Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1903 — Page 2

THt DAILY DEMOCRAT. EVERY EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. AS U BSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week. . . . 10c By carrier, per year. . . . $4.00 By mail, per month. . . . 25c By mail, per year. . . .$2.50 Single copies, Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application J. H. HELLER, MANAGER. ——— SALARIES RAISED Senate Committee in Favor of Sweet= ening State Jobs. Indianapolis, Jan. 15.—Senator Will Wood's bill to increase the salaries of the supreme judges to $7,500, the appellate judges to $5,000 and the reporter of the supreme court to $5,000 a year, was reported favorably today by the committee on fees and salaries. This was indeed surprising, although there has long been a sentiment in favor of increasing the salaries of the judges, as it has been generally conceded that as a class they are the poorest paid officials in the statehouse. The bill means an increase of $3,000 a year for the supreme judges, $1,250 for the appellate judges and the $500 for the reporter. It is not unlikely that the bill will finally pass giving the supreme judges about $6,000 a year. The general fee and salary law for county officers, introduced by Senator Gard, was referred to a special committee consisting of Senators Fortune and Thompson. The committee on county and township business of the senate today reported favorably Senator Dausman's bill placing justices of the peace on straight salary. There has been a demand for this not only from justices themselves, but among attorneys who have dealings wtih justices' courts, as the present system of pay is very unsatisfactory. The Dausman bill does not fix the salary, however, but leaves it optional with the township advisory boards. There was a divided report on Senator Dausman's bi oviding for a county controller to charge of the reports of all the business and to make public the Both these bills have been marked important. There was a divided report today on the bill of Senator Ogborn providing that all bills should be referred to the supreme court to have their constitutionality tested before they are enacted. Senator Kittinger, chairman of the judiciary committee, to which the bill was referred, thinks it is a good plan, but he says there is strong opposition on the part of a number of people who think it would be placing too great a burden on the supreme court: and further, that the constitu tiional questions could hardly be fairly tested without a case being regularly filed and evidence or briefs submitted. However. Senator Ogborn and several others intend to make a fight for it. Senator Wood's bill regarding the killing and muzzling of vicious dogs met an easy death today at the hands of one branch of the judiciary committee, which reported it for indefinite postponement. The bill provided that when complaint was made regarding a vicious dog that the owner should be brought into court to explain, and if it was found that the dog needed killing, then it should be the duty of the justice to have it killed. Senator Kittinger, chairman of the judiciary committee, said he could not get it in his head clearly whether Senator Wood meant that the dog, or the owner, or the justice should be killed.

- — ICE! I Days More I FAIR STORE of Business fiance to get goods at jr Own Price , Underwear Queenss have been sold. Fixrid and store is rented, in thirty days. 4 and Come!

Senator Fortune of Jeffersonville has introduced a bill to pave the way for an appropriation for monuments to mark the locations of the Indiana regiments that fought in the famous siege of Vicksburg. He wants an appropriation of $1,000 to pay the expenses of a commission of five old soldiers who will visit the scene of the battle and get the desired information. Then it is probable that at the next legislature an appeal will be made for an appropriation to buy the monuments. Other states are taking similar action. ———— Two Miners Imprisoned. Missouri City, Mo., Jan. 15.—W. P. Kellar and Edward Poe, miners, are imprisoned in the Missouri City Coal company's mine, the roof of which fell in yesterday. For several hours after the accident the men were communicated with, but their last utterances to persons on the outside indicated that they were smothering. Young Man Shoots Stepfather. Marion, Ind., Jan. 15.—While defending his mother from an attack by her husband, John Prail, aged twenty-one years, last night shot and instantly killed Al Riggs, his stepfather, aged forty-seven years. Prail gave himself up to the officers and claimed that he did the shooting in self-defense. New Trial Denied. Goshen. Ind., Jan. 15.—Dr. Harry Gulmyer, who received an indeterminate sentence of from two to fourteen years in the reformatory for shooting with intent to kill Miss Lulu Barney of Elkhart, has been denied a new trial. River Navigation Suspended. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 15.—On account of the heavy blocks of ice passing down the river, traffic on the Ohio is tied up. Boats between Evansville and Louisville cannot run. Woodman's Face Mashed. Mishawaka. Ind.. Jan. 15. —While felling a tree Christian Thiel was struck in the head with a limb and the bones of his face were mashed. Detroit's Municipal Coal Yard. Detroit. Mich., Jan. 15. —Tomorrow morning the municipal coal commission of Detroit will begin selling coal, a ton only to each purchaser. The commission has 2,200 tons of Jackson Hill soft coal at the yard, has 400 tons on the way and about twenty cars available that are lying on the tracks between Detroit and Toledo. Coal Hogs at Milwaukee. Milwaukee. Wis.. Jan. 15. —While thousands of persons in Milwaukee have been trying to buy coal and have been turned away from coal offices, 10,000 tons, more than was needed, have been lying in storage at the yards of the Lehigh valley Coal company, according to the city council committee, which reported last night. THE ICE GAVE WAY And Three Lives Are Lost on Washington Skating Pond. Washington, Jan. 15.—While a large crowd was skating on the bathing basin near the Washington monument last evening the ice gave way and precipitated twenty or more persons into the river. Three persons lost their lives. There were probably 2,000 persons skating on the basin at the time of the accident. A hot water pipe from the engine room of the Washington monument empties into the basin near where the ice gave way. The skaters had been warned that the spot was dangerous, but it is said they disregarded the advice, and when the crash came thirty men and women went through the ice into the water,

