Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — Page 3

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You can save money by putting up your team at the Masker Feed, Hitch and Boarding Stable, one block north of Makeever hotel. Feeding a speciality. Prices: Hitching, 5c per horse. Feedinghay 5c “ “ “ corn sc'“ “ Jas. Masker, Propr. I have private funds to loan on real estate at loir rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east--absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates Funds always on hand'

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Monon Excursions. On July 3, 9 and 17, Aug. 1. 7 and 21, with final return limit Oct. 31, 1900. special round trip rates, Rensselaer to following points: Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo Col., S3' .85; Ogden and Salt, Lake. $45.50; Glenwood Springs, Col., $44.50; Hot Springs. S. D. $32.90; Deadwood, $30.90. O. CHICAGO 2J-31. patriotic American should visit Cliicago during the G. A. R. encampment. August 20-31. and take his sons and daughter”. The spectacle of the aged veterans of the war of the rebellionarid the younger men who fought in the war with Spain; soldiers and sailors, with their commanders, including the President of the United States; will be a sight long to be remembered, and one to stir the dullest heart. The Monon, Route makes a rate of one cent a mile for this great event.

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W. H. BEAM, Agt.

Non=Resident Notice. State of Indiana. > Jasper County. ) In the Jasper Circuit Court. September Term. 1900. Amos Davisson ) vs [■ Complaint No. 5958. Patrick O'Connor et al. ) Now comes the plaintiff by Hanlev & Hunt, bis attorneys, and files his complaint herein, together with an affidavit tiiat the defendants. Patrick O'Connor and Mrs, O'Connor, wife or widow of the said Patrick O'Connor; William P. Ashburv and Mrs. Ashbury, wife or widow of the said William P. Ashburv; William P. Asbury and Mrs. Asbury, wife or widow of William P. Asbury; Andrew J. Seifried and Mrs.Seifned, wife xir widow of said -Awd.ew J. Seifried; C. A. Asbury and Mrs. Ashbury, wife or widow of said C. A. Asbury; Ic. A. Asbury and Mr. Asbury, husband or widower of said C A. Asburv; Comfort A/ Asbury and Mrs Asbury, wife or widow z>f said Comfort A. Asbury; Comfort A Asbury and Mr. Asbury, husband or widower of said Comfort A. Asbury: S. H. Asburv and Mrs. Asbury. wife or widow of said S. H. Asbury; T urner C. Hornbuckle and Virginia L. Hornbuckle; T.C. Hornbuckle and Mrs. HorrfbucKle. wife or widow of the said T. C. Hotlibuckle; Jacob Hirsch and Mrs. Hirsch. wife or widow of the said Jacob Hirsch; and all of the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees and all of the unknow n heirs, devisees and legatees of the unknown heirs, deviseesand legatees of each and all of the above named defendants, are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants. that unless they be and appear on ti e first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to lie holder) on the second Monday of Septemlier. A. I).. 1900, at the Court House in the City of Rensselaer. In said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. , ) In witness whereof. 1 hereunto set J seal ■ my hand and affix the seal of said ’ '-nr*- ’ Court at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 25th. day ot June. A. D. 1900. JOHN F. MAJOR. Clerk

