Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1905 — Page 4

mm awn mm. 11 HIM. EDITOR lID NIIBIEI. UM {S» , .V.’-o." •«. Official Democratic Paper of Jaopar County. Sf.OO PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising ratea made known on application Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as second elaas matter. Office on Van Ronaeeiaer Street, North of Murray** Store. SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1905.

The question a a to whether the change to be made in the poor farm superintendent will be to the advantage of the taxyayers of the county is a much mooted one at present. In some ways The Democrat believes it will be, but in others it has doubts. While this is a position that a great many people would not have at any salary* y©t there are plenty of good, competent men who would be glad to get the place if given a chance, and who we believe would use their best efforts to bring order and economy out of chaos and extravagance. The Democrat has long contended that this farm of 278 acres of fine land, well improved and stocked as it is, should be practically self-supporting, and it still holds to that view. Unless the superintendent makes a better showing than has been made lately the farm should be sold, all but say 40 acres, whioh could be tended without hiring all the relatives of the superintendent, and the money turned into the county treasury. As now conducted politics cuts too much figure in the management, where fitness should be the controlling spirit, and it is proving a mighty poor investment for the county. The opportune ties for graft would then be lessened considerably and the plea that has been made —in most instances with little foundation —that “improvements” was what wascausing the great expense in conducting of the farm, would have, in a measure at least, to be dropped.

THE NORTHERN INDIANA EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION.

The Northern Indiana Editorial Association will hold its annual meeting at Rochester, June 29 and 30. The people of Rochester, are preparing to show the editors a good lime and it is expected that a large attendance will bo had. H. A. Barnhart of the Rochester Sentinel is the corresponding secretary and in invitatons sent out says, “the program for these events will be suoh as to guarantee satisfaction or you may throw us in the lake,” but if the program is as good as it reads it is not probable that Hank will get his coat tails dampened. Among the features is a fish fry And boating at Lake Manitou and a reception at the Rochester College, the campus of which will be lighted with Japanese lanterns and music will be furnished by the Citizens Band and Prof. Strong’s College orchestra.

DONAHUE MUST HANG.

The Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment sentencing Edward Donahue to death for the murder of Aminter Northrup, at Hobart, in Lake county Donahue was originally sentenced to hang r week ago last Friday, but a stay of execution until July 21 was granted to enable the Supreme Court to pass on his appeal. The court took occasion to speak in severe terms of the attempted defense of insanity, for which a new trial was asked. Objections had been urged against the grand jury which returned the indictment because it acted at an adjourned term of court, but the court held this action proper. The principal cause for which a new trial was asked was the alleged insanity of Donahue, his attorney assertiug that he had dis covered proof of that fact, although no suggestion was ever made that Donahue was insane until after his trial was ended. He directed the oonduct of his own defense, and sustained a cross-examination by the prosecuting attorney for six hours without causing any one in the court room to suspect his sanity.

LOOK MBRE!

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0. A. ROBERTS.

PROTECTION IS ROBBERY.

Republican Proof That the Trtitl Charge Two Prior*. When the last Democratic national convention declared that “protection Is robbery” all the Republican organs were shocked and grieved or angered according to their mood. During the campaign, when the Democratic newspapers and orators gave Instances of bow the people were being robbed under the protection system, similar howls of disapproval came from the same quarter, and even the specific Instances that the trusts were charging higher prices to our owu people than to foreigners abroad were denounced as fabrications, but were never disproved. Now comes the Fanama canal commission, with the approval of President Roosevelt, declaring that the ships, steel rails, freight cars and all manner of supplies required lu the construction of the canal will be purchased abroad unless our domestic trusts meet the price offered by the foreign manufacturer. Tills proof that the trusts have two price lists, one for domestic use and one for export, has thrown the stand patters Into fits from which they will burdly recover. The frank announcement that the trusts nre charging our own people from 30 to 50 per cent more than they charge the people of foreign countries for their products and that Uncle Bam, to protect himself from being robbed by the trusts has to purchase supplies abroad, will open people’s eyes to the enormity of the Republican system that allows corporations to rob them. The farmers, laboring man nud the business man, for that matter, thus have official Information that the protective tariff, which the Republican party has always declared was enacted for their benefit, has been renlly a plan for the trusts to legally rob all who buy trust products. The Democratic declaration that “protection Is robbery” Is thus verified. The voter that casts his ballot for a candidate for congress that has not publicly promised to vote to revise the tariff will be voting to rob himself of about an average of 49 per cent of all he buys that is enumerated In the tariff schedules, and whatever beyond that the trusts find he will stand.

