Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1899 — Page 1

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ECorrespondents send in your items h week on Tuesday. ■ Mrs. John D. Hale entertained a ■umber of her friends at six o'clock dinner last evening. I Mrs. Herbert Rice of Indianapolis, K the guest of Mrs. Jessie Townsend ■nd other Decatur friends. Mrs. Rice Eas formerly a resident of this city. I Martin Mylott, while working at Kh,. electric light station Monday Evening slipped and fell, striking his Kce upon a stick of wood and' inflictKg a very painful cut above his right Ke. Nine stitches were necessary to Hose the wound. ■ Smith & Son, who have purchased C. & E. restaurant, will soon open lEetr place of business. The place Wil be known as the Citizen’s RestauKnt and the people in the south part of town will have first-class accommodations in their line. ■ A representative of the Scottishd&nion Insurance company was in the ■tv last Friday and adjusted the fire Kss upon the Studabaker & Allison Kjilding. The company did their Krt nobly and the owners were well ■eased with the settlement. F. M. Hchirmeyer is local agent for the comKmy. ■ Representative Henry Krick spent ■unday with his family and friends ■ the city. He reports the Assembly K getting along splendily and says a ■umber of excellent bills now before K<> house will be duly made into laws Before the close of the session. He ■turned to his duties Monday evenKg- ■ That jolly organization, the Devo■es of Pedro club, met with Miss ■ayme Fullenkamp at her home on ■dams street, Tuesday evening and Ke usual splendid time had. First ' Sizes were given to Miss Mayme Kerveer and Otto Ehinger and booby ■r.zes to Miss Amelia Smith and Kharles Meyers. Refreshments were Krved at 10:30 and every guest was ■pial to the occasion. ■ Trains from the south on the G. R. K I. railrway were delayed consider■jly last Tuesday on account of a ■re-k which occurred near WinchesK: at an early hour that morning. A freight dashed into the rear Kid of a local freight, causing quite a ■:xup. Seven cars and the engine Ad tender were derailed and badly No one was hurt. The Kr k was cleared away by the midof the afternoon and trains were only a few hours. ■ While examining a witness in the ■dams county court, one day the ■ttter part of last week, a prominent township attorney found ■mself quite unexpectedly in a rather Knbarrassing predicament by the inKant thud of something upon the Sp near his chair and a noticeable of burden about his caboose ket. At the same time the judge, Kry an d specators were craning their jKcks in semi-horror and amazement ■ the glittering, glassy receptacle, jKid moonshine tint of its contents, Which met their gaze.—Geneva Herald. last Saturday morning Mr. J. B. Gray, representing the North British and Mercantile and the Northern ■ London Insurance Companies, wished adjusting the loss of the jj'-eiett, Hite & Co. fire, which octhe Sunday evening previous. ■h'‘ companies which are represented by J. M. Stewart and John H. Keller took the damaged stock and JaiiI the invoice of the goods amountto $1,480. The goods were then Jfcld to the Salvage Wrecking ComW EII - V "ho are now closing them out at fire sale, and by the wav barT s are galore at that place of busi|K S ' just now. Everett, Hite & Co. I®' well pleased with the treatment them by the insurance comaiu* th*' prompt attention given W* matter by the local agents. of various kinds have graced K“ fashion records in the way of ■cial events in Decatur during K 6 present season, but 'never has been a more enjoyable or brilone than the masquerade given ■ the handsome new residence of Mr. rs - R- K. Allison, on North street, last Friday evening, ■he event, as the invitations anIPpunced, was a masquerade party K'™ by Mr. and Mrs. Allison and ■ r - Jessie Townsend. More than K l - - . each with a make-up “fit ■ kill , were there and the rare oc■sion very nearly out-classed the ■Lardi Gras of New Orleans fame. every specimau of man and ■oman which inhabits this earthly ■here was represented that including the dude, clown, Jew, Dutchman, Miss Ophelia, maids as well as young one. lR? e s r^s ' Hobson with a lady a handsome Turk and lady, >■ ni fact every other grotesque and looking figure imaginable. “'’ en ing was undoubtedly a one and the elegant home iKll Uever enter tain a happier or more Kall \5 dinner, consisting of IK- J rare and choice dainties imable, was served. Besides the » ” rt Kiee, °f Indianapolis, and ' a '. u ’ rs ‘. E- Doty- of Bellemaine, Ohio, were present.

