Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

THE CASSEL-BEERY CASE Some Knotty Law Problems Being Discussed.

IS NEARLY OVER Big Damage Suit Attracts Crowd. Arguments Will be Concluded and Case Go to Jury Tomorrow Morning. The Cassell-Beery damage case continues to be the all absorbing 'neabout the court house and a good sized audience continues to hold forth. The plaintiff rested her ease about four o'clock yesterday afternoon and the defense began immediatley continuing until three o'clock this afternoon, when

MAYORS COURT. Tso Drunks Get Usual Dose—Dollar and Costs. Mayor Coffee’s police court got to working t<xlay and Joseph Showly was caught in its toils. He was brought up on charge of just plain drunk, was arrested last evening by Night Policeman Fisher and was tint'd one dollar and costs amounting to |y.3O. He is going to board it out with Sheriff Butler. A simlar charge with a few other attachments was filed against Frank Linnox he was chargt*d with being drunk and also for disorderly conduct at his boardinghouse. Night Policeman and Russel Harruff arrested him last evening and he plead guilty and was fined one dollar and costs amounting in all to ♦y.3o. He paid the bill. THE NEW BUS. Murray House Makes New Purchase. The long looked-(or bus belonging ♦o C. 1). Murry arrived last evening from Joliet, 111., and it certainly is a beauty. It is trimmed in brown black and yellow, and is decorated accordingly, rubber tire, ball bearings, seats twelve, has gasoline lamps and has an attachment on the inside with a bell to call the attention of the driver All in all it is the finest bus that has over struck the state and is a credit to our city. HALLOWE’EN PARTY. Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer to Entertain Tomorrow Afternoon. The Hallowe’en season will open up tomorrow nftern<x>n at. four o’clock with a party to be given by Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer at her Meroer street home. The event is given in honor of Meadames Wil kinson and McConnehey, both of Van Wert, Ohio. A round of enter tainment is promised that will prove enjoyable. Luncheon will be served.

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I the plaintiff 'offered some rebuttal evidence. The arguments will begin late this afternoon and concluded tomorrow morning, the case it is believed now going to the jury before noon. Attorneys for the de- ■ sense this afternoon offered as evii dence the records Jto show the legal notice of Mrs. Cassels divorce had not been placed on record until after this suit was begun. This was objected to and a legal discussion followed, the jury being retired while same was being heard by Judge Branyan. It is likely that a verdict will be returned by tomorrow evening, and the suspense for all parties concerned will be over. At th-ee o'clc ck thee .’idence n the case was concluded and it was decided by Judge Branyan that the arguments would lie delayed until morning. In the meantime the attorneys argued a legal question relative to one of the instructions offered by the defendant. The article mentioned said that the plaintiff was a married woman at the time this suit was filed. The case wil go to the jury about Saturday noon.

MEANS BUSINESS. J. S. Bowers Still Pushing the Railway. John 8. Bowers of Decatur, is said to have come to the relief of the ('inneinnati. Bluffton <V Chicago railroad and promises to raise enough money on his own credit to have the work go forth at once. Bowers is rated well up in the thousands and he can, it is believed, furnish enough money to complete the road into Pennville. Bowers is the man who recently bought the Hopkins farm at Balbec on which is located immense gravel deposits, to tap which is one of the main objects of the road. He is anxious to get a cheap means of transporting the gravel to Bluffton, so that he can deliver it to the Lake Erie and Chi eago & Erie. Superintendent Russell and Mr. Bowers were at Petroleum Tuesday and they stated here that all arrangements hud been made to resume work and that inside a few days everything would ibe going along the same us before. —Portland Commercial Review. SMOKED CIGARETTES. Young Ladies Indulge and Attract Attention. That Decatur is fast becoming a city of "up-to-date” manners was demonstrated lust evening, when two young ladies sauntering on Monroe street stopjxxl and lighted cigarette, then walked on as though it was the most usual custom of themselves and the people. They attracted considerable attention but j seemed not to cure in the least, if , anything, rather enjoyed the prominence into which they hud suddenly sprung. A young man who smokes cigarettes has about us much trouble securing a jxisition I now days as one who drinks to excess,and these girls would certainly not have been noticed with greater awe had they reeled down stn*et intoxicated. It is a shame and disgrace, and the young ladies have placed a blot on their names and characters.

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1903.

