Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1895 — Page 4

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®he iknwcrai W. Proprietor. FRfn.l I. AVIiJL 12, /W 5. on<> V< ar. In i" M **.' V.'inlx ? '•'rtiir UnnU • A| ( Ibser.,iw not paid during the year w.i] . l at tn« nip* < f'S.ild. » n m..., 1n H ul li »'. aldeof Su-r’trtter-ground.acwr • \ Western num tor W*<h « Ci.AVIH' MATTHEWS. • M Vri HEWS OX SILYIHL - Democrats the Silver Question- ( , ■ ~r , . -•!•’» nuV'st View* on the sih: * Q ■ t’iHirilNa I'aSKart S,i,s3!< M'IA >'•»< the Slate Coin(Hitter IV DIWCIIHH |t. Indianapolis, March 8, 1895. Chairman Taggart, of tin D emocrat State Committee, said t.-<lav that he did not believe the commit tee would follow the plan of the Illinois State Committee, and call a State convention to discuss the money question. “I do not believe the time is ripe for such a convention,” he said, “I believe the money question should be simlieH ahtt -<tt«casstfd in every neighborhood, but I do not believe any good could come from a State convention at this time. lam of the opinion that not one man in ten knows very much about the money question. The average man knows something about paper money and silver money and that is he does know. The people ought to be edbeated on the subject, and we must look to the newspapers to ■ do most of the educating.” LT “Are there a good many silver j men in Indiana?” •‘Yes, especially in the southern part of the state. There are a good many scattered around all over the state- I should say the party is pretty evenly divided on this subject in this state.” There was talk today that the advocates of silver will insist that the State Committee shall call a Convention to discuss the subject after the Illinois method. It was recalled that the Democratic State Editorial Association at its recent annual meeting, adopted a resolution criticising the money views of President Cleveland, and that afterward the resolution was withdrawn m the interest of harmony. The silver Democrats of the state are looking to Governor Matthews as their leader. There has been a demand for his latest views on the money question. The following paragraph from his latest speech has been put in circulation as an index to his position. “At least in the interest of the debtor class of this country, constituting by far the larger part of our citizens, whose in!erests should surely be dearer to us all than all the world besides, without further delay we should declare our faith in ■silver, restoring it to its old posi- • tion prior to its Cunning and outrageous dethronement by the Republican party in and proceed in the coinage of both gold and silver, without discriminating against either, adjusted by such safeguards of legislation as will insure the party of the two medals.” W<KLBHiKE, f Otiio, had an election last week, so the Willshire Gazette says, and for the first »time since J 869 elected a Democratic Mayor. In short, the Dems seem to have taken about all that was in sight, both in ths town and township elections. i?he Republicans saved but two ouf of a full set of officers lor both tilwn and township.

GOT OUT Francis M Neeley, of Jay county, an oil operator there was arrested Sunday on a telegram from Clarion, Pa. Yesterday afternoon he was up before Judge Heller on a writ habeas coi pus alleging that he was held Without due process ol law, and that’ uipre than a reasonable time had elapsed c'nefi bis ;r est in.i no charge had bee i preferred »g:ii' 'st him '!le v>a s *’ *presenled by O' 11 Aliir, of I’orthnL and was ip charge of Deputy Sheriff Finch, <•! J.iy coiini). Judge Heller, , tfur hearing tGe evplence, de' charged the prisoner, and he It I here last night for Cam hap ider m in than when he lamied here. Later dispatches say that offijtrs, .4 Clarion, I’.i , are on th. way hen •vitli an application for the body of the prisoner to be returned there# fbe\ are expected to be in Portlaud my time, and may be there before ibis time. The road question is one that every merchant or business man of Decatur has au interest in, and the road§ leading into the city. When the roads are bad our business men realize that the trade from the country is not as good as when the | roads are good. We have a plenty of gravel near the city that can be got forthe hauling tor the first mile of road next to the city, the cost of hauling will not exceed ♦SOO, this need be all the cost that the mile of road will call for. The township trustee will under the law have the grade made out of the road work, while the owners of any of the four gravel banks will furnish the gravel free so that the people of our city can by a liberal donation