Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1907 — Page 4

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TAMMANY WINS.

Election in Greater New York Is Favorable to the Democrats. RESULTS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY Contest for Governor of New Jer sey Is in Favor of Republicans. Republicans Carry Kentucky Prohibitionists Make Gains in Illinois—Johnson Wins at Cleveland, O. New York, Nov. 7.—The election In Greater New York has been largely favorable to the Democrats. New York county (Manhattan and the Bronx) went overwhelmingly their way, Thomas F. Foley, for sheriff, the head of the ticket, having a plurality of 24,717 over M. F. Ihmeen, Independence league and Republican, In • comparatively light vote. The fusion between the Republicans and the Independence league was a failure, except in the cases of a few minor officials. Republicans, Win in Brooklyn. In Richmond and Queens, too, the Democrats were generally successful, but In Kings county (Brooklyn) the Democrats, under the leadership of Senator Patrick 11. McCarren, suffered a reverse. All the Republican candidates on the county ticket, with the single exception of Clarke. Democratic candidate for district attorney, are elected. No very great issue wns at stake in any of the local elections, and Interest was at low ebb.

Tn the state election, Edward T, Bartlett and Willard Bartlett, having the united support of Republicans and Democrats, were elected judges of the court of appeals by an enormous majority over the candidates of the Independence league. Republicans Lose Assemblymen. The Republicans lost a few' members of the assembly, probably six. Sherman Moreland, majority leader of the assembly, is believed to have de seated Colonel David C. Robinson in Chemung county. Henry Seacord, 79years old, who helped to organize the Republican party in Orange county, was elected to the assembly In the First district of that county. The Republicans were victorious tn the cities of Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, Oswego and Utica, the Republicans electing a mayor in the latter city for the first time in fourteen years. To offset this the Democrats carried Newburgh for the first time in seventeen years. Elmira, Rome and Binghamton also elected Democratic mayors. Bourke Copkran Arrested. Congressman W. Bourke Cockran was arrested on the charge of voting Illegally. He was honorably discharged In the police court. Cockran was arrested on information furnished by a domestic, who made affidavit he did not live nt the address given by him, when lie registered. Mr. Cockran admitted this, but declared the house was his residence when he went to congress, and that he had never forfeited the right to live there ELECTION IN ILLINOIS Anti-Saloon Element Wins Victories in Seventeen Counties. Chicago, Nov. 7. —-In Illinois the election was confined closely to the saloon question. There were no tests of party strength on any question. In seventeen counties voting under the local option bill passed by the legislature last spring saloons were wiped out. This victorj- was foreshadowed by the strength of local option in the legislature, where the bill was forced through against the strongest fight the saloon interests had ever offered. Overwhelming victories were won by the anti-saloon movement in the counties of Cass, Edwards, Johnson, Massac, Menard, Calhoun, Morgan, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Scott, Union, Wabash, and Williamson. The most spectacular victory of the anti-saloon forces was at Jacksonville, where by a majority of 775 thirty-two saloons were voted out At Duquoin, where a terrific battle was waged between the two 'elements, the “drys” won by 20 votes.

Everywhere the prohibitionists won victories there were scenes of the greatest enthusiasm. This was nota- • bly the case in Mounds, Pulaski county, where 500 women and children marched through the streets singing re llglous hymns and exhorting the voters to drive out the saloons. These scenes were repeated with equal fervor In other towns where the liquor question rose above all others. JOHNSON WINS ONCE MORE Defeats Ex-Congressman Burton tb Mayor of Cleveland. Cleveland, 0., Nov. 7.-—Mayor Tom Tj. Johnson was re-elected for the fourth time as mayor of Cleveland Complete returns give Johnson, Demo crat, 48.339 Theodore E. Burton. Re-

publican, su.trju. Johnson’s plurality, 9.313. The entire Democratic ticket was elected with the exception of police clerk. The Democrats also Increased their majority in the city council and elected all but three members of the board of education. Charles Anson Bond, Republican, was elected mayor of Columbus by a plurality ranging from 5,000 to 7,000. Mr. Bond was opposed by Judge Thomas A. Duncan, Democrat, who

