Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1904 — Page 2

The Jay county democrats nominated their county ticket today. Judge Smith being remoninatel for judge by acclamation. The remainder of the nominees are William Garwood for sheriff, Wt-sley Logan for representative, Charles Ash craft for treasurer and Dell Dragoo for prosecuting attorney. Catholic ladies of Decatur and Hesse Cassel will form branches of the Catholic Benevolent league and the prospects are good for a large membership in both places. The work of organizing is in charge of the Messrs. T. J. McLaughlin, Harry Kinnet, Julian Franke, Philiy B. Wyss, J. J. Kohrman and Mrs. J. E. Christman. —Fort Wayne JournalGazette. Workmen are busy stretching wires for the electric day current and Mayor Coffee informs us that two weeks more will find the system in good working order. The boilers are being walled up and will soon be ready for use and customers may within a few days use elecricity for light or power in unlimited quantities and at any time of day or night. It is possible that the current maybe turned on next week but Mr. Coffee said he thought it better to wait until everything was in readiness and then no shut downs wij[ be necessary. Ths mysterious lady in black was seen again Wednesday and her indentity is still unsolved, although an effort was made last evening to see her face but at the last minute she easily eluded her pursuers. It was just shortly before the fire whistle blew last night that she was seen on the west side of the court house by the nightmen working at the Murray house, who at once proceeded to investigate bu were frightened away before they could distinguish anything.’ This made the boys mad and they set a big dog on her trail, and the mysterious lady was given a nice chase down third street the dog soon returned and that was the last seen of the woman in black. She was also seen the night before on Winchester street by several reliable parlies. She is certainly a mystery. A meeting of the stockholders of the Ft. Wayne and Springfield interurban railway was held here Wednesday at the interurban office. Not all the members being present but enougih rto make a quorum. The members got right down to business and elected their board of directors who will hold for the ensuing yaer they being W. H. Fl edder johann, B. A.Fledderjohann, Edwin Redderjohann, John H. K oenig, C- Vogt, Willis Armstrong a ud Charles Dirkson, immediately *f ter this other business of iniport inse was transacted by the stockh ilders after which the meeting adjourned. Immediately after the ; adj ournment of the stock holders. ■ 1 he newly elected board of directors] went into session and elected their officers tne same being W. H. Fled- ■ d erjohann president and general manager, Edwin Fedder johann first' vics president, Willis Armstrong s e.eond vice president B. A. Fedderj oh ann secretary and John H. Koenig Treasurer and general counsel for the board. After the board had t ransacted all business under their ■ j urisdiction the meeting adjourned and al) s tockholde as were driven o ver the proposed route to Ft. Wayne and from there they will dep irt for their respective homes. Tne meeting developed that the c ompany was in good standing *nd t hat if weather and nature parmitted the company would be layin g steel by September first.

