Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1894 — Page 4

r ©he -Democrat >'• ” Ht ■ 1 >■ „ ,"■'." =l* ~ Jf. BLACKBURN. Fro»>He»*r. Bg T FRIDAY, MAY 4, lfi»4. Bates of SubMription. One Year, in advance W V Six Month* Four Montni,..* . .i.../*-* All subscriptions not paid during the year will be charged at tne rate of W 00. Office InDeinocrat Building, oast eldeof Sec ond Street—ground floor DEMOCRATIC JUDICIAL CONVENTION • The Judicial convention will be held at Portland, Ind.. Wednesday, May 18, 1894, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Judge of 'he2Bth Judicial Circuit and a Prosecuting Attorney for said district. The basis of representation to be one delegate for each 200 votes cast for Matthews for governor and one for each fraction of 100 and over George W. Bolds, I Com John Banlin, I COUNTYTICKET. . For Auditor. .Dem.: W. H. H. FRANCE. _ ; For Clerk. : Dem.: JOHN H. LENHART. For Treasurer. : Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. ■Dem..- HARVEY HARRUFF . ; For Sheriff. ;bem.: PETER P. ASHBAUCHER. < ; For Coroner. Dem.. 3. C. CLARK. For Surveyor. :Dem.: W.E. FULK. • ; For Commissioner—2nd Diet. ’Dem.: CONRAD BRAKE. ;■ • For Commissioner—3rd Dist. ;Dem.' DAVID ECKROTE.

Tuesday’s election in the City of Decatur was the most one-sided political affair ever known of in the history of Adams county. The expectations of a great number of Democrats in the city prior on the ■election was that the Republicans would make great inroads to the 1 Democratic majority but that they would reduce the majority suffi , ciently to elect even one of their • tiekdt was unexpected. To attrib j ute the cause of this great defeat of ’ the Democratic candidates in yes- ; • 1 terday’s election, would be very difficult to conjecture by the most observant politician in the city. There are several causes introduced. With some it was that the laboring classes of our city bad been imposed upon in the way of being compelled g to undergo a “shave” of their alj| -lowance for services performed on our public streets; while the officers Il of the city drew their salaries direct ® from the City Treasury. Another B. cause assigned was the A. P. A concentration against certain Catholics on the ticket. This idea must be largely set aside when we take into consideration the vote for McLean ' and that of Frank Crawford in the ' Second Ward, the former a Catholic received one vote the most. The most substantial cause for the K change yesterday’in the Democartic O' ranks, was the general “hard times I of the country,” of which Decatur came ill for her portion. Had the J;.-. principles set forth in the Democratic platform of the Chicago Convention beenjtaken up and concur red in by Congress immediately J- after it went into session, there is no doubt but the defeat of yesterday |K would not have taken place.

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M Mdlepolnt Resident* Lay the Ghoet WUeh Him Disturbed Them. It turns but that the spook that has boeu making life a burden for the citizens of Middlepoiut, 0., and the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad men is a lin;nau beinft, and a colored person at that. The citizens of that place were determined to solve the mystery, and a reward of SSO was offered to any ' one who woufd spend a night at the Water station and capture’ the ghostly specter. Failing- to find apy one who would undertake the task, they appointed a committee to investigate. Thursday night the committee, which was composed of three men, two. Riotguns, one revolver and a brace of bulldogs, started for the water station and secreted themselves in the pumphouse. They watched in silence until about 11 o’clock, when a man was seen making his way across a field to the station. He ensconsed himself behind the water tank and prepared for his work by placing a sheet over his head and a football that had been painted white in his left hand. Hp had not long to wait for a victim. A young man was returning from a spelling match with his best girl, and when they were within 60 feet of the station the spook noiselessly made its way to the railroad and stationed itself between the rails. The sight of the specter was too much for the young man’s nerves, and he made a break across the field, leaving the young lady to look out for herself. At this point the committee swooped down upon the spook and cantured it after a chase of half a milei Tne sheet was removed, and the spook was recognized as George Bartley, a colored man. The committee started back to town with their prisoner, two of them carrying the arsenal and the third leading the captured spook. Before reaching town Bartley succeeded in breaking away from his captors and started for the woods. Several shots were fired after him. It is not known whether they/ook effect, as after reaching the woods flk gave his pursuers the slip. The committee returned to town and reported their capture. Some of the citizens are in doubt about the capture, but the story is generally believed, as the committee have in their possession a sheet and a white football as evidence. —Lima Special.