MAYOR TOM JOHNSON.

was pledged to enforce the midnight and Sunday closing laws. Mr. Bond refused to make any promises during the campaign except that he would enforce the lawa Full returns from the Cincinnati election give Marbrelt, Republican, for mayor, a dear majority over his four opponents of 8,271. The vote on Prohibition and Sodalist candidates was light. Democrats Win in Maryland. Baltimore, Nov. 7. —The Democrats have elected Judge Austin L. Crothers governor and the entire state ticket by 7,000. The legislature appears to be safely Democratic. Ex-Governor John Walter Smith defeated Governor Edwin Warfield in the primaries for the long’ term United States senatorship beginning in 1900. Senator William Pinckney Whyte was unopposed and will succeed himself for the abort term. Good Government Wins tn Frisco. San Francisco, Nov. 7.—The lection in this city proved a veritable landslide of the anti-graft leaders, and returns show that good government ticket has been overwhelmingly elected from top to bottom. Returns show that Mayor Tayior has been elected by a plurality of more than 11,000 votes, wlille District Attorney William H. Langdon has a majority of 16,000 votes over McGowan, his opponent. American Party in Control. Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 7. Through the election of John W. Bransford tut mayor the general city ticket and a majority of the city council the American party will retain complete control of this city for two years. Tho victory was won on the issue of Mention church domination, the Americans claiming that the other parties were under ecclesiastic eoutroi.

Governor Guild Re-Elected. Boston, Nov. 7.—Governor Ourtis Gufld, of Boston, Republican, was reelected by 105,000 plurality, the largest given a gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts since the free silver movement. The balance of the Republican state ticket was also successful and the party will again control both houses of the legislature by a proportion of about 3 to 1. Nebraska Goes Republican. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 7. —The Republicans have carried the state by a majority of about 20,000. Rural precincts cast a heavy vote for Judge M. B. Reese, Republican candidate for the supreme judgeship. C. B. Anderson and George Coupland, candidates for state university regents, have been elected by about 15,000 plurality. L New Jersey Republidau. Trenton. N. J., Nov. 7. Frank 8. Katzenbach, Jr., Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey, concedes the election of John Franklin Fort, bls Republican opponent The Intest figures give the state to Judge Fort by about 7,000. The legislature is strongly Republican. Kentucky Goes Republican. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 7. —The returns show the majority of Augustus E. Willson, Republican, for governor, over 8. W. Rager is 14,000. In the legislature the Democratic members will have a small majority on joint ballot James F. Grinstead was elected mayor of Louisville over Owen Tyler by 4.083. No Opposition in Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., Nov. 7.—Practically without opposition the Democratic ticket, with H. F. Noel for governor, was elected In Mississippi. Although the vote was very light the returns will not be complete for several days as their compiling is merely for record. — _ Governor Higgins Re-Elected. Providence, R. 1., Nov. 7 —Governor James H. Higgins, Democrat was reelected. The next general assembly will again be strongly Republican, Insuring the election of George Peabody Wetmore to the United States senate.

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PREVENTION OF PANIC

Subject Now Engrossing the Attention of Financiers and Statesmen. COSTLY LESSON IS DRIVEN HOME * Position of Trust Companies Held Largely Responsible. President Urged to Call an Extra Session of Congress— Representative Fowler Advocates * Credit Currency. New York, Nov. 4.—The ■which have had to be met in the recent crisis have given a strong impetus to the movement for providing increased bank currency, and is expected to induce early action by congress to authorize new forms of bank note issues. The experience of the country In a period of high prosperity and active business and Industry, and. with the banking position sound and solvent in coming almost to a deadlock for lack of means to make banking resources quickly available for the needs of the circulation has made a deep impression in inculcating the need of an emergency circulation which can expand quickly In such time of need. Position of the Trust Companies.

