Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. KVBKT EVENING. EXCEPT SUNVAY, BY l_ E W o . ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week. . ■ 10« By carrier, per year $4 00 By mail, per month 25'' By mail, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application Entered In the posts.ftice at Decatur. Indiana. as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. As yet no opjxYsitionhas apjieared against Congressman Robison as a fifth term candidate. Judge Bench is announced but he don't count. Union township is loosing valuable time on the macadam road proposition. They want ’’he roads and the Lord knows they need them. Col. C. B. Oakley a veteran and resident of Fort Wayne, died last night, being a victim of paralysis. He was widely known over the state. Senator Platt has announced for publication that there is no split in the republican party of New York.

What he said not for publication is unknown. I In view of the fact that Taylor pronounces every man a liar who . i testifies in the Goebel case against him. the conclusion may lie reached that liars are plentiful in Kentucky, and as Taylor came from there he ; may be something of a liar hismelf. —Columbia City Post. The democrats of Indianapolis ; should get from under such weights as J. T. Fanning. As the head of their organization he fails materially to measure up to what is expected from a political organization in a city like Indianapolis. There should be no preliminaries about his replacement. Decatur is ripe for a good substantial boom, and it is hoped that due advantage will lx* taken of the opportunities offered. Cast aside your personal imbiguities and let 's get together upon one common ground, and for the common good of all. Without any desire at ■boasting we are free to admit that the everlasting pounding of this subject by the newsjiapers is bearing truit. and it will take but little executive labor by a few of our prominent men of means to land several good and substantial industries. Calculate the benefits to lie derived from such additions, and buckle on the armor for renewed effort. Let us be enterprising and persistntly progressive. It is the certain and only method of success.

PARRY WILL SHELVE HIS POLITICAL AMBITION

Indianapolis, April 20. —There is some speculation regarding the political status of D. M. Parry of Indianapolis. president of the National Association of Manufacturers, since his vehement attack on organized labor in his address at the annual meeting of the manufacturers at New Orleans last week. Parry has been mentioned from time to time as a prospective candidate for the Republican nomination for vice president, and he has not denied that he had aspirations in that line. It was rumored that a press bureau was being conducted in his interests. as one article booming him and picturing bls career did appear in ' a number of papers. But Parrv Is re- i garded now everywhere as the bitter- i est enemy of organized labor, so poli- <

ticians will not regard his candidacy seriously if he should enter the race, as a number here have said they can’t afford to antagonize the vast army ot union men he has attacked. Governor Durbin and several other Republican leaders who went to West Haden last week to attend the dedication of the new hotel, returned to Indianapolis today. The return of the governor was awaited with much interest. as he has taken a decided stand against Lake county gamblers, whose doings have been more or less sensa tional for several years He has created consternation among them hy sending the following notice to the police commissioners of Hammond: i

"Stop pool selling at the Lakeside racetrack. If the police force of Ham mond la not able to stop it, call on the sheriff of Lake county. If he can i not stop it notify me. and I will send i the national guard of Indiana to atop i it.” county has been overrun I with Chicago gamblers, but It Is be- ’ lleved that the determination of the I governor will prove a death-knell so i the Lakeside Jockey club, which has I

The Ohio democartic state coni vention is due at Columbus August 5 and 6, and with this announcement comes the cheering news that Tom . Johnson is not a candidate for governor. Hon. John G. Shanklin one of the veteran newspaper writers and democrats of Indiana, is not expected to live. Mr. Shanklin’sdeimx-ra-cy is made out of that kind of stuff that is worthy of imitation, and his perhaps fatal illness now is a matter of pers< >nal regret to many thousand democrats who have known and admired him for many years iiast. The seed season has opened and' every mail brings a few sacks with ' the Cromer label. The variety and excellence of this free distribution, by consent of the government and kindness of Congressman and Can- j didate Cromer, is said to beat any-! thing ever stuck in the ground. ■ Ves Peterson will sow a large acre- 1 age along the banks of the Elm street sewer, with the ho]x- of raising a large and healthy crop—next ; year, A BULWARK OF REBUKE The Federation of Labor Asked to Do Things to Show Disfavor to Parry.

