Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1905 — Page 3

niß Schmitt is having the f hiß business place on SeoLt freshened up with a Lt of blue paint, which Lrially add to the appear- " the same when completed. L soon as it is positive that ect rio line will be built from to Fort Wayne an attempt Lade to organize a fair istl9 n for the purpose of hold Ly fairs in Wells county ‘ 1 men who are in'er csted «« formal.p|ftDS to that end—Bluffton | fr the new law the woik per„to the care of drains will L the direction of surveyor several years past townrustees have had this duty to m It will be their duty to It all drains are kept in good Tney will receive bids for jrk of construction andcleantof all ditches and all new f ill be done through them. ■ Fristoe, of Decatur, seems e made a hit as a composer is io. His creations. “Twist Wrist” and “Purple and ■ have met with popular ap■in the musical world. Dels not a great distance from ■re, and a number of her K citizens formerly lived in ■ village, famed for the great Ke has produced.—Willshire Kt Winteregg, Elmer Reusser, ■Egly and Milton Gilliom, ■tnmon school graduates and Kt Hachot. a high school stuKfere expelled from school ■av afternoon, because they ■bookie" in the forenoon. K. went to the “canopa" in ■noon and fished. When K-. man interviewed L-,. said that they caught ■h just the same, and that Ke.l fishing as well as the ■rs do —Berne News. |g£ Ehle was appointed re ■f the Bluffton Opera Housi Lly this morning and is now Jpg . f the opera house. He know what he will dli| but may < ffer it for sale ■’ntil a buyer is found he ■r.nge the house but there ■little doing in the show |«ril next fall. The loan ■■in. which has a $16,0(h on the place, may buy in if a receiver’s sab ■ City Treasurer TangeReceiver Ehle toda> ■ess the city's electric light ■as paid by Monday the cur MK. 1 be out off from the ■ ■'■nday afternoon. — B'aff of commissioners me' ■rrpi'nlar May session Munda' Not much business wa> morning, and this after are inspecting the of the new barn at th« MBrn’.. just completed by Calvin Miller. The re upon the B F ■ petition for the vacation o' developed a good-sized and ended bv the boar l the reviewers' report ■ bccn.;i • nded that the roar ■ti public utility. The re ■bn 'th“ Eiward Staley pe ■f°l" ■ location of a highwav fire. The viewers the road. an< in favor of th in the sum of $104? who resigned th< of the First National after misap was last year president Bankers’ Assncia-.-ye,-nded last Octos v.nney, president of na’ cf Kansas City at the meeting it |^Bh o ni'ide some remarkin view of the his speculative opera ■Jo.rodur-.nL- his address h< ■Bowever much prejudice a Pp3ar to be at times ■Bakers, our business is of ■■ usefulness and impir Upright pursuit of it in ■® an, l better aspects re j{^B he courage and all the n we can command." c luded as follows: “T ■K *' J be kind to earn > 'pend less ; to renounce be necessary ano |^^K I’-tere(]; 1 ’-tere(] ; to keep a fev these without capitula on the same grin on *he same to keep friend ■ ~'° ere a task fo.'■boar L. h a, h of fortitudi W y - •

Fred Reppert has sold his home I on North Third street to Ed Bultemeir, the liveryman, who is to be married within a few weeks. Mr. Reppert will build a new home at once just south of where he lives at present. The “Way Down East” company was the last attraction that Manager Bosse has booked for thi i season and the theatre-going public will be forced to entertain themselves during the coming summer months to the best of their ability. Pearl Elizabeth, the six year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Humble.w ho reside on Line street, died Thursday at eight o’clock, after an illness of four months’ duration, death resulting from consumption. She suffered untold agony during these long months, but was a patient sufferer, and services were held Saturday as never complained. The funeralternoonat two o'clock, at the Uni ted Brethren church, Rev. Luke officiating, and interment was made in the Salem cemetery. Sunday afternoon at the Bingen Lutheran church north of this city occurred the wedding of Miss Amelia Berning, the beautiful daughter of Mrs. Ferdinand Berning to Mr. Andrew Fuellings young farmer of Root township. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Youse. and a Jarge crowd were present to witness the union. Immediately preceding the wedding ceremony a big dinner was served at the home of the bride's mother, 11 which only the immediate relatives were present. The young people are popular in Root town ship and expect to make their future home on the groom’s farm. The Democrat joins with their many friends in wishing them along and happy married life. John Johnson, a young man who has been absent from this county about a year, was in town Thursday seeking retribution for a wrong done him so he says. He left here May 18th, last, and went to Michigan, where he has lived since. The day following a farmer named Brandt who lives near 'he state line, eight miles east of here came to Decatur and informed Sheriff Butler that Johnson had stolen his horse and asked him to nake a search for the young man. Cards were printed describing the horse and offering a