Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1900 — Page 2

Sweeping them ’out... ♦ < / x* , .■ A Jj/fe/A MxpW 1 Our surplus stock of tan and summer shoes must go.. We are driving them out with our low prices for high quality... We have your summer needs for foot felicity, and the feet are coming to our door to get of shoes a goodly store... Do not forget to remember that we sell for your satisfaction... We offer all our tan shoes made by Hathaway. Soule a Harrington at 20 per cent discount... Digit miss getting a pair of them. John Mougev Millions will lie spent in politics this year. We can’t keep the campaign going without money any more than ae can keep the body vigorous without food. Dyspeptics used to starve themselves. Now Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and allows you to eat all the good food vou want. It radically cures stomach troubles. Smith. Yager & Falk, ts Children can easily make plenty of money for Christmas in the fruit districts by saving and drying all apples that go to waste. Last season, dried apples sold readily at five cents a pound, and even at these prices buyers of dried fruit in Louisville were compelled to go to other states for their dried apple*. Notice to Wheelmen. We. the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 25 cent bottle of Henry A Johnson’s Arnica and Oil Liniment, if it fails to cure bumps, bruises, scratches, chafes, cuts strains, blisters, sore musles. sunburn chappesl hands or face, pimples, freckles, or anv other ailments requiring an external application. Lady riders are especially pleased with Arnica and Oil Liniment, it is so dean and nice to use. Twenty-five cents a bottle; one three times as large for 50eents. Page Blackburn. ts

Quitting Business CLOSING OUT SALE! 55.222 Worth of high g r ade shoes and rubbers thrown on the market... This is positively a quit business closing out sale. I have been here long enough that you know that I mean just what I say. Also you know I have sold the best shoes for the money ever sold in this city... And now this large stock thrown 25 Per Cent Less Than they have ever been sold for before is a great opportunity for you to get high grade shoes at just what they cost me... If you have shoes now, lay in your fall supply... This is hard on the shoe merchants but a great benefit to the community,.. The first that comes gets best choice. * J. D. HOLMAN, The Shoe Man.

Read Gus Rosenthal’s new ad. Wil! Rioter was an excursionist to Rome City last Friday. The trainmen on the G. R. & I. are wearing new uniforms. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wertzberger returned to Ellwood last week. 1 ■ ' J] iker iitt—jded t > If;- -.- ■— at VanWert wholesale houses last Friday. For Sale Two choice building lots on Fourth street. Enquire of H B. Heller. 20-t4 Pat Touhey, of Van Buren, was in the city over Sunday, the guest of his brother Ed. on Hand. A good, even lot of foundation and bridge stone, fine crushed stone and stone screenings. J. S. Bowers. 21m2 Bosse's opera house will open August 20. Graham Eaile fur a week’s stand being the attraction. "Mv baby was terribly sick with the diarrhoea." says J. 11. Duak. of Williams. Oregon. “We were unable with the doctor's assistance, and as a last resort we tried Chamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and Diahrroea Remedy. lam happy to say it gave immediate relief andacomplete cure." For sale by Holthouse. Callow Jt Co. a The oldest paper in Indiana is the Sun. published at Vincennes. It was ’ I printed in 1803, twelve years before the state was organized. It has pub- , lishe i thereturnsof every presidential election since the time of Jefferson. Men like Lincoln, who have left their imprint upon the nation’s history, were born, did their life's work and died since the first number of the Sun was issued. Fatality follows failure to use Folev’s Kidnev Cure in time. If taken in the earlier stages of Bright’s disease and diabete< it is a certain cure. You have noticed the high death rate from these diseases, and it is not wise to ignore early symptoms when a sure medicine like Foley's Kidnev Cure can be had. Holthouse, Callow i Co. a The Grand Armvof Indiana will have no official headquarters train to carry it to the natioaal encampment in Chicago. August 25 to September 1. This was announced in general order No. 3, issued from the department headquarters. Members it is announced, may select the route most convenient. He Fooled the Surgeons. All doctors told Reniek Hamilton, of West Jefferson. 0.. after suffering ‘is months from rectal fistula, he would die unless a costly operation was performed: but he cured himself with five boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the surest pile cure on earth, j and the be«t salve in the world. 25 , cents a box. Sold by Page Black- | burn, druggist.

