Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 December 1900 — Page 2

The Pike County Democrat M. McC. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG, INDIANA. The British war office announced, on the 30th, that Lord Roberts had handed over the command of the British troops in South Africa to Lord Kitchener. Secretary Gage and Secretary Long have each recommended in their annual reports that a separate building for the accommodation of government archives and records be built. The United States cable ship Burnside, bound from New York to the Philippine islands, arrived at Singapore, China, on the 27th. The new six-inch naval guns for the battle ships of the Maine class were tested, on the 27th, at the Indian Head proving grounds, under regular service conditions, with excellent results. Lieut. Faramond, the French naval attache at Washington, has been advised that the training ship DuguayTrouin, with a large number of cadets on board, will visit American waters next spring. When traveling nowadays, Emperor William usually takes with him a specially-carved pulpit, elaborately ornamented with heraldic devices, from which he delivers his orations and sermons.

Count De Toulouse Lautrec, who was extradited to Canada from Chicago, was sentenced, at Montreal, on the 27th, to five years in the penitentiary on a charge of receiving bonds knowing them to be forged. Subscriptions in London, on the 30th, to the new issue of £3,000,000 three per cent. exchequer bonds, repayable in 1905, totalled £6,263,500. The tenders ranged from 95 to 100. The average price was 98 2-10. Former mayor of Portsmouth, O., G. A. Waller, who was a delegate to the convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, and who was a Lincoln elector from Ohio, died at his home in that city on the 27th. The typhoon which caused the loss of the auxiliary cruiser Yosemite wrought great damage and loss of life, also, on the Island of Guam. Among the worst sufferers was the town of Moranjan, which was completely demolished, with a loss of 30 townspeople killed and many injured. The proposition to levy a tax for the support of a free public library was carried at a special election held in Dubuque, Ia., on the 26th. The result carried with it a gift of $50,000 from Andrew Carnegie, also the Young Men’s Library association’s 18,000 volumes and other property worth $40,000. The annual report of Secretary Wilson of the agricultural department, made public on the 29th, begins with a complimentary reference to the work of his predecessors, “which had brought the department to its present state of efficiency.” The report shows the affairs of the department to be in a generally satisfactory condition. A recent German publication, remarking the growing American trade in the Levant, says: Lately two large firms in Constantinople have, for the first time, received extensive shipments of American shoes. This shows that the persistent efforts of the Americans to gain a footing in the Levantine markets have achieved success.” Postmaster Vancott of New York city conferred with Postmaster-Gen-eral Smith and others, on the 26th, regarding the proposed new post office building in New York. Mr. Vancott afterwards expressed the opinion that the bill now pending, appropriating $2,500,000 for this purpose, would pass at the approaching session of congress. The president, in the first week of the session of congress, will submit to the senate for confirmation 60 nominations for presidential post offices. This includes those appointed during the recess, and postmasters whose terms of office expire previous to Janutry 1, next. It is the smallest list of recess nominees sent in for some years. Charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, a man representing himself as Dr. William A. Ferguson, formerly of Galveston, Tex., but who is alleged by the New York police to be ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, was arraigned, on the 30th, before United States Commissioner Shields, and held in bail of $1,000 for examination.

United States Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign relations in the senate, died at his home in St. Paul, Minn., on the 87th, at 8:48 p. m., after an illness of two months. He had suffered greatly during his sickness, and gradually sank away, being unconscious for several nours before death, and so far as could be known, suffering no pain. * Daring a severe typhoon, on November 15, the auxiliary cruiser Yosemite, moored in the harbor of San Luis d’Apia, Island of Guam, parted her cables and went on a reef and then struck on the rocks, receiving such injuries as to cause her to sink, later, after drifting 70 miles from the island. Her crew, with the exception of five men, sent out in a launch to find shelter, and who were drowned by the capsiring of their boat, were rescued by the United States collier Jus*

Scheme for the Construction of 4 Tunnel Under the Straits of Gibraltar. PROPOSED LENGTH TWENTY-FIVE NILES. The Cost, with the Connecting Line Between Spain and Algiers is Estimated at 043,000,000, and the Time Required for Construction Seven Years. Washington, Dec. 2.—The state detriment has received a report conveying further information as to the proposed tunnel from Europe to Africa under the Straits of Gibraltar, from Mr. George H. Murphy, consular clerk at Magdeburg, Germany. Mr. Berlier, the French engineer who has submitted the proposal of the project to the governi ient of Spain and Morocco, is said to i.ave perfect confidence in the feasibility of the plan, holding that it presents no greater obstacles than were encountered in the building of the tunnels of Mont Genis and St. Gotthard.

