Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1903 — Page 2

--W-W-MX.-'. l£T - THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. tvtHr tvouc. BXCXFI MS DAV, BY LEW G . ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, jer «•. k. . . 10c By e»l $4. 00 Ur n>a pvt •;. ■ ■ h 25 By mail, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advert is .z nv -i. I . » . . at. Entered tn the just flee at Delator. Ind.u.a. u •>•■ r.a matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. SOUTHERN INDIANA EDITORS Meeting of Southern Indiana Press Association to Be Held May 11-14. The executive committee of the Southern Indiana Press association, at a meeting held in Louisville. Ky., March 30, decided to hold the summer meeting May 11-14. 1903. Members of the association are requested to meet at Louisville. Ky.. May 11 on board tne steamboat “Falls City." which leaves Louisville at 3 p. m.. for a trip up the Kentucky river to Lock 8 or 9. returning from that point to arrive at Louisville Thursday. May 14. in time to make all railroad connections. The boat will stop at Madison Ind., going up and down the river. Members of the association on the Madison division of the Pennsylvania can join the boat at that point. Arrangements have been perfected with the steamboat company for a round trip rate of J 4. which .ncludes meals and berths. The business sessions of the association will be held on the boat May 12 and 13. An excellent program will be prepared, announcements of which will be made later. The Falls City is a small but well appointed boat, lighted by electricity, and has excellent berths, etc. Members are specially requested to bring along their wives and families. Applications for berths should be made at once to the secretary. Mr. Jay C. Smith. The Republican. Seymour. Ind. Members of the Northern Indiana Editorial association are cordially invited. From present indications this will be the best attended meetinj of the association. \ Widow Robbed at Marion. Marion Ind.. March 31. —Mrs. S. L. McQuown. a widow, was robbed of J6M) on the public square yesterday. She had drawn the money from a tank and started down the street. At Third and Adams street she was jostled by two men. who quititly passed on. In a lew minutes it v.as discovered that the pockethccl; which had been suspended from her belt v.a opened and the money gone. The two men were standing outside the bank when the woman drew the money. With the exception of J.’' the j i was all the money she had. Mr. Leng Slowly Irrprov ng. Boston. March 31. —John D. lx>ng. who for nearly tnree monthr has been a patient at St. Margaret's infirmary, is now able to go out of doors, taking short walks in the vicinity of the hospital. Train Turned Over. Corry. Pa.. March 31. —The Erie railroad fast Cleveland train was ■wrecked yesterday at Concord. Pa., and several persons were slightly injured. The train jumped the track and turned over.

POLITICS STILL GRINDING AT THE CAPITAL

Indianapolis, March 31. —There is no doubt that T. Taggart is still a political boss in Indianapolis, although he is spending nearly ail his time in French Lick. It seems a bit queer tc think of the genial Thomas spending his days down in the country, although he is at the head of a palatial hotel that is said to be fairly coining money for him. He is missed in the busy marts of the city, where he was sc long a big figure. But whenever he comes to town the “boys'’ think there is something doing, and there is always a lot of new political gossip. And It Is true that no moves are con ternplated by the Democrats here with out consulting him. so while he Is not present, bis spirit still rules He was here today and his old lieutenants were buzzing around as If they expected new orders from him. He fa vois J. E. Hell for mayor, but be is not making a fight. He thinks there is a fine chance for the Democrats tc win In the coming municipal cam palgn. Secretary W. B. Wilson of the United Mine Workers said today that he does not believe there will be a strike in the Indiana bituminous coal fields. The old wage agreement expires today, and the miners and operators have been unable to get togeth er on the shot-firing proposition, but ft is believed that the influence of the national officials will prevent a strike. It Is doubtful whether or not they are heartily tn favor of the operators ein ploying expert shot flrers, as these firers might lessen the responsibility of the min> rs and in that way lessen the responsibility of the union. The ■en are now voting on the proposition

