Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1904 — Page 3

DOCTOR E. J. Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. But Special Attention given to Eye. Ear Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Expert in Eitting Glasses. Thoroughly equipped for treating Eye, Ear 1 Throat and Catarrhal cases. CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postoffiee. KES I PENCE—cor. Monroe and Ninth st? Office Hours--** to 11 a. m. 2 to 4p. m. ~ Miss Wilda Colchin, daughter of John Colchin, is in the city. Miss Colchin has been in Fort Wayne hospital since last July and has been suffering with rheumatism. J. H. Schug, who has been ill for a week at the home of a relative in Lagrange returned to the city today. He is suffering with bowel and stomach trouble. Harry Werthan, who represents the Shopin-Remick & Co., of New York City, largest music house in the world, arrived today and will be the guest of his sister,Mrs. Jacob Kai ver over Sunday. A bank will be established on the exposition grounds where visitors may deposit their money for safe keeping while at the fair. Checks and drafts from reputable banks will be honored so that visitors need not carry money with them at all. Chas. Headington a prominent merchant and bank director and Walt M. Hanyes, casher of the Peoples Bank of Protland, were in the city, Thursday, inspecting the vaults of the Decatur banks, prepaiatory to installing some like them in their bank at Portland. Joseph Johnson the newly appointed member of the county council is one of the solid and substantial citizens of this Washington township.. He takes the place of Samuel Soldner, a councilmen at large, and will make a substantial member of this important branch of the county government. The condition of John F. LaFollette is much better during the last few days. He has been suffering from an abscess of the appendix and Sunday evening the abcess broke. The doctor reported Tuesday morning that everything was favorable for a speedy recovery.— Portland Sun W ,W. Briggs who was here Thursday attending a session of the county central committee, was taken ill with severe pains in the stomach and bowels. He spent most of the day on a couch in the Drs. Clark office, but recovered sufficiently to return home on the afternoon train. Jas. M. Willy, the expert pike superintendent of the east end of Adams county, Ind., is getting ready to build a new dwelling house next spring, and he and Charley Morrison have been engaged the past week in hauilng the requisite material for that purpose from Decatur.—Willshire Herald. The Keubler & Moltz Co., have completed the steel ceiling in their place of business and now have one of the finest rooms in the city. The store has been undergoing extensive repairs for some time and a great deal of new shelving has been put up to accomodate the large line of spring goods they are now receiving. Hon. G. M. Saltzgaber. of Van Wert, has authorized his friends to announce, or his friends have secured his acquiescence to the announcement of his candidacy for the democratic nomination to congress from this district. The democracy of this county will be unanimously and enthnisastically in favor of his nomination and election.—Willshire Herald.

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TT The Euterpean Society met with Mrs. J. T. Merryman last evening and enjoyed a fine time. A good program was carried out. The Society will hold the next meeting I with Mrs. Dr. Thomas. Frank Parrish who has been quite j ill for several day’s is suffering with measles, instead of pneumonia as was first supposed. He is quite ill but his physician, Dr. Thomas believes he will get along alright. Several Anderson capitalists are becoming interested in a project to back two roller polo teams selected from the star players in the Indiana league teams to represent Indiana in the polo contests to be held on the exposition ground during the fair. Kx-auditor L. C. Miller was taken suddenly ill Saturday evening, at his home on Adams street, with an attack of heart trouble. He grew worse rapidly and for several hours his condition was very serious. He improved some Sunday and was considered much bettor. His many friends hope that he may soon attain his usual good health."" Pat Touhey did not escape from Deptuy Sheriff Butler at Marion Thursday, in fact he made no effort to. They’ changed cars there and some acquaintances seeing him reported to the police that he was there and from this source came the report of his thrilling dash for liberty. Sheriff Butler received a telegram this morning from Jesse saying he had arrived at Jeffersonville in due time and that Pat is now safely’ behind prison walls. Mrs. C. E. Neptune very’ delightfully entertained the Young Matrons Club at her home on North Fifth street in honor of Mrs. Dick Townsend. Those present beside the regular members were Mrs. D. C. Townsend, Mrs. H L. Confer, Mrs. Lee Vance, Mrs. J. Q. Neptune, Mrs. Dan Beery, Mrs. John Myers, Mrs. Floy’d Brittson, Mrs. James Rice and the Misses DeVoss Hoffman and Orvis. After the fancy work was laid aside Mrs. Floyd Brittson entertained the club with one of her choice readings. The catalogue of the Lacky combination sale of road and speed horses at Cambridge City was issued last week. Over three hundred horses have been listed, one hundred horses witharecord of 2:10 or better. The entries this year, while not as large as on former occasions, show far better stock than usually offered. A consignment of twelve German coach horses is entered by H. Gerdes. These horses are imported and are expected to bring fancy prices. There are fifty fancy saddle horses listed, which are above the average. A number of Indianapoils horses are also in the catalogue. The sales will be had during the second week in March. It required but twenty minutes for the jury in the case of the state vs George Nichols, charged with riotous conspiracy to return a verdict of “Not Guilty. - ’ Arguments were made Thursday by Shafer Peterson and C. J. Lutz for the defense and J. C. Moran for the state. It was after twelve o'clock when Judge Erwin concluded his charge aand the jury retired. After organizing the jurors went to dinner. At about one o’clock they returned to the Council Chamber and took only one ballot and every jury’ man voting for acquittal. The verdict returned was, “We the jury’ find the defendant, not guilty, Jacob Magley, foreman.” The trial was on a grand jury indictment and also included charges against Abe Boegli, William Sheets and Jacob Hu isicker. It is probable these cases will be dismissed as all are similar to tho one just tried.

