Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1905 — Page 4

, ■ 11— c.ivi'J’V/rtA I ■VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur,lndiana as second-claes mail matte. OFFICIAL PAPeFoFaDAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY JAN. 26, 1905. REFORM THE CRY. What does it mean that three United States senators are now under indictment on various charges: What does it mena that a federal judge must answer to impeachment for alleged derelictions of duty ? What does it mean that a man. after being selected as the caucus nominee for senator from a Western state, has failed of election by reason of gross irregularities in his campaign methods? What does it mean that a republican legislature in another Western state seated the democratic contestant for the guber natorial chair, unheeding the republican governor’s cry of fraud, when it was seen that both were guilty What does it mean that scores of men are being fined and imprisoned in one of our staes for participating in election frauas? What does it mean that young men like Deneen. Folk. LiFollette and Hanlyare elected to governorship®, running on platforms of reform? What does it mean that from the legislative halls of many states there is now going up a protest axgainst the operations of. lobbyists? The answer is as clear as day. There is a growing demand for better politics, city, state and national. The fact that here is such an insistent demand for better things from so many quarters is proof that things have reached a bid pass in many places, and also that the situation is far from hopeless, for as long as evil is uncovered and reform demanded there is every reason to believe that a better state of things is on the way. One can not probe into politics very closely without finding something that is bad. The helpful sign is that there is now a marked tendency to attempt a cure of the sores that are disclosed in this probing, rather than to cover them up and let them fester and spread. — Indianapolis Star (Rep.) Th 3 tariff will not be revised "We need the money,’’ shouts Speaker Cannon. "Stand and deliver,” commands the highwayman. "I am out for the stuff,” says the swindler. And what material difference is there here?—Sentinel. The Chicago Chronicle, Chicago Tribune and Indianapolis Star, all republican papers, are advocating a revision of the tariff. The Tribune has been an advocate of low tariff for years, except in campaign times It then talks republicanism straight. —Columbia City Post. There are strange doings down it Washington. At one end of thr ivenue there is a rampant tariff •evisionist and at the other end here is a great majority of stand>atters; but. this is not the strange «»rl of th? affair Late Washing on dispatches state that there are few who are one thing at one end nd the other thing at the other nd. It is charged that Jim Wason i one of those who has made, a misike by trying to keep a foot at ther end of the avenue during lis slippery time. I» seems that m got a rap on the heel with the g stick and lost his footing — ortland Commercial-Review. Engineer A. J. Frost hi* cometed his estimate on the pro sed dredging of the Salamonia ?er except the figures on the p». >le cost of the undertaking. In ikng the dredge as now prop's 698,236 cubic yards of earth will ve to be moved, including 7,500 •ic yards of stone. Twenty- five pe* willl be affected, four of Ich are railroad bridges, and six iges will have to be moved. The gth of the dredge by present ns will be twenty-one and six ths miles. From the point where survey begins to the river tge on south Meridian street is ctly eight miles. There is some in Penn township of petitionfor an extension of the dredge . point three miles below Penni. Should this be d< ne the chanvould be cut two feet lower ’now proposed. The bed of the • will be lowered through the five or six feet. — Portland mercia I Review.

