Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 May 1893 — Page 2

Ihc fife* County gtmowat . H. MoO. STOOPS. Editor tad Proprlotor. PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. Gen. S. C. Armstrong, founder and superintendent of the normal institute at Hampton, Va., died on the 12th, aged 60. Gen. Armstrong was born at Honolulu, Hawaii, of missionary par- j S»> The second week of the World’s fair started oft with plenty of sunshine, work going ahead under high pressure and large crowds arriving on the grounds early by rail and by steamboat. ( The gold in the treasury, on the 13th, was *308,023,684.76, against which there were *108,795,019 gold certificates outstanding, leaving the net gold, usually denominated “the reserve,” *99,225,665.76. _____ The dock warehouses at the Basin du Kattendy, Antwerp, were destroyed by fire on the 8th. The warehouses which were burned contained wool, cotton | and sugar, and the loss amounted to 1,000,000 francs. Admiral Gomez Y. Lono, who commanded the Spanish vessels of war in the recent naval review in New York harbor, but was prevented by ill-health from reviewing the land parade, died at Havana, on the 10th. The Columbia bank of Chicago suspended on the Uth. In a report of the bank’s condition made by its officers at the close of business May 4, thede-. posits were stated to be nearly *1,500,-* 000. The capital stock of the bank is $1,000,000. '_ Through the efforts of the lady managers from Texas, the people of Galveston will send daily a load of cape jasmines for gratuitous distribution in various parts of the Columbian exposition, for the purpose of decorating and individual use.

4 E. A. McDonald, of Toronto, Ont., who has been in flew York for some weeks, has, it is said, organized a syndicate to construct an aqueduct from Georgian bay to Toronto, sixty miles, to supply Toronto with domestic water and motive power. It is officially stated that the earl of Aberdeen has been appointed governorgeneral of Canada, in place of the earl of Derby, formerly Baron Stanley of Preston, who is about to retire from the office of governor-general, to which he was appointed in 1888. It is probable that the council of administration of the World’s fair will receive, the finding and recommendation of its special committee to curtail the power of Theodore Thomas as to the exclusive use of certain instruments, and if he does not like it he can resign. A meeting of the board of life-saving appliances has been set for the 23d at Boston. The board will consider the merits of any life-saving plan, device or invention for use on shore only, and if in their opinion the device is useful „■ in saving life, will recommend it to the government for adoption. Drought has caused such damage to the grain crops in Italy that that country will be compeled to import this year 118,500,000 bushels of grain in excess of the ordinary amount imported. As the duty is five lire on a quintal the receipts on this account will probably cover the deficit in the Italian budget. The residences of three prominent citizens of Muscatine, la., who are engaged in prosecuting saloon cases, were blown up by dynamite on the 11th. No fatalities resulted. One of the houses destroyed was the home 'of John Mahon, editor of the Muscatine Journal, postmaster and an ardent prohibitionist. The Michigan crop report for the month of May shows a very discouraging condition of the wheat crop in that state.’ The outlook is even poorer than it was a month ago, when it was considered below the average. Much of the acreage sown will be plowed up because winter killed or otherwise destroyed, The bank of Victoria, at Melbourne, limited, has suspended. According to the balance sheet of last December the deposits amounted to £7,000,000. The bank had several branches, its London office being at 36 Clement’s lane, E. C. The subscribed capital is £1,200,000. The liabilities are about double that amount. The revolutionists in Nicaragua have taken possession of the seaport of San Juan del Sur and control most of the country between there and Granada. It is reported