Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 28 January 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT " —— — • a EVERY THLKfeDAY MOKNISG RY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. HOOPER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the r>< ttur. Indiana. 1 as »e«.ondmail matter OFFICIAL PAPER CF~ADAMS COUNTY. r THURSJU JANUARY 28,190 L 1 THE TICKET Far Joint Seoat .r JOHN w. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN F ir Auditor C. D LEWTON Fcr Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For surveyor L. L. BAUMG A R t"N ER For Coroner JOHN S. FALK For Commissioner First Dirtrict DAVID WERL ING For Commissioner Third District J M OB ABN FT Election Notice. Xbtice is hereby given that there will be held on the 19th dayof February. 1904. a democrtic primary election for the purpose of nominating candidates for mayor, marshal, city clerk, city treasurer and two oonncilmen from each ward in the city of Decatur. Indiana, to be voted for at the May, 1994. election .Said primary will be held under the rules and regulations of the Australian ballot system. All candidates will pay their assessments to the secretary of the democratic city i-ommittee on or before ten days prior to date of bolding the primary Unless assessments are so paid the name will not be placed on the ticket. „ John Mayer, Secretary. J. R. Parrish. Chairman As a sample of the fine harmony prevailing among the republican hosts of the state it is only necessary to state that at the recent district conventions .at one place the police was called in preserve order, with the Steele-Landis factions at swords’ pointe, and in the 13th after the most bitter contest Con gressmaa Buck’s contingent won by the narrow margin of a -single vote. It is quite evident that so far as the republicans of Indiana are concerned,! the dove of peace locks very much like a chicken hawk. Muncie Herald.

I i Black Suits I I I* ■ the most economical suit * 1 r . nirr f A man can buy is our Gl AH- g pr 2 I.X ANTEED BLACK SUITS. I -V/' I I I | ! — I I You can wear them the year 3 ‘fX ‘ g I g x*- i S ft ronw< *‘ ' * | V ■ We have IMs of them — ail g b> j{ £ 1 kinds, all sizes, all prices. ■ g Materials—Thibets 1| ,r L Wii?-- X B Clay Worsteds g y ' J Unfinished S Wl f X |i SX — I Serges ■ IXILIL ’ Sizes—34 to 50. B >< " Prices range from g B Jw r -~- r $9.00 to S2O I J J I Holthouse, Schulte & Co. .‘-iru,w»‘ l gsr?riin'i iwmwmbmwim m—

Many Adams county democrats are arranging to attend the democratic national convention at St. Louis July ( 6. Thus it will be seen that interest in the coming presidential campaign , is beginning to show the right spirit. , Hon. Newton W. Gilbert has an nounced his candidacy for the repub lican congressional nomination in the twelfth district, this being the first annanved opposition to Congressman Rc binson. i— In the democratic primary election held in Adams county last week, J 'hn \V. Tyndall, a wealthy manufacturer, received the majority of the votes cast for joint senator of Adams and Allen counties over John F. Snow of the same place. —Albion Democrat. Democrats of the Eighth congressional district show a strong liking for Judge Parker, of New York, as the party’s candidate for president, on the grounds that he is acceptable to both wings of the party and therefore! can poll more votes than anyone they know of. That's a politic way of looking at it.—Muncie Star Rep. i Many Allen county democrats nave already signified a willingness and pleasure in giving the nomination for joint senator to Adams county s candidate. Hon. John W. Tyndall. This is as it should be. Mr. Tyndall besides being backed by the unanimous democracy of Adams county is a gentleman of culture and large business affairs and will make a sound and safe member of the Indiana general assembly. The shaving of the bridegroom on bis wedding day is a Bulgarian eastern which, handed down from preChristian days, is still observed with due formality, especially in countrv .districts. While the barber is at his tast a dancing crowd of voung folks surounds him and the bridegroom. As the latter's hair iseut the snipping® are carefully collected by some of the girls for preservation in one of the bride’s chests. The barber, when his work is done, receives a small white linen cloth as a present and also a trifling sum of money from each person there. Then the bridgegrooni kisses the hands of the girls, washes his face and deus his welding dress, which must first be carefully weighed three times by one-of the boys.

