Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1912 — Page 6

George Deiner, the well known «ex-' ton at the St Mary’s Catholic church,! met with a painful accident at 6 o'clock thia morning when making his j dally rounds, he receiving one fractur- ( ed rib, while a second was split, and ! he was otherwise bruised as a result of the explosion of a radiator In the rear of the church. Owing to the extreme cold weather of the past week considerable heavy firing was necessary for the keeping of the church in a comfortable condition so this morning, he fired accordingly. Leaving the furnace in the church basement he went into the church to see that all radiators were in working order as is his custom. He reached as far as the one stated on the right side entering the front door of the church. The radiator being cold, at the sudden turning on of the hot steam, caused the pipes to expand, which, blowing out the steam valve, and allowing the heated substance to striae his person and escape over the entire church, in trying to remedy this he was overcome by the hot steam and nis left hand, in which he tried to again close off the steam was burned. The ntisc and dittfjrl'ttnce attracted those In the church, who had assembled for the early mass and they went to see what had happened. Owing to the fact that he was overcome by the steam, he fell upon leaving the church and again after he had reached the outside, and on his return to the basement. At the latter place he was picked up and conveyed to the lusters' home, where a room was provided him and medical attention at once summoned. He was unconscious for the time being and very nervous from the shock received, while the action of his pulse was also very light and taps fifteen minutes or more were necessary before vitality was brought tip to the required standard. As soon as he was somewhat brought to the fractured ribs were placed In their proper place in their proper position, thus allowing him easier breathing, the Injured ribs having pressed upon his heart to such an extent that he could but breathe lightly. Whether or not he received the broken ribs in the fall over the church pew or at the fall on the outside of the church, is unknown as he was unable to state for himself, but it is believed to have been more likely at the second fall, and the fact that he fell upon the steam valve which he still carried in his hand. The escaping steam soon filled the entire church and water was soon dripping j from the surrounding furniture, while the seats were covered with ice No damage was done to amount to anything, and it was at once attended to. It was not thought that he could s>e removed to his home today, as there was danger of cold setting in. which might result in pneumonia The will of James G. Miller, who was found dead in bed at his home in Union township last Saturday, was probated Friday by J. W. Teeple, who, with Jacob Atz, witnessed the will when it was executed November 1, 1909. After the payment of just debts, he specifies that a good gray monument, not to exceed *2OO in cost, is to be erected at the head of the graves of himself and wife. Item 2 specifies that his wife, Mary A. Miller, have out of the estate all that she needs for the comfort and maintenance during her natural life. To the children —Chas les C. Miller, Susan A. Good. Deila P Hill and Cora K. Springer, he gives 1100 each, but should Corn Springer make any trouble in the settling of the estate she is to have only *69, instead of *IOO. The remainder of the estate is to be equally divided among the following children: Charles C. Miller, Emma I. Hart, Susan A. Good, Elmer E. Miller, Cera E. Springer, Edwin F. Miller, Deila P. Hill and William W Miller, who is to have *SO less than said named children, all subject to the maintenance of the testator s wife during her natural life. His sons, Charles C. Miller and Edwin F. Miller, are named executors, each to have *lO for his service as such. Report of commissioners In the Millstßupright partition case filed, and acknowledged in open court. Upon the approval of Charles Lee’s final report as guardian of Mahala Magner, of unsound mind, and his resignation as guardian, Caleb Andrews was appointed as her guardian, and qualified, giving *I,OOO bond. Real estate transfers: Ernst Schlickman to John Scheimann. realty in Washington tp„ *2500; John C. Moran, com., to Jennie Evans, 79.50 acres in Jefferson tp., *6625; John C. Moran, com., to Frederick Maurer et al.. 20 acres, French tp., *2,010. Upon granting the petition of E. Burt Lenhart, guardian of Andrew Meyer, of unsound mond, for the sale of the ward’s life estate in lands, and order of sale, privately, without no-

