Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1895 — Page 1

The Decatur Democrat

VOL. XXXIX.

9 John Bollinger was at Portland 9t' Saturday. 9| Seethe market reports. Wheat ia booming. 9 /Charles Murray was at Ft. Wayne Saturday. 9 Mrs. Jacob Shade is visiting friends at Fort Wayne. 9 Charley Bell has sold his eating bouse ■ to Peter Eorbing. . ■ Caleb Cline is suffering with severe ■ case of the grippe. I W. M nee, of Huntington, was in ■ our city Monday night ■ Prof. Kelly of the Bluffton schools ■ was in the city baturday. ■ John Anderson of Domestic, was ■ here Tuesday on business. ■ Miss Nettie Studabaker, of Missouri, ■ is the guest of relatives here. ■ Mrs. Henry Miller, of Fort Wayne, is ■ the guest of the Gilson's here. ■ Dr. J. K. Ross, of Willshire, Ohio. ■ was a caller at this office Monday. ■ Pleasant Reynolds, assessor of Hart ■ ford township, was here Tuesday. ■ Miss Maggie Dorwin ts the guest of I her parents. W. R. Dorwin and wire. ■ Prof. Snow and family are with ■ friends in the south part of the county. I Chester Buhler and family of RidgeI ville, Sundayed with his parents here I Mrs bred Mosiman, of Bluffton, is in I the city the guest of Mrs. Jennie Phelps. I Mrs. Will Winch, of Warrep, Ind., I is the guest of her parants, the Dr. 110 - ■ loways. I . Howard Thompson is able to be in I town again after a severe attack of la I grippe. I Jacob Brennemann and wife of I Berne, were the guests ot friends here I Tuesday. . - I The family of L. C Moses left for I their new home at Huntington. last I baturday. ■ Mrs. Sickafoos. of Preble, is the I guest of her parents, A. J. Reynolds i and family. The bans of Peter Brown and Rosa Licbty were published al the Catholic church Sunday. J' • v O. T. Rayn, editor of the Geneva Herald, was shaking bands with friends *■ here Tuesday. Will L Coffee and wife, of St. Marys, 0., are the guests of his brothers of this city. Rev. Hensley and wile, of Cincinnati. Ohio, are the guests of their son, I). M. ; t Hensley and wife. * Charles Meibers is suffering from a severe case of poisoning, He is confined to the house. 3 Fred Meshberger, one of Ft, Wayne's dairymen, was here yesterday. He was r looking after a horse. ■ A. Vondran, the landlord ot the Hesston House, Geneva, was in the city Saturday and Sunday. Ye editor and family spent Sunday in Wabash township the guests of Geo W. Menefee and wife. Natural ice will freeze pure; artificial ice will freeze all impurities placed in freezing can. Use home ice. James M. Lynch, of Ottawa, Ohio places us under obligations to him for late copies of the Ottowa Gazette. L i — Esquire Gates of Monroe township, was here this week and reports business good, especially in the marriage line. W. H. Shepherd, of Hartford township, was in the city Tuesday. He -> • always has a good word for the boys. Attorney Butcher, of Geneva, : is attending COrtrt here this week. He always comes up with a new one to r amuse the boys. George Gilbert w|o was scalded about two months ago by falling in a vat of boiling water, is able to be on the streets again. r The jury in the case of Hall vs Bax- * (er rendered a verdict in favor of the defendrnt. The majority of damage suits go the same way. Max Bomberg contemplates a trip to , bis native heath some time in June next. This will be his first visit home & • since he left ten years ago Henry Winnes is in receipt of a letter from tils son Fred, announcing his safe arrival in Ridley, Caiafornta, and that he is well pleased with the place. life? .'4 9r-£ - r • ■ ■ . .*■

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY. APRIL 26, 1895.

