Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1904 — Page 1

VOLUME II

[TERRELL ON TRIAL AGAIN Lurv of Twelve Men to Decide as to His Sanity

■STATE CLAIMS HE I IS SHAMMING ■Judge Smith Will Accept ■ the Verdict as Final ■ew and Sensational Proceedings in the Wells County Murder Case. ■| Special to The Dally Democrat ■ BLUFFTON. Ind., F.-b. l'.>-.John ■w. Terrell, convicted <>f murder ■ing his son in law and who has been ■»waiting sentence here for some ■time is again on trial before Judge ■Smith. The case is without a preci. in Indinana and the outcome is with interest. As known ■Terrell while awaiting s< nten-v ■denly began acting qucerly. grcv ■worse and finally became :.t. Hile has refused to eat and drink ■and for two weeks hasn t taken ■enough nourishment to keep a babe ■alive. The public here and veral ■phyiscians who examined him be- ■ heve him to lx- a maniac and that can live but a short time. Judge put off time of sentence until ■yesterday, believing lie would ■ improve but he has not. The pro- ; Bsecuting lawyers claim that Terrel ■is shaming and that the insanity dodge is the scheme of a clever and ■sound mind. Last evening Judge M Slll ith ordered Terrel brought be: , ■him. The convicted man looked ■ worn, haggard and wild and Judge ■ hmith was unable to decide what to He ordered Terrell back to jail and stated that he would give !■ a decision at nine o'clock this morn IBing. When that hour came an eag> r IB throng filled the room and -urpri'e was noticeable on every face when gB the Judge announced that he had ■ decided to leave Terrell's fate to ■ another jury who will decide as to ■•his sanity or insanity. Twelve ■ mon were called and all day hate |B been hearing evidence from dec ■ tors, sheriff and jail convicts who ■ have been about Terrell. The ca-e ■ will go to the jury this evening It ■ they find Terrell sane ho will be ■ sentenced to the penitentiary t" ■ morrow morning; if insane I"' " i; ‘ ■be declared so and sent to Rich ■ ’nond. If treatment there n-mt ■hia mind he will have to serve ■sentence. The case and pr • • ls one of the most peeiihir on r. ■ ao has been the chief topic of < n ■ V|, rs itjon hnro for mrr d ;;•<

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RECEIVE BIDS City Purchasing Committee Will Buy New Boilers. The purchasing committee of the city council will receive bids tomorrow for the furnshing of two new boilers for the water works plant. The present boilers and engines have been overloaded for some time past, owing to the increased demand for electric lights because of the diminishing supply of gas and it has severely taxed the capacity of the plant. With two new boilers, however, the looked for relief will surely come. Thev will be installed as soon after purchase as possible

WHEAT HIGH Went to Nearly $1.03 in Chicago Dowager Empress is Dead—Reply From Russia Received at Washington. Special to the Daily Democrat. CHCAGO.III. Feb. 19—Wheat for May delivery sold for $10.27-8 on board of trade here today—exciting scenes. —o— LONDON, Feb I—A Canton dispatch just received says it is reported there that the Dowager empress is dead. —o — WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—Secretary Hay today received by cable from Ambassador McCormick a reply of Russian government to the proposition relating to Chinese neutrality. It is considered by the state department to bo respon si ve to our note. CALLED HOME A. M. Acher, the Oil Man, Receives Sad News. A. M. Acher, special agent here for the Whitney Oil Company who have the land leased north of the city, and who was to locate a well on said territory received a telegram yesterday evening to start for his home at Grove City, Pennsylvania at once, as his father was dying and could not possibly live. This will stop all oil o]>erations that Mr. Acher has had in view for ,i short time,but he will return here again us so.m as possible and take up the work where he left off. The ,4act location of this well Mr. Vhcr was not able to inform us md under the circumstances we did n„t feel inclined to force a conversion or opinion from him.

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1904.

BOUGHT IN Gets a Bid of SI4OO, But is Held by Former Owners. At the Dougherty sale at Wabash yesterday, Beery & Holthouse’s famous pacer Kingmore.was offered for sale and was bid off by A. B. Moore, who entered him. A bid had been put on him of $ 1400 but the owners refused to let him go at that and had Moore purchase him for them. They' have not yet decided whether they will race him this year or not.

