Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 January 1899 — Page 7

Established 1841.

Kline's Name Is a Guarantee^

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No. 207

East Market Street

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You'll save many hours of weary looking aud dollars and cents, too, if you want a nice piece of

Silver, Cut Glass, Fancy Ware,

Dainty Piece in Gold, or any other goods suitable for giftp if you eee the stock of

M. C. KLINE.

Jeweler and Optician. Opp. Court House.

In It As Usual

PRICES TELL THE STORY.

Roman's Glove Grain Shoe worth $1.25 at $1.00 Woman's Calf Lace ^hoe worth $1.

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Woman's Felt Shoe worth $1.5O. 1.10 Men's Veal CaH, Lace or Congress, worth $1.

Men's Satin Calf, Lace, worth $t.75 1.35 Youth Veal Calf Lace, sizes i3 to 2. worth $1.25 90 Boys' Veal Calf Lace, sizes 3 to 5, worth $1.35 1.00

v" We are headquarters for the Cheapest Rubber Goods in^ the town. Can give you prices that will interest you.

Star Shoe House

No. 128 East Main Street.

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108 South Green Street.

IT HAS NO EQUAL

The above refers to Gibson Rye Whiskey made at Gibsonton Mills, Westmoreland county, Penn. If there is a better drink of Whiskev sold for 10c in Indiana we would like to find it.

"THE LODGE."

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The finest Billiard and Pool tables in the city at the Maud S. All new and of the Latest Styles and Patterns. The Maud S has been enlarged and refitted, making it one of the Finest Saloons in the State. The public are invited to call. Everything first-class.

•STEVE ALLEN. ED ALLEN.

No. 128 North Green St»eet

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Drury's Place 3

Famous in the State. The finest Free Lunch served at tables by gentlemanly waiters everyday from 10.30 a. m. to 12, and from 5:30 p. m. to 7 o'clock." A choice line of Wines, Liquors and Beers. Alcohol —•m sold in any quantities. Washington Street, Opposite Court House.

Crawfordsville, Indiana, Saturday, January 28, 1899

LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.

ho pharmacy bill has passed the Senate, iho biil requires all persons selling «t ret nil or compounding for eale any poison or poisonous compound, with certain exceptions, shall be duly licensed. The biil provides al?o that pharmacists shall be registered, and provides that pharmacists shall pass an examination prepared by a hoard of pharmacy.

A bill to abolish the truant officers of the State has been introduced. The new bill provides that the county super, intendent or township trustee shall in case of violation of the truant law, lay the case before a justice of the peace. It shall then be the duty of that magistrate to call before him the parents of the child. If they fail to give proper excuse for the child's absence from school, a fine may be imposed,

Dan Storms, of Lafayette, who wrote to the county attorneys, urging them to oppose the county and township reform bills, is a candidate for president of the League of Republican Clubs, and because of his letter a strong fight is being made against him for the place. This letter of Daniel should black his eye politically forever. The tone of the thing shows what he would do did he only have the opportunity. Of all the schemes invented of late years to rotj counties, Storms' Truat of County At:torne6 is the boldest.

The bill legalizing the incorporation of New Richmond, introduced by Representative Scott has b?en passed.

Mr. Kirkpatrick, of Kokomo, has introduced the divorce bill, in the framing of which the churches were instrumental. It provides that no divorced person shall marry again within two yeare, except when a divorce is granted for adultery. In that case the party to Whom the decree is granted may marry again at will.

The provisions uf the contributory negligence bill which passed the Senateenables the supervisor of gas to stop any leak in pipe lines he may find, and assess the cost of stopping the leaks against the gas company whose pipe lines are found to be defective.

Governor Mount, it is reported, is not at all pleased with the manner in which the Soldiers'Monument fund has been has been expended, and at his request the House called for a statement of the receipts and expenditures. It has not yet been made but when it is, it will show figures as follows: Receiptb by appropriation for 1887-1893, 8353,434.68, Amount paid out. 3349,358.11, leaving a balance of appropriations of $4,076,57. The incidental account from 1888 to 189S shows amounting to $128,858.37.