The New Commissioner. At two o’clock Tuesday rhe commissioners. Willi tin Miller and David Werling, met at the office of County Auditor Boch and with that j official proceeded to elect a county I commissioner to fill tde vacancy caused by the death ofJabob Abi net of the third district. Martin Laughlin of Jefferson township, was chosen on the third ballot and will hold office until January first next. The vote was as follows: FIRST BALLOT. James Foreman Martin Laughlin William Lchugg 1 SECOND BALLOT. James Foreman ■ Martin Laughlin Wilson Shepherd I THIRD BALLOT. Martin Laughlin James Foreman 1 Martin Laughlin is a splendid , citizen and will make an ideal commissioner. He is a native of this • county havingbeen born in Jefferson township, where he has lived near ly all his life. He owns a rich farm there and is known as a prosperous and successful man. He served as trustee of his township from 1894 to 1898 and made a splendid officer He was educated in the local schools and also took a termat the Portland ■ Normal. He has traveled consider ably and was at one time in the drug business at New Corydon. Laughlin is a well qualified gentleman and will perform his duty; satisfactorily. He will assume hi> duties at once. The last sad rites over the remains | of Barton W. Qninn were performed yesterday afternoon at the Methodist | church, of which he was a member, I the Rev. John C. While having charge ! of ttie same. It was a sad but itnposiug funeral and a large crowd gath-, ! ered notwithstanding the cold weatn I er. to pay their last tribute of respect | to our bright and honored citizen, i The funeral was a plain statement of; the reward earned by an honorable. | honest and upright man, and when I we say this we can pay no higher| tribute. The members of the Adam- ■ ‘county bar met this morning at the■officeof B. W. Sholty and attended! the funeral in a body. The interwas made at Maplewood.

The Great Northern Indiana Fair Association have concluded o branch out a little further t>• n next fair and will add to their exhibit department a school department which every scholar in the county is eligible to try their ability in trying to land one of the coveted prizes. Although the Asm.) ciation are not offering any large inducements in this contest s-ill it is an experiment and tl y do not feel disjiosed to offer any large premiums this year and should same prove a success with which it undoubtedly will. They expect to offer to the schools all over the county much larger premium for the work and labor at the next fair. The compositions drawing, histories and penmr.anship on which they offer these inducements are not to , be of any special or particular form except what is set out in the list below. All sc’aollars should grasp at this new feature and strive to win one of the premiums offered. All work must be sent to Irvin Brandyberry. county Supreintendcnt not later than June the first, 1904, as nothing will be accepted after that date. All work will be judged bywitnesses. The followng is a list 1 of the themes that are to be written upon and the drawing to lie made and the premiums offered by- the association. 1 Penmanship, single, Ist prize, $2, 2d prize, SI: set of papers in arithmetic, Ist, S 2,2 d, SI; set of papers in geography. Ist, S’2, 2d. 81: set of papiers in United States history, let, S 2. 2d, SI: set of composition papers, 1 st. SI. 2d. -82: -.et of papers in physiology Ist. 82, 2d. ST: flil<eruian in botany.

Ist, >2. 2d. 'i: map of modern Africa, Ist, S’2. 2d, SI: map of North America, Ist, 82. 2d. -Si: nup of United States, Is:. S 2,2 d, SI; map of Adams county. ' Ist, S 2, 2d, SI: map of Indiana, Ist. >2.2d. SI: best local history of Adams county for pupils under 18 years. Ist, S 2 50, 2d. >1.50: best township displav, Ist, 82.50, 2d, 81.50. All ■ maps are to be 14x16 and on regular ■ drawing paper. All other composi- ‘ tiou papers and lutany to be in regui lar Hibernian book.

A most distressing calamity occurred two miles south of Rockford eartv Tuesday morning at the home of Henry Frisingt r, in which three children were cremated. a man named Chilcote was fatally burned and the wife of Mr. Frisinger is prostrated by exposure and grief. Frisnger lived on the Eicher! ‘ farm, in a large log house with an i 1 J elevation of two stories and earned j t livelihood by farming the place I Hi? family consisted of a w ife and I four children—P -arl ags d 13; Stella.! | aged 1( :Geoi ge aged 6; and a babe [jin arms. Pearl, Stella and George. ) »nd uncle named Chilcote, dept up) stairs. The uncle is a brother of I I Mrs. Frisinger. Monday night at , i bout twelve o’clock the family [ 4 w-.s aroused by a rearing Er- in the • • | home, whi h had begun in an ash db irrel on the outside and burned) I r hrou 'h the logs at the foot of the ; | stairway, cutting off the means of i i-'■'apt-for those above . Mr. Chil- [ cote made a dash through the flames but escaped at the expense of his II life. He inhaled the flame, and also j ; j received internal injuries which ore ! j pronounced fatal. In addition to the l| internal bums his head and should- | ers were terribly burned. The ) I children were sleeping up stairs 1 were suffocated and their bodies were cremated in the fierce tire pro- • duced by the heavy dry logs. An unertaker from Rockford visihd the ruins yesterday and gathered up ail the remains of the little ones that amid be found and packed i them in a wash boiler. Mrs. Frisinger escaped in her night clothes, u ith her baby in her arms and ran h r bare feet, through the blindstorm, one fourth of a mile, to the home of .John Dyster, where she is prostrat 'd by exp,»ure and the terrible grief which has totally overwhelmed her. Mr. ! Frisinger did all in his power to ' UTe his . hut the odds against him were too great. Tae i children perished almost within his reach. In his effort to save tbc | little ones the household goods were ! j abandoned and as a consequence, everything was totaflv destroyed C -upled with this great grief is hfact that Mr. Frisinger isapoor man and this calamity makes hi m }x>jr . irdessi. Mr. Frisimrer was a cousin ; of Jdm Flinger, the well known 'horseman of this r-ity. John re -1 afr-X?t,hvne-no-.S3~cye r .p_r(J av aftero xm frern other relatives at R-K.-l-f'.r t._ stating thst Mrs. Fri-‘■p-1 ’ 1 ' bad died ia-t evening and ; that no hopes were entertained for H nrv orMr Cail-sote. The awful aaeblent has cast a terrible gloom <>v-.t t.ie The fstby a<?cd but ■» <-•. wiJ prohab:/ le’ the only 1’ «• miily ,»j survive the terrible tr-

