Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1891 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Thursday, February 19,1891.

'./ CORPORATION OEITCKKS : «_1 Mmhal .ABra'liam &m? 8 >n d»rk ~ ..........Cham.ks •<;. Spitm R Treasurer --•■■•■■ C. t' st any : j>t w. rd I. v \ - < i v, - . •; 2d We rd.... J M.v. Counellmen < B<l Warn E, H MokLan. . •!’!■ « .-.r-! . ...I’ARi'l!-.ire.'7 Z. TSlft Wart... ....XyMTEt..Kans.i:.. - ... ... JUD ICIAI I Circuit Judge.,. .... I.7EMIN V. llavvond,. ITosccunnp Attorney . JreixT Bkovs . I o- * * TWirijfcinZiiyi* bird Mondijj in di.ff , .. . . . ■— ■ --= JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION Crist"- If? rE ■-"■ 'I •' - •’■ - Mich-i. : 11 bins : . Tr ■: :;amlp.’ Francis Al. Uerslinran, l'msiepN;,..:Vi;Lii > cr?4» J. F.liiff. Trustee I lark Ivy tp. lira;; Greennehl. Trustee ........ "(lip. Janies 11. farr, Trustee........ .. . lordan ’p.Nnheniiali Hftckin/'TFuetee^,'... ■ ..Seaton tjfaJ. F. nrtrer.l r;:st<-. Kc< ner tp. I Hans i’.-. it iwn. ii-i! st e . •> t?» ft. li. flsti . i.- ' V . Wm. • ■' '. I rtii'ti <■ C.-.ti ' Hezektjiit=Kesler. Trustee Mfjrei lib_ Win. t iboger.-TruMee -.- t’6i iID tp • W. lE ’UnnTcr.^..!,........,. „.... itEffiingt : . Ezra J/. Clark, Rensselaer, J . F. Warren.... :■. County Supt." w ty ’-oft icyes Cler); • -nrs 1 .inf Sher:! - LafJc— . . PfllnLTß Yllpe. Audttur .....CKOHtir M. Robinson Treasurer. . . I If. WASHBrsy Rew.iicr . .. ' 7 UA-SMts Fl AY« 7 TTtt-M: Surveyor.. .... ..........James C. Tiihawls. Coroner . .. It. I’. F.kn.t amis. Bupsrit.:<«-.. -•.Il'-l-i ■■;.!!? .!.'•■ W.I'A ■- (!-' I'fs.rict, p. ?,i. : r-<: .■. oMnrta>rn>Y£ra '2d District .7 r/W ATSOff. <3*l"District 7 . 7 770 P'.'Tasoh. o<fmviiftisioKe r *' Cour^First ’I on-da in Jfarc h r urit .StlJtf -'berand

Notwithstanding the white-wp.sh-ing report of the legislative committee which went through the motions cf investigating the affairs of t’b-N •rtheru_penitentiary. the facts still remain that- Warden Murdock, contrary at least to the spirit and intention of the, law, has been; putting large sums of money into his «wn pocket every year, I her the state ought to have • li&d, derived from his “,-lop tract.;" and further that, contrary to the law, he has expended money on iinprovemviits that he ought to have turned into the state treasury, and what is still more reprehiTisibie, lie has keptTarge sums of the state’s money on deposit in the banks at Michigan City, also contrary to law, and has, no doubt, been making a nice thing out of the interest paid him by the said banks.

