Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1903 — Page 4

Weather Forecast. Indiana—Fair. colder; Tuesday , partly cloudy and warmer. A SHOCKING CRIME — Salt Lake Barber Murders His Wife and Leaves Sa’jy With Body. Salt Lake City. Dee: 28.—Frank Ross, a barber, surrendered himself at police headquarters '' -.nday. He said that he had killed his wife Christmas afternoon and that the body was still lying in the bedroom win re the woman had died after lingering for iwo hours with a pistol bullet in her brain. The police found, lying on a bed in a miserably furnished shack the body of Mrs. Rose, clad only in her undergarments, and by her side was thi woman’s 2-y ear-old son. the baby’s ■lothes being saturated with its moth ■r’s blood. It was at first thought that ’he child was dead, but when au officer attempted to release the little arms from around the dead woman’s neck, the boy began to cry and plain tively told the policeman that something was the matter with his mama and that “she won’t wake up." For almost two days the child had been locked in the cold room with its murdered mother, without food or alien ’ion of any kind. The child ia in a serious condition, but will probably recover. The family came to Salt Lake City from St. Louis. The husband was without employment and the couple are said to have quarreled frequently. HUSTLE FOR DINNER Stampede Occurs When Free Meals Were Offered at Chicago. Chicago. Dec. 28.—During a stampede of lO.’iOO men. women and children, waiting for admission, which fol lowed the opening of the doors of the Coliseum, where the Volunteers of' America Sunday gave their annual Christmas dinner, several glass doors were demolished and the dozen police men on duty at the place managed to restore order with the greatest difficulty. In the rush several women and children were knocked down ami tram pled on but none was seriously injured. The crowd was the largest that ever assembled at such an affair in Chicago and when everyone had been satisfied not a morsel of the tons of food remained.' Dowie Going to Leave. Chicago. Dec. 28. —Preparatory to leaving for Australia. John Alexander Dowie ba.lo farewell to his Chicago adherents at a meeting >n the Auditorium Sunday. Standing room w-as at a premium. After an all-night "watch meeting" in Zion City New Year's eve. Dowie will leave for New Orleans and will travel to San Francisco via the Southwestern route, stopping at various large cities en route. He intends to sail from the latter port Jan. 21. Didn’t End As Usual. Par's. Dee. _s.- ' duel with swords was for,, i Sunday morning between Capt. Levy, of the Fifth regiment of enuiree-- ged Henrv d" Montroy n leading ant'-.Semite. Capt. Levy was wounded in the arm. The traditional results of French duels were not fol lowed it, tb.is case ,<>’■ ihe opponents i remain unreconciled. The duel was the o itcomo of an altercation over ih“ Dreyfus ct'se. Growl’ in Trades Unionism. Albany. V.. Dec. 28.—Despite the fact that t.sere has been alleged concentrated effort to discourage trade unionism, the New York state department of labor in its bulletin just issued for the quarter ending October I. reports a gent increase in m tnbership and unions established

