Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1907 — Page 9

RICHMOND LAWYER FILES CASE li/ on a Note—Assistant Attorney Jk G e neral Bingham Was Here Today. ( i j Saturday was Wabash day before the twd of review and several com- „ ilnts were heard. Among the tax ■srs who appeared and filed objecKk to their real estate appraisement A. y P. A. Macklin, R. A. Hunter, 4m Hendricks, C. U. Stauffer and rpert Adams. All of these cornhints will be considered by the board ra later date. nA Junk dealer's licence has been ranted to Warren and Harry Munlin, of Hartford City, permitting them s|buy from hoifce to house in Adams >Anty. Benjamin. F. Harris, a Richmond atM filed a new case here Saturday led John W. Poling vs. Peter house, suit on a note, demand $ The note was given October 1903, with six per cent interest attorney fees. Mr. Holthouse’s er to the complaint will no doubt f interest. — p. George T. Bingham, assistant ' attorney general, of Indianapolis, in here Saturday looking up state fees le county clerk’s office. He look>ver the various accounts and th d everything in first class condiThe fees due the state at this were only S2O. L te EPTION GIVEN FOR SENIORS Gleaners Entertainment Monday rening—Miss DeVoss Entertainml ed Euchre Club. n fhe Ben Hur lodge held their regrl • meeting last evening. During the * a they had initiation and then i iteen candidates through the work. ' OI , following officers were chosen: ?°L. Baumgartner, chief; Mrs. Lydia E 'mp, judge; Mrs. Nellie Wise, teachMary V. Dailey, scribe; Mrs. s People, keeper of tribute? Mr. -h* ry Lee, captain; Mr. Adam Wise, 01 e; Mrs. Sprunger, keeper of ina gate; Mr. John Sprunger, keeper “?1 uter gate. After this the members ,Vl e served ice cream and cake. attendance for the evening was arkable for there were not chairs ugh to. seat near all who were presThis speaks well for the order. ES ' ' iss Gertrude DeVoss jvas a charm- < hostess at the meeting of the Euclub Friday evening. Four small t «wr*were arranged in the various wJEs and euchre was played until a tl hour. The highest score of the members was won by Mrs. Geo. .Orders and of the guests Mrs. -vtiche' Hoffman led the ladies. As apn as the amusement closed a twoluncheon which was delicious, by the hostess. The tl utts besides the members were ev«ames A. H. Huffman, Frank Chrisi bgßoy Archbold, Dollie Durkips, tMy Moltz, Miss Carrie Carlisle. cos— • i ...o ■ ■— Leßrun says he is bound to erWich in the restaurant business if w»kes the last cent; help the boy. cailwill treat you right.

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SERVED FIVE YEARS PRISON Robbed the Amish Near Berne— Seems to b® as Bad as Ever—- % Finds Assistance. Gatthard Brown, an outlaw who was five years ago sentenced to the Michigan City penitentiary for robbing some of the Amish northwest of Berne, is again in the settlement north of town, and from the reports we hear, is just as dangerous a character as ever. From what we have learned the “Bum Killer’’ as he was formerly known, came back to Adams county, after securing money which was sent to him by the Rev. Jcob Schwartz and others of the Schwartz’s, who by the way are the same people that were responsible for his being sent to prison. It will be remembered that at the time he was sent to prison his capture was brought about after Brown had robbed several of the Amish families and had them living in constant fear of being killed. As a last resort they went to the home of Chris Beer and with tearful tones sought aid. Mr. Beer being a good neighbor did all in his power to relieve them from their predicament and it was largely due to his efforts that the cheriff of Adams county was able to capture his man. Brown at that time was heavily armed and would no doubt have defended himself in regular outlaw style, but Sheriff Dan Erwin was too cunning for him and took him by surprise. Brown was given a short trial and was sentenced to prison. He was recently paroled and writing a letter to the Schwartz tribe, he in smooth tones begged for money, which was readily forthcoming, and he at once came back to his old stamping grounds and is said to have been making threats of doing harm to Mr. Beer for what he had done. The latter feels that his Amish neighbors have treated him very shabbily and he says that from all appearances they are now great friends with Brown, 'f’heir actions can hardly be accounted for, unless it was done through fear of the desperado. At any rate in our estimation they have done a very foolish act.—Berne Uews. LOU CLARK TAKEN AT FT.WAYNE Constable Sam Kuntz Mak e s the Ar-rest-Stopped Here Enroute to Berne. Constable Sam Kuntz arrived in our city on the three o’clock car Friday from Ft. Wayne having in charge a young man named Louis Clark, whom he had arrested at the above named place on a charge of wife desertion, the affidavit having been filed by his wife before Squire Li’ddy. Mr. Kuntz went to Ft. Wayne Friday morning, captured his man and immediately bundled him on a car for this city as he did not want to take any chances of the prisoner making his escape. From here Mr. Kuntz took Clark to Berne by the overland route. This offense under the new statute is punishable by a heavy fine and imprisonment or the "victim may be sent to Jeffersonville for a short term. However usually a compromise is effected and the couple again resume the relation of man and wife, some happily, most time otherwise.

