Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1904 — Page 1

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VOLUME XLVIII.

Mr. and Mrs. Bultemer have a beautiiful county home and have always had the reputation of being flne entertainers and those who were in attendance Sunday express the hope that they will receive a like invitation in the near future. Pearl Baker, a Decatur boy, who i a now the champion middle weight of the west, and has a standing challenge to meet anyone in his class in the world, arrived Friday, and will remain here several months. He will make an effort to open an athletic club here, and if successful will remain permanently. He is a son of John Baker, of Blue Creek township. Pearl is a husky looking lad and weighs 172 pounds, but when ready for a fight trains down to 160 pounds. He has had many fights with pugilists of more or less fame, and is considered a comer among the boxing fraternity. He left here five years ago and has spent most of his time in the northwest. A few weeks ago he left Seattle with a show troupe and each night the company offered SSO for any one whom he iwould fail to put out in six rounds. He left the company in Minnesota and came home for a rest. A deal was consummated last Thursday, whereby John Scheiman and Amos Fisher have become sole owners and proprietors of the Peoples’ restaurant, formerly owned by William Doehrman. The firm will be known as Scheiman & Fisher, but will still go under the old name of the Peoples’ restaurant. Messrs, Scheiman & Fisher are both well known business men and will no doubt run this place on a paying basis. Mr. Fisher especially has had some experience in this line and is well acquainted with the public’s demands These men will not open their business to the public before next Tuesday morning, as this place is being thoroughly cleaned up, papered and punted by Peter Gaffer and his force of men, and when completed will present a decidedly new front and appearance.. The boys contemplate to please the public in general and the Democrat predicts success to this new enterprise. Jacob Yoder, seventy-six years old, and one of the best known and oldest citizens of Adams county, met a tragic death some time Friday. Stricken with paralysis, he fell from a boat into the W abash river and was drowned in a foot and a half of water. He had lived for years on a splendid farm about a mile west of Berne. His greatest delight was fishing and hunting game, having learned these sports in the early days when the county was almost an unbroken forest and game was plentiful. He left home at 8:30 o’clock yesterday morning, for a day along the Wabash, taking his lunch with him and expecting to return about the middle of tho afternoon. He failed to come, and at six o’clock when still absent his relatives became anxious and a search was immediately installed. Neighbors joined in the hunt and for hours every nook and corner of that section was searched. Finally about eleven o’clock last night Dan Habegger, and a young man who works for him, discovered the dead body of their neighbor. He was lying in the river, face downward, and only a short distance from shore. His shoulders were above water and it is believed he drowned in a foot of water. The genera I impression is that while fishing he was suddenly stricken with apoplexy and falling from the boat was unable to help himself or was probably unconscious. He was taken home by the neighbors. It is believed the accident happened during the afternoon, as he had be t n dead many hours when found. As stated, Mr. Yoder was seventy-six years old. He was born in G( rmany and came to this county when a young man, a half century ago. He was one of the pionei i s of this section; was widely known and popular. His wife died severa years ago , but a number of chi dren survive hjp. The aocidt nt happened where the Wabash river crosses the Habeger tram.

