Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — Page 7

HORSE BILLS. The Democrat would remind the owners of stable horses that it is fully prepared to turn out folders, cards or large horse bills on short notice and at very reasonable prices. The best selection of horse cuts in the county. Give us a call if wanting anything in this line. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store. T Crown, Bar and Bridge 1 Work. Teeth Without I Plates, Without Pain. , J. W. HORTON .. 16 YEARS IN RENSSELAER. Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered daily. Charges within the reach of all. orncs orrosiTS court housk. Where to Locate? WHY INTHC TERRITORY TRAVERSED BY THE . . LOUISVILLE and NASHVILLE RAILROAD —THE— Great Central Southern Trunk Line, IN KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, —WHERE Farmers, Fruit Growers, Stock Raisers, Manufacturers, Investors, Speculators, and Money Lenders will find the greatest chances in the United Sta'es to make “big money" by reason of the abundance and cheapness of Land and Farms, Timber and Stone, Iron and Coal, Labor—Everything! Free sites, financial assistance, and freedom from taxation for the manufacturer. Land and farms at SI.OO per acre and upwards. and 500,000 acres in West Florida that can be taken gratis under the U. S. Homestead law*. Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District will make enormous profits. Half fare excursions the tint and third Tuesdays of each month. Let us know what you want and we will tell you where and how to get it—but don’t delay, as the country is filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and all information free. Address. k R. J. WEMYSS General Immigration and Industrial Agent, LOUISVILLE, KY. jn. TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H. S. Ellis Marshal Mel Abbott Clerk. Charles Morlan Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil EngineerJ.C. Thrawl* w Fire ChiefC. B. Steward COUNCU.MKM. let ward Henry Wood, Fred Phillips Zd w ardW. S. Parks, B. F. Ferguson 3d wardJ. C. McColly, Peter W asson COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk.. John F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy AuditorW.C. Babcock Treasurer..R. A. Parkison. Recorderßobert B. Porter SurveyorMyrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor,John R. Phillipa COMMUBIONKBS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners' court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TBUSTKKB. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan...Gillam Lewis Shrier...Walker Elias Arn01d...... Barkley Charles M. Blue Marion John Hill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox Newton S, L. Luce Keener Thomas F. MaloneyKankakee Stephen D. ClarkWheatfield Albert J. Bellows Carpenter William T. SmithMilroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Suptßensseleer G. K. Hollingsworthßensselaer George Hesse ... ... Remington Geo. O. SteurbelWheatfield JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge ....Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting attorueyJohn D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February. April, September and November. REVIVO RESTORES VITALITY Made* ! Well tylan ™ B ** of GHUILA.T fmiwcibc mmrarDT produces the above recalls In 30 days. I tacts powerfully and quickly. Cures when all others tall Young mon will regain their loot manhood, and old men will recover their youthful vigor by using REVIVO. It quickly and surely restorss Nervousones. Lost Vitality, Impotency, Nightly Emissions, Lost Power. Failing Memory, Waatlns Diseases, and *ll effects of self abuse or exceuand Indiscretion wblob unOta one for stady, business or marriage. It not only cures by starting at the seat of disease, bui Isagreet nerve toolo and blood builder, bringing bank the pink glow to polo cheeks and re storing the flro of youth, ft wards off Insanity end Consumption. Insist on having BEVIVO, no other. It can bo carried in vest pocket By mall. *I.OO par package, or six tot *O.OO, with a post ttve written guarantee to cure or refund Ike money. Advice and circular free. Addree* BOYAL MEDICINE CO, For sale In Rensselaer by J. A. Larsh. druggist. PLENTY OF EO6S Aad no sick eblekene where Wells’ Rooster Pin). try Powder I* need. Curse Cholera. Gapes aad •sup. Keeps poeltry healthy. Prise, M eent* Sold by A- F. Long.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

