Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1903 — Page 4

Steele. Mrs. Hannah Wells is very sick with lung trouble. Salem people gave their church a thorough cleaning last Wednesday. Sim Tindall has moved into the house lately vacated by Elijah Campbell. The funeral of Ida Williams was preached here last Friday. Inter ment at Ohio City. Harry Leferson has moved into our neighborhood again. He expects to go to Dakota to live in about six weeks. A. Riley and wife of Buft’ton, Charles Geser and family of Willshire, 0., Jas. Kiley and W. P. Merriman and family were guests at Lydia Riley’s last Sunday. Route Six. Paul Miller has the measles in his family. Rev. S. C. Cramer of St. Marys township went to Marion Monday. John Cramer of Plesant Mills visited John Cramer and family of St. Marys township Sunday’. There will lie children's meeting held at the Union chapel church Sunday evening, June 11. Gen Warner of Root township who has 'the typhoid fever is not making much improvement. T. D. Kern and family of St. Marys township visited the formers mothher Mrs Eli R.iy near Monroe Sunday. Farmers are suffering as severely by having ton much rains as they did by not having enough. Corn which is up is getting very weedy and corn that has lieen planted lately will rot if we get much more rain. Bobo Church Items.* The entertainment at the Clark's chapel was most excellent. Our Junior Leagues at Bobo and Pleasant Mills are doing some splendid work. No preaching at Boho next Sunday at 3:00 on account of children services at nigh’. The church kindly granted their pastor. Rev. Wagner the privilege to attend the childrens services at Bobo next Sunday evening, consequently then' will be no preaching

THE MARKETS

Accurate prices paid bv Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day. GRAIN. BY K. L. CARROL. lltlllN MERCHANT. Corn. per cwt., (new; mixed 5H Corn, per cwt, yellow (new) _ 53 Osts. new 31 Wheat, uew $ H 9 Rye *6 Bariev KI Clover Seed 4 50 5 II) A'syke 4 60 ,<t 5 in Buckwheat „ 05 F ax Seed I 10 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at l:15p *n. today aa follows: Wheat. July 751 Wheat. Septem’rer 72.‘ Corn. July 4 s ' Corn. Septenitrer 4*4 Oats. July Jg* < Lu* S«*pt4*inhHr July Pork *ii 15 Si pt. Pork 11 July Lard, per <••• t s >5 Septemlrer Lar' ,e,i cal ' '.'7 TOU33 GRAIN MARKETS. Chxugev. every ai 3:00 o'clock by .1. D. U. e Decatur Special wire service. beat, new No. 2. red, cash $ 754 .n.,< Wbe.it 751 Sept wheat. _ 74A Cash corn. No. 2. uuxed. cash July corn 4» Sept corn 47 Oats, eash Oats. July H Oats. Sept 33,' Rye. cash 54 i STOCK. BT FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER. Lambs 4* <■ 6 Hogs, per cwt. 5 25 ,<r $5 50 Cattle per lb. 34 ha 4| Calves, per lb .... 4 J fcz 5 Ctors 2 Q 3 I Sheep, per lb 2.4 k 7 8 Beef Hides, per lb. 6 POULTRY. BV .1. W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. Chickens, per lb B<r .09 Fowls, per lb. *<'.o9 Ducks, per lb Bio OU Turkeys, per lb. gt .09 Geese, per ib._ 05 I HAY fIARKET. No. 1 timothy hay (baled)

at Pleasant Mills until the evening t of the 21st inst. Quite a delegation of Junior and i Senior Leagues will attend the dis- . trict convention at Ossion on the 23 3 24 and 25 inst. i The children’s exercises at Pleasant Mills Sunday evening were not s as successful as they would have been. Too much rainy weather for practice. > The Epworth League at this place i expects to give a sock social in the : near future. A sock is a good thing in which to take oolllections. you can always get cents (scents) from them. Murderous Masked Robbers. ’ Columbus. Ohio. June 12. —George Duyer. a wealthy farmer residing near Alton, ten miles west of Columbus, was shot and killed last night by maski ed robbers. Two men entered the house about 9 o'clock and, seizing Mrs. Duyer. bound her securely. They then demanded of Duyer that he turn over • to them all his money. This he did. The amount is unknown, but it is supposed to be several hundred dollars. The robbers then deliberately shot an 1 killed Duyer and escaped Mrs. Duyer ; later released herself and gave the t alarm. St. Petersburg. June 12.—Fresh in- > stnictions have been Issued to the po- • 1 lice of Kishineff. ordering them to bo ! in instant readiness to assist anyone ' attacked, and adding that any brea- h of this order will be most severely • punished. Notice of Election of Trustee. Notice is hereby given that St. Marys lodge No. 167 I. 0.0. F. will i hold a special election at their hall ’ on Monday evening June 29, 1903, I forth * pitrp >s > of' electing one i trustee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John H. Lenhart. C. C. Ernst, Noble Grand. Boy Wanted Who can speak Ger man to work around store. Address > in own hand writing. X. Y. Z. box • 277, Decatur, Indiana. d3t&wlt Don't forget to atttend the ice cream social on the court house lawn i given bv the Woman's Relief Corps ' next Saturday evening. • ! On account of the unveiling of the ■ Soldiers' Monument at Ridgeville t June 25 the G. R. & I. R'y will sell excursion tickets for one and one [ 1 bird fare.

