Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. KVXHV EVKXISC. EXCEPT ■ VSUAV. BY LEW . ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week. . 10e Bycairler. per year $4 00 By mall, p* r month .... 25’’ By mail, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two tiuis. Advertising rates made known :> application Entered In the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class mall matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. FATAL ATHLETICS Schoolboy Hammer Thrower KPIs a Companion. Louisville, Ky., March 30. —Bruce Lockridge of Roann, Ind., of the track team of the University of Indiana at Bloomington, was accidentally struck in the head by a twelve-pound hammer at the male high school athletic grounds here and killed. The hammer was thrown by J. R. Home, coach of Indiana university. Lockridge was employed as coach for the male high school track team and Horne scad come •deem •Bloomington to assist him. Lockridge was talking to a group of students. Horne took up a twelve-pound hammer, and. whirling it around his head, sent it flying through the air directly toward Lockridge It was thrown with more force than Horne had intended, and before Horne could warn Lockridge the latter was struck in the forehead. The injured man fell unconscious with blood streaming from a terrible wound in his forehead. He was taken to the Norton Infirmary, but died an hour later. Horne is almost crazed with grief over the accident. — *

ANXIOUS MINERS New Rule Applying to April Circular Will Affect Them. Scranton. Pa March 30. —No one Is looking forward more anxiously than the miner to Thursday, when the oper ators issue the April circular, which will con’ain the price list on which rates for coal will be based for a year. Invariably so far the price has dropped 50 cents on April 1 and increased 10 cents a month for five months, when the 50-cent drop Is recouped and con tlnues stationary for the winter. Coal is now selling for 15. If it is cut to $4.56 end advances 10 cents a month until September, tie miners under the award of th-’ strike commission will next winter be receiving a 20 per cent advance over th? present rates cf pay. as they r.re to get a 1 per cent advance for <iy advance of 5 cents a ton tbn ccal to':.- 3 in excess of $1.50. Old Philadelphia Editor Dead. Philadelphia. March 36. —William V. McKean, who for nearly thirty years was editor-in-chief of the Public Ledger. died at his home here Sunday at the age of eighty-three years. Diaz Still Solid With Mexicans. Mexico City. March 30. —Largely attended mass meeting.'- are being held in various states of the republic to promote the candidacy of President Diaz for re-election. Deadly Saloon Row. Anderson. Ind., March 30. —George Stroud stabbed and killed Joseph Yotus in a saloon brawl at Alexandria Saturday night shortly before midnight.

THE G. 0. P. FIGHT STILL GOES ON

Indianapolis, March 30. —It is probable that the Republican insurgents ■will have a meeting some time this week to form a strong anti-Book waiter organization. There is no doubt but that there Is a strong feeling against the machine gang, and it can be made a deadly weapon in the election. Bookwaiter and his friends realize this and they are at work already trying to “line up” the men who wanted the convention postponed. These men did not have much voice in the convention —in fact but few of them participated, hut their time is coming. They pledged themselves not to be bound by the action of the convention, and it is ten to one that a majority will keep their word. The outcome of the campaign depends largely on their attitude. and the Democrats believe the outlook is favorable to them. Addison C. Harris' reception at the Republican city convention was such as to make him the center of some political gossip. There are not a few people who think that some day he

should become a candidate for the unitea states senate. - "up is one ot the leading men of the state and also has a national reputation, as ho was formerly minister to Austria. He Is wealthy and one of the leading lawyers of the state. However, he Is not a candidate for any political office. and it Is said he does not a plre to office. The agitation has been renewed against the gamblers of Indianapolis. Charges are being made by some ot the gamblers that they are being discriminated against. It looks as If they are as much responsible as anyone

Evansville Merchants Organize For Their Own Protection. Their Design Is io Eliminate the Boycott and to Protect Independent Labor. Plan of Work Is Secret and Will Not Be Made Public at Present. Evansville. Ind., March 30. —Over a hundred of the leading business men of Evansville have formed a secret organization here for the purpose of eliminating the boycott and affording protection to non union and independent labor. The society was formed by T. Weston Goodwin, editor of the Bazoo, at Sedalia, Mo., who has left for St. I>culs. There are three boycotts already ou here, and several labor organizations have threatened to strike on April 1 unless their wages are increased. The business men thought best to organize to protect their own interests. Their plan of work will not be made public. There are similar organizations at Bloomington. 111.. Scranton and Wilkesbarre, Pa., and Sedalia. HEAD BRAKEMAN KILLED Coal Train in Collision With a Cut of Cats at Huntingburg.

