Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1895 — Page 8

• CAW A SENSATION. Uiipx]' ctffll Orders Issued to I nitcd States Naval Vessels Lite Yesterday. TO GUARD OUR INTERESTS. Abandoned Military Reservation. to Be Opened For Settlement—Subscription. For a Statue to President Monroe. Case of Fx-Conxul Waller to Be Investigated—Other Washington News. Washington, April 30.—Some sudden and unexpected orders issued to United States naval vessels late yesterday afternoon caused a sensation for a time until the purpose of the orders was explained. The Alert, which has been stationed for a month or more at Panama, watching the progress of the revolutionary movement in Columbia, was ordered to proceed at once to San Juan del Sur, the nearest cable port toGorinto, Nicaragua. The Atlanta is also ordered to sail at once to Greytown, the eastern terminus of the proposed Nicaragua canal. The Montgomery now at Mobile will follow the Atlanta on May 7 with the Nicaraguan canal commission aboard. The Monterey having sailed Sunday from Acapulco direct for Panama; is not expected to touch in at Corinto,. and as she is now beyond the reach of orders by wire she will probably be allowed to relieve the Alert on guard at Panama, whence she can be ordered back to Nicaragua if occasion arises in the future. To Guard American Intercut*. Secretary Herbert said that the movements of the ships had absolutely nothing to 4n with the present occupation of of Corinto by the British, that being a matter to lie settled between the Nicaraguans and the British. The real purpose of the orders was to guard American interests in Nicaragua against the consequences of a possible revolution which may result from the disturbed condition of the country. Being asked what measure of protection the Nicaraguan commission would receive in the pursuance of its work of inspecting the line of the canal, the secretary said the Montgomery would remain at Greytown while the commission was afthe Anterior, and with two ships on one side and one on . the other there would be force chough to protect the commission and all other American interests that would be end ingore 1 t.v the revolution. EX-CONSUL WALLER'S CASE. State Department Desires an Accurate Statement of All tl.e Facts. Washington. April 30.—The representations which Ambassador Eustis was instructed to lay before the French government touching the arrest andconfinemeut of ex-Unitod States Consul Waller m Madagascar and. his subsequent deportation to France were extremely courteous in tone and were intended to develop the French side of the case. It was stated that as Mr. Waller ' is an American citizen tlj_e department of state feels bound to inquire into all of the cireumstauces in his ease, to* be 1 informed specifically of the charges made against him and of the evidence upon which he was convicted. , The report of United States Consul Wetter who succeeded Mr. Waller as United States consul there, while substantially confirming the newspaper reports of the .case, was not sufficient to satisfy the stsEfe department, which desires an ac- • curate statement of all the facts before determining what its attitude shall be in the .matter. Therefore Mr. Eustis has requested the French government to be supplied with an official statement of all the facts as developed before the,, court-martial in Madagascar. * ’ Military Reservations to Be Opened. Washington, April 30.—The interior department is taking steps to have the numerous abandoned military reservations scattered Over the. country opened for settlement. The law provides that an appraiser should visit such abandoned reservations. Edward Crafts of Austin, Ills., has been appointed as an appraiser • at a salary of $5 a day and is to begin work at once. It is hoped all the reservations can be opened before the summer is ovr. There are 75 of them, 14 of which contain more than 5,000 acres. May B® Presented Tomorrow. Washington. April 30.—Senor Dupuy de Lome, the.-m?W Spanish minister, made his first visit, to the state department yesterday and saw Secretary Gresham for a few moments. Although definite arrangements have not been made for the presentation of the new minister to the president, it is expected that it will occur tomorrow. SubHcriptioit For a Statue. WASHINGTON, April 30^|Advictes. received at the state that a popular has been opened at Caracas of President Monroe, which the Monroe doctrifite; Manuel Carrion opens the subscription with 100 bolivars, a coin equivalent to a franc. Representative Hitt’s Illness. n. Washington, April 30.—The condition of Representative Hitt last night showed but little change. The brain symptoms are probably a little more encouraging and his inind is clearer. Extreme weakness and feebleness prevail, and the worst is feared." t \ Death of Father Ward. Washington, April 30.—The Rev. Fath r Ward, the spiritual advisor at Geor elo'.i ii college, died here yesterday aged 80 years. He was well known in Catholic circles and formerly held charges at Baltimore and Frederick, Md. Patrick’s Peculiar Death. Marshall, Ills., April 30. — Florin Patrick, at whose sawmill Howard Eastman was so terribly mutilated by falling against the whirling, saw, which cut off a leg and an arm, is dead. He witnessed dismemberment of his faithful friend and employe by the saw, and the affair so preyed upon him that he lost his reason and tfien his life. Eastman, who is a man of iron nerve and sroadarlßl •uduranue. is RWtuui weii» . t'- / ■ 1. ■ ■ .» ' » ■ .' .’ I a.'. . 4.'

