Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1906 — Page 5

are out, annouueKl A,,! .«• The „*,i, ■r r to I"' a - TMt sueeess< and jiio-t balls ever given in i ‘ . I!, . lodge has an estabr ■'.“luta'a.ii as entertainers, and . V ,| )rt attend will be afforded i HU treatment. • HL Prena'i'kainp arrived this V'j,.,, from Arkansas, and is the ■J j his parents. Otto has been K',, nil -inee his father's mill :| rd has been following trade in that country. He of health which shows ■U gontli agreed with him. He H,D,ki'lr-l yet as to what he will K j#l „ is wrestling with an offer ■ *'4;s,(iOU worth of refunding W.,. which would take up $10,501) orders, $21,000 in Lrs on the general fund. SSOO Kgn ill the waterworks fund. Krr, overdrawn in interest, and HL) j., iß.t.ds. A C’incinna'ti bankKin.ututim. offers to take tin- rebonds at par. with five per K interest, they to run fifteen Hlosnratire adjusters, representing i-i,in] Mines carrying the fine t | u , j. I>. lb'lthouse building, duni- ; v" k ago. were here last night K; made a satisfactory .settlement Mr. Holthouse $2,571. The of the companies met Mr. highly of them. This mam s Eni ea hiss as allowed by the coitipanies oil building and $1,308. 9 By a vote of seven to one. the city last night, levied a license of ■p year on all beer agencies in i-tn and the ordinance goes into Hfci alter its publication for two and would affect breweries ■»l'distilleries if there were any Htcii in the city. It may affect the wholesale house if he* is an agent for any distillRlufftmi News, »jt . , suspected that tlie robber Brbi ita' keen v isiting public libraries ■t north, vt; Indiana cities may be a Htumiit;- tor footprints in the mud at Hwo of tiie points indicate that the Hrohbt-t' Wore shoes with French licgl Hnti! pointed toes. Fort AN ayne, GoBkn. Elkhart. Laporte, Michigan ■fity. Huntington and Wabash are Bson.e of the cities where small sums ■of money liave been stolen from pnhRc libraries within the past few ■reeks. I Mft. A. M. Fisher canto home MotiIday. and Mrs. M. H. Miller that Hnight, from a two months’ absence ■in California. During their absence ■ they visited all the interesting points Eat and near Los Angeles and San ■ Francisco and enjoyed the scenic ■ beauty and grandeur as well as the Iclimatfe advantages of that part of ■ this great country. Mrs. Jennie ■ StHdabaker, who was with them, ■ stopped at Denver, where she will vis- ■ it with friends. I The marriage of Miss Rachel I lamb to Mr. Frank Walters of Do I Qatar, Indiana, took place at the I home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Yo I cam, Tuesday evening of this I week. The 09remony was performI cdby Rev. T. T. Ryson of the M. I P. ohuroh, in th9 presence of a few I intimate friends, after whioh a I dainty luoheon 'was served. The bride is well known there and the Mewg-ltem extends heartiest oonSratnlations. The happy couple will make their home in Decatur. —Mechaniosbarg jO.) News Item.

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FIRST SESSION Republican State Convention in Session District Meeting Held at Eleven, Committees at Twelve and Convention at Two. Indianapolis, April 11.—The first part of the state convention program began at eleven o’clock, when the county delegations met in district meetings and seleced their committee representatives. At these meetings the followng committee assignments and officers were chosen: Rules and Permanent Organization, credentials, resolutions, vice-president and assistant secretary. At twelve o’clock the three committees met and framed their reports, tue committee on resolutions having the most important duty to perform. There was considerable discussion and disagreement over various features of the platform, including an indorsement of Governor Hanly and their report was delayed until late this afternoon. The candidates are doing the usual job of log rolling, and as a result some of the wise ones are predicting several urprises. Judge L. J .Monks, for supreme judge seems to have the political machinery working right, and his nomination is as ,o<>d as conceded by many that know the wiies. Ed V. Fitzpatrick landed well with the Marion delegation, and has many backers who are willing to put up the gilt that he wins out.

