Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1876 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A number of prisoners confined In Miami County Jail, at Pohx, made a desperate attempt to escape the oilier moral ng. Among the number was ono- Burpoff, charged with grand larceny, with chances good for a term In the Penitentiary. They obtained a quantity of powder from the outside, which they placed in a hole In the wall, where the mortar had been picked out. A alow matchwaa arranged, and an explosion followed, consldcrably damaging .the wMls, hu(thc fcl-_ lows were unable to escape before the Sheriff took them into Umbo again. Indiana stands first in railroads and telegraphs, having one mile of railroad to ejfery 895 of her population, the largest proportion of this most Important interest of any civil or political division on the globe. In wheat she rauks second only to Illinois, which is nearly one-half larger than Indiana. In com she ranks third, Illinois and Ohio alone surpassing her. In farm products and machinery she ranks fourth andcJlfth, New York, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania excelling her. In Uvc stock she ranks seventh in the scale. Indiana is now supporting a population of fifty, upon an average, to each section of 640 acres. By comparison with foreign countries, It will be seen that she haa the capacity of supporting a population of 17,000,000. While India, with her arduous system of irrigation and most earnest labor, Is supporting a population of 400 to the square mile, upon a yield of sixteen bushels of wheat to the acre, and rice, sweet potatoes and sueh like vegetables, all produced without any foreign machinery, and while a great portion of Europe, from her well worn fields, Is supporting her 300 to 400, and Massachusetts with her thiu soil and skilled labor is supporting her 200, and other less favored States are supporting 100 to 150, Indiana has an average of 100 to her cultivated lands, embracing only about 18,000 square miles, yet producing sufficient to support 5,000,000 people. One character! st ie feature that- gives force to and interest in her manufactures is the fact that in all her various manufacturing enterprises she is not making a useless toy or a silly ornament. On the other hand, she is producing nearly every class of labor-saving machinery, furniture and implements. Indiana, with less than 2,000,000 people, is producing more useful machinery to lighten the manual labor of the world, to create wealth, give comfort and advance civilization, than all Asia with her 800,000,000 of people. Thk fifty-seventh anniversary of the etteblishment .of Odd Fellowship In the United States was very generally observed by Odd Fellows throughout the State. At Richmond, Logansport, Goshen and Indianapolis the demonstrations were particularly imposing. Out of Haute children seventyfive cannot read nor write. On the morning of the 25th, near Berne, Adams County, while a daughter of Christian Yoder, thirteen years old, was engaged in burying wheat stubble in a field, her clothing caught fire, and, being unable to extingueh the Dames, and no assistance being near, she was so badly burned that death resulted in two hoars.

Frankie Parker, «trine year old boy of Lafayette, sustained a fatal fall, the other afternoon. He was playing about a store bailding and went through the hatchway. Dr. James Braden, of Indianapolis, haa prepared a very exhaustive table, showing Indiana’s relative importance as a producing State and her commercial advantages compared with «tbor States and eountries of the globe, which will appear in the forthcoming report of Alex. Heron, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, for 1875. From the table the following deductions are made: Ex-Countt Treasurer Koch, of Vanderburg, was recently arrested in Evansville, on a grand jury warrant charging him with defalcation in office. He gave bail in the sum of $5,000. A little two-year-old eon of Henry Re-in-king, of Manchesfer Township, Dearborn County, while playing out in the door-yard of his father’s home the other dav, was kicked by a vicious colt, which, by some carelessness, was running loose in the same yard. The little fellow was picked up in an unconscious condition and carried into the house, where, after lingering a few hours, he died. Charles Davis wm instantly killed at Sreencastle, the other -afternoon, by being thrown from the platform of a street-car, under the wheels, two of whieh passed, oyer his head. Bincb the Ist of January there have been K 6 accessions to the Methodist churches in the Grcensburg and Columbus districts, •under the presiding eldership of Rev. T. H. Lynch. Knox County will send to the Centennial •intbeway of timber thirty-three different -varieties, the specimens ranging in size from six inches to five feet in diameter, Indianapolis has forty-five gambling dens. There are just an even 200 .dwellings and 'business houses in Petersburg. Madison recently had a baby show at which ten male and female cherubs were exhibited. Two were so evenly matched that the matter of superiority had to be set-tled-by drawing straws. The panel from Richmond for the Ccntenolalihae been shipped. It contains the foi- ' lowing statistics: Richmond, Wayne County, first settlement, 18 )6; incorporated a town, 1808; chartered a city, 184 >; population 1856,1,445; population 1866, 6,603; population 1870, 9,445; population 1876, 15,522; manufactories 1875, 127; aggregate capital invested, $1,807,785; raw material and labor cost, $1,450,143; goods fold, value, $2,729,147; rate of taxation, $1.05 os $100; city debt, Mt per cent, of taxable property; churches,, 19; school-rooms publicly occupied, $7; ischools, denominational, 4; academy, Friends,' 1; college, Earlham, 1; railturnpikes, 13. The latent report* from Cincinnati giro the following,as the current priees for leading staples:: Flour,* $5.00@6l00; Wheat, $1.12f1.26; (Corn, Oats, 87 @43c; Barley, 98@99e; Rye, 74® 76c, Pork, $21.75 <*22.00; Lard-Steam, 13® 13Kc; kettle, tfij£@l4c; Hogs-$7.00g8.10.