Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BREVITIES.

Specials from western Minnesota and North Dakota report a light frost Thursday night, damaging potatoes and garden truck in low places to some extent. Frank Howell, n young unmarried man of Rushville, Neb., was drowned in Snake river at Glenns Ferry, Idaho, while swimming his horse to clean him. He was with a party from lowa and his two brothers, traveling with teams to locate in Oregon. St. Louis city employes in the various departments are befhg sifted over and scores who have failed to register and vote are being dropped from the rolls for their negligence. The policy of the present administration is to retain no one who shirks the responsibilities of citizenship in this respect. The annual report of the deputy master of the British mint shows that the total mintage for the last year was £6,654,441, a decrease of over £4,000,000 compared with the preceding year. During the year £663,068 was expended in the purchase of silver, the coining value of the'same being £965,447, thus netting the Government a profit of 45.6 per cent. Advices from Shanghai say thut persecution of foreigners in the Chinese province of Sechuen has ceased and that an imperial decree has been issued ordering that the damage done to the property of missionaries and others be repaired. (j. o. TT-rtcr. rormerly cashier of the Chemical Nationnl Bank of St. Louis, drowned himself at Paris, Mo. Belgium aud Paraguay have completed a new commercial treaty conceding to each other the treatment, of the most favored nation iu all that relates to navigation and commerce, tariffs, etc.

INDIANA'S FIRST CENTURY. Plana for a Great Celebration Projected by the Hoosicr State. The year 1800 witnessed the separation of what is now the State of Indiana from the Northwest territory and the organiza-

tion of the territory of Indiana, andi it has been decreed that the centennial anniversary of this fitßt step % towards Statehood shall be fittingly celebrated ,by the giving over of week or “more- to displays showing the march of progress during the hundred

years of separate and distinct existence. The first step to this end was taken by the recent session of the General Assembly in the adoption of a concurrent resolu-

tion providing for the appointment of a commission, to consist of four members from the State at large and two from each congressional district, which should examine and report to the Legisla-' ture at its next meeting some suitable plans for the celehra-

tion of the event. It was the sentiment of the Legislature that .adopted the resolutions that the celebration should be arranged upon the broadest possible basis and made to include

protracted exercises in connection with displays of everything indicating the progress that has been made in the first century of Indiana’s separate existence. Pursuant to the resolution Gov. Matthews has announced the following commissioners, the members of the

body being equally divided between the two great political parties: For the State at large—Eli Lilly and B. B. Martindale, Indianapolis; Hugh Dougherty, Bluffton, and DeFoe Skinner, Valparaiso. ~ - ' - ■ ■ First Congressional District—Philip Fry, Evansville; James Burket, Cannelton. t Second —T. B. Busk irk, Paoli; John Weathers, Leavenworth. Third —Charles L. Jewett, New Alband; 11. C. Hobbs, Salem. Fourth—John H. liusse, Lawrenceburg; Will Cumback, Greensburg. Fifth—John W. Cravens, Bloomington; J. L. Irwin, Columbus. Sixth—A. W. Brady, Muncie; James N. Huston, Connersville.

Seventh-U. S. Jackson, Greenfield; Charles T. Doxy, Anderson. Eighth—T. J. Mason, Sullivan; Frank McKeen, Terre Haute. Ninth—Eli Marvin, Frankfort; C. O. Shirley, Kokomo. Tenth—M. M. Hathaway, Winamac; J. C. Hadley, Logansport. Eleventh—ll. B. Smith, Hartford City; E. B. Goldthwaite, Marion. 'Twelfth—Charles McCullough, Fort Wayne; S. A. Woods' Angola. Thirteenth—James A. Arthur, Goshen; George W. Matthews, South Bend.

E. B. MARTIN DALE

GOVERNOR MATTHEWS.

FRED WHITE.

ELI LILLY.