Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. IVIIIT EVINIXG. EXCEPT SINIIAV. BT LEW O. ESL.LINOMAIVI. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Fjr carrier, per week toe By carrier, per rear *4 00 By mail, per mouth 25c By mail, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application Entered tn the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana. as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. Fourth street should be improved, i Uonroe street should be improved and there is plenty to keep the minds of the city dads busy. Grover Cleveland and Booker T. "Washingtoon have sat on the same ■platform but it is not likely that the latter will receive a bronzed invita-1 tion to Princeton at an early date. Mayor Bookwaiter starts his Indianapolis Mayorality campaign by < openly denouncing a newspajier. The desperation of his cause is thus early manifesting itself, and it is a long time until September. " 'll Don’t break the news to Con-J gryssuuin Cromer, boys!—Berne it Witn. ssThe above refers to the failure of i "Rohrer, Congressman Cromer's live , 1 hencheman, to have his party nom- 1 inate a town ticket. There is more ’ truth than poetry in the above re-, ’ quest. ' 1 Congressman Cromer is getting to ' his work on his political fences. 1 The McCulloch gang and several other gangs have been knocking off some rails and cutting wires at several places. Not only will the wiley congressman fix his old fences hut he will construct some new ones in Randolph. Jay and Wells counties in the shape of rural free delivery routes. Cromer’s henchmen say that when he was completed his inspection and fixed things the McCullough gang will look like, ■three pewter dimes.—Muncie Herald Shamrock 111. Dismasted. Weymouth. April 18.—The misfortune which seems to have pursued Shamrock 111. culminated in a gust of wind which dismasted the yacht ' and left the challenger a helpless wreck in Portland harbor. The acci- I dent will cause a delay of a month or more in the challenger’s sailing for America, but Sir The—2? Lipton raid , that, the accident would not ba allowed to interfere with the yacht’s reaching New York in for tJi; cup races. Double Tragedy at Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, Ind., April 18.—Harry C. Kline, grocer, shot and fatally wounded Lizzie Jackson, thirteen fiears old, and then killed himself «Tbe bodies Were found In Kilns’* ■store In the business quarttr.

NOT MUCH POLITICS DOING AT PRESENT

Indianapolis. April 18. —Edwin Burritt Smith of Chicago, one of the leading spirits of the National Anti imperialist League, was here today kicking after business in the federal court. He is just as firm as ever in r.ls convictions on the foreign policy of the country, but he says the league is not doing much. Smith has been prominent in the reform movement at Chicago for many years. He was one of the organizers of the Voters' League which has practically converted the city council Into a most respectable body. He is now representing the city at Springfield. 111., trying to get a bill through the legislature enabling the city of Chicago to grant franchises to the streetcar companies for twenty years end to purchnse the property at its tangible value. He was interested in learning that the sessions of the Indiana legislature are limited to sixty days. In Illinois the session is not limited and the members receive ,1,000 a term A resolution has been offered to Increase the salary to J 2.000 a term, and Smith favors it. as he says it will result in better men asking ftt the positions. There is less doing in state politics right now than there has been for severe! months. There Is always a lull after the legislature. This is the be-tween-seasons time, although there is always something doing politically in the Hoosier state. But it is be< ause of that fait perhaps that there bis got to be a lot doing before there is enough stir to be noticed. There has been a gathering of politicians at French Lick and West Baden most of the time since the adjournment of the legislature, but as far as actual work is concerned, there is but little going on. The several Republican candidates far governor are keeping in trim, but thev are ulout the onlv

