Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1900 — Page 1

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VOLUME XLIII.

- The case of the State vs W. H. Ramev, practicing medicine without a license, will come up before the Adams circuit court today. Miss Bertha Deininger entertained a number of her girl friends at an old fashioned taffy pulling at her home on Madison street Tuesday evening. George Archbold, who has been confined to his home during the last two months with the lapnppe, is recovering slowly. He is able to sit up a while each day, and with good care will soon be able to be out. It is positively believed by many of our citizens that the Chicago & Erie railway will buy the Clover Leaf at the sale which occurs April 2. If such is the case, we may look for a business boom of a large size . A masquerade surprise upon Miss Sophia Mangold at her home on Fifth street furnished no end of enjoyment for the voting people who participated. The usual games were indulged in and the refreshments served made the affair a very pleasant one. New cases filed with County Clerk Johnson since our last report are Fred Schafer, Chalmer Schafer and Noah Loch vs John Drake, complaint on note, $l5O. Julius C. Schugand Chas. Sehug vs John T. Kelley and Peter J. Brvan, complaint on note, demand >125. James W. Cook, ex parte, admitted to bar. Friends and relatives of Mrs. Joseph Harris perpetrated a surprise upon that estimable lady last. Friday evening at her home on North Fifth street. About a dozen guests were present and a bountiful supper was served. The occasion was in honor of the anniversary of Mrs. Harris’ birthday and several handsome presents were given her. I. H. Wygrant, the man who was injured a few days ago while employed as fireman on the C. & E. railway, is still at the Miesse House, but is recovering rapidly and will be taken to his home in Huntington county Saturpav. His father has lieen with him for several days. His right arm which was the most seriously injured is healing as nicely as could be expected. Misses Minnie and Grace Coffee entertained a few of their friends at the home of their father, T. S. Coffee, on First street Sunday evening. Among the guests were Misses Turesa and Clara Zeaser, Erin Bobo and Messrs Nick Shaffer and Ned Bobo. The enticing game of cards furnished the principal amusement and the evening passed only too quickly for the young folks. Roman J. Holthouse is at Columbus, Ohio, preparing to start on his spring trip for the well known shoe firm of Wolf Bros. He is entitled to a helper this year and has chosen a young man from Evansville who has had several years experience in the business and who will no doubt make a valuable man. Roman will make the larger i cities of Indiana while his assistant will take in the smaller cities and towns. The Portland telephone franchise, recently granted to Boyd and Lally, bids fair to be a Bell concern. The Bell had a representative in Portland yesterday and it is said tried to purchase the franchise these gentlemen recently secured from the city. An offer was also made to put in the entire plant for Boyd and Lally, equipping it with Bell instruments and connecting it with the Central Union system. Any city which grants a rival franchise to an independent system. in the long run seems to be panting it to the Bell monopoly. Ridgeville News.

~.^J?e re are ’Hdications that Rev. Dr. " ■ D. Parr, pastor of the Wayne street chnreh in Ft. Wayne, may be chosen a presiding elder at the coining session °*he North Indiana conference, winch meets in Elkhart early in April, •t is certain that the conference will * called upon to make many pastoral changes, for the reason that a large number of pastors have served the five tears permitted in one appointment, ms is true also of the presiding elder*. and several of these officials have wrved the limit. Among them is F- T. Simpson, who has ably ~,Va e °ffice of presiding elder of lhe Fort Wayne district. fcAt a mass meeting of the republiat the court house in this city ■aturday, delegates and alternates ere selected to attend the state and ougres.sional conventions. A committe composed of Messrs Joseph tTrnr J os eph Beery, Lee Reefey, ■lark M. Aspy and B.'W. Quinn were i the chairman to nomi- . , e delegates which were reported, T-u, an d are as follows: • he state convention: R. B. Allison, pls nt2 ?“ger, William Fields, C. D. and McClain, ‘J. W. Dague, Pnc»i e ,? on K ress i°nal meeting: John iwlF o’ Ehrman, Curtis Camp- ” • Ray, Jesse Snyder, Lewis Havalin, A BuckA’ Graham, Barney Kalver, an d Davis Dailey. Realm;', 0 - 11 ? endorsing state and national con<>J lS ra ‘ions were adopted and m? lOna ' delegates instructed to for pa e ' r votes f° r George W. Cromer lOr congressman.

