Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1903 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVKKY THURSDAY MORNING BY LBW a. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. •1,00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. i OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, JAN. 15. • Representative Pibkson has been ' named on the committee on Odtpora-I tions, an important assignment in the • work of the present legislative house. The general impression at Indianapolis is that Allen county and Adams county are splendidly represented in the legislature. Fort IVayne JournalGazette. Senator Morgan’s "trust” interview is still causing comment. His expressed desire that the question of trusts be taken out of politics has caused not a little adverse comment. Comments were profuse upon yesterday’s initial number of The Daily Democrat, not alone upon its extreme news features but upon its bright mechanical make-up and appearance as well. The paper will continue to shine and be a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Governor Dvrbin’s message to the genera! assembly is a literary gem. and somewhat disputes the fact that the governor is a little short when it comes to handling Webster. The message contains some very salient points and as a whole reflects credit upon the chief executive of even so great a state as Indiana. Congress isn’t much of a body any j way. It seems that the board of appraisers of the treasury department undertook to overrule a feature of the tariff law relating to live stock importations. Then congress amended the law to overrule the ruling. Now the board has overruled the amendment, and a bill has been introduced to finally knock out the board, if that is j possible. The Hon. B. F. Shively, the noted democrat of South Bend, will receive the minority vote for United States Senator. Mr. Shively is the handsomest as well as one of the most intelligent Indiana democrats, and were his election possible, would make a statesman who would add lustre and fame to the name of our fair state. Nevertheless, here is to Senator Shively. Hon. J. A. M. Adair one of the three members from the eighth district in the lower house of the legislature, has been named as caucus chairman for the minority. The place is one of responsibility and for that reason it was placed in safe hands. Mr. Adair is well schooled in politics and before the session ends will have lots of fun with the majority, even though numerically they can count about three to one. Last Thursday the first state reception ot the senate at the state house was a most brilliant affair and has seldom been equaled on anv other oc-| casion in Washington. Over two 1 thousand guests were present and the display of jewels worn by some of the visitors was simply appalling. It is questionable whether Washington society has been the gainer in the acquisition to its ranks in recent vears though the city itself is benefitted by the millionaires. For a number ot years Congressman Steele held the notable distinction of being a garden seed statesman. He now has a rival in the name of the Eighth district representative, and Ludlow, the Sentinel correspondent, pays his respects in this tone of voice. •‘Congressman Cromer has a practice of looking far into the future. In the spring of last year he literally sowed his district with garden seeds and in the ides of November he reaped a bountiful crop of votes. Cromer proposes to go into the garden seed businew stronger than ever this year. In the deep, dark recesses of the house of representatives he may be seen importuning other members of congress for theirjallotments of garden seeds, and if there is not a luxuriant crop of vegetable vegetation in the eighth district the coming summer it will not be Cromer’s fault.’’

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The free library donated to Wash ington by Carnegie, was opened with impressive ceremonies on the 6th inst. President Roosevelt delivered a short address in the course of which he said I that a man should be helped, but one that needed pushing all the time was not worth pushing. Mr. Carnegie in I his address announced his determina- j I tion to continue giving libraries where they were needed in spite of the grat- , uitous adviee he was receiving by let- | ter from free distributors of council. I Later he made an offer to the city of ■ $350,000 for the establishment of I branch libraries in remote sections of tho Capital. It need be no surprise to hear of | Union B. Hunt, the present secretary ' of state, being a candidate before the j next g. o. p, state convention for governor. And in that event it need be no further surprise should he go in and land the plum. He hails from the eighth congressional district, the largest and best in the state and he will have the backing of Boss Goodrich and all the younger element of republicans in the state. Besides he is a popular fellow and the party could go farther and do worse than nominate the sturdy secretary of state. He retires from his present office next Friday, after which time he will take up his residence at his old home in Winchester, where he will actively engage in the practice of law. Congressman Francis M. Griffith of Indiana, after adilligent and painstaking study of the subject of tariff revision, has prepared a comprehensive tariff bill which he will introduce. He has been eugaged'in the preparation of the