Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1895 — Page 7

AT COST. Sp rm g I Capes. I ? We have a few left, and I I if you need anything of | A *’ the kind, we can make it I INTERESTING FOR YOU. L JACKETS. What we have left must go at any price. I / 1 Go into our Cloak department and get prices Boston Store. I. O. O. F. Block. Kuebler & Moltz

LINN GROVE. Isaac Wanner moved to Newville last Tuesday into the property purchased by Wm. Mertz, The Crude Oil company stopped drilling on their first well on Tuesday night, oil and salt water found. The latter predominant, by reason of which the well was abandoned. The Northern Ind. shot their second well on the Brodstock land last Friday and the well promises to richly pay the making. They have commenced another on the same farm Amos Stauffer is building a barn. Size 45x70. F. A. W. Lindsey is buildin a porch to- the front of his house in town. We were one of some ten thousand who visited the scene of the Friday's nitroglycerine explosion near Bluffton. On the Sabbath, relic seekers numbered many hundred while many hundred were gratified by some particle that demonstrated in part the power of that terrible combustible. We entertain no fears of contradiction when we state that that part of the way over which the extremely .unfortunate man passed was unsafe to pass over with a wagon loaded with pumpkins, much less with a load of the king of all explosives ever invented by man. Derrick builders are over crowded with work, and the wdrkmen are inadequate to supply the demand, while fancy wages are being paid for their services. Hotfmann Gottschalk are prepared to give customers bottom prices on paints and oil. Daniel Gilliom is putting down a water well for Emil Erhart. Steam power is being used. James Muir, through Solomon M oser, is leaning a block of land east of town where developments for oil will be commenced. MONROE. Alexander Brandybery, Sen., is not improving very rapidly. ” Mrs. Frank Cnll, of Decatur, visited friends at this place last Friday. ' ■ . Last Sunday the people ot this and everywhere else visited the artificial hole on the banks of the Wabash river, caused by the explosion of nitro glycerine, also visited the shattered trees lying about the ground. Sad sight. % OtflebAndrews had a runaway last the breath out of him. , Examine your fruit trees, gooseberry bushes, &c., and you will find millions of small bugs on them 'flapping the life out of the canning fruit caused by the dry weather. V. Simcoke has the finest and cheapest sprayer made for sale. Re ceipts to make the spraying liquid fwe. i ■■ 7 A'?..-u v

Last'jMonday night a crowd'of young people, belonging to the socalled sinful of Monroe, serenaded the town. Some good singing and laughing. Doc Andrews was the soloist, he proposed to sing “Nearer My God to Thee,, to Van Simcoke, which was done, and the doleful midnight strains hypnotized Van that he went off into a deep sleep and can’t remember when the angelic crowd disappeared. Burt Bailey, clerk with C. W. Hocker, commenced a slaughter sale of goods last Tuesday at this place, selling men’s hats at 25 cents that cost #1.50. The boys got on to it and Supplied themselves with a year’s crop. The slaughter sale lasted a few minutes when Burt discovered the costs of the hats, he withdrew from the slaughter. He is careful not to offer six postal cards for a nickel. Miss Maud Hendricks who has spent the past winter here attending school, started for her Kentucky home last Tuesday morning. She was entertained by her friends and schoolmates until the midnight train came which Maud boajded for the £>outh, leaving many sad hearts behind. * BERNE. Pete Longacher and Frank Welty, of Decatur, were in town Friday, of last week. While here they pur chased the pony team of Dr. Stoneburner, which they will drive to Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hundred, of Van Wert, Ohio, spent Sunday with Jacob Atz and family here. Miss Mary Kohler, who has hick for the past few weeks, wjfs ag her place of business ternoon. On Tuesday evening, about 6 o’clock, a bicycle was taken from the hardware store of Schug Bros. The wheel was not missed until about dark. The marshal found the thief at Joe Eley’s home north east of town. He was brought to town, and owing to the absence of a ’Squire he was placed in a second story room at the marshal’s residence. During the night he jumped from a window and escaped. From aJetter found in a coat he left behind him, his name is supposed to be Cliff Lee, of Portland, aged about 14. Emil Bleuss, of Fort Wayne, has accepted a position with Schelley <& Eichenberger. * ■ -' ' ' Jacob Wahley returned home from Marion, Ind., where he has been taking the gold cure. Jake seems to be entirely cured. Eley Lugibull apd Robert Swartz left for Cincinnati Tuesday with a car load of stock. Fred Brown went to Fold Wayne Tuesday on business. Rev. J. 11. Evans, of Elkhait, Ind,, wa/< in town Monday shaking (

