Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1906 — Page 3

W'jUSIXESS ADMINISTRATION ■ r(i Rural Mail Service Inaugu- ■ and an Increased Volume K of Business Done. aB e the end of the adininiM'a„, ffi postmaster Albert Britte >,. it but fair to aeknowl|Kt“j ( | iat , ihl administration has arked progress and pro- - ■ pushed the Decatur ]H>stp small office, with but a HL]] (wsii ■ and a small salary, to I; . lUI, I two assistant. to Kd means and facilities ' ' 1 " ,le ,lle inert ‘ as ‘'' l tint! i- 'l' llle ,J . V Vnele Sam ‘'i’y- nuist ' ,e 11 matter of master to witness the of a tree delivery city h\ mh every business num ■ ail at his store or office KL.;,... < u day, and every home ' i' l ' each day. It must K,..., me pride to a postmas! din - - l'> s twelve rural route carry the rural mail, the K. -a an average of tweiimi ■a a total of three hunmib'• and serving a eonstituenK ■died rural families each, - - ;t of twelve hundred, who Kj| v re<-:-*' their mail, including the Democrat. It must be a source pi-pie to look at the small and Ktfaqitau <t ’.al ters occupied in the K. and trim survey the large, well Krjo-ed and busy place where the Kctai affairs of the government are Kj transacted . All this change has K frump the time of Postmaster Kilt*':.. mm. his business manageis .oo . responsible for the adKgemiei.t noted. For it all, he de.ition and cmnicndaKn. ami we are glad to be one to exKcJ the mad hand. His commission KII expire M.iy 21. and at that time K| will have served four faithful Kgs, and should he retire, he will K .well knowing that he has given Kll value in service for the salary Kolument be has received.

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BAIN MEAT MARKET IS SOLD Will Butler, the New Proprietor, Begins Monday. A deal was made Friday afternoon, whereby William Butler, the well known stock man, became the sole owner and proprietor of the meat market formerly owned by •James Bain, on Monroe street, and on Monday, when he takes possession he would be pleased to wait upon your wants and keep you well supplied in meat. Mr. Butler, for years has followed the stock business and is well versed in the business, and will be fully competent to handle any and all trade that may come his way. The deal made does not include the building, but only the trade and furniture and fixtures. Mr. Bain, the retiring merchant, has cared for the wants of his patrons in a faithful manner for a number of years, and during that time was a successful business man. He will, for the present. take a much needed rest, after which he will go into the business of of buying and shipping live stock.

PREVENT SUNDAY FUNERALS Muncie Cemetery Association Issues an Order. Heeding a popuar cry against Sunday funerals, the trustees of Beech Grove cemetery, at Muncie, has issued an order forbidding any burial in that cemetery on any Sunday, on January 1, May 30, or December 25, of any year, except in cases of great necessity or contagious diseases. This order is not to take effect, however, until the first day of next year. After that time therefore, if there be Sunday funerals in Muncie, the burials must be made in some country cemetery or in some other town. The cemetery trustees give the following as their reasons for this action: The Sunday funeral disturbs the quiet of the Lord's day as it is frequently attended by bands of music and by hundreds of curiosity seekers, and is “ often accompanied by an evident desire for display on the part of the supposed real mourners;” if funeral services are held in a church, they frequently disturb the regular services of that church; cemeteries are most often visited on Sunand a funeral excites morbid .'unoWy and causes visitors in the burying ground to trample upon the graves and to “disregard the decorum that should attend such occasions;” the Sunday funeral is in violation of the decalogle, which says “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” because it necessitates work on the part of the cemetery employees. Muncie ministers are heartily in favor of the plan and it is believed the public will be, also.

DEFRAUDED THE GOVERNMENT A Case That E Created Interest in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Scripps-Mcßae Special. Savannah, Ga.. April 13,-Greene and Gaynor were this morning sentenced to four years in the State penitentiary at Atlanta and fined SSOO each. Gaynor and Green were contractors engaged in doing work for the government at Savannah. Brunswick, and other southern points. Dec. 8, 1898. they were indieted at Savannah on a charge, which also involved (’apt. Oberlin M- Carter, of having defrauded the government of $2,000.000. The contractors were arrested in New York. They contested extradition to Georgia, and when the I lilted States commissioner deviled against them, lied to Canada, forfeiting bail of $40,000 each. Carter was court-martialed and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth. The Unted States government brought extradition proceedings against Gaynor and Greene at Montreal. Thev secured their liberty within the limits of the province of Quebec. and the United States government appealed to the privy council of Great Britain. This supreme tribunal reversed both judgments of Judge Caron, ordered the reincarcerahon of the fugitives and left the case in statu quo upon its merits. This was in February, 190.5. Since then the efforts of tiie United States government to get custody of the prisoners had run once more the range of the Canadian courts until the highest tribunal in the dominion decided that thev must be delivered to the I mted States authorities. They were brought to Georgia ami as a result of their “get-rieh-quiek” inclinations they will spend four long years in prison, their families ami friends feeling t.ie disgrace.

