Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1903 — Page 4

Weather Forecast. inoiana— Fair, warmer; showers and cooler at night or Saturday. Country Correspondence. Monmouth. Jack Kemp and John Wolford are cutting timber. Dr. Zeigler has completed an addition to bis bouse. Farmers about here are busy getting ready to sow wheat. Mrs. Dorwin is having a now home built on her farm just north of town. A. J. Lewton, Fred Peoples and L. N. Grandstaff are hauling gravel. E. A. Christen is getting his fine stock ready for the Great Northern Indiana Fair. Dr. John Grandstaff and family spent Sunday with his parents. John stiil likes to geo his feet under mamma's table. Everyone is busy and happy, and Monmouth is on the boom. New houses are being erected on every choice site. We have the best pike road in the county, nearly every house has a telephone, the inter-urban is an assured fact. Even Decatur, a sub urb of Monmouth, would like to be annexed but unless they fill up son e of the mud holes on north Second street, they need try longer. Monroe. Prof. C. E. Hocker and family of Decatur visited relatives at this place over Sunday. Miss Lorena Laisure left Monday morning for Portland where she will visit a few weeks with friends and relatives. There will be an all day missionary meeting at this place next Wednesday, Sept 16 conducted by ten ministers. J. R. Badders and Shelby Ray are thinking of putting down well that ■will produce water that is free from all typhoid germs. Little Walter Oliver son of Thomas Oliver while playing on a swinging board fell and broke his arm He broke both bones square off. Mrs. Joseph Pogue and her granddaughter Miss Wilda Ray returned from Portland where they hare been visiting friends and relatives. Those around here who are on the Sick list are Mis- Blanche Andrews, Miss Parker. Mrs. Detro, Joe Wales, Jacob Rohdes and Wm. Badders's baby. Quite a number from this place took in the Petoskey excursion last Thursday. They expect to enjoy themselves for a while in the Michigan atmosphere. All thechristi in girls of this place •and surrounding vicinity were oral miz >d into a Young Laides ChrisTian Band Sunday everning. There were twenty-two charter members. The Y. M. C. B boys after spending six months of hard labor for the L >rd have taken in the excursion to ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. j Office, IM Vhunc ( Rttipen( , e att

\\ ANTED! -w- ——ww» MWwMMw*nnMMMMiaaMßMi■■m—■MßHMnaKn 100 Men and 25 'l'eams • To work on Monroe and Fourth streets paving contract. Lots of Work and Good Wages. H. P. STREICHER, Contractor.

Detroit Wednesday. The boys have been working faithfully and they deserve it. The Ideal entertainers of Saginaw, Mich., who gave a very deightful entertainment here last year will be here again Saturday night, Sept. 12, to give a program in the M. E. church. The program will be varied, musical elocutionary, slight of hand work, moving pictures etc. It promises to be the best entertainment in Monroe. Admission 10 and 20 cents. Benefits of the EpI worth League, everyl ody invited. The meeting at the Y. M. C. B. tent, one half mile west of town was drawn to a close Sunday evening. The meeting had been going on from the past two weeks, and much good was being accomplished. Upon last Sunday afternoon Miss S mta Wolfe of near the Pleasant Vai. y church gave a very nice talk and was immediately followed by Rev. Holingsworth, pastor of the Friends church. The meeting closed Sunday evening with at least twenty five conversions and fifty : taken into the church. Wanted—A secondhand gas meter. W. J. Meyers. 205d33 Wanted—A girl to do house work. Good wages. See 8. S. Acker at Acker, Elzey & Vance's Store.2o6ds Ed Johnson will ojien a saloon ’in ■ the building formerly occupied by Phillips Bros restaurant Saturday. 207d4 Fi r Sale Cheap—A new barn 20x30 feet, located opposite wa er works station. Enquire of Fred Reppert. 204d6 Base ball excursion to Marion and Bluffton Sunday Sept. 13th via Clover Leaf. Will be a special train leaving Decatur at 11 a. m. will return on No. 4 at 6.43 p. m. T. L. Miller agt. Stolen—Bright bay mare; weight about 1,050; no white marks; new shoes on hind feet; mane lays to right side; foretop roughly trimmed; taken from barn two miles north of Montp'lier, Monday night., August 17; old end spring buggy with unpainted wheels, and harness. Reward of 125.00 will be paid for return of property. S. M. Montgomery, R F. D. No 1, Montpelier. Notify Har v ey Rowe Marshal, Montpelier, Ind. 194dwtf Beautiful lot of statuary at True's Cash Store. Sitecial .■-ale Saturday. Premium for Scalps. T.a Porte, Ind., Sept. 11. — The wolves which have been raiding farms In this county will be exterminated. The commissioners have voted to pay a bounty of $5 for every wolf scalp. The • varmints” have been coming out of their lairs in the Kankakee region and raiding farms within a short distance of this city, these raids covering several townships. Two Killed by Interurban Car. Cleveland. 0., Sept. 11. —Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bennett were struck by a suburban car last night and killed. Mr. Bennett's head was almost severed from her body and her husband's skull was fractured In several places. The Second Anniversary. Canton. 0.. Sept. 11. —The second anniversary of the death of President William McKinley next Monday will be observed in this city by a memor ial service in the church which he attended during hi* lifetime.