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OEftTH IN STORM Wind Blew Oil Signal Light and Trains Meet In Awful Wreck. Twenty two Persons Were Killed and Twenty-nine Injured, Some of the Latter Fatally. Horrid Consequences Attend the Extinguishing of a Red Light on Pere Marquette. Grand Rapids. Mich.. Dec. 28. —The 1 death-list resulting from the head-on collision between the two Pere Mar quette railroad passenger trains near East Paris Saturday evening, stands at twen’y-two, with twenty-nine persons injured, several of them probably fatally. The dead: Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Baldwin. Mulliken. Mich.; Louis Baldwin, their son; Lester Williams. Lansing, Mich.; Mrs. | Daisy Giles, Lowell, Mich.; Burt Myers, Grandville and Lake Odessa, Mich.; Walter Jordan, Grand Rapids; Joseph Hul’m (colored), Windsor, Ont., Austin I. Wager, baggageman, Detroit; Charles A. Stoddard, Detroit, engineer No. 6; Charles A. Devine. Grand Rapids; William Helrich, Detroit baggageman: F. M. Gillet, Burr Oak or Portland, Mich.; Allen H. Wells. Big Rapids, Mich.; Frank Burns. Detroit, fireman No. 5: Peter W. Wierengo. Grand Rapids; George Palmer. American Express agent on No. 6, Detroit; William Smith. Saranac. Mich.; four unidentified men. It was the most disastrous wreck in the history of the Pere Marquette sysI tern and instead of being caused by man’s carelessnes or mistake, Is charged to the high wind which extinguished the red signal light in the order board at McCord’s station, where the westbound train was expected to stop and receive new orders. Two 1 minutes before the train rushed byMcCord's the light was burning, says the operator there, but in that brief interval the blizzard that was raging extinguished it and train No. 5 flashed by the station to crash into eastbound train No. 6, near East Paris. The ’rains, which were two of the finest on the system, were reduced to a promiscuous pile of broken and twist- 1 ed timber and metal, with dead and injured pinned down and crushed by the fragments of the heavy cars. Five cars and two large locomotives were jammed into a space ordinarily occupied by three coaches, and the wreck age was strewn across the railroad right-of-way from fence to fence. When train No. 5, bound west, whizzed by McCord’s instead of stopI ping, the frightened operator notified th< dispatcher, then found that his red light had been extinguished. He 1 reported this fact, and then there was but one action to take. The collision was inevitable. The dispatcher's office called for medical aid and gave orders to hold the train over the Sag- ■ inaw branch at the depot and get the wrecking outfit under steam. They waited for the word they knew must come There was no chance of the fast running trains to see each other through the driving blizzard in time to even slow down, and in five minutes word came from Ihe conductor of No. 5 thet they had crashed together and that there was an awful loss of life. Ihe west-bound engine drove through No. t;’s engine like a wedge, separating th gear from the boil - aud standing the latter on end like a broken, twisted shell. The running < gear was crumpled up like so much , twine Great cast-steel side-rods bent i i into many shapes, and even the steel ’ires of the big driving wheels split 1 and sprung from the wheels, landing I in some cases ten feet from the en ’ glne. The boiler of Engine 397 turned over several times and the very force of the twisting impact seems to have been the means of saving .he life of I I Engineer Waterman. He was flung J forty feet over the fence at the edg< t lot the right-of-way. Moon, his fire- ' man. was sitting on the 0p,,, gjt e aide 1 of the cab and he, too. was thrown | clear of the pile of wreckage. As the trains came together the ■ steam dome of each boiler blow off. releasing their contents, else there would have been added horrors from th* b"Mer!ug steam. The eastlK>und ’rain was com posed ©f a mail and baggage car, combina Mon smoker, buffet parlor car, day coach and diner. The baggage coach caught between the engine and heavy train, crumpled up like pasteboard only the roof remaining partially unbroken The big blind mall coach heavily bulkheadad took the brunt of | the blow, but with toed the crash and | communicated It to Um rmok n r nc in the rear The smoker was sw. ! clean ns the mail car leh scoped its ■ | entire length and turned over ai the J i north side of the track. The smoker In turn crashed several j ■ fee’ into the parlor car. and it wrn ai j I the rear end of the smoker and for ward end of the case car where the passengers were killed and Injured Ti e westbound flyer with its heavy bulklieadcd cars stab', on the rails back of ths baggage and mail cars and the passengers in this train es j enped serious Injury. As one mar | they rushed out of the train to assist 1 the less fortunate ones on the train from thia city. Many stripped warm overcoats freen

