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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1889
Page
17
Fragmented OCR text outlines a historic orphan protection measure detailing guardianship, jurisdiction, and duties. It references a legislature, duties of trustees, and penalties for mistreatment, including fines and youth labor prohibitions, with mentions of guardianship boards and humane society involvement.
A dense compilation of archaic laws governs dynamite manufacture near occupied dwellings and public buildings, sale to minors, and possession of explosives. It penalizes illegal transport, concealed bombs, selling to miners, and failing to label explosives, with fines reaching up to 31,600 dollars and possible county jail time. The text also covers cruelty to animals, child labor and protections for minors, public nuisance offenses, and a set of executions rules and emergency clauses, including hangings, pregnancy exemptions, and anti conspiracy provisions.
The text outlines legal provisions for township auditors to prepare complete records, official bond indexing by the circuit court clerk, and an increase in county auditors to 2000. It also mentions civil actions over performance of duties, marshal and sheriff powers, and rules on notices and indebtedness, approved March 5.
Fragmented text outlines proposed amendments to township trustee elections and county governance. It mentions adding trustees for a second consecutive term, setting election months, aligning with number of justices, and appointing real estate supervisors. It also references correcting omitted assessments and fixing salaries for county commissioners amid territorial population considerations.
The act imposes a 2 percent annual tax on gross receipts for telegraph and express firms, with penalties for noncompliance. It also amends county boards of tax equalization, caps county levy limits, mandates redemption of orders, and requires uniform personal property assessments across townships, with April meetings for assessors.
A 19th century law outlines how a man's personal property is divided if he dies intestate with a widow and up to two children, or more, granting the widow a share equal to one child when two or fewer children exist and a minimum one third share if more than two children. It also limits the second wife’s rights to a life estate and clarifies how later conveyances affect the heirs, with exceptions and an emergency clause.
A list of proposed constitutional amendments including militia composition replacing white with all able bodied ages eighteen to twenty five and various electoral and officeholding changes. The amendments would be submitted to the next general assembly and, if passed, to a vote of the people.
Proposed measures allocate £5000 yearly for county farmers institutes run by Purdue university faculty and the experimental agriculture committee. Other provisions create a sire licensing system, waste penalties for unpaid stud fees, and a Supreme Court Commission with appointed commissioners serving four years and equal salary to justices.
Emergency act establishes a state five stock and sanitary commission to protect domestic animal health. Three commissioners elected by the state board of agriculture and approved by the governor, with a state veterinary appointed to receive up to 2000 per year. Quarantine rules and livestock interests to be overseen.
Legislature mandates town and city school trustees to establish and maintain night schools during regular terms when 20 or more residents aged 14 to 21 petition, to aid employed families. Also requires meat sales in incorporated cities to be inspected if animals were not inspected alive in the state, with fines from 10 to 200 dollars for violations.
A long extract outlines varied proposed laws and emergency clauses across labor regulation eight hour day penalties, stock breeding associations, railroad punctuality notices, liquor license fees, school and high school property donations, street openings, state custodian wages, holiday designation for financial instruments, federal grants for the National Home for disabled volunteers, water works encouragements, county appeals on liquor licenses, cemetery land appropriation, fair corporations, sale of state lands, school land sales, publication of legal ads, Wabash and Erie canal records, squirrel hunting limits, dynamite proximity bans, discharge papers, militia reorganization as the Indianus Legion, Evansville charter amendments, and city revenue measures.
A long list of intertwined measures includes city tax rules on goods for sale, a name change for state reform institutions, and provisions on railroad condemnation, school bonds, and county records. Additional items authorize corporations to expand capital, authorize health reports, permit certain religious bodies incorporation, and set loan terms to payoff state school fund debts with bonds issued across major cities.
Secretary Tracy and Chauncey M Depew figure among 1862 New York legislators Mrs Haverrer Beecher Stowe remains in good health Alexander the new Sergian king is said to be a bright thirteen year old JoAn Scott Varrison brother of the president enjoys a Washington visit Brother John brings a Benjamin like beard Ler Haxe's Chamberlin racket with drinks and Chinese silk purse money Mr Cleveland’s restlessness drives him to work not leisure he is a hustler who loves busy days and fishing alike.
A dialect dialogue contrasts educated and illiterate brothers as they discuss the peculiar fascination of debate and the playful suggestion of tasting catfish prepared by a peculiar culinary method. The exchange hints at social commentary through dialect and humor.
A garbled dialogue fragment presents Mr Isaacson and Mrs Isaacson discussing vehicles and a van turning off a violent or unsafe state. The text reads as a cryptic or misread OCR segment with unclear context or source event.
A compressed register of brief items from Liberty Kentucky to Yokosuka Japan. Notes cover a poultry association in Liberty, gas piping to Lafayette Indiana, mad dog panic in Wetzel West Virginia, White Caps in Dubois Indiana, ex President Cleveland’s return, Porter to Italy, Justice Matthews, Capt John Ericsson’s death, multiple accidents and crimes, political appointments, and various international events.
Headlines report Harry Lyons release from the Browns, a sheriff sale in Warren Ohio, ongoing Fall River weavers strike, Cleveland ministers opposing Sunday theaters, Murat Halstead denying mission offers, Wabash railroad foreclosure sale, Milwaukee Chinamen held on debauchery charges, Lewisburg nail works seizures, Emmons Blaine named West Virginia Central VP, Watts of West Virginia to stay as district attorney, Illinois lower house endorsing Matthews for internal revenue commissioner, possible arrests in Pixley express robbery, Aldace T. Walker to head interstate commerce railway association, Detroit shooting involving Ida Corneau and a suicide, Texas & Pacific wreck near El Paso with fatalities, Sprawl reappears in Parkersburg, and Braxton County White Caps bail terms set.
A young woman boasts of a marriage proposal and asks her mother to verify the suitor's wealth and residence, noting he would need fifteen thousand a year and a Bar Harbor cottage. The mother responds with affection, calling her daughter wise and embracing her.
In a brief exchange Miss Charity Ball explains she removed her fawn-colored over-gaiters during Lent. Dr Schmerz advises wearing black ones, noting their rarity and formality. Kuisa Hall comments that black gaiters are very common.
A terse dialogue set in Kansas features a coroner and a resident's mix of confusion and deduction. The man questions a visitor about his three years in town while debating whether the famed missing link will ever be found, the woman insisting its discovery would negate its existence.
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