Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1899 — Northern Prison. [ARTICLE]

Northern Prison.

The number of inmates at the end of the last fiscal year in the 1 penitentiary at Michigan City was | 628. Received since, 270. Discharged, died or withdrawn 395. leaving the present number of inmates 566. It required the foilowing for their Thanksgiving dinner: 800 pounds of roast turkey with oyster dressing; 12 bushels of potatoes mashed; 4,000 cookies: 200 dried peach pies: 100 heads of cabbage ;one barrel of pickles: 30 pounds of coffee.