Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — Page 3

PublicJalcs! CLVNE.fcMB. well m large rale*, Terms iwmiiMt- Write for dates before •dvertiMtrV. D. aWfe Attfirr. iFPioi ww itwwx— MootkdlOi Ind.

Professional Cards. ATTORNEYS Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loan. Will practice in all the court*. Office first start* east of Postoffice. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley A Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Office up-stairs in Leopold's block, first stain west of Van Kebsarbe. streetJas. Wt Douthit, LAWYER, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For TVs L. N. A. AC- By. aud Rensselaer W.L.A P. Co. over Chieaao Bureau Store. Rcttfioclacr, liMliana Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, Attomuym - st-Law. Law. Real EsOfr. Insurance Abstracts and Loans- Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IXD. Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Partisan Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Real Estate. Insurance. Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys far the Chicago. Indianapolis A Louisville Railway Co. will practice in all of the courts. Office over Fanners’ Bank, on Washington BL, RENSSELAER. IND. J. F. Warren J- F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow's Block. RENSSELAER INDIANA. R. S. Dwiggins, COUNCELOR AT LAW, Office in Room 7, Forsythe block. Rensselaer, Ind. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs ip Durand Block. Addison Parkinson. John 1L Wasson. President. Tice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Go Addison Parkison, G. E. Hurray, Jus-T. Randle, John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to tranaaeta general banking business. Interest allowed on time de posits. Honey loaned and good notes bought at entreat rates of iuleeeat. A share of your patronage is solicited. Farm Loans at 5 per Cant.

1. B. Washburn, Physician & Surgeon. Dr. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, tor. Nose, Throat aad Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Oretcc TtufMM No. 4S Rastosnca ftrast No. tt. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. ■-■"N.. E. C. English, ✓ Physician & Surgeon. Ore ca Fuoaa. 177. Ummtmmmom Pmm, ns. DENTIST.^^^^ H. L. BBOWN, Dentist Office over F. B. Meyer's drug store. r r rvrr ’ y S ADVICE AS TO PHTtUTADUTT DDfMflßfli « Notice in A 4 Inventive Ag« ” ■§■*■§ Mg « Book “How to obtain Patent*” | IILL « ' Charm nniTiiflr Tin ft m * • frtrirHt 4 ’ | | tttflfltt. niwit We sell Envelopes and writing thecity. The Dwoffiir.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

HIGH-HANDED USURPATION.

Mr. McKinley is using bis executive office to farther an imperial form of government, independent of Congress or Gonstitatian. The Chicago Chronicle calls attention to this Innovation: For the first time in the history of the conntry a series of commissions, socalled. have, under this administration, been created to discharge many important functions of the Government. A very few of these commissions were instituted by law. But the most of them were created by the President without authority of law, under what is claimed to be the war power of the executive. In some cases, as in that of YV. J. Calhoun and Robert P. Porter, individual emissaries were appointed at enormous expense for the mete purpose, as alleged, of procuring information for the action of the President. ,Tbe military and diplomatic (dicers of the Government were not trusted to perform this labor. An incomplete list of the commissions under this administration and those costing the most are as follows: Peace commission $300,000 Nicaragua canal commissions.. 250,000 Philippine commission ....... 150,000 Alger commission (embalmed beef) 150,000 Queen’s jubilee commission.... 00.UU0 The evacuation commission... 50,000 Seal commissions 45,000 Hawaiian commission 50,000 Insular commission .!......!. 9oj)UO Hague peace congress commission 35,000 John A. Kasson, treaty expert! 80,000 Robert P. Porter, tariff expert! 40,000 W. J. Calhoun, commissioner to Cnba 20,000 Maj. Handy, commissioner to Paris 20,000 Total so far .. .$1,300,000 It is proposed also to create a new Philippine commission to reinvestigate the conditions of our new possessions in the Indian Ocean. This commission win have broader scope than any previous commission. It may he in existence for years. It will pay well. Judge Taft thinks that membership on the commission will be so fat a Job that he has given up the office of United States Circuit Judge at a salary of $6,000 a year and all the comforts of a civilized home in order that he may accept the place. It is estimated that this commission will cost the country a million dollars before it gets through with its work. And other commissions may exist not included in this list or planned in the executive mind. The method of governing by commissions is outside of the Constitution and the laws. It is a scheme to avoid the proper responsibility which belongs to the President. It is a plan to establish an array of respectable names behind which the President can hide if the plans of the administration fail and meet with disaster.

