Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1904 — Page 1

VOLUME II

MURDERER DEAD i Man Who Killed Geneva Girl } Oscar Saeger Baffles Cincinnati Physicians and Escapes Electric Chair. -« Special to the Daily Democrat. CINCINNATI, June 18—Oscar Saeger, the young traveling salesman who shot and killed Marie <iurtner Roach, formerly of Geneva, Ind., at Vine and Canal streets,l this city and then sent a bullet into his own brain. May 2, died yesterday at the city hospital. Saeger’s death had been expected for several days by .the attending physician at the hospital. The bullet which he herd into his head pierced one of his eyes and penetrated the brain and he had been conceeded only a slight chance of ultimate recovery. Saeger shot the Roach woman, of whom he was enamored, because be thought she was going to New York to reside, and he would not get to see her again. He was insanely jealous of her, and the murder and suicide occurred in a sitting room over a saloon. A QUIET FOURTH New Scheme Inaugurated for Celebrating Independence Day. In many of the larger cities throughout the state and nation there is to be an experiment made on the Fourth of July of having a noiseless celebration, and the use of deadly tire crackers and toy pistols will be prohibited. In Chicago the Fourth will be as taine as a camp meeting, the reading of the Declar ation of Independence being about the most strenuous thing on the program. The Chicago experiment will be closely watched by other cities and if it proves a success may be adopted next year. There is a general disposition to put a stop to the promiscuous handling of file •arms and fire works on the Fourth, and if the Chicago p’an is too extreme, a happy medium may bo suggested before another year rolls around. But sensible people have come to relize that the celebration of the Fourth is attended with too great a loss of life and limb. They lielievethat the spirit of patriotism can be instilled in the youth of the lan 1 at less cost and that the fires of liberty can be kept burning without destroying half the property of the country. HOME FROM WEST Marion Smith Came in This Morning. —Saw the Fair. Marion Smith came homo this morning after a two months trip through the west, having been accompanied by Postmaster Brittson who arrived Monday. Marion stopped for a week at the World's Fair which ho says is the biggest show ever given in this or any other country. He is enthused over the west and his citizenship in old Adams county, we take it from his conversation will be of short duration. There are' many opportunities for the young man in the west and Marion is determined to tuko advantage of same.

The Daily Democrat.

HE LIKES IT Harry Winnes Praises Climate of California. Harry Winnes, who is visiting here after many years at Reedley, California says that he would be satisfied to live anywhere el«<-. He believes it the healtheist and most pleasant climate on earth. During the past winter which we carried coal until our backs and pocket j books acked with terrific regularity for six long months, and then nearly froze, the Californian was happy in linen clothes. Only once did they feel frost and then only enought to make it pleasant. Storms are unknown and Harry says he has not seen lightening twenty times in twenty years. He certainly has some pretty good reasons for liking California. TO USE DYNAMITE To Recover Bodies From Burned Ship Total Loss of Lives Now Put at 734. —Many Missing and Uniden* tis ed. NEW YORK June 17—Dynamite in all probability will have so be used up >n the charred and shattered hull of the General Slocum before the last of the hundreds of bodies of persons who met death through the burning of the ill-fated steamer can be recovered. In one of the paddle wheels are many corpses; how many cannot be determined, so tightly are they wedged bet ween the blades of the wheel I and the paddlebox The city officials tried today to make arragements with a wrecking company to raise the vessel, but a disagreement between the marine insurance com l>any and the wrecking company led to the abandoment of the project. It will lie necessary, according to the diver who found the bodies in the paddle wheels, to use explosives i or to raise the wreck before the bodies can be recovered. Estimates of the number of the dead vary greatly ou account of the ■ lack of reliable reports as to those . 1 who, though officially registered as missing, were saved. The total is now placed at 734. Already 559 bodies have been recovered, of | which numlxT 71 are unidentified. 1 The missing are 175 and the injured 350. OI the total dead, 283 are children, 253 women and 23 men. The identified list includesjl i memi bers of St. Mark's church, one being a woman. OFF FOR LIMA Base Ball Boys to Leave This Evening.- Game Tomorrow. The Rosenthal Base Ball team will leave for Lima this evening at eight twenty to be in readiness for the big struggle tomorrow afternoon. Four teen men will go cn this trip so as to avoid all incidents and enough I men to use in case of an emergency. • The boya are full of hope find expect to win this game at all hazards. Tom Irwin the famous ex league pitcher of Warren will handle the sphere for our 1 boysand the reliable Ted Coburn will ’ do the receiving act, and this famous 1 battery alone should give the Limaitea 1 considerable trouble. The result of 1 the game whether won or lost will be received at this office and posted by bulletin. [ Ice Cream Social. The Young People of the U- B, church will serve toe cream and i cake on the church lawn Tuesday i evening June 21st You are cordially invited.

DECATUR, INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1904.

