Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1898 — Page 1

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VOLUME XLII.

The Randolph county fair is this J‘ dated for September beginning £ twenty-first It is under a new management and this year the attractions will be numerous and varied. It looks now as though the races which were to have been held the 20th ' , I 21st of September will not materialize on account of not being able nmake satisfactory arrangements eon- ' cerning the park and its privileges. X large number of Adams county citizens'took advantage of the low ra te excursion to Chicago last Sunday. 2SI tickets were sold from this city. The return train arrived here at four o’clock Monday morning and the excursionists were pretty tired. R J. Holthouse and wife left yesterday for Columbus. Ohio. Mr. Holthouse is connected, as traveling salesman, for the firm of Wolf Bros., of that city, and is looking after business interests as well as pleasure. Thev will be absent about a week. Eight car loads of horses, intended for the government, passed east over the Erie the other night. With them in the same train were a number of cars loaded with provisions, tents and general supplies. They were shipped from Chicago and were intended for Porto Rico. The Ladies Relief corps, who gave the dinner at the court house, August 10, report unusually good success and wish to thank those who patronized their efforts. The money will be sent to the soldier boys and will be used to secure delicacies and necessaries in the hospital. Word was received Saturday from Wm. B. Hale that the carrier pigeons turned loose Friday at Gas City had arrived at Geneva, Ind., their birthplace, after being on the road two hours. They were sent to Seenah Bryan, the Adams Express company’s agent, and he set them at liberty.— Marion Chronicle. Preparations have been made for an old fashioned Methodist picnic to be held today in Kern’s grove, about three miles east of the city. The picnic is to be given by the Methodist church of this city and an enjoyable i time is expected should the weather J permit. The Decatur band will enI liven the day’s pleasure by discoursing some of their beautiful music. Forty-eight hours before the death lof Bismarck his niece, the Baroness Puttkamer, died in a hording house, of which she was the manager, in New York. Her husband, Baron Puttkamer, is the nephew of Bismark, and is employed as night watchman. His pride has kept him from accepting honorable positions in Germany which he might have obtained through the influence of his illustrious uncle. Mrs. Luetta Cummings left last night for Fernandina, Florida, where her husband, who is a member of Company B, of Fort Wayne, is very low with typhoid fever. A dispatch received from a comrade yesterday morning conveyed the news that an intimate friend of Mrs. Cummins was dead and that her husband was very ill, and she made arrangements to leave at once for that place. Mrs. Cummins was formerly Miss Luetta Walters. Hon. J. T. France and A. P. Beatty are at Winchester where they are still engaged in the trial of Marshall, whoiseharged withmurder. Thetrialof the ease was began on Tuesday of last week and has continued ever since. The Portland Sun of Tuesday said: Last Saturday the prosecution in the Marshall case, now in progress at Winchester, rested and the defense is now under way. The state had numerous witnesses who swore to Marshall and Musser being together in Anderson. Muncie and Portland; to their having lots of money, and many other incriminating circumstances, and have niade a very strong case against Marshall. Friday Sheriff Whipple and Deputy Cromas took Musser over to V, inchester, returning that afternoon, placing him in his old cell in the county jail. John Trim, a respected fanner liv■ng a mile and a half south of the Cl ty came to town to see the circus °n Wednesday of last week and in consequence is several dollars short. It seems that Uncle John does not beneve in keeping his money in banks and therefore had a hiding place for it at home. He was in the habit of his notes, money and valuables in small tin lioxes which he hid under a platform in the stairway. On ''ednesday John and his entire tanidy came to town to see the parade, the money was left safe and secure m the lioxes, but on their arrival home at noon the Ixixes and their contents «ere gone. The loss aggregates fortydollars in cash and over seven hunuted dollars in notes. Section men "ere working on the railway which funs near the Trim farm and they report that they saw a man leaving the °use and go across the field a short true before the family returned home, he man upon whom suspicion rests ! ‘ lVes in this . cit y and should he be "Fht passing any of the money or °tes it would go pretty rough with . lm ' Trim feels the loss very nav i au< i ' vo 'dd not lie very lenient 1 h the thief if he is captured.

