Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1905 — Page 1

VOLUME HI

FEBRUARY TERM OF COURT • • ■■■■»! Session Opened This Morn= ing--Will Be Busy One

FIRST CASE HEARD Berne Boy Plead Guilty to Larceny Five Dollars Fine and One Dav In JailSells and Davis to be Tried in Two Weeks. The February term of the Adatna circuit court opened ant Judge Erwin, the court officials including Sheriff Batter. Clerk of the Court. Paul Baumgartner, Biiliff Frank McConnell and the various attor neys were present at the roll call. , Vernon Friend and Clell Eley, the two Berne Iwys, who did a, wholesale business at stealing brass from off traction engines, a few, weeks ago, appeared in court today and plead guilty to ]»etit larceny. Judge Erwin fined each of the boys , five dollars and sentenced them to . a day in jail. The h >ys ' mothers ’ were with them and paid the fines. , The youngsters are bright looking little fellowss and the lesson should do them good. —o — The case against H. P. Sells and H > ward Divis. Urcenv, was set for trial Monday, February 20th Tas case aginst Bdle and M ihlan Harmon for tresspass was dis missed by Prosecutor Moran. —o— James E. Mosure vs A. S. Rose and M. V. B. Archtold, *133.87, I dismissed and costs paid. —o— James E Moser vs A. E. Rose and John W. Vail, note *3o7.t’>2, Cause dismissed and ousts paid —o— Old Adams County bank vs Burt and Caroline David, note *l5O, cause dismissed and costs paid —o— B. W. Sholty vs Henry Moyers, note *75 Cause dismissed and costs paid. —o — , Peter C. Miller vs Charles A. Hunter, appearance by C. J. Lutz for defendant. Rule to answer. ; —o - Simnel Hurless etal vs William Peltz, note *IOO. Case dismissed arid costs paid. Grace Bluising vs John R. Hart zeo, damages, demind *2OOO. De tnurter overruled and answer filed. Huber Mfg. Co. vs Steve Longen burger et al, foreclosure <f mortgage, *llsO. Answer hied. —o— Louis Habcgger vs A. S. Bowman etal, mechanics’ hen, motion filed • to strike out pica in abatement. Home entry in oases against same defendant field by Berne Brick company, Peter Scheidegger, and Joel Liddy. <—o — Final reports were filed in probate court in t he Jacob P. Mosure estate, Walter A. Fetzer estate and the appointment of real estate filed in the Barah E. Plants estate. —o— Court will continue steadily now until June 10th, there being no va-

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I oation between the February and April terms. | Mrs. Isaura Oslxirte, by her at torneys, J. C- Moran and C. J. Lit z this morning filed a partitio* s lit against her husband. Joseph i Osborne, who is serving a life senI fence for the murder of Mrs. <)sborne’s father, John Busenbark. The complaint stiys that Mr and Mrs. Osborne jointly own the east half < f rhe southeast quarter of the northcast quarter in sf-ction 30, Un ion township; that same cannjt be pa: t tioned and the court is asked to appoint a commissioner to sell the pro|>erty. It is stated that Mrs. < *sborne will soon tile a suit for divorce. GREAT DAY Anticipated by Knights of Pythias Programme for District Meeting to !e Ntld at Hartford City on March Nireth, Program for district meeting K. of P. lodges, Sixth district of Indi ana, to l>e held at Hartford City, 1 March », 1305: 1:00 o’clock—Re-' oeption of lodges. I:3o—Parade by lodges, and uniform rank 2:00— Open session at K. of P. lodge roon - . Devotional exercise. Song—“ Amer-! ioa by entire lodge Welcome address by Prof. Reeves. Five minute response by a representative of each visiting lodge. Music Short address by Union B. Hunt, grand instructor. Musin. Short address, by G io. W;. Powell, grand chan-i cellor; Closing ode. 5:00 to 5:30 Conferring the honors of grand lodge on all past chancellors. 7:30 Secret session. Opening lodge in regular form Report from all the lodges in the district. Exe.mpliti',ation of the secret work in the three degrees by the grand instructor. Conferring the rank of page by the Red Cross lodge, Pori land, Ind. 1 Conferring the rank of esquirr by | the Redkey lodge, Rodkey, Ind Closing in due form. Music — Hartford City Band, Bluffton K. of P Bund, Rtdkey K. of P. ban', Dunkirk K of P. band, Portl ind i K. of P. band, Ossian Quartet. Suit s —Bluffton lodge. Fine banquet. ANOTHER chapter Laura Osborne Asks for dluorce from Joe Osberne. Attorneys C. J. Lutz and J. C. Moran filed a divorce suit at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, Laura Osborne, being the plaintiff and Joe Osborne the defendant. The allegations aro c ruel and inhuman treatment and that the defendant) has been convicted of' tho crime of murder and is now serving time in the penitentiary.

DEVATU’I, INDIANA. MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY (I. 1905.

