Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1904 — Page 4

Country Correspondence. I Preble. Mrs. L. E. Sichafus is still on the Si f, k list . Vi’.n. F Jacbli-r has just finished h new udditi n on his l>arn. Daniel Biehrick entretained a few | of his neighbors and friends Sun-' day. Wilson Kreigh is a keeping batch during his wit. absence for a few days. Jeff Klopfenstein is very busy trying to light his new gasoline lamp. David Dililng is getting ready to I move on the Chas. Miller farm just i north of this place, which he has rented for three years Steele. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stove on Sundiy, March 13 a baby boy. Milo Campbell and Esais Dailey started for the s tate of Washington last week. Orval Tnkhatn left for Paulding, , county, Ohio last week, where he ( expects to work this summer. Mrs.R A. Davis who has been quite sick for the past few weeks is now able to lie around again.

Andrew Young of Winchester accompanied by a man from Indianapolis were through this place last week leasing land for oil. A surprise party was given for Mrs. Orval Tinkham at her home north east of Steele last Saturday

TI The Overland Limited the fast electric-lighted daily train between Chicago and California vla the Chicago. Union Pacific Sr NorthWestern Line, is the most luxurious train in the world, leaving Chicago daily 8:00 p. m. Less than three daysen route. Buffet smoking cars, barber and bath, standard and private compartment sleeping cars, dining cars, observation and library car, Booklovers’ Library and telephone. Two other fast trains leave Chicago daily for San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland at 10:30 p. m. and 11 35 p m. with splendid equipment t of buffet sm<»king and library cars. I : and tourist sleeping cars and dining cars (ala The "Best of Everything All agents tell tickets via this route. r for full information. time schedules, maps and g book on California, write tout call er B .H.Waecrner 2} Fj(ll , i oollngArt. Chicago I «*’*■’»• into. 1 4a o 41 S PlCTO»'*‘ V

I JpT ,T MAKES YOU SHUDDER. | “No matter how dainty food maybe or how carefully 111 t OjL IHI ' ,re Pt |re ‘i' it looks simply repugnant to you, does it not?’’ ■ lvs **‘ e Konioc man. “That dull pain in your stomach < caused you to simply loathe the sight of food—you canuj HLJ9J not eat and yet you want something and don’t know what. When you do tar, you suiter tortures alter wards. Do ■ you realize what will happen to you if you continue in this way. Vour H body will become depleted and any sickness is apt to take hold ot you. If ■ you escape such evils, you will do as lots of other dyspeptics have done — I die ot exhaustion. Or perhaps the irritation of your stomach will become ■ so bad that gastric ulcers will form and hemorrhages from the stomach will B ensue. You positively can avoid all these troubles by taking Romoc. It fl is Nature’s own remedy. It contains no injurious drugs nor a particle of ■ alcohol. Romoc builds up your entire system. It will make I v ,r stomach strong and will help it to dige*t the food eaten and fl what i- b< tof all create a healthy, natural appetite. My word fl for it, Mr. Man, with indigestion, a single ■ bottle of Romoc will prove to you that H ! >• re ir more in Nature than you have ever fl dreamed of.’’ fl _(9 I ftr-dOwi I A3k for ROMOC LAXATIVE TABLETS—SURE CURE FOR CONSTIPATION. ST- ... (nsrsHrnsted »«""* He fcnom *A'»t «H fhnt <« ao«4 »!• IU Kornoa m __ , , . z - Ala troo.l, ,p.l mro/g Isfrue. nnaf roe will rrp.,.4 w ’m. J Os f>'o "«■"'» not tallo/Ud uUh th, results obiotnaal. Jkemes Sa fwaront'zd «*‘d )«M by

jeve. and a good time is the report of those present. An oil rig is being erected on the Win. Young farm east of Steele 1 the lease being held by Mike Scary ;an oil worker from Willshire. Hot claret at Burt House Case, ts I have hired a number of fine paper hangers Alex Tx'Brun ts , WANTED—Bailed straw or shred- ' ded corn fodder. Frisinger & Co. Fresh fish at all times at Fred Scheiman’s Meat Market. WANTED—Carpet to weave. J. C. Coverdale. South 11th steret. ts House painting and papering 1 done to order Alex Leßrun &• Co. ts For Sale—3 head Elierdeen male calves. They are a fine stock anda bargain. John Hessler, R. R. 2. i 36d2m Private funds to loan on city prop- j erty at lowest rate interest. Privi-1 lege of partial payments. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf Money to loan on farms at lowest rate of interest. Any sum, any length of time and privilege of partial payments. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co., 257dtf. LOST—A mixed Jersey and Holstien cow, got out of Peter Gaffer’s barn last night and has strayed

away. Please send any information to Peter Gaffer, North Ninth street, Decatur. Ten thousand dollars private funds left with us to loan on Decatur real estate,first mortgage. Low rate of interest. Will loan in sums of <SO upwards. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf Solomon Billman has opened a shoe repairing shop at his home West Madison street between Tenth , and Eleventh. His work is guaran i teed to be first class and he will apj preciate your patronage. Give him a call. fßdl2