The Ventilating Problem. Oil the other hand, Mr. Murphy states that the ventilation problem of a submarine tunnel, and removal of the constantly-accumulating water are very formidable, and expensive obstacles to be dealt with. Nevertheless Berlier believes that, by a secret process of his own, he can grapple with these difficulties and keep the cost of the work at a figure not exceeding that required in the enterprises at St. Gotthard and Arlberg, or Simplon. J3y working simultaneously from both ends of the tunnel he believes the date of completion could be safely be placed at 1907. Length of the Tunnel. The proposed length of the tunnel is 25 miles, 20 miles of this under the sea. Railway connection in Europe is planned, by means of a line following the Spanish coast and passing through Tarifa and Algeciras into France. In Morocco a line would be constructed from Tangier, connecting with the railroad system at Tiemcen. The entire cost of the tunnel alone is approximated at over $23,000,000, and of the entire connecting line between Spain and Algiers at about $43,500,000. Unfavorable French Criticism. The French press is said to criticize the project unfavorably, on the ground that Mr. Berlier has overestimated the earning power of the road, and that it seems hardly credible that the passenger and freight traffic between France and Algieria could be diverted to this indirect and expensive route. tUR RELATIONS WITH TURKEY Rumors of a Rupture of Diplomatic Relations With the Porte are Unfounded. Constantinople, Friday, November 30.—The rumors that a, rupture of diplomatic relation between the United States and Turkey is imminent, are unfounded. The relations between the porte and the United States legation are .excellent. In fact, the United States charge d’affaires, Lloyd C. Griscom, has been received in audience six time this year. Only a fortnight ago he wa^Jnvited to a musical entertainment at the Yildiz palace. This proves he is presona grata at the palace. The visit of the United States battleship Kentucky to Smyrna does not influence the nature of these relations, though it does induce the ports to more Strictly concern itself with the United States claims for indemnity, which were already on the point of solution. Dr. Thomas H. Norton is going, Monday, to take possession of his post at Harpoot. The United States legation will continue to press its demand for an exequatur, but a prompt solution of this ^question is not likely. The orders to the Cramps, of Philadelphia, for a cruiser will be small, the price being less than 500,000 Turkish pounds.

ORDERS TO CONSUL GUMMERB. To Proceed to the Capital of Moroe* oo to Press the Claim of the United States. Washington, Dec. 2.—The state department has sent instructions to United States Consul Gummore, of Tangier, Morocco, to proceed to the capital of that country as far as possible on a United States man of war, to present a fresh claim of the United States for indemnity on account of the murder of Marcus Ezaguin, a naturalized American citizen, who was killed in June, 1900. The warship, which probably will be the Kentucky, recalled from Smyrna for that purpose, will convey the consul from Tangier to Mazagan which is the nearest port to Fez, the capital of Morocco. SMALLPOX AMONG INDIANS. Outbreak of the Red Peat Amoag th< Bad River Indians at Odanah, WU. Washington, Dec. 2.—Indian Agent Campbell, of the LaPointe agency in Wisconsin, has reported to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones that smallpox has broken out at Odanah, among the Bad Biver Indians. H« says their condition is serious, and the outbreak is spreading. Commls-! ■loner Jones has telegraphed him authority to quarantine the Indians. ! - v I