CRUSHED BY UNRULY HORSE While Assisting Farmer With Horse, NVell Known Resident of Decatur Nearly Lost His Life. Alex Leßnti), a resident of this city, confined to his home on West Adams street, in a very serious condition. suffering with three fractured ribs, a broken rib, his right arm and leg being useless and it is feared he has sustained internal injuries. Monday morning Mr. Leßrun went to Hoaglatid ,where lie has several contracts for painting houses .and during the day was busily engaged in following his usual routine of work. About three o’clock a farmer approached him and asked if he would assist him in getting bis horse up, which had become tangled in the harness while hitched to a post and had gotten down. Mr. Leßrun readily consented and they soon had the 'horse ready to get up. He was holding the horse's head, when the owner took the whip and touched the horse, which made a lunge to its feet, crowding Mr. Leßrun against the hitching post, and before he could free himself, he had sustained the above named injuries. He returned home Monday evening, and at once summoned a doctor, and all day yesterday. he was in a serious condition, and liis life was despaired of. He is resting some easier today.

THE RUSH WILL SOON BEGIN Surveyor Baumgartner is Busy Surveying Macadam Roads This Week. Three weeks from nest Monday is the last day in which you can pay vour spring installment of taxes without the penalty attached. Many are now liquidating, but from the present outlook, the last two weeks will witness a rush at the treasurer's office. No receipst will be laid away as the law is much more stret. The grand jury is occupying the office of Superintendent Opliger, and lie is now doing office work at his home, This is a great inconvenience to this public officer) and one that needs a remedy'. Niblick & Co, are driving a few finishing tacks in the linoleum improvements that is on at the auditor s office. Survevor Baumgartner has been absent all week in the southern part of Ihe county, 'surveying macadam roads. The most of the work in that region has been in Hartford township where • console; side ma-adam road bidding is under way. He v.ill tack e St. Mary's township roads "hen the south end is finished. «

the starry system IT IS SO VAST THAT ITS LIMITS ARE BEYOND COMPUTATION. Conftfderinj? Sonic Stupendous Distance* hy n Seale Greatly Itedueed. A Comparison With Onr Relatively Small Solar System. It is worth while making an effort to picture to ourselves the vast extent of the starry system in which we reside. Having gained some faint notion of the extent of the lesser solar system, which occupies a small corner of the stellar system, we must work outward from that beginning. Let us take for our unit of measurement the space which separates the earth from the sun, and let the 02,000,0110 miles of this distance be represented in our minds by a single indi. In proportion the sun itself must be pictured by a tiny ball less than one hundredth part of an inch in diameter, while our earth must be a mere speck, less than one tenthousandth of an inch in diameter. And this little sun and this minute earth must be just an inch asunder. Following out the same idea. Mercury and Venus, being closer to the sun than we are, have to be less than an inch away from him, while Jupiter win oe nve inc-ues oil, Saturn will oe ten inches off, Franus will be over nineteen inches off, Neptune will be almost thirty inches off. Then the solar system as a whole, leaving only out of the question certain comets which travel farther, will be Inclosed in a circle less than two yards in diameter. The question arises next, What will be the proportionate size of the stellar system on this same scale of measurement? If the solar system is to be comprised with a hoop not two yards across, how wide a space should we allow to the surrounding system of stars, “our universe?” How near will be the nearest of outlying stars? And the answer is sufficiently startling. If the sun is reckoned to be one inch away from our earth, if Neptune is reckoned to be less than three feet away from the sun, then, on the same scale, the star which lies closest of all outer stars iff the whole universe to us, Alpha Ceutauri by name, must be reckoned as lying at a distance of about three and a half miles. And between the two—nothing; at least nothing in the shape of a star. An occasional comet may lag slowly along in the darkness, finding its way from one sun system to another, and dark bodies, cooled suns, may possibly float here or there unseen by us, but of stars, radiant with heat and light, none is found in that wide area.

