Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1905 — Page 1

VOLUME HI

MONROE HAS ANOTHER FIRE

Blacksmith Shop and Three Dwellings Destroyed

LAST NIGHT Loss is s4,ooo—Cause Unknown Nav be Started to Ascertain Cause of the Frequent Blazes. Monroe, the thriving little town five miles 8/uth of Decatur, suff ered another severe conflagration last night, and the loss this time is about <4,000. The tire started at twelve o'clock in the blacksmith shop of Dolan & Kessler, and before it was discovered the roof was ready to fall in and the flames were bursting from the side walls. An alarm was given and the citizens of the little town were soon fighting desperately to save their homes. The blacksmith shop was a total loss, not an article being saved. The loss to stock is <4OO, with insurance for 1200, the loss to building, which was owned by J. W. Hendricks of Portland, was <1,200, with no insurance. The blaze soon spread to a tile block residence also owned by Mr. Hendrciks and occupied by Mr. Kessler and this building was likewise soon in ruins, the Boss to building being <I,OOO, with ■ ome insurance. A small dwelling Lwnod by John F. Hocker and occupied by John R. Badders was next in the pathway of the flumes ■nd went down in a few minutes, ■[r. Badders lost his store and Swelling in last week’s fire and ■tad only moved into this little Blouse a few days ago. He lost Bl! his household goods, valued at ■bout |4O ), with no insurance, ■tie building was valued at about ■ 100. Another and larger dwelling ■lso owned by Mr. Hocker and ooBipied by William Martz was next B 1 line and was soon in ruins, the B-u being <SOO. William Martz Bho lived in the house last <3OO Borth of his household g rods. The B ichel Elzey house and a barn in Bls neighborhood caught fire, but Bere outened by the volunteer fire Ben, who fought nobly. John Bloyd and Chester Johnson had t! Mr hai-r’s bxdly burned and Mrs. Balers’ face was scorched, though B* ne of th o injuries are serious. Bhe citizens of Monroe are liadly d • luragid over the frequent fires Bi cannot help feeling that there Bsomething back of it all. List 81l the new M. E. cnuroh was fired but was discovered in time tu be saved. Since then several Bysterious country fires have ooand now the two big fires Bitkin a week gives cause for just Barm and investigation and may started to ascertain the cansos.

| CHILD DEAD want Son of Mr. and Mrs. hcob Tester I* Died This Morning Marlon, the flve-month I child of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob ster, died this morning at 8:30 dock at the home of his parents the south part of the city. The de one was born October 0, 1904, i Jefferson township. Funeral [1 be held tomorrow at the home, lerment will be made at Luckky cemetery, about eighteen jes south of this city.

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CLEVER FORGER Said to be Comlrg This Way—Look Out For Him. A clever check forger is thought to be working this way. Acording to reports he is successful in other cities. He is described as about thirty-eight years, old live feet ten inches tall, smooth faced, dark brown hair and weighs about 160 pounds. He uses a check from a bank in a neighboring city, using the name of a prominent resident in that city as payee. He gives his address in a oertian block of a certain street. He is able to tell something abont the people living in the neighborhood, having posted himself beforehand. He also has a letter, purporting to be from the ptyee and the letter explains how the check happened to be sent to him, and he is thus able to put up a storys that sounds good. He visits a merchant and buys goods of perhaps the value of the check, orders the goods sent to his address and then takes the balance in cash and disappears. —Bluffton, News. BIG ENGINES Erie Has Left Orders for One Hundred and Thirty-Seven. The Erie is adding a large number of locomotives and freight oars to its large equipment One hundred consolidation engines, weighing 200,000 jiounds each, are being built, and thirty-seven of the same type, but weighing 8,000 pounds less, will soon be delivered. tThe Baldwin works are building two of the Vauclain pattern and the American Locomotive company has one. the Cole typa. almost completed. They will each weigh in excess of 200,000 pounds. Three Pacific style which has three sets of drivers, and two trailing wheels, and weighing 230000 pounds, alss have been ordered for passenger service. Thirty-five hundred steel under framed boxcars of 80,000 pounds capacity are being built, in addition to 1,00 00 ton flat bottom single 5 hopper gondolas and 1,100, seif-ceaning 50 ton double hoppers. HADGOODTIME Rathbone Sisters Took Twelve New Mem bers Into Lodges The local order of Rathbone Sisters entertained about forty out-of-town guests at the K. of P. hall. Those in attendance were the Portland and Huntington lodges. Eleven young men and one young lady were initiated into the order, the work being done by the Portland degree team. Earl Shalley and Thurman Gottschalk, of Berne, also took the work. After the evening’s meeting was over, the local order served an im mense banquet for their guests at the I. O. O. F. hall. The Portland and Huntington lodges returned to their homes early this morning stating that they bad been moJ 1 royally entertained.

DECATUH, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14. IWS.

