People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1896 — Page 6
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Warner & Colliijs, Three doors south of McCoy’s Bank, Bensselaer. South Side * * * * * * * Grocery. s Highest Price Paid for Batter and Eggs. CHAMPI©Ni B,MBBRS MOWERS BUCKEYE I REAPERS and other Farming Implements. LJ U vJvJ I Eu, The reputation of these thoroughly _ modern harvesters, Champion and S) RJ Jl \l\lEj O , Buckeye, have won here places them in the front ranks of favor - WAGONS. .All. Have the kindness to get prices and terms from Warner Jh Collins bofore buying. I
Call for Conference.
It is now demonstrated that the educational work accomplished by the People’s Party has so far affected the people of the United States that the comparatively insignificant number of 25,000 votes, properly distributed in the last election, would have resulted in crystalizing our cherished ideas into law. This significant fact emphasises the importance of continuing the grand and patriotic work of education without cessation, and for the purpose of deciding upon an organized campaign of education tobe pushed vigorously till the next election it is thought necessary that a call be issued for a conference of the populists to meet at Indianapolis, Tuesday, Dec. 29th, 1896, at 10 a. m., in room 35, English Hotel. All Silver Republicans and all other Money Reformers are earnestly requested to participate in the conference. Members of the People’s Party state central committee and members of the executive committee are hereby called to meet on the same day in room 35, of said Hotel. Important business. Julius Rosenheiner. Chairman.
Populist Mayor Elected.
Walter L, Baiustlell Wins the Figlit at iyoB) Mass, —Municipal Contests. Boston, Mass., Dec. 15.—The municipal elections in five cities outside of Boston to-day were very quiet. The result in Lytin was all the more surprising in that the populists elected their candidate for mayor by a majority of 1,899. Walter L. Ramsdell, the populist candidate, received 5.845 votes to 3,946 for Charles H. Baker, the republican candidate. The republicans carried the board of aldermen, and there was a victory in favor of license by a vote of 1,600, nearly two to one. A street commissioner, twelve aldermen, seventy-five councilmen, nine school committeemen and license were voted for in this city. Enough precincts had been heard from at midnight to indicate the election of John H. Duane, democrat, street commissioner and license, by 10,000 majority. The indications are that the republicans have gained one member in the council, makiug the board tied politically at six. In Cambridge Alvin F. Sartwell, democrat, was elected mayor, defeating the democraticindependent candidate by over 2,000, and no license triumphed, as usual, oy 1,700 majority. Andrew R. Curtis, democrat, was elected mayor of Newburyport, and the city voted license by 135 as against 357 last year. The aldermen elected were all independent citizen’s nominees. The republicans swept Chalsea, electing Herman W. Pratt mayor, and voting no license by 231. North Adams democrats reelected Albert C. Houghton, and the city voted license by 295.
Two Silver Champions.
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Interchangeable 1000-Mile Tickets.
Every traveling man should have one. They cost but S2O each and can be purchased of any agent of the Monon route. They are good for one year from date of sale and good for passage on the following lines: Baltimore & Ohio R. R. (Lines west of Pittsburg and Benwood, including Wheeling & Pittsburg Division); Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R’y. (Form L 38), all divisions; Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg R’y; Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton R. R. (Form I. D. 2), all divisions; Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia R. R. (between Cincinnati and Portsmouth only); Cleveland Terminal & Valley R’y; Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo R’y; Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking R. R. (Form J); Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western R’y; Indiana, Decatur & Western R’y;' Indiana, Illinois & lowa R. R; Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis R. R. (Form B) (Good only for continuous passage between Louisville and Evansville, Evansville and St. Louis, and Louisville and St. Louis); Louisville, New Albany & Chicago R’y; New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R; Pittsburg, Shenango & Lake Erie R. R; Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City R. R. (Form L 8); Wheeling & Lake Erie R’y (Form H.) The above lines afford the commercial traveler access to the principal cities and towns in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky, with through lines to St. Louis.
The train service of the Monon Route includes all the conveniences devised to make traveling a pleasure. Vestibuled trains, with parlor and dining cars on all day trains; Pullman buffet and compartment sleeping cars on all night trains. Special features: Steam Heat, Pintsh Light. Sidney B. Jones, City Pass. Ag’t. 232 Clark St., Chicago. Geo. W. Hayler, Dißt. Pass. Ag’t, 2 W. Washington So., Indianapolis. E. H. Bacon, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, 4th 1 and Market Sts., Louisville. W. H. McDoel, Receiver and Gen’l Mgr. Frank J. Reed, Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. General Offices: 198 Custom House Place, Chicago.
