Oak Park Lake Vindicator (Newspaper) - September 1, 1883, Oak Park, Illinois 34, town of cook september 1, 1883. 5 R FRESH ROASTED LINE OF CANNED French Canned at chicago Delivered Free in Town oi HATS AND FURNISHING GOODS AND South State of the Rock Inland Halsted extract vonr teeth if or will fill hrm if they arc worth or will make a rot of teeth that will and mill not charge an unreasonable open in Imported and ROBINSON'S can BUY FOR Lamp large 6c; 5c; 7-inch White 10c; 7-inch 5c; other Crockery at great Now this is at No. 813, on M. mi WINTER STOCK and State Town of vou can find a CHOICE AND COMPLETE STOCK of everything desired in Dry the best bottom Long experience has me that it pays to sell all goods at the lowest bottom AND SEE ME. I know it will result to our mutual No trouble to show State and Fifty-first INSURANCE Germania and N. Y. Steamship tickets from and to all parts of OTARY 1333 Dearborn Town of every per in Hoot Union Stock 0209 School and 103 Fan 111, rates of advertising in The Vindicator are as One 3w.| 1 2.00 2.S5 4.00 7.00, 8.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.75 10.00 8.40 5.00ill.20 6.00114.95 7.50117.55 8.7521.00 15.75|36.00 27.50|63.00 20.25 31.55 38.50 62.00 34.45 42.40 53.00 62.00 102.50 other that on the other has relieved all the farmers of the island of 20 per of their has given fixity of tenure to all who not already secured by and has obtained a free gift of one year's rent to all who were three In beside a vote in aid of a scheme of and a loan for construction of It is certainly a fact beside such achievements as these the political reforms of O'Connell appear TRIES Special terms will be given to advertising Union Stock In per always on Suits a South Halsted STOCK AND worth A anil 43d OF anil in all their of all kinds at ' and Cabinet Varnishes and Window 4,912 Wentworth Island R. - Town of P. Forty-seventh Corner Forty-ninth St. and Ashland TOWN OF ai Lager Always on STATE TO S. root of Union Stock a full assortment of All of Job Printing attended Charges W. rf ibe Notary business promptly attended State - received bv Telephone at Schneider it Pi State W. M. AND 3004 South near 3i>tli, to 0 a. 11 a. to 1 p. 4 to fin. and after 8 p. in. W attention to Chronic Monongahela and Sour imported State and West 43d Union stock Liquors for family and medicinal imported Extract of wholesale or Orders by mail attended to Try and be S. 45th ami Stewart Town of phone and J now located at 4U3 HALSTED Union Stock able to toe at the reasonable Do not Ml to try in tht with mine slock Styles of Hats and L. JUSTINE am now ready to make Dresses in all styles and Notions and D. and Express and Delivery S I Union Sfoci Repair Painting and Trimming a All work G. MEN'S FURNISHING Silver-plated S. Halsted B. Dealer 4*13 STIC E f Town of DR. M. T. AND Halsted O'Brien's Taint t stock Sixty-third OLD IOWA 4051 SOUTH HALSTED Stock W. 25 25 Choicest brands of Ales and H. foe SEWING STATE ILL. Good second-hand machines always on hand and Ask for Mr. Graham when you call at the of South Dearborn State HYDE a My Walking Shoes are the best in the Invisible Forty-third CELEBRATED THE TOWN OF be clad to receive any new orders personally or by Will call at residence for materials and deliver W. Oils and Window 6lass PAINTING and with satisfaction and South State Parlors Bath Forty-third STOCK TOBACCO and State HYDE goods every Wedding Cakes and Cakes for Parties a H. HATS 4251 Halsted Union Stock and He will treat J. 60098, State - LIQUORS AND Forty-third of Tho of fresh from the always on J. AND WOOD OPEN ST. WABASH St. and Wentworth AT ALL HOURS in Cigars and W. SCHOOL TOWN OF F. W. and now ready to supply Boarders with airy and refitted rooms and good Ashland STOCK of and Dealer Tin ana 47th fine assortment of Cutlery and Goods always on All kinds of REPAIRING neatly done at lowest Cigars and 3541 S. Halsted isd 816 Forty-third Union Stock 111. Factory Lamps a Mail orders promptly attended AND SALT and Game in of Fifty-first and Atlantic OF done at short Horseshoeing a attention given and State OF - - ai Hall and Tool 543 Forty-third of Meal State sM State ai Stata St. sad 4313 No. 463. UNION STOCK ICE at 39th 1 11 cot ia ta taA the most complete arrangements now for the delivery of The VINDICATOR to subscribers promptly on in both town and Should any of our subscribers fail to receive their papers on Saturday we have to request that they will immediately make us aware of the fact by postal card or and we shall find out where the failure lies nnd have it Address Editor 819 Root Union Stock good canvassers for The each in Hyde Park and Apply at the No. 819 Union Stock communications the Editor of The Vindicator will have to lie as Union Stock 111." cry in the Town oi Lake tlie rascals value of California's wheat crop this year is estimated at She mines take a back Chicago Evening Journal says Town of Lake has a sprightly paper called The and naively needs a State Board of Equalization have passed a resolution fixing the basis of assessment on railroad and corporation property at 50 per cent. The resolution was passed almost after much The matter of the Union