SPOON GUESSING CONTEST. The Latest Thing In Social Pastimes Bean Heavily Upon the Hotels. A guest at the Stillman arose from the dinner table. As he walked away one of the waiters called the manager, and the manager approached the stranger, saying, “I am sorry, sir, but you will have to return that spoon you have in your vest pocket. ” The gentleman was very indignant and replied: “You are making a great fuss about a little thing. This spoon isn’t valuable anyhow. Hare it is. ’ The hotel keeper remarked that the spoon is solid silver, and that it is of some consequence whether guests pocket , them after their meals. The stranger explained that he pocketed the article, “not because I wanted to steal it, I assure you,” he said. “Perhaps you haven’t heard anything about the latest new game called the spoon guessing contest. Souvenir spoons have had their day, and the latest fad is to collect spoons from the big hotefe in different i parts of the country. Unless a hostess is i able to entertain her guests with the ] new game, she might as well' be out of the world.” < The man then explained that there ' are a number of families in the city who 1 have magnificent collections of hotel . spoons; thaj the new game was a sort of progressive guessihg Contest. A spoon is held up in the air, and all the par- : ticipants in the contest are supposed to guess the name of the hotel engraved upon it. The person guessing it is avjarded a prize, and those who fail to get the right name of the hotel take a step backward. The manager of the hotel thought the game a very interesting one to the participants, but not quite as entertaining to the hotel keepers who are obliged to furnish the spoons for the contest. It was an eye opener for him, however, for during the last month or so quite a num-. ber of spoons have disappeared mysteriously from the dining room table, and he had been unable up to that time to account for it.—Cleveland World. One of the Queer Ways. Englishmen have queer ways sometimes of manifesting admiration for heroism and self sacrifice. Six years ago Alice Ayres, a London servant, saved three of her master’s children from a burning house. She herself perished in the flames. A popular fund placed an_ expensive monument over her grave aud hung a painting of the scene of the rescue in the Red Cross hall. The mother of the girl, aged 72 years, whose sole support was her daughter, was admitted the other day to the pauper workhouse and is now employed scrubbing floors and washing.—New York Sun’s London Letter. • , Locusts Getting Ready For Business. The New York Sun printed an article a short, time ago setting forth various predictions that the 17 year locusts would appear this spring in great numbers in the Hudson river valley, western Connecticut and northern New Jersey. Recent digging in the neighborhood of Nyack, it is said, reveals the presence of thousands of the larvae of this insect getting ready for their transformation, , which generally takes place in this latitude early in June. The insects are now found at an average depth of four feet New Treatment For Consumption. The only matter of wide popular interest in the recent medical congress at Rome was a pager yesterday by Du Martella, the Italian delegate offering * new treatment for consumption. He affirmed that he had cured 89 oases a genuine pulmonary tuberculosis by constant inhalation of the essence of mini and the external use of creosote and the essence of mint in an alcoholic solution. ■1 v \ 1 ’ ■' ' - : ••. ’ J ; I : 'a.<‘ ' . A--’ y a •‘v-..,. .A-.-

MOBS PM(E CLuTELxiND IB —4 Factories Raided and Men Driven From Their Work. STRUGGLES WITH POLICE. Brick* nnd Stone* Hurled at Officer*, Who Respond With Merclle** Use of Their Club*— Three Separate Conflicts. Two Anarchists Arrested —Militia Under Arm* at the Call of the Mayor. Cleveland, May B.—The disorders which began with the May day demonstration o/ the unemployed culminated yesterday in open riots. There were three separate and bloody conflicts between the police and the rioters, and last night troops were under arms ready to respond to a call in case of an emergency. The trouble began when a mob of about 2,000 started to raid the factories on the flats and drive from work the men employed therein. The first attack was made at the Variety iron works. The windows of tne factory were smashed with stones and bricks and the workmen fled in a panic. A force of 75 policemen was then called out. The rioters proceeded, however, to the Upeon bolt works, where 1,500 men were induced to quit work before the officers arrived.

