Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1907 — Page 6

Dr. H. E. Keller and wife spent Sunday at Huntington, where Dr. Keller’s cousin, Rev. Rudolph Stolts, read his first high mass at St. Peters and Charles church. Mr. Louis Heilbroner, scout for the Cincinnati Reds, and one of the best known baseball men of the country, spent Sunday at home here greeting friends. He is now engaged in “making” the Central league in quest of future stars and he left last evening for South Bend. —Journal-Gazette. From all appearances the bottom has fallen out of the price of wheat and the staff of life is now quoted at near ninety cents having fallen off two points in the Chicago and Toledo farkets today. That some will be holding the sack in the near future in relation to wheat is looked for by all local merchants. Redkey, with the loss of natural gas as light and fuel, is making arrangements for the installation of a municipal light plant. At the same time, it is expected that a waterworks system, something that has been needed ip the town for many years, will also be installed. The Interurban people are busily engaged at present in hauling out gravel and ballasting the line and in the near future the round trip between this city and Ft. Wayne can be made without strapping yourself to the seat to stay in the car. The work is being overseen by superintendent of construction Edwin Fledderjohann. If O. L. Barger intends to do anything further in regard to installing a “girlless” telephone system in Marion he does not indicate it by any concern he is giving his sample instrument brought here to demonstrate how the plant would be operated. It is being shifted around from one place to another for storage and now goes back into a back room in the basement of the court house. —Marion Chronicle. In Muncie at raveling man sitting in a barber’s chair during a severe thunderstorm Wednesday was struck by lightning twice in succession without being injured, only his hair singed. But this was too close to “fire and brimstone” for the drummer and he left the chair half shaved, saying, “Closer shave than I asked for. I’ll stand this thing once, but not twice. I suppose I ought not to kick at having my hair singed for nothing, but this thing gets on my nerves.” For some time past Mrs. Fetzger, the millinery lady has been missing fancy hatpins and other ornaments from her store and on last week she marked some of her goods and proceeded to keep a close lookout for the guiU}\ party, with the result that she is ynoy able to place her hands on thjfe thitf. However, she does not care to prosecute the guilty party, and if the goods are returned to her store at once the matter will be closed in so far as she is concerned, otherwise prosecution will follow.

Taylor university, at Upland, Is considering a proposition offered it by Muncie to move to that city, according to a dispatch from Upland. The university came to Grant county from Ft. Wayne in 1892, receiving a bonus of SIO,OOO, ten acres of ground and was afterward assisted by a lot sale to the extent of $5,000. It' is claimed that the board of trustees have been offered a college building and $12,000 bonus. The question will be decided at a meeting of the board to be held Friday. The college has prospered and no reason is given for its desire to move elsewhere. —Jour-nal-Gazette. Look on the bright side. It is the right side. The times may be hard, but it will make them no easier to wear a sad gloomy countenance. It is the sunshine and not the cloud, that makes the flower. The sky is blue ten times when it is black once. You have troubles, so have others. None are free from them. Trouble gives sinew and tone to life —fortitude and courage to men. That would be a dull sea, where there was nothing to disturb the surface of the ocean. What though things look a little dark the lane will turn, and the night will end a broad day. There, is more virtue in one sunbeam than in a whole hemisphere of clouds and gloom.— Exchange. ~

A FACT t ABOUT THE “BLUES" What is known as the “Blues” Is seldom occasioned by actual existing external conditions, but in the great majority of cases by a disordered LIVER —u THIS IS A FACT which may be demonstrated by trying a course of Tutt’sPills They control and regulate the LIVER. They bringhopeand bouyancy to the mind. They bring health and elasticity to the body. - TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE.