hands with his many friends. Jacob Wagmiller, of Geneva, with bis family, was in town Sunday. A term of German school was begun here Monday for the benefit of those who wish to study Garman." Rev. B. Ruff and Amos Reusser at the helm. Sheriff Ashbaucher was in town Tuesday.If you are going to paper a room this spring get Stengel & Craig’s prices on wall paper and save money. On Tuesday evening Miss Emily Welty was pleasantly surprised by a number of her friends gathering jn to remind her of another birthday anniversary. Tea was served and all present report an ejoyable time. The following officers will be elected here May 6th: 1 trustee, first diet., 1 trustee, second diet.; 1 clerk; 1 treasurer; 1 marshal. HONDURAS. “ Houck <& NeuensChwander will again run the tile mill in a few weeks. J. H. Fulk spent last Sunday with relatives near Linn Grove. John Ashbaucher and family wfcre in this vicinity on Thursday week. Wm. Fulk was in Bluffton last Wednesday on business. Edward Liby, son Os Mr. and Mrs. David Liby, died at this place Wednesday of last week, aged 19 years 1 11 months and 13 <Jays. The explosion near Bluffton frightened some of our citizens. Some thought it was an earthquake. J. S. thought it was the planet uranus which had struck the earth and glanced off. Whooping <’OII!>11. There is no danger from this disease when Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is freely given. It liquefies the tough mucus and aids its expectoartion. It also lessens the»frequency of paroxysms of coughing, and insures a speedy recovery. There is not the least danger in giving the remedy to children and babies, as it contains no injurious substance. For sale by Blackburn & Miller, druggists. m steady *— •>. The man who becomes a successful hypocrite has to work at it every jjay in the week.—Ram’s Horn. While in Stockton, Cal., some time ago, Thos. F. Lengaii, of Los Banos’ that -state, was taken very severely with -cramps and diarrhoea. He chanced to meet Mr. C. M. Carter, wno was similarly afflicted. He says: “I told him of Chamberlain’S Colic. Cholera and Diarrhiea Remedy, and we went to the Holden Drug Store and procured a bottle ot it. It gave -Air. Carter prompt relief and I can vouch for- its having cured me.” For sale by Blackburn & Miller, druggists. ' Tn Chronic Diseases. # Dr. J. K. Ross takes this plan to announce to the afflicted public that he has opened a special office for the treatment of chronic diseases of male and female, that he will be at bis home oftice every Tuesday and Saturday for special work. On those days be will give special treatment to those who are buffering from throat and lung diseases 'and nervous diseases The doctor calls special attention of ladies wiio are sut.sering from any of those diseases pecnli ar to their sex; such as ‘ female weakness,” “falling of the womb,” and irregularities that aie sapping the foundations ot their lives and hastening them to premature graves. The doctor has had twenty years of experience and feels able to successfully treat any of those diseases. . He will treat you ou the most scientific mode of the day, wherein lies his success. The doctor does not claim that all can be cured, but that a majority can be relieved and greatly benetitted. So don’t delay. Come and consult the doctor and get a true statement of your disease. Remember, that lam not a traveling doctor, but that I permanently located in Willshire, Ohio, where I have successfully practiced, my profession for the past twenty years, which should speak volumes for me. Private diseases successfully treated without mercury. Cancer, that dreaded disease, treated witbiit the knife. Specialties that I give attention to are catarrh, consumption, bronchitis, asthma, rheumatism, nervous and female complaints, all diseases of the blood, throat, lungs, liver, stomach and kidneys. Consultation, examination and advice free. All prescriptions at office must be cash. Consultation by mail. Letters must contain a stamp to insure an answer. Remember, the days upon which patients ar® unable to visit the-office, the doctor will visit your homes. - 7 Charges reasonable 7*6 .