Chicago, April 20.—The Chicago Federation of Labor at a meeting Sunday night adopted a resolution recommending that the American Federation of Labor invade the state of Indiana with 100 organizers and with SIOO,OOO ■ to "build a bulwark of rebuke around D. M. Parry, president of the National Manufacturers' association." The recent address of Mr. Parry before the National Manufacturers' association in New Orleans inspired the resolution. The Husband Was Arrested. Kansas City. Mo.. April 20. —Mrs. Esther Paddock was killed by falling from the third story of a rooming house. Her husband and two other persons were in the room at the time. The police believe that she was push ed out of the window. The husband was arrested. Domestic Quarrel Ends Fatally. New York, April 20. —Frank J. Feely and his wife quarreled on the street and less than an hour later both their bodies were taken out of the North river. The police believe the woman committed suicide and that the husband was drowned in trying to rescue her. Stricken in the Pulpit. Philadelphia April 20. —The Rev Francis A Horton, well known in the Presbyterian church, pastor of Temple Presbyterian church, this city, was stricken with apoplexy while preach ing last night, and died shortly after ■ being removed from the pulpit. Mm Heprat. but Do Not Copy. Grant—lt is easier to say a good 1 thing than to do a good thing. 1 Henderson — Very true. But when r you say a good thing you are flattered by persons right and left making use of it as if it were their own. but yon 1 have few copyists when you do a good deed —Boston Transcript.

just opened its racing season. 1 nose who know the governor concede that when he sets out on a course he gen erally makes good to the end. so he will no doubt give the gamblers the hardest run they ever had. Indiana town elections will occur Monday. May 4. and while there are a number of interesting contests locally they have no significance to state politicians. Saturday was the last day for placing tickets in nomination. The Prohibitionist leaders have probably given the town elections more attention than both the other old parties combined, as they hope to strengthen their position. They may elect a few of their candidates, as most of the campaigns are being conducted on en-

tlrely local Issue* The state politicians have come to believe that the result of the city and town elections Is not significant as far the general elections are concerned, as last year the Democrats won sweeping victories in the cities, but In the state election the Republicans increased their majority. Charles E. Newlin of Indianapolis Prohibitionist state chairman, con tlnues his tour of the state in the In terest of his party organization. In commenting on the fact that some: churches have recently accepted dona tlons from prominent liquor dealers. ’ he “So long as voters support political parties which enact laws en abllng us to educate our children with

the license fees, I see no political reason why a minister of the gospel should not build his church buildings and support his church for the education of his congregation, morally and spiritually, with the free contributions from the same class of men.” The Prohis are Just now the most active of the political parties In this state.

WILL. Bt HEADY ON TIME The Cup Challenger Will Be Patched Up in Shcrt Order. Weymouth, Eng.. April 20.—Design er Fife and Capt. Wringe have prom i«ed to put the cup challenger in racing trim again in three weeks. It will be a big job. Designer Fife has con demned the boom, gaff, mast and top sail spars of the yacht and they will I I liUMlI! UkL 1 CAPTAIN 808 WRINGS. all be removed, as will the sails. Sir Thomas Lipton has sent the following cablegram to G. A. Cormack, secretary of the New York Yacht club: “I am pleased to inform you that the damage to the Shamrock HI. will be righted in three or four weeks. There will be no necessity of considering the question of a postponement. Please com municate this to your comrades and convey my warmest thanks for their expression of sympathy."