COAL IS NOW FREE That is, Congress Has Removed the Duty On It For One Year. Action in the House Was Practically Unanimous and in the Senate Wholly So. A Few Representatives of Coal Producing States Refuse to Face the Music. Washington, Jan. 15.—The bill reported from the ways and means committee to provide for a rebate of the duties on foreign coal for a period of one year was passed in short order by the house yesterday by practically a unanimous vote, 258 to 5, those voting against it being Messrs. Cushman and Jones of Washington; Gaines of West Virginia; Mendell of Wyoming, and Patterson of Pennsylvania, all Republicans. The bill was considered under the rule which cut off opportunity to amend. The only opposition to the measure came from some of the members representing coal states who expressed the fear that the admission of Chinese mined coal in Canada would injure the coal industry of their states. Both Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Mr. Payne of New York, the Republican leaders, expressed the opinion on the floor that the bill would not relieve the existing distress. They said it would satisfy, however, public demand for action and show the disposition of congress to do what it could. The Democrats, although they all supported the bill, took the view that it did not go far enough, saying that coal should go on the free list, and when the bill came back from the senate with a provision which virtually placed anthracite coal on the free list, they applauded vigorously. Mr. Dalzell, in the course of his remarks, said that there was practically no anthracite coal in the world except that in the United States and a little in China. The senate amendment was adopted. Rapid progress was made with the army appropriation bill after the coal bill had been passed. SENATE ACTED PROMPTLY Little Time Lost in Confirming Action of the House. Washington. Jan. 15. —The senate yesterday acted promptly on the house bill providing rebates of the duty on coal and passed it unanimously without debate, a few minutes after it was brought over from the house. The militia bill also was passed, with an amendment striking out of the bill the section providing for a reserve force of trained men. thus removing the objections made against it. For an hour and a half Mr. Tillman occupied the attention of the senate in a characteristic speech in which he denounced trusts and monopolies and severely criticised the attorney general. The statehood hill was up for a short time, during which Mr. McCumber spoke in favor of the granting of statehood to Oklahoma. Arizona and New Mexico. For Government Control. Washingion. Jan. 15.—John J. Jenkins of Wisconsin, chairman of the judiciary committee of the house, yesterday introduced the following resolution: "Resolved. That the committee on the judiciary be and is hereby di-

PER CENT. A mark-down that is a saving to yon of one-third on all Men's, Boys’ and f Children’s Suits and Overcoats. Sale now on All $20.00 Suits and Overcoats . . . $13.64 j ■ All slß.oo Suits and Overcoats $12.00 All $15.00 Suits and Overcoats SIO.OO All $12.00 Suits and Overcoats $ 8.00 All SIO.OO Suits and Overcoats . 6.67 j ’I A All $ 7.50 Suite and Overcoats $ 5.00 All $ 6.00 Suits and Overcoats $ 4.00 All $ 5.00 Suits and Overcoats . . . $ 3.67 g All $ 3.50 Suits and Overcoats $ 2.34 1 0 ° I ’! All suits and overcoats will be sold at one-third off. None will be reserved. Kirn, Beeler &, Go. THE BIG STORE De atur, Indiana I I

