Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1906 — Page 4

A Hair Dressing Nearly every one likes a fine hair dressing. Something to make the hair more manageable; to keep it from being too rough, or from splitting at the ends. Something, too, that will feed the hair at the same time, a regular hair-food. Well-fed hair will bestrong,and will remain where it belongs—on the head, not on the comb! The beet kind of a testimonial - ••Sold for over sixty years.” J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell. Masi. Also manufacturers of XI 9 SARSAPARILLA. tigers CHERRY PECTORAL.

JIISPER GOONTY DEMI. Ls. HIM. EDIIORIIO PIIBIM. Di.tamo. Tik.ho.h J Or.ioi / ( Riioiaoi. Sllj Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. SI.OO PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rates made known on application Entered at the Po»t-o slice at Rensselaer, Ind as second class matter. Office on Van Rensselaer Street, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1906.

STATE TICKET,

For Secretary of State. JAMES F. COX, Columbus. For Auditor of State, MARION BAILEY, Lizton. For Treasurer of State. JOHN ISENBARGER, North Manchester. For Attorney General, WALTER J. LOTZ, Muncie. For Cleric of the Supreme Court. BERT NEW. North Vernon. For Superintendent of Public Instruction. ROBERT J. HALEY, Monroe County. For State Geologist. EDWARD BARRETT. Hendricks County. For State Statistician, DAVID M. CURRY, Sullivan County. For Supreme Judge, First ,EUGENE E. ELY, Pike County. For Supreme Judtfe Fourth District, RICHARD K. ERWIN, Adams County. Judges bf Appellate Court. First District. MILTON B. HOTTEL, Washington County. EDWARUTT. Judges of Appellate Court, Second District. RfGHAJUHiM+A+CTFORD. Jay (’omUy. HENRY’ G. ZIMMERMAN, Noble County. HENRY A. STEIS, Pulaski County. We never did like beef or pork, anyhow. The democratic state convention was a very liar mon ions affair and it conceded that the ticket nominated ia~a strong one. — One or two of the Republican congressmen from this state are letting th’e word dribble out through their districts that they favor a revision of the tariff. They are scared, but they cannot be trusted. Has the honorable Charles W. Fairbanks any opinion of any sort upon any subject about which there is the slightest disagreemen t among the people? If so, no one knows what it is. When he shows enthusiasm it is usually upon « subject that bears a B. C. datemark. And yet he wants to be president! It is amusing to note that a Rensselaer paper that purports to give a verbatim report of the McCoy trial as copied from W. H. Blodgett’s articles in the Indianapolis News, is very careful to “blue pencil” every line of Blodgett’s report of the political banking of the McCoys. A true report might injure the chance of the Republican politicians in Jasper county. See? Congressman Landis of the ninth district admits that the trusts and other “infant” tariff beneficaries sell their manufactured goods in foreign countries cheaper than they sell them at home. He goes further and defends this robbery of American consumers, and says that it is one of the chief glories of the Dingley law. Evidently he rates the intelligence of the voters of his district away belou par. And the question is, will these same voters stand for that sort of thing?

“We are now in a period of the moral regeneration of American business," says Senator Beveridge. How far will the ship subsidy graft favored by the Inndiana senators go toward bringing about this “moral regeneration?’’ And how far will a continuance of the tariff steal for the benefit of the trusts go? There is talk among the better class of the Republicans in Elkhart county of nominating an independent county ticket in order to clean out the Republican machine. A recent discovery of a defalcation in one of the offices has led to the charge that corruption is rampant. If the Democrats and the independent Republicans work together understandingly there ought to be no trouble about a housecleaning. The scandalous revelatins concerning the Chicago packing house are not to be credited to the Roosevelt administration so much as to a private citizen, the author of a novel. If the meat trust is “busted’' in any material respect that righteous deed will not be due to the Republican activity, but to private investigation. But just listen for the voice of the Republican politician telling the people “what we done.”

In all parts of the state complaint is heard of the working of the law passed by the last legislature concerning the repair of ditches. Under the old law township trustees kept ditches repaired at reasonable cost, but the new law puts the work in the hands of the county surveyor, and the expense is several times as great as formerly. The Tipton Times voices the general sentiment in this way: “The present ditch law is the most extravagent ever enacted in Indiana. It makes the county surveyor a monarch and giveshim absolute power to make assessments, let contracts and collect the money to pay the bills, without giving the man man who is affected any voice In the matter whatever. In fact the ordinary man cannot even have a chance to clean out his own ditch. In other words he is a serf and must hold up his hands and be robbed, if necessary, to satisfy the greedy. Will the people tolerate a political part}’ that will pass such an unjust measure? Will they longer be deceived by a party that legislates directly interests? It is high time for the farmers to assert their independence and rfebuke those who are responsible for such un-. just and tyrannical laws.”

