Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — STATE CAPTIAL CHAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STATE CAPTIAL CHAT.

The last Legislature directed tbe mH librarian. W. E Henry, “to eompUe r ||H and direct the printing of a State mania for Indiana.” The act does not give tiffi librarian any direction regarding r|H work, leaving the whole matter to tji discretion of that official. The result volume of 1,250 pages, which ia till#! with useful information. Among fH more important topics are the name* aM salaries of all State officers and boortH the official register of Indiana from 18M to 1899, names of the members of hB two constitutional conventions. nameeM the members of both branches of the Lm Islature since the formation of the StgjiS constitution of the State, index to ME constitution, financial condition of State assessment of real estate in 18BH tax Jaws, educational funds and rtHM tics, congressional districts from 182i|H 1895, Indiana's representatives frtigH 1816 to 1899, the electoral votes of 1M diana, election laws, abstract of vote jjH citato officers in 1898, formation and AM ganization of counties, county offices elected in November, 1898, names -.JH township trustees. United States postil regulations, post-offices in Indiana, Ina ana in war, call for troops in the civfl war, index to Senate and House rules beginnings of Indiana, and a general iiM dex. The foregoing are only a porthgH of the topics considered in the first Stan manual. This work meets a want whim those who have desired to obtain inform! tion regarding Indiana have long felu and for which nearly all other Stat*3 have provided. Mr. Henry has put j vast deal of Intelligent labor into tjifl manual, which makes it invaluable. Oa9| one thousand copies have been printed! and these are distributed by tbe act p(i riding for the publication of the manniM The State bureau of statistics has cosm pleted a table on divorces in Indiana t*m the year ending June 30, 1899, based ofl returns from every county, the first of £■ kind accurately prepared. It shows 3,4« divorces granted in the year, which win over 10 per cent of the number of man ringe licenses Issued in the same penaM The County Clerk issued 25,051 of theM passports to bliss. There has been mod complaint of recent years of the faciflfl with which divorces are granted in Ini diana, and particularly in Marion CoqM ty, which leads with 575 divorces. Min ison County is a'/so a banner one in pcM portion to population, for there 142 wen granted. Cruel treatment caused nciiriJ a third of the total divorces, abandqM ment a fifth of them. Along the Okjfl river the hill counties show the cleaffiM records. Two-thirds of the separation in Indiana were on the complaint wives. In Indianapolis the proportiogjaß divorces to weddings was umisuaM large, over 25 per cent, the divorces boring 575 and the weddings 2,250. CtJM County (Jeffersonville), the Gretna GreM for Kentucky, comes next to Indianapqß in licenses issued, there being 1,3021 m the year. ■ Indiana has not been backward in fnfl nishing soldiers to Uncle Sam, in i] quarrels with the Spanish and FilipiiS The records in the adjutant general’s ol flee show that the grand total of Indiaß men enlisted for the Spanish-AmeriijM war was 7,301, including 261 ia diana has two recruiting stations, at IM dianapolis and Evansville, • but somelM the Indiana men have enlisted in othjH States. The Indianapolis station is <#■ of the most important iu the country, jfl records show that from April to Decal tor, 1898, 1,331 men enlisted, and frol January to August, 1899, 1,658, maftdjß a total of 2,989 for the regular servjfl For the volunteer service 1.200 men haH eplisted at the Indianapolis station. MgS Indiana men are now in the PhilippiMM Volunteers are still being accepted fl the Forty-first volunteers, Capm MestM Pennsylvania, ami the Forty-ninth eokM ed volunteers, Jefferson Barracks, souri. Those enlisting few the regdfl service in the Philippines spend a monfl at the instruction camp. San FranefeM before going to Manila. |