Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 April 1897 — Page 4

Purgatorial Pills. The druggist would hardly smile if you asked lor “ purgatorial pills.** There are many of them. But he would probably recommend a pill that did not gripe; a sugar-coated pill, gentle in action, and sure in effect. What are they called ? flu gilw Csuntj} gjraocxxt Rr !■.* MeC. STOOPS. One Tear. In advance..W* fUx Months, in advance. Entered at the poetoflle* In Peters bur* tor transmission through the malls as secondclass matter. FRIDAY. APRIL 23,1897. Governor Mount has issued his proclamation proclaiming the laws enacted at the last session of the legislature to be in force. _____ The administration bus*** are bouncing the cross-roads postoffice incumbents in Indiana by the wholesale. If they don’t die they are removed for cause. To the victors belong the spoils. The city dads should set to work and improve the streets of Petersburg before they get too d*y and bard. This is just the timetfor them to be graded and placed in firstclass condition. Don’t wait to see w ho is going to be elected and delay the matter for a month or two. Now is the time. There seems to be more kicking over the appointment of postmasters in the First district than was ever known before. There is a good sued kick in every town. And some of the newspaper men are not slow about it either. 'i1ie newspaper boys put the confidence-prosperity, party in power in the United Stales and instead of getting post offices in exchange for services will get a few packages of garden seeds. Such is life. ________ Attoexey General Ketcham last week filed a petition in the federal court asking leave to bring suit in the state court against the Vandalia railroad for $2,000,000, alleged to be due the school funds under the old charter. Iu the complaint is recited that permission is also desired to investigate the previous legislatures, which, it is alleged, were corruptly influenced to prevent the collection of railroad money for the state. * Western senators, after several conferences, reached an agreement to stand together for important changes in the wool | schedule of the Dingier bill. They not] only agreed upon a line of amendments, | but declined to insist on their inclusion in j the bill. The proposed amendments -are | directed mainly to closing many loop boles j foy evasion and fraud which wool meu | allege abound iu the Dingley bill, aud were I also found in the McKinley law.

The committee that has been investigat- j ing the question of the miners starving in j the Pittsburg district have completed their tour of inflection. No such suffering was ever known to exist iu that locality before. Their condition is deplorable. The. men j work two or three days a week and often only earn from 35 cents to #1,00 per day. Aud yet these are the milk anddioney times that were promised by the confidenceprosperity, trust-monopolist jiarty. Will the Petersburg Press give the name* of the old soldiers that bare been recom- | mended for presidential postoffices in t he Fir-t congressional tlistrict of Indiana. | The Press with other republican journals were Terr warm in their support of the republican candidates before the November! election and printed column after column lauding the republican standard bearers for what they had done for the people and the old soldiers. The old soldier racket is worked to a queen's taste during election times. * ■ The national association of democratic dubs celebrated the 154th anniversary of Jefferson's birth at the Metropolitan hold jn~ Washington. D. Iasi week, on which occasion Hon. W. J. Bryan spoke in part ns follows: “The democratic party is strong in proportion as it proves true to the teachings to its great founder. The party applies democratic principles to is*ties which arise from time to time. In 1893 it declared itself in favor of a policy which meant substantially a tariff for revenue only. But the president elected that time, instead of proceeding to carry out that portion of the platform, forced upon the public attention an issue which had up to that time been considered secondary. Cleveland, more than any one person in this nation, is responsible for the prominent position which the money question now occupies. The explicit declaration in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of stiver at 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation, was nude necessary by attempts of certain public men to evade the preceding plat forms. The party struggle which culminated in the Chicago convention of necessity alienated a portion of the Jpaity. -The position taken by the democratic party in 1896 will not be surrendered. Trim, the present administration is seeking to torn public attention to the tariff qaestitm, but if oar reasoning is well founded,