GIRLS DO BATTLE Mabie Dull Horsewhips Minnie Coegille. —— Quarreled About a Lover and a Scene on the Street Follows, and Results in Arrests. Mabie Dull did the r horse whipping act last evening the exhibition taking place on north Second street and he victim being Miss Minnie Coegille. The affair created some excitement and was followed by the arrest of Mabie for assault and battery. She plead guilty before S’quire Smith and was fined a dollar i and costs amounting to <9.80 which she paid and then filed an affidavit against her enemy, Minnie for provoke. The girls had quareled over a lover who seems to have favored Mabel. Minnie said mean , things and Mabel lost her temper and determined a revenge. She secured a buggy whip and started a hunt for the enemy, meeting her near the corner of Monroe and Sec ond streets. The whip came down on Minnie's shoulders with a swish j and a cry of pain escaped the lips of the victim. Mabie administered several more licks before she could be convinced that she had completed the job but the battle finally adjourned to the ’Squire's court. I Mabie denies using the whip but I Minnie swore she had some bad I marks across her back as proof. PAYING A LOSS. Adams County Mutual Had Gorrell Risk. Making Assessment to Pay SI3OO Loss for Big Fire Near Ossian. Yesterday's Bluffton News said: Officers of the Adams County Mutual Insurance Company yesterday made an adjustment of the fire loss sustained a week ago by Milo J. Gorrell when his farm residence south of Ossian was destroyed. The loss was about 12,300 and he will received insurance amounting to I <1,300, the total amount for which ' his policy called. He had <BOO on his house and <SOO on his goods. The Adams County Mutual Insurants* Company has been organized for a number of years, now has about 1,200 members principally farmers. In case of fires they pay the full amount of the loss unless it is more than the face value of the I policy After the adjustment yesterday Mr. Gorrell received <4OO and the balance wil be paid within thirty days. It is the rule|to make assessments only when it is necessary to replenish the treasury, which is now the case. Notices will lx* sent out within a few days notifying the members of the association that they have been assessed 30 cents each on each 100 dollars of the appraised value of their property. This levy will bring into the treasury of the company about <3,000 and will lie the only assessment made until it is ex hausted in paying losses. A <3OO loss was paid in Adams.

A NEW HOME. Contract Let for Fred Scheiman’s House. The contract for the contsruction of the new home to be built by Fred Scheiman on North Third street was let to Linn & Patton, they being the lowest bidders. The house is planned and modeled something like the new home of Harry Moltz and will be fitted with electric lights and thoroughly plumbed. It will be two stories and when completed will cost in the neighborhood of <I,OOO. Work on same will be commenced at once and will be complete in about six weeks. GAVE RECEPTION. Mr. and Mrs. Parker Guests of Honor. Society Event at the Hale Home for Newly Wedded Young Couple. A reception was given last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hale on Fifth street for Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Parker of Evanston, j The guests included the members of | the High School senior class of which the bride was a member prior to her marriage a few days ago and a number of ethers, about thirty in all. The occassion was a most delightful one and the young folks certainly made the event a merry one. Various amusements were indulged in, a several course supper served and the happy young couple who were guests of honor will long remember the evening as one of the happiest of their lives. Mr. Parker left today noon for Evanston to resume his duties in college and at his church and Mrs. Parker will join him next Monday. We join their many friends in extending future good wishes. CLUB MEETING. Pedro Was the Social Game at Ihe Home of Mrs. Connell Yesterday. , The Sennho Club met at the home of Mrs. Dr. Connell yesterday afternoon in its regular social session iand the afternoon was wiled away iby playing the old fashioned but interesting game called pedro. Mrs. , Arthur Suttles and Mrs. George Bail j ey were the lucxy members as the captured first prizes, while Mrs. Miles Pillars and Mrs. John Kern had to console themselves with the boobies. During the progress of the game a fine two course lunch eon was served and at 5 o’clock all adjoined to meet next Thursday at the home of Mrs. Lawrence Smith. HURT HIS LEG. Louis Miller Receives Painful Injuries. While doing some repairing on the roof of his home on Sixth street, Louis H. Miller was severely injur ed yesterday afternoon. Ho was repairing a leak in the roof and had taken oft’ the shingles and was driving a nail down when the hatchet turned in his hand and struck him fair on the knee cap. The doctors say that it was a miracle that the knee cap was not penetrated so us to let the joint water out, and if it hud been the case he would have been left a <'ripple for life. As it is he will only be laid up for two weeks.

