Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1903 — Page 1

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WISHING TOUCHES Idub House Nearly Ready 1“ ■ for Occupancy. ‘ I Hi ver. 1 14 and Billiard Tables will be I Arranged by Tomorrow I Evening. ieit HR Bed r R»e mid his workmen are • lay hanging fixtures and ar ail I wt' in - electric lights at the Corner i B.ii Club rooms and this part of ■“ th iincluding finishes will be be completed by tomorrow evening. A 'run the Brunswick pe to president Quinn received this «t ni Irning states that a representa tit of leir factory will arrive here to rrow morning to set up the hi |iard tables. A few pieces of fn fniture delayed in shipment are i ted within a day or two and * th I last of the week at the furthest th t rooms will be at the disposal of th t members. That it is to be a ru gr (at institution for the city, and * too which will outrival anyof the kind in cities of similar in way of social features is by a glance. The rooms :rj nr i well furnished and delightfully ar-angl'd for the entertainment of 41 | members and their friends and mmy a social and happy hour will w nt doubt be spent there by egch all ministers of the city be • iMmrary memliership n, the rd this action will pmhtblv bi at the next regular m>-> ti:u. I K. 0. T. M. ■accabees Take the City j I by Storm. 5J HI L« al Lodge Entertained a Hundred Visitors From Nearbv Towns. (I I I I Knights of the Mu< -:i ls-»— la Id the keys to Decatur today and th are certainly a nice lot of boys. I 1 ■fortv-five members was in ituted hereabout two weeks ago M 1’ G. Smith of Rochester and a* Bl'' ~f the bovs h ive ever seen the & e work performed it was deC b’d to invite lodges from the * M p-hiioritm cities to a grand meet in when about fifteen candidates !' IHI he taken through. The event f * tes place this evening at the Ben ■ fr lodge rooms and many guests V ill witness the doings. Among t rm are Milo Meredith of Wabash, w it Commander of the state and |®f. W. Reploge of Goshen, (treat rd keeper. A team of twentyfrom Warren arrived at noon Jf I from seventy-five to a hundred from Bluffton, Warren and Ihiren will reach here about tven o’clock. If the train is on or any where near the delega will be met at the train by the l<xlge and visitors already headed by the city band. A I teat time is anticipated for this tening and the event will close ith an elaborate banquet. BEN H. SOLD. Last night Dr. Miller disjiosed of s one third interest in the famous ecatur horse, Ben H. Elmer »hnson secured Dr. Miller's intert in the great pacer, the considers >n being ♦335. Ben H. has a tine cord and Dr Clark and Elmer ihnson, his owners, will place him i the grand circuit during the fall

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ATTEND FUNERAL. Decatur People at Portland on Sad Mission. Mrs. D. E. Smith and Mrs. H. T. Gregg went to Portland this morning to attend the funeral of their cousin, Mrs. Charles Holmes which was held from the Methodist church at 2:30 this afternoon. Mrs. Holmes died early Sunday morning. She had been an invalid for a number of years but was able to be about and to do some work. She prepared supper Saturday evening and retired feeling as good as she has for many years. About one o clock she was seized with severe pains and died after an hour of most terrible suffering. She was fortytwo years old. ARE NOW READY Record-Breaking Crowd Expected. New Features for the Great Celebration Here on July Fourth. All preliminaray rrangements were conqieted for the great Fourth lof July eelehraton at a meeting of the Decatur Driving Club, held at A. P. Beatty's office last evening. All members, save one, were present. and a rousing enthusiasm was manifested by everyone. Financial backing was not lacking, and the boys are certainly going to do the thing up right. A parade and horse show that promises to outdo anything ever attempted in this city will form at ten o'clock and march to Steele’s park. Harness races will begin at eleven o'clock, and fat ! purses will be given to the winners, j At last night's meeting, horses were | entered from Fort Wayne. Marion, ; Munice, Van Wert, Warren and ! several other cities. The track will I be in first-class condition, and some standard recordswill surely be shattered. A new feature, a pony race, was added to the program, and a purse of twenty five dollars will be offered for this event. The Geneva band, which became so famous last summer, was employed for the day. Excursion rates will be given on all railroads, and a record breaking crowd is expected. The celebration will close with a brilliant display of fireworks in this city. STORMED CASTLE. James and Bride here Serenaded. Did you awaken last night alxmt twelve o'clock and imagine that a sham hittie. a free-for-all fight, or terrible riot was going on? Well it was only a friendly belling on Mr. and Mrs. James Haefling. The latter newly wedded couple arrived home last evening and began house keeping in their cottage on Fifth street about. About eleven o’clock last evening a crowd of about fifteen, friends of the bride and groom determined to bell them, and they did. They secure cannon firecrackers, we are willing to swear a car load at least, and going to the vicin ity of the Haefling home begau storming the castle. Nearly every one within six blocks of the scene were aroused and rushed out half clothed expecting to sis' a fierce hit tie of some kind and wound up byjoining in the fun. Jimmie was obstinate, but the belters wore obstinater and hung on until 1:30 when Mr. and Mrs. Haefling opened the doors and acknowledged their guests.

