Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1903 — Page 1

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WAR HORROR. English Soldiers Lose Their Lives. SURPRISED BY SOMALIS AND BUTCHERED. Colonel Plunkett and Nine Other Officers Included in List of Dead. Special to the Dally Democrat. S:3O p. m. London, April 23.—The war office here today received a dispatch [from General Manning, commander of the British forces at Somaliland on the eastern coast of Africa telling of the fearful defeat of a column of 220 officers and men under command of Colonel Plunkett by Samalis. All the men were killed except thirtyseven Yaas, blacks. Ten British ■ officers were killed including Col. Plunkett . Colonel Cobbs force is i now surrounded by the Samalis and ] are in grave danger. General Manning is going at onee to his relief. Minneapolis. Minn.; April 2 3. — Nine men were killed here at noon today by the blowing up of the Northwestern Star ’Oil plant. A fierce fin l is now raging and the result is feared. ARE INCONVENIENT. Erie Trains Run at Bad Hours foa Decatur. N. J. Tyndall of Glenmore, Ohio, was a visitor in this city today. Mr. Tyndall came on Wednesday evening over the Erie, but did not finish his work in time to go back this morning. He thus was placed in an awkward position and being unable to get back home over the Erie until tomorrow morning he was obliged to return this noon by the way of Ohio City. This illustrates the inconvenience to the people of Decatur and to those who do business here caused by running the Erie accommodation trains through this place so early in the morning and late in the evening. It was thought tluit a change would be made and the trains run on the old schtxlule but Lima who gets all the benefit from the present system, will not favor the change and it will liardly he made INDIANA STATISTICS. The Agricultural Department at Washington Issues a Report. A statistical report issued by the | dejiartent of agriculture, in Washington. has much to say alxmt Indiana. it will be news to most of our I readers to know that we lead in the j Union in the production of g<x>seborries. Idniana if fifth in the pro- ( duetion of currants, third is black berrteaand fifth is raspberries. In | the production of corn we now rank 1 sixth, while in oats we are tenth. I hi wheat we rank seventh, and in ||M>tatoes we are thirt<*enth. In icherries we rank third and in market gardening we stand in the tenth place. In the production hogs we are fifth, and in cattle we now rank fourteenth, while on sheep we have the twelfth place. In poultry the state ranks seventh and it is sixth . in the production of eggs.

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BIG COIN’S Geneva Masons Entertain Decatur Lodge. The seventeen members of the Decatur lodge of Masons who went to Geneva yesterday say the brothers of that lodge are the only boys on earth when it comes to the art of entertaining. The visitors were met by the reception committee who accompanied them to the lodge room During the afternoon two candidates were steered safely through the mysterious path after which the crowd adjourned to a convenient building where supper was served, and such a feast. Everything in season was on the bill of fare and our hoys indulged in turkey, chicken, ice cream and other dainties until they were blue in the face. After this part of the program they again sought the lodge rooms and two more anxious youths were given the Master degree. The Decatur team did the work on two candidates. The banquet was served by wives and daughters of the Geneva Masons and they certainly did their part well. A midnight luncheon was also served and the event was a real live one. ARRIVES TODAY. The Carroll Elevator to Receive Some New Equipment. The new engine for the Carrolll elevator will arrive today over the Clover Leaf and by Monday the elevator will he opm for the handling of all kinds of grain and to reclean seed oats for the farmers. Mr. Carroll having spent all his life in the management of two farms and the elevator business combined states from experience that if the farmers will pay more attention to the rigid cleaning of their grain before sowing he will guarantee better crops and one-third better quality and for this reason has equipped his elevator with suitable machinery for removing all chess, mustard, weed seed and cockle from wheat, oats, rye or barley. While wheat cheat and Timothy ar<“ of the same family he will give five dollars for a specimen of either growing from the same stool, but a specimen was said to have been found by some western experiment station a | few years ago. — IN COURT. Civil and Probate Business of Today. Daniel A. * Straub vs. Sarah J. Straub, default as to defendant, rule against prosecutor to answer, rule against Dan M Straub to pay into court five dollars for use of prosecuting attorney. In probate court A. J. Miller, guardian for Mary C. Gurtner and three others, filed Ins tinal report as to Sadie Gore nee i Gurtner. and was discharged as to i her. Perry L. Ayers, guardian for Walter B. Ayers, filled court report I funds on hands were ordered paid to j Waiter B. Ayers and tinal report ordered. In the Valera Jackson estate, Kate Baumgartner, administratrix, fib'll her final report and was discliarged. WILL BE CROWDED. Night Sessions of Court May Be Necessary. Court is unusually quiet just now and the business is crowding itself into the last month of the term. The result will lx* that the months of May and June will lie very busy and night sessions may lie necessary to get through. This state of affairs is brought about hy the unavoidable postponement of big cases which were set down for trial last week and this.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1903.

