Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1903 — Page 2

. ..'Wt’’ - THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. 1 BVXBX BVBNINO. Win SUNDAY, BY l_ E£ W S. ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. | By carrier, per week 10c By carrier, per year $A OO ; By mall, per month 2SC By mall, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application | J. H. HELLER, Manager. The patrons along mail route number one from Berne are so pleased with the service, that even the democrats are now glad that the Witness supported Congressman Cromer last fall in order to get this route established. One man said that he would much rather pay a three-cent postage than be without the service,- Berne Witness. Pray deliver us from anyone who is I green enough—except the Berne Witness to suppose that the faint efforts of that newspaper are solely | responsible for rural route one; and ; if it was, it does not justify a person | being a political hypocrite in order to j better his personal condition. Prin-1 ciple should count for something even ■ in this day and age of the world. The : pions Berne Witness should harmonize himself along this line. FOR HUNTERS. How the New Laws Effect the Sportsmen. The legislature just adjourned amended the game laws of the state ■ in a manner interesting to hunters. As the law now stands no railway or express company can carry out of the state or receive for transportation from ; the state any of the game fowl or animals, including the Mongolian, En-, glish, Japanese or other pheasants. Any person who shoots, destroys or pursues, or has in his possession for the purpose of destroying any squir- j rel from the first day of Jaunary to the first day of August of the same' year can be fined not less than 510 1 and for killing deer, wild turkey and pheasants will be fined not less than £SO, if convicted. This holds good every day in the year. Any person over fourteen years of age may hunt wild duck and other water fowl from the first day of|October to the tenth day of November each year but must first secure a license from the state game warden for which he must pay £1 fee. On the license must be attached a photograph of the person ap plying for the license together with a description of the age, height, weight, complexion, color of eyes, and any distinguishing marks that the holder of the license can be easily identified and the person having this license or permit must carry it while hunting. Non-residents of the state must pay $25 fora license. The pen alty for being caught without your license is $5 to $25 fine. All licenses issued heretofore arejrevoked. It is also made unlawful to hunt rabbits or any other game with ferrets. The new law is now in force. SEWER COMMITTEE WILL REPORT. Councilman Fordyce, who| is a member of the sewer committee, will not be able to attend the meeting tonight, as he is very sick with lagrippe. A report, however, of the committee’s decision in regard to what should*be done in the settlement of the sewer contracts will be made, and the work of this evening’s session will be watched by those concerned with the keenest interest.

A FOUL STINK FAST BREWING

Indianapolis, March H. —Things arc shaping themselves for some big politics among the Republicans of Indiana That there will be hard and bitter fighting d iring the next few months is not denied. Senator Fremont Good wine of Williamsport, who left here today for home, intimated that he might be a candidate either for governor or lieutenant governor. G. A. H. Shideler of Marion is regarded as perhaps the next strongest man to Hemenway for governor, and he is building up a powerful organization. Former Attorney General Taylor, another ■trong man. is getting into the fight, and lieutenant Governor Gilbert will announce his candidacy within a few days. Union B. Hunt, former secretary of state, refused to commit him--self today, but he thinks seriously of (etting into the running. It is believ-t ed that Hunt and Goodwine intend tc hover around the edges, hoping that the fight iietween Hemenway. Shideler and the rest of the principals will grow so strong that a dark horse could enter at the eleventh hour and win. Secretary of State Storms, his assistants and members of the legislature doubtless wish the report of the state commissioner of fish and game had never been printed —or if It had to be printed, that it had been -made leas attractive. The members have been besieged with applications for these books ever since a resolution •was got through to provide lor ths printinc of 3,000 additional copies. There has been no rest fqr them, the