bill for several weeks and he deserves the commendation of the public for the great labor and studious research that he has given to the subject. The enactment of his bill into law would be a long step toward the fulfillment of the democratic doctrine of placing the necessities of life upon the free list. The Diugley law will cease to be the fostering mother of the trusts if Mr. Griffith’s ideas are incorporated into the federal statutes. The bill will be at once referred to the ways and means committee. It is known that it meets with the approval of many republican members who are eager for a revision of the tariff, but the republican managers do not ! intend to give to the country the relief proposed by the bill and therefore it need not be expected that it will pass. Congressman Cromer thinks he knows a joke when he sees it and he is sure he has a mighty good joke on Lew Ellingham, editor of the Decatur Democrat. A bet ter fellow than Mr. Ellingham never lived and Cromer thinks a great deal of him notwithstanding it is one of Editor Ellingham's favorite diversions in campaign time to shoot hot editorial irone into the political personality of Cromer. It was an episode that happened in the recent congressional campaign in the eighth district that has so tickled Cromer. During the campaign Cromer caused an inspector to tie sent to Decatur for the alleged purpose of establishing five new rural routes out of the town. Editor Ellingham raised the hue and cry through his paper that the sending of the inspector to Decatur was only a campaign dodge to Him-Ham the people, who were sore on Cromer, and that the routes would never be established. On the day after the election, however, Cromer had published a letter be had received from the superintendent of rural delivery saying that service on the Hve routes would commence Dec. 1, and what is more to the point, it did commence. It is the neat manner in which he has proved his friend Ellingham to be a false prophet that is causing Cromer such extreme satisfaction.— Ludlow, Washington correspondent to Indianapolis Sentinel. Congressman Cromer has a laugh coming, and a fellow is a rank sucker ' that will not laugh when he can. The only objection the Democrat ever offered to free rural mail delivery here was the manner and method evolved by Congressman Cromer in making this an issue. We claimed then and we still hold the opinion that this county is entitled to free mail delivery. That we were entitled to it on i our merits. That it is the cheapest . kind of statesmanship for a member of congress to take shelter under the government’s postal department and then try to ride into congress upon the theory that he controls absolute this

wing of our government. The fact of the matter is, Cromer was scared to death. It is admitted, that dog water freely flowed. He took up rural routes believing it was the only savior of the day, and was elected Jby a niggardly 4,300. But the routes are established and if George W. Cromer does actually own, in fee simple, the government postal system, we are glad of it. THE RAILROAD LOBBY Is Said to Be Already a Strong Factor , in State Legislation. Indianapolis. Jan. 14. —Senator Cy j Davis of Bloomfield, who led the minI ority in the house two years ago, made j the charge today that the railroad lobby has already asserted itself, and he , predicted that before the session ends I , there will be a first-rate scandal or two. The railroad lobby exercised such an influence two years ago that the leaders of both parties were alarmed. Davis made his charge after he had received a dispatch from W. E. Cox of Jasper, a prominent attorney of that part of the state, urging him to use his influence to defeat a bill introduced by Senator Gray of Evansville to provide a small penalty for railroads that refuse or neglect to give notice at telegraph stations of whether or not passanger trains are on time. There is a suit pending in Dubois county against the Southern Railroad company for $27,000 for neglecting to comply with the old law in this re'spect, and it is charged that Senator Gray introduced the bill in the interest of the Morgan syndicate. The railroad committee reported it for passage, which Davis cites as an example of the willingness of the senate rail- 1 road committee to do the bidding of I the lobby thus early in the session. But Senator Gray explains that the purpose of the bill is to knock out a conspiracy of two Dubois county men to hold up the Southern. It is said that they kept tab on the trains passing a little station called Ferdinand and at the end of nine months caused the suits to be instituted. The law provides that the prosecutor shall reI ceive half of the fees collected, and Senator Gray says that is the reason the case is being fought so hard. Some of the opponents of the bill say it is merely a clever ruse of the Morgans to take the case from the courts to the legislature, where they will have smoother sailing. A strong lobby appeared today for I the State Federation of Labor, and it will remain until the curtain is rung down on the session. It is headed by Edgar A. Perkins, state president. The laboring men have eight or nine bills they are pushing. They are making a special effort on behalf of the miners' shot firing bill, which provides for the employment of an expert shotfirer in all mines where there are over ten miners employed. Two years ago | this was a pet measure of the laboring