Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

WITNESSED THE EXPLOSION Dick France Has a Narrow Escape at Crestline, Ohio.

RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS Thrown Down Embankment, But is Unhurt. tied Left the Fatal Car Containing 64,000 Pounds of Dynamite Only a Few Minutes, Di<‘k France of this city, who is a detective on the Pennsylvania mil road and located at Crestline, Ohio, had a narrow escape from death in the recent explosion of a car containing thirty-two tons of dyna mite. In a letter to his mother, in this city, he tells stcry as fol lows: It was a mighty close shave for me. They were making up u train for Chicago, and the train was

THE OPEN AIR Best Preventative Known for Consumption. Dr. Hurty Receives Many Letters From Consumptives. A drug clerk in an Indiana town writes: ”1 am bothered with lung trouble and do not beleive it is healthy in the gas belt, and I write to ask you if you think by changing to the Ohio river region I could probably get well.” This is a sample of many letters received, says Dr. Hurty in the Health Board Bulletin. Consumptives as a rule, hesitate to call their disease by its right name; hence this term, ‘‘lung trouble.” Some seem not to have the will power and fortitude which will enable them to stand up and face the conditions which have overtaken them. They also think by changing locality as is the case in this instance, they will improve. To this young man we wrote in effect as follows: ‘‘lf you wish to got well and strong you must change your occupation. Clerking in a drug store, or, indeed, clerking in any kind of a store, will make your disease worse rather than better. You must seek some out door employment—preferably work on the farm. Be in the open air and sunshine all day, and at night open every window in your Issl room and flood it with outside air. It is fresh air you need more !than anything else. It is free to every one and can be secured without trouble. In addition to furnishing

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lin the yard ready to go out were j waiting for orders, when for some unknown reason the car loaded with , thirty-two tons of dynamite exploded. When lam in the yards I have to examine all out-going freights to see that all cars are sealed. Well I went over this train just fifteen ; minutes before that happened ;went up one side and down the other,and had walked away up the track I about three hundred and fifty , yards, when I saw a flash of light and I turned around just as it exploded and Ido not remember any more as it knocked me off the main track down a little embankment and up against a telegraph pole and I dont' know how long I laid there but when I came too there was a fellow there that helped me up and 1 Went down to where the explosion was. It was fierce, tearing a big hole in the ground 35 feet deep and 45 feet wide. Totally destroyed 250 cars fifty of which burned up and their contents with them. About ten feet from where I was laying was a pair of trucks, an axle and a door out of a car. How I escaped not being killed I don't see, only that I was fortunate enough to leave the train when I did. lam all right now only a little sore when> I hit that pole. I dont' know how far I would have gone had I not struck it.

yourself fresh outside air night and day and enjoying the sunlight all that you can you should provide yourself with plain, nutritions foods. A GREAT PAPER. A Special Issue That Will Break All Records. It is said that the greatest paper .[ever published in the United States will be the immense edition of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, which will Ixs on Sunday December 13th, combining one issue the twenty fifth anniversary number, the 'annual Christmas numlier, an the World's Fair number. The publishers claim for it that it will be the greatest single edition ever printed west of the Mississip; i. It will consist of more than 124 pages, and there will i be IS tine colored pages, each of the highest possible artistic merit and appropriate to the season and events they commemorate. Each copy* i will weigh more than two pounds and there will be nearly 1,000 colI umns of reading matter and illustrations, and the actual cost of producing each number will be, the i publishers claim, over t wenty amts. N. C. Coverdale of the oitv newsstand is already booking many orders for the issue. AT VAN WERT High School Foot Ball Team Plays Tomorrow. The Decatur footliall team has again mustered up enough courage to play a game and they are billed for Van Wort next Saturday, where they will endeavor to regain their lost laurels. The boys are working hard every evening and have had the benefit of some good coaching and we trust they may show us this time that they are made of the right material and come homo with the long end of the score. Here’s success boys

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1903.

