Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1895 — Page 1

The Decatur Democrat.

1 VOL. XXXIX.

water work* are progressing. They will sood begin the *1 reaches. St. Mary’s, Ohio, hail a $ 100,000 Hri Tuesday night. Oue man named [arry Baker, was killed, Hughes will erect two new r brick business rooms in Geneva. > The stone was shipped from here here Tuesday. \ Grandmother Ferrell died yesterday morning. She was taken to Hesse Castle for burial, where her late husband is buried. James M. Rice bad a horse to run away Tuesday. He was hitched to a buggy, but got his feet in the wrong place and left the buggy badly demolished. There wsa move on foot to have the barber shops close on the 4th, and if not all day, to close in the This would give them a halt holiday. The wife of Rev. Mahon died last Friday. The remains were taken to Zanesville, O , for interment. The bereft family left here last Saturday on their sad mission. The most of the wheat in this county is harvested and a few farmers have threshed a small amount. Four lots that have been threshed have averaged about 12 bushels per acre. Daniel Straub was in and said we would have to take back what we said about him. We told him it was as the neighbors tell it, and they say that not one halt has not been * told yet, but will be when court convenes. One passenger and five freight engines, all new, passed this city the'other day, over the Clover beat, for the Oklahoma and Gulf rail road, which is now being built through the Indian Territory. The wheat is mostly harvested and will soon be in the market. Mr. Hale says it will bring (15 cents a bushel to start with. The yield ,will govern the price. Should it be as fair as expected the price will not advance. The Children’s meeting held at the Evangelical church last Sunday night proved a success. The program was well rendered, and the collection amounted to $ll.OO, which will be appropriated to missions. A female bicyclist at Bluffton desired to be in the “push,” sneaked her husband’s best pair of pants and went out riding with the boys. ' She arrived home just at the time her husband was detailing to a constable an account of the robbery. _ V Wm. J. Archbold, the Adanls express agent, has put on a wagon to haul express goods. This is a new order of business. Heretofore the baggage wagon has done all the hauling for the express companies. The parties that got a marriage license two weeks ago and requested the clerk to not fill in the blank, forgot to say anything to the magistrate that married them. He published it the same day, while the clerk kept the record blank for I three weeks. Daniel Shackley came into town Saturday morning with a two-horse wagon with two hearses hitched, behind the wagon. He had been to Goshen,'lndiana, and brought the * hearses through for Auten & Gay, who have opened a furniture store in the Ellsworth block. ... ' o ■ A band of gypsies passed through town Tuesday. They were the same ones that on the bank of the Wabash river when the nitro glycerine explosion occurred, that caused so much excitement. Dirty, greasy women, dogs, mules, W poor horses and seedy looking men made up the outfit. 5 ' "• - , ■

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY. JULY 5. 1895.

About twenty-five couple of our young people, accompanied by the C. O. & C. (Carey, Corbs it Carey) orchestra, attended a dance at Willshire, 0., Tuesday night. They al) report a h-elegaut time, but looked somewhat the worse for the “ware” Wednesday morning. A special from Bluffton yesterday says: “A pitiful sight was that of Bladche Russell, aged only 13 who pleaded guilty to immorality in the Blackford County Circuit Court. Judge Vaughn sentenced her to the Female Reformatory at Indianapolis until she becomes of age.” The girl referred to is a daughter of Pete Russell of this, city. Cooktown has some people whose noses* are So long that they are always in other people’s business. Some people make money by attending to their own business, and others ease their mugs and character is if they have any character) by attending to their own affairs. “A word to the wise is sufficient.” A big lawsuit will be begun at Decatur July 9th, in which James McCormick, of the Northern Indiana Oil Co., and William Shoe maker, of Hartford township, are the chief contestants. The trouble originated over a lease which McCormick held on some land which-w-as purchased by Shoemaker a short time ago. McCormick alleges that he was driven off the lease by Shoemaker and demands $25,000 damages.—Geneva Herald. Sunday at Richmond the Indianapolis People was suppressed by the police, as were also the News, Police Gazette, Kansas City Sun and the Illustrated Record. The action was taken on the ground that they are pernicious papers and came under the statute that pro vides a fine of from $lO to S2OO for printing, publishing or selling such. The newsdealers did not open the stock, but shipped it back to the publishers who will get some legal information regarding their rights before abandoning the field. The Clover Leaf people have commenced the repair of the depot at this place. This is a much needed work. I’hey will put a bay window in, new roof on the building, and cover’the old work with a coat of paint, which will add greatly to the appearance of the old building. It some other people owning depots here would do the same, it would add to the credit of the companies and the appearance of the city. A union depot should be built here. It could be done to a good advantage of the roads and the city. * C. F. Deitherich, the magnate, in speaking of the condition of the gas question at the present time, said his company would be compelled to put in some pumping stations this summer to supply its consumers with gas next winter. He spoke of this as though it were already decided that it would be done. He expressed himself as believing that it was only a question of time when the people of this State will concede the necessity of adopting the meter system and thereby force the economical use of gas.—Wabash Plain Dealer. It is said that saloon keepers in different parts of the state, who have been searching for some plan to evade the law, will form a stock company with one hundred members to start a saloon to be run during legal hours with a bartender in charge. During prohibited hours the members of the stock company, being joint proprietors, will simply have things their own way as under the new law proprietors of saloons and their families will be the only persons permitted in the saloon during prohibited hours.

