Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1904 — Page 1

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A SETTLEMENT Semi-Annual Tax Figures. Settlement Sh-tt Completed and Treasurer Will Make Trip to hdlanapolls. The auditor has completed his annual settlement sheet, and in a day or two Treasurer Voglewede will go to Indianapolis and take with him 121,524.68, the amount due the state for taxes collected during the past six months. The above amount is distributed among the various state funds, 15,747.91 being for state tax; <2,878.13 benevolenoe; $1,726.90 for state sinking fund; <1,578.29 for state educational; <7,003.92 for state school; $2,097.16 for school fund interest; $390 for docket fees and <102.37 for permanent endowment fund interest. The collections for the fall installment in addition to the above is county tax <16,213.26; township $7,547.49 tuition <9,291.36; special school <16,208.99; road <3131.2; township poor <925.06; township bridge <183.51; Corporation $13,761.35; county sinking <4,604.96; gravel road repair $4,597.18; macadam road construction <2O, - 082.55; library <368.52; dit ch $415.65. Total <113,448.15. HAD NERVE Tom Harvey Will Serve Time Stole Pair of Boots From Clem Voglewede’s Store—Then Asked for Shelter at Jail. Thomas Harvey, a young man claiming to twenty years old. and Kenton, Ohio, as his home, is in jail on a charge of larceny, to which he will plead guilty tomorrow morning, and be taken immediately to the Jeffersonville prison He stole a pair of two dollar hoots from in front of Clem Voglewede’s ah >e store about six o’clock last night. He did his work cleverly and though the theft was committed on Main street no one saw him do the turn. Mr. Voglewede soon missed the boots and reported the loss to Sheriff Butler. About nine o’clock last night several tramps knocked at the jail and asked for shelter. Sheriff Butler admitted them and his keen, official eye soon discovered that one of them wore a pair of brand new boots answering the desoiption given by Mr Voglewede. The latter was notified and identified the hoots as the ones | stolen from his place. Marshal Green filed an affidavit against Harvey this morning, charging him with larceny, and this afternoon the defendant sent word to the court that he would plead guilty Judge Erwin said he would take the case tomorrow morning. WILL MARRY C. K. Hivelty to Wtd To morrow at Cincinnati. C. K. Hively, foreman of the Decatur Democrat job rooms, left this afternoon for Cincinnati, where tomorrow morning he will be united in marriage to Miss Margate! Biggins. Mr. and Mrs. Hively will arrive home the latter part of the week and will be at home in a First street cottage, a'readv arranged for them. \Ae advance our congratulations

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their history Tht Mtn Bthind the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction Lint. The Fort Wayne News in their traction line article gave the following story of the road’s officers sent to a company which "wrote regarding their credit: “Our pres- i ent and general manager is W. H. ' Fledder,johan, who lives at New Knoxville. 0., where he is in the mercantile business Is also president of the Jackson Center Telephone company, of Jackson Center O.; of the Logan Home Telephone company, of the United Telephone company, of Bellefontaine 0., ’ treasurer of the Koenig & Co., at St. Marv's O.; treasurer of the 1 United Ginseng Production and Ex- ' porting Co., of Cuba, N. Y.; direct 1 or of the Ada Telephone Exchange, | of Ada, O.; director of the Cham- ' paign Telephone Co., of Rosewood, '' O.; also director of the Marlborough 1 Land and Improvement Co., of Mailborough, Mich.; director of the 1 Ver.uillion Telephone Co., of Ver- • million, O. Edwin Fledderjohan, ' our vice president, is president of the Beaverdam Home Telephone Co.; general manager of the Logan Home Telephone Co.; director of the Vermillion Home Telephone Co.; stockholder of the Great : Northern Portland Cement Co. ; of the United Telephone Co., at Bellefontain, O.; of the Orange Telephone Co., Orange, Texas, and of the Ada Telephone Exchange of : Ada, Ohio. John H. Koenig, our I treasurer and general counsel, of St. Marv’s, ()., is senior partner of the Koenig & Koenig law offices, also general counsel of the B. & O. | Oil Co., of St. Mary’s, O.; secre-! tary of the Koenig Co., at St! Mary’s O.; and owns real estate at St. Mary’s; married the daughter of Jacob Boesel, sr., banker, of New Bremen, 0., B. A. Fledderjohan, our secretary, is state rep- j resentative of Auglaize county, owns his home at New Knoxville j ().; also owns ninety acres of tim- I her land north of New Knovxille, I I valued at $15,000; stockholder of! the Marlborough Land and Improvement Co., and several telephone companies. Charley Dirk son, one of our directros is the son of Henry Dirkson, sr., ex-treasurer of Adams county, Ind., and owns nearly 300 acres of land between Fort Wayne and Decatur, where he makes his home. Willis Arm strong, one of our directors, of St. Mary 's 0., owns a little over 400 acres of land valued at S9O an acre and runs a stock farm. Chris V ogt, one of our directors, is not a rich man, but is an assistant engineer and gives the work his complete attention and is on the ground from early morning till late at night, and this makes our crowd a hard working set of boys.