The question of reduction of mileage and passes occupied the time of the Legislature Monday. Mr. Huff, cf Daviess county, characterizes the indignation of some of the member as a "little flirtation with honesty".and as buncombe, pure and simple." Mr. Huff rides on a pass, and is glad of it and is against the measure. Huff is a republican.

'Rah for Gill!

Senator Gill, the populist member, has a bill which he will present at his first opportunity, repealing the act of March 8,1895, appropriating money to the iDdiaDa university, Purdue university aud the State Normal school. Senator Gill holds that the appropriations are an unnecessary expense to the State, and that the "State colleges" could get along without the large State appropriations they receive. He points to the non-State colleges, which he says, charge no more tuition than the State schools. He aas the State schools have too large corps of teachers.

Senator Gill has also prepared a bill providing for life State license to teach in the common schools. The bill provides that any person who has successfully been examined in, and has taught certain branches of study for six consecutive yt ars, shall be entitled to a life license in those branches and in those branches only.—Indianapolis News.

Good News for Rural Carriers. The First Assistant Postmaster General has issued an order increasing the salaries of all the regular free delivery carriers who provide their own horse or other modes of conveyance, from $300 to $400 per annum, beginning January 1, last. This applies to all free delivery offices, operates from January 1, last and is expected to meet the embarassments caused by many faithful carriers threatening to resign because of insufficient pay.

FOR SALE—One

electric light plant.

Good as new—only it isn't. Life time, franchise goes with it. Will exchang for cash or railroad passes. Inquire the city council.

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NEW REVIEW.

What is a Trust?

From the great number of trusts now in existence, it would seem that everybod\ would know and could define what was a trust. The fact is but few outsiders know and I confess I do not. I only conclude what it is from the general appearance of the thing and what it does, and from knowledge of the parties managing it. The parties involved never explain the object of the trust. They only say generally that it diminishes the cost of production and therefore will not increase the cost of the goods. Never in this generation was there a scheme invented by which the public are so mercilessly robbed by money and capital as by the plan of modern trusts. Now to illustrate I will take any single manufactured article in common use. It makes no difference which we take, for everything is now made by the trusts. For instance we sa nails, and suppose there are filty factories making nails belonging to fifty different firms or corporations and that the aggregate capital invested is fifty millions of dollars. The price of nails is made between each factory and the buyer so that the public have all the advantage of competition. All manufacturers must fix their prices as low as the lowest priced one can afford to sell at, and therefore the buyer has the advantage of competition in the market which is his onlj defense againsi extortion. The manufacturer fixes his price by counting first, cost of material second, cost of production which includes labor, wear and repair of machinery, taxes, insurance, etc., then interest on the capital invested. Suppose the capital in the particular plant is one million dollars. He charges on that ten per cent, to cover profits ana losses and interest. He thus arrives at prime cost of the goods, below that price he cannot do business and to that price he is forced by his competitors.

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Now we have supposed that in the nail business there is fifty millions of money invested, and this capital is furnished by the men runing the mills. There is yet a large amount of capital idle seeking investment. Some smart promoter proposes to raise one hundred million dollars capital stock for a trust company to buy out the fifty nail factory plants in the United States. Fifty millions of this is raised by owners of the different nail plants. In addition to this ptock in the trust company, the owner is paid in cash whatever amount be can be induced to take. Very probably the cash payment is equal to the stock and both together is twice the capital originally invested. The trust now as one company owns all the nail factories in the United States and the tariff is to keep out all other competition. It is now inevitable that the price of goods must bo increased so as to pay interest on the fifty millions additional capital or expenses must be diminished by cutting price of raw material or cutting down cost of labor. This the trusts have found easily accomplished. A very slight increase in the price of goods and cutting off some employees made necessary on account of competition, is all that is necessary, and fifty millions of additional bonds are thrown upon the .market on which the people pay good dividends without getting one particle of advantage. It now stands that on all the protected industries the people are paying dividends on near one billion of fictitious capital. The thing has occurred so recently that we have not yet felt the full force of the oppression.

There used to le something like it in old feudal times when certain guilds purchased from the king the monopoly of dealing in certain goods or trading in certain localities, as for instance the Hudson Bay Company, the Bast India Company, the tobacco monopoly in France and the various guilds throughout Germany. But in the way of absolute extortion and monopoly none of them were equal to the modern trust. And the public now finds itself in the mortifying dilemma that the tariff has denied us all foreign assistance in fighting monopolies and the trust has cut off all home competition. It is like it was iu Judca in time of the famine what tbe canker worm left the catiipiller ate. 11.