COURT NEWS The November term of the Adams circuit court closed today, a short session only, being required to dispose of the business. Huber Mfg. Co. vs Steve Longenbarger et al. defen iant ruled to an st er first day of February term. Andrew Miller vs G. R A" I. Railway Co., demurrer overruled and general denial tiled. —o— Henry Kinney vs Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railway company, demurrer overuled and general denial filed. Albert and Floyd Brittson vs Mary Light, submitted. Finding for plaintiff for $33.62. Foreclosure of chattel mortgage ordered. —O'Benjamin Shively, one of Indiana's most prominent lawyers, and a democrat of national reputation, has entered his appearance with C. J. Lutz for the defendants in the case of Charles Letchem et al vs The South Bend Petroleum company and others. Mr. Shiveley will assist in the trial of the case. In the B. fl. Ostemeyer will which was probated Friday his son William is made executor. He is given the eighty-acre farm with the understanding that he keep his mother during her life and give her fifty dollars a year. He is also to give each of his brothers and sisters S2OO the time when each is to receive his legacy being set forth in the will. —o— The will of B. H. Ostemeyer was probated in couit Friday morning. The will of Ulrich Neuensch wander was probated in court Thursday morning. His son, Joel, is made executor. The will was written September 15, 1896. Michael Everett vs Myrtle Everett, plaintiff ordered to pay five dollars int i court for the use of the prosecuting attorney on or before the first day of February term. —o — Morris D. Sacks et al vs William Cordua and Martin E. Andrews, default as to defendants. —o— James S. Bovers vs Clarence L. Ayres, suit on note, submitted. Finding for plaintiff in sum of $42.76. Property ordered sold. —o— State of Indiana vs Matthias Schaffer, breaking into house with intent to steal. Defendant arrested nd gave bond in the sum of S4OO. 'A hen first taken into custody Matt swore he wouldn’t give bond, but finally changed his mind. This is the outcome of the trouble between Matt and Dave Crabil! to whom Schaffer sold his saloon a few months ago. —o— Two Blue Creek township boys Fred Reef and Fred Roe, have learned a lesson they will prob tbly never forget. Reef was arrested Tuesday night upon affidavit nade by Robert Andrews, charging him with stealing a buggy whip. He was placed in jail until •Vedhesday, when he appeared before Judge Erwin and plead guilty to a charge of larceny. He also implicated a chum of his, Fred Roe. Deputy Sheriff Butler went out afar the lator and arrested him and he was in court this morning, also pleading guilty. Judge Erwin lecur *d the boys, fined them each a ’ liar and costs and sentenced item to jail for one day. The fine *nd costs in each case amounts to about thirteen dollars, which was paid. The boys were frightened and should learn that such pranks may lead them to prison. —o— The case of the State vs David B CrabiH appealed from Squire Smith’s court was filed in circuit court this morning. Crabill was chargedw ith assaulting Matt Schafer a few days a go. He was found guilty and fined a dollar and costs, and immediately appealed. The question of who owns a saloon is one of the exciting features of the case. D. B Erwin represents the defendant. Attorneys Eichhorn, Mattox and Anderson, of Bluffton, representing the plaintiff filed a new case at the clerk's cffice here entitled Walter A. Hun* vs Lewis C. Miller and Edward P. Miller, part-

ners doing business under the firm name of L. C. Miller & Son. Complaint on n te. Demand S3OO. The exact amount of 'he note is $235, with interest for one year and attorney ’s fees. —o — Vernon Friend, one of the Berne I boys who was arrested Saturday for ■ stealing brass from traction engine* has been bound over to the circuit ' court and will be tried here on a i charge cf larceny. The papers were I field at the county clerk's office this morning. The lad gave bond in the sum of SIOO for his appearance. Additional Locals The folding bed continues to gethose who escape the cornshredder. If one of those new-fangled contraptions ever shuts up with us we'll hand over our check with the consolation of knowing it had abou' all it could hold for once. When framing the new divorce law the legislature should taka the ! stove damper into consideration. There is nothing responsible for ' more family jars than the stove damper, particularly in zero weath er. A couple that can agree on everything else in domestic economy can not agree whether the damper should be up or down. J. W. Sale has arranged to leave Saturday morning for Washington. • D. C , as a member of the commit- ■ tee from the National Hay associa- ■ tion to call upon President Roosevelt to thank him for his efforts to secure railway legislation. P. E Goodrich, of Winchester, a brother of State Chairman Goodrich, is the only other member of the committe from this state. —Bluffton News. Dr. Vizard, who represents Adams county in the legislature, passed through our city Friday enroute from Indianap ils to Pleasant Mills, his home, having been called home owing to the illness <>f his wife. The doctor say* the legislature is progressing finely and that a number of new laws are being presented, a few of which will be passed. Mr. Vizard stated that he also seconded the n 'inination of John W. Kern in the House for senator and made his first speech. B. G. Shinn, of this city, went to Indianapolis Jnday to petition the Indiana legislature to appropriate funds with which to erect a menu ment for J. I. Williams, ol Portland. Ind., who was the last Union soldier killed in the civil war. WilHams was a member of Company B. Thirty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, and met death in the battle