that the capital city, Managua, is under seige, and that several engagements between the government troops and the insurgents have taken place^ The stockholders of the recentlyfailed Chemical national bank of Chicago will make good its impaired capital as soon.as the exact amount can be ascertained, and the bank will resume business. Every'cent, it is asserted, will be paid, and it is understood that th i depositors at the World’s fair branch have already been paid. Ministeb Stevens,having been superceded by Commissioner Blount as head of the legation in the Hawaiian capital, will leave for San Franciseo on the steamer sailing from Honolulu on the 84th. Mrs. Stevens and Miss Stevens will accompany him, bringing with them the body of the daughter who was drowned early in the year. The will of the late Joseph S. Spinney, of New York, who left an estate valued at tS,000,000, was filed for probate in Brooklyn on the 8th. The will makes several small bequests to relatives and friends and then orders the estate to be divided between his sister, the Wesleyan university in Middletown,Conn , and the Seaman’s Friend society.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. G. R. Ruddy, Indian trader among the Winnebagos,left Black River Falls, on the 8th, with four Indiana for New Tork city, where he went to give an exhibition in the Indian department of the New York Press club fair, under the direction of Miss Ellen Sickles, government Indian agent. He is to return later to take charge of an extensive Indian exhibit at the World’s fair. The Iowa supreme court has decided the stubbornly-contested case of the Iowa Electric Medical college, holding that the state board of medical examiners has the right to fix standards for medical colleges. The Gera, from Bremen, arrived at New York, on the 8th, with one case of smallpox among her 1,440 steerage passengers, and was detained for disinfection. All passengers in the steerage were vaccinated. Commissioner Blount has been appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary , to Hawaii. Queen Victoria held a drawingroom at Buckingham palace on the 9th. Among the ladies received by her majesty were a number of Americans resident or visiting in London. Lord William Paulet died in London on the 9th.. He was born July 7, 1804. Lord Paulet was a field marshal in the British army and distinguished himself in the Crimean war. The village of North Galveston, Ind., was almost totally destroyed by fire early on the morning of the 9th. The residence of J. J. Jackson, among others, was consumed, and the entire family. consisting of himself, wife, two sons and a daughter, perished in the flames. Several other persons were badly burned, and many made their escape clad only in their night clothes. President Cleveland’s order shutting the White House door to officeseekers is not without precedent, despite assertions to the contrary. Nearly eight years ago, on October 27, Mr. Cleveland issued a similar statement, in which he not only said that he would decline to see those seeking public positions, but their advocates as well. Burins the performance at a theater in Lemberg, the capital of Austrian Galicia, on the night of the 9th, Herr Delczuk, one of the actors, drew a revolver in full sight of the audience, placed the weapon to his head and blew his brains out. It was subsequently learned that Herr Delczuk’s act was prompted by jealousy. The deposits of the exhibitors and all foreign commissions involved in the failure of the Chemical national bank of Chicago will be guaranteed by the World's fair directors and the citizens of Chicago. The president has appointed J. Hampton Hoge, of Virginia, to be United States consul at Amoy, China, vice Edward Bedloe, of Philadelphia. The newspapers of Rome assert that Von Bulow, the Prussian minister to the Vatican, visited Cardinal Rampolla, the papal secretary of state, and expressed surprise, in behalf of the Prussian government, that his holiness had departed f(om the customary limits of prudence in his recent political remarks to the Catholic pilgrims from Germanv.