John D. Rieter was a Bluffton visitor Tuesday. Harry Daniels of Wabash, was the guest of his parents. Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Daniels, yesterday. A number of girl friends very agreeably surprised Miss Blanche Hart Tuesday evening, the occasion being in honor of that young lady’s birthday. An Exceptionally good time is reported. Henry Rieter, who has for some time lieen employed at the Randall hotel, Fort Wayne, has taken charge of the bowling alley in this city and his pleasant countenance will hereafter shine fourth at that establishment. Correspondents for the Democrat are requested to send in their items each week. Subscribers in your community expect and look for them and you should not disappoint them. Please see that they reach the office on or before Tuesday if possible. A Winona Reading Circle has been organized in this city and will meet at the homes of the various members on Thursday evening of each week. The society is on the order of the Chatauqua Circle and the work is said to be very interesting and instructive. At the present time the circle is studying “First Steps in Human Progress.” The club is composed of twelve members. We have the pleasure of presenting the following names of subscribers to the Democrat who have paid their annual dues during this week just closed: Robert Case, Mrs. Carrie Sherry, Lon Battson, M. M. Herr, Chris Blakey, George Geils, Fred Caldeway, Solomon Linn, J. W. Meyers, W. W. Rriggs, Jonas Huffman, R. D. Leimenstall, B. F. Breiner and William Hockemeyer. A special from St. Louis says “Rt. Rev. Bishop Rademacher, of the Catholic diocese of Ft. Wayne, Ind., has arrived in St Louis, in company with one of his priests, and was placed in the Alexian Brothers’ hospital, on South Jefferson street. The bishop is suffering from mental trouble. The director of the hospital said the physicians hoped that in a few months his condition would lie greatly improved. It is not known who has been placed in charge of the diocese.” The Bluffton News contains the following account of the death of Jacob Stoutenbury. a well known farmer of Kirkland township: Sunday morning occurred the death of Jacob Stoutenbury, living in Adams county, south of Honduras. He was 80 years of age. Mr. Stoutenbury was a minister in the Dunkard church, and delivered his first sermon, according to his own account, to a Kentucky audience when he was but 16 years of age. He has been making his home with his son, J. B. Stoutenbury. Funeral services were held at the Dunkard church in Adams county, Tuesday. Interment in Zimmerman cemetery. The entertainment in modern magic given by LaDelle at the Bosse opera house, last Thursday evening, was one of the best attractions ever seen on that stage. Mr. LaDelle is a coming magician who will outrival the wonderful Keller. His billiard ball, flag and egg tricks are as good as are given by anyone as, in fact, were each and every feature of his program. The rest of the program was also good and Master Clifford LaDelle, the six year old clown, is a wonder. The evenings performance was closed by a Goddess of Liberty tableaux, in which Mrs. LaDelle took a prominent part, and which was excellent. On account of the cold weather only a small crowd was present but should the LaDelle family give another entertainment in the city, the house would’ no doubt, be crowded. The fourth game of the Bluffton Deoaf tir bowling series was played on the Cummin’s alley at Bluffton Tuesday evening, resulting in a gain for Bluffton of 201 pins in the series. The Decatur boys played fast and furious ball, making the highest number of pins they ever made, but were unable to defeat their skillful opponents. The game was called at eight o’clock and was led off by Dick Christen and Frank Dailey, who in turn were followed by France and Huss, Charles Christen and North. Holthouse and Ogden, Bolds and Barr. The game was probably the most interesting one yet played between the teams, and a number of brilliant plays were made. The total scores of the players foMhe five games were, D. Christen. 726; France, 713; C. Christen. 762: Holthouse, 720, and Bolds, 722; Dailey, 717- Huss. 888; North, 625; Ogden, 718, and Barr. 816. The highest average for the evening was made by Huss, 176, who also made the highest single score, 224. Charles Christen made the highest score and average among the Decatur's, his score being 174 and his average for the five games, 153. The total number of pins made was. Bluffton. 3.844; Decatur. 3,643. Bluffton's gain. 201. This still leaves the Decatur team to the good with fortv-four points. The final game for the championship of Eastern Indiana will loe played at M arren next Thursday evening. A good sized crowd will attend from here and the boys are going over to win the pennant. I

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1899.