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The Erie’s excursion to Chicago Sunday was a tremendous success. There were five trains, first of which reached Chicago at 8:20, and the last one at 11 oclock. The whole number of excursionists reached 3,146, and of this number, 1023 were from Huntington.—Huntington Herald. Martin & Smith have made arrangements to make next Sunday one of the banner days of the season at Steele’s Park. A big afternoon program will be rendered. Among the attractions will beagrand balloon ascension. Two bands will furnish music and the park will be full of interesting novelties. Program opens with a band concert at one o’clock. Work on the house of John Niblick’s, corner of Third and Jefferson streets, is going on nicely. Mr. Niblick expects to have the work done by the last of next month. An addition has been added, the interior has been entirely remodled and the house is to be finished in stone. ’ When completed this residence will be second to none in the city. The following is a list of those who have paid their annual installment for the Democrat during the past week: J. W. Merryman, Henry Lehrman, Robert Blackburn, Wm Hoagland, Rebecca Steele, Mrs Timothy Coffee, H. Hilderbrant, John Loshe, Rudy Lehman, J D. Stults, John Urick, C. L. Walters, G. M. Tyndall, Mrs. Sells and George Patterson. One of the prettiest dances of the season was giv«i by the D. of P. club at Meibers’ hall last night. The dance was to have been held at Steele’s park the night previous, but owing to threatening weather it was postponed About fifteen couple were present and the dance was enjoyed by every one. An effort is being made to organize a dancing club for the coming season. A special to the Indianapolis Journal from Anderson says: Letters from the Anderson company at Newport News, where they were taken to embark for Porto Rico, says that the fakirs are working among the boys of the One hundred and sixtieth Indiana, to get the pay which has just been given the soldiers. They have even resorted, it is claimed, to “knock-out drops,” which put the soldiers to sleep while their pockets are rifled. Several of the privates have gone up against the “knock-outs” and aside from losing their cash they have suffered rather serious results. E. Woods, the contractor, who has been employed during the past six months in putting in the large sewer system at Columbia City, has been in the city during the past week looking after business interests. He says they have trouble in securing men to do their labor. The country is fnll of men who are anxiously looking for something to do, to hear them tell it, but when people have to go out and scour the country for hands, it dosn’t look much as though they were so plentiful. E. Woods & Co. have also secured the contract to put in a brick pavement at Ligonier, Indiana, and will begin work cn the same in a short time. The firm is gaining quite a reputation. An idea of the entertainment that is to be prepared by the Committee on Miscellaneous Entertainment for the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, at Cincinnati, September 2th to tenth, can scarcely be given in a brief summary. Executive Director Wm B. Melish and Chairman Charles E. Logan, of the Committee presented their plans to the Executive Committee, and the decision has been to make the courtesies extended as complete as possible for the great mass of the membership. The old soldiers who comes with his wife will be taken care of as the guest of the committee, and will be shown as much consideration as if he were a delegate. With this object in view of looking out for the individual soldier in the ranks the committee has prepared a most extensive prgramme. A young man, decidedly under the influence of intoxicants, was on the streets Saturday morning and claimed that on the night previous he had been robbed of sixty-five dollars. He said his home was near Hoagland and that he had been working on a farm there during the past summer. He had a note for about fifty dollars due at Ft. Wayne and had a note payable to himself for his summer wages for about eighty-two dollars. The latter he took to the bank at Monroeville and had it cashed for eighty dollars. He then came to this city, where he bought a suit of clothes and then proceeded to fill up on “booze. He claims to have got in company with several Decatur toughs who invited him to spend the night with them in a box car near the G. R. & L depot., This he consented to and when he awakened in the morning he found he I had been touched for his money, amounting, as near as he could tell.; to about sixty-five dollars. He said . he knew the men who had robbed ! him but he was so drunk that he could not describe them and the officers were unable to get any clue. He was seen to have the money by several people and his story is believed. He left for his home Saturday evening, a sadder, but much wiser man. \ enly, I experience is the best teacher. I

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18. 1898.

