Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1907 — Page 5

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A runaway on north Second street Sunday morning caused considerable excitement and some damage to the rig. A New York girl of 18, complains that she cannot live on an income of |13,500 a year. She could do it easily if she would go to work. Henry Zwick, storekeeper at Bingen, was in the city yesterday afternoon attending to legal business, returning to his home on the evening train. 'William and Dick Vesey, sons of Judge and Mrs. W. J. Vesey, of Fort Wayne, were members of the Mercrsburg’s athletic team which won a meet recently at Princeton, N. J. William appeared in .the broad-jump and Dick in the running eVentfc. They are among the best athletes in the school. —Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. At the meeting of the Elks lodge last night it was voted to retain a membership in tlhe state association of Elks, a privilege that requires only a 'small per capita tax. The. state association is not a body required under the laws of the order, but is maintained at thg optional desire of the lodges of the state, a majority of which belong to it. —Bluffton News, The Van Wert bowling team, the champions of northern Indiana, are scheduled to play here some time this week against a team of professionals of this city. The Van Wert team is composed qf a steady lot of bowlers who will make the locals bowl continually around the nine hundred mark to beat them. The game will be announced later as to what night it will occur. We should like to see the color of the hair of any mortal being who will reasonably and logically explain why a hotel or a boarding house debt is any more-sacred than doctor’s or printer’s bills, and yet a man can be arrested and placed in jail for jumping a hotel or boarding house bill, while he can jump the doctor’s or the printer’s bills, tell them to go to the lower regions and that is a receipt in full. Rev. J. E. Sttoops, of Van Wert, Ohio, a former pastor of the Evangelical church of this place, was here Monday on business with the Berne Witness Co. On account of failing health Rev s Stoops has to take a year’s lay-off of his pastoral work, and he will therefore spend a year traveling through different slates selling song books which the Witness company 1 is to print and bind for him at the rate of about one thousand per month. —Berne Witness. Officers from Huntington raided a “blind tiger” conducted by Charles Regedanz at Roanoke Friday evening and took possession of one jug and several bottles of contraband liquor. Regedanz was taken *to Huntington and gave bond of SSOO for his appearance. This is the second offense and if convicted his punishment is likely to be severe. Regedanz conducts a place where temperance drinks are ostensibly sold. The great American hen, learning apparently of the threatened decline in business has been doing her full part toward discouraging the idea. Last week 65,300,600 eggs reached the New York market, the record receipts being made on Tuesday, when 17,937,360 “strictlys” all carefully packed for storage, arrived on the ground. The amount received since January 1 surpasses all previous receipts by at least 50 per cent, and the end is not yet W. J. Archbold, agent for the Adams express company, has purchased a new horse, which Will says is a full blooded animal and which has the speed and he now says that all express will be delivered on schedule time, and with dispatch and promptness. The horse is a fine animal and Mr. Archbold has no doubt made a good selection. Louis Fulk, who for some time past has been in the employ of Smith, Yager & Falk, the reliable drug company, this morning received notice from the state authorities stating that he had euccessfully passed the examination and is now a full fledged druggist. The letter stated that Mr. Fulk passed with high per cent, and that he was now authorized to work at his trade any place in the-state. Mr. Falk passed the examination at Lafayette.

The Maude Henderson Stock company will open an engagement at the Bosse Opera House Monday evening. They will be here the entire week and have a clever company and will highly entertain the lovers of good comedy. Work at the packing house is progressing in nice shape and in a few weeks will be ready for occupancy. The new machinery is expected to arrive any time and will at once be installed and put into practical use. Sample brick from the various brick concerns over the country are arriving every day in the city for the inspection of the paving committee, and all being accompanied by letters telling the good qualities of the brick. The samples are being 'sent in by these firms, who are aware bt the fact .that the city is to let several paving contracts next Tuesday eveningButler & Butler, the cement contractors, this morning finished their contract of putting in the cement floors at the new packing house. The floors are made of the best material and will last as long as the building will last. sThe members of the packing concern are putting nothing into their new business but the best, and when completed it will be one of the best equipped plants in the state. Drs. Blackman, the well known osteopath physicians, are considering very seriously the dosing of a deal for the purchase of an old and well established sanitarium at Atlanta, Ga. It is probable that the purchase will be made and they will take possession soon. Both are clever young men and stand high in their profession, their success being assured should they undertake the management of this concern. ■

