Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1895 — Page 3

—TO THERReSRESSIVE <3' H FAMRER -p, 1893. * \ T E wish to say that we have now on hand the New * \n Force Feed, Low Elevator, Champion - Binder ECCENTRIC GEAR, Demonstrated in harvest <of 1894,t0 be the LIGHTEST DRAFT And having - the advantage over all other Binders in handling Rye or down grain, and will Forfeit Price of Binder If we cannot demonstrate to any practical farmer that we have advantages over all other Binders and Mowers. Come and let us show you and be convinced. We are here for the purpose of showing you these facts, and if you fail to. see and buy a Binder or Mower of any other make than the Champion, you make The Mistake of Your Life. BINDER TWINE, PLOWS, HARROWS, And, in fact, the largest stock of HARD A. ZFt E In the city, together with’the lowest prices. Thanking our customers for past favors, and hoping for a continuance of same, we remain Truly yours, JOHN S. BOWERS & CO.

THEY WON THE RAISE. The Directors Were Satisfied That Their Claim Was Just. Once when the miners of a big anthracite mining company were desirous of receiving increased pay an effort was made to induce the local officials in the mining country to make such representations to the president of the company as would produce the desired effect. This was unavailing, however, and efforts in other directions were tried, until the directors offered to meet a delegation of the miners in New York city and discuss the situation. A dozen of the brawniest miners in the region were selected as delegates—great rugged men, who would certainly make a favorable impression. The men met the officials and stated their case, which was that at the prevailing rate of wages they could hardly get enough to eat. The matter was held under advisement, and the conference adjourned to luncheon. Then camo the most amazing display of appetites that has ever been seen before or since, and the colored waiters turned pale as they saw a dish intended, for the entire party retained by one man, who speedily made away with the contents. Each man seemed as , ravenous as though he had not eaten for a week, and the caterer was at his wits’ ends to provide Jot them all. At last, when every portion had been eaten and all seemed inclined for more, a giant whoso native place was South Wales cried out: “Don’t you worry about no more fancy things. Bring us a cheese, and we’ll make out all right. ” A cheese was procured, and the directors gazed with awe as it speedily disappeared. As the last crumbs were disappearing the officials held a hurried con- ~ sultatiou, and after awhile the president announced: “Gentlemen, we have decided to concede your claims to an advance of 10 ner cent, for we are certain that ———. 1 * ■ —in

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at present you cun scarcely get enough to eat. Nothing but this pleasurable meeting could so fully have convinced ns of your needs.” The delegates have not yet wearied of telling of the amazing display of gluttony which they allege was preconcerted for the express purpose of creating the impression that it produced.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Market Quotation*. “Sir,” said the indignant aiderman, "are you not aware that were I to vote for your measure I would be exposed to the condemnati&n of all the good citiens in my ward? And that sort of thing,” he added, lowering his voice, “comes pretty high, you know. ”—lndianapolis Journal. The Modern Daughter. “I wish to ask your permission to pay my addresses to your daughter, ’ ’ said the old fashioned young man. “All right,” said the old gentleman. “If I can get her permission to give you my permission, go ahead. ” —lndianapoA Sure Sign. Her Brother—Awfully bad news, sister. The Sister —What? Her Brother—That count of yours is a bogus one. The Sister —How did you find that oat? 7 Her Brother—l was telling him today how hard up I Was, and he actually offered to lend me SIOO. —Syracuse Post. The Same Thing. Major John writes in The United Service Magazine that while fie was employed between Port Said and Kautara he saw the waters of the Lake Menaalek “driven beyond the horizon” bya violent wind, so that the natives walked about where the day before they were fishing. This convinced him that he had seen exactly what happened when tho Israelites passed dry shod through the Red sea.