The house wrestled with the proposed fee and salary bill several days last week, and then sent it to a special committee with orders to report not later than Tuesday of this week The bill as it was amended and sent to the committee, provides that county clerks, auditors, treasurers and sheriffs in counties of more than 10,000 and less than 15,000 population, which includes Jasper County, shall have salaries of §1,250 each and an additional §SO for each 1000 of population in excess of 10.000. Tlrismakes the salaries §1,300 for each of the offcers mentioned. The salary of recorder —is fixed- at SI,OOO and also with an additional SSO for each 1,000 of population, above the 10,000. All fees collected by these various officers are to be turned into the county teasury. In case any of them does not collect as much in any year as his lawful salary, he gets no more than he has collected, and if he fails to collect all that the law requires, he is held to strict account The number of deputies necessary for these various officers is left to the decision of the county commissioners and in counties of the two lowest grades, the maximum pay of deputies was raised from $1.50 to $2.50 per day. Another important change adopted is in regards to the time in which it goes into effect As now amended* it will not affect any officials now in office nor any now elected. One of the most objectionable features of the law as first proposed, was that df allowing County Superintendants, about the most important officers in the connty, only $3 per day. This has been stricken out and their pay left at the old figure of $4 per day.

RECENT NAVAL PROGRESS.

The New York Engineering News says that,“less than ten years ago it was generally supposed, at home and in Europe, that if the United States could build the lighter armored class of warships it would yet have to go

abroad for the armaments of these ships; and the fact was that our manufacturers then lacked both the plant and experience required for making heavy armour plate and guns of the modem types. But both deficiencies have been «*ell and rapidly overcome. Our m-w ships are fully, equal and some of them superior to their ■European protntyq.'S; American' firms are already equipped to turn out the heavy armour plate, and i now we hear from- England that our guns are- the /best in the world.’’

"IF WE DON'T BUY WE CANNOT SELL"

Nothing seems more certain t han that. But as a matter of fact the English Board of Trade returns s-how thrrt~~Wc~sold merchandise to England valued at £95 millions and she sold to us..goQds.valued at T 4 millions; slightly over 31.8 per cent of the total commerce of the two countries consisted of sales l\v England. On the other England sold Russia millions worth of goods and took <£27, less than 24 per cent, of the total trade. But Russia has a more prohibitive Tariff than we,, and the higher lier Tariff the greater her sales to England and the less her purchases, w./_

APPEALING TO PREJUDICE.

SEpTpminent characteristic in the tactics of free trade attorneys is their persistent appeal to pre-judice—-their constant effort to iiiifinence the passions of voters, w’hose unbaised judgement would .otherwise-hold thunito the support wrfeaqwntoefesapi il i < :y. ; „ Prominent, appeals are those to the prejudice of locality. Tire relation of tariff to the varied industries of the country is rarely mentioned without references to the farmer as a Western man, ami the intimation that those engaged in. manufacturing all belong at the East. And this in face of the fact that some, of the countries figuring most prominently in the census of agricultural products-are a long distance -east of the Mississippi Valley, and the further fact that some among the heaviest manufacturing concerns in the United States are owned and operated in the great agricultural State of Illinois. These same attorneys of foreign trade delight in referring to the existing law as the war tariff. Just as if there had been no protective legislation anterior t® 1861 —when the fact is that Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Clay, Jackson, and other representative statesmen of -the then slave-own-ing states, were foremost in advocating and enacting laws for the avowed protection of domestic industries. Then we have the appeal to the prejudice of occupation for the purpose of arraying workers against the men who employ them; those who grow crops against those who transport and market the products of • the farm. And so on through the list Every man who is found to be dissatisfied with his surroundings, disappointed in his efforts to go ahead in the world, is asked to look upon Protection as the stumbling block to his ambition, and is ! promised that with free foreign trade will come those better times for which all men hope. * Appeals to prejudice would not be necessary if free trade attorneys did not realize the risk of leaving voters to follow man’s natural impulse for protection—whether to the home, by making every one’s house his castle, and restricting its privileges to family and friends—or to one’s occupation, through co-operation with fellow-workmen for securing individual rights—or to the nation, through legislation that insures to industry and enterprise in this country privileges beyond the reach of competitors in any outside nation. I I I I 1

FOE RENT. A good house and barn cheap Enquire of J. W. Paxton, at Robson <fc Ryan’s Grocery.

Farmers' Institute Resolutions.

