Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. EVBKV EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY LEW <3 . ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, carrier, per week lOu By carrier, per rear $4.00 By mail, per month 25»’ By mail, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. vertising rates made known on application Entered in the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana. as second-class mail matter. J. H . H ELLER, Manager. The Decatur doctors have oragnized and adopted a scale of charges for their patients. But what about the patients? Well, dead men tell no tales.- Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Congressman Robert W. Miers, by far the ablest man in the Democatic congressional delegation from Indiana , has endeared himself so greatly to his constituents that there is no longer any talk of opposition to his renomination to a fifth term. A year ago he bad very bitter opposition in several counties of his district, the result of a concerted movement to the part of several ambitious politicians who ■wanted to go to congress.—South Bend Times. It costs the Royal Baking' Powder company something like $500,000 annually for advertising. Some one suggested to the company to discontinue advertising one year, the baking powder was so well known and advertised, and place that amount, $500,000, in the profit. They answer that undoubt .ally it would cost them three times that amount to get the product in its oriignal channels again. This is a pretty cool planter to those business men who imagine th ?y are making a great saving when they discontinue a $ I to $0 a month advertisement a few months in the dull season. It never pays to tear down a dam because the water is low.—Huntington NewsDemocrat. Automobilists Far North. Copenhagen. July 30.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Glidden, of Lowell. Mass., have left here in their automobile in an attempt to cross the Arctic circle. The United States consul here accompanied them to Elsinore. The automobilists received an enthusias tic send-off from a big crowd at the starting point.

CALL FOR HELP FROM THE OUTSIDE

Indianapolis, July '3> —The campaign in Indianapolis this fall promises to involve Republicans from all over the State. The Republicans are ao hard pressed In the fight that they have been obliged even at this early stage of the game to send out a plea for assistance, and the politicians who believe tha’ .Mayor Bookwaiter should be re-elected have been answering the summons by coming to Indianapolis to see what they can do with the recalcitrants in the city. The list of signers of the petitions for the postponing of the Republican city convention has given the Republican managers a line on their dissatisfied party men. They have adopted a policy of sending some man to "sound” every voter who •igned one of the petitions. If the pilot reports that the recalcitrant is stubborn and refused to say he would support the ticket, steps are taken to have outside influence brought to bear. Some out-of-town Republican politician is telegraphed for. and he is ■ent around to talk to the rebel and argue with him that a Republican victory is needed on account of the effect ft will have on the coming presidential fight. The Republican managers intend to keep up this kind of a fight, and there are so many Republicans who are "off" that this promises to be a busy Manner for the missionaries who are to be brought in. Some of the out-of-town politicians have refused point blank to come, however, and have openly said they believe Bookwaiter should be defeated so that the decent element of the Republican party will be encouraged to think there Is some chance for the better citizens to assert themselves in the futur". There are prospects of renewed activity in the liquor war that has been carried on in the city for so many months. The redistrlctlng of the city Into new wards Is responsible for a great shifting of old boundary lines, and the Prohibitionists are prepar'ng I to get In their work now to greater i advantage. They will proceed under the law allowing a majority of the residents of a ward to defeat the application of a saloon keeper for a licence. Under the redistricting the ProhlbiUuu lead via »uj uieie nas been such a shifting of the districts that they I