Cards are out announcing that Mrs. M. B. Miller and Mrs. L. G. Ellingham will entertain at the home of the latter this afternoon from two to five o’clock. About seventy-five invitations are out and the affair promises to lie a splendid one. Mrs. J. C. Patterson entertained fifteen of her ladv friends at five o,clock tea Tuesday evening. The dinner was excellence in itself and the evening one of those enjoyable occaasions for which Decatur ladies are famous, and none were more so than the charming hostess of this event. A unique suprise in the way of a 8 o’clock breakfast was given by Mrs. Dr. McMillen Tuesday morning in honor of Mrs. Dell Locke, who left for Bluffton at noon of the same day and Mrs. Herbert Rice of Indianapolis. The breakfast was delicious and the occasion was a complete success for the purpose for which intended. About twenty-five guests were present and all proclaim the breakfast a rare feast. Nothing definite has as yet been done in the matter of securing the Clover Leaf shops now’ located at Delphos, although it is still asserted that the road is ready for a proposition from our citizens. Now is the only time to go after this improvement, which will if secured in all probability double our population within five years. Why not send a committee to call upon the receiver and secure a proposition from the road. The hustliug clothing and gent’s furnishing firm of Schulte, Falk & Ehinger showed their appreciation of the merits of advertising by taking advantage of one of our contracts, thus placing them on the ground floor on page four, where they will be found for the next fifty-two weeks to come. Their advertisement will occupy a quarter page and will weekly greet you with bargains galore, to which we call your special attention. They now have one of the finest store rooms in the city and carry in stock the best the market affords. In another column will be found a “Notice to Contractors” published by Allison & Studabaker. The notice states that bids will be received at the Old Adams County Bank on Thursday, February 23, at two o’clock p. m. for the erection of a brick block. The building is to lie built at the present site of the Everett, Hite & Co. grocery and will be a grand monument. The plans and specifications by Hiram Elder, of Marion, are now on file at the bank. The building, as shown by the plans, will be a beautiful structure and which our citizens may justly feel proud of. The work on the new block will be started March 1. William D. Craig of the Solders’ Home has been allowed a pension of $72 a month, together with back pay amounting to a little over SI,OOO. Total disability from rheumatism is the cause of him receiving such a large allowance. It is said by officers of the Home to be the largest pension ever allowed on this complaint. Mr. Craig is in a very bad condition. He is unable to help himself in any way and is wheeled about in a chair. He was at one time a man of much prominence. He was once editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and was also one of the principal promoters in the construction of the Clover Leaf railway, besides occupying prominent offices in other railway systems. He has a wife at Indianapolis who visits him quite often. —Marion Chronicle. The above will be pleasant news to Mr. Craig’s many friends in this city. The fifth annual banquet of the employes of the Boston Store is a thing of the past, and will go down I in the history of that establishment! as the “swellest of ’em all.” For five | years past it has been the custom of | the lady clerks at the Boston to give , a grand dinner to the proprietors and j their families and to a few invited guests, and those who have ever attended one of these events will swear | to the statement that they are sur- j passed by none. Last Tuesday was ■ •‘Boston ’day” for 1899, and agreeable to the usual plan, dinner was served 1 at five o’clock. Preparations must have been going on for several days for all the inviting viands one could think of were set before the guests, and it would almost be an unpardonable sin to say that each and everyone did not do ample justice to the . feast. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moltz. W. H. Kuebler, Miss j Frances Kuebler of Tiffin, 0., Misses Kiltie Christen. Bertha Sellemeyer. Ella Touhey, Mary McLean, Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon and John Heller. The young ladies to whom the guests are indebted for the banquet, and who did their duties as they, only, are famous for are Misses Lena Barthel,. Jessie McLean, Emma Jackson and : Amelia Smith. One distinguished > guest, who has attended every ban- j quet heretofore, was, sad as ’tis to re-1 late, prevented from attending this I event on account of a foolish bet which j he made that he would stay out of the i Boston Store for a month, and there’s where Barney lost the only chance he will have for’ a year to laugh, eat and grow fat. The banquet was an im- j mense success, however, notwithstanding that gentleman’s absence. Miniature toy pigs, made from hard boiled egtrs. were given as souvenirs. i o© I

