Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1904 — Page 4

THE AXTELLS. John Young, who was'for several years trainer at Warren Park Farm, the home of the Axtell.-, was wont to remark, "for any Axtell you show me that 1 can not teach to trot I will show you a duck that can not swim.” This comes very nearly being the truth. The Axtells are natural born trotters, and rould not help trotting if they wanted to. Axtell sires very few paoers, but when you come to the trotting horses sin s you will find Axtell always about on top. This season he is the champion sire of 2-30 trotters. L ist’season he was the champion sire of '2:20 trotters. What championship is there for him to hold that he has not some time or other possessed? No other stallion has been as permanently before the public as has Axtell since the time ha was a two year old. always a champion and the sire of races horses. Axtell is the sire of Axnite, he the sire of Grandsor, of the very best bred young stallions, A. N. Acker of Pleasant Mills is owner of this grandly bred horse and will be pleased to show him to any one desiring to look at h fine horse. Hot Claret at Burt House Case. Spare ribs, backbone and pigs feet at Scheiman’s Meat Market. Twenty acre farm for rent. Cash rent. Inquire of Alex Lcßrun. 21d6wl 1 Spare ribs, backbone and pigs feet at Fred Scheiman’s Meat Market- « Chicago to St. Paul Minneapolis four daily fast trains via the Chicago & North-Western Ry. The Overland Limited, solid train Chicago to Coast daily. Chicago, Union Pacific A' North-Western Line. Private funds to loan on city property at lowest rate interest . Privilege of partial payments. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf One fare plus two dollars from Chi-! cago, round trip rate via Chicago Great Western railway to points in New Mexico, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Ampie return limits. Tickets on sale Jan. ssh and 19tb, Feb. 2nd and 16th, March Ist and 15th. April sth and 19th. For fur 1 ther information apply to J. T. Elmer Chicago, 111. Farm For Sale—l3s acres in Jenings county, only $35 per acre, limestone soil. 2- acres bottom, good house, orchard, large burn, living wan-r. 2’ •»•••< timber. balunce in cultivation. 20 acres growing wheat, on pike,3 miles from Pa. railroad, 2 miles from Big 4 Call <>n or address. D \ Hendrickson. Queensville. Ind Through Pullman steening cars to California points via Iron Mountain , r >ute leaving St. Louis 8:30 a. m. daily for Los Angeles via "True Southern Route." aisotourist sleeping cars on this same train for Los An-i geles and San Francisco every Wed needs v and Thursday. Best winter r >*te to California. For further in-j formation call on or address G. A. A. Deane, Jr.. T. P. A.. 200 Sentinel Big. Indianapolis, Ind.

The Overland I Limited I the fast electric-lighted daily train I between Chicago and California \ia I the Chicago. Union Pacific A- North- I Western Line is the most luxurious ■ train in the world, leaving Chicago ■ daily 8:00 p. tn. I ess than three I daysen mute Buffet smoking cars E barber andhatli, standard and pnx ate ■ ■ 'impartme.it sleeping cars dining ■ cars, observation ana library car. ■ i Booklovers' Library and telephone. I i two other fast trains leave Chicago ■ dadc for ■ San Francisco i Los Angeles and I Portland j M IA Ji) P m ..nd H M p *. wkF tglendM B ’ rovirwuent W buffet «nK<k.at and library car* B ’ **»«« he ng chit' iMlnum Jrawing hmmf ■ ! .te4 rmnbu <.irerMti K .>•*..»Ml din/ngcnrs U B I The Heft of (.treything ■ •Ali agent* Mil tuhrif *t« th>« rn«tr. m I I•» full inftw-m »tM r urtif flrjp* ..nJ B bu«A ««n L-ditornU, write to or « aH »r I 22 I IC 4 • • ’» ■JUMMmI NUMn tier of'***’ -j

■ BfflM COMPUTE t Figures Fail in the Face of Baltimore’s Appalling Disaster. i — Insurance Men Aghast—“We Have No Figures to Describe It. i They Say. ; The Loss Is Above a Hundred Million But May Reach Twice That Enormous Total. , I One Hundred and Forty Acres of the City’s Most Prideful District in Rums. Stricken City Is Under Martial Law, and Order Is Being Preserved.