have good roads. The fanners will build I any road out six miles that our peo- | pie will build the first mile next to town. Now it some one will get a petition, and let our businessmen have a chance, you can see what interest they have in bringing trade to our town. The necessity for such action has existed for some time. Other towns around us have been doing this for some time past, the town of Berne donates §I,OOO for a road from the east running into their town. Willshire, Ohio, has done the same, and has reached over into tms state. Bluffton is encroaching on us from that side, and Fort Wayne is after the trade of the Adams county farmers from the north, while Van Wert is reaching out to the State line on that side, so that to be equal with the of them it is tfecessary that we do something toward keeping the trade at home. We better shipping facilities than any of our neighboring towns. We have the country around our town that exj cels any of our surrounding towns. Our business men are as wide awake as any (except as to the road question,) while if we build one road the balance will take care of themselves in less than one year from the time the first one is completed. How easy it is to be mistaken. The case of the unknown man found dead on the G. R. & 1. R. R. last week, furnish a proof that is putable. A number of our citizens recognized him as a man who had been in the employ of A. T. Lynch. Bert Lynch Saw the remains, he said if be had a scar in bis left hand it was James Madden. The scar was there. James Parrish knew him well, he bad boarded with I’arrish 1 for over five months, and a number i of others well knew him and was sure it was Madden, but he having i moved from here to Toledo, Ohio. , A telegram to his family soon brought the response that James I was there and left for his work i yesterday morning, bo the un- ; known man somebody found was *

'LJ l J'. 1 ..b8.!.-T~ i quietly laid ftway Saturday afternoon there to remain unknown and uncared for until that great resurrection when all shall come forth. Dun for the week says. Commercial failures in the first quarter of 1895 numbered 3,802. with liabilities of ♦47,813,683, averaging ♦ 12,000 each. There webe also 35 bank failures, with liabilities of ♦ 12,689,537, or ♦360,000 each. If both were lumped together, iis * u other reports they are, the nggre gate of liabilities here reported would be §60,496,220, that is §13,580,900 or 28 0 jiereent. mon- than is shown m any other report for the quarter. But Dun’s Ri-vn w not only gives commercial and bunking failures separately, but »how< that of the Connery 651 were iiruiufactaring concerns, with Habib' s of •20 223 9'1,1 r ging§lO,o 0 ach, while 3,1<>7 were of trbdii 1 eon .terns, with liabilities of ♦2 S'.»4, averaging about §8,0U9 each. Phe decrease iumumber ot erm nirrcial failures compared w h the •first quarter of last year is -10 11 1 7 per cent, while the decrease iu ha biliiies is §10,300,000 or 25 4 per cent., about 30 per cent, in manufauiuriitg and 20 per cent, in trading. The instructiveness of th< reports and its value as an <; cotir agemeut, are largely due to tin separation of banking failures, in which the liabilities were 4'2,602,537. against oqly §3,482,515 last year. > Returns of the highest importance given this week show the condition oi reatail trade in March throughout the country, and the distribution of goods to find con sumers in comparison with the same month in 1894 and *893. While the returns fully given on other pages cannot be condensed into a single comparison, and _in view of widely differing conditions in different sections and branches, might in that form be the less useful, there is gratifying evidence that in most trades and distinct marked improvement over 1894 is realized, though on the wthole, trade is smaller than in 1893. Everywhere, also, the occurrence of Easter in March last year, but in April this year, is found to account for much difference in the volume of retail trade, especially in,> dry goods and millinery, and the severe weather and backwardness of the season, also retard recovery. While the volume of trade, in quantities of goods sold, is nevertheless larger than last year I ,’ but on the whole smaller than 1893, the main difference in comparison with 1393 is found in the general decline of the prices, which makes trade in value smaller even where it is clearly as large or larger in quantity. Teh money question that is now stirring this country from center to circumference has come upon our people like a theif in the night. The demonetization of silver in 1873 by the republican party, when brought a panic such as this country had never known