Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1911 — Page 3

The local order of Odd Fellows are arranging to hold their regular annual roll call of living members on Monday night, November 20th. Cards have been aeni to eacn member asking him to be present. As usual nearly all the members will respond. Reminiscences and a big smoker will occupy the evening. These are feature nights of the year and all the members make It a point to be present on that evening, if no other. With a large number of the members on hand the Elks’ lodge enjoyed one of the best social sessions held for some time. They are becoming j quite popular these days, and members are also realizing what they miss' by not attending. Talks by different I members on topics interesting and j beneficial to all are among the pas-j times of the evening and highly en-| joyed. A smoker which generally fills the room with circles of blue smoke, so that one could be able to carry a good sized chunk away with him brings the session to a close and already the members are looking for-! ward to the one a week away. i The Yeomen are getting in some good practice for their going to Fort Wayne on the 27th of this month, when they will give the degree work upon a class of candidates. The local Forester team is acknowledged to be right up to the top-notch, and their efficient work in the past has no doubt obtained for them the honor of giving the work at this time. The pedro party and dance of next Wednesday to be given at the K. of C. hall will be a pleasing social affair of the week and a large number of those enjoying this great pastime will be present. Admission per couple will be fifty cents and one of the many good times of the past will be recalled. The Modern Woodmen lodge has completed arrangements for the conferring of the degree work upon a class of five candidates next Wednesday evening, and they are looking forward to an occasion of much pleasure. The work will be conferred by the local forestry team and they are busy at present getting into share for the' time set. In addition to it a big time is anticipated and the evening will hp brought to a close with a social good time and a smoker. It is the hope of all that every member make arrangements for attending then and a tlime of their lives is assured them. “The American people held up their hands in horror when 400 persons were killed in the San Francisco earthquake a few years ago, but when more than 1,000 persons died from tuberculosis in the same city and the same year, not one penny was raised to relieve the suffering of tubercular patients, or to pi event the disease ftoi.t spreading." L.\ Frank C. Wynn, white lecturing ' at t.; j iioard oi Trade building yesterday afternoon under the auspices ci the home nursing department of the Indianapolis Civic League, thus criticized the American people for failing to realize the importance of stopping the spread of tuberculosis. He gave special attention in his address to: means which should be adopted to prevent the disease from spreading. “Do you realize,’ said Dr. Wynn, I “that one out of every sixty persons, you meet on the streets of Indianapolis is a tubercular patient? Do you realize that there are 50,000 persons afflicted with tuberculosis in some of its many forms in the state today? More than 5,000 persons die from the effects of tuberculosis in Indiana an-j nually, and still the promiscuous spit- j ting by tubercular patients continues in homes and public places, filling the air with tubercular bacilli to endanger ■ the health, happiness and lives of tbe healthy public. “People run from smallpox. It is what might be called a dramatic disease. The effects of it can be seen on tbe body of the patient, but there are 750 deaths due to tuberculosis where smallpox kills only one. Tuberculosis is an undramatic disease, and for this reason people fail to realize the importance of stopping its ravages. It is like a thief in the night. It steals into our bodies when we are not aware, and no one can tell when the disease has its beginning. ’ Dr. Wynn divided tubercular patiente into two classes, the careful and the careless. He sard the careful tubercular patients take steps to destroy* sputum by placing it in a vessel with a -disinfectant, or by expec’.orating in paper or which arehbkr ed. He said that every person-1 directly in contact Wt'h tub* o’-' 0 ’-' 081 ’. and that cleanliness, fneah-^ 1 ' and s " ‘ shine are ;the best km*n preventives I of the disease. '. The address * Dr. Wynn was the I lost of a so** of lectures that has . been condoled under the direction of ; , tbe hoire nursing department during. 1 the month. The lectures will be dis-, * continued until spring,2 when o er < addresses will be given, pertaining to the treatment and prevention of <U- I seases which prevail during the sum