It is said that the Decatur Journal I has again changed hands. According i to the rumor Messrs. Kenyon & Quinn i have disposed of the plant to Mr. Harry Daniels, son of Rev. W. H. i Daniels. The sale will go into effect about the 15th of the month. Adams county is now the proud possessor of a new deputy surveyor who promises to be an expert. The young man made his appearance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Fulk last Tuesday and Will has been all smiles ever since. The young man will not, probably, take charge of his duties as deputy for a few years but he’ll get there some day. Colonel Robert B. Allison will leave Saturday for a two weeks tour through the sunny South. He will go from here to Cincinnati, where he will meet a cousin and will in company with him leave at once over the Queen <& Crecent route to the clime where cold and frost are unknown luxury. Robert has not decided just where he will make his headquarters, except that he will stop along the gulf coast, wherever the best fishing is reported. At the meeting of the jury commissioners last Tuesday, the following namedjcitizens of Adams county were selected to serve on the petit jury for the February term of court which opens next Monday morning: Anthony Spuhler, Uuion township; John W. Taliler, Washington; Martin Reinking, Preble; W. D. Rienhard, Root; Gustave Yager, Kirkland; Abraham Stalter, Kirkland; William Sellemeyer, Preble; Alex Gillmore, Jefferson; Henry Scherry, Jr., Kirkland; D. C. Neuenschwander, Wabash, and Mathias Thomas, Washington. The jury will serve during the coming term of ten weeks. Senator Osburn last Friday introduced a bill into the senate which will give the railroad lobbyists something to think of for the rest of the session. His bill provides that all railroads shall keep on sale at every ticket office on their lines 500 mile books for §lO, good for any member of a family or all the members at the same time, and good for any employe or person connected with an institution or more than one at the same time. The names of the persons are I written on the books to prevent scalping. The bill, according to the author, is a compromise between three or two cents fares. Jack Reno, of Wabash, was murdered by an Italian in a bawdy house at Logansport Monday night. Reno was infatuated with Sadie Cheetwood, a tough female who was sent to the Woman's Reformatory from this city several years ago for stealing a cloak from Niblick & Co’s store. Reno and the Cheetwood girl were drinking beer when two Italians entered the place and asked Reno for some money which they claimed he owed them. A fight ensued, in which Reno was killed by being stabbed in the back. The two Italians and Sadie were arrested and are now in jail. A dispatch in speaking of the occurrence says: “Reno was captivated by the smiles of a woman known as Sadie Cheetwood and when Wabash grew too warm for her she went to Logansport j several weeks ago. He followed her I a few days later and was in that city most of the time until his death. The Cheetwood woman is rather good looking and dresses ‘fit to kill’, and it is said has caught other men in her net at Wabash liesides Jack Reno.” The greatest steal of the nineteenth century is reported from Uniondale. It will be remembered that a few I months ago the large heading factory of L. D. Adams, which had for years ' been in operation at that city, was I burned. The machinery was made unfit for use and could only be disposed of as old metal. Mr. Adams had been making arrangements to sell the iron, brass, etc. to a Chicago firm and for that purpose went to Uniondale the first of last week to get the stuff in shape to be shipped. You may well judge his surprise upon arriving there to find that every particle of metal had been removed. He made dilligent inquiry and soon gained the information that three men had come to the town about a month ago and hauled the material to Huntington, where it was disposed of to a junk dealer for $lO5. Mr. Adams went to Huntington and replevied the goods, whereupon the dealer swore out a warrant for E. N. Hamlet, who had sold the goods. Hamlet made his escape and came to this city last Saturday, going from here to Portland. Marshall McCarty, of Huntington, followed him and finding out where he went telegraphed to the Portland authorities, who captured him as soon as the freight, upon which he was riding, arrived. He was taken to Huntington and is now in jail at that place awaiting trial and he will no doubt pay rather dearly for his record of being the nerviest thief of the present time. He was for a number of years a brakeman on the C. & E. railway and it is said that he is wanted by that company for stealing a large amount of brass from the Huntington shops. The goods stolen from Mr. Adams weighed out eighteen tons of iron and eight tons of brass and nine trips with two wagons was required to take them from Uniondale to Huntington,

