Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 August 1898 — Page 8

= LataiWar News, Spain has accepted conditionally the tanas of peace as made oat by the United fltaf, and it now remains for the peace psouaWon which will be appointed to afeee upon the farther terms. The exact terms of the peace conditions are not yet known. The protocol will settle the questions as to the Caban debt and transportation. - The latest adrioes from Manila is that a fierce battle took place between the land forces the first of the week in which fifteen American soldiers were killed and about fifty worn wounded. The Spaniards were pat to flight bat not until 800 had been killed and doable that number wounded. Admiral Dewey has stripped bis Teasels ly for action and it is now thought that he has bombarded Manila and that city is now captured. Additional troops are now arriving at Manilg and a big fight is imminent unless the city has been captured or the war is declared oil in the next few days. , No serious fighting has taken piece at Porto Rico outside of the capturing of a few minor outposts and small Spanish

forts. The Spaniards are sadly in need of food and unless than is a complete surrender within the next few weeks many Spanish subjects will starve to death in Cuba and in the several provinces under Spain’s control. The American soldiers at Santiago are being sent back to the United States. There have been many deaths among the soldiers from malaria and yellow fever. There is much sickness in the camps at Chicks* mauga and Camp Alger. Cammlssleaers Court. The board of county comuiissioaetijSbet In regular aeseion last week. The various school corporations and township trustees made their annual reports which were accepted. Walter Ursery was granted license to sell hqaon at August*. Tbs contract tor furnishing coal for the coming year was let to Dedman A Selby, they being the lowest bidders. There were fire bids tor medical service* for the county infirmary as follows: J. T. Kims. *960; W. H. Bussell, *80; T. W. Basinger, *40; J. W. Beardsley, *79.60; Bethel! A Ireland, *75. The contract was awarded to Or. Basinger. The bidding for superintendent of the county infirmary was lively and there were nine bide filed as follows: Joseph Roes, 081c; John L. Richardson. 90c; J. H. Bolling. 95c; John Servant, *1.34; James D. Bowers, *1.95; George W. Robling. 871; William OL Richardson. *1.10; Sam H. Pcttinger, 80c. The bids were so much per week for each inmate. The contract was let to 8. H. Fettinger at 00 cents per week for each inmate, for two yean, be being the lowest bidder. The former contract eras *1.00 per week. The following claims filed were allowed at this term:

ALLOW AXCBS. O. O. Rmltta, board of review .ISM JohnSaiteer,tax refunded__ US W. J. Richard aou, board of review. MW M. L. Woo tee jr, board of review . MW QeorgeK. King. board of review ..... MW Lafe HeartM-k, board of review. ....... 2 15 R. T- Hroitb. public building .. . <9 Jamas P. Rumble, bridges - 175 JawssP. Rumble, auditing board . HJ 5© 5 * 16 » M. MeC. Kioope. printing W. M. Hide way. board of review W. M. Rid gw ay, board of review J. L. Robinson, poor I 65 Town Trustees’ Meeting* The regular meeting of the town trustees took place last Thursday night at Greene’s law office with all members present except Maloti. The minutes of the previous meeting were read end approved. The committee on streets made report. The work of grading streets will be suepended for tbe time being. The report of the sidewalk committee was received, and the marshal was instructed to proceed at once to order the walks built and then sell them out after 10 days' notice be given the owners. The trustees made their tax levy for the coming year as follows: Corporation tax 80 cents on the $100 valuation; 85 cents on each poll; street improvement bonds. 10 cents; illumination tax, 15 cents. The water works question was discussed by the members end Leslie Lamb end G. J. Nichols, members of the company. No nation on the matter was taken beyond giving the committee, composed of W. H. C. Lingo. Sherman Daring and A. W. Selby, more time to make an investigation ae to the coats of plants owned by towns and the cost of service. The following bills were read and allowed for the past month: William Lithe, time checks .. ... ... 90li Electric Ugtai Oo.. lighting. 1*7 SO Berne AOUphant. book . — D-^L Osborn,rent 5*S*. 1 75 2 SO printing ... .. HI .rent .§«• • a *9 Total Blmtown, Pike County, led., Aug. 1, "98. R. L. Grim, Oakland Chy, Indiana. Xy Dear 6ir: Your medicine, “Grim's Improved Chill Thais," is all you claim for it. My boy has been treated by three of the lending physicians hot they eould not cure Be also took several different chill and they tailed to care. He has seed three bottles of your Improved Chill Toaie and he looks like a different boy. It has driven the malaria out of his system and be looks better than im hut in over two years. His cheeks now have their natural color. 1 cannot recommend it too highly I would udviae anyone having dulls to use it would advise anyone having cauls in preference to other medicines. 14-1 Yours Besp’y. Taouas Sum, U Blackburn has been rein. It was disoNitinned sxsr \ p

