Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 August 1899 — Page 8

SAD DROWNING. Six Person* Drowned by an Accident to a Ferry Boat. Wednesday evening as Albert Him- j gel,, his wife and five children, Mrs. | Alfred Potts and infant and Alice Dillon, daughter of Roderick Dillon, j were driving onto a ferry boat on White river near the Dubois county line, one of the chains broke and the boat swinging around pulled the team, wagon and the occupants far out into the river. White river had been raised considerably by the recent rains and at the point where the drowning took place the water was very deep. All were drowned save Mr. Kfimsel, and oldest son and Mrs. Alfred Potts and infant. His wi&, four children and Alice Dillon, aged nine years, went down. Mr. T. H. Dillon of this city, received a telephone message yesterday morning to the effect that two of the bodies had been recovered. Mr. Himsel is one of the wealthiest men in that section and lives just over j the line in Dubois county. He owns large bodies of land in Daviess, Du- j bois and Pike counties, and had been j over to his Daviess county land that! day and was returning home when the | terrible accident occurred. He owns I his own ferry boat for the purpose of j going to and from his farms which j are on either side of the river. The sad drowning has created a great deal of excitement in that section and thousands of people have j lined the banks, and men have been busy, dredging the river since Wednesday evening trying to secure the bodies. One of the mules was also drowned; the other being rescued after swimming in the water for three hours.

Crop Bulletin. The Indiana .weather bureau issues today the following crop bulletin for the week ending yesterday: Seasonable weather prevailed during the week for the advancement of crops and farm work. A tine corn crop is almost assured since the rains, which have continued at intervals during the past two weeks, and which were generally, well distributed. A large number of correspondents estimate that the crop will be safe from frost in the central and northern portions by September 14 and in the southern portion by September 22, and some farmers in the latter portion have corn which will pot mature before (October l-*», due to late planting. Thrashing is nearly finished: there is a good yield of oats, and the wheat conditions range from poor to good. Tobacco in Ohio county is growing rapidly ^and is now nearly ready to cut; the plant in the lowlands of Spencer county was damaged by rain; cutting has begun in Randolph county, , but the remaining crop needs rain, /rhe late potato yield will be large, except where bugs were unusually numerous. Tomatoes are ripening and the cucumber pickle crop, now being gathered, is very large. Seed clover promise^ a good crop. While many apples have fallen from the trees from various causes, the prospects are still good: other fruits are generally plentiful. Buckwheat in Whitley county is in fine condition. Turnips were planted in the central . portion during the week. Large quantities of melons are being shipped from Posey county. Plowing is in progress in all sections. ;

John Wilson of near Winslow, Hike county came here today and identified the horse and buggy that the authorities here had taken up several days ago, as one stolen from him last week. He will take his property touiorrow.—Washington Gazette. <

FIERCE FIGHTING. . * Another Heavy Engagement tn the Phllllptnes Wednesday. The daily papers of yesterday contain the following news of a big battle in the Phillipines: The twelfth infantry leftC'alulet at sunrise today and advanced up the railroad. Captain Evans’ battalion deployed to the right of the track and Captain Woods to the left. Two companies remained on the track with the artillery. The insurgents were found well intrenched in front of the town of Angeles. At a distance of 1,500 yards the Filipinos opened fire. Their force was estimated at 1,500, although residents afterwards said it exceeded these figures by 1,000. The enemy sent heavy volleys against the whole American line. Most of their shooting, as uspal, was high, but they concentrated their heaviest fire down the track upon the artillery. Colonel Smith kept the whole line moving, rapidly with frequent rushes. The insurgents attempted to Hank Captain Evans and therefore two companies were sent to the right and drove them back. The Filipinos abandoned^their trenches and retreated to the town northward. It appears that they only received their supply of ammunition this morning. Had they been attacked sooner they could have made little resistance.

Bowman Items. , Mrs. J. J. Bowman was On the sick list last week. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. George Gladish Friday, a girl. Link Cbm and family sj>ent Sunday with friends at Augusta. Gyrus Colvin of Petersburg, was in our village Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Ed. Whitelock is seriously ill at her home with malaria fever. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Gladish of Evansville, are visiting friends at Bowman this week. ^ The, infant child o^Mr. and Mrs. Stock Beard died last week. Interment at the Williams cemetery. ^ ( harley Barret of Augusta, returned to his home last Friday after a two week’s visit with relatives at this place. Messrs. Thomas Fowler and Oscar Frederick of Clay township, were in the city last Tnursdaj' transacting business. Miss L. Agnes Wyatt of Petersburg, returned to her home last Thursday, after a visit to her aunt, Mrs. Margaret Smith. Misses Ora and Cora Sumner accompanied by Mericus Frederick, attended an ice cream party at .Tames Frederick’s last Wednesday night. ■ Mountain Rose and Becky.

