Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. LVMHY EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY LEW O . El L. L. INJO H A IV! . SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By currier, per week.... 10c By carrier, per year $4.00 By mail, per month 25 By mail, peryear.. $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advertising rate* made known . n apphcaticD Entered In the m Decatur. Im.l- ’ aua, as second-class u.aii itutU r. **’ * "■ .■■ — i J. H. HELLER. Manager. ' -~- ■ ..;■■■-■=: | And to think Hot u scratch of a ]k>n came to Fred Roher. editor-ir-| chief of the Cromer press bureau. ' A few breaks like this and the j light will go out. The wayward Decatur Journal comes gallantly to the fore and is the first newspaper to propose George NV. Cromer for a fourth nom-1 ination for congress. Thus the ; salve is spreading and the Berne Witness will have to look to its laurels. Go<xl roads are doubly important just now. They will assure us a complete system of rural delivery, besides aid in the comforts and time I in travel. NVe can not afford to treat this subject with indifference. Instead, we must show a spirit that will not only talk, but improve: every road in the county. ~ Judge Tyner Has Resigned. Washington. March 27.—Judge Wm. N. Tyner, assistant attorney general for the postoffice department, has resigned, to take effect on the appointment of his successor, who has not yet been chosen. Mr. Tyner is in a serious physical condition, and owing to that fact and his advanced age he has not been able to discharge the duties of his office for a long time, and he will not again visit the postoffice department officially.

Remarkable Performance. Colmbus. 0.. March 27. —The one- ■ thousandth performance of "Ben Hur” was given at the Great Southern the- ' ater last night. Miss Mabel Bert, who plays the mother of Hur. completed her I.OOOth consecutive performance, and "Monk.” one of the horses employed in the production, finished his I,oooth race. the Vacancy Fi'lled. Washington. March 27 —Dean R. Wood, at present United States vice consul at Madrid. has been appointed ■United states consul at Ceiba. Hon dnra=. to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Virgil C. Reynolds of Kentucky. the state department having raised the place from a consular agency to the rank cf consulate. Her Scalp Worth $7,500. Indianapolis. March 27. —A superior court jury decided yesterday that the loss of her scalp by Josephine Steph ens. while she was employed in the Tacoma laundry, was worth $7,500. Jesse Silgar owned the laundry. She ■worked at a washing machine and her hair wound about the shaft of the ma chine. No»ed Horseman Killed by Horse. Madison. Ind.. March 27. —John V Connolly, a noted horseman, was thrown to the street by the horse he was riding yesterday afternoon, and died last night without regaining consciousness.

POLITICAL WARS QUITE THE RAGE

Indianapolis, March 27. —The Republicans here are certainly having their troubles. The fighting is between factions and within factions. There have been rumors for some time that Bookwaiter was not entirely acceptable to some of the men at the bead of his machine, and now there is a story to the effect that they made a straightout proposition recently to dump him. On top of this there comes another story that an effort was made io uump City Clerk Elliott for another man. The significance of this Is that some of the machine leaders are not entirely satisfied with their ground; that is. they realize there is a strong feeling against their candidates which may result in a defeat at the polls regardless of the majority they have to go on. The ‘antis” who want to beat Bookwaiter have split on the policy they shall pursue. So altogether the Republican camp is in anything but a harmonious condition. Senator Clint Lyons of Fairmount, who was chairman of the Republican ■peaker's bureau last campaign, and Klam Neal of Jonesboro, well-known Eleventh district politicians, were here today. Like other Eleventh district men, they are working quietly for the nomination of Hol bhldelcr of Marion for governor next year. Neal is one of the managers of Shlilele.-'a campaign. He thinks his man is going to be a formidable candidate, and many others ar« of the same mind, as Shideler is well known and well liked. . M" has the Eleventh—one of the lar-