High School Notes. SAY ALLEN, EDITOR. Three were no opening exercises Isat week. For some time the weather lias been unsettled.for latse ball practice. School was dismissed at 3:00 Friday to allow more ample prepara - tions for the student play. The morning exercises Friday were conducted by Mr. Hartman. For the lesson he read the forty- , sixth Psalm. The daily papershave been instrumental in the success of “Mr. Bob," ■on account of their frequent and liberal mention. Monday morning a general discussion of a student play was made. The opinion of the various teachers and representative students were heard. The high school should lx* very grateful toward those members who took upon themselves the burdens of producing “Mr. Bob” for the common good. Miss Hathaway, for Wednesday’s ojx'ningexercises, read H. W. Longfellow’s “Bell of Atri," one of the Ix’st of the ]xx t’s Tales of a Wayside Inn, and one of his few productions j containing a vein of humor. L ist week ill the students of the ■ high school Were put vqxm the roll I of honor. This change was made : to give the teachers more time as Miss Dailey's absence has caused I them a great deal more work. Captain Robison is taking advantage of all opportunities to keep his I men in condition, while Manager Brush wilier is corresponding with the cities around for arranging dates Nothing definite has been decided upon. The classes, seniors excepted, are all complaining of the offensive odors arising from the chemical labratory, during the junior recitation. They have not been [initiated into [the mysteries of H-two-O. Their turn will come to suffer from the choking fumes, dirty hands and locked doors. Meanwhile the freshi men are wading the neighberhood in search of new weeds and jxrinnial . plantsand the seniors dropping lead ■ weights from housetops. Sues Mother-In-Law for Damages. Crawfordsville. Ind.. April 18. —Mrs. June Gregg, the divorced wife of Geo M. Gregg, has sued Sarah M. Gregg. , her mother-in-law. for SIO,OOO damages ’ on tfoe charge wi alienating her hus , band* affections. Lost Hand in Sawmill, Newcastle. Ind.. April I’B.—While operating $ portable sawmill on a faun south of town. Elmer Anderson had his right hand sawed off at the wrist. Severe Storm on French Coast. Marseilles, April 18.-Aa a result of a storm which has not been equaled for fifteen years, forty traft foundered.

r- ones who are beating about the highI- ways ana Byways any. Hut mere is i every prospect of an early preliminary campaign among the Republicans fcr :. nomination for state office. Before i- the summer is half over things will e begin to liven up. but visiting politlt clans are lieginnlng to be scarce in I- Indianapolis. f The members of the Southern Indle ana Editorial association will probably be accompanied by a number of K prominent politicians on their excur r sion up the Kentucky river May 11 to I 14. The steamer Falls City has been ? engaged and the business meetings > will be held aboard it, but the trip , is more for pleasure than for business. / Stops will be male at Fiaukfort. High . Bridge, Valley View and other places. ( The scenery along the Kentucky river > is not surpassed in the central states. > The calendar promises a full moon, so • the views at night will be remarkable, i M. C. Garber of Madison, is president i of the association, and Jay Smith of ; Seymour secretary. Three or four hundred people will probably make up the party. Senator Albert J. Beveridge, who is in the East on a private business trip, will probably return to Indianapolis by the first of next week. He is trying to take a vacation, but his duties keep him busy most of the time. The senator has written a great deal for magazines during the last three years, and he could get steady employment at that line If he would take it, as there is a demand for hla articles. He lias just appointed a sub-committee of the senate committee on territories to visit I Alaska during the summer to study the general conditions and to report at; the opening of the session, when sev-; era! Important bills relative to Alaska ! are to be taken up.