BRICK STREETS. Monroe, Fourth and Sixth to be Paved. DECISIVE ACTION TAKEN IN SIXTH STREET. Survey Ordered on Monroe and Fourth and Committee Appointed to See Property Owners. The ('ity (.’ouncil meet in extra session last evening for the purpose of disposing the street improvement questions which have lately developed. The street committee stated that there had contracted with George E. McKean for his services as city civil engineer and hereafter the public improvements will be under Mr. McKean's supervision. It was then resolved that plans and specifications lx* pnqmred and that a survey be made by the city engineer for the proposed improvements on that part of Monroe street east of Eleventh, on Fourth street and on Sixth street. In the order Mr. McKean is instructed to have his plans embrace a street paved with vitrified brick laid on concrete or loose stone foundation and lined with a sandstone curb. The engineer will in all probabilities have his plans ready by next Tuesday, Mav 5. Mayor Coffee stated that he considered it best to hear from the majority of property holders lx>fore taking any decisive action on these improvements as it was impossible to determine what they wanted and unless that was known it would be useless to attempt to proceed. Teeplethen moved that a committee of two property holders on Monroe street and Fourth streetbe appointed to canvass among the property holders affected and determine just what kind of a street they wanted, lif they wanted any at all. The motion was carried and B. J. Terveer and Dan Erwin will consult the Fourth street people and B. W. Sholty and Al Burdg are to canvass from the river bridge to Eleventh on Monroe street. So now Mr. property-holder it is up to you. When these men come around to you say what you want or what you don’t want and make up your mind to stand by the majority. This plan looks good and the action taken by the council, when in agreement with the findings of these committees, must lx* satisfactory and just. Bids for the construe tion of Sixth street will be called for as soon as the plans are ready, for the majority of property holders have already signified their desire to have it paved and built eighteen feet wide. It was moved and the motion carried, [that if W. P. Robison, the lowest bidder for the stoning of Rugg, Fornax and Thirteenth streets, failed to contract on or lx* fore next Tuesday, that the contract should be reudvertised and sold again. Resolutions of respect to the late City Engineer Knoff were adopted and ordered spread on record. The street commissioner was ordered to put up an electric light line to Krick, Tyndall & company's factory as that concern wants to put in use about 100 lights. The day current question was again considered and the electric light committee was ordered to report on the same next Tuesday. Architect Eugene Christen was ordered to prepare plans for the addition to the electric light power station and after these an 1 finished the city will advertise for bids for its construction, (.'ouncil will meet in regular continuixl session next Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. G W. Daugherty returned home to Geneva this after noon after s]x*nding the morning here.

