Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1890 — Page 4

jpeinccrat ??. . ? su. -V. HL Ji CKH ITHN, 1 nyritHar. t lit DA i , DEC. 5. LBIW. Ci.evei.axh Gray are the rising sons of '92. The Congressional in ill began grinding last Tuesday. WiIEX the Indians dance Uncle Sam has Io |>av the tiddler. Harrison becomes more deininutive as his term oi office nears its close. Jingo Jim Blaine continues to be the biggest man in the Republican party/ The Presidents Message is print ed in full in this issue of the Democrat. e I , , t ■ , Christmas, the grandest festival of the whole year, is rapidly approaching. Wm. 11. Deity, of Lima, aged seventy-seven,, one of the oldest Masons in northern Indiana is dead. An bld fashioned blizzard would allay the excitement in the northwest and stop the Sioux depredations on short order. It is now asserted that Hill is to be the next Senator from New York. If so, it will give Cleveland a clear field for the Presidency. There is some anxiety as to what the Republicans propose to do in the coming congress relative to making changes in the McKinley , tariff bill. The only hope ot the Republican party seems to be in Jim Blaine’s reciprocity doctorine. However, there is no danger that it will fetch ’em in 1892. The Lagrange .Register wants Blaine and Hovey for president and vice-yresident in '92. What’s the matter with Harrison? Didn’t the lle>) inter man succeed in getting a postortice that he is sore on the president? * ' The Indian scare in the northwestfollowing closely upon the heels of the late campaign causes many persons to surmise that the newspa per correspondents have transferred their field of operations to that sec- - * tion of country. , It is evident now that a condition and not a theory confronts the Republican party. Just how to deal with that “condition” appears to be uppermost in the minds of the Republican leaders since the disaster of four weeks ago. The cost of the recent election to the State of Indiana was $149,450. ‘This i» fully one-third more than it will be at future elections as the booths, ballot boxes and gangways will not have to be purchased and paid for, as they are already on hand. This will materially reduce the cost of succeeding elections. A n Arizona editor placed a ballot box in his office and called upon the people to come forward and decide by popular vote who was the most infernal liar in the camp. The Kai lots were counted in the presence * of a great crowd and the editor was elected by a majority that paralyzed him. This set him to thinking real 1 hard.. The question of fees and salaries of county officials will be about the first thing to engage the attention of the next legislature. The feeling appears to be universal throughout the state that the present fee and salary statutes should be considerately rev ised in accordance with the pledges set Jdrth in . > the Democratic state platform. \ . .. Senator Voorhees will have no. opposition and his re-election on the third Thursday in January is an assured fact. The Hendricks club will signalize the event by a grand banquet, similar to that of the Thurman anniversary, at which Cleveland, Hill, Brice, Campbell and other Democratic notables will be present. Not less than five hundred guests will be entertained. Anderson, this state, is on a boom, boom. It has ten new factories in course of erection and bthers corning. Natural gas is the attraction that is drawing thes® industries to its borders like the magnet draws the needle. If Decatur would bestir itself and secure nature’s fuel it, too, might share in the prosperity that is coming to the natural gas towns throughout this section of the state,

The McKinley bill follows a man clean to his grave and then slaps a tax upon his eoffi i. The candidates for positions ii the state legislature are thicker that June lhes around an empty molas:?t.barrel. The Jay county Republican began on its fifth volume la§t week The paper has been enlarged to ;> six column quarto and gives evidence oi success. ■ 4 Asiickal'T’s post-office bubble is no longer visible. The. decreased Republican vote in Adams count) has been the means of knocking it higher than Gilroy's kite—so high it will never return again. The Marion Leader urges the representative citizens of all gas towns in Indiana to hold a meeting and make a united effort to prevent the unnecessary waste of natural gas that is going on in many places. It is apparent that the farmers are very earnestly at work in the political field in this and other •states. The other fellows used to be there, but just now, they are on the fence outside watching their movements with anxious eyes. Since the Louisiana Lottery company has been virtually squelched by the government, the business of the New Orleans postoffice has diminished over one-half. The people who were in the habit of ing their surplus cash with the thieving lottery are now enabled to invest it where it will likely dothem some substantial good. State Treasurer Lemcke has made his annual report. It shows the total income of the state from all sources during the past twelve months to have been $4,711,304.53The total disbursements were $4,471, 948,13, leaving a balance in the treasury October 31, of $239,356.40. The previous year closed with