W. H. BEAM, Agent.
THE PEOPLE'S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1896.
PUBLIC FORUM
Drainage Laws. March 4, 1893, the Indiana legislature passed a law providing for the formation of drainage districts. The first drainage law in Indiana was passed June 11* 1852, and almost every legislature since has either modified some existing law, or enacted some mew one providing for the drainage of wet and over-flowed lands. The drainage district law differs in all respects from all tne other drainage laws. It is said that this law was prepared by one B. F. Gifford of Kankakee, 111., and through.his influence became a law. The law provides for two methods of forming districts, one by petition, and one by agreement. B. J. Gifford owns large bodies of land in Barkley, Gillam, Walker, and Wheatfield townships in this county and has cut large ditches through his lands by dredges and some of those ditches are said to be failures without additional work. Gifford succeeded in forming a drainage district under the agreement part of the law in which he had the small land owners at his mercy. The people appealed to the courts and the supreme court declared the agreement part of the law unconstitutional on the ground that the law “authorises the assessments of special benefits to one man’s property for the benefit of another even though the pro posed drain will not be of public utility and will not promote the public health. The other part of the law will doubtless be declared void when brought before the courts. The opinion was delivered by Judge Monks. The failure of the drainage district was a sore disappointment to Gifford, but he probably has other schemes to present to the coming legislature and he doubtless hopes to have a law enacted, by which he can compell the small land owners to contribute largely for the drainage of his lands, or sell their lands to.him at his own figures. There are only a few counties in this state that have an interest in the drainage laws and none greater than those that lav in the Kankakee valley. The senators and representatives of other counties have never specially investigated the ditch laws and are willing to listen to the statements of the land owners of the Kankakee region. The land owners of Barkley, Gillam, Walker, and Wheatfield townships, should send some man, who understands their interests to Indianapolis when the legislature convenes to appear before the drainage committee and represent their interests and to keep the committee informed as to the wants and needs of our people. They should not lay on their backs until Gifford has them bound hand and foot. Large land-owners are a curse to any country for he “who owns the soil owns the people on the soil because he controls the conditions by which they live.” This is not a party question, but a question of the existence of the people of those townships. Do they desire one man, a non-resi-dent of the state to control their destinies and eventually the destinies of the county? Some claim that Gifford has been a benefactor to this county. Who has he benefitted? Has it been the land-owners near Burk’s bridge, whose land he has overflowed and depreciated in value? Has it been Jasper county, which he has required to spend thousands of dollars to build bridges? Has it been the small land owners, whose land he has taken under contracts to drain them? Let the people arouse themselves before they become tenants of this man Gifford.
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The World in Brief.
Chicago school teachers are incensed because scrub women visit the schoolrooms but three times each year. President-elect McKinley was the guest of National Committeeman Charles C. Dawes of Evanston, 111., Sunday. While the family was at dinner Sunday burglars broke into the residence of Mrs. Frank Pardridge and stole SI,OOO worth of diamonds. Lodgers in the police stations are more numerous this winter than ever before. The majority do not come under the classification of bums, but are honest men out of work. LaGrange 111. women are excited over the swindle perpetrated upon them by a woman calling herself Mrs. Patrick. She collected $1.50 worth of hair combings and taxed the women $2.50 each. She will be prosecuted. Harvard orators downed Princeton men in the PrincetonHarvard debate. Frank C. Mills, treasurer of the Boston Safe Deposit Company is confessed defaulter for a sum approximating SIOO,OOO. Custom clerks in New York laugh at Secretary Carlisle’s orded to label all imports. They claim it is impractiable to enforce. There is a rumor on Wall Street that the fortune left by Jay Gould is breaking up. Armour ■end Pulman have declared war on Edwin Gould.
Abraham Slimmer of Waveriy lowa, who left that city recently, has issued a card denying that he was either abducted, drugged by enemies or is crazy. Tom Sharkey, the pugilist, drew $8,500 from the'bank, his winnings in the recent fiasco. The bank retained $1,500 to satify garnishments. Professor John Trowbridge of Harvard has discovered that with the power of 10,000 volts the X-rays are just visible, and die out as soon as the current is diminished. The daughter of Sig, Crispi, the Princess Lingua-Glossa, has eloped with one of her servants. Brazil and Italy have notified the Spanish government that they will not recognize the Cubans as belligerents. Harry Ulrici, 15 North Center avenue. Chicago, picked up ssl in bills on Fifth avenue yesterday and was taken to the Central station by a policeman who noticed the act Later the money was claimed by Attorney W. E. Hughes. Three masked men terrorized Henry Glamann and his sdn in their grocery at 2883 Main street Monday night add robbed the cash drawer of $34.47.
