Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1903 — Page 1

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JOT IDENTIFIED. I. I Burdick Murderer Not Identified. ■jg Cuban Treaty Landed at the State Department Today. H kl to Daily Democrat. S:3O P. M. Buffalo, N. Y.—Judge Murphy, in H findings in the Burdick case, JeJ ires that the of the |H Serer is not proven by the testiMfr at the inquest. ■ I IgOp to The Daily Democrat, 2:30 p. in. MLshington.D .C. —The ratificathe Cuban reciprocity treaty formerly exchanged today by Hay and Minister Quesada F stare department. The treaty proclaimed until congress REYNOLDS’ COURT Hle-Robison Case Still on Today. Itrte’ Fought Case Before a Mecatur Justice for Several Years. AAgfcl. the insignificant sum of |K'>:i dollars in controversy, Steele, with perhaps a cool thousand, has been for two his rights in Justice Rewold's court. The defendant in tiMJßnit is Isaac Robinson, and the in controversy is not so inUflh the money, which is said to be rent''.! but Willard wants his houß and is willing to spend something! to get possession. Isaac has heefenving in the old Dent property on Wllanl’s land and had a contract to pay six dollars a month in ■idvßc. for the property. He got behinfi according to the owner, alxint! three months and must now move. However, Isaac claims that Willald owes him and his brother. Jasper about two hundred dollars for 141>or, and there you are. The yesterday morning and answ®-s. reply and demurrers were filedßo fast that one could imagine he in a circuit court room. is being tried by jury. iiAIL DEPARTMENT. A Wagoner will Retail Leathand Pyrographic Supplies. lartment for the retailing of for pyrographic work will S opened at the Harrod & *r shoe factory In addihe leather a full line of pyr- ' instruments and accessorvarious materials used in annd artistic work will lx* stodk. Stamped cloth for •try work, embroideried arliirt waist designs, and. in fthng thut goes in the artisvill lx* on sale. At the presi' such articles as can be ere are not handled by the »f this city anti the ladies of EMBBax I( will find the <qx*ning of quite a convenience. 1 'ne room will lx* devoted exclusiveretail trade and is now tin lergoing Honu' repairs which will put itlin shape for the opening vhiclßwill occur sometime next

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IS WORSE. John Butler Very Low With Typhoid Fever. Sheriff Butler received a telephone message last evening from Van Wert stating that the condition of his brother, John, who is ill with typhoid fever, is considerably worse than at any time during his illness. His friends are very much 'alarmed. A brother, Samuel Butler, went to Van Wert today and Albert will probably go over tomorrow. BIG ESTATE. Blackburns Heirs to a Large Fortune. Representatives on Their Wav to Europe to Investigate and Clear Title. The various Blackburns of the United States, including Robert, William and the family of the late Norval Blackburn of this city, are heirs to an English estate valued at 117,000,000. Dr. J. *P. BlackI burn of McKeesport. Pennsylvania, a cousin of our Blackburns, and attorney James Finley of Philadelphia, sailed last week on the Celtic for Euriqx*. their errand being to unlock the estate which has been held by the government for over a hundred years. The case is not a new one by any means, having been in litigation for at least half a century. An old bachelor named Blackburn died intestate in England in about 1800. His brother came to this country shortly aferwards and from them have sprung the families known about here. Several of the heirs live at Fort Wayne, others in Ohio, Pennnsyl vania and Kentucky. Norval and Robert Balekburn had some correspondence concerning the matter thirty years ago and the case has lx*en going on since then. It is believed thut the trip of Dr. Blackburn and his atI torney to Euriqx? will result in the I unlocking of the fortune, and if it I does it will mean a fortune to each | heirs. TO BE REPAIRED. Material for Repairing the Erie Railroad Bridge lias Arrived. Three car loads of structural steel for the Erie railroad bridge over the St. Marys river was received in this city last night. The old bridge will simply be repaiml and strengthened up as the Erie will soon place new and larger locomotives in service and all large bridges must be repaired. The bridge will not be built for a doubletrack and will lx* altered but ' very little. The iron workers will arrive in a short time and begin the job as it will take several months to complete tlie undertaking. Miss Hulda Staler went to Marion today to attend school. AT GENEVA. Dr. Lawrence Hughes will Loeate There. Dr. Lawrence Hughes ha< decided to locate an cilice at Geneva and is having his rooms furnished this week. Dr. Hughes is a splendid young man, well qualified to practice his profession, being a graduate of the Chicago Medical College and he will, no doubt, flourish in Geneva. We wish him all possible

