Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1894 — Page 4

<ffrS33 PUBLISHED WEEKLY. DEMOCRATIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, EDITOR. *1.50 I ER YEAR IN ADVANCE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22. The Sentinel and Democratic Press one year for a dollar and fifty cents. This offer only lasts until January. Internal Revenue Collector Bracken of the sixth district, will move his office from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis, within a month or two. Governor M vtthews has decided the Randolph judgeship in favor of the republican nominee, the Hon. Albert O. Marsh, who is already bedecked in the judicial robe, discharging the duties incumbent upon that office. It is true that many new faces will constitute the working power of the fifty-fourth congress. Whether or not there will be any new measures adopted by this congress is entirely another parrot with its tail cut off. The recent political land-slide will soon be only a matter of history, and we’ll be mighty glad of it. While it won’t be a very interteresting mark for us to refer to, yet we have heard enough of it on the wing to last us a life time. We’ve got 'nough. Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, who was to meet Corbett for a handsome purse and the championship of the world, is in trouble. While spar ring with Con Riordan the latter re ceived a blow from which he died five hours afterwards. Fitz is lieing held under a heavy bond to answer to the charge of manslaughter- j It is autburatively stated that | the Indiana saloon keeper’s organi zation have begun a vigorous campaign throughout the state, for an amendment to the liquor law which will enable them to keep their places of business open until midnight instead of eleven o’clock. Won’t i be funny to see the g. o. p., that grand old temperance party dancing around to the music of the saloon organization. Thejwill simply have to take off their bine ribbon and help the boys out. What’s the use to talk about it now, but the Ft. Wayne Journal gives this analysis of the vote last election day, which affirms that not even a quorum of the democratic I voters of the country went to the polls on the 6th instant. It also ; discloses that the democratic loss < throughout the country ranged astonishingly even. It is about 76,-■ 000 votes in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut, out of j 301,000 cast in the presidential election of 1892—a trifle over a quarter. It is about 319,000 votes out of 1,284,000 in New York, ; New Jersey and Pennsylvania—a trifle less than a quarter. It is about .°64,000 votes out of a total in 1892 of 1,472,000 in the five central western states —Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois—a sha e less than a quarter. It is apparently about 201,000 votes out of a total in 1892 of 823,000 in northern states beyond the Missis sippi, not of the Pacific slope—again nearly a quarter. And in Texas the democratic loss appears to have been 66,000, out of 239,148 votes in 1892—a little more than a quarter. The result of the special election of a judge of the insolvent i court in Hamilton county, Ohio, (Cincinnati > which occurred on the 13th, just one week after the republicans had carried the county by 22 000, also illustrates what the democrats can do when they go to the polls instead of going fishing on election day. They carried the I special election by 3,300 majority effecting a change of 25,000 votes in favor of democracy in one short week. The New York World, commenting on this swift reversal of the verdict of Hamilton county as j given on the 6th says : “This is modern politics, and politicians of the old school of partisan prejudice will do well to realize its meaning. The Cincinnati figures area striking commentary,on what the World has said in explaining the election of November 6th. The people have made up their minds to run the country, and they swing their bal-ance-of-power vote backward and forward between the parties with crushing force. The knowledge of this is one of the things republican politicians will have clubbed into them if they insist on believing that democratic defeat was their victory rather than the declaration of independence of a self-governing people.”

The “Objector” Explains. “There were just three causes of the late revolution,” said Congressman Holman to a correspondent who visited him at his home in Aurora, Ind. “They were Cleveland's foreign policy, hard times and the unpardonable delay of eon- . gross in passing a tariff bill.” “What wid the democrats in the next session of congress do with the tariff!” “They will let the tariff alone, i except in one particular. The house s certainly should and will make a strong effort to abolish the miserable sugar schedule.” “What do you say of tarifflegislation in the future?” “There will be very little, ’’Judge Holman declared. “The present tariff act, in its essential particulars, will doubtless be left undisturbed for many years. The republicans are getting further away every day from extreme protection. Free silver will be the chief issue in 1896. The democratic party dare not do otherwise than declare for the unlimited coinage of the people’s money at the present ratio. With that issue only we can win. We need more money in the United States. The amount that is col- ! lected for the support of the government is taken from the pockets of all the people and put into the hands of a few thousands. I have come to believe that a service pen--5 sion offers at least a temporary solution of this difficulty. Certainly every impulse of patriotism urges us to grant a liberal sum—at least $8 to sl3 a month—to every soldier ami sailor who served the union in the present .war.” •‘How wool I you raise the enormous sum that would be necessary to support such a pension roll?” “By the extension of the income tax,” replied Judge Holman. “The advantages of a service pension would be inestimable in diffusing the money circulation of the country, a d as an immediate expediency it is the most rational of any I have e\er examined.”