mer months. Richard U Ewbank will deliver an address at the Board of Trade build- ' ing Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock on "The Laws Concerning Women in Indiana." The address will be given under the auspices of the Indiana Restricted Suffrage Association, and admission will be free. ‘‘THE SQUAW MAN." No detail in the Immense labor of adequate production has been too trivial for Messrs. Oilman & Company . t 0 oversee and look after with the carefulness which In the past, has been i synonymous with their names as managers, and "The Squaw Man” on Its presentation will be as near perfection as brains, money, infinite labor I an< l va *t experience can make it. I Bosse opera house, Friday, November 17th. I 'I The Angry waves of the world , may surge around me as they will. Your little nanas are on the wheel i of the uncertain craft and I know 1 they will guide me safely to the shore, where the harbour lights * of love are gleaming—to lead . your captain home.—Myrtle Reed. The Question club spent a delightful social evening with Miss Celia Kinney last evening, where they sewed, chatted, and enjoyed the luncheon served by the hostess. Mrs. W. D. Walters and Miss Marie Heckman ! were other guests. j j The Cnristian toadies’ Aid society, at the meeting held at the home of Mrs. Noah Mangold Friday afternoon, arranged for a social to be given next Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Minnie Daniels. Each member will be requested to bring two guests, and an interesting entertainment is being planned. The members of the program committee, include Mesdames P. G. Williams, A. M. Anker and Miss Margaret Daniels. Other pleasing features of entertainment will be provided. After the business features were disposed of, the hostess provided very delicious refreshments. 1 The Mite society of the M. E. church held their regular business and social session at tne church parlors Friday afternoon, when bills for the New England dinner and bazaar recently given, were allowed and reports regarding the same were heard. The sum of $65.60 was cleared from the New England dinner and supper, and $17.00 from the bazaar. The ladies also arranged for several money making projects. One was an arrangement with C. Dunn, the Watkins man, for a certain per cent of sales of his goods, and another was the agency for the cedar oil mop. The society has pledged itself to pay off SSOO of the church indebtedness, and has already $l5O to apply on this. For the remainder of the sum —$050 —they will give a note, either today or Monday, and hope to have this cleared in a short time. A very good social time followed. The committee had gathered old-time pictures of the guests and ■ a jo ly good time was spent guessing “who was who.’ The luncheon was i served in a very unique way from a | bill of fare, whibh was written in suggestive phrases. Each guest was a>- ! lowed to select three items from the 1 bill of fare, and these were then serv!ed restaurant form. Not until they | were served did each one really know what her plate would contain. “A link of friendship” proved to be a weinerwurst; “Adant’s ale,” water; “An iini aginary circle,” a doughnut; “A piece of the moon, ’ cheese, and so on. The j afternoon was one of the most pleasing : of the season. j When Mr. and'Mrs. Will Winnes returned home Friday evening from | their wedding trip, which included visits in Hartford'City, Montpelier and Muncie, they ran directly into a shower—that is Mrs. "Winnes did—but it. was a most happy and pleasant one, 1 arranged for her by Mrs. Harvey Smith and Miss Nellie Winnes and the “sun-shiny” 'smiles and good wishes of Mrs. Winnes’ host of friends who were waitingT - greet her at the Harvey Smith homt made the home- : coming a particularly happy one. Proi gressive games v ere called into, j requisition in passing the ev pleasantly, acre being these. On iheJirsL ’ f seeing wh „ j , ’ inK ™!! ,e greatest member of pins J - „,ring in ten minuted; the second i a red-letter game; thejthird a pea- i put sticking contest, and atf he fourth , table, each was blind-folded and required to distinguish peas fron. beans,.: the Mflor going to the one the greatest number of peas in a given time. Tbe progressive games resulted in the awarding of first prize to M4*s Agnes Krick, a cut-glass tumbler; sec I ond, to Mrs. Grover Hoffman, a hand- | J painted plate; and the boobies—a cake turner, to Mrs. J. C- Cole, and , a ladle, to Mrs. Will Winnes. The ■‘shower’’ was given in a f&y appro- . priate way, the presents being deliver- I ed to the door as laundry, t*4 the »

