Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. KVKHY BVKSIKO. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY LEW Gi . KL. L I tsl OHA M. I SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week 10<‘ By carrier, per war $4,00 By mail, per month 25c | By mail, per year $2.50 ! Single copies. Two Cen s Advertising rates made known on application I J. H. HELLER, MANA Ge R . “ Got It Twisted. Little nine-year-old Rachel, whose! failing it was to get stories somewhat | twisted, once heard the conundrum of I the rat and the thirty ears of corn. It , ran thus: There were thirty ears of corn in a bin and a rat came along | and carried away three ears every ■ night. How long did it take him to I carry away the thirty ears? The an- j swer, of course, was thirty nights, counting the rat’s two ears and one ear of corn. Rachel thought this a wonderfully ' good joke and hastened to tell her old- i er brother, whom she well knew always appreciated anything along the i line of a good joke. Rushing up to him i she said: “Oh. Newman. I’ve got the best conundrum you ever heard. See if you can guess it.” And thus she went on: ‘‘There was a bag of potatoes in a bin and a rat came along and carried away three potatoes every night. How long did it take him to carry away the whole bag?” Finding: More Material. “How large is your Mammoth cave?” asked the foreign tourist. “Nobody knows exactly.” said the native. “It’s so large, though, and people get lost in it so easily, that when a man is about to explore it lie makes his Will and wishes his weeping friends goodby.” “Most astonishing! I never beard that before!” “Oh well, of course, it isn’t quite so bad as that. I was only joking.” (Entry in foreign tourist’s notebook: “Another curious custom among Americans is that v'en they tell an amazing lie they call it a joke -Chicago Tribune. Trne Mercy. “Prisoner.” said the judge, “you are convicted of bigamy, of having married two wives. Have you any plea sot mercy before the sentence of the court is imposed on you?” “Yes, judge,” said the prisoner. ‘‘Give me as big a sentence in jail as you can.” “What?” “I want to keep out of the clutches of those two wives as ’ang as I can, and a long jail sentence will be true mercy.” —Baltimore Herald. Why tiie rtaior Wan Dull “I wonder what makes my razor so dull,” said a man, looking at the blade he had so carefully sharpened only a da y or two before. “Why, father.” spoke up little Johnnie. playing marbles on the floor, "it was just beautiful and sharp only this mor. ing when 1 made my wooden boat with it.”

THE GOVERNOR AND HIS LITTLE VETO

Indianapolis. March 4.—The compromise on the Gard fee and salary bill promises to embroil the Republicans in all kinds of trouble, but the party leaders said today that they would rather take their medicine from the county officers than from the entire people. The Gard bill in its original form would have increased the expenditures of the state fully >200.000 annually. The proposition to readjust the salary of the recorders does not meet with objection, either among the Democrats or the Republicans. Both sides, however, feel that the recorders, while t_ey are entitled to more salary, made a serious mistake in joining an omnibus movement that included all the county officers. The compromise will give the recorders a straight salary of S7OO and 30 per cent of the excess fees. For the first time during Governor Durbin's administration an attempt has been made to pass a bill over his veto. It failed signally, probably because the bill itself was not popular, although the Republicans in both the senate and house had made it a caucus measure. It was the Barcus bill for an appropriation of $5,000 for a statue to General George Rogers Clark to be placed in statuary hall, Washington. The governor not only declared that Clark was not a citizen of Indiana. but that his loyalty to the country and his patriotism had been under a cloud. In view of his record and the fact that he was willing to join the army of Spain against the United States government, he did not feel like signing the bill. His veto pra<tlcally sustained all the objections of the Democrats to Clark, and there ia much rejoicing among them, as the governor's action is a straight jab at the caucus of the Republicans. However. many Republicans caucused on the bill against their better judgment, and consequently they were not anxious to override the governor for overriding them. In away this has been an Interurban more than a steam road legislature, ask' the interurbans have secured the enactment of more laws than their old time rivals. But few members realized the importance of the interurban

