Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1896 — Page 1

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■ ' Ib rinan Tettman of <lm ■ \m-ut Whh l "' 1 ' ■ Jkri*"' 1 * ~hy - ■ 1 ., 1( .H01th-"M.X Co., are md M ~ili it !<■« word* on t !••••■l«»t h ■r;.;. * n ‘ ,i >- Rl . pkfks I'.lkhmt thin 9 \ h ' t ' Elide Ben McLaimhlin. 9| J' ls Brvsmi. and cliihln n ■J. Sunday visitor* at Marion, ■ Bryson s »*ter. 9| M,G«i ’ Portland. «a- ■ I'ues. I.iv receipting for -mm B viens county sheriff sale real M e»ta fp * 9 I[„ r v Mies f Grand ItrpnN, ■ u , lh visiting his relatives B hen r 1 s, "" 1;l - v : "" 1 ,1 ”‘ l ' l ‘ l ■ 4 th? »«*• 9 Bros, have transferred ■ ..f their oil diguing apparatus ■ intl.e Willshire field, and will try ■ their lock there. 9 Wilh'iu Hoekeineyer of Bingen. B dipped the coin m th- slot for Mjnother year's cine action of the 9 - ■ y| ; , \V. 1.. Gardener returned 9 b( , m . to It.ipid City. Dakota. l ues 9 (lay. "he had been visiting her 9 pueiits in this city • 9 j> r ,,f tleorge I’, k’iese president 9 ofti.e !'■ itlai.d normal college, died 9 it bi* home in that city last Sun 9 day morning, after one week's ill 9 ues«with typhoid fever. 9 Pastor Horton, of the Presbyter 9 i»« church. Monday evening 9 iinitel io marriage Albert Num h-i---9 and Mat ie \llmts. both of this city . 9 They will go to housekeeping at 9 Os-'ian. ■ Mr and Mrs. John Peterson of 9 Decatur, Ind., will attend the 9 Koh rtson-Ferguson wedding to 9 day and are gues s of Miss Edith 9 Kanns. — Tuesday's Ft. Wayne 9 Journal. 9 Charley Spencer went tot'olnin 9 biat ity last Sunday night, where 9 he will su|>erintend putting in a 9 telephone line. The line in ques--9 tion is one <>f the latest and most 9 improved. H The Eister services at th- vari 9 oils churches in the city Sunday 9 wen- el jiorate in character and 9 pleasing to the auditors. All the 9 churches in the city put forth their 9 bes‘ foot and •iisvlayed themselves 9 very favorably. ■ The store room of Sprang X H True ha* been entirely remodeled ■ ami enlarged. An addition to the ■ room of some twenty feet his Iwen ■ built, the walls and ceiling pa-j ■ pend, the front and wood work I painted, all of which creates a I changed appearance that is marked I in tbe extreme. I Au editor who has experienced I a dragging sensation about tbe j I heels has the following to say : II “When a man goes to church ami I the shingle nail that bolds his I pants fast to his suspenders drops I out and goes rattling down his seat I like a oow bell, and lets his susI pen lors slip around his neck, he I might as well get up and go home,' I for the sermon won’t do him any I good.” I Ervin fi. Whipple was born in I Whitley county, Indiana, July 18, I 1872, and died at his home in DeI catur, Match 31, 1896, age 1 twenI ty-three years, nine months and I thirteen days. There has preceded I him father, two brothers and live I sisters. He leaves mother, throe I brothers and two sisters to mourn. I Funeral services were held at the | tT. I’., church by Ib v. W. 11. I Shepherd pastor, assisted by Rev. E. T. Gregg. The sudden death of Gus Hess ler Sunday night was the means o. many words of surprise and aympathy when the announcement gained circulation Monday mornlng- He was a young, strong, healthy ami vigorous man and the picture of health. He attended all the services at the Catholic church Sunday, was in town all day, only returning late at night. Before going to bed he complained of his throat being sore, but nothing was thought of it. After laying down, he began smothering. The family ’ere called, Dr. Clark sentfor, but before the physician arrived Gus ’as dead, dying from paralysis of the heart. The deceased was thir-ty-six years old, unmarried and a ’ery popular young man. He lived wdh his parents two miles! southwest, of town. The funeral Was held yesterday from the St. Mary’s Catholic church with interment in the St. Joseph cemetery.

