Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1905 — Page 4

m twin mil. Lt wag, anna mum Lose DiarAMOB Tsuewoass | »H. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. 11.00 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rate* made known on application ■ntered at the Pont-offloe at Renenelaer, Ind. aa second class matter. Office on Van Reneeeiaor Street, North of Murray'a Store. SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1905.

How much better it might have been if we had let the Chinese in and excluded their firecrackers.

This talk about Senator Depew returning the fees he has drawn from the Equitable, should be printed in the joke column.

The Chicago grand jury takes issue with Commissioner Garfield, and seems to think the beef trust is making more than 1 per cent in some way.

Reports from Georgia indicate that Hoke Smith is very confident of winning the gubernatorial nomination unless some one induces Grover Cleveland to do something in bis favor.

Luther Burbank’s proposition to invent cobless corn will be resented in Missouri, where the corn cob is the basis of one of the state’s leading industries, the manufacture of the Missouri meerschaum.

“The way to railway rebates and corporate corruption,” say Judaon and Harmon, “is to punish the individuals responsible for it.” But the President thinks the right way is to put an “engine” in jail or have a “freight car” arrested.

Managers of some of the county fairs of Indiana are complaining that they cannot pay expenses unless the anti-racing pool selling law is repealed. Well, if county fairs must have open gambling or cease to exist it is better for them to turn up their toes.

Secretary Shaw explains that the government spent $24,000,000 more than he estimated it would, thus causing the deficit. This places the matter in an entirely new light, as we had been led to believe that the deficit was caused by the government spending more than it receivd.

It will be one year and three months next Tuesday since the McCoy bank closed its doors in Rensselaer and hundreds of confiding depositors found that they bad been trusting their hard earned money to a bank of sand. Fifteen months have since rolled by, but the bankers who robbed the depositors of their money are still breathing the air of liberty and not one penny of dividends has a solitary depositor yet received.

“What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business,” is indeed a true saying when it comes to the enforcement of our laws or to prevent “grafting” by public officials. During the past year and a half, without any authority whatever in law, there was paid out of the impoverished city treasury of Rensselaer, the sum of $l5O for collecting the special assessments of said city to the county treasurer, when the law is that said treasurer must collect all assessments of every nature within the borders of his county, with out extra charge. A claim for SSO more for the same service was filed with the city clerk and came up for action by the council at its meeting Monday night. The Democrat man filed a protest against the allowance of this particular claim and asked that a demand be made for the return of the 1150 that had previously been paid out illegally. Someone had to do this or the city treasury

would be out this sum. It is not always pleasant for an individual to do such things, but there is no “cjvic federation*’ or “taxpayers’ league’’ in Rensselaer to look after such matters, and someone had it to do. The Democrat has frequently pointed out the necessity of a taxpayers’ league in Rensselaer and Jasper county to look after violations of the law and to prosecute them. With such an organization a great many questionable acts by our local officials could be investigated, to the benefit of the tax-payers, and such talk as we now hear, of a county official really being the contractor, doing the work and then accepting the job as completed, in the recent "improvement” to the Burke’s bridge, that cost the county some $1,400, would be unheard of, for no public official would dare to do these things. The Democrat hopes some time to see an organization of tax-payers formed in Rensselaer and in Jasper county to look after such matters.

At Terre Haute on the Fourth the Governor said: "I intend to make the acceptance of railroad passes so distasteful that an honest man will not wish to accept one and a dishonest man will not dare to. The passes are said to be gratutious but the fact that passes stop when officials retire from public office show that passes are given to the office and not to the man. You may think that a wide open town means prosperity, but I don’t think so, and 2,000 persons who had money in your closed bank will agree with me,” said the Governor. “Officials may raise this question of the propriety of a law and want to enforce it just as much as they think the people want it enforced, but I say there is no recourse from enforcing laws in their entirety.”—Exchange. The above sounds nice, and it is hoped that Governor Hanley will not be dissuaded by the lawbreaking element in bis party from making his words good.

