Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 March 1899 — Page 7
THE NEW STATE LAWS List of the More Important Legislative Enactments. ConiirUlDg Thtmt at a General t'hn rurfrr and of General Interest to the Potolle at Larger.
The following lilrt gives the titles arid mature of the more important acts passed by the recent state legislature and signed by the governor: Authorizing depositions to be taken to . pirobUte wills. To regulate the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers. Concerning public offenses ami their punishment. Concerning the tender of money. Relating to husband and wife. Concerning public officers and their punishment. To regulate the management of county asylums. Providing for a more uniform mode of doing township business. Providing that county auditors shall provide bulletin boards. To amend an act providing for the opening of highways, etc. , Concerning estates and conveyances. Amending an act concerning loan, trust and safe-deposit companies. Authorizing boards of county commissioners to offer and pay rewards. Concerning life insurance In fraternal and charitable organizations. To amend section 31 of an act for the relief of the poor. To amend section 4 of an act concerning telephone companies. Permitting judges of criminal, superior or circuit courts to appoint bailiffs and fix their compensation not to Exceed |75 a month. Concerning the Opening, vacating and change of highways, and amending section 5016 revised statutes. • Directing county treasurers holding unexpended balances collected by special levy for purchasing gravel roads to pay over such balances to the township trustees, or town or qjty trustees, to be applied to the township fund or to the general fund of towps or cities. Providing for a field inspection of commercial fertilizers by the state chemist instead of allowing fertilizers to be sold on the analysis of the sarpple sent from the factory’. Creating county boards of charity to act in 'conjunction with the state board. , Prohibiting the importation of dependent children Into the state without the person importing them filing a bond with the state board of charities for their maintenance during minority.
Amending; me law concerning telephone companies. Conferring the veto power on mayors of incorporated cities of less than 30,000 inhabitants. Requiring county auditors to post bulletins the first of each month in their offices showing the amount of unloaned school funds in the county treasury. Allowing all incorporated cities and towns to provide by ordinance for keeping streets and alleys clean and pay for so doing either out of the general fund or by assessment against the property owners. No emergency clause. Amending the law concerning the construction of free gravei roads of March 3, , 1893. Regulating descents and the apportionmeht of estates, to render valid conveyi ances by children, or their guardians, of deceased husbands who have left second or subsequent childless wives surviving them. Legalising the acts of notaries public whose commissions had expired or who were ineligible to office. Authorizing county commissioners to acquire title to land which has been mortgaged to secure school fund loans, where sucW'loans have become delinquent. Compelling township trustees to make affidavit to county boards of all moneys received and paid out on all accounts. Providing that when the term of office of a justice of the peace shall expire he shall in case there has been no successor elected turn over his dockets and records to. the nearest justice, who shall "keep them until a successor has been elected and qualified. In case none is elected at the end of three years the records must be deposited with the clerk of the circuit court. Providing that there shall not be inure than two justices of the peace in each township and one in addition for each incorpoV rated town, with another additional one for each city, and that in Indianapolis there shall not be more than five. Making it a misdemeanor to tap the wires of any electric company. Fixing the fees of justices of the peace. Compelling notaries public to write the date of their commissions as part of each jurat attached to documents. Making it illegal for any town or city clerk to allow any claims except those ordered by <be board of trustees or council, and requiring claims to be itemized and verified by some person having knowledge of the facts. • Providing that it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff in any action for damages brought on account of the alleged negligence of any person, firm or corporation for personal injuries or death to prove absence of contributory negligence; however, such contributory negligence may be proved by the defendant as a part of his ease. Amending the election law so as to allow any political party to haVe one challenger and one poll book holder at each voting place. j' - Extending the Barret law to incorporated towns.