FILIBUSTERS TAKEN IN Twenty Cuban Sympathizers Captured by the United States Marshal. QUITE A WARLIKE CARGO. Twenty-seven Case* of Armi and a Large Quantity of Ammunition Seized—Previoue Expedition From Wilmington Beached Cuba In Safety—Seizure of Munitions of War at Cedar Keys, Fla. Wilmington, Del., Aug. 31.—Twenty men were, brought here yesterday from Penn’s Grove, N. J., and lodged in jail, charged with violating the neutrality laws in having organized a hostile expedition to Cuba. They are still here in custody of the United States authorities, and will be arraigned on Monday. It has been suspected for several months that a Cuban filibustering party was at work in this city, and that at least one if not more expeditions to Cuba have been sent from this city. On Monday the United States authorities here were notified that another expedition was about to take its departure, and Deputy Marshal Hewson E. Lannan and several assistants, together with the police authorities, have been keeping a close watch ever since. They noticed a number of suspicious characters loitering about and discovered that one of these had gone to the office of the Charles Warner company and chartered the tug Tar us to carry freight to Penn’s Grove. They shadowed the tug until she left her wharf in this city at midnight last night. It was known beforehand by the authorities that the party was to stop at Penn’s Grove to wait for a steamer from Philadelphia to take them to Cuba. The name of this steamer is not known, but it was learned that she was not expected to arrive at Penn’s Grove until midnight. The officers therefore permitted the men they were watching to load their freight and embark their passengers, saw them sail in the direction to Penn’s Grove, where a number of detectives had been sent, to await developments. Marshal Lannan, with several assist- . ants, and a squad of police, later boarded the tug Media and sailed to Penn’s Grove. There they found the .party lounging about the railroad station, and put them under arrest. When they overhauled the freight in the hull of the Tarus it was found that it consisted of 27 cases of arms, a large quantity of ammunition, provisions, dothing, etc. All of this was seized, and the party returned to Wilmington. None of the prisoners have made any statement, and it is not thought that they will until they are arraigned in Court. ~ An expedition very similar to the one which came to grief yesterday put. to sea in the tug Bertha about three weeks ago, and it is understood that its members were safely landed in Cuba. Supplies For Cubans. New York, Aug. 31.—1 t has been announced here that a filibustering expedition fitted out at Philadelphia had landed safely in Cuba. It is said the vessel carried five field pieces, two howitzers, 3,000 rifles and 200,000 rounds of ammunition. There were only 50 men in the party, but a great quantity of medicine and field Apparatus was taken, and the insurgents stand more in need of these today than of men. Munitions of War Seized. Washington, Aug. 31.—The treasury department has received a telegram from Collector of Customs Cotrell, at Cedar Keys, Fla., saying that, at the instigation of the Spanish consul at Tampa, he had seized 150 Remington rifles, a quantity of cartridges, and 11 kegs of powder, all of which were to have been shipped to Cuba. FRANCE GETS INDEMNITY. China Agrees to Pay That Government Four Million Francs. Washington, Aug. 31.—State department officials say China’s agreement to pay France 4,000,000 francs indemnity on account of the antimissionary riots at Sze Chuan is due to the fact that France decided to prosecute her claim alone and independently of the “United States and Great Britain. The French had large property interests in that section and the sum agreed upon is considered as entirely reasonable compensation for the loss sustained. The authorities here are satisfied with the progress making in the settlement of the claims of this country and of England, which are being pressed jointly, but say that the point has not yet been reached in those negotiations where the amount of indemnity could be suggested. Vein of Magnetic Water. Moline, Ills., Aug. 31.—The East Moline company, which is sinking an artesian well on its manufacturing town site, just east of here, has been rewarded by striking a good 'flow of strong magnetic water. The water is slightly impregnated with sulphur, but is remarkably clear and cool, and flows from a depth of 1,140 feet, although the well will be sunk 200 feet deeper. The pipe, drills, etc., about the well are all stronglv magnetized from the water, so that nails in almost any quantity on being held near them are seized and suspended by the magnetic current. Samples of the water will be sent to Chicago for chemical analysis. Poztoffloe Burglarized. Princeton, Ills., Aug. 81.—The Hennepin postofflee was entered by burglars and $25 in cash and S2OO in postage stamps carried away- The door of the safe was drilled and blown off. A number of notes and valuable papers belonging to Postmaster J. H. Seaton were, also taken. Feedtnlll Burr Hursts. Galena, Dis., Aug. 31.— John Durrstein of Scales Mound died from injuries received while assisting to operate a stone burr feed mill. The burr burst and two pieces entered his body. In-i tense suffering was relieved only by I death. . -5;.

