Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1887 — Page 1

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AW..D M.-COT, Hotvnro „ OßT]l . r - J ' McC " A. M«6OY & BANKERS 5 (Succeatois to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer.lnd. DO a flei eral banking business. Exchange bought and sold Certificates bearing in Larest; Issued Collections made on al. available Office same place as old firm of McCoy & Thompson Aprii4,ißßo ORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law IBKBBELAEB. - INDIANA Prnotiees Un thv Courts of Jasper and adoiMnc counties. Makes collections a specialty.B Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vln BIMON P. THOMPSON. DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Renssedaeb. - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. ARION L. SPITLER, Collector and AbstracterWe pay p xrticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasing lands. v 2 n4B TV H> GRAnAM ’ ’’ ‘ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Reesdelatk, Indiana. Money to loan cn long time at low interest. Sept. 10, bo. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, AXTORNEYSAT-LAW and notary public. Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new ,uilding. Rensselaer.ind. Edwin P. Hammond. William B. Austin. HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselae , Ind Office on second floor of Leopold’s Block, co ner of Was iineton and Vanßensselaer streets. William B. Avstinpurchases, sells and le: ses real estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable instruments. ' •. may27,’B7. yyM. W WATSON, uA. TTO -KJSTHIY- A.T-L.-A- "W Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER IND. W. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC |PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA, Diseases a OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. Ji H. LOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vinl DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, Calls promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS* BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., E. S. Dwiogins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier Does a general banking businessCertificates bearing i terest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms t lowest rates and onmos Jivorable te » Aprils 85

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1887.

LAWBETJGE, OSTROM CO’S Famas iB oo«rhea M IS DEATH TO Consumption, Malaria, MP I-i, V A 1 fc 1 W • iteplessnesj hills ami I’eVi r ■ on.nia, Ty i-Loi 1 Fever, a.i Indige.-.tion, 1 >:ssin,ulatioi. Dyspepsia, of Food. Surgical 10 Years Old Fevers, /Kill l l l Mllllk No Fll3el 0 Blood Ab®- ate The O-reat Appetizer. This will certify that I have examined tne Sample of BELLE OF BOURBON WHISKY received from Laurence , Ostrom & Co., aad found the same to be perfectly free from Fusel Oil and all other deleterious substances, and strictly pure. I cheerfully recommend the same for Family and Medicinal purposes. J. P- Barnum, M. D., Analytical C h emist, Louisville, Ky. For Sale by Druggists. "Wine Merchants, and Grocers Everywhere, Price, $1 25 per Bottle, If not found at the above, half-duz. bottles in plain boxes will be sent to any addres in the United States on receipt of six dollars. Express paid to all points east of Missouri river. Lawrence, Ostrom. & Co., LOUISVILLE, KY. Ik Warns &&eaa> --DEALERS IN— A brim, »l STOVEs ■ of all styles and es, for Wood or C oaf; MMI farm machinery, BND garden] wHHI SEED S, c ' r & c -> & c -» & c -> & c - B ckey e apers. Eowers and Binders, Deering Reapers, Mowers and Binders, Walter A. Wood Reapers, Mowers and Binders, Grand Detour Company’s Plows. Cassady Plows. Farmers’ Friend Corn Planters. Ciquillard Wagons. Bost Wire Fencing, etc. w. - i South Side Wa s hington’|Street, BSeiSSSLfISR, - . EITOIAJiL".

THAT TARIFF.

Let us see; it is getting cold; winter is coming on; the laboring man’s wife wants anew wool dress; she needs it, and must have it. She finds a piece of goods that suits her and the merchant asks 22 cents a yard. On this of goods the duty is 71 per cent. Teat is, for every SI.OO worth of this particular goods the wholesale jobber imports, he must pay 71 per cent, tariff. Now, he has invested $1.71. (This 71 percent, tariff, or tax, goes into the U. S. treasury. But suppose the goods be manufactured in this country, this 71 per cent, tariff, or tax, goes into the coffers of the monopolistic manufacturer and makes him a millionaire, while the employes strike for living wages). U| on this he ought to make 15 per cent., which will make it cost the retail merchant $1.96. Upon this the retail merchant is entitled to a profit of 15 per cent, and the consumer, th 1 ' laboring man’s wife, must pay $2.25. Now, let us examine the same piece of goods with a 25 per cent, tariff. Cost to wholesale jobber $1.25, upon which he must have 15 per cent, which added, makes it cost the retail dealer $1.43. He again must have 15 per cent, upon his investment, and it costs the consumer, the poor man’s wife, $1.65, Now, the difference is 61 cents in favor of the 25 per cent, tariff. This wo’d not be free trade, but it would be freer trade. The duty on salt is 83 per cent. Suppose it was only 25 per cent. Then the laboring man could bu for $1.25 as much salt as he now pays $1.83 for. Yet this is not fr e trade, but it would be freer trade. Then we have common wool cloth, such as is worn by the great mass of the people, upon which there is a duty of 91 per cent.— Let us take for an investment by the importer say of $lO, and 91 per cent, of this was_s9.lo. Upon th.s he must make 15 per cent, which makes the same goods cost the retail merchant $21.96. Again he must have 15 per cent, on his investment, and the consumer must pay $25. 5. Now let us take ten dollars and’ suppose the tariff duty to be 25 par cent, instead of 91. — Now we see the importers have invested $12.50. Upon this he must have 15 per cent, and the retail merchant pays $14.37. Upon this the consumer pays 15 per cent., $16.52, a difference in favor of the laboring man of SB,BI. Again rhis would not be free trade but it would be freer trade.

