The Brookville Democrat from Brookville, Indiana • Page 4

DEMOCRAT. M. H. IRWIN, EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

The subscription price of THE DEMOCRAT $1.50 per year. If paid strictly advance a reduction of 50 cents per year will be allowed. Subscribers who wish to secure it at the low price of One Dollar per year should bear in mind that payment is required to be made promptly in advance. All arrearages are calculated upon the basis of $1.50 per year or at the rate of 3 cents per week for a part of a year. BROOKVILLE.

INDIANA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1897. Quarterly Report. Report of the Board of Health for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1897: Number of MarriagesJuly.

5 August 10 14 September Total 29 Number of DeathsJuly. August Total. Number of BirthsJuly. 60 August 21 Total 75 Still Births. A Plurality 10 Number cases of Scarlet Fever.

a Number of cases of Typhoid Fever. 15 JAMES F. WEST, M. Sec'y. Board of Health.

Lewis Cockefair Dead. Monday's Connersville Examiner contained the following: Lewis Cockefair, a pioneer of this county, died at his home in Jackson township, Saturday last, aged eighty years or thereabouts. Hisfuneraloccurred this afternoon at two o'clock; Interment in Poplar Ridge Cemetery. Deceased had no children and his wife has been dead for some years. He was widely known throughout this and Franklin counties.

He was born and raised in Fayette county. General debility was the cause of his demise. There will be a meeting of the physicians of Franklin County Friday, Oct. 15th, to complete the organization of a County Medical Association. Every physician of the county is earnestly requested to be present as matters of vital importance to each will be discussed.

E. L. PATTERSON, Chairman, J. F. WEST, Sec'y.

New Shoe Store. Wm. Drewes will open a shoe store in Knecht's building, in Cedar Grove, and will open with a full new stock, November 1st. He will also carry a full line of agricultural implements. 3915.

Obituary. Sophia Whiteman (nee Himelick) was born January 1, 1826, near Eaton, Preble county, Ohio, and died August 3, 1897, aged 71 years, 7 months and 3 days. At the age of six years she moved with her parents near the Harmony Church and remained there until married to Lewis Whiteman in the year 1815. She united with the M. E.

Church at Springfield in 1866 and moved her membership to Colter's Corner, where she has since held it. She was the mother of nine children, two of whom have preceded her to the better land. She had been in failing health for over two years. She lived a widow about thirty years. She was a true chris.

tian mother and many are the kind deeds administered by her hands. She leaves seven children and ten grandchildren, one sister and a host of relatives and friends to cherish her memory. The funeral was held at the Universalist Church on Thursday, August Rev. Scull officiating. C.

E. S. CARD OF THANKS. To those of our friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted and favored us during the illness and death of our kind and loving mother we hereby render our heartfelt thanks and gratitude. MRS.

HAVERTY, MRS. SKINNER. MISS WHITEMAN AND BROTHERS. WANTED gentlemen TRUSTWORTHY to AND travel ACT- for responsible, established house in Indiana. Monthly $65 and expenses.

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38t16 Awarded Highest Honors -World's Fair. PRICES BAKING POWDER MOST PERFECT MADE. pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free A from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40 Years the Standard. TOM TAGGART Reelected Mayor of Indianapolis by a Plurality of Nearly Five Thousand.

The Entire Democratic Ticket Elected by Handsome Majorities, With the Exception of Three Councilmen. Our rooster crows! Tom Taggart was on Tuesday reelected Mayor of Indianapolis. The entire Democratic ticket, with the exception of three Councilmen, was also elected by handsome majorities. The Republicans were able to elect only three Councilmen out of twenty-one. Such a Jandslide has not occurred there for years.

The plurality received by Mayor Taggart is the largest ever given a candidate for Mayor in the city of Indianapolis. McKinley's plurality was only 6,744. A former Brookvillian, Albert E. Rauch, was elected as one of the Councilmen-At-Large. His father's family lived in the house now occupied by George Busald.

