Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 45, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 March 1897 — Page 1

^ * March! March! To our special Shoe Sale during the month of March. We have concluded to offer the Shoe stocks of both our stores at cut prices for this month ami this sale only. Remember, but two pairs of Men's or Ladies’ Shoes sold to one customer at one time. With the sharp advance iu leather this is a great chance to obtain your Shoes for almost nothing. Don't wait for better roads or better times—buy now. this chance will not happen again. You have two big stores to select from aud will- be treated right.

flot) year Eqe flowi) tljis List e( prices. Infants’ Soft Sole Shoes, Bice and easy..].... Infants’ Shoes with Patent Tip. Dongola Kid. 2 to 5... Children's Shoes in Kid, Goat Heel and Spring Heel, 5 to 8_ Mimes'- Kid Button Shoes, Spring Heel, Patent Tip, 18 to 2.. 8* Patent Tip Ba :N $1grade...... Ladies' Patent Tip Button. Rod Hongola Kid. Soft Soles $1.75 grade.............fl Ladies’ Dongola Kid, new Coin Toe with Tip .1 Ladies’ fine Yiei Kid, in Button or Lace, Coin Toe, Chocolate or Black, elegant go*>ds. $2.30 gra»k* ......... . 1 Ladies' fine Hand Sewed French Kid. #4.00grade, this sale... 2 Men’s good and stout Veal Lace Shoes.. J. Men's. Congress Plow Sfao^s. .j.. Men's nice Soft Satin Calf. Lace or Congress, £1.7.3 grade...... 1 Men's genuine Gentian Calf. Congress or Lace, new Coin Toe... 1 50 pairs Men’s Sample Shoes in 6, 6$. 7 and ?$, worth #8.00 to #8.50. choice. ....2 00 S '& ? y % % % '&

Men’s Oxblood, Chocolate, Tans, Viet in all the very latest Toes, ami offer you the same cult price on them. Don't forget to see the McKinley ami Hanna Toes. Every |mir of Shoes guaranteed not to rip. no matter the eost, we re-sew free of charge. Start in the new year right, buy for cash and change your luck. W. V. Hargrove & Co., -—PROPRIETORS—— Peoples’ Dry Goods Store and Star Clothing Honse PETERSBURG, INDIANA.

The E. A T. H. Wreck. Si* hundred feet .now is the width of the lug w> .'ishout on the Evansville A Terre Haute railroad near Ibjcker. Water flows through this tremendous crevasse with a mighty rash. The water in the washout is said now to be forty feet at the very spot where the train went down. A big {form of Mttjad two pile drivers are at work, one *»» each side, trying to close uj> the break and stop the washing away of the road lied, says the Vincennes t’omiaervial. The break will probably not grow much wider, but it is extremely doubt fa! if it can ever Inclosed. A trestle or a bridge will have to la* erected there. It is thought that White river has changed its course and that cut made by this washout will hereafter be the channel of the river. Tim While river bridge is situated on a bend iu the river. There is a hottoshoe bend with a bridge at Jthe toe of the shoe. If the channel be changed by this flood White river will simply have straightened her course by flowing straight across instead oj coming around the bend. Of course if the river changes its channel a bridge will be absolutely necessary. Even if the river dor- not completely change its course, the false channel cut out by tm> washout will simply invite another washout should the railroad company ever dose up the break.; However, that will hardly be done. A. passage way will be left for the water as a' matter of precaution in case of future overflows. Piling silty-five fact ioug have been ordered to drive down ia the crrva&e. It will be two weeks befivre the line can be repaired. Search is beiug made for the bodies of those hot, yet up to Monday night no bodies had been recovered. Men In boats were rowing arouud in the water j looking for floaters and watching ready to i catch one should it rise to the surface. ! Relations of those who are known to have { been killed are at the scene of the disaster,1 hoping to be able to recover the * bodies of their loved ones. There is still a general belief that there were mote than five flees1 lost m that terrible disaster. Many think j that there were at least ten men in the j smoker and only two escaped. This would j mean that eight or more were killed. The j wrecked coaches, including the smoker j have disappeared. The E. & I. is taking ever precaution to prevent accidents along the line during the flood. Passengers are required to walkj across the White river bridge for safety, itj being thought that one of the middle piers { is a little weak. --- ( A small child of Alton Madison living hear town died last Saturday and was buried at the Carress cemetery.

