Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1895 — Page 1

The Decatur Democrat.

VOL. XXXIX.

I Miss Kate Mangold la at Berne this I wee * t - ■ I ° Dr. McMillen is improving his rest I dence. Fulk and wife were at Herne Monday. The petit jury is discharged until Monday. !,■ , f— — John B. Webber was at Huntirigtoq f Wednesday. Neal Rademacher Wap at Ft. Wayne Tuesday night. Peter Hoffman of Linn Grove was in the city Friday. Miss Anna Yager is visiting friends atFortWavne. Miss Della Baughman is visiting * friends at Albion. L D. Adams and Wm. Mersman were at Preble Monday. Mrs. Frank Shoemaker and children are at Fort Wayne. Lyman K. Patrick, of Willshire. 0.. was with us Tuesday W. S. Hughes left for Elkhart. where he h is a farm. Ed Neuenschwander of Buena Vista, was here Wednesday. Dr- Connell was in Ohio Tuesday on professional business. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wemhoff, Sen , are very ill with lagrippe. Marshal Finkbone of Geneva, is here this week attending court. Ex-Treasurer Gottschalk, of Berne, was in the city Wednesday. Herman Tettman and wife of Geneva, Sundayed with friends here. Philip Shug and Frank Foreman of Berne, were in the city Monday. Christy Stogdill of French township, was here Monday on business. R K Allison Cashier of the Adams County Bank, was at Berne Tuesday. John F. Lachot of Berne, was shakng hands with friends here Saturday. Trunks' trunks and valises, finest lot n the city; cheap at H. 8. Porter’s. 2-4 | Burt Townsend is visiting his father I Col. Dick, of the Randall Ft. Wayua Ex-Marshal Remp of Willshire, 0., is the guest of friends here this week. Martin Laughlin, trustee of .Jefferson township, was in the city Monday. Fresh Garden Seed in bulk or packages, at Blackburn & Miller’s drug store. 4-3 Mrs. Wm. Spencer of Ft. Wayne, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Charley Linn. * Barney Cramer and wife, of Delphos, Ohio, are the guests of Levi Ray and family. Mrs. Jennie Phelps left for Bluffton where she will visit her aunt, Mrs. Mosure. . ■ You can get Coal Tar by the gallon or barrel at Blackburn & Miller’s drug i store. . 4 3 Mrs. Bollinger and niece of Columbia Ikcitv, are the guests of John Bollinger "and family. Rev. Speis and wife, of Spencerville, Ohio, are the guests of Rev. Vitz and family. Matthias Colchin and son Charlie of Anderson, are here the guests of his brothers. - _ Emil Earhart and Emil E. Lichtey, of Linn Grove, were callers at this office Saturday. > The number of tramps are becoming greater every day. Our town is full of them now,, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schwarz of Ft. Wayne, Sundayed with Chas. Schieffer and wife. • '• A- ■ A number of small cases of the Statp against parties for minor offenses will be dismissed 0. A. Smitley was at Hoagland Tuesday attending the funeral of his cousin, Cash Smitley. •, Henry Morrow and David Runyon, of Hartford township, were callers at this Monday. Miss Lock, sister to Mine Host Dell, returned home Wednesday, after a week’s visit here. Rev. E. T. Gregg is suffering from the grip. He was unable to attend to his duties Sunday. Rev. Snyder, formerly pastor of the Evengellcal church of this place, is visiting fridhds here.

''DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY. APRIL 19. 1895.