MANY COMING To Hear Shockney and Snyder Meeting Here Monday Night to be One of Most Important of the CromerDunlap Campaign. Anti Cromer forces are busy scatering the news about that a real Dunlap meeting is to be held at the court house here Monday evening when Hon. Theodore Shockney of Union City and Hou. Frank H. Snyder of Portland wil] deliver inspiring addresses. We are informed that a mighty throng of voters are anxiously awaiting the occasion that they may hear the words of wisdom from the lips of these well known party leaders. This will be the most important movement of the campaign in Adams county’ and much interest is manifested. Both men are orators and bitter anti-Cromerites and it is expected that they will say some things that will make votes for Mr. Dunlap, their friend and candidate. The fame of Mr. Shockney is so well known that it is said a number of enthusiasts from other nearbytowns and cities will be here to listen to his speech as the upper unity to hear him this campaign are limited, this being the only' place his appearance is announced.

TO CONSOLIDATE Methodist Book Concerns Will be United. The Methodist book comimttee at Cincinnati has decided to recommend to the General Conference ar Los Angeles next May the consolidation of the Cincinnat, Chicago and New York book concerns. This means that the forces of these house will placed under one roof. But whether the combined house will be in Cincinnati, Chicago, New York or elsewhere, no recomenda tion will made by the book com initee. One hundred and ten thousand dollars was appropriated for sujieranuated ministers as against $7,500 last year. The salaries of the editors publishing agents and others were confirmed for the year. WELCOME TO IT An Industry That Bluffton Can Have Without Opposition. It was reported today that the Empire glycerine company would again erect a nitro factory north of the city. Manager Wentworth stated that the company had no intention of doing so might decide soon to establish a magazine on their old factory site. They have many wells to shoot in the Wells county field and they need a store house near the city for that kind of wars.—Bluffton News.

THE DELEGATES Selected for State and Congressional Conventions.—Part of the Work of the Democratic Central Committee at Its Meeting Yesterday. At the smeeting of the Democratic Central Committee delegates were selected to the state and congressional conventions. The state convention |will be held in Indianapolis perhaps some time in May, while the time and place for the congressional convention has not been fixed. The delegates to the state convention are: Delegates Alternates W. F. Worden Elliott Ullman Charles Kiess Dan Beberick J. G. Crum J. D. Brown T. J. Durkin L. W. Johnson Albert Mauller James Archbold E I ward Foreman Dye Furgeson A B. Bailey R E. Simth H. O. Grove John Augsberger Wm. Shoemaker Edward Miller Sam Hirschey George Fink P. J. Bryan T. A. Beerbower L. G. Ellingham C. J. Lutz R. K. Erwin J. P. Haefling A. r. Beatty M. Kircsh F. C. Foreman Phil Schu§ S. W. Hale M. McGriff Root township not yet selected. CONGRESSIONAL. j Delegates Alternates IW. P. Barkley A. F. Thieme [D. J. Dilling William Conrad Jr. Wm. Zmmerman William Libey Dye Ferguson Edward Deyo W. F. Schug A. Q. Durbin J. Neuenschwander P. Baumgartner Samuel Oplinger Eugene Lindsey Robert Kerr S. L. Grace J. T. Kelley Carles Fetters Calvin Miller T. Gallogly D. E. Smith J. W. McKean J. 1. Merryman D. N. Erwin Sam Schindler Dr. C. H . Schenk L. G. Botkins O. Whiteman Henry Eiting Michael Miller.

COMES TOMORROW Inspector Burr of Postoffice Department Believed the Results of His Investigation Will Favor Free Mail Delivery. Postoftice Instector A. K. Burr will be in the city tomerrow to inspect the conditions for the new free delivery system in the city. For a long time the postoflioe receipts have been large enough to justify the establishment of the system and now that the city council has taken action and ordered the street signs put up and the houses numbered, Postmaster Brittosn has no doubt but what we will get the service. The inspector will probably make n favorable re port and then a commission will be ; appointed to district the city. Fol- 1 Ijwing this will be the appointment of a bout throe carriers and prolmbly another employee on the inside of the office. If the hopes of Postmaster Britt ain are realized Decatur will see free city mail delivery when April Ist rolls around.