GROSS VANDALISM Northern Indiana Cemetery Despoiled by Conscienceless Vandals. Every Gravestone in a Country Graveyard Was Broken Up and Markers Destroyed. —— Scores of the Pioneers of St. Joseph County Are Buried in This Cemcte ry. Mishawaka. Ind.. April 18.—Nearly every gravestone and marker in the Austin cemetery, two miles from here, has been demolished by unknown van dais. After destroying the stones the pieces were carried to the center ot the cemetery and thrown in a heap. I The task was a large one. and it must I have taken the vandals more than one night to accomplish it. The cemetery is one of the oldest in this section and scores of pioneers are buried there. The ground is located in a valley and is reached only by one unfrequented road, so the despoilers carried cut their work without Interruption. It will be impossible to relocate many of the graves, and living relatives who intended to put up stones v. ill be unable to find the exact place where their dead are buried. COUNCILMEN GIVE BOND Four P.epublicans Arrested at Peru by Democratic Mayer. Peru, Ind.. April 18.—I. W. Kurtz, John Jack. William H. Spaulding and Schuyler Miller, four Republican councilmen who were arrested on affidavits by Mayor W A Odum, Democrat, have furnished bond of SIOO each for their appearance before the Miami circuit court. The trouble grew out of the Republicans staying away from a council meeting when the Democrats expected to form a new ward with two I Democratic members. Mayor Odum sent the police after the Republican members, but they could not be found, and later he had them arrested. Big Slander Suit in Progress. Anderson. Ind., April 18.—The trial of a $20,000 slander suit brought by G. A. Efroymson of Indianapolis and Philip Adler of Lebanon, against Adolph Strauss of this city is on in the superior court. The plaintiffs in the case were employed by Strauss to invoice a stock of goods he bought of R. P. Grimes in this city about a year ago, and after Strauss had taken possession it is alleged that he slandered Efroymson and Adler by the stat* ment that they had misrepresented the value of the goods to him. All parties to the case are well known dry goods ' men. i Young Farmer’s Freakish Act Dresser, Ind.. April 18.—Seymour Palmer, a young farmer, kissed his ) children good-by, locked himself m 1 the bedroom at his home, fired his revolver twice. The children tailed in neighbors and the yard about the house was soon filled with people, who broke down the door tq the room and found Palmer strqcrhtd on the bed. I with two bullet boles in the head of | the bed-frame. His action is said to , have been due to a family quarrel and Palmer hoped to frighten bis wife, who , I was away calling on friends. Grand Chapter of Eastern Star. 1 Indianapolis. April 18. —The 29th annual session of the grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of Indiana will meet in Masonic Temple ■ on Wednesday, April 22, at 10 o’clock. B Tuesday evening a reception will be f given in the parlors of the Denison r hotel by the grand matron. Mrs. Susie Davis of Scottsburg, and Grand Patron 1 S. W. Beyers of South Bend, assisted ■ by the officers of the grand chapter, i also the past grand matrons and past grand patrons. How a “Joke” Turned Out. Goshen, Ind.. April 18. —C. R. Travel 1 of Elkhart, a bookkeeper, has been bound over to the May term of the 3 federal court at Indianapolis for S3OO i by United States Commissioner Geo. s R. Harper, for sending obscene litera- ? ture through the malls to H. B. Burch- • ardt of Cincinnati. The preliminary i hearing was waived Travel claimed he was having fun with Burchardt. r Bertram Arretted Again. j Richmond. Ind.. April ll.—Otto Bertram of Centerrille, who was recently l arrested at a result of terlout charges t made by the stepdaughter of Mrs. r Lloyd Hill, and who was released on , a cash bond of $2,000, has been rearrested on aeven additional and specific charges preferred by Mrs. Hill. Bond i was fixed at $2,000 In each case. Verdict for ths Plaintiff. , I Covington. Ind.. April 18. —A jury ’ In the case of Thomas Brown against the Indiana Mineral Spring company for damages, the result of his horse becoming frightened at an automobile belonging to the company, awarded the plaintiff SI,OOO. Brown sued for SIO,OOO. and the case was venued from Warren county. Killed by Falling Tree. Crawfordsville. Ind., April 18.—Jos. Davis, twenty-eight years old. of Wallace. near here, was caught by a falling tree and Instantly killed. I I

WHAT THEY FOUND Bril’sh Labor Commission Reports on Its Trip. London. April 18. —The report of tne commission of British workingmen i who were taken to the United States at the end ot last year by Alfred Moseley, a wealthy Englishman, to study conditions of labor there, has just been issued. It presents the views of twenty-three delegates who separately I make a synopsis of their deductions reI suiting from the American trip. The report shows a lack of unanimity, exI cept that all agree that the British j workman has nothing to learn from the American workman, while British I employers are not as far advanced as ■ the Americans la the treatment of , their employes. Mr. Moseley says that the American workman has far better education. "Is infinitely better paid, housed, fed and clothed, and moreover much more sober.” Mr. Moseley says in conclusion: “If we are to hold our owu in I the commerce of the world, the old methods must be dropped and the old j machinery abandoned.” BRADSTREET’S REPORT — The Weather Again Cuts Quite a Figure In Trade. New York, April 18.—Bradstreet’s I weekly review of trade today says: Wet weather has retarded retail trade and accentuated the quiet in textiles at wholesale usual at this season. A beneficial factor of the Easter rush, j however, is &n irapro'-mer; in coU®*1 tic ns despite Lad roads and weather, and activity in farming work. Export trade is still expanding, cotton and I corn being leaders and manufactured products are also going abroad in larger volume, l.ast year’s record has already been surpassed. With improved transportation and better supplies of coke, iron production is surpassing all records. Railway earnings are the best ever recorded for this sea : son. gross receipts for March exceed j ing those of a year ago by about 14 per cent. The high price of cotton and I the numerous labor troubles unsettled the demand for manufactured goods. Tired of Washington Life. Washington. April 18. —Wilson G. Reed, a lawyer, who was a member of the Washington stock exchange until a year ago. shot and killed himself at his boarding house He was unmar I ried. William Harnest of Virginia, a : drummer for a grocery company, end ed his life by swallowing laudanum at the Homeward Bound mission, where he had secured lodging for the night. Miss Nellie Russell, keeper of a boarding house near the capitol. drank part of a bottle of carbolic acid and hurled herself down a flight of steps at her home. She probably will recover. What Will They Do With Them? Washington. April 18. —Through I Minister Conger the state departm„nt ’ Is informed that by royal de^ e t he • decoration ot the Order of Double Dragon, second grade. rtrat class> has been bestowed on rs. h. D. Peirce, and the decoration of the Order of the Double third grade, first class on Reynold,*, private secretary Le Mayor Low o' York. This has ' been done at the distance of Prince Tsai Chen return for courtesies received by him on his return from Berlin thr</ugh the United States to China fast year. Big Lockout Threatened. Berlin, April 18. —Ninety six firms engaged in the velvet, plush and rib- ! bon induatry at Crefeld and in its vicinity have given their employes notice I that they wiii lock them out unless two-thirds of the striking workmen of the firm of Bretthal A- Co. resume work at once. The lockout would affect 20,000 men. For Rent House near South Third street. Inquire at this office. Dr. F. L. Richter will test your eyes free of charge. Glasses correctly fitted for poor vision, double vision, headaches, eye strain, far sight, nearsight, cross eye and irregnlar sight. Consult him. For Sale-Owing to poor health I will sell my store and property at Magley, Indiana, or trade same for 1 farm or town properry. Anyone wanting to go into business would do well to come and investigate same or write Robert Case, Maglev, Indiana. d39w.sotf Just received a nice line of bulbs and plauts, including Caladiums, Tuberoses, Glodolus, Candidans, Maderia Vine,, Abulillon. Amaryllis, Carnations, Cal la Lillias. Cannas Dahlias and Iris. Lovers cf flowers should , call and get them quick. J. D. Hale. S5d6 $25.00 Reward! We will give a reward of 825.00 for any kind of spavin or any splint, ■ sweeney, capped hock, bowed tenI don. wind galls, or any ailments that ’ cannot be cured by the use of GILMORE’S CAUSTIC OIL. It has been so thoroughly tested that we know it will do all we claim and more. We have so much faith in the curative powers that we guarantee every bottle to give satisfaction or money refunded. Price 50c per bottle. Gilmore Drug Co., Fletcher, Ohio. Use Gilmore’s Headache Powders. Sold by all druggists. 21f3m