Stock Yards will doubtless be considered by the and a effort be made to raise assessments of former weich have been wonderfully small in proportion to and U. S. Congress has inaugurated so many postal reforms this year that the public perceives the possibility of further advantage and cries for The reduction of fees for orders not exceeding from 10 to 8 the introduction of the 3-cent and the knocking off of 1 cent from letter leads to the demand for a reduction of the city postage on from 2 to 1 a charge of only 5 cents on and the extension of the carrier system to the smaller These are very good but on their adoption the public would insist that the Government would make money by running the Postoffice Department free of general following figures are from a Catholic The Catholics are estimated at 212,000,000, and the are distributed into Protestants numbering 124,000,000, and various dissidents and schismatics figured up at 84,000.000. The Jews foot up 7,000,000; 200,000,000; 163,000,000; 423,000,000, and idol 230,-000,000. It will be noted here that pagandom counts 816,000,000 while has all told but 627,000,000; that Mohammedans are stronger than any branch of Christianity except Roman and that the Catholics outnumber the adherents of all other forms of the Christian creed by 4,000,000. in a speech at the National League said that there was every prospect that the next Parliament would grant the demands of the Home In case of a refusal he hoped the Home Rulers would have a sufficient number of members of Parliament to make their power He thought that at the next session the Home Rule party would number at least eighty Mr. in the course of his said that the condition of the tenants who had been evicted was deplorable in the and in many unless aid could be had actual starvation would be the He appealed to those present to help the sufferers by contributions of adding that cold weather would soon set and that these people must have aid to carry them through the New York Nation says that the success of Parnell in wringing concessions from the British Government is fast making a position for him which no preceding Irish even that Catholic emancipation after all only relieved the class of Catholics from certain galling that the tenant farmers derived no direct material benefit from that they did not profit by the abolition of the Protestant Church bat that they owed this to their own physical resistance rather than Monday last it was agreed by the Town Board that Expert Zimmerman should continue the remainder of his work on Water Collector books in Town With this understanding Mr. Zimmerman proceeded to the Town Hall on Tuesday and told Mr. the Town that he was ready to proceed with his at the same time inviting that gentleman to check off the items with Mr. Carson said he was busy then and would not be at his service for some a while Mr. Zimmerman grew and said he would take the books and go on checking them himself until such time as he could have Mr. Carson's to let me have the is exactly what I am instructed not to said you don't mean to say that I am going to be denied access of those said exactly how it answered said anything I ever heard who denies me this right I cannot responded the man of official said books belong to Mr. they are his official property as Treasurer of the in addition to they are public property and no man has a right to withhold an examination of am only acting on said with a good-natured have had occasion to look into many kinds of official crookedness before but I vow this is the first time in my life that I found a public record closed against me. This effort to stifle inquiry will avail and I will see to then proceeded to hunt up President who was a party to the after finally met him at the Town Hall in with Darlington and when it was found that as Superintendent of the Water was the man who had attempted to close the inquiry by refusing the expert further use of the found out subsequently that his authority does not go far enough to sustain him in so high-handed an attempt as Mr. Zimmerman went to work upon the books again Wednesday and his work on Collector James accounts is now and we in this of The Vindicator to lay before our readers further evidence of the damaging manner in which the Old business was conducted in the form of shortages in the and I will lay the recommendations of the men employed before the Board at its nest In this issue of The vindicator we present the proceedings of our Town Board on two this for headlong malicious and unwarranted we verily believe are without equal in municipal avo wonder at is that people should tamely look on and That outrage after outrage should be perpetrated without any legal or Have men lost their manhood Have they been so dismayed by the boldness of the acts of the vile and treacherous trio that they will make no demonstration against such usurpations authority as they daily witness What are we to think? What are we to What are we to do Go to sleep and tamely submit to all and wait for some one to come along and help God helps those who help Does not the blood of free men course in our does not the sense of