Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1903 — Page 4

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE

Measures Under Consideration in the Capitol at Indianapolis. STATE INSTITUTIONS REPORT Legislative Committee Appointed by the Governor Makes Its Recommendations to the Assembly, in Which it Urges Many Changes. The legislative committee appointed by the Governor to visit all the state institutions made a report with recommendations to the General Assembly. The committee consists of Senator Fremont Goodwine and Representatives Henry W. Marshall and Joseph M. Cravens. Among the more important recommendations are that the land and buildings of the state school for the deaf be sold, and that a new institution be built; that the Women’s Prison and Giris' Industrial school be separated; that a dormitory ofr girls be built on St. Clair Park for the Blind Institute; that the state levy for Purdue University be increased from onetwentieth to one-tenth of a mill on the dollar, and that the levy for the state normal be increased from one-twen-tieth to three-fortieths of a mill; that the state buy the fair ground land on which the State Board of Agriculture has an option, providing title is taken in the name of the state; that new heating plants be provided for in several institutions; that a sewerage system be put in at the Eastern Hospital for the Insane.

The recommendation that St. Clair Park be used for the new dormitory at the Blind Institute will probably arouse the old fight of the State vs. Indianapolis. The park is used and maintained by Indianapolis. The board of trustees asked for two dormitories, one on the east and one on the west side of the present buildings, but did not ask that St Clair Park be used. The committee had nothing to say about the Indiana Reformatory trouble;-. Evidence was taken when the couiaiittee visited Jeffersonville, huLIL43. not incorporated in the report The committee finds that the state s interest were not protected in contwcitfor an assembly hall at th* Souther® Insane Hospital. The appropriations recommended for maintenance are from 4 to 6 per cent higher than they were two years ago. Some of the institutions have had a hard time to get along owing to Increased prices. The committee gives a full tabulated statement of finances for the last two years and publishes the invoiced value of all the institutional property.Constitutional Quorum. The seating of W. J. Hamilton to represent Green county gives the Republican sixty-seven members of the house —a constitutional quorum. This is the first time in many years that either party has had a constitutional quorum in the lower branch and under extraordinary conditions it would be of tremendous advantage to the Republicans, as they could transact business legally without a single Democratic member.

Reapportionment. It is understood that the legislative reapportionment bill introduced by Senator Newhouse of Greensburg was prepared by the men who look after Senator Beveridge’s, political interests in Indiana. Senator Beveridge’s lieutenants are taking an active interest in all the reapportionment plans. The Newhouse bill, it is reported, is largely the work of H. C. Pettitt, United States marshal. There are npw seven reapportionment bills before the legislature, and the Republican members are showing no disposition to consider them.

Defeat Luhring Bill. The temperance forces won a decided victory in the house by obtaining the indefinite postponement of the Luhring bill, which seeks to eliminate the blanket remonstrance clause of the Nicholson law. When the bill was handed down on second reading Mr. Kirkman of Wayne county obtained recognition and moved that the further consideration be postpoped, following this with ■a demand for the previous question, the intention being to shut off debate. Mr. Luhring demanded the yea and nay vote on the demand for the previous question, and the vote stood 63 to 33. This was the first match of the relative strength of the temperance forces and the brewers. Although no general debate was then permissible, a house rule allowed the author fifteen jmlnutes to discuss his measure. Luhring made an impassioned appeal to the members to save his measure. The vote op the motion to indeflnite-

Switch Target Injures.

George Herpert, a brakeman on the Wabash railroad, had his skull crushed and several rjbs broken at Lafayette. He was struck by a switch target.

Wants Conventions.

The Richmond city council is investigating the question of its right to establish a fund to be used in bringing conventions to the city, since the new coliseum was built Richmond is in a position to entertain large gatherings.

postpone was then taken and showed the bill to be defeated. Quarantine SIU. Several new bills were introduced, among them an odd quarantine bill by Hall—by request. It provides that no person but those ftho actually have smallpox shall be quarantined—that those exposed to the disease may go about their business as usual, but must daily report to health officers for Inspection. • Representative Owen introduced a bill to repeal the part of the fish law that provides that a deputy fish commissioner may claim a bonus of $5 for every illegal fish net burned, without proving to the county commissioners that he had burned them. Mr. Owen said: “This section provides for one of the worst grafts imaginable. Down in my county the commissioners were compelled to pay out S3OO last year, and they had no assurance whatever that the nets were burned.” Booth Tarkington has introduced his second bill. It provides that Indianapolis freight houses shall be open until 5 p. m. To Amend Artman Law. The Indiana Municipal League distributed in the house a copy of the resolutions that the league adopted in favor of repealing the Artman improvement law. The circular calls attention to the defects in the Artman law and urges the passage of house bill 158, introduced by Representative Mummert.