Huntingburg. Ind.. March 30. —A bad freight wreck occurred here on the Evansville branch. An extra coal train. In charge of Conductor Pritchett. with Engineer Thomas Nelson and Fireman W. W. Myers ran into a cut of cars just below the yards at the head of a sharp curve. The engine and several coal cars ran through three or four box cars, and all piled up together. Engineer Nelson had a remarkable escape, the top and side of the cab being torn from around him. while he remained uninjured. Head Brakeman Lanham, who was sitting on the fireman s seat in the cab. was instantly killed. He was buried tn the wreck under the tender, and was horribly mangled. Found Dead tn Hotel. Fort Wayne. Ind.. March 30.—John M. Gresham, an agent for the American Central Life lnsu-ar.ee company of Indianapolis, was found dead in a room in the Rich hotel. Death ~as due to an overdos" of morphine which, it is thought, was not taken with ths intention of committing suicide, as he left no letter indicating that he intended to end his life. He expressed no desire to die. He had been drinking for a week and three l.oxcs that had contained morphine were found in his pocket? showing that he had been using the drug during his spree. Drake Po sonmg Case. Covington. Ind.. March 30.—The Fountain county grand jury has not yet completed its investigation into the case of Mrs Robert Drake accused nf poisoning her husband at their home near Harveysburg and now under arrest. Many witnesses are being examined, but so far as known no additional information has been developed There is no diminution of the Intensity of feeling in the Harveysburg neighborhood.

APDkONC BAKR*

for the agitation There Is really not as much gambling here as has been represented, although ft Is not hard to find a game at any time, There has only been one administration in | recent years In which there has been practically no gambling That was when C. 8. Denny was mayor. He closed everything as tight as a drum and kept It closed. Since then there have been charges that public officers have protected the gamblers, and the trouble among the gamblers is that [ some say they are not getting as much protection as others.

