Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1899 — Page 1

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; pharles Spencer, °f ’' lo Standard jitZpany- was in the city Monday ,n business. Mr and Mrs. C. E. Neptune re- ' a from Fort Wayne Tuesday as flnn s W. Hale, of Geneva, was in city iast Thursday attending to Jsiness and calling on his many Heads. H . LeSage Tenßrock of Fort r avne , district manager of the Metonolitan Insurance Company was in c ity on business yesterday. Charles Sether made the highest ever run at the Monroe street Jlevs. Mondav evening being 215. )r,i France made a score of -1- the lanie evening. The U ew track at the bowling alley been completed and is a beauty, he proprietors of this alley are first- * hustlers and deserve success for heir enterprising manner of doing itisiness. Otto Ehinger will leave today for ifarion Ind., where he goes to accept i position as cutter and salesman in Le of the large clothing establishes of that citv, Otto is an exeelpnt cutter and can not help but suceed. An interesting letter from Miss lattie Studabaker may be found in mother column of this issue. It is rritten from Messina, Sicily, and llexander, Egypt, and gives an intersting account of the trip over the (editerian Sea. John Good, a private of company 3,160th Indiana arrived, home Tueslav having been honorably dischargid' He reports the boys at Mantanas having about as usual good health, air spirits but anxious to be sent to ndiana as quickly as possible. The sheriffs throughout the state tave been notified by the managers of he state reform school that they will eeeive no more boys unless they preent a certificate from the secretary of he board of health from the county there they belong, showing that they lave not been exposed to smallpox. A letter from Senator Fairbanks to I. S. Peterson informs him that the eeretary of war will not permit the liseharge of enlisted men who are erring outside the United States, tineas conditions exist that actually demands such a discharge. This means hat our solders must serve until the ompany is relieved. Harley Daugherty and Miss Lena IcConnehey were married Sunday vening at the home of the groom on louth Winchester street, ’Squire Ed loffee officiating. A large number of riends were present and the occasion ras a happy one. Mr. Daugherty has cen employed at J. D. Hale’s ware ouse for several years, while the bride, liss McConnehey, has been serving t the Park Hotel. John B. Rice left Monday evening )t Havan Cuba, where he will meet Janiel Railing and J. T. Archgold, nd join them in the speculative transition they now have on foot in that otmtry. They will buy and sell attle and other live stock and we are ertain of their success. They are business men who thoroughly underBod the stock business, and that idustry is somewhat * slack on the dand at present on accpunt of the ong wars, there is a splendid opening. The postoffice department at Washngton has ruled that the writer has a ight to regain possession of a letter •tovided he can prove to the satifacion of the postmaster at the office roni which it was sent, that he was ne writer of it. Even if a letter has wived at its destination and before I has been delivered to the person to nJ I* was addressed, it may l>e rea(,L ■ a ’"■ e B ra m throughthe mail ogomce. The reason assigned is at the United States is only the «snt of the writer of the letter ’ while fetter is in transit. The decision important to business men and to >nrate individuals.

D * W Ash J aw P as sed by the leg,l ure J s now * n force, an emergency .wise having been attached. The i. 18 ln A en(led to close the season “J an d June, the spawning imn throwing other restrictions ; '’shing that will in time, if the • a^ow the fish to beas plentiful as they were before e ~^ resen t Murderous method came to a u /' ' ne Provision attaches a ienflr* °L-iV°^ ut ’ the water suffiIvnamv Another makes j, ■ 11 ln £ a Penalty punishable with f-ars ”il nen t f°r from one to three nth 1 r rot ‘ ne fishing is allowed mot.„ la ® ?°t having more than fifty n].'' , Deming is allowed during t n ’’ ‘ » SUst an< f September, but Mm th° (T'l s mus t obtain a license •eshto" . l 'ommissioner, and the ?n S > Uo * less than two >l®!nrtt> I j ß under nine inches Merd v’ an l cro PPies and black bass in- wa» ln ?f les must be returned to in^? r t ca "ght. The penalty dollars, and ®ie as is Punishable the r a,t °mpt was successful. M wh; i- , wine must give a S2OO th - tate