a balance of $37,109.35. On Monday, Conrad Brake and Henry Fuelling, county commissioners, began on another termThis may not be in the nature of pleasant news for our imported contemporary down street, but it is a fact nevertheless and he will be compelled to gaze on these men when he chances to do any business with the Board during the next two years. , The Portland conservatory of music is a new institution for that place that has just been opened to the public. It is under the management of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. C. Shanks and J. A. Smith. Mrs. Shanks is the daughter of our fellow townsman, Charley Schirmeyer, and she is a thorough teacher of music. The institution is a permanent one for Portland. A monster air ship is being constructed at Mt. Carmel, Illinois, by a company of capitalists of which E. T. Pennington, formerly of Fort Wayne, is president that is attacting considerable interest. It is claimed the problem ot aerial navigation has been solved and that the machine will traverse the atmosphere at the rate of 200 miles an hour. The test will soon be made and the public anxiously awaits the result. In looking over the report of the Northern prison at Michigan City, says the Ft. Wayne Sentinel, we notice that among the 735 prisoners, there is but one lawyer and not a single doctor. Five printers are there and eighteen barbers to keep them company. Eighteen painters, ninety farmers, four merchants, and two school teachers are on the list. The report says nothing about editors and we take it for granted there are none on the list. The annual report of the Post-master-General is made public. He recommends the establishments of postal savings banks, the postal telegraph system, the use of pneumatic tubes for the handling of mails in cities, increase in the speed of mail trains and discusses penny postage as likely to be adopted in the near, but not immediate future. The deficiency in the receipts compared with the expenditures of the department is four and one-half millions. The reduction of letter postage one half would reduce the receipts nineteen millions, making the deficiency twenty-three and one-half millions. The decrease rate would, however, increase the business somewhat and it some other features of the work of the department were properly adjusted the deficiency with.one cent postage would be small.

Ex-Attorney-General Michnir •>f this state, and Blocks-of-five Dud ley have formed a co-partnership in he pension business with headquar ■ ere at Washington. Blaine's reciprocity “aticknm” ’’ill sufficient to patch uj he broken places in the Republican •anks so that the party can present t united front in the battle of two .'ears hence. The Indianapolis Sentinel has been enlarged to eight pages and naterially improved. The Sentinel s determined to keep up with the lemands of the times and maintain its position as the leading Demo ■•ratio organ ot this commonwealth. Ashcraft still professes to want the court house records examined Suppose the public entrust him with the,task. The question is suggested. “Would he be able to discover that little tax matter on the treasurer’s books sent down from Whitley county and marked “delinquent?” Uncle Sam has been careful to fully equip the hostile Indians with arms and ammunition that they may be able to cope with their enemy, the white man, on the field galore. Uncle Sam is generous and believes in giving the noble red man a fair show, even if he is compelled to pay all the expenses out of his own purse. The harvest and mowing machine companies of the United States have formed a gigantic combination called the National Harvester Company, with a cash capital of $35,000,000. Is it any wonder the farmers are combining against the further encroachments of these giant combinations that are springing up everywhere under the protection of the Republican party? Senator Voorhees in an inter view is credited with saying that he believes Gov. Gray will again be a candidate for the nomination for vice-president. He thinks Indiana will be considerate if the candidate for the presidency comes from the east. The Senator is of the opinion that Indiana-would have gone Democratic had Gray been on the ticket with Cleveland two years ago. The ticket might not have been elected, but it would have saved the state. A short time ago Ex-President Cleveland had occasion to very genteely “roast’.’ John Jabber Ingalls in a letter addressed to a Kansan. Ingalls heard of it and now proposes to give Grover a “turning over” in the Senate, shortly. The Kansas senator will receive a harder hit than that which Grover gave him, when the legislature meets and chooses his successor in'the person of some individual who will not permit himself to be marked all over with the dollars of monopoly. “Tins is our country because the people have established it, because they rule it, because they have developed it, because they fought for it and because they love it And still each generation of Americans holds it only in tAist for those who shall come after them; and they are charged with the obligation to submit it as strong and sound as it came to their hands. It is not ours to destroy, it is not ours to sell and it is not ours to neglect or injure. It is ours as our families are ours and as churches and schools are ours—to protect and defend, to foster and improve.