Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. BVSRY EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY, UY I LEW O . ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week 1 o<* By carrier, per year ••• $4.00 By mail, per month 25’’ By mall, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application _ Entered in the postoflice at Decatur, ndlana. as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. And now Grover Cleveland is planning a western trip. It occurs to us that he and the president could charter the same train, and therepy save a few dollars. MMiMMSMMSWMSSIMM Mayor Carter Harrison will head the hosts in another municipal campaign in Chicago. This is the fourth nomination to be accorded him. having three times been elected. The Pennsylvania man who offered the civil service commission |2O ’ to secure him a position has been\ convicted. The insignificence of the amount offered is presumed to have I offended the commission. Fairbanks again looms up as a presidential possibility, as does also Hanna and even the president himself is spoken of. The outcome of the whole business will result in some one being nominated. Os course when it comes to the election that is a diifferent proposition. DEADLY GUN FIGHT Ehrmandale Miners "Rough House” a Saloon and Are Worsted. Terre HatVe, Ind March 18.—As a result of a gun fight in a saloon at Ehr mandate last evening, a miner named Kearn« is dead, another man is fa tally wounded, and two others seriously hurt. Seven miners entered lhe place conducted by Angel Rough and Nick Garaorin and tried to clean ov.t the place. Rough defended himself ■with a revolver, and when pressed elosely seized a shotgun and ran from the saloon, followed by the men. He fired at them as he ran. Rough gave himself up. General Wood’s New Berth. Washington. March 18. —General Wood will leave here Thursday of next week to embark on the steamer leaving Boston on the 28th inst for Naples. He will be accompanied by Colonel H. L. Scott. Seventh cavalry, and Lieutenant F. R. McCoy. Tenth cavalry. It is expected the party will arrive in Manila about the middle of June. General Wood will take command of the department of Mindanao until he is advanced to the command of the division x>f the Philippines.

THE PROHI’S ARE ORGANIZING

Indianapolis, March 18. —The Prohls are doing more things politically than either of the old parties. Charles E. Newlin, their state chairman, is making a vigorous effort to build up an organization the like of which no Prohi party ever had. He is now visiting every county in the state, holding one-day meetings with the precinct workers and the members of the party generally. The Prohis want to have an organization in every precinct by next year—something they have never had before. They have a good district organization and most counties are well organized. The state has more alliances than any other state —a feature to which the ha lers point with pride. Edward Clark, their secretary, said today that they will put a full ticket la the field for the Indianapolis r«ty e laetien They mav hold the balance of power, as two years ago they polled nearly 1,500 votes, an/1 they expect to poll twice as many this year. Both tne old parties regard them seriously in the local fight, although they can’t get within hailing distance of winning. Secretary Hurty of the state board of health is bitterly disappointed because the governor vetoed the state laboratory of hygiene bill, but he is not making a kick publicly. He be-1 Hevea a laboratory Is a necessity to, protect the people, as the state has been trade the dumping ground for years for adulterated food products of other states. There is no way of I checking this, and the suggestion of; the governor that the laboratory at I Purdue univarsity would be sufficient is not regarded seriously except by thus** who did not favor the bill. Hur ty Is satisfied that it got through both! branches of the legislature without! much opposition, and he does not believe It will be many yenrs before the state has a laboratory. There are not a few people who believe that the i governor vetoed the bill because he did not like Hurty personally, and Hurty would have had charge if thei laboratory had been established. The appointment of George B. Lock-1 wood of Peru as private secretary to I Governor Durbin is pleasing to Dolitl-1

