Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1905 — Page 1

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THE WAR Russians Troubles In The Air The Czar Half Promises to Partially Accetd to the Demands of (he Strikers. St, Petersburg, Jan. 23.—The latest from I h<* seat of war finds the situation unchanged, with the exception that the Czar in away bows to the demands of the workmen by promising to issue u manifesto to the people with a view to calming them and to appoint a mixed commission to investigate and do- I cide the questions of the demands of the strikers, especially the ore affecting hours of labor, which Rus slan law fixes at elevon The.representatives of the workmen are not to be appointed, but selected by the workmen themselves. This would be a direct concession to the people. The emperor also promises to investigate yesterday's events in St.. Petersburg. The deplorable occurrences of yesterday were not repeated today, but a single blank volley bring fired Boainess of every description has teen suspended, and four of the St. Petersburg newsprper* as so >n as they are able to resume publication, dec'are their intention of defying the censorship in the matter of strike news. i The situation is very grave and another outbreak is not unexpected. On (the other hand the end of the revolt may he at hand. USEFUL PRESENTS Admiring Friends Surprise Rev. W. E. McCarty. Rev. W. E. McCarty, pastor of J the Hoagland M. E. circuit was sur | pri«ed last evening in a most subI stantial manner. Just before leav | ing his home for church Clark Hart rod called upon him and on liehalf ;■ of a large number of friends out- [ side his church presented him with ’ a beautiful pocketbook, the inside | of which was lined with crisp bills. | In presenting the gift Mr. Harrod f said: ‘I desire to say in la-half of I those who have contributed that | this purse is presented to you us a | mark of their ropsect for your efficij enoy in your good work and your ]Mirsonul friendship, which has taught us to admire you us a man and a citizen." A SURPRISE R. B. Johnson Slxly-Flflh Birihday Celebrated. An enjoyable event occurred Sunday at the home of R B Johnson, of Petcrsor, when a surprise was given in honor of that popular gentleman's sixtv-lifth birth day. A big dinner was one of the features and the day was a happy one for everyone present, the guests including Messrs and Mesdames George McWhirter, Grant Ball, Will Selby, E. B. Lenhart, Mrs. Rebecca Ernst, Mrs. Jane Ball, Miss Opal Ball, Cora, Edna, George and Albert Selby, Herman Johnson, Velma, Orval and Alice Lenhart.

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SUITS FILED Life Insurance Companies Must Prove That George Bergman Suicided. The tiling of suits against the Fraternal lodges of Ben Hur, The Path tinders and the Fidelity and Casuality company of Now York today by the widow and daughter of Geo. W. Bergman, recalls to the public mind the tragedy of last summer, says the Portland Commercial Review No special investigation was made at that time as to the actual cause of death; the coroner’s inquest was a mere formal affair, sutll cient to satisfy the form of law, and the verdict of suicide was written up. filed away and forgotten. The suits were brought about on the three companies' refusing to pay the policies. The companies refused payment on the grounds that the insured came to death by his own hand. In the cases tiled all the widow has to prove is the dea'h of her husband and unless th .’ insurance companies clearly pro e suicide and not accident t ; -y will be liable <>n their policies. TO ORGANIZE K. o. C. Lod£e To Be Launched Here Prof. Ewing, of Notre Damt, Deputy Grand Knight of Indiana in the City. ■ This evening at the C. B L. club I rooms the Knights of Columbns will : organize a lodge in this city, ; which will be a premaqent organiI zation and open for all members who are eligible. This city at present has fifty members of the lodge who belong at Fort Wayne and . which makes it inconvenient for i them to attend, and for this reason moro than any other will the lodge tie launched forth here. Prof. Ewing, of Notre Dame, who is a pro fossor of Latin in that university, is in our city and will assist in the organization, he being the deputy grand knight of the state of Indiana, and comes highly reoommendsd as an organizer. Prof. Ewing is a cousin of the late brilliant statesman and oral >r .James G. Blaine, and is gifted with many of the same talents as was Blaine ■ The members of the K. of C. lodge are confident of having a large class this evening and of being eventually one of the foremost organizations of this kind in our city. HAS ESTIMATE Engineer Frost Completes Figures for Drecgin? Salamonia. Engineer A. J. Frost has completed his estimate on the pro I posed dredging of the Salamonia river except the figures on the possible cost of the undertaking. In makng the dredge as now ptopos ed, 01(8,238 cubic yards of earth will have to be moved, including 7,500 cubic yards of stone. Twenty tive bridges willl be affected, four of which are railroad bridges, and six bridges will have to be moved The length of the dredge by present plans will be twenty one and six tenths miles. From the point where the survey begins to the river bridge on south Meridian street is exactly eight miles. There is some talk in Penn township of petitioning for an extension of the dredge to a point three miles below Penn ville. Should this be d ne the chan nel would be cut two feet lower than now proposed. The bed oi the river will be lowered through the city five or six feet. — Portland Commercial-Review.