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Old Settlers 15th. Annual Excursion. On Tuesday, Sept 21th, the C- & F. R. R. wjli run their 15th annual excursion. on account reunion of Old Settlers Association of Indiana, and Ohio. Round trip tickets will be sold at all stations between Huntington, Ind and Marion, Ohio inclusive, as follows: To Lisbon, O-, and Youngstown, O . $3 75; to-Greenville. Pa., and Beaver rails, Pa.. $1 75, children half fare Ticket's will be good returning any time within 30 days from date of sale and give one stop-oyer on return trip at any point sast of Marion, O. Special trains in charge of passenger agents will leave Huntington 6 a. m., stopping at all stations,—these trains will arrive at I)« ulur, Ind., at 7:21 a. m The exceedingly low rates named will enable passengers to visit iu Trumbull. Mahoning Portage, (krtlimbiana, Stark, Ashland. Richland, Summit, Medina and other Ohio and Pennsylvania counties, including the citiesof Warren. Ravenna Akron, Kent, Mansfield. etc. Ac a small additional cost, passengers can re buy tickets to Cleveland, Columbus. PltKbiirir, etc. For further particulars address any member of the Association, any agent Erie Lines. W G MacEdwo d. Pass Agent, Huntington Ind., or J. W. DeLonff. Agent. Decatur Ind. A man IS the happiest when he can forget all mean things he knows about himself. From present Indications the summer girl will look very much like a slice out ’of a rainbow. A rich St. Louis girl is about to marry an Indian. In fact, fortune seems to favor the brave. There are several ways to pay bills, but the majority of the big ones are pa id with reluctance. _ Grand Ranids & Indiana Railroad Took effect Atgust 18, 81895. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 j No. 5 No. 7 Cincinnati., ive .... 8 06am 630 pm Richmond 3 30pm 11 (X).. 11 25 Winchester.... 4 34.. 12 00.. 1220 am..., Portland 6 17.. 12 42pm 12 51.. x Decatur 6 12.. 145 .. 137.. Ft. Wayne... arr 6 55.. 230.. 210 “ •• ...Ive 2 55pm 220.. 8 15am Kendallville... 8 07.. 4 00.. 3 14.. 928 .. Rome City 8 20.. 4 16.. 3 26.. 9 46.. Wolcottville 4 21 9 51 .. Valentine...... 483.. ........10 02.. LaGrange 442 .. 348 .. 10 13 .. Lima 5 5410 28 .. Sturgis 5 06.. 4 06.. 10 47 .. Vicksburg 6 05.. 4 52.. 1141.. Kalamazoo.arr 6 35.. 5 15.. 1210. •• ..Ive 715 .. 5 20.. 1220 pm Gr Rapids..arr 915.. 65‘>am 215.. “ " .. Ive 700 am 10 45 . 807 .. 525 .. D..G.H.&M.cr 715.. 1100.. 813.. 5 40. Howard City... 8 20.. 12 05am 6 45. Illg Rapids .... 905 .. 12 45 .. 930 .. 730 . Reed City 9 40.. 125 10 05.. 8 2).., Cadil.acarr K) 45.. 2 30.. 10 55.. 9 25.. ....Ive 1115 .. 24Jam 1100 .. 930 .. Traverse City 12 50pm 11 10 .. Kalkaska...,!.. 135 pm 400 Petoskej 340 .. 550 .. 140 Mackinac Lltv. 529.. 720,. 3 00.. ... . . GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 I No. 8 Mackinac City. 9 00pm 749 am -3 00pm i Petoskey 10 30.. 905 ~ 405 .. I Kalkaska 1237 am I Traverse City 10 40 .. ft 10 ... Cadillac... arr 210.. 1245 pm 6 65.. ...Ive 2 30.. 130.. 7 GO., i7h am Keel City 3 40..,. .2 45 .. .8 00... ! .845.. Biv Rapids .4 08.. 3 15.. 8 22.. | 915 Hcwfird City,. 500.. 4 0011010.: 11., <, I■. & M ,et -8-05-;-.- -s<rj--. .- fl 4.V .. ’I I 15^.. Gr. Rapids .arr 620 .. 5 15.. 10(H) . 1130. •• “ ..Ive 725 am 600.. 1115 pm 2 00pm Kalamazoo.arr 9 20.. 755.. 11 45.. 345 -• ..Ive 925 .. BJO 1214 .. 360 . Vicksburg 949 .. 100 .. 415. Sturgis ..10 42 5'6 .. Lima.....!'..... 1054.. . 517.. LaGrange... .1107.. No. 42 1 20.. 5 29.. Valentinelllß., ex Sun 5 37.. * Wolcottville... 1130 .. day. 546 .. Route City 11367. 9 59.. 1 55.. 551.. Kendallville... 1150 .. 1016.. 250.. 609.._ Fl. Wayne..arr 1255 .. 1125.. 300.. 7 ..15 “ “ ..Ive 115 pm 5 4’>am 645 am Decatur 159 .. 630 , 340 Portland. 300 .. 780 am 422 ..— Winchester.... 3 44.. 8 09.. 443 Richmond 4 45.. 915.. 535 pm Cincinnati 725 .. 12( 1.. 