FOR PROVOKE Unde Jimmie Wagner Expressed His Opinion Too Forcibly. James Wagner was brought before Mayor Coffee this morning nn charges filed by William A Bowman, for provoke. Yesterday afternoon Wagner proceeded to tell Bowman a few things concerning ths Johnoon change of venue case and during th* heated dbcussion it appears that Wagner was not ohcicy as to what he said or how mmy < r what names he called B winar. The argument took place Into yestorday afternoon at Murray ’s saloon corner and attracted quite a largo crowd of listeners. When brought up before the mayor. Wagner plead guilty to the charges. Fine and costs amount to <9.30. He stayed the docket. WAR NEWS Rumored That Explosion Occurred at Moscow Believed That the Mukden Defeat Will Resalt In a Close <)f the Brutal War. St. Petersburg, MarchfU, 5 a. m. —lt is rumored that there was an explosion at last; night close to the walls of the Kremlin. St. Petersburg, March 14—The emperor has o*!l*I a war council for to Borrow , when the situation created by Kiuropatkin’s d’sastrous defeat will be considered, together with the paaoe emdition* which it is understood Japan s ready to agree to. Washington. March 14—A high oltioial declares that the Biltio fleet has been recalled by the Russians government. This is regarded as a hopeful sign that peace is at hand. THE PROGRAM Enterpean Society to Meet With Mrs. F. M. khlrmeyer. The Euterpeans, who will meet at the home of Mrs. F. M. Sohirmeyer, Thursday evening, March 16, will consider the following characters: DeKoven, represented by Mrs. F. M. Sob'-meyer; Proctor, by Miss Agnes Shrook; and Guido Reni by Miss Rose Dunatban. Program: Vocal solo, Miss Carrie Thomas; essay on Proctor; reading, “The Stormy Petrel," Miss Fay Smith; paper on DeKoven; vocal solu, “Oh, Promise Me,” Miss Josephine Niblick; pronouncing calendar, Mrs. W. F. Brttson; review questions, Miss Agnes Shrock; vocal solo. “In Her Garden,” Miss Nora Smith; biographical sketch of Guido Reni, Miss Dora Steele; Art Characteristics, Miss Bessie Congleton; description of paintings; waltzes from “Robin Hood,” Miss Bessie Shrock. The officers of the poetry section will preside.

COURT NEWS Judgment Rendered in Wagner Case Judgment on Sult by Agreement—Rail Road Damage Case Heard Today The case entitled Malone T. Sumption et al vs The Alpine Oil company et al, mechanics’ lien, demand <2OO, filed yesterday, was disposed cf this morning, when judgment was rendered by agreement. I 0 Judge Erwin rendered a judg rnent in the sensational Jcase tried last week and entitled State'ex re| Pearl D. Wagner vs James L. Long, failure to support. The case was tried by jury, who returned aver diet for the plaintiff, it remaining for the court to fix the amonnt of damages. The judgment rendered was for <2OO, fifty dollars to be paid in sixty days, fifty dollars in six months, fifty dollars in nine months and fifty dollars in twelve months without interest. This amount with the court costs must be paid or Wagner must go to jail until same is paid at the rate of <1 pur day. The case of Henry Kinney vs Toledo, St. Louis & Western rail load company, to collect <2oo'dam- : g s for a 1 ay horse kil’ed on the riilroad last October is being tried before a jury in court today. At- ■ torney Shafer Peterson represents the plaintiff and A. P. Beatty and Braden Clark of Frankfort, the defendant. MAY COME HERE A Novel Way of Advertising an Indian Territory City. A hundred citizens of Tulsa, I. T., and a dsily newspapsr plant, load ed on a special Pullman tiain will start March 14 on a tour of the cheif cities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Missouri and Kansas. These one hundred men will devote 15 days to telling of the resources and industrial advantages found by them in the Indiana Territory. An exhibiticn oar will show coal mined in Indian Territory's vast coal field. 7,500 square miles in extent having Tulas as its center; crude oil of the highest quality, taken from the wells in the district which is a continuation of the great Kansas field and rapidly approaching it in amount of production showings of corn, cotton, fruits and grain grown near Tulsa; bard wood timber, vitriflexl brick, dressed stone,cement rook and other building materials, all produced near Tulsa. There will be soon s of photographs, giving street and farm soenes in and near Tulsa ; burning gas wells, the Arkansas river, factories, Indians, schools and churches. A feature characteristic of the tour wi‘l be an illustrated daily newspaper actually printed on the train. Extra edition, will be produced at various cities the pirty visits, for distribution to the people, an 1 will contain mere or less information abort t Tulsa. It is a far cry from the story of the chase, told on skins and barks of trees in the rudely written 1 inguage of the Rod Man to this daily newspaper published on a railroad special train by citizens of the young Indian Territory city, yet it is typical ot the southwest.