GUNPOWDER PLOT Detective Cays fZi .era Were Going to Blow Up West Virginia Colliery. Charleston. V.'. Va . March 30.—Deputy United States Marshal Dju Cun ningham returned Sunday from Ra! I eigh county, where he has been serving writs upon the strikers who were indicted by the recent special grand I jury in connection with the trouble at Stanaford. Marshal Cunningham states that he lias in his possession evidence in the shape of an affidavit from a former member of the miners union of an alleged plot to dynamite the drift mines of W. P. Rend on Arbuckle creek. Fayette county, while the mines were filled with men and mules, and also to surprise and attack the mine guards on duty at the Rend works. The affidavit is made by Jas Young, a miner who attended the meetings of the strikers where the al leged plana were said to have been discussed and adopted. The affidavit was made by S. L. Walker, a notary public of Fayette county, and the names of a number of strikers who took part in the meetings are given It is stated that further investigation will be made for evidence to present to the grand jury. TREATY RATIFIED Cuban Senate Agrees to United States Proposition. Havana. March 30.—The treaty of reciprocity between Cuba and the United States, as announced by the senate of the United States, was approved at 8 o'clock Saturday night in the Cuban senate with but nine votes In opposition. This approval is absolute and is not hampered by any con- , ditions, the questionable tire limit amendment having been dispensed with through the receipt of a cable message from Secretary Hay in which it was positively declared that President Roosevelt would call a special session of congress prior to Dec. 1. The purpose of this assurance was transmitted to the senate by President Palma. Murdered by Rioters. Victoria. B. C.. March 30.—When the new Canadian Pacific Navigation steamer Princess Victoria was at Coreonal March 6. Captain Gondell. of the Cousins Coal company of Chile, an American citizen, was murdered by rioters. Following an election at which there was much rioting, the miners struck, and in a riot in which both strikers and revolutionists took part the American captain was knocked on the head and killed. A Chilean cruiser arrived the following day. and six of the rioters were stood upon the beach and shot. Trouble Is Feared. Marietta. 0.. March 3.-. —The American Bridge company brought into this city fifty workmen and twenty detectives Sunday, the former to work with otter non union men on the new Ohio river bridge, and the latter to look after the bridge company's interests The strikers a-e all here and trouble Is feared. The bridge company has brought in large numbers before, but have been able to get but few to go work. I Coming Papal Consistory. 1 Rome. March 30.—The pope has ex1 pressed his Intention of holding a consistory at the end of April or the beginning of May. a consistory being > especially necessary for the appointment of bishops. Nothing has yet been decided as to the nomination of ' new cardinals, and there may be none. h Even if some cardinals are created. there is nothing definite in regard to' foreigners. Was Bound to Mak# It Burn. Lockport. N. Y. March 30.—Harry Sanderson nineteen years old. formerly of Bridgeport. Conn., was arrested r early Sunday in the act of setting fire | to E. W. Rogers & Sons' cotton batJ ting factory To District Attorney Stockwell he made a written confes sion. admitting having set fire to the warehouse on three previous occa sions, causing a loss of 115,000. South Dakota Murder Mystery. Pierre. S. D. March 30.—Stanley county has a murder mystery. Wm. Kunnecke. a sheep raiser whose ranch is fifty miles out on Cottonwood creek, is in jail on a charge of murder, ami the dismembered body of Andrew Dernier is at Fort Pierre awaiting In terment. Demler had worked for Kunneeke. Dr. Flower Admitted to Bail. New York. March 30 — Dr. Richard C F. wer, against whom there are several indictments charging him with larceny, has been admitted to 320 000 ; bail. BRIEF DISPATCHES. On* thousand br*w*ry employe* are on «tnk* at Mahoning < Uy. Pa. A rich anthra-ite coal min* lia« been di«-ov-er*d near Havre. Mont. “A n*» star of the < ighth magnitude has l>**n discovered by Prof. Turner, of Oxford. Gustav u* f. Swift, head of the great packing firm of that name, died Sunday MClticago. Wbll* answering a Sr* call at Pittsburg one fireman was killed and three other* injured. Tn head off a .trike the cotton mill.of Lowell '• j have been closed and I r.ooo operative* are Idle. ! In a .trike riot at Slatousk. Ku«< a twenty • eight tmrvon. were killed end Sftv other, were i I woundad. The < it ban senate ha. ratified the reciprocity I I ’reaty with the I nltml Staten W!»h but V vote*' In opposition. In a battle with bandit* tn a *<ihnrb of Cleve- ; land one of the robber* was killed and another wounded and raptured. The report that San Miguel, th* Filipino leader. was killed In Friday's light near Mari, guina i.ronflrmcd. Hi* body baa been identified and deli'ere I to hia relative* fur hunai I