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Miss Bessie Copp left Monday for Mount Sterling, Ohio, where she will attend the funeral services over the remains of her sweetheart, Leroy White today. It will be remembered that White, who was a clerk at the Wellington case, Fort W ayne, was found dead in his room at his hoarding house a few days ago. Letters were found signed “Bessie,”and postmarked this city. For a day the lady was unknown, until Sunday, when she went to Fort Wayne to see her aead lover. His remains had been sent to Mt. Sterling and to that place Miss Copp went last evening. She is heartbroken over the sudden death of her sweetheart, which she claims was accidental and not suicidal. W. A. Hollis, coroner of Blackford county, has returned the following verdict concerning the Sanderson murder: Whereas, after an inquest over the dead body of Edward P. Sanderson, held this day by me, the undersigned, coroner of Blackford county, I rendered the following finding: “That on or about the 23rd day of October, 1904. at and in the county and state afore said, William Cook, Otto Cook, Ernest Sanderson, Samuel Emery, Ollie Sanderson and Clara Smith did then and there unlawfully, maliciously and with premeditated malice, kill and murder Edward P. Sanderson, you are therefore commanded to arrest the said William Cook, Otto Cook, Ernest Sanderson, Samuel Emery, Ollie Sanderson and Clara Smith forthwith and bring them before Henry S. Fargo, a justice of ths peace in and for Licking township, said county and state, to answer to the charge of felony preferred against them in said finding. Given under my hand and seal this 4th day of November, 1904. Wm. A. Hollis, of Blackford county.” Dr. Augustus George Holloway, oldest physician and surgeon in Adams county, died at his home on Fifth street at 9:30 o’clock Friday morning ~ About five years ago he suffered an attack of lagrippe which so weakened his system that heart trouble and other complications followed, and he never really recovered. For nearly a year past he has been almost constantly confined at home, though about six weeks ago he was able to walk down street. For a month past he has failed gradually and yesterday was reported very low. He lost consciousness at midnight and slept gradually into death, the end coming at the hour given. Dr. Holloway was one of the best known men in this community, having lived here since 1877. He has served as city health officer and at the time of death was a member of the pension board. He was well qualified and did his work with an earnestness and sincerity that was marked. He was born in Marion, Ohio, August 21, 1829, and was past seventy-five years old. His father, George Holloway, was an eminent physician and practiced at Marion for fifty years. Dr. Holloway had the advantages of good education and when sixteen years old began teaching school. Later he learned the printers’ trade, which he followed until 'wentyfour years old, when he began studying medicine. He took a course of lectures at the Cleveland Medical echool and began practice in 1854, which he continued at different places in Ohio until 1864, when Ae was appointed assistant surgetm of the 51st Ohio infantry, receiving a similar appointment'the year following with the 197th regiment and served until the close of the war. He practiced in Ohio until 1877, when he came here, where he has since resided. In 1882 he took a course of lectures at the Chicago Medical college. In 1855 he was married to Miss Louise Kennedy, who is also a physician, to whom were born three children. Mrs. Charles Hoxie, of Toledo; George Holloway of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. W. E. Winch, of Fort Wayne, all of whom survive. The debased was a member of the G A. B- Post. He was an active and splendid citizen and had many friends.

DEUATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOV EMBER 10, 1004.

B. F. Prescott, the Clover Leaf I brakeman, who was put out of commission as a railroader by an accident at Willshire, Ohio, about one year ago, is out on the street with a spick-span new popcorn and peanut wagon of the very latest I pattern. Mr. Prescott remembers his old railroad organization and has painted on either side of the wagon, “B. F. Prescott, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, No. 326, Frankfort, Ind.” The corn popper and peanut roasting devices are propelled by a miniature steam engine, so that all Ben has to do is to keep the thing going and rake in the nickles.—Frankfort News. We happened in a house the other night and over the parlor door saw the legend in letters of red, “What is home without a mother?” Across the room was another brief, “God bless our home.” Now what’s the matter with "God bless our dad?” He gets up early, lights the fire, and wipes off the dew of the lawn with his boots while many a mother is sleeping. He makes the weekly hand-out for the butcher, the grocer, the milk man and the baker. He stands off the bailiff and keeps the rent up. If there is a noise during the night dad is made to go down stairs and find the burglar and kill him. Mother darns the socks but’dad bought the socks and yarn afterward. Mother does up the fruit; well, dad bought it and jars and sugar cost a lot. “What is home without a mother?” Yes that is all right, but what is home without a father? Ten chances to one it is a boarding house, father is buried and the landlady is a widow. Dad, here’s to you; you’ve got your faults - you mav have lots of them —but you’re all right and we’ll miss you when you’re gohe. Sunday’s Indianapolis Star said : About a year ago “The Song of the Cardinal” a book written by Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter, an Indiana woman, attracted attention because of the new note it struck in the nature study line. “Freckles ” her latest production, just issued by Doubleday, Page & Co., is a more ambitious effort. It, too, deals with out of door life—ths forest, the birds and the flowers—but, in addition it contains a love story of an ardent sort The scene is laid in and about “Limberlost,” the big tract of forest land mentioned in “The Song of the Cardinal,” and supposed to be located in northern Indiana. The hero, a nameless youth known as “Frcekles,” is in the employ of a lumber company and in his work as watchman of the timber tract acquires a deep love fur the wild things of the wood. His sympathy for and acquaintance with birds are especially great and he finds welcome companionship among the feathered creatures. A “woman with a camera,” who also loves birds, comes to know him and through her he meets “Angel,’ a young girl of marvelous attractiveness with whom he falls hopelessly in love. There are difficulties and complications, because he is a nameless € waif, but these are eventually cleared away. There are also adventures, dangers, and even tragic occurrences, but they only serv/to throw the final happiness into Relief. The enthusiasm for nature which pervades the talc is given an intensity to which the average reader will hardly be able to rise, but as it is in keeping with the tone of the nature literature now so popular, perhaps no oriti cism belongs to it on that account. The book is a combination of modern nature worship and old-fash-ioned Jromanoe. The events described mav have happened, though the disciple of realism will probably argue that they did not, but they happened exactly as one would have them. The characters and the setting are all that the most exacting lover of romance could desire, and tho outcome is ond to suit all who desire a happy ending to their novels—and who does not? Altogether, the book has many popular qualities and is likely to be widely read. The volume is profusely illustrated by Earl Stetson Crawford.