A few days ago a registered let-I tre was delivered at Portland which ’ has been enroute for fourteen; i years. It was mailed a Detroit in ! I 1890 and addressed to a newspaper | office, Portland Indiana and which has since gone out of business and I some difficulty was experienced in finding the owner. The letter had gone to Fort Wayne and was placed in the postaffice safe there, where it became hidden in some way’ behind an iron partition and remained three until last week. The Methodist book comimttee at Cincinnati has decided to recommend to the General Conference at Los Angeles next May the consolidation of the Cincinnat, Chicago and New York book concerns. This means that the forces of these house will placed under one roof. But whether the combined house will be in Cincinnati, Chicago, New York or elsewhere, no recomendation will made by the book commitee. One hundred and ten thousand dollars was appropriated for superanuated ministers as against $7,500 last year. The salaries of the editors publishing agents and others were confirmed for the year. A mercanttile company pasted a large poster on a bridge. The wind caused it to flutter and scare a team. This tiped the wagon over, broke two dozen eggs, a hame strap, the driver’s leg and an axle tree. They then ran away and run through a garden tipping a bee hive over, the bees stung the young lady of the house until her lips swelled to such proportions that her best fellow left and went to the Phillippines. The driver sued the firm for damages; one hundred witnesses were called and when they were asked what was on the poster none of them could tell. Moral: Paste your advertisement on the pages of the home paper and keep it alive—not the paper, but the ad. The contract for the steel bridges for the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction Company’s line was let Thursday at the office of W. H. Fledderjohann, the company’s manager, to the the Newcastle Bridge Company of Indianapolis. The contract calls for eight steel bridges, large and small for $7,100 and are to be completed by July Ist. The bridge over the St. Mary’s river near the power house, will be a steel truss bridge, instead of an arch bridge, as was first figured on. Mr. Fledderjohann stated today that the change was made on account of the objection being made to the piers necessitat'd by an arch bridge. When asked when the railway would be completed, Mr. Fledderjohann stated that they would have cars running over the line sometime in September. Tho Cromer-Dunlap battle of ballots is scheduled for March Ist. one week from Tuesday and J. M. Frisinger, chairman of the county and city central committee is busy arranging for the event, which is the most important occasion in history for republicans of this and other counties where primaries have been unknown. Mr. Frisinger has designated the following voting places for the big event: Preble, tp., Magley, Bob Case store. Root, Monmouth, house of R. Lord. Union, Residence of W. W. Mumma. Kirkland, Election school house. Washington, residence of Alex Peoples. St. Marys, North, Bobo. St. Marys South, Pleasant Mills. French, Election school house. Monroe, north, barber shop. Monroe, middle, at B precinct of Berne, Town Hall of Berne. Blue Creek, north, Steele. Blue Creek, south, Prarie School house. Hartford, Brushwood school house. Wabash, North Wabash and Ceylon B, Ceylon. Geneva, at the Calaboose. Jefferson, Buckmaster school house. Jefferson east, at the Bucher school house. Decatur, Ist ward and B precinct 2nd ward at Vail’S faotoiy. Decatur, 3rd ward and A precinct 2nd ward, Holthouse Livery barn. At this elcetion, candidates for township officers will also be nominated in Washington, St. Marys and Union township.

