Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 1 January 1903 — Page 2
IT BEATS THE CIRCUS Hundreds of Elephants Take Part In the Great Durbar At | Delhi. AN UNPARALLELED PAGEANT Ceremony in Honor of King Edward's Accession Said to Be the Most Gorgeous Spectacle Ever Witnessed, Even in a Land of Splendors. Delhi, India, Dec. 31 —The viceroy. Lord Curzon of Keddleston. made his state entry yeste.tlay into the capital of the Moguls. This constituted the official opening of the durbar, held to celebrate the accession of King Edward as emperor of indfa. It was a splendid pageant, probably unparalleled in its magnificence. At the head of the elephant procession rode Lord and Lady Curzon on “Grand Tusker,” the largest elephant in India. Their howdah was decked with gold and silver, and the elephant itself was almost hidden beneath a gold-worked saddle cloth. The Duke of Connaught, who represented King Edward, and the Duchess of Connaught followed. Their elephant was equally gorgeously caparisoned. Then, in order of precedence, came the ruling chiefs, seventy in all. their huge elephants forming a line a quarter of a mile in length. This glittering procession started from the railroad station, preceded by dragoon guards and artillery, the vice roy’s escort, and by heralds and trum peters. The route was entirely lined by British and native troops. From the saluting battery posted at the fort commanding the Lahore gate, guns thundered out a royal salute as the viceroy passed with the heralds and trumpeters sounding at intervals spir ited fanfares. The procession passed in frent of a line of 150 elephants carrying the brilliantly dressed retainers of the ruling chiefs. The colossal beasts all saluted by trumpeting and throwing their trunks in the air, presenting a truly imposing sight, and afterward fell in line behind the official procession. Huge crowds of onlookers witnessed the spectacle, which, it is asserted, has never 1 een surpassed in magnificence even in this country of oriental splen dor. The finest elephants in Asia passed in front of the great Jumma Musjid, the steps of which were thronged with distinguished personages. Including the viceroys, American and British guests and the delegates from the colonies and from other parts of the empire. In the rear of the procession rode General Lord Kitchener, the command-er-in-chief of India, surrounded by a brilliant staff and followed by the heads of provinces with escorts of In dian cavalry and tribal leaders from beyond the bonier line. Down the main s'reet moved the line through lines of saluting soldiers and excited, surging, salaaming throngs of natives, through the ancient city with the balconies and housetops teeming with life and through the gate Into the open park beyond. There after a fourmile march, the elephants of the viceroy and the Duke of Connaught halted side by side and the pageant was concluded with the great princes filing by, their elephants trumpeting a salute. Mime Tea <•<(, Was Real. Marlon, Ind., Dec. 30. —Duiing the rehearsal of a Western drama at Ri es- 's opcta house In South Marion last night, William Fogleson, aged eighteen, shot and Instantly killed Oliver Mi”-r. aged twenty-six. The pl; i’ ha I be n rehearsed a number of times, and how loaded cartridges had been s : ; tituted for the stage blank cartridges this tiro is a mystery. TV' n Fortson realized that the mi i.lc tragedy was a real one, he became prostrated and fell fainting on the stage. Frozen to Death. Duluth, Minn., Dec. 26. —George Plydeli. fifty-five years old, with his arms fuil of Christmas presents for friends an relatives, fell from exhaustion within five feet of his home Wednesday night and froze to oeath. Plydell lived ail alone in a shack near the harbor front, where ne conducted a conle< lionery and cigar store. The thermometer has registered 20 degrees below zero for twenty-four hours. Ravages of Cholera. Manila, Dec. 30. —Moros on the Island of Mindanao report that cholera Is depopulating the villages on the east side of Lake Lanao. At Maciu there is an average of fifty deaths a day. The disease also prevails at Baeolod. It has appeared on all sides of Lake Lanao. but the Vlsayan residents of the Island do not yet seem to have been attacked. Tangier Ih Tranquil. Tangier, Morocco, Dec. 30.—A courier from Fez reports the Christians there to be safe. The missionary women are in the British consulate. The attack on the camp occurred at night. It Is reported that 2.000 of the sultan's troops were killed. Tangier fa tran qull. No disturbance of any kind need be laared h- re. The Pope Taken a Hand. Rome, Dec. 26.—As an outcome of the negotiations with the Saxon court the pope has sent a prelate to Geneva to Inquire into the circumstances of the flight of the crown princess of Saxony with a view to arranging a reconciliation.
