Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1902 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE [ARTICLE]

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The convicts of the penitentiary at Michigan City were given eggs for breakfast Easter morning and they got away with three hundred dozen. For dinner the men had roast , beef and dressing and wound up with pie. There Were also special services. It is stated that Hon. C. G. Conn the great manufacturer of musical mstrumeats at Elkhart, will put a one ring oircus on the road to advertise his factory. One of the important features of the show will be a splendid band equipped .with the finest instruments of the manufacturer. It will no doubt be an effective way to advertise. People who have the right to 1 avail themselves of the mortgage deduction law must file their affidavit with the county auditor between April 1, and May 1. The statute says that the statements must be filed between March 1, and May 1, but as the law requires that a statement must be of condition that exist on April 1, none are accepted before that date. The city election in Chicago Tuesday was a very gratifying viotory for the cause of honest city government. Twenty-eight of the Minicipal Voters’ League’s candidates were elected and only 15 defeated; and the honest element in the new council will have a majority of 40. Bathhouse John Coughlin, the most notorious of all the oorruptionists, was re-elected, but it is believed he will be thrown out for bribery, A week or two ago Congress passed two bills in one day, one reducing the revenue $60,000,000 or more every year, mostly on beer and tobacoo, and another appropriating $63,000,000 for rivers and harbors, and “never hatted an eye.’ Bat when it oome to talking of a bill that will spend eight or nine millions a year in restoring American shipping and ship-bnilding to its old time snpremaev, the magnitude of the money involved is appalling! Consistency among Congressmen is about as extraordinary a quality as it is among lots of other kinds of people. The postal authorities at Washington, recognizing the liability of postmasters to make mistakes in getting letters in wrong boxes, have fixed a penalty of S2OO on persons taking mail oat of the office other than their own and not retnrning it. The law is to have people look at their mail before taking it out of the offioe and if they should have mail other than their own they must return it at onoe. It also includes newspapers. The excuse that it is the postmaster’s fault cats no figure. If you have been getting other people’s mail yon had better take warning or you will get yourself m trouble.