increase of taxes cannot restore prosperity to producers of wealth. If the Dingier bill proves a disappointment to those who advocate it, our position of 1896 will be meted upon the fact that the cause of the financial depression is to be* found in our monetary system. The spring elections indicate a growing sentiment along the lines of the Chicago platform. The republican party has but one hope of escape from the wrath to come, and that is to secure bimetallism by international agreement before the people of this nation have another opportunity to Speak at the polls. If oar : oppoueuts succeeded in opening the mints j of other nations* as well as their own mints, we shall rejoice* because the condition of the people will be improved, and they will be able to proceed with other remedial legislation. If, however, the republican party, after pledging itself to secure international bimetallism, finds it impossible to fulfill that pledge, its expressed preference for a double standard will rise up to condemn it, if it attempts to continue longer the evils of a gold standard.” Thk Philadelphia Record in commenting on the Dingley bill observes: “On groumis of hygiene the taxes on wool and woolens in the Dingley bill are as brutal as was the tax on quinine. Sever have the American people enjoyed such abundant and cheap supplies of warm, comfortable, healtful clothing as they now enjoy under the boon of free word. As Mr. Wilson puts | it, the the saving of health and of life and of doctors' bills by the free use of pure ^woolen clothing as a grand preventive of disease is beyond computation. But the ranch owners who pasture their numerous flocks of sheep on the great government ranges of the Rocky mountains at the cost of next to nothing per acre, and who get two clips a year, will not abate one jot of their rapaciou^lemands on this consideration. They and their attorneys in the senate will insist on the outermost limit of b&rbarious taxation of wool, and on as much more as they can obtain in the barter of their senatorial votes for the highest taxes on other necessaries of living.” Bow true. Yet the Record and other eastern I [tapers helped to elect this gold standard, j monopoly, high tariff, confidence-prosperity aggregation. The appellate court has decided that township trustees cannot pay for ‘‘reading circle" books out of the township funds. This decision is more far reaching than it would seem at first glance. It will, effect township warrants issued in payment for other articles purchased which the law does not sjMvifieally name as being necessary in I running the schools. In reality the most vital point touched upon in the decision, is that, declaring that the trustee’s judgment as to what is necessary for the schools and what is not, amounts to nothing in gmng value to a township warrant. Township j warrants to be valid must be based on the j purchase of articles for school use specifi-' cally set forth in the statutes, regardless ! of a township trustee's private judgment. \ This decision will haven greater effect on ; township paper than any yet rendered by ] the courts.--Washington Democrat. KaMawaMawMiaaawwMaauiMMaM

Claims Agai»*t County fln*l be Filed. Hereafter it shall he the duty of the board ' of county commissioners at the first of each regular session to audit the boohs of the i county treasurer and eouuty auditor in j their respective counties and compare thej allowances made by said board at the pre- ! ceding session with the stubs, vouchers or i register of the warrants drawn by the i auditor in payment of such allowances and shall also examine all warrants redeemed by the coupty treasurer and turned over to the county auditor and for which he claims ] credit,with the corresponding stubs, voucher or register and see that such warrants are properly canceled so they cannot again be put into circulation, and see that proper accounting has been had between such officers of all funds. No claim shall be allowed by the board of commissioners of any county in the state miles* such claims, duly itemized and verified, shall have been filed in the audio's office at least five days before the first day of the regular special session of the board. Any auditor of member of the board of county commissionec* violating any of the provisions of this act shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not less than $50.00 for each offense, and any such auditor shall be liable on his bond in double the amount of j such warrant so drawn which may be recovered by any taxpayer and the court shall; allow such taxpayer reasonable compensation, including reasonable attorney’s fees for the trouble and expense incurred in prosecuting such suit. * Will fleet Xouthly. The attorney general of Indiana has given oat his opinion upon the new law requiring monthly auditing of trustees warrants. In short he says:. 1. That the auditing board should meet every month on the first Tuesday of each moolh. 3. Warrants should be issued for every expenditure made by the trustee, excepting for the pay of teachers, and that all such warrants should be submitted to and passed upon by the auditing board. g. That the trustees are not permitted to expend money except ia the case of teachers, but with the approval of the auditing board. 5. With references* to warrants outstanding before they are paid, the accounts for the same should be investigated by the board and ultimately before they shall be paid should be presented to the board and so stamped. & That the act in question not only applies to indebtedness created hereafter, but to warrants heretofore issued.

