Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1908 — Page 5

Catarrh, the Bane of the World Pe-ru-na, the Standard Remedy. 'Wrgj P^'hEXlC^ B Afr ic a I WK ' JwK i <i \w"Sfißbk r ' ' Ww aRi iW tsfWmL THt ■MS". - j A •7®® ®® ' "SB* Affects the ' ■ Affects the Stomach, Hcad( Kidneys, ' — Throat, Pelvic ' X^^SMiOSSgEP? WQ I Bronchial Or g ans - ' ~ W Tubes. Catarrh is recognized all over the civilized world as a formidable disease. In the United States alone, two hundred thousand people have catarrh annually. In other countries the ratio or victims is as great. For many years Pe-ru-na has held the foremost place as a standard remedy for catarrh. Persons objecting to liquid medicines can now purchase Pe-ru-na tablets.

WRIST WAS BROKEN And Kneecap Badly Mutilated—Fell to Bam Floor While Working As a result of falling forcibly to the barn floor, while in the act of disaounting from the hay press upon which he was working, Peter Heath, of Hivarre, is lying at the home of Leonird Troutner in the west part of the city, suffering intensely from a broken ’rist and badly mutilated kneecar. Mr. Heath was working in the employ S. W. Peterson of this city, whose toy press was located at the Sam fthrman farm, five nflles north of the city where a gang of workmen were Kfaged in baling hay. Heath who •as filling the capacity of feeder, to completed his portion of the work jenetday afternoon at about two ccloci and started to get down from the elevated platform upon which he •orked, when In some manner he lost b foothold, falling with great force '■o the floor. He lay prostrate until *id reached him, suffering untold pain. ip ‘ examination disclosed the fact that his arm and knee were injured. *ithough the bystanders were unable tc state to what extent the fall had Kured him, so a vehicle conveyed the unfortunate man to this city, wher c " ■ E. Smith cared for the injured fenbers. The patient is resting better today and from indications he will * wn recover, although he\ will be detainod from duties for many weeks. ~~ -— o LADELLE family at home. for a Few Days’ Rest —Closed Town in Chicago. (Fred C. LaDelle and family, whose 1116 as magicians has been extended several thousand miles during PAst few months, are here for a W ays rest - They closed the most cc essfu] tour of their career at the theater, Chicago, last week and sev eral new acts of a startling and which please all who see ‘f*” 1 ey will leave again in a iays for a summer vaudeville ® and during the week of July 6th Piay at Robison Park, Fort Wayne, a® a« doubt many Decatur people

BEFORE SQUIRE SMITH Constable Smith Closed the Place of Business to < Await Settlement Ed Johnson, agent for the brewing company which has supplied beer for the Charles Lackey saloon on Madison street for some time, filed attachment proceedings against Lackey in Squire Smith’s court Monday and as a consequence the place of business was closed by Constable Smith. The complaint avers that Lackey is indebted to Johnson in the sum of $43.50, which he has repeatedly refused to pay. Lackey bought the saloon of L. L. Sheline some time ago and he has not enjoyed a very liberal patronage since. In fact we are informed that the total of his indebtedness in Decatur will aggregate into the hundred t of dollars. The idea of undergoing fi tancial embarrassment did not appeal favorably to the proprietor of the wet goods establishment and yesterday morning he left for parts unknown leaving his creditors holding the sack. His wife also left last night and no one seems able to state where they have gone. It is not probable that Mr. and Mrs. Lackey will return to Decatur very soon in consideration of the obligations they have failed to meet. No'action in the disposition of the saloon has yet been taken. —o I FORMER DECATURITE'S SUCCESS Harry Daniel Will Become Associate Editor of Inter-Ocean. According to items appearing in : several papers from Fort Wayne and other cities, Harry’ Daniel, former ed-. itor of the Decatur Journal and whose mother, Mrs. W. H. Daniel and sister, Mrs .C. C. Schafer, reside here, has accepted an appointment as Washington correspondent for the Chicago Inter-Ocean, on which paper he has served as financial and city editor for several years. After a year at the capital it is announced Mr. Daniel will return to Chicago and become associate editor of the Inter-Ocean under Editor-in-chief George W. Hinman. — p W. Botts passed through the city enroute to his home at Marion, Ind.

