Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 July 1900 — Page 8

Otwell Item*. Miss Anna Bird is-very sick. * Mrs. Peb Thomas is very low. D. L. Craig is on the sick list. , Theodore Craig is happy. It is a 13-pound boy. Gaylord Craig is thfe happy father of a bouncing girl. John Young of Evansville, was in Otwell last Tuesday. Jdhn Custin of Petersburg, was in Otwell last Thursday. Harry Woodward of Evansville, was in Otwell last Thursday. Bichard Bass, candidate for sheriff from Lockhart township, was among the boys of Jefferson this week. M. MeC. Stooj»s, editor of the DkmoCRAT, was here last Friday oh business and shaking hands with his numerous friends. There will be an ice, cream supper at the Burr Oak church next Wednesday night. Proceeds for the benefit of the Sunday school. Wm. McCormack. 11. M. Patten. John Scanland and Enos Wiscaver have returned from French Lick. They had a good time.

J. W. Wilson, Frank Wilson, Jasper Kinman and Ike Higgins were here last Friday night for the purpose of organizing the rough riders. A party of about twenty young folks went to Highrock, Day iess county, la&t Thursday. Lunch was served by the young ladies. A good time was had. ' The Otwell ball team went to Winslow last Friday and were defeated by * a score of 11 to 30. The boys did not have their regular pitcher with then}, which accounts for their defeat. The rough riders ineeting here last Friday night was a regular frost. There was not over twenty persons present, and a club was not organized. The rough rider element in this section will be a very tame affair. Jefferson township will give 17a majority for Bryan and Stevenson and antitrustism and anti-bossism. After many intricate experiments, scientists have discovered methods for obtaining all the natural digestants. These have been combined in the proportion found in the humane body and united with substances that build up! the . digestive organs, making a compound called Kodol Dyspepsia (.'are. It digests what you eht and allows all dyspeptics to eat plenty of nourishing food while the stomach troubles are being radically cured by the medicinal agents it contains it is pleasant to take and will give quick relief. Stearnes’ drug company. * Noxid Items. j Prof. Frank Hostetter of Union, came 114) Monday and is spending the week with relatives near this place. Willie Taylor of Decker. Knox county, is visiting his mother at this place this week. Thomas J. Traylor of Otwell, was in our community Monday on business. J. P. Hayes and wife were in Jasper Tuesday on business. Mrs.Florian Bartl.the music teacher of Otwell, \fcas in our community Wednesday. She has quite a large class of students near New Lebanon. Miss Esta Hudson of Otwell,is spending the week with relatives at this place.

J. C. Challie of’Otwell, was in our community Friday on business. W. J. Hayes is taking a business course with the National Correspondence normal of Feotdn, Michigan. John Galbredth and family spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives near Iva. Prof. O. D. Smith is at home after attending the spring and summer terms at the. Indiana university. Mrs. George Jones is at home again after visiting friends and relatives at Iceland and Otwell. t Misses Maggie and Minnifc Oftill of Otwell, visited relatives near here «■ Sunday. Emory Hurstmun of Winslow, visited friends at this plac,e Sunday. A gentleman recently cured of dyspepsia gave the following appropriate rendering of Burns’ famous blessing: “Some have meat and can not eat, and some have none that want it: but we have meat and we can eat.— Kodol Dyspepsia Cure be thanked.” This preparation will digest what, you eat. It instantly relieves and radically cures indigestion and ail stomach disorders. Stearnes’ drug company. * Bunker Hill Items. Louis Knox and wife were guests of Curt Roberts Sunday. Every laboring hran ought to vote the democratic ticket. , * ' James Burten is quite ill at this writing. Eachelors are quite numerous in this section. The rain of Tuesday was of great benefit to the corn crop. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup, the best cough remedy on earth. 25 a°nd 50 cents. J. R. Adams . ~ 11 _