WITHI8 OCR LIMITS. ! ! *. -r News by Telegraph from Variona Towns in Indiana. The Official Vote. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 30.—The tabulation of the official vote for the presidential electors of the state of Indiana has been completed. The totals give McKinley an official plural* ity in the state of 26,479 and a majority over all of 8,032. The count reveals the fact that although the Australian ballot systeni has been in effect in the state for several years there were 7,690 voters who do not know how to mark their tickets. McKinley’s plurality in the state was 1,316 greater than Durbin’s, whose official plurality was 25,163. The National Guard. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 30.—The annual report o*f Adjt. Gen. Gore for the fiscal year ended October 31, 1900, has been filed with Gov. Mount. The appropriation for the militia, which includes the running expense® of the offices of both Adjt. Gen. Gore and Quartermaster General Richardson, was $45,000, all of which was expended. The report states that at the beginning of the year the Indiana national guard consisted of 11 companies of infantry and two batteries of artillery. Since th'at time 23 companies have been organized.

Panic In a Theater. . Indianapolis, lnd., Nov. 30.—During1 a performance at the Empire theater the machine which moves pictures in the play and whieh is operated from the balcony became ignited and a cry of “fire” was raised in several parts of the house. In the rush to escape from the building a score of persons were knocked down and many were bruised, but no one seriously injured. Before all the audience had cleared the building the fire had been extinguished, order was restored and the play continued. Army Supplies. Jeffersonville, lnd., Nov. 30.—One of the largest shipments of quartermasters’ supplies made from the local United States supply depot in many months has been made. It consisted of 300 big transportation wagons, 300 sets of double harness, and other wagon material and camp supplies, making altogether an immense trainload, About half of the shipment went to the Philippines, and the rest to Seattle, for shipment to China. Indiana Wins. Lafayette, lnd., Nov. 30.—Purdue and_ Indiana universities played the final game in the state, championship series. Straight tactics formed the rules of the contest. The visitors’ strong plays were the tackles, back and revolving wedge formations, which yielded successive gains at every trial. The score was: Indiana, 24; Purdue, 5. Sold to Minoru. Crawfordsville, lnd., Nov. 30.— Prosecutor Reeves two weeks ago had all the saloon keepers in the county fined on his own affidavit for Selling liquor on election day, and now he is putting them through again for selling to minors. These later- complaints are not sworn to by him, how, ever, but by the parents of the min* ors concerned. Shot Htmuelt. Salem, lnd., Nov. 30.—Howard Mattingly, aged 24, who lived with John Purkheiser, five miles southwest of Salem, shot himself with a doublebarreled shotgun. Both loads entered his body, causing instant death. Ill health and brooding over other troubles was said to be the cause of the suicide.

Strike Is Over. Fort Wayne. Ind., Nov. 30.—Tht striking shirt waist makers at the Paragon factory, who have been out for a week, have returned to work, the management having acceded to their demands for a new wage scale for winter work. The girls, of whom there are 200, are jubilant over their victory. State Treasury. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 30.—The annual report of State Treasurer Levy, filed with the governor, shows the balance in the state treasury at the close of the fiscal year to be $413,652.29. The receipts from all sources for the year were $6,950,268.10 and the disbursements for all purposes $7.231,. 951.46. V Died of 'lockjaw. Evansville, Ind., Nov. 30.—William E Chappell, of Pike county, living a fev miles south of this city, one of the mos1 prominent masons in the state, died from lockjaw, caused by running a splinter into his finger. Chappell wat prominent in political and G. A. R. circles. Safe Blowers. Martinsville, Ind., Nov. 30.—Safe blowers entered the office of the Thornburgh Milling company and by the use of nitroglycerin blew the door off the safe. The amount of money taken has not been ascertained A. New Bank. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 30.—The People’s Deposit bank, of this city, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000. T. McWhirter is president and C. M. Lemon is cashier.

To Practice Law. v Indianapolis, Ind., Not. 30.—Ex-Gov. W. S. Taylor, of Kentucky, will take up the practice of law in this city. He expects to begin active practice about the first of the year. Block Burned. Disko, Ind., Nov. 30.—Fire destroyed the Nelson block here. Loss, $10,000; insurance, $5,000. ^