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Baltimore. Feb. 9.—Baltimore is • staggering under a fire loss which no one has the temerity to put in figures. The important commercial district is blackened ruina, laid bare by a conflagration which raged without a momentary check from 10:45 a m.. Sunday until late Monday evening The flames had raged for thirty hours, in spite of almost superhuman efforts put forth by the best fighting forces which more than half a dozen cities were able to muster. The city ig overcast with gloom Stores are closed in nearly every street Apparently there is but one cause for gladness and that is there are no homeless. The residence section of the city escaped. This phase of the situation relieved the officials from any thought other than the saving of property. Throughout the terrible contest in which firemen and fire waged for supremacy. humanity was handicapped by a gale which carried burning I brands over the heads of the workers and beyond the reach of the hundreds of streams of water poured into the raging furnaces But for the work of volunteers in seeking out and «xtin guishing these embers it is almost c. rtatn that the burned area would I have been twice larger than it'is. About seventy five squares or 14fi acres are in ashes Insurance Companies Stunned. Insurance companies have opened temj*>rary offices in the Lexington hotel. but their representatives decline ■to estimate tile loss. The answer of i one is typical of all: “It is too big. We have no figures to describe it. Make it above one hnn- . dred million. That's the best we can I do.' The same indecision is true in regard to estimate* concerning insur- , | The city war early placed under I 1 mar'ial law and thus all danger of , looting in the doomed district was | I eliminated. Genera! Corbin of New I York arrived here today to take com|mand of the federal troops The pres ! I ence of two regiments of militia as a.i i adjunct to the police, which were aug mented by details from Philadelphia and Washington, resulted in the maintenance of the liesl of order No one dare* to guess what would have happened had the flames jumped the fails. Tita struggle was with the one end of confining the fire to the west aids of th* muddy strea m. That this effort was successful is merely the result of the fire horning it sett out and coming in contact with the concerted labors of nearly a hundred fire companies. Bad the fire gained a foothold in the east side lumber yards ft is conceded nothing could have stopped the onslaught and the departments would have been powerless to prevent ■ damage a* great if not greater than | the Cbmago firs RELIEF WAS CHEERING Baltimore's Fearful Tension at Last Relaxed. Baltimore Feb s When late last . etenlng the cheering news spread ■ that the conflagration had been check- I I ed, the great crowds that all Jay had surged against th. tightly drawn fi-« , lines began to turn hotu.-ward Hut th* firemen took no chances. All over the burned district they continue fighting the fierce flames that still lived in large piles of ruins. These fires were no menace however, for they had nothing to feed upon outside their own limits. [hiring the afternoon the fire ate its ' way In a southerly end westerly direc- • tlon. toward the water tsporadlq

fires sprang Into exls-ence and canned the withdrawal of apparatus and men from the line of liattle. and the fire swept onwani. As the day wore on the forefront of the tire neared Jones Falls, a smalt stream that trends north and south and divides Baltimore from that portion of the city known as East Baltimore. This little stream was the last stand. It the conflagration leaped it and gained a foothold. its extent could not be foretold Tremendous efforts were madq to block it. Dynamite was used freely. The fire apparatus was centered and all the skill of the fire fighters called into play to defeat the element that had eaten up millions of dollars worth of property. And human skill and pluck -nd grit and unfaltering courage won The fire was checked. But behind it lay a great gutted waste of more than 14" acres in extent. Under Military Control. The city is under the strictest military control. All around the burned area is stretched a cordon of soldiers who bold up al! comers at the point of the bayonet. Police brought from the neighboring cities patrol the district and on every street