— Grover Cleveland. Speaker Reed has been heard from again. } He explains the result oi the recent election to a correspondent of the New York Sun, and his explanation is really a very simple one. After complaining that the Democrats had one month’s start of the Republicans in the campaign, and reproaching t the manufacturers who “had obtained just what they needed and wanted at the hands of the majority in Congress” with putting up prices and helping “to set the people into a panic about the McKinley bill,” he goes on: “But I am inclined to think that the most important factor in the result of this election was the women of the country. It is the women who •do the shopping, who keep the run of prices, who have the keenest scent for increased cost. They heard in every store the clerks behind the counter explain how this article or that could not be sold hereafter at the former price because of the McKinley bill; they went home and told their husbands and fathers, and their stories had a tremendous effect at the ballot box.”

It looks now as if the t-econd session of the Fifty-first congress would partake quite largely'of the natuie of a coroner’s inquest. That is the view taken from a Democratic standpoint. * Among the possibilities of the •tear future is a direct steamship 'ine between Chicago and the ports ►f Europe. The matter is now engaging the attention of the great capitalists of tbe-World’s Fair city. Ashcraft’s pensive appeal to have the court house records examined is simply a lot of wind-work wasted on the desert air. He neither desires nor expects an examination. That is evident upon the surface of his protracted vaporings. Blaint’s reciprocity scheme will not add one cent to the price that the farmes gets for his wheat, corn and pork and it will not take one cent off the prices that the famers and workingmen have to pay for their necessaries. Like all other schemes of the Republican leaders it is evidently calculated to enrich monopoly at the expense of the toiling masses. / . The farmers who have been so unmercifully robbed by giant corporations and z combines in every conceivable way are beginning to realize their position and propose to henceforth look out for themselves. Hence their organizations are springing up everywhere and those who have so long profited off their toil are becoming alarmed at the situation. Keep your eye on the farmers. They will hold the balance of power in this country not many years hence. The pension appropriation bill for the next fiscal year was agreed upon Saturday by the sub-committee having it in charge. It appropriates the full amount estimated as necessary by the commissioner of pensions, except that the estimates for clerk hire at pension agencies and for fuel and light are cut down approximately SIOO,OOO in the aggregate, so that the appropriation for these purposes is about SIOO,OOO instead of $200,000 in excess of that for the current fiscal year. For the payment of pensions $133,173,085 is appropriated, and for examining surgeons, $1,500,000, an increase of $500,000 over the current fiscal year. The contemplated removal of the big Chicago packing houses to Indiana territory has caused a general awakening in Lake county, where the enterprise is to be located. Real estate has advanced to a much higher figure, and the people are realizing what an immense benefit it is to be in that locality, and after a while expect to have a city and a police force that will make Indianapolis ashamed of herself. The packing plants will be located on the lake and Culumet river, twelve miles from Crown Point. Friday the Indiana stock yards street railway company, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The company!) propses to operate an electric line from Crown Point to the packing house site, and will pass Cedar lake, the pretty little summer resort between the two towns. The company has $35,000,000 capital, • and the stock has all been taken by twenty-five shareholders. The state of Indiana furnished 197,147 soldiers, and it. has now 47,798 pensioners, or very nearly one pensioner in every four soldiers. The state of Illinois furnished 259,147 soldiers, and has only 39,943 pensioners, or one in six and a half. The state of Wisconsin furnished 96,474 soldiers, and has 16,788 pensioners. More veterans from eastern states have moved into Illinois and Wisconsin than into Indiana, so that they ought to have a larger ratio of pensioners to soldiers than Indiana, instead of which they have much less. 'Massachusetts has only one pensioner in seven and a half soldiers, Pennsylvania one in seven and a third, New York one m nine and a third, many ot the men who in these eastern states having settled after the war in the west. Ohio has a little less than one pensioner to six soldiers, a somewhat larger ratio than Illinois, but less then Idniana, and Ohio has not received so much immigration as Illinois has. Indianajshows in a striking degree, and Ohio in a much less degree, the policy of .&e Dudleys and Tanners and Raums of trading off pension certificates in close states for votes, and yet on November 4th Indiana went nearly 20,000 against the Republicans.

