Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1903 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER. HOOPER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class mail matter OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, OCT 8, 1903. Crude oil took another jump, and is now quoted at 51.17. The story is again confirmed that Senator Fairbanks can have the vice-presidential nomination. Jesse LaFollette is out in a newspaper interview which annuls all prospects of him being a consideration in the next congressional race in this district. U hetherhe sees a faint vision of the handwriting on the wall or whether he has no ambition along the line of a congressional statesman was not stated. In Wayne county there is a lady who is an active candidate for the republican nomination of county re corder. Her name is Miss Nor Holthouse, and as the nominations there are made by primary election, aae will have the opportunity of making a real and genuine “’glad hand” campaign. This is the first instance of the kind in the state. With candidates from every county, save Adams, for the republican congressional nomination. Decatur ought to land the next g. o. p. congressional convention. With the proper effort this can be done. The one held here in ISfis was the best advertisement Decatur ever had, and its duplication would be worth the effort. The Greencastle Star-Press wants the Hon. Hugh Doughertvof Bluffton, nominated for governor next year, but Mr. Dougherty has repeatedly said no to all suggestions of that nature. It is possible, however, that he might be drafted. Certain it is that the nomination of Mr. Dougherty would be an exceedingly wise act. No apologies would have to be made for that estimable gentleman if he were placed at the head of the democraticstate ticket in 1901.—South Bend Times. When Attorney Shaffer Peterson asked us through the Decatur J ournal to write again he may have anticipated these questions: Were you, Mr. Peterson, out of stationery in your office when you prepared that electric light franchise, or why did you go to Attorney C. J. Lutz’s office and get some of his paper, and how did you get it ? At the citizens’ meeting held here on Tuesday evening, September 15th, William Sheets repeatedly stated that you are Clark J. Lutz’s partner. Did Mr. Sheets get this false injornaation from you ?—Berne Wit ness. The local Cromer and anti-Cro-mer factions here are beginning to line up for their organization combat, which will in away measure the strength of each. Some new and. .valuable recruits have lately been added to the antis, which gives rise to the prediction th it the present congressman is early losing his head. "The return of John er has stimulated many rumors, among which is that he will seek to head the county organization. It is understood that he will be expected to deliver the goods. As he usually meets his obligations in this line, makes the war all the merrier. The recent action of the prominent republicans of the country make it clear that all the talk indulged in by some of their leaders anent tariff reform and revision is the merest “guff.” The ‘Towa idea” was rampant some time ago, and Governor Cummins of that state was standing upon his hind legs and wildly waving his ears and howling for some measure of relief from the exactions of the tariff wall, and demanding it at once. He now is cooing like a sucking dove, as mild as a May morn, and he says that the revision should not be made in the face of a national campaign, but that we should wait until 1905 before attempting anything like a tariff revision. This should make it as gross to the sense as the sun at noon day that unless the people of the country unhorse the republican party they will wait until the trumpet of the angel Gabriel blows before they will obtain relief from toe clutch of the corporati >r s. It is up to the people to do a little thinking.

A Kokomo doctor died recently and by (Special request his body was laid to rest by the undertaker and grave digger. Not even a relative was there to shed a tear as the casket was lowered into the grave. Before his death some time he said: ‘•Why should anybody want to see my dead body? They can not see me. It is no r I they see. It is only the houce I occupied in my lifetime. lam not there. It is folly to spend money on the dead bodies; it is the living that need it.” Guess the Kokomo doctor was about right.— Columbia City Post. The idea has iust begun to percolate through the hair of the repub licans that there is going to be an investigation by congress of the nastiness in the postoffice department, or at least it will be up to them to refuse to have one. The democrats are determined to press the matter and the responsible party for the refusal will be the republicans. If they refuse all will know the reason why. If they do not, then there will be an attempt to whitewash somebody and something, but the democratic members of the committee will come out with some powerful good campaign material. The republican party is between the devil and the deep sea. The Citizens League an independent republican organization of Indianapolis, has just made public a lengthy announcement, in which they urge the election of Mr. Holtzman. the democratic candidate. This league numbers its members by the thousands and is expected to be an important factor in behalf of the democratic ticket. The 5,600 colored voters are with the Bookwaiter end of the game, and i> one of the prime reasons why republicans have such an ardent admiration for the negro. The campaign has been tinctured with all kinds of sentiment and personal vituperation. The election is next Tuesday. There is a good deal of talk on an auti-Cromer republican combination in the eighth district and the report is abroad that the members of this combination will be Theodore Shockney of Union City, M. M. Dunlap of Anderson and Frank Snyder of Portland. Shockney and Dunlap already have announced themselves as congressional candidates and it is said that Snyder probablv will do so soon. There is every reason to believe that such a combination would be a failure as no one of the candidates mentioned could deliver tie vote of his county to either of the other candidates as against Cromer. MhileMr. Dunlap, for instance, probably can get a solid delegotion from Madison county for himself, he could not deliver that delegation to either Shockney or Snyder. In short, there seems to be no doubt that Cromer will be renominated. —Louis Ludlow. Ministers in this county have recently been receiving letters from a concern known as the National Mutual church Insurance company of Chicago asking that they be allowed to write the insurance on their buildings, when writing to the Methodists they talk that religion and likewise to other sects. They have no capital stock and ®eem to Brother" plan. They claim to have insurance in force to the amount of $20,000,000 but so far as we can ascertain from their pamphlets have no way of protecting the assured other than the fact that they belong to the same church. It appears to us as simply a fake and our advice would be to the trustees of Adams county churches to insure their proprety in companys known to be substantial. Recently a letter from the company fell into the hands of T. M. Gallogly an old insurance man who immediately wrote to D. E. Sherrick, auditor of the State and this morning he received the following letter which apparently brands the National Church Company as grafters: Indianapolis, Oct. 6, ‘O3. T. M. Gallogly, Decatur, Ind., Dear Sirßeplying to your favor of the Ist will say that the National Mutual Church Insurance Company of Chicago, Illinois is not authorized to do business in this State, not having complied with the insurance laws of Indiana. I return herewith the literature received from you. Very respectfully, D. E. Sherrick, Auditor of State.