It is a very common thing to hear Republicans declare that the farmer does not want any change in parties or policies so long as be has good crops and gets good prices for what he has to sell. This is a favorite argument of the “stand-patters,” anti it is assumed that the farmer will give the Republican party credit for what Providence and his own industry have done for him in__the_jnatter of crops and that he will look up on the “protective” tariff as the cause of the good prices he gets for his wheat and corn. But the truth is, and the farmer knows it better than anybody, that he derives no benefit whatever from the protective tariff, but on the contrary is harmed by it. He has to pay a tariff tax on everything he buys, and he sells in a market that is regulated by the world’s supply and demand. There is no “protection” for him. He is just taxed on what he buys for the benefit of the trusts and combines which control the things he must have. The Republican party has given these gigantic concerns a monopoly of the American market and the farmer and all other consumers must pay whatever price they demand. All the new things in oxfords at the G. E. Murray Cd. Monsoon Hour 98 cents for 50 lbs. a few days only. Chicago Bargain Store, Have you seen our basket weave underwear? In unions and twopiece; they are as cool as can be at a very small cost.

DUVALL & LUNDY.

SENATOR GORMIN DIES SUDDENLY

Maryland Statesman Passes Away at His Washington Home. WAS CONSCIOUS TO THE LAST Attack of Heart Failure Comes Suddenly and Leaves the Senator Dead. Daring the Past Week His Condition Had Improved So Much That a Trip to the Country Was Contemplated. Washington, June 4.—Arthur Pue Gorman, United States senator from Maryland, died suddenly at his residence in this city at 9:05 o’clock in the morning. While Senator Gorman had

SENATOR ARTHUR P. GORMAN.

been ill for many months, he had shown some improvement lately. Heart failure was the immediate-cause of death. Up to the moment of death Senator Gorman was conscious. His condition during the past week had improved so much that the family had hopes of shortly taking him to the country. He partook of some nourishment at 8 o’clock in the morning, but at 9 o’clock lie was seized witli a heart attack and diet! in five minutes. At the bedside were Mrs. Gorman. Miss Ada Gorm an. the sen;i tor'weid ust daughter, and the nurse. When the attack came physicians were sent for, l»ut the senator was dead before they arrived. JOHN C. NEW IS DEAD Life-Long Friend of Gen. Benjamin Harrison Passes Away at His Horne in Indianapolis. Indianapolis, June 3. —John C. New died at his home, 518'North Pennsyl-

vania street, at s:in p. m. yesterday of dropsy. Around ids bedside wore his wife; his son, Harry S. New. vi< ei-liair-man of the national Kepulr liian ronnnittee. and his daughter, Mrs. Ernest H. Bur-

ford, of tins city. Another daughter, Mrs. W. 11. McKean. Jr., is en route here, from her home at Omaha. Neb. New was for many years proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal, was a lifelong friend of ex-President Benjamin Harrison, and was consul general in London under the Harrison administration. He had been sick for a year. He was born at Vernon. Ind., in PCil. was quartermaster general of Indiana during the civil war: United States treasurer under Grant: proprrietor of tlie ilndianapolis Journal; chairman of the Indiana Republican committee in 1876 and 1884; assistant secretary of the treasury. For the last ten years he had devoted his time to his property Interests.

Murder at a Dedication.

Richmond. Ky., June 7.—ln the midst of a crowd of 10,600 persons on the campus of Berea college Mrs. Nannie Nuckols shot and killed Mrs. Vlana Black, who she fancied had wronged her. The shooting created a panic, and several women fainted of were injured In the rush. Mrs. Nuckols was arrested. The dedicatory exercises for new college buildings, which tlie crowd was attending, were stopped.

Millionaire's Son Killed.

Cleveland, O„ June 7.—Maurice Osborne. aged 17. son of Frank M. Osborne, millionaire coal operator, for* mor president of tlie Pittsburg Coal company, was Instantly killed at Wickliffe, near Cleveland, by being thrown from an automobile when the machine struck an obstruction, placed tlielr, it is alleged, by n farmer who objected to the high speed of anti* in passing that point.

Clarence Eddy Gets a Divorce.

