Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1903 — Page 2

Rural Route News. Route Six. George W. Cramer is list. James Mo*' lastly f J. 't Moses Fowler Sanitarium Ho, Paris. March 26.— ,tates Consul General Gowdy dterday found in a private sanitarium Moses Fowler Chase of Lafayette, Ind., whose whereabouts has been the subject of a diligent search for several years. Two French physicians, Drs. Antheaume and Fisher, examined the youth and pronounced him incurably Jnsane. The institution has handed • Chase over to Mr. Gowdy’s care. Sec-I retary Hay has cabled to the consul' general cn airhcHzatlon to act as the | guardian Os the youth. The French' courts iodaj appointed him as guard-' ian. Moses Fowler Chc.se is the central figure of a celebrated case which has occupied the courts of Indiana and j Ohio. He is the grandson of Moses! Fowler, a leading capitalist of Indi ' ana. after whom ths city of Fowlci' is named. The grandson's share in 1 the inheritance has been the subject ■ of controversy. Four years ago hi? father lost track cf the youth and ha? since been endeavoring to find him A detective from Chit ago remained in Paris two months prosecuting the search, later turning over the task to an agent. His father's attorney. Addison C. Harris, former minister to Austria, requested Consul General Gowdy last January to take up the search. This has been prosecuted systematically and resulted in the discovery of Chase yesterday. These facts have been cabled to Attorney Harris and the state department.

jury Said Net Guilty. Logansport, Ind.. March 26. —Despite the fact that Agent Callahan positively identified Louis Clark and John Blight as the men who attempted to rob the safe of the Adams Express company of $150,(100 last August, a jury in the circuit court returned a verdict of not guilty and the men were turned loose. Serenaders in Bad Plight. Cocoa, Fla.. March 26. —In celebration of a wedding here yesterday a serenading party fired an old cannon. At the second discharge the cannon exploded among the bystanders, parts of it striking houses a block off. Seven persons were injured, two seriously. Two Killed in Explosion. Louisville, Ky.. March 26. —Two men were killed and one severely injured by a boiler explosion in the pail department of the box factory of C. C. Mengel & Co., at 12th and Ormsby streets here last night

INDIANAPOLIS DEMOCRATS SHOULD GET TOGETHER

Indianapolis. March 26. —It begins tc look as if the ‘ antis” here, meaning the Republicans who are opposed tc the machine, will bring out an independent candidate for mayor. If they do the chances are that it will be all up with Mr. Bookwaiter and his machine crowd. There is undoubtedly a growing sentiment against the machine, and if it grows much larger or longer the machine will never be able to win It is in desperate straits now. If It had postponed the convention it would probably have been llck?d in the primary, and it is very likely that it will be licked because it didn’t postpone the convention. So if the Democrats exercise reasonably good judgment and nominate a good man he will probably have a big chance to overcome the Republican plurality. “Ed” Logsdon, chairman of the Republican city committee of Indianapolis. is in away one of the most remarkable politicians of ths state. He was assistant custodian at the statehouse a few years ago when he first began dabbling in city politics. He was soon at the front, and four years ago became city chairman, He gave Taggart the hardest run he ever had to win. and two years ago he built up an organization that elected Bookwaiter in face of strong odds. He is now standing between Hookwaiter and the Republicans who want the convention postponed. Ixtgsdon Is the real power behind the throne, although this fact is not generally recognized. His most remarkable trait is his capat ity for little details and bis memory. He can tell without reference the street number of every member of the organization. and there are several hundred of them. In the thick of th- cam- ] palgn he can give their tehphones almost as quick as he is asked without ( looking at a directory. He never gets j excited, and when he says something ( the rest of the machine moves. i

We’ V r Jares I Will ? ed. Conspirators Was to , Roosevelt, but That Been Abandoned. the Plan Is to Seize Members of Cabinet and Hold Them for Ransom. r i Winona, Minn., March 26. —An alleged attempt to kidnap and hold prisoners in Montana or Colorado. Secretary of Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Sec- , retary of War Elihu Root, and Attor- ! ney General Philander C. Knox, has

\* * M • '7 - r~- m. HAW. been confidede to Congressman Tawney by J. C. Fremont, a negro orator of Watertown. S. D. Fremont refused to divulge the source of his information, but insisted that it was correct. Congressman Tawney places little credence in Fremont’s story, but has advised Secretary Shaw of the report. Fremont said that the first plan of the plotters was to assassinate President Roosevelt during his coming trip through the West. This plan. Fremont said, had now been abandoned. The same men. he said, were now plot ting to seize the members of the cabinet and hold them in some mountain fastness for a ransom. Fremont is lecturing on the race problem. At the close of the civil war he was president of a society that sent many negroes back to Africa. Progress of Hondurean Revolution. Panama, March 26.—Advices from Honduras byway of San Salvadore announce that after a victory obtained by the forces of President-elect Bonilla of Honduras over the retiring President Sierra, who prevented President Bonilla's inauguration the towns of Petreillos. Santa Cruz and Lapimienta have pronounced in favor of Bonilla. General Nuila. supporting Senor Sierra. has surrendered with his forces at San Pendro Sula. All the Atlantic seaboard is now in the hands of Presi-dent-elect Bonilla.