John Mungen,of Fort Wayne, was in our citv Saturday. John at one time bustled things here. Mrs. C A. Smitly returned from Geneva where she has been at the bed side of her sick brother. Portland have their water works in operation. They are testing the line before accepting the work. J. D. Mallonee of Buffalo, NY., was the guest of his parents, Ezra Mallonee and wife, Monday. Mr. Doty, the merchant tailor and cutter for Holthouse & Co , the clothiers, was at Geneva Tuesday. J. C. Ervin,one of Berne's hustling merchants was in our city Tuesday, and made this office a pleasant call. Mr. Smith, of North Manchester, who has been the guest of his nephew, A, J., returned home Wednesday. O N. Tyndall and wife are at Indianapolis where Mrs. Tyndall is receiving treatment for rheumatism. The probabilities are that the natural gas plant will he sold in the near future to a syndicate of eastern caplialists. The jury in the case of the State vs Yager, after being out but a few minutes returned a verdict of not guilty. Mrs. Eli Myers, of Berne, is the guest of her parents E Woods and family. Mrs. Will Teeple and children are the guests of the family of George W. Teeple. John M. Holloway and Wig Briggs, of Geneva, made this citv a Hying call yesterday. Barney Cramer and wife left here yesterday for a week’s visit with friends in Fort Wayne. Dr Costello has returned from Chicago where he has. been attending a course of lectures Barney Kdlvarisky is home again and looking twenty years younger than when he left here. The W. C. T U. will meet at the home of Mrs Blossom next Saturday, April 20th at 2:30 p. m. Rev. W. J. Spray returned yesterday from Wren, Ohio, where be had been attending the U B Conference. Mrs. Rosa Keever, of Ridgeville, returned home yesterday after a week's visit with her sister, Mrs. Rev. Wise Father Wilkens was called-to see Peter Hess to administer spiritual comfort to him as he is near death’s door. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. France entertained friends Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Laura Corbin of Muncie, Ind. — ± red C. Miller was called to Vincennes, Ind., to attend the funeral of his father whose deith occurred Sunday afternoon. - Father Wilkens was called to Cincinnati yesterday to attend the funeral of his brotber>in-law which will beheld tomorrow. s Fred, son of Henry Winnee the boot and shoe man. left Monday evening for Ridley, California, where he will remain for a while. Ex-Commissioner Fuelling; one of the grand jurors, was called home on account of the death of his son-in-law, Fred W. Blfeeke. C. M. Leeper, brother-in-law of the Hughes brothers of this city, was here over Sunday with them. He lives near Greenville, Ohio. Ex-Mayor Reed returned from Hoagland yesterday where he had been attending the funeral of his brother-in-law Cash Smitley. M. Schafer has the foundation for his eating house at the C. & E. completed and will soon have the building ready for business. Eli Peterson left for Richmond Monday to accompany Joe E. Thomas who is selling the legal work of Attorney Shaffer Peterson. — ■■.. l > • Mrs. Dr. Bergman and daughter returned to Berne Tuesday after a pleasant visit with her sister, Mrs. James Coverdale, of this city. ‘ The 5-year-old son of Joseph Tonnellier was buried Friday morning. Funeral services were held at the St Marys Catholic church. E. G Coverdale of the Soldiers home of Marion, Ind., is at home visiting his family and friends. He thinks of remaining at home at least some Mme. - .

Mrs. Carrie R. Whitmer of Goshen, is visiting her sister, Mrs D E Studabaker. For Sale—A bunch of ewes and lambs. Enquire at S.C Niman’s feed store. 5w2 Those in need of cabbage plants for early raising, will find them bv calling on Willie Trout Gus Plessinger and Harry Groves, of Blunton, spent last evening in the city the guests of the Misses Bessie Hale and Julia Bradley. James McConnell and family have moved to Marion, Ind., where they will make their future home. The best wishes of their many friends go with them. Oil, oil is the cry in the field south of here. The raise in the price has started a regular boom and everybody is ready to take a chance to help develop new’ oil fields. The person that lost a small pocket book with a small amount of money in it. can have the same by calling at this office, describing the money and paying the charges The price of crude oil has been going up for tlie last week, so that the Indiana product that brought 35 to 40 cents a barrel now blings 38 and 75 cents a barrel. Miss Minnie P. Orvis entertained in a most charming manner with a tbinj,ble party Saturday afternoon. Mrs Robert Harding of Ft. Wayne was the guest of honor. Farmers report the hn st prospect for wheat this year that has been for a a long time. Our country is becoming better adapted to growing wheat each year as we grow older. John Abnett. one of the old settlers of Jefferson township, was in town Monday to settle up bis taxes. He is now past eighty years old. but as active as most men at fifty. Doc Grandstaff of Monmouth, was m our city early yesterday morning enquiring bow early Dr. DeVilbiss got up. Doc said his tooth quit hurting him but it couldn’t fool him any more. *lt is easy for the assessor to find the dog but hard to find the owner, unless the dog is young It is surprising how many “pups'’ there are in the city. Last year was a good one for “pups.’’ Fort Wayne is said to be the hiding place of a murderer. James Duffey who murdered William Taylor in 1893 at Hartford City, is said to be in Fort Wayne under an assumed name. This kind of weather causes the young man and maiden to sigh fora ride through the country to see nature putting on her spring suit and hear the birds sing, as they drive gaily along. Prof. Winans, of the Geneva schools, can be found near here each Saturday and Sunday. Geneva has but few attractions for him outside of the school, which, he says, is surpassed by hone. The sheriff of Wells county has a 500 barrel oil well. That is better than being sheriff of Wells county. At the present price of oil it will net bim SSO a day, providing he gets only one-sixth. The commissioners are having the shade trees around the court bouse trimmed. If they would have about half of them cut out, there would be plenty left and the building could then be seen. Mr. and Mrs. Will Kuebler, Misses Emma Jackson, Lena. Barthel and Amelia Smith were at William Weiland’s Monday attending the wedding of Miss Anna Schamerloh to Godfrey Lihrman. Mrs. Jessie Townsend returned yesterday from Baltimore, Md., where she has been attending a musical institute She was met at Toledo, O, by ner father R. B. Allison and her son Burt Townsend. John Lose and Lizzie Wolpert, John Baker and Rosa Wolpert Peter Stine and Hattie Stetler were published Sunday from the pulpit of the Catholic church as applicants to enter the state of wedlock. • The Van Camp flouring mills started yesterday. This is a new industry to our town, and one that will be a benefit to our city. You will And his ad in the paper and you can find Van Camp at the mill ready to wait on you. J. H. Beatty of Blue Creek township, was in the city Saturday visiting his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Buhler. This is the first time since he met with the accident by his horse running away. His broken shoulder is doing nicely. *' • ; .. ' ■ j