PETER GAFFER A BRO. Painting, Paper Hanging and Cakaniining. We solicit your work, and are readv to guarantee satisfaction, both as to qu»l Ity and amount of work done. We can complete your work so as not to bother around long. Call and see us or drop us a card, and yon will find us on hand. Peter Gaffer & Bro. In Terrible Sunpenee. Tokio, Japan, May 2.—Japan must give her final answer to Russia by May 7. Tire suspense and public anxiety are terrible. Nothing is known and everything is dreaded. Any one who has ever had an attack of Inflammatory rheumatsm will rejoice with Mr. J. A. Stuniin, 220 Boyle Heights. Los Angeles, over his fortunate escape from a seige of that distressing ailment. Mr. Stumm is foreman of Merriam’s confectionary establishment. Some months ago, on leaving the heated work room to run across the street on an errand, he was caught out In the rain. The result was that when he was ready to go home that night he was unable to walk, owing to inflamatory rheumatism. He was taken home, and on arrival was placed in front of a good fire and thoroughly rubbed with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. During the evening and night he was repeatedly bathed with this liniment. and by morning was relieved of all rheumatic pains. He now takes especial pleasure in praising Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, and always keeps a bottle of it in house. For sale by Blackburn AMiller, druggists. in May kte Out All Summer. London, Ky., May 2.— The 600 coal miners , employed by the companies composing. the Laurel Coal association went out oil a strike yesterday and will probably remain out all summer. They strike for the pay of last year—7o cents per ton. The operators »offer only 55 cents. Elise Blakey will sell at public sale at her residence 5h miles northeast of Decatur, and IL miles east of Aber school house, on Thursday, May !), 18515, the following personal property, to-wit: Four head of milch cows, one fresh, two Will be fresh in about 20 days, 2-year-old steer. 2-year-old heifer, 4 young cattle, 11 shoats, 2 sows with 24 pigs six weeks old. poultry, heating stove, surrey, gun, and many other articles. A credit of nine months will be given on all . sums over |5. • The Louieville Tragedy. Franrfort, Ky., May 2.—The executive offices are closed and black crepe hangs from the ‘ doors. The BrownGordon tragedy has been on every tongue. A traveling man of a Louisville house came here last week to warn Brown not to go to Louisville as he was suspected, hence it was thought he postponed his regular Saturday’s trio. There is more C atarrh in this section of the country than all other disease put together, and until the last few years was supposed to. be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a iocai disease, and prescribed local retnodies, and by constantly failing to cure by local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires a constitutional treatment Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured bv F, J. Cheney X' Co.. Toledo. Ohio, is the only constitutional curton the market. It is taken internally in dds< s f rom lb drops to a teaspoon ful. It acts direct : l.v on the blood and mucous surfaces of rhe i system. They offer on i? hundred dollars fori any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars I and testimonials. Address , F .). CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, O. tST''Sold bv all druggists 75e. tn For Sale.—A farm’of eighty acres, three miles east of Decatur; 70 acres of farming land, 10 acres timber. A good i farm bouse and barn with a new gran- ■ ery, plenty of good water, a well and ' cistern. Plenty of good fruit trees i bearing. Call on or address, 47tf PermetTa Springer l . i Smith Jt Bell are "paying the highest cash prices for’Clear White Ash logs, cut 12 feet long. 12 inches and over at! the top end, must be clear and staight. - 4Stf ; Farmers Attention! I I am now ready to cry sales. Terms 1 reasonable Satisfaction guaranteed. Address, J. W. Hill, 48tf Pleasant Mills, lud. Boarders Wanted at Mrs. Mary ' Cougieton’s on Winchester street. 367tfwltf! :—__— HUGHES’ WHITE LABLE Pale | Ale in pints, 15 cents per bottle at “Curley” Radamacher’s. d4lwlotf I Cheaper Than Ever At Hughes’Granite & Marble Works. Fifteen per cent, of a discount for the year 1995. All work warranted to be new and flrst-clrss. Lettering done in German and English. You are invited to stop and get prices. L. C. & Wm. Hughes. 47tf (Successors to W. S. Hugbss.) Money to Loan—At six per cent on long time. Abstracts, insurance and Collections. Farm and .city property for sale. Call on Scburger. Reed N Smith. I2tf The Daughters of Rebekah will give a May Flower social on May 7th. This will be one of the pleasant gatherings. A special invitation is given to all the lodges. Room will be opened ‘at eight o'clock. Auten & Stoops have opened a buggy and carriage bouse in,the back room of the “Stone” block. Their stock is new an at the lowest price and will be sold to suit the times. Call and see them. SO Dozen heavy- weight KNEE FANTS at 25 cents' per pair at Ike Rosenthal's stf

