Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1895 — Page 1

THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.

OLU.ME I.

Mrs. John Peterson is at Portland venting relatives. Joe Huston of \\ inchester, was in town Tuesday. Editor Alliger of the Monroeville Breeze, was circulating about town Tuesday. I'red \ . Mills visited Marion and a few other gas towns on business last week. John M illiams is home from Petoskey, where he went to spend the li: y fever season. Mis. M. L. Byers came home yesterday from Dayton, < thio, where she visited relatives. County Clerk Lenhart left last Tuesday morning on a business trip to Altoona, Penn. Lydia Bowers has been appointed administratrix of the estate of Jonathan Bowers, deceased. John 11. Lenhart is absent at Datoona, Penn., this week, where business is claiming bis attention. Samuel D. Beavers of Kirkland township, was a caller on the Press, while m town last Friday. The south bound early moving Grand Rapids passenger train has been changed to its old time, 12:37 a. in. Capt. A. J. Hill with about forty of his comrades of the !Hh Indiana reuued yesterday and to day at Hartford City. MGs Julia Parrott entertained the Baptist congregation last Sun day evening. She soon leaves to! r accept a foreign mission. '* Marriage licenses have been granted the past week to B. A. Winans and Emma Fuhrman, Emil Franz and Kathrine Lehman, Henry I). Colchiu and Lucy M. Heideman. The dry goods firm of Rice & Styles at Logansport, made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors the first of the week. Liabilities $12,000, with assets in the sum of SB,OOO. Gus Schroeder of Preble, died Saturday evening after a short illness with typhoid fever. The funeral took place Tuesday from the Lutheran church at Preble. The deceased was aged seventeen years. Gen. G. W. Bailey will lecture at the Methodist church next Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday eve ning, upon the subject, “C hina, the land of wonders.” The speaker is possessed of wit, eloquence and knowledge, all that can make a successful lecture. Don’t miss it. Chas. Lammimau of Monroe township, was in the city last baturday at his father in-law, Harlo Mann’s house and acted very queerly. It soon leaked out, however, that he had come to town to report the arrival of a young ten pound republican at his house. yy e hope he will change hispolitics before arriving at majority. It is again about time to produce a brief summary of the game laws in Indiana. Quails and phesants November 10 to January 1. M ild turkeys, November 1 to February IPrairie chickens, September 1 to February 1. Woodcock, July Ito January 1. Wild ducks. September 1 to April 15. Squirrels June Ito December 20. Exportation of game prohibited. Saturday night the flouring mi’l of Cowan & Smith at Pleasant Mills burned to the ground, entailing a loss of something over $3,000. Its origin is supposed to have bwn the work of an incendiary, and who done well his work, for the entire building and contents burned. Ao insurance was carried, which makes the loss somewhat severe. H< ever we learn that the mill will be rebuilt at an early date. The sad intelligence of the death of J Bart Shirey was received by his family in this city last Thurs JaXrilng. Some four J.) he went to Carrollton Mis souri, thinking perhaps the change might be beneficial. It proved otherwise however. He was a son of Mr and Mrs. John Shirey, residents of Winchester street, was known by every man, woman and gretted to learn of his death. Th remains reached here last Thur, dav afternoon, accompanied oy Homer Shirey. The funeral services were held from the house at ten o’clock Friday, Rev. Gregg, officiating. Interment in Mapleaged thirty-five years.

Mrs. I-red Miller has returned from a visit to her parents at L< banon, Indiana. • leorge W. Menefee returned home last Saturday after spending a «eek in this city’ with his sou, E. P. Menefee. Mrs. D. E. Studabaker came home 1 uesday from Goshen where >he had been visiting her mother fiu- two weeks. J. D. Cook of Toldo, Ohio, water works engineer, was in the city last Friday. He reports the work progressing finely. I nclaimed letters: Ellen Crawshaw, G. W. Andrews, Sarah Huster, A. E. McClain. John Wei.i ley, P. M. David Dilling of Preble, was in the city Tuesday. He attended the state fair last week, and reported it a success. William Schamerloh dropped the cash in the Press slot yesterday and will hereafter post up on Adams county news.

