Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 October 1897 — Page 6

SYt $il» Counts flemowat m. ICeC. ITOOP*, tumor and Fteprlelor. PBTKRSWIRO. - - INDIANA. Abtssinians are laying waste Somaliland. Four (Treat Somali tribes have been wiped out or dispersed. Thb legation of Guatemala in Washington received the following official dispatch on the 19tbv. “Revolution subdued; order restored all over the country.” Count Herbert Bismarck, eldest son of the former chancellor of Germany, has been nominated as the agrarian candidate for the reichstag from the Hanoverian district. The will of former Senator John R> McPherson, of New Jersey, was filed in Jersey City on the 83th. The estate amounts to several million dollars, and all is left to the widow. Ok the 20th James K. Taylor,of Pennsylvania, was appointed supervising architect of the treasury. Mr. Taylor had formerly been the chief draughtsman in tlie architect's office. Thk cabinet, on the 19tl», devoted considerable time to a discussion of the civil service and how to obtain the best results from the recent order promulgated by the president. Reliable reports recei ved Jrora the Yaqui country, in Mexico, state that the Yaqui iudiaus reseutthe encroachment of prospectors in search of gold and are driving all the white men out of the country. * Failures throughout the United 8tates during the week ended the 22d, as reported by K. G. l>uu A Co., were 884, against 374 for the corresponding week last year. Foi Cauada the failure* were «W against 50 last year. Georuk M. Pullman, the palace car magnate and philanthropist, died at his residence. Eighteenth street aud Prairie avenue, Chicago, at five o’clock ou the morning of the )9th, in his six-ty-sixth year, of aogina pectoris. Th* lower house of the Austria-Hun-gary diet, on the 21st, passed the hill prolonging for a year the compact entered into in 1M7 between Austria and Hungary, and which was renewed in 1877 and again in 1887, and which was upon the point of expiring. Gkn. Milks, commanding general ot the army, made his annual report to the secretary of war on the 22d. Hu commends the efficiency of the army, •sd speaks of the progress that has been made on both the AGantic aud Pacific coasts in the matter of fortifications. The Yerkes telescope was formally dedicated to science at Lake Geneva, Wia., on the 21st At the end of the brief ceremony Charles T. Yerkes handed the deed to the board of trustees, and the splendid instrument became the property of the University of Chicago. A joint service of Christians and Friends at Indianapolis, lud., on the 82d, was eagerly entered into by both denominations The Friends spoke or prayed, as the spirit moved them, and the Christians (Disciples) were equally as anxious to say a word of greeting ou Christian union. The important question which has been the subject of debate in the Society of Friends of America for many years—the question of conferring legislative authority on the conference— was practically setGed in favor of the innovation at the conference in Indianapolis, lad., ou the 22U.

* So rm ns the officials at the state department know, there La no prospect of a change in the Spanish legation at Washington, ceriaiuly uot in the near future, the experience of Senor Dupujr de Lome mafciug his services as minister extremely necessary to his government iu its transition stages. It was reported, oq the fOth,tliat the grues earnings of the Burlington road for the monlti of October will be some* thing over t4.ou0.000, or an increase of §600,000 over the same month last year. Never in the history of the iiurliuglou road has it had on baud so much money from earuiugs as at the preseut time. “Not since >89*4 has the potato crop of the United Slates proved so nearly O failure," says the American Agriculturist in its tiual report of the yield of 1097. “Compared with the liberal crop of last year, there la an apparent falling off of nearly fid per cent, in tonnage, and the quality oi the whole is greatly deficient.” An order was Issued by (kn. Brooke, oo the Ifitb, convening a court of inquiry at fort Shertdau to investigate the chargee against CapL Lovering of brutal treatment of Private Charles Hammond. All the officer* of the oourt are choseu from outside posts in order that the board may be free from local prejudice iu the investigation. At the Southampton special session*, w the flat, a seaman named Neal was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for dangerously wounding a shipmate on board the American line steamship bu i*aul. The English recorder, in passing sentence, remarked that, according to the evidence, the ship seemed to have been a “perfect pan* demonium every night.” Cavnanistf. the nephew of the duke of Devonshire, who, with a companion, Lieut. Andrew, has been exploring Somaliland, east Africa, at the head of an expedition composed of W Ancur ris, and who. with his party, wan reported to have been massacred by tbs natives, has arrived safely in London from Zanzibar, via Kikuyu, which place the expedition reached on An* great * last.

