Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1903 — Page 4

Country Correspondence. Berne. Wm. Bole returned from Marion Ind. Sunday evening. Theo. Beirsdorfer spent Saturday and Sunday in Fort Wayne. C. C. Yoder is carrying his arm in a sling on account of a sprain. Abe Stucaey of the Peoples restaurant spent Sunday at Richmond. Aaron Baker and Sam Magids took in the ball game at Decatur Sunday. Hose Martz and wife of Domestic, spent Sunday in Berne, the guest of the former’s parents. Peter Soldner left for Oden, Michigan. Thursday of last week to join his family at that place and spend the hot summer months there. 1 Ruhy, the 10 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wright, died last Wednesday evening and was buried Saturday at the M. R. E. cemetery. George J. Braun of Berne and Liza Rohn of Linn Grove were quietly , married at the home of the bride ' Saturday evening by Rev. Vornholt of Berne. The young couple will go to housekeeping as soon as a house can be selected Mr. Braun | is a member of the firm of Miller <Sr Braun, general blacksmithing. Notice. Charles Pennington has left his ' accounts with his father, Herbert' 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 For Sale —A nhaeton in good con dition. Inquire at this office. 112tf Lost - Pocketbook, containing card with name of Edith Hackman. Return to this office. I’Odtf 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 d39wsotf

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Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day. GRAIN. ri B. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT. Corn, per cwt., (uhw) mixed .._ J 65 Corn, per cwt, yellow (new) 67 Oats, old ’ 31 Oats, new 28 Wheat. No. 2 70 Wheat, No. 3 67 Rye 44 Barley 40 Clover Seed 1 GO @ 5 00 Alsyke 4 50 @ 5 00 Buckwheat 65 Flax Seed 90 Timothy $1 ;«) TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3.-00 o’clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2. red, cash * 772 Sept wheat, 78g December wheat NO Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash 54 Sept corn 52 < "rn, December 52 , O ils. Cash 39 ‘ Oats, Sept ..._ 33jj I Oats, December 34’ Kye, cash 52’ . CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1:15p.m. today as follows. Wheat, September 771 Wheat, December 772 ’ Wheat, May 7M Corn, September _ 621 Corn, December ' Corn, May 522! * lets, September 3311 Oats. December 342 | Oats, May 36’ Sept. Pork t| : September Lard per cwt 7 62 STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER. Lambs 4 41 Hogs, per cwt >5 00 I Cattle per lb 31 @ 4| Calves, per lb 4| ot 5 Cows 2 w 3 Sheep, per lb 2| @ 3 ' Beef Hides, per lb 6 1 POULTRY. BY J. W. BLACK 00., PACKERS. ] Chickaps, young per lb. 10 1 Fowls, per lb. 7w Ox :. Ducks, per lb _r, (a 06 6<007 ' Turkeys, per-Jb,. .. - 9 1 'leese. |>er 1b... 1

OUR LITTLE ALMANAC. Weather Forecast and Doings of the Sun and Moon. Sun. | Moon. Rises 4:52 Sets 7:20 Sets 9:50 p. tn. Indiana —Fair; Wednesday showers, and cooler. Exciting Man Hunt. Scottsburg. Ind., July 28.—The store of P. F. Schilling at Nabb. Ind., was entered, the safe blown and robbed of Its contents, which was about S3OO. Word was telephoned here from Nabb that three suspicious characters passed through that town. A posse was at once formed and about three miles southwest they met two men who on seeing the posse approaching made a i dash forward and the chase at once , began, the men taking through the 1 field with the posse after them. After , going about two miles on their wheels | they were at last forced to surrender, but not till after they had fired on the j officers. The officers also fired, but | I for a time without effect, as they were ’ armed with revolvers. A shotgun was [ secured and one of the men was I wounded and later the other was she* I lln the shoulder. Both men we brought to Scottsburg and given me. cal attention. Their injuries are n c serious They give their names as William Elmer and John Bailey. The Deadly Flobert Rifle. Salem, Ind., July 28.