Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

GENUINE TRACTION LINE NEWS

Springfield Company Advertises for Bids. TO BEGIN WORK AT ONCE

Morgan People Met at Indianapolis. Company Organizes for Bus iness—Meeting Attended by Decatur People. That the Fort Wayne and Springfield Company mean business when they say they will run the first traction car through Decatur is shown by the following notice to contractors in which they advertise for bids for the construction of a grade from here to Fort Wayne. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned until noon of August 11, 1903. Hotel Burt, Rooms 11 and 12, Decatur, Indiana, for the construction of a grade for a single track, electric railway, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Decatur. Ind., following the Piqua road. Each bidder is requested to bid on sections of three (3) miles, or any multipl thereof, of said route.

PIANOLA FACTORY. New Factory Desires to Locate Here. Employ Two Hundred Hands and will Sell Treasury Stock to Decatur Citizens. Negotiations have been ojiened with a Chicago corjwration whereby Decatur may secure “another" large factory. The managers of apiano player factory desire to locate here and they will send a icpx’eaentutive here to confer with the Commercial Club A letter to Mayor Coffee states that the conqmny is capitilized at ♦ 100,000, and will employ one hundred hands at opening, which number will be increased to two hundred by the end of the first year. The factory will nt-ed 30,000 square feet of floor space und about forty horse power. Tliey have some treasury stock which they will sell to reputable persons in this city, two of whom would lx, chosen as secretary and treasurer. The stock of the company pays 30 per cent. Nothing definite has yet lieen done but if the desired bonus is raised the thing will be a sure go. I' LOOKING AHEAD. The Clover Leaf road expects some day to have a new passenger station at Toledo. At the present time they enter the Lake Shore depot which is an inconvenient place and throws them under obligations to the Lake Shore road. Under present agreements all roads pay a few to the Lake ( Shore company and are pledged to refrain from active competition.

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, Plans, specifications and profile I are on file and may be seen at said rooms from Monday August 3, ■ 1903, until day of sale. Contractors will be requested to : let a certified check for one hundred dollars (1100.00) with the proposal, which check shall be forfeited in ease the presons to whom the ■ contract is awarded fails to enter I into a satisfactory contract and ; furnish sufficient bond to for the | completion of the work within five days after the proposal is accepted. The Company reserves the right ■ to reject any or all bids. The Fort (Wayne and Springfield I Railway Company. Per W. H. Fledderjohann. General Manager. A dispatch from Indianapolis last . evening said: An important meetj ing of interurban men intreested in I the project of building an electric ! road connecting Toledo and Indianapolis was held at the Claypool hotel today and the preliminary • steps were taken to organize a syndicate that will be able to build the road. J. Morgan and J. L. Weadlock of Toledo, interurban promoters and builders, are at the head of the movement to establish I the Toledo and Indianapolis route. • They laid their plans before the . number of Indiana and Ohjo

STATE UNIVERSITY. Year Book Shows a Great Record for Past Year. We are in receipt of the catalogue of Indiana University for the year just closed. The institution has had a remarkable growth in recent years. The representatives lof twenty four states and foreign countries were enrolled. Indiana alone had thirteen hundred and seventy-eight students, and the various sections of the state were evenly represented. Os the total number seventy one weie graduate students who are working for advanced degrees. The following named persons from this county were in attendance during last college year: From Decatur, Miss Mary (Hive Dailey. Herbert Barton France, Wesley Edward Hoffman; from Berne, Thurman Arthur Gottschalk, Benjamin Aaron Winans, Amos E. Zehr, Noah Zehr. ENJOYING THEMSELVES Crowd of Young People Are Having a Good Time. The crowd of young people entertaining this week are certainly having a good time. Last evening a large crowd was given a straw ride and picnic. A luncheon was hud at Steel’s park, after which about a dozen of the young girls drove to tin l home of Toney Voglewede, where they were entertained last evening and remained over night. This morning the jxirty drove to the home of Garret Voglewede, where a magnifleient dinner was prepared forthem. The party is in honor of the Misses Oberman of Cincinnati, and the party includes Misses Rose Martin, Leota Bosse, Margaret Confer, Rose I Voglewede and May Holthouse.

