Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1903 — Page 2

THE 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. ANOTHER DM OFF Legislators Enjoying a Bit of t Relaxation After a Week of Capital Life. < Indianapolis. Jan. 17. —Indianapolis is almost deserted so far as the members of the legisla tire are concerned., All the night trains took them away from town to spend Sunday at home. A majority left before the adjournment, as they had not been at home for nearly two weeks. The house has adjourned until 2 Monday afternoon, and the senate until 10 Monday morning. Speaker Marshall. Lieutenant Governor Gilbert. Governor Durbin and several members of the senate and house are on a junket to St. Louis, sc there was nothing doing in the leg islative line today. Both the house and senate almost cleaned the platter of business before adjourning, so they will start in Monday with practically a clean slate. Yesterday the senate adopted a report on a bill increasing the state forester's salary to $2,000 a year. The governor, it is said, wants this bill passed. The senate also adopted the resolution of Senator Starr calling on the president to name the army post after General Hackleman. Bills were introduced in the senate and house renewing the prison labor contracts at the state prison. This will bring down the opposition of organized labor. Mr. Bell of Union City introduced a bill of importance to cities, as it provides that municipalities shall pay the cost of repairs of streets after the original assessment has been paid by the property owners. A bill increasing the pay of township assessors was introduced in the house. Senator Gard introduced a bill providing for joint erection of school houses by townships. Senator Hendee of Anderson wants to provide against county treasurers collecting taxes at | any other place beside the courthouse. Senator Parks has introduced an arbor day bill. In the house twentythree new bills were presented. Mr. Morton of Howard county introduced one authorizing county commissioners to issue funds for the erection of public halls and market places. A number of legalizing acts were introduced, but Representative Branch established a precedent by introducing one to legalize a wedding ceremony performed in 1872. Representative Schreeder introduced a bill to reappropriate money to pay for the monuments for Shiloh battlefield. Representative Warren Sayre presented a bill providing for a blacksmith’s lein for horse-shoeing Representative Stansbury offered a bill to increase the salaries of supreme judges to $6,000 ami appellate judges to $5,000 a year. The governor signed the appropriation bill, much to the joy of many members who were running short of funds. The happiest people were the little pages who drew their first money from the state treasury. .

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THE DEMOCRATS STOOD . BY GENERAL HARRISON.

Indianapolis. Jan 17. —It Is understood that a bill is to be introduced some time the first of next week to permit Sunday baseball. There is much curiosity to see how the proposition will be taken. Talks with the members of both the house and the senate indicate that there is a very strong sentiment in favor of Sunday ball if the games are not played during church hours. For that reason, or rather to avoid as far as possible, the opposition of the churches, the bill will provide that games may only be played after 2in the afternoon. There are some members who hesitate about expressing themselves because they don't know what their constituents will say, but privately a majority are for Sunday ball. Senator Burns of South Bend had no hesitancy in expressing himself in favor of Sunday ball. “We have over 10,000 factory laborers in South Bend and Mishawaka,” said he, “and some kind of amusement must be provided for them, so I favor Sunday ball." It is understood that the leading business men ot Indianapolis are in favor of amending the laws in order that their employes may have a chance to witness a game once in a while. So far the proposed bill has not had any opposition from the press, which is regarded as a good indication by its friends. Comment on tne action of the senate in adopting Senator Starr's resolution providing that the Indianapolis army post shall be named for General Hackleman instead of for General Harrison, as President Roosevelt recommended, had not died away today. That every Republican member except one. Ball of Muncie, should vote for the resolution while the Democrats stood solidly against it. was unexpected. The Democratic members stood up and challenged the Republicans to show why the recommendation of the president should not be carried out. They pointed out that General Harrison was not only one of the most distinguished men of the state, but of the nation as well. The Republicans admitted all this, but because a post was named for him in Montana they decided it would be just as well to name one for Haekleman—the only Indiana general who died on the battlefield. A comparison of the results of the first ten days of the 63rd regular session of the Indiana general assembly with the corresponding period of two years ago. is interesting. It shows that the Republicans have kept some promises and broken others. The Democrats may also be included in the broken promises. More bills, have been introduced so far than during the first ten days of the last session, although members of both sides modestly denied when they came that they had brought a batch of bills with them. The senate, which made the most talk about keeping legislation down to the bone, has introduced 136 bills —four more than have been introduced by the house. The natural inference is that if the senate had 100 members—which is the enrollment of the house — that it might have introduced twice as many bills as it has. This is one way of comparing the anxiety of the two sides to keep down legislation. Representative Booth Tarkington, the author, creates a significant laugh at least once a day by sending up a resolution to the speaker stating that it is the sense of the house that when it adjourns that it shall stand adjourned until 10 the following morn-