END OF INQUEST Burdick Case Is Now Awaiting Judgment of the Ciurt. One Thing Accomplished by the In- 1 quiry Was to Clear the Name of the Murdered Man. . j swv-- ■ •—»?• - Edwin Burdick Was a Loving Father and a Forgiving. Indulgent Husband. Buffalo, N. Y., March 27.—The in- , ' quest into ute death of Edwin L. Bur- 1 dick, who was murdered just a month ago yesterday in his home in Ashland avenue, ended last evening. At the close of the inquest Judge Murphy an nounced that an official inquiry into the death of Arthur R. Pennell, who I has figured prominently in the Burdick inquest, would be begun Monday. The Burdick inquest has served to develop several theories relative to; the crime. But the investigation has not added anything more than an appearance of reasonability to any of these theories. Aside from the failure of the authorities to secure evidence bearing directly upon the com mission of the crime or to establish the identity of the murderer, there <s a feeling of satisfaction that the name of Mr. Burdick has been lifted from the mire in which it was first dragged and that his character has been shown in its true light. The evidence brought out under the examination of witnesses by District Attorney Coatsworth has show n Burdick to have been a loving father: always willing to sacrifice his own happiness anu pride for the sake of his children; that he was the victim of false friendship, broken pledges and. in face of it all. a forgi - Ing, indulgent husband. The efforts of the authorities to fix the crime upon someone will not end with the Inquest. At the same time there is now little hope of success in thia undertaking.

Judge .Murphy said after court adjourned that hig judgment in the case would not be handed down until Monday or perhaps later in the week. It is possible that he may issue warrants for the arrest of "John Doe' and "Jane Roe." If Judge Murphy sees fit to take such action the district attorney will be obliged to submit the whole case to the grand jury. Three new witnesses appeared on the stand yesterday. They were Rev. L. M. Powers, pastor of the Church of the Messiah, where the Burdick family and Mrs. Hull were regular attendants; and Detectives Cornish and Coughlin, who were the first policemen to arrive at the Burdick home when the crime was discovered. The report of City Chemist Hill was read by the district attorney. It stated that no poison was found in the cocktail bottle or in tne stomach of the dead man. thus disposing of the the ory that Burdick was poisoned, and also that there were no bloodstains on the golf-stick taken from the Bur dick home after the murder, which eliminates the golf-stick as the pos sibie weapon with which Burdick was killed. Will File a New Charter. Trenton. N. J., March 27. —The secretary of state's office received a telephone message last evening Jrom the office of the United States Steel corporation saying that another charter would be Bled by that company today. No information was given as to the nature of the charter.

gest Republican districts in the state r —at his back. It has not had a state office for several years, and it is now clamoring for recognition in away that is significant. J This was a big day among local pol- ’ itlcians, as the primaries were held ’ foi the election of delegates to the Republican city convention tomorrow afternoon. In many precincts there was a lively fight between the Bx)kwaiter men and the antis, wbu decided. at the eleventh hour, to go into the primaries in hopes of making a good showing. There is undoubtedly a strong opposition to Bookwaiter among members of his own party, but he is not a man easily defeated once be starts for a thing, and he Is confident of being re-elected. Senator Beveridge will preside at the convention tomorrow. Extensive arrangements are being made for the annual encampment of the Grand Army of Indiana at Anderson. April 12. 13 and 14. There will, probably be one of the largest crowds | in the history of the department. The one regret is that Senator Starr of Richmond, the department commander, is seriously ill. It is understood that he Is improving, but it is not known yet whether or not he will be able to attend. Senator Fairbanks has accepted an invitation to be present throughout the encampment. He Is always pleased to get an opporunlty of visiting with the old soldiers. The railroads are offering a one cent a mile rate for the occasion.

