Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. ■VBHY EVENING. EXCEI-T SI’NIIAV, BY LEW <3 . ELLINOHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By earner, per week 10( . By carrier, per year <4. o o by mail, per mouth... . -.c By mail, per .war $2 SO Single copies. Two Cents Advertising rates made Know n t;lt apjdtcii: .on J. H. HELLER, Manager. The action of Governor Durbin in attempting to remove .John I). McDonald of the reformatory U aid ' wi oit any charges or specifications of cause, and without any opportunity for a hearing, is a case of official anarchism. No lyncher ever violated the law more completely than the governor has done in this effort to carry out Ins personal schemes, and I make the reformatory the factor in i his political machine‘that he desires , it to be. He is simply setting him- . self up as superior to all law. and assuming that the office of governor is ' not a public trust, but a “private 1 snap." Sentinel. ’ s £ t The chances for an extra session of a the 58th congress are growing less. It r looks now as though the dead-lock in r

the senate on the state hood bill will soon be broken bv . compromise, and a bill will be pa.,.sod that will admit New Mexico and Arizona into the Inion as one state, under the name of Arizona, with the capital of the new state located in New Mexico, and that Oklahoma and the Indian Territor will corne in as one state under the name of Oklahoma. This will be done unless the Democrats take a notion to put up a filibuster on their own account after Mr. Quay has laid down. The republicans who are and have been fighting the omnibus statehood bill have about convinced Quay and his republican followers that an extra session means that there will be tariff legislation, and that is wiiat they do not want.

Prophetic Dream.. Th" belief in prophetic dreams is not entirely a superstition, according to the results obtained by two members of the French institute, 'they point out that at night when the senses are at rest the brain is affected particularly by organic feelings in various parts of the body and that early symptoms of advancing diseases give a particular direction to the dreams, a familiar instance is nightmare, which indicates a dyspeptic condition. Immoderate drinkers see rats, snakes and insects j u their dreams before the actual outbreak of delirium tremens, and so on. fc ■ •Wil'lll II MT , armw I, M

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READY. TO SIGN Protocols For Raising of Blockade Are Now In Final Shape. Germany Finally Agreed to Waive Its Demand for a Cash Payment of Its $340,000. All Reference to Preferential Treatment of Allies Will Go to The Hague. Washington. Feb. 13.—The probability is that the protocols for the raising of the blockade which has been maintained by England, Germany and Italy against Venezuela for more than a month, will be signed by Minister Bowen and the representatives of the ! allied governments today. At the urgent suggestion of Baron Von Stern- , berg, the German government has ' agreed to waive its demand for a cash ' payment of $340,000, and has accepted ' * the proposition of its minister that it | '

I receive this money from Venezuela in j five monthly installments, the first in t. stallmcnt to be paid two weeks after 9 the signing of the protocol. Minister f Bowen had a busy day conferring with r the English and Italian ambassadors } | and the German minister regarding . I various features of the protocols, with r the result that they are practically in a | final shape. . ! The protocols will provide for the rl raising of the blockade at once; for a I cash payment of £5,509 to each ot I j the three allied governments and for •I the payment to Germany of 1,709.000 • bolivars iu five iristallments less the 1 £s.soo.paid in cash. The first install- ■ ment of the 1.700,000 bolivars or $340, | 000 is to be paid on the 15th of March. I The protocols also will provide for the , 1 reference of the question of preferen--1 tial treatment to The Huron aithni.ch

uraiuH-ui me Hague, aitnougn ; it is understood this feature will be sc worded as to leave, a loophole in the I event it is desired to settle the ques- ; tion without such reference. For die payment ot claims of the allies, Mr. Bowen has arranged to begin immediately the setting aside of 30 ; , per cent of the customs receipts of i the two ports of Puerto Cabello and La Guayra as originally proposed. The | first receipts set aside will lie th6se for ( the month of March' The funds will be retained in the custody of \s>ne ( zuela and will be paid out according tc < arrangements that may be hereafter t n?2d° <

NOT FOR W. D. CRUM Senate Committee Reports Against Confirmation of Negro Collector. Washington, Feb. 13. —The senate . committee on commerce yesterday agreed to report advetsely the nom--1 ination of Dr. W. D. Crum, colored, to '• a DB. w t>. cj.ru. be collector of the port at Charleston. S. C. The vote on confirmation was six to eight. All the Democrats voted against confirmation and they were reinforced by the votes of Jcnes of

i Nevada and Perkins of California. The Foundation of Peace. Dublin. Feb. 13.—Sir Anthony Mac Donnell, under secretary for Ireland, at a meeting last night, after highly praising the report drawn by Lord Dunraven’s Irish landlord and ten-' ants’ conference as one of the most important documents that had seen the light of Ireland for a generation, said he could not divulge the provisions ot the land bill, but he could say that the government’s bill was con . structed with an honest desire to do justice to all concerned and with the object of laying the foundation of a lasting peace in Ireland. 'Hold-Up Men Sentenced. Madisonville, Ky„ Feb. 13.- Wonderful Mots and John Bailee', two negro

union miners, were tried yesterday and found guilty of being connected with the hold-up of non-union miners employed by the Zinecke Coal com pany in September, 1901. Moss received a sentence of two years in the penitentiary and Bailey was sentenced to one year. Dets of Sale Postpone W "Shington. I order to afford time for thirty days’ notice by publication. Secretary Root has changed the date of the sale of the Indianap- ! olis arsenal property from March 11 1 to March IG. The notice of sale will 1 date from tomorrow. I 1

