Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 29 April 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

DENIES IT. lussian Government says Reports are False. olcanic Eruption in British Columbia I Causes Much Loss of Life. xl to the Hally Democrat. 8:30 p. tn. Washington, D. C.„ April 29.— pl;. Russian government flatly 'dethe report of her intention to le.---.re exclusive privileges in il.i -huria. » - al to Daily Democrat. i:3O P. M Vancouver, B. C.. April 29.—A r. Jeanie explosion near the town of Frank, in Northwest territory on ine of the Crowsnest Paas railway > rred today killing seventy-five persons. Nodetails. WERE WEDDED. ienry Sorg and Miss Pauline Kintz Were Married Today. Henry Sorg of New Haven. Indi Lna. and Miss Pauline Kintz were 1 tnarried by Father Wilken this! h-rning at nine o'clock. Joe Kintz knd Mr. Sorg. brother of the groom, ! icted as best men, while Mis<eL'lara Kintz and Miss Sirg were the bride’s maids. Immediately after Hie ceremony at the church, the newly wedded couple were driven Ito the home of the bride, at the Henry Kintz farm, three miles west kind two miles south of the city when* li big dinner was served. The festivini s will continue over tonight, which I* the young people's time as the elder people had charge of affairs |r the afteronon. Mr. and Mrs. porg will reside at New Haven and xo attended with *he l>est wishes of the jieople of this county. BURNED BY ACID. Girl Spills Carbolic Acid on Herself. W iunt!s Are Painful, But it is Believed will Not Disfigure Her. \ era Eady, the four year old child pf Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Eady of Tenth street, was quite badly burned with rarlhflic acid yesterday afternoon. The little one had gone over to the home of Mrs. Kinsey, a close neigh l«>r. and when playing in the wood house at that place she discovered the bottle of acid which stood on a low shelf. She reached up and krnblwd the flask and in so doing t iie corrosive poison was spillixl over her forehead, hands and arms. Her cries of pain soon brought assistance and the acid was immediately washed from the afflicted parts. Tin' injury was quite severe but it is thought that no disfigurement of the face will result and tin* parents are thankful that the acid did nothiip]M*n to strike the eyes. HAD AN UGLY FACE. The women of South Mercer stri'et were terrorized last evening by a strange and unknown man who hud a malign look and an evil eye. The police wen* notified and took care of the stranger who was the one armed and crippled character flint lately made an ap]M-arance in this city.

The Daily Democrat.

THEY ENJOYED IT.

Kenyons Tell of the Shakespeare Meeting. Mr. and Mrs, Kenyon attended the closing n*eeption and banquet of the ladies’ Shakespeare Club, at Decatur, Friday evening, which was held at the magnificent new home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan. There were present over one hundred guests and the occasion was one of splendor. All the toasts were delivered by ladies of the club, among whom are some of very fine talent, their speeches all being delivered in excellent form. Mrs. ; Kenyon responded to the toast, | "The Press"and receivedan ovation. The hospitality of the ladies of this ! club is always magnificent, and I good cheer flows with the smooth- j ness of the lines of the immortal' p<M*t for which it is named. While in the city the editor and his wife : were hospitally entertained by Dr. I and Mrs. Holloway. The Decatur 1 Shakespeare club has been in existennee over twenty years and those j who remain faithful members more ! than five years liecome life members, a distinction which Mrs. Kenyon ■ has attained —Redkey Times. GOES TO THE JURY The Reynolds Kidnapping Case is Closed. — Only Small Amount of Evidence is Offered by the Defendant. The attorneys for the state in the Reynolds case exaniint*d only two or three witnesses this morning and rested at nine o’clock. Judge Heller immediately made the statement for the defense and Hulda Loser was the first witness called. She is only ’ twelve years old hut proved a clever witness and an apt scholar. She was followed by John McCarty and I other witnesses for the defendant, none of them being used on the ; stand longer than a few minutes. The defense rested at eleven o'clock, all the evidence being in and the arguments began at once, two hours and a half being alloted to each side. ID. N. Erwin ofiened with a speech ' for the state an<l occupying fortyi five minutes. Schafer Peterson o]s*n<*d the argument for the defendant and was followed by D. B. Erwin and he by Judge Heller. Prosecutor Moran made flu* closing speeih and as we go to press Judge Smith is charging the jury. They will proliably leave a verdict by tomorrow morning and the case will be endisl one way or tin* other. The interest has not been near so keen as at the previous hearing. GLOOMY PROSPECT. Irl Hicks Figures Bad Weather for May. Rev. Irl Hicks, the St. Louis weather prophet predicts that there will Im* frost and chilly weather in the'central parts of the country during the first week of May. He also preilicts much warm weather and that between tlx* tenth and fifteenth of the month there will be dangerous stormsand hail, rain and thunder storms will lie furious ami tornadic. Between the twenty-second and twenty-eighth heavy storms are also pnilicti'il for May “ n<l Ht ]>eri<Mls down|M>urs are cxjM'cted. Rain and hail storms are expected . to announce the coming of May. • The month, us a whole, according to the Rev. Hicks, will Im* one that will bear watching because of the nil merous storms predicted.

