Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1903 — Page 8

—Mgron ■ ■————wrgiM lll— i Illi CORRESPONDENCE ) Items of Interest Contributed by the Demo= | crat’s Busy Corps of Correspondents

Steele. Wm Patterson who has been sick with kidney trouble i.c able to be ab tut again. The stone quarry h aids gc t a rest last week on account of a broken pulley and wet weather. Mrs. Lucy D tugluss and daughter have been visiting with Mrs. Rachel Baughman for a week past. Willie Beatty had the misfortune ’to dislocate his ankle 1 ist week. Dr. Wilson set the bone and now all are doing well. John Davis lost one of his shoes while coming from Decatur last Saturday. Any one finding same will notify John and he will send them the mate. Honroe. Thirteen from this place went to Pleasant Mills Thursday and were baptized. There were forty-seven members taken into the Methodist church Sunday at the tent meeting. J. A. Hendricks is repairing his property here in town this week. He will move intoit some time this month. W. S. Smith has finally decided to remain in Monroe. He is moving from the J. A. Hendricks to the west end of town into the Ed Ray property this week. The Y. M. C. B. tent meeting has been protracted for the rest of this week. Many souls have been saved and many more are thinking very seriously about turning to the Lord. Route One. Several from this place attended the picnic at Preble Sunday. Warren and John Reed took in the excursion to Chicago Sunday. Henry Sorg and wife of Poe spent Sunday with Henry Kintz and wife. John Evans and family spent Sunday with L. N. Grandstaff and wife. Chas. Noodle of Decatur spent Sunday in this vicinity the guest of ■ friends. Harvey Garboden and Jacob Bossart of Dometsic spent Sunday with John and Jessie Singleton. The Concord Sunday school held a picnic in Fuhrman's grove last Friday Aug. 28 and the day was spent in various sorts of amusements which enjoyed by both the ■ old and young. Berne. B rn to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Foreraan, Aug. 20, —a girl baby. B >rn to Mr. and Mrs. H S. MichMr. and Mrs Sam Simison spent Sunday at Decatur with friends. B. F. Whitfeon of Traverse City, arrived Wednesday and will make his home with Jake Neuenschwan- ; Her for the present. B-rne will have an electric light i plant before many more moons ■ roll around and we hail the pro- ! motets with delight. ' James McDonald took what horses . he has not sold, out of his two car ‘ loads to Rockford Ohio, Wednesday 1 to dispose of them there. F. Ryf our hustling shoemaker returned today, Wednesday, from a three months sojourn in Switzerland, his fomer home and reports a very pleasant trip. Jas. Braun, sheriff of 'Warren county, Penn., and W. E. Rice an attorney of Waren of the same state are looking after some oil proprety that they are interested in. Mr. Braun holds quite an amount of property in this fieldand in the Warren field. Linn Grove. Adam Hames of St. Joseph, Mo., is visiting friends at this place. Miss Grace Miller of Decatur visited friends at this place last week. Miss Nellie Feaderhouser, who has been home on a vacation the past few weeks, returned to her work at Bluffton. Alfert Lindsey and wife and George Lindsey and wife of Niatic, Ill.,’were visiting at Bluffton last Thursday. Wallace Lilly is improving his town property by placing a new roof