William Badders ot Dunkirk, spent ' several days last week visiting at Monroe with John Badders and other relatives. The Appetite ot a Gout Is envied bv all poor dispeptics whose stomach and liver are out of order. All such should know that Dr. King - New Lite Pills the wonderful stomach I and liver remedy, gives a splendid apI petite, sound digestion and a regular ■ body habit that insures perfect health and great energy. Only 25c at Page Blackburn’s drug store. The largest and most cumbersome . form of money is found in Central Africa, where the natives use a cr<" j shajied ingot of copper ore over ten inches long. It is heavy enough t I be a formidable weapon. 'I am a switchman.’’ writes A. J. , Jennesse, of 92Q1 Butler St., Chicago. ' "and am out in all kinds of Jweather. I took a cold which settled on mv kidi neys and was in very bad shape. 1 I tried several advertised medicine* with no benefit until I was recommendI ed to take Foley's Kidnev Cure. Twothirds of a bottle cured me." Holthouse. Callow A Co. a The extent of the war fever in England may be judged by the offer from a publishing house, of half a million dollars the biggest offer ever made for a book—to Gen. Roberts to write a history of the Transvaal war. Why Do > ou Commit Suicide? The man who lets a cold "run on" until he finds himself in consumption's grasp is guilty of self-murder. There is one sure, infallible cure Cleveland's Lung Healer. Djn't delay. We will give you a free trial bottle. Large liottles 25 cents, and you can get your money back if it doesn't cure you. Holthouse, Callow & Co. In getting revenge from China German soldiers will have to face the half million Mauser Jri ties Germany has sold China since the war with japan. The U. S. has sold China considerable war material during the same period. Church Benefit Sale. The United Brethren church, of Bubo, received 53.20 from last Friday's sale. Recipts until now $36.31 distributed among the churches mentioned to date. Friday, August 3d. goes to the Epworth League, i Decatur M. E. church.) August 10th goes to the First Baptist ehurch. Decatur. Gus Rosenthal, the square man. August Flower. "It is a surprising fact, says Prof. Houton, "that in my travels in all parts of the world, for the last ten years. I have met more people having used Greene’s August Flower than any other remedv, for dyspepsia, deranged liver and stomach, and for constipation. I find for tourists and salesmen, or for persons filling office positions, where headaches and general bad feelings from irregular habits exist, that Greene’s August Flower is a grand remedy. It does not injure the system by frequent use. and is excellent for sour stomach and indigestion." Sample bottles free at Page Blackburn's drug store. Sold by dealers in all civilized countries. According to the statistical year book of German cities it appears that the consumption of horse m**nt is on the increase, and in Breslau. Chemnitz. Dresden. Leipsic. Ywickau and other places dogs are slaughtered for food. A Lite and Death Fight. Mr. W. A. Hines of Manchester. lawriting of his almost miraculous escape from death, savs: "Exposure after measles induced serious lung trouble, which ended in consumption. I had frequent hemorrhages and coughed night and dav. All my doctors said I must soon die. Then I began to use Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, which completely cured me. I would not be without it even if it cost $5.00 a bottle. Hundreds have used it on my recommendation and all say it never fails to cure throat, chest and lung truubles.” Reg ular size 50 and SI.OO. Trial buttles free at Page Blackburn’s drug store. The reported outrages upon Chinese in this country as a mark ot retaliation are neither a credit to the persons engaged in them nor the American nation. The Chinese in America should be as safe as though they were at home and and efforts of mistaken people to punish them should lie repulsed with force, if necessary. America cannot afford to have such stories told about her. McClure's Magazine for August. The mid-summer fiction number of McClure’s Magazine, with a cover by Louis Loeb, suggesting by its rich, warm coloring the lassitude of the season, and with a strong list of well known adepts in the art of story telling, produces at once a pleasing im pression. To this number Frank H. Spearman contributes the first ot a new series of railway stories, telling of the exciting race of a train of Yellowstone Park excursionists with a rut away freight. Jack London, the young Californian, has in this issue a tale of the perilous journey of a Klondyke miner and his Indian wife to obtain relief for a starving camp. This story is imaginative in the high est degree, and presses striking local color and extraordinary pathetic force Another strong story is "A Bill From Tiffany’s” by Josiah Flynt. the well known explorer of tramp and criminal life, anti Francis Walton. The life of metropolitan polio, men and of profee■ sional thieves is graphically portrayer!; and there is a keen relish in the account of the means by which Detective Charley Minick secured funds for the purchase of his wife’s jewels. The relation of “guns' (members of the thieving guild) with one another is treated in a highly illuminative manner.

