Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. KVBKY EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY UE W ca . Et-LINOHAN/I. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week. 10c By carrier, per year $4 00 By mail, per month 25C By mall, per year $2 50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application Entered tn the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana. as second-class mall matter. J. H. HELLER. > Manager. Another bank gone republican. The Ellison private bank at Lagrange closing its doors and will likely lose depositors considerable money. The Herald’s announcement in “stud” horse type that Congressman Cromer's nephew had been caught rumaging the Doxey House, 1 is taken by the Cromerites as a slap at the congressman. They say the Herald wants to create the impression that a bad nephew goes with a bad uncle. At any rate, they count the Herald feninst Cromer.—Anderson News, While cavorting around on the. wharf at Ellis Island the other day | the wind flirted up President Roost - velt’s long coat tails and exposed the | butt end of a big revolver protruding from his hip pocket. The many able and well-grounded sermons and newspaper editorials of the past on the evil of carrying concealed weapons will lose much of their influence in the example set by the first citizen of the republic.— Miami County Sentinel. The Hon. Don M. Dickinson favors Tom Taggart for national chairman. In an interview he says: “I think Mr Taggart would make a good chairman,” said Mr. Dickinson, "He would be satisfactory to the party. Os course. Senator Jones made a good official, but I suppose there are some who would be against him. Mr. Taggart was chairman of the Indiana democratic state committee in 1892 j when I was chairman of the national committee, and he impressed me then as a shrewd politician. The fact that he was elected moyor of his own city repeatedly is indication that he knows how to conduct a campaign.” In his charge to the Adams county special grand jury Judge Erwin called attention to numerous forms and manifestations and lawlessness in the jury's jurisdiction and urged a thorough probing of it all. Besides a murder case invested with circumstances of unusual brutality, the jury has before it for investigation the dynamiting of Editor Rohrer's home at Berne. Something interesting no less than salutary for the community should be brought forth by the inquiry. From the scope and vigor of Judge Erwin’s charge to the special grand jury there is evidently some thing rotten in Adams and a shakedown could not l>e better timed. Fort Wayne Sentinel.

our entire line of CUC TTO A TTT FT A TT*J I IF YOU intend to PAINT IS BEING SOLD JR R I J ) /A I I Fl R H A l\ BUILD A HOUSE OR AT COST. IF THE OLD V-/U/ -I—d 1 2xll\ ♦ BARN OR DO ANY RE HOUSE OR BARN PAIR WORK LET US LOOKS DINGY GIVE IT FIGURE ON YOUR anewdress. We will fh ere d li week with a fine line of y o L umoney illsave Buggies, Carriages, Harness, Farm Machinery and Wagons During Fair week we will sell any Bicycle in our stock at cost, to make room' for winter goods. WE HAVE ALL 1 GRADES AND ALL WE SELL RELIABLE KINDS OF STOVES AT C/"'’TT A LTCD TT A DHAYr ADP °°ons and solicit I THE LOWEST PRICE t H,FI/A FR l\ Fl/A I\U W Al\C LaJ. Y ° UR RATRONA ° B I

Clark Re-Elected. Ogden. Utah, Sept. 19.—The eleventh national irrigation congress came v- y-affoK. BBNATOR W. A. CLABK. I to an end late yesterday afternoon. It re-elected Senator Clark of Montana president, and decided to hold the con gress of 1904 in El Paso. Extended the Time. “Owing to the change being made in the gas line from the old to the I new field al! the consumers may I expect a light shortage of gas for 'at least two weeks, which time it I will take to make the change and 'to connect up the new wells to the line now being laid. As soon as the new line is laid and the wells connected we expect to give better service, by far than that given dur ing the past two years. The company now has meters on hands it is urgently requested that all persons who expect to use gas this winter will leave their order for a meter at once so that the company may be able to make orders in advance to the manufacturers for what meters we may need for other consumers. We are paying a bonus to the manufacturers in order to get all meters to supply our patrons at once and it is very hard to get an order, for the demand on the manufacturers is so great that their capacity is almost exhausted. All the gas companies located in the gas belt have been driven to the meter system in order to supply their customers. We being some 42 miles from the gas field are driven to force the gas such a long distance, requiring the best class of pumping machinery and from 800 to 1000 horse power steam to drive the great air pressure to supply our customers with gas that it entails an enormous expense. J. S. Bowers. Owing to the scarcity of meters and the slowness of the manufacturers to supply our orders we have extended the time for consumers to supply themselves with meters until November Ist. After that date gas will be sold only to those people who have the meters. This matter refers to consumers in Decatur. Monroe. Berne and all others along our line J. S. Bowers. Wanted—A secondhand gas mei ter. W. J. Meyers. 205d33