tio.eOio frioD No I mixed bay (baled) ?H.UO |9 60 No. I clover hay (baled) — S'i 50 W $7 50 L'.*ooe Lav $L;k) less. WOOL AM) HIDES. BV R. KALTER A SUN. Wool. unw ished lfit*>'3o 1 Sb-ep pel .1 4bcU*sl <■> B**ef hides, per pound _ Oi J Calf hides 1 allow, per pound "coal. - 1 Anthracite $ ~ 00 Domestic, lump 4 50 Doujeatic. nut _ 425 OIL fIARKET. Tiona sl.<s Pennsylvania 1.51> C* ruing I 30 New Castle I :;7 North Lima I 13 South Lima 1.09 Indiana I Hl Whitehouse 12-1 Somerset 95 La**y *ls I! irkersviile 95 U-glaLd 55 OTHER ERUuaJCTS. BV VARtors GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. Eggs, fresh, per dor. $ 13 Lard 10 Butter, per pound _ 13 PotaVies. per bushel 35 fIARKET NOTES. Liverpool market opmed as follows: Wheat, 1 cent higher. Corn. } cent higher. Hogs ranged today five cents lower. Altogether Too Inqaialtlre. Burgess—What a humbug Dolver is". When 1 asked him it he bad read my article alsmt "The Epochal Era." be said be had and that It was the finest thing be had seen for years, but when I came to question him I found be didn't know the first thing about the article. What do yon think of tbatJ Yerrow—l think it should tie a lesson to you to let well enough alone next time.—Boston Transcript. Only Halt the Troth. Wife (during the quarrel,—Yes, aid people say you only married me for I tuy money. | Husband—People are wrong, my dear They overlook the fact that you also had considerable real estate.—Chicago News.