mSTEIIIOK HANGING, h e . It Is Known the Body Is That of Warren Eaves of Kentucky. MISSING FOR TWO WEEKS. Dublin Ha. Had a Lady School Trustee For Three Years—Kicked to Death by a Horae—Telephone Franchise Granted to Operate at Brookville — Brief Notea of the State. s Farmersburg, Ind., April 30.—1 tis now known the body of the man found hanging to a tree near here on the Evansville and Terre Haute road, is that of Warren Eaves, a farmer of Versailles, Ky., who came to Sullivan county to visit his brother William. The latter says that the body is beyond a doubt that of his brother, who is reported from Versailles as having been missing for about two weeks. William Eaves had not seen him for 13 years. The dead man was known to have had a watch and considerable money the day before he was found hanging to the tree. There is no evidence that he died of strangulation. His feet touched the ground, but the grass underneath him was not trampled, as it would have been had he struggled while being strangled. The man who first saw the body said that, while there was no evidence of trampling of the grass by the feet of the dead man, there were indications that other persons had walked on the grass near the tree. ADVANCED AGE. Mrs. Culpepper, a Colored Woman, Said to Be 115 Years Old. Vincennes. Ind., April 30.— Perhaps the oldest person living in Indiana is Lizia Culpepper, who resides at Monrob City, this county, 12 miles southeast of this city. She is a colored woman, ami is 115 years old. She was born in Virginia in 1780. and came to Kentucky at an early age. While residing in the “blue grass” state she gained her freedom, her master having provided for that in his will at his death. Mrs. Culpepper is in the best of health and able to get around much better than one might expeer of a person of her advanced age v Her daughter is !)6 years old and resides with her. ScYwolteucher Disappears. Brazil, Ind., April 30.—Much excitement was created here yestgjday by the announcement that Dr. Nace, a well-to-do farmer and a prominent schoolteacher of this county, left home suddenly one day last week and has not been heard of since. His family are greatly alarmed, and are using every effort to learn his whereabouts. His sou said that his father was financially embarrassed, and he thought that was the cause of his mysterious actions. Correspondent Corrected. Dublin, Ind., April 30.—A correspondent at New Albany states that a woman of that city, present candidate for school trustee, if she is elected, will be the first woman in the state to serve in that capacity. This is a mistake. Miss Tamar H. Elliotttof this place has served here as school trustee for three years in succession. It is needless to say that she has given entire satisfaction. Bituminous Miners Confer. Terse Haute, Ind., April 30.— The annual joint conference of Indiana’s bituminous miners, preparatory to the recent conference with operators to arrange the scale for the coming year, convened in this city yesterday. Every district was represented and the meeting was unusually large. Kicked to Death by a Horse. Taylorsville, Ind., April.3o.—While returning to, her imine in this ! froin, Columbus Sunday evening Mrs. Elizabeth Werner, aged 40, was caught in a runaway and kicked to' death by the horse she was driving. Death came almost instantly. {Timely Discovery, MuKCIE, Ind., April 30.— Yesterday the Ball Bros.’ stampingworks caught fire and timely discovery alone saved a $150,000 loss, as a heavy wind was blowing. Four factories would have been doomed had the fire not been checked. Franchise Granted. Brookville, Ind., April 3. — The American Telephone Construction company has been granted a franchise to put in and operate an exchange at this place. An American .exchange was completed at Newcastle-yesterday. INDIANA NEWS NOTES. There is an epidemic of measles at Frankfort. The army worm is committing havoc on early vegetation in,and around English. Indianapolis ball team defeated Fort Wayne by a score of 13 to 7 at the capital city. Large barn of Hiram Alexander, near Shelbyville, was burned with contents. Loss SI,BOO. James W. Barnett, one of the most prominent residents ot Frankfort, died yesterday of cancer. Aaron Mossier, a clothier of Thorntown, has filed a deed of assignment. Assets 000, exceed the liabilities. Joseph Talbert,.a wealthy farmer, who fell out of a saloon door at Morristown, received injuries that may result in his death. Professor <3. A. Waldo has resigned the professorship of mathematics in Depau w University to accept a similar position in Purdue University. J. R. Hamilton of Madison, aged 66, committed suicide by shooting. He leaves a wife and four children. Sickness and despondency the cause. Sensation-iv as created at-.-Greencastle by the expulsion of three students of Depauw University, who were (charged with intemperance and disorderly conduct. David D. Baugh of Clark county is strangely afflicted, his body and limbs having swollen to twice the original size, while his suffering is acute. Some days ago he lacerated his hand while working with a barbed Wire fence, and it is proba- ' ble that he has been seized of blood poison- __.— ■ —— v • TO » at.