BRYANT MAN IS RELEASED Goes Home Happy and Says He Has a Clear Conscience. Having Acted in Self-Defense. Green Street, who, on the night of March 27. killed Ed Voght in Voght’s own home at Montpelier, was Wednesday noon released from the county jail a free man. the grand jury having adjourned without returning an indictment charging Street with murder. Street soon afterward left for his home in Bryant and before leaving stated that his conscience was clear as he had acted in self defense. The evidence presented to the grand jury by relatives of the murdered man pointed to the conclusion that Street would be indicted for murder. The relatives testified that Street came to Montpelier declaring he would take Clarence Voght back to Bryant either alive or a corpse, and that to Frank Whetsone, of Jay county, he displayed a revolver which he claimed he would use if Clarence resisted. Whetsone was the last person The presidents of the several boards story was untrue it was plain to both Prosecutor Emshwiller and the grand jury that there was no ground upon which to base an indictment. The report of the grand jury to Judge Vaughn states that Street had a certified copy of the original bond in his possession a the time Clarence Voght resisted arrest and that Street under the laws of the state had a rgiht to make the arrest; that when he shot and killed Ed Voght he was acting entirely in self defense. — Hartford Citv News. .

WESTON HAD NOTHING TO SAY Branyan will Ask Pardon Board to Parole Weston as Soon as Minimum Sentence is Served. Huntington, Ind., April 14.—At 1:30 o’clock this morning. Judge Branyan overruled the motion for a new trial in the Boston Weston case. In doing so he stated that he did not believe that Weston intended to kill Holthouse when he struck the blow, that the general opinion of the people of Huntington county was that the blow was lawful or unlawful ami as the jury had decided it unlawful the law provided what should be done. However, he stated, that he should send a petition with the prisoner, askipg the pardon board to release Weston at the expiration of two years, the minimum sentence that could be imposed. He asked Weston if he had anythnig to say why sentence should not be imposed, to which the prisoner replied: “Not a word.” He was then sentenced to a term of from two to twenty-one years in the Michigan City prison. The attorneys for the defendant immediately prayed an appeal to the supreme court. EJECTED IN ROUGH MANNER Nick Tonnelier Thrown From Saloon —Receives Broken Ann. <5P Jacob Miller, a bartender for Matthias Schaffer was arrested by Marshal Green, on ■ a charge of assault and battery, preferred by Nick Toni eiier. The case was tried before >quire Smith, and according to the restmony of Tonnelier he was thrown from the saloon because he asked for the return of some borrowed money from Miller, who objected to this manner of being dunned. The ejectment from th? salon must have been qute rough indeed as Tonnelier suffered a broken left arm and a fractured collar bone. Miller plead guilty to the charge and was fined a dollar and costs, amounting to nine dollars and thirty cents. He satisfied the docket and was discharged.

LITTLE ANNA KLINE IS DEAD An Attack of Measles Developed Into Pneumonia. Anna, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kline, who reside north of the eity, died Wednesday afternoon at three o’clock, after an illness of two days’ duration, death resulting from bronchial-pneumonia. Several weeks ago, the child was seized with an attack of measles, from which she never recovered, the same running into pneumonia. She was a bright little girl and will be sadly missed by those who loved her best. The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at one o’clock at the St. John’s Lutheran church. Rev. I x'onse officiating. Interment will be . : .’ Ui ’s eemet... j.

SPOKE AT PLEASANT MILLS Rev. Ralph C. Jones Makes Another Political Speech. Pleasant Mills, Ind., April 13. — Rep. Ralph C. Jones spoke to a few St. Mary’s township people here last evening. The crowd was neither large or enthusiastic, and the speaker failed to warm up good to his subject. He put special emphasis upon the fact that he was no mud slinger, so simply accused Congressman Cromer of being deeply entrenched behind a few political machines, chief among which was the postoffice machine, the rural route machine and the garden seed machine. He promised nothing that his candidate would do that Mr, Cromer has not done. Tn fact he rather acknowledge that his man was not the best, but asked the voters of St. Mary’s township to accept him in preference to any other congressional candidate. Rev. Jones is not warming up the political atmosphere to any ex' tent, and it is the general expression that he is not earning a very fat salary.