PASSENGERS ARE FRIGHTENED Engineer Ayers Was Careful and Brought His Train Through Safely Though Six Hours Late. The east bound Clover Leaf train due here at seven o'clock p. m. did not arrive Wednesday evening until after midnight, because of a washout near Caquga, caused by a cloud burst. Engineer Ayers noticed the condition of the track in time to avert a terrible wreck. The Frankfort Crescent, in giving an account of the accident, says: It was decided to try and run over the damaged track, but as the heavy train ran out on the track its weight (caused the ties to loosen from the rails and the fact that the rails were steel and just put down was all that averted the train being wrecked. As the engine and coaches swayed from side to side the passengers, fearing that they were doing to topple over, became panic stricken and screamed and the men on the train could not quiet them. The drawbar on the mail car pulled out and mail clerk J. H. Melvin, of this city, was thrown heavily against the side of the car, and painfully bruised. The mail car was so badly damaged that it was necessary to leave the car at Cayuga. Even after the ties had dropped loose from the rails the rails did not spread as it was feared they would and the train passed over safely owing to the careful work of Engineer Ayres. Over twenty inches of gravel were washed out from under the track and the employees on the train state that it was the most difficult piece of railroading to get over the damaged track without an accident After passing the damaged track the train was so badly damaged that a brakeman walked on-either side of the mail and baggage car two miles into Cayuga, they being instructed to give warning in the event either of the cars gave away or started to topple from off the tracks, they being damaged by the jarring and bumping in passing over the damaged part of the track. o JOHN BTEWAST WAS TAKEN UP Former Respected Citizen Who Went ■- a Rapid Stride. John Stewart was arrested last evening by policeman Fred Bohnke on a charge of public intoxication, and was landed in the county bastile. When policeman Bohnke attempted to arrest Stewart he showed fight and was only taken after a terrific battle out of which Stewart came much the worse for wear. He was arraigned this morning before Mayor Coffee, where he plead guilty and was given the usual dose after staying the docket he was released. Stewart has been going the clip for some time. John at one time was engaged in the insurance business in tills city going from here to South Bend, where he worked up a magnificent business, only to let it go to “rot,” by becoming too closely allied with old John Barleycorn. Stewart’s fate is the fate of all who go the pace as fast as he did. He has ability and his friends hope he will yet brace up and again become the reputable John Stewart of former years. STREET COMMISSIONER INJURED Broke a Finger While at Work Yesterday. Street Commissioner James Stults met with an accident Thursday afternoon' while working on a sewer he is constructing on Adams street that resulted in the third finger on his right hand being broken at the joint. The accident happened while he was endeavoring to take out some braces that held the dirt from caving in his .finger being caught between two heavy planks, and before he could release the same it was broken in the joint. The accident while painful, is nothing serious, although it will detain him from performing his .regular routine of work for the city, and may result in making him a Cripple for life, as the finger may become stiff •the break being in the joint. —o - —. SECOND STROKE PROVED FATAL Mrs. Fred Wheatfield, Jr., Died Suddenly Friday Morning. Mrs. Fred Wheatfield, Jr., whose home is just across the line in Allen county died at the home of Fred Wheatfield, Sr., in, Root township at nine o’clock Friday morning. Nine months ago she suffered a stroke of pa ralysis but had apparently recovered from same. About six o’clock this morning she was stricken with a second attack and died three hours later. Her husband, father and mother, three sisters and four brothers survive her. The funeral services will be held Mondoy morning at eleven o’clock sun time at the Fuelling church, leaving the house at ten o’clock.