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1903.

linen. Mr. Morgan is president of the Dayton Traction company and | I has been engaged for several years . with Mr. Weadlock in the establish | ment of the traction system that I I connects several Ohio cities and | which forms a network about j Dayton. They submitted estimates |to the other promoters showing that the road can probably be built at a cost of 1250.00 a mile. The. distance would be in the neighbor- j i hood of 250 miles as they have | I planned the route. The line would I | parallel the Wabash for part of the way, connecting Toledo, Defiance, ; Napoleon and Van Wert, and coming as far as Decatur, Ind I iana. From Decatur to Indiana-1 polis no definite route has been agreed on. The route now being discussed is byway of I i Hartford City, Alexandria and ■ Noblesville. Part of the territory I ' is already occupied by the Indiana Union Traction company. The ■ new syndicate would have no ■ objections to uniting with the McCulloch company, it is said, to use its tracks and thus give the Union Traction company connection with the Toledo line. Only preliminary steps were taken today to organize the syndicate to build the road. After hearing the plans of Morgan and Weadlock the other capitalists expressed that the line would prove a paying venture, ’ and it was decided to take active steps to finance the road if possible. Among those who attended the meeting were J. P McGeath, of Hartford City; Mayor Coffee, W. E. • Fulk, W. H. Niblick, of Decatur; j John Cory, Pennville, and other i capitalists from Matthews, Fort ■ Wayne and Dayton. Another i meeting will beheld in a few weeks. when it is expected a report ■ favorable to constructing the road > the road will be made.

WANTS DAMAGES. Mrs. Holtz Wants Sum of $5,000. I i I Employs Attorneys to Bring Big Suit Against Adams County > Parties. I : The woman peddler of sweepers, Mrs. Ulla Holtz, who backed out of an agreement with Lew Mills 1 the Honduras grocer and them left 1 without paying her board bill is ■ now promising all kinds of trouble for several Adams county people. She was arrested by a young man named J. D. Crowl and brought back to this county- where she was tried before Squire Bailey I of Monroe and fined |8.50. Crowl is not a duly qualified constable but acted as a special, being deputised by constable Andrews. She I had Crow] arrested on a criminal charge of impersonating an officer and he will he tried in Wells county . next Tuesday. Not content • with that revenge she has employed attorneys Mock and Sons of • Bluffton to bring proc»>edings for ♦5,000 damages against Messrs Mills i and Crowl und ’Squire Bailey. J The largest electrical locomotive in 1 the world has lately been completed • by the General Electric company at their Schenectady works for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The machine ■ weighs 190 tons and is built with the strength of 2,000 horses. It will be used to haul heavy freight and passenger trains through tunnels where on account of the gas being formed the steam engine cannot draw the cars.

WANTS A DIVORCE Mrs. Wiley Magner Brings Suit. — Accuses Her Husband of About all the Mean Things Imaginable. — The family troubles between Wiley Magner and his wife which ; | have been causing some talk for a ! month past has resulted in a di- j vorce case as was predicted. The | suit was filed this morning by L. C. I De Voss as attorney for the plaintiff, Mrs. Mattie E. Magner. The compaint alleges that Mattie and. Wiley were married on New Years I day 1889, and lived together until I, I July 8, 1903, when the defendant deserted. Three children have/ been born to them and are now , aged respectively, seven, nine and I twelve years. The defendant is ■ charged with drunkness, non-sup-' port, cruel and inhuman treatment I and accusing his wife of being unchaste and untrue. Mrs. Magner I asks the custody and care of her j three children and says her husand is an unfit person to have them. She also asks that her husband be : ordered to pay into the court each week such sum as is deemed just ' and right for the support of the j children. — NEW OIL COMPANY. Berne Citizens Organize the Eagle. A number of Berne citizens met I last Wednesday evening and formed an oil company and will commence to drill for oil in the field south of town, at once. The company, known as the Eagle Oil Company, and has already leased two hundred and ninety acres of good oil I territory. The first well will be put down on D. C. Sprunger's forty! acre piece near Hirschey Bros, good well. The following eight are members of the new company: Levi A. Sprunger, Theodore Beiersdorfer, J. W. Craig, Sam I i Schoenbeek, Joel Hirschey, and Ed. Most r Emil Erhart and D. C. | Welty. The officres are: Emil, Erhart, Pres.; Ed Moser, Vice I president; J. W. Craig, manager: Theodore Beirsdorfer, treasurer and D. C. Welty, secretary. Several , of the members have already oil ex]>erience and the company will benefit by it.—Berne Witness. ANNUAL EXCURSION. Old Settlers' Excursion to be Run the Last of September. The old settler's excursion which is an annual occurance on the Erie railroad will in all probabilities be run the latter part of September. According to present contemplations the reunion will be held on ' Sept. 29 at Ossian. Thousands of people take advantage of the cheap rates each year, and the ex cursion is the means of brinigng 1 together those who now live far apart but at one time were children together. The excursion this year i i will come from the east and the I ’ next year it will be the in the t other direction on alternate years. [The management of the excursion. ’! Messrs Flick and Wood of Warren, ’ i Ohio, expect a larger number of ’ excursionists this year than was ever handled before and prepara--1 tions are being made to handle the crowd. Two years ago the ex ‘ J cursion train ran in four sections of j ten cars each. i