Mesdames Ed Martin and Will Christen will spend a few weeks with their parents and friends at Rockford. O They left for there Monday. Lyman Hart returned this morning from Auburn, Ind., where be has been for some time past attending the meeting of the Fort Wayne Presbytery, which was in session there. Mr. Hart represented the First Presbyterian church of this city. James W. Place is now a full-fledged manufacturer of and dealer in soft drinks. He has commenced the manufacture of mineral water of all kinds, and is prepared to furnish to customers on short notice. He places us under obligations for a sample lot of his fine soft drinks. Ex-Commissioner Dunbar was here Tuesday looking after a pair of fast steppers. He wanted something that was fast. The raise in oil has been felt by the Hartford Oil Co., of which the ex-commissioner is a stockholder and this may account for his hunting ior a fast team of horses. The German Reformed church of t his place are building an addition to their place of worship. They will use the same as a school room, but when the church building is too small to accommodate the audience, the school rbom will be opened so as to accommo date all who may come. John Ashbaucher, of Bluffton, was the guest of Sheriff Ashbaucher. While here he put in the most of the time with the Sheriff’s lung tester. John is somewhat windy; and concluded he could blow the tester up. but all the wind be could raise would only make him sweat amltlie tester remained the same. Aii attempt was made to burn Ahe Methodist church at Montpelier Saturday uight. Books and paper were piled in the middle of the rostrum and then set fire. It was discovered in time to save the building, but not until the same was badly damaged inside. It is thought to have been the work of tramps.—Bluffton News. Jesse J. M. LaFollette was in our city Monday afternoon on bis way t 4 Bluffton to close up a $15,000 land deal- It is bought for the oil that it produces. The land in Jay, Wellsand Adams counties that produee oil is getting out of sight, or at least out of the reach of the most.of farmers that want tb buy for farming purposes. Court Wednesday wrestled with the case of the State of Indiana against M. Schafer for selling liquor to a minor. The case was tried by a jury, who after a considerable time and voting, six to six. finally concluded to find him guilty and fixed the fine as provided by the stai ute; twenty dollars and costs. A motion for a new trial was made. Editor Vans, of the Jay County Republican is under arrest, charged with perjury, in the filing of the proof of publication of the application for a liquor license by Charles C. Barnhart, of Camden, Ind. His case is set for today. In tbe meantime he is under a S4OO bond for his appearance before Esquire Simmons of Jay county. A:special passenger train composed of three cars, each carrying a separate set of officials, nassed through the city Wednesdayafternoon on tbe Clover Leaf railroad. The three cars carried the officials of the F lint & Ferre Marquette. Toledo & Ohio Central, and Toledo & Lake Erie railroads, who are on tbeir way to the meeting of railroad magnates in St. Louis. L. C. Moses, who hfis been with the C.&E.as telegraph operator here for the past four yeai s, has received a promotion and yesterday moved his family to Huntington, Ind.', where he enters the office of the superintendent at a salary that is somewhat of an improvement over the wages paid here. Lew deserves the success. The best wishes of his friends go with bim Commissioners Holbrok and Brake left here yesterday morning for Portlaud where they will be joined by the heavyweight; Com. Fetters. They were accompanied by Engineer Tyndall aud Auditor France and are there for the purpose of joining the Jay county commissioners in the sale of a gravel road on the county line between Adams and Jky counties- - ' The Noble Red Men will pitch a wigwam here in a few weeks. Their tent will be in the Odd Fellows room. They thirty-five members and have forwarded the necessary, for a charter which Will be forthcoming in a-few days, when they will organize. The tribe will be known as the Pocotohgo and " ill be constituted of a class of men worthy of the name they bear. MB r S’--*.3 | '? e