ELECT OFFICERS C. B. L. Lodge Held a Business Meeting The C- B. L. of I. met last evening in regular business session, closed up the business of the past year and elected officers for the ensuing year This lodge is gaining rapidly in membership and now have a prosi>erous organization. I There lodge rooms, which are in the new Studabaker block are neat ly furnished and up to date in every respect. The officers that were elected were Ben Kanpke, president ; J. E. Ulman, vine president; Charlie Rutntwhlag, treasurer; Joe Knapke, collector; John Starost, secretary; Charles Pennington, marshal : Robert Miller, guard and Leo Martin and Ansol Bremerkamp trustees. The fifty dollar draft stolen from Tom Miller's home Saturday night was found this morning near the C. & E railway.

DbUATI li. INDIANA. TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1904."

AS WITNESS Berne Man Was Held at St. Louis * Saw Boy Ground Beneath Street Car Wheels and Was Compelled to Testify at Inquest. Anderson Burdg, of Berne, who last evening returned from St. Louis, where he was taking in the sights of the big fair before it closed, has a remarkable experience to relate concerning himself. Mr. Burdg, together with his son, took in the Clover Leaf’s last cheap ex cursion, which occurred a week before the time scheduled for the big fair to close. Mr. Burdg and son arrived safely in St. Louis and enjoyed themselves to the fullest extent until the fair closed, when they started for the city to catch their train for Deoatur. They walked along slowly for possibly a mile and a half when Mr. Burdg heard a street car clanging its gong lapidly. He turned to ascertain the cause, and just in time to see a little boy knocked down and ground to pieces beneath the wheels. During the excitement that followed, Burdg stated to an onlooker, who j happened to be a detective that he saw the whole transaction and started to explain, when the officer ! interrupted him and informe d Burdg he was under arrest. Burdg was hastily taken to the police station, where he was detained for a week awaiting the coroner’s in quest, at which he gave his testimony and was allowed his liberty, they first taking his address, stating that he might be farthei needed. Burdg as soon as gaining his liberty hustled to the Union depot and waited until a train left for this city, arriving last evening. In telling the story Burdg stated that it was the first time he was ever in jail and he first time he ever knew a man could to arrested without committing a crime. He will no doubt be used in the trial for I damages against the railway oom pany, and will bo compelled to go ! back to Sc. Louis. HELP A LITTLE Use Good Judgment m Sending Packages by Mail.

Christmastime is coming soon and everybody will desire to send ! packages through the mail. It will , |be a courtesy appreciated by the ! postoflioe force if the packages are 'done up neatly before they are I brought to the office, and furl her if J they are mailed rather earlier in I the month than usual When such packages are reserved until within a day or so of Christmas the mails become very crowded and congested, causing a delay that is unavoid h'ilo anil making the chances very favorab'e tor some of the packages j to miscarry after they are sent out as mail olerxs are doubly busy at | that time. GETS A PRIZE George Baumgartner Will Receive a Piece of Enquirer Money. t 2 ! George Baumgartner, the Berne . young man, who guessed the Ohio vote within five in the Cincinnati I Enquirer guess will receive the sum of $533.33 for his trouble, and is ( happy accordingly. He was one of ' three to secure fifth place, the prize being $2,500. Two guessed the exact number, 1,026,229 and t they divide (the ftirst prize of u $35,000 equally, $17,500 going to j each.

