Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1901 — Page 7

AN END TO HAZING WEST POINT CADETS VOLVNTARTLY ABOLISH SYSTEM OF PETTY TYRANNY. RESULT OF THE INVESTIGATION The Lighf oU.J)fficlal Inquiry Let In Upon the Subject Has Brought About a Voluntary and Much Needed Resolution to Reform the Entire System. West Point, N. Y„ Jan. 21.—The congressional committee left here yesterday for Washington after concluding its mission of investigation at the mil itary academy. Before their departure. however, through a voluntary agreement of the cadets, hazing was abolished. This agreement was the result of a meeting of the entire corps of cadets held in Grant hall Saturday night. Tlds action came as a surprise to the committee, ail the members of which were pleased with the action of the cadets. Ever since the members of congress came here they have worked nearly 1(1 hours daily In public and executive sessions. They expect to make their report In about 10 days, and it is said on good authority they will recommend that the number of tactical officers at the West Point academy be increased. It is also said they will report that the deaths of former Cadets Booz and Breth were not caused by the hazing they received at West Point. In the case of Booz. the testimony allowed that he was not very strong at any time, and, it is said, the members of the committee believe that his health had been injured by his treatment at the hands of his fellow cadets In the academy. At the same time It is claimed that the committee has failed to discover any connection between the swallowing of tobasco sauce and the subsequent death of Booz from tuberculosis. ACTIVE RECRUITING Measures Being Taken to Maintain Strength of Army. Washington. .lan. 19.—Active recruiting for the army is In progress in all the principal cities of the country. The authorized strength of the regular army at present is 05,000 and the intention is to maintain it at that strength after the discharge of the 35,000 volunteers June 30 next. All enlistments are for three years, and the numls-r of recruits averages about 2,000 a month. Owing to the delay in action on the army bill the impression prevails that it will be almost impossible to get all the volunteers to this country in time to permit their discharge here by June 30. In that case it will be necessary to discharge a number of them in the Philippines on that date in order to keep them there until replaced by regular troops nowbeing recruited. Otherwise It would not be possible to keep the Philippine army up to the limit of 40,000 men regarded as essential to the enforcement of the president's policy, while the proposed r«*organizatiou of the army is in progress. It is said nt the war department that while it is settled that all volunteers will be discharged June 30, the course of events in the near future will determine to a considerable extent whether the discharge shall take place in the Philippines or in the i nited States. Every effort will lie made to get as many of them home as |>ossible before their discharge. DISCUSSION WILL ENSUE Cuban Constitutional Convention Is Not a I'naninious Body. Havana. Jan. 22.—The central committee of the Cuban constitutional convention reported at the public session of the convention yesterday the proposed Constitution. The document contains some modifications of the original draft. After it has been read the convention adjourned until Thursday. It is understood that the members of the central committee are not unanimous with reference to several features of the scheme and that there is likely to Is- considerable discussion before final acceptance. The proposed constitution does not contain any provisions regarding the future relations between the United Mt&tes and Cuba. Policy of Ex term I nation. London. Jim. 18. The “stop the war" committee has passed the following resolution: “Orders which a British officer nqsirts he received reveal the adoption by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener of a ]x>llcy having for Its alm the extermination of a heroic nationality ny starving its women and children and the deliberate massacre of unarmed prisoners." The latter clause alludes to General Kitchener’s alleged secret orders to General DeWet’s pursuers to take no prison era. Walked 100 Miles to Volunteer. Knoxville. Tenn., Jan. 18. Jesse Smallwood of Clay county, Ky„ has enlisted In the United States army here. He walked the entire distance to Knoxville, over 100 miles, to volunteer for Philippine service. An Old Crime Revived. Metropolis. Ills., Jan. 19.—John N. Green, n respected man of this city, was;arrested here yesterday by the sheriff of Jefferson county for the mur def of a young man named Cooper ta that county 12 years ago.