The Brotherhood of American Yeomen at its last meeting decided to hold an open meeting on Thursday, June 20th, at which time refreshments will be served and an old-fashioned time will be had. One of the times when every one will be made to feel at home. Speeches will be made by the best people of the town. An authority says that in his opinion eggs will be down to ten cents within a week. “The cold storage houses are full up,” said he, “and eggs must be sold on the market. Never in the egg packing industry have there been so many eggs. Every body seems to have gone into the business and the market is overcrowded. An era of low prices for eggs is at hand.” There is alarm among those who are in the Huntington jail or those who have been prisoners recently, from the fact that it is reported that the jail is Infected with smallpox. Two cases of smallpox, which have developed, one of them, that of William Schwartz, of Markle, are said to be traceable to the jail. The authorities are investigating, while the jail’s regulars are being very good for a time. Dr. J. I. Metts escaped being seriously injured in a runaway accident Saturday. The horse he was driving became frightened at a cow down near Oak Lawn and plunged, throwing the aged doctor out of the buggy. Assistance was at hand and he wa6 helped into the buggy and driven home. The shock and bruises he sustained were such as to worry his friends for a few days. He is now better. —Ossian News. O. O. Emmons, cashier and billing clerk at the Grand Rapids depot has been granted a sixty days’ lay off during which time the duties of his office will be in charge of F. X. Shirack, who began duty Monday morning. Mr. Emmons, it is understood, contemplates engaging in the moving picture show business and is at present in Michigan giving the business a tryout. If his new venture proves satisfactory, it is quite likely he will give up railroad work altogether.—Portland Sun. Judging from the tone of the Ft. Wayne papers they are Laving a hard time getting over the defeat of the Shamrocks by the Bluffton team last Sunday. Every day something is said of the game, and while bouquets are always thrown, at Bluffton for the easy manner in which they turned the trick, they seem to be surprised at the result. If the scribes up that way will look up the dope for the past two years they wpl find out the Shamrocks are coming, as last Sunday is the first time they h'ave scored on Bluffton for three years.—Bluffton Banner. When the local freight on the Clover Leaf pulled into Van Buren Tuesday morning and stopped across the. principal north and south street of the town, two men were found engaged in a hand to hand struggle in a box car. The marshal was notified and he went to the car and arrested the two hobos. In the car three coats were found and now the Van Buren officials are looking for the third man, whom they suspect might have been thrown out of the car or jumped during the fight. So far no mangled remains have been fount along the track to solve the mystery.—Bluiftou Banner.

Receipts of wool continue liberal and dealers are predicting that this season’s shearing of wool will exceed that of last year by fully twenty-five per cent. One prominent dealer in looking over reports received from many sections of the state said that the “clip” would undoubtedly be large for Indiana, and that the increase was brought about by the advance in price of wool and mutton during the last few years, which has made sheep raising a very profitable business. There is a good demand for all merchantable stock, and prices hold firm. The time of the year is again at hand when the junk dealer will start on his grounds, gathering up old bones. rags, iron, etc., an,d they have been during the last few days, taking out the annual license required by law., This license which is required to be in the possession of every person working at the business must be secured of the clerk of the circuit court and costs a fee of one dollar. There is another provision in the same law, which prohibits the purchase of junk from a minor, without the written consent of the minor’s parents or guardian. This is what a rural editor says about young idlers: “We are raising too many society fops, parlor soldiers and cigarette suckers and street loafers. When we see a little foppish | short dress silly girl just jumping in J her teens gadding up and down the | streets, talking slang and flirtjng with < the boys, entertaining young jobless bloods in the parlor in the night time when she ought to be in her trundle bed, tucked snugly in by her mother; when w e see kne e pant kids and beardless youths loafing up and down the streets who are too trifling to do odd jobs around home we exclaim it’s not statutory law that we need, but it’s parental law.”