IN PROGRESS Collins Case Attracting Some Attention in Court. The Collins’ case is progressing as rapidly as possible, and the state will conclude their evidence by this evening to tomorrow morning, and the case will probably go to the jury Friday morning. The witnesses are being kept out of the court room, Judge Smith having sustained the motion to separate witnesses. Among the witnesses who have taen examined are Dr. Schenk. Dr. Franz. W. A. Clark, the nurse, Charley Smitley, Henry Foreman and one or two others. The evident ■ goes over the story of the affair, which s?ems to have a mysterious side, rather hard to fathom. TO LEAVE E. L. Carroll Goes to Buffalo Herman L. Conter Elected to Vacancy in Commercial Club Directorate. At a meeting of the Commercial club directors last evening the resignation of E. L. Carrol was accepted and Herman L. Conter elected thereto, the vacancy carrying with it in addition to a directorship tb secretaryship of the club. The cause leading to the resignation of Mr. Carroll was his contemplated absence from the city. At the urgent request of the managers of the United Grain company, he has [ accepted the managen ent of their Buffalo office, and will leave in a lew days to take charge. At pres ent the change is but temporary, but should the new place prove agreeable and satisfactory, he will make it premanent. He will not move his family before next spring O" summer, and in the meantime v ill look in on his business at least once every mouth. During his ah sence his large business will be under the control of Mr Johnson, a very competent am genteel grain man. BROKE HIS ARM Lew Corbin, the well known sigr artist, had the misfortune las evening to fall and break his righ 1 arm at the wrist. Lew, together

with John Edwards had just completed painting a window sign for j the new meat market on Monroe | street, and had gone into the Holth<»us Drug company’s store to warm, and it was while walking around the store to get a chair that he tripped over a heavy cuspidor and fell heavily to the floor, the entire weight of his hody falling on his right arm, canning the break at the wrist. Dr. H F Costello was called and dressed the injury, stating that Corbin would undoubtedly do well to use his right arm before next spring. PLAYED POLO Sunday's Muncie Star, contained a picture of a polo team of 1889-90, and his sentence appears at the top, “Polo stars who won fame kr Munoie when the game was yet in its infancy.” In the center of the group appears the picture of George Mad ly who filled the position of halfback. Mr. Maddy referred to is now the popular traveling repre tentative of the J. W. Place company, and while he has changed some during the past fourteen years, his features arc discernable by a dose examination of the pic ture. It is said George was one of the fastest polo players in the country, and likewise a fancy roller skater with more than local fame.

TO CHICAGO 1 F. M. Schrrmeyer at Telephone Meeting ( < The Independent Teh phone Com- 1 panics to Meet in Chicago. F. M. Sohirmeyer left last night for Chicago, where he will attend a three days’ session of the Inter State Independent Telephone association of America. Much interest in this meeting is being | manifested from the fact that east ! ern capital has recently been taking i options on all the independent tele phone appliance factories, and should this deal go through, the independent companies' would tie up against the real' thing. This meeting willjdevelop a means and method to protect itself against the dangers of such a gigantic merger. There are but a dozen factories such in the country and it would be comparatively easy to assemble them in a trust. If the factories surrender themselves to the Bell company the independents will enter the manufacturing field an d turn out their own instruments All independent telephone ex changes of the country, numbering more than 8,000 will he represented at the convention. Eleven states are represented, and this year there I will be several visitors from newly acquired territory of the independents. The convention will eoninue through Thursday. The last i; ait regarding a contention between the Bell and independent companies j regarding the patent infringements, has b’en removed by a decision I favoring the independents.