ROMANCE IN VARIED GUISE. Ddlnlllon of the Word Susceptible of Wide Diversification. What is romance? Even the colloquial use of the term is varied. When we say “you are romancing" or call anything romantic as distinguished from what is real or what is true we mean one thing, but quite another when we apply the term romantic to natural scenery. And in this application we must distinguish between the effect upon us of that which we call romantic because of human associations with certain sights or sounds and that wildness of nature which we call romantic because of its absolute dissociation from anything human. Keeping out of mind the use of the word in artistic and literary criticism, let us try to tind what element of reconcilement there is in the diversities of colloquial usage. In all that is generally called romantic in the cases above mentioned there Is the common element of strangeness. We easily revert to what must have lieen the original sense of the word in Its connection with those media-val modifications of the Latin tongue known as the romance languages. The Saxon or Celt would have found his native tongue sufficient for all ordinary needs, but if be caught the Roman air in any way, by travel or refinement of taste and habit, he would, to meet the newly developed need, borrow the graces of the Roman speech—that is. he would romance.— Harper’s Magazine. Rockefeller and the Bnng*. In former years John D. Rockefeller’s supervision of Standard Oil company affairs took in even the smallest detail. On one occasion, according to Ida M. Tarbell in McClure’s, commenting on a monthly statement, he called a refiner's attention to a discrepancy in regard to bungs, articles worth about as much in a refinery as pins are in a household. "Last month,” he said to the subordinate official concerned. “you reported on hand 1,119 bungs. Ten thousand were sent you at the beginning of this month. You have used 9,527 this month. You report 1,012 on hand. What has become of the other 5S0?” Apparently Mr. Rockefeller’s idea was: Take care of the bungs and the ban-els will take care of themselves. The Mistress' Character. The London Globe prints a “character" which an English servant leaving kindly gave her mistress: “In anser to your letter, it's not a bad place; the Mrs. understands her dutys. and is sivel and obliging, but troubles aliout getting up early in the mornings. There is plenty, and if you don’t mind a place where only one other young lady is kept besides yourself, you might give them a month's trial. I like more society, which is why I am leaving.” Hi. Narrow Logic. “If I had my way." said the man of high principles, "there would be no money in politics.” "But," said Senator Sorghum, “if you didn't put any money in politics it Isn't likely you could have your way.” —Washington Star.

win now oe a'nie to drive tne saloons out of wards that before they did not think of attacking. The saloon keepers apparently were taken off their guard in the redistricting of the city, and they did not keep a watch to see that their old standbys were held In the wards w’hich they have been accustomed to dominate. The temperance people kept still until the whole apportionment was completed. Now that the ward boundaries have been fixed for good they are preparing to use the advantage so unwittingly given them by their opponents and will fight the saloons in several of the new wards under the blanket remonstrarce, and are claiming victory as certain. Indiana is to operat- a sawmill: at least it is the intention of Secretary Freeman, of the State Foresty Board, to take the Comonwealth into the lumber business. He expects to conduct the business in away thst will make the State, or at least the forestry board, a neat Income from the ■ale of lumber. It is not the Intention to bring the State permanently into competition with the lumber dealers or the fuel merchants, although it will probably make them look to their laurels for a short time. There is an abundance of trees on the new forestry reservation in Clark county that have to be cleared out. as the forest Is altoge her t-o thick. The la-d is now being cleared, and as soon as the trees have been cut a small s w mill will be erected on the ground and they wl 1 be cut into lumber. The forestry board will sell the lumber, and the proceeds wili be use! in furthering the work on the reservation. A trip to the Indiana coal fields is one of the enterprises contempls’»d by the St. Louis World s Fair Commissioners. The coal display from the Stat' will receive special attention at the hands of the comm.ssioners, who wish o show to the world that while natural gas is gfvinr out. the State still has an inexhaustible supply of fuel at band. It has been sugg? led that the cnmn is lone s can got e better idea of the coal resources by taking a trip through the mines than in any other way. and arrangements may he r-.adc for an excursion similar U> ilia trip through the stone field

