Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1891 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN, Thursday, June 11,1891.

DIEECTOET CORPORATION OFFICERS : Mirsh&l M. h. Warm**-. Clark ...Chahi.es G. sntlkr. Traasnrer.; .. C.C. Starr (Ist Ward .J. It. Vakatta. |2d Ward S H. Warkkr. Councilmec-i 8d Wara J. H S Ecus. . t ithWard Paris H arrison. I sth Ward.. Ascii. Woodworth. JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION J. C. Gwin Trustee, Hanging Grove tp. Michael Robinson. Trustee..... ..Gillum tp. Francis M. Hershmttn, Trustee Walter tp J. F.lliff. Trustee Barkley tp. **ui. Greenfield, Trustee Marion tp. Junes H,Carr, Trustee Jordan tp. Nehemiah Hopkins Trustee.. Newton tp. J. F. Bruner, 1 rustee Keener tp. Hans Paulson. Trustee Kankakee tp. S. D. Clark, Trustee Wheatfle.d tp. Wr. O. Road iter, Trustee Carpenter tp. Hezekial. Kester, Tru5tee............Mi1r0y tp, Wn. Cooper, Trustee Arnion tp. W. H. Ooovcr Kcmiugton. Ezra L. Clark.:, .Rensselaer, Js F. Warren., County Sups. - JUDICIAL Circuit Judge Edwin P. Hammond, Prosecuting Attorney John T. Brows. Term* of Court—Firet Monday in January; Third Monday in March; Ftnt Monday in June; Third Monday in October. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk ... JamrsF.lrwin Sheriff Phidlip Blur. Auditor Gxorgk M. Robinson Treasurer I B. Washburn - Recorder-........ .. Jambs F. Antrim. Surveyor James C. Thrawls. Coroner B. P. Benjamin. Superintendent Public Schools .. J. F Warren (Ist District. . .T. M.QCrrht. Commissioners ?*d District .. .3 .F. Watson. «d District O.P.Tabor. Commissioners' Court—Firet Monday tin March Tune.SepteoJer and December

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The Legislature virtually killed the movement for the removal of the rocky ridge in the Kankakee river at Momenee. That fool nmendment they passed requiring the commissioners to give bonds for the completion of the work within an appropriation not half large enough, was its death-blow. Two of the three Commissioners have resigned and no one can oe found willing to take their places, under the conditions of the law.

Last Thursday President Harrison appointed Hon. W. D. Owen, of this district, to be Superintendent of Immigration, a very responsible and important position, created in the last Congress. Mr. Owen is peculiarly well fitted for the position, having made a special study of the subject of immigration and the needs of the country in regard thereto. One of the most important and doubtless, beneficial acts of the last Congress was to pass the bill regulating and restricting undesirable immigration which bears Mr. Owen’s name and which was introduced by him. The office pays $4,000 a year, is located at Washington, has a chief clerk at $2,000 a year and several minor clerks in the office. Altogether it is a desirable, as well as an important and honorable position.

AS IMMATURE POLITICAL MOVEMENT

The platform of the People’s Party shows that it is chiefly nn expression of discontent, not a marshalling of intelligent forces for a definite purpose. Conspicuous

citizens, statesmen, familiar political leaders, and profound constitutional lawyers unitecMn the formation of the party. But the late Cincinnati Convention contained no prominent citizen, nobody who can be called a leader or a representative of anything but dissatisfaction, and a vague hope of something better than the existing situation. It' proposed nothing which was apparently “thought out jor which at once commends itself to the average good sense of the country. The movement is evidently immature.- — Harpers? Weekly. * Y

A Forcible Statement.

I do not believe that the government can make money by law any more than it can make good crops by law. The government cannot support the peopled- The people have to support the government The government is a perpetual pauper. I asK this one question-If the the government can make money why should it collect faxes ? Why not make what it needs and stop bothering people? —Col, Ingersol.

WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

By Hon, William P. Frye,

States Senator from Maine. Wrltten;for American Economist. Because facts confront us, not theories. I have seen the wageearners of Great Britain and Continental Europe; know how they live; that they are homeless and landless, as far as ownership is concerned; that they are helpless and hopeless as to any brighter future for themselves or their children ; that, in their scant wages, there is no margin for misfortune *nd sickness, pauperism being the only refuge. I know that in this Republic the prudent, temperate ami industrious worker is sure of an abundant reward: that his ambition to succeed seldom meets with failure; that he owns lands and home; that luxuries to the European are necessities to the American. How then can we compete with the former and maintain our superiority in these regards? Steam and electricity have made of the world one neighborhood, eliminatng largely the protection once afforded by time, distance and transportation. There is one wav only of solving this problem: Legislation for our own. a Tariff for Protection.