Pay the boy for the Daily for April. He will call Saturday. Uncle John Curisten, of Hoot township, was in the city Saturday. He is 83 , years old and quite well except his eye sight. Ex-Mayor Reed Sundayed at Hoagland with his family who are there visiting with Mrs. Reed’s parents, Aenos Smitley. Bernard Harris and wife, of Monroe, were in the city Monday. This was their first trip- here since they were maraied. The different towns around us are being billed for circuses, but as yet Decatur has hot been enrolled as one of the show towns Mr. Andrew J. Myers and Miss Nana Laugbrey were united in holy wedlock on April 22nd, by Rev. H. Kohn at the groom’s home near Willshire, Ohio. Henry Brerdorf, of Auburn. Ind., was a caller at this oflice- He formerly was a resident of this county and has a number friends here who are glad to meet him. The Miesse, under the new management is booming. They have taken care of 77 people last week. The new management is to be congratulated on their start. Will Coffee, of St. Mary’s O , is in the city. He made .this office a pleasant call, and made the editor smile by renewing his subscription to the Democrat. William and Frederick Kuklehan, of Root township, returned from Bahring county, Michigan, where they had been to attend the funeral - of their uncle Frederick First. Bluffton is now revelling in a new railroad—the one Decatur discarded some time ago It is the old Toledo, Thorntown St. Louis line, and they now see it in sight Al Zirkle, father of the famous Adams county triplets, is an ardeht Democrat and he lias named bis three little girls Frances, Ruth and Esther, after Mrs. Cleveland and her two daughters. The Democrat would like to hear from horsemen and others throughout the county who are interested in the above pastime, with a view of having the same being made an annual occurrence The time of year is at band when the small boy will play hooky, and you can find him on the banks of the river along with the old bald head who is ever ready to instruct him in the lore of a fisherman. There has recently died in California a person enjoying the distinction of having licked Grover .Cleveland, and of which she was very proud. Her name was Mary Westfield, who spanked him as nurse, about fifty years ago. Mesdames J. B Ford and T. R. Moore and Miss Annie Winnes were at Indianapolis as delegates from the Decatur Chapter of the Inde pendent Order of Eastern Star at the Grand Lodge of the Eastern Star Order Some person who thinks dogs better in dog heaven than in this cruel world, put out some of the medicine that transfer the dogs to that place. Among the dbgs that partook of the medicine was “Dick” owned by Mrs. Laura Jelleff. , The water works are at a standstill for the present. The committee have the plans and specifications but they want an estimate of the cost which is still not forthcoming, so they wait. The plans look to them to be beyond the reach of our city. Every newspaper will appreciate the following from an eastern journal if no one else does: “Get your printing done where you please—it’s your right—but please do not, after spending your money elsewhere, come to our office begging free notices.” The Pennsylvania coke workers received an increase of 15 (per cent, in wages, which was promptly followed by an increase of 30 to 40 per cent, in the rents of the company’s bouses, and now the men are trying to figure out whe|het they will gain or lose by the double (leal. It is said they have introduced a back handed style of penmanship in the Decatur public schools. The slant is so great in many instances that the words slip off the pen before they are written, and the teachers have to stand on their ffieads to read the chirography.—Bluffton Banner. „ Bluffton must surely have been like Rip Van Winkle, just awakened from a long sleep, to just find out that Decatur tries to keep up in all the new improvements. ... . ■ r ..-

Monday afternoon the board of commissioners of Jay county met the board of Adams county here and in open session' approved the bond of ! Hays & Co., of Jay county for the construction of the Patten gravel road. The contract was let to them to build . two miles of gravel road along the line . of the counties of Adams and Jay for , the sum of 82300. Samuel Fetters, commissioner from i the third district of our county, is the * heavy man of this county, weighing > over 300 pounds and has passed the meridian ot life.- But yet the 11th of , this month bis home was brightened ; by the appearance of a young commis- , sioner, which Sam says shall have bis undivided attention. Congratulations are in order and we extend them. * i ‘ To parents who have the feeling that * parents have for their children should they know they would feel if it was their son who was to lay in jail for 30 days, J as a young man who has just received L a sentence of that kind for the violation , of the law. Had this young man been cared for by his parents, as every boy should be today, he would be following some honorable occupation. | ' . r William Shelly bad the misfortune to i lose his bouse by fire last Tuesday afternoon. The fire started up stairs and is supnosed to have been the cause of a defective flue. The house was a new 1 frame andcost about 8300, and was insured for 8100 in the Home of New * York. The household goods were about all saved He lived in the south ’ west corner of Preble township. J. 11. f Bidleman, engineer of the Preble pump st.ition of the Indiana pipe lirte. has tendered life resignation to take effect <>n the first day of May, ■ When he will retire and remove to ueipsic, Putnam county, Ohio, where , he will engage in the medicine trade. Mr. Bidletnan has been in the service of the company for the past six years. The people of Preble are sorry to see him leave. Martin, son of Gallier Mallonee, with a number of other boys were playing on the road scraner that ornaments the street near the court hoifse. stood up on the wheel when some of the boys turned . it around, and down he come breaking bis left arm between the wrist and elbow. Dr. Coverdale reduced the fracture. The>boy’s parents live in the country, but he has been boarding with his grandmother, Mrs. Elzey, and attending school here. The Hotel Miesse toon care of the i Red Men Tuesday night. They bad 38 for the six o’clock and tben for the 12 o’clock supper 67 of them answered to the war whoop, and came away from the Miesse better satisfied than they could have been had there been a few scalps dangling at their be ts. The goat was a new 7 one and the first of the beys had a rough time with the animal, but they were brave men ( and stood the test like veterans. The case of the btate of Indiana vs ( Charles Woodward for assault upon Prof. Moffett, was tried before Mayor Quinn Tuesday, that is Woodward appeared before the mayor and plead guilty to assault and battery and the 1 mayor assessed bis fine at $5 and costs ' The cost will be light as the marshal ' did not serve the warrant and the prosecutor did not prosecute the pleas ■ for the state, so he gets off very easy. Sidnev Close, a young boy of the age of 17 years, was arrested for public intoxication and Esquire Hill fined him one dollar and the trimmings. While it seems that one so young should be kept from such acts, tben those who delight in helping them along in that way, there is no question with any person who has a sense of right but what the punishment should go to some one else instead of the boy, but this seems to be a disposition on the part of the boy to screen anyone else and take the worst of the deal himself. The Willard Steele driving park, just east of the city, is fast nearing completion. This beautiful half-mile track was surveyed and graded early last fall, and is of the regulation style. During the past week a force of men have been engaged in erecting a fence ou the in and outer side of the track, and the work of leveling up the track will be commenced the first of the coming -week, so that everything will be ready for the training of horses by the 10th of May next. This being the only speed track in Adams county worthy of mention, horsemen throughout the county should have a coming together some time between the Ist and 10th of the coming month and perfect ■ arrangements for a two or three days ■ exhibition of speed—the same to take place some time in June.