DECATUR, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1903.

FISH STORIES. Major Allison Pens a Few Lines. He Writes His Usual Highly Interesting and Entertaining Letter. Editor Democrat: Birmingham, Ala., March 25,— Having nothing special to do, thought I w-ould give your typesetting machine a job. Well, I left Fogartyville three weeks after my arrival there, simply because there was no fish, no fruit, no fun, and my bottle had become tired, so concluded would change my base of supply, so I took steamer Manatu and started for Tampa, really not knowing where I would light, but after reaching that place, concluded would stop off at Lakeland, thirtytwo miles east, which place we reached about nine o’clock the same day, stopping at the Magnolia hotel and retired to my room at once. The next day I was stirring early as I was anxious to take in the town and surroundings. Laketon is a village of about eleven hundred people and is fairly well built for a Florida town and is noted for its Ix'ing in the heart of a county that raises more strawberries, and of the largest and best quality, of any other in the state of Florida. During my stay they shipped to different parts of the United States on an average of eighty-five crates of eighty boxes each, some of which were remarkably large, five of them filling a quart measure—don’t that make your mouth water ? The town has nine fresh water lakes surrounding it, which are tilled with largemouthed black bass, but owing to the stormy weather I only got out one day and caught fourteen which weighed thirty-two pounds, and had plenty of good strikes in addition, but owing to the large sized minnows failed to land the fish. There are some of the finest orange and grape fruit orchards near Lakeland that I have ever seen in the south, but they know how to value them to people from the north. I seen one that struck my fancy, that had five acres in and hunted up the owner and offered him five thousand dollars for it, but he astonished me by saying that his least price was ten thousand dollars; that knocked the wind out of me and 1 have hardly regained it since. After a two week* sojourn I started north with the intention of going directly to Birmingham, but got into a conversation with a gentleman on the train who convinced me that Hoinasassa on the gulf coast, one hundred miles north of Tampa, was the best and only fishing place in that country, so I got off at a small station culled Donellon and took a short railroad spin twenty-three miles long which ends in the woods at Homosassa, six miles from the gulf of Mexico. I remained there ten days and caught on an average thirty-five fish ix*r day, ranging in weight from one- to nine pounds, which up to that time broke the record. One week after 1 arrived there R. K. Allison, John 8. Bowers and A. G. Briggs put in their appearance and immediately commenced their war on the finny trilx* and when I left then* after guiding them for two days, they were so enthusiastic of the outlook that they (included to remain for several days Ix-fore going into the Manatu river when* they originally intended fishing. I received a jxistal from Rufe dated St. Patrick's Day, saying lie had caught five fish on that date, the smallest weighing eight pounds and the largest twenty-five jxiunds so you see they are having rare Hjxirt. lam expecting them in Birmingham every day on the way home. During my stay in the south the weather was very warm, 75 to ISS degrees, with considerable ruin.

