Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 8, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 June 1900 — Page 4

—«-—- El* fill Emmtg fraumt ■r n.nec. stoops. __ -j_ o. One Tear, In advance. . 81x Months, in advance . . Entered at the poetofllce in Petersburg for transmission through the mails as sceondclass matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1900. COUNTY ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOB SHERIFF. We are authorised to announce the name of William S. Thomson of Patoka township, as a candidate for the nomination of Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Democratic nominating convention. We are authorized to announce the name of Everett Crow of Patoka township, as a candidate for the nomination of Sheriff, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention; FOR RECORDER. We are authorized to announce the name of William A. Hatties of Patoka township, as a candidate for the nomination of County Recorder, subject to the decision ot the democratic county convention. We are authorized to announce the name of Florian Bartl of Jefferson township, as a candidate for county recorder, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. • Foil COUNTY ASSESSOR. We are authorized to announce the name of J. L. Cape hart of Jefferson township, as a candidate for the nomination of county assessor. subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. FOR CORONER. Please announce the name of Orace D. Harris of Jefferson township, as a candidate for county coroner subject to the decisionrof the democratic county convention.

Uncle Sam seems to be up against it in China. He will now proceed to protect British interests and carry out other tasks imposed upon him by his new departure. Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio,denounces the republican platform. He said: ‘•That’s the blankety blanked platform ever God permitted man to formulate. Why, it isn't even {food English. I'm disgusted." The trusts are happy now, but should the Hanna ticket be defeated at the November election the under lips will drop. However, the trusts will reap a harvest from now on to make boodle for the campaign fund. The republican party is still in favor of trusts. The national convention was controlled by the millionaires. Immediately after the convention three millionaires of Utah _ each gave $50,000 to the repnblican slush fund. The lie public iron and steel trust works in New Albany have been shut down and the Jeffersonville chain works ordered closed and all employes discharged, but Hanna affirms that “trusts are a blessing to workingmen and to the people at large.” Mark Hanna is satisfied. The trustgpagnates are satisfied. McKin? ley and Roosevelt was their choice, and they were nominated by acclamation. The enthusiam throughout the country collapsed immediately after the results of the convention were made known. Companies of Rough Riders will be organized throughout Indiana during the campaign. McKinley is to be put to the rear and his name will hardly ever be L heard. It is expected that Teddy is to be the main hero of the campaign. Looks a little as if the convention made a mistake in not putting Teddy first and Mack last. Uniforms, cowboy hats, bowie knives and revolvers will now go up in price. The statistics of the crop report prepared by Snow, a crop expert who has just completed a two weeks trip through Minnesota and the Dakatos, has just been made public. He declares the situation is a national calamity and claims the wheat failure is the worst ever known. He estimates the Dakotas as promising only 20,000,000 each, Minnesota 35,000,000. a total of 75,000.000, against 200,000,000 and 235,000,000."

The republican national convention is over, the platform adopted and the candidates are named. Besides this Boss Hanna is again the-national chairman. The people will meet at Kansas City July 4th and name the next president and vice-president and adopt a platform that will meet the approval of all American citizens except it be the managers of the several trusts. The democratic party pever did please the millionaire trust managers. A good many people cannot understand why the negroes, most of whom live in solidly democratic states, are treated w'ith 'so much tenderness by the republican conventions, which really despise them. The explanation, however, is simple. There are enough negroes in the moje southerly tier of northern states toehold the balance of power. An analysis of the vote shows that Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and New York would all be safely democratic if it were pot for the negro vote.

The Boers got but very little sympathy from the republican national convention. Did John Bull have a hand in making the platform? Durbin, the republican candidate for governor of this state, is a member of the paper trust. Republican papers don’t say much on the subject. The old soldiers are not much enthused over the republican convention. McKinley’s nomination means the retaining of Evans as pension commissioner. Not so long ago a landslide swept from power a congress and president who has spent a billion dollars in two years. What will happen to one which has spent three quarters of a billion in one year? The republican platform is not very emphatic on the trust question, and why should it be when the national managers expect the trusts to put up all the campaign boodle. The party is controlled by the trusts. The center of population of the United States is, as nearly hs the experts of the 1SHX) census can estimate at the present time, a desolate spot in Jackson county, Ind., a few miles east of Brownstown, the county seat.

