Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 August 1899 — Page 4

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?hr f ikt County gfraumt By 91. 9lc4'« KTOOf**. One Tsar, In advance ..;.... ft'Wi Six Months,In advance . 50 entered at the poKtofllce in Petersburg for transmission through the inaiis as secondClaris matter. * FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1899. There is not a voter in Pike county that cast his ballot for Bryan in 18951 but who is more ,than willing to do so ■ again in 1900. The boodle party has commenced to make up its campaign funds. The trusts are raising the prices, and the consumer must foot the bills. The next republican national ticket will be Roosevelt and Beveridge. Republican candidates for the honors are becoming numerous. Otis and Alger will no doubt be in the field.

UNDER the Wilson tariff law tin plate plants increased from three to 37. The price of tiq was reduced from,$3..V) to $2.2*> per box. The Dingley bill was enacted and it put $2.00 tariff on each box. The manufacturers of the United t-iates then raised the price to $4.27 per box. Nice] piece of protection to trusts. There should be no strikes under! these precious protective-confidence-j trust-monopoly times. Republicans should bestir themselves and settle the strikes at Cleveland, New York, | Chicago and in the coal fields. The men have been demanding wages under the gold standard times, but are refused. Republican editors should demand that the strikes be declared off. It is unfortunate that the ore handlers employed by SenatorHanna's dock company at Ashtabula should have decided to strike just at this time. We have Mr. Hanna's own] word for it that there areno idle men in the country. Consequently it will! be impossible to secure men to replace j “the strikers and1 operations will have to be suspended until one side or the other yields This is one of the disadvantages of universal prosperity. —Chicago Chronicle. Incidentally the blundering war department has giyen the whole snap 1 away regarding the intentions of the administration in the affairs of Cuba. * says the Springfield, Mass. Republican, j Census Director Merriam has been in-! structed to supervise the census of i Cuba. The census act provides for' taking the census of United States] and no other country is specified. Mr. ] McKinley evidently believes that ] Cuba is already a part of the United ] States. The question is when did1 Cuba become a part of this country aud where is the congressional authority for its annexation.

With the aid of the tariff the rich ami prosperous leather manufacturers have formed a trust and have put up the price of leather. So the shoe manufacturers are compelled to put up the price ©f shoes. Th|s does not mean the shoes which the people of wealth wear, because of the leather is in them subordinate to the hand-workmanship: It means the shoes of those who earn wages and salaries. The shoe manufacturers are debating whether to lower quality or put up prices. The chauces are that many of them will do both. This leather incident is well worth thinking about it is so typical. —The World. Senator Mason of Illinois, making j a speech on the 4th of July, at Boston, said: “The men we are shooting (in the Philippines) today, fought for us ninety days before we began shooting them. They took our guns and went back of the Spaniards and organized to destroy the Spanish army, and for the first time in the history of the world we saw that strange sight. Nero himself never turned a gun on an ally, and it remained for our country to use a man to whip the enemy and then turn our guns on the men who helped us to do it.” * * * “But they tell us there would be anarchy over there (in the Philippines): if we did not kill them, they would kill each other. Great God, I would rather they would than be killed by our fellows, would’nt you? Is it any less anarchy for us to kill them than to let them kill them- > selves? G, but the man who says that | God made him ?do it, says also, ‘why, j Germany would have got the country, or England.’ Well, if there has got to ba 10,000 graves might they not be just as well those of soldiers of the emperor or queen, as the graves of Yankee boys? Do you want a monopoly of the graves in Luzon?’’

The last legislature >as»ed a law that requires the count} superintendent of schools to have his office at the county seat. It inquire* that all records and papers shall he kept in the office. The law : s as follows and can be found on page 4B7: Section I. Be it enacted by the general assembl} of the state of Indiana. that the board of < ommissioners of any county in thi> state shall provide in the court house, or at the county sea:, pubi c offices for the sheriff, coun :y superintendent of schools and surveyor of che county respectively, and all recoids and papers required by law to be made by such officers shall be l:ept and preserved in such office and shall be delivered to their successors.

