Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1894 — Page 7

BL,' ■ -t. 1 •'Av. r \ -TF A |< Er I "I Mi\fc A HOLIDAY *ND CALL AT THE BOSTON STORE A? 0 SEE WHAT WE HAVE IN f NEW FALL GOODS NEVEB BEFORE HAS OUB STOCK BEEN SO LARGE NEVEB AGAIN WILL OHB RRICES BE SO LOW DON’T PUT IT OFF YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO MISS IT. < STOIE.B i o o F. Block KUEBLER & MOLTZ.

Monroe I tenia. Mins Daisy Macy is lying dangerously ill at her sister’s, Mrs. Lewellen, in Monroe. Marion Oliver, the grain buyer at Monroe, bought about 16,000 bushels of wheat and oats, paying the highest cash prices. The towns around Monroe are protected by policemen wearing the badge of peace and protection, driving out their bummers and violators of law to Monroe, the bummers dropping down on us chuck full of funny booze, and we are bound to put up with their gymnastic demonstrations. J. W. Hendricks left Monroe for bis Kentucky home last Thursday. Last Sunday we (the Monroe itemizer) and old lady, (without the bicycle, umbrella and spectacles) started for Peter’s place, Buna Vista, in a buggy drawn by a little hoarse covered with traveling honors, but waS about exhausted when we struck those fine pikes in Hartford township. When we struck Peter’s town we curved to the right and wended our way to the residence of David Runyon, arriving there before noontime, finding David and his companion in excellent spirits, which made the stopovgr very pleasant. The little locomotive that assisted us to our destination was stowed away in one of the finest barns in the county, filled with horse vegetables. Our host escorted us through the many aislesand stalls which are mechanically arranged and well ventilated, for all kinds of stock. Mr. Runyon has a beautiful farm of over 200 acres two miles north of Berne, on the banks of the Wabash river. Noontime came and dinner was announced; we sat down to a table laden with the staff of life such as would satisfy a hungry king. The old lady ate heartily and we enjoyed the feast, after which we retired to the parlor where we were entertained with very fine instrumental music. David gave us a brief history of his annual hunting expedition up north, exhibiting the fruits of his adventures, which were deer and bear aobes, stuffed deef heads, dressed deer skins, etc. Mr. Runyon leaves for the big Michigan woods in a few days on his annual hunt. We wish him a safe journey and return. Root Township Items. Rev. Beabers preached his farewell sermon at Pleasant Grove last Sunday morning. Charley Magley and Miss Ora Harden, of Monmouth attended the Younr People’s Alliance at Salem last Sunday evening. Misses Essie Kern and Cora Mumma were the guests of George Rutman and wife Sunday. \ Mrs. Samantha Dailey, of Blue Creek, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Nancy Robison, returned home Sunday William Welty and wise were the guests of John A. Mumma and wife Sunday. Albert Mauler, a prominent young man •of St. Marys, was again in this district last Saturday. The join! league, which was held at Mt. Pleasant last Sunday evening was well attended. The program was very interesting and enjoyed by all present. The next joint meeting will be held at Hoagland, Oct. 14. Honduras Hooting. The social atWm Ward’s last Saturday night was well attended. Mrs. Wm F. Fulk is lying very low with leuralgia and malaial fever at this writing. Wm E. Fulk was at Linn Grove last Sabbath. Schools at this place opened last Monday. Noah Hoffman, son of P. D. Hoffman, is very low with typhoid fever. Mrs. Fredman Voiirtis on the sick list this week. A feature of the State Fair next week at Indianapolis will be the big band contest Bands from Cincinnati, Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis will compete for the honors and a fine musical treat can be expected. The dates of the fair are Sept. 17 to 22, all of next week.