MORE ENCOURAGING THE CHINESE SITE AVION WHILE STILL BARK LIGHIENING A UTILE BIT. THE LONG TRAGEDY OFTHE ORIENT Further Advices From the Land of the • Yellow Peril ' Shows a Growrg Moiremeet Against Everything Foreign and ! Conditions Are Accepted As Hopeless. Brussels. July 31.-Threugh th? in | termt-diary of rhe sovi-riM' of Siian--1 tung a telegram from t e Kus-:nu adI mind. Alexieff. has reached the minis- . ters in rekin. Chine*-- source* »ay that ’ the Europeans were holding out on July - 24 in the Catholic i-ailiedra!. Washington. July 31.—The effect of j yesterday's news from China "as -to freshen the hope that the government can soon get in direct communication with Minister Conger. The mass of testimony as to hts being alive as late as the 22nd lust., is now so great as to warrant the department in resuming the consideration of projects for the future. With all of its anxiety to get Mr. Conger and the Americans in Pekin safely away the department is proceeding with proper caution and it is by n> means disposed to accept any proposition that would unduly jeopardise their lives. Such might be the result of an off-hand acceptance of the proposition to have the Chinese government deliver the foreign minis ters at Tientsin fur it is realized that the escort might be overpowered by superior forces of Boxers on the way to the sea. The state department has come to the conclusion that Mr. Conger himself i« the best person to judge ot the conditions under which his deliverance shall lie affected and therefor it Is again looking to the < hinese government to place it in communica tion with Mr. Conger in order that it may be advised by him. That requirement was the tirst of the conditions laid down by President McKinley in his answer to the appeal of the Chinese emperor so that the situation diplomatically can not be said to have been materially changed oy later developments. The state department is inclined to regard Consul Fowler's communication a* the most valuable piece of confirmatory evidence yet received touching the safety of the Pekin diplomats. It is known here that Germany is one of the governments which is putting forth every effort to get Into direct communication with the beleagured ministers, and. like the United States has had recourse to toe "underground" route. An object of special solicitude is to discover whether Baroness von Ketteler has escaped or whether she shared the fate of her husband. I’p to the present nothing has been received to throw any light on the subject

LONDON IS CONVINCED Sir Claude MacDonald's Dispatch Dispells Dark Doubts. Louden. July 31.—Sir Claude MacDonald's welcome dispatch dated Pekin. July 21. and received in cipher, is accepted on ail sides as dispelling any doubts that might still have existed regarding the genuineness of the dispatch. Owing to an error in trans mission the message fails to show the number of wounded David Oliphant and Barren were two student interpreters. The message fails to mention the other legations and other matters of pressing importance but it should be borne in mind that the British minister may not be aware that all hia previous dispatches have been suppressed. He may be under the impression that the government is fully posted regarding all recent occurrences. Apart from this dispatch there is practically no fresh news although! a spe< ial from Tientsin asserts that the British and American forces are getting ready to advance within 48 hours. Li Hung Chang remains at Shanghai. He says that the great heat prevents him fr<>m continuing the journey te Pekin. I Word From MacDonald. Loudon. July 31.—The admiralty has made public the following dispatch from Rear Admiral ~ruee at Tientsin: Following mesMfe from Pekin: British leg .tlou, lekln-June 2v to July 16 repeateillj atta< k«l by Chinese trix.p, on all •ides. Both rifle and artillery lire «lnee July 16 an artu slive, but a cordon la strictly drasn on both aide* of the |-o»iilon. Chinese barricadis close to ours. All women and <uildren In the British legation Casualties to date 62 killed. Im-ludluui Captain Strouts. A number of wounded In uospitai, including Captain Halliday, Rest of legation all well except David y||. pUaut and Warren, kllku July 21. MdcDU.XALD. BOERSSURRENDER Gen. Prlnsloo Krlenquiahos lib Arma _ to the British. “Loudon."July 31.-A dispatch from Lord Roberts confirms the Cape Town dispatch detailing the surrender of <ien. Prinsloo with his force of S.Oou Boers. Bloemfontein. July 31.-Oen. Hunter having received a written uncondition' to surrender of all the Boers lu Caledon V alley, attended to accept the surrender. Gen. Prinsloo. lately elected to the chief command, arrived and tried to repudiate the unconditional surreu der. Gen. Hunter, however, refuand any couceaaionp, except to allow the Boera to keep one riding uorae. About 11 o'eked the troops were drawn up in two long lines on the hills and over the valley, and the Boers rode In between, throwing down their rides together with a motley collection of clothing, blankets and gear, euch ns was found in Gen. Cronje'e laager.

