Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 April 1898 — Page 1

-——-■—1 l DOST LOOK LIKE WAR The Heport of the Board of Inquiry is Made. ^President McKinley Seads Message to Congress. Ji Snlugjirine Mine Waned l'p l^e HattlHblp Maine. ,vjuin ,1'rrliaf: «ir*n( thau »«r (t^rr Hrrn fleclured. The fimKiigs of the .naval tmard of t.n into the of the U-ittleJnp Maine ami,the killing of £5S.brave soldiers .of tli? Utu‘,cd States-m Havana harbor, ras nmd| to the president liw ueek and -by him transmitted to (.'oneness with a speui&l niessige laa! Monday. Tl e uavif' report stated that a submarine caused the wroi, hut the reapomi.rnint bilitris neither fixed fcy t he board or.the .chiel note :Stnt Colt) ill tl the intir executive. Spain eemls eoociliaLory withdrawing objections to the Tinted s sendinjprtlief lofhe starving Cubans. rc'Sineu and iimpy public men are disg i.-ted with the lucj: affairs hayet^jen e hist few davs. ''Peace at any ioety >s the ory of those who hare u.tiuence at •resent time, and it Jooks like .the ter of 25g brave soldiers will be pitssed bv unnoticed. For >evt.,.l weeCs this nation has Us*u on the tiptoe of ej.j>ecta{X\T, l«elh‘vinir ijiai .the president would declare war upon receipt of the report of the U>ard of iaquinr. b».t what util yet he done by the preside iff or emigre remain' to ,bi* seei . At *he present t.tne, however, it fool s like tiiere would le a peaceful solution of heafL.tr. A/he presiikutV message to .wn rres- i< usfaF!o*<: "For some time prior to the vi-it of the Mm ne to Havana li.trb.ur our consular Jrep *rts [minted out the advantage to flow .fr»> it a vi>it of national a." ips to Cuban walers. in aceii'taiUuy tie people c««h4»le ely to the presence of Qtir flag as a symbol of gopd .widJTtnd of our ships io fuifill,:ne it of/, mission of prelection to their im ‘rests even though ne imrutaljate need therefore might exist. * Accordingly on Jaiinfrv last after a C"i ference with the Spanish minister iu wh it-li the renewal of the visits of our war ve? sms to Spanish waters was discussed and Httepied thegnnsulai authorities at Madrid Jin I Havana were advised of the purpose of thi s governntaut to n*>uuie friendly naval visits at ('uh&u ports and 5hat in chat view th. Maine woghl forth with.call at the jmrt of Havana. ‘This annoinoement was received by the Spinish government wit/ appreciation of fhl friendly character of the visit r>f the Maine anil *jth the notijScalion of tin* in'ention to return the t-ourtesy by ^tending n*l‘|wni>li ship to the priuoijml putts of tl»e *l*i lited States.