BOILER ARRIVES. Water Tube Boiler for the City Came Last Night. The large water tube boiler, which was built by the Bass Foundry and Machine company of Fort Wayne for this city arrived here last evening over the Clover Leaf route. It was sent by the way of Bluffton so that it could be unloaded from the T. St. L. & W. railway, as the draymen who have the contract for moving the large “steamer” to’the power sttaion refused to accept it if shipped on any other road Frank Dibble and Frank Teeple have the contract for moving the boiler and will begin work on the same immediately. After once placed in position it will take but a short time to build the walls and lay the grates and it will soon be under roof and ready to steam. With this addition it will lx* possible to develop 540 i horse power at the power station, which is sufficient to force a full amount of water at forty-five pounds pressure and to generate electricity sufficient for a city twice the size of Decatur. The new boiler is the only one of its kind in this city and is so [arranged that the water runs through the tubes instead of the fire going in that direction as is the ease in common or ordinary boilers. THE FASHIONS. A Few Things for the Men to Think About in Dress. Every spring it is solemnly announced that loud shirts and high-turn-down collars are going out of ■ style, but the shirt patterns remain i loud and the turn-down collars reI mains the most popular worn. In madras, ■ percale and such stuff's for i shirtings, it may be said in a general way, the best patterns will be in delicate tones of pink, blue, lavender and tans, with peculiar spot designs. The stripe and line markings, however, are the proper things in flannel goods. In the stiff busomed shirts the fad of having tile busom and cuffs of one color or design and the Ixxly another seems to be getting something of a hold I but conservative folk are still looking upon it rather askance. The ! fashion of having the waistcoat of a different material from the < oat seems to be more popular than ever. Flannel is one of the popular materials for such vests for morning wear and the single breastixl designs are best. A GOOD TIME. Miss Rose Christen Entertained Friends. “ Miss Rose Christen very cleverly entertained the members of the Friday Night club and a few other friends last evening at her home onAdams street and a delightful time is the unanimous verdict of those present. The amusement, progressive jxxlro, was a closely contested series in which Mrs. L. G. Eilinghum won first prize, a beautiful cup and saucer and Miss Ada Springer was lucky enough to secure the booby, a box of Ixjn bons. The refreshments were delicious as advertised and the entire evening a happy one. MEET TONIGHT. Euterpean Club will Hold Regular Meeting. The Euterpean society will meet this evening at the home of Dr. J. S. Coverdale, South Third str«*et. The leaders art 1 Mrs. Morrison, Miss ! Lizzie Peterson and Miss May i Coverdale. An enjoyable as well las profitable meeting is ex]x<cted. The club is flourishing and the members are taking great interest in the work with the result that no little benefit is being derived therefrom. A full attendance is ex]xx*ted at j tonight's meeting.

FROM THE ARMY. John Short Arrives From Ft. Sheridan, 111. Served a Year’s Sentence in the Army Prison for Desertion. John Short, a former Decatur boy whose parents now live in this city, came in today from Ft. Sheridan, Illinois, where he was recently’ discharged from the United States army. He enlisted late in the year 1899 and was placed in the First United States infantry which was then stationed at the Little Rock, Arkansas, barracks. When in his second year of service he deserted and some time later was arrested in Chicago and when tried before a court martial was sentenced for two years imprisonment in the military prison at Ft. Sheridan. He served but a little over one year however asltis sentence was commuted. He states that army life is something to stand and when the opportunity for desertion came he could not resist the flattering offer for freeIdom. Ray Borden,with whom Mr. Short is jx*rsonally acquainted, is now doing time at the Ft. Sheridan prison for the same offense, having ( been sent up for eighteen months. It will be remembered that Borden I was captured in this city a little over two months ago. MAY CONTEST. The Aeportionment Law to be Given a Round in the Courts. The democrats will test the constitutionality of the legislative reapporitonment act of the last general assembly, if the advice of Senator W. H. O’Brien of Lawrenceburg, chairman of the democratic state committee, is followed. He said that he will recommend such a course to the state committee which will lx* called together soon to consider the matter. He said he did not see* how the supreme court, unless farmer decisions were overthrown. coulel sustain the new law, and he asserted that many republicans had admitted privately that the law was unconstitutional. “Why, under the* new law," he said, "to cleet fourteen senators there would lx* 25,000 democrats vote to each senator, while* the republicans woulel elect the rest of the senators with 9,000 republican vote’s to the* senator.” SUBSIDY CARRIED. Bluffton Voles Thirty-Six Thousand Dollars to a Railroad. Harrison township and the city of Bluffton Tuesday’ voted a subsidy of (36,000, the same to be given to the promoters of an electric railway through Bluffton, Pennville Portlanel and Union City. The new road professes to give Bluffton a railroad outlet lx>th to Chicago and (’incin nati. This is the* third attempt to draw blexxl from a turnip anel as I n*e*orde*el above was successful the J last time*. The subsidy carried b.y a margin e>f 293 vote's, plenty large* i enough to show the* tenor of the* i jx*opleu]x>n the question. The* road lis proimse*el to lx* built between Bluffton anel Pennville*yet this year, anel great results are expected from an invasion of this territory by rail. CARD OF THANKS. We* take this means of thanking our many’ friends for their sympathy anel kind assistance* during the* long illness and final death of our wife* and daughter. John It. Parrish, Mr. and Mrs. C. 11 .Baker.

