Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 15 February 1895 — Page 3

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.J'. ■B--- - - - Y’ MORTGAGE EXEMPTION: I House Will Paas a Bill Placing the Limit at SI,OOO. 1 SENATE PASSES 12 BILLS. I ' ] „ < ■oom Cnmulite* Cote the K.ilrtlrre' Homo j Appropriation to •7ft,000 — Adjourn- | inent In ifonor of Lincoln’* Birthday. ( Bill* on Third Hrodln< In the Senate. < Pure Food BUI Fauod—State Jtewa. Indianapolis, Feb. 18.—While the i house qieut most of the day on second j I readings it settled one important question, namely that the house will pass a mortgage exemption bill with a limit at 1 ¥I,OOO. Whether it will go through the . Semite is a different question. It also passed a bill changing the government : j lof the Indianapolis city library. 'The i ] senate passed 12 bills, the only one of i importance l»eing Senator Holler’s pure ( < food bill, establishing the office of food , ' commissioner. At the morning session of the house the ways and means committee gained unanimous content to introduce a report on Haggard’s soldiers’ home bill | which had already passed the senate i with an appropriation of 5100.000. The I committee recommended its passage at ¥70,000 and its report was adopted. Mortgage Exemption. The Newhouse bill providing for mart- ■ gage indebtedness came up on second reading. As amended by the ways and means committee the bill is general, applying to indebtedness held both within and without the state, but limiting the amount of exemption to SSOO. Mr. Pettit offered an amendment fixing the amount at SI.OCO and it was discussed at length. This is a question with which the ways and means committee wrestled for three weeks and discussed in all its phases. As first drawn it confined the exemption to such indebtedness as was owned within the state, but several able jurists rendered opinions that this would be unconstitutional and at the same time undermine the validity of the tax law. A hundred doors to fraud under such a law were shown and the committee finally determined to recommend it as an experimental bit of legislation with a limit of SSOO. Not only the amendment to make it SI,OOO, but the whole bill was discussed in the argument, which consumed all the rest of the morning in the house. Finally, on a call of the roll the amendment was carried by a vote of 76 to 12. Then an emergency clause wris' tacked on before the bill was sent to engrossment. In the afternoon the house held but a brief session, adjourning early in honor of Lincoln’s birthday. Nine bills went through their second reading and one was passed under suspension of the rules. This wus Van Arsdel’s bill to take the management of the Indianapolie public library from the school board and vesting it in a board of six. three appointed by the county clerk and three by the circuit judge. Seimte Proceeding*. The following bills came up on third reading in the senate: The house bill providing for the back salary of ttys clerk of the supreme court passed and goes to the governor. Senator Beck’s bill making drain tile a lien passed and goes to the house. Senator Collett’s bill giving judges absolute discretion on changes of venue was defeated. Senator Cranon’s boiler imujectidn bill failed for Want of a consfitutional majority. It will bo colled up again and will pass. Stakebake’s house bill authorizing trustees to receive donations for various charitable, educational and religious institutions passed. Senator Duncan’s bill requiring bills for trials on change of venue to be audited by the auditor of the county that has to pay them passed, as did Senator Cranor s bill providing that where suit is brought upon a road, ditch or paving assessment it shall not be necessary to file a Copy f pf the whole assessment roll. Pure Food Bill Parse*. Senator Holler’s pure food bill passed, and it was by far the most important measure of the day. The bill provides for a state food commissioner, to be appointed by the state board of agriculture to be paid SI,OOO per year and 10 per cent of all the fines collected from prosecutions under the act. He is to appoint a deputy in each congressional district, and he is allowed SI,OOO per year to employ chemists. Other Bill* Panned. At the afternoon session the senate passed, practically without opposition, seven bills, as follows: Senator La Follet’s bill placing the keys of the jurybox in the hands of a jury commissioner instead of the county clerk; Senator Wishard’s bill regulating the soliciting and writing of life insurance; Senator Baird’s bill putting the commissioner of Allen county on a salary of $1,200 a year; , Senator Wishard’s bill appropriating SIO,OOO to the board of agriculture’to pay premiums; Senator McManus’ bill providing for the appointment of a police matron in all cities of 10,000 and over; Senator McCord’s bill regulating the i settlement of. decedents’ estates, and Senator Newby’s bill appropriating $lO,000 to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ home at. Knightstown for purchasing land and erecting standpipes and fences. Injured by,Gait Explosion. Elwood, Ind., Feb. 13.