Flffl MILES m — Was Heard the Report of Pow<der Magazine Explosion f At Lowell. i Twsnty Persons Were Killed In the Awful Smash and Fifty More Received Injuries. Houses Four Hundred Yards Away Went Down as Though Built of Cards. Lowell. Mass.. July 30. —Two small gunpowder magazines, the property of the United States Cartridge Company. situated in the midst of the cottages of fifty mill operatives, exploded, killing more than a score and injuring nearly fifty persons. Half a dozen men. who were loading kegs of powder from one of the mt.gazines, were blown to pieces; four boys, 200 yards away, were killed by the concussion, and fourteen frame houses within a radius of 400 yards went down as though they had been built of cards. Seven of these houses immediately caught fire from overturned stoves and burned. At least three persons were caught in the ruins of the houses and burned to death, while seven or eight others who were taken from the fire died subsequently of the injuries. In all seventy buildings were destroyed. while windows for five or six miles around were pulverized. The report could be heard distinctly more than fifty miles away. The entire catastrophe occupied the space of scarcely five seconds, but in that time the surrounding property was swept as if a small volcano had broken forth. Every house within a hundred yards was mowed as if by a lawn mower, while bricks from the two magazines were hurled far across the river and all over the neighborhood. For several minutes afterward the air was filled with smoke and dust, illuminated by the glare from the already burning debris. The work of rescue began at once, but in many cases the flames had already gained full sway over the crumbled ruins, and several persons were burned to death before the wreckage eculd be removed. Powdsr Mill Lets Go. New Freedom, Md., July 30. —The works of the Rockdale Powder Company at Hoffmansville, Baltimore county, blew up last night. Two persons were killed. DIDN’T BELIEVE IT. Chicago Woman Goes the Limit in Her Heterodoxy. Chicago, July 30. —Miss Anna Poston. an actress, twenty-four years old. shot and killed herself in a room at the Inter Ocean hotel. Miss Sally Price, her roommate, said that Miss Poston had been grieving for the last two weeks and had made frequent references to suicide, asking what would become of her soul if she destroyed herself. Miss Price replied that such an act would result in eternal punishment. Miss Poston then asked: '"What have I done that my soul be tormented on earth and go condemned into the next world I don't believe it.” Then she shot herself. MAKING ARRESTS. Danville Mob Leaders Being Brought to Taw. Danville, 111., July 30.—Eleven persons have been arrested charged with participating in the lawless outbreak of Saturday night when the jail was attacked in an effort to lynch James Wilson, a negro, who. it is alleged, assaulted Mrs. Burgess, of Alvin. The grand Jury has been ordered to reconvene on Monday to indict the leaders of the mob. Os those thus far arrested onlv one gave bond. A guard has been placed around the hospital where five men who were members of the mob are receiving treatment for their wounds. Convicts Still Fleeing. Folsom, Cal., July 30.—The posse under the direction of Sheriff Kenna. of Placerville, and Sheriff Bosqult, of Eldorado, had a brush with the fugitive Folsom convicts on Greenwood creek and a numbe* of shots were exchaaged. but so far as can be learned nobody was shot. The convicts avoided a decisive encounter, and are supposed now to be working back In the general direction of Coloma. Looking to Amalgamation. Berlin. July 30—A proposal is on foot to amalgamate the National Socialist party and the Radical Union, and It is said that a National Sociills' congress, which will meet at Goettingent August 29 and August 30. will undoubtedly agree to the amalgamaUpn. Jealous Wife Shoots Rlvsl. Warfield, Ky„ July 30.—Mrs. WillJam Davis, living near here, enraged over the thought that her husband loved Fadle Evans, a neighbor girl, shot the E’ans girl to death with a Win<h<Hfer rifle. Mrs Davis la yet al large. pg

'FT- DERAILED ON CURVE. Fatal Accident On Interurban Line at Anderson. Anderson, Ind., July 30.—One person was killed and twenty-one injured last evening in a frightful wreck of the Union Traction car, which was due in Anderson from Indianapolis at 9 o’clock. The car was running at a speed of about twenty-five miles an hour when it struck the curve in the track at the south end of Arrow avenue. nt the crossing of the Belt railroad. and jumped the track on account of the refusal of the brakes to work. The trucks of the car struck lhe track of the Belt railroad, tearing them loose from the body of the car, which plunged forward, turned completely over and landed against a waiting room o', er forty feet from the place where it first left the track. Walter McGowan, the fifteen-year-old son of Joseph McGowan, of Alexandria, Ind., was thrown across the car through a window and to the ground outside. When the car overturned it fell on him. crushing his skull and killing him instantly. The other passengers, men and women, together, were thrown into a groaning pile on the inside of the overturned car. None of the injured is seriously hurt. SENATOR'S WIDOW. Mrs. C. K. Davis Weds a Tennessee Man at Washington. Washington. July 30. —Mrs. Anna Agnew Davis, widow of the late United States Senator, Cushman K. Davis, of Minnesota, and Hunter Doll, of Knox-