The campaign on the part of the Republicans was one of vituperation and falsehood. The result shows that such methods are unpopular, as Taggart's plurality in 1895 was only 3,722. Wednesday morning's Sentinel said: "There are a good many decent Republicans in this town. Part of them voted for Taggart yesterday and part of them did not vote at all. They were too good citizens and too jealous of the reputation of their splendid city to indorse the infamous slanders heaped upon it in this campaign." Chairman Spencer, of the Democratic Campaign Committee, said Tuesday night: "The result is as we have expected for weeke, and at no time have we been fearful of the result.

The methods adopted by the campaigners on the other side have not been of a nature and character calculated to gain the respect of the members of their own party. The victory is unqualified and is one of the most decisive any party ever won. A straight silver ticket has been elected on a silver platform." Chattanooga, usually a Republican city, on Tuesday elected Col. Ed Watkins, a Democrat, as Mayor. Six of the eight Aldermen elected are Democrats.

Notes From All Around. Andrew Ritzi and son, of Lawrenceville, had business here one day last week. Chas. Amberger and Miss Minnie Lager, of near Haymond, were here on a visit last Wednesday. Mrs.

Frank Geis, who has been quite sick, is improving and we hope that she will soon be well and about again. Louis Bohlander and family, of Learna, who had been visiting here for two weeks' returned again Monday. Chris Trager and daughter, of Siegel, who had been here on a three weeks' visit to relatives, returned home last week. William Rennekamp, of Harrison, who was on a week's visit to his children here and near Haymond, returned home last Friday. Mr.

and Mrs. Jacob Paul, of Oldenburs, John Moeller, of Hamburg, and Michael Volz, of Haymond, had business here Tuesday of last week. Philip J. Bachmeier came back from the French Lick Springs Tuesday of last week accompanied by his friend, Jos Stadler, of the Walker Brewing Co. Jos.

Metz, of Knecht, and Henry Wilhelm, of near 8t. Leon, had business here last Friday and Monday. Charles Knecht, of Knecht, P. bad business here Friday. John Watler made ye scribe: present of a monster bead of cabbage last Monday.

It is called the Early Louisville and is the largest head of cabbage I have seen this year. Eddie and Miss Emma Firsich, of St. Peters, and Miss Mary Firsich, of North Vernon, went to Cincinnati Monday to attend the wooden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schmidt on Tuesday.

Balthasar Firsich and daughter Mary, of North Vernon, came here on a visit to Jos. Firsich at St. Peters. Monday they came to Brookville on business and Mr. B.

Firsich also visited some of his old school mates. This is his first visit to Brookville in 22 years. He was surprised to see the many improvements our little city has made in that time. He left for North Vernon Tuesday, where he is running a drug store. Engelbert Schaefer and son, of Cincinnati, are here this week repairing the pipe organ at St.

Michael's Church. From here they will go to St. Peters to repair the pipe organ. Last week they repaired the pipe organ at St. Leon which was built by Mr.

Schaefer many years ago. Mr. Schaefer has been in the business for over forty years and was for many years working for the firm of Koehnken Grim in Cincinnati. The St. Peters Benevolent Society assembled in regular meeting at St.

Michael's School Hall, Sunday evening and elected their officers for the ensuing year: For President, Frank Geis, re-elected; Vice President, Dismas Schath; Treasurer, Frank J. Geis, re-elected; First Secretary, Caspar Ritzi, re-elected; Second Secretary, Henry Schneider, reelected; Committee on Finance, Wm. J. Zacharias, Wm. Burkhart and C.

F. Ries; Committee on Sick, Rev. M. Fleischmann, Louis Aulbach and Frank Gerber; Bearer, F. J.

Peter, re-elected; Guarde, Color William Peter and Frank Klotz; Janitor Frank Klotz. Number of members, 56. Sherman's BUMMER. WASHINGTON. For several days past the United States treasury gold reserve has been Increasing at the rate of 9250,000 a day.

Additional space has been secured by Moses P. Handy, the special United States commissioner to the Paris exposition in 1900 for the American exhibits, making the space of the United States equal to that of the other great nations of the world. The transfer of the congressional library from the Capitol to the new building has been completed. The library has been closed since August 1. A general extension order system has been determinearby the post office department.

