Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. tuHT rrxsisc. gxcwrr scxb.sr, bt LEW GG . ELLINQHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier. pvrwe --. 10*' By carrier, p-r year $4 00 By mai. per a . -.ti. 25 By I $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents Advertising rates made known on application Entered in the postoffice at Decatur. Ind - ana. as second-c k» mail matter J. H. HELLER, Manager. UP TO THE COMMITTEE Miners’ Scale Contract Is Now Under Advisement Terre Haute, Ind.. March 20. —The general conference of operators and miners of the Indian bituminous district began yesterday, and the scale contract was referred to the general committee. The miners believe their demands will be agreed to. as the operators have said that they see no serious objection to most of them. J. Smith Tailey declined re-election as president ot the Indiana Operators’ association, and Jacob Koisen of this city, whose mining interests are at Jackson Hill. Sullivan county, where he is associated with Crawford Fairbanks. was unanimously elected to succeed Mr. Tailey. Mere Whitecaps at Work. Nashville. Ind.. March 2’i —Henry Mathis, twenty-seven years old. was whipped by whitecaps at his home, about a mile and a ' all south of here. Twelve men went to his house, battered down tne door with rails, and before Mathis knew what had happened, the m«-n had a rope around his waist and took him outside to a fence post They took of! his clothing and beat him without mercy with a buggy whip. Forty ugly welts are on his back. Mathis says the men whipped him because they said he would not work. Schoolhouse Was Dynamit-d. Vincennes. Ind.. March 20.—A stick of dynamite was placed under a corner of the public schoolhouse at Oaktown. It was touched off by unknown persons and the explosion tore down one corner of the two-story brick structure. The loss was between S2OO and SSOO. The authorities are at work and expect to make several arrests. It is thought that the act was by toughs in the town, or by pupils who wanted the term of school to end.' Threats Made Against Him. Valparaiso. Ind.. March 2".—Charles Burch was arrested at St. Joseph. Mich. He attempted to assault Bertha Harrold, daughter cf the late Michael Harrold, a banker, two weeks ago, while she was xeturning from her father’s grave. She was nearly choked to death when help arrived. He escaped from town and eluded the officers until yesterday. He was brought here last night. The feeling is very bitter here and threats are made against him. Editor Will Have to Pay. Manila, Mt ;> .’ m Crozier editor of the Am van. who was convicted March 1 ■ on the charge of libelling Gen"ral Davis, commander of the American troepa. was sentenced yesterday to two month:’ imprisonment and to pay a fine- of sl,

THE LEGISLATIVE BLUE BOOK IS OUT.

Indianapolis. March 2 ». —The contents of the advance copies of the legislative "blue book” published by the legislative committees cf the three brotherhoods of railway employes. arc being perused with much interest by politicians, as they are ectaewhat significant. Some poll:: au prof's to have no regard for the “blue book,” but their concern belies their words. The "blue books" are passed around among the various labor organizations, and if a candidate who has been condemned resides in a strongly organized community the book generally results in his downfall. A prominent member of the Federation of luibor declared today that they propose to take a more active part than ever in the coming state campaign. "We are goin to see that men wno are unfriendly to us are not elected," said he. "If possible we will prevent their nomination. as we don’t want men to come to the legislature whom we know in advance to be enemies." Representative Wells of Ft. Wayne, who can lay claim to having been one of the unique characters of the rscaat legislature in at least one respect, was here today renewing acquaintance;. The unique feature of his career as a legislator was that he evidently thought it necessary to remember all his constituents in some way. an ba sent away all the old printed Mate records he could lay his hands on. Any book, so long as it had a good cover, «ven if it was ten years old, an.wyrtd the purpose, and Wells, it ic understood, during his sixty days here, rent away several hundred books. He went on the theory that his conultu-n'* would like to be remembered !n somn way. Among the books he sent away were two cases of books pubM«n*d by the state board of agriculture four rears ago and never distributed.

