Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1905 — Page 5

The appointment of Frank Walters the new postmaster at Monroe ville, was confirmed yesterday by the U. b. senate. The completed tabulation of tax assessments for Allen county, shows the taxable property in that county to be fifty million dollars. D. B. Ford returned to Geneva, Tuesday. He was enroute from Arkansas, where he was running over the state looking over the chanoes of speculation. Mr. Ford may return to Arkansas in the near future Philip had gone to bring in the 1 new kittnes to show them to a visitor His mother, hearing a shrill mewing, called out, “Don’t hurt the kittens, Philip!” From the hall came the reassuring answer, “Oh, no. I’m carrying them very carefully by the stems ” Mary C. Kraner died at her home on the Adams and Jay countyline Friday night after a brief iillness with lagrippe. The funeral was held Sunday at 1:30 p. m. from theMacklin church and interment at the Daugherty cemetery.—Geneva Herald. W. J. Kuhlman, of Cincinnati, representative of the Consolidated Look company, is in our city today k cleaning up the time locks at the Old Adams County Bank, this being in their contract. Mr. Kuhlman is an expert in this line and travels >ver the United States. The programs are out for the Adams County Sunday School convention, to be held in this city at the Methodist church, March 1. E. D. Goller, the state field worker, is an enterprising worker in the cause, and the convention mentioned, will no doubt be the best ever held here. The case of Daniel Haley against James N. Fristoe was tried before ’Squire James H. Smith. The suit was on account, Haley alleging Fristoe owed him $8.40 for labor done, and performed on his present home on Mercer street. The same resulted in a verdict in favor of Fristoe, thereby vindicating him. Secretary Kunkle goes to Geneva tomorrow with a view of already getting some promises for stock exhibits at the next Great Northern Indiana Fair. Some dealers have not yet become identified with this great Adams county attraction, and Secretary Kunkle proposes that they liven up and get into the game. The apple is the most sociable of fruits. Conversation can go right on between bites. The melon is better eaten alone and as for the orange one earnestly wishes to re - tire from mortal gaze. But with an apple in your hand the jokes fly faster, the conversation is more brisk and the enjoyment more keen. A Montpelier man who disap peared ten years ago has just written his wife that he “ will come back to her from the grave.” She replied that if he was comfortable in the grave, he had better remain there, as she had another husband just at present who was giving good satisfaction and she didn’t think she would make a change. The newspapers reach everybody. It is the one agency which touches all the people all the time. The scholar cannot get along without it., the day laborer has it for l.isole intellectual food. Rich, pour, wise, ignorant, young, old—everybody reads the newspaper and it i« •he only form of literature to which this may be said. Thus the opportunity of the press is un limited. J. W. Sale is home from Wash ington, D. C-, where he spent a week. While there he had an interview with President Roosevelt and met many of the prominent senators and representatives. The special object of his visit was to testify before the interstate com meroe commission in reference to proposed legislation which would affect the members of the National Hay association and other big ship pers.—Bluffton News. The editor of a paper in Nevada is hiding in the hills to escape a mob which is after him for getting the report of a cattle show and a concert mixed It read this way: * The oonoert given by sixteen young ladies last eve’s; agw as highly appreciated. They sang in a most charming manner winning the plaudits of the audience j which pronounced them to be the finest herd of Shorthorns in the country. A few are of a rich color, but the majority were sjotted, brown and white. Several of the heifer are ablebodied, clean limbed animals and pr«jHui»w to be good milkers.