“How Hopper was side-traked” played to a good house last night and gave excellent satisfaction. The bad weather, no doubt, kept many away who would otherwise attended. At a meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at the home of Mrs. W. A. Kuebler Tuesday afternoon a handsome quilt which had been made by the society was voted to Mrs. D. D Clark. Frank Gessinger, one of the boys at this office, come down a little late last Thursday morning with a full sized smile, a hand full of cigars and the announcement that a boy baby had just arrived at his home. Everybody happy and doing well. J. H. Beatty, of Blue Creek township. has purchased a forty acre farm in this, Washington township, and this week is moving to same with a view of making that his permanent residence. His Blue Creek home will be looked after by a son. A number of young peple gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Hendricks Sr., at Monroe last Monday evening and spent the time very pleasantly. The following were present: Misses Mertle Valentine, Mae Sells, Pearl Hendricks and Blanche Smith and Messrs Ben Smith, Harvey H. Hocker and Jesse Sells. A car load of splendid road horses were shipped to Chicago Monday by the firm of Beery, Andrews & Bremerkamp, and were accompanied by Ansel Bremerkamp. This firm is a new but exceptionally strong one and is comi>osed of Henry Bremerkamp, Lewis Andrews and Crist Beery. They are in the business for good and will surely make a winner of it. Horace G. Murphy, professor of political science and economics in the Eastern Indiana Normal University at Muncie, was in the city several days last week and the first of this looking after the interests of that institution. He reports this new college to be very much on the “boom.” over GOO students being enrolled. While here he visited our schools and spoke very highly of them and their management.

“J. N.,” philosopher and crusher of the mysterious force stronger than brain, was in town a short time Thursday evening and while here made us a friendly call. He said he never felt lighter in his life and that with the aid of his numerous friends he would soon be able to lift the terrible pressure. His health is as good as usual and his appearance better than when he met with the M. E. conference last year. William Beiber, a well to do citizen of Van Wert, Ohio, isin the city receiving treatment for a cancer which is located upon the right heel. He. has undergone fifteen operations within the last few years without help, and hearing of the success of Clark Bro’s, is here to take their cure. He has suffered from many causes in his life he says, but never endured the pain he has been suffering within the past few months. Albert Buhler has received a letter from S. E. Smith, superintendent of the Eastern Insane hospital at Richmond, in which he says: “There is no improvement in mental case of Mrs. Emma Buhler. She is restless, delusional and careless in her habits, taking no interest in her personal appearance or surroundings. She has a good apetite, sleeps well as a rule and her general health is improved.’ The case is a very strange one and has baffled the asylum physicians. The usual rule is that when the general health can be built up the mind will improve, but this is not so in this case. At the beginning of this century, Indiana, was a territory in the wilderness, for the possession of which the whites and Indians contended in a hard struggle for the mastery. len years later gave us about 25,000. In 1816 when it was admitted as a state the population was about 100,000: In 1860 we numbered a million which has steadilv increased until today we can count 2.844.982 from the latest statistics obtainable. The Lnited States has made the greatest advance of any country in the world, anil Indiana with her 92 counties is up to any other state in growth and morality. In about ten days a new enterprise will be developed in our city, which will be known as the J. E. Moser Engraving Company. They will undertake the art as designers and engravers of photos for all illustrative purposes. Zinc-etchings and copper halftones from newspaper plates to high grade catalogue half-tones will be produced, while special attention will lie given to commercial designing and engraving such as letter and bill heads, cards, buildings, portraits, autographs, monograms, embossing plates and maps. The work is in charge of a practical engraver and designer, and will lie a success we have no doubt. Considerable expense has been entailed in the opening of this new industry, but as the ternt<> is unlimited and the work equal to that of any engraver, there is V a J why they' should not succe«i. At present their business wdl be> con ducted from the studio of J. E. Moser, the promoter and general manager. ,

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1900.