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J. 8. Peterson and wife attended the Kobertson-Ferguson wedding Tuesday evening at Fort Wayne. Clem Kennedy and wife of Geneva, were Sunday visitors In the this city, being the guests of Theo dore Kenmsly ami wife. Unde Billy Baughman, postmaster and general hustler at Steele, was in the city Monday looking as pleasant as could be. F. 11. Witte left Hoagland Easter morning and was missing several 1 days. A few practical jokers there have offereda reward of £.50, thinking perhaps he had beeu foully dealt with. Head the new advertisement of Jacob Fullencamp, who will intere t you with some mighty cheap .bargain? in diy gomls, etc. The present stock will be reduced, the prices cut, and that’s money in ym r pocket. The Enquirer correspondent at Muncie Tuesday rejsirted the or ganiz ition of an Indiana base ball league, which includes Muncie, Anderson, Terre Haute, Logans port, Peru, Marion, Union City and Decatur. Marriage license were issued this week to Otto 11. Baker and Sarah Shank, Albert Numbersand .Made Grim, William 11. Gaylor aud Jennie Runyon, John E. Pifer and Lucretia A. Douglass, Curry 8. Pyle ami Minnie Mann. State Insurance Adjuster Me-, Beth of Indianapolis, is in the city making a new rate of insurance for the town. < >ur business men are somewhat worked up over the matter, ami if the right rate isn’t offered a home company may Is* the result. Clark J. Lutz and wife came home Monday from their s uthern trip, b-ing absent just a month to a day. Mrs. Lutz is much improved in health and Clark looks like he might have increased his avoirdu|s>is some tew hundred. They report a tine trip but noplace so good as old Adams. New cases tiled since last week are Jerome B. Carter vs Lucy A. Jones et al, partition. Daniel P. Bolds vs City of Decatur, com plaint for fees and account; demand £ISOO. Tailman Company vs Ira L. Cutting et al, complaint for damages for breach of Isind; demand £6OO. Davis D. Kern vs Elizabeth V. Kern, divorce. A young man in town who is an excellent Webster on the subject, says that when you call upon a young woman don’t sit upon the opposite side of the room for an hour or two until the girl gets weary, but put your around her and hug her until she see stars —it won’t hurt her and it willgoalong niys towards convincing her that you mean what you say. Jury Commissioners Martz and Neptune shook up the box Monday ami drew out the names of Thomaa Moran, of Jefferson township, Jas. D. Stults, of Root, A. B. Baughman, of Bluecreek, John F. Baker, ( if K rkland, Rudolph Schug, of i French, Solomon .doser, of Hart- ■ ford, Jeff Lehman, of Berne, Eli jah Nidlinger, of Union, Jesse Clark, of St. Marys, Andrew Holmes, of Bluecreek," A. B. Daugherty, of Monroe, and David C. Spruuger, of Berne, who will compose the regular petit jury panel. Acord ing to former custom they will not be called into active service until the second week, one week from next Monday. A young man called at our office a few days ago and showed us a work which is being introduced in this county, with a request that we examine it. Weare in a position every day to judge of books, and reading matter, bi t we consider this book, entitle 1 the “Hand book of the United States,” i the best book of t he kind ever issued from the press. It is not history, but a description of our country as it is today, the result of four centuries of progress. H y deals with the past, while this deals I with the present. We have never i before seen anything like it, or its 'equal in quality of paper or charac-1 ter of illustrations for the price i ' asked for it. Every family needs [ just sucUa work, aud every young ! mail and young woman ought to possess a copy. We have ordered | a copy for ourselves, and we would be glad to know that every person in the county who is trying to improve himself, or the minds of his family, had done the same.