I Frank Smith the popular young ■ harness man is wreathed in smiles and indeed he has good reason to be ! so. A bouncing girl baby came Saturday to brighten the home and complete a happy family. Mrs. Smith and the babe are both doing nicely. A. M. Acher, special agent here for the Whitney Oil Company who have the land leased north of the city, and who was to locate a well on said territory received a telegram yesterday evening to start for his home at Grove City, Pennsylvania at once, as his father was dying and could not possibly live. This will stop all oil operations that Mr. Acher has had in view for a short time,but he will return here again as soon as possible and take up the work where he left off. The exact location of this well Mr. Acher was not able to inform us and under the circumstances we did not feel inclined to force a conversaion or opinion from him. Charles W. Dunn, who was convcted for murdering Alieo Cothrell at Wallen, Ind., two years ago, and concealing her body in a cistern, is to have a new trial. The supreme court some time ago affirmed the judgment of convicton, the opinion of the court then being written by Judge Downing, and he and Judge Monks still adhere to their opinion that Dunn was rightly convicted, but a rehearing was granted and other three judges Thursday decided that certain testimony of the murdered girl’s sister was improperly admitted. The sister, Edna Cothrel, was permitted to testify that Dunn had told her about his former relations with a woman who w’orked in his family, and who accompanied him to Chicago during the worlds fair. One of the important questions to come up at the general conference of the Methodist church to be held in Los Angeles in April is the division of the North Indiana conference,in which Decatur is located, giving, a strip off the west side of the territory’s to the North west Conference. In this terriory which is it is proposed to take away from this district are about 11 good stations including Elkhart, Southßend and Mishawaha. The Northern conference is, of course, opposed to the division and to giving to the other conference any of its territory. There will be six lay and six ministerial delegates to go from this conference and candidates are waging active campaigns. The delegates have all expenses paid on the trip to Los Angeles but receive no salaries. The ice dealers of the city that handle natural ice are not looking upon the continued cold weather with as great joy as an ice man is supposed to be in cold weather. They are somewhat exasperated, for nearly all of them have “too much of a good thing.” Their crops were harvested by the middle or latter part of December, from one or two months earlier than is usual, and now the greater part of the ice that is forming must be allowed to go to waste. The average thickness of the ice at the present time is about twelve inches. The ice that has been harvested has been of good quality, but the dealers dislike to see the remainder of the crop go to waste and have filled their ice houses to the limit. Otto Mumma, a twenty year only boy, who has already attracted the attention of the police somewhat, was arrested at seven o’clock Friday by Sheriff Butler at Coffee & Baker’s restaurant, where he was eating supper. Some two . years ago the boy was arrested for robbing Mauller’s store at Hines and was sentenced to the reformatory at Plainfield where he served until a few months ago, when he was released on parole. A short time after returning here he engagI ed in a fight and was indicted by the November grand jury for asl sault and battery. Before he could be arrested he left here and w ent • to Missouri from where he returned at six o’clock last evening and an hour later was in jail. When Sheriff Butler and Mumma came out of the restaurant, the boy , made a dash for liberty. The officer grabbed him and both fell on the side walk. The slippery kid was then handcuffed and spon landed in a cell. The authori ties at Plainfield -were here after him during his absence. They will . be notified and the boy taken back there within a few days for violati ing his parole. He was released this afternoon on SIOO bond. •

; Wililam S. Hale, •who has been * emloyed at Patterson’s mill for i some time has resigned and returned to his former home at Fort Wayne. At the Dougherty sale at Wabash Thursday, Beery & Holthouse’s famous pacer Kingmore,was offered for sale and was bid off by A. B. Moore, who entered him. A bid had been put on him of SI4OO but the owners refused to let him go at that and had Moore purchase him for them. They have not yet decided whether they will race him this year - or not. It was reported today that the Empire glycerine company would again erect a nitro factory north of the city. Manager Wentworth stated that the company had no intention of doing so might decide soon to establish a magazine on their old factory site. They have many wells to shoot in the Wells county field and they need a store house near the city for that kind of worn:.—Bluffton News. Christian M. Neuensch wander died at his home about a mile west of Berne at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning. On Friday he was at Berne with team and wagon, seemingly in usual health. His sudden departure a few days later came as a shock to his bereaved family and to the community. Some time ago the deceased received injuries on his head while engaged in blowing stumps on the farm and it is thought that probably death came to him so suddenly because of former injuries. The | immediate cause of his death was apoplexy. The deceased was born in Munster, Switzerland, Sept. 20, 1864, and immigrated to this country 27 years ago. His age at his death was 39 years, 4 months and 25 days. He leaves a wife and 6 children, 3 brothers, 4 sisters and his aged mother to mourn his sudden demise. Funeral services were held at his home Thursday afternoon at 1:30. Interment was made in the cemetery on the adj on ing Abr. Moser farm.—Berne Witness.

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Mrs. Alice Peterson i s j.isy oom--1 pleting arrangements for moving her millinery shop from the room she has occupied on Madison street, to the Niblick building on Second street formerly occupied by the News office. Work of filing up the new room was begun Tuesday and she will probably open the store in the new rooms by March Ist. She will carry a larger stock than ever and will be prepared to show a fashionable and newest display of spring styles ever shown in Decatur At Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virgnia, on February 22, 1732, one hundred and seventy two years ago, George Washington, the father of this great country was born. His name and history are well known or should be by every man. woman and child. The anniversary was fittingly observed Friday in the different schools, but no special services were held in the city today. In honor of the occasion the mail carriers and post office employees had a hoilday.as did also the officials and employes of the Old Adams county and National Banks. In years to come we venture to say this will be one of the most popular of all our holidays. The celebratedjFaylor-Studabaker case has again been set for trial and according to the present program will come up for trial . in the Adams court March 14h. The case is to set aside the transfer of a farm by Miss Catherine Faylor to D. D. Studabaker on the ground ! that she was of unsound mind at the time the transfer was made. The suit to declare her of unsound mind was tried during her life time and the jury disagreed. Before the case could be tried again Miss Faylor died and the suit to set aside conveyance was brought by ’her heirs. On the first trial the plaintiff’s won but the defendant took a new trial as of right and the case was venued to Adams county where on trial last January the jury disagreed and now another trial must be had.— Bluffton News.