The Anti-Trust Program. Anti-trust legislation is still in a chaotic state. The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives has reported a bill which will probably pass the lower liouse. It was collaborated by the Littlefield subcommittee and Attorney General Knox,” and the latter is said to be fairly satisfied with it, which Is an indication that*the trusts do not fear it. It is mainly intended for spectacular purposes, for it is well known that the Judiciary Committee of the Senate will not report it, as Chairman Hear favors his own bill, and the other Republicans members are nearly all favorable to the corporations. The Senate leaders have their own trust program to overcome the obstacle of the statehood bill, which lias the right of way and cannot be displaced, having a majority in its saver. The oligarchy that rules the Senate found themselves helpless to prevent Senator Quay from passing the statehood bill, unless they resorted to a long filibuster, which is now in progress. But the adroit politicians who always control legislation in the Senate have evolved a plan of strategy that they hope will show that they are still omnipotent. President Roosevelt has informed Senators Aldrich anil Spooner thnt some sort of anti-trust legislation is undoubtedly necessary to save the Republican party from ruin and they have agreed to put some kind of a bill through the Senate, if Speaker Render-

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son will force it through the House. The fact that the President sent for Henderson and converted him to the mild form of anti-trust legislation that was considered necessary is now’ a matter of history. Henderson’s reward is to come later. The plan of the Senators is to do by Indirection what is impossible in a direct way. The way being blocked for the passage of an anti-trust bill through the Senate, it is Intended to have the Conference on the Department of Commerce bill, which has passed both houses. Insert In the measure, through an amplification of its provisions regarding the Bureau of Corporations, r,ll that part of the antitrust program relating to publicity. Tiie rest <>f the program relates to rebates and discriminations and Is covered by a bill introduced by Senator Elkins, and by him reported favorably from the Committee on Interstate Commerce. As Senator Elkins is an out nnd out friend of the railroads, and is known to be interested in corporations. the measure is hardly likely to be Inimical to trust Interests. The importance of this program, says the Boston Transcript, lies in Its relation to Senate strategy. "It eliminates the Judiciary Committees in both House nnd Senate, making the Committees on Commerce and on Interstate Commerce the real vehicles of decreed Republican policy. " Tills had long been desired by the leaders. Its next advantage comes in getting the essentlon of the anti-trust program before both houses as a privileged matter, through the medium of a conference report. Tills gives it 'pi’eeedenee over even Statehood." All thnt Is not of much consequence to tiie people. It Is Intended to again fool them Jiy making them believe that their servants in Congress, and especially their President, are trust-busters. The result of the legislation will show’ that the bills are entirely Inoffensive to the trusts, and this Is foreshadowed by the Senators nnd Representatives, who arc trusts agents, being favorable to the bills. The Democrats will probabljFTote for the measures, for not to do so would lay them open to the charge that they sre opposed to anti-trust legislation. Taxes Pnrpoaely Mn<le Too High. The Republican leaders In Congress seem determined not to reduce the

tariff on trust products, eit'en on those that it has been proved.are being sold at a higher price herp than abroad. The Republican leaders also intend to keep the high rates of the Dingley tariff on even those schedules which were “purposely made too high” so that the protected trusts sbouifi not lose their grip of the home market, if some reductions were made in reciprocity treaties. Steel Trust’s Foreign Policy. On Nov. 24 the New York Commercial said: "The United States Steel Corporation and its competitors have instructed their foreign agents to look for a market for light finished steel products. The production of sheets,, tin plates, steel wire products, etc., Is greater than domestic consumption. Rather than close the mills and thus be compelled to reduce the price to home consumers, the surplus will be sent abroad at a price below that quoted in the home market.” The Commercial said that “this policy has frequently been resorted to. Among concerns that benefited largely by this method in the past were all the corporations that are now under the domination of the United States Steel Corporation." On Nov. 28 it was announced that tiie steel trust had cut both its domestic and foreign prices on wire, wire nails, tin plate, wrought iron pipe, etc., $5 per ton. During the recent campaign the Republicans were denying

