Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 June 1899 — Page 1

A Corset Sale 500 White Summer Corsets. perfect fitting. regular length, made of strong wire cloth, honed with 14 full strife, gtM»d strong clasps, just the co»>l corset for hot weather; this sale you Corsets- in Drab ami White, all sizes, glove titling, some, high bust, some with shoulder straps, shapes to tit all forms. A great corset to fit Dresses over; a ?5e value; this sale 25c 50c

Trv the world famous G. I). Chicago Corset Waist; a beautiful Corset, a Corset that don’t have to be broke in. If you want (ft i A A a graceful form, an easy, healthful Corset, try the G. I). Chi- .HI I Hi eago Waist. You will notice this advertised in all the leading 'r A * vv magazines, including the Home Journal. We have the sole agency for Petersburg.i. w....j,_..... Cool Gauzy Dress Goods. For this hot weather, pretty Piques anti Ducks for Skirts; cool Sheer Organdies, Mulls, Dimities, etc., not too loud, nor too dull, but just “Like poets fancies or artists’ dreams.” For cool gauzy Dresses. Why Will You Sew and Sweat 1 his hot weather when you ohm buv Ladies' Cameio Underwear at such prices? Gowns nicely embroidered, Toe; Skirts with Umbrella Kuflles. 75c; Drawers trimmed in lace. 40e: Pretty Corset Covers, $5c; Calico Dresses, 49c. Come in and see them. Make our Store your headquarters, always plenty of fans and iq« water. A Present With Each $5.00 Purchase.

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Does it pay to buy them? The price we sell them for answers the question. We have them for ages 4 to 14 frcwn 51.00 to S'1 <75 per suit, made of Holland Crash, made in the 3 piece style with handsome Inlaid Collars or in the Double Breasted for ages to 15. Boys’ Washable Knee Pants in Crash and Linen at 20 and 25 cents per pair.

Jbe paiftoas Jape ^op^ins goqs' j : Saits | Are the peer of any other make when it comes to Strength and Durability. Made with Hold-fast Buttons, Double Seat and Knee. There is one line of these suits that we want to call your attention especially, that is the Vestee style Wide Collar trimmed with Braid to match at $2.00. Others get §2.75 for it. Don’t buy that bov of yours a suit until you have seen the Jane Hopkins line. ' L f ■' i PETERSBURG, INDIANA. i •^Clothiers and Furnishers.

The Best Cough Remedy on Earth. Luther, Michigan, February 8, 181)2, Dr^C. D. Warner, Cold water, Michigan, Dear Sir: 1 am well acquainted with the merits of' your White Wine of Tar Syrup. 1 have used it on several occasions when very hoarse from public speaking and when suffering from sore throat. Our postmaster, { Mr. Nichoson, had la grippe and it left him with a very bad cough, had spells of cdughing every morning for an hour or more. I met him ou the street three weeks ago and recommended White Wine of Tar Syrup, a hich he commenced taking and today he is a well man. A little girl

here had coughed sill winters ar.’d no cure could be foe nd. I asked her mother to get White Wine of ’/ar. She did so and in t'vo weeks the ch ’Id was cured. As y«>ti say, it is the be-"t cough remedy on earth. Please send me six bottles b^ ex press. Yours most respectfully, iiev. E. JL. Odle, Pas- j tor M. E. church. For sale by Paul | Bros. ja Farm for Saxjbl—7 will sell my 200- i acre farm in Madison township, seven j miles from Petersburg; 100 acres ira-! ]>ro\ ed; good orchard,* fair buildings; good water; fine body of land. Pali on or addre ss, Jacob YY'L'liams. Peteisbur:; lnd. 40-m2

