Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1895 — Page 1

'The Decatur Democrat’

VOL. XXXIX.

Judge Heller opened court at Portland Monday. Homer Martin, of Bluffton, died 1 Sunday evening. His remains were laid to rest Tuesday. J. T. Merryman made his appearance on the streets yesterday after a ten days sickness. Charles Kern is very happy over the arrival of a twelve pound boy at bis home Monday morning. Jacob Martin is ornamenting his building on Second' street with an new old-fashioned wooden awning. Chalmer Shaffer entertained a few of his young friends last evening. Pedro was the popular game. Sam Evans arrived at the age of maturity Tuesday, atyl consequently will receive a nice sum of money left him byffiis late father. Dave Neusbaum was released from jail last Thursda.y He thought the easiest way out was to pay his fine and costs, which he did. The county commissioners visited the County Farm last Thursday; but not for the purpose of taking up a location, only to see how things are managed. The Adams County LumbeV Co., have their new mill almost completed, and will resume operations in about fifteen ctayK full quota of employees. The county commissioners have purchased new spitoons tor the court house, after the little fire the other night. They thiiTk they can buy spitoons cheaper than a new court house. Saturday was the last day of court and the wheels of justic will cease to turn for a period of six weeks, a great deal of business has been transacted this term and plenty more remains to begin on next term. Ralph Okonkoski, the insurance agent, has cajpbluded to remain here. He will open an office in the -- business part of the city and wait on all who need insurance. He deserves a fair share of the patronage. The amount of jimy fees allowed at this term of court was §7,60.20. This is the largest amount of jury fees allowed at any one term of court for a long time, and it was owing to the large number of jury cases tried at this*Cerm. ■ The insurance on the barn of Wm. Elzey which burned on last Thanksgiving night has been amicably adjusted. The Aetna insurance Co., paid him §319, for his loss which will probably cover everything consumed by the Hames. Decatur Lodge No. 571 F. & A. M. held their annual election Tuesday night and the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: L. C. Miller, W. M.; W. B. Suttles, S. W.; Dan Sprany, J. W.; Henry Winne's, Treasurer; J. '£. Merryman, Secretary. Rev. Shepherd of the U. B. church has a quilt patch that is a novel way to advertise. You can haveyour name and business quilted on the patch and this be joined as a quilt, after which the same will be disposed of, the money to go toward building up the U. B. church. At the election of officers of Sam Henry Post held at their hall last Saturday night everything passed off harmonious and the following officers were elected to serve tor the ensuing year: Commander, Robert Blackburn; Senior Vice, C. L. Holmes; Junior Vice, Jerry Russell; Chaplain R. N. Andrews; Quartermaster A. C. Gregory; of the Day, J. R. Moore; Officer of Guard, Sam Chronister: Surgeon, Petef Decker; Trustees,. J. D. Hale, H. H. Hart, S. B. Fordyce; delegates to State Encampment, R. A. Andrews''and S. B. Fordyce.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1895.

Rev. J. F. Horion will be ins'al led as pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Monday, Dec. 16, 1895, at 7:30 p. ni Rev. J. L. Leeper, of Ft. W<*yne, R»w. 11. L. Nave, of Huntington, and Rev. J W. Hawk, of Bluffton, will conduct the installation services. A fight occurred at Silem last Saturday night between John Longenberger and Daniel Wolf, in which the latter was considerably worsted. Longenberger was arraigned before His Honor t s morning, charged with assault and battery. He plead guilty and was taxed two dollars and trimmings, C. A. Dugan of this city has been elected a director of the Farmers Bank recently organized at Paulding, Ohio, with a capital of §25,000. Mr. Dugan is one of our substantial business men, and at present holds the important, positon of cashier of the Decatur National Bank. Success to the new institution. St Louis has been chosen as the place for holding the next Republican National convention, and June 16, 1896, is the day set for operaJjpns to begin. The next thing is to find some man who will accept the nomination, but they are hopeful and probably may succeed in finding a suitale candidate. Victor S. Reed, administrator of the estate of Wm. E. Brown, deceased, one of the victims of the Ceylon wreck, has begun suit in the Adams circuit court to recover damages to the amount of §IO,OOO. This is the first .suit brought, and is probably a test case. Should they be successful more suits of the same character writ likely follow. Chas. Suttles, Arthur Will Thomas and Chad. Edington, members of Co. 8., have successfully l. passed an examination for ,-pTomotion from the ranks and will soon wear the stripes of non-commis-sioned officers. They received their appointment from Col. Gunder, of toe Fourth Regiment. Attorney Miesse, of Grand Rapids, Mich., the legal departot the G. R. & I. railroad company is in the city in the interest of his company asking the board of'commissioners to remit a part 6f the tax assessed against the property, by asking that all the lots laying in the square about the depot be assessed as one lot.

