Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1905 — Page 1

al l THE NEWS all the time

VOLUME XLIX.

jjrs. E. J. Brunson left Mondaymorning for her home at Little Bock, Ark., after making a three months’ visit here with her brothers George and Howard Louthan, g l3 w ill make short visits at Fort IVavne, Decatur, Illinois, and Saint Lrnis. Geneva has a laundry of her own now. Burl Graves, an experienced man in the business, has arrived from Fort Recovery, Ohio, and is fitting up a place of business in the pyle property, corner of High and Line streets. Mr. Graves has brought his wife and child with him, and they come here highly recommended to the people as citizens. There is no reason why a laundry should not pay here and Mr. Graves believes he has struck a good opening. A message received in this city tells of the death of Mrs. Emily Crane, at her home at Earl Park, Benton county, Indiana, Saturday morning. She was a sister of William and Robert Blackburn of this oity, and lived in Root township a number of years, prior to her marriage forty years ago. She was fifty-eight years old and had been siok for several years with a complication of diseases, which caused a general breaking down. She leaves a son and a daughter, her husband having died a number of years ago. The funeral services were held today. A certain barber of this oity Saturday evening purchased a new pair of shoes which he wore all day Sunday, and which by ‘ the way hurt his feet badly. Before going to see his girl he remarked to a friend that when he arrived at his sweetheart’s home he was going to take his shoes off. This he did and when he started to go home his feet were so badly swollen that he was unable to get his shoes back on, and was forced to walk eight squares through a heavy frost in his stocking feet. He now says no new shoes for him when he goes sparking again. Several young bloods from Decatur came to our town on Sunday evening and had a “real good time" at the depct before leaving on the night train for home. The nightwatchman says they literally covered the floor at the depot with spittle colored with some kind of weed in their mouth, and then not being satisfied concluded to decorate the stove with the same kind of matherial. Now if they cannot deport themselves as gentlemen while in our town hereafter, they may be assured they will get a chance to stay with us all night in the Hotel de Bismark, located b?hind the town hall. So conduct ynirselvei like gentlemen the next time and the past will be forgotten.—Berne Witne-s.

Monday afternoon at three o'clock, at his home, two miles east of this city, John M. Cramer, one of the oldest residents of this county, and in all probability one of the oldest residents of this state, departed this life. For over a year he had been failing from softening of the brain, and some time ago was pronounced insane by the board of insanity, but had never been taken away to an asylum. He was, however, during all this time confined to a room, and was given special care and attention by his son, Samuel, who gave up the ministry to care for him. During the past week, however, he began to decline rapidly, being unable to take nourishment in the proper form. Mr. Cramer was eighty-two years of age, having, come to this county when but a mere boy, and had made this his home until his "teath. He was father of eleven children, eight of whom survive bim, as does his wife. He was the last of the charter members of the Salem church, which he with se,en of his neighbors assisted in building. h 9 was a devout chi is tiau during his time, and his acts °f charity a nd kinds deeds were The funeral services will held tomorrow morning at ten_4*rty o’clock at the Salem church offiZi B B’tst. of this city, gating and- interment will bi erlno in K ' !erri cemetery. His na sons will act as pall bearers.

No doubt it will be a surprise to the many friends of George \V. Curry and Bessie Kreigle when the announcement of their marriage is thus made public. The same will take place November 30th at the home of the bride’s parents. Over 100 invitations have been issued. The Daily Democrat extends congratulations. Miss Ida and Tim Sprague gave a party at their home Saturday, evening, on North Eleventh street. The guests were composed from the friends from this city, and the surrounding county. The evening was spent in games and music, and a fine time was had. Refreshments were served and at a late hour the guests departed voting Ida and Tim charming entertainers. Mrs. Ola L. Gaunt, aged tv’entyfive years, died Thursday, at her home, five miles east of tips oity. after an illness of several months, from consumption. She ate a hearty supper last evening and stated that she was feeling much better. Upon retiring for the night she was seized with a severe fit of coughing, which resulted in several hemorrhages and before medical aid could be secured she was beyond assistance. The funeral services have not been arranged, but interment will be made in the Mount Tabor cemetery, and Rev Stoops of Van Wert will conduct the same. Mrs. Gaunt was quite well known in her community, and also in this city.

The will of Peter H. Colohin was probated Friday afternoon, John S Colchin and Frank Coolhin being named as executors. After providing for the debts and funeral expeness the will directs that the exeotutors pay SIOO to the pastor of any Catholic church they may choose, for masses, also SSO for masses to be said for the deceased’s wife. Should he die away from Decatur, the will asks that his remains be returned here for burial at the St. Joseph cemetery. His estate is bequeathed equally to his five living sons, John, Frank, William, Anthony and Herrman and the heirs of Henry Colohin, a deceased son. The will further provides that the real estate of deceased be not sold for five years, unless by the written consent of all the living sons, the idea being to avoid a force sale. The will shows Mr. Colohin’s conservative and wise business methods, and was written February 21st of this year, being witnessed by William and Charles Niblick.