745 Trains 2 and 4 • run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON Agent, Decatur Ind /■\ Erie Lines. Schedule In effect June 9, 1895 Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. N 0.5. Vestibule Limited, daily for I o.jo p m Chicago f No. 3. Piffle Express, daily for I~w A M Chicagof ” No. 1, Express, daily except Sun-1 10:45 A. Nt day for Chicago I ,No. 31, Local, daily, except Sun-1 10 . 46 A M dayl trains BAST. No. 8, Vestibule Limited, daily for I s , llß p u NeW York and Boston f " No. 2, Express, dally except Sun-1 M day for New York| ’ ' ' No. 12. Express, dally for ' New I , Y0rk..<.... ■ f ‘-3' a. m No. 30. Local, daily except Sun-, dux '■ ...■■■4y):4s A. M. Through cbc.ches.aud sleeping cars to Nw 1 - I’erk and Boston. Trains 1 and 2 stop at al stations on the C. & E. division. - Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus Cirolevill, Chilllcatho Waver y. I’ortsnibuih. Irontor, and Kenova, via Coiuui bus Hocking Valley & Toledo and Norfolk & ■ Western Li neg.; J. W. DbLong. Agent. I W. G. Mac Edwards T P A. Huntington. ..

MmnMßKlMHnuaaHnHHawnMMnwaKnn rawerXV ■ HKETSWFIWS. Improvements In Both Noted In AU Lines of Trade. MAt CHECK NEW BUSINESS. Crop Prospects Have Improved During the Week — Striking Increase In the Volume of Business With Jobbers In Staple Lines—Bessemer Steel Advances 82 Per Ton For the Week—Fallures. New York, Aug. 31. —R. G. Dunn & Co.’s weekly trade review says: Improvement in markets and prices continue, and whereas a few months ago everybody was nursing the faintest hopes of recovery, it has now come tobe the only question in what branches, if any, the rise iji prices and the increase of business goes too far. A strong coiiservative feeling is finding expression against too rapid expansion and rise. In some directions the advance in prices clearly checks future business. But encouraging features have got power. Exports of gold continue, but are met by syndicate deposits and are expected to cease soon.' Anxieties about the monetary future no longer hinders business. Crop prospects, except for cotton, have somewhat improved during the week. Important steps toward reorganization of great railroads give hope to 'intesters. Labor troubles are for the moment less threatening, and some of importance have been definitely settled. The industries are jiot only doing better thaii any bodyljad expected, btit are counting upon a great business for the rest of the year. The advance in prices of iron and its products has“added about $2 per ton more in a single week to the prices of Bessemer iron at Pit t-burg, and yet the great steel companies are buying wh:r<*vt-r they can, while the air is full of reports- that this or that finished product will further advance. The prcopect for wheat has hardly improved this week, the price haying fallen IbiC. Wdstern receipts have decidedly increased, but are only 3.905,905 bushels, against 6,428,294 last year. Corn is coming forward more freely, and the September, price has declined slightly. With the p-omise of a great crop, pork and lard are a shade lower. Failures’for the week have been IS6 in the United States againsfj-196 last year, and 42 in Canada, against 40 last year. Month of August a Surprise. New York, Aug, 3L —Br.-.-isrreet’s says: The concluding week of August surprises even the more optimistic with a striking increase in the volume-of business with jobbers in staple lines at. such centers as New York; Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis and to a more moderate extent at distributing paints in the south Atlantic and gulf states. Iu dry goods, millinery, shoes, hats, clothing and groceries the autumn demand is making, itself felt with the prospect for a further improvement iu immediately succeeding weeks. All wiuter lines of goods have felt an improved request and manufacturers and jobbers are preparing to handle a large fall trade. Exports of wheat from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week (flour as wheat) amounted to only 1,871,000 bushels, against 2,389,000 bushels last week, and 3,420,000 bushels in the week one year ago. During the nine weeks of the current year the total wheat land flour) exports from the United States and Canada amounted *o only 16,000,000 bushels, as compared with 25,000,000 bushels in a like period of the preceding year. EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED. Two Passengers Instantly Killed and Many Arc Seriously Injured. Macon, Ga., Aug. 31.