jCLOSING OUT | S Buggies, Coni Cultivators—Riders and Walk- I seers, Check Rowers, Breaking Plows, Har- II ■ rows, Grain Drills, Lawn Mowers, Weed- •*' B ers and Horse Cultivators. g ■ AU these goods will be sold very low, as lam going I V to close them out. f | AGENT FOR I 1 McCORMICK MACHINES, WHITE PLYMOUTH I I KOCK EGGS, TRACTION ENGINES, AND 1 THRESHING MACHINERY. I L K. NIBLICK J

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Comparative Statement of FIRST NATIONAL BANK Decatur, Indiana. RKSOVRCBS. April 9,1963. April 30, M Loans and discounts 5 406,036 42 > 359,846 98 Overdrafts 6,016 24 7,737 26 U.S. bonds 26,034 37 25,500 00 Adams county bonds 314)42 00 27,160 00 Real estate and furniture 4,000 00- 6,458 54 Exchanges 93,368 75 ’*1.206 5. Cash 32,751 72 25,980 51 $ 599,249 50 S 533*8(18» LIABILITIES. Capital $ 100,000 00 S 100,000 00 Surplus 15,000 00 H.«J> ® Undivided profile 3,688 09 ",2SC V Circulation 25,000 00 25,000 00 Deposits 455,561 41 390,623* $ 599,249 50 9 5.33,883 » DIRECTORS P. W. SMITH. President. C. A. DUG AN, Cashier W. A. Kt'KHI.KH. Vice-President. B. X EHINGEK. AM tCxstue. J. H. HOBBOCK. D. SPRANG. J. B. MASON.

Seed Potatoes I have for sale pure early Ohio and early Rose seed potatoes. Peter C. Laurent, south Thir teen th street Decatur, Indiana. 7bdlm ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. Pk.... J once, IM. Phune I Keeldenoe. S«.

LAWN GRASS SEED. Renew your old lawns by sowing the liest seed BULK GADEN SEED. fresh and true to name. SWEET PEAS, NASTUtTHJMS and Flown Seeds of all kinds. J D. HALE, Corner .lefferwm and Second sta 'Phone ». (44M

THE NOTED Draft Stallion ; McFarlane Number 4725. will be found the coming season at the Riverside livery and Feed DamThis horse is too well k nOffll need auy recommendation. H>been owned and kept in Decatur three years by Peter Amapa l *’' 1 1 will be in his hands this