big pm h Gustavus Franklin Swift Passes Away At His Home In Chicago. Death Due to Hemorrhages Resulting From Surgical Operation, and Was Unexpected. The Deceased Was the Originator of the Modern Packing House System. I - — Chicago. Mar 30.—Gustavus Franklin Swift, president of the Swift Pack ing company, died at his home. 4848 Ellie avenue, early Sunday, of internal hemorrhagee resulting from a surgical operation performed several days ago. Mr. Swift was sixty-three years old. The hemorrhage which caused Mr. Swift's death resulted from an operation for an affection of the gall bladder, performed March 22. His death was entirely unexpected, both by Mr. Swift s family and his physicians He had given every indication of recovery and all danger was considered past. In fact, so hopeful was everyone, including himself, for his speedy recovery. that his son. Herbert L. Swift, who had been summoned from Boston, left Saturday to return to the East. This son was intercepted at Harrisburg. Pa.. Sunday, with a telegram announcing the death of his fsther. Gustavus Franklin Swift began his business career as a buteber and died leaving a fortune estimated at from $7,000,000 to 310,020.000. This fortune was made in the coure of forty-five years. He was born at Sandwich, Mass . in June. 1839. He opened a small butcher shop in his native town. He removed to Boston when he was less than thirty years of age. He remained in Boston until 1875. when he came to Chicago. In this city he en gaged in the same business which he had left in Massachusetts, and developed the department of shipping live cattle to eastern markets. In 1877 he evolved plans for the first refrigerating car and dressed meats instead of live animals were shipped to eastern cities. He was the pioneer in this kind of business and it was not long before others saw the advantages of his method and they imitated him. Mr. Swift not only was the oldest "packer” at the time of his death, but he was the originator of the method that has made many large fortunes. From the small plant started in 1877 has developed a great corporation with , branches in St. Louis. Kansas City. St. Joseph. Omaha. St. Paul and Fort Worth. Tex., and with distributing of- , flees in every important city and town in the United States and with representatives in the leading cities of Eu- . rope. Asia and Africa Courtmartial Will Be Held. . Skagway. Alaska. March 39.—Lieut. Charles Faulkner has been placed in close confinement on orders of Major Pitcher, commanding the Eighth Infantry. Faulkner is first lieutenant of Company M. and is accused of obtaining money under false pretenses. : of taking money intrusted to him by the company mess, and also of misapt propriatitg money belonging to sev- ( eral men as their pay. Faulkner is a son of former Senator Faulkner of West Virginia and has a brilliant mils' itary record. He was the first officer to enter the gates of Peking with his command when that city was attacked A courtmartial will be held. Will Prevent a Strike. 1 Terre Haute. Ind., March 30—From “ reports received here, a majority of ■ the 10,000 bituminous miners of Indi- • ana have voted to accept the opera tors' demand that last year's agree ment be accepted with an advance of 12H per cent in wages. The miners' delegates meet here this afternoon, when the first official returns of the vote will be received. The principal cause for a controversy was the question of the operators employing ex 1 perts to fire shots in mines of the Clinton districts. The Clinton minors have vqted not to strike. Lawyer Whose Mind Is Blank. Baltimore. March 30.—J. J. Tima nus. the lawyer of this city who mysteriously disappeared seeral days ago. and for whom a search throughout the country has been made, has returned to Baltimore. He says that his mind has been a blank during his wanderings and that when his reason returned he found himself In Memphis Tenn . from which place he returned here. Slaughter of Seals. St. John. N. F.. March 30.—The sealing steamers Virginia Uke and Auro ra. arrived here Sunday from the Ice fields. They report catches agg-egat ing a total of 238.000 seals for twothirds of the fleet, and thia year's catch is likely to reach 36'1,000 seals altogether. Burned to the Water’s Edge. New York. March 30,-The double decked ferry boat Boundbrook of the Central Railroad of New Jersey was burned to the water's edge Sunday afternoon. No passengers were aboard as at the time the Are was discovered the boat was out of commission tn the day. ' ——————