FORTY VESSELS HELD Blockade of La Guaira Seems to Be Effective. Willemstad. Curacao, Dec. 26. —The American Red D line steamer Caracas has brought the remainder of her car- ! R THE CARACAS. go here. The warships of the allied powers are using searcnlights to watch the coasts of Venezuela. Forty vessels are uow detained at La Guayra. More Trouble for Castro. Willemstad, Curacao, Dec. 29. —The Venezuelan revolutionists have resumed active hostilities against President Castro. There occurred Saturday a lively engagement between 1,200 revolutionists under General Riera and government forces at Cauyarao in the vicinity of Coro. Details of the engagement are lacking, but it is known here that the revolutionists had artillery. The government forces were commanded by General Refereno Cas tillo. General Riera retained his position. The armistice between the government and the revolutionists has just expired. Contraband of War. La Guayra. Dec. 21.— The Swedish bark Framnas from Cardiff with 475 tons of coal for the La Guayra-Caracas railroad, a British concern, arrived oft this port and was ordered to remain outside the blockade line. Orders were later conveyed to the captain of the bark to leave; this step was taken because the coal was considered contraband of war. The vessel was not seized, as she left Cardiff before the trouble with Venezuela commenced. The captain of the Framnas is awaiting orders from his consignees. MOB’S FEARFUL CRIME An Innocent Man Was Lynched At Pittburg, Kansas. Pittsburg. Kan., Dec. 27. —Investigation tends to show that Joe Godley, a brother of Montgomery Godley, who was lynched by a mob here Christmas day for killing Policeman Hinkle, is the man the mob intended to hang. It seems that Joe Godley escaped during the lynching. It Is now thought that Joe Godley fired the shot which killed the policeman and that the man who was lynched was innocent. The mother of the Godley boys is said to have asked a physician here to treat Joe for a gunshot wound in the neck. She would not tell the whereabouts of her son, and the doctor refused to go with her. The officer’s revolver, with which he was killed, has not been found, and it is thought the man who did the killing has the pistol in his pocket. Broke Through Ice. St. Louis, Dec. 29.—While coasting down the levee onto the ice formed alo’'’ r!v»r shore opposite Olive street Sunday evening, Mary Gaileano, aged fifteen, and Ange Cafferata, aged seventeen, broke through the ice and were drowned. Theresa Logo Marsino, aged fourteen, also plunged into the river but was rescued. The body of Mary Galleano has not been recovered. Kentucky Tragedy. Grayson. Ky„ Dec. 27.—Thos. Frily was shot and killed and his wife was dangerously wounded by Clyde and Claude Hall near Branlgan in Carter county. Mrs. Frily was shot while she was trying to prevent the killing of her husband. The Hall brothers have surrendered. They claim the shooting was in self-defense. A Christinas Tragedy. Madison, Ind., Dec. 26.—William Dormldy. aged thirty-two, of Indianap oils, was shot and killed on the street last night by Frank Hellman, a young man said to have been intoxicated, and who gave himself up to Sheriff Crozier. It is supposed Hellman mistook Dormldy for another man. Caught In Burning Mine. St. Petersburg, Dec. 29.—A fire has occurred in a coal mine at Bachmut, Ekatorinoslav province. A hundred miners were under ground when the fire started; twenty of these have been rescued, but It is feared that the others have succumbed. Runaway Sultan Taken. Brussels, Dec 29.—The Dutch government has received a telegram from Batavia, Dutch East Indies, announcing the capture of the sultan’s family In the mountains of Achln, Sumatra, where they had taken refuge. Resisting the Schism. Rome, Dec. 29,-The Tribuna says the pope has ordered the Archbishop of Manila to excommunicate all por sons who endeavor to promote the creation of a national church in the Philippines. Ancient City Shaken Up. Rome, Dec. 29.—A severe earthquake shock was experienced at Syra cuse, Sicily, last evening It was preceded by subterranean rumblings. Russian Earthquake. St. Petersburg. Dec. 29.—An earthquake shock which lasted 23 seconds was felt Sunday at Blgsk In the government of Temsk.