The grand jury has fixed the following amounts as bond for the indictments returned by the last grand jury. Nos. 3,4, 14, 16 and 32 §IOO. Nos. 8,9; 10, 11, 13, 15, 22, 23, 24,'25, 26, 27, §3OO. Nos. 12, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 32, §SO. Nos. 29 and 30, Nos. 17 and 28 J? §soo. Pick out your number and go up and give the required bond. A meeting of the Water Works Company w’as held at thb office of the Gas Company Tuesday night, at w’hich time and place the city council purchased all the stock of the Water Works Co., and assumed all the indebtedness of the Company The city is now sole owmer and proprietor, and the Water Works Go., whosfe energy and persistence pushed the plant to completion passed into innocuos desuetude. ; .— " • That young man. is tp be congratulated who has an aim m life. It matters not whether the aim be wealth, fame or proficiency as a mechanic, he should be encouraged. Hundreds p,f young men who do not,make a success of life are simply drifting without an aim, without ambition. The boy who determines on a certain course and keeps ever-, lastingly at one thing, constantly growing more familiar that relates to it, seldom makes a failure of his life.

I’hrnu gh some mistake Mesdames M. F. and Irvin Acker were omitted from the list of donations to the orphan’s home at Berne, which we published. John Schrank, of Blue Creek township, father of Ben Schrank the barber, met with a bad accident. Wh’le driving the team in a field, he was thrown from his wagon breaking his leg, which will I'Vhim up for the winter. Mr. Schrank is well known to our peo pie, he having been in business here some year ago. Loy Adams, of Portland, a ne phew of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Adams, of this city, died '1 uesday morning. The funeral occurred Thursday at 10 o’clock a. m. Mr. Adams is well known to many of our young people, having played in a foot ball game here a year ago and his untimely death was caused by injuries received in a game at Ft. Wayne some time ago. William Russell was out in the woods last Friday where he saw a track which he followed to a hollow tree. He cut in and found an o’possum which he pulled out and brought to town with him. He now has it in a box fattening for the Lime Kiln club for a Christmas dish. The animal is a fine one and the club will have a fine feast. D. C. Menefee, editor of the Black River FalFs, Wis., Journal, has unto himself a life partner. On last Wednesday he was united in, marriage to a Miss Jordon of Viola, Wis., “Dick” as he was called while here learned his trade, in the Democrat office and was known as an industrious boy. The Democrat force extends their congratulations. Hughes Bros, have on exhibition at their • marble shop on Second street a number of tine monuments. Among them is one of Quincy, Mass., granite that goes to Sea mans of Van Wert county, Ohio. This is said to be the finest that has ever been shipped out of our county. Should you need anything in their line remember they are headquarters for monuments.

The sermon next Sabbath evening at the Presbyterian, church on the “Birth of Christ,” will be illustrated by views from the stereop ticon. These beautiful pictures, portraying so vividly scenes from the life of our Saviour, make these services intensely interesting and instructive to all. They are free to all and everyone receives a hearty welcome. The “saints” held their meeting at Erhert Sunday night. They have no organ or choir, but a young lady does the singing for them. She was assisted by an “Esquire” present, and after her rettfrn home she complained about the way the male part, of the choir kept bis weather eye on her. The folks at home calmed her fears by assuring her that the gentleman was X eyed and it was an optical illusion of hers. z The iadies of Portland and Bluffton have fallen into the newspaper craze and yearn to be editors. They will accordingly have charge of the dailies in their respectiveTjities due day in the near future. Os course as in everything else, they are a little behind Decatur, as the ladies of this city have already had their day and turned out one of the neatest ladies papers ever published. However, success to their followers. Al Hesslin, the young man who was wounded by the city marshal of Van Buren while defying arrest, and who passed through this city a short time ago on his way to the hospital at Ft. VVayne, died from thp effects of his wounds at the latter place a day or two ago. Thus it is again proven that bullies are sometimes conquered.