of Palmetto Ranch in Texas, May 13 1865. At the last reunion Mr. Shinn was appointed a committee to visit the legislature in re erence to this matter —Hartford City Gazette. Will Weimer was arrested Thursday upon a charge of assault and battery, preferred by Miss Kit Miller. Weimer denied the charge aud employed Attorneys Fruchte ALitterer to defend him. The evidence showed that Weimer had taken the girl home, had pulled her coat off and carried it away with nim. The jacket was found on the porch this morning. The court found Weimer guilty and fined him a dollar and costs. He informed the court he would take an appeal and his herd was fixed at SSO. "When I was campaigning in South°rn K tnsas,” said Representative Curtis. “we cime to a town where they were holding a street fair. A palmist had a tent on the street, and a friend and myself went in to have our palms read. She told me I would make a good public speaker if I kept at it long enough. "Then she took up my friends hand. She studied it a long time, and finally announced: ‘You are a barber.’ "Wrong.' said my friend; ‘I am a lawyer.” “ Huh,” said the plamist. what's the difference between being shaved by a barber and skinned by a law. yer?” Fire broke out in the back part of the Economy department store owned by P. Van Baalen & Co., about . :15 Thursday evening, which resulted in the destruction of a large am ount of the inflamable goods in stock, with a loss of more than $5,000. Oae of the firemen, Mesley Freel, was carried from the building in a pretty dazed condition caused by inhaling smoke. The store had been closed for the day. aoout 6 j clock. The blaze started in the rear and was first discovered bv people passing.—Hunington News-Democrat,. The store is owned by the same company who owo the Economy store here

I Unclaimed letters at the postofhoe as follows: M. R Hartman, Frank Hagarty. Harry fl. Hoffman. Wm. Dur Din, Wm. Franke, Peter Razet Mark Moran of Decatur. who visited a few days with his brother, James J. Moran and wife, west High strest, left Tuesday morning for Valparaiso to continue his ' studies in the medical college at * that place.-Portland Commercial ' Revie w. Miss Dina Crawford entertained ' a number of friends S inday < ver ing at at the home of Mr. and Mr*W. A. Kuebler, at six o’clock tea. Those present were Misses Mayrne Smith. Agnes Mylott. Dode VogleIwedeand Messrs. ‘‘Fish Mangclil, Oscar Augsberger and Horace i Snow. The Young Matrons' club Friday afternoon enjoyed a session w.tii Mrs J. H- Heller, on North Third street, where a royal good time was enjoyed by those fortunate in being within its select councils. Refreshments were served and the afternoon devoted to a variation of social enjoyments, a list of which was not given out for publication. They meet every two weeks. The G. A. R. and W. R. C gave their annual banquet Thursday a the hall, which always follows the installation of officers. A big supper was spread and over one hundred and twenty-five ■ guests were present. This banquet was given for the different members families and a few invited guests. A pleasant evening was spent and one that will always be remembered by those who had an opportunity to take part. * "Bill had a board,” said an exchange. "Bill ’ also had a board bill. The board bill bored Bill so that Bill sold his bill board to pay his board bill. So. after Bill sold his bill board to pay his board bill, the board bill no longer bored Bill If this is so that Bill's board bill bored Bill until he sold his bill board to pay his board bill, why not board Bill with a board from Bill’s bill board and throw Bill's board bill and Bill's bill board overboard.” We are in receipt of a letter from our friend R. J. Holthouse, written from Shreveport. Louisiana, where he has been sent on a special trip for his house. He says his family and himself will arrive here next week. They have been spending the winter at Jonesboro. Arkansas, and Mr. Holthouse says that they are so delighted with the country their future jiermanent residence there is a possibility. Roman represents the Wolfe Shoe company, of Columbus, Ohio, his territory being Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. He says he is well pleased with his first year's business and expects great success in the future. There was an old southern negro who had been working for a cotton planter time out of mind. One morning he came to his employer and said: “I’sgwine quit, boss.” "What's the matter, Mose?” "Well, sah. yer manager, Mistah Winter, ain't kicked me in the las' free mumfs. "I ordered lim not to kick you any more. I don't want anything like that around my place. I don't want any one to hurt your feelings. Mose.” “Es I don't git any more kicks I s gwine to quit. Ebery time Mistah Winter used ter kick and cuff me when he wuz mad he always git's shamed of hisse'f and gimme a qua'tah. I s donelos'enuff money a'ready wif disbeah foolishness bout hurtin' ma Lehn's.” At a meeting of the home mission board of the Fort Wayne Presj bytery which was attended at 'Fort Wayne yesterday bv Chair man Rev'. C. G Miller of ‘this citv jit was decided that the Presbytery ' would - abandon the church at Kingsland and that the church hnilding will be offered f or sale. It may be bought by the Methodists who have been bolding services there of late at the request of some oi the members of the congregation or it may be bought by some other denomination. If no denomination should want to buy it, the property might even be bought bv some for private use. Services of the Presbyterian church were for ™ er !-y held there by the pastor of he Ossian charge, but arrange •neats were made some time ago bv he preaches only at Ossian aud Eihanen. Most of the Kings land congregation have joined the Ossian nr Biufiton churches.-Blnff i ton News.