A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. Four People Injured and a Business Block Wrecked. MRS. MYERS BADLY CRUSHED The Others May Recover — Incendiary Fire, Causing i* Loss of SB.OOO, art" Crainville —Prominent Farmer’s Wife Sues For Divorce—Progressive Mayor. Trial of Grey heal—Notes. Alexandria, Ind., Sept. 13. —Yesterday a natural gas explosion wrecked one business block, damaged others and buried four people in the debris. They were Samuel Myers and wife and one child and his sister-in-law. AU were taken out after being confined three hours. Strange as it may seem, all were living and may recover, with the exception of Mrs. Myers, who is crushed about the body. The baby, 4 days old, did not get a scratch. The explosion was near that of last winter, when sour 1 men were instantly killed. FOUND MURDERED. Farmer Killed While Digging Potatoes Near French Lick. French Lick, Ind., Sept. 13.—Rar Giles, one of the oldest citizens of this county, living two miles east of this place, was found dead in his potato patch yesterday evening. He is supposed to have been murdered while dig ging potatoes. When found by his son he was lying on his face, with his hoe yet in his hand. There was no sign of any struggle, and he seemed to have been killed instantly. He was known to have had about $35, but when found only sll could be found on his .person. He was over 80 years old and was supposed to have been murdered for his money. There is no clew to the murderer. TRIAL OF GREYBEAL. Alleged Murderer of William Jones In * Court at Laporte. Laporte, Ind., Sept. 13 —The trial of James Greybeal, for the murder of William Jones, is being held in the circuit court here. The trial promises sensational developments. Greybeal shot and instantly killed Jones in a quarrel, and then weighted the body of his victim with iron and threw it in the harbor at Michigan City. Greybeal was apprehended as the murderer by the confession of James Strambangh, an ex-con-vict, who has been held in custody by the state as the principal witness against the prisoner. Sheriff Simmons Resigns. Kokomo, Ind., Sept’. Edgar A. Simmons has forwarded his resignation to Governor Matthews, asking immediate acceptance. Under the recently enacted fee and salary law the sheriff’s salary is $2,000 without fees. Out of this he must pay two deputies $1,200, with traveling and other expenses, amounting to SSOO more. Judge Kirkpatrick ruled that sheriffs must keep prisoners without fees, and are allowed but 13lj cents per meal for boarding them. The job is, therefore, not self-sustaining, and the sheriff practically works for nothing after paying his help and necessary expenses. Progressive Mayor. Wabash, Ind., Sept. 13.—Mayor McHenry, who has newly qualified, delivered a message to the city council which was an innovation. He advocated the construction of a system of seivage, better fire protection, a vehicle tax for maintenance of streets, peddler’s licenses, the improvement of city parks under direction of park commissioners and a reform in the matter of disposing of franchises to corporations without compensation or part of revenue. Resumed Operations. St. Louis, Sept. 13. —The Madison Car company at Madison, Ills., which has been reorganized, has resumed operations, furnishing employment to about 600 men. The plant has been closed down since July 1, 1893, when the comEmade an assignment. When conns are normal 1,000 men are emtdoved.

INTEREST OXCITED. Resolutions That Are to Go Before the Encampment Regarding Pensions. INVESTIGATION DEMANDED. Grave Malpractice Charged Against Colonel Ainsworth, Head of the Bureau of Peuslon Reports—Veterans Said to Have Been Discharged From Service For Other Than Statutory Reasons. Pitthbvkg, Sept. 13.