Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 18 December 1903 — Page 4

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. THE STATE RESTS

■ VIRY EVBKIMG, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY LEW O . ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week 10e By carrier, per year ... $4 00 By mail, per month 25'* By mail, per year $2 50 Single copies. Two Cents, Advertising rates made known on application Entered in the post office at Decatur. Indiana. as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. •TTTTTTIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTr® i Announcements. I «11X1X1X111X11111111111113 We are authorized to announce the name of John Fruechte as a Candidate for Trustee of Preble township: subject io the decisio" ot the demoerntic primary election to beheld .Friday, January 15.1904. We are authorized to announce the name of David J. Dilling as a candidate for Trustee of Preble township: subject to the decision of the democratic primary election to be held Friday. January la 1904. DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT MEETING. The democrats of the Eighth Congressional District will meet in delegate convention at Decatur, Tnd., on the 31st day of December, 1903, at 1:30 p. m., for the purpose of electing a member of the state central committee for the ensuing two years. The basis of representation fixed by the state central committee will be one ilelegate for each 200 votes cast for the Hon. John W. Kern for governor in 1899. The chairman of the various counties in the district will appoint a time and place at some date prior to December 31, 1903, for selecting the delegates from their respective counties to the said convention. The various counties of the district are entitled to representation as follows: Adams 17 Delaware j 24 Jay 17 Madison 42 Randolph 12 Wells 18 Total 150 J. A. M. Adair, Chairman Eighth Con. Dist. A GOOD TIME. The Ben Hurs Enjoy Yesterday at Portland. The Ben Hur lodge of this city returned this morning from Portland where they oonfered the degree work on a number of new member at that place. The Decatur degree staff did the work. After the work was finished a tine banquet was served and a delightful time had by all at least our ]>eople say. Those who were in attendance from here were, Mr. and Mrs. 11. Harruff. 8. Weaver and daughter, J. Spuler and wife, J.Gay and wife, A. Van Camp and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Sheler, E. Butler and wife, MesiLnues. Laughry. Artman, Hay, Shockley, Winters, Dailey, Tester Gregory, Muy Spnhler, Messrs E. Peoples, Cress, A. Wise, J. Ray, 8. Bixler and J. Springer. John Weber was a victim of an accident, the result of which he is now carrying his right arm in a sling. He was going home lust evening and slipped on a piece of ice and in trying to catch himself and break the fall allowed the full force and weight of his body to come down on his right arm, thereby spraining it very badly. He will not have the u«n of his arm for i-evi ral day s.

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Continued from first page. county, stayed several days. I i have an insane daughter at home, | she is kept in room, about ten feet I square, built of fence wire, doors and windows are barred with iron. Her name is Jane Snooks, she was married, was at. asylum at Indianlapoilsfor nine months. My wife j died of consumption in 1902. Cross i examined ho said “I have three sons. Attorney Moran then asked the witness about his son building I fence, the question was objected to < vigorously and Judge Heller be I came eloquent. The attorneys are I fighting every point of the case to a finish. The objection was overr aled CHARLES LEAR Lives in Green township, Grant county, 39 years old in school teacher and farmer. Has known Osborn since a boy. Is trustee of I Green township, has known BusenI bark 25 years. Joe came to school to me when he was 18 years old. He learned to read and write, he was an average pupil, but difficult in reasoning powers. Attended an other term after he was 21 years old, studied only mathematics, learned very little, attended eight weeks. Joe’s talk has been rambling ! told several conversations, and ' incidents. Knows John Osborne and family. Asked concerning the ; reputation of John Busenbark in his neghborhood for quarrelsomeness. 1 Objected to and a legal battle ensued, reputation of Joe Osborne for peace and quietude was good. Court adjourned at twelve o'clock. AFTERNOON SESSION. The afternoon session of court be- ’ gan at 1:30 o'clock and the room i was again well filled with an interested audience. Near the Suites attorneys table Dr. Scott and wife of Hartford City who appeared to take considerable interest in the proceedings. Mrs. Scott is a neice of the deceased man, John Busenb.irk and of whom both she and her husband hid the highest regard, i A peculiar incident is the fact that : Mr. and Mrs. Scott had never heard of the murder until last evening when they received a copy of the Daily Democrat. They inime >iatoly made arrangement to come to Decatur to attend the trial. They arrived at noon and will attend during the greater part of the trial. They seem considerably affected by the awful crime, the story of which they have just learned. Charles Lear was again caLc 1 to the witness stand and continued his testimony. Belli ves that Osborne is and has been for a number of years, a jierson of unsound mind. The question asked by defense before noon was changed to “what the was reputation of John Busenbark in neighborhixid in which ho lived in Grant county for peace and quietude? And was allowed to be answered by Judge Erwin. Answer —“lt was bad.” Cross examined by attorney Moran, brought out the fact that Osborne learned well in studies and , transacted considerable business, have called on Osborne at jail and talked of the trouble, knows that Osorne vas tried in Grant county court for assault and battery, with intent to kill and Low McCasky and that hew as fined SSOO and sent to jail for six months, never heard of trouble he had at a stone quarry. 1 Re examined he said he took these