their ba l;s and covered the suffering injured as they were borne to the lens shatter? 1 er rs of No. 5 aud into the remains of the parlor car of No. 11. I Nearby farmers, hearing the crash, turned out with blaukats and did va- | liant service. According to statements made by officials of the Pere Marquette, the westbound train was traveling down grade at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The east bound train was climbing the hill at a speed of forty milts an hour. The former carried probably seventy-live passengers, while the latter is believed to have been carrying at least 125 persons. The two trains collided at about, the middle of a long, sweeping curve, three q iarti-rs of a mile west of East Paris. On the inner side of the curve is a hi li embankment, preventing a view of the track ahead. When the engines met one turned completely over and lay with its nose in a direction opposite to that in which it had been traveling. The other climbed the wreckage of the first, its boiler torn from the trucks, standing erect in the center of the debris. MOPE WAR TALK Opinion Still Holds in Far East That Conflict Is Inevitable. Pekin., Dec. 28. —The opinion entertained by the best informed diplomats in Pekin that war between Russia and Japan is probable and almost inevitable, remains unchanged. Nothing has been received here to corroborate the special dispatch from Tokio which said that the Japanese government was adopting an imperative tone iu pressing for a speedy reply to this last note. The report is not believed. Official communications received here from high sources say that the Japanese war party is growing in strength and is bringing all its influence to bear upon the government. The Chinese lioard of war has ordered the viceroys to furnish full informs lion as to the numbers of foreign trained troops available for active service. The viceroys of three of the central provinces in response have r -|H>rte:l that 90,000 such troops are in readiness. This unquestionably is a remarkable ex- ggeration as the great majority of the foreign trained troops exist only on paper. The dowager empress has issued an edict al the request of Prince Ching appointing some unknown and probably inexperienced officials as heads of army departments. One such has been appointed director of training, another , has been given command of the de--1 part meat of instruction, while a third has been put in charge of the department which has to do with the supply of ammunition. Influential officials continue in their determination to keep China neutral if possible in the event of war. All (■lasses of Chinamen unite in believ- ! ing that in the event of war China must help the Japanese, and ’hat If this help should not b - given there will be a patriotic insurrection against the Mancini dynasty. SMITHSON’S REMAINS Prof. Bell Will Bring Them to Their Natural Resting Place. Genoa. Dec. 28. —Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, has arrived here. He will convey to

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I . the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. D. C., the remains of Jas. Smithson, founder of the institution, who died in (Jenna in 1821). — BRIEF DISPATCHES Ou»*«ippe ZBHBi'd«ill, f«»t met preimnr of haIj. h dead. DBTiiiff Bflrß Bl Mt.und < iiy. 111.. < mu Cal hoea, Byounf eofore i woman, wi« burned |<> death Chßrle* A»h Btrad Iff. wa* killed hr the a.-ri-dental di«chßi re nf hi* tfun while ai Middlelowr. hid. Harry F«*rd. |.*> year* old. wh» lived with Hr ! Frey. at Flalmrk. 111.. l«»-i hi- life hv Uie hum. luff of F» • r»-id<-nre. \ ten*- itiourreclioM baa broken nol am<ui< Ibt Hotieh /. wa»i* tribe- in Great Sftinaqiu.Jand'Gri'iiiaii bouiliwn*t Africa. \ moo «t Piin-anple. Fig.. lynched a tirffm m js'l. after win.-'i thi > fired the jail. the flitnei at reftthbX. rv-iilfiiuc in the •lr*tri»< lion ol eiichl •tore*. Twinl»-iw- |m r-on- were k el mi l J'lnjtired by ahead-on c«dii«i ■ t beiw» n na.<.i ng> r •rain•* on the Tern Marquette r«»a I m-.n | ».i Parl». Mu h. The bu-ine— I lurk in Marietta. •>.. that mF thi Fir»t National Bink wh« dr-troyrd by :|r«'. whi. h’•Ciriod fi Olli ;» m A io.- ..i i s.tm Tli" packet atemnlioiif W H. Grapevine we. enuk m the <'inrinnati puh.ir imidini; by mi ire fforip . .wing ihr wv<'o.i I bo.u -unk there by he w ithin a we. k. L I L -r < •». pre ■ d. u i ■! t o* llui onoi n and Ohm Railroad r.miii.viv h i- 1 *0:1 «• o-tod tn the po-ition .»f pico.i. i, .. th ♦€».?* I. aud cotg. patiT. *ur.T«« A . B L< •• tj*.