AND FINED A DOLLAR AND COSTS John Stewart Seeks Solace in the Cup and Was Fined Again this Morning. John Stewart, who was fined for intoxication Thursday sought solace in the sparkling wine glass and again spent the night in pail. He was taken before Squire Stone, and put up a sympathetic appeal, but he again drew a dose of a dollar and costs. Bismark, the glass eater, was displaying some of his pranks on the street yesterday and the police took him to jail, to give him a chance to quiet his nerves and ponder over his past. This morning he was arraigned before Mayor Coffee, and when asked if he was guilty of intoxication, he handed a bunch of sympathetic talk to him that would soften the heart of most any one, but owing to the fact that Bismark has been before the mayor twice before he fined him a dollar and costs and sent him to jail twenty days. Bismark could not understand why such a long sentence should be imposed upon him, for he didn’t like the idea of being confined on the Fourth of July, but after being promised. that he would be furnished with firecrackers and red lemonade and plenty of glass on that occasion he was perfectly willing to remain with our sheriff. o MIXED BUSINESS AND PLEASURE Spent a Month at College and Attended Three Reunions of Old College Classes. Dr. J. S. Boyers returned Friday morning from Philadelphia, Pa., after spending a month lectures and general practice work in the eastern colleges. Dr. Boyers reports a fine trip and states that every minute of his time during his trip east Was occupied and that he never spent an idle moment. He spent one month at the Polyclinic at Philadelphia, Pa., and while there attended a reunion of hla. class with whom he graduaed twenty-four years ago and met many of his former school associates, whom he had not seen in years. He also ran over to Baltimore, Maryland, which is but a two hours’ ride on the train and attended his class reunion that graduated from tbe Baltimore Medical college twenty-five years ago, and he also met many of his feliow class mates there, who are now scattered all over the United States. While in Philadelphia he attended the dedication of a new hospital, which cost for the erection alone a million and a i”ut dollars and which he say>» vi’l be one of the finest equipped h- -pltats in the United States. WhiH on his ietu:n trip home he or Wednesday atendcd a reunion at the Mount Union College, at Alliance, Ohio, of bis class that graudated from the literary department thirty years ago and again came in contact with people whom he grduated with and h-id practically forgotten. Dr. Boyers is well pleased with his trip as it did him much benefit not only in an educational way, but provided him much pleasure.

JEWELRY MUST BEAR STAMP / 1 The N®w Government Law is Now in - Effect. From now on Decatur people may buy jewelry, confidently relying on the stamps put on it as being a genuine indication of its' merit, for the law enacted at the last session of congress to prohibit false stamps on gold and silver articles entering into interstate or foreign commerce is now in effect. The reform has long been agitated by leading American manufacturers of jewelry, silverware, watches and optical supplies. As the federal statute, however, applies only to interstate and foreign commerce it will be necessary for the state legislatures to pass similar laws in order to protect the domestic trade. In some of the states a stamping law has been enacted. The association of manufacturers will now, devote its energies toward the adoption of uniform laws in other states. When this has been done it will put an to the extensive traffic now carried on in fake jewelry and silverware bearing counterfeit stamps as to quality and manufacture. O' ' ' ■ NOTICE TO HUNTIRS. We would again remind our readers who are Interested in hunting, that every one who hunts anything but rabbits off his own farm is required to have a license; and the licenses are not Issued this year from the office of the commissioner of fisheries and game, but are issued by the Circuit Clerks of the various counties, except Marlon county. Blank applications are to be had by applying to the Circuit clerk in each county.