PUBLICITY WAS TOO MUCH Newspaper Comment Drove General MacDonald to Suicide. Paris. March 27.- —Diligent search : among the effects of General Sir H->c-tor MacDonald, who committed suicide in a ho'?l h> re Wedensday ha s failed to reveal any papers which' would throw light on the tragedy. No writings were found except some un- \ intelligible scribbling which would inb) MAJOR GENERAL SIR HECTOR MACDONALI dicate that the writer was in a dazed condition. As a number of letters from the war office were delivered to him last week the authorities conclude that the general prepared for his end by first destroying the letters. It is asserted that one of the letters re-1 celved by General MacDonald from the wsr office on Wednesday morning was an ultimatum ordering him to leave forthwith for Ceylon, thus de- ■ stroying his last hope of a reccnsid-1 eration of his case by the war authorities in England. The fact, however, that the general took his lite soon after he was observed scanning two i newspapers published in English, giving the charges made against him and publishing a portrait of him. Is taken as indicating that pain at the publicity rather than any action by the British war office determined bls act. HOW IT WAS DONE Search for Moses Fowler Chase Was Prosecuted Unremittingly. Paris. March 27.—United States Consul General Gowdy has given out an interview in which he touched or. some of the remarkable features of the case of the young man. Moses Fowler Chase of Lafayette, whose I whereabouts had been the subject of diligent search for several years. It fellows in the main the statements made in these dispatches yesterday, while adding some interest from the details. Mr. Gcwdy says in part that several individuals, one of them being a woman. prosecuted the search for Chase under his personal instructions. ’-I. Lehine, the prefect of police, and M. Foquet. a police commissary, also gave the consul general every assistance. Chase was found in the private sanitarium here of Dr. Comar. After an examination by two French physicians. who pronounced him to be mentally unsound. Chase was removed to another sanitarium. Mr. Gowdy says he understands that the estate of Chase is estimated to be worth sl,000.600. mainly in lands situated in Benton county, Ind., inherited from his grandfather. The statements of Mr. Gowdy also set forth the names of the various prominent contesting Interests in Cincinnati, Indianapolis and elsewhere. Mr. Chases father is represented here by M. Cachard of Coudert Bros.. ’ and Attorney Baird of Lafayette. Ind., who is associated with Addison C. Harris of Indianapolis, the former minister to Austria. Mr. Gowdy has not yet decided whether the boy will be retained in Paris or transferred to America. Will Resist the Order. Paris. March 27.—Some twenty superiors general of congregations affected by the decision of the chain ber of deputies, refusing them authorization to remain in France, met yes--1 terday and decided to oppose a passive , resistance to the execution of the law. , They will not obey the notification to close their establishments, and when the courts order their cloning they will yield only to forcible expulsion. Must Have a New Jury. Colorado Springs. Col.. March 27.— Judge Seeds yesterday granted the motion of the attorneys for the executors of W. 3. Stratton's will to quash the pent! of jurors in attendance upon th» and ordered a new venire returnable ou Saturday. Charges of corruption had been made In connection with the jury. BRIEF DISPATCHES. Bwr»t»ry Moody and party are now at Ktnga ton, Jam. Th.' National Connell ot Women l< In aetaion I at Mew Orleans King Edward accompanied by Qneen AlezI Indra will vleit Scotland In May. Tb* propowd Jamaican reeipmcitv conven ■ Un with the United State* bat bean abandoned. There wa» an advance of three cent* a barrel i ; in the price of crude oil In the Lima Held* yesterday. The -.io*t Important tpeecbe* to he mad* by ; I President Kivwe.i'il on hi* aeaiern trip will be | in Milwaukee and San FranelMo. rtiiringthe tlr«t twenty.nve day* of March ♦t.leS immigrant* arrived, or ».00u more than I during th* *ame period last year. Three person* were drowned in Pemleeott bayou, near < aruther*. ille. Mo., while returning from p In a canoe. Mery Kier, a Ally valued at the prop, rrty of Hiram J. Hmggaa. the LouUville turfman. wa* found dead in her atall at Churchill Downs. The Spanish cabinet conned ha* adopted the mlllUrv e-tlm*te«or » ji.Mwi.OOO. The I'ffecllve strength ot the army it land by the war nun. tater at KX>,roC Ben.