EASY MONEY. I I Ten Dollars Offered for a Trip to’ Bluffton. While Bluffton has long been. I famous as a dangerous place to go I jto it is seldom that an offer of ten j dollars and expenses to any one who would take the chances of a i trip there has been refused. HowI ever such an apparently glittering ■ offer was turned down by many of our citizens who heard it. A wagon j containing 820 quarts of nitro glyci erine arrived from near Lima this morning. The rig was enroute to Bluffton and the driver W’as suffering | with the grip. Feeling unable to go ■ further he made the offer to give any i responsible person ten dollars and all ! expenses to make the trip which he ! talked of as being a real excursion to j any one in good health. No one ac-, cepted the job and the fellow finally j made the trip himself. A PETITION. The France Sewer Not at a Depth for Good Drainage. A petition is in circulation which I latter will be presented to the common council, asking that honorable body to complete the France sewer in accordance with the specifications and give those who were assessed and ' paid for it the privilege of using it for what it was intended. The claim is made by the petitioners that the sewer lacks considerable in being to the [ depth demanded for good and complete drainage. The sewer was con- ; structed several years ago. The petition will likely be presented to the council at their first meeting and just what disposition they will make of it, ! is not known. , PUTNAM COUNTY COURTHOUSE 1 Opposition to the Project Doubt—May Question Election Methods. Greencastle. Ind.. March 11. —The opposition to the erection of a new courthouse here may question the method of voting when the courthouse election was held. The opposition says many illegal votes were cast. In Greencastle 1,300 voted for the courthouse. and out in the county this maI jority was raised 64 votes. It is contended that 1,300 legal voters do not | live in Greencastle, and it is charged that the students of DePauw university are responsible for the heavy vote in the city. The opposition to the courthouse is gathering up the names of ; students who voted. At the polls on ‘ election day everyone was free to vote. > 1 There were no cualleuges. and boys I as well as men cast their ballots. Shocking Accident to Boy. i' Gas City. Ind.. March 11. —Frank Simons, eight years old. was run down 1 by a freight train and had both legs cut off He was playing with two boys and caught his foot in a frog of a switch. He and his companions tried ■ to release the foot, and while the little , fellows were working they saw the train coming. The three boys became frantic, but the frog held the foot of the Simons boy. As the engine was i almost upon the boys, young Simons ■ told his companions to save them- ’ selves and he threw his body as far . from the rails as he could and waited for the wheels to strike him. The shock and loss of blood may cause the death of the box.

E state printer or the secretary ot state. It would seem that every man in the „ country who ever went hunting or fisht ing is after a copy. The secretary of - state gets to hear most of the requests and the complaints as the people come to him with the word tLat such aud j such a member of the legislature said a copy was waiting for him. The re- . port is a beautiful work and is full of • useful information, but if the demand was supplied the treasury would be . exhausted. Each member of the legislature, after the adjournment, received ; i twelve copies to take home. ■ Letters have been sent to real es- , fate men tn southern Indiana by W. H. Freeman, secretary of the state board of forestry, asking them to submit blds for 2,000 acres of land to be used as a forestry reserve and nursery. The recent legislature appropriated j money for 2,000 acres, but stipulated that not more than 38 an acre should be paid. It is very probable that the reserve will be located in some of the southern counties, where land is cheapest. Several real estate men in northern Indiana have offered tracts, | but the price is too high. The blds must be in the hands of the board by March Z 4. after which the site will be selected. Sites have tfeen offered in Dubois. Perry. Spencer, Warrick, Crawford. Clarke, Washington, Greene and Jackson counties. The reserve is to be set out in trees and an effort will be made to preserve all varieties ' Indigenous to Indiana. ..in miwn III— ■— u— mu n—- ’ ♦