Spurgeon Items. Wheat thrashing is almost over. Farmers have begun plowing for wheat. There was a baptizing at Rossville Sunday evening, Elder Arnold officiating. ’ The I. O. O. F. members had an ice cream festival, which was a success Jack Fleener and family of Arthur, attended church here Sunday. Dr. Osborn and daughters, Mrs. W. B. Osborn and Etta Farmer visited relatives at Huntingburg Saturday. Mrs. A. H. Oxby was called to Stanley last Monday to see her brother, who is dangerously ill. Our liveryman, J. R. Butler, has secured a hay baler and has contracted to bale several straw stacks. Most of the farmers here stacked their straw. Art Edwards of Petersburg, moved his picture gallery here Monday. Frank Farmer, a prominent citizen of Oakland City, was here Tuesday. While Perry & Webb were moving their threshing machine Monday the separator wheels passed over the foot of Charles Perry, hurting him very badly. Elder F. H. Wood will preach here next Sunday morning at the G. B. church. Howard Stearns, representing the Mackey Nisbet dry goods company, was here this week. The relatives aud friends of James Dyer made him a birthday dinner Tuesday, he being jfortv years old. All report a large crowd and a well tilled table. , Stendal Items. / The farmers are busy threshing wheat. The average yield is' very small. Fred Lammer. living east of here in Dubois county, met death a few days ago. He was the engineer of a traction engine and in passing over a bridge the bridge broke down and he was crushed to death. Joseph Cook of Velpen. was here several days painting residences. A brass band has been organized here. The boys are practicing several nights a week and will soon become quite proficient. ’ Mr, Fry of Jasper, will locate a saw mill here in the near, future. l)r. Teaford of Spurgeon, was here one day last week on business. The Modern Woodmen will give a picnic here in a short time. A dance was giv^n at the hall Saturday night. All was peaceable for a time when some of the boys got into a scrap. No arrests as yet. Several of our youngtmen went to Marengo last Sunday on the excur*

sion. Monroe Fettinger has accepted a position with the Wrought Iron range company of St. Louis. * Squire Shrodes was at l'etersburgTuesday on business. Take the Democrat, the biggest paper in the county for $1.00 per year. Our people are all satisfied with the nomination of Bryan and Stevenson. This section of old Lockhart will roll up a big majority for the national, j state,county and township democratic tickets in November. Circuit Court. ~| The following cases have been disposed of during the week: State vs George Parker, disturbing meeting: fined $10. State vs Maloy Traylor, assault and battery with intent to commit rape; fined $10. State vs Grant Lucas, gambling; fined $10. State vs Hugh E. Hennis, perjury; indictment quashed. State ys Andrew Evans, permitting persbns in saloon onSunday:acquitted. State vs Andrew Evans, permitting persons in saloon on Sunday ;acquitted. State vs Andrew Evans, gambling: fined $10. State vs Andrew Evans, permitting persons in saloon on Sunday: fined $10. State vs Thomas Bropes, plea of not guilty, trial sef for Saturday. State vs George Livermore, petit

larceny: continued. Lula Wilson vs John W. Wilson, divorce: dismissed. Gustav Nuebling vs Madison township. account; dismissed. John 11. Kitchen vs Madison township, account: dismissed. W. H. McCormack vs 11. W. Horton, note: judgment for plaintiff. George B. Ashby and Charles A. Coffey vs Florence Thomas, account: | change of venue to Daviess county. W. A. Oliphant, guardian, vs Fred I Risley et al. note and mortgage: judgment for plaintiff. The Umpire drill company vs Sylvester Corn et al, note and mortgage: judgment for plaintiff. 1 he latest thing in the smoking line is a cigarette that is fully six | inches long. It is oval shaped with a gilt tip, and it is a decided novelty. Two of the cigarettes are sold for live cents and one of them will last as long as an ordinary cigar. If the ordinary cigarettes are known as coffin nails, the new ones of a larger growth certainly come in the spike class. For burns, injuries, piles and skin diseases use DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It is the original. Counter-1 feits may be offered. Use only De-i Witt’s. Stearnes’drugcompany. * i Jerry Woolvin returned Wednesday ! evening from Princeton, where he I ihas been working for several weeks, i i