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SALOON SMASHERS Kansas Girls Go Hurting for Brother and Do Things. Winfield. Kan.. March 30.—Two daughters of John Osborne, armed with pistols and hatchets, while in search of their brother, smashed down doors and destroyed other property at two saloons. They first visited Art Schmidt's saloon in North Main street and. being refused admittance, battered down the front door. The bartender attempted to draw his revolver, but the sisters covered him with their pistols, and he dropped down behind the counter. Before leaving the plain they smashed a number of bottles and glasses. At Chad Thomas saloon they smashed a large front window when refused admittance. They were not arrested. Broke All Sunday Records. New York March 3u.—lmmigrant j arrivals at Ellis Island yesterday broke all records for Sunday in the history of the harbor of New York. By nightfall, when Commissioner Williams' staff had sifted through the great mass brought in by the Philadelphia. the Campania, the Savoie and the Graf Waidersee. it was found that 4.569 men. women and children had passed through the chutes and were either speeding to their new homes or | else awaiting further investigation in I the “detention compartments.” Mrs. Roccsvelt Will Cruise. Washington. March 30.—Mrs. Roos1 evelt and her children will take the projected cruise on the president’s yacht the Mayflower during the present week. They bade good-bye last night to the president, who leaves on his Western trip Wednesday morning, and they then boarded the Mayflower, which has been lying at the navy yard here for some days. If the weather is ‘ good the vessel will go out into the open sea. The start from the navy yard was made early this morning. Still No Agreement in Kentucky. Louisville. Ky.. Mar. 20. —No agreement has been reached by the joint scale committee of operators and miners for the western district of Keni tucky regarding the seale for next year. Another meeting is being held i today, however, and it is hoped that i some kind of compromise will be agreed on at that time The scale ' agreement for 1902 expires at quitting time Thursday night, and unless a trace is patched up by that time it is J feared a strike may occur. Yale Student Kills Himself. New York. March 3«.-Herman Bowman Esher, twenty-five vears of age i of Chicago, said to be a student at Yale university, killed himself by putting ■ bullet through his head’ Sunday. In hla room at the Hotel Man hattan In this city From letters in the young man's room there were . found Indications that he had been : greatly worried over something pre sumably business matters, but the leti ters give little clue as to the cause of his trouble. Add insult to Injury, Atchison. Kan.. March 30—Two marked robbers held up three men in George Keene's saloon at East Atchi son at midnight and after securing in ? K Onie locked them " h ’2f' e bc J ,n '’ •’’•'•aped In a stolen leased ~ Rural Telephone Service. Wabash. Ind . March 30.-A combl hum’?® N f rUral wm bash hi ” rOUntry &round W * boh this spring by the Home TelePhone company, which already hM gD farmer?' r* 2 °° t 0 300 ’ pl ‘ o,M .nTn k Tn ' nk lln ’" wllt b “ ru « out ■n all the prlnelp.l roadt d will ■™. h of R*

THE NOTED Draft Stallion McFarlane Nsmbtr 4725. will be found the coming season at the Riverside Livery and Feed fc This horse is too well knout i neotl any recotnnienilativu. Beta been owned and kept in Decatur li three years by Peter AmspaugLß will be in his hands this season. LAWN GRASS SEED. Renew your old lawns by i sowing the best reed BI'LK GARDEN SEED. fresh and true to name. I SWEET PDS. NASTIRTHMS ’X and Rowtr Sttds of all kinds. I J. D. HALE, - I Corner Jefferson and S» nd?u _ g TPhone ' ROY ARCHBOLD. DENTIST I. O. O. F. BLOCK. ' Phone ' Ofl,ce . ,<W , , HesMenw. 445.

‘ Two College Boys Drowneß 1 Hanover, N. H.. March • M. Maker of Worcesb ■ Mass, • John B. Kencrson of Roxbury ■ both freshmen a' Dartr.m'ith »•>•* and members of the Pl Gamma t fraternity, were drov.n 1 in i necticut river while can - ng Suicide ir. Church. Ft. Wayne, Ind.. March 1 Krock. sexton of St i-fan's ' church, of New Haven. six 1 east, committed suicide - su " 1 . hanging himself In the organ ■ was sixty years of age an I a f ’ terer from bodily sickness. Transmitted Through London. .March 30 - The 1 i morning publishes two from York, which It announ<<* 't n transmitted by Marconi ■ > ■ J wireless telegraphy. The contain 150 words. Ex-Mayor Burned to DeathSouth Bend. Ind , March - ' Pond, ex-mayor of Dowaglc Br " *1 known politically, was bom*] death He went Into the C'’l.ar 1 the furnace when the lamp tl * 1 exploded, setting fire to hl’ 1 I Big Blaze In Lumber Y» rd J Evansville. Ind. March ■ lumber yard ot J H McCutchen •! of thia city, was destroyed b> 1 urday night. The loss is rstls’ I »30.000. with part Insurance t- 1 I gin of the fire is not known