==—Uu n yy,, Dr. J. L. Moon hod for his gueet today one of the heroes who took pert in the battles near Santiago a l ittle over a month ego. His name is Sanford Arnold sad his home is in Otwell, Pike county. The Arnolds ere old acquaintances of Dr. Moore and when the young soldier arrived in the city this morning be made his way to the doe* I tor’s office. Arnold, who is about 36 years old. joined Die regular army two yearn age and the regiment to which he belonged was among the first sent to Cuba. He 'was in the thickest of the fight before £1 Caaey on July 1st but escaped without injury. A ballet passed through his trousers and leggings just below the knee but the bullet only graaed the flesh. It was during this fight, he says, that Millard Perkins of this oounty, received a Spanish bullet in his breast, which a few hours later resulted in his death. “When I saw young Parkins stagger,” said Arnold, “1 grabbed him by the arm and asked if he had been hit. ‘Yes,’ replied Parkins, ‘they have fixed me,’ and he fell to the ground while his more fortunate companions continued the fight and woo the battle. ” A few days later while lying upon the ground a sharpshooter who was concealed in some high trea, fired and the bullet passed through Arnold's left foot. He says the Spanish sharpshooters use smokeless powder and that the report made by their guns is but little louder than the noise made by striking a match. This, be says, makes it almost impossible for one to tell where the sharpshooters are hiding. It is with difficulty that Mr. Arnold can use his injured foot. He wss taken to his home at Otwell in a wagon this afternoon. —Washington Democrat.

Cntaritn S«ro-Eyct Amrc Cattle. {Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station. Newspaper Bulletin No, M. August ft. UN.) For the pest two weeks notices have been received by the station relative to outbreaks of sore eyes among cattle. These reports indicate that the diseasS is new to many localities and of unusual severity in places where it has occurred before. The losses are always stated to be large and the cattle go blind and are unable to graze and keep out of trouble. The percent affected ranges from ten to fifty per cent of the herd. Contagious sore eyes makes its appearance by the swelling of one or both eyes, a par* tial or complete dosing of the lids and a profuse flow of tears. The eye ball becomes inflamed, “blood shot" and in a few days the central part of the eye over the pupil will bulge out. The bulging portion will be from the sue of a pea to that of a gavin of corn. Underneath the surface there will he a yellowish white color, due to pus. In some oases the bulged portion breaks across. The disease is quite painful. The principal changes take place within a week, but it requires about six weeks to run the full course. The result is that u few ure blind in both eyes, many are blind in one eye and many escape blindness, but the sight as a rule, is impaired. It interferes greatly with grazing during the time of the disease and may permanently. Treatment: The disease is contagious and therefore a separation of the diseased from the healthy should be made as soon as the first symptoms appear. Whenever practical, keep the cattle up in the stable during the day and let them out at night. This can be done as a rule with cows. The looal treatment of the eyes is to apply a one percent solution of atropine twice a day, and apply calomel dust once a day. The calomel can usually be applied by using mm of the small insect dusting boxes. A wash of a saturated solution of boracic acid has been found to be of some service. The attendant should be sure to wash his hands with carbolic acid solution, or some other disinfectant after giving the treatment, as there it a possibility of conveying the disease from cattle to people. A. W. Brrnso, Veterinarian.