: CTATEMENTS are this week being mailed to every sub- ; O scriber owing a year’s subscription or more. All such acJ counts must be paid at once, the necessity of which we hope every j one receiving a statement will realize. The money has been ! earned, is ours and we want it because we need it. Notice the | date on the margin of your paper or heed the statement and pay up

George M. Tyndall arrived home Monday evening from Branch, Mich., where he has been during the last four months looking after his farming interests in that country. George has one of the best farms in Northern Michigan and reports that corn, wheat and other crops were excellent, notwithstanding the severe frost which occurred in that section on the night of July 10. George will teach in Monroe township during the coming winter. A grand picnic and barbecue will be held Sunday, August 28, in Hostetter’s grove, three miles south of Berne and two miles north of Geneva. The Decatur, Celina, Berne, Linn Grove and Domestic brass bands, Bluffton orchestra, Paul DeSaverna Zither orchestra of Delphos, Ohio, will all be present. Ball Games —Geneva vs. Celina, Bluffton vs. Lima, Ohio. Bring your dinners, but luncheon will be served on the grounds. Arrangements will be made for the feed of teams and care of rigs. Remembei the date, Sunday, August 28. Miss Laura Marker has recieved a letter from her brother Ira Marker, who is at Santiago, Cuba, and who was in the battles which were fought there, he being a member of the regular army. The letter wasdated July 16th and says he was alright and glad that the worst part of the war was over. He says the civil warcould not havebeen worse. Comrades fell on every side. Many of his best friends were killed within a few feet of him and many others died in the hospitals either from wounds or fevers. Miss Laura and her mother were much elated over the news of his safety as they had been greatly concerned about him. No teacher or any one contemplating taking up this profession can afford to miss the county institute to be held at the Presbyterian church in this city next week. Sup’t Brandyberry has all arrangements perfected for one of the best educating institutes ever held in the county. Such well known instructors as Benard Bigsby, Prof. L. W. Fairfield and Arthur L. Mason, all of whom are especially fitted for such work, and will be prominent in displaying new ideas into a life work that has no bounds. Teaching like everything else advances, and the successful teacher must keep pace with the advance. Indications nowpoint to a large attendance, but not one teacher should absent themselves upon such an important occasion. Below we give a list of the physicians of Adams county who have successful passed the examinations and now- hold state licenses. The list includes about thirtv worthy and proficient citizens and ranks with that of any county in the state: H. M. Aspy, W. B. Black, W. R. Brayton, Seth D. Beavers, J. S.EBoyers, A. W. Bloxcome, D. D. Clark, C. S. Clark, G. G. Caswell, H. F. Costello, J. S. Coverdale, Ernest Franz, Adam C. Ford, Elmer M. Gaige, S. L. Harper, Marie L. Holloway, A. G. Holloway, H. E. Keller, Christena Kuntz, L. L. Mattox, W. W. P. McMillen, J. M. Miller, Jacob McDowell, F. T. Newcomer, M, F. Parrish, Amos Reusser, C. H. Schenck, Fred Schenck, J. W. Stoneburner, W. H. Summers, P. B. Thomas, J. W. Vizard, Jas. B. Ward, R. B. McKeeman. Word has been received in this city confirming the report that Lieut. Chat Edington has resigned his position as First-Lieutenant of Company B. It seems that Chat became tired of camp life and decided to take a day off. Taking several companions with him. the Lieutenant went into the city of Newport News and proceeded to rest up and have a good time. When the boys returned the entire party were arrested for being away from camp without leave and were taken before Colonel Guilder. The privates were each fined from five to ten dollars and given extra duty. In fixing the punFshment for Edington some difficulty arose and his resignation was asked for and accepted. This left a vacancy in the company. Second-Lieutenant Barnhart was" advanced to FirstLieutenant, Second-Lieut. Clapham, of Company G, was transfered to fill the same position in Company B. Orderly Sergeant Dick Meyers was then commissioned as Second-Lieutenant of Company G. The company to which Dick" Meyers has been transferred is from Columbia City and is one of the best in the 160th regiment The company is now under the command of Captain Harrison, First-Lieut. Linville, and Second-Lieut. Meyers. The affair created quite a little excitement in camp and has been much talked of here, and Edington resignation is much regretted by his friends. The Lieutenant is reported to be quite sick at present and is in a private hospital at Newport News.