THE WEATHER FOR JULY Six Storm Periods—Terrific Storms About the Twenty-Fourth of the Month. Rev. Ira Hicks predicts that July Fourth will be rainy and stormy and that the month will contain a variety of weather calculated to suit all classes. He says: The first storm period, reactionary, will center on the 2nd and 3rd, with violent July clouds and thunder gusts generally from the 2nd to the 4th Cloudbursts need not surprise any one Watch your barometer — squint at rising clouds—rbe ready. A very warm wave will cross the country from the 6th to 11th, the barometer will fall to low readings, and blustering thunder storms will reach active to violent culminations on and touching the Sth to 10th. Look for only scattering rains with possible cloud bursts. The third storm period reactionary is central on Saturday. Sunday and Monday, the 13th, 14th and 15th. The seismic and volcanic disturbances will be most naturla for a period of several days, centering on and about the 10th, the date of a solar eclipse. Low barometer, threatening conditions and probably heavy mid-sum-mer storms' will culminate about the 13th, 14th and 15th. Existing causes may x prolong storms and. other disturbances on through the 16th and 17th, into the next storm period. The fourth storm period, regular, is central on the 2.th, covering the 18tji to the 23rd. We fear that the rainfall at this and other central and late July sorn periods will be scattering and light. Very black and blustering storm clouds will almost certainly appear at the culmination of storm periods, and phenomenal “water spouts” may occur here and there. Within forty-eight hours of sunset on the 24th, many storms and marked seismic disturbances will be heard from in many parts of the earth, so that a maximum of such phenomena may be noted.” The temperature will fall after these storms. The sixth storm period, regular, falls within a Mercury period. It is central on ths 31st and extends from the 29th two days into August. o ON GRAND JURY INDICTMENT f Gave Bond for Five Hundred Dollars and Was R e leased —Will be Tried at September Term. Isaac Zimmerman was arrested last week on an indictment, returned by the last grand jury, charging him with committing perjury. Sheriff Eli Myers made the arrest. Zimmerman’s bond was fixed at SSOO, which his mother furnished, and he was released from custody to await his trial at the next term of court. The charge is a serious one for which the punishment may be a term in the penitentiary. It has always or nearly so been the custom for witnesses called before the grand jury to testify falsely by failing to remember the very fact necessary to return an indictment against some person who has violated the law and the present officers will make an effort to stop this practice even if it is necessary to send some one to prison. A similar state of affairs existed in Wells county, where two young men were indiceed for perjury. One was convicted and before going to prison appeared before a special grand jury. His fate also induced others to speak the whole truth and 150 indictments resulted. ■ o ONLY WHITE PEOPLE SUICIDED In Indiana During Year 1906 Says Miss Stubbs. Notwithstanding that there was a marked increase in crime in Indiana during the year 1906, suicidal mania had fewer victims than in 1905, or in fact, during any year since 1902. The majority of the people who committed suicide in 1906 were white men. Not one colored man was reported as suicide. The total number of suicides was 185. Os this number 132 were white men and fifty-three were white women. According ,to the figures compiled by Miss Stubbs, the coroners of Indiana were called upon to investigate the deaths of 1,842 persons. Os this number ’7O were homicides, 185 were suicides, 802 were deaths by accident and 785 were deaths from natural causes. Os the homicides, 51 victims were white men, 9 were white women, 8 were colored men and 2 were colored women. Os the deaths by accident 647 were white men, 123 were white women and 32 were colored men. A singular fact in this connection is that not one colored woman met death by accident during the year.