Application for License. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the first ward in the City of Rensselaer, the citizens of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, and the citiz.ens of Marion township, Jasper county, Indiana, that the undersigned. George A. Strickfaden, a male inhabitant of the State of Indiana, and over the age of twenty-one years, and lias been and is of good moral character, not in the habit of becoming intoxicated, and a tit person in every respect to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicsting liquors, and lias been a continuous resident of said ward for over ninety davs last past, and that this applicant is the actual owner and proprietor of said business and will be such if license be granted, will apply to the Board of Commissioners of said Jasper county, Indiana, at their August term, litoo. said term commencing on Monday. August <J. 1000, for a license to sell and barter spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors, in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing and permitting the same to be drank on the following premises to-wit: The precise location of the premises on which the undersigned desires to sell and barter intoxicating liquors as aforesaid, with the privilege of allowing same to be drank on the premises is as follows to-wit: The one story frame, iron-clad building, situated on lot number four 14). in block number three (3). of the original plat of the town of Rensselaer. Jasper county. Indiana; said building and the room therein in which the applicant desires to sell said liquors being more particularly described us follows: Commencing at a point on the westerly line of Van Rensselaer street, five (5) feet southerly from the northerly comer of lot number four (4) in block number three (3) of the orignal plat of the town of Rensselaer. Indiana, and running thence westerly parallel with- Washington street for a distance of fifty (50) feet; thence southerly parallel with Van Rensselaer street for a distance of twenty-two (22) feet and four (4) inches; thence easterly parallel with Washington street a distance of fifty (50) feet; thence northerly parallel with Van Rensselaer street twenty-two (22) feet and four inches to the place of beginning. Said room being fifty (50) feet long and twenty-two (22) feet and four (4) inches wide by outside measurement, and said room being forty-nine (40) feet long and twenty-one (21) feet and four (4) inches wide by inside measurement. There is one single sash door In the northerly side of said room adjoining an alley, and one sash door in the westerly end of said room. The front of said room is a glass front, adjoining the sidewalk and fronting on said Van Rensselaer street. That the said described room is separate from any other business of any kind and that no devices of amusement or music of any kind or character is In said room, and there Is no partition or partitions in said room; that the said room can be securely closed and locked and admission thereto prevented; that said room is situated on the ground Hoor and fronts on Van Rensselaer street In the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, and la ao arranged with glass windows and glass doors so that the whole of said room may be viewed from said street. The said applicant will also at the time and place of applying for said license, make a further request for the privilege of selling tobacco and cigars in connection therewith. Said license will be asked for a period of one year from the 14th day of December, li»oo, at which time the license now held by •aid applicant will expire. GEURGF A. STRICKFADEN.

WASHINGTON LETTER

Washington corrwpendence; President McKinley has reluctantly concluded that campaigning from his front porch In Canton is not the proper way of earning his salary as the highest official of the land. This change of plan is announced since the Republican leaders, who have their ears to the ground, have realized that the Democratic Convention at Kansas City produced a profound and favorable Impression upon all classes of citizens. The Democratic platform took high ground and stated the issues on the basis of constitutional principle. The patriotic response to this appeal comes from all sections of the country. So the administration regrets to state that it will be very much upon its good behavior for the next few months, and McKinley returns to Washington, finding an excuse in the Chinese situation to cover bis change of plan. When the Republicans themselves created a scandal about the weak and evasive character of their platform, the White House apologists hastened to assure the country that McKinley’s reply to the formal notification of his nomination would constitute the real platform. Well, the notification has been given, and incidentally it may be remarked that the factories about Canton were closed down and the wageworkers herded up to the front porch and exhibited in their working clothes as a part of the farce. How glad it must have-made these “independent and prosperous” workingmen to know that their employers generously let their wages go on for the few hours while they were turned out on parade at the McKinley home. It must be that the Republicans have no real arguments to offer in this campaign, They are literally the party without a platform—except that built of tlieir own mistakes—and they are numerous enough. Dea4» in Platitudes. President McKinley, iu formally accepting a renomination, deals in the same platitudes with which he has wearied the country for the last two years. He ignores the facts and weaves rainbow-tinted cobwebs about the ugly facts which have characterized his aduiluist ration. About the only pertinent remark which he makes in bis reference to his colonial policy is this: “Some tilings have happened -which were not promised, not everrforeseenX’ Quite right he is on that/ point, but when lie talks about the Republican party liberating 10,000,000 of the human family from “the yoke>of imperialism” he insults the intelligence of the voters of the country. The Republican party has simply tried to exchange the blue-blooded imperialism of Spain for that of the cariunbagger of the United States, and no wonder the Fili-.pines-'"object txp'a change of masters when they have a right tq expect independence. McKinley wabbles as usual when he attempts to discuss the Porto Rican matter. He asserts that we have given that island a "beneficent government” and strings out a few vague phrases about Congress legislating with due reference to the fundamental principles of liberty, etc. But not once does lie dare to admit that this Congress attempted to put itself above the Constitution, nor can he affirm that it did not do this.