- —Riley Medlock, fifty-one years old, while handling a I Flobert rifle, accidentally shot and killed himseif. Mysterious Crime In New York, Mount Vernon. N. Y . July 27. —With a shoe lace tied tightly around the neck, the body of a woman was found In a sewer Sunday by a boy whose curiosity was aroused by coming upon a break in the sewer. The body was too large to have been forced through the break In the sewer and must havr been dropped into a manhole 300 feet away. The coroner said the woman had not been dead twenty-four hours Transfer of Authority. Manila. July 27.—Major General George W. Davis has transferred the command of the department of the Philippines to Major General James F Wade. General Davis having been retired for age. General Davis' last act was to review all the troops in and about Manila He will sail for San Francisco on the transport Sherman

MAY HARKET. No. 1 timothy hay (new) _ . .. J 6.50 @17.06 Ao 1 mixed hay (newt „ 15.00 @ 16.00 No. 1 clover hay (new) WOOL AND HIDES. by b. kalYeb A SON. Wool, unwashed 16t020 Sheep pelts 40c to JI 00 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides 074 Tallow, per pound Olj COAL. Anthracite f 7 50 Domestic, nut 4 25 Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 25 Domestic lump, Indiana 3 60 OIL /TARKET. Tiona fi.7l Pennsylvania 1.56 Corning 1.36 New Castle 1.43 North Lima 1.18 South Lima 1.13 | Indiana 1,13 ! Whitehouse y. 26 Somerset 99 Lacy... ; 9 7 narknrqvillo y; i Ragland 62 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. , Eggs, fresh, per doz J 13 1 Lard 8 ; Butter, per pound 12 Potatoes, new 65 Onions 75 } Cabbage per lb 11 Apples, per bu 50 fIARKET NOTES. Liverpool market opened asfollows: Wheat, J to J cent higher. Corn, i cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 14,000 Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs — 25.000 Wheat 70 cars Corn 105 cars Oats 165 ears For Sale Cheap. < )ne oow, thirty three shoats, two brood sows, one brood mare with foal, one farm wagon, one set double farm harness, one carriage, will sell reasonable. J. A. Hendricks. Enquire at O. R. &I. depot, Monroe, Indiana. 1«9d6

HECOULOrTDAHCE And When Another Was Giving His Wife Pleasure He Objected. Madison County Man Knocked Down His Wife's Partner and Led Her Home. Thought She Was Having More Fun Than Circumstances Warranted. Anderson, Ind. July 28. —Because he could not dance and his wife seemed to enjoy a dance with Wood Wise, a ■ young farmer, Lemual Robinett, after | watching the couple in a country hop, stopped the fun by knocking Wise i down and then leading Mrs Robinett ito her home. She went to the dance ' with her husband, and her husband admitted that there was no wrong on I her part, and that he simply floored Wise because he thought that Wise was having more fun with Mrs. Robinett than he could have, because he did not dance. Robinett was arrested and gave bond for his appearance in court. DIED OF BROKEN HEART. Public Failed to Appreciate His Book on Lost Children. South Bend Ind., July 28. —Theodore I.afflin, of this county, Is dead of a broken heart because a book written by him. entitled "The 1 ost Children of Israel Found Beyond the Arctic Seas,” and upon which ho pu‘ twenty years' efforts, failed to nie“ f th° popular fanev. The took is f' 11 of Scriptural quotations, t > indicate the io'trneyings of tb A Isree'. tes. an’ "al''lv concluded tn hf« w'”"k ♦’"t the los* children cßrnbe-t rbo tallest thing »boy co-1 1 find, which war tup '"—th Pole, whi h proved to be hollo r, and in which they remained in Before dying ho bequeathed SI,OOO to the Orphans" Home. Shot At Fleeing Negro. Logansport, Ind.. July 28.