Topeka. Kan., June 4.—Clarence Eddy, the well known organist, who was in Topeka, announced that he had been granted an 'unconditional decree of divorce from his wife, who is now living In Paris. The couple was married lb Chicago In 1879.

JOHN C. NEW.

PRINCE WARNS THE HOUSE

There Will Be Cain Raised it* That Free Paas Clause of the Rate Bill Isn’i Modified. Washington, June 8. Representative Prince, of Illinois, in the house during the consideration of the supiiry civil bill, spoke of the anti-pass amendment to the railroad rate bill, and of the Mil Itself, and insisted that the country would hold the house primarily responsible for depriving 1,296.121 railway employes, as well as members of their families, from receiving free transportation. Likewise the country will hold the house responsible for granting an exclusive monopoly to a now single monopoly for transporting millions of people in sleeping cars, if the Pullman Car company is not included in the rate bill. Likewise persons actually and necessarily in charge of live stock, who are deprived of free transportation when going to point of shipment or returning from point of delivery.

INDIANA GETTING IN LINE

Coal Mine Strike Is to End on an Agreement Reached at Terre Haute. Terre Haute, Ind., June 8. An agreement which will end the coal strike which has been on in the Eleventh United -Mine Workers’ district since April 1 has been reached by the scale committee of the Indiana miners and operators. The miners’ delegates have been called to meet to consider the committee’s report. The joint convention* of the miners ami operators will meet at 2 p. ni. today to receive the report and make arrangements to sign the agreement. Details of the understanding reached have not been made public, but it is understood the men got the 1903 scale which they demanded when they went out. On their side. It is stated, they agree to some changes In mining conditions to which the operators objected.

Senate and House in Brief,

Washington. June B.—After a day devoted almost exclusively to the discussion of the conference report on the railroad rate bill the senate decided to send that measure back to conference. The bill providing for the control of the waters of Niagara river was passed. An attack on and a defense of the president were the features of the day in tlie house, Brundige of Arkansas assailing the items for the executive department and White House, and Grosvenor defending the same, and eulogizing the president. The naval appropriation bill was sent to conference and progress was made on the sundry civil bill.

Might Have Been a Lot Worse,

Lancaster, Pa.. June B.—Running at the rate of forty miles an hour the west-bound Pennsylvania limited, through the blunder of a telegraph operator. crashed into tlie Parkburg construction train on the Pennsylvania cut-off a mile east of tlie city. Three members of the limited crew were injured. but only one. Fireman I’lmrli-s A. Brown, of Philadelphia, is seriously hurt. No passengers were injured.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain. Chicago, June 7. Following were tlie quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Cash sales—-Winter wheat —By sample: No. 2 red. 87<1/89c: No. 3 red, 82 @Bsc; No. 2 luird, 81@83H; No. 3 bard, 77@Slc. Spring wheat —By sample: No. 1 northern. 83(1/85c; No. 2 northern. 81@S4c; No. 3 spring. 77<//83c. Corn —By s.’imple: Wa 1c higher: No. 2, 51%<ft51t£; No. 2 white. 52@52%c; No. 2 yellow. 51 >44/52c; No. 3. 51 @ 5D4c; No. 3 white, 51%@52c; No. 3 yellow. No. 4, sOfrisO%c. Oats—By sample: 1c advance; No. 2, 35%<*: No. 2 white. 37Hc; No. 3. 35c; No. 3 white, 36fr/36%c; No. 4 white, 35%<n36c: standard. 36%r</37*4c. Live Htock. Poultry and Hav. Hogs—Estimated receipts for tlie , day, 17.060. Sales ranged at $6.53f?/ 6.66 for choice to prune heavy, $6.50@ 6.55 for good to prime heavy mixed, [email protected] for rough heavy packing, and $5.40(a6.50 for poor to prime pips. Cattle —Estimated receipts for the day, 5,000. Quotations ranged at $5.75 (£.6.10 for prime stere’. $3.50W4.50 for good to choice cows, $4.50W 5.00 sot I prime heifers, .'3.30W4.25 for good to choice hulls, $6.50W7.35 for g<>od to' choice calves, 54J50W4.75 for select rd feeders, and $3.60W4.00 for good sto k-1 ere. Sheep—Estimated receipts for the day, 15,000, Quotations ranged at $5.85 @6.25 for good to choice wethers, $5.90 @6.50 for good to choice yearlings, $6.50<iz7.10 for good to choice shorn I lambs. $3.50(1/7.75 for spring lamlis. | and $5.50(a6.00 for good to clioice ewes. Live poultry—Turkeys, per n>, 9c; - chickens, fowls. IlV£c; springs, 20W | 25c per tt>: roosters. 7c; ducks, 11 @ ' 18c; geese [email protected] per doz. Hay—Choice timothy. $13.00w 14.0*);' No. 1. [email protected]; No. 2. $16.00W, 11.00; No. 3, $9.00(1/10.00: choice prairie, $12.00W 14.00; No. 1, s9.6ot</11.60; No. 2. ?8.50(a9.50; No. 3, [email protected]; No. 4. [email protected]. Hast Buffalo Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., June 7. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts, 2 care; market steady. Hogs— Receipts 15 care; market steady; pigs, $6.65: yorkera and heavies, [email protected]. Sheep and T^ambs—Receipts 15 cars; market lower; best lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, $6.00@ 6.25: ewes. Calvea— Xiarket etrong; best, [email protected].

