Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1904 — Page 1

VOLUME 11

IS AGAIN SUBMERGED Last Night’s Rains Cause More Damage at Portland

RAINS WERE GENERAL G. R. & I. and Clover Leaf Have Washouts Trains Are Hung Up at Geneva.—St. Marys River Continues to Rise. Special to the Dally Democrat. PORTLAND, Ind., April I—This city is in the midst of another awful flood, caused by yesterday's rains and the business men will again loose quite heavy. The waters at noon were within two inches of being as high as on Saturday morning. .Stores and hotels are flooded. The G. R &I. depot floors are covered by a half foot. People are living on the second floor and praying for a cessation of rainfall. Mere rains just now would surely mean a terrible disaster with great loss of property and j>erhaps life. The floods in this part of the state received a fresh start again last night and from all about us damage almost as great as before is reported. .During Wednesday the waters receded rapidy and it was believed tne danger was over but yesterday’ a slow rain all day caused the various streams to stand still and the heavy and general down jwur last night made th« waters fairly jump over them- | selves. The St. Marys river raised ! over two feet last night and reports ' from Geneva, Portland and M ill shire say the rains were even heavier than those of last week. The Grund Rapids track is washed out between Briant and Geneva this morning and all trains are held at the latter place. The night operator here was ordered to go to Geneva and tap the telegraph wires so the officials may keep posted on the condition. The Clover Leaf train due here at 5:25 a. m. arrived at noon owing to sixty feet of track b ting washed out nt Fort Jennings, Ohio. The river here is still rising and if the rains do no abate soon the results may be disastrous. WORKS DOUBLE John Baker Helps His Horse Pull Wason to Town. John Baker, the well known Blue Creek township farmer presented a rather queer looking sight at noon today when ho came down street hitched to a spring wagon with a big draft horse. John says his experenoe was fur from pleasant. Me started to town with a team hitched to a spring wagon. His horses ran away, tore up the harness and slightly disabled the rig. John got the team stopped, hitche<| one horse behind the wagon and took a place in the tugs, coming to town, where he hud his outfit r< -

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OUTSIDE ORDERS The Moser Studio Doing a Land Office Business. J. E. Moser the photographer, is attracting considerable attention aboard with his many art lines, orders coming to him from a distance j and the number of them is surprisingly large. In order to take care ' of them ps well as the large volume of business at home, he has in mind many changes and improvements that will enable this studio to keep up with the orders that are coming in upon them. The Moser studio has long had an enviable reputation for high class work, and the preparations now under way for the purpose of taking advantage of the trade that his skill warrants. WILL IT HOLD? Celina Reservoir May Break Seven Feet of Bank Washed Out, Loss is Already Fifty Thousand Dollars. Special to Dally Democrat. CELINA, Ohio, April I—The famous reservoir here, biggest artificial lake in the world is the highest ever known and the banks which hold the wild waters are threatening to give away. Already the east bank knowm at east pike has washed out seven feet and men are busy hauling stone to repair same and hold back the waters. People of Celina are greatly excited and fear the results if the break comes and few people closed their eyes in this city lust night. At various points the lake has already overflowed and the loss is now |50,000. All bridges ure down, fences and buildings washed away and the country looks desolate. What the outcome would be should the reservoir break can scarcely be foretold but towns along the St. Marys river will surely suffer. The waters are pouring over the top of the flood gates in torrents and this is what causes the river to rise so rapidly at Fort Wayne and Decatur. SAD DEATH This morning at one o’clock occurred the death of Miss Ora Winans the nineteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Winans who live four miles south of this city. The direct cause of this young lady's death being oerebal menenigtis. The funeral services will be held Sunday morning at eleven o’clock at the Methodist chruota at Pleasant Mills and interment will be made in the Pleasant Mills oemo-

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1904.

