Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1903 — Page 4

OUR LITTLE ALMANAC. Weather Forecast and Doings of the Sun and Moon. Sun. Moou. Rises 4:49 Set; 7 23 j Sets 8 ' 3 p. m. In Jana —Fair, warmer in northwest portion: showers and coo'er at night or Sunday in north portion, fair in south. CLOVER LEAF EXCURSIONS. Two Personally conducted Excursions.—To Colorado, Utah and; California are being organized to leave the first week in July and August. Very low round-trip rates and no change of cars front! Ohio and Indiana points to destination. If you have not yet arranged for your summer’s vacation, write the undersigned for full informa ! tion. G. A. A Deane, jr., T P A. j Missouri Pacific Railway, 200 Senti- , nel Building. Indianapolis, Indiana. , San Francisieo, Cal., Aug. 17-22, 1903.— National Encampment of 1 the G. A. R. Very low rates. Winona, Indiana.—Special round trip tickets on sale every day from I May 15 to September 26, 1903. Put-in-Bay, Ohio, July 27 Aug. 1, ! 1903.—'Knights of Columbuus Outing. One fare for the round trip. Pittsburg. Pa., Aug. 4-8, 1903.— Thirty-third General Convention Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. One first class fare for the round trip. For rates, folders and full inform-! ation regarding above excursions, j consult nearest ticket agent Clover ■ Leaf Route* or address, C. D. Whit j ney. General Traffic Manager. Clov-I er Leaf Route, Toledo, Ohi >. Notice of Installation. The officers-elect of Decatur court No. 156,1 O R.M. are hereby notified to be present at hall Friday evening July 24th, to lx* instalhal for the ensuing term. H. H Harruff, Installing Past Chief. For Sale A phaeton in good con- | dition. Inquire at this office. 112tf Lost, door key on Monroe street. Please return to Burdg's millinerv store. 166 6t

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Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day. GRAIN. BY E. L. CARROL. GRAIN MERCHANT. Corn, per cwt.. < new) mixed « 62 Corn, per cwt. yellow (new) 64 Oats, old 29 Oats, new 27 Wheat, N .. 69 Wheat, No. 3 66 Rye 41 Barley 40 Clover Seed 1 GO @ 5 00 Alsyke _4 50 @ 5 00 Buckwheat _. 65 Flax Seed „ )Q Timothy . .*1 30 TOLEDO GRAIN M/ARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2. red, cash 3 77 Sept wheat. . 78 i December wheat 79jj Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash 52 ! Sept corn 52 j Corn, December 524 Oats. Cash _ . 37 ! Oats Sept BSS Oats, December . 341' -Rye. cash CHICAGO MARKETS. 'Chicago market closed at l;15p. m. 'today as follows: Wheat, September ... 77 Wheat, December 77) Wheat, May 798 Corn, September 52i Corn, December 52 Corn, Mav 52.' Oats. September 381 Oats, December 34a Oats, May 361 Sept. Pork 513 77 September Lard per cwt 7 75 STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER. Lambs ...4 @ 4| Hogs, per cwt 35 00 > Cattle per lb. 31 «r I ( I Calves, per lb. 4j <(i 5 Cows 2ft 8 I Sheep, per lb 2J $ 3 Beef Hides, per lb. ..._ 6 — POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb. 10 Fowls, per lb. Im ()s Ducks, per lb :>// 06 Young Ducks . . 6(« 07 Turkeys, per lb. 9 I 1 Geetie, |>er lb 0U»05 I

Notice. Charles Pennington has left his ■ accounts with his father, Herlx*rt ! Penington, and anyone owing him may call at the carpenter shop, rear of the Fristoe Smoke house and settle. Please do so without further notice. 165d6 $1.50 Columbus and Return. On Sunday. July 26, the Erie rail ; road will run a special excursion to , Columbus, Ohio, and return at rate] of |1.50. Special train leaves Decatur at 6.24 a. m. Returning train j [eaves Columbus at 7.00 p. m. For sale Ladies’high grade Ram bier bicycle, in good repair. Inquire of C. E. Neptune. 144dtf Lost—A black. Couple Spaniel dog, long ears and bob tail. The finder please return to AlexLeßrun. Decatur, Ind..and get reward. 162 Iw 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 d39wsotf Reduced Rates via Chicago Great I Western Railway.— J*.oo to St Paul, Minneapolis, Waterville, Red Wing, Winona, Austin, Manly, i Clarksville. Waterloo, Osage. No, intermediate jwint higher. For fur-I ther information apply to any Great \ Western agent, or J. P. Elmer, G P.A. , Chicago, 111. BRIEF DISPATCHES The total prndu'ti'-n of piriron in the United i States in the first half of 1903 we* H.7. *67 gross j tons. Tho treatv providing for the a qtiisition by Che Unite ! State* of the Danish Indies, is ■ officia y :ea-i. Japan n&a decided to observe the policy of waitin’’ and watching Russia, advocated by Great Britain. Busmen failures in the United State* for th* week number I- . uicain*t 173 last week. ITS in the like week of 190!. The Mill of Leo XIII leaves all the property of m hich he died possessed to his successor for the use of the church. The fourth annual conference of the K 'ational Industrial anti ex*Slave orgftnization is in session at Memphis. Tenn., with representatives of 4s states in attendance. Farl Whitney, of Nashville and Claud O'Brien, of Memphis, each age I’. were hanged in the yard of the Fayette county. Ky.. jail fori the murder of A B. ( binn. The long-continued dec ine in prices for *«- cunt.< - *n th« \ew York Stock Exchange ha- , resulted in the failure "f two important Stock "achantre.brokerare firm*.

