Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1895 — Page 1

The Decatur Democrat.

VOL. XXXIX.

The funeral of Davis McCallough was held at Pleasant Mills Wednesday. Burger & Webers hipped two car loads of horses Friday. They go to Philadelphia. Harvey Brothers was passed to the degree of a Fellow Craft Mason Wednesday night. The wife of ex-trustee Samuel H. Hocker, of French township, was buried last week. A Montpelier woman is suing for a divorce from her husband because he called her a “jay.” A 100,000 theater is building at Elwood. It will be completed by Christmas if possible. The W- C. T. U. will meet at the home of Mrs. Allison, on Saturday, Oct. sth jit 2:30 p. m. The funeral of Edward Cowan at Mt. Tabor Tuesday w'as the largest eyer held in that church. *— — . Frank McConnell is singing by, by Grover, to his new boy which was born to them Saturday. Thirty-four of our people left for Fort Wayne on the special train Friday morning. They saw some fine races there that day. You can now see the small boy with his pockets filled with hickorynuts. There are plenty of them north of this place, but south of here they seem to be scarce. The friends of Lace Fisher, ot Eaton, will rejoice with him in his prosperity. His wife presented him with twins, of which he is feeling as big as ‘KHd Gohah.” The Chicago & Erie people are improving their depot by putting a new 1 slate roof on the same, alter which .they will paint and otherwise improve the buildings. The state confrence of Associated Chanties will meet at Fort Wayne on the 22nd and be in session for three days. The state band will furnish music for the occasion. A number of teams from East Liberty, were here Thursday morning to haul the goods of Rev Abbott to that place. John D. Fnedline was at the head of the procession. J. S. Railing has on exhibition at this office two ears of corn that weighed three and one T half pounds. They are as fine a specimen of the Indian maize as any soil will produce. The annual reunion ot the 75th and 101st regiments Indiana Infantry will be held at Warren on ’ Thursday and Friday of next week. Several of the boys from here will attend. v Through the courtesy of exAuditor Miller we were informed of the death of the wife of Wilson Shepherd, of Hartford township. Funeral was held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. Milo Wilson run aground on Winchester K street and broke his wagon, which made him so mad that he filed an affidavit against the water works man for obstructing the public highway*. Saturday was Jewish Fast Day. They neither eat or drink or take any nourishments of any kind. They have two days of this kind each year, in which they abstain from all worldly avocations. . • An article has been going the * - rounds of the papery that now is the time to cut weeds. We think it must have originated in the brain of some editor whose wife has been doing Idrihe The time to cut weeds to destroy the seed is past. At Ahis time the • seeds are ripe and wl grow if you hut the weed. The only way to do now is to out and burn them, or cut them before,the seeds are npe.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1895.

T. R Moore lost his family horse Wednesday. He was at Hoagland and fed the horse green corn, and thinks that the corn gave him the colic. He died m a few hours alter it was found sick. A gas war is on at Wabash, and after October 1 all gas contracted for domestic purposes will be discounted fifty per cent. All gas for manufacturing purposes will be furnished at 3 gents per 1000 cubic feet. Theodore Smith’s nine-year-old son had the forefinger of his left band badly cut last Saturday afternoon. He was working the feed cutter when he got his finger in with the above result. Dr. Boyers amputated the finger. The large and enthusiastic meetings of the Democrats in Ohio are indications that there will be a grand uprising of the people in that state this fall. Whenever such a stirring up of the people comes around then Ohio goes Democratic. Fredrick Knavel, one of Union township’s pioneers, died yesterday and was buried Tuesday afternoon. Some time during the summer he stepped in a hole and hurt bis leg, from which he suffered until blood poisoning set in and continued until it caused his death. Don’t burn your crop of autumn leaves and make your neighbors miserable with their smoke and smell. Put them in a heap where they can decay and you will find them invaluable for fertilizing purposes next spring. This evening at 7 o’clock the annual conference of the Brethren in Christ will meet at the Antioch church of Washington township, aud will be continued over Sunday. These are the pleasant meetings of the church in which everybody is made welcome. The 89th boys who reunioned at Hartford City last week, speak very highly of the treatment received from the citizens of that place. They liked it so well that they concluded to hold the next reunion at Jonesborough. So they will still be in the gas belt. The Hotel Ingram at Hartford City bought a nickel-m-the-slot machine a few days ago, but it was not as good a thing for the house as was expected and .it was shipped back before it broke up the landlord. The machine got to giving five for one with startling regularity. Simeon Reppert,bf Preble township, died Wednseday at his home near the German Reform church. Me was a young man about twentyfour years old, and made his home with his mother. The funeral will be held today at 11 o’clock at the church near his home. Trustee Lewton, of Root township, was in the city Wednesday He is nursing his right hand on account of getting it in the wrong place. While using, a corn cutter by a horse, he reached down to raise some down cdrn, when his right hand came in contact with the knife of the cutter, badly cutting the back of bis fingers. He says he believes in the old fashion way of cutting corn. \ The waterworks men Monday commence to excavate in the alley running froth Jefferson street to Court street for the purpose pt laying a line to Court street in order to erect a watering place. But at an unexpected moment mayor Quinn swoped down on them and as he spread his wings over them be* did not appear as the angel of peace, tor in a few moments work was suspended add when it begins again, it will bet on Second street along tljap sidewalk from Court to Jefferson street.