Washington Notes. Everybody is asking everybody else | whv the administration is trying so hard to keep the people in the dark ; about what is going on io the Philippines. when ‘only a short time ago, it was its boast that it published all the otticial dispatches received. It is known from the press reports that have been allowed'to pass the military censor at Manila, that hard fighting has been going on, and the suspicion is growing that General Otis is making some use of the volunteers who should be on the|r way home, if afay use of the volunteer* who should been kept, that the administration doesn't wish their friends at home to know until whatever is .being attempted is all over. And it is admitted by officials that there are differences between General Otis and Mr. Schurman. president of the Philippine commission, but claimed: that the differences are unimportant. The public doesn't care a continental about the claims made by officials, but it wishes to know and feels that it has a right to know what is being done with our volunteers; hence there

is a general feeling of resentment against the suppression of official dispatches. One of the principal reasons why Secretary Alger desires td retain the war portfolio, even when he knows that Mr. McKinley would like to get rid of him, will soon become apparent to close observers* as it has been announced that a number of franchise^ for various more or less valuable concessions in Porto Rico are shortly to be granted. It might naturally be supposed that such franchises, if granted at all before the establishment of the civil government for the island, would be granted by the military governor, but no chances are to be taken by the men who are after those franchises: they are to be granted by Secretary Alger, and it is dollars to ginger cakes that every one of them that is at all desirable. will be captured by his friends 1 and business associates. In issuing a second elaborate defense of Mr. McKinley's civil service order, Secretary Gage rather overdid his task, without changing anybody's opinion. Criticisms of the order have made Mr. McKinley very sore, ar d he has engaged in the explanation business himself and even tried to get “funny" by telling how surprised senators and representatives have been who have come after some of the places excepted from the civil ! service rules and found that they were all tilled, and that no removals were contemplated. He also gave out for publication a letter from the board of the Smithsonian institution, asking that the heads of all the bureaus of that establishment be exempt from the civil service rules. So much explanation is calculated to increase rather than diminish suspicion of that order. The full signilicauce of the clause which permits the reinstatement of any government employe, regardless of how long they have been out of the government service, is just beginning to be seen. Under it even' employe who was dismissed during the two Cleveland administrations can be reinstated, if they have pull enough.

Southerners were pleased by the selection of ex-Senator Pasco of Florida, as one of the nine cominis-’ sipners named by Mr. McKinley to make an investigation of the canal route across the Isthmus. Representative Underwood of Alabama, declares thajt the people of Jiis section regard provision for the building of ;# canal j one of the most important matters to come before the next congress. The last congress appropriated $1,000,000 for this commission. It was under- | stood at the time that this provision j was the work of the lobbyists ern-1 ployed by the Puna canal company. Unless those Who think they know are j badly mistaken, the Pana company is \ not likely to protit by the commission, ! which is regarded as almost sure to ] report in favor of the Nicargua route. ; How soon this commission will report is a matter gf doubt, but its members have been requested to try to do so before or during the next session of congress. A committee of distinguished Cubans are in Washington to protest against the order of the war depart-1 ment suspending all legal proceedings tm debts contracted before last! D ecember, in Cuba, and to endeavor to get the order revoked, or at least mot'Hied. They say that the order is para lyzing the business of the planters, by making it impossible for them t ■> borrow unpiey without paying extortionate interest, but their chance tor success is not encouraging,

as the order in question was one of Alger's pet schemes. i Members of the administration are greatly exercised ovei the Gear's peace conference at: The Hague, which says that Germany is opposing the arbritation scheme, and that it will probably get enough votes from the smaller powers represented to defeat it. There are others, however, who would feel grateful to Germany if it would defeat the arbitration scheme, because they regard it as much more likely to pi ove hurtful than helpful to this country if adopted.

