Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1905 — Page 1

VOLUME 11l

THEIR ANNUAL ELECTION

Directors Elected at the Old Adams County Bank

NO CHANGE Old Directors and Officers Re-Elected The StockhofomlNow Number FortySeven and In the Election Today There Was no Contest. After a abort directors' meeting at the Old Adams County Bank this morning, the polls opened sdon after ten o’clock for the election of seven directors. In this election there was no contest, the old l>oard l>eing unanimously elected to direct the affairs of the lank for another year The list of the old and new i>oard comprises Mat Kirsch. John 8 B 'were, W. J. Vesey, John Nib lick, R K. Allison, Henry Hite and, W. H. Niblick. Each name signifies worth and stability and speaks for itself as to the genuineuhS- and ability of this remarkable financial institution. After the polls closed and the stockholders meeting adjourned, the directors met and elected officers, they being W. H. Niblick, president; John 8. Bowers, vice president; R. K Allison, cashier; C. 8 Niblick, assistant cashier, and Frank Wemboff, Teller. The only new officer is the vice president, a vacancy having existed in the personal of the officers since the death of Judge David Studabaker R. K Allison was first elected cashier of the Old Adams County Bank eleven years ago, on August 1, 1094. At that time a reorganize tion was affected and the capital of the bank increased to 1120,00^.. In February of this year the stock, holders’ list was increased by selling to a number of business men and farmers, a small amount of the bank's capital, and at this time forty-seven stockholders comprise the list of those who own tbe capital stock of the Old Adams County Bank. Cashier Allison readily developed in tbe banking business, and for several years has well earned the reputation accorded him, of not only being a cautious, safe and con servative bank cashier, but a courteous gentleman to those having business with him. Tbe same oan be said of tbe remaining bank officers. W. H. Niblick has been here so long, and has been part and parcel in so many public enterprises, that it is rather second nature to tee his name with the legitimate business of our town and county. C. 8. Niblick, the assistant cashier, is another landmark that is worthy of praise, and we are glad of the opportunity to reflect the sentiment of those who do business there. He is extremely popular and has more real friends to the acre, than any other fellow we know of. The other employees. Frank Wemhoff, Misses Agnes Schrock and Emma Gillig, are all well qualified and well thought of by the public who do business at the Old Adams. At tbe bank today they exhibited considerable pleasure from a statement recently made by I- M. Hinshaw, state bank exam iner, who suys that statistics for

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the last ten years show that only two state banks have failed in that time and not a single one in the last twelve months. ‘As I nearly as I can figure out, the total I loss to depositors in the last ten years has been 175,000,” said Mr. Hinshaw, “although at present the deposits aggregate >30,000.000 in the 183 state banks " o n the whole. Mr. Hinshaw thought that the record of the state banks was I one that could be pointed to with | pride. | Tbe directors held a continued session during this afternoon, and among other matters, alowed »he |>aynient of a very handsome dividend, and instructed the proper officer to pay the same to those who hold certificates of stock. In all it was a profitable day for the Old Adams County bank. FAMILY TROUBLE Alonzo Smith and Wife in Court The Husband Was Fined One Dollar and Costs and the Case May be Appealed. * — S quire Smith settled a little family disturbance this morning in the case of the state against Alonzo Smith, who was arrested on a charge of provoke and assault and battery, the same being done by words, gestures and signs on his wife, Mrs. Amanda Smith. The court imposed a fine of a dollar and costs on the husband. According to the testimony the trouble originated yesterday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alec Debolt’s. with whom Mr. and Mrs. ; Smith were staying, the latter two getting into a quarrel which wound ■up ay Mr. Smith calling his wife numerous names and accusing her 'of being a morphine fiend and a prostitute. To this language Mrs. ' Smith took offense and proceeded to Prosecutor Moran's office and filed the affidavit. The evidence was smutty and vile and unfit for I publication, but enough was introduced to convince the court that i AlonzofSmith was guilty, end without any hesitnaoj’ he inflicted a fine. Mr. Smith was represented by L. C- Devoss, who advised him to file an appeal bond and take the case to the Adams circuit court, which will no doubt be done some time today. CHARGED WITH NITRO Jesse Edwards Meets His Eucrlasting in an Unusual Way. •pedal Telegram To The Democrat Vincennes, Ind., Aug.—Jesse Edwards, aged thirty-five, was instantly killed at the National rolling mills this morning while picking up iron pipa to feed it into the shears. An explosion followed driving iron slivers all through the man’s body, one of his hands being severed and cannot be found. The iron pipe had been received in a carload of scrap from Pennsylvania, and is supposed to have been charged with nitro glycerine.