LOOK ID THE ffifl Russia’s Ruler May Take a Hand In Itirco-Bulgarian Affair. Much Confidence Expressed That Hie Approaching Visit to Vienna May Mean Something. It Is Felt in Bulgaria That It May Result in Peaceful Solution of the Difficulty. Sofia Bulgaria. Sept. 11.—The official view of the situation continues pessimistic, but in some other quarters the belief prevails that the powers will shortly propose a new scheme of pacification in Macedonia and thus remove the possibility of a Turko-Bul-’sip A 4...-si;? '■ c* : ■ • >' garian war. Much confidence is expressed that the approaching visit of the czar to Vienna will result in the peaceful solution of the difficulty. The continued reports of wholesale massacres cf the Bulgarian population and the destruction of Bulgarian villages In Macedonia are causing considerable excitement in political and general circles here. Premier Petroff is said to have informed the representatives of the powers in Sofia that neither the government nor the Bulgarian people can witness with indifference the annihilatUn of the Bulgarian element in Macedonia and the devastation of the country, and unless the powers can find some means of restraining Turkey's terrible repressive measures Bulgaria wilt ne forced to depart from her present attitude of strict neutrality. While the premier's Intimation was conveyed in the course of Informal conversation with the diplomats in Sofia and in no sense intended as an official communication. It may be regarded as an indication that the patience of the Bulgarian people is becoming exhausted. Every day brings news of fresh massacres and outrages In Macedonia. The revolutionary organizations have published elaborate statistics giving the names of 111 villages burned by the Turkish soldiery, the number of houses in each, the date of the incendiarism. and particulars of the number of persons murdered in each case. Official reports arriving here are suspiciously reticent, but no doubt exists regarding the terrible barbarities practiced by the Turkish regulars and bashl-bazouks on helpless women and children in Macedonia. The Sofia government has hitherto withstood all attempts on the part of the Macedonian committee to draw Bulgaria into a war with Turkey, but the condition of affairs is daily becoming more critical and the position of the ministry more difficult.

AN EYE WITNESS Tells of the Horrors to Be Witnessed in Monastir. — Sofia. Bulgaria. Sept. 11.—A European merchant who left Monastir on Sept, a Lua arrived at Sofia and has given an account of the terrible conditions prevailing In the vilaye* of Monastir. He says Hilml Pasha's administration has greatly disappointed the Christians, who expected that he would make an Improvement In the situation. Hilml Pasha, however. Is following the lines of his predecessors, and the greateat excesses that have ever been committed have happened since his arrival. Throughout the vilayet of Monastir the Turkish soldiers are dally perpetrating almost Inconceivable atrocities. They dishonor the young girls in the presence of their parents and pillage and murder everywhere. Even funeral processions are halted and the corpses stripped of the new clothes in which they are dressed according to the Macedonian burial custom. The priests' vestments are seized and the soldiers sell all their plunder openly, the offl cere apparently consenting. The Informant says the Christian Inhabitants are terror-stricken, hourly fearing a general massacre by the Mussulmans, whose fanatical hatred of the Christians has reached the highest point. The shops are ck>sed In Monastir, business Is suspended and streets are deserted. Even the consuls do not dare to venture outside their homes. Ths country people are afraid to t ome to the city lest they should be robbed and murdered on the way. Europeans desiring to set- the burned villages are prevented by the authorities on varl

