Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1896 — Page 6

PROMPT PUNISHMENT Tramps Sent to the Penitentiary For Highway Robbery. BABY BIT BY A COPPERHEAD. Murdered ai a* Rally—Depot Robbed and Burned —Accidentally Hanged HiunelL Admit* (Jiving His Son Liquor—Robbery at Rockville, Ind. — One Child Scalded and Another Burned to Death. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 31. —Early Saturday morning the police were notified that tramps were creating a riot at the Belt line junction about a mile from the city. They took an engine and went to the scene of trouble. As the engine slowed up three men made a dash for it and tried to hold up the engineer. After a hard struggle they were captured. They gave their names as James Doran, John Wilson and Joe Smith. They were taken to the dispatcher's office, where Jacob Renz, with his head cut, recognized the three men as his assailants. Oscar Dicks, who was with Renz, said the men had robbed him and chased him out of the yards with a knife. The men were given a trial for highway robbery, found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary ior three years each within 1-1 hours after their capture. QUO WARRANTS. Proceedings to Oust the Warden of the State Prison South, Jeffersonville, Ind., Aug. 31.— Quo warranto proceedings have been filed in court to oust Alvin T. Hert, warden of the Indiana prison south, located here. The action was filed by Edgar A. Howard, prosecuting attormy, and George H. Voigt. It recites that on the first Tuesday of May, 1894, at an election held in the city of Brazil, Ind.. the defendant, Alvin T. Hert, was elected by the voters to the office of mayor for a term of four years, and that on the first day of September, 1895, defendent usurped the office of warden of the Indiana prison south. It is a principal of law in this state that a person elected to a judicial office is ineligible to hold any office other than a judicial office during the term for which he was elected. The supreme court reports contain decisions to the effect that the office of mayor is a judicial office. Some few months ago Warden Hert went outside of the state for his deputy. It is said his action created considerable feeling, and it is possible that the suit is the outgrowth. At the time of the appointment Mr. Hert gave as his reason that he wanted an experienced man in prison management, aad claimecHieEad secured such a one. TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS. O.itie Gili o:n SciLl'e.l auil Baisie Ogden ;.ii rued In He Hi. Blufft on. Ind.. .\i' JI. —Ontie Gillirch. '.ageu f'Hir. wade pl.’.yinsr near a boiler of scaliiiug water, plunged in he, a a;.-a liv- t.) death. Bessie Ogiieu, aged 12, while attempting to remove the irons from the stove, got too near the flames and her clothing caught fire. She was burned in a shocking manner and died from her injuries. Admits Giving His Son Liquor. Inijanapol s, Aug. 31.—Wyatte Far- - rington, a saloonkeeper, has been tried in,.court here on the charge of giving liquor to minors, the boy being 16 years old and Farrington’s son. Farrington .stated that the boy had developed a taste for liquor and that he had given him the flowing “Chicago bowl.” The evidence showed that he had i;ot gt’zen th 1 boy more than two glasses of beer a d iv. The case raised the question as to the right of a parent engaged in the liquor business to give liquor to his child and was taken under advisement. Sawyer Crushed.to Death. Munch:, Ind., Auir.. 31.—Joseph Builur !•. ... .’.-I, Ih'.ic sawyer ::t Moody & Son’s s-i vtndl, had .hi- brains crushed nut. at 'bis' \ he n. 1 in tin .. O- HM , , i i:. ■ ■ ■ ..it c ))•. • ••< t 1-- ■ <'■■■ . 1...:.- -t He oil a:-, -stile tr:c: ;i::<i 'r’l'ore ass st c. 111.- ti;." nr n ■ it. Mil was ei .n.lii twi-.-u th(> ear) age ami a heavy timin '-, er.; lang in both sines of iti- h<'dd. He le.-.ves a widow and thr.