INVESTIGATION IS ON Coroner Examining Witnesses and Will Have Mrs. Johnson’s Body Exhumed Mrs. Thomas Johnson, of Willshire, died and was buried about a week ago. Since then it has developed that about a week prior to her death her husband got drunk, went home and gave his wife a terrible beating, inflicting injuries which it is believed caused her death. At least the supposition was so strong that Dr. R. R. Richison, coroner of Van Wert county is conducting an investigation. A number of witnesses have been examined today, the coroner is having the body exhumed to fully determine the extent of injuries. The oral testimony offered before Dr. Richison led to the prompt conclusion that Johnson should be held to answer to the grand jury, at the fall term of the court of common pleas. No charge is placed against him, the point of the gravity of the crime, if one exists, being left to the body that will make the court investigation. Johnson was given his liberty on a bond signed by himself and Deputy County Auditor Kohn. Johnson’ is well known in Decatur, having come here occasionally to trade. Just how he got drunk so freauently in Willshire, as alleged is not Unown, it being a dry town. o — — IRA PORTER MURDER TRIAL ON I A Special Venire of Seventy-Five Jurors Were Drawn. Ira Porter, who. is accused of the murder of his wife, Mary Porter, is ! on trial in the Randloph county circuit court. A special venire of 75 | jurors has been drawn and from that 1 number twelve will be selected to : hear the case. The accused man says the death of his wife was the result of an accident occurring when she made effort to bring him his gun, with which he had intended killing a chicken hawk at the time flying over their farm. _— In a Pinch, use Alien’s Foot-Ease. A powder for tired, aching, swollen feet. We have over 3d,000 testimonials. All Druggists, 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmstead.

ONE CASE DISMISSED A Ditch Petition Found Sufficient—Real Estate Transfers •D B. Erwin filed a new case, Benjamin Habegger admr. of estate of Caroline Duer vs. John. B. Duer, complaint for intermedling. The papers say that Caroline Duer died in April, 1908, at which time she had personal property valued at $661.25, that a few days later the defendant, without right took possession of said property and refuses to turn same over to said administrator, wherefore judgment for S7OO is demanded. The Berne Grain and Hay company has sued Ernest Franz to collect $275, on a note given December 2. 1904, for $l7O, with interest and attorney fees F. M. Cottrell is attorney for the plaintiff. L. C. DeVoss filed a new case entitled Eli W. Steele vs. Isaac Robison, to foreclose a chattel ..mortgage, demand S3OO, Conrad D. Gallmeyer, trustee, vs. Edward Gallmeyer et al, answer filed by Wilhelm and Dora Gallmeyer. The Sylvester C. Tinkham et al petition for drain was found sufficient and referred to commissioner, who will meet June 6th to qualify and report on Friday, June 12. Citizens’ Bank of Portland vs. Rosa E. Smitley et al, foreclosure of mortgage, answer filed by Preston Orr.

A motion for a new trial on written reasons was filed by the plaintiff in the case of Abraham Wiel et al vs. Charles F. Davidson. A. D. Gallentine vs. W. S. Hughes, contract SSOO, dismissed and costs paid. Real estate transfers recorded are as follows: Decatur Cemetery Associatior. to John R. Peoples, lot 233, Decatur cemetery, S6O; D. N. Erwin to Sarah E. Moor, inlot 161 Decatur, $1,000; F. L. Studler to David Meshberger a half acre in Hartford township, $l5O. S. W. Stauffer et al to David Meshberger, 80 acres in Hartford township, $1.00; C. H. Lammerman to Fred Scheiman 126 acres in Monroe township $12,600; O. L. Case to Jennie Case, inlot 965, Decatur, sl. HAS KEPT FAITH He Attended the Entire Session and Made a Good Record

