Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. EVSRY EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY, IIY LEW S . EULINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week 10c By carrier, p-rye>u- $4 00 By mail, per month 25 1 ’ By mall, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents Advertising rates made known on application J. H. HELLER, Manager. A Delegate From Alaska. Washington, Feb. 26. —Senator Bev eridge, from the senate committee or I territories, has reported a substitute ; for the house bill providing for a del egate in congress trom Alaska The substitute provides for a commlssionet instead of a delegate, but he is giver all the rights and privileges enjoyet by territorial delegates. Instead ol being elected, as are the delegatefrom other territories, the representa tlce from Alaska is to be appointed ' if the senate committete bills becomes a law. Tne power of appointment is vested in the governor, the secretary and the district judges of the territory sitting as a board. ReeoKnixeil Him. A professor in the Harvard Law school has a memory which plays him false on all matters except points of law. He cannot remember his men. When the school opened last fall a student who prides himself on his reputation with the instructors and makes i himself felt by wise questions in the classroom approached the professor and held out his hand. The professor hesitated a moment over the man’s name and finally got it i nut in triumph. The student was highly elated and a few minutes after said with proud satisfaction to the professor’s secretary: “The old boy seems to be getting his memory back. He hesitated only a minute before he called me by name. Pretty good after a three months’ vaca- i lion, isn’t it?” "Why,” replied the secretary, "it's funny he hesitated when 1 had just told him your name. He saw you coming across the hall and asked me who you were.”—Youth's Companion. The Mistletoe Legend. Here is the real historic reason for a very pretty custom that should never Ito allowed to die out. It is the good old Christmas custom of kissing a girl when you catch her under the mistletoe. Here is the legend: “Balder, the Scandinavian god of poetry and eloquence, was protected from the violence of his enemies by the promise of everything in earth, fire and water not to barm him. "The mistletoe only had not been asked, and Loki, his enemy, discovered this, got another man to shoot him with an arrow formed of it. Then all the gods and goddesses mourned grievously. and at their urgent request Balder was restored to life, because he was greatly loved. "So to the goddess of love the mistletoe was given to guard and keep, and every one passing underneath the bough she held kissed her as a sign that henceforth the branch was an emblem not of death, but of love.’’—Kansas City Independent. F nine "Sc Ambislitous has a hieved fame has he?” asked the philosopher. "He has." replied the cheerful chap "Brilliant things said by other men are now creditid tc him. Cincinnati Com

GOVERNOR DURBIN AGAIN LOBBYING

Indianapolis, February 26.—Governor Durbin is deeply interested in the bill providing for a board of pardons. This has passed the senate, and it reached the house today The opposition to it was unexpected, but it is probably due to the fact that there is a provision for a board of three members who shall receive a year each, and the legislature has shown an antipathy for all bills creating salaried commissions. More than half of Governor Durbin's time is taken up w th listening to appeals for pardon or parole, and during the legislature he had to make public announcement that such matters would have to be dropped until after the adjournment. It is pointed out by friends of the bill that the governor should be relieved of this work so as to be able to give more attention to other business. After two years’ effort Senator Lindley has secured the passage in the senate of a bill regulating marriage. It prohibits the marriage of persons affected with tuberculosis or other contagious diseases, or convicts or paup'-rs who are being maintained out of the state funds. This was regarded as a freak measure st first, but Senaator Lindley has had endorsement from scientists in all parts of the country who regard it as a distinct reform. Ho thinks ft will not only result in good to society, but that it will prevent the bringing into the world of criminal or weak-minded children that the state has to maintain, 'the legislature has passed a Joint concurrent resolution providing for the appointment of a commission to study the epileptic problem, so that the next session can provide an epileptic village tt It Is deemed necessary Th* board