In a few days Auditor of State Dailey will forward to Washington verified claims against the United States government on account of the moblization of Indiana volunteers. Deputy Auditor Hart Wednesday was unable to give in detail the amount of claims, but they will aggregate about 3300,000, including 8125,000 pay rolls, equipments, transportation and other items bringing the total up to about the amount named. As the claims were paid out by the general funds of the state, an effort will be made to have the treasury department consider them as special claims. William Richard, of Gaylord Michigan and Miss Edith A. Urick, of this county were united in marriage last Saturday evening at the home of the brides parents, near Monroe, Rev. Repert officiating. Both are well known young people of the county. Mr. Richards was formerly an Adams county boy but has for several years resided at Gaylord, Michigan, where the happy young couple will make there future home. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs Richards join with the Democrat in wishing them many years of nappiness. The annual reunion of the 47th Indiana volunteers will be held this year at Bluffton, on Wednesday September Ist. The secretary of the regiment, Captain Bender is at Newport News with his company and as he has the roster of the regiment there is no way of notifying the members except by publishing notices in the various newspapers. Don’t wait for a personal invitation but make arrangements to attend. Year by year the members who at tend these meetings are growing -less and it will be but a few years until the the grand reunion will be held upon the unknown shores. Every member of the 47th who is able should attend this reunion. Quite a number of Decaturites are this week enjoying the cool and refreshing lake breezes and enjoying themselves by catching pickerel and bass at Colen, Michigan. Dick Christen, Dick France, Wid Dorwin and Morris Steele left early Sunday morning, making the trip on their wheels. On Monday evening Chalmer Schafer, Will Schrock, Earl Adams, John Falk, L. D. Adams, Harry Helm and Chas. Meibers left over the G. R. & I. for the same place. The boys will be gone about ten days and then be prepared for the tales of awful sea monstrosities being captured. The boys here knowing that there were several base ball cranks in the party went to the trouble to send the Monday scores to Dick France by telegraph, C. O. D. Os course Dick was highly pleased to receive them even if they did cost sixty cents. Burglars have been very busy during the past week and although they have been unsuccessful in securing any large “booty”, still their boldness is something to lie wondered at. On last Saturday night they attempted to enter Clark Lutz’s house in the south part of town. John Lose, the barber happened along and told them to getaway and was told to “mind his own business, that they were working that job.” John, however, made too much noise for them and they left. They returned later, but were again frightened away. Three different attempts on as many different nights have been made to enter the house of Dr. Coverdale near the C. & E. railway, none of them were successful however. On Sunday evening as a young man named" Daugherty, who works for J. D. Hale, was on his way home he was treated to a regular old fashioned western “hold up.” He was passing along the Erie tracks and when a short way west of the depot was met by two men armed with clubs, who demanded his valuables, "Speedy”, as the voting man is commonly called, immedietely produced 31.25 and was allowed to go on his way, rejoicing that he had not been treated worse. These attacks and midnight attempts to enter our homes are but another warning to us to secure some means to get rid of such people. A certain man in this city has been seen a number of times talking to suspicious looking persons and when the marauders were driven away from one of the houses mentioned above they were seen to walk about half a square and stop and talk to this townsman of ours. He does not do any work in the day time and is no doubt a partner with a number of these midnight criminals. He will probably be notified to get himself and family out of town in the near future. If our council does not soon do something to rid us of tramps and tough characters who hang about the city, we would advise the people to have small arsenals built around their homes in order to protect their lives and property.