Hoosier F JI HOOSIER, is a half blood Belgian, I a bright strawberry roan with clean, I sound limbs and good feet, and a good mover; good all over. Height 1 15.1 hands, weight 1500 pounds. ; Will stand as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I at my barn, residence at Monroe, Ind. i Friday and Saturday at Steele, Ind., at Phillip Martz. TERMS: 58.00 to insure colt to stand and suck, care will lie taken to prevent accidents, but will not be re- , sponsible should any occur. Parties disposing of mare before known to with foal forfeits the insurance and they will be held responsible for the , same. J D Hendricks Monroe, Ind.

:MUST HOLO FORT ’i General Kuropatkin Tells Commander of Port Arthur >i Whai’s What. While There le No Actual News from the Theater of the War, Rumors Are Plentiful. Among These Is Cne That Says Recent Russian Casualties Were 300. I London. March IC.—According to a correspondent at New Chuang, Gen. | Kuropatkin has wired Lieutenant ! General Stoesscl that he must hold Port Arthur with the present garrison While there is no actual news from the theater of war. rumors are * JSM OrxrP.Ab STOESSKI,. plentiful. A correspondent at Berlin gives an alleged official intimation from the Russian ambassador. Count Osten-Sacken. that Vice Admiral Makaroff has mined all the coast of the peninsula at Port Arthur, the situation of the mines extending three miles seaward. A correspondent at Yin Kow says that the Japanese again attacked Port Arthur on March 12 as a challenge for Vice Admiral Makaroff to come out and fight. During the heavy bombardment the correspondent says the Japanese were in a position of safety from the guns of the fortress. The Russian casualties amounted to 300 killed or wounded. The correspondent adds that this is authentic. NO WARRANT FOR IT St. Petersburg Scouts Idea of Port Arthur Evacuation. St. Petersburg. March 16.—1 n the highest official quarter information is given out that there is absolutely no foundation for the rumors persistently sent out from Tokio that the Russians are abandoning Port Arthur. "It is the veriest nonsense,” said the official in question. "Nothing has occurred there to warrant such reports. The Japanese fleet has not been seen for forty-eight hours. The motive of the government at Tokio in spreading this story is probably to influence public feeling in Japan for the purpose of creating enthusiasm while a war loan : is being floated.” The newspapers here manifest the greatest indignation over the report, the Boerse Gazette characterizing it as outrageous and a British invention. Attention is redirected to the order of the day issued by Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, commander at Port Arthur, in which he declared that that place would never be surrendered as representing the Russian position. Relative to this point a military officer said: "This mere statement carries its own refutation, unless we meant to beat an Ignoble retreat all along the line. If we abandon Port Arthur we leave our fleet there to be doomed It is too

absurd to discuss.” Gen. Kuropatkin expects tn roach | Mukden. March 26. Everything will ; be side-tracked in order to get him to the front on schedule time. The general may proceed on a flying visit to Port Arthur, but he Is more likely to entei at once upon his duties as com-mander-in-chief of the Manchurian ! army. He bears an autograph letter from the emperor to Viceroy Alcxieff to whom he will report. It Is understood that the viceroy then will turn over the entire direction of the land operations to Gen. Kuropatkin, who will transmit his reports to the emperor through the viceroy, but practically this is the only point on which i Viceroy Alexieff will maintain superiority. DEADLY EXPLOSION i Toy Pistol Caps In a Chicago Factory Let Go. Chicago. March 16. —Three persons, i two of them being boys, were killed ’ and eight othor employes were in- ’ jured by an explosion of toy pistol | caps which completely demolished I | the two-story brick manufacturing plant of the Chicago Toy and Novelty company, at Western avenue and W. 18th street. The wrecked building caught fire Immediately after the explosion and the bodies of the dead were so badly burned and mangled that It was impossible to recognize them i , r cognize Tim building w.l ,T’ • ■’ ""’’’‘l : , »"‘i u b. b-im*" l Xm.' I have |,oen ktHad i, tt t 'I ,"^' y Which 1B v ,,. xl tw.ntv\.’rt Mui, bo cleared < wav n • , * ?h <nn I A ,<i inumber of