The democratic national committee has issued a statement showing the articles the prices of which have recently been raised by trusts. Market statistics are quoted showing that nearly everything we eat and wear has undergone this. Fugitive Taylor of Kentucky, has returned to Indiana to remain under the protection of Governor Mount. He failed to create any enthusiasm at the republican national convention and was? not. even mentioned for the presidency. What a shame. The ice trust ii^ New York will cut little ice in the campaign. . The fact that a few democrats were afflicted with the get-rich-quick disease will not blind the country to the fact that the republican party has always been the steadfast friend of .trusts. Issues! Plenty of them! The republican congress alone furnished enough. Its assumption of unconsti- • tutional powers, its extravagance, its green-goods anti-trust resolution, its refusal to reduce war taxes—these and others will furnish plenty of texts for telling speeches. Send in }rour subscriptions for the biggest paper in Pike county. You want the news of Pike county and the general news of the United States. You get it in the Democrat. It is the same price of small publications, one dollar per year. The Democrat's subscription list should reach 1>»800 by the first of September, and if you will aid us a little in the matter that number will be reached and possibly reach 2,000. Now is the time to subscribe. _ ~ \Vhu.k our temperance friends are agitated over the establishment of the canteen, they might remember that the consumption of spirits in the United States was 1.33 gallons per capita in 1804 under President Cleveland, and only 1.10 gallons in 1898 and 1.15 gallons in 1890 ,The consumption of beer in 1891 was 15.18 per capita: last year it was 11.96 per capita. -Petersburg Press. We are really at a loss to know what Bro. Thompson is driving at or trying to prove in the above statement. He will confer a great favor upon a dying and sinful world if he will explain what he is driving at.—Princeton News. ; _ The administration has acted wisely in its effort to secure for public service in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine islands only those whose tltness has been determined bv training and experience.—Republican platform. If all newspaper reports are true then ther£ are a lot of fellows yrho have been appointed to positions in Cuba ‘‘whose fitness has been determined by training and experience.” These newspaper reports and examinations show that there is a large shortage in the postal department in Ctiba, and some of the appointees were from Indiana and Ohio. About as shameless a proceeding as ever occurred was the attempt of the republican congressional committee to assess the employes of congress for one-half of the extra month’s pay voted to them. To cap the climax, when Representative Overstreet, secretary of the committee,Ayas asked about it,-he denied all knowledge on the subject, but added cynically, that the employes werenot under civil service rules. In other words, he warned them that they could be bounced if they did not put up, as required.

On July 1,1896, under the last democratic administration, the per capita of monev in circulation in the United States was Sil.io. This year, on June 1, it was £.*6.71 per capita, an increase of >5.61 for every inhabitant in the country.—Petersburg Press. We suppose that if there was a family in Petersburg possessed of 100,000 lice, it would be all right for surrounding newspapers to say that every man, woman and child in Petersburg had 50 lice crawling over them. This dpn’t sound nice, wg know, but there js just as much sense, reason and logic in one case as the other. If there is one thing more than another thht does disgust us it is that fool “per capita” talk as applied to the money in circulation. The Lord knows it is not “circulating” among the common people.—Princeton News.

A republican ratification meeting is to be held in this city next Saturday night. The meeting is called to ratify the nominations of McKinley and Roosevelt. Postmasters and all holding federal positions, and prospective candidates for the Petersburg postotfice are expected to attend. 'I^he democratic national convention will be held at Kansas City next Wednesday, July 4th. It is expected to be the largest political convention ever held and at which the next president will be nominated. A large number of Indianians will be in attendance. The republican national platform has a great many things to say what: will be done if the party is restored to power again. It talks mildly on the trust question and that certain things should and ought to be done. The last congress, both branches reliably republican, and a republican president, done absolutely nothing. It says liberal pensions to the old soldiers, etc., and with both branches of congess republican and a republican, president, failed to pass such laws as the old veteran associations wanted. The party has had absoluteOpower on several occasions but has done nothing that the old veterans wanted. But the members of congress have worked through thousands of private pension bills granting large pensions to favorites and letting the old veterans without a political pull go along drawing $fi.00 and $8.00 per month. The promises made in the campaign of 1800 were never fulfilled, the trust magnates taking up all the spare moments of congress. The trust manipulators got all they wanted.

Here is a pointer for those who may come within the ban of the provoke law. No change of venue goes*’ If •there is no squire in your township you can cuss your neighbor or any one else to your heart’s content. No foreign fee grabber or town constable can touch you. In Clinton township, Decatur county, two women quarreled and called each other liars. Then both Hew to the provoke law for protection. There was no squire in Clinton ' township, so a Washington township squire lined them.i An appeal was taken and Judge Hood ruled that the acts of 1897 so amended the criminal provoke statute as to give exclusive jurisdiction to justices in the towhship in which the defendant resides, or the offense was committed, and that a justice of the peace of an adjoining township had no jurisdiction in such cases. A Preacher of Waterloo? Ind., Rev. S. P. Klotz, writes: rtI have been afflicted over 20 years with dvspepsia or sour stomach. Have tried different remedies without much benefit. A 10c bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin gave me great benefit. Have^taken nearly one large bottle, and feel like a different person.” For sale by Oliphant drug company. j Two changes have been made in the territorj’ of the Evansville pension district. By the changes the district is increased by the addition of one county. Perry and Spencer couhties have been taken from the Vincennes distinct and added to the Evansville district, while Pike has been taken from this district and added to the Vincennes district. The Evansville district, which Is under the charge of Special Examiner W. S. Bridges, now consists of Vanderburg, Posey^ Gihson, Warrick, Perry and Spencer counties. At the same time the changes in territory were made, Special Examiner J. B. Lichty, stationed at Huntingburg was removed to Vincennes where his headquarters will be hereafter.— Evansville Journal. That Throbing Heading would quickly leave you* if you used Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Thousands ! of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for sick and nervous headaches. They make pure blood and strong nerves and build up your health. Easy to take. Only 25 cents. Money back if not cured. Sold by Stearnes’ drug company. What McKinley Wanted. “I am for the largest use of silver in the currency of the country. I would not dishonor it; I would give it equal credit and honor with the gold: I would make no, discrimination; I would utilize both metals as money and discredit^neither; I want the double standard. ’’—Congressman Wm. McKinley in 1890.

