Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1895 — Page 1

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as 11 Dr. Keller removed the large part f a needle from the leg of a girl r vs Conrad Gillig. tSjjj The commissioners sustained the plea of abatement filed before them T in the application of David Coffee ’ /tbr liquor license. t’P'' The St. John’s Lutheran church p- r ■ >'"* • • • of Preble township, had a picnic xi' Sunday. There were over two < thousand people present. The Grand Rapids Herald says the Michigan peach crop will open A 1 this week, and it is estimated to be 100,000 bushels larger than last ' year. The Luckey family are having a reunion today in the grove of John Spuhler, east of city. A large wagon load of them went oat from jL , our city to attend. J. A. Sheldon, State, agent of !■ the Modern Woodman, a benevolent fraternity, is in our city for the purpose of organizing a Camp. £ They pay big benefits. \ Ben Bobo has some fine views of ~ - the city. He planted his camera on § the top of the court house, and took \ . a view of the business portion of i Second street that shows up fine. Ben is a fine artist. There will be no preaching at the Evangelical church next Sunday. Rev. Wise is attending the Evangelical camp-meeting and the convention of the Y. P. A. of the Evangelical church. Services at the Baptist church next Sunday as usual. The pastor has returned from his vacation, and will occupy the pulpit morning and evening. A cordial invitation is extended to all to be present. The marriage of Miss Anna Forb ing,.of this city, and Mr. George \.HMfner, of Toledo, Ohio, occurred at eight o’clock Tuesday morning at the Catholic church. Mr. and Mrs. Heffner left for Toledo, where they will reside. t While taking in the sights at Berne I&st Saturday, Cris Myers, the tailor, had a valuable gold watch stolen from his pocket. Os course Cris don’t care for the watch, (nit) but he would like to know who took it, just the same. * k ■ 1.... The fire at Geneva will be like the one we had here in in 1882, when a block burned out. We have fine brick now. Geneva will be the same way—a fine lot of brick buildings where there was frame shanties before the fire. The viewers of the Reynolds gravel road, Henry Miller, George H, Kelly and Emanuel F. Beerbower concluded their work and find that it will require an assessment of twelve per cent to pay the install- , ment of bonds soon to become due. The Storm Tuesday night struck several trees in the corporation, but k done little or no damage in any way only the destroying of the shade • tTees on the farm of Henry Krick, one in front of John Brock’s and one on Seventh street, near the G. R. & I. depot. The family of Beeler, the day operator, of the C, &E. railway company, are sorely, afflicted. Mr. Beeler is down with a fever, while his wife is in no better health, and her sister, Mrs. Rice, whe is making her home with them, is quite ill with typhoid fever. Our speed was represented at ■’ Berne Saturday by “Royal Duke,” •tiwned by & Rice, and “Little Bennie,” owned by J. M. Frysihger. Both were driven by J. M., Rice. “Royal Duke” took first money in free-for-all race, although he had a competitor, the * famous mare “Red Belle” with a record of 2:28. “Little Bennie” J ” also brought home a prize.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY. AVGUST 9. 1895.