strenuously that our exports were sold cheaper to foreigners than at home and were positive that the tin plate trust was not selling abroad. As a matter of fact it began this nefarious business more than three years ago. Foreigners have all along been getting our steel Roods at from 20 to 50 per cent less than we are compelled to pay for them. If the foreigners pay our taxes it is only fair that they should get our goods cheaper. If we pay the tariff taxes we should be the preferred customers of the protected trusts. Congress should investigate to learn who pays these taxes. If, perchance, it should find that we pay them it might discuss tli<> propriety’ of taking them off. A Lesson in Yankeelatnl. Of all sections New England is faring worst in regard to the cost of fuel. It is in New England that the socialists have polled their biggest vote and shown most growth. The next elections in that part of tiie country may furnish some striking object lessons for men who are radical In the use and abuse of tiie power of corporations, but are very conservative In other things.—« Cleveland Leader.

The tariff ties the consumer s hands while the trusts pick hts pockets. Senator Burton, of Kansas, is an enthusiastic hunter, nnd has many trophies to prove his skill.

WINTER WHEAT OUTLOOK

January Reports Show Generally Good Conditions. The crop report issued by the weather bureau says that on the whole the winter wheat crop fared well in January, the central and northern portions of the winter wheat belt being well protected by snow covering tmtil the closing days of the month, when much snow melted, leaving only the extreme northern districts with a covering on Jan. 31. Over the southern portion of the belt some damage resulted from alternate freezing and thawing, but the crop lias apparently not sustained serious injury. The rainfall was light, r rhan usual; but Kansas is the only State reporting need of moisture. In Washington and Oregon the general condition of wheat is satisfactory although portions of these States have suffered from alternate freezing and thawing, in California the first half of the month in the northern sections was cold and foggy, while hot, dry winds prevailed in the southern part of the State, but no serious damage resulted: more favorable temperature conditions, with beneficial rains, prevailed during the latter part of the month. Special reports were received from the following States: Illinoi. Temperature above seasonal average, and precipitation well distributed; snow fall in north and central districts afforded good cohering for wheat, the general condition of which is excellent; in the southern district the crop has been slightly injured by alternate freezing ami thawing. Indiana—Ground covered with snow greater part of month, but now mostly bare; wheat in good condition, except the comparatively small acreage of early sown that was injured by fly. Considerable corn yet in field in some localities; live stock wintering well. Ohio—Ground generally well covered by snow from the Gth to 27th and wheat well protected; no damage reported; frost out of ground in many places at end of month. Michigan—Winter wheat well prot’eted by snow until 27th, when it was partly uncovered: plant rather small on account of late seeding, but green and healthy: very little frost in ground. Nebraska —January was warm and dry, without severe weather of any kind; favorable month for winter wheat, condition of which has changed little, at’d continues excellent in western portion of wheat belt, and but slightly less favorable in eastern. „ Kansas—Mild, dry month; some plowing done in south portion; wheat looks well, but needs moisture; corn husking well advanced. Missouri—The month was generally unfavorable for winter wheat; considerable thawing and freezing and little protection afforded by snow in northern sections; but little damage resulted. however, and crop generally is in good condition.

ONE OF THE TRUST FIGHTERS.

John J. Jenkins, Chairman of House Committee on Judiciary. His position at the head of the House Committee on Judiciary, which has in charge all of the many anti-trust meas-

ures which have been introduced in the lower branch of Congress, makes Hon. John J. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, one of the interesting figures among the national lawmakers. He is an E n g 1 i s h m an by birth and is CO years old. He came to this country at the age of 9, served

JOHN J. JENKINS.

through the war as a member of Company A. Sixtli Wisconsin Volunteers, and at the close of tiie civil strife entered politics. He was first Circuit Court Clerk, then City Clerk of Chippewa Falls, next County Judge, member of the Assembly, and United States Attorney of Wyoming. In 1894 he was elected to Congress and has been there ever since.

