Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1906 — Page 5

■ ' " JeMt it ■ k®» /■& \ w3f i 1 I• ! 'DIAMOND BRAND" J ; II WEAR I■ - I W 9- 'C- Norwine, of Flat River, in the lead mine district C H of Missouri, has sent us this photo of a pair of Diamond ra ® 9 ’ Brand shoes worn 10 months underground where MI i | 9 ordinary shoes average about 6 weeks. ■ Our heavy Diamond Brand work shoes are in every g. fl ■ way as superior in their class as are our highest grade j ■ dress shoes —and we make more fine shoes than any other E ■ House in the West. R I sty BRAND** ft J ■ WE MAKE MOPE FANE SHOES THAN ANY 1 OTHEP MOUSE /N THE WEST jj ImHI 11 - i'Mi'IFiiIPJIIiMJ

I DR. BLACKSTONE. Fort Wayne’s Leading Specialist in Chronic and Special Diseasep-r Remarkable Success. '»! B ' ' '■■■ ■ ’«>' V Not a specialist in has done fl more for humanity than h as „ Dr. I Blackstone. His remarkable cures of 1| many obstinate cases that had been g| given up by other physicians has produced a sensation all over this part J of the country and people for miles M around are coming to him for treatB ment. Everyone* is speaking in the 1 highest terms of praise of results obB talned from his treatment. When you B| call at his office he will not simply look U at your s tongue, fee} you pulse, and El ask you a lot of questions, but he will examine you and find out your trou--1 "bles and explain to you and tell you I what can be done. ,-Under no circumul stances will you be accepted for a paB/ tient’uhless he is sure of curing you. »| if you are so unfortunate that your EE case can not be Cured, you will be adKl’ vised as to what is best to do to find 11; relief from your suffering. . The office of Dr. Blackstone ig the B| finest in the city and is equipped with fl) everything known to the science for the treatment of chronic and special disease’s’'if I ’ft^n;’women and children. If you will cat! at his office he will ■ number .of testi,v monialß giv'en t! hfm from cured patients {l a thing alt specialists cannot do, but ‘. would like to. ~ When you call upon specialists fbr Z treatment, ask to be referred tp pas tients whom they have cured; look iff well into their ability before taking ■I treatment and then possibly you will JI be saved the misfortune of others — I I spending a great deal of money withII out obtaining either relief or cure. Dr. Blackstone treats all chronic anH | i special diseases of men, women and I children, and you may consult him free J ! of charge. Dr. Blackstone, cbrner of .'4 k! Wayne and Harrison streets, Fort I . Wayne. ' n . • V JUST A LITTLE DIFFERENCE ®• ' ' One Goes to Jeffersonville and the Other to K ■ A Decatur man named Baum walked off with two packages of nickels that M .. be lifted from the express cart at the . Clover Leaf Monday afternoon. The jhT fellow was “three sheets,in the wind” I V stand scarcely knew what he was doing. E) - The packages contained $l4O and all . ..but $39 was speedily recovered. The fellow’s escape Was good for a two- ' column, scarehead write-up in the I Daily Democrat. He probably became tired of seeing Tom Railing’s name in the paper so often and at length, so took a short cut to even up with Tom ht one dose. Baum will probably go ' •\ 4 to the pen for two or more years, while the Democrat solemnly asserts that Tom “may go to Boston next season.” Maybe, for as much as two weeks, any way. “And, there you are.” 3 1 ” —Willshire Herald. »O1 ... ___ -

... ii—— mi.. i> —■ -.———— A———————— I- V* ' ' J Kempis Balsam I " .’. Will stop any cough that ■"'* can be stopped by any medicine and cure coughs that cannot be cured by any X i*- other medicine. Kt is always the best •X cure. You cannot a£2ord to take chances on an3' other kind. . $ LESIP’S BALSAM cures X coughs, colds, bronchitis, grip, asthma and consumption in first Stages. It does not contain alcohol, opium, morphine, or 1... *any other narcotic, poisonX, ous or harmful drug.

