Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1904 — Page 4

Weather Forecast. Snow, colder in south portion; Sun day fair: fresh northeast to north winds. Country Correspondence. Eastern Dispatch. We write it now 1904. Do you? David Marshaund has bought a steam engine. A series of revival meeting are to e immence soon at Union. A successful social was given last Friday night in Fullers hall at Pleasant Mills. A. N. Acker of Pleasant Mills transacted business in this community New Years s day. Sphen Roebuck, Alfus N. Acker and R. (). Elston are candidates for republican central committeeman, south precinct of St. Marys township. Spring Hill Items. Manes IJershy is reported on the sick list. Harold Crawford of Decatur was visiting his uncle George Gates this week. Henry Miller of Minot, N. D. is here since last Wednesday visiting is father Mathias Miller and other relatives. Mrs. Kate Roe returned home from an extended visit with her father and other relatives at Mexico City, 111. | Dr. W. Gage, a student of the medical college at Cincinnati was visiting his brothers in Blue Creek last Saturday. Murray Miller arrived here from Minot N, D., Wednesday and he shows good health. He has been here for nearly three years and is well pleased with that country. Col. Luth Gage one of our famous sale criers was calling on friends in Bluffton and while there entered i n contract with one of the business men to conduct 30 or more sales for one man during this summer. Chicago to St. Paul Minnneapolis lour daily fast trains via the Chicago & North-Western Ry. ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK ’Phones -Office, 164; residence, 245

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ARRESTS FOLLOW Chicago Chief of Police Holds Seven As Accessories io Manslaughter. GOING TO LEAVE TOWN Stage Manager of Hl-Fatad Iroquois Theater and Assistants Had Taken Alarm. Had Packed Their Trunks and Were Prepared to Clear Out of City. Coroner's Investigation Reveals StartTing Conditions as to Exits and Fire Escapes. From Initial Inspection the “Sa**st" Theater in Chicago Was Far from Safe. The Great City hy the Lake Greets the New Year in Sorrow and Gloom. Chicago. Jan. . —Seven employes of the Iroquois theater were arrested last night on orders issued by Chief of Police O'Neill. Hie charge against them is at present that of being accessory to manslaughter. They will be held pending the verdict of the coroner's Jury. The men arrested are: William Carlton, stage manager: Edward Cummings, stage carpenter; Frank J. Andrew. R. M. Cummings, E. E. Engle, Thomas .McQueen, S. J. Mazoni. The last five are stage hands and scene shifters. After being taken into custody by the police four of the men told Chief O’Neill that they had been requested by people connected with the theater to leave the city. They said they were about to follow this advice and all of them hail packed their trunks and would have bei»n out of the city had not the police arrested ihei.t. Coroner Traoger's jury last night made an inspection of the ruined theater. An inspection was first made of the exits leading to the fire escapes in the first balcony. The iron doors were closed and locked and it was seen that the inner doors were so close to the steel shutters that they could not be opened with the shutters fastened. This exit is not sufficiently high for an ordinary sized man to walk through without stooping, and when the jurors learned this fact by personal experience there was considerable comment among them. The jury tlien ascended to the top gallery, where the greatest loss of life occurred An inspection was made «<i the exits leading to the fire escapes, and the jurors were told that the bodies of the dead were piled ten feet high in front of these doors when the police reached the scene after the fire. “If those doors were locked somebody was criminally negligent," said Juror Finn. •'The exits are too small, anyway,” va'.d Foreman Meyer as he measured , th<- doors leading to the fire escapes. A few of the questions to which the 1 J try will endeavor to obtain satisfac ’ lory answers at the inquest are Were the steel doors leading to th« fire escapes on the first and second balconies locked when the fire broke out?" "If they were locked, were they ' opened promptly by the attendants’” "Why was it im, tssible to lower rhe asbestos rnrtaln?" "Why did the management permit the use of arc lights In the files with no device to prevent sparks from the I carbons Igniting the borders of the I scenery and curtain?" "Why did the ushers shut all the I doors and urge the audience to remain seated after the fire broke out. instead , of doing everylng possible to emptythe house?" A JOYLE'S NEW YEAR Chicago Greeted the Dawn cf the Day Without Demonstration. rhleago, Jan. . For the first Fmr since Chicago has possesred behs to penl whistles to shriek and horns to Mow. the old year was allowed to silently fake Its place In history, and the new j'-ar permitted to come in With no evidence of ]<>• Ils birth. hi an official proclamation issued , btc yesterday afternoon by Mayor Carter If Harrison he made tic- .vug | geatlon that the usual New Year's eve celebration be for this time ouiltted. j The Ides found a ready r--pones is I