WILL CLOSE. On account of Jewish holidays our place of business will be closed Sept. 22 an 23d and October 2. B. Kai ver & Son. — The Hub clothing store will be closed Tuesday Sept. 22 on account of Jewish New Year from 6 a. m.j until 6p. m. Harry Freidman. Owing to the fact that next Tuesday, September 22 is the Jewish New Year day I will close my store during the day until 6p. m. Gus Rosenthal. Notice to Taxpayers. I am ready to receive November installment. Only a few days left Ito make this payment. Bookswill be turned over to County Auditor after Monday, Nov. 2, 1903, which is the last lawful day to receive this tax in. There will be no excuse accepted, only in case of sickness by due notice. No receipts will be taken out of receipt book unless cash or check is in sight. 216d6 J. H. Voglewede, Treas. Notice to Gas Consumers. At Decatur. Monroe, Berne and 1 Geneva. Sunday 20, the gas will lx? shut off from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. owing to cutting the main line and repairs at pump station. J. S. Bowers. Cider made every day at the Peter Kirsch's mill. North Third street. See Holthouse, Schulte & Co., for your next suit. They will please you both in quality and price. All barber shops in the city will , lx l closed Thursday of next week, , from t welve o’clock until six oclock Helen Smith accompanied by her nurse Gertrude Rugg arrived from Larwell today where Miss Helen has been taking a course of treatment for spinal trouble, she is greatly improved. New York Politicians Indicted. Washington. Sept. 19. —It is learned that the two persons indicted Thurs day by the federal grand jury in the postal fraud cases were a former chief of one of the bureaus of the postoffice department, who has already been indicted on other charges, and a prom | inent New York state politician There are three bills. The first charges the two men with conspiracy to defraud the government in the sale to the department of a device in which the politician is interested the second charges the postoffice official with ac cepting a bribe, and the third chargee the New York man with offering a bribe. The New Yorker is one whose name has been mentioned in connection with the recent investigation Mountain People Misrepresented. Jackson Ky., Sept. 19. —Colonel Richard Holz, in command of perhaps the first Salvation Army cavalry in the country, has left here for Magoffin I county. Members of the Salvation Army are unused to horseback riding and furnished amusement to the na ■ tives. The mountaineers feel kindly ( toward the Salvationists and listened to them with marked attention. Col Holz expects to reconnoiter with hit party and if prospects are sufficiently inviting, will establish a permanent location in the mountains He said: “I find the mountain people have been | g-eatly misrepresented in point of in ' telllgence and morals.”

OiiESflON Os MCE Booker Washington Gives Out a Word On Behalf of His People. Over Ten Thousand Persons Hear the Negro “Moses” at Exposition Hall, Philadelphia. Problem That Presses More and More Is One of Employment, He Says. Philadelphia. Sept. 19.—Over ten thousand persons attended last night s session of the Negro Baptist convention at the national exposition building and listened to addresses by Book er T. Washington and Rev. Dr. Dean Richmond Babbitt of New York. Mr. Washington addresed himsell to the church delegates, and in the course of bis speech said: "In a large degree the negro minister during the last twenty-five or thirty years, has been the preserver of peace and harmony between the races. But for the furebcarance and patience and the gentle tact of the negro minister many race riots would have occurred in our country. “In a peculiar sense you will find more and more chat it will become the duty of the negro minister to take the unpopular side of many public ques tions. What we need in an increasing degree is that kind of leadership in the pulpit that is willing to stand adverse criticism, to be misunderstood and even abused, for the sake of the right. Our people do not need flat tery; much as they need facte "Y’ou will find one of the problems that is going to press more seriously upon you for solution in the near fu ture than in the past is the one of employment for our people, especially in Northern cities. We can only hold our own in the world of labor and industry by teaching our people to do a thing as well as anybody else, by teaching them to perform common labor in an uncommon manner. We cannot hold our own in the labor I world unless we are constantly taking advantage of every opportunity to improve ou-selves.” In his further remarks Mr. Washington said: “Bishop Chandler of Georgia, struck in my opinion, the heart of the race question a few s S y« aeo when he said i. that each race should try to correct the evils among its own people, and > I that the white race should cease abusi ing the negro at long range and that I the negro at the same time should - cease his Cross-fire at the white man* It will be to our interest in every i manly, straightforward manner to cultivate the friendship of people among whom we live.” Rev. Dr. Babbitt delivered a lecture on "The Negro and the Nation." He contended that the real negro question before America is to give the negro the highest possible developmnt of American manhood. He said that i voluntary, economic, industrial perII suasive transplantation from the coni Rested and Illiterate black belts of the South to the regions of the North I and West should be Immediately at I tempted and slowly, systematically | carried on. Some of the practical and speedy benefits to the Illiterate, super stitious and morally inadequate negroes of the congested black belts, be said, would be their rearing, moral i and intellectual expansion and general uplifting in the different and better I industrial and educational nnnaitiuno

I , v -th The North ought not of the North. ly g t 0 object, for‘his. he , naJ national problem and not one. — attempted assassination Well-Known Merchant Shot While Leaving His Store. Columbus. Ind.. Sept. 19.—An effort was made to assassinate 0. P- McLain fifty years old. a general merchant a Alert' near this city McLain had closed his store and stepped ■ m t in front when some one stepped in fr of him and fired the contents m a shotgun into his face Seventy sinks ' struck him. blinding his so that he could not recognize his assailant. There Is no due to the would-be murderer McLain's right eye iw be bllnied. but it is believed his left: eye ■ will not be effected Mr. McLain is 1 one of the best-known men in the county, and at one time was a HepubJican leader in this city. Col. Mischitch Loses Out Vienna Sept 19—It is reported from Belgrade that King Peter has — moved Colonel Mist hitch, leader of tue . regicides, from the influential position , of departmental chief in the ministry i of war. and has reappointed him to the professorship in the military academy which be held before the coup ■ d’etat. I I