Charles F. True is in Chicago making additional purchase for his spring stock of dry goods. Charles Elzey has accepted a position in Rosenthal’s clothing store, where his friends may find his smiling countenance at any time. Miss Edna Wemhoff left yesterday for Bellefountaine. Ohio, where she will accept a position in the Dotv & Gregg merchant tailoring store. It is reported that three members of company B are in the United States prison at Mantanzas, just at present and are awaiting their trial on important charges. Mrs. Cyrus Hammel has been very low during the past two weeks with erysiples and for several days it was feared she could not recover. She is improved considerably at this writing, however, and friends think she is out of danger. Frank Gast & Co. have been busy this week moving their stock of goods from the A ogelwede building, where it has been stored, to their new home on Monroe street. They are nicely locates! now and are ready to receive their many friends. The Keuschmann Douglas concert company gave an entertainment at Ridgeville Monday evening. A large and appreciative audience attended and the evening performance was up to the usual standard of that very excellent company of artists. Indiana Odd Fellows, Masons and the Knights of Pythias are considering the matter of building homes for indigent members in the state. The Odd Fellows have been offered a bon us of 156 acres adjoining; the city of Greensburg, and have accepted the offer. A telegram to the Indianapolis News Thursday afternoon from Washington says that Representative Steele saw Secretary Alger yesterday about mustering out the 160th Indiana Volunteers. The secretary said he would take up the matter at once. Mr. Steele is satisfied the regiment will be mustered out before March 15.

The social entertainment given by the Rathbone Sisters Monday evening for the benefit of the orphans of Indiana was a gay affair, and was enjoyed to the limit by everybody in attendance. A carpet rag ball battle was the principal event of the evening and it is said that Landlord Miesse was the most conspicuous person in the entire affair. Refreshments were served. Henry Lankenau, the veteran school teacher of Preble township, has laid aside the birch and accepted a position in the shoe department with Kern, Brittson & Beeler. For twenty-six years he has successfully followed the profession of teaching, and for years has been known as one of the ablest and best teachers in the county. He tegan his new career Monday in which we feel sure he will be equally successful. His employers may well congratulate themselves, as Henry’s wide acquaintance and high standing means to them additional trade and business. John Pfieffer and wife, who have been in our city the past two weeks, returned to their home at Indianapolis yesterday. For more than a year Mr. Pfieffer has l>een a sufferer from a cancer of the lip and chin, which was gradually eating his life away. Through Rev. Vitz he learned of the cures made by Clark Brothers in this city, and decided to take the treatment. He arrived here two weeks ago Monday and in just a week the cancer had been removed. Four of the state's ablest physicians had trieel their skill upon him but had failed, and their works had left the chin in a terrible condition, thus making the work more difficult for our physicians. Mr. and Mrs. Pfieffer are very jubilant over the success of Clark Brothers and thankful for the manner in which they were treated by the citizens whom they met here. “Quo Vadis” a narrative of the time of Nero, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, was presented in monologue style by Prof. Earl Wilfley, at Bosse's opera house. Friday evening and was, as are all of that gentlemen's presentations, a very masterly one. He first gave a sketch of the characters of the famous story and then with the aid of stereoptican views told the story in an interesting and concise manner. The lecture brought out a number of good thoughts and the lessons were well enjoyed by the entire audience. The entertainment was the closing one of the Business Men's Lecture Course for the season, and that organization are highlv pleased with their success. Arrangements for a series of entertainments for next season are already being made and the lecture course in Decatur will no doubt henceforth be an established certainty. The program next year will probably contain the following lecturers: Rev. T. D. Powers. Prot. Edwin E. Barker, Ke\. A. W. Conner, Prof. W. W, Pfrimmer. Prof. Earl Wilfley and Prof. Byron W. King. Each and every one of these men have become famous through their entertaining ability and zens eagerly await the season of IS.. and 1900 in order that they may hear them.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH. 9, 1899.