• DOINGS IN CONGRESS Portoffice Affairs Continue to Exercise the House. Washington. March 16.—During the • discussion of the posto.Uce appropriation bill in the house the recent report of 'he postoffice department regarding congressional solid ition of clerk hire allowances and rental of quarters to the government was again i W f JAMES M GRIGGS. brought up. Mr. Griggs, of Georgia, got into an argument with Mr. Cooper, of Wisconsin, a® to the authorship of the document and insisted, over the protest of Mr. Cooper, that it was prepared under the direction of Gen. Bristow. He defended the committee, of which he i. ! a member, in giving publicity to the report, saying that the United States is too powerful and too great to convict any man by a suppression cf the facts. He said the members of the house after threats to “tear the roof off the department” had turned tai! and voted that the department should investigate the congressmen. The senate passed the fortification appropriation bill after a three hours’ discussion of the amendment authorizing the purchase of an experimental torpedo boat and the provision for the purchase of sites of defense works in the Hawaiian islands. The torpedo boat provision was stubbornly fought, but the amendment suggested by the committee on appropriations was retained. The Hawaiian provision which had been eliminated by the committee, was restored and the sum increased from $200,000 as fixed by the bouse, to $.'>26,100. Several other bills were passed. One of these appropriates $1,000,000 for a public building at Atlanta. Ga. Gen. Wood Arraigned by Blackburn. Washington. March 16. —The conduct of Gen. Leonard Wood, while he was in Cuba serving as military governor during American occupation was held up to censure in an executive session of the senate lasting two hours, by Senator Blackburn, one of the members of the committee on military affairs, who joined in the minority report against the confirmation of Wood to be major general. The speech of Senator Blackburn is said to have been one of the continuous flows of oratory for which he is famous. Mother's Horrid Deed. Edwardsville, 111., March 16—A coroner's jury has returned a verdict holding Gusta Simek, aged twentyone. on a charge of having killed her baby. The woman came from Bohemia and has only been in this country a short time. The members of the family with whom she was living : here discovered her poking the kitchen stove and upon Investigation found the half charred remains of the baby.

“The Devil a Monk Would Be.” Chicago. March 16.—Vandine, one of the condemned car barn bandits, will become a preacher in the county jail and will endeavor to convert his co-defendants and others. He has asked Jailer Whitman for a list of books from which to prepare his first sermon. The jail officials are of the opinion that the religious fervor which has taken possession of Vandine is genuine. Will Command Cavalry. St. Petersburg, March 16. —Prince fxiuis Napoleon has gone to the Caucasus, accompanied by Prince Marat. Prince Louis Napoleon will relinquish his command of the cavalry division of the Caucasus and then proceed to the far East where he will take supreme command of the cavalry under Gen. Kuropatkin. BRIEF DISPATCHES The senate has passed the fortmcatlons MU. Russians have been demoralized by Japanese attacks at Port Artnnr. Tokio experts say the czar's ships have left Port Arthur tor Vladivostok. Congress has appropriated 11.000,000 for a public building st Atlanta, Ga. Senator Dietrich dentes that he accepted money in appointing postmasters la his di>. trict. Mew Chwang has protested against withdrawal ot American and Uritiah gunboat, from that port Andrew Carnegie has given tt.too.ooo for the erection of a home tor the American Society o f Mechanical Engineer, at New York. Joseph Forgey and Annie Kiernan, lorers, at Troy, N. Y . took carbolic acid beeanse th o j p parents objected to them going together. Congre-sman < riunpacker of Indiana has protest,' I against Prcshlent f'nnnlnglinm of the Rural < amors' association, lobbying in the intmcai of the rnrriev* I the banks of the ' • river. j 4. . , bofsc«4 hi iv kil v<i and th© wnr« forned iL ficona fo< ( lw UtiP'll r-t s . . ... H, . . . on U'ilLi J '’pv.t-.Hr I t., l.hutt-it taa.ii >U ‘'*'<loo Vkia.