After a newspaper man has yelled himself hoarse in an effort to persuade people to patronize home merchants and accidentally stumbles on to the fact that some of the fellows he is trying to protect are sending away for their job printing, or are using printed matter sent out by patent . medicine houses, soap factories, or other concerns, it rather shakes his faith in mankind and makes reciprocity look like a lead dime with a hole in it. —Ex. ’ A man who occasionally wipes the dishes for his wife, became tired of the job and refused, saying that “it is not a man’s work.” Not feeling disposed to lose his help she brought the Bible out to convince him of his error and read as follows from II Kings 21.13: “And will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.” It is needless to say that he is still doing his occasional stunt. —Ex. The State Board of Education has adopted a uniform course of study for the commissioned high schools of the state to conform to the new law. Practically no changes were made, however, in the course as it existed prior to the enactment of law, the law calling for only a few minor changes. The course has not been entirely completed. It will be sent out to the high school principals within the next two or three weeks. Mrs. Marvin Kuhns, widow of the desperado who was killed by a posse headed by Sheriff Hott, was in town, today on a business trip. She came to procure some of her husband’s personal effects and to settle bills contracted at the time of her former visit here. She held a conversation with Sheriff Hott and, in the course of her remarks, said she held all who participated in the chase and death of her husband free from blame. —Van Wert Bulletin. Elwood is to have no fair this year according to a report emanating from that city. It is said this decision was reached when it was found that $1,500 would have to be expended in making necessary repairs to track and buildings, the stockholders disliking the idea of having to meet an assessment to pay the amount. The Elwood fair has been going on for about ten years and has always proven a money maker.’ James Straub, formerly conductor on the local electric line, was in our city today and denied the allegation ihat he had been discharged and stated that he had merely resigned to accept a better position and is now employed on the Logansport and Wabash Valley line. Mr. Straub felt deeply hurt over the little article used in our paper, and like a gentleman asked us to rectify the same and clear him. This we gladly do, although our information came from headquarters.

A large Plymouth Rock rooster made avicious assault upon Paul the eighteen-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Will Hoban, living just east of Marion, yesterday. While the child sustained several cuts from the sharp spurs of the rooster in the short time the assault was on, it will recover. However, it is the belief of the attending physician that the rooster would have killed the child only for the timely discovery by the family. Mrs. Sarah Barley, grandmother of the child, saw the vicious assault and hastened to the child’s assistance. The reason of Ernest Kirkpatrick, age 29, son of John Kirkpatrick, of Eaton, for taking his own life, was something new among the many absurd inducements to commit self-murder. The suicide was committed at Detroit, where young Kirkpatrick was employed as boxmaker. Kirkpatrick left a note expressing his love for Mrs. David Walters, lately murdered by her husband on account of Kirkpatrick’s attentions to her. He admitted his love for the dead woman and declared he was going to the other world in the hope that he might meet her there.

The city and town health officers have received blanks for tree distribution of dlptheria antitoxin to such persons as are not able to purchase the same. The distribution is also to be made to various township trustees of tihe country. On each blank the law is printed and the directions for procuring the remedy. The distribution is made in accordance with a law Introduced by Representative Simison and passed at the last general assembly and is regarded by health officers throughout the state as one of the important measures adopted by the last legislature, A letter has just been received the office of Governor J. Frank Hanly [ calling the attention of the county , clerks of the state to an agreement between the United States and Italy , reached May 17, 1878, whereby Italian deaths in the United States are to be reported to representatives of the Italian government. In the notice sent out from the governor’s office it is stated that the Italian consul Pasquale Corter, of Denver, Col., is the proper party to notify In case of the death of an Italian in Indiana, in case there are no known heirs.

MAX WABBEN WAS HERE SUNDAY Champion Walter Weight of t”e South —May Meet Murbarger at Opera House Here. Max Wassen of St. Louis, Mo., accompanied by his manager, H. C. Moriarty of Ft. Wayne, were in our city Sunday visiting friends. Mr. Wasson is the welter weight champion wrestler of the South, and is endeavoring to arrange a match with Sam Murbarger, Ft. Wayne’s crack wrestler. It 'is probable that If the match is arranged that it will be pulled off in this city at the opera house some time next week. Mr. Moriarty, who is looking after Wassem’s interests is also manager of Chick Long, the light weight champion boxer of northern Indiana, and Frankie Mason, who holds the bantam weight championship of the state. In conversation with a representative of this paper, Mr. Moriarty stated that if the inducements looked good enough he would put on a high class* boxing and wrtestling card in this city within the next few weeks. Wassem is a wrestler of matinee reputation having met some of the fastest men in the country and is at present matched to meet Joseph Stein, of Chicago, at Aub|irn next Saturday evening. From all appearances the local sports will witness something good in the sporting line in the near future. o — PROFITABLE year FOR ERIE. Earnings Exceed Those of Last Year Nearly a Million. The Erie people are much elated over the earnings of that road, being confident that the earnings of last year are to be handsomely exceeded the present year. Last year they reached $50,000,000, and this year it is thought the earnings will foot up nearly $750,000 more. The company has all the business it can furnish cars for and is maintaining rates to an extent which it was never credited with doing in the year past. The Erie’s fiscal year ends June 30. It was rumored several months ago that the above date would end Frederick D. Underwood’s administration of Effie affairs as president. Thia was later denied, but stove pipe committee reports still have it that the present management is not entirely stable and accountings at the end of the present month may not be up to the demands of the directors and dire things are prophesied for the future of the road. It has even been intimated that Erie affairs are in such a condition on the inside that demands will be made for a receivership at the end of the fiscal year. The leading statements above would not indicate that finances are in question.