--An unknown negro attempted an assault upon the wife of Joseph Watts, six miles from this city last evening but was frightened away before ac-, complishlng his purpose. A crowd of harvesters pursued the negro into the woods, where the trail was lost. Several shots were fired and blood stains on the trail Indicated that the negro I was wounded. Suspended by a Nall. Bari Park. Ind., July 28.—The young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mailonx. of this vicinity, while hunting for eggs in a field, slipped and fell, striking her arm against a nail, which penetrated the flesh and she hung suspended until her screams attracted atten . tlon. It required twenty-eight stitches to close the wound. Lodged Bullet in Friencfs Cheek. Rushville, Ind.. July 28 —While Richard Hogsett and Thomas Meredith young men were hunting, the gun carried by Hogsett was accidentally discharged as he was getting over a fence. The bullet struck Meredith in the eheek, lodging In the opposite side of the face. The wound is severe, but not dangerous. Accidentally Shod by Son. Cambridge City. Ind., July 28 —Joseph Collins, a farmer, northeast of here, was accidentally shot with a rifle by his elght-y»ar-old son. while making preparations to go hunting. The ball passed through his left arm and entered his chest, and has not yet been located. It Is thought he will recover. Committed As a Shoe Thief. Monticello, Ind., July 28.—“ Kid" Spencer, of Burlington, lowa, has been bound over on charge of having stolen a pair of shoes valued at $3.50. Spen- ‘ cer had been arrested as a auspicious character by the police here, and when the shoee were reported missing the i officers found him wearing the missing ,o ° d ’ Spree Costs Years of Lberty. Michigan City, Ind., July 28.—Otto Moore, a paroled man from the State prison, who violated his parole at Aberdeen. S D.. where he wag arrested for Intoxication, has been returned to prison. The drunken spree will cost him his liberty for twelve years Colored Policeman Indicted. Richmond, Ind.. July 28.—Grovelie Bundy, the colored policeman who recently shot and killed Charles Moore, a youth who was escaping arrest, has been Indicted by the grand jury for I manslaughter Bundy has been at large on a $20,000 bond. County Clerk Arrested. South Bend. July 28.—Something of a surprise was occasioned here by the arrest of County Clerk Alward under the child labor law. tor employing bls aoa. who Is under the legal age, as an assistant in his office Other arrests are to follow. Ex-County Treasurer’s Suicide. Frankfort. Ind., Juiy 28.—Steven Shanks seventy years old. ex-coun'y treasurer, committed suicide by throw Ing himself In front of a Clover Leaf passenger train. The body was hop rlbly mangled.

THE EASTERN SITUATION. Russia Has Quit Shipping Wheat to '! Japan. Pekin. July 28.—The Russian administration of Newschwang has stopped the exportation of wheat to Japan. The export of grain from Chinese ports is illegal, but the Russians heretofore have ignored the law During the past week the Japanese obtained many shiploads from Newschwang apparenti, ly preparing for war contingencies. i Several ships were employed in bringI ing wheat, from Shanghai and southern | ports to Newschwang. where it was i transshipped as a direct export. The ; prohibitory order was issued by the i , Russian officials last Thursday. General Kondradovltch has been placed in charge of six armed commercial boats and the navigation of the Liao river, which is construed here as another sign of Russia's Intention to i retain Newschwang and the command I of the river. Great numbers of Rus- . slan civilians and soldiers' families, it Is reported, are being brought to Man I churia, it is believed, in pursuance of a comprehensive plan to rapidly colonize the province. At the present rate i there will be almost 100,000 Russians i in Manchuria, including Port Arthur I and Dalny before the date fixed for the final evacuation, next fall. THE NATIONAL GAME. Current Scores in the Three Big Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Chicago. 