Show NEWS BY MAIL indiana iNDI AHA it costs 2000 per quarter to support tho poor of A lady 70 years old gave birtle alio other day to a bouncing boy alie legislature having failed to pass the militia bill alio legion will be disbanded it comprises twenty companies alio legislature passed a bill defining libel it i the first criminal libel law providing punishment the slate ever had IOWA Tho State reform school at eldora hae inmates according to the auditors statistics there are insurance agencies in the state and agents A dubuque mans water supply gave out and in deepening am well lie struck a rich lodo of lead the missouri river is now clear of ice deborah with people lias been supporting twenty two saloons making it the banner whisky town jefferson county lias the earn of nineteen insane persons for whom it is to erect a building to cost there aie imported into this state and sold annually agricultural implements clements ts carriages and wagons to the value of in lie annual report ot alio trustees of alio insane asylums of iowa alie causes of insanity of patients in care of the state are reported thus male female intemperance 71 21 religious excitement 71 42 this is the way they enjoy themselves in storm lake at socia bles ten cents to hug any between the ages of 15 and 16 five cents from 20 to 30 to hug another mans wife old maids two a nickel and a chromo thrown in ILLINOIS decatur has a list of haupers paupers pau pers A party of swedes will soon cave molino for nebraska bloomington bankers report heavy calls for money by stockmen stoc kmen fifty dollars is tho lowest sum for which ono can bo buried in tho city of cairo john moffatt route agent between decatur and Centralia ha been arrested for robbing the mail east st louis lias an indebted acs of 10 of which is bonded and tho remainder is in certificates alie state senate lias rejected a resolution recommending congress to reduce the salary of to A petition is being circulated in abingdon asking the legislature to appropriator to pay off the two debts the colleges there the report of the rock island public library shows eliat in february the circulation of works of fiction was 1805 while but two works on religion were taken A one legged tramp has been playing havoc in central illinois begging subscriptions to buy himself an artificial leg lie was lately arrested and over found on hi person with a paper showing he had sent some to his family since jan dr W aratt of elgin has received fish whitefish to bo put in fox river at sheridan tho waters of the state are fast being stocked with fishes of a good class by an amendment to a bill which lately passed the illinois assembly all persons transacting business in this state shall make payment to their laborers and all other persons to whom they arc indebted on or before the day of eacle month the lutheran congregation of Shelby villo have decided tant members of a secret society cannot hold a membership in that society oneff their members an alderman of the town iras expelled for joining the knights of honor seme days ago senator made a speech on his resolution thanking congress for the chinese bill in the course of which ho said that workingmen have rights which they will obtain by ballot backed by bullet eliat machinery and chinese labor aro a curse to workingmen that if chinese immigration is ho would be one of men in chicago to help california secede and that the state might continue to organize its militia but eliat the workingmen would obtain and protect their right even at alio cannons mouth and in tho smoke of civil maifare wai fAre |