Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1903 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE [ARTICLE]

ITEMS HERE AND THERE

The star ronte mail line for Valma and Pleasant Grove now leaves here at 11:30 a. m., instead of 12:30 p. m., as heretofore. The. mail for Aix. Gifford, Newlaud eto leaves an hour later, or at 1:30 p.m. By request of Gov. Dnrbin, tbe prison reform board, of which Warden Reid, of the Indiana prison, is president, will begin an inspection of the Indiana jails at onoe and note the improvements necessary.

Either the Transportation or Agricultural buildings at the Bt. Louis Expos'tion will be large enough to hold all the buildings that were used at the Buffalo Exposition. And the Buffalo show was a pretty large Bffair too. Edward Hoover, murderer of his father-in-law, Frauk Sutton, is oondemned to die in Miohigan City prison. Oot. 2. He is entitled to a rehearing of the case before the supreme court in August* He has just one ohanoe—that of a respite of three days, whioh may be given by one of the supreme court judges.

The big saud crushing and ship piDg plant at Wolcott has not ooly been shut down, but all the machinery has been taken away and the whole work totally abandoned. They left a huge hole in the ground from whioh they dug the sand, and as the land now reverts to Senator Wolcott, the Enterprise sugges'e that he utilize the hole as a summer resort lake.

Thelndiana Fair Commissioners will probably make applioation on behalf of the Marion Zouave oom pany, a part of whioh was here with Wallace’s oirous, and whioh is acknowledged to be one of the finest in the oountry, for an opportunity to exhibit its drills at the Exposition. The company will probably be put on as one of the attractions on the Pike if permission can be seourrd.

The Pennsylvania terminal to be erected in New York City will be the biggest railroad station in the world, with accommodations for handling 200,000 passengers a day, or about 70,000,000 or 80,000000 a year. From sixty to ninety trains will enter and leave it hourlyThe Pennsylvania oompany is starting out to expend $50,000,000 it is said, on -its entrances into New York, and which include long tunnels under the Hudson and East rivers, and under the city itself. The tunnels will be lighted and trains moved through them by eleotricity. Former State Senator Jam* sE. McDonald thinks Indpoll's is in line for some troubles of its own, with the oriminal element of its large oolored population. He says in the Ligonier Banner: “The time is not far off when Indianapolis will be the scene of a raoe war that will make the affair at Evansville last week look like thirty oents. The oondnot of the nigger toughs at the oapital city is getting more outrageons every day. In many parts of the oitj a white woman is insulted with impunity, and a white man abused for his temerity in invading their precincts. Burly niggers pay no attention to oiviltiep of sooitty and break oommon roles without hesitation or molestation.” But if the oolored toughs of Indianapolis are any worse or even as bad as the white members of.,the celebrated “800 gang” of that oity, they are worse than they are reputed to be,