WALLACE SHOWS ON TEEPLE LOT

Location Changed This Afternoon. TENTS TO BE PITCHED EAST OF RIVER. Change Made by Advance Man, Mr. Wagoner, al Late Hour. Mr. Waggoner an advance man of the Great Wallace Shows which exhibits here tomorrow arrived at noon today and registered at the

CONCLAVE BEGINS Cardinals’ Session Began This Morning. Believed a Pope Will be Elected by Tomorrow Some Time. Special to Daily Democrat. Rome, July 31—The conclave of Cardinals for the election of a pope began at five o’clock this morning. Special to The Daily Democrat. Munich, Bavaria, July 31—Papal ! Nuncio here received a disjiatch j from Rome today which causes him to believe that the conclave will elect a new pope tomorrow. PIONEER DEAD. James Laughlin of Jefferson Township. James Laughlin, eighty five years old, a pioneer of Jereffson township, died at his old homestead yester day afternoon after an illness of six months. Death was due to infirmities und a general breaking down of the system. He has lived in Jefferson township nearly half a century. The children are Martin Laughlin, Mrs. D. B. Ford, Mrs. Andrew Kelly of Jefferson township and Mrs. John T. Kelley of Geneva. The funeral services will lie held at St. Marys Catholic church in Jefferson township Saturday morning at nine o’clix-k. SPECIAL TRAIN. G. R. & I. Will Run an Extra Tomorrow, The G. R. & I. will have a s]x>cial train tomorrow leaving here for the north at eleven .o’clock in the morning. The train will come from the south of here and will Ixi used to accomodate those who wish to come here for the show and those who wish to go to Fort Wayne to attend the Railroad Carnival, tomorrow lieing the day when two engines will run together in a head end collision. Tliesjx’cial train leaves Fort Wayne at ten o’clock tomorrow evening

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Burt House. At two o'clock this atfernoon he closed a contract with J. W. Teeple to use his land east of the river bridge tomorrow. It had previously been arranged to pitch the tents on the Je]eft‘ ground near the Clover Leaf railway but Mr. Waggoner did not like the location and hence made 1 the change. The city of tents toI morrow will therefore be found on • the north side of the road, east of j the Monroe street bridge. The field 1 next to the road was not large | enough but the Wallace people . agreed to pay for the removing the i fence between that field and the gravel pit, thus giving them plenty ■ j of room.

AUGUST WEATHER. Rev. Hick's Predictions for the Next Month. Hicks has made out the schedule for the weather for the month of August. Considerable variety is offered in the number of storm periods. The whole month will feel more or less the effect of the equinox of the planet Mars. Regu- , lar storm periods will be due the Ist to 4th. The crisis of the summer heat will probably arrive about the 2nd and 3rd. A reactionary storm period exists on the 6th, 7th | and Bth. This is to be followed by lowering of the temjierature which will be felt throughout the country by the 15th. Storms and clouds are due about the 18th, followed by pleasant weather. Gen- | eral storms may be expected to develop over the country with considerable intensity about the 24th to the 27th. Phenomenally cool weather may follow this storm period. The 29th and 30th will bring some reactionary storms and rain, and cool weather will generally mark the closing of the month. OLD SETTLERS’ DAY. Big Event to be Held at Ridgeville. Elalxirate arrangements are being made for the Old settlers reunion of Jay and Randolph counties to be held at Ridgeville on September, 9th Among the attractions which are being advertised in a glaring manner are speeches by Senator Beveridge anil Govenor Durbin, two brass bands and various other amusements for the pleasure loving public, Quite a number j from this county will no doubt attend. LIVED AT BERNE. , Lady Assaulted at Marion Was From This County. Miss Ethel Bart low, whose adventure with an unknown man at Marion was published yesterday formerly lived at Berne and was well known there. She went to Marion several years ago and has been working in the Twentieth Century Dye House. No trace of the villain who attempted to chloro- ' form her has been found and no one is able to tell why the assault was made. GAMBLERS ARRESTED. Three gamblers arrived thisatfernoon and tried to secure the privilege to operate a gambling device in saloons. They were arrested on suspicion und taken liefore Mayor Cofl’cc. One was dismissed and the other two were on trial as wo go to press.