Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1896 — Page 1

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Q. T ——— S. C. Niman is at Van Wert. . J Attorney Sharp, of Bluffton, is in > the city. x A. S. Elzey, of Osman, was in the I it city today. i R. G. Kerlih, of Toledo, was in the city today. i i ■■ —» i / Ben Kortenbrer, of Bluffton, is I in the city visiting his parents. I Lawrence Durbin, of South Bend, I'* - is in the city visiting his mother. Miss Lena Menefe'e* entertained If * several of her iriends last Saturday Jw Afternoon. Miss Lena Barthel has returned j i home from a visit with friends at | Mew Haven. I i 1 _ : \ ‘ Mrs. Frank Jackson, of Williams- ) port, is visiting her parents Henry ’ Fuhrman and wife in this city. Mrs. Perry Elzey returned home Saturday after a week’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ed Bursliolder. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Eutsmmger L g 'are at Ft. Wayne the guests of .Mrs. j Entsminger’s sister, Mrs. Ed Burkholder. The body of the infant child of Willis Sprague, of Bluffton, was I brought to this city Tuesday for inll terment. Mrs. D. M. Robbins, of Portland, I .who has been the guest of L. C. ®'3eVosß and wife, returned home I Wednesday. Miss Hattie Niblick entertained some of her young lady r , tea last Saturday evening in honor I of her fifteenth birthday. I *'* Ed Mack, the young man who I . was hurt on theC &E. a few days I ago, was taken to Van Wert by |\ officers of that city Monday. I A child of Geo. Harden’s died I K Monday night of croup. The funeral ■ was held Wednesday at 10 o’clock ■ a. m. at the Hoagland cemetery. ■ jj- w _' -» ■ . I Evangelist Bodell who has been I holding a series of meetings at the I Presbyterian church, finished his I labors here and left tor Leipsic, 0. I John Thomas, the unfortunate I man who lost a leg Saturday evenI ing was taken from the Miesse I house to Charlie True’s ■ Joel Roe wants to assist the I court of Adams county in transacting the business. You see his name I announce as a candidate for sheriff. I Deputy Sheriff Wilson, of PortI land, brought one of the demi J Amende from that city last TuesI day and placed her in the care of I Sheriff Ashbaucher. I Jack Woodruff was arrested toI Saturday on an affidavit filed by Dr. I Clark charging him with petty I larcny. His trial is on hand before | his Honor the mayor. H The fifth, sixth, seventh and I -eighth rooms in the Central buildI are called High school. The fifth H room is used purposely for reciting. ■ Mo classes recite in the office. H Stanley, Allen the youngest son ■ of Rev. Allen, formerly pastor of ■ the Presbyterian church in this city, ■.V died at Adams, Ind., Monday. ■ " Funeral was Tuesday at 3 o’clock. ■ Joseph Hendricks brought three prisoners from Geneva Tuesday ■ ' afternoon and placed them in jail. ■ They are charged with being drunk, ■ fighting ami having a general good ■ ' time. • ■ Born, to J. W. Chapman and H wife Monday, a boy who tipped B . thVbeam at 10 pounds. Such an ■ ’ addition to the family makes Mr. Chapman haypy and the cigars I were in order. ■ The many friends of Peter KinB ney, ex-trustee of Jefferson town ■1 ship, are pressing him to be a ■ candidate for the nomination on the H democratic ticket for treasurer of ■ Adams county. h- - ,i>? ■

The Decatur Democrat.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 24. 1806.