the hearts of the people and the mayor's words in fact only gave utterance to the unexpressed thoughts that had filled them all. The appalling calamity in the Iro-I qnois theater has cast Chicago Into 1 the depest grief and gloom, and for the time being at least seems to have chilled and deadened all the ordinary ambitions of life. Business is performed with the sole view to actual necessity, and even that much is carried out in a perfunctory manner. Ordinarily on New Year’s eve the streets of the city are tilled with merrymakers, but last night the onlythrongs to be found were these around the morgues; ordinarily numbers of fashionable restaurants in the heart of the city are filled with lighthearted revelers who toast the year that passes and hail the year that comes. Last night these places were comparatively deserted, and some of them closed entirely with doors locked and curtains drawn. Usually among these gay people are found many members of the theatrical profession. Last night not a single one of them was In evidence. For the second time in her life the city of Chicago has been stricken to the heart. Not only Lave many of her sons and daughters met death in a variety of horrible and torturing forms but the blow has fallen almost as heavily upon the strangers within her gates. There is hardly a village or town within a radius of 100 miles of Chicago whose people are not directly or Indirectly interested in the piles of dead or in the injured which fill the hospitals, or in the fate of those who seem to have passed from human knowledge in the fact that it is be lieved they were in the ill-fated strnc ture and of whom no word has since been heard. The list of dead continues in the neighborhood of 560. It. is generally accepted at this time that the most accurate estimate is 564. This num ber will be increased somewhat, as there are people in the hospitals who cannot survive for any length of time It is believed, however, that the total number of dead will not in any event exceed 575. Including the missing, it is estimated that the total number of casualties is nt the present time approximately 1,000. There are among the missing the names of many whe are at their homes and of some who were not at the theater at all. In the first excitement following the calatn ity these people were reported by their relatives as among the missing, and numbers of them have since returned to their homes and no report of this fact has been made to police head quarters. Their names, however, still swell the list of the missing When the uames of the dead who are still to be identified have been substract ed from the list of missing it is probable that the extent of the catastrophe will be fully revealed. There is animated discussion among firemen, employes of the theaters and architects as to the cause of the fire. Accounts differ today as widely as they varied Wednesday night. The theatrical people are practically a unit in declaring that the fire started with an explosion, and In this they are flatly contradicted by scores of people in the audience, who declare that they saw the fire creeping along the edge nf the curtain for several minutes be fore the explosion took place. These statements are substantiated by the stories of a number of people who left their seats after seeing the blaze, and were well on their way to the street when overtaken by the frightened rush of those they had left behind them. The best evidence obtainable is to the effect that the fire was caused by the sparks from an arc light striking the edge of the drop curtain, but the actual feet, brwver will not ho known until after the conclusion of the coro ner's Inquest There are so many statements at present and they differ so widely that It is impossible to ascertain the exact truth of the matter. Although the Iroquois theater was un doubtedly the safest theater in Chicago, it has become evident that the city building department had not strictly enforced one or two sections of the budding ordinances. William Curran, a building Inspec i tor, was in the theater only a few mo metita before the catastrophe and went away saying that everything was in good condition. He reported this I fact to Deputy Building Inspector Stanhope. The deputy commissioner i yesterday, in company with Building Inspectors Laughlin. Lense and Dal ton. went to the theater to make an inspection. Upon his return tn the city hall lie said: “The theater and its management were strictly within the law I will not go into details until I have completed my report." Section 185 of the local building ordinance provides that tn buildings of the class to which the Iroquois theater belong, there shall he a system of automatic sprinklers. There were no sprinklers In the theater, and Mr. Stanhope, when this was called to his attentie replied "There was no Sprlllkl system in the theater, hut the pr< .ision about the Iron doors made It unnecessary for the theater to have thorn.” Section 189 of the onlinan-e provides that theaters be eipilppi fl with fire alarms connected with the city fire alarm system. Mr. Stanhope said: "The Iroquois had fire alarm connections. I did not see the box, but that Is my informal Ion.” City Electrician Hyland said: “The • Iroquois had no fire alarm connection i with the city alarm syalem No ap i plication la on silo for any such coni nectlon.” The nlarm of fire. In fact, i was turned In from n tox over half a : block distant .'rum the iht-ater.