- • children. Kau the Fellow Down. Bowlin^Green, 0.. Aug. 31. —Gcn- . oral, Washington Lovejoy, the Kentuckian. who, with Lazarus Damore, it is alleged, decoyed Margaret Toppen, aged 13, into a cabin in the woods at night and assaulted her, has be'en captured, Lovejoy was shot at twice before he would surrender. His home is at Cattlettsburg, Ky., where he is wanted for stabbing a man. Damore is . still at large. He is wanted for an ofU sense committed in Adams county. « Aeronaut Drowned. ... Toledo, 0., Aug. 31.—Professor Edward Cole, an aeronaut, was drowned in Maumee bay yesterday after an ascension. His companion, Josie Carmel was saved by her~life preserver. The balloon rose from the Casino on the baj front and was-about three miles ou when the tragedy happened. Thousand: of people witnessed the drowning Iron the Casino grounds. Rachae) Reeder’s Fatal Sneezing. Hartford City, Iml., Aug. 31.—Mrs - Rachael Reeder, aged 75, .was takei with a violent sjieeziirg spell and at th end of' 30 minutes, suddenly f?ll ove dead. Being old land inliim, she riqi tured a blood vessel. ... —Daiuage to Ilriilgeju— .. — Hagerstown, Ind., Aug. 31.—Boar, of commissioners, after inspecting th S bridges and highways of Waynecpu’litj report that it will require SIOO,OOO t adequately repair .the damage done b —the recent floods.

WESTWARD JOURNEY? Bryan Continue* to Travel Homeward. Making Speeohe* on the Way. Ripley, N. Y., Sept. I.—The Bryan f party stopped at Prospect park in Chautauqua in response to the calls of the people gathered there. Bryan made a few appropriate remarks devoid of political flavor. ■ From Chautauqua the trip on the lake was continued to Mayville. The balcony of the Mayville hotel had been 1 decorated with flags and from it Mr. ' Bryan made a short speech. He alluded happily to the residence of Judge Al1 bion Tourgee in that village. Most of the 400 people displayed bunches of golden rod on their coats ami hats, and had their teams decorated with flowers. The trip from Ripley to Cleveland t was marked by a noteworthy demon--1 stration at Ashtabula. Two thousand 1 men and women were waiting at the » station and came flocking about the last L car with a great shout Mr. Bryan , made aspeech, aYid incidentally inquired whether there were any Republicans in the crowd who would vote for free sil- ’ ver, whereupon there were cries of “here, here,” and a cluster of 30 hands were held up. After the speech tho 1 people, most of them working men, 1 mobbed the car to clutch the flowers which Mrs. Bryan handed out, men and I women fighting to the front so that it seemed some of them must be injured. ' Conneaut turned out 400 people ami 1 Geneva about the same number, partisans of the latter place struggling to . outcheer one another for Bryan and McKinley. ' The town of Madison achieved the distinction of giving Mr. Bryan the first distinct affront which he has met with in his tour. The Madison Republican club, with its banner, a ba-ssdrum and yellow badges shining from the members’ coats, was arrayed alongside the track. They beat the bass drum, 1 jeered Bryan and cheered McKinley. Candidate Bryan has been the object of no other demonstrations so vociferous and so spectacular as that which the city of Cleveland gave him last night, and nowhere else, with the possible exception of New York, have so many people attempted to hear him talk. Two great meetings listened to 1 Mr. Brvan, the first in the Central armory, where 16,000 people were packed; the second in Music hall, which held 8.000, and afterward he spoke to several thousand from the balcony of the Hollendon hotel. Special trains brought out of town clubs in during the day. For two or three squares the streets about the depot were thronged when the cannon announced the arrival of the train cu which the candidate came. There w-s a parade to escort him to the hotel and another after dinner from the hotel to the armory. Fifteen minutes after the armory doors were thrown open every inch of space was filled. Not only were the aisles jammed, but men were clinging on window sills high up and hanging in all sort m of-possible places. —The-crowd-ing last night was almost as great us at the Jamestown assembly Saturday. Workingmen were in large majority in both meetings. Au arm bidding a hammer surmounted with the words ••The friend of labor,” was blazoned across the big transparency in the armory. When Air. Bryan came down the stage escorted by L. E. Holden of the Cleveland Plaindealer, he inspired a fierce cheer, which continued for three niitutes with waving hats and handkerchiefs and was continued all the time the temporary chairman was trying to A<o.rk in his speech. The : rriiory audience was the largest Mr. Bry. u has addressed in doors, exthe one in Madison square. The Music hall crowd was half as large and none left the hall. Charles P. Salem introduced the H-esideiitial candidate at the arm jry me ig. Teller Receives an Ovation. Colorado Springs. Colo., Sept. I.