Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1904 — Page 4

Are You... '' going to use electric lights? I If so, get your wiring done dur- ' ing housecleaning and save j work. For special prices call on Frank P. Bell i; Headquarters at City News < Stand i DECATUR INSURANCE AGENCY We write Fire, Lightning and Windstorm Insurance We will insure your property—either farm or city—and take care of your business in a business-like man ner. We solicit your patronage. Office in Niblick block over Holt house, Schulte & Co.’s clothing store GALLOGLY A IIA EFLING WE WHITE INSURANCE The Union Central Life Insurance Co. The Travelers Accident & Health Insurance Co. Commercial Union i Limited) of London Fire Insurance Co. The best companies on earth Drop a card to John H. Stults Decatur. Ind.

n /Qll U . '■ .jK "f il m|L JflORi ' ' 5rW Cured My Dyspepsia 11 M Mr. J. L. Warren but voices the sentiment H of hundreds of others when he states that he M |. j found relief in g| | Dr. Caldwell’s I (LAXATIVE) II I Syrup Pepsin I H Mr. Warren is Chancellor Commander H Acme Lodge No. 94, Knights of Pythias, H and resides at Leon, Kansas. H Read His Ge ateful Words. K H Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello, Ill.; Kl stomach t»wbte. F< Duringt2ttttiL’l trid* h”?? i “ di S e * , ' on and BB but without cure or beneV AIX .v« * ' k ’ nd ’ ™ ,iM - H JJm called to your remedy, and I can truthful K<> a iy aUen,ion wa * gl state that Or. Syiup Pe'Jsi^v^■ |gj sensation in my stomach has entirely left me *’ th burnl “8 BB IS 1 am willing that this testimonial should be used m. .u benefit of others who may suffer from that K O dyspepsia. Yours truly, J. L WARREN Wl |W Can be had In 50c and *I.OO size*, though It la ■! economy to buy the latter size. ■■ HQ Ask your druggist. ■■ bV SMI I H, YAGtK GL fALK.

Dissolution. Notice is hereby given that by mutual consent the late firm of J. | S. Bowers & Co., hardware dealers, I has been dissolved, J. 8. Bowers, I having retired from the firm. I Samuel J. Laman of the old firm I with Wilson H. Lee will constitute j the new firm. The retiring firm I desire to thank the public for many j past favors and bespeak for the ! new firm of Laman Lee, a continuation of your patronage. The books and accounts of the old firm will remain at the store for settlement. Respectfully, J. 8. Bowers, S. J. Laman, for J. 8. Bowers & Co. Hot Claret at Burt House Case. Fresh fish at all times at Fred l Scheiman's Meat Market. LOST—Between Blackburn's drug j store and the Baptist church, a fur ' oollerette, Finder return to this office and receive reward. Private funds to loan on city property at lowest rate interest. Privi- ■ lege of partial payments. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf FOR RENT—Two business rooms corner Third and Madison streets, after March 1. Enquire of A. C. Gregory. 30d212w2

You can file yoar mortgage ex-1 eruptions with the auditor any time . during March and April.Ja fact that should uot be overlooked. 42d12 Lowest Rates ever made from Chicago to the southwest. via Chicago Great Western railway. One way for round trip tickets on sale March Ist and 15th; April sth and 19th. For further information apply to J. P. Elmer, G. P. A., Chicago, 111. Farm For Sale.—l3s acres in Jenings county, only |35 per acre, limestone soil, 20 acres bottom, good house, orchard, large barn, living water, 20 acres timber, balance in cultivation, 20 acres growing wheat, on pike,3 miles from Pa. railroad, 2 miles from Big 4. Call on or address, D. A. Hendrickson, Queensville, Ind.

'PRICES ARE FIXED Indiana Brick Makers Form a Combination c.t Anderson. Plants With a Capacity of Seventy Million Brick Were Represented at the Meeting. Men Who Are Close to Building Trades Talk of Coming Season's Prospects. Anderson. Ind.. March 5. —Owners and managers of about twenty of the largest brick manufacturing plants in Indiana and one from Illinois were in session here. It was asserted no organization. was proposed nor effected, although they have an understanding or rjreement that has existed for a year. The brick makers decided to quote prices on three grades of brick at $6, 17 and $8 a thousand for the coming season, $8 a thousand for common brick. $7 for the hard grade and $8 for the line brick. Plants represented in the meeting nave a total capacity of 70,t j.OOO brick and the plants are valued at $2,000,000. Reviewing trade prospects for the approaching building season, the brick makers in session reported contracts at this time for 24.000,000 brick. Compared with last year the contracts at this time are considerably less. Contracts at this time, they say. should amount to 40.000.000 in order to assure to all the large Indiana brick makers a prosperous business. Present prices are contingent on a coal strike. DESPONDENT WOMEN Suicide Is Adopted as a Surcease of Sorrow.