reward of twenty-five dollars for Johnson's irrest. He was not found and says he knew nothing of the affair until he came home a few days ago. Hwent to Celina yesterday, and ooun se]ed an attorney, who he says wil' assist him in making “some one sweat,” for thus injuring his goo l name. Just who that person ihe seems not to have fullv decided. He says he bought Brandt’s horse fair and square and can prove it Why he should be charged with stealing it, if he hadn't is hard to understand, but •nay soon be known if he files suit. Through her attorney C. J Lutz, Mary Ellen Graw, Friday filed suit aganist her husband, William H. Graw, and his sons, Henry and Harvey Graw. demanding support n the sum of fifty dollars a month The complaint shows that the? vere married August 20, 1896, and lived together until about a year igo, when Mr. Graw without any cause whatever and in a rude and angrv manner drove his wife out into the cold and the snow and she was compelled to seek shelter at the home of neighbors, that at the time she was sick and enfeebled. Since that time Mrs. Graw says she has earned her own living and a part of the time been compelled to accept charity, her husband still refusing to live with or provide for her. She says her husband is worth about S7OOO. The complaint is in two paragraphs, the first alleging that H.mry Graw owes his father <6OOO for a farm recently sold h’m and Harvey owes him s6o< for personal property turned ox ei to him. Toe second paragraph savs rhe transfers of the property was fraudulent and that Mr. Graw himself really owns the property. The complaint, further alleges that shortly before the abandonment »f the plaintiff and with that end m view. Mr. Graw represented to his wife that he had an opportunity <o sell the farm and induced her to sign the deed, then transfering it to his son. The sum of fifty doi lars a month is asked for and the appointment of a receiver to take charge of and sell or lease the farm is demanded. The parties live near Honduras in Kirkland township and are well known.

The building committee of the *cix Mile Christian church at a meeting held this morning received four bids for the contract to erect the new church building. There were four bids filed and the sue cessful bidder was J. O. Brown, of this city, whose bid was $5,210. Other bids received were as follows: Mann & Christen, of Decatur, $6,200; Fred Huffman, of Decatur, $7,947; and Koontz & Irwin, of this city. ss,soo—Bluffton News. The edible mushroom has once more appeared to gladden the heattsof the lovers of the fungus, and the woods about the city are now lieing daily visited by scores of hunters. While the mushrooms have not yet attained more than an ordinary size there is promise that within a few dyys they will assume such proportions ns to make their finding worth the while of hunting. With the promised warm weather after today they will be abundant. John Erwin and Charles Gintner, two young men of Monroeville, while enroute to this city, Sunday, morning, had a runaway, which resulted most disastrously for the buggy and Mr. Erwin. Everything had run along smoothly until the Daily farm east of the city was reached, when the rig ran over a tin can, the horse took fright and started to run and kick. During thiss melee Gintner jumped from the rig, but Erwin, who was driv ing hung onto the lines and in thus doing received some very bad wounds. The animal kicked him just over the right eye and on the right wrist, bruising and injuring the arm badly and perhaps breaking a small bone in the wrist, and it took two stitches to sew up the wound over his eye. The buggy was a total wreck and the boys walked into this city leading the horse. Dr. J. S. Boyers dressed Erwin’s injuries and he was taken to the home of Judge R. K. Erwin, his uncle, and later in the afternoon secured the rig of Dan Erwin and returned home. Westbound passenger train number five on the Clover Leaf railroad, known as the Commercial Traveler and duo here at 9:11 p. m., was ditched twelve miles east of the cit at]9:2o Thursday night. The tender turned completely over and four cars left the track, but miraculous as it may seem, not a soul was in jured, due to the cool-headedness of rhe engineer, Frank M. Holland The train was made up of a baggage oar, combination, chair car, sleeper and private oar. They left Ohio City at 9 : n 5 o’clock, twenty minutes late, and were tearing along at about fifty miles an hour, when the rear truck of tne tende: became twisted in soma way ano jumped the track. As the engint swerved ,the fireman. G. B. Alex tnder, who was coaling at the time jumped. He turned over halfa lozen times, but received not cve> a scratch. The engineer felt the jolt and supposed his train ha< broken in two until he glanced ou of the window. Realizing the aw ful danger, he put on the emergency air and stopped his engine within a few feet. Six feet further would have meant one of the wors' wrecks in history, as the entire train would have overturned into a deep ditch and many people woulc have no doubt been killed. The passengers were all shaken uj more or less, but were all thankful for their lucky escape. The privatoar at the rear of the train as the only one which