3; St. Louis. 4. At Cincinnati, 3; Pittsburg, 10. At New York, 9; Boston. 11. At Brooklyn. 5; Philadelphia, 0. AMERICAN LEAGUE. At St. Louis, 9; Cleveland. 5. At Boston. 5; New York, 0. At Chicago. 3; Detroit, 8. At Philadelphia. 3: Washington. 0. AMERICAS ASSOCIATION. No games scheduled.. Serleus Trouble Threatened. Roanoke. Va.. July 28. —Serious trouble is threatened between the whites and blacks near Blue Ridge Sevetal nights ago a negro woman was whipped by a party of white man for Insulting a lady during the absence of her husband. This angered the ne groes, and they have been arming themselves. The whites are armed and considerable excitement exists. Printers Stop Publication. Spokane. Wash., July 27.—Every printer employed by the Spokesman Review has quit work. For the first ' time in nearly eleven years no paper ! was published. As the Evening Chronicle and Evening Bulletin use the same composing room under con tract, both these papers arc equally in- | volved The trouble arose from a disagreement as to wages. Young Woman Shoots Negro. Vicksburg, Miss., July 28. —Robert Anderson, a negro seventy years of age, was shot and killed near this I city by Miss Annie Strong, daughter of a white dairyman The tragedy, it Is claimed, grew out of a dispute regarding a fence between the farms of Strong and Anderson Miss Strong surrendered. The Reliance Is the Boat Newport. R. 1., July 28.—After yesterday's race between the Reliance. , th" Constitution and the Columbia, in which the Reliance again demonstrated j her superiority over the other two. the , challenge committee from the New , York yacht club selected the Reliance • as the defender of the America’s cup. MARKET QUOTATIONS Prevailing Current Prices for Gram, Provisions and Livestock. i , Indianapolis Grain and Livestock. Wheat — Walton, r*o: No. 1 red. string. tiSe. ’Corn—Strong: No. 1 mixed, KAsc. 1 Oats—strong; No. 1 mixed. Cattle—Steady nt 14 -u. ga.M. Hog—Strong at Sheep—steady at 51.5043.15. Lambs—Steady at L4*. Is. Grain and Provisions at Chicago. I Wheal— <>P«»ed. Closed, i July i .rei, .Sept nq .rsu O' LH Jsq I I Corn— July si .SJI4 i Sept Mq .uq De’ l«> 4 ogle— July ttq ,ss» 4 , Sept M'4 .»34f ; Deo MH 1 r? rk - July.... 13.35 ILK Sept IS. <t* ISM Lard— July 1,31 : n Sept ... tie LM libs— July f.n Sep* f.M f.t» Cloamg cash market—Wheat. feUe; corn, tl*(a; oats. 31, pork. SU.K; lard. riba • It Jf. Cincinnati Grain and Livestock. Wheat— Firm; No. 1 red. ft q. 1 Corn—Steady, No. 1 mixed 41c. I Oat*— Firm; No 1 mixed sin. [ Cattle-Steady at n.MJH.IJ. Hoge—Active el t.UtB Shoop—Steady at SS4LOU |"Laniba—Active at 1*43 15. I Chicago Livestock. r Cattle—Steady; ateer* ah., kart sag feeders. SB»t.<m. Hefe— Steady at I Sheep—Strong at U.ie'gi.oo. I Lamin Steady at |i»|l.ll. New York Livestock. jntlle—Steady at SS.tM*I.M. • •»— Hogs-Uniet at u.tilw.to. Sbtep—Fir» at I Lam ba— Steady at le.<X»4:.». r Esst Buffalo Livestock. Cattle—Steady st — ■Ugh—Active at 15 Ts<#«.w. Sheep—Stead v al 13.Mi44.05. -■ I Lam ba—Steady atj»4." 4®r..t4. • • SJJJ

NEGRESS LYNCHED Louisiana Mob Takas Murderess and Hangs Her to a Tree. Jennie Steer Was Identified as the Black Servant Who Poisoned. Pretty Lizzie Dolan. It Is Also Suspected That She Was the Murdress of Mrs. Frank Matthews. Shreveport. La.. July 27. —News has 1 reached Shreveport that the negress. I Jennie Steer, who administered poison in a glass of lemonade to Lizzie Dolan. the slxteen-year-old daughter of John Dolan, from the effects of which | she died, was lynched by an infuriated mob at sundown last night. The lynching occurred on the Beard plantation, near the spot where the