SUDDEN DEATH Berne Man, Well Known Here, a Victim of Apoplexy. Christian M. Neuenschwander died at his home about a mile west of Berne at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning. On Friday he was at Berne with team and wagon, seemingly in usual health. His sudden departure a few days later came as a shock to his bereaved family and to the community. Some time ago the deceased received injuries on his head while engaged in blowing stumps on the farm and it is thought that probably death came to him so suddenly because of former injuries. The immediate cause of his death was apoplexy. The deceased was born in Munster, Switzerland, Sept. 20, 1864, and immigrated to this country 27 years ago. His age at his death was 39 years, 4 months and 25 days. He leaves a wife and 6 children, 3 brothers, 4 sisters and his aged mother to mourn his sudden demise. Funeral services were held at his home Thursday afternoon at 1:30. Interment was made in the cemetery on the adjoning Abr. Moser farm.—Berne Witness. IN SEPTEMBER Cars Will be Running Over Electric Line Contract Let for Eight Bridges.—To be Completed Before July Ist.

The contract for the steel bridges for the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction Company's line was let yesterday at the office of W. H. Fledderjohann, the company's manager, to the the Newcastle Bridge Company of Indianapolis. The contract calls for eight steel bridges, large and small for $7,100 and are to be completed by Julylst. The bridge over the St. Mary's river near the power house, will be a steel truss bridge, instead of an arch bridge, as was first figured on. Mr. Fledderjohann stated today that the change was made on account of the objection being made to the piers necessitaed by an arch bridge. When asked when the railway would lie completed. Mr. Fledderjohann stated that they would have ears running over the line sometime in September.

WILL OBJECT Methodists of This Conference Don’t Want District Divided, One of the important questions to come up at the general conference of the Methodist church to lie held in Los Angeles in April is the li division of the North Indiana con- v ferenoe.in which Decatur is located, a giving, a strip off the west side of c the territory# to the North west; 1 Conference. In this terriory which u is it is proposed to take away from t this district arc about 11 good sta- 1 tions including Elkhart, Southßend ; and Mishawaha. The Northern, conference is, of course, opposed! to the division arid to giving to the J other conference any of its terri-j tory. There will be six lay and six | : ministerial delegates to go from this conference and candidates are’ waging active campaigns. The I delegates have all expenses paid on the tri]i to Los Angelas but receive no salaries.

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NEW RAILWAY Debating Where to Enter Indiana Road From Toledo to Indianapolis Will Make Proposition to Portland, Berne and Decatur. The Toledo, Indianapolis & South ! wesern railroad is another proposed railroad that would like to talk business with the citizens of Portland. Lee M. Harris of Toledo, was in the city Wednesday and Thursday consulting some of the business men. The company seems undecided just where the line should enter the Hoosier state. Three points for crossing the Grand Rapids railroad are considered; namely, Decatur, Berne and Portland. The fact is that by the way lof Berne is most direct route. The I road is to be a steam Tin*. Mr. I Harris is an old newspaper man ' and in 1879 started the first paper i ever published in Fort Recovery; ' Ohio. It was known as the New. i Era and was printed on old Army ' press. A meeting is to be held at ; the New Portland hotel on next Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock at which T.H. Tracy, of the Toledo, Indianapolis & Southwestern railroad proceti is also president of the Toledo Railway & Terminal Company which recently completed the Toledo belt line at a cost of $4,000,000 and is a man who has a reputation of succeeding with every one of his many gigantic undertakings. —Portland Review. GETS NEW TRIAL Allen County Murderer to be Given Another Chance. Charles W. Dunn, who was conveted for murdering Alice Cothrell at Wallen, Ind., two years ago, and concealing her body in a cistern, is to have a new trial. The supreme court some time ago affirmed the judgment of convicton, the opinion of the court then being written by Judge Downing, and he and Judge Monks still adhere to their opinion that Dunn was rightly convicted, but a rehearing was granted and other three judges yesterday decided that cei tain testimony ot the murdered girl's sister | was improperly admitted. The sister, Edna Cothrel, was permitted

to testify that Dunn had told her about his former relations with a woman who worked in his family, and who accompanied him to Chicago during the worlds fair. WAS DISASTROUS Another Proof That Newspaper Advertising is the Only Way. A ineroanttile company pasted a largo poster on a bridge. The wind caused it to Hutter and scare a team. This tiped the wagon over, broke two dozen eggs, a hame strap, the driver’s leg and an axle tree. They then ran away and run through a garden tipping a bee hive over, the bees stung tho young lady of the house until her lips, swelled to such proportions ■ that her Ix'st fellow left and went to the I’hillippines. The driver |sued the firm for damages; one ; hundred witnesses were railed and when they were asked what was on i the poster none of them could tell. Moral: Paste your advertisement 1 on the pages of the homo paper and . 1 keep it alive—not the paper, but I the ad.