Fire in the town of Spring Lake, Mich.,, on the 11th, destroyed over fifty houses, including one belonging to Warren Gee, valued at $10,000. Two churches, the schoolhouse and the town hall were also burned. Matthew O’Brien was burned to death and William Whalen was so badly burned that he will probably die, by a fire which destroyed the boarding house of Mrs. Graham in New Rochelle, N. Y., on the 11th. A boat containing a party of six young men engaged in spearing fish in the lake off Lexington, Mich., <jn the night of the 9th, capsized, and two of the party were drowned. .Gen. Edward D. Townsend, for a number of years adjutant-general of the army, died at his residence in Washington on the 11th. A south-bound freight train on the Ohio River railroad went off the track at Walkers, W. Va., early on the morning of the 11th, falling thirty-five feet. Five oil cars, the caboose and two cars of general merchandise were burned, Two men were killed, and another was fatally injured. The Capital national bank, of Indianapolis, lad., suspended on the 11th. The state bank examiner is in charge. The bank is the depository for a number of building associations. The announcement of the suspension of the bank came as a great shock to the people interested. The foreign commissioners, representing France, Germany, Austria, Spain, England and the minor countries, served notice on the World’s fair authorites, on the 11th, that they would withdraw their exhibits entirely from competition unless awards were made by juries, and not by a single judge. The tight money .scare has had a disastrous effect on the World’s fair attendance. The total attendance, up to the 11th, was 285,000, and the money, taken in at the gate will not so far pay the running expenses. Interest on $5,000,000 bonds is about d’*e and it looks as if the'directors must borrow $800,000 to take up the coupons. Overcome with shame and remorse. at being a prisoner in the city jail at Baltimore, Md., on a charge of assault, j George P. Roseway committed suicide in his Cell on the morning of the 11th. He was found hanging from an upper cross-bar by a long black silk necktie. A tornado which did considerable damage to farm buildings and orchards and slightly injured all the members of three families, passed near Pinkney, Mich., on the 12th. The train house and power house of the Grand View Beach Electric road at Rochester, N. Y., which runs along the lake shore for several miles, were burned to the ground on the 11th. The loss is $80,000, covered by insurance. The summer's business will be a total loss.

Hallett & Co., navy agents and bankers, of London, have suspended. The suspension has caused a sensation in military and naval circles at the west end, as many officers are depositors with the company, but commercially the failure is of slight importance, When the steamship Lahn reached quarantine in New York harbor, on the j 11th, four cases of small-pox were reported to the quarantine officials. The victims were all Hungarian immigrants, a man, two women and a child. They were at once removed to North Brothers’ island. Evan Jones, an employe in the White Breast mine at Keb, la., while ascending in the cage from the pit, on the 11th, was caught between the pit and the shaft and killed. The blow gouged out the eye and the right cheek bone, tearing a great hole in the side of his face. Jones was a bachelor, 37 years of age. The announcement of the failure of Eobinson & Co., bankers and brokers of Wilmington, iDel., on the 11th, created a profound sensation. C. A. MacAllister, attorney for the company, said the liabilities/' actual and contingent, are about $350,000 and the nominal assets about $204,000. The clearing-house returns for sev-enty-five principal cities of the United States, as reported by Bradstreet’s, for the week ended on the 27th,aggregated $1,370,664,109; of which amount New York city returned $830,801,459, Chicago $113,764,000, Boston $106,701,843, Philadelphia $75,227,241, and St. Louis $25,994,250. Assignee W. H. Stoddart, of the de-s funct banking house of F. V. Rockafeilow, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., has filed his first partial account with the court. Four per cent, of the $400,000 reported by the depositors will be paid. This is about the limit of the assets. William H. Fitzgerald, manager of the Detroit (Mich.) Electric Light Co., is charged with bribery in having paid Alderman Protiva $200, with the prom - ise of $800 more, to vote in favor of the company he represents in the public lighting contract. Business failures during the seven days ended on the 12th numbered, for the United States, 257, Canada 23, a total of 2S0, as compared with 243 during the previous week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 175. The schooner Esperance, Capt Richards, which sailed from the Magdaleu islands six weeks ago with a crew of ten besides the captain, on a sealing voyage to the gulf of St Lawrence, is reported lost with all on board. George Victor, sovereign prince of Waldeck, died at Marienbad, Bohemia, on the 12th, of pneumonia, aged |2. Hans Borchserous, of Wisconsin, chief of division, fifth auditor’s office, treasury department, has resigned. The total debt.of Nicaragua, internal and external, is $4,741,144.80. Rev. Maurice F. Burke, the Roman Catholic bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo., has been transferred to the see of St. Joseph, Mo.i Mr. Edward O. Leech, the director of the mint, handed his resignation to the president, on the 12th, to take effect the end of the month. This action of Mr. Leech was purely voluntary. He resigns to accept the position of cashier of the National Union bank of New York. The depositors in the exposition branch of the Chemical national bank, who live outside of Chicago received notice, oh the 12th. that they would be paid the amounts due them before the close of the exposition that night.