CURRENT TOPICS TEE HEW8 IH BSIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Thk steamer lielgic arrived at San Francisco, from Yokohama, 8via Honolulu, on the 19th, two days ahead of schedule time. The Terre Haute(lnd.) Electric Street Car Co. went into the hands of a receiver, on the ISth, as a result of a levy made by the city treasurer for delinquent taxes, amounting to $9,000. The company also owes $10,000 for street improvements, and has a heavy bonded indebtedness. Russell B. Harrison is president of the company. One-tbird of the $10,000,000 loan put on the London market by the Dominion * government will be taken up by Cauadian banks and capitalists. Col'NCU.or Akiyaus, who attempted to commit suicide by carving himself with a yataghan shortly after his return to Japan'from Honolulu, was reported, at last accounts, to be in a fair way to recovery. Charges of inefficiency in the manI sgement of the Kansas City post office | have been filed at Washington against | Postmaster Homer Reed and Assistant Postmaster C. M. Seidlitx. ' J. 11. Tul’NNiso.N and wife, of Mitchell, S. D., were found unconscious in their home, on the 19th. overcome by the fumes of gas from a hard coal stove. The Japanese government has decided to apply the gold standard to the currency of Formosa immediately. OF the £135.000 in bullion withdrawn from the bank of England, on the 19th, £35,000 was in American eagles. Cou Dk.nby, United Slates minister i at Peking, has been very ill, but is now l convalescent. A l.AKtiE barn belonging to Robert 1 Berg. near Hanley Falls, Minn., was destroyed by fire recently. While workmen were engaged in clearing ; away the debris, on the 19th, the remains of four human beings were J found, but so badly burned that they ; fell to pieces as soon as disturbed. | They are supposed to have been i tramps. Hen. Weteeb has ordered the release i from the Isle of Pines, the Spanish ! penal settlement off the coast of Cuba ! of 11 prisoners, who were, it was alleged, connected in the uprising which | resulted in the imprisonment of Seno- ! rita Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, whj ! recently escaped. . It is stated by an authority on the I subject that several of the reading mani ufacturera of bicycles will reduce the j price of their 1S9S wheel to $50. This 1 will bring them down to a basis legiti- | mate profit. Ferdinand Cariere, of Rimonske, 1 Quebec, a disappointed office-seeker, I made a desperate attempt to shoot Sir j Wilfred Laurier, the Canadian premier, j at Ottawa. Ont., on the 19th. He was | disarmed and arrested. Richard M. Scbcggs, the St Louis j merchant who was charged with attempting to smuggle certain articles of jewelry into the Uuited States on his return from a trip to Europe, has been ] exonerated by the federal authorities. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, who j has just returned from his trip to fia- | waii, declares that while he has favored annexation from the beginning ! of the movement he was surprised, j upon investigation, to find that the i arguments in its favor had been underestimated.