A couple of old veteran jokecrackers met at the butcher shop of Mr. Gilpen in the west end of the city and after the usual salutation, they passed a few remarks that had not been thought of by any of the parties that met there to swap yarns. When Lake rose as Wagoner came in and bowed to him and said, “We will now have soup” whereupon he grabbed a chisel and attempted,,, to cut Lake into small bits for to thicken the soup with. Then a chair was brought into requisition and the |rot around the. meat block was kept up until they both went into cold storage without any blood having been spilled. The spectacle swindle is the latest scheme devised to catch the unwary, and is being worked in this vicinity with good success. A person having the appearance of a tramp knocks at the door of a contemplated sucker and exhibits a pair of gold rimmed spectacles representing himself as having found them and offers to very cheap, of course. He asks from §1 to §2 for them and generally gets it. These same spectacles can be bought from legitable dealers for 25 cents. Os course the opticians of our city are not objecting for they are invariably called upon to supply new glasses and it makes their business good. Moral: Buy of responsible people. The M. E. Church was comfortably tilled last on last Thursday night with members and friends of. the order of Knights of Pythias to hear Union B. Hunt deliver his lecture on the “Origin, Principles and Progress of Pythiasism.” It was an able address and was eagerly listened to by the audience. The members of the order assembled at the lodge room together with their wives (those who had them) and promptly at 7 o’clock marched to the church in a body. Immediately after the lecture the Knights returned to their Castle Hall, leaving their wives and sweethearts to look after themselves. Here they listened to an exemplification of the secret work. Mr. Hunt is well up in the workings of the order and his visit to our city will no doubt leave its mark. At a special election in Louisville A. J. Carroll was elected over his republican opponent on Saturday. The majority given was about the normal Democratic majority, which shows thatthe Kentucky Democrats already repent the apathy or resentment that controlled them at the elections. Mr. Carroll’s success is all the more important because it disposes of the chances for the election of a republican to succeed Senator Blaykburn, It makes the house a tie as to the Democrats and republicans, with two populists holding the balance of power. But it is not probable i that either of them will vote tor a i republican candidate for the senate and Joe Blackburn’s prospects for reelection have been much improved by Mr. Carroll’s.

The lodge room of the Rathbone Sisters was the scene of great activity last night. Two candidates in the persons of Mrs. John ■Parrish and-Mrs. Frank Milter were allowed to explore the bidden mysteries. The local lodge was assisted by 16 members of the Portland lodge in conferring the degree-; The candidates stood the ordeal very well until it came time to mount the fractious fS animsl” and then their hearts failed them. Having foigotten their bloomers, some tune was lost in procuring a side saddle. As soon as everything was arranged the ladies mounted and gracefully rode away, having found that “Mr. Goat” was a docile fellow after all. After the initiation ceremonies they all sat down to a well laden table and feasted until they could feaet no longer.

