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Daily News-Democrat from Huntington, Indiana • Page 7

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CI IAS. a. DEALER IN Groceries and Provisions Thompson A Taylor plce Co' Diamond, 15c, Me, 25 and 80c Coffee a epeclaity. Trthem and you will always buy Prompt deliveries mad to all parte ef tha 'city, i 129 E. Stata St.

'Phone 48. D. RU8E J. DIEFFENBAUQH GENERAL CEMENT CONTRAC TORS. Eatlmataa given on all ktnda of Con eret Vl0r' SPECIALTIES.

Cement Walka, Collar Work and Con crete Walla. Address th(tlrm by mall or loava word at Keefer eV Balleye office on Warren atrea' 1. It XXX XX THE DAILY NEWS DEMOCRAT All tha News, All tha Tlma 10c par week. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. It XX XX XX XX XXX WE MANUFACTURE THE BE8T AND CHEAP E8T BUILDING MATERIAL' HOLLOW CEMENT BUILDING BLOCKS.

BETTER THAN STONE OR PRESS ED BRICK AND COSTING LE88 THAN EITHER. THE ONLY MA vTERIAL TO STAND ANY TEMPER ATURE FIRE OR FROST. WE ALbO DO ALL KINDS OF CE MENT GRAVEL AND ASPHALT ROOFING ND HAVE fOR SALE PORTLAND CEMENT, READY ROOFING AND RCOF PAINTS. 29 NORTH JEFFERSON ST. JOHN NICHOLSON, THE PAINTER.

hat moved Into hla new quarter, 37 Wt State atreet, and hopes to con tinue to merit the patronage of hla old customer and the public in general Satisfaction Guaranteed. Saatal Pepsn A P0SITIV5 cum Vor lataimmtfcm Oatarrb at tha Bladdar aa4 Dlmwd Kiaaaya. Ma tar bo wmmj Cam aalcklr m4 Mafy wont sad ttloat ao aattrrof kow loss naa4 ing. AbaoJnUtr bannlat Bold by rarW Prtat tl.M, or ky BatL postpaid, thi unu firt'j co. iLLaroMTamc.

quip. For sale hv Rmdlev Bros, raay ayIav What PEFFER'S CERVIGOR Did ontood to Coro MarroaiiiMa, Lost Vitality, Uthor Mix, Tallin tormarr, Waatin aaa, and tfttU of Hl! but4 kumi and dndUoraUon. Ward oS luaaalty and eoniumnUoit yo bwanaa Itrleldi a rmUt prol nbtttltuta an in rE fEK'S EKV1GOK, or Mid (or It CaO uw front. iniistoBBtT fl par bra, or a (or $6, wltb A mn( to Core or Rrfaad Mono liMKM, JUUI1CAI. iamniinnnciK piaui IntpMf, A.

WrlttOB ODU onoy. ramphlotrnt i'H, Chicago, 111 For salet by Heaston A Becbtein 1 WE DENY 5 That our eoaJ i hand pollihed. That we wrap each lamp in tiaa paper or tinfoil. That we employ etone cotter to take oft the rough edge. ''We limplr eoreea our eoal over lateat improved icreena and jpre 8 are our ocal betur than other eater.

aarTHATf8 AJLL. Now tt'e up to too, if too want only flrk claia eoal, at price that. ERIE COALv Geo. D.Vouni YARD. fit Con.

J. jW. SHOCK, ft AT mwimmW KV rk ii ra powmroiiy iu oolowy, Caret rbn all ethera fail. Young mta regain tort manhood; old BMarosoTorTouUifal vigor. Abaolotelr Unu a a NOT us' di FIGHT FOR A 8AD PHASE OF THE STEIKE IN' CHICAGO.

SUPPLY DEPOTS BESIEGED Starring Hen, Women and Children Clamor for Sustenance from the Agents or the Chicago, Aug. 2.Four thousand men, women and children, clamoring Cor meat, besieged the little union supply station at Thirty fifth street and Ashland avenue Monday, Three thousand others surrounded the strikers' irocery store at Forty seventh street and Gross avenue, demanding bread and other edibles to replenish bare pantries and to feed the hungry men. The scenes about the two food depots did not bode well for the cause of thel strikers. The union leaders, struggling to supply provisions to the jieedy, were appalled at the task that confronted them, but they worked bravely to meet It In solte of their utmost endeavors the task was too great, and hundreds of women some angry; but most of them tearful and exhausted wended tbeir way homeward carrying empty Struggle Almost a Blot The efforts of the strikers to get rood amounted at times almost to a riot So great was the crush that the applicants held their baskets above their heads, and the effect was striking. There was little semblance of order.