Friday evening the class of ’95 were most royally entertained at the home of Miss Sada Hale, in honor of Earl Adams, a member of the class, who soon leaves for Ann Arbor Mich., to attend law school. Delicious refreshments were served* during the evening and an enjoyable time was had by all present. Wallace, the horse thief from Kenton, Ohio, who was arrested here by Marshal Cowan and Sheriff Ashbaucher, was sentenced to five years penal servitude. Horse thieves want to give our city a wide berth while Cowan and Ashbaucher are on guard. They believe in letting no guilty man escape. The goosebone is nearly all white this year, and the result will be that snow will lie on the ground from early in December until late in April. A long cold winter filled with blustering storms is ahead. There are other signs that confirm this. Corn husks are unusally thick, and chipmunks aud woodchucks are already fat enough to kill. Coal is advancing and cord wood is unusually scarce. Pearle Calderwood, the youngest daughter of Landlord Calderwood, of the Miesse, Saturday morning attempted to light the fire in a stove in which they burn gas. The gas she supposed to be all turned off but a flash was the result and a badly burned right hand. While it may get well and not leave her a cripple, it will be a bad scared band, and should be a warping to all to be careful in handling the gas. Yesterday forenoon while Henry Gerke was loading gravel at the pit on the Dorwin farm about onehalf mile east of the city, the bank slipped in on him, breaking bis right leg between the knee and ankle, the bone protuding through the flesh so that the toot and lower part of the leg look as though Jbe may lose bis foot, if not he will be laid up for a tong time. He was taken to Dr. Boyers office where the fracture was reduced and the patient was sent home. New mail cars have recently been built in New Haven, Conn., different from any ever constructed in this country. They sre particularly planned against train robbers. The caYs have no platforms and the hand brake is operated by a brass wheel inside the car. Steps are on the end of each car, but a trap door seals up the car ends. There are doors at the sides to receive mail, but these are doubly protected by inside iron Shutters. It is understood the cars are intended for a south-western road. Edward Cowan, of Raviare, died Monday. Some two months ago be got his hand naught in a saw while working in the saw-mill of bolter & Smith of that place. The revolving saw rubbed against the back of his hand until it burned the flesh off to the bones. The shock to his nervous system was so great that he never recovered, and typhoid fever set in which caused bis death. The deceased was a cousin of marshal Cowan of this city. - Jesse P. Conner, a brakeman on the Clover Leaf was killed at Marion, Ind., T uesday while making a coupling. The car was attached to the engine and run back with such force that it knocked him down, so that the brake beam caught him, killing him instantly. Wednesday his remains were brought here on the 12:15 train on the way to Geneva where the funeral was held yesterday. The deceased formerly lived in this county, and has relatives still living at Geneva. A large number of friends accompanied bis remains from Marron to Geneva. The pall—bearers consisted of- six members of the brakemen brotherhood.