Hm S Threatened Trouble Over Color Question In Woman’s Council Failed to Develcp. No Negroes Are Present a.' the Mall Ingt. Nor Had Any Intended to Attend the Council's Sessions. - j But Two Colored Women In the World Entitled to Attend, and They Stayed Away. New Orleans. Mar 27.—The threat- j • ened trouble over the color question having simmered down, the National Council of Women of the United States opened their executive session , here yesterday and the general officers held their public reception last night No negroes were present on either j occasion. Mrs. May Wright Sewall. I president of the International Council, said there had never been any probability of the attendance of a colored i I MAT WRIGHT SEWALL. woman at the social functions. Similar receptions had always been given at the North, but on no occasion had a negro woman attended. There are only two colored women in the world entitled to be present at the business sessions here, said Mrs. Sewall. One was Mrs. Yates of Missouri. The other was Mrs. Williams of this city. Mrs. Yates could not come and sent her proxy. "But Mrs. Williams, to whom a proxy was forwarded, has written roe that she never had any intention of participating in the meeting." contin ued Mrs. Sewall. "and so there never has been any danger of a mingling of the whites and blacks during our stay in New Orleans.” The unfortunate announcement of the possibility of colored delegates, which impelled local women to withdraw from the reception arrange--1 ments, not only made last night's rei ception by the national officers a slimly attended affair, but probably will result in the future separation of the i conventions of the National Suffrage i association and the National Council ' of Women, which have heretofore al--1 ways been held in the same city at I the same time. 1 Mrs Mary Wood Swift, vice presi Went and acting president, presided I over the meeting, which was execu- ■ tive. Mrs. Sewall, president of the International Council, and Miss Susan B Anthony, honorary president of the National Woman's Suffrage associa- ' tion. were the guests of honor. Mrs. • Flo Jamison Miller, corresponding ’ secretary, presented a report review ing the work of the council during the year and calling special attention to the serious blow which it had sustained in the death of its president. Mrs. Helmuth. An open business session of the convention is being held ■ today. • Created a Sensation. Lexington. Ky.. March 27 —A sen- ' satlon was caused here late yesterday i afternoon when the jury returned a I verdict of three years In the penitentiary for Dr. A. P. Taylor, a prominent physician and the president of the Industrial Mutual Deposit company, one of the companies that went to pieces ' here a year ago The charge was em bezzlement. by appropriating the sur- | plus fund to dividends when no divi I dend had been earned. There arc three more indictments against Tav- I Jor. Fifty other similar indictments are to be tried against prominent citizens. Destructive Blaze at Akron. Akron. Ohio. March 27.—The ezploslon of a can of gasoline at the plant of the American Cycle company yesterday afternoon resulted In the destruction by fire of the entire works and also the plant of the India Rubber company. The loss Is 1250.000, with 1146,000 insurance. Killed In a Street Fight Eminence. Ky., March 27.—J. W Lawden. marshal of Drennon Springs was shot and killed yesterday afternoon In a street fight in that village with John Popp, aged twenty seven years, a suitor for the hand of Ijiwden's daughter. Popp escaped. Death nt the Wedding. Bowling Green, Ky.. March 27 — Robert Winscott, who was married at noon yesterday to Mrs. Mary Harmon died suddenly a few moments later while receiving congratulations of his friends

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HE 1$ IM IIJML Former Postmaster at Fairbanks Gave Out a False Clue. Note Said His Body Would Be Found in the Wcbash River, but It Wasn’t Instead the Man Wai Located at Hot Springs and Was Brought "ack to Indiana. Indianapolis. March 27.—David A. Murphy, formerly a postmaster at j Fairbanks. Ind., was brought to this i city yesterday and placed in jail by a | deputy marshal from Little Rock. Ark. It is tharged that he disappearI ed from the postoffioc of which he was in charge, last February, with $125 of the post iffice's funds, leaving in his place a note announcing that his body i would be found in the Wabash river. ■ Murphy was finally found near Hot Springs. WANTED TO MAKE SURE Wayne County Girl Takes Poison and Then Shoots Hersolf. Richmond. Ind.. .March 27.—Matlie Harshman, sixteen years old. who lives east of here on the national road, tried to end her life by taking a quan tity of morphine and then shooting herself with a revolver. She was atone in the house, and. after being convinced that the poison she had ta ken would not produce death, she procured a revolver that had been in the I house for years and. placing ft to her breast, fired. The bullet struck the I breastbone, glanced upward and into . the right arm. The members of the j family returned and found the girl in a serious condition from loss of blood and from the effects of the morphine. It is thought the girl will recover. A love affair was the cause of the deed Confinement Telia on Him. Anderson. Ind., March 27.- Walter G. Muessel. a wealthy brewer of South Bend, who was convicted of perjury, is suffering from his confinement in jail, pending the court's ruling on a I motion for a new trial. Muessel has lost twenty pounds in weight since his confinement, and is showing that he is worried and is tired of confinement He feels confident that he will be granted a new trial The motion was argued before Judge McClure in the circuit court about three weeks ago. i It is expected that the court will rule I on it in a few days. Hv'tl Banding lnvttt!gat‘e<>. Evansville. Ind., March 27.—George Lamp, a freight conductor on the Southern railroad, whose home is at Princeton, is being held until the coroner of Dubois county makes his report on the death of Miss Stella Stork, 1 who died in a physician» office at 1-ouiaville on Tuesday. It is said that I-amp took het «o the office to have an operation performed. Miss Stork belonged to a leading family at Hunt ingburg and went to Louisville tu visit relatives. New Union at Shelbyville Shelbyville. Ind. March 27.-A union of the Independent American Mechanics Is being formed in this city among the laboring men. patterned after the organization which recently filed at tides with the secretary of tlXx being at-: tached to the petition Saloonkeeper Commits Suicide Evansville. Ind. March 27 -Peter * i ‘ l «>f»<enpor at Ferdinand. Dubois county. I. dead as the result with by with suicidal intent.