gifts were then unwrapped by the bride in the presence of the guests. The gifts were very handsome and expressive of the esteem in which tb bride is held by her friends. Luncheon was served buffet style, and on the napkins were written transposed toasts, which were transposed during the luncheon and read, causing much pleasure and amusement. Guests were Mesdames Winnes, Orval Harruff, J. C. Cole, L. C. Annen, Grover Hoffman, Dallas Butler, Fred Schafer, Louis Dolch, David Stoler; Misses Della Harruff, Agnes Krick, Fanny Rice, Anna, Jessie and Nell Winnes. — The Sina Cura girls spent a pleasant time with Miss Frances Cole Friday j evening, various amusements affording pleasure for the evening. A contest most pleasantly arranged, furnish- 1 ed excellent pastime, and in which Miss Bernice Andrews succeeded in winning the prize. The club will be ’ entertained next Wednesday evening 1 l by Miss Marie Klntz. ! Miss Rose Dunathan went to Monroeviile where she will be a week-end guest of Mrs. Melville Clem. I I The big Contract has been let, the railroad is now getting busy, the tracks will be in within two weeks and | material for ihe big sugar beet plant j most modern in the world, will soon be arriving. The following letter j from the president of the company i ! will explain the exact situation; | Holland, Mich., Nov. 11, ’ll. j Mr. J. ii. Heller, Decatur, Ind.; Dear Mr. Heller: —You will be in- • terested to know that we have closed j the contract with the Larrcwe Construction company of Detroit for the \ erection of a jomplete sugar factory,' to be finished by September 1, 1912. This factory We believe will be the j best and most modern factory operat-1 ing in the United States, and that of j course, means in the world. We have spared no expense, but sought only for j the best factory that we could get. We have arranged for every appliance that we could learn of that would tend toward increasing the quality of sugar, and ease in extracting the sugar from the beet juices. While we call tbe factory from 700 to 800 tons of beets per twenty-four hours, we have during the letting of the contract strengthened and increased the plant so muoh at its various stations, that we shall be much disappointed if it does not do much better than its name would indicate. We expect representatives of the railrosu here this morning to make final arrangements for construction of side tracks, which construction is to begin immediately, and it is our hope to have a track on the ground in the next ten days or two weeks, and that material for construction will begin arriving very soon after that. This of course is all with the understanding and condition that our arrangements with you good Decatur people are completed entirely satisfactory, and we consider they are virtually completed now. We hope to send you today for your signatures the supplement agreement as to the supply of water. And hope to have somebody in Decatur soon to check over beet contracts, etc.; and the writer hopes also to be there within a few days, with the construction company’s engineer, to decide upon locations of buildings, and find whether or not there is room on the proposed site to place the buildings. We have your wire of yesterday replying to ours that you can rent »a brick building without floor ahrotrack for $5.00 per month, or that you can get-a.-good building January Ist. We think, therefore, we will take the chance off giving directions this moti!ing to have the Decatur seed siupffii 1 to Decatur for storage, hoping that there will be sufficient time for to Ho investigate personally these buildings, and change directions if neceasat The building needs to be, of course, water tight, and should not be a M t for rats '.ftlid mice; and should be lo l > cated thbt it is insurable, and moie than that, it should not be especial.y dangerous as to fire, as it will'lire* ably be impossible to rep£"' u ‘ e i seed should we lh <OMt,u ’’! us s3o.oo—lb" *' Hanrtw* tins , . -gb we are selling n .to the year, fr „,ers at 16c per pound this year, and waiting nearly a year for the pay.' We do not meap to indicate that phis j is usually the way wo do business, twit the seed situation this year is some- J thing terrific. Wish to thank yoy for your tele-' gram and for the pains sou took to se- 1 cure this information for us. and also for the information cotwtyrnfng the nearest port of entry. , Yojirs very truly, , C. M. McLEAN, President. will give work. I (Modern Woodmen Will Take in G*od Class on Wednesday Evening. The Modern Woodmen again wish to call the attention of its members to the meeting of Wednesday evening, when 3 number of candidate* will be