SANGUINE OF SUCCESS. State Department Hopes to Bring fwrelg* Powers to Its Views la Chinese Affairs. Washington, Deo. 3.—Administration officials continue sanguine that, the ministers of the powers at Pekin* will soon reach a common ground of agreement in the demands to be made upon the Chinese imperial government in satisfaction for the Boxer outrages. The state department is in communication with the ministers and ambassadors of the United States to the European courts, and addresses which have come from them from time to time lead the officials here to hope that the powers will be brought to the position maintained by the United States in dealing with the Chinese, viz.: That there should not be demands made upon the imperial government which it is not able to fnldlL Our government has persistently held to this view in the progress of the negotiations between the ministers at Pekin, and if the principle oi .this contention can be maintained In the combined note to be handed to the Chinese plenipotentiaries, a decided advantage will be had at the start. The attitude of our government on this subject has been made clear to Mr. Conger. The meeting between him and the German and French ministers Saturday at Rekin, presumably, was in compliance with the minister’s latest instructions from Washington. Nothing has been heard from Mr. Conger by the state department for several days.

CENTURY WATCH MEETINGS. MIm Barton Makes 1-ubllc Answer to Numerous telegrams uud Letten. Washington, Dec. 3.—Miss Clara Barton has received many telegrams j and fetters asking about the twenti- i eth century watch meetings, and asks J the press to make it known that, while the movement is under her guidance and control, all the details are committed to the New York office of the Bed Cross in the St, James building, New York city. Many towns seem to be waiting for special authorization to hold these meetings, whereas none is necessary. All that any church, lodge, military company or school of any kind needs to do is to organize its own watch meeting. THE NEW CENTURY FOR GOD. Mldnlaht Services to be Held for Its Solemn Consecration to His Service. Washington, Dec. 3.—Archbishop Martinelli, the apostolic delegate, will participate at services to be held at St. Patrick’s church, in this city, at midnight on December 31, to consecrate the new century to God. A year ago the pope gave a special permission, with a view to wide exercise of the privilege, to sing a solemn mass at midnight of December 31 of last year, to consecrate the closing year of the century, and to repeat it on December 31 next, at the same hour, for consecrating the entire new century. The ceremony, like that of a year ago, is expected to be an unusually orilliant one, and most of the bishops throughout the country probably will hold similar solemn services.

A DIPLOMATIC TRIUMPH. Seeretary Hay Seearva Treaty With Nlearagna and Understanding; With Colombia. Washington, Dec. 3.—Secretary Hay has scored a distinct diplomatic triumph in the treaty with Nicaragua, signed yesterday. It grants the United States the exclusive right to construct, operate and police a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The concession was obtained at the same time that an understanding ha ? been reached with the United States of Colombia covering like rights and privileges for the Panama route. EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY. Sentences Commoted by Gov. Tenner —Three borderers Among the Lucky Seven. Springfield, 111., Dec. 3.—Gov. Tanner has, on recommendation of the state board of pardons, extended executive clemency to seven persons now serving terms in the state penitentiary. Elzia Ventress, sentenced in March, 1896, from White county, for the murder of John Bussell, to 14 years, had a commutation granted, making his term expire December 23, 1900, Hester A. Dewose, convicted of the murder of Ella Miligan, in September, 1888, in Gallatin county, and sentenced to 50 years, had her sentence commuted to 21 years, which amounts to immediate discharge. She is insane and a consumptive. Commutations were also granted in the case of Thos. Hennessey, convicted of murder in Chicago, and Chow Lee, convicted in Chicago of outrage.

Eager for HomMtMd*. Crookston, Annn., Dec. 3.—A line of men was formed. Saturday night, extending from the United States land office for several blocks with the intention of remaining in their place* until Tuesjday morning so that they will have an early chance to file upon the lands of the White Earth Indian reservation which have been opened for settlement. It is estimated that there will be a half-dozen filing* for each claim, and the contests that will follow will keep the land attorneys busy for the rest of the vjnter, j

