Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 264, Decatur, Adams County, 14 November 1903 — Page 1

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SLID INTO STONE QUARRY Teain of Horses Drown at Pleasant Mills.

AL ROEBUCK’S NARROW ESCAPE Animals Drown in Twenty Feet of Water. Terrible Accident at the Morris Quarry Yesterday Afternoon. A terrible accident occurred at the D. Morris stone quarry yesterday afternoon about three o'clock, in which Al Roebuck narrowly escaped with his life and his team of horses were drowned. A number of men and teams were at work, liauling gravel from the edge of the quarry up the steep embankment, making a new driveway and thus ON PENSIONS. General Black Favors Pension Increase. Me Wants Every Surrivor or His Widow to Receive a Pension. General John Black, the new nomtnander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has begun his administration by declaring in tavor of an iucreaee of the pension expenditures of the government that wonldamount to from $21,000,"00 to $30,000,000 a year and would run the total payments up from the present figure of $110,000,000 to I $161,000,000 or $170,000,000, says' the Washington correspondent of I the New York Herald. General Black hus declared that it will Tel the policy of the Grand Army ofthc j Republic to tight from now on for a pension for every veteran of the rivil war more than sixty two years old and saw sixty days of nefua) service and for his widow after him. This means that Gen p ral Black intends to commit the Grand Army of the Republic a campaign for the addition of at least 200,000 names to the 1.000,000 already on the pension rolls. The commissioner of pensions, Mr. Ware, estimates the number of survivors of the civil war who are not now drawing pensions at more than 200,000. He says they may number 225,000, If the proportion of widows survivors is as great as Was the proportion of widows to survivors at the corresponding 'Ute after the Mexican war, there are probably a few more than 100, <>oo widows of civil war veterans who are not now drawing pensions, ft is difficult to estimate what pro-

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opening up a new addition to the quarry and unco -eripg more stone. I Roebuck h: 1 his team near the edge of the pit, hud put on a heavy load of gravel and attempted to pull ou'. He was on the load and the team had pulled about half way up the bank when the horses began slipping and sliding backward. The roadway was slippery tfnd the horses hud no chance to save them- | selves though Al stuck to the wagon until the last moment, using every p issible effort to make them catch a new hold but to no purpose. They only gained velocity with distance and when less than two feet from the pit. Roebuck : jumped landing on the very edge of the yawning chasm. The team and wagon slid into twenty feet of water and were instantly lost from sight. This morning the heads I of the horses were above water and j the bodies of the poor animals and the wagon will lie taken out some time today. Men who witnessed i the accident stood aghast, unable to do anything towards saving the outfit. Mr. Roebuck is a poor man and will feel the loss keenly. While the horses were worth perhaps not I over $l5O they did the work of a more valuable pair and Al feels very blue over the accident. | portion of the survivors are sixty two years old or more, but it is | quite probable that enough are of that age to bring the total number of new pensioners, including the widows up to about 300,0C0. TRACED TO ELWOOD. Otto Blume’s Absence is Still a Mystery. Jacob Bogner is at home after a I two days trip in search of bis partner Otto Blume who left here about two weeks ugo and cannot be located. He was in Huntington, Anderson and Elwood, but no further trace of his travels can be found. The case is a peculiar one owing to the fact that he has been doing a good business here and took only a small amount of money with him. A BAD FIRE. Charles Sullivan a Heavy Loser. Siw Mill Burns at Van Buren With Loss of Eight Thousand Dollars. Special to the Dully Democrat. Van Buren, Ind., Nov. It—The Charles Sullivan saw mill, one of the largest in the state burned here last night. Buildings, contents and stock, amounting to ss,ooo destroyed. No insurance. Sullivan camo hero from Berne, Adams county about two years ago.

DECATUR, INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1903.