A special z froni Wheeling to the Record-Herald yesterday declares that in Maggart the Wheeling club has an outfielder who is a find. The manager of the team is throwing fits over Vestin’s ability to swat the ball and the manner in which he gathers in the long hits in his garden. Just a little more talk of that sort and Mr. Maggart will leave Wheeling for Pittsburg, where his services would go far toward winning games. Announcements have been received here of the marriage of Rev. Aaron Worth, formerly of Bryant and Miss Lida Davis, of Fountain City, which took place at Marion a week ago. Rev. Worth announced his intentions to no one of his friends here and the news of his wedding came as a surprise. They are now in the south on a short wedding trip. Rev. Worth is 71 years of age, and one of the most popular ministers in the Wesleyan Methodist church. His bride is several years his junior, and nearly all her life, has lived at Fountain City.—Portland Commercial Review. Mrs. William Roy, wife of a promiment farmer in Clearspring township, Lagrange county, was so badly burned Friday night that early Saturday morning she died after suffering hours of frightful agony. While filling the lamp in a chicken brooder with kerosene the oil took fire and Mr. Roy Was just carrying the lamp to the door to throw the blazing thing outside when the lamp exploded. Burning oil fell upon Mrs. Roy, who was just coming in the door at the time, igiliting her clothing and enveloping her in flames. Mr. Roy was very badly burned in his efforts to smother the flames of his- wife’s burning clothes. The committee of eighteen laymen and preachers appointed by the North Indiana conference of the M.\ E. church to. look after the interests of the home for the aged, to be established in Warren has been called to meet at Warren Wednesday of next week. The work of their first meeting will be the organization and the planning of ways and means for the raising of the funds and hastening forward the work. The work of the newly appointed agent, Rev. Harlan, will also be outlined, so that he may direct his efforts to the best advantage. On account of the attitude of the recent legislature of Indiana toward the railroads, the latter’s representatives are asking for a reduction in the valuation of their properties. Several of them, in apearing before the State Board of Tax Commissioners, said that the earnings are decreasing and that under the restrictions placed on the companies they cannot make as much money as they did under former conditions. These circumstances, they said, should be taken into consideration by the board in arriving at a valuation of the railroad properties. William Roy, the Lagrange county man who was so frightfully burned in an attempt to save the life of his wife when a lamp which operated an incubator exploded and enveloped the woman in flaming oil Friday evening, died Sunday night at 9 o’clock, seven

» hours after the funeral of his wife, t who had succumbed to her Injuries. - The two distressing fatalities, hive - blotted out one of the most prominent c families in Lagrange county, and the t accident has plunged a wide following 3 of friends in deepest sorrow. A son t and a daughter, aged 14 and 16, surV 1.6 th. * ‘ ■ - ■ ■» ■■ ? ■ i • L '-'" * ■* ' " ... - J ‘ ‘ .