Congressman John A. M. Adair will . arrive in this city from Washington at 2:12 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, , congress having adjourned at midnight Saturday night. Mr. Adair will be accompanied by Mrs. T. H. Johnson, his mother-in-law, who was with Mr. and Mrs. Adair during their sojourn in the national capital. Mrs. Adair has been in Waynesboro, Va., for a. few days, visiting their son, Herbert, who has been attending the Fishburn Military Academy at that place and they too will reach home within a day or two. When Mr. Adair was making his campaign two years ago against ex-Congressman Cromer, he promised the voters of the Eighth district that he would be in his seat during the entire session of congress and he kept faith with them by remaining until the final adjournment came at 11:30 o’clock last Saturday night. Not only in this respect did he keep his promise but he has made the best congressman the district ever had. and is more popular with his constituents today, regardless of party than he was two years ago.—Portland Sun. —o Invitations have been received here for the wedding of Miss Gertrude Radamacher, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curly Radamacher, of Decatur, and Mr. Thomas Ehinger, city clerk of Decatur. The wedding will occur at Decatur on Tuesday, June 9th. Fred Ardner and wife and Frank Barweiler and family and other relatives from here will attend. Both of the young people are well known here. Blufften News. “Heck” Hensley, Bernard Terveer, Clarence Bremerkamp, Earl Bremerkamp. Frank Smith and Anson Bremerkamp returned last evening from Rome City, where they spent Sunday teasing the finny tribe and having a general good time. Mr. Hensley reports that the coldest weaher ever experienced at Rome City was Sunday in some instances trig fires being burned on account of the extreme cold, the people not being able to keep warm.

COURT DECISIONS Waters-Pierce Oil Company in Conspiracy—An Attack Washington, June 2.—The monthly statement of the government receipts and expenditures shows a deficit for ' the month of May. 1908, of $11,958,991 as against a surplus for May, 1907 of $8,575,212. The receipts for May, 1908 show a decrease as compared with May, 1907, of $14,789,960 and the disbursements an increase of $5,744,2*2 making a difference of $20,534,202. For the eleven months of the current fiscal year the receipts are shown to have aggregated $546,407,150 and the disbursements $610,010,755, leaving a deficit for the eleven mouths of $63,603,605. Washington, June 2. —The supreme court of the United States affirmed the decision of the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Missouri in the exradition case of H. Clay Pierce of the Waters-Pierce company, holding him subject to extradition to Texas, where he is under indictment on charge of perjury in swearing that his company had not entered into a conspiracy in restraint of trade when the company made application to do business in Texas. Washington, June 2. —Senator Bevel idge is the target of a vigorous attack in an issue of the American Economist, official organ of protection. The Economist ridicules the Indiana senator and charges that his knowledge of the tariff is very limited. The senator's friends are not disturbed over the attack. They say that criticism from such source is equivalent to praise. —• o MR. HILTY IS ONLY PASSIVE. There is a Little Irony in the Be r ne Witness Account.

And Mr. Hilty is not by any means a passive Republican. On the contrary, he has always taken an active part in the counsels of local party politics. He has perhaps been never more active as a party worker than the past winter. Bfeing jan antiCromer man, his opportunity for the Berne P. O. was waiting on him this spring, with Cromer out of congress and defeated again this spring. And our present congressman being a Democrat the privilege of distributing postoffice plums in this district devolved upon our senators. Now Senator Beveridge is an anti-Cromer man but Senator Hemenway a pro-Cromer-ite. So, John, of course, “saw” Beveridge in behalf of the postoffice in Berne. —Berne Witness. —o PORTLAND IS SAFELY DRY. Remonstrators Win in All the Wards , in the City. Portland, as the final result of the *nrk of the remonstrators on Friday night is now safe in the dry column beyond all doubt, it is believed. During the evening the work of the temperance people was confined to the First and Fourth wards, the Second and Third not being disturbed. The majority in these latter tw'o wards, as filed one month ago, will stick be-

yond question. What was believed to be a majority was secured in the First ward, until after a number of retractions were filed by the saloon men. The fact that two applications for license are to come before the board of commissioners at their coming session, made the temperance forces determined, and when they ended their fight, practically every name lost had been restored—Portland Review. —o An exchange says that a newspaper publisher recently brought suit against forty-five men who would not pay their subscription, obtaining judgment in each claim. Os these, twentyeight made affidavit that they owned no more than the law allowed, thus preventing attachment. Then under the decision of the supreme court, they were arrested for petit larceny and bound over in the sum of S3OO each. All but six gave bond while six went to jail. The new postal law makes it larceny to take a paper and refuse to pay for it—Pierceton Record. Any 12 Yaar Old Girl Can make those delicious Lemon, Chocolate and Custard pies as well as the more experienced cook if she uses “OUR-PIE” preparation, which is now sold by nearly all grocers at 10 cents per package. Tust the proper ingredients in each package.