Our people have organized and are making an effort to have a general good time this fall at Steele’s park. Horse racing will be the chief feature. D. W. Beery is general manager, and Daniel Bolds treasurer. A kicker on the water works construction sends us a long communi. cation on the hiring of hands and payment of taxes. But the Kicker failed to sign ,his name, and the same found way to the waste box. We live to learn. A number of people at Peterson had arranged to go to Toledo, Ohio last Saturday, but when the morning train came along it did not stop there. Twenty-one madder people were never seen in Adams county.. They say the officials of the road promised to stop for them but failed in their promise. They got their money back for their tickets. Huntington has a bad case of base ball craze. If the knights of the willow will come over to Decatur, they can purchase a full set of, ice cream suits, bats used in ’94, with a record, an able manager, photographs of the suits and last years record at a great bargain. A certain well-known young man, who is a cigarette fiend, asked a physician if be thought cigarette smoking was injurious to the brain. The doctor said: “Oh, no, not in the least, a fellow who has brains won’t smoke them.” The young man is puzzled over the answer.— Chicago Record. __—- » Miss Pearl McCormick, of Fort Wayne, will give a lecture to girls and mothers next Sunday morning at 10 o’clock, August 11, at the Concord church, northeast of Monmouth. Girls under 12 years are not admitted. Come girls and women and hear something that will benefit you. Last Friday while the men.engaged in the trenches of the water works, a man by the name of Kay made a tnishck with his pick sticking Ben Baxter in the back of his hand, the pick passing through, lacerating the hand in a terrible manner. Dr. Keller dressed the wound. This will lay him up for the season. An out-west editor upon looking over human is led to observe: “Heayen born orators are shoveling dirt on the streets; athletes are preaching the gospel; brilliant writers are carrying the hod; men are practicing law wno ought to be shoeing horses; surgeons who ought to saw wood; there are men in the penitentiary who ought to be holding positions of trust, and men in office who ought to be in the penitentiary. The little Hardin boy, who was yesterday placed in jail for setting Andy Werling’s barn on fire, is happy as a lark in his new quarters. He is too young to realize his predicament or the shame attached to his imprisonment, but spends his time performing teats on the bars of the cell. The water works tap in the cell room is a novelty to the boy and the first thing he did upon entering the jail was to start the flow of water and paddle his feet in the stream for an hour or more;— Bluffton News, Aug. 1. Tuesday evening the W. C. T. U. ladies entertained about fifty of their friends with a social at the home of Mrs. C. F. Allegar. 'lhe house was decorated in yellow and white. An excellent programme was rendered, which was as follows: Song—Blest be the Tie. Reading—Mrs. M. Gilson. Paper—Bessie Congleton. Duett— Maggie Eichar and Sadie Hale. Recitation—Fannie Bottenbprg and Agnes Schrock. After which delicious refreshments were served during the remainder of the evening.

Emanuel Woods is home from Georgia, and the description he gives of the country where the Fitzgerald colony will be located is such that you will for a short time think you are near paradise, but when the delusion passes away, you find yourself in old Adams county, with all the discomfitures that surround our citizens, and we fear that those of our comrades who go there without money, will find themselves in the same condition as here. Twentv two of our people took in the excursion to Niagara Falls, leaving here Monday night. Anong the ones fortunate enough to have the money were ex-Commissioner Pontius, who had with him one son with his wife and a neice, C. W. Bohnke, Wm. Kaldeway, H. Bittner and John M. Nix, of the Democrat force. The train consisted of two sections, with seventeen coaches, all loaded. The Clover Leaf seem to be the favorite road for excursions. The decision of the superior court of Vanderburg county, if sustained by thb supreme court, will relieve all cities and incorporated towns from the payment of township taxes. The suit was brought by residents of the city of Evansville, who claimed that residents of an incorporated city were not liable for the taxes levied by the trustees of the township within which the city was located. The superior court held the. claim good and granted an injunction restraining the trustees from levying township taxes upon property within the city limits. H. Henry German, Jr-., of St. Francis, Ohio, in company with Jacob Feris, of that place, were in the city looking after some tramps that broke into the house of German stealing three dollars in cash apd a suit of clothes, with a razor and a pair of new shoes. They sold the coat to a Mr. Harden. So far our officers have been unable to find the right man. There are fifty tramps laying around the city begging and stealing from the people here and elsewhere. They should be moved before they commit some act that may be a disgrace on the community. Mrs. Fredericka Conrad, of Preble township, died Tuesday morning at the ripe old age of eightyone years. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at the Fnedheim church, the interment at thF church yard at the same place. She was one of Adams county’s oldest settlers, coming here in 1836, set- , tling in Preble township where she has resided ever since. She was the mother of fourteen children, the most of them living in this county, and are among our most honored citizens, who have been called to mpurn the loss of one to whom the ties of kindred were such that they observed with the most reverential feeling. R. B. Johnson, of Peterson, lost bis house by fire yesterday. His wife and two girls were in town, and he put on a fire for the girl at home to cook the dinner with, starting the same with hickory bark. While the fire was starting he went to the potato patch to get some potatoes, while digging the potatoes he looked at the house and saw the fire up stairs. Hastening* 3 ’to the ( house, and calling neighbors they ; got a few things out of the lower part, but nothing upstairs. The ; loss is over $1,200 with SSOO in- ( surance. They had an out kitchen , in which they cooked, and the orig- j in of the fire, as supposed, was from | a spark blowing into the open win- j dow upstairs. He had a blacksmith ] shop on the same lot which burned • at the same time, at a loss of. about j $l5O, with no insurance. ]

Henry bchlegel, and inmate of the county infirmary, was badly hurt yesterday by a freight engine on the Clover Leaf. Young Schlegel, with a couple of other boys, was sent after the cows and Schlegel, with the rest of the boys tried to see how many times they could cross the track before the train come up. In his effort to outdo the other boys, and to show that he could cross just before the locomotive, which was closer than expected, struck him, throwing him off to one side with such force that he was unconsious for a long time. There were no bones broken but an ugly scalp wound and prob ably a concussion of the brain. Dr. Costello attended the boy and has good hopes of his recovery. “Bloomers may be all right, and 1 know that thousands of nice ladies wear them, but they take away that ineffable modesty that is so much admired by men. Fashion may invoke these freaks of fancy, but if I had a sweetheart I would feel much distressed to see her in bloomers astride a bicycle. The best people we have are taking to the wheel regardless of age, se&, color or previous condition of servitude, and I suppose I must become reconciled to the bicycle or take to the woods. Anyway I am free to say that it has a tendency to place a woman in a position that will eventually rob her of her modesty concerning the person, which is, to my mind, one of the fair sex’s chief charms.” Thus spoke a man of the world to a crowd of his friends as a girl in knickerbockers dashed by on a wheel. Walter, the oldest son of Isaac Rosenthal, is a hustler from away up the pond. Last Saturday morning he arose bright and early, afid after partaking of a light breakfast, filled his panta pocket with bread from the Sunday loaf, and quietly stole from the bouse. He did not even take time to put on a pair of shoes or bis Sunday hat. As the family sat down to dinner young Walter was still missing. Mr. Rosenthal became somewhat uneasy, fearing Walter had gone up in the baloon at Berne, took the two o’clock train for that place. But after dilligent search could not find his son, Mr. Rosenthal returned home on the evening train and the boy was yet missing. But while the family was eating supper, Walter somewhat fatigued, came in and took his usual place at the table. In answer to where be had been, said, he had walked to Berne to see ,the town and blow-out, and then walked home, a distance of about twenty-five miles. His feet are a little sore. One night last week as Wm. Penpigton was walking along the O. &E. railroad track, near the target, his foot, in some manner, became fastened between the rails of the main track and switch.- And just about that time the Limited Express from the west was due. After trying in vain to extricate his foot, he was about to give up until some might chance to pass along and relieve him, when the headlight of the approaching fast train loomed up in the west. The train came nearer and nearer, but with his mightiest efforts he could not free himself. And as the train came spinning closer Mr. Pennington gave up all hopes, and was making things all right with the Supreme Ruler, and was prepared to to pass to the great beyond, via the fast line Route. Then he threw himself to the ground, when he felt his foot loose from the rails, just as the train went whirling by. How he escaped death he hardly knowsThe shoe was almost torn from bis foot, but aside from a bruised foot he received no other injury. ~. ’ —

Frank Krick met with an accident at Berne last Saturday, that will disfigure him for life. When he went to the livery barn to get his hors, the livery man found that m the rush it had been changed to another stall. He called Frank, and he went along behind the horses they had in the barn to look for Frank s horse. When passing along, one of the horses kicked Frank on the side of the face, cutting the whole upper part of the mouth off, and knocking five of his teeth out. While at the same kick it struck the livery man with one foot in the side, knocking them both down. Their wounds were dressed, and Frank is now at home. The courts have recognized the bicycle as a vehicle, and gave to them the same right of way on the public highway with all the rights that a carriage or any other vehicle has. Our city should place them under the same law. A speed of five miles, and not to exceed six miles per hour, should be the rate of speed that they should be allowed to run. They are more dangerous than a horse and buggy, as they glide along without making any noi.