IS NO GOOD. Rupright Well Has Made Only Two Barrels. Another Well to be Drilled at Once In About the Same Locality. The well on the Rupright farm, on which was based tin* hope for a northern oil field, is of about the same production as those drilled by the Standard Oil Co., ut Kingsland. Since the well was shot it has made twenty five inches of oil in a twenty five barrel tank, or ahaut two barrels and it is pumped entirely dry. The company, however has not given up all hope of striking oil in that vicinity and ' will begin soon drilling another , well. The new well will probably lie located a half mile south of the Rupright well and will be near the C. & E..about a half mileeastof Tocsin. The Standard will do no more in the field this winter but is watching the work of the Pittsburg company and will probably drill in the spring.—Bluffton News. LANDED HIM. Negro Who Robbed His Friend is in Jail. Arrested at Anderson and Brought Here at Noon by Sheriff Butler. “Big Boy’’, a thick lipped, burly "coon,''black as the ace of spades and with a mean look in h's eye. is in jail and will likely get a trip to Jeffersonville. He is the man who robbed Gorge Brown, bis colored friend and jwrter at ibe Bert Hom e ’ ’uesday night. The story was told a few nays ago i,i the Democrat. After George had befriended “Big Boy,” bo i-obbed him of his clothing and $2.50 in eash. He says his real name is Blanch Richardson and his home at Rolling Falls,Miss. He was landed by Marion police while looking for Bill Stokes the negro who shot Hurry Smith, the oil contractor. Richardson was arrested as ho got off an interurlian carat Anderson. He and Stokes were hand-cuffed together and the latter was then informed that his victim bad died and a mob was awaiting bis retur” to Marion, that they might lynch him. “Big Boy” begged piteously to be unchained from Stokes fearing the enraged mob might seek revenge iqxin him. However no barm came to either and he was held in Marion jail until this morning when sheriff Butler went over and got him, returning here at noon. Brown went to the jail this afternoon, identified his false friend and secured his eoat Richardson is a large man, nineteen years old. Ho will lx* indicted by the grand jury next week and tried in court within n short time. He admitted his guilt to the Marion otlicers finally, though bo stoutly denied it ut first.

PORTABLE FORGE. Blacksmiths Add an Up to Date Arrangement. Schlegel & Henneford. the black--11 smiths have added a portable forge to their shop. This new arrangement will be used especially to shoe the many horses owned by Prisinger & Co., at Steele’s park. It is unsafe to bring the horses to the shop and the forge will be loaded on a wagon and taken to the park whenever desired. It will also be con- , venient during fair times as the boys can operate a shop on the grounds. SERIOUS ACCIDENT John Studabaker, Jr., Lost His Hand. — Cut to Pieces in a Corn Shredder 1 Yesterday.—Man Showed Great Nerve. A terrible accident happened in wells county last evening when . John A Studebaker, jr, son of the wealthiest man of that county, had his hand torn off in a corn shredder. The young man was operating a corn shredder on the farm and when the fodder happened to clog the machine he reached for the obstructing stalks to pull them out, but the teeth caught his coat sleeve pulled his left hand into the grimier and cut it to shreds before the machine could be stopped. Blood was I spurting from the mangled arm • and no doctor was to bo had closer | than Bluffton. The injured limb was bandaged as well as possible, the best horse on the farm hitched to the buggy and the distance to i Bluffton, eight and a half miles ■ was driven in just forty minutes. ' Young Studebaker kept his nerve, and although he suffered intense pain and was weak from loss of blood he at once submitted to an operation and surgeons amputated his hand two or three inches above the wrist. THE FINANCES. Deposits Fall Off Nearly Fifteen Million. New York Money is Being Used to Handle the Big Gram Crops. Special to Dally Democrat. New York, No. ll—The bank report for the week was issued today and was as follows: Reserve, increase $714,200. Loans decrease $lO,240, uOO. Specie decrease $2,91)4,100. [ Legal tender, increase $80,900. Deposits decrease $1 1,029,600. t 'ircuIr.tion, increase $105,900. Though usually the decrease of money sis- ■ teen million dollars in deposits would indicate an immediate financial crisis it is not true in this case as the money is being used to ban die the cotton and grain crops. However the report is moderately feverish.

20TH ANNUAL CONVENTION The Methodists to Keep Open House Next Week.