Niblick & Co. are again to the front vvith a handsome half-page display. Notice the bargains in dress goods of all kinds andthespecial glove sale. Cal Miller, who has the contract for the building of the Monroe gravel road, has removed to this city and is nicely located in H. A. Fristoe’s property on Winchester street. House cleaning, in preparation for the coming M. E. conference, seems to lie the general program in this city just at present, and although the weather this week has not been exactly to the order of most ladies, still the stir has kept up pretty lively. County Clerk Lenhart issued the following marriage licenses during the past week: Timothy Fonts and Margaret E. Reynolds; Harley Daugherty and Lena May McConnehey; George E Faille and Katie P. Schwartz; Howard T. Louthan and Elva Sprunger. New circuit court cases filed this week are James T. Mann vs Nancy J. Powell, for appointment of guardian. Peter Soldner vs Elizabeth Allman, for appointment of guardian. Israel D. Bright vs Susan W. Bright et al, partition. Charles Boknecht vs Warren W. Moses, note $75. Many of our Knights of Pythias arc at Hartford City today attending the district meeting, which is held yearly and which is becoming popular and beneficial to this secret order. Hon. J. E. Watson, one of the grand lodge officers and a very prominent Knight, will be present. Accommodations for the reception of more than four hundred ministers have already been made and other necessary arrangements are being made for the reception of the Methodist conference which convenes in this city Monday, April 3rd. Decatur will do her part nobly and the meeting promises to be the best in the history of the church. The seventh annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers Association will be held at Ft. Wayne, March 30, 31 and April 1, and the convention promises to be the most inten sting ever held in the state. The meeting will be held at the Princess rink and it is estimated that 2,500 of the instructors of Northern Indiana will be present. Nearly every school teacher in this county will attend. Farmers, who have examined into the condition of the growing wheat, say that it has been badly injured. Some are of the opinion that there will not be more than half a crop. It is predicted that many fields will be plowed up in the spring. The true condition of the wheat can hardly be ascertained, however, until the frost is out and the ground settled. There is no denying the fact that the winter so far has been an unfavorable one for wheat. It received little or no protection from snow. Clover is also said to be badly injured.

Monday morning’s Ft. Wayne Journal contained the following which will be sad news to the many friends of the Reverend father in this city: The condition of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Rademacher has undergone a change for the worse. He has been troubled for a week with erysipelas, and other complications followed, so that his illness is viewed with grave concern by his physician and attendants. In all the Catholic churches in the city at high mass yesterday, the announcement was made, and the members of his spiritual flock were asked to pray for him. Ever since the first attack. Bishop Rademacher has continued in much the same condition. Mentally he has improved somewhat, but last week he began to decline physically, and yesterday morning his illness took a turn which caused alarm.

A correspondent from Mantanzas in a recent letter says: “Gomez, the Cuban general, is in the city. Yesterday afternoon, in company with Generals Sanger and Wilson, he visited the camp. General Gomez rode on the left of General Wilson, at the head of the column, and following was a corps of Cuban and American staff officers and soldiers no fewer than one hundred horsemen. They rode through the regimental streets and everyone got a good look at the man who for six years led the Spanish a dog’s life in Cuba. He seemed to take great interest in the camp and smiled as kodak fiends, from chaplain to private, pressed the button and secured his picture. A color rose to his face and an expression indescribable stole over his countenance as General Wilson turned to the interpreter and said: ‘Tell the general he will go back to every family in the United States'.” A member of Co. B showed a “marked degree of intelligence” when he advocated the theory ••for every man in the regiment to write home as •yellow a letter as possible telling that yellow fever and small pox had broken out in camp.-' He believed and openly declared that it was a sure and easy way to get the regiment mustered out. He declared that the war department would no sooner hear of it than we would be ordered home and mustered out of the service. His plan is a wise one indeed, if we care tote sewed up in quarantine and remain on the island an indefinite number of months."