BEGINS MONDAY Dick Silick to Drive Decatur Horses Will Have a Number of Fast Ones and Will Condition Them at Steele's Park. Decatur and her surrounding cities and towns will again be well represented upon the turf season and from all reports that come from the number of horses now on hand there is quite a number among the bunch that can go out . land get the money and do credit to I our city. Dick Sillick who by the way has become quite famous as a I driver who last, season had charge of True Worth, Virgil and a number I of other animals from this city Las 1 been engaged by the horsemen of this city to take charge and handle i the reins for them again. Dick is a good driver well up to all the tricks known to the ordinary turf driver and is fully able and competent to make the horses give a good account of themsalvos wherever they are entered for the money. He will be installed at Steele's Park and will assume ■ command Monday morning when his work of conditioning and getting the steppers in shape will commence. Among the list of horses he will have charge of are True North, Virgil C. True Friend, Hazel Pierce owned in this city, Signia owned at Willshire, Maude W. owned at Rockford, Miss Davenport owned at Bryant and three year old colts from Ossian and our own city. DERBY DAY Decatur People Will See Big Race — Estimated Crowd is Fifty Thousand, and Purse Will be Worth 525.000. Tue great American Darby racei occurrs in Chicago at four o’clock this afternoon and society will turn out to see the three year old colts make the effort of their lives for the purse which will be better than <25,000. Several Decatur people are present to witness the big event and it is estimated that 50,000 peope are in attendance. Beside the Derby today there will be five other races, the derby coming third on the program. Mayor Harrison has forbid any betting and has 500 policeman <»n Hie ground to see that his orders are executed. From morn than a hundred entries the held of probable starters has dwindled down to sixteen us follows: Brand New, Gus Straus, Cupper, Bill Curtis, Volney, Merry Pioneer, Woodson, Proceeds, Proof Reader, Rapid Water, Highball, Rainland, Moharib, Fort Hunter, Elwood, English Lad. Moharib and English lad are favorites. Among the Deca turites who went to to Chicago are Judge R. K. Eawin, C. D. Lewton, Calvin Miller, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Studabaker. Unclaimed Letters. Nancy Ridenwo, I. Mendel, Maud Maienhl, Mrs. Lousia Manne, Mrs. Edward Boyle, Rodney House, Cheystal Herue, Mary Blyth, Jusino Shenck, Clara Pnlingg, Adolph Wolf, and Lulu Smith. A. Britson, Post Master.

STILL DROPPING Price of Indiana- Oil Tumbles Three Cents More. Oil has dropped again. The | change came with the opening of the stock exchanges this morning I and Indiana oil is now quoted at <1.03 three cents lower than the | figure at which it has been standing ■ the past two weeks. Since the; market commenced to fall the de crease in price has been constant and never once has the price advanced. The last fall in the price per barrel of the petroleum was but 2 cents and it was hoped that the end of the fall was near. Another 3 cent drop, however, has I dashed the hopes of those to the | ground who had been expecting I that possibly the next change would he a raise. CONTEST CLOSES — What is the Population of Decatur? — Guesses Vary From 2500 to 10,000 — Prizes to be Awarded Tonight. The contest as to the population of Dacutnr, given by Niblick | & Co. closed at noon today. All I during the morning a constant stream of coupons kept pouring in and several thousand guesses had been registered. Even the mails ■ brought coupons. People living all I over the county made estimates on the number of people within the city borders. That the ideas of our population vary considerably may | lie seen from the fact that one party guessed 18,000, while another put the figures at 2500 a number of, coupons read between 3000 and 4000 but the majority are about 5000 which will be about the correct I figures. The counting out will be I done by C. S. Niblick and Frank Wemhoff who will begin work at the old Adams county bank immediately after supper. The awarding of prizes will be made at Niblack & Co's, store as sojn as the | winners are known. MACHINERY HERE Roofing Material Factory Will Start Within Few Days. Three parts of the new machinery for the Cement Rooting Company arrived this morning and is uting transferred from the ears to their location in the north part of the city. The balance of the machinery is being looked for daily and as soon as it arrives will be immediately set up and ready for action. Mr. Hite informed a representative of this paper this morning that this company expected to begin the work of turning out their Tooling material within ten days from the present time. They will employ fifteen mon to start with and as the capacity of the plant grows the force of mon will be added as needed. The company is not yet ready for incorporation. SUNDAY SERVICES Children's Day at Mt. Pleasant and Alpha Churches. Rev. W. E. McCarty will conduct communion services at Mt. Pleasant church Sunday morning at 1:30 o’clock and at 2:30 in the afternoon childrens day services will be held. At 7:30 Sunday evening children day will be appropriately observed at Alpha church. At both places good programs will be rendered. Everybody invited.