DECATUR, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1903.

COUNTY HOSPITALS New Law Makes it Possible to Have One. Other Counties Are Arranging for Such Institutions and So Can We. Counties in this section are now I urging the hospital buildings as I allowed by the recent legislature j and within a few years every county in the state will have su *h an institution. Many people here are urging such a movement and the | physicians all unite in the opinion that it would lx* a great thing for | the town and county. Under the new Indiana law hospitals may Im* established by the county commissioners on petition of citizens or ■otherwise. However, they would no | doubt feel like acting if a petition was presented and this is no doubt I the way to get at it if our people , really want a home for the sick. 1 The act of the legislature is entitled "an act authorizing the establish-J ment and maintenance of hospitals , |by Ixiards of county commissioners' lin their respective comities, either I with or without the aid of hospital | associations and authorizing such boards to receive and accept such aid and donations from them, and providing for the management and control thereof, and the manner of , I raising funds to pay the expense of i same." Whenever the Ixiard is satisfied that there is a demand for such an institution it may provide | for the same by buying grounds i and erecting buildings, the county council to bi* consulted in the ease ' the grounds shall be of the value of ♦I,OOO or more. A governing board '! of eleven members is to have charge of such institutions. In cases where the institution is assisted by hospital associations the associations shall choose four of the board. The act also enables township trustees to provide for the care of county

charges at the hospital and allows patients to be cared for for fees. Two or more counties may also unite in such an enterprise. The provisions of the act are full and explicit. For some time Decatur has bi*en in need of a hospital and there is scarcely a wi*ek that from two to a half dozen go from here to Fort Wayne for treatment Tx*eause they can secure the benefit of hospital nursing. REAL LIFE. Rev. Luckey Tells How He Has the Best of it. Rev. L. W. A. Luckey of Valley Mills, Indiana, was in town paying taxes and attending toother business of imjMirtance. He is still in charge of his church at Indianapolisand his new postoffiee address as stated above is simply significant of the fact that he is now enjoying all the advantages of living in the Capitol City but none of its disadvantages. About a year ago he purchased an eighty acre farm four miles from the city. Shortly afterwards an electric line was built jxist his home making it a most convenient place to live. He removed from the noise and bluster of Indianapolis iilMiut two months ago and now is nicely located at Luckey Stop, us it is known by the street ear ]M*ople, it iM'ing a regular stop. He has a telephone, electric lights and other twentieth century improvements and is enjoying life as he has not done since his Ixiyhixxl happy days. It is only a matter of a few years until the jieoplc who live on it good farm will enjoy more life in a day than the city chap docs in three hundred and sixty-llve and live just as comfortably.

