Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. SI.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, SEPT. 14. The Democrat and Sentinel still goes for one dollar a year, a whole lot reading for a little bit of money. The eighth annual meeting of the Indiana State Conference of Charities and Correction, will take place at Lafayette, October 3, 4 and 5. Recommendations in France urge the pardon of Dreyfus, and it occurs to us that this would be but a small recompense to the injury and injustice already done him. The Indianapolis mayorality campaign is waxing warm with every indication of the success of the democratic candidate, the Hon. Tom Taggart. His present term ends cn October 10. The chances of McLean being elected governor of Ohio, grows brighter. The democrats over there are active and alive, while their candidate stands high in the councils of his party and strong with the people. It has been stated upon good authority that the 547 trusts now in existence are capitalized at eight billion dollars. Two billion represent the actual money invested and the other six billion the water. The newspaper in Cleveland that supports Mayor McKissen is out red hot for the election of McLain. Here is political reciprocity for you. McLaid supported McKissen for United States Senator and now the debt is being paid. The Decatur Democrat’s advocacy of Hon. S. M. Ralston for governor was taken up last week by the democratic press of the state, and many favorable notices were given. Mr. Ralston is popular with the Hoosier democracy. —Lebanon Pioneer. Cornelius Vanderbilt is dead, having succumbed to paralysis. His wealth is not easily counted but that did not save him. The fatal stroke came Monday afternoon and was the second attack. He was widely known owning railroad interests covering a dozen lines besides other paying securities. He was aged fifty-six years.

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The trust conference at Chicago began yesterday and among the speakers is the Hon. John B. Stoll, the able editor of the South Bend Times. The merchant who advertises is the merchant whois alive to his own interests. He is the same one too, who thrives and prospers in season and out of season. The Deeatur Democrat, L. G. Ellingham’s newspaper, has raised the name of Samuel M. Ralston to its mast head for governor. Very good, but what’s the matter with Tom Taggart?-- Winchester Democrat. The chances of Deeatur being a great railroad center are very bright. We venture the prediction that the time is not far distant when this will be realized and it behooves our people to get ready to welcome the new addition to our city. Hon. R. K. Erwin will take part in the Ohio campaign, being invited to deliver several speeches upon political issues. The cause of Hannaism, Coxism and all the other isms of bad repute, will feel the earth tremble before Dick gets through with them. The chairman of the republican state commitee called a conference of his executive committee, at which much was said about trusts. They fear political revolution from this source, and well they may. The people, irrespective of party' have no use for trusts. The way the Democrat’s circulation is spreading is very gratifying, especially to this office. New subscribers without number have been depositing their dollar and supplying themselves for one year with the news of Adams’county. Our combination offer is a four time winner. The condemnation of Dreyfus was not unexpected, although it is hard to realize that France could act with such utter disregard for right and justice. His sentence of ten years is a calamity. The trial was farcial and unless he is reprieved will have to undergo the disgrace of having the army rank removed, and perhaps even committed to a felon’s cell. The death of W. P. Rice removes another familiar figure from the active walks of lite. During his long residence he has been active in business circles, always advocating progress, and being the first to lend financial aid to any’ movement looking toward the betterment of our city and county. The deceased experienced all the hard struggles and privations of pioneer life and has witnessed all the progress time has effaced upon the pages of Adams county history. His funeral Tuesday morning was largely attended. Interment in Maplewood.

