Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1903 — Page 1

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JWAS FATALLY INJURED frlearl Weaver Kicked by a Vicious Horse.

Mo Hope of Recov- ■ cry. Occurred at 3 O’clock Yesterday Afternoon. Mn Operation This Morning Revealed Fatal Injuries to the Liver. |fe" ■ M‘ r ' Weaver i» )yin_’ i* tin' hmne ■ Andrew-. in Blue Creek sufl'erinu' tre-u iiit. that can hardly fail to fatal. He has been working Few th the P.ti-r-.n hay baler and .-rd.iv aftertvi i '.' .-ed planted one of its front feet on stfce right side of the injured boy.

’ LABOR FAMINE. Allison-Studabaker Block Seriously Handicapped. labor and Material Hard to Catch This Season of the Year. The long delay in awarding the ; contract for the rebuilding of the Big Store block, arises from the utter famine th it apparently exists in the seemingly impossibility tor tbo early and ready supply of mu I terial to be used in its construction. This is the worst time of the season to begin an enterprise of this character Contractors and laborers who have the proper snap and want work have long ago placed themselves in direct communication with the real article, and have enough on hand and in view to last them for the remainder of the seasonable weather. The same condition exists with most of those who can furnish the material for such a building. They have orders on hand that is pushing them at this time and they can not release themselves long enough to take on any new business. This state of existing affairs has simply tied the hands of both Messrs. Allison and Studabuker, before they had time to begin. They want to most infernally trail but can not, owing to an over ■crowded market of what they want to use. In cases of this kind, however, they are both good sprinters and may wiggle out in some ■ way. They want to rebuild the i Burned district yet this summer I , and fall, and every one who has to dally look at the ghastly ruins, hopes and prays that they may lie able to carry out their desires. ■ From calue iltions they have made, His evident that since the block

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The blow was teriffic, the horse standing on its hind legs and premeditately lunged with the effects as described. The accident happened at three o’clock yesterday afternoon, and immediately thereafter Dr. Wilson of Berne was called to the case, and last night Dr. D. D. Clark was asked into consultation. The doctors agreed that an operation would afford the only relief possible, and this morning Drs.Clark and Miller joined Dr. Wilson there for that purpose. The operation showed the liver to be mashed and bursted in two places. Numerous blood clots were removed and the injury thorougly cleaned. The operation was performed at nine o’clock and was in every way successful, but there is no hope that the boy can live. The liver being so badly mashed it could not be stitched, and this condition in itself is sufficient to cause death. There is not one chance in a thousand for him to recover. The injured boy is a son of Isaac Weaver and wife who live on the J. E. Ellsworth farm, just east of the city. They were ! notified and went at once to the Andrews home, where they have done every tiling they could to allevate the suffering of their boy.

was first built, the rise in prices has been furious. It will no doubt nearly take the original cost to replace the building. NEW MONEY ORDERS. Bankers Trying to Put Government Out of Money Order Business. The bankers of the country are considering plans to put the government out of the money order business and take away the money order business of the express companies. The proposition is to be taken up by the banking associations. It is being advocated by bankers in general and they think enough pressure can lie brought to bear to transfer the entire money order business from the government and express companies to their control. They believe it is a legitimate branch of the banking business and they can conduct it in a manner advantageous to the general public. The further claim is also made by the banks that the trust companies have an undue advantage because of the fact that they are not compel led to keep reserve. WAS SUCCESSFUL Will Zwick Wins a SIOO Prize Offered by Cincinnati Post. William H. Zwick of the firm of Gay & Zwick has been awarded the nineteenth prize in the Cincinnati Post's great educational contest. The prize which is a full course in business and stenography at Watters' Business College of Cincinnati is valued at 1100 and is the nineteenth best out of 135. The prizes were given for the solution for the proverb puzzles which have apjx'ared in the Post in almost every issue. All prize winners gave more than <ll correct solutions while the highest number of correct solutions was 72. Quite a number of Deca tur people ]>articipated in the contest but Mr. Zwick is the only one who has so far been notified of success.

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1903.