FROM FOREIGN

The Roumanian Senate agreed ro a resolution for the naturalization of the Jews. The French Senate voted that Franco should participate in the St. Louis exposition of 1904. Returns of the referendum vote, taken in the province of Ontario, show a victory for the Prohibitionists. The federal council of the Swiss confederation elected M. Deutchcr president and M. Ferrer vice-president. A new Conservative ministry, headed by Senor Silvela, lias taken the place of the Liberal ministry of Senor Sagasta. Vitas Admiral Cervera, who commanded the Spanish fleet at Santiago, hns been appointed chief of staff of the Spanish navy. , Thirteen anarchists were arrested near Spezia, Italy, while in the act of taking an oath witli poignards to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel. The members of the Humbert family, arrested at Madrid for their vast swindling operations nt I’nris, were brought back to the latter capital and placed in prison pending their trial. The French Chamber of Deputies ratified nn additional monetary convention between France, Italy. Belgium nnd Switzerland, authorizing each country to issue additional silver coins to the value of $2,500,000. A new sugar bill wns adopted by the French Chaiuber of Deputies which reduces the tax on refined sugar to 25 frnnes per 220 pounds, ns compensation for the abolition of the sugar bounties under the Brussels convention. To England’s statement that if the Russian government did not adhere to the Brussels convention a retaliatory duty would lie imposed on Russian sugar, Russia replied thnt such action- would be a dangerous precedent for relations between friendly nations. ’ Russia offered to submit this'nnd nil other similar question* to Tho Hague arbitration court.

INDIANA LAWMAKERS

In the Senate on Thursday a juvenile court bill was introduced by Senator Thompson, establishing a separate court in Indianapolis. Senator Goodwine introduced a bill to separate the Girls’ Industrial School from the women’s prison. The bill allowing nline members of a jury to return a verdict was indefinitely postponed. Bill was introduced providing a Saturday half holiday for clerks in banks and trust companies. In the House the traveling library bill passed to engrossment. Bin passed making Shelby County a judicial district by itself. Bill giving the Governor the appointment of deputy labor inspectors passed to engrossment. The bill fixing penalties for public officers gambling or dealing in margins was passed by the House Friday. Charles L. Jewett of New Albany, former Congressman from the Third District, was in the Senate as a visitor and was asked to make an address by Senator Fortune and spoke for a few moments. When the Senate was called on to vote on the motion of invitation there was one loud "no” from the Democratic side, evidently from some member who could not forget Mr. Jewett's desertion of the party to the Republicans. Then a delegation of Democrats walked from the Senate chamber. in the teenate Monday the garnishee bill was advanced to third reading. Barbers’ bill amended and advanced to third rending. Favorable report on bill to separate girls' industrial school from women s prison adopted. Vincennes University claim of $120,000 introduced. Bill to add primer to rending course in public schools killed. Prosecuting attorneys’ substitute, salary bill introduced. In the House the dentists' bill and county superintendents' bill were special orders.

Senate Hills on Third Reading.