MORE REAL McKINLEY PRICES.

All over the States and even into the manufacturing districts of France and England our articles on the Tariff have been quoted. We have had letters from varied and wide directions asking for desired proof of our assertions on the McKinley bill. We have gladly given them, and now to save further correspondence we must iusist on a visit to our place of business for further explanations. As an instance of the condition, without delaying to interpret the cause, we are selling regular 64x64 print at 6 cents. A year ago they were 7 cents; regular count gingham now 10 cents, a year ago 124 cents; 3 pound sheetings 7 cents, a year ago 8 cents; Nos. 4,5, 7,9, 12 and 16 silk ribbons 25 per ceut, less than a year ago. American hosiery 50 per cent. less. Underwear,Tan article of large consumjir ticra 10 per cent, less now. This is the dirge of the “McKinley prices” humbug. It isuotliing to the song we’ll soon sing o’er the grave of the “tin-plate liar.”— American Economist.

Tariff Pictures.

We are making an increased percentage every year of the iron we use. We imported from England 32,504 tons mmmuunmiMllil'imT——|—nW of pig iron in the first four months of IS9O, and only 12,341 tons in the first four months of 1891. New York Press Tariff Pictures. Chemnitz is where the Germaus make certain woolen goods on which the McKinley bill increased the duties so as to import the industry. During the first quarter of 1890 we imported upholstered stuffs from the Chemnitz Consular district to the amount of 8111,427.48. During the first quarter of 1891 we imported from the, same district only 853,356.98 of the same goods. New York Press. See the nice hats at Mrs. Lecklider’s Go and see Bob Phillips’ neat little barber shops and let the new barber give you an artistic shave and haircutting. Notwithstanding the big advance in coffee you can buy fresh roasted coffee at C. C. Starr’s at the old price.

THE NEW LAWS NOW IN FORCE.

A Synopsis »f Their Most ftnportant Features The acts.of the last Indiana Legislature have been published? and are now in full force, except in the few instances where the acts are to take effect at a later date, as in case of the fee and salary bill. The acts with their index,, make a volumeof nearly 600 pages. Below we give a brief summary of the provisions of such of the laws as are of general interest to the people: i>One act persons from wearing the badges or using the cards of the G. A. R., Sons of Veterans or other military orders,, under penalty of a fine not exceeding SIQ.

All hedges or live fences along highways must be trimmed down not to exceed 5 feet in bight every year. If the owners don’t trim, them, the road supervisors must, and the ownea has to stand the expense. companies, in. all towns of 250 or more population, must provide suitable waiting rooms and keep the same open for at least one hour previous to all schedule trains that stop. Also must provide separate

water closets for men and women. Penalty, a fine of S2O to S3OO. Any person who enters a horse for a race or prize under a wrong name or out of its proper class, is guilty of a misdemeanor. The penalty is a fine not to exceed SI,OOO, or jail not to exceed 6 months; or penitentiary not more than three years. Widowers are given one-third of their wives’ estates, or may take what the wife wills them, if they prefer. No honorably discharged Uni' n soldier or sailor, of the late war, shall be compelled to work on highways.

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Corporations and associations are charged graduated fees, for filing articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Religious and charitable societies, $5. Building and Loan societies, capital of $50,000 or less, $lO. Over $50,000 one twenty-fifth of one per cent, of capital stock. Other corporations, $lO, if stock is under $10,000; or if over, one-tei th of one per cent, of authorized capital.

The school book law was amended so as to require the furnishing of a spelling book, a primary physiology, an elementary grammar, a complete grammar and a lnstoiy of the United States. All public buildings, like opera houses, theaters, colleges, churches, schools, museums Ac. must have their outside doors arranged to open outwards. One-story churches and schools are excepted from this' law. Wild birds, their nests and eggs, are rigidly protected, under penalties of from $lO «to SSO fine, to which may be added imprisonment of from 5 to 30 days. All wild birds come under this law except game birds, English Sparrows, crows and birds of prey. The destroying or takingof eggs or nests is punished the same as killing the birds. Under certain conditions persons may obtain premits to collect birds, nests or eggs, for strictly scientific purposes, from the Excutive Board of the Indiana Academy of Science.

