Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1904 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. m»r Innina, ixoarr icmdat, bt LBW «. EULINffIHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. »» Barrier per week 10c By Carrier, per year .... *« 00 Br mall, per moot! 25c B» mall, per year *2.50 ■lngle copies. Two Cents. UnrUiinj rates made known on application <e the postclßco at Decatur. Indiana. as second-class mall matter A. H. HELLER, Manssir.

COUNTY TICKET For Joint Senator JOHN W. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN For Auditor C. D. LEWTON f For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER . For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S. FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID WERLING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN CITY TICKET For Mayor DAVID D. COFFER For City Clerk JACK McFEELEYI For Treasurer t W. J. ARCHBOLD For Marshal RD GREEN For Councilmen—First Ward AL BUHLER alex Lebrun For Councllmen—Second Ward H. S. PORTER HENRY BTETLER For Councilmen—Third Ward PETER GAFFER PETEK KIRSCH

ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are authorized to announee the name of ' Charlee W. Yager &ea candidate for Treaaur- , er of Adams county, subject to the decision of the Democratic Delegate Convention to be held Friday Aprill9o4. i We are authorized to anounce the name of HattLias Kirsch of Decatur as a candidate 1 for Treasurer of Adams countv. subject to tte decision of the Democratic Delegate Convention to bt held Friday. April b. IMO 4 We are authorized to announce the name of J F Lachot of Berne, as a candidate for i Treasurer of Adams county, subject u> the decision of the Democratic Delegate Convention to be held Friday. April b. 1904. OFFICIAL RESIGNS General Superintendent Frazier of Clover Leaf Quits. President Shonts, of the Clover j Leaf yesterday morning received the resignation of J. L. Frazier, general superintendent of the Toledo, St. Louis it Western railway. For a month or more there have been rumors of Mr. Frs-xW's inten ' lion to resign ’and his resignation therefore was no great surprise. He has been connected with the property for more than a year - and a half and is one of the most _ railroad men in this section. He came to the Clover Leaf from the Southern Pacific railroad with which property he served as a division superintendent. Mr. Fraizer asks that his resignation become effective on April 1, or as soon thereafter as possible. It is understood that he will return t<s X'alifornia where he has WHsiderable jiroperly President Shonts has not aS ween red a successor io Ms. Eraizer although he said this morning he hoped to secure a man bafore the first of the mowtfc

All kind candy at Racket Store, 10 cent pieY pound. «2d3 W ANTED—Carpet to weave. J. C. Coverdale, South 11th steret. ts ■ All kind military buttons at Racket store, 10 cents. 623 d Attend the Milliners opening Friday March 25, at Mrs. Boese, Monroe street. 61d2 FOR SALE—A grain drill fertilizer and seed drill all oombineil, will sell cheap. Inquire of, W. C. Fronetleld. 63dfl. !

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LARGE FUNERAL Col. Plessinger Burie Today Services Held at Bluffton This After* noon Attended by Nany Societies.

Special to Dally Democrat. BLUFFTON, Ind., March 25— Not withstanding the heavy rain today the funeral services of Col. J. B Pessinger who died so suddenly at Decatur Tuesday evening, were largely attended. The I. O. O. F. and G. A. R. had i hRTfe of ths services and conducted their ritual work The Daughters of Rebecca, encampment, fire department, militia and city officials at I tended in a body. The sermon was preached by Rev. C. G. Miller at the Presbyterian church.