The Mount Pleasant Epworh League society will hold their last meeting in the old church next Sunday evening, November 13th. In honer of the -event the society have arranged a splendid program for the occasion and the public is cordially invited to attend. Tbe church is located three miles northwest of Decatur. A handsome new building has been erected and this entertainment will be as stated the last in the old building, which has served so well so many years. Councilmen Peter Kirsch and A. Buhler and City Electrician Mylott returned Sunday morning from Elyria, Ohio, they being the committee appointed by the city council to inspect the second-hand 250horse power engine and the 5,000 candle power dynamo, that a company has for sale at a reasonable price. All three members of this committee when asked concerning this outfit claim that it is practically as good as new, and in good repair and at the price at which it is offered, $2,800, would be a bargain for the city, and they will ask the council to purchase this outfit and at once move it to this place and get it in working order. When compared with what a new outfit like this would cost it is a bargain, as a new machine would cost in the neighborhood of SIO,OOO, which nun a sav.ig to the city of $7200 and as the city must have more power when the day current is put on it looks like a shame to refuse a bargain of this description. All three of the committee were of the opinion that their report would prove satisfactory to the council and that the machinery in all probability woul d be purchased. Dwight, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Archer, who live in the south part of the city, met with a very serious accident, Saturday evening, that will render him helpless for several weeks to come, and from expressions heard from all who witnessed the accident, he had a miraculous escape from instant death. The accident happened in front of the store of Everett, Hite & Son, at which place Dwight and several other boys attempted to cross the street. Dwight was in front of the other boys who hung back on account of the Burt House ’bus coming along, and had' gone probably a third of the way across the street. As the ’bus went by Dwight shouted “Hello” to William Foreman, the driver, being unconscious of a single horse and buggy being driven upon him from the opposite direction. The party driving lost control of the horse he was driving and it was trying to run away. Those standing by and seeing the boy’s danger shouted to him, but it was too late. The shaft struck him on the collar bone, knocking him down. By this rime the driver had gained control of his horse and pulled hard on the lines, causing the animal to lose its footing and fall, the f ill weight of the horse falling across the leg of the fallen lad, breaking the bone squarely off. Assistance was soon at hand and Dwight was tenderly lifted by willing hands and borne directly to his home where Dr. D. D. Clark was hastily summoned and the wounds dressed. How the little fellow escaped instant death is a mystery to all who saw the accident. No blame can be attached to anyone, as the affair was purely accidental. The young man who drove the rig was named Johnson and lived near Honduras. He was thrown from the buggy when the horse fell and sustained a broken finger and severe bruises. The Archer boy’s injuries consisted of a broken, bruised and dislocated shoulder, his right le<* was broken in two places near the hip and the right leg out and bruised, apparently caused by a kick from the horse. Dr. Clark said the boy’s condition this morning was very serious as he had a high fever and was suffering great pain Johnson, it is said, was driving at rapid speed. He hart two young ladies in the rig and all claim that the horse had. become 1- .ripened and was beyond control. Elmer Archer, the lad’s father, i a I rural route carrier.