Instructions come from Herbert 11. Rice to change the address of . is Press from this city to 941 N. Alabama street, Indianapolis. This morning at the St. Marys Catholic church occurred the mar j riage of Henry Colchin and Miss Lucy Heideman, both well known young people of our city. The = Press extends congratulations. Eli W. Peterson has been recog-1 nized by the powers that be by the i appointment of guard at the north I ern prison, to which position he hied himself yesterday. If thej place suits, he will proceed to hold it down. Among many other jobs of print ; ing the Press is now busy with the l | rules and regulations for the St. | I Joseph’s Catholic cemetery. The: cemetery iu questi n will soon be one of the handsomest to be found any place. Last Friday night the Epworth League entertained the grand | army boys at the Mechodist church.: The occasion was an enjoyable one, ■ I especially to the blue coats, whol I were called upon to give an ac- i count of the encampment at Louis- : I ville. Larin F., son of Albert and; Edith Roebuck, was born February I 13, 1895, and died September 23, i 1895, aged 7 months and 10 days. | Brief was the life, but full of suffering. The funeral services were: I conducted by Pastor 11. H. Smith at the Baptist church at Pleasant Mills Tuesday, September 25. The last will and testament of Catharine Maloy was probated at the county clerk’s office Tuesday. According to its provisions all the residue of real and personal property shall belong to her surviving husband, Thomas M. Maloy, who also is appointed executor of the will. At his death the property shall go to his children, and if none are then living James Law-, rence Edward and Ella Maloy and Rosa Fallen shall be the heirs. The Meieer county reservoir by ! its tendency toward drying up is 1 losing its right to be called Lake Mercer. The west end is an unsightly pond, full of stumps, and the east end is a mere creek that looks as though a dog could ford I it. Hundreds of acres where the black bass used to roam and make ‘ eyes at the coy minnow are now covered with waiving fields of corn, [ and if the water gets much lower the fish can be harvested with a i scoop shovel. The canal is dry from Toledo to Cincinnati and the voice of the bullfrog is becoming a dead language. —Celina Democrat. The Indianapolis Journal a few days ago said: “At I nion City I last week the Chicago, Union Citv |& Cincinnati railroad company i was organized, and the work will ' be begun at once to build the track from Union City northwest to Nappanee, Elkhart county, a distance of about eighty miles. The roadbed to be occupied was graded ' fifteen years ago from Union City |to Bluffton, a distance of thirty ' miles, and from there the road will be graded at once. The line will i be a direct one through Portland, Bluffton, Huntington, South Whit I ley, Warsaw, connecting with the Baltimore & Ohio companies, which ’ furnish the equipments. The di rectors voted $1,000,000 to aid the enterprise, which will be bounded to the New York Trust and Endowment company. The road will run through the center of the Indiana oil field and penetrates a rich and I unoccupied territory.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26.1895.

Townsend & Cox will soon establish a plumbing stock ami shop in the Studabaker room, next door to the gas office. John Webber brought a car load of horses from St. Louis last week, and will ship them to the eastern market at Philadelphia. Marshal Cow an and Sheriff Ash- | baucher were at Kenton, Ohio, the ; first of the week testifying in the case of Wallace, who was nabbed by the officers here for horse stealing. The Luckey grocery store looks much improved since the new plate I glass front is in place. The company is deserving of congratula tions for their enterprise in this direction. The Decatur Literary club is de funct. The club dissolved itself ! last week. We understand a moveI meut is on foot to reorganize under a new name and with additional members.

The walks along the brick street are already in better condition than any one was willing to believe. Let’s hope and pray that the streets won’t kick up a worse spectacular specimen of reality. Dr. Thomas Cox who some time ago mysteriously disappeared from Madison county, after trying to fraudulently skin an insurance company out of SIO,OOO, has returned to the arms of his friends there. Jim Touhey’ is the owner of a mighty sore foot, caused by coming in contact with a heavy’ bunch of freight, which he was at that time handling, lie walks on crutches, but will be able to discard them in a few* days. Ed Edmunds the mechanical referee on the Geneva Herald, was taking in the races here last Saturday, and in the meantime greeting, his old acquaintances. Taking into consideration the numerous additions of extra linen, we hardly know what is going to happen to Ed.