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The annual statement of the bank of Montreal, Can., for the year ended April 80, has been issued. The statement is considered favorable. The profits, for the year were *1,339,810. Two dividends of 5 per cent, each were paid, amounting To *1,200,000. The earnings amount to about 11 per cent. A prominent democratic member of congress, who had been in conference with the president respecting the probabilities of an early special session of congress, left for his home on the 13th, with the understanding that he will not be called back to Washington before the end of August. Assistant Superintendent of Police Brennan places no confidence in the alleged discovery ip Buffalo of a plot of anarchists to blow up the Chicago waterworks and set fire to the World’s fair buildings for revenge on accou'nt of the hanging of the anarchists in 1887. The tolls for vessels trading on the river Vistula within the boundaries of Russia have been increased to ten roubles in gold in order to cover the expenses incurred by the Russian government for a sanitary supervision with a view to prevent the spread of cholera. Bank Examiner Hugh Young took charge of the suspended Capital national bunk of Indianapolis, Ind., on the 18th. The directors told him they wished to continue business, but he gave them no assurances. He began the examination at once. Ex-Ministf.r Lincoln arrived in New Yonk, on the 18th, from England. He was apparently in rugged health, and expressed himself as happy to be home again, although he found England a pleasant plaee. He will resume Ips law practice in Chicago. Director-General Davis has sent out a denial of the statement that exhibits would not be received at the Werld’s fair after May 14. He did not, however, give the date upon which installation would be stopped. The German war ships Kaiserin Augusta and Zadler, which had been at anchor in North river since the naval review of April 37, sailed on the 13th. The mill of the Wilbraham (Mass.) Woolen Co. .was destroyed by fire on the 13th. Loss, *75,000; partially insured. On the 13th the associated banks of New York held *17,795,035 in excess of the requirements of the 35 per cent. rule. The United States steamer Alliance sailed from San Francisco for Nicaragua on the IStb.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Evansville there was a settlement by agreement in the superior court of the case of Mary N. Shelton against the E. & T. H. Railroad Co. Plaintiff in this action was the mother of Eva Williams, who was killed near the John street crossing June 1,1892, by an E. & T. H. switch engine. She sued for' $S,000. Thirteen hundred dollars was the amount for which the suit was compromised. Charles Schreiver and wife and a man named Hunter were arrested at Madison and taken to Indianapolis, charged with counterfeiting. They are supposed to belong to the gang lately exposed at St. Joseph, Mo. Jennie Miller, aged 8 years, was burned to death near Brazil, by her clothes catching fire while watching her father burn trash in a field. P. M. Snow, a railroader, smelled escaping gas in his house, at Haughville, sent his family out of doors and hunted the leak with a lighted match. The house and furniture were ruined, Snow was badly hurt, while his wife and boy on the outside were seriously burned. Mrs. Biddie McKee, at Seymour, colored, died aged 101 years, 3 months and 5 days. She was born in Virginia, and was a slave until slavery was abolished. She was the oldest person in tha t section Of the country and the mother of nineteen children. The Indiana traveling salesmen elected the following officers: President, C. M. Taylor, Logansport; vice presidents, C. S. Dunning, Lafayette; Wm. Stewart; Logansport; F. E. Riblet, Ft. Wayne; secretary and treasurer, E. A. Keller, Logansport; directors, Frank Stone, Ft. Wayne; W. Uhl, J. H. Riethemeyer, Logansport The circuit court at Indianapolis, npon the petition of Charles W. De Pauw, president of the company, appointed John E. McGettigen receiver of the Premier steel works. Domixieo Orlitte, an Italian, was run down by the work train on the Ft Wayne road near Valparaiso, and instantly killed. A band of Gypsies quartered at Bluftton, has a novel and effective method of securing goods without paying. A woman calls at a store and leaves a basket on the counter to be called for soon. She goes out and presently returns for her property. In the meantime a trained dog has carried it awsun The woman raises a disturbance, usually the compassionate merchant gives her money to quiet her. Deputy Prosecutor Thompson haa filed in the circuit court, at Knox, twenty-one cases against the I., I. & I. Railroad Co., for its failure to bulletin trains at their Starke county stations, as provided by the law of this state. The Citizens’ Railway Co., of Indianapolis, filed articles with the secretary of state increasing its capital stock from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. This was in accordance, with a resolution adopted on April 26.

