Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 June 1897 — Page 2

Site 5Bifet ® outtt g 5 twocrat fee. ■«€. STOOPS, editor imI PtoprUlor. PETERSBURG. - - INDIANAHenrt L. Bcehler, the oldest odd fellow in the world, died in Baltimore, Md., on the 15th, aped 89. The senate, on the 14th, confirmed John F. Cowry, of Washington, to be consul-general at Kanagawa, Japan. Thx final ratification of the boundary treaty between Great Britain and Venezuela was exchanged at the state department in Washington on the 14th. The birthplaces of Presidents John J. and John Quincy Adams have been re-opened to the public, in charge of a chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution. President Faure, of France, has consented to act as arbitrator in the frontier dispute between the Central American republics of Costa Rica and Colombia. Henry F. Eames, president of the Commercial national bank of Chicago, and well known in banking circles all over the country, died, on the 16th, after a long illness. John W. Foster, the United States commissioner, started from St. Petersburg for London on the 16th. It is understood that his mission was successfully accomplished. A dispatch from Madrid says: “The reports of an intended annexation of Hawaii by the United States causes anxiety, as foreshadowing President McKinley's Cuban policy.” Consul-General Lee is to be succeeded very soon by ex-Congressman Frank Aldrich, of Chicago, who was selected some time ago as McKinley’s choice for consul-general to Llavaua. Dr. Lorenzo Low McCabe, former president of the Ohio Weslyan college, died at Delaware, O., on the 18th, aged bO. lie was the author of numerous standard theological works and was a leading educator. The new Chinese consul-general at San Francisco has issued a proclamation. copies of which he is sending to his countrymen throughout the United States, urging them to cease their feuds and to respect the laws of this country. The trial of John S. Shriver, correspondent of the New York Mail and Express, the fourth of the recalcitrant witnesses before the senate sugar investigating committee of 1894, was begun before Judge Bradley, in Washington, on the 15th.

Ox the 14th Insurance Commissioner Dearth of Minnesota notified the Iowa insurance companies that their licenses stood cancelled from that date, and that any business written iu that state thereafter would be held to be in violation of the law. Thk case of the government against Henry Gardes, Cashier F. Girault and Stockholder Thomas H. Underwood, charged with having wrecked the National bank of New Orleans, resulted, on the 14th, in Gardes and Girault being found guilty as charged, while Underwood was acquitted. A telegram received at the state department from the United States charge d'affaires at Constantinople, on the 15th. stated that the sultan had issued an irade announcing the acceptance of Dr. Angell as miuister from the United .states, and that Mr. Terrell had accordingly started for home. It is said that $10,000,000 are to be expended on the great waterways of the Mississippi valley. The Mississippi river com mission will meet in New York city, on the 34th, aud apportion the big appropriation. One important thing which will be consummated will be a survey from the mouth of the river to St. PauL Jacob Zollari. who came to Alliance, O., from Switzerland with his family, expressed a desire, recently, to return to his native mountains, but he did not have the money to go with.’ His partner in farming gave him $100 for his wife, with her consent, aud Zollari is on his way to Switzerland. Several children were thrown into the bargain. A cablegram received at the state department, on the 1Mb, from ex-See-retary Foster, who has been at St. Petersburg engaged in negotiations with f the Russian government for the better protection, by mutual agreement, of the seal life in the North Pacific aud lichring sea. announces the complete success of his mission. The treaty for the annexation of the Hawaiian islauds was sent to the senate chamber at five o'clock on the 10th. The senate at once went into executive session, and, as soon as the doors were closed, the message of President McKinley, accompanying the treaty, and the treaty itself, were read and attentively listened to. Harry Whalen, the "human ostrich,'' who was operated upon at the German hospital in Kansas City, Mo., aud from whose stomach the surgeons took two pocket-knives, three knifeblades, three ounces of fine glass and tacks, nails, screws and staples to the number of 70, died, on the 14th, as a result of the operation. The annual report of the Indiana at&te geologist, issued on the 17th, aays that theeverage gas pressure of Indiana has decreased about 80 pounds in the post 13 months, and that the supply of natural gas is slowly bat surely failing. Manufacturing establishments that consume 500,000 feet ol gas a day cannot be multiplied without exhausting the field. The Indiana production of oil last rear was 4.403.000 barrels

CURRENT TOPICS TEE HEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. (Special SmuIosu) Xx the senate, on the 14th, after a short time spent in morning business, the tariff bill was taken up After several speeches had been made upon the pending sugar schedule, a vote was taken on Mr. Lindsay's amendment to strike out the differential on refined sugars, which was rejected—yeas, 95; nays, .In the house Mr. Sulzer presented a petition said to oontain 5,000,000 names in favor of Cuban recognition as belligerents. Without doing any business the house adjourned until Thursday. lx the senate, on the 15th, consideration of the sugar schedule of the tariff bill was completed, except the provision relating to Hawaii, which went over. Consideration of the agricultural schedule was resumed, the butter paragraph' being agreed tons reported....The house was not in session. In the senate, on the 15th, consideration, of the agricultural schedule of the tariff bill was resumed, and,notwithstanding strenuous efforts of the opposition to have them reduced, the rates fixed by the republican members of the finance committee wereagresd to....The house was not in session. In the senate, on the 17th, greater progress was made in consideration of the tariff bill than on any one day since the debate opened. Two entire schedules—H, spirits, wines and beverages, and I, manufactured cotton goods— were completed.In the house, the brief session was taken up mostly with roll calls. Mr. Sulzer (dem., N. Y.) succeeded'in injecting into the proceedings a short speech in favor of Cuba, in which he denounced Gen. Weyler as a thief and murderer. The house adjourned until the 21st. In the senate, on the 18th. the flax schedule of the tariff bill being under consideration, a large number of political speeches so trenched upon the time of the session that but little progress was made with the bill, less than one page of the flax schedule being disposed of. There were several lively exchanges bet ween opposing shakers, during: which the washing of political "dirty linen” was frequently referred to. The house was not in in session. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Lawrence J. O’Neill, who for 14 years had been a trusted letter carrier in St» Louis, was taken into custody, on the 13th, by government officials aud lodged m jail to answer to the charge of embezzling1 letters contaiuiug money. A lamp explosion in the residence of Stephen Welsh, near Sharpsburg. l*a., on the 14th, set tire to the house and badly burned the four occupants, Stephen Welsh, Mrs. Welsh and two children. The house was destroyed; loss, $10,000. The Chicago 1 Alton shops at Bloomington, I1L, have started on a nine-hour schedule instead of seven, the extended time beiug eaused by numerous wrecks lately with damage to rolling stock. Corntess Olga Regina Hazatfei.dt is living in dire poverty in a Harlem (N. Y.) garret. Her father's brother is German ambassador to England, and her cousin is Collis P. Huntington's son-in-law. Count Uazatfeldt. The young woman's father was forced out of Germany for dueling and other reasons. Mrs. S. Blackman, of 405 Perry street, Cleveland, 0., who claims to be the legitimate daughter of Barney Barnato, the dead millionaire, will at once take steps to acquire a share of his fortune. Mrs. Blackman and her husbaud will proceed to London for the purpose of demanding her interest in the estate. New York capitalists have closed the purchase of the famous group of San Pavier mines from the Boston owners. The mines are located 16 miles south of Tuscou. Ariz.

