Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson is threatened with a beer war. Mnncie has passed the saloon-screen ordinance. John Michowe's bam andcseven horses Michigan City, were burned on the 20th. Tho grand total assessment of taxables in Floyd county is estimated at $56,079,809. Twenty, dead dogs were found on the streets of Jeffersonville at one time, due to poison. .Seventeen hogs belonging to Frank Morrison, wear Garfield, were killed bygone stroke of electricity. Richmond claims to be the only city in the State where newspapers can not quarrel about circulation. - South Bend reports the death of Nathan Lighthall, aged seventy. He invented the hand-ear, now in use by all railways. ' Authony G. Manning, aged seventyseven, and Mrs. Amelia Thompson, aged seventy nine, of Elkhart, havebeen united jn marriage. The fifteen-year-old son of John Penn, of'Washington township, Carroll county, fell under a traction engine and wasfatally crushed. During the heavy rain at Bloomfield water tore a hole in the grouud near the court house, thirty feet wide, forty feet long and twenty deep. Not only in peach culture does Clark county excel, but it is also probably the only county where butterbean farming is carried on as a regular industry. A number of farmers in Owen township are successfully engaged in the business. Arthnr L Betzinger and Miss Coro Montague chose the newly discovered Dilman cave, near English, instead of the church, for their wedding, and their marriage was celebrated by numerous guests. This portion of the cave has been christened the "Matrimonial Chamber.” Patrick O’Brien, an Ohio and Mississippi brakeman, aged twenty-two, while flagging an approaching train at Shields station Monday night, went to sleep on the track and the west-bound exprese ran over his body, crushing it into a shapeless mass. Ilis home was at Milan. Grasshoppers are on the increase In Jay county, and are causing considerable loss 1 to farmers. Daniel Kelly, of New Corydon, thrashed 124 bushels of oats and mixed with the grain Were twenty-four bushels of dead grasshoppers. The leaves are being stripped from the peach trees, and even the fruit itself is being devoured bv tiie pests. Clias. Waterman was arrested at Michigan City as a horse-thief, and ho proved to be an ex-convict, having served several terms for various offenses. It also developed that he had been making his home at Three Rivers, Mich., where he had succeeded in gaining the confidence of the community, while he continued his depredations elsewhere. George Stevens, of Cass county, was injured several days ago by the^ bursting of an old rifle. Yesterday, while Logansport surgeons were dressing his injuries, thejpoint of a screw was discovered in the flesh and this led to uncovering the breech pin, still intact, which had Only been prevented from burying itself entirely in the brain byThe screw catching on the outer edge of the orbit of the skull. How Stevens managed to survive under the circumstances puzzles the surgeons. The caving in of a sand-bank Tuesday morning near the Walnut Hill Cemetery, Jeffersonville, came Very near burying alive two men. Robert Harold, the sexton of the cemetery, and Charles Kopp have been running the sandpit for some time, when, without any warning, the sides gave way and buried both men under several tons. A number of men were standing around, and, taking in the situation at a glance, began to dig away tiie sar.d. It took several minutes to accomplish this, and Harold and Kopp were rescued more dead than alive. Both were unconscious, and received shocking injuries. Several of Kopp’s ribs were broken, and it is feared that he is internafty injured. Harold’s injuries are also of a dangerous nature. His limbs are badly crushed, and his right log was broken below the knee. Harold has been sexton of the Walnut Hill Cemetery for a number of years. He has a wife and several children. STATISTICS OF INDIANA, A good deal of information retating to Indiana arid its productions, industries ‘and people has been prepared by tho Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury De- : partment. According to this Indiana con | tains 33,S09square miles, or 21,637,760 acres with a population of 2,193,404 people. . Originally one of tho public land States, the Government long since disnosed of nearly its entire holdings, until now little or nothing is left. The last disposition of public lands recorded occurred in 1,889, and than only 197 aeres were granted. lir points of population Indiana is nowriith among tho States, but when the st. census in which its inhabitants were numerated was taken(1800), it ranked as the twenty-first. Since then the gain was .foadily until 1860, when tho sixth place was assuniei, and this has been maintained 1 p to the census of last year. Tiie number of pupils enrolled in the public>ehools of the State Is 523,147, and it requires 13,253 teachers for their education, of which 7,760 are men and 6,477 are women. The total expenditures demanded by this educational system amount to $4,937 623 annually. The higher education of the young 19 also well provided for, but, of course, by private enterprise. There are three theoj logical schools in the State, with 143 pupils; two law schools, three regular medical schools, one scientific school, and fourteen alleges of the liberal arts, with a total of 224 teachers and 1,659 students There is, in audition, one female college. Tiie number of farm animals in Indiana and their value is given as follows: Horse, 4547,530. value $50,735,543; mules number 51,671, value $4,092,736; milch cows, number 51,674, value $13,080,127; oxen and other cattle, number 1,053,627,. value $19,041,149; shebp, number 1,150,200 value $4414,151; swino, number 2,560,772 value $12,191, j_. - Indiana is one of the few States east •: tho Mississippi where the State and ■l . : y debts have Increased during . past decade. This can be seen

from the following statement Th* State debt less. sinking fund, was in 1880 $4,908,178, while In IS9C it had grown to $3,540,615. The county debt exclusive of municipal and town indebtedness, less sinking fund, was in 1390 $4,048,044, in' 1893 $4,753,453. Total debt, less sinking fund, in 1380, $9,046,232; 1890, $13,294,070. Debt per capita In 1880, $4.57; 1890, $6.06. 0 Indiana shows up well, however, tn the statistics relating to failures in business, which indicates that private enterprises flourish. The number of commercial failures in the State last year was 224, out of 40,102 business establishments, or only .56 per cent. As the average for the Western States was .80 per cent, and for the Eastern 1.11 per cent., the significance of this statement can be appreciated, The tota liabilities involved in the Indiana failures amounted to $2,912,144. The people of the State evidently do not tak* kindly to savings banks, as the total number of depositors therein is given at 13,0Q2, with deposits only $3,078,608, an average, however, of $235.69 to each depositor. There are 6,090 miles of railroad in operation in Indiana, a mileage aimostequal to that of all New England,