THE ARMOR PLATE GRAB Enables Hanna to Get a Fat Campaign Contribution. * ANTITRUST AND EIGHT HOUR BILLS On Thf»c Two Mrainre* the Repnb- '• lleana Go Before tie Country Already Condemned — Thia I'ongreu Una Xot 1’unaed n Staple Xeatare For the Beneflt of the People^A Reeord of UxtraraBaare. [Spccitfr Washington Letter.^ Congress adjourned leaving the antitrust anti eight hour bills anti other important measures hung up lu the senate. The antitrust measure, which was really an amendment of the Sherman law, had been amended in the bouse so that it excepted industrial organizations front its application. The Republicans at first showed some faint intention of passing the bill and thus arming themselves with campaign ammunition. but this amendment, which was forced by the Democrats, made the measure so effective that the Republicans dared not threaten their own base of supplies—the trusts—and burled the bill in the senate.

The eight hour bill applied to work done by government contractors and was the one measure which organized labor all over the country earnestly desired. Senator Pettigrew put the issue squarely up to the Republicans on this measure in the senate and made them admit that they did not intend to put it through. On tliese two measures the Republicans go before the country aireadjv condemned. They could have enacted legislation which would have restrained trusts, and they did not do so. They could have provided that the employees of government contractors should have an eight hour workday when the government pays such euorrnons sums for the work, but on both points the Republicans show clearly that they preferred to favor the trusts and the rapacious contractors. The voters of the country will not fail to pass judgment on the record of this congress. It has been a most extravagant and reckless congress. In the Porto Rican matter it set itself above and beyond the constitution. In enacting the single gold standard bill it repudiated the promises of the Republican party and delivered the country o\er to the mercies of the national hanks. In failing to pass the Nicaragua canal bill it acknowledged the power of the Pacific railroads to defeat the wishes of the people. The ship subsidy bill was only dropped because the popular protest became too great to be disregarded. The armor plate grab weirf through, however, and Hanna will not only get a fat campaign contribution on that account, but the shipping interests find consolation for the failure of the subsidy bill in the fact that the secretary of the navy is authorized to pay them any price they choose to ask for armor pfifte. The administration is not altogether satisfied. It wanted the iniquitous Hny-I'auncefote treaty ratified, and even the holding up of the canal bill docs not wholly console it for the failure of the treaty. It will take many chapters to tell the whole story of this congress. What it actually accomplished can be put in three lines. It appropriated enormous sums of money, it put Porto Rico out-side-the pale of the constitution, it constructed codes for Alaska and Hawaii and passed a lot of private pension bills. Not a single measure of benefit to the people as a whole was enacted. For the first time in the history of congress certain measures were allowed to pass the house and held up by the senate so that Mark Hanna could levy campaign contributions on the interests Involved. Then, too. tins pending legislation is such a convenient hook upon which to hang both promises and

tnreats. Those who want antitrust legislation will be asked to return .the Republicans to power and await the action of the party after election. The trust interests will be invited to put up a big campaign assessment because they have been allowed to go scot free. 5 j The plan may work so far as securing assessments is concerned, but the voters are going to judge the administration and its party upon the actual results secured when If was iD fi ll control of every branch of the government. Promises are easily made, but promises are gettiug to be an old story. Performance is wanted. War taxes are still beiiig levied, and when the (M*ople come to study the enormous appropriations made by this congress they will begin to understand why there is no relief from the burden. The appropriations for the coming fiscal year reach the enormous total of $709.(XK).000. It must be remembered that three-fourths of this amount is to be expended in such a way that the taxpayers get neither return nor benefit. The usual appropriation for rivers and harbors and for public buildings is omitted. Although we are said to be on a peace footing, the little insurrection in the Philippines not being accounted a war, yet the army appropriations foot up over $90,000,000. The $32,000,000 in naval expenditures will largely be for the benefit of the shipbuilders* ring. Then* is a $32.000,000 increase in the sundry civil hill. Even with all this'lavisb expenditure there will he millions upon millions required to make up deficiencies when congress meets again. This administration has made a rec-1 ord which is remarkable. It has iuitiat- j od a polic y which tends to concentrate Irresponsibility aud autocratic (tower