ous excases, me Brttist consul wanted to go to Smilevo. but Hllmi Pasha informed him that he could not guarantee his safety, as the revolutionaries had plotted to kill him. The Informant continues that it is estimated that there are over 70,000 people in the fields without shelter, and starving. Hilmi Pasha has promised the consuls that he will assist the destitute people, but he has done nothJ ‘ X'“"i / / u * fl OUB ■’ AT BEIRUT. Ing. oven refusing to allow them to enter the town and beg for goods. The Greeks are accused of Inventing reports for the purpose of fanning the Mussulmans’ hatred of the Bulgarians. The Turkish functionaries openly scoff at the idea of reforms or European intervention, declaring that should armed 'European forces come the Turks would immediately burn, destroy and massacre, leaving only bare fields throughout Macedonia. Turkish Superstition. Vienna, Sept. 11. —A story appears in the Vienna Neut Freie Presse that the sheikh of Medina is spreading the report that the prophet Mahomet rose from his tomb and exclaimed in solemn tones: "Allah save thy people.” whereupon the six guardians of the tomb expired from terror. The legend has excited Constantinople and is regarded as an intrigue to compel the Ottoman government to undertake an anti-Christian campaign. TRAGIC DEED Young Woman Shoots at Faithless Lover and Kills Herself. Aurora, 111., Sept. 11. —Della Walton attempted to kill her lover. Ernest Berry, and then fired a bullet through her brain, dying instantly. The girl had for some time insisted that Berry marry her, and he had refused. Yesterday afternoon she took out a warrant for his arrest. While an officer was on his way to serve the warrant Miss Walton met Berry on the street. She fired at Berry while standing only a few feet away. The bullet passed through Berry's hat without touching him. Thinking that she had killed Berry. Miss Walton shot herself. First Break in Strike. New York. Sept n.—The first break in the strike of the machinists in the shipping yards has occurred. The Morgan Iron works announces that it will take back some of the men. who have been on strike since June. Nearly a hundred men are employed in the yards. The men will go back at the former wages, which are not fixed, and on the same conditions which prevailed prior to the strike. Nearly a thousand men have been out in all the yards. Strike In Packing Plant. St. Joseph. Mo., Sept. 11.—A general strike was ordered at the Nelson Morris packing plant in South St. Joseph yesterday afternoon and the plant is practically at a standstill this afternoon. The trouble was caused by the refusal of the superintendent to discharge a foreman who was charged with being unfair to union workmen Twelve hundred men are out. Police Used Crowbars. New York, Sept. 11.—Captain Shire with a squad of police descended on the Garfield club in East 32d street, broke into the place by means of sledge hammers and crowbars and arrested four of the 200 men who wore In the rooms. This was Capt. Shire's fifteenth attempt to enter the Garfield club. The prisoners wtn ho charged with keeping a pool-room. Strike Being Maintained. Epworth. Tex.. Sept 11.—More than a thousand men are still out at the Thurber coal mines. There is no Immediate likelihood of the trouble being settled. The men ask for a 30cent per ton Increase and recognition of the union. General Manager Gordon refuses to consider the demands of the miners or to arbitrate the question at issue. BRIEF DISPATCHES. The iwt of the pennon eyrtern per *»plt» of population for I*o3 l« given a* 11. s. The condition of eorn on Sept I, wa* *>. 1 a* compared with TM on Aug 1. ami ok Sept. 1,1901 A »-rrnt t*re ordinance he* been pn««ed by tl>* Clerelnnd city eonnell, the flret of lt« kind In Cleveland. In the reeenl light at Gaadoti. near DemlrKapon. among the insurgent dead wore eight Ralgarlan officer*. The total number of ponalona new on the rolla la ire,’4A. of which ran.un are aoldiera and Mt.lw arc widow* and dependant*. The average annual value of each penalon la now IIIIS. The annual value of the Spanlab war pension roll ria- reached 11,1,'V1 While walking In her eleap. at Oklahoma City, Fannie Soper wa* taken for a burglar and ih.,t by .folia Hubetka, a aaloon keeper. The agricultural department I* making atrong effort* to keep out of the country all Imported g, othe entry of whleh la Inhibited nn'ier.tha pure f<xid ni t. Mr* Ferrell and hor J-rear-olii baby were killed In a atorni near Wichita, Ka i. They toughl *helter in a achuol houae and the UuiiUIng wua drmoli*hed.

