Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

ADJUSTERS HERE

The Big Safe Opened Last Night.

INSURANCE SSBOOO — Kern, Beeler & Co. Employ Adjusters. Represented by Joseph Fish Co., of Chicago. Who Say Loss Will be Settled Tomorrow. Joseph Fish aud Charles Wholle-1 ben of the firm of Joseph Fish <SCompany of Chicago arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and are busy arranging matters for adjust-' meat of the loss of the recent fire. They represent the interests of Kern, Beeler & Co. ,and will remain here I until the insurance affairs are completely settled. This is their business. adjusting for the assured and they are considered the best posted men in their line in the west. They will settle all difficulties and thus save Kern, Beeler & Co., a great deal of worry and work. They are thoroughly posted on the Big Store fire, have learned the details, been : over the scene and are ready to meet the insurance men at any time, in fact the sooner the better it will suit them. Their first move was to open the big safe and this was done in an almost incredible short space of time, the combination working perfectly. The inside doors ’ stuck a little but were nothing to ' speak of and only a (minute’s time was required to get into the vault. All the papers therein were in good condition with the exception of one

Revised Statement of Insurance. on stock. Company. Amount. Aetna $ 45<X) American Eire 3000 Citizens 2000 Franklin 2000 Greenwich 2000 Germania 2500 Hamburg-Bremen 2000 Hartford. 2000 Indianapolis .>OOO North America • • • • 2000 Norwich Union 2500 Phoenix of Brooklyn 2000 Traders 1000 Rochester German itOOO Western Assurance 2000 Continental 2000 Western Underwriters 1500 Ohio Farmers 2500 German Fire 2500 Niagara 2000 Security 1000 Fireman Fund 1600 Glen Falls 2000 Westchester 1600 North British & Mercantile 1000 Phoenix of London 1000 German of Indiana 1000 ON FCHNITCRE AND FIXTCRKS. Home of New York 2000 ON ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT. German of Indiana 1000 Total —

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' insurance policy, the German Fire, j which was slightly ■ soiled. The I policies show the exact amount in | force to be $55,000 on stock and $3,000 on fixtures and electric plant. | A corrected list of the insurance apj pearing elsewhere in today’s issue. Mr. Fish and Mr. Wholleben are thorough gentlemen and are posted in their business. They have been busy today getting invoices and accurate reports ready to adjust 1 matters and say they expect no con | troversy of any consequence. The matter is simply one of business, in which Kern, Beeler & Co., want jiay for their loss, as near as poasi-1 ble, from the amount of insurance carried and there is little doubt but i ’ that they will receive the full amount of their policies .a total of $55,000. The adjusters for the com- | panies will arrive some time today and the entire business will be set-1 j tied in all probability by tomorrow I evening. After that time state- i ments can be made by both Allison & Studalmker and Kern. Beeler & | Co. Major Allison went to Marion at 11.25, his object being to see the manufacturing concern who furj nished the brick for the fire destroyed building, and see what arragements can be made for a duplication, sufficient at least for the outside wall. While there he will also see the contractor who laid the walls. Os course nothing will be done in the way of rebuilding until all insurance is adjusted, and we ' surmise that will not take long to arrange a satisfactory settlement on the very handsome building that is now a mass of ruins. Major Allison . takes the whole thing philosophical

DECATUR, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1903.