><*w< at the Court House. Items of news of a general nature gathered, from the various offices at the court house: Carriage Mcett»e«. Tire following marriage licenses have been issued since our last report: Jackson Twitty and Emma Galbreath. Raae Jones and Susan J. Hurst. F. Heal Kkiai« Traiofen. w slliam Bossom, trustee, to W ttodimei. lots 19 and 30, Petersburg. l'avkl R. Henning to W.F. Rademacker, sw qr ne qr sec 16. town 3 south, range 7 west, 40 acres. Frederick Reuss to Laura’ K. Reuss, lot 35, Petersburg. Jehu 11. Gray to Robert Porsey, se qr nw qr sec 14. town 1 south, range 3 west, and pt >»■ qr nw qr sec 14, town 1 south, range 8 west. I .aw ranee E. Woobey to Johu H. Grey, se qr nw qr aud pt sw qr nw qr sec 14, town 1 south, range 8 wear. A. C. Crouch to J. P. Martin, lot 21, Profit's addition to Petersburg. J. P. Martin to Sarah P. Crouch, lot 31, Profit’s addition to Petersburg. l ure for Hog Cholera. At a meeting of tlie Farmers* institute at Springfield. Ohio. Pr. P. S. White, state veterinarian, said: There is no known specific for hog cholera, but the following formula is recommended by the railed States bureau of annual industry: One pound wood charcoal, 1 pound sulphur, 2 pound* common salt, 3 pounds soda bicarUmate, 3 pounds soda hyposulphite. 1 pound Ulouber salts, 1 pound aulimony sulphide{black antimony.) These ingredient should be jierfectiy pulverized and thoroughly mixed; The dose is a large tabiespoonful for each 20d-hundred pound hog. Give once daily. Beet feed in soft Led. If hogs won't eat, give by the “shoe method” of drenching. The Pike County X»rul The second annual session of the Pike wanly normal will begin Tuesday. April fit lb 1897, and continue six weeks. Classes in all the common branches, and such others as desired wilt be organised. Tuition, f'VbO in advance. Good board at $2.50 to $3.00 per week. Correspondence solicited. Srurnmut Thompson. J. H. Rislky. Teachers Bob Fitxsumnons, the lanky middleweight, put James J. Corbett, the heavyweight fighter, out in the fourteenth round id Carson City, Nevada, Wednesday afternoon. The fight was one of the most aarnge ever fought in a prize ring. Both men wen badly punished.

Fred Chappell of Iva, was in town last Saturday on business. Go to H. H. Tislow for ail kinds of watch and dock repairs. 38* Indies, call at Mrs. Richardson’s millinery opening, March 35, 26 and 27. John Lee went to Lawreneeburg yesterday to look up a location fora barber shop. Peyton Burkhart of Madison township, was in town Thursday and made this office a pleasant call. Remember t he concert at the M.R church this (Friday) evening. Splendid vocal and instrumental music. , The largest line of Jackson corsets and corset waists ever seen it. Petersburg has just been received at the New York store. Good business lot on lower Main street; good location; lot joins White’s grocery. Address Philip Schlermner, Cannelton. Indiana. 35m3 Another cut in the wages of the miuers employed at Littles took place this week. This is the second cut iu the last few months. __ Marc h 35, 26 and 37, Mrs. Richardson, the milliner, will show a fine hue of mil-1 littery gixais for spring and summer. Call on liiose dates. The ladies of the M. E. missionary society conducted their annual exercises Sunday night at the church. The program was an interesting one. Jacob Schurz and George Schwartz went j to Evansville Tuesday night and remained I over Wednesday to hear the news from the Corbett Fitzsimmons tight. W. V. Hargrove returned from the east this week where he has beeu for the past two weeks buying good? for the spring and summer trade for his two stores. Will Read came home from Greeneastle j last Monday to attend his father, who is j very ill. Sam Anderson accompanied him ‘ here and is visiting friends. They will probably return today.

The township schools are nearly all closed, with the exception of schools that ■were closed on account of contagious diseases that infested some localities during the winter mouths. Don't allow the lungs to ije impaired by the continuous irritation of a cough. It is easier to prevent consumption than tt> cure it. One Minute Cough Cure taken early will ward off any fatal lung trouble. J.K. Adams iV Son. The report that the Jersey cow belonging to 14. C. Hammond was suffering from tuberculosis is a mistake. Dr. Frank Osbon. the veteniary surgeon, has made a careful ! examination of the animal and found her m excellent health. Have you ever seem a child in the agony of croup, you cau appreciate the gratitude of the mothers who know that One Minute | Cough Cure relieves their little, ones as quickly as it administered. Many homes in this city are merer without it. J. R. Adams & Son. Prof. A. C. Crouch and family leave thiweek for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where | U4y will make their future home. The professor was for fourteen years superin- | tehdent of the city schools ami has been a resident for sixteen years. The best wifhes of a host of friends follow them to their new home. 'The commencement canis of the high. ; school graduating class are out. They are among the finest ever ordered by the school and are indeed beauties and of the latest | design. They are pure white, the name* of the class appear in a neatly folded, piece of elegant paper looped to the folder and I the inside pages all held together by a white cord and tassel. These elegant goods were furnished by the Democrat office.