TEE ROBBER TARIFF. Duties That Serve Only to Protect Manufacturers in Coaibislss Acaiui Americans. Says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat “In nine months ended with Septembe the exports of American steel and Iron products amounted to 197.313,060, an increas * of $21,000,000 over the same months last yeai. According to free traders the Dingley tarll should have closed against us the market t of the world. The free trader has cease t to chirp on the subject of American foreig i trade.’’ The free trader is at least not ignorant of the fact that steel and iro i products are among' those most vigoi - ously guarded against foreign compet: tion by republican high tariff laws. Being aware of this fact he may He permitted to “chirp” to the extent 6f demanding that the Bingley bigots nr the Dingley robbers state a reason wl y Americans who are able to sell their products abroad to the value of $97,30( ,- 000 in nine months, or at. the rate of $129,700,000 a year, need protection equivalent to 40 per cent, or more n

their home market. Do they need it ja. order that they may sell below cost to foreigners and make up their losses '»y exacting exorbitant prices from tlnir own countrymen? If not, it is pretty plain that they need no Dingley h,w to enable them to realize fair prol.ta on their product. Whatever an American sells abroad " he must sell not only without the be: iefit of any favoring legislation, but gt :nerally in the face of adverse legislation intended to give an advantrge to those competitors who produce in the counries where he makes his aa.es. In view of this fact it is a reasonable presumption that when our iron rnd steel makers sell $130,000,000 wortl of their products abroad in a year-with transportation always and legislation often against them, they are abundantly able to compete against all cotters in their home markets without pro action. If they cannot we must conclude, tie above suggested, that they sell at a o«s abroad and get even by overcharging their own countrymen. But we can hardly suppose that they sell great quantities at a loss, or witl out realizing a fair profit, anywhere. T hey are not doing business “for taeir health.” They are not export in} • at loss or without profit for the gio:ry there is in big export figures. We are compelled to believe that hey make a fair profit on what thej export, and therefore that they are a aundantly able to meet any competition at home, where they have transportation and close touch with their cus tomers in their favor, without any help from Dingley laws. That being tho^ase, will some 1 ariff bigot or beneficiary kindly “chirp” to the extent of offering some littl ? excuse for the monstrous Dingley d aties which serve only to shelter our manufacturers in combining to wrin »■ extortionate prices from their own coon - trymen? As to the alleged contention cf the free traders, it is sufficient to saj that [the Dingley law has provoked retaliatory restrictions and to no incon siderable extent closed foreign markets against us. The fact that we a: e exporting largely does not prove that we would not export more if w» had hot the Dingley law to excite th« commercial hostility of European cou itriea and provoke hostile legislation oi their part.—Chicago Chronicle.

POINTS AND OPINIONS --Hanna is right in saying hat a republican congressman opposed to the ship subsidy bill is opposed tc» his party. The word has been s]>oken. “Everything goes.”—N. Y. Wor d. -McKinley’s big plurality s due more to the fatal mistakes of the democratic party than to the pc pularity of the republican party aid the McKinley administration. — Oneida Union. -The protectionist theory s that the tariff, by stimulating production, makes things cheaper for the home consumer, but McKinley’s prohibitory protection has not worked ont that way. By its favors to the trusts it has made American manufactured productions 25 to 50 per cent, cheaper to foreigners than they are sold for to Americans.—Columbus (O.) PressPost. — --What the republicans are accustomed to call a “democratic funeral” has repeatedly been only the prelude to a democratic victory. With this fact of history for their enlightenment, we cannot suppose that the republican leaders are hugging the delusion that they have nothing to apprehend in the way of opposition in the congressional elections of 1S02 or the presidential and congressional campaign of 1904.—Washington Post. --Hanna’s subsidy bill is in harmony with the general trend o::‘ republican legislation in that it gives an immediate grain to the few existing steamship lines without making it any easier to establish others. The commissioner of navigation t jinks it will cause a larger increase of American tonnage, but the opinion is based rather on assumption than argument, such argument as he emplojra being that which ia familiar in the defense of the protective tariff.—Philadelphia Times. -Our illuminating experiences in the Philippine islands have not proved, to say the least, of a nature to encourage further “expansion” iin the far east. It has even been suggested by notable republican leaders that in the event of certain contingencies this country should abandon the Filipinos to their own devices. The thought of more “benevolent assimilation” by Mr. McKinley’s administration, and in crowded China at that, , is calculated to bring bad dreams even to sc fervent an expansionist as young Senator Beveridge. -Boston Globe. I