JOINED HUSBAND IN CANADA. Rumored that “Cigaret" Baker's Wife Is With Him. Rumor has it that Mrs. O. A. Baker, wife of the noted “Cigaret” Baker, has gone to Canada to join her husband. She is said to have left the city several days ago and circumstances indicate that the report is true. Mrs. Baker for several years has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Jackson, of west Second street, but the entire household at this time has been darkened and there is no trace of either Mrs. Baker or her daughter. Residents fpf the neighborhood say they have not seen Mrs. Baker for several days. It was later ascertained that Mrs. Jackson is the guest of friends in Fairmount, and before leaving she told several of the neighbors that her mother had gone to Canada to live. During the time that O. A. Baker has been a refugee from justice, Mrs. Baker has been tn Marion, living apart from every one except the members of her own family. It has been rumored several times that Baker visite d his wife in this city, but he has never been recognized.. The unsuccessful efforts to bring Baker back to Indiana were watched with interest by Marion people, but Mrs. Baker always remained silent and refused to give any Information concerning her husband. —Marion Leader.

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THE HALL WILL WAS PROBATED Property Goes to Mr*. Hall During Her Life—Board of Review Still Averaging Personal Property. Letters of administration have been issued to Buel G. Nye as administrator with the will annexed of the esstate of Johnson Nye, and filed bond for S2OO. The last will and testament of John B. Hall, who died June 7. was probated ait the clerk’s office this morning. Ed Hall being named as executor. All the personal and real estate is given to the widow during her lifetime, then to go to the children Clalry Mays, Ed Hall, Elizabeth Pontius. Samuel Hall, Ella Linn and Syble Hall a granddaughter is to receive S3OO less than the children. Should Mrs. Hall marry again the estate goes to the children at once. The will was written May 30th, 1907, and witnessed by Jesse E. Eckrote and William Hall. i The board of review Friday heard cofnplaints from Washington township. Thursday they averaged personal property as follows: St. Marys township—lmplements. $39; household goods, $25.75; wagons, $14.83; horses. $58.45; cattle, $15.78; hogs, $7.53. Blue Creek —Implements, $39.75; household goods, $34; wagons, $18.14; horses. $60.23; cattle, $15.71; hogs, $3.73; sheep, $3.62. Washington —Implements, $34.73; household goods. $27.50; wagons, $13.51; horses, $57.60; cattle, $18.20; hogs, $3.38; sheep, $4.17. E. H. Stahley, of Hartford township had his appraisement reduced S2OO, while the Kalver-Stein Oil company got a reduction of $690 in Monroe township. — o - MISS CORNELIA JONES IS DEAD

Result of Surgical Operation—Formerly Lived Here. Mrs. W. A. Lower received a letter this morning from Miss Josephine Jones, who is located at this time at Los Angeles, California, announcing that her sister, Miss Cornelia Jones, had died a few days ago a.t Chillicothe, 0.. ’the result ot a surgical operation. Miss Jones will be well remembered by the older citizens, being a daughter of Rev. Jones, who was among the first ministers that officiated in this city at the Presbyterianchurch and her untimely death will prove a shock to her many friends here. The letter from Miss Josephine states that she and her sister Lucile are now located at Los Angeles, having moved there from San Francisco, where they passed through the earthquake and practically lost everything. She further states that out of a family tof five, but two are living. The sad part of Miss Cornelia’s death was the fact that she had intended to join her sisters in the near future and had made all arrangements for her trip when she was afflicted with the trouble that caused her death. i— — o