A HORNET’S NEST Fourth Street Property Owners Stirred Up. Sidewalks at Curbing or Property Line the Campaign Issue. V ■ A hornet’s nest that is raging at | about a minute clip! among tlie Fourth street property owners and some of the celebrites of the city council, is about to break out in open combat. There is a division of the property owners and likewise j a division in the council’about set- ( ting of their sidewalks out to the | curbing or leavingit in along the ! property line. The property own-1 ers are about evenly divided and , are advocating their side of the case vigorously. Ves Peterson as chairman of the street committee, is on recordas favoring the'curbing for the sidewalk, and his influence and position on the council is greatly feared by those who do not want them moved out. It is argued and the argument is good, that to I change the walks would mean that the city would be put to the ex-, ? pense of moving the electric light poles, and many of the hydrants and taps along the street. This expense to the city would not be necessary with the walks along the property lines. The council will meet next Tuesday evening and this unfinished business will prove an interesting and entertaining chapter in the official life of the present city council. (THREE OPERATIONS Mrs. Peter Gaffer at Hope Hospital. The Operation Yesterday Was in Every Was Successful. Peter Gaffer arrived home from Fort Wayne this morning, and stat ed to a Democrat reporter that the ( operation upon his wife at the Hope hospital was very successful. Mr. McOscar stated that it w»s a very severe operation and an unusually large amount of ether had to be administered to the patient. The hospital physicians thought that perhaps two operations could lx- performed at once, but Mrs. Gaffer was unabe to stand this. A complication of troubles dating three years back necessitates three operations. As far us is known now Mrs. Gaffer will recover from yesterday's operation, and be strong enough in two weeks to undergo a second one. If she can stand the terrible strain and rally from the second oue, a third operation will be performed two weeks later The remedy in her case is certainly’ a painful one, and it is earnestly hoped it will be successful. Two Petitions Filed. Two ditch petitions were filed at the auditor's office yesterday, which will later be known us the Henry Blakey and William Whiedfelt petitions. Viewers will likely be appointed at the September term of the commissioners court.

HONORS FOR STEVE. Hon. Steve B. Fleming Made Secretary and Treasurer of Boxboard Co. State Senator Stephen B. Fleming has been made secretary’ and treasurer of the United Boxboard & Pa-1 per Company, one of the largest and strongest commercial institutions in the country. This alevation is certainly a recognition of his ability and standing in the commercial world, and his friends in Adams county will be pleased to see him so justly’ honored. Mr. Fleming is yet a very young man, but he has certainly’ made for himself a place in business circles that no one else can fill. It demonstrates I again that gray’ hairs are not always necessary as distinguishing marks of ability’ and knowledge. NOSING AROUND. Fledderjohan and Mayor Coffee at Berne. Their Logical Extension From This City is South Through Berne and Geneva. The Fledderjohan's of the SpringI field Traction Company drove Mayor Coffee to Berne and points south ( this morning. They havj no defiI nite arrangements in view but are simply nosing around for the purpose of getting their proper bearings when the time comes to take action. They will not wait to take the » proper initial steps, until the Fort Wayne line is completed, but will proceed to dothat before some other son-of-a-gun gets an opportunity to interfere in any way with their right of way. As soon as the power . station question here is settled, you may’ expect to hear of work proceeding on the extensions from this city. And it need be no surprise to hear of that extension being in a due southern course, at an angle of forty-five degrees Fahrenheit hit ting Berne right in the middle of her tenderloin and giving Geneva a swipe in about the same spot. This is their logical course, and when you think the Springfield , company’ are not logical, you have ' it up wrong. In the event of the; line being extended south,the profit to Decatur will not be easy to cal-j dilute. Following this line of | ' reasoning it will be good for j this city, it will likewise be good for I : the company, and this arrangement makes it a sort of love feast between the promoters and the business interests of this citv. But the trac-1 tion company will allow no grass to I grow under their feet. They will have their course decided and the’r j right of way on this extension before the snow flies. FUNERAL TOMORROW. Mrs. Moon to be Interred Tomorrow Saturday Afternoon. The funeral of Mrs. Ora Moon will be held tomorrow afternoon from the Methodist Episcopal church. An effort is being made to secure Mrs. Moon’s former pastor at Lagrange to preach her funeral sermon. He is absent from home and this necesistated a delay. It is probable however that ho will arrive tomorrow. Friends may view the remains at the Bryson homo this evening from seven to nine, tomorrow morning from nine to ten. Interment will 1)0 at Maplewood cemetery.