providing for the establishment of traveling and township libraries, the appointment of officers, the levy of taxes for such libraries, and prescribing how they shall be managed. Allowing a debtor to make good a tender of money by paying it into court. Allowing depositions to be taken in probate cases where witnesses are nonresidents or are unable to be present. ». Making it a misdemeanor to violate the provisions of the law of 1893 intended to preserve the natural gas of the state. Concerning fertilisers. Allowing building and loan associations to go into liquidation at any regular meeting of the directors. Regulating the management of county poor asylums. Providing that when county auditors call meetings of county commissioners they .shall state in the call wl^tt specific business is to be transacted at such meeting, and providing that the board must adjourn when the business for which it was called has been transacted. Requiring any person selling, leasing or granting manufacturers’ licenses to patent rights to file a copy of the contract with the .clerk of the county in which he resides. The township reform bill prepared by the reform commission. Amending the road laws so as to allow towns or cities to make public streets out of free gravel roads extending iiito the cor- ' porations and taking the control of such roads from the hands of the county commissioners. Providing that when a public official has been convicted of a felony he shall be prohibited from holding office. To provide for written contracts between taachew and school corporations. To auth>ir??* the «iabilsbing of city or county schools for the deaf and dumb. To prohibit county auditors from charging fees for swearing claimants. The pharmacy bill. Regulating in detail the taking and catching of fish in the waters of the state.
Forbidding tt manufacture and aala at adulterated foe . Increasing th number of judges of the supreme court rom five to eleven. Providing foi the weekly payment of wages unless o herwise agreed to. Defining, as larceny the theft of a dog on which all taxes have been paid. Requiring the yropt r record of an assignment of a mort ; age in order that the owner ifty be taxed fj!|r i* Compelling fraternal beneficiary organizations to make report to the state auditor. Describing the circumstances under which commissioners hay construct courthouses. Providing foi the consolidation of township libraries w th those established by private donations | and doing away with the office of township librarian. treating the fflee of state entomologist to protect nurs ry stock from the ravages of the San Jose scale. • .* . Compelling i nsurance companies organized under special charters to file statements with the auditor of state. Vestingi the sight in voters to demand that ordinance:-shall be submitted to a popular vote. Abolishing tl office of factory inspector. creating a sta and enlarging merly dofle by public schools ship trustees. To allot* al and acquire pi tion that the years. To provide cent, of ;th« To preyen ing hours To providj thirds o( tl street iif a| la tion shall ' To dlsfr years anjy i vote To compc statements Requiring drains 4s shall be ke For the r of educatk additional among the Defining . and mukin prisonmen To pefmi of way of 1 across the from whic right of w To requi. sons arfe e; fire-escape) in every Ip ment hous To amen ration Of c tax from exempt fm in the guardian t resident t no benefic: To perm ized in towith not 1< To estal cents an 1 works in s To desc method to drain and To requ all indebt add typev chines, tj superintei To ex ter laws to tl Limiting secure ret going into department of inspection he scope of the work forhe factory inspector. Concerning t deselection and qualification of county superintendents of schools. To prevent tfffe use or sale of impure refiner's oil. To authorise {the use of voting machines. The regular county reform bill. To prevent tS.e adulteration of candy. To permit incorporated towns of less than 1,500 pcpulatio * to abandon the control of md turn them over to townms to foreclose mortgages |>perty In this state on condidispose of It within five r the election of road superscribing their duties, or the survey and sale of ranted by congress in 1S30. i judge related to the sixth sanguinity to the defendant or civil action from serving liegal to sell intoxicating ear a cemetery on Decoration the officers or employes of a irin from acting as notary [or the reimbursement of school tdwnalUips for property which has been annextd |.o a town or cityj Making couffty commissioners turnpike directors.] To provjide fl visors unjd pr| To provide i: swamp lands To prohibit I degree of coi| in a criminal in the case. For the) ext jfrmination of Canada thistles and providing! that any person may be fined $20 for allow:) ig them to grow four inches high or nigh)' Making it liquors at oxday. - f • To prohibit company[ or public. To amend t l ered by reasj shall ihujre t^ i ower as well To provide tuition of c school cdrpo To require stitutionjs ot priationsj art To reqmrtj benevolent tj the st^te to Limiting t clerk to |20 l persons senTo author indigent wi, diers. Limiting dhe issue of bonds for the construction oi! free gravel roads to four per }ie law so that damages recovn of the death of a person the exclusive benefit of a wi«iis to a widow or children. that trustees shall pay the ildren transferred from one ation to another, itemized accounts from all inassociations for which appromade by the stale, the trustees of the penal, ad educational institutions of ile itemized reports, te expenditure by the county >r clothing furnished to insane to the state institutions, te the burial of the bodies of es or widows of ex-union soltaxable property, blasting in mines during workthat a remonstrance