Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1904 — Page 1

VOLUME II

ARGUMENTS HEARD TODAY Big Law Suit to Go to Jury Tomorrow Noon

OCCUPIED EIGHTEEN DAYS Fourth Trial of Famous Land Case Nearly Over Brill’ant Attorneys Are Putting on Finishing Touches With Their Speeches.

After nearly three weeks of hot legal battles the famous case of Thomas Faylor et al vs D. D. Studabaker is drawing to close and will go to the jury at about noon tomorrow. The trial began Monday morning, March 13, and as a verdict will probably not be returned before Saturday morning the case will have occupied eighteen days of actual trial or exactly three weeks. This is the fourth time the evidence has been gone over, I being the third trial of this case while prior to the death of Aunt Katie Faylor the same questions were at issue in an action to declare her of unsound mind. When the case was first tried at Bluffton a verdict was returned for the plain tiffs. Defendant Studabaker took a new trial as of right and the case was brought here on change of venue. Tried here in January the jury failed to agree and the outcome of this hearing is awaited by many with interest The action is one to set aside the conveyance of a large and valuable farm given to Mr. Studabaker by Miss Fayloi on a contract that he care for her during her life, given her a decent burial and erect a monument for her. She lived only a year or so and the plaintiffs who are heirs claim the defendant was overpaid and that the contract is null be cause Miss Faylor was of unsound mind when same was made. The attorneys for the plantiff are Judge Dailey, Levi Mock, C. E. Sturgis of Bluffton and Judge Heller of this city; for the defendant are W H Eichhorn, of Bluffion. Johhn Burns of Hartford City, Leah & Lesh of Huntington and I). E. Smith of : Decatur. Mr. Mock opened the arguments at eight o'clock this morning and was followed by Mr. lj«sh. Judge Erwin allowed each side six hours for argument, a total of twelve hours and which with the time required for the courts instructions will continue the oaae up to tomorrow noon when the jury will l>egin their deliberations. It is said I the costs in the case will reacn •25,000. BAD ROADS. The recent heavy ruins have placed the mud roads in an almost im Possible condition and farmers who live along them are afraid to venture out as it takes extra horses to haul even a small load. This may he the cause of the fulling off of the crowds in the city during the w eok and on Saturdays. It is Imped I hy ai| tliut the weather will soon tettle and good roads will again be in order.

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HORSE DEALS. Mr. Bohnke Buys a Good One From Frysinger & Co. Fred H. Bohnke of Root township has purchased of Frisinger & Co. Fransoe, a handsome American and Belgian stallion. He is one of the most perfect horses ever imported by this well known firm, is three year old and a beautiful sorrel. While the price has not been made public, it is known to have been a nice figure. Frisinger & Co. accepted on trade a three year old Belgian oolt which they sold today to M. W. Southard of Union City. They also sold Mr. Southard a splendid road horse at a good price.

WIRE SPECIALS Russians Flee in Wild Disorder Awful Explosion in Powder MillMiners of lowa Out on Strike.

Special to the Daily Democrat. ROME, March 31 —Dispatches from Seoul state that the Russians retreated in much disorder after their repulse by the Japanese at Chwang Ju March 28. The fleeing Cossacks threw away their sabers and rifles in their haste. Tne retiring general Mishtenko narrowly escaped captured. SCRANTON, PA., March 31 An explosion in a squibs powder factory occurred at Priceburg, a few miles form here this morning. Fourteen girls were killed, many being so badly mangled that could not be identified Six bodies have already been taken from the building. The awful accident was caused by a girl throwing a squib into the stoves. DES MOINES, lowa, March 31— Miners and operators failed to agree today. Every mine in the state is closed and 13,500 men are out. HEARST MEETING c. F. Adlespenler Organized Club Last Evening. A meeting of the W. R. Hearst admirers was held last evening at George McKean’s office and owing to the inclemency of the weather not many were present. The meeting was addressed hy Charles Adlesperger, president of the Hearst Club at Bloomington in which he brought out till the fine qualifications of Mr. Hearst in a pleasing manner.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1904.

MORE OF IT Hick’s Dose of Weather for April Gives a Headache. As though the supply would never be exhausted Rev. Hicks has fixed up a batch of disagreeable weather for April. As the month comes in cold, northernly winds, with frosts and freezing northward, will follow about the Ist to 3rd. About the 4th to the 6th falls a reactionary storm period, during which time change to warmer, with more rain and storminess will be probable. Hail storms will be most natural at all April disturbances and sudden drops of temperature should not surprise any one after all well defined storm movements. The next storm period, central on the 10th, will bring a series of pronounced storms. The culmination of these storms will fall about Sunday the 10th, to Wednesday the 13th. Look for high temperature, with rain, hail and thunder on the 11th, 12th. and 13th. From the 14th to 17th it will become very warm and decided storms of rain, hail and thunder will occur and t >rnadio disturbances are likely occur. Ftom the 19th to the 23rd the harormeter will drop low and the temperature rise very high as this jieriod progresses, resulting in many vicious thunder and hail storms on and touching the 21st, 22nd and 23rd. The normal tendency to April thunder showers will grow into decided and far reaching rain storms, with dangerous winds and possible tornadoes during the progress of these sudden changes.