Ex-Governor Washburn of Massachusetts, says of the Republican proposition to reduce the surplus by taking the tax off whisky and tobacco: “The duties on the necessities of life should be taken off as far as possible. The internal revenue duties on liquors and tobacco sho’d be reduced a penny. These articles should be taxed as high as possible.” That is pretty serious, but what follows is so much mote so, that we do not see how it can be condoned: “I am a Republican still and shall probably remain so all my life, but I am free to say that Mr. Cleveland has made a capable and honest President. He has made good appointments and bad appointments, but the pressure on any president is always tremendous, and I think Mr. C eveland has done what he tho’t was right.” On the subject of the tariff Massachusetts Demecracy declared, “We do not advocate free trade, but favor and desire a revision of the present and burdensome tariff laws,” such as should “cheapen the price of necessaries of life and give free entrance to such imported materials as may be manufactured into marketable commodities.’ Is there a tax payer in Indiana who does not indorse the >bove? If so, he is evidently influenced by a blind adhesion to 1 is party, or is reaping the benefit from the toil of the laboring men of the country. That the present war tariff is an outrage has ceased to be a debata-

ble question. The coming session of Congress will be expected to giva the people substantial relief. —Anderson Democrat.

NOT GUILTY.

We were not present during the progress of thecause of the State vs. Hannah Rut herb ml for the shooting of John B. Steele on the evening of September 14th, 1887, bei g barred from the court room by an order excluding witnesses therefrom, and are therefore only able to give our readers a condensed statement from the best sources at command. On Thursday of last week, just before noon, the work of empannelling the jury began, and before adjournment of court in the evening the jury was completed, and comprised the following named gentlemen, ‘good men and true,’ honest and intelligent: John Mirtindale, Newton twp; Wm. McElfresh, Barkley; T. H. McCullough, Gillam; Jas. Sheetz, Carpenter; C. G. Austin, Carpenter; David Culp, Hanging Grove; Fleming Phillips, Hanging Grove; John Tillett, Gillam; Harvey W. Wood, Marion: Jay E. Lamson, Jordan; W. L. Rich, Carpenter; John Baker, Newton. Attorneys for prosecution—Prosecutor Marshall, Dep. Pros. ]as. W. Douthit, Col. R. P. DeHart, of Lafayette, aad M. H. Walker, of Fowler. Attorneys for the defense —Chilcote, Hammond and Thompson. TESTIMONY IN BRIEF—FOR STATE. Coronor Blue testified as to identity of pistol with which sh ooting was done. G, E.Marshall—Was shown a revolver on night of shooting said to have been got im defendant’s house; couid not say positively that Distol shown in court was same or not. E. P. Bitters, physician—Called to attend Steele soon afier shooting; found him on v icant lot near Mr. Shead’s house, short distance from defendant’s residence; body, warm, but life extinct. Found bullet hole in back of head, and swelled out place in forehead. — Death must have been almost instantaneous. Examined weund very closely, could find no singed hair nor powder marks near the wound. W. W. Hartsell, Physician^— Made post mortem examination; described course of bullet from back to front of head; examined wound closely, bat fo»nd no powder marks or burnt hair. W. B. Austin —Identified revolver as same he found in defendant’s house and turned over to coroner; went to house at request of defendant to put out light and close up house. Cross -examination by defense —Couldn’t say how gun laid when found; was in open view; light burning in front room; house has front and back door, and inside door o» line with these. House about 16 x 24; beds in house made up; small shed juts out from part of house. Witness related what defendant said to him when he saw h?r in jail soon after her arrest: Said she had shot a man, didn’t know who, was sorry, and didn’t intend to kill him. Asked witness to telgraph for Jerry Hess, her brother, andSteph=n J. Miller, her sister s husband. Defendant seemed much distressed. She said she was in her front room talking with Chas. F. Harding; saw man at back door; called out vho’s there; went to door and saw another mar, told them to go away and not stand around my house, it makes people talk and say bad things about me. Man said, “By God I’ve before and have come to do so again.” He also said, “You have another man here.” I said, “Charley ?ome and tell these men who you are and what here for.” Charley told man he oughtn’t to talk that way.” — Steele said, ‘Let her keep her (bmn gib shut’ She went outside of

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