CONDITIONS IN BIG STOCKYARDS

President Transmits Rey-poMs-Neill Report to Congress. ACCOMPANIED BY A MESSAGE Urges Enactment of Law for Inspection of Meats by Fed* eral Government. HARD BLOW AT CANNED GOODS Treatment of Employee and Sanitary Arrangements Criticised in the Report Health la Menaced. Washington, June s.—The points In President Roosevelt’s message to congress on stockyards conditions in Chicago, accompanied by the ReynoldsNeill report, are as follows: “The conditions shown by even this short Inspection to exist in the Chicago stockyards are revolting. The method of handling and preparing food products is uncleanly and dangerous to health. The evil seems to be mr.Cb. less in the sale of dressed carcasses than in, the sale- of canned and other prepared products. “A law is needed which will enable the general government to inspect and supervise from the hoof to the can the preparation of the meat-food product. In my judgment the expense of the inspection should be paid by a fee levied on each animal slaughtered. I urge the enactment of substantially the provisions of the senate emendment • • • commonly known as the Beveridge amendment.” Reynolds-Neill Report. Following is a synopsis of the charges made in the Reynolds-Neill report as to conditions in the Chicago stockyards: “Potted ham is made with the help of meat scraps *llOlll to be eaten,’ bits of rope and other rubbish. There are no restrooms and women are stationed in the washrooms to prevent the girls from resting there. There are no lavatories or sinks where employes may wash their hands before plunging them into meat products. Even the ordinary decencies of life are ignored in the sanitary arrangements made for the men and women employes: The phraseology of the labels alleging government inspection is wholly unwarranted and tends to deceive the purchaser. “Canned'meats moldy with age are •livened up’ by being heated, relabeled and placed on the market. Workers climb over heaps of meat with their dirty shoes and cut up sides of beef holding them against ‘indescribably filthy aprons.’ Girls and women are forced to work in a room at a temper ature 38 degrees, with a water-cover-ed floor and a leaky ceiling, although all these conditions apparently are unnecessary. “No conveniences exist for laborers to wash tlielr hands after returning from toilets before plunging them again into sausage and other foods. An absence for cleanliness is to found everywhere in the handling of meat being prepareel for food products. Physicians state that tuberculosis is disproportionately prevalent in the stockyards, and the victims of this disease work on the spongy wooden floors. The whole situation in these huge establishments tends necessarily and inevitably to the moral degradation of thousands of workers.” Reply of tne Packers. Chicago. June 5.—A reply to the president’s message and the charges In the Reynolds-Neill report has been made by eight of the big packers. Its main points are: “Every pound of meat In our pack Ing houses come from animals which are inspected and passed by trained veterinary agents of the dejmrtment of agriculture. This is the absolute fact. “We are not interested in animals condemned before slaughter. We do not buy them. Every animal bought by us is inspected lx>th before and after slaughter, in accordance with the strictest inspection regulations ever devised in any country, not even excepting Germany. “Every animal of carcass that does not pass this rigid lns|’ctlon is condemned and disposed of under the personal supervision of the agents of the United States department of agriculture.” Probers at Packingtown. Chicago, June 7.—-City Inspectors stormed Packingtown. Led by Building Commissioner Bartaen and Chief Sanitary Inspector Hedrick, they explored many buildings in search of violations of the building or sanitary laws. With the building commissioner were Assistant Deputy Commissioner Edward Kelling, Fire Escape Inspector Peter McGinnis and Inspectors Knight, Moran. Mahoney, Dalton, Murphy, Gleason. Fox, Cowdry, Anderson and Miniter. Besides these the buildings swarmed wnu visitors, come in reply to a full page “ad” in the morning papers, inviting them. In Defense of the Packers. Washington, June 7,—Thomas E. Wilson of Nelson Morris A Co,, took issue with Commissioner Neill before the house committee on agriculture, declared several of the statements In

his report are false, impugned the motives behind the inquiry and Invited the congressmen to Chicago to see conditions for themselves.