The Droop!nic American Kaglr. When the British lion roars, the Amerian eagle, at present in charge of William McKinley, drops off its perch and scarries into the bashes with drooping tail and head. Great Britain has us, and showers greater insults upon than we did upon Agulnaldo. Hoe is something to make an American citizen hang his head and wish he were a Bon- or a Filipino: It will astound Americans to know that the British authorities are familial with the American consular code. On Not. 8 Mr. Macrnm sent a cablegram in code to the State Department urgently requesting that he be permitted to come home. Usually cablegrams, because of the difference in time between South Africa and the country, consume two days in transmissiontaut is to say, the cable sent by Mr. Macrnm on Oct. S would normally have been received by the State Department on Oct. 10. But on Oct 9. before the cablegram was received by the State Department certainly, and before it was sent from South Africa probably, the British papers in Natal, hundreds of miles away; announced in impressive type that Mr. Macrnm. the American consul at Pretoria, desired to be permitted to go home. Consul Hollis at Lourenzo Marquez Is well aware of the British acquaintance with the American consular code and the last thing he told an American who was about departing was, “For God's sake, tell the State Department to change our code number. As soon as we send out anything from here all Britain knows what we hare said." The State Department may not know the surprising fact that it is impossible for a United States consular or diplomatic representative in South Africa to communicate with his Government without Informing the British Government of the nature of the message. Nevertheless, the American consular agent at Bloemfontain, of the name of BRiott. Is a subject of Great Britain and perniciously active in his espousal of the British cause and the expression of his contempt for the “Dutch farmOassKtiM with Great Britain. We respectfully call the attention of William McKinley. President, and John Hay, Secretary of State, to the declaration moved In the Continental Congress. on the 7th day of June, 1776; by Richard Henry Lee and unanimously adopted by the tt is good tkm with the scheme to form connections and alliances with Britain for her

benefit and our undoing. Here is the resolution: “Resolved, That these United Colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain Is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”—Buffalo Times. A Friend in Need. “Didn’t I help you in your Spanish war by keeping my hands off?” This, to us, quoth England. Now comes the Spanish premier, Silvela, who tells a different story. Premier Silvela declared recently in the Spanish Senate “that previous to the war with the United States the British Government had consented to let Spain have 8,500 shells which were being manufactured for England at Maxim’s factory at Placentia meets with vigorous denial in London. Albert Vickers, head of the Vickers-Maxim firm, said: ‘Senor Silvela lied. There is not a word of truth in this allegation that England helped Spain to fight the United States. In the first place the factory at Placentia is a branch of our concern, built at the request of Spain, because that country wanted ammunition of home manufacture. It Is under the Spanish Government’s control, and there never was a shell manufactured there for sale in England or in any country except Spain, where a law against the export of ammunition exists.’ ” Lord Salisbury says “tain’t so, and if it is so the Vickers-Maxim company furnished the shells without the knowledge of the British Government.” The idea of the British Government being ignorant when an "honest penny is to be made! She would have deprived the infant Savior of His swaddling clothes for money.