<sx *' * < •- MRS. CTSBMAX K. PAVIA rille, Tenn., were married at the bride’s home in this city yesterday. The Rev E. S. Dunlap, of St. John’s Episcopal church, officiated. Only a few intimate triends witnessed the ceremony. The couple left for the South on their honeymoon trip. FIERCE RELIGIOUS RIOT. A Persian City for Two Days Was in Hands of Mob. London, July 30. —Late correspondence describes a serious riot in the city and province of Yezd. in Central Persia, which lasted more than a fortnight, and culminated at the e*id of June. The outbreak was directed against religious reformers called balds. In the city for two days every babl found was butchered by the rabble. and the mutilated bodies were dragged through the streets, followed by exultant crowds. Houses were looted, women being killed, and finally ths priestly leaders of the riot enjoined the populace to bring all the remaining babls before them or the governor for judgment. The governor refused at first to yield to the threats of the mob, but hfs palace was surrounded by menacing men and he consented. One babl taken before him was blown from the mouth of a cannon, and another was killed and dragged through the town. Order, it is reported, has been restored, but the babls who escaped are in hiding. Morgan Gains Control. New York. July 30.—J. P. Morgan * Co., as financial agents of the Rock Island and of the St. Louis & San Francisco railway, have taken ove: from Edwin S. Hooley ft Co. enough stock of the Evansville ft Te.-re Haute road and its subsidla.y lines give the first mentioned parties control. The price paid for Evansville and Terre Haute stock and Its affiliated properties was not disclosed, but rumor placed the average at $57 a share. BRIEF DISPATCHES Th* two tMtion* ot populist* bar* agr*ad to amalgamate. The American microscopical aocioty la tn ae>aion at W iaoaa. Sir Thoma- Lipton la on a *i(ht***ing trip to Buffalo ar Niagara Falla and Into Canada The National Denial Asaociatlon l« In aoaaion at Aahevllle. N. C.. with Oh. delegate* present. The Farmer*’ co-operative union of America, having 11 wheal in Chicago for IU object, naa just lieen organiaed al Hutchinson, Kaa. The activity of Vmuvlih which re*eatly became marked, ia now dlmiiualung. Kaploeiona are lea* frequent, and the quantity of lave emitted l» small. An explosion which deatroyed the magaxine of the United Slate* Cartridge Co., al Lowtl. Mass.. rausxl the death of »> and the Mrloui injury of 40 workmen. During an electrical storm at Pitlabiirg a number of Italians look rufiig* In a building which waa struck by lightning and two men were killed Instantly. The Jury in the second trial of former Delegate Henry A Faulkner, of Pl. Louis, vherged wiih perjury in connection Wilk the aahnrban franchise boodle deal, ware unable to agree on a verdict. I’rosldent Roosevelt has pardoned KmlSo Villamor a prominent Filipino, who, in Decani, her Ikon was sentenced to be hanged for murder. Tida reutence *»■ aiterward c<antuuiel to ten year, imprisonment.

OUR HOMESEEKERS’ LOW RATE I HARVEST EXCURSION TO ... I ==■= I B "The Land of Sunshine" I WILL LEAVE DECATUR ON ■ J Tuesday, Aug. 4th I There is still room for more people, and the attention of those who seek I a chance to better themselves is directed to the opportunities offered by this I progressive territory. | Now is Your Chance to See This Country i and its Productions. Its large orchards of all kinds of fruits: its fields of wheat, corn, oats cotton, etc.; its herds of cattle; its flocks of sheep; its droves of hogs; its in- I dustrial and mercantile institution, its schools and churches; all help to spell I S-U-C-C-E-S S with letters of constantly increasing size. Call on or address HALL, SON & FULK, I WESTERN IMMIGRATION AGENTS. DECATUR, INDIANA I Do You Know That the Day Current is On? I That we have received a large shipment of I i FANS I'l I I All Electrical Supplies and General Repair Work at I W. C. Spencer’s I North side of Monroe Street.