DIGNIFIED CAMPAIGN Indianapolis Democrats Count on Effectiveness of Their Methods. Indianapolis, Oct. 7.—There is no denying that the Democrats huve a stiff proposition in this city campaign when it is considered that Indianapolis is normally 3,000 Republican, yet they axe confident of overcoming the majority. Such men as John W. Kern, former candidate for governor; E. M. Johnson, who was Taggart’s righti hand mac during his administration; i Taggart himself. Joe Beil and others I who are familiar with the situation, are predicting that the Democrats will win a decided victory. The Republicans are undoubtedly counting on a split in the Democratic party to save them, which shows the weakness of their position. When a candidate exi pects to win with the other fellow’s I votes the chances are ten to one that ihe will be tripped up. The Democrats j have conducted a campaign that is I just the opposite to the Republicans in style. While the Republicans have j been making a lot of noise and have 1 been indulging in bill-board advertisements. sterecpticon pictures and search-light banners, the Democrats have been pursuing a still hunt. All of the speaking has been done by Can- ■ didates Holtzman. Little and Fogarty. The Democratic campaign will be ■ closed Saturday night, and the result , will go a long ways toward deciding j which kind of a campaign counts most. There will not be as much betting i as usual on the city election owing to . the uncertainy of the outcome. There is always more or less uncertainty, , but this time there seems to be more than ever. However, some large be.s are being made. One bet of $1,600 to SBOO that Bookwaiter will win. was made yesterday Two of S7OO to SSOO ' were made today that Bookwaiter will win. These are mentioned because I they are the I_rgest bets and show tne i trend among the men who are plac- : ing their money. Harry Walker, pro- ; prletor of a place where much betting is made, said today he has placed I about $15.0' 0, but that this amount I is much less than usual at this time ; of the campaign. He thought be I would probably write about $40,000 be- . fore the campaign ends. At the Kingston about SIO,OOO has been taken. It is not likely that more than $75,000 will change hands this time. The odds are liable to change a little by Saturday. A pretty fight is going cn for the secretaryship of the Republican state committee without the public knowing much about it. Senator Lyons of Fairmount, who was chairman of the speaker’s bureau last year, is after the place, and he has a lot of friends from the Eleventh district who are demanding it for him. Then there is a good deal in the talk that Frank Bowers, who was defeated yesterday for grand keeper of records and seal of the Knights of Pythias, wants the job. Several members of the old committee are for him. As Powers has a very large acquaintance, he may become a factor. It is not the plan, however, to elect a successor to Secretary W. H. Whittaker until after the committee is reorganized. End of Vigorous Contest Indianapolis, Oct 7. —Harry Wade of Lafaystte was elected grand keeper of records and seal of the Indiana Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, yesterday afternoon, by a majority of 107 votes. The election of Mr. Wade and the defeat of Frank Bowers of this city; xW tas tees. graeaS records and seal for seventeen years, came only after the hardest fight ever waged in Indiana in a fraternal organization. Mr. Wade was elected on the third ballot. Following are the other officers elected: Grand chancellor, Merrill E. Wilson of Elkhart; vice grand chancellor, George W. Powell of this city, ex-chief of police; grand prelate, Frank Dunton of Lagrange; grand master-at-arms, Jonce Monyhan of Orleans: grand inner guard, Frank C’:;=S v r-' >.. Arthur J. Lowe of Greensburg; supreme representatives, James E. Watson of Rushville; James M. Hatfield of Huntington, and Otto Kolb of Evansville. He Made Too Much Noise. Evansville, Ind., Oct. 7. —William Murphy, a young man who says his home is in Owensboro, Ky., tried to break through the stamp window of the postofflee. He attracted attention by breaking the glass in the window and fled, but was overtaken by officers. Trial Was Continued. La Porte, Ind., Oct 7. —The trial of Nathan Rankin for the murder of John M. Koonsman, a South Bend grocer, has been postponed until next Monday. Rankin wanted to plead guilty, but the prosecutor refused to consent to It. Friends Had Good Meeting. Marlon, Ind., Oct. 7. —The Indiana yearly meeting of the Friends, just closed, was one of the most successful in the history of the association. The attendance at every session was unusually large. Thief-Takers in Session. Richmond, Ind., Oct 7.—The National Horsethief Detective association is holding its forty-third annual convention here. About 250 delegates are present. The original purpose of the association was to catch horsethieves, but now the members endeavor to bring to punishment, all law-breakers.