“Delay RuininK the-Country.” The following telegram from the San Juan Chamber of Commerce was received at Washington a few days ago: “Situation becoming more desperate and unendurable, due principally to advices of opposition to opening markets for tobacco and sugar. Delay ruining eoantry. Saving measures urgent.” These are the people who welcomed Gen. Miles so heartily in the summer of 1898, thinking the Americans had come to deliver them from the yoke of Spanish tyranny. But the Americans are worse than the Spaniard so far as commerce goes. The Porto Ricans enjoyed free trade with the home Country. The Republican protectionists propose to shut them out of the United States. What has become of the American promises to grant these people the blessings of liberty? The first consequence of the American occupation is a restriction of markets which threatens to ruin their commerce and starve the workers of the island.—St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Capital Wanted, Not Money. Ex-Speaker Reed expresses the trust, gold standard and imperialistic idea when he says capital and not money is what we want. Aside from the humorous view that may be suggested by this reversion to the trading facilities approved by nations still in the darkness of savagery, there is an economic Idea concealed in it. Are we not reaching a point where the masses will not be allowed to have any money, but be compelled to rest satisfied with the necessaries of life doled out to them in such rations as will enable them to live and—what? Work? Wherefore work? For mere necessaries? No one need work for sustenance; all that is necessary is to join the army of tramps. They have no money, yet they live, moreover they do not work. Reduced to a Fine Art. Ballot box stuffing has been reduced to a fine art by the Republicans in Pennsylvania and Kentucky and there is every reason to believe it was practiced on a large scale by that party in 1896 in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Their recent experiences in Kentucky and Pennsylvania will probably cause them to be more circumspect in the future, In which event there is no doubt of Bryan’s election by the largest majority ever given a Presidential candidate.—Joplin (Mo.) Globe.

A Queer Proposition. > One-quarter of the sum England it expending in the war to extend its dominion in South Africa would suffice to feed every starving mouth in India. That the world should be asked to support her famine-stricken subjects In one part of the empire in order that she may devote all her energies and money to crashing a people who stand in the way of a limitless extension of the empire in another part, Is certainly a most extraordinary proposition.—Springfield Republican. ' ■ Usurper Taylor, of Kentucky, says be will now torn his attention to the courts. It is understood that Kentucky judges are wondering which of them will be assassinated first.—Albany ArgunFrom Consul Macrimrs account of the attempt to make sßrltish consol of him at Pretoria it might seem that John Hay himself has been doing some “loafing around the throne.”—New Turk World.

WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE CAMPAIGN UP TO DATE, Relief of Ladysmith Has Cost About All It la Worth—Lose of the Town la Considered No Great Blow to the Cause of the Boers. Gen. Buller’s final success in relieving Ladysmith is a moral rather than a military gain. Considered merely as a military advantage, the release of Gen. White and his small army has cost' about as much as it is* worth. While it sets free this starving and plucky remnant of the original army of occupation in Natal, it also releases a similar force of Boers from siege duty. The honors are even in that respect. The British have lost about 4,000 men in the four mouths' fighting for the relief of Ladysnyth, not including the 1,600 or more who fell or were captured in the battles that preceded the siege. The town itself is worthless as a strategic point’, except for its railway connections. Its loss is no great blow to the Boers. The relief of Ladysmith anil the withdrawal of the Boers from Colesberg and Jamestown mark the beginning of the fourth stage of the campaign in South Africa. The first stage opened with the advance of the Boers into Natal and Cape Colony, about the middle of October. The object was to drive the British from the coal districts of Natal, to gain possession of the railroads extending into the Free State and the Transvaal by way of Laing’s Nek and Van Roenen’s Pass, to prevent the use of the railroads in northern Cape Colony, and to promote a rising among the Cape Colony Dutch. In two weeks the British were driven from northern Natal, and were besieged in Ladysmith; in less time the British force in the west had been penned up in Kimberley and Mafekiug, and the Boers held all the roads in northern Cape Colony leading to the Orange river crossings. The second stage of the campaign opened about Nov. 20, with the re-enforced and reorganized British army advancing in four columns. Gen. Methuen moved