0 Where is the McCulloch Interurltan g syndicate going to stop? This might “ be saying it is not going to stop. It has been going ahead and acquiring 'l property or promoting new enterprises at a rate that is startling considering the immense amount of capital ina voiced. Million dollar deals are getting to be every day matters almost 1 and this man McCulloch is the head p of it all. His syndicate is now pert haps the largest of the kind in the West, and it is weaving a perfect network of electric lines over the best ' territory in the state. It is now building from here to Noblesville, Tipton. Kokomo. Peru and Logansport, and it has just bought the Fort Wayne ' traction lines for $2,000,000. It is 1 dickering for the Broad Ripple traction line as an outlet for the Indianapolis Northern, and it is arranging to build from Fort Wayne to Huntington, Wabash. Peru, Ixigansport and Lafay- **<• It contemplates a trunk line between Cincinnati and Chicago, and It is very likely this will be realized within a year or so. Charles Buady of Marion, formerly a well-known newspaper man and now a member of the board of control of the state prison at Michigan City, has asked the governor to appoint him superintendent of the reformatory at Jeffersonville. He has caught the rumor that the governor is going to remove Superintendent Byers when he makes changes in the board of control. Bundy thinks he would be a good man for the place, and he has a large number of friends backing him. Secretary Whittaker of the state committee did not resign to accept the place, as it had been reported he would. He siid he had no idea of resigning. But Whittaker wants the place at Jeffersonville, and he has Chairman Goodrich and a number of leading Republicans, who will insist on his appointment it there are to be any changes.

DIDN’T SURVIVE DISGRACE Ccite.al Sir Hectcr MacDonald Commits Suicide at Paris. Paris, March 26. —Major GeneralHector MacDonald, commanding the! British forces in Ceylon and one of the I foremost officers in the British army, against whom charges based on immoral acts were filed some time ago, committed suicide yesterday aftertr'ctt at the Hotel Regina. He shot himself in the right temple and expired a few minutes later. The general was alone in his small chamber on the mezzanine floor of the hotel at the ttmo of the tragedy. The propriei tor of the hotel was the first to reach , the expiring man Medical help was immediately summoned, but death en ! sued quickly. Sir Hector MacDonald arrived in [ Paris last Friday evening from London ' on his way back to Ceylon, where it was understood that an immediate j courtmartlal would be held to clear up charges made against him. He said i he intended to stay only a day or two j in Paris. Little was seen of him aftei his arrival. He was. however, in the i lobby yesterday about noon, and It is believed that a newspaper printed in English, containing a resume of the charges brought against him and em : bellished with the general's portrait in full uniform, came under his attention. He left the lobby, going to his yoom, and the pistol shot followed , soon after. No arrangements have been made as to the disposition of the body ' Those about the hotel who had con ! ■ versed with Sir Hector McDonald re i 1 cently. say he showed no signs of ex j citement or mental worry. British Sympathy. London. March 26. —The newspapers | • here comment sympathetically on the inexpressibly pitiful end of a brave ; i man. and say that his countrymen will remember General MacDonald best as the man of whom on his return from I Omdurman King Edward, then Prince !of Wales, greeting him, said: “In 1875 you were doing sentry duty in ■ India, and now you are a general in the British army. I am proud to have met you.” NOT A MATTER FOR COURT Committee Has No Other Course Than to Accept Beckham’s Candidacy. Frankfort. Ky„ March 20. —The Ken tucky court of appeals yesterday affirmed judgments ol the Franklin and Woodford circuit courts respectively, holding that the Democratic state executive committee had ample authority for calling the state primary election fixed for May 9 next and granting Governor Beckham a writ of manda tr.us compelling the committee tn place his name on the ballot as a candidate for the gubernatorial nomina tion. The committee had declined to ] so place his name because of the con- . tention of other candidates that he i was not eligible to re-election for a term of four years. The court says the committee could not raise such a t question, and that it is not a matter f for court procedure at this time. UP TO THE LOCALS 5 Indiana Miners Will Vote on Whether c or Not to Strike. ITerre Haute. Ind., March 26.—Whe i ther 9.500 bituminous miners In the - I Indiana fields are to strike cn April 1 I or are to accept the terms of the op i erators as enforced last year, will be I decided by a vote to he taken in the 125 local unions of Indiana, according to a decision just reached at a meeting b of the subcommittee rm wage scales f This decision followed an ultimatum k of the operators, who refuse to increase wages for the coming year. May Open Printers' Convention. '• Washington. March 26.—Jose M. ’ Johnson and W. M. Garrett, president s and secretary respectively of Colnm- “ bia Typographical Union No. 17, called s on the president yesterday and re quested him on behalf of the local t_ committee to open the convention of the Internationa] Typographical Un ' ion. which is to meet here the week r commencing Aug. 10. The president ® assured his callers that If he was in ' Washington at that time he will be 1 glad to comply with their request * i