Town Boards and City Councils are authorized to lay out public parks, to levy taxes to pay for them and to condemn private property for parks, when necessary. The provisions of the legislative and congressional apportionment bills have already been explained. Their gerrymander features have been improved upon in many parts of the state, but these congressional, senatorial, and legislative districts remain as they were at the last election.

The Australian election law is extensively amended, but, for the most part, in unimportant particulars. Election sheriff’s can be paid for as many days’ service members of the Election Board, instead of only for one day, as heretofore. Political parties are allowed to pay for the services of one poll book holder and one challenger, for each precinct, but not more than $3 for each election. The fojju of the ballot is changed somewhat. The large square which formerly was placed at the left of the titles, are hereafter to inclose the device or picture at the head of the fcket, that is the rooster, eagle <fcc., and to be not less than inches square. The method of voting is not charged matrially; except the u:e of a “paster” is The paster must be a complete party ticket, be exactly uniform in size with the ticket, on the official ballots 1 and be pasted upon the same so as to completely cover the* party ticket which it represent. A preson using a paster must vote for the same names on the paster and none other, and no person can use a paster unless he wishes to vote for names not already upon the ball fit. The provisions regarding the pasters are numerous and complex and the proverbial Philadelphia lawyer would be puzzled* to use one and not have his entire ballot thrown out. In vo'ing, hereafter, great care must be taken that the stamp touches some part of all the squares aimed at, for if any stampmark fails to touch a square, it is re-

garded as “distinguishing mark.” land the ballot must be thrown out Initials of polls clerks are to Won the *j>per Tight hand corner hereafter Another act regarding badges, uniforms dec.,- of secret societies, prohibits unauthorized persons- from wearing any of them, of any society. Fine not to exceed SSO. The unconstitutional partial registry law of two year* ago was re-en-acted, with some slight to -eonlorm it to the Supreme Court’s decision. .

Railroad-companies are re juired to keep a flagman at every crossing of a public highway and a track used regularly for switching purposes, whenever the County Commissioners iso order. The flagman to remain on. duty from 6 A. M. to 8 P. M., every day. Penalty from SIOO to SI,OOO. Hereafter the plats for additions to towns and cities must be submitted! to the town board for approval, before county recorders are permitted, to put the same upon their records. The act providing for an Indiana. Worlds exhibit fair,, starts-outt with tbis very resounding preamble:; Whereas, it is of great importance, that the natural resources,, industrial, development and. general progress of the State of Indiana, should be fully and creditably shown to the world, at said Exposition,” and, then, follow® the appropriation of the pitiful sum of $25,000. “Most lame and impotent conclusion” as the lamented Shakespear expresses it. Sundays, New Years, Fourth, of July, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, Washington's- Birthday, Labor Day (the Ist Monday in Seeptember) and all general, election days, are declared legal holidays, and all notes and other negotiable paper falling due upon any o£ them, shall be deemed as maturing the day pre vkws. -

Lawful fences are defined. If straight wire, straight board, picket or hedge, to be 4 feet high; straight rail, feet; worm rail 5 feet; and all tight enough to hold hogs, sheep, cattle, horses and mules. Partition fences must bp maintained by both parties equally, throughout the year, except as otherwise agreed. When owners refuse to build sufficient partition fences, the Trustee must do it, and the cost is made a lein on the land. Waste and overflowed land and uninelosed wood-lands, are excepted from this law.

That former law which operated to exempt unplatted tracts of 5 acres or more, inside of town or city corporations, from corporation taxes, was repealed. If a man dies testate one third of his personal property goes to his widow, whilher he wills her any of not; but she may take what the will, gives if she prefers so to do. The anti-hunting law was so amended that whoever hunts on enclosed land without the written consent of of the owner is finable from $5 to 50. No prosecutions however under this law without the consent of the land owner. The fee and salary bill, the tax law, the dog registry law, and the new drainage law have already been fully explained in these columns.

From the S. S. Association President.