WOMAN FOUND GUILTY Mrs. Lillie Found Guilty of Murdering Her Husband in Nebraska. David City, Neb., March 4. —The jury in the Lillie murder case yesterday afternoon brought in a verdict ’ finding Mrs. Lena H. Lillie guilty of murdering her husband. Harvey Lillie, and fixed her punishment at imprisonment tor life. Mrs. Lillie, well-to-do, educated, and a member of a prominent family, was accused of murder- j ing her husband early in the morning of Oct. 24, by shooting him as he lay asleep in bed. Mrs. Lillie claimed her husband had been shot by a burglar, who had robbed the house of S3OO in cash. Lillie died within a few hours of the shooting without regain- j ing consciousness. He was a popular business man, without known enemies, and his domestic affairs were supposed to be pleasant. It was testified at the trial that Mrs. Lillie was a steady patron of bucketshops and had lost much money. It was also shown that her husband's life insurance in her favor was SB,OOO. Application for a new trial will be made, and if overruled an appeal will be taken to the supreme court. Death of General Foster. Indianapolis, March 4. —Gen. Robert Sandford Foster, qvarermaster general of the Indiana national guard and a citizen of this city for many years, died late yesterday afternoon. General Foster suffered from an affection of the heart which rendered him unfit for business for some time and during the last four weeks was confined to his bed. Governor Durbin at once issued a proclamation recommending , "that during the time his body lies in state at the capitol that public business be suspended so far as practicable. in order that proper respect may be paid to one who served his country with patriotic fidelity in the discharge of every responsibility imposed upon him.” A Tragedy of the Sea. New Y'ork. March 4. —The German steamer Piza from Hamburg, just arrived here, reports that on Feb. 16 when in latitude 49.46. longitude 12.43, she saw a steamer with one mast and one funnel standing, bow out of water and stern settled down. Later, when the Piza was within a mile of the steamer, the latter disappeared. There were no boats or rafts in the vicinity of the vessel. The captain of the Piza believes that all hands perished. Based on Imperfect Information. Minneapolis. March 4.—Judge Lochren, in ,ae United States district court yesterday ordered that four indictments of the officials of the Wisconsin Central and Ann Arbor railways be dismissed as being based on imperfect information. The court directed that if the grand jury had had additional evidence the indictments charging vio lation of the interstate commerce lawin rates on flour mill products would never have been found.

interests of Indiana until the mass of interurban bills began to pile up. The Union Traction syndicate has main tained a lobby here throughout the session and has been most active in getting legislation. It is pointed out that the roads need laws, as the statutes at present are vague as concerns them. One of the important interurban bills was signed today. It is calculated to do away with grade crossing accidents, as it provides that the last road to cross shall maintain ; interlocking switches or that the steam and interurban interests may agree on an overhead or underground crossing. But the public is to be protected, so the possibility of crossing accidents will be almost obviated. » he Thompson primary election bill has reopened the trouble between the two elements of the R> publican party here. The Bookwaiter machine crowd whose throne is tottering, did not want the bill to become a law until it had cinched the organization for the coming campaign, and with that end in view arrangements were secretly made to hold primaries this week to elect precinct committeemen who will reorganize the committee and determine the method of making the nominations. The anti-machinists, who I hub been growing iu strength, tried; to get the bill through in time to benefit them, but they were unsuccessful. 1 The machine crowd has succeeded in amending it so that about the only improvement over the Joss law Is that it throws the secrecy of the Australian ballot about the voting. Governor Durbin has attached his signature to a bill that will guarantee ; his successor a salary of SB,OOO a year. This may stimulate the interest of some of the prospective < andidates for governor, as this is the highest salary any state official will receive. Governor Durbin gets $5,000, which has been the statutory allowance for many years The session two years ago, however, made an appropriation so he gets SI,BOO a year for house rent. With this attached to the SB,OOO the candidates can no longer maintain that thers is nothing In the office but honor.