' tlce, said sale was made to David 1 Steele for ,600. Deer reported and approved. W. H Myers and Norman 1 Lenhart were appraisers. A contract between the owner of the fee and the 1 guardian for the care and support of the ward was entered into. County Auditor Michaud and Dep- ( uty Paul Baumgartner are busy today , making distribution to the township trustees of Adams county their share of the state school tax funds, amounting to *13,065,69. The distribution] will be completed this afternoon and the trustees can get their apportion ; ments tomorre w. A marriage license was granted at noon today to Katie Steffen, born August 9, 1887. daughter of Peter Steffen, to wed John A. Isch, born February 21, 1883, son of Jacob isch. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 11 —The county assessors for the state of Indiana were in session for two or three days this week and succeeded in disposing of some of the weighty questions in regard to the fair and equitable assessment of the real and per—l n-rnprty ol the state. Ther? js ’more room for discussion upon this important subject than tfiore is upon | any other that is Row agita.ing the public tend- Tie time thus spent by the COUhty assessors of the state, we hope, will prove profitable to them in their work for the coming year. Among those here for the meeting was George Gentis, the county asses sor of Adams county, and the attendance is known to have been the best of any meeting of this kind. Colonel Matson, D. M. Link and Fred A. Sims, the appointive members of the state tax board. had charge of the meeting, and gave some excellent addresses upon the subject of taxation. Following this meeting, county meetings will be held, and on the first day of March the township assessor will ( begin the assessing of property for 1912, George Wemhoff was on the pro ' gram at the state meeting of monumental dealers which was held in this city this week. We heard some very flattering comments upon the address of Mr. Wemhoff, who spoke about the expense of a monument from quarry to erection. It is a subject about which he is most thoroughly conversant. and It ’s said that he made a favorable impression on the audience and gave them some excellent points in the conduct of their business I I The two big cards at the mid-win-' ter meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial associa'ion will be Governor Marshall and Hon. C. A Grevhouse, state superintendent of public instruction They will be the speak»rs at the banquet w hich takes i lace it the Denison hotel on the evening of February Ist. Arrangements are being made lor one of the best meetings of the association, and it is expected that one hundred editors and their wives will be here at the banquet, and that most of them will remain for ’’shop" discussions which take place on the day following. After a week's visit at the homes of J. Fred France and H. L. Confer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. France returned to Decatur, where they will prolong their visit before departing for their home at Muskogee. Oklahoma. I Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Sellemeyer of Decatur were in the city this week, Mr. Sellemeyer being an attendant of the lumbermen's convention, and who by the way. paint the old town red and have about the beat times of any of the many conventions that greet each other once every year in this city. L. G. E. HOME FROM THE NORTHWEST. Fred H. Bloemker, Jacob Rloemker and Albert Tabery arrived here Friday evening on their way none to Magley after a nine days’ trip to Wisconsin. They visaed Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Franklin and Appleton. and during the most of the time the thermometer registered thirty degrees below zero. They say, “It’s Indiana for us RECEIVES INSURANCE CHECK. Two Thousand Dollar Policy Paid to Mrs. Kiev henz, i John Starosr, treasurer of the local I council of ti e Catholic Benevolent Legion, this morning received from John A. Dunn, treasurer of the supreme council, a check for *2,000, be- • ing made payable to Mary Kleinhenz, .! widow of the late John W. Kleinhenz, I in full payment of the insurance pol- . icy carried by Mr. Kleinhenz. Mr. t Kleinhenz was one of the oldest members of the local order, having been a member since 1887. r Mrs. Alice Harmon, who in the past s month has been twice sued for divorce 1 by James Harmon, upon his vain at- • tempt for reconciliation, called at this