A beRioi's landslide is reported near Bricga, Canton eff Valais, Switzerland. l*art of the forest there and a number of buildings were buried. There was no loss of lifeThe Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are wrought up over the new law which goes into effect July 1 relating to polygamy. After that time each of the 41) Cheyenne Indians who has more than one wife, will have to choose one of the two, three or five wives that lie has, and the cast-off wives must go back to their relatives. It is said in Washington that William R- Day will succeed John Sherman as seeretarv of state next January. ^ The British steamship Sultana, bound for Calcutta, foundered off the Island of Skotra, in the Indian ocean. No details of the disaster have been received, but it is feared that many on board were lost. It is announced on the authority of one of the royal physicians attendant upon her majesty that Queen Victoria is almost totally blind. No details of the sad news are available beyond the fact that the affliction is a recent culmination, though it had for some time been threatened. Congressman Georgs Writs, of Illinois, has reappointed John W. Smith to the naval academy by sending his name to the secretary of the navy. Smith is a colored pupil of a Chicago high school, lie was nominated last fall by Mr. White, but failed to pass the examination a month ago. He will be examined again in September. A disfxtcu from Havana. June 15. said: Mariano, a suburb of Havana, has been attacked by the Cubans under Cardenas and Arangueren. The fight lasted several hours, and reinforcements from the capital came to the aid of the Spaniards. The losses on both sides were heavy. Acxorping to a Constantinople dispatch of the l&th the porte will form 20 new cavalry regiments in the Klasona and Salonika districts, and an imperial irade raises the army war footing to 700.000 men, while 1,800,000 Mauser rifles have been purchased. Advices are that the wheat crop in the valley of the Danube is damaged 28 per cent. John G. Brady, of Alaska, has been nominated to be governor of that district, and C. W. Tuttle, of Indiana, and John E. Crane, of Illinois, have been ^pointed commissioners for Alaska. A delegation of Cheyenne Indiana interviewed Gov. Barnes of Oklahoma, on the ii8th, regarding the enforcement of the law abolishing polygamy, which takes effect July 1. The governor informed them they would have to choose one among their maaj wives and abaadaa the others.

...-p-..- ▲ constable of Cranston, R. L, who spied upon lovers, was shot by the man, and is dead. Ax intimate friendjof Grover Cleveland says that the ex-president has retired from active life permanently. He will not resume the prentice of law. William K. Vanderbilt has left on board his yacht. Valiant, for a long cruise. He will attend the jubilee feaS tivities, visit St." Petersburg, and then , go to the Mediterranean. President Andrew S. Draper of the 1 Illinois state university, at the Ohio state university commencement, on ! the 16th, gave his address to a reporter ! who failed to return it in time for deI livery by the speaker. President ] Draper accordingly gave another ad- ! dress, and the reporter who got the copy also got left. Gen. Rebillot, who is 75 years of i age, fought a duel with swords, on the ! 16th, with M. Camille de St. Croix, the | author of an article on the part taken by the general in the coup d’etat of | December 2, 1S51. Gen. Rebillot was wounded above the eye. A dispatch from Havana, on the I 16th, said that Gen. Quantin Bandera led a large force of Spanish soldiers from their barricade into ambush,and there fell upon and annihilated them. Daniel O'Connell, son of the Irish liberal of the same name, died in Lon- | don on the 16th. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon ex-President Cleveland by Prince, tonuniversity on the 16th. On the 24th there will be solemnized j in Bismarck, S. I)., the wedding of a i Sioux Indian maiden and a foreigner j of wealth and social prestige. The j bride will be Picture Eyes, the daughter of John Moose, an old warrior who has scalped many a white man. The prospective groom is Thomas Dulaine Cronan. an Irishman. More tea is now afloat on the Pacific ocean than ever before at one time, in I order to enter before the Dingley bill ! goes into effect. One thousand tons of | the new crop has been landed in Tacoma, Wash., aud 12,000,000 pounds are j on the ocean. The Canadian line is I also bringing heavy shipments. Tolan Israel Gideon Barnett, of j