C*PIT*L 510D.000.00. SURPLUS Sq nno TftE DEG/VTtm N/YTION/YL* b/vnk. -oriianited JaqUarv I, 1693.1 DIRECTORS. P. \V. Smith. President. px rr i W. A. Ki ebler. Vice-President. ULv/T I ( Ti C. A. Dcgan, Cashier. ' E. X. Ehixgeb, Assistant Cashier. J. B. Mason-. J. 11. IIuBKcKK.

The W. C. T. U. meets Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Gilson. Frank Gast wheeled to Fort Wayne Sunday and reports an enjoyable time. We are in receipt of the catalogue of Indiana University for the year just closed. For the third time in the history of the institution the attend ance has exceeded one thousand. Every county in Indiana was repreThose in attendance from this county were Mary Olive Dailv, of this city, and Edward Samuel Christ ?n, of Monmouth. Glorious News Comes from Dr. D. B. Cargile. of Washita. I. T. He writes: “Four bottles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula, which had caused her great sufferings fdr years. Terrible sores would break out on head and face, and the best doctors could give no help; but her cure is complete and her health is excellent,” This shows what thousands have proved—that Electric Bitters is the best blood purifier known. It’s the supreme remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running sores. It’stimulates liver, kidnev ana bowels, ex pells poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength. Only 50 cents. Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist. Guaranteed.

Legal Advertising. T/XPENDITIRE* ANDTAX LEVIES IL EUK THE YEAR 1901 The trustee of Blue Creek township. Adams county, proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax lexis by the advisory board at its annual meeting, to be held at the school bouse of schis.l district No. 3. the following estimates and amounts for said year. 1. Township expenditures, (495.00, and township tax, 12 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition expenditures. (413.0?, and tax 10 cents on the hundred dollars i Special *chool tax expenditures, $413.00, and tax It cents on the hundred dollars. I Road tax expenditure*. *ll3 00 and tax, 10 cents on the hundred dollars 5 Additional road tax expenditures. (413.00. and tax 10 cents on the hundred dollars. «• Poor expenditure* for preceding year. (*•: 00. and tax. 2 eent on the hundred dollars Total expenditures. *8.220.00, and total tax. •54 cents on the hundred dollars. signed Jacob Wbcbteb. Trustee. Dated August 2 1900. Expenditures and tax levies EUK THE YEAR? 19U0AND 1901 The trustee of French township. Adams county, proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the advisory board at its annual meeting, to be held at the school house of school district No. 3. the following estimates ana amounts for said years: 1. Township expenditures, (750.00. and township tax. 17 cents on the hundred deLars. 2, Local tuition expenditures, 1250.00, and tax, 54 cents on the hundred dollars. 3 Special school tax expenditures. (flu.oo, and tax. 13 cents on the hundred dollars . 4 Koad tax expenditures. (235 00. and tax, Scents on the hundred dollars. 5. Additional road tax expenditures, *J60.00, and tax 54 cents on the hundred dollars. <l. Poor expenditures for preceding year, 175,00, and tax. 2cents on the hundred dollars Total expenditures. *2.171100, and total tax. 43 cents on the hundred dollars Signed J. P Stbimb. Trustee. Dated July so, too 1. •pXPENDITrRES ANDTAX LEVIES la FItdTHE YEAK IKH. The trustee of Root township. Adams county proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the advisory board at its annual meeting, to I* held at the trustee s office, the following estimates and amounts for said year. 1. Township expenditures. (1 664.07, and township tax. H, cents en the hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition expenditures. 