Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1903 — Page 1

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FOR LIFE. I«r ~ Sentence of Death he he : Commuted. In ze I ke be es J PENAL SERVITUDE FOR at LIFE THE SENTENCE. d, te W ___ n e. in n Col. Arthur Lynch Guilty of High a Treason. at a re Mg % e Fifty-two Insane Women Burned to n Jf Death. h is w Special to the Daily Democrat. 2:30 p. m. London, Jan. 27. —The sentence of ,o death for high treason that was last e <1 Friday pronounced upon Col. Arthur s e Lynch, was today commuted to penal 1. M g servitude for life. o if y London, Jan. 27.—Fifty-two kn en, insane patients, burned to death d ~ in a fire at Colney Patch asylum today. J POOR MABEL. I Q k. The County Jail’s Only Prisoner is a Woman. * Mabel Evans of West Adams street was arrested last evening on a grand jury indictment and in default of bond was taken to jail. It is not probable she can secure bond and will have to remain a prisoner until court convenes next week when she will no doubt plead gudty to her charge and pay whatever fine is assessed. The young lady is a model prisoner and not nearly so much bother and trouble to the sheriff as the average patron of the jail.

OIL OR GAS. Decatur Gentlemen Will Drill Wells on Their Own Land. | Jacob Miller and D. G. M. Trout are getting material ready for a derrick and will eoon have men at work on their farms in Wabash township drilling for oil or gas, the former no doubt preferred. They are the sole owners of the land and have formed • company of their own, being equal partners in the concern and if they strike a producing territory, will have a nice thing in a financial way. Both . are shrewd business men who know how to attend to business including the testing of oil trritory and we wish -them success. “TWO MARRIED MEN." In this age of theatrical produc- • tions plays are as numerous as the au- ■ tumn leaves. Some of them are hap pily designated, others not. To the • former class tielong “Two Married Men.” The play is always received with deep pleasure by an intelligent , assemblage. The story of the play is Vastly interesting and alternately humorous, pathetic, interspersed with high class specialties. Tne moral of “Two Married Men” is worthy of hearty commendation, that form of sin which subdues the mind and the pity which melts the heart, contribi Sues to elevate the moral and spiritual tone of which promises to lx* interpreted by an evenly balanced cast, ami every indication is given that the play will be well received on its preMentation at the opera house, Friday, • January 30th.

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JURY DRAWN. t Twelve Men, Tried and True, are Drawn for Petit Jury. Commissioners Harry R. Moltz and David S. Mauller met at the county clerk’s office this morning and proceeded to frame up the petit jury for the February term of the Adams circuit court. The men chosen are well fitted for their duties, and will deal out justice to one and all. As selected, they are: Jacob Wechter, Blue Creek township; John W. Cowens, Hartford township; Philbert Gase, Union township; Otto Reppert, Kirk land township; Albert Arnold, Kirkland township; James Crozier, Union township; Boston Hoblet, Blue Creek; Albert Spudler, Washington township; J. W. McKean, Washington township; John W. Tabler, Monroe; township; Geo. E. Bunner, St. Marys township, and Thomas S. Perkins, Monroe township. HARD LUCK. A Valuable Colt Peculiarly and Seriously Affected. L. A. W’illiamson has a colt that is about to die from a peculiar cause. Two weeks ago another horse got loose in a stable and bit the colt on the neck in a severe manger. Some attention was paid to theinjdiyat the time b.ut the colt’s neck has been getting worse and is now covered with bad sores. Today Dr. Buckner lanced the abcesses which have formed and it is hoped that the animal’s life can be saved. It is a wellbred horse and one which Mr. Williamson very much desired to develop.—Bluffton Dauner VERY LOW. Young Lady Well Known Here is Near Death. Miss Agnes Reuland is believed to be dying in a hospital at Milwaukee. Miss Reuland is a sister of Mrs. John B. Holthouse and worked at Niblick <k Company's store for several months, leaving here last fall to accept a position in a restaurant at Milwaukee, where she had been before coming here. Shortly after her arrival there she became ill and was taken to the hospital. Complications followed and she has been operated on at two different times. A letter received by friends this morning says that peritonitis has set in and it is fearer! she cannot live longer than a day or two. Her home is at Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. She has many Decatur friends who sincerely hope for her recovery, notwithstanding her present serious condition.