SMALL WRECK Erie Freight Broke Down And Delaved Traffic. A small wreck occurred yesterday afternoon on the Erie which for a while stopped all freight and passenger traffic between this city and Rivare. The cause of the wreck is laid upon a defective truck on a box car of a heavy loaded freight which broke down just two miles east of this city throwing several cars from the track and piling them up. The wreck train was called from Huntington and after several hours of hard work the wreck was cleared up so as to allow business to resume. The train that is due here at 3:31 was run over the Clover Leaf to Ohio City. The damage will be light. ENJOYING LIFE Frank Touhey Writes His Father Tells of Life in the Jeffersonville Re formatory.—ls Learning Trade. Michael Touhey on yesterday received a letter from his son Frank, who was sent to Jeffersonville some time ago for forgiag a drats, stating that he was in good health and enjoyed his new home as much as possible under the circumstances and that he as at present working in the chair factory, learning the trade, it being light work and that he enjoyed it. He also states that he sees Kirt Johnson almost every day but can only talk to him when allowed by the guard. He further states that the use of tobacco in any form is not allowed, and he feels the loss of this more than anything else. He also states that he has lots of company, there being some 900 inmates. These inmates ure divided into different grades which is denoted by the color of clothing one wears. The undergrades wearing the blue, the middle grade, gray, and the low grades wearing the stripes. Frank is in the middle cuss and hence wears the gray. They are all compelled to attend church on bunday and Frank says that he is in love with the preacher and enjoy his sermons immensely. Frank’s register number is 4454 where he states any mail may roach him. Os course Frank is not overjoyed with his his new surroundings but under the circumstances he will make the best of them. EASTER PROGRAM The German Reform Church to Give Entertainment. The Christian Endeavor Society of the German Reformed church will give the following Easter program next Sunday evening: Welcome Address by President. Piano Duet, True Fristoe and Jess Sellemeyer. Reading, Hulda Fruchte. Vocal Solo, Emma Sellemeyer. Easter Essay, Chas Knapp Declamation, Della Sellemeyer. Quartette, —Mrs. Voght, Otto Kirsch, Mrs. Repppert, Joss Sellemeyor. Dialogue, Selected. Cornet Solo, Jess Sellemeyer. Vocal Duet, Mrs. Voght and Miss Lucy Fruchte. No admission will be charged fur the benefit of the society. Every I body cordially invited.

REAL ROMANCE Van Wert Couples’ Elopement Miss Maude Burdge of This City Knew of the Plans and Attended the Wedding. Huntington is enjoying all the pleasures usually connected with a romance, while Cupid stands by and smiles, said last evening’s Huntington News Democrat. This morning two strangers arrived in the city over the Erie on train 13. They were a fine looking couple and it did not reqiure the second look to guess that they were lovers lor a newly married couple. The former was the correct solution. The lady was Miss Mamie Hostler and the gentleman Walter Collette. They were accompanied by his brother, James Collette. All live at Van Wert, Ohio. What added zest to the story is that Miss Hostler and Mr. Collette are an eloping couple. Three years they had been lovers. Miss Hostler’s parents are Roman Catholics and had no objectons to Collette, whom they consider an exemplary young man, but they w mid not conset to their daughter's marriage out of the church. The point was pressed I and the parents threatened to send their daughter to a convent when the lovers planned to elope. A rig was secured and they drove to . Spencerville where they caught an I Erie train and came to Huntington. i Dan Collette, the Erie despatcher, is a brother to the groom and they j repaired his- place of abode at the | Bechtol home, 60 Eist Franklin street. Later in the day the bridal 1 party were joined by Miss Maude I Burdge of Decatur and Miss Isa Davis of Markle. This afternoon the couple were united in marriage by Rev. C. C. Beatty, the Erie , despatcher. The happy couple will i spend the night in the city and in the morning leave for Kokomo where they will spend a few days visiting. Dame turner had it that Dan Collette and a young lady I from Markle were to assume vows at the same time but this was denied by Mr. Collette. The bride j is an exceptionally charming girl and is said to possess many fine qualities. The groom is one of I Van Wert’s business men taing i engaged in the livery business at that place. DRIVEN HOME Floods Make it Impossible for Travel in£ Men to Work. R. J. Holthouse came home Thursday evening and will remain here over Sunday. He says he is utterly disgusted with traveling when the high waters are as troublesome as they have been for the last week or so. He says the south part of the state is simply entirely under water and the loss will reach far into the hundred thousand and nearly every railway and interurban in the southwest part of the state is washed out and in many of the towns no mail has been received for over a week. I Traveling men are tied up in various | towns and it may be several days yet before they can got away, j Roman has been at Terre Haute I since last Friday expecting a change , for the tatter so he could proceed with his work but when the rains were renewed yesterday he made up his mind to come home for a few days. He says it is the worst flood ever known in southwestern Indiana.