Cambrlde City. Ind., March 5. —Mrs. John Byrum, brooding over physical infirmities and the recent loss of a son by death, committee suicide by swallowing carbolic acid, and was found dead on the floor of her home. Terre Haute. Ind., March 5. —Mrs. Gertrude Shawman. who married Harry Shawman, and was disconsolate because she did not hear from her husband, who left her with the information that he was going to Toledo, 0., and would soon write, is dead, of arsenic taken with suicidal intent. Elwood, Ind., March s.—Mrs. Grade Montgomery, wife of John Montgomery, as a sequel to domestic differences. swallowed poison and died. She left a pathetic letter, addressed to her husband, giving a broken heart as the cause of self-destruction. Evansville Riot Case. Indianapolis. March 5. —An appeal from a conviction for riotous conspiracy on account of the driving of negroes out of Evansville on the 6th of last July, has reached the supreme court. Levi Meyer, the appellant, was indicted Jointly with sixteen others, but was tried separately after two of his alleged fellow-conspirators had been tried and convicted. He objected to being tried by any of the jurors who had convicted the other two men. but the court held that mom bers of the regular panel were not made incompetent by having heard the evidence In the other cases and a"cwed several of them to sit on he jury, besides compelling the defendant to make use of his peremptory challenges to get rid of the others. This is complained of as a reason tor asKing for another trial.

Indifferent to His Fate. Terre Haute. Ind., March 5— Judge Piety, of tiie criminal court, at the request of the defendant's attorney, has granted a continuance for two weeks in the trial of Jerry Duggins, who butchered Mrs. Ramsey and her two children, which was docketed for trial on Monday next. During the interim the attorney will visit Duggins' relatives in Jackson county, with a view of gathering testimony showing that the defendant was insane. Duggins. meanwhile, continues In jail, indifferent to his fate, whether he be sentenced to death or confined In prison for life. Reward of SIOO Offered. Muncie, ind., March s.—The police commissioners have offered a reward of SIOO for the arrest and conviction of the burglars who shot patrolman Oscar Furr. Meanwnile an unexpected rally has been made by the wounded man. and nis chances for recovery are sllghuy improved. Damage From Ice Gorges. Mont 'ello, Ind., March 6.—The ice gorge below here has caused the water to back into the electric light and' water station leaving the town In darkness at night and without fire protection. The wagon bridge at Norway was swept 100 yards from its foundation.

Two Young Men Killed. Valparaiso, Ind., March s.—Henry Brook, twenty-two years old, and W J Broo ’‘’ twPn D-»lx. while driving to Kouts to attesd a revival meetFrie W X r n '" n ' Ck by ’ fMt tnUB on th < i killed ’’ * D<l b<Hh * Bra ,Mta “Uy

H CHURCH ON fflt The Smoot Case Will Bring Out Many Things Relative to Mormonism, Prer'dent Smith Is Being Subjected to a Rigid Examination by Senatorial Committee. Should the Question of Plural Marriage be Attacked, Church Would Defend It, He Says. Washington. March 5. —Interest in | the investigation befora the senate committee on privileges and elections on the protests against Senator Reed Smoot of Utah continues unabated. Most of the time was devoted to the Introduction of documents subscribed to as tne law of the Mormon church. In that connection President Joseph F. Smith, who again was on the stand, testified that if the principle of plural marriage should be attacked it would be defended by the church. Intense teeling was exhibited by President Smith against individuals who. he said, had spied on the domestic and marital relations of the high officials of the Mormon church, and for that reason he had favored the passage of the Evans bill to prevent prosecutions for polygamous cohabi tation. unless complaints were entered by husband or wife against the

other. Thie bill was passed, but vetoed by the governor of Utah. It was brought out that all of Mr. Smith’s predecessors as presidents of the Mormon church, had been polygamists and that the man chosen to sue- : ceed him has more than one wife. Mr. Smith was asked which he ' would obey, the law of the land or revelations from God, if the two were in conflict. He said he might obey the revelation, though it was not compulsory. He added: “I should not like to be put in a position where I would have to desert my children—l could not do that.” Senator Hoar asked a number of questions to determine the relative weight of revelation and the law of the land when the two came into contact. and asked particularly in regr-d to the old revelations. Mr. Smith said uiat with the older members it was the effort to uphold the laws, but with the younger ones—well, they were a little hard to control. Bringing the question up to the latter period. Senator Hoar wanted to know what Mr. Smith would do if the revelations conflicted with the law. “Which would you obey?” he asked. “With me. perhaps, the revelation would be uppermost.” said Mr. Smith. "Can you say peruaps' to such a question?" interrupted Mr. Hoar, severely. Continuing, he asked: "Suppose you received a revelation commanding your people to do something which would conflict with the law of the land. Which would they have to obey ?” "Whichever they pleased,” was the reply. “There is no compulsion.” Then he read from one of the standards of authority: “Let no man break the law of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the law of the land.” Mr. Smith in answer to Senator Beveridge said that under the disci-1 pline that had been maintained for | the last twenty years the people in! the Mormon church would obey laws rather than any revelation which might be In conflict. “Which would you do?” asked Senator Burrows. "I would strive with all my might to obey the laws of the land,” said Mr. Smith, and he added: “But I should not like to be put into a position where I would be compelled to abandon my children. I could not do that.”