As to the new issue of bonds, he said: “The secretary of the treas- ; ury had no authority whatever to ! sell bonds under the sp cie payment act of 1875. Congress would never have given the administration that power, and that is the reason Cleveland and Carlisle do not wait until congress meets. The frantic effort to keep up some traditional ‘reserve’ Is the vainest of follies. We are only wasting our substance by thus increasing the public debt in times of peace. “We ought to stop at once all expenditures in excess of the actual needs of the government, and get down to a sensible basis of prudence and economy. This country has no use whatever for the great navy we are constructing. The next icompaign will be aeontest between two western men for the presij deucy.” “Where will the democrats get their candidate?” “In Illinois.” Legislative Pointers. Senator Haggard, newly elected member of the upper house of the Indiana legislature from Lafayette was in the city yesterday attending the state soldiers’home committee of the G. A. R.. which was held yesterday afternoon. Senator Haggard will have charge of a bill which willbe introduced in the coming legislature for an appropriation for a soldiers home, and be expects to secure Its passage, though considerable opposition is expected from some of the rural memliers, who can be counted on to oppose all appropriations that will tend to increas expenditures and therefore taxes. But to offset this there are on the committee three members-elect, and with the aid and influence of these it is expedted to get the project through. The home will cost SIOO,OOO. and an appropriation of $150,000 ■ will be asked for. This is the amount asked I from the last legislature. The home is to be I erected upon the site of 258 acres near the old | Tippencanoe battle ground, which was donaj ted to the state for the purpose several years . ago. Senator Haggard, as a member of the lower house during the last legislature, had charge of the bill and says that with the republicans in power he is confident of securing the necessary appropriation this Winter. The committee representing the project for ' ■ the Indiana department of the G. A. R. is ; composed of one member from each congressional district. This committee will person- ; ally call upon the members-elect between now and the time the legislature is to convene and make au effort to secure the aid of ' as many as possible by pledges in supjiort of : the bill. A sub-commitfee will be present j during the legislature to do the necessary • lobbying. , i fu be or not to oe,” that is the question . which is now bothering the republican powI ers which will wield the next legislature. It ! . |S no secret that the legislature will be noth- , ! ing but a cat’s paw. to do the bidding of th e r ringsters of the republican party, who have I mapped out their ultimate deeires and will ' take active steps at once to lay the founda- ' tfon for the ultimate accomplishment of j i those ends. * But it Is no less an open secret that there is | not harmony in the secret conclaves of the j newly triumphant party leaders. Mr. KetchL ■ am has been elected attorney-general and I ! proposes to have something to say in the arf | rangementof things. On the other hand there are the candidates for the governorship and the aspirants for the position of Senator Voorhees. With a taste of victory these persons are clamoring for everything and want r to lay the lines for assured success indefinitely in the future. This has brought into prominence the ad- ? visibility of making a reapportionment of the j state,both as to congressional and legislative

■ districts, and here is where the division in the ranks of the leaders stands out in bold ! relief. There are those, and they are many, who will hear of nothing but an immediate gerrymander, which shall be arranged in such I away as to leave the democrats so bunched ■ together that It will be next to a physical imposibility for them to gain future control of i the state legislature or a majority of theconi gressional delegation unless they have 50.000 ; majority. They argue that they have won. • ' they have the power to do it. and therefore ; the only thing left to do is to do it and do it = at once. The rights of the people are not to tie considered for a moment. What they demand is an uncompromising gerrymander; Needless to say these are the senatorial candidates and their friends. But there is a conservative element which i