POLITICAL CELEBRITIES AT ST. LOUIS THIS WEEEE K -

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Attorney Jacob Butcher of I Geneva, filed a new suit this morning entitled William Zaggle vs Nancy and Byion Ault, Lillie and i John Adams, suit to quiet title. The plaintiff claims possession of lot 180 in Buffalo, an addition to ! the town of Geneva, but his rights i are disputed by the defendants and the matt; r will be settled in court. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Sutton were ; most pleasantly surprised last evening when a number of their immedi iate neighbors burst in upon them to appraise them of the fact that they still cherished their good friendship if they were intending to move to the south part of the city which will occur in a few days. The evening was spent in playng numerous game and all induged in as genuine old fashioned taffy pulling and at a late hour all adjourned i for their respective homes. A number of Decatur people were at Fort Wayne Thursday attending the K. of C. picnic which is describj ed as follows in the Journal Gazette. The Kuights of Columbus had their annual outing yesterday and though the weather was disagreeable, everyone had a good time. , About fifty knights and their . friends came to the city from Decatur and joined with the local 1 knights in their outing. Field day ' sports and a base ball game together with boating and fishing, occupied the day. The winners of the races which were pulled off were as I follows. 100 yard dash—C- T. Sul-I I livan, first, John Rank second. Three Legged Race—G. Sosenheimer, and John Falvey. Egg Race for ladies —Miss McVey, first prize. Potato Race—G. Sosenheimer, first Victor Knapp, second. Bicycle Race —George M. Deininger. The ball game was played between the Fort Wayne knights ♦earn and a team from Decatur. The latter won in a game the most sensational and wonderful ever played at the park. In the evening there was a dance ■ at the pavillion, but the weather j proving rather cold the dance was , completed at the hall of the knights in the Lau building. It was just midnight Thursday | night when night watchman Geary . who was standing in front of Smith Yager & Falks drug store, heard a peculiar, muffled expolsion, sound ing as he explained it Tike the throwing of a barrel on a pavement.” He soon located the sound as having come from the basement of the Forbing building, occupied by the Nickle Plate saloon. Within a moment or two he detected smoke and at once sent in a fire alarm. It developed that a fire had started in some sawdust packed about the cooler in the cellar and had spread to a barrel of whiskey near by, which exploded. It was one of the most stubborn fires seen here for a long time and the com pany were three hours before it could be controlled. The smoke was so thick that the building could scarcely be entered and this fact caused the difficulty. The building which is owned by Peter i Forbing was damaged probably 1 1500, a hole about ten feet square being burned in the floor and the 1 rafters and walls being injured | considerably. It was insured in the Hooper & Lenhart agency for S2OOO. The saloon is owned by Will Cordna and his large stock was almost completely ruined as were his furniture and fixtures. He estimates his loss at SISOO with SSOO insurance in the Home of N. Y. L. C. Heim agent and SSOO in the Queen, J. S. Peterson agent. The building will be repaired at once and the Nickel Plate will reopen.

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CON VENTION JULY 6.

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Hon. H. C. Peterson and daughter Miss Nan of Albian arrived Friday, called here on account of the serious illness of the formers aged father John W. Peterson. Mr. Peterson is a well known attorney of Noble county and a brother of attorney R. S. Peterson of this city. Eva Seg pin, twelve years old, who came here from Pavne. 0.. to attend the funeral of her sister. Abina May Seguin, who was drowned last Sunday at Rome City, ! fell yesterday and broke her right leg above the ankle, Dr. F. B. Ladd was summoned to attend her and he stated that the patient s | injury is not serious. The little girl is the adopted daughter of Daniel i Michaels, of Payne 0., and since' coming to the city she has been staying at 63 Riverside avenue. While going about the house yesterday she stumbled and fell down a flight of stairs. The accident of the younger daughter, following upon the heels of the other troubles, makes it appear that the family is having more than its share of adversity.—Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. County Superintendent Brandyberry iuformes us that the dates of the county institute has been arranged for August 22-26 the same to take place in the court room. { The instructors for this week of school work have already been se-

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cured and the county superintendent is slapping himself on the back for his good fortune in their selection. Miss Lelia E. Patridge of Philadelphia will have charge of the reading and language. L. W. Fairfield of the Angola Tri state Normal College school government, while Miss Carrie Thomas of this city will have charge of the instruction in music, being assisted Iby Harlan Cozine of Chicago. It lis with pleasure that we here mention the rapid strides of Mis s Thomas in both vocal and instrumental music she Having recently completed a Course at the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois. She there won much merited praise and was awarded a scholarship. the third one that has been i given a student during the past six ! years. She was also shown much attention owing to her marked abil--1 ity in both voice culture and instrumental music and was offered the influence of the university for a position in one of Chicago’s many churches. She is certainy entitled to the preferred distinction as she possesses a sweet and cultured voice and Las perfectly mastered the difficulties attendant to proficiency. Everything is promising for an interesting session in the county institute and it is expected that the attendance will be greater than ever before.

/rffergk., *, r* / ! i felliisi festwHifti SP'-'VEB CLEVELAND.

A boy living near Monroeville, and whose name could net be learned, had his right arm and one side of his face blown off Monday morning while celebrating the fourth. He was us ingdynamite. An eye was destroyed and the lad was terribly crip pled, but has a chaueet for life. Herb is still in clutches of the law and his troubles are still on having been arrested at three o'clock by Marshall Cordua on a charge of malicious tresspass the affidavit being] sworn out by Chas. D. Murray proprietor of the saloon in which Herb in his angry passion on Tuesday evening let fly a salt holder aiming to hit the bar tender but missing him and break ing a fifty dollar mirror. This offense if he is proven guilty carries with it a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not more than five hundred making the penalty very severe. Herb has employed as Attorney L. C. DeVioss to fight his cause and their respective troubles will be aired in court tomorrow morning. George W. Bolds and Attorney John F. LaFollette arrived home Wednesday morning from Chicago where they attended a meeting of the directors of the Indiana Oil Company. Mr. Bolds is a director as well as being the principal stockholder and Mr. LaFollette is the company’s attorney. The meeting

