Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1903 — Page 2

■ ■■■» JV.. .wje *■ .US *■>***: THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. KVII.Y KVEXISG. EXCI.VT SVXIIAY, BY LEW <3 . EULINGHAM.! SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 1 liy carrier, per week.... .... 10*' Ry carrier, per year $4 00 By mall, per month 25 By mail, per year. $2.50 Single copies. Two t en's. Advertising ratrt pjade known on application Entered in the postofttee.il l»v<"ltur, In liana. as second-elass mail mutter. _________ 11 J. H. HELLER, Manager. > —~-=_____ | BRADSTREET’S REVIEW The General Condition* of Trade Show ; Improvement, New York. March 28.—Bradstreet's j •weekly review ot trade today suys "Weather, crops, distributive trade, transportation and even collections, srhow improvement this Week. The price situation shows few important changes, but so far as actual indica lions are concerned, demand shows no curbing as a result of increased cost. Bailway earnings continue excellent those for the third week of March showing the enormous gain of 17 per cent in gross. An abundance of moisture in the j form ot rains fell in the West and Northwett last week. This has put the ground in good shape for spring planting. Jobbing distribution of dry ■ goods, clothing, notions, millinery, hardware and shoes shows a large aggregate, though spring trade has probably reached its maximum at leading Western centers. Fall business is now beginning to be sought. Iron and steel are active, and demand still surpassed supply. The tendency is still toward Increased strength in finished products. a strengthening element being the upward tendency of British and German markets. No Settlement in Sight. Txniisville. Ky.. March 28. —The Joint scale committee from the miners and -operators of the western Kentucky district is still in session here. The prospects for a settlement do not seem any brighter than when the conference opened, as both the miners and operators are insisting upon their original propositions, the miners holding out for the Indianapolis scale and the operators for a 10 per cent increase.

Drowned in Sight of Hundreds. Sharon. Pa.. March 28.—While Severn'. hundred persons including the wife of one of the victims, looked on yesterday. Gaylord H. Lock'’, a business man of Sharon, and his nephew. Frederick Mapous. were drowned in the Shcnango river. The bodies were recovered. Lccke and Mapous drove a horse and wagon into the river and ■were swept down stream. Coal Miners Will Have Rally. Evansville, ind., Marcn 28. —At a meeting of a committee of coal miners representing the unions of southern Indiana, held at Oakland City, it was decided to hold a miners’ mass meeting at that place some time in May ana to arrange for an address by President John Mitcnell of the United Mine Workers. It is intended to invite all the miners in southern Indiana south of ‘he Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern road to join In the rally.

THE STATE CAPITOL POLITICS STILL WARM

Indianapolis. March 28.—1 t remains to be seen if the loyal Republicans of Indianapolis will accept the dictum of the city convention this afternoon, which renominated Charles A. Bookwaiter for mayor and Charles N. Elliott for city clerk. A candidate for police judge and six for councilman-at-large were also nominated. There was plenty of enthusiasm, but there was an abundance ot rebellion. The "antis” were not satisued with presenting a protest to Chairman Logsdon signed by 2.000 asking sos a postponement of the convention, but many came to the hall as delegates and protested very vigorously against the action. If the anils’’ had tried to organize perfectly in the precincts they rnighi bate wuu even in the short time they had. as there is no doubt but that tnousands of Republicans are simply waiting for a chance to get even with the machine for the hign-handed way it has con ducted matters. __ i

The prospect of a strike in the Indi ana bituminous coal fields la somewha* discouraging. Nothing can be learned at the miners' national headquarters here as to what will be done, but unless there is au adjustment by next Tuesday at Terre Haute, there will probably be a call for a strike. The miners and operators are wrangling over the matter of expert shot firers. The operators won't, agree to employ flrers, and the miners accuse them of breaking faith, as they withdrew the shot-flring bill from the legislature on an agreement that the matter would be adjusted in a fairway at the annual wage convention. President Mitchell haa gone to Terre Haute in hopes of bringing about an agreement. Those who know his ability—and it is generally conceded now— have hopes that he will succeed. But if ne don't, every bituminous mine in the state will be fled up. and then there will be another 1