LOOKED BAD. Colored Men Make Ugly Threats. A Battle of Words Almost Results in a Shooting Scrape. Jim Banks, a porter and Jim Smith, a cook both employed at the Burt House engaged in an old time southern battle last evening and for a few moments the air was full of knives, shot guns, cuss words and shells but no harm was done and the only serious result is an affiadvit filed aaginst Banks by Bertha Carter, also colored,a friend of Smith's who witnessed the blood curdling affair. Bunks went into the kitchen and asked for his supper, a quarrel and some words followed. Banks being run out of the kitchen some say at the point of a butcher knifp. Banks secured a shot gun and a box of shells and said he was arranging to make Smith look like an old time seive. Ho was prevented from doing any harm however and the participants are still ahve. The arrest and trial will probably occur this after noon unless the feud is arranged in some way more peaceable. THE WEDDING. The Account of Frank Rice's Recen Marriage. The marriage of Frank Rice, a former Decatur boy to a Marion lady was given last evening and we publish the following account through the kindness of Rev. Shawly who performed the ceremony, (in Wednesday evening, Oct. 28 occurred the marriage of Frank Rice of Decatur, Ind., and Maggie Herring of Marion, Ind., at the home of David Weesner, an uncle of the bride, where she has been making her home. Frank is one of our best young men. holding a responsible position in Gold Mine. No., 5, and highly esteemed by the people of Decatur and also of Marion. His wife is one of Marion’s most highly respected young ladies. The marriage was solominized by the bride's pastor. Rev. ('. M. Shawly in the presence of .about thirty of their friends The young couple [ will continue to reside in Marion. Among the out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Rice and Miss Fannie Rice of Decatur. L. M. Rioe of LaFayette, and C. P. Rice of Jonesboro. The many friends of the happy couple join in congratulating them. COSTS MONEY. Some Facts of the Cost of Rura 1 Carriers. Rural free delivery cost Indiana over <IBI,OOO in the quarter ending September 30. That is the showing ' made by the report in the hands of Postmaster McGinnis, of the Indianapolis, under the direction of whom the rural free delivery of the entire state is carried on. There is no information that can be gathered us to th<* comparative income of the same service for the same length of time. The work that de I volves on the local postoffice on ac- 1 count of the rural routes of the state 1 is considerable. Postmaster McGinnis has to sign every check that is made out for rural carriers' pay, and Monday he signed 1,358 checks for the Octol er service. Hut anyway it's a good thing and the farmers appreciate the convenience.

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NUMBER 251

CROP STATISTICS. The State Statisician will Soon Have Published Crop Bulletins. Not until husking Indiana’s crop of corn is complete will State Statistican Johnson make any compilations of the amounts of farm products that have been harvested. He is waiting for the figures on corn to be sent in, so that he may issue at i one publication the bulletins of corn, wheat, oats, hay and clover. The wheat figures are not all in, while the counties of Marion, Johnson,Scott and Grant have submitted no agricultural statistics. The indications,however point to an average crop, taking the harvestings of the last ten years as a basis of «ornparison. The products this year will be much less than those of last year, because the harvest in 190? was very very much in excess of the proceeding years. The figures at the statistician's office show that I not counting the counties of Marion, Johnson. Scott and Grant, 2,231,044 ’ acres were planted in wheat, 4,227,501 in corn, 1,408,747 in oats 1,012,387 in timothy and 1098,572 inclover. WERE DISCHARGED. The Erie Lets a Hundred Men Out. An order was received in this city yesterday that affects nearly 100 employees of the Erie. The order is to the effect that laborers, wipers, back yard men, carpenters and a few machinists are to be let out and as a result 80 men will not go to the shops this morning when the whistle blows. On last Saturday there were 20 employes in Chicago let out, and Tuesday at Galion a force much in excess of that let out here was put on the waiting list. The men who are thus put on the idle list are, so the order states, only* temporarily removed, for as soon as possible the force will be raised to the numlier employed before the order was received. The information in regard to this sweeping order was very difficult to seI cure, and the names of the men who were dismissed from service could not be learned. None of the foremen are affected by this order. —Huntington Journal. PLAY AT FORT WAYNE High School Foot Ball Team Play a Game Tomorrow. The Decatur High School foot ball team leaves tomorrow morning for Fort Wayne where they will proceed to take the scalps of the Fort Wayne high school team. The boys hero have lxx-n working hard every evening and show marked improvement over their work when playing against Van Wert. The team has been strengthened in places it badly needed and will show quite a beefy line and a fast, set of half backs,in fact the team as it now is need not be afraid of any team in this part of the state. We predict that we shall hear go<xl results from the game tomorrow. A NEW STORY. Mrs. Porter in Metropolitan Magazine. Mrs. Gone Stratton-Porter, of Geneva, author of “The Song of the Cardinal’’ which has had such an extensive sale, has a story in the November numlx'r of the Metropol itan. Mrs. Porter is a charming writer and her camera studies of living birds have evoked the admiration of such authorities as Edward Bok said: “The series make a distinct advance in nature work, some of the birds lx*ing the rarest most artistic; and faithful studies ever made. “ Her many Decatur friends will read her new story with pleasure and delight.