Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 25 January 1904 — Page 1

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COMMISSIONER ABNET DEAD Died at His Home in Wabash Township Last Evening - <•

DEATH WAS UNEXPECTED » Funeral at One O’clock Tomorrow • - • ilis* Death Was Unexpected Even to His “Family and Friends. The very sad and unexpected K news reached the city this morning of the death of Commissioner Jacob £ Ahnet. His friends here were under K the misguided impression that ho ‘ was recovering his hvalth and so it •aS ■ M .

I lA I JACOB ABXET

. i seems were also his family and | neighbors who have watched and ’fc cared for him during - his illness SMALL LIST Adams County’s -Delinquencies Not Large- ■ The Delinquent Tax Sak Will Take Place Monday, February Btlf. As usual the delinquent tax list for this year is about the smallest imaginable affair, and the sale which occurs at the east door of the court house in this city on the second Monday of February, the same tiecoming February N, will boos little consequence to those who make a business of dealing in this traffic. There were originally less than one hundred pieces, including lands and town lots, and the taxes on many of these bava fi already been paid. 410 iU* will go p up to the day of the day,of sale and. ■ when that time comes then- w*ill lie but little left to Is' Sold. Adams B county has always had an enviable H reputation along tins line, and I every’year'ha’ii fewer tax sales.I han than “toy’ .I’ofttihtV' W 1 tlb** quants, Root two, Washington five. Ht. Marys three, Monroe eight French two, Hartford one, Walstsh

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which now dates hack some three months or longer. The nows from i his bedside was encouraging and every one was hoping that he soon would regain and retain his old time vigor ai d strength. It seems that late Sunday afternoon a change for j the worse took place and he rapidlv sank into mu- insci >ilsn< ■ ■ ind death ensued. The deceased had j spent the inost'of his life in Adams county where ho lived a modest ' upright and honorahh life in strict I accordance with biblical teachings. He succeeded-in life and leaves behind him a family that will always be an honor to his name and with I them an inheritance of land and monej’ that they may live in com- J fort the balance of their lives. Mr. Abnet was first elected a member of the board of commissioners of Adams county in November 19001 taking his office January 1 1902. During his two years on the board he has made an adimrable official true in every sense to his obligation as an officer of the county. At the late primary election be was renominated; thus showing the confidence and esteem in which hu is held by the Adams county democracy and by all the citizens of the county as well. His death resulted from a compl'caton of liver and lung troubles which have been' a serious Strain upon his life since Nove »ber last. During the early winter he*spent two months in Florida hoping a change of climate would prove beneficial and at rhe time-it was th mght it hid but the ravages of disease proved too strong a hold upon his physical I strength. The funeral services will be held tomorrow, Tuesd iy. leaving tin- house at twelve o’clock. The servi'-es will be held in the Methodist church at Berne with interment in the Crawford cemetery. II Rev, Aspy in charge. The dect aslled was fifty six years seven months ; and twenty four days old. I nine, Jt ffe-son tv.">, Kirkland two. Dcafur sixteen, Geneva fourteen i and Berne five. Preble and Blue Creek townships have clean slates, with not a reported delinquent, The showing ent ire is one of ci : dit to the comity, and shews the’s -lid--1 ity a-.il enterprise of our p- pje I.is wet:. aa tin pros" - ‘‘M jin all the a enues of husuv-s. You pan measure a community better 'by the length of its delinquent t.ixi list, than by any other means I and the one of 19C1 ti lls the tale completely. Adams county is all i right. , PATIENTLY WAITING John W. Terrell, Convicted of Murder, May Soon be Sentenced ■ John W. Terrell convicted tomur der of his son in law, Melvin Wolfe 1 is patiently putting in his time in the - Wells county jail'nwaiting the acI tion of Judge Smith upon the ■ motidn for a new trial. If the i motion is overruled, which Judge Smith has indicated it will lie, ho will be sentenced by' the judge I and taken to Michigan f'tiy i*t- once, I no whether the case up,, i ]>Wtl<> or not. Terrell showifi little I change since hr was put- in .tyil lust I July, and puts in his time reading, - ! and in talking to those who ‘ipall to ; > I visit with him. He idbives a I I number <?f visitors i dayj-ither from friends oi*"thc«e ) ft tfw call tol-'Wtulit him on ItriUnflss i. •‘aVL-'ing : oflTfflmr nfrili 11<urmminT unit have given up fur the present at , ■ least, their plan of going to town, i to live.

DECATUR. INDIANA, .MONDAY- EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1904.