by twoi owners of laud abutting any city of less than 12,000 popumevent improvements thereon, chise for from ten to twenty an who sells or offers to Bell his county auditors to publish jof all allowances made by judges aind ^boards of county commissioners. -! that such portions of public re within incorporated towns t in repair by the towns, organization of the state board i [by the appointment of three nembers to be chosen from county superintendents, mob and the crime of lynching, the penalty death or life imfor the crime or participation, owners of land adjoining rights tilroads to construct driveways tracks to any public highway the land is separated by the e every building in which pernployed, live or resort to have To require a night watchman otel, boarding house or aparthaving more than 50 rooms, the act regarding the incorpoies, so far as to increase the poll ijfty cents to one dollar; also to re taxation all evidences of debt Is of a resident as executor or 1 the estate, or of a person not a erein, in which the holder has il interest. t trust companies to be organns of less than 2,500 population 5s than $25,000 capital stock, ish a minimum wage rate of 16 >ur for unskilled labor on public ate, cities and towns, ibe In detail the manner and be pursued by owners of land to reclaim the same. •e a taxation statement to show dness owing by a person and to riting machines, adding ma>esetting machines, cash registers. teleg aph instruments and telephones to the list »f personal property. To give i o an applicant for a teacher’s Uoense the right to have the papers examined by th ? county superintendent or state Sent. d the provisions of the parole e women’s prison, the time in whioh counties may unders from the state without the court of claims to 15 years. To provide the manner In which a turnpike may be constructed along the boundary lines of tvio counties. Providin i for the submission to a vote of the people of the proposed constitutional amendme: ts. To place all county commissioners on sal
artes. Authorising foreign insurance companies to do business in this state when their assets are ir vested in other approved securities than ndiana state bonds. Allowing a temporary judge to issue a temporary restraining order when the regular judge is unable to be present in court. To requ re written affidavit from an elector before poll clerks can prepare his ballot To requi re all polls to open at six o’clock on the m: rning of election day. Allowing the prosecution of a bigamist in this stt :e. regardless of where the crime of bigam was committed. Authorising owners <?f land to drain it when it < in be done without injury to the property t others. Providt g that.it shall not be obligatory on a chil; over 15 years of age to attend school tn: re than U weeks in each ytur when su< i child is compelled to aas*» in the suppe t of his family. To enab e 50 or more persons to organise farmers’ nutual insurance companies for protection against cyclones. Legaliz: ig the addition of the cost of surveying fn e gravel roads to the amount of the bond:- issued by county commissioners for such l oads. Definin, a fugitive from justice. * To give city and tews councils the right to constrict sewers on the right of wav of railroi is. Beg-go *s are unknown in Melbourne. The pot *es>t part of the eity in the Chinese qu rter
ONE ACCOMPLISHMENT. A Flnlaad Maiden Who Uad o»e Qualification for the Peatttoa of Cook. 1 The servant girl question is even more difficult in small western cities than it » in New York. There no lady ventures to ask a reference, but contents herself with a verbal examination of her applicant’s capabilities. There was an avalanche, of Swedes and Finlanders in a Pacific slope town last winter, and one wild-haired damsel presented herself as a candidate for a $20-a-nionth position as cook. The prospective mistress thus interrogated her: “Can you make good bread ?” “Brod ? Naw.” “Can you make soup?’’1 > “Soup? Naw.” . “Do you understand roasting meats?” “Meat? Naw.” “Can you broil?” “Naw.” “Can voir clean brasses?” “Naw.” “Can you wash and iron?” “Naw.” “g-rub?” “Well, my goodness, girll What can you The Finlander reflected. Then she answered proudly: “I can milk a reindeer!” - N. Y. World. HIS CONDITION. He Ws» Jmmt Plata Laay, Without Any of Your Prills or Ornaments. “Howdy do, Mr. Jarlick?” saluted Dr. Slaughter, an Arkansas physician. “How is your health to-day?” t “Are you asking as a physician or merely as a friend?” returned Mr. Jarlick, a mossgrown, but shrewd native. “As a friend, of course!’” “Wa-all, then, Doc, I’m feelin’ kinder saw ter, so to express it. Ain’t sick enough to go to bed, nor well enough to do anything that looks like work. Ain’t rich enough to need a vacation, nor poor enough not to feel like I want one. Can’t say I’ve got spring fever or palpitation of the heart, i'or the first ain’t in season now, an’ I'm too durn big an’ husk}; for anybody to believe the latter. The simple fact of the case is that I’m truthful enough to own up that I’m lazy, without any frills or ornaments—jest plain lazy, an’ honest enough to confess it. That’s all in the world is the matter with me.”—Puck. ■ “Tommy—“That church is over 200 years old.” Cissy—“My aunt says it’s only 100.” Tommy—“Oh, well, I suppose that’s as far back as she can remember.”—Stray Stories. No man is too worthless for some woman to get stuck on hifia.—Washington (la.) Democrat. \ . • HOW TO FIND OUT. Fill & bottle or common glass with y our water, and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment dr settling indicates an unhealthy 'condition of the kidneys; if i£ stains your linen it is evidence of kidney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it or pain in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order.