Here is the latest graft being worked by sharpers. A stranger rides into a neighborhood on a good bicycle and claiming to be very hard up offers to dispose of the wheel at a very low figure, and if he can find a purchaser, gets all the money he can on the wheel and leaves. In a day or so another stranger comes along on the hunt of a stolen wheel, gives number and describes it, and the purchaser has to give up the wheel as stolen property. In this way the sharpers manage to make from 320 to 8300 out of a township, and then hunt other fields for their operations. Yesterday’s Ft. Wayne Journal gave the following notice of the marriage of Fred Zollars to Miss Gertude Lindsey. Mr. Zollers has a host of friends here who wish him and his estimable young wife many years of happiness: The prettiest wedding of the mouth will occur at 6 o’clock this evening in the First Baptist church in culmination of the engagement of Miss Gertude Lindsey and Mr. Fred E. Zollars. The groom is the elder son of Judge and Mrs. Allan Zollars, a member of the firm of Zollars, Worden & Zollars, and a rising young man in the profession of law. Miss Lindsey is a young lady of intelligence and refinement, and has many friends among her acquaintances. The question as to where the 160th Indiana regiment, which is the one to which company B belongs, would be sent has been the question which a large number of our citizens have been anxious to have decided. On last Monday orders were issued by the war department for the Third Kentuckey, Fifth Illinois and 160th Indiana regiments of volunteers, which were gathered atNewport News under orders to proceed to General Miles in Porto Rico,to proceed to Lexington, Ky., as soon as transportion is ready which may be to-day. The camp at Lexington is said to be a beautiful as well as a healthy one and the boys will have elegant quarters and will not lie far away from home. How long they will be kept at this place or whether they will be sent to do garrison duty on some island or discharged in a few weeks is not known. A dispatch sent out to the various metropolitan newspapers from Newport News tells the following: Since the One Hundred and Sixtieth regiment of volunteers has been in camp at Newport News considerable trouble has been experienced from the smuggling of whiskey into camp by civilians for sale to the soldiers. Yesterday one of these moonshiners under arrest was brought before Col. Gunder. The colonel roasted the pocket saloonist to a dark brown, and in the course of his scoring made use of several ex.pletives that usually appear in print in the form of dashes followed by exclamation marks. The man, as soon as he was released from his enforced attendance on the colonel, swore out a warrant for the arrest of that officer, and Col. Gunder will be tried this morning before the citycourt at Newport News. About the smallest individual who has struck this community for many moons is the young man who gave his name as Fred Reed and who goes into fits, has heart failure and in fact has about everything or anything in order to secure a good bed or something to eat without paying for them. On last Thursday afternoon he was walking along Fourth street and when in front of the house occupied by Charles Peterson, the electrician, he suddenly fell over and was apparently unconscious. He was taken into Peterson’s house and kindly hands did all they could for him. He remained, as was supposed, in a serious condition until the next afternoon. Drs. Clark and Thomas were called and they concluded that there was nothing the matter with the man. Not wishing to make any mistake, however, they concluded to take him to the county farm, where he could be kept until it was decided what, if anything, was the matter. When the young man found out that he would lie taken away from the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Peterson he immediately came to himself for a while, begged not to be taken to the poor house, and failing to make any impression on the doctors began taking fits. He was loaded into Mr. Graber’s wagon and although he was supposed to be quite weak from his severe illness, it took four men to hold him. As they went through Main street he was yelling like a wiki man. Before he got to the farm, however, he was alright and begged to be let go. During the night he left and coming up town on Saturday morning hired to go to work for some farmer. In the meantime Sheriff Ashbaucher decided he should be locked up and he therefore arrester! him and started to take him to jail. The freak, or whatever he was, however, seems to have a horror on being taken to a public institution, and before the sheriff had taken him far he broke away and the last seen of him he was trying to stick on to a north bound freight train on the G. R. & I- railway. It is to be hoped he has gone so "far beyond the north pole that he will be enable to get back here for at | least a century.