The postoffice at LaOtto was burglarized Sunday night, the safe blown open andthe contents thereof taken. There is no olew to those who performed the job. Ray Allen was in town Sunday, the guest of relatives and friends. He is a traveling representative for one of the biggest soap houses in the country and has a lucrative position. D. U. Robbins informs us that he has shipped two of his fine fullblooded bull pups to Marion, ()., and one to North Dakota. He says the demand for these animals is large and more than he can fill. Harry Tribolet, who has been at West Baden during the past week, left that place today for Malden, Missouri. He will spend some time in Missouri and Arkansas and may make some real estate investments in timber land.—Bluff ton News. Twenty-five members of the Rebecca lodge of Decatur stepped from the southbound passenger train Friday afternoon enroute for Linn Grove, where they installed a Rebecca lodge with a number of charter members. They were taken ioverland by Liverymen Braun & Co. —Berne Witness. George H. Kelley, of Geneva, was transacting business here Monday, and also conveying the infor mation that he is considering the matter of moving away from Geneva, and taking up his residence elsewhere. Tais is not authentic and Mr. Kelley would not divulge any further plans for the future. Rural Route Carrier Warren Hamrick, of route ten, desires in this manner to express his sincere thanks to Homer Faust and E. T. Jones, two of his patrons, for their kind work, in clearing about a quarter of a mile of road yesterday, which had drifted in a terrible shape with snow, and he may sometime in the future be able to show his appreciation of the same. The Goshen News Times says: “All over the world there are people of mature physiques and every indication of strength, whose weakness crop out in one way or another. Some rook the boat; others pull chairs out from under you prepare to seat yourself; some more point guns thinking they are not loaded; others write letters and sign other people’s names; and some, blessed be their memory, blow into gun barrels. The atter is always the best thing. Mrs. D. E. Studabaker gave a six o’clock dinner Wednesday for Miss Tillie Minehart, of St. Louis. The event was a most pleasant one and the guests included Mesdames Tyndall, Niblick, Morrison, Champer, Misses Hattie Studabaker and Minnie Orvis and Master Dan Tyndall. Miss Minehart was likewise a guest of honor at a dinner party given by Mrs. J. W. Tyndall today noon. She will be entertained at a dinner party this evening at Mrs. Morrison’s home and tonight, tomoriow at Mrs. John Niblick's. A large crowd was present Friday evening at the opera house to witness the production of Hunt’s Monte Cristo, and everyone was perfectly satisfied with the performance. The play, although an old one. st ill attracts the attention of the theatre-going public and when p-oduced in true light is a play well worth seeing. The costumes were gorgeous and indicated every appearance of just arriving from the tailor. Taking it all in all Mr. Hunt carries with him a fine company and was fully deserving of the large crowd present last even ing. The next attraction is the “Two John’s” next Tuesday even ing. The Jbill providing that federal court shall be held at Muncie has taken a place in the congressional cemetery. It pa sed the house and met its finish in the senate commit tee on the judiciary. Congressman Cromer, who worked it through the* lower ohamber, has worn out a great deal of shoe leather visiting members of the senate committee on the judiciary, but he cannot get them to act on the bill. The plan is to send it to a somniferous death by the slumber route. It has become noised about congress that Federal Judge A. B. Anderson and Noble C- Butler, clerk of the federal court, are against this bill and that their views have had much to do with shaping the attitude of the senate committee. The demand for the additional court was oonfined principally to the lawyers in the neighborhood of Muncie.

Fort Wayne has adopted and the same is now in force, an antispitting ordinance. If such legislation was put into full force and effec’ in this city, the office of street sweeper could with propriety, be abolished. Jacob Baumgardner, of Vera Cruz, has sold an acre of land at the gravel pit to Peter Baumgardner, of Linn Grove, for SSOO. The latter will begin the manufacture of cement blocks as soon as the weather is fit. Here’s good luck to our Vera Cruz friends. — Bluffton News. A number of young folks Sunday took advantage of the good sleighing and drove to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Koos, where they enjoyed a’ fine good oldfashioned country dinner. Those present were Misses Bert Deininger, Nora Forbing, May Berling, Bert Fullenkamp, Edna Crawford, Ode Fullenkamp and Messrs. Hixon,' Johnson, Fox, Rodgers, and Kucher. Marshal Green is in receipt of a notice from Francis O’Neill, superintendent of the Chicago police, asking him to be on the look out for Adolph Hoch, the man charged, with the murder of a dozen or more women. His last crime was the murder of Marie Fisher, two weeks ago. Hoch was seen at Arg us, Indiana, a few days ago. He is fifty years o]d, weighs 165 pounds, is of dark complexion and has a sore on the end of his nose. John T. Dutcher, the man held at Portland as a suspect in the Redkey postoffice safe blowing, was released from the county jail today, the officers failing t > develop any strong evidence against him. Dutcher was arrested in this ’city vhe next day after the robbery in which Postmaster Tarpen was shot at Redkey. Charles Manning, the first man arrested, is still held and the evidence against him seems to be strong.—Hartford City News.

Work on the new round house and shops at the yards, in his city, has l>een pushed forward all winter despite the cold weather. A rumor is persistently growing to the effect that as soon as the new shops are completed Frankfort, Jlnd., will be abandoned, as a shop and division point, and that Charleston, 111, and Decatur, Ind., will be the big cities on the system between Toledo and St. Louis. There is more than a rumor in the matter and it will take some effort, time and money to land the industry. Now is the time to hustle and land an industry that will make the popoulation of the city reach the 10,000 mark. Dr. Patton, Mayor Digby and other leading citizens are heading the movement.—Charleston Courier.

