Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

South Bend claims 25,000. Clay county has 657 pensioners. Diphtheria is subsiding at Michigan City. An epidemic of measles prevails at Cannelsburg, and the schools have been closed. George Nelson, of Logansport, stole wagon whip and was, Tuesday, sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. S. C. Grubb, a brakeman who was in lured on the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville road, was given $3,166 damages, Wednesday. A ci izen of New Market, Clark county, drank some of a patent cordial as medicine. He has since become insane, and the cordial receives the blame for it. While John Reizer and Benjamin Ruez, near Evansville, Wednesday, were scuffling for posession of a revolver, the weap on was discharged and the bullet pene trated Keizer’s abdom en, inflicting fatal injury. While Charles H. Fithian and others were coon hunting, near Hazleton, Wednesday night, and were engaged in cutting down s tree on which a coon had sheltered itself, a falling limb struck Fithian, killing him almost instantly. He leaves a large family. , •

There was a sale of-Clydesdale draught horses on the Adams & Co., stock farm, near Muncie, Wednesday, and good prices prevailed. B. L. Perry, of Cable, 0., purchased a three-year-old stallion for $550; a six year-old went to Fred Ice, of Mt. Summit, for $400; William Cray, of Modoc, bought one of similar age for $1;300, and John Barrett, of Randolph county, paid $540 for a three-year-old. Indiana was admitted into the Union 73 years ago Wednesday last. Indiana is the. sixth,State in the -Union in-size, population and natural wealth; the first in public school facilities; the first in amount of wheat produced; the first in natural gas area; fifth in the production of bituminous coal, and it has the best building stone in the world, and produces more than any of the other fdrty-twe States except four. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Wednesday, as follows: J. C. Alexander, Fisher s Station, gate; S. C. Campbell, Thorntown, incubator; D. A. Foster and T. L. Barker, Westfield, carpet stretch sr; P. D. Graham, Corunna, hand plow; W. O. Gunckel, Terre Haute, machine for 'utting square holes; W. E. Murbarger, Indianapolis, anti-rattler spring for thill jouplings; W. P. Myer, Indianapolis, signal lantern; W. M. Pearce, Rushville, tenoning machine; M. A. Swing, Washington, feed regulator; G. W. Warren, Evansville, protector for piano fortes. The annual report of the Northern Prison was placed in the hands of jhe Governor Thursday. We extract She following details: Receipts and earnings of the prison dm ing the year ending Oct. 31, 1889, were $113,601.95; expenditures, $99,976.97; balance of receipts over jxpenditures, $13,624.88. The Fort Wayne feuney Company put in an incandescent flectric-light plant costing $9,400, and the lhe improvement over candles is narked. Crude petroleum has been subitituted for coal as fuel. It is clean, odor less and reduces the annual cost of fuel 15 per cent. The sewer for which the Legis lature appropriated SIO,OOO will be done by i ring The school established a year ago bas proven so popular that a doubling of Its capacity is recoinn_ ended. There were ji the prison on October 31, 748 convicts, in increase of forty-six over a year before. During the year 314 prisoners were discharged by expiration of sentence, 15 were pardoned or p n-oled, I escaped and was not captured. 7 lied. Each prisoner costs the State J,29 per year; each receives clothing cost jigs 7. 68 per annum and food costing 12 Sents per day. Tuere are in the prison 5 broken down consumptives who will Boon ire. There are seventy-seven murderers onflned intheprison. Of the 746 prisoners. 5(10 are put down as intemperate, and 1.9 temperate. There’s a whole temperance library in a few words. The clerk who made the report said: “Ninety-two prisoners can neither read nor wright.” He d not say whether they can spell. Only eighty-nine are foreign born. Col. W. W. Dadley Was in India napo.is Thursday. A warrant was sworn out by Leon Bailey for his arrest, but was not f«*rved. After issuing the warrant at his office Mr. Van Buren- called on United Stales District Attorney Chambers and notified him of the issuing of the warrant Mr. Chambers at once said that he would not countenance the warrant. He said to Mr. Van Buren that Bailey’s Grand Jury which had indicted 150 Republicans, only a few of whom could be convicted, had tlioroughl;, investigated the charge against Dudley, and had refused to find any indictment. . For that reason, he said, he would not renew the case. With such instructions from the District Attorney, Mr. Van Buren held that he could do nothing more. He put tne warrant in his pocket,and there it remains. Mr. Chambers takes the responsibility of bringing about the status quo. Colonel Dudley seemed to be court lug arrest. A little after 9 o’clock he went to the Federal building, and remained there an hour, visiting the United States Marshal's office, the Clerk’s office, the postoffice and the District Court room He was cordially received everywhere. The United States Marshal escorted him about the building, and Judge Woods came down off the bench to shake hands with him. Tne Colonel during his stay in the building made many joculag. remarks about the efforts of his enemies to have him placed under arrest. A current opinion is that Dudley came to Indianapolis solely for the purpose of testing the disposition to prosecute him. It is also believed by Democrats that before coining he had assurances that he would not be prosecuted. The State Grange in session at 'lndianapolis Thursday, declared the new schoolbook law to be a step in the right direction. The liquor license system was de clared to be wrong; the tobacco and liquor license should be retained, the Grangers decided; a committee was Instructed to bring measures of agricultural importance before the Legislature. No detnite aottM was taken upon the union

°f the Grange with the Knights of Labor, They resolved in favor of holding the World’s fair at Chicago, that United States Senators should be elected by di rect vote of the people; that if graduated income tax would be a good thing; that aliens should not be allowed to own property in the United States; that property shoula be assessed for taxation at its full cash value; that elements of agriculture should be tanght in the public schools; that the census should give farm mortgage statistics; that county commissioners should not have the right to call for elections to vote railroad tax; that there should be a free coinage of silver and a circulation of paper currency, independent of the National banks, in sufficient volume tp prevent further contraction. They alsofavor a reduction of the salaries of State and many county officers, and decry the great and unjust inequalities in distribution of the rewards of labor and the burdens of government, in that the property of farmers and laboring men generally, never escape assessment for taxes, while notes, mortgages and bonds of money-lenders and corporations are largely hid away, thereby escaping assess ment and taxation. Trusts and combines were mercilessl v condemned.