The fruit trees arc all out in bloom and give evidence of a big crop this season. Birmingham is still on the boom, both in a business way as well as in building, and is unquestionably going to be the city of the south. One more of the large steel structure that I spoke of in a former letter about completed and the others progressing slowly on account of the difficulty of excavating for basement, as they have to blast the whole thing, it being rock from the surface. There is a negro to be hung on Friday for highway robbery, the first to suffer that penalty under a new law, recently passed by the legislature for that crime. The weather here is real pleasant and I am enjoying it. Hoping you are having Ix-tter weather in Indiana, with less grip, I am, as ever, Major. A CHANGE. Miss Daily Granted a Leave of Absence from Duties at School. Miss Olive Daily, for three years instructor of Latin and ancient history in the Decatur high schools, will leave next Thursday for Bloomington, where she will enter Indiana University. A leave of absence was recently granted her by the board of trustees and she will now have the opportunity to finish her course of study at that institution. After she has graduated there, which will be in June or July, Miss Dailey will probably enter some eastern school and complete her education in the east. Miss Dailey has been quite a successful and efficient teacher and has aided much in maintaining the standard of excellence which the Deatcur high school is known for. Miss Hathaway a sister of Miss Maud Hathaway, the present English instructor, will take the place left vacant by Miss Dailey's withdrawal, although she will not have the same classes, and a change in the recitations will be made. AN AGREEMENT. Business Houses Are to Be Closed at Eight O’clock. Beginning tomorrow the furniture, dry goods, boot and shoe, and clothing dealers of this city will close their places of business at eight o'clock. The petition to that effect was, after much opposition finally agreed to annd the ruling is now tightly Ixiund by the signatures of the merchants. The terms now agreed upon are that from April Ist to December Ist, except on Saturdays. all stores are to lx? closed at eight o’clock, during the month of Decemlx-r the merchants are at lilx*rty to close when they choose and from January Ist to April Ist. the six o'clock ruling will be in I force. POSTPONED. Touhey and Johnson to Plead Tomorrow. Curt Johnson, who has admitted his guilt ns a for;'*r, and Ed Touhey, were brought into court this morning to answer to the charges jxinding against them. As prosecutor Moran was detained at home on more inqxirtant business, the hearing was |x>st[>oned until tomorrow morning. It is prolxtble that Curt Will plead guilty and exhonorate Touhey. The merchants and clerks at Logansport are at war over a nonagreement as to (he time for closing. The clerks wantixl to close at six o’clock, but were unable to secure two business men to abide by that ruling and the result is that all the business men would not stand for that time. The clerks however, threaten to tic up business if the merchants fail to agree to their demands and a hap]x*ning worse than the barlx-r strike is feared.

CASE ARGUED. Bolds-Shoemaker Question Again in Court. Other Matters Civil and Probate Before Judge Erwin Today. The following business is a record of court doings today: Lewis L. Sadler vs Edward E. Smith et al, plea in abatement struck out, answer filed to amended complaint, cross-complaint filed by Edward and George Smith, rule to reply, rule to answer cross-complaint. A. R. Bell and A. E. Rose vs Geneva and Charles Murray, motion for new trial on written reasons filed. Samantha Cassel vs Joseph D. Beery, additional paragraph to complaint filed. In probate court Paul G. Hooper, administrator of the estate of Almira Hooper, ordered on motion by Jonas Coverdale to make an accounting. Kate Baumgartner, administratrix of the estate of Valera Jackson, fil<*d her report and notice was ordered. During this morning attorneys D. D. Heller, for the plaintiff, and C. J. Lutz and D. E. Smith, for the defendant, argued the case of Otto Bolds vs William and Minerva Shoemaker, the evidence in which was heard last week. This is the case wherein Mr. Bolds seeks to recover the custody of his two little children, who since the death of their mother, have lived with their grand-par-ents. Judge Erwin has the ease under advisement. TWO FIRES. Increased Gas Pressure was the Cause. A home on Nliftman street in the i south part of town was liadly damaged by fire at three o’clock this afternoon. The house was occupied by Mrs. Anna Williams, who works at the mitten factory, and who left the gas fire burning in the cook stove I when she left at noon. The fire was | discovered by John Winans, a neigh- ■ lx>r. The kitchen floor was destroyed | and the rest of the house damaged j considerably by fire and smoke. The (property is owned by Daniel Sprang. A heavy pressure of gas caused a I stove in Mrs. Ada Stevenson's room iin the Studalm er building south of j Ixx'h & Linn's to melt down and set the building on fire at 3:45 this afternoon. -*rs. Stevenson had the ' gas all turned on nt noon, and went to her work, little susjx'cting that the pressure would increase. The stove lx*eame ri d hot and ignited the walls and floor. The buggies which Loch & Linn have in the room Ixdow were hurriedly removed, without sustaining much damage. The fire laddies si on extinguished the flumes upon arrival and no serious loss was suffered. WERE MARRIED THIS AFTERNOON. Jesse Waggoner and Miss Grace Gilbert were married with due ceremony this afternoon at the home of Thomas Trim on Ninth street. 'Squire Smith did the work in a very polished way before the most intimate friends and relatives of the contracting puties. The couple are quite well known in this city, their home being at Monroe (’enter. Mr. and Mrs. Waggoner returned to Monroe this afternoon where they will make their future home. Miss Moran is the latest arrival reports! and she is said to lx* a very stylish and gixxl looking young lady. She weighs eight jxmnds, came this morning and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Moran are as proud a pair as can lx* found in Decatur.

