Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. EVERY EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. AS U ASCRIPTION 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. SHIVELY'S NOMINATION Will Be Made the Occasion for Some Excellent Oratory. Indianapolis. Jan. 16.—It is now understood that L. Ert Slack of Franklin, floor leader and one of the orators of the house, will make the principal nominating speech for B. F. Shively of South Bend, the choice of the Democratic caucus for United States senator. The nomination in the house will probably be seconded by J. A. M. Adair of Portland and Zack Scifries of Salem. Senator Fortune, floor leader, will make the principal nominating speech for Shively in the senate. Senator O'Brien, Senator Johston and Senator Davis, it is said, will follow. The Democrats have a number of good speakers who are anxious to take advantage of the situation. Major Russell B. Harrison, the only son of the late president. General Benjamin Harrison, became a lobbyist today for the purpose of keeping the Indiana legislature from passing a resolution offered by Senator Benjamin Starr of Richmond, department commander of the Grand Army of the state, calling on the legislature to urge President Roosevelt to name the Indianapolis army post after General Pleasant A. Hackleman. the only Hoosier general who died on the battlefield. Russell B. Harrison was here to take the matter up with the committee on military affairs, to which it was referred, and with other members. “I don't want to talk about it.” said he, ‘‘but I will say that I don't regard it as a matter that the legislature should interfere in. President Roosevelt recommended that the post be named after my father, and I don't think that the legislature should ask him to name it for anyone else. It is too delicate a thing, however, to talk about, so don't ask me to say anything about it.” But Harrison made it plain that he felt that the honor is due to his father as one of the most distinguished men of the state and nation, but he fears that the introduction of the resolution has already clouded the honor that the president intended to confer when he made his recommendation. The house committee on health, medicine and vital statistics today made a favorable report on the bill to license all barbers of Indiana after amending it so that it will not be necessary to pass a rigid examination on sanitary science and skin diseases. The bill was prepared by the state barbers' association, made up entirely of white workmen. The colored barbers have been suspicious of the measure. as there has been a movement in other large cities to drive them out of the good shops. They feared that the bill, which provides for an examining board of five members, was designed to give the white barbers the best of them. The committee has modified the bill, and ft is probable that the negroes will not offer further complaint. It is provided that every barber must have three years' experience before license is granted. This feature is to cut out the barbers who

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graduate in six weeks from some of the barber colleges. The house committee on insurance today reported for indefinite postponement a bill Introduced by Representative Denbo of Floyd county to provide against infant insurance. The bill made it a penalty to write Infant insurance and fixed the punishment at a fine of not more than $1,000 and imprisonment for not more than six months. It would have prevented the companies from writing policies on any person under 21 years of age. Scots Will Go Into Combine. London, Jan. 16.—A dispatch from Glasgow says that a meeting of the shareholders of three of the largest locomotive works in Scotland has been called for Jan. 23 to ratify an agreement to combine capital to the amount of $10,000,000. The companies concerned in the matter are the Hyde Park Locomotive Works of Glasgow, Dubs & Co. of Polmadie, and the Atlas locomotive Works of Springburn. Diplomatic Corps at Dinner. Washington. Jan. 16.—President and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained at dinner at the White House last night in honor of the diplomatic corps. More than seventy guests enjoyed the hospitality of the executive and his wife. All the nations diplomatically represented at Washington had a representative at the dinner with the exception of Belgium, which still mourns the memory of the late queen. Lafayette Is Shy on Coal. Lafayette. Ind.. Jan. 16.—The four largest manufacturing plants of Lafayette closed yesterday on account of a shortage of coal. Streetcar and electric light companies have only one day's supply of uel. Purdue college will be compelled to close unless coal is received this week. Put Lighted Candle in Cradle. Deadwood. S. D.. Jan. 16.—A lighted candle was placed in a cradle beside hte six-months-old child of Peter Eckleson by some children who were playing about the baby, and the infant was burned to death. DOINGS IN CONGRESS — Army Appropriation Bill Passed by the House. Washington, Jan. 16.—The house yesterday passed the army appropriation bill and began consideration of the department of commerce bill, under a special rule making it a continuing order until disposed of. The opposition to the measure came entirely from the Democratic side and was based chiefly on the ground that the transfer of the bureau of labor to the new department would subordinate that bureau to a department which would represent capitalistic interests. The friends of the bill denied the assumption that the head of the new department would be hostile to labor. They maintained that the bill would increase the dignity of the bureau of labor by giving the head of the department a seat in the cabinet. In the senate Mr. Tillman continued his arraignment of trusts and monopolies and again charged that the attorney general was responsible primarily for lack of action against trusts. The statehood bill was under discussion for a. short time. Mr. McLaurin of Mississippi called attention to charges that the people of Indianola. Miss., had been guilty of threats and intimidation against the postmaster, and declared them to be untrue, remarking that his object in bringing the matter to the attention of the senate was in order that his denial might go into the Congressional Record in answer to those who made the charge. The senate at 5 o’clock adjourned until Monday.

