Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 30 September 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

PINKERTON MAN HERE

fill Fathom Berne Dynamiting Affair.

(BREST MAY BE MADE TOMORROW. Detective O'Brian Sent by Insurance Co. Bas Been on Trail of Gulltv Parties for Ten Days and Seems Confident. * Detective C. P. O'Brien of tho Unions Pinkerton detective force, Chicago, 'is in Adams county, his mission being to fathom the mystery surrounding the dynamiting of Fred Rohrer's home at Berne. He was sent here by the Western Board lof Insuranee ('nderwritors with instructions to remain until the guilty party or parties are arrested. It I teems that a clause was attached to Mr Roller's tire insruance policy making it cover an explosion of this kind and consequently the conqtany j which carried the fire risk will bare to settle the loss while the payment in this case is not large.in ' ‘trance corporations do not stop a' I expenses when figuring out 'crimes wherein they are victims and they

A SOCIETY EVENT fedames Schulte and Ehinger as Hostess. Ftanut Party in Honor of Fort Wayne Guests Given Yesterday. rs Ed. Ehinger and Mrs. Herry entertained at 'he home of *■ Ed Ehinger yesterday after- ■ nor ~f Mrs »g B. Grim ' n '' Mrs. A. C. Goeke and Mrs.Henr' of Fort Wayne there ■' r <' about sixty guests present and ‘' "fternoon was wiled away by Paying progressive peanut at *>”'■ll game Mrs. O N. Snellen and r " frank Crawford seemed to Pay beat as they received first * IZP9 ’ and the unfortunate ones r ' Mrs. Anna Colchin and Mrs. • Gregory who received the boon prizes. The house was lieauti--11 5 decorated with large fialtns, ‘‘“’’nations and smilax. After *' game of progressive peanut was ><alt a t wo course luncheon was after which the holies all Parted for their rapec five homes, mery one decdaring it the most 'l' yuble time they had ever had 1 Lrinimo, Mrs. Goeke and Mrs IUII 'T will leave for Fort Wayne ‘"“evening.

The Daily Democrat.

have already paid the detective as' much as the loss claim. Mr. O'Brien arrived in this county ten days ago and worked quietly in the vicinity of Berni* and Monroe. Last Thursday he made his presence and business public and for reasons best known to himself has since been working openly. He was in this city yesterday in consultation with officials and when a Democrat rep resentative asked for an interview, and stated his business, detective like, he dosed up like a clam. How ever he Hcemwl in good spirits and while he stall'd that it was one of the most difficult cases he had been on for some time, his apjiearance was that cf a man who had accomplished his purpose. From other information we are led to believe that the defective has practically 1 closed his case and his visit here was for the purpose of securing s ime minor information before making the arrest. We are reliably informed by an officer in a position to know that the arrest of the guilty jiarty about whom has been woven a net work of evidence sufficient to make him pay a severe penalty will very probably lie made tomorrow or next day unless something unforseen occurs to prevent same. Mr. O'Brien is one of the liest detectives of the west and has run down some of the worst criminals in the country. He is a young man whose reputation is at stake and there can lie but little doubt that he is on the right clue. While we have no intima tion as to who the guilty ]>arty is the facts as stated above came from i such source that we beleive them 1 and look for the arrest of the guilty I ]>arty within a very few days.

COURT NEWS. Routine of Business Transacted Today. In eireiut court texlay according to the official business was transacted as follows: Decatur National Bank vs Steve Longenberger et al, submitted. Sarah Ayers vs Alfred 5 Ayers, demurer of guardian over ruled, seperated answers tiled, cross complaint filed by defendant, rule to answer Melvin Davis vs Mateldia J. Davis, set for trial October 5. AMBASSADOR DIES. Sir Michael Herbert Died Today. The Cur of Russia Arrived in Vienna Today, Special to the Dally Democrat. London. Sept. 30—Sir Michael Herbert, Britt ish Ambassador to the Untied States died t<xb<y at Davos Platz, Switzerland, where he had gone in search of health. Sp"dnl to The Dally Democrat. Vienna, Sept.3o—Czar of Russia arrived today and was greeted affectionately by Empress Francis Joseph

DECATUR, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1903.

