Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

WAS OPERATED ON Pope Leo is Slightly Improved. SPENT A RESTLESS AND SLEEPLESS NIGHT. Was Operated on Today and Message This Afternoon Says He is Better. a :o the Paily|!>eniocrai. S:3O p. m Rome, July 9:30 a. m.—At this hour the Pope is suffering with pneumonia ci mplicated with pleurisy. His fingers are paralyzed. He sjient a restless, sleepless night but tooK nourishment frequently. His condition is a lit 4 le more reassuring. An operation for puncturing the pleura will be made. The Pope expressed a desire for again taking communion, notwithstanding he received extreme unction yesterday, special to The Daily Democrat. t:3O p. m. Rome, July 7, 2:30 p. m.—The Pope has been operated on and his general condition is now better. IT WORKED. Second Street Was Cleaned This Morning. The* complaint against the condition of Second street worked like a charm and bv noon today the down town portion was cleaner than it has been for several weeks, the result of a few hours labor by Fred Spuller. It is not a difficult job to keep this thoroughfare looking resI>ectable and we insist that the city council do so. So far as we can ascertain the duty is theirs, this part of the street commissioner's work having been taken away from him and he has nothing whatever to do with it. We have no fault to find therefore with Mr. Coffee whose time is being devoted to his duties, but it is certainly a burning shame when a paved street is allowed to get into the condition Second street has been in for some time and some arrangements should be made at once to have it cleaned regularly. AN OPINION. A Citizen's Analytic View of the Negro Situation. In my opinion said a representative man of this city today the DoCatur people were stired up from over the negro event of Friday evening through the press reports to the Indianapjlis Journal, Muncie Ntar, Cinicnnati Post and other metrojxjlitan papers, more than though the actual facts of the matter. According to those sheets one is led to believe that every citizen in the town, even his ownself assisted in the outrage and ho thus feels insulted and grows all the more indignant that tl.,' affair happened at nil Os course violence should not lx* resorted to in cases of this kind for I think that the prevailing attitude of Decatur people is sufficiently known by the colored class so that they will never decide to reside here. That is all that can be asked and there are very few in this city who do not consider it good fortune that our wishes have thus far been gratified

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A GREAT WEEK. Oil Business Broke Record in Indiana. 3wo hundred and thirty wells were completed in Ohio and Indiana oil fields last week. Thirty-six of these were not producers, leaving 177 producing wells with an initial output of 7,335 barrels—an average of 41 1-2 barrels. This is said to be the largest average in the history of the two states. Ohio stands first in completed wells;lndiana is third. Penns]vania holding second place by only four wells, and it is predicted by well posted oil men that the Indiana field by the close of July, will lx* in the first place. Oil men are more anxious for an advance in price of oil. but this can hardly be expected with such new fields in sight as at Sour Lake. Texas, and the new fields in Kansas and Indian Territory. WILL ARREST BOYS Warrants Issued Against Six Youths. Charged With Tresspassing on the Fleming Land Northwest of Town. I Six boys will be arrested this afternoon or evening, warrants for their arrest have been issued this morning. The lads names are Ora Baker, Jim Dollihan, Warren Wilkenson and Leo. Ed and Charley David. The complaint against them is for tresspass and was sworn to by Mr. Fleming who lives in the north west part of town and who has a portion of the old Nutman farm, through which runs the Nut man creek. The boys have been swiming there this summer and several narrow escapes from drowning have been reported as the creek is quite deep in places. Last night the Baker boy was missing long after dark and it was feared he had drowned. Mr. Fleming has worried about the matter considerably fearing some one would drown and took the action he did today to put a stop to it. It is a wise course to pursue though the boys may think it little rough. ADJOURNED AT NOON. County Commissioners Closed Their Session. * The county commissioners adjourned at noon today after allowing the usual grist of bills and attending some regular business. The viewers on vacating a portion of the Piqua and Fort Wayne road for tracks of the Springfield and Fort Wayne traction line reported favorably and their report whs approved. A liquor license was granted to Delma Elzey to operate a sa loon on west Monroe street. Will Sheets who advertised that he would ask for a license failed to appear during the session, having apparently changed his mind. OPENS TONIGHT. Arrangements are complete for the formal opening of the D-catur Commercial (Hub tonight. The rooms have been beautifully adorned and decorated with fliowers and presents a very pretty apjiearance. The club members and their ladiei and a number of out of town guests will participate and the event will he an enjoyable one. A number of letters of regret have been received from prominent people of the state and all sjx-ak highly of the enterprise shown by the Decatur business men.

DECATUR, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1903.