WORKING THE TRUSTEES. Supply Houses l’ersoodc Truslees to Buy ThliiitK They lloa't Need. The printing supply houses have been selling large hills of goods to township trustees and many of them have sent out circulars to the trustees stating the new township law requires them to purchase blanks of all kinds for the use of justices of the peace, says the Indianapolis Journal. As a result many of the trustees have purchased blanks enough to last the justices for years and many of the blanks purchased have been such as the justices would have no call for. Blank mortgages, deeds, leases and releases have been sold in great quantities and other blanks of the same character. It is probable that tjie attorney general would rule that trustees would only have to purchase dockets unless the justices were on salaries, when the township would probably be expected to purchase the blanks necessary for use in his office. In such cases summons, subpoenas and blanks of like character would be required and not the mortgages, deeds and other blanks which are now being sold all over the state. Had Kidney Disease 27 Years. Mr. G. A. Stillman, a merchant of Tampice. Illinois, writes: ‘‘Foley's Kidney Cure is meeting with wonderful success. It has cured some cases here that physicians pronounced incurable. I myself am able to testify to its merits. My^ face today is a liv-ing-picture of health, and Foley's Kidney Cure has m ade it such. I had suffered twenty-seven years with the disease, and today I feel ten years younger th in I did twe year ago. I can obtain some wonderful certificates of 6its medical qualities. J. R. Adams & Son. j

Real Estate Transfers. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded in. the county recorder's office during thT; past week: John N. Lor ton. to William' D. Julian, pt lot 5, Pleasant ville. Nettie Parker to James C. Parker et al, se qr se qr sec 38, town 2 south, raqge 8 west. 40 acres. James E. Kinman to A. H. Kinman, lot 11, sub-div lot loti. Petersburg. A. H. Kinman to George W. Miller, lot 11, sub-div lot 16b, ^Petersburg. Caroline,Allen et al to Mary Ann Hamby, und w side se* qr sw qr sec 19, town 3 south, range 'i west, 44 acres. Caroline Allen e*: al to Mary A. Hamby, pt ne qr nw qr sec 19, town 3 south, range T west. 18 acres. Jasper N. Davidson to John Merchant, w hf sw qr sec 25, and w hf nw qr, and nw qr* sw t r sec 38. town 1 south, rpnge 8 west. 200 acres. Lemuel Jenkins to Isaac Orecelius, nw qr nw qr, and n hf sw qr nw qr sec 33. town 2 south, range T west, 60 acres. John Jennings to David Ingle, pt sw qr sw qr sec 31, town 1 south, range 7 west. Elizabeth Pressy to C aroline McGuire, lots 4 and 5. block 44, Alford. James K. Chew et al to Dessie Burton. w hf lot 128, Petersburg. Dessie Burton to James R. Chew et al, e hf lot 33, Woffit's add, Petersburg. _ • That Natural Gas Ordinance. As was stated in Ttiesday's News, an ordinance grauting a franchise to Jabez Woolley of Petersburg* to pipe natural gas through the streets of the city, was presented to the cTty council Monday night. Accompany ing the ordinance, which was sent by mail to Mayor Swartz, was a letter from Mr. Woolley in which he stated that he asked no bonus from the people, nor would he ask them to take stock or in any way contribute a dollar to the cost of prospecting. All he asks is, that he be able to secure oil and gas leases on lands adjoining the city at reasonable figures. • Mr. Woolley has abundant capital and has had considerable ex pe rience in the sinking of gas wells. The News believes that his proposition is worthy of consideration and suggests that the Business Men's association take the matter up and give it a thorough investigation.—Huntingburg News.

THE BLACK DIAMOND. .V (Jroat Trunk Freight Line Through the C entral Middle state*. Editor Greenfield lie publican—T ime works wonders, bang's changes—so it will be with the main line of the Black Diamond across the state of Indiana. We had expected to work in close connection stith the Lake Erie & Western l^nc^the route north via Rushville mtu been selected. Since the Lake Erie & Western has been transferred to the Vanderbilt interest, working in close touch with* the Big Four, I have concluded to bring the road via Shelby ville to Greenfield. It will be much easier to get the right-of-way for a line due north and south or due east and west than from Kushville to Greenfield as that cuts all the lands diagonally. No doubt the good people of Westland will rejoice in not having a railroad to annoy them or to help pay their taxes. Just as soon as the English take hold, you will find me in your presence to prepare the line from Greenfield to Hammond. Indiana, for construction.

