ddWpted, add he replied’:’- * “Possibly in some few arisen pf pOr eubari construction it might, but it would increasei our impbrt trade i tenfold '•»■ much in . the great etiplp fabrics ii| ypolen and’dtftton gbdds, in iron, in" steel,'in all the th&qißpnd and one shapes, in which tney are wrought. * • * The momentiyeu'begin to imtporV freety from Europe you da;ivepur own from mechanical and manufacturing pursuits. In the samaproportiiqn they -become till-’ ers of the soil, increasing steadily the agricultural 1 pibiffiet and decreasing steadily tbei Jargq which is constantly enlarging as home manufactures enlarge.!'That, of cdtirsh/ works injury .to.the farmer, glutting the market with his products and lending -*dbrfstantly to lower prices. * /* * The enlarging of the borne market for the American 1 farm er bemg chdcktedjhe'would /search in yain*foj;epe.9 f Ihe sawft.vftlue.” 3 l, Tsd great change in Mr. Blaine's expressed belief if4<4BhoWn Ki by- the piefttto J *»idH Im draws of ,toa efiect ? «fta ft| itrade :uponthe export business of the L United. Sfcdtee? and: upon th 6 J ft4llers of the.sqil” as he sees it under the new light jot to-day. -■ In which Mi; HarV? x/ongneHiWlu.Hiniae ' *“*Th® increasedieiports Would be drtWn alike from .qur farms, pur factories, and. :otMs/fbr4sty? Nofib'hi the Latin-Ameri-£cani'cpumtjie.s:produceihuUding timber;! i|hp of them are dependent upon, foreign markets for iheir’Br’rfadfstifffs’hHd ip few is ftpporr/ 'tunity or ihcliri’ation for mechanical ip-, -dustrv. 'Bhenoffecti eff suifii 1 reoiprbeity U j: Thii is all true; but its truth ’twee [equally evident at the time when Mr. denied it odd th A con- 1 Jtrary. It js ianSign of progress- that he acknowledges the falsity and the, humbug of the “home market” idea, which, ifiot*e thafi a!tfy otlref one nian. he aided in fastening upon'his party. 1 ; -A j cortespond6tii of the New York Post was enabled the other day to loqk oyejr. Iftua spring samples-of tn wellknown Scotch 'mill.; To hjs aatopish-, mqnt the jM-icdir were abont what ah American manufacturer would ask for tlte samp .f«rn»i $-4 bounce per yard cassimare, made from a fair Mfthigan or Ohio sfrool, 7s. 6d. Added to thia pfioevdtity,freight’, etc'., yould bring the cost<ofi the Scotch /goods, up tp over $3, and |hjs .yap.the cheapest this miii was selling. It may be, asked if it id possible that American people w.iU,p4j so much morn for foreign gpdds/than for domestics, and, if so, ; Fhat iia the'reason? It is not far to seek. 7?he foreign goods hate a kfyle,'originality of dedign, coloring and softness of texture* for vrhich we look in v iin damage article. "Why this should be it is not, the writer's proXinceto disbtiskhetef, but it is so,'Undoubtedly.* It is, therefore, not 4 quest on of price BQ,fac as high-plass goods go that enables so' many foreign manufacturers to ship their product here, but of manufacture. If, therefore, our mills, with the be«t machinery .and the, much-lauded intellectuai, superiority of the American wdrkihan, ' cannot, after being fostered with cate and subsidised by a high tariff for many goods for which Americans themselves "vjjlLpay l as -nfuWAs< for the foreign, sombtuing is radically wrong? ' C t ■■■■ "* . ’ Spmebody haff proposed in the British fearliainent to *nact a retaliatory tariff against qf theiVniied States, but thb British people are too sensible to adopt apy such policy. They wont the markets of the whole world to buy in as ’ well as 'to- sell in., Of our more than exports England buys more thhtr-balfrahd she wbuld bhy even more, thus extending the markets for the prWuCtsi of American labor,, but