Weekly lY*p Balletic. Cool weather prevailed, especially during the nights. Frequent and abundant rains improved corn, potatoes, cabbages, tomatoes and other growing crops; pasturage looks green again. The rains interrupted threshing and injured wheat and oats still in shock. Corn is earing well and now promises a good yield, except in fields where it had been injured too much by the drouth; some had been fired in the southern portion. Late potatoes are improved and growing; late field beans, vegetables, garden trade and sweet potatoes look well. Tomatoes have ripened, and canning has oommenoed. The clover seed crop will be short in some localities; hulling has begun. Heavy shipments of large and good watermelons have begun. In the central and northern portions peaches, phuns and pears are abundant; the grape crop is the largest in years. Young clover is improved. Threshing still continues in some localities; the wheat yield is good both in quality and quantity; also rye, except in few fields when the average is small. Oats yield a large quantity, but the quality it light in weight. The hay crop is very heavy; millet is not in good condition. Fall plowing progressed rapidly, with the ground to very good condition mom everywhere. Stock is to good oooditkm; hog cholera prevails to soma extent to the central and northern portions, especially to Wayne and Blackford eonaties. Notice.—The time of the Jefferson township Sunday school convention as changed from August filth to September 15th. The convention will beat OtwelL Let nil the Sunday school workers come. Let each school in the township select one pupil for the oratorical oootest on the night of the lStlu JL L. Huma, See. j

Spurgeon Items. Fanners wj bus? plowing for wheat. Joseph Ferguson went to Boonville Tuesday* A heavy rain fell here Monday. Fanners will have a large corn crop. F. A. Butler of north Monroe, was here Monday and sold a load of cattle. Or. Hamilton of Arthur, was here Tuesday. He informed us he had been side for sometime but was now better. Samuel McClure, one of Pike county’s best citisens, died last Saturday and was buried Sunday at Liberty cemetery. Elders Burch and Barrett preached his funeral. Dr. S. F. Teaford of Orange county, has located here. He oomee well recommended. He is a graduate of Hospital college of medicine, Louisville, Kentucky. The doctor and Dr. Commodore Barrett were both members of tbe seme class. He seems to be worthy of the confidence of our best people. On last Sunday a small boy nine years old named Chapman, living with his mother one mile north of Folsomvilk, Warrick oounty, committed suicide by hanging. He had taken a small halter strap, tied it around his neck and fastened the other end to a beam in the barn and thee fell over and strangled. When found his feet were on the ground. He was buried here Mondav evening. Only a few years ago bis father committed suicide by drowning in a shallow spring. Otwell Items. George Abbott has moved into his new residence. Lace Bartl and Alex Dillon went to Alferdsville, Daviess oounty, last Thursday. J. B. McKnight, Jesse Simons, sr., and James Lomax are down with typhoid fever. Sanford Arnold, one of the heroes of Santiago, is at home on a thirty days fur

lough. Lou Jacobson of Washington, was in oar burg last Monday and Tuesday. The social at Eggtown last Saturday night was an enjoyable affair. Willie Sullivan is on the sick list. Sunday school picnic at Otwell next Sat* urday, August 18tb. L. E. Trayler, trustee, is ibuikling a school house at the Johnson. Ormce D. Harris has moved back from Winslow. He thinks there is no place like Otwell. Quite a number of the G. A. R. boys at* tended the reunion at Marengo. Rev. C. Whitted is on the sick list at present. . J. W. Vincent has returned from an extended trip throughout the Southern states. Tour correspondent in company with Daniel Sullivan visited Robert Brown at Uighbanks last Sunday. He was operated on sometime ago by Dr. McMahon of HuntI ingburg. Brown is very low. Destroy the Carp. Little did ludiana fi>hermen who, a few years ago were clamorous for stocking the streams and lakes of Indiana with German i carp, think that the day would come when ! the homely ami coarse fleshed mud pumper I would be cursed by every fisherman. That ! day has come as every fisherman can testfy.