Deadly Quarrel. Hazelton. Pa.. March 26.—During a quarrel at McAdoo resulting from a law suit Mrs. Joseph Tomaso shot and fa»»11v wounded Mrs. Raffael Farintena. The injured woman is dying at a hospital here and Mrs. icmaso is in jail. BRIEF DISPATCHES. The Tcroato opera bona. wa> teamed. Tx»< IIM.M*. The Germaa Reichstag aleeteoae will take , place Ju Be 14. Rnmoa is trying to negotiate a loan of »!<»,- oou.ono in Fraace. The deal ha from pulmonary tnlmeruloeia in ; New York last year numbered ;,»n. The Miaaiaaippi river i» now falling rapidly and ell anxiety concerning the flood attuation la practically over Sir Hector McDonald, of the Brni.h army, under court martial charges of immoral conduct, committed euleide. Fire at Fort Wayne, tlealroyed part of the Penmylr.uia ear (hope, U car* and much material. Ix>aa. IIOO.IW'. There waa a galu of .10,jf!.l»J In Chineae exports to the t'nitrd Statea Inal year av compared with the prcee" ling year. A Minnesota negro ha> revealed what he declares la a plot to capture member. of the prealdant’a cabinet on their coming western trip and told them for ransom. • George It. While, former vice-president of Nouth Pennsylvania national bank at Hyndman. Pa., has liven held in Is.irvi hail for trial on the charge of wrecking the institution. Coming to the rescue of his mother, who was belrg beaten by her drunken husband. Ray Jackson, nineteen years old. Chicago, shot and probably fatal y wounded his father. I

PEACE OF IUD This Long Hoped For End Seems Now In a Way of Accomplishment. Stirring Scones in British House of Commons When the Land Bill Passed Its First Reading. Meetings and Greeting.-! That Might Well Make Ghost of Parnell Turn in His Grave. I London. March 26. —The Irish secretary, Mr. Wyndham, introduced the government’s long-anticipated Irish land bill in the house of commons yes j terday afternoon. It proposes a free ; grant of $60,000.000 for the purpose | of the bill. Tenants are to pay 3A4! I per cent interest on loans from the i government. Mr. Wyndham said be thought the scheme Would not Involve 1500,000,000, but that $750,000,000 I ' 7 ,/I • JOHN E. REDMOND. could safely be advanced on Irish land The advances to tenants are limited tc $2,500 in the congested districts and $5,000 elsewhere. The bill also provides that untenanted farms and graz Ing lands shall be sold to neighboring ' tenants and that three commissioners. to be known as estate commissioners shall supervise the sales. The bill will become effective Nov. 12. The keen interest felt in this new legislation, which It is hoped will pro mote peace and contentment in Ireland, was shown by the crowded house. The peers' gallery and the distinguished strangers' gallery were filled, and there has been no such gathering of members of parliament since the opening of the session Michael Davitt, the “father" of the Land League, celebrated his fifty-sev-enth birthday by re-entering the house for the first time since he ceased to be a member, in order to hear the chiel ' secretary for Ireland unfold his plans. For the most part the Liberal mem- ! bers sat glum, the applause coming from the Irish benches The passage of the first reading of the till was fol lowed by a rush to the lobby, where ensued scenes that might well make r the ghost of Parnell turn in his grave The tall form of Lord Dudley, lord lieutenant of Ireland, could be seen amidst a crowd of Nationalists, whe | scarcely a year ago would rather have ° suffered every penalty than associate ‘ with the official head of the Irish gov ' ernment. Beside Ixird Dudley stood the grizzled little Sir Anthony McDon E r.ell, the first national assistant Irish e secretary. He it was who drafted the E | bill. Horace Plunkett, Ix>rd Iveagh Lord Ashbourne and many Unionist " members joined the group. The Duke 1 . of Abercorn, the most powerful land lord in Ireland, asked to be introduced ! to John Redmond, the Irish leader, and a mutual friend brought the duke tc t the leader of the Nationalist party , with whom the leader of the Irish land lords heartily shook hands, and they patched up the peace of Ireland ovet the house of commons refreshment t bar. Earl Dunrsven, who with John Red k mond shoulders the greatest respon , slbllity for yesterday’s procedure n slipped out quietly to avoid congrats lations He said: “I believe the bill will meet the requirements of all par ties Though I have not had a chance to read them and cannot speak defi , nltely concerning the details of the , measure, it does certainly seem as t »huugh a new era was dawning cn a I j new Ireland Mr Wyndham to a great , | exitrai. has followed the lines of our conference. I think that the landlords and tenants with perhaps some slight amendments will be able to agree tc the main prlclples of ths bill." The Duke of Abercorn said the pro ■ eeedings are matters for congratula tloas “I hope provisions of the bill when carefully studied will be carried out. It looks as though the ancient hatchet had been buried.” John Red mond said be was unable to add any thing to his utterances In the house • but he seemed in a hopeful mood. A Merger of Steel Plants. Trenton. N J.. March 26 —The see retary of state s office was advised last evening that the United States ! Steel corporation would today file a r tides merging Its various plants. The Information given conveyed no Idea as to the capitalization of the new com pany. o- as to whether the re would be any change tn name. Women Suffragists Adjourn. New Orleans. March 26—The con ▼rntlon of the Na'tonal Woman's Sus frage association came to a close last night. The next convention will be held In Washington, D. C. I . *Z.W