A HOT CONTEST New Element in Cincinnati Politics Will Stir Things Up. Cincinnati, Feb. 26. —Considerable stir was occasioned here last night by M. E. Ingalls, president of th" Big Four railway system, signifying to a committee of twenty-six citizens his L » 1 #vEL if v F. fSGAI.LS, acceptance of the Democratic nontina tion for mayor of Cincinnati. While he will head the regular Democratic city ticket, he has been requested tc accept the nomination by citizens re gardless of party, and his acceptance is generally recognized as meaning at i unusually hotly contested campaign it this city for the next month. HORRIBLE DISCLOSURES More Than Two Hundred Bodies Stolen at Knoxville, Tenn. Knoxville, Tenn.. Feb 26 —The county court yesterday resumed the work of examining the graves in the county pauper cemetery. Out of the 28 excavations. 20 graves gave no evi dence of ever having contained a hu man body. These graves date bad ! to 19‘H. The county will examine every grave mad" in the past six years I It is estimated that there a thousant ' of these. Jim Geoins, the negro whr had charge of the interment of thest bodies, has been bound over to the , court, charged with making take' burials W. C. McCoy, the undertaker who employed Geoins. disclaims res 1 ponsibility tor the negro’s actions. As a result of this investigation 17$ more graves were opened last night and of this number only 64 contained bodies. This makes a total of 271 graves opened In which 77 bodies have been found. Nebraska Girl's Vengeance. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 26.—Jennie Thomas, a stenographer, twenty-tout years old, last night went to the room of Fritz Broderson. clerk in a Lincoln commission house, and shot him lead She then shot herself In the head and will probably die. The young woman says Broderson, who is thirty years | \ old. had led her astray and had re j fused to keep his promise to marry , her. The Jury Couldn't Agree. New York. Feb. 26. —The suit brought by Ladenlmrg. Thalmann iCo., against the Importers’ and Tra ders’ National bank, ended last night: in dismissal of the case, the jury being unable to agree. The suit was brought to recover losses sustained through loans made on spurious bonds which the bank returned to a depositor whe had secured a loan on them.

. of state charities and the state comer- . ence of charities is much Interested in this movement and wanted a bill for an epileptic village passed this time. Newton Booth .Tar .ington. the author, nas rolled up his sleeves and is going after the Dre insurance companies. He has introduced a bill to prevent combinations to .raise or regulate j rates The insurance lobby is after < it good and strong, but Tarkington has had it favorably reported and the] chances are he will at least get it I through the house. The only other bill he has introduced provides for an appropriation for a school for the blind , here, but he has taken a prominent part in deieating a number of mean- ; tires Hie activity ba» been a surprise | to his friends, who thought lie would j not take the legislature seriously. He. was largely instrumental In creating j sentiment against the Stansbury school commission bill which will be | deft ated in the senate. A committee of five Republicans was named today to draw up a new plan for legislative reapportionment. The i house and senate committees have been trying to reach an agreement, but have failed because so many members 1 wanted to make suggestions. It Is j going to be very difficult for the Re-' publicans to reapportion the state to suit themselves, inasmuch as the principal growth has been In counties composing their strongholds Representative Hamburger, chairman of the house committee, said today that no more changes than are absolutely nee essary will be made. All the counties | that now havo Individual representation In the house will probably bv allowed to retain It I