CIRCULATION 2400 WEEKLY

NUMBER 23

Among those who left this city Sunday morning on the Chicago excursion were Anthony Holthouse, wife and two daughters, Joseph Smith and daughter Amelia, Barney Wemhoff, Ben Smith and wife, Grandpa Schoen and Lena Holthouse. This party, however, did not stop in Chicago long. They were on their way to Fon du Lae, Wisconsin, where they went to witness the ceremony of a class of young ladies being ushered into the order of the Black Yeil. Among the class were Misses None Holthouse, Caroline Smith and Rose Schurger, formerly of this city. The exercises were beautiful and the party who went to witness the ceremony from this place were highly pleased with their trip. They arrived home yesterday morning. Father Wilkens, who was also in attendance, has not yet arrived home. The several sisters will now be assigned as teachers to some of the various Catholic schools over the country. Our soldier boys will no doubt soon be at home with their families and friends. The mustering out of the army was practically begun in the war department last Tuesday and will be continued until the army has been placed upon footing consistent with our present relations of the earth. On Tuesday orders were prepared and issued for the mustering out of twenty five regiments of infantry,eight troops of cavalry and six batteries of artillery. The details of the order or the names of the regiments included have not been made public, but it is thought now that the 160th Indiana will be included. Unless there is a decided change in the present plans of the war departments, about 100,000 volunteers will be mustered out within the next thirty days. The proposed reduction of the army of 100,000 men will still leave a military force of about 116,000 regulars and volunteers available for all military purposes, and it is believed to be the purpose of the administration to maintain an army of 100,000 men until all pending complications with Spain are finally disposed of. The regular session of the city council met last Tuesday evening at their hall on Monroe street. Mayor Quinn presided and the roll call showed Suttles, Miller, Mann and Chronister present, and Niblick of the Third ward and Haefling of the Second as absent. Minutes of the meetings of August 2 and 9, were read and approved. The report of die judiciary committee upon the petition of William Bosse for the reduction of the city license on theatrical entertainments was read and upon motion approved. Heretofore the license has been 82 for the first night's entertainment of each and and every company and 81 for each night thereafter. The report of the committee recommended that a city ordinance, fixing the license for running an opera houe at 830 per year, should be drawn up by the city attorney and passed. The city attorney was ordered to frame said ordinance and same will be acted upon at the next meeting. The following bills were then allowed: J. J. Glutting, freight, 35c; J. C. Roop, police duty, 34.50, James Hurst, police, 32.25; Charles Bottenberg. police, 82.25: W. Roebuck, police, 32.25; U. S. Cress, labor. 35c; Decatur Democrat, printing, 84.80; Decatur Democrat, printing, 89.60; street commissioner pay roll, 338,50. Then followed the assignment of the Dorwn and Moats interest in the construction of the Thirteenth street or Krick sewer to Eli Merrymann & Co. and the acceptance of said assignment and the agreement to construct the same as awarded to Dorwin A Moats, by Eli Merryman A Co. The following resolution was then read and approved by a full vote of the members present: “Resolved, That the proposition of Eli Merryman & Co. for the construction of the Thirteenth street sewer lx* accepted and that the street committee be instructed to contract with said Merryman A Co., and that when said Merryman A Co. shall enter into a contract and execute a bond then the temporary bond of Dorwin A Moats shall be deemed cancelled.” The vote being unanimous for the passage of the resolution, Mayor Quinn declared the same adopted. On motion the following resolution was read and adopted: “Resolved, That the sum of 3117.60 be allowed Wallace W. Moats, contractor of the Gay alley sewer, as first estimate on said sewer and that the city clerk be instructed to draw a warrant for said sum payable out of the Gay alley sewer fund, when collected, without interest.” Resolution was declared adopted. The committee appointed several weeks ago to investigate the city finances, reported the progross they had made. They have decided that an ordinance should be framed and passed upon, which shall describe the exact duties of each and every city officer. The ordinance will probably lie read and voted upon at the next meeting of the council. The committee asked authority to purchase an entire new set of books for the incoming city officers. On motion the committee was authorized to purchase the necessarybooks. This concluded the schedule of business for the evening and a motion for adjournment was unanimously carried.