jjdnvuo UOIiJCill V* uo Uiivowvu drunkenness and placed in the stationhouse at Richmond. An hour afterwards he was found dead. He was 25 years old and unmarried. Engine No. 160, which will draw the Empire limited on the Lake Shore, made a successful test of the water trough constructed under the tracks at a point near Burdick. The engineer, running at a speed of fifty miles an hour, passed over that section of the track, the locomotive taking water as it went speeding along. At Fowler, Nellie C. Payne was found guilty of an attempt to kill her husband and given four, years in the 'Women aad Girls’ reformatory. The following fourth-class postmasters were appointed recently: Ash Grove, Tippecanoe county, J. R. McAfee; Crandall, Harrison county, Mrs. S. A. Heuser; Hillsburgh, Clinton county, I. N. Pennington; Mackey, Gibson county, John Niederhaus; Orange, Fayette county, Levi S. Hunt; Turner, Clay county, Frederick Mackel; West Point, Tippecanoe county, John Buchanan; Austin, Scott, county, J. W. Montgomery; Bargersville, Johnson county, Mrs. Mary A. Jones; Boundary, Jay county, C. N. Heister; Bud, Johnson county, R. S. Parkhurst: Eames, Warrick county, Mrs. Susan Condict; Lincplnville, Wabash county, Jas. Billiter; Ramsey, Harrison county, Edward Davis. Prof. James M. Chapman, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., has. accepted a call to Hie chair of oratory in Wabash college and will begin his work next September. New Castle reports five burglaries within a week. Salem has fifteen democratic candidates for postmaster. Ft. Wayne is to have another national bank in the early future, making flee at that city. The capital stock or the new bank will not be less than $200,000. and made $2,500,000. Z T^ik city council of North Manchester has awarded contracts for the construction of water works to the following firms: C. E. Coon & Co., of Upper Sandusky, and the Muskegon boiler works, of Muskegon, Mich. The contracts amount to $28,000, and the work of construction will commence at once. Rrrus Havck and George Cutsinger, under arrest for attempting to wreck a passenger train, April 2, on the Martinsville branch of the Big Four railroad, by putting two barrels of salt and a number of cross-ties on the track near Needham, have confessed and are held in jail here awaiting trial. Five fourth-class postmasters were appointed in Indiana the other day aa follows: A. H. Bridwell, Avoeo, Lawrence county; Mrs. O. G. Edwards, Fincastle, Putnam county; J. G. Penrose, Metea, Cass county; John Stohler, Stohler, Madison county; Wm. Otte, Tecumseh, Vigo county. Lulu Gilman, living four miles from Oakland City, committed suicide by poisoning. The cause seems to have been remorse over fier second downfall. Policeman Patrick Ha ggep.ty of tha Columbus force arrested Oliver Taylor, alias Oliver Sackett and Noah Cox. Both of them escaped from the Jeffersonville penitentiary April T- i

THREE tHOUSAND FEET. Frightful Accident it the Calumet and Heels Mine at Houghton, Mleh—Ten Men ^farled Down the lied Jacket Shaft Three Thousand Feet by the Breaking of the Couplln Pin of the Hoisting Cage—Pltl’ul Scenes Among the Relatives of the Victims. Houghton, Mich., May 15.—Ten tirabermen were dashed to pieces in Red Jacket perpendicular shaft of the Calumet & Hecla mine at noon yesterday. The miners were coming.up in the cage to dinner, and the engineer hoisted the cage against the timbers of the shaft when the coupling pin broke and the men and cage dashed downward over 3,000 feet to the bottom. The wife of one of the men was at at the mouth of the shaft with her husband's dinner and sa w the car containing him reach the top and then drop when the rope broke. Yesterday’s accident is the worst which has ever happened in the Calumet & Hecla mine and the excitement in the city is intense. Thousands of people have visited the shaft where the horror occurred, and many jatiful scenes have been witnessed there. Most of the ill-fated men had families and when the first rumor of the awful accident spread, wifes and Children hastened to the scene, hoping that the report had been false, but finding instead, that it was only . too true, and that many of them were widows or orphans. None of the bodies have been