SUSPENDED. | Postoffice Removed by One Man. Albert Mauller Removes to Pleasant Mills and Business at Hines is Quiet. It is certainly a rare occurrence when the removal of one man from | a town or village takes there from its postoffice and entire business, wiping it as it were from the face of tiie map. Imt su 'h is the case in Adams county. For several years Albert Mauller has run » store at a little village in Uni in township known as Hines. At his place of business all the commercial life of that little center of industrious farmers was t ansacted- Farmers traded there and people within a mile or two called to get their mail once or twice a week. Alliert was storekeeper and postmaster and the place was a convenient one for the people of [.that section. Recently however, Mr. Mauller has purchased a business at I’leasant Mills and is arranging to move there, taking also his stock of goods. No one seems inclined to start a store at Hines and as a consequence there is no need of a postoffiee. The mail has heretofore been carried by star route from Monroeville to Hines but the government has ordered the office to suspend. Postmuster Mauller has retruned his supplies to Washington and the last trip to Hines was made by the mail carrier yesterday. The farmers of the community while they do not like the new system have no way of preventing it and ! will hereafter get their mail eitner over rural routes or at Decatur few going to Monroeville. Thus passes i out of existence the village of Hines and only because one citizen desired I to move to other scenes.

IS KNOWN HERE. Mrs. Maggie Meyers Located. George Butler Left Mere Seven Years Aso and tnlisted in the Army. A few moments after going to press yesterday Mrs. Maggie Meyers was located. She lives on Sawdust Ave., in the south i»art of the city, her husband, whose name is Tobias Meyer Ixdng employed on the Clover Leaf section gang. George Butler who was so badly injured yesterday at Boone, lowa is a son by a former marriage. He left here about seven years ago and joined the army | after which nothing was heard of him until a few months ago when he was located in the west. Then came the message yesterday, his mother of coruse shocked by the terrible news and answered the message at one* • asking for further in formation concerning the accident and another message is expeoted, should a turn for the worse occur. Mrs. Meyers is a sister of James Ault and the injured is quite well known hero. He is a painter by trade and worked here before joining the army.

IP SHE GOES. Price of Coal Advances TwentyFive Cents. The price of coal at Indiana mines will be advanced not less than 25 cents tomorrow. The operators ofj the southern Indiana field say they 1 are offered that much advance now by customers who cannot be supplied because the railroads are unable to take the coal brought to Terre Haute by the Southern Indiana I and'Evansville & Terre Haute. The Southern Indiana has coal filling j side tracks from here to Linton | which the Vandalia and Big Four 1 have not been able to take. The embargo who lifted for today and some of the coal was moved forward. The operators complain bitterly of the broads which explain thuta lack i f motive power is the cause for the blockade. The operators call attention to the fact that they have enough engines to run excursion trains in all directions on Sundays, while their regular patrons tho operators, shut down their mines because of lack of transjxirtation facilities. AN INSANE MAN. — Stranger Brought to Town by Mr. Stoneburner. Says His Name is Fisher, of Ada, Ohio.-Is Hopelessly Insane. John B. Stonehurner, tho piano dealer, made a trip to Monroeville yesterday, returning last evening. When about three miles this side of that place John noticed an old man, who appeared tired and footsore walning along. He stopped and ‘asked the stranger if he cared >to ride and the man climbed eager« I|y into the seat. They had gone but a short distance when John bei gan to wish he had lef • the fellow walk for he discovreed his companion to be a maniac. He said his name was M King and that he had been captured on one of his six farms near Ada, Ohio and placed in Michigan prison. He talked con‘tinuously and all his utterances were rambling and every word told the story that he was crazy. John came to town without loosing any' ■ time and turned his friend of the I road uvet to tin officers who plac I tai him in jail where he now rests I while an effort is being made to lo|Cate his friends or find where he beI longs. A representative of the , Democrat with policeman Uordua I and Mang ,]d interviewed the fellow .at the jail this afternoon and he : told about the same story us he did to John excepting he said his name was Michael Fisher, that he was some time cu Ik'd King Fisher. He is rather a nice appearing man, fifty three years old, tall and of slight I build. His shoes were worn through ! showing he had walked a long dis-1 tance and his feet are so sore today that he cannot wear his shoes. The officers beleive he has escaped from an asylum. He says ho sejiaratud from his'am ly sevtral ytar< a oj ' loiter—At three o’clock this after 1 noon Marshal Uordua received a 1 message from Akron, Ohhio stating; that the man s name is Fisher, that, i he esctqx'd from the asylum at To- < ledo, Ohio several days ago, when' 1 he had been sent from Ada. ! Were Lucky. The Decatur anil Adams county i ladies who competed for premiums < at the Great Northern Indiana Fair i were successful and received more ( premiums than outside contestants. 1 Among the most successful was Miss t Ata Bcqttof this city, whose premi I urns amounted to (24.03 and which I amount was awarded her. 1

HOME FROM THE NAVY

Corl Beardsley Tells Interesting Story.

