Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1904 — Page 1

VOLUME II

ON THE RUN Russians Flee From the Japs An Army of Robbers Are Camped Near New twang Awaiting the Departure of Soldiers. Special to The Daily Democrat 8:30 p. m. LONDON May 10—The Daily Telegraph Seoul correspondent says, “It is believed here that a portion of the Russians Vladivastok fleet has been successfully shut out and is now in the sea of Japan trying te evade the Japanese. CHEE FOO May 10—Passengers arriving today from New Chwang say that the Russian force probably evacuated that place during the night. Many had already departed yesterday. Over 3,000 bandits and robbers are camped outside the walls of New Chwang ready to begin looting at the moment the last of the Russian solidershave left the city. EXPLORER DEAD Henry M. Stanton, Famous African Traveler, Victim of Pleurisy. LONDON, May 10—Sir Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, is dead. Sir Henry was attacked by pleurisy a fortnight ago at his London residence. His illness was complicated by chronic heart trouble. He had been in a semiconscious condition since Sunday afternoon. INVITATIONS RECALLED Smoker Postponed on Account of Absence of Guest of Honor. The Smoker which was to have been held at the Commercial Club I rooms tonight in honor of French Quinn, organizer and ex-president of the club has been postponed owing to the fact that Mr. Quinn has not yet arrived from his trip to Arkansas. The invitations have been recalled and the date for the event will not be decided upon until French arrives home. May Come True. There is an old tradition to the effect that if there is a fog in January there will be a frost on the same day of the month of May. A citizen speaking of this today said that he had watched the matter for several years and it generally proved true. He also called attention to the fact that there was a heavy fog on the 11th, 12th and 13th of January and thought that the prospects for the tradition proving true this year were favorable. Watch it this week. Co. B, Attention. All members of Co. 8., 160th I. V. I. are requested to meet at the council chamber over Coffee A Mangold’s Bazaar, Saturday evening, May 14, at seven o’clock. Every member should be present at this meeting as arrangements will be made for the holding of the next annual reunion in this city, besides other business of importance will be transacted. Don't let anything keep you away. F. M. Geesing, Col.

The Daily Democrat.

APPEAL FILED Osborne Case Reaches Supreme Court of Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS May 9—The ap peal of Joseph Osborn from a conviction for murder in the second degree, ant’ a sentence of imprisonment for life was filed today in the supreme court. Osborn killed his father in law John Busenbbark, with his fists in a quarrel over the , sale of a farm in Adams county, which they owned in partnership. The defense of insanity was set up by Osborn’s attorneys and they also tried to show that he acted in self defense. The evidence showed that he knocked the old man down and then streuk him in the face five or six times as he lay I on the ground, but there was an attempt to prove that Busenbark was whittling a stick when the trouble liegan, and Osborn was afraid he would use his knife in the tight. PURCHASE HORSE] — Berne Men Make Good Investment Frisinger & Company Dispose of Another of Their Famous Belgians. I Messrs, Hawbegger & Neunchwonder of Berne Ind., were in our city last Saturday, and while here purchased of Frisinger & Co., a beautiful French Coach Stallion 5 years old weighing 1400 pounds, j According to the judgement of j those who saw this young stallion he is most assuredly a magnificent young horse. He is 16 hands high and weighs 1400 pounds. Bis color ! “ action, style and finish are not to be excelled in any state. Good fashionable coach horses of tho show ring type, sold in a recent coach horse sale in New York us high as at any time in the history of the j industry. An elegant four in hand ; team sold for $9,200 and a single individual went under the hammer for 2,100. In the above horse whose out is produced in this issue is the combination of individuality j and a perfect strain of breeding. On the face of his certificate of registration his origin is traced back to the year 1734, which very few horses of any breed cun do. As Berne is situated in the midst of one of rhe greatest breeding centers of the west Messrs, Habegger & Co. surely have made a good investment and without doubt the farmers and breeders in that locality, will by their warm and hearty support show to these young men their approval of this effort to further advance one of the greatest Indus, tries of this county. This young stallion, “Phenix" may be seen at the barn of the owners in Berne. MRS. SHADY DEAD Well Known Citizen of This and Wells County. Mrs. Elizabeth Shady aged seventy five years died at her home six miles and a half west of thia city yesterday morning at 11:55 o’clock after a few months of serious sickness with stomach trouble she was an old settler of Wells county having lived there for sixty years. The funeral services will be held tomorow morning at the house, Rev. Keider of Elkhart officiating. Interment will by made in the Shady cemetery. She leaves a husband, three sons and two daughters to morun their loss.

DECATUR, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1904.