ing. One day someone got ahead of him with a resolution that the house adjourn until 9 the next morning. No one expected Tarkington to be on time, as It is a standing joke that he never thinks of getting up before noon, but he surprised everyone by being • around by 9:10. Broke Up the Seance. Elkhart. Ind.. Jan. 17—While a seance was in progress at the homo of A. D. Jacoby, a barber, Norman Lees turned on an electric hand lamp. At the moment a table was moving around the room, a banjo which had been twanging was shoved into the lap of Mrs. B. J. Arzman. and tin trumpets were clinked together. The light disclosed the medium holding the trumpets and banjo in his right hand. The medium was Albert Finney of Grand Rapids, who has been holding seances in the county for two weeks. Rensselaer Remembered by Carnegie. Rensselaer, Ind., Jan. 17. —Andrew Carnegie offers SIO,OOO for a free public library building in Rensselaer. It is the first offer from him made to a city in this section of the state, and the largest he has made in the state in proportion to population. The city ' must furnish the site and SI,OOO a year. Train Runs Amuck. Valparaiso. Ind., Jan. 17.—Emma and John Cliska. aged ten and twelve : years, were struck by a Lake Shore train yesterday and killed instantly. 1 Michael Nichaels. a merchant of Porter, Ind., was struck and instantly killed by the same train a few moments later. LOST ALL HIS MONEY Bad Investment Caused Greensburg Man to Kill Himself. Greensburg, Ind., Jan. 17. —Charles i F. Belser, forty-five years old. for | many years court reporter in this city . and for a number ot years proprietor of the DeArmond hotel, committed sui- I cide yesterday by shooting. Mr. Belser a few years ago accumulated sl2,- i 000 or $15,000, which he, together with I some friends, invested in zinc mines in the Ozark mountains. A fewmonths ago he learned that he l-.ad invested his money in worthless mines, and the loss of his entire savings so preyed upon his mind that he I became a wreck. Big Coal Miners’ Convention. Indianapolis, Jan. 17. —The advance guard of the delegates to the national conference of the United Mine Workers. which begins its sessions in Indianapolis Monday morning, has begun to arrive. A hundred or more are expected to be in today, and by Monday morning, when President John Mitchell opens the convention, it is thought that 1,000 delegates will be in the city. Charge of Perjury Made. Terre Haute. Ind.. Jan. 17.—Samuel Edwards has been arrested on the charge of perjury. He swore that the thirteen-year-old daughter of Clara Dobbs was eighteen years old. so that his brother could obtain a license to marry her. Fairmount Was in Darkness. Fairmount, Ind.. Jan. 17.—Four carloads of coal that were consigned to the electric light plant were confiscated by the Big Four Railroad company, and as a result the electric light plant had to be shut down.

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IT CREATED H STIR When Kentucky Grand Juryman Told the Court What He Knew. An Effort to Bribe One of the Jurymen in the Goebel Case Was Unearthed. Alleged Detective Made Proposition to Kidnap W. S. Taylor and Divide Rewand. Frankfort. Ky., Jan. 17. —A sensation was caused in the Franklin circuit court yesterday when Circuit | Judge Cantrill summoned the grand jury which has had under investiga-1 tion the Goebel murder case hearing i the testimony of Henry E. Youtsey, i into open court. Judge Cantrill said ! to the jury: "Gentlemen. I understand that certain person or persons have approached some member of the jury and made inquiry as to matters which have been before this jury. If this is a fact, I want you to report it to the court, or . if there have been any overtures, or ! intimations to you.” James Riddell, who lives at Benson, arose and stated that on his return home Thursday night, that a man of medium height, with black hair, well dressed, and of good address, was at his home. He stated: "The man gave his name of McDowell and said his j home was at Indianapolis; that he | knew W. S. Taylor; that he knew I was a member of the jury which had I the investigation of Henry E. Yout-j sey; that since the investigation of this case and the testimony of Youtsey that Taylor was much worried, had grown thin and emaciated; that he (McDowell) knew who all the members of the jury were, had a diagram of their houses, and knew where they lived. He said he wanted to talk privately with me, and said that he wanted information about the testimony of Y’outsey and would get money for it. an I that he would divide with me. “He called me outside of the house and stated that if there was enough evidence against Taylor to convict I him (Taylor) that he with others would kidnap Taylor and bring him I hare and divide the reward with me. : He then offered me money, which he ' had in his hand, and I refused it; I then he shoved some money in my vest pocket and told me to buy me a . hat with it: that he saw there was no opportunity to get the information. I He said he was stopping at the Capitol hotel and had driven out to my house.” | The judge instructed that the money be turned over to the trustee of the jury fund, which was done, and the grand jury instructed to investigate the matter. A warning to secrecy was given. To a friend Riddell said: “This man said that there was $2,000 offered for Taylor's delivery at Frankfort, and that he would give me one-fifth of the money if I would tell him all that I Youtsey had said about the conspiracy to kill Governor Goebel. I told him that I could not be induced to tell anyone what I had heard Youtsey say in the jury-room, and that I had not even told my wife that Youtsey was before the jury.” Among the curios of Windsor castle is a chair made out of the trunk of the famous elm by which Wellington stood at the battle of Waterloo.

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