OFFICE SECRETS Fred Vaughn Is Working at Maple Sugar Camp. Fred Vaughn of the Herald office went to Angola, Ind., last Thursday where he joined his wife in a visit to his parents. As the maple sugar season is now at its best, thev expect to devote no little attention to their father’s camp. During their visit Gust C. May is employed on the Herald. Mr. May is an old veteran of the civil war, having went out in the 14th Ohio from Toledo, in 1861 and served four years, a few months of which time was especially devoted to the hard task of trying to keep alive while inside the walls c.f Libby Prison, Notwithstanding his age and war service, however, he is a master of of the Art Preservative and is a rapid compositor.—Geneva Herald.

NEW CATALOGUES The J. W. Place Company Print a Book. The 1904 catalogues for the J. W. Place Company are being mailed to the trade this week. The newbook is the handsomest piece of catalogue work ever issued by a Decatur firm, it containing one hundred pages of cuts and price lists and will certainly do the work for this very progressive firm. The J. W. Place Company are branching out and are now one of the largest houses of its kind in the middle west. Thia promises to tie their banner year for business, and will no doubt far exceed that of any former year of the twentyseven, in which the firm has been in business.

PROPERTY TRADE A Deal in Business Houses Closed This Morning. A deal in Second street brick buildings was closed up today. Fred Schafer & Son purchased the Voglewedo building oocnppied by Henry Koenoman.the consideration being $7,000. A few moments afterward they traded the building to Jacrb Schafer for the south rcom on Second street of tho block ooeuped by the Schafer Hardware Company. The deal has been on foi several days but terms were not agreed upon until this morning.

OPEN AT NIGHT All Stores Begin Old Plan Tomorrow Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoe Stores and Others to Remain Open Until Eight O’clock. Beginning with tomorrow night all stores in Decatur including dry goods, clothing, and shoe stores in fact all of them will remain open until eight o'clock. The hardware stores remain open as long as business demands. Since January first, proprietors and clerks have been enjoying life and becoming acquainted with their families. During the winter evenings and especially after holidays it is almost useless to keep the stores open after supper as hut little buying would be done anyway. Consequently the plan of closing at six o clock was inaugurated two years ago and has met with entire satisfaction especialy among the store people. But this enjoyable feature is over and from now on until next New Years day down town forces will be busy until eight o’clock each evening. Decatur merchants have adhered strictly to the rule and no word of complaint is heard about competitors selling on the sly to customers after the hour agreed upon to close.

G. R. & I. WRECK Several Trainmen Hurt in Smash-Up al Grand Rapids. Passenger train No. 7on the G. R. & I.,which leaves here at 8:00 a. m., was wrecked in the yard at Grand Rapids, Mich , yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. the engine and a number of the cars leaving the track. The engine was turned over on its side, but neither the fireman nor the engineer was hurt. No one was killed or any of the passengers injured, but Baggageman George Hoateling, whose home is in Grand Rapids; Mail Clerks Fortner and Sweeny and Expressman Mclntosh were all hurt. None of them received serious injuries except Baggageman Hoateling, who was bruised about tne limbs and sustained internal injuries. His hurts however, are not considered dangerous. The exact cause of the wreck is not known, but as it occurred at a switch as the train was entering the yards, it is presumed that it was caused by a defect or by the switch having been misplaced. The wreck occurring in the yards, traffic was not seriously intreferred with. The track was cleared as soon as a wrecking force could be gotten to the scene. IS CRIME INCREASING? New Government Department Trying to Ascertain. Few'sooial questions are asked more frequently that, “what is the increase of crime?’’ The national Census Bureau is seeking an answer to this inquiry. It is undertaking to secure a record of all persons who are sentenced to the various jails, penitentiaries, and other prisons in the United Stated during the year 1904. The various wardens of the state prisons and the sheriffs of the counties are being requested to act as special agents to report certain facts concerning every person delivered into their custody.