REVISING THE CABINET.

President's Adviaen Are Secret frlenda of the Railroad*. So Mr. Paul Morton Is to leave the cabinet and return to his former occupation of railroading. He will doubtless be ngalu active In the distribution of rebates and in fixing up discriminating rntes In favor of shippers who are able to demand them. Ills experience lu public affairs will be valuable in helping him to know how In future to escape detection by the agents of the department of commerce and labor. He will doubtless be able to put a nail lu tire coffin in which the bill for regulating rates will be burled. Who will sit in his place at the cabinet table and advise the president how the railroads plunder the people? From what Secretary Taft said and the president Indorsed in his last Chicago speech to the Chicago Democrats the administration has nailed its colors to the mast, for power to be given the Interstate commerce commission to fix maximum rates. No wonder a professed railroad man must get out of the cabinet, but wbnt will the president do with his other advisers? They are all secret friends of the railroads'nnd have railroad passes In their pockets.

POLITICAL INNOVATION.

Action of the Chicago Democrat* Toward Prraldrnt Itooftevelt. The acceptance by President Roosevelt of the invitation of the Iroquois club lo their banquet at Chicago Is an innovation in political matters. The extraordinary part of the proceedings was the fact that the largest Democratic club In the country with business men for members should have indorsed the president's declared 'lntention of recommending to congress legislation for control of railroad rates and the offer to sustain him politically lu ko doing. These Chicago Democrats evidently l>elleve the Republican majority will desert the president on the railroad issue, and hence their offer of assistance. They virtually follow the lead of the Democratic members of the last congress who sustained the recommendation of the president for similar legislation by voting for the EschTownsend bill after their preliminary vote for the Democratic Davey bill. Either we are on the eve of a political millennium or the most strenuous political uphenval since the civil war. Time alone can tell.

An Object Lesson.

Congress can and perhaps will compel the collection of Dingley duties In the caual strip, but the government will simply pay these duties to Itself. It could pass a law' providing that none but American materials nud American lal*or shall be used lu the cuual, but we doubt If It will directly or deliberately put an extra burden of I>erbaps $100,000,000 or $200,000,000 upon the people. The object lesson of the cost of the American tariff is made plain enough by the commission’s action. Congress, we think, will hardly dare to make It plalner.—Mlnneapolls Tribune.

German Retaliation.

The Republican tariff tax Is making trouble with Germany, who declares if we continue to throw obstacles fu her trading with us she will prcwr.t our . selling to her.