S's I CLOSE WE The House Has Defeated the Gray Railroad Consolidation Bill. The Opposition Had but Five Votes to the Good, but Those Proved • Sufficient Business in Both Branches Is Now Being Expedited in Earnest. Indianapolis, March 4. —The prediction that the present legislature would : not legalize the consolidation of railroads was verified when the house de- | seated the Gray bill by a vote of 48 to 43. There was a long, sharp dei bate in which Representative Slack , led the Democrats, who had caucused : against it. Representative Bamberger made the principal speech on the Republican side in opposition. RepreI i sentative Williams, one of the original opponents of the bill, supported an amendment which said specifically ! that consolidations should be subject to the regulations of the state courts. \ but this was not sufficient to ward off J defeat which came in the striking out of the enacting clause. Another im- , portant and unexpected feature came when the governor vetoed the bill for 1 an appropriation of $5,000 for a statue of General George Rogers Clark. He , held with the Democrats that Clark was not only not a Hoosier, but that he had died under a cloud, as he had manifested a willingness toward the 1 end of his career to take service under the arms of Spain against his own country. The juvenile court bill and the bill for the separation of the wo--1 man's prison and girls’ industrial . school had to be repassed in order to ’ comply with suggestions as to their I constitutionality by the governor. There was an acrimonious debate in the senate over the railroad trainmen ‘ bill to compel the companies to employ three men on double-decked engines. it was recommitted for amendments. which at this period of the 1 session means death. The governor signed a bill providing for interlocking switches for crossings of interurban and steam roads and to increase the governor's salary to SB,OOO a year. The raise, however, will not apply to , him. The pure food laboratory bill , introduced at the instance of the state board of health; the bills for interurban consolidation; for the appointI rnent of a fire marshal and for the investigation of methods of bookkeep- . ing for county officers was passed. ! The senate spent most of today discussing the general appropriations bill. In both houses the Republicans advanced the legislative reapportionment bill. SENT TO JAIL New Albany Men Fail to Recognize Federal Court s Jurisdiction. | Indianapolis. March 4. —Six New Albany men sentenced to imprisonment in the Marion county jail by Judge Anderson for contempt of the federal t court in falling to recognize the juris- , diction of the federal court in appointing Frederick Connor as receiver for , M. Zier & Go., and who were connect- ’ ed with the action that was taken to , supplant Connor by Charles Kelso, a receiver appointed by the Floyd cir- , cult court, were escorted to the Marion county jail yesterday and put in i quarters together. The men who were , thus imprisoned and their sentences are: Charles D. Kelso, attorney, sixty , days: Mi-hael Zier, former president , of the company of that name and po- , lice commissioner of New Albany, thirty days; Raymond J. Morris, sheri iff of Floyd county, twenty days; , Claude Sittason. deputy sheriff, ten days; Fred Ruoff and Thomas Smithwick, custodians of the factory, apI pointed by Kelso, ten days each. > ; ■' “' 1 ■ ■■ A Masculine Carrie Nation. I Logansport, ind... March 4.—Armed ■ with beer bottles as weapons. Daniel I O’Conner, a well-to-do farmer of White county, entered the saloon of Leonard 1 Burton of Royal Center, demolished ' the fixtures, drove Burton from his 1 place of business and emptied the con--1 tents of several kegs of beer on the floor. O'Conner was angered because ■ he had been ejected from the saloon 1 ; by Burton. The Perils of the Kitchen. Tipton. Ind.. March 4.—Mrs. J. Q. Seright was so La lly burned aliout the face and hands that she may not re- ' cover. She was cooking dried apples in an airtight bucket when the steam blew the top off. The boiling 'contents struck her with such force that she was knocked down

Had Their Trouble for Nothing. Newcastle, Ind.. Mait h 4. The safe in Martin & Martin's mill was demolished by burglars, the robbers using dynamite. The force of the explosion wrecked the interior ot the office. The safe was unlocked, but the robbers did not find it out. They failed to «e---eure any booty. Child Died From Eating Matchea Madison. Ind., March 4. —Hannah Carr, two years old, la dead from eating matchea.