In President Shontz’ annual report of the earnings of the Clover Leaf the following concerning the passenger department is of interest: The passenger statistics show that 771,998 passengers were carried, as j against 799,793 for the previous j year. The total earnings from pas-1 sengers was $560,001.90, and the ; total earnings from passenger trains $702,998.21 against $667,291.31 for the previous year. The rate per passenger mile was $0.1946, as againts $0.01933 last year; the passenger train earning per mile, $0.7888, as against $0,7338 last year. During the year the company has laid 75.9 miles of new steel rails, put i n 21,604 ties, ballasted 183.4 miles of track and made other improvements. A New York dispatch to the Chi cago Herald under date of November 2nd, said: “Renewal of great activity in Erie by the pool which has been working up the stock was accompanied today by a renewal of old yarns that already have been worked with success. Os the 1,394,662 shares of stock dealt in on the exchange, Erie common contributed 230,550 and the stock made a net advance of a point. Persons who spread the “deal” rumors, concerning the Erie, assume today that everyone knew of “the negotiations for a sale of the Pere Marquette and the Cincinnati., Hamilton & Dayton to the Erie,” announce that the deal had been closed. Details were supplied in plenty, and it was stated that the Erie would negotiate a $75,000,000 bond issue. No one identified with either the Pere Marquette, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton or rhe Erie gave credence to the “deal” story, and attributed it to a group of western speculators who sought ammunition for their campaign. Western railroad men yesterday heard the report of the sale and were inclined to give it credence. The Pere Marquette was organized in 1899 for the purpose of consolidating the Flint and Pere Marquette, the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western and the Chicago and West Michigan roads, and operates a total of 1,827 miles of road, largely within the State of Michigan. The lines of the company gridiron Michigan, and in connection with them are operated car ferry systems between Ladington and Milwaukee, Manitowac and Kewaunee. The earning capacity of the company is about $10,000,000 annually. The funded debt amounts to more than $31,000,000, the company stock to $16,000,000, and the preferred to $12,000,000. The preferred stock pays 4 per cent dividends. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the which recently was acquired by Pere Marquette and consolidated with that company under the name of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and Pere Marquette Great Central Route, was organized in July, 1895, by a consolidation of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, Cincinnati, Hamilton & Irontown and the Cincinnati, Dayton & Chicago roads. The total mileage is 652, and the road connects with the Pere Marquette at Detroit and at Toledo, giving the PereJMarquette a through line from eastern ,Michigan points to Cincinnati and Indianapolis. The earning capacity of the road is between $5,000,000 and $5,000,000 and its capital stock consists of $8,000,000, preferred, on all of which dividends are .paid. The funded debt of the company amounts to $12,295,000. The Erie has a total mileage of 2,318 and is the only road having a line from Chicago to New York under one management. The Erie is a reorganization of the old New York, Lake Erie and Western and has a total earning capacity of between $38,000,000. The capital stock of the company consists of $47,892,400 first preferred, $16,000,000 second preferred and $112,378,900 common, the preferred paying a small dividend. It has a bounded debt of nearly $170,000,000. Ihe i Erie connects with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Datyon at Lima, Ohio, , and always has worked closely with that line in traffic matters.

CIRCULATION 2800 WEEKLY

NUMBER 36

The Wallace show will close a very successful season next Monday night at Walnut Ridge, Ark., and will go home to Peru at once to be placed in winter quarters east of that city. Benjamin E. Wallace, and some of the foremen with the circus, will get home to vote, but the two hundred laborers will not. The laborers are brought to Peru to put up the big show and their coming is anxiously awaited by the merchants there. The men, a few days after the circus arrives home, t.re paid oft for their season’s work and most of them rig themselves out in an entire new lot of clothing from sole to crown. A Decatur girl is figuring in a sensation but just who she is cannot be ascertained, though we have made diligent inquiry, gunday a young man named Leroy White, who for several months has been employed at the Wellington case. Fort Wayne, was found dead in bed at his boarding house, death being due to an overdose of morphine, but whether taken with suicidal intent or not is not definitely known. The Fort Wayne News said: On the rahle in the room where White was found dead was an empty bottle, labeled morphine. Near it were also a dozen or two empty capsules. These indicated how he had met his death. On the table was also an open letter. The envelope had the postmark “Decatur, Ind,” and was received at the postoffice in this city yesterday afternoon. It was signed “Your loving Bessie.” It threw no bght on the cause of the young man’s death. The coronet secured a number of other letters. Several of them were from this Bessie. In three of them she signs herself “Bessie Le Roy.” It is not believed, however, that she was his wife. His friends think that she was only a sweetheart. She was working at Decatur, but had recently lost her position. He had been at Decatur last Friday to see her. White had known the girl at Columbus, O. While with her there one night he got into a quarrel with a jealous rival and was shot in the back. The wound was a serious one and he lay in the hospital for some time between life and death. This -hooting occurence took place ibout two years ago. The wound continued to bother him, and, to relieve himself of pain, he contracted the habit of using morphine. It is thought he used the morphine last night for this purpose and that, taking an overdose, death resulted. The identity of “Bessie,” letters from whom were found in the clothes of Leßoy White, the restaurant waiter who was found dead in his room Friday morning, was established Saturday when Miss Bessie Copp, of Decatur, unaware that the body had been shipped away, came to the Peltier undertaking establishment to view the remains. Friends of White had stated that he had remarked several times that he was married and intended bringing his wife here soon, but these statements were looked upon as pleasantries. With the finding of letters, signed “Bessie,” however, many people believed that the writer was really the wife of White. The young woman set these rumors at rest yesterday by stating that she was not the young man's wife. She said that she and White were sweethearts and that he frequently came to Decatur to see her. Miss Copp is a young woman of pleasing appearance and is said to be highly thought of at her home. She was greatly shocked at the news of the sadden death of her lover and her agitation was further increased when she learned that she had come here too late to see the remains. She stated emphatically her belief that he did not commit suicide but merely took an overdose of morphine to alleviate the suffering caused by the wound in the back. White's body was interred at Mount Sterling, Ohio, the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter White.—Fort Wayne JournalGazette. Miss Copp is « young lady who lives with Mr. and Mrs. I George Doctor.