Thomas A. McClain, of Chicago, took morphine with sucidal intent Monday night because he lost money in suspended banks. He may recover. A mortgage for $1,000,000 in favor of George Sherman of New York as trustee and signed by Robert Lauglin as president of the Union Consolidated Elevated Railway Company of Chicago was filed for record Monday. The big department stores are suffering more that usual this year from the raids of shoplifters. Three highman followed Jerome Spencer to his home in Chicago in order to rob him. They secured a diamond stud valued at SSO.
Police Captain Chapman of New York charges that Herbert B. Seeley, a member of Gotham’s swagger set, hired women to dance nude before a party of his friends in private dining rooms at Sherry’s. Fully a score of miners were entombed in a mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. The majority have been rescued. Four or five are believed to be dead. Deputy Sheriff Hanson of Thermopolis, Wyo., shot and instantly killed Thomas Bird, a cattle magnate, because he attended his dance uninvited. Benjamin Haywood and Eva Good, an eloping couple from Clark county, Kentucky, blew out the gas in their room at a hotel in Jeffersonville, Ind., but were rescued. Mrs. Cecelia Franklin, the St. Louis authoress, died Monday night from the effects of an overdose of cocoaine.
A mining company has been organized at Guthrie, Ok. with a capital stock of $500,000. Marriages of seventeen Chicago couples were recorded in Milwaukee Monday. Andrew Hart is under arrest at Lemville. lowa, charged with murdering his son, Andrew Hart, Jr., Dec. 13. Striking cabmen in New York are growing unruly and have made several assaults on nonunion men. The Patriarch’s ball, the ancient and rashionable function of New York society, was held Monday nighs at the Waldorf. Sheriff Gunderson of Norman county, Minn., shetand killed an unidentified bank robber at Rolette, N. D., Monday night. Greator New York will be divided into five borrougns and ten council districts. A National Federation of Building Trades is about to be formed with headquarters at St. Louis.
Condensed Testimony.
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PIOwSHiBT Pork. Veal, Mutton, Sausage, etc., sold In quantities to suit purchasers at the Lowest Prices. None but the best stock slaughtered. Everybody Is invited to call. The Highest Price paid for GOOff CATTLE. J. J. EIGLESBACH, Proprietor. THE WALLACE Machine and Foundry Co. LAFAYETTE. ENGINE INDIANA. AND • • BOILER SECOND AND REPAIRING MECHANIC STREETS S SPECIALTY / MANUFACTURERS OF Structural Iron Work, Engines, Boilers, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers and Brass and Iron Castings of Every Description
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Jasper ® Tile® Works, TWO MILES NORTH OF RENSSELAER. ' Ml ANUFACTUREKS of superior drain tile. Manufacture tile l¥l sizes from 4to 16 inches in diameter. Will duplicate prices\ of any person handling tile in the county for like amount, and same terms. Works fitted up with latest improvements in machinery and kiln. Those contemplating using sizes from 12 to 16 in. in diameter call at works and get prices and leave order. A. E & H. A. ALTER. A. L,. Willis, Bicyclesmith and ' Gun rwalroRepairing; of all kinds. Has complete line of extras for 1 ° , alll kinds of wheels. New tubes, rims, pedals, etc. A specialty of cleaning bicycles. Ordinary handle bars changed to adjustible at small cost. Opposite Xoicels Mouse Block, Bensselaer .
Isaac Clazebrook Scientific /^j| AND GENERAL BLACKSMITHING i agricultural implements and all of machinery. Wheelwright in connec MUL Benssel&erflntL Sayl ° r C. P. KAHLER, Blacksmithing, Horse Shoeing WAGONMAKING. ALL WORK NEATLY DONE. Bensselaer. Ind.
R. T. CLINTON, Foresman, Ind., E GENERAL BLACKSMITH ' and WAGONMAKER. CEEAPEST CA SE WORKMAN IN TEE COUNTRY. 4 New Shoes SI.OO, 4 Old Shoes 60c, NEW PLOW SHAKES $2.50 to $2.75. All Work Warrented First Class.
C. W. Duvall, The only reliable llaekman In town. | DUVAL’S ’BUSS makes all trains, phone 147, or Nowels House. Transfer wagon in con- \ nection with’bus. Calls to all parts of the city promptly attended to.
;; fjß MRS. HUGH TREMOR, %nt, Remington, Ind.