office this morning and gave a few I ' notes on his attempt to make up. She i say< Harmon is residing at Bobo, anti I she in this city on First street. She I stated that Thursday he called at her 1 home, as on various other occasions, I and begged her to return to him. She i stated that he shed so many tears ’ that icicles, half as large as her flng- 1 1 ers formed and uung from his nose < as he stood and pleaded, and that wa ] i ter from his eyes fell and dropped to i the walk in front of her door and 1 ■froze there until It became necessan 1 to use a pick in loosening it enough ' ,to open and close the door. Mrs liar] I I mon stated that she did not want to j 1 live with him, and get her nose bit I < ten off. as he is in the custom of do- 1 ing. and this was not said figurative Ii ly speaking either, as the old proverb ] 1 of “biting off one's nose to spite one s i own face" might suggest She brought ' to mind the fact that Harmon had < once, about three years ago, bitten off 1i the nose of her son-in-law, Asa Blount, it Portland, in a fight here while Blount < was here on visit She seems to | fear some such repetition in her case, i She stated that all attempts at recon I ciliation were in vain, and thr.t it ( i 'wag ~;ilte likely that the divorce cas ; ’ would go through. this time. | _c— - The establishment of the laundry in 1 new quarters hgs just been completed 1 and now Decatur can boast of having ; one of the most up-to-date places of ] the kind in the state. In a building i built especially for the business, ar- , ranged to glv? the most economical | distribution and to effect the mtul-1 mum of work to be done the new , laundry now in operation ing more to be desired. . < The washer and Kindred equipment ( i are in a room by themselves, where j the steam mav not prove obnoxious to the other workers in the different de-, 1 partments. the ironing room is sep-,; arate and still another separation is ( I ’ad bet' - . n the receiving room and t 'the office Heretofore the customers] patronizing the laundry had to en j due hot gases and steam consequent ( | 'to having the laundry in one room , and no particular happy results oc- ( i curred. Seeing the cause Manager ; Will Winnes arranged to have the i new building built to order. Now < that he is fully installed in the place | he has possession of a perfectly up- ( to-date place, well able to handle ■ twice the work that he formerly could ] handle. 11 The improvement is appreciated by i those who have labor there and the < public, which has to call at the laun- i dry. 11 With the additions made in the | way of new machinery the laundry j has considerably increased the capac- . ity and now efforts will be made to i build up a mammoth business. This should be easy as the place is enabled i to turn out perfect work. ENGLISH AS SHE’S SPOKE. I Barney Breaks Out in Print AfterPtpes Break. — "English as she's spoke and writ. in some of the smaller "country" papers is the occasion of much pleasantry to the city editor, and the Chicago Tribune has a column under the head of 'A Line-o-type or Two," devoted especially to this The latest "hit" struck pretty near home, when they reproduced the following yesterday: Bluffton (Ind.) News: "Barney Kalver, the junk buyer, suffered from the cold along with the rest, and some of his water lines were frozen and one pipe was bursted." At a recent meeting of the congregation of the Bieeke Lutheran church in Union township, steps were taken for an extensive retnoleding of the church, which will make it one of the best in this section of the country. The church edifice will be remodeled, among the new features being the lowering of the steeple. At present it is 115 feet high, and too heavy for the support beneath, resulting in the cracking and damaging of the plas tering. The steeple will be lowered forty feet at least. The walls will be replastered and handsomely frescoed. A new furnace heating plant will be installed and a new pipe organ purchased. The total cost of the remodeling is estimated at *3,500. The congregation numbers 326 mem bers in all, and has sixty voting ma : e i members over the age of twenty-one years. The Rev. G. Bauer is the partor and the teacher of the parochial 1 schools is Walter Gotsch. The congregation is a most flourishing one i and progressive, in both spiritual and • material ways. The remodeling will - not be done before spring. , County Superintendent Lawrence E. - Opliger is lying at the home of his . father, Samuel Opliger, in a serious - condition. For some days he had i been feeling badly and Monday night late started to walk to Linn Grove, where his family has been visiting for t several days. He reached there about s 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, almost. ■ frozen to death. His ears and cheeks, s hands and feet, were badly frozen and