THE FLOOD’S CREST Memphis Takes Hope That the Worst Is Over But Is Still Alarmed. Water* Rushing Through Crevasse Abeve City With Force That I* Terrific. So Violent I* the Rush of Water That Rescue Plans Were Abandoned. Memphis. Tenn.. March 2b. —It is be- , lleved that the crest of the Mississippi river flood has reached Memphis and i that a fall will begin within less than twenty-four boors. However, the conditions that exist above Memphis with the gap in the Levee at Trices Landing. Ark . make it a most difficult matter to forecast what is likely to occur in the flood situation. The gauge shows 40 feet and stationary, a rise of .2 in twenty-four hours. While the crevasse has not widened to any appreciable degree, the levee is overtopped a short distance further to the north, and the flooded Mississippi is discharging much water at both this point and at the crevasse. A difference of between four and five feet exists In the height of the water on either side of the levee at the crevasse, and the rush of water through the opening is terrific. The St. Francis levee board yesterday made a second effort to send the tug Diana and a barge through ’he crevasse to assist in rescuing people and livestock from the flooded area in Arkansas, but the idea was abandoned as the fall is so great and the rush of the water so strong that it was feared the tug could not safefi. pass through. About IOC* yards west of the levee there is a belt of heavy timber and the current sweeps against the large trees with force sufficient to make them sway with violence. This conditicn made it most probable that the tug would be swept into the timber by the force of the current and disabled. Reports from the flooded Arkansas district are more favorable. The ’Frisco succeeded in running a relief train to Marion from the west, but persons there declined to leave their homes, as they take the view that they are in no danger for the present All passengers from the watertound trains across the river have been brought to the city. No repairs have been made in the washed-out tracks, and no forecast can be made as to when traffic may be resumed to the west. The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad has resumed through operation over its own line to New Orleans. Steame- Wert to the Bottom. Palatka. Fla.. Mar. 2 >. —The steamer Melamora of the Lucas Hr ?. running up the Ccklawba river, sunk four miles above the mouth of the river. As the passengers were all asleep an 1 the s'ramer sunk almost without a moment's warning, it i almost a miracle that so few were drowned. Two colored me: were the only persons losing their lives.

Wells.however,is not through with ms desire to be a lawmaker, an I he proposes to run for senator to succeed Steve Fleming, the well-known you'.aful boss of the minority. A case of absorbing Interest to laboring men and employes was argued today before the supreme court. It involves the validity of the weekly pay day law passed by the legislature of 1899. There has always been a contention about this law. Most of the larger concerns of the state have made arrangements to pay monthly or semi-monthly. But few pay weekI’, 1 ’, although importuned to do so. Ths Republic Iron and Steel company, on* of the big trusts, became involved la a controversy with its employes over the law. and a test suit was started. ' The law was held constitutional in the ’ lower courts and is now before the higher tribunal. The laboring men ’ are especially interested. Attorney 1 General Miller believes the law will be sustained. One of the interesting political rumors today was that former Stale Chairman Charles Hernly of Newcastle will be a candidate for state senator two years from now from Heury, Union and Fayette counties. These counties have been represented by Senator Ogborn of Newcastle, but he is not regarded with favor by tailoring men. and it is said they are going to try to defeat him. Hernly has been ■ thick" with union labor representatives and they are going to pull for him. It will be somewhat unusual to see a man like Hernly, who for three successful campaigns was at the head of the Republican state organization, asking for a nomination for senator, when ft Is generally conceded that he would have been substantially rewarded by the national administration but tor unforeseen opposition.

