Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1897 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED WEEKLY. DEMOCRATIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO LEW G. ELLINGHAM, EDITOR. 41.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. rpOOK PRINTING ■ pm s —— i POOR PROFITS. We iret out a class of printing J that is superior to the "general j t run.” Gvod printing puys. J s DEMOCRAT < s B OK AND JOB | PRINTEHY. THURSDAY, JULY 8. The silver sentiment in Ohio will heat any Hanna show, on the road this year. © The city’s indebtedness is unknown by every one who seemingly ought to know. It is too big to count, we presume. © Apverhse that yoa may be known. Continue advertising that you may be better known. Stop your advertising and you will soon become unknown again. It is now stated privately in administration circles, that campaign promises made by Boss Hanna mikes it necessary for Mr. McKinley to send a special message to congress asking for legislation for the appointment of a currency commission, notwithstanding the notice served upon Boss Hanna several weeks ago by the silver senators, that no such legislation should be acted upon at this session of congress. ...TIBIT. --r. — , It was malicious to report that court house mice was nsponsible for the fire in the Stone building some time ago, at which time somt reports and city orders were burned. It is true that a few orders and city r' -'jrts were consumed in the blazbut they were of no particular im portance. Such a report is not only unjust but malicious in its intent But notwithstanding this fact, the council owes it to the taxpayers to order a financial exhibit. The Ohio campaign revives.the one issue which always, and to the exclusion cd every other, will be before the people until it finally is settled; and it will be freight out to a finish. This great qvershadowing issue is bimetallism. With political wisdom that cannot be gainsaid, the Columbus convention of Ohi<> democracy has declared the devotion of the party in that great state to the principles and precepts of the Chicago platform. There can be no doubt about this, and the issue fairly is joined.

The tariff bill might easily havi been disposed of last week had the republicans been able to stop wrang ling among themselves long enough to agree«on several proposed amencments. About the only amendment they agreed’upon that is deserving of a good word was that «taxing stock'cirtifieates and bonds. That is so sensible that it seemed almost useless to expect that it will be allowed to stick. The bill will be passed this week, if the republicans desire it to pass. They can hang it up indefinitely by proposing amendments that they know the democrats will not allow to be added. 9 Boss Hanna has not had much sucess in bossing his party in the senate, but he made a success of his tight on the anti-trust amendment to the tariff bil ! , and com; e led the republican caucus, hurriedly called at the eleventh hour, to decide that anti-trust amendment which bad been prepared and adopted by the republican steering committee should not be offered in the senate. That proposed amendment has been introduced as a bill by Senator Thurston, but there isn’t the slightest probability of its passing; if there was. Boss Hanna would have another republican caucus called to prevent it. The semi-weekly sessions of the lower house of congress were had a s usual during the past week. With the votes of the Reed republicans legislation in that branch of congress has been effectually throttled, and the country at the expense of something near a million dollars a week, enjoys the luxury of a house of representatives that does not represent. At one time it was supposed that the bouse of representatives was nearer to the people than any other branch of the government, but that myth has been thoroughly exploded, for a more tyrannical, over bearing and thoroughly worthless incumbrance never was fastened upon any government than is the present house of representatives.