Mr. Smith said that he never had received any revelations direct from God, but that if any should come it might be by audible voice, inspiration known only or heard by himself or, as In the case of Joseph Smith. Jr., who received the book of Mormon in writing. Nurses Volunteer for Service. Philadelphia, March s.—Ten nurses have left this city for Seattle enroute to Japan where they will render vol unteer service on the battlefield. The party is under the guidance of Dr Anita Newcomb McGee, of this city, who tendered her services together with those of her companions without the hope of remuneration. Miss Alice Kemmer, of Indiana, is In the party. Three Killed by Boiler Explosion. Towanda, Pa., March s.—By the explosion of the boiler of a saw mill at Greenwood. P. L. Brown, the proprietor and his two helpers, Wallace Tice and Robert Compton, were Instantly killed. The bodies were mangled horribly.

An Italian's Deadly Work. New York, March s.—Angered by her refusal to run away and marry him. Dominick Allepo, an Italian, shot and killed Nellie Flanagan, eighteen, and then fatally shot himaelf. Losa by Prairie Fires. O’-lahoma City, March s—Threa persons perished In Wednesday night’s prairie tire. The financial loss la estimated at half a minion dollars

Weather Forecast. Indiana—Fair and warmer, Sunday rain. MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decaiui merchants for various products. Cor rected every day. GRAIN. BY B. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT. New Corn yellow f 56 New Corn, mixed 58 Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new4o Wheat, No. 2 93 Wheat, No. 3 90 Barlev 50 Rye No. 2 68 Clover Seed 5 90 Alsyke @ 5 25 Buckwheat 48 Flax Seedßo Timothy f 95 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago marketclosed at 1:15 p. m today, according to J. D. Hale’s special wire service, as follows: Wheat, May 96 J Wheat, July 92j Wheat, July, new93’ Corn, Mays.3J Corn Julys 24 Oats, May4ll Oats, July 39j May Pork 14 17 July Pork, 14 32 Mav Lard, per cwt 7 40 July Lard 7 55 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Chamred every afternoon at 3.-00 o’clock bv J. D. Hale, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash—.J !*9.j May wheat9B J July wheat,93 Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash.. 47 Corn. July 49; May Cornso ; Oats, Cash 44? May Oats 42! Oats, J uly4oj Rye, cash 76

OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. Eggs, fresh, per doz| 15 Lard s Buller, per pound Potatoes, newl CO Onions 75 Cabbage per 100 lbl 50 Apples, per bu 8C Sweet Potatoe, per bu 7f STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER Lambs 4 50 Hogs, per cwt f 4 85@5 00 Cattle per lb 3 @ 3| i Calves, per lb 5 @ 5j Cows 2 $ 2| I Sheep, per lb 2 (Ct 24 Beef Hides, per 1b.6 POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb 61 (S’7 Fowls, per lb 6(0 t>l Ducks, per lb6<o 7 ■ Young Ducks 6gt 7 Young Turkeys, per lb 12 Geese, old per lb 5@6 Geese, young, lbsgz 6 MAY HARKET. No. 1 timothy hay (baled) No 1 mixed hay (baled) .No. 1 clover hay (baled) |6.OQ@7 10 WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVER * SON. Wool, unwashedl6to2C | Sheep pelts 25c to 75 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides o Tallow, per pound qj Coon 16 to 1 25 Skunk 20 to 1.25 O possum 10 to 60 Muskrat 5 to 22 Mink 50 to J 2.00 OIL HARKET. Tiona 92 Pennsylvania ’ 1’77 Corning J. 57 New Castle 1 m North Lima/ '’' 1 South Lima ’ ”’ ’ Indiana »Vn Whitehouse im. Somerset Neodasha, (Kan.)l2 H Barkersville qKagland7.’.’.’.*’.’ COAL Per Ton Anthracite | 7 Domestic, nut ( I Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 qq j Domestic lump, Indiana.. 3 80 Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 554