• and siding on his barn and building : a new cement walk around his resi ■ j dr nee. F. A. W. Lindsey and wife, Euge-.e Morrow and wife George Lindsev and i i wife and Charles Fouts and wife Su- : dayed with Frank Lindsey at Phoenix. Owing to the inclemency of the weather Friday evening, the L. G. J. B. did not give their band concert, but will endeavor to give a better concert next Friday evening than ever before, as they have some new music. Misses Nora Hoffman, Emma Baumgartner and Mr. Daniel Baumgartner went to Chicago Sunday . viewing the sights of that village and visiting Mrs. lantha Malthers. Mrs. Davenbaugh returning with them to I visit at the home of John Hoffman. OBITUARY. 1 I Isaac Roe, oldest son of Joly and Polly Roe was born in Washington township, Adams county, Indiana, Sept. 17th. 1843, and died at the home of his son William in the same township, Aug. 2th. 1903, aged 59 years, 11 months and 9 days. He was married on Nov. 16, 8645 to Miss Catherine Smith who-departed this life Oct. 25 th. 1887. He leaves to mourn their loss eight children, five daughters and three sons, an aged mother, five brothers and six i sisters and eighteen grandchildren. Mr. Roe was a respected citizen, a kind father and husband and a splendid neighbor, and the community is deeply grieved over his death. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. J. A. Sprague of Monroe M. E. church, assisted by Rev. M. T. Brandyberry, on Friday at 10:30 in the St. Pau] church south of the city. Interment at Pleasant Mills cemetery. RAILROAD EXCURSIONS. Opening sale of lots in three new town sites on the Omaha extension ■ of the Chicago Great Western RailI way will take place as follows: Tennant Shelby Co., lowa, Tuesday Sept. Bth; Bentley, Pottawattomie Co., lowa, Tuesday Sept. 15th and McClelland, Pottawattomie Co., lowa Tuesday Sept 22nd. One fare to Fort Dodge to town sites on day of sales, with fare of $1 for round trip Special trains from ; Council Bluffs to town sites, fare i fifty cents for round trip. For full particulars see bills or address Edwin B. Magill, Mgr.,Town site Dept. Fort Dodge, la. For only <BS the Northern Pacific will sell a special ticket for a tour of Y'ellowstone Park, including railway and Pullman fares and meals in dining car St. Paul to Gardiner ’a’lu .f -Stage Coach transportation through the park, and board and lodging at the park hotels for the regular tour of five and one-half days. Tickets sold so that passen- ■ gers can leave St. Paul or Minneapolis on Park train September 3 only. 1 !If necessary a special train of Pulli man. dining and observation cars: will be run. Apply to any N. P. R. agent for information and reserva- i lions, or write to Chas. S. Free, St. j Paul, Minn. Send six cents for j Wonderland, 1903. NOTICE. All book accounts of the firm of Smith Bro. must be settled within sixty days, after which accounts will be left for collection. Joseph Smith Harvey Sprague and wife, who have been visiting here returned to Williams this morning. They stopped here a few days on their return from Columbus. Ohio. Mrs. Ed Luttman and children, Floyd and John left on the excursion to Chicago and will visit there with W. A. Waggner, and family for two weeks and on their return will visit a few days at Huntington and Fort Wayne. The Erie has contracted for forty simple consolidated locomotives. They will weigh 200,000 pounds, with 10,000 pounds on the drivers. The drivers will be sixty-two inches in diameter and cylinders twenty by thirty-two inches. The tank capacity will be 7,000 gallons of the water and twelve tons of coal. The company has also placed an order for thirty six-wheel switching engines.

KBELUON GROWS General lasurrcclion In the Northern Part of Macedo ia Proclaimed. Long-Anticipated Uprising Marks the Celebration of the Anniversary of the Sultan’s Accession. Famous Cid Macedonian Leaders Take Up the People’s Cause in Widespread Movement Sofia. Bulgaria, Sept 2.—The Macedonian revolutionaries awaited the anniversary of the sultan s accession to proclaim the long-anticipated general insurrection in northern Macedonia, the proclamation of which has just

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teen issued, signed by s’.l the members of the insurgent general staff. The new outbreak is headed by the famous Macedonian leaders, General president of the Macedonian committee, and Colonel Jankoff, who was wounded in the rising of 1902. The new insurrection covers the territory in the valley of the Struma at the base of the Rhodope mountain chain and to the north of the river Vardar. Colonel Jankoff is directing the movements of the bands in the southern part News of -severe fighting is still coming in. At the village of Armensi after a day’s fighting the Turkish troops in the night-time massacred the entire population of 180 men and 200 women. The Turks have also massacred the inhabitants of the village of Velesl. It is reported that Hilmi Pacha, the Inspector general for Macedonia, refuses to leave his headquarters in the konak at Monastir. The insurgent leader Grueff. in a letter to Hilmi Pacha, demanded that he prevent the barbarous acts of the Turkish soldiers and bashi-bazouks, otherwise the revolutionaries would massacre all the Turkish inhabitants. The insurgents have occupied the mountain pass of Gergele on the main line from Salonica to Uskub and Turkish troops have been sent to dislodge them. The town of Malkoternovo is reported to be In a state of anarchy, the Turks plundering the houses and committing unspeakable atrocities on the women. TURKISH DISCLAIMER Report on the Magelssen Affair Received by Cheklb Bey. Washington, Sept. 2. —Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister, has received from the minister of foreign affairs at Constantinople a dispatch giving the Turkish version of the reported attempt on the life of United States j Vice Consul Magelssen at Beirut. After declaring that the report of the assassination of Mr. Magelssen was absolutely false, the dispatch gives a version of the affair practically the same as has been told in the dispatches from Turkey. It says that the ' pistol was' ii'feu by a man retuMuiig > from a marriage fete, that the shot was fired in cae air ana that it hap pened just as Mr. Magelssen was passing in his carriage. This the dispatch says led the vice consul to believe that • an attempt had been made against his life. Ths man who did the shooting already has been delivered to the judicial authorities. Chekib Bey’s dispatch also asserts that order and tran qullity prevail at Beirut The information contained in the cablegram has been furnished to U. S. ‘ Minister Leiskman at Constantinople by the Turkish minister of foreign I affairs, and to Secretary Hay by the Turkish minister here. Bulgarian Losses. Salonlca, Sept. 2.—According to the latest Turkish official estimate, about 1,500 Bulgarians were killed in the recent fighting at Smllovo, Neveska t.nd Klisaura. The Turkish losses are not stated. This estimate does not Include further losses in the Sm'lovo district, where fighting was renewed Aug. 30 and continued until Monday. It ie reported that 650 Bulgarians wore killed in this two-days’ battle. Saratoff, the revolutionary leader, has ieff Ealonfca. Another Fluke. New York, Sept. 2. —The third at tempt to sail the third and probabl; | final race of the series for the Amer lea’s cup was a failure. There wa not wind enough even to make i worth while to send the yachts acros the line.