A story of the use of phonograph records as evidence in a legal proceeding comes from Paris. A lodger sued his landlord to suppress as a nuisance the noise of a coppersmith on the ground floor. He employed a phonograph to record the sounds complained of. and no sooner was the Instrument set going before the judges than they began to stop their ears in dismay. The complainant was not long in obtaining the relief he sought. The local order of Eagles are making big preparations for their big picnic to be held at Steele’s park in the near future. The services of several bands have been secured and the visiting members will be entertained in a royal and fitting manner. It is expected that something like one hundred visiting brothers will attend from Ft. Wayne alone. That they will enjoy themselves goes without commenting. Don’t let your doctor make you sick unless you are sick. Don’t let your preacher make a creed for you unless his brand 6ts your case. Nobody can be a law to you—although everybody can help you to be a right law to yourself. When your preacher and your ’ doctor fit your individual needs stick to them, when they don’t, follow your own light until you are taught by ex- * perience.

A TRUE WESTERN ROMANCE Disclosed When a Young Englne e r Wae Injured and Hi* Fair Bride Rode 700 Miles to Visit Him. Spokane, Wash., June 15. —Rev. Dr. Oliver W. Van Osdel, pastor of First Baptist church and founder of the Baptist Young People’s Union of America, which will have its 16th international convention in Spokane, July 4 to 7, preaching on the subject, “What Think Ye of Harry Orchard?” said among other things:

. “Unless the prosecutors in the case I now on trial at Boise can bring tesi timony to corroborate that of Harry Orchard, I do not think the jury i can put much dependence in his con- . session. > When a man confesses that j he is a thief, a liar, a bigamist and ' has committed arson in addition to being a murderer, it seems to me that any body of men would have to make allowance in accepting his testimony. He excuses himself by saying that he was hired, a fact I am not here either to assert qr deny. It is said he is a horrible man, and I should not be surprised if he is a monster.” Spokane, Wash., June 15. —Injuries sustained by Robert McFarland, a young railroad engineer stationed at Lewistown, Mont., in being thrown from his horse, disclosed the romance of his marriage with Miss Fannie Morris, daughter of a wealthy stockman in the Big Horn basin of Wyoming, who rode 700 miles to meet her love. The story was told in the hospital, where McFarland is a patient. The bride told the superintendent that her parents would not consent to the wedding, so she left home on a pony on the long ride, which occupied three weeks over rough country. Her best day’s ride was 80 miles made the last day of the trip. The bride is 20 years of age. She is an expert with the rifle and revolver, and can duplicate any feat in horsemanship performed by a cowboy. She is a friend of Col. William F. Cody, who recently invited her to join his wild west show, but her father would not consent. MARCH OF THE SKYSCRAPERS. New York Crowded with the Monster Block*. New York, June 17.—50 crowded with tall buildings has the lower end of Manhattan Island become that the “

uptown district is beginning to be dotted with great steel and stone office structures. This tendency to turn the Murray Hill and Tenderloin sections into a district of offices is called, by some real estate men, “the march of the skyscrapers.” Until a very short time ago a business concern that needed a suite of general offices rarely thought of going north of City Hall Park in search of the proper place. It is different now. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has one of the largest office buildings in the world in Twenty-third street; at Fifth avenue and Twentysixth street the Brunswick building has been opened to tenants, and there are many other office structures recently finished or about to be. Latest and perhaps the most distinctive is the Monollh, in Thirtyfourth street. As its name indicates it is built of concrete. It is only about thirty yards from the corner where, it is said, more people pass in a day than anywhere else in the world —the corner where Broadway and Sixth avenue and Thirty-fourth ■ street come together. The WaldorfAstoria hotel is in the same block, and the principal shops and theaters are almost within a stone’s throw. O ■ The base hall fans of Boston and vicinity turned out in force today to witness a game beftween the Boston American league club and the Providence team of the eastern league played for the benefit of the widow of “Chick” Stahl, the captain of the Boston club who died during the training season this spring. Both clubs contributed their service free and the benefit fund was increased by contributions of SSO from each of the clubs in the American league and SSOO from the Boston club. Mrs. Fruchte and Mrs. Sherry, who werei njured early Saturday morning by a rig inw 'hlch they were driving to the Erie station being overturned, are reported improved today and no serious complications are looked for.