his condition, of course, was as a result, very serious. Dr. McKean was Immediately called and has been taking care of him, everything possible being done to give him relief His father came here Friday to look after some business matters for his son The condition of Mr. Opliger, reported today, is that he is doing as well as could be expected, though It will be some days perhaps before he will be able to be out. His many friends hope his recovery will be speedy. The Hartford City Journal tells ol - the esteem in which the Rev. B E Barker, pastor of the Methedis I church at that place, son-in-law of J ! D. Hale, of this City, is held, the con ! gregation passing a resolution which will be presented to conference, asking for his return to the charge there “At the fourth quarterly conference of the fiscal year, at the Grace M. E church Wednesday night, a resolution, presented by Prof. W. A. Myers, commending the work of the popular pastor. Rev. B. E. Parker, and asking the presiding bishop of the North Indiana Methodist conference to re turn .Mr. Parker here lor the third' j car, wi.s adci led by a I’ti’nlmeus ' vote ot those present. "Dr. C. E. Line of Muncie, distric’ superintendent, was the presiding o: fleer and his address was given close attention. Reports made by the heads of the various departments o’ the church showed every department to be in a flourishing condition, even better than that of last year. “The resolution asking for the return of Rev. Parker was a just rec ognition of the earnest, painstakin. efforts of the eloquent young pastor, whose pastoral work in this city during the past two years has been eminently satisfactory. The North Indiana conference meets March 27, at Wabash, and there is litle doubt but that Mr. Parker will be returned to Hartford City for another year Columbia City, Ind., Jan. 12—Frank! Schultz, superintendent of the local ( electric light plant, has received word from M. J. Mylott of the Decatur plant advising him of the fact that the members of the city council of that city would visit Columbia City the forepart of next week for the purpose of inspecting the local arc lighting system. The system of this city is f known as the closed arc light system and is one of the best plants in ( the northern part of the state. The city of Decatur is at the present time figuring on changing its lighting system and it is desirous of seeing the local plant in operation Mr. Schultz is making arrangements to entertain the visitors in a royal manner for the treatment afforded the local council when it paid Decatur a visit some time ago. The figures just made public by the Board of State Charities concerning the county jails of the state give some interesting information. During the year ending September 30, 1911, there were 36,380 admissions to the jails on various charges. Os this total 33,349 were men, 771 were boys under sixteen years of age, 2,106 were women, and 156 were girls under sixteen years of age. Another classification shows that 15,068 served sentence, 771 were insane, 4,709 were in for vagrancy and the balance 15,832 were held for runaways and witnesses. For drunkenness there were Jailed in the year 13,400, of which 12,903 w ere men and 497 were women. On vagrancy there were 4,455 jailed, of whom 4,370 were men and 85 were women. The total jail expenses amounted to *212,455.19, ot which ,131.990.94 was for boarding prisoners and the balance, *80,465.15, was for all other items of expense. The report says that every jail in the state has been inspected within the year by a member of the board and the report shows improvement in the physical condition only. The report recommends the use of jail for detention purposes only and maintains that the convicted prisoners should be taken care of by the state. This would remove to a great extent the odium of going to jail and place the real punishment where it belongs, on the guilty. The worst jails in the state are located In Jeffersonville, Greensburg, Princeton and Vernon. Other counties have jails that do not conform to the standards and in all probably twenty-five per cent of the jails fall below the standard set by the board. PATENT MEDICINE —-— Weakening Heart, is Supposed to Have Caused Pelham's Death. Coroner J. C. Grandstaff was at Geneva Thursday afternoon between 2 and 3 o'clock, and held an inquest over the body of Robert Peinam, who was found dead in his room there Wednesday, night. Coroner Grandstaff has not all the evidence yet, and has therefore not reached a verdict, but it is his opinion that death was