AT THE BT. JOSEPH HOSPITAL H®r Sad and Sudden Death Followed an Operation Performed Friday for and Gail Stones. Mrs. Emma Bertha Boch, wife of Abraham Boch, died Saturday evening at the St Joseph hospital at Ft. Wayne at nine o’clock, the result of an operation performed Friday by Doctors McOscar and Coverdale. The announcement of her demise caused a severe shock among her many friends many of whom had not even known that she had been taken to Ft. Wayne for an operation and they are grief stricken over th© sudden turn of affairs. Mrs. Boch had been ill for some time with liver complaint and other troubles and it was only after much persuasion that she consented to an operation. She was taken to Ft. Wayne last Thursday and Friday afternoon the operation was perform- - ed, which developed a cancerous growth of the liver and a large gall stone. Both were removed and the patient rallied nicely from the effects of the same, and it was at first thought that she might survive the same. However, Saturday afternoon she took a sudden turn for the worse and gradually grew weaker until death relieved her Saturday evening at nine o’clock. Mrs. Boch was thirty-six years of age, being born in this county, where she was reared and received her early education on her father’s farm east of this city on what is known as the old Peterson farm. Seventeen year? ago she was united in marriage to Abe Boch, and to this union was born seven children, five of whom survive, two having proceeded her into the great beyond. For the past several years they had made their home on a farm east of the city, although Mr. Boch had been engaged in business in this city and it is from there that the funeral services were conducted Tuesday morning at eight-thirty o’clock, Rev. A. B. Haist officiating, and interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. She leaves a husband, five children, a father, -Isaac Peterson, a sister. Mrs. J. M. Frisinger- of this city and two brothers namely, Shaffer Peterson, of this city and Washington Peterson, of Marion, Ind. The entire community mourns with the grief stricken relatives in this their hour of sad affliction as Mrs. Boch was held in high esteem by all who knew her. o DIED AT FORT WAYNE THURSDAY Was Past the Three Score Year and Ten Mark—Has Numerous Relatives in this County. k Mrs. Sqsan Glass died at 9 o’clock Thursday night at/the home of her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Crist, 2827 Jane street. Death resulted from paralysis, from which Mrs. Glass had been suffering for some time. Mrs. Glass was 70 years of age on January 9 last. She was born in Ohio. Besides her husband, Noah Glass, one daughter and one son survive her. The daughter is Mrs. Crist, of this city, and the son is Samuel Reiling, at; the Marion Soldier’s home. She also leaves two brothers, Porter Gessenger, of Hicksville, and John Gessenger, of Middebury, and three sisters, Sarah Middleton, of Servia, Ind., Sarah Ann Kern and Martha Reiling, of Decatur, Ind. Nine grand children and three great grand chiljremalso survive. The remains will be taken to Decatur for burial. —Ft. Wayne Mrs. Glass resided in this city many years and was well and favorably known. Her husband was Noah Glass who was in business here for years, and erected the Noah’s Ark building on north Second street. „ ■ q _■ DROWNED IN ST. MARYS RIVER Crowd of Pipe Liners Miss Comrade —Found His Body. A crowd of twenty men, all members of the gang of med who are tearing up two Buckeye pipe lines along the Erie railroad through Ohio and Indiana, went in swimming in the St. Marys rijer Sunday afternoon. When they emerged from the water it was discovered that one lot of clothing llay An inventory of the swimming party showed that one of their number, Clarence Messer, was missing. An investigation followed and, after making a raft, the river was dragged with books. The body was found near where the men had gone into the Wafer. The unfortunate man was married and lived near* Kalida. His wlfel went to Mendon Sunday night and took the body home for burial. This gang of men have tents erected on the Garner Crow farm south of the Erie railroad in York township and the twenty men who swimming are natives while therest of them are foreigners.—Van Wert Times., . ... ■