before which lasted until 1876, when the dark cloud seemed to raise and the dawn of better times gradually come upon us; but it it came with the remonetization of silver. Then men with money commenced to put it into business or loaned it to their neighbor until times were again what the people of this country call good, but the greed of the millionaire was not satisfied, so they clamored for more protection so they might rob the people and a high tariff was the result. The people revolted and drove the party from power. Then they took up the money question and like the tariff the people will say what they want in the money matters the same as they did with the tariff. __ _ ____ But a few years ago and a stone was hard to find in this county, and such a thing as building stone was scarcely thought of, but today we have a plenty to furnish our neighbors so that our quarry men can compete with all quarries in the state. We can furnish building stone or crushed stone for street purposes that*can’t be beat in this A

—JJ !— . partjof the state. It han been said' i that there is uo irravei in this eoun ( ty out of whiph to make gravel | roads, but like the atone, as the , county grows oldar gravel and stone i seems to be found in good qiiantr ■ ties. Within th* past few weeks a new gravel pit has been opened about two mikes east of town, while the on a on the ZimmeroMbß farm nut over a’ lialt a mile from the corporation line, is handy enough tor all purposes around the city, so that all the roads leading out of the city could be graveled for six or eight miles aud have a plenty pf gravel for all private use about town, while thc-re bar a ’n i> her of pits through the count ' where gravel is found 1 t ;> uun.iu •. j ill’s. l);.rn?y a Bohemian Woman, Beaten to Deatii. QUAWL OVES PROPERTY. lVti<» I# Sftlrt to I.#'-Turn lour White. Fruit l’e»t at Work—Woman l>ie» From Fright — Ch.l.t Drinks Carbolic Acid. Sent to t’rlson Tor Three Years—State Notes. Crown Point, Ind., April 10.—A murder bus been committed near Cedar Lake. Mrs. Barney Ehvanger, n Bohemian woman abojttt 35 years old, was -1 discovered in the early morning by neighbors, with the back part of her skull crushed, her nose broken and sov- . oral other marks of blows about the body. Life was* extinct. An ordinary kitchen rollingpin was found lying beside the body. The husband of the woman has disappeared. The family have been having some trouble lately about the division of property, and this is probably the motive for the murder. Captured the Price. Delphi, Ind., April 10.—Edward Beiderwolf of Monticello has won great honor in Princeton Theological Seminary, having captured the prize of §750 in gold offered for the best essay written by any member of the senior class. This is the largest cash prize ever offered by any theological seminary in this country. Mr. Biederwolf is 28 years old and spent several years at Wabash college. Shot a Bystander. New Albany, Ind., April 10.—Warren Breese and Cotner, west of this city, had a quarrel over a girl to whom both were paying attentions, and Cotner fired five shots at Breese, all of which missed their aim. One bullet struck Frank Bowling, who w’as standing near, in the thigh. Bloed poisoning set in and the leg was amputated. He is now reported to be dying. Cotner has not been arrested. Will Put In an Electric Light Plant. Connersville, Ind., April 10.—The city council has decided to put in a municipal electric light plant, and has refused to submit the matter to a vote of the people.' The taxpayers are considerably divided on the proposition, and an injunction suit may result to determine if the city council has a right to refuse to submit such matters to a vote. - ;> — ■ Under a Train. Noblesville, Ind., April 10.—Michael O’Connor, a'railroad brakeman of Indianapolis, attempted to jump from the pilot of an engine at Arcadia to throw a switch. In doing so he slipped and fell across the tracks. The wheels passed over his breast, resulting in instant death. «■ ’ Negro Turning White. Winchester, Ind., April 10.—Isaac Watkins, a colored resident of this city, is gradually turning white. He met with an accident last fall by the caving in of a .gravelpjt, since which time white spots have become so numerous on his face that his old acquaintances scarcely, know him. s Dreft Not Honored. Winchester, Ind. April 10. —H. C. Rahm, a "Jewish lumber dealer, is under arrest here for issuing a draft on a Chicago bank for §375 which had not been honored for want of funds to his credit. He clairiis that his partner had drawn out the money without his knowledge. Fruit Peet at Work. Wabash, Ind., April 10.