An interesting case has been entered in the courts at Indianapolis and the outcome of it will be awaited with more than usual anxiety. An opinion has been asked as to whether Christian scientists, who refuse sick members ot their families medical attendance on the theory that divine providence will do the healing, can be forced to do so, and refusing, if they are amenable to the law. The faith cure is assuming threatening proportions and should be eradicated by the strong a: ni ot the law. In the great cities people attend to their own business. They pas* ai’d repass, scarcely speaking, and in the mam not I u» wing each oth, er. Butin the uu'll towns and v ilages the revese of thia is true. There is a jealous prying into and knowledge had ot everybody’s business—each more intent upon the afl lira of others than bisown. Men si! in clusters and tattle. Women sit together and tattle. A story i« started. It is reported with liberal additions and grows to be a monstrous thing—a wonderful thing that the prince of liars would be proud of. An exchange says t»o brothers kept a saloon in a Missouri town. One of them went to Chicago to lay in a stock of liquor. When he left home a revival was in progress in the town and he had hardly reached the end of the journey when he received the following telegarm: “Bill:—Buy no liquor. Will join church tomorrow night. Business is taking us to hell.— Jim:” That night Bill went to hear Col. R. ’G. Ingersoll lecture. As soon as he got back to bis hotel he sent off a message as follows: “Jim: —Hold on till I come. Have it from a prominent citizen of Illinois that hell is closed up.— Bill.” An exchange says there are 92 counties in’-Indiana, 1,014 townships. Union township in Montgomery county is the largest township in the state, containing one hundred and eleven sections; Albion township in Noble county, is the smallest, containing only four sections. Some townships have queer names. Whiskey Run township, in Crawford county, J. Q. Adams in Warren and Aubbeenaubee in Fulton are samples of this kind. The name of Jackson heads the list with 45, Washington 41, Jefferson 23, Harrison 23 Monroe 14, Madison 13, Adams 10, Van Buren 8. A new course in the treatment of intoxicated persons who come under the jurisdiction of the city police court is being adopted by Mayor Stevens. All the “drunks” entering a plea of guilty are given a thirtyday jail sentence, and during their terra of imprisonment receive the gold cure administered by the physician of the W. C. T. U. sani. tarium, an institution under the direction of the local temperance organization. Five patients are now in the county jail taking treatment. The expense of treatment is paid from a fund raised among temperance citizens and business men. As each day passes you can see young men and boys jumping on moving trains, and the same-will be kept up until someone is hurt, or the law takes hold of them, then for awhile the thing will cease. This is a matter the railroad employes should give attention to for |he marshal cant be at r all the roads and trains, but the employes are and could file an affidavit against some of these offenders ind thus save, a life, or if not a life then a leg. We have a few living examples in our city, young men who the boys call peg-leg, because they jumped on a train when in motion. ■- ■ ’ - . """■ • t • ‘

The plans and specifications for a new depot at Decatur and Winchester stations on the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad have been submitted to the power that be, and have been approved, and the contract for the building of them will be let before long, so our people have a chance of seeing a better depot at the G. K. & I. railroad, provided they do not die too young. A new depot with better accommodations has been a necessity at that road for a long time. The facte are the road has been losing some traffic by reason ot the very poor accommodations. The pleasant manner in w’hich Jeff I meets and greets the traviling pub- | lie has helped to keep the travel on . this road. Miss Julia Parrott, who is to begin her labors of missionary in Burma, left Monday morning for Franklin for a day’s visit among school mates and friends. From that city she goes to New York and next Saturday will sail in company with Miss Thompson, of Minnesota, for Burma, the trip occupying about six weeks time. Special services were held yesterday morning at the Baptist church, and she made.a farewell address to the congration and young people among whom she has worked for the past three yea:s —Bluffton News. Miss Parrott is well known to the most of our young people who bid her God speed. It must certainly be discouraging to Mr. McKinley »?i his ’travels about the country to see every place he g’es a happy and prosperous people- Duly a short rue ago he and his faithful henchmen predicted that there never could be any more good times while the Wilson bill was in force and that the pesqple would have to drag along in poverty and distress until he was placed at the national helm with a congress on deck to repeal the present low tariff law and enact in its place a duplicate of the McKinley bill. But what false prophets they were! All the industries that were shut down under the McKinley bill have started up with renewed energy since the Wilson bill went into effect. Republican legislation stagnated the channels of trade creating widespread and general disaster, but a Democratic congress reopened the channels by and now after a little more than a year under Democratic laws we are in the dawn of one of the brightest eras of national prosperity that the country ever knew. All this Mr. McKinley is forced to contemplate in his travels through the states.— Wabash Times. Monday forenoon while Peter Schneider, the Southside butcher and grocer, was out for few minutes, some one tapped his till for nine of his silver dollars. This made Peter red headed. He at once started out to find the man that had his hard earned cash. The first one he came across was Mat Shaffer, the saloon man, to whom he told of his loss, when to his surprise Shaffer said, I am looksng for the man who stole a pair of pants from my boarding bouse. Then Schneider told Shaffer who he suspected, and that while Shaffer was out looking for the man who stole the pants,’he should make inrnquiry for his man- and at Schtirger <& Burkhead’s saloon, they told him that the young, man had been there and wanted to trade silver money for paper money, and the same had been done at different places. _op the strength of this Schneider tiled and "affidavit against young Howard Stupp, charging him with ,,The—-warrant -was placed in the hands of Constable Parrish who soon had Howard Stupp before his honor, A. J. Hill, when he plead guilty and • was bound over to court in the suih of two ffundred dollars, in default of the same he was sent to jail. -’ - •