Mrs. Mary Hess will offer at publie sale on the Adam Pease farm, one and one-half miles west of Monroe, at 10 o’clock a. m., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, two work horses, fresh cow with calf, brood sow, plows, harrow, Deering mower, wagon, buggy, potatoes, chickens, fodder in the shock, wheat in the field, household goods, etc. The usual terms will be given. A letter has been received at this office from J. H. Stuluz, who returned to his home at Longmount, Colorado, after a several weeks visit with friends in this county. He say that snow is plenty there just at present and that the thermometer has registered from ten to forty degrees below zero ever since his return. He says he is sorry he did not remain with Adams county friends a month longer. There has been much comment during the past few week in the leading papers of the world as to when the twentieth century will begin. The Cincinnati Enquirer of Sunday contained a Paris cablegram concerning the question, “When does the twentieth century begin?” It was answered by a Paris observatory as beginning on the Ist of January, 1901, where at the managers of the Paris exposition were dismayed, as they had figured that the twentieth century would begin on the Ist of January, 1900, and that the exposition would usher it in. A majority of the writers in America and Europe, in discussing the question, assume the same view as the Paris savants. A grand fox chase will be held on Saturday, February 11. The line will form as follows: Beginning at Honduras, thence east three miles to Debob’s school house; thence south four miles to Flora school house; thence west three miles to Chris Gerber’s corner; thence north four miles to place of beginning. Center field to be on north side of Robinson farm. Horsemen —Wm. J. J. Bell, Aaron Ora, Wm. Reppert, C O. McKean, Simon Smith, Wm. Bluhm, C. M. Merryman, C. C. Beer. CaptainsDavid Crum, Jeff Erwin, Rheuben Miller, J. A. Zerkel, L. Babcock, Jas. Parrish. H. J. Andrews, Ed Fugate. Perry Everhart, David Smith, Eli Beer, Samuel Baker, Isaac Beer, Ed Marshand, John Soldner, Nelson Cas saday, I. J. Bowman, John Stoutenberry, Fred Kohler. Marshals--Wm. Smith, John Rich. Wm. A. Bowman. Henry Bluhm. The only men allowed with dogs are: North. George Martin; east, Fred Hess; south, Fred Daubough; west, V. D. Bell. Jr. Everybody cordially invited to take a holiday. An explosion of nitro-glycerine occurred at West Liberty, Jay county, about 11:30 last Monday morning in which two men, Gib Goodwin, of Geneva, and James Thompson, of Dunkirk, met death. The explosion was plainly felt in this citv, a distance of twenty-three miles. The story as told by Charles Moore, a spectator of the terrible disaster, and as was published in Tuesday’s Portland Sun is as follows: “Goodwin, the shooter, drove out with two hundred quarts of the explosive fluid.reaching the well about ten o’clock. Arrangements to make the shot were soon perfected, and it was a few minutes after eleven o’clock when he and Thompson lifted from the wagon a shell containing twentyfour quarts of the nitro glycerine, Messrs. Rice. Moore and Pat McCaskey were at the boiler warming when the explosion came, and were knocked down by the force of the explosion, while flying debris of all sorts, whistled over and around them. When all was quieted they jumped up and ran to the spot where the derrick had stood, only to find a yawning hole marking the spot. They at once made search for the remains of Goodwin and Thompson, in which they were only partly successful. Os Goodwin, a man who weighed two hundred and fifty pounds, they could find pieces of less than the size of a man’s hand, all put together being less than two hats full. Some of these were found some distance away and even yet pieces of his body are being found. In the case of Thompson they were more fortunate. His body, or rather just a half of it, was found in the corn-field west of the derrick, a distance of fully three hundred feet. His left arm and left leg and left half of his trunk, body, head and face were gone and no parts of them have yet been found. The pieces of Goodwin were found east of the derrick. As might be supposed the three men who thus miraculously escaped the horrible death of their comrades, were completely unnerved, and showed vividly the ex-1 perienee through which they passed. A most wonderful thing connected with the explosion was the fact that I 174 quarts of the stuff which was on j the wagon and within a few feet of. the derrick was not exploded. Had it gone off the other three must surely have been killed. Thompson’s folks live at Dunkirk and he has boarded at John Arbaughs for several years, being well liked by all. He was employed by Emmerson & Rice. He was single, but had been going with a young ladv of this city. (Tib Goodwin was well known here and frequently visited friends in the city, and the sympathy of the community is with the sorrowing widow and chrildren who mourn their loss. .

