Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

EVIDENCE IN. Big Geneva Case Closed at Noon. Will Not Be Argued Until Next Tuesday—Witnesses Not all Used. The haebus corpus’ case which looked as though it would ocupcy the rest of the week closed today just lx*fore noon. Only about half the witnesses were examined and most of these were on the stand’. mly a few minutes. The plaintiff in tnxlueed thirty-five and the defense about fifteen. The case was closed shortly before eleven o'clock this niornning and Judge Erwin set next Tuesday morning at nine o'ehx-k as the time for arguing the case. thus giving the attorneys an opportunity to look up the law questions involved. No other business of importance was transacted today as there was no session this afternoon. Tom Shannon, who is serving a jail sentence of about forty days was in court today and was used as a witness in the Bol.ls-Shoemaker ease. The Geneva jxxiple returned home this afternoon. HAS RESIGNED. Miss Daily Will Complete Her College Wort. Miss Olive Dailey, instructor of Latin and history in the Decatur high school, has resigned her position and will leave next week for Bloomington. Indiana, where she will complete her course of study in the State University. Her place here is to be taken by Miss Hathaway, sister of the English innstruetor. Miss Dailey is a splendid teacher and her work here has been very satisfactory.

FINED HIM. Geneva Man Pays Good for His Fun. Sherman Lee, an oil worker from Geneva, who has Imhti here as a witness in the Bolds Shoemaker ease was enjoying himself yesterday afternoon and took on too heavy a lad. He was arrested and placed >n jail until this morning when he appeared before 'Squire .Tames H Smith and plead guilty to a charge of "plain drunk.” He was fin.sltwo dollars and costs which totaled up the sum of 113.90.

A MISSIONHRY. Mrs. McGrew to Visit Decatur at an tarty Date. The ladies of the Presbyterian •’hnreh are making arrangements for Mrs. MeGraw, a sjx'aker of unusual brilliancy, to deliver an address in this city. Mrs. McGraw has sjwnt almost all of her life ns u niissionary among tde Indians of I he west and is thoroughly eonqxtent to discuss all the interesting facts concerning the red man's life. *he ladies will also arrange for a missionary t,xi to lie held at the parsonage on the same evening. GESSINGER IS BETTER. David Gessinger, who was hurt while attempting tollhoe a vicious horse is somewhat better. He can get around a little on crutches but it will be some time Ix’fore he will able to leave the house.

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OFFER INDUCEMENTS. Boost a Little by Bringing Trade to Town. No town will become a good business center so long at she majority of its business men rely upon a few niPrehuntsl to make the effort to bring trade to town. Too often the men in a lew lines of trade are about the only onw that reach out after Custom. Other inwvhttufe wait until these business men in duct* the people in town and content themselves with the trade that naturally drifts to their places. A public spirited man should ask himself if he is doing his part to attract people to come to town. He may be holding his trade well and even by fair dealings and popular ways getting his full share of the trade that naturally belongs to tqe place, but he is not doing his part as a memlier of the business community if he is not helping to extend the business of the town. Any merchant who induces the people to come t<> town to trade is helping the entire business community and no town is a success unless all lines are working to extend th.* trade as far as jxissible and trying to bring a larger territory in the circle in’whieh the town is the business center.

BY APPORTIONMENT. Regular Army Officer to Supervise State Militia. Under the new militia law the secretary of war is authorized to appoint regular army officers to’reside at the capital of each state and supervise the state militia, which under the law. becomes a part of the regular army establishment. The governor of each state must submit a re quest for such an officer and he is jiermitted to make a recommendation for the place. It is exix*cted that ordinarily the secretary of war will apjxiint the man the governor recommends. The appointee may lx* a resident of the state in which he is to serve or he may lx* detached from the regular army without reference to the state from which he hails. It is expected that jhe appointment for Indiana will soon be made.

UNIQUE POSTERS. Show Has Startling Announcement. The ‘"Tracey, the Outlaw” show, which is billed to appear here in a few days, have posted their first advertising display and the same is attracting no little attention. It is a half page sheet at the top of which in large type apjiear these attractive words: "$6,000 reward. The bill goes on to relate that Tracey, the famous outlaw, who was supposed to have committed suicide, is still alive and coming east; that he is exjx'ch'd to arrive in Decatur in a few days. Al Fristoe says "if h( f Is around me I'll run him up stairs, lock the door and holler for the police.