It has been estimated, says the Electric Review, that electric railways have displaced in the United States no less than 275,000 horses, and the movement has not yet stopped. ft is estimated by a Topeka paper that that many horses would require about 125,000 bushels of oats or corn per day. A decrease of 125,000 bushels a day in corn or oats consumption is enough to appreciably affects price of tho»e grains. It amounts to 45,000,000 bushels a year. Furthermore the loss of this commercial demand for these coarse grains in the cities means an enormous loss of tonage for the railroads—about 62,500 car loads. Lord Salisbury, the Crime Minister of England has sent to Julian Pauncefote, the English ambassador to the United States, bis refusal to submit the boundary question to arbitration. Ihe contents of the letter were not made public, but epough was learned to make it apparent that the official papers contained an ultimate refusal. As soon as Grover Cleveland returns to Washington from his hunting trip, he will give the contents of the papers together with his view’ of the question to Congress, and shoul 1 Grover disclose his usual amout (11 back bone, and coincide with hia view then something is going to drop, and drop awful hard. But its dollars to doughnu’s that England will crawfish when he finds that Uncle bam means 'msiness. It is just as well to settle t J»s busines first as It.st and give these trifling foreigners to understand that the wishes oi America must be respected. —~j At present it looks very as though America and'England would meet on the bloody fields vs war. England seems to encroach upon Venezuelan territory and America says Johnny Bull must respect the Monroe Doctrine or sutler the consequences. We give this fair warning to the Britishers. Do not ignore the Monroe Doctrine, or we will give the tail of. your mighty beast such a twist that you will have cause to remember it forever. England seems to pay no attention to the requests of Venezuela, but we.guess if Uncle Sam says “nit” they will .4top and consider. Don’t monkey with America. She is a peaceful animal until stirred up, but when this is accomplished she sweeps everything slick and clean. Our carbines and howitzers have not been used for some time, hut if. they are not in working order when the time comes, we’ll just take a club. Now’ good bye Mr. England and if we hear any more ; of your fuss, we’li comtf g-ver and see you. . J <?■ . While the Louisville Courier Journal opposes President Cleveland and " all his official acts, yet when it comes to his last message it says: “The positive stand which he takes oh the Venezuelan question should satisfy the most vigorous American opponent of European encroachment on our hemisphere, although his conservatism in advocating respect for the principles andprecedents of international usage in our relations with as lieaflhg bn the Cubaninsurrection will fall short of satisfying the most positive sympathizers with the Cuban struggle 'for independence. It is not until Mr. Cleveland enters upon a consideration of the financial situation laying bare its nature and cause and suggesting a remedy, that he furnishes a? companion-piece to his famous single-shot message on the tariff. Here the president shows that firm grasp of. his subject, that clear conception, rugged common sense and robust integrity of purpose that have won for him in so eminent a degree the confidence of all adherents of an honest and sound financial policy.”

Rumors have been current on the street that Patrick J. Bobo, the editor of the Weekly World, had been horsewhipped by Mrs. 11. H. Hart, his wife’s mother, at his residence last Friday night. The rumors could not be substantiated at first, but from what we have learned, the whipping did really occur. Things have not moved along in their family affairs as smoothly as should be under the circumstances and reports have it that he has not been a kind and loving husband at all times and this no doubt started his irate mother-in-law’ on the war path. She armed herselt with a buggy whip and repaired to the residence of her son-in-law-editor and proceeded to dish out justice alone and single handed. As soon as she caught sight of her son-in-law, so the story goes, the blows began to fall thick and fast until the poor guilty editor, wavering under both blows and paragonc begged for mercy, 1 while the exhausted mother-in-law walked away feeling that only half enough had been meted out to the man who had dared to abuse her daughter. Council Proceedings. ’ Council met in regular session Tuesday night, Mayor Quinni presiding. Councilman Coverdale ab r sent. The following bills were approved ey the finance committee and allowed: Decatur Journal, §1.00; Shaffer & Loch, §80.57’.An ordinance regulating the purchase of the balance of water works stock was introduced. o On motion the,rules were suspended and the ordinance adopted. The final of Line street was read and referred to the finance , committee. Council then adjourned. An effort will be made in a short time to interest the citizens of Decatur and vicinity in .a* project, having for its sole intention the betterment and advancement of our own interests. It enough of our enterprising citizens can be induced to take hold, a history of our city and surrounding country will be published, giving a full description of all our resources, advantageous location for shippers, and in short such a description of our surroundings will be given as will be likely to induce manufaceurers to give our city a thorough over, before locating elsewhere. Here is a Scheme, worthy of more than a passing notice, and one that is being carried into effect by enterprising cities all oy§? the country. That good results are obtained from this mo<ie-of advertising can not be questioned. The healthy growth of most cities of this-size"is due to the untiring efforts of their citizens, and the most economical way of, advertising for such purposes, is by giving to the public a truthful report oT all our' resources,. in pamphlet form. Business men, take this matter under consideration, and when the boys come around and see you, lend them your support in the matter, ami ne assured that with your encouragement beneficial and lasting results will be derived therefrom; Neai-ij; Fifteen Hundred. The enrollment at the Soldiers' Home Tuesday was 1,812 with a total number present of 1,492. About 100 have left tn the last two weeks, following pension day, and will not return until after holidays. There are 219 members in the hospital at present. '.X.Aii —— —. !' .'.L"' I ®®

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