During the past fiscal year almost 27,000,000 money orders were issued, amounting to a little less than $200,000,000. Notwithstanding the decision of the general board of appraisers in New York, holding that the Dingley tariff bill did not go into effect until the actual moment it was signed, the treasury still maintains that the law was operative from the prior midnight of the day it was signed and it will take the matter into court. The death of Rear Admiral John M. Clitz occurred at Washington on the 9th. He was placed on the retired list In 1883.

The Chicago platform is being generally indorsed by the democratio county conventions now being held in 1 New York state. The trial of Martin Thorne, accused of the murder of William Guldensuppe, has been set for October 18 in the Queens county court, Long Island City. Mrs. Nack will be tried after Thorne's case shall be settled. At Plymouth, on the 5th an explosion of gas occurred in No.

2 slope of the Parish Coal by which three men lost their lives. The names of the victims are Isaac Edmunds, George Eddy and Louis Richards. The national council of the Knights of Columbus at New Haven, on the 6th voted to refuse membership to all liquor dealers and to ask all liquor dealers now members to resign. This takes effect next March. Fire destroyed the Guggenheim smelting works at Perth Amboy, N.

on the 6th. The property of the smelting works covers about 80 acres of land and is the largest of the kind in the country. Loss about $350,000. Notices of a general advance in wages have been posted in the factories of the Goodale Worsted Co. at Goodale, Me.

The firm employs 700 hands, running day and night. At Brooklyn, N. on the 7th 50 high class horses perished in the stables of the Cheshire Improvement which were totally destroyed by fire. The loss is $50,000. The death of Hon.

Lemuel Ammerman, of Scranton, capitalist and ex-congressman, occurred at Blossburg, 011 the 7th. In hand engine contest at Nashua, N. on the 7th the Union fire company, of Pepperell, beat the world's record, the playing being 232 feet 4 inches. The record had been held for 22 years by the Eureka company, of Hudson, which won it by playing 229 feet. Sister Gonzaga, the superioress of St.

Joseph's orphan asylum in Philadelphia, died on the 8th. She was born near Emmetsburg, in 1812, and was the oldest sister of charity in the United States. For the week ended October 8 business failures in the United States numbered 212, as against 296 for the same period of 1896, and 29 in Canada, as compared with 46 for the corresponding period of last year. Representatives of 12 breweries located in the central eastern part of Pennsylvania, practically the anthracite coal mining region, at a meeting in Philadelphia on the 8th signed an agreement for the consolidation of the 12 concerns into one corporation to be known as the Central Pennsylvania Brewing Co. The combined capital will amount to $10,000,000.

While in state of despondency caused by poverty at York, on the 8th Mrs. Jerome Shonberger, a widow. MINNELLL MISHAWAKA ALL KNIT, "BALL-BAND," WOOL BOOT. GUARANTEED MOTH PROOF. This Boot is kult of mammoth size, then fulled to its proper size.

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2. STYLE and COMFORT. Our knit boot is of uniform thickness throughont, hence 1 much more comfortable. TRADE MARK. We knit a black top on the boot and use the figure of a BALL on the ear straps.

The BLACK BAND (or bands) and constitute our "BALLBAND" trade mark which will appear on EVERY The market is loaded with inferior imitations. Be sure you get the genuine "BallBand" Boot. OUR PATENTS. We have patents on the process of making the boot and on the boot. We are the ONLY manufacturers of ALLKNIT BOOTS.

Mishawaka Woolen M'f'g. Co. PH. HARTMAN, Agt. MARCEL shot and killed her 4-year-old boy and then placed the revolver to her own head and fired.

The ball glanced off without making a dangerous wound. Her mind is now unbalanced. While an attempt was being made to remove the boiler of the torpedo boat Stiletto at the torpedo station at Newport, R. on the 9th the vessel sank. Some of her plates were badly damaged and will hare to be repaired before she can be raised.