The stronger ones walked over the weaker. Everybody tried to get Into the stores at once, where despairing clerks were bandjng out the rations as fast as possible. Men swore at each other and oaths from the women were not uncommon. There'was a general confusion of tonpues. Poles, Bohemi ins, Slavs and Hungarians Jabbered, ihouted, cursed and At the meit market.

3.108 persons were served and hen the fock ran out. When this ews spread through the hundreds who still waited, a howl of disappointment md rage went up. but It was of co wail. The shelves were bare. At the irocery store the distribution waa an nounced to begin at nine o'clock, but it did not start until 11.

and by that 'Irae the patience of the crowd was eone completely and the waiting thou ands were almost furious. The disor iter was kept In check as much aa pas sible by policemen. The while not exactly Id the nature of a stampede, were many and continuous. Armour A Co. took back about 150 strikers, nearly all of them being Slav laborers whose families were destitute and whose children were hungry.

About the same number returned Sunday. The cellar men went back. At the plant pf Nelson Morris Co, from 50 to 100 strikers reported for work at seven o'clock Monday morning. Swift ft Co. gave out no figures, except that 16 skilled workmen returned.

Three of these were butchers. The company expects to receive more skilled butchers from the west All of the firms are turning away workmen in the allied trades because of scarcity of work. Superintendent Young, of Swift A refused work Monday to a steamfltter and helpers and line other mechanics. Xuch Biotlng. Chicago, Aug.

2. Shootings and out lawry aa the result of the minor strikes in the city Monday night made the greater labor dispute at the stock yards, with Its 30,000 or more idle men, pale into Insignificance by comparison. Two men are reported mortally wounded, another was hurled from the North Halsted street bridge Into the river; three more were badly beaten; and passengers on an electric car were endangered by the reckless discharge of firearms In the possession of the rioters. The lawlessness occurred in three sections of the. city during the early evening and scores of pedes trians fled to places of safety to escape flying bullets.

A crowd attacked the Deerlng street police station with showers of stones because a nonunion man rescued by the police was inside. The police charged the crowd repeatedly before dispersing it Thomas Hanley, a union picket, was snot oy a negro strike breaker on car at Butler and Root streets. The negroes were then beaten. The police blamed Abe Root street car crew for running the car slowly while the mob waa gathering. Edward Dooley, a union picket, was shot and, badly hurt by unknown as sallant at Thirty ninth and Halsted streets.

an outcome of the machinists' strike, Charles Smolar, foreman of the Weir A Craig Manufacturing company, Twenty fourth and Wallace streets, was attacked in the atreet near his residence. 118 Waahburne avenue, while going home with bis daughter, He drew a revolver and inflicted probably fatal Injuries on John Lay don, striker, Striking woodworkers caused riot ing in Halsted street from Chicago avenue to atreet: A atreet car Raptured by pickets, one of Whom wap ahot A nonunion worker was thrown into the river from Goose island Facta la the Case. lira. Spouser John, didn't I hear you slipping upstairs at four a. m.T Mr.

Spouser Not oa your life. That was I slipped down after crawl lsg halfway up. Butt Inter Mountain, TELEGHAPH1C Cr.EVlTil TeleeraDh operators employed by tb K. A T. ranroad struck for higher pay.v: r' President Roosevelt approvea a Pin to give the navy control of the coaat wise wireless telegraph Blshon Potter ir expected to deliver an address at the formal opening of a subway saloon planned to lessen the evils of intemperance, I The Building Trades Alliance In New York declared a strike against the George Fuller company and tied up work on five targe buildings, An electric storm tore tbe flagstaffa from the city hall, Flatlron building, Tammany hall and other structures In New York and did other damage.

Vlademar Paulsen, a scientist of Co penhagen, has discovered an electric wave by means of which a typewriter in an adjoining room may be operated. That the flow' front the drainage ca nal does not harm but actually benefits the waters of tbe Illinois and Mississippi rivers is the opinion expressed by tbe Illinois state board of health in an exhaustive report. The Chicago presbytery passed a res olution asking the sheriff to proceed to race tracka and suppress gambling. All churches and organizations interested are asked to use their Influence to induce officials to enforce the laws. CRAZED BY A DRUG.

Cocaine Fiend Indulges in Indiscrim inate Shooting On Man la Nebraska CityfNelk, Aug. 2.While under tbe influence of cocaine Jack Carr, a carpenter, shot and killed Chris Hartman, aged 55 years, shot Chief of Police Schqonever in the hand, and was himself shot and mortally wounded by officers before he was cap tured. Hartman was shot without provocation or warning, affcer which Carr took refuge in a room in a hotel. When the police tried the door of the room Carr began shooting through the door with a shotgun and wounded Schoonover. After driving the officers away Carr began shooting from, the window at the crowd on the street' below.