Struggle With Anarchists. When the police came upon the scene the men made a stand and hnrled bricks and stones at the officers. Orders were given to charge them with dubs. The rioters ran li re sheep at the first assault, but their leaders succeeded in rallying them upon the Abbey street viaduct, a bridge about 1,000 feet long. Squads of police coming up at both ends of the bridge penned in the crowd and they were forced to fight their way out. They made a rush for the officers, but at least a score of them were clubbed unmercifully before they finally succeeded in getting away. During this conflict two anarchists were arrested after terrific struggles on their part. One es them, Themas Moere, an old man. was clublted into submission and taken to the station in a patrol wagon, cursing the police and declaring that this was the happiest day in his life. The firmness of the police had a good effect, for it resulted in scattering the rioters in all directions. Militia Under Arm*. At the south end of the city at the same time a mob of 500 men drove the workmen away from the United States salt works and were about to make a raid upon the Cleveland rollingmills. They were met by Police Director Herbert and a squad of 10 policemen, who clubbed them until they were glad to run. -At least 30 were injured in this melee, but the mob was dispersed. Mayor Bine has announced that no more rioting will be permitted. He issued a proclamation last night commanding people not to assemble on the streets, and at the same time he called upon the local militia to assemble in their armories and await his call. At least 500 men are under arms. MINING TROUBLES. Why the Strike Has Not Succeeded In West Virginia. Columbus, €)., May 3. —Charles Call of the executive board of the miners association from Ohio returned to miners* headquarters from Fairmojit district, West Virginia, where he says he had difficulty in effecting an organization, the miners never having heard of the suspension. On approaching a mining town Mr. Call left notices at each house, notifying the men of the movement. Women showed the greatest interest and heartily approved the plan, being even more enthusiastic than the men. There was every prospect of the men coming out, but when the operators granted the old scale (the one for which the miners are now contending) the men went to work again.

Coke Plant May Shut Down. Mount Pleasant, Pik. May 3.—The Illinois Steel company of Chicago has notified Superintendent Ramsey to shut down their four coke plants for a year if they cannot supply the steel company with coke. In these four plants there are 1,200 ovens that were all idle from last July until March 1, since when 880 ovens have been fired but are now being operated only in part owing to the strike of the foreigners. The first attempt to introduce dynamite in behalf of the coke strikers was frustrated here yesterday, when persons under surveillance were seen arranging a bomb to destroy a shaft at Sand Hill. The sheriff and six deputies surprised and captured the four plotters while they were perfecting plans for its use last night. Ask* For the Militia. 1 Duluth, May 3. — Telegrams •< from every ifiining center of Mes Saba range state that all the miners are oqt and that the situation is critical. The sheriff has asked dovernor Nelson for military aid. The governor has* sent the adjutant general to Duluth to look overt, the ground and decide whether there is any necessity for such action, it not being thought the sheriff has exhausted his other means of suppressing the trouble. The governor has called the militia. The strikers have beta marching over the country making threats. Ordered to Go Ont. Middlesboko, Ky., May 3.—The Coal Creek and Jellico miners have notified miners here that they must go out by the sth inst. This they will ref oae to do, as they are perfectly satisfied with the scale. Kansans Joining the Strike. ? Pittsburg, Kan., May 3.—Part >frih| miners of the Wear and the W sV-i-fc Coal companies have struck. It i aiflff cult to determine how the troiiblu will terminate. • Fersuaded to Strike. Clinton, Mo., May 3.—Minerpat Lewis and Calhoun struck yesterday. A union representative is in th£ state trying to ■ indtfbe others to join the strike. I i | Don’t Know Croker’s Business. New York, May B,—Richard Crokei \ is in Washington. Mr. Croker's depart; ure was something of a surprise and k tha object of his visit is not known. 1 . \: ■“l ’ A'S i ; ; ' Pi