ST»«K KMSHANaS SEAT Pidoe M Wtwah MonWu>r»*»lg PrlvUefa Was Tr»n»fwr*4. Mow Turk. Mm-c* M.-Gaorge R ShMdea. the active head of the bank lag house of W. C. Sheldon 4 Co.. No 3 Wail street, and a leading candidate ■ tor lieutenaat governor last fall, has , sold Ms seat on the New York stock , exchange. The price at which the : membership privilege was transferred is $82,000, the highest price on record. With the initiation fees, amounting to $2,000, the seat will cost the prospective member $84,000. Mr. Sheldon has been a member of the stock exchange since 1890, and has occupied several important positions In the committees which direct the affairs of the institution. The man who has the honor of having paid the highest price on record for a stock exchange seat is H. A. Harrison of H. A. Harrison A Co., who i have been prominent curb brokers and j dealers in unlisted securities. This firm has been largely identified with i the recent bull movement in copper shares. — SHOCKING ACCIDENT Befalls the Pennells, Who Were Connected with the Burdick Case. Buffalo, N. Y.. March 11. —More terI rible almost than the death of E. L. j 1 Burdick was the tragedy that occurred late yesterday afternoon, when Arthur ■ R. Pennell, one of the chief figures in ' the .nvestigation of the Burdick murder, was hurled headlong into qjernlty. Mr. Pennell was riding in his electric . automobile with Mrs. Pennell. They , were skimming along the edge of the I Gehres stone" quarry, a huge, rockribbed hole in the ground. Mr. Pen nell’s hat blew off The automobile swerved and in some inexplicable manner it leaped over the curb into the j abyss below. Penned was killed instantly, his head being crushed to an unrecognizable mass. Mrs. Pennell was injured so severely that the surgeons at the Sisters hospital, to which she was taken, say her chances of recovery are very slight. PASSENGERS QUARANTINED Suspicion of Cholera on Board Ties Up Hundreds. New York. March 11. —Six strange deaths -ai sea aboard the Anchor line ' steamer Karamania from Marseilles. I Palermo and Naples caused that vessel to be detained at Quarantine yesterday, and Health Officer Doty after I an examination said the symptoms were so similar to those of cholera j that the ship would bo thoroughly dis-' infected and its 733 passengers and I the crew seat to Hoffman's Island to remain there until the health officer positively knows they are free from infection. The bodies were buried at sea and the meager report of the ship’s ! doctor Increased Dr. Doty's suspicions. Each of the six victims died in con vulsions following an attack of nausea , and cramps. The Olean Explosion. Olean, N. Y, March 11.—Fourteen' 11 charred and half-consumed bodies lying in the undertaking establishments 1 or In their late homes, fourteen people ’ lying in the hospital and a dozen or '■ ■ so more not so seriously injured at ' i their homes, is the result of the acci- ; dent on the Erie road Monday night, 1 when an oil train was wrecked and ’ several oil cars exploded, scattering ■ death and destruction in every direction. Several of the patients in the 1 hospital are seriously burned, one of them, Richa~d McDonald, aged nine '■ years, probably fatally. Vesuvius Makes a Fine Show. Naples, March 11. —Vesuvius continues to cast forth colossal columns of flame and thick clouds of smoke, accompanied by subter-anean rumblings . and slight shocks of earthquake. The : population of the villages around reI main calm and at Porticl the people • crowd the streets watching the imI posing spectacle.

Married Forty Years. London. March 11.—The fortieth an- ; niversary of the mar riage of King Edward and Queen Alexandra was celeI brated yesterday with the customary firing of salutes and ringing of be Ha. Their majesties received many telegrams of congratulation from public bodies. Death at a Funeral. Tell City, Ind.. March 11.—While on her way to attend a funeral Mrs. Patrick Cassidy dropped dead. BRIEF DISPATCHES. The condition ot Baron Nathaniel IM Rothschild who is 111 at Naples la critical. Fire on Victoria dock. at Porlend, Ora., destroyed property of an estimated value of j taoo,ooo. The trial of the Indiana coal operator* for I alleged violation of the Illinois trust laws is in ; progress. , Sentries stationed around the thrm mills affectek by the smelter men's strike, at Colorado Spring were fired upon The amoont of wheat remaining In farmers’ hands on March I, was about 144,1100,000 bushels or M.t per eent of last year's crop. The Philippine government is preparing a bill regulation opium. Il la proposed to control the tratfli- through one eoncesiUonor. The distress in lielmatia is so severe that the people in parts of that Austrian province are reported tube subsisting on the bark of trees and wild herbs. After a series of skirmishes between the government troops sad; the I.edrones In Rlral province, the led rone bars been bsdly scatternd. Msnyfof their leader* were captured Kd Murphy,'an emptova at Marcy hospital, Webster City. !a.,era'rl*4 late the hospital furnace while intexleatad., sad when dragged forth, live minutes Isler, was toned to be ■statlv burned