indignity burn in our does not the unrest of outrage spurn us to If they Why with a great this submission to injury and burning wrong a moment longer the people be called Let a Vigilance Committee be and such remedies as wisdom and an outraged sense of justice dictate be Let us hesitate no Action is Let the people take and their rights and liberties will be VOLCANOES AND IRISH SEE'S NEW a meeting of the shortly after the appointment of Experts Zimmerman and the following colloquy took It will be seen that Trustee Wall has seen some strange light since then Smith called Trustee Chatfield to the and addressed the Board substantially as a meeting this Board authorized its to employ experts to examine the books of our predecessors and investigate the workings of the Town's Engineering Department I would like to ask the Supervisor if he has employed experts for the work if he what references do they what proofs do they that they If they are nM they are not skilled accountants ana civil and mechanical it is impossible for them to investigate the Engineer's department or to grapple with the intricate labor of overhaul ng the town's records and If we have had men in office who squandered money if the Engineering Department has been properly we want to know but we want the information to come from a source that will command our If experts have been employed for the they ought to be able to furnish and before they complete the at Board should have proof of their ability to carry the work to a successful was one of the members who voted for an examination to find out the mistakes of the former My information is that Mr. Darlington has employed experts and that they are now at I understand Mr. Darlington to have and I learn he has hired who are good but Mr. D. can speak for He ought to be given a chance to present the little labor and inquiry were involved in carrying out the wishes of the Board in this I endeavored to secure the services of men of recognized skill living among but they wanted a which I considered exorbitant I finally secured a gentleman from in this who had just completed a thorough and exhaustive examination of the books of Rock Island I believe him to be thoroughly and we secure his services at the reasonable price of per The young man who is assisting him was highly recommended by County Clerk and is also to be wen qualified tor the work he has hope the confidence in their competency is The matter is one of considerable and it is due the Board to have assurances that the men are what they claim to proper men for the it seems to me that's anew deal on this is kind of springing the thing on Mr. am springing nothing on Mr. The Board has a right to know if the men representing themselves as experts really are and evidence to that effect should be laid before the entirely agree with President The Board U dispatch from dated Aug. 30, The Irish members have nearly all gone Messrs. and O'Connor left for Dublin Tuesday night to attend a meeting of the National which was held During the recess the organization will be pushed Special care will be devoted to insuring the registration of national in view of a probable general election next There is some hope that the English Liberals will make a strong effort next session to conciliate the Irish Mr. Chamberlain has publicly promised a County Goverment and Gladstone has given a pledge that the Government will deal with the franchise The Radicals are beginning to recognize that unless the Irish voters are conciliated the Tories may return to hence the sudden awakening of their conscience and the growth of the conviction that coercion is no settlement of the Irish Harmony of action among all Irishmen is of vital importance at this Unless Mr. Parnell is helped to secure an overwhelming majority of the Irish representation at the next elec the triumph of the Irish cause may be indefinitely What is needed is steady Wild talk can only do All sensible men on this side are agreed that unity of action and strict discipline are absolutely essential to Under the loan clauses of the Land act the tenant farmers have made application for loans amounting to to improve their One million has been already Applications for are now under while others representing an aj of have been refused as not coming under the act. A com is in process of organization to undertake the migration of some thousands of families under the provisions of the Tramways act. It will be the most important social experiment of modern term begins Sept and ends Dec. 21. term begins Jan. 3, and ends March 22. term begins April 1, and ends June 20. not residents of Cook per at in private to per The corps of teachers comprises the W. Science and Art of H. Science and Manual C. Physics and History and J. W. R. Principal Grammar Geography and Principal Primary Primary Alice H. Kindergarten Principles and Methods of the Frank Stuart E. Physical E. Assistant in Primary E. Assistant in Primary F. Master of Industrial Rooms and Outdoor Police town of Cicero has ten guardians of the whose locations and compensations are as follows T. j. Central per P. Central William P. Clark and George T. J. Oak