Acker, Elzey & Vance’s clothing and furnishings ,'U \jpj w w V. IT ZJ KA a J V® We carry Solomon Bro's and Lempert’s ready-made clothing for men. These goods are guaranteed to us, we guarantee them to you... Every garment is thoraugly inspected before it leaves the factory. See Otir assorted styles of Bovs'and Children’s Clothing. Our stock of HATS, SHIRTS and other furnishings is complete anil strictly up-to date. L CLOSING OUT | ■ Buggies, Corn Cultivators—Riders and Walk- I i ■ ers, Check Rowers, Breaking Plows, Har- ■ rows. Grain Drills, Lawn Mowers, Weed- | ! W ers and Horse Cultivators. ■ I All these goods will be sold very low, as I am going I § to close them out. H ■ 1 AGENT FOR 1 1 ■ K g M.COKMICK MACHINES, WHITE PLYMOUTH I , I ROCK EGGS, TRACTION ENGINES, AND ■ ‘ ■ THRESHING MACHINERY. | 1 J" K? NIBLICK • A 9 p _ CLOTHING e = SALE = € L. j ! Closing Out Our Entire Stock of Clothing. d $5,000 worth of Men’s Boys’ and Children's Suits—- • ALL NEW STOCK; must be sold at once, as we will quit y handling clothing. Big Sale is now on and will continue until entile i Clothing stock is sold. Everything goes regardless of cost. Greatest Bargain Sale ever known in Decatur. Buy u early and get’choice. , —■—— I !M. FULLENKAMP r ; GASS A MEYERS, Mgrs.

0 ——— — Boid riayiighf itobhery. " Omaha. Neb.. March 16.-Two men i r entered the jewelry store of A. B Hub erman and walked away with two’ tray» containing diamond, worth »5.VH The men requested te be shown ’**,r m " ® nd wh,le wp re looking at them the elerk was called to the Ihnw °“ He I ‘‘ ft “*• tray ’ U P*’ n th “ Ohon CB *n' u Aft<,r ani,w ’“ rlD K the tele J »*”'n>ed In the mean Ime the men disappeared, taking the ( diamond, with them. Mayor Offer, to Arbitrate Muncie. Ind., March 26,-Mayor Charles Sherrltt has offered his service. in arbitrating the strike of the building trades against the contractor. The strike has delayed all this month at least 1250,000 worth of build-1 Ing., upon which no work has been i” b ° lM ‘? WOrkmen a'*’"' lis 000 in wages. Mayor Sherrltt asks both side, to agree upon an arbitration commis.lon and offers hl. service, in i j bringing about an agreement. i

LAWN GRASS SEED. Renew your old lawns by howing the best seed BULK GARDEN SEED, fresh and true to name. SWEET PEAS. NASTURTIUMS .nd Howrr Seeds of all kinds. 1 D. HALE, Corner Jefferson and Second !*t» 'Phone H. ibd'C W'ta. Shot In a Saloon. Columbus. Ind.. March 26. —In » •’ !V loon tight here William Beaver w« a •hot and it ta believed fatally Injured, by a man named Zwlck. Three .hot. took effect, one through the right lung