GOOD TIME. The Afternoon Club Enjoy Pleasant Evening with Mrs. Flanders. The Ladies' Afternoon ch b and their husbands were entertained in a most delightful manner last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George G. Flanders. Pedro and a general good time was indulged in by all, and the hours flew by. At cards the first honors were won by Mrs. Reid and Mr. Ellingham and consolations by Mr. Hensley and Mrs. Neptnne. An elegant luncheon in two courses was served, and the hostess did her part well. The guests included Messrs, and Mesdames H. R. Moltz, J. 8. Peterson, D. E. Studabaker, T. M. Reid, A. E. Rose, D. M. Hensley, F. V. Mills, J. W. Tyndall, L. G. El linghatn, J. H. Heller, Mrs. C. E. Ntpsune and Miss Minnie Orvis. INCORPORATING. The Parks Oil Company a Chartered Institution. The Wren Oil company are having a session today completing the details relative to their proper incorporation under the laws of Indiana. The com pany have some territory around Wren, Ohio, with three light producing wells and are getting in shaj>e to push their development as soon as the weather man takes in his sign and hangs up for the winter.

DECATUR, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1903.

WHAT MIGHT BE. Decatur Can Have More Factories. Boosing Bro’s, of Auburn, Indiana, Want a Location. Another manufacturing institution of gigantic proportions and merit to burn, is nosing around for a suitable location and the other trimmings that are usually thrown in. They want a factory building and ground sufficient to carry on their business on a large scale, and if they fulfill their part of the contract to the letter for a period of five years, they expect this factory site to revert to them in fee simple. In addition they want to dispose of at least $25,000 stock in the concern. The principals who want all this are the Boosing Bros, of Auburn, Indiana, and they manufacture corn buskers, which are said to be a veritable success and the best machine of its kind now on the market. It is a new invention, but twelve of them being made last year, but their superiority and other elements of strength, durability and compactness are such favorable elements that great things are predicted for the new invention when. manufactured upon a scale that will thoroughly introduce them to the country. It is hinted, without fear, that not many months after their introduction a force of from one to four hundred skilled mechanics would be .necessary to supply the demand, and that it would grow to be one of the leading factories of its kind. Here is an opportunity for investigation. If some of our moneyed men, who are Buffering for action on their coin that is failing to return them the customary eight per cent., and want a sure thing, now is tfie time to place your money. If it is half as good as it looks, it will pay the business men to turn it over and look for leaks. We need more factories in our business. The only way to get them is to dig down deep in your jeans without showing a yellow streak, and forevery man, woman end child within the.confines of our city to get busy and interested in promoting any business that adds to the growth, stability and future prosperty of Decatur. The natural and other prepossessing ad van tages that is ours by divine right, paves the way for greater things. Let the young and vigorous blood flow. •

THE LOBBY ACT. The Township Trustees Doing Missionary Work. A number of township trustees from the gas belt are in Indianapolis to assist in getting the bill through the general assembly that will create a uniform scale of $2.50 per day of eight hours for teamsters employed in working on the free gravel roads of Indiana. The present bill is confus-' ing and calls for- the payment of either $3 or $2.50 per day in the state. The railroads of Indiana, ■ which pay heavy road tax, have j formed a lobby and are trying to get a bill through making a uniform rate of $3 The trustees claim that thel railroads under the $3 rate can em ploy men to work out their road tax I for $2 to $2.50 per day and thereby save from 16 2-3 to 33 1-3 per cent, which would mean thousands of dollars each year. The bill which is being bitterly fought by the railroads will provide for the payment of the road tax into the county treasuries and it will then be paid to the team-j sters as the work is done. The trus ■ tees' association also desires that the . legislature revise the ditch law, modi- ' fying it so that the contract may be let by the trustees for the construction or cleaning of an entire ditch atone time. Under the present law the ditches are cleaned or hired cleaned by the individual property owners, which method is more expensive and ia unsatisfactory. FROM CALIFORNIA. The Banner Year for the Orange Crop. Railroad officials in California say that there will 22,(XX) and 23,(XX) carloads of oranges shipped from southern California this year and that the fruit is the best ever grown there. It promises to Ire the banner year for California oranges. Unless some unseen disaster comes, it is safe to calculate that at least *15,(XX),(XX) will be put into circulation in southern California.