! Special Policeman Pennington has : bis right arm in a sling this week as a j result of a severe attack of rheumaj tism, which has located itself there and refuses to be moved. The arm is verv painful and does not allow its victim a very great amount of sleep. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Daniel entertained a number of friendsat a Washington party Friday evening. The guests were costumed in colonial style and the games of the evening were fashioned after the ancient pastimes. Dainty refreshments also added to the pleasures of the guests. A letter from Robert Ehinger who is now a member of the regular army, stationed at Fort Slocum, New York, says that he is just recovering from a | severe sick spell. He is fairly well i satisfied with his duties and has no ! word of complaint to offer. He expects to go with his company to the Philippines within a few weeks, and is anxious' to see active service. Harry Miesse, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, representing the Pennsylvania Railway company, is in the city taking depositions and otherwise attending to legal business in the ease of the G. R. & I. railway vs the T. St. iL.&K. C. railway. The suit grows f out of a wreck which happened some- | time ago, when a Clover Leaf train | dashed into a G. R. & I. freight and j demolished several cars. Our cash list who have paid subscriptions this week include August Conrad, Theodore Lengerick, T. M. Gallogly, Mason Houghton, A. C. Gregory. Albert Reppert, John SchurIger, Dan Runyon, Lafayette Bridge Company, M. V. B. Archbold, Louis C. Zwiclt, J. W. Chapman, W. H. Koldeway, J. V. Laisure, Chris Eickhoff, C. W. Crist, jr., Levi N. Hendricks, and Joe Christman. The revival services at the Methodist church are still being held by Rev. W. H. Daniel and with good attendance and success. The sermons are interesting and the attendance quite good. They will continue throughout the week and as much longer as Rev. Daniel believes necessary. The quarterly services with communion will be held next Sunday at which time Elder Simpson of Fort I Wayne will assist. Rev. Edward Campbell, pastor of i the Presbyterian church at Ossian preached his farewell sermon Sunday. ! He and his wife left yesterday for their future homeat Maywood, Illinois, Rev. Campbell having accepted a unanimous call from the First Presbyterian church at that place. Maywood is one of Chicago’s beautiful suburban towns, situated on the west side on the Northwestern and Chicago Great Northern railroads, and also connected by surface and elevated electric roads. A strike of rather insignificant dimensions occurred at the hoop mill Tuesday, but has already been peaceably settled by the company discharging for good those who did not care to work. The mill is the property of the Decatur Egg Case company, and about a dozen boys, who are employed at light work, receiving seventy-five cents per day, caused all the trouble. They thought they should have more money and decided upon a strike as the proper way in which to secure the raise. As there are a number of boys looking for just such places their positions were soon filled and the factory kept right on making hoops. The oratorical contest being arranged by Superintendent Brandyberry 1 gives evidence of arousing more interest in the schools of the county than any similar enterprise ever attempted. The contest will take place at Bosse’s I opera house on Friday March 9, and on the program will be represented Ihe schools at Bobo, Berne. Peterson. Monmouth, Monroe and Pleasant Mills. Each school has made- their I selections, as will be seen by a program elsewhere. The prizes offered I are thirty per cent, of the net proceeds las first prize, twenty per cent, for second and fifteen per cent, for third The remaining thirty-five per cent, will be equally distributed between the defeated contestants. Five hundred people listened to the Rev. Frank Crane, D. D., of Chicago, > last Thursday evening and heard him 1 deliver an eloquent, interesting, unique and able lecture upon the subject, ; - What would you do with it?” Rev. Crane was secured as one of the attractions of the lecture course and by many he was thought the strongest lecture of the season. His Jargument at times was humorous, at others brilliant and witty and at others sober and sincere. He showed that the great gem of one’s life is ••youth,” at which time the character and life of the man or woman is i moulded. He paid a glowing tribute to Indiana’s famous poet, James Whitcomb Riley, and to the martyr pres- ■ ident Abraham Lincoln. His manner was pleasing and his delivery unaf j fected and while a few were displeased the majority of the patrons were delighted. At any rate he told many truths and presented them in away to make a lasting impression. Rev. Crane is considered one of the brightest men of Chicago and is often quoted in the leading papers of that city.