In tlie#hands of the president , It has encouraged Its supporters in congress to put that body above the constitution ! which created it It shows clearly that \ It considers the people only as a means ! of furnishing supplies which are to be used in building up a vast itu|>erial machine which is to be ^supported by militarism. The Philippine war is being continued because the administration lacked common sense and tact in the beginning and-is determined now to. continue its obstinate blundering, no matter what sacrifice of life or money may be Involved. The trusts are permitted unlimited j sway to tax ti e consumers and rob the l producers. The whole country looks to the Democratic convention at Kansas City to utter the protest against the lawlessness, extravagance and recklessness which characterise this administration. The Democratic protest will Ik? the voice of the people demanding a return 1 to the constitutional principles upon which this government was organized and an honest and impartial admiuistratiou of the laws. L. A. White. PHILIPPINE FACTS, j A Striking Letter From a New York Officer In the Regular Army. A citizen of Rochester of high standing is in receipt of the following letter ■ from a New York officer of the regular army whose education and antecedents fit him for intelligent observation "and judgment and who saw service In Cuba ] before going to the Philippines about j the time General Otis took Command | there, which lie has placed at our dis- j posnl and to which” we give this promi- j neut publication without comment, save to say, that there is no better authority on "the real situation in our! Asiatic “colonies:”

Manila, April 20. Dear-: Senator Beveridge*. who \\ as inspired to instruct the American people about the Philippines, lelt here before the state of siege of the American forces cooped up in Manila was ended, before the insurgent government was destroyed, before we had an opportunity to carry the blessimgsof liberty and civilization to the ends of the island. Before he left we thought we were fighting a government'; now we find we are fighting « people. Over here the following facts are plain: The natives fear and hate us more than they did the Spaniards, with whom they had some j traits in common, This suspicious hatred does i not decrease. The Spaniards had developed an insurrection on the islands which bills fair to be continuous. We have inherited this insurrection. Concerning the Spanish treatment iff the natives we were imposed upon by Rrobdingnagian Aguinaldian dies. The lies about our treatment of the natives are even more clalwrate and are believed by the common people. Not knowing their language or even Spanish, we are not in a position to refute them. Our army is already found too small for its j task. (Three more cavalry regiments have since been ordered to Manila.} It is” stretched now until efficient protection is given nowhere except at Manila. In the rainy season sickness and the difficulties of campaigning will still furtjier decrease its efficiency. Kvery town not held becomes a headquarters for insurgents. To hold all the towns and to supply the gaps caused by sickness would require a force of 200,000. The situation as tc the “Moro” communities is | impossible. When we cease to allow them the power of life and death, a plurality of wives and exemption from all taxation, we will have then war to the knife. As to the assertions of Senator Beveridge: There is little lumber on these islands. Borneo, with her virgin forests, will absorb this trade. There is practically no gold, no silver, no coal. There is but little copjier. No trade is being developed with these islands by the United States. The Americans supply the army, that is all. The hemp, sugar and tobacco trades are in the hands ; of foreigners and remain so. No line of steamers has been added from the United States to these islands in spite of the immense patronage that could be got from the government. The former i trade of the islands amounted, imports and exports, to $2t>,0(iO,000. For this we are spending one hundred miltions or more a year. Development as of an uninhabited country ia impracticable. The land is practically all taken up. The population per square mile is twice that of Louisiana or Florida. The people are much less susceptible of improvement or improvements. The common statement that the native is superior to the Cuban is the grossest insult to the Cubans. It was spread by those whose only view of the Cubans was the ragtail army of Santiago and who believe most Cubans are negroes and i whose experience of this island has been confined to Manila. The benighted, stupid serf of the interior has few of the qualities, none of the aspirations, of a white man. - The climate, Beveridge says, is better than Hongkong. That is perhaps the reason why Hongkong is our health resort. Like all tropical countries, it has a climate that is unhealthy for the Ameriean. If 'you could see our true health reports, you wotfld appreciate this. I have seen a regiment of 1,2(10 men which did not have 10) who could march three miles a1:’d back. The rest were sallow, pitiful weaklings, worn out .by dengue fever ami bowel troubles'.