INTERESTING TO HOOSIERS LOCKWOOD’S WEEKLY STORE OF WASHINGTON NEWS. Fairbank* and Turpie Favor the Hawaiian Annexation Treaty—Cruinpacker’s Constitutional Amendment -Editor Elliott’s Chances With tile Administration—Colonel K. W. Thompson’s Attempt to Americanize the Navy. From Our Special Correspondent. Washington, July 7. —In these concluding days of the extra session Senator Fairbanks still expresses the opinion that the president will take occasion to call the attention of congress to the ne- . cessity of currency legislation, and per- | chaps urge the appointment of a com- I mission as suggested by the Indianapolis < ctjpference. The belief is growing general, however, that the president may | content himself with calling the attention of congress to the situation, believing that an attempt even to authorize a commission might prolong the session for weeks. Senator Fairtanks is much in favor of the annexation of Hawaii, and thinks that the tfeaty will be conI firmed early in the next session. Senator Turpie is also in favor of this extension of the national domain. Representative Crumpacker takes a different view lof the matter. He is opposed not only to the annexation of the islands but of any other territory. In order to make : it difficult to bring about .future additions of noncontiguous territory, he pro- I poses an amendment to to apply the same conditions to a propo- j sition to annex territory as are now ap- > plicable to proposed amendments to the | I constitution itself. Amending the con- | stitntion is a very slow and doubtful , procedure, so that such a law would I serve as a practical prohibition of any- ! thing in the annexation line. For con- I tiguous territory harder conditions than at present prevail are imposed, for in this case the amendment proposed by Mr. Crumpacker provides that the treaty must be ratified by a two-thirds vote in j both houses, the vote on the question iu the house of representatives not to be • taken until two years have elapsed from | the time of taking the vote in the senI ate. Mr. Crtqjipacker says that he does not expect immediate action on his proposition, but he feels sure that the country vyill yet protect itself against what he terms “jingo ebullitions.” Mr. Tnrpie characterizes the tariff bill, • which is soon to become a law. as the worst example of extreme protective legislation ever known in this country, and believes that it will be the undoing of the party which is responsible, for it. Mr. Turpie has the same reputation for stinging oratory in the senate that Mr. Johnson has acquired in the house. Senator Turpie expressed his views with characteristic 1 force in the senate the • other day, while speaking in support I of his amendment providing for a tax of 2 per cent on inheritance of over ; $5,000, the tax to be in operation for the ! next five years, -with exemptions to , charitable, religions and like inherit- ' ances. Mr. Turpie said that the Ding- | ley bill would be , inadequate as a reve I nne getter, and that never before had i there been presljnt'M a measure making I “so large and unprovoked spoliation of the world’s commerce.” He declared that there was “grand larcency in every schedule.” that the rates proposed were “akin to larceny and rapine,” and were dictated by a “banditti of syndicates.” I “And yet,” he declared, “out of this mass of bribes and gifts, it is i proposed to distill the pure water of prosperity. You might as well expect i ; to enjoy paradise by entering the do- ; main of the damned.” The proposed i inheritance tax of 2 per cent, he concluded. “was insignificant as compared j with the tariff of 115 per ceut on ordi- i nary window glass.’’ —»*»— The average age of the members of I congress front Indiana is perhaps lower ; than that of any other delegation iu ■ congress, being less than 46, excluding i I Senator Turpie, whose age is not set : down intfhe congressional record and Representative Robinson, the bachelor member of the house detection, who is also reticent as to the date of his I i birth, but who, it is generally conceded, , is several years younger than the senior j senator at least. Representative Steele, the senior in years as in Service among the Hoosier numbers of the house, is the ' | only ex-soldier on the delegation. In i this Indiana is unique among the states as having the smallest per eentage of ex-soldiers on her delegation. Mr. Hemenway, at 37, is the junior member of I i the delegation. Mr. Landis is 39. Mr. Overstreet 38, Mr. Faris 43, Mr. Crumpacker 46, Mr. Henry 48, Mr. Steele 58, Mr. Zenor, 51, Mr. Miers 49, Mr. Royse 49 and Mr. Johnson 47. The friends of Mr. Johnson are doubtful if the representative from Richmond will be able to stand the strain of future activity in public life, though he may be sufficiently restored by a contemplated sojourn at the seashore to undertake the the work of the next session. Mr. Johnson is making his whole fight for recognition by the present administration in behalf of Editor Elliot of Newcastle, w’hom he failed to land as assistant secretary of the navy. He has asked for a good appointment for Mr. Elliot and has declined to endorse any one else unless Mr. Elliot is recognized. Mr. Fairbanks, though active in Mr. Elliot’s behalf on his first application, has not endorsed Mr. Elliot for other preferment, and as before stated in this correspondence no i such appointments have been made or . seem likely to be made, except Mr. Fairbanks has been heard from favorably by the president. That fact is be- ! coming dailv more apparent, ! ’ ' , The dinner given by Senator Fairbanks at the Arlington hotel on Friday evening in honor of ex-Consul General Samuel E. Morss, was a graceful compliment by an eminent Indianapolis Republican to the leading Democratic journalist of the state capital. Senator ! Fairtanks and Mr. Morss are personal • friends, and the function was, moreover, intended as a recognition of the honor