The crowd returned the fire, no less than 50 revolvers being used by the men in the atreet Carr left his room and went, into the street, firing into the crowd again and again, when he was shot and fatally wounded. Officer Ingram was shot in the back and eight citizens received flesh wounda. FAIRBANKS IS READY. Will Be Formally Notified of Hla Nomination on Wednea day Next Indianapolis, Aug. I Senator Charles W.

Fairbanks, republican nominee for vice president, returned Monday with his family from Mackinac and reoccupied his Indianapolis home. He is making arrangements for his official notification Wednesday He la In splendid health and says he thoroughly en Joyed his rest In northern Michigan. The notification of Senator Fairbanks, which will be to a large extent formal, will take place on the veranda of his palatial home in North Meridian street Eighty malformed members ol the Marlon club, accompanied by a band, will escort the committee to the Fairbanks home. Former Secretary of War Elihu Root will deljver the notification speech, and Senator. Fairbanks will respond briefly, after which luncheon will be served on the lawn.

Wall Known Lawyer Dead. Wausau, Aug. 2. MarkH Barnum, a well known lawyer and edl eor, died Monday after a short illness, aged 70 years. Barhum served in the state assembly In 1896 and was dia trict attorney at Wausau at one time.

He served two years in the union army. v. 1 J. Too Particular. Employment Agent What was the matter with your' last place? Domestic The missus was to'o per Uculer.

"In what way?" "Sbe wouldn't let me lockth baby in th' foldin' bed w'en I had company Pullman Shops to Close. Chicago, Aug. 2. The Pullman com pany'a car works at Pullman will close in a short time, and 6,000 workers will be thrown out of employment, to remain Idle for an indefinite period. That at least Is the prospect at present, and there ia little doubt that it will be Twelve hundred workmen have been laid off since June 1 because of lack in business, and half a dozen departments of the big plant are now Idli.

Work will be continued until present order are completed. Pacing the Government St Louis, 2. Another semimonthly payment of of the government loan was made promptly Monday by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company. Shortly after the banks opened for business the money, which had been on deposit at the National Bank of Commerce, was transferred to. the United States subtreas ury.

Will Visit the Fair. 8t Aug. 2. Information has been received at the New York world's fair state bulldloghat Judge and Mrs. Alton B.

Parker have accepted the invitation of National Committeeman Norman E. Mack to be his guests on New York day, October 4. Work Baumd. JolUt, 111 Aug. 1 Nearly every department of (he Jollet plant of the 1111 noie 8teel company, which tas been Idle for several weeks, resumed opera tions Monday.

About 100 men returned to yy.y NEWS FE0M INDIANA Latest Happenings Within the Bor den of Our Own State. Died at His Wife's Grave. Valparaiso, Aug. 2. Anthony Weyer, whose blacksmith shop at Canton, President McKlnley used to visit when a boy, died suddenly at the cemetery here, where he had gone to visit his wife's grave.

He waa 90 years of age. He had been living for. the last year at the home of his daughter in Chicago. Mrs. Weyer died a year ago in April at the residence of her son.

S. D. Weyer, and was burled in tbis city. Sunday was the first opportunity tbe widower had had to visit bis wife's last resting place. He started from Chicago the morning before in perfect health.

Fight on Tuberculosis. IndlanaDoIls. Auk. 2. A bill will be Introduced at the next session of the legislature, the aim of which will be to fight the further spread of consumption throughout the state.

Dr, J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, in discussing the alarming spread of consumption in Indiana, touched upon the proposed provisions of the bill. He said: "Our plan, if carried out, will call for hos ollals and modern methods of treat ment for the curables. Other states have taken all these precautions, but Indiana has done scarcely nothing." Firemen Seek Pensions.

Indianapolis. Aug. 2. Volun teer firemen from all over Indiana will meet In this city September. 13 and bring with signatures to a pell tlon to be presented to the next legis lature asking that volunteer firemen be granted a small pension.

The State Volunteer Firemen's association, of In dlana, is sending out blanks over tb state for signatures and Is arranging for a big convention of all the volun teer firemen. Not only members of the association, but all other volunteei firemen are invited to be present Exercise Was Too Violent. Terre Haute. Aug. 2.

Coronei Tabor found that Robert Fair, a Junloi at tbe Indiana Normal School, who wai found dead, suffered from heart ex haustion, caused by "chinning" 24 times in while exercising In the gymnasium. Fair was not In ro bust health and the effort In raising himself with his arms to rest his chin on the rung of a ladder brought on car diac trouble. He had recently been elected principal of the Clay, City schools. Mains Are Removed. Kokomo, Aug.