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SPEECH OF D. W. VOORHEI& Os Indiana, In (he Senate of the United State*, April 2, 1894. Mr. President, great abuses in government, strong by the sanction and growth of years, embedded in the powerful interests of privileged classes, created, fostered, encouraged, and protected by the laws themselves, have rarely, if ever in any age, been promptly and totally eradicated except by forcible revolution and bloodshed. Buch is the concurrent and unbroken test!* mony of history. The spirit of peace* ful and practical reform, on the other band, is a reasoning and progressive spirit, moving forward, step by step, no matter bow radical and thorough its ends and aims may be, and overcoming the most gigantic evils with patient wisdom and courage, rather than by

' violent and wholesale assault. The protective system of tariff taxa* tion as developed and fastened upon the business and labor of the American people, especially during the third of a century past, growing worse at every stage, is a sjstem of indescribable injustice and oppression; and yet who will contend that all its vicious principles and woikings, ramified as tney are through every branch of trade and commerce, can be annihilated by a single blow, or totally wiped out by a single legislative enactment? For the bill now under consideration no such claim is made, but in its behalf can be 'truthfully asserted, and will be successfully maintained, that it accomplishes a vast work in the field of tariff reform, em bodies a great relief to the people from iniquitous existing burdens, and constitutes a long stride, though not a final one, towards the approaching day of a full and perfect deliverance. Sir, I challenge the attention of the Senate and the country to the great and commanding fact that by the provisions of this bill the seeming paradox of a reduction of taxes and at the same time an increase of public revenues will be reconciled when it becomes a law. I will not stop to consider at this point the vast individual robberies committed in protected markets, the untold and incalculable millions of blackmail levied by American manufacturers for their own pockets on their enforced customers when cut off from all outside competition; it is enough for my present purpose to say that we have liberalized American markets, made them more accessible to the traffic of the world, and, while not Establishing free trade, we have made trade freer and more even-handed between the manufacturer and the consumer. But over and above and beyond this wide and well-known fit Id of extortion and

injustice, it will be found from ’the schedules of this bill that tariff taxes now officially ascertained and paid under existing law, on the wants, necessities and daily consumption of the laboring men, women and children of the United States, have been reduced more than seventy-six millions per anpum These reductions are as follows: On chemicals a 5,1000,000 On pottery 1,000,000 On glass.... 1,500,000 On metals 12,500,000 On wood .... 300,000 On tobacco 3,300,000 On agricultural products 3,300,000 On spirits, wines, etc ' 1,500,000 On cotton manufactures 3,450,000 On flax, hemp, and Jute manufactures 6,000,000 On woolen manufactures 3,500,000 On silk manufactures. „,. 3,500,000 On paper and pulp 300,0Q0 On sundries... ........2,450,000 Transferred to the free list. .... .12.170,000 TotaE .A,..7.. Real Estate Transfers. The following real estate transfers have been recorded since last week: WashlngtonSteele executor to Ezra Lister, inlots 881 and 882, Decatur Consideration ......'.............. 179 00 Dellnda Ellsworth to Sherman Mott Y In-lot 531, Decatur, consideration 700 00 Washington Steele, executor, to Lavina King, pt out-lot 18, Decatur; , consideration 31 oo Decatur Cemetery Association to Martin Berry, lot 30 Decatur cemetery; eon si derat ion 25 00 John W. Peterson to Peter"A. Heath lot 2; Rivare, consideration 300 00 Marshall F. Aspy to W. W. •Collins, lot 44, Geneva; consideration 800 60 James T. Merryman com to Hilind* Garwood, 36 3-4 acres, Blue Creek tp - -