1 UK stoeK homers oi me uenver consolidated Gas Co., on the 30th, ratified the action of the board of directors accepting the City's proposition to lease the plant at six per cent, on an appraised valuation for eight years. An official dispatch received from Gen. Galleui, the French Commander-in-chief in Madagascar, says that a band of Sakalavas had attacked a ! French post which was recently estabj Hahed in western Madagascar, killing | many of the garrison, including three officers. New York bankers are considerably | exercised over the mass of fraudulent | drafts received from various parts of | the west, drawn on New York banking j and business houses. A regular baud i of swindlers appears to be operatiug I through the western states. George D. MeikkUOUS, assistant j secretary of war, aud his party arrived i iu St Paul, on the 30th. from Omaha. ! and speut the day at Fort Sneliiug. j They left for the Yellowstone, thence to Fort Vancouver. j Is connection with the increased j strength of the British army the dej fenaes of the colonies of Great Uritian I are receiving uuusual attention. Permanent state organization of the I Union Veterans’union was effected at Cedar Rapida la, on the 30th,with the election of a full act of officers. The statement of the condition of the treasury fissued on the 30th. showed: 1 Available cash balance, $310,533,930, ! gold reserve, $151,534,313. Owing to the prevalence of yellow | fever in Montgomery, and the fact that | all of the towns and' cities of Alabama have quarantined against that city,the j state government has temporarily been I removed to Birmingham. ! The will of the late George M. Pull- : man, after making auitable provision j for hia wife, divides bis immense fortune equally between his twin sous and two daughters. The sons'portions, however, are to be held in trust, for reasons that were best known to their father.Susiurr S. B. Lamp, of Rilev count j, Kaa.. was shot and instantly killed at Leonard vibe bj Ike Warren, a jointbt, or “bootlegger.” upon whom he was endeavoring to serve a warrant Warren was arrested and narrowly escaped lynching. ? Fire, on the 30th. destroyed the busiaesa portion of Osceola, Ark., a river town about fifty miles north of Memphis. It is believed the loss will reach $100,000. A Manila dispatch says that acyclone and tidal wave devastated a portion of the Island of Leyte, one of the Philippine group. Several towns and villages were destroyed and fully 30J natives perished

--- These wen 60 new cases ol yellow lever reported in New Orleans on the iSbth—a record breaker—and six deaths. Among the latter was Ira T. Britton, manager of the General Electric Co. Leo; IX Weil, of Chicago, well known for his improvements in photography and for his work in illustrated magazine articles, has become insane. Brooding over Christian scieuce is said to have unhinged his mind. The new stockholders of the Evan* ville A Richmond railroad, on the 21st, elected John R. Walsh president and Lynn A. Walter, secretary. Many improvements will be made in the road. By request of Surgeon-General Wyman, the .University of Pennsylvania has allowed Dr. Guiteras to return to Alabama to determine yellow fever cases in that state. \ The Indiana Bankers’ association, in session at ludiauapolis, on the 21st, adopted a resolution approving the monetary commission. The resolution regards the appointment as wise and expresses the opinion that it will be productive of a plau of currency and banking in support of which the people can heartily unite. Locuikl Graham, S3 years old, and j said to an ex-captain of the United States artillery, and to have been formerly an aide-de-camp of Maximilian, was sentenced, at the West Sussex (Eng.) sessions, on the 21st, to 13 months' imprisonment for defrauding tradesmen at Horsham, Sussex. The Turk ish government has granted permission to the Thessalian refugees who fled from Thessaly after the invasion of the conquering Turkish troops uuder Edheiu Pasha to return to their homea through Phourka pass, Monseka pass and two other passes, near Trikhala and Alymra. Dr. Newton Bateman, for 17 years president of Knox college at Galesburg, III., aud au educator of national repute, died of heart disease on the 21st Ox the 21st 7.M) soldier.-, sick, wounded or otherwise incapacitated, embarked at Havana for Spain. The report telegraphed from Victoria that the Canadian government had decided to charge a duty on every pound of goods taken.into the Klondike country, including miners' packs, was, on the 22 l. denied from Ottawa. While Mrs. Joseph Howard.of Washington county, Ind., was at Cincinnati preparing to take the supposed remains of her husband home for interment, a letter arrived from the latter saying that he was in Nashville. Two weeks before lie had mysteriously disappeared. and the remains of a murdered man found in the Portland canal were identified as those of Howard. Margaret E. Com* entu-ed suit in the district court at Denver. Col., on the 22d, for S25.000 damages for slander against Melville C. Brown, at one - time a member of congress and now attorney for the Goulds in tlieir fight against Mary Angel, who claims to I have been a wife of Jay Gould. Several, points in southwest Virginia are re ported as having experienced an earthquake shock on the night of the 21st. No damage is reI ported. I A Chicaooax writes from White Pass, Alaska, that there have been six j suicides, three hangings, 11 killings and a number of deaths there from ex- , posure. A grandson of Gen. Phil Kearney has been adjudged, by a supreme court commisson Jersey City. N. J., au habitual drunkard aud will be sent to a sanitarium.