Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. BVIKY EVENING, EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY LEW <3. ELLIISI G=» HAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week I<K By carrier, per year $4 00 By mail, per month 25'* By mall, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents, Advertising rates marie known on application Entered In the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. JHE FIRE FIEND. The fire fiend has been at work and as a result the handsomest bus'ness block in the city is a mass of ruins. The loss will reach SIOO,OOO and falls entirely upon the occupants of the building, Keru, Beeler A Co., and the owners Major R. B. Allison and Judge David Studabaker. This in itself does not measure the enormity of the loss as it means much to the city, and even more to those who today are without a business home. Sympathy for them is being freely expressed, and in the absence of anything more staple it of course, is fully appreciated. We are glad indeed thas in the midst of such misfortune renewed energy is asserting itself. The senior member of Kern, Beeler Ac Co. already makes it known that by October first all trace of disaster will be swept away and they will be open to the public in much the same capacity as they have enjoyed since September 23, 1899. This is the kind of American spirit that has made this nation what it is, and it is the same spirit that will rebuild for this business firm the loss they now sustain. The Democrat ex tends the hand of sympathy, with the hope that the disaster will spur them to the full realization that there is no use “crying over spilt milk.” The landmark was the pride of every citizen of this city as well as every one interested in the welfare of our people. Its presentation today makes everyone sick at heart, but with “our faces to the future” we will bravely and courageously accept tne situation.

HIGHER COURT. Action in Appellate Court on Cases From Here. BOBLETT AND FRITZINGER CASES HAYE A HEARING. Peculiar Action Taken in Bobiett Case—Judge Equally Divided. Adams comity court cases were acted on in both the appellate and supreme court yesterday. In the case of B. W. Quinn vs the Chicago & Erie railway company the action •was peculiar. The case was transferred from the appellate to the supreme court because the judges were evenly divided and no decision could be reached. A Mr. Bobiett, agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was killed by a C. & E. train here several years ago. C. M. King was appointed administrator for his estate and brought suit for damages. Afterwards he left here and B. W. Quinn was made administrator. The ease was tried in the Jay circuit court on change of venue and the estate was victorious, the jury returning a Terdict for fit.-300 damages. There were a number of interrogatories to be answered by the jury, and a big dispute ensued, the case finally being apjiealod. The question is certainly a close one when the six judges are evenly divided. Another case from this county was acted ujxin and the decision of the lower court was aflirnnxl. It was the case of the State ex rel. vs. Erastus Fritz,inger, a paternity proceeding in which the plaintiff was awarded seventy-five dollars damages. This cast- was appealed on a minor question and all expenses in the ease have teen set tied excepting the costs, which now are'on Mr. Fritz! ngor.

m S e "? ral m T OpiGS. A dentist: Perhaps the thing most to be guarded against by dentists is infection When we consider that Thejjnormal over twenty bacteria,'the necessity of preventatives against infection is readily seen. Antiseptic washes should be used, either alcoholic or acid, according as the patient has an alkaline or acid mouth. Bad teeth are prevalent, and it is astonishing to see how many jieople fail in the care of their teeth The jieople must be educated to oral hygiene, and taught to know that food cannot be masticated by diseased and aching teeth. Nasal catarrh and other diseases are traceable to this source. • V A notion dealer: There is an ever increasing demand for pottery, and many novel designs will be iwlced on the market next year. Manufacturers can not supply the dealers’ demand, and there is a eonsequent raise in price. This has induced many retailers to purchase English goods, which accounts for their prevalence at present. Glassware is gradually advancing, and granite and tinware are ascending in price also. The raise m price of steel has caused a consequent advance in price of steel.

A lawyer: The opportunities which presented themselves to lawyers of the last generation, no long- j er exist. Several causes are at work tending to minimize litigation First, the formation of trusts, which do away with potty quarrels and employ one counsel, where hundreds are needed before. Second, I simple and well understood methods of conveying and taxing. Third, ! the absorhition of business from lawyers in large cities, and banks in smaller cities. Fourth, the natural settlement of all questions affecting titles. Fifth, the tending : to organize great legal firms,! whree two or three able men employ i paid assistants. The student should consider the hourly transforming conditions in the legal profession. before starting in his career. MASONS TO BANQUET. Local Lodge will Allen:! Banquet at Van Wert. At Van Wert, Wednesday evening the Masonic lixige will give a feast and banquet, which promises to be an event in Masonic circles. Laxlges from Paulding, Lima. Olina. Willshire and Decatur will be present, and the Van Wert lodge are making great preparations for a glorious time. At least, forty members of the local lodge will attend, leaving hereon the Clover Leaf at 11:50, with only twenty minutes stop over at Ohio City. This morning the Cincinnati and Northern informed members here tliat they would put on a special train, leaving Van Wert shortly after midnight, and connecting with the west bound Erie train which leaves Ohio City at 1:14 a m.