taken into the lodge as full-fledged members. The local forestry team will confer the work and have been putting In some good practice recently. The committee In charge expecta to see a large number on hund to take part in tbe program prepared and the affair will be brought to a close with a big smoker. ■ - BUNDAY RUNAWAY. 1 Considerable commotion was had Sunday when early in the day the horse used by Elgin King, owner of I tbe city news stand, ran away from 1 j tbe young lad, Donald Patterson, who is in charge of the Sunday delivery. | In the scrimmage he lost the Sfinday route book, and some papers. The horse ran a distance of several blocks, 1 but was finally stopped without any damage occurring to the rig. Aside from the loss of the book, which is J 1 valuable, nothing further was missed. 1 1 Owing to the loss of the book the papers could not be delivered on time, the delivery being several hours late, j not being finished until 4 o'clock. Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 13 —In an attempted flight yesterday from Pasadena to Long Beach, officially to end his Atlantic-Pacific Journey, Aviator C. P. I Rodger* met with the worst mishap of ! his c.veer, falling with his machine I 125 feet into a ploughed field, half-way I'betwoen the two cities and within 1 sight of his destination. | Although no bones were broken Rod- , gers was rendered unconscious. He , | was badly shaken, his face scratched i ; and torn, his hands were burned by j ! his motor and he complains of a se--1 vere pain in his side. His machine I was completely wrecked. Rodgers left j Pasadena at 3:34, expecting to fly the I twenty-three miles to the beach in as many minutes. He became confused ( after taking the air and after circling 1 aimlessly for half an hour, came down | !at Vovina Junction, a mile further | i from Long Beach than the point from ! which he started. He took the air again after getting his bearings and ! was following the tracks of the Pacific ! railway when the accident occurred. ! This was in an isolated section and j the first learned of the accident by i those interested was when an automo- ! bilist, who had seen Rodgers fall and had dragged him out from under the wings of the wrecked biplane, carried I him into the office of a physician at Compton, two miles away. I I Rodgers was still unconscious when Mrs. Rodgers and her mother, Mrs. R. i S. Swditzer, who had been waiting his 1 arrival at Long Beach, reached Comp- ‘ ton. Later he partly regained his senses, but was still too da*ed to talk ’ of the accident. He was put aboard the special train which his wife and mother had chartered for the run up iYom Long Beach, and taken to his 1 hotel at Pasadena. After an examina- *! tion last night his physicians aitooune--1 ed that he w'ould suffer no permanent injury. ; While the cause of the accident Vrill ’ not be known until Mr. Rodgers ex- ’ plains it, it is believed that a control j was snapped, inverting the runner of his machine and heading it nose down- ' I ward at an angle of more than 43 degrees. Rodgers complained of his engine trouble when he alighted at Co- ! I , I' vina Junction, but according to tne a\ii tomobolist who saw him fall, was fly- ; f ing smoothly at the time of the ae- ; cident. r I ! Superintendent E E. Rice of the city -1 schools arrived home Sunday after a i several days’ absence, during which - time he attended ine meeting of tire i North Central Indiana Superintend- . ents’ chib, held nJf'OrawfordsviHe, and s the meeting of the city superintend- j - ents held at Indianapolis. It was a j I delightful and profitable week for Mr. i t Rice, who enjoyed it thoroughly. The: j Crawfordsviiie meeting was particti- , larly interesting, tne club being com- . posed of twenty-Ibe members The , session began Wednesday and votmint ued two days. Vi ednes aa f morning - the school (furnished attiomo- , tiles and me-crowd was taken to Water the country home of the ■ -1 late General Lew Wallace. Wednesday afternoon the club visited the city 1 | schools and again on Thursday morn-, b n S- Dinner was served the club In tljn new high school budding, prepared aijs.’ served by the girts nif the junior : ‘ claa,; and the eux»erinle,idents claim | the v«al was the finest they ever enjoyed. The work shows the result of | a dome, tic science class. 33ie girls of | j the senHr class will make their grad--1 «.*ting dtesses and the boys are to I earn suflktent money to buy their clothes. Tide school men left Craw-! fcrdyiville at 4 o’clock Thursday after- j , noon for Indianapolis, where the moet- ! ing* arfire also most interesting, COMING SOON. J “The Squaw Man,” which will be seen here *oon, played in New York for two years to record-breaking busi- j | ness. The record of the royal play is j no less remarkable than the play itself, which has been pronounced by the most eminent reviewers of dramatic Subsets to be by ail odd* the best JBB