John and B. volcanic disturbances in Java have again directed public attention to the island that produces annually 110,-000,000 pounds of 280,000,000 pounds of 6,000,000 pounds of 7,000,000 pounds of and 115,000 pounds of to say nothing of great quantities of Several times the immense coffee crops have been greatly and once completely by these volcanic independent of their more serious the commercial world has always been as much interested in the work of Jaua volcanoes as in the raids of the crop destroyers in the wheat and corn districts of it must be is the most important of the East Indian and was one of the first to be occupied by It lies just south of to the southeast of to the west of New and northwest of and has a length of 622 miles east and west along a line about six degrees south of the the The climate is moist and tropical and the soil of the valleys is producing a rich and diversified There are four botanical zones in the the lowest or tropical being the greatest in This is devoted to sugar and The or zone of moderate is given largely to coffee and tea As this includes the highlands toward the central ridge of the along which are the great the coffee and tea plantations are more frequently injured by ashes and mud thrown from the while the rice and sugar fields are more frequently injured by tidal floods and sudden following was stated in the Inter Ocean of yesterday including the island of has about the same area as the State of But while Illinois has a population of a little over 3,000,000, Java has a population of nearly 19,000,000, or six times as many people as As a large portion of Java is mountainous and the 10,000,000 of people are crowded into a productive territory not more than half as large as and the agricultural districts are as densely populated as are the most populous countries in the era of Hindu ascendency Java was the seat of a powerful and exercised great influence in the It was invaded by the Mohammedans in the fifteenth and strong native states grew up with the spread of The Dutch East Indian Company obtained a foothold in the sixteenth but the native states were not broken up and the people fully subjugated until after the great Java which ended in the triumph of the Dutch in 1830. culture system was then which tlie Government farmed as it all the and since that date the island has been a source of wealth to Under the old rule the Government commanded the services of the inhabitants at and superintended the planting and harvesting of Important modifications have been made in the last ten and the Government can now demand only fifty-two work in a vear of each the 19,000,000 18,507-000 are taking in three divisions of che Malay 200,300 are 9,610 and 29,998 The Europeans are found principally in the provinces of and The Chinese are in greatest numbers in and The recent eruptions were at first confined to the volcano on the small island' in the straits of west of the main land of or between that island and The eruptions finally extended eastward along the great volcanic ridge running down the of the until all craters were in action and the sea on the northern and western coast greatly the town at which great loss of life is is on the lowlands at the mouth of a river which flows into Bantam and was formerly one of the most important seats of commerce in the East but since 1817 has been in The new six miles is called and is sixty-one miles west of that is to sixty-one miles nearer the volcano on the island of lies on the coast in the narrowest part of the Sunda and just across the strait from the capital of has a population of over 100,000. The old is situated in a swampy plain on both sides of the river and the new town on the higher lands to Two hundred years ago the streams in the vicinity of Batavia were choked by mud from the volcano Gunong and the climate so changed that the city became notorious for its The recent eruptions again devastated the old volcanic Gunong or spoken of in the is about sixty miles due south of and at the head waters of the several streams that empty into Batavia The mountain Bandung is sixty or seventy miles to the east of Mount forty or fifty miles to the and Gunong Gunter to the midway the All these are in the Western third of the but also in a state of is in the central over 300 miles from the reports are much exaggerated the disaster in Java is the most extensive and appalling of this year of going beyond the record of 1882, when 140 villages were and 4.000 lives In 1699 all the coffee plants in Java were destroyed by volcanic earthquakes and What will be the effect of the recent eruptions on the crop of the year remains to be as ever cursed any people with their official The people succeeded last spring in shaking off the voke of that to find cs in the mouth of another more and audacious for the spoils of and more villainous and grasping than the Charges of a serious nature have been published have emanated from members of the Board of such deserve the fullest consideration at our This club being independent of cliques and we deem it our duty to give those charges the fullest investigation coming to any and for