remained on the track. In that car was Trainmaster Stroin, General Superintenden' Houlahan. Assistant Superinten dent McCarty and Mr. Sroup. superintendent of maintenance of way Frank L. Braden, editor of the Portland Commercial-Review, was on the train enroute home from Detroit. He and several traveling men arrived here at eight o clock this morning. The track at the point of accident was badly torn up and the Commercial Traveler re mained there all night. At four o’clock this morning a special en gine arrived at the wreck and took all the passengers who could get into the officials private oar to Ohio City, where they were put aboard passenger train number three, due here at 5:53. That train then came in over the Erie and was transferred back to the Clover Leaf here. About sixty people were aboard the train, the chair oar containing twenty, the sleeper six, the combination car seventeen emigrants, the private car five officials, besides the regular trainmen. The accident occurred at the crossing three miles east of Willshire.

This is the year of the reappearance of the seventeen year locust The last tjme they were seen wasin 1888. Although the insect has a bad reputation, it is not remembered that the yea rs of their visits are any more disastrous than at any other time. It is said the forerunners of the army have been heard, and that swarms of them may appear at anv time. It is said the locust is good to eat and that it is the seventeen year kind that the Bible speaks of as clean food for the Israelite when in the wilderness for forty years.—Bluff ton Banner. This is commencement week at Berne and that prosperous town has shown the activity usual at this season of the year. The baccalaureate sermon was preached last Sunday evening. Wednesday evening the graduates were given a reception by the junior class. Thursday evening the commencement ex ercises were held and Friday Dr. John P. D. John of Greencastle, will deliver the class address, followed by an alumni banquet. Last night’s exercises were held at the Evangelical church, that edifice being crowded to the doors. Miss Caroline Hirschey gave the history of the class; Eloyd Freeman told of the life of Charles Goodyear; Miss Laura Bixler told of Morgan's raid and Miss Thella Broughton of The Owenites; Miss Eva Erhart’s subject was LaSalle; Miss CoraSchug’s was Padisson; Robert L. Sprunger, “The Formation of the Constitution of Indiana;” Miss Neaaerhouser, “Finn’s Coronot Opens,” with the valedictory. The event closed with a solo by Miss Suman. Music was furnished by the Berne orchestra. A number of Decatur people attended the exercises. The numerous suits against Daniel E. Brown growing out of his marriage to Mrs. Jane Bechtell-Rupert-Gray-Dilavou-LaFollette in October last, will soon be stricken from the docket and Daniels name will then become only a memory in the minds of the court and a few others. The 79-acre farm in Jack son township which was transferred to Brown last October a few lays before his marriage to Mrs. LaFollette as conveyed back t< the woman Friday through hei guardian. Albert Brunson, and all cases in the court were dismissed except the criminal cases charging grand larcery and the suit to an nul the marriage contract. It isuspected that the marriage wil be annulled and that the grant larceny case will be heard of n more, although these are issues on which no one connected with thcase in any way is ready to giv>ut any information. The first sui iled was one to have the old lad? leclared of unsound mind and walled by her son, Jubel Bechtell, r great big fellow, not possessed of my excessive amount of intellect perhaps, but quite enough to suspect that his mother's for which he had been bving and looking forward to so persistent!? vere about to get away. Mrs Brown principally because she gav> everything away to her husband was declared of unsound mind ii he circuit court. Then followed -uits attacking the conveyance of land and tc annul the marriage. »> criminal case, charging the old gen rleman with appropriating a largo imouut of Mrs. Brown’s oil rcyalit? to his own use. A change of venue was taken in the three civil cases by Snyder and Moran, attorneys for Brown, and the suits were sent to Adams county for trial. Still there is no apparent cessation of hostilities on the part of Mrs. Brown’s big boy, Jubel, for when the cases were venued Io Adams county a:.d Brown threatened t > appeal Bechtell tenaciously proclaimed to the world, “Let ’em venue, let ’em appeal! We’ll follei ’em to hell and damnation." When it came to such a declaration as this. Attorneys Snyder and Mo ran, it is said, withdrew their appearance for Brown announcing their determination not to go beyond the supreme court of the United States in any case. It is told that McGriff and Whipple, at torneys for B ichtelll, were eager to have the case carried as far as he declared his intention of taking it, they wishing to beyond the end of the earth just for the novelty of the thing. Brown and his wife have not been living together for several dav-s. A few weeks back she was taken ill and he returned to nurse her through her sickness, leaving again as a oon as she recovered. — Portland Commercial Review.