The decrease in legal tenders in the New York banks' reserve since September 11 has amounted to $91,351,800 and the specie has increased nearly $1,800,000 in the same time, notwithstanding large exchanges of specie for legal tenders at the sub-treasury. Fire destroyed the extensive chair manufacturing plant of the Artemus Merriam at Westminster, together with other property, on the 9th. Loss $80,000. A terrible fire is raging at Tonswanda swamp, on the south border of Orleans county, N. Y.

Hundreds of acres of farm lands have been burned over and great damage has been done. Two lumber camps in the swamp have been utterly destroyed. WEST AND SOUTH. On the night of the 5th the jail at Opelika, caught fire and was destroyed. Two negro prisoners who were confined in it were burned te death.

A fire broke out in the rear of Robing's hardware store at Medora, on the 6th that spread rapidly and in two hours had destroyed that building and 17 others adjoining, praotically wiping out the business portion of the town and causing a loss of Insurance about $50,000. The black stallion Chehalis at Salem, has lowered the world's two-mile pacing record by seconds, making the distance in The Ella Stevenson, a little steamer, foundered in Lake Michigan on the 6th. Capt. Schippers and his crew of three men escaped in their yawl boat and reached Holland, Mich. The Stevenson was bound from Grand Haven to Kenosha.

The Salvation Army will, as a starter for its colonization scheme, place 1,000 families in the Arkansas valley. The new Second Presbyterian church at Lafayette, was almost totally destroyed by fire on the 8th; insurance $17,500. This church is but three years old and cost $75,000. In the vicinity of Springfield, the drought is without parallel for this time of year. It began August 22, the date of the last heavy rainfall, and has continued with little abatement until the present time.

Fire destroyed the barn of the Kansas City (Mo.) Transfer Co. on the 8th. Loss partially insured. Eighty horses were burned. As a result of drought the tobacco crop in Kentucky has been cut short 15 per cent.

The corn crop is also badly damaged. Hogs are dying in many counties for want of water. An epidemic of fever six miles south of West Union, W. is causing consternation among the inhabitants. Some physicians claim it is typhoid, while others assert that it is a mild type of yellow fever.

During the past 18 days 31 deaths have occurred from this disease. Father Kearney, of Zanesville, 0., has been elected provincial of the Dominican order in the United States. This is the highest dignity that can be conferred in the order. In consequence of the drought which has almost entirely destroyed the pastures of the surrounding country, Chicago is threatened with a curtailment of her milk supply, and it is feared that a rise in winter prices may result. An aged Detroit (Mich.) capitalist.

Thomas. McGraw, was struck by an electric car on the 10th, sustaining injuries from which he cannot recover. CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The 4 INDIANA HAPPENINGS. NEWS OF INTEREST FROM EVERY SECTION OF THE HOOSIER STATE. Typhoid and Scarlet Fever Epidemic at Rushville and in Clark County -Heavy Rainfall at.

Valparaiso. A Child's Life Saved. burned. Seiners Arrested. HAGERSTOWN, Oct.

8. Two children, aged 4 and 5 years, sons Daniel Bowman, who lives north of this place, while playing with matches accidentaily set fire to a large straw stack. The children climbed to the top of the stack, and the fire, which started slowly, in the meantime gained headway, and suddenly enveloped the immense pile of straw, forming a circular wall of flame about the bewildered and suffocating children. The older boy threw himself off the stack and rolled through the fire to the ground unhurt, while the younger one laid down in the straw and attemgted to shield his eyes from the smoke. The smoke and flames attracted the attention of Isaac Covault, a neighbor, who ran to the spot.

Mr. Covault wrapped his coat about his head and performed the almost impossible feat of beating through the flames and up the precipitous side of the burning stack. He took the child in his arms and dashed back through the fire, reaching the in safety, both being badly SCOTTSBURG, Oct. Gable, of Columbus, was here and had warrants issued for the arrest of 11 people for seining fish. Four of the offenders were arrested and placed under bond of $100 each for their appearance before Justice Charles G.