Resoij tio.xs passed by the Jasper Cot sty .Farmers' Institite, at-, Ke.xssej.aer, Feby. 7th, 189fi YVhereas: The interests of Fannta--. a-- ttwdass. are nh-ntrc-al and that ’ they stand in urgent need of practi-1 cai organization and intelligent cooperation for mutual protection and advanee’iient, therefore be it. Rexbircdz That the present sy>teni of Fanners’ Institutes, as pro- _ vi<led f<.r by law. meets with our ■ tinqiiaJided -apttroval , gmd- we reeog- ; n.tze tin in as an eswutial factor in the inti'lligent advancement of our interests. h < That we favor a permanent organization for the purpose of holding such Institutes, at least; twice'a year. R'^)!retl That we recognize the necessity of the higher practical education of-the farmer, to fit him for ths exigencies JOf tlLe.^^progressijEe sageo in which he lives, and to this end we would encourage all proper means ■ ieaxling-uiLward to tliis desirable ac- ! complishment. ISsoh'etl-. That we favor the passage of an act which will afford adequate protection to our native insectivorous birds of this state, and request an act of the legislature for such yirotection, with suitable penalty attached for the violation -of the same; also which will provide for the extermination of the so-called English Sparrow, and further provide for the scientific investigation of birds, especially with reference to their economic relations to mgricul- .. tui'e. ... . ; Resolved-. That we are in favor of "azifixed salary for state and county oilieials. and that al! fees, collected by them, shall be paid into the treasury. and that said officials shall be required, under heavy penalty, to collect the same. Resolved: That the present road law is inadequate for the proper con"strucTiofT’amT repair of our roads, hence we favor the repeal of the same, and the enactment, of a law; tliat will give a better system. Resolved-. That we are opposed to all conbinations o£ whatex r er characterorgantzeT fe* ! =tlteqntrp^se = oT = abz normally eontroling, or nullifying tire operation of tiic natural law of supply and demand, and we favor all legislation looking to the suppression or control of such combinations. Resolved: That we tender our thanks to those from abroad who have given us such valuable assistance in this, our first Institute; we also return our thanks for the hearty co-operation which we have received from the business and professional men of .this town.

Hesoh'ed: That we are in favor of dredging the Iroquois river and removing the ledge of rock at Rensselaer, and to do this, over two hundred thousand acres of land ought to be assessed for benefits; also in favor of draining the Kankakee Valley, wherein many hundred thousands of acres would be redeemed to agriculture; and as our present statute makes the work of drainage on a large scale impracticable for the reason that full payment in cash makes practical confiscation of unimproved lands assessed, and we the farmers and land.owners of- Jasper Co. here assembled, respectfully ask the General Assembly of the State of Indiana to pass a drainage law which will enable opens xxmstructed jivitlr money realized by the sale of bonds issued and endorsed by a county or drainage district the payment of said bonds with interest in installments to be secured by assessments on the lands benelitted. David B. Nowels, 1 L. Strong, /Com. [ Lee E. Glazebrook, )

PUBLIC SALE! The undersigned will” offer at public Sale at his residence, 4 miles north of Rensselaer, in Marion tp., Jasper county, Ind., beginning at 10 o’clock A. M. on Tuesday, March 3, ’9l the following property to-wit; G head of horses, 1 fine English Draft stallion 2-year-old, 6 milk cows, (springers), 1 registered * Galloway bull, 10 high grade Galloway yearlings, 25 Duroc-Jersey swine, (all registered or elegible to registry), 1 good fishing boat, 1 two horse wagon, 1 spring wagon, 2 sets double harness, 2 mowing machines (almost new) 2 double harrows, 1 three horse John Deere sulkey plow, 1 spring tooth cultivator with broad-cast seeder, seed oats, seed corn, household furniture &c. Terms—Ten month’s credit, without interest, on sums over $5, or eight per cent, discount for cash. C. D. STACKHOUSE. Alliance People, Look Here. “The Sunlight of Truth” or UnionLabor’s Song Book is now ready. It has 29 songs, mostly original, and all adapted to familiar tunes. No sub-alliance should be without it. Single copies 10 cents. $1 for 12. Sent postage free. Address the author, D. E. Hudson, it Fair Oaks, Ind.

