Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — Page 3

STORY OF TWO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE.

REPUBLICAN STATES WHITE. Shaded Territories Have No Vote. DEMOCRATIC STATES BLACK x McKIINJLEY, 1900- BRYAN, 155.

McKinley, sn 1896 BRYAN, 170;

Electoral vote. Pluralities. Electoral vote. Pluralities. State— McKinley. Bryan. McKinley. Bryan McKinley. Bryan. McKinley. Bryan. Alabama 11 40,000 ... 11 75,570 Arkansas 8 60,000 ... 8 72,591 California 9 ... 40,000 8 1 2,797 Colorado 4 85,000 ... 4 ........ 134,882 Connecticut 6 ... 30,000 6 ... 53,545 Delaware 8 ... 4,013 3 8,630 Florida 4 22,000 ... 4 ...TTT* 21,448 Georgia 13 40,000 ... 13 34,141 Idaho 3 5,000 ... 3 16,868 Illinois .....24 ... 90,000 24 ... 142,498 Indiana 15 ... 82,809 15 ... 18.181 lowa 13 - ... 99,072 13 ... 65,562 Kansas 10 ... 25,000 ... io Kentucky „ 13 5,000 12 1 281 .T.r.".. Louisiana 8 30,000 ... 8 55,138 Maine , 6 ... 28,000 6 ... 45,777 Maryland 8 ... 14,000 8 ... 32,224 Massachusetts 15 ... 82,988 15 ... 173,265 Michigan 14 ... 90,858 , 'l4 ... 56,868 Minnesota 9 ... 55,000 9 ... 53,875 Mississippi 9 45,000 ... 9 58,729 Missouri .. 17 30,0($0 ... 17 58,727 Montana 3 8,000 ... 3 82,043 Nebraska 8 ... 3,000 ... 8 13,576 Nevada 3 ......... 2,000. ... 3 6,439 New Hampshire j..,. 4 ... 20,000 4 ... 85.794 New Jersey 10 ... 52,920 10 ... 87,692 New York 36 ... 143,622 36 ... 268,469 ffft « North Carolina 11 , 30,000 . 11 ...,. :T. 19 260 North Dakota 3 ... 12.000 3 ,'f. 5 649 Ohio ..23 ... 71,190 23 ... 4T497 ."!!!!!.’ Oregon 4 ... 14,225 4 ... 2,117 Pennsylvania ...32 ... 287,000 32 ... 295,072 Rhode Island 4 ... 17,000 4 ... 22,978 .!!!!!! South Carolina 9 25,000 ... p 49 s'j’^ Sonth Dakota 4 ... 15,000 ... 4 [ 183 Tennessee \ 12 26,000 ... 12 17 405 Texas 15 177,000 ... 15 202,914 Utah 3 ... 4,000 ... 8 57033 Vermont 4 ... 28,142 4 ... 40,490 Virginia 12 30,000 ... 12 ........ 19 341 -Washington 4 ... 12,000 ... 4 I'MOS West Virginia 6 ... 19,800 6 ... 11 487 Wisconsiu 12 ... 106,000 12 ... 102 Gl2 Wyoming f. 3 ... 3,500 ... 3 ........ * ” 's^ Totals 292 155 1.431,139 610,000 271 176 ........ ~~ Majorities 137 ... 821,139 95 ... 603,104 .......

TO RAISE COTTON IN AFRICA.

Negrora from America Will Instruct Natives la the Art. To teach the natives of Africa the art . of raisin* cotton, four young colored men from Booker T. Washington’s school at Tuskegee, Ala., sailed from New York a few days since for the west coast of the Dark Continent. With them they carried ten bushels of cotton seed, a cotton gin and a full outfit of agricultural tools. Their work will be carried on under the auspices of the German government. Togo, a colony on the west coast of Africa, about 80,000 square miles in area, noft)i of the Gulf of Guiuea and lying between Dahomey and Ashantee, Is the deatinltion-of'these pioneers. From this part of Africa the greatest number of slaTes were brought. The ultimate destination of the party is a settlement sixty miles inland called Miaahohe. Togo baa a native population estimated at 1,000,000.

Odds and Ends.

James J. Lilly, Cynthiana, Ky., killed his wife and attempted suicide. A plot to burn the city is said to have boon discovered in Santo Domingo. Did car barns of the West Chicago street railway were damaged $20,000 byfire. Policeman O’Neill, Cumberland, Md., /hot Owen Stowell to death while tryiog to escape. Gov. Pingree, Michigan, gave out an interview in which he said he has quit politics for good. In a wreck, Fort Worth, Texas, Fireman Baker was killed and nineteen cars of cotton burned. Lord Hamilton, 4TI, Dalsell, Eng., an intimate -friend of the late William Ewart Gladstone, it dead. The City of Berne, Switxerland, is making the socialistic experiment of building free—or nearly free—workshops for tailors and shoemaker*.

HOW BONI SPENT HIS WIFE’S FORTUNE.

COUNT AND COUNTESS CASTELLANE.

Site for marble palace UMO.OOO Yacht Valhalla 2UO (MX) Building ’’Little Trianon" .'. 1.000.000 81te for Charities Baxaar 40,000 stable 100 000 Bric-a-brac, Jewels and furniture!" 60o!noo Lost on the Bourse : eoo.uoo Pete s la 800,000 B lection to Chamber of Deputies.. 60,000 Living expenses, etc 200,000 aad race track. 100,000 Charity 70.000 Maintenance of yacht 100, 00 Q Total ..... |4,600,00*

GREAT YIELD OF APPLES.

Immense Quantities Grown Annually in the United States. It is an established fact that the United States now holds the record for rapid developments of fruit industries, such as the growing of oranges and lemons, peaches and grapes. As a nation we eat more fruit than any other, and grow considerably more than we eat. Eighty millions of dollars a year 4s the figure for strawberries alone. A hundred millions would scarcely cover the value of ail the grapes marketed. Peaches we raise in astonishing quantities, in orchards containing as many as 300,000 trees, but our banner crop, so far as fruit is concerned, is apples. We have produced as many as 210,000,000 barrels in a single season, and have sold as high as 3,000.0000 barrels in England alone. We carry in cold storage every winter anywhere from 6*000,000 to 10,000,000 barrels of the crop of the season before, in order to secure better prices. Ships weigh anchor in New York, three at a time, in a single week, bearing apples to Europe. Indeed, it is one of the greatest industries the country has ever witnessed, and promises to take rank as the chief fruit crop of the world. Milis County, and, indeed, all the southwestern section of lowa, is truly a wonderful apple country, but not much more important than one of a score of regions in various parts of the country which produces apples. In that county alone there are over 900,000 trees, averaging at the lowest ten bushels a tree ]>er annum. One hundred and fifty thousand of these®trees are in one orchard. 'j*he total output is close on to 3,000,000 barrels, or enough to supply the present American sale to England. New York’, however, has two counties, much smaller than Mills, which do even better than this, and as a State it raises three times as many apples as lowa. The counties referred to are Niagara and Orleans, in the western tier, which together raise 7,000,000 barrels of the best kind of market apples. All through this area are orchards holding 20,000, 30,000, 40,000, and occasionally 100,000 trees, which in blossoming make of the roadside a paradise. How They Order Clothes. “The retail merchants of this place have'been gradually building up a very considerable trade with the City of Mexico,” remarked a New Orleans business man. “I know It seems a far cry from here to the capital of the sister republic, but somehow or other trade has drifted in this direction without any special effort on the part of our local houses. The ready-made clothing people get the larger share of it and some of the orders they receive from individuals are very amusing. “Some time ago a well-to-do native wrote for several suits and. to insure a good fit, sent this description. ‘I am 42 years old, weigh 120 pounds, dark complexion, notary public." By way of reply the order clerk told him that the specifications were very interesting and exhaustive, but as a matter of form the house would be glad to have him till out the inclosed measurement blank. '"Another worthy suCjcct of President Diaz sent an order for rather a curious outfit, which he said was intended for bis brother. It consisted of a black suit, with one white shirt, black tje. collar, cuffs and a pair of patent leather shoes. The day following its receipt a telegram arrived saying: ‘Dp not send thingsj brother is getting better.’ It turned out afterward Utat the brother had beep seriously ill ntitl the garmeiils Were intended to array him for the tomb. This upset the theory of one of the clerks, who had suggested that maybe the brother was going to be hanged and had been unexpectedly reprived. I am glad to say that the gentleman eutirely recovered and celebrated his return to health by ordering a nobby pearl-gray business suit.”- New Orleans TiniesDemocrat.

Americans Must Have Ice.

The ice linbit is making rapid progress in Great Britain, says Marshall SJrmlughaui, aue largely To toe lucesslTnt clamor for ice ia hotels ami public places by the thousands of traveling Americans. Not very loug ago the attendants of public places in England, where nearly everything except ice was provided, would be insulting if one complained because ice could uot lie bad. To-day all first-class places have a few- small lumps swimming in n glass dish and you pick them out witli sugar tongs, and In country inns and even in second-class public houses they apologize for not having it.

Where Mothers-in-Law Are Happy.

It appears to be the custom of the people of Somaliland, which is on the coast of Africa at the entrance to the Red Sea, for a man to offer the use of his property to a mother whose daughter he wishes to marry. Mr. Glecbien, who accompanied Mr. Renual Rodd’s mission to Abyssinia, states that he offered the use of his mule to the wife of his head Somali camel-driver, aud she Informed him that she would be honored to have him as a son-in-law, but unfortunately her daughter was already married, and In that case it was impossible that sbe could make use of anything belonging to him.

Condemned Tragedies.

“What do you think Is the saddest work of fiction you ever read’/" “The cook book," answered'the young woman who lias not been married very, long. “Not more than one In tetv of those pfeces come out right.’*—Washington Star. The man who thinks be Is pretty, is about ten years longer In marrying than .one who knows that be Is ugly.

POPULATION OF INDIANA.

The Cenaua Bureau AnuSuncea It to Be 2,510,402 by Counties. The official returns as announced by the census bureau give the State of Indiana a total population of 2,510,402, against 2,192,404 in 1890. These figure* show au increase in the population of th« State since 1890 of 324,058, or 14.7 per cent. The population in 1880 WiSs 1,978,001, showing an increase of 214,103, or 10.8 per cent. The population by counties is as follows; Adams 22,232; Lawrence 25,7-9 Allen 77,2iO|MttdUou 70,470 Bartholomew . g4,594i Marion .197,22 V Benton ...... .13,123] Marshall 25,119 • Blackford. ....11,2taiMartin’ ....... 14,7tt Boone .". ‘26,32T)Mltiml 28,344 Brown 9,727] Monroe 20,873 Carroll 19,953;Montgomery .. 29,388 Cass 34,545, Morgan ....... 20,457 Clark .31,835 Newton 10.448 Clay 34,2831 Noble 23,533 Clinton 28,202! Ohio 4.724 4‘r-awford . 13,476] Orange ....... 40.854 Daviess 29,014|0weu 15,149 Dearlwru .. ...22,194 Parke 23,000 Decatur 19,518 Perrv 18,778 De Kail) 25,711 Pike" 20,480 Delaware 49,624 Porter 19,175 Dubois 20,357 Posey 22,333 Klkliart 45,052 Pulaski 14,034 Fayette 13,495’, Putnam 21.478 Floyd 30,1181 Randolph ..... 2*.053 Fountain 21,446’ Klplov 19,881 Franklin 16,888iRusft 20.148 Fulton 17,433] St! Joseph .... 58,881 Hibson 30,099 Scott -■ ■ - 8,307 Grant 54,093, Shelby 26.491 Greene 28,530] Spencer 22.407 Hamilton 29,914]8tarke 10,431 Hancock 19,189 Steuben 15.219 Harrison .21,702] Sullivan 26:065 Hendricks ... .21,292] Switzerland .. 11.840 Henry 25,088 Tippecanoe ... 38,659 Howard 28,575] Tipton 19.116 Huntington .. .28,901]Fniou 0.748 Jackson ...... .26,633] Vanderbnrg .. 71.769 Jasper „ 14.292]Vermilion .... 15.252 Jay ... ........26.818] Vigo . : ..... 62.033* Jefferson 22,913] Wabash 28,235 Jennings 15,Hw] Warren 11.371 Johnson 20,223 Warrick 22,329 KnoX 82,746]Washington .. 19.409 Kosciusko ... .29,109] Wayne 38,970 Fa Grange .... 15.284; Wells 23.449 Fake 37,8921 White" 19,138 Fa Porte 38,386! Whitley 17.323 The population of cities having a population of more than 5,000, but less than ”sJßmi. is as follows: Alexandria ... 7.221] Fa Porte 7.113 Anderson 20,178;Loganaport ....16.201 Bedford . .t... 6,115 .Madison 7,835 Bloomington .. o,4oo’Marlon 17,337 Brazil 7.786| Michigan 14.850 Columbus 8,130 Mishawaka .. .. 5.560 Connorsvllle .. 6,836. Mt. Vermon ... 5.132 erawfordsvllle. 6.649,Muncie 20.942 IF'Velio rt 15.1 M New Albany 20,628. K.Lvood 12,950 Peru 8,463 Frankfort .... 7,loo]Princeton 6,011 Goshen 7.810 Richmond 18,226 Greensburg . ..' 5,3041 Shelby vllle .... 7,169 Hammond .... 12.376 Seymour 6,443 Hartford 5.912 Valparaiso .... 6.280 Huntington ... 9.9l4"Vincennes 10.249 Jeffersonville . 10,774 Wabash 8.618 Kokomo 10.619 Washington ... 8,531 Fafayettc .....18.116 The population of certain incorporated places haring between 2.O<K) and 5.000 inhabitants in 1900, as amumured by the census bureau, is as follows: Albany .... 2.ll6Feban>n ........4.467 Angola 2,141 Flgeit r 2 211 Attica 3.00,7 Finton ...3.071 Auburn 3,396]Martinsville ....4,038 Aurora 3.64.7 Monticelln 2.107, Bluffron 4,479 Montp 11 r 3,40.7 Boonvllle 2,849 Nappanee 2 2 is Brookvilie 2.037 Newcastle ...... .3.406 Butler .........2.063 Noblcsville . . 1,792 canneltou 2.188 N. Maip-he-trr.. .2.398 Clarksville 2,370] North Vcrumi ...2 >23 Clinton .. 2,9lß]P.ymonth 3.6.76 Columbia 2,975 Portland 4.798 Covington 2.213 Redkey 2.206 Crown I'oint . . .2.336 Rensselaer 2.27.7 Decatur 4.142 Rochester 3,341 Delphi 2.135 Hoc k port 2.882 Dunkirk 3.187 Rockville 2,045 Hast Chicago .. .3.441 Rushvlllc 4,541 Fairinount 3,205; Spencer 2.026 Franklin 4.oos;Sulllvan ........3.118 Garret .3,910:Te1l City 2.680 Gas City 3.622 Tipton 1j.764 Groencastle ....3,661 Tnion City 2.716 Greenfield 4.498 Warsaw 75.987 Huntlngburg ...2,527 West Kendalville ... .3,354; Whiting 3.983 I.awrenceburg . .4,326, Winchester 3,705

DIES FROM EATING COFFEE.

Woman of Marion Fall. Victim of Innocent Habit. Mrs. Anthony Daggett died at Marion from eating roasted coffee. She commenced about two years ago to eat a few grains every time she went to the kitchen cabinet, in which the coffee was kept. The habit grew on her until she was eatstated before she died that «sne knew tlie coffee was killing her, but her appetite was so ravenous that she could not resist ii. She died in great agony.

CAUGHT MAKING QUEER MONEY.

Father, Soil and 11 Woman Bagged at Lafayette. Robert McKee, an old soldier, his son, Howard .McKee,,and Eliza Jane Herron were arrested at Lafayette, charged with counterfeiting. When arrested. Robert McKee was jy net of pouring ijj^tjjd ftilo molds. The police captured tlie efi tire plant and unite a sum of bogus money, of the denominations of quarters and nickels.

Death of Dr. William A. Clapp.

Dr. William A. Clapp, who for more than half a century had been engaged in the practice of medicine in New Albany. is dead. lie was 78 years old and a bachelor. He was born in the house in which he died. and. with the exception of two years during the Civil War. when lie served as surgeon in the Thirty-eighth Indiana regiment, he lived there all his life.

State Items of Interest.

Daniel Williams, New Castle, crushed by a falling tree. The hum of the corn shredder is the si unu heard daily. Bartholomew County had thirty-two deaths in October. Rev. Moses C. Bridges, 73. Plainfield, died of heart failure. Hog cholera is prevalent in several places in Carroll County. Mary Gulley died nt Logan sport from an overdose of morphine. A professional spectacle -snatcher has been operating in lvokomo. Nellie Thompson, 16, daughter of a wealthy farmer, near Cadiz, ia missing. James Haney, 45, killed himself in Denver because he could not find work. Dolphe Gift, 11, Marion, is missing. Believed to have started for Cincinnati. G. W. Long. Huntington, former ruilroad engineer, has struck it rich in Alaska. Muncie City Council has ordered railroads to place flagmen or gntes at crossings. John Williams, 82. for sixty years a I resident of Delaware County, Is dead in Muncie. Tice Golden, a farmer living near (> Inmhits, raised twelve tons of tomatoes to the acre. At the funeral of H. H. Boudinot, Terre Haute, a dirge composed at hi* request two years ago wna played.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THU PAST WEEK. State Sue. Bis Four Road—Report on Births in the State—Mother and Boa Found Dead—Funeral Adjourned by a Fire. The State of Indiana has entered suit in the Supreme! Court against the Big Four Railroad Company for $"227,700 for alleged violations of the State law requiring railway companies to post bulletins announcing the arrival and departure of trains. The case comes from Fountain County, and the company is asked to pay the sum named for nob TJumßalmug a” bulletin boariTiu the station at Veedersburg. The law provides that a railway that violates the requirements of the act shall pay the sum of $25 for every offense. The Big Four runs several passenger trains through Veedersburg every day, and Mile time named ini the complaint covers three years. Tell, of Birth, in the State. The State board of vital statistics re* ports that for the year ended Oct. 1, 40,000 children were born in the State, of whom 20,845 were white male children, 10,010 were white female children, 7579 were black male children and 350 black female children. Of the total f>2.2 per eent were male nd 47.8 per cent were female children. In 914 cases more than one child was born; there were four triplets, in Steuben, Noble and Vnnderburg counties. The deaths for the year numbered 34,999. Kscapina Gas Kills Two, Elizabeth and John Gunn, mother and son, nged 86 nnd 52 respectively, were found dead nt their home in Indianapolis by William Gunn, a son and brother, who resides in another part of the city. The house was broken open and found to be filled with natural gas, which was escaping from the kitchen stove. They had been asphyxiated after retiring by the gas diminishing till the flame went one and then coming on strong in the night. Fire Breaks Up a Funeral. While the funeral services of Mrs. Sarah Graves were being conducted at the Methodist Chureli ut Decker the sanctuary caught tire and a panic ensued. The lira started in the, basement and burned through tlie floor before discovered. Many persons escaped through the windows and the coffin was carried out of the church. Several women fainted. The church was badly damaged by the fire. Wife Murderer Is Caught. Ferry Barnard, who shot and instantly killed his former wife, Mrs. Jennie Barnard, at Flora, on June 17 last and afterward escaped, after being pursued for several days by a posse of citizens and a pack of bloodhounds, was captured in South Dakota and brought back by Sheriff Joseph A. Bridge Friday. The prisoner was placed in the White County jail for safe keeping. Chicago and Toledo Railroad. Michigan and Indiana capitalists have incorporated a company to be known aa the Chicago and Toledo Railway Company for the building of a road from the western border oA Indiana, through the counties of Newton, Jasper, Pulaski, Fulton, Kosciusko. Whitley and Noble, with Chicago as the western and Toledo the eastern terminal points of the road.

Within Our Border*. Hurrie glass factory, Hartford City* lias begun operations. Seeding time was never so long in this State as it was this year. William Day, living near Fovtville, wa* killed by a Big Four train. * The sehooij of I'tnjar have been closed of an gutbreak of diphtheria. David -tl'mfr.. died from, tnfffs and suffocation. His bed caught tire. , j R. K. Mann. 81. prominent citizen of Elkhart, is dead. Was postmaster under Lincoln. "** M rs. Mary E. Edie has been appointed postmaster at Casuovia, vice Samuel N. Edie, dead. Carsonville now has more feet of cement walk than any town of its size north of Port Huron. While feeding stock. Ktmis Copple of jJJlflbyville was attacked by a vicious boat - and disemboweled. -'Juny farmers In Cass County have* their corn still unhusked, notwithstanding the fine weather of the fall months. Several deaths having occurred from an epidemic of scarlet fever in'Vicksburg the public schools there have been closed. J. C. Ayers, n Chicago traveling man, was found dead in the Arnold House at Richmond. He was asphyxiated by gas. A golden eagle, measuring 7 feet 4 inches from tip to tip, was caught in a trap set for rabbits in Prairie Creek township. Since May 1 County Treasurer Streeter lias issued eighty-six liquor licenses to citizens of St. ClaTr County. Nearly sixty of the dealers reside in Port Huron. The department store of A. Weslow at Anderson was damaged $25,000 by fire. The basement stock was burned out ami the damage from smoke and water on the three upper floors was heavy. The City Council of Oarsonvilie is about to give a ten-year franchise to ■ gas company that will erect twenty eighty-candle power lights nt S4OO per year, the city having the privilege of buying the plant, which they expect to do in a very short time. ” George F. Taylor, a farm hand who pleaded guilty to setting fire to the house of Perry Walcott, in Alpine township, for whom he worked, for the purpose ot robbery, has been sentenced to the Marquette prison for twenty years in the Circuit Court. He hail served a term at Marquette before for burglary. Nora Belt, the Lebanon girl who disappeared, was found with her aunt. Hickory nuts are scarce this season. Many trees have come down for lumber. Attorneys are trying to locate William Lowe, one of the four heirs to a $50,000 estate near Dilisboro. Luke Gregory. 77. n Howard County pioneer, is dead. He lived on a farm near Russiaville for fifty-two years. Guy Leachmnn shot anil seriously injured Leon Perkins, at Danville. It Is* said Perkins had assaulted They met again, the quarrel was renewed aad the shooting took place.