RICH BANKER HERE Millionaire Levisonof New York Visited Decatur. Called on Messrs. Kuebler and Moltz and Enjoyed an Hour at Club Rooms. Bernard Levison, of New York, member of the firm of Levison Bros & Co.,a wholesale dress goods house and president of the National Discount Bank was in the city a few hours last evening. While here he was the guest of Messrs Keubler and Moltz of the Boston store who have bought goods of the house for many years. Though' Mr. Levison is a financial king, being raft'd at from five to ten million dollars he is a very genial gentleman and good to talk to. He was enroute to St. Louis to attend to banking business and stopped oft' for a short visit. For twenty six years he purchased all foreign goods for his house and has crossbed the Atlantic 102 times. He enjoyed an hour at the Commercial 1 1 Club rooms and spoke very highly of such an institution in a city of this size. WILL SHOW HERE Fred C. LaDelle, the Wonderful Magician i Dated for Bosse's Opera House Thanksgiving Night, November 26th. 1 I I , | Fred C. LaDelle this morning | J closed a contract with Manager , I Bosse for the use of the opera house Thanksgiving night and will give the greatest magic show on that evening ever offered in Decatur. The greater part of his entertainment will be entirely new and he - guarantees that it will be the greatest treat in the “mysterious” ever seen here. He has some of the greatest new acts known to modern company. He has for several years bi'en considered one of the leading shows in the Necromantic firmament and is pronounced by press and public as one of the most dextrous performers before the people. Enough said however, Fred LaDelle needs no introduction to Decatur people who have watched his upward strides in his profession with pride and he is assured of a crowded house at his appearance Thanksgivng night. SENNHO CLUB Enjoyable Meeting With Mrs. Fred Heuer. i The Scnnho Club met yesterday ' afternoon at the home of Mrs. Fred , Heuer and the event was one of the ] most pleasant of the weeks social events. Progressive pedro was the principal feature and first prizes wore won by Mrs. Henry Schulte and Mrs. Martin Mylotte while the consolations went to Mrs. Charles , Christen and Mrs. N. C. Coverdale. , The refreshments were delicious and , the afternoon a happy one. The i next meeting of the club will be ( held at the home of Mrs. James P. Haefling. |

FOR DEFENDANT. Jury Found in the Bolds vs Gerke Case. The jury in the case of Josephine Bolds vs Maria Gerke,administratrix of the estate of Louis Gorki', deceased, returned verdict for the defendant last evening. The suit was on a note for $1,665 and the defense claimed that if the note was given by Mr. Gerke that the amount was raised from $65 to the amount stated. The case was tried at Fort Wayne and was hard fought, J. T. Merryman, Shafer Peterson of this city and Henry Colerick of Fort Wayne for the plaintiff and D. D. Heller of this city and Judge Alden of Fort Wayne for the defendant. [J NOT VIOLENT. Chicago Strikers Behaving Themselves. Under Heavy Police Protection the Company Made One Round Trip. Special to Daily Democrat. Chiciago, Ills., Nov. 13—Under I heavy police protection, fifteen officers on each car, and accompanied by loaded patrol wagons, the street car company succeeded in I making round trip with five cars on Wentworth Avenue line today. No violence occurred, the mob contenting itself with hurling abuse at police and non union crews. Four teamsters were arrested for block- . ing track. The entire route is lined with policemen. A MARION MURDER i I An Oil Man Shot by a Negro. ; Officers Here Hunted for Man Last Night—Was Arrested at Anderson.

Harry Smith, an oil contractor at Marion, was shot and it is thought fatally wcuned by a negro named William Stokes last night. The negro escaped but was caught a few hours afterward at Anderson. At first it was beleived he had come east on the Clover Leaf and Mar shal Corduu and night policeman were on the lookout for the murderer all night. Stokes shot Smith in the side with a shot gun and there is but little hope of recovery. Smith had laughed at Stokes because he had spent the day hunting and came homo without any game. The negro is being held at Anderson as Smith was popular and a lynching was talked among his friends. LODGE MEETING. The Daughters of Rebecca will meet Saturday evening at seven o’clock at their lodge room to make arrangements to go to Willshire Ohio, next Monday evening where they will institute a new lodge. All members are . requested to attend. Letta Ernst, Noble Grand.

REV. SCHWEDLER ASSAULTED Former Decatur Priest is the Victim.