Washington Letter. (From om regular eoireapoadeat.? Washington, April 19,1897. There were probably few democrats present at the last session of the House who didn’t feel a little bit ashamed of the proceedings. Representative Baily of Texaaj, rose to a question of personal privilege, and after having read an editorial from a Washington paper, that claims to be democratic, calling him in effect a tool of Mr. Reed, he denounced the writer as au infamous aud malicious liar. Later Representative DeArmond of Missouri, arose also to a question of persoual privilege, and made a speech explaining his attitude toward the republican policy of semi-weekly adjournments, and disclaiming that he and the democrats who thought as he did, had rebelled against the democratic leadership established in caucus, and virtually charging ihat it was the other democrats who were acting in opposition to the caucus. As if that were not enough for one short sitting, Representative Burke of Texas, also made a personal explanation, calling the meetings of the House a “great national farce* and saying that so far as his own action was concerned, he had consulted no one. All of this was nuts for the republicans and Mr. Reed took good pains to allow the democrats to do as much talking as they wanted to do, so long as they talked against other democrats. The majority voted for the three day adjournment just the same, and carried it. The treaty negotiated by « he last administration, with Great Britain, defining a portion of the boundary line between Alaska and Canada, will never be ratified in its present shape. By a pretense of liberality in giving the United States about fourteen square miles to (which we already had a legal claim to) the wily English diplomats made a trap which was intended to cost the United States all the territory worth having in that section, by shuttiug out our claims within wbat is known as our “thirty mile stripr aud its intersection with the 141st meridian, and it came very* near succeeding too, as the treaty would have been ratified sometime ago had not Senator Stewart objected. Mr. Stewart objected on the geurral principle that the matter was too important to be hastily disposed of. and now that the contents of the treaty is understood, he is being congratulated for having prevented the Senate making a blunder. * According to the current gossip, exRepresentative Bellamy Storer of Ohio, must be q queer sort of a duck. The story goes that he took advantage of Mr. McKinley’s financial obligations to him to force a promise that he should be appointed assistant secretary of state. When the promise was made, Mr. McKinley did not know that Storer was not on speaking terms with Senator Foraker, or with either of the republican congressmen from Cincinnati, and now Storer insists on that appointment being made, although he cannot get the endorsement of either senator, or anyone of the congressional delegation, it is said that Mr. McKinley has told Senator Foraker that there was nothing left for him to do but nominate Storer for the place, and that he added that any fight made on the nomination in the Senate would not be regarded by him as a fight on the administration. The nomination will almast certainly be rejected, and Storer must know it, yet be insists ou being nominated.

t errain republican senator*, among them Mantle, Carter, Shoup, Warren and Burrows, have demanded of the republicans of the senate finance committee that a duty of not less than two eeuts a pound shall be placed on hides and that the duty on wool shall be raised to meet a schedule submitted by them, aud the demand is accompanied by a threat to defeat the tariff bill if their wishes are not complied with. It is clearly within the p^werof these five senators to defeat the tariff bill, but it is not the opinion of those best informed that they will make use of that power to such an extent. They are simply exercising j their right to make a big bluff in the inter- J est of the products of their states, in order I to get as much of the protection swag for ] their constituents, as possible, but in the end they will take what is given them and j rote for the bill. Having satisfied themselves that demo- ; cratic senators would make no further eon-; cessions, the republicans accepted the last ] proposition made by the democratic steer- : mg committee, and the vacancies in the1 senate committees will all be filled in a few i days. Politically speaking the committees | ailtstaml substantially as they did at the close of the last Session. An agreement' might have been reached before, bat the republican wished to punish the silver republicans for supporting Bryan, and the democrats insisted that it should not be' done, and it was not done. Talk* ef Political future. Judge T. H Dillon of Petersburg, ami ex-Senator Wilson ef Jasper, were in the: city last night to bear Col IngvrsoltV lecture at the Grand, Judge Dillon is one of the leading democrats in Petersburg and ! during the last campaign did much work for the cause of free silver. Pike county a* a rule goes republican by 12$ to 202. j Last fall the county went for Bryan and Sewall by over 900. For this splendid democratic victory much credit is due to Judge Dillon. When asked last night what he thought of democratic prospects in IMMk he said; *T fael sure that we «fli ■ sweep the country. The people have! already grown tired of republican perfidy.! They have waited in vain for the restoration ’ of confidence. I believe bimetallism will i win at the polls in 1200, and Bryan will be our standard-bearer.”— Evansville Courier. To those afflicted with kidney or bladder diseases is Foley’s kidney cure. Guaranteed. Beigen * Oltphant. a