Township Reports. The following is the report of the townships showing- their financial condition as made by trustees which were not received in time for our issue of last week: PATOKA TOWNSHIP. Receipts . .$13.<&» 88 Expenditures . .. 0.343 At) Balance . $ 1,388 40 Overdrawn, special school, $270.98. Allowed for service, $534. LOCK U A KT TOWN SHI I*. Receipts . .. ... lll.octi oo Expenditures ... . 7,428 62 Balance. .. $ 3,«M 50 Allowed for services. Hi", MONHOK TOWN SHU*. Receipts. $ #.123 03 Expenditures . 6,u93 pi Balance 3,020 84 Allowed for services, $;182 Overdrawn, special school, $5.47. JKKKKKSON TOWNSHIP. Receipts. .$13,077 40 Expenditures .10,016 12 Balance . . $ 3,702 30 Overdrawn, road fund, $1,275.08. Trustee’s salary, $504. Orders outstanding, $565.

If you havn’t attended i I The Big August Sale or, Sol Frank’s Big Saje^ you have made a' mistake. While some items have been entirely closed out, we yet have plenty of reliable items that are going at about half price. Remember,we must clean out all Summer stuff to make room for new Fall Coods. So if you havn’t visited the Big Store during this sale come now. We may save you dollars. SOL FRANK’S BIG STORE.

Miss Edna Crow is at Martinsville this week visiting friends. 4 Mrs. Lizzie Davenport visited relatives at Algiers over Sunday. C. V. Shandy was at Washington Wednesday on business matters. Elmo Young and Frank, Thomas of Winslow, were in town yesterday on business. Blythe Hendricks of Union City, arrived here Tuesday to visit friends for a few days. Charles Paul moved in the Gustoff Frank cottage on lower Main street Wednesday. Nathan Pipes, a stock dealer living near Winslow, was in town last Sat-1 urday on business --—--— ■-] Mrs. Sarah McGowen, who has been visiting her daughter at Winslow for a few weeks, returned home Monday. Charles W. Ursery was granted a’ license last week by the county com- i missioners to sell liquors at Augusta.! Prof. Hinkle and wife of Pond Creek Mills, were in the city Monday mak- ! ing arrangements to move here in a few weeks. Miss Sarepta Dean, who has been i visiting relatives at Indianapolis and Franklin for several weeks, returned home last Friday. A new railroad company has been organized to operate a line from InI dianapolis td Evansville, the line passj ing through Jasper. Rev. H. Hennigs of Stendal, was in | town a few’ hours Monday. He was I returning from Staunton where he wa# attending a mission feast of the Luthern church. •Tames Higgins and Frank Taylor j the picture enlarging agents are I home for a few weeks visit, after | several weeks sojourney through Southern Indiana and Illinois. Mrs. William Hale, aged about 35 years, living near Dutch town, died Tuesday evening. The funeral services j were held Thursday morning and interment at the Anderson cemetery.

The commissioners will m^et in social session next Monday to receive the plans of the proposed stone roads of Washington township as prepared by E. E. Watts, the civil engineer. The regular services will be conducted at the Presbyterian church next Sunday. The subject of the morning sermon is "Birthrights.” and and that pf the evening lecture, “Great Women of the World- -Mary Queen of Scots.” The barn of George W. Massey, living -in Patoka township, was struck by lightning last Sunday morning. The barn was set on fire and" entirely destroyed, together with several tons of hay, corn and farming implements. The loss is about $800. Stamper & Barker, the marble dealers, who were burned out Sunday morning, have moved into the Liibs building, second door below the postoffice. Squire Tucker will have his judicial office in the same room. Stamper & Barker will soon have a large stock of goods on hands. Mrs. Julia Trayler, wife of Paris Trayler, near Iva, died Monday evening of consumption, aged 35 years. She leaves a husband and live children to mourn the loss of wife and mother. The funeral was held Wednesday morning and interment at the cemetery near the Gray church. Hon. Thomas Duncan of Princeton, was in the city last night on legal business. Mr. Duncan twice made a most gallant race for congress in the first district, but was defeated by trust money. No man in Southern Indiana deserves better of the Democratic party than Mr. Duncan.—Vincennes Sun. M. L. Heathman of Glezen, last weekshipped some fine stock hogs to North Carolina, South Carolina and Kentucky. He has a line herd of stock and is working up a large business all over the country. He will, attend the Oakland City, Princeton and Huntingburg fairs this year and show his stock.