The C. A E. pay oar phased through the city today making its employees happy; Mrs. James Dailey, of Bluffton, 18 at the bedside of her sister Julia Fitzgerald who is quite sick. Attorney Reed has made a motion to squash all the indictments found by the last grand jury digainst the Amish. . < W. S. Hughes met with an accident at Ft. Wayne Saturday While walking ou the street he slipped and fell, breaking his ankle. He came homg toefify and will be confined to the fiouse for some time. Rev. J. Wise led the devotional services in the High School Tuesday morning and will every morning.,, The puxLa are very glad to see the minlwfrs visit them each morning, it gives them a desire to attend church at night. Monday at the U. B. church ten children were baptised by then minister, Rev. W. H. Shepherd, after which thirteen persons joined the church. The Sabbath school and Y. P. C.-U. are increasing in interest and attendance. Chas. Yager had (his foot severely injured Thursday while cutting ice on the river. A large cake of ice fell on his foot fracturing some of the small bones. The doctor says it will be several weeks before charley will be able to wear a shoe. An exchange says: “Take the enemies that any well conducted aewspaper makes in the course of business and stand them up in a row, and the balance of the community will say the editor ought to be proud that they are his enemies.” ■ — _»■ In our report of the arrest of the Abanaka robbers, we were not informed at the time that marshal Cowan was one df the men who helped to arrest them, but now say to our readers that it was sheriff Ashbaucher and deputy and marshal Cowan. The Portland CommercialMsM week has an address by JffiE: Fftry, at the meeting of the battery. The article is a gooffi.Dß.eE Our people well remefSber the man who lived here in thawasT enties and later. He is one of tue worst crippled men in the United States that is alive. The present congress" is like the last one—too heavy on the larboard side. The sooner they adjourn and go home the greater will be the rejoicing among the people. Each Senator seems to feel as though he is the only man in this country and what is not to his liking is not for the good of this country. C. E. of Ft. Wayne, the gentleman who has secured the franchises for electric railways in Allen and adjoining counties, was in the city T uesday. It is reported that he is here to secure a franchise in this county for a road from Ft. Wayne to this city. If he receives any encouragment in this city the road is assured. On January 21, the supreme court will open the winter session, when they will have under consideration the case known as the Gerrymander case, or rather the constitutionality of the act of the last legislature in apportioning the estate. This case is creating considerable interest among the politicians of the state. . o . : -- —: — i—«r 48 More school buildings is one of the needs of our last growing city. The children need the room bad from a sanitary view if not from an educational standpoint. Fifrty scho'ars penned up in a little room 18x20, reminds one of the days when log cabins of that size were used as school buildings and thirty to forty were crowded into the small rooms. • XS' •

Deputy Sheriff McLean left today for Michigan City to bring back Neuenschwander, who was .sent up from this county for forgery. Frank Walters, former messenger boy at this place, now has charge of the telegraph and ticket office of Fairmount. After spending a few days with friends here returned home yesterday. The person who deposited the filth on the sidewalk along Monroe street should be severely dealt with. They are unfit to mingle in human society, and should be classed by themselves. Hogs are too good for their Company and in all probability would object to associating with them did they know they were guilty of such filthy acts. Mr. and Mrs. Cloud entertained a few of their friends last Saturday evening. While the ladies sewed carpet rags, tbe gentlement furnished the music and other amusements. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Wjaehaupt, Mr. and Mrs. Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. Doak, Mr. and Mrs. Slabaugh, Mrs. and Margaret Cloud, of'Danvillte, Illinois. J. B. Foraker Jr., Senator of the Buckeye state seems to be leading the g. o. p. in different paths from what they have heretofore tread. If they obey his dictates the party will be a bimetalic party this year, declaring tor a sound currency, with a tariff for revenue only. With such men to steal our thunder they may get before the country in good shape. Wells county democrats held their primary election last Saturday. They had eleven candidates for sheriff. The lucky man, Higgins by name, had a plurality of 15 and a total of 401 out of a grand total Sf 2,200 votes. The ticket nomiis as follows: Higgins, Sheriff; Eichhorn, Representative; Kain, Treasurer Trostel Surveyor, Lee, f GpuynisAioner Ist district; Hafiich, ■ Coßimissioner jlnd district. — •‘'y Down in southern Missouri a • in delivering his farewell , f^d^ri^s^aid: “I don’t believe the Lord loves this church; none of yOu ever die. I don't believe you love each other; 1 never married any of you. I don’t believe you lovb me: for you don’t pay me my salary—only in wormy fruit, and ‘by their fruit ye shall know them.’ lam going to a better placQ; I am going to fill the position of chaplain of the penitentiary; ‘where I am ye cannot come, but I go to prepare a place for you.-?’ Editor Democrat: Your article in Thursday’s daily in regard to the advisability of an appropriation by the county commissioners '‘to wards building a memorial hall in Decatur instead of an appropriation for building a cottage in Lafayette, Ind., seems to have struck the general idea of old soldiers in this county as the proper thing. It is to be hoped that the Post will take the matter into consideration at their next meeting, with a view to carrying the same to a successful completion. Oi.u Soi.ihdk. Council met Tuesday evening, Mayor Quinn being absent, Councilman Patterson w■ chair. A motion was made and carried that the contract made between Townsend & Cox and the Water Works Co., be confirmed. The board of public improvements reported favorably on the petition ot A. N. Steele to erect a brick building on inlot 24,- The following bills were allowed: 1 H. Cutting, SI.SQ; Dick Roop, 45 cents; W. F. Bennett, $5; Lbgansport & Wabash Valley Gas Co, #5.07; Harvey Harruff, #1,20. Council then adjourned to meet Friday night.