CLOSING THEM IIP Madison County Anti-Crime League Surprises the Saloons. It Has Just Passed Its First Year and Points to the Record It Has Made. — Twenty-Three Saloons Were Closed and Many Applicants for License Defeated. , Anderson. Ind., March 18. —The j Anti-Crime League of Madison county is observing its first anniversary. Sidney Bennett is at its head and is practically tha originator of the league, which Is Incorporated and works along independent lines. It is not a part \ of the Anti Saloon League of Indiana, although frequently confused there-, with, and with other temperance organizations. Its work is surprising the saloon keepers and brewers, for during the year it has closed all the saloons in Chesterfield and Rigdon and has abated seven at Summitville, three at Lapel, two at Pendleton and one at Perkinsville, making twentythree all told. It has also defeated eighteen applicants for liquor licenses. Summitville was the storm center, where eleven were defeated, with five in this city and two at Alexandria. CAUGHT BENEATH ENGINE Veteran Pan Handle Engineer Makes His Last Run. Logansport, Ind.. March 18.—Pinioned beneath his overturned engine, the body of Engineman Charles Laing, one of the oldest men in the employ us this division of the Pennsylvania lines, lay for six hours at Remington while a wreck crew from this city worked to raise the engine. luting was on freight No. 374 and Charles Coi.ett was fireman. Laing received order to take a siding near Remington to allow a passenger train to go ahead. The engine, while rounding the lead to the switch, toppled over and Laing and Collett were thrown under it. Collett received only a few injuries, but Laing was killed instantly. Didn’t Get in the Clear. Frankfort. Ind., March 18.—In a wreck on the Monon at Cyclone, six mites south of Frankfort yesterday, a dozen passengers were hurt, none being seriously injured. They were in the rear car of train No. 35, southbound, which was taking a siding at Cyclone, when northbound passenger train No. 36 struck and overturned the car before all of No. 35 had got on the siding. Eleven p?° sengers were more or less seriously injured, but all were able to continue on their way. I

c ' clans and others in public lire, lock- ” wood is popular, especially with Re- •• publican leaders, by whom he is best ■' known. He was born into the newsn paper business, and he has been at it most of his life. He was private sec- ’ retary to Congressman Steele three = or four terms, but he resigned last 1 year to become chairman of the press y bureau of the Republican state comp mittee. In this position he was a po f tent factor in the recent campaign. r He is a graduate of DePauw, is editor * of The Scroll, a well-known fraternity paper, and is the author of The New Harmony Communities, a book that ‘ recently attracted wide attention. He 1 succeeds Colonel Charles E. Wilson, • who was appointed private secretary 1 ] by the late Governor Mount and re- ’ appointed by Governor Durbin. -I _ r | The St. Patrick day celebration call--1 ed attention to the condition of the , Hon. Frank B. Burke of this city, one ■ of the leading Democrats of the state and one of its greatest orators. Burke was formerly United States district attorney, and two years ago was a can-; didate for the Democratic nomination 1 for governor, after which he was nominated for congress in this district, I He was taken ill several months agW with an abscess of the kidneys. He was operated on twice at Jeffersoni ville, his former home, but he did not improve rapidly, and he *as brought here a few days ago and is now in St. Vincent's hospital, where another operation will be performed in hopes of saving his life. He is well known; and popular, not only with Democrats, but with Republicans, who are very hopeful that he will recover. The loyal suns of Erin yesterday paid a tender tribute to him. Colonel Oran Perry of Indianapolia took charge of the quartermaster general’s office today. His appointment as successor to the late General R. S. Foster of Indianapolis was announced yesterday. Colonel Perry served with i the 16th and the 69th Indiana regiments during the civil war. He was : a lieutenant colonel at the close of the service. He is popular with the veterans, and his appointment is regarded as an excellent one. 4