Without doubt the largest hog sale ever held in this section of the country, took place Friday, when John D. Nidlinger. the most prominent Duroo Jersey hog raiser in Indiana, held his annual sale at the Riverside stable s. The crowd was the largest in the history of any of these popular sales, and buyers were present from Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, and lowa, and the bidding was very spirited. Forty-two hogs were offered for sale, and as we go to press thirty of this number had already been sold under the hammer, and at fancy prioes Colonel Fred Reppert acted as auctioneer, and his melodious voice was never in better shape and bis encouragement to the bidders, his description of the property <o be sold, always brought an additional bid. To show the prices these animals wore selling at we quote a few bids, and the names of the purchasers: Tom Johnson, o. Columbus. Ohio, paid 1380 for one; McNeil Bros., of Bowen H mois paid >3lO for one; Carl Scott, Muncie, paid $137 for one and Geor„e R Mangold, of Shannon City, lowa, paid 1125 for one. The lowest paid any hog was $27, and Purchaser got a bargain bidders got warmed up. Th sale speaks volumes for Mr. - - linger, and shows that the pub L t«. much " X-— upon his success.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1905.

) Grover Diehl will be sent to the Easthaven asylum at Richmond as soon as room can be made for him. I An insanity inquest was held for ■ him last evening by ’Squire James ’ H. Smith, assisted by Drs. J M. ' Miller and D. D. Clark, and the above recommendation was the result. Diehl is twenty-one years old and a son of H. T. Diehl of Kirkland township. He has been ’ acting queerly for months, but this trouble has become more aggrevated during he past few days. He 1 has been in jail since Tuesday even- ' ing. They were a newly married , couple from Goshen and on their honeymoon trip. They put up at a skyscraper hotel in Chicago, The bridegroom felt indisposed, and the bride said she would slip out and do a little shopping. In due time she returned and tripped lightly up to her room, a little awed by tne number of doors that looked alike, but she was sure of her own and tapped gently on the panel. “I’m back honey, let me in!” she whispered. No answer. “Honey, honey, it’s Mabie. Let me in!” There was silence for several seconds; then a man’s voice, cold and full of dignity, came from the other side of the door: “Madam, this is not a bee hive, it’s a bathroom !”— Ex. It has always been a puzzle how some stories get into print, and while we realize that the average reporter has a fertile brain, the following “yellow” dispatch which appeared in the Denver Post'of November 4th, is about the best ever called to our attention: Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 4— “Marry a Monroe Girl and Order Your Coffin” is the motto of’ the young men’s club of this town, formed because there are seventy- ' two widows in the town, while the entire population is less than 800. With one exception, all of these widows have become such through the deaths of husbands, the cne exception being a woman who was 1 divorced. Even in her case, how- i ever, the rule soon proved to be good, for the ex-husband soon as- I ter died. It has been suggested that I there be attached to the marriage i ceremony where the bride is a i Monroe girl, a coupon for register 1 ing the death of the husband, but 1 the young men have determined to t aoivd such an extreme and have 4 formed a club whose members are ] pledged not to marry a Monroe J girl. 1

Mayor Coffee held a little cour Monday it being the first he has held for some time. And three young men were forced to to pay the penaly for the same. The first case called was that against John Stetler for public intoxication to which charge he plead guilty and was find a dollar and costs amounting in all to $9.30 and being unable to give bond he went back to jail. The next case was against Chauncey Siecle a ycuag man of local reputation, who was charged with carrying concealed weapon. It seems that Stetler and Steele were talking to several girls, when some outsider butted in and insulted them. This so enraged the young men that they went into the Schafer Hardware store and purchased a pair of knuckles and proceeded to Murray’s saloon and was gcing to clean up some one. Stetler carried the weapons away from the hardware store, and while in the saloon dropped the samo and Steele picked it up. A little verbal argument was then had, the result was that Murray threw the young men out, and right into the arms of Sheriff Butler and Night Policeman Reynolds, and they were hustled off to jul. Steele was found guilty and assessed a fine of $9.30 in all, and he also went to jail. The third victim was Fred Blazer, who was charged with public intoxication, and who plead guilty and was given the usual dcse. He also went to j dl in default of being able to pay. A sad fart about Blazer’s trouble, or as he lays, is the fact that he. g to have been married Sunday, ' When taken to jaT he wept bitterly for an hour, his howling be-1 ing heard two blocks away. j