BEFORE BAUGHMAN. Insurance Men Refer Matters to the Justice Court. Before ’Squire William Baughman this morning, the case of the Ohio Farmers Insurance company vh James 3. Johnson was heard. A half dozen witnesses were examined and Judge Baughman took the matter under advisement until Thursday morning when he will make known his decis ion. The case is a suit on a note; Johnson being a farmer living near Monroe. He took insurance in the Ohio Farmers company last fall and gave his note for same amounting to SIB.BO. Shortly- afterward, it is alleged, another insurance agent came along and told funny stories about the policy and induced him to cancel it and send it in to the company with a demand that his money be returned. The policy was cancelled after it bad run two days and had earned $3.76. i The company, through their agent here, D. E. Scott, then sued to collect the note with five percent interest and ten dollars attorney’s fees. J. W. Teeple appeared for the plaintiff and Schafer Peterson for the defendant. The case will probably go to the circuit court. AT BLUFFTON. District K. P. Meeting will be Held February 25. The district meeting Knights of■ Pythias will be held ■ > this I date being definitely arranged by the district deputy, E. Burt Lenhart, to gether with the Bluffton lodge, at which place the Pythian event will take place. These district meetings are most enjoyable events, especially to those connected with the order; and it is fair to presume that Kekionga lodge will be represented with one of the largest visiting delegations that will be there. A representative from every lodge in the district will be here February 4, next Wednesday, to meet the district deputy and arrange a program for the Bluffton meeting. BUST THE TRUSTS. The Boycott not an Effective Means of -Handling Them. A business man advocates a method of knocking out the trusts. He I woul 1 bnvcoH th«m on every, article they produced. He says there are concerns outside of the trust manufacturing nearly everything and people should buy only such articles. He is mistaken about that. The publisher and printer know that when it comes to paper, envelopes, type and other supplier, they are all strictly trust goods. Anyway the people will I not adopt the proposed plan. There have been illustrations of that in nearly every town that uses kerosene. The handlers of independent oil cut i the price. The Standard comes along with its wagons and goes below the cut. And the people patronize the Standard. That is the reason the boycott will not work. The people will not stand together.

HAND MASHED. Chicago & Erie Engineer Receives Painful Injury. Engineer Bennett, of the Chicago & Erie was quite badly hurt here last evening. He was on train 31 and when they stopped here he proceeded as usual to clean up his engine. While working about the sliding rod his hand become fastened some way and was badly mashed. Dr. Beavers, local physician for the road was called and dressed the injury after which Mr. Bennett was taken to Hunting I ton. It is not believed amputation I will be necessary though the wound ! is a very severe one. PROFOUNDLY GRATEFUL. C. W. Bohnke and family of near Monroe, want to publicly thank their many neighbors and friends for the kindly assistance given them of late. (Jn the seventeenth nf last month fire consumed their household Jgoixls. The good people in that neighbor hood and there is lots of them—cam" proudly to the front and furnished the comforts of life during their great distress. Their thanks is now pro fuse and their gratitude pronounced. |

TOOK POISON. Decatur Woman is in Critical Condition. Ate Poison Tablets and was Unconscious for Forty-eight Hours. A woman known here as Bertha Botthoff, arrived in the city Friday afternoon on the G. R. & I. train from the north. As she attempted to walk from the car she fell and had to be carried out and taken home in the bus. She knew no one, and it was believed she had eaten ttiorphine or some other opiate and would be all right in a few hours. She was taken to the house of her parents on Rugg street, and was entirely unconscious when she got there. A physician was called and administered for her, but she slept until Sunday morning when she partially came to and recognized her father, who was at her bedside. She continued to gain slowly and later told her story. said she was married some weeks ago to a map named Sullivan, and they had been living in Peru. To substantiate this she showed her certificate of marriage. She soid her husband secured a position in St. Louis, and they decided that she should come here for a short time until he could get located, when he was to send for her. On the way here she was seized with a violent headache and suffered terribly. A lady on the train gave her some tablets that she said would cure her, and she had eaten ten of them with the result as told above. When she got off the train here she still held in her hand a number of the tablets and dropped them along on the platform. One of them was picked up and taken to a physician who said it was rank poison. It scarcely seems probably that a person would give poison to a sick woman, and this fact leads many to believe that Bertha attempted suicide. Which theory is correct is not known, but it is true that her condition is still very serious, she having taken a turn for the worse yesterday.