Public Schools. KOLL OF H >NOR. Names o’ > ho. e neither ta dy nor ab se it fur mo itn ending N v zB, , 890: Ward Building, Roam 1. —Cor* Shackley, teacher. AUeg>r Char’ev Hurst Hairy al e_ar Cliu-e La >ure Artie Bo >u Glen Lai-ure l\ arl Colt Harry Linn Ollie Colt Roy Mann Earl Cox Cora u - Parish tiertie Deme Florence Parrish Rollie Fu-her Earl Schlegel Dollie Fuhrman Willie Shaw Fioid Graham Bertie Shepherd Claude Graham Johnnie S'erle Earnest Harb Celt t Stetler Clarence Hunsa ker Dollie Svphers Orlie Hurst Eddie Wymer Willie Room No. 2, —Kate Blackburn, teacher. Bennett Ora Lenhart Olga Bressler Earl Lenhart Fiank Chronister Tommy Miller Edith Devoss Huber Oliver Edith Dou-herij Webster Parrish Jacob Foren an Allie Rea Bertha Fisher De-tina Rea Newton Get-singer May s> • R’.ce Edward Hart Jessie Rice Fanny Honech. Mmnie Steele Lily Hunsicker Bert * Steele Iva Krick Dessie Sellemeyer Anna Krick George Sellemeyer Adella Krick Katie Sellemeyer Bertha Laisure Pres Suttles Arthur Room No. 4, —O. N. Tyndall, teacher. Burns Hattie Hale Sadie Congleton Bessie Helm India Cramer Gusta Miller Myrtle Coverdale Clark Mangold Sophia Devoss Gertie Rice Fanny Ernst Charles Schrock Willie France Ora Thomas William Helm Lulu Winnes Willie Heller Henry Wilson Edna Central Building—Rcom No. 1, —Edith Reynolds, teacher. Andrews Chauncy Holmes Ollie Buckmaster Clark Hale Genevieve Buckmaster Charles Hart Alice Baker Harvey Johns Sadie Baker Alva Johns Harry Barklev Andrew Loch Arbie Blue Albert Magley Eddie Bryson Lucile McConnehey DeR Beery Dessie McLeod Sadie Bremerkamp Jack Merriss Pearl Coverdale May Porter Edith Cook James Phillips Charles Dorwin Guy Patterson Marie Dibble Blanche Smith Melvin Ernst Carl Vore Earl Ferrill Georgia Watson Bertha Foreman Hazel Wertzberger Allie Gerard Lily Wertzberger Grover Room No. 2,-Maggie McConnell, teacher. Andrews Gertrude Holmes Leo Baker Eddie Koch Grace Baker Louie Middleton Orvie Barkley Frank Mathewson Homer Barnett Lizzie Mangold Dan Dorwin Kate Peterson Ada Ernst Frank Peterson Chas Erwin Harry Ross Zola Fritzinger Harry Spencer Dent Gethner Fred Steele Frank Gillig John Sanders Jessie Hammell Harry Schrock Agnes Hart Charley Teeple May Helm Willie Vore Harry Room No. 3, —Rose Christen, teacher, Allen Sammy Middleton Cornelius Beer Eddie Myers Wade Bell Fred Mann Rosa • Brock Teddie Mcßarnes Blanch Burns Frank Mcßrien May Barnhart John Niblick Josephine Barnhart Ollie Patterson Fred Blackburn Hattie Peterson Bernice Christen Otto Pennington Jennie Christen