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LOOKS SUSPICIOUS. The Grover Cleveland Western Trip Is Hot Sausage for the Politicians. What is Grover Cleveland up to? Eastern politicians, democrats and republicans alike, are asking the question without getting a satisfactory answer. They hope to have more light after the former president takes his trip to the middle west the last of April. If he is really anxious to lx* regarded as a possibility in connection with the presidency the trip, it is believed, will bring out the fact. The. details of the trip have not yet been made public. They have not all been agreed on. This much is known definitely: The former president is to be one of the speakers at the dedication of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at St. Louis, April 30. He has received a cordial invitation to extend the trip on through Missouri Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado to Denver. Whether he accepts this invitation or not, he will meet the people of a large section iof the middle west in keeping his engagement at St. Louis. OBITUARY. The Life Story of Mrs. Ira Emery. Lacy Ellen Emery, nee Johnson, was born in Union county, Ohio, on the 23r day of October. 1880. When she was but six months of age her parents moved with her to Paulding county, Ohio, locating near Melrose. Fifteen years later the family lived at Mardale, Ohio. Here at the age of about sixteen years the deceased united with the Christian Union church, in which faith she was baptised. She was married to Ira Emery July 3, 1897, and moved with him to Decatur, Indiana, where she died March 28, 1903, at the age of twenty-two years, five months and five days. She leaves to mourn a grief stricken stricken compinion, two small children, a father, sister, three brothers and many other rela fives and friends. Funeral services were conducted from the house Monday morning at ten o’clock by Rev. S. I. Zeichel of the Evangelical j church and the remains taken to Willshire, Ohio, for interment. ALL NEW FADS. A Retrospective View of the Twentieth Century Genius. They’ve madcu wireless telegraph I a horseless carriage too. and there's no way o telling what the mind of Iman cun do. We'll soon lx* eating henless eggs, and drinking cowless milk and wearing clothes of sheepless wixil. or mayhap wormless silk. How would you like at reeless qx-ach, or a piece of hogless ]x»rk? We'd lx? content if they'd invent a kind of workless work. They'll yet make wireless telephones, or maylie noiseless noise, and we're afraid if they keep on they’ll make dadle-x Ixjys. HOME AGAIN. Arthur Hall, who has lx*en conducting a party of land s<*ekers through the southwest for two weeks returned home this morning. He visited nil the leading cities of Okla homa, which are as modern as those of the east and attendi*d a convention of land and immigrant agent at Oklahoma City, at which mos of the states of the Union were (represented. H<* brought with him i some s]x*eimens of the grains raiseil there which are equal to Adams county products in all res|x ets. He was successful in settling two bind buyers near Oklahoma City, and has negotiations ojx'ii for many more. The southwest is undoubtedly a great farming district, and their fai'ilities, such as school advantages, all go to make it the centre of trade in a few years.