Rouble w 1 ” Guilty Liaison at Indianapolis Ends In Scene of t — . 1 Blood. Mrs. John King Shot Down by Man Who Then Terminated His Own Life. l 1 On the Coat of the Man Was Found a Dutton Portrait of ths Woman. r I Indianapolis, June 12.—Lying on a ■ blood-soaked sofa, the blood still flow 5 ing slowly from a gaping bullet wound which pierced the heart, the body ot i Mrs. John King was found in hcri r home. 13 2 East Pratt strew, by a 1 daughter late yesterday afternoon - Not five feet away, on the floor in a pool of blood, was James Dumas, an 1 express driver, an ugl; bullet wound, r in his breast telling the tale of one ot • the most mysterious murders a. 1 sui cides that has occurred in In iiar.ap-1 olis in years. That the man an 1 wo- ■ man had known each other for a long time, unknown either to the husband > ot’ the woman or her daughter, is the • belief of the members of the family i and the police. On the coat of the man was found a button bearing the liken ,s of the woman whom he undoubtedly shot down in cold blood, after which be ended his own miserable life. 1 LIFE IMPRISONMENT Josephus Mallory, at La Per.'. C: • victod of Murder. La Porte. Ind.. June 12.—The jury in the case of the state against Josephus Mallory, murder, returned a verdict of guilty late yesterday afternoon, impos ing upon the defendant the penalty ot life imprisonment. Mallory and two ' other men attempted to rob the store • of John Koonsman, an eld German and because the latter resisted he was , shot and hilled. 1 Then He Changed H s Mind. s Otterbein. June 12. William Ice made appii ation for license to sell intoxicants, an 1 a blanket remon ? stranee was filed. Thereupon Ice sub- • poenaed lt>6 of the remonstrants to go 1 to Fowler and testify to the genuine- , ness of their signatures. The remonstrators engage I carriages and wag ons. making a procession half a mile long, and a.si tock alag a brass band of twenty ;hree pieces. The would-be saloon keeper dismissed his application. In His Father’s Custody. Fowler. Ind., June 12.—After fifteen minutes’ deliberation the jury in the, M.Fcv.le.- Chase Insanity hearing gave th- .. men d young millionaire into the -. sto ly of his father. Fred S. , Chase cf laL , tte. Without a basis cf argute nt and not a leg left to I stand on. the Luhme attorneys threw up the spenge. The verdict for Fred; S. Chase, fa her of the boy. was practical y ark. 1 for in the instructions by Judge Rabb. Held on Murder Charge. Indianay-dis. June 12 —Mede Barr of Columbus. Ind., is in jail here on the I charge of killing Eugene Burke, a r. >gro who insulted a thirteen-year-old girl near Kingan’s packing plant. Tuesday forenoon. Barr was not arrested 1 until yesterday. He admitted that he • did the shooting, and said that he was ’ a negro hater, and believed he did ri ht in killing the man. Accidental and Not a Suicide. ’ Faoli, Ind., June 12. —The report ! that Joseph Cole committed suicide . proves to be a mistake. It is now established that his death was acciden- ; tai. happening while attempting to , shoot a bird. The cylinder of his re j volver failed to act and while examining it the cartridge exploded, the bullet entering his head. Perjured Himself for a Pup. ’ Evansville. Ind., June 12.—Edward Baker, a butcher, commlted perjury i while attempting to shield a vicious bull terrier which had attacked and j injured a small boy. Touched by Ba-1 j ker’s plea for mercy, the court let him j off with a fine of 135. Committed Without Bail. Marion Ind.. June 12. — Sanford Love, who tried to murder his former 'I sweetheart. Miss Nora Miller, who is lying at point of death from a bullet wound In the breast, has waived preliminary hearing and has been committed without bail. Forfeited a Heavy Bond. Vincennes, Ind., June 12. —Charles L. Jerome and Charles Roberts, alleged confidence men. who were released on (5,000 cash bond a week 1 ago failed to appear when their case was called and the bond was forfeited I . Despondent Over 111-Health. i North Vernon. Ind.. June 12. —Frank Rlhl. despondent because of ill-health. , killed himself with a bullet in his brain, using a rifle and touching the trigger with his toe. 1 i Cigarettes Cause Insanity. Washington. Ind.. June 12. — Moore, nineteen years old. has been > adjudged Insane, the result ot excesi give cigarette smoking. 1