->e and come upon a person unawares. While the horse and buggy creates a noise that pedestrians can hear. While they are the coming manner of travel, they should be regulated the same as any other conveyance and should be put under the same penal law that governs the driving or riding of the horse. Every street and alley should be put in condition so that the bicycle can safely and securely pass along them, then they should be made to Obey the same law that governs vehicles. I —» Tuesday evening a lady from near Monroe, (whose nam wepould not learn) came near beings- jailed. She was driving to this ,ei|p in a single buggy, v ith two children in the seat beside her, and a small baby in her arnia. She drove upon thp crossing of the C. E. railroad on Winchester street just as the fast line came along. The engine struck the rear of the buggy, and the horse ran away. The occupants were thrown ont in the ditch, and badly bruised. The baby was knocked senseless, and .for a time it was thought was killed. They were taken to the home of Mrs. Blossom, where they were cared for, and the horse was caught dragging the buggy, which was badly damaged. The mother and children were able to return home this morning. Perhaps after a few people are killed the city council will compel the railroads to keep flagmen at the crossings, and this is one of the worst crossings in the city, as you can not see the approach of a train, until you are on the track. A young couple, giving their names as Furgeson, and claiming 1 to I be distant relatives of Jacob Yager, the groceryman, were visiting the family of Mr. Yager a few days last week. They claimed to have just been recently married in Chinago. and were spending part of their honeymoon the guests of relatives and friends. They could be seen promenading our streets hand in hand in regular “jakey” style. Saturday morning they disappeared as suddeh as they came, not even bidding Mr. Yager’s family good-bye. About the time they left, Mrs. Yager had occasion to go to her purse, which was hanging in the dining room, for some money, but was surprised to find nothing in it. She then went to a small safe, which was kept in the front parlor and which had contained about seven dollars, but found it empty also. She then suspicioned the young bride, and remembered catching her in the room on the day previous, alone. And she was the only pnejthat had been in the parlor for

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a week. As soou as Sheriff Ashbaucher came home from Berne Saturday night he was given a warrant and with. Charley Yager started after the young couple. The found them Wells county, where they were arrested and brought back here Sunday morning, and placed in jail. They see*m to take their arrest very cool and unconcerned, and seem to be ignorant of penalty of the crime they are charged with. In all about ten dollars was taken. They had a preliminary hearing Tuesday, and were*-bound over to court. They could furnish no bond and were taken back to jail. Crozier, of Union town - ship, was shot at by a man named Taylor, of the s’ate of Ohio. Crozier, of this state, and three Taylor boys, of Ohio, with a number of other young people, had attended a singing school at Mount Victory Among the sweet singers present was Miss Elsie Merris, daughter of El ley Merris, a highly respected farmer of that neighborhood, and the belle of the country. When singing had closed, Crozier escorted the young lady home, which raised the ire of one of the Taylor boys, who followed the young couple some distance in their buggy. After leaving the young lady at her home Crozier started to return. After going about half a mile three snots were fired at him, none of which took effect. He droved at full speed for another half mile, when a man jumped from behind a tree and shot at Crozier. The -warning he had from the first attack caused him to be cautious, and he sat down in the front part of lhe buggy, and the bullet passed through the buggy top just over the seat. The horse frightened and started to run, when three more shots were fired, none of which took effect. Had Crozier remained in the seat he would have been shot three times. The case will be thoroughly investigated, and should it prove to be the Buckeyes they will be made feel the eljects of shooting at Hoosiers. 1 - In response to the call for a convention by the president of the Ind. W. S. A., the friends of woman’s suffrage, met in the Presbyterian church of this city Friday evening, August 2, and listened to Mrs. Helen Gouger explain the evolution of popular suffrage and the “test vote” case-now before the supreme court of Indiana. Saturday morning after devotional exercises, led by Rev. Vaughan, of the Christian church, the time was occupied in an informal consultation with local workers, and arrangements made ing out the program of the afternoon. At 2 o’clock the convention was again called to order. The devotional exercises led bv the president of the W. C. T. Uj and the minister of the Christian church. : Recitations by one of the teachers in the public schools. Talk by Mrs.. Gouger concerning the property rights of women, followed by a question box opened by Mrs. Holloway,Answered by Mrs. Gouger. A committee for local work was then elected consisting of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, supt. of press reportsand supt. of Cooper, contest wotk Prof. Murphy, of the Lufheraii.Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio, gave a short talk, expressing in the justice of-woman’s suffrage. Rev. Kainj of Monroeville, gave the benediction and the business of the convention was ended. In the evening Mrs. Gouger gave her lecture on “Women in Municipal Government.” The convention tvas both enjoyable and interesting to all who attended, and quite a number paid dues and became members of the stase association. You can get two of the largest and best loaves of bread in Decatur for 5c at the Union Bakery. d3ostfw43tf ■j i er-' i?. c '•