VERY LOW. The Life of Charles Shacklev is Drawing to a Close. Charles Shackley, son of Daniel H. Shackley, was very low today and death seems to Im* hut a question of a few hours. For the past four months or more he has been ; suffering with tuberculosis of the ' hones and the disease has gradually spread until now it affects almost every organ of the body. The trouble started in the bones of the knee and was caused by the concussions received by that member, through a continual kicking of a I heavy swinging door. Mr. Shack- i ley was then employed in a large candy factory, it Chicago and in I passing to and from the cooling' room, which was done many times ! during the day, he was obliged to ! kick open the door. The progress 1 of the disease since he has been at ! home has been very slow and uncertain and at several times it ap]x*ared to have been checked but I slowly it has pervaded the entire system and death now stands as the certain result. DEATH CAME. Ebenezer Roebuck Died Yesterday. The Career of Life Long Citizen of St. Marys Township Ends. Ebenezer Rix*buck, a life long resident of St. Marys township, died yesterday evening at eleven o’clock at his home in Pleasant Mills. Death was due to tuberculosis of the lungs and for over a year jiast he has Is-en fighting against the inroads of that diseasi*. Mr. Rix*buck was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and fought for three years in the federal army under the flag of the Fortieth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was born in St. Marys township in the year IX4O and was during the most of his career engaged in the saw milling business at Pleasant Mills. All who knew the deceased held him in high esteem and he bore an enviable reputation for integrity and gixxl citizenship. A widow and the following children survive their father: Stephen. Albert and Grant of Pleasant Mills. Oscar of Rapids, Michigan, Perry, now with the United States army in rhe Philippines, Mrs. Flora Comer, Miss Daisy and

Miss May of Pleasant Mills. The I funeral will Im* held Friday after- ' 1 noon at the Pleasant Mills Baptist | : church at two o’clock, and the body i 1 will lx* interred at the Pleasant ! 1 Mills cemetery. 1 C. B. L. ENTERTAINS. The Old and Young Alike Spend a Very | Pleasant Evening. * The pedro party given Tuesday night by the ('. B. L. at the C. Y. i M. S. hall was well attends! and the affair was a very pleasant one, the members of the entertaining i committee doing everything in their power to make it it scueess. Pro- , gressive jxxlro, in which Moxdatnes W. H. Niblick and B. J. Terveer among the ladies received first prizes and Miss Anna Martin the Ixxiby nnil B. J. Meilters and Muy Niblick first prizes and ('hurley Ross the consolation among the gentlemen, was the amusement of the earlier part of theevening. Tiring of this i the guests lined up for an old sash ’ ioned quadrille, in which the old and young alike jiarticipated ami 1 to gixxl music they made merry on , the fantastic toe until a timely hour called for their dispersion.

SERIOUS CONDITION I I t I Mrs. Bremerkamp Operated on Last Evening. Physicians Say She Could Not Have Lived Twenty-Four Hours Longer. Mrs. H. H. Bremerkamp, who was ; taken to St. Joseph hospital at Fort | I Wayne .yesterday afternoon, was ' found to Im* in even a more serious condition than she was thought to i be and the physicians decided that | unless an operation was performed | she could not possibly live longer' , than twenty-four hour-. The opera- | tion was made at nine o’clock last | evening by Dr. J. E. M<'Oscar of Fort Wayne, and Dr. D. I). Clark of I j this city and while the crisis will not lx* over for three days it is believed her previous splendid constitution will carry her safely through. ! The operation revealed the fact that she was suffering from an innumerable number of gall stones, one of which was fully as large as a walnut. Besides this she was I bordering on appendicitis and either | ailment would have proven fatal i within a few hours. A telephone I message this morning from Mr. | Bremerkamp said his wife had I rallied from the effft’ects of the ether : and the physicians were hopeful. i Besides her huslwind' son Otto, two I sisters were also with her at the

| time of the operation. Mrs.Bremer Kamp has lx*en sick about ■ three weeks and the trip to the I hospital was made only as a last : resort. WORTH THE GILT. Horses are Bringing a High-Water Price on the Market. The price of gixxl horses is now : quite high. A very ordinary animal will bring 1100 and fancy ones are selling at soaring figures. The present prices did not come all at 'once. They have be<*n increasing i for several years and each fall higher than the preeixling spring. The i reason for high prices for draft i horses this spring is because of the ! scarcity of the horses in the country and because of the inexhaustable : demand for them. It is hard to

