Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1900 — Page 2

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Notice to Old Soldiers. The joint public installation of officers of Sam Henry Post G. A. R. and Woman’s Relief Corps will take place at the G. A. R. Hall. Saturday night, January 6, 1900. All old solddiers are invited to be present. Comrade R. M. Smith, Adj't Gen’l will be present to initiate the officers D. K. Shackley, M. J. Wertzberger, Thao. Kenedy, Committee. Wabash Valley Electric Railroad. Contract to be let for the construction of an electric road running from, Davton,Greenville and Fort Recovery Ohio, and Westchester, New Corydon. Geneva, Linn Grove, Vera Cruz, Bluffton, Huntington, Marion, Muncie, and thence to Dayton, the place of beginning. It is now a foregone conclusion that the road will be surveyed in early spring and work will begin as soon as the weather will permit. This line runs through the richest and best farming country in Indiana. The rich and fertile valley of the Wabash river is noted for its good crops of wheat and corn and other grain, and the road would give an outlet to the celebrated stone quarries of Linn Grove, for which that place is quite noted. ts. Four New Songs for 25 Cents. Four new, popular, copyrighted songs. Great pathetic war love song, Parted In A Dream; beautiful waltz heart song, Darling Lenore; great mother heart song. Mother's Darling Yet; spicy coon song, Pick Up An’ Follow me each aSO cent song. Accounted the four greatest hits in 1899. Praised by musical directors of ten American colleges. Superbly printed on heavy enameled music paper,usual style. Every song lover buys them at sight. Money refunded if not satisfied. Have set aside 5,000 copies of each to advertise. All 4 for 25 cts; 3 for 21 cts; 2 for 17 cts; 1 for 13 cts. Order before gone. Published by Windsor Music Co., Chicago and New York. This offer good only on addressing the author,Halbert L. Hoard Fort Atkinson, Wis. If preferred, order through Citizens' State bank. Fort Atkinson, Wis., or this paper. Cut in style. Cut to wear. Cnt in price are our overcoats. Thckots with each dollar purchase. The'Big Store.

g ■ i | The Boers... H <i||lg . Knocked the ' @ g zf stuffing out of i ‘ the English I 9 °sW z But 1 have ' ® » •*■ knocked < |Oft ! 4 °ut of the F ‘ Price of I ...SHOES... ' A S And right in the face of the fact that shoes have f ggj wonderfully advanced, making it a marvelous victory in the shoe trade. It is not from superior @ force or the lack of strength of my competitors, > 5 but it iS THE WAY THE GOODS WERE j BOUGHT lean sell you shoes cheaper than they can be made. t II Bargain Facts Stronger than Words. | g 46 pairs of Misses high grade kid shoes, lace and button, 13 to 2, worth from $1.25 to TO $2.00, Knocked out-price 58 c c 39 pairs of ladies’ fine coin toe, button, all $ sizes, worth $1.25, Knocked out price 89 c 5 13 pairs of ladies’ heavy weight, all solid, sizes 3 and 4, worth $1.25, Knocked-out-P rice 75c | av 40 pairs of men’s lace shoes, regulars $1.50 > shoes, Knocked out price 9Qc R Ladies’ bloth top $2 shoes sllO I ijgj Ladies’rubbers 35c g to Men’s Alaskas 35c £ R? Men’s felt boots (combination) 60 I N | I can save yon money on anything you buy in the Boot, 5 3 Shoe and Rubber line. Wishing you a merry Christmas and a | 6 3 happy New 1 ear, lam your friend and benefactor, U J- D. HOLMAN, ij/ The man that sells good shoes <~>TT~F? A, , 1 1 West Side Second St. OUR SIGN, - Big Shoe and Big Sale, f

BVIAEK’S Coming Battle Will Be the Most nieinouß of the Canip.tign. London, Jan. 2. —The Standard s correspondent at Frere camp, telegraphing J till. 1, says: ••Sir Charles Warreu’s division is now nearly complete. It’s headquarters will be at Etcourt. It is rumored here that rhe guns which were captured from Gem-rul Buller nt Coleuso have been mounted in the hills commanding the drift over the Tugela river at Springfield. The Boers, it appears, captured (120 rounds of shrapnel when they took the guns. ••General Buller’s difficulties have been immeasurably increased by the enforced delay since the last engagement. He now has before him a series of walled and fortified hills, running 16 miles along the hue of the Tugela. These are swarming with the enemy, posted in positions of great strength and bristling with guns; while the river in front is in full flood. The coming battle will certainly be the stiffest, and probably the most momentous, of the entire campaign.” UGLY HUMORS Os a Dutch Rising to Seize Cape Town and Sir Alfred Milner. Cape Town, Jan. 2.—Ugly rumors are in circulation of a Dutch rising with the object of seizing Cape Town and the docks and capturing the governor of Cape Colony, Sir Alfred Milner. The center of the movement is said to be Paarl, a village about 30 miles from Cape Town, where a meeting of the Afrikander bund has just been held. A similar meeting was held at Richmond on Dec. 28; and it is reported that the members of the bund in these two towns are acting in concert. The members of the bund at Willington and the Dutch in Clan William district are said to be armed with mausers and to be anxious to use them in behalf of the Boers. Although the stories of a rising are discredited, the police and military are taking ample precautions. San Juan de Puerto Rico, Dec. 30.— Governor General Davis and Lieuteu ant Battle, his aide-de-camp, sailed for the United States today on the steamer Ponce, bound for Washington. Orders arrived here on Thursday for the gen eral to report at Washington for consultation with the secretary of war. Chicago, Jan. 2. —Unless plans ran water will be admitted to the big uew sanitary canal sometime today. Through the caual the waters of the great lases will reach the Mississippi river. The new waterway may p issibly m the future be utilized as a ship canal. Boston, Jan. 1. —Hau. Loring 1. Baker, president of the Yarmouth Steamship company, was fouud dead iu his berth on the arrival of the midnight New York train here yesterday.