CROWNINSHIELD iS OUT Commander of European Naval Station Has Resigned. Washington. March 4.—Rear Admiral Crowninshield, commanding the European station, has applied for retirement, in accordant > he pro apmitat. crownivshikt r>. visions of the personnel law. He will be relieved in command of the station by Rear Admiral Charles S. Cotton, at present commandanat of the Norfolk navy yard. Secretary Moody has cabled an acceptance of Admiral Crowninshield's request to retire, and also expressing regret at the loss the navy would sustain. It is expected that the admiral will haul down his flag about March 30. IN THE COMPANY’S FAVOR Pennsylvania's Voluntary Relief Department Is Sustained.

Columbus. O„ March 4.—The supreme court of Ohio has upheld the validity of the Pennsylvania's voluntary relief department. Suit was brought in the circuit court of Franklin county by the attorney general to oust the Pittsburg. Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Ixiuis company from its charter on the ground that in conducting its relief department it was doing an insurance business in contravention of the state laws. It was also claimed that the railroad company compelled its employes to become members of the relief association. The circuit court held in favor of the company and this decision is affirmed by the supreme court. BODY IDENTIFIED Multi-Murderer Knapp's Latest Victim Supplies Evidence. Hamilton. Ohio, March 4. —The body of Hannah Goddard Knapp arrived here last night in charge of Chief ot Police Kuemmerling from New Albany, lnd„ where it was found Monday. There was a large crowd of people at the station to see the body unloaded and the more curious followed it to Wagner's morgue. The body is partly decomposed and. save for the jewelry and clothing. It would have been an unrecognizable mass. The body was positively identified by rela fives of the murdered woman The finding of the body insures the trial of Knapp in this county. Editors Meet. Indianapolis, March 4.—The Southern Indiana Press association is in convention this afternoon at the Grand hotel. President W. W. Aikens of the Franklin Star called the meeting to order. Royal E. Purcell of the Vincennes Sun is secretary. An interest !ng program had been prepared • for the meeting, and a large attendance l« noted. Officers will be elected and delegates to the National Editorial as sociatlon's meeting named. Arrangements will also be made for the fall meeting of the association at some point in the southern part of the state. Naughty Girls Brought to Taw. Oakland, Cal.. March 4.—Blanche Miller, aged sixteen, and Oracle Seigler, aged seventeen years, of Chicago, have been arrested here with SI,OOO worth of jewelry in their possession. The jewels were stolen from the home of Ernest R. Folger, where the Miller girl was employed as maid. The girls say they ran away from Chicago with Antone Montana and Frank Calibrez, young Italians, who induced them to come West. Both young men were also arrested. They were armed with revolvers and had money and books showing modest bank deposits. Old Kilauea Is Breathing. Honolulu, March 4 —(By Pacific ca hie. I—The volcano of Kilauea has been showing a slight activity since Feb. 27 BRIEF DISPATCHES Tie Dr-partmi'ni ot Agneultore will hare, building at a coat ot ll.KKi.uoo. The belt in»ured man in the country I* Wan. maker, with ht-» life. Th.- celebration ot the 14U1 annitr-carr of th., pontifiesteof Leo Xtll attract.,! 70,000 viaiurn. to Rome.. The entire organized militia ot the | State* will be arnwd with Krat-Jor muaketa. Ohioanpreme eonrt ha. upheld the rali.titr „t the Pcimeylvanla .‘company', voluntaiy relief department. ' 1 Six man were killed and 55 or 30 other, injnr«su*Viu v .^; l,he E, "- n - Therifty-Hetonth eongreaa expired bv limita ion a', n »>n today. The wuate »ui extra lewiim tomorrow. Hear-Admiral < row mn.hiel.l, commaadlne 6u r, ’(H‘»u •lation. '.a. reogned an.l will he aao.ie<l by Bear- Admiral Cotton. Mra. Harvey Lillie at David cl|v y.i, found guilty Os murdering her hu . b ,„ d an aantencad to Impriaonment for lite. mi r t , li!d r .*LiJerAm2‘'. r ** n “ mirreo >ll ora Albany men to leu for f>,.m « tn«l day. for con tempt of court la failmg to recognize the Juriadtction of the court *