AGAINST HIMSELF Anderson Man Filed an Affidavit Woman In the Case Was Formerly Mrs. August Hammerly of This City. A special from Anderson says: “A precedent in local legal circles was established today when Jonathan S. Beard appeared in the mayors court and stated that he desired to file an affidavit against himself on a charge of illegal relations. He was accommodated and included in his complaint was Mrs. Mary C. Walters, with whom he has been living. “The couple came here from Hartford City, where Beard was in business. After j reaching Anderson the woman refused to live with him longer and in order to revenge himself on her Beard was willing to submit to imprisonment himself. He first met Mrs. Walters at Ft. Wayne and from there they went to Kansas and lived three years, finally re- | turning to Ohio. From Toledo they I came to Hartford City. The Walters woman has hud a varied matrimonial experience having been four times married and divorced before she met and lived with Beard. She was first married to August Hammerly, near Decatur Ind., then John Barger, who lives in Ohio; next John Chrisman, at Lynn Grove Ind., and lastly John Walters, at Ft. Wayne. Mayor Forkner fined both Beard and the woman $25 and sentenced them to jail for thirty days each. Beard said that he ! would appeal, despite the fact that jhe had sworn to the affidavit against himself. The question now arises, can a man legally make an affiidavit against himself?" KNOWN HERE Bluffton Lady Dies After Short Illness With Heart Trouble. Mrs. Wililam Mcßride died at her home on West Wabash street at four o’clock Saturday afternoon after an illness of but two weeks with heart trouble. Mrs. Mcßride’s! maiden name was Lucy A. Buckingham and family records show that she was a descendent of the family of Buckinghams who have been of the English peerage of centuries and a remote relative of the present Lord Buckingham. She was a na-l tCe of Ohio, and was married to William Mcßride thirty six years i ago. They had four children, all of whom died. Charles Mcßride is an adopted son. Mrs. Mcßride died just one day before her sixty seventh birthday.—Bluffton News. Mrs. Mcßride was well known and had relatives in this county. AN ATHLETE Burt Townsend Wins Laurels at College. Dick Townsend received word from his son Burt this morning who is attending school at the Howe Military school at Lima. Ind., stating that on Saturday last he took part in an atheletio meet between his school and the Kalamazoo High School, being entered in the broad jump for his school, and winning the same but being forced to jump nineteen feet and a quarter of an inch to do so. This jump certainly speaks very highly for Burt's atheletio ability, as it is close to the world's record, and it was Burts first attempt. The Howe Military School win the meet by just one quarter of a point.

THEIR STORY Van Wert Boys Well Pleased With Treatment Here. The Van Wert High School base ball team won the game with the Decatur High School, Saturday afternoon by the score of ten to six. The game was marked bv som,e heavy stick work on the part of the locals, but was not as clean a field ing contest as the first meeting of the two teams. Van Wert’s vic- ' tory is notable because Decatur has more than an average team and because game was played on the Decatur grounds, where a large crowd of rooters were present to urge the Hooisers to victory. Tb« same good feeling which characterized the game here prevailed and the | day's sport was c osed with a re- .! ception in the evening. The entertainment was of high order of ex- ,; cellence. Simon, Ferguson and ,! McDonald formed the VanWert battery.—Van Wert Bulletin. GAVE OUT I I Big Oil Gusher Near Willshire Quits • Alter Flowing Fifty Barrels an Hour for Several Davs Salt Water Shows L’p. — Special to Dally Democrat, WILLSHIRE, OHIO, May 10— ! The famous Cully oil well which for i a week flowed fifty barrels an hour and had people in this vicinity greatly excited suddenly gave out last night and quit flowing entirely. The well still shows some signs of oil but there is little hope o getting rid of the salt water. However the company will begin pumping the salt water oft at once. COURT NEWS Two New Cases Filed Today Judge Erwin Absent and No Business Transacted. Big Case Next Week. Attorneys Erwin & Erwin this morning filed a new case entitled William Swartz,Elidale Cole Edward Cole and Katie Swartz vs. Nathaniel B. and John Swartz, suit for partition. —o— Another new case filed this morning was a quiet title suit, Hooper < & Lenhart attorneys for plaintiff, i The case was entitled Lucinda B. Hessler vs. H. H. and Malindi 1 Hughes, and all their heirs and 1 Susan E. Hughes and Martha J. i Everhart. i —o— i Judge Erwin was not present this 1 morning and consequently no bust- I ness was transacted in court other i than the filing of new oases. , The case of the School Town Ge- j neva vs the Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Company in which $12,000 is demanded is set for trial i next Monday and will no doubt occupy two weeks time.