ABSENT TWO YEARS A Seaman on Battleship Texas. A Ten Days’ Furlough Granted Him and He is Visiting His Parents Here. ('arl Beardsley returned home yes- ' terday noon from New York City after an absence of two years in the United Spates Navy. In an inter--1 view with our rejtorter he gives the following statement concerning his travels anil experiences while in the service: (hi August 7, 1901 he left home for Chicago, 111., where he enlisted at the Masonic Temple with thirteen other men. after passing the necessary examination they were all put on lioard the train and shipped to Boston, for enrollment, from Boston they left for the training station at Newport, Rhode Island. After four months of hard training at Newport they left on Feburaryl3, 1902 on board the training ship Hartford for a six months cruise to the West Indies, Galveston. New Orleans and Boston. Upon their return to Boston they were sent to New York and detailed on the Battle ship Columbia but were I soon ordered to come in from their cruise to make the final division of the men on the several battleships | then at Norfolk. Soon October 30, 1902 he was sent to Norfolk with PRESBYTERIAN FAIR Opening is Auspicious and Successful. The Musical Under the Direction of Mrs. Lutz Was Well Presented. The Presbyterian Fair opened last night in all its glory and if the oiiening is a fair sample of the four ( days, it will terminate intoall kinds of a success. The Sunday school , room is arranged in booths where j are sold most everything a wotuati can manufacture —and tha< means that the list is too long for individ ual mention. Everything sold is ar- 1 ranged and the price is below any ( known competition. This |is the truth too, and all kinds of business is being transacted from the different departments of tho only fair ’ now in activity in this city. It is a i creditable effort upon the pait of i the active memlxtrs of the church ' toward helping along the work of t fitting their place of worship in a i becoming way. At eight o'dock t lust night the musical, under the t

NUMBER 225

; thirty other men to join the Battle- ■ ship Texas under the command of Admiral Higgonson, and on the next day after joining the new crew they left for Calebre West Indies and while there met Admiral Dewey and se ’eral other admirals but all the fleets then stationed at Calebre were under the command of admiral Dewey. The next was target practice and the ship maneuvers. They stayed at Calebre until February 2 1903 and then left for St. Kites, a I small West Indies Island. From Kites they went to Ponie, just opposite San Juan, after leaving Ponce the fleet divided and the Texas : went to New Orleans when* they were the guest of honor at the Mar'di Gras Carnival for four days. From New Orleans they went to Pensicola where they engaged in target practice for a few days when they returned to Norfolk and were inspected and laid up for gen eral repairs. After a two week layoff they started for Bar Harbor, where the wireless telegraphy was pat into active use on the battleship andon August 16 1903 they put to sea for Portland, Maine. They were at Portland only a few days when they again set sail for Oyster Bay for the President's review and also his inspection. On August 17 1903 they ’again returned to Portland, Maine arriving their August 19 1903 and in two days left for Rocland. Maine, where they stock *d up with coal and fuel anil then started for New York at which place they arrived on August 30, 1903 where their batteries were generally overhauled, and on September 8, 1903 left New York for Martha’s Vineyard where they engaged in target practice until September 11 when they left New York at which place the boat is now. Mr. Beardsley is home on a ten day furlough and he says that his advice to young men would be to not join the navy. preparation and management of Mrs. Clark J. Lutz, began. It was the hit of the evening and was one ■of the best entertainments of its kind ever given in the city and demonstrated that Mrs Lutz has especial talent for this feature of entertainment, and that she must have devoted much time and patience in making prefect such a high class : performance. By Jietnal count i there were 101 little children in the I fancy march and "All aboard tor sleepy land" and 'hey were prefect, not a break occurring. The piano duet by Misses Coverdalc, Carrol], Merryman and Lutz, the solo by Miss Bryson, the reading by Mrs.W. F. Brittson the piano solo by Miss Moses, the duett by Misses Tervt'er and Myloft the whistling s ... by Miss Stone, the pantomine by Miss Snellen, all were well delivered and showed accomplishment. The fair bears all the marks of bi ing a financial success, and it is hofied that it will be. DANCE ANNOUNCED. Columbian Club Will Give Hallowe'en Ball. The Columbian Club will issue invitations in a few days for a grand masquerade liall to lie given at their rooms on Hollow ’Een, October 31st. The Columbian boys known how to entertain and the young people of the city are looking forward to this occasion with hojies of a pleasant time.