HAY TARKET. No. 1 timothy hay (new) 36.50 '.<7 3 * -0€ No 1 mixed hay (new) _ No. 1 clover hay (new) - 34.00 (g. 34.50 WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVER A SOS'. Wool, unwashed 16t020 Sheep pelts 40c to $1 00 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides 074 Tallow, per pound Olj COAL. Anthracite 3 7 50 Domestic, nut 4 25 Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 25 I Domestic lump. Indiana 3 60 OIL TARKET. Tiona 31.71 Pennsylvania 1.545 j Corning 1.31; Newcastle 1.43 j North Lima I.IS South Lima 143 Indiana 143 : Whitehouse r.26| . Somerset 99 1 Lacy 97 | Barkersville Ragland 62 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. Eggs, fresh, per doz 3 13 Lard g Butter, per pound 12 Potatoes, new 65 Onions 75 Cabbage per lb ].J Apples, per bu 25 to 75’ TARKET NOTES. Liverpool market opened asfollows: Wheat, 4 cent lower. | Corn. ) cent higher. 1 Receipts at Chicago today: 1 Hogs 19.000' \V heat 60 cars Corn 119 cars Oats 188 care NOTICE. All jMirtics owing the undersigned will please call and settle soon and avoid the collector. Mrs. M. P. Burdge, Milliner. 162t1w.

Os A TOUGH RACE — This Pup Is Clearly Destined For Some Purpose In Life. In Water for An Hour and BuHed for Ffteen Hours. It Emerges Wagging Its Tail. Remarkable Story From Logansport That Will Probably Hold the Record. Logansport. Ind., .July 25. —After be ing dou’ed in a tub of wite; and t < r burled for fifteen hours, a small dog at the Henderson boardin? house wadug up and found to be alive. Two of a family of six pup-ies were found in a tub of water and to all a-pearanees they had been Immersed for over an hour ami we e deal The household joined in the funeral and the puppies were burled with due ceremony. Next morninu Miss Hen’e:son went cut to mark the graves of her pets and heard the crying of a pip coming from ihe newly mad? grave. She ha-tilv opened the grave to find one of the pups alive. It Is now as lively as any of the other four. A HOOSIER CREATOR. Alexandria Doctor Declares He Gen erated Life By Chemicals. ■ Alexandria. Ind. July 25.—With one | ounce of common salt, six ounces of . pure water, six ounces of 90-per cent i alcohol, all mixed in an ordinary glass dish, and two ounces of aqua ammo i nia distributed in five small plates and all covered by an air-tight glass tube ■ Dr. Charles W. Littlefield of this citylast evening declared that he had ere I ated “life” in the form of thousands of atoms or animated substances sim liar to well developed germs of life and trilobltes. According to Dr. Little field, only ninety minutes were con sumed while salt crystals were Im pregnated with the hydrogen and vola tile magnetism of the solution and i transformed into lifelike forces that' immediately sought nourishment' through mediums that Dr. Littlefield, . termed feeders, lacking any technical. ■ name. Microscopic examination! showed that crystals not affected by the magnetized crystals were of hex agonal shape, with •life” first appear l ing In the center and spreading until I the crystal was round and finally of globular shape. A mass of life sub stances possessed magnetism of pro nouncod degree, radiating a power that would separate the crystals and then draw them together again. It has not been determined what the germs ot atoms would propagate. Dr Little ■ field says he repeated his experiments' several times, all with practically th« same successful results. 111-Fated Spat for One Family. Dillsboro, Ind.. July 25. —The Big Four Railway track near Sunman seems to be an ill-fated spot for one family at least Harry Meister, who was killed there a few days ago. had three uncles killed on the same track la addition to his uncle. Elmore Meis tec, who died of Injuries received when Henry was killed, John Hendryx and Oliver Larrison. two other urn les, also met their deaths underneath the wheels of Big Four trains. Pearls In Wabash River. Logansport. Ind.. July 25.—Valuable pearls are being found in the Wabash river, half a mile below Georgetown, i this county by a company of pearl hunters from Tennessee They have been located there only two weeks, and have brought to this city a collection of pearls taken from the river at that point which they claim are worth S3OO. Some of them are la ge and perfectly round These, they say, are worth: from to S2O each. Enters On Her Fourth Venture. Fort Wayne. Ind.. July 25.—Mrs. i Mattie Hasenfuaz, who was convicted of poisoning Carl W-sixifald and was sentenced to Ute imprißunment, after ward being paroled on serving two ' years, and who. since her release, has been living at Baton, recently mar ried a wealthy retired farmer of that vicinity. It is her fourth matrimonial , venture. Nine Hereee Cremated. Crawfordsville. Ind . July 25.—Alonso Young, the well known horse deal er of this city, sustained a heavy loss by the burning of a large stock barn en bis farm, on the outskirts of Craw fordsvllle. Nine head of horses perI ished. and several buggies, together, ‘ with a large quantity of hay and grain went up in smoke. Drowned In a Yard Fountain. Alexandria. Ind., July 25. —Marlon, the fourtoen-year-old son of Herman Marz, living opposite thn Union Trac- ! tlon Company's station in this city, fell Into the yard fountain and drowned j unobserved yesterday afternoon, notwithstanding that hnndre Is of people pass that spot every hour. The Deadly Grade Crossing. Alderson. Ind.. July 25. —Levi Conner. sixty years old, one of the largest land owners in Msdlson county, was instantly killed by a Big Four train at a street crossing, in Daleville, 1 The body wax terribly mangled tho I man s head being entirely severed.

