Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1904 — Page 1

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WILL RECOVER Henry Weber Regained Consciousness Skull Fractured and Ear Cut Off in Accident.—Unconscious Thirty Hours. * Henry Weber will very probably recover” said Dr. Smith of Hoagland his attending physician, at two o’clock this Mr Weber was injured in a peculiar manner Wednesday evening. He was assisting in stretching wire fencing and was using a patent machine. One of the posts give way, allowing ihe wire to slip and the machine fell, striking Henry on the heau. His skull was fractured in several places and the right ear was out half in two. He was taken home and Drs. Smith and Morris of Hoagland called. Everything possible was done but the patient remained unconscious uutil last night his death being momentarilv epxected. He was able to speak last evening and today has entirely recovered consciousness and the physicians are now confident that he will recover Weber is one of the best known young farmers of Root township. His many acquaintances here will be glad to hear of his improvement LEASES SOLD Adams County Oil Property Brought $30,500 Receiver Ehinger Disposed of Prudential Oil Company’s Ownings Today. But one firm, Nichols & Pittman bid on the Adams county oil lands sold today by E. X. Ehinger receiver for the Northwest Virignia Cil company and thej’ were awarded the property at two o’clcok this afternoon. The sale opened at ten o’clock and Nichols & Pittman who are Chicago coal merchants bid ♦25,000. No other bid wasj made but attorney Beuel of Chicago rep. resenting stockholders asked that the sale be held open as he expected some other bidders. Nichols & Pittman raised their bid to $30,500 and asked that the sale close. Receiver Ehinger held the sale open until two o'clock when he “knocked it off ” to the bidders. The property it is said sold very cheap having an average production of thirty throe barrels daily and with machinery was believed worth at least $35,000. The buyers were heavy stock holders in the original company. The sale will no doubt be confirmed at the special session of court to be held Monday.

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Invitations have boon received in the city announcing the commencement program of tho Indianapolis Conservatory of Music the dates of which are Juno 20, 21, 23 and 25. Among those on the program for tho four evenings exercises is Miss Lucile Bryson who ends her first year at this timo. The graduation proper will occur on Thursday evening with four graduator

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GETTING BETTER Samuel Lutz Recovering From Effects of Cancer. Samuel Lutz of Williams was in the city today. He has been suffering with a cancer on his hand for some time and an operation for the removal of same was performed a few days ago. He is getting along nicely and the bothersome growth will lie removed tomorrow by the Drs. Clark. Mr. Lutz is tho father of Mrs. C. F. True and the well known lawyer C. J. Lutz. I. 0. 0. F. Sunday to be Observed by Odd Fellows Visitors Are Expected From Geneva and Linn Grove Together With Geneva Band. Sunday will be observed by the fraternity of rhe I. O. O. F. as i their annual Decoration Day when they will remember the deceased of their order by a proper observance of this day set apart and by the placing of flowers upon the graves of those whose memories they seek to revere. According to the program now arranged the members will meet at the lodge room at two o’clock and repair in order to Maplewood where ritualistic service will be given together with ten minutes talk by James T. Merryman. There are thirty six Odd Fellows whose names and memi ories will be honored by this ser- | vice and nearly all of them sleep the sleep of the righteous in Maplewood. Invitations have boon extended to both Geneva and Linn Grove lodges and from advices athand representatives from both will be here to take part in the services arranged. In this connection we are authorized to say that at two o'clock on Saturday afternoon the Daughters of Rebecca are requested to meet at the home of Mrs. D. E. Scott for the purpose of making wreaths and arranging flowers to be used on this occasion. FAMILY REUNION D. M. Henslev, Wife and Children go to Wheeling to Attend Event. D. M. Hensley and family left this morinng for Wheeling, West Virginia, where they will attend a reunion of the Hensley family. Some of the brothers have not seen each other for twenty years and every member of the family with their wives and children are to be present at this event which will no doubt be a happy one. Sunday is to be the big day and Mr. Hensley and family will return home Tuesday. IN A STUPOR Murderer John Terrell Shows no Improvement. A dispatch from Richmond says: “There is but little change in the condition of John W. Terrell, the Bluffton murderer since his admisson to the Eastern Indiana Insane Hospital and Medical Superntendent Smith says there is no probability of appreciable improvement nor decline for some time to come. “Terrell remains is a stupor”, say Dr. Smith, ‘and but little signs of intelligence come from his eyes. Ho is not violent, nor raving.”

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1904.