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MRS. PARRISH. Nettie Belle, the only chilel of Charles H. and Sarah Baker, was born in Decatur June 2, 1874, and died in this city April 19, 1903, ageel twenty-eight years, ten months and seventeen days. Her whole life was spent in Decatur, with tins exception of three years the family lived in Winchester. Here she went to school, grew to womanhood, joined the church, was married, suffered and died. She was married to John Parrish September 4, 1895. But soon the wedding bells were muffled and changed to notes of pain and suffering. She was converted under the labors of her Rev. John Greer of precious memory, and was baptized together with her father and mother, and many’ others, March 28, 1886. The records show that she was rweived into full connection injthis church by’ Dr. Stabler in October of the same year. Os this church she has. remained a faithful and consistent member until the call came to the many mansions. To look at the picture of Mrs. Parrish in her earlier life, when she was plump and fair, she seemed the picture of health, and hade fair for a long and healthy’ life. Some ten years ago ill health made her its victim. At times she seemed to improve, and would be very hopeful of a complete recovery, only to have her hopes rudely dashed to earth again. She under went two severe and critical operations, was in the hospital, and had i done all for her that skill, love and I money’ could accomplish. Finally, in her weakened condition, abdominal tuberculosis set in, and after a long decline with unspeakable pain and suffering, most patiently’ borne, she has been exalted to that land where there is no more pain and where the inhabitant thereof shall not say lam sick. A doting father, a devoted mother, a most tender, patient and attentive husband min- | istered to her every want and did | everything possible to diminish her i sufferings. The writer has been ; many’ times to see this sister. With ! her he has prayed often ; with her he has talked many times; and he always found her cheerful and glad to see her friends. While she spoke I freely of her suffering she was not prone to complain, nor to wonder why such lot of j>ain was appointed to her. The |last extended call the writer made upon her they had a long conversation about that land to which they both knew she was hastening, and of which she now knows more than any of us. About a month ago she grew weary of the long struggle, and began to long to I depart and be with Christ which is far better. Her soul struggled within her breast, anxious to be released. When with Brother White we called to s<*e her the day before she departed, we found her perfectly conscious, a wan smile illuminated | her emancipated features in welcome, and almost her first request was a word of prayer. Brother Pontius, at her request, often sang the sweet songs of Zion to her, anil soothed her last days. She knew every’ one, and was fully conscious to the dose, until she exchanged mortality for life. During these last days she often spoke of being with Jesus; she eeased to lament for those she loved, anil committed herself fully to the hands of h< r Maker. Kind, loving and brave above all things, she endured her martyrdom with unflinching courage, and, without doubt, now rejoices according to the years she has been afflicted and the days she has seen evil. I am glad of the assurance that there is one who makes up all things to his children, and although He may render them perfect through suffering, richly repairs every ping of anguish with eternal joy. Who would call her lack today? Lotus, rather, conI gratulatc her that she had such tender ministeries; that love sat by her bedside, and smoothed her pillow. and, lx*st of all. that the love of him who is mighty to save, reigned in her heart. Farewell my ; sister, we shall meet in the mornling. Written by Rev U. G. Hudson. j L.T. Brokaw made a busincfs trip | to Fort Wayne this morning.