DECATUR, INDIANA. THURSDAY, APRIL 9,189«.

Deputy Clerk Lenhart, wife and baby were at Petenmi over Sunday, where they ale all the eggs in the tieighlsuhood, and chused the old hens for a second invoice. Optician Hensley made Monroeville on professional business Tues day, ami succeedisl while there iu fitting several new eyes. Quite likely he will make that point regularly. Dan M. Niblick, jun., is stop plug at the home of Dan M. Niblick and wife. The youngster is an i'leal chip off the old block, and will pr<»ceed to entertain that household from nowon. Auditor-elect Mangold Tuesday morniog reported the birth of a fine baby girl at his home. The new addition s ems to suit all right, if one is to judge by the broad-tracked smile now worn by Mr. Mangold. I. J. Mei-se’s Eister display of fine flowers didn't last long. Everybody seemingly wanted flowers, and he was closed out before every one was supplied. However he is still in the market and will la* found at the old stand all summer. Dost master WeiHt>y reports letters belonii g to Tony H< im, Homer E. Stiaw, Elizabeth Chronister, Lulu Smile}, Mollie Guildice, H. Gay, J. Richaid, Emma Runnels, Charley Niceinoner, 11. 11. Miller, Maggie Harrison, Harriet Townsend. William F. Reinking and J. 11. Blakey, of Union township, Christian Burghalter, of Wabash, William M. Kerr, of Jefferson, John T. Kelley, of Geneva, and W. F. Johnson, of Jefferson, are the se lected grand jurors for the April term of court. They will go to work Monday. Work was begun Tuesday on the excavations for the new business blocks. Four business rooms will he built. Biker & Christen of Decatur, being the contractors for three, while Perry Burk will be in charge of Geo. Hartman’s building. The G. A. R. people are also figuring on a building aud another structure may grace the site of the old hall. —Geneva Herald. The 851 convicts at the prison north had a gala day last Easter Sunday. The menu includes 2,000 sugar i akes, 3,000 apple pies. 200 loa ,-es of bread, 60 pounds of but t< r, 2.5 pounds of coffee, 4,800 s ilt boiled eggs, 250 pounds stewed prunes, 1,200 pickles, 450 pounds roast b(*efand 18 bushels of pota-t<s-s It was the most elab irate Easter spread ever served to the state charges. The Bluffton Press takes a philosophic view of tin- Xray business, and says: Sin e the new discovery in photography, cathode or Xrays, a person’s bones or the dollars in his pockets can be photographed as plainly as his face. \\ hat will In-come of the poor printer whan he has amassed wealth to the amount of asilver dollar, when some one draws a snap shot camera on him ami discovers it! Where is his safety! His clothes or h s flesh is no protection from expos ure of his bon-s or his wealth. Here is an opening for an inventive genius to discover some kind of covering for the body which those rays will not penetrate. After a lingering illness of about nine weeks, Mrs. Mary M. Leming, wife of Jasper Leming, of Jefferson township, died at her home on Monday of last week. Her maiden name was Mary Simpson ami she was born in Darke county, Ohio, February 14, 1845, from where, at the age of eight years, she moved with her parents to Hancock county, Indiana., where her early life was spent. She was married June !», 1872, and lived in ' Hancock county until 1881, when they moved to Adams county where ] ' they have lived ever since. At, an early age she united with the M. P. church, and after her re i moval here she united with tl.el Christian church where she has been a devoted follower of Christ. Her sufferings during her last days were very great but she bore them with patience and so often said “I! am prepared and ready to leave th is world when God sees fit to call I me home.” The funeral services 'wire conducted by Pastor B. F. ' Vaughn, of Decatur, in the Union | church at the Smith’s cemetery. The lovely face of the dead will long be held in remembrance by those who knew and loved the beautiful life of the mother and friend that they laid to rest.