With respect to the scarcity of currency an official in the treasury department says: "Thj^ country must use more gold coin in the ordinary transaction of business. This is the only solution to the problem. The treasury has done all ia its power to provide against a currency famine.” The treasury has done nothing of the kind. It has on the contrary refused to do that which the s.atutelaw expressly demands it shal 1 do, and that which would perfectly' “provide against a currency faniine.” By the law the secretary of t ie treasury is expressly “authorized ind directed” to receive deposits of gi ld and to issue certificates for them. 1’his would render all the gold n the banks conveniently usable in paper form, without adding a dollar to the country's debt or increasing by one do'lar the aggregate of the currency. But because the secretary does not personally approve of that plan he refuses to obey the law. That s to say. he assumes authority to suspend sn abt of Congress by his arbitrary will and to legislate differently on his own responsibility. The trouble is not with the conditions, but with the lawless attitude of Secretary Gage.

Trusttes’ Report. Trustees of townships and corporations have been, making their annual reports to the county Commissioners this week. From these reports so far as made the report of receipts, expenditures and balance on hands are as follows: 1.00 AN TOWN SHUN Receipts. .f 8.3U5 45 Expenditures ..... .. 3,853 IS Balance on hand. ... .$ 2.582 27 Allowed for services, 1245. WINSLOW CORPORATION. Keeeiuts..$ ljg 4» Expenditures . . l,l«g« Balance . .| 230 OS PKTKKSUtlKti COKi*ORATK>K. Receipts ... ...... .. v.$ 8,374 08 Expenditures. .5,841 85 Balance .$ 2.732 21 WASHINUTOn TOWNSHIP. Receipts ... ... $11,382 82 Expenditures... . 8.010 Sti Balance . $3,80102 Overdrawn, $4254.13 rt>ad fund. Allowed for service*. $450. Outstanding orders,$500. cl* r TOWNSHIP. Receipts. ... .. $ 8,814 30 Expenditures . 4.187 52 Balance ... . ... 2,422 84 Allowanced for jerviees, $314 XAMlWN TOWNSHIP. Receipts ...... ..$ 5,S»75>38 Expenditures . 4.171 »>8 Balance ..... *....'. $ 1,808 28 Overdraw n, special school, $145.74. Allpwed for service. *304 Outstanding oniers, $718 81. i St A R1 ON TOWNSHIP. ■Receipts ...|.. $ 7,58!> 44 Expenditures . 5477 «»8 Balance. .., ... _... . $2,412 38 Allowed for services. 474 * A Whole Family. llev. Lj. A. Dunlap of Mount Vernon, Missouri, sayt.: “My children were afflicted with a cough resulting from measles, my w ife with a cough that had prevented her from sleeping,more or less, for fiv; years, and your White Wine of Tar Syrup has cured them all.” Sold by Paul Bros. a

Dubois county was visited Wednesday morning by the heaviest rain storm ever k lown in the locality of Ferdinand. It rained for several hours and the water stood in the fields to a depth of thr^fe to four feet. The Air Line tracks v ere co vered to a depth of fifteen inches. It was a regular old-fashioned cloudburst. The loss is very heavy to the f aiining community. Carey & Beatty, the Winslow coal operators, are building the tip house for the new coal mine. They expect to have everything in readiness to begin shipping coal by the middle of September. They have a splendid bitumnious coal and will have no trouble in disposing of all that can be mined. At a special meeting of the town board Wednesday evening the water works proposition was laid over for future meetings. Two ordinances were offered but were not acted upon, there being some hitch between the board and other par ties. The matter ] will likely come up at the next meeting.

tHE BIG STORM.; Llglitning and the Heavy Rains Result In Sll^it ItamageH. .Vednesday morning from 1 o'clock to 7 o'clock the heaviest rain of the season occurred and with it the sharpest thunder and electrical storm. The heavy thunder and the sharp lightning reports awakened the citizens from their slumber and many remained awake during the progress of the storm. Water covered the streets and ground until it looked like a lake, so fast did the rain fall that it could not pass away as fast as it came down. It is said that several of our citizens who are not partial to severe storms hied themselves to their cellars and there remained for several hours. There was some damage by lightning, but the worst was from water. The street sewer which runs under the residence of Dr. J. T. Kime on upper Main street, bursted and the dining room, kitchen and cellar were flooded to a depth of fifteen inches and two or three inches of mud. The carpets were ruined and the furniture and other articles damaged. The doctor’s loss will reach fully $100.