play of tbe season. Bosse opera house iYlday, November 17th. — — ■ ■ o- —— i FORTY HOURS' DEVOTION. One week from next Sunday the i beautiful services of forty hours’ de- i votion will open at the St. Mary's I church and will continue until Tues- i day evening, when a solemn closing; i , will take place. A missionary father i ! will be in attendance and have charge i of the speaking, while other nearby i priests will also be present to lend ! i their assistance during the three days. I r, | Richmond, Va., Nov. 13—(Special to 1 Dally Democrat) —Only Governor ] Mann now stands between Clayton i Beattie, jr„ and the electric chair. The j supreme court, having neen appealed | to, today refused to grant an appeal ( to the wife slayer. ! ] — b 1 Shanghi, Nov. 13 —(Special to Daily ] Democrat) —The Chinese rebels took I formal possession of CheSoo today l without and further resistence from < the imperial troops. 1 | Chicago, 111., Nov. 13 —(Special to i Daily Democrat) —Active work of I preparation for the trial of the govern- 1 ment suit under the Sherman anti- ] trust law against the beef packers, ■ was begun here today, when subpoe- : neas were issued for railroad men, i and by noon the government expected ■ jto show the interstate character of 1 trust-busting. The case was set for , trial next Monday. ; Atlanta, Ga„ Nov. 13 —(Special to ' Daily Democrat)—Demanding of the ] “foes” of labor in the subservient i court, justice in the prosecution of the i McNamara dynamiting case, Samuel i Gompers here this afternoon delivered his annual address before the Ameri- i can Federation of Labor. I n " Jury Commissioners John VV. Craig of Berne, Kenry Hite and County Clerk James P. Haefling met this morning and drew the names of the jurors for the grand jury, which will convene next Monday morning, and also the petit jurors for the November term of court which opens next Monday, the petit jury not to report, ( however, until the third Monday of | the term, December 4th. The juries comprise the following: Grand jurors —Albert Duer, Monroe township; Johr. Wechter, Blue Creek; Henry Reiter, Root; Thomas E. Mann, Wabash; Pe ter Amspaugh, Decatur; William Schug, Monroe. Petit jurors—George Brown, St. Mary’s township; Levi A. Springer, Monroe; John Briggs, Geneva; Solomon Sheets, Root; Fred' Thieme, Union: Wilson Dunbar, Hart-, ford; Wesley Stultx, Decatur; James Hurst, Decatur; Sloan Meyers, Washington; Samuel Fogle, Jefferson; j Ralph Oates. Blue Creek; John Tonner, French; Edward Gallmeyer,) Preble; David Crum, Kirkland; Arc-j brose Durbin, jr., Monroe. F. G. Wricht & Company of Chicago. 1 111,, have filed suit against Alfred L. and Charles A. French, partners, on : note, demand, $3,000. Hooper & Leni hart are the plaintiff's attorneys. Cost bond was tiled by the plaintiff. Real estate transfers: Ulysses S. Drummaaid to Emma A. Butler, lot 22, | Pheasant Milhsy $400; Priscilla Wyer j • to David A. Wyer, lot 11, Curryville, i .$10; Dc-catur Cemetery Assn, to: j Charles T. Payne, lot 352, Decatur | cemetery, S4O; Hosannah Dailey toi Anna To_ Molts, pt. in 96, Decatur, [ SIOOO. DEATH OF MRS DAGUE. — "Occurred in Kansas While There on « Visit—Knowr Here. ! Miss Rate Flickinger returned today | from Lima, Ohio, where she attended the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Katharine Dague, which was held there Sunday. Her death occurred at Sabetha, Kn®Bas, where she had gone for a visit and was caused by cancer of the liver. | Mrs. Dagnw formerly resided at Mon- \ roeviile and was well known here, where she tift.en visited, the last visit here being last spring, when she re- ' newed her acquaintanceship with many. Mrs. Hague -was seventy-three years of age. The body was brought back to the home at Lima, Ohio, for burial, several of her children also residing there. Attorney John C. Moran of this city j is in receipt of a copy of the ißoston' Globe of the date of November 7th, j which contains a picture of the hunt-) | ing party of which Samuel Kuntz, the j Berne lumberman, is a member, togeth j i er with a write-up of the great hunt in- i dulged in by the sportsmen, in which 1 three moose were killed in one day,. 1 the first being killed by Mr, Kuntz. I * The members of the party include t Kuntz, four Fort Wayne men and some t well known Boston men, who went in f October to the wilds of Maine for a c hunt in the Lake Mattawamkeag re- c gion. They crossed by boat from is- t land Falls to Bryan’s camp, which is t two miles above Sewell’s camp, where t