Jacot> Miller of Wabash township, was a cash caller on the Pitixs Monday. He reports the serious illness of his young son, who for several weeks past has been near <leath’s door, and the probabilities are iminent that he i-un not recover. At the M. E. church next Sunday. Sunday school at 9:00 a. in. PrciK’hing nt 10.30; sulss-t “Our Boys.” Class meeting 12:00 m. Junior League at 3:00 p. in. Senior League at 6:30 p. in. Preaching at 7:00 p. iu. Subject “An Ohl Maid.” All are cordially invited. Bolds Bros, were mixed up last Friday in another oil deal, having sold to Knepper it Anderson of Geneva, a one half interest in their lenses and production on the Erank Pontius farm. The lease consisted •>f tour producing wells with fair future prospects. The paid consideration was £5,000. A company <if Portland people have organized an insurance company and will deal with life and accident policies. The headquarters of the company will beat Indianapolis, where J. A. M. Adair will manage the concern. The stockholders in the concern are all Portland people, ami they oxjss-t fruitful returns from the capital invested. A. P. Beatty was here Monday making final arrangements for putting in a telephone office, connecting us with Decatur and Berne. The office will be located in S. W. Hale’s seed Store and Genevaites ••an soon cuss Decatur vocally without any danger of a knockout blow. It will cost from ten to twenty-five cents a “Hello,” however.—Geneva ll< raid. Rev. Hunter Meyers delivered a very practical ami entertaining sermon at the Methodist church last Sunday night. He has just finished a thorough training in college at Boston, ami was given the Anderson circuit by the conference at Richmond last week. The charge is considered a very g<s»d one. Rev. Meyers has thoroughly educated himself aud is fitted to till any charge at any place. The Bon Marcha club loom Monday night was ablaze with social brilliance, it being their first pro gressiye pedro reception after the Lentou season. Around ten tables forty players began the exciting contest for honors. Thirty-two points was played by the head table, after which time was called. Fourteen games was played out of wh eh number the lucky Charles S. Niblick pasted twelve on his stick, and secured for his science ami luck a handsome wall jJcturt, that was decidedly up to date, she playing was exciting all the way through and enjoyed by all who had a finger in the pie. The boys ptotnise to throw open their house (gain the latter part of May. The Fortnightly Literary Club was given a treat by Prof. Dug .n last ihursday evening. The club held its meetingat the Presbyterian church. The subject of the lecture was “The Sideriai Universe,” and it was illustrated by forty-two views from the stereopticon. The pr ifessor’s lecture showed that | considerable thought had been give:: to its preparation. The views consisted of sex oral photoI graphs ot sun spots, and the stellar constellations, such as the “great bear,” the “dipper,” the “milky way,” etc. The lecturer also showed Saturn ami her rings, and Jupiter aud her satellites, as well as some of the most noted comets, (juite a number of photographs of the moon were also exhibited. Some of them were very beautiful, ! and they gave to the audience a very good idea of the surface ot i the moon. The professor showed j himselfto be perfectly familiar with I his subject in the way he answered numerous questions propouimed to ; him by members of the club. The entertainment was one which the members present fully appreciated. The following visitors were present: Mesdames J. T. Merryman jarnl D. G. M. Trout, and Messrs. J. 1). Hale, A. L. DeVilbiss, Jeff. Bryson, Henry Heller, Mat Kirsch, Dr. D. J. Erwinand J. D. Edwards. The Fortnightly Club accepted an ! invitation from the Ladies’ Shakespeare Club to enjoy their hospitality Thursday evening, April 23. The club has secured the services of Judge Edward O’Rourke, of Ft. Wayne, who will early in May deliver before the club a lecture on “Theosophy.”