tVr MM Ktw* ww •■! HMM waiaw ar -v r ~wmi mi— iii—i FOR FIVE MILES Roar of Rushing Wafers In a Broken Levee Heard That Far. Worst SriAg-in t , History of Levee System Er. :r, jers the Entire V»» j Delta. Several Counties Inundated by Missis sippi Flood and Loss Will t Be Incalculable. i Greenville, Miss., March 28.—A vol ume of water sixteen feet deep and over 600 feet in length is pouring steadily through a crevasse in the, levee five miles south of here and is flooding thousands of acres of the finest farming land in the celebrated Yazoo delta The roar of the rushing waters can easily be heard in Greenville. Only 200 feet of the embankment gave way at first and a mighty effort was made by hundreds of laborers in charge of the government engineers to check the flood by cribbing and sacking, but it was soon apparent tuat it was beyond human power to successfully combat the resistless fury of the current. An hour later it was seen that the ends of the levee on either side of the crevasse were melting fast, the force of the current cutting the embankment away as though it was built of sand. When the first report of the break reached the city the excitement was intense and many people began to collect their valuables and hold themselves in readiness to move away at a moment's notice. The back-water has reached this city, but it is believed there is no danger here, as the water will pass rapidly to the south-

ward. Major John M. Sears, who has charge temporarily of the government office here, states that the break is unquestionably the worst in the history of the levee system. He says the entire delta south as far as Vicksburg will be inundated and the fine farming lands • Washington. Bolivar and Sharkey counties will be under water for more than two weeks. This is the first break to be reported on the Mississippi side since the present rise began. Major Sears says a desperate struggle is being made to prevent the further widening of the breach and revetting the ends of the levee and strengthening them with sand sacks. It is feared this will not be accomplished. as the breach is widening rapidly. Reports from the interior are very meager, but it Is believed as the people were fully prepared for a break the loss of life, if any. will be reduced to a minimum, though the loss of stock may be quite heavy. The damage to plantations and the interference with planting cannot be estimated. False Pretense Is Alleged. Noblesville. Ind.. .March 28. —Marshall Mitchel! and Constable Mark Harbltt of Atlanta have been arrested on the charge of obtaining signatures to legal instruments under false pretenses. Their bond was fixed at 1709 each, which they gave.

i era of high prices. Ine bituminous fields employ 11,000 men, and they ail belong to the union. The Patriot Phalanx in today's issue prints a written statement from Chas. E. Newlin, state chairman of the Profile, showing what they are doing. If either of the old parties were half as active or if their leaders were as selfsacrificing. there might be a different political story to tell at the end of each campaign. Newlin says he has traveled 2,500 miles since the first of the year, has delivered sixty set speeches, besides taking part in programs at other meetings and conventions. And he has been going generally at his own expense Imagine either of the other party leaders giving their entire time with no hope of getting an office in return. Newlin is now making an appeal to the Prohis for more funds to push the work. He expects to build up an organization in every precinct in the state.

i I < The prospects are for an early openI ing of the Indianapolis city campaign. , Chairman Logsdon says the Republl- . cans will not do anything until some t time the latter part of August or the I first of September, but the chances , are they will be forced into open action sooner. The Democrats are getting busy. There Is considerable discussion over their reorganization, and a demand is being made of Chairman Fanning for early primaries for the election of precinct committeemen. Many of the party want to get to work right away, so the Republicans will not get too big a lead at the start. The campaign will probably be one i of the hottest of recent years, but it j will be minus one of its principal characters, as Thomas Taggart Is now spending the most of his time at French Lick.

GERMANY'S EMPRESS HURT Thrown From Horse and Susta.ns a Fracture of an Arm. Berlin, March 28.—The empress was thrown from her horse while riding at Grunewald yesterday, and her right arm was fractured. Her horse stum-1 bled while she was riding in tho j i fW' VI AMPRKSS ACO VST A VICTORIA. Grunewald forest. The empress, who was accompanied by the emperor. . Prince Adalbert, her third son. and her suite, was assisted to the hunting lodge after her fall and a surgeon was telephoned for. Her majesty's body physicians, who were also summoned to attend her. subsequently returned to Berlin. It is announced today that ■ considering the circumstances the condition of the empress is satisfactory, i It is recalled that the empress a few years ago broke a bone in her left ■ foot through being thrown from her horse at Berchtesgaden.