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY UrVncwn Crazy Man Creates Havoc With Members cf Sheriff's Posse. Lebanon. Ky., March 20. —A horrible tragedy occurred at P.iley Station. I eight miles east of here on the Louis I ville & Nashville railroad yesterday.; when Deputy Sheriff J. B. Williams, i with a pcsse of three men went to ar ■ rest an unknown crazy man. The I maniac was armed with three pistols and was frightening people in that i vicinity. He imagined a mob was after him to hang him. When Deputy . Sheriff Williams and his posse approached the enraged man and at- . tempted to overpower him. he drew , nis pistols and commenced to fire. ' The deputy sheriff was through tje body sustaining a serious wound; Gabriel Floyd, in the back; Samuel Payne, through the arm. and Samuel Devers received a scalp wound. After Williams had fallen he raised and fired a bullet through his antagonist's head, killing him instantly. Nothing was found on the dead man’s person to identify him but he had >42 in money and a gold watch. The recovery of Williams and Floyd is doubtful. GOLD BRICK MISSING Strange Disappearance From Express Office at Detroit. Detroit. Mich.. March 2d. —Gold in the shape of an Bu-pound brick and valued at $23,500, in transit from someone in Salt Lake City to somebody In Buffalo or Philadelphia or somewhere else, disappeared Wednesday night from the office of the Pacific A Dominion Express company in the Detroit Union station, and the police have failed to find the gold brick or to arrest anyone. The missing gold bar had three companions, each of equal size and value, and these were not lost. The whereabouts ot the precious ingot is as much of a mystery todaj* as it was when the police began work on the case. Captain McDonnell, chief of detectives, says that he has nothing to give out on the matter; that no one is under arrest and that unless something more definite could be told the police would not talk about the ‘ case. General Superintendent E. P. Newhall of the express company also refused to discuss the disappearance. He refused to name the consignees or the shippers. Captain McDonnell is of the opinion that the bar was stolen from the company's office by someone who hai followed it a long distance looking tor this opportunity. “There was plenty ot opportunity for anyone to have made off with the bar,” said the captain. "The office is right on the street and the gold lay in plain sight on a truck. It seems to me that It was carelessly guarded.” OFFICERS EXONERATED West Virginia Grand Jury Says They Were Within Their Rights. Charleston, w. Va.. March 20. —The grand Jury has made a special report entirely exonerating the officers from blame m connection with the Stanaford City tight, declaring that they acted in self-defense. District Attorney Atkinson left for Washington last nlvht for the purpose of laying the special report before the department of justice. Warrants are being made out ter the arrest ot the men indicted only a dozen or fifteen of whom are in custody or under bond, and Deputy Mars’al Cunningham has already chosen a strong posse of determined men to go with him to make the ar rests. Cunningham declares he will, bring in every man for whom he has process, no matter where he may at tempt to hide. Deadly Mine Explosion. Sy. ney' N .1. March as ,ue intuit of an explosion followed by fire In Dominion No. 1 colliery at Glace Bay, C. 8.. yesterday, four men arc missing, seventy-eight horses were suffocated by firedamp and property estimated at half a million dollars was de-croyed. ■> Miners Caught in Wreck. Johnstown, Pa.. March 20.—The breaking of a coupling followed by a . runaway of a string of loaded coal cars yesterday In the Sunshine mine . at South Fork, caused the d-ath ol thre |*n> i. the fatal injury of one and ’ seridbs Injuries to nine others. Dead With Pockets Rifled. I Madisonville, Ky., March 20 -The body of John Title, a union coal min , er. was found dead lying on the track , of the Illinois Central railroad yester day with a bullet-hole in his breast . and his pockets turned out. BRIEF DISPATCHES. The Snt wiumnxiAl Mnrm is yean l« nx.ns over North Dakota. ’ The Cuban repoblio will not 'give the SpanUh ■ r vernmenl the contract to rai*-the Maiue. . _ Three men were killed and eeverai injured by the eiploaion of dynamite at Blneflcld. W. Va. A bar of gold valued at over lan.ooo die--1 tppearad from a W»ba»h exprv>w car near Detroit. , Fire at Fepnerell, Mae., burned Gnflln’r •ho-' t». lory and a dotes dwelling, with tmo.WC lone. 1 The flr.i Cuban conaulate general 'tn France wae installed al Marwillex Tlie Cuban fixe ,; wae oaluled with much cerm ny. Three minert are dead. .n» fatally and MX Mtlouely Injured m • re.nll M a runaway trip i of coal ear. near JoksstewN, Fa. Mim Alice R.»~cve<( baa arrived at Han Juan. Puerto Biro. She vn met by Gov. Hunt, and held an informal reception at the palaeo. A tererr eleelncai rtocm tn W>- ••n.lnwan accompanied by three lnche« of rain and many barn, were Ami by lightning and destroyed. Tile bone, of a man wboae head hai been eevered from hi* body were found tn a vault In the rear of an Bvanaville gambling bonne. It 1» > thought beyimd a doubt that be had been mar* | de red and hie corp* thrown there.