DECATUR, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1903.

HAD A CLOSE CALL * —•“ Mrs. Majors Almost Shot This Morning. The Careless Shooter of the Bullet Could Not Be Found. Though, what is presumed to b the carlessness of some boy, Mrs. Dolly- Majors was almost sYiot this morning by a bullet of sufficient calibre to cause serioqs results. Mrs. I Majors, who is the daughter of Shaffer Peterson, was working in the summer kitchen at the home of her father on Tenth street when a gun report was heard, and in an instant the window at the side of her | crashed and a bullet whistled by. j She screamed and the neighbors, having heard the shot, rushed to her side supposing that she had been hit. When it was found that no injury- had been inflicted, they naturaly became incensed over a deed which so near caused an awful happening and turned out to find the culprit. Strange to say no traces of the careless fellow could be found however, and it is thought that he knew what had been done and secreted himself inconsequence. From the appearance of the hole in the window the bullet must hax-e been of thirty-two calibre and it is thought that it was fired by some boy who was hunting pigeons. The people of that part of town west of the G. R. & I. and north of Monroe street are kept in constant fear by the small boys who roam around ' hunting for pigeons with shot guns, j targets, and rifles and it was no doubt one of this set who pulled the trigger today. Arrest has been | threatened time and time again but :it seems to have no effect and the west jend people are determined to prosecute the first fellow who fires a gun within the city limits, and the policy of the west end jx-ople must | lx- agreed with. If they, like the i farmer with the boy- with the apple tree, cannot carry- their argument by throwing grass the stones of law should be resorted to which will give them the protection projier. SHORT SESSION. County Commissioners Make a Little Rocord This Morning. The county- commissioners were in session and appointed A. B. Bailey as justice of the peace in Monroe township, to fill the place of C. E. Albaugh, who tendered his resignation. George W. Gates was appointed superintendent of the Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove macadam road, and will be sworn in as soon as he tiles a bond of ♦SOOO as such official. Bids were o]x>n ed for the furnishing of supplies at the county infirmary. Niblick Go., being awarded the dry goods and groceries, H. A Fristoe, tobacco, and J. D. Hale, coal oil. COUNTY BUSINESS. The County Council in Session This Morning. A special meeting of the countycouncil was held this morning, at which time they- made an approp-. iation of SIOOO for a heating plant at the court house. ♦55.21 to Cuno Kibele, the architect for the county infirmary, and ♦l,lOO for bridges and stone abutments. Another session will Ixi held tomorrow morning, when these appropriations will hi ratified after which the board will adjourn.