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I I ': Indianapolis. Sept. 19. —Former Rep | resentative Lon Mull of Rushville may I be a candidate for the Democratic ’ nomination for state treasurer next ’ i year. He is a wealthy and populat business man and agriculturist and I I would probably be a good man for the i ticket. His friends —and he has them 1 scattered throughout the state —are ' i urging him to run. and during his visit ’ to the state fair he said he had the, ' matter unuer advisement The men tion of Mr. Mull for state treasurer 1 bears out what has been said before r In these dispatches—that is. that there > would have to be new material for the Democratic state ticket next year Not that the men whc were on the ticket ’ during the last two campaigns were responsible for its defeat. On the con trary they were held in high regard by ! the party and worked hard for its sue1 cess. But most of them have made i ’; two races, and even if It were possible ' ‘ that they would like to try it again it is very probable that a majority of 1 the party workers would want some 1 new candidates. And ft is also very ' likely that some men will be selected ' who have not been too active with either element of the party However ! there is an abundance of time yet tc select candidates. ■ How peculiar it would he if neither ‘ of the old party candidates for mayor here would be elected’ Well inform * ed politicians say such a thing is not 1 probable nor within the range of a ■; possibility this time, yet there are ■ hundreds of careful thinkers who are ' beginning to feel that the independent 1 movement is going to cut a large figure Your correspondent has not ’’ placed much confidence in Independent movements for the reason that they have never amounted to much In Indianapolis During the fight there has been a lot of talk, but when it came to voting the Republicans and Democrats generally voted for their r own tickets or for the candidate of the cnnoclng r-artv Vu, thia tlmu the

t President the Guest of Honor. t Oyster Bay. N. Y.. Sept. 19.—p res| j dent Roosevelt was the guest of honor last night at the annual dinner of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht club at Its handsome and spacious home on Center Island, in Oyster Bay Many men prominently Identified with yacht ’ ing in the East were present and the dinner was a handsome and delightful affair. t A Challenge to Hanna. t Norwalk. Ohio, Sept. 19.—J O h n q 1 Clarke. Democratic candidate for , United States senator from Ohio, has t formally challenged Senator Hanna to meet him In joint debate on the Issues t of the campaign. » ■ " ’ BRIEF DISPATCHES. A Belgrade dispatch denies the minor (hat ’ King Peter of Bervia hnd been assassinated ' Kaiser Wilhelm arrived in Vienna. Fn lay I afternoon. He was accorded a hearty re.-p. , ■ (ton. Pittsburg reports a better tone in iron W!ls orders for finished products conung t n m „ M freely. The Ktughls and Ladies of Honor will , 100. 00 temple in lad'aniipolis fornatioa. heaj. | quarters Business failures in the United States forth, wees number 170 against -tU last week. Is; ln 1 the like week es IWt I Mrs Mary K. Jahn and her IJ-year >,i . daughler arv dead al St. Lotus of burns esue: hr gasoline. and a lu-year-old son of the wnmn * can not live. Further reports from Kastoria. European 1 Turkey, say the city was burned by Turk, that the massacre of its population testimur; to have numbered lit.oot persotu< was in>. senbsbiy terrible

’ candidacy of Hitz, the independent does seem out of the ordinary Straw polls taken of a number of business blocks show that he is not only even with Bookwaiter. Republican and Holtzman. Democrat, in most of them, but that in several he is in th-- lead» Hitz's friends intorm me that there are whole precincts on both the n--rth and south sides where he will sweep the Republican and Democratic tick • and they are beginning to believe he has some chance of being elected Howver. as stated above, it is a sure thing, according to old-timers, that either Bookwaiter or Holtzman will win. It is estimated that over 50.0(H) people visited the statehouse this week Probably five times that many str ed up and down the stone steps of the great soldiers' monument. People living here in Indianapolis th, -ai round do not appreciate the Ka':’:e« of the capitol building or the tnonu ment until outsiders come here and go Into ecstacies over them It was giatifying to witness the pleasure the people from outlying counties got out of visiting the statehouse and exploring it from top to bottom. Every day during the fair the corridors of the big building were teeming with human ty The museum. of course. whi< h is filled with curiosities and well worth seeing was the center of attraction but thousands seem content to come and wander through the deep wide corridors stopping now and then to see some otfice-holder whom they knew Ths monument, too, seemed just as Inter esting as It was when it was dedicated It was estimated today that In the neighborhood of |25,000 has already been taken on the local betting board! on the city election. Bookwaiter, th* Republican candidate, is carrying most of the money, but Holtzman also has many friends. It is very likely that before the election day there wi# be 1150,000 put up.