RAMS III' IVIIIIJIS. Countless Numbers Are Making a Clean Sweep of Vegetation. GROUND ALIVE WITH THEM. Great Damage to Farmer* Resnlllng From Their Ravage*—-Miraculous Escape ot Two Men Whose Hone Dashed Over a Bluff Near Gas City—Charged With Arson—Other State New*. Engush, Ind., May 2.—Former reports of the ravages of a strange worm in this locality are inadequate. A few days ago they were reported as numbering billions: now there is no enumeration to equal them. They are not the army worm. They'are not the old-style cutworm. They are an evolution—a worm with all the praiseworthy (to worms) qualifications of both. They don’t eat off the tops and leave the stalk. They don’t cut off the stalk and leave it to fertilize the ground. They climb all over the stalk and bring all their relatives along, and they eat it all. Nothing escapes their ravenous appetites, all kinds of vegetation being alike to them, and every effort of the farmers to stay their progress has proved unavailing. The ground is literally alive with them. Railway trains have been delayed, and they are so numerous ou the public highways that few women and children care to walk about. There never was better prospects for a bountiful harvest than marked this section one week ago. Today it is the reverse. Not an acre of cultivated soil has escaped. LUCKY LANDLORD MEEKINS. Hl* I Horse Plunged Off an Eighty-Foot Hluft and No Harm Done. Gas City, Ind’., May 2.—Last night George Meekins, proprietor of the Gas City hotel, was driving in Jonesboro with friend, when his horse took fright, and before it could be turned, dashed over a bluff at the foot of Fourth street and plunged into the Mississinnewa river, a distance of over 80 feet. The men fell about half-way and caught and were not Seriously hurt, while the horse and buggy went into the river. The horse also escaped serious injury, and rescued himself by swimming to the other side. The escape of the meu is the talk of the town. Meeting of Heulth Officers. Indianapolis, May 2.—A convention of county, towu aud city health officers to last two days commenced at the statehouse today. Among the subjects set down for discussion are drainage and sewerage, school sanitation, laws and rules relating’ to public health, municipal aud domestic cleanliness, contagious and infectious diseases, burial precautions and prevention .of tuberculosis. Representatives are present from all parts of the.state. • Failed to Indict. Muncie, Ind., May 2.—The grand jury failed to return an indictment in the Granville w hitecap case, in which four num were charged with beating two women into insensibility. They ' are under heavy bonds for trial in the I circuit court, but upoiifthe grand jurors’ i recommendation they will likeiwbe re- | leased. One of Hie men accused, ArI thur Berry, is a justice of the peace. Trouble Brought on Insanity. Salem, Ind., Mdy 2.—As a result of the worry over the trial of his sou for murder, Eli Thompson has become a : raving maniac, and a lunacy conimis- • sion has been held and he will be taken '■ to the. asylum. His>son killed a man . named Leonard, at West_ Baden last I July, and has been placed- on trial two ; or three times, at the last one the jury ■ failing to agreed Discover a Cave. * Jeffersonville. Jud., May —An i enormous new cave has been discovered i several miles below Milltown. A party i of quamers from the liipestbne quarry I of M. H. Tyler explored it. They fol--1 lowv'd through "windings at.edrridors for 1 several mites. It is thought-that the cave eonnecrs with the celebrated Wyandotte cave. A full exploration will be made. Charged With Arson. Logansport, Ind., May 2.—Albert ' Lewis, a promihent farmer, has been I arrested here upon a charge of arson. | He is charged with starxuig the fire I which burned his big several i horses on Thanksgiving'night last. His i loss was heavily insured. I . — Trailed by Bloodhounds. Moores Hili,, Ind., May 2.—Charles Baum and wife of Dillsboro have been arrested charged with an attempt to burn the house of Henry Longer,. a neighbor. Bloodhounds followed the trail which led to the arrest. Hub Factory Damaged. Hartford City, Ind., May 2.