—An excursion train bn the Southern railway, carrying the Knights of Pythias excursion from this city to 1 ndian Springs for a picqic, left the track between Holton ffiid Pope's Ferry. The baggage car and two passenger coaches' turned over. J. of—tills city and cock of Americus, Da., were killed, and almost every person in the two coaches were more or less seriously hurt. Several of them are likely to die. There is ' no way of accounting for the accident; ! as it is said the track was iu perfect con- ■ •dition. . I None of the injured in yesterday’s ; accident on the Southern railway are likely to die, although a number of them are qu tc seriously injured. The total number of those injured will reach 50. MONEY FROM HAMLET’S HOME.. Citizen of America Inherits a Large Fortune Fr<pn a Danish Belative. Stroudsburg, Pa., Aug. 31.—Sbphus Linhard, well known in this town, and at present a guest of the Burnett House, has fallen heir to an estate valued at $1,000,000. ° Mr. Linhard has received a letter from the Danish consul at Philadelphia in which the latter states that ; through the death of his father’s sister he has inherited an immense estate in ; Denmark. The date of the death of his ■ aunt, who was a Linhard previous to ' her marriage to L. S. Pohtoppdan of I Elsinore, Denmark, is not given. Mr. I Poutoppdan was the largest individual i ship owner in north Europe. The for- : tunate heir is now ill, and it Vi tll be ' some time before he can leave to claim his inheritance. Knights Templar Adjourn. Boston, Aug. 31.—The 26th triennial conclave of the Knights Templar is a thing of the past. The grand encampment wound pp its business yesterday, installed its pffic<trs and last night the last goaxlbyes were ’said, and tlmusands Os sir knights are leaving for their distant homes. Probably at least 5,000 sir knights will remain in this locality for some time, for business and pleasure. r ’ ’ Dr. Price’s diteam Baking Powder World’s Rolf Highest Medal enJ DipiQ't '

FOSSILIZED TREES. IMMENSE FORESTS THAT HAVfrffURNED TINSTONE. An Insight Into the Mighty Operations of Nature—One of the Mahy Wonders of the Great Yellowstone National Foflgil Forest Ridge. The Yellowstone National park is called the wonderland of America, and since the destruction of the New Zealand geyser area it is perhaps entitled to be called the wonderland of the world, for within its limits the most varied of nature’s workings may be observed. Its hundreds of hot springs and geysers, its precipitous canyons and rushing cataracts, its Snowcappt'S mountain peaks and mirrored lakes make it of surpassing interest. The lover of nat nral scenery may linger long over its . beauties and its wonders. From the geological point of view it is also of great interest, for here may be found reeks that range in age froih the most ancient of which we have anyknoxvledge to those in process of formation at the present moment. The su- ■ pprheated waters of the hot springs and geysers held a large amount of reckniaking material in solution, which is deposited about the openings of the springs. on the cooling of the waters, and in this way building up a mass of great magnitude. These springs and geysers are constantly breaking out in new places, often on the borders er in the forests of living trees. The trees are killed qt once by the hot water, and on becoming withered and dry begin soon to take up tli’e rockmakiug solution by which they are bathed, and thus to pass into the fossil state. Conditions similar to these, or at least favorable to the preservation of fossil forests, appear to have existed from a remote time, for there is evidence to show that the fossil forests were pre-, served before the most active of the hot spring