battered into pulp Amateur Fatal Encounter I With Prospective Prisoner. New Albany, Ind.. Sept 2.-A#■ » , suit of his effort in the capacity of amateur detective to run down a bill raiser, Charles Marshall of Rego | sage county, was so badly ue? “ en i L prospective prisoner that he wiil die. Marshall is a young countryman who shortly after joining an amateu detective association received a ' from a man in Chicago offering in genuine currency for <2OO The letter was so worded as to g the idea that the bills were raised. Marshall opened correspondence and arranged to meet the man, who gave his name as Hite, in a secluded spot near New Albany. The amateur de- ■ tective borrowed S2OO. and when he negotiations with Hite reached the point whete the moneys were to be exchanged he told Hite he was under . arrest. Hite knocked Marshall down with a large stone and proceeded to batter his victim's head into a pulp. When Marshall was found horribly i beaten several hours later the * •'' ) he had taken to the snot was gone , Physicians at St. Edward's hospital declare that there is no chance for his recovery. PLUCKY JAILER He Stands Off a Mob Bent on Lynching Negro. Shawneetown. Ilk. Sept. 2. A mob ' of fifty masked men went to the jail! here and demanded that Jailer Gallo-, way turn over to them John Griffin, I colored, who was under arrest for an j attempted assault on Mrs. Joseph • Hobbs, a white woman. When the I mob demanded that Jailer Galloway , turn the negro over to them Galloway i armed himself and after reasoning with the men from the jail door, he warned them that any effort to force , the jail would be at their peril. The , mob, in spite of the jailer’s words, made several ineffectual attempts to , break down the jail doors, finally dis-1 persing. No trouble has followed the visit of the mob to the jail, but prep- j arations are making to take the negro ’■ to Carmi far safe keeping. — FiGHT WITH WIRE TAPPERS Incident of Racing at Delmar Track Not Down on Card. St. Louis, Sept. 2.—Superintendent Matthews of the Delmar track discovered "wire tappers” in operation at the track late yesterday afternoon. In a fight between the "tappers" and Matthews’ men one of the former was shot in the face and thought to have been badly wounded. The wire extended from the betting j ring out to North St. Louis. It was just ready for work when the discovery was made. The other end of the wire was in Delmar garden There; were six men in the gang. They car- j ried away their wounded comrade on a streetcar and all trace of them was lost. More Haytien Scandals. Port Au Prince, Hayti, Sept 2.— The commission of inquiry into the financial scandals is continuing its investiagtion. MM. Gedeon and St. Victor, former ministers under the administration of President Sam, who are accused of being bearers of Haytien government securities, fraudulently issued, have been arrested. There is talk of the impending arrest of several persons of prominence. President Nord is determined to vigorously prosecute all those implicated tn the frauds. Shook the Passengers Up. Steubenville, Ohio, Sept. 2. —Running at a speed of forty-five miles an hour, an eastbound Cleveland & Pittsburg passenger train on the Pennsylvania road dashed into an open swtlch in the Mingo Junction yards. The engn’e was wrecked and Engineer John- | son of Wellsville was badly bruised. Fireman Rosenberg jumped and injured his hip and ankle. The passen gers were badly shaken up. — Petersburg. Va„ Sept 2.—Andrew Finch and Dock Bacon, negroes, for attempting to criminally assault Mrs. C. E. Geohegan, were hanged at Boydton today. Finch made a statement exonerating Bacon from all knowledge of the crime. Bacon was convicted upon Finch's testimony. — BRIEF DISPATCHES. The Xow Orimi Freight Handlers’ Union is out on strike. Arthur Sherman, Superior, Wia., killed How»rd C. Gilbert. Ed Rider. Donnelson. la., shot and killed Dare Blackburn. Wm. Greene. Columbus, 0., stabbed to death . M ra. Jennie Williams. Excesses in the inicwoi of Macedonia are the subject of many shocking stories. I Travelers from Panama report the isthmus alight with fires of a new revolution. Government receipts for the month of Angust were MVSl.filt; expenditures I D. H. B. Bat?", bank clerk. Richmond. Va killed Miss Rena Gentry and too t his own life. A syndicate of Clyde yachtsmen has been formed to challenge for the America's cun in 1904. P • Everett Fleming, if. killed Constables Mullins and Alfred Hall. Dickinson county. Virginia. The public debt-t the close of business Aus. »1, amounted to I**!i.ieqsn, which is a decrease for the month of 1;.09",H>1. j. During the month of August. Is Chicago persons were killed by steam, tro'lev and cable ears, and several hundred were injure 1 An assessment of S 14,010 has been made by'the Internal Revenue Dept on Kiugan A Co., al Indianapolis, as taxes on oleomargarine, colored in imitation of batter but returned as uneolored. Five arrests have ’.reen made at Beirut in connection with the shooting which led to the report that Wm. C. Mageisscn. the United States vice and deputy consul there had been auauiaated.