CASHIER SMITH GONE. — California Man Is Missing Under Very Peculiar Circuinstauces. OFFICE LEFT IN DISORDER. Janitor of the Building Give. Damaging Report, a. to Smith’. Habit. and Investment. — Left His Hat, Coat and Vest Tn the Office Spotted With Blood. Police Working on the Case. San Francisco, April 30.—C. 8. Smith, cashier and bookkeeper for L. W. MoGlauflin & Co., wheat brokers, who managed the late Senator Fair’s big wheat deal, is missing under peculiar circumstances. Smith spent Sunday at the office working op his books. At 8 o’clock yesterday morning the police were notified of Smith’s disappearance. A sergeant was sent to MoGlauflin’s office and found several excited persons, including Mrs. Smith and her parents, who insisted that the cashier had been murdered. The office was in disorder, books and papers scattered around on the floor and Smith’s hat, coat and vest spotted with blood. «. * For hours the police searched the building for Smith’s dead body, but no trace of it or evidence of murder could be found. Fifty dollars loft in the cashdrawer discredited the theory of robbery. One of the firm’s books is missing. An expert is now examining Smith’s books. The janitor of the build- i ing says that he anil Smith were partners in stock'- speculations, the stocks standing in the janitor’s -name, that Smith’s employers might not know of 7 his investments. A few days ago Smith ' insisted on selling the stock, threaten- ' ing the janitor and forcing his compliance at the point of a pistol. Smith j took all the proceeds, $3,000, saying that he needed it to make up a shortage in I Ins accounts, that the books would be brought into court in connection with the Fair will case and the shortage discovered. COUNTERFEIT GANG. Secret Service Men Think There Are a Number of Them at Canton, O. Cleveland, April 30.—J. D. MJchner, the Canton attorney who is charged with passing counterfeit money, has been brought to Cleveland and placed I under $3,000 bail. He is in jail and will ' have a hearing before a United States ' commissioner on Monday. He made an assignment in Canton, his assets amounting to $25,000. The secret service officials are hard at work and expect to unearth a big counterfeiting gang in Canton, including at least two well known menOf that city. B. F. Burkhardt, a welt known real estate agent of Canton, was arrested, but released as there was no evidence against him. Michner has always stood • well as a lawyer, secret society man and politician and was sup- ; posed to be well-to-do. He was in the j field for the last Democratic nomination for mayor of Canton. Drug Clerk Arrested. • Louisville, April 30.—Edward Toor, an employe of the Renz & Henry Drug ; company, was arrested yesterday by Detectives Harding and Connell. Toor has robbing the firm for | about three years and the firm have sus- ! picioned him for some time. The amount of goods taken by Toor was ; about $3,000. Later in the day-the de- j teetives searched his room and recovered about $1,500 worth of the stolen property. ' Result of a Kentucky Feud, "• Hopkinsville, Ky., April 30.—A shooting affray- took place near Elkton, I between T. P. Murray, a well known | citizen, and two brothers named Bailey, ■ which resulted in all three of the men i being shot and seriously wounded. The i trouble was over an old family feud. S Murray was wounded in the arm and i face. The men all surrendered to offi- 1 cers after the shooting. Three Robbers Captured. Huntingdon, Pa., April.3ol—Three of j the robbers who made off with $50,000 at Port Royal last week were caught . here last evening. They are Joseph ■ West of LaSaile, Mich., Edward Parker ■ of Detroit and. Frank Evans of Chicago. ; Mr. Herder, the victim, came here last , evening and identified the stolen money, j J. Fletcher Wil)jams Dead. St. Paul, April 30.—J. Fletcher Will- I iams, ex-secretary of the Minnesota Historical society and one of the most prominent Odd Fellows in the northwest, died at Rochester, Minn., of soft- ' ening of the brain due to overwork and too close application to his studies. He wrote a number of historical, works. Strike Declared Off. Youngstown, 0., April 30. — The strike declared by the puddlers at the mills of the Andrews Bros., & Co., at Hazelton, five weeks ago, in which the finishers joined a week later, after seceding from the finishers’ union, has been declared off by the men, who made an unconditional surrender. Militia Ordered Out. Houghton, Mich., April 30.