BURNED TO DEATH Passengers on Wrecked Southern Pacific Train Meet Terrible Death. San Antonio. Tex.. March 28. —Three Mexican passengers were burned to death and nineteen persons were injured in a rear-end collision at La Coste station, twenty miles west of here on the Southern Pacific railroad. The limited crashed into the Eagle Pass express, which was running as the first section of the former train The Pullman sleeping car and private car of General Geronimo Trevino, military commander of the department of the state of Nuevo Leon. Mex., were splintered and three kinsmen of General Trevino were burned to death before they could be extricated from the burning cars which were ignited by escaping oil from the tender of the limited engine. General Trevino is a son-in-law of the late General Ord. U. S. A., and was en route to San Antonio with a sick son. Acceptable to the Preachers. Lafayette, Ind., March 28.—Governor Durbin last night appointed W. 8. Baugh. J. D. Bartlett and Max Pottlitzer. police commissioners for Lafayette. These men. it is said, are acceptable to the preachers' association, which recently asked for an investigation of the acts of the police department. The naw appointments were made on account of the expiration of Commissioner .Morgan's term and the resignation on Wednesday of Commissioner Mitchell. All Quiet At Surigao. Washington. March 28. —Secretary Root has received a dispatch from Gov. Taft, stating tha’ all is quiet at burigao. Assistant Chief Taylor reports to Gov. Taft that the affair can have no political significance as the leaders were jail-birds and dishonorably discharged constabulary. No active members of the constabulary were implicated. Twenty Passengers Injured. Des Moines. la.. March 28. —The southbound Burlington & Quincy flyer from St. Paul was wrecked four miles west of Thompson, 111., yesterday. Twenty passengers were injured. They were taken to Clifton. la., on a special train A sleeper and chair car left the track and were burned. Several of the injured arc in a serious condition. • —■ . Cuban Postal Treaty. Washington, March 28.—The permanent postal treaty between the United States and Cuba is nnw in course of ; <-nn«ideratinn and will nrobablv soon be in operation.

BRIEF DISPATCHES. The famine in Finland is becoming more acute I every day. A school teaebere’ labor union la to be organic- . rd in Plttabnrg. Herr Merger, the German consul atCarnpano I accidentally killed himself. N. K. Fairbank, the millionaire packer and •oap manufacturer la dead at < hlcago. fThe CMnoas government ia giving inrreaeed attention to tb<- rebellion in Kwang Si province. The fifth annual convention of the National Metal association la to be held in Buffalo April I and S. The Bulgarian cabinet haa resigned. There haa been trouble in the cabinet circle for several months. Buaineu failures in the < T nlted state* for the week number I. j against let Imi week, Iva in the like week of IPht. The Itominican revolution la limited to th<- canltal. South and cast of the (aland are with the government. While horseback riding. Friday, the empress of Germany fell off tier horse, sustaining fracture of her right nrtn. Charlo* H. Schwab waa relieved of a personal tax a*M «*ni“nt of taoo.noo in New York, upon hla declaration that his legal residence «. aa In Fennaylvania. The wool market Is again very dull In point of bu-ineea but the demand haa been very good and large sales have been prevented only by exit eme low views of buyers.

CUT THEIR a IN New York Detectives Encounter Difficulties In Raiding Pool Room. Axes, Crowbars and Jimmies Enter Into the Means Devised to Effect a Number of Arrests. They Finally Cut Through a Floor and Drop Into the Room Below. * New York, March 28.—1 n effecting I an entrance Into an alleged pool-room i in the basement of a six-story business building in West Third street venter- , day. two detectives were forced to chop a hole through the floor In the ; rear room of a saloon and drop into the room below, where other detectives were holding the men inside at , bay with revolvers. William Daly. I ' said to be the proprietor, and a dozen others were arrested. According to the story told by the police the place was cunningly fortified and guarded. An elaborate system ol signals had to be given by several sen tries before a would-be bettor could gain entrance to the room , Pocket telephones. electric buttons, “buzzers." secret slides and a ’maze" figure in the story. When the visitor satisfied the sentry tnat he was all right he was passed along to a room, the door of which was immediately bolted. There were five of those rooms leading directly into the alleged pool-room, and in some of the enclosures there were I three or four doors built to bewilder an invading party. Detective Sergeants Kerr and Fogarty, disguised as truck drivers, had frequently visited the place, where they say. they have placed bets on the races at Bennings. They were there yesterday when Detective Sergeants Vallely and Collins dropped through the ceiling. Vallely and Collins, dressed as laborers, entered the case, which is an elaborately decorated one. Vallely had a crowbar and a sledge hammer, and Collins was equipped with two axes and a sledge hammer. Each carried a "jimmy." They went at once to the rear room. There they arrested the outer sentries, and while one detective watched the prisoners, the other battered down a door. As soon as the blows were heard in the inner room. Kerr and Fogarty drew revolvers and. backing into a corner, covered the crowd. Meanwhile Vallely. after battering down one door, came to a second. This, though built of oak. soon gave way. and the detectives found themselves in a room which had three doors. Cutting through one of these doors, the deteci tives and their prisoners entered an : other room which also had three doors They were in the "maze.” It was i then that the detectives decided to go upstairs to the rear room of the saloon, where Vallely and Collins cut through the floor. Several policemen, who had been attracted to the place by this time, watched the prisoners while Val- • lely and Collins and a uniformed pot liceman dropped through the hole into ■ the alleged pool room. Those arrested besides the alleged proprietor, were his alleged manager and several em ployes The others found in the place I were allowed to go. il N. K. FAIRBANK DEAD t Chicago Millionaire Who Was Interested in Many Concern*. i ■ i Chicago. March 28.—N. K Fairbank. millionaire manufacturer and director ) _ _ || J* WTaS - > l faiubank. in several banks and manufacturing concerns, dlea at his home here yes t«rday, aged seventy-three years. Negro’s Horrid Crime, Bluefields. W Va. March 28,-Har-vey Williams, a negro, yesterday assaulted Mary Jones, the thlrteen-year-old daughter of a white miner, and left her for dead on the mountain between Pocahontas. Va.. and Uocorr W. Va After regaining consciousness the child managed tn reach her home. Several posses went In search of the negro and he was located near Poca hontas, taken to Bramwell and lodged in jail. Williams' victim will die. San Miguel Gets a Setback. Manila. March 28,-Two companies of Macabebe scouts signally defeated the main body of San Miguel's force yesterday. It Is believed San Miguel was killed, nontenant Reese was seriously wounded. The scouts lost three men killed and had eleven men wounded.