READY PROMISES Sultan of Turkey Telia the Powers He Will Be Good. Constantinople. April 20. —The Italian. German. Russian and Austrian ambassadors to Turkey have had audiences of the sultan in which they urged the imperative necessity of checking the Albanian disorders Much comment has been raised by the significant fact that the Austrian and Russian ambassadors saw the sultan jointly, as this is almost unprecedent ed. It is reported that the represents tives of both these countries took a very serious tone in speaking with the sultan and that that ruler promised acquiescence to their demands. Chicago Greeks Create a Riot Chicago. April 20.—Because one of their number had been arrested for creating a disturbance, a crowd of Greeks who were celebrating their Easter Sunday here yesterday, created a riot and before the mob could be dispersed three of them had been shot by Policemen Cohen and Hen.’s Oppen heimer. a bystander, who came to the assistance of Cohen. The three wounded men who are said to have been the leaders of the attack on the officer, were arrested. None of them was seriously injured. Electric Car Runs Amuck. Pittsburg. April 20. —Because an electric brake refused to work a crowded Western avenue car of the Pittsburg Railways company ran away on Federal street, Allegheny, wrecked a carriage, broke through the safety gates of the Fort Wayne railroad, derailed a fast-moving freight train, and then went to pieces. Almost all of the forty-five passengers aboard the car were hurt, though only one fatally. Murder Suspect Confesses. Newcastle, Wyo.. April 20. —The mystery surrounding the disappearance several weeks ago of J. W. Church and his wife, ranchers, has been cleared up by the confession of 'Slim" Clifton, who has been under arrest on suspicion of murerlng the Churches. Clifton admited that he killed them, and told the police where the bodies were buried

Charged With Arson. Owensboro. Ky.. April 20. —E. O. Thomas, who was recently discharged from the penitentiary, has been ar rested charged with arson for the burning of the Owensboro Pants Manufacturing company's plant with a loss of over 180.000. There was 170.000 of insurance on the stock and $15,000 on the building Murder Due to Jealousy. Welch. W Va. April 20. —George Lizemore was shot and killed by Wm. Griffiths. The former was in company with the latter's sweetheart at the time. Griffiths escaped. BRIEF DISPATCHES. Preparation for an insurrection in the Balkans is said to be under full headway. Thia month la expected to break all recorda for immigration at the port of New York. The identity of the victim of the New York “barrel murder" hat not been ascertained. Dr. < harlee Howard of St. Paul. fad., waa killed by the collision of his automobile with a street car at Indianapolis. < bar lea l„ Gardner at Newark. N. J. shot M r*. Lit ale Stevens, of whom he was enamored, and then shot and killed himself. Albert and Marvil Williams, four and six year* old. were carried over the dam in Grand river at Gram! ledge. Mieh.. and drowned. George .1. Jordan aged la shot and killed hl* wife and son then turned the pistol on himself inflicting a fatal wound. He was jealous of hla wife. In a flglit following an unaucceaaful attempt to rob the Finn National Bank of Wampum, Fa., one man aas killed and anothar seriously wounded. The new I'nite I States armored cruiser Went Virginia was successfully launched at the Newport News ship-building yard in the presence of a throng of M.iMIO persons. Homer Haycock, a special policemen and hla wife Kva were found dead In a lodging house at I'ueblo, Col. Kiu-h had been shot In the bead and there waa a revolver in the woman’e baud.

SHOT THE OUTLAW James McKinney at Last Pays the Penalty of His Wild Career. Surrounded in a Chinese Joss House, He Gives a Fearful Account of Himself. Before He Was Shot Down He Had Killed Two Deputy Sheriffs. Bakersfield. Cal . April 20.—James McKinney, the outlaw, was shot and killed here Sunday. Deputy Sheriff Tibbitts was also killed and Constable Packard was tataliy shoL Sheriffs Kelly of Kern. Collins of Tulare and Leovin of Arizona, with officers Will and Burt Tibbitts. Gus Tower and City Marshal Tower surrounded McKinney in a Chinese house. Will Tibbitts and Parkard approached McKinney in the house and ordered him to surrender. McKinney answered by shooting. Will Tibbitts was shot through the stomach and died shortly afterward: Packard was shot through the neck and shoulders and dangerously wounded. Burt Tibbitts. a brother of the dead deputy sheriff, shot McKinney through the mouth and neck, killing him. McKinney had been in Bakersfield two days, and was harbored by friends in a Chinese josshouse. The house was a regular fort. In the place with McKinney was Hui Hulz. a desperado. McKinney had a sawed-off shotgun in his hand, while Hulz used a pistol. Hulz would not obey the order to come out of the barricaded house and the fire department was ordered to the scene. Hulz gave up. He was taken to the county jail. An immense mob surrounded the jail and tried to take him from the officers.