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Buffalo and iNew York speciai Mo* 46. on the New York Central & Hudson River railroad, due to arrive in New York city at 6:30 a. in. of the 24th, was thrown from the track into the Hudson river, IK miles below (Jamson's station. Twenty-eight lives were lost. The retaining wall along the river had been undermined by high water in the river, and the track caved under the weight of the train. Tuk white squadron, consisting of the cruisers New York and Brooklyn and battleships Massachusetts, Texas and Iowa, arrived at New York, ou the 34th, from an extended visit in eastern waters. The New York proceeded up the bay to the navy yard, while the three big battleships and the cruiser Brooklyn anchored off Tompkinsville. S. L Millard Walker. 43 years old, said bv the police to be an old offender, who ; stated that his home was in Buffalo, N. Y.. and John F. Ellis, 44 years old. of New York city, were arraigned in the Jefferson Market police court, on the 24th. charged with working a “•flimflam** game on men leaving for Europe on cattle ships of the Anchor line. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the 33d, showed the following changes: Surplus reserve, increase, f8.390.300; loans, decrease. 941.600; specie, increase, $5.869.600; legal tenders, increase. J3,767,000; deposits, increase, $1,385,600; circulation, increase. $104,300. Tub Mississippi state board of health, in its official statement, on the 24th. reported eight new cases of yellow fever' at Bay SL Louis and one at Edwards and one at New Albany. No new cases were reported from Clinton, Nitt^yuns or Cayuga. ThKEE HCXDRED AXD SBVKXTT-FOrH out of the 883 private and state banks of Kansas have made their report to Bank Commissioner John W. Breidenthal verifying his prophecy that the increase iu deposits would amount to $7.000.oea This is an increase over last year of 43 per cent. Thb attendance at the Nashville Centennial exposition for the week ended the 23d. was 107.927, breaking all previous records. OB the 33d the associated banks of New York city held $22,904,700 in excess of the requirement of the 23-per-cent. rule. A vigorous fight la being made to prevent the Palisades of the Hudson from being used fcy unscrupulous quarry men.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A MURDERER Xarrowlj Empc* Lynching In Snn Pleit% Ind_The Jail Under Heavy Guard. Knox, . Ind., Oct. 16.—Considerable excitement was created at San Pierre, a hamlet in the west end of Starke county Friday. On August li last William Messenger shot and instantly killed Charles Kelson, a farmer of this county, without provocation, and escaped. On October IS the fugitive was captured ai Marion, Ind., and brought to this place by Sheriff Harter, of this county. ’ V Friday his preliminary examination took place at San Pierre and he was bound over to the Starke circuit court to await the action of the grand jury. While waiting for the train the wife of the murdered man came up to the prisoner and showing him her baby, told him he had murdered its father afid struck him violent blow in the face with her fist. Immediately the cries of “lynch the fiend” came from all sides and the sheriff had some difficulty in getting his prisoner out of town. Twenty-five deputies have been sworn in and the jail is under guard. COMMUNION SERVICE. Over 4.000 People Partake of the Loaf and Wine In Tomlinson Hall, Indiana poll*. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 1& —The most largely attended communion service ever held by the Christian Church in this country was conducted in Tomlinson hall Sunday afternoon when ! 4,000 souls partook of the loaf and wine. The service was the leading feature of the Sunday programme of j Christian conventions. Dr. D. j R. Lucas, of this city, led in the service, and short addresses were delivered by Rev. Jabez Hall and ' Rev. I. J. Spencer. Thirty-two j deacons distributed the loaf and wine, and about ten gallons of wine was j used. It is claimed that the service was one of the most largely attended I communion services in the history of the church. 1 Over *2.000 people art* here to attend the opening of the Foreign Christian Missionary convention in Tomlinson mil Monday; SALOON DYNAMITED. rwo Men Have Narrow Kscapr* The Build- I Ins Was Completely Demolished. Franklin. Ind., Oct 20.—The only saloon in (iritnwoad, a town of >1.500 inhabitants ten miles north of here, was destroyed by dynamite, and there is small clue to the guilty. The building was completely demolished and pieces of timber thrown nearly a block, Bartender Stevens and John Devore, sleeping in the building, had a. miraculous escape. There, were two explosions, and. the meh managed to crawl from the room before the final and worst explosion. The saloon had been in operation three months, and threats against it were frequent. During the last few years several saloons have been destroyed by fire and dynamite. John H. Bass Bond.* His Plants. Fokt Wayne, Ind., Oct. 19.—John H. Bass retured Monday from New York where he has been on important business. In an interview he says that his furnaces at Rock Run, Ala.; Lenoir, Tenn., and his shops at Chicago, St Louis and Ft Wayne have all been consolidated into one corportion with $2,000,000 capital, and that they will all be put at their full capacity. The bonding of these plants was perfected Saturday in the east. The Ft Wayne plant has for several weeks been in the hands of a receiver.