BY MRS. HACKMAN Coin is Bright as New and Will Become Family Heirloom J. S. Meyers, a well known fanner of rural route five, and living a mile and a half west of Decatur, found a one dollar gold piece Monday. That fact is not so strange as is the one that though lost nearly forty-five years ago, it known that the person who lost it was Mrs. Mary Hackman, mother of Frank Hackman. It was in about 1865 that the Hackmans lived on the farm and Mrs. Hackman while out on ; the farm one day lost her purse containing thirty dollars or more all in gold. A diligent search was made, and from time to time a gold piece was found, until about eighteen dollars had been gather-! up. Mr. Meyers, father of J. J, Meyer bought the farm over thirty years ago, but no gold has been found ir. years until yesterday, when J. S. was planting potatoes and noticed the dollar. It bears the date of 1854 and is as bright as the day it was carried. Mr. Myers will retain the dollar and it will probably be handed down in years to come as a family heirloom. —o THE LIFE OF MRS. HENDRICKS.

Mary E. Coffman, daughter of David and Rebecca Coffman, was born in Champaign county, Ohio. May 27, 1832 and departed this life at the home of her son in Monroe, Ind., May 30, 1908, aged 76 years 3 days. When yet a child she came with her parents to Kirkland township, Adams county, Ind. She was united in marriage to Henry Hower in 1850. To this union was born two daughters, Mrs. Anna and Mrs. Sadie Roop. The husband and father died in 1854. On Oct. 26, 1856 she was again united in marriage to Bazziel Hendricks. To this union was born five children, two sons and three daughters—David and James A. Hendricks, Mrp. Hattie Sells, Mrs. Minda Arbaugh and Mrs. Ella May Graham. The father and one son and one daughter having preceded her to the other world. Since the death of her husband Sept. 20, 1888, she has ! made her home with her son, James I A. Hendricks, of Monroe. She leaves i one son, four daughters, two brothers, I G. M. Coffman, Rocky Ford, Col., J. 1 H. Coffman, Erie, Kan.; three sisters 1 Mrs. Henry Steele, Pleasant Mills, • Ind.; Mrs. David Springer, Van Wert, • Ohio, and Mrs. Abe Beery, Decatur, 1 Ind.; eighteen grandchildren with a • great company of friends and*other • relatives to mourn their loss. She 1 was converted to God and joined the Methodist Episcopal church when a child of twelve years and has been a faithful and devoted Christian all her life. There has been for some years a question relative to the location of the east line of the state property along the canal in Delphos, and Assistant Engineer Harry Meachem, of Toledo, Chas. Nauts, of Toledo Supt. of the northern division of the canal, and E. E. Booten, of Columbus. Engineer of the land department of the state board of public works, were in Delphos, Monday, to ascertain the exact location of the line. Some building improvements are in prospect by Delphos busness men, and they wish to know exactly how far their rights extend before commencing work. —o CARD OF THANKS. We desire to offer heartfelt thanks to the neighbors and friends who assisted us during the late illness and death of our beloved husband and father, also to the congregation of the Concord church, the G. A. R. and W. R. C. and the management of the interurban railroad for courtesies ex tended. Mrs. W. W. Watts and children. —o FOR SALE—Davis Plantation. Brtmsr wick, Mississippi; 2,100 acres in tract. 1,700 acre® in cultivation, bal anc« fine timber, cottonwood alone worth $15,000; nine room residence, large barn, fine store, two story (new) gin, cost $7,000; eighty-five double, seventeen single tenant houses; land rents for eighty pounds Hut cotton per acre; the best improved plantation in Mississippi delta. For price and terms, apply to C. B. Paxton Vicksburg. Miss. 17-ltd—lo vw o DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are small, safe, sure ,and gentle liitje pills. St'd by B. Doolittle. Insist upon DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. There are substitutes, but there Is only original. It is healing, nothing and cooling and is especially good for piles. Sold by B. Doolittle. o Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Muser, of Berne, left for Fulton, Indiana, this morning where they will visit with friends until next Saturday.