Astronomical writers sometimes talk oi £tnrs "in tine vicinity” of the sun, and tills is what is meant by ‘‘vicinity.” Think of the distances ynplied. Our whole solar system is first brought down into a small circle, tw r o yards across —every inch in those yards standing for more than 00,000,000 miles—and then on every side and above and below is an encompassing void of three and a half miles, every inch of those miles again representing more than 90,000,000 miles. And then we come upon one gleaming star. Only one quite so near. Another star in the sun's "vicinity,” known as 61 Cygui, would lie at a distance of seven miles, and the brilliant Sirius would be over 10 miles off. Others must be placed at distances of 20 miles, 50 miles, 100 miles. It is easy to start with a list of these figures. It is not easy to say where one should stop. That the starry system has limits we do not doubt, but to define those limits is not possible. On such a scale as is above those limits certainly would not lie within a distance of 100 miles nor of 1,000 miles. It is believed that some dim stars, barely to be detected, may be 10,000 times as far away as our sun’s nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, and this at once gives, even on our much reduced scale, a line from the center of 85,000 miles. Suppose that the limits of the stellar system lay somewhere about there. Thirty-five thousand miles each way from the center would mean a diameter for the whole of 1 0,000 miles. Imagine a starry System 70,000 miles across from side to side, each inch in those miles representing 92,000,000 of real miles, and somewhere in the midst of it our small solar system, just two yards across, separated from all other stars by a wide blank of three or four miles. That would be stupendous enough. But we have no reason whatever for supposing that the limits of our universe do lie there. The true boundaries of the stellar system may be twice as far, four times as far, ten times as far. We do not even know with certainty that our solar system is placed anywhere near its center, though this seems rather likely. Far off as the boundary reaches in one direction, it may reach much farther in another direction.—Chambers’ Journal. Saw a Profit. The artistic temperament often leads toward poverty, but it frequently compensates its victim with a saving grace of humor which makes even the poverty a source of fun. A young woman who was possessed of the temperament and had given up eve. ything else for it suddenly sold a picture for a considerable sum aud made haste to apply the proceeds as a first payment on a small cottage she bad long desired. The former owner attempted to advise her about tho neighbors. "Now. that couide next door.” he said warningly. "they are right good neighbors, friendly and all that, but keep your eyes op?:: If they see a chance to make a hundred dollars out of yon they won't berate to do it.” “Tine, fine!” cried the young woman. “I’m going over now and see if I can't get them to do it on shares.

JURY REPORTS TOMORROW A Number of Witnesses Were in Tote day—Col. Reppert is an Attorney at Law. The grand jury will conclude their work for the April term this evening, or tomorrow morning. A number of witnesses from Berne and Hartford and Kirkland townships were on the carpet this morning and several indictments will likely result from today’s work. Cottrell & Moran have entered their appearance for the defendant in the case of Harless & Brown vs. T. A. Hendricks, suit on note. A number of civil cases were set for trial during the term as follows: William Hall vs. John H. Riff, et al., suit on note, Friday, April 27; NYilliain J. Slattery vs. Angola Oil company, foreclosure of mortgage, Wednesday, May 3; Peter Holthouse & Co., vs. J. A. Fleming, administrator, claims, Tuesday, May 1; Daniel B. Ninde vs. Richard Klein, damages, Monday, April 30; Thomas Suit vs. Theo. A. Cooper, non-compliance with terms of sale, Wednesday, April 25; William Scott vs. Martin Kirchner, damages, Thursday. April 2(5; Wesley I). Hiss, et al., vs. Dennis Wallace, et al., on motion for new trial, Tuesday, Aprl 17.

Rufus Michaels vs. Charleston Development Company, et al., dismssed at cost of plaintiff. Arnold Asltleman e al., vs. Petro Production Company, et al., mechanic's lien, cause dismissed. E. X. Ehinger, administrator, vs. John NY. and Barbara Coffee, ease ordered left off docket by the court. In probate court William F. Reicliart, executor of the estate of Gottfried Reichert, the executor filed his final account. Henry Hoppel, executor of the Jacob Riley estate, filed his final report, which was allowed and he was dismissed. Col. Fred Reppert, the jolly auctioneer, was admitted as a full fledged member of the Adams county bar, having passed a successful examination before D. B. Erwin, D. E. Smith, and J. C. Moran. If lie is half as successful at law as lie has been at auctioneering, he will be a winner. Caroline Cramer has filed a claim for $183.51 against Caroline Cramer, administratrix. Bailiff NYelfley and other officials about the court room had a speck of fun with Grandpa Kuntz, of Berne, who was a witness before the grand jury and tried to claim his fees. An affidavit of non-residence was filed in the case of Gustavs Brandt, et al., vs. Rosa E. Smitley, et al., the order beng ? returnable June 5.

