Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1900 — Indianapolis and Return, One Fare. [ARTICLE]

Indianapolis and Return, One Fare.

On account of the Prohibitionists and Populists convention at Indianapolis, the Monon Route will sell tickets to Indianapolis and return. May Ist. and 2nd. for one fare, good returning to May 3rd.

Noble C. Butler, special master in chancery, before whom the Yandalia case, involving $3,000,000 has been on trial, has given his decision against the state. The suit was bought by the attorneygeneral on behalf of the state three years ago. Under a special charter the Terre Haute & Indianapolis road was compelled to turn over a percentage of its income, after a certain period, which expired in 1867, to the school fuWd of the state. No action was taken until the passage of a bill in 1805, by the legislature authorizing that suit be brought to recover. The state annouriced that the case will be taken at once to the supreme court. ' Down at Bloomington quite a commotion was caused in the exclusive feminine circles the other day when the grand jury called a number of prominent society women to tell what they knew about playing cards for prizes. It is against the strict letter of the law to donate money fora prize and then play for its possession, This has been an almost universal custom hot only in that city but in most other p'aoes. The members of the grand jury cautioned the ladies very kindly not to indulge in cards again where prizes were offeied. „ This statue also applies to dominoes and all games of chance wherearticles of value are played for.

President McD.oel, of ther Monon, states that the directors* have set aside out of the current income between $400,000 and $500,000 for additional equipmentarid road improvements. Contracts have been let for the building of a freight house at Louisville ar.d a moLra passinger station at Lafayette. But when a modern passenger station is to be erected at Rensselaer, their best town ou either division from Chicago to Lafayette and from Chicago to Frankfort, is something our people would be very glad to learn. A town that has only one railroad, however, gets but mighty little from that one, no matter how much profit the railroad derives from its business.

The Porto Rico tariff bill craze has subsided as suddenly as it arose. It was one of the most senseless and unreasonable clamors that ever was raised at any time. It was instigated by Democrats and free traders, and it was not strange that the mugwump and so-called independent press followed in their lead, but that such usually solid and sensible papers as the Indianapolis Journal should have been carried away by it, was the strangest feature of the whole brief episode. It was somewhat strange too, that the Inter Ocean should have been found among the most clamorous of the clarnorers, or rather it would have been strange a few years ago, but since Yerkes, the streejt railway magnate became principal owner of the Inter Ocesn, we are not easily surprised at any coulee it may tßke. As to the Times-Herald, tint paper though probably honest in its motives, is subject to protracted spells of hysteria occasionally, aud its Porto Rico spell was no worse than some others. It did not waste more ink, nor deliver more hysterical and illogical argni ments against the Republican position on the Porto Rico bill than it did two months earlier in its absurd attempt to prove that J the I.9th century ended a y*ear before its hundred years were up.