In another direction it is practically certain that measures of correction will be adopted for the trust company position at New York, which is now seen to have proved the weak link in the financial chain. Here again the solven<y of institutions did not avail to meet sudden demands of depositors without recourse to the banks for assistance, the assistance thus rendered proving the strain that precipitated the crisis. The Clearing House banks for several years have voiced their discontent with the trust companies’ position, which was due to the great growth of these institutions and their undertaking of purely banking functions in ths acceptance of large deposits subject to cheek and to payment on demand without obligations to maintain cash reserves in the proportion enforced on the banks. Efforts of banks to coerce the trust companies in this regard led to the withdrawal several years ago of most of them from the privilege of clearing through the banks. Extra Session of Congress Urged.

Apropos to this subject of financial stability a Washington dispatch says It has been learned there from undoubted sources that President Roosevelt is now being urged to call an extra session of congress to deal with the flnnncial situation. The request comes from and represents the judgment of the Conservative leaders in the financial world, who have represented the present situation as one compelling action of a character which will affirmatively eradicate all ground for suspicion of industrial methods in the United States. On the other hand there are those, it is said, who hnve told the president that an extra session might do harm by emphasising in the public mind apprehension of unfavorable eondltlonss that no not exist. CREDIT CURRENCY THE CURE Representative Fowler, of New Jersey, Is of That Opinion. New Tork, Nov. 4.—That permanent relief from the present monetary stringency can only be had through a system of credit currency adequate to meet the requirements of trade, and redeemable in gold coin, was the opinion expressed by Representative Fowler, of Kew Jersey, ehairman of the banking and currency committee, which will, at the coming session of congress, endeavor to have a law passed providing for credit currency issued by the national banks. In discussing the mattor Fowler said that evidence of the essential soundness of underlying business conditions was abundant, in spite of which publie confidence has been Shaker, and credit seriously affected. He said to the Associated Press: "The cause of the currency stringency is that there is scattered broadcast throughout the country—-at the mints, in the wheat, corn and eotton fields, in the pockets of the people or locked up about $1,800,000,000 of the reserve money of the United States, most of which under a proper condition would be tn the banks serving as reserve. • • • If these reserves now scattered broadcast over the land were tn the banks where they properly belong there would hare been no money panic this fall.”

Visitor Killed by Burglar.

Chicago, Nov. 6.—James W. Allaway, 52 year* old, commission marehane of Los Angeles, Cal., was shot and killed by a desperate burglar who forced an entrance Into the home vs the victim’s brother, Edward Allawar. 418 Waller avenue, at 3:30 a. m. The murdered man was paying a visit to his brother. • ‘ - -

Four Hunters Drowned.

Hibbing. Mina., Nov. 6.—Peter Healy, Jacob Seibel, and John Baitz, business men, who left here a week ago for a hunting trip in the Bowstring country, have been drowned in Mud lake. Another man, ( wbo was acting as guide, also was drowned.

Ambassador White Goes Hunting.

Rambouillet, France, Nov. 7. President Fallieres gave his first official hunt in honor of the diplomatic corp*.. Among the guests wgs the United States ambassador, Henry White.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

The threatened railway strike h» Great Britain ~ has been averted .through an agreement drawn by Mr. 'Lloyd-George. Gavin McNab, Ban Francisco attorney and Democratic political leader, was run down by a runaway horse. His skull was fractured and be may be fatally Injured. The purity congress of Rattle Creek. Mich., urged drastic laws in a war on vice. A grandniece of Marfin Van Buren, who married an Italian “count,” learned that her husband is a brigend and secured a divorce. A Chicago policeman shot a chauffeur who refused to stop his speeding auto. Attorney General Davidson of Texas filed suit at Austin against five alleged subsidiary concerns of the Standard Oil company, asking damages to the extent of $6,000,000 In each case.

Bunaway Boy Arrested.

Chicago, Nov, 7.—Stanley Kuns, Jr., 16 years old, son of Alderman Stahley from home Monday and, on complaint of bls father, has been arrested In Baltimore, Md., with a companion with whom he left Chicago. What caused the boy to leave home Is unknown to The police.

Organist Attacks a Priest.

Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 7.—Dr. J. Lewis Browne, organist of the Sacred Heart church, was arrested, charged with attempting to about Father Gunn, the priest in charge of the church. Browne conducted the musical festival at Cincinnati last year and was one of tho organists In the great recital at the St Louis World’s fair.

To Disinfect Text Books.

New Haven, Conn., Nov. 7.—To prevent the spread of diseases among school children the Mothers’ dub of this city has drafted a new ordinance, which It requests the dty fathers to adopt, making it necessary for the text books in every school bonding to bo regularly disinfected.

THE WEATHER Following is the official weather forecast up to 8 o’clock tonight: Illinois—Partly doudy; cooler. Indiana—'Partly cloudy. lowa—Partly cloudy; cooler. Lower Michigan—Possibly showers with cooler in west portion. Wisconsin with possibly showers in north portico; cooler.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain. Chicago, Nov. 7. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat — Open. High. Low. Close. Nov. . ..$ 99 $ .89 $ .89 $ .89 Dec 91% .99% .90% .90% May ... 1.01 1.02% .90% 1.00% July ... .95% -97% .94% .95% Corn — Dec 57% J 58% .57% May ... .58% 99% 97% .58% July ... 97% .58% 97% .58 OatsDec 48% 49 47% 47% May ... 90% .51% .50% .50% July ... .47 4T% .46 ' 46% Pork— Jan. ...13.00 19.85 13.00 1895 May ...13.50 13.70 13.45 18.57% Lard— Nov. ... 8.12% 9.12% 8.12% 8.12% Jan. ... 7.85 T. 98 7.828% 7.92% May ... 8.00 8.12% 7.95 8.03 Short Rips— Jan. ... 7.00 T.lO 5.90 7.02% May ... 7.20 7.35 7.15 7.27%

Cash Sales—Winter wheat —By sample: No. 2 red, 98%(095e; No. 3 red, 90%(093%e; No. 9 hard, 92%(0 £«%c; No. 3 hard, 90%@94%c. Spring wheat by sample: No, 8 spring, 92e@ $1.02. Corn —By sample: %@lc lower: No. 2 yellow, 6O%(0fllc; No. 3, 58% ©6oc; No. 3 white, 60%c; No. 3 yellow, 60@60%c; No. 4,58 c. Oats—By sample: steady: No. 8 white, 47@50c; No. 4 white, 47@49c. Live Stock, Poultry and Hay. Chicago, Nov. 7. Hogs—Receipts 18,000. Sales ranged at $5.15(05.25 for choice heavy shipping, $5.20(05.40 choice light, $5.00@ 5.10 mixed packing, [email protected] choice pigs. Cattle—Receipts 9,000. Quotations ranged at $«[email protected] ror prime fat steers, $3.50(04.60 good to choice cows, [email protected] prime heifsto, $6,150(07.00 good to choice calves. Sheep—Receipt* 12,000. Quotations ranged at $4.50(05.00 for good to prime native wethers, gt.25tf4.75 good to prime native ewes, s«.W>(ofl.BO good to choice native lambs, <390(06.25 medium spring lambs. v? ■ < Live Poultry—Turkeys, per Th, 14@ .15c; chickens, fowls, 9e; springs, 10c; roosters, 6%c; geese, <5.00(07.00; ducks, 9%@10c. Hay—Choice timothy, <17.50(018.50; No. 1, $15.50(017.00; N 6. 2 and No. 1 mixed, $13.50(015.00; Na 8 and No. 2 mixed, $12.00(013.50. ininols, Indiana and Wisconsin feeding prairie,/-good to choice, [email protected]; packing hay, $7.00(08.50. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 1. I panning & Stevens. Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo. N. Y.. suote as follows: Cattle —Re< e pts 3 airs; market slow. Hogs—Receipts 40 jarfi; market lower; heavy, Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $5.50. Sheep and Lambs' —Receipts 40 cars; market slow: best lambs, s7.2s;yearlings. $5.75 @6.00; wethers, $5.75; ewes, $5.00@ 890 l Calve*—Best, [email protected].