GAS JET CAUSES THE BLAZE Three Hours All That Was Necessary to Wipe Out the'Big Hotel Block. . V-;* • - ‘.*/ • ■ ‘ i ’ ' ■ - ’is* '' ' ' " A few charred walls, a heap of blackened ruins and a mountain of debris today marks the place on Monroe street, where formerly stood the Burt House, a beautiful hotel edifice, one of the oldest and best known hostelries in the State. The big building,. 66x120 feet in dimensions and three stories high was completely destroyed by a fire whch broke out in the linen room on the second floor at eleven o’clock Monday night. It is supposed that the flre caught from an open gas burner in this room. About the hour' mentioned a traveling 'man named Syphers ran to the head of the stairs and gave the alarm. -Several people were to the office and the .news caused a commotion. The guests in the sleeping room were immediately summoned and all escaped. Before the flre company arrived a bucket brigade was formed and an effort made to control the flames, but owing to its location, this was a difficult undertakingr and the work proved futile. The flames soon spread from one room to another and within fifteen . minutes after the first alarm was sounded the flames were breaking through the front of the big building. The linen room was located on the west side of the house over the rear of the room occuped by the News stand and that part of the building was consumed first. For an hour or two it looked as though the entire block, including the Knapp building, the Niblick building occupied by the Winnes Shoe store, and the little frame saloon building between them, were doomed, blit a shift in the wind saved these. The firemen fought bravely, their clothes becoming saturated with water and frozen to their bodies, but they stuck to their work and the saving of the surrounding buildings were due jto their work. lt From the very first it was believed that nothing could save the BUrt House, as the flames had such headway and the building was of frame Construction excepting the front; forty feet and even the brick walla were cheaply constructed. At 1:30 the west wall fell with a crash and an hour later the front wall went in. The east wall stood and to this fact is due the escape of the postoffice block without damage. The flames gradually crept to the east and every foot of the hotel block burned within three hours. The j fact that the fire started on the west] side of the building and traveled east gave the firemen an opportunity to] fight the flames away from the postoffice. Hundreds of people watched ■the fire, though the thermoineter regis-. tered below the zero mark. i The City News Stand owned by Dick Burrell, was located in the west front room of the building, and was badly damaged, though quite an amount of the stock wa§ carried out. Mr, Burrell’s loss is about S4OO with S2OO insurance. The Bell Telephone long —o- ; To have beautiful, perfect, pink, vel-’ vet-like lips, apply at) bedtime a light I coating of Dr.'Shoop’s Green Salve. Then next morning, notice carefully the effect. Dry, cracked or colorless lips mean feverishness; ahd’are as well ill appearing. Dr. Shoop’s Green Salve is a soft, creamy, healing ointment, that will quickly correct any skin blemish or ailment. Get a free trial box at our store and be convinced. Large, glass jars, 25 cents.- W. H. NACHTRIEB. <

distance office was destroyed and the j Wells-Fargo Express office in the I same room suffered a slight loss to the I furniture, though the agent, C. K. Bell, I succeeded in removing all his valuable I books and papers. | The hotel was operated by Enos I Peoples, whose loss is estimated at SB,OOO with Insurance for $5,500. L. C. Waring and F. E. France, who ' roomed at the hotel had narrow escapes, and lost the greater part of their clothing. They were seated in the office when the alarm was given and immediately rusted to their rooms to save their clothing. A few minutes later when they tried to get out they found themselves shut off. France hurried over to Waring’s room to tell him ” to hurry and when he opened the door r Waring was struck in the face, inflicting an ugly cut over the eye. With an armful of clothing each rushed to a window and threw their wearing apparel to the ground and then sought f escape. Mr. Waring climbed down a ft telephone pole and France turned and f fled through the smoke and flames, luckily finding his way through to the street, unhurt, save for the fact that j he had inhaled a quantity of smoke. 1 A traveling man named Syphers, 1 representing the Westinghouse company, was struck on the foot by .a f sofa, which feh over a banister and 5 one of the small bones in his foot J was broken. He» was taken to the < Murray House aiyi will be alright in a few days. While many are sick with severe colds, due to the drench- i ing they received, no one seems to I have been seriously hurt. J The building was owned by Link ] Bros, of Paris, 111. They were here ] last week and ordered plans for an ad- 1 ditional story to the hotel which was 1 already a fifty-room house. Their loss is fully $20,000, with insurance for SIO,OOO. While no word has been re- j ceived from them, it is not likely they I will rebuild. However, it is probable 1 that a stock company will be organiz- ; ed and 'a handsome new block for a j modern hotel erected, in fact this talk is already common. The! fire was one of the most disastrous in the city’s history and wipes .. out one of the land marks, as this i hotel has been in operation here for. nearly forty years. Mr.. Peoples was Interviewed this morning, but had not decided as to his future. •' Nick Miller’s barber shop, located i in the portheast part of the building, i i was saved with practically nb dam- ' age, his furniture being carried .Over t to the Commercial Club rooms. He i has hot decided on a location, but' wilt i do so in a day or two. Losses. - ; i Link Bros., building .$20,000 Ends r Peoples, furniture ....... 8,000 i : Dick Burrell, news stand 400 1 Others in building 600 i ... ; Tbtai loss .$301,000 ; : Insurance on Contents. ‘ ftoche&ter German? . ,sl>ooo 1 i London Assurance .' 1,000 i North British & Mercantile..... 1,000 Providence 1,500 ■ Connecticut 1 1,000 Total insurance on contents. .$5,500 i Insurance on News Stand. Hartford ........i'.. ..S2OO Insurance on Building. North British & Mercantile... .$ 1,500 Connecticut .A 3,500 ] Queen .......... 4,000 | Providence 1,000 1 H i Total insurance on building.. 10,000 ] Total loss $30,000 Total : insurance .......... .15,700 Net loss ................. 14,300 —— ; o BETTER TUN SPHKINfi. , Spadking does not cure children of bed ' Wetting. There is a constitutional cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Summers, Bos 1 W, Notre Dame, Itid.,'will send free to anj 1 mother her successful home treatment, wi tt I still instructions. Send no money, but ( write her today if your children trouble yot i in this. way. Don’t blame the child, she chances are it cari’t help it. This treatment I also cures adults and aged people troublec ] with urine difficulties by day or night. ;