As the carp have multiplied the other fbb the really desirable food fish—haye disappeared, declining the society of the ugly carp, whose presence was thrust upon them. The effect of the introduction of carp upun the breeding of other fish can be observed to better advantage, probably, in small lakes like those in Northern Indiana than auywhere else. More fish are destroyed by the carp that now inhabit our lakes and streams and which prey upon the spawn of all other kinds of fish, than in any other way. We believe that it is true that the carp is destroying thousands upon thousands of fish eggs. In this way, and it is a pity that they ever broke out of the fish ponds and got into the waters of our lakes and streams. They are a profitless food fish and many people say they are not as palatable as a dog fish or a good fat garter snake. The City Market*. Eggs—8 cents. Butter—12 cents. Onions—$1.00 per bu. Potatoes—! 1.25 per bu. Chickens—Chicks fie. hens 6e. Turkeys—Hen turks fie, young 7. Navy Beans—$2.00 per bu. Shoulders—6 cents. Sides—8c. Lard—8 cents per lb. * Pork—Hams smoked, 9 cents. Wheat—$0 cants par bushel. Corn—35 cents per bushel. Oats- 25 cents per bushel. Rye—40 cents per bushel. Clover Seed—$2.25 per bushel. Salt—$1.00 par bU. Hogs—$3.25 to $8.50 per 100. Cattle—$3.00 to $440 per 100. Sheep—$3.00 to 98.50 per 100. Wool—18 cents. Cincinnati Markets. W EDXKSDAT, Attg. 10, 1808. Wheat, 70c to 73c; com, 84 to34ic;oaU, 28$ to 24c; rye, 40 to 42c; hay, $9.50 to $1140; cattle, heavy, $2.73 to $4.75; hogs, good shippers, $3.25 to $4.05; sheep, 92.23 to 94.10. The DnocasT is in receipt of an invitation to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Northern Indiana normal school, Valparaiso, which occurred Wednesday and Tbnnday. This school is on» of the best In the state sad has a very large attendance. Several teachers from this coonXj

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Do not Jet anyone talk to you of something “just as good.” When you want cod liver oil and the hypophosphites you want the very best. You will find them in only one place, Scott's Emulsion. There is no other emulsion like h; none other does the same work; and no other has the same record of cures. All Druggist*, jac. and ft. SCOTT « Bowks. Chemists. N. V. SODTHERH S3 bomeseekers’S3H° ATtfl\l1 1111111 Ju** been t—mil, it is a GUIDE « Utters from northern termers now prosperously loesM am the line of the 11IIhois Central railroad In tha statea of Kentucky. Tennessee. Mississippi and Lootsiana, VOTtCE U hereby siren to all persona coni\ cerned that ( 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: Algiers. Ind. R George D. Martin of this city, ex-recorder of Pike coast?, has had his pension is* creased from $13 to $14 per month by UseleSom.

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We have the largest stock of Furniture ever brought to Petersburg. Our stock is all new and up-to-date. Call and see our fane line of Furniture and get our prices before buying elsewhere. ® FINE BEDROOM SUITS EOR $10.00. FINE HALL RACKS FOR $4.00. We have employed a firstclass Funeral Director. We have in stock a full and complete line of ■^FUNERAL SUPPLIES* And have the finest Hearse in the county. Are prepared to attend calls promptly. Call and see us. Telephone 16-2. W. C. Adams & Son, Petersburg, Ind. Lower Mam Street,

«4FRED SMITHS Dealer la all kudi of FURNITURE!

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to my vrOTICE to berpbr given to all IN temtod that I wlU at my twldence EVERY MONDAY, TO transect boilnto conwttw of trustee of Marion township. All having business with said oim will take notice T C. KELSON, Winslow. Nones la hereby given to all parties cerned that I will attend at »v reski EVERY WEDNESDAY. To transact haul nsec eon nested with the of trustee of Madison township. Positively no business transact office days. J. D. RARER Postoffice 0. BARKER. Tn Petersburg, tad.

None* to hereby ileea to alt futbi interested that 1 will attead at my «*et Is Slendal. EVERY SATURDAY, To if—wel baSn—r connected wWfc tt»i Ft township. A of trustee of Lockhartt having miiIium with aaM oAee wil take mUw. J. L. BASRf V OTIC* I* hereby given to *U port** eerned that 1 wlTt be at my resident EVERY MONDAY To attend to hnatnaaa connected with tit or trustee of Monroe temUa J. M. DAVIS, Traetee. ... -- a-... -;4s«5f3! I