IS DISTINCT 1 School and Civil Cities Are Seperate Bodies So Rules Judge Downey, of Dearborn County.—lmportant Case. Judge George E Downey, of the | Dearborn circuit court, has sustained the demurrer of the school board of the city of Lawrenceburg to the complaint of Mrs. Kate Robert who brought suit to test the validity of the law passed by the legislature of 1903. The complaint | alleges that he entire valuation of i taxable property within the city limits.is <1,356,535; that the bonded I indebtedness cf the city is <5,000 i and that the school board, March 2. 1904 ordered the issuance of <IO,OOO I of school bonds, made payable in ten years in annual instalments the proceeds to be used in erecting a school building. It is also repre- | sented hat the civil city is already indebted beyond the constitutional limit of 2 per cent, of taxibles, i and that the school officers had no j authority to issue the bonds. An injunction was asked. Judge Downey holds that the school city jis a distinct and separate munioii pality from the civil city. Lawrenceburg and that the act of 1903 gave the school board the right to issue bonds regardless of the amount of the indebtedness of the civil city. This ruling gives the school board the righ t to contract for the new building, and to issue bonds in payment thereof, and the i board, therefore today accepted the bid of Wright & Sons of Aurora; consideration, 6,970.65. A NEW SCHEME Home for People Over Sixty Purchased Like Life Insurance. A Chicago special under date of June 13 says no student less than 60 years of age will be admitted to I Home College, newly . inooporated i I under he laws of Illinois. The co- ■ eds will lie under the same age reI striction. No provision has been made for atheltics. The officesl of the Home College company will Im- in Chicago and Dr. John Merritt j[Driver, pistor of the Peoples ■church; Hamilton White and Charles S. Northrop are the in- [ corporators their plan being a | unique reversion of the life insurJance theory for philanthropic pnr- , poses. The college will be an ■ institution in which men and women more than sixty years . old, having purchased scholarships , exactly as if buying jlife insurance . policies will bo freed from financial cares and stimulated to an enjoy- , ment of their old age by studies along whatever line they choose to take up. Each one will,by the fees paid for tlie scholarship, purchase a ! right to board, room, tuition, | ( lecture, reading room and library .-i privileges for the balance of this ! [ life, with medical attendance and funeral expense after death. CATHOLICS TO MEET Delegates From Various Societies to 1 Meet July 3rd. “About 150 delegates of the Indiana Federation of Catholic socie . ties, apportioned by counties, will i [ meet in Indianapolis in annual : convention in Knights of Columbus hull, Sunday July 3. The i convention will elect officers and i delegates to the national conveni tion of the federation, to moot in Det at at u date in August not I yet set.

NUMBER 136

A NOVEL PLAN Prohibition Party Invent a New Man* ner of Getting Votes. The Prohibition State Committee is about to put in operation a novel scheme to alienate voters from the old parties, says an exchange Ten bushels of what is known as voters pair pledges were dumped into state headquarters recently, having been sent by the national committee. They will be circulated in all parts of Indiana. By signing this pledge in the presence of a witness, a democrat and a republican, known to and trusted by each other, promise on their word of honor that for five years they will vote the prohibition ticket. As the old parties will not relatively lose o" again by such action, the prohibitionists expect to gain several thousand votes in this way. THE PROGRAM St. Joseph School Entertainment Graduation Exercises Will Occur Next Monday Night at Opera House. Father H. Theo. Wilken reports that arrangements are complete for the St. Joseph school commencement and entertainment to lie held at Bosses Opera House Monday evening. That the event will be worth your attendance is evident from a glance at the following program:— Music ; Greeting Chorus Graduating Exercises Music Salutatory and James Monroe Master Ed Berling Man, the Noblest of Creatures is Dependant Upon Other Creatures Miss Cecilia Kinney H. W. Longfellow and Valedictory Miss Emma Ter veer Distribution of Diplomas Rev. H. Theo. Wilken. Music Evening Bells Vocal Duet Motion Song Music Rose Timo Drill Music Dutch Justice Comedy Music Home Sweet Home Pantomime The Brave Fireman Recitation The Little Chinamen Drill. Music Talking Machine Comedv In the Country Chorus. SHOPS CLOSE clover Leaf Suspends Machine Wark at Delphos. Foreman Ollie Rossilet, of the Clover Leaf shops, acting under instructions from headquarters, laid off all the men at the shops I here Monday. The machine shops I were closed and all that now remains are Foreman Rossilott and clerk, two round housemen and several ear repairers. Tais end was I foreseen -everal weeks off, and it. was at that time hinted tht as soon us the engines that weie undergoing repairs were turned out no more work would lie sent hero for the present at least. There was no definite time given us to how long the men will be idle, but there is one consolation in the fact that all roads are cutting expenses at the present time in the way of laying off men. It is hoped that the day will not be far distant when all will i be taken back to work and the forI oes increased at the shops hero. ■ The force during the last few weeks has net been large, but nearly all t were heads of families.—Delphos I Herald.