—The Calumet and Houghton militia company went to Marquette on a special train at midnight. Serious rioting took place on the ore docks last evening and Governor Rich has ordered out the battalliou of the Fifth regiment to put a stop to the disturbance. Juint. Convention. Nashville, April 80.—The joint convention of the two houses of the legislature met today to consider the majority and .minority reports of the gubernatorialcontest—investigating committee. The minority report will be filed today* It is understood that it will be very long- . . ___________ Storm, on the Lake. Duluth, April 80.—A hard storm raged here all night and the lake is too rough to permit oj navigation. Several boats were scheduled to leave but owing to the bad weather their departure is < • 1 WWW■ • rwa—W . r . . -

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: PaAe—You have nevt-r seen my ! baby, have you? i Lane—No. old man. But I feel as i though I knew him from v/hiat I have ; heard you say.—New York World. Rverythintr Kann Ini*. Gen. Logtap was .a. member of Congress at the breaking out-of the war. ! When he sa w there was really going i to be a fight, he seized a musket, slip- ! ped out bf Washington, and walked ! all the way to Bull Run, where he arI rived just in time to have a hamd in I the fray. The rout was complete, and j the next morning, a "good deal out of breath, ho wa® back at the capital, | telling some of his fellow-Gongress-I men wha.t he had seen. ‘‘Who gave you this account of the fight?” asked a member from northern New York, a® he joined the group. “Why, I was there myself,” said Logan. The New Yorker was mystified; apparently he bad not heard the news. “You were there”’ he exclaimed; “are the cars running?” “No.” said Logan, “the cars ain’t running, but every other thing in the State of Virginia is, as near as I could make out” painstaking; Wo k Erroneous. Dr. Robert Young worked for thirty years on a concordance of the Bible that be complete, and without errors. WlTen he finished it, he found -to his dismay that be had omitted all references under -’.‘Holy Ghost’! Leaving out the Holy is the trouble with much of the'st nd vof the Bible.— iLouisvllle. Western Recorder. One Habit Corrected. “I don’t know whether I will be able to breahjiiii) o 4 all the habits 1 do noh like,” said the engaged girl, “but the first one I stopped for him was just ad’ ’ easy.” “What habit was that?” asked the other girl. _ "Tho Jjabit be had of proposing to me two or three times a week.”—lndianapolis Journal. Patriot* (W-brat*. At Galena hundreds of Republican ' hats were burned in an election bon- ' fire, including one si Ik plug filled with ■ ooal oil. — Leavenworth Times. i Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder WorW’a Fair Highest Award. h^Y 7 ; hi;-’: 7 : L'smJ’Yft’.

FATHER AND SON. Fad> Had Every Reason to In" Frond of t' «* llllirr. Down at tho depot one.day rhe heavy snow had chilled ihe veins of traffic, and the engines could not move. Those that were due had lelegraphed their troubles from a hundred mites away. Those that should leave were waiting in the yards, their doors locked, their fires low, their crews uncertain. , About, in the great sheds outside the gates the crowds were waiting, restless, impatient, and yet cheerful, with that fortitude which combined misfortune always brings. Prominent among them was a strong young man. I had noticed him. There was a bundle from the market on h'ls arm. Then he had a family. There was a pair of child's slmes. Then he hah a society charm on his watch chain. He displayed it when,, he compared notes, with the depot clock Then he was an agreeable fellow. There was a strong, hearty note in hie voice whenrhe spoke, a mjtsic when he laughed. Then he was a manly man: too big, too broad, too full of strength and grace to cavil at the weather or frown at the little trials of home. I honored him. I was glad be was in the troubled crowd with me. An old man. gray, but upright; came deeply muffled to the gate and asked the watchman--as all newcomers did —something about the train. The servitor was surly. :. ii before the crabbed answer coul;' cch the old man’s ears that splendid stranger friend of mine called out: "All right, father. You are not late.” All right father! How proud a sire to have so good a. son. I would walk on needles all my days to hear the voice of such a boy call out in sucn a crowd those royal words, “All right, father,” and lay down my burden with a thankful sigh that life had held so much for me. That made a volume I haven’t finished reading yet.—CnicagS herald.