MURDERINSALOON Tragedy At Orestes Results From Stirring Up An Old Feud. George S'.ro-d Held at Anderson on Charge of Murdering Joseph Yotes. s Fellow Workman. The Two Revived an Cid Trouble and Stroud Drove a Dirk Into Yotes’ Heart. Andersen, Ind.. March 31. —George Stroud, a window glass worker of Orestes, was brought here and locked up on the charge of having murdered a fellow workman. Joseph Yotes, In a saloon at Orestes. The murder was the result of an old feud, which was intensified when the two men met in the saloon, and some of their acquaintances made some remarks that led Stroud and Yotes into their old quarrel. A few minutes later, when Yotea went to the rear of the saloon, he encountered Stroud, who had been outside, and entered the rear door. Bo fore persons in the front part of the saloon knew what had happened. Yotes lay dying at the rear of the saloon. Stroud was standing over him. wiping blood from a gash in his hand, which he said was inflicted by Yotes with a knife, and Stroud claimed that he had killed Yotes in self-defense. Stroud had used a kirk and drove it to the heart o£ Yotes. A Serious Engagement. Cape Haytien. Hayti. March 31.—A serious engagement took place on Saturday between the Dominican government troops and the revolutionary forces at Juan Caho, near the town of Baja bon. The losses on the government side were twenty-seven killed and forty-three wounded, while the' revolutionaries lost five killed and eleven wounded. The telegraph line is interrupted beyond Cotui. It is rumored here that the government troops have surrounded the capital, Santo Domingo, and that a battle is imminent. Corrrr.ss cner Sweeney Reappointed. Indianapolis. March 31 —The governor yesterday reappointed the Rev. Z. T. Sweeney of Columbus commissioner of fisheries and game for a term of four years. Mr. Sweeney was first appointed by Governor Mount Feb. 13. 1899. He is a minister in the Christian church —a fisher of men as well as of fish. He was consul to Constantinople under President Harrison. Boy Attempted to Beard Train. Goshen. Ind.. March 31. —Walter 1 Schrock, fourteen years old. son of F. F. Schrock, attempted to bea d a fast ? freight train on the Lake Shore and was thrown under the wheels and part of his scalp was tom off. He will probably die. BCut Throat From Ear to Ear. Decatur. Ind.. March 31 —With his 5 throat cut from ear to ear. and with a razor in his hand, the body of Racy Bowers was found cramped in a small ' box at the rear of his barn. He had been despondent because of poor health.

F ot wnetEer or not they shall strike s and Wilson received word today that ( convinces him they will settle without ! much further trouble. However, the mines will probably be closed for sev- ; eral days till a new scale is signed. Frank Seifert, postmaster at Wash--1 ington and an old-time newspaper man. who was here today, said that his brother Lewis Seifert has been promoted to a fine position on the Seattle (Wash.) Times. Lewis Seifert bad the pleasure—or was it a pleasure? —of reading an account of his own untimely death at the hands ot Harry Tracy, the famous outlaw, in truth Seifert just missed death by a hair’s breadth. Tracy shot at him and the bullet grazed his face. With rare pres, nee of mind Seifert dropped to the ground. Tracy doubtless thought be had killed him. as he left him there. Another newspaper man who saw Seifert fall ran to a telegraph station and wired Seifen’s paper that he had been killed. But Seifert was only stunned, and be kept on the trail ot the outlaw eighteen days and nights. His Indiana friends are highly elated over bis success in a newspaper way. There Is one man in the state with nerve enough to turn down a (4.000 a year job. The man Is George Reinhard, a member of the faculty of the law department of the state university at Bloomington, who has refused an appointment on the commission to codify the corporation laws. He is a Democrat, and two years ago was on the state ticket for supreme judge. He Is regarded as one of the careful law students of the state and was con sldered a valuable man for the place by Governor Durbin.