FELL FROM BRIDGE Boy Has Narrow Escape From Death Tried to Board Train on Bridge and Fell to Water’s Edge Many Feet Below. X small.boy whose aame we were unable to learn had a very narrow escape from instant death yesterday about noon. It seems that this young fellow had been across the river on some pretext or other and jon his return to the city got as far as the Erie railroad bridge which spans the St. Marys river and was stopped from crossing by the approach of the Erie local He was forced to stand at the east end of the bridge until the train passed, everthing was all right un l till this young fellow took’a sud- ■ den notion to catch the caboose of i the train and ride across. This I though no sooner struck his mind until he put the same into execution and made a desperate grab for the handles on tho caboose. In doing so he either slipped or lost his balance and was hurled from the I bridge to the river bank below I which is lined with rocks and sand. One of the brakeman saw the accident and signaled for the train to stop and the train crew hurridly returned to the scene expecting to find the young man killed but as they approached the east end of the bridge ami looked down they saw ' him slowly picking himself up and he made the remark to the train men that he was not hurt. In falling he hit upon bis hands and knees thus saving himself. HOME FROM WAR Adams County Boys Return from Philippines Charles Warner and Perry Roebuck Served Over Two Years in the Islands. Charles Warner and Perry Roebuck of Pleasant Millls uro in our city today looking up old friends having returned yesterday morning from the Phillippine Islands where they put in two years and fifteen days in the service for Uncle Sam trying to educate the islanders to American ideas of warfare. The boys were both well pleased with their trip and with the country they saw but both are of the opinion that they do not want any mure. These boys inlisted two years ago at Fort Sherdan, 111., and were immediately sent to the front as members of Company L. While in the Phillipines they wore engaged in several conflicts but both came out unscathed. Both boys while there wore quite sick on several different occasions, Roebuck having un attack of malaria fever which lasted nine months and Warner very near dying from dystentery and was sick for almost a year. Tho boys saw a great deal of country and were favorably impressed with Japan which is the America of tho oast and with tho beautiful surroundings at Honolulu. Tho boys wore mustered out and discharged at Salt Lake City Utah, and aro now ready for a much quieter life than they have been leading for the past two years.

PEDRO PARTY Mrs. J. B. Miebers and Mrs. Ben Knapke entertained about forty of their lady friends at the home of the former on North Fifth street yesterday afternoon and the event was a very delightful one , enjoyed thoroughly by each guest. Progressive pedro was played and in this old popular game the prizes went to Mrs. B. Wemhoff and Mrs. J. W. Bosse while Mrs. R. J. Holthouse and Mrs. Clem Holthouse were given consolation awards. A delicious luncheon was served as a happy climax to the afternoon’s event. Mesdames Miebers and Knapke have proven themselves royal entertainers according to the verdict of those present. HAVE YOU GUESSED? Niblick & Co.’s Contest Closes Tomorrow Guess on Population of Decatur Must be in by Noon.—Prizes Awarded in Evening. The contest at Niblick & Co's | store closes tomorrow noon at I twelve o'clock after which time no guesses will be received. For two weeks the coup ms have been coming in regular with guesses of Decatur population as shown by the new city directory now being published by O. J. Bayes and we I are "informed that the estimates vary considerable. The coupons will be carefully gone over tomorrow afternoon and the prizes awarded during the evening. The presents to be given away include a 100 piece set of China, silk umbrella, fancy umbrella holder and a copy of the new directory. It costs nothing to make the guess j

and every person in Decatur should be sufficiently interested in the growth of our city to make an estimate on the present number of inhabitants. Remember your guess must be at Niblick & Co.'store by tomorrow noon,Saturday 18. LIKE A FUNERAL Was the Closing Scenes of the Indianapolis Journal. James D. Johnson of Kokomo, was in Indianapolis Wednesday and on the circle when the closing scene in the career of the late Indianapolis Journal was put on. He says itAvas one of the saddest and most impressive sights he ever witnessed. The employes of the Journal being paid off and discharged and they had received notice to line up pass thiough the counting room and receive their pay. AH of the men seemed half dazed. They oonld not realize that the old Jour-1 nal has passed away forever; that they were now without employment and that this was really the end. Among the men were a couple who had worked on the paper for fifty years. There were two who had been with it thirty years and a number had put in as much as fifteen years of service. It was pitable to see these men. After they had received their pay all of them assembled on the circle in front of the Journal office. They were loath to leave the place. It looked like desertion of an old friend. Some of them smiled grimly and said nothing. A few of the old follows made no concealment of the hurt that was at their hearts and wept bitterly. There were many who expressed their feelings in a more emphatic way, and they declared the whole situation was an outrage and swore a whole volley of healthy oaths over it.