r Oscar Besser, one of the men on > the south section of the G. R. <fc 1. ) railroad came near losing his life - Monday. His fellow workman, Mike 1 Bogner, was working with a pick I when Besser got too near him and ’ his head was struck on top, cutting the scalp open. A fourth of an inch more and the skull would have been penetrated. The yonng man who is found on r the streets all day and then late at t night is ou dangerous grouncTand I should have a guardian if he has no t parents, for he is on the sure road f to become a worthless man. Far i better for him if he is at home , reading some good book or newspaper whereby he will gain some useful knowledge, that may be of , use to him in his old days, or if not then it may be he can turn it to . some good advantage before he be- [ comes old, but jf" he pursues the . course of the Idunger he is sure to become a worthless man. After the adjournment of the Editorial Association at Lake Maxinkuckee, a small party of editors ; and quite a number of politicians ’ that were present got together and arranged for a meeting in the near future to be known as the Free Sil ver Democrats of Indiana. They ’ expect thereby to bind the party to their views. This has been the fact 1 with the party for a long number 1 of years, and has been the sole ’ cause of the defeat that has come to it. The fact that it has too many * great men (in their own estimation) who would have the world believe they know it ail, has been and will continue to keep the party from being united. The prisoners brought up from 1 Jay county charged with burglary were captured in Redkey. They had broke into a store and when they were found the one resisted the arrest until it became necessary to exchange shots with him and as a result he carries four leaden balls 1 in his body; two in the breast, one in the bowels and one In the back. 1 He is the same man that escaped from the deputy sheriff of Jay county about two weeks ago when he got off the train at this place, as was detailed in The Democrat at the time. The offiicers think they . have a good catch in him and want to be sure to have him when they want him. bo they have brought him and his pal to the jail of this , county. Teach your boys a trade. Study 1 his character, his inclination add start him when twelve years old, if 1 you can ,to learn a trade. Let him work at it in, the summer during vacation if he gets nothing for it the first year or two. If-he takes a delight in it (and he should not be compelled to learn one that is distasteful to him) get him some good book on that subject and encourage him to learn all he can about it. Let him see what its possibilities , are at the highest perfection of it. Then create a. desire-in him to stand , at the topmost round of its possii billties and when you are old and he has a good paying position and ■ is beloved by all, you will be proud of his being called your son. There never was a time when the ■ master of a trade could not find and held a responsible position.—Bluffton News. Hon. M. V. B. Spencer, U. S. Pension agent for this State is in the city Saturday and will spend Sunday with his brother, W. G. Spencer. He says there are seven- i ' ty-two thousand and fifty pensions on the roll for this State, or that , are paid through the agency of this State. Ihe powers that be, have seen fit to reduce the amount paid for clerk hire in his office, and he i says that next pay day there may > be a short delay in the payment of some of the claims,..but that he will •