fjUiii nw ^nrriurAii auu iiiuiBriu Logansport, Ind., Oct. 16.—Charles Ward shot Miss Laura Bopp Friday night and then killed himself. They had been affianced, but Ward, during Laura's absence in Michigan this summer, became dissipated, and on her return she broke the engagement. He made several overtures to renew former relationship but she refused. Friday night he called her out of her home and shot her in the stomach. '< She will die. He then shot himself through the head and died instantly. In the Hand* of a Receiver. Tkrbk IIacte, Ind.. Oct. 19.—The Terre Haute Electric Street Railway Co. went into the hands of a receiver Monday as a result of a levy made by the city treasurer for delinquent taxes amounting to $5,000. The company also owes $10,000 for street improvements and has a heavy bonded indebtedness. The receiver s bond was placed at $50,000. Russell R^Harrison is president of the eompan* For* several hours the cars did not run. Indiana Marshes Afire. Valparaiso, Ind., Oct 18.—The marshes in the south and west points of the county within five miles of the city are on fire. The flames can be plainly seen from the city and cover a distance of over five miles in length. Fall From a Tree. Bedford, Ind., Oct. IS.—Jesse Phillips. aged 9, fell SO feet from a tree Sunday afternoon, striking his head on a stone horse trough. The boy was not injured. save for a gash in his scalp, and was able to walk home. Killed at a Crowing. Noblrsvixxk. Ind., Oct. 18.—Sidney Webb, aged 50 years, while driving across the Lake Erie and Western railroad south of this city, was struck by a soutbound passenger train and instantly killed. Advertlamaaata la a Hymn Boole. Richmond. Ind., Oct. 18.—A new advertising scheme is being iutroiuced into this city. The man introducing it picks upon one of the largest churches and agrees to furnish free 100 hymn books, the fly leaves of which are filled with advertisementsN*w Pottmutm la Indiana^ Washington, Oct, 18.—The following fourth-class postmasters were twinmisr sioned in Indiana Friday: Camden, Carroll county, W. K. ixrhenck, vice J. S. Bohannon, removed; Rossville, Clinton eounty, John M. Erb, vice W. J Shields,

A SINGULAR WRECK. The New York & Hudson Rivex Train Submerged. It KetoUed la th« Lou of Many Ll*«*-Th« Cant Plunged In the River and Moat of t hose Lost 1>rowned la the Cars —The Lust—A Unllaut Rescue. New York, Oct. 21.—Buffalo ami New York special No. 46, on the New York Central & Hudson River railroad, due to arrive in this city at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning, was thrown from the track into the Hudsou river, 1}£ miles below Harrison's station. Twen-ty-eight lives were lost. The retaining wall along the river had been undermined by high water in the river, and the track,caved under the weight of the train. The train consisted of the engine, a combination baggage and express car, a smoker, two ordinary eoaches and four sleepers. The engiue and two forward ears are submerged iu 50 feet of water. Engineer Foyle aud Fireman Tompkins went down*, with the engine. All the sleeping-car passengers escaped. A man named Williams, of Buffalo, died after beiug rescued from the river, his arm having been torn off. Up to half-past five o’clock teu bodies had beeu recovered. Seven or eight of the dead were Chiuamau, who were in the smokiug ear. A. G. McKay, pri* vate secretary of General Manager Van Etteu, is missing, aud is said to have beeu on the engine. A number of wouuded have beeu lakeu to hospitals in Poughkeepsie and Peekskill. Following is a list of the bodies recoverd from the wreok up to 5:3J p. in. yesterday: Thomas Reilly, about 50 years