New circuit court cases for the! November term have been filed as follows: Patrick K. Kinney vs. Wiley Hays uml E.ward Kinney, foreclosure of mortgage, demands $250. William Adler vs. Samuel S. Bottenfield, quiet title. Isaac L. Baleoek vs. Samuel S. Bottenfield, quiet title. John FI. Captain vs. Samuel S. Bottenfield, quiet title. At Waterloo yesterday at ten o’clock a pretty home wedding took place, the contracting parties being Charles D. Murray of this city, and Miss Neva Cheyney. The Rev. Klutz officiated and made the happy twain one. They will arrive here tomorrow where they will make their future home. They will board at The Burt until spring, after which time they will go to housekeeping. The Press congratulates. The Clover Leaf route (T., St. L. & K. C. R. R.,) will issue one fare excursion tickets to Dallas, Texas, and return daily, October 18 to November 3 inclusive, account following attractions: General Christian missionary convention, “Dis ciples of Christ,” October 18 to 25; Texas state fair and Dallas exposition, October 19 to November 4; Corbett Fitzsimmons fistic contest, October 31. Special service to the fistic contest. Engage sleeping car space early, berth rate from Toledo i $7.50. Stations west proportionlately less according to distance. For further particulars call on near est agent or address, C. 0. Jenkins, Gen. Pass. Agt., Toledo, Ohio. At Winamac the other day’ an important suit was settled. It was an action brought by Kruger to recover his equity in a farm of five hundred acres of land in that county which was owned by him a few years back, when he held the position of county treasurer. At the expiration of his term Kruger deeded his farm to his bondsmen in trust to secure them against loss by reason of his financial embarass ment at that time. He conveyed the land to one of his bondsmen by warranty deed with an understanding that he (Kruger) should have control of it until they bad been fully’ reimbursed for money advanced him to make his settlement as treasurer, but in the meantime the bondsmen sold the land to Jacobs and conveyed the same by’ warranty deed. Kruger proceeded upon the theory that Jacobs had knowledge of tne fact that his deed was in fact a trust deed or a mortgage.

The clothing store of Isaac Rosenthal will tie closed from Friday* : evening six o’clock until Saturday evening six o’clock. The occasion is a Jewish holiday. The Grand Rapids will run a special train to the Fort Wayne races on September 27-28. Train leaves here at 7:20 a. m. Fare for the round trip ninety cents. The bible says “woe to the! I women that sew’ pillows to all armih' les.” If this isn’t a slam to the : balloon sleeve business, we would like to know what it is. The city’ attorney’ has received word that Judge Dailey will be in i' the city in a few’ days for the pur- ; pose of deciding the Madison street i opening case of the City vs. the G. R. A I. railroad. For many years Mrs. Thomas Auten has yearly went to Petoskey, I Mich., during the hay fever season. | This year she remained at home I ! and substituted a preventive to the I | disease, and it worked all right, j This surely cheaper and more satis-1 i factory all around. We forgot last week to mention i the fact that the members of the Eagle Manufaccuring Company presented their secretary and manager, Mr. J. C. Patterson, with a handsome book and library case. '' The gift was the spontaneous outburst of good will and esteem with which the company held Tobe, and j for his success in managing the I business. George Watson and wife of Washington, D. C., were calling 'I on their friends in this city the | first of the week. They are resi- | dents of Ceylon, but for several | years George has been employ ed at Washington where he holds down : a lucrative sit in some of the government buildings. He is now : time keeper, a position that fits ■; George with comfort. They return s to Washington next Monday, having been absent among relatives for , some three weeks.