As a commercial base it is turn! to see what advantage the Philippines have. Our transports coming to Manila step on the way at Japan gn,] Hongkong. Would our ships visiting Japan arid Hongkong stop-first at Manila? As a naval base one port here would he enough. As a strategic feature our occupation of the Philippines by a large portion of our army puts us, like Spain was, in consequence of her army being in Cuba, at the mercy of any nation desiring to humiliate us. Any power navipg a second class navy could blockade our transports and lock our army up in the islands without supplies. The United States could not spar$ ships to protect her own coasts and also drive away a hostile fleet operating on the coasts of the Philippines. In consequents: of this fact the United States must hereafter go slow in quarrels about the Monroe doctrine, canals or tariff. We do not want Admiral Diedrieh to turn over our soldiers as .prisoners of war to Aguinaido. i Beveridge says our administration must be “the highest example of our civilization.’* Certainly. But such men lyqn’t come out here. We will be lucky to get as good a class of men as we formerly made Indian agents. True, they should be “incorruptible as honor," I for tins is a land where even a judge is approached with a petition' in one band ami a bribe in the other. Corruption reigns among the natives anj Spaniards, and it is extending to the Americans. The outpost guards find it easy to mulct natives without passes, and the supply dejiartinents of | the government are being plundered in the most shameless manner. No invoices of subsistence stores are found intact. Supposing ute insurrection, as seems likely, continues for years. What will be the position of a party which has spent five hundred or a thousand millions in attempting to retain it and failed? Spain gave up Cuba; Kngland once gave, up the ! Transvaal; France,Santo Domingo. (DoesToussaint L’Ouverture compare with Aguinaido?) Italy gave up Abyssinia. But the American flag will never be hauled down unt.. our pockets cry out and a financial panic breeds talk of economy. “The war is over." In one province the in sergents have burned seven large towns. The Americans in the past two months have killed 300 natives. Inside ot a week we killed 125. And i they arc organizing everywhere. * These sentiments are shared by all here, but opinions on topics are not free ip the Unit- j ed States. 7 ® j — Rochester Union and Advertiser. !

«■*■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■«.. ill—■ REAL CAUSE CONCEAL ED. Spanixh War Kot Respoailkit For ExtravaKHee of Last Com* ■*•»». lu a vain endeavor to Justi 5 the enormous appropriations of Mar t Hanna’s recent cougms tlie Kef ublican press of the country has been ivprescuting that the $131,247,155 of war expenses in this year’s appropriat ion of $7UU,UUU,000 was “on account <>.’ or incident to the late war with %>ain.” All of which is both false and a *urd. The New York World well sa; &: LThe.war with Spain ended on Aug. 14, 1SUS, almost two' years ag< »„ The appropriations made at the reonit session were for the fiscal year ending June CO, 1001. So that the etennous appropriation for the army is due to Mr. McKinley's war in the Phil.j pines, which is stiil, after nearly a ye;.r and a half of fighting, in very active, operation. “If this expense is ‘incident tp the late war with Spain,' is it not B ecause Mr. McKinley bought an insur ection from Spain fpr $20,000,000 and "aimed it into life by proclaiming o«t;,‘sovereignty’ over the Philippines even before the treaty of peace and [ trehase had been ratified?” •