HOTEL HOLOCAUST Three Men Burned to Death In Ruins of an Illinois Hotel. Kewanee, Ills., Jan. 22. l'Ap‘ yesterday destroyed the Commercial House and caused the death of three men. The dead: C. C. Cotton, aged 22 I years. Terre Haute. Ind., advance advertising agent of an Uncle Tom’s Cabin company; Elmer Peterson, Galesburg. Ills., brick mason; James Fischer, Walnut. Ills., auctioneer. The injured: John C. Gruber. Fort Wayne. Ind., contractor, jumped from window in third story; fell on cement sidewalk: hurt about the back and internally; Martin Jacobs, Chicago, expert mechanic, jumped from third story; hurt internally; will recover. An explosion in the kitchen sent the flames into every corner of the house and cut off escape by means of the stairs. The frantic guests rushed to the windows, where some hurled themselves to the ground without waiting for assistance by the firemen, and others had to be carried out, fainting and panic-stricken. Three women were rescued and all the other 20 guests escaped with the loss of all their baggage and clothing. The loss is about $4,0u0, without insurance. EDITORS MEET National Executive Committee Entertained At Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Jan. 18.—The executive committee of the National Editorial association met at the Commercial club yesterday and fixed the date and program for the next annual meeting of the association. F. B. Baillio, editor of the Johnson City Review of Cleburne, Tex., presided. An address of welcome was made on behalf of the club and city by John W. Kern, representing Mayor Taggart. Colonel B. B. Herbert, owner of the Printer-Journalist, of Chicago, made the response. Resolutions in memory of Matt Parrott of Waterloo, la., late president of the association, were adopted. Mr. Parrott was lieutenant governor of lowa. Acting President Baillio announced the program for the next national convention of the association, to be held at Buffalo, N. Y.. during the Pan-American exposition. Kuhns Has Regrets. Columbus. 0., Jan. 21.—Marvin Kuhns was brought back to the Ohio penitentiary Saturday night by Deputy Warden Long. The prisoner was heavily shackled. His head was bandaged to cover the bunet wound inflicted by his captors at Green Hill. Ind. The bullet is still lodged in the side of his face, but he suffers no pain from it and the wound is not believed to be serious. Kuhns is very despondent over his capture, hut his greatest regret is that he was captured by farmers. Kuhns says he was taken wholly unawares; otherwise he would not have been captured. Depositors Are Ruined. St. Joseph. Mo.. Jan. 22.—The embezzlements of Frank Harpster, cashier of the Wathena State bank of Wathena. Kan., who committed suicide, exceed all expectations, and as a consequence more than 250 persons are financially ruined. There were 250 depositors, whose accounts ranged from SSO to $5,000. The most careful investigation reveals the losses to aggregate $130,000. There are assets amounting to nearly $30,000, of which $3,900 is In currency, which was left in the bank, and $25,000 in notes. He Had a Tale to Tell. New York. Jan. 21.—Elias Masuras, a Greek, the eomplainart in an assault case which came before City Judge Kellogg of Yonkers. N. Y., Sunday morning, told a startling tale of a plot of Greek anarchists to kill prominent Americans, and would have told more had the court not stopped him and turned him over to the police that they might quietly investigate the case. Several arrests have already been made and a number more are planned. Religious War In France. Parts, Jan. 21.—The debate on the associations bill is keeidy watched by foreign ambassadors, for it has pitted against each other the two bitterest passions in France—the passion of those bent on subverting and the passion of those bent on upholding religious tutelage and renew in an acute form the struggle which has been going on in this country ever since the French revolution. Hanged On an Old Scaffold. Regina. N. W. T., Jan. 18.—John Morrison, who murdered a whole family. father, mother and three children, named McArthur, near Moosmln, two months ago, was hangtvl here yesterday. The condemned man was cool and collected. The scaffold was the same one on winch Louis Riel, the rebel, was hanged in 1885. Ferrell Must Go to the Chair Columbus. 0., Jan. 19.—The state board of pardons has refused to interfere in the ease of Rosalyn 11. Ferrell. who is in the penitent hiry under sentence to be electrocuted on March 1. Ferrell was convicted of the murder of Express Messenger Charles Lane In an Adams Express ear while cn route to tills citv. Saucy Venezuela. New York. Jan. 19. It was nnuounced that the government of Venezuela lias established a censorship over all dispatches to and from th" United States. The censorship was establish ed Dec. 9, and lias been strictly 'u force ever since.