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Robbed the Grave. A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: “I whs in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite— gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend advised trying •Electric Bitters;' and to my greatjoy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim. No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cts, guaranteed, at Stearnes* drug company. C harles E. Finney and wife of Indianapolis, were the guests of Rev. W. S. Biddle and wife over Sunday. Mr. Finney is an old printer by trade and made this office a call Monday morning. JJe is now employed in the postoffice at that place.

Sheriff’s Sale. By virtue of « certified copy ol udwwe to me directed from the clerk of tlie Pike circuit court.in a cause wherein the Huntingburg Dry Pressed Brick Co. et alare plaintiffs, and Kdmond Palmer et al are ^etendnim, renuiring me to make the sum ot three hundred and fifty dollars and twelve cents, with interest on saki decree and costs, I wilPexpose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on Sat unlay, the 7th day of July, A. I). 1900, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m and 4 o'clock p. n». of said day, ut the door of the court house in Petersburg, Pike county, Indiana. tlie reuts and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate to-wlt: Part of lot etghty-six. In the town of Winslow^ Pike county. Indiana, aud described as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner ot said lot eighty-six, running thence north twenty feet, thence west fifty feet, thence south twenty feet, thence east fifty feet to the place of beginning, together with the onestory brick building thereon situate, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will,at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. !Sald sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. \V. M. Ridgway. June i 1,1900. Sheriff Pike County. Sheriffs Sale. By virtue of a cert ified copy of a decree to me directed from the clerk of the Pike circuit court iu a cause wherein Jacob Burger is plaintiff, and David Adams aud Elizabeth Adams are defendants, requiring me to make the sum of sixteen hundred and eighty-four dollars and elghty-iwo cents, with interest on said decree and costs, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on Saturday, the 30th day of June, A. D. 1900, Between the hours of lu o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. in. of said day, at the door of the court house in Petersburg, Pikeeounty. Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate in Pike county, to-wlt: The south half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-eight. In township No. one south, range six west, SO acres, more or less. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient stun to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will, at the same time aiid place, expose to public sale the fee simple or said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest aqu costs. Said sale will be made without any relict whatever from valuation or appruisement laws. W. M. RIDGWAY, June 5, 1900. Sheriff Pike County. Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of William M. Bell, deceased, to appear in ttie Pike circuit court, held at Petersburg, Indiana, on the 9!h day of July, 1900, and show cause, if any. why the final settlement accounts of oames Z. Bell, administrator, with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Witness, the clerk of said court, this 2nd day of June, 1900. J. W. BRUMFIELD, >>-:l Clerk. Pike Circuit Court. Richardson Taylor, attorneys. Non-Resident Notice. Leslie Lamb. Administrator of 11 est ate of Helena Reuss deceased, vs Henfy Reuss. Frederick Reuss. ■ Lollie Reuss.Percilla Reuss. Bettie Herboth. Kate Limp. Theek- I ta Burkhart and Elia Hisgen. I To Lollie Reuss. Percella Reuss. Uettie Herboth. Theckla Burkhart and Ella Hisgen et al. You are severally hereby notified that the iltove named petitioner as administrator of the estate aforesaid has tiled in the Pike cir ;uit court of Pike county, in the State of lniiana. a petition making you defendants thereto, and praying therein tor an order and lecree of said court authorizing the sale of ;ertain real estate belonging to the estate of (aid decedent and in said petition described :o make assets for the payment of the debts ind liabilities of said estate: and has also lied an affidavit avering therein that vou and ;ach of you are non-residents of the State of Indiana and that you are necessary parties to ;aid proceedings, and that said 'jietition so lied and which is now pending is set for tearing in said court at the cyurt house in [‘etersburg. Indiana, on the 19th dav of Julv. Ifw. Witness the clerk and seal of said court thiwthe 12th day of May. 1900. J. W. MRl’MKlKI.U. Clerk of Pike Circuit Court. Copy of Charter of the “First National Rank of Petersburg.”

Treasury Department-Office of the Comptroller of the Currency - Washington. D. C.. April *4, 1900. Whereas, by satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned, it has been made to appear that The First National Bank of Petersburg,” in the town of Petersburg, in the county of Pike and state of Indiana, has complied with all the provisions of the statutes of the United States requireiLto be complied with before an association shall be authorized to commence the businessof banking: Now therefore. I. Thomas P. Kane, deputy and acting comptroller of the currency, do hereby certify that The First National Bank of Petersburg." in the town of Petersburg, in the county of Pike and state of Indiana, is authorized tocommence the businessof banking as provided in Section 5Ui9 of the revised statutes of the United .States. t In testimony whereof, witness my hand^nd IV w seal of office this 54th day of April.'1900. T. P. KANK. No. 5300. Deputy and Acting Comptroller V of the Treasury. 52-8

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