due to an attack of the heart, brought on by some narcotic In a patent medicine that Pelham had been taking for the grip. There was no evidence of foul play, nor does the doctor think that he reached death by freezing, although the body of course, by Its long stay of twenty-four hours before d » covery In the unbeated room, and with the door open, was found frozen Dr. Grandstafi will reach a verdict tomorrow. I —<>- ~ | ADAMS COUNTY WINNERS. Partial Awards on Portland Poultry Exhibits Have Been Made. A partial award of ti epi /'" ■' hibitors in the Portland poultry ahow ‘has been made, and among the winners arc several Adams county nun Jesse Rupp of Berne won second on ( cock, first and second on pullets in the Barred Rock class; John Smelaof Berne, won first on cock, third on pullett, third and fourth on cockt els. On Wyandottes, Janies Wagonc won first on cock and first on hen I — IS RECOVERING. 'M'S. William Bossecker Doing Nice!' from Monday’s Operation. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Reinking < • Union townshin were shoppers her? yes'erday and stated that their daughter, Mrs. William Bossecker. who <n last Monday was operated upon for gall stones, at the Lutheran hospital, was doing nicely and it is believed her recovery will be a rapid one She had been ailing for some weeks from the affliction, l-i't at the start it was believed that the illness would not have to result in an operation. How ever, such was the case and there was no other recourse but to submit tc the operation, which she underrer.t with good results Her many friends here will be pleased to receive the word of her improvement. . | The snow storm did not seem to interfere with the Fife brothers revival meeting at the Christian church last night for the house was again filled and the people heard a very logical sermon on "The Holy Spirit," that gave to most people in the audience a new and clear understanding of thsubject that they had never had before. I Evangelist Clyde Lee Fife, whe ( preached the sermon, spoke of the subject under four divisions The baptism, gifts, gift and operation On each ol these points he read from the Bible anil showed the circumstances and purpose for which each was evidently given. The sermon was ,-o pointedly illustrated by lommot events and by vivid comparisons of vaiious teachings of the Scripturethat the subject in hand, which is us ually considered to be very hard to understand and become interested in, at once became interesting and so plain that all the audience seemed t< understand it as never before and tc respond readily in helping to read th" teaching of the scripture on the sub ject. Three more people, a young man and two young ladies, responded to the invitation to profess faith in Christ and unite with the church. This makes a total of thirty conversions and additions to the church, which is already one of the largest ingather- ’ ings ever experienced by the Christiarf church here. Many others are ' expected before the close. Tonight the Fife brothers wrti give 1 their final and best concert and Blbl» lecture. In the concert they will 1 play and sing some of the finest new selections for orchestra and voice now ! published and on the market. Mr. I Robert S. Fife, who with hie brothers > made such a hit before the student body of the schools as a reader, will be heard also in the concert. In hie > work he has taken rank among the i very foremost in that line of art and I is a graduate of the Dillenbeck School i of Oratory and Dramatic Art in Kan sag City, Mk "The Trials and Cruci r fixion of Christ’’ is the lecture and • will be illustrated by one hundred s fine views taken from masterpieces by Rembrandt, Munkaczy, Tissot and t Millet. The closing number will be e /'Were You There When they Crucified .My Lord?" as sung.by the Fife quar tet before thirty thousand people at the international convention at Pitts . burg, Pa., in October, 1910. The admission will be 25c and 15c. t All who have made pledges for the 1 support of the revivals are requested 1 to pay them by Saturday, if possible, as the Fife brothers will have to leave after services Sunday night for their next engagement which begins immediately. Tomorrow night and Sunday o will close the revival and the evangelists are preparing for a great victory yet for the church. / Methodist. t The Methodist church will begin a u series of evangelistic meetings next e Sunday, January 14th. The services I- will be conducted entirely by the pasd tor and the members of the church, t, The first service will be held Sunday s morning, when the Rev. G. H. Myers