CIRCULATION 2400 WEEKLY

NUMBER 47

The afternoon and evening meetings iof Mrs. Mary J. Leats continue with increasing interest. They will be | held each evening and afternoon of j this week at the Baptist church at 2:30 p. m. and 7:00 p. m. On Sun day afternoon there will lie a meeting for men only and Sunday evening perhaps a union meeting of all the churches, the hour and place to be announced at the morning services Sunday. All are cordially invited to attend these meetings. Collection taken at each service. Frank Marker, who returned home a few weeks ago after twenty-nine consecutive years in the service of the United States army, left for Washington, D. C., Monday, where he will ask for a discharge. The army rule is that after thirty years service a soldier is retired with a life pension of thirty-four dollars. Frank's regiment has gone to Manilla and he has been furloughed during the coming year, hence his request to be put upon the retired list. He has been an excellent soldier and his record is a bright one. His many friends here wish him success in securing a discharge and all kinds of luck in the civil life to follow. The Lafeyette Daily Call of last Thursday’s issue contained the following account of a Demorest oratorical contest in which Miss Eva Dorwin, formerly of this city was awarded a gold medal as first prize. The gold medal contest held at Wil lard hall last evening was well attended and proved to be very interesting, six young ladies, who have each won silver medals at Demorest contests, participating in the program which was as follows: Grace Shelly, “Der Oak and Der Vine;” Pearl Johnson. “Swore Off;” Bessie Jelf. “A Sack of Flour;”Eva Dorwin, “Old Soapie;” Cordelia McNeal, “Prohibition Warriors Form in Line;” Lora Moore, “Poorhouse Nan.” The judges were Dr. B. H. Boyd, Messrs, Everett and Halton. There were three prizes awarded, the first, a Demorest gold medal was given to Miss Eva Dorwin; the second, an order for a dozen photographs, to Miss Cordelia McNeal; and the third a boquet of ferns and carnations, to Miss Lora Moore. S. S. Lappin, pastor of the Christian church, presented the prizes. A pleasing piano recital was given by Misses Wilma Young, Mettta Probas co and Stonecypher. The opening prayer was delivered by Mrs. Ella Davis of the Friends’ church, and the | benediction was pronounced by Rev. F. C. Coolbaugh of St. John’s ehurch. Two weeks ago last Monday a stranger, giving his name as Edward Dixon and who said he was from | Glassgow, Scottland, made his ap pearance at the Indiana House, corner of First and Madison streets, and asked for lodging. He paid for his lied and said he would prefer not to register. The following morning he told the landlady, Mrs. Meitz, that he did not feel well and that he believed he would stay there a day or so longer. During the day he went out often and it is thought drank rather heavily. The next morning he was unable to get up and the county physician, Dr. D. D. Clark, was sent for. Everything possible was done for him. Several other physicians were called and a nurse was kept by him constantly, but he grew gradually worse. Last Saturday he became very violent and at times it was almost impossible to keep him in lied, at other times he would be perfectly rational and talk intelligently. He grew gradually weaker until Monday morning at 5:30 o’clock when he died. During the latter part of his illness he seemed to realize that the end was not far off, and during one of his rational periods asked that a priest of the Catholic church be sent for. Father Blume was notified and went at once to the bedside of the dying stranger. The usual church rites were performed and to the Rev. Father the man confessed that his name was not Edward Dixon but Edward Gunn and that in case of death his brother, John, who lives at Yipsilanti, Michigan, should be notified. This was done and Monday afternoon a telegram from John Gunn was received saying that he would be here Tuesday morning to look after his brother’s remains. He arrived on the early train and left here yesterday morning with the body for Yipsilanti. where the funeral will be held today. The story of Edward Gunn’s life is a sad one, so far as can lie learned. He was fifty-four years of age. He came to this county’from Scottland when a mere lad, having worked his way over as a cabin boy. He was a blacksmith by trade and worked for Gus Sehelgel iii this city many years ago. Since that time he has, it is said, led rather a reckless life and it is probably for that reason that he gave an assumed name, as he preferred not to have his relatives know of his condition. Besides his brother, who came here to look after his remains, he has two sisters who also reside in Michigan. The cause of his death, although not fully agreed upon by the physicians, was probably pneumonia. Mrs. Meitz, the landlady of the Indiana House, deserves the praise of every citizen of | Decatur for the noble manner in which ; she looked after the welfare of this I dying man, as everything within her I power was done in an unselfish manner.