Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The spring elections havi a democratic tinge. Gains in Michigan, Ohio and other states. The Wilson oil! is hard on the Shoddy business. People can buy pure, unadultered woolen goods cheaper than the could shoddy goods under republican legisla tioD. Under the Wilson “free trade tariff,” we are exporting greater quantities of manufactured goods than ever before, and are invading the markets of the world to an ex. tent never known before. This could not be sc if our workingmen were not pretty generally employed. McKinley or Harrison, it is all the same to 1 diana democrats.— Both are tarred with the same stick —a high protective tariff, and that means high-priced blankets, dotn ing and almost every article used in the household. As Capt. Ritter says, “Harrison will be beaten next time worse than he was in 1892,” and McKinley and his record will be so thoroughly ventilate ed by November that his party will want to substitute even “Bill” Chandler for him. —Indianapolis Sentinel.

In the seven months ended Jan. 31, 1896, the exports of manuiactures from the United States amounted in value to $126,892,461, against $104,607,101 during the corresponding period in the year previous. This is the largest exportation of American manufactures for the same numbei |of months in the country's history. The year 1896 began most auspiciously with exports of American manufactures, amounting in value in January to $18,732,547, against $13,101,738 in. January, 1895, At this rate of increase the exports of American manufactures for the current year will exceed 1350,000,000. Judge Kirkpatrick, of Kokomo, recently rendered a decision which is of interest to every city. In a case venued from Logansport wherein Hon. Rufus Magee was the plaintiff and the Overshiner telephone company the defendants Judge Kirkpatrick decided that the assignment of ground for street or traveling purposes gave telephone companies no right to use it unless property owners gave their consent. In other words the granting of a right of way br ngs the street to a use not contemplated w.ien the easment for street purposes was granted by property owners to the public.