will ' M: M'."- ’ ' ' m ed in raising the half million dolendowment for DeP«u» ««'»• ’ slty and has been out of the pulp most of the time for the past year His many friends will be *l.d W bear him preach. The pastor will preach at the 7 o'clock service on the aubject, "Evolution and the Fail of Man The music will be led by a law* c!io: u. and new song hooka have been pur chased for the meeting The various organizations and societies of the church will take an active part tn the meetings The subjects disuse ! I by the pastor will be answered from time to time. An opportunity will be given for any one to ssk questions upon religious subjects. The church extends a cordial Invitation to the people of Decatur and to strangers to attend these meetings Baptist. In preparation for the revival ” hica begins next Sunday, the Rev T i. Jones of the Baptist church, is hold ing a series of evening prayer servIces this week, the service beginning with the regular mid-week praye meeting on Wednesday. Auditor Michaud and Deputy Paul Baumgartner have completed another distribution of school funds to the various township trustees, and another large slice of state and county mottr for school purposes is now ready t be handed out to the trustees T..c last distribution includes that of the *13,065.69 returned to the county .. her share ot the state common scho ' funds, and also the sum of ,555 25 of the congressional revenue funds These are apportioned as follows, th< first columns ot figures showing the number of school children in the township or corporation, the second column showing the . ongressional township revenues and the third, the comm* ’ school fund: Blue Creek 367 *3600 J 6,9 4u French 376 35.62 69'.38 Hartford 389 20.66 73. 69 Jefferson 380 61.12 679.68 Kirkland 289 21.49 541 91 Monroe 847 22 17 1629 01 Preble 360 45.67 6.t6 14 Root 388 76.17 681.22 St. Mary's 383 51.82 694.83 Union 329 40.20 *Ol.l S Washington 481 18.15 919 54 Wabash 523 21.80 997 77 Berne 354 11.35 678.76 Geneva 313 13.05 597.13 Decatur 1208 80.99 2273.97 f

„ I The basket nafl game played here Friday evening etween the teams < the International nusmess coiicg . Fort Wayne, and the De<atur hi; school, was an easy walk away for ti c Decaturites, who won by a score 41 to 2. Goals were made as follows Iteery, 5; McConnell, 1; Vancil, 6; Peterson. ", for the Decatur boys, and Schafer of Foil Wayne. 1. The of. cials were Worthmann of Decatur anRinker of Fort Wayne. The iollowing were the players, and their position, the first column be'tr. the Decatur boys and the third the Fort Wayne boys: Beery Forward Settle McConnell ... Forward . Schater Vail Vancil Center Gilliam Lose Guard . . . Fuhrman Peterson Guard Baade Rinker During the last pan of the first half of the game, Baade of the Foit Wayne tea® met with an accident, that will disable him for five or ucrs days, when in passing a ball, he stepped aside in such a war that the bone of his left ankle was thiown out of place Rinker took his place in the ranks Os players The excitement of the aci cident and the flurry occasioned there by was no doubt one cause for the I poor playing of the Fort Wayne team i Tb» next game will be played here » next Friday evening between the girls’ I teams of the Bluffton and Decatur I high schools, and another between the second team of the Decatur high school and the St. Joseph high school j , r at the state pays more attention I to cock than to its children, is the f opin on of Dr. M- T Jay of Portland. 1 wl. Friday evening, before the Ad ams County Medical association which t held its regular meeting at office of Dr. Beavers, in this city, read a pa Medlcal Inspection of Children of the Public Schools ” Dr B Jay read the paper before anothe 1 medical society, and the local orde >, earing of its excellence, invited him e 0 come here Friday evening Dr. Jay r , old how the state hau provided ~ i the free treatment of hog cholera, how it provided special officers to go out |.|»ith free serum and make hog vacci V, nations, but how nothing of the kind ihad been provided for the children ! LT* Where BUCh attenIX H a e rr t a id e<l ; to ’ nßhil>B ° r a, y- He told of the retarding of the t mental, moral and spiritual develops ment of the child is due in many ■ to defective eyesight, hearing or to >■ adenoids, or other abnormal Xd° s UP ° n exam,nat| on. might . eaMly be corrected, and advocated ©