MURED WI Uncle Sam’s Convention With Fair Cuba Receives the Senate’s Seal. The Final Vote on the Treaty Stood Fifty to Sixteen. With a Number Paired. This Was All the Senate Had to Do, and it Straightway Adjourned. i Washington. March 20. —After rat ifying the Cuban reciprocity treaty the senate adjourned sine die last evening at fifteen minutes past a o'clock Practically the entire day was spent behind closed doors in executive session Most of the time was devoted to consideration of the Cuban treaty. Several speeches were made in opposition to the treaty and one in favor of iL and then promptly at the agreed hour, ' 3 o’clock, voting began Roll calls were had on a number of amendments I and the treaty itself was made the subject of an aye and nay vote. The motion to ratify was adopted by a ballet of 50 to 16, somewhat more than a three-fourths vote, while only a twothirds majority was necessary to secure a ratification. After the committee amendments had been accepted the Democrats of- , sered a number of amendments, but they were all voted down by a strict party vote. One of these amendments . provided for the striking out of Article 6 of the treaty, which makes specific ' declaration against the granting of any concessi-n to American tobacco] imported into Cuba. That article was left just as it was when the treaty was sent to the senate. The amendment to strike out Article 6 was offered by Senator McEnerny. as was also another amendment providing for tha admission of Ameri 'an rice , into Cuba free of duty Senator Foster presented an amendment proriding that the treaty shall not go into effect until Cuba should accept the Chinese exclusion laws of ’he United States, but it, like the McEnerny amendment, met defeat. Senator Newlands withdrew his amendment authorizing the United States to issue an invitation to Cuba to enter the Union and become a state thereof, but gave notice that he would renew It when the question of approving the treaty should come up In the next regular session. The vote was then taken on the motion to ratify, which was made by Senator Cullom, and the motion prevailed 50 to 16. the vote being in detail as follows: Yeas—Aldrich. Alger. Allee. Allison. Ankeny, Bacon. Ball. Beveridge. Blackburn, Burnham. Burrows. Burton, Clark (Wyc.j, Cockrell. Cul'.om, Depew, Dietrich. Dolliver, Dryden Elkins. Fairbanks, Foraker. Foster (Wash). Frye, Fulton. Gall: ger. Gam ble, Gorman. Hanna. Hansbrough. Hepburn. Hopkins K an. Latimer, 1 Lodge. lying. McComas McCreary. McCumber. Nelson. Overman. P , ; - rose. Perkins. Simm< Sm- •. Stewart. Spooner. Stone. Warr. n. Wetmore . —Total ■ Nays—Bailey. Bard. Bate Berry. Carmack (Mont.). Daniel. F ter (la.). MeEnery. Mallory. Martin. Money. Morgan. Newlands. Pettus. Taliaferro —Total 16. In making the pairs two senators were paired for the treaty with one against ft. The pair list was as follows: Kerns and Hale with Gibson: Millard and Proctor with Clarke of Arkansas; Scott and Quay with McLaurin: Dillingham and Clapp with Tillman; Kittredge and Platt iN. Y.) with Patterson; Platt (Conn.) and Hawley with Teller; Mitchell and Clay with Dubois; Quarles with Culberson. Mr. Hoar was absent and unpaired. When the result had been footed up the figures were announced from the chair and the presiding officer stated that as the treaty had received the necessary two-thirds vote it had been ratified. Senators Allison and Cockrell were appointed a committee to wait on the president and notify him that If he had no further communications to make to the senate the senate was ready to adjourn. These two senators, the two oldest In point of sendee in the senate, immediately took their departure for the White House. The president expressed his gratification at the early ratification ot the treaties, the business for which the senate was called Into extra ses- | sion, and requested the committee to notify the senate of his gratification and his good wishes for the members ! | President Palma Gratified. Havana. Mar 20.