recovered as yet, as to get to them requires a trip down another shaft, and ^hen a walk of considerable distance <5n one of the levels. It is expected, however, that all of the bodies will be recovered early this morning. There are two men employed in the mine who are congratulating themselves on escaping the terrible death which overtook their comrades. Twelve men went down into the mine yesterday morning, but one of them was taken sick and was sent to the suraccompanied by another one of the men. COLLIDED IN A rOG. Twenty-Four Persons Drowned by the Sinking of the Ship Countess Evelyn, In ■3 Collision with the Steamship City of Hamburg OS the Welsh Coast—Another Collision with Probably Direful Results. London, May 14.—The captain of the steamship City of Hamburg, which arrived at Swansea to-day from Hamburg, reports that at 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon his vessel collided in a fog off Trevoshead, coast of Cornwall, with the ship Countess Evelyn, bound gvith passengers and iron ore from Bilbao, Spain, to Newport, Wales. The captain of the Countess Evelyn jumped aboard the City of Hamburg and many passengers crawled to her through holes made in the Countess Evelyn's quarter. Ninety seconds later the Countess Evelyn went down with her crew of sixteen afcd with nine passengers. Boats were lowered from the City of Hamburg, but the search in the fog proved almost useless. Seaman Jasbin was picked up, hut he died in a few minutes after. having been brought aboard the steamship. The dead body of a little girl was also found. Otherwise the attempt at rescue was without result. The lost passengers were the English wife and the son and daughter of a Spanish gentleman in Bilbao; Mrs. Williams, her son and infant daughter; two men named Barton, and a Londoner whose name has not been ascertained. The steamship Ataka, which arrived at Cardiff yesterday, was damaged by a collision with tin unknown ship off Lundy isle. The Ataka’s captain thinks that the other vessel went down with all on board.

A CLEVER ESCAPE. A Convict Boxes HUnself Up and is Carted to Freedom. Jackson, Mich., May 15.—Charles II. Price, a seven-year convict, sent from Detroit September«20, 1890, for forgery, made the cleverest escape from the prison within the history of the institution. Price was engaged in packing snaths in boxes to ship to Australia. He left out half of one lot, made a false top for the box, which he fitted in bymeans of wooden buttons on the inside and was carted; to the car platform outside the prison: When, the coast was clear he opened the bo.f and escaped. He had mode two other attempts and was caught in the act. Price is wanted at Cincinnati for a diamond robbery; also in St. Louis. His real name is Prentice Tiller, the famous St. Louis express robber, and he resides at Louisville, Ky. A woman with whom Price formerly lived is at 122 Wiley Place, ' Pittsburgh, Pa. He is 5 feet 8X inches tall, weighs 185 pounds and has a light' complexion. STRUCK IT RICH. Immense Excitement at Baker City, Ore., Over a Valuable Gold Find. Baker Citt, Ore., May 15.—One of the richest gold strikes ever made in this seotion of the country, not excepting the famous White Swan mine, which is yielding 810,000 per day with a tenstamp mill, was uncovered last, Thursday. The lucky finders are James and Samuel Paisley. The latter was one of the discoverers of the White Swan. The new find is situated about three miles south of the W’hite Swan and Virtue mines-; Over $1,000 in gold was pounded out Thursday in a hand-mor-tar. The ledge that has been found has been uncovered and proves to be a | pay chute varying in width from two j to ten feet. Express Bobbers Captured. LAKETON.Ky.,Mav 15.—Two men have been arrested and are charged with the robbery of the express car Friday night on the Mobile & Ohio railroad at this place The men are John Picket and Sid. Jones, and they lived at Berkley, four miles from the scene of the robbery. A searching party traced the men to their homes by torn bits of express envelopes that were left scattered in the road. At the house where the men were arrested a large number of express envelopes were found. The prisoners were taken ta Bardwell. the county seat, and jailed.