Clerk Elmer Johnson came home from Pittsburg last Friday night, where he had lieen disposingof several car loads of draft horses for the firm of Booh, King & Johnson. The horse market is slightly on the boom, which means a good business for those engaged in shipping. Rev. Duckett is conducting a series of meetings at the Presbyterian church this week and is being assisted by Rev. Lloyd of Convoy, Ohio. The sermons are interesting and are quite well attended. The regular communion services will be held Sunday at which time quite a number of new members will enter the church. Mrs. B. W. Brewer of Pleasant Mills, died Thursday night after an illness of several months. Her death was the result of a cancerous growth, and although everything possible was done for her, no relief could be obtained. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon by Rev. L. D. Brown. The husband and several children survive her. J. Fred France, of Huntington, came over between trains last Thursday and proceeded with malice aforethought to give his many friends the glad hand. J. Fred is being seriously mentioned as the democratic candidate forjudge of the Huntington circuit court, and his many thousand friends within the borders of Adams county hope he will not only be a candidate but the real thing—Judge France. The city council of Peru has authorized an issue of §40,000 worth of bonds, the amount to be expended in giving citizens well water for domestic use, and has decided to receive bids for both brick and asphalt for street improvements. It is estimated that the street paving will cost $60,000. As to whether tie city will build its own electric light plant has not been decided. Both home and outside capital is competing for a light franchise. Uncle Jonathan Fleming, oneof the oldest and best known democrats in the county, has been confined to his home most of the winter with ailments of a somewhat serious nature. There has never been a campaign since Mr. Fleming reached his majority age, that he was not actively engaged in the same for the interest of his party. He has grown gray in the cause. His many friends hope the illness will soon be overcome, and that Uncle Jonathan wdl be himself once mare. Members of the Catholic Benevolent Legion gave a progressive pedro party Thursday night at their hall on Madison street to which were invited their friends and family and the occasion was a merry one, as are all the events of this kind participated in by this society. The games were interesting and exciting, but Barney Terveer and Mrs. Henry Schulte proved themselves the champions and secured first prizes. Prizes for miserable playing and hard luck were given to Dr. H. F. Costello and Mrs. Dan Niblick. The occasion was enlivened by the serving of refreshments. Henry Kranz, victim of the shooting affair which occurred at Geimer’s Bottling works two weeks ago, is getting along nicely, according to reports from the attending physicians, and the report that his death is expected soon is without foundation. He has been improving steadily and was able to sit up several hours yesterday and to walk across the room. Although there is yet some danger and circumstances may yet arise which would cause his death, the indications are that he will soon recover. The most dangerous feature of his illness has been a light attack of pneumonia which causes coughing spells and these necessarily cause an irritation of the bullet wound. During the past two days, however, bis cough has subsided and his physicians believe that he is on the mend. There has been no society event in Decatur for many months whereat was enjoyed so good a time as at the six o’clock dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas and Mrs. Jessie Townsend at the latter’s home Friday evening. The feast served was delicious and complete with everything necessary to make it so. Following this part of the program came an evening of games and fun, full of the pleasures and enjoyments only present at an informal entertainment, when all are happy and congenial. Among the guests who added their presence to the gay scene were Messrs and Mesdames F. M. Schirmeyer, Fred Mills, C. A. Dugan, W. H. Nachtrieb, A. L. DeVilbiss. John W. Tyndall, L. G. Elliiigham, A. R. Bell, F. W. Dibble, Harry R. Moltz. P. G. Hooper, C. S. Niblick, J. C. Patterson, J. K. Niblick, and Mrs. Jacob Schafer, Mrs. Jane Crab. Mrs. R. K. Allison, Mrs. Will Winch, of Fort Wayne, and Mr. John Niblick. Miss Marie Patterson and Miss Margie Hanna, of Fort Wayne, assisted in entertaining the guestsand did their duties nicely, Dancing the Virginia reel, with Alex Bell ring master and “caller off” was one of the features participated in, while those who did not have a longing for the fantastic indulged in cards and other games. Many were the expressions of “the best time I ever had” and we can only say “ ’tis true.”