VISITS JAILS i Government Representative Gathering Criminal Statistics. H. F. Hise, a special agent of the department of commerce and labor, the new government bureau recently created of which George B Cortelyou is at the head is in the gas belt collecting statistics relative to the number of foreigners who are confined in the penal and charitable institutions. Mr Hise is connected with the imigration bureau of the department of commerce and labor, and it is believed , that his present trip over the country is to gather material to be used in legislating against the whob-sale admission of undesirable classes ot foreigners. Mr. Hise called on several people and was able to secure much valauble information. The records as now kept show a man's birthplace and other information. While the agent is securing any information possible it is his purpose to also make arrangements for the keeping of the records, as the government may want them. They ask that all prisoner's birthplaces be given, and ( if a foreigner whether or not he is naturalized. He paid a visit to all .the institutions while here. The government agent will visit the jails and prisons in the state and his report will show just the per centage of foreigners among the prisoners. According to Hise, the inporting of immigrants into this

country at New York is something alarming. While some of them will make good citizens the majority of them are lowest type of men jand women. Ninety out of every I hundred men are laborers, Ri se dods Hot say what the burpose of his report is, bxit It is strongly intimated that OH the figures returned by himscU and other special agents an attempt will be made to frame b“7w and better imigration laws.

Marriage Licenses. Henry Meyer to Bertha Miller. FOR SALE—A desirable twenty one acre tract of land on public, road, one and a half miles northeast of D<>catur. Address Snow Agency. 63d6 Ten thousand dollars private funds left with us to loan on Decatur real estate,first mortgage. Lowrate of interest. Will loan in sums of <SO upwards. The Decatur Abstract and Lian Co. 257dtf

STRUCK BY TRAIN Warren Man Has Team Killed and Is Badly Bruised. Philip Rauch, aged about 65, a | farmer and dairyman living about a mile north of Warren, narrowly escaped death under a Clover Leaf freight train Wednesday evening. Both of his'horses were killed and his milk wagon which he was driv ing was smashed to kindling wood and the esca}>e of Rauch was almost miraculous. Rauch saw the train, an east bound freight, approaching but thought he would be able to cross the track head of it. Eye witnesses of ihe accident say that the train was running probably over thirty miles an hour, much above the regulation within the city limits. Rauch drove onto the track just in time to get caught. The engine struck his horses and both were killed almost instantly and thrown onto the side of the track. Rauch was hurled from his demolished wagon and landed probably twenty five feet away. Spectators thought he had been killed but he escaped with only bad cuts abouth is head as his worst injuries.

DATE FIXED Geneva K. P. Lodge to be Instituted Mendav. April 11, is the Date Set by the Grand Lodge Powers.

The date of instituting the Geneva I K. of P lodge is Monday. April 11, H and E Burt Lenhart has been se- ■ lected as instituting officer, and will have charge of the ceremonies ; — incident to instiling life into this new born fraternal order. It is 1 expected that Kekionag Ledge will | turn out from seventy five to one hundred strong, and the Decatur Company Number 70. of the U. R. K. of P. will also lend their presence toward making the occasion a memorable one. Phoenix and Harmony lodges of Fort Wayne will also l>e there, as will also Red Cross Knights of Portland. The local committee at Geneva are alreadv preparing to entertain the visiting Knights in a royal way, and that they will succeed, goes without saying. Orva c Fink iPUB of the charter members of the 5 new order, was here last evening | Confer ing with Mr Lenhart in I regard to arrangements for the I coming event. I

COURT NEWS Seme Civil and Probate business of Today. ("butt did not adjourn this afternoon to allow attorneys and parties in the Faylor Studabaker case to attend the funeral of Mr. Plessinger at Bluffton as it will require every moment of time to |finish the case within the present term which closes Saturday April 2. In the partnership matter of John Busenbark and Joseph Osborne the reoiever filed Anal report. Distribution of funds on and was ordered as prayed for. Merryman & Sutton as attorneys for plaintiff tiled a new case entitled. The Berne Lumber Company vs Rebuen Clark, et al, suit to foreclose mechanics lien, demand ♦•>o. —o — George W. Brown was appoint'd administrator for the Ivy Roebuck estate and filed his bond which was approved Decatur has more than a fair chance of being made the division point of the Clover Leaf railroad. The company has made the city a propcsitionjthat it will not be difficult to meet. The shops, round house and iee plant will likely all be moved from Delphos, Ohio. —Winchester Democrat.

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