There is some talk among the members of the Marion county delegation of a bill to make the city of Indianapolis pay for the repair of permanently improved streets. Oran Muir of Marion county said that persons had spoken to him regarding such a bill, but that he had not promised that he would introduce it were it offered to him. Representative Jackley said that his bill to provide that store checks of mining companies shall be redeemable in cash on demand has the support of the State Federation of Labor. The bill, he said, is to take the place of a similar law that was held to be unconstitutional some time ago. All of the features that the court objected to, he said, have been omitted in the present bill. Nationalizes Militia. A bill of much importance to the Indiana National Guard will probably be introduced in the House and Senate soon. The purpose of it, AdjutantGeneral Ward said, is to make the law in this state, relative to the guard, conform with a recent act of Congress making the militia of all states auxiliary to the regular army, and providing new equipment. He has received a letter from General Corbin of the War Department regarding the matter, and he has taken it up with Governor Durbin. General Ward thinks it might be good policy for the legislature to enact a law incorporating the recent act of Congress.

The effect of this action would be to make the guard subject to the orders of the War Department at Washington, in times of necessity. The new act of Congress makes the guard an auxiliary to the regulars, but the members of the guard would not be compelled to respond to a call unless the act of Congress should be incorporated in the state law. If this course is followed, General Ward said that the members of the guard would have to re-enlist, as they could not be legislated into a service.

Extends Clerks’ Terms. The bill of Senator Askren to legalize the last election of county clerks, and to extend their term to January 1, 1904, was before the senate. Senator Lindley objected to the bill for the reason that Clerk Carey of Hamilton county, which is represented by Lindley, is under indictment for taking part in a “fake” foot race. Lindley said he would rather die than stultify himself and his “decent constituency” by voting for the bill. He sought to amend the bill by exempting clerks under indictment from its provisions, but he was voted down. Senator Parks amended the bill so that all oounty clerks-elect shall take office January 1, 1904. The bill was passed by a vote of 40 to 3.

Salary Increase. Warren Sayre made a bitter fight against the bill to increase the salaries of the judges and reporter of the Supreme and Appellate courts, in the house the result of which was that the bill had a narrow escape from being killed. The absentees were finally called three times, Kimball had to be sent for and Sherman had to change his vote before there was a constitutional majority in favor of the bill. The vote was 51 to 44. Opposes Truancy Bill. Hugh Marlin, a Monroe county farmer, read a paper before the senate committee, on “Education,” in opposition to the present compulsory educational law. Every member of the committee agreed that the paper was exceedingly well written, but the committee reported unfavorably on Senator Davis’ bill to repeal the truancy law.

Shatters Knee Cap.

While working in the plant of the Central Foundry company at Vincennes August Bolk had his knee cap shattered by a ehisel which slipped from a workman’s hand. He will probably be crippled for life.

Religious Enthusiasm.

Otis Morris, locked in the county jail at Newcastle during religious services, became enthused and fell in a faint, in which condition he remained for two hours.

INDIANA STATE NEWS

MAKES NEAT SUM ON OLD VIOLIN Girl Clears Handsome Profit on Instrument That Had Been Discarded. Miss Mary Quivey of North Manchester recently bought a treasure in an old violin for a song. Miss Quivey was visiting at Silver lake in quest of a second violin. She called on Hiram Rager and found one with one string used as a plaything by children, and Mrs. Rager was about to use it for kindling. Miss Quivey saw an old label with the date “1711” on the inside and suspected the instrument was valuable. She offered $lO for it and Rager accepted promptly. Miss Quivey took the instrument to St. -Louis, showed it to a music dealer, who offered her S4OO for it. She went to Chicago and asked a dealer for an opinion’ and he said the violin was a genuine Stradivarius, easily worth the price. She sent the violin to SL Louis and received a check for the amount.

JANUARY PRODUCTION OF OIL Shipments for the Month Exceed Output by 483,489 Barrels. The total production of crude oil from the fields of Ohio and Indiana for the month of January amounts to 2,077,033 barrels, and the shipments by the pipelines for the same period were 2,560,471 barrels. This shows that the stock has been drawn upon for 483,439 barrels for the month. This should have a tendency toward higher prices. The first month of the year showed an increase over the december figures of 167,270 barrels in shipments, and 64,170 barrels in production.

MONEY FOR THE ENCAMPMENT Cash Fund to Be Raised by Committee at Anderson. The executive committee of arrangements for the Indiana encampment of the G. A. R., to be held at Anderson next May, decided that a cash fund of $5,000 to $6,000 should be raised to defray the expenses of the encampment. The question of inviting the Indiana Loyal Legion to meet here at the time of the encampment will be considered later. An invitation will probably be extended.