What to do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy, fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder, and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects) inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wipe or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tells more about it, both sent absolutely free by mail, Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing be sure and mention that you read this generous offer in this paper. THE MARKETS. New York, March 20, 1898. CATTLE—Native Steers....* 4T75 ©J 5 35 COTTON—Middling .. © tt* 1- lOUK-Winter Wheat.... 3 25 © 4 Ou WHEAT-No. 2 Red. © 78} CORN—No. 2. 40%© 42"* OATS—No. 2.. © 31V PORK—New Mess. 9 50 © 9 75 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling . © 6 BEEVES—Steers . 3 50 © 4 25 Cows and Heifers. 2 50 © 4 40 CALVES—(per 100).. 4 50 © 7 00 HOGS—Fair to Choice__ 3 25 © 4 00 SHEEP—Fair to Choice....' 3 40 © 4 55 FLOUR—Patents (new). 3 40 @ 3 55 Clear and Straight. 2 60 © 3 15 WHEAT-No. 2 Red Winter 70 (a 71 CORN-No. 2. 33Vi© 34 OATS—No. 2 .... © 28 RYE-/NO. 2. © 59 TOBArCCO—Lugs . 3 00 © 850 Leaf Burley.... 4 50 © 12 uO HAY—Clear Timothy. 8 50 ©10 00 BI TTER—Choice Dairy.... 15 © 17V EGGS—Fresh . © 10 PORK—StandardMess(new) _ © 9 12V BACON—Clear Rib. © 6* LARD—Prime Steam. 5 © 5V CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers— 3 90 © 5 87* HOGS-Fair to Choice. 3 55 © 4 00 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.... 3 50 © 4 80 FLOUR—Winter Patents... Spring Patents... WHEAT—No, 2 Spring. No, 2 Red. CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 33 OATS-No. 2.*... .... © PORK—Mess (new). 8 85 © KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native Steers.... 4 25 © HOGS—All Grades.:.... 3 25 @ WHEAT—No. 2 Red (new). © OATS—No. 2 White.. © CORN—No. 2. © NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 3 40 © CORN—No. 2..u..... 43 © OATS—Wester©. © HAY-Choice .. 13 00 © PORK—Standard Mess..... 9 25 ® BACON—Sides. © COTTON—Middling . © LOUISVILLE WHEAT—No. 2 Red...;. 70 © CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 35 © OATS-No. 2 Mixed. 28VI® PORK—New Mess... 9 50 © BACON-Clear Ribs.. 5%® orvf'i'ov—Midddne . ©
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RETAILER. _ _ Kkdson, Tus Pamu Mm cm Co., Gentlemen:—I handle seven or eight differ-: ent kinds of Chill Tonics but I sell ten bottles; of Grove’s to where I sell one of the others. I sold K bottles of Grove's Chill Towle in one d» and could have sold more if I had had it on hand. Mr. Dave Woods cured five cases: of chills with one bottle. &£8DectfallTe ^ JOHN T. VINYABD.
VTsmwiiOKO, Tex., Sep. IS, 1 Paris UsDiasa Co., SI. Imu, Mo. Gentlemen:—I write yon a few lines of i itnde. I thinkyour drove’s TUtek Tonieisoneof the best mediator a fat _ for Chills and Fever. I have three it tiffin— that hare been down with malarial fever fvx n months and have bought Chill medicines eiaA kinds and Doctor’s hula coming in all tbet—■» until 1 Rent to town and got three bottfei—l drove's Tonic. My cbOfiren are all weliwees and it was your Tasteless Chill Tonic that M it. I cannot say toe araeh in its behalf^ Tours truly, d. bobekhk
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