e Bert Close, of Bluffton, and who s was so badly injured three weeks . ago, when a tree fell on him while r he was working for the Bluffton s Hoop company, is recovering. A . letter from his father. George b Close, says the boy is doing fine, - having practically recovered from s all the injuries except the right f j arm, which was broken at the eli bow and dislocated. The physia cians give some hope that Burt - will recover the use of the arm. ) The family is well known in this . city and county. The Pacific Express company, I Will Daniels, agent, has had so ■ much transfer at this point of late , that it has been impossible to load i the express within the time given I to change engines on the Wabash trains, consequently the company i has been compelled to have a special > express oar placed on the sidetrack i and when it is loaded, couple it onto westbound train No. 7, at 11:20 . a. m. When the new time card goes into effect Sunday the express car will be taken from here on train No. 51, leaving at 5:25 a. m. i The epxress comes from Cincinnati and is mostly whisky, bound for the prohibition states in the west. —Peru Journal. A case that promises to produce some very spicy testimony, was filed in the Adams circuit court Friday by Attorney L. C. Devoss, entitled Sophia Liohtle against Dorse D. Myers, breach of promise to marry, being alleged. The complaint is a lengthy affair and states that in the year 1902 the above named plaintiff and defendant started a oourtsnip, which soon resulted in the defendant making a proposal of marriage which Miss Lichtle accepted. The courtship continued for several years and several months ago the date of marriage was set for November 15, 1905, at which time the defendant failed to live up to his promise and jilted the above named plaintiff. Several months ago under the promises of their marriage the defendant seduced her and otherwise took advantage of her and for the loss of her virtue and the injury to her feelings she has been dam- ( aged to the extent of $ 10,000, which ( amount she demands from the de fendant. A summons was issued ( for the defendant, which will be served some time this evening. Attorney Williams of Fort Wayne, 1 has also been engaged by Miss ’ Liohtle to assist in the fight for '■ her rights. t Attorneys Merriman and Dailey J

b have prepared the petition for a 8 new gravel road which land owners 7 of the eastern part of Lancaster t township, this county, and of Kirki land township, Adams county, want ) built on the tewnship line. The 1 proposed road, if built, will be two miles in length, beginning at Curryville and running northward, t The petition was prepared for John > Eager who is soliciting names. Under a new law that is not generi ally known a road three miles or I less in length may be improved by assessing all of the taxable property , or real estate in the townships adI joining the road in both counties 1 after first securing upon the petit tion the names of fifty freehold ) voters. The petition may then be i presented to the commissioners of i either county. They in turn notify the commissioners of the other county concerned in the road and a joint session is held to consider the . petition. In this case the petition will be presented to the Wells county commissioners. A petition similar to that for the John Barger road is another being circulated by John Drumm asking for the im provement of three miles of the county line road running south from Curryville. Names to the two petitions may be secured in either Lancaster or Kirkland township. Both petitions ask for macadamized roads, with coarse rook on the bottom and fine-screenings fln top. ..Land owners in the distant parts of the township probably would not be in favor of the roads as they will derive little benefit. I but those in favor of them feel that | they will be able to secure fifty I names upon each petition.—Bluffi ton News.

The Presbytarian church was i comfortably filled at both Sunday services, and Rev. Fowkr's sermons were eloquent and effective. The song service both morning and evening was beautiful. Huntington county comes to the front with a brutal murder, which occurred at Tr >y, in the south part of that county, Tuesday night at nine o’clock, when Thomas Souers shot his brother-in-law, Shadwiok Thomas through the heart, killing him instantly. The men had been at Warren during the day, had drank heavily, and quarreled, when Thomas wanted to take Souers home. In the mixup Thomas struck Souers and the latter swore revenge. Thomas drove home and Souers walked, arriving at Troy he found his brother in-law at the store with a number of otter men. He renewed the quarrel and the murder followed. Souers went home and went to bed. He was arrested at midnight and taken to jail at Huntington. Both men have families. « Almond Manlier, the little five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Manlier of Pleasant Mills, was serioulsy and perhaps fatally injured Thursday afternoon. Mr. Manlier owns a store at Pleasant Mills, and his family live on the second floor of the building. Little Almond was playing in a portico which extends out in front of the living rooms. He lost his balance while hanging over the rails and fell a distance of twenty-three feet, striking head first on an old stove. The lad’s skull was fractured and a piece of the bone was driven into the brain an inch. The boy hit the stove on the sharp edge of tne stove pipe hole and the fracture was an ugly one. Dr. J. W. Vizard was called a ad’ assisted by Dr. Beavers of this city, removed a two-inch piece of the skull. A strange incident was that the little victim of 1 the accident never lost conscieusness a moment and jumped up immediately after the fall. However, 1 the injury is a very serious one and the outcome cannot be definitely 1 known for several days. Dr. Viz- ! ard was in town today and report- * ed that his patient had rested fairly 1 * 4 well during the night, and his condition today was favorable. Sheriff Butler received a letter this morning from General Super- , intendent W. H. Whittaker of the ] Indiana reformatory giving him < Some information concerning the future plans that have been estab- t lished by this institution. In part i