phenomena were inaugurated. . These fossil forests lire located in the northeastern corner of .the Yellowstone National pork,'at a place known locally as Amethyst mountain, or Fossil Forest ridge. This is really a mountain some ten miles longajid rising nealry or quite 2,C00 feet above the general level of the valley. If it were possible to cut a sec- . tion down through -this mountain, as a slice is cut from a loaf of bread, there would he found a succession of at least 15 fossil forests, cue above another — that is to say, at some remote day, geolog cal ly speaking, there grew a great forest, which was covered up by the ■ ' ejected material from a great volcano, rrraliug- -i!T size Mount Etna, that is known to. have existed some miles to the north. The trees were entombed in an upright position, and under the action es silica charged waters were fossilized. The action of the volcano ceased, and quiet was restored for a sufficient length of time for a second forest to be developed above the first. Then came a second outburst from the volcano, and this forest was buried and fossilized like the first, and so, in turn, have the dozen or more forests flourished and been engulfed. Then came the final quiet, the rumbling of the volcano ceased, and its fires were extinguished. But immediately the action of the elements began, and the wearing forces of rain and frost, acting through long ages, have carved out this mountain, in the heart of which <may be read the story of its origin. This denudation appears to have been unaccompanied by any of the violent movements so often characteristic of mountain building, and consequently when the softer material is worn away from around the trunks they stand upright in the exact positions, in which, they grew The first forest to be visited is in the vicinity of Yancey’s, a stage station on the mail route, from the Mammoth Hot Springs to Cooke City, Mon. It is about a mile west of the junction of the Lamar river and the Yellowstone, and on the middle slope of a low hilL As one approaches tne locality, several trunks are observed standing on the hillside, which at a distance seem quite like the stumps of living trees, and even a nearer approach bmely suffices to reveal their true nature, as they are covered with lichens and blackened and* discolored by frost and rain. They are, kow- ; ever, veritable fossil trunks, standing ! upright on the steep hillside, in. the l same positions in which they grew. The largest trunk is 13 l ._, feet in circumfer- • enee and about 15 feet in height. It is considerably weathered and must have been much larger when living, for the I bark is in no place preserved. The. others—and there are dozens of them—are slightly smaller, and have been weathered down until, in most cases, only a few inches, can be seen above the surface. So perfectly are they preserved that each stump shows tho annual rings I as distinctly visible as in a freshly cut living tree r and even each tiny cell, with its fine and delicate markings, is absolutely perfect. The next forest is some 10 or 12 miles distant, along the Lamar river, on the ■ south Side of which faces the Fossil Forest ridge. In some places perpendicular i cliffs many, feet in height may be -seen. ' These cliffs away, leaving exi posed huge trees, which may be observed 1 ; from a distance of a mile or more from I the valley, standing put in bold relief, j as it has been aptly said, “like jhe pil- , lark of some ancient temple. ’’ A closer view shows these ,trees to be from 4 to 6 feet in diameter, and often 20 or R 0 feet high, with their great roots running off into the solid rock. A great jiiche in the face of the wall marks the place from which one < t these trunks has fallen. Some of the remaining ones appear jnst ready b> fall, wlnle others project but little beyond rhe fact?—showing that the mountain, is filled with the remains of these trees. —Epoch. Boston's Horrible Awakening. “’’table board” in avenue! Is this the beginning of the ' md? —Boston Herald. -i . i