f To the readers of the Daily: Ou J Saturday the collector will call on i you for the snbsciption due tor the r month of April. Please be ready to pay them, and from that date . on they will collect each week, I where no other arrangements are J made, r It is reported that the saloon keepers of Di*catur are so mad over the passage of the Nicholson bill that they have dei termined to obey the Sunday law, and , prosecute everybody else who violates it The serpent in his impotent rage ■ biteth himself —Willshire Gazette. ’ This article is one of those that come f by men sitting on the river bank too 1 long and taking cold, after which it becomes necessary to take a little “John ’ Barley Corn” to off this cold. Our sa- ’ loon men are law abiding citizens and never resort to such low down work as the Gazette pictures. b I L. L. Dunbar and Trustee Huffman, r of Linn Grove, Adams county, met , with an accident out on the Vera Cruz I pike, about six o’clock Sunday evening > that might have killed one of them i The two were driving home from this r city and bad gotten as far as the Kalt- - wass r slaughter house, when their horse frightened at a steer, and whirling around upset the buggy and threw * both men into the ditch., Dunbar was the worst hurt, while Huffman did not 1 seem to be injured. The buggy was ; broken up, and both men would have ’ bad to walk back to town bad not ’ Charley Coverdale driven up just at ’ the time of the accident. He let them ’ use his rig to get home —Bluffton i News A lodge of the Independent Order ( of Red Men, with a charter member- ( ship of thirty eight, was instituted ! here Wednesday night. at Odd Fellow’s hall. Forty membeisof tiieorder from ’ Fort Wayne who had charge of the , ceremonies arrived in the afternoon. Members from Richmond. Portland and , Bluffton were also present. The lodge starts out under flattering circumstan- , ces, with the following officers: A. P Beatty. Sachem; V S Reed, Senior Sachem; M. F. Rice. Junior Sachem; i B. W. Quinn, Prophet: J. D. Hale, i Past Sachem. C. Neptune, Past Sachem 5 E. MeC ain, .Collector Sachem: E. i Fritzinger. Keeper Sachem; J. N Fris I toe, Judd Teeple and D Erwin. Trusr tetes: Ed Murray and Huffman, Scouts. 1 The quiet staid old town of Mon* 1 mouth was ta 1 tied a few days ago ly * the cry of tire! tire' lire! when the en-~ 1 rife population were aroused and on band with their buckets and ladders, soime of them barefooted and others bareheaded, all anxious and enquiring ( where the fire was, and after considerable of anxious enquiring they found that the fire had originated in the seat of Doc Grandstaff 's pants Doe, who is somewhat of a smoker when at work, earries his pipe in the pistol pocket of ' his pants, and in placing it there had Forgot to remove the fire from the pipe and it caused him to remove his pants, so he could sit down without pain. The fire was extinguished and Doc swore off smoking. i Every citizen of a town ought to be interested in building it up. Every - capitalist of a town ought to use his means and influence in stimulating i some wealth producing industry. The > man who thus invests his money is a local public benefactor All snch enterprises promote the growth and add i to the wealth of the community in i which they are established. Every dollar kept at home has its advantages more or less, for eyery citizen The most prosperous towns are those which work on the co operative plan—that aim to build up the merchants, manu factures, mechanics, etc. Every cent diverted from home is so much taken from the home dealers, home producers, home consumers; and lessens to a greater or less extent, the ability of home men to meet their liabilities. In last week's issue we permitted ourselves to be imposed on by a special correspondent from Pleasant Valley in which he made certain statements about a minister of the gospel which we now find to be false The special correspondent promised us to make the necessary correction for this Week but so (ar has failed to do so. Therefore we proceed to make the apoligy to Mr. Smith who by the necessary documents has satisfied us that be comes to the people of Pleasant Valley well recommended with the necessary evidence to show to them that he is worthy of their confidence, and in our short acquaintance we say so far shows himself to be k gentleman, and we do this because we think the same is justly due bi® '(’he Democrat is not here to malign I ,ny person, bat to condemn the wrong ,nd uphold the right and give the neive mt the personal of any individual is lews only when there is something else onnected with that individual that Bakes the act that they do news.