near the limi.s of the fire area pace armed sentinels. The burned area is a scene of complete devastation. Numberless build Ings that were the pride of Baltimore costly and stately, and occupied for divers purposes, were gutted, and only smouldering debris or walls or rem nants of walls remain to mark the sites The Baltimore American building, one of the finest, is now but smouldering debris, save but remnants of side and front wall. Across South street, where stood the Baltimore Sun building only the pillars that marked the front remain Entire blocks just below there are wiped out. without in some cases a wall left standing. From Fayette street down Holliday street as far as German street there is no building left save the Corn and Flour Exchange at the corner of German street. That building, whose walls tower above the crumbling debris of what were adjoin ing structures, was gutted and the standing walls formed a cauldron, the flames of which burst at times through the windows, but could cause no fur ther damage. Like a grim tower in the ruins stands the walls of the fifteen-story Continental Trust company building The walls of the Baltimore & Ohi< building are also standing, hut the Pennsylvania Railway building, directly across Calvert street, is razed Only the walls remain of the once stately Equitable building. Only rem nants of one wall are left of what was the National hotel. No buildings are left standing as far as the eye can see down Baltimore street from this point. A broken sign and a tottering front wall show where the Maryland W. C. T. U. building once stood. Adjoining this was the building occupied by the Iron Ship company, and hard by the British consulate, whose buildiug is a complete loss. The building use-1 by the German consulate. on this square, is also in ruins. The costly United States customs house in course of construction, is said to be ruined. The marble blocks sv i adly damaged, the cornices on the north side are destroyed, and the mar ble is cracked in a number of places. The only other federal building dam aged was the United States storehouse diagonally opposite. Westward alone Pratt street is only debris from which flames leap and play. Down Pratt street, west from Gay. for several blocks, the oil "In the *reck of the Standard Oil building ignited, and there was a succession of explosions with the bursting out of flames Prat' street for many squares is al most Impassable by reason of huge piles of masonry. The electric wires are a tangled network and the trolleywires are down in every direction. At O'Donnell's wharf, where a freight station of ’he North Central railroad is ■ located, the flames fed all 'lay on the inflammable trimmings of the annex to the power-house of the United States railroad, the main building of which was gutted. The Commercial building a six-story building at the corner of ixtmbard and Gay atreets, stretching over half a block, is destroyed. but the vaults are safe. The fire was most remarkable in many ways, but more so in the lack of casualties. Only one person was reported killed and the number treated in the hospitals will be not more than fifty. The dead man was a fireman from York, Pa, who was crushed by a falling wall. In the city hospital thirty-five persons were treated during the progress of the fire, and only one, was compelled to remain in the institution. and he was suffering from ex posure. The State Will Aid. Annapolis, Md.. Feb. 9.—The general assembly met at the sta’e house last night to consider plans for the relief of the fire conditions in Baltimore. Reiiator Gill, of Baltimore. Introducad a bill authorizing Gov. Warfleln to I declare ten successive legal holidays j in the stricken city so as to aid prop i erty owners and other losers by the Are to get their business affairs in as good shape as possible. The bill. | which was passed at once, and signed by the governor, also authorizes him' to extend the suspension of business beyond ten days If necessary. A bill i to make a relief appropriation which was to have been presented in the bouse was laid over until the conditions and amounts needed can bs ascertained. -- ■ ■ '■ ■ ■ ■ ■ —— Fearful Railway Wreck. Managua Nicaragua, Feb. t A passenger train on the Vleja railroad was derailed while passing qver a i high bridge and wrecked Over twenty first class passengers were killed i *nd many others were injured.