The following marriage licenses have been issued since our last report: John Topp and Elizabeth Sheldon. Levi Klopfenstine and Rachel Stuckey, John W. Kramer and Stella L. Addlewine, William Cook and Mary Stall Brothers. Two blank licenses were issued. The entertainment at Bosse’s opera house last week, “Hearts of Blue Ridge,” by Dorathy Lewis and a clever company, was one of the best attractions ever seen in the city. Each and every member of the company is a star, and they deserve good houses wherever they go. Since leaving here Dell Locke has gotten into bad company, he last week being elected vice-president of what is pleased to Ire termed the Oil Belt Traction company, an angry corpora- : tion that proposes to build an electric ; railroad from Huntington to Portland ■by way of Bluffton. The enterprise ; is now safely built on paper, but it is | said that it is far enough along to inI sure its realization on a more substanI tial basis. In the due course of events we may expect Dell to blossom out as a fullfledged railroad magnate. That little town of Bluffton is a bad place. Clark Brothers have had their office remodeled this week and the same is now a model of neatness and cleanliness. The walls have been papered and the interior of the office alterated. Among the improvements is a labatory, an operating room, a ladies waiting parlor and a commodious reception room. The rooms are all tastily arranged and it takes but a glance to observe that these physicians are prepared to do credit to their profession. They have established an enviable reputation in this and other counties and scarcely a day passes without them receiving a good patronage therefrom. The boys about town who love a joke better than a square meal have been having a regular picnic this week with what is known as the trick cigar. This little article looks like a high grade ten cent smoke and indeed it is, but underneath this outer cover- . ing of good old Havana is hidden a I spring which very much resembles a I hair pin, the two ends being fastened I with a powdered string. When the I cigar burns down to the string the spring cuts loose and a shower of tobacco and a hearty laugh from the audience is the general results. Among the boys who have been up against this real article are some of our prominent business men whose names would surprise our readers. In fact nearly all our boys excepting Jim Place, Charley Niblick, Dallas Hower and Lase Meibers have tried the "plagued thing.” Business in the circuit court this week as shown by the docket is as follows: State of Indianaws Harry Straub, larceny, motion by defendant to quash indictment, sustained. Appeal prayed and granted to the supreme court of Indiana. State vs Dick Parr and Hall Cottrell, interrupting social, continuing recognizance filed by defendant and approved by the sheriff. Bond approved by the court. Robert Boyd vs Elias Tanney and Wesley Boyd, chattel mortgage, left off docket by agreement. Elias Tanney vs Wesley Boyd, from J. P. court, left off docket by agreement. Wm. H. Thorn vs Samuel Deulinger, from Jay county, now being tried. Mary A. Lusch vs James Poole and Perry Stoffel, from Allen county, complaint and cause of action dismissed. Isabel Williams vs Peter B. Manley et al, motion overruled. Exception granted. Time during term to file bill. Joseph H. Brown vs Ernst H. Hammond et al, note S6OO, demurrer by Brown to the petition of John W. McCray. Mary E. Huffman vs Aaron C. Huffman, divorce, $2,000, motion by defendant for new trial. Elsie Stacy vs Douglass Dudgeon, replevin, offer filed by Dudgeon to allow judgement to be taken against him in the sum of $55 and costs filed at 10:45 a. m. February 27. 1900. Louisa Bradley vs David E. Studabaker, motion for cost bond by defendant, overruled, and two days granted to file bill. Daniel Railing vs Mary Brown, damages, $5,000, demurrer by defendants to complaint. Christ Hoffstetter vs Peter Soldner, administrator, note $232.98, judgement on demurrer against plaintiff for costs. Lizzie Hendricks vs Hubert Fopp, replevin, answer filed by plaintiff to plea in abatement. Heaton, Sims & Co. vs D. M. Hensley, notes $475. Answers to defendant’s interrogatories filed by plaintiff. Isaac Peterson vs The Prussian National Insurance Company, demurrer to complaint overruled and answer filed. Set for trial sixth Tuesday. Martha Schlegle vs Augustus Schlegle, account $448.93, motion that defendant be required to make second paragraph of his answer more specific overruled and reply filed. James Middleton vs Frank Gast, motion by defendant to stay proceedings until costs in former suit are paid. Alonzo L. Jaqua vs Susie Jaqua. to quiet title, set for sixth Monday. Solomon Moser \s Christian Stuckey, administrator, petition by administrator for reappraisement of oil company stock and so ordered. C. J. Lutz administrator will of Mary A. Krick, will probated.