Waterloo Is Dark. Waterloo Is in darkness again, the local water and light company having to shut down the plant on account of the shortage of coal. From 1,500 to 2,000 carloads of coal pass through on the railroad daily, but dealers are unable to have their orders filled.

Tries to Pass Note. A stranger, giving his name as George McLain, five miles north of Elwood, attempted to pass a note for SIOO bearing the name of Nathan L. Leisure, president of the First National bank. He has disappeared.

New Paper Mill. A new paper mill, which will employ 150 men, is assured for Lafayette. Contracts between the Merchants’ Association and the company are being signed and the factory will be erected in the spring.

Friends’ Bible Institute. The Bible Institute conducted by Indiana, Wilmington and Western yearly meetings of Friends, will be held at Earlham College, Richmond, again this year. It is hoped to have the same workers as last year.

To Sink Oil Wells. Citizens of Lapel have organized a company to investigate the oil fields in that locality. The company is capitalized at 512,000. They have several hundred acres under lease and will operate for oil and gas.

Engineer Is Injured. Adolph Yates, engineer at the pumping station of the Woodbury Glass company at Parker, was seriously injured by the explosion of the gas engine. The loss on the building will reach 51,000.

To Reopen Glass Plant. The American Window Glass company’s plant at Gas City, which has been closed since July, will open about April 1. Blowing machines will not be operated. The plant employs ■SOO men.

Y. M. C. A. Directors. Eighteen directors have been elected for the Kokomo Y. M. C. A. The association was incorporated with a capital stock of 550,000. An effort will be made to secure a new building at once..

Finds Shot in Tree. While cutting a large oak tree at Charleston John Graves found severaT No. 4 shot imbedded in the trunk of the tree. It is thought that the shot were fired into tne tree 65 years ago.

Oil Plant on Fire. By the bursting of an oil supply pipe on the Chris Spain lease, just north of Hartford City, a fire nearly destroyed the whole oil plant. George Donahue, a pumper, was fighting the fire when his clothes caught fire. He tore off his clothing and continued to fight the flames until he put them out.

Valuable Pigs. Worley Riley of Thorntown sold three pigs, weighing seventy pounds each, for 5400. The pigs will ba shipped to Portland. Ore.

PRISONER ASKS FOR A BIBLE Clever Ruse Worked by Horse Thief to Escape From Jail. Irving Rader, who was in the epunty jail at Auburn on the charge of stealing a team of horses belonging to his wife, and who was awaiting transfer to the penitentiary, has escaped. While Sheriff Bleecker was away form the jail Rader asked two of the sheriff’s daughters to lend him a Bible. The only one at the jail was the sheriff s family Bible and the girlsopened the cell door to hand it in. Rader pushed the door back, knocked the girls unconscious on the floor and was soon at liberty. It was half an hour later when the girls recovered and gave the alarm.

CONQUERS A BURGLAR. Miss Helen Brinkmann’s experience with a burglar, whom she drove from her home at Michigan «Clty, has had no serious results for her. She had a desperate struggle with the masked

man, and\ escaped from him, after throwing aglass of water tn his face. She then fled to another room and returned with a revolver. With the weapon she forced the man to back out of the house and out the yard gate.

Coal Monopoly. The Muncie Commercial club will take up a movement to centralize the entire sale of coal in one company and have it shipped direct from one mine. It will force many small coal dealers out of business.

Shoots Detective. George Jones, a railroad detective, remonstrated with two negroes who were hiding in box cars at Hammond, when one of them shot and fatally injured him. James Nelson was arrested.

To Develop Coal Mines. The Pan-Handle Coal company of Bedford will be incorporated with a capital stock of $250,000. The company owns 4,500 acres of choice coal land and will develop it on a large scale.

Auto Damage Suit. Susan Orner of South Bend has sued W. H. Mclntyre of Auburn for 58,000 damages. She says her horse was frightened by the banker’s automobile, ran away, and she was badly injured.

Unique Funeral.

Mrs. Orr, 88 years old, whose funeral occurred at Russiaville, had for her pallbearers six of her sons, all grayhaired men. She was the mother of thirteen children.

Farmer Kills Himself. Webb Lamkin, a Switzerland county farmer, killed himself with a revolver in the presence of his family. Despondency was the cause.

National Bank. A national bank is organizing at Dillsboro. The Bank of Dillsboro will quit business and the new enterprise will occupy its quarters.

For New Hospital. , Members of the Ban-street Lutheran church of Fort Wayne met and organized the Lutheran Hospital society, with 55,000 capital.