The 6th annual roll call of Co.1,58th Reg. Ind Vol. Infantry will be made at the residence of Comrade George Jones, four miles east of Winslow and two and one-half miles north of Survant, Tuesday, September 19,1899. Let every member of the company make it a point to be present. If you can not be present let us hear from you. W. E. Chappell, Pres. Q. A. Harper, Sec. C. W. Young, one of the leading citizens of Winslow, died Tuesday 1 morning. He was 54 years of age. For many years he has been engaged in the furniture trade in that place and always took the lead in all public enterprises. He was an old veteran of the civil war. He was a member of the K. of P. lodge. The funeral services were held at the family j residence Wednesday, and at noon the remains were taken to Princeton for burial.

Jesse Crow has been on the sick list this week. . Mrs. Sig Frank of Peru, is the guest of Gustoff Frank and family. Robert and Lafe Gray of Otwell,' transacted business in the city yesr | terday. Delos and Oscar Hadlock of Jefferf 9on township, were in town yesterday on business. * Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Willis of Vincennes, and J. T. Simpson and wife o:c Bruceville, were the guests of friend^ here Sunday. The ladies of the Baptist church will hold a festival at the city halt Saturday evening to which the public is cordially invited. J. W. Ogden, the Washington attorney, visited Judge Kly Wednesday to. make arrangements for their trip to i Northern Michigan next week. — Joshua Hume and wife returned to their home at WTillow Hill, Illinois* Monday last after a visit with Richard Arnold and wife, southeast of town. Joseph Patterson was called .tb Leavenworth to see his father, who i|* -seriously ill. His father is a veteran M, E. preacher and I* in his 87th year. » ■ ---—-i Dr. A. C. Clifford of Oakland City, has moved to Hosmer where he will engage in his profession. He is a weljl read physician and has been qtiite successfnl.

Mrs. Louie A. Gladish returned yesterday from a two weeks’ visit at Loogootee with her father and sister. She will resume her instruction in music to her large class. Wheat has taken a drop during the past week, and is now bringing onl y’ dO cents per bushel. The market is rather quiet, the farmers holding their wheat for better prices. September 1st will begin Hargrove's harvest sale for fall and winter, at which time all the old friends and customers will be greeted at the opening. A very enjoyable day is anticipated. 15-2 Jqhu Heidorn and Miss Mary Caldemeyer, daughter of William and Mrs. C’aldemeyer, were married at Holland Thursday. In the evening at the bride's home in Lockhart township, a reception was tendered them which was largely attended. John B. McKinney, county assessor, has completed his work for the year and left for home Wednesday. Uncle John has placed a large amount cf personal property on the tax duplicate this spring and has made a splendid officer.

One of the greatest reductions in wages ever known in this country w-qs that in the structural department of the Cambria steel company at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which took place last Monday. The reduction ranges from TO to 80 per cent. Is this prosperity? , _. The county commissioners at their session last week passed the matter of removing the hitchraoks from around the court house square. It now rests with the town board cf health. The commissioners think the hitching rack is of great benefit t|o the general public. The town board should purchase a fire alarm bell that can be heard, the present one not being much bettdr than the old cracked bell now oin Mullein Hill. The alarm Sund^' morning was a test between the old and the new bells in which the old one was heard the farthest. Secu% a firstclass fire alarm bell. The county "clerk has issued ma riage licenses to the following person this Week: Charles F. Laswell and Dtblila Mosby. ' John Heidorn and Anna M. Calde meyer. Charles Kronemeyer and Lidia L. Bauermeister. Thomas J. Ward and Hannah Manning. Joseph Hadcliff and Auda Lett. *----——• The trustees of the several town ships have made their levies fat- e penditures for the coming year, some townships they have raised levy and in others it has been lowered The following is the comparative ies for 1898 and 1899 on the *101): 18S« Jefferson ...... . Washington_ __, Madison .. Olay.. Patoka.. Monroe .. . Logan . Lockhart.. —. Martou . .. . .. * 75 71 . S3 . 83 75 (it l . m In the lelv

The Runnel & Martin specialty company will occupy the boards ft the city hall Monday night, August 21st, introducing firstclass specialties with songs which are making a hit in the largest cities today, together with living pictures of the Spanish-Ameri-can war, in which you will see battles fought, artillery firing, flags waving and men falling dead and woundejd, smoke effect and everything natural as life. A reproduction of San Juan Hill will be produced, the execution of a Spanish spy, etc. Admission onjly 15 and 25 cents; reserved seats cents. Tickets on sale at Paul Br drug store. i