CIRCULATION 2800 WEEKLY

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Miss Rose Christen entertained a crowd of friends at six o’clock dinner Tuesday evenins’, which was attended by Messrs and Mesdames F. V. Mills, J. W. Tvndall, L. G. Ellingham, Frank Christen, C. K. Bell, C. O. France and J. H. Heller, and Miss Dora L. Peterson and Herman J. Yager. The dinner was a dainty, delicious and complete one and was most heartily enjoyed, and was followed by an evening of games, including carom, whist, grand, etc. Miss Rose, as every one knows, is a charming hostess and was at her best. Her sisters, Misses Kittie and Dollie Christen, assisted. John S. Bowers, local manager of the Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas Company, and R. K. Allison, cashier of the Old Adams County Bank, left Thursday night for a several weeks’ trip through the south. They will visit a number of the larger cities, including New Orleans, Nashville, Mobile and others, and will then go to southern Florida for a two weeks’ fishing tour. They will very probably visit a few days with R. B. Allison and family who are spending the winter at Braidentown, Florida. Both gentlemen have visited the southern cities before and know exactly how to enjoy themselves. They expect to attend the famous Mardi Gras festival at New Orleans. The three story buildings of Decatur are to have fire escapes and W. A. Cruse and a force of workmen, representing Ellis & Helfenberger, of Indianapolis, are here this week placing them in position. They are at work on the Odd Fellows building and the K. of P. Hail at present and will probably get all of the buildings properly trimmed by next week. The escape they are putting up is said to be of the very latest devise and pattern and are the style used in all the larger cities of the state, being the ones recommended by the state board of building inspectors. They are constructed of steel and are in the form of a stairway, which extends down to within ten feet of the ground, from where one can reach the ground by means of a ladder, which when not in use is drawn up and kept at the landing. Many miraculous escapes have been recorded in this county and reported to our readers, but never has there been an accident in which death seems only to have been averted by the hand of providence, as the one which occurred in this city Saturday. The day was a cold and blustering one, the wind blowing with terrible force, and William Gilbert, wife and child who were driving into town failed to hear the approach of the west bound Chicago & Erie fast passenger train due here at 12:23. They were approaching the Mercer street crossing and Mr. Gilbert, as was his usual custom when approaching a railway crossing, looked out to see if a train was coming. He neither saw nor heard the fast line which was tearing along trying to make up a half hour lost time. As the horse which he was driving reached the track it jumped and Gilbert held it back just long enough for the big engine to strike the buggy with full force, throwing it and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert fully forty yards. The top of the buggy and the child, a two months old babe were lodged on the pilot of the engine and carried past the station, a distance of two squares. The accident had been witnessed by Charles Meibers and Frank Schumacker and as the train pulled in and they saw the buggy top hanging to the engine they thought it the body of a man and hastened to assist him. Their bewilderment to find instead an infant, bundled in several quilts and comforts and riding uninjured upon the pilot for that distance, can well be imagined. Careful hands lifted the little one down and Mrs. John Rex took charge of it. The child had not even awakened and was not injured or bruised in any manner. How such a thing could happen is beyond us to say and we can only believe that He who takes care of us all must have cared for this little babe. The other occupants of the buggy however did not fare so well, although the fact that they still live and that the chances are strongly in their favor for recovery is alone a miracle. As stated above they were thrown many feet and fell within a short distance of each other. They were carried to the home of M . R. Coon and the company’s physician Dr. S. D. Beavers, summoned. The examination proved that Mr. Gilbert was quite seriously injured, three ribs and the right collar bone being b ken, besides receiving several cuts and bruises over the entire body. Mrs. Gilbert was badly bruised and her limbs have been so swollen that she is still confined to the house and very probably will be for several weeks. They were afterwards taken to the home of the injured man’s brother George Gilbert, in the city, and late reports are that they are recovering as'rapidly as possible. The buggy was completely demolished and the horse quite badly hurt. The crossing where the accident happened is the worst in the city, and petitions have been presented several times for a watchman but without success and it is quite possible that the people will now demand one.