Ladies are you wanting a nice Shirt Waist? If so buy some of those J aponett or Zephyr Ginghams at Sprang A True’s. 49-4 Frederick, son of Chris Blakey, of Union township, died Tuesday morning at five o’clock. He had been suffering with erysipelas and took to hiccoughing this morning and died within three and one-half hours after the attack. He leaves a wife and one child. Twelve young ladies were pleasantly entertained Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 5 o’clock, with an informal Thimble party by Mrs., W. J. Myers. Iler daughter, Mrs Robert Harding, of Fort Wayne, being the guest of honor. Those present were Mrs I) M. Hensley. D. F. Quinn. F. V. Mills, C. E. Neptune, D. E. Stmiakaker, Hkrry Moltz. L. G Ellingbam, Misses Minnie Orvis, Ida Falk, Lila and Nellie Schrock and Allie Peterson. Misses Leo Case and Minnie Hale entertained a number of friends Friday evening in honor of Miss Bertha Leibman, of Ft Wayne, at the home of Mr. L. B. Hale on South Winchester street. Games and refreshments were among the pleasant features of the evening, and a good time was had by ail present. Those present were Misses Mabie Edwards. Edith Blossom, Fannie DeVilbiss. Bessie Schrock. Susie Calderwood. May Trout. Grace Patterson. Kittie Watts,Jessie Sanders; Jessie Hart. Hattie Blackburn. Loui.-a Bradley, Bertha Leibman. The Hotel Miesse, under the new management starts out with more than au ordinary run of business. The first day Sunday was good, but Monday was belter, and Landlord Calderwood was as Tlusy Tuesday as any man could be He finds the work agreeable, and will be ready to wait on all with a pleasant greeting, that they who come once will be sure to come again. The patrons of the house will find it refurnished ami Placed in the best possible condition to accommodate the traveling public. While those who want a home-liae boarding place, will find the house next to a home, so that all can be su,> tl ..t this pleasant home-iike hotel. A — ’ —l ■’ ■ A novel rat trap is the one Je’ n idolford, of Monmouth, uses to cstib the wiley rodents. He has beeu bothered bv them of late, and concluded to exterminate them, but they were shy of all the dainties he could set for them, so he concluded he would fix them by stationing himself im the corn crib, with a cudgel in hand and slay them as they come in. Al! went-well until lie struck at a tine old fellow who showed tight, but finally run, and in trying to find a hiding place ran upgjohn's pants leg on the inside. John commenced to call for help and the rat commenced to bite, then John grabbed ttie rat and it squealed and bit, while be pinched it and called for help, for some lime, it was hard tell which mads the most noise. He is now ready to sell all the information he has on the matter cheap to the right person John says it is a sure thing if you just get the rat in your pants Feast of the Passover. Barney Kalvariska has returned from Fort Wayne, where be was' attending the Feast of the Passover, which is one of the oldest festivals in ' the history of the Jews, and originated i at the time the Jews were held in captivity in Egypt under the reign of King : Pharoah. The Jews were at the time : suffering under the worst bonds of slavery ever recorded in history. were forced to withstand the most direful insults and to work like slaves for the furtherance of Egypt’s power, i After God had stricken Egypt with a ' number of pests Pbaroah permitted the Jews to depart, and they left Egypt' after having been in bondage nearly four hundred and thirty years. The Feast of the Passover is one of the most important, in „fact if is regarded by many of the Jews as the most important feast of the Jewish faith, for it is ebleinatic of their deliv- 1 erauce from bondage. This feast has been celebrated by the Jews ever since j its origin. Its celebration at various times hife marked epochs of Jewish history, for at the Feast of the Passover all of tbe Jews would assemble together. The raid that Aretas and' Hyrcanus made against Jerusalem happened at the Jitpe the Passover was being celebrated- At another time “during the Jewish war tbe Romans, under Nerg, raided Jerusalem at the time of‘’the Feast of the Passover. The Jews were all confined within tbe walls of the city and on that account they could not use their strength, and thousands of them perished Josephus describes that occasion as the most terrible of all the destructions ever brought before the world. • < ‘ “ “ y ■ y