for our mhdimval tariff laws. Already Great Britain has cdt the price of American bffijt in India—something ghe did only as against our tariff. , noUr car-loads of t n-plate came into Bitt alb from ■Canada Friday, paying a dwisf 1 centr a ponad, says the Courier. /^ys.Serhum-indicates. th# ,somebody is stocking up to" make a handsome turn ( pric6s, f ’' when tin-platb will bb ] taxed /2.2 cents a pound. The speculators may o» may nqt have noticed' that by the bill as McKinley reported it ■lhelncrease of the tin-ptatfftfix doeshot take effect till Jylj} 1, 1891. n 'lp ' u Ih /iguring -on -rkriff legislation" ft ft,/ bpet-to/jtm PWW*»4 CPr ato/4' otrtof the .IfilL while (oh Itw pisk’age; and tob Jate. to "enable pppeuiatgrp ito [takn * 'barley, in wbol andkwctoleh goodi, dhd’in mqfiy JhinM gtfr jpb hyiie)iiat'ti«WMM»ed 'pricew.caiased by-tat-iff legislation you- find schemes 'fry \ jurthqr enrich the rich atXhbi&ffthsAotf* the Poor- > urjJIVT I ■ The following ?t£?X * ’ample of the tariff arguments that have been industriously circulated during the prep-

- I . • Tn .r G- H J’ W’”!! oration of the tariff, bill, now w* Congress, says the -ftM/em Stockman and Cultivator: t “The, combined .preduet es sroo end steel in yhis country is npt equal tu that of hides of animals *apd their products. The largest cbnttftnArs^of*leatbexJafe-'the farmers who furniah. the hides r (tho xaw for { j.For j«oww years the foreigner ha& controlled the price d hides in this country, *' This takes money, out of the pockets of evdrv farmer and* stock- raiser-, The pew tariff .bill . pro-. soses5 oses a duty of 15 per cent/ on hides 'his will'tie of material benefit to every farmer in the nation. If you are inter egted ip , getting more money .for eyeryi animal you paisa, write a letter to tout 1 itaembar of' anfi 'Uhitefi states' Senators faVoriug tMb proposed duty,”,. v . . 4i , i e • n "We cannot.give spice to. a full analysis of the fahbe logic of' tfiis' ttitemeni. It is enbugh to way that whatever rneMaff’es the, co at of hides to the tanner increases the cost, of leather tq the shpeipakcr and, the cost of shoes to the wearer. If Mhe largest consumers of leather are the farmbrsj” thutatmers win thereto*® be. fieeeefd more than any other class by a on hides. “This fakes the jnouey out of the ‘pjorkets.bf every farmer," whether hb‘ in veiling or not, ns we must all wear-i shoed andqse harq^ss; ( iff worse,, it takes th'e money but of the pockets of the poorest out of the poekets of the rich. m > Ttte Bifttbn 1 CWMhiWiUt 1 * protectionist paper and a trade journal of murked;ability apd high standing, points out thatj under one paragraph there would, be imposed on nearly all the carpet wool’ brought into the, Udited States “a duty ranging from ,8, to 24 cents a- ,pound?'* Here are the Commercial £(ulle(if'»CQniments. J j “This duty might enoburafee the raising of carpet woqJb Ju this .country, but.it ’would put carpefs. out of jhe roach of the ordinary Citizen, is it hot a disgrace to the United States thdt a"man 6f A Sdnator ’ Sherman's .reputation will t stoop to suoht and ’ t l a fl?P are H t .poetical, tpicks?. The outrageous wool schedule the Me-. 'Kinley bill exduto for an increase in the duty on woolens. That bn women’s dothwreaebestdn-somo* instances, 150 per cent. The wool legislation is admittedly a ‘poTflfteal dodge contrived by twpjkerswho do not know carpet wool when they see it. The wobW"stohodule 'has'been necessarily marked up in geometyipal ratjio tilj ,the special legislation in behalf of one or two favored nianufactUters givds amjfle ’ground' for effective etump epeakine, lifi-net'for calih in t ti» aid days, kfciml . eri John Sherman was hailed as a statesman, and-rfiSuy pCoufe 'regrerteiT tlai he was‘niotiPresident!”