A great many people took nd • vantage of the excur-ion rates and • took dinner out Sunday. The , People's Restaurant took care of < some forty, while the Burt and • New Meisse fed a soiiiewlnit similar • ntimlwr. The bills of fare were decidedly up to date ami ph-asiug to th<* high tinting tastes of hungr} people on Ivi-ter. An exchan •<• this iv- , jcipe tor breaking boys ot the cig arette habit: “Try bribeiy, per stinsioii or shutting offof his allowi ance. If he remains obdurate use rawhide on raw huh l —welt him until he is ready to hold up his hands and promise to smoke no , more of the little death dealers. ■ If that does not stop him, drown , him, as a drowned boy is better , than one who smokes cigarettes.” The Evangelical conference in 1 session last week, adjourmsl Monday after making the following appointments in the Kendallville district, which includes Decatur. Kendallville, W. Mygrants; Wol- • •Otville. S. Hotfi-lbeil; Waterloo.' D. Zechiel; Edgerton and Hicksville, J. M. Smith: Defiance, 11. , SteiningiT and S. C. Cramer; Urbana, J. Shisips; Payne, P. B. Bushier; Decatur, C. W. Wendell, Berne, J. Hetzger; Fort Recovery, C. W. Pierce; Portland, F. L. Snyder; Markle, S. Zechiel. The last will and testament of Elizalieth Teeple deceased, was : probated at the clerk's office last Friday. By its provisions the husband gets all r<*al and personal . pioperty as long as he may live. ' The realty consists of inlots 121 and 125 in this city. After his ( death the property is to l»e sold ’ and £IOO given to William B. Teeple, £IOO to Laura Westerfield, £IOO to Emma A. Teeple, £IOO to 1 George W. Smith, anil £IOO to I Phillip Smith. The remainder to 1 go to Charles M. Tossing, a nephew of the deceased. John H. Lenhart is the appointed executor. Last Thursday evening the . “girls entertained the b »ys” at a I masquerade party at the home of R. D. Patterson on north Second ( street. At a late hour they departed for their respective homes. Those present were Chalmer Schafer, Dick France, Dick Chr s en, I Lawrence Hughes, Will Dorwin, Bob Miller, Carl Coverdale, Will ‘ Birkley, Arthur Bollman, French • Parrish, Harry Helm. Pearl Cut 1 ting, Norman Lenhart, Carl Fris- ’ toe, Forest Bolds and Perry Ferry and Rolland Laughner of Preble, ■ Blanche R-ynolds, June Merry ! man, Josephene Uongleton, Dilli*(Christen, Harriet Patterson, Lizzie ( Patterson. Tina Allison, Mary My-1 j ers, Bessie Schrock, Fan Devilbiss, Fay and Mabie Edwards, Grace Pattersion, Jennie Hammel, Lizzn- : Patterson, Mary Gillimn, Mamie ’ Long ami Mindwell Case of Mag--1 leyAt the council meeting last Tues day evening the mayor tiled his re port for the quarter ending March, '3l, and the same was referred to j i the finance committee. The report shows that the mayor issued licenses ! ■ representing the sum of £856 paid into the city treasury. J K i Mann presented a petition asking ■ the c miieil to order Thirteenth street opened. The request vvagranted and the city attorney was instructed to prepare a resolution to that effect. A resolution was offered requiring the bricking of the alleys between First ami Second streets running from Monroe to Madison streets, ami between Mad ison and Monroe streets running from First to Second. I pon a vote being taken it was developed that two-thirds of the council did not vote for the resolution, and it was withdrawn. It will be presented ; again next Thursday evening al an adjourned meeting of the council. (The matter of constructing a sewer ! across the land of Ezra Lister was referred to the street commissioner,! j and he was instructed to furnish ' ! tile sufficient to construct the same.! i Also the matter of constructing a a sewer across the lots of W . R. Dorwin was referred to the street I committee with full power to act in the premises. The foliowingelaims were allowed: Journal £7.05, Callender & Patterson £11.20, M. I. Wilcox Cordage & Supply Co., £2.64, Milligan Jackson £l3, J. BFord £63.60, Citizens Telephone Co., £6. J. D. Edwards £213.35, J. F. Mann £78.40, and the street i commmissioner’s pay roll. The matter of planting shade trees in the water works park was referred i to the committeeon public improvement with full power to act.