which Mr. Morss has brought upon the state by his exceedingly creditable career as the representative of the commercial interests of the United States at Paris. —♦*» — The announced intention of Secretary Long to Americanize the navy, calls to mind a similar effort by Colonel R. W Thompson!, while secretary of the nav> . on the announcement that (D percent of the crews of our warships were aliens. Secretary Thompson succeeded iu getting American boys upon the recruiting ships, but the life was not suited to them, and the number of desertions was very large, The Philadelphia Record gives sime interesting facts relative to Colonel Thompson’s appointment to a cabinet office which he filled with credit to himself and profit to the government. When President Hayes prepared to seZa * IL WWsJ < I | v.. i V —* ■ COLONEL R. W. THOMPSON, leet his cabinet, the anti-Morton element urged Benjamin Harrison for a place, and in order to.head off this movement, the Morton contingent put Thompson forward- When he was selects, that his appointment might not j create dissensions in the party in Indi- i ana. rh- t >- <J ut ami 'aiiee l that it was ills p. rsonal selection, sayihg that j as far back as 1844 he had heard Colonel i Thompson deliver a Whig speech at Co- I lumbus, O.®that had remained fresh in j his memory during the intervening i years, and now the ob ports, nity had I come, he intended to honor the orator I who had made such an impression on . him in his young manhood. The ap- | pointment of a man from an interior ' state like Indiana as “the man whoi rules the water’ ’ seemed so incongruous, I that he*immediately gained the news- i paper soubriquet of “the Ancient Mariner of the Wabash.” One st-pry that went the rounds was that when Secre- . tary Thompson made his first visit to a man-of-war he exclaimed as he passed an opeii hatchway: “Great Scott, the thing’s hollow.” • —**» — Kansas is the great soldier state, but Indiana is a close second. L. M. Kelly. ■ deputy commjssioner of pensions, says ; that Representatives Steele and Overstreet are close seconds in the amount of pension business transacted by Con- ■ gressman Curtiss, of Kansas Major i Steele has looked after something like ’ 1.500 cases this session and last. “I wish,” said an Indiana member to; vour correspondent the other dav, I “that pensioners could realize how little use a Washington attorney is to them. I Members of congress are always ready i to look after the pensions of their con-1 stituents so far as anything can l>e done I at this end of the line, and fees paid to ' attorneys living outside of the locality ■ where the evidence is to be prepared, ' are simply money thrown away, and the average pensioner cannot afford such a useless expenditure.” —***- Assistant Attorney General TVner of the postoffice department, one of the ad- i ministration’s Indiana appointees, has | adopted a new policy in the issuance of fraud orders, so that as a general rale parties against whom complaint has I been made may be given a hearing or i opportunity to answer charges before orders are issued against them. The j action is the result of allegations that > many cases of injustice have developed I as the result of the representation of one aggrieved person on only one side of the case. In the same department First Assistant Postmaster General Heath is making an excellent record as an ad- | ministj-ative officer. His latest ord r requires postmasters to postmark letters legibly. Among the ludianians recently in Washington were District Attorney Al Wishard, who, it is presumed, came on to consult with Senator Fairtanks on the matter of patronage, and Judge David Henry of Terre Haute, who has secured the promise of the collect->rship in the western di-tr’.ct of Indiana. Mr Henry says he is readv to assume the duties of the office whenever the ad ministratio" seesfit to dispense with the services of Judge Jump, but things have not moved swiftly enough to suit him or his friends. Judge Jump has been an efficient official, and the administration has not been in a hnrrv to disturb incumbents before the expiration of a four year’s term. Another Indiana visitor is Mr. Milton Kraus, chairman of the Republican county central committee of Miami countv. Mr. Kraus thinks there is a perceptible improvement in the business outlook in Indiana, which he believes will be further improved bv the passage of the tariff hill. He sees a hard fierht ahead for rhe Repnblinsns In Indiana next year, but thinks Senator Tnrpie will be succeeded by a Republican. Democratic members are watching the Ohio campaign with great interest. They feel that if their brethren in the Buckeye state can elect a successor to Mr. Hanna, that victory is assured for their cause in Indiana next year, for Indiana is more favorable fighting territory than Ohio for the Democracy. On the other hand. Republican members sav that this is the most unfortunate time that could l»e selected for the waging of a Republican campaign, because political disappointments are fresh, and the tariff bill will not have had an opportunity to display its virtues. Nevertheless. there is no no doubt but that the Republican leaders are looking for ward to next year's campaign in Indiana with some anxiety, though they claim that the Indiana delegation will contain at least a Republican majority, and that the legislature of 1899 will be a Republican body. George, B. Lockwood,

Clothing and Furnishings FOR HOT WEATHER. Our stock is still complete with latest novelties in xU/ Crash Suits Double breasted Serge Coats, Single breasted Serge Coats and Vests. Black Alpaca Coats and Vests. Fancy Duck Vests, &c. Negligee and fancy Shirts, starched bosoms, in prevailing colors We have about 150 odd Coats and Vests and odd Pants left, which we have marked down to onehalf price. This is without a doubt the greatest cut in clothing there ever was made in Decatur. Come in early before they are all picked over. P. HolthoUsG Go.