| “The Maine continued in the harbor of ! Havana three weeks following her arrival. , Xo appreciable excitement attended her ; stay; on the contrary, the feeling of relief and confidence followed the resumption of ; long intercepted friendly interests. So i noticeable-was this immediate effect of her visit' that Consul General Lee strongly ; urged that the presence of our ships in [ Cuban waters should be kept up by retaining the Maine at Havana or in the event of her recall, by sending another vessel there to take her place." ■ The president referred to the disaster on : the uight of February 15. the rescue of the ! survivors, and the care of the wounded. | Then he proceeded: j “The appalling calamity fell upon the [ people of our country with crushing force ; and for a brief time intense excitement | prevailed which in a community less just | and self controlled than ours might have j led to heavy acts of blind resentment. I This spirit, however, soon gave way to i calmer processes of reason and a resolve to investigate the facts and await material proof befort forming judgment as to cause, responsibility, and if the facts warranted it, the remedy due. This course necessarily recommended itself from the outset to the executive for only in the light of dispassionate reason could he determine the nature and measure of his full duty in the matter.” The president referred to the appointment j of the lx-aril of inquiry, gave a synopsis of j tiie board's deposition aud concluded his ‘ message as follows: **I lut'e d«a ided that the finding of the I* court of inquiry and the views'of this government thereon lie communicated to the Igo^erumeot of her majesty, the queen scgent of Spain, and I do not permit myself , to doubt that the sense of justiee of the j Spanish nation will dictate a course of | action suggested by houcr and the friendly j relations the governments. | “It will be the duty of the executive to advise cougress.it the result and in the meantime deliberation is invoked.’* (Signed,^ Wiu.UM McKlXI.it. ^ IMieumatisiu Cured. My wite has used Chamberlain's Pain Halm for rheumatism with great relief, and cjtu recommend it as a splendid liniment ' for iheuiual ism aud other household use for which we jUate fouud it valuable.—W, J. Cuvier, lied Creek. y. V. Mr.Cnyler is one of the leading merchant: if this village and oneof the most prominent men in this vidnity —W. G. Phippin.editoi lied Creek Herald. For sale by J. K. Aligns & Sop. a Money Made On irk at liumc> Wt have work for grown people or young people at home. Bright boys amlguls an .easily nudemg ten dollars and more each week, and can do the same. You wiii be scut a sample ea-*? and complete outfit with full instructions. No experience i: .recurred. but ■'merely follow instruct ion; ’sent wh outfit. We arc thoroughly in earnest about giving you easy, profitable i work and a permanent income fur years u -Come. The editor of this |M|«or will tel you so If you inquire. Send fifty cents toI day in £t«itq« or silver to pay postage or sample case and outfit (to l’p To j>ale, Chi ca^o. 111. Karr Yotr h;)d the Grip? If you have, you probably need a reliable * mediciue like Foley’s Honey *nd Tar n Intal your Ling< and stop the racing cough incidental -to this dLease. J. 11. Adairs A >on. a

House Cleanin rmmmm lookin'; for that Carpet until the very la-t minute, if you tlo “you’ll be sorry.” We are offering special inducements to earlv buyers One Hundred Patterns to Select From. Look at the Special Prices for March. Good every day Carpets. good and cheap, per vara ....It?ic GockI Heavy Cottage Carpets, solid as a rack....£0e Sea Island Carpets, entirely new, better than'Rag Carpet* ..25e Genuine Star Ingram Carpets, the 40c kind. ...H5c All Wool ingrain Carpets, the COe kind. . ..... .,....45c Pretty Patterns in Rmss-elis Carpets...... &0c Beautiful Paltarus.m Velvety, Hoqnettes. etc. * rWHUiring this sale we will give with every Carpet a handsome I .ace Curtain for trout door. AH Carpets cut and matched, and delivered free to auiy jmrt of the city during lids Special Sale. There is uo plare in this wide world where you can buy Carpets cheaper ihan of us. ,

W. V. Hargrove & Co The Peoples’ Store, PETERSBURG, INDIANA

WHAT IT HAS DONE! Natural Gas Has Bilik Up Our Little City. Only 0$e Well, but it Has In creased the Population. A large Number of Residences and Store Rooms Built the Past Year. , i i TbouKKiiUs of Dollars Spent in Improving lte*i«leiire». One year ago Wednesday, March 30th, a wonderful flow of natural gas was struck at this place, and that it has been quite a little boom for Petersburg none will disj pute. For years before it had been talked j of. but citizens were not enthusiastic in the i matter, hence nothing was done until Sepj tembor or October before. A contract was I made with J, P. Miller & Co., deep well j drillers of Chicago, and they shipped their rig here and began work sometime along about Clm-tmas. The work progressed . slowly owing to the many caves encountered ami the immense flow- of salt water, but