DKCATV'I, INDIANA. TIESDAY EVENING, JANTARY 21, lIMIS.

SUDDEN DEATH Mrs. Hattie Tague Victim of Heart Trouble Retired In Good Health Found In Dying Coudltion lhe Following Morning. Mrs. Hattie Tague, mother of Fred Tague, the well known shoe mor chant of this city, died suddenly Sunday morning at her home at Wilshire. (>n the evening previous she had entertained some company and was in good health when she retired. About seven o’clock Sunday morning some one entered her room and noticed she was breathing heavily. The family was summoned, but efforts to arouse her proved futile. A physician was summoned but before he arrived she was dead. She was sixty two years old, and while never real strong had enjoyed good health and her sudden demise was a terrible shock to the family. It is supposed that death was due to heart tbrouble though she had no recent symptoms of that disease. Her husband died about three years ago. The surviving children are Fred Tague of this city, Chauncey, of Colum bus, Ohio, and "McClellan, Wesley. Charley, Mrs. Ida Hill and Mrs. Etlie Byers, who live in the vicinity of Willshire, and Miss May Tague, who lived with her mother. Mr. and Mis. Fred Tague left this morning to attend the funeral, the services being held at one o'clock this afternoon from the Willshire M E church. NEW CASES Three Filed in Court This Morning Crabill Case Appealed—Berne Bov Bound Over on Charge of Petit Larceny. The case of the State vs David B. Crabill appealed from Squire Smith’s court was filed in circuit court this morning. Crabill was chargedw ith assaulting Matt Schafer a few days ago. He was found guilty and fined a dollar and costs, and immediately appealed. The question of who owns a saloon is one of the exciting features of the case. 1). B. Erwin represents the defendant. —o — Attorneys Eichhorn, Mattox and Anderson, of Bluffton, representing the plaintiff filed a new case at the clerk’s office here today entitled Walter A. Hunt vs Lewis C. Miller and Edward P. Miller, part ners doing business under the firm name of L. C. Miller A- Son. Complaint on note. Demand (S3OO. The exact amount of'he note is $2,35, with interest for one year and attorney’s foes. —o— Vernon Friend, one of the Berne boys who was arrested Saturday for stealing brass from traction engines has been bound over to the circuit court and will be tried here on a charge of larceny. The papers were field at the county clerk’s office this morning. The lad gave bond in the sum of SIOO for his appearance.

HEARING CONTEST Judge Erwin Busy In For! Waynt Courts. Judge Richard K. Erwin, of Adams county, opened court in the grand jury room Monday merning, to hear the contest >d election case from Jefferson ownship, which was sent to him on a change of venue from Judge O'Rourke. The case in volves the right to the office of trustee of the township, Louis Roy. democrat, having filed suit to oust Daniel B. Nail, republican, who was declared elected by the canvassing board. The case was first taken to the county commissioners, who ruled in Roy’s favor, having discovered tha* a number of ballots had been thrown out, which, it was said, should have been counted as they were properly marked. By throwing out these ballots Nail se cured a majority, but by counting them in the election goes to Roy. The testimony introduced was the same as that before the commissioners—Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. WAS CHILLY Ohio City Failed To Warm Up The Farce Comedy "Blizzard" Was Poorly Ai’eJ To A Small Crowd. The home talent company that 1 played Isat evening at Ohio City, producing the farce comedy "Blizzard,” were met with a chilly reception, which corresponded with the name of the play. There were only a handful of the wiley Ohio Cityitcs present, as they had hud some former experience with the home talent aggregation that left this city, and did not propose to be gulled again. A traveling man, our informant, 'states that it was one of the worst exhibitons of how not to act that he ever saw, and he fully got his money’s worth by witnessing the would be actors and actresses s tumble over their parts. This company carry their own scenery, which comprises three pieces and reprei sents a snow scene, which is used in every act, thus makng the work of the stage carpenter easy. The company returned this morning safe and sound and not shoving any murks of rough usage, and [did not cany any stench of decayed hen fruit with them. In this line they maj’ oeartr.inly consider themselves lucky. [They will ’produce this thrilling piece hero next week. BUSY PLACE Contracts for Interurban Cars Now Being Considered. The interurban office today is a busy place, there being at least sis J teen traveling sa’esmen represent I ing the different our firms present, and each landinir his line as the best and producing the merits of their oars. The car contract was to have been ht some time ago. but the managers did n >t feel inclined to do so 2’intil they had looked the different lines over and what is being used by other electric lines over the country. Manager Fled derjohan says that they were ex atnining the different merits of the respective our firms and here have examined some that meet with their approval in every respect, but that the contract would net lie let until this evening. The oars the Fort Wayne A- Springflfield line[will j use will be nothing but the best and with all the modern appliances.