JUST SOUTH OF PORTLAND Twenty People Injured, Several of Them Seriously—Tracks May Have Been Tampered With. The north bound passenger train on the G. R. & I. due here at eight o’clock Sunday morning’ was wrecked at Collett, just south es Portland at 7:35, and twenty people were injured. No one was killed outright, but the wreck was one of the worst in the history of the road. The list of the more seriously wounded is as follows: Conductor James Hayes, 2114 Rianna street, Fort Wayne; skull fractured and right eye lacerated. Brakeman Franklin C. Kime, 2536 South Wayne avenue; injured about the head and left hand mashed. Baggagemaster Christian E. HolzWarth, 836 Walnut street; injured about the face and body bruised, Mrs. Goins, of Richmond, Ind.; leg seriously hurt, probably fractured. Fifteen negroes more or less inwhom are dangerously hurt. The news of the wreck reached here shortly after it occurred, it being reported that six people had been killed but this was untrue. As the train was rounding the sharp curve just south of Collett, the tender first left the rails followed by the baggage car and the two day coaches- The second coach was filled with probably two dozen negroes, who were op their way from Richmond to Portland to attend a religious festival. Conductor Hayes and Brakeman Kime happened to be ' in this car at the time of the derailment, and when the car finally settled in the ditch on her side the seats had left their moorings and with the passengers had ; found lodgment in one end of the coach. The baggage car rolled down the embankment parallel with the second coach, while the third coach in She rear rested with one end on the side of her sister car. The rescue of the imprisoned devolved upon the cooler heads and Engineer Kelker and his fireman, who escaped without a scratch, superintended the work. Owing to the fact that the seats were all jammed down in one end with the passengers it required heroic work to eliminate the danger of additional injury being inflicted on the pinioned men and women, who were wild with fear. The interior of the two coaches had th appearance of having passed through an explosion. That many were not killed outright! is a miracle, which only attends and follows in the wake of such catastrophies. The engine, two drive wheels and the rear trucks off the rails, plowed along for several hundred feet, tearing up the track. One length of the steel was found on top of the second coach bent and curved out of resemblance to its former condition. While the cause of the derailment is attributed to the spreading of She rails, yet there is a possibility that the tracks had been tampered with. Engineer Kelker, it will be remembered, was on the engine of passenger train No. 12 when it left the rails about two weeks ago a few miles south of the scene of yesterday’s disaster. The officials are making an exhaustive examination of the matter and their finding may lay the cause at She door of unknown train wreckers. *

The tender is responsible for the derailing of the coaches and their being dumped down the steep embankment. It is thought that the rails spread, although it may be discovered that an attempt had been made to ditch the train by pulling spikes from the ties, allowing them to spread. While going to the scene of the wreck in an automobile, Frank Kenworthy and a party of four from Winchester, ran into a fence and were thrown out Kenworthy landed against a telegraph pole and had his neck broken, dying a few minutes later. George Edwards, another of the automobile party, was seriously hurt. The others escaped with bruises. — o MISS ELLA MILLER IS MARRIED Former Decatur Girl Wedded at Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Lizzie Nix received word this morning from Detroit, Mich., announcing the marriage of her sister, Miss Ella Miller to Robert Kuebler, of Ann Arbor, Mich., stating the happy event took place April 3rd, at Detroit, Mich. Father Vandyke officiating. Mr. Kuebler is an expressman and is ’in-the employ of the Pere Marquette railroad and bears the reputation of being a hustling young business man. Miss Miller is a daughter of Mrs. Jacob Miller of this city, and has a host of friends who will wish her much joy and happiness. The happy couple expect to make their future home at 263 Michigan avenue, Detroit,. Mich., and will welcome any of their friends. The marriage came as a surprise to all her relatives as she had never intimated that she was about to take this step.