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Wabash Railway Secures In-. tervention of United States Court. T „,„.n.nd “ D " gist” from Striking. Sweeping Instrument Backs Up President Ramsey's Desire to Hold His Men. St. Louis. March 4-An injunction granted by Judge Adams of the ’ ■ States district court prevented the cu - mination yesterday of the threa ened strike of the 1.100 firemen and train men of the Wabash railroad for higher wages. As the result of the poll during the past week among the employes over the question of striking in case President Ramsey ultimately refused to grant the demanded wage coneessions on the Wabash cast of the Mississippi river, the engineers and conductors refused to participate in a strike, but the firemen and trainmen favored it emphatically. Their commutes. Monday notified Presiden Ramsey that he would be given until yesterday at noon to grant their demands. If by that time he still refused. a strike would be immediately called In the afternoon President Ramsey requested a little more time and the two committees granted him until 5 o'clock to make final reply. Before the alloted time had expired President Ramsey had secured a restraining order from the court and it had been served on all the officials of all the orders and members of the grievance committees. The injunction was a most sweeping instrument and effectually blocked any strike participations. In part it reads: • We therefore do strictly command you. until the further order of the court, absolutely to desist and refrain from in any way or manner ordering, coercing, persuading, inducing or otherwise causing, directly or indirectly, the employes of tne said W abash Railway company to strike or quit the service of said company.”

The injunction is temporary, and the writs are not made returnable. The persons against whom the injunction is issued may appear in court at any time and present a plea to have the injunction dissolved, or if no one asks that it be dissolved it may be made permanent. Grand Master Morrisey of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, in a signed statement, said that nothing will be done in violation of the injunction and that the dissatisfied employes would bow in submission to the law. After President Ramsey learned that the injunction had been served, he said: 'We will go on dealing with our own employes the same as usual. This order will not affect them at all. If a strike takes place it will lx- due to outside Interference. The order is meant to restrain others on the outside from interfering with our employes or of ordering a strike It was outside influence that caused dissension. The employes of the Wabash were satisfied and would have remained satisfied if left to their own accord." President Ramsey at 5 o'clock handed to the committees representing the Brotherhood of Trainmen and Firemen his reply to their demands, which he practically refuses This information the labor leaders telegraphed to the members of the respective orders throughout the system They would not say what their next move would be. I-ater President Ramsey said; “I haven't had anything from the men who propose striking. lam now going homo to rest from a hard day's work I do not believe there will be any strike,” Venezuelans Are Aroused. Caracas. March 4.—The Venezuelan warships Zamora. Veintitres de Mayo, and Zumbador. captured by the British during the blockade were returned to Venezuela yesterday at La Guay.a. The Bolivar is expected today. It Is asserted that a dynamite bomb was discovered by Venezuelan stokers among the coal left by the Germans on board the Venezuelan warship Resturador when that vessel was returned to Venezuela. The reported discovery created intense excitement. The newspapers here refer to the Germans as "anarchists.” Past the Danger Line. Cincinnati. March 4 The Ohio river passed the danger line of 50 feet here last night, registering 50.6 feet »t 6 p. m. The indications are that It will rise very slowly for the next twenty-four hours, but win not go beyond 52 feet. River men state that '>»■ 'jest of the rise will pass over Thursday, when the water will recede rapidly. Thus far very little damage has been reported. Successor to Chief Deitach M C miihv?' l- Marrh 4 'Lionel’ Paul M Milllkln was yesterday appointed Cd th P ?" ee Os succeed the late Philip Mill! kin was city auditor and would ha'l been renominated today but for thia appo'ntment He was Vut«a nt X one! during the Spanish American war and has been prominently connected r" r .rd P * r ’ W “ h th ' Ohl ° ““'onal