THE MOVING FEATURE In the Week's Trade Review Is Crop Advices. Now York. July 25. —Bradstreets weekly review of trade to-day says: Stock liquidation at the expense of industrials affects sentiment and ig- ■ nored. but does not conceal improvei ment in the corn and cotton crops, a ■ change for the better in industrial conditions at New York and other disturbed centers, ami a continued cheeri ful folding tn Western and Southwesi tern trade circles. The markets for < the cereals a'so reflect selling, but | here the moving feature is the good 1 crop advices at home and abroad and the pressure of the excellent, quality of the new wheat arrivals. The iron and steel markets and those for other metals feel the reflex action of depres sion in securities and buying is closely restricted even with drooping values. THE NATIONAL GAME. Current Scores in the Three Big Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Boston. 3; Brooklyn, 7. At Chicago. 5; Cincinnati. 8. At Philadelphia, 3. New York, 0. At Pittsburg. 7; St. Louis. 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE. At New York. 2; Boston. 8. At Detroit. 4: Chicago, 3. At Cleveland. 0; St. Louis. 2. At Washington. 5; Philadelphia 4. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. At Kansas City. 4: Columbus. 2. At Milwaukee. 5; Toledo. 2. At Minneapolis, 0; Indianapolis, 7. At St. Paul. 6; Louisville, 2. Million Dollar Loss at Sea. Halifax, N. S.. July 25.—Advices received here state that the Canadian Pacific Steamship Companv has aban doned the steamer Monterey, ashore at Point Plate, near St. Pierre, to the tin-1 derwriters upon the report of Captain ■ Davis, the commissioner sent to the I scene of the wreck. It is now thought, the loss will not exceed |1.00*),00o. The) valuation of the ship is put drwn at $350,000 and her cargo at $600,000. Out of this upwards of 2 000 tons ot cargo have been salved in perfect condition. Her cattle were also saved, which are valued at SSO.OOO. Too Late to Sec His Mother. Des Moines. July 25.—Minard L. ! Haulenback returned to Des Moines to see his aged mother, but she had , i died two weeks before his arrival. He i was pardoned from tho Colorado State , prison July 8. Paul Miller Cook, whom , he was found guilty of having murdered In 1885. having been found to be alive. He was imprisoned in 1886 I and served seventeen years for a crime which he did not commit, and was pardoned too late to see his mother. Siam In Need of Money. Washington. July 25.—United States Minister King, at Bangkok reports to the state department that Inquiries have been made of him as to the chance of placing in ’he United States a loan of one million pounds sterling. He says that the proposed loan is for twenty years at 5 per cent and that the general revenues of Siam are offered as security To Give Jack a Chinee. Washington. July 25.—With a view of making the naval service as at tractive as possible to enlisted men and lessen ng visits to dives and desertions the naglvatlon bureau is now working on a scheme for the establish ment of recreation halls and grounds in navy yards and stations. MARKET QUOTATIONS Prevailing Current Prices for Grain. Provlsiona and Livestock. Indianapolis Grain and Livestock. Wheat—W«on, Tic: N> 2 red. »tr»ng, Ttqe Corn—Stronu; No. 2 nil led, K»Gate—strong; No. 2 mixed, Cattle—Steady al M.oig; 40. Hogs—Strong at li.'L tM.st. -heep—Steady at 11 M M. Lambe—Steady al l-il-' :i. Grain and Provisions at Chicago. Opened. Clo*ed. Wheat— J■ y t .fK$ .riif Sept tsyj ,rs. , Dec — :«*, .ygi, I Corn— July wh mi* Sept io\ .Wtg I**- iaq .wt, Oata— July .a, s«pi at, .ssi, Dec . .tss* ,u|T, Pork— J«lf HU Mpi 14.Sa |4.11 Lari— J»‘y r.rr i n »«P’ . ».0» til July |.(S »«P* • 8.10 (i| Closing cash mrkM—WHOM. 4’',r a . . • > nh, MIA Cincinnati Grain and Livestock. Wheat — Firm; No. I re-1. 77. Core—aieady, No. j mi*<l sic. Oeu—Firm ; No. 1 mile 1 4c Cattle-*Steady at tt.tOat Si , Hoga-Active at 70. fthoep—Steady at S 3 it n Lambs— Active at «o. Chicago Livestock. Cattle—tteadyl atoere. Ut*B.M; atorkera aas tuedera. mi.OT. Hoge—Mvady at U.«0i01.;4. Sheep—Strong al ll.Ufi (.• Lamba—Steady at U.to*A.M. New York Livestock. Jattle—Steady at • --~ Hogw—yuiet at U.'aSß.«o. Sbiep—Firm at UiasHTS. ra l.amba—Steady at |a.ooi|:.S(. East Buffalo Livestock Cattle—Steady al 11 Ml. _ * 711 I Hoga-Actoe st U.J4»».40. ' fXhee|e-l<lea.l« al «1 a Lan.ba-Steady M.HIMMH. —