at Chicago was called for a special purpose. It was made necessary by the recent failure of the Goodland bank and the absconding of its president; Fred C. Gilman, who was also president of the Indiana Oil Company. To the surprise of the stockholders of the Indiana Oil Company after the failure of the Goodland bank and the consequent pulling down of one of its creditors, the Allison bank at Milroy, a note or SIO,OOO turned up *which had been given in the name of the Indiana Oil Company. They borrowed no money and they began to investigate. They found that the note was in the name of the Indiana Oil Company by Fred C. Gilman president. The records of the books of the oil company show no such loan therefore the company is not left in a bad way. Luckily the company is not crippled by Gilman’s going for altogether the company has carried an account with the Goodland bank all the time the amount was very small at the time of the failure. But others who had to do with Gilman did not get off so fortunately. Frank Coover, the county treasurer of Newton county is broken up by the bank failure, he losing over fourteen thousand dollars and the total lia bilities left by the missing Gilman aggregate s2o9,ooo.—Portland Commercial Review.

WsF _ SENATOR GORMAN.

The case of the state of Indiana. LainstflerbLeßrwm on a charge of malicious trespass filed by Charles D. Murray on account of the disturbance Herb raised in his saloon a few days ago by beooming insulted because the bartender refused him a drink and then | throwing a salt holder through the large plate glass mirror, was tried this morning before Squire Smith who on hearing the evidence and well knowing the law governing such cases handed Herb out a fine of ten dollars and costs which I amounted in all to eighteen dollars , and eighty cents. Herb stayed the docket. Henry Bragg, who is in Wabash jail ■ laying out” a ten-day sentence for failing to pay his dog tax, is a British subject and as such is the ease has been laid before the British consul at Chicago. Bragg was arrested a few da vs ago and as he showed no disposition to pay the fine and costs he was remanded to jail to "lay out this sentence. His family has objected to this strenuously and his wife stated that she had notified the British consul and that she would see that he would take the case up. Some time ago a son of Bragg was arrested at Rochester for thieving and was sent to the state reformatory. At that time the British representative was appealed to and he has been investigating the case since then. The result has been a string of letters to the prosecutors of Fulton and Wabash Counties and i great deal of red tape. The only thing the consul can do is to see that the arrest and convictions were all made with strict conformity to the law of this country foi the laws here govern a resident i whether that resident claims Uncle J Sam or John Bull as his patron. •In this instance it will probably mean considerable correspondence although the prosecution was all i done carefully and there will be ■ nothing except an examination result. The order foi the rural route carriers under the new law which went into effect Saturday says: "That rural carriers are not permitted to solicit business or receive orders of any kind for any person, firm or corporation. “No mailable matter may be handled by rural carriers while serving their routes, unless the proper postage has been pre paid with the exception of county newspapers, which, under the law are permitted to be carried free throughout the county. "The hire for merchandise carried on request of patrons of rural free delivery must lx* paid by the patron. Carriers will not be permitted to reI ceive any compensation from the seller of such merchandise. “Articles or packages that »re not mailable which the patron desires i the rural carrier to carry, must be delivered to the carrier in person, ! and in canyiig merchandise for | hire rural carriers are not perl mitted to leave their routes as officially laid out or to accept any. thing that will in any way delay the delivery of mail, or in any way interfere with the efficiency of the service. “Carrier, while on duty, are not permitted to carry ; spirituous liquors either for themI selves for sale or for the accommodation of their patrons. “Rural carriers are required to permit postj office inspectors or other duly ac- | credited agents of the postoffice de- . partment to accompany them on thier regular trips over their routes. They must not carry other passengers nor permit any other than authorized postal officials to ride with them or to have access to the mail." The rural carriers will not deliver mail Monday, Ju-V 4th.

ki RO” ifk " ™ W 'jOB* 1 M;"W jffWr;Sl> WILLIAM B. HF.ARBT. '