On Tuesday, October 8, the Chicago & Erie will run their annual excursion to Lancaster, Ohio, via Marion and Columbus, Ohio, and the C. 11. V. &T.R. R. Fare $5 for the round trip; ticket good 30 days for return limit. Special through coaches will leave Decatur October Bth on train No. 12 at 1:37 a. m. arrixing at Columbus, Ohio, at 7 a. m. and Lancaster at 8:42 a. m. The Fairfield county fair will be held at Lancaster October 8 to 12. J. W. DeLong, Agent. Berne was the scene of another disastrious conflagration on Wednesday night of last week, when the Berne stave and heading factory went up in flames. The origination of the fire is unknown, but is supposed to have been set on fire by a tramp. The loss entails many’ thousands of dollars. The plant was owned by a joint stock co npany and managed by Will Wimer, who lost all his possessions by the blaze. The heaviest loser in the concern was Andrew Gotts chalk, whose losses figure up $2,000 in stock, securities and advances. The next was Harvey Harruff, who is a SI,OOO poorer, with many others who lost smaller amounts. Not a cent’s worth of insurance was on the plant, so no recourse comes from this line, and every coppei lost is lost. While Indiana has five counties, Blackford, Jay, Wells, Adams and Grant, that produce coal oil in large quantities, and other counties in which the yield is from day to day becoming more important, there are no official state statistics regard ing this factor in the wealth producing industries of Indiana. The state supervisor of oil holds that it is no part of his duties to interest himself iu such statistics, as he deals only with the refined product, and the oils that are inspected under his direction come chiefly from the states of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania. There is onlyone coal oil refinery- iu Indiana—at Whiting. In the supervisor’s report, January 1, 1895, the number of barrels of oil refined at Whiting is given as 65,365, and this is presumably all or nearly all from Indiana wells. In addition to this, a large amount of the Indiana product is refined at Lima, O. The number of barrels refined at Lima in 1894 is given as 123,395, but there is no way here of telling what part of this oil comes from Indiana. Neither is there any account kept of the crude Indiana that finds its way into market.—Ft. Wayne Journal.

The Case drug stock was removed to Geneva the first of the week, being purchased some time ago by Porter & Dietseh for their newbrick business room. I). M. Hensley and wife have a ten pounds daughter which they are mighty proud of. T.ie new addition was born Monday- night, and can kick with as good grace as an old timer. Sunday oceuired the marriage ol B. A. Winans and Miss Emma Fuhrman, both well known school teachers of the county. The Press joins their procession of friends in congratulation. The Alex Ramshire who mysteriously disappeared from Jefferson township, mention of which we made last week, has turned up at Lima, Ohio, safe, sound and sweet smelling. The whyness of st.ch mysterious actions can’t be accounted for by his friends. XV. R. Myers the vegetarian, left a few samples of his early Queen, Wisconsin and Rose potatoes at this office, and if you ever saw- genuine nice looking potatoes, come and take a peep. The seed was gotten from N. Y. last year, and are something new in this part of the country. He has one hundred and twenty five bushels for sale.

C. 11. Ilayword, general manager and special agent, A. J. Abbott, of Chicago, representatives of the merchants experience rating guide | are in the city introducing their methods of protection to the retail dealers. This sytem is in general use. These gentlemen quote ele-' gant references and this system is a much needed one. It will be of interest to our dealers to hear a full explanation of this system. Mr. Abbott is an old time acquaintance of ye editor. Auditor Brandyberry appointed George W. Brown trustee of Kirkland township, in the place of Jonathan Bowers, deceased. The auditor evidently has made a good selection. Mr. Brown was born and raised to manhood in Kirkland township, but lived in this city for a number of years, following his occupation as shoe maker. About two years ago he moved to the farm upon which he was born in Kirkland township, and now resides there. We wish him success iu the administration of his office. The Porter Bank at Geneva has passed from a private institution into a state bank, the change tak ing place the first of the week. They will begin business just asoon as their books, etc., arrive, which will be in a very few days. The capital stock is $45,000, which is owned by many of the monied individuals iu that place. The directors are composed of Judge Studabaker, R. B. Allison and W. 11. Niblick of this city, Chas. I) Portei, A. G. Briggs, S. W, Hale and Dan Pontius. The directors have already elected officers who are A. G. Briggs president, S. W Hale vice-president, Charles D. Porter cashier, and Mr. Ash assistant cashier. Geneva is now ar excellent point for a banking busi ness, ami we hope the new blood revived in the concern will realize the full amount of their anticipation.