The route north of Greenfield will be from present indications via Maxwell, Fortville, Noblesville. Kemjfton, Russia ville, Logansport. Wheatfield, Crown Point to Hammond. South of Greenfield the line will be via Fountaintown, Shelby ville. Sulphur Hill. Greensburg, Napolean, Osgood. Versailles. Cross Plains. Moorefield to Vevay on the Ohio river. We are not laying out the Black Diamond as a passenger road, but working with but one object in view, to make it the freight trunk line railroad across the central United States. 1 have dedicated the balance of my life to one purpose, that is to put a main line of double track railroad from the Dominion of Canada from Emerson, on the Red river of the North across the states of Minnesota. Iowa. Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee. North Carolina, Georgia. South Carolina to Port Royal. South Carolina,'on the South Atlantic, a distance of 1.886 miles, via Greenfield. .Indiana/ The Black Diamond will cross the Mississippi river either at Muscatine or Davenport, Iowa. The traffic for the northwest will not be hauled through Chicago but will leave the Chicago. Greenfield & Tidewater railroad company at Crown Point, thence across the states of Illinois, via Joliet, to Rock Island. Illinois, or opposite Muscatine, Iowa. The two latter places being on the Mississippi river. The object of taking the Black Diamond via Joliet is to get a market for j coke from Eastern Kentucky, coals [fields in and about Paidtsville and

i nkeville, Kentucky, ihe outlet tor the /H>al of Southwestern Indiana will not be* brought via Vevay but will have its own outlet north and west. The plan no"' to cxten<l from ,Vin cennes, Indi'ana’ due uorth to Eugene* Indiana, in Vermillion county, thence direct via Han MHg, Illinois, to Lock Island. Illinois, peesing through Kantool, Bloomington, Peoria. Chase and Alpha. Length acr,1** Illinois will be 210 miles, from Vince nno*V to Eugene, Indiana, is 105 miles, 1 ronf 5 incennes to Port Royal, South t troliD-U, is 034 miles, making the route to Emerson, Dominion of Canada, on t he lit*? between the United States and Dotfcfrt* ion of Canada, to* Port Royal, Soutfc Carolina, 1.944 miles via Vincennes, Indiana. From the coal fields of Southwestern Indiana to Minneapolis, Minnesota, via the Blac'i Diamond, will be TT2 miles and to Saint Paul, Minnesota, 778 miles, these are the places that use thou, sands of tons of coal and coke. The Black Diamond lines of Indiana will pass over coal lands as follows: M He.***'

Jasper to Yiuvennos V luce turn* to kluKMH' Petersburg via B««oirville Petersburg to Pnueeton J asper to Troy Prairie Creek to Poland >» ltoekj»ort. .Wo . .'*♦ . 21 :A . . 38 ..am on eat’h side of or a 8 trip ten A total coal mileage of Allowing fi re miles the line of railroad miles wide and 303 m ilet* long or 3.030 square mil'js of coaJ fi>r the Black Diamond of Indiana. to> draw* from. Then in addition certain coal lie Ids in Gibson, Pike, Warrick a.nd Varderburg with coke wbtich will add not only tonnage for th e BlacI: Diamond byt continued w eal dt to Indiana for generations tci co: ne. Bet pectfully submitted, Al bkrt E. Boone, Zanesville, Ohio, f lajr 25, lfcOOThe Df ;mocra Vf in 1900. Congressm an Clar t of Missouri, in his recent sp eech in Bt, Louis, speaking from ti te above text, said: “In 1900 we wil 1 express the unyielding