Another accomplice of McKinney was known to be in the house where the battle took place, but he would not surrender like Hulz. The building was set on fire and In fifteen minutes the man was smoked out and taken to jail. McKinney was accused of having committed several murders. He was a native of California and was first sent to the penitentiary from Tulare county for assault to commit murder and after his release went to Randsburg. Cal., where he figured in some further shooting trouble. He escaped trial, coming to Bakersfield soon afterward, where in the latter part of 1900 he shot and killed Tom Sears, a gam bier, as the result of a dispute over a game of cards. No one saw the fight and McKinney was acquitted. Last July in Porterville he killed Billy Lynn and wounded Constable John Willis and another man in a drunken row. He made a sensational escape from capture and for several months wandered practically unmolested around the country. A fewweeks ago Sheriff Collins located him at Hermosillo. Mex.. and an applica- . tion for his extradition was made. The Mexican authorities however, had released him before the arrival of the papers, and he disappeared again for parts unknown. Nothing more was heard of him until April 6. when news came from Kingman. Aril.. that McKinney had murdered Charles Blakey, known as the “cowboy pianist," and Roy Winchester, a young miner. After the shooting the murderer went to a ranch and compelled the rancher to shoe two horses for him. and then rode away. Posses started in pursuit of McKinney, but he eluded them and succeeded in reaching Bakersfield, where his two brothers live. Hanna Will Reply to Parry. Cleveland. 0., April 20.—Senator Hanna has accepted an Invitation to attend the banquet of the Amalgamated Association at Columbus Tuesday evening Mr. Hanna will make an address. taking for hie subject the recent utterances of President Parry of the National Association of Manufacturers at the convention of that body recently held at New Orleans, in which Mr. Parry is quoted as severely criticising labor unions and their methods. Mr. Hanna, it is understood, will defend the labor unions. President Still Out of Reach. Cinnabar, Mont., April 20.—Secretary Loeb has received no word from the president, who is at Norris, out of reach of communication. Unless the president should send a messenger over the snow filled trails to Fort Yellowstone, no word will be received from him until his return from Geyser land Wednesday. Deadly Row at a Dance. Bay City, Mich., April 20.—As the result of a shooting scrape Sunday morning, following a dance. Mrs Maishall Hodge, aged twenty-one. wife of a coal miner, is dead; Leonard Roth, a constable, was snot through the foot, and two other men were grazed by bullets. Hodge and Frank Bardwell, his brother-in-law. are under arrest. Passenger Train Takes the Ditch. Mansfield. Oh'o. April 20.—An eastbound Pennsylvania pMsenger train was wrecked at Ixiudonvllle Sunday by a broken rail. The engine and the baggage car went over on their sides and three Pullmans were derailed. No passengers were hurt

| CLOSING OUT ■ Buggies, Corn Cultivators—Riders and Walk- ■ ers, Check Rowers, Breaking Plows, Har- ■ rows, Grain Drills, Lawn Mowers, Weed- ■ ers and Horse Cultivators. ■ All these goods will be sold very low, as I am going ■ to close them out. 1 AGENT FOR McCormick machines, white Plymouth I ROCK EGGS, TRACTION ENGINES, AND ■ THRESHING MACHINERY. | 7 NIBLICK Comparative Statement of FIRST NATIONAL BANK Decatur, Indiana. RESOURCES. April 9, 1903. April 30,1902. Loans and discounts ? 406,0345 42 •? 359,848 98 Overdrafts. 6,016 24 7,737 26 U. S. bonds 26,034 37 25,500 00 Adams county bonds. 31,042 00 27,160 00 Real estate and furniture 4,000 00 6,453 61 Exchanges 93,368 75 81,205 59 Cash 32,751 72 25,980 57 5 599,249 50 $ LIABILITIES. Capital S 100,000 00 $ 100,000 00 Surplus 15,000 00 11,000 00 Undivided profits 3,688 09 7,280 43 Circulation 25,000 00 25,000 00 Deposits 455,561 41 390,623 56 $ 599,249 50 $ 533,883 99 DIRECTORS P W. SMITH. President. C. A. DUGAN, Cashier. W. A. KI'KBbRK. Vice-President. E. X. BHINGEK. J. H. HOBBOCK. D. SPRANG. J. B. MASON.