At the council meeting Tuesdayevening the council refused to permit B. J. Ter veer to close up the well on Sixth street and decided to keep the same as a public well. It is understood that Mr. Terveer will till up the well. The city- attorney was instructed to investigate whither or not Marshal street east of Front street was ever vacated. The council desires to locate a sewer on Marshal street and to connect with the river at that street. The street committee were instruted to contract with John S. Bowers for all the crushed stone the city- mayuse during 1896 at 90 cents per cubic yard. A resolution was passed ordering a sidewalk along the north side of inlot number 758 owned by Norman Gase, and along that part of outlet number 17 east of Cleveland street, owned by Nirs. Charles Miller. The city attorney was instructed to prepare a resolution ordering brick sidewalks along Seventh street north of Monroe. The dog question was again discussed and then “cussed” and the city attorney- was ordered to have an ordinance ready for passage at the next meeting. A resolution was passed without a dissenting vote to pay city officers their salaries for the current quarter. This was in the nature of a surprise.

NUMBER 50

The Steele’s Park Races. Notwithstanding the extreme hot weather that had been paramount for several days, the opening of Steele’s park and the racing last Friday and Saturday was a success. That is they were a success so far as the numb r of speeders, their time, Ac., were concerned. Their time, of course, were not record breakers, but better, nicer and more satisfactory racing was never stepped ofl any man’s track. They were simply “hot stuff’ if you will permit us to use the terms of the trackmen. The number of people who attended was decidedly slim and discouraging to the projectors of the enterprise, who hoped to come out even, dt has been the desire of a few of our horse men and lovers of fast speed, to make a race meeting an assured thing, but now to look at the matter through , a tin horn, such a fact seems to be among the few impossibilities. If admissions could have been collected from the vast aggregation | who assembled along the west road, past the track, the organization would now have money in their socks, instead of ha\ing to dig, to make good their obligations incurred. But such seems to be the fate lef the race business m Decatur. | People will go elsewhere, spend I many dollars, but at home here they are as silent as the tomb, w hen asked to “thaw.” On Fri- ' day county racing took up the enI tire day. County pace—Red Ben won first 1 place; time 2:39. East Brook King ‘ I second place; time 2:36 Cold Water Lily’ third place; time 2:39. 1 County trot —Maelstrom won 1 first place; time 2:445. Darley I second place; time 2:40. Allen ■ Wilkes third place; time 2:47. ‘ I County 7 run—Daisy first place, ' Prairie Queen second and Belle i ' Fountaine third.

Two-year old mixed—Bob Granger first, Colchin second and Andy third. Free for all trot—Prize won first place; time 2:25J. Hubert second time 2:2" j. Free for all pace—Rhetla Boy first place; time not given. Royal Duke, jun., second place, time not given. Silverone third; time 2:25. Red Elgin fourth; time not given. Free for all run—Bluffton Boy first place; time 52. Hubert second place; time 521. B. Williams third; time 54. Boon Wilson against time, 2:173. There were nine entries in the five mile handicap bicycle race, which was won by Win Runyan of Arbana, Ohio. Lee Heller of Fort Wayne came in second. There are plenty’ of Yagers in this city and county, and if they can trace their lineage to Benjamin Yeager, who emigrated to America from Hamburg, Germany, about 1710, and located in Virginia, they may find thciuse ves heirs to a fortune that is meekly estimated at •150,000,000. Said amount is supposed to be lying in the banks at Hamburg, ready for distribution. It is safe to predict, however, that ■ iianv difficulties would arise, in i he establishment of a relationship, and the expenditure of many dollars would also be involved. Many times ficticious fortunes are paraded by cormorant and unscrupulous people, whe succeed in fleecing unsophisticated people out of all kinds of fees. It may be news to many to know that all claims to personal estates in any of the European countries are void at the end of thirty or forty years, and can not be collected.

The Clover Leaf, (T. St. L. & K. C. R. R.,) will issue special low rate excursion tickets from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois stations east of Charleston for Night Express “Fast Line” No. 5, (where scheduled to stop,) Monday, October 7, and also for Day Express train No. 3, October 7 and 8, account Veiled Prophets Pageant. One fare rates I from all stations, October 7 to 12 inclusive, to St. Louis and return, account the great St. Louis fair. Make early application for sleeping car accommodations for train No. 5, October 7. For further particulars call on nearest agent or address, C. C. Jenkins, Gen. Pass. Agt., Toledo, Ohio. A county seat editor asks for proposals from the merchants of his town to furnish him a pair of socks, a bushel of potatoes and five yards of calico. He says this is the way they do business with him when they want two dollars worth I of job work.