Decatur has no room for the Bell telephone monopoly and our citizens should leave it severely alone now and always. The organization of structural iron and steel bridge combine which expects to “take in 95 per cent, of the bridge building trade of the country," is renewed cause for thankfulness that Indianapolis is turning its eyes toward stone bridges. We can take away a little patronage from the trust. —Sentinel. Our democratic exchanges say that immediately on McLean’s nomination President McKinley hurried back to Washington, called cabinet meeting and immediately cabled Hanna to come home from Europe and get to work to save Ohio. Sounds funny, doesn't it? But such is modern politics. -Delphos Courant. As a deficit producer the McKinley administration is a “howling success.” In 1897 there was a deficiency of 818,055,000: in 1898 it amounted to 838,048,000, and the latest figures for 1899 show a shortage of 888,876,000. This record is being made at a time when, according to the Peru Republican, the foreigner is paying the tariff tax of sixty per cent, in addition to which we have the stamp tax. Miami County Sentinel. “If we sell you sugar you must handle our sugar and no other.” That is the way the sugar trust is now’ talking to the merchants of the country, and it means that any merchant who dares to buy of the independent refinerier will be “squeezed.” That is the method of the tobacco trust, of the Standard oil trust, in fact of all trusts. In spite of this there are those who have the effrontery to say that trusts are beneficial to the welfare of the people, and that they do not crush competition or endanger the progress and development of the business as well as the producing interests of the country. Some effort has been made to get General Eagan to apply for retirement, but he insists on remaining on the active list of the army. He w’as suspended from duty with full pay, until retirement, which will occur five years hence in the due course of things. Eagan now receives 85,500 a year. His retired pay would be $4,425. In addition to the money consideration Eagan probably hopes for restoration to duty after he has taken a good rest. The administration would prefer to get him out of sight, and get rid of the scandal of which he is aj constant breeder. He is encouraged to “bob up serenely” by the lenient treatment of Captain Carter. Enquirer.

Decatur has about as much use for two telephone companies as a dog has for six tails. Especially is this true when it is known that the Bell telephone monopoly is to be a serious factor in bringing this company to life. The field here is thoroughly covered by the Citizens’ Company, their service is excellent and theirrates reasonable. There is no room or demand for telephone competition, besides it manifests a wrong spirit for the good of a town or community. Every business man and citizen of Decatur should stand squarely together and work for the common good of our city and her people. This can not be accomplished by the grinding process. Farmers who have a good apple crop this year can consider themselves fortunate and should exercise the best of care in harvesting »and caring for fruit. The European demand is going to be unprecedentedly large and there is not more than a three-fourths crop in this country. This means that prices will be good throughout the winter. In the state of New York speculators are already paying 75 cents to $1.25 a barrel for apples on the ground. Os the apples shipped to Europe thus far, none have netted the exporter less than $3 a barrel, while the general price has been nearer $4. The standard apple for European shipment is the Baldwin and there never are enough of these to supply the demand. —South Bend Times. In any comments made upon the new telephone company that threatens to come to life here, we do not want to be understood as being antagonistic to fair and legitimate competition. At the same time it is our opinion that this city does not afford room for telephone competition. But nevertheless, if home men saw that point differently, and wanted to demonstrate it, the Democrat would offer no objection. In this instance there is but little question but that the Bell Company are the power behind the throne. They furnish the telephones for the new company and all the Decatur company will own for their stock will lie the poles and wiring. It is an old scheme of the Bell’s, and has been worked by them in more places than one. Their use of a local organization is simply to remove the odium that is everywhere attached to the simple word Bell. In Van Wert, Ohio, the same thing was attempted but the people simply sat upon it so haul that it* never after breathed the first breath of life. In Fort Wayne they have fought the Home, an independent company, with every known art at their command, but the citizens stood manfully by their own people and as a result the Home Company have 1900 telephones while the Bell is supported by 300. We believe that when the whole thing is laid bare, the people of our city will show the right spirit and support but one telephone and that the Citi zens.