on a different aspect to what it was a year j ago, which has ail been the .result erf the i discovery of natural gas* Among those who have built new residences, or are in course of construction, j during the past year and since natural gas j became a luxury to Petersburg residents are the followiug: W. A. Braden, Albert Roger, Homer Xaney, Jeff Smith. 1-ievi Douglass, > ■ Sherman Deriug, George Smith. Mrs. Anna Robinson, Andrew Pye. Mrs. M. A. Milburn, Fred Keuss, W. V. Hargrove, Mrs. Elias Osborn, 4 ] Miss Loll Reuss, Prank Hill. | Willard Smith, Mrs. F. E. Tracy3 Columbus Burton, Hr. Russell. Joe Bryant, Robert Swaitn, Charles Coffey, Frank Thomas, j Thomas Bropes, ! James B. Thomas, Mr*. P. W. Chappell, Henrv Keifer, . j Dr. W. H. Link, Sam Horubrook, Charles Jones, A. F. Baker, Jab-z Woolley, «; " , A. T. Lett, Mrs. Jane Posey. Besides the above residences, Ed R. King built two brick business rooms on Main street, George Triielove and Mat Burton built two business rooms on Mullen Hill, and H. H. Smith a business room on lower Main street. j E. II. Goslin & Co. built a fine planing mill on lower Main street. -s An immense addition was built to the Read hotel. A new school building was erected, during

on that eventful riBnniugof Tuesday,March 20,1^97. aUnit four o’clock, the drill struck the hist blow and up came the natural .pus, throw mg the water and rock. high into the ajr. For thirty days the well stood in this condition throwing water a ud rock and was a must beautiful sight to behold and thous-, antis of {»cople visited the Jumbo natural gus well of tbe world. The- Democrat at the time got out a magnificent natural gas edition which sold like hot cakes and was1 sent broadcast over the count ry. Finally on the 4th day of May the first natural gas display ever made in Southern Indiana was given and which attracted thou-anils of people to this city, was made. The well, however, was gotten under contra! the Saturday before, having stood open for nearly a month, and a test made which showed a pressure of 373 pounds to the square inch. The discovery of natural gas brought hundreds of strangers here and business livened up, and had the other wells proved to be good gassers Petersburg would have had double the |>opu1al:ou that it had one year ago, but we were doomed to disappointment. Three wells were drilled which proved to be ‘•dusters,” but that does not ?*y that this is nut a big natural gits field. Two of these wells were drilled at a distance of two and five miles away fiom the Jumbo well. Another well is now under construction and it may prove to be a better well : than Jumbo. But, however, that may be, Petersburg has grown considerably since natural gas was di-core red here a year ago, and it is the intention of this article to show this; fact. Xew residences have been built in. all parts of the city and many ohl ones have been remodeled, store rooms have been remodeled and altogether the city h«« taken1

the year to accommodate the ineiea*ed manlier of school children. Three extra teachers in the city school.-' were employed. The electric power house which was destroyed by an explosion, was also rebuilt. Besides all the above many extensive improvements have been made by citizens in their home residences, which Otherwise would not have beemniade but for the dis* covery of natural pis. To this may In? added the natural gas plant put in bv tlte Petersburg minting atul manufacturing association. This plant furnishes fuel to over half the residents of Petersburg and is one of the greatest luxuries that our citizens have which is enjoyed to the fullest extent. During the year the Cumberland telephone and telegraph company have placed an exchange in here, which Inis long distance connect it ms. and now has nearly 100 subscribers, and which is constantly increasing in number, k is a source of great convenience to the citizens in the transaction of business. The Farmers’ telephone company is making arrangements to connect all tlie towns in th* county and also to supply farmers with phones at a moderate cost. This i> also out* of the results of natural gas. Business r«»otn> that were empty prior to the finding of natural gas are now occupied, Horae* that were vacant are now rented atul fifty more would be if they wea? erected. Thus k will 1« seen what a single gas well will do for a town, but what would tt have been had gas been found in 2m». 2? it is to be hoped that the well now being drilled will come in a gusher atul tlie boom whteh is no* under way will develop into monster proportions. lu Lite meautima it would be well for