Mitchell Monday. A search warrant was also issued and a 60-foot seine was found on the premises of Jonathan Everhart. The deputy fish commissioner took possession of the seine and took the same to Columbus, where a large number of seines are stored away. First Train in Seven Months. SEYMOUR, Oct.

evening an engine was brought here by the Pennsylvania Railroad and Friday morning 45 cars, which are scattered along the Evansville Richmond road, were pulled out. The cars belong to the Pennsylvania line, and have been on the sidetracks of the E. R. since the March flood, since which time the road has not been used. For three weeks men have been at work repairing the track, and the train Friday will be the first oue to pass over the road in seven months.

The Marsh Fires Near South Bend. SOUTH BEND, Oct. marsh fires that have been raging in this country have done unusual damage to the many huckleberry marshes, as wellas burned much hay, many fences, etc. In some cases the woods have burned. On a 800 acre marsh track a few miles south of the city the marsh muck has been burned down a distance of three or four feet to the underlying clay, creating in places great beds of fire under heaps of ashes.

Lleat. Pickering Promoted. WARASH, Oct. 11. -Abner Pickering, of the United States army, whose home was in this city and who was for a long time stationed at Lafayette, has received notice of his appointment to a captaincy and has just been transferred from Fort Keogh, to Fort Yates, N.

D. Lieut. Pickering is a very popular army officer and has an extensive acquaintance over the state. Preacher Hangs Himself. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct.

Fisher, a Dunkard preacher from Mexico, hanged himself in a livery stable on North Meridian street Friday night, and his dead body was found Saturday. Fisher had been taking treatment at a nearby sanitarium, and in a fit of melancholy had wandered to the stable and taken his life. He was 54 years of age. Baby Scalded to Death. KOKOMO, Oct.

18-monthsold daughter of Eli Hurley, north of here, was playing near 8 stove and pulled a stopper out of the hot water tank, permitting the scalding fluid to fall on her head and shoulders. The child died from the injuries. Midget Babe Dead. ELWOOD, Oct. smallest child ever born in Indiana died Saturday at the home of its parents, Mr.

and Mrs. George Moneyhun, south of Elwood. It only weighed three-fourths of a pound at its birth and never weighed over one and one-half pounds. Bank President Jeffras Dead. SHELBYVILLE, Oct.

Silas Jeffras, president of the Farmers' national bank here, died Friday morning aged 56 years. He was born in Butler county, Ohio. and leaves 8 family. Eyes Scalded Out. KOKOMO, here.

Oct. 11. -Near Burlington, west of John Allen, a farmer, undertook to replace a leg under a stove, and in doing so upset a kettle of hot water, which fell on his head and neck. putting out his eyes. Covington to Have a Daily Newspaper.

COvINGTON, Oct. 11. -The Covington Republican in a few weeks will start a daily. Politically it will be of an independent nature. This will be the first regular daily paper ever published here.

Rain at Evansville. EVANSVILLE. 11. -There was a hard rain here Sunday night, the first in three weeks. It is believed that the drought in this section is broken.

Section Boss Killed. LAPORTE. Oct. Sent. section boss on the Grand Trunk railroad, living at Stillwell, this county, was instantly killed by fast freight.

Te Care Constipation Forever. Take Cascareta Candy Cathartic, 100 or If C. C. C. fall to cure, Aruggists refund money A French Lick Hotel Barned.

FRENCH LICK, Oct. 12. -The Windsor hotel, the leading hostlery of this plave, was destoyed by fire Monday morning about three o'clock and will be a total loss, together with its contents. The fire originated in the bakery and spread rapidly and in two hours the handsome building was in ruins, nothing was left standing cept the amusement pavilion and the Clifton. The telegraph oflice, news office, old storage building, bakery, bath rooms and kitchen were a total loss.

The loss will reach $40,000. No casualties among the guests or employes are reported. Amount of insurance can not be learned. The Laketon Oil Pipe Line. WADASH, Oct 12.

-A large gang of men is at work on the pipe line of the Standard Oil Co. from Laketon, this county, west through Roan to Peru. The mains are four inches in diameter, and when the line is laid will have a capacity of 8,000 barrels of oil a day from the Peru field to the immense tanks on the Standard's Chicago line at Laketon. Monday morning another gang begins work o11 the pipe line from the west, and by November 1 the line will be down. Some of the pumping machinery is now in position, Bloodhounds Failed to Track.