Miss BertlaUta a severe attack of h.. tUorrh the luugs yesterday in age (J t serious condition She w low during the night iX V “ ty raorningfound her resting easier. She is « Verv ’“'V young lady and has a largf 1 " 11 ” of friends who sincerely ho ' an immediate sister, Miss Blanch Hart arri “ ■ from Huntington last night. The Methodists will hold the 5 Quarterly conference at 7-30 Thursday. The Presiding Fla' 0 ' Rev. C. U. Wade D.D., the conference. The public J friends are invited to attend. a For sale or tr^T haT very good farms for sale or exclZ? Also a list of city property for sale u a bargain, Money to loan on f arm city property at five per cent, p r Kinney, the new Studabakerbloel Decatur. Indiana. Agents Wanted.-For the thrilling sensational book and wonderful seller ‘T'he Chicago Theatre Disaster" pages, memorial volume full of start ling illustrations, stories of marveloui escapes, heoric rescues, list of 600 dead, etc. Price SI .50. Only hook • Tremendous seller for agents" ?7(j a day average, country or town. Send 12 cents postage for fine outfit, terms and instructions and make money fast C W. Stanton Co., 325' Dearborn strwt Chicago, 111. ...Legal Atajy APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR. Notice is hereby .riven that the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the estate of Wlllint,, E.zi.y, s r . i steo ( Adams county, deceased The estate pn. bably solvent Jobs Elzey. Executor. June 27, 1904. 174 Merryman A Sutton. Attorneys TO BIDDERS Notice Is hereby given that tbe tmirdof county commissioners will r, . ire sealed bias for tbe furnishing often ear .wads of Pitaburg coal. Pochantas Sundaj Crees mlneli for the court house, jail and asylum, up and until Wednesday, July 6,1904, at 10 o’clock a. m. The cent ra.’t will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. The b nrd reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Successful bidders will be rto ired to enter into contract for the faithful performance ot bls bid. A HE BOCH. 17-1 Auditor AdamiCa OF LETTING. Notice is hereby given that tbe boat'd of county commissioners, of Adams countj, Indiana, have adopted and d, ■'■sited In the auditor’s office of said count) a surveyprofile and general plans tor the construction of one stone or concrete arch n d two bridges one 14x16 feet and abuttmen's and the other 34x16 and abutfmente A • -e partieulit description of said work n ay be at rained from the plans nowon file it. -aid auditor's office, therelore on Thursday, July 14,1901. at the rocru of the county con.raissioners.in the auditor’s office of said c unty, at ten o’clock a. m.. sharp, of said dMy. sealed Di® will be received for the construction of saM bridges. Each bid must be acd-mpanied with the proper affidavit as required by law. im by a good and sufficient bond pay a hie win >tate of Indiana in an am in - aa to it which said bond shall Le sinned by at .east two resident freeholder- of the state 01 In iana. whose responsibility rhaii Lecertin* ed to ®s required by law or ’:• t pany to the approval of said board. board reserves the right to r< itet any anaui bids. MARTIN LAUGHLIN./ Board, of DAVID WEELING ■ ■' WILLIAM MILLER. ’ AdamsCft Attest: Abe Boch. Auditor. b ’ ! VOTICE OF CHANGE OF VOTING A places. Notice is hereby given th .:. that at June session of the hour. ■ : of Adams county. Indiima. ’ !,e , Iv ‘ changes in the voting plav" - m the ,<■ precincts of said county 'ere "rue changed, to-wit: West Washington precinct fr.cn pre** voting place to tbe residence ■ ley in section nine. Wash:: ct' '• to»cs.-F said county. Precinct "A" Second Ward, city of I>eat« from present voting place tn the rooro “ tbe auditor's office in the .uvmeiit ot u> court house, in said city of Decatur. Precinct ”A” Third Ward, city of Dew' from present voting place t ■ the ‘ d Peoples & Holthouec. on thv r ’' rU tr r and Jackson streets, in said city of be Precinct "B” Geneva, from the P re S. n , t ing place to the east room of M b. " „ o f briek building on Line street, in the Geneva, said county. By order of the Board of Commissioners Martis LaVORUS. Davio WwtrwW 11.1.1 AM MIU-» B ‘ IT _| Attest: Abb Boch. Auditor.

CHABLES A. IOWSE-