GENERAL WHITE AND STAFF LEAVING LADYSMITH.

northward from De Aar to the relief of Kimberley: Gen. Buller, north from Durban for the relief of Ladysmith; and Gens. French and Gatacre, northward along the railroads passing into the Orange Free State, to clear Cape Colony of Boers. Gen. Methuen’s column advanced more rapidly than the others, fought four battles, but was not able to relieve Kimberley. Gen. Buller’s column got no farther north than Colenso. Gen. French was stopped below Colesberg. Gen. Gatacre was held at Molteno. The third stage of the campaign opened with the arrival of Gen. Roberts and another reorganization of the British army. Making a feint on his extreme right at Colenso, Roberts moved his main column to flank the Boer position at Magersfontein. This movement broke the Boer line, resulted in the relief of Kimberley, in the capture of Gen. Cronje and his army, in the retirement of the Boers from Colesberg and Jamestown, and was the determining factor in relieving Ladysmith. The fourth stage of the campaign opens with the retirement of the Boers to new lines of defense. The reports indicate that a show of resistance was kept up south of Ladysmith until the siege guns and war material were transferred northward. When this was accomplished no military purpose could be served by the Boers in clinging to the positions about Ladysmith. Their retirement from Ladysmith, and their possible retirement from Bloemfontein, yield great advantages to the British invading columns, but both moves were inevitable. With northern Cape Colony free of Boers, Gen. Roberts has three railroads at his service. This fact simplifies the problem of supplying his army. * The retreat of the Boers in Natal will be less precipitate than in the Orange Free State, because the former have the mountains behind them and are retiring on positions which nature has made almost impregnable. The Boer generals mast guard agaiust a formidable attack from Gen. Roberts in the Orange Free State, must resist the advance of Gen. Buller toward Laing’s Neg and Van Reenen’s Pass, and must at the same time strengthen their lines on the left to resist g flanking movement through Zululand. Withdrawal from the Tugeia and from the Orange river to the mountain passes and to Kroonstad will greatly shorten and strengthen the Boer line of defense. Their line will then represent two sides of a triangle, with the point on the Drakensberg Mountains below Van Reenen’s Pass, with one side line extending northward along the partially completed railroad to Kroonstad, and with the other reaching along the mountains up to and eastward of Laing’s Nek. Kimberley was relieved after a siege of 122 days, and Ladysmith after a siege of 118 days. By laying siege to these two points, both of them of great importance to the British, the Boers practically chose the fighting ground for the first months of the war. A dozen engagements were fought for the possession of Kimberley, and over twenty for the possession of Ladysmith. The President has approved the bill abolishing the discriminating duty of 91 a ton on Cuban vessels and ordering it refunded where collected since (he peace tr\?*ty.

ASKS AMERICAN AID.

Mrs. Adair’s Appeal m Behalf of tho Hospital Ship Maine. Mrs. Cornelia Adair, who is now in this country in the interests of the hospital ship Maine, which it may be remembered was provided by American women in England for the nursing of wonnded British soldiers in the Boer war, Is herself an American, being a daughter of the late Gen. Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y., who fell at the battle of the Wilderness. The idea of fitting out a hospital ship originated with a Mrs. Blow, an American, and she, with Lady Randolph

MRS. CORNELIA ADAIR.

Churchill, formed a committee of American women in Iron cion to carry it out. The sum of $155,000 was raised in a short time. At this juncture B. N. Baker of Baltimore, Md., president of the Atlantn Transport Company, offered the steamship Maine and its crew to the committee, to be used as a hospital ship as long as the war lasted. This gift represented an outlay of between $15,000 and $20,000 n month. To equip the vessel the committee expended $125,000, and as it costs some $15,000 a month to keep

the ship in service, Mrs. Adair, who la the. absence of Lady Randolph Churchill is the head of the committee, comes here to interest' Americans in the work. Mrs. Adair is well known in the fashionable society of New York and Newport. Her first husband was a Mr. Ritchie of Boston. In 1867 she married the late John Adair, who was one of the great land magnates of Ireland and high sheriff of the County Donegal. She is very wealthy in her own right.