Petersburg- citizens to help aloug in this boom by building more residences and business rooms and offering some inducements to manufacturers to locate here. There are many small wood -working factories that could be located: here if our citizens would take some interest in the matter and help along with their means. It takes money to locate factories, and to do this the moneyed men should help along. WAKtMKttTO* LETTER

Our ICrgular Correspondent Sends in h Batch of Kcwk. War! War! War!!! That has been the cry on every side in tones higher and higher, since the official report of the Naval Court of Inquiry, continued the opinion that had been general from the day the Maine was blown up, by saying that the explosion was on the outside of the vessel, and showing, by evideuee presented, the impossibility of private parties being able to get or to put into position explosives powerful.enough to do wliat was done iy Havana harbor without the assistance or connivance of Spanish officials. Mr. McKinley Knows that war is the only outcome of the situation, notwithstanding that persists in talking peace while the whole administration is acting war, but he has an overwhelming anxiety to have Spain make the first open hostile move, just as though the blowing up of the Maine was not a hostile act, and as If the flotilla of torf>edo bouts und torpedo boat destroyers now making its way towards American waters, alleged io be bound for Porto Rico, was not another hostile act. His reasons for not wishing to begin is a tear that Europe may think that he hail forced the war ujh>u Spain. Mr. McKinley has a policy which he thinks will force Spain to get out of Cuba peaceably, to declare war against the United States, or to begiu fighting us without.a declaration of war. He told leading senators and representatives enough of this policy before sending the Maine report to Congress to secure then promises to aid in keeping Congress from acting ou the Maine report until this policy can be put into effect or at least be tried. This policy is t;» be intervention in Cuba, in the name of humanity, and unde.- it, the loss of the Maine is to be a side issue, treated as the result of incompetence rathei than criminal iutentiou on the part of tlu Spanish government,and no specific reparation 'therefore is to be asked, although, it is said that Mr. McKinley indulges tin hope that Spain will voluntarily ntakt some offer in that line—a hope not shared by anybody else, so far as known. The first official move in this policy will lie a message from Mr. McKinley to Congress, asking for an appropriation It be used for the reli. [ of ail Cuban* who are in need. it will not be an easy matter to hold Congress down until Mr. McKinley’! intervention policy can be carried out, although there is very little doubt that il will eventually bring on wa with Spain just as certainly as would a declaration ol war. But there is au opinion in the quad: of many men in Congress that it would be more iu keeping with American eharactei to openly declare war upon Spain, regardless of Euro{>ean opinion, than to virtually force Spain to take’ the iniritative in the war. by acting under the cloak of humanity.. Representative Lewis of the State ol Washington, voiced the opinion of this element in Congress when he said: “Wai is already upon us. We are fools -to disguise it. It is not patriotic to delude ourselves further. A Spanish flotilla issailing towards our shores. It is the duty of tht government to intercept time flotilla ami blow it from the seas.” And the enthusiastic cheers which greeted his quotation from a speech made by John Randolph, in the House, iu IS'2‘2, were significant—-***: we would not lie bullied by the British lion, so we refuse to be frightened bv the Spanish jackal 1.”

