Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1891 — POPULATION OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

POPULATION OF INDIANA.

Interesting Figure* From the Cenraa Bureau—Other Washington News. The Census Bureau has Issued a bulletin giving the population of Indiana in detaih bv counties, cities, wards of cities, towns and townships, taken as of June 1,1890. The population of the States, is 2,192,4C4, an increase of 214,103, or 10,82 per cent., over that of 1880, when it was 1,978,301» Of the ninety-two counties in the State, twenty-five show decreases, but in only four of these are the decreases more than 10 per cent. In 1880 there were twenty seven cities in the State having a popula-; tion of four thousand or more, the aggre , gate population of which was 327,248. In 1890 the number of cities having lhat pop-, ulation was thirty-seven, with an aggregate population of 507,133. This shows an increase in population in cities of this! size of 129,885, or 54,97 per cent. The most Considerable increases in urban population In number are found in Indianapolis and Evansville. Indianapolis shows an increase of 30,380, or 40.40 per cent., while Evansville shows an increase of 21,476, or 173.35 per cent, Ft. Wayne and South pend also show large proportionate increase. The largest per centages of increases are found in Hammond, Marion Anderson, Muncie, Franklin and Kokomo. In only two cities are decreases phown. " Of the total number of inhabitants 507,133 live in the thirty-seven cities having over 4,000 inhabitants, as follows:

POPULATION INCB’SE - ' » : ——- -—“ ■■ 1890. 1880. Perc’nt Indianapolis 105,436 75,056 40.48 Evansville 50,756 29,280 73.35 Fort Wayne 35,393 36,880 31.67 Terre Haute 30,217 26,042 16.03 South Bend 21,819 13,280 64.30 New Albany 21,057 16,423 28.23 Richmond 16,608 12,742 30.34 Lafayette.... 7.... 16,243 14,860 9.31 Logansport........ 13,328 11,198 19.02 Elkhart 11,360 6,953 63.38 Muncie 11,345 5,219 117.38 Michigan City.,.. 10,776 7,366 46.29 Anderson.... 10,741 4,120 160.33 Jeffersonville...... 10,606 9,257 13.99 Madison 8.936 8,945 aO.IO Vincennes 8,853 7,680 15.27 Marion 8,719 3,182 *175,58 Kokomo 8,261 4,043 104.38 Huntington : 7,328 3,863 89.10 Laporte 7,1261 6.195 15.03 Peru 7,028 5,280 33.11 Columbus....— 6,719 4,813 39.90 Crawfordsville.... 6,089 5,251 15.96 Washington......... 6,064 4,323 40.27 Goshen 6,033 4,123 46.33 Frankfort 5,916 2,803 111.17 Brazil 5,90 S 3,441 71.61 Shelbyville 5,451 3.745 45,55 Hammond 5,428 69£ 676.54 Seymour 5,337 4,25 C 25.53 Wabash.... 5,105 3,800 34.34 Valparaiso 5,030 4,461 14.10 Mt. Vernon 4.705 3,730 26.14 Connersville 4,548 3,228 40.89 Greencastle 4,390 3,644 20.47 Lawrenceburg 4,234 4,668 a 8.23 Bloomington 4,018 2,759 45.79 a—decrease.

The population of the eounties is as follows: Adains, 20,181; Allen, 55,689; Bartholomew, 23,867; Benton, 11,903; Blackford, 10,461; Boone, 25,572; Brown, 10,308; Carroll, 20,021; Cass, 31,152; Clark, 30,259; Clay, 30,536; Clinton, 27,370; Crawford, 13,941; Daviess, 26,227; Dearborn, 23,364; Decatur, 19,277; DcKalb, 24,307; Delaware, 30,131; Dubois, 20,253; Elkhart, 39,201; Fayette. 12,630; Floyd, 29,458; Fountain, 19,558; Franklin, 18,336; Fulton, 16,746; Gibson, 24,920; Grant, 31,493; Greene, 24,379; Hamilton, 26,123; Hancock, 17,829; Harrison, 20,786; Hendricks, 21,498; Henry, 23,879; Howard, 26,186; Huntington, 27,644; Jackson, 24,139; Jasper, 11,185; Jay, 23,478; Jefferson, 24,507; Jennings, 14,603; Johnson, 19,561; Knox, 28,044; Kosciusko, 28,645; Lagrange, 15,615; Lake, 23,886; Laporte, 34,445; Lawrence, 19,792; Madison* 36,487; Marion, 141,156; Marshall 1 23,818; Martin. 13,973; Miami, 25,823; Monroe, 17,673; Montgomery, 28,025; Morgan, 18,643; Newton, 8,803; Noble, 23,359; Ohio, 4,955, Orange, 14,678, Owen, 15,040; Parke, 20,296; Perry, 18,240; Pike, 18,544: Porter, 18,052; Posey, 21,529; Pulaski, 11,233; Putnam, 22,385; Randolph, 28,035; Ripley, 19,350; Rush. 19,034; St Joseph. 42,457; Scott, 7, 833; Shelby, 25,454; Spencer, 22,000; Starke, 7,839; Steuben, 14,478; Sullivan, 21,877; Switzerland 12,514; Tippecanoe, 35,078; Tipton, 18,157; Union, 7,006; Vanderburg, 59,809; Vermillion, 13,154; Vigo, 59,195; Wabash, 27,126; Warren, 10,955; Warrick, 21,161; Washington, 18.019; Wayne, 37,638; Wells, 31,514; White, 15,681; Whitley, 17,768.

The Prohibitionists of New York on the 3d nominated a full State ticket, tho nominees being farmers with one or two exceptions. Tho platform reaffirms the principles maintained in tho platform adopted by the last national convention; denounces high license; affirms that legislators in this State, both Democratic and Republican, are subject to the control and domination of the liquor interest, and call 9 for the submission to the voters of the. State of a prohibitory amendment; favors the appointment of a non-partisan tariff commission, which committee should so adjust details of tho schedule that the total of import duties shall not exceed the revenue requirements of the government and duties levied on imported articles of manufacture shall be no higher than are necessary to restore to the homo manufacturer whatever equality of conditions he may have lost by reason of the payment of a higher scale of wages in their production; denounces the State Department for assisting American brewers to extend their business in our sister republics of South America; favors the submission to tho people of a female suffrage amendment; declares against national banks and advocates the Issue of treasury notes redeemable In gold or stiver, and the maintenance of a metal reserve sufficient for that purpose, and calls for the strict enforcement of the ciyil service laws. Miss Georgia Dignan, aged seventeen, daughter of Lawrence Dignan, of Ft. Wayne, Is mysteriously missing from home, and her parents and betrothed are utterly at a loss to account for her disappearance.