PITIFUL SEMICH I I Anxious Quest of Those Looking For Friends At the Morgues. The Numerous Bodies of Children Added an Unspeakable Pathos to the Scene. Coroner Traeger Has Begun an Informal Inquiry Into the Horror. Chicago, Jan. .. —Crowds continue to besiege the undertaking rooms and hospitals looking for missing friends a:„. j the dead and injured victims of the Iroquois theater fire. Policemen are detailed at all places where the dead and injured had been carried, to restrain the anxious men and women who press in at the doorways to inquire for their lost friends and relatives. In all the undertaking rooms the bodies were placed as far as possible upon cols, and when these were exhausted stretched in long lines upon the floors, and a constant sucession of pale-faced mon ar.d tearful women passed slowly between the bodies, lifting the coverings from the charred and bruised faces, and scare ling in the clothing of the dead for something by which their lost ones could be recognized. In many instances women fainted when lifting the sheet from some face in which they recognized the features of a dead child or a beautiful youug girl. The scenes that were enacted around the bodies of the little children were pathos itself. There were so many of them and they had evidently been such beautiful children and were so handsomely dressed, that the comparison between what they had been and what they were caused men and women alike to turn away weeping from the bodies of the little ones. There has been no sadder feature connected with the disaster than the killing of so many little children. It is the one thing that seems to overpower all visitors io the morgues beyond anything else. While the crowds of anxious seekers for news besieged the different morgues, tho telegraph and long-dis tancc telephone offices were almost swam|>ed with the flood oi inquiring messages. It is probable that nearly every person in Chicago with relatives living in other parts of the country received one or more messages during the day asking if they were safe. Messenger Iwiys from the telegraph offices of the Postal and Western Union are carrying great bundles of messages, and today the terrific rush ot business is still on. Private wires of t.ie stock exchange and board of uade houses were likewise loaded down with inquiries and answers. Every available operator was pressed into service and tor hours it was impossible to obtaia connections on some of the Old lying exchanges. Coroner Traeger and his assistants <lid all in their power to supply Infor matiou concerning the dead and injured. tint five times the number of available men in his office could not have accomplished the task. Crowds of people besieged the office and begged that arrangements might be made so that they could view the bod les without delay. The applicants were promptly furnished with permits which they showed to the police and which admitted them to any hospital or morgue. Six bushel baskets of valuables and trinkets of various descriptions were gathered by the police and firemen an I flumed over to the coroner. Among hese e-ero fully a dozen watches, and Tn every case the watch had stopped S'.*. 3:50 o'clock, the time when the ft -e broke oul. Coroner Traeger last night conducted an informal inquiry into the cause >f the fire. IJ is first wltnesa was VI Ham C. Sellers, the fireman cm- ; 10-ed at the theater Sellers did not I now just how the fire began, but said he saw it shortly after it broke out H i three extinguishers on the blaze, ' blit without effect. He tried to pull do vn the drop curtain or to tear loosi that portion of it which was blazing but wit bout success. The fire i hen spreid with such great rapidity that he was unable to do more Oihei wit nessrs were examined and after they had been heard Assistant State's Attortey A A. Heer, who was present, said "It seems agreed that tin as bentos curtain was dropped, but that it went' only to within ton or fifteen feet of the stage floor. People on th. Stage Opened the door hading from the stage Into the street on the west side of the theater, and this created a strong draft. Tho draft blew the curtain out toward the audience. This held the curtain so tightly that all attempts to lower ft further were fittile. Att- ntpts were made by minorous porsom tn pull the curtain down by hand mt .