June Distribution. ‘ Auditor Mangold has completed the June distribution showing the various funds and their amount, due the several townships, city and town corporations, of which the following is a copy: UNION. Congressional interest $ 53 60 | Township tax 214 57 Special school tax 827 72 Common school fund 477 57 Road tax 46 25 Township bridge tax 21S 73 Dog tax lot 60 Liquor license tax ? 85 13 ROOT. Congressional interest 158 86 Township 614 32 Special school 774 22 ; Common school" 440 961 Road.... 116 40 | Towship bridge 802 08 j Tuition 181 39 j Dog 140 90 j Liquor license .". 96 14 PREBLE. Congressional interest- 63 93 I Township 520 31 1 Special school 545 08 j Common school 658 00 \ Road 226 40 j Township bridge 329 78 Dog 151 96 Liquor license 115 70 KIRKLAND. Congressional interest 34 24 Township 142 51 Special school 841 09 Common school 634 26 Road 125 41 Township bridge • 267 54 Tuition 278 14 Dog 98 00 Liquor license 107 13 WASHINGTON. Congressional interest 73 56 Township 1622 62 Special school 517 84 Common school 723 16 Road 858 38 Township bridge 1118 74 Tuition 331 31 Dog 156 73 Liquor license 127 68 ST. MARY’S. Congressional interest 69 09 Township... 223 75 Special school 433 82 Common school 503 26 Road 163 78 Township bridge 355 72 Tuition 715 87 Dog 72 91 ; Liquor license 91 74 BLUE CREEK. ; Congressional interest 48 00 Township 213 28 Special school 212 79 Common school 548 78 Road 15 161 Township bridge 420 28 Tuition 106 72 Dog. .. 80 96 Liquor license 95 64 MONROE. Congressional interest 37 20 Township 533 32 Special school 381 77 Common school 1235 72 Road 333 36 Township bridge 463 37 Tuiti0n....................... 212 50 Dog 181 25 Liquor license 204 00 FRENCH. Congressional interest 46 29 Township 3t>2 64 Special school 471 97 Common school Jb7 12 Road 254 54 Township bridge 258 03 Tuition 231 70

j Dog 126 00 Liquor license 101 51 j HARTFORD. Congressional interest 26 15 Township . 488 50 Special school 475 50 | Common school 669 83 i i Road 271 66; i Township bridge 316 93 j Tuition 313 13 Dog 105 911 Liquor license 11l 54 WABASH. Congressional interest 53 96 Township 422 94 Special school 460 69 Common school 942 70 Road 231 43 Township bridge 779 67 Tuition 376 84 Dog ... . 131 22 Liquor license 159 72 . JEFFERSON. ; Congressional interest 81 50 Township 309 90 ; Special school 898 79 I ' Common school 5-54 96 : Road 2 56 i Township bridge 210 39 Tuition *4 35 Dog 109 00 Liquor license 102 00; DECATUR. Special school 2525 88 Common school 2005 53 Tuition 1876 37 Corporation 9627 64 Library 153 15 Dog . 78 79 Liquor license 321 40 GENEVA. Special school 672 51 Common school 624 25 Tuition 618 88 1 Corporation 1426 25 | Dog 11 34 Liquor license 100 04 BERNE. Special school 1000 40 Common school 479 26 Tuition 501 16 Corporation 1424 23 Dog 20 62 Liquor license 76 80 To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund he money if it fails to cure. 25c. You may hunt the world over and you will not find another medicine equal to Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy tor bowel complaints. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by Smith & Callow. j •‘Last summer one of onr grandchildren was sick with a severe bowel trouble,” says Mrs, E. G. , Gregory, of Frederickstown, Mo. “Our doctor’s remedies had failed, then we tried Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief.” For sale by Smith & Callow. j Page Blackburn the druggist, has ' the sale in Decatur of Brown’s ’ Cure, a Perfect Family Medicine. Owing to the marvelous power as a tonic and nervine, it positively ' cures all diseases of the stomach, liver and kidneys, giving new life 1 and strength and affording welcome ' relief to sufferers from dyspepsia, ' constipation, loss of appetite, sleep lessness, nervousness and sick head--1 ache. Brown’s Cure gives to weak women the clear skin, the rosy cheeks and the rich blood they I so much desire. Keep a bottle of I it in the house and save yourself l and family many spells of sikness Hand heavy doctor’s bills. 75 cents.