LIKE TYNDALL e Allen County Democrats Are for Him They Pasi a Resolution Giving • Adams County the Candidate. ■ Ae'-ordinJ’ to tin- F >rt Wifyno I Journal-Gazette, mu -h attenti m | was given John W. Tyndall and his candidacy for joint si* >utor at the ; meeting of their county central committee 8 itur.lay. It said : Mr. Lindemuth, of the First ward, introduced the following resolution: • “Whereas, since the counties of Adams and Allen have formed one senatorial-district, Allen county has furnished the candidate who represented the district in the state senate; and. “Whereas, democrats of Adams county ask 'that they bo ■ allowed to furnish the candidate to represent the district in t'.ie next legislature. “Therefore, be it resolved ■ that the sense of the Allen county central committee that such candidate be from Adams county." B-fore chairman would call for n vote, Judia- Hench arose and -■■ -. < *ted -th it, as Mr John W. Tyndall the choieeof Adams county for the joint senatorship, was presented, he 1.-e givi n the floor. Mr. Tnydall was called upon and 1 mdlv cheered as h<- mounted che platform. He made a very favora:>le impression by his modest but • • . hi.nsci’: upon the dem-"rats dAllen I county, but. in as much as his own county hid selected him as it- candidate. h<> asked that his claims be investigated- "I do not wish to and would not-take any adva'itago of anyone in thi. county. Bit if I you h ive no candidate, and if upon investig itjon ypu deem mo qu ilified ! for the oilice. tb- n I ask fl at you ■ instruct your delc.-iti-.- for me." • Senator L'-w V. I,’lrey said that, . ■ . at o Adams county for n -.ignition. It it is a county ho said which has never elected any but democrats to office and in as much as Allen county has named the senator for eight years it is*»imple justice to er.dor <- ' Adams county's candidal-. The resolution was carried amid cheerin?, and .Nir. T.vndal bowed 'thanks. Alter adjournment Mr. ' Tyndall was introduced to nearly *every >4lO pte.-ent, :cm - I i i fri ml. hips and ma< < n-.di” ni ones. ’ STILL A MYSTERY The Bedford Murder Still Clouded and Unsolved. The mysterious murder of Miss Sarah Schafer still remains unsolved and there have been but few' developments since Saturday. Tieyoung girl's parents do not share the opinion of the police that the; murder was the result of a lovers's ■qtiaiTel. Tiidy assert that they j ’ know nothing of a love affair lxt tween their daughter and any young man. A telephone message was received at Bedford when- the i murder occurred front a woimnl in Louisville to Him effect that she | L'btiM'givb thoni infunrtAttim eon ’ilerh'ing the m'urildr ()ltleinls are) , investigating this clue but public , opinion does not give it much en d . | eliee.

WE PRINT NEWS (*•) Rules and Regulations for District Primary in This Issue. According with our usual spirit of progressiveness we today present the rules and regulations in their entirety which will govern the republican congressional primary election which is -stated for Tuesday March 1 1904. The public in general are always interested in political affairs and especially will our*republican readers be in this lone. While democratic to the | core the Duly Democrat is with*,! a newspaper<th:it» will print all the news at all times and tinder all circumstances and if yon are j j not, already convinced of this fact [ it is time to g< t into the band wa- ' gon. LARGE FUNERAL Last Sad Rites to Gcori e IV. Wcodward Funeral Services Were Conducted From the Methodist Church. - Not * cold and ilis.-igreeabb- weather. I lie funeral of George W. Woodward was perhaps the l>rt;:i-st ever held in tiie city. The deceased was a mem tn r of tjie .the rii-. i <».().F., Knights of Pythias. Uniformed Rank of K. of P., and the Sam ■Henry Grand Army Post. The services weie conducted from the ; Meth--dist church with John C. Whit,-and lb -. E. A. Allen in chirge. It was a si t but imposing funeral, with his comrades in arms, friends in the church and business nr-n nil’ paying a just tribute to a ' Worthy man and citizen. The Grand Army ™ ,st represented > tno other seer. ' order and their e , I The sermon was a plain statement of the reward eniuiid by a consistrent Christian, an henornnle, honest I and upright man, who lived right a i-i i-t - ,-c-qaem-e who di -d ri .lit, The -reives ,t ifie chrr.i h were held soon after ft-n o'clock, which ,■ ;< Hi i,y , i di-,,,i i.t in bean tiful Maplewood cemetery. George W.'Westward wi -a g ,od citizen j and an honest man Wh.it higher ■ I tribute could wepiy him. EASTHAYEN HOSFiTAL e *■ Mike JtL to Rkhmor.J by Sheriff Bu'.kr. Sheriff Butler left this morning for Biehmond, whwe he e Bru negraff to the asylum. Mike has been 1 i declared by the medical board as insane forborne time mi l b<* has been i confined in the comity jail for several months, as application for his admittance to the asylum had been denied by the authorities there claiming that they were now crowde. 1 and could not 1 receive <uy mom patients. Mike was ! let out one dav la-t week owing to thi-i fact, mid immediately went home, i but again beealne unmanageable, unruly aud vicious and the officers were again called ami ho was ouci more; taken into cnst.xly and placed in jail, jaiid this nmiuing Sheriff Butler started for liii-limubd with him. Lil,l •l. ■■ _gLv., aua.,-UU. JU— el ,1 Notice. | All parties knowing tlivinsohes in dilbed to L. Auger nr the firm of L. i Yager A Sons will pteasLcall and adjust their accounts, as it in necessary i that same lie done in order to settle I the estate. L. Yager Sons. 7d.*>