The cellar of M. Frank & Son was flooded to a depth of over a foot incurring damage to articles in the cellar. The center foundation cellar wall of the new Duster building on Main street was undermined and fell down. Other cellars in town were flooded with more or less loss. The summer kitchen of Jeff Smith on Vincennes avenue was struck by lightning. the damage resulting therefrom was slight. The lightning struck the kitchen roof and run down through breaking several gl|iss fruit jars and other articles. j The residence of Mrs. Ja^ie Pbsey, living east of town on the Y^aShington road, was struck and set on tire but was put out before muctyrtftmage was done. \ Alexander Hughes, living several miles east of town, lost two large stacks of hay which was struck by lightning and set on fire. * The telephone wire running into the residence of W. F. Meyer, living east of town and near Algiers, was struck but occasioned but little damage. There are numerous reports of the lightning's freaks, but as far as learned there was no serious damages. The roads in several of the townships were badly washed, especially near small creeks. A number of small culverts and bridges were washed out.

To Consumptives. As an honest remedy, Foley's Honey and Tar does not hold out false hopes in advanced stages, but truthfully claims to give comfort and relief in the very worst cases, and in the early stages to effect a cure. J. II. Adams & Son. a Noxid Items. Rev. W. J. Ridge is building a new residence on his farm near this place. Thomas Hudson and Miss Anna Haskins of Otwell, passed through our burg Sunday. Mrs. Pollie Hayes of near Otwell, visited friends here the past week. Miss Minta Hurstman of Winslow, has been visiting her sister near this place the past week. Theodore Arnold of Otwell. was in our town Friday on business. J. P. Hayes was in Petersburg Friday. George Booth of Kentucky, is visiting friends and relatives hear here. I*. B. Craig and wife of Cato, spent Sunday with friends at this place. Miss Helen Evans of Winslow, has been spending the week with her sister near this place. Be loss Hadlock and son Joe, Bee Anderson and Jackson Offill were in Winslow Saturday. Dr. Craig and W. J. Hayes were at Sweet Sulphur Springs Sunday. W. W. Cooper and wife of Portersville, were in our community Tuesday. Henry Courier and wife of Ireland, visited friends at this place Sunday. George Eddy and brother are at home again after spending the summer at work on a farm near Princeton. Tram Lynch and Joseph Morton were in Winslow Saturday on business. Ed Sweeney and family of Sulphur Springs, visited friends near here last Sunday.

Andy Frich of Ireland, was in our community Monday on business, Willie Graham and Richard Blair were in Otwell Monday on business, ^ Frank Holder of near this place, died Tuesday, August 1st, of abscess of the brain. He leaves an aged mother and a host of friends to mourn his death. * Interment at Bethel cemetery, near Otwell. There was a mistake in the item concerning the stalk of corn on the Anderson farm. It should have been fifty feet instead of fifteen. We suppose the printer thought it all out of reason and so made it only fifteen feet. The fifteen-year-old daughter of Ezra Vaughan, living south of town, died Tuesday evening of consumption. The funeral was held Thursday morning and interment at Walnut Hills cemetery, this city.

Real Estate Transfers: The following transfers of real estate have been recorded in the county recorder's oOlce during the past week: Louis H. Hilsmeyer to Henry Hilsmeyer, lots 44 and 43, Stendal. | Henry Hilsmeyer to Louis H. Hilsmeyer, lots 44 and 45, Stendal. Samuel Perry to £lijah Hoy, e hf se qr ne qr sec 12. town 3 south, range 8 west, 20 acres. J. A. Shepard to Jacob P. Teaford, lot 1L Pleasantville. William A. Roy to Harvey C.Julian, nw qr sw qr sec 7, town 3 south, range 7 west, H3 acres. ! James Roy to Elmer U. Ferguson, Jots 11 and 14, Pleasantville. David Hersman to Allen Gray et al, lo£s 12 and 13, block 14, Goldthwait. John Able to Perry Able, pt In side se qr ne qr sec 24, town 1 south^/raage 8 west. 2 acres. Lawrence S. Rumble to William j Phillips, ne qr se qr sec 23, town l souths range 9 west, 40 acres. R. W. Harris to Ch E. Hadlock.pt nw qr nw qr sec 35. town 1 north,range j 7 west. 10 acres. Samuel Perry to James A. Shepar J. i ne qr ne qr sec 13, town 3 south, rangre 8 west. Perry C. Abbott to William F. Meyer, jr., se qr ne qr sec 33, town 1 north, range 7 west, 40 acres. Perry C. Abbott to Augustus Meyers, nw qr nw qr sec 34, town 1 north, range 7 west, 40 acres. Spencer Gamble to James F. Denton, pt lot 43, Winslow. William A. Battles to.John W. Chambers, pt se qr sec 8, town 2 south, range 0 west. Elizabeth Iler to Henry Sutton, ne j corner ne qr ne qr sec 3? town 3 south, j range 8 west, 44 acres David Iler, by commissioner, to Elia-1 aheth Iler, pt ne qr ne qr sec 3, town 3 south, range 8 west, 44 acres. William F. Rodimel to John D. Mor