NO LAW TO MAKE LEVY Transportation of Pupils an Illegal. Transaction so Far as Officers and Public Funds are Concerned. The Indiana supreme court Saturday handed down a decision in the case of the State of Indiana on the relation of Fred Beard vs. Caleb B. Jackson, township trustee, in which it is held that there is no law under which a tax may be levied to pay the expenses of transporting pupils of a township to a consolidated school. The case was a mandamus suit brought by Beard to compel Jackson tb furnish free transportation for several pupils to and from a consolidated school. The case was appealed from Vermillion county. Appelant’s counsel argued that a law passed in 1877 gave authority for levying a tax for transportation under a clause which provides for the payment of “other school expenses.” The cpprt held that by this clause the legislature did not contemplate that the transportation of pupils would be a' secondary expense of the public schools. The opinion, which was written by Judge Montgomery, says that if free transportation of pupils be deemed expedient, the legislature should set forth the duty of the appropriate officers and should authorize the levy of the transportation and should prescribe the conditions under which it> is to be provided. ■ “In the absence of all such legislation the county superintendent was without jurisdiction over the subject matter,” says the court, “and the order made by him was without force and. void, The requisite legislation cannot be supplied by the courts, school officers or local tribunals, but must eminate from the law-making body and be general and uniform in its application.” _o ■ LIVE WIRE LAID HIM OUT Outside of a Badly Burned Hand He is Uninjured, Although It Was a Close Call. Lawrence Archbold, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Archbold, had a narrow escape from instant death Saturday afternoon and that he escaped Is the surprise of all who have become acquainted with the facts. The accident happened at the interurban gravel pit north of the city. While the young man was endeavoring to uncouple two gravel cars, Which were connected to the freight car and in some manner his hand came in contact wiih a small electric wire and the entire voltage parsed through his system. The young man was knocked down from the effects of the shock and he was picked up for dead by conductor Meibers and motorman Fast. The young man speedily recovered and other than having a very badly burned hand, he was uninjured. The experience, however, will no doubt learn the young man a lesson that he will notl soon forget, and will teach _him that electric cars are very treacherous play things. The example set by young Archbold should also prove to be an example for other young men and boys, who have acquired the habit of hopping on and off the cars. No blame or fault can be attached to tlhe employees of the car, as the young man had taken hold of the coupling before the men could warn him of his danger.

NEWSPAPER MEN Recommended the Treatment at All Times. * New Orleans, La., March 9, 1901. “From the excellent results obtained in a number of cases among personal friends and acquaintances, I am satisfied that the Keeley treatment is a great boon to weak and suffering humanity.” ’ THOMAS G. RAUIER, Manager New Orleans Picayune. The Marlon Keeley Institute Marion, Indiana,, is a model. Established in 1894 and in charge of one of the ablest physicians in the service. Homelike surroundings. Write to Dr. W. V. Daniels, manager, Marion, Indiana. 11 1 R J Rev. Georg C. Ulmer, financial agent of Taylor University, at Upland, is a visitor in the city soliciting funds for the institution he represents. The university now has an enrollment of 212 students, the largest in its history, but education is furnished at such a low cost that outside aid must be had to keep the university running. —Bluffton News.

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EVENT AT THE BRYSON HOME Old Music Club Entertained In Honor of Mrs. Dqty—Missionary Society Meeting Tonight. Mr. and Mrs. Boehnke, of north Second street, were the pleasant victims of a surprise Monday night given in compliment of their tenth wedding anniversary. The guests met at the home of Mrs. A. P. Beatty, with a piece of tinware which was presented to Mrs. Boehnke, as it was the tin anniversary. Several games occupied the evenings- program consisting of Hot Potatoes and similar games, after which a delicious two-course luncheon was served by the hostess. The guests numbered twenty. Mrs. Jeff Bryson proved a very charming hostess Monday night at an evening party given at her home on Fifth street in compliment of Mrs. Charles Doty, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, who was formerly the president of the music club, which was organized about fifteen years ago, and the charter members who are still in the city are as follows: L. G. Ellinghain, John Niblick, C. S. Walters, P. B. Thomas, R. R. Allison, D. M. Hensley, J. S. Peterson, Jeff Bryson. A musical program was successfully carried through with by each member of the club, either by rendering a vocal or instrumental selection, after which an elaborate three-course luncheon Was served. The guests were: Mesdames Daughtrey, Roy Archbold, Ella Bell, Daniel Sprang, Calvin Millier, Geo. Flanders, W. A. Lower, John H. Heller, W. H. Nachtrieb, John S. Peterson, and the members of the club. Saturday evening, in honor of the birthday of Miss Emma Kline, a number of young people gathered at her home near Vera Cruz to spend the evening and surprise her. Those in the party were Dessie Mosure, Orilla Heche, Dessie Spade, Bertha Betz, of Bluffton; Ruth Rolli, Mary Kline, Duff Markley, Henry Kline, Zera David, of Decatur; Roland Heche Fred Liniger, Alfred Birod, Maurice Rolli, Martin Lobsiger, Ernest Baumgardner, Herman Brenninger, Harry Lobsiger, Elmer Baumgartner, Lloyd Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Huffman, of Vera Cruz, and Master Paul Hoffman. — o IN AN AUTOMOBILE WRECK. Mrs. DeVilbiss Was Quite Badly Bruised.