TEACHERS' LODGE — Mr. Crowe, Supreme Organizer, Here. A Fraternal Order for School Teachers Which Promises to Become Popular. Francis L. Crowe, ex-county superintendent of Jay county is in the city organizing a new fraternal order known as the Pestalozzi of America. It is a co-opertive association of school teacher and only those persons actually identified with school work as profession can join. The purpose of this organization is to unite the school teachers of Amj erica into a fraternal, benevolent, | co-operative association, to the end that the public may better appreciate the importance of the teacher’s work and position he occupies in i the social order; and that the teacher may more fully realize his responsibility and the better prepare himself for his work; to elevate the standard of scholastic and professional training of its members; create a better public sentiment in • favor of longer terms of school and ■ higher wages for teachers; regulate the tenure of position, co-operate in the purchase ot books and peri odicals, secure employment for worthy and competent teachers, pay sick and death benefits; provide for lectures and entertainments; create a better fraternal feeling and spirit of co-operation among teachers, and otherwise assist them as i consistent with good citizenship. Mr. Crowe is supreme organizer of I the new lodge and the sole originator His lodge at Portland has 120 members and he is confident of success in this county. The lodge has been organized in ten counties. THE RESULT. The Firecracker Business Looks Foolish After it’s Over. The day of the cannon cracker is past and young America is now nursing a burned and swollen face and is perhaps dsitigured or blinded for life. Does it pay to give our little ones dangerous toys and engines of mischief of the possibilities of which they are unaware? Nothing grander or more magnificent than a beautiful display of fire works when properly managed. But if there are any among us of such a savage instincts, that the noise of the cannon cracker is music in his ears let him hence to the woods, and there listen to the echo of his noisy plaything Unwarned by the example of previous years, each year the list of casualties increases. We can abide the penny pistol but away with these shriek ing terrors. CAMP MEETING. Event at Rome City Begins Friday Evening. Camp meeting opens Friday evening, July 10, at Rome City and continues until July 22, when the reg. ular Assembly program opens. The meeting is in charge of the Assembly Superintendent, Rev. L. J. Naftzger, The North Indiana Conference Quartette, jiastors and religious workers of the territory. Rev. E. F. Walker, D. D., an evangelist of high reputation will conduct the revival services, Rev. Julian 8. Rodgers of Atlanta, Ha., will have charge of the Meanly Bible Institute extension work. The strongest pul ' pit orators of the territory will preach. The North Indiana Confer-1 once Quartette will lead the music. Many Decatur people are planning to attend.

THE FAIR. This Year’s Great Northern will be a Record-Breaker. One hundred and forty three cash premiums are offered in the various classes of the horse show department at the (-ireat Northern Indiana Fair besides the choice, and worthy commendable ribbons which show the honor and rank of premium, which is sometimes sought after more than the cash prizes. These together with the long purses offered in the speed department have caused such an unusual amount of inquiry that the management is now assured that with all their immense horse barns stall room is bound to be insufficient. Other departments will be equal to this. TWO APPEALS. License and Ditch Cases Taken Up. Joseph Dailey Objects to His Ditch Allottment and the Reineke Case Appealed. Two appeals were filed in the county clerk's office and the cases will be decided in Judge Erwin's court. One is entitled George E. McKean county surveyor, vs Joseph J. Dailey and is an appeal from the surveyor’s allottment on the Meyer’s ditch. It is a similar appeal to the ones filed last week to test the recent law passed by the Indiana leigslature. The other case is John Reineke, ex parte, an appeal from the county commissioners court on the granting of a, liquor license. Mr. Reineke lives at Berne and was the first man to get a license there after the expulsion of the saloons. His license was granted because Mr. Rohrer who leads the fight refused to produce his power of attorney,i whereby he represented the remon-' strators, but instead produced only a copy thereof; Appeals will also be taken in th_ cases wherein licenses have been granted this week to Messrs Ehrsman, Kuntz and Sheets. THE DEATH KNELL. How Pope Leo's Death Will be Observed. The death of Pope Leo will be mourned by 280 millions of Oath olics in all the nations of the earth, will be tolled in every church as soon as the news of his Holiness is received, and the mournful message will be rung around the world. Requiem masses will be said in every church and the bishops will order that a prayer be added to the public liturgy and request the prayers of the people that the light of the Divine Spirit be given to the college cardinals, directing it in the election of a new pope. The srevice at the requiem mass will tie most solemn and impressive. The vestments of the clergy will be of black and the attendance at the churches will doubtless lie great, as the present jxipe has found a deep place in the affections of the people, and the sweetness and Ix-auty of his life have been recognized by Protestant as well as Catholic. The mass of requiem is in form the same hs said at the death of the humblest individual, but on this occasion more attention will lx- paid to ceremony. The usual ]>eriod of mourning|fol)owing the death of a jxqx* is thirty days. During this season the draperies and emblems of mourning will remain on the churches for thirty days. At the termination of this period of mourinng other masses, special and appropriate, will be said.