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lutz very plea- : santly entertained a number of the members of the Christian Endeavor Society at their beautiful home on Chestnut Avenue. A musical program was rendered, various games played and dainty refreshments served. On Monday evening. March 6th, a few of their neighbors gave a very pleasant surprise on Mrs. W. H. H. France, at the home of her son-in-law, George Wemhoff, the occasion being her fifty-fifth birth day. At 9:30 an elegant lunch was served and at a late hour all departed for their homes, wishing Mrs. France many more long and happy years. Grant Thompson, son of Howard Thompson, of Monroe township is under arrest at Madison, Illinois, upon a paternity charge brought by Miss Louisa Renier,of Monroe. Thompson left here several months ago and could not be located until lately. Miss Renier and her father left here last Friday evening, for Madison, with the above results. The North Indiana Conference is composed of six districts: Ft. Wayne, Goshen, Kokomo, Muncie. Richmond and Warsaw. The latest statistics obtainable show a total membership of 54,491; 475 churches worth sl,511,175; 157 parsonages worth $223,975; paid in salaries, $153,653; 470 Sunday schools with 53,015 scholars; 274 Epworth Leagues with 15,042 memberr, and 174 Junior Leagues with 9262 members. W. A. Lower will leave next Monday for Indianapolis where he goes to except the position of second assistant in the office of the superintendent of Public Instructions. He will begin his duties on Wednesday’ and will no doubt continue in this capacity during the next four years. Bert is one of Adams county’s brighest young men and we bespeak for him a brilliant career in his public life. He is capable and trustworthy and has a large number of friends in this city and county who congratulate him upon his success in securing such a big "plum.”

John S. Bowers, secretary of the Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Co. , and R. K. Allison, Cashier of the Old ■ Adams County bank left last night over the G. R. & I. for Galveston, I Texas, where they will spend several ' weeks. Both gentlemen have been in 1 poor health lately and have been considerably over worked and the rest is a much needed one. They will go by the way of Cincinnati: from thereto Wash ville, Tenn.; thence to New Orleans, and then to Galveston. The trip wil certainly be an enjoyable one and will no doubt be a health producer for the gentlemen. Henry Billman, who for a year or • more past has been employed at Al Burdge's barber shop on Monroe street, has left town rather suddenly, and that too upon the eve of what was to have been the important day of his life. It has been known for several weeks that he and a Miss Lord of Monmouth, were to have been married in this city last Friday. On the appointed day the bride came to town and went to the home of a relative where they were to have had the happy ceremony performed. No groom appearer!, however, and after several anxious hours had passed, an investigating committee was appointed and sent out to find the cause of the delay. It was then discovered that young Billman had on the evening before changed his mind as to becoming a benedict, had packed his Saratoga and left for parts unknown. He has not been heard from since and the probabilities are that he has discovered by some unknown means that marriage is a failure. Harvey Meyers, for the past nine months a member of Company B, 160th Indiana has recieved an honorable discharge from service and is at home. He has been disabled since the company left Indianapolis about four weeks after they left here, but has been unable to get a discharge. He is at present quite badly crippled from the effects of a severe seige of typhoid fever which settled in his back and legs. He left Mantanza, Cuba, Februray 25th, going to Havana where he was quarantined five days on account of not being vaccinated. He left that city last Friday noon and arrived here Monday morning, making the trip in just sixty hours. He says that the membres of company B are in excellent health and that but few of them answer the sick calls. When asked as to the probability of the 160th teing home soon he said: “They will be at home by April 1, or they will remain on the island until next fall.” He thinks that within a month the island will be quarantined on account of various diseases and no one will oe allowed to leave. As to their being any yellow fever in com- ■ pany F, of Ossian as was reported, he says there is nothing in such a story. The company had a number of cases of malarial and typhoid fever and were quarantined one mile from the main camp for safety, as soon as their fourteen day limit is up. Harvey is well pleased to Ih> at home, although he says their are many golden opportunities in Cuba for the American hustler, who can stand the climate.