Mrs, E. Bradley still handles Burkhart’s Compound. , Any one in need of this famomr'medicine will find her five doors south of Jail on First St. 51-13 Charlie Zwick. who has been assessor of Preble township for tbe past fifteen years, was here and left for Maglev where he will commence the work of assessing, and will continue northward until pe finishes the township. He ■ makes but tbe one trip and it is done. 8. E. Varney of Oil City. Pa., was in oar city Monday evening. He was on I bis way to the Montpelier oil field. He i says that about fifty oil men from that part of the country, the most of them ( stopped off at Spencerville and through ! that county; wnile four or five of them 'come into the Indiana field The oil I craze is about like the gold fever, that i some people get They go wild for a while. • Monday at the home of Wm. Wieland of Union township, occurred the marriage of Miss Anna Schamerloh to . Godfrey Lehrman. The bride is the daughter of the late Wm. Schamerloh. lof Union township, and the groom is a j prosperous young farmer oj tbe same township. The Democrat* with their numerous friends extends congratulations. A number of the people of DeI catur were present and enjoyed the '■ pleasant occasion, A Sad Accident. On last Sunday evening while Cash Smitley, a young man near Hoag and, Aljptfrcountv. was out buggy riding with a young lady, by the name of Busi kirk, they were just west of MonroeI vide about two miles, when they attempted to cross the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &,Chicago Railroad, just as an engine awl -ea booso came along the trJlck. the horse seemed to stop just as the buggy got on the track, the engin e struck them, throwing tbe young lady 1 about forty feet, she alighting on her feet in the mud in the ditch by the road i side where she stuck fast, while the j young man was carried about two hundred feet and thrown against a pole killing him instantly. Tbe buggy was demolished and the horse had its neck broken. Tbe unfortunate affair has casta gloom over the neighborhood where the young ' people lived. The young man is a ! cousin of our townsman, C A Smitly. Montpelier t’ostoffice Robbed. Tbe postoffice at Montpelier was entered by burglars Friday night and'the safe robbed of something near one hundred dollars. The explosion from blowing open the safe at- : tention of some fellows who happened ’ to be on the opposite side of the street ; inSa., restaurant, but finding they were ; burglars were too big cowards to at- ; tempt totoest them. Instead of sei curing the services of an officer, they ! ran ,up to tbe square and aroused the.' j town by ringing the tire bell This. tob. I warned the robbers, who beat a hasty 1 retreat receiving, a part ing salute from ' the revolvers of a couple of gentlemen i who got upon flie scene just as they 'were retreating from the office. It is j thought they were the same fellows who blew open the safe in Haag’s : butcher also tbe safe in the Ruth store at Poneto. 4 The Work qta Tramp. I On last Saturday the barn of John i Swartz of French township was de- : stroyed by tire with all of its contents, i Mr. Swartz and wife were away from | home leaving the children there. Some time during the forenoon a tramp called at the house and wanted something to eat. but the children wouldn’t give him anything. Re told them that he would burn them out. but they did not think ; of anything until they found the smoke house-on fire which they put out The ! tramp then came up to them and told them he would kill them if they ever said anything about his being there and then left, as they .supposed. In a shot time afterward the barn was found to be on tire, and When discovered it was so farunder way that, it could not I be stopped or anything removed so that the barn and all its contents were de- | stroved. There was fifteen tons of hay, i a lot of corn, wheat, and oats, with farming implements, three head of fat steers and three head of young cattle, alb of which is an entire loss. The barn and contents were estimated atsl,soQ and is insured in the French TownshipMutual Insurance Company for about one-third the loss. The party that fired the barn was seen leaving and was the same one that was at the house. He is a man between titty and sixty years old-, and somewhat gray, and near six and a half feetjhigh, rather heavy set. A number of neighbors are looking for him and if'Tound. they may not talk much. Dutch to him, but await for the future, to tell him, what they think of a German who will tire a barn.

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