the provision by the for f attention for the school / stated that the prosie rtty tlf and the adults, depended health and growth of , hB and that it was then-' ~p state to take care of the health as well ax that „f ltl '**■ Stock The subject wa, fr.-eN ed by all Dr Bud Van Fort Wayne, who counreler of the order, and it is to call once or tw ; -„ , , ’j■’« the various county ass.. ;.v !oni " present Friday evening anq *1 a talk ethers attending Parrish and Rayl of ,M< p, * Miller, (’oateiio, Beaver-, of ‘ The February meeting wdi Dr. Boyers, and Dr Th. m.t, Wl ;i 1 the paper on "Pneumonia ■ Dr l.izxie P<urns, former],- < ago. who will beconti- a r.-s, ] ew " I and who will later become ~ of the Adams County M. tion, was also a visitor UNION MEET The union has a meet:ng s. tor Sunday afternoon at , ~, time all the interested I -i' es quested to be present, a, • „ that the charter will be ‘-rought d<,« s W by J C. Workman of Furr . the union organized S. n:.- trnufe® has been expvrtenced in q, Si charter for the organiza' - hoped that it will be retth-d S-indajjL l ’* the meeting. L. D. Redding, 'is, r<< ular organizer, cannot t-e , reserr » he was called elsewhere ro hasd» l strike. —o • GASH IN CHIN Herman Boggs, a young mar, o' Rd key, Ind., arrived in the , ity Fndi, afternoon In search of em;>l->yzt a and at once set out for the sugar m grounds in search of same Friday e ening he met with quite a painful hcident while passing the comer < the Holtbouse Schulte clothing sts-» when he slipped on the icy p«rem»s. ' and cut a deep gash in his chia. Tb ' wound bled profusely and a physical ' was called who put one stitch n > wound to close the gap THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Next Monday Fire Destroyed ■ Block in This City

Monday. January 15. 1877. near th ■ midnight hour, and thirtyt ie ■ ago next Monday, will be remetnbeiw ■ by many of the older residents of th I city, when toe big fire. wind; sura in the L. Yager cabinetit shop at niture store, destroyed aln: ft the - I tire block, from where the Vrw Hite & Macklin clothing s' _ e is I located, to the alley next '■> the 1. ett & Hite grocery . The losers : catastrophe were B 8 Thom; -< I John Welfley. Mrs Harriet Studs!* I er, A. Barthol and J. R. Bobo It «s- I one of the hottest fires suff'-'ed it - I catur for many years, and all were 5 | and had their fighting cloth-* os s ing heroic work for the e-pupt-! which they then possessed -p — - I .1.1.——— Robert, the one month and w® I days’ old son of Mr. and Mrs W. J | Foreman, residents of Adams * Twelfth streets, passed out of this »• and Into the better world Friday * e'uoea at 2 o’clock, death follow s» short illness of from six to tftours with pneumonia Toe little had been ailing for a brief time ,! - a cold, bu' with the cl<>»» atten’.w which was given him. the pater ’ tLought nothing else would rest However, with the termination ’ the fatal Illness, nothing could be dcn» to check its course ana tne end o®* peacefully and without stthe. The - neral services will be held Sends’» ernoon. southeast of Bern-, where r terment will also take plac* Many sorrowing friends and tives last Saturday paid their las’ Bpecta to Miss Frances Hess, one «” in life had been dear to them, and »■ er death they wished not to forgand whose last earthly respects ' held from the St. Mary’s church « Father Wilken in charge The " ceased, who was a young lady of admirable deeds, esteemed by m ar ' was paid a worthy tribute by the tor, and of the sadness which her mine has caused. Interment was m*'" at the Catholic cemetery DOING NICELY. George Deiner, the sexton at the ' ■Mary’s church, who Frida' figured an explosion, when a steam valve ’ out of the radiator in the rear of '• church, and he, being overcome b) fiteam heat, fell and received a ' en rib and other injuries, is impro* 1 as well as could be looked for l ’ e was able this morning to be tno'ed a his home in the west part of the. 11 and it is believed with careful 1 > tion for some days, will soon be aJ * to be out again. — Democrat Want Ads P a >’