The damage suit, Connett vs. Wabash Railway Company, which was to have been heard in the Adams circuit court this week on change of venue from Fort Wayne, was settled last Friday by the defendants paying Connett the sum of SBOO and all the accumulated costs therein. A girl about eighteen years of age, giving her name as Hazel Wright and her residence, this city, attempted to committ suicide by drinking carbolic acid at a hotel at Fort Wayne last Thursday. A physician was sent for and she was speedily revived however. She is unknown here. On January 17 the ease of State vs Jasper Pace was appealed from this county to the supreme court. Yesterday information came affirming the lower court. It is something unusual to have a ease taken up and disposed of in so short a timo, by this higher tribunal. By this decree Pace will serve his allotted time at the Jeffersonville reformatory. J. W. Place and P. J. Hyland returned Tuesday evening from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where they have been for several weeks. The boys are looking especially well and Paddy who could scarcely get to the train, when he left, is now as well and hearty appearing as his partner Jimmie. The boys report a splendid time and we are not doubtful of their word. The Burt House has been undergoing some splendid improvements during the past week. The dinning room has been enlarged and remedied, new carpet and paper added and the room otherwise made a most attractive one. The parlor has also been adorned with beautiful new velvet carpet and several pieces of furniture which add materially to the comfort of the house. Dick is a hustler and no one knows that fact better than the traveling publie. The circuit court has recorded the following: Hubert Topp vs Peter Kinney, judgment vs defendant. Lizzie Topp. by next friend, vs Peter Kinney, settle j[and dismissed. State vs Jacob Kunzieker, trial by jury, defendant fined $lO and costs. Albert O. Marsh et al vs James A. Shewalter et al, settlement agreed to and cause dismissed. Hoffman & Gottschalk vs A. A. Sprunger, administrator, cause ordered left off docket. Joseph Rich vs A. A. Sprunger, administrator, cause ordered left off docket. Christian Gerber vs A. A. Sprunger, administrator, cause ordered left off docket.

Arrangements for the entertainingin this city of the fifty-sixth annual session of the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church have now- commenced in earnest. Programs and other necessary printed matter are being prepared, the various com rittees are hard at work and in fact every member of the church is busy at something which will aid in making the meeting the most successful ever held. Bishop Edward G. Andrew's, D. D. LL. D.. will preside over this year’s gathering. He is one of the most eminent of the board of bishops, and ranks next to the senior member, who is Bishop S. M. Merrill. Bishop Andrew's resides in New York. He was born in 1835 in that state, and joined the church at ten years of age. He has had experience in educational work, and was unusually successful as a pastor. He was chosen a bishop in 1872. In 1876 he visited Europe and Asia and organizer! the conferences of Sweden, Norway and South India. The board of commissioners began their regular March session of court Monday, the proceedings up to this time being as follows: Charles Nappier, report of viewers on road, the same being ordered opened. Everett Woodruff, viewers report on road, which was ordered opened and damages assessed to be paid by petitioners. The petition of John Steele, Lewis Fruchte, L. W. Lewton and Henry Dirkson, granted, accepting gravel roads. Liquor licenses were granted C. Radamacher, Lewis A. Voglewede, Mat Schaffer and John Meyer of this city, J. C. F. Manley and Jacob Wegmiller of Geneva, and Eugene Eshleman of Berne. E. Burt Lenhart was appointed to collect costs in change of venue cases, receiving five percent, thereof for his services. J. R. Graber re appointed superintendent of the county asylum for two years, at a salary of S6OO a year. Bonds for the Washington. Decatur and Monroe and East Washington gravel roads were orderer! sold by the treasurer. County Assessor Crist was : orderer! to meet state board of tax commissioners and allowed sls to pay expenses. A remonstrance was filed on the report of the Fetters ditch, and W. H. Shepherd, John Cranor and J. W. Edwards appointed viewers. J. W. Vizard ditch report was approved and the same orderer! constructed. Reviewers Neuenschwander, A. W. Holmes and D. S. Manlier were appointed on the J. W. Hendricks ditch. On the A. J. Sipe ditch peti tion, J. M. Willie, Henry Eiting and Samuel Soldner were appointed viewers. On the Alpheus Kohne petition, Phillip Gephart, L. W. Johnson and H. Sellemeyer were appointed viewers. On the L. O. Bears petition, Martin Laughlin. Cris Ashbaucher and Levi Miller were appointed viewers.