The recent congress was forced to appropriate vast sums of money gathered from the people of our ‘country through taxes the burden of w it ich fell heaviest upon the wage'earne r not because of a just war waged with Spain for the sake of “Cuba lib <?#’ but rather to pay the expenses ot th° onward march of the RepublicUti party toward a real imperialistic pc Ley, the only result of which can be alixost untold losses to the many without even compensating gains to the few. And it should not be forgotten, ooreover, that while the people are paying the ' costs of the conquest of 'the Philip- i pines the islands as fast ns con- j quered are parceled out to a few. prt-i vate corporations. The “franchise j grabber” takes possession of ill con- j quered territory in the Philippines, and : the people of the United States, with I almost imbecile patience, foot all the ; bills. However, there are m:u y signs j that go to prove that the people will! ere long refuse to "pay fo.' “bread which they may not eat.” The senllemeb who lUe so fearfal j of socialism when the poo..* are exempted from an Income cnx view with Indifference those methods of taxation which give the rich aah■tantial exemption. They we sp more : bvennie ^15.000,000 lx to he collected from the incomes of the rl*eh than they do at the collection of $! 100,000,OOO upon the goods which the poor consume. And when an effort la made to equalise these hardens, not fully, hat partially only, the people of the south and west are called anarchists.—William J. Bryan In the House of Representative*. AN HONEST MAM. K_ So Speaks Senator. John I. Mitchell of William Jennings Bryan. William Jennings Bhyac receives some of bis strongest’ inec rsements from men who are politically bis enemies. Said ex-Senator John M. Mitchell of Wisconsin in a recent interview: “Bryan is tlie strongest man the Democrat can nominate. 1 d > not say this as a 1G to 1 man, as I have always been a gold standard man. Bryan may be wrong possibly, but the people are dead sure of one thing, aud that is that he is honest.”

Commenting upon this the Chicago Chrouicle, a gold paper, says: “That is to the purpose. The assurance that a candidate for prisident is an honest man will go far n, reconciling voters who are antagonistic to this platform. An honest man signifies more than a man who will L, not cheat nor steal. It means a man who will not permit cheating nor stealing wherever he has the power. “This is 'hot saying by implication that President McKinley is i»ersonally a dishonest man. But his administration is dishonest. It is controlled by dishonest men. From Hanna down the rule is pursuit of pelf. “A truly honest man in the presidency would have an honest administration. He would not be run by corruptionists and gangs. He would not close his eyes while others within the range of vision were committing larceny in all its grand and perty degrees. “In this view the eulogy 01 William J. Bryan as an honest man has a strong and peculiar significance.” Imperialism mifirht expt.ud the ■*- lion's territory, bat it would contract tbe nation's purpose, It is not a step forward toward it broader destiny, it is a step backward toward tbe narrow views of kings and emperors.—'W. J. Bryan. Tory Praise For XEcKiinley. We must admit that to stand by us, as President McKinley’s cabinet undoubtedly does, notwithstanding Acaerlean belief that the equities of the controversy are against us, furnishes proof of the highest quality of friendship. Nor have we any kind of doubt that if the life of the present administration is to be extended Presider. i McKinley and his ministers will not fail, should the need for it arise, to gr e evidence of that friendship.—Belfast (Ireland) Whig. _ r-{ Subservient to tbe Trasts. The recent development? in the ar- 1 mor plate discussion are striatly in line j with the Republican record of utter j subserviency to the trusts. T hey go to ! prove that the syndicates ai.*e in entire control of the Republican party. Rapidly multiplying proofs of t il? fact are having a cumulative effect on public sentiment. The restilt sloU’d be the determining factor in th j ^November elections.—St. Bouis RepuU ic.