Weather Forecast. imtiana —Fair and warmer; Thiirr s day rain. i~ ■ MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products, Cor , recked every day. GRAIN. BY E. L. CABBOL, GRAIN MERCHANT. New Corn yellow t 58 ; New Corn, mixed 60 Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new.’4o Wheat, No. 2 96 Wheat, No. 3 93 Barlev 50 ; Rye No. 2 64 Clover Seed 5 65 Alsyke @5 15 Buckwheat 4!" Flax Seed 80 Timothyf 95 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1:15 p. m I today, according to J. D. Hale’s special wire service, as follows: . Wheat, May96} Wheat, JulyPo , Wheat, July, new97l Corn, Slay 57il Corn J uly 50} Oats, May4o Oats, Julv 38 Mav Pork 13 86 July Pork-14 05 Mav Lard, per cwt7 12 July Lard 7 30 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3KX /clock hr J. D. Hale, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cashfl 01} May wheatl 00} July wheat, 92} Cash corn. No. 2, mixed, cash. 48 Corn. July 48} May Corn49} Oats. Cash 44 May Oats42i Oats, J uly39J Rye, cash 74 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS qbocebs and merchants. Eggs, fresh, per doz| 15 ; Lard 8 Butter, per poundlf Potatoes, newl CO Onions 75 Cabbage per 100 lbl 50 Apples, per bu 8Sweet Potatoe, per bu 7f STOCK. BY FBED SCHEIMAN, DEALEB Lambs 4(rf 4 5C Hogs, per cwt >4 50(g4 85 Cattle per lb 3 @ 34 Calves, per lbs @ 5} Cows 2 @ 2} Sheep, per lb 2 @ 2} Beef Hides, per lb 6 POULTRY. BY 1, W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb6} @7 Fowls, per lb6(&6j Ducks, per lb6g7 7 Young Ducks 6(p7 Young Turkeys, per lb 12 Geese, old per lbs£z6 Geese, voting, lbs<cr6 HAY fIARKET. No. 1 timothy hay(baled) No 1 mixed hay (baled).— No. 1 clover hay (baled) |6.bd@7 10 WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVEB k SON. Wool, unwashedl6to2C Sheep pelts 25c to 75 Beef hides, per poundo6 Calf hides Qs Tallow, per poundo4 Coon , ]5 to 1.21 Skunk 20 to 1.25 O’possum 10 to 60 Muskrat sto 22 Mink 50 to 12.00 OIL MARKET. £’ ona -• •• •: Pennsylvania jjj Coding 1 New Castle 1 North Lima ’ 1.22 South Lima 117 Indiana ’*I’l7 ' Whitehouse i on Somerset 116 Neodasha. (Kan.) 1 '9,-' 1 Barkersville i’n< Ragland66 COAL Per Ton ■ Anthracite g 7 Domestic, nut 4 qq j Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 qc ' Domestic lump, Indiana 3 g(j , Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 55 j

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HARKET NOTES. Liverpool marker closed steady, Wheat, | cent higher. Corn, } cent higher. Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 32000 Wheat 13 ears Corn 100 ears Oats 112 ears Cattle 3000 Sheep .;tXJO Estimate for tomorrow; Hogs38(00 11 Wheat 15 cars 1I Cornl6o ears s Oats 115 _ars I ■ Farms and City Property for Sale. 1 Erwin & Erwin have for sale two ’ farms in Union township, well im.proved; 90 acres, 8 miles from city and 120 acres 3 miles from city. Also 1 two 80-aere tracts in Washington township near city, one 90-aere trad one mile from town, 81 acres three miles from city in Root township, well improved, on pike road and rural route. We also have a number of city properties and two good business blocks. These will be sold at bargains. and we will list others desiring to sell farm or city or city property. Money to loan at the lowest rate of interest. ERWIN A ERWIN MONEY TO LOAN THE DECATUR ABSTRACT & LOAN COMPANY. (incorporated) A large sum of PRIVATE MONEY has been placed with us to loan on city property and farms. No delay or red tape in making loans. Lowest rates of interest. We are able to close all loans on the same day of receiving application. Will loan in sums of 550 up. on one to five years time, with privilege of partial payments. This company can also furnish abstracts of title on short notice to any piece of real estate in Adams county. THE DECATUR ABSTRACT <s LOAN CO. Rooms 3 and 4, Studabaker bljck. 257dtf ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. ’Phones Office, 164; residence, 245 BIG REDUCTION IN RATES TO California, Oregon Washington AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS Tickets sold daily during March and April via Lake Erie & Western Fty* I ALSO Homeseekers’ Round Trip AND One Way Colonist Tickets will be on sale at very low rates to many points in the South and West March Ist £ 15th, April stl.£ 19th Address anv ticket agent L. E. & W. Ry. Co. or H. J. Rhein, G. P. A., In dianapolis, Ind. ' "" • i??!!!!!^'—— — Weak Men Made Vigorous I ESETII What PEFFER'S NERVIGOR Did! th.}} an<l nvlvkly Cur« whnn all .>ra™?£r™.'}RlLi nM ’ n re S*'“ I, » t manhood; old ' v,KOr ' zlbxolntolv Gnar- • Itl.-? JU'v l fi! ,,| r J- ni, "lon».l.ont Power, J ««■» ’ Mrmory, U luting DlnJndncr tin. or nerua ind Km t 4 .L •“•nit} and con.uinrtton. iou btwluiTlf? ilt npo ** awor ’ 11lM * •nbarttuU on I- < arri* tin F.HY lt.oh. or non.' tor It < an ■ I Pfl’ahl. plant wrapper. •ttteetot'n}} I .}-’..*'’/ Kl !*‘ ' Written <iu>«rKvrfi lSt^•l^S. , '! l . 1 “ ,, Money, pamphlet tree rtn tu MEPICai, ASS’N, Chßegti, HL For sale by Blackburn Ac Christen.