Notice to Taxes for The Year 5399. I able at the Treasurer’s Office of said county, in the City of Decatur, o 1 before the First Monday in May, 1900, the same being Monday, Hay 7, 1900. Ito aerand Mt (in tbv M half is paid wta> WM— *» •" 4 “ b ’ ,ore "f*' same being I g» Monday, November 5, 1900. || The IM. .able »h»,vs U» ng of iasa.ib, » O«-Dollars wor.h of prop. rtJ , .1-0 on |I. U» saver.! Townshins and Corporations in Adams County, Indiana, for the year 1 . • J snips auu couipu knfnrn sh« Fiast Mn iiiav iuKthen the whole amoun t When so much as one-half of the taxes charged to a taxpayer are not paid on or before the Fiast Monday mg will become due and delinquent and the penalty attached. ■ g? g fg9s?f *?= ° f II? 1$ ir a § ?If 11 I I i Hx2.2- r. - g. 2- f 5? -• -E’ 2NAME OF ~ E ; F : : E 5 « | 2. = : ~ 2. r • corporations : : =s§ i • gg ~ ~ ~ : ®: : B. : : : : : ~ “ • • ■ : •“ s : nq F 5 ■ ; = htj ; • ; ; : : : : A»D 5 : : a ? 2 2 | i 5: : : : : : : : J : <<o—;:. . &• • • ; townships. ; J;:::; ®“ 5 : ■ ■ • • l|- I g. g. I:::::::::,:, = O.JJJ Union 9 ill 5 31 S 5241 5101» 40 »10 5 1 »! W1 ™ JO| 100 Root 911 5 3lj 52', 5102510 2a 10 8 1 106 -0 17600 30 p reb l e 9 11 53 If 52J 5101515 20 10 2 95 64 15950 jO I 100 Kirkland 9115 31§ 52| 18 51010510 15 10 2 96 71 16750 fO | i 100 Washington 9 11 5 3 If 52J 18 7 15 5 10 40 12 10 10 6 5 1 20 100 2 20150 |o 100 st Marys 9115 3lj 52j 1510301215 10 18 4 106 80 1 86|50 |0 I 1002 00 Blue Creek.’. 911 5 3lf 52J i silolllolo 10 10 2 85 65 15050 > 100 Monroe 911 5 3 Ig52J 510812 6 6 1 71 59 130 50 50l 100 French 911 5 3lj 52j 510 10 -30 10, 5 5 1 87 71 15850 50 100 200 Hartford 9115 3lf 52* 5105 40 12' 5 1 89 71 16050 50 & 150 Wabash 911 5 3 l|i 52 : ‘, . 51053010 55 5 86 71 15750 50 100 Jefferson 9115 3id 52A |5102530 10 10 3 98 77 17550 50 100 City of Decatur.... 911 5 3 L-I 52,i. 18 7155 10 35 j3251223i67 167334 50 |o' | 50 150 Town of Geneva... 9 Uli 5 3?15 ' Town of Berne .. 911 5l 3 li|s2» 510 15 ) 25 11 00 119 i 11923850 iO & 100 12 50 — X— ——— —— —j»--ROAD TAX RECEIPTS Should be presented on or before the First Monday in May, as the road tax is all included in the first installment. Road Tax Receipts will not be taken for second installment of taxes. Examine your receipts before leaving the dice and see that all your property is described. Also see that change is correctly made. PARTICULAR ATTENTION. Those who have lands and lots or other property in more than one Township must see that they have a recei 4 for ai. County Orders can not be paid to any person owing delinouent taxes. All persons are warned against pur<hasing-:uch Orders. The Books will positively be closed on the First Monday in May and First Monday in November. Assignees, Guardians, Administrators and others who pay tax on property in trust; and persons whose taxes are implicated, such as undivided estates, are earnestly requested to come before the last few days. The taxes of the Waggoner, Patton, Decatur and Bluffton, East Washington, Decatur and Monroe and WestAVasLigton Gravel Roads are now due and payable at this office and are subject to the same penalties as other taxes if not paid. The Municipal Taxes of the City of Decatur, and Towns of Berne and Geneva are payable at this office. The Annual Sale of Delinquent Lands and Lots will take place on the Second Monday in February, 1900, at 10 oc ck a. m. CORPORATION DOC TAX. There is levied 52.00 on each male dog and $5.00 on each female dog in the City of Decatur, and SI .00 on each n. 1 dog and £2.09 on each female dog in the Town of Geneva, and SI.OO on each male dog and $3.00 on each female dog in the town of Berne. The Treasurer will not be responsible for penalties and charges on delinquent taxes, resulting from any omissions of I he person paying such taxes to the state definitely on what property, in whose name and what Township or Corporation it was assessed. Call for property in name of owner April 1, 1899. Tax Duplicates are made up on that day and never changed. AUDITOR’S SPECIAL NOTICE. Parties having School Fund Loans on which interest is delinquent will please give the payment of said iufcre.- their attention before March 1, 1900, as the law requires the sale of the property mortgaged if the interest is not paid. JONAS neuenschwAi>der, ATTEST: TREASURER 2 DAMS COUNTY. NOAH MANGOLD, COUNTY AUDITOR. DECATUR, NDIANA.