he says: “The Impression seems i to prevail among prisoners in the | county jails, as well as among some | of our court officials, that a sentence < to the Indiana reformatory means a 1 light sentence, and that the pris- | oner will be paroled sooner from t the reformatory than from the i state prison. 1 write you this let- 1 ter to put their straight in this f matter. 1 want to say, the man- | agers of this instiuttjon are hold- € ing from one to six years, longer c under the indeterminate sentence a law, than was done under the old f law, and further, we do not release S inmates from this institution, until ( we are absolutely certain in our f own minds, that they have reform- i ed to such an extent that they will t go out and make useful citizens, t Some of the courts are sending i men here who are over thirty 1 years of age. The policy of this f management is and will be in the i future, to hold such a prisoner one J year beyond his minimum sentence, 6 because of the fact of his having v perjured himself by giving his age f as under thirty years in order to o get a reformatory sentence. Would o it be possible for you to make f this fact known to the officers of ( your court and to the inmates now a in your jail or those who may come f under your care in the future? All 1 prisoners now serving in this insti- a tution have an avreage sentence of s nearly three years, before they are t paroled or discharged, and they f have a wrong impression who think t it is easy to get out cf this institu- s tion.’’ So it may be seen that the r future life of inmates will be t equally as severe in this institution b as in the Michigan City prison.

CIRCULATION 2800 WEEKLY

3 i I red Haugk, the little seven year y old son cf Mr. and Mrs. Julius - Haugk, while on his way to school . Friday morning, had a very narrow I .escape from instant death near the (Grand Rapids depot, and how he e escaped is a miracle to all the j i trainmen and those who witnessed t j the same. The accident happened t|at the Monroe street railway orosss j ing, where young Haugk and hie j elder brother attempted to cross the , track while a running switch was j being made. Jack Grady, the I crossing watchman, called to the , boys to look out, but they either 3 failed to hear him or thought they could cross before the car arrived and in so doing the heavy box car struck the little fellow with considerable force, throwing him down, and only the timely assistance of Crossing Watchman Grady saved . him from instant death. When the car struck him Grady, who had been watching the boys, made a leap to the side of the track and catching the boy Dy the collar jerked him free from the wheels. The little fellow was badly frightened and suffered a very painful injury along the right side of his head, which, however, is nothing serious. A number of people were eye witnesses to the accident and all are loud in their praise concerning the Cool and heady work displayed by Mr. Grady. Saturday morning at half past eight o’clock occurred the death of Fred Ashbauoher, death being due to a sudden attack of heart failure, from which malady he has been a sufferer for a number of years. Just a few minutes prior to his death, Mr. Ashbauoher had been talking wih his brother, Ben, and got up from his chair to walk to another portion of the house. While so engaged, he was stricken with un attack of his old trouble and expired in a few minutes. Three years ago, Mr. Ashbauoher was seized with an attack of atom ach trouble and this malady grew worse upon him until the end. It brought on spells of heart trouble and, although he has tried many changes of climate, nothing that man could do could afford more than temporary relief. For the past weeks he has been rapidly failing in health and his demise was not wholly unexpected. Mr. Ashbauoher is a man who has been prominent in Bluffton business circles for a number of years. He was a progressive business man and worked for the advancement of the oity at all times. He was a member of the firm of Ashbauoher Bros., being one of the founders of that institution, which stands today. He was a member of the board of directors of the Studabaker bank and his efforts largely contributed to the success of that institution. Fred Ashbauoher was born February 8, 1854, near Berne, Switzerland. He was one of a family of eight children, and his earliest experience was in the mercantile business, his father having a store in Berne. In 1856 the entire family moved to the United States, settling in Wayne county, Ohio. In 1861 the family moved from Ohio to this state, locating in Adams county. At the age of twenty-one, Mr. Ashbauoher came to this city, and lor a time worked in the H. C. Arnold store. In 1881 he, with his brother, Godfrey, formed a partnership to sell cloth ing, and their store remains today. Mr. Ashbauoher was married March 6, 1879, to Mary Elizabeth Klick, who survives him. He was the fatter of two children, Homer, deceased, and Mrs. George Tribolet, of Van Buren. Surviving him are four brothers, John, Matthias, Godfrey and Benjamin, of this oity and county, and three sisters, Mrs . Phil Bauman,of Nottingham, Mrs. Rosa Meshberger, of Linn Grove, and Mrs. Samuel Hooker, who resides in Villa North. Mr. Ash- 1 baucher was a member of the Reformed church, «f this ciAy, and of the Masonic lodge. The funeral services will be held Monday** after noon at two o’clock, the services being conducted by Rev. Diefenbach, assisted by Rev.J A. Beeks. —Bluffton Banner.

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