ADVANCE DEMOCRATS. The fourth week of our combination offer of the Democrat and Sentinel shows continued interest as will be shown by the long list printed below. The influx of new subscribers, and renewals as well, has far exceeded our expectations and promises to be taken advantage of by more people than we dared at first to expect. Such a favorable offer was never made before and may never be made again. Now is the appointed time: Dr. C. S. Clark, C. A. Dugan, Page Blackburn E. Fritzinger, Smith & Yager, Thomas Ehinger, E. X. Ehinger, I. N. Veley, Nick Miller, Henry Meyers, Mrs. Cris Kauffman, James K. Martz, D. E. Grim. Samuel Girod, W. A. Sipe, Michael Kuehm, H. C. Hillery, P. E. Worth, D. Smith, C. Augsberges & Co.. A. N. Jacks, James Foreman, H. H. Foreman, A. J. Foreman, J. L. Sipe, J. Bevington, W. L. Sipe, H. Hoblet, O. N. Tyndall, Gus Hawkins, A. D. Artman, Josiah Myers, Joseph Loutzenhizer, W. O. Myers, George Headington, I. G. Kerr. Nicholas Rich, . S. C. Wolfe. Douglass Dudgeon, D. E. Houser, George Winters, F. B. Robinson, Tillie Huffman, William Gilbert, P. Gephart, F. F. Fuch, L. Yager, Henry Kranz J. W. Dague, jr E. Woods, J. D. Miller, Christian Mershberger, Fred Bl tinker, W. V. Buckmaster, C. M. King, Mrs. M. Place, William Droege, Fred Stegmeyer, W. H. Broadbeck, Mrs. Tim Coffee, S. E. Brown, Fred Tague, Rev. W. H. Shepherd, King Bridge Company, Claude Roebuck, William Loutzenhizer, W. A. Fonner, A. A. Butler, M. J. Wertzberger, George Hahn, Walter Johnson. A Smart Man. Permit me through your paper to announce that Joseph Bremerkamp has left my home. He has also left his wife and five small children without food or clothing. What kind of principle must a man have to walk off and leave all the toil and care on a poor, weakly skeleton of a woman, while he himself walks the streets dressed in his best, making his appearance as a millionaire: at the same time leaving his wife and children at home in rags, without sufficient clothing to even come to town, they having nothing only what the neighbors give her or what she earns herself. I can positively assert that he has not taken to the family 825 worth of anything in the past three years. I can also positively assert that all the work he has done in the past three years would not amount to one week’s work. I have heard some people say that Joe is a smart man. The smartest thing he ever done was when he left his wife and family, thus ridding them of boarding him and of the insults, slang and abuse that he was constantly heaping upon them. I will give his history for the past six or seven years. He went into business in Fort Wayne and in less than three months he abandoned his place of business and left for parts unknown. His family were ordered out of the house for nonpayment of rent and I had to go and bring them to Decatur and take care of them. This was smart act No. 1. Then he persuaded her to move near the Presbyterian church where they lived some time until ordered out for non-payment of rent, and Joseph disappeared to parts unknown. I took them home again and this is his smart act No. 2. Then they removed to the north part of town in Mr. Hughes’ property where they lived until their goods were thrown out into the street for non-payment of rent and Joseph disappeared for parts unknown. This was smart act No. 3. I moved them to my house on the farm. He again got into their good graces and has again deserted them, leaving them in a helpless and needy condition. Joe deserves a monument and I hope the good people will erect one. J. S. Hart. (City papers please copy.) It is said that young Banks who committed suicide in Fort Wayne made a study of deadly poisons for some time before taking the fatal dose, and satisfying himself that prussic acid was the most certain to produce death, he took it . The young man’s methodical way of going about the business of taking his life, upsets the theory that people who commit suicide first become insane.