MIGHTY TREES OF SIERRA. Greatest In Size of All Creatlona of the Lirins World. During all the ages nature has fa- i Tored the growth of forests on the Pacific mountains, providing the peculiar conditions which make them far different from, greater in size, more luxuriant, than any other in the world. Os all the creations of the living world none Is so great In size, so majestic in presence. a« the mighty trees of the Sierra and the Cascades. For here the air is always fertile with moisture, clouds blown In from the Pacific ocean rest among the mountain summits, even crowning the tops of the trees themselves. and here discharge their rain. The soil is deep and spongy with centuries of decomposing vegetable matter, furnishing nn unequah’d nurturing place for vegetation, and there are no extremes of heat in summer or depths of cold in winter, says the Century Magazine. Every condition has been favorable to unexampled exuberance of growth not only of the largest trees, but of all manner of undergrowth, vine, shrub and brake. A huge tree falls, decays and is yellowed with thick moss Immediately scores of young firs and cedars spring np along the top of it—the first chance of n bare spot In the wood. Old burned stumps, gathering soil In their hollow interiors, are nurseries for colonies of young trees, some strong Individual finally shouldering out the others, growing larger, and. ss the mother stump drops away, sending Its roots downward in’o the earth through the disintegrating textures until it in time becomes a great tree. Women'N Strength In Tears. The weakest woman in all the world is nrmed with one weapon against which man’s pride and strength are powerless. Her tears will win when everything else has failed. A woman’s tears move her own tender sex as well as the sterner masculine brutes. Old and young yield to their potential spell, and when the woman happens to be pretty there Is no telling what will follow when her bright eyes grow misty with these messengers froir a ! wounded heart. It is folly to attempt i to stand out ngnlnst a woninn’s tears They have caused revolutions. They Lnve made and unmade many a great cause. They can be met in only one way— unconditional surrender.— Exchange. Piscina Kim RIkM. As a northern express drew up at a station in the early morning for a few I minutes’ wait, a pleasant looking gentleman stepped out on the platform, ’ and. inhaling the fresh air, enthusias- ; tieally observed to the guard: “Isn’t this invigorating?” “No. sir; It is Nonnanton,” said the conscientious employee. The pleasant looking gentleman retired.—London Telegraph. Control Tone Thoughts. In the firm control of our thoughts lies the secret of the most wonderful possession of which wo can boast—character. It Is quite as much a matter of habit ns of will, this being honorable, truthful, just: having formed our principles of right living, conscience Invariably points to a whole hearted loy. alty to them. And when baser motives plead, wuy, here Is Inst whore yqur y,;;; power may profit by exercise.

NOTICE TO ELECTRIC LIGHT CONSUMERS. The ordinance of the City controling the use of electric lights has a penal section, providing for imposing a fine for making any changes, either in the wires or lights used, or in any way meddling with the appliances of the Lighting Plant. All persons are hereby warned, not to make any change of lights, or wires, or appliances, or connections herewith without written permission from the superintendant of the Lighting plant, as such persons will certainly be prosecuted, for such violation of the ordinance. H. C. STETLER. Chairman, Electric Light Committee.

Not Cost, But Below Cost BURDG'S SACRIFICE SALE OF MILLINERY Fresh Huckleberries at J. S. Colchin’s. ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. 0. O. F. BLOCK. Phone 2® ce> rnone i Residence 24ft. For BRICK 800 Ilonry Mnyor. NORTH END YARDS MAMMOTH UNLOADING SALE 300 HATS BELOW COST DURING JULY Burdfl Millinery Store For Sale. I have at my bonne, on west Monro* St, between Ninth anti Tenth streets for sale, a grey horse, five years old weighing about 1..W) lbs; and al«’ four shouts averaging about 125 lb* S. T. Welker. ITldti-