work his force a little harder, if it can be done, so as to help the boys get their monev as early as possible. The office, he says, has a true military ring in the management of it. When he wants to leave for a short time he has to get an order to be absent for such a number of days, and on his return be must report the time of his returning, so that the department keeps themselves informed as to what length of time he is absent from duty. Mrs. Spencer will be next Monday to spend some time with friends here. The case of the State of Indiana against Daniel Straub, for desertion of his wife and children, was up before the Mayor, Tuesday. But Daniel feeling that the strong arm of the law might press him close, he, filed an affidavit for a change of venue. He swore he was afraid that the prejudice of the court and people here was so strong against him that he could not get justice. While the court felt it was justice that Daniel was afraid of, he granted the change, and sent the case to Esquire Kern, of St. Marys township. The trial is set for next Monday. The postponed game of base ball between Marion and Decatur clubs was played here Tuesday forenoon, in Zimmerman’s park. It was the same old story—Decatur won. About the only feature of the game was the hard hitting of the home team. Nearly two hundred people witnessed the game. Following is the score by innings: 1 2 3 4 5 ti 7 8' 9 Decatur.. 02204023 2 —15 Marion ..1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 2—B Batte&s—Marion, White and Johnsonj Decatur, Collars’ and Daly, clubs played a seqpnd £3jne in the afternoon, aid the iiornej made runs too numerous to?mention. While the visitors failed to score more than four times. | A number of our boys are talking of visiting Louisville, Ky., during the National Encampment. Here is what Henry Watterson says to all the old veterans: “There was a time when, without any invitation whatever, either written or verbal, without so much as an intimation of hospitality, you insisted upon giving iB the honor of your com pany, and as it turned out, when we were ill prepared to receive you. It were a pity, now that we are prepared, now that the lid is off the pot, and the latch-string hangs outside the door, that you should refuse us of entertaining you, not with ‘bloody hands to hospitable graves,’ but as friends and brothers, as fellow-citizens who value one another amid scenes that left no time for equiVO cation and transactions applying to human virtues “the very highest tests.” Dr. Clark has a good practice, and money is no object to him. So he keeps it laying around his office. Wednesday he bad two boys scrubbing and cleaning up the office. The boyfe, while there, confisticated five dollars, and started out for a lark. They first went to Romberg’s livery staple and wanted to hire a ng for a ride, but were refused. Then they went to Bock’s barn where the same fate awaited them. Here they showed their money. A party that saw It concluded there was something wrong, and he told a reporter of the Democrat, who soon found young Frank Shoemocker ajd told him about his brother a Johns boy having the money, and being out for a time. He at ’once said they had come by it dishonestly, so he started out to find them, which was easily done. When he asked them about it tney denied it,but when he was about to telephone for the marshal,

t they weakened and told him thej i had Plowed in one dollar and the bal r lance was hid under John King’* < barn. They took him there and got the four dollars which was re i turned to the doctor. The boy* have not been arrested, but mosi likely will be some time soon. Report from the agricultural sta tion for the week ending July Ist: In the southern states the corn crop is now practically laid by in gener illy excellent condition. Cool 1 - ’ weather has retarded the growth of corn in the Dakotas and while Nebraska and Minnesota report the crop backward, it is in good con dition. Arkansas and Kentucky report the crop outlook for corn most promising tn years and while rains have been beneficial and the crop is doing well in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, in the last t«o named states there are complaints of damage from chinch bugs. Winter wheat harvest is nearing completion over northern portion of the wheat belt and threshing is becoming general. Spring wheat is now heading and the condition ot the crop continues favorable. Tobacco is giowing nicely in Kentucky, and Maryland and has experienced improvement tn Ohio. Light frost occurred in portions Os the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin on the 28th, causing slight damage in localities. Indiana— General nun beginning; local rains end of the week very beneficial to corn, potatoes, oats and other crops. Wheat and hay harvest continue, threshing commenced, crops light. Tree fruit, except peaches, abun dant. Chinch bugs injurious to corn in localities. Michigan--Rainfall light and not sufficient, to check drouth which continues wit! severity. Haying in progress, Vefe light crop. Wheat harvest comSmenced and is of poor yield; oat!looking bad; corn and potatoes in good condition. Henry J. Cox, Local Forecast Official) Base Ball Last Sunday the new base bal) para to be as the Steele base ball park, was opened with a game between the Marion team and the Decatur team. The game was called at 3 o’clock p. m. A toss up for the bat gave Decatur the first chance. The Marion battery con sisted of Harvey George pitcher, and Roy Johnson, catcher. The Decatur’s made three scores and passed out.- The Marion battery then had a talk of a tew minutes before going to the bat. They separated, Mr. George suddenly fell over with the exclamation? “Ob, I’m so dizzy.” He was helped to his feet, and a physician called who pronounced a rupture of a blood vessel. Conveyance soon had him at the Miesse House where he expired in a few minutes. The young man was from Gas City where his mother resides. His father having died some years ago; the mother since married a man by the name of Duffy. His remains were shipped to his mother’s home this morning. The sudden calling away of the young man put a stop to the game, the 4 boys could enter into the contest with the zeal that insure success, but played three innings when they threw up the game. While here orderly conduct won them the confidence of our people, and they started in to play a good game of ball, but the sudden death of Mr. George unnerved them so that at the lime they quit playing the game stood 10 to 1 in favor „of Decatur. t . % Tfie sad occurrence will cause our people to avoid ball games on Sunday. We have some people who go so far as to think this was an act of the Divine Being to warn the people of the fact that the Sabbath was a’day of rest instead of a day of sport.