President Roosevelt hunted deer two years ago. On tbe second day the moose tracks were sighted, and though the start was made early, the game was not Righted until 2 o'clock In thej afternoon. Mr. Kuntz got the first shot, but it took three bullets to kill his moose, and the animal died bard, running about one hundred yards after the last shot struck him. Its antlers spread about three feet and had eleven en points. The other two killed by other members of the party were fine specimens and there was much rejoicing when the hunters returned to camp j that evening. Mr. Kuntz is a lumber buyer for the P. W. Smith saw rail! at Berne, and is well known over the county. HAVE FINISHED CHURCH. John Bolinger and force of masons ( have Just returned from Linn Grove, where they have been building an Evangelical church at that place. It is one of the most modern churches in this part of the country and would do credit to many cities much larger than this little town. Oscar Hoffman was the architect. The last brick on the structure was that near the finale and the privilege of laying it was sought by many, Lee Baumgartner being the lucky party. With infinite trouble he was hauled up the high scaffolding, and when the brick was laid it dawned upon Mr. Baumgartner that the result would cost him a box of cigars, which he soon secured for the boys. MEET AT BISHOPS HOME. The semi-annual conferences of the ' priests of the six districts of the diocese of Fort Wayne, for the discussion of dogmatical, litburgical and moral questions and parish affairs of import, will be held on Wednesday afternoon of next week, the priests meeting with, tbe deans of their respective deaner- j ies. The members of the Fort Wayne deanery, numbering thirty-nine, will; meet at the episcopal residence in this city, Rt. Rev. Bishop Herman J. Alerding and the moderator, Rt. Rev. Mrg. John H. Oechtering, presiding.— Fort Wayne Sentinel. Father Wilken and Father Flaherty will be among the attending priests. i " ° ” j Merle Laisure, 25, of Monroe, and Mrs. Etta Smith, 22, of Dunkirk, were married here Friday evening, the ceremony being performed by Rev. W. H. Shepherd, pastor of the Portland United Brethren church at the parsonage on North Ship street at 3 o’clock. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Nancy Critton of Dunkirk, and has made her home in that city for i some time. The bridegroom is a son , of Mr, and Mrs. J, Laisure, of Monroe, and is employed as a brakema." ;on the Grand Rapids & Indiana ran i road. The/ will probably make thei” home in Fort Wayne.—Portland Com- ! mercial-Review. The grom was grant!ed a divorce in the Adams circuit court a week ago Saturday. Remember the second number of tbe Monroe high school lecture course by Dr. Gray of Brooklyn, N. Y., on Tuesday evening, No\ember 14th, at the assembly room of the new high school ! building. Be sure to attend. It will be a rare treat. I Murray Scherer of the Meyer, Scher- ; er & Beavers furniture store, at Dej eatur, was a business caller here to- : day. j Will Chronister of Decatur was busy ! today doing some carpenter work. ! which he has been working at for j some weeks. —■' — — - - v* — 1 OVERHEATED FURNACE ; Caused Small Fire at Jacob Tester Home Sunday. The alarm of fire sounded Sunday ■morning at 10:30 o’clock for fire at the Jacob Tester borne in the south part of the city, where a small damage only -was done to the partition between the I dining room and sitting room, the fire 1 originating from the over-heated furnace, which sent the flames forth int > the room through the register in the side wall. Mr. and Mre. Tester were both in the kitchen at the time the fire caught, ami the flames were first noticed by Mrs. Tester when she vert into the other rooms, and saw them bursting forth from the register. The fire was soon extinguished by beating | with rugs and carpets. Peoria, 111., Nov. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Two firemen were killed, one injured and seventy guests were forced to flee into the ice-cov-ered streets when fire early this morning destroyed the National hotel. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. The flames ■ were discovered about midnight by the chambermaid on me fourth floor, who called other employees, and an effort was at first made to extinguish the flames before the fire department was) called. The fire had its origin from causes unknown. After a half hour the department was called and the entire force of fire fighters of tbe city battled for six hours before the flames