1W6.50, and tax a cents on the hundred dollars 3. Spec's! school tax expenditures *745 63. and tax, 10cents on the hundred dollars. 4. R -ad tax expenditures. (SJH6.9O, and tax 30 cents on the hundred dollars. 6. Additional road tax expenditures, (1T2.11 and tax 5 cents on the hundred dollars. —? expenditures lor preceding year. 1.4.36. and tax. 1 cent on the hundred dollars Total expenditures. (5.HW.46, and total tax '.V cents on the hundred dollars Signed L. W Lbwton. Trustee. Dated July 31, 1IO). EXPENDITCDF.S ANDTAX LEVIES FOR THE YEARS 1900 AND Elul. The trustee of Hartford township. Adams *<>£ the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the advisory lioard at Its annual meeting, to tie held at the school bouse of schixil districtlKc. 5. the following estimates and amounts for said year: ■“•io. ahi'. Xo w “» , >IP expenditures. (717.3J.5nd town ship tai, 10 cents on the hundred dollars. ..is™”'? 1 tul, ’°“ expenditures. (Bsfj, and tax 6 centa on tbv hundred dollars. •fs , B P®7'* l 'eh , «l tax expenditures. *2,*»,56, and tax to cents on the hundred dollars 4 Road tax expenditures (NWAfI. and tax 12 cent« on the hundred dollars. ’ , A<w *» l ’>ti*i road tax exnendlturee. *717 JB, and tax, 10 cents on tbv hundred dol are zSasssusa ■“ Signed Wu Hall, Trustee. Dated July 31. iw». J*' 4 **'** ‘>2 St. Mary's township. Adams 2, 2' ’’f* b)r thc advisory board at Its annual meeting, to be held at tbe school bouse

,of schooldMtilet No. 4. thee. „■„ and amounts torsai-i year ' ag est ‘n:itet 1 , ' Township expenditures !•»»,, township wx. 30 cents on 2 Local tuition exwu,j,, tax. 18 cents on the hundred ,1„ ars li4 l>l 3 Special school tax », an.l tax. 6 cents on the hundred',|oiun m ’L I S K “ a l l taA expenditures to and tax. 30 cents on the hundred | 5 Additional roa-1 >ax ext" ih, and tax. 10 cents on the hatred «. Poor expenditures for t>ree«,u„ ’ rsa.oo. and Arentsonth-'hun-lidVlm Total expenditures. 14.427 > , money.de cents on the hundred -I ,u - Signed W. W.s MIIB T Dated July 31, r.su L'’XPHN’DlTt’|{F'- ANDTW pvtp lb FOB THE YBAtt 1901 LEUE , The trustee of Wabash t->w n ,h| D county, propose- for the tear t exwnd^ 1 ® and tax levtes by the a ,| "j ' r annual meetimr u> beheld atthesrt of school district No - the "a-.l 0 ?""* m.tes and amounts tor said year “ 1. Townshipexpenditures GN--in anrte,., ship tax.JO cents on the bun !re! .1.. to ”’ S • Bpe Sl* l * cho °l tsx expend trues Pints and tax, -1, cents on the hundred a-diars 3. Road tax exnendlturn jei »ndta, 5 cents on the hundred doliare ' a roal ' ai expenditures IM and tax, 10 cents on the hundred loilars 5. Poor expenditures f-r nrecedina tao.OO, and ux, 3 cents on the Lndreddoffi Total expenditures, 85..n>00. an-1 tutx 63 cents on the hundred d--Hurs U “*■ Signed John Baowx.Trujtse Dated August I.IDOO. EXPENDITt’RES AND T IX LEVim FOR THE YEAR IWI * The trustee of Jefferson township. A ,j lm county proposes for the yearly etpendituns and tax levies by the adv.-ory Nurd at tS annual meeting, io be he-I at the s-.-ta house of school district N • the 1 i.uvm estimates and amounts for said year 1. Township exp.