’■■■l 'N.I ’ I —- I Indigestion I ••••.• -1 I Stomach trouble is but a symptom of, and not ; nitself a'true disease. We think of Dyspepsia, | Heartburn, and Indigestion as real diseases, yet | they are symptoms only of a certain specific - Herve sickness—nothing else. ■ It was this fact that first correctly iod Dr. Shoop ' n the creat '.oh of that new very popular Stomach , temedy— Dr Shoop’s Restorative. Going direct <o the stomi.i h nerves, alone brought that success tnd favor to,. r. Shoop and his Restorative. Without that oil -'nal and highly vital principle, no meh lasting,.icbniplishmentswereeverto.behad. | >' For stomach distress, bloating, billohsness. bad ] tteath and sallow complexion, try Dr. Shoop’s | Restorative —Tablets or Liquid—and see for your- | •I Mlf what it can and will do. We sell and cheer- | ' tally reCommend ; ' J Dr. Shoop’s Restorative I WM. H. NACHTRIEB. * . ■

I To Cure a Cold in One Day 1 I Tafce Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. 0,1 eve nr I awiMMoo bcacet eoHh l3 months. ThlS Signature, box. 25c. I

I H Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day at 2 o’clock. BUFFALO STOCK MARKET. EAST BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 24.— Receipts, cattle, 350 cars; market steady, Prime steers @55.75 Medium steers @55.00 Stockers to best feeders.. @53.75 Cows @53.75 •v-cepits, hogs. GO cars: market steady. Mediums and heavies .... @56.40 Yorkers @56.40 Pigs @56.40 Receipts, sheep, 100 cars; mraket steady. Best spring lambs ■ @57.25 Wether sheep t . @55.60 Mixed sheep @55.25 Culls, clipped @>4.00 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago markets closed today at 1:15 p. m., according to the Decatur Stock & Grain Exchange. May wheat '........ 78 December wheat 74% May corn 43% December corn 41% May oats 36 December oats 33% PITTSBURG MARKETS. Untop, stock yards, Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 24.—110 g supply, ■SO cars; market steady. Heavy hogs , @56.45 Mediums @56.45 Yorkers ’ @56.45 Light @56.40 Pigs @56.40 ■ I !, . TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every day at 3 o’clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur special wire service. : ' ■ ■ May wheat ..... -.-r?. /...80% wheat , 76% May com ....43% December com 1.. 43 May oats ......... 37% pecember oats zV. . . , 36% Oats, cash 36% Ryb cash 68 - rr ——. ' • MARKET NOTES. Corn—% cent lower. . •; Receipts at Chicago today: Hogs 32,000 Wheat 37 cars Cora ....' 130 egrs Oats ......................205 cars Cattle ....13,000 Sheep .......12,000 Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs .'. .. .. ............?0,000 Wheat ; ...........836 cafs Corn ..v. .... 100 cars Oats ......... ....... 49 cars STOCK. By Fred Schelman. Lambs, per cwt. [email protected] Hogs, per cwt. @55.75 Cattle, per cwt .$2.50@53,00 Calves, per cwt [email protected] Cows, per cwt [email protected] Sheep, per cwt. [email protected] COAL— PER TON. Hocking lump .$4.00 Virginia Splint 4.25 Domestic Nut 4.00 Washed Nut 4J5 Pittsburg lump 4.00 Pocahontas «... 4.50 Kentucky Cannell ..j 5.50 Anthracite 4..4,a 7.25 charges for carrying coal —25c per ton or fraction thereof; upstairs, 50 cents per ton. “ : .•» - . b GRAJN. By E. L. CARRLL, Grain Merchant Wheat, No. 2, red $ 70 Wheat, Nd. 3, red i 67 Oats, No. S .white 32 Barley ..»...! 38 Rye, No. 2 54 Clover seed . 7.40 Alsyke ...?.. ; ..;. i . 6.40 Timothy seed 2.00 No. 1 Timothy hay. baled, 14.50 No. 2 Timothy ha X> baled.... 13.00 Na 1 Mixed hay, baled 13.00 No. 1 Clover hay, baled 12.00 Cora, yellow, per cwt ....... .45c@50c Cora, white, per cwt. 43c@48c Machine husked corn, one cent less. WHEAT, FLOUR, ETC. The Oak Roller Mills quoltatton Oak Patent flour [email protected] Bran, per ton $20.00 Middlings, per ton 20 00 Rough fneal, per cwt. 100 Kiln dried meal, pe~ cwt 150 Screenings, No. 1, uer bu 60 Screenings, No. 2, per bu ; 40 Cop feed, per ton 20.00 Wheat, No. 2, per bushel 70 OTHER PRODUCTS. Ry Various ' Grocers and Merchants Eggs, per doZ 28c Blitter, per pound 18c Potatoes 50c Lard 7c WOOL AND HIDES. By B. Kalver & Son. ’Phone 442. Beel bides 10c Calfh Ides @l2c Mink .'. [email protected] Skunk [email protected] Coon [email protected] Possum .10c@ .40 Muskrut 4c@ .20 Sheep pelts [email protected] Tallow 4% Ar*;