It is a strange fact, but one said to be j true, that every one of the week days is for I some nation, a Sunday, or day of rest, j Monday. is the Greek Sunday; Tuesday is the day of rest among the Persians; Wedacs- | day among the A*vrans; Thursday among ! (he Egyptians; Friday is the Sabbath day ; ■M the Turks and among the Jews Saturday j p kept. From the above it will be seen that every one of the seven days.of the j week is a rest day for some nation. The tribe known as editors have no day of rest, j Now when business and trade of ail kinds | are dull, it is a matter of congratulation to! know that in many lines our merchants are j doing a fair amount of business. This can only be accounted Tor when we stop to consider that shrewd customers who insist on ! buying goods on dose margins, hare learned that Petersburg merchants can, and do,! make prices that defy competition. Another fact is they carry such large and complete stocks that customers have a wide j and varied opportunity to select such goods and articles as they desire. Any close observer will bear us out iu this, that people will go where they can get just what they j want and at the lowest possible price. This » w*»y gftopfe come many miles to tads with our merchants.

James McConnell of Arthur, was in town last Saturday on business. H. H. Tislow, jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guaranteed. 28* Crill Adams has been confined to his home the past week with rheumatism. Thomas Read has been seriously ill during the past week. At this writing he is I improving slowly. J. A. Whitman, near Ayrshire, was in town Monday. He reports Patoka river doing down very rapidly. The New York store has just receieved a large stock of window curtains, window curtaiu pples anti shades. Prices very tow. • Attend the millinery opening at Mrs. Emma S. Richardson s March 25,96 and 27. An elegant line of goods to select from. The Indiana medical association . meets at Indianapolis May 11th. The E. & L road will sell excursion tickets on the certificate plan. Mrs. E. Painter will start a hand laundry in the old creamery building. The machinery has been purchased and will be here in a short time. One Minute is all the time necessary to decide from personal experience that Oue Minute Cough Cure does what its name implies. J. R. Adams & Son. The total amount of allowances made at the Match sessiou of the board of commissioners foots up the sum of $5,640.54. It is a great deal less than former terms.' If you are going ttx'build or make any improvements this 'spring see Peter Drof for lime, hair, cement and other supplies. He handles oils and gasoline and buys hides and old junk. See him. 45-4 Friends, if you are fejgoed of job printing of auy description cdtft iu and see us at once. The Democrat does all classes of work in the latest styles.-' Call and see us hefore going elsewhere.

Hoboes are more uutuerous iu Petersburg than ever known before*, The reason of this probably is that trains on other railroads have not been running and they havtcome down the E. & I. Ikies with the hope of catching trains. It is surprising what a “wee bit of a thing”, can accomplish. Sick headache, constipation, dyspepsia, sour stomach, doziness, are quickly banished by IX*Witt’s Little Early liners. Small pill. Safe pill. Best pill. J. R. Adams \ Son. It is said there is little doubt but that all presidential post at asters will be allowed to serve‘out-their terms, except, perhaps, in exceptional cases, where circumstances will warrant early changes. Postmaster Fleming will continue to handle the mails in this city until February, 1SSS. Many cases of “Grippe” have lately been cured bv One Minute Cough Cure. This preparation seems especially adapted to the cure of; this disease. It acts quickly thus preventing serious complications and bad effects in which this disease often leaves the patient. J. R. Adams & Son. One week ago last Tuesday two boys named Ge rge Acton, ten years, and Walker W. Richardson, aged ten years, ran away from the orphans’-home. Ou Friday last two girls named Mamie Acton, aged 14 years, and Carrie Kinsor, aged 12 years, left the home unceremoniously. Sheriff Ridgway brought the U>ys back Tuesday, getting one at Ayrshire and the other near Arthur. One of the girls is at Ayrshire' and the other near Goldsthwait. They will also be returned. Emanuel Wvatt and sister, Miss Hattie, son and daughter of Syd. Wyatt of near Petersburg, who have been visiting the families of Louis Deutscb, S. A. Parker and Jack Martin, returned home Monday. During the campaign a contract was entered into to the effect that in the event McKinley was elected Emanuel and his ■sister were to visit the above families and eat turkey off gold plates, and in the cveut Brynu was elected they were to visit Mr. and Miss Wyatt and eat turkey off silver plates, and their visit here was to carry out the agreement, but that is not saying that the agreement was carried out.—Oakland City Enterprise.