TOO TOUGH TO KILL.

JOHN ULREY EMPTIES HIS REVOIK ER INTO BEN SMOOT WITHOUT MUCH EFFECT. An inexplicable shooting affair occured last Sunday afternoon at the little station of Julian, about 8 miles 8 out Invest of Rensselaer, and in Newton county. The parties were John ITlrey. ex-sheriff of Newton county, and bis, brother-in-law, Ben Smoot; both being as well known in RensseTaer as the majority of our own citizens. - The affair took place in Ulrey’s house, the parties present being Ulrey, Smoot and Ulrey’s wife, who Is Smoot’s sister. : According, to the story told by Mr. Smoot and confirmed by Mrs. Ulrey, Smoot came to Ulrey’s house on “the Jatter’s invitation to play a game of 'cards, and that a few minutes after Smoot’s arrival and without there having been any altercation or quarrel of any kind, Ulrey went into an adjoining room and returning with a revolver immediately opened fire on Smoot, at a distance of only : i few feet. Five shots struck Smoot, and that he was not killed outright is a most astonishing fact. He was struck once on the back of the neck and twice in the head, but all the bullets happened to strike in such a manner as not to penetrate deeply, but passed on through just under the skin, or a little deeper as was the case with the. neck wound. He was also hit Twice, in. the hand, either by different bullets or the same ones. Neither of the hand wounds were at all serious. Aftei- Ulrey’s pistol was einptied,~ lie appears to have -beaten Smoot with t.-1 yC! "tV € l 111 (311 over tire head, the hammers cutting several holes in the scalp, such being the statement of Dr. A . E. Loughiidge, who was called to assist in dressing the injured man’s wounds. Sinoot was able to walk to the house of a neighbor, and by them he was assisted to his own house. He is not confined to his bed. and says that nothing less than a G pound cannon can kill him. Smoot had a small breech loading* rifle with him, a weapon which he had been carrying constantly, for some time past, even when awav from home, as at Rensselaer. He

is also said to have had a revolver with him. Ulrey has a bullet hole in his hand, and says Smoot shot him. He also says that Smoot shot several times, after he had got outside the house. His rifle, however, was left inside the room where the shooting occurred. After the shooting Ulrey remarked to his wife that Smoot had threatened to kill him, and that he had to shoot first to save his own life. There are rumors that Smoot believed an undue intimacy existed between his wife and Mr. Ulrey, and there is good reason to believe that Smoot had made many mysterious threats and demonstrations which had led Ulrey to believe that Smoot was watching his chance to kill him. After the shooting Ulrey went to Kentland and was put under SSOO bonds to appear before the circuit court, by Justice Heilman. Mr. Ulrey has always, heretofore, borne an excellent reputation as an industrious and peacable man, and tnat he has often rendered valuable assistance to Smoot, there is good evidence. His deadly attack seems inexplicable except upon the theory that Smoots mysterious. threats and demonstrations had kept him in such a state of fear as to partly unbalance his mind.

Some Census Figures.

The following table giving the census population of Jasper and adjoining counties, for 1890, and also for 1880, for comparison. Also the per cent, of increase during the ten years: Counties. 1880. 1890. percent. Jasper 9464 11185 18 Bentonllloß 11903 8 Carrolllß34s 20021 9 Lake.. 15091 23886 37 LaPorte.... 30985 34445 11 Newton 8167 8803 7 Porterl7227 18052 Pulaski 9851 11233 13. 5tark....... 5105 7339 43 Whitel379s 15671 13 Fresh Graham flour and fresh corn meal at Ilexter & Cox.

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