WOMAN’S AWFUL FRENZY Kills Aged Mother, and Caughter, and Then Destroys Herself. Penn Yan. N. Y.. March 18.—In a frenzy of mania .Mrs. James Strowbridge of Guyanoga village, five miles from here, yesterday kilted her daughi ter. aged twenty-six years, and her | mother, aged eighty years, and after setting fire to the house in which the bodies lay. deliberately entered it and perished in the flames. Exactly when or how the two women were killed is unknown. The first Intimation the neighbors had of the tragedy was late in the afternoon, when Mrs. Strowbridge's home was found to be on fire and immediately afterward she was seen to set fire to another house across the street in which her daughter lived, and also to two barns in which there were eighteen head of cattle and three horses. When a party of men attempted to break open the barn to release the animals. Mrs. Strowbridge. who was standing In front of her blazing home brandishing a revolver, fired at them repeatedly. Several of the men made a rush, hoping to close with the mad woman and disarm her. but she held them at bay with the revolver. White they were hesitating she suddenly ent her throat, filled a pail of water at the well, thrust a quantity of hay and straw into it and. placing the whole mass on her head, rushed into the blazing house, in which her charred body and the bodies of her daughter and mother were found after the fire had burned itself out. The three women lived a hermit life, working on the farm like men and 1 often wearing men’s clothing. They are supposed to have been well to do. JEALOUS YOUNG HUSBAND Shoots Wife and Mother-In-Law and Scatters Crowd of Dancers. Findlay, Ohio. March 18.—A double tragedy occurred at the Opp house here last night as a result of a quarrel between Lewis Routson and his seven teen-year-old wife. Myrtle, which be gan during the afternoon Routson en tered a room at the hotel, which was filled with guests at a masquerade I party. He fired three shots from a 38-caliber revolver, which scattered the crowd. Then he walked up to his mother-in-law. Mrs. John Opp. and fired point-blank at her. The bullet entered the left side of her breast and came out at the right side. Routson discoverd his wife in one corner of the room and. placing the revolver within two feet of her body, sent a ball into her chest, smashing the breast bone about six inches below her throat. She cannot recover, although the elder woman is not fatally injured. Routson then telephoned for the police and was promptly arrested. Jealousy is the alleged cause of the shooting. The couple had been married a year, and the groom was only nineteen years of age. Official Confirmation. Washington. March 18. —News of a revolution in Uruguay was conveyed to the state department in a dispatch from United States Consul Swan at Montevideo, as follows: "Montevideo. March 17. —Revolution has broken out. Rafiway destroyed. Eight thousand men are camped outside, marshaling to attack the city. Revolution is serfout," An Editor In Trouble. Coshocton. Ohio, March 18.—Chas. A. Platt, editor of the Plainfield Sentinel. and for fifteen years trusted clerk of Linton township, was yesterday ar rested on the charge of having embez zled $3,976 of school funds and s7B<' township funds in his keeping. Platt’s peculations are said to have covered i a period of nearly fifteen years. Ensign Wortman Acquitted. Washington, March 18.—The court which tried Ensign H. K. Wortman at Pensacola. Fla., to determine the ex , tent, if any. of hfr, responsibility for the explosion In the six-inch gun turret of the battleship Massachusetts oil ' Culebra, by which nine men lost their - lives, rendered a verdict of not guilty Widepsread Anarchistic Movement. St. Petersburg. March 18—Rumors nre current of the discovery of n' widespread anarchist conspiracy with , branches among the workingmen in , the industrial districts. Many arrests< have been made in Galicia of Russians concerned in smuggling anarchist lit-1 erature into Russia. BRIEF DISPATCHES. — The Cuban aenatc snd hou*e have taken a rccew for three wreko Tom 1.. Johnson wu renominated f>r mayor b» acclamation, at the Democratic city convention at Cleveland. Mi«« Astor, daughter of William Waldorf Astor, Is engaged to tnarry Jonel Hratinor. he I Roumanian foreign mlnieter. Former Prrddent Clevslsnd U M rears old today. He spent the day at home with his ! family In the noial qnlet way. Paxton I*. Hibben. of Indianapolis has hern awarded the Baird prise for the beat pwn i in the Princeton senior class In poetry. The Shamrock 111. Sir Thoma* Lipton’s new cup challenger, was launched Tuesday at Gian- j gow. The Countess of Sh.ft.bury broke the 1 bottle. The German crown prince. Frederick William j who Is el Loam, uppei Egypt, suffrrlng from measles. Is progressing tavoraNy towards recovery. By the overturning of s sleeper on a fast Monon train at Cyclone, tnd.. a doses passengers were mors or less seriously Injured, none fatally. The Illinois and Indiana Telephone and Tele* graph company, capital to ronetruel and operate telephone and telegraph Hue*. It Incorporated under tbe laws of Mew Jersey. The shoot metal workers strike at Wilkesbarre was officially- dreltrad off Tuesday The strikers have been bile since March t. and claim the settlement is a greet victory for thorn.