SUDDEN DEATH 8. W. QUINN Died at Plymouth Some Time This Forenoon <•3

SHOCK TO FAMILY French Qainn Left at Noon for Plymouth N# Arrangements for the Funeral Bdore Tomorrow. This city was shocked this morning when a message reached the city , announcing the serious illness of Barton W. and it was doubly shocked when two hours later, a j second message arrived which contained the information that death had already clairued him. He went to Ply mouth last, Wednesday hoping ■ that treatment which he would ■ there receive would benefit anij perhaps en it-ely are ■ chrei ic kidney I and other ailments, and until this tnorning progress was being made along these lines, and his family Lind other relatives and friends : were in high - hopes that the lienei fits so much desired would later be i realized. Nut much is yet known ■ about the last few hours before his , death, or the turn his physical con- ; ditiou developed that brought such jan abrupt ending to his life. It is j supposed, known, that the heart's ANOTHER DEATH I — Richard Short Died Yesterday Morning. The Funeral Will be field at Ossian Tomorrow. Richard Short, aged se-imiy-fotir j years, died at his home in this eity 1 Sunday morning at eight thirty | a months, and suffering untold agouv 1 from dropsy and asthma. He was born in the state of Ohio in the year 15.30, and during his younger days assisted bis the farm and at the age of eighteen accepted his first employment as manager of a canal boat on the Ohio X Erie canal, and while thus employed be was married to Miss Rebecca Corner, and three children wore born to bless this union, Minnie, (now dead,) Mary, (now Mrs. YYeslev llupiigbt,) of Ossian, William i and John, the hist being born on a ’eknal bout near Antwerp, Ohio. Ills , wife lived only a few years, and be was murried again to Miss Fannie ', Webb, who died four yours after their I‘ttihrriago. He was then united in .marriage to Mrs. Mahilla Terinery. i who live:! fur ten years and was bmi.sl - in Wells county. After the death of [his third wife he moved tu Adams,

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action was in some wwy affected, and that he died before any one realized the seriousness of his condition. Fronoh Quinn left on the 11:25 Clover Leaf unit .will likely return with the time tomorrow morning. The shock to the faithful and devoted wife is almost bey, nd human endurance, but all that faithful siesiiW ind loving h inds cm do forjher, i-- being done during these,, lang and mournful hours, bhe di-erves it all, but even that can noY 1 ' replace the vacancy in her hearC tliat will exist throughout, the remainder of her natural life. Burton W. was die .'son of James Quinn a resident b/ 1 AYash- ; ington township,where the now dec-' ised son was born, Mari h \ 1850 and where he grew to manhood.He was thoroughly educated, taught school for many years, studied law under Judge Studabaker, tin ! practiced this profession for a short time. In 1889 he was apppintpd by President Harrison as postmaster of this city, and the postal service he gave the city during the four ye ir- following, is still fre.-,li in the minds of many of our peojile and is referred to with great credit to his administration. In 189 1 he was elected mayor of this city, he being about the first and only republican mayor Ducatu>-ever bad. Ilere as elsewhere he acquitted himself with credit, holding the office; for four years. After retiring from the major's office he wa&.book. keeper for E. Fritzinger for several years, and later traveled fm- tho Metal Frame Window Screen Company, but for the past seven m diis his hi ilth lias been - • jm pared that he was unable to do any work of any kind. The flffieral arrangements will not be Ifriown before tomorrow. I’ ■ county, where be has lived for seven j ye;irs ar.l a -li rt tm.e after stttling | in this county was united in imuriage to Hiss Elizabeth Gloss, who survives him. Ho was a hard and industrious worker and always had a snnleduring ' his last sickness for the faithful, loving hearts that tried to make la, last ■> a member of the Foe M- - u’s 1 -ent Ossian, who will have charge of the funeral. He will be burie! T ; <tav from the Prc-bytori,an rhun-h at B (),sian. and t! ■ intern • : uiil be H - st of ()<siiin in the H Presbyterian c arch 'I - funeral Av ■ ;rt\ will lea.-> this iin t i ight M 'i-I-k k t< more w morning. ANI losion | One Hundred and Fifty i Men Entombed An Accident in the Pennsylvania gd Coal Mines. ® S Pittsburg, Pa.. January 190 i ■ —-Between 135 and 15(i. men were B entombed today by an < xph r n i the’slia It of the Hornick Cml C*m ■ M • puny near < ‘hcsnick. None * rescued at noon, It is that many were eilhir kill'd ' I right by the explosion or by gas. Sevi nil hundred men ' at work trying toli'iri.ti- the rni-M prisoned men.