Saturday night seems to have been r bad one or good for the bumming element from the way the stories go. then was shooting and beating* up of people in a true frontier style while the otlicei doesnot seem to be equal to the occasion, as our city has grown so large that the time has come when we need a police force to protect our people from Home of the rowdies that infest our city. While the Marshal is doing ail in his power, the city has become too large for any one man to see to alone, therefore our city authorities should provide for our city some means bv which the lawlessness can be overcome. ■ — Don’t forget the poor* editor when you have a news item. If your wife licks you tell us of it and we will place it right before the public. If you have company tell us, if you’e not ashamed of your viators. If a youngster arrived at your, begging for raiment, buy a quarter’s worth of cigars and come around, and if vou are a cash subscriber we will furnish a suitable name for him or her as the circumstances may be, and if you have a social gathering of a few of your friends bring around a big cake, seven or eight pies and a bam not necessarily to eat. but as a guarantee of good faith. You need not bother about inviting us for it is a little too cold for our wardrobe We mention tbesn iittle facts for we want the news. Work was comenced this morning preparing the electric light, telephone and telegraph poles ready for painting. All the advertisements, wires wrapped around them and knots are being removed. Unused poies will also be removed, a very proper thing to d<>. Nothing will add more to the appearance of the streets than to have the unsightly poles nicely painted.— Bluffton News. Wrong again you are. Why nbt do as you should do, have the wires put under ground where they should be instead of on unsightly poles placed on the property of an other. Remember the poles are not for the good of the public as the streets and side-walks aie. nut are for some corporation to inako money off of. We are in favor or having them under the ground, and as soon as a change ie ma le bore our people will see that thev are placed tfitire. The Grand Jury completed Ba Arbors for the April term of the Adara*’ Circuit Court today, and were by.tfietonrt discharged. During this .sitting fbuml seventeen indictments, examined -he county jail and sheriff"s residenM and found them kept in first-class condition. They have also examined the the County Infirmary and found the needy there in the best possible condition, the house dean and well kept, the people there all well satisaed and in good spirits with a good supply of.food well cooked, and the farm m sfilendid shape. They recommended that one inmate by the name ot Aammoud be removed to the State ijssyium as soon as there is room for him. They further reccommend that the T. St. L aK C. R. R. be required to- open a water course at the crossing of the road with railroad, and that the same should be done at once. The Chicago Keconi of April the 18th has a nickeLin-the-slot machine that is a corker—that is the cut represents that the machine has a bell attachment that will ring everytime yon drop a nickel in the slot and in ringing will call up the patrol wagon, so that it will give to all players a free rid . It is a great scheme to get rid of the gambling devices of this kind which start many a young man on the road t 0 I,l ' n 11 ' s 'the first step toward gambling and should be suppressed Our legislature attempts to remove said devices from the saloon, but do not say one word about it any place else. The slot machine can go on so i' is not in a saloon. Some people seem to loose sight of all vices if they are not connected with a place where liquor is sold, but should they be in the same building and the same room, thhn their eye c.iii ‘easily detect the great evil. The story of a tramp burning the barn of John Swartz, of French township, proved to be a myth A young girl living at the house of Swartz Who for some fancied wrong committed the act, and then arranged the ?tory, put on the rubber boots and made the tiacks around the house ami barn, and told her tale like an old hand at the busi - ness. But like the the most of the child ten finally told the truth, and nqw is in jail, and after a trial, and on her own evidence, she is sentenced to tbeTeform school for girls. She is about fourteen years of age, and at one time was an inmate of the county farm from which place Swartz took her about four years ago, and has given her a good home, but thinking that she was not treated as she should be, she conceived the idea of destroying the house, but after she had kindled the fire at the house, she put it out and fired the barn , with the results as detailed in the Democrat at the time. . ' : I, 1 ' 1 ' A-