'tfTER IK JOffi I ! Soft StoajH OrwrtH By fl* Ltylslalure FW NUnf Swkers. — Heats of "The Faithful" Are WWUng to Partake of the Good Thing* Thus Offered. — It Is Given Out That the Governor Will Be in No Hurry to Fill Places. Indianapolis. March 11.---A host of ■ job hunters is following in the wake I of the recent session of the Indiana legislature. Governor Durbin, however. will make no appointments until after all the bills are disposed of, and ; it is probable he will take a rest of several days before any other matters are considered. The legislature created a commision to codify the eorporI ation laws and provided that two memi bets should receive $4,000 a year. An additional appropriation of $2,500 a year was made for a secretary. Lawyears in all parts of the state are . after these places. Frank B. Shutts of Aurora is here working for a place. Timothy E. Howard of South Bend, ex-judge of the supreme court and fors mer Federal Judge John H. Baker are | I mentioned for places. The governor ■will have the appointment of a board I of pardons of three members, and al- j though the salary is but S3OO a year there are many applicants. The term i of John Wingate. Republican member \ of the state board of tax commissioners, has expired. This place pays $2,000 a year, and there are a number of applicants. It is likely, however, that Wingate will be reappointed. The death of General R. S. Foster has created a vacancy in tne national guard, as he was quartermaster general, and a number are asking for it. CONCESSION TO MORGAN Alabama Senator Scores Valuable Point in His Contention. Washington, March 11 —Sena ter Morgan yesterday secured the first material concession that has been made to him by the senate in connection with the Panama canal treaty with Colombia. This consisted of an I agreement to attach the Spooner canal act bodily .o the treaty. This change was made in compliance with a re i quest presented by Senator Lodge during the day's executive session of the senate, for the necessity of it had been I ■

n # SBN kTOR discussed by Mr. Morgan and oth7r members of the senate comngttee. Mr. Daniel expressed the opinion that as the preamble to the treaty calls for the attachment of a copy of the act. that attachment waa necessary to preserve the terms of the document intact. Senator Morgan contended that without this attachment the treaty was absolutely invalid. Senators Teller and Hoar took the opposite view, urging tnat as the act was In existence and of record in the statutes of the United States, the physical annexation was of no consequence whatever. Senator Lodge, however, suggested that no Injury could result from the attachment of the act. and unanimous consent was given to do ‘ so. It was specifically stipulated. however, tnat this concession did not amount to an amendment of the treaty. Hard Blow to Workmen. Hartford City, lad., March U.—The order of tue American Window Glass company to close Its plants next Sat urday, and its announcement that it will use blowing machines hereafter has caused a panic among the window glass workers of Indiana When some of the workmen had notice of their dismissal from the company's service here they broke down and cried They had been led to think that the blowing machines were not practical, and they were wholly unprepared for their dis missals at this unusual period of the glass making season. Will Improve Evansville. Evansville, Ind., March 11.--The Federation of Women's elite ha formed a elvic league and will work with the Evansville Buslues-i assocla Uon to beautify the streets and parks of the city Mayor Cbarlee G Qovart posed of all the leading women's clubs «f the city, ayor Charles Q Covert has promised the women tbst be win tablet *pin In the work.

Their BWeren** ArfMW- . W V* Msveh 11- —Tot S in the d ‘ B “ d peratom being ainkablJ Xrw York Tbt reason why the sheriff of , York cannot be elected to two .ueeaa- I dutv to carry out the process of courts against official delinquents during trial | and after conviction Should a sheriff endeavor forcibly to hold over for a second time after Hoving been defeated for re-election he would be the instrument of the court's process against himself, a paradoxical position which the law avoids by making him ineligible for re-election. Had Proved It. M A great deal may In* siid on the subject.” said the prolix person. •That,” said the weary auditor. “Is the one point on which you have conj viueed me.”—M ashiugton Star. Miad is that which perceives, seals. remembers, acts and is conscious of continued existence.

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Large nkoek of new g O . ges and Son s. 5 _ ■ See the new line of P n„ I Yager & Son’s. 0 car *s UM Latest styles and best DrUo . I carts at Y ager's. b _ i If you want an up todxu I do not fail to see thI Yager & Son’s. ' ne,v For Sale.—Buggy t >,| B ■ set of harness. Da'n Erwin. For Sale-Owing t 0 p/ r b 1 will sell mv store and pjf Magley, Indiana, or trade J/l farm or town property wanting to go into busing well to come and in Jwrite Robert Case. Slow. ■ WabMb-How long did it tak» t . J do thnt picture? I French Artist (proudlvui ™ I gage ujwn eet for secx ii/tha' *1 Wabash-Just as 1 tbought' >—W dead slow over here. Why r ( ■ fellers in Chicago turnin' t'w out while ye wait, i I