—Among the resolutions prepared for general action by the encampment are two that are exciting considerable interest. The first of these has been drawn up by Captain Thomas McKee, secretary of the national Republican congressional committee of Washington. This resolution demands investigation into the system of reporting upon applications for pensions as pursued in the bureau of pension reports under the management of Colonel Ainsworth, its official head. Another paragraph in the resolution demands that Colonel Ainsworth himself be investigated on the charge that he caused the dismissal of ex-Union workers for cause other than provided for in the statutes defining the right of veterans to employment under the government. Signed by Thirty-Two Former Employes. The other resolution covers the whole system of reporting upon and granting pensions and charges that grave malpractice exists in connection with the conduct of the bureau,of pension reports, of which Colonel F. C. Ainsworth is the official head. The resolution has attached to it the names of three members of the Washington post. Appended to it is a list of names of 32 ex-Union soldiers, all of whom, the resolutions charged, were dismissed from the service’ of the bureau —some of them to make room for ex-confederate soldiers and others, all of these men being at the same time perfectly able to do the duty they were relieved from. LEGALLY DEAD. St. Louis Man Petitions to Have Letters of Administration Set Aside. St. Louis, Sept. 13.—A peculiar document was filed in the office of the probate clerk yesterday by John W. Cocker, dead according to the records of the probate court. In the document Cocker asks the court to recall letters of administration issued on his estate upon the application of the affiant’s brothers and sisters, who supposed him dead. Judge Jane, attorney for the supposed dead man, said that the brothers and sisters of John Cocker, to facilitate the collection of a life insurance policy left by their father several years ago iu which all the children were beneficiaries, and not knowing of their brother’s whereabouts, declared him dead and had letters in administration taken out on his estate. Iu order to get his share, which had been deposited in a bank, John petitioned the court with the aforesaid result. TARRED AND FEATHERED. Michigan Preacher Roughly Treated by Masked Men. Hillsdale, Mich., Sept. 13. —Rev. Charles Clancey of Frontier was tarred and feathered last night and rolled down a steep hill by masked’men, some of them husbands who did not like the minister’s style. A few years ago, on account of his troubles, Clancey withdrew from the Methodist Protestant church and started a church of his own in a little log building, taking five or six families with him. Mr. Clancey was returning from the church alone. When about a mile from home he was stopped, pulled from the buggy, stripped of his clothing and tarred and feathered. He was dragged a long distance before he was rolled down hill. All the time he was shouting “Praise the Lord!” and “Glory to God!” and it is said his cries were heard a mile distant. He has made no complaint to the authorities as yet. QUARRELED OVER A HOG. One Kentuckian Shoots Another to Death. Pinesville, Ky., Sept.^3.—News was brought to this place of a murder committed yesterday over in Clay county, about 20 miles from here. John Ballett and Gillis Sizemore became engaged in a difficulty over a trade for a hog. They started home together, but Ballett renewed the quarrel and proceeded to shoot Sizemore to death. The man was shot five times. Ballett made his escape. FLOURMILL EXPLOSION. Supply Pipe Blows Out and One Man Is Killed and Three Injured. Richmond, Ky., Sept. 13. —There was an explosion at the flourmill of William Moberly on Paint Ljck last night which will result iu the death of one man and the serious injury of three others. The supply pipe blew out of the boiler and the water and steam escaped to the furnaceroom. Thomas Moberly was scalded and will die. William Moberly and two negroes are painfully injured. Large Majorities In Maine. Lewiston, Me., Sept. 13.—Returns from 445 towns give Cleaves (Rep.) 67,047 and Johnson (Dem.) 28,963. Repub lican plurality, 38,084. This is an increase of 1,309 in Cleaves’ vote over 1892, and a decrease in Johnson’s of 23,755. In the Second district (Rep.) for congress has fO,IOO plurality. Strike About Over. New York, Sept. 13,—-The tailors' strike is rapidly approaching an end and from present indications it will be over by the end of the week. Already 135 contractors have signed and 3,000 strikers went to work this morning. Killed lu a Runaway. Freeport. Ills., Sept. 13.—1 n a runaway at Lena, A. S. Seise and Israel Underwood were thrown frqjn a carriage, Rie latter striking his head against a tree and being instantly killed. Mr Seise was not injured.