Mrs. R E. Gladish is visiting friends at Princeton this week. William Ropp of Logan tcmship, was in town yesterday on business. Mrs. Minnie Lutterick of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is in the city visitit g rela? I tives. __- Editor Thompson and wife visited relatives in Monroe township last Sunday. L.R. Hargrave, justice of tht peace, office in the Parker building, opposite the court house. 15-3 Mrs. Gratz Lindsay of St. Louis, Missouri, is the guest of Mrs. Belle Carleton on Walnut street. Robert Simpson and John Kayes, farmers living near Spurgeon, were in the city Tuesday transacting business. j Miss Davenport of Evansville, was in the city Wednesday and visited the orphans’ home, of which she was the matron for a year or more. f J. K. Patterson of Oakland City, was in the city last Sunday. He had been looking after his farming interests in Madison township for a few days. . Dr. McGrew has resigned Ids position as company physician at Ayrshire mines, says the Oakland City Journal, and left this morning for Clinton in quest of a location. Isaac Sorgius, Hying near Algiers, has bought an interest in a planing and saw* mill at Irelaud, and will move to that place sometime in October. Ike is a hustler and a good citizen and will no doubt make a success in his new line of work.:

Dr. W. H. Smith, who h us been practicing medicine at Hos ner for several years, removed to >akland City last Friday, where he v ill take* ! up the practice. The doctor as well j known in that locality and will no i doubt build up a large practice. Montie.daughter of McCrlUus Gray, living near Iva, died Monday evening of typhoid fever. She was eighteen years of age. The funeral was held Thursday at the Gray church conducted by Rev. Dr. Godwin of Otwell, and interment in the cepietery near by- . ____ The Air Line railroad will run a special train next Thursday on account of the Oakland L'ity fair. The train will leave Huntingburg at seven o'clock a. m., Velpen D:2o, Winslow at 7:40 and arrive at Oakland City at eight o'clock. Returning train will leave at 0:30 p. m. Half fare rates all week. *

v\ ork was suspended at the gas well Wednesday morning owing tc the bad cave which was struck at *80 feet. A lot of slip casing has been sent for at St. Louis, and when it arri res work will be resumed. The drillers have experienced a great deal of trouble in drilling this well, more so than in any of the previous ones. Wednesday evening at the M. E. parsonage at Otwell, occurred the marriage of Joseph Radcliff and Miss Auda Lett, Rev. Wynn officiating. The groom is the son of Bever]y Radcliff, the Algiers merchant, and is a highly respected young man. The bride is the daughter of Emory Lett, one of the substantial farmers of Jefferson township. The Democrat extends congratulations. The several trustees of the county received for their services as township officers and overseeing poor the following amounts. This does not include services in taking the school enumeration and employment of depThoiuas A. Johnson, I’atoka . tlofltt 00 T. C. Nelson, Marlon. ... .>.... .’>72 00 Erastus Johnson, Washington .. 500 00 J. 1J. Barker, Madison . ... 302 00 J. M. Davis, Monroe . .kMi 00 8. D. Johnson, Logan . .277 00 L. K.Trayler, Jefferson ... HOB U0 J. L. Bass, Lockhart. — ...... -HO 00 J. A. Shrode, C'iay....344 00 The transfer laws of the late legislature are not clearly understood by some patrons and several ap]veals and letters have come to the county superintendent’s office and also to State Superintendent Jones. The latter calls the attention of the township trustees to the fact that by senate bill No. 73, while they are to furnish high school privileges to all, ;hey may use their discretion about allowing transfers to those living nearer another township high school than their own. If they furnish the required opportunity they have fulfilled their duty as prescribed jby the law. The question of transferring the children is an important financial point to the various townships.

Expenditures aid Tax Levies fur Year 1900, The trustee of Patoka township, Pike county, proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the advisory board at its annual meeting to be held at she school house of School District No. ten, the follow* Ing estimates and amounts for sai l year: 1. Township expenditures, $1,)OU.OO, and township tax, JO cents on tbs hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition expenditures, i000.00, and tax, 10 cents on the hundred dollai s. 3. Special school taxjKtpenditurss. 31,800.00. and tax, 25 cents on the'nundred d ullars. 4. Road tax expenditures, 31,500, and tax, 25 cents on the hundred dollars. - 5. Additional road tax expenditures, 3000.00, and tax, 10 certs on the hundred dollars. 7. Poor expenditures for preceding year, 3600. and tax. 10 cents on the hund red dollars. Total expenditures, 36,300.00. an l. total tax, 100 cents on the hundred dollars. (Signed) Thomas A. Johnsix, Trustee,: Dated August 4tb, 1330.

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