Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The tests to be made'by the Internal Revenue Bureau of the various kinds of beer made in this country, are for the purpose of determining whether or ndt the government is being cheated in its revenue. Commissioner Miller notices that the receipts from the whisky tax have decreased several million dollars, and that those from beer have increased. He argues that it'takes so much alcohol to make a man drunk, and that His necessary to drink more beer or •ther liquid containing a smaller percentage of alcohol, than whisky, to produoeagiven effect The increased consumption ot beer and the decreased Consumption of whisky leads him to the conclusion that there is either less drunkenness now, or that there is more alcohol in the beer than there used to he. The testa will decide the latter point, and by inference, the format;also* They will also disclose to the public the ingredients which enter into the iquit! known as beer, the composition of which is a matter of much importance to its consumers.

Rain has done much good everywhere. ,T“ T~ War is being made upon saloons at Angola. Randolph county will have an avenage of six month’s school. Elkhart maintains an annual lecture course, of which it is justly proud. Switzerland county sent thirteen convicts to the penitentiary South during September. The Salvation Army proeession at Ladoga, last Wednesday—night, Jtaa. stoned by the citizens all along the line. The State printing has been awarded to VV. B. Burford and A. R. Baker, the lowest bidders. Both are at Indianapolis. Ten counties in the State estimate the yield of corn at 21 bushels per acre; yield of oats, 32f bushels; potatoes, 19 bushels, with S p/ir cent, of old corn on hand. The Randolph county board of education has resolved upon measures to have representative work of the schools of the county exhibited at the next county institute, and also at the county fair. At least 150 of the teachers of the county will take up the reading circle work. Alexander McPheetere, one of the richest men in Vigo county, was fleeced out of $2,0 .0 by a sharp who professed to be a son of W. R. McKeen, president of tbe Vandalia road, and said he had drawn 14.000 in a lottery and needed $2,000 to collect it, but didn’t want his father to know it. The first case under the new slock law was tried by ’Squire Cumberland, at Crawfordsville, last Saturday Charles Sheon, a road supervisor, was arrested on complaint for not taking up estray cattle after having been notified of the act that the cattle were running at large. He was fined $1 and costs added. Shortly after the war a wagon Toaded with barreled cement was upset on the levee, at Jeffersonville, and a greater portion of the load rolled into the river. Thursday, while a number of men were . at work repairing the wharf logs, the contents of one barrel was found lying in the water." The coupe rage had long since rotted away, but the cement had remained together and had Iteeome as hard as stone. Tfie Soldiers’ Monument Commission have made their first quarterly report to tbe Governor. It shows that $141.75 have been expended on salaries and office expprises, and giyfes a detailed account of tue operation of the board. in arranging for the com petition.. The expenees of the commission at present are being paid from $2,500 which the G. A. R. monumental commission donated, as there are at present no available funds ! in the State Treasury from which to 'j draw. Representatives of the State board of agriculture and the treasurer of the I Sate fair wbre in session Monday closing ! their balances. Tne gate receipts this I "-year show a total of $22,011.70 against! $19,565 45 in ISSG, and $18,515 SJ in I 18S5. The coupon tickets sold by railroads are yet to be reported, anti so are i a number of receipts from other sources, swelling the grand aggregate possibly $5,000 in access of what Is given as gate j receipts. In a financial sense the State fair was a success. The hog cholera, which appeared in i the north part of Wabash county three j weeks ago has since been* spreading | rapidly, and it is now apparent that m two weeks there will be no more hogs! in that section. The finest and healthiest animals are attacked. The first symptoms is either a drow3v condition or bleeding at the nose, then the animals become dumb. They remain sick several days and never recover. Nothing has been found to stay the ravages of j the malady. In one neighborhood fullv 400 animals have died, valued at $7 to $8 each. Fanners are much discouraged. ’• « Another Death for Ireland. At a national land leagne meeting ‘at Dublin, Wednesday, the Lord Mayorannounced the death in prison of Thomas Larkins Woodford, “who, with the men butchered at Mitchelstown, died for [ Ireland.” I