men. It passed the house and reached third reading in the senate, where it mysteriously disappeared during the last week of the session. The laboring men have never succeeded in definitely locating the members who were responsible for their loss, but their vengeance cost two or three candidates a defeat for renomination. The coal operators fought the bill and will do so again, but the chances are more favorable for its success. The labor, I lobby is also here to fight the garnishee bill which is backed by the State Retail Merchants' association. The state board of health met here today to consider means of obtaining the passage of its bills to stiffen the quarantine laws and for an appropriation for a state laboratory. The rapid spread of smallpox has caused great alarm throughout the state, so many members of both branches of the legislature are already willingly pledging themselves to support any reasonable effort to change the law so that quarantine can be rigidly enforced. Under the present law the health officers are i practically without power in enforcing quarantine. The laboratory bill is also regarded with more favor than it was two years ago. when the legislature. in a fit of economy, turned it j down. It is hinted, however, that Governor Durbin is not anxious to see the laboratory bill passed, as he does not believe there is an emergency. It is probable that Senator Matson's bill providing for the use of voting machines in all counties having a city of over 10,000 population will pass the senate, but there is a rough time in | store for it in the house. The elections committee has reported it favorably in the senate, and it has now

gone to its second reading. There are | M n>eMo» ‘J*' |ler M are from some of the preparing to leaders and until they learn definitely whether or not there is a "nigger in the wood pile " the bill, even in its present form, till'never be passage. New Yorker's Conscience Hurt Him. New York. Jan. 14.—A man * 1 fused to disclose his identity called on the city chamberlain yesterday and handed him five $1 000 bills. The stranger said ne had been troubledl, mentally for some time over a flna i , cial indebtedness to the city. The money was credited to the "conscience I fund." — Death Greeted the Guests. Kokomo. Ind., Jan. 14.-James . Lynch, a farmer north of town, slipped on his doorstep and crushed his skull, dying instantly. He went to the door to welcome some guests to a dinner party. PAYING THE PIPER The Transvaal War Contribution Will Amount to $150,000,600. Johannesburg. Jan. 14. —Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and the leaders of the mining community her> have arrived at an agreement in th' matter of a financial settlement. Ln der this agreement the Transvaal wa contribution will amount to $150,000 000. A guarantee also will be given for an imperial loan of $150,000,000 which is to be expended in reproduc- ! five public works in the Transvaal and in the Orange River colony An understanding was also reached regard ing the labor question. It is believed the imperial government will consent to the importation of Chinese laborers for the mines. Methodist Union Movement. Nashville. Tenn.. Jan. 14.—The joint commission to select a common hymnal for the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church south, which has been in session since Saturday, adjourned here yesterday to meet in Boston July 9 next. The com mission has selected between 400 and 500 of the 800 hymns to be agreed on and the remainder will be chosen at the Boston meeting. Meanwhile a subcommittee to select music for the hymnal will be appointed by Bishops Goodsell and Hoss. Second Trial for Wilcox. Hertford. N. C., Jan. 14.—The see-! ond trial of James E. Wilcox for the! alleged murder of Nellie Cropsey, his | sweetheart, at Elizabeth City a year ago. began here yesterday. The se-, lection of the jury is in progress today. A Boy and a Gun. Brazil. Ind.. Jan. 14. —Orvan. the seven-year-old son of Attorney Albert Payne, formerly principal of the high school here, now living in Perry townships. shot and Instantly killed his three-year-old sister yesterday. The boy got hold of his older brother's rifle in some way and was handling it. when the weapon was discharged, the bullet entering the heart of the little girl, who v.as standing near. Judge Rasch's Resignation. Evansville. Ind.. Jan. 14 —Following the investigation of the Vanderburg Bar association and its recommendation that Judge Louis Rasch of the circuit court, retire because of misconduct in office, that official has decided to respect the wishes of the bar and has forwarded his resignation to Governor Durbin Anthracite Coal on Sidetracks. South Bend. Ind.. Jan. 14.—8 y ac- i tual count there are twenty-seven cars I of anthracite coal standing on sidetracks at the little town of Osceola, in the east part of the county. It is said that anthracite is standing on sidetracks at most of the small towns in this section. A Desperate Youngster. Carbondale, 111.. Jan. u._Mrs. Frank Tucker, who lived near West End, was killed by her nine-year-old son while the boy was in a fit of rage The son then committed suicide. The mother had tried to reason with her son. who was playing with a gun, but he paid no attention to he;-. She then started to take the weapon away from him. As she approached the boy he drew the gun to his shoulder and kll’ed his mother instantly. H e then deliberately shot himself.