Tie Sew School Laws. The last session of the legislature passed & compulsory school law, a portion of which reads as follows. The law is a good one and should be fully enforced by the officers: “For every eity or incorporated town it shall be the duty of the superintendent of the schools of such city or town, together with the secretary of the state board of charities and oue member of the state board of education designated for such purpose by the said board, to appoint one or more truant officers for the enforcement of the provisions of this act in such city or incorporated town in the manner and under such penalties as are prescribed by section 3 of this «5t “The truant officers provided for by this act shall receive from the county treasury #3 for each day of actual service, to be paid by the county auditor. “The truant officers provided for by this act shall serve one year from the date of their appointment, unless sooner discharged i by the board which is by tbis-aet provided for their appointment. “All school officers are hereby required to make and furnish all reports that may be required by the superintendent of public instruction or by the board for the appointment of truant officers with reference to the workings of this act. *‘lf any parent, guardian or custodian of any child or children is too poor to furnish such child or children with the necessary books and clothing with which to attend school, then the school trustee of the township or the board of school trustees or commissioners of the eity or incorporated town where such parent, guardian or custodian resides shall furnish temporary aid for such purpose to such child or children, which aid shall be allowed and paid upon the certificate of said officers by the board of county commissioners of said county. Such township trustee or board of school trustees shall at once make out and file with the! auditor of the county a full list <>f the! children so aided, and the board of county commissioners, at their next regular or special meeting, shall investigate such eases and make such provisions for such children i as will enable them to continue in school as intended by this act. “School commissioners, trustees and boards of trustees are empowered to maintain either within or without the corjiorate limits of their corporations a ‘parental home’ for incorrigible and truant children. Any child not being over 13 years of age who shall be truant or incorrigible may. with the common eon-ent of the school trustee or commissioners and parent, guardian or person having charge of such child, be compelled to attend such ‘parental home’ for an indeterminate time. If the parent, guardian or person having charge of such child shall refuse his consent to the attendance of such incorrigible or truant child at such ‘parental home’ the superintendent of schools or the principal, supervisor, or teacher of any school may file complaint in the circuit or superior court of the county and such court shall j hare the power, upon the hearing of the case, to order the compulsory attendance! of such incorrigible or truant in such ‘par- j ental home’ for an indeterminate time, not longer than 120 Jays.

‘‘ror the purpose of defruyuig the increased expenditure necessary for the carrying out of the purposes of this act, trusties of school townships, boards of school trustees or commissioners are hereby em-1 powered to levy, in addition to any and all j sums heretofore provided by law. any j amount of special school revenue not ex- j feeding 10 cents on the $100 of taxable j property; such taxes levied and collected as ail other special school reveuue. “If any child live more than two miles from the nearest public school he shall not be subject to the provisions of this act.” The new child-labor law to be enforced in connection with the compulsory law. It has been complained that the two laws will work a hardship on the glass manufacturers in the natural gas district, who employ ehild labor almost exclusively. XarTrloiu Results. From a letter written by Rev. J, Gunderman o! Dimonpale, Michigan, we are permitted to make this extract: I have no hesitation in recommending Dr. King’s New Discovery, as rvsultsavere almost marvelous in the case of my wife. While 1 was pastor of the Baptist church at Rives Junction she was brought down with pneumonia succeeding grippe. Terrible paroxysms of coughing would last hours wim little iuteruptiou and it seemed as if she could not survive them. A friend recommended Dr. King’s New Discovery; it was quick in its work and highly satisfactory in its results.’’ Trial bottles Tree at J. R. Adams A 5*on’« drug store. Regular size 40c and $1.00. Cigarette Law. We call the attention of the public to the cigarette law passed by the last legislature and found .on page 205 of the Aclts of 1907. it shall be unlawful for any corporation, company, firm or person to sell, barter, furnish or give away directly or indirectly, to any minor any cigarette, cigarette wrappers or any substitute for either; or to procure for, or to persuade, advise, counsel or compel any child under said age to smoke any cigarette. The penalty for violation is a fine of not morethan $50 and not less than $10; second offense penalty not more than $500 and not less than $10, to which may be added imprisonment in county jail for any period not exceeding sixty days. CaM and Grippe Cam. Dr. Mendenhall's Cold and Grippe Cure is guaranteed to cure colds, la grippe, headache, neuralgia, aching feverish conditions, prostrations, etc. For the cough take Dr. Mendenhall’s Cough and Coosumption Cure. Sold at the Acme Phar

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