PROGRAMSARE OUT The Dates Are November 10,1! and 12. Woman’s Home Missionary Society Hold Their Annual Convention. The programs have been sent out for the twentieth annual conI venion of the Woman's Home Mis- ! sionary Society of the Methodist j church for the Northern Indiana : conference. The same will take [ place at the M. E church in this . city, beginning next Tuesday and i lasting three days. The occasion 1 will bring many of the Methodist : church workers here, among whom on the program are Mrs. Retts of Monroeville, Mrs. Daniel of Fort : Wayne, Mrs. Wade of Muncie, Mrs. Runyun of Richmond. Mrs. Cline of Bluffton, Mrs. Gernhart of Misha

A GOOD PROGRAM I Teachers Association to Meet Here. i Program Given at the Christian Church Saturday, November TwentyEighth. The programs are out for the meeting of the Teacher’s Associa tion, which will be given by Superintendent Brandbyerry at the Christian church in this city on Satur day. November 28. The program consistes of music by the pupils of Prebie township; devotional by Ben Koos; some things the teacher should know by G. H. Laugher? ; ■ discussion J. T. Kelley; the use and abuse of text books, B. A. Winans; discussion H. E. Rittgers; teachers’ equipment, Leonarl Huffman; dis cussion E. S. Christen; a tulk to teachers H. A. Hartman. The program bears the earmarks of being chosen with especial care. Al) those on the program are well known teachers in the county and each one will have something of es]x'cial interest to teachers. It is expected that this meeting of the teachers of Adams county will be well attended. All such meetings during this year have been inter esting to a degree that denotes much progress among the schools of the county In this connection i it may not lx> out of place to say that every school is crowded to its utmost capacity, and that good [ fellowship and harmony reigns throughout.

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waka, Mr“. Burnett of Logansjxirt, Mrs. Wood of Valparaiso, Miss Fowler of Chicago, Mrs. Bills of Alexandria, Mrs. Hinshaw of Winchester, Mrs. Crooks of Marion, Mrs. McDowell of Alexandria, Mrs. Erwin of ElkharC, Mrs. Harlan of , Portland, Mrs. Jackson of Kokoamo, Mrs. Gregg of Kokomo, Mrs. Dorwin of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Chapman of Greencastle, Mrs. Cobbs of Indianapolis, Mrs. Adams of Shelbyville. Mrs. Hunt of Indianapolis, Mrs. Wjlcox of Middletown. Miss Masters of Muncie, Mrs. Neal of Hartford City. Besides this foreign talent, the program contains the [names of Mrs. David Sudabaker, Mrs. Vail, Leota Gilpen, while the music will lx* given by the Misses Lucile Bryson and Josephine Nib*lick, Mrs. C. K. Bell, L •otu Hower, Rev. Pontius, and the preachers quartette composed by Revs. John C. White, Sprague, Waggoner and Rehl. The occasion is one of considerable importance in Methodist circles and will bring visitors to the city from all quarters of this conference district,and that is composed of the north half of Indiana. As is usual the Methodists are making the necessary arrangements to royally entertain the visitors and to show them not only the better side of their Methodist faith, but that of Decatur as well. Mrs. Sprang has charge of finding homes and entertainment for the out of town delegates.

ARE ORGANIZING. Farm Hands in South Indiana Want More Pay. The efforts of organizers for the ■ American Federation of labor to form the farm hands of Indiana in-, to unions, with the avowed purpose :of increasing farm wages and sysi te n itizing the work done by their members, has been attended with indifferent success us a whole, but in some localities unions have teen formed, and practically all the farm laborers in these localities have now organized. The counties in which tin* efforts have been most successful are Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike,Duliois,LawrenCe, Orange, < ruwtord, Perry, Gibson, Posey, Vanburg and Warrick, forming a corner in southwestern Indiana and comprising to some extent the territory in which farm wages have , lieen exceedingly low. i CHRISTIAN C. E. Program for the Sunday Meeting. The Christian Endeavor meeting of the Christian church will te held at 7 o’clock Sunday evening instead of at 6 o'clock. The topic for the Young People’s meeting tomorrow night is: “How may wo help abolish the saloon?” Program at Chris dun church: Paper, "What is the Saloon?”, What is its influence?”, Who is tesponsible for its existence.’ Recitation, ‘Fifteen years ago;" Symposum on: Forces at work against the saloon, a. Business on finance; b, Educational; c, Political and legal; d, moral and religious; e, Forces that should Ijo used to abolish the saloon. Select reading and singing. All cordially invited to attend and participate in the meeting.