THE CRISIS PASSED Flood Situation Has Taken a Turn for the Better. St. Louis. June 12.—That the crisis of the flood situation in East St. Louis has parsed so far as that city is concerned. is generally accepted as a tact by the citizens of East St. Louis. Since the break in the Illinois Central levee the flood has made no dangerous breaks, although the flood area is further increased by seepage. East St. Louis as a whole is a scene of disaster. No one can be found with anything like a definite idea of the property loss. Vague mention of “milliops of dollars" was the nearest even the best informed citizens could come to it. There is a general disposition. however, to accept minimum reports of loss of life, rather than the stories originating in the excitement of the moment when the flood poured in. One undertaker averred that there had been no loss of life directly in the flood, although there had been deaths later due indirectly to the overflow The work today has been and will continue to be that of caring for the refugees. The supply of food seems ample. DOUBLE HANGING Two Men Pay Penalty for Murder on Gallows. Michigan City. Ind., June 12—Ora Ccnpenhaver of Indianapolis and William Jacksen of Evansville were hang t ed this morning. At midnight the war- | den and his attendants entered the death chamber and gave the prisoners suits of black, which the condemned men put on with slight assistance from guards. Copenhaver was led to the ■ gallows. He had nothing to say. The I trap was sprung a minute later. When Copenhaver’s body was cut down Jack | son was led from the death cell. Copenhaver was condemned for the murj der of his wife. Jackson, who was a negro, killed a man for the purpose of robbery. CURRENT SCORES What the Three Big Leagues Did Yesterday. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Cincinnati. 0; New York, 2. At Pittsburg. 9; Brooklyn, 0. At St. Louis. 6; Boston. 8. AMERICAN LEAGUE. At New Ycrk, 4; Detroit, 3. At Boston. 2; St. Louis, 0. At Philadelphia. 2; Cleveland. 3. At Washington-Chicago—Rain. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. At Indianapolis, 13: Milwaukee. 10. At Louisville 1; Kansas City. 2 At Columbus. 6: Minneapolis. 4. At Toledo. 2; St. Paul. 6. John J. Ryan Acquitted. St. Louis. June 12.—John J. Ryan, president of the defunct John J Ryan Turf Investment company, which suspended operations when the grand jury began investigating such conj cerns. was acquitted of the charges of embezzlement as bailee, under instructions from Judge Ryan, by a jury late yesterday. MARKET QUOTATIONS Prevailing Current Prices for Grain, Provisions and Livestock. Indianapolis Grain and Livestock, Wheat— .n. tie; So. z red. strong. 140 Coro—Strong; No. t mixed, < Sc. OaG—Strong; No. 1 mixed, 34< ’ Catlie—steedy all« Hora—Strong at F U M.K). Sheep—Steady at IZ K>s4.oe. I Lomba—Steady at Grain and Provisions at Chicago. Wheat— Ol * ned ’ C "** ,rp, ■«’. t»s Corn—- - .«h Joir ,r 3 1., Jjc Ike , I Pork- ‘ I HOS H.M i lino mi Lard—- • ,nI F «.90 m; . «.00 S.K I Rib*— . •it t.u *1” 131 Oet ■ ■ * t; earn «‘ie;oats. Mg; pork. 417.23; lard. U.at ; nba WJO. Louisville Grain and Livestock. Wbaal—No. 2 while. Tfc. Corn—No. • white. No. 3 tniml. Oats—No. S mixed. 37N0. I white. SSUo. Cattle—Steady at Hog»—Steady at shv-p-Stvady at KtSi.M. Lain ba—Steady al UtO&t.a. Cincinnati Grain and Livestock. Wheat—Firm ; No. 2 red. SO. Corn—Steady; No. i mixed sin. ** Oats—Firm; No. 1 mixed sac. — CatUe—Steady at tldkagl.W). JHoga— Artiee al 2Sheep—Steady at t»4<.S F Lamba—Aelire at tas .It. Chicago Livestock. Cattie—Sieaily; ateera. Blocker, tu feedera. tM< «a. Hofa— Steady at Sheep—Strong al ts.2k>* se. I Lamb<-Steady at tLMae.sa. New York Livestock. Cattle—Steady ai SS.7Mg3.M. ai 14.7.1 <3.10 Shlep-Firsi at ttU'J.i.ts. Lambs—stea<ly at t’.lH«:..'t. East Buffalo Livestock. < altle—Steady at n »*.<o. Ho<a-A< tiee al t’-Sheet>-steady at I' I Lambe—Steady at |t..i;a«.7j. Toledo Grain. Wheat—Poll ca-h. 7.ttuy, 745. — Com—O<W . No. 2 ca«h. la’.e. ""ai* Pau—Ac va So. 1. caah, t7 ,o. s ..JIMHP