BUILT ST. MARYS CHURCH HERE Attacked by Two of His Church Members. Result of a Bitter Feeling Caused by His Refusing to Conduct German Services. Father Frederic J. Van Schweler, formerly in charge of the St. Marys Uatholio church here, twen-ty-five years ago, was assaulted by twd Os his church members at his home at Attica, Indiana. Rev. Schwedler was one of the most beloved priests who ever served here and it was through his efforts that the beautiful Catholic chruch was constructed. The story of his as-

PYTHIAN MEET. Indiana Knights to Meet at Indianapolis. January Twenty-Eighth is Announced as the Date for the Pythian Jubilee. I Arrangefflefits are being made to hold a Pythian jubilee celebration on January 28, 1904, in Indianapolis, that will lx* the largest meeting of Knights of Pythias ever held in Indiana. The affair will be held in

Tomlinson hall and will lx* a regular lodge meeting in many respects with the initiation of a large class of new members as one of the features. Merril Wilson of Elkhart, grand chancelor of the grand hxlge of Indaina;C. F. 8. Neal of Chicago; Union B. Hnut, of Winchester. Harry Wade of Indianapolis, grand keeper of records and seal, and representatives of the several subordinate lodges of Indianapolis and Mar ion county, held a conference last night in the K. of P. building at Pennsylvania street and Massachusetts avenue, at which the preliminary steps for the jubilee were taken. A committee consisting of Messrs. Wilson, Neal, Hunt, and Wade was named to meet with the representatives of the subordinate lodges November 16 and complete arrangements. Similar jubilees have been hold in other states ■ and proved remarkably successful. The idea was first, taken up by the Illinois grand lodge about a year ago, and a jubilee was held in the auditorium in Chicago at which 16,000 Knights were present. This was the largest Pythian meeting ever held in the world. On the

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| sault is told in the following dis- • I patch from Attica: The Rev. Fred-. | eric von Schwedler is priest of tho i St. Xavier Catholic church this city. The parrish numbers both Irish and German communicants. Recently the German communicants made a request that services be conducted in German, but he I declined to accede thereto because the great mass of his congregation is Englsh speaking. This aroused much bitter feeling and it is alleged that threats were made against the reverend father if he presisted in refusing. It developed today that Father von Schwedler is suffering from injuries received |at the hands of two parishoners, ! whose identity is not yet clearly ' established, who called him to his I door late at night and assaulted I him. The pre ist stoutly resisted,, at the same time calling for helpc i and his assailants were frightened away. The city marshal is investigating and today he stated that he was jiractioally as to the identity of the meti who assaulted Father von Schwedler and arrests may be made shortly that will cause a genuine sensation in this vicinity. Public sentiment condemns the assault in unmeasured ■ terms and is aiding in bringing tho [guilty to judgment.”

J 28th. of this month a similar celebration will be held in Kansas City, , the feature of which will be the initiation of a class of 1,100 candidates. THE STATE MEETING, t What Teachers Think of the Superintendents. E. L. Hendricks of Delphi, sent out ono hundred and fifty letters to 1 teachers in Indiana, asking them ito name some of the defects of school superintendents to the City and Town Superintendents’ AssociaList night he read the fol.. lowing replies: His appearance attracts comments in culi vated society. He is an inveterate user of toI bacco and we Calihot start a crusado against tobacco while the «uperin te.udcni uses it. He trios tn beep the schools out of the papers. He is decided solely by* his desire to avoid friction. He preserves his threatened dignity by an owl-like silence. He is a politician instead of a superintendent. After this arrangement by some of the teachers had . been read, J. K. Beck of Bloomington, made a speech calling on the superintendents to be men. State Superintendent of Public Instruction, F. C. Cotton spoke on "The i Ideal Supearintendent." FOUND HIS MONEY. Miss Rice Returns Mr. Richardson His Purse. Ten days ago George H. Richardson, a traveling man of New York City, while here lost a pocket hook containing forty-seven dollars. He advertised the fact in the Daily Democrat, and yesterday* tho money was returned to him. It was found by Miss Blanche Rice. Mr. Richardson, will, no doubt remember Miss Rice with a suitable reward, as she certainly deserves it. Don't lose sight of the fact that it. pays to advertise in the Democrat. Mr. Richardson, no doubt, is aware of the fact.