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1 WILD REDDEST Cass County Farmer Asks His ». Wife to Commit HaraKiri. He Promises to Follow Her Lead, but She Was Not Disposed to Accept Proposition. Amoi Studebaker Had It All Figured Out to His Own Liking. I Logansport, Ind., .March 28.—With a wild lock in his eyes, and holding ini his hand a razor, Amos Studebaker. I a farmer of the Young America neigh 1 borhood south of this city, entered the, kitchen at his home and told bis wife | tuat he was tired ot living and that he knew that she did not want to live without him. This razor Is sharp,” he said. "You take it and cut your throat, and I will at once take my own life in the same way. but Mrs. Studebaker did not I want to kill herself, and dashln- out ’ ‘ D, “ '?*• y,rd - to the home of! It is thought by some that Studebaker was temporarily insane. A committee of farmers took him into custody, studebaser is the man who tried to break up a revival meeting at the toung America church last Febru ?ro;*.h d V’ * h ' PpCd and throWD trom the church sliding by young * ank Cripe, son of the pastor. A VioLniTriih' Protest. New York, March 21 — Irishmen, whose fXg. -'raged by the Sti?h\ R ° W ° f ' h(> N**’ uX?* it r. ,n,he,r ,n ,h ' j ed thJ la *‘ nlgh ' and Hit- * d the Performers with rotten from the stage. Not for years has a cRy Th rotten e « e<l >n New York I ™' J >h. sur

LAWN GRASS SEED. Renew your old lawns by sowing the best seed BULK GARDEN SEED, fresh and true to name. SWEET PEAS, MASTVRTUMS and Ftowtr Seeds of all kinds. J. D. HALE,~ Corner Jefferson and S* "*:Y‘Phone e. ROY ARCHBOLD. DENTIST I. O. O. F. BLOCK. 1 __ Osteopathy. It gives nature a chance It stimulates organic action. It is not like this or that itm. Its keynote is adjustment. Its laws can lye demonstrated It provides for free circulatifD ig Il insure* unimpeded nerr? upon the integrity of which e® normal function is dependent. W. WILBER BLACKMAN,® teopath, Studebaker block LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE I Whin These Trains Came Tof*B There Wat a Crash. South Bend. Ind.. March 28-* * I stock and a freight train cam* '* I er on the Grand Trunk railroad ? I day with such force that P* I thought an earthquake had I The stock train Is one of the 1 ■ trains on the road. Both luo'in JB were smashed, especially bound. Many cars were tbrv»»B their trucks, four were con)pl rt ®Jß stroyed. caught Are and burned J ear was loaded with sewing jB bound for Cuba. Two cars wcr« "J ed with corn. The train ere* stock train Jumped and the in '° ■ hurled high in the air but 4 JB injured. The loss amounts to 125,000.