<•< From all the inl' irnmtfon we have !><•• -n abhto gather hits far. it seems to nie as , though th< Inuit in cf'-atin-; the draft | which Hire v the audience-into n panic by forms - - flai - 011 l ~ ~ t)1 , r bends, was im- fnr fore to the tetloa of tho them Icfl In opening the door at the rear ot. tho thextor than by the attduuct opt h.g th* a wra Hi | I trout.” 1

REVIEW of TRADE Wha t Bradstreet" Has to Say of the Week's End. .. ... tan Bradstreet's 1 W eekiv review of trade today says: !’«««■ "»«TS lurs have furnished about a tivitv noted in distributive trade > t week usually quiet and devo « a g ]v to Stocktaking ami m ' - 110 ' Holiday business closed 1 J nne a volume of trade equal m n | | cases to the best heretofore recorded(Sd weather has aided the distHbm | t ion of provisions and - - . "'"High prices of raw material cloud | the goods market and while the mills are generally busy the "at value n , ture of the sales for forward deliver, checks new business. Stocks’ are small and held down t > o Wool is steadier and a fair ss | '“I good shape-- Iron has been quieter, incuiry being more active, but aclua. buying smaller. Some business >. reported doing in finished forms. Tubing is slightly weaker. Benson Under Arrest. New York, Jan. -John A Benson, who is under charges in connection with Western land frauds, was arrested in this city last evening at the Instance of secret service agents and will be arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields. — Turkish Plot Suspected. Salonica. European Turkey. Jan —Over 100 Turk: were arrested here on suspicion of complicity in a plot to massacre Christians. The arrests are continuing. Quantities of arms and explosives have been seized. Received With Honors. Colon. Jan. ..—Henry Moet. who has been appointed French charge d'affairs at Panama, has arrived Imre -nd was received with honors by the officer< of the military and police. He paid a formal visit to Gov. Melendez. Gravelle Found Guilty. Helena. Mont.. Jan. .. — lhe jury returned a verdict of guilty against Isaac Gravelle. charged with sending blackmailing letters to Northern Pacific officials and dynamiting its trains. He will be sentenced Monday Deadly Revolver Practice Havana. Jan. ..—Fargo Squiers. eldest son of the United States minister to Cuba, accidentally shot anil killed himself while practicing shooting with a revolver. Foreigners Must Have Permits. Washington. Jan ..—The consulgeneral at Cape Town in a dispatch reports that no foreigners are allowed to go to th- Transvaal or Orange river colony from Cape Colony without a permit, which is granted In Johannesburg on an application sent by the consul representing the applicant's country The applicant must make oath that he has money enough to support himself and all who may be dependent upon him. United States citizens had procured passports from . tho stale department before leaving 1 this city. The President Invited. Washington, Ja.i. .. —Senator Foraker has extended to the president an invitation to attend the Cincinnati music festival which is to be held next May. The president said It would as ford him great pleasure to be present during the festival, but as yet it was too early for him to say jiositively whether he would be able to attend He promised, however, to notify the senator late: of his decision Two Homes Burned Out. Union City. Ind., Jan. Residences owned by Samuel Glunt and lg>vi Hill were destroyed by fire iu this city, I causing a total loss of |5 500, with limited insurance. Alexandria Woman Is Missing. Alexandria Ind.. Jan. .