LARGE BARN BURNED Lightning Gets in its Work Yesterday Afternoon.

Belonged to Christian Hirsdiy. Estimated Loss is Fifteen Hundred Dollars. Building and Contents Consumed in a Very Short Time. Some of the lightning that accompanied the down pour of rain yesI terday, struck a barn belonging to

A SAFE BET. Always Place Your Money on a Sure Thing Like Decatur Newspapers. Ossian people want the extension of the Hartford interurban and they want it bad. The east end of the township of course is not anxious ■ I to vote the $15,000 subsidy asked; as they will get very little benefit j from the road but people in that i part of the township are interested ' in a line of their own, the Fort Wayne, Dayton & Springfield for which the grading contract has been let from Fort Wayne to Decatur. People in the west part of thetowni ship are offering to vote for the Fort Wayne—Decatur line if the people in the east part of the township will help them get the Hartford line. In other words they are playing both ends against the middle and the middle will probably lose out in the election with both sides . of the townhsip working for sub- ; sidies. If the subsidy is voted to I I the Hartford line, however, it will ( Ibe two years before a subsidy can ■ Ibe voted to the Fort Wayne-Deca-I tur line and the road will be built 1 long before that time if Decatur ■ papers can be relied upon.—Bluff | ton News. CABLE REGRETS. President Roosevelt Considering Situation. Turkish Foreign Office Disclaims Any Responsibility for Assassination. Oyster, Bay, N. Y. Aug.2B—President Roosevelt lias received a cable 1 from the Turkish foreign otlice at , Constantinople, disclaiming any responsibility for the murder of Vico 1 ■ Consul Magelssen, as reportixl yes- i terday, and expressing regret that i it occurred. President Roosevelt 1 ( and Secretary Hay are today considering all phases of the situation.

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I Christian Hirschey, and which is located west of Geneva, and now nothing but a mass of fire ruins remains. It all happened about four o’clock, and it made but short work of the building and contents. It was a very’ good building and was nicely arranged for the purposes for which it was intended. About forty tons of hay’ and considerable farm machinery were also consumed with the building, and will make a total loss of $1,500 or more. Fortunately’ Mr. Hirschey is well supplied with the collateral that will I rebuild the burned building, the loss not being a serious matter or one that will interfere with his future plans. At this time it is not known whether any’ insurance was carried, but Mr. Hirschey’ is an exceptionally good business man and in all probability’ part of the loss is secured by a good insurance policy.

AN EXPERIENCE Pearl Bryan Murder is Recalled. i I George Williams Drove Ambulance That Carried Body of Pearl Brvan. George Williams a horse trainer in the employ of Dick Silik is a man of many experiences and has done his share of traveling. Williams is in this city at the present time and in conversation with a Democrat reporter told some interesting ; incidents of bis career. At the time of the great Pearl Bryan murder j which occurred some time ago and is I still fresh on the minds of the people, Williams was the driver of the i Ft. Thomas ambulance which carI ried the headless body of the murdered girl from the place where it was found on the Alexandria pike to Cincinnati morgue. He worked for the well known army surgeon Dr. A. B. Heyle who figured prominently throughout the Jackson and Walling trial. Mr. Williams was 'on the witness stand himself at different times during the prosecution and followed the train of events from the star*' until the finish when two lives paid the price for one. For a number of years Williams served in the United States army and while stationed at Mt. Biarrara, Wyoming he first met Dr. Heyle. After being discharged from the army he worked for the doctor and was with bin for a number of years. A Close Second. A. G. Marty is in receipt of an interesting letter from Tom Railing who is located at Dallas Texas. Tom says that his team took second place in the race for jx-nnant and they were beaten out by a very small per cent by the Waco team. The season closed several days ago and after the two teams play a championship series of five games out of nine, Tom will return to this city. The championship games will be Ix'gun today.