— Senator H-uv M. T.>i.-r 'delivered last night the b;i y sji-.-ccii v h)<-ii he wi’’ give to tiie n’e of Colorado in th' ; campaign. V, ..i-j Senat< ;• Teller ro ■ to speak" 3j<ob- people o< rupied every ' space in the CdliS'am and L<i3o more crowded the < ats-if.o of the hall an I | cheered. T.le sw .which greeted him at the opening o; the meeting beggars description. This 'dtv-is called the hot hedci'i:.- ’' ; -Kin?-y sentiment of th • west, a:: . 1. ■■ m,- -' ing iast night was all the mor ■ i" markabie for that fact. I I .1 Nut Jlliiininatp. Con• ■; \'• ■ S<-pr 1. — Th«'-e:n- : bnssi SA. • -I iillllililie ; ■ • iu.-. v, m the autjiv- try of tin • ■ . <-ees-' s;<») to ti t ■; lea-. . ■ : lie ree--iit ■' massicriis.' Tht din -• •• «>i t-he om- • La.- -i-is, wild • >to tic- Yild K-i Sl; t<_i co:.. .-y : a .. isties of th ‘ ambassmii'ir , ■ Le m i.'i.-trtieted to leave in-;.- \ n, ai'liough they congra.tur t- ntan upon the.aniiiversaiy <-r' ' i-i--.ioii to the throne, ex- ’ press deep r- gi-et at th- recent outrages , IrMi Natioiia! Convention. t Dublin. Sept. I.—lt is estimated that - 700 delegates will be in attendance at - the opening session of the Irish national S convention. Michael Davitt, M. P., 3 told the Associated Press correspondent s last night that he expected that more than 1,700 < eleggtes would be present • before the convention closed. At leas’’ 1,200 will-co.ne from Ireland and Great Britain. • • d Thieves’ Clever Work. Cleveland, Sept. 1. gang of l r thieves following the Bryan party took i 0 advantage of the stop at Ripley to do a y clever stroke work. There is a small q bank in the town, a branch of the First National bank of Westfield. The bank n clacks rushed to the front door jto-see the parade puss and the thieves slipped «, in at a back window and made way with all the cash hi sight, about S9OO. Vanderbilt Mint Stay In New pert. i( " New Yukk, Sept, i.—Cornelius Vanr derbilt although seeming to mend slowly is in—a . preieinous His physicians have ordered that he tjhftuld not In- reinoved-from Newport, and hi,p .wife has lu/qje laraugeiuents to pas •d coming w m'.er at that resort, he Incendiary Fire. y> Madison. Irid. Sy.pf j.—lncendiaries to burned -uel Carlisle’s music store. W Loss, s2;3s)o, with $4,800 insurance, “ . —- — _ _ -

COMING CONVENTION • J National Democrats to Meet In In- • ZZZZZSdianapolis Sept. 2. k , SENATOR VILAS AND WATTERSON 1 Republican League Committee Call* on Major McKinley at Canton, O.— Candidate Bi-yau'a Reception at Knowle.ville, N. Y. tv- Mr». Bryan Distributes Flowers to the Crowd at Medina. 1 . “J ' i . V Indianapoijs, Aug. 29.—As Sept. 3 draws near there is every indication that the local gold Democrats have all the arrangements for the national convention well in hand. Seats are provided for 824 delegates, and in the rear of the delegates 900 people can be seated, and the stage, which has been onlargpd, will seat 400 more; A platform for the new spaper men has been arranged. It is two feet six inches above the floor of the hall, and provisions are made for 196 correspondents. Ample telephone and telegraph facilities have also been ar ranged for. It is said word has been received that large nunibi rs of prominent men from Ghio, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Indiana, other than delegates, will attend the convention. It being reported that it will require a special train to haul Missouri’s contingent, A member of tLe executive committee, it is said, has received a letter from J. B. Carry, millionaire coal