CHURCH NEWS. Report of the Zion Dedication and Picnic Announcement. Reports from those who attended the dedication of the new and costly pipe organ at Zion church, Friedheim, Sunday are that it was a grand service, appropriate to the occasion. An immense crowd attended and the sermon was a splen-1 did one. The music, especially pre | pared, was a feature of the day’s program. The annual church picnic will be held at Doehrman's woods near Friedheim next Sunday and a big crowd is expected if the weather is at all favorable. Everyone is invited to attend and bring your friends. HE ANNOUNCES Theodore Shockney, Candidate for Congress. Wants It Understood in Time and Says it Will be a Battle Royal. Theodore Shockney of Union City announced, while in the city yesterday, that he will be a candidate for congress in the eighth district against George W. Cromer. Mr. ] Shockney’s entrance into the field is likely to be a signal for other announcements and at any rate it insures a merry fight for the nomination. Mr. Shockney served with credit in the upper branch of the 1 state legislature and is a party warhorse who has carried the republican banner in season and out of season. When Cromer was still a boy in short pantaloons Shockney was marshaling the republican forces for battle. In part Mr. Shockney said: “The contest for the republican congressional nomination in the Eighth district next year will not be a short one. lam getting into the race early in order to forestall unfair methods and to give my friends all the time they desire in which to perfect our organization. I think there will be other candidates besides Mr. Cromer and myself. M. M. Dunlap and W. A. Kittinger of Anderson are mentioned, and I shall not be surprised if Frank Snyder, one of Portland’s bright and progressive repubican attorneys, should conclude to make the race.” From now on the congressional situation in the Eighth district will be interesting. Last year when Cromer broke the hickbone of George F. McCulloch’s opposition it was predicted that he would have easy sailing on 1904. Since then his extensive violation of the civil service law by levying campaign tribute on the ixjsuil employee lia.-> • vim to light to his discredit, and now, with Theodore Shockney in the field and their candidates in prosjx'ct, it looks as if he will have to tight again to escape being laid on the shelf.—Sentinel. CHOSEN AGAIN. Clark J. Lutz Reappointed Legal Advisor at Berne. Clark J. Lutz has been reapjiointed as attorney for the town of Berne, said appointment being good for one year from date. The appointment is simply a continuationin service of a good lawyer who has in the past demonstrated to Berne’s council his ability to keep their public business transacted within the spirit and letter of law. Mr. Lutz has long experience in this ixirticulur branch of his profession, having acted as county attorney for the past six or seven years, and knows every feature of reform laws, and knows them well.

NEWS FROM SALEM Our Correspondent’s Account of the West. Description of Industries and General Life of the Oregon City. Hotel Benson. Lane County, Oregon, June 16, ’o3.—As stated last week we arrived at Salem on the evening of June 10th. Salem proper I has a population of some 5000, while ! towns adjoining the corporation has 11,500. Efforts have frequently | been made to annex the out-lying j towns, but resulted in tail wagging i the animal. However, at the last i general assembly of the state legislature the dessi ntnig clement were added to the city government under the leognomen of the greater Salem, forming a city of 15,000. We made [a thorough investigation of the city, finding many branches of business to excel cities of like size in the I west; has a flouring mill of 500 I barrels capacity, equipped with modern appliances, propelled with water power; one of the largest saw mills is found here, equipped ! with machinery for hauling the product with far less physical labor than any we have visited in our idol state of Indiana. Her system of water | work? are complete and is propelled I by water and steam power at will; : the electric light works are with the times. We visited the s*raw- | berry canning factory which appeared to us faultless. We were told by the manager that they were not running their full capacity, however, some seventy employes were employed, the stem pickers. I was informed, receive from 10 to 65 ; cents per day, and that in the near future they would double their capacity as the season had just began. The insane and penal institution is also located here and our visit to them was convincing that their management would meet the approval of their superior officers; the former caters to 705 inmates, a falling off of 10 during the last month; the latter caring for 307 inmates, being 7 less than one month past. The inmates are under first class discipline and we were informed that restriction lines had been more closely drawn since the Harry Tracy tragedy had taken place last July. The place was pointed out to us where the out-law had scaled ti.e walls. The state capital as are all the public buildings are sightly and of modern architecture, while the major part of the business and dwellings are in keeping with cities of more pretention. A large number of rural mail delivery routes center here but their equipment is much inferior of Indiana. The capi it.il and government us ulss the j county court house are located on the same plot of ground as part of | which is kept in first class order The people of Salem excel most of the cities in the proimgation of flowers, especially in roses in variety they stand without a rival. The streets in the residence part of the city are greatly neglected, while some of the alleys within gun shot of the State House are fenced in and utilized as private cow pastures. At intervals a hideous noise grates on the ears of the pedestrian, having much the sound of a a power coffee mill, when presently an unsightly object meets your vision that the people have named a street car and by close scrutiny the track will be seen in the grass, managed , by a motorman and conductor who are the same man. It would not bo a matter of extravagance on the part of municipu.l railway company, did they Ix'qucath their rolling stock to some remote Hamlet, say Linn Grove, Ind., and file a denial that they were the donors of the prop Tty. Oregon is surely entitled to the banner for tine timlx-r.