Suit For Damages.

Ttoinas Ansberry, as administrator of the estate of John M. Ansberry, has filed a euit 111 the circuit court against the Indiana Wire Fence Co., for $10,000 damages. The suit grows out of the death of John Ansberry who was killed by being caught in a belt at the companys plant some time ago. The complaint alleges that the machinery with which the decedent worked was defective and that this fact was known by the defendant but not by the decedent. It is further sot forth that there was no belt shifter on the shafting as is required by law, and that had there been the accident would not have occurred. In view of these facts the plaintiff oskB judgement in the ium of 910,000.

COURT NEWS.

E. Hryunt vs. Fannie and Candy w.'ell(.t. Foreclosure. Dismissed. S'Htu ex rH. Ida Buskirk vs. Cascius Wilson. Complaint. Dismissed at defendant's C06t.

Emma E. Binns vs. Sarah Dazey et Partition. Commissioners' final report is approved and commissioners are discharged.

W in. H. Sbobe vs. E. M. Morrow, truotee et al. Complaint. Judgment entered for defendant.

Win. B. Lynch vs. Ella J. Cain et al0*i mechanic's lien. Dismissed. Elbert E. Caldwell et al. vs. J. N. Culdwelletal. Partition. Defendants make default.

G. M. Qoben vs. John Tomlinson. Complaint. Plaintiff moves to reopen issues and file an additional paragraph to his complaint. Motion approved by court and defendant ruled to answer it.

P. P. Griffin vs. Big Four R. R. Co. Complaint. Appeal bond of defendant approved.

State on relation of Ella P. Brewer vs. estate of W. T. Brush. Claim. W. E. Brewer, M. C. Kline and W. H. Ashley made parties defendant.

Guardian of Ella P. Brewer vs. estate of \\. T. Brush. Claim. Defendant ruled to answer.

Eiva C. Friend vs. Wm. Friend. Divorce. Non-resident notice ordered. W. H. Neff vs. Monan R. R. Co. Damages. Defendant files appeal bond.

A Veritable Fire-Trap.

"It not generally known, p'-rhaps, but, vertoelens true that the roof ai.d attic £fiie MoCit^omory county court Louse is a fire-trap" said one of the county commissioners this week. "Prom the ceiling of the court room to the top of the big dome there is not an iron brace, such a you find in mode structures, but in their Btead is to be be found several car loads of dry lumber. Should a tire ever start up there no power on earth could save it. and the records of the county would be destroyed." This is a startling statement and comes from a man who knows what he is talking about. The county records are precious and should not be hazarded when a small expenditure of money would protect them. One of two things should be done—either tear off the top of the building and rebuild it with steel and iron or build a fire proof vault od the north of the clerk's and recorder's office where the records may be kept.

After the Bucket Shops. The Senator from Allen county is after the bucket shops. His bill is modeled after the Illinois law, which was successful in closiug the shops in Chicago and elsewhere in that State. There are three sections in the proposed 'aw one defining gambling, another setting fr rth the duties of judges aud prosecutors, and a third fixing a heavy penalty of fine and imprisonment. The law is a good one. The bucket ehops should be generally brought to grief. It is too late however to bo of benefit to many once well-to-do people. The horse has already been stolen, and for them, locking the door is a solemn farce.

Death of Mit Johnson.

Last week occurred the removal of David and Mit Johnson, the two well known brothers, to the county infirmary. They were both ill when taken there, and Sunday night Mit succumbed to the ravages of disease and passed away. The fact that from the ranks of affluence only a few years ago, he had fallen to poverty, seived to aggravate the disease and hurried him toward the end. The fineral occurred on Tuesday from the county asylum, interment at Oak Hill cemetery. Mr. Johnson was a quiet, kind-hearted man, his own worst enemy, and his many kind acts will long be remembered by those to whom he granted them.

Who Will Pay?