FACTS IN A FEW LINES. In London daily 400 children are bora I and 250 enter school for the first time. Matches have not yet display d the tinder box in certain rural districts of Spain and Italy. In Greece art was essentially religioua. The Bomans adapted it . hold decorations. It is always a sure sign of rain when horses and cattle stretch their necks and snuff the air for a long time. Incandescent lamps increase in effectiveness during the first 80 or 100 hours of use, after which they slowly fade. Nearly 5,000 persons are engaged in the wood pulp and paper industry in Maine. The yield is about 12,000 tons a year. It is calculated that Londoners pay an extra water rate of some $35".',00 or $400,000 a year in respect of the article I which they buy as milk. Russia has the most rapidly increasing I population of any country in Europe. The growth in the last 100 years has been a fraction under 1,000,00" annually. At the funeral of an unmarried woman in Brazil scarlet is the mourning hue. The coffin, the hearse, the trapi pings of the horses and the livery of the ; driver must be scarlet. Venezuela, or “Little Venice,” astbe i early Spanish explorers called the country, the natives having built their houses on piles along the shores, is not so very “little,” since it is twice the size of California. Lifeboats are now being made in some quarters of pumice stone. This is a material of great and strength, and a boat made tber-A will support a considerable load even when full of water. The cow tree is found in Vt uezuela. This name is given because when the tree is tapped in the trunk it givtsforth a milklike beverage. It is certainly a j wonderful tree. It grows tall and the | foliage is palmlike. The biggest turtle does not furnish | more than 16 pounds of tortoise shed. I Formerly the under shell was thrown away, being considered worthless, tut at present it is very highly valued for its delicacy of coloring. A tree which grows wild in Venezuela spreads out at the top like an umbrella iu shape and attains such bulk that the circumference is several hundred feet. This tree is, a species of mimosa or sensitive plant. The Siamese, as a class, are not overambitious in trade, and the great r F- 11 * of the small retail establishments and various kinds of shops are in the han W of the Chinese. The latter also furnish the labor of the country. In 1801 there were only 280, ""0 per sons in the limits of the United States who spoke German as a mother tongueNow over 7,000,000 of our people, G* mans or descendants of German-, re and speak that language. There has been lately found ° n J** isthmus of Tehuantepec a flower y roughly does the work of a dock- lu ~ morning it is white, at neon it >' and at night blue, the changes ot co ‘ being remarkably regular. The bushmen, or low grade tots, on the plains of South Africaa language which has been pr° T,G ■ Garnier to be a close approxin>a“ ■ that of the higher apes. It consis» hissing, clicking and grunting eo° SUBTERANEAN DISTURBANCENeighborhood Excited Over R’” Nolees and Fissures In the Gr<»— 1 Bainbridge, 0.. July - terranean disturbance not un ‘ lKe r . cipient volcano disturbed a U ” IU ' hood a few miles from hereD;”*- . . junction of Ross. Pike and nder . counties. It was attended by • o f ground rumbling, the w hic!> deep fissures in the ground tr L smoke or vapor issued. Dan -; have attempted to fathom som > . fissures, but could find no bote.-. ■ are not accompanied by m-a- j t 0 i alarmed neighborhood are at s account for it. The disturbance see entire.lv local