CIRCULATION 2400 WEEKLY

NUMBER 52

A full and complete report of the > Business Men’s Lecture Course will : be found in another column of this » issue. The report is interesting and ; gives the exact amount of the cost of ’ each lecturer. A successful operation wa.i performed upon John Hart Tuesday as- ■ ternoon for the purpose of straighten ing his left foot, which was badly in- ' jured several years ago while attempt ing to board a moving train. Drs. ' Keller and Miller performed the work and the patient is reported as getting along nicely. The following is a list of our readers who have accomodated us by pay--1 ing their subscription within the past I few days: Joseph Hendricks, Wm. Hendricks, Sol Neuenschwander, C. A. Neuenschwander, Charles Allegar, Jacob Ryan. Henry Durr. A. C. Waggoner, Mat Schafer. Lewis Kline, M. L. Smith, Henry C. Oeting, Joshua Parrish, Chris Hoffstetter, M. V. B. ; Archbold and O. T. Hennricks. Gerber & Frysinger shipped eightyhead of fine horses to foreign markets Tuesday evening. They left over the ‘ I Erie for New York, fromwherethev will j be shipped over the German Lloyd line ■ i steamers which leaves there Saturday. They are accompanied by David Gerber. Nolan King and Charles Bot- , tenberg. Twenty head of roadsters were shipped to Toledo the same evening by Mr. Fowler of that city. Our horse market stands unequalled in the state. Mrs. David Mamma, one of the pioneer settlers of this county, and who for years has been a resident of Root township, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Gideon, near Paulding, Ohio, last Thursday. She was well known here and beloved i and respected by all. For several years ' she has been a sufferer from a complication of diseases, and the angel of i death has only relieved her suffering. ■ Funeral services were conducted at , the Pleasant Valley church Saturday, with interment in the church cemetery . at that place. Her husband proceeded her to the heavenly home about three years ago. John Delevan, another old settler of Indiana has passed away. He has 1 been in poor health for a number of years and during the past few months has been quite low. He was a sufferer from slow consumption and although he fought the terrible disease bravely, he was relieved by the hand of death at eight o’clock last Friday morning. He was a veteran of the late war, having enlisted at Bluffton, and he could tell many interesting incidents of his early life and his solj dier career. He is thelast of his family, his relatives having all died from the same disease which has now taken him away. His funeral which is being attended to by the G. A. R. was to have been held Sunday, but ow’ing to the severe cold weather it was postponed. His body was nlaced in the vault at Maplewood and the services will be held some time within the next two weeks. Uncle John as he was familiarly known was about seventy years of age and although not a relative remains to mourn his loss, there are many friends who were devoted to him and who will sadly miss i him The regular session of the city j council was held Tuesday evening. | Mayor Beatty presided and the folI lowing members were present: Sut ' ties. Miller, Haefling, Chronister and I Niblick. Absent, Mann. The min utes of the meeting of February 21st. i were read and upon motion approved. The question of building a sidewalk across Madison street at Evprett, Hite I & Co's grocery was referred to the , committee on streets and alleys. I Councimaii Niblick moved that the question of repairing the ditch from ■ Russel street to Marshal street also be referred to the committee on streets | and alleys, and motion was carried. [ The finance committee reported the I following bills, which were allowed: J. B. Ford $28.60, J. D. Wisehaupt | $6.26, H. B. Knoff salary as city enI gineer $37.50, John Glutting $6.25. Ashbaucher & Bell $1.34, Interna ■ tional Compound Co. $20.70, Decatur Democrat $11.55, American Carbon Co. $18.50, Gas Company $45.00, Jno. Debolt 60 cents, Thomas Freang cleaning boiler $1.50. strwt commissioner’s pay roll $30.25, J. K. Mann, salary as street commissioner tor two months $75.00. Niblick then moved that Mayor Beatty be allowed five dolI lars for his membership fee to the ; police league. The report of Fire I Chief Helm was adopted bv a full ' vote. Suttles moved that the Mayor be instructed to find out what the i cost of an air lift would be to furnish I water from the river. Motion carried. The matter of allowing E. Woods Co. to have the use of the city roller to use in the construction of the gravel ! roads was referred to the street eoin- | mittee and the Mayor. The petition of Clark J. Lutz, asking that an electric light be placed at the jxoint where : the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City I railroad crosses Russell street, or near ■ that place, was then presented and j Councilman Chronister moved that ■ the light be put up at once. The 1 motion was carried by a full vote and. | the same will be placed in position as soon as possible. This concluded the I work and council adjourned.