HID FUN WITH IT Housa Didn’t Do a Thing to the Much Talked of Barbers’ Bill. Laughing Legislators Amend It Down to the Bare Title and Then Kill Even That. Busmess Is Accumulating So Rapidly That Later Sessions Will Ce Held. Indianapolis, Feb. 13. —One of tha most liumorus features of the session ' was the action ot the house yest -rday;

on the barbers’ bill which passed the senate. The representatives started in with amendments until nothing j was left but the title, and finally it was declared defeated amidst much laughter. The house also killed the Munici-' pa! League bill to extend tile terms of city officials to four years, and a bill i compelling county commsshmers to give all county engineering to county I surveyors. The house also defeated i a bill to provide qualifications for vet-' | erinarians and a bill to give graduates of the state normal an advantage over other applicants for teachers license. A mass of committee reports ■ were adopted or killed. Business is; accumulating so rapidly that the m -tubers are willing to submit to later sesI slons. The bill providing that sheriffs shall be paid their statutory salary whether or not they collect fees equal to that amount, pa. red the house in I the absence of Warren Sayre, “the watch-dog of the treasury.' who was away on business. The house adeptr- ! a favorable report on the bill 1. _ , . the pumping of natural gas tn the I state, and on a bill to increase the tax levy for the three state colleges. The senate spent two hours discussing I

Senator Gard’s bill readjusting t'<-' salaries of the county officer.s. Tl:< it was a hos of amendments, the r is; imports; t of which was a provls? that auditors shall in addi ion to ti. irregular salary, receive v- per cent ct all the school tax inten in,: .- up to SS,OOO. The auditors ar - in us - ing the bill in its original foi m gave them the worst of th<- < ■ al. The i " was also amended so that sheriffs ar. ' clerks will not be allowe 1 a per di'-m for attending court, an 1 to p: . that all officers shall file v.-itii the <■ >, at the beginning of each ’> a- an a< count, of their receipts and expend: tures in the office. The piimary el? tion bill after a bri. • discussion was passed to engrossmi

THE MINERS DOING THE LOBBY ACT

Indianapolis, Feb. 13. —It was rumored today that the spe. ial committee to which war- referred the agreei went between the miners and opera tors of Indiana, that the shot-tiring bill I should be withdrawn has decided to report in favor of bringing the matter | out on the floor for discussion. It is; hardly likely that ,the bill will pass in view of the action of the miners and operators, but some of the operaI tors are ev identic nervous, as they I were here today bolstering up the! i members who had promised not to sue- ' port the bill. If the bill should be! passed the miners might be accused Os I bad faith with the operators who have just signed their wage agreement here,

for another year, and if President Mitchell, Secretary Wilson and other national officials can prevent It, it is probable that the bill will be allowed to remain indefinitely postponed. The readiness with which ihe house advant cd the bill increasing the tax levy for the state university, Purdue ami the state normal, is regarded as an indication that it will go through without much opposition, although it was expect d at first that the old fight between the state and the nonstate school people might crop out But up to this time there has been no evidence of opposition on the part ot the non-state school advocates. The house has passed the bill restoring the state school tax levy to 16 cents, but it will have rough sledding in rhe senate. when the members from the large cities are almost a unit against it on the ground that it makes their burden of taxation too heavy. The senate is favorably considering a bill of much Intel est to the families in the state whose fortunes run into

Exercises at Lincoln's Tomb. Springfield, 111.. Feb. 13.—Lincoln’s birthday was observed in Springfield jesterday with exercises at his tomb at the national Lincoln monument, under the auspices of the Woman's Relief corps. The local chapter of the: Daughters of the American Revolution met in the afternoon at the Lincoln home. West Virginian Runs Amuck. Roanoke, Va Feb. 13.—John Frith shot and killed Witten Height and frank Williams and wounded two persons at Eckman. W. Va., following a domestic quarrel.

six or sevt a figures, it wa n -. . by Senator Burns on b,-; ' '* Olivers of South Bend, wealthiest Indiana families /■! ’ vides that where a tes'u;< 91 he may provide in his wifi executor of his estate ma- ..." 111 ’ , out bond. Thia means a ,r. at f to the wealthy families, as members is generally nann a , tor. Some senators are the ground that it is clat but inasmuch as it will nea ■ people, comparatively, the a that it will pass. Senator Conologue hat introdby request, a bill regula- . '.i' 5 *

t aries of the county coir. ~.. / . This is the last salary i> : . sered, and judging by t' re . , ’ I given others, it will have a It provides that the gala, ... *,’? members of the board of Mr,• , , ty shall be $2,200 a year; v„ . 3 $1,500 a year; Allen. $i '-.fl $900; Madison, $950: St. .1 >. <-fl Tippecanoe, $750. The oi. • ..'fl bill is to readjust the salat,.. a ,!..fl ing to population, in .. fl small counties the commis fl not receive more than $_ d . '.fl It is probable that the -fl diana will be given anoth -r on-afl nity at the next election to vot<■'<«■ fl amendment to the state < .-,..fl fixing the qualifications f ~ || Two years ago a similar a; -n - .fl was voted for it. More von for than against It, but ,!i court held that it had i fl majority of all the vote ,ldtherefore it was not adopt . p lawyers are agitating it st r -is'., fl! will continue to do so in . the people will not overki - >< A they go into their booths t - c . | S

Blame Laid on Operator. Tucson. Ari?., Feb. 1 -p Richey’s jury brought in yesterday as to the resp< the collision at Vaile betw. . set Limited and the Crest . ■ • press on the Southern Pa .'as..® The jury placed the respor - Operator Clough, whose w' are still unknown to the p< ft® Children Had Been Left Aicre, I Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 13 - ; , ® of Mr. and Mrs. James 1. yesterday, and their tw.> -h || a hoy five years old and a ihv ished in the fire. They ha! Leai3| . alone in the house.