The wreck train on the G. R- & 1 is busily engaged today in cleaning un the debris of the smash- up that occurred last Monday morning. The entire right of way w'll cleared by this evening. Miss Jane Hendricks, of Decatur, came to this city Tuesday afternoon and will visit for a couple of weeks with her brother, J. W. Hendrick* and family of east Main street. I Portland Commercial-Review. The De Wert boy. who dild a> the Pl lintield reformatory, and was i buried at Monroeville, a few days 1 ago was in this city last fall. He slept at the jail over bight and did i some work in this office, having i worked some at the printer's Hade. "I say. what are you doing? ’ ' demanded the hall boy of the coun trvman who was working at the eiectrio button in his room with a penknife." Oh, ye're here, air ye’” was the response. "Jest lend me a hand, will ye? I wanter git the stopper aout o’ this speaxin tube. S'pose'n the house sh d catch fire and I couldn’t let the landlord know?”—Smith’s Weekly. Rev. J. C. White, of Decatur, returned home Tesday morning, after a couple of days' stay with Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Woodruff, 709 West Race street. Monday evening he assisted the Rev. Mr. Woodruff in revival services at the Methodist church three miles north of this city. The meetings will continue each evening this week at 7 o’clock —Portland Rei iew. Don't make fun of religion. Nothing shows a man s ill breeding ■ and ignorance so much as his inclination to scoff at religion and the churches. Granted that some church membirs are not just what they ought to be, they are but the dross and their actions should not be taken as an excuse for directing ill-conceived sallies of ridicule at the great body of well - meaning church goers. The hypocrite is not the proper standard by which to , gauge religion and the church. An lowa school boy was asked to write a composition on Russia and wrote as follows: "Rooshy is a country bounded on the north by ice, on the east by trouble, on the south by mobbs and the sooez kanal, and on the west by England and Kipling. At the present time the country has cold feet, and the imperur has cold chills running down his back and is afraid some one is after him with knives and bums—they throw Jots of bums in Rooshy. Finland is a part of Rons-by and its people are called fins because there are so many fish. ” Judge Richard K. Erwin, of Adams county, opened court in the grand jury room Monday morning, to hear the contest’d election case from Jefferson ownship, which was sent to him on a change of venue from Judge O'Rourke. The case in volves the right to the office of trustee of the township, Louis Roy, democrat, having tiled suit to oust Daniel B. Nail, republican, who was declared elected by the canvassing board. The case was first taken to the county commissioners, who ruled in Roy's favor, having discovered tha‘ a number of ballots had been thrown out, which, it was said, should have been counted as they were properly marked. Bv throwing out these ballots Nail secured a majority, but by counting them in the election goes to Rov. The testimony introduced was the same as that before the commis-sioners.-Fort Wayne Journal-Ga-zette. A marriage license was issued Saturday evening by Clerk Studabaker to Arthur Porter and Miss Gene-1 vieve Chronister and the youni j couple left on the 5:20 train for Muncie where they were to be married i at the home of his parents, Mr. and | Mrs. George Porter. It is their in- i tention to make their future home in Muncie and he will be employed in the rolling mills of that city. The wedding came as a surprise to the i friends of the young people few of whom knew their marriage was to occur until after they had left the «ty- By the marriage Mr. and Mrs. Herman Thomas lost both their hostler and their maid servant. Mr. P irter had been employed for two years as hostler and driver for the Thomas and Miss Chronister was a ITJ empl °y ed »» residence. ' ith the marriage both resigned their position to take up their resi-= deuce in Muncie. Miss Chronister ritv h “ whi °h ! i New* er father reside *' ~ B’uffton