woman’s crime was committed. Jennie Steer was stubborn to the last, denying her crime. It is claimed the negress fled from the Dolan household as soon as she discovered that her crime was known. She was pursued by a posse who found her crouching In a hay loft. She refused to come out and had to be dragged from the place. Asked why she had poisoned Miss Dolan, the ne- i gress indignantly denied the commission of the crime She was taken to the Dolan homestead and fully identt- : fled as the woman who had placed the poison in the lemonade. The mob then took her to a nearby , tree, placed a rope around her neck and again asked her to confess. She was stubborn to the last, however, and was strung up without making any admissions. While the body was dangling In mid-air several bullets were fired Into it by the enraged citizens. The poisoning of Miss Dolan created intense excitement In the neighborhood of the crime. The victim of the poison was a beautiful young white girl who was not known to have an enemy In the world. She died In horrible agony, a fact which accentuated the rage of the mob. The funeral of Miss Dolan occurred Sunday and it was attended by hundreds of persons There is a growing suspicion that this negress was connected with the murder of Mrs. Frank Matthews. I whose horrible death startled the people of this section several months ago. j She was a negress of forbidding aspect, I but a good servant, and Mrs. Matthews kept her against the protests of her son and daughter. A HOTEL TRAGEDY. Suicide and Wife Murder In a Gotham Hostelry. N"w York. July 27.—A well dressed man. accompanied by a fine-looking l and handsomely gowned woman about 23 years of age. registered at the Morton house Sunday morning as “C. Weiss and wife, Syracuse. N. Y." Lata in the afternon the woman was heard shrieking, three shots followed Instantly and when the room was entered she and the man were found dead. The woman had a bullet In her heart and another In her left wrist. The man | was shot in the heart. A pistol lay by the man's right hand, and It la believed by the police that he shot the woman and then committed suicide. There is no clue as to the motive tor the shooting The woman was flve feet four Inches In height, with black hair and blue eyes. The man was six feet tall, with a sandy moustache and ' reddish hair.. In the man s pockets were found two railroad tickets from Syracuse and a letter addressed to C. E Weiss. the contents of which the coroner refused to divulge. Feudist’s Aim Was Bad. Jackson. Ky.. July 27.—There is i much excitement here over an attempt to assassinate Riley Coldiron. Two shots were fired from ambush, one of th" bullets passing through Coldiron's clothing Coldiron testified before the , grand jury the past week that he saw i Britton and Spicer with Curtis Jett at 1 the time Jett Is charged with killing Town Marshal Thomas Cockrtll, and i when Britton and Spicer were not iis- ! dieted certain county officials attempt ed to have Coldiron indicted for perjury — Seventy-Five Boys 111. Whittier, Cal . July 27. —Seventy-flve boya in the State Reform School at this place are 111, and it is believed they were poisoned. Some of the boys are in a serious condition and were delirious The physicians In charge are Investigating the epidemic and I until the investigation Is completed ft will not be known whether the boys are suffering from ptomaine poisoning 'contracted from food given them or' l from poison Intentionally In the form. Deadly Head-On Collision. St. Paul. Minn.. July 27.—Two trains met In a head-on collision on the Chicago, Great Western Railroad early Sundav and the result was four engine men dead and twenty five or thirty passengers Injured, none seriously. Deadly Negro Riot. Providence, Ky„ July 27 —ln a fight among negroes here five negroes wert 1 shot, some of them fatally.