WILL ENTERTAIN. Bankers to Enjoy Dinner at Studabaker's. Judge and Mrs. David Studaliaker will entertain the Old Adams Coun tv Bank force at a six o clock dinner this evening at their beautiful oountrv home just east of town. The guest* will be Mr. and Mrs. W. H Niblick, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. \llison, Mr. and Mrs. French Quinn Mr and Mrs. C. 8. Niblick, Miss Agnes Schrock, Frank Wemhoff and Jesse Niblick. The event will certainly proven most beautiful one.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1903

SOME BETTER. Frank Durkins Stood the Operation Well. Will Not be Out of Danger for a Day or Two Says His Physician, - u Frank Durkins, who was operated on yesterday for ap]x*ndicitis by Dr. Rosenthal of Fort Wayne, is slightly improved, it being too soon yet of course*., to notice any very great change. As stated yesterday the operation was performed about one o'clock and he rallied from the effects of the ether about six last evening. He was suffering so much, however, that it was necessary to give him morphine. Mrs. Durkin and Miss Durkin returned home at midnight. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Corbett went Jto ,Fort’ Wayne this morning returning at noon and . they report Frank doing as well as I could be expected. The danger in these cases usually continues for three days and the friends will not feel safe by any means until after tomorrow. WILL WED. Miss Richards to Marry This Evening. Miss Edith Richards left at noon over the Clover Leaf for Toledo where she met her affianced husliand and will go with him to the home of her parents, where the wedding will occur this evening. The gnxnn is Mr. Dow. a New York traveling salesman and they will make their future homein Georgia. Miss Richards has lx*en employed in the central office of the E. L. Carroll Grin conqiany and though she has resided here but a few months, is quite p< .pular. Arrangements had lx*en made to have the ceremony performed here but Miss Richard's parents insisted on her coming home and she made up her mind to do so yesi terday.

SURVEY IS ON. Springfield, Fort Wayne Electric Line is Being Surveyed Through Here. Surveyor George McKean and a jiarty of men representing the Springfield electric line, startl'd out on an alignment survey this morning and worked north from this city. The proposed road runs through Monmouth and the surveyors had gone as far as the Adam Smith farm at noon and will proliably reach Monmouth by this evening. No grade stakes were set and merely the right of way staked off, which is bounded by a line thirty-five feet from the center of the road. Surveyor McKean will do all the surveying in this county and it will take a few days before his work will have been completed. NEW CASE. Allen County Suit Brought Here on Change of Venue. A suit in which the amount in controversary is only fifty dollars and in which the costs will no doubt exceed that amount was filed in circuit corut this morning, lining brought here on change of venue from Allen county. The suit is ontifled Buhoo At Meyers vs. William Pothoff, Kliz'ilieth Pothoff, Martin H. Aukenbruck.M ary Aukenbruek mechanics lien, demand SSO,

SURE THINGS. The Graft as Worked Upon the Innocent and Unsuspecting Public, A man who answered advertisements in cheap story papers had some interestinng experiences, says an exchange. He learned that by sending $1 to a yankee he could get a cure for drunkeness. Sure enough he did. It was “to take the pledge and keep it.” Later he he sent fifty two cent stamps to find out how to raise turnips successfully. He found out—"‘Just take hold of the tops a’ul pull.” Being young he wished to marry, and sent thirty-four one cent stamps to a Chicago firm for imformation as to how to make an impression. When the answer came it read, “sit down in a pan of dough." It was a little rough but he was patient and thought he would yet succeed. The next advertisement ho answered read. "How to double your money in six months.” He was told to convert his silver, gold, copper and nickel pieces into hills fold them and he would see double his money. Next he sent for twelve household articles and got a package of needles. He was slow to learn so he sent $ 1 to find out how to get rich quick. The answer said, “work like the devil and never spend a cent." And that stopjx*d him but his brother wrote io find out how to write a letter without jx*n or ink. He was told to use a pencil. He paid $1 to learn how to live without work I and was told on a postal card to "fish for suckers as we do.”

INDICTED. Union City School Board Up on the Carpet. The Randolph county grand jury has returned an indictment against the school board of Union City, charging the members with misdemeanor. The board is comjiosed of Theodore Shockney, Dr. William Commons and J. F. Rubey, cashier of the Commercial National Bank. There was a smallpox epidemic at Winchester some time ago and after it subsided the county Ixiard of health issued an order to all township trustees to see that all school children were vaccinated or prevent them from attending school until they complied with the order. All district schools closed several weeks before the regular time. The board of health of Union City decided that since there was no smallpox here, there was no need of compulsory vaccination, and the school board did not enforce the order of the county board. The school lioard has engaged attorneys and will contest the indictment.

SEASON NO GOOD. The Weather Has Been a Handicap to Maple Syrup. The maple syrup season is ]>actically over, and the owners of the camps say that the weather has not been favorable for the running of sap. They’ complain that there has been too much warm weather with no cold nights. Sugar water runs best when there is a aeries of thaws and freezes There has been no freezing weather for more than a fortnight, and as a result the sap has almost Htopjiod running. It is stated thiat despite the shortage, the wbateri s exceptionally sweet, and is making an exclelent grade of wax." There is always a great demand for country made maple syrup, but this year the supply will not lx> equal to it, and as a result prices will lie raised. The syrup generally sells for 11.55 a gallon. Merchants and private parties have Ixien offering 11.50, but they are unable to get as much as they can use at that price.