DECATVH, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1. 1905.

PLAIN DRUNK George Kaknback Given the Usual Dose by the Mayor. George Kalenbanh, an aged old German, who has been working west of thia city for George Martin, was arrested yesterday by Marshal Green, on a charge of public intoxi cation and for being in a filthy condition and unfit to a-sociate with other people or to roam about the streets. He was lodged in jail, where he was given a bath and this morning arraigned before Mayor Coffee, where he plead guilty and was given the usual dose, —nine dollars and thirty cents. Having no ready cash on • his person he was returned to jail, where he will lay it out. When searched, | however, it was found that the old man had two notes on his person, ■ one calling for 9385 and the other i for 9385 and both given by responsible people. STILL DULL News Around the Court House at a Premium The County Institute the Next Worthy Call Upon '.he Time of the Educators. Bainey Komisky. a traveling junk dealer, paid the price and took out a license, which permits him to traffic in this line within the borders of Adams county. The superintendent is busy with a financial and statistical report, which is intended to show the amount of money received ana paid out for tbe salaries of teachers. The report goes to the state I superintendent of public instruction and is used for statistical purposes by this state officer. The county institute program is now complete and will be issued w‘thin the next few days. The program will be good throughout, and with a county institute and the Great Northern Indiana fair in full swing, it promises to be a busy week at the Adams county capital. Tbe commissioners will meet next Monday in regular session Among the other business that will come up'before the, will be a drainage commissioner's and enigneer's report on the Christian E. Leiohty ditch. The report is signed by J. M Willey, daninage commissioner, and L. L. Baumgartner, engineer. A petition is also on tile signed by Mary and Reuhen Clark, asking for a tile ditch, which will affect landowners in both Monroe and Blue Cree ktownships. The petition will be acted upon at the board meeting next week. THIS MORNING The Death of Hon. Will Cumback is Announced. •pedal Telegram To The Democrat Greenburg, Ind. Aug. I—Hon. Will Cumback. the Indiana author and one of the best known and most beloved citizens m the state, died this morning. His son, Will Cumback, jr., arrived from Toledo, before the death stroke came. Mrs. John W. Lovett of Anderson, was summoned from Boston. While the death of this great citizen was expected, yet when the announcemont was made, it could hardly be accepted as truth. All Greensburg is in mourning,

DISMISSED Little Maude Ayers Not Guilty i i < Case Dismissed Instead of Being Transferred to the Juvenile * Court. i i f 1 Miss Maude Ayers, a pretty little * miss of twelve summers. was arrested late yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Butler, on a charge of assault and battery preferred by her 1 mother, Mrs. Alfred Ayers, an ac * count of which the Democrat gave i yesterday and was immediately ar raigned before S quire Smith and and permitted to tell her own story j of the affair. The little girl’s seemed heart-broken that her mother should have caused her | arrest and wept bitterly all during the giving of her testimony. Her story was as follows: “All of the children were playing in the front room when a man came to call on mamma Bbe ordered us all out Os the house, and because I was a ! little bit slow in getting started, she called me all the vile names she could lay her tongue to, and | picked up a stick laying on the floor and commenced to beat me with it. Up until this time I had ■ never said a word to her but when she commenced to lieat me, it was more than I could stand, ' and with all my strength I fought i lack, scratching her face in several places. 1 freed myself from ' ! her grasp at last and ran intj the 1 yard with the other children. while my mother stayed in the I house. The man whom I did not know, during alll this trouble stood by and laughed at the whole tran-| suction. This all happened on Friday and Saturday my mother came to this city and had me arrested, telling me about it when she came home. I thought nothing more of I the matter until Mr. Butler drove I to the house yesterday and took me away, then I was scared." The story told by the little girl was straightforward in every respect I and she did not try to hide any- i thing from tbe 'Squire, and the crowd present all seemed to sym. pathize with the little lady. Mrs. Ayers did not appear and the little girl was compelled to stay all night with Sheriff Butler, who provided her with a good lied with his own family. 'Squire Smith this morning informed us that he had intended to turn the case over to the ju venile court, but after hearing the testimony be thought the wrong party had lieen arrested, and he dismissed the case against the child The little girl said she was perfectly satisfied and declared that she would like to stay with Sheriff Butler all the time She will be sent home today. How a little girl of twelve could commit an assault and battery on a person thirty five years old was more than the court and spectators could determine, and all were of the opinion that the mother must have the heart about the size of a pea. THEY - DISAGREE The Authorities Are Fighting the Yellow Fever Plague. ■y United Press News Aeeocletion. New Orleans, August I—lt seems certain that the United States authorities will take care of the yellow fever situation here. The railroads are asking it on the grounds that the city and state offioias are blocking commerce unnecessarily. The physicians and surgeons say that the yellow fever situation is I more encouraging than last week