BOOK WALTER A SPORT.

Chas. A. Bookwaiter has again landed the republican nomination for mayor of Indianapolis, and if he succeeds in winning out at the election Governor Hanly will havp so much to do in “holding down the lid” in the capital city that he will not have much time to devote to the balance of the state. Bookwaiter is an all around sport and will have things running wide open if he can have his say. Mayor Holtzman has made a good record and can doubtless lay him out again.—Albion Democrat,

KNOWS HOW IT FEELS.

Goodland Herald: The supreme court that declared unconstitutional a law ratified by a vote of 65 per cent of the people whom it alone affected, has now determined that 125,000 worth of bonds are invalidated, that a half-built court house must remain half built and the county records continue to accumulate mould because the County Council recorded their action with “resolved” instead of “be it ordained.” Our Kentland friends now know how it feels to be clubbed to death with a technicality.

Unconsciously Funny Ads.

“Humor,” says Mr. Crothers, “is the frank enjoyment of the imperfect” Yes, but not of Imperfect fun. And I find the advertiser most deliciously amusing when be least aspires to be. I frankly enjoy bis laughterless and unconscious Imperfections. “Miss Ellen Terry will positively appear In three pieces," writes he, or “Try our patent lamp chimney and save half your light,” or even, “Our fish cannot be approached.” A correspondence school of advertising declares in Its enthusiastic prospectus, "You will never see the ad. writer play the wall flower in society.” And, good lack, why should he? I will pledge my all to find admirers for any autbor of unwittingly humorous advertisements. Indeed I dare say Mr. Crothers himself would be proud to fellowship with such a one and “frankly enjoy bls imperfections,” though methinks be would perhaps reserve the right to order bls own affairs without assistance from so devious and humorless an Intellect.—Atlantic. *

Wool is tully per cent higher than last year, but you would not think so when you see how Wildberg is slaughtering all-wool pants. You can save $ $ ? by buying fall clothing and shoes now. You will pay double later. Chicago Bargain Store, - - _r . Read The Democrat for news.

JAP FLAG NOW ON RUSS TERRITORY

Force of tho Mikado’s Military Lands on tho Island of Sakhalin. MOTS A VIRY IMPORTANT ONE Has a Significant Bearing on the Negotiations for Peace. Mntiny Ship Ones More Fllee the Fla* of St. Andrew—Her Crew Quite Her KuetenJl- Rusal* la to Protest. Moscow, July 12. —Major General Count Shouvaloff, prefect of police here and formerly attached to the ministry of the Interior, was assassinated in the morning while receiving petitkxne. One of the petitioners drew a revolver and fired three times at the prefect, who fell dead. The assassin was arrested.

Washington, July 11.—Assistant Secretary Pierce announced that the plenipotentiaries of Russia and Japan had agreed upon Portsmouth, N. H., as the meeting place for the sessions of the pence conference to lx? held outside of Washington. The sessions will be held in the government navy yard at Portsmouth tn the new building just completed there.