He is silent about the Cuban postal frauds, the failure to pass the Nicaragua canal bill, the failure to express sympathy for the Boers, the turning down of all labor legislatiou, the armorplate grab and a dozen other live Issues brought up whenever a review of bit administration is made. He seems honestly to believe that nobody knows of his mistakes, and he is evidently trying earnestly to forget them himself. Roosevelt hurried through a very brief and disjointed acceptance of bls nonynation in order to marshal the connnitteeand himself before the group of impatient photographers who infested the porch at Oyster Bay. Roosevelt poses at least ten times a day before the camera, aud it Is apparent that he feels that the dissemination of his various photographs is the one thing needful for a successful campaign. Roosevelt has neither plaform nor convictions in this campaign. He rather sulkily repeats the official formula that he “hopes McKinley will be re-elected," but even in accepting the Vice Presidential nomination lie could not forbear to express his chagrin at being edged out of New York politics. Democrats Confident. The Democratic Congressional headquarters at Washington are the scene of the utmost activity and cheerfulness. Since the close of the Kansas City convention campaign work has begun in good earnest. The platform is so strong and the ticket so satisfactory that the Democrats believe there is no doubt but they will have a majority iu the next House. They are sending out well-selected literature, and the whole campaign has been thoroughly organized with a view to securing the best results in each district. There are a score of districts where a change of from 400 to GOO votes will elect a Democrat. Fortunately these are among tire very districts where the popular Indignation is greatest against imperialism and the Porto Rican outrage. The Republicans admit that they are beginning to discover how thoroughly their party Is tom with dissensions when they get into the Congressional campaign. It was not so difficult to keep up a semblance of harmony In Rtute and national conventions, nor for that matter to secure renomluatlons; but the Republican 'committee is appalled nt the bitterness on one side and the apathy on the other toward their policy. The tried nnd trusted rank and file of their party Is about evenly divided between these two states of feet Ing.

—Chicago American.

Why Democracy Should Win. Apart from questions of principle, there are reasons connected with practical politics why the Democratic party should win iu the coming election. Short of a national defeat, the Republienu party could have met no greater calamity than the death of the late Vice President Hobart. Mr. Hobart had no superior as a political planner aud manager, aud he was eminently a hartnonizer. His Intellect devised and directed the campaign of 1896, foul New York, where Mr. Hobart presided, was the real Republican headquarters. Both on account of superior abilities »nd the personal associations springing >ut of a relationship by marriage to Mr. Hanna, Mr. Hobart held an extraordinary Influence over the ostensible “boss” of his party, and Hanna was most willing to carry out the plans which Hobart devised. Another Republican weakness Is tpe dislike for Roosevelt among the politicians of his party. The war. feeling which elected Roosevelt iu 1898 lias calmed down, and there Is no unknown quantity for either his Republican enemies or Democratic antagonists to deal with In estimating his chances. In 1898, there Is reason to believe, the Republican management in'New York State expected Roosevelt to be defeated. At least quiet tips to that effect were given to people whft had reason to believe them authentic, aud who lost money in betting on the strength of the Information. Neither McKinley nor Roosevelt kt persona grata with the New York Republican machine. While it is not to be implied <rt' anticipated that there will be any treachery, the defeat of the ticket would probably not convert Mr. Platt or Mr. Odell Into a Nlotie. and past experience has shown •lint a Governor can lie safely elected And his national associates brought very near to disaster. Ex-Secretary Bliss is a disappoint oil man, and this fact Is the more worthy of weight for the reason that Mr. Bliss In must prominent and influential in that wing of the Republican party which has supported, or rather toler-

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Nothiitg but iplinters will be left when he finishes his task.