—A terrific gas explosion occurred in the city building here last night about 8 o’clock, in whiclj three men were injured and several thousand dollars worth of property was destroyed. The entire front of the room was blown out by force of the explosion. Mr. Tebbs and Mr. Graham, the proprietors, and an employe named Miller were more or less injured. Ra**ell Harrlxon Win*. 1 Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 13.—Russell i B. Harrison, president of the Citizens” Electric Light company, has won a legal victory over an established rival here, and is freed from a restraining order I forbidding his company putting up poles in the streets. The Harrison company immediate!v started several hundred

. , .-I,nu n at work to complete the wiring of the citv. Harrison’s company has the contract to light the city for fi»e years, at a saving of SIO,OOO. TERRIFIC GAI EXPLOSION. Jtralitonee Completely Wrecked but the Family Kacope* Without Merlon* Injury. Anderson, Ind., Feb. 13.—An explosion of natural gas completely wrecked the residence of ex-Couucilman John C. Hedrick yesterday, but the family escaped any serious injury, and fortunately no fire resulted. The household effects were scattered everywhere and completely ruined. The cause of the explosion is supposed to have been the breaking of the service pipe under the house Considering the complete wreck of the house the escape of the family is regarded as miraculous. NARROW ESOAI’B. I’roiipeetlTe Sou-In ”uw b**t In the Yard by nn Irate I- ,Ui<t Willi a PtetoL Rockport, Ind., Feb. 13.—A tragedy was narrowly averted near Chisney, intio miles n rth of here. Eugene Hartley, who has been courting the daughter of William Lem men, a prominent iartuer of that neighlx>rii<x>d and who seriously objected to the young man's attentions, ivas met by tl#: young lady ’s father as he entered the yard and had a pistol leveled in his face. A bystander interfered ip id caught the weapon jnst as Lemmon pulled the trigger, tiie hammer coming down on the man’s thumb. Ice Gorge In the Ohio Riven. Jeffersonville, Ind., Feb. 13.—The Ohio river is still badly gorged at this point, the current not being strong enough to carry the ice over the falls after being broken up by the harbor boats. There is great danger should ■ there be a sudden breakup that a large tow of coal boats loaded with 3,600,000 bushels of coal anchored above this j place would be swept out of existence. At places the gorge is 12 feet thick. HOOSIER PARAGRAPHS. Fnrm house of Sydney Sullivan burned ; near .Shelbyville. Loss s2.‘oft. Mrs. Francis Robinson, aged 60, a prominent Richmond woman and a lifelong Friend, is dead. A libel suit for $150,0000 against the Fort Wayne Journal has been withdrawn, the paper making a complete retraction. Henry Hyde shot Sanford Taylor at Seeleyville. inflicting a wound which it is believed will prove fatal. There was an old feyd between the men. Thomas Fitch and Abe Mack, two Turkeyville miners, engaged in a tight in which both received wounds of a dangerous character. The quarrel arose about Fitch’s wife. The family of John R. Moore of Logansport were thrown into convulsions by drinking water into which poison had in some manner found its way. They were in a precarious condition for some hours. One of the wheels of a coach attached to the Chicago express train broke near Greenwood, throwing the coach from the track. The train was stopped before any serious damage was done. No one hurt. Elwood citizens, who are dissatisfied with the wide open policy prevailing in that city, are making war on ihe gamblers and saloons. The mayor has issued instructions to close up the gambling dens. OUTRAGE BY BANDITS. Party of Americans Shot Down and a Woman Shamefully Abased. City Os Mexico, Feb. 13.