fliOIESSIONtL CARDS. J. T. KIMS. M. IX, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, TSD. WOiBce In Rank tulUing, first floor. Witt be louts <1 at oftke da;,- or night. OEO. 13. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERS BORO, IND. Prompt Attention Given to all Bnninesfl, WOffiee overllanett &'Son’s store. Francis B. Posbt. Dewitt q: Chappell. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixd. Will practice in n I tfce courts. Special at* tention given to nil business. A Notary Public constantly in ti e office. j|c§-Oflice*-< On first floor Bunk Building. II. a. Ely. S. G. Davexfoet ELY & I)A''^EXPORT, LAWYERS, Peter ®c kg, Ixi>. 03-Offire over J. R Adams A Son’s druf; ttore. Prompt attrition given to all busi ness. E. 1‘. Richardson. A. II. Tatlor RICIIARDSOX & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixd. Prompt attention ghu*n to all business. i» Notary Pub Pc constantly in the office. Offico in Carpeutcr Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. II. STO DECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETER SB j RG,, IND. Office In room8 6 and 7 in Carpenter Build imr. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetic** used for painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, IND. ■ 1' ; “ • ; ■ , : i ‘ Owing to long pract ce and the possession of % fine library and case of instruments, Mr. r' Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle SUCCESSFULLY. He also keeps on han*l a stock of Condition Powders and Linimer t, which he sells at reasoi.afr e prices. Office Over J. B Young & Go ’s Store. Machinist AHD Blacksmith. I am prepared to do t he best of work, with satisfaction guaranteed in all kinds of Black smithing. Also Moving and Reaping Machines Repaired in the bee; o( workmanship 1 em • ploy none but first- class Workmen. Do nof go from home to get jour work, bat tall ei me at my shop on Mi.in stroet, Petersburg Indiana. CHAS. VEECK. TRUSTEES* hOTlCKS O? OFFICE DAI. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will attem to the duties of the office of trustee o f Clay township at horns on EVERY MONDAY. > All persons who ha ve business with tta»» office will take notice that I will attend to business on no other lav. M. M. GOWEN. Trustee. NOTICE is herel>y given to all parties in terested that I vvriil attend at my offico in Stendal, EVERY STAURDAY, v.. To transact business connected with thi> office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having buuiuisi with said office will please take notice. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties con * cerned that I will be at mv residence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to busi:iei*s connected with th*j office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given that.I will be m my residence ?§& EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with tb<» office of Trustee of Logan township. Positively no business transacted except on office days. S1IAS KIRK, Trustee. -\TOTICE is hereby given to all parties con - li cerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with th»j office of Trustee of Madison township. jSarPositively no business transacted ex - cept office days • JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby piven to all persons in - terested that I will attend in my office ir . Velpen, EVERY FRIDAY, To transact busircss connected with £h< office of Trustee of Marion township. Al. persons having business with said offioo will please take no-dee. W. F. BROCK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby give*.* to all persons concerned, that l trill attend at my or* EY3SS.Y DAT To transact business connected with office of Trustee of Jefferson township. W. HARRIS, Trustee, thn