Montreal, Can., claims to be a brother of the late Barney Baruato, the South African diamond king. He says BarI nato's real name was Barney Isaac Alri' I Barnett. The bronze statue of “Winged Liberty” presented to the battleship Massachusetts by the Bay State, was unI veiled, on the 17th, by Gov. Wolcott. Isaac Norton, cashier of the United States internal revenue department in I San Francisco, committed suicide, on the 17th, taking carbolic acid. Two thousand men, women and children. made desperate by hunger, paraded the streets of Matanzas, Cuba, on the 18th, demanding bread. Private residences were broken into and grocery stores looted before the Spanish police, with drawn swords, succeeded in quelling the riot* A dispatch from Calcutta, on the 18th, said: Almost the whole of the | province of Assam has been devastated j by the earthquake. The ruin is appalling. The courts, treasuries, jails and hospitals have collapsed. The loss of food supplies is enormous. The crops are mostly ruined. The Akron (O.)- police will equip a street car as a traveling prison, in which to transport unruly folk from Lakeside park and Summit lake, where there have been numerous Sunday rows. The jail on wheels will also be used .for a patrol wagon in case of necessity.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Jx the senate, on the*19th, the opposition to the tariff bill won its first imjortant victory by a yea and nay vote >f 25 to 22, to strike out the paragraph in regard to floor matting, the effect of which is to put floor matting on the free list.... The house was not in session. The Bartlett Lumber Co. of Boston has completed the biggest land deal ever accomplished in the eastern states. It has purchased outright Mount Washington, the. entire Presidential range and iU) lesser eminences of the White mountain group, and in addition some 00.000 acres of fuel land in the wilds of northern New Hampshire. The library building of the Iowa State university was struck by lightning, at an early hour on the 19th. and j, destroyed by fire. It was a two-story J brick structure, with the library on the I seeond floor. The loss is Si00,000. Ol | this 850,000 was in books, 817,000 in api pa rat us belonging to the physical labj oratory, and S i;*,000 on the building. The weekly statement of the New York city associated banks for the week ended on the 19th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $789,475; loans, increase. S4,832,100; specie, increase. 87x2,400; legal tender, increase, $1,861,500; deposits, increase, 87,417,100; circulation, decrease, $258,800. At Winona, Minn., Ella Prigg, aged j five, stood in the yard where her fa- | ther was cutting wood. She had in her j mouth a steel rib of an umbrella. This I was struck by a flying chip and forced into the pharynx, causing congestion ' of the brain and spasms, and resulting in death. A msraTCH from Simla says: It is announced that over 6,000 lives hare been lost by the earthquake disturb- . ances which have recently visited the 1 province of Assam. A message of condolenee has been received from Queen Victoria. Japan has followed her protest against the annexation of Hawaii by 1 another protest against the pending j tariff bill. A dispatch from Montevideo. Uru- ; guay, says that the rebels have gained a decided victory over the government troops commanded by Gen. Villar. About six hundred Chicagoans will attend the sixteenth international Christian Endeavor convention which opens at San Francisco July 7. Ox the 19th the associated banks of New York city held $48,390,950In excess of the requirements of the 35 per cent, role.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Muncie ministers will make war on Sunday outings. H. EL Kinney has been elected president of the Indianapolis board of trade. Dr. S. M. Martin committed suicide by hanging at Greenfield. He was despondent. Jas. Dowelr. saved the lives of two boys at Bourbon, and is now the hero of the town. Berwangeb Bros., clothiers of Logansport, assigned with $14,000 liabilities and $12,000 assets. The \vomen members of the First Baptist church at Indianapolis have agreea to remove their hats during services. The cornerstone of the new Starke county courthouse will be laid July 3. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Mortimer Nye has been appointed by the grand lodge, F. and A. M., to be grand master for the occasion. The other day, as Sinclare Donham, residing near Cory, Clay county, was driving to church, his team ran away, the rig overturned and Mr. Donham’s skull was fractured and his chest badly mashed. He is in a serious condition. Connersyille citizens are preparing to entertain one of the largest crowds in the history of the city on July 3, on which day Connersviile will celebrate Independence day. The street fair promises to %e as attractive as the midway plaisance. The Morning News at Muncie has | been sold by C. F. W. Neely to Frank ; Clay pool .and Cyrus Heath, the latter a brother of First Assistant Postmaster General Perry Heath. The price paid was $20,000. Prof. Caswell Grave, a graduate of Earlham college, and who the past year has been connected with Johns Hopkins university, has been sent to Jamaica to gather specimens for that institution. At Muncie, while two sons of “Con” Shea were' making paper cigarettes and smoking them in Harry Crossfield’s barn, the building was fired. It burned, with one across the alley. Judge McClure’s decision the other day that a married man has $000 exempt from the provisions of the new garnishee law has caused a sensation in the ranks of those who haye been taking advantage of the new garnishee law to collect old debts. Several hundred cases have been filed in El wood alone and most of them were successful The. directors of the Terre Haute House Co., which is building a theater alongside the hotel property, have leased the theater to Barhydt & Chamberlain, who have theaters in Peoria, Quincy and other cities in that part of the western circuit. John Flynn, formerly a teacher in Richmond, and who for some years has been superintendent of the White Earth Indian schools, has been made superintendent of the new government training school at Chamberlain, & D. He will enter upon his duties some time next month. Robert C. Brooks, of Wayne county, who graduated from the State university in 1896, and who for the past year has been secretary of the New York Reform club, has' been elected to the President White fellowship in history and political science at Cornell university for the ensuing year. Patrick Huncheon, the wealthiest land owner in northern Indiana, is dead, aged 70. He was widely known for his eccentricities and lived with his brother, both being bachelors, under the same roof years without speaking, dying with the silence unbroken. He was one of the founders of La Crosse, in Laporte county. His fortune is estimated at $1,000,000. The new St. Patrick’s Catholic church at Redkey was dedicated the other afternoon. Father Domenick, of Salina, O., Father Wake man, of Gas Ciiy, chaplain of the Marion (Ind.) Soldiers’ home, and others officiating. Funds sufficient to wipe oat the church ri«»ht w»>pp -subscribed.

The Jay county commissioners have appointed Philip Stolz trustee for Bear Creek township, to till the place made vacant by the ousting of Peter Bishop. According to a decision from Judge Headington, the office has been vacant since last October, when Bishop was appointed postmaster at Brj-ant Otis W. Keizer, a prominent young student of the Northern Indiana Normal school, from Ft. Wayne, aged 26, j was drowned while bathing in Long lake. At Ft Wayne, Henry Voughtin, a prominent butcher, committed suicide by severing the radial artery in the right arm Death resulted in 20 minutes. Failure to meet his obligations and prospective penury induced him to commit the deed. He was 50 years old and a bachelor. Hon. & E. Nicholson, author of the famous Nicholson temperance law. was a recent visitor to Richmond. He is engaged in organizing branches of the Good Citizenship league. In reply to questions by a reporter as to his reported candidacy for governor. Mr. Nicholson said he had no ambition along that line, but would have no objections to representing the Eleventh district in congress. Thomas Hines was sentenced at Laporte to not less than one nor more than fourteen years for stealing a bicycle. The sentence was imposed under the new indeterminate law. The Indiana Democratic Editors* association met at Paoli the other night William Brown, while drunk, as claimed, insulted passengers on P., C, C. Jb St L train N<v 7 at Sellersburg, and stabbed Conductor Wilbur Robinson in the back. BrrJceman George Shipman was also cut when he wont to Robinson’s assistance. Brown was arrested. Contractor Enbicht, of the new Gas Beit Electric street railway, put 300 trackmen and graders to work just north of Anderson the other day. Mrs. John Gap, a washerwoman, of Hartford City, has fallen heir to an 80aete farm in Wabash connty, and $30,000 in cash. The estate was left her by her grandfather.