—The apple, pear, cherry and peach buds in this county are being destroyed by small green bugs, which burrow to the hearts of the buds and blight them. Horticulturist here fear a total destruction of all kinds of fruits by the little creatures. Diee From Fright. Waterloo, Ind., April 10.—While Mrs. Eugene S. Aldrich and daughter were driving across the railroad, a few miles north of this city, the horse shied, but did not run. The young lady jumped out unhurt, but the mother remained in the carriage and died from fright. Kun Down by a Car. Fort Wayne, April 10.—Jacob Maritin, d well known citizen, was rundown by a streetcar on the Hanna street line. He was rolled nearly half a block before the car could be stopped, and was badly mangled. He was taken to Hope hospital, where he died. Drank Carbolic Acid. Huntinoton, Ind., April 10. —The 2-year-old daughter of Albert Archer of Jackson township, this county, is dead from the effects of drinking carbolic acid. The mother of the child, prostrated by the shock, is not expected to live. / Z

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■ ( I Got Three Yearn. ScoTTsßiiiG. Ind., April 10.—W. 11. i Hoover has Lxien sent to prison for three | years for obtaining money under false pretenses. He hail several aliases. INDIANA NEWS NOTES. Muncie is troubled with barnburners. Samuel Williams, near Henryville, lost his residence by lire. George Potter forged his father’s name to checks at Indianapolis and was sent to prison for two years. William Donahue of Jefferson county was found guilty of robbing Charles Arbuckle and was sent to prison for five years. The mayor of Fort Wayne has declared against Sunday baseball, and ID games scheduled Tor that City will have to be canceled. Rev. E. L. Dolph of Connersville was elected grand commander of the United Order of the Golden Gross at its session at Jeffersonville. An effort is being made at Evansville to secure a restraining order against the distribution of rituals to the Improved Order Knights of Pythias. Daniel Haugh, a leading citizen of Noble county, is dead. He was president of the board of trustees of the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane. — Glaus Trust Distributes Stock. Pittsburg, April 11.—The first meeting of the late glass trust was held here yesterday. Stock was distributed and the meeting adjourned until today, when elections will be held. streetcar Kloters Sentenced. Brooklyn, April 11.—Judge Moore has sentenced 12 of the Brooklyn streetcar rioters to terms in the penitentiary ranging from 60 days to one year and three months. RECENT INVENTIONS. A combination garden rake and lawn roller. A lubricating can having the spout made with wlnged’nuts. A vertical-partitioned ladle for purifying steel or other metals. A new tool that may be used either as a pick or shovel. A detective camera to be concealed in the coat sleeve.—A key with the barrel bored from end to end to prevent dust interfering with its use. A ferrule for walking sticks or umbrellas connected with a coiled spring. A novel kitchen utensil, combining the properties of a broiler, coffe roaster and waffle-iron. An adjustable book-lock to suit any size* volume which will protect important ccrrespondence from prying people. A method of tanning skins and hides by passing through the bath a current of hydrogen gas, containing arsenic. A tension device for spirit • levels which acts as an Infiicator-line for locating the bubble in the glaps. A method of protecting vessels from leaking by having a narrow compartment filled with compressed comminuted corn stalk pith. L ' A metal hoop for barrels having one end with knife-blade spurs to engage slotted openings in the metalk and pierce the woctlen staves. • A paper medicated during manufacture With volatile substances which may be inhaled with benefit by persons with throat and lung troubles. A system of strengthening wearing apparel, whereby a leather-covered rivet is applied at each end of the mouth of the trousers’ pocket. A pneumatic tire which has a double tread, formed by means of a cen(•txal rest; ining band, and intended to prevent sLlie slip of the wheel. An improved artificial ear drum one of the flexible tube plates, fitting the natural tympai.um, while the other rests outside the auditory passage, and has a perforation at its back and a vibratory diaphragm stretched across Its face. . - -'t -—— ■ Ono Thinjc Can Drive. They met. by a strange chance. • A woman is driving me," moaned the Horse. •> •‘I know just how uncertain you feel,” said tire Nall. “I don’t understand you at all, observed the Bargain, frankly. The Horse and the Nall contemplated the Bargain enviously.—Detroit Tribune A . _ T . ■ ■ t .