—There are no developments of importance in connection with the Guatemalan situation. Word has been received from Pueblo of an outrage upon a party of. Americans by Mexican bandits. At a tie camp on the interoceauic railroad, Captain William Scott, an. ex-captain of Texas rangers, his brother John, another American named Franklin, and a woman were surrounded by 60 Mexican bandits who shot the men down, robbed them of everything of value and abused the woman shamefully. The men will hardly recover. The place is 20 miles from Pueblo, and when the news was received, the Americans and English to a man started in pursuit of tho bandits. It is reported that a number of them have been captured or killed. The governor of the state at Pueblo called out the Rarales and ordered them to bring in the bandits dead or alive. United Mine Workers. Columbus. 0., Feb. 13 —The report of Secretary Patrick Mcßride made, to the United Mine Workers’ convention yesterday showed the membership to be stronger today than ever, notwithstanding the hard times, discontent and dissension, and that the organization now has a firm foothold in the anthracite and jPocanontas neitL me total re ceipts, includingVasli on hand at beginning of the year, were $28,817.06; expenditures, $28,350.23; leaving a balance on hand of $196.83. Mast Quit School. Springfield, Mq., Feb. 18. — Eight Choctaw Indians, who have been attending Drury college, left yesterday for the nation and will not return until next year. The recent troubles in the nation have co'mpletely bankrupted the treasury, and about 200 Choctaws attending colleges throughout the land have to home. Snow In South Carolina* Columbia, Feb. 18.—Thq, snowstorm ’> which commenced Monday morning is ' still raging, with-tTnly a few hours indead level and is two or three feet deep in drifts, something unknown in this section of South Carolina heretofore. Sheriff’* Son Indicted. Mount Sterling, Ky., Feb. 13.—The grand jury has returned au indictment against Charles S. Ledd, son of the sheriff of the county, chai’ging him with being a party in the lynching of Tom Blair. This makes the third person indicted. Fi«h Warehouse Daius<e<i* BuffaljO, Feb. 13,—Fire in the wholesale fish warehouse of James H. Dormer damaged the building and contents to the extent of $45,000; insurance. $25,000. • The origin of the fire is not known. Bill’ Cook Get* Forty-five Year*. Fort Smith, Ark., Feb. 13.—8i1l Cook, the < law, was sentenced yesterday in the Jnited States court to 45 years in the penitentiary at Albany, N.Y.

.■■■ in ■■ AN UNHAPPY EXCEPTION The n’or d !« fnl’. of dianfM’. there te nothhue here abiding; Ail thing* nre cvaneecent. fleeting transl . 'tory. g'ldi'br. The earth, the aea, the sky. «••• mar.*Where'er the fancy raage*: The tooth of time forever mar»--Hll life la full of change*. Like *an4a upon the ocean'* »hore that are forever drifting. So all the fading acene* of earth lnce*aantly are shifting. ClMinge rule* the mighty universe-there 1* no power can block It. There’* cliange In everything. Fla*! except i a fellow’* pocket. ' , —Chicago Journal. I TWO .lli’.N. ONE Wo.llAX' i Henry Wilmerding’s dv.elllng place', I was not in any wild and - unsetUed ; i part of the world, where it might be I nitjipofed that p rsoaal safety could j only be preserved Ly p rsan.il daring, ' and It was therefore ail the more i t’.anf.'e to see him occupied so intent- . ly in ch .ling a large reVoiv r. He I waz doing his work thoropgbly. too, | for he had removed the cylinder cf the p <r tol from its barrel and St ick and was carefully rubbing it with a silk ■ cloth, while upon a table at his hand were the cartridges he hud tokAi from ' ! ?. chambers. Suddenly the doer, which he had i carelessly left unlocked, was opened ■ violentlv from without, and a man en- t tered 'the room. Wilmerding rose , i quickly in astonishment a--J anger, but the newcomer said at once: “Sit down!" And taking his hand from his overcoat pocket, where It had been con- i cealed, he pointed a cocked pisml straight at Wilmerding's breast. W’ilmerding was overcome by the suddenness of the intrusion and the action of the man, so terrible in its I s’Fnlflcance. His knees trembled, and ho sank back Into his chair weak and for the moment unperved, but presently, as he saw tho- man looking at him contemptuously, he rallied, and it was with apparent perfect comp- , sure that he said: “Your command is peremptory and unpleasant, but you seem to have the power to enforce it. Well? The man walked to the other side of the table, where he stood silently for a moment, looking down at Wil- ■ merding. Then his attention was at- ; tracted to the picture cf a '..oman which stood upon the table in a sort of easel frame. He struck it violent- , ly with his left hand, knocking it to | the floor. "How dare you have that—her pic- : ture—there!” he asked. “Oh, see here." Vv’ilmerding answer- i ' ed in proud carelessness, although he j 1 locked at the pistol still pointing directly toward him, and then past it at FT the angry eyes of his visitor, "1 raa't • change my arrangements to suit the i whim of an uninvited and unwelcome , • guest Pray, why have ym: favored •, me with this visit, Mr. David Brads ford?’’ • I “You know well enough why I have come." I ! “Apparently you have come to quari rel with me. You could not have j chosen a happier time —for you. XV il- i • merding returned as he glanced at his own now useless pistol. | “Pshaw!” Bradford, repjA*d as he I rtttd tire direction s 1 glance. “Now, I can can kill * 1 you when I plcnss. I cm* Lc taat | v : -u will feel all that it mentis. I cap 1 J | know that ycu will apnncerate , vpnr ! ■ 1 punishment. Had you ’.icon, rcat’j I , . j would have been compelled to be ; f quicker, that is ail.’’ ‘•lndeed?'’ said Wihn.rding. “Yet j I dare cay I would no’, have used my pistol any more than I now care ’ I help. This matter can he settled ia " cnly one way. E ''. ii y u hold that ‘ - Dcsiticn dong you hand, steady as it to is, w:l'. shake. Sit dawn. You will fbe more comfortable." ’ ' . I *; i Bradford sat down and folded his i arms upon the table ir. tront of him. He held the pistol, st", recked, butrit ’ was no longer pointed at Wilmerding, to For a moment or so Bradford looked i silently at Wilmerding, who, whatever i I fear he may have feit, showed no sign Jof it. ’ •' .. ( t | "Ycu re cool.”' Bradford said at. ? - Yes. “Do you think that because I give you time 1 may spare you? Do you t think that any plea of yourS-^will. help ) I ymi : j "When 1 plead with yon, you may i respond," Wilmerding rejilied disdain--5 fully. "I am in your power. Why do you wait?” The other man smiled sardonically. “All in good time,” he replied. “I am ? in no hurry. Besides 1 have something . to ask of you." “A favor to ask?" j “Yes. You owe me something fcr the havoc and-ruin you have wrought in my life." “I have wrought fio,havoc, no min, t for whatever of ruin you have come . to ycu are yourself lesponsible. It is j. you who should be called upon for i pavment. for reparation': But let that • go" I did not mean, I do not choose , to meet any accusation you may wish . ,to bring against me.” i “As you please. It will save time." “Yes, but from yotir point of view, do I bwe you more thau my life will pay?” t "More. Wilmerding—far more. What □ good wilj your death do me? Do you think that I have failed to consider the cost'of my step’ to me? It is pun- ’ ishment for you. not. reward for me, a that 1 propose to seek in this way, ’’ As Bradford spoke he unfalded his arms and touched gently with toe fingers of his left hand his pistol. . WII- - merding did not show that he noted the action of Bradford. He laughed coolly. . ' “I want a sratement I want you ‘ to write and sign a statement of your 1 relations with 4ny wife." Wilmerding expressed astonishment -that such a favor should be asked of hltn in a long, low whistle. He looked . sharply and qnestioninglv at Brad- , ford in whose determined " face and ; unchangeable attitude there was no indication that he meant either to relent in his purpose or to reax his vigilance. Then Wilmerding moved closer \to the table and drew papers before I him - “Nothing could be simpler or easier i to do than that,” he said,, "but lam ~'Rfrald my statement will not gratify ’ vbu. To complete it will have to

| - - ’ ’ ’ I X. ■_ 1. tell cf your Inhuman cruelty, your falsity and my relations, too. wtrh your wile, and of your foolish neglect.” “You may Include what you please." “And. as for my relation, why should I not’ write cf them? The wholw world may know of them u well aa not.” “That is not what I want. I do not care for only a statement of what the world knows or may know. That would not be worth the asking for. I want a complete statement, and I will make a bargain with you. 1 will give you your life for the statement I want.” Wilmerding rose. He pushed his chair iroin him so that it fell noisily to the floor. Fcr the first time in tho interview he spoke angrily and without the control of himself he had maintained. “You scoundrel!” he said. Bradford rose from his seat, rc-cc'l-ed a step or two, raised his pistol, bu# then lowered it again as Wilmerding spoke on. ' How dare yon to think of mo so badly? How dare you think I would purchase even life at such a price as that? You want the truth, you say. I do love your wife. Is that the truth you want? I do love your wife mere thaa I love life cr fear death. I love her, I say,'but no word of love from me has ever hurt her ears. No word of love from me has ever sullied her lips, yet I know she loves me. That is the most glorious truth I know. She loves