Business Situation.

Chicago Correspondence: The general tenor of the trade reports indicate that the movement of business is still large, and that prices for all the staples are being well maintained. In certain lines there is a little less eagerness to contract for forward delivery on the assumption that a presidential year always carries with it more or less uncertainty, but as a rule stocks are low and deliveries still backward. Business of the week in speculative grain circles v.as of normal activity, without being subjected to violent change from previously prevailing prices. The general tendency was to a somewhat lower range, but with prices already reasonably low holders displayed considerable reluctance to part with their property at any marked reduction. There being, however, an excessive supply at the moment, compared with the demand, prices were compelled to follow the inexorable economic law. Shipments of wheat from Argentina were never so heavy for the same period as they were last week, and European buyers appear to be able to buy on better terms than are asked by holders of American wheat. Unless there occurs a serious failure of some one or other of the more important wheat crops of the world that mature about July or August a permanent material improvement in price seems improbable. The price of corn yielded slightly, and some of its former friends expressed themselves less hopefully regarding its future.- than they had been doing for th% previous two or three months. Many who had bought corn when the May price was around 30 cents sold out at and above 35 eents and profess to believe deliveries from farmers will exceed the demand from shippers from now until the. start their spring plowing at least. During that time the expectation is the pressure of the immediate offerings will en«ble bulls who have sold at around 35 cents to buy back perhaps 2 cents above. The tendency of the stock markets during the week has again been downward. There is little pressure on the part of investors, but the traders who bought on the slump of last December have been taking their profits and practically no new buying has made its appearance. Special causes are largely responsible for the present condition of the market, and until these causes are eliminated it will probably be useless to look for any permanent improvement in the general list. Marcel-Habert, the colleague of Paul Deronlede, Paris, was found guilty cud sentenced to five years’ banlahmenL