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fIARKET NOTES. Liverpool market closed steady Wheat, J cent higher, Corn, J cent higher. Receipts at Chicago today; H ogs 2OOOQ Wheat - 17 carj Corn lit; earg Oats 7o ca n Cattle 10000 Sheep Ihkjo Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs 30010 heat... 3. > can Corn ltis can Oats 160 an Prevailing Current Prlcei for Grain Provisions and Livestock. Indianapolis Grain and Livestock. Wheat-Wagon. 11.00; No. 1 red, •1.00. ’• |,Corn—Quiet; No. 1 mixed. 444. Oats—Strong; No. 1 mixed. 42 l ie. Hay—Clover, timothy, a*. millet. IS £9 Cattle—Steady at Hogs—Strong at $4 <**.?&. Sheep—Steady at Lamin—Steady at S 5. 0 t&OD. Grain and Provisions at Chicago. May I ,9a (g July »itj S «P' »»*i .H Corn— May July »r< , 52 B»p‘ *O% . 4 ;u OatsMay wq July j,;/ Sept Pork— Msy .I«.s> U. n July 11.41 lc„; Lard — May r.n r M July 7.40 ;.r RibaMay f» f.#f July «.«s 7 ti Cloaing eaah market—Wheat. 11.04; corn" tie; oata. SX-jc; pork, t1A.71; lard. 47.W---•7.47‘j. Cincinnati Grain and Livestock. Wheat—First; No. 1 rod. »1.03. Corn—Steady; No 1 mixed. 47 Oata—Quiet; No. 1 mixed. 44-,e. • Cattle—Steady al 41.1>>4.«0 Hogs—Firm at ts.so#s.ao. Sheep—Strong at tioo oa.ls. Lain ba— Active at i4SO*6<X).

Chicago Livestock. Csttle—SlMdy; tteera, iioU«r< and feedara. 52.40>4.5A Hoga—Strong at ».v IsrjU.JSl*. ■ Sheep -Steady at M.M>«.tS. Lambs—Steady at S4.io <*«.». New York Livestock. Cattla—Firm at *4.30 Ss.li. Hoga—Firm at Sheep—Firm at St. 'i 44. MX a Lam ba—Slow al ■ East Buffalo Livestock. Cattle—Steady at U.7,’.'*Loo. Active at 14.40 Sheep—Steady at H x*4190 Lamb*—Slea ly at S4.UU 5.1,14, t ,~- T 4 — Public Sale. The undersigned will offer for sale, lat public auction, at his residence j three quarters of a mile southeast us I Decatur, commencing at II a. m., ou I Wednesday, March 9, the following personal property, to-wit: One dark grey work horse, 9 years old; I light 1 grey mare, 7 years old; 1 black work ; horse, 6 years old; 2 horses coming 1 years old, match team; 1 colt coming I 2 years old; 5 shoats. weigh about so pounds each; 1 brood sow with five pigs. 2 brood sows, will farrow in April. 2 brood sows, will farrow in Mav; 1 ! Berkshire boar; 4 head of milch cows, i 2 cows will be fresh in April and one io June, 1 fresh cow, 4 3-year old steers, 5 2-year old heifers, 2 2-year old steers, 3 yearling calvee, 1 red Poland bull; a lot of chickens; 17 ton bailed hay, 8 ton of loose mixed hav, 2 ton of clover hay, 50 shocks of corn fodder, 125 bushel of oats, 300 bushels of corn. 100 bushels of wheat. 10 bags of potatoes. 1 Milwaukee binder good as new, 1 Champion mower, 1 Rock Island hay loader, 1 Superior com billed ferllizer and grain drill, 1 hav tetter 1 hay rake, hay ladder, 1 Har rison wagon, 1 light farm wagon, 1 low truck farm wagon, 2 road wagons, 1 sleigh. 5 breaking plows, 3 double shovel plows, 2 spike tooth harrows. 2 spike tooth cultivators, wagon box. grayel bed, shoveling board, 1 corn shelter, 1 potato planter. 1 potato dig ger, ) potato screen. 2 sets double work-Jiarness, 1 single set light harness, 1 dump scraper, 1 steam feed cooker, 1 combined grinder and san sage stuffer, 1 cream seperator, 1 rid mg saddle and bridle, 1 barrel crude oil, 1 wardrobe. 1 book case. 1 Story A Camp organ, 6 dinning room chairs, dinning room table, 1 cook stove. Terms of Sale:- -On all sums of? 5 aD ““ Dt i er ’/ash in hand; over $5 a credit of nine mouths, will be given, purchaser ni4 „ wjth approvetl security, waiving valuation and ap praisement laws. H. H. Myers.