OPPOSITION SHOWN Senato-s Are Not All A#eed On Question of Cuban Reciprocity. THEY FEAR AFTER EFFECTS Ratification of Treaty, Some Say, May Lead to Similar Demands From Other “Favored Nations,” Hence the Opposition. Washington. Dec. 30.—Considerable opposition is developing to the ratification of the Cuban reciprocity treaty now pending in the senate It is not taking quite the form that the opposition to the Cuban legislation took last spring, but it is sufficient in substance to give concern to the friends of the treaty. From time to time as opportunity offers the president is discussing the matter with senators, particularly those who are known to have objected to the enactment of legislation extending tariff concessions to the Cuban republic. Several weeks ago it appeared that the treaty when presented to the senate would be ratified without difficulty, but some senators now are taking as strong grounds against the trea ty as they took against the legislation proposed at the last session of congress. These senators are of two classes, those who are opposed on prin ciple to any "tariff tinkering,” and those who represent states whose products may be affected by the concessions extended to Cuba by the pend ing treaty. Senators of the first class might be induced to support the treaty, inas much as it does not involve, in their view, an attack on the system of protection, were it not for their appre hension that the ratification of the Ci ban treaty may lead to a demand from other countries that they, too, be accorded special tariff concessions by the United States. It has been indicated to the president that in the event of the ratification of the Cuban treaty a demand may be expected from Ger many within thirty days for concessions similar to those accorded Cuba The most distinct desire of the Ger man emperor, it is pointed out, is for the extension of the foreign commerce of his empire. He, of course, regards Cuba as a nation foreign to the United States and. so far as that point is concerned, on all fours with Germany. If tariff concessions are granted to Cuba Germany, under the most favored nation clause, wilt request that she be given similar concessions. That request may take the form almost of a demand. If it be not granted the fear is expressed tnat Germany may initiate legislation that will be Inimical to the industrial development of this country, so far as Germany is concerned, even if ft should not curtail American commerce already establish ed In Germany and its possessions. JOKES BY COLLEGE MEN.'’ Some of Them Are Handed Down From Generation to Generution. There are some college jeux d’esprit which time and the absence of their own sustaining atmosphere have not wholly desiccated, says William Mathews in the Saturday Evening Post—as, for example, the reply of a senior, whose class was studying mental philosophy, when asked, "Does an effect ever go before a cause?" "Yes, sir; sometimes.” "Give an example.” ‘‘A man wheeling a barrow.” That student would certainly have distinguished himself at special pleading if he had become a lawyer who, when asked by bls professor one Monday morning If he had attended church the day before replied, "Yes, sir, I attended the First church,” and to the question. “Are you not aware, sir, that there was no service at the First church yesterday?" replied, "I meant, professor, the first church I came to.” lie doubt if Tom Hood or Horace Smith, quick witted as they were, could have made a happier reply than that made by a wit in Waterville college (now Colby; of the class of ’45 to Professor Martin B. Anderson, afterward the famed president of Rochester university. One morning be read in the classroom a sparkling essay, and tne professor, knowing or suspecting it to have been cribbed from some public print, asked ns the reader sat down, “Is that essay original, Mr. Jones?” "Why, yes, sir,” said Jones with imperturbable coolness and that pasteboard look which he always wore, “I suppose it is. It had ‘original’ over it in the newspaper 1 took it from.” It was a Brown university student who had the front to ask Professor Caswell whether his name would not be as well without the C. It was a Brown graduate who at the age of sixty led to the hymeneal altar a bride of twenty-five and who, being asked by a college classmate bow he contrived at bls frosty time of life to win the affections of so young a woman, replied; "Oh, it was easy enough. I Just addressed to her two Hues of poetry. I wrote: “If love Is a flame that Is kindled by fire, Then un old stick Is best because tls drier.” It was a Harvard student who many years ago had the coinage at the sudden apparition of Professor P. at a bonfire which the youth with other students had kindled in the college yard to stand and confront him when, as In the ease of Casablanca on the burning deck, "all but him had tied.” “I am surprised, Thomson, to find you in such company I” exclaimed the professor. "I see nobody here but you and me, professor,” was the reply.