ated, Roosevelt. Of course Mr. Bliss will betrue to the McKinley ticket, but when it is remembered that Roosevelt’s protestations that he would not take the Vice Presidential nomination led Mr. Bliss to step forth front his aristocratic exclusiveness and say that he would himself be willing to accept it. it is easy to suppose that Mr. Bliss is not pining with anxiety to see the man who cause him such mortification presiding over the Senate. The money issue bus not the power to conjure votes which it possevsed In 1896, It is practically as comatose as that of States’ rights. Tho living and aggressive forces of polities are on the side of Democracy, while the Repub llcan party is on the defensive, like a gorged anaconda, seeking to digest the enormous plunder which it has taken away from the people.—New York Newa. Mark Hanna Approves. Mark Hanna thoroughly believe* in one plank of the Democratic platform which Is even more tersely embodied in Mr. Bryan’s epigrammatic assertion that “whenever man and the dollar come In conflict the Republican party stands Jm - the dollar first; the Democratic party stands for the man.’’ It 1s on tlris basic principle that Mark Hanna has organized the Repul>'ican party and dictated Its platform and its candidates.—Pit taiburg Post. Renn It Nerd Not Re Doubtful. If all the elements in op;>oeltlou to trust ollgarehlsm. imperialism and Hannalem can be fully (tolled iu November the result need not be considered doubtful. It remains only for tite managers of the Democratic ticket to get out the vote. Upon tlieir ability and success in that matter will bang the decision.—Washington Times. Not Sure They Are Sure. The Republicans said they were sure of winning before tite Kansas City convention, but now they say it Is the Kansas City convention that makes them sure. Bometlmee we are not sure that the Republicans are sure they arc •ure.—Albany Argus.

Protected Trusts. Here is a list of a few protected trusts witli their capitalization, and the protection they enjoy under McKinleyistn: Federal Steel Company, 200 million dollars; $6.72 per ton aud upwards. American Steel and Wire Company, •JU millions; U, 4 to 2 cents a pound. American Sugar Relining Company, 73 millions; 1.95 cents per pound. American Tobacco Company, 72 millions; $4.50 per pound and 25 per cent. Continental Tobacco Company (plu), 98 millions; 55 cents per pound. Carnegie Steel Company, 25 millions (really 250 millions), $6.72 per ton and upward. Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 38 millions; 40 anti 67 cents per ton. Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, 29 millions; 40 cents per tun. National Biscuit Company. t>o millions; 2.5 per cent. Monongahela Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, 40 millions; 67 cents per ton. National Steel Company. 62 millions; $<1.72 per ton and upwards. National Tulm> Company, 80 millions; 3.5 per cent, or 2 cents per pound. | Pittsburg Coal Company. 62 millions; 67 cents per ton. United States Leather Company, 130 millions; 20 per cent. I’nlted States Rubber Company, 52 millions; 30 per cefff? United States Worsted Company, 36 millions; 44 cents per pound and 60 per cent. Beef Trust, 100 millions; 2 cents per pound. Roapmakers’ Combination, 50 millions; 1% to 15 cents per pound. Print Cloth Pool, 50 millions; 2 to & cents per yard or 40 per cent. Good Advice to Follow. - “Vote as you would vote if you knew that your vote would determine this election," said Mr. Bryan in the first speech of the campaign at Lincoln, Neb. If every voter would always follow that advice the country, as a whole, would always vote right,—Boston Globe.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST '/EEK. Plaxue of Grasshoppers at Fouth Bend Land Owners Will Hunt Up Oom Paul—Dr. Casto Declared Not GuiltyBig Oil and Gas Deal. The swarms of grasshoppers tb’at swooped down on South Bend recently are causing merchants much trouble. In clothing stores they are particularly troublesome. They seem to possess an appetite for fabrics of almost any sort aud iu several places have damaged suits of clothes displayed. Merchants who have had experience with the many pests common in tlie business say the grasshoppers are far more destructive than moths or any other insect ahey have encountered. They work holes in cloth aud are very ambitious. As yet no one has appeared who can advance a probable theory to account for the presence of the grasshoppers in stwh great numbers. There is nothing to attract them to the barren pavements of tiie city and yet the business district is alive with them. A few nights ago one merchant swept over a quart of dead insects from the vestibule of Ids store. Land Owners Fend Agents to Africa. Land owners in the Kankakee region will iinit£jjj„fiemiing a representative to the Transvaal to encourage emigration and settlement of colonies upon the immense trai ts of land gWhieh have been reclaimed in the immense waste of. swamp land which stretches across northern Indiana. The representatives who will visit the Boer republics will hunt out President Kruger with a view of obtaining his co-operation in the enterprise. The movement is well organized and lias the backing of men witli almost unlimited capital. Gas Plant Changes Hands. One of the largest oil and gas deals ever made in the Indiana field is about to be closed at Marion. The Mississi“newa Mining -Company that owns the local gas plant and 20,<)00 acres of gas and oil leases, is to be sold for SBOO,OOO. The promoter of the deal is John R. Pierson, president of the Indianapolis Gas Company. It is not thought, however, that the transfer will be made to the Indianapolis company, but that the Standard Oil Company is the real purchaser. Doctor Guiltless of ArsonAfter being out forty-eight hours the jury in the trial of Dr. Casto at Terre Haute, accused of trying to burn his three stores to collect $22,000 insurance, returned a verdict of pot guilty. There was a sentiment with all that the circumstantial evidence perhaps did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was the doctor who had honeycombed his stores with trains of powder, oil and paint. State News in Brief. Ransom Hill. Id, near Windfall, was drowned at ar gravel qdf , Indiana retail liquor dealers will ask Congress to repeal the war beer tax. The President has appointed Gen. Geo. Maginnis postmaster at Indianapolis. Richard McClure sold 6,000 bus-hels of corn in the Elwood market in a week. Two men in the Mv.neie workhouse escaped through a hide eight inches square. Giant County Board of Education will oil school house Hours as a sanitary measure. \\ illiani Lawson, aged 58 years, was killed by a Vandalia passenger train at Brazil. A temple nf the Knights of Kiiorassan was instituted at Muncie, with 400 charter members.' A vicious dog ton* away half the lower lip' of the little daughter of Richard Bartholomew. Lagro. Merchants in South Bend will close at 6 p. tn. Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday. the year around. James M. Tempter, Jr.. Muncie, has been appointed a cadet at West Point, and \\ alter E. Prosser. New Albany, alternate. John Hill, a prominent farmer, aged f‘>.> years, accidentally shot himself while hunting near Pierceton. Both loads of the gun lodged in the alidomen, causing instant death. < lyde Jones, who was sentenced indeterminately to from one to twenty-one years' confinement in the Jeffersonville reformatory for the abduction of and assault upon Nellie Berger, is refused a new trial. , Mrs. Catluwine Kirkwood, aged 99 years, the oldest resident in eastern Indians. died at Muncie of old age. She was the widow of James H. Kirkwood and the mother of fourteen children, twelve of whom survive. Howard Ellis, 19 years old. was killed in a Crawfordsville saloon, being struck on the head with a beer faucet by Jim Osborn. Ellis’ body was hidden in weeds. There were several persons in the fight. Osborn was arrested. William Schoeplin, a popular young man of Osceola, had a tooth extracted, the dentist applying n preparation to make the operation painless. Blood poisoning developed and Nchoepetin's death followed, after continual ngosy. Joseph D. Keith nt Boothville was held without bail to answer to the charge of murdering Miss Nora Kifer, Those body was found in Pigeon creek solfie weeks ago. Keith's son gave some damaging testimony against the father. * Experiments in producing gas by a new process for the manufacture of glass, which have been in progress nt a factory in Terre Haute, have proved .1 success. The cost of producing gas by the new process is claimed to be less than half the cost ot natural gas, and even cheaper than natural gas iu the boom days ot tho ?.idiaua gas belt. In South Bend J. W. Morrison, former proprietor ot the Morrison Hotel, held on a charge ot murder and arson, had a preliminary hearing before Judge Whitcomb. After a seven hours’ session he was held to the grand jury on $5,000 txuids. In a discussion over an alleged board bill nt New Albany Archie Dye shot and instantly killed Peter Carnes. Dye claims Carnes was advancing on him with a knife when Dye shot him. Dye is an ironworker and Curne* Operated a saloon and boarding house. Both the tuen are about 50 years old.