The, cases of John S. Bowers vs. James Q. Neptune, Thomas \Y. Watts, Fred Schafer, Lucy J. Gregory, E. H. Johnson, Margaret J .Louthan, William H. McConnehey, U. S. G. Cress. George W. Patterson and John I. Lose, to collect sewer assessments, were dismissed Saturday without prejudice, and the complaints "withdrawn. Before taking this action, Judge Heller, attorney for plaituiff, -fated that the withdrawal of the . uses was due to a late ruling of the supreme court, which makes it necessary to have the matter of assessments referred to the city commissioners. This had never been done and to avoid future troubles, the cases were dismissed and will be refiled. Attorneys for the defendants refused to withdraw the cross complaints.

Menyman & Sutton filed a case. German Building Loan Fund association vs Lemuel Warmeastle, suit on note, demand S2OO. C. J. Lutz filed a ease entitled Lafayette Rape vs. Dat'd W. James, on contract for rental, attachment, demand SSOO, an attachment writ was issued. Headington & Wheat, attorneys from Portland, filed a suit on note for $250, entitled Davis Brother Company vs. J. A. and William Shoemaker. —f The viewers and engineer’s report on the El S. Moses road was approved -nd publication ordered. Tins cannot be sold until the next commissioner’s court.

In the Daniel Cook vs. Phillip Tener, et al., to quiet title of real estate, proof of publication was filed, default as to alldefendants, submitted, finding for plaintiff title quieted 'against all defends-,) is. Squire FiU'cmm*. of Berne, and Attorney S. A. M. Butcher, of Geneva, were among the visitors in the circuit court this morning. The Indiana Pipe Line Company were granted a franchise to lay a pipe line, the franchis? stipulating the proper depth and other features necessary to the prate •t on of every one 30r.cn ned. The township assessors are putting in good licks now and have started down the home stretch on their labors of placing a value on the personal property of Adams county. The Old Adams County Bank has filed suit against John and Rinehart Limenstall, on a note, demand S4OO. Benjamin W. Sholty has filed suit through his attorneys, Peterson & Moran, against the City ,of Decatur, on sixty-one city orders, demand $2,000. D. E. Smith entered his appearance for the defendant in the case of Jos; D. Beery, vs. Anna C. Beery, divorce. Uriah E. Cramer, et al., vs. Caroline Cramer, et al., the commissioners were ordered to pay Sarah Cramer a balance of $337.65. In the case of E. X. Ehinger, executor of the estate of Christena Eiting vs. John NY. and Barbara Coffee, in which SI,OOO was demanded for intermeddling, the court returned a verdict for the defendants, Mr. and Mrs. Coffee.

The last will and testamen of Eben P. Sturges was probated here this morning. The will was written February 22, 1850, and a codicil added September 30th, 1861. One of the witnesses to the latter was Gen. John Sherman. The will was probated in 1802, in Richmond county, Ohio, where the decedent was a wealthy resident. Sturgis formerly owned the lots where now stands the Niblick block, occupied by C. D. Murray’s saloon, and the Schafer block east. The probating of the will here at this late date is necessary to clear the title to the real estate.

The April term of court convened Monday, and the docket contains thirty criminal cases and 107 civil suits. The most interesting state cases will be the Rohrer and Andrews cases, the former for illegal printing of election ballots and the latter for larceny. Judge Erwin instructed the grand jury, apoinfing A. R. Wolf foreman and Andrew Welliev, bailiff. ’Squire J. H. Smith will act as riding bailiff. The instructions were the ordinary ones, provded by law, no special orders being given. There is no important matters to investigate and it is believed the session will not continue longer than a few days. * — Merryman & Sutton tiled a suit entitled German Building Loan Fund and Savings Association vs. Jennie Case, et al., on note and to foreclose mortgage, demand $1,300. In the case of Ira Fi’ance et al., vs. Calvin Miller, et al., seperate demurrers were filed by W. H. Lee and S. W. Laman, to complaint. A final report was filed and the commission discharged in the partition suit of Amos W. Gulick vs. Willis and Violet Wagers. Peterson & Moran have entered their appearance for the defendant in the ease of Charles Passwaters vs. Walter Hakes. John B. 110 l l house, guardian for Louis, Clarence, Mary, Francis, Felie and Catharine G. Holthous, filed a final report as to Clarence and current report as to others, discharged ps to Clarence. Charles Rowe, guardan for Jennie, Frank and Alice Rowe, filed his final report and was discharged. Francis M. Andrews, guardian for Harry C. Andrews, et al., filed final report and was discharged. A junk license was issued this morning to Vernon Pontius to purchase junk at his home near Geneva, for one year from date.