AN APPALLING FACT. ItoDoth Rate on the Devoted Island of Cuba, If the War Lasts Fifteen Months. Will Entirely Depopulate the Western Provinces A Sanguinary Engagement In Which the Spanish Troops Lost Heavily— Rivera Slok. New York, June 31.—A dispatch to the World from Havana says: Extermination on the island is an appalling, actual fact. The death rate is actually increasing. A prominent Spanish medical officer, who has full knowledge of the interior, says that should the war be prolonged 15 months the western half of the island will be entirely depopulated. The death rate is likely to double next month. Contagion will then mow the people down rapidly. The rains have turned the interior into quagmires in many places. The trocha is a pestilential ditch. The soldiers are suffering terribly from fever and dysentery. Little of the smallpox vaccination is effective. With foresight thousands of pacificos might easily have been saved by vaccination. A sanguinary engagement occurred Wednesday at Managua, 15 miles from Havana. The insurgents attacked a column of Spanish and the latter lost heavily. The details were suppressed here. Many ambulances with wounded have arrived here. The rebels are certainly concentrating around Havana. Trains have been fired into repeatedly. A Spanish force, while reconnoitering, was ambushed near San Miguel. They fought bravely. but were compelled to retire. Gen. ftivera is sick and appears indifferent as to his fate. He will assuredly be shot, unless strong action is taken by the United States. | THE HARRY WRIGHT MEMORIAL. The Monument Uuvelled In the Presence of a Large Crowd of Spectators. Philadelphia, June 21,—The monument erected to the memory of Harry Wright, the “Father of Baseball,” was unveiled in West Laurel Hill cemetery yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large crowd. It was expected that the National league would be represented at the unveiling by a number of officials of the various clubs, but Messrs. Reach aud Rogers, of the Philadelphia club, were the only league representatives present Letters of regret were read from Presidents Pulliam, of Louisville, Byrne, of Boston, and from the'veteran Jack Chapman, manager of Meriden, (Conn.) club. The ceremonies were simple and brief. Mr. P. Reinhalter, the contractor and Mr. Edmund Quinn, the sculptor, turned over the monument to the Harry Wright Memorial association, and it was received on behalf of the association by Frank Hough, its president. Mr. Hough then turned the memorial over to the care of the cemetery company. The orator of the day was Col. John I. Rogers, who eloquently extolled the noble life and character of the famous manager and player.

A WARNING CIRCULAR To Prevent the Spread of Sheep Scab , Among Sheep in the Cnlted State*. Washington, June 20.—In accordance with the law for the suppression of contagious diseases among domestic animals. Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural department, has issued to the managers and agents of railroads and transportation companies, stockmen and others a circular notifying them that the contagious disease known as sheep scab, or scabies of sheep, exists among sheep in the United States, and it is a violation of the law to receive for transportation or transport aujT stock affected with that disease from one state or territory to another. It is also a violation oi the law to deliver for such transportation to any railroad company or master or owner of any boat or any vessel, any sheep knowing them to be affected with the contagious disease referred' to; and it is also unlawful to drive on foot or transport in any private conveyances from one state or territory to another any sheep so affected. The transportation companies and individuals engaged in the business of shipping and transporting sheep are requested to co-operate with the department in the enforcement of the laws for preventing the spread of the disease, and orders are given that cars, boats or vehicles which have been used in the transportation of animals affected shall be immediately cleaned and disinfected. POULTRY AND PIGEONS. Two Associations Unit* Their Forces to Secure a Successful Exhibit. Kansas Crrr, Mo., June 21.—A meeting of the directors of the Mid-Conti-nental Poultry association, and the directors of the Western Pigeon Fanciers' association, has resulted in an agreement being reached by which the meeting of the pigeon fanciers of the entire west will be consolidated with that of the poultry show here next December. This arrangement insures a display of TOO of the best pigeons in the west at the show, with every class filled with choice specimens. George Ewald.of Cincinnati, and other eastern fanciers have also given assurances that they will exhibit. A NOBLE ENTERPRISE. Consecration of an Institution to Reclaim Jewish Youth. Doyuestown, Pa., June 21.—The magnificent property acquired by the Jewish National Farm School association, near here, was consecrated yesterday. Upon the stand was a notable assemblage of clergy and laity, the legal and medical profession, business men and public officials. The main purpose of the institution is to reclaim Jewish youth to that agricultural life to which their raca was devoted in acient times.