ML iffIEUIW Many Soldiers Are Preparing to Gather At West Point. Ky. List Has Been Announced of the Trocps That Will Participate in the Affair. Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky State Troops Will Take Part With the Regulars. Washington. Sept. 11- The announcement is made at the war de-, partment that the proposed maneuvers; to be conducted at West Point, Ky., from Sept. 25 to Oct. 16 will oe participated in by troops from Camp Geo. H. Thomas at Chickamauga; Jefferson Barracks, Mo.; Fort Sheridan. Ill.; Fort Wayne. Mich.; Fort Porter, N. ’-'V ■■ rX - ■ '&» •."* ’ > -iy 7 •t'W’’ ■*’7l. GENERAL McKEE. [ln-l ana National Guard.) Y.; Fort Brady, Mich . Fort Thomas. 1 Ky.; Columbus arsenal. Tenn.; Columbus Barracks, Ohio; Fort Myer, Va.. and Washing Barracks; three regiments of infantry anil a battery of field artillery from the Indiana national guard, two regiments of infantry and a battalion of artillery acting as infantry from the Kentucky state 1 guard; three regiments of infantry of the Michigan national guard, and ] one regiment of infantry from the na- i tional guard. , The following officers have been des- ; ignated as brigade commanders: Geo. ' Kobbe, U. S. A.; General McKee. Indi- 1 ana national guard; General McGur- ! rin. Michigan national guard: General j Bliss. U. S. A . and Colonel Morton and Major Woodward, V S A.

THE MARKETS

Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day. GRAIN. BY E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT. Corn, per cwt., (new) mixed f 67 Corn, per cwt, yellow _ 00 Oats, new Wheat, No. 2 76 Wheat. No. 8 73 Rye .48 Barlev 60 Clover Seed oo Alsyke __ g-, g) Buckwheat . ■ Flax Seed so Timothy «1 j;, CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1:15 p.m. today as follows; Wheat. September _ . .._ 79' W heat, Decemlter g| Wheat, May , ■ Corn, Septemlier Corn, December KQ Corn, Mav an Oats, Septe; Oats, Dmm Oats, May •lan. fort tlft ■Ji" May Pork. 13 4() January Lard per cwt 7 35 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3:00 □ clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash * ftn Sept wheat. Decemlier wheat S’ May wheat s -. Cash corn. No. 2, mixed, cash £’ Sept corn Corn. December " May Corn _ J.I Oats. Cash ’ Oats, Sept Oats, Decemlier olrl May Oats Rye, cash POULTRY. ( — I BT J ’ W ' PUCIE Co- ’ PAC “M. Dm-ks, pr lb. " ", Vsing Ducks . Turkeys, per lb 1 Geese, per lb.. Wool AND HIDES. ... . BT ’• IALT » a son. Wool, unwashed ir» on Sheep pelts •■•••• 16t020 1 - 1 allow, per pound qj|