On March 26th the Indiana university glee club will give a concert at the M. XL church Under the auspk-es of the High school. Read the following: The appearance of the Indiana University glee club at the Grace Tabernacle last night was greeted with a crowded house. The program was an excellent one and the audience demonstrated its appreciation of it by frequent applause. Several encores were drmauded and answered. There were fifteen members, consisting of song and recitation. The numbers deserving special mention were *'Protestations'* by Mr.i Griffith; “Nellie was a lady,” “The Soldier’s Farewell” and '‘Medley of Popular Airs” by the glee elub. The •‘Bill of Fare” by the university auk quartet received tremendous applause.—Kokomo Dispatch.

Dr. J. C. Holloway was here visiting his father and son Tuesday. ' George McCord of Augusta, transacted business here last Monday. John Lett of Evausville, is visiting his brothers Isaac and Emory Lett, near town, this week. A petition to be presented to Governor Mount asking for the pardon of George L.; West is being circulated. j The latest styles of millinery goods will j be shown March 25. 26 and 27 at Mrs. ! Richardson’s millinery store. Attend the concert at the M. E. church this {Friday) evening. A splendid pro* i gram has been prepared for the occasion.

Fred Watson was released from the j county jail last Saturday, after serving out a fine and costs for carrying concealed weapons. See Frank Gsbou, the veteriuary surgeon, before you have your ridglings castrated. He can be found at his office in Fleming's xvery stable. The New York store will have a new ad in the Democrat next week. A big stock has just been received and buyers can look out for very low prices. Greece and Turkey are liable to engage in war at almost any time. It will make a great mix-up. Cubans and the Spanish are still at it hammer aud tongs. Farmers, if y-ou want a good farm journal call in aud subscribe for the Farm, | Field and Fireside. You can get this paper and the Democrat, one vear. for $1.85. -iFor Rest—To a man with a small family 1 will rent my house at my mineral springs and eight or niue acres of good ground for corn, potatoes, etc. T. C. Milbckn, Blank deeds, real estate and ehajtle mortgages, nicely printed on first-class paper, for sale at this office. Also receipts for guardians and administrators. Call and lay in a supply. White river is falling very rapidly and the bottom lauds are beginning to loom up as it were. The river is still very high, and heavy rains during the week may keep it at a standstill for several days. A wreck oh the E. & 1. occurred at Sandyhook last Friday. The damage was slight and was occasioned by the big flood. Another train was wrecked at Kinderhock on Saturday delaying the trains for several hours. _ , E. E. Turner of Compton, Missouri, writes us that after suffering from piles for seventeen years, he completely cure*! them by using three boxes of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It cures ecamea aud severe skiu diseases. J. R. Adams & Son. -f A son of Casper Willis, Jr., living near town, placed his hand on a piece of wood which his older brother was chopping and the second finger of the right hand cut off just !>ack of the first joint and the third finger cut so that it was hanging by a small piece of skin. Drs. Lamar aud Rice dressed" the wound. It is a fact that without money it is impossible to pay the small debts which may accure, or for that matter the large ones that have beeu contracted. To make a long story short, there are a few subscribers to the Democrat who are somewhat in j arrears for the past few years. If they willj come to the front and send in a few dollars j that they are owing it will help us to pay J our debts. Don't delay this matter but J send in a dollar or two aud have your ae- j count credited. You will receive our thanks, j

A good piece of advice to people living in ' the country is to take up the habit of writ- j ing for the newspapers from their neighborhood. It is a pleasant diversion, as well as j a profitable one to the mind and greatly facilitates the passing of leisure moments. Time spent in gathering up the happenings of*a neighborhood is a good practice for the mind as it cultivates detail and accuracy, two things that a great many lack in this busy rush of life. Then there is a sense of gratification indiscemabie in reading some- -j thing written by one’s self. Newspapers; are nearly always pleased to hear from any j of them friends in the country, and take ; great pleasure in publishing rtie items of; news they gather and send in. Thomas W. Mount received the sad j intelligence Monday of the death of his •' brother, I). J. Mount, who has been living j in the west for the past twenty years. For j sometime past he has been living on his, ranch near Mission, Idaho. For a number j of years be has been afflicted with consump- j tion and death relie veil him of his suffer- j ings last Friday. He w»s buried at Wallace, Idaho, by the Masonic fraternity of that; place on the Sunday following. lie was ; born aud raised in this county ami was | about 49 years old. He left here a numberj of years ago and had been in a number of j the western states and resided at Spokane,' Washington uutil about three years ago, when be went to Idaho, for a change of climate in hopes of benefiting his health. Be will be remembered by many of the older citizens of Petersburg and vicinity. ,