= SPECIAL SILK SALE! All Fancy Silks qt q Price. Elegant Fancy Silks that sold at °7 C cents sl.lO to $1.25, this sale . . IJ a yd. Good quality silks that sold at EH cents 75c to SI.OO, this sale . . . JU a yd. Silks that were 50 cents a yard OC cents this sale L J a yd. Every piece of Fancy Silk in the house will be sold at less than actual cost. Before making your purchase in this line you will be well paid to see this line. Good Bargains in Cloaks. Good, large Stock to select from. Make your selections early. Niblick & Co.
THE POLITE NEW YORKER. Ilin Action Proved That Gallantry la Not a Lout Art. "Don’t tell me any more that NewYorkers are not polite,” chirruped the young man who "takes a powerful sight of notice” to the old man who reads as he rides as the pair left an elevated train. "Saw something a little while ago that convinces me there are others besides blanket Indians ou the Manhattan reservation “What was it?” queried the man who reads and sees nothing unless jarchance it be a vacant seat spotted afar off over the top of his newspaper. “You didn't notice it? Os course you didn't. You were too busy .orgetting the fact that there were women in the aisle of the car. It happened between Ninety-third and Eighty-first streets, and it almost made me feel that the days of chivalry had returned. Au old woman was holding on a strap and standing in front of a dapper chap with a blase face. "Step up farther in the center of the carl’ shouted the guard, and the old Indy was about to obey when the dapper head opened and its owner gallantly said: " ’Don't move, madam. I get off at I iffy-third street and Eighth avenue, and if you'll wait you can have my seat.’ “Such gallantry on an elevated train In New York almost brought moisture to my eyes, and if I lia<l had a baseball bat I am quite sure that I could not have restrained myself from bringing moisture to that part of the blase face which on the gridiron is usually protected by a rubber guard.”—New York Telegram. ...Legal Advertising... N°kstate' final Bettlkm e>t OF Notice Ik hereby given to the creditors, heirsand legatees of Jennie Maccabee.deceased. to appear In the Aflame circuit court, held at Decatur. Indiana, ou t he third dav of January. tflH, to show cause, if any. why the ,ln * l ""Dl' ment accounts with the estate of ssld decedent shou t' not be approved- and said heirs are notified to then and there n,a"e p-oof of heirship, and receive their dlstrlbu live m i Hires Thom vs E. Mans. Adm’r Decatur. Indiana, December 11.18 M. 4|t2 OF ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. Notice Is hereby gD-en to the stork holders of the Decatur National Bank. Dee-mr In sidd bank Ln b “' d Tuesday, January 18,1903, between the houreofsao a. nt. and 3:30 n m a meeting for the purpose of electing n I ouni of directors for said bank for the year 11X3 ’ C. A. DUGAN, fishier Decatur National Baalc.
JQOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice Is hereby given that hld> will lie received ar the commissioners' room in the auditor's office up until t n o'clock a. m. on Tuesday, December 30, 1902, for one feed cooker, suitable for boißng clothes, in conformity with requisition an hie at auditor's office. Bids will be received upon saw pies or medels. the same to be displayed when bids are opened. The contract will be awarded the lowest responsible bidder. The board reserves ttee right to reject any or all bids Successful bidders will be required to enter ln'° • r , ' n ‘ rai -' t ’or the faithful performance of his Ij.d. ABE BOCH, 41-2 Auditor Adams County. APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE To the citizens of the Third Ward. In the city of Decatur. Indiana, an 1 to the c't zens of the mid cit/of Decatur. Washington township. Adams county. Indiana. notice is hereby given that I. D ck Townsend. a male Inhabitant of said city, county and state, overthe age of twenty-one years a person not in the habit of becoming intoxicated. will make application to the board of commissioners of Adams county. Indiana at their next regular session on th. tfitt Monday in January. Hutt, for a 1„....,me t o sell spirit,-::;;. rluvus and malt liquors In less quantities than a quart at a time, to bedrank where sold in a rtsim sltuat ■ d ou tlie following premises, to-wlt: raid room Is situated on the ground floor of a building situated on the following described lots In the city of liecatur. Indiana, to-wit: Commencing fortvthrm- feet west of the southeast corner of Inlot No Z. 3ln said city on the south line of said lot: running thence north parallel with the east side of said Inlots Nos. L Jnd In