IT’S A SURE GO 11 Fort Wayne-Springfield Line Will be Built. Location of Power House is Doubtful, but Decatur Has Preference. W. H. Fledderjahnn of the Fort Wayne, Springfield traction company was interviewed today by a Democrat reporter. Mr. Fledderjahnn is very reticent but none the less confident about the undertaking. He said: "We are not seeking any free advertising, and would discourage any of the red letter articles which some of your papers have printed in connection with our scheme. Sometims they get the truth, but more otfen they don’t. Yesterday we secured from the commissioners of Adams county the vacation of the Piqua road and the establishing of a forty foot road bed. Very soon we expect to obtain a similar approval from Allen county. We cannot secure our steel or electrical equipments before December, but that the road will be built is beyond the shade of doubt. The Robinson place north of here is an ideal place for a power house, and by far the best place along the route. If we receive sufficient encouragement, this site will be perferred to Fort Wayne or any other city. We may however establish two power houses between Fort Wayne and Springfield. The first would of course contain the car barns, which is no small consideration. It is our intention to ultimately run through to Chicago. The i road from Fort Wayne to Decatur will be built first.” A KIND ACT. Neighbor Who Knows How to Do a Good Turn. A R. Bell wishes to grasp some I good honest, conscientious man by ' the hand and buy him a two for a J quarter cigar or otherwise to show him how he appreciates his existence, but the troublesome part of this story is that he don't know to whom he owes a debt of gratitude. At midnight or near that hour Sun day a herd of cattle got through the fence at the Bellview, his farm east of town a mile and wandered down the road quite a distance. They were noticed by someone who believes in "doing unto others as he would have others do unto him" for he actually drove that herd of cattle ' back to the Bell farm, put them m and laid up the fence. It was certainly a kind act and one that will not go unrewarded if Alex finds out who di<l it. The act no doubt saved Mr. Bel! several dollars for by the next morning they might have been grazing in Ohio pastures. BUSY SEASON. A. E. Rose is Getting Homes Ready for Winter. A E. Rose is doing an extensive business in the steam and hot water heating line. Ho was at Berne yesterday and unloaded a car load of radiators to go into some of the fashionable homes of that thriving city, among those who will have their residences fitted are Abraham Hocker, Amos Hirschy and others. Mr. Rose also has several contracts near Geneva, the school house at Liberty Center three residences anil a Ixtnk block at Butler, and a num her of other contracts which are keeping him rather busy just at present. His heating system is one of the best on the market and those put in several years ago arc giving splendid satisfaction.

NUMBER 152

STRAY STRAWS. One of the Democrat Force Has Nightmare and Talks in His Sleep. The excursion season is here, and indications thus far point to a good croji for this year. Already the village boy is counting the days when he will cast off his ten cent top of straw, don his one dollar panama, and with the ease of an Astorbuilt, plank down his. week's wages for a ticket to the great city. It is in this connection that we would give a word of warning. Before you sell your Jersey calf or mortyour winter overcoat, we would refer you that sallow wanfaced individual, whom you have seen watching, from a safe distance with a pitying gaze the crowd of pleasure seekers crowding an excuri sion train. Ask this lean, woe-be-gone mortal why he too does not put on his holiday clothes andtakea , f ew days off. And thereby might hang a tale. He might tell in days | gone by, something like an idea crawled into his ham and cabbage fed brain, and said to him: "My boy, what you need is an outing. (to to Chicago or some other quiet village and test up a while.” He might tell you with what a sensation of nothingness he trudged down the busy streets of the Windy City, inquiring for a certain soup house on the south side. He might go further and recall a beautiful vision of dark eyes and silk petticoats, a package accidentally ? dropped, his gallant services, a short walk to the nearest car, and a tender farewell. He might also hint to you what was his highest selling price when a few minutes later, with two fingers in an empty watch ]>ocket, he walked to the nearest police station for information concerning a pair of dark eyes. He I might tell you of his pleasant trip |to the races and the straight tip he got there on Jesse K. Yea, he might tell you that after the third heat he would have forfeited all claims upon himself for a thirty-cent draft with the three dug out. These and many other experiences he might relate to you were he so disposed; but let not this discourage the youthful | excursionist. For "much has been left unsung" as the tom-cat said to the brickbat when it cut short his serenade. FALSE REPORT. Small Baker Bov Was Thought to Have Been Drowned. A report was current in the west end of town last evening that a son of Tom Baker the waterworks engineer, had been drowned. The lad j turned up about dusk however, and ' the excitement which had been prevalent for several hours was joyously allayed. According to the story the little fellow with several of his companions had gone to a creek in Fleming's cow pasture to take a swim. The Baker lad was the last to leave the water as all of his companions had gone home and after doing so he started on the hunt of a cow which it was his duty to drive home, but the cow could not be found and the lad spent several hours in the search. It would hardly be possible for any one to drown in the creek where the boys bathe and the absence of the child did not create any deep anxiety although his parents experienced quite a bit of solicitude. FOR PROVOKE. Jacob Schaffer Fined One Dollar and Costs. Jacob Schaffer plead guilty last, evening to the charge of provoke, preferred against him by Lee Porter. 'Squire Smith fined him one dollar and which with costs footed up to ♦' 1 30