Bruce Reed Milo Cook Jessie Reiter Willie France Bart Rice Johnnie Hammel Cal Robison Fanny Howell Retta Steele Jesse Jones Johnnie Wertzberger Dennie Room No. 4, —Ethel Hale, teacher. Albers Chauncy Mayer Minnie Bell Frank Mann Henna Barnhart Miranda Magley Jessie Billman Bessie McCampbell Orie Cutting Pearl Niblick Hattie Cline Laura Phillips Willie Dailey Jesse Pennington Edith Ellsworth May Peterson Della Ernst Neva Patterson Grace Fuhrman Ada Robison Jesse Gerard Celia Ray Willie Hart Curtie Smith Sammie Kellison Mamie Weaver Rena Kirsch Della Weldon Jesse Wertzberger Dollie Room No. 5, —Mary Heller, teacher. Christen Bessie Miller Arthur Case Leo Peterson Cal Dougherty Mattie Pennington Charles DeVilbiss Fannie Rex Lacy Daniels Maggie Teeple Annie Ernst May Woodward Effie Everett Ina Work Bessie Middleton Lily Wyatt Guy Mcßarnes John Wyatt Ella Room No. 6, —Matie Auten, teacher. Albers Edith Hait Ora Beery Robbie Hammell Frank Beer Lessie Linn Eddie Bollman Arthur Middleton Viola Bennett Lillie McAlhaney Brenton Cook Zori Miller Meddie Ernst Lettie McConnehey Lennie Eichar Maurice Mylott Josie' Edwards Elba Numbers Albert Edwards Fae Peterson Chas Elzey Lulu Pattepson Lizzie Frank Nanna Patterson Hattie France Dick Reed Frank Fordyce Maggie Robison Penny Fristoe Earl Steele Morris Hughes Laurence Trout May Winnes Fred Room No. 7, —Mattie Young, teacher. Archbold Roy McLeod Sheldon Allison Tina McConnehey Chas Barkley Brenton Merryman June Beers Rena Mylott Stella Christen Dollie Nicholas Alva Christen Dick Peterson Eli Coverdale Earl Peterson Frank Cook Matie Peterson Lizzie Congleton Josie > Parrish French Cutting Vinnie Pierce Robie Dorwin Willie Reynolds Blanch Erwin Rosie Shaffer Chalmcr Helm Harry Teeple Emma Kellison Herbert Trout Willie Krick Frank Weaver Sadie Linn Walter Wertzberger Wm Long Mamie Work Joe Woodward Chas High School—Lell Segur, teacher. Alban Laura Holmes Roma Baker Nettie Krick Nellie Barnhart Chas King, Olive Blackburn Nellie Linn Frank Christen Frank McConnehey Grace Cutting Mary Myers Lucy Dailey Olive Miesse Kittie Devoss Lona Miller Edmond Dorwin Bessie Nunnery Edward Gratner Mary Petersen Grace % Gregory lantha Schrock Nellie Hale Olive Stevens Anna Hammell Chas Vore Stella Hart Willie Wertzberger Hattie Yager Phoebe SUMMARY. No. enrolled, 623. Av. number belonging, 591 6. No. daily attendance, 560 7. Percent of attendanc •, 94 7. No. neither tardy nor absent, 31S. Cases of tardiness. 33. No, visitors, e

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