WAR IN CHINA. % Wholesale Massacre of Foreigners by the Boxers. The navy department received offi:ial confirmation from Admiral Retuey the reverse of the allied forces at '» rien Tsin on the morning of Friday. July 13. The dispatch is dated Che Foo. July 16, and says: ‘"Reported that allied forces attacked native city morning 13th. Russians with ninth infantry and marines on the left. Losses of allied forces large. Russians 100. including artillery colonel, French twenty-five. “Colonel Liscum of the ninth infantry, killed: also Captain Davis, marine corps. » „ ■ “At 7 in the evening the allied forces attack on native eVty was repulsed with great loss. Returns yet incomplete. Details not yet confirmed.” The Daily Mail of London gives the <= following dispatch from its Shanghai correspondent, under date of July 17: j "•The allied troops resumed the attack upon the Chinese walled city of Tien Tsin on the morning of July 14, and succeeded in breaking the walls and capturing all the forts. ‘•The Chinese were completely routed and the allies took possession of the native city and its defenses. “The total losses of the allies in the engagement of Thursday, Friday and Saturday were about SOU killed and wounded. The Vasuaities were greatest among the Russians and Japanese. “The guns of the allies did immense damage to the native city, causing many large conflagrations, and finally silenced the majority of the ememy's guns simultaneously. Then 1,.j00 Russians, assisted by small parties of Germans and French, assaulted and captured eight guns that were in position on the railway emhankment and the fort, the magazine of which the French subsequently blew up. “A body of American, British, Japanese and Austrian troops then made a sortie and attacked the west arsenal, which the Chinese had re-occupied. After three hours of the hardest fight- . ingyet experienced, the Chinese fled. “When the arsenal had been evacuated by the Chinese, the Americans, French. Japanese and Welsh Fusiliers

advanced toward the native city and joined with the, other attacking forces. The Japanese infantry and a mounted battery advanced to the foot of the walls, supported bv the Americans and French. Despite valiant attacks. the allies we/e only able to hold the positions gained outside the walls preparatory to renewing the assault in the morning. ■ , “The casualties sustained by the allies were exceedingly heavy* especially those to the Americans, French and Japanese. . ‘‘Several explosions in the native were caused by the bombardment. “The Chinese appear to have exhausted their supply of smokeless powder, as they are now using black powder.” To-day hope to get wounded from Tien-Tsin either in hospitals at Taku or abroad Solace. Communication very uncertain. Following casualties apparently confirmed: “Marines: Captain Davis, killed: Captain Lemley. Lieutenants Butler and Leonard, wounded. “Army: ' Colonel Liscum. killed: Majors, Reagan and Lee, Captains Noyes. Brewster and Bookmiller, Lieutenants Naylor. Lawton,’ Hammond and Waldron, wounded. “Total killed and wounded reported, 775. “Russians find Japanese lost heavily. Our total loss reported 215. About forty were marine, but number believed to be exaggerated.1 Have officers on shore especially to get authentic number of names, which will be promptly telegraphed. “City and forts now in hands of allies. f • ' “Admiral Seymour returned to fieet. Officer ashore is Admiral Alexieff at Tientsin. IIemey.”

The City Markets. Ejrjfs—9 cents. Butter—12 Cents. Onions—80c per bu. Potatoes—40c per bu. Chickens—Chicks 8c. hens 6|c. Turkeys—Hen turks 5c. Shoulders —8c. Bacon —IK:. . llams—12c. _ Lard—9 cents peT lb. Pork—Hams, smoked, 11 cents. Wheat—68 cents per bushel. Corn—45 cents per bushel. Oats—20 cents per bushel. Rye—50 cents per bushel. Hogs—$4.25 to $4.90 per 100. Cattle—$2.00 to $4.50 per 1.00. Sheep— $2.50 to $3.50 per 100. ° Indianapolis Markets. Wednesday, July IT, 1900. Wheat, 75c to 77c; corn, 40c to 44c: oats, 24 to 274c: rye. 58 to 02c; cattle, heavy, $5.20 to $5.60; hogs, good shippers, $5.25 to $5.30: sheep, $3.50 to $4.00. Notice of Appointment of Administrator. Notice Is hereby given that William Heffernan has been duly appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Patrick BrK- : coll. deceased. Said estate is believed to be solvent. I Wm. Hktkbkxan. Administrator. I Richardson* Taylor, attorneys. n-a