DEFEAT OF THE STATE

Fail* Again to Obtain the Right to Burn Gambling M Devices. 4 LAW MADE TO FIT THE CASE Doesn’t Fit, Says Judge BusMrk, and Is Also Ex-Poet Facto—Buries a Pet Snake—ltems. Paoli, Ind., Nov. 6.—The French Lick Springs and West Baden gambling cases were before the Orange circuit court again on petition and motion of the attorney general for an order on the sheriff to destroy at once the gambling devices taken In the raid on the gambling resorts in July, 1906. The petition was filed under tho act of 1907, which amended the act of 1095, under which the property was seized and which last named act provided for the destraction of the property only after the trial and conviction of the owner, while the act of 1907 provided for its immediate destruction and to apply to all such property then in the bands of the officers. Violates a Fundamental Principle. Jndge Buskirk refused to grant the prayer of the petition and motion, holding that the only law in force at the time of the seizure provided for the destruction only after the 'conviction of the owner and as a part of the penalty for his offense; that the act of 1907 required the infliction of that part of ths penalty against the owner in advance of his trial, and conviction. Jndge Buskirk held 'that the application of the act of 1907 to the present case was to rob him of the protection of a fundamental principle of the law the presumption of innocence of tho offense charged, wMlch the law throws aronnd him and which presumption extended to the Innocent character of the property as well as tn the person of the defendant '.Term of Ex-Post Fac»o Applies. He also held that to grant the order for its destruction in advance of the defendant’s trial was to order the destruction of tangible and competent evidence and substitute therefor a written list of theproperty destroyed,which the act of 1907 provides shall be used on the trial of the defendant as evidence. The court held that the proceeding, being based; entirely on n criminal statute, it wak a criminal proceeding and the term “ex-post facto,” applied, the case In no sense being a civil proceeding, as contended by the attorney general In his argument. Judge Busldra held the act of 1907 to be export facto, as applied to this case. The attorney general took an appeal. Went to See a Kokomo Lawyer. Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 6.—Nearly 100 residents of Kokomo, beaded br Representative C. B. Landis, of Delphi; Mayor W. H. Arnett, of this dty; City Attorney W. E. Voorhis, and other city officials, went\>n a special train to Chicago to attend the performance of “The Man from Home” as the guests of the Studebaker theater. Other parties from Indianapolis, Noblesville, Tipton and Peru joined the crowd. In the play of Tarkington and Fllson, the principal diaracter is David Voorhis Pike, a Kokomo lawyer.

EXPEKIMENTnCVTTfI A SERPENT Restaurant Keeper Has a Pet Rattlesnake Buried tn a Box Until Next Spring. Columbus, Ind., Nov. 6.—Alex. Lane, proprietor of a restaurant here, has a pet rattlesnake. The snake is a fullsized Brown county rattler, and Brown made a cage for it and tried to make It eat The snake refused, however, to eat anything for a month, except a small piece of raw meat and Lane decided to put it in winter quarters. He took the snake to the back yard where he buried it at a depjh of about two feet Next spring Lane will dig up the snake and again attempt to tame It The snake' is buried tn its cage, so that if it decides to come out before Lane is ready to dig it out in the spring. It will have difficulty in doing so. Woman tn a Saloon Fight Marion. Ind., Nov. 6.—The filing of an affidavit in the city court revealed the fact that the “man” who took part in a saloon fight on Hallowe’en was a woman. Miss Jessie Westfall, a tailores*, dressed as a man. Her disguise wss so complete that she decided to try it on the joafers in a saloon. She (rent tn and began a discussion with Louis Bowser, finally making him angry. Bowser knocked hag down twice before she escaped. Son's Disgrace Kills a Mother. Huntington, Ind., Nov. 6.—Grief is said to have hastened the death of Mrs. Jehu Dille, of this county, whose son is a soldier in the regular army, but now classed as a deserter wh?n he reported after a furlough and was told that the regiment was going to the Philippines he disappeared. Domestic Trouble and Crime. Muncie, Ind., Nov. 6. —Russell M. Braden, 47 years old, fatally shot bis wife, 27 years of age, and then committed suicide with the same weapon/ The shooting was the result of domestic troubles. Braden was a saloonkeeper. Amusement Was Fatal. Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 6. Peter Byrne broke his neck in a fall from a ladder. He was placing a sma.l wagon on the roof of hl* bouse to amusq hl* children. ' ■ • - ; i

KING CORN.