PREFERS DEATH TO BLINDNESS

Thomas Jones, Pittsburg Steel King, J Fearing Loss of Sight, Kills Himself. Pittsburg, June 7. — Knowing that all Ms money' could not buy him a cure for the disease from which be be.lieved he was tiecoming blind, Thomas O’Conor Jones, heir to $50,000,000, worth several millions in his own right, and one of the heads of the great Jones & Laughlin Steel company, Committed suicide in the Hotel Schenley by shooting. A social favorite, a large owner In a prosperous business, with only thirty-eight years of his life elapsed, and with everything he could desire, except health, the prospect of loss of sight, couplQd with the fear that the nervous trouble with which he was afflicted would drive him insane, he concluded to end his life. Jones for some years had been associated with B. F. Jones,. Jr., in handling the immense business of the Jones & Laughlin company, which has the largest independent mills in the country.

BURTON RESIGNS HIS TOGA

Convicted Kansas Senator Does Not Wait for Expulsion—F. D. Coburn Is His Successor. Topeka, Kan., June s.—After a conference here with several close friends United States Senator Joseph R. Burton placed his resignation in the hands of Governor Hoch. As has been his custom since charges of irregularities were brought against him, Burton declined to talk for publication before going into the conference. Topeka. Kan., June 5. Foster Dwight Coburn,the widely-known agriculturist, has been appointed United States senator by Governor Hoch to succeed J. Ralph Burton. Coburn has not definitely accepted the appointment. Coburn was not a candidate for the appointment, nor has he been a candidate for the election to the senate seat to be filled by the legislature next year. Coburn was horn in Jefferson county. Wis., in 1846. He served in two Illinois regiments during the civil war, and settled in Kansas in 1867. He has served for the past sixteen years as secretary of the Kansas state board of agriculture.

Troops at Ohio Coal Mines.

Steubenville, 0., June 6. —Quiet reigns at Plum Run, Bradley, Dillonvale and throughout the coal regions of sub-district No. 5. No further disorder has been reported from any poii* and with the arrival of the trooj/s, it is expected peace will be completely restored. The first detachment of troops, numbering 300 men, readied Dillonvale at 6 o’clock and marched at once to Bradley, the scene of the previous day’s conflict. On r way to the mines the soldiers passed several groups of strikers, but the latter Inade no demonstration.

Longworths Threatened.

New York. June 4. —Congressman and Mrs. Longworth have sailed for Europe on the steam<*r St. Louis. Just before they sailed some excitement was caused on the American line pier by a drunken Italian declaring that he was an anarchist and that he intended to throw a bomb at the Ixmgworths. By the time a policeman could lie found the Italian had disapjieared. While the incident caused some stir for a moment it was believed that the drunken man’s talk was due merely to his condition.

Boyer Is Out of His.

Philadelphia, June 7. —Joseph Boyer, the Pennsylvania railroad employe who testified before the interstate commerce commission to having received large sums of money and other gratuities from producers of coal on the Pennsylvania railroad lines, was dismissed from the service of the company. When the matter was brought to the attention of President Cassatt he directed the immediate discharge of Boyer.

Election in the Printers’ Union.

Indianapolis, June 6.—The result of the election of officers of the International Typographical union is announced from the international headquarters. Those elected are to serve two years, they are as follows: President, James M. Lynch, Syracuse, N. Y.; first vice president, John W. Hays, Minneapolis; secretary-treasurer, J. W. Bramwood, Denver.

Leadbeater Out of Society.

Chicago, June 7.—Friends of Charles W. Leadbeater, prominent author and lecturer on theosophical subjects, are greatly shocked at the announcement that he has been expelled from the Theosophical society on a charge of gross immorality. Some of them, nevertheless, are rallying to his support, confident that ho can not be guilty.

Cloudburst Near Johnstown.

Johnstown, Pa., June 7. —Hoovers- # ville, a town eighteen miles north of here, was visited by a cloudburst, and Stony creeh at this point rose to eighteen feet in a short time. The lowlands are inundated, but no serious damage has resulted. No fatalities have been reported.

Nominated for Congress.

Burlington, 16., Jurto 7.— A. C. Kennedy, of Lee county, was nominated for congress by Republicans of First lowa district Mr. Kennedy was nominated on the 103rd ballot