Rev. John C. terday for Jacksonville ‘M = where he will be the *'’«■ president of the male seminary f ()r a f ew (k , 1 ‘ Me. White’s visit to the official one, he having be? ed by the North Indiana last April, to make the , i p <rt at the coming session L, ® ' condition of the school. He - in turn home m time to oondJt ’ “? usual services next Sunday en Sheriff Albert Butler rece;- Tt mesasge yesterday that h'"‘lß cle, Martin Erhart, of r" b! = Ohio, had Hied Monday and | neral services would be held ft ‘’'l! day morning at ten o'd 00k 1 deceased was a brother C f y D Jesse butler, who died a ,'H P1 ago. It is not likely that § the - ’atives here will attend • K funeral, as the word was rece ;? D too late to make arrangements Miss Hattie Studabaker ente A tained a dozen of her lady f r A at a six o’clock dinner party ft A evening at her beautiful subtirS. | home east of the city. The or E was delightfully pleasant’one ... E was given in honor of her g nC ; t - Miss Tillie Minehart, of St. L - who will also be the guest of h - at a six o’clock dinner at the hr" ■ < of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Stndabak er C this evening, a dinner at Sanat, I Tyndall’s home tomorrow noon and \ at Mrs. Morrison's tomorrow even J ing. 1 Bluffton, Ind., Jan. 24.—C p i Snyder, a well known shoe m 9. J chant here, has made an assignee; ‘ for the benefit of creditor*, ft,. liabilities are $19,934.94, assetses: ] mated at forced sale, $*,500. ft e i largest creditors are Studabaket 1 bank. $6,700; Wells County bank. $4,545; Lane & Co., rubber goods dealers, $1,809.31; G. F. McFarren. $1,642. The assets include the stock and Mr. Snyder's new home. A meeting of creditors was held and practically all of them have agreed to accept twenty five cents on the dollar. The banks have their claims secured by personal security and will lose nothing. Portland, Ind., Jan 25. — Smith H. Brcaey, of Chiago. president of the Cincinnati. Bluffton A- Chicago Railroad company, now in the hands of a receiver, was arrested today on a warrant issued at the in stance of County Surveyor J. J Griffith, who charges Bracey with having obta’ned money under fa.«e pretenses. Griffith alleges that he has loaned to Bracey various sums from S7OO to $5,000, which were to have been used in the construction of the railroad. No sooner was the road completed, according to the complainant, than the road was thrown into the hinds of receiver. Bracey, who was president of the Bracey Howard Construction com pany, of Chicago, subsequent!) filed a mechanic's lien against thi railroad for $600,000. “FOUND” Odd Ntfict in Prominent Southern Paper e Interest to Decatur Residents. One of the best known newspaper in the south is the “Guide” of Duni of N. C. Its publisher, J. P. Pittman sends us the following clipping wif request to publish: “Found. — By the editor of th Guide, a bottle of Hyomei, the won derful treatment that cures catarr without stomach dosing. We ca speak in highest praise of ile remark able power to cure and relieve catarr of the head and throat. This mentk is made not as an advertisement, bu in the interest of thoee who suffer th torture of that terrible disease .catarrh In sending the clipping, Mr. Pit man wrote the following letter “I enclose a little piece from m, paper, issued today. You will se from this that I desire to push th selling of Hyomei as far as possibli I am using it in my own family am find that it gives the desired relief, s I take pleasure in spreading far am near the knowledge of this sure relie for catarrh.” The Holthouse Drug Co., in preps ration for the catarrhal troubles c this season of the vear. have orders a large stock of Hyomei. and sell i under guarantee to refund the mone if it does not relieve. The complei outfit costs but sl, and extra bottle can be obtained for 50 cents. As The Holthouse Drug Co. to show yo the strong guarantee under which the; sell it. This remarkable remedy medi cates the air you breathe, soothiiq ?»d healing the mucous membrac-c of the air passages, and making a c >oo plete cure of the worst case of catarrh