A WORLD MR » Should France be Drawn Into Russc-Jap Row. Look Out. > Attitude and Obligations of France in the Matter Attract General I and Close Interest. II 11 The Situation Is Regarded as One of the Utmost Delicacy. Nagasaki, Feb. 9.—lt is assured that the Russian fleet will fight. The Russians long ago decided upon war. and their delay was due to lack of prepI aration and uncertainty whether certain powers would intervene or not. Paris. Feb. 9. —There is no question but that interest here centers much more in the attitude and obligations of France than in the actual happen it;gs in the fat East. All the newspa pers today without distinction of party. are striving to reassure the public on the possibility of France being drawn into the conflict. M. Delcasse’s reply to a deputy who I asked whether the Russian alliance would not oblige France to intervene in case Great Britain or some other

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power aided Japan was certainly no written engagement to compel the intervention of France Premier Combes was questioned by several deputies and gave assurance that the government was determined, whatever i might arise, not to do anything which 1 could alienaie France's liberty without the chamber of deputies and the whole parliament being called upon not merely to pronounce on the atti-l tilde to be taken, but without being in-1 formed of every detail of the events which had occurred or might occur I Premier Combes was so precise in' his statements that ihe intention of de-. manding the publication in a yellow book of all documents relating to the engagements contracted by France toward Russia has been abandoned. The ministry of marine positively' denies the report that preparations are being made for the sending of 6,090 French troops to the far East. The various iiolitical groups have decided not to take any course likely to embarrass the government during the present crisis. The Nationalist members of the chamber of deputies met and passed a formal resolution to this effect, which was communicated ■ to th* press, and M. Pressonz (Sociali Ist) conveyed to Premier Combes the assurance that the Socialists would not I' create difficulties Subsequently M. Pressonz in his caI parity of reporter of the foreign af- | fairs and budget committeees. had a long conference with M. Delcasse, who j made him the following statements: I That a state of war did not yet exist and mat it possibly would not exist in the future in the event of Japan's confining herself to limited action in southern Korea, this was a reason to make a fresh effort to bring about a peaceful solution and that he had acted in accordance with the interests of i France and Russia in the direction of . conciliation, and that Russia had offered Japan concessions. Interest centers here in the attitude of Great Britain, and It is the general opinion apparently that the war will be confined to Russia and Jai*an. WILL Bt ON THE SPOT An Order Pending That Will Cheer Fighting Bob Evans. Washington Feb. 9. —Tentative orders have been prepared sending the cruiser squadron of the Asiatic fleet northward from Snbig bay to the vicinity of Port Arthur to observe the Japanese Russian naval operations and to i be at hand to protect American lateri sets wherever they may be menaced ' in the war stricken district. The orders will i>e submitted to the president for Anal revision but will not he sent unless they are agreeable to Russia and Japan, which will be sounded tn advance on this side. Germany Promises Neutrality. i! Berlin. Feb. 9. - The Cologne Gazette ■ defines Germany's policy In East Asia I in an article which Is evidently inspired, as follows We must direct