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Mose —-Look he.ih. Abe Johnsing! I’se tlrqd^jjf'yo’r callin’'; me “Shorty.” I’s jes’ as tail as you’ am, only mah tallness'am concealed, in de curve oh mah >aigs.—Puck. A_ < Ititwro I<iea. “It has remained tor a Chicago man to use the copyright law in an entirely novel manner.” remarked the drummer to the hotel clerk. “As to how?” inquired the clerk. “I thought Mie only use Chicago had for anything so literary as the -copyright law was to Xtaine it and hang it up in her packing houses.” \ r ---‘‘That's-crrly rn t.hufe ]tavktng houses which supply 1116 Boston trade*;’-’ laughed the drummer. “The case 1 refer to was quite out of that domain.” - - ’ “Into which.?” queried the clerk. “Into the domestic. There was a, chap out there Iwho bad obtained a divorce from his wife, but she didn’t want it that way. an when she was forced to give him up shp annoyed him greatly by continuing i,o use his mme aa own. He tried fiersuaalOD * 1 v!’ ■ I

uuc il out no good;.and his lawyers threatened her, but she laughed at them. He stood it for spine time and ono day a great idea came his way and settled upon him. It explained itself on the spot and the gentleman at once proceeded to have his name copyrighted. That gave him exclusive control of it and made it a punishable offense for anyone to use it without his consent. Then his lawyers went to the lady and showed her what it would cost her to infringe a copyright, and by the great horn spoon, so strong is the literary instinct in that town that the lady submitted and went back to the name she was entitled to.” • “I believe I'll go to Chicago and open a poetry factory,” said the clerk, with the air of a man having a great head. —Detroit Free Press. Slm Hh<l a Histor.v, A well-dressed and sharp-faced woman passed into rhe lawyer’s office, and very shortly was standing by his desk. “I beg your pardon,” she said, in salutation, “but can you spare a tew moments of your valuable time?” “I am very busy, madam,” he replied, “but, if you have anything of importance to communicate, I shall be glad to hear it. Pray be seated.” “Thank you. no,” she said, looking around at a clerk or two in a nervous fashion. “I am a woman with a. history, and ” “Excuse me,” apologized the attorney, seeing a fee appearing on the horizon; “possibly you had better step Into, rny private office with me, wherq you will net be interrupted.” She thanked him and they went into the adjoining room. “Now,” he said, when’ they were seated, “I presume you wish to consult me on a. matter of your history?” “Yes. sir. That is why I am here.” “Very well, proceed. Anything you may say to- me will Ire held Th the strictest confidence. You were saying you were a. woman with a history?” This very sympathetically as an e>ncou nager. “Yes, sir,” she began, as she laid a document before him. “It is a history of Napoleon Bonaparte in eighteen monthly parts’ at fifty cents a month, and ” He threw up his hands, but she had him and he couldn’t get away until he had put dpw.n his name, and now wheriQ, “a woman with a history” is mentioned in his hearing it makes cold chills run down hig back. Method In Hi* Madne»«. The Medical Press tells a story of a gentleman who went to visit a friend who was an inmate of a. lunatic asylum. When he had been there about half an hour he looked at the clock and asked if it was right. The lunatic gazed at him with a look of com-, passion for a minute c<r so, and then said: “Do'you think it would be her* if it were right, you lunatic?” Ultra-lAixurlous. Treetop—Now, jes’ look at thet slga, “Don’t Blow Out the Gas.” Hayrick—What does It mean? Treetop—They probably want us to call a boy to do it, so they can charge fifty cento more on our bill.—Kate Field’s Washington. ■ .. -Miss Patterson isn’t as pretty v as she once v as. She has fallen off considerably lately. ghe—Yes; since she began riding a bicycle. c Th., On OillcatlonH A man who appeared in Topeka the ; — other day with his whiskers tucked in his vest pocket is the latest senatorial ■aspect—Kansas City Star. ~ 7 - IS ’’ “ Where They Are. Poetr—Where, oh, where, are the bright girls of the past? Knowet—Shut up. They are using a spoon and putting paregoric into the bright girls and boys of the future. ;.. z t7.