Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

▲ w>m plan to promote marriage among the settlers in the Northwest Territory has just been adopted by the Canadian Pacific railroad. When a Bettier wants to go to Ontario for his girl, he buys a matrimonial ticket at the usual rates; but on presenting the ticket a few weeks later at an Ontario station, together with a marriage certificate, ho will be entitled to free transportation for his bride. Hekbv G.bowik grows eloquent in defeat. He says that “but for the faet that this (his) great party is forming with a pure and unselfish ideal, the citizens might well despair of the Republic.” Henry George ought to know that a Republic rests upon the people who created it,“not upon the petty office holders. Th? electioh of George as* Secretary of State of New York would not have advanced his peculiar ideas one iota, nor have made the Republic one whit more free. It is the doctrines which' seek to undermine the foundations of a government in opposition to those of its establishment that do injury to its perpetuity. Mr. George need not despair. The Republic is all right. How is Mr. George and bis doctrines?

Some four or five months ago William McChntic, a wealthy farmer of Bartholomew county, was robbed of 56,000 by some sharpers, who made good their escape. Last week a stranger called at the home of Mr. McClintic, saying he was a Cincinnati detective, and that if Mr. McClintic could produce enough money at once to give him a start he could capture the thieves. Mr. McClinticj however, refused to bite a second time. It now transpires from the death of Michael Savage, a street-peddler of Crawfosdsville, that some of the saloonkeepers of the city are in the habit of taking the very clothes off drunken customers for a drink of gin. Savage shivered to death for lack of coat and vest, which had been pawned for drink. A second-hand man says he gets a large portion of his clothing from saloon-keep-ers, who strip their victims of wearing . appareL In digging a ditch in Montgomery county, in the section of Black creek, a discovery has bean made by the workmen that "may “prove valuable iu the future. In that section the lan! is very marshy, and when a depth of about ten feet was reached a white substance was found which seems to have no bottom. When it is first dug up a white, watery substance oozes out After it has been exposed to the air for about two days it becomes very black and bnrns readily, making a bright, warm fire. It is supposed to be coal in the first formation. ' - 7- ——— State S.atistieian Feelle has received reports from fifty-eight counties, showing the extent and character of the litigation during the last year. The figures are: Civil cases begun, 15,190; criminal cases, 4.626; indictments returned, 3,576; convictions, 1,216; executions issued, 2,278; foreclosure decrees, 1,613, Knox,. Boone, Randolph, Cass, Vigo and Clinton counties, each of which constitutes a judicial circuit, have failed to report, ... The coal strike in Evansville has" been again precipitated. After remaining out four weeks under a strike for higher wages, the men returned to work List week. In the interval the operators have ran up the price to nine and ten cent*, which figures were maintained when the men returned at the old wage scale, but the return to work made no difference, and prices have not been reduced, and the men no,w demand that if the operators receive four cents more on the bushel for their product than when they previously worked at present TO®**, the .laborers are entitled to- a commensurate increase, Consequently two of the' mines shut down Wednesday morning, and the men at Ihgles's, the largest mine in the vicinity, went out in the afternoon. The operators refuse the deman i. It is likely to implicate about fifteen hundred men and be one of long duration. * The agricultural department, notwithstanding occasional criticisms, continues to issue its statistical information with persistant regularity. Tt in information, too, that seems to be readily devoured; a fact, perhaps, 6i range when its dryness is considered, and the officials o? the department stand ready to wager a bag of seed that the figures “are fact* and not fiction. Here are some local to Indiana as gathered and prepared by the statistician. The following, he says, are the estimates of the average-yield and condition of the crops of *he Slate: Wheat—Average yield per acre, stated in bushels, 15 5; average quality, li*o representing high medium grade, 96 Rye —Average yield pe r acre in bushels. 13.9; average quality, 100 representing high medium grade, 98; Oats-Average yield yer acre in bushels, 26; average quality, 100 reproeirnng high medium grade. 95 BarievAverage yield per acre in-bushels 18; average quality, MQ-representing -igr, medium urade, 94. Bnckwa -ir - vverage condition 75. Com-61. White Potatoes—43. Sweet Potatoes—7o Sot ghum— 66. --y- ~ ~ -—. ' _ \ ■ ■■—