E. D. Moffet, of Hartford City, is visiting friends here. He was editor of the Journal during the eighties, but sold out and bought the Times, ot Hartford City, which he sold a tew weeks ago and has now retired to private life. A test of the water works was made yesterday near tbe court house with four streams of water at ninety pounds pressure. Everything worked nicely and Decatur now has first class fire protection. Things begin to look a little warlike. England has sent a Hying squadron to Venezuelan waters and the report is that they will settle the boundary question direct with Venezuela, entirely ignoring tbe attempt of tbe United States to adjust matters in eonfirraity with the Monroe doctrine. Should this be true, England will be sorry she 'ever took this agressive step. John Bull is evidently aching for a good licking, and its dollars to doughnuts he gets it if be makes any more pad breaks, and in all probability be will get it for making just this one! Saturday night about thirty-five or forty sports assembled in a vacant house on Market street to see two old broken-down game cocks battle for supremacy. One of the roosters brought from Portland to show the Decatur chicken how to fight. But tbe Portland sports went home much wiser and minus some of their filthy lucre. The fight lasted just three minutes by the watch, when the Portland cock was taken from the pit for dead. As the crowd filed from the house it was almost morning and they had been pretty near all tbe night finding a suitable location to pull off the fight. While John M. Frysinger -was in Europe his little daughter wrote him a letter which he showed to some chance acquaintances that he bad come in contact with while there. They were from New York. The letter so impressed them that they made inquery as to her and finding that she was not six years old, concluded that she be rewarded for her ability in writing. Saturday she was rewarded by a beautiful silk dress pattern which she received by express. She is above the average child in intellect, and is as beautiful as she is intellegent. Her hair which is 31 inches long adds to her appearance. Well may her parents feel proud of such a daughter. Monday Mrs. James Gay entertained the following ladies and gentiemanat Dinner: T. F. Auten and wife, B. B. Teeple and wife J. W. Teeple and wife, J. E. Stoops, and Mr. Gigler. Mr. and Mrs.„J. E. I’eeple are the parents of Mrs. Gay. Mrs. Gay was assisting her husband at the furniture store this forenoon and had not the slightest idea that her friends were at her home awaiting to be entertained by her, but the dinner was ready for her when she arrived home. 1 It took her some time before she could m ike herself believe she was at home, but soon she- was busy making all happy and all felt that way before leaving there. John Thomas of Bluffton met with an accident about one mile west ot this city Sun. dav morning that will make hiiii a cripple for life. He left Huntington Saturday evening for Simpson ou the C. & E. limited, but the train did not stop and he was?carried to this city- Sunday morning he at tempted to steal a ride on a freight train, back to Simpson. While sitting between the cars he fell asleep and w’hen near the corporate limits fell off and several cars passed over his ankle, washing it so badly as to make amputation accessary. He was taken to the Miesse House, and Dr. Beavers, the C. A E. surgeon “• > .■ ■ -

assisted by Drs. Thomas and Costello, amputated the leg at the knee. At this time the unfortunate man is improving and all is being done to relieve the suffering man that can be. Henry Blakey, of Union township, is being urged by hie friends as a candidate for the nomination for treasurer of Adams county. The friends of A. Van Camp, the miller, are urging him to be a candidate for the nomination for county treasurer at the coming primary election. Police Court. John King, charged with whipping his wife, was released on good behavior. Jack Woodruff charged with petty larceny, acquitted. Peter Gaffer was fined $1 and costs for assault and battery On tbe person of “Colonel” Coffee. Pete was justified in taking the steps he did, as Coffee had insulted his wife, and every man should protect his wife and family. The “Colonel” was then tried for provoke and not being able to pay his fine or give bail, he was committed to the county bastile. Several young ladies of our city gave a swell Leap year party Tuesday night at the rooms of the Bon Marche Club. The boys looked as meek as kittens while being entertained by their lady escorts, but say they are glad Leap year does not come again Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kiiebler acted as host and hostress, and everything passed off nicely. After games were indulged in until quite late, a banquet was served and all present did justice to the feast. It is reported that several proposals were made on the way home, but we cannot vouCih for its truth. Those presentzwere: Misses Grace Groves. Nettie Gutel—ius and Maud Feser, of Bluffton, Blanche Dicks, of Lebanon, Ind., and Tina Smith, Ella and Kate Touhey, Osa France, Clara Fullenkamp, Anna and Tena Rademacher, Flora and Mamie Conter and Florence Campbell and Messrs, John Mougey, P. J. Highland, Christ Meyers, Clem Holthouse. E G. Wagoner. Otto Ehinger, Chas. Vogelewede, Fred Martin, G. Ej Whemhoff, Med Miller, M. Jl Mylott, Horace Callow and FloydSmith and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kuebler. A-mousing meeting was, held at the court house Saturday evening to discuss the advisability of organizing the much talked of Board of Trade. Speeches were made by several of our prominet busines men and all strongly favored such ah organization. The committee appointed at the former meeting to draft articles of incorporation reported and after reading articles, they- were adopted section by sections. An urgent invitation was extended -to those present to come forward and sign the articles of incorporation and which was responded to by a number of those present. Before the meeting adjourned a committee of three, consisting of C A Qugan, A Holthouse and F M Schirmeyer was appointed to solicit membership, aiuoiig the business men who could not be present Sat in day evening. The Board of Trade is now an assured sneeess. Let the members putlheir shoulders to the wheel and keep up a continual push L do not let that tired feeling take possession of you for a mitrute, but take advantage of every opportunity to better the citycondition, and within the next year we will have a boomer. A Tetter was received by F. M. Schrimey&i’ this morning from a large manufacturing concern who d.esire to change their location, asking about our facilities etc. Let us see what can be done with the first -r - * ' 1..'