Fixing time for holding court in Perry. Spencer and Warrick counties. Gibson. Passed—.>» to 0. Giving prison matrons in counties of 50.0 IX) or more, proper accommodations for herself and female prisoners, and that she shall be the jailer in charge of female prisoners. Burns. Passed—l 3 to 0. Requiring automobile drivers to slacken the speed of their machines to four miles an hour when signaled to do so by the occupant of an approaching or passing vehicle, and requiring them to be registered. Johnston. Passed —38 .’’>. Providing for the printing of 2,G00 additional copies of the last report of the fish commissioner and game warden of Indiana. Newhouse. Passed—4o to 0. Providing for semi-annual inspection of boilers on gasoline and naphtha launches. Parks. Passed —35 to 0. Authorizing an administrator to allow n part of a claim against estate of a decedent. Dausman. Passed —37 to 0. Legalizing all records in recorders’ offices lacking notarial affidavits, but made in good faith. Singer. Passed —3S to 0. Reimbursing to the amount of $2lB Austin Pierson a former township trustee of Hendricks County. Barlow. Passed—3B to 0. Legalizing incorporation of Linden. Montgomery County. Gibson. Passed —3B to 1. To permit the building of a coliseum in Indianapolis. Thompson. Passed — 40 to 0. Extending the period for contracts for prison labor. Matson. Passed—4o to 1. Providing that the county commissioners shall hear eases where the drainage association decides that the proposed improvement would not be of public utility. Barens. Passed—3s to 1. Exempting fraternal beneficiary associations from taxation and from attach inent under trustee, garnishee or other process. Burns. Passed—34 to 2. Fixing the terms of county officers so that they all begin the same time—the Ist day of January succeeding their election. The bill was amended so as to make it impossible for' an officer to resign and then be reappointed, and hold the office four yelfrs. Passed bv a vote of 48 to 0. Bringing city of Fort Wayne under operation of Barrett law in matter of street improvements. Fleming. Passed —42 to 0. Empowering Slate B:ard of Audit to issue bonds and to bid on the T. H. A 1. Railroad in ease it is ordered sold by tile court. Matson. Passed—42 to 0. Providing that the cleaning of dredge ditches be done under contract with township trustees. Parks. Passed—3B to 1. Bills Introduced —Senate. S. B. 150—Establishing a negotiable instrument law uniform with the laws of other States. Walcot. Judiciary No. 2. S. B. 157—Compelling justices of the peace to use a seal in making acknowledgment of deeds, mortgages, etc., good anywhere in the State. Gochenour. Judiciary No. 1. S. B. 140—Legalizing all records in recorders’ offices lacking notarial affidavits and legalizing all other acts of notaries done in good faith. Singer. Judiciary No. 2. S. B. 141—Providing that a widow shall take under her husband's will, unless she elects to take one-third, subject to its proportion of debts. Wood. Judiciary No. 1. 8. B. 130—Concerning gravel and macadamized roads. Gard. Roads. S. B. 143—Providing a penalty of from $lO to to $25 fin%, if a dam owner does not put in a fish ladder, and providing the same penalty of the same amount if it is not repaired within thirty days. Barlow. Rights and privileges. 8. B. 144—Reimbursing William H. Oren, ex-treasurer of St. Joseph County, for $1,328.12 lost by failure of the batik of J. 11. Steyice A Son. Burns, by request. Claims and expenditures. S. B. 131—Concerning claims against the estates of insane persons. Harrison. Judiciary No. 1. 8. B. 134—Providing for nn annual Arbor day. to be designated by the Governor. Parks. Agriculture. 8. B. 133—Concerning the employment of convict labor. Matson. Prisons. S. B. 135 Making more specific the city charter of Fort Wayne in the matter of street assessments. Ulrey. Cities mid towns. 8. B. 132—I’j-oviding that county treasurers shall collect taxes at their offices .in the court house, at the county stat, mid not elsewhere, mid providing a fine of from SSO to SSOO for violations. Hendee. Judiciary No. 1. Reorganizing Jeffersonville Reformatory. Passed—3o to 10. Increasing salaries of Supreme and Appellate judges and Supreme Court slerfc. Wood—Passed—27 to 2L