Fifty-Seventh Congress h pired By Limitation at Noon Today. The Usual Scenes Closing Hours. Which Were p of Exciting Incidents. A Passage at Arms Almost M, the Peace and Dignity of the House,

Washington, March 4.-At n(X)B , day the Fifty-seventh congress by limitation. The usual scenei 2J acterized the closing hour, owing to the exigencies >( • sion, business was transacted up to the last moment Both branch had been in continuous seeeioe m 11 o’clock yesterday. The senate« be convened in extra J row. while the members of the u house will pack their grips ag«. home. There was talk of the » bility of an extra session , a also Involve the house in ease theJ val appropriation bill did w g through, but the conferees w ,L measure reached an agreemen: k. night and the house was relieve! Yesterday was alnu t a npriqU Monday in the hous Slowly v surely, through the operation of less roll-calls, the conference to complete the necessary !egl«a>« were ground out. The Demwnti;. position did not abate ami was tied to the close. During the jeki on conference reports th* nn-rj, got in political speeches and soa times party passion flared up. : s before the recess last evening :«fl| broke loose and there w as an ex :□ of high words between two metn on the floor. A pers nal enc as seemed imminent in the «onfusion.li wss averted by the intervetiwni friends. The actual busiest h during the eight hours <>’ the daya sisted of the adoption of the co* ence reports on the immigration, g lie building and sundry evil bii]a,|j reference of the president s veto si sage of a Virginia claim bill to a committee on war cla ms the ts tion of a resolution to correct cH| errors in the Immigration bill anda passage of a senate bill to aj-.aon the treasury department to coins venir coins for the Thomas Jeftfl Memorial association The conferees of the two howi the naval appropriation bill :-w an agreement at 10 o'clock last qi The senate surrendered n 'he :n pal item of disagreem- nt. the im ment relating to the m reaae navy. The amendment provtcee 1 three battleships of !»’- foul placement anti two bat: ■ ipsofl 000 tons displacement, anc entW eliminates the provision • ■ c-J IN THE SENATE The Aldrich Financial B Wentfc in Fi-al Defeat Washington. Mar-h 4 The final feat of the Aldricn tit. al bi < witnessed in the senate yesttd when it war displace ; by the iM pine tariff bill. Mr ' Iricheipl* tn detail bis measure ar.u said tlk small number of men in the M had deliberately, with malice i thought, murdered it. One of the features •: the was the fact that for tt- first '■* two years Delaware «a < repres® In the senate. J. Fra ' <* Heisler Hall, elected short terms rwapectb- i au-Lti the senate and were -a I Ident Frye. Ilesld< s ‘ ■• ’• that Delaware had i resented in the sen. two years previous b> ’ ' ’ there was a vacan< • seats. Mr. Bail's u• • expire two years : Mr. Allee has four y ; senate for the first has Its full mem! In the course of kins declared that t' ty had been fals' 1 t<> In three successive ;■ ’ J spect to statehood fi ‘ homa and New Mt v that ft was the fir-’ ”J* had been guilty of f declared that up< n majority rested th- -I" the defeat of aeveral ures in the senate. Bryan Says He D in '. 3»f "• Pittsburg, March I " Bryan, In an interview as' denied that he will l>;i' 1 the Democratic party Democ-ats capture vention as was retfrom New York, it s >- bolt the convention .1 pendent convention that he had not ma ; ' ’ ment, and said that »h< action was improbabl an ■ discuss Improbabilities A Woman's Cr '> _ Buffalo, N. Y.. March 4.-T are now convinced fri,n: ,. ~h their poeiMsion that the ‘‘ J der was committed by » * there la as yet absolute!? • the identity of ®ur<’* r * r '