■ ./ j» r»«. pnuiA. L t But if js. the ,purpose Wool'Growers’.Association, by tariff.leg. i-iaiation* to raree tfie v of the very quantity-of <ronrse'dnd 1 Cheap-'car pet w'obl grown in this countryJo-the.price,of clothing wool! . cret about this'. . • In 1867 the corn crop of the United States .covered' 4 Sf.Sfh.zHf a'crMs*'and* amounted to -7(i8i,32h,4J00 ' busheft; - of .total value .of t $61Q,94&39fi». CouijWh eraged 80 cents per bushel in that year and the’ average'''M'ufc of thb crop per : aote wa£ si&27. i IU-'lßsFtbe acreage hail increased to X&,|1j72,753 and ibe-icrop to 1,9875,790,000 bushels, ’ while, the. aggregate value haff only risefi to $67?,5&l, 1 - ’SBOT‘- During ,l tbdsi-period - the -vaiue'of corn hadj , shrunk, from 80 cents to 38. U cents per bushel, and the acre that earnedslß.B7 id ' 1867 yielded only fr.B2 in IM" 'Likewise'-with‘-wheat. Ttf ‘4B6?4hfe nfett 1 . devoted, to iffheatiwasi epreff,: and,, the crop amounted, to J1?,441,400 'Weft, valued ?he acreage in 1887»WttS 1f1\ '644/ 788 fcefre#/ Hud, i although (he crop had more than doubled, $385,248,030, or $36,548,430 less than the crop of ndt hdlf thd size' in 1867. aterage valne 'of the wheat crop fell jfrom $1.98 ney bushel m, 1867 to 87.3 cents in l&B7”ahd the value of tie crop per acre* decreased in the sameperiod from $23.05 to $10.30. Bye, oats, Barley apd .buckwheat make a similar, though z even worse, showing, but corn ni' the largest sufficient to show that the! American farther haff oeen going down-hill, in .spits of hia> tariff- protection, at a more r%pid pace than the, most rabid protectionist would care to predict ias< the < resulVOf 'a jfaftial removal of onerous tariff

, Secretary Blaine'* Converniuu. If. Mr. BlaiDe has not become • convert to thp prinpiple of, free trade, bis views nave at least undergone so serious a modification > that he can no longer be classed among the ultra-protectionists. Free trade means unrestricted commerce between 'nations: Protection means little less than the prohibition of foreign commerce. The ostensible purpose of a protective tariff is to stimulate home industry, and to ere .te a borne market for the consumption of home' products. In other, words, it Is designed to make the nation sufficient unto itself. The proposal which Mr. Blaine has made to the President, and which the President has transmitted to> Congress, contemplates the employment of protective means zpr the accomplishment of a iree-tradi end. Mr. Blaine protests against the reduction or abolition of the duties on certain foreign products without consideration;, be wishes the present duties maintained,'so that in negotiating | reciprocity . treaties this cotintry may have something to cppcedeyi 'Senator Hale’s amendment to the pend-' ing tariff bill, autborizing~tfce President to open ibopopts of the United-States l to ali countries omttaa A*m?jfan .•on theif agreement so receive certain of, dur staples freywf dnty/is W4bemV>6di--m'fnt of num t w 1 dining ttp of fOrh'ign markets, the llbfhe? markeif the;pro- . tpntiye (doctrine -mturtba abandoned;,the hofare ri tarket must be’ left to of ttte'ilK This is .the freebelieve /isl the Hgbti thing ttf fib. , They and, the Secretary • State-; pte JO"*. I >l 1 1 trho «i»Ptlie Motley? '* ' 1 * jr .Thd Tr&feiiry received Jgg&PPMflft protected j'pets many, .of; whom arb iuhdth houses, vdyn g thepeo-, pie’s money into their own ®tWkiSt*,‘MS receiving at least sßßo,ooo,ooo.— James B. Beck. 0

SOME CENSUS FIGURES.