NERVI CfWMEN Under Fire of Fifty Citizens They Coolly Finish Their Job. Explosion Awakened the People. Who Turned Out to Save the Local Bank. The Robbers, Nothing Daunted, Continue Their Work and Get Safely A /ay. South McAlester,’ I. T., Dec. 28. —A bold bank robbery attended by a desperate battle between a posse of citizens and robbers, occured at Kiowa, a small town sixteen miles south of this city, Sunday, the robbers securing and destroying about $28,001' which was in the bank. The men gained entrance to the bank building through a roar window. The first charge of nitroglycerine made no impretsion on the safe, but this noise aroused residents of the town, and soon a pi»sse composed of fifty men was congregated in the stockyards at the rear of the oank. A volley of shots was fired at the building, and it was at once returned by the sentinels of the robbers secreted on the outside of the structure. An almost incessant tire was kept up for half an hour, during which time the robbers cintin.md their efforts to open the safe. It required three discharges to force the door. The third explosion was terrific and almost completely demolished the safe as well as the interior of the bank Paper money was blown into shreds, large quantities of mutilated bills be ing left by the bandits. After looting the safe the robbers left the building from the front and backed off into the darkness, keeping up a fire on the posse. The men wen’ in a southerly direction ami were followed quite a distance. It is said that one of the robbers was injured , The bank officials place their mou etary loss at S2SJ'"”. It is believed that the bandits made away with only a small part of this sum. the paper money being almost altogether destroyed I y the explosion. A posse ot United States marshals is in pursuit of the robbers. CRACKSMEN AT WORK Two Men With Revolvers Do Things in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. Dec. 28.—Two white men with revolvers blew open a safe, held up several persons and otherwise caused considerable excitement Saturday night in the suburban towns along the main line of the Pennsylvania rail road Two men wore held up at Haverford. and later a man escorting several ladies was stopped by the same men but the screams of his coinpan- ; ions scared the footpads off. Several hours later they appeared at Straffuni. covered an aged watchman with revolvers and blindfolded him. The men then blew open the safe in the railroad station, which is also used as the postuifiee, and took about SI,OOO in money and stamps. The police have a good description of the bur glars but they have been unable to find any trace of them. GOING ON UP Indiana Man Will Become President of the Rock Island. New York, Dec. 28.—L. F. Loree president of the Baltimore & Ohio rail roan company, will on Jan. 1 next be uitne president of the Rock Island company, succeeeding Wm. B. Leeds.

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i .Mr. horee was choar-.i executive head of the Hock Island company, which controls the Chicago. Hock Island <■ Pacific railway system, nt a recent meeting of the director*, when Mr. Leeds tendered his reelgnation. The latter will continue as u niember ol' the Rock Island conprtny'a "Xieutive committee. Doctor Accidentally Shot. Springfield. Mass.. Dec. 2K Wm I >< A. \ oting. one <,f t |, > | IPS| known phyMclntts In this city, wax shot 'through the heart by a httllet from n I r'fle which he was placing in his car- , rlage. previous to going hunting The accident was wlinesaod by hie wife i and sc oral frfc..ds.

market report. reeled every day. GRAIN. BY E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT. New Corn yellow New Corn, mixed •• ••• Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new Wheat, No. 2 - - ~ gj Wheat, No. * Ry o , 50 B« r ley — - 575 ? °™r Seed - 5 , 1() Alsyke ....... - 4K Buckwheat - - qQ Timothy 11 " CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at T:lsp. m today, according to J. D. Halos special wire service, as follows: Wheat, December - - - £ Wheat, May - Wheat. July Corn, December - . Corn, Mav - - Corn July Oats, December Oats, May - May Pork *- January Lard per cwt b bO Mav Lard, per cwt... b . - TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon ai 3:00 o’clock hr J. D. Hale, Decatur. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash » i December wheat May wheat s ■ - July wheat. Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash 47'J Corn, December — May Corn — 1 - Oats. Cash Oats, December ” . May Oats ■'*- Rye, cash ... OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. Egcrs. fresh, per doz— — I 2 < Lard ® Butter, per pound _ll @1 E> Potatoes, new 50 Onions 50 Cabbage per 100 lb EOc Apples, per bit.. - 50 Sweet Potatoe. per bu 75 WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVER A SON. Wool, unwashed lCto2o Sheep pelts 25c to 75 Beef hides, per pound 0»i Calf hides 08 Tallow, per pouml 01 Coon 15 to 1.25 Skunk 20 to 1.25 O'possum 10 to GO Muskrat sto 22 Mink 50 to $2.00 STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER Lambs 4 50 Hogs, per cwt ? 4 25 Cattle per lb. 3 @ 3J Calves, per lb. 5 @ 5 j Cows 2 @ 2} 1 Sheep, per ib 2 (Ci 2| i Beef Hides, per lb 5J POULTRY. BY J. w. FLAct. vu., rACKERS. Chickens, young per 1b... _.slirtG Fowls, per Ib. 5, (7 i; Ducks, per lb t; Young Ducks R Young Turkeys, per lb 11« 1 G.iese, old per lb 1 Geese, young, lb 5 HAY HARKET. No. 1 timothy hay(baled) .„ _ - $7.50 @sß..->0 No 1 mixed hay (baled) _ --7-----$6.00 | No. 1 clover hay (baled) COAL-Per Ton Anthracite __| 7 Domestic, nut 4 qq Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 fxj ; Domestic lump, Indiana 3 80 I Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 550 OIL HARKET. Tiona to 02 Pennsylvania j O’™"* •, ik .Newcastle i -< North Lima $ >- South Lima 1 : '