i were under control. The firemen were i in constant danger from falling floors and walle, the building being a sixstory structure. l( Dick Townsend, formerly proprietor of the Burt hotel, this city, was the loser, and had been In charge of the National five years last April. Mrs. A. C. Gregory, who was unaware of the disaster this morning, received a message from her son-in-law, Mr. Townsend, reading as follows: "Burned out last night. We are all right.” 1 The cyclone which made a general sweep through the middle western states Saturday night, the whip breeze t of which was felt here, played havoc I with the property of Waterloo, the little DeKalb county town, just two counties north of here, the damage be ing placed at SIOO,OOO. There was no loss of life, Dut many narrow escapes are reported. People went to bed with windows open, the air being balmy and spring-like, but were awakened at midnight when the tempest with a velocity of seventy miles an hour dipped down near the Lake Shore depot, unroofing a restaurant and then sweeping through the business and residence district, cutting a swath 400 feet wide through the town. The greatest Joss was the destruction of the opera house in which were located the fire department, the city hall, and two public school roomß, which collapsed, and people who were in the building saved themselves only by running. Another important building destroyed, was a large cement building used for storage 1 purposes. Twenty-five houses were unroofed, and one in which six people were sleeping was carried fifty feet and badly damaged but none of the family was injured. In four over-turn-ed barns there were horses, but none i injured. In one place, three barns ' were overturned and lie in a tangled mass of splinters in a pile. After leaving Waterloo, the storm traveled at a terrific rate, unchecked by its destruction in the town. Fences, corn shocks and trees were scattered everywhere. Telegraph and telephone lines for a distance of three miles along the Air Line are down, 1 poles and wires lying in a tangled mass. Communication by wire is demoralized. ! i The destruction of property took place within a period of a few minutes, and as the wind subsided it was fo'.1 lowed by rain and sleet, and many scores rendered homeless, were forced , to seek shelter elsewhere. Fatalities and several million dollars' worth of damage from Saturday night’s cyclone are reported from i Janesville, Wis., and vicinity; Chicago and central Illinois, lowa, North Dakota, Omaha, the whole state of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky. Alabama and tbe gulf coast. Other Indiana Damages. At Bedford, Ind., and vicinity, the 1 * property damage is estimated at half 1 a million dollars. Many of the stone mill sheds were blown down, and :f > the storm had occurred in the daytime many persons probably would have been killed. The wind raged all 2 day and the mercury went to 9 above ! zero last night. 1 Shelbyville reported the third storm since April, in which heavy damages have been incurred. Trees were uprooted, barns were blown to pieces >- and buildings were overturned. The i-, damage will run into the thousands. In the southern part of the state the storm was also severe and practically v | all communication was cut off for a time. At Shoals, the high school and rj Methodist church, both brick structures, were practically destroyed. | Farmers report that the cold is causing intense suffering to live stock. Telegraphic dispatches over the Western Union through the local office r today were small, said J. C. Patterson, the local agent, as but one of his four wires were working—and that but a part of the time —being the Cincinnati * wire"J The damage to tbe Ideal telephone = lines was small, but a few farm lines ’-1 being reported out of commission this morning. While the winds raged high 1 here, no damage worth mentioning is b reported. rt j ——— CEMENT CONTEST WINNERS. • J. P. Hilyard of Pleasant Mills was ■ declared winner of the second prize, and Miss Pansy Bell, winner of the third gift offered by the Universal j Portland Cement company at the county fair. It will be rentemmered that Ray D. Christen guessed the nearest and got first prize—six barrels of the cement. Two tied for the second prize, which was four barrels of cement, and six for the third prize, two barrels. Those who tied met Saturday afternoon at the office of the company’s local agent—Kirsch & Sellemeyer where the matter was determined. | «> Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stegkamper and daughters went to Decatur this morning to visit over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Blue.-Bluffton Banner.