FEAR TYPHOID Doctors Say Recent Floods Will Cause Epidemic. Dr. Hurty of the state board of health has issued a statement to the general public asking that all water be boiled before using. Even before the flood devastated the cities and jeopardized the supply of water the quality of it was such that precluded drinking it until it had been boiled, "says Hurty. “Now that the flood has added danger to the already large store, the necessity of recautionury measures to preserve the public health is greater than before. “The great amount of offal and injurious excrement that had collected on the surface of the soil in the city during the winter months was loosened by the avalanches of water and forced through the soils and over them to the streams from which the cities are now securing their supply of water. The evil is accentuated in the use of water in wells. From these no water should be taken for drinking purposes. They are more dangerous at anyjtime and much more so in point of view of the events of the last few days.” CAUSES DAMAGE Cyclone Works Havoc Near Cardwell Decatur Case Company Property in Southwest Suffers From Storm. Don L. Quinn, of the Decatur Egg Case Company received word this morning from Cardwell, Missouri, stating that a cyclone had passed through that section of the country Tuesday completely destroying their logging camp a few miles from that city, and also injured their railroad to some extent. The amount of the damage they could not state at that writing. It also cut a swarth of five hundred feet in width through a section of their best timber, not leaving a single tree stand through this course. The cyclone also struck a small town named Gainsville,which is near Jonesboro Arkansas, com pletely destroying the town ami killing twelve people and injuring ninety six. No word has as yet been received from Jonesboro as this is .where the Decatur colony is situated and great apprehension is fell as to their welfare.

OIL NEWS. Indiana Will Be the Leader Dur- * Ing This Year. The trenton rock oil fields of Ohio and Indana as destined to Im* I the leader in new operations this . i summer. While quite a number t of the local operators of the two ' states will go to Kansas, many' 1 from the east will stop in the sure ] producing fields of Indiana and < Ohio. Already this spring much < eastern capital s drifting into this field. In California and Texas salt water is interfering with the new work. In Indiana last week there wore wells completed which started off with a new production of 2,479 barrels daily, Thirteen wells wore either drilling ! dry or gas wells. The Grant county field leads in wells completed and new production. Wells county is seoond in now wells while BlackI ford is second in production. In Ohio there were ss wells completed with a new production of 2,076 barrels. Seven were dry.

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IN TROUBLE AGAIN Albert Lacey Arrested at Van Wert Charged With Criminal Assault.—Practically Admits Guilt And Will Plead Insanity. Albert Lacey, a young man who formerly lived near Monroe and who a few years ago was sent to the penitentiary from here for horse stealing is again in serious | trouble. He has been arrested at i Van Wert for criminal assault and the evidence against him is very strong. The Van Wert Bulletin of last evening says: The story of the crime as related I to the officers is that Mrs. Caleb Fish, whose home is on North Chestnut street, last Saturday afternoon sent her daughter, 'Wilma a child of thirteen years, to the Lacey home, on North Tyler street, to borrow some Coffee. Mrs. Fish i and Mrs. Lacey are sisters and it I was not unusual for them to call j upon one another for articles to bo used about the house or to send the children on errands of this kind. i When the Fish girl reached the Lacy home he and his two little I sons, aged nine and four years, were the only ones present, Mrs. i Lacey having gone to town to do some marketing. Lacey gave his | eldest son five cents and sent him for some lemons, presumably to ■ get him away from the house. When Mrs. Lacey reached home the ' husband and the Fish girl were in a bed room behind locked doors. The woman forced the doors open and found evidence of an attempt at criminal assault. The little girl's story substantiated the suspicion. The story was not told until yesterday when the Lacey woman gave it to the officer. She and her husta n<l had quarreled and parted the night before and, no i doubt she sought to rid herself of ; him or to be avenged for charges lof unfaithfulness made against her by Laoey. In the hearing held this morning Lacey was found | guilty of an attempt at criminal ' assault. In fact his ow’n stories | were so damaging that they had I greater weight in the prosecution : than for the defense. Lacey was held to answer to the Court of Common Pleas and his bond was fixed at one thousand dollars. Ho was sent to jail in default. Lacey is thirty two years old. He will plead insanity as a defense.

GOES TO INDIA Rev. Naftzger Accepts Charge in a Foreign Land. The many friends in this city of Rev. Earl Natzger one of the most prominent Methodist ministers in the Northern Indiana Conference, will bo surprised to learn that he has been offered and accepted the pastorate of one of the largest charges in India. Os the anticipat - ed change,a special from Richmond to the Indianapolis Star says “The Rev. Earl Naftzger, former pastor of the Methodist church at Centerville, this county, and at present pastor of the Market street Methodist church at Logansport, has fs'en appointed pastor of the English I speaking Methodist church at I Bombay, India, and will leave for his now homo the middle oi April, i He will sever his relation with the North Indiana Conference next week during the session at Muncie. He is a brother of the Rev. L. -I. Naftzger, pastor of the Graoo M. E. church at Kokomo.” ■ - ,T • — . —