and at no time has shown the least disposition to be unnerved. All he wants i.-i his insurance in full of ac- | count on another building in exact accordance with the one burned. At least seventyfive per cent of the insurance will be settled through the Western Insurance Association I which has headquarters at Chicago and who will send one man here to adjust the loss. Other comjianies i outside the association will send their own representatives. If the association adjuster does not arrive by this evening, Mr. Fish will make a trip to Chicago and agree upon a . day to meet here. Often time when losses are reported total the companies delay adjustment thinking it can ibe no worse a few days after. They are allowed sixty days in which I to adjust a loss. A FORMAL OPENING Commercial Club to Entertain. Saturday, July Fourth Named as the Dav for the Gala Event. The formal opening of the Decatur Commercial Club House will be from three to eleven p. m., Saturday, July 4th. This was determined at a meeting of the board of directors, held in the assembly room last evening. Invitations will be restricted to the membership and their families in this city, with the privilege each member of inviting any limited number of out of town guests. The entire house as well as the lawns will be brought into use for the occasion, the intention being to make it a strictly social occasion. A piano will be placed in the building and some of the eity’s best talent will do the honors for the occasion. Punch will be served. The committees having same in charge will be named this evening, and after that time arrangements will go speediy forward making the event successful in every detail. The many people who have visited the home of the Commercial Club are loud in their praises of the completeness of everything thereabouts. ' and are proud of the energies, thus far expened. Much good is expected to result from such a combination of business interests. TO BLUFFTON. Dtcatur Ladies Will be Entertained at Bluffton This Week. Eleven ladies went from this city to Bluffton this morning where they will he entertained the coming week. The i>arty was taken to th*’ home of Mrs. Ellen Dailey where breakfast was served at eight o'clock. Mrs. Harry Deam entertained at one o’clock dinner today and other ladies will give a number of receptions. Among the party from here were Mosdemos Morrison, Wilkinson, P. B. Thomas, IC. J. Lutz, . R. K. Allison, and Miss Hattie Studabaker of this city, Maite Numbers of Austin, Texas, Mrs. C. G. Reynolds, Joliet, 111, and Mrs. Vesey of Fort Wayne,

A MERRY CROWD. Girls Give a Picnic for Their Guests. Ten little girls enjoyed a picnic on the Studabaker farm yesterday and all declare it the only way to enjoy life. The event was engineered by Miss Harriet Morrison and was in honor of Margaret Vesey, and Mildred and Lois Winch of Fort Wayne. The other seven participants were the Misses Pansy Bell, Francis Bryson, Leota Baily, Francis Dugan, Inez Snellen and Helen Niblick. They took their dinners and furnished numerous games which made hours pass rapidly and happy. BEST IN THE STATE Monster Oil Well on the Rawley Farm. Came in Tuesday, Was Shot Friday and Started to Pumping Yesterday. The best oil well in the State or at east one of them was started to pumping yesterday. It is located on the Rawley farm four miles east of Berne and came in a week ago today. It was shot Friday and before it could be capjied hundreds of barrels of oil had gone to waste. Mr. Baker who shot the well and who has been in the business in this field for many years said: “It is the best well I have ever shot in Indiana, by all odds.” Os course the real worth can not be known until it has been pumped several days but it is expected and eonfidentlv believed that it will make several barrels daily for a while at least. The big oil gusher has caused considerable excitement in oil circles about Berne, and the Central Western company who own it are already rearing to drill in another location to the north east. They have started to drill still another on the Studahaker farm a short distance away and expect both to equal the good one just in. The Studabaker and Rawley farms have each been lucky and have produced some great big oil wells. SAVE OLD CANS. Junk Dealers Will Soon be Buying Old Tin Cans. The time is not far off, said a local junk dealer the other day, when people can find a ready sale for old tin cans and when that article will appear in the junk gatherer's cry along with old rags, iron and rub her. A number of the larger cities already have factories where tin cans are the only raw material used and the industry is fast growing. By and by the factories will become so plentiful that to keep them in Operation it will be necessary to draw on all the country around and then you can save cans and sell them at a good price. The process Os manufacture is a simple one and the prosducts are varied. The cans when first received are placed in a large furnace, are thoroughly sat graft'd with crude oil and then fired. The tables and all dirt is burned in this operation and the solder is also melted off which drops into a receptacle and is recast into sticks ready to be used again. The sheets of best tin are jiackcd and sent to large trunk factories where they are usetl for corner building of the Saratoga trunk. Home is also used in the manufacture of cloth covered buttons. The cheaper grade of cans are melted and cast into ole vator and window weights as the metal is of inferior grade and can not he used for anything else.

SAY IT STINKS

INSPECTOR HERE Nosing Into Grievances Made. The Dismissed Deputy Postmaster Confers With an Inspector. Postoffice Inspector Burr whose headquarters are at Fort Wayne, and who has under his supervision the offices in this postoffice district, by arrangement met the Acker boys of Pleasant Mills, here yesterday. The meeting was brought about by a letter written the department at Washington by Acker at the time of his dismissal from the office here.