Mrs. John W. Tnydall and Mr« John H. Heller gave an afternoon party Thursday at thehome of the former, on Monroe street. The oc casion was a very pleasant one and was participated in by about seventy ladies including the following out of the city guests: Mrs. C. E. Doty, Bellefontaine, Ohio; Mrs. Wittgenfeldt, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Robert Harding, Fort Wayne ; Mrs. Harry Deam, Bluffton; Miss Lone Pisser, Toledo; and Miss Josephine Wiedemann, of Eldorado, Kansas. Progressive red letters proved an interesting pasttime for the ladies, at which game Mrs. Roy Archbold and Mrs. Jeff B'yson were the prize winners. Luncheon was served at five o’clock, tne hostesses being assisted by Mesdames C. A. Dugan, W. A. Lower, H. R. Moltz, C. O. France, L G. Ellingham and G. G. Flanders. The guests were seated at fifteen small tables and the beautiful home was nicely arranged for the occasion. It was a successful event. Marshal Green received a communication Monday from W. B. Matthews, chief of police of Delaware, Ohio, announcing that a man who was employed with a construction gang on the Hocking Valley railroad had died very suddenly at his boarding place, April 28th. He had only been sick several days with a bad cold and during a fit of coughing during the night chocked to death. On his person was found several letters, one giving the address of William Lewis, of Columbus, Ohio, one giving the address of Charles Larkins, Camp Burdg, rural route one, Decatur. Indiana, but .lOthing that would disclose the identity of the deceased. The marshal here is requested to investigate the matter at once and tty and find this man r Larkins, so that the officials at Delaware may make some disposition of the body. Marshal Green is of the opinion that the man was at one time employed by A. Tubman, the interurban grade man, as the address would so indicate, and that he left here when the men broke camp. The description of the deoesaed is as follows: Age 30 or 35 years, weight 150, heighth 5 feet, 5 inches brown eyes and light brown hair.

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Surveyor L. L. Baumgartner, of this city, went to Ft. Wayne Thur s day morning to attend a meeting of the Surveyors of Northern Indiana, called for the purpose of discussing the new ditch laws. One of the most important sections of the new law is that which abolishes the time-honored boards of viewers, and establishes, in place thereof, the office of drainage commissioner. Under the old law, whenever a petition was filed for a public ditch, the commissioners were required to appoint three viewers, usually farmers of the county, whose duty it was to inspect the country affected and decide whether or not the ditch was necessary. The new law provides that the commissioners shall appoint a ditch commissioner, who shall inspect all lands affected by any proposed ditch. The Commissioner is entitled to a salary of three dollars per day. There are other changes in the drainage law, with which the surveyors wish to acquaint themselves, hence their meeting m Fort Wayne today. Charles Manning, the suspected robber of the Redkey post-office, who was taken in charge by the Federal authorities some days ago, after having been in the local jail for several weeks was given a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Ellis in Mun cie. He entered a plea of not guilty and was remanded to await the action of the Federal grand jur y which meets next month, in the sun.- of one thousand dollars. Th is amount of bond he was not able to give and was taken to Indianapolis, where he was placed in jail. M tinning is suspected also of being the man who shot J. C. Tarpen, who surprised the robbers in the midst of their work, but there is no evidence that would sustain that charge as to him alone, so he has not been charged with the crime. It is said that Manning d’d not appear at all worried while in the commissioner’s court. He did not seem to worry any while he was here either, apparently not caring whether he was taken to Indianapolis. The- only thing that he seemed to care about was the prospect of being in company at the Indianapolis bastile, while here he was kept in a part of the jail by himself.—Portland Review