Aiken & Underwood have entered appearance for the remonstrators in the Arthur C. Frost petition for drain ,recently brought here on a change of vynuc from Allen county, and tiled a motion to dismiss the cause. '

KSITKT. - The* divorce case of Augustus Fetters vs. Margaret Fetters was docketed and the custody of the infant child Roy Fetters, awarded to the plaintiff, defendant to have privilege of. visiting same at all proper times and places. Charles Dicer, through his attorneys, Peterson & Moran, lias filed suit against the City of Decatur for injuries sustained by his fallug through a hole in the sidewalk near his home November 30, 1005. He asks for $2,000 damages. In the partition suit of George Ammiller, guardian, vs. Mary D. Doernev, the commissioners filed a final report and the money on hand was paid to the clerk of the court. L. C. DeVoss as attorney for the plaintiffs lias filed a suit. Gustav A. Brandt, et al., vs. Rosa E. Smifley, et al., on note and foreclosure of mortgage, demand S9OO. Jim Richards was Monday morning sentenced to the State’s prison at Michigan City, to serve a term of from one to three years for petit larceny. When asked if he had anything to say, he replied: “I am not not guilty.” He was also fined ten dollars and disfranchised for two years. His attorney, D. D. Heller, prayed an appeal to the supreme court, and filed an affidavit that defendant is a poor person and unable to pay the costs of such an appeal and Judge Erwin ordered that the transcript be prepared at the cost of the county and appointed Judge Heller as attorney to prosecute said appeal with such compensation as the court may allow.

John R. Holthouse, guardian for* Bertha and Theresa Nix, filed a current report, which was allowed. Jury commissioners H. R. Molts and L. L. Dunbar met at the clerk’s < j;n c and selected the grand and petit jurors for the April term of Pie Adams Circuit Court as foiows: Grand Jury. Alphonse Kohn ... .• Decatur. Paul Granlinard French twp. James NY. Barr, Jr NYabash Charles Ahr Union Ferdinand Take French A. R. NVolf Root Petit Jury. Albert Reppert Kirkland Homer Charleston Jefferson David Kauffman NYabash Christ. Sherry, Jr Preble Miles NY. Hamrick, Blue Creek Charles H. NValters French O. J. Simian St. Marys NVilliam Bultemeyer Preble NYilliam J. Sprunger Monroe Daniel Huser French James Hoagland Root Ambrose Durbin Jefferson The grand jury will report for duty next Monday and the petit jury on Monday ,April Pith.

In order that the location of merchants and others on rural deliver? routes, whose postQffiees -have been discontinued' as the result of the establishment of rural routes 1 , may be accurately identified, the Postoffice Department has directed postmasters at rural distributing offices to urge patrons of the rural service who formerly received their mail at postoffices now discontinued to include in their address on their letterheads and in return postal cards printed on envelopes the name of villages or hamlets at which their mail was formerly delivered. Much confusion has resulted in Indiana recently from the abolishment of many small postoffices. ROY At. TONIC. Bents Anything "•- Ever Sold n« a Strength-*-realor and Body Builder. Our well-known druggists, Smith, Yag,,r & Falk, are very enthusiastic over the delicious cod liver oil preparation. which contains no oil. In refeering to the matter, said a member o£ the above firm, "We sell many tonics, and we handle ap kinds of remedies 1 that claim to be invigorators and strength-creators. We do this because* we are druggists, and it is our business to supply the public with what they want. When our advice is asked, however; in regard to a tonic, body-builder Of 1 strength-creator, we invariably recommend Vinyl, as we fcnOW of nothing that can compare with it. In Vinol modern science has given us all of the tonic, body-building and curative properties of that famous old remedy rod liver oil, actually taken from fresh cods' livers, without a drop of the obnoxious and system-clogging ~rease which characterizes old fashioned cod liver oil and emulsions, and which has proved such a drawback... Vinol is not a patent medicitit- asthe label on ea ii bottle telis everything it contains, therefore you: know, exactly whtit you art taking. In the most natural ’manner it tones up the digestive - ga-vs, :rente* a hearty appetite, '.mites re n, red V’.od, and strengthens every organ in the body to do its work as ndture intended. Our faith in Vinol is so strong that we gladly offer to refund the money in every case where it fails , give satisi* ctiori. Smith, Yager & Falk, druggists.