gan, e hf lot 14. Eisert's add. Petersburg. Samuel Fettinger to August 11. Schlottman, nw qr ne qr sec 34, and nw qr ne qr sec 2”, and s hf se qr sec 2T, stown 2 south, range 7 west, 100 acres. Nicholas t'ollins to McClellan Miller, e hf nw qr sec 28. town 2 south, range 6 west, 80 acres. John Morgan to William F. Ilodimel, lot, 60, Petersburg. Nancy J. Fleming et al to Thorny M. Catt. pt se qr se qr sec 11, town 1 south, range 8 west, 24 acres. Nancy J. Fleming et al to Linda Selby, pt se qr se qr sec 11, town 1 south, range 8 wesL 28 acres. Mary A.Nelsonto Monroe Fettinger, lots 1 * and 18, Pikeville. Caroline Johnson to Amelia A. Hughes et al, nw qr nw qr sec 11, and pt s hf sw qr ne qr sec 14, town 1 south, range 8 west. Amelia A. Hughes to Mable Amos, e hf nw qr nw qr sec 11. and pt s hf sw qr sw qr sec 14, town 1 south, range 8 west. Mable Amos to Amelia A. Hughes, w hf nw qr nw qr sec 11, town 1 south, range 8 west. 20 acres. To the Public. On and after September 1st, 1809, our two stores will do a strictly cash business. Every one, rich or poor„wil be treated exactly alike—ho credit to anybody. It is not right for you that pay cash to pay for the d^bts those that never pay, make. We intend to sell goods from twenty to thirty per cent cheaper than ever before, which -we can easily do. as no credit house dare compete with those that buy and sell for- cash. So strict will be our policy that we offer $5.06 reward to any one that will buy goods at either of our stores on credit. You can afford to borrow money at 20 per cent and pay cash and be independent. We thank you kindly for your past trade and hope to double our business with you in the future byi selling you goods away below long time credit stores. Those indebted please settle by cash or note at once. t W. V. Hargrove & t’o., Star t’lothing House and People's Pry Goods Store, Petersburg’s only cash Stores. , i

The City Markets. Eggs—10 cents. Butter—121 cents. Onions—55c per bu. Potatoes—10c per bu. j*^.. Chickens-r-Chicks 8Jc. hens 7c. Turkeys- Hen turks Tc. — Navy Beans—11.50 per bu. Shoulders—9c. Sides—9c. Lard—81 cents per lb. Pork—Hams, smoked. 14 cents. Wheat—00 cents per bushel. Corn—30 cents per bushel. Oats—10 cents per bushel. Rye—T5 cents per bushel. I'lover Seed—$3.00 per bushel. Salt—00 per bbl. Hogs—$4.60 to $4.75 per 100. Cattle—$2.25 to $5.60 per 1.00 Sheep—$3.T5 to $5.25 per 100. -v\;v" ;:j— ; ~v: Indianapolis Markets. Wednesday, Aug. », 1609. Wheat, 65c to 661c; corn, 30 to 33 le; oats, 20 to 23c; rye, 55 tjo 5Tc; catt le, heavy, $2.25 to $5.60; hogs, good shippers, $4.60 to $4.75; sheep, $3.75 to $5.25.

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L. A L. E. WOOLSKY, Lawyers, '1 All Itasium n*»lves prompt Collections matte and iwmltlwl, } of estates a specialty . ;.:5% Office over Citizens’ bauk, Petes ittenttoin ttieinents N OTICE is hereby given to att^irti cerued that i a ill l* at my result SATURDAY AND M(||l>AY i Of each week, to attend to business eor | with the otHee of trustee of Mon me tov i no business transacted o ( office day. JM. DAVIS. Tri : PostotBce address: Spurge>n.

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