-Mrs. Jas Maynard has been missing since Christmas day. but her husband did ! not make it known until yesterday, after he had made a fruliles search! for her Sh e j R thirty-four years old I and her husband is seventy, she left home to take Christmas dinner with a neighbor and had S4O with her ' Why she disappeared is a mystery. Unusual Charge Against a Woman. Laporte lad Jan. .. Monday next In the circuit court. Miss Elizabeth Smith will be tried for using profane language In a public pi B1 -e in thig city. The case Is attracting wide ativntion because of the unusual charge ; against a young woman of g ( „,q cbai .. , actsr. She denies using the language Impute.) to her. and is represent n v I eminent attorneys. Drunk Man Cremates Himself. Ind Jan w Hoopes. HflvUo ViiM bttt'tmd to death in harn | M . h , n , John Hartlow of M onr<lß ( ., tv " drunk and vv,-nt into the barn to keep on! hl.’?| nK hay , r Ia d ins "’!‘ " le * VP " R * if " *<'■> dying from consumption Deserter Surrenders. Indianapolis, ,| ai . . .. red to th,. city authorities a , h .. | -rt.-r rom th. reg„ lar llrniv |i( \. formerly attach-.,| tn lh „ " AI ‘ H I '-ry a, .Monhrevllle s C <l.? . I

MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants (or various products, Corrected every day. (TRAIN. ’ BY E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT. Now Corn yellow j New Corn, mixed Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new Wheat, No. 2 _ w Wheat, No. 3 Rye 5i i Barlev __ 5q Clover Seed f, 7 () Alsyke - @5 35 Buckwheat Flax Seed - yy Timothy $1 25 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago marketclosed at 1:15p. m today, according to J. D. Hale's special wire service, as follows: I Wheat, May gn Wheat, July 831 Corn, May 47| Corn July 4;i Oats, May Oats, July... 364 Jan. Pork sl3 2Q May Pork 13 80 January Lard per cwt 4; May Lard, per cwt 7 17 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 34® o’clock b T J. D. Hale, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash $ 92| 1 May wheat......_„............— ! July wheat, 85J Cash corn. No. 2, mixed, cash, 48} Corn, December.. pu May Corn 48J Oats. Cash 39} Oats, December 38} May Oats — 36} Rye, cash 59 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. Eggs, fresh, per doz I 27 card 9 Butter, per pound 11@1S Potatoes, new 60 Onions 50 Cabbage per 100 lb cOc Apples, per bu sfl Sweet Potatoe, per bu 75 WOOL AND HIDES. BI B. KALVER a SON. Wool, unwashed 16to&) Sheep pelts 25c to 75 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides 08 Tallow, per pouiMl 04 Coon la to 1.25 Skunk ...20 to 1.25 O’possum 10 to 60 Muskrat sto 22 Mink 50 to -52.00 STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER Lambs 4(a, 4 50 Hogs, per cwt f 4 40 Cattle per ib 3 @ 3} Calves, per lb 5 5| Cows 2 @ 2j Sheep, per lb 2 @ 24 Beef Hides, per lb 5} POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb 51«i6 Fowls, per lb .. 5//.6 Ducks, per lb t> 1 Young Ducks 6 Voting Turkeys, psr lb. ll tTI'J Geese, old [>er lb 4 Geese, young, lb 5 HAY riARKET. No. 1 timothy hay(baled) $7.W gM No 1 mixed hay (baled) t $5.00 @56.25 No. 1 clover hay (baled) COAL Per Ton Anthracite __l ’ 50 Domestic, nut 100 Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 00 Domestic lump, Indiana '* Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 550 OIL fIARKET. Tiona $2.02 Pennsylvania L l *' Corning 1.61 New Castle I'4 North Lima 1-3 T I 'South Lima !•& I Indiana 1-31 I 1 Whitehouse 1 -36 I Somerset 1-32 Necdasha, (Kan.) 1-1 Barkersvills Kagland 71ARKET NOTES. Liverpool market closed steady. Wheat, } cent higher. Corn, cent higher. Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs .'i.'iOOO Wheat. -' sr * Corn L _2_ .... Oats 212 cam Cattle Sheep 20000 Intimate for tomorrow: Hogs .KMJO Wheat ■’’H e, ‘ r ’ Corn . I-Lcar« Oats ' :i ' ar> $25 DOLLARS REWARD We will give a reward of' " l any kind of spavin or splint. ' capped beck, liowkl tendon " ini galls or any similar ailment- tli-ii' not be curetl by the use of ‘ "i" Caustic Oil It has been s ' 1 otighly tested that we know it " all we claim and more. We I' l '- much faith in the curative p-" that we guarantee every bottle satisfaction or money ift rvliii‘ ,lt '', Price s('c per fcoUle. ' Gilmoi' ' 1 '. L Cflu. tletidler, jOhio. Cd -•■ < iltn Y', ' headache powders, Spill gists. . e " a