People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Marriage License*. The following persons have been granted marriage licenses since our last report: Charles Hoile, Elizabeth Bullinger. George C. Cooper. Amy D. A. Rice. Sikke Ettena. Zintji Sipkcna. We have often wondered why it is that people, and especially ladies, will go to the city and witness an evening’s performance of some burlesque or opera company, which is especially conspicuous for the abbreviated costumes of the performei s, or they wIH even go to a circus a, home and see the scantily clad men and women, yet when a show comes to the home opera house, and in any way in the least advertise to bo something similar, they shun it as if it were poison. This was readily shown at the show here the first of the week. Although the shcAv was a bore yet there was nothing said or done that was in the least out of the way except the lithographs which they had about town advertising the com pany.

The tax question is now before the supreme court, and the people are anxiously awaiting the result of its decision. The validity of taxes on nearly $200.000,000 of property is at stake, and, should the railroads succeed. the taxes now assessed against them can not be collected. Thus far in the circuit court of Marion county and the supreme court of Indiana the state has won. The railroads have taken the cases to the supreme court of the United States because, they say, the Indiana, tax laws violate the United States, in that the law gives them no notice or hearing; discriminates against them and in favor of all other tax-payers, and interferes with interstate commerce. The state denies the position of the railroads, and it is upon these questions that ar gument is to be heard by the supreme court of the United States.

Elder J. L. Brady, of the Christian church, was in Monti cello, last Wednesday, where h preached the funeral sermon r» John Alfred Spar, the eleve. year old son nf Mrs. Reineer, o that place. The boy died from injuries received by a fall fro u a hickory tree, while gatherinnuts. and tie force of the fa!' crushed his skull. This occufre ‘ last Saturday. Duncan Clark’s Female Minstrels have been rehearsing her for three days this week. The; opened their season at Bloom ington last night. Frank Hoover left the first of the week for Bloomington, where he enters the state university.