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WHERE DIO IT GO Unfoi lunate Mrs. Maybrick’s Fortune Has Been Strangely Dissipated. An Accounting Has Been Asked In Court for a Shortage of $75,000 In the Trust It Is Alleged That the Trustees Have Beer Derelict in Their Duties. New York, Oct. 7. —The action recently begun by representatives of Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, who will be released from prison in England in July of next year, to compel an accounting of certain members of the board of trustees of Mrs. Maybrick's ancestors' estate, is being continued. Attorney Samuel B. Hayden of Washington, D. C., examined Wm. L. Gardner of Brooklyn, one of the trustees, regarding funds said to be

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due the estate (and Mrs. Maybrick) from sales of land in Virginia, West Virginia. Illinois and Kentucky! What appeared to be a shortage of about $75,000 in the trustees’ accounts was disclosed at this hearing. Mr. Gardner wis asked specifically as to bls knowledge rrt.tia

releasing me Baroness De Rouques and her daughter, Mrs. Maybrick from title to property in America. One item of 40,000 acres of land it is alleged was sold for $85,000, and of this sum only SIO,OOO w-as admitted as received by the trustees. Mr. Gardner said that he did not take particular cognizance of the value of the property, adding that so far as he knew only $2,500 accrued from this sale. An acluo. SB® . ■ » was made in 1893, but since that time the trustees have made no further accounting. When asked about the shortage of $75,000 Mr. Hayden would say nothing definite. “We would like to know what became of the money,” he said. NOT SO PROFITABLE United States Steel Stock Dividends Waning. New York, Oct. 7.—The dividend on the common stock of the United States Steel corporation for the last quarter was yesterday reduced from 1 per cent to one-half of 1 per cent, thus setting at rest a matter that has agitated Wall street and financial circles generally for many weeks. To quote a very high authority in the affairs of the corporation. “The action of the board was unanimous and was caused by the falling off of business.” This last is borne out by the finan clal statement issued shortly after the meeting. The statement shows a decrease ot $4,642,668 (September estimated), for the third quarter of the calendar year, compared with the same period last year, and a decrease of $4,839,487 compared with the preceding quarter of this year. On Oct. 1, 1902, the corporation had unfilled orders of 4,843,000 tons on hand. This : year the unfilled orders on the ss me date amounted to 3,728,742 tons. A little more t-an three months ago. Just before tne last regular fllvidend on steel common was declared, that stock sold around 30. Sines then it j has sold as low as 14%. With Impressive Ceremonies. Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 7—St. Anthony’s hall, erected by the Sisters of St. Francis for the care of old people of any denomination, under the direction of Sister Josepha, head of the order in America, was dedicated by Bishop Alerding. assisted by over fifty priests. The ceremonies were very impressive.

a Binni Moses Fowler Chase Ca Continues to Attract Attention of Courts. The Duhmes Making a vigjrou.» tempt to Get Case Reopened By Supreme Court The Peculiar Status of the Case H Brought to It No End of LoS’ 1 Consideration. status of the Moses Fowler CM 9 «* is again attracting attention • 9 in these d:spxti-W»-. ""’ c .. tl3e the attorneys for the Duhtnes o cinnaii, who are trying to get away from his father, are traUW desperate attempt to get t.ie opened by the supreme court, attorneys have asked the eour■ half of the boy. to issue a writ o date to compel the judge 01 court who appointed the fat et lan, to certify the case to the s court. Attorneys for the 0} . said today that the writ for a will surely be dismissed, as . neys for the Duhmes ha' e ground to make the appea of the boy. The latter is no’ the guardianship of tne fat e no authority for himself o appeal to be made. e vi( j e nl torneys for the Duhmes ha- • . gone over their groun and are convinced that good position in the writ is decided against t may end the guardianship a Verdict Against H«' er ' ury Indianapolis, Oct. 7- rbi the case of i.aura I. Fun ■ • tian Science “healer,” on a cMJ practicing medicine withou returned a verdict of gu> • $ ( sessed the minimum fi “ e ° f ’ gß i costs. The case is the first ber that the Indiana state medical registration intern--against Christian Science who have been practicing without license.