Street Lighting Free of Cost Portland. Iml.. March 27.—1 tis ex. pected that when the heads of the city departments make their reports for the fiscal year, the figures wiij show that Portland has obtained its street lighting without cost. The electric plant is owned by the city, the only thing contracted for in connection with it being the power. The last annual report showed that the street lights cost $7 each for a year. Exciting Chase Ended. Gas City. Ind.. March 27.—After be ing < hased over the country fields and shot at by the police, George Mayo of this city surrendered to the author, ties and was placed under a bond on a peace surety complaint, filed by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Abbie Feague. who makes affidavit that the lives of both herself and daughter, Mayo's wife, have been threatened. Two Postoffices Abandoned. Nashville, Ind., March 27.—Two postoffices in this county are about to be taken off the map by the rural mad service. One of them is at the town of Beveridge, six miles northeast of here. The other office is at Cooper, in the southeastern part of the countr It has been without a postmaster for sevt ral months. Wife Murder and Suicide. Bedford. Pa . March 27— W. J. Cog»n of Saxton yesterday shot and killed his wife and himself at the Baltimore A: Ohio railroad station a: Hynman. Cogan and his wife bad been quarrelling, but he kissed ber and bale her good bye, bought a ticket and boarded the train. He walked through one car. came out again on tba platform, approached his wife, and with an oath whipped out a revolver and shot her. He then committed suicide. Flood Conditions Unchanged. New Orleans. March 27.—With th* river practically stationary there has been little change in the flood conditions. The phenomenal speed at which the current is flowing and fa vorable winds have doubtless restrained the upward tendency. Rises are reported from Red river down, but with the present spell of dry and .sunshit’ weather confidence increases in ths ability of the embankments on beth sides to sustain the strain upon them Another Side to the Story. Carbondale. 111.. March 27 - R’’'* fives of Prof John V. Barrow uho was said to have failed to wed Miss E° Cross after she had gone to Mania unattended to marry him. say H*** ’ cable df*patch has been received announcing their wedding Wedneada'Miss Cross’ parents said they hsd ncelved a letter written by their daujb ter on Jan. 28, saying that Prof Rtf’ row had written to ber that it wa» impossible for them to wed Judge Ide Returns 111. San Franclaco. March 27.— Henry C fde one of the members of the Philippine commission, arrive; »n the Corea yesterday after two year* •pent in the islands. Judge M«‘ health has been impaired for so®* time, and he recently spent three months in Japan in an effort to recr . perate from the effects of the trymf climate of Manila. Chfckasaw Leader Aseas*" I** 1 **' 11 ' Ardmore. I. T.. March 27 Franco Hare and wife were assassinated Ravia last night, each being she' the breast. Hare was a political I < “ W '| er among the Chickasaws Ttie uay after be asks ber to bin she goes aroaud the b*' ll ' takes inventory of the gitu< rn<-*• " are hers and whic h she cau l al4e j her — AtvLiaon Globe. ProvidentThe Cook-Would ye «' i! a ( ■ tue a recommendation. ma'at» Tbo Mistress-Why you have o juat come "But ye mny not want to u> wan when I <lc L» lea’ii g 1 - |e