KICKED BY MULE Harry Cooken Was Badly Hurt While Blanketing Team One of Them Kicked Him In the Somich. Harry Cooken, an employee of the Krick Ar Tyndall tile mill, was kicked by a mule this morning about eight o'clock, the result of which he is now lying at his home in a serious condition. Mr. (look en was doing his usual work about the mill with his teem of heavy mules, and during the snow storm got off his wagon to throw a (blanket over one of the animals, and while straightening the same over the mule’s back, the animal lot loose with both feet, kicking him a terrific blow in the pit of the stomach, knocking him backwards at least twenty feet. Fellow workmen hastened to his assistance and car ried him into the office. Dr. C. 8, Clark was summoned and made a thorough examination of his condi tion and found the flesh badly bruls ed and the patient suffering untold agony, the injury being internal. The injured re nan was removed to his home, where his wounds were dressed and an opiate given him to relieve the pain Dr. Chirk stated that Mr. Cooken had a miraculous escape from instant death as the animal was heavily shod. Mr. Cooken 'sj clothing was cut in several places, and what in all probability saved him was the amount of heavy clothing he had on. As it is. he is in a serious condition and is no doubt hurt internally. THE VERDICT Jay County Jury on Geneva Gas Case Were Out Nineteen Hours. After nineteen hours’ delitieration the jury in the circuit court brought in a verdict at 10 o'clock Sunday morning in favor of the gas oom puny in the damage suit brought by the school town of Geneva Some strong evidence was intro duced by the plaintiff but it appears tl’u there was a weak point in establishing a danger line as so high pressure. It was shown by one of the company’s employes that pressure hud a very wide range on the night of the tire, jumping up in three hours from thirteen ounces to twenty four onn oes, but some of the pl iintitT’s own witnesses, why, is not known, testified that lour pounds was a dan’erous pressure and intimated that that pressure represented the mini j mum of danger. The first ballot of the jury was _s to 1 and later it stoodlß to swinging back and forth until finally a verdict in favor of the defendant was agreed up m. J’ortl ind Commercial Review. EUCHER PARIY Enjoyed by Ladies of the Bachelor Maids Club. The Bachelor Maids met last, evening with Miss Eiith Wemhoft. Euchre was played for several hours and first prizes awarded Misses Mary Heffner and Jessie McLain and Misses Anna Terveor and Mtiv Niblick won consolation prizes. A three-course luncheon was served and the club adjourned to meet next Wednesday evening with Miss Rose Confer.

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IS MARRIED Miss Gentvleve Chronister of This City Weds Muncie ManA marriage license was issued Saturday evening by Clerk Studabaker to Arthur Porter and Miss Genevieve Chronister and the young couple left on the 5.20 train for Muncie where they were to be married at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Porter. It is their intention to make their future home in Muncie and he will be employed, in the rolling mills of that city. The wedding camo as a surprise to the friends of the young people few of whom know their marriage was to occur until after they bad left the city. By the marriage Mr anil Mrs. Horman Thomas lost both their hostler and their maid servant Mr. Porter had been employed for two years as hostler and driver for the Thomas and Miss Chronister was a domestic employed at the residence. With the marriage both resigned their position to take up their residence in Muncie. Miss Chronister came here from Daoatur in which city her father resides. — Bluffton News BODY EXHUMED Monroeville Man Called For Coroner’s Report Insisted That lhe Body of His Bov Who Died at ReformMorv be Dug up . and Examined. Monroeville, Ind , Jan. 23.—Believing that the death of his son, Russell DeWert, might have been the result of ill treatment at the Indiana reform school, at Plainfield, Wil jam De Wert today dug up the body for the purpose of satisfying himself that all was right. The cause of the boy’s demise was given as diphtheria, and DeWert, fer th it reason, was not allowed to remove the body from <he cemetery Coroner Stillts was summoned from Fort Wayne, and his finding was that the boy came to his death by reason of diphtheria, as stated by the reform school authorities. The dead boy. who was fourteen years of age. was sent to the reform school about two weeks go for having stolen some articles from the residence of his aunt in this city. Saturday morning his father received a telegram from the school authorities stating that Russell had died the night before of an attack lof The body was brought home in a sealed casket and for the reason that the death , was due to a contagious disease, the coffin was not opened. The burial to ,k place Sunday Yesterday the father camo to the conclusion that it was possible his son ha I (lied from harsh treatment as ho was in good health when tak m to Pluinfl- Id At lust be resolved to i exhume the body and find out for ! himself whether his suspicions[wcro i well founded. He repaired to the ' cemetery, but when tbe body was taken out he was not allowed to remove it from the cemetery. It was placed in the sexton's house and Coroner Stultts, who nad been asked to investiage the mattter, arrived here tonight at s o’clock. Accompanied Iby Dr. Mentzer, of this city, the ' coroner went to the cemetery and made an examination. Both dooj tors stated positively that the boy died from thi effects of diphtheria, and their finding was a great relief, not only to the parents, .but to the entire people if the city, who had taken a svnr ahetie interest in the <J L ' .