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Here the yellow pine and tamarac are abundant and going to waste for want of railroads and mills. Again the visiting pedestrian is reminded o® the past ages when all cycle sports are permitted on the side walks. Although the sound of tingling to the rear the stranger will not understand its importance, when you are startled, by a sarcastic yell” get out of de way!” And while we never expect to return to moss hack capital we will the day that the bicycle sporting is a matter of the past in the capital city of Oregon. P. Hoffman HORSES ARE SCARCE. Greatest Demand for Them in History of Country. The great demand for horses just now is hinted at in the following from the Washington Post: “I have not known a period when horses were so scarce or so high,” said. T. E. Gilbert, of Cincinnati, lat the hotel Barton. “lam in the i business and have of late been | scouring Kentucky and Ohio with a view of purchasing a good-sized bunch but had very [x>or success. | More people want to buy than sell, and prices are at a point where it is impossible for dealers to make any profits. The country was drained of horse flesh during our war with | Spain, and further depletion was caused by the B<x*r war. It will take several years to make up the I deficiency, and high prices will con- ■ tinue. The automobile craze has ’ had no perceptible effect on the demand for high-class animals, and I do not believe that it will ever get I so violent as to make people indifferent to the delight of sitting behind ’ a pair of high-steppers.” CHILD DEAD. Five-Year-Old Daughter of Charles McKean Died Yesterday. Minnie May McKean, a daughter, I of Charles McKean who lives; near the Washington church south west of the city, died at the home of her ]>arents yesterday morning at ten ; o'clock. The child was five years and eighth months old and her death , resulted from a severe a .ack of pneumonia. The funeral services i will be held tomorrow morning at I ten o’clock from the Methodist church and interment will follow at the Monroe cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. McKean are well known in this city, the former being a son of John W. McKean, and they have the sincere sympathy of Decatur people. JUST FOR FUN. Boy Tried to Wreck Train and Goes to Prison. John Henry Carter a thirteen year | old boy and his mother left Fort Wayne a few days ago for SMiuth Dakota, traveling overland. While j near Baraboo, Wisconsin Sunday John put some rails on the railway track of the North Western to see the train jump just fer fun. An awful wreck and no doubt the loss of many lives was narrowly averted. Young Carter was arrested and tried yesterday at Madison the judge finding him guilty, and sentencing him to prison for eight years. While it is thought the lad did not realize what he was doing he is old enough to and he will have to pay for his act. STREET IMPROVEMENTS Council to Vote on Proposed Improvements. At their reguar meeting tonight the city council will determine whether or not to carry out the proposed of Fourth and Monroe streets. It is prohibit that the improvement will lx l made and contract let at tonight's meeting.