The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-31
THE STATE PRESS.

Nearly ten thousand Democrats left their
work long enough yesterday to hear Bryan
talk on calamity and hard times at Green
field. To-day the men return to work and
Bryan continues TO talk.-Elwood Call
Leader.
General Alger may have made errors as
we'll as enemies in his management of the
War Department. but his loyalty and good
intentions cannot be questioned and time
may yet vindicate his course.-Mishawaka
Enterprise.
The only true blmetalic party in this
country is that which favors the mainte-
nance of the gold standard and the coinage
of all the silver that by virtue Of the pledge
Of the Nation can be kept at par with gold.
-Middletown News.
A travelling man informs us that he has
recently seen train after train of freight
cars standing on sidetracks awaiting the
return of the engine and crews Of other
trains so as to be moved cars and trains
being more plentiful than railway employees;
in other words there is more traffic than
transportation.-Lapor Herald.
1t takes no argument to prove that pros
perity is with the masses. Their memory of
conditions that prevailed when General
Harrison was President and those that pre-
vailed during the Cleveland administration
and again the conditions now form con-
trast that means more to the people than
talk.-Seymour Republican.
A smoke consumer that will successfully
consume smoke has at last been invented by
Ira C. McGlenthen. of this place. His ap-
plications for a patent on it are clear and
in few days he expects to receive his pat
ent apers. He has received word from Pat
ent Attorney Evans that nothing like 1t
has ever been in the patent ofhce.-Hebron
News.
Rural free mail delivery has come TO stay
and is proving ever increasing boon and
channel of knowledge to our rural popula-
ice was established Oct fs 1885 and the
patrons are now served by three carriers.
The service is constantly growing In favor
and our farmers appreciate its benefits and
advantages at their full worth. The car
riers are prompt with their deliveries, cour-
teous In their treatment of patrons, and are
constantly handling an increased amount
of mail matter.-Hope News.
Mrs. Ephraim Black, a sister of Col.
Robert G. Ingersoll. resided in Laporte
many years and died here in the fall of 1877
She was i'll about four weeks. Her dis
tinguiShed and kind-hearted brother, who
some contract threw up his engagement
sister until her death and funeral. He then
paid all the expenses incurred by her sick
ness and death and went away Her hus-
band deserted the house as soon as Colonel
1ngerSoll came and never returned, not even
to attend her funeral.-Laporte Republican
At meeting in Chicago Wednesday be-
/
National Bank of that city and an extensive
ranch owner In the Kankakee marsh, and
Nelson Morris. B. j. Clifford, j. E. Carmen
and others. also owners OF large ranches in
that section, plans were devised to reclaim
500 coo acres of marsh land by thorough
system of drainage. The men own the whole
southern portions of Lake and Porter and
the northern part OF Newton and Jasper
for pasture during dry seasons. Immense
bitches will be used in the drainage sys-
tem-Michigan City News.
The Railway Cycle Manufacturing Com
| pany. of Hagerstown. will ship forty Of
their light inspection cars to Hamburg. Ger
many, next week. These cars are for use
on the imperial railways. and their manu-
facture was superintendent by Alfred Stein,
who came to Hagerstown for that purpose.
wealthy house of Hamburg, which handles
many contracts for supplies for the German
government. 1t Is not known by the Ger
| they are of American manufacture, that
| fact being carefully Observation-Disclosures
| Palladium.
There is, Of course. difference of opinion
| in regard to the value of the parole law of
Indiana, passed few years ago by the Leg
| islature. but the Ledger wishes TO go on
| record as holding the opinion that the law
| Is one of the biggest frauds ever perpe-
| trated upon the State. The law has not been
| a success. A large percentage OF prisoners
| paroled have drifted back into ways of
/ crime and have harassed the communities
| i'm which they live. The law has had the
effect of removing in a measure the dread
| of Imprisonment TO violators of the law, and
| has thereby increased crime. When a crimi-
| nal is sentenced IL should be for definite
| period of time and he should not be released
| until the time has expired.-Attica Ledger.
| The new and very feasible Kankakee
| marsh project is to tap the river at or near
| Baum's bridge In Jasper. county. with a
ditch one hundred feet wide and nine feet