THREE SESSIONS. State Tax Commissioner to be Kept Busy. The State Board of Tax Commis 1 sinners will meet July IS, to hear appeals from the assessments made by the county Ixxirds of review within five days after the sessions 1 of the county Ixxirds adjourn. The state will have three sessions this year on account of the sopten- ’ nial reappraisement of real estate. The first session will be devoted to railroads, telegraph, telephone sleeping ear and pipeline companies. Traction lines will be* first considered in the railroads. The first session will last twenty days. A second session of twenty days beginning August 3, will be devoted to npjx*als from counties and the equal ization of the assessment of real estate. The third session, )x*gining August 25, will last ten days, will Ixi for the final adjustment of mII matters, Porter wanted at the Burt House immediately 143-4 t For Sale A uhaeton in good condition. Inquire at this office. 112tfj

MEET TONIGHT. Council Committee to Contract for Streets. MESSRS. WOODS AND MILLER BUY STEAM ROLLER. Work Will Begin on Monroe and Fourth Streets Within Ten Days. If present arrangements are carried ont a meeting of the city council on improvements will he held at seven o'clock this evening to close the contract and sign up the proper papers with contractors E. Woods and Calvin Miller for the construe 1 tion of brick pavements on Fourth and Monroe streets. If this is done work will begin on grading Fourth street very probably next week, while Monroe street the setting of curbing will begin one week from Monday. Contractors Woods and Miller are at home from Springfield, Ohio where they purchased a monster steam roller, weighing twelve ton or twentyfour thousand pounds. This will be used to grade both streets and means, a saving of time and money and a more satisfactory job. The big roller and a steam engine are combined and are list'd by all first-class contractors in cities. It is known as the Kely steam roller and is the best one made and will arrive August Ist. This delay is caused from the fact that the big machines are only made when ordered. Tlit* brick ]>acements look like a reality and will lx* completed kite this fall.

THE LATEST. Electric Railway Connection Between Chicago and Buffalo. According to the latest news in interurban railroad circles a gigantic scheme is now on foot to connect Chicago and Buffalo, New York, by an electric railway. In order to do this but a consolidation of indejK*ndent lines and those now under construction would have to be made, which is entirely feasible. The promised line will include such cities [as Michigan City, Toledo, Cleveland and Erie, Pennsylvania, which ; would certainly be a {laying route, j A big bunch of eastern capital is behindt he enterprise and if attempted it will be pushed through and the railway will be built under the most improved construction. Through vestibuled sleeping cars will be established which, when they are buried along at the s{x*ed of fifty miles an hour, devoid of clouds of smoke and showers of cinders, is a convenience not to be overlooked by the traveling publlic.

ELECTED PRESIDENT. Bluffton Man is Highly Honored. Hon. Hugh Dougherty received a telegram this afternoon informing him that by a unanimous vote of the delegates at the convention of he National Telephone Association of tin* United States of America he had been selected as president. This is an honor to one of our citizens that came entirely unsolicited. Mr. Dougherty attended the early jxirt of the meeting hut was obliged to return home to attend commencement, at which his daughter graduated with high honors and was not even present when the e’ection was made—Bluffton Banner. SPECIAL MEETING. A special meeting of the Masonic Uxlge will lx* held Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock to confer third degree work upon candidates who desire to accompany the lodge to Van Wert Wednesday evening, where they will lx* txtnquetedand entertained in style. About fifty members will make tin* trip to Ohio.

ARE YOU COMING? Before Monday morning every city and village within a radius of fifty miles will know that Decatur is going to celebrate the Fourth. Men with glaring posters and thousands of hand hills were sent out this morning to Berne. Monroe, Geneva, Portand, Convoy, Dixon, Van Wert, —in fact, all over this and adjoining counties and tin* territory around here will soon be tint* blaze. We art* certainly going to have a crowd. And we have the indisputable assurance that no one will go away dissatisfied. The Driving Club have stopped at nothing and the races will be worth going miles to see.

A COLLISION. Two Deaths and Several Injured at Des Moines. Richmond, Virginia the Scene of a Serious Accident. Everybody will be Here Next Saturday. Special to the Daily Democrat. 2:30 p. ru. Des Moines, lowa, June 27.—’Two dead and five seriously injured is the result of a collision in the j freight yards of the Chicago, Mil j waukee A- St. Paul railroad, between an acemmodation and freight train, early this morning. The , dead are John Erriekson and .Tames Howard of Des Moines. No pas sengers were injured. Special to the Daily Democrat. 2:p. m. Richmond, Virginia. June 27.— Cannon Ball, on the Norfolk & Western, which left here for Norfolk this morning, collided near Pit tsburg with a freight which was standing on the track. Engineer Lee Spaulding and Fireman .1. H. Hoover, were instantly killed anil others of the crew seriously injured. ELECTION ON. St. Marys Township Having a Macadam Road Election Today. The Macadam road election in St. Marys township is on today, and as a result there is much doing. The proposition submitted to a vote carries two roads to be known as the north and south St. Marys macadam roads. Those favorable to the proposition are working with considerabe earnestness and they yjope to carry the day. A telephore message about three o’clock stated that the Pleasant Mills end of the eon troversy would give the rdaJ a handsome vote, but that much controversy existed across the river and the result there is in doubt. When both precincts are footed it is thought it will show a slight majority. although this fact is only conjecture. BIG INCREASE. City Made Gain of $2,700 in Electric Light Rentals. City Treasurer Archbold has made a report of business transacted) In his office for the past year, and the gain of money collected for electric lights is marvelous, amounting to over $2700 more than the amount collected last year. The advance in reeiepts is accounted for 1 from the fact that there are many Imore lights in use than ever before) and the systm of collecting bus j been changed so as to makes it more thorough. Tin* reports sjiealj well for Mr. ArehlKtld, who is a careful, thorough and painstaking /officer. I