will oppose this end. So determined are both . sides that a pretty fight is to be expected. Everything is beingdone and every argument brought to bear to induce this conservative clement to agree to a strict gerrymander:but so fa rit has been unavailing. Offers of a I goodly share of the patronage are being held I out as an inducement ; political pride is being ' | hurled at them, and the dangers of defeat ' i two years hence held before their eyes. And I | still they refuse to be convinced. They real- j I ize that the people of Indiana know what is ! right and what is wrong and they will resent | such an outrage as the radical office hunters * advise. They fear the resentment of the peo- : pie which will follow asa natural consequence i ■ and decline to be a party to any scheme of j • the kind Which will prevail remains to be ' • seen. ■ The oldest member of the coming legislai t ure will be Andrew Humphreys, joint sena- | i tor from Green and Sullivan counties. He is j 1 seventy-four years old.and this is his first ex- I i perience as a law-maker.—Sentinel. Real Estate Transfers. Malinda Zimmerman et al. quick claim deed to Samuel Doak, 2 acres. Decatur. S3OO. ■ John Hilty to John O’Kunkle, inlot 315 < Berne. $l2O. John Hilty to Noah Bergman, inlot 316. Berne. $320. John Hilty to Isaac Sprunger and Simon Gil Horn, inlot 317, Berne. $l4O. Alonzo bowers to Smith Shoemaker, lot 6in < Powers’ Cemetery. S3O. Hezekiah Sdl to Elizabeth Sell, 1 acre. ! Washington township. S9O. • John Hilty to Noah Bergman, lot 198. } Berne. $250. | Thomas Callihan to Joseph Bolenbaucher, 1 part in lot 103. Geneva, SI,OOO. 1 Emory Shepherd et al. to Eliza SchelL inlot 207. Geneva. S6OO. Frank Rush to Green Street, lot 8, Geneva. S3OO. Isaac Lehman to Gottfried Burry, inlot 286, Berne. $725. S Geo. B. <’line to John W. Tyndall, inlot 148 and south half 149, Decatur, $2,000. Augustus Schlegel et al. quick claim deed to John and William Schlegel. 32 rods, Washington township. $5. James T. Merryman, Commissioner, to ‘ George L. Bobella, 263( acres. Blue Creek township. $750. Decatur Cemetery Association to Charles T. True, lot 112. Decatur Cemetery. $25. Mary Steiner to Christian Beer, lots 264 and 265. Berne. $l4O. Scott Hughes went to Marion ? yesterday. Sardines scents per box at Donovan & Bremercamp’s. t i Pete Mougey was sweet 28 last ' Tuesday. His many friends here- 1 abouts were happily apprised of i the fact by having to “take some- [ thing” in the way of a choice cigar; s the Press being one of the afore- i said. It is time our merchants were ! beginning to plant their big holiday ; advertisements in the Democratic > Press. It'is the only way to in- > sure their speedy sale, and to do ' business rightly a decent sprinkle ; 1 of advertising is a necessity. Bring i them along. W. 11. Nachtrieb, the druggist, is having his room where Coffee Bros, formerly done business, re- - modelled; a new plate glass front being among the improvements. It! will be a handsome room when com-; pleted, and will be occupied by his stock of drugs. < John Hesler and wife were at Fort Wayne, last Monday, on j business, wherein the right of way i was granted to the Findlay, Fort V Wayne & Western railroad by’ the heirs of certain real estate along that line of road, Mrs. Hesler being | one of the heirs. ’ The following is a list of letters !, remaining in the Decatur postoffice i uncalled for: Mrs. Jos. Kaopp, ’ Miss Frances Smith, care of Jno. Kurt, Chas. Thompson, F. 11. Bissell, Marion Adams, Nolie Carroll. Parties calling for above letters will:. please sav “advertised.” John Welfley, P. M. The second Jesse James gang of : 1 near Willshire broke out last week. ' Two boys by name of Smith held up a fellow over there and made him give up 830 in clear catskins. The boys were afterwards caught; and now spend their time in the Celina, Ohio, jail They were about I, nineteen years old. Hensley will sell during now and the holidays goods at the following prices: Nickel watches, sold at I $2.00, reduced to 81.50; Nickel watches, key wind. $5, reduced to $4.50; Silverine, Elgin movement, stem wind, 89.50, reduced to 87.50; Gold filled Elgin movement, stem wind, sl4, reduced to $10; Gold filled Elgin movement, stein wind, $22, reduced to $18; Gold filled Elgin movement, stem wind, $25, reduced to S2O; Gold filled Elgin movement, stem wind, S3O, reduced to $25. And many other things that cannot be mentioned here. Call and see what great bargains you van get. ts.

NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county. Indiana, will receive sealed bids at their December Term. 1894. until 2 o'clock p. m.. on Sat unlay tlie Mb day of December. 1-IM. for appointing a superintendent of the County Asylum for j the ensuing year The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. W. 11. 11. ERANCE. Auditor. NOTICE. Notice is hereby irlvvn that the Board of Commissioners will receive sealed bids at their December Term, isy4. until 2 o'clock p. m. on Saturday the sth day of December. 1594. for the furnishing of stationery for Adams county, for the ensuing year. The Board re- ‘ serves the right to "eject any or all bids. W. H. 11. FRANCE. Auditor. Notice to Teachers. For the months of November and December. 1894. and January, February March ami April. 1895. Applicants foJ teacher’s license will be required to answer a list of questions I wised upon the essays of John Ruskin. Gunn & Co.’s edition. This is one of the Indiana Teachers Reading Circle book* for 1894-5. Respectfully. J. F. Snow. Co. Supt Notice to Contractors. — I The following resolution was adopted by i the Council of the City of Decatur viz: ] Resolved. That notice for two weeks be ; published in two of the weekly papers of the city that bids will tie received on Tuesday : evening, November 13. 1894. until 7:30 o’clock p. m. for the furnishing of 130 maple trees for i the City Park, and planting the same under the direction of the Commit tee on Public Im- . ’ provements. Ail trees shall be thrifty ami ' without blemish and shall not exceed three j I inches in diameter. All contractors will take notice of above. Albert Brittson. City Clerk. [ Application for Liquor License. To the citizens of the city of Decatur. ; I Adams County. Indiana. i Notice is hereby given that the undersigned. Peter Wilhelm, a male inhabitant of the state of Indiana, over twenty-one years of age. wil I j make application to the Board of Com mis- I sinners of Adams county. State of Indiana, at their next regular session in December. : 1894. for a license to sell spirituous, vinous and malt anc other intoxicating liquors in • less quantities than a quart at a time, with ! | the privilege of allowing the same iu Im i drank on the premlsess where sold, at my | place of business on the following described premises, to-wit: Commencing at the north- j west Corner of out lot No. 158. in the town (itow city) of liecaiuf. Adams county. Indiana. thence running east 132 feet, thence south parallel with Seventh street 66 feet, thence west parallel with Monroe street 132 feet, thence north along Seventh street 66 feet to the place of lieginning. PETEK WILHELM. 4-3 t Applicant. Notice to Non-Residents. State of Indiana. Adams County, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court, i January Term. 1895. f 1 Henry T. Diehl William N. Morgan. Morgan, wife of William N. Morgan, whose Christian name is unknown, Eliga Ake. July Ann Ake. All the unknown heirs of N 0.4829, Quiet Title I William N. Morgan. deceased. All the unknown heirs of Morgan. de» ceased. All the unknown heirs of Eliga Ake. deceased. All the unknown heirs of July Ann Ake. deceased. It appearing from affidavit, filed in the I. above entitled cause, that William N. Mor- , . gan. Morgan, wife of William N. Morgan, whose Christ ian name is unknown. Eliga Ake. i July Ann Ake. all the unknown heirs of Wil- i ‘ Hum N. Morgan, deceased, all the unknown ' ■ heirs of Morgan, deceased, all unknown heitsof Eliga Ake. deceased, a 11 the unknown heirs of July Ann Ake. deceased, of the above named defendants are non-residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said William N. Morgan. Morgan, wife of William N. Morgan, whose Christian name is unknown. Eliga Ake. July Ann Ake. all the unknown heirs of William N. Morgan, deceased, all the unknown heirs of Morgan, de- . ceased, all the unknown heirs of Eliga Ake.dt- | ceased.all the unknown heirs of July Ann Ake. . ’ deceased, that they In* and appear liefore the Hon Judge of the Adams Circuit Court, on ( the first day of the next regular term thereof , to be holden at the court house in the city of ‘ Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 21st day of January A. D. 1895, and plead by an- . swer or demur to said complaint, or the same . will be heard and determined in their absence, Witness, my name, and the seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 13th day of Novemlier, A. D. 1894 JOHN H. LENH ART. Clerk. By E. Burt Lenhart, deputy. I. Schurger, Keede& Smith, | . Attorneys for Plaintiff. 4 J. D. Hl■ DEALER IN Grain, Seed, Wool, Salt, Oil, Coal, Lime, Fertilizers Elevators on the Chicago A Erie and Clover Leaf railroads. Gffice and retail store southeast corner of Second and Jefferson Streets, i our putftmage solicited. 1 H. F. COSTELLO, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office on west side of Second Street, over Teveres Hardware Store. Residence on west Third Street, between Monroe and Jack*on. Calls promptly attended to day and night. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Pensionsand Collections a specialty. Office in the John C. Hale Building i GENEVA. - - - - INDIANA I A P. BF.ATTY J. F. MANN MANN A- BEATTY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW I And Notaries Public. Pension claims prose- I . cuted. Odd Fellows building. i 130130 GOFKEE, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Rooms over P. O. :-: Decatur. Ind. Capital $120,000. Established 1871 THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana. Does a general banking business, makes collections in all parts of the country. Buys town, township and county orders. Foreign and domestic exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Officers—W. H. Niblick. President; D. Stude- I baker. Yice President', R. K. Allison, Cashier and C. 8. Niblick. Assistant Cashier.

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