The supreme court has construed the Nicholson law in reversing the judgment which granted Perry F. Smith a license tc keep a saloon at Lexington, in Jennings county. He was not opposed by a Nicholson law remonstrance, but only by a single remon trator, who insisted that he was not “a fit person to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors.” But the supreme court holds that Smith’s applmation was insufficient to meet the requirements of the Nicholson law that it shall “specifically describe the room in which he desires to sell such liquors, and the exact location of the same, and if there is more than one room in the building, shall specially describe and locate the room.” The application simply described it as the “lower floor of the of the front room” of a certain two-story brick building. Lon Whitman, who was behind Knox, the forger who swiudled sev era! Portland pepole, has been arrested at Waveland, N. Y., for forgery. Although Whitman is one of the most accomplished forgers of the country, he was for sever al years a shrewd horse thief and he operated in this part of the state. Horses that he stole in this neigh borhood he ran into Greenville, Ohio, where he had aooomplioes who turned them into money. He was finally arrested at Greenville, and the trial brought out the wonderful versatility of the man At Farm land, in Randolph county, and a town in Wells county, Whitman posed as a minister of the gospel and filled pulpits with great credit to his pretensions. When he was arrested at Greenville, a number of Indiana church people were witto testify to his apod oharac ter. They would not "believe that so saintly a man could be a horsethief.

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A new game of “graft” has been spiung by a man who travels through the country selling farmers phonographs. He apparently offers the machine and twenty records for the modest sum of $7. The average farmer signs a contract for the machine to be delivered two weeks later and before the expiration of that time he finds the local bank has pure ased his note for $307 for a phonograph and twenty records at sls each.

Mrs. Miles Pillars entertained about fifteen of her lady friends last evening in honor of Mrs. Boyd Price, of Crown Point. Mrs. Pillars proved herself a charming hostess and the occasion w»s a pleasant one. Progressive pedro was the popular game and proved as interesting as usual. Miss Bessie Congleton was the champion, winning nine out of ten games. The evenings pleasantries closed with delicious refreshments. The local banks which have been paying per cent interest on deposits contrary as they all believe to good policy, have been gradually coming together, it is said, in financial circles and the coming week may wit ness a joint agreement to reduce the interest rate to 2 percent, under conditions which bind each banker. There is also some rumor current that the bankers will organize a clearing house for which the News has been contending so long, as being due to the city from its financial institutions. This will put Fort Wayne more prominently forward in the financial interests of the whole country.—Fort Wayne News. At Edwardsville work is being pushed on the Clover Leaf’s icing staton as is rarely done. At one end masons drawing toward the finish of the vitrified brick foundation of the building, and at the other fifty carpenters are hustling up walls of the first section of the mammoth building The siding is not yet up and the roof still far away, but the first shipment of ice is almost due and tomorrow crews will start unloadng ihe cars of their chilly product and filling the big room. Meanwhile the carpenters will go on building around the huge pile of ice. The building will be 210 feet over all and will be in seven sections, six of which will be filled with ice. All around the building tracks are spread like a system ot arterie®, and scores of track men are hustling in more. Peter Miller vs Charles A. Hunter, suit on note, demand sllsO, is the title of a case filed in court Thursday by Attorneys D. D . Heller & Son. It will be remembered that June 6th last, a man named R. D. Dewey, of Adrian, Miohgan, who had been here about a week, closed a deaf with Mr. Hunter, whereby he sold him twelve patent feed cookers and took his note for $.->OO in payment of same. At least that was the story told at that time. The feed cookers arrived at the G. R. &. station in due time, but Hunter has always refused to accept them. Dewey left here immediately after closing the deal. Accord ing to the complaint, sold the note to A. U. Bond, who sold it, to Samuel King and he to Peter Miller, who now brings suit to collect same. In one corner of the note attached to the complaint appear the words, “This note is given for twelve feed cookers.” The case will be watched with interest.