old, of 236J Wiscousiu avenue, St. Louis. Five unidentified Chinamen, one bearing a passport iu tbo name of Wong Gim, and one bearing a letter addressed to Hop Sing, IT Spriugdeld avenue. New York. E. A. Green, about 25 years old, supposed to be employed by W. A. Otis, architect, 175 Dearborn street, Chicago. All of these died from drowuiug. Green’s body was the first one taken out of the car by the diver. A. G. McKay, private secretary of General Superiuteudeut Van Etteu. believed to have been riding on the engine and killed. Conductor Parish and IS others were uuiujured and have been sent to New York. Five other survivors of the wreck were takeu to the Helping Hand hospital at Peekskill. Two of these are Americans aud three are Chinamen. The former are John E. Ryau, No. 2y4 Barrow street, Jersey City, badly'laeerated arm aud shoulder, aud Clarence Morgan, of Aurora, N. Y„ shoulder brokeu. Mr. Morgan eseaped from a car, after it had fallen into the water, through a hole in the end. W. S. Langfoid. of Bayonne, N. J., was iu one of the last coaches, which remained on the track, lie swam out to the sunken ears with an ax and succeeded in chopping through one of them and rescuing four people. The wreck oocuired about six miles above Peekskill. A retaining wall, which supported the track, slid out Under the weight of the rapidly-moving train. Of late the tide in the Hudson river has been very high aud to this was due the underminiug of the wall, so the railroad officials state.

MRS. SAPP'S RAWHIDE. Flu;g«tl • Banker She Said Insulted Her null Then Withdrew the Charge. Si loam Springs, Ark., Oct. 25.—Mrs. Benjamin Sapp, the young wife of Shoemaker Sapp, created a sensatiou here by severely lashing Cashier II. S. Morris of the Bank of Si loam, with a cowhide. The shoe shop adjoining the bank was the scene of the episode. Morris had been invited Inhere by the woman's husband, supposedly on business, and hat! scarcely entered when Mrs. Sapp darted at him, repeatedly wrapping a rawhide, which she held coueealed by her side, arouud the banker's neck and shoulders. Sue was excited and struck wildly, hitting an innocent by-stander a couple of hard raps. Morris is married and wealthy. Mrs. Sapp claimed Morris insulted her, but this is denied. It is understood that Mrs. Sapp signed a statement completely exonerating Cashier Morris of any act of indiscretion whatever, outside of a few harsh words in a business way. TO MURDER SHERIFF MARTIN. Due of the Wounded la the Latimer Shootlac A rreeled for Conspiracy. -IVllkcsbarre. Pa. Oct. 35. —An alleged conspiracy to murder Sheriff .\Jartin, who led the deputies who tired upon and killed a score of strikers at Latimer, on September 10, has been discovered by the arrest of John Sepblack, who was wouuded in the riot. The complainant was the sheriff*s son, who ^Itys he overheard Sepblaek threaten to kill his father. On Sepblack was found a razor wrapped in a printed circular, describing the shooting and calling for veugeance. From a talk overheard, it is said that the prisoner is one of a gang of 15 detailed by the foreigners to murder the sheriff. Ue denies the charge. THE PULLMAN FUNERAL. Remains of George ML Pullman Laid tc Rest at Grace land Cemetery. Chicago. OcL 34.—Funeral services over the body of the late George M. Pullman were held at the family residence, in Prairie avenue. The officiating clergymen were Rev. Doctors S. J. McPherson, N. D. Hillis and C. K. Eaton, of New York, the latter a visitor at the Pullman house on the night of the great financier’s death. Each minister spoke briefly, the Itn perial quartette sang a selection, lu ter me at was in Graceland cemetery.