GETS PROMOTION (Man Newspaper Man Becomes Editor of Chicago Magazine. O«si*n, Ind., March 13.—Rem A. Johnston, who has been a writer on the Ossian News, has been appointed editor of “The Rod Book," a widely known magazine published in Chicago. Mr. Johnston is a son of a well-known farmer of Wells county and is a graduate of Wabash college. Shorty after his graduation he published a volume of poems which attracted wide attention and since then has written many short stories, which, published in lending magazines, have es tablished his reputation in »hn literary world. He never sought journalistic work in the large cities, contenting himself with writing for the Weekly Omn News, and meanwhile devoting most of his attention to short story writing. Most of his stories have been published in ‘ The Red Brok,” and some of them deal with rural hfe in Wells and Allen counties, his best-known work being a story of the early vigilance committee work in the territory contiguous to Fort Wayne. He was offered the position of editor of “The Red Book Magazine ’ last week and today notified his friends that he had accepted.

VISITORS COMING Fort Wayne Degree Team of Pathfinders Will be Here Tonight. The degree team of the Pathfinders lodge of Fort Wayne will art’ve in the city this evening on the southbound G. R. & I. train and will be met and escorted to the K. of P hall by the local order, where eight new members will be initiated into the order. The meeting will be called to order at 8:30 o'clock. District Organizer Hamm of Muncie, will take an active part in the meeting, and h* stages that . there will be at least seventy-five in attendance from Fort Waynt and that the Bluffton and Warren lolges will send over quite a numb>r of representatives. Ths mem bars of the local order are taking a great deal of interest in the new or ganization and without doubt tonight’s meet'ng will be a great success. The lodge now enjoys a membarship of about thirty mem bers. IT’S TONIGHT Robert Downing Appears In Two Distln* gulshed Plays. Robert Downing, as an actor, is probably as nearly typical of the last day and generation of actors of whom Edward Forest was the first, as is now on the Amarioan boards. His studies and tastes have all been in the direction of the old school, and his physical proportions, and his vigorous readings must remind the younger people of what they have heard of the theatre in the davs of their fathers, As the "Gladiator" turns on the love of the “Empress Faustina” for a noble (Flavian) while the latter has made known his intention of making his newly emancipated slave Neodamia who is reallv the daughter of the “Gladiator” his wife. To gain this freedom, the "Gladiator” agrees with the Empress to kill Nodamia but, in the-powerful seen i in the arena, which is staged after Gorome’s celebrated picture, ho discovers that his victim is his daughter. It is here that the climax of the play is reached and Mr. Downing is seen at his best

NUMBER 53

MRS. FOSTY DEAD ... Operation for Appendicitis Proved Fatal L Daughter of Thomas Moran of This City and Well Known In the County. 5 Mrs. Winnie Fusty, daughter of i Thomas Moran of this city, died at the city hospital in Toledo this morning, the result of an opiration performed Friday morning for appendicitis. Several of her relatives including the father and her j brother John C. Moran, left for Toledo last evening. Mrs. Fusty , was forty-three years old, ard was reared in Jefferson township this county. She has lived in i Toledo for twelve years and prior to that time lived several years at Fostoria, Ohio. She was the oldest daughter of Thomas Moran. She leaves a husband and three young children, besides the father and the following brothers and sister*: Mrs. P. K. Kinney, Mrs. Tim Golden, Mrs. James Kinney, John, James, Patrick and Martin Moran. The funeral services will be held in Toledo Thursday morning at ten o’clock.

TEACHERS RATES Erie Maker Change in Arrangements for Teachers Meeting. The arrangements for the teachers received another backset within the last few days. The Central Passenger association has been holding back negotiations regarding rates to Chicago for the Teachers’ association and Superintendent Hart of this city has been figuring with a number of towns surrounding this city, concerning all joining in on a big delegation out of this city. Doeatur, Bluffton, Wabash, North Manchester and Rochester were considering the plan when the Central Passenger association comes out with a proposition th: t I one fare plus twenty-five cents will be given on all lines running into Chicago. This pulls a number of these cities away from the alii tnoe with Huntington and rates for this county is all th ,t can be asked for. The Eric has made an agreemei.t that if 200 people will go on the train scheduled to carry the delegation, a rate of 12 90 for the round trip will bo given. If 100 people will go, a rate of $3,60 for round trip will be given. If that number can not be secured to go, then a flat rate of one fare for round trip will be given. This will be $4.30. In spite of anything that happens the fare will not be more than this—Huntington News-Dem-ocrat.

INJURED IN FALL Dr. Callis, the betarer, Forcel to Sas. pend Entertainment. Dr. Cullis, who is giving a series of lectures every evening at the Baptist church, will be unable to fill his position this evening, owing to the fact that while retiring last evening to his bed chamber at the Park hotel he slipped and fell while ascending the stairway and injured his knee cap in such a manner that he is unable to boar his weight upon the injured member, and is confined to his bed, hence hie lecture this evening will have to lie postponed and all those who have been attending his meetings are requested to take notice. Further announcement will be made when the same will lie resumed.