Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — The Case Continued. [ARTICLE]

The Case Continued.

What was done with Wartner’s Case; and other Court MattersOn last Thursday afternoon the attorney for the defense in [the Wartner murder case, withdrew his application for a change of venue, and asked for a continuance to the October term.; The, continuance was granted, as was also leave for the defense to take depositions in Friesland, Holland. The everlasting case of The State against Win. H. Wood, for embezzle ment, was as were also a whole assortment of liquor cases; against Abe Simpson, mostly, with EugeneO’Neill occasionally represented. In the cases of the State against Geo. Cooper, of Blackford, for illegal sale of liquor, the defendent plead guilty on one indictment, and was fined S2O and costs, which he paid; while the second case against him was dismissed.

The County Commissioners. Ezra L. Clark was appointed Ditch Commissioner, under the new ditch Jaw, to hold the office for two years. Making the tax levy for the current year occupied a largo part of the attention of the Board. The levy for county revenue was placed at 85 cts. on each one hundred dollars of asessed valuation. List year the rate for county revenue was $1.20 cn each hundred dollars. Most of the various township levies are somewhat jess than lafct year, the greatest reduction being in Carpenter township, the aggregate levy r.f which is $2.06 on the hundred this year, wbilo last year ’t was $3.31. The board decided that certain of the poor in Carpenter township were costing the county more than il they were maintained at the county poor farm, and the Trustee of that township was directed to bring Kate Carmody and family, Win, Rader and Hartiet Black to the poor farm, in Case those persons should prove unable so support themselves. E. L. Clark made his report in regard to the condition of the Congrtssional Township school fund. He f'.u.nd that, owibg to vjirioui cuu.es, uio-tiy forfeitures and failures of property to sell fib the amounts they were mortgaged ‘ter, t here was uua from the county revenue tdlhe vari >us township funds, a total amount of about SI4OO.

/ James Whitcomb Riley. The distinguished “Hoosier Poet”, James Whitcomb Riley, gave one of ins peculiar eutertaiui.uents, to a large audience, nt the Opera House, evening. Mr. Kiley is not oily a highly gifted poet, but possesses i< genius for dramatic jeproseutaik n, ■ truly remarkable. His eutcrtaiumeat consists if a series of recitations, <> his own poems, mainly, but ah. of other pros j and poetic picduetioi.s; and the ease, natural nets and irresistible humor and pathos wi h which l.e portrays different characters, passes desci ipti•■'*. ' The solid old Hoosier farmer, the maudlin witted. "moss’dack from way-buck, the dude ••chnil-mas-ter. from dvwri east, ti.e afflicted 'le:'umu parent, the bright but ar less, lit tic. boy* are all represented with a perfect fidelity. Humor seems t> t-e Mr. Riley s stiougest ch triietei istiv, and ou Munday evening be ai'k.wM his auditors Lu: brief breathing s-p iis between rhe laugh?.

" The conduct of tho rough boys, at the Opera House, on almost every occasion of a public entertainment. has grown to be an unbearable nuisance. The gallery is generally the scene of the most obj ectionable demonsti ations, but it quite, frequently happens that a band of hoodlums congregates in the back part of, the hall and proceed to do what they can to spoil whatever exercises may be going forward on the stage. Inordinate and long continued stamping and clapping, cat-calls rooster-crows, loud and long whistlings, are among the means adopted by the lawless gamins to turn what should be orderly exeicises into a pandemonium. And !it is not wholly among the boys | either, that the authors "of these ■ demonstrations are to be found. ' Grown men, who ought to know -better, frequently set the examples far the boys to follow.