NO. 45.

<‘. B. l>. Installation. The Catholic Benevolent Legion held a public installation of officers at their hall Wednesday night. The following officers were installed:’ J. H. Bremerkamp, president; PHolthouse vice president; A. Hart, Orator, L. Yager, Jr., secretary; C. 1 S. Niblick, collector; J. K. Niblick, treasurer; J. W. Kleinhhenz, marshal; Wm. Geary, guard; B. Wemhoff, A. Ilolthouse, T. Coffee, trustees. After the installation supper was served and a general good time a as had by those present. Music was furnished by the Mandolin Club. Peter Schindler, of near Linn Grove, was a caller at this office yesterday. He had been up to tbe county farm and spent tbe night with his former neighbor J. R. Graber, the superintendent of the farm, while he found Mr. Graber sick so that he is confined to his bed, yet he says that the home is a very pleasant place for the unfortunates of our county, that Mrs. Graber is a mother to them and they all seem to so regard her. Mr. Graber is held in the same esteem by them that she is and tbe county is fortunate in securing the services of such excellent people. The Venzuelean question and the welfare of Cuba are taking all the time of congress. They are drawing fair salary to live on and are having a good time in general and the country can go to the “bow wows,” for all they care. They will return at the close of the session and tell the dear people how hard they worked. . While there it was impossible for them to save any of that small pittance, #5,000 per annum and the little stationery allowance and tbe small amount allowed for postage and numerous dtEer little allowances that swell the amount to near $6,000 per > annum. The salary troubles them > more than the matter of making ' good laws for the country. Jgederal Building For Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Jan. 23.-—Ctongressman Henry was in this city yesterday. In ■ speaking of the much wanted new federal building here, he said the outlook j for an appropriation was vpry gloomy owing to £ly?|Oomiiti(>n of the treasury. He thinks it possible to get the bill through. ■ t ' _ ' ■* t Ht’ <, l <>r »*d Ead Saves a 111-owning Skater. G.uef.nsburo, Ind., Jan. 23.—While • -gating on Hart's pond yesterday, the ice gave way. letting Walter Crisler into the water. A little 11-year-old colored, boy named Johnny Brooks bravely crawled out on the ice and pulled him ; out by the ear as he was sinking lor the third time. >_ - . ■ , —— Five Normal StiKlrnts Expelled. Terre HvrrrE, Ind., Jan. 23— The ' faculty of the state normal school has • discovered that there has been cheating in the examinations on the part of stu- ' dents, and as’a result five students were,. 1 .expelled. It is understood that more will have to leave school on the same ’ charge. ■' . I - Lolxtlion t<> Have Brick Streets, Lebanon, Ind., Jan. 23.—The city council has ordered the improvement of over a mile of streets wish brick. Work will begin early ig the spring. No objections were offered to the ordin- ' anee, as the improvement is sorely needed. , , Attacked With a Pick. Greensburg, Ind,, Jan. 28.—Two quarrymen named Samuel Hoderick and ‘Nelson Williams engaged in a fight in ’ whiclUHv'derick received several serious ' wounds on his skull and shoulders by a pick in the haigis bt Williams. Foul Flay Feared. Rusiivii.ie, Ind.. Jan. 23.—William ‘ Buford, (M) fMs Jfity for tile oilfields a few weeks ago with SJBOO, and nothing has been heard < f him since. He <>\\ .real estate help EuuL., phiy is feared. i Superintendent Gotild Critically Til. Peru. Ind... Jgn. 23.— Superintendent E. -A. Gould o£ the eastern division of the Wabash. WhCr has been -critically iH from peritonitis, is prommneed better; . though fetusnire yet entertained for his~ recovery. > . . ■ „ , . Indiana Bey’s. G6od Luck. Jeffersonville, Ind., Jau. 28.—Fred Lautz. a Clark county boV who recently we,ntvvost. struck it rich. »t—Peitrlm,— Cal. He lot-atwl g gold lead and sold a share of it to a company for $27,000. For seventy-live acres, sixty acres cleared, welfdrained, good fenced. aew land, young orchard, fair buildings, five miles southeast of Berne. ' Price $2200. Address, Jasper Leming Berne, Ind.