CHILD LOST I J ’ Causes Some Excitement on Street s i f ’ The Mother Nearly Frantic.—Police and Citizens Join in the i > Hunt. 1 “A child lost.” was the report j circulated about six o’clock last [ evening and which caused quite a t ; little excitment for half an hour. Mrs. Jacob Sheeler, of Preble township waa trading at the Boston store and her little four year old son followed another lady out of the store believing her to be his mother. He followed her as far as Fifth street before he discovered the mistake and then as might be supposed the little fellow lost his ' bearings and wandered down Fitfh street instead of Monroe. In the meantime the child had been missed and the mother was almost distracted. The police were notified and with many other people joined in the hunt. Finally the lad was found in Frank Gast’s yard on I Adams street. Mrs. Sheeler was almost too happy to speak when her boy was restored to her, unharmed. found pearl Ohio Man Picks up Stone in Grant Couny Worth Nine Hundred Dollars. In the Mississinewa river, two miles and a hall north of Marion, a . pearl was found yesterday the value of which has been placed at S9OO. William Long of Cleveland, 0., a pearl hunter by occupation is the name of the finder of the rare jewel. Long has been in that county 1 for several weeks, and in that time has taken pearls from mussels the total value of which is roughly estimated in the thousands. For sev--1 eral days the jewel hunter has been in camp north of the city and so well pleased is he with the territory he has decided to remain in the county for some time. Long's home is in Cleveland, O. For the past sixteen vears he has been engaged in hunting pearls and in that time has accumulated a small fortune. He has a fine home in Cleveland, where he spends the winter months. He is rather an interesting character. He is a graduate of a university and is well versed on the subject of pearls. He can tell the value of one at the first glance. Long says the Mississinewa river is alive with mussels, many of which undoubtedly contain valuable i pearls. Although he has been along the river but a very short time he ? has found several large ones and | says that he expects to locate many , more before ho departs for new territory. MAY HISTORY Averages of Weather for This Month for Third of Century. Weather observer A. V. Randall, i of the Indianapolis station, reports | ’ as follows for the month of May for I1 33 years past: Mean or normal! i teinpeatur 64 degrees; the warmest i month was that of 1896, with an • average of 71 degrees; the coldest 1 month was that of 1897, with an < average of 58 degrees; the highest temperature was 96 degrees on Muy 31 1895; the lowest temperature i was 31 degrees on May 2, 1877. Average rainfall for the month, 4.04 inches; the greatest monthly precipitation was 8.83 inches in 1892, the least monthly precipation was 1.07 inches in 1895; the greatest amount, of precipitation recorded 'in any 24 consecutive hours was I 2.73 inches on May 30, 31, 1892.

NUMBER 102

BIG OIL DEAL Will Kunkle Manages a $300,000 Deal. The largest oil deal reported in [; Indiana properties for many months has just been completed here in Bluffton. W. A. Kunktel, of th.a city acting as agent The properties sold are the oil and gas leases of the Huntington light and gas leases of the Huntington Light and I Fuel company, owned l y F. J. ! Bippus and his mother of Huntington, which were sold to the Wagner Oil company newly organized and composed of local and foreign capitalists through the efforts of Mr. Kunkel to make the purchase for the sum of $300,000. The lease | covers 5.234 acres nil in one block, r in Wayne and Jefferson townships, t ! Huntington county, on which are t 102 producing wells with a daily production as shown by the pipe i line reports, of 300 barrels, being j considered one of the best proper- [ ties in the state—Bluffton Banner, f : : AN OLD PIONEER l B 1 ; Washington Gilpen Died This Morning i * i After a Year of Suffering the End Came to a Well Known Citizen. f This morning at five thirty o'clock j at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. i Rinear on Tenth street occurred the » death of Washington Gilpen an old t and honored citizen of our county. , For several years Mr. Gilpen had i suffered from asthma and a few , months go became afflicted with r dropsy which with old age he was < unable to battle and had to sucoomb , to is ravaging effects, death reliev- . ; ing him this morning. All during . his sickness he was never known ij to complain always putting his > faith in God and stating that He ■ knew best. Mr. Gilpen was seven- >, ty seven years old and leaves two i (daughters and one son namely Mrs • F. W. Dibble, Mrs. C. T. Rinear of this city and Mrs. Ezia Gilpen of ■ j Hobart to mourn their loss. The funeral services will be held ThursI day afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the I Methodi. 1 1 church interment will be made at Maplewood cemetery. Rev. Sprague of Monroe will have charge i of the services. The remains may be viewed on Wednesday from two to nine I o'clock p. m. and on Thursday I from nine to ten o'clock a. m. TO LEAVE SOON Rev. and Mrs. Fisher Will Sail for India June First. The Rev. and Mrs. Fred O. Fisher, who in April volunteered to take up missionary work in India, will probably leave Muncie for Abga, India, about the first of June. Saturday April 9, while the North Indiana M. E conference was in session at the High street church, Bishop Frank Warner, of I dia, in a preliminary address, stated the need of clerical workers in his episcopate. He then announced, to the glad surprise of the large audience, that the Rev. Fred and Mrs. Edith Fisher had offered their services as missionaries in that far away land. The spirit of the conference was shown when Bishop Warner explained that there was no fund with which to pay the transportation and salary for the first year. Bishop McCabe was on his feet in an instant and pledged SIOO to start the Subscriptions. In a few minutes SISOO, more than enough I was raised.