A CREDIT CHECK SWINDLE. Trick by Which One Firm Got Dollars Wlujoot Sellins' Shirt Waists. , That there is no end to the ways of imposing upon tiie suffering New York | public was illustrated by the failure! of a small store recently. The newly ! appointed receiver was surprised by ; having many women come to his office 1 with credit cheeks. These checks were for small amounts, ranging from $1 to $lO. At first the receiver couldn't understand it, but upon investigation he learned the details of a pretty system of fleecing. The firm. It seems, had made a specialty of silk and cotton shirt waists. These were, with few exceptions, shapeless, ill fitting garments, and when the unfortunate women shoppers got home with their purchases and put them on they were disgusted to find that the bargain sale waists were baggy and puckery and altogether so poorly fashioned that it would !>e next to impossible to make them fit even by a complete ripping up and ; remaking. Such being the conditions they invariably took the goods back I and demanded other waists or their money. It was contrary to the principles of the firm to refund money,' and as they seldom bad waists more becoming either in style or shape than tiie ones returned, they were driven to the extremity of credit checks. “We- will get in a new supply of ; waists in a few days," was the suave! assurance of the manager and his! well trained assistants. “Your check j will be good at any time, and when we j replenish our stock you can select a I waist that suits you.” But the new stock never arrived, and | in spite of the good dollars received I from deluded customers without decreasing their capital of waists, the firm became Insolvent and then the women began to come with credit checks. So far the receiver has been unable to compensate them for their loss through the swindle which. In its way, was rather neat.—New York Sun. AARON BURR’S MAGNETISM. He Conquered All Feminine Heart# Without an Effort. “From the time the beautiful and brilliant Mme. Jumel bad been a young girl and when Aaron Burr was only a captain in the American army she had been more than once under the spell of his strange fascination,” writes William Uerrine in The Ladles’ Home Journal. “Burr had introduced her to the celebrated Margaret Moncrieff. had desperately flirted with her and had Implanted within her an admiration which was still alive when be was an aged social exile. She had written of him in earlier days that he appeared to her to be ‘the perfection of manhood,’ that his figure and form had been fashioned in the mold of the graces and that he was as familiar with the drawing room as with the camp. “Tn a word,' she said, ‘he was a combined model of Mars and Apollo. His eye was of the deepest black and sparkled with an Incomprehensible brilliancy when he smiled, but if enraged its power was absolutely terrific. Into whatever female society he chanced by the fortunes of war or the vicissitudes of private life to be cast, he conquered all hearts without an effort, and until he became deeply Involved in the affairs of state and the vexations incident to the political arena I do not believe a female capable of the gentle emotions of love ever looked upon him without loving him.’ Wherever he went he was petted and caressed by her sex. and hundreds vied with each other in a continuous struggle to offer him some testimonial of their adulation. Subsequently Mme. Jumel was married to Burr, who was nearly 80 and she nearly 00. The marriage was not a happy one, and the two soon separated.” Old Apothecnrlei and Dortora. The offenses of apothecaries In the middle ages were numerous and the punishment In some cases a whipping. The worst was the Improper sale of poisons—that is to say. except when not duly prescribed by a known physician of reputation, and even then not to put down In n register the name of the doctor and person to whom such prescription containing poison was delivered, was punishable likewise. Tiie sale of poison for drugging fish was prohibited and also that of inferior drugs by any apothecary. To prescribe himself (unless a doctor could not be found) was an offense punishable by a whipping, and all preparations sold by him had to be made up in the presence of the doctor or of another apothecary. A barber surgeon might only prescribe for exterior applications "according to surgery.” but we are not told what was the penalty In such a case.—Gentleman's Magazine.

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