A SAD STORY Death of Esther Lambert at Fount* Farm Was an Orphan. E-ther latuiliers, fifteen years old, died at the county infirmary, this I morning of consumption, Her story as we Ivurn it is a sad < ne. She was an orphan and had for marly lived with her uncle, a man named Carjienter. who resides* several miles sonth of here. Dur ing the fall she husked corn and I did other outside woik, and ! long trouble was the resnlt of snch leX|M>sure. Her uncle kept her ’ awhile after she became ill and collected five dollars a week from the township trustee. She finally became too great a care and was taken to the infirmary where she j has been about a month and where ; she received the best of care. The | funeral services will be held tomorrow and the body of the harm . less girl will be buried at the infirmary cemetery DEATH CAME Relieved Suffering of Mrs. Fred Gallmeyer Wtll Known Pnble Township Woman Died Yesterday Afternoon After Long Illness. Mrs Fred Gallmeyer, aged sixty - ! (five years, died list evening at four o’clock at h.-r home, two ano one 1 half miles west of Freidheim, after \ un illness of several months' dura-i 'ion. death resulting from cancer i f the liver Mrs. Gallmeyer was a 1 member of the Freidheim church ind was a devote I Christian The i first symptoms of this drend disense 1 was noticed several months ago, and everything possible was done I in order to give her relief, but the disease hud done its work and she was unable to bear up under its rtivagings, death relieving her after two months of untold suffering. Funeral services will tie held Thur? day afternoon at the Freidheim | church, Rev , Prness officiating, and interment made in Freidheim ; cemetery She leaves five sons and ; three daughters to mourn their loss, bar husband having preceded, her. OWN ERIE New York Dispatch Seyj Pennsylvania Road Has Control. New York., Feb t> —The World tomorrow will say: “Wall street has learned definitely that J Pierpont Morgan and A. J. Cassatt, I president of the Pennsylvania railway will have during the last six weeks acquired sufficient stock of the Erie railroad to assure tho con j trol of that property remaining in, the hands of the Vanderbilt-Penn sylvania community of interest. 1 and preventing the possibility of its falling into the [hands [of any other competitive interest. In the deni they had the co-operation of the interests allied with tho First National bank. It has been fully decided among which roads the stock recently acquired will be apportioned. but it is said that it will be turned over to the Lackawanna and Reading, which are part of the trunk line community of interests. The Erie railroad was in the hand of a voting trust after its last reorganization by Mr. Morgan until last February, when it was turned over to the stockholders. "

THE LEGISLATURE I Last Week Was a Busy One With Them Bal Three Sills Have Passed Both Nooses in* Been Signed by the Governor. A hill that would change the present law with regard to vote buying and selling, placing the penalty on the vote buyer was made a special order for Tuesday morn ing at 11 o'clock Reports of the railroad committee .of the senate imply that the senate will kill the Farber bill to rejieal all laws for subsidies to railroads. The Parks bill, to ent down the amount possible for a township to vote for a subsidy, was favorably reported, but the tax possible was changed from one half of 1 per cent to 1 per cent If Senator Singer, of Jefferson, i Ripley and Switzeilund. has his way, and he will try very hard to have it, the women of Indiana have a chance to vote. Some day this week the senator will introduce a resolution asking for an amendment of the constitution so the , right of suffrage will be conferred upon women in this state. I The bill to establish a south j eastern hospital for the insane, to j relieve the overcrowd.il conditions 1 iin other hospitals, and to provide ! for the insane not cared for by the i state, has been favorably reported ,in both the house and the senate. The bill for a new institution for epileptics is ready for third reading i in the senate. By the end of next week it is j probable that the M ’ore bill for a two-year remonstrance against a particular saloon business or asainst a particular saloon keeper will have become a law. The bill has pass'd the senate and is in the house where it is believed, it has even more friends in proportion to the number of members than it bed in the senate, where it passed by a vote of 29 to IN. Governor Hanlv is known to lie extremely anxious to have the bill become a law It now looks as if the bill on municipal corporations drawn by the codification commission is likely to i>e the first one of the commission's bills to become a law. The bill on highways is likely to become a law after being amended so as to allow taxpayers to work out their road tax instead of requiring them to pay it in cash The bill on eminent domain is tieing delayed in the house committee for amen<lm'>nii> | it having been recommitted aft r a favorable report was made. At a meetnig of the house jndicia'y committee it developed that nearly every member favors a read jostment of the salaries of all i the circuit and superior judges, if the salaries of any of them are changed. The question came up in a discussion of the bill, which < has passed the senate, increasing , the salaries of the Marion county 1 judge* and judges of several of 1 counties of large population. The house committee is disinclined to report this bill unless it is amended to readjust salaries throughout the state. — It was a busy week for the general assembly, closing with the first Saturday meeting of the session. Many bills were passed by each branch, although not many bills have been passed by both branches. After a hill ’passes the house in which it originates it must be taken over to the other