EDITOR SHOT DOWN — Lieutenant Governor Tillman of South Carolina Shoots N. G. Gonzales. Bad Blood Arising From a Political Feud Leads to Bloody Tragedy on Columbia’s Main Street. — Without a Word the State Official Pulled a Gun and Downed the Editor. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 16.—Narcisso Gener Gonzales, editor of The State, is at the Columbia hospital in a critical condition from a pistol wound inflicted yesterday afternoon by James H. Tillman, lieutenant governor of South Carolina and a nephew of US. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman. The shooting occurred on Main street just at the intersection of Gervais street, in full view of the state capitol, the most frequented corner in Columbia, and the excitement and indignation on the streets was intense. Mr. Gonzales was taken to the office of The State, where physicians pronounced his wound very dangerous and probably fatal. Policeman Boland, immediately after the shooting, arrested Lieutenant Governor Tillman and took him to police headquarters, where he was relieved of two pistols—the one with which he shot Mr. Gonzales and a second large revolver of 38 caliber. From the police station he was taken to the county jail. The only attributed cause for the shooting is that during the recent primary election Mr. Gonzales bitterly opposed Lieutenant Governor Tillman in his race for governor. During the progress of that campaign Mr. Gonzales, in his fight to defeat Mr. Tillman, had editorially called him a debauchee and blackguard, and had denounced him as a "criminal candidate" and a "proven liar." It was this and other such editorials, it is supposed, that goaded Mr. Tillman to the desperate deed. Since the first primary, Aug. 26 1902, Mr. Gonzales has had nothing to say about Mr. Tillman except to comment upon the result of the primary. There appears to be no conflict of testimony as to the essential features of the tragedy. Mr. Gonzales was walking home alone from his office, Mr. Tillman left the statehouse just after the senate, over which he presided, had adjourned. He came out of the statehouse accompanied by Senator Tolbord of Beaufort and Senator Brown of Darlington, and was joined on his way uptown by Congressmanelect Wyatt Aiken and former Representative Dominick. The meeting with Gonzales was just at the turn of Main and Gervais street, on the north side of the street. There was no encounter, no fist fighting, no laying on of hands. Tillman, so far as the evidence discloses, simply drew his revolver and fired at Gonzales. Most of those who saw the affair say there was nothing said until after the shot. Gonzales is certain that nothing was said until after the shot was fired, when he tottered to the streetcar transfer station, where he leaned. Mr. Tillman was still pointing his pistol at him, whereupon Gonzales said: "Shoot again, you coward." Lieutenant Governor Tillman lowered his pistol and walked away. There was only one shot fired, and that entered the right side between the eighth and ninth ribs and passed

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through the fore part of the body, coming out just above the free border rib. The bullet was picked up on the pavement. Gonzales and Tillman passed each other in full view since the opening of the present session of the legislature on last Tuesday, but there was no encounter, no word passed, and no recognition of any kind before yesterday. Throughout the affair yesterday Mr. Tillman was perfectly cool and collected, sober and unexcited to all appearances. Mr. Gonzales was unarmed. In a few moments after the wounded man had been conveyed to the office of his newspaper half a dozen or more physicians were doing all they could to save his life. Lieutenant Governor Tillman was asked for a statement but he said he had been advised by his counsel to say nothing. Two Michigan Tragedies. Enescaba, Mich., Jan. 16.—George Hardwick has been arrested at his home across the bay, charged with the murder of George Peterson, who disappeared on Dec. 2 last. When confronted with evidence Hardwick confessed but claims self-defense. Ishpeming, Mich., Jan. 16.—John Bornies short and killed Matt Neuoma yesterday while the latter was attempting to gain an entrance to Bornies' residence. Bornies claims selfdefense. A Big Round-Up of Cattle Chickasha, I. T., Jan. 16.—Captain J. C. West and twenty-six members of the Indian police department yesterday began the work of rounding up and driving up 114,000 head of cattle belonging to Maxwell, Morris & Norton. the principle non-resident owners of cattle in the Chickasaw nation. This is the result of their persistent refusal to pay the tribal tax of 25 cents a head. Put Five Bullets Through Enemy. Springfield, O., Jan. 16.—George Farrell, twenty-six years old, was murdered yesterday by Wm. Harris, chef at the Palace hotel, as he stepped into a saloon in the west end of the city. Harris says that he intended to kill Farrell because of the latter's intimacy with his wife. He used a 38-caliber gun and five bullets, most of which went clear through his body. Harris' wife denies any intimacy with Farrell and says that her husband killed a man in Maysville, Ky. Harris gave himself up and the case will be taken before the grand jury which is now in session. Both men are colored. Reached Crossing Simultaneously. South Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 16.— Five boys, whose ages range from thirteen to fifteen years, while coasting on a big sled last night, were struck by a train on the Philadelphia & Reading railway and instantly killed. The railway crosses the street at the bottom of the hill and sled and express train reached the crossing simultaneously. The engineer was not aware of the tragedy until he reached the station, a mile from the accident. The Baron Is Delighted. Berlin. Jan. 16.—Baron Speck Von Sternburg, the newly appointed charge d' affaires of Germany at Washington, probably will be received by the emperor in audience next Saturday. The baron said: "His majesty has been pleased to commit to my care one of the dearest objects of his external policy—that of extending our friendship with the United States. It is for me a delightful work." Mother and Daughter Burned. Rich Hill. Mo.. Jan. 16. —Mrs. Chas. Walked of this city and her grown daughter were fatally burned yesterday as a result of an explosion of gasoline.

See and Hear Next Tuesday THE OPERA HOUSE. —— Tickets at Holthouse Drug Co. —— LADIES ATTEND THE BIG COST SALE! — DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY — EVERY ITEM IS A BARGAIN. PLENTY GOOD BARGAINS TO SELECT FROM. THE LARGEST OPEN STOCK IN THE COUNTY. NIBLICK & COMPANY. FARMERS ATTENTION! I am prepared to ery your sales would like to book yours. My calendar is at Brittson Bros. Hardware Store and we can complete arrangements time you call. Satisfactory guarant FRED REPPERT, AUCTIONEER. DECATUR, IND.