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TOM FREANG SUICIDES. Tom Freang <li<sl last Saturday a few minutes after twelve o'clock after twenty-four hours of suffering that was agoiiizitig mid torluritig beyond hummi des<*ription. Ho ' has been h noted character nlsnit town fur many years. When sol»er he was honest, upright and industrious, but hard ami constant drinking made him wortbh-ss and at times trilling in the extreme. Something over n year ago he took the gold c in* and for a longtime thereafter led a profound sober life, much to th« Htitisfaction mid gratification <>f his family and friends. But temptation proved too strong for his weakness mid appetite for the fiery fluid, mid again he was a victim following his old habits with more vehemence mid detenu* ination than ever. For several weeks he had been drinking heavily, which wrecked his mind and no doubt framed in gilted letters the one idea of self destruction. Friday about noon he went into lone of our drug stores ami asked for arsenic to kill a dog. He purchased five cents worth, one half ounct. He went directly home, took the powdered sulistance and a little water and drank it all. Not long thereafter he iMu-ame unconscious and displayed sufferings that was pitiful to behold. Drs. Beavers and Costello were summoned, and with the use of a stomach pump succeeded in removing a great portion of the deadly poi«on. But they could not releive him. The arsenic had done its work, burning his tongue, throat, stomach even protruding into the bowels. He regained consciousness, but the constant burning in his throat and stomach was something fearful. He lived until the following day, a few minutes after the noon hour, when he died. From one to three grains of arsenic is a p >isonoiis dose. This make on an average of two grains. Tbe deceased took 240 grains or enough to kill 120 men. His funeral took place Monday morning. The deceased leaves a wife and family, who are now gratefully surrounded by a host of sympathizing friends. The remaining family aie well known and highly resected and have the sympathy of every inhabitant f our city, during this hard I and bitter sorrow. They not only feel the bitb-r pangs of remoise, but they loved tbe husband and father who cherished them when his min 1 was cb arand bright. In an-wcr io a ver} suggestive Eister Egg summons issued by Mr. and Mrs. Dell Locke, of the Burt, a very agreeable mimbi-r < f their friends assembled Saiiiiday evening and thoroughly cnji>}el ih ir hospitality and the pmicipjed amusements indulged in. Those present were W. 11. Kenbh-r and wife, F. M. Sehirme.ie aud wife, D. I*. Bohls nid wife, (’li'it Patterson and wife, D M. H t:»b*y and wife, A. L. Devilbiss and wife, R. K. Allison ami wif-, l>. A'. Beery and wife and I . G. El ingham and wife. Diiiit was servedin four courses that *v is elaborite ami palatab . Ei er decorations werepiofn-e:» ••! b ind- ' some. The souvenirs were a handpainted egg for the ladies ami a rose for tlie gentlemen. Da i B cry captured the capital prize as twing the handsomest and mos sci< n ifie male inhabitant of the party present. Dr. Devilbiss was the cruel victim of misplaced confidence, and has good grounds for a damage suit. The ••veiling was an ideal enjoyable one, and many were the words of praise gratuitously extended to the host and host ss, and many pleasant remembrances of the events of the evening were cherished. The resignation of Assessor Pori ter was handed Auditor BrandyI berry last Thursday, and on ; .Saturday Commissioners Brake and Hobrock met and appoinbd his successor. The new asessor is I Elias Crist, the nominee on our ticket this year. There was no ! personal or ill feeling that brought about the resignation of Mr. Porter, , further than that he didn’t j feel like spending the time the office consumed for the insignficant (salary attached, hence the resignation. He had tilled the office very satisfactory, and has many friends ( who will be surprised at his resignation. Mr. Crist has long been j familiar with the work of the office, and will attend to the various du- ! ties iu his thorough business manner. He tiled a bond of £5,000, which was signed by Johu H. Leuhart aud William Miller.