THE NEW RULES Not Much Change in Base Ball Over Last Year. There is a great deal of resemblance between the code of playing rules for playing baseball for 1903 and 1904, and the new rules, which are now being issued and which are being sent ’out in advance copies of Reachz’s Official American League Guide. These rules will attract considerable attention for a number of reasons, one of which is the fact that there was a great deal of dissatisfaction in the American league because of the foul strike rule, which that league has tried hard to have rejected. The National league delegates have stood solid however, for its retention and it appears in the new code of rules and will be observed this year by all the teams. The only change made in the whole playing rule, this year is the coaching rule, two coaches now being permitted on the lines instead of one. When men are on bases, they are not to incite the spectators to demonstrations and shall not use language which will in any manner refer to or reflect upon a player of the opposite side, the umpire or (the spectators. LEAVES GENEVA Rev. Cain Closing Up His Several Years’ Work There. Rev. Cain will hold his last service for the year at the M. E. church in this city next Sunday and and the Herald says it marks the close of his minsterial work in Geneva. He has been pastor of the church there now for four years,during which time the church has always been in the ascendancy. Among the many things that the church has accomplished while Rev. Cain has been in charge has been the wiping out a large church debt. Rev. Cain has most of his household goods crated ready to move to wherever the Conference appoints him to go. Let all who can, attend next Sunday’s service and thus show your appreciation and kind regards to the reverend pastor on his retiring from a four years' work in our midst, during which time he has labored faithfully for the upbuilding of the church.

A DEAD ONE Obituary of the Mopes of Two Eleventh District Politicians. DIED—At Peru, Indiana, March 29th 1904, the congressional hopes and possiblities of Hon. Geo. W. Steele, late of Marion, Ind., and Dr Chas. A. Goode, late of Warren, Ind. Os Mr. Sttele it may lie said that he was past master of art of l>o]itios, wily oomiietitor, and at all times a candidate for anything that he thought possible to obtain. Os Dr. Goode we are constrained to say that he was as yet only a junior in the game of politics and that his daily polictical demise is particularly to be regretted since it was through no fault of his own that he shuffled off tne coil. The political necroolgy of Dr. Goode began in Wabash in 1902 and was effectually completed in Peru, Ind., on the above named date.—HuntI ington Journal. HORSE FUNERAL “Bluffton Boy" Burled In Casket and Sermon Preached. Dr. C. L, Land fair buried his horse, Bluffton Boy, yesterday afternoon and the animal which was the pride of the doctor's heart, got as good a funeral as many l>eople. He was lowered into a grave by ten pall bearers and his remains repose |in a hemlock coffin which is buried on the Abe llesher farm. When the burial was going on the doctor preached a short sermon on the tine qualities of the boast and consigned his four fiaited friend to the ground with a few tears.—Bluffton News.

NUMBER 68

WORK COMPLETED Numbering of Houses Practically Done City Council Will Inspect and Na Doubt Accept the Work of 0. J. Bayes. O. J. Bayes who received the contract some time ago fr>m the city council to measure off the city and give to each residence and lot its corre of number so as to All all of the city’s requirements of the government preparatory to getting free city mail delivery which will start May the flrst, informs us that his mission is almost completed and all that is left for him now to do is to measure two short streets and his work is complete in as far as he can go. He further informs us that he desires to thank the citizens of the city for so kindly assisting him in the way of being ready to accept their numbers and says that when the free delivery starts here that almost every house in the city will be numbered and in readiness. The method used by Mr. Bayes is one that is used by all the larger cities in the United States, being the old Philadelphia plan and the one that is most successful,every twenty foot constituting a number, and will not only be easy for the mail carrier but will also be benificial to all of our business men who use delivery wagons for the benefit of their patrons. Mr. Bayes is certainly to be congratulated upon his work and the pleasing manner Jin which it has been done, as every inch of ground in the city has been gone over and the numbering is correct in every instance. His work undoubtedly will be accepted by the city council and Mr . Bayes complimented upon his work. L. H. Corbin also informs us that the lettering of the streets is almost completed.

“MY FRIEND FROM ARKANSAW.” Tt will he a bit strange if tho beautiful comedy as presented by Robert Sherman’s excellent company of players does not become another. Hazel Kirke. The generation ‘hat is now bound to tho theatre has little or no recollection of the great vogue that the earlier player enjoyed, and is, in consequence, numoved by the qualities that made a million for Hazel Kirke, are all present in “My Friend from Arkansaw" with the added advantage of liet’er scenic surroundings a pleasanter dialogue and more of novelty in personages and local. The play should prove decidedly interesting and it is a pleasure to note that the taste of the public in affairs of the theatre are again turning to the good wholesome plays that tell coherent stories. “My Friend from Arkansaw” will be the attraction at the opera house Wednesday April 6. BASE BALL MEETING. There will be a meeting of all tho aspirants for places on the Rosenthal Base Ball Club this season tomorrow evening at the Columbian Club rooms at which meeting tho members will tie drilled on a few signs and other things pertaining to the best interest of the team. All are specially requested to tai present without fail. ::n3£» LODGE NOTICE. All memtiers of K. of P. lodge are requested to be at lodge tonight , that preparations may be made for ■ instituting Genova lodge. There i will also lie Third Bank Work. J. C. Tritoh, C. C.