REPRESENTING THE SOUTH. Prospects of Another Force Bill bjr Wap of Pun Whins the Democrats. ? The radical wing of the republican party is evidently anxious to revive the bloody shirt. The Washington dispatches hint Of another force bilL modeled after the one which passed the house but was beaten in the senate ten years ago; of a reduction in the congressional and electoral representation of the south; of an attempt to unseat Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, and to throw out Kentucky’s electoral vote; and of wholesale unseating of southern democratic representatives in the next congress-all of which seems to be detaehed parts of a more or less carefully-arranged plan to punish the south and make it suffer for the crime of remaining democratic. For the democracy of the south, and not her denial of the suffrage to the negro, will be the real reason for whatever war may be levied against

her by the republicans in congress. The republican party long since censed to care what becomes of the negro, if it ever cared for him except for his vote. The south could to-day purchase immunity and carte blanche to disfranchise every negro^ if in return Mark Hanna and his agents could be sure that republican congressmen and electors would be forthcoming. How is the south to be punished for the crime of being democratic? By another force bill? It is rather late in the day. for ideas which smack of the reconstruction period, and recall the terrible wrongs inflicted upon the south by the republicans during that era. By a reduction of southern representation, so as to base the representation not on the population, but on the vote? How would such a plan affect old abolitionist Massachusetts, which enforces an educational test? Take North Carolina, for instance. No one doubts that it is constitutional to enforce an educational test; the disputed point is in regard to the “grandfather clause,” which is intended to protect illiterate whites in the right to vote, while the illiterate negroes are excluded. The supreme court has not yet passed upon the constitutionality of this provision. Should it be declared unconstitutional, that would dispose of the race discrimination; all illiterates would be treated alike. But should it be declared constitutional, what ' then? Would congress actually reduce North Carolina’s representation as a punishment for -exercising a constitutional right? The south is dealing with the race question as intelligently and well, probably, as any community in the world could do. Upon the south has fallen the burden imposed by the wholesale enfranchisement of a race just out of slavery. With the general support of popular sentiment in the north, the negro has been eliminated as an element of control in the administration of public office in the south. The elimination of the negro may be made the pretext, but should the south suffer, it will be not for that, but for her democracy.—Albany Argus.

TARIFFS AND ROYALTIES. Aa Incident That Is Strongly Significant of Obnoxious Trost * Methods. There is nothing1 strange ih the fact that the armor plate trust, confronted with the senate threat of the establishment of a government plant for the manufacture of armor plate, suddenly discovered that it could accept contracts at a much lower figure than that for which it originally contended, and so averted a serious danger of loss of business. The incident is extremely significant of trust methods. The argument of the armor plate trust to the effect that it could not sell its product for less than $545 a ton because of a royalty of $45 per ton that had to be paid was of a kind with that other trust argument that a high protective tariff is necessary to prevent European competition which would destroy the “infant industries” now known as trusts. Admiral O’Neill proved thaMhere was no patent on the Krupp process, that royalties did not, therefore, figure in the cost—and the armor plate trust promptly closed the contract at reduced rates. Just so, confessing fhq falsity of their claims for'protection, are the tariff trusts now underselling European competitors in European markets, and, equally, by the removal of the protective tariff, should they be compelled to lower their prices to the American consumer. The trust idea, however, under the fostering care of McKinlevism, is to bleed the American government and people to the full limit as long as possible. A senate committee, ably assisted by Admiral O’Neill, has managed to outwit the armor plate trust, but this was almost accidental. The combines count confidently on the continued success of their game of robbing the American government and consumiifg public. Why, else, did they contribute so lavishly for the purpose of reeleeting Mr. McKinley ? And for what else is Mark Hanna in publio life?—St. Louis Republic. • --The wise and sound policies of true democracy, the enunciation of which, unweakened by association with less worthy principles, has always inspired a popular confidence resulting in democratic victory, must constitute the platform upon which the national democracy goes before the people.—St. Louis Republic. ——It is neither kind nor just to criticise those more or less distinguished democrats who have come over to the republican party since the , election. These gentlemen are really ^self-sacrificing nairiots. They realise that the democratic party is in need of purification; hence they get out of it.—Chicago Chronicle.