GRINDING IT OUTI Legislature At Last Minute Trys to Make Up For Lost Time. I Rules Have Been Suspended So That Members May Advance Their Delayed Bills. It Is Now Likely That Not So Many Bills Will Be Left, After All. Indianapolis, Feb. 26.—The legisla- ! ture Is grinding out an immense amount, of business The schedule now is from 10 in the morning until 5:30 in the afternoon. The regular rules have been temporarily suspend I ed in older that members may advance ’ their bills. At the rate the bodies are i now moving .1 is not likely that as many bills will be left over as was expected. The following important bills passed the senate yesterday. For the sale of the state land in Indianapolis to raise funds for a new institution for the deaf and dumb; providing for the appointment or a state board ot pardons; providing for the engrossment and enrollment of bills by printing; prohibiting the marriage of convicts and persons afflicted with contagious diseases; providing for the consolidation of interurbans and for the organization of promotion ami con-: struction companies; prohibiting the | employment of trainmen for longer I than sixteen hours at a time; bill placing sheriffs on straight salary. The house refused to reconsider the vote by which the crop lien bill was defeated. It passed the senate bill for an appropriation of $5,000 for a monument in honor of George Rogers Clark. A bill compelling county I clerks to collect court costs was passed. A state board of education bill providing for new primers for I schools of cities of over 5,000 was passed. The house also passed a bill making it a penalty to overdraw bankaccounts In the senate there was a scene bordering on the dramatic when Miss Gallaher's bill for an appropria tion for a school for deaf and dumb was brought up and passed to engross- i ment. Senator Ulrey, Democrat, made what was regarded as an undignified speech against the hill, as he directed his remarks largely to the young woman who wanted it enacted. In the house today the railroad committee favorably reported the Gray consolida tion bill In order to facilitate business a rule has been adopted in the house limiting speeches to five minutes, and a time limit has also been set up in the senate. FORCED THEIR WAY IN Unvaccinated Pupils at Terre Haute Go to School. Terre Haute. Ind., Feb. 26. —The school board having decided to comply with the order of the board of health to make effective the order tc exclude unvaccinated pupils, the prin cipals of the school yesterday pre vented as many of the unvaccinated entering the buildings as possible About twenty got in the high school and fifty in the district schools. In one instance a father went with his boy and forcibly escorted him to his seat, saying he would wait beside him until an officer with a warrant came I for him. Wife Murderer Arrested. Indianapolis. Feb 26. —Albert A. Knapp of Hamilton. 0.. formerly of Indianapolis, was routed from his bed at the home of his bride, formerly Anna May Gamble, in Indiana avenue yesterday morning, by the police, and taken to Hamilton, 0.. on account ot the probable murder of a former wife 1 I When taken to Columbus Knapp con- I fessed to the officers that he had mur der-'d hie wife and thrown her body In ; the river. Valtsbl? Horses Burned. Cambridge City. Ind.. Feb. 26. —A large barn belonging to John S Lac k ey, one of the most prominent hors : traders in the state, was destroyed by . fire yesterday and fourteen fine horse-: which were being held until his sale ■ ■ next week, perished in the flames. I - ausing a less of $10,"00, with no in I surance. Cravens Decline* Offer. Indianapolis, Feb. 26.—John W Cravens, registrar of Indiana University, has been offered the presidency of the Centrai Normal college at Danville, to succeed Jonathan Rigdon. Although the offer carried a good salary j with It, Mr. Cravens declined to ac-l i Minister Investigating Gambling. Torre Haute. Ind Feb 26.- The] Terre Haute Ministers’ association has taken Up the subject of gambling and has appointed a committee to report next Monday. It Is said that a mln Ister has visited gambling rooms and will tell the other ministers what hs saw —————— Three Attempts at Suicide. Washington. Ind.. Feb 26 -Tom Byers, in Jail on a charge of attempted murder, has made three unsuccessful attempts at suicide. He Is now chain sd to his cell. —•—- • • . M*. «.■» |

The Big Store’s — J I Loom-End Sale IWill continue another week and will I end Saturday. February 28th instead . of February 21st. I a On account of the severe cold weather ft 1 P of the past week, which deprived many of V | ' * our customers from taking advantage of I our LOOM END BARGAINS, we have de- ■ cided to continue our sale another week. 1 / LOOM-END SALE CLOSES SATURDAY, x f T FEBRUARY 28th. 1 1 F B Same bargains will prevail through k next week as have been advertised. I The Big Store. | Kern t Beeler & Co. | Decatur, ... Indiana.

REELECTION ENSURED Mrs. Fairbanks Has No Opposition to Her Ambitions. Washington, Feb. 26.—Mrs. Donald, McLean of New York, who has been prominently mentioned as a candidate in the coming election for piesidenb ’*■* K I MRS C. W. FATtIBAVKS. general of tl.c D. A. R.. vest, rday for mally announced her withdrawal. This ■ action ensures the re-election of Mrs i Fairbanks for another term of twei years and also means that Mrs. Mc-j l-ean will be a candidate for president general two years hence. Jerome Will Investigate. New York. Feb. 26.—District Attor ney Jerome says that it has been de cided to investigate the death of The odore Hagaman in tnis city in Sep lumber, 190.', shortly after he bad transferred the bulk ot his fortune tc his wife, who is now Mrs. Walter E Delabarre. Relatives of Hagaman an seeking to secure from Mrs Delabarre an accounting of the estate, the vain, of ..hleh they hold to bo about $1 50u ■ 000 Chamberlain Starts for Home. Cape Town. Feb. 26. Mr. and Mrs' Chamberlain embarked at 7 o’clock last evening on the Union line steamer Norman for Southampton Immens crowds gathered at the docks and gave the colonial secretary an enthusiastic I send oft. New Interurban Company. Indianapolia, Feb. 26 The Indiana, Northern Traction company with a, capital of |2s,dot), has Incorporated to build an interurban line from Marlon to Lafontalne, Wabash. North Manchester and Warsaw.

Public Sale LIVERY STOCK Saturday, Feb. 28 15 Head of Horses, 10 Single Buggies, 10 sets Single Harness, 4 sets Double Harness, Phaetons, Standhopes, Five Seated Wagon, Surreys, Office Safe, Robes, Blankets, Whips. This will be the greatest sale of the season. A CREDIT OF NINE MONTHS WILL BE GIVEN. ABE BOCH