St. Petersburg, July 10. —The two events that most Interest officials and people here are the surrender of the Potemklne by the mutineers at Hasten JI, Roumania, and the Invasion by the Japanese of Sakhalin, the latter being by far the most importent In its influence on the war with Japan, as the navy has dropped out as a factor In that war. With the Japanese flag hoisted for the first time on Russian soil after eighteen months of war the importance of the landing on the island of Sakhalin is generally admitted both in newspaper comment and in government circles. Complete occupation of the Island is regarded as a foregone conclusion. Story of the Occupation. The news of the Japanese occupation of the island came in a dispatch from General Liapanoff, who was in command there. He reported: “At 9 o’clock in the morning, July 7, a Japanese squadron approached the village of Chiplvan, about seven miles southwest of Korsakovsk and opened tire on the shore. ♦ ♦ * At 3 p. m. Japanese torpedo boats approached Korsakovsk, and tlie Russian batteries opened fire on them and compelled the l>oats to retire. During the Ixnubardmenrt four of the inhabitanta of Korsakovsk were killed. The boml>ardinent had l>eeii anticipated and the command had ordered the withdrawal ot the defenders northward.” Jap* Succeed In Landing. The Japanese fleet covering the landing of troops on the island consisted of two battleehips, seven cruisers, three gunboats, thirty-six torpedo boats and ten transports loaded with troops. The Japanese landed at the village of Meree, between Shepivan and Korsakovsk. The commander of the Russian detachment of troops at Korsakovsk ordered the coast defense guns to be blown up and ail the government buildings burned before retiring. Important Move In the Contest. Though the Japanese seem unwilling to risk a grand battle with General Llnevltch pending the peace meeting at Washington the landing of troops on Sakhalin is considered to express Japan's decision regarding the formal’ conclusion of a general armistice namely, that in the Interval before the meeting It is necesssary to occupy the Island whose possession Is an important card in Japan’s diplomatic contest a.t Washington. Jap* Haro All tho Trujnp* Now. The Novoe Vremyw voices the general sentiment in holding that control of Sakhalin puts a powerful lever In the possession of Japanesedlplomacy which finally has something tangible in its hands to throw upon the scales with the sword in the coming conference. The prevalent view is that Japan has now In her hands enough trumps to take the game,

SURRENDER OF THE POTEMKINE

Mutineer* All Get Away— Ru**l* will Probably Eater a Pretest. The surrender of the Potemkine has raised a question between Russia and Roumania that may give trouble. The warship entered Klistenjl harbor and the crew was colled upon by the Roumanian authorities to surrender or leave port at once. A Roumanian officer boarded the ship and gave the crew this alternative, at the same time informing them that if they surrendered they would be treated as foreign deserters. The crew accepted the terms of surrender and the report from Kustenjl says its members will be conveyed to the frontier and there liberated. It is this stlpulatlonr-Jtreatment of the crew as deserters—that is likely to cause trouble. No diplomatic steps have l>een taken, but the foreign office undoubtedly will make the strongest representations against the mutineers being treated as simple deserters, and demand their surrender to answer not only for mutiny, but also for the murder of tbelr officers, the bombardment

of Odessa and incitement to «. revolution. It Is thought here to bo impemtive that the sternest justice be mated out to the ringleaders, ae an example to the fleets of Russia and of the whole world. The torpedo treat that accompanied the Potemkine did not surrender, but left port, her crew declaring that she bnd accompanied the Potemkine because she was forced to do so. Admiral Kruger has arrived at Kustenjl and the Potemkine was at once turned over to him by the Roumanian authorities. On board tije mutiny ship everything was in disorder, says an Associated Press correspondent, who went aboard. The officers’ cabins were stripped of everything of any value, and bloodstains were every where. There wns sufficient ammunition aboard the Kniaz Potemkine to have enabled the mutineers to make a desperate resistance. -—— It Is said that during the last few days of her cruise the vessel was navigated by two engineers and an officer with revolvers at their heads. All of the sailors wished to surrender with the exception of Matuschenko, the lead>er of the mutiny, who resisted for some time and wanted to blow up the ship. Seven officers were prisoners aboard the Kniaz Potemkine. They were in a pitiable condition from ill treatment. They declare that Matuschenko himself killed ten officers of the battleship.

M. Witte as Plenipotentiary.

St. Petersburg, July 13. —M. Muravieff has resigned his position as chief peace plenipotentiary. It may be regarded as practically certain that he will be replaced by M. Witte, president of the committee of ministers, who all along has been considered the Russian statesman pre-eminently qualified to undertake the difficult task of negotiating peace with Japan. Though the emperor on two previous occasions has flatly declined to accept M. Witte he has now indicated his readiness to make the appointment. The commission, however, will not be actually signed until Foreign Minister Lamsdorff, who throughout has been M. Witte’B warm supporter, has had an audience of the emperor. St. Petersburg, July 13.—Emperor Nicholas has signed the appointment of M. Witte, president of the committee of ministers, to be chief plenipotentiary representing the Russian government in the peace negotiations with Japan to be conducted next month In the United States. The appointment, which was signed after midnight, clothes M. Witte with plenary powers. • Official notification Of the resignation of M. Witte to head the mission was forwarded to Washington during the morning. M. Witte will take passage on the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which will sail from Cherbourg July 26.