—President Palma was shown a dispatch giving the n»ws of the ratification by the United States senata of the Cuban reciprocity treaty He expressed his gratification at th's , action and added that the number of yeas was not greater than he had anticipated. Two Enginemen Killed. Ogden. Utah. Mar 20.—Two freight ■ trains on the Union Pacific met in b«a<]-en<l collision yesterday near Wa i satch. Utah, killing Fireman Huston and Brakeman Getchell. Below Zero in Wyoming. Cheyenne. Wyo.. March 20.-The ; blizzard has passed, but the temperature has dropped below zero, and as a result livestock will suffer severely

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SSii An Accommodating Passengsr Falls Victim to -Short Change” Swindler. For Sixty Dollars In Hand This Michigen Man Received Sheets of Tissue Paper. A Sw.nd.e That Has Been Frequently Worked Near Lafayette, It Is Said. Lafayette. Ind . March 20,-Having escaped the dangers of a great city,” A. J. Elliott of Pequot. Minn., fell a victim to a short change" man on a ’ Big Four train yesterday afternoon.' 1 while on his way from Indianapolis to' him home. As the train neared this -city a passenger approached Elliott ' fih » ke< * hltt “ be COUId chan « e »«*>• Elliott was accommodating and pro- . duced the money. The stranger handi « him an envelope containing several sheet* of folded tissue paper and dis- ' nTTt bef ° re El “ ott discovered bat he had been duped. He notified tTbT r’* u ere ’ bU ‘ the man wa ‘ not worked°r ' Th ‘* * Wlndle h “ here rPr]Ueiitly Four I — .... ~ I Victim of Smooth Hold-Up Game i Huntington. Ind.. March 20.-Pc t „ thu k ' T° f the Ol ' ,eßt farrne rs of ' IJL WM the Vlctlm of an M»nt some time ago. The smooth-tongued Kent sold him a |6 hanging lamp for K.-0 just to introduce the goods" The statement a. to the introductory price, certified to by Mr Fl.-, k turned , FU , n W .MT Mr Fleck paid the money. 1 , *•'’•'** o' UFayette, Ind.. March 20-Presi d * nt Stone of Purdue university « ’ ' demVwho^ 1 f ° Ur a °P hom<J re X

violation of the piles ot • The fresh,u. n wf. rtaM on the banqueters w- B| maud d by the pres: :• : «■ tha’ they might ren.,-. - ing good behavior Bi|! Charge Against P: Muncie, Ind.. Mar St. v-ns. postmaster „• ■ : W| has been arrested on ‘ l -’ being Implicated with 1! - aMM in the robbery of the ■' fels was arrested for postal orders, on whi< i. - have obtained |3tto. *' Stevens Is believed t> of Daniels to "get even t>ied the charge and c: ■ M Used a Wire V M Hammopd, Ind Ma: -M H Blacbley. a wea!' ■ been fined Sl'HI in th court for beating Burt ■ phan boy. It is said • twist td wire around M buggy whip. In order t ■ er punishment on the M ' boy. The wire laid t !l and blood poisen is tea ■ thirteen year* old. ah '. r " a orphans' horn* at Indiana > H Woman Shot From Ar-D..sh. Petersburg, Ind., Mari’i -' Aurvllle Catt. who liv< -t! r-e S M below nere. was shot by it person. She was at an 'zan U home and she and her t»> singing. A shot was fir"! road, the ball breaking th - s dow and struck Mrs Catt M the right ear. penetrating 1 !■• ’““■J Physicians say that Mrs Cut recover. She and her hu»i ’ ■ divorced last fall M POSTOFFICE ROBBED Thieves Get Away With Bu'.ch O Stamps at Mecca. Rockville, Ind.. Marti postoffice at Mecca, a nun -*- ' southwest of here, was 1 ' i about |IOO worth of postage r J i The thieves were track'"! 1 hounds for a distance ot a nI, "M more to a place where it i" • | ! they took a buggy that ha II" ' ‘ ed to a telephone pole 35 !i ;' ir , h M were unable to trace th<'iu ■ ■ ! It ta thought the thieves «’•« fessionai. as the postoffl"' ‘ lri ß lin a large store, and noth 11111 taken from the stock of goodr.