fi DIRECT CHARGE Burdick’s Business Partner Says He Believes Pennell Was Murderer. The First Public Declaration Fixing the Responsibility for the Buffalo Tragedy. Charles 9. Parke Makes Sensational Statement Before the Inquest Judge. Buffalo. March 18—The name of Arthur R. Pennell, who was named as co-respondent in the Burdick divorce proceedings and who met a terrible death in Gehere s stone quarry two weeks after Edwin L. Burdick was murdered, came constantly to the surface in the inquest before Judge Murphy yesterday. Charles 8. Parke. Burdick’s former business partner and close friend, while on the witness stand during the afternoon, gave it as his opinion, based upon information and supposition, that Pennell or a hired assassin kilted Burdick. Fear of disclosures growing out of the divorce proceedings Instituted by Mr. Burdick against his wife. Mr. Parke firmly believed to have been the motive for the crime. Mr. Parke told of j conversations he had with Burdick relating to trouble with Pennell On one occasion Burdick told Parke that Pennell had threatened suicide If the suit was not stopped. Pennell threatened to kill both himself and Mrs. Burdick. Parke had been associated in business with Burdick for fourteen years and had known him for eighteen years. He occasionally visited, he said, at Burdick's home. About a year ago he saw Arthur R. Pennell at Burdick’s office. At one time Pennell was Burdick s lawyer. Burdick told Mr. Parke about the trouble with his wife about Christmas time. Mr. Bur dick told him he did not blame Mrs. Burdick so much as he did PennelL He said he had shown him every consideration and that Pennell had promised to get out of town but had not done so. He said he had lost patience and the divorce suit was to go on “Then the man who made all the trouble was Pennell?” ’’Yes.” “Did Burdick say he was afraid of Pennell?” “He said he had been warned to look out for Pennell, but he believed Pennell was a physical coward and he had no fear of him.” "Did you form any opinion as to who committed this murder?” asked District Attorney Coatsworth. “Yes. sir.” “When?” “Right after leaving the house the day of the murder.” “Is it an opinion based on information or upon supposition?” “Upon both.” “You have some information?" "Yes. air.” “Are you sufficiently satisfied that your opinion ia correct to state whom you think the murderer was?” “I think so.” "Well, who was he?” “Arthur R. Pennell or some hired assassin." “What makes you think Pennell killed him?" “All circumstances lead me to that conclusion. I am satisfied that the murder grew out of the divorce proceedings.” AFFIDAVITS GALORE New Phase of Affaire In Wabash Injunction Cases. i Ft. Louis. March 18—It proved a grand day for affidavits when the Wabash Injunction suit was called yester day in the United States circuit court before Judge Elmer B. Adams. The attorneys for the defense led off They were loaded down with affidavits ordered by officers and members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Brotherhood of Ixwomntlve Firemen, In rebuttal of other affidavits filed last Saturday by the attorneys of the Wabash company. I guess I’d better hoar them.” said the judge as he gazed at the file of i papers hold by the attorneys for the two brotherhoods. "You may read ■ them, gentlemen." and the gonttemen i read all day and other gentlemen have been reading all of today. It Is doubt ful if the arguments proper win be commenced before tomorrow. A Source of Satisfaction. i Washington. March 18.