General Stoeasel Under Arrest. St. Petersburg, July 13.—The Nashashisn prints a report that Lieutenant General Staessel has been placed under arrest at Tsarskoe-Selo in consequence of the revelations made by the commission which has been investigating the defense and capitulation of Port Arthur and'that the sword of honor, donated by a mamber of French admirers of General Stoessel will not be presented. Bloody Encounters In Warsaw. Warsaw, Russian Poland, July 12. — Three bloody encounters between troops and striking shoemakers jn which atjout twenty persons were killed or wounded occurred. The strikers were marching through the city from house to house demanding the lowering of rents by 20 per cent. Many proprietors out of fear complied with the demands of the strikers. Japs Driving Russians NorthwardTokio, July 10.—The following official dispatch has been received from the Japanese army headquarters in Manchuria: “Occasional collisions take place between scouts on both sides of the railroad along the Fenghwa, Kalyuen and Kwangping roads. The enemy is being gradually driven northward.” Nice Quiet Summer Resort. Tiflis. TraAs-Caucasia, July 10. Bomb throwing continues dally. Two dvorulks were killed and thirteen persons wounded by a bomb, and a policeman was shot Saturday.

ELKS PARADE AT BUFFALO

■•Bae ot Them Wear Caelum** That Ara Dream* - Fifty Thou*»*d Men Are la Use. Buffalo, N. Y., July 13.—The twentieth annual reunion of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will be held in Denver In 1906, One ballot decided that at the grand lodge meeting. The whole city was astir for the great parade. It is estimated that 50,000 Elka marched over the wet streets. The long march was made in a drizzling rain, but the streets were lined with an eager through that had to be held in check by wires along the entire line of march. The marchers were garbed in uniforms of startling colors and unique designs, with gorgeously decorated floats, and trophies of surprising and amusing character. The Philadelphians were in the modest gray of the Quaker; the El Paso in gay Mexican costumes and broad-brimmed bats; Chicago in purple tunics and white trousers and shoes; Louisville and Cleveland In colonial costume, etc.

Cody Gives Up Divorce Case.

Omaha, July 12.—Dr. D. Frank Powell has received a cablegram from Colonel W. F. Cody directing him to dismiss ths appeal in the Cody divorce suit. “Cotone) Cody dismissed the appeal,” said Dr. Powell, “at the earnest request of his only living child, Irma, the wife of Lieutenant Clarence Armstrong Btott, of Fort Thomas, Ga."

MUST OBEY THE LAW

Gov. Hanly Notifies Twonty-Four Counties to Brace Up ae to Poor Funds. JUDGE WITH RIGHTEOUS VIEWS Declares a Mob Should Be Ar rented Rather Than the Victim— Indiana News Notes. Indianapolis, July 13. Governor Hanly, acting as president of the Iward of state charities, has written to the tiuthorlties in twenty-four counties, of the state, calling their attention to the fact that the township trustees and the county councils are violating the taw in their manner of handling the outdoor poor relief funds, in that the county commissioners are allowing the trustees to handle the poor fund directly, as they do the other county funds, without the legal appropriation which should be made by the commissioners. What Says the Law in the Case. The law provides that at the beginning of the year the commissioners are to appropriate a certain.fund for poor relief this fund to remain under their control, and to be drawn on by their order. This appropriation really amounts to a loan of county funds, for Ln September following the appropriation a tax is levied by the commissioners to reimburse the county for the funds so appropriated or borrowed from the county funds. The levy is made, the poor relief tax collected, and the county is reimbursed at the December settlement. And the law provides that this tax is not to provide for the poor for the next year, but to reimburse the county for the money advanced by appropriation during the preceding year.