QUIET AT DANVILLE. I Gov. Yates Puts M.lit a In Control „ I Disturbed Town. I Danville, 111 . July 27.- In a.c, )r | an ,, s I ? with orders from Governor Yates f ()ur companies of militia ere in control of H the situation here. The town which ■' was so thoroughly aroused at midnight K Saturday by the action of the mob i n ft lynching the negro murderer MnctUf ft and the second attack on the j a j| tn ■ I - •OVFRNOn BICHARD YATES. an effort to secure an alleged negro rapist, is now quiet and no further trouble is apprehended. The nations' guardsmen, armed and equipped for ■ business, surround the Jail and have established a ’’dead line,” one-half square distant from the structure Complete returns show that sixteen i persons were wounded Suturday night | when Sheriff Whitlock repulsed the second attack on the jail. None was ’ fatally injured, however. The feeling among many citizens regarding the presence of the militia here finds ex pression in open demonstrations against the guardsmen. Several restaurants refused to feed the mem bers of the militia. The four companies of the Seventh Regiment, number 200 men, in com mand of Colonel John M. Clasby. All of the troops are Chicago men. Ac companying the troops were Assistant Adjutant General Reece. Colonel John D. G. Oglesby, a member of the gover nor’s staff, and quartermaster J. P Latham. Colonel Moriarity, command , er of the Seventh Regiment, remained at Camp Lincoln. AN UNPOPULAR DETECTIVE. Dead Men Tell No Tales Is the Theory Upon Which These Villagers Act. Scranton. Pa . July 27. —An attempt l to lynch John Peel, a Delaware, Igarka , wana and Western Company detective, was made Saturday night, at Foster, by a crowd of the villagers, who were Infuriated upon learning that he had | gained evidence which would connect a score of famlliles of the village with i wholesale thievery of brass and other junk from the company s property Pesl was attacked at a hotel while waiting for a train. When the mob made its attack with cries of ’’lyn'-h him!” the detective drew his revolver, but there was something wrong with the mechanism of the hammer and the cartridge did not explode. Peel gained the waiting room while the mob was shrinking before his leveled revolver and he locked himself In. Word was telegraphed to this city and a force of twenty-five officers was hastily re crulted to be sent to the detective’s rescue. In the meantime a passenger train arrived and the crew, acting under telegraphic orders from this | city, quit the train and after a hard fight succeeded in getting the detective i on the train. The ringleader of the mob Is said to be one of the leadine i citizens of the town.and it is alleged that because the detective had gained citizens of the town, and It Is alleged ing which would disgrace him and his son forever, he gathered the mob and led them in the murderous attack Collision On Crossing. East St. Ixtuis. 11l . July 27. An accommodation train on the Vandalia road en route to St. Louis, ran into a well-filled electric car on the East St Louis and Suburban Street Railway near Lansdowne, three miles north of 1 hero Sunday, killing three persons and Injuring a score. Dead: John Roy. Vandalia engineer, J. J. David H. Beattie. BRIEF DISPATCHES ’ Th» Msjrxtle dlxtillrry st Terre Hsute. owned by the dlatillery truat. tuffered x 1150.000 low by fire. Four persons were killed In a head-on colli slon on the Chicago Creel Western road out ol gt. Peel. Sixteen persuna ware seriously >n|nred. two fatally. In a » reck of a Santa Fe train and s Missouri Pacific train, at the junction weal ol Hutchinson. Kan. Dora Cos. an alleged horsethief has been reraptured and placed In jail at Guthrie. O. T The woman wa» for several yeart a member 01 a rant of territory outlaws. i Dr. Ishiis Shaw, a wealthy dentist la Brook i lyn who i ad invested largely in stocks, which de<*Uae<l h. avlty during Ihe tecenl slump, shot himself in the head dying almost Instantly. < hairmen Procter, of the civil servlee com mission has made reply to the rerent letter of former Postmaster General Smith ronrermns the letter's attack on hie report on the invest! ■ getion of the W eshington postofhre. » story from Vienna relates that to protect s party of female farm hands from the fury of the men Isboring on the same farm, the farmer leaked the women in his barn which the laborera burned, cremating thlrty-three women. A wild end bloodthirsty mob broke into the jell at tlsn-1110, Tt|., lynched one negro, chare ed with murder, and was suly kept from kilting another after being repeatedly fired on by th» police, several of the mob being severely Wonaded.