IS SLIGHTLY BETTER TODAY Thrown From Hay Wagon and Narrowly Escapes Instant Death— Was Unconscious. Henry Wishmeyer, a well known farmer of Preble township, figured in a runaway Wednesday, that came near residing fatally for him. He had brought a load of hay to town and was returning home about four o’clock yesterday afternoon. When near the home of Frank McConnell, four miles north of here, the horses became frightened and ran away. Mr. Wishmeyer was thrown out, alighting on his head on the stone road. He was rendered unconscious and it was feared he was dying. He was carried to the home of Henry Heckman near by and a physician summoned. An examination proved that Mr. Wishmeyer’s escape from instant death was by a very narrow margin, as his neck was badly twisted. So far as is known there were no bones broken and it is believed he will recover. He passed a very restless night and is still suffering great pain. Mr. Wishmeyer has been unfortunate in having runaways, this being the fourth serious one within a few years. The team he was driving yesterday ran only a short distance when the horses dashed into a wire fence and were captured. Mr. Wishmeyer is the father of Mrs. Henry Koenemann, Mrs. Will Zwiek and Mrs. Ed Bultemeier, of this eity.

EARLY DAYS ON CLOVER LEAF Bill Krites, the First Conductor, Tells Some Incidents. “Bill” Krites the first conductor on the Clover Leaf, was a visitor - in the city last night and stopped at the Commercial hotel. When the Narrow Guage was first built hew as conductor on the combination freight and passenger train that ran through here. There were no telegraph wires and so after leaving a terminal Krites was a man of many offices and responsibilities. Besides being a eon-, duet or. he was baggage master and general superintendent and train dispatcher. foreman of bridges and buildings, superintendent of roadway, express messenger and everything else he wanted to be. Sometimes his train got here the day it was due to arrive, but if it didn't it came the next day. ()n one trip he came across a place in Ohio where the track had been torn up by an angry farmer who had not been paid for his right .of way. To get his train through Krites had to negotiate with him and by paying over some cash taken in from fares and promising to pay more he got the farmer to show where he had hidden the confiscated track and bring it back with Lis ox team. One night the train stopped up east of the eity six miles where a dance was going on ami after the train crew had participated in the last dance they brought the dancers to Bluffton. Stopping to help some hunting party get a coon out of a tree was no unusual thing and all around railroading life then had its little pleasures that are sadly missing now Many of the older residents will remember Krites of the Narrow Guage days and would like to see him. He now lives on a farm near Holgate. Ohio. —Bluffton News.

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THE STATE CHARITY MEETING 9 Muncie Preparing for the Session in October. Senator C. M. Kimbrough and Attorney J. Frank Mann, of Muncie, are home from a meeting of the officers of the state conference of charities, held at Indianapolis Wednesday, where it was decided to hold the next conference in Muncie next October, 6 to 9 inclusive. The conference held in Vincennes last fall had already selected Muneie as the place of holding the meeting. This meeting will bring several hundreds of the prominent people of this and surrounding states to Muneie. There will be two or three special features of the program, including the new Indiana Hospital for the Epileptics, the matter abolishing the per capita system of maintaining the county orphan homes and a lecture on tuberculosis. Those who have made a lifetime study of these subjects will be present and deliver lectures. An executive committee composed of W. H. Whittaker, superintendent of the Indiana reformatory; A. W. Butler, secretary of the state board of charities and corrections; Mrs. Smith, of Marion, and Mr. Mann of this city, were appointed to meet and confer with a local committee relative to a detailed program for the occasion. This committee will soon visit Muncie for that purpose. A special effort will be made to bring together at that meeting the judges of the circuit and criminal courts of the state, as well as the officers of the state having in charge the charitable funds of the state and superintendents of the county infirmaries. A meeting of the local workers will he called by the secretary, Mr. Mann. — Muncie Star. Nick Tonnelier, who was thrown from a saloon a few days ago and had his arm broken, must have been intoxicated at the time, as he was arrested and plead gulty to the charge and paid his fine. In all probability Nick was somewhat to blame for his injuries. Mrs. Drayton Hill, who resides on the J. M. Frisinger farm had a very narrow escape from instant death Friday during the heavy wind and rain storm. Mrs. Hill was getting some things in out of the rain and was near the windmill when a heavy gust of wind struck the mill, blowing it oyer. A heavy piece of iron just missed her head. She escaped, however, any bodly injury. DEVIL'S ISLAND TORTURE. is no worse than the terrible case of Piles that afflicted me for ten years. Then I was advised to apply Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and less than a box permanently cured me, writes L. S. Napier, of Ragles. Ky. Heals all wounds, Burns and Sores like magic. 25c at Blackburn & Christen, druggists. At the Indianapolis convention a news boy approached W. H. Park and tried to sell him a paper, but the wily politcian refused to invest. Seymour Robison held a secret consultation with the boy and pretty soon he yelled in Park’s vicinity, “Extra, all about the withdrawal of Congressman Cromer.” William Henry bought one quick.

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