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I Adams County Farmer’* Institute. I Institute convened at Berne, April 26, ’94. Invocation by Rev. Steininger. The exercises throughout were inter- ■ spersed with suitable songs and music by I the Star Glee Club. A free dinner was . furnished to all. “Sheep Raising” was discussed by J. N. Kerr; a farm for sheep must naturally be dry or modexo artificially. One drawback to sheep husbandry has been the introduction of flocks of low grades, I would rec m. mend one of the standard English mutton breed. The present depression will be only temporary, even now with care sheep are profitable. Early shearlag is advisable, dipping, aside from destroying lice, tends to keep the skin healthy. “Education of Farmer’s Daughters,” papers on this topic were read by Mrs. Sadie Ehrisman and Miss Bina Campbell. Her education must not be neglected. Surely she can have a term or two at High school. By ail means let her study music. Our daughters are the mothers of the coming generation, their education is nesessary for our higher civilization. Teach them to work and to be self-reliant. Let us have a cultivated niifid in a healthy body, “How to make the most of a clover crop.” Those to whom this topic was assigned being absent, Instructive remarks were made by James Long. J. L. Aspy, G. H. Martz, S. Campbell and others. The annual Institute will be held in Decatur probably in December. The next meetiag will be held at Steele, Blue Creek township, on Sept. 13,1894. In connection with it, it is proposed to hold a Farmer’s Fair. Complete plans were not promulgated. Those present proposed a Fair to which no entry fees or admission be charged. Have it open to the world for stock or exhibits of any kind, but competition limited to the county. A fund will be raised and plans adopted to give suitable premiums and awards. There was a committee chosen, one from each township, to organize and put the scheme in working order. The following are those chosen: E S Moses, W R Smith, Louis Fruchte, W E Fulk, J F Snow, Davis Dailey, 8 Campbell, J N Kerr, V D Bell, David Eckrote, E F Beerbower, and Calvin Teeter. Each will be notified by the president when and where to meet. G. H. Martz, Pres. W. J. Edwards, Sec’y. Latest in Califoral* Excursion., War rates continue with additional privileges to tourists. To better serve its large patronage the Toledo. St. Louis & Kansas City R. R., “Clover Leaf Route,” has placed on sale at principal stations Toledo west, a complete line of through round trip tickets covering a combination of nearly 200 routes. Few lines are better equipped and no California tourist can be better served than via “Clover Leaf.” See our nearest agent or write C. C. Jenkins, Gen. Pass. Ag’t, Toledo, Ohio. ' N. B. Owing to increased travel make application for through sleeping car berths, from St. Louis, at least three days in advance. Ample berths (or free chair cars) will be provided to St. Louis. • I

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THE JIAHKETS. (Corrected dally for The Democrat.) Wheat No. 2 $ 50 CoYn No. 2 ..... 88 Oats No. 2 *BO Rye 40 Clover 4 00 Timothy .. 186 Flax 80 Butter 16 Egg 5...... y ...... 8 Lard 8 Potatoes .. 100 Hams 10 Shoulders 8 Bacon 8 Wool 8 to 14 Cattle 4 50 to 8 60 Hogs 4 00 to 4 60 Sheep 8 00 to 4 00 Lambs 300 to 4 00 We have taken our flour out of the groceries, thereby enabling us to sell cheaper than anyone else, as we have no commission to pay. Best flouf at $1.30 per hundred at Hart & Bro.’s City Mills. d 22-2 w 4 ELECTRIC TELEPHONE*, The patent on Electric Telephones have recently expired, after running the full term of 17 years. This opens a field to public use, and I am prepared to erect lines, connecting the lawyer’s office with the residence, the railroad station with some public office. Communication can be established between the merchant’s store and residence; the livery stable can be reached by wire; the doctor can be consulted without going out of the bouse, and a thousand other places can be connected so that direct communication can de obtained at a nominal cost. For prices, terms, etc., Address, Fred K. Shaefer, Berne, Ind. - d3tw4tf

/jfIKxERiE Lines. Schedule In ellect Nov. 12, >BB3. Tralng Lqave Decatur ae FoUowa: TRAINS WKST. No. Limited, daily for p. M No. 8, Pacific Express, daily for ( , .ns *. u Chicago f J.vs A. M No. L Express, dally for Chicago 10:45 A. M N0.«31. Local, daily, except Sun- j TRAINS KABT. No. 8, Vestibule Limited, daily for ) 7 .~. M New York and Boston f ‘ r. m daily for New I 2 .q8 p t jj. No. 12. daily for New Jj No. 80. Local, daily except Sun- > day 110:80 A. M. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus, Clrclevill, Chillicathe. Waverly, Portsmouth, Irontor, and Kenova, via Colum bus Hocking Valley & Toledo and Norfolk & Western Lines. J. W. DeLong, Agent. W. G. Mac Edwards T. P A. Huntington.