the better carrying out of this Do That the following committees be each committee to consist of three Fi a Committee on Town on Sanitation and on the Water on on and on That it shall be the duty of each committee to inform itself on the working of each department to which they mav be and report any irregularities or recommendations that mav think sary for the public it That the Aice and be instructed to nominate said committees and report at our next motion the preamble nnd resolutions were laid over for one week for further meeting then adjourned to next Wednesday evening at the same J. Page has resumed his in the Adams Express are making for interior improvements on St. Bridgets Vindicator seems to be rapidly gaining ground in Bridgeport and Brighton genial and popular Mr. James T. Building Inspector of the Fourth and Fifth wards of has has had his district curtailed That portion of tho Fifth ward lying west of South Halsted has been transferred to a new organized a few months and placed in charge of Mr. an of Archer who has been lately appointed a Building Like the traditional new Holt at onco took hold and is prosecuting violators of the building ordinance with unsurpassed advertised for bids for the building of patrol barn at Deering Street and Prof. City Electrician has located nineteen patrol box at the most advantageous corners in the This will complete the patrol system over the entire city and great on its inventors and Chief Austin J. Doyle and Prof. The district which in former years bore an unenviable has become under tiie present efficient police of the quietest in tho is now no prospect of tho starting up this notwithstanding street Your reporter called upon Clerk Mercer and the Superintendent yesterday in the hope of receiving some encouraging but none was to be The Mr. is .in and no new negotiations are on Only about a dozen men are now employed about the The hands engaged in the works at the were laid off u couple of weeks but about of them were set to work again on Monday A. Master Mechanic of the Union Iron and Steel has made a model of an automatic his own which lie shows to his Tlie object of this invention is to prevent accidents at open bridges over and it appears to meet tho requirement for such an invention most There are two posts set in each abutment of tlin bridge and down which the fence travels as the bridge opens and The movement is with inclined planes and The wheels which shove the fence up and down are attached to the ends of the Mr. Dubois appears to have a good thing which is to be He will submit it to Mr. Cregier male floater was discovered last Sunday afternoon in the south branch of the river at the foot of Quarry by Officer Lawler of the Deering street The body appeared to have been in the water about a week and was that of a man apparently 45 years of five feet nine inches gray black and imperial mixed with gray and was dressed in a black sack coat and black diagonal and striped cheviot shirt and line There were no marks of violence The remains w rc convoyed to the Morgue in the Thirty-fifth street patrol and the Coroner The iut jury had no difficulty in Young Men's was a meeting of the Young Men's Club on Wednesday night last in Tyrrell's Root An attendance of about 100 persons was present and fifty members were The name of the club is not yet finally and it is not settled whether it shall be Independent Democratic or altogether Independent in its political The Committee on Bules were discharged and a new committee consisting of Messrs. John M. J. Downs and Archy The following preamble and resolutions were offered and Our town has for the last years suffered under the rule of as vile a of by horse attached to a buggy containing some plumbing materials was picked up by the Deering street police Monday The owner of the rig proved to be Mr. James the Hyde Park Water While entertaining some convivial friends at the corner of and Fifty-first streets during tho evening a who had just enjoyed Mr. Wallace's coolly walked out and jumping into tho drove toward tlie city at a heeding not the ixa vociferous invitations to come Mr. Wallace was profuse in expressions of gratitude for the recovery of and would pay any reasonable sum for a two-minute interview with the who drove off his John McCarthy of the Deering Street Police Station had a rather novel experience last Saturday He entered the house No. 2513 Cologne street for the purpose of serving a dog summons on the William a professional who maintains a canine menagerie on his Mr. who was in a belligerent claimed he had a dog and while he was searching for it to exhibit to the the latter sat His was of short for a vigorous thump on the starboard ear suddenly floored and ere he conld recover from his he found himself borne by the entire family and ushered out into the cheerless The doors were barred and lights extinguished with and before Officer who was uninjured could return with tlie Ward domicile was With determination in his eye and a warrant in his the officer is diligently seeking Mr. and will in a few davs afford him an opportunity to explain the difficult points of the joke to his Justice