THE LECTURE Dr. Willets at the Opera House. The Event of a Lifetime to Hear This Famous King of the Platform. Our citizens will tonight have tlul opportunity to listen to the greatest grandest lecturer of the present day. .An old man in yours, he is still vigorous in mind and thought and the Endeavor society, under whose auspices the lecture is given may feel safe in guaranteeing the event as one with which everyone who attends will feel more than satisfied. He has chosen for his subject his best lecture, “Sunshine” and we know that the many who listen to him will lx* glad they are living while he talks. Dr. Willets is classed with the old school of platform kings and is the last of the grand old class which helped to make the past century famous. It is siad of him that during the last forty years he has delivered mon* lectures than anyone now in America. NEW DEVICE. Hav Tedder That will be Put Out This Year. A manufacturing concern at. St. Paris, Ohio, arranging to put a novel device in the way of a hay tedder on the market this spring, the merits of which can be readily seen by the enterprising farmer. The machine is attached to the mower and the last swath is being tedded as the next is cut. In this Way the sun affects the hay more intensely from the moment it is cut and a considerable amount of labor is saved to the farmer. The machine promises to have a large demand, both on account of its simpleness of device, its labor saving powers and lx*ing much less expensive than any other kind. CLAIMS INNOCENCE. — Rader Savs He Sold His Own Horses.

Irvin Rader of DeKalb county, who is now doing time in the state penitentiary for selling stolen property, wriites the Garret Clipper and wishes that jiaper to tell the people of his innocence. It will be remembered that John Weber of Fort Wayne, who formerly lived here, was charged with receiving the stoleen horses and that there is an indictment for that offense nowpending against him. In this particular letter Mr. Rader states thta the horses were not his wife's, but his own, and that her action was but a scheme to put him out of the way anti thus gain possession of his jiersona projM'rty. He cited for in stance where she would profit and told of 11.000 worth of crops that fell into her handds. He further state that his wife has throe living husliands, one of whom she divorced in two yeras, one in three months, ami he, Radon, hung on for eleven years and she had him sent to the jx'nitontiary. Mr. Radon thinks his imprisonment an outrage and in discussing the jurv which sentenced him, he says, “that every living man with the sense of a monkey, could see that I really’ own ed the horses which 1 was charged with stealing."He claims that there was undue prejudice shown in the jury decision.

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CHURCH POLITICS. Methodist Talk of Their New Bishop, Although the quadrennial Methodist conference is fourteen months off, Methodist politics is already , lively. Interest centers, of course about the elevation to the episcopacy. Much depends upon the number of new bishops to be chosen. Os that each general conference is the sole judge. This yearw hen the general conference meets utL os Angeles, it, is believed that not fewer thunntj four will be recommended to be elected for tile church exclusive of any that may lx* named for service in the foreign field. Methodist opinion seems to agree in putting the name of the Rev. Dr. W. F. McDowall at the head of the probable list. Hi* is secretary of the education society which fosters theological and secular education among Methodists and especially renders assistance by a system of money loans to students. Next is Chancellor Day of Syracuse University. His institution is at the head of everything that raised money in the twentieth century fund scheme. On the list, also arc the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. B<*er of Chicago, and the Rev. Dr. Henry Spellmeyer of Newark. The Rev. Dr. Berry is the editor of the young ; peoples paper of a large congregation. The Rev. Dr. Berry was I mentioned three years ago. DAY CURRENT. Chances Are Thai None will be Started This Year. A day current from the city's electric light plant has often been talked of and as the time approaches for the use of electric fans the subject is again discussed. Conservatively speaking Decatur will not have this year the advantages of a day current of electricity. A number of councilmen were seen yesterday and they explained the probabilities and the exact condition jof affairs weighing on that ques- | tion. In order to install a day J current, although not absolutely necessary, it would lx* bset to place a lighter engine to drive the dynaj mos. The question then arises will the patronage justify the expense thus incurred in adding additional equipment to the power plant. The general opinion is that it will not ■ and the action of the city council is I thus predetermined. If this city i had a number of mannufactories ' that would use electricity as a motive power the chances for a day i current would assume different pro- | portions, but as it is, it is hardly hxissible for it to come this year.

IN THE OIL FIELD. Prospects Bright for an Early Rise in the Famous Crude. The prospects of an early rise in the crude oil market is now a favorite theme among ojx-rators, as conditions in every resjieet are fast gaining in strength. January February and March saw a great reduction in stocks, production decreasing at the same rate, but now operations can be, carried on without encountering so many severe weather conditions and at a much less exjiense. It is a jxisitivo certainty that when the roads get Ix-tter ao as to jx’rmit of heavy hauling there will he wonderful activity. Should no new pools be discovered, the wells which will lx> completed before July’ 1 will add enormously to the oil output While there have Ix-en no heavy strikes within the week, several goixl wells came in, and the numlx'r of dry holes encountered was at the minimum. Ohio and Indiana finished up lacking two of one hundred and of that nuniler but six were failures four being dry holess and two salt, water wells.