AN ORDERLY STRIKE Organized Textile Labor Quietly Shews Its Strength. Lowell. Mr.ss.. March 31.—Orcani. ?! | textile labor yesterday show c i its strength in the sbut-down of the seven largest cotton mills and. not content with this, the textile council, the d?l- * egate body of the local unions, considered the advisability of compell'ng an even wider application of the shut down order by bringing about a strike in the Lawrence hosiery. This hosiery 1 was exempted from the strike order last week, the knitters' union being permitted to remain neutral, as it had shown that it had no grievance either . in wages or time schedule. The coun * oil iast night did not find the proposal well received, and the outlook is not favorable for a strike of the knitters. This incident was the chief one ot the first day of the unprecedented ' shut-down of the big cotton mills in . Lowell. Operatives wore their best clothes and promenaded the side walks; no smoke came from the tall mill chimneys, and there was an ab ! sence of the hum of industry which marks a rushing, bustling New Eng land mill city. No trouble of any kind occurred at the mill gates through which some operatives passed at dis ferent times, and nothing occurred on the streets or at the meeting places ot the strikers to bring forth criticism PARISIAN SENSATION Famous Novelist Fired Upon by an Angry Woman. Paris. March 31.—Marcel Prevost novelist. yesterday afternoon was about to enter the offices of the So ciety of Men of Letters in the Rue Rougemont, where the election of ofE cere for the coming year was about tc be held. Mlle. Emma Touret. a sty lishly dressed woman, alighted quickly from a carriage and fired two shots from a revolver at him. at the same time calling him by name. Both shots missed and the woman was about tc fire a third time when M. Prevost dis . armed her. She was taken temporarily into cus tody and explained that she had known M. Prevost in London some time ago. His avoidance of her since that time had prompted her to seek to avenge herself, but she did not in tend to kill the novelist. M. Prevost refused to follow up the matter, and Mlle. Touret was set at liberty. It is said that the woman s brother vainly tried to force a duel on M. Prevost Marcel Prevost was elected president of the Society of Men of Letters at the election which followed the shooting Shooting in Legislative Halls, Port Au Prince, Hayti, March 31.— The government is incensed against the deputies because of their refusal to rote an issue of paper money. The sitting of the chamber yesterday was interrupted by the firing of rifle shots This occurrence created considerable excitement and the situation for a time looked grave. Quiet, however has been restored by a proclamation issued by President Nord, in which he says he disapproves of the outrage committed against the chamber, and declares that he will maintain order and enforce reaper t for the constitu tion. Accidentally Shot by Wife. Paris. Ky.. March 31. —Junius B Clay, one of the largest land-owners of this county, was accidentally shot and killed by his wife while they were at target practice yesterday at theit home near here. The shooting was done with a shotgun. The charge sev ered the jugular vein and then entered the left lung. He was a son of Hon Cassius M. Clay, president of the late constitutional convention. Will Be No Strike. * Ixuisville. Ky March 31.—There will be no strike in the coal-fields of western Kentucky. The conference t came to an end last night, and at its t conclusion a statement was given out E to the effect that a 10 per cent ad vance had been granted and accepted on mining, yardage and day labor The minimum advance of the outside : day laborers will be 12>4 per cent, r ~— t President's Family Stormbound, n Washington. March 31. —Mrs. Roos e evelt and her children, who are aboard t the president's yacht Mayflower, en e route to the Atlantic ocean, are storm s bouad at Riverside, about fifty miles f down the Potomac river, where the n vessel will remain until the weather i clears. 1 e BRIEF DISPATCHES. 1 . Al! tbs cigar factories ia Denver sre closed by • strike. '■ | The Atlanta hat left Cajx Haytien for San Domingo City, where a revolution is in progress, j Ord nil ng won the Montgomery handicap al Memphis. Harry New second; Witol third. Met hesney also ran. It is officially announced that King F t ward r and Queen Alesandra will vi>it Ireland in July , or August of this year. ; Deneral W. H. Jackson, the noted confederate ; officer and ow ner of Bel e Meade stock farm, al i Nashville. Tenn., fat dead. The J. G. Mattingly distillery at Louisville. , Ky.. was totally destroyed by Hee late Monday ( afternoon causing a loss of fio.tivo. In a shooting affray at Iron, Ohio. William Arge shot and seriously wounded Ellen Barker. I ■ | wno returned the Are also wounding Argo. Tlie home of tlie Marist Bros., arathoiic bene- I I volent institution at 't. Hyacinth. Que wa- . burned to the ground. Ihe damage amounted i > to *>.ow. I Wm. J. Peppier, a New York ’clerk found ' ! Wm. Earl Dot>*»n. floek broker, being enter- ' is I nod by nis wife. In the tight that followed Peppier was shot < rsl. Dobson escape I. At < hiUicothe. 0.. Forest McCord, a barber i killed Charity Storts. aged so. bis sweetheart. ' rutting her throat from ear D> ear with a rasot | after which be look bis van life iu a like man-1 net