FOB LIBERTY. ■ ■ '■ > The Prisoners in the County Jail Make an Attempt to Gel Out. On Monday, while Sheriff Ashbauelicr was down in the city, the , prisoners confined in the county jail made an attempt to break out. They having secured Horne case knives, made saws of them, then going to the top of the upper tier o( ceils got on top of one and com menced to saw through the iron over ■ the top of the cell. While the j work was going on one of the prisoners would Hing and dance, always i keeping up a racket bo that no one could hear the noise of the cutting or sawing with the knife, until one of the children went to the water tank which is over head of the jail to see how the water looked in the tank, when he heard the noise, and come down street and hunted up his father and told him what he heard. The sheriff went to the jail at once, slipped up to the same place w’here the boy had been and was soon con vinced of what was going on; return ing to the jail door he Opened it and walked in as though nothing was wrong. The opening of the door made some noise, when everybody was to their places. The fellow who had been working the saw was sitting on a chair looking as meek as if Divine services were being held. The sheriff commenced to look around. He soon saw where the work had been going on, the knife had been drawn along the iron for about twenty inches. They ■ had very carefully traced out the j lines of the hole they intended to make, it being about sixteen by twenty inches and they were cutting the long way, and near the center of the line had made a good start. The sheriff then questioned them but they were noncommittal, each declaring that be knew nothing about the work that had been going on. A careful, search soon revealed the hiding place of the knife saw which had done the w’ork. The bed being the place to secrete it. They will be kept in close watch now since caught in this act. There are five of them and they haye been given the freedom of the jail, and are committed for the following offenses: B. F. Johnson, obtaining money under false pretense: Hollopeter, charged with forgery; Robert Klein, charged with larceny, and the two from Jay county, charged with burglary. Hollopeter is the sweet singer, who furnished the music to ..drowned the grating of the saw, and when his wind would give out some of the rest would talk loud and dance. The sheriff will now make them dance to different music for not be ing more discrete in their attempt to liberate themselves. Tne Sheriff has been very successful in bringing the wayward to the county basJile, having proved himself equal to any circumstance that has arisen, and is now determined that the hnzes that cost so much labor shall iiot slip away from him in that manner. A LOST BOY. Me Strayed from Near Westchester and was Traced Here. Sunday afternoon, persons from the vicinity of Geneva were in town looking for a boy by the name of McClelland. He had beeiLvisiting near Westchester, but had strayed away and was traced to this city. The lad could not be found here. He is‘about 9 years old and aycom panied by a white dog.—Portland Commercial. If any of our people see a? small boy with a white dog report hrm. The Epworth League Yell. Boom-a-lace, Boom a laea. Boom, Boom, Ba, Marble Chapter, Rah, Rah, Rah, Look up, Lift up. , - Wab, Who, Wah. ■ . . ■ ■ .■ . . r - “-r>

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