Weather Forecast. Fair tonight and Saturday, with rising tem]>erat tire Saturday. HIS PRIZE ROSES. a Ihtte teeret' Tbnt Wa. Contlded t» An amusing lml<l<*nt is reported in Stage gardeners within n certain radius, and the winner turned up in • I Hhorer whom we will <! ’ 11 h:l,ul ', r luckv individual was m high ft ither ' and hung .ibout near his exhibit all the afternoon receiving the toiigratulafions of his friends. , n . ••Beautiful roses,” remarked awe dressed stranger io Sandy. " he, te , „ IP , however, that if Briggs ha.l been qualified to enter lie would hate beat- , ""now,' Briggs was toe rose grower par exe-lienee in the neighborhood; i but, uufonun.itely for him, be was just outside the radius. i "Briggs be hanged!” ejaculated handy. "He ain’t got no l>ett r roses than ■ them!” I ' "That's nonsense!" retorted tl.< stranger. "Buggs’ ros<s are the talk of the district." Sandy still stuck to his point and . eran,,. quite <-<>iiti<l-nti.’L "Between 1 you and me." he whisp? 'd eventually, "Brizes ain't got no be :• r roses than them, 'cos th-t i's uis! He couldn’t en i. r ; ■ ■ . if, so : gate nje the pick of bis garden." I Th" s7ran’"cr was satisfied, and it ’ was only afterward that Sandy dis‘l covered to I s -< t tl:::t be hud cond tided l;ls secret to a member of the I show cornu ittcc.-London Tit Tits. II l V. . odl.-.ncl I’a ho. : As becar t! • iJI? man having the 11 time cf Ills life in t!w primeval forests ■ of tl:.' Ten/a :ie reserve in Canada. ■ the clerk of the New York court of ■ special scss ms was graciously inclined i to instruct the wot kor.s in camp. These, f says the New York Tribune, wre two young, unknown men who. with a canoe and a camping outfit, were likewise seeking backwood experience. He came upon one of tliem baking ■ bread in a portable aluminium oven before a smoldering log fire. "Ah.” said the clerk, assuming a reclining position of graceful ease, "bak ing bread. I see.” "Yes. It doesn't come up for a cent." "You see," continued the clerk, with rising wisdom, "the baking powder, which contains eream of tartar, lilierates when heated a certain amount of carbonic acid gas. which"— "Oh, don’t talk shop!" Interrupted the cook. “I hate it out hen !’’ "Oh. you do!" the clerk observed, asI tonished. "What business are you iu, may I ask'.'" "I’m an assistant professor of chemistry at Yale." ThrowinK Riee at WeddinK’. : Like roast pig. the origin ot throwing ■' riee at weddings is Chinese, and the 1 legead is scarcely less worthy of Charles Lamb: "A famous sorcerer • | named Chao became jealous of the • ixiwer of another sorcerer, a woman, i and. conceiving a plan to destroy her, he persuaded her parents to bestow her upon bis supposed son. The crafty Cliso chose the most unlucky day for the wedding, the day when tbe'Goldeu , Pheasant’ was In the ascendant, so that | when the bride entered the red chair | the spirit bird would destroy her with bis powerful beak. But Peacbblossom gave directions to have rice thrown out at the door, and she passed out unharmed while the spirit bird was de- ' vouring it.” It is not what be h.,s or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is — Amiel. Politeness is a locksmith and opens • many difficult doors > .-, i b For sale—A phaeton in good con- , dition. Inquire at this office. 112tf

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Notice to Gas Consumers. Decatur. Ind., Muy, 25, 1903. To the consumers of natural gas in the city of Decatur: The question of securing natural gas to supply patrons with natural gas to heat and light their homes during the coming winter, is becoming a very serious problem. The condition of the Hehl from which the gas has heretofore been suppleid has bee 1)In3 such as to absolutely preclude the pissihility of securing more gas by drilling additional wells, and the territory has decreased so much i n volume and pressure that the wells now on the line are wholly inade. quate to deliver a supply in eold weather. On November 1. 1902, there were 36 wells supplying the plant with gas. 24 of which ttre'now dead, and the other twelve are greatly weakeneil by the excessive draught on them during the past winter These facts clearly demonstrate that unless large extensions ;lre m ide, connecting the pump station with another portion of the field, a great number of new wells drilled, and the consumers actively cooperate with the company in promoting the economical use of gas, that it will be wholly beyond empower to deliver a sufficient supply of gas to heat your homes. To bring about this desired end. there i* but one method that can le adopted, viz: the use of meters. By this system economical methods are introduced by the consumer of gas and the saving of gas re acts directly to the consumer’s benefit, for it means a direct saving <if money and is a case of “no gas" no pay.” Owing to existing conditions, we are obliged to notify all < nsumers of natural gas, that all gas j consumed after October Ist. 1993, will be supplied only by meter measurement at the net price - f 25 cents i>er one thousand cubic feet. Meters will be furnished by the company without cost to the consumer, except the meter rental of $ p r year as provided in the ordinance. Thanking you for past favors and trusting to recieve your future patronage, we are, yours very respectfully, Logansport A- Walxish Valley Gas Co. Per S T Murdock, Secretary and geneAl manager. lltidlm For sale—Good new surrey and ' doubel set of harness. Will sell cheap and on easyjterms. Enquire of R K Erwin, Decatur. 102tf For Sale —Owing to poor health I will sell my store and property at Magley, Indiana, or trade same for farm or town properry. Anyone wanting to go into business would do well to come and investigate same or write Robert Case, Maglev. Indiana j d39wsotf Sand for Sale. I have good sand for sale at the Robison pit. Will 'deliver at any l time. Edward Luttman. 113 wt Get Your Shoes Shined > You can get a flrsLcluss shine at Fristoe’s Smoke House on Saturdays and Sundays, and at Reynold s hurticr shop during the week. f llOdltn