TWENTY-ONE DIE IN TRAIN WRECK

Twentieth Century Limited Goes into an Open Switch. WAS RUNNING AT HIGH SPEED Superintendent Moon Aeeerte Switch Wat Opened by Wreckers. FIRE ADDS HORROR TO BCEHE Disaster Occurred at Mentor, 0.. a Few Mi lev East of Cleveland— Wo ret In Lake Shore Road's History. Cleveland. 0., June 22.—According to a statement made at the headquarters of the Lake Shore road here the number of dead as a result of the wreck of the Twentieth Century Limited at Mentor, 0.. is twenty-one. It is believed there will be no further deaths. I*. N. Eiriek, manager of Keith's theater here, who was a passenger on the wrecked train. Is misssing and It is feared that he may be among the unidentified dead. D. C. Moon, assistant general superintendent of the Lake Shore road, after investigating the cause of the wreck, made this statement: "I have made a careful and thorough examination. The switch was open. 1 am satisfied somebody, having a key, opened the switch with malicious intent. The train did not jump the track.” The Llat of Dead. Following Is a revised list of the dead: C. H. Wellman, general manager of the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering company of this city: Thomas R. Morgan, of the same company, burned to death: Archibald P. Head. London, Eng., prominent Engliah steel man: John R. Bennett, patent attorney, New York city, burned to death; A. L. Rodgers, Platt Iron company, New York, died at hospital: H. n. Wright, traveling man. Chicago, died at hospital; William B. Mickey, address unknown; F. J. Brandt. Toledo. died at hospital; 8. C. Beokith. New York, died at hospital: J. H. Gibson. Chicngo. traveling man; N. B. Waters, Hamburg, N. Y„ baggageniaster: Alien Tyler, engineer. Collinwood. crushed under engine: J. A. Itradley, Akron, died at hospltnl: Henry Trlnz, New York. barlw*r on buffet car: H. C. Neckling, manager of the Wheeling Corrugating company. New York. Seven unidentified dead, one of whom is supposed to be Arthur L. Johnson, of Comey & Johnson, Cleveland. Wreck Occurs at Mentor. O. The disaster occurred while the Twentieth Century Limited was trav cling nt the rate of seventy-five miles an hour. The train ran through an open switch nt the little town of Mentor. east of Cleveland, nt 9:20 o'clock at night, causing one of the most hor rlble wrecks in the history of the Lake Shore road. The engine was hurled into the ditch. A part of the train was crushed on top of It and the wreck was partly burned. Tlic train was crowded. It wns behind time and the greatest of speed was being made to make up lost time Practically all the Injured were burned and had to he extricated from the blazing wreckage by rescue parties. The wrecked combination car. which had la mini crushed and splintered on top of the engine, was nt once enveloped in blinding flames and scalding steam. The cries of .imprisoned .passengers were heard above the roar, but many were beyond all human aid. Passengers Burned Alive. There wns small water supply and the means at hand for fighting the flames were pitifully inadequate, hut the zeal of the rescuers wrought great things for the first few minutes. It wns known flint a number of injured were helpless in the wreck, but though the work was done with frantic haste flames gradually drove the rescuers hack, and after ten minutes of awful battle, the rescuers were driven away from the blazing combination coach and the Imprisoned passengere were Incinerated. Despite all their help the fire burned until after midnight, and the last corpse was not recovered from the funeral pyre until 1 o’clock. It was the belief of the men who were nt the scene that those whose bodies were burned in the wreck were unconscious after the crash OFFICIAL REPORT OF WRECK Operator Say* Switch Wai O. K. When He Saw It Laat. New York. June 22.—The following report of the wreck was telegraphed by Vice President W. C. Brown, or the New York Central lines, to President W. H. Newman, In this city: “Train No. 10, eastbound, passed Mentor at 8:35 p. m. p at which time the switches were all aet for the train line. No. 26 followed No. 10 fifty minutes behind her, and no trains passed Mentor In either direction between the time No. 10 passed there and the arrival of No. 26. The operator was on the platform, with two men, named James Collins and W. M. Leuders, both of whom live in Mentor, when No. 10 passed, after which the operator

went Into the office and remained until about the time No. 26 was due, when he' again went out on the platform and saw No. 26 coming two or there miles away. “The operator says that he looked at the swltchlights and they and the switches were properly set for the main track. He then returned to"the office. If this Is correct, between that time and the time No. 26 headed in on the side track, some one threw the switch for the side track and locked It In that position. “No. 26 headed In the full length of the train on the house track, the engine leaving the rails about four coach lengths from the switch, crashing into the freight house, setting it on tire, and turned the engine end for end, and telescoping the composite car. which took fire from the burning of the house. The conductor of No. 26 immediately examined the switch and called the attention of General passenger Agent W. J. Lynch, of the Big Four, who was on the train to the fact that it was set and locked for the side track and light extinguished. “The switch Is not damaged and worked perfectly after the accident. The composite car, which was telescoped by the engine, was burned. No other cars In No. 26’s train turned over. Every possible effort is being made to locate the party who misplaced the switch."

FORGERY FRAUD IN PHILADELPHIA

Certificates for a Few Shares of Stock Raised to Represent Hundreds. Philadelphia, June 22.—Details of forgeries which have caused a loss of from $750,000 to $1,000,000 to certain banks and trust companies of this city have been brought to light through the closing up of the estate of Benjamin M. Gaskill, recently a prominent figure In financial circles, who died four weeks ago. Those who have been examining his financial affairs announced that certificates for a few shares of stock in a number of instances had been fraudulently raised to represent hundreds of shares and corresponding loans had been obtained with the forgeries as security. In its scope the fraud is one of the most sensational that Philadelphia's financial district ever has known. Gaskill was the sole member of the banking and brokerage concern known as Benjamin H. Gaskill & Co. He had offices In the financial district, and his credit was considered gilt edged.

King for Pacific Solution.

Stockholm, Sweden, June 22. —The extraordinary session of the riksdag summoned by King Oscar to deal with the momentous question raised by Norway’s declaration dissolving the union met for business and the government Immediately introduced a bill asking for authorization to enter into negotiations with the Norwegian storthing and draw up a conditional settlement of the questions involved in the separation of the heretofore dual kingdom. In the council of state which sanctioned the introduction of the bill in the riksdag dealing with the crisis, both the king and the premier were on the side of a pacific solution.

France, Germany and Morocco.