JACKBON HILL COAL. By George Tricker. (Wholesale.) Al or 2 Jackson Hill lump, f. o. b. mine, $2.50, f. o. b. Decatur, $3.70; cook stove nut, f. o. b. Decatur, $3.70; Hocking lump, $1.75, f. o.' b. mine; Hocking lump, $3.05, f. o. b. Decatur; Splint lump, $1.55 L o. b. mine; Splint lump, $3.10, f. o. b. Decatur. EVERY MAN TO WORK ROADS In Accordance With His Estate — Railroads and Corporations Must Also Pay. Cutting down bills and “constructing and improving highways on scientific principles” are the main objects of a “good roads” bill drafted by Attorney William V. Rooker of Indianapolis, and which will be introduced in the coming legislature. In reaching those ends it has provisions that are likely to make men who are in the habit of avoiding payment of their road tax gasp for breath and to cause the railroads to lobby vigorous- , ly hgalnst it. The measure is designed to force every the State over 21 years of age to do his equal share toward maintaining the public highways and to put heavier burdens on the railroads, practically all Os which, at the present time, “farm out” the road work that is allotted to them. The bill contemplates the improvement or the entire rebuilding of ev- ’ ery public highway in the State within a period of ten years from the time ’ of the taking effect of the act. An ’ emergency clause attached makes it ( obligatory for all county surveyors I “forthwith” to prepare a survey, profile and map, “together with estimates based thereon,” of each unimproved ] highway in their resjiectlve counties. Under the proposed bill the speci- , fications for the Improvement or re- , building shall require a “crowned 1 roadway not less than twenty feet ( wide with a drain on each side so constructed that the flow of water there- , in to the proper outlet shall not be obstructed.” It is the fourth section of the bill that*provides the “ways and means” for tarrying out of the vast undertak- ■’ Ihg 'of improving every highway in ] the State that may be in need of Imj proving. It would force every male i inhabitant of the township, over 21 > years of age, to do at least two days’ work in each year and for each tea,m I and each vehicle owned by any inhab--1 itant of the road district at least twp 1 additional days' work on the road each 1 year. For each forty acres of land or less owned within the township the owner would be required to do at ( least two days’ work; for each mile, > of railroad, canal, or line of pipe line, I mile of telegraph or telephone line 1 or mile of electric railroad in the 1 township, the owner would do, or 1 have done, four days’ wprk on the roads each year. Eight hours would constitute a day’s work for a man and ] four hours for a man with a team. In 1 lieu of work any person liable to per- ; form service could pay money at the 1 rate of $1.50 a day, which money ] would go to a fund to pay for the , road material or labor.” The bill provides rather drastic 1 penalties. “For those who shdll fail or refuse to perform the services herein provided within the time and manner provided by law shall upon conviction be fined not less than $lO 1 for each day’s service for which he mgy be in default.” HIS INJURIES ARE NOT FATAL ■ '' ' 11 — While Setting a Gun Down, the Trigger Caught and Brown Received the Contents. Ora Brown, a young man of Pleasant Mills, while out hunting Tuesday was very badly wounded about the face; neck and shoulders, the resultof the accidental discharge of a shot gun/Mr. Brown, in company with Loyd Davis, left home early in the morning to put in a day hunting, and left Pleasant Mills, going in a southwesterly direction. The boys were enjoying themselves and were getting ready to return home, when Davis suggested that they stop and . rest a short time. Brown consented and let his gun which he had over his shoulder, down on the ground and in so doing the trigger got caught in hi 3 clothes and the gun was discharged, the contents of the same taking effect in his shoulder, neck and Davis assisted him to a nearby house and called for Dr. Vizard, who dressed the young man's injuries, which he says will not cause him any inconvenience, as there is nothing serious about them. The mystery of the entire affair is that the, young man escaped with his life.