SALEM, Oct. broke into Martin meat store and carried off a quautity of pork, steaks and buckets of what they must have thought to be lard, but which really was only thick flour paste, and the change in the drawer, amounting to about 40 cents. The bloodhounds were brought through from Orleans in buggy, arriving here at 9:30 o'clock. They were put on the track, but failed to locate the thieves. The matter created a great deal of excitement for a time.

Prayers of Thauksgiving. LAPORTE, Oct. drought Notice. in the Kankakee region was broken Monday by a heavy fall of rain, and for the first time for 30 days the marsh and forest fires are under control. The church bells in the stricken region rang out Monday morning, and men, women and children congregated in the little churches and offered up prayers of thanksgiving for the breaking of the drought.

The losses in six counties where the fires have raged aggregate about $200,000. An Inch and a Half Rain. VALPARAISO, Oct. disastrous drought which has continued throughout this section for the last ten weeks was broken Monday by a heavy rain, which has fallen continuously since early Monday morning all over the county. The rainfall was an inch and a half and continuously falling.

Many farmers who sowed wheat early have begun to resow the crop. Inmates of the Reformatory. JEFFERSONVILLE, Oct. 12. -The number of prisoners in the Indiana Reformatory has increased to 778, and is constantly growing.

The reformatory officials are puzzled as to what, to do with the men, as the institution is not supplied with cells enough to accommodate so great a number. Rain at Cannellton. CANNELL.TON, Oct. backbone of the long drought was broken Sunday night and Monday with heavy rains. Scarcely any rain had fallen here for three months.

Farmers were compelled to haul drinking water five miles. Crops are almost a failure. Peter E. Studebaker Dead. SOUTH BEND, Oct.

12. -Peter E. Studebaker, treasurer of the great war gon and carriage firm of Studebaker Brothers' Manufacturing of this city, died Saturday at Alma, where he went for the benefit of his health. Cheeks Forest Fires. EL.WOOD, Oct.

generous shower Monday stopped the fires raging in field and forest and laid the suffocating dust. The rain came too late, however, to save thousands of acres of wheat, which will be replanted. Indiana Well Soaked by Rain. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 12.

-Reports from different points throughout the state tell of heavy rains, which have broken the long drought. Farmers will now resow wheat. Behind the Bars. SEYMOUR, Oct. Thicksten landed Frank Coryell, wha murdered Mrs.

Ellen "Dollie" Banks, safely behind the bars at Brownstown. EAST. THE MARKETS. CINCINNATI, Oot. LIVE STOCK -Cattle, 2 25 3 Select butchers 4 00 CALVES- -Fair to good 5 50 00 HOGS Common 00 00 Mixed packers.

00 00 Light shippers. 00 SHEEP- 00 FLOUR Winter family 00 LAMBS -Good to choice. 10 10 GRAIN-Wheat-No. 2 No. 3 red.

90 Corn- -No. 2 mixed Oats--No. 2.... 21 Rye -No. 2...

HAY Prime to pork. 8 9 50 Lard--Prime steam BUTTER- -Choice dairy. 13 Prime to choice creamery. APPLES- POTATOES -Per -Per bbl. 1 2 50 75 3 NEW YORK.

FLOUR- Winter 5 10 5 25 No. 2 CORN- No. 2 mixed. RYE. OATS- Mixed PORK- -New 9 6.10 00 LARD- 60 6 4 6 CHICAGO.

FLOUR patents. 5.00 00 5 10 GRAIN-Wheat- No. 2 red. No. 2 Chicago CORN- No.

2.... OATS- -No. 2. PORK- 1 75 LARD- 1 Notice Of Administration. NOTICE is hereby given, that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, State of Indiana, Administrator of the estate of Robert V.

late of San Joaquin county, state of California, deceased. Said estate is supposed to solvent. SAMUEL 8. HARRELL, 41t4. Administrator.

October 7th, 1997. WANTED gentlemen or ladies to AND travel ACT fo responsible, established house in Indian Monthly $05 and expenses. Position steady Reference. Enciose self-addressed stampe envelope. The Dominion Company, Dep 88116.