a In some parts of Indiana, farmers - have in the past two or three years 1 cultivated the'sunflower as a field e crop. It sold last year at 70 cents t per bushel (20 lbs), and 20 to 30 1 bushels to the acre, It was a better f crop than wheat.—Ex. r The seed is good feed for any i anamial and the best you can get -for fowls. «* > r Hon. James E. McDonald, editor of the Ligonier Banner, was shot one day last week by a pickpocket j be was chasing. The follow in- } dieted a wound which is dangerous, 3 but not necessarily fatal.—Ex. Edito'rs should not do police work.<_ 1 Orlando M. Packard, of Plymouth, state national bank examiner for Indiana, says the banks of this state are now in a far better condition than they have been in r * ’ since the panic. All traces of 1893 [ have now been practically obliterated and the banks are doing a large > business. Confidence has been re--1 stored and money is out in ircula- , tion. A year ago the money was k tied up in the banks. They had too i much money and were not making ! any. The reserve at that time was forty-two per cent., while it is now but half of that, fifteen per cent, being all that is required. Everything is based upon confidence, and since the people have regained their : confidence in the banks, the banks > have returned it, and money is now ’ being loaned upon collateral which - one year ago could not be utilized. > The condition now is healthy and • the banks are making money. , j Yesterday morning the north end a of the city was thrown into a fever of y excitement by the cry of fire, and 4 the piercing sefenm of Maggie Pil--3 lars, daughter of Wm. Pillars, the miller It was found that her dress 1 was on fire, which was soon put out, but not until after she was badly ■ burned on the lower linjbs. • She was feeling somewhat ! this morning and after breakfast sit down in the rocking chair be ’ fore an open gas tire and she fell asleep only to awake to find her dress on fire, which she first attemp- ' ted to put out, blit soon called for help and ran for the kitchen in which the girl was at work, who seeing what was the matter told her to lay down and roll over, which she done while the girl got a blanket and threw over her, and with the help of the neighbors soon smothered the flames. While badly burned her, in juries are not fatal. With the 4th of this month Wm. Baughman will retire from the Recorder’s office, which he has filled ■ for the past four years, with credit > to himself and the party that elected him. • On the morning of the stb, he will turn the office over to his successor, Harvey Harniff, who has been living in t|wti for some w’eeks past, and has been looking after the work. He will start in under the new fee and salary law. There is considerable talk about salaries received by county officers being less than the amount fixed by the new law. The clerk, recorder and sheriff, are paid-a salary based upon the earnings of their office.- If the office earns the money, and it is collected by the incumbent be-reeeives , the full salary fixed by the law. If’ the amount collected tails short of the salary fixed by law the incanibent receives the amouiA earned by the office no matter how much leasthan the fixed 'salary it may be. While the auditor and treasurer -was intended to be a fixed salary, but owing to the Barrels that were in the celler of the Slate, House, they become so much befuddled that they made these offices dependent on the fees collected, but the fees are so small that no one can fill the office for that amount.

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