=AT DECATUR=s Saturday, Aug. 1. / \ 3 Ring Circus T \ Millionaire / Menagerie v . J ' AQUARIUMe / Royal a ROMA M Spectacular Splendid in Character, MAGNUiCENT^^ 1 Presentation THE f Greatest. w AND BEST 0F Ame ßkas BIG ' Lil. GRANDEST, GREATEST, PUREST, EAIREST AMUSEMENT ENTERPRISE ON EARTH. Three Rings. Two Stages. Half mile Race Track, Scores of Original F-atures One Hundred Phenomenal Acte, 25 Clowns, 20 Hurricane Ra■•-■t, lo.uig', Seats. One Million Dollar Menagerie of Fifty Dens. Droves of Cam H iri i of Elephants. Pwwwppi THE LIkHM JIIh ,6HESTCIAs s|U III I 11 ■BSSI circus EESss ■ uffnlDP 1N ™ E r ip • THE EEATS WHICH ARE SEEN HERE Are New. Original or Superior else they would not be here. Only t h - \r tists who are Truly Marvelous, presenting Sensational Achievt< ' Hazardous Daring with Angelic Grace and Pleasing Ways comi -te the Mightv Congress of Circus Stars. . ... f ® i l .. A REMARKABLE EXHIBITION Os Super human and Incredible Athletic Deeds of Innocent S; rt I’r - sented with Bewildering Rapidity and with Faultless Style. MAIXIV TRAINED ANJIMAL-S In New and Novel Acts, exhibiting the Brains of Beasts and Pai?: of Man. including Educated Seals, Elephants, Bulls, Baboons, M Horses. Pigs and Donkeys. g—- - " : 4 —- . ' - ■' . > Wallace’s Circus Day Programme: 10:00 a. m.- The Grand Street Parade. A unique combination of Glorious Street Carnival, Spectacular Street Fair, a Zoological Display, Horse Fair and Glittering Pageants. 1:00 and 7:00 p. m. Doors opened To the immense Waterproof I*' ll ' 1:15 and 7:15 p. m.-. Prof. Bronsons Conceit Land of Knoownod Soloist Musicians begin a 45*tninut6 Grand ( on the center stage*. 2:00 and 8:00 p. m.-All Feature Performance begins, comprising multitudinous, overwhelming, indescrib’ 1, Gyninic, Acrobatic, Spectacular. Aerial, Trained Animal. Hippodrcinati’' r eats.