GO WEST! ,00 000 Acres for Sale in Nebraska, N. Dakota, Montana and Washington. Adapted to general farming, fruit growing and grazing. IMPROVED and UNIMPROVED. Healthy climate; convenient to schools and churches. EXCEL LENT RAILROAD FACILITIES and good markets Low rate railroad fare to prospective purchasers, either one way or round trip. I also have a few rare bargains in ILLINOIS FARMS. For further information call on or address F. M. Schirmever I DECATUR, INDIANA. ■ '""l/W HAPPEN TO yOuN^'^ 1 So always keep in your home, office, m {/ 6hop, and factory, a bottle of Paracamptt FIRST AID TO THE INJURED The only sure, quick relieving and healing remedy j for Burns, Cuts, Bruises, Swellings, Inflammations, J and all hurts. Paracamph will give you more satI isfaction than any external remedy you ever used. •31 If it fails your money will be refunded. So try it. Excellent for Chapped Hand-*, and for use after Shaving. it all Cniuist*. 25c., 50c.. and SI.OO Bottle* t.,i - J . UM.UWUK oru* co„ on-alur.

BOER AMUSEMENTS. among Thrill Are Pole Climbing, Ax Throning nnil Spade Karin*. The Boor Is a firm lx*Hover in the advantage of exercise, though his ways are not ours. One favorite form is pole cliuibiug. This consists of having one arm tied behind the back and swarming to the top of the ]x>le with the aid of the legs and the free arm. It sounds simple, but it is not half so simple us it seems. Another exercise Is throwing the hatchet or ax. to be more correct. Au ordinary wood chopping ax is tis.il for this. This is swung round the head until it readies a diffident momentum, when it is released. The man who throws the farthest does not of neccssl t.v win. as it is necessary that the blade should bury itself in the earth on reaching its destination. It requires a considerable amount of skill to accomplish this. Another kind of amusement is spade radng. The men stand with one foot on either side of an ordinary spade grasping the top of the handle‘lietween the hands At the signal they start forward by a series of Jumps, if a man s foot leaves its proper ph.ee he Is disqualified. There Is no more se vere strain on the muscles of the leg than this. The distance for sud. tt ra.v as this is generally twenty pa.-os lhe Bix*r Is gifted with wonderful endurance. At long distances he could ho d his own with any. hut he would not s and any chance with our men at •peed a " *** ltt ‘ kK th# necessary How He Gal H. mcmi^,r t L^' J tnfo ™ > * saHSttFiEss your railroad fare, didn't ir >OU halr I believe you did ” oi'ir.js'r*.**,'" “"«» C oine doner” xvhitiiis.w $ . ni tHI you how i, ia 7. "•■Hi washing done m h0,,,.** ir h#<l “** Journal. ~ K »n*as city

ROY ARCHBOLD, UFNTIST I. O. O. F. BLOCK. Phene ' Office. 164. eoe i Kef.deooe «S. NOTICE TO ELECTRIC LIGHT CONSUMERS. The ordinance of the City controling the use of electric lights has a penal section, providing|for imposing a fine for making any changes, either in the wires or lights used, or in any way meddling with the appliances of the Lighting Plant. All persons are hereby warned, not to make any change of lights, or wires, or appliances, or connections herewith without written permission from the superintendant of the Lighting plant, as such persons will certainly be prosecuted, tor such violation of the ordinance, H. C. STETLER. Chairman, Electric Light Committee. 1 ———— Nrr 111 fir Joke. "Henry.” tbe eiduimed n» be botne t 0 dinner. "1 board somethin* tW morning that opened uiy eye* ” "Wut was itt" be demanded e ,o!t ’ i "The alarm clock "-Scrap*. | ' I »o Hr far!* 4ru«nd. Ethel -(jrncloui. Main*!. wb,f d# I Uc# *o uwfull) whenever Cholly f ’ * lk come* around! Mabel-Ob. tha poor fallow’* »r» “ *• abort. Swart Sac