hon«e, where it goea through the , process of first reading, committee repi rt. -econd rend mg, and thud reading and passage, after which it goes to the governor, providing the second branch does not amend it whi"h would make necessary its go ing back to the branch whe»e it originated fur concurrence in the amendment* ENTERS IN SALE True Worth to be Sold at Auction David Flanders a Son Disposing of Their Fancy Norses - Ont Shipped to Scotland. George Flanders and Dick Si I lick left this mornnig for Indiana]>olis, wheie Mr. Flanders has entered his famous trotting horse. Tree Worth, 2:23', in tho Indianapolis horse sale, which will o]*en up Tuerday morning and continue throughout the entire week This action on the part of Mr Flanders will no doubt cause considerable surprise among the horsemen and race followers of this city, as hi is j selling in True Worth one of the best bred stlallions that ever came into this county and without dout t ' one of the beat trotting horses in Indiana, bat it is the intention of Mr. Flanders to get out of the horse business and he thought in this way that the animal would bring a better price than at private sale Still the horse must bring a certain amount or over, or it is Mr. Flanders’ intention to return him. The Indianapolis sale is one of the largest held in the United Status, there being over ! 300 hand to be sold this week, and I the sale is always a great drawing card for horsemen and fancy prices are realized for good stock. Mr. Si Hick, who drove True Woith in all of his races will have charge of I the animal at Indianajmlisand show him tiefore the crowd on the day of the sale aud will endeavor to show what speed and other qualities True Worth is jsissessed of During his racing career True Worth won over sixty per cent of his races and was only five tic ei outside the money, and at these times being I unfit for racing. He has a mark of i

2:23',, which does not indicate his time spaed, as Mr. Flanders desired to keep him in that class. Mr. Flanders last Monday disposed of another of his string of stallions, namely Electric Harp. This animal was sold to A. J. Lynne, a Scotchman, and was shipped direct from here to Eliaburg. Scotland, where ho will be used for breeding purposes. This animal brought the fancy price of *SOC. AID SOCIETY 0 at Monroe—Ladies Did Excellent Woik. A Ladies' Aid society was organized at the M E. parsonage, Mon roe, Saturday evening, the following officers being chosen: President, Mrs. J. A. Sprague; vine pres ident, Mrs W. S. Smith; secretary, Mrs. Wtn, Scherer; treasurer, Mrs M. F Parrish This society is the ' outcome of a little venture origin ating some time since, when the ' paitor appoin'ed ten ladies to oani vass the community for funds to be ' used in inside furnishings for the new church. Saturday evening was appointed tor the rep rta of the amounts received and when the la dies had all reported, it was found [that the various sums aggregated *151.41. Mrs. Z. O. Lewellen, made the best showing, reporting *40.25. The ladies hereby extend their thanks to all who have con tribnted to this fund and at the 1 same time extend a cordial invitation to all the ladies of tho community to join the Ladies Ail s<v‘-

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IS STARTLING I Condition of Affairs as Shown by Indiana t Marra*e Record*. * _ An examination of the marriaga I records of the county clerks reveals a startling condition of affairs all over the state. Many couples |iv ing together as man and wife are i not married, O’at least there is ni I legal record of their marriage at. tho court honse The records show that many marriages have been issued by the clerks and deputy clerks and the officiating clergy r man minister, priest, judge or jn* tioe as the ease might be, failed to make a return There are a numher of marriage licenses issued in cases where couples failed to become i wedded, but the majority of the , cases where no marriage is record ed is dne to the carelessness or negligence of the officiating gen tieman Tne failure to record the marriage does not invalidate the marriage, but there is no legal mar riage as the jiarties might discover to their advantage in many cases of real estate transfers and court proceedings The officiating min inter or magistrate failing to taak i ja return is also gulitv of a viola i tion of the laws of Indiana and is subject to a fine of *5 to *IOO. I FEBRUARY TERM The Commissioners in Regular Session The R'miMtrn:: ta th: Ji’in Jihi« loz Liqio Application to be Heard Monday. Commisiioner's court ojiened with a crowded docket and tie presence of many jieople who weie interested in a macadam road, a ditch or some other business which required the sanction of the boird. | The Ed ward Staley macadam road | jietition was continued after olqect--1 ions had been made to the notice, ' which was sustained. The petition I was amended. The B F. Wiley pej 'tition to vacate highway, L. <’. i Miller, John W. Heller and Edward Zimmerman were appointed view | ers. Joshut R. Parrish was ap | pointed constable 'for Washingtin township. Tne Hany R Grove I macadam road petition was again | continued. A remonstrance was I filed by J. F. Lehman and others Ito the Julius Johnloz application I for license at Monroe, and Wed- ! nesday was set for hearing the I c ise. The viewers’ reports on the J. F. Snow and J. L. Hook ditch petitions were approved FUNERAL TODAY Service; for Mrs. Nancy Hawk Htld at Rivare. The remains of Mrs Nancy Hawk, who died last Friday at Auburn, Ind., of old tige and softerI iug of the ’ rain, arrived this after ' noon at one o'clock, and the funeral paity at once driven to Rivare. where the services were ernduoted at ti e Methodist church by Rev Kohne, who was assisted by Rev. Graves, and interment was made n the Rivare cemetery. Mrs. Hawk was well known in this city, having formerly resided on her farm near the state line, having ’eft about a year ago for Auburn, whore she made her home with her 1 daughter, Mrs. Sarah Long, at : whose home she died. She leaves ere ('..buii’i r t: C. tv o : s t • ic< •rn “ i’ b> i.