“eurattentlon'to sr.H.A that ' complications do not arise from th » quarrel. and that the regions tn Chin adjacent to the theater of wat art n drawn into the outbreak. We cau be* subserve this purpose by a policy _ which will leave no doubt of our full est neutrality ” Chinese Court in a Flurry. Tieu Twin. Feb 9.—A R-ssiau fore'’ i t to reported at Kalgan, 11« ,! " rl ' i 1 west of Pekin and near the Great b all. Preparations are being made for the fight of the Chinese court and the re ntoval of the imperial treasure, as it is j feared that Russia will descend upon . Pekin. 1 Will Occupy Seoul. Che Foo. Feb. 9.-Japanese trans- t ports are landing troops at various j ] ports in Korea. Seoul is to be occu- ( pied and the landing is being covered by the torpedo division. The main j ] body of the Japanese fleet will sail in , the direction of Pon Arthur. Report Officially Confirmed. Washington. Feb. 9. — Secretary ( Moody has received a cablegram from !, Lieutenant Commander Marsh, tb<* ( American naval attache at Tokio, announcing the departure of a naval division from Japanese waters for Che- ( tnulpo. Korea. i | Heavy Firing Heard. i Tokio. Feb. 9—The Jiji Shimpo has i received a telegram from Fusan. Korea, declaring that the firing of i Ihec -v guns has been hoard to the east of Koje island (about twenty-five miles , southwest of Fusanl. Rumor Lacks Confirmation. London, Feb. 9. — The rumor ’hat j some Russian merchant ships have been captured by Japanese warships ' has reached the Japanese legation ‘ here. The report lacks confirmation Senator Hanna's Condition. Washington. Feb. 9.—Senator Han- , na's condition today is a little more encouraging though the extreme weakness which has been the worst feature of his illness continues The physicians say it is a case of waiting for the disease to run its course, but j that they are hopeful. Sarafoff Again to Take Field. Monastir. Feb. 9. —A skirmish is re- . ported to have taken place between Turkish troops and revolutionists in the Komitagiz-Torin district, in which five Turks and four revolutionists were killed. Boris Sarafoff the revolutionary leader, is expected in the field soon | with a strong escort. BRIEF DISPATCHES A’h » "hs- L' Mell. K«- R»ren»vr.vrt . 'f !»•» iat London. He ijtxi. Preaident Harper, of th* l’ab er*ity of Chi- I earn. i« «ufferint with an attack >* app*n>iiri- , t H. Flmmi S. Rlydenburgh wa- ontrnced to life ' iwpri-'nihi nt. at h. >»ra. Is . f <r trn- munterof l hK third m Inerra' • - t«*u-t«)n i« notice* > b«*tw<M>n the Porte ani Riiljcana in ti ui wtta the ' Ma-<‘ionian reform plan* The inrritoFT burneil by the t'hicair» fire j s. KI awounitsl to 2,!i ■ ,*. re-, involvuij a i I ioeeofover f itu.O'Xi.OOO. vlr ral 9krr ih.tr. c«.minan l*r >f th’* Rd*- I >taa Black *>a fleet, will be given «-nnman ! of ; tne navai force* in the far Eaet. ! Ru*- a k in- force* t >war<l« the Tain ! rivrei Th*- Japanese re* lent- have near y al withdrawn from Manchuria an i Wiju. The Morale- government ha-* the . biockadeof t-e p«*rt» of Puerto P >• a ari l **an l>»ButiKo declared again•s the United 'Mate* on Feb 1. Se- rctarv of State Hay ha< returned tn Wa-umaion from Ta-mia-vi.’ Ga . w iere he [ ha* remunerating for the pa-»t tw\> week* : He *eewi* almost entirely flowered from kit ' severe nd -p * t n. MARKET QUOTATIONS Prevailing Cu rent Prices for Grain, Provisions and Livestock. Indianapolis Grain and Livestock. Wnaav— Wagon. »Te: M . 