principles of democracy in this wise: We will not only reaffirm but re adopt the Chicago platform of 18SKI, word for word, syllable for syllable, abating neither jot nor tittle of that second declaration of independence. We will {nit into our platform as strong an antitrust plank as 1 the American language can make-the America# language, not the English —which will restore to every citizen of this; republic the inalienable right to earn his bread in the sweat of his face, which will' guarantee" to every laborer the enjoyment of ail his wages, and which will once more make possible that competition which was supposed to be the life of trade until the republican party created a countless brood of trusts, which are sucking the life blood of the great body of the people. We will declare emphatically and unequivocally in favor of the preservation of the Monroe Doctrine in ail its vigor and against the criminal idiocy of corrupting and destroying our institutions by making American citizens out o£||t^0OO,t*Xt, heathen Malays under the equator. *• We will declare everlasting hostility to government by the sword and government by injunction, both of which are being foisted upon the country for the benefit and at the behest of the trusts and jobbers of every degree. U poa that platform we will place a man who is a platform within himself. Whose name is execrated by every monopolist in America and loved by every patriot betwixt the oceans, and land him in the white house, the foremost statesman. of our age William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and of the United States at large But we may be asked whether we' want the Palmer 3pd Buckner democrats back. Of course we do. We will welcome them not as major-generals and brigadiers, but as privates: hot to teach us democracy but to learn democracy of us, and will give them the glorious opportunity of winning new laurels.” . . -y . * --- The Way Record in Trusts. The month of May was one of reaction in stock prices aud speculation, but not in the manufacture of trust stocks. Here are some of the more important trusts projected during the month: v Company. ^4. Carnegie sleet. . American hide ami feather. American bicycle - Republic Iron a ml steel. f.mereac atfcaii -. lilnols electrical vehicle National etectrie i General carriaee company^* Federat sewer pipe N at ion a l light a ltd power— Spanish-American aiming. Boston breweries Electric lead reduction National car equipment Ca pltaiiaatJon. Sfift.UUhWO Til,00,1*0 SO.lOO.tOO .0,(11*1.00 :!tM*o,o(io il.uo.oo iVttvyMi ■_V(*X»,(*>t . ..’.'kOO . lo.um.ow M.UUOO lU.OUi.OOO . i»,ouo,oeu

Cured When Others Failed. S. A. Ingalls*, (’rowa Point. N. Y., writes: -'My wife, suffered from kidney trouble for years. She consulted several physicand tried a number of kidney cures without getting relief. She wajS induced to try Foley’s Kidney Cure and in less than a week after she began using it. she was greatly improved and three bottles cured her. J. IS. Adams & Son. j Ivjfonday evening the I. O. O. F. degree team of Washington lodge, came over to confer the first and second degrees upon a candidate and which they did the satisfaction of all and especially the candidate. The >york of that lodge is spoken of as M^phly commendable. At a late hour a |fe£*)uet y-as spread for the visitors in the ^irger block by Mark Knight, the cat«w«sM,; to which nearly 100 Odd Fellows The evening was

very enjoyablj $pgL. The following were present fr^^^qgtpn: Albino HorralL W> P.. Burton, L. F. €er#t^, Joseph Bonner, W. F. P*l»er. A.t$iinon. L. C. Foriw&H. M, ALcCr^-p, Ferd X. Gross* /« A. Bonham* G, >V. George, G. Stevenson. F. H. William son, George F: EMi* Andrew J. Wilson, Charles % I Tate, Ed Aikman, James Ramsey, jr.. James H. Bruner, LaFayette Gillett. W. A. Koutt, G. S. Bowers and W, §. Jett. Louie Sefrit, Graham Sanford, E. G. Jacobs, Paul Glare, Estel Dowde? and James Gilt of Washington, Prat Bust, George Tisdal, Frank Thomas and William Reiner of Winslow, and A. A. Trayler and Fred Chappell of iOtwell, attended the initiatory work of the Knights of Pythias in this city last Thursday night. Owing to the heavy rain that evening the Wash- -i ington team was unable to get here. The work of the local team was highly Creditable. At eleven o’clock a banquet was spread at the'liead hotel at which 48 Knights of Pythias were present and partook.