Objection to the Illegal Method.

In these twenty-four counties that have received Governor Hanly’s letter the law has not been followed. In these counties the commissioners have not made the appropriation loan at the beginning of the year, the trustee using the funds that he collected at the December settlement previously, and administering the relief from this money directly. The September tax levied, terefore, is turned over to him direct, and he uses this during the next year, no cheek being placed on his expenditures by the overseeing of the commissioners. The absolute control that this method gives to the trustees is said to have made them more liberal in the distribution of poor funds, and this occasioned the letter sent by tne governor.

MOST RIGHTEOUS JUDGE WHITE

He Condemn* the Mob Inateud of It* Victim and Set* Ulin Free. Muncie, Ind., July 13. Feeling the disgrace at lieing arrested too humiliating, Havana Petrionio, a peddler, attempted to commit suicide and was saved by City Judge White, who gave him his liberty. The peddler, who stated that he has a family in Chicago, was arrested after lie had smashed a number of windows in an uptown business establishment. A number of men and boys had been Jeering him and he threw his wares at the crowd, but his aim was bad. The court held that the crowd should have been arrested, Instead of the peddler, and allowed Petrionio to go after he promised to settle for the broken windows. Prank* of a Cyclone. Vincennes, Ind., July 13. —A small cyclone swept over an area 200 yards wide by a half a mile in length near Bruceville. On the farm of Daniel Elliott it carried away a Jersey cow, tore down trees and an outhouse and barely missed the residence. The cyclone uprooted a cornfield for Henry Bauer and spent its force in Prentice Polk’s horse lot by uprooting eight immense oak trees. Foil from tho Third Story. Fort Wayne, Ind., July 13. May Madden, aged 20, while seated in a third-story window of the Burg hotel on Barr street became dizzy and pitched headlong to the pavement. Her skull was fractured and recovery Is doubtful. Four telephone and telegraph wires were carried down In her flight. Novol Leu of a Diamond. Evansville, Ind., July 13. —The pet dog of Miss Beulah Carter, no the street Jumped at her hand, ar.d the animal’s tooth catchgrg In the setting of a diamond ring worn by the young woman, the stone, worth SIOO, was torn loose and was lost.. Fort Wayne Ploaoor Dio* Io Eurepe. Fort Wayne, Ind., July 13.—C. F. G. Meyer, founder of the Meyer Bros.’ drug houses In Fort Wayne, St. Louis and Kansas City, died suddenly in Europe. His home was at St Louis. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Fort Wayne. May Aero* of Wheat Flooded. Evansville, Ind., July 13. county, south of Petersburg, thousands of acres of wheat were inundated and several thousand shocks washed away by a rain torrent. An electric storm in this vicinity was severe. Receiver for a Glau Company. Marlon, Ind., July 13. Major Eastman has been appointed receiver for the I/B Ruche Window Glass company,' of Matthews. Claims to the amount of $40,000 have been filed by creditors.

CAN’T HAVE A HALF HOLIDAY

Secretary Boneparto Says Keonomy 1* peadlturee b Neeesonrjr for the Government. Washington, July 14. Secretary Bonaparte has forwarded his decision in the matter of the half-holiday for the employes of the Washington navy yard on Saturdays during the summer to the department from Baltimore. He saye: “The secretary of the navy has carefully reconsidered the subject, and concludes that the half holiday requested cannot be granted with due regard to the public Interest. "The necessity for strict economy on the part of this department is obvious and so urgent that the department would not be justified in recommending to the president action involving serious additional expense to the government, whatever might be its desire to meet the wishes and promote the pleasure of its employes.”

Maccabees Can Raise Rates.

Port Huron, Mich., July 14.—Judge Law, in the circuit court, has handed down his opinion in the case of Dan St. Clair Winehind, of Pittsburg, Pa., against the Knights of Maccabees of the World, in which Wineland protested against the raise in rates adopted by the supreme tent. Judge Law dismissed the bill of complaint with costs to the defendant

Little Hope for Bishop Joyce.