j STATE Os SIEGE Chicago Election Commissioners With Deliberation Violate Injunction. tn the Face of Threats of Contempt Proceedings They Open and Count Interdicted Ballots. Three Hundred Policemen Were on Gcard While This Action Was Being Taken. Chicago, March 31. —In spite of Judge Hanecy s injunction in the Lor-imer-Durborrow contest and in the face of threats of contempt proceedings. the election commissioners yesterday opened and counted the ballots caat in one precinct of the Sixth congressional district, in the election of last November. Their action constituted. in the opinion of Judge Carter, by whose adviee the injunction was violated. a technical vindication of the election law. The count finished, the election commissioners remained in a state of siege throughout the remainder of the day. with police massed inside and outside of the board rooms, awaiting an expected attack by the Lorimer forces. Upward of 3i» policemen. drawn from the various stations throughout the city, were on guard, but the day passed without a clash. Even after the adjournmen* of : Judge Hacecy s court, however, and in spite of his declaration that no writ , nas been issued, the vigilance of the : commissioners was not relaxed: through fear of a coup on the part of | tneir opponents. Chief of Police O'Neill expressed ' his intention to carry out the instructions given him by the counsel for the election commissioners. "If anyone comes here to serve a writ or ! legal document." he said, "our force is here to see that the paper has merit I and authority sufficient to admit the bearer. 1 am ready and willing to accept the judgment of the counsel for the commissioners cn that score. If necessary I can have 2.0 '0 men here within a few hours. Should it come to a brush I could swear in a lot ot special policemen. I am not going to let those ballots be seized." Intervention by the grand jury in the election recount dispute was asked of State’s Attorney Deneen last night by Attorney John J. Knickerbocker, who demanded that William Lorimer. Elbridge Haney. Sheriff Barrett. John A. Cook and J. A. Linn be summoned into the jury room on a cha-ge of crim ' inal conspiracy. Linn and Cook are included in the count because of the alleged closing of their offices in the superior and circuit courts Saturday afternoon, with the supposed object of preventing the election commission- ; ers from securing writs of habeas cor- : pus after their arrest for contempt of court. BIG TIME AHEAD Extensive Preparations for Dedication of Indiana Monuments at Shiloh. Washington. March 31. —Extensive preparations are making for the dedication of nineteen monuments by the state of Indiana on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tenn.. April 6 and 7. the 41st anniversary of the great battle at that place. The governors and militia of Indiana and Tennessee will take part in the ceremonies. Assistant Secre- i tary Sanger of the war department will represent the secretary of war who will be unab’e to attend, and will accept the monuments on behalf of the federal government. Col. Sanger will leave here Thurs- i day for Shiloh, stopping at Newport. [ Ky., to inspect the army post at Fort < Thomas. On his return he will visit Chattanooga. Tenn., for the purpose of ■ inspecting Camp Thomas, the newly j established post at Chickamauga national park. Miss Roosevelt Homeward Bound. San Juan. Porto Rico. March 31.— | Miss Alice Roosevelt. Governor Hunt ; and their party returned here yesterday by special train, having visited the towns on the north coast. Miss I Roosevelt was received with great en tnusissm everywhere, the inhabitants vying for the honor of having her as their guest. Last evening Miss Roos evelt attended a reception given by Colonel James A Buchanan and Cap tain Joseph Crabbe of the Portu Rican regiment. She sailed for New York ot the steamer Coamo today. Burdick Inquest Closed. Buffalo. March 31.—The inquest In the Burdick case was closed formally by Judge Murphy yesterday after hearing the testimony of Quinn and King, the former bartender and cashier of the Hotel Roland in New York, about Pennell’s alleged statement to them of his willingness to kill one man. even If be went to the gallows for It. No other witnesses were called. Edward Goes to Visit Carlos. Ixmdon. March 31.—King Edward ’ with a suite consisting of half a dozen persons started for Lisbon yesterday having a few hours previously seen Queen Alexandra off for Copmhagen. The Portuguese minister to Great Britain, the Marquis de Soveral. ac- . companled the king on bls Journey.

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