i he secretary nr the Interior has eskcd Congress for an appro {trial ion of more than )jS8.U00,000 to meet a deficiency in the pension funds for the current fiscal year. The republican leaders in Congress probably knew that tfii- deficiency would exist, ami that was why they insisted upon making the pension appropriation for the next fiscal year about $10,000,000 less than they know will l*e required. It is all a part ol the scheme .to keep down the total of appropriations at this session of Congress. The democratic filibuster while the Naval appropriation bill wa- being considered by the House, sitting as a oouimittee of the whole, was not made to delay the,Naval bill, but »s a rebuke to Representative I’ayne of New York, who was presiding arid who tried to out-t'zar the Cxar himself by refusing to allow Representative Hartman of Moutana, to complete a* epeech he began, because Mr. Hartman, who is a silver republican, dared to satirise the republican party, and as such it was fully deserved. Representative Bailey, who let! the filibustering, correctly stated the rlemo* cratic position when he said, sn f«rotesting against the refusal of Little Czar jPayue to entertain a demand for tellers on a vote upon an appeal from his decision; f‘lf yon do not permit us to verify the eount, you destroy tlie last safeguard of file minority, A dishonest man in the chair—and there have lieen dishonest men the choir.-—could tlefcat the will of this House. I am free to s*v that my purpose in inaugurating this filibuster was to consume twice us much time as Ton deny the gentleman from Montana, and I intend to do it every time you deny a reasonable demaiui." ' .V \

THE FLOOD OF 18ft Terrible Devastation of Property and Crops. ! The Mighty "Hush of Torrents Unequaled for Many Years. The White, Wabash and Pat oka Rivers Spread Over Bottoms. * : ' ■ - - -' '. ■ • The namafte in Pike ('Auntjr niU ttuteh Into t|*c Thonuind^.

The downpour of the elements during ; the past two weeks Has caused great dej struction of property and the growing wheat crop in the lowlands throughout ; Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Many cities in ! Oiiio and Indiana have bad fearful losses I ami in many instances lives have been lost ! in the raging waters. * " At Columbus, this state, an engine and train dashed into a small creek and eighteen persons perished in the waters. At many ; -other- poiuts in the state lives were lost. The rivers in Pike .county, the White ' and Paloka. have been raging during the past week. The White river at this point ■ reached the high water mark of last year 1 and thousands of acres of wheat has been 1 ruined entailing a loss of, thousands of dollars. Many of the residents of the hot- ; torn lands have been compelled to flee for their lives, the waters having flooded their j homes. Farmers were‘compelled to drive ! their stock to the high lands and remove their grain to higher places of safety. The damage jlias not befen so great as last year owing to the fact that there was not so much grain held over as in previous years, j but the growing wheat crop is badly dam* j aged if not a total loss. The Patoka river is higher than it has t been for many years, ami has caused great j damage iu the bottom lands to the wheat crop. At Littles and Heddeu the water was over the E. & 1. railroad track to a depth of over two feet, and the water was up to the top of the levee at Winslow, ifatts of logs were torn loose from their moorings and weut dushiug down the stream. It is impossible to estimate tire damages of the flood in the county or state, but it wilLruu up into ih^e millions. Many cities (in Indiana were in the dark and without supply of water during t he past week, the waters having backed into the plants and l stopping operations. The East Fork of White river was higher than for many ! years, while also was the West Fork at several points. Railroad service was at a standstill for a few days on account of numerous washouts. The K. & I. run no j«assenger trains Monday. but Tuesday morning the trains run , regular between Evansville and Klnora as j they had during the past week, there having been an extensive washout between ( Klnora and Worthington. The citizens of ; this city were entirely cut off from the mail I service, except the “star route” mails. The people were anxious to liear the war new* and any flying report was eagerly taken up. Tuesday morning the accommodation ] train brought in a dray load of mail and j Postmaster Ijatuar and deputies were kept [busy for two hours distributing the same. Papers were eagerly sought for to read | about war and the raging waters. The flood is a terrible calamity to tb« ' i farmers iu tIke bottom lauds who were so | unfortunate as to loose their wheat crop of kst year and as it is thought they arjU again this year. Many are unable to stand the loss easily, and unless they should huva a good corn crop it will cripple many financially. There are many farmers who have a hopeful view of the matter that when the waters recede that- the growing wheat will not he as badly damaged as is now thought that it will be. It is to be j hoped that it is not badly damaged, and that the flo*>d'has noar reached its highest 1 point and will rapidly go down.

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