Linti GFove Grlal. Several Sabbath schools held a joint picnic at Watson’s grove last Saturday. The day.was fine, the way pleasant, the attendance large and the time an enjoyable to al). Bertha and Tressa Niisbaum, who have been working at Fort Wayne for the past seventeen months, are visiting their home. The burn of Christian Augspurger, Sr., was struck by lightning on Thursday morning doing damage to the roof, A volume of smoke ivas seen to enieuate but no fire ensued. / Died, on Sunday night at 11:30 o’clok, Grand-mother Margaret Meshberger, of bloody flux, at the age of 74years 11 months and 23 days. Samuel Hill, who has been cutting meat for Blerle & Faln ney, is now doing that work for Blocher & Wall, at Briant. Mrs. Frederick Neaderhouser and Mrs. John Lehman left here last Monday foi South Bend to witness the marriage nuptials of William ..ehman, of that place. Edwin Jleller and sou Ollie, were at Decatur last Wednesday. The Eastern Indiana Oil Company struck a heavy flow of gas on the farm of Emanuel Wanner on Tuesday afternoon at a depth of some 500 feet. The volume of gas was so strong that the drilling bad to be abandoned. The flow has at this writing has been on twenty-four hours and shows no sign oi decreasing. A team of Amos Herrman ran away oi. our streets at high noon last Wednesday, and were stopped by running astride of a shade tree at the corner of the store of Hoffman & Gottschalk.s. The damage was not a serious one, as the timely use of a piece of paper in the hands of A. ,1. French kept them from running into the front of H. & G.’s store. Berne Items. C. D. Amstutz, of Bluffton, Ohio, is here on business. Miss E. A. Diltz, of Lima. Ohio, stopped at the Cottage Hotel over Sunday. J. C. Schug was taken on a surprise lasi week which means another partner, Julius Berne had 29 people for the Petoskey and Mackinac Island excursion Tuesday, of which Dr. Stoneburner was one of tin number Mrs. John Soldner is very low at thi.writing and not expected to live. P. T. Longenacker went to Cincinnati on business. John Shoenbeck, wife and two children left here Wednesday, Sept. sth for California where they will spend the winter witli the hope of benefittlng the health of Mrs. Shoenbeck. We are sorry to learn that our friend. John Wagner, is no better at the time of this writing. The night after the sale »he bouse ot Peter Sprunger was entered by thieves. They were dissajppointed. There are some chickens missing in towu of late. C. A. Augsburger has moved from Jefferson township to his new house on west Main street which is one of the finest residences in town. F. K. Shaefer'and Dr. Franz left here last week for West Virginia on their bycicles to visit relatives. This is evidence that our community is in good health as three of our doctors are away on a visit. Steele Items. Clark Calderwood, of Peterson, paid our place a short visit last Saturday. Mrs. Catharine Davy has removed to Decatur where she expects to reside in the future. The workmen engaged to drill the oil well on the faein ot Sylvester Campbell, commenced their task last Saturday evening. Allthough the attendance at the picnic held at this place on last Saturday was very small, due perhaps to the unfavorable appearance of the weather, it was by no means a failure. The farmers of this Adams county are expecting to hold a County Fair at this place on Thursday ot this week. Kirk Mann and family, of Decatur, were the guests of George Bartling and family last Saturday and Sunday. Amos Foreman and family spent Sunday in this vicinity. The Epworth Literary will render their programme on Saturday evening, Sept. 15th. The style of exercise will be somewhat different from the former ones, and promises to be very interesting. Everybody invited. Real Estate Transfers; Jacob Butcher, guar to T P Hollingsworth, 20 acres in Wabash township $ 500 GO H H Bremerkamp to F M Talbot, pt out lot 40 4000 00 Trustees of M K E cemetery to Jacob and Susan Martz, lot <>l M KE cemetery, Berne 15 00 Amy M Martz to U N S & I. A, lot •JSRivare 400 00 Malinda Meshberger to Emile Brunner, 38 acres Monroe tp 1000 00 Edward Foreman to J M Foreman 20 acres, Blue Creek tp 640 00 Jesse Niblick et al to Minnie 11/ Niblick pt out lot 94, Decatur.... 1500 00 Geneva Creamery Co to M 1. Wells lot 280 and s hf 281, Geneva 150 00 John Thatcher to G W Miller, 40 acres, Washington tp 900 00 David Fuhrman to John Blazerand G W Miller, 90 rods in Washington tp. 40 00 J 11 Striker to D N Sprunger. 00 acres Monroe tp 1903'00 Jesse Dotson to Berne Lumber Co., lot 189 Berne 350 00 W J Lee et al q c d to Catherine Leeetal 158 acres, St Marys tp.. 1000 00 We handle only the best make of plows in the market. Call and see our All-Steel plow for $15.00. 24-4 Ellsworth, Myers & Co.

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