SUIT FILED > Jacob Marsh Asks Marion Coarb for Divorce Decree. i A divorce suit which will cause I souwwhdt of a sensation at Van i Buren where the parties concerned j ( have lived for munv vears, was I I filed in the superior court today. Jacob S. Marsh, who until a few weeks ago was a prominent citizen of Van Buren, is the plaintiff in an action against his wife, Henrietta Marsh. His statements in his complaint are of a sensational nature, but it is said that much of the spicy evidence tn the case is not brought out in the [letition. The pirties were married March 16, 1882, and lived together until Oc tober 19, 1904. He alleges that his | wife is possessed of a violent and : uncontrolabfe temper. He charges that during the past five years the defendant hs been almost continuously quarreling with the plaintiff. He avers that she has assaulted him on divers occasions and has compelled him to leave home to avoid personal violence at her hands, and that she has out and torn his clothing at various times and thrown them from the house. He alleges that on the day of their separation she threatened the plain tiff with violence, and compelled him to leave home and forbid him ever to return Marsh says he has been a traveling salesman the past ten years. He says he has always provided for his family in an ample manner, and that what property he has accumulated he has placed in the name of his wife. They have three sons, ranging in ago from fifteen to twenty-one years. Since his separation from his wife Marsh has been living in Marion, hut previous to that time he had resided at Van Buren for several years. He was until recently a member of the town board of Van Buren. He re signed a few days ago because of his change of residence.—Marion Leader

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MAY COMBINE Traction Men to Meet Central Passenger Association. A meeting of the Central Passenger association will be held at Chicago December 14. One of the questions which will come up for discussion will be that of an interchange of business with the traction companies and the development of this question will be one of interest. Some of the railroads were at first absolutely set against it. Then the traction companies took another aspect, and affiliation was thought of more seriously, especially as the latter seemed to want it. Some steam roads consented, and it seemed as if a general movement was on foot. Re[cently the tiaction companies took it in their heads to overrule some !of the safeguaids but upon tickets by the steam railroads and this I action has enraged the steam roads, and the impression prevails that the affiliation with the traction comjMnies will l>e specifically forbidden. At any rate this question has now assumed a more important phase than at any time since the matter has been agitated. COURT NEWS Louis Abram Pays Big • Fine ) Arrests on Grand Jury Indictment— Andrew Welfley Appointed 1 A.'ministrator.

Sol Flaton. a successful and prominent attorney of Dayton, Ohio, was admitted to practice in the Adams circuit court this morning. —o — A new suit was filed in court here today by Eichhorn &• Matlock, of Bluffton, entitled David Falh vs I Lewis('. Miller, complaint on notes. —o— The divorce suit of (’har'es H. (look vs Edith F. Cook, cause assigned tor trial to John M. Smith of Portland. — )— Joseph Shroll vs Solomon and Logan Wolf, complaint on judgment SSOO, amended oomplaint filed and rule to answer. —o— Samuel Sprunger of Berne, has been arrested on a erand jury indictment for sellinn liquor without i I’Oinse. Samuel Khntz and Moritz Ehrsam also of Feme, have also been am estvd on simi’ar charges, —o— George Nichols is under arrest on a grand jury indictment for keeping a gaming house. —o— Jacob Hunzieker has been served with warrants to ■ answer grand jury indictments for selling liquor without license and keeping a game device. —o — Louis Ahrams, the transient clothing merchant, who operated a store at Monroe, Berne and Geneva, and was arrested at the latter place I for selling goods without license, ' plead gu lty in circuit court this . morning, and was fined I's and 1 costs, amounting to ia.5.90, which he paid —o— Andrew F Welflv has been ap I pointed administrator of the estate '| of his father, John Welfly, and filed the necessary bond. i i —o— I I George B Schot. administrator of W illiatn Snyder. filed a petition to sell personal property and same 1 was ordered sold at private sale e | ’• Mrs. L. D. Brown returned to n Berne today. Whi’e here she was the guest of friends.