j try THE : i BURT HOUSE CAFE! *OK ALL FANCY AND UP TO DATE DRINKS. | J-- — ■ — i Tdp and in Bottle ; and Home-Made “Tom and Jerry” CALL ON MOSE AND HE WILL TREAT YOU I RIGHT. —— — (gj — THE RIVERSIDE ' Livery and Feed Bart] by M KiC ”- vartl the liuest K n H tra ' l ’‘- Goul covered feetl ; J - RICE ~~ F1 >*»t OtX-oot — —l IB -—

Indiana I Whitehouse r Somerset . Neodaaha, (Kan.) j Barkersville Ragland ; HARKET NOTES. , Liverpool market closed steady. 1 Wheat, ,J cent higher. Corn. i| eent higher. j Receipts at Chicago today; I Hogs 26000 I Wheat ',3 car, I ) ■ Corn - 25‘Jeani > 1 Oats 212 ( > Bni ); Cattle 2»XX» < I Sheep 20000 1 ’ Estimate for tomorrow: ’ i Hogs 3;!0(X' | Wheat 50 cart Corn - —«*...!, 15 cars ' ’ Oats 133 -am CHEAP RATES SOUTHWEST • 1 Southeast Missouri, Arkansas, Ixiuiß 1 iana and Texas.—Homeeeekeri ■ Opportunities 1 Here’s your chance. Very low ( , Be way and round trip South wt« this winter- about half the regualr fare, twice a month—nearby date are Dec. 15, HK&and .Tan, 5 and 19, ** and Feb. 2 and 16, 1904. Good time , to visit Southeast Miaaouri, Arkansas. Louisanna or Texas and pick j out a location. Hound trip tickets I - permit stoiiorer on the going tri), 7 return limit 21 days. Write an< ! tell ns your storting point and ; where you want to go. We will 2 tell you exactly what your ticket • will cost, oneway or round tri* I we will see that your baggage u checked, and that you are] coinfor | tably Itx'ated on the right train Write for our illustrated descriptive 7 literature , maps, lists of real estate J agents, and let us help you find a better home in the country along - the Cotton Belt Route. Write today L to E. W. Lißeanme, T. P. and T. D A..Cotton Belt Route. St. Louis.Mo ____________________ The Overland Limited. The luxurious electric lighhd daily’ train for San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland leaves Chi cagos;oop. in daily via Chicago, Union Pacific & North Western J Line. Less than three days enroute ’j to the Pacific C last. The best of 2 1 everything. Two other fast trains L) leave Chicago daily 12:30 p. ni. and 111:35 p. m. For illustrated book lets, reservations and full particu lars apply to your nearest ticket agent or address, A. H. Waggener 22, Fifth Avenue. Chicago. 111. 1 Four Fast Trains Chicago to St. Paul Minneapolis. Via Chicago A- North Wetsenm railway. Leave < hicago 9:1'1 a.111.. 6:30 p. ni. (Northwestern Limited electric lihgted throuhgont) 1 .im p. m. and 3;00 a m. Fast schedules luxurious equipment, dining car srevice uneqi.dled.For tickets.rates and sleeping car reservations apply to your nearest ticket agents or address, A. H. Waggoner, 22 Fifth 0 Avenue, Chicago, 111. 5 Monroe Agent. Mr. Jonathan Bnrkhetul has been appointed agent for the Daily 0 and Weekly Democrat for Monroy ' ' and vicinity and is authorized t» U take subscriptions and receive mt h 0 ey- ts Ten’*thousand dollars private 2: funds left with ns to loan on Decu ! . tur real estate,first mortgage, biw 'l rate of interest. Will loan in sums 71 of |SO upwards. The Decatur Ab 2 . stract and Loan Co. 257dtf