OUR TOTAL POPULATION E3TII MATED. AT 64,50b,000. ”'' ■ - Great farwirtK" wf ~ Nortnweatvrn Citiea—- ' Chicago Takes Second Place—The Gains i' iit ; otiiewi/c>tii<m—fce , .■ Chief CnteK^ftsieUoii^K^P < ■-• ; The on the 30th of a qShfhh reports SujTerintendent*/R>rfer as spying that information received from all of-the country indicates that there has been no serious hiteh. All the rettirbs are not yet in. In some of the enumerators have been delayed by sickfihtfs and other eausee, they will be allowed an 'extension, of time. . Mr. Farter oatto metep that of the 43,000 enumeration districts into- which the conntiy is divided 90 cent have been complete*. Soure’semi-official statistics of Ihf census have been fpm is had by Mr. ' Porter, | ■ who , estimates the population of the United States' th W in' townd nuinbbra 64.500.0pQ. I Tim..returns from the, citiM below have bee> announced in a semi-bfficiil way thus tar: ' ; ‘ ‘ Brooklyn .930,670 L. Angelos, Cal 50.000 8a1tim0re...300,600 MilWfflkW.”:’MO,bob Boston. .417,790 MinneapoHs.... 185,000 Buffal<x. ! ....'.‘.-.'.>.Sso;BiioM’nfch : 'lt'r,N.ff. r 43,0f0 ' Cincinnati 806,000 New York 1,627,227 Cleveland 248,000iN0w Orleans... 246,000 Columbus 114,000. New Albany..., 25,000 Chattanooga 1 ;, ... ,45.000H‘liila71blphla'.. 11,040,450I 1 ,040,450 Concord, N.H... 17,0(0 Pittsburg 250,000 Detroit., ,197,000(81, Louis 440,000 Dee M0ine5......'53,0ri0,5t. Pau1........ 138,000 Dubuque 40,000 Sioux City...... 85,000 Davenport 30,000 Sacramento.... 26,500 G.'ttapifls, Mich. 95,000 Stockton, Cal,. , 12,700 Indianapolis...WJXM Washington;... 430,000 'MiisVille 188.000 Wheel's, W, Va. 89,000 Lincoln, Neb..7.\'53',000 ’ ' \ , ■ TOWNS. It is thofight that the population of Chioagb will feabh not’Much beloW 1,20f1,00u.‘ .The following the population . of tbe Illinois towns mentioned.Bloomington. .■».. .-aoxkW Lfhcoln I AV....... 0,i25 BeßciiUe hj,ooo Morrison, 2,500 Cairp,....... .< |, H4,W Otto. Wk.'.;.... 1.. -.'.11'500 Dixon 6,500 Pontiac 8,200 Decatur....'.WA l. lo,oookl’torta...4l,32o St. L0ui5....18,00J Quincy 31,230 Freeport jL»...ai,oooilWk island; ..<<,15,-006 Galena 0,975 Bockford.... 23,500 Galesburg* .‘.i. .*.l6,ooo,Ppr<ugftul< h.. .26,500 Jolitt 26,350] 'fo^AVrttWk. l " ' 4 The foliovAhK,shows the present population of the pnnoiplil towns in . Anamosa 2,8*711 Indeptoftaiice ’....• 3,60(1 Bloomfield. 1,900 lowa Qty 0.000 ‘BtiWingtotf... .‘.27,3’J0 Keokuk ~\ ..14,500 •Cqupeil piuff5.,...21,401 Marshalltown.... 9,300 DavefiporV.; .’. 5i0,0(»U Mutodtiub. .V...'. .12,000 JEfae M0ine5....... .54,000 Oskaloosa 7,300 DeWitt -... i;B9>OttrrfnWa ...,1(J$00 'Fafffite d . 3,600 Sioux City..-,88,000 Dodge to .7. .v O,teo Waterloo.::-;.....' 7,003 ... WISCONSIN. The following is the showing of the x pfl]&eipa4 cities hir'd towfik'Of *Wisddtftlfl: Apnietpp iI2,OMJ Menasha... <.;... w , 4,800.. ■Asu-land -16,000 Milwaukee 203,000 BaV City 32,250 Oconomowoc .... 3,700 jßefolt 7,000 Oshkosh 29,010 Chippewa Falls.. 