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Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Smith entertained a number of their friends last evening at a good old-fashioned pedro party and from all reports a most enjoyable time was had. Refreshments were served and everything in order was done to make the guests enjoy themselves. Mayor Coff°e says the new dynamo and engine that the city council recently purchased at Lorain, Ohio, had not yet put in its appearance and that he was at a loss as to what has become of the same. The machinery was shipped on the eighteenth of this month and the bill of lading has been here nearly a week, but the machinery fails to shows up. Martin Mylott yesterday telegraphed to Lorain, Ohio, and also notified the proper railroad officials concerning this matter and the railroad company has informed Mr. Mylott that they would at once start a tracer after the same and locate the machinery as soon as possible. It is the opinion of diff erent members of the council that the machinery has been shipped to Decatur Hl., instead of this city. Everything is in readiness at the water works plant so that as soon as the machinery arrives it wil' be at once set up and started to work. In a decision bearing the signature of every member of the supreme court the injunction of Judge Grossoup restraining the great packing companies from combining in restraint of trade was upheld. It was intimated early today that a decision in the case might be expected, but the attendance in the court room was not as large as the public interest once manifested in the case would have seemed to make certain. Nearly every member of the Illinois delegation in congress was present, and Vice-President elect Fairbanks came in to hear the decision rendered, but the general attendance was small. The lack of interest wa« explained on the grounds that a decision against the packers was a foregone conclusion. Feb. 18, 1903, Judge Grosscup made the injunction permanent prohibiting the packers individually and collectively from combining to increase the price of meat products or to depress the price of live stock, poultry and similar raw material of the packing houses.

On Wednesday afternoon the town council in company with the town's attorney, U. J. Lutz, of De oatur, had a meeting with A. D. Thompson, of the firm of Thompson & Case, of Peoria. Illinois, to investigate the bill which the contractors claim is 11 ue them for the construction of the sewer here. The claim amounts to $936. The council has acted wisely jn not paying the bill, as the sewer wns not finished in the speeded time and has numerous bad places in its construction, for which the contractors are to blame. Mr. Lutz advised the council on Wednesday afternoon not to pay the bill on the grounds that the contractors had not fulfilled their part of the contract- After he saw that the council would remain firm in their refusal to pay the claim, Mr. Thompson, declared that he would bring suit against the Town of Berne, but as far as could be learned before going to press, no suit had yet been filed. Mr. Lutz claims that if the matter would be taken into court, the contractors would be the losers.—Berne News.

The funeral services of Mrs. Susan Helm were held at ten o’clock Tuesday morning from the United Brethren church, Rev. Luke officiating. Quite a number of the relatives, friends and neighbors of the good lady attended and pail the last rites to the deceased. Mrs. Helm’s death was a terrible, she being the lady who died Sunday evening from burns received from an explosion of kerosene gas while she was starting a fire in her coal stove. Her son, Samuel, who was also badly burned in his efforts to assist his mother is recovering. His right hand was burned almost to a crisp. Operations in the Jay and Adams county oil fields are practically at a standstill, on account of the slump in prices. Leading operators say they will not start the drill again at less than $1 a. barrel and to all appearances they mean what they say. A pioneer producer says even at its highest price for oil has never been what it should be—not a half nor a third of what the profits of the Standard Oil company justify their paying. He argues that the Standard could pay $3 per barrel and yet remain the wealthiest corporation on earth. The price of producing crude petroleum, taking into consideration the money spent in wildcatting, is estimated at $2.83 per barrel, hence it will be seen that in selling oil at 90 cents and $1 per barrel so many thousands of dollars must be lost every year, meaning in great part the failure of many prospectors. An organization of operators for the purpose of controlling the sale of the product is favored by the Jay county operators. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette gives the following account of the death of Charles Geary, a brother of William, the well known night policeman of this city: Charles Geary, for seventy yeacs one of the best Known residents of Fort Wayne, died Friday morning at his home, 337 Montgomery street, of stomach trouble. Mr. Geary was a contractor and engaged activly in business until about a year ago, when he was forced by ill health to resign. He was seventy nine years cf age and was born in New York, but when only one year old he came with his parents to Fort Wayne. When he reached manhood he engaged with his father in brick making and the two manufactured brick with which the Cathedral, in this city, was built. Mr. Geary was a member of the Cathedra] congregation. He is survived by his wife and four children—Edward, Oliver, William and Miss Anna Geary. There are also the following brothers and sisters: William Geary, of Decatur; John, Ambrose and Miss Louise Geary, St. Louis; Miss Rose I Geary. Boston, and Mrs. Kate Moi Knight, of Pine Bluff, Ark. The i funeral services were held Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock at the residence and at 9 o’clock at the Cathedral. Agonizing Burns Are instantly relieved, and perfectly heated, by Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. C. Riverbark, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., writes: “I burnt my knee dreadfully; that it blistered al over. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve stopped the pain, and healed it without a soar.” Also heals all wounds and sores. 25c at Blackburn & Christen’s drug store.