2. A force men baa begun the. work of taking u( the natural gas mains between thli city and Logansport, which were put I down some 14 years ago, for the pur pose of supplying gaa to tbe resident! of Logansport. The work waa begui at; Lincoln and the pipes from thai point to "Logansport will be taken ut first. No gas has been sent througi the mains recently and as they are ol no value they are being removed.

Dies in the Harvest Field. 'Windfall, Aug. 2. Dee Golns aged 25, suddenly expired in the bar vest field three miles southwest of thli Goins was following the reaper, Mr. Hoban, owner of the farm, missed the young man from tbe work and started to investigate, when he found him lying on his face, apparently dead A physician was called from Windfall, but Golns rfever rallied.

Bite of Rat Proves Fatal Wabash, Aug.1 2. Aa a result of a rat bite, John Richardson, 80 years old, a pioneer resident of th( county, died. He was. bitten by a rat, which he was attempting to remove from a trap, the rat holding to bU finger until choked loose. For a time there were no serious results, but blood poisoning caused hla death.

A Healthy Spot Silver Lake, Aug. 2. There have been no deaths in this place for three and a half months. The preceding 14 deaths averaged over 66 year the eldest being 100, and the youngest 17. i With few exceptions all the deaths within the last few years have been from heart disease or old age.

Lost Hia Leg. Shelbyvllle, Aug. 2. Andrew J. Hlggiiis underwent amputation of two toes because of gangrene, and now hli left leg has been tut off at the knee, the disease falling to be arrested 'by the first operation.

Squire HIggins is 75 years old and a magistrate of years' standing. Stepped on a Nail. Greenfield. Aug. 2.

Mra. Josephine Scott died of blood poison at the home of tier daughter. Mrs. A. E.

Chappel, of Eden. Two weeks ago, whfle visiting her daughter, Mrs. Scott Ktepped on a. nail or tack, puncturing her foot. Blood poison developed, Trainmen Laid Off.

Huntington, Aug. 2. Th Chicago Erie railroad has laid, off 25 trainmen, who make headquarters In this city. Shops are running the same as usual. The reduction Is explained on the ground of a loss in business due to strikes.

Coal Will Be Substituted. Elwood. Aug. 2. Announcement is made that 'the furnaces of the tin house In, factory of this city will be equipped with appliances for burning coal aa fuel, and the use of gas will be entirely abandoned.

1 BUght Injures Crop. Grensburg. Aug. 2. Almost every apple and pear tree, in this section la marked with the blight, and the yield of fruit will be materially lessened on that account The blackberry srop also light 1 mi 1 i 1835 are most Let us presents THE 8N0WFLAKE BREADI The ioten at the Steam Bakery; White 31ark; Harry Fisher; Wright: Ira to a loaf; 3 loaves for lOo; 8 loavea lasa.

A. CRITE8, Tb area remedy for nervous U. W7 I I mm dainty designs Watches, e'C. G. organ! 01 gitner as, iucu mm mura.

rr ZZZ. Impoteney, Nightly Emissions, Youthful Errors, Mental Worry, bm1 ML li.i. 1 A mm A Ini.nit, Willi BM ICTCD IICtllQ order we ruarantee to cure orwfund the money. Sold a OO Pr, FOR SALE BY BRADLEY BROS. i 1 ssv a Wedding Gifts R.Wallace Silver Plato welcome, because of their beautiful and and onequaied wearing qualities.

show you our display of appropriate our complete stock of Jcwdrfa PENFIELD, A LEAD 1 er. a 4 Hfilll best to be found In the city, can be lock Son; FUher Snyder; W. W. Landls; Edson. PRICES OF BREAD: for 25e.

All orders guaranteed first, Prop, 110 North Jefferson Street AUD VITAUTV moot' as mm iiimniu TWB1 lilfTM prottratlon and all dUeaiea the separative Stages Posters WORK EVERY. Successful no matter what the calling may be, Is brought more prominently before the public by the announcement from time to time of some attractive leader, or, specialty, and at this time we propose to call your attention to our Job Department. Our facilities for the execution of high class work'have been so improved from time to time that today we are proud to announce our ability to accept orders lor every class of Job Printing and guarantee to deliver as neat and attractive work as can be secured in any of the larger cities and at ajsjow a price as is consistent with the character" of the i or to" be "de livered. Letter Heaxls Note Heads Bill Heds Statements Circulars One Call Will Convince News Publishing 20JWEST MARKET STREET..

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