In traciug the cause of a fire in town a few nights since which did considerable damage to the house before the flames could be quenched, it was discovered that the mixer to the stove had been tal&n off and gas run into the Sto.e without anything to regulate its volume. The question is who should pay for the damages by the fire? It would look like the gas company had a good case in this instance against somebody for violating a contract, which they undoubtedly did, in using gas without a mixer.

Rabies At (iarfield.

Recently a dog passed through the county near Garfield biting and snapping at every animal it met. Several of the animals bitten have developed cases of hydrophobia and had to be killed. Walter Martin shot a rabid dog Monday and animals owned by Big* Cox, Dr. Fall and George McCoy have been killed.—Darlington Echo.

The State Board Fight.

The battle royal between the state schools and the non-state educational initiations is like to be on soon in the State Legislature. Two bills are already before that body, embodying the legislation which the noo-state people hope to have passed. Senator Hogate, of Hendricks county, has charge of the' bill in the Senate, and Representative Brown in the House. These bills provide for the removal of the Governor and the h^ads of the three state schools from the board of education, and making the Board to consist of the State Superintendent, the euperintennents of thn three largest cities in the State, and three members to be appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be a coun*y superintendent of schools. The fight will no doubt be a hot one. There seems to be a general disposition among the people to "have a change in the State Board of Education. It has been in the hands of the State institutions a long time, and the people feel that the Board is growing arrogant. In any event, through whatever changes may be made, sectarian control of the schools must be avoided. Reform the Board, but see that it is correctly reformed.

Cement Sidewalks.

The cement sidewalk craze has struck: Crawfordsville hard, and we understand that the powers that be are going to push the good work in the spring and push it 1o a finish. There may be much city pride involved in the make up of the council but the question is one that should bs considered before it is pushed too f-r. There is not a property owner in Crawfordsville who has not a legitimate pride in the town, but at the same time there are many of them who feel that they should not be compelled to tear up good, almost*^' new brick sidewalks in order to replace1 them with cemect walks. There will be many hardships worked if the plan is carried out on the scale which somepeople are contemplating. No one" would object to cement where the brick walks are worn out, but when they are still in uood repair, they should not be torn up for the sake of uniformity. Wait until the need becomes more press-' Ing than at present. We hope those having the matter in baud will consider these things and not precipitate matters when it will work injustice or hard--V ships.

Mailboxes For Farmers.

The post office department at Washington is now considering the adoption of a new plan of free mail delivery for the ruralist. It is a box patented by a Virginian and is of metal about three feet high and about two feet wide. I here is a great door which swings open' and reveals a number of small compartments for letters, just such as are seen in the metropolitan postoffices. Each of these small compartments has a glass door with a Yale lock. In each of the compartments is a button to which an electric wire is to be attached which will lead directly to the house of the farmer owning the bsx. To the end of the wire in the farmer's house is attached a small dial upon which the letter carrier, when he deposits the mail, can indicate the fact by merely pressing the butt on intbe box.

Crop Bulletin.

The following crop bulletin has

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issued by the Indiana branch of the climate and crop service: During the cold, freezing weather the greater porfe.SH tion of the month, snow covered the^* fields most everywhere, and wheat was well protected and looks well in a few localities, only, where the snow had drifted or had been swept away by the wind, the ground is frozen hard, and some wheat looks brown and injured. Fruit buds, apparently, were not injuredbythe cold, except peach buds'^ which, possibly, are killed in some orchards. Grass is in good condition} ^', feed is abundant and livestock iB in good condition. Much ice, from 6 to 8 inches thick, was cut and housed from the 15th to the 24th of the month.

From Labor To Lunch.

Miss Lou Etcherson has given up the editorship of the RuBsellville Record, and embarked in the restaurant business where there is probably a better prospect of getting something to eat. Henry Burton is the new editor. He made a "fizzle" of it once before, but you can't discourage a real good man.—Waveland Independent.

Judge West at LaFayette. Judge West occupied the bench of the Tippecanoe circuit court at Lafayette on Monday and Tuesday of this week and as a resnlt the local justice mill was closed down on those days. Judge West will call the petit jury for Feb. 6, at which time business will begin in earnest.

A protracted meeting IB in progress at the First M. E. church. MiBe Downey. a female e?angeliat, will take charge of the meetings to-morrow.