—Fire which started in the oilroom of S. C. ’■Reid’s hub factory yesterday destroyed' a lot of materifflaud damaged the building. Loss #7,000, with no-insurauce. . INDIANA NEWS NOTES. Two fine residences were burned at Frankton, causinga $7,000 loss; one-third insurance. £ : ; An abandoned gas well at Fortville has been developed into a 150 barrel oil well by ‘’shooting.'" Miners iu the block coal district have settled on a 70-ceiit rate for the ensuing year, and the t hreatened strike is averted. Charles Reed, wanted at Muncie, Delphi and Marion for horsestealing, was arrested at Kokomo yesterday and taken to Muncie for trial. ~~l)sear MrN ee 1 y tried to comtixit -suicidein the Jail at Shelbyville by blotWng out the gas in his cell and holding his mouth over the burner. The army worm is devastating small fruit farms iu Clark county. Many thousand dollars’ worth of strawberry plants have.been eaten. The trial of Schuyler C. Hattghey and the Coffin brothbeS, connected with the Indianapolis National bank failure, will begin May 28 iu the federal court at In-

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Chronic Nervousness Could Not Sleep. Nervous Headaches. Gentlemen:—l have been taking your Restorative Nervine for the past three months, and 1 cannot say enough in its praise. It has Saved My Life, for I had almost given up hope of ever being well again. I was a chronic sufferer from nervousness and could not sleep. I was also troubled with nervous headache, and had tried doctors in vain, until I used your Nervine. MRS. M. WOOD, Kingwood, HL Dr. Miles’ Nervine Cures. Dr. Miles’ Nervine is sold on a positive guarantee that tbe first bottle will benefit. Ail druggists seil it at 81, 6 bottles for $5. or it will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price by the Dr. Miles’ Medical Co., Elkhart. Ind. Sold by all Druggists. diamondthieves captured. 0 L They Were Run Down by Detective* After a Month’s Work. New York, May 2.—The two professional thieves who on March 23 robbed the jewelry store of Constance Lucius on Sixth avenue of a tray of diamonds valued at #6,<100, have been run to earth after a month’s work by Central office detectives. They were arrested Tuesday in Union E. Square and were arraigned iu Essex Market court as suspicious persons the same day and again yesterday and were remanded in order to enable the police to make their identification absolute. The men describe themselves as John Saunders, an American 27 yeate old, by profession a traveling agent, aud John Davis, also 27 years of age, an Australian, residing temporarily at the Morton House. Both men refuse to give their permanent address, and decline to answer any quesions as to their recent movements. To the Pole by BaPo »n* In the meeting of the Sweetish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, the aeronaut. -Andre, read a paper about his proposition to reach the’north pole by aerial navigation. He argued that the conditions for a balloonist are most favorable from every standpoint.The present highly developed technique of aerial navigation would enable a balloon rising at .Spitzenbergen in the early summer te take advant^^ 3 of-t he '.vtS-fhi-aerial -enrrent-blow-— j|ng northward at this season, and to finish the trip across the unexplored arctic regions in about thirty days. He. estimates the entire expense of his voyage at about $35,900. His arguments were listened to with Considerable interest, and it is likely some action will be taken iu the ’patter. - ■ 4 ■ The Natnrii! Sorp Al -ues The natural soap mines at Owen’s Lake. California, are accounted for by a .scientist who advances this theory: The water of the hike •-attains, lie says, a strong solution of both borax, and soda. In the water a curious specinieii ,of h’ritb breed by millions. These grubs go through their various ' transformations, and di ’ily emerge cfs short-winged V. ?d’y-boai? I fiieb. very fat and oily. . T-.tey live but a few days 'dying and falling.into the. i-at- in sue it number?’ as to be frequently washed ashore" In- layers more than a foot - thick. ' The only substance of the dead flies blends with the alkffli of the borax, and s.oda,: and th? result is a layer of pure soap. co. .‘.-reading in thickness to the drift strata of the dead hies, a foot deep of th? flies-makii' . 'iag a k:? e” Os ’■ : ,’ ; ; PVii thick. These strata, upeated year • after year, have formed the celebrated ’’Soap Banks of Owen's Lake." where . for a number of .wars past a large body of men have been regularly at work. We will not be undersold on Buggies. We pay spot cash, ami will give you bargains. Cail and see us. 6-1 Bu rns A TATTERsdNc Engine and boiler., all attachments complete.'will be sold cheap. Together or separately. N ovv .'ih operation at 65 E. Columbia SC. Fort Wayne. Ind-

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