New Church for Dillsboro. Dillsboro is to have a new Lutheran church of the Missouri synod. The present Luthern church belongs to the Ohio synod.

Traveler Dies. Jesse G. Van Winkie, a traveling man, well known all over the West, died in Easthaven hospital, Richmond.

Accepts Hendricks' Gift. Hanover college has accepted the gift of 525,000 from Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks for a library building.

Threaten to Strike. The members of New Albany union No. 286, Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, made a demand for a ninehour day and 52.50 a djty, instead of ten hours and 52.25. Unless the company accedes to their demana a strike will follow. //

Strikes Gas. The Citizens’ Gas company drilled in a heavy flow of gas northeast of Portland. The well makes a noise that can be heard a long distance and ncs not been packed or shut down.

Our Big Universities.

Colleges and universities grow faster than ever. The growth was shown chiefly by the larger and wealthier ones, the smaller ones remaining star tlonary or falling away. Columbia passed Harvard in students and now leads the list, the figures being 5,865 and 5,782. Chicago made another leap and is third with 4,723. California with 3,848 is running almost neck and neck with Michigan with 3,843. Minnesota’s count is 3,665 and Cornell has reached 3,469. Pratt holds eighth place with 3,183, and Yale has jumped to the ninth from the eleventh with 3,154. Then comes a close race of three—Wisconsin, 2,986; Northwestern, 2,921 and Illinois, 2,905. Pennsylvania is thirteenth with 2,736, Nebraska, fourteenth with 2,398, New York fifteenth with 2,200 and Syracuse sixteenth with 2,065.

Cause for Alarm.

Lord Charles Beresford was talking to some members of the Old Guard at the ball last Monday night, and the conversation drifted to the subject of fashionable weddings, says the New York Times. Lord Charles said he had attended one a few weeks before he sailed for New York, and as he followed the bridal party down/ the church steps he heard a woman standing on the sidewalk say, “The bride has a tremondous trousseau; it’s the talk of the town.”

Coal instead of Coin.

The young people of Westchester, a suburb of New York, have formed what they call the Anti-Coal Trust Club. Their first public entertainment is about to be given and the price of admission has been fixed at one pound of anthracite coal, the patron not being restricted to that amount, of course, it being merely the minimum weight.

INSIST ON GETTING IT.

Borne grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This Is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 ox. in a package, which they won’t be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 ox. for the same money. Do you want 16 ox. Instead of 12 os. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking.

Slur on Rockefeller.

An editor down in Pennsylvania refers to the Standard Oil Croesus as “John D. Rockybaptist.” No chromos or cneap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price oK other starches. Children are Unconscious philosophers. They refuse to pull to pieces their enjoyments to see what they are made of. —Henry W.' Beecher.

MORE FLEXIBLE AND LASTING,

wont shake out or blow out; by. using Defiance starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. * It sometimes happens that a man is so reserved in his manners that they become rusty from disuse. Experience teaches a man how dishonest other men are.

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IT TAKES THE ACHES out of muscles and joints. Heals old sores. Takes inflammation out of burns and bruises. Stops any pain that a perfect liniment can stop. MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT for injuries or aches of MAN or BEAST. Bromo-Seltzer Promptly cures all Headaches

A $1,000,000 HITCHING POST.

Relic of Costly Experiment Made Uporr the Erie Railroad Sixty Years Ago. J. B. Posten has in front of his house at Bath, N. Y., what he calls a mllllon-dollar hitching post. It is a white oak post, and was removed from a field near Canister, Steuben county, N. Y., and is believed to be the last of thousands of posts that vtere driven for a distance of more than one hundred miles on the route of the New York and Erie railroad when it was being constructed through the Susquehanna, Canisteo and Allegany valleys sixty-two years ago. It was intended to elevate the rails for the railroad on these posts instead' of laying them on a solid roadbed. This plan of railroad building was abandoned before a rail was put down. The money spent in the useless work amounted to more than $1,000,000 and drove the Erie into its first bankruptcy. The owner of this relic of the old pile roadbed of the Erie obtained it last fall while visiting relatives in the vicinity of where it stood, a lone monument to the costly folly that placed it there two generations ago.

Seat for Senator Hopkins.

Senator Cullom has picked out aseat for his newly elected colleague from Illinois, Senator Hopkins. He chose on the back row, formerly occupied by Senator William M. Evarts of New York.

Not Habitual.

According to a Massachusetts judge a man who gets drunk every Saturday only is not a habitual drunkard and will not be until every day is Saturday, by and by.

trade HARK. Mind This. • It makes no difference whether it is chronic, acute or inflammatory Rheumatism of the muscles or Joints St.JacobsOil cures and cures promptly. Price, 25c. and sOc.

REAL ESTATE.

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