said tltj .14 feet; thence Wi st 17 feet ’hence south parallel with the first described line 34 feet to Monroe streettnenee along the line of said '■ lot 273 and Monroe street to the place beginning Fhe room In which appUcant d sires to stiff 1 h eM ro " n >’ )n *h>' ground floor ot a bulking known as the ’•Burt House Hotel " J"? £f. on t tl,| go , i Monroe Street In said div MfeL^lo\rgbVKtoe;w| r de re "' ra, ' ee “ Dd " <O-3 DICK TOWNSEND. Applicant. TO NON RESIDENTS, The State of Indiana. I County of Adams. j* 8 - te’rm.'wj **’*“'' Ulrcult cour ’- Not ember The German Building Loan Fund A Savings Association jj 0 _ gjjg Wilson V F Complaint to'foreet al. y C,osc " lort g , ‘g''It appearing from affidavit filed tn almve entitled cause that The Arbuckm Ryan company, a corporation. of the alsiv ?Xlndi± nU oUhL Th N ?krbm\LeHvan';. 1 ,, '‘ rt ' by Blvei ' " IP ’“"I Slrd'day of IVoinary* luoa'n,,'" ur ’ shef he MA 4 VS -‘ ,d and determined In their absence. * b "*' d ELMER JOHNSON. Clerk By Jame " P. Haelllng, Deputy, Merryman * Sutton. .... Attorneys for Plaintiff
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VOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS The State of Indiana, I County us Adams. In the Adams Circuit Court, November term, line. Amanda Cottre’l. Auministratrix. No. 905. , v » • Petition to sell Amanda Cottrell real estate et al. It appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that Enoch Cottrell and Bertram Cottrell, of the above named defendants are non residents of the State as Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Enoch Cottrell and Bertram Cottrell, that they be and appear before the honorable i. "t the Adams Circuit Court on Hth day of February. lUOB, the same being the 12tn Juridical Dav of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the Court Hiw in the City of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the second day of February. A D. IWi. and plead by answer or demur to said complaint. or the same will be heard and deter mined in their absence. " ITNESS. my name, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 34th day (SEAL) us December, l'.W2. ELMER JOHNSON. Clerk. <•‘3 By James P. Haeflinv Deputy. John Moran, Attorney for Plaintiff. V"TH E OF HALF. OF MACADAM ROAD bonds Notice Is hereby glven.thatLJ.il Vogt *'*'de. treasurer us Adams county, state of Indiana, will un \\ eduesday, January 14, 1903, at the room of the Ixiard of commissioners in t he auditor's office in the city of Decatur. In diana. receive sealed blds for the purchase and sale nf certain bonds known aud designated as macadam road bonds, authorised and Issued bv the board of commissioner* of *ald county for the construction of the Salem macadam road in Blue Creek township In said coun y. The entire issue of bonds for •aid county it 117.9U0 divided Into ten series, one series payable every six months, with interest at four and one-half per cent, payable semi-annually evidenced by coupons attached. Each bond is the denomination of Inmj.oo. Sealed blds will be reuntil ten o'clock a. m. of said day Each bld must be accompanied with a certluea check In amount equal to three percent » y ,e ttn,oun l °n the bid, which check mtw»t ! M ‘,! ,raw n -against monies deposited In nay r !* bank In said county. Such check **naii be made payable or endorsed to th*' iMjard «>f commissioners and shall be held a> * Kj ,ar » n tv for the performance of such bid. \ n< *bould said bld be accepted, the said * “hall be forfeited to the county, should Lr hi h ( rr/’M 1 with the conditions of hh said bld. Meh of said bonds will bear late of January 14. 1908, and should the bonds not tie ready for delivery on the day the said nidH are received and accepted, the interest win ty refunded by the purcha>M*r at th* 1 rate of four and one-half per cent from the date of January 14. H«i. until the dale when the purchase price of said Ixinds are paid to the county treasurer and the bonds deilv cred, 1 he above described bonds will become dJic on the 15th day of May and the Iftth day of November nf each year, commencing with NoveinlM‘r 15. luwi, and are made payable. In n 1 H i at the Decatur National Bank. Decatur. Indiana. Sal<l bonds are issued exclusively for the exp<*nse of the construction of the ai>ove de»crll>vd road pursuant. to the law of IHW and 1901. The amount of Isnids to be sold Including bond* already IssuedJn said township tor free gravel ami macadam roads is less than four per cent of the total valnation of said township for t-ai-ation. Further particulars will be furnished on application. 41-8 J. H. VOGLEWEDF., Oounty Treasurer.