Results of Improvement In Brooding i ■nd Cultivation. In commenting on the National Corn exposition recently held at Chicago, Orahge Judd Farmer says: There were about 8.000 exhibits of corn pn display. Taking the entire exhibit Into consideration, the corn on the tables was probably the beet ever shown at any exhibition. This is most remarkable, considering the unfavorable conditions which prevailed through the growing season. It Would not be possible to havp anything like corn of the high quality shown were it not for the great improvement In breeding and cultivation of late. Pure bred varieties mature earlier and resist unfavorable weather conditions to a greater extent than the Inferior corn grown a few years ago. In the class open to the world the showing was wonderful. Probably a third of the entire exhibit was in this lot. Illinois Exhibit. The Illinois exhibit, as would naturally be expected, was very complete in white apd yellow classes. Undoubtedly, however, the yellow varieties predominated, the majority of them being of the Reid type. This is a remarkably uniform variety and of high scor4ng quality. The white samples were just 'about as numerous, and many of them were of very excellent character, but as show corn they did not compare quite as well as yellow corn. Calico and Red Varieties. Outside of the .white and yellow varieties shown by lowa exhibitors there was an exceedingly fine showing of calico and red corn. In the cattie feeding states these varieties seem io be exceedingly popular. CORN STORAGE. Germination Teets With Corn Stored In Different Ways. v The relation of a perfect stand to Increased crop yields has been so effectually demonstrated that the best method of storing seed grain becomes a matter of vital interest to all corn growers. A tert was made last year tb determine what the ‘effect of storing corn In a dry room, on racks in the barn, in the warming oven of a stove and in a corncrib would have on the germinating powers of the seed the following spring. The per cent of gertoinatton was lowest with the corn stored in the

FOR DBYING CORN.

[A convenient rack for etorlng. which may be of any height desired.] crib, as would naturally be expected, as the seed was exposed to the widely varying temperatures which prevailed during the winter season. The germination was practically the same with the samples stored In a dry room and on racks in a barn, though these methods of storing had but little advantage over the ose of the warming even. Considerable difference was witnessed, however, In the strength of the germi-, nations from corn kept in the several ways indicated. Th© grain from the corn stored in the crib showed the least vigor of germination, the best results being obtained from the corn i stored on the racks tn the barn, followed quite closely by that stored tn a dry room. The corn stored in the warming oven germinated fairly well in all except two instances. In one the germination was remarkably low, due either to a poor ear or to the fact that the corn may have been overheated at sometime. The matter of the storage of seed after It has been carefully bred and •elected Is therefore one which should receive the careful attention of every farmer.—Andrew M. Boule. Virginia. Cotton Sood. Cotton seed Is now worth as much, pound for pound, as corn. Then why not sell and buy seed by grade, a* corn1* bought and sold?—Texas Farm and Ranch.

Ditch Notice. ' * To Samuel E. Sparling: You are hereby notified that Henry H. Eiglesbaeh and others have filed their ditch petition with the Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana, for the enlargement and improvement of a tile drain on the following described route, towit: Commencing at a point about (00) rods south and five hundred (UO) feet east of the northwest corner of the northwest quarter of section thirty-one (31), township twentynine (29) north, range six (0) west in Jasper County, Indiana, owned by the St. Joseph College, and from thence following the line of a private ditch northwesterly to the Iroquois River where the same wilt have a good and sufficient Outlet, this being the private tile drain as recorded in Miscellaneous Record 38. page 429, of the records of Jasper County, Indiana, You are notified that this ditch is set for docketing on December 2, 1907. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, . Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana. Henry H. Eiglesbaeh, et al, z Petitioners. Folta A Spitler, Attorneys for Petitioners.