rue fas she never did, never could hav» loved you." Wilmerding, as though now he only wished that some end might bo brought to the interview, any end to the suspense, leaned far over the tabl» toward Bradford and pulled his waistcoat open impatiently. Bradford raised his pistol again, his finger en tho trigger. “Do not bo impatient,” he said. “You may even now change your decision and save your life." Wilmerding straightened himself and pulled at his collar, as though he found it hard to breathe. "Then ho raised his hand imploringly. I “Wait,” he said. “One minute." “Ah!” Bradford said as he smiled scornfully. "You know the terms.” “And you can think I will accept them? Walt. There in that cabinet behind you " Bradford smiled again and shook his head.”. .. Wilmerding divined his thought at cnce. “You fear to turn?” he went on, ami he, too, smiled. “You are vzir®. But 1 If you will only extend ycu.- a j little you may epen it for me—so. On ■ that shelf—a little please—there j is a box. Hand it to me.” Bradford had followed the directions given him by Wilmerding, not without thought of what he intended, but the box, he found, was small and light. It,, (gjuld contain no weapon, and he threw it care! t>?sly upon the table lie- .—__ tween them. Wilmerding took it and opened it and looked at its contents. “Bradford,” he continued slowly, "you could not, I suppose, hove retained the love cf your wife. Fate and yourself—yotir own charade." —were i against you and were too strong Tor you, but you might at least have tried to retain her respect. You might hay.a chosen not to trample upon her and upon the love she bore you. Even now, while seeking, as you say, to do but justice and to punish me, you are willing to make her the lifelong victim of * n nritmus scandal. I can save her. i Had I cared lets for her I might— who ; knows?- -I’.are taken her from you and all your world. Ever since I had th® ! iortoiiv to meet her and to learn to love her —good fortune I call it even now, tlidUgb. I stand in your pov,l have done rhe-lmst I could for ' th® best I could do to make her life bear-, able, to lighten her sorrows I have lived my life. I have not. been tin angel, hut toward her and for her > have been only good. And you? Can you i ever say so much? Now you citer to ■ spare ray life. I decline your offer. I j know away to spare her. Now —the j world will wonder, but scandal will i not touch her. Be a little generous to . i her." I As fig finished speaking he took j from the box he held in his li.tnd two i of the little capsules it contains! and I swallowed them. Almost Jm’ diateI ly he fell forward. ' ; Bradford, wjfo stood rnct mless, ' scarcely m.:..:,:-‘hendtoa tie meaning ' of his words, stepped toward him. He ' had spoken cf justice and punishment, ! but it was hate that made him rais® bis pistol and fire at Wilmerding’® form. After a pause he shot again, and then, as quickly as he could, he fired ‘he remaining charges into his i prostrate body.—Amusing Journal. The Cat In Law. Baltimore is now in a state of excitement so great that it leaves Its terrapin untasted and forgets to boast of its baseball team. There is a great question at issue, one that comes home to every househe’d in the city of mills. A Baltimore man stole a cat from a neighbor. A fine Maltese tabby cat it was. and the neighbor had him arrested fcr theft. Then the man’s lawyer stood boldly up-in the court room and , declared that It was impossible for any one to steal a cat, as that animal is not property, and to take forcible pos- - - ■ I of a feline, even though it be a : pet one and wear a ribbon and answer to its name, is hot a legal offense. What is more, the bold lawyer won, and the attorney-general agrees with him, and a blow is. struck at all th® cats’ of Maryland. The attorney-gen-eral, in his formal opinion, deckires I tlujt a cat is, really 'nothing but a wild i animal, that it is of no use to man and ! that the taking of a eat without tn® ! consent of its owner is not an indlet- • able offense. , - r The eminent lawyer, the attorneyI general of the State of Maryland, who has made this cruel decision, must have passed a wild and reckless boyhood in which hours and nights and days were, spent in chasing Thomaa and Tabby over back fences and through vacant lots. In no ether way can his decision be explained. Maryland may be willing to abide by such a verdict and leave the cat unprotected and ownerless, but, the State o| New York will continue to regard th« cat as domestic and peaceful and r friend to mankind.—New \ork Press. ' F —.— The Rev. Samuel F. Smith wrote \ ‘My Coqnta y 'Tm of. rhee” in IS Us :