Minneapolis, July 14.—“ There is not much hope of* Bishop Joyce’s recovery,” said! Dr. Mark B. Smith, the attending physician, after paying his visit to the bishop’s bedside. While there was no marked change yet the venerable sufferer was very weak.

They Are Asked to Get Out.

Milwaukee, July 14.—As a result of the handing down of indictments by the grand jury, two members of the Republican county committee, Fred Hartung and Max Relunoldt, have been asked to resign from that body. They are both under indictment.

Murder Over Cigarette Smoking.

St. Louis, July 14. Raymond V. Stough, a bricklayer, who came to St. Louis from Concord, N. C., a few months ago, was shot and Instantly killed during a quarrel over cigarette smoking in a rooming house, by T. John Freasler, a painter.

Heavy Rains Do Damage in Virginia.

Roanoke. Va.. July 14. —The heavy rains during the past ten days have caused the mountain streams to rise very high. The lowlands in this vicinity have been swept clean and many bridges carried away.

Gen. Horace Porter Home.

New York, July 14.—General Horace Porter, ex-amliassador to France, and more recently the senior special United States ambassador appointed to receive the body of John Paul Jones, has returned home.

French Duel Draws Blood.

Paris, July 14.—Senator Prevet was severely wounded in the forearm in a sword duel with Senator Delpeche, as the result of a dispute over the questions involved in the government’s amnesty bill.

THE MARKETS

ChlM** Orals. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat — Open. High. Low. Close. July ...$ .88% | .89% $ .88 $ .88% Sept 85% -85% .84% .85% Dec 85% .85% .84% .85% Corn — July ... .50% .515% .55% .56 Sept 55% .55% .54% .55% Oats — July ... -32% .32% .32% .32% Sept 31% .31% 30% .30% Dec. ... .31% .31% .31% .31% Pork— July ...12.47% 12.57% 12.47% 12.52% Sept. ..12.65 12.75 12.62% 12.6 W% Oct. ...12.70 12.82% 12.70 12.77% Lard — July ... 7.00 7.05 7.00 7.02% Sept. ... 7.12% 7.20 7.12% 7.17% Oct. ... 7.20 7.25 7.20 7.22% Short Ribs — July ... 7.55 7.55 7.55 7.55 Sept. .. 7.72% 7.77% 7.72% 7.75 Oct ... 7.77% 7.82% 7.771% 7.82% Ckiea** Live •*••■* Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day, 22,000. Sales ranged at $5.00@ 5.55 for pigs, [email protected] for light, [email protected] for rough packing and shipping lots, with the bulk of the sales at [email protected] fair fair to good averages. Cattle —Estimated receipts for the day, 9,000. Quotations ranged at $5.40 @6.10 for choice to prime steers, $3.60 @5.25 good to fancy cows and heifers, [email protected] fair to choice feeders, $3.00 @4.10 fair to choice stackers, $2.25 @ 4.000 common to choice bulls, $5.25@ 6.75 good to fancy calves. Sheep—Estimated receipts for the day, 14,000. Quotations ranged at $4.90 @5.30 for export wethers, [email protected] fair to export wethers, [email protected] fair to prime wethers, |[email protected] fair to fancy yearlings. |[email protected] medium to prime shorn native iambs, [email protected] shorn western lambs, $5.00@ 8.25 springs lambs. Boat Buflkle Ur* Steak. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts, 3 cars; market, siow. Hogs— Receipts, 20 cars; market, lower; mixed and heavy, |[email protected]; yorkers, $5.95; pigs, [email protected]. Sheep and Lambs —Receipts, 8 cars; market, lower; best yearlings, [email protected]; fair to good, [email protected]; springers, 38.00© 8.50; northern Michigan springers, [email protected]; best sheep, [email protected]; fair to good, $5j00@5,50. Calves— Market, steady; best, [email protected].