1 Shooting Affair at La'ayette. J Lafayette, Ind., Sept, n ' i a I tieground, fired two shots at C [ oße i range at William A. Downs, also ,i . Battleground, in the doorway us p ark '. 1 law office ou the second floor oi q.l First National bank building O s thi city. Both shots missed, but before the would-be murderer could f IIP again he was knocked down by Dow 113 and was disarmed by the colored j an , itor of the building. At the t.i In , the shooting Dov ns was walking Layton’s wife. Drawing Hcav.ly on Treasury. Nashville, lnd„ Sept. 11.—This i county (Brown) has practically "g oue broke” owing to the passage of the salary bill by the last general as- m bly. The commissioners, now in b ,’ s . sicn, have allowed over Ido claims and the auditor has notified the 1,.... q to issue no further warrants on the | treasury until the county council ; meets and provi 1- s the necessary ap- ; propriation. There is very little money left in the treasury. Not Necessary to Steal. Marion. Ind.. Sept. 11.— An intelligent, well-dressed woman giving h„ r name as Mrs. Franklin Gibson and I - r home as Fort Wayne, was caught u the act of shoplifting in one O s Ijl( , department stores. She was talo n the police station. In searching her a shirtwaist was found. The won. u said she had plenty of money ami t i ; . (t it was not necessary for tier t Caught by Merry-Go-Round. Madison. Ind, Sept. IL—Daniel Wright house of Goshen, aged thir'v unmarried, was caught In the m.,. i.. n . ery of the merry-go-round at the < ty fairgrounds and terribly mangled though not necessarily fatal. Duluth, Minn., Sept. IL —Four rr.»n were killed and one was hurt by the falling of a sixty-foot scaffold at the Peavy concrete elevator.

Weak Wien Made Vigorous ■ I ■ » akW ..' I eg pESi*- ■v ■ rwir tntar mnrf What PEFFER’S NERVIGOR Did! It Arts nos-'-rfully »n<l quickly c n tll other* tan. Young men regain lost manb ■ r 'rj luthrul vigor. Ab«olnt.-lr i. iU'U'tvl In Hire Verrinio)*.., Lost Vim., Impotenry. Nightly Enilwlona. Lost I' .i.er’ either «t, Falling Memory, Wanting Hi..’ ana all tyrct* of or rxr< <• • nl jn-.it Ft'iun Wards oft inwainty and con- • - Doiftlet dnurgist iinj hmm* a worthier* j-uHaux'i . irl.ls a nn.ftt, li:> ar I! F F EK’S NKR VIGOR. <>r et-n f r t-carried in vest pocket. PreMid plain «ra -r »l : ..Tt -r. ■ Its t • ».5. With A Written t.uar anteelot areor Kefand M«n«y. Pan . 1 EH EK MEDICAL ASS’S. C'blcag , HE For by Blackburn At Chri*:e .

STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER. Lambs 1 25 Hogs, per cwt * Cattle per lb 3 $ Calves, per lb i(t Cows 2 © Sheep, per lb 2 ta 24 Beef Hides, per lb 6 COAL Per Ton Anthracite J 7 50 Domestic, nut 3 **o Domestic, lump, Hocking 80 Domestic lump, Indiana 3 40 Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 5"0 HAY MARKET. No. 1 timothy hay (new) r I'.nO (rtf'so No 1 mixed hay (new) IMO - . No. 1 clover hay (new) OIL MARKET. Tiona *l7l Pennsylvania 1.56 Coming 1:16 New Castle 1.43 North Lima 1.18 South Lima 1.15 Indiana 1 13 Whitehouse [26 Somerset 39 Lacy 97 Barkersville 9" Ragland 62 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VABIOCS OBOCEBS AND MEH 1 HANTS. Eggs, fresh, per doz f 1‘ Lard ' Butter, per pound 11 1 otatoee, new <lnions s*l Cabbage per lb Apples, per bu ’0 MARKET NOTES. Liverpool market closed steady " heat, | cent higher. Corn, ) cent higher. Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 32.W0 Wheat _ 225 cart Corn 7««i)cars Oats 136 can Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs Wheat im cart Corn 2~" 515 cart Data P’ l Place your fire insurance with B W. Sholty. I'l I"