A BAD FIRE ——— Elevator at Dixon Totally Destroyed Loss is a Heavy One, and Includes Car Load of Wheat Just Received From This City. The grain elevator of Singer Bros. Jat Dixon, was destroyed by fire ■ late last night entailing the most I i severe loss the business interests 1 of that town has suffered in many | years. About the hour of eleven : o'clock the blaze was discovered in | the elevator by Lewis Davis who had been to Monroeville and drove ' past the Singer property on his i way home. An alarm was quickly , sounded and the citizens rallied to I save adjoining property. The blaze jin the elevator had made such headway that no power could stay the progress of the flames and the i building was abandoned. All efforts was centered on saving the hard- | ware store of D. J. Lare and son, located on the north side of the street, opposite the elevator. After a hard fight lasting two hours I the work of the fighters was awarded and the Lare property saved | from the elevator was the safe and oflice funiture. The office was an addition on the east side of the main building and was at the start the farthest away from the blaze which had its origin in the engine room. Aside from the machinery the elevator contains two ' thousand bushels of oats, one j thousand barrels of flour and forty tons of coal. Numbered among the contents were a oar load of wheat and sixteen barrels of flour received | from Decatur only a few hours before the fire. —Van Wert Bulletin. IT COST HIM

i Attorney Who Mailed Letter Inside of a Paper Was Fined. i I Because he evaded the postal ’ regulations by sending a letter wrapped in a newspaper through the mail, and because ho refused to pay the <lO penalty imposed by law, E. D. Rampier an attorney of Pelican Rapids, Minn., has been fined in the United States district . court in session at Fergus Falls and has been assessed with the costs of the prosecution, amounting to S4O. Dampier was charged with mailing a letter wrapped in a newsI paper with a one cent stamp, and when eallled upon by Inspector Fry , to pay the <lO fine declared he could not be compelled to do so. Suit was then commenced against him by the district attorney which ended by the attorney paying the | tine and costs. NEW TIME CARD Change on C. A E. Goes Into Effect Sunday Noon. Beginning Sunday at twelve o'clock a new time card will go into i effect on the Chicago & Erie the I new schedule as given us by local agent A. M. DeWeese being as follows: East Bound. N08.—2:47 a. m. Daily N0.22—6:58 a. m. Daily except Sunday. N0.4—1:51 p. m. daily N0.4x—11:21 p. m. daily. West Bound. No. 7—2:00 a. m. dully. No. 9—3:02 a. m. daily. No. 21—10:10a.m. daily except Sunday. No. 3—12:44 p. m. daily. No. 13—5:50 p. in. daily except Monday. See note. Note—Train No. 13 will not run on Monday or next day after legal | holidays.

NUMBER 135

JUST AS ADVERTISED Was the Supper Given at Presbyterian Church. The supper that was given last evening by the Presbyterian Sabbath School at their handsome place of worship was a decided success from start to finish and the young ladies of that class may feel that they did themselves ample justice and that everyone who partook of the same was satisfied and if any one that was there got away without not having enough to eat it was his fault, as the class had plenty on hand and their guests were welcome to it. A large crowd took advantage of this special offer and from the hours of five to seven the young ladies were kept busy. The supper was served according to the menu nublished and not an article was missing, and should this class decide to give a similiar event soon they will be over run with patrons. AT LIMA Masonic Committee on Tour of Inspection Lima’s Masonic Building is a Perfect Dream of Grandeur and Beauty. The committee who visited Lima, I Ghio, yesterday to inspect their Masonic building were simply amazed at the beauty and grandeur of the possesions of the lodge at that place,. They own in fee simple a five story temple the first story devoted to business rooms the second to offices the third to a Masonic club and in this there are parlors reception rooms, card rooms, pool and billiard rooms, banquet rooms, all exquisitely furnished. The fourth floor is for lodge purposes it , containing a blue lodge and commandry separate, with gallery in the former as well as richly equiped preparation and social rooms. Tho carpet in the blue lodge room was purchased at a cost of SBOO. The fifth story is devoted to resting and dressing rooms and in all the Lima Masons may always be proud of their handsome building and home, the cost of which was $75,000 to ♦■>o,ooo. The committee found many ideas that will be of service to them in formulating plans for their new lodge home in this city still the pace set by the Lima Masons is several blocks too swift for the brethren here. WEDDING ANNOUNCED Miss Small, of Hoagland, tn Marry Bluffton Lawyer. Invitations were sent out from Hoagland yesterday for the wedding of Miss Blanche Mae Small to A. W. Hamilton. The wedding is to take place at the home of the bride on the evening of Thursday, June 30th, and Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton will leave the same evening for a week or ten days stay at the world's fair at St. Louis. Mrs. Hamilton will then go to the northern lakes for a stay of four or five weeks during which time Mr. Hamilton will fit up a home for her here. Tho bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Small and is a talented and educated lady popular in social circles at Hoagland. Mr. Hamilton is a Wells County boy who has a wide circle of friends in this and adjoining counties. Ho is a graduate of Indiana University and for the past three years lias been in th? practice of law here.— Bluffton News-