RICHARDSON * TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Prompt Attention given to all bndnew. A Rotary Public constantly in the office. Office In Carpenter building. Eighth and Maln-sU** Petersburg, Ind. A SHBT A COFFEY, O- B. Ashby. C. A. Coney Attorneys at Law, Will practice In all courts. Special attention given to all civil busluess. Notary public constantly In the office. Collections ni*o* and promptly remitted. Office over S. G. Barrett A Son’s store, Petersbuig, Ind. S. Q. DAVENPORT. Attorney at Law. N Prompt attention given to all business Offiee over J. U. Adams A Son’s drug store. Petersburg, Indiana. ILLON A GREENE, T. II. Dillon V. R. Greene D Attorneys and Counsellors at Lam Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties Careful attention given to all business. Collections glveu prornot -Notary Public always in office. Office over Citizens State Bank, Petersburg, Ii S. H. A C. L HOLCOih* Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all courts. Prompt atten tion given to all business. Office In Carpente* block, first floor on Elgbth-st, Petersburg COX A ELY, vii. e. cox HORACE EL'S Attorneys at Law, Will practice In the Pike Circuit Court anA adjoining counties. Prompt attention given to all civil business entrusted to their care. Office over J. R. Adams A Son’s drug store, Petersburg, Indiana. WOOLSEY, Attorney at Law, All business promptly attended to. Colleo* tlons promptly made and remitted. Abstract* of Title a specialty, office in Snyder’s build* «ng, opposite Democrat office. Petersburg,ind rp R* RICK, Physician and Surgeon, Chronic Diseases a specialty Office over Citizens’ State Bunk, Petem burg, Indiana. |JUNTER A BASINGER, Physicians and Surgeons. Office In the Caroenter building, first floor, apposite court honse, Petersburg, Ind. All calls promptly answered.

F. E. HILSMEYRR. Physician and Surgeon. Office on Thlrd-st., next door to postoffloek Yelnen, Indiana. Office hours—7 to 9 am, 1 to 3 pm, 6 to 8 pm» All calls promptly answered. W. H, STONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon. Office in rooms® and 7 In Carpenter build* ,nt>, Petersburg, Indiana. Operations flrstrlasw. All worn warranted Amestheilce 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. Tr'ANTED-FAITHFUL MEN or WOMEN »» to travel for responsible established house In Indiana. Salary *780 and exDensea. Position permanent. Reference Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. The National, Star Insurance Bultdiug. Chicago. r N’OTICE Is hereby given to all parties interested that 1 wilt attend at my offlca.ln Sleodal, EVERY SATURDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. AII persons having business with said office will please take notice. I. L. BASS. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to alt parties Interested that I will attend in my office at my residence RVERT MONDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Marion township. Alt persons having business with said office will please take notice. T.C. NELSON,Trustee. Postoffice address: Winslow. , N'OTICE Is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at n y residenceEVERY WEDNESDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Madison township. Positively no business tmr**cted except on since days. .« J. D. BARKER. Trustee. Postoffice address: Petersburg. Iud. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties concerned that I wMl beat my residence EVERY TUESDAY To attend to business connected with the sffice of trustee of Monroe township. J. M. DAVIS. Trustee. Postofflee address: Spurgeon. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons concerned that I will attend at my office EVERY MONDAY to transact business connected with th* office of trustee of Jefferson township. L. E. TRAYLOR. Trustee. Postoffice address: Iva, Ind. 1117ANTED—FAITHFUL MEN or WOMEN " to travel for responsible established. house in Indiana. Salary *780 and expenses Position permanent, Reference. Enclose •d I f-ad dressed si unified envelope. The Natkr uai, Star Insurance Ruildlug, Chicago.