THE GREATEST The Trapese Performances With Forepaugh Sells Are Great. iteally star aerial performances posses* the moat thi tiling interest for everybody, and in thia branch of arenic art the combined Great Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circuses are pre-eminently strung They present an unparalleled number of the greatest and moat venturesome and original mid air trapeze, horizontal bar. Heating ring, invisable wire and funanibulistio experts. In the strangest and moat startling and stujiendous flights, dives, evolutions, catches and combinations They give the town I plenty to talk about, as will be l shown here on Auguat 12. i ■ FROM OLD AGE — I 1 Mrs. Conrad Doehrman Died Last Night I She Was One of the First] Settlers in Adams County and a Well Respected Woman Mrs Minna Doehrmann, the widow of Conrad Doehrmann. died i Monday evening at her home near . Friedheim. where she had resided I for sixty-four years She was j [ eighty-three years of age and one of the best known women of north- | ern Indiana Mrs Doehrmann had | jbeen in failing health for some ' time and her death was due merely Ito the infirmities of age The decedent was born in Preuss Minden, Germany, but when still a girl her i ]>arents came to America, settling in Adams county About the same time Conrad Doehrmann came to the new country and after working for a year on the Wabash & Erie canal, also moved to Adams county The couple weie married about sixty-four years ago and at | once moved to the farm which is j now known as the Doehrmann homestead. They prospered and nine children were born to bless their home Fourteen years ago Mr and Mrs Doehrmann celebrated their golden wedding anniversary and a short time later the death of Mr Doehrmann occurred. Mrs Doehrmann was one of tbe oldest members cf the German Lutheran church at Friedheim. She was a noble, God-fearing woman who was esteemed and re spected throughout the surrounding country Mrs Doehrmann is survived by the following children: Henry, Conrad and Charles Doehrniann, Mrs P Hockemeyer and Mrs. Fred Buuck, of Adams county; Fred Doehrmann of Minnesota; William Doehrniann and Mrs. Conrad Berning of Fort Wayne. The funeral will occur at one o'clock on Thursday, from the Friedheim church, with interment there. Rev. Pleuss will preach the funeral. NO CLEW Mystery of Supposed Suicide of C. M. King Unsolved. French says there is noth nig lateabout the supposed suicide of Charles M King at Chicago. Leslie Andrews, now in the windy city, makes the claim that he saw Charley on May 18, and his body 1 was supposed to have been found May 15th. and then after it had ■ lain in the water for al>out twe month* A cousin from Fort ’ WAyne, intends to make a thorough 3 investigation, and his friends here . hope it will l>e thorough enough to r unraval the mystery which has s surrounded the circumstances since I the story was first circulated. «

NUMBED 172

HORSE RACE A riot One to De Pulled Off Thursday The Geneva Gun Club to be Revived— Work is Resuming in the Oil Fields. (Special Corre«i>ondence.) Geneva, Ind., August I—Bills have l>een distributed announcing the horse race to be pulled off at the drivng park next Thursday afternoon. This race, so tne bills state, will be an interesting one with two started and proliably five. It will be a race for blood, as it is on a wager. The race was ar ranged to decide which was the better horse—the Swigart or the Botkin. It is probable that a ball game will be played after thia race, and if there is one, there will be a large crowd see the bosses go. Sometime ago Geneva boasted of one the beet gun clubs in this part of the state. The club was composed of some sixty members, and was in a very flourishing condi tion. For some reason or other the members lost interest and for about a year or more there has been nothing heard of the club. During the past few weeks, however, there has 1 been mucn talk of re-organizing * ' anu getting to work again. There is quite a neat little sum in the ; treasury, the club has a splendid .trap and thousands of the "blue rock pigeons" It is probable that they will shoot just north of the ball grounds. Work is beginning to pick up a little in the oil fields, but it is so very little that the effect is not noticeable on business in town. Oil has remained at 81 cents for so long that the operators begin to have a little confidence and believe that it is better even to sell at that price than to lay idle. dopeh!nd Morