Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — Page 3

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Money to burn. We know you hate to smell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes on $700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkison.

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Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. WUI practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, low, Mocis, Loons and Real [stole. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of VauKensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Brokei Attorney For The L. N. A. AC. Ry, and Rensselaer W.L. AP. Co. {•ft nfli.»nv»r Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer. Indiana. U. M. Baughman. G. A. William*. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Notary work, Loans and Real Esta e Special attention giveu to collections of all kinds. Office over "Racket Store,” Rensselaer, - Indiana. Moses Leopold, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND INSURANCE, Office over Ellis Sc Murray’s Rensselaer, - - Indiana. J. F. Irwin S.C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts.

Collection!, Farm Loan* and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. volts. a. a. svitlss. a. auaaia. Foltz, Spltler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai F.'Chilcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & ParMson, ATTORNEYS aT LAW. Law, Real Estate. Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over J. M skewer's Bank, on Washington street. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. H. O. Harris. K. T. Harris. J. C. Harris. President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates. Farm Loans made at 6 per cent. Wc Solicit a Share of Your Business. Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Washburn will give i peels I attention Vo Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Noso, Throat and Chronlo Diseases. Ho also tests eyes for glasses. Ottics TeisreONß No. 4a. •tssiosHos Pmons No. 11, Rensselaer, - ■ Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Offioe over Imes’ Millinery store. Keasselasr. Ovnta Chons. ITT. Nssibshos Rhomb, lIS. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. . Office over Larsh’a drug star*.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

A Cure for Monopoly. The trusts themselves are the most active instigators of discussion of this question: How shall these great combinations of capital be controlled in the public interest ? Every trust that is pillaging the people gets Its power to do so from monopoly. Monopoly Is rooted In special privilege. The Coal Trust, for examplel, has an absolute mastery of the market for anthracite because it owns the coal fields and the railroads that carry the coal. To attack the trust in the courts on the complaint that it has not been formed in strict compliance with the technical requirements of the law is to be interested in the make of a highwayman’s pistol rather r Hian in its shooting capacity, its power to enforce the orders of "Hands up!” And to rally public opinion for protest against the Coal Trust’s rapacity and arrogance Is but to roar against effects while ignoring causes. “Why,” asks so conservative a journal as the Springfield Republican, “why should exclusive private monopoly of natural resources so essential to the life and industry of the people as coal be suffered to exist?" And everybody who can think asks why railroads, which ought to be common carriers, treating all shippers equally, should be suffered to be used by the trusts to k. off competition. No we see the country coming to an understanding of the elementary truth that, as private ownership of natural resources and of the means of transportation inevitably results in the creation of monopolies, the effective way to deal with monopolies must be to strike at the private ownership of natural resources and the railroads.

The Coal Trust and the Food Trust are just now the leading schoolmasters of the American people. Tbe education in dear thinking about fundamental economics which they are giving is of the very highest value. It is sure to bear fruit ultimately in thorough going remedial and not merely palliative legislation. Every workingman or other citizen who sympathizes with the striking miners, o.- who objects to extortionate prices for fuel and food, if he is a reasoning being, will hereafter advocate and vote for government ownership of the raHroads.—New York Journal.

A Democratic HOn*e Needed. With the increased representation in the next House of Congress it will require 11)4 members to make a majority. There are now 15G Democrats in the House, so that presuming all of their seats will be retained in the elections of this year, the Democrats will still need to gain thirty-eight new members in order to have a majority. The question the Democratic campaign managers have to figure ou Is where they can most surely make fights with the prospect of winning those thirty-eight seats. A careful review of the votes cast at the election of 1900 shows that there are many more than thirty-eight congressional districts as they are now formed, and In spite of recent Republican gerrymanders, in which the Democrats nave fighting chances against majorities ranging from 10 votes to 700 votes. With the dissatisfaction that Is pervading Republican ranks in the West, with the great strikes ou in the East, and with the beef trust revolt affecting the people in every part of 'he country, the Democrats feel that the current is with them and that *hey tufty fairly expect to win the majority of the next House.

It will be worth while to give the Republicans a battle to the lust ditch lu every doubtful district In the Union. There i« need for Democratic control of the House of Representative* to me cuq that a strong scotch may bo put upon the extravagances of the Republicans and a ratchet on the headlong farcer of an administration equally indifferent to the popular will and the constitution of the uatlon.—Atlanta Constitution.

Teddy Duly Notified. The Republican State convention In Ohio, personally engineered and controlled by Senator Mark llanua, chairman of the Republican national committee, Is conceded to have furnished the keynote for the next presidential campaign. At that convention Gov. Nash, who Is Senator Hanna's official representative In Ohio, made the speech which Is supposed to outline Republican policy. Here Is one of the things he said; "Corporations should not be looked upon ns the enemies of the people, blit as their friends, enpahle of still further development and making useful the great resources of our State, and giving to labor remunerative employment and to capital safe luvestmen*. The last Legislature looked with friendly spirit upon the presence of corporations lu Ohio. It believed that they should be fostered and encouraged, and not fought as the common enemies of mankind.” Those who are In the habit of resiling between the lines will experience little difficulty In discovering the wnroIng thus conveyed to the present o'*oupant of the White House, yvbo lute shown a marked disposition to lie obstreperous upon the question of corporate and trust operations. It may

also be accepted as due and timely notice that the Republican party lias no intention of abandoning those interests from which it drew its $0,000,000 campaign fund for the election of McKinley. The Republican party is the friend of the corporations, and if rite Man on Horseback doesn’t approve be will be given the future privilege of returning to his cowboy ranges.-Den-ver News. Invoke the Criminal Law. W. J. Bryan, In bis paper, addresses a letter t<£ President Roosevelt, urging him to cause criminal proceedings to be started against the alleged beef trust. Incidentally Mr. Bryan declares tbe President a courageous man. He begins by quoting the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law, and continues: “You are the chief executive of this nation, and as such are not only empowered but are required to enforce the law. By commencing a civil action against the members of the beef trust you declared that the members of that trust are, in your opinion, guilty of a violation of the law. Why do you hesitate to commence a criminal action? The penalty fixed in the statute is insignificant compared with the penalty prescribed for a violation of less important statutes. If the members of the beef trust have raised the price of meat one cent per pound, they have laid a tax of millions of dollars upon the people of the United States, “It.is publicly stilted that some of the capitalists have condemned you for attempting to enforce the anti-trust law even by civil process'; it is even hinted that they threaten to oppose your renomluatiou if you show the strenuousuess in this direction that you have shown toward the Filipinos, but can you be scared by such threats? Will you fear to face concentrated wealth? Civil suits may annoy the captains of industry, lint if you are going to shackle cunning -you will have to shackle it with criminal laws. A prison cell will prove more effective in the prevention of monopoly than judgments or decrees for the payment of money. You have a chance to show that you were in earnest when you made that Minneapolis speech.” -

The Democracy of IndianaThe Indiana Democratic eonvKit’on was as harmonious and enthusiastic as such gatherings ever are when they address themselves solely to the principles of the Democracy. There are but four Democratic members froip Indiana in the present Congress, the total membership from that Stirte being thirteen. Under the new Congressional apportionment it Is possible that the Democrats may carry two or three additional districts.

The Republican gerrymander of the State lacked material 0 elements of strength. In trying to make more "sure districts” than the popular vote warranted the Republican majorities were spread out thinly even under the landslide vote of 1900. All the close districts are likely to elect Democratic members this year. The Indiana Democratic platform reverts to indisputable Democratic principles. The spirit of the convention in all its stages was a pledge of harmony, efficiency in the campaign and an old-fashioned Democratic movement with reasonable assurmces of success at the polls. It Is a noteworthy fact thn*. the Indiana Populists also held a State convention on Wednesday, nominated a full State ticket and adopted a regulation Populistic platform. As they nre going in a direction different from that which the Democrats have taken, both parties wisely dropped the Idea of a fusion.—Chicago Chronicle.

Promise of Independence. What has happened in the case of Culm Is, as a matter of fact, vastly better than the most optimistic ventured to hope, while what Nas happened In the Philippines Is, in many respects, worse than the most confirmed pessimist dared to prophesy. If uny conclusion is to lie drakvu from the experience as to the lienefit or Injury of a promise of independence, the lesson Is that that promise was our salvation In Culm, and that the absence of it waa the source of unspeakable misery and wrong in the Philippines.- -Baltimore News.

Independent with Limitations. It Is clear that to speak of Cuba as "Independent” Ih not strictly corruct; she is dependent upon the good trill of the United States. Her aovalled Independence is limited by the approval and sanction of her conduct for the future by* the United Staten. Sh» is practically nothing but an expertiu»ntal ntate on her good behavior. If ever she becomes a derelict government the United States can and doubtless will Interfere.—Portland Oregonian.

The OrcKon Lesson. There Is food for thought In the result of the Oregon election. It shows the possibility of breaking through the Hues of a majority party, notwithstanding Its organised strength In the support of federal policies of adinluls* tratlou, through the presentation of strong, suitable nud aggressive candidates for Htnte offices who make their appeal for sup|>ort by ranging themselves on the right side of State Issues.

QUEEN OF SWINDLERS.

Mme. Humbert, Principal in the Moat Colossal Fraud of the Age. Mme. Humbert aqd her husband, who are fugitives from Paris and are being Bought by the New York police, have in

twenty years secured $8,000,000 from French bankers on the security of an alleged inheritance left them by an American and locked up iu a safe pending a compliance with certain conditions made by the testator. When the safe was opened by creditors recently it

MME. HUMBERT.

tvas found to be empty. The Crawford brothers, who were purported to have left the fortune to Mme. Humbert, are believed to have been myths, as no one, has ever been able to secure any information in regard to them. Not since the Dreyfus ftfal has any one topic so monopolized the public attention in Paris. ’The affair, which has already brought about the resignations of eminent magistrates and notar'es and has given rise to half a dozen libel suits, and has become a potent factor iu French politics. M. and Mme. Humbert have been living in Paris in regal style, and had an imposing chateau in the country. There have been a number of suicides ns a result of losses through the loans, and the expected failure of an insurance company and other affairs in which the Humberts were interested will affect thousands. Prominent men in France, including judges and politicians, are suspected of complicity in the swindle.

SOLDIERS CUT TO PIECES.

Five Americans in Luzon Are Massacred by Ludroncs. The bodies of the sergeant, two corporals and two privates of the Fifth cavalry who were captured on May 30 by ladrones at Binangonan, Itizal province. Luzon, have been recovered. The men were Sergteant Stewart, Corporals Block'

“Brave minds, howe’er at war, are secret friends Their generous discord with the battle ends; In peace thpy wonder whence dissensions rose. And ask how souls so like could e’er be foes.” •• Ohio State Journal.

and Finnegan, and Privates Davis and Carr. Most of the bodies had been hewn limb from limb, and it was found impossible to reeognixe four of the dead men. A number of arrests in the matter have been made and nine men have been absolutely identified as belonging to the baud of ladrones which captured the Ameri-' cans. The identified men include two members of the police force of Teresa, Morong province. Strong re-enforeemonts have been ordered to pound the ladrones until they are exterminated. Maj. L. W. T. Waller must explain the Interview he gave to newspapers in San Francisco criticising his superiors. Secretary Moody has telegraphed to the major asking him to report at once as to the correctness of the interviews. Unless he can enter explicit denial he is likely to be severely reprimanded, if not court martialed. President Roosevelt is ■aid to feel strongly on the subject. Maj. Waller whs quoted as saying that the revolution in the Philippines could not be quelled unless the severest measures were inken; that he never questioned Gen. Smith’s orders except in one instance, which he declined to stat<». He ■was further quoted as sayiug: “I left Samar a howling wilderness. They tried to make it that for us, but we made it a howling wilderness for them. 1 objected to being court martialed. It wasn’t done at my pleasure. I wns not consulted in the matter; I was simply court martialed.” Then followed this statement to which the President and Secretary Moody took particular exception: "I know who caused that court martial; 1 know who brought it forward; I know who wns at the back of it all, and Washington knows as much.” ,

WILL COST $60,000.

Count of Uncle Ham's Wealth in the Philadelphia Mint. Owing to the appointment of a new superintendent of the Philadelphia mint all the money there stored will have to be counted. The task will cost the government some SOO,OOO and will last five months. An idea of the magnitude of the undertaking may be gained from the fact that the gold alone In the mints weighs more than 550,000 pounds. Mr. Landis, the new superintendent, is responsible for the safety of all this vast treasure, hence It is not surprising that be should require a recount on assuming the duties of Ms new office. If he should leave his position within n year or so and any abort age should be found he would be obliged to make good the sum out of bis own pocket. At the present time it Is estimated that the wealth in the mint is distributed as follows: Gold bullion. $81,813,470; silver bullion, $30.448,072; gold coin, $55,329,412; silver coin, $92,483,30,';.

LOSS OF $25,000,000 SINCE STRIKE BEGAN.

On May 12, the anthracite strike began, and in that time the losses have reached the enormous smu of s2s,ooo,Qflp‘. Two boys have been shot and seriously wouuded; many watchmen nnd workers liava been beaten, some property has been destroyed and there is constant apprehension of trouble. The figures which show conditions as they now are follow: Loss to miners in wages .$ 5,833,000 Loss to operators In price of coal (normal) • 11,750,000 Loss to unemployed other than strikers, clerks, factory hands, railroaders, etc 1,570,000 Business men's loss In coal region 3,600,000 Business men's loss outside coal region 2,300,000 Total $25,033,000 Mine workers left region since strike began 52,000 Strikers at work in region 2,500 Strikers not earning money 92,000 Number of other workers Idle 35,000

"OAT KING OF THE WEST.”

Chicago Operator Who Made Immense Profits ou a Shrewd Deal. The big man of the Chicago Board of Trade to-day, and whose every move has been closely watched for the past nine

months, is James A. Patten, mayor of Evanston. Mr. Patten closed an oat deal he had been festering since September and his profits are estimated at $500,000. The day when he closed out his holdings the pit was in an uproar. Mr. Patten and h 1 s agents

JAMES PATTEN.

were the center of interest and activity, and they bought and sold until the highest price for May oats since 1894 was reached, 49V& cents being the closing figure. At least 400,000 bushels wore disposed of in a few hours, this being the record for the Chicago Exchange. It is estimated in ail Mr. Patten handled 10,000,000 bushels of oats and not over 500,000 cost him above 40 cents.

Mr. Patten has been on the hoard more than twenty years, lie began life as a farmer boy at Sandwich. 111., but moved to Chicago and entered the State grain inspection office early in his career. He was graduated from there in a few years and went into the Board of Trade, For the past ten years Mr. Patten has lieen a successful operator iu grains an 1 stocks. He is a cautious trader and is recognized as one of the shrewdest operators on the hoard. Mr. Patten made his advent into pod-, ties by running for Alderman in Chicago. He was defeated and soon after moved to Evanston. There he has been successful and is now serving as Mayor.

PERTINENT Personals

President Roosevelt shaves himself every day. Gen. Miles will retire in eighteen months. Senator Vest's friends fear he may not live to serve his term out. Senator Spfioner prefers a place in the Senate to a cabinet portfolio. The strength of the staff of the Governor of Georgia is thirty colonels. Senator Beveridge says there are no longer any wizards in Wall street. Richard Croker has sworn to a personal assessment of $25,000 in New York. Clark E. Carr is being talked of as Governor of the American (Danish! West Indies. William McCroskey of Washington is the youngest Governor in the L'uited States. Willie K. Vanderbilt has an automobile which goes faster than a mile a minute. Senator Penrose (ft Pennsylvania says the l'uited Stutes Senate needs more members. William Boucher of Baltimore, whs made the first screwhead banjo iu 1847, is still living. Gov. Mcßride of Washington will discharge any State employe who accepts a railroad pass. Charles T. Yerkes paid Benjamin Constant of Paris $30,000 to paint his (Yerkes’l portrait. Capt. Oberlln M. Carter, so his friends ■ay, is dying at the Fort Leavenworth prison of a broken heart. President Roosevelt has aged consid* erably during the six months he has occupied the White douse.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Workmen Find Rare Fossil —Negro Rescued from Mob by Officers—Fast Train In Ditch—Man Wrestles with a Bull—Drowned While Swimming. An unusually perfect fossil of a member of the falcon family was discovered In one 6{ the huge blocks of stone awaiting being set in the walls of the new Masonic Temple at Crawfordsville. The outlines of the fossil are remarkably distinct. The figure is two feet high and the details of the eye sockets, feet and the sweep of the long tail feathers are extremely clear. The block of stone will not he used in building now, but will be preserved with care and eventually wifi find its way into some museum. Scientists say this fossil is extremely rare, Negro Saved from Lynchers. John Haynes, a negro from Wabash, shot and mortally wounded Clarence Gillespie, white, an employe in the Pern steel casting works. Haynes, after the shooting, made an attempt to escape, hut was captured by a crowd of steel workers who were with Gillespie. While officers were hastening to the scene the steel workers were preparing to lynch the negro, and Haynes would have been hanged had not the officers arrived when they did.

Man Wrestles with Bull. A South American strong man. with no rope or weapon, wrestling with a hull was the chief attraction for 12,090 persons at the Terre Haute fair grounds at the exhibitions provided under the auspices of the Order of Railway Conductors. In the first bout the 3-year-old Hereford threw the man and stepped on him, hut inflicted only slight injury. In the next battle after much effort the man threw the bull. Motion Fast Train Ditched. The Monon fast train No. 5, Chicago to Louisville, jumped the track as it was coming into the station at Crawfordsville. The engine and two cars were derailed. the engine turning over on its side just before it reached the platform, which was crowded. Engineer Crawford and Fireman Frank went over with the engine, hut escaped with slight injuries. A misplaced switch was the cause.

Boys Drowned in a Creek. George and Leon, sous of Janies Gudin gt on. a well-known farmer near Valparaiso. were drowned iu Sievers creek, while wading with several companions, Tlie boys, who were 3 and 1(1 years old respectively, stepped into a deep hole in the creek and sank before their frightened playmates could aid them. Swimmer Killed by Lightning. During a severe electrical storm Arthur Jordan, aged 24, and two companions went swimming in a deep hole in the Tippecanoe river near Warsaw. Jordan was drowned. He was a good swimmer, and it is the belief that he was struck by lightning while iu the water. He resided at lliou. F tate New* in Briif. Millions of locusts in Kosciusko County. Charles Byroads. Lebanon, indicted for murdering Joe Herrick. Homer Fuller, 20. Muucie, committed suicide with laudanum. Thomas Mason, aged 14, sou of a farmer near Crawfordsville, was drowned while swimming. Latest returns show that Goodland has been selected us the new county seat of Jasper County by nine votes. Ethel Williams, 21, Terre Haute, killed herself with poison because Charles Taxis said he didn't want to see her again. The quarantine order issued against Indiana on account of smallpox was suspended until July 3 by the Kentucky State Board of Health.

Horace Hadley. 19-year-old son of Mrs. Ixui Hadley of Monrovia, committed suicide with poison. He had chuKed and joked with friends u few minutes before. Harry A. Rosengarten, a merchant policeman, was found dead with a bullet hole above his right temple in Indianapolis. Both suicide und murder theories ore advanced. Marshall T. Harrold, Arthur Stevens and Gerue Trowbridge, three young men of Sweetser, have been arrested, charged with being implicated in the murder of James Lacy and the shooting of Jacob Gottschall on a public road between Marion and ltoseburg. Harrold and Stevens acknowledged having been in the party at the time, but said Gerne Trowbridge did the shooting. The men interested in escablisbing the Nationnl Technical Institute have beeu in Indianupolis. They are Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman of New York, chancellor of the Winona Agricultural and Technical Institute; W. M. Smith, a commission merchant of New York, and Thomas Kane of Chicago, president of the Winona assembly. The men have promised to endow the National Institute and locate It there if Indianapolis will furnish the site. Sufficient subscriptions have been made to pay running expenses for five years and for many scholarships.

As the result of a long standing family quarrel and feud between the families of John Bailey und Oliver Cameron, both living at Falmouth, Bailey aud Cameron nre Isith dead, each killed by the hand of the other. Bailey returned from work and went directly to the house of Cameron. He believed his wife was within und asked entrance. This he was denied and without further words be shot Cameron. Cameron staggered into the house und. seizing a shotgun, returned the fire from the door. Both men fell and died almost instantly. Cameron leaves a widow und four children aud Bailey a widow and seven children. Wallace Steele, aged 7 years, was playing In the yard nt Marion with a kerosene lamp and attempted to light it with a match, wlp'ii his clothing became ignited and he was burned to death. Lon Henderson, who shot and killed City Commissioner llnwville at Marion uine years ago amt served seven years in prison before being paroled, violated his parole and shot two policemen in Indianapolis who attempted to rapture him. Henderson is now carrying four revolvers and demnmls food at farm houses, terrorising women, lie says he will not be taken all Te. ’