find horses for sale in the country and this condition exists over the country. Things in general bring gooil priei*s and things in great demand are paid for in big bills. The I present prices are ex|ieeted to exist I for some time as the country seems so depleted of horses that it | takes several years to supply the del mand. For some years farmers did I not breed their horses much, but at , present they are doing so. SURE CURE. Bee Sting Has Healing Properties for Rheumatism. Many strange cures have Im*i*ii advocatixl for Ixxlily ills, but none Ix'fore from the sting of a lx*e. The idea in itself would suggest great activity on the |>art of the afflicted, for an overturned Im*i* hive will dis]x*l a crowd quicker than any ‘militia. Yet. while the crowd will make a lively effort to leave the scene of excitement, some of thesi* very jxsiplc may Im* suffering from ill disease which a sting or two of the ! busy Ims* might set to rights. Dr. . Louis B. Couch of Nyack, says that > the Ims* sting will benefit rheumatism ■ Itscnnitivc projierties were brought I under his observation accidently 1 and, after an extensive investigation among ]M*ople who say they have I lieen so cured, the doctor sjieuks enthusiastically of his discovery. I l»r. Crouch is a homeopath.

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ASSESSOR’S MEETING. A District Meeting Held at Fort Wayne Yesterday. The Hon. John C. Wingate and the Hon. Parks M. Martin, members of the state tax board, met the assessors of a dozen northeastern counties at Fort Wayne yesterday and spent several hours discussing the new tax laws and the question of equalizing property for taxation. All the assessors had their assessment sheets with them at the request of the commissioners, embodied in the invitations, and most of the time was occupied in comparing these sheets with a view to arriving at a point of equalization. Mr. Winagte and Mr Martin explained that one of the chief purposes of the district gatherings was to get the assessors together with a view of securing a uniform method of making the assessments on real estate This applies particularly to the assessors of adjoining counties, where it is the aim to get the assessments as nearly equal as possible. The entire discussion was chiefly devoted to this end. The assessors had a great many questions to ask, and the tax commissioners conducted a sort of question box seance during most of the afternoon. THE POW WOW. Red Men Meet at the Bluffton Wigwam. Quite a number of Red Men from here were at Bluffton yesterday attending a district council or pow ■ wow and all report a good time. | They were met at the train by the I reception committee and escorted I down street where they mingled i with their brother Indians. Twentyseven hxlges or wigwams as they are known in Red Men language were represented. This city sent i about twenty, Montpelier forty, I Huntington thirty. Van Buren fifteen. and Warren sixty. A number ■ of state officers were present includi ing also F. G. Harrison of Martins- ■ ville. Great Incohonee of the national lodge. A big parade was given last evening, followed by lodge work and a grand banquet which of course was enlivened with toasts by various officers.

DRAWING PLANS. Architect Christen Preparing Drawings for a Depot. Eugene Christen, Decatur’s Clever architect, is busy just now drawing plans for a dejxit to lx* built several hundred miles from here. The new station will be built at Cardwell, Missouri, on th<* Paragould Memphis railway which is owned by the Egg Case Company. The new building is to lie modern and convenient and while not so large us some is to lie a first class building and amply large enough to meet the demands of the thriving city in which it is to be located. The plans will he completed within a week and will no doubt be accepted and the building constru tel at once. Mr. Christen is fast acquiring the reputation of being one of the best architects in this part of Indiana. DROPPED DEAD. Mrs. Collins, a Resident of the South Part of the Couniy, Expires. Mrs. Charles Collins, living five miles east o r Geneva, dropped dead at 0:30 o’clock hist evening from heart trouble. So suddenly did the end come that the family could not. lielieve it possible and Dr. Ward of Geneva, was called but an examination showed that she hud died almost instantly. She bad Iwen in gixxl health and the news was a severe shock to the many who knew her in the south ]mrt of the county. She wusuliout fifty years old we are informed and leaves u husband and family of grown children.