INDIANA INCIDENT

RECORD OF EVENTS OF ’jßjll PAST WEEK. 'll jH Farmer Assassinated at His DpSHiJI t rednlous Man the \ ictisn of -Monument for Lincoln's MoiP^jjgjgjm Grave Explosion of Natural GaajoHHß Thomas L. Traylor, oae of the weaßHßj est farmers of l'ike County, was te)Mßj| sin aUs 1 the other night Fy J- CL cent, who called Traylor to his »BB| door ami as he appeared fired ihttojJußjll at him. One ballet passed through TlH|Nj|| lor's arm and penetrated the grotoflßßßj ing a wound of which he died. lately sued Traylor for S2S.OW» duI NHH charging that Traylor had slieastcfiffiHHlj wife's affections, hut lost the sUK.Jjffifira| new trial was granted on the ground the verdict was not in a the testimony. Since the trial dcadigt«sJ|ffiM mity had existed letuofl the men. ABBB the shooting Yiixvnt telephoned to ersburp. telling tin- sheriff of hi- deed asked to be arrested. ffiH Farmer Robbed of $2,300, Thieves worked a clever ruse Un Weimer, a wealthy old G, : .aan of Clark Comity, who explained «• ehief of police of Jeffersonville how*Hgg had 1 ,en robbed of S2.oMU. Recently fiHffi one told Weimer that ad the the country were going to fail and 4ffifiH| vised him to withdraw his deposits. SH old man did this, and placed SLSOU his bed. Early on a recent morning hung MM lars entered the Weimer house and cured this money, taking it front the toMBM without awakening Weimer or his who wore asleep in the b>d al the Ume.fjfiH Plan Nancy Hanks Memorial. HH Steps to erect a monument over grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mdlffiH er of Abraham Lincoln, near City, were taken at a meeting of Am| Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial tion in the Governor's office at the house in Indianapolis. The was begun about two years ago. vMB Gov. Mount received from President Mcffisgg Kinley a letter that had been sent to President by some one who had invdtjH| through Indiana and bad sen the of President Lincoln's mother. BH House Is Blown to Pieces. I The home of George Weaver, a vdl-M to-do farmer near XobJosville. was ed by natural gas, killing Mrs. Denny and seriously wounding Mr. Mrs. Weaver, George Champ and Mariiwß Irwin. Mr. Irwin was badly burned aniH bruised and liis recovery is very ful. ■ Within Oar Borders. ■ I.ogansport will support the baseball league. H Carr Burgett. who died in Cuba. buried at Muucie. Putnam County farmers are in Angora goats. The laboring men's library Is being ted up at Muncie. A women's union label league Is organized at Anderson. Jay County Fair Association will up s<'.,ooo for premiums. H A piano has been placed in the depot parlors at Vincennes. H Muncie ptdiee have taken to gambling paraphernalia again. H Muncie postoffice may l«e front second to first class July 1. H Philadelphia quartz company will l*ut B in a coal gas plant at Anderson. ■ The boy phenomenon, who cures all S pains ami rheumatics, has struck Evans- B viile. I Logoottcc prospecting company has B struck an oil well that flows 230 a day. ■ Boys bet wet'n 10 and 14, <'otambtoß| City, are causing annoyance by thieving. 1 The Elkhart jail and Longeliff iasaanß hospital, I.ogansjtorl. are both foil of 1 lunatics, and the officers of the instittt- j| tions don't know what to do. 1 Many persons living in WUmißjtofl Concord and Grant townships are uraehtßj frightened over loud rumbling noises that] come from the interior of the earth. In] The 4-year-old daughter of Chas. Fisk-Jj back, at Amity, was burned to death in -|| ..ttempting to take some meal from a/fi stove, while her mother was gone- ,4m The 3-year-o!d ehild of Joseph WkitiJ at Maxams, was fatally burned triUtlj boiling tallow. The enp of tallow wnn aj on the stove, and the child, thinking it jj contained wat<-r, attempted to drink if. "3 The cup was overturned and the taUoaiß covered the little one's head and shoal”-*m ders. J Two costly fires visited Rratul. One-* broke out iu Cowry Ac La wits’ gtotezjfH on West Main street at <> o'clock In the J morning and destroyed the stock and M wrecked the building. The loss was F4r~ 3 000, with $2,000 insurance. Fite also J broke out in the Fashion store and data- 1 aged the stfwk to the amount of SS,tWO; '3 insurctl for $3,000. Iu pursuance of a promise made jnst || prior to pting through an operation, from which the doctors said she had hot one § chance iu a thousand of surviving, Minn* May Walker of Hillsboro has joined t | wandering Pentecost band, and says she 1 will devote the remainder of her life Bm| Pentecostal work. Her parents have tried | in vain tq dissuade her. ' Eleven big iron and steel mills in to- J diana. owned by the Republic Inn and | Steel Company, closed down indefitotowfl on a<*count of the suits recently filed to 1 Muncie by the State facTory inspector enforce the weekly pay law. More thanl 5.000 men become idle. The milk doeed* are at Muncie, Terre Haute. Mirited| East Chicago, Alexandria. Frank ton Hidjj" Brazil. The company claims the tion of the suits is all for political effect, and says its mills will stand idle as bmg’.J as the employes consent to be parties to | the prosecutions. Western glass factory, Eaton, with pro- ,| vision for thirty-six blowers, has started. J Peter Alwine, 12, Goshen, was * treat- •! ed. charged with taking S2O from * j| money drawer. The investigation finished recently hr I the Auditor of State of Indiana’s w« 1 claim against the United States foe tto | expense of fitting out Indiana soliiera to J the civil war disclosed that the c aira «a which the United States Seaats committee on claims recently pasaed on tovtMPfl