CONTRACT LABORERS Steamship Company Refuses to Obey the Law—Agent Arrested. Galveston, Jan. 2.—The first instance of a refusal on the part of a steamship company to deport immigrants found by the United States immigration bureau to be contract laborers, occurred here yesterday. About two weeks ago Immigration Inspector Levy brought 15 Slavonians here from Mississippi ! charged with having been brought here on a North German Lloyd ship in violation of immigration laws. Yesterday he tendered them to the captain of the steamship Roland of that line and they were refused. Warrants were issued for S. G. Spencer, agent of the company, and for the captain. The ship sailed without service of the writ on the captain, but Mr. Spencer was arrested. Mr. Spencer, when seen, was very reticent, but claimed the men had not been tendered to him, and if they were tendered to the ship without tickets from his office the purser was obliged to decline to receive them. says the men were company on Dea 13 by

I ! the collector of customs, and the comj pany accepted them and assumed re- ' sponsibility for their board. It understood that the immigration bureau has information of some 1,500 alleged contract laborers which it proposes to deport, and chat the steamship companies intend to resist the orders. Under act 1879 the penalty for not returning contract laborers is a fine of not less than in each case, and the clearance of vessels may be withheld pending payment of the fine. CAMPAIGN About to Be Opened In Parliament Atainst Franco-American Treaty. is, Jan. 1, — A stiff campaign against the Franco-American commercial treaty is about to be opened by the Parlimeutary opposition to the goverui mcnt and by the agriculturalists. Despite the favorable report of the customs committee, a hostile current has become manifest among the deputies who represent the agricultural constituencies, as well as those who sit for certain industrial centers, against several clauses of the treaty. A majority of the Agriculture associations have protested against grant-

ing the United States the minimum tariff, while manufactures of farming implements, cycles, machines and wools are deeply disturbed over the advantages accorded to their American oom petitors, by the treaty. GENERAL WILSON Has Been Ordered to Washington From Cuba. Washington, Jan. 2.—lt is probable that the present month will be marked by a complete reorganization of the military commands in Cuba. The impression prevails that there is to be a heavy reduction in these commands, and it is intimated that the outcome I will be the creation of two departments ; instead of six, which originally com- > prised Cuba, and the four into which the island is now divided. General Wilson, who commands the combined departments of Matanzas and Santa Clara, has been ordered to Washington, and it is not the present intention that he shall return to Cuba. It is said that cowbells are produced in only fonr factories in the United States and are made just the same as they were 100 years ago " *

Kebn sa Union Reform Party. Hastin ;, Neb., Dec. 30. —Under the banter o .he Union Reform party ovei 60 delega <s met here yesterday and effected a -tate organization. The] old midcle-o :he-road element is behind the plai and the spirit of that branch of Pipul t was rampant. The convention was priukled with Democrats, but at to ti le during the conference was Bryan’s nine mentioned. I san Makes a Speech. San A tonio, Tex, Dec. 30. —To the largest t dienoo that ever faced a public speaker u a hall in this city Hou. W. I J. Brya: last night made a speech ou I finance, msts and expansion. He san! i that th Democratic platform for the coming impaign would be the Chicago platfori of 1896, with the addition ot such pl ks as recent industrial combinations kid the late war necessitated. SavaiJah, Dec. 30. —Meetings of the PavannA River Rice Growers’ association au<j»f the Truck Growers’ association hap been called to take stepagninst tie admission of Porto Rico and Philipp.te Islands to the United StatesThs asntiations will co-operate with the sugar producing interests of Louisaana.