The Great Northern Indiana || t M| | FAIR ’ Ci® I——— — """ ■ —' -J 7 s DECATUR, INDIANA September 22, 23, 24, 25, ’O3 ' 1 ■■ “- - -1 i i $6,300 Paid in Purses and Premiums Best Fair Ever Held in the Central States. Today The Fair is Without a A CONTINUOUS EXHIBITION J* Something Going on all the ■aam t “ HE GROUNDS ARE THE BEST ARRANGED 1 IN THE STATE. They cover 107 acres. The I buildings are new, have a complete police protection, telephone system, etc. There are shady drivesand groves. No gambling or games allowed, and every factor that goes toward making a successful fair is in evidence. •WM !■ I 111 !■ 1 !»■ ■IT —»w l—in-rw HiWIHH 111 ■ ■ I . n ws, MWI MBH It will be the Greatest and Grandest Fair ever held in Indiana a* -j* u* -j* j WEDNESDAY WILL BE CHILDRENS’ DAY ADDRESS Georgs Tricker, T : H. Harris, President Secretary

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GRAIN. BY E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT. Corn, per cwt., (new) mixeds 68 Corn, per cwt, yellow 70 Oats, new ’ 32 Wheat, No. 2 77 Wheat, No. 3 ?. 74 Rye 47 Barley 47 Clover Seed 4 75 Alsyke 4 50 @ 5 65 Buckwheat 60 Flax Seed 80 TimothySl 05 CHICAGO MARKETS. ~ Chicago market closed at 1:15p.m. today as follows: Wheat, September 81§ Wheat, December 82 ’ Wheat, May 84| Corn, September 2 50| Corn, December 50| Corn, May 51 ' )ats, September 35 Oats, December 36| Oats, May 38 _...,512 33 bepiciff ’ c>iß Jo TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3:00 □ clock by J. D. Hale, Decatur. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash._..._| 844 Sept wheat, 84 j December wheat 864 May wheat 88 Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash.. c 44 Sept corn 534 Corn, December 511 May Corn 591 Oats, Cash 354 Oats, Sept 35| Oats, December 37g 1 May Oats 385 Rye, cash 531 STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER. Lambs 4 25 Hogs, per cwt J 5 00 @5 25 Cattle per lb 3 @ 34 Calves, per lb 4| @ 5 Cows 2 @ 3 Sheep, per lb ...2 @ 24 Beef Hides, per lb 6 Mrs. E. Adelsperger will sell at private sale during the next ten days at her residence on Fourth street, household furniture and various household articles, d-wtf Stolen—Bright hay mare; weight about 1,050; no white marks; new shoes on hind feet; mane lays to light side; foretop roughly trimm-

COAL-Per Ton Anthracite_—l " I Domestic, nut —3! Domestic, lump, Hocking— 3! Domestic lump, Indiana 3' Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 51 WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVER Si SON. Wool, unwashed Sheep pelts ....40c to SI 0 Beef hides, per pound ® Calf hides « I Tallow, per pound. —. • POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. CWckens, young per lb Fowls, per lb*■? Ducks, per lb Young DucksTurkeys, per lb n(S Geese, per lb— HAY lIARKET. 1 No. 1 timothy hay (newj ----- S'.oO ig No'Tmixed hay 1 No. 1 clover hay (new)--OIL HARKET. Tionaj’ Pennsylvania j Corningj New Castle [ North Limaj South Limaj Indiana Whitehouse Somerset ' i Lacy , Barkereville Ragiand OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND Eggs, fresh, per doz... Lard Butter, per pound ' Potatoes, new Onions Cabbage per lb Apples, per bu—ed; taken from barn two mil' - of Montpelier, Monday 1 August 17; old end ®P rin ° d j, . with unpainted wheels, ness. Reward of S2S.OOWIHY for@return of propel D ■ Montgomery, R F. D - - £ ’ $ , pelier. Notify Harvey shal, Montpelier, Ind-