HALL-REIFF CASE AGAIN HEARD Trial Being Heard for the Fourth Time —Ru Ing in Street Assessment Case. Marriage licenses have been issued te Daniel W. Cook and Mary L. Everhart of Monroe; also to Isaiah Melching of Wells county and Anna Judd of Preble township. Hooper & Lenhart have filed a new case entitled George B. M. Maurer et. al., vs. Salvona Adams et al., suit to quiet title and partition of real estate. The case of William Hall vs. Jotih ! H. Reiff and Henry Alberson, complaint on note,, demand $l5O, is being, tried before a jury in the circuit court. Judge O’Rourke of Fort Wayne, is ✓ serving as special judge in the case. The suit is to collect a SIOO note which the defendants claim to have paid. The case originated in a justice court, was tried once before Judge Erwin, and this is the second trial before Judge O’Rourke, making four trials in all and the costs have already exceeded the amount in controversy. Danie'l W. Myers et al., vs. Joseph M. Rice, et al., street assessment li.en, demand SSOO, before special judge, E. O. O’Rourke, demurrer to first ahii second paragraphs of complaint over- . ruled, demurrer to third paragraphs' sustained, demurrer by board of cqunty commissioners sustained, demurrer by Elizabeth Wherry overruled as to first and second paragraphs, sustained as to third. 1 ' ' ;. - — In the case of Stahley vs. Glendenning decided some time ago- in of the petitioners, a motion., soy 4J yijp- ! ire de novo was filed by the defend- . iants. This is something like a mottoA for a new trial and is considered ; paratory to an appeal from the-deci- ( sion of this court. —Bluffton Banner., — O [ GOOD WORK BY SALVATION ARMY | Twenty-Five Baskets, Each ContainingFood for Five People Were Dis- ' ' tributed Christmas Eve. ;' • . Captain Mihm of the Salvation Army, according to promises ma<}e flome time ago, that he expected a . number of homes in the city tur bright and happy on '(Wisttnas day by feeding them and treatlfigfilfhem to a Christmas dinner, move thaq fulfilled his promises and is, entitled to much praise by the citizens for his earnest work. Captain Millin'’Sind a force of helpers started in'tb deliver these baskets about seven thirty-. Monday evening and they thus put in four hours of hard work out in the cold. The baskets were loaded down with good things and each basket was. so arranged as to feed five personsand each basket contained the following amount of eatabes: one-half peck of potatoes, one-fourth pound of butter, one-fourth pound of sugar, onefourth pound of coffee, one can of corn, two loaves of bread, a threepound chicken and one-fourth peck of apples. There were twenty-five baskets delivered, thus reaching in all probability, one hundred and twentyfive hungry people. To show the public that he used the money 1 for the purpose that it was subscribed, Captain Mihm makes the Itemized statement of just what was subscribed and what was expendod. 1 The . expense was as follows: Printing $4.75, pots for on the street $2.00, labor $2.00, groceries $9.51, 50 cents, fifty loaves (bread $1.75, total $27.51. The amount subscribed was $33.80, balance on hand of $6;29. This at the hall an entertainment and a splendid program arranged, and thirty pounds ?of 'easily will be handed but to the children." - & MISS CARRIE STODs*£ DEAD Word was received Tuesday from Van Wert, 0., announcing that Miss Cafrie Stoops, aged twenty-five and a daughter of Rev. J. E. Stoops and wife, who were former residents of this city, had died Monday of spinal trouble after an illness of short duration. The announcement came as a surprise to her many friends here who were,7 not aware that she. had been sick. The funeral services' were held yesterday at the Mt. Tabor-dhureh and interment ”was made in Tabor cemetery. Rev. Stcsgs and .family will be well ramemb'ered by the citizens of this city, as Mr. Stoops was formerly engaged as pastor Evangelical church and served in that capacity for a number of years.’>> • .. ■’’A -* -