Berlin, June 20.—Premier Kouvler has informed Prince Itadolin, the German ambassador at Paris, that France is inclined to accept the invitation to take part in the proposed conference on Morocco provided the German and French governments can reach a mutually satisfactory agreement as to the precise points to be considered by the conferees. The conviction exists at the foreign office that France and Germany will be able to agree upon this program. Although earnest differences of view are yet to be reconciled the autlioriative judgment of the foreign office is that they will all be overcome by negotiation. _k ±Jm

Funeral of Maximo Gomez.

Havana, June 22.—The body of General Maximo Gomez was interred after a funeral service replete with such demonstrations in honor of the dead general as to load in several instances to scenes of disorder. The most serious trouble occurred while the great procession wns passing Central park, when some reckless young Cubans rushed toward the field gun caisson on which the general’s remains were borne, demanding permission to c-nrry the body.

8. P. Sheerin Drops Dead.

Chicago. June 21.—8. P. Sheerin, president of the New York Long Distance Telephone company of Indiannpolls. Ind., and one time chairman of the Democratic state committee of Indiana, fell dead while replying to Ihe welcome extended to the delegates of the National Interstate Independent Telephone association’s annual convention, presented by City Prosecutor Taylor at the Auditorium.

Morocco Invites United State.

Washington. June 21.—The state department has received a dispatch from Mr. Gummere. minister to Morocco, transmitting a request from the government of Morocco that the United States participate in a conference upon the affairs of that country. The request is similar to that which has been sent to other governments.

Bails for Paul Jones' Remains.

New York, June 20.—Rear Admiral Slgabee’s squadron, which was detailed from the north Atlantis coast to bring the body of John Paul Jones, the first admiral of the American navy, to this country, has started on Its voyage to France. The squadron consists of the flagship Brooylyn' and the cruisers Chattanooga, Tacoma and Galveston.

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A UNIQUE SCHEME.

flat* Plan That Would Salt Railroads, bnt Not the People. The plan of Frank S. Gardner, secretary of the New York bsard of trade and transportation, for regulating railroad rates is a unique oue. Briefly stated, Mr. Gardner’s plan is to give power to the Interstate commerce commission when it has found that a railroad has made a discriminative rate or granted an illegal rebate to declare the rate thus made the legal tariff for a year from that date. This, it Is poiuted out, obviates the objection to giving the interstate commerce commission rate making powers. The offending railroad itself makes the rate, presumably a profitable one, and the commission merely declares the rate to be the legal tariff for a year. The private car lines, etc., are reached by a clause declaring them to be common carriers. President Roosevelt has given a semlIndorsemeut to the plan by requesting that It be embodied in a bill to be presented to congress. But how would this plan help the people who are charged more than a reasonable rate? Discriminative rates and rebates do not injure the public; they only injure the competitor of the favorite who receives the advantage. The small shipper pays the regular rate, and the public, it Is to be presumed, is charged no more for the goods upon which the discriminative rate or rebate has been allowed than upon the goods shipped by competitors at the regular rate. This plan, like others that are being Invented, Is merely a makeshift, because the railroad that is charging exorbitant rates but Is not granting Illegal rebates would be able to continue charging “all the traffic will bear,” and the public would have no redress. What we all want Is reasonable rates, and the only way to obtain them Is to (five the interstate commerce commission power to fix maximum rates beyond which the railroads cannot go.

HAVE YOU HEARD FROM ERIE?

Tract# Get a Message of Cheer From Hepabllcaas. The Republican state convention of Pennsylvania met a short time ago and ratified the programme and ticket prepared for it by the two bosses, Durham and Penrose. Not a motion was made or a word uttered by any member of the convention that was not arranged and ordered in advance of meeting. It Is hardly to be wondered at that these representatives of the Republican party of Pennsylvania should be so subservient, for when the county convention of Erie county met to elect delegates to the state convention it formally .-declared In favor of unlimited terms for all elective offices, including congressmen, and of making breach of trust while In office the only reason for terminating official terms. It is seldom you can get a Republican convention to utter Its true sentiments, btit this Erie county conven tiou seems to have been so sure pt its grouud and so'certain that it was master of the i»olitlcal situation for all time that It uudlsguisedly declared the Republican Hamiltonian doctrine of life tenure of office. We are cursed with life terms for our judges that Jefferson warned us against, and the Republican party would like to perpetuate its pdwer with life terms for congressmen and logically for presidents. That would keep “the boys” constantly in office without the worry aud expense of elections and the constant dread of the people rising up In revolt against Republican methods and policies. Oue can fancy the smile of satisfaction of the trust and corporation magnates when this message of cheer was wafted to them from Erie. From the great lakes to the gulf aud from the Atlantic to the Pacific wherever monopolists w ere gathered together must have gone up the shout, Have you heard from our friends at Erie?