INDIANA INCIDENTS. Senate Sills on Third Reading

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Plan to Merge Coal Mines of the State Elkhart Girl Inherits a Large Estate—A New Railroad from Chicago —Gas Injunction Fails. Indiana coal operators are working on an immense merging scheme. The plan is to bring all the controlling coal producing interests of Indiana into one company. Absolute ownership is the plan to be followed. The coal mining interests of the State are worth over $35,000.000. Those properties lying along the railroad lines are to be taken in. A committee composed of A. M. Ogle of Indianapolis, J. Smith Talley <>f Terre Uauti and George Seifert, who has large mines in Sullivan County, is making the moves and taking options on properties’; -Some of the largest coal mining interests in the State are covered by options. It is said that the deal, if it goes through, will be far more extensive than simply ownership of mines. The company cpnte.nplatesjfrit—is—understood, equipping itself with its own coal ears, and to provide enough to prevent the present frequent shut down of the mines because of lack of cars on whic-h-to. load the coal. Girl Made Rich by Will. Miss Martha Axe. a well-known young woman, who makes her home with het widowed mother in Elkhart, has been officially informed that her uncle. Allen T. Axe, who died at Basin, Mont., on Jan. 9, willed her one-third of his estate, which consists of cash and fivetwelfths of the famous Ada mine, embracing a twenty-acre tract, twelve miles from Basin. Within two years, though not vigorously worked, the mine has netted about SSG,(W. Mr. Axe left Valparaiso over forty years ngo, and assisted in laying out Salt Lake City, and a» a prospector walked all over the sites oi Helena and Butte before a single hotrss had been erected. New Road From Chicago. The Chicago, Terre Haute and Southern Railway Company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $200,000, to construct a railroad from Chicago into Luke County, thence in a southerly direction through the counties of Lake, Newton. Benton, Warren, Fountain, Ver irilion, Parke and Vigo to Sullivan County. The length of the road will be about 200 miles. William B. Cloyes cl Chicago holds 1.98 G shares of stock. Effort to Stop Gas Fails. Judge Carter in the Supreme Court as” Indianapolis granted an injunction to the Indiana Natural Gas and Gil Company against Harry E. Drew and others to prevent their interference with the company's pipe lines. The case grew out of an attempt of northern Indiana citizens to stop the company piping gas to Chicago. The ease came from Madison County. •——- Ury Goods' Association. Indiana Dry Goods Association has organized and elected the following officers: President, G. H. Robertson, South Bend; vice-president, M. H. Shorf, North Manchester; secretary, F. B. Goldthrait, Marion; treasurer, Marion Ives, Delphi. The object of the association is to combine purchases, and buy foreign goods direct from the importers. I.ives Half a Life in Year. Physicians attending Charles F. Schultz, city treasurer, who died in La I’orte at the age of 47 years, declare that he died of old age. having lived half a lifetime in less than a year. The case has attracted much attention from medical men. Memorial to Hendricks. President Fisher of Hanover College, at Madison, has received from Mrs. Eliza C. Hendricks, widow of former Vice-President Thomas A. Hendricks, a gift of $25,000 for the erection of a library in memory of her husband. All Over the State. Tiie city of Winchester has bought a 12-room house and two acres of land to be used as a detention hospital. W. L. Finch has forced the Arrow Nail Company at Anderson into a receivership. He says it owes him $2,000. At South Bend Samuel Quick han deserted his wife and nine children and run away with a Mrs. Clark, who ha* two children. Elkhart factory employes, sympathizers of the striking motormen and conductors, stoned a car, breaking all the windows and forcing the non-uniou crew to take refuge in a house. Fire in tiie plant of the American Tin Plate Company in Anderson damaged the boilers and machinery to tiie amojnt of $40,000. It required the combined aid of the tire equipment and 125 workmen to put out the flames. Rebuilding will be begun at once. Five hundred until are thrown out of employment. George W. W oodrttff, who for many years has been a puzzle to the medical profession, is dead at his home in Frankfort. Although in fairly good health ho would go for many days without sleep. At one time he did not sleep for serentytive days and nights, although during that time many noted physicians became interested in his case and gave him treatment. It wns a common thing for him to go a month without sleep. Grand Trunk passenger train No. 8 ran Into the rear end of a south bound Big Four passenger train at Gi Huger. The rear coach on the Big Four passenger train was lifted from the track nnd shoved through the bay window at' the Granger station. The Big Four train had stopp«‘d at the station, and, in approaching, the Grand Trunk engineer failed to see the other train in time to stop his engine. Three men were injured. An investigation by the coron*r revealed that AHien Blankenship, a watchman, found/aead in the Melrose downing milV'Tn Evansville, was murdered. His sknul and nose were fractured. Part of the money he was known to have with him is missing. Miss Mary Hicks, a former society leader of Indianapolis and a niece of E. H. Nebeker. former United States Treasurer under Harrison, has filed a sensational divorce against her husband, Hannibal Yount, a well-known Covington attorney, to whom she was married only Jour months ago.