A Tragic Death. BEDFORD, Ind.. Jan., 23—Aoont 7 o’clock this morning graat excitant was caused by the finding of tb-dead body of a young woman inn shed owned by William U>k and his son in law, John Hendrix. The clothing was dirty and tornnrd covered with blood and the, features were unrecognizable. It ■ was not until the body had been taken to the Ferguson morgue and the features subjected to a thorough cleansing that recognition was possible. The body proved to be that of Miss Sarah Schafer, of Elkhart, teacher of Latin in the Bedford high school. The community was terribly arroused when this became known. Miss Schafer had probably been uptown and was going so her apartments, a short distance from the place where the body was found. It is the supposition that the young woman was waylaid by some one familiar with her way to and from the school builiding, and that she was assaulted. There is every evidence that she made a terrible struggle, but that she was evidently beaten down as she passed a private alleyopening into one of the prominent streets, and that she was then dragged about fifty feet to the shed, where she was killed. Hair pins were found at the mouth of th. alley, which it is supposed she tried to use as weapons against her assailant. The entire community is arroused over the terrible affair, and the police and mayor are making every exertion to obtain a clue to the identity of her assailant. There

is no mistaking the temper of tic infuriated populace, and if the scoundrel is caught a lynching will surely follow. ‘Bloodhounds wil b? used in the search. The city council has offered a reward of SSOO and the county a like amount, making a total of SI,OOO, for the arrest and conviction of the principals guilty of the assault and murder of Miss Scuhfer A postmortem shows that she must have been attacked shorty after snpper, as. when she was killed her food had not yet begun to digest. Shd left the house of Mrs. Martha Johns n, two and one half squares from her room, after eating her meal, and had started to her rooms to meet a class of pupils in a course of Latin. This was the last ever se»m of her alive, as she never reached her rooms. This horrible news was received here Late Friday afternoon gby a telegram to Jacob Schafer. Mis.Schafer was born in Decatur in July 18<i and when seven years of age was taken to Elkhart. Ind., wnere h-r parents now reside. She was popular especially among her girl friends, and it is s: id she never received special attentons from any young m in. She is the niece of Jacob and Fred Schafer, who are distracted over the terrible news. RESOLUTIONS. V.’HERAS, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to take from amongst us our esteemed comrade and past commander. G. \V. Woodward, and WHEREAS, By the death of our worthy comrade our post has lost a good and faithful member,a member who has always worked to further rhe interests}' id welfare of the boys who wore blue, therefore, be it RESOLVED, By Sam Heny Post, G. A. R. that the charter of the po.-t be draped in mourning for thirty day. RESOLVED: That we, the members of Sam Henry Post of the G. A. R . extend to the family, from whom the hns.nnd and father has been taken our heartfelt sympathy, in tills, their hour of sorrow. I RESOLD ED: that these resolu- ! tions be spread upon the records of the Po-t ; .nd lie published in the ' ity pi juts. RuS'hLX ED that a copy of this | res< hitions Ims sent to the family of [ 'Cir deceased conirad. | Smith, Moor, Lar.knuu. Committee Tiie Grand Army veterans are eon sidering the proposition to hereafter ■ c ’■ s “^ bur -VUig of old soldiers to the S.ns of \ eterans, and if there is Do sueb orj-amzed body there surely should be. It ;s argued that the veterans are so ad vam-ed in years that it is a hardship f or them to attend the . funerals of their comrades, and that m so .1 mg they run a great risk, for this reason it is desired that the sons <■. V — eharge of al| thp funerals that , Pay h-reaf!er be heid and tiiat tbe „;d soldi vls altel . d jj . [KiSsible fir them to d ■ so.