NEW WIND MILL A Machine That May Become Popular. A machine that is destined to take i the place of the windmill has been invented by an Indianapolis man, ' and unique in every resnect. This machine is known as the Kiler pumping motor, and instead of depending ■on the wind for its motive power, iis run by a weight. The fan like contrivance that is used at the top I of a derick in the windmill to catch the wind is also feature in this new machine, but is used for just the opposite purpose, that is to regulate the number of strokes of the pump handle by simply turninx sails of the fan to any desired degree, is within reach of anyone standing on the ground. Themortor will pump water and churn butter from three to six hours at one winding, andean be immediately wound up again in three minutes’ time by a child. C. M. Kiler, the inventor, has been a resident of Indianapolis for the last twenty years, and has b<*en working on this machine for over seven years. He has just succeeded in perfecting a model for the manufacturer. and hopes to have his invention on exhibition in every county fair in Indiana this year. IS EXPELLED. Young Preacher is Having His Troubles. A dispatch from Franklin says:— ’’The Rev. F. B. Bachelor, president of the State Baptist Young Peoples Union, a junior in Frankin College has received a letter from the faculty forbidding him to enter college next year. His expulsion results from his partici]>ation in the abduction of one of the students during the commencement exercises His friends declare the faculty has been too severe, because he was not a leader in the abduction and others were more implicated than he. The Rev. Mr Bachelor is at a loss to understand why he should have been ■elected for an example from the throng of students. lit* fears that the memliers of the union over the state will misunderstand it. The abduction a fortnight ago was the culmination of the rivalry between the juniors and the seniors. One of the seniors was bound, gagged and confined in the country until the, seniors oonsentedto allow the juniors a part in the class day exercises, but he was not harmed. The faculty told Mr. Bachelor it did not consider his conduct that of a Christian gentleman. Mr. Bachelor is known by several Decatur people.

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I The letter simply stated that he had I been dismissed without cause, unless it was from his refusal to give up part of his salary to another I postoffice attache. The postoffic e inspector and both A. N. and Al— I phens Acker were in long consulta— I tion, and we suppose their part of I the case was given in full to the inj spector, and in addition they filed ' with him all the charges they wished to bring up in the case. The inspector visited a few people whose names were given him, hut it is not thought 1 hat any evidence I of a damaging character was given. | All the various things charged by those behind the matter are not known and as to what effect they will have on the inspector is also conjecture. Ah best though, both sides interested, will be sweating a little red blood until the case is j disposed of.

ASSASSINATED. Comptroller of Texas is Killed. Awful Deed Committed by W. G. Hill, a Former Employee of the Office. Special to th • Daily Democrat. tt:3O p. m Austin, Texas, June 30.—’State I Comptroller P. M. Love was assassinated in his office at the Capitol today by W. G Hill, a discharged employee of the office. No cause for the deed is known. WAS VERY GOOD. FlaiJ Day Entertainment at G. A. R. Hall a Success. The entertainment given last evening by the Womens’ Relief Coprs, in commemoration of Flag Day, was very interesting and high - ly successful. The G. A. R. Hall was crowded with an enthusiastic audience and every part of the program was a hit making number. Rev. White delivered an inspiring address in his remarks about Our Country and was received with a wondorous burst of applause. The Aeolian Club in their stringed instrument and orchestral selections were repeatedly encored ami produced music which could not be withstood by a patriotic audience. The flag drills, which was given by six ten ladies was exception ly fine ami Mr. Lamar, who worked for its success feels much indebted to them 1 for the interest taken in its production. All other numbers of the program were equally as good ami make the entertainment generally pronounced as the beat that ever happened. A RUNAWAY. Carl Brown who drives a wagon for J. W. Place & Co.’s Creamery east of town figured in a runaway at twelve o’clock this noon. He was hauling a load of milk cans to the Creamery when the shafts came down and frightened the horses He proceeded to make a record dash, distributing milk cans along ti.e road for some little distance. The lad was thrown out and considerably bruised, though he recieved no very serious injuries.