operator of Pittsburg, Pa., suggesting that theconvention nominate McKinley for president and John G. Carlisle for vice president, and place McKinley electors on the ticket. The suggestion contemplates an agreement between the Republican and Democratic committees that the candidate for vice president receiving the highest popular vote shall be voted for by the electors. Senator Vilas seems to still have the lead for first place, although Henry Watterson supporters it is sai l are not losing ground. It is the desire, it is said, to please President Cleveland that lends strength to the Vil is b :o:n. The question of putting up a state ticket, said Chairman Pickens, will be considered after the national conven tion is over. Since the district conventions the feeling in favor of a full state ticket has become more pronounced and is growing daily. Mr. Pickens says he has received applications from over a thousand antisilyer Hoosiers for tickets to the hall, but visitors from outside the state must . be ;..6 umuH d itedßrst. BRYAN STILL IN NEW YORK. Democratic Candidate’s Voice Becoming Weak From Outdoor Speaking. Knowlesville, N. Y., Aug. 29. — There were several stops yesterday at small stations between Niagara and Knowlesville, but Mr. Bryan made no speeches, His voice was getting more unmanageable, “my head willing but my throat is weak,” he explained to the people of Lockport who had chartered a band and burned guiqiowder to greet him. After Mr. Bryan had apologized for the short coming of his voice they persisted in their calls so that he said a few words thanking them for the interest which they displayed in the campaign. The same scene was repeated at Medina, where farmers seemed to compose a majority of the concourse. Mrs Bryan’s carseat had been heaped with bouquets by the ladies of Lockport and at Medina she scattered chrysanthemums among the people, who came scrambling after the train when it pulled out, fighting for every blossom The train itself was overcrowded with' passengers. They pushed into the last ear, where the Bryans were, until it was crowded like a circus tent. Meh and women were standing on the seats staring at Mr. ami Mrs. Bryan. vvli -ii Knowlesville was reached a i hearty welcome was given and thfa aaer's wagons at the. iittledepot wer ■ dec rated fancifully with flags and homemade banners displaying litho graphs of the candidate, one 'wagon drawn by four white horses was waiting for The patty and into this they were hurried, a brass band leading.the ■ way and 50 farm wagons trailing behind in the match toward the village two miles distant. Thus were the Bryans escorted to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Woodford and entertained at lunch by them and Mrs. T. Morey, HoAgeman, a Nebraska friend of theirs the summer here. After luiuih they were taken to Knowlesville where Mr. Bryan s]>oke in the open air to several thousand country people assembled for the farmers’ picnic. Mr. Bryan stated yesterday that his . itenery had not been changed. He also stated that he expected to speak at Columbus, O.,uT>on the date announced. Irt speaking of the Knowlesville demonstration he said: “The meeting yesterday was the first purely agricultural meeting I have-addressed in New York. If ’ the sentiment displayed can be : taken as an indication the farmers of the east are as earnest in the advocacy of the free coinage of gold ‘and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 as are those of the . West.” , Winona AHVninbly. 1 Eagle Lake, Ind.. Aug. 29.—The ' business of the Winona assembly for the season just closed, shows a gratifying increase, notwithstanding the hard times and the hinderances from wind, 'flood ami electricity. The summer ; school almost paid for itself, which was unexpected. The Bible conference was 1 well attended tiy ministers, and the programme, as a.'wholo, gave entire , satisfaetijin. With the experience of tin- to guide the inaiiagement in the division of labor, the arrangement of programme, and expenditure of money, the coming year will be an improvement lines over the ( oast

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