a A JEALOUS LOVER. e Takes His Sweetheart’s Life, Crashes e , r a Bullet into a Friend and Then i. j Kilin Himself. e * e At 11:30 Friday night, the usually e t ; J quiet village of Camden was the scene g j of a triple shooting affray, and as a re e j suit two souls were ushered into etern ' i ity without a moment’s warning 6 i " There was a dance at Walling's Hall • 1 and a numtier from other places atj tended, and among them were two . • loads from Montpelier. In one of these was Harry Block, Otto Hasenfnss and s I John Doolin, and in the other Bert 1 I Shaw and a girl by the name of Freda 1 Like. j All attended the dance and it is said i i Block was very jealous because Shaw 8 bad brought the Like girl, and sought to create some trouble Shaw and the girl went down to the foot of the stairs j t together, and Hasanfnss joined them. He then said to the latter. “I am going 1 to shoot vou. the girl and myself,” and ' i quickly drew a revolver from a pocket a I to carry out his threat. Hasanfuss at- • tempted to catch bis arm but failed in getting a good bold, and the desperate • man pulled the trigger and sent a 1 bullet crashing into Hasanfuss’neck, i He tben shot the girl in the leg ‘ A second shot after the girl had been ■ j carried across the stree proved fatal ' s He tben turn'd the revolver on himself and sent a tall through bis heart thus - ’ ending his lite, and that of the girl L While HasewLis is in-a serious condu tian from being slot in the neck, he 1 may recover. Two ’ives were ushered r ' into eter ity in less time than it takes to tell the story and another in a fair wa. to leave this world s | PROF MOFFE'iT ASSAULTED - I An unpleasant oceurrance topk yplrice in front of the Central school s i building Friday- _A* Fros. Moffett t returned from his dinner, Charley I I Woodward, one of the' pupils that - ■ the professor had an occasion to reprimand during the forenoon, "I waylaid the professor and struck „ I him in the fact with a stone, cans . ■ iug- him to bleed freely e I but not injuring him so that he I I had to quit school. - The boy had 1 i 1 ' made threats that he would do something of the kind and it is j said that he further said that if he i did get into trouble there were sev- - eral men in town who would pay his tine and' bail him so he need • not go to jail. Whether this is i ! true or falsie, is yet to be’seen, for ’ , i the last seen ot Woodward be was I eastward bdund ou the C. & E. : afoot and alone. Shot Through the Door. I I Edward Hilyard, commonly known las Ed Brittson, a son of Mary ] Brittson. in company with some other | boys were on a drunk Saturday night and in their maudlin condition, Hilyard ! who had a revolver, commenced shooting it off. Ore shot passed through the . i door of the residence of Clerk Lenhart and striking against the book case fell ,; to the floor The boy then started up | the street, shooting indiscriminately as he went along the side walk Monday morning he was arraigned before Mayor Quinn, charged with the otlense. to which he plead guilty and was lined $2 and costs with a thirtv day ’ jail sentence. , ‘ Young Hilyard says he got the whjs:ky from his cousin another minor by I the name of Close, who acknowledged Ito buying the whisky but .could no., .. tell from who he bought it. This is only one of the many cases of this kind where men and boys are in thb habit ot shooting around as they please. They not only shoot but throw stones and are cursing and swearing around at night when they should be at-home in bed. The men who are in the habit of such work are worse than the boys and authorities have determined to put a stop to the work. The mayor will as- i sist the officer’s ib bringing'around a a reform of this kind. This is only the first case and it turned out as the Democrat predicted a few days ago that some of the boys who were prowling around at night would get a stopping place in the county jail. —" --,4|l Take Notice. The I’ostoffice will be open from 6:30 a. m. to 7:30 p in. Sundays from 9 to 10 n, in. All persons will govern themselves accordingly. - * Jons W eIfUSY, P M.

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