1 red 4!r>iif, Corn—Strong; Wo. Im iad. $< Oat4—Strong; Wo t m.iel 4i«. Hay—Clover. umotby lia.aaa tt.es; millet, Cattle-Steady atILMBtU Hog»—rong at U » Sneet>—Steady at H ) Lamba—Steady at Se.O>4>’> Grain and Proviaions at Chicago. O;-»n»-i Wheati « .4 oty••pt « so Cara—*»7 M«4 st’, ' Oly JJ , -.,1, , *«P» Ji 4 S'. ->»u—- , 4i, July Ji.', .J’’, ! .si-. a-4 F»r»it r» n.r I July 14,12 " Lart— I “*r f*I Joly tta ; r Mika--M» tn J ' t.t. Chui "mb MrkM * 4m; o«u 4««; gars tlOT; art. M 4$- r u>. . k. 41 Cincinnati Grain and Livettock. Waaai—Firm s >. j |; ?ll Cara—Maa<ly; Ma 1 » i»t. 47, Oata—Quiai: Wo. 1 m 4J-,» ’ l ante—null a. 12 0-*4 M t Mogt-FTa al 1». g tneap— Putt a. I: P‘g4ll. .-• * BLaaio.—l>uli ai M tke- ’ 1 Chicago Livestock. Cattta-S . j feaAan. It.it' Hog.—tl.al. ai tl.W*j If , tn at 11 wa, t -. Lan-b.-St-a...' a. »xk>»-s m t , New York Livestock. Cattle—Fira at t 4 SVM.Iu —. i F rm at H-MOJ-Tt. Fll m at J, Lamb.—SUaUr at U ttMLes East Buffalo Livestock, , Cettlo-Stvady ai »•' • ->mrw Hog. AeUva M *4 a ' 1- sh»»p -M.aty al U-.l »m4.fs. t gLamtM-lHeacy a« M. u iMHA 2XWSB—i JT"

Weather Forecast. Indiana—Fair; show at night or WednesdayMARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day. QRAIN. BY E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANY New Corn yellow $ 6fi New Corn, mixed s'; Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new 3R Wheat, No. 2 90 Wheat, No. 3 87 Barley 50 Clover Seed 5 5t Alsyke @ 4 « Buckwheat # Flax Seed 80 Timothy $ 90 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1:15 p m today, according tv J. D. Hale's special wire service, as follows; Wheat. May Wheat, July 88 Corn, Mav 54 Corn J uly 52 Oats, May 43 Oats, July— 3ft May Pork 14 7H July Pork — II 77 Mav Lard, per cwt 7 77 ■ July Lard 7 87 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at ' o’clock bv J. D. Hale, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash. _ 971 May wheat 97J Julv wheat, *l7l Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash.. ; J Corn, July 5M May Corn 50j Oats, Cash 44| May Oats 43J Oats, July 39| Rye, cash 6-3 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOCS GROCBRS AXD MEBCHANTS Eggs, fresh, per doz $ 27 | Laid 9 Butter, per pound Potatoes, new 60 Onions 50 Cabbage per 100 lb LOr Apples, per bu 60 Sweet Potatoe, per bu 75 STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER Lamb* 4<z 4 50 Hogs, per cw*. fl 60k? 4 75 Cattle per lb 3 @ 3J Calves, per lb 5 ig ’f Cows 2 @ 2| Sheep, per lb 2 @ 2| Beef Hides, per lb <4 POULTRY. BT J. W. PLACE CO., PtcAEBS. Chickens, young per lb. Fowls, per lb ' Ducks, per lb 6 Young Ducks. 6 Young Turkeys, per lb. Geese, old per lb 4 Geese, young, lb 4 HAY fIARKET. No. 1 timothy hay(baled) No 1 mixed hay (baled) - No. 1 clover hay (baled) WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. SALVES A SOX. | Wool, unwashed 16t020 Sheep pelts 25c to 75 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides O Tallow, per pound 01 Coon is to 1.25 ; Skunk 20 to 1-■ O’possum 10 to 60 ; Muskrat sto 22 Mink 50 to S2OO COAL Per Ton Anthracite | 7 50 Domestic, nut 4 00 Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 00 Domestic lump, Indiana 3 80 Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 550 OIL rtARKET. Tiona 12.02 Pennsylvania 1.8? Coming 1.67 Newcastle 1.74 i North Lima. 1 Ti South Lima 1 32 Indiana 1.31 Whitehouse 1.36 Somerset 1-32 Neodasba. (Kan.) 121 Barkersville 97 Ragland 66 harket notes. Liverpool market closed steady. W heat, i cent lower. Corn, 1 cent lower. Receipts al Ulneago today: Hogs 33000 Wheat 21 cars Cora 2 — 431 car* Oats :‘j)7 cars Cattle 22< H» Sheep..... 85000 Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs '2O0 11 AV heat 15 car* .Corn 410 car* Oats 810 ;are For Sale—A good clean stock "* groceriw and fixtures Will giw , possession at once or Feb. 1. R<“uu 22x80 with good ware room. Rent reasonable,. Good estabhsh'«i {trade. Reasons for selling. Hu'" j other business to take our attention ; j For partitnalars write or call <n> | Minch & Co., Geneva, lad H