—Venezuela’s promptness In meeting the first installment of Germany’s “honor claims was a source of Krr . at satisfaction to officials here. They regard«d It as an evidence of Venezuela’s sincerity. To Venezuela’s plenlpot,. n i tla-y, Herbert W. Bowen, the new, I war. most welcome, as the payment of money was an endorsement of hla Colorado Miners Strike. Cripple Creek. Col., March 18 -Th. executive committee C f th e Western Federation of Miners ha. declared s •trike against all the tains, that shin •r* tn th, mills of the United Stated Reduction and Refining compeny These Include tbe Independence aD( i two or three others ot th, princlp,’ producers of the district

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W K 11 STOOD Without Changing a Single Point Senate Ratifies the Canal Treaty. Vote for Ratification Was 73 In the Affirmative to Five in the Negative. The Result Was No Surprise, for All Had Predicted the Outcome. Washington. March 18.—Without dotting an “f” or crossing a “t.” even ’ *ith it changing a single punctuation mar the senate last evening voted to ratify the treaty with the republic of j I olomhio for »>*** - ♦ — CGuStruUavu us <tu i isthmian canal. The vote for ratifiea-1 G-n »as .3 in the affirmative to five | in the negative. The senate was In i executive session when (he result was nnounced. so that only the senatZ themselves and a few confidential employe. were present. All the senatZ annoyed themselves as gratified to I Sone oAh n “ B,rUMle but i after th. mult " nm( “>'«tely Jnd overcoat® h,UI d ° Dno<l the,r halß had 'w”n P a"' ? "" whelming ® ver ’| ' be the < as,, LJ T . S “ < h Proved to ' ’’’her long i. n .» u . Af,Pr Bn ' Joined bv his l f >iu " n,,or f’anlel was tin. and after h^ a * UF ’ B * na,or bams senators, MeasrT *'*' Ppt 'u» Senator TelUr J *‘ n * nd . - .. WM . IUO " I

tne last vote on tnat sme or ts«fl tion. When Senator Frye vhofl pied the chair, announced the fl there was no demonstration c.l 7 p. m the senate had adjou*j the day. Before this result ’"‘-‘fl ed. however, it had been meet again today at 11 o clots IJ purpoae of taking up the Cubs: fl and with a hope of concludiaj sideration in order that the tfl might adjourn finally this ereKil The day was giver, up Lsosj tlreiy to general debate on the fl and In addition tn th set ’P*l made under the genera! axr-«*j Senators Morgan and Culloa fl were many short addresses Wl rather long speech by S- rator at Virginia. The onb- ;-xrty the day was taken n the for Article 4. which age : by the Democratic can j erence to the acquis, in Central and South A: r!<3 J United States. Then was s sfl of speeches on thia at' was voted down b T thirds majority, the I ■ 51 ayes to 27 nays. ... . "7.7 ■ -r.,w<tet| victory for J Kansas City. March D tnents lasting more tl the attorneys and represents- 1 the striking teamster, and !•’j companies reached an agreer ■- 1 night, and today every trat;s' 1 In the city Is running a» usual f J terms of the settlement th* - T companies agreed to r ognix* 1 lon and made other conce»»l ODS j amount to almost a compl rt< for the strikers. George Gould and Wife In CsH 1 * New York. March Gould and his wife had a”• cape from serious injury last 33rd street and Broadway. «•" coach was crushed against an ( road pillar by a southbound J enue car. as they were on •_ tn the Manhattan theater. ... man was thrown from the hox ■ about the head, but n*l»>* r M nor his wife was Injure 1. Tennessee’s Anti-Trust . Nashville. Tenn., state senate has passel ,h, ‘ to prevent combination 1 ' in ’ trade and the measure now • the governor. A previous act declared Dnited Htates auprer* - of a clause excepting f*™' 1 " present statute is a 1 ths farmers’ section ell»to» u