Dreary Outlook For the “Outs.”

The decision of Postmaster General Cortelyou that postmasters must not be members of political committees has given sore offense to many ardent Republican patriots. Who is to take care of the Interests of congressmen and senators who disburse “the pork" if the reeipiAir'nt the public trough does not do so. And then there is the danger to the official that some other aspirant will, by doing the bidding of the bosses, undermine the P. M. and eventually dei*ose him. It has also been given out as a cold fact that politics will not always be allowed to guide in the selection of postmasters and that congressmen have no Inherent right to name the candidate. Thla adds another cloud to the dreary outlook of the machine politicians,' and If the weather does not soon clear a good many patriots who love their country for what there Is In It will have to hunt other and more fertile fields to cultivate.

Hard on Uncle Joe.

The Panama canal tariff blow almost killed Uncle Joe Cannon. Atlanta Constitution.

Real Estate Transfers.

Frank J. Donnelly, et al to Ralph J. Donnelly et al, May 20, pt aw nw 30-20-6, Marion, $3,800. _ Com, S*tate Bank of Rensselaer to First National Bank of Rensselaer. Mch 4, 1003, pt It 7, bl 0. Rensselaer, original plat, $6,000. Mary E. Cain to Frank Foltz. June 8, n 4 nw 54 21-31-0, se*4 nw&, 31-31-6, UnioD, $2, q. c. d. James H. Chapman, trustee of estate of Alfred McCoy, bankrupt, to James and Carey L. Carr, May 8. 120 acres in Jordan tp.,*8,011.58. Trustee's deed. Same to same, same date, 113.63 acres in same township. *1,576,82, Same to same, June 10, in same township, $1,647. Warranty deed. William H. Churchill t > Marquis A. Churchill, May 19. Its 33, 23. bl 16, Rensselaer, Weston’s add, *6OO. Henry Waldbeser to Earl J. Nordyke, June 13, e 4 se 18-27-6, Carpenter, $5,800. Lydia Washburn et al to Ella M, Parks, May 15, pt It 3, Remington, Patton's add, pt n*4 nw 30-27-6, Remington, S3OO. Henry W. Long to Samuel Dickinson, June 14, Its 7,8, 0,10, bl 13, Rensselaer. Sunnyside add. S3OO. William R. Puckett to Joshua Good, Jan. 21, 1904, wv4 sw l 4 seU 22-28-6, 30 acres, s 4 nw4 18-28-5. 68 acres, Milroy. $4,840. Lena Vlellahn to Robert Parker, Nov. 14, 1903, It 4, bl 17, Remington, original plat, $1,500. Robert Parker to Joshua Good, Feb. 1,1904, same lands. *1,5( 0. Joshua Good to W. H. Todd, Oct. 28, »4 nw>4 18-38-5, 08 acres. w 4 se4 seU.24-38-8, 20 acres, Milroy, $4,840. W. H. Todd to Frank Reamy, May 15, wH aes4 se*-4 24-38-8, 20 acres, Milroy, SOOO. W, H.Todd to Anson Wolcott Mch. 13, s 4 nws* 18 28-5, 68 acres, Milroy, $2,100. Sarah Jane Van Arsdel to John B. Alter. May 9. Its 11, 12. 13.14, bl 5. Fair Oaks, original plat, SSO. James H. Huntzinger to David M. Worland, June 9, pt nw4 80-29-6, Rensselaer, *4.000. William H. Ade to George Ade, May 29, 380 acre* in section S 3 and 33, Newton tp., $lB 200. For Rent—loo acres of bay; 60 acres timothy and 40 acres wild, will sell the hay and rent ground for pasture; 3 miles south and 2 miles east of Rensselaer. Luers Bros. Rensselaer, Ind. Come to The Democrat office for all kinds of job printing.

MOTICE TO HEIRS. CREDITORS AND LEGATEES In the matter of the estate of George R. Dickinson, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court. September Term, 1005. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of George R. Dickson, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 11th day of September. 1905, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Albert H. Dickinson, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all otners it tcrested, are hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. ALBERT H. DICKINSON. Administrator Poland China Hogs FOR SALE OF EITHER SEX. Sows sired by (Ohio’s Wichita Chief, Captain Sunshine and Sure Perfection the Great, bred to a son of < L. & W. and Sure Perfection 80029. Prices reasonable. J. F. FENWICK, R.F. D. No. 1, , (iOODLAND, IND,

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