ROUNDED THEM UP Farmers Invoke Rural Telephone Service to Capture Robbers. Posse Was Quickly Organized and Effectual Chase Was Given to the Fugitives. Neighborhood of Edwardsville Stirred Up When Alarm Was Pushed Along. Edwardsville. 111.. April 20. —By means of the rural telephone service in this vicinity, a posse of farmers was quickly summoned Sunday to rapture two supposed robbers. In the fight that followed. Frank Charles of Mobile. Ala., one of the men. was probably fatally shot. His companion escaped after a three mile chase Early Sunday two farmhouses were entered by robbers. Provisions were taken from one place and a tent from the other. The farmers called up Constable L. J. Lawrence by telephone and then summoned neighboring farmers by the same means. Immediately armed farmers answered the call. The robbers had taken fight in a buggy. The pojse soon came upon two men in a buggy, to which a tent was strapped. The men were ordered tn anrrender. They laughed, but offered no vk lance. Farmer Glass then took a shotgun from the buggy, and with an oath one of the supposed robbers drew a revolver and fired at Constable Lawrence. The constable returned the fire with a revolver, to no effect. Just as the supposed robber aimed again Farmer Glass shot him through the jaw with the shotgun. The other man fled and escaped. The injured man was not able to talk, and wrote his name as Frank Charles. Mobile, Ala. Sir Oliver Mowat us ad. Ottawa, Ont., April 20,-Slr Oliver Mowat. lieutenant governor of Ontario, died Sunday at Government house He was eighty-three years old. Sir Oliver was premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896. twenty-four yearn, thus earning the distinction of having had the longest continuous term of office as pre mler ever accorded to any man by the people of any province or colony in the British empire. In 1896 he resigned to become minister of justice In the lyomlnion cabinet. In 1897 he was appointed lieutenant governor of Ontario. He was one of the fathers of the Confederation.

Serious Question of State. Rome. April 20. —Whether King Edward will visit the pope continues to be a profound mystery. No official communication on the matter has been received, but the Vatican is of the opinion that King Edward cannot fall to meet the pontiff, if for sun reasons alone, as his majesty's announced visit ,o Ireland soon will tak« place, and should he slight the head of the Roman Catholic church he certainly would arouse the resentment of the 3,500.000 Catholics in Ireland. For Rent House near South Third street. Inquire at this office. Seed Potatoes—l have for sale pure early Ohio and early Rose seed pcta toes. Peter C. Laurent, south Thirteenth street. Decatur, Indiana. 75dlti Dr. F. L. Richter will test your eyes free of charge. Glasses correctly fitted for poor vision double visionheadaches, eye strain, far sight, nearsight, cross eye and irregular sightConsult him. For Sale—Owing to poor health I will sell my store and property at Magley, Indiana, or trade same f r farm or town properry. Anyone wanting to go into business would do well to come and investigate same or write Robert Case. Maglev. Indianad39wsotf Just received a nice line of bulbs and plants, inchi dig CaladiumTuberosee, Glodolus, Candidates. )*'■ deria Vine., Abulillon. Amaryllis. I arnations, Calla Lillias. Cannas Dahlias and Iris. Lovers of flowers shouni call and get them quick. J. D. Ha-e. 85do

ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. Phon. J OfBCO. ,M Phono , gmrtdonoo. LAWN GRASS SEED. Renew your old lawns by sowing the bent »ee<i BULK GARDEN SEED, fresh and true to name. SWEET PEAS, NASTURTIUMS and Flower Srtdi of ill J. D. HALE, Corner Jefferon and ’