Litchfield Mich., May 21, 1891. Editor Republican —We were glad to see Mr. W. J. Miller of your place, formerly a resident of Litchfield, with his genial smile among us again, though we regret that he has not ooucluded to make his permanent business residence in our village. Mr. Miller returned just in time attend our - County Sunday School Convention which was held in this place May 26th and 27th, and was largely attended by the workers of the county and different parts of the state. Some of the attractions and decorations of the church were the maps and charts prepared by Mr. Miller who is really an artist, an enthusiast, in this branch of Sunday School work, and has done much good by his illustrations, to raise the standard of Sunday School work in this county. We understand that Mr. Miller is to return to your place soon and we feel that his departure will be a loss to us, but it will be a gain to you if you appreciate and secure his services in this branch of Sunday School work in which he takes a great interest.

H. N. TURRELL,

Pres. Hillsdale Co. S. S. Assoc.

Ladies’ genuine hand-turned shoes $2.50 to $5, at Hemphill «fc Honan’s. We have just received a very fine stock of Ladies’ and misses’ spring wraps, in cloth and stockmelle, in (the very latest styles, and at the very lowest prices. Call and examine. J. H. Willey <fe Son. r ■ Please call and settle your account at once. • We need the money to settle our bills. Yonr accounts may be small but a hundred such, amounts to cpnsiderable to us. * Hemphill & Honan. The finest and best line of fine shoes to be found in Jasper county, at J. H. Willey & Son’s.

THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

The Board continued its sessions until Wednesday of, this week, being unable to complete the large amount of business before them in one week. Yesterday morning the Board appointed Harvey W. Wood, of Marion tp., County Assessor;.than whom no better man for the place could "have: men. found. *" - The consideration of and disposal of claims has occupied a considerable portion of the session, as usual.

Oliver Turner was appointed a. constable in Kankakee tp. 1 The bond of Treasurer Elect M. H. Hemphill was approved. It is a Solid document, containing the sigtnatures of the following named gentlemen: Marcus H. Hemphill, M. ILGhilcote, H. O. Harris, S. R. Nichols, David Nowels, Was. W. Murray, Wa. Greenfield, H. E-Coen, John Martindale, J. C. Gwin, J. F. Iliff, A: Leopold, M. L». Hemphill, L Si* Hemphill, Harvey W. Wood, J. T. Randle, Stephen T. Comer, Wm. M. Hoover. ; The regular and special school | book bonds of Superintendent J. F. ; Warren, were approved. Thebonds- ; men are Messrs J; W. Cowden, E&. Li Clark, J. T. Randle and A. Parkison, on the regulasr bond, and on, the special, Messrs. Cowden and Claris.

DlffmsXCORD. A petition, with the necessary bond, was filed asking for viewers and a preliminary survey for a. ditch under the nese law, of last winter. It is expected that the ditch will start somewhere in. White Co. , anikfcxtend through tliet Wakarusha Marsh and Big Slough,.to the Iroquois river, a few miles below Rensselaer With main ditch.and laterals it wid include a great many miles of di&ch, and drain a big scope of cour tfry. The Board appointed John E. Alter viewer and Joel Dunn surveyorjfor Jaspen Co., who-will forthwith make a preliminary, survey, in conjunction with a viewesi and surveyor appointed by the White County Board. The Boards of the two -sonnties Trill Hold m joint meeting tb receive She reports, at Rensselaer j Ally 6th. Reviewers were appointed for the Prevo ditch, in Gillam- tp., and for the Drake ditch in Hanging Grove. ’ The Cain ditch, in Jordan tp,, was ordered constructed.

ROADS AND MtIDGES. Only one new road petitioned for this term; one half mile long, in Wheatfield tp., by G. O. Stembel, et al. Viewers, D. E. Fairchild, Samp Erwin and Jacob. Haan. Date of viewing June 29. Two new' iron bridges were contracted for with the Canton Wrought Iron Bridge Co. One over Hilt’s slough, in Barkley tp., to cost, complete, $895. The other over Ditch No. 4, in Jordan, to cost $704. Tuesday of this week the Board went to Hammond to meet with the Board of Porter Co.; to confer in regard to the proposed bridge over the Kankakee, near DeMotte. The Range Line Gravel Road matter has made exceellent progress. The report of the second board of viewers was filed and accepted, and the building of the road ordered, dames C. Thrawls, county surveyor, was appointed Superintendent. Contracts for the work are to be let July 6 and the work to be completed by Oct. 10th. The auditor is directed to perform all his required duties, including the procuring of the necessary jbfantefaoinb. it is un some of the .opponents of the road have expressed their intention to take an appeal to the circuit court.

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