Mrs. DeVilbiss, of Lancaster, Ohio, was badly bruised in an automobile wreck near that city Sunday evening. With a party of ladles she was out on a pleasure trip when the car ran over a small enbankment, overturning the car and throwing the occupants out. While not believed to be hurt seriously. Mrs DeVilbiss’ injuries are severe enough to' prevent her arriving here Wednesday as was intended. Her Decatur friends hope for her a speedy recovery. R. R. No. 10. * Boys, get your bells ready, a wedding will occur soon. . Mrs. John Gephard has been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. George Jacobs for the last few days. Mrs. Will Arnold* is reported very ill from blood poison. Mr. and Mrs. Azie Tucker were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis and family last Sunday. Dell Stevely was a business caller at Decatur last Frfday. There will be preaching services at North Pleasant Valley Sunday May sth.

Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, A Powder. It makes walking easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails, Swollen and Sweating feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Don’t accept any substitute. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y. o DECATUR NEEDS NEW HOUSES This Company Offers a Splendid Opportunity and its Past History Proves the Investment Good. The German Building Loan Fund and Saving Association promises to be one of the busiest institutions in Decatur during the next year. Secretary F. M. Schirmeyer Informs us that they are again issuing stock and a number have already received certificates. The stock in this old and tried concern is known to be first class and no doubt the sale will be all that is desired. During this summer it will be absolutely necessary to build at least a hundred houses to accommodate the new arrivals in* Decatur and any young man who owns a lot will make a good Investment by going into the German and building a home. Every laborer, every man with family, every man who pays rent should take advantage of this opportunity to build a home and pay for it in monthly installments. In past years, the German has aided in the building of more than 500 homes in Decatur and every deal has been entirely satisfactory, a reputation certainly worth much. Mr. Schirmeyer will gladly give you any information you may desire, if you want to either buy stock or borrow money. The assocation is able to care for all loans. They are safe, reliable, financially first class and will appreciate your patronage. J. T. Merryman is president, C. S. Niblick, treasurer and F. M. Schirmeyer, secretary. o — RESCUED MINERS EXPERIENCE Awful Terrors of a Few Days Imprisonment Johnstown, Pa., May 1. —The seVen men who were rescued from a mine near here early this morning are all recovering at the hospital. The men were imprisoned for several days and told terrible stories of the hardships endured in that hole. One of them said: “Hell itself could offer no greater terrors than we endured. Looking back over our awful experience I do not see how any of us escaped without our. minds being affected. Our experience was even worse than that of Hicks, the California miner, who was imprisoned fifteen days, because he had food and watr and no companions. The latter only made it worse for us, as we could talk to each other about our coming death and about our having to turn cannibals to sustain ourselves, and we wondered who would be the first victim, but thank God, it is all over now.” t_ o The Markle fire has its sensational features as well as its features of sympathy. It is understood that Boston Weston went to the neighbor town and before he left there was trouble brewing. Some say that Weston got the worst of the fight with a smaller man but seventeen years of age while others say that Weston was too much for the little fellow. At any rate a number of Markle citizens were angered at the affair and they swore vengeance on Wetson and his two companions.—Huntington Democrat. — o— Kidney complaint kills more people than any other disease. This is due to the disease being so insidious that it gets a good hold on the system before it is recognized. Foley’s Kidney Cure will prevent the development of fatal disease if taken in time. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.