The clothing store of Friedman is getting hauling this week. Th, 4 ’’’fl'- ■; 1,-twe. 11 the L’eraral ! „’’W and their rear st..re r.,., ni ‘',**■ taken out which will feet for their clothing ' Ta- l-jys have lx-< :1 fl|| some time on ace - lnt (J j . ; room and when tin- r< ■ j »•< ; rs no fl I . der headway are complete /fl » add greatly to the genera] l anoe of the room and .-tore hiys are also contem : .i ;v . ing in a heavy stock of m jj gents and boys clothin - fl pect to have one of t<L . ■ ing stores in Notbern Indi ttna T I young men are brot:i-rs uatl J deserving of a share ~f age. and also your en..-, fl Frank Touhey, who by the police at M irion a evading arrest for rune ffi jfl after he had forged the r.a a »fl

his father inlaw (.'apt.,in VO-.ifl of Van Buren to a deposit, stated that he r. Mari m with the hope to fl! wife and baby. Af. er his arrtstfl tiegged that he be taken to family before beinig Decatur. His acti< a t J ; . il| w< !t;!d indicate that he (Li nt Wfß e -< e theinvery tueHy a> - Au . ■ ...Hf it. a saloon playing cards, wfl Frank was a fugitive th>? report was start. J had died. The report wus false fl the News has it on pretty ;fl inti.- rity that therep.-r w.,- a J m order to get him to ■■ 1. Hji to see the child and be capfjifl —Bluffton News. It seems that the artk'b tlfl was published a few ev, miys jsfl| in an issue of this ]>ai>.-r <’un?c:.sfl r he proposed new ba'.' hall l-;flp )' ar.:- t »ing considerabi. twk.zerflj the base iwll fans hi-r>-’mei doubt in a few days a stick -isl: par.y will lie organized ar.d a 3 K| mittee appointed to me. t wsthtkfli magnU'es of this leug’.;- anda-klßi admission in the same. Ashisaflj ready been stated Dee.-’ar baacfl: oase ball town and w!" stipjorfl a inning team which eov.ij eadlylMf gotten together and aid one ask you to sign for a littlestsfl and offer you a petition cOEcmii® same do not refuse to >ign saweliM get in the ring and show ■ nr sfll rounding towns that Dev..nar it fl' the push’ and do your test -.> g-H t ate the good cause along. The niission services at M..i mCatholic cLur<■!> ur.’uttnTX® i large audience at each and all who attend are very efl rhusiustic over the same. doubt the two whoiMfl and nightly deliver undresses far above any other orators have ever been here and theiriM dresses are made with .~u 1. preci>«® and eloquence that they keep AB he nets atention with an hterestsj most akin to awe. Th 1 are in charge of Father Valentine* Cincinnati and Father (1 a.: nnes» Louisville. The sermon fa>y Father Valentine -.uninspiring one, his>ubject being "UenHfl ber man, thy last- end - thou s® not sin” and he emphasized question, "are you reday • JW words of praise for this talenW minister maybe heard trom tli® l who Lave attended and the should accept the opportunity t hear his words of wisdom- ® subject last evening was ( hrisu® Marriage.” A disjxitch from ( lev. land. says : The Leader tomorrow ™ print a story to the effect that the recent pm chute of the('lo road that the syndicate, headfd ■ Edwin Hawley, preliminary • J formation of a new middle and Atlantc seaboard lineHawley is said to be working ample financial interest in th p The roads to be merged would® elude the Cover Leaf, the and Alton, the New York . Onte o and Western, the three !■ rrain-’ system that would extend east -ft the rockies through Chicago • east to the Atlantic s< il -’ Oiird outlet at tidewater IvinBoston or some other New En-J* point. Included in the prop' 411 , ’ is the extension of the < lr until a gulf port is reached > (’lover Leaf i$ half own<r cl _ Detroit and Lake Shor iinc ’ ! gives a connecting lin k ! Detroit and Toledo. The I —' , and Alton will be exend'' i 1 x , Toleao. If the Grund Tr. J I refuses the use es its trace " 1 j Detroit and Toledo a new lua , r . ■ built. Recent large purehase*' , ; 1 stock of the Ontario and ; I roaU me s?>l<l to have *’* I Mr. Hawley’s interest.