Sol Frank left for Cincinnati Tuesday morning on a business trip. Robert N-Rieheson of Augusta, bas bees granted a supplementary pension. The pay car on the E. & I. passed through here Tuesday, gladdening the hearts of the employes. Dr. Frank Osbon is now ready to castrate yourborses. He makes ridgling castration a specialty. Call and see him at Fleming^ livery stable. Myers & Reeves, the poultry dealers, shipped a car load of eggs to Mew York Wednesday by freight. This is the largest single shipment of eggs ever made from this-place. "“Torturing, itching, scaly skin eruptions, burns and scalds are soothed at once and promptly healed by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, the best knowu cure for piles. J.R. Adams & Son. The. financial report of the orphans* home as made at the March session of the county commissioners shows that there was on hand at report $1,368.83, disbursements for quarter $4114.01, leaving balance in treasury of $874.82. Bernard Taylor, who lives with his aunt, Mrs. Jane Tucker, near Alford, and is attending school here, while getting out of a wagon Saturday, caught his foot and fell, dislocating his right knee. Drs. Rice and Link reduced the dislocation.

They are so small that the most sensitive persons take them, they are so effective that the most obstinate eases of headache ami torpid liver yield to them. That is why DeWitt's Little Early Risers are known as the famous little pills. J. R. Adams & Son. There will be a meeting of the Chrysanthemum association at the Presbyterian church on Wednesday evening, April 7th, to receive reports and for the election of officers for the eusuing year, and any other business that should properly come before the society. All members are requested to be present. A number of very fine passenger trains have passed through this place during the past week. The C. A E. I. and E. & T. H. trains use this line now. The floods have left the E A T. H. road in such a condition that it is impossible to get through since the big wreck at Hazleton. The E. A I. is now in good shape and trains commenced running through to Terre Haute Monday. March 2(kh the Indiana glee club will give an entertainment at the M. E. church: The University of Indiana glee club sang last night at Plymoth church and the young men of the club were received by a brilliant audience. The auditorium was handsomely decorated with the club colors and there were several hundred of the alumnus of the institution present to give to the club a welcome that surprised even tljp members. Every song was encored doubly and in several instauces a triple encore was given Mr. Endieott’s readings were happy selec- _ tions.— Indianapolis Sentinel. Capt. Sasser Sullivan of Surrant, member of the Indiana legislature for Pike county was in town Wednesday shaking hams with - his hundmis of friends. The captain introduced a bill in the house and which passed that body and had it become a law would have benefit ted towns the sire of Petersburg a great deal and would1 hare stopped the issuing of bonds to a great extent to pay off electric light orders, which cannot now he paid for want of funds for that purpose. The intent of the law was to havegiven power to town trustees to make levies to such an, extent that orders on that particular fund would not have to be floated and then interest bearing bonds issued to take them up. It would have helped the tax-payers of Petersburg several hundred dollars in the course of seven or eight years. The captain is lucking well ami is ready for the next session.

Petersburg has an opportunity of having a firstclass telephone system. A company at Kokomo has written the town council regarding the matter and it now remains to be seen Whether or not our people want a system of local telephones. There is no doubt but what it would he a great convenience to the citizens ami business men of Petersburg could a system be maintained at a moderate cost. The following is the letter from the Kokomo company: Kokomo, Ind., March 1, 1897. To the City Council of Petersburg: Gentlkmks: We are informed by your city clerk that you have a population of from 2,000 to 2,700, and that you have no telephone system. Now, we are desirous of securing a franchise of for • nut less time than 20 years for erecting poles and stringing wires on same along your streets and alleys, to be used as a telephone system. We will use nothing but our long distance instrument, and will charge for service not more than,$1.50 for places of residence ami not more than $2.50 for places of business. We will also agree to sell the plant to any of your citizens if you should desire to buy it, so you see we are willing to do the fair thing. We also expect to connect all the sieighjboriug towns by wire that we thinfc profitable. Awaiting yonr early reply, w« are your*, etc., Kokomo Telephone am} Electric M%. Co., Per bua^y,