-nditures. (0, and township tax 15 cents on the hundred douars. 2 Special s- hool tax ,-xpe inures. and tax. 20 cents on the.hundred dollars. 3. Read tax expenditure*. IdydtO. and tu 1 1 cents on the hundred dollar, 4 Additional road tax expend;lures. WX aad tax M cents on the hundred d ■; art. 5. Library- expenditures t 'i. and tai .* cents on the hundred dollar* «- Poor expenditures for preceding year. 1P.5,. and tax ;> cents on the hundred doJan. Total expenditure! Il .'.i'i- > and total tax, 60 cents on the hundred dollars < Signed W. V Bcckma-ter Trustee. Dated July 3L lIMO. ■E'XPENEITI KBS AND TAX LEVIES L FOR THE YEAR I- I The trustee of Vmon township Alans county, proposes for the year.y eipenditm and tax levies by the advisory board at ih annual meeting, to tie held at the s.-t-00l bouts of school district No the .w.n< estimates and amounts for said year 1 Township expenditures is- ■ andtonship tax. 10 cents on the hundre-1 d--ilart 2. Local tuition expenditure* ani tax. 5 cents on the hundred a . ar* 3. Special school tax expen.ii- ures I «» and tax. 15 cents on the buu-lred dollars. 4. Roaii tax expenditure*. 51 < - . and tax 10 cents on the hundred dollars 5. Bridge tax expenditures t." >’ andtu. 5 cents on the hundred -dollars. 6. Poor expenditures for pr-redina year. ♦to 00, and tax. I cent on the buudre-1 doiian. Total expenditures. 41.44 >-re. anl totaltal 46 cents oa the hundred dollars Signed J D. Niplisgir. Trust* Dated July 30. 19)0. X'OTICB OF LETTING or BRIDGES. . STEEL CFLVEKT* *f.>N I. Alb H STONE aBI TMENTS CONTRACT*. Notice Is hereby given that the beard ot cwunty commissioner* - f Adam- -o-inty. i» diana. have adopted an-1 dep- - 'e-1 in tb- *U' dttor s office of said county a ‘ irvet ;.-v» and general plans tor the ■ struct:'b “J erection ot twenty steel or culverts, fifteen atone abutments »u J stone arch, for the use of sa.d county** follows: Three bridges lux 16 feet. Two bridges 12x16 feet Two bridges 14x16 feet Two bridges ISalii feet Two brigges 20x18 feet. One bridge 24x16 fee: One bridge 25x16 feet. One bridge 'NxU feet One bridge 30x16 feet One bridge 32x16 feet. One bridge Xsxl6 feet tine bridge 36x16 feet. One bridge SMH feet ( Two steel culverts do inches la di uueur u 21 feet long. . One steel culvert « inches in diameter*" 24 feet long. , One steel culvert 48 Inches in diameter 24 feet long. Two steel culverts 42 Inches in -1 au e,er 21 feet long. .u one steel culvert 42 inche, in diamrift 24 teet long. , A more particular udard bridges, culverts, stone sbuimei.'* an J1( may beobraluod from the plans ny in aai<l auditor's otttce. Therefore on Tuesday. August 28.1900at t»e room-if the county f” mn ' l “(r%i , |'H the auditor's office of I ™ u r ntr J„r»t« O'chx-k a. m . sharp, of sal l 6ur. for sealed blds will be received by ' lwr ta the construction of raid bridges, abutments and arch. Each bid must be »cc>“l’* n ' a 'L ’,,7 by* proper affidavit as r f |U L''lL -in'e *o t be state good and sufficient bond ff***’ ’ w bioh of Indiana, tn am, i>' '"l'‘ B " . >*“' bond shall tie sign<*Tby at, le * 4 ' freeholders of the state "f l '. l ' “". sponelblllty shall be certim-d t« »J b 7ipt’ n "AI law. or by a surety rempauy to tn» re of said board. The Mid boa’nl of <n-.ini.' , bid* serve the right to reject any »n Ramiko Doa«. p . county Josshh E Maks. > Column* 1 ' 41 "’' Fun HarrlßT. J Attest—Noah UengoU- Auditor.