Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — Real Estate Transfers [ARTICLE]

Real Estate Transfers

The Treasury officials are finding difficulty in handling the gold reserve which has now passed the $150,000,000 mark. This condition presents a slight contrast to the bond-selling Cleveland administration. The attitude of the Administration in regard to the SpanishCuban question is sufficiently vigorous to show people that its action is to be clear and determined and for the best interests of the Cubans as well as the people of the United States. Great Britan's refusal to open the mints of India to silver in advance of any international agreement does not signify, as many assume, that she has no interest in the expansion of silver as a money metal. On the Contrary, it is understood that she will promptly send delegates to attend an international conference looking to this end.

It is a comparatively small matter for such an expert theorist as Mr. Bryan to explain to farmers all about the silver and wheat business and it is hard to understand how that class of citizens can be so dull of comprehension as not to grasp his line of reasoning immediately. It must be very annoying to a broad-gauge orator to talk to people who presist in staying unconvinced. “When rogues fall out honest meii get their dues’’ is the old saying. It should be reversed to read, “when honest men fall out rogues get everything in sight," when applied to politics. As witness the overwhelming victory of Tammany in Greater New York. There the honest and decent elements of the population divided their votes among three or four candidates, and the corrupt and ignorant element carried the election by an immense majority.

What will the cheap.money men do, now that silver at 16 to lis becoming more and more unpopular? Will they abandon the issue entirely and drift into greenbackism, pure and simple, or or will they adopt single-taxism and such other fallacies? It is a logical step from forty cent silver to unlimited paper money, and it is only a question in the minds of the silverites as to whether this will be sufficiently popular with the masses. I That was a “cold bluff” that our foreign friends were working on |

us when they insisted, during the consideration of the Dingley tariff bill that its adoption would force them to exclude our merchandise in retaliation. The exports of grain and manufactured articles go on just the same as before, increasing rather than decreasing, and none of the nations which threatened such terrible things as a result of our protective tariff have reduced their demand or show any serious disposition to cut off the supplyof our products which they are purchasing from month to month before the adoption of the Dingley law. The revenues of the telegraph companies will fall considerably below the estimated amounts for the fall months, owing to the nonappearance of long repoits and press dispatches announcing the reasons why the Empire of Japan ought to have retained the silver standard instead of adopting gold. Those three silver statesmen who went to Japan last summer to procure this information seem to fail to realize the intense anxiety which the people of the United States have awaited their report.

Explanatory Note : All are warranty deeds when not otherwise Specified. The date, given in the different items, are the dates of the deeds tnemselves, showing when execut’ ed. The “nw” “ne” “se” "Sw,” mean North west quarter, Northeast quarter, etc., and denote a quarter section, or 160 acres; "uX nw” would mean half of a quarter section, or 80 acres, “ne sw’’means the norti.esst quarter of the southwest quarter, or 40 acres The flgures as 30-29-7, mean section 30, township 29. range 7. Geo. B. Parkison to Joseph V. Parkison, Oct. 19, s pt sw nw 26-29-6. 37 acres, Marion SISOO. Ada Elmore to Charles E. Elmore, Oct. 25, Its 11, 12, bl 7, C, & M. Add. Remington sl. Nelson Randle to Hugh W. Porter, Oct. 4, w| sw, ne sw, s| nw 36-30-6, 200 acres, Barkley S6OOO. Hugh W. Porter to Nelson Randle, et ux, Oct. 4, same as above S6OOO. James H. Meyers to Andrew W. Dike, Oct. 27, It 1, n| It 2, bl 1, McD’s Add. DeMotte $441. Daniel S. Makeever to Charles E. Handley, Oct. 19, und |sw ne 7-29-7, 20 acres, Newton, adm’s deed, $790. > James F. Irwin, Com’r to Rolla T. Newman, Oct. 21, n| nw 7-29-6, pt sw 6-29-6, 104 acres, Marion, Com’r deed, $4500. W. W. & Rose Anu Murray to Ellsworth Iliff, Oct. 15, Its 18 to 27 bl 1, It 15 bl 6, Sunnyside Add. Rens. SSOO. Emma F. Sayers et al to Lorinda McGlinn, Oct. 19, pt nw nw 17-31-6, It 2 bl 3, Hogan, S9OO. Rens. L. & Imp. Co. to Edwin Hollin, Oct. 27, Its 1,2, bl 27, Weston’s 2nd Add. Rens. $125. Larkin H. Whitaker to Carrie McNeil, Oct. 28, pt ne sw 25-32-6, Wheatfield, (town) SIOOO. Margaret E. Thompson to David J. Thompson, Nov, 1, Its 3,4, bl 14, Clark’s Add. Rens. $l6O. John F. Warren, Com’r to Jas. C. Passons, Oct. 18, pt sw 19-29-6, It 6 bl 16, Leopold’s Add. Rens, com’r deed, S3OO.