rected to investigate and report to this house with all convenient speed the opinion of that committee as to the power of congress to declare that a necessity has arison for taking possession of all coal, coal beds and coal mines in the United States and all lines of transportation, agencies, instruments and vehicles of commerce necessary for the transportation of coal, and that if in the opinion of that committee the power exists and a necessity for the exercise of such power has arisen, that the committee forthwith report to this house a bill declaring the necessity, providing fully and in detail the occasions, modes, conditions and agencies for said action that will fully and completely exhaust the power of congress in that regard." — — Love Finds a Way. Metropolis, Ill., Jan. 15.—In spite of a river full of floating ice which is preventing steamboats from running, Lee Langston and Beulah Estes eloped from Rossington, Ky., braved the danger, and crossed to Metropolis in a skiff. An irate parent was unable to pursue the lovers. A crowd on the river bank watched the betrothed make the perilous journey. The wadding took place in the office of a justice of the peace. Journeyman Frozen to Death. Edwardsville, Ill.. Jan. 15. —The body of C. C. Harrison was found yesterday near here. It is believed he was frozen Saturday or Sunday. Harrison had a painters' union transfer card from Jacksonville, Fla., and is said to have relatives in Kentucky. Hopkins Nailed the Plum. Springfield. Ill., Jan. 15. —Congressman A. J. Hopkins of Aurora was nominated last night by a joint Republican caucus of the Illinois legislature to succeed Wm. E. Mason in the United States senate. ——— Deed of a Texas Mob. Angleton. Tex., Jan. 15. —Several men entered a cell of the county jail in which Ransom O'Neal and Charles Tunstall were confined with a number of other negroes, and shot the two men to death. The other prisoners were warned to cover their heads with blankets, which they did. The negroes were charged with the murder of County Attorney Ed C. Smith at Columbia several weeks ago. Enginemen Get an Increase. Chicago, Jan. 15.—Locomotive engineers and firemen on the Chicago & Western Indiana and the Belt railway of Chicago have secured an agreement reviving their wage schedule. They will receive an increase of 10 per cent dating from Jan. 1. Ten hours will be considered a day’s work. BRIEF DISPATCHES Congress has passed a bill suspending the duty on coal for the period of one year. W. B. Hayburn has been elected to succeed Henry Heitfeld for United States senator from Idaho. Six deaths have occurred from lock jaw arising from Christmas blank cartridge injuries in Louisville. Twelve men were blown to atoms by an explosion at the Hamilton powder works at Northfield, B. C. George C. Perkins has been formally elected United States senator in join meeting of the California legislature. The Christian orphans home at St. Louis, was burned and all (t)he inmates with one exception were rescued without injury. Judge Taft will remain in the Philippines and Judge Day will succeed Justice Shiras on the Supreme court of the United States. The receipts of the fifty largest postoffices of the United States for December. as compared with December, 1901, shows a net increase of 14 per cent. Andrew Meyers, living near Lyons. Neb., shot his brother, Erick, three times. Erick will die. Andrew (cla)ims the shooting was in selfdefense. Fire destroyed Bryan's Infirmary at Pensncola, Fla. One patient was burned to death in his room, and six others may die from exposure and excitement.

INDIANA OPTICAL SOCIETY List of Officers Elected at the Closing Session of Meeting. Indianapolis, Jan. 15.—The following officers were elected at the closing ssion of the meeting of the Indiana Optical Society: President, C. M. Jenkins, Richmond; vice president, Wm. Hazeltine, Kokomo; secretary, George S. Grubb, Marion; treasurer, M. C. Cline, Crawfordsville; executive committee, J. H. Ellis, South Bend; F. Kennedy, Winchester; B. F. Christenbury, Elwood; W. E. Huston, Greenfield; J. H. Arnold, Columbus, and E. W. Kelly, Sullivan. The Indiana body will join the national organization.

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Pugs Under the Ban. Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 15.—Pugnacious parties are under the ban here. and there will be little doing for the knights of the glove in this city for some time. The local authorities have notified the club that has been giving boxing exhibitions that the sport will have to cease. The governor's stand against prize-fights in his recent message is responsible for the action. Cold and Booze Did It. Petersburg, Ind., Jan. 15.—Charles Pipes, a farmer and stock dealer became intoxicated while at Winston and started home. He fell in the snow and was found frozen to death a few hours later.