Yotlce to Teacher. ft ; For the months of Novemter and !■ I eeintier. lst>l. and Junuarv February, Mtfl ; and Avril. 1895, applicants for teacbil license will be required to answer a list ■ questions based upon the essays of Jcfl Ruskin. Glim A Go’s, edition. This is <■ of the Indiana Teacher’s Reading ClrH books for 1894-5. Respectfully, i J. F. Snow. Co. Sqpfl Notice ol Final Settlement ot Fatal Notice is hereby given to the creditors. b<l and legatees of Abrabam W. Haumgart» deceased, to appear in the Adams clix| ooirt. held at liecatur. Indiana, ou the 1| day of April. IMS, and show cause if any, final settlement accounts with the estate| said decedent should not be approved; i| said heirs arp notified to then and there niq| proof of heirship, and receive their dlstriß dve shares. ; Samuf.i H. Hockkh. Administrate! Decatur, ind., March 27,1895. L, C. DitVoss. Attorney. !■ JLI ‘ HOW ELOQUEN’CE PREVAILED.! He Tcnehed the Keynote in Itia RlugH Argnmeht fur a New Itaftway. I In the old daya of the southwfl Tcughopolis had been a promisa town on a great trail, but the railr® had run in far to the north of it, lei ing it out in the cold, and for it had thriven, no one could or wo® say how. Lately a boom came, » there was a prospect of a railroad tfl Ing it, anti the citizens ware enthil astic. They talked railroad, arid flaß ly held a meeting on the subject TH chairman inode the opening addr® ’“Friends and feller citizens, said in thunder tones, we huwe fl here this evenin' to take some act! on this yer railroad that Is promil us, es we will do our sheer to’rda al tin’ it. Our city fcr yeTs has set w|l folded hands, while less favored plajj has gone to the front a-whoopin’. 'll time has now coma when we air callj upon to come to the front oursetfl and we have got to do it, or bust. BM I say. feller-citizijfls, fer we air niigll nigh busted right now. The railrcll feller-citizens, stands fer progress, ill we need prcgtfej*. Es we had tM ! rai|roart to-day. we would be a difffl ent kind uv people. We would hfl more’n we have now, and woulfl have toe work to hard fer it. Es I had that railroad running right our doers and-farmhouses and woH stops, we wouldn’t have to go fifty® seventy-five miles, er even a hund® in all kinds of weather to hold uj® traki, but we could do it right herej hom e.and the wilderness would bfl soni as the rose. He ha.d more to say. but he tone® the keynote in that last sentence. <1 Toughopolis pledged herself then » there for all she was worth withA'o® eioua unanimity. f Strungely Mixed W«rr|wge«. The two following cases wouldA difficult to surpass. One was in El land, the other in Australia. Sol time ago a marriage took place in El mingham, which brought about a vl complicated state of family relaticl The woman had been married th! times before, and each time had tail® for her husband a widower with c®dren. Her fourth husband was a widovW and, as he had children by his ill wife, who was herself a widow idfi children when he married her, T* newly-married counle started this matrimonial companionship with IB family composed of the progeny IB eight previous marriages. Another cruious case was that IB Dr. King of Adelaide, a widower, vIB married a Mies Norris. Shortly aittl the doctor’s honeymoon the dofftaff son married a sister of the doctall wife. Then a brother of the doctwl wife married the doctor’s daughter other words, the doctor’s son becaijl his step-mother’s brother-in-law, the doctor’s daughter became her raff mother’s sister-in-law. The doctor!! the marriage of bls son to the shll of the-doctor s wife became fa.the<4H law to his sister-in-law, and the cH tor’s wife by the marriage of her HI ter to her step-son became sIBB mother-in-law to her own sifter. W the marriigo of the (loot® wife to the doctor's daughter, the cH tor became father-in-law to his brefl er-in-law, and the doctor’s wife betti® step-mother-in-law to her own br<.M er. It is an unsolved problem as® what relationship the children,of Bl contraotlng parties are to each otheall A flexible vulcanized rubber shffl ing cup, the thin edges of whieft rJfl be pinched together to regulate H amount of lather on the brush.