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COMMISSIONER’S ALLOWANCES. Commissioner’s Court. September term. 1899, Ordered by the court that the following named persons be allowed the amount set opposite their name and for the purpose herein specified: Noah Mangold, st’ps. exp’s, drayage &c.| 12 05 Jonas Nenenschwander, stamps 20 00 Irvin Brandyberry, stamps . 12 50 do express 2 80 John H Lenhart, stamps 3 60 H Harruff. stamps 5 25 Schafer A Loch, goods for jail 12 22 1 lolthouse. Callow & Co. goods for jail.. 11 48 N Mangold, services as auditor 575 00 J Neuenschwander, services as treas’r 425 oo Irvin Rrandyberry, service s as supt 312 00 John H Lenhart, services as c.crk 525 00 H Harruff. services as recorder 325 00 Peter Gatfer A Bro. work at court h’se. 4 50 Logansport & Wabash Valiev Gas Co., gas for court house and jail 150 00 Mills & Meyer, goods for court house .. 2 20 J r* Bowers A C<». goods for court house 3 75 T II Ernest janitor at court house 121 25 Holthouse, Callow Ac Co. goods for CH. 4 on J B Buhler & Bro. goods tor court h’se. 1 50 B Wemhoff. goods lor court house 8 50 Van Camp A Bucks pump lor CH 120 00 Smith. Yager & Falk, goods for CH... 3 00 Schafer & Loch, goodn for court house 2 lo W E Fulk, work on E W G R 6 12 do do do ... 1 70 do work on W D Ac M G R 3 50 Wm H Darwacter, sup’t W D A M G K 22 50 W E Fulk, work on E W G R 3 50 do do do 5 25 do work on WD MG R 8 75 W B Burford, lithograph bonds on E & W W. D & M G K 67 50 W K Fulk, services as surveyor 57 00 do do do .... 57 (X) do do do 21 00 do do do .... 42 00 do do do .... 19 50 do do do .... 48 00 do do do .... 40 50 do do do .... 1 75 do do do .... 33 10 do serv surv’r W W.D &M G K 437 Daniel B Mangold, post’g ditch notices. 260 Wm Hall, goods for poor 6 5) Gay Ac Zwick, goods for poor 12 00 William R Brayton, med att poor 29 75 M F Porrish, do do 13 75 CHSchink. do do .... 875 F F Newcomer. do do .... 835 J W Vizard, do do 8 :J5 D D Clark, do do 40 00 Jno Steele, goods for poor 2 00 Jacob C Milter, goods for poor 7 23 Niblick & Co. do do ”” 19 13 J H Voglewede. do do in 50 Eli Merriman, work on state line road. 502 00 E 1° do (1 ° do . 15 00 GeoW Kohne, do do do do . 300 Haecker A Neaderhouser. gds fr asylm 970 Miller Lew’s, do do 4 89 Krick. Tyndall & Co, do do 20 12 J R Graber, do do 45 36 Kern. Brittson & Beeler, do do 57 40 A N Steele & Bro, do do 11 75

Ashbaucher A Bell. do do 24 30 , Van Camp A Bucks, do do 18 55 Anderson Fence Co, do do George Chronister, work at asylum.... 19 00 Linnie Courta, do do .... 39 00 Lizzie Conrad, do do .... 11 W Emma Moser, do do ... 3*oo Clifford Lee, do do .... 25 00 Cliff Lee. do do ... 20 (0 Frank Railing. do do .... 11 W Kirsch A Sei emeyer, g’dsfr asylm 12 41 Schafer A Loch, do do 73 .» Page Blackburn. do do 1 9a H H Bremerkainp, do do M Burns. do do 5’ I l ' J B Buhler A Bro, < o do 41 30 FT Cloud. do do 29 15 J 1) Hale, do do I ' 25 J S Howers A Co, do do 21 77 Linn A Patron. do do Holthouse. Callow A Co, do do John Brock, do do 2 !*> Smith. Yager A Falk, do do 23 lb G W Archbold. do do 27 61 J R and L Graber, superintend’! do 15<» '•* C O Rayne, printing 6 00 Ft Wayne Book Binding, binding assesor’s books 26 00 Fort Wavne Foundry A Machine Co, extra bracket on tower -j w Wm Geary, nightwatchm* JJ on Clark J Lutz, county attorney J. --0 Conrad Doeh rm an. supt, lumber, nails E Woods A C<\ 2nd estimate EW G R.. 1232 19 Miller *%• Williams. 2nd est W D & M G R 192 j ’ r - Robt S Peterson, exp’se to Indianapolis Peter Ashbaucher. sheriff’s fund 126 -I Decatur Journal, printing do do .... 1J J H Lenhart, making return of mortgages, etc 3"" FI F Costello, secretary board of health 61 9b J S Bowers, bridge abutments ' X C A Neuenschwander. ex’pse to Ind’pls 16 w* John H L*nhart. judgment case No 5.815. Joseph Bremerkamp vs N Mangold et al 23 ?I , John WMe vers, supt on WD& MG R 61 J E Frit zinger, goods for county , Dan N Erwin, sheriff’s fund no J E Mann, services as confer... *■? Samuel Doak, do do •■ • • LnA Fred Reppert. do do I. the undersigned, hereby certify that tne foregoing statements are true and correct, as- ' 1 found among the records in mv office. Noah Mangold. Auditor. The new law requiring an estimate of county expenditures to be publish ed, has brought out many curious and amusing items. Union county eaislv takes the whole bakery by an item of •51,000 for blood hounds and keeping ! the same. They are evidently dogs of high degree and are to be fed on ; porterhouse stake at a summer resort hotel. Ex