GOING AFTER FUEL Indiana Legislature Adopts Measure to Relieve the Situation. Committee Appointed to Co-Operate, With Governor and Railway Offiicals to This Desired End. Both Senate and House Adopt Plan to Adjourn at Noon to Simplify the Work. Indianapolis. Jan. 14,-Both branches of the legislature are already busy with important matters. An efi fort is now being made to relieve the ' fuel situation, and both parties have taken a hand in this. The majority, however, has had its resolution adopted The resolution was introduced by Senator Ogborn of Newcastle, but it I I was prepared at a conference between I Governor Durbin. Lieutenant Governor Gilbert and Speaker Marshall, who have had the situation under considyration for several days. The senate has appointed Ogborn and Hcndee, Republicans. and O'Brien. Democrat, to eo-operate in the movement and make such investigation as may be deemed i necessary. A cocmiJee of three was appointed in the house today for a similar purpose. These men will meet ■ with the governor and railroad offi-. cials here tomorrow afternoon to try j to adjust the situation. Mr. Salls- j bury of Lagrange and Steuben counties, has introduced a bill in the house to knock out the alleged combine of coal operators, but it will not be passed. Yesterday afternoon Senator Parks. Republican, introduced an anti-! anarchist bill, which is aimed to protect the life of the governor and those who are in direct line of succession to that office. Killing the governor is made a capital offense and for attempting the life of any officers mentioned in the bill, imprisonment from ten to twenty-one years is provided. Anyone who aids in an escape or attempted escape may be imprisoned from one to ten years. Both the sen-1 ate and bouse have adopted the plan of adjourning at noon to give the coin- ; mittees more time to work. Among i the new bills is one by Senator Hurns I regulating telephone rates, one by | Senator Kittinger giving justices of I the peace jurisdiction in civil cases where the amount involved does not exceed S4OO, Senator Wood one to prohibit saloons within a mile of the solI diers' home, in the house a number , of bills have already been introduced referring only to some city or towns, and they are being passed under suspension of the rules. Perhaps the most important bills introduced in the house are by Mr. Mummert to lengthen the terms of city officials to four years, and oue by Mr. Reeve to provide for the employment of an expert shot-firer iu coal mines where over ten miners are employed. The senate

REPORT OE CONDITION Decatur National Bank, Decatur, Indiana. September 15, 1902. RESOURCES I Investments U. S. and County Bonds ' Fixtures ’' ’ ‘ ‘ WI Exchange 91* 1 Cash 2S.fi Total liabilities. Capital JIOBJ Surplus and Undivided Profits 16,1 Circulation i ll Deposits Total.ls DIRECTORS f\ ND OFFICERS P. W SMITH. President. r . mTAN < idiifr- S W. A. KIEHI.RH. Vice-President 1 ’ A- ’V x MlMi* J. H. HOBROCK. * < * On D. SPHANG. J B MASO>-

elections committee has r( Z? vorably Senator Ma, son’s voting machine bill. The 1 , has been in session just a * ? day. and already has before*? 150 bills and resolutions and i fair to equal the record of ? 1 session, when there were n < 1 new bills. PROHIBITIONISTS AROUSED Legislature Cuts Out Te Committee and Creates a Indianapolis. Jan. 13.—The f both the house and the senate? vising the rules, cut out the t * ance committee and subatltut? committee on public moral, aroused some of the Prohihi leaders. E. D. Clark, aee r ?“' their state committee, was .»> legislative halls today trying,,, out what was what. It se»m stlu| l Proh is object to the change ?.■ name of the committee and they c appealed to the powers that be? explanation. The public moral, , mittee will exercise exactly rte < functions as the old J mittee. but the temperance co J can’t see why the change of fltij necessary. The members wbo r.J the rules say they changed th. cmerely to give the committed scope. There was nothing und - * however, as the temperance peopi/ t to be given the same courteous t ( ment they have always receive ' A unique contest is in progyd the house. The plunder conJ has invited a number of candidates reading clerk to try their hand. I young men who are anxious tost their voices for $5 per day have showing off before a critical entas the members want someone can read so he can be thoroughly derstood. And with a hundred more people constantly gliding ib ' it is difficult for even the best m 3 to make themselves plain. Seva eight, young men have been giver.. : "work out” heat under the watd eye of the speaker and the pl® committee, and there is the tea sort of rivalry. The house today ployed Captain D. B. Oliva ot I anapolis for minute clerk. He ably knows more history of the i ana legislatures than any others as he has served in some clerioi ■ pacity since 1865. He claims thiti mer Speaker Reed of congress w honor for establishing his fura “present but not voting quonm ra but it was originated in the Is® bouse in 1869. when the amends giving negroes the right ot frudl was adopted. South African Croesus BetteJohannesburg. Jan. 13.—Alfred 13 the financier, reputed to be the r.M man in the world, who was tsketia denly ill last. week, is much imptti j He hopes to start for Engluk: fortnight. Car Trimmer Crushed to Destr. Linton. Ind., Jan. 13.—Scott Pm* a car trimmer at the Bon Tosrg fell under the wheels of acirul both legs cut off. He died a juries a few hours later. Receives a Big Foreign Order Terre Haute. Ind.. J*n J-j British government has order-: J 000 gunstocks from the Lsnf-:-stork company of this city.