LOST MONEY HERE. Kennaird, the Huntington Suicide was a Plunger. It is known now thai quite a number of Decatur people were acquainted with Robert Kennaried, the traveling man who took an overdose of morphine at Huntington, and by many it is believed that financial troubles brought on by drink and gambling caused him to suicide. He was here about two weeks ago, and after at tending to business stepped into -a bar room where he took several drinks and then got to throwing dice. In a very short time he had lost fortythree dollars. He paid the first three dollars and said he would pay the rest as soon as he could go and get a draft cashed. He showed the fellow the draft, but when he went to get it cashed, failed to return and the bartender will have to present a claim to the estate if ho gets anything. Mr. Kennaird leaves a wife and several children who are heartbroken over the sad affair and who have the sympathy of all who know the circumstances. Kennaird was a capital fellow and a fine business man w ben sober. THREE MORE. The Winchester Smallpox Epidemic Still Raging. If newspaper reparts can be relied upon, three more deaths have occurred at Winchester. Losantsville and Parker City have caught the contagion, but no bad cases have as yet been reported. Out of twenty one cases there have lieen eight deaths, a death rate of 38 2-21 pecent, the highest death rate ever known in Indiana. The disease has existed in the most terrible form and other deaths are likely to occur among the remaining thirteen cases. A strict quarantine has been maintained. CASE WAS FILED. The case of George Haines vs Louisa Haines and others, a suit to set aside and contest the will of the late Simeon Haines, uh announced exclusively in the Daily Democrat, Saturday evening, was filed yesterday in circuit court. The plaintiff will make an effort to prove that Mr Haines wan of unsound mind when the will was made.

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NOTHING IN IT. Preaching the Gospel Not a Lucrative Bnsiness. Elder M. W. Harkins, of. the Anderson Christian church, took the members of his congregation off their feet Sunday, when from the pulpit his intention of quitting the ministry then and there. The an nouncement to many came sudden and startling as a clap of thunder from a clear sky. Elder Harkins .talked plainly and gave the congregation to understand why it is necessary to take this step. “There is no money to be made in preaching the gospel,” he said, "and if I am to have a home for myself and family in my declining days, I will have to engage in some other line of business that will pay better returns.” Elder Harkins declares he has a horror of becoming an old worn out minister, cast aside in his dotage to make room for new material and compelled to catch on somewhere to eke out an existence. The elder figures out that he is now SBOO worse off financially than when he went to Anderson eight years ago. Elder Harkins does not criticise his congregation in this matter. The salary there is as good as paid by any other church in its class, or better, and ho is satisfied he could not improve his condition by resigning from the Anderson church to accept work elsewhere. It is for this reason he has decided to quit the pulpit and turn bis attention to other lines of pursuits. CLUB DANCE. The C. Y. M. S. Club will Give a Grand Ball Tonight. Arrangements are complete for one of the most thoroughly enjoyable dances ever held in the city. The affair will be given by the Catholic Young Men’s Social club at their well arranged rooms tonight, and is looked | forward to by the young society folk with certain thoughts of a great time. I The music will tie furnished by the I Buffalo Harp Orchestra of Fort I \\ ayne, which announcement alone I assures the fact that this part of the program will t>e right. The rooms have been nicely decorated in the club colors and other minor arrange tneuts looked after by the members. A number of guests from surrounding cities are here for the event, and gaity will have full sway tonight. The Buffalo Orchestra has been here before and those who heard them are willing to swear that they have a faculty of making great music. NOT DISTURBED. (•) —————— Adams County Given Her Old Freedom for Legislative Purposes. As introduced in the legislature the reapportionment of the state for leglative purposes gives Adams county a representative and a joint senator with Allen county. This is more suitable so far as this county is concerned, and we hope the legislative majority will be kind enough to not disturb us. The most rank feature of the bill as introduced is the utter disregard manifested for the southern part of the state, where they 1 cut down the democratic representation and kindly gives it to the republican strongholds in the northern part of the state. THE PICTURES. The Colonial Entertainment Pleased the Audience. A packed house greeted the Colonial Moving Picture- show at Bosse’s opera house last evening and the evening was an entertaining and inter esting one for all. The affair was given under the auspices of the Independent Order of Red Men and the proceeds went for charity, a grand purpose. No better entertainment ever visited the city than this and we unhesitatingly recommend it to the people of surrouning cities. Among the features were the acts of Jack and the bean stock, great London fire department, a storm at sea, .the corona tion of King Edward, and others, many of which were comic. These were interspersed with vaudeville performances, including clay modeling and smoke pictures, making in all a great evening's entertainment, en joyed equally by young and old.