facts into consideration when he said Osborne’s reputat ion was good. Knows Dora Longston, cousin of Joo, on mothos side, he is at Indianapolis, is in asylum for people of unsound mind, he used to have fits, these became more severe became unmanageable, when I saw him three years ago, was of unsound mind, re-cross-examination witness said don’t know where Longston is of my personal knowledge. Motion to strike out evidence us to this point was sustained by court. Reexamined again said Longston was insane when taken to asylum. DR. EDGAR LONGSTON. Lives in Green township. Grant county since 1866, has taught school, known Joseph Osborne all his life, has practised medicine for 30 years, treatod Joe Osborne April 1880, has seen and talked to Joe I frequentlv, recalls peculiar actions tells of incidents when he was wild | in talk and manner. Acquainted I with family, Dore Longston is mv ' nephew, has seen him in the state 1 insane hospital at Indianapolis. In j my opinion Joe Osborne was of un-I sound mind when he lived in Grant county. Dore Longston, was peculiar. was of unsoundmrit when I last saw him, knows Jane Snooks. Osborne’s sister, was of unsound mind when I last saw her. Cross examined. JOHN PIN KERMAN. Lives in Liberty township Grant county, knows Joe Osborne 27 years, talked to and met him often Knew John Busenbark. Osborne’s reputation for peace and quietude was good, Busenbark's reputation was bad. Has observed peculiar actions of Joe, was flighty in look, eyes glaring. Bleives he was of unsound mind when lie lived in Grant county. Cross examined he was asked, “who were Bnsenbark's neighbors’?” and answered “don't i think he had any,” liasnt’ talked much of case, knows of Joe asaulted McCaskv going to jail etc. WILLIAM C. WRIGHT. Lives in Maidson county, is a juror for term of court beginning there next Monday, knows Osborn fifteen years, has noticed peculiar actions. | told of a time when Joe stopped at his farm looking wild,claimed to be' looking for his brother, thinks he is of unsound mind. Osborne rep- j ntiHonis good. Had no acquain tance with Busenbark. W. 11. HEIBOLT. Green township Grant county, knows John Moran, knows Oslxirne i family, knew Busenbark, saw Joo . frequently, lie acted queerly, told i of incident, Joe was in field hauling corn fodder, load upset, made Joe j mad and he set it afire and burned | up the entire load, looked wild. Believe he was partially of unsound mind. His reputation was good, I Busenbark’s was bad. Cross examined. Judge Studabaker is a business caller at Berne today. John Stoneburner is transacting business at Borne today. Peter Garwood made a busi-' ness trip to Monroe this morning. Health Laws of Indiana. Indianapolis, Dec. 17. —The session which opened the Indiana health offi- ' cers’ school was taken up with a dis- ! fission led by Dr. Harty, of the health statutes of Indiana and the points made in the book of instructions to the health officers on their enforcement. It was made plain to (he officers in this instruction that Indiana now has no law to compel an unvaci cinated child to remain away from I school. Wher? there is a possibility I of the disease spreading, the health officer may establish a quarantine at his discretion, and may compel the person quarantined to be vaccinated before the quarantine is removed. Many of the < Ulcers said they had tried this scheme with success. • Chile! Dies of Burns. Indinnaitci.s. Ind . Dee. 17. - The two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wilson is dead as the result of burns received several days nyo. The little one was left alone in the hcrtise am', In some manner got hold of a redhot poker which lay in the Are. Her clothes caught tire, and when she was found a short time later her body had been dreadfully burned. Fiendish Crime Thwarted. Rome, Dec. 17. —Gamine Vrcinnll, twenty-two years old, has been condemned by the, court of assizes at Avellro to r vcntcen month:!’ Imprisonment for trying to poison a priest named Prizlosl by putting corrosive subl't ate In the wine which the priest used in celebrating mass. A Conflict In Evidence. Rlslag Sun. Inti.. D'“C. If- Several witnesses in the CH’de qik vise are yet tn he h-r-ii I. the -:. i I jury. It is Corronil., ;■ port ■ Iru t ■ .nsliniunjr of one <>• two lil »o>- i:it w .ucss jj coufl'eted In ' ent.al p.ilnta.

SHE GOT A HALF-PENNY Marie Corelli Given Judgment Against Stratford Editor. Blrminghem. Eng.. Dec. 17.—Marie Corelli, the novelist, lias been awarded half a penny damages, each side to pay their own costs, in a libel suit brought by her against the proprietor of the Stratford-on-Avon Herald, in

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connection with the recent controversy in which Miss Corelli opposed the erection of a Carnegie library on the ground that it involved a desecration of Shakespeare's birthplace. The alleged libel consisted in a statement that Miss Corelli desired io erect a library al the same place. The case attracted considerable at tention and the court was crowded, many fashionable people being present. Miss Corelli testified in her own behalf for two hours and emphatically denied that she ever intended to erect a library. Want Aid to Get Away. St. Petersburg. Dec. 17. —About 4,000 Jews at Kishincff are asking for aid to emigrate to Argentine or to Canada. They want tracts of land to establish colonies. 1 hree Children Cremated. Dubuque, la.. Dec. 17 -Three children of August Batten, a farmer of Alamakee county, were burned to death. Hatten and his wife had left their five children alone in the house. Thi residence burned to the ground and onlv two of the children escaped

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