9,000 Portage, 5,145 f 4 Kaq Claire 21,501 Prairie du Chien. '3,100 Green Bhy 10,000 Racine 28,509 Hudson.., 3,300 Sheboygan 18,000 CrosSe 82,000 Watertown 8,870 Lake Geneva 3,00) Waukesha 6,000 .Madison 14,095 Waupun 2,537 Manitowoc, 7,500 West Bay City... 10,250 Mhririette 12.000 West Superior... 13,0<j0 l.j.X Ji THE HOOBIEB STATE. to.n. ( Indiana shows a gratifying inoreafte in - "all of her cities. Here are the figures; AOTdra.,. 4,889 Logansport 18,701 /Bl«)mit»gton 4,400 Madison 9,40 y Brazil..; 8,000 Marlon 8,724, Connjrsville 6,500 Michigan City... 11,175 Crawfordsville... 7,000 Muncie 5,2 - Elkhairt .. 11,000 Plymouth 3,400 ,Ataaasyule 51,500 Peru 'JjtWtf Fort Wayne 89,000 Richmond 15,500 Huntington 8,755 South Bend 22,000 . Indianapolis 110,000 Terre Haute..... 82,000 Kokomo. ..C. .4. J.. Valparaiso- .U?.‘ ‘5,500' Lafayette 16,245 . , 1 1 * , '’ '■ The following are the estimates-of "the ■principal cities of Kansas: iffbVKka.../'At ~..Bl,oo6ltehfte'fi ’?..‘.l?’ood Lawfence 10,992 Wichita 24,000 Leavenworth <»v • 2 <W 7 Abilene ..Q, 5,200 Emporia. 9,000 Dodge City 1,800 M4.■ l 1 ■■ " ‘ L ' ’ ' Grist gains in population are reported, frdm the various cities of Minnesota as t i> s c.L ■> ■■ .Puluth 40,000 Stillwater 13,000 Fergus Falls 4,050 St. Peter V •<:509 Minneapolis 198,000 Winona 20.0JU St. Pau1. .a. .....151,841 > if’

~ * , • f ■ The chief towns of Nebraska make the following showing: Beatrice...., 13.428114nc01n,.. SB.OOfI Frement 6,6oo'Nebraskacity... 12,50« i Hastings 13,833 Omaha 134,743 MICHIGAN. An increase in the towns of Michigan is shown, Th.o, figures areas follows:. Adrian. I<J,UOO Lansing 13,500 Battle Creek.... ~15,500 Mackinac.,...., 1,000 Escanaha......... 8,000 Niles 4,400 ,£tc*ad Rapids.,. .66,000 Port Heron ....». . .14,004 F1int...10,500 Saginaw 50,000 HnSffi’T”:::.' 1 :1:3“"’“”“ *•“* ! So far as estimates' of tbo census Of ‘ leading cities Jbave been made, 4 is pos, . sible to divide them into groups. Those having between 25,000 and 50,000, thus far reported, nre Rockford, Quincy, Peoria, Springfield; Joliet, III.; Dubuque, Sioux City, Davenport, Burlington, la,; New Albany,' iAd.; Wheeling, W. Va,; Birmingham, Ala.; Utica, N. Y.; Eliza- ‘ bath, N. J.; Chattanooga, Tenn,; Doduth, Minn.; Oakland, Sacramento, Cal.; Dallas, San Antonio, Galveston, Houston, Fort Worth, Tex.; Salt Lake City. Those ranking between 50,000 and 100,000 are Lincoln Neb.; -Troy, Ni-Y,; Dos Moines, la.; New Haven, Conn.; Nashville, Memphis, t Tenn.; Paterson, N. J.; Los Cal.; and Richmond, Va. Those , between, .100,000 and .200,00(1, ( are Omaha," ‘ ienWr,' Albany, N. Y.; Detroit,, .Lpmayilie; Paul/ 'ln* City, Columbus, 0hi0;,,, Ketfsifct City, and Alleifi*§ny City^qMb&etweeW' Oflft ,ahd'sOd.OW are Buffalo, Pittsburg, CWtfejand, New Orleans, Milwaukee, iWashimgton, D. C.. and Minneapolis. Thosel between 300 000 and 400*0001,are . San Jfraiifei&ij'o 4nd Cincinnati. Those Jb-efwfein jWo,<muw»d r, 00^00-tt«e' more, St. Louiq, and Boston. Brooklyn.,, lofijoys dposiffna'WOhe between 800,000 <Md rOQQ.gCiO, jmfl \ tfefc j.t Jireetn i llfonaire 1 * leader* in the century raoe are New York, ■Whifigo. a«dh Philttdelphiß/ in ttie ordef 5 ' never' ‘ can’t !>» —Well, I should say yon were not the only one. *4