RICHARDSON A TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law» Prompt attention Riven to all business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. Offic* In Carpenter building. Eighth and Maln-sta^. Petersburg, Ind. * SHBY dfc COFFEY, G. B. Ashby, d C. A. Coffey, * Attorneys at Law, Will practice In all courts. Special attention given to all civil business. Notary public constantly in th#office. Collections made* and promptly remitted. Office over 8. G. Barrett <& son s store, Petersbuig, Ind. g G. DAVENPORT. Attorney at Law. . Prompt attention given to all businessOffice over J. It. Adams A Son’s drug store.. Petersburg, Indiana. ILLON A GREENE. T. H. Dillon V. R. Greene Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Wilt practice In Pike and adjoining counties CarefuJ attention given to all business. Collections given promnt attention. Notary Public always in office. Office over Citizens' State Bank, Petersburg, Indiana. g M. A C. L. HOLCOMB, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in aK courts. Prompt nttcn tion given to all.business. Office In Carpenter block, first fioor on Eighlh-st, Petersburg . ('tOX A ELY, - wm.k. cox J UUKACK KX.Y Attorneys at Law, Will practice in the Pike Circuit Court and i adjoining Counties. Prompt attention given ,to all civil business entrusted to their Office over J. R. Adams A son’s drug store. Petersburg, Indiana. E. WOOLSEY, Attorney at Law, All business promptly attended to. Collections promptly made and remitted Abstract* of Title a specialty. Office in Snyder's building, opposite Democt at office. Petersburg,ind T. R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty Office over Citizens’ State Bank, Petersburg, Indiana.

£JUXTER A BASINGER, Physicians and Surgeons. Office la the Carnenter building, first floor, apposite court honse, Pe*ershurg, Ind. All calls promptly answered. F. E. HIL3MEYER. Physician and Surgeon. Office on Third-st., next door to postoffloe, Veloen, Indiana. Office hours—7 to 9 am, 1 to 3 pm, 6 to 8 pm. All calls promptly answered. yy H, STONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon. Office in rooms 6 and 7 In Carpenter build,ng. Petersburg. Indiana. Operations firstclass. All work warranted Amesthetlc* used for painless extraction of teeth. Q C. MURPHY. Dental Surgeon. Parlors in the Carpenter building, Petersburg, Indiana. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. a Wanted—faithful men or women to travel for respon-tble established house in Indiana. Salary »78i> and expenses. Position permanent. Reference Enclose self-addressed .stamped envelope. The National, Staf Insurance Building. Chicago. N'OTICE is herebv given to all parties Interested that 1 will attend at my office.ln Slendal, „ EVERY SATURDAY, To -transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. _ J. L. BASS, Trustee. N’OTICE is herebv given to all parties Interested that I will attend in my office at my residence EVERY MONDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee 6f Marion township. AIL persons facing business wit h said office will please take notice.' T. C. N ELSON, Trustee. Postoffice address: Winslow. xrOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that 1 will attend at » y residence EVERY WEDNESDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Madison tow nshtp. Posllively no business trarraeted except on office da vs. ... J. D. BA K K E K. Trustee. Postoffice address: Petersburg. Ind. N’OTICE Is hereby given to all parties con* cerned that I wdl be at my residence EVERY TUESDAY r« attend to business connected with the office of t rustee of Monroe township. J. M. DAVIS, Trustee. Postoffice address: Spurgeon. NOTICE Is hereby given to all personscoivcerned that I will attend at my office EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Jefferson township. L. E. TRAYLOR, Trustee. Postoffice address: Iva, Ind. YI7ANTED-FAITHFUL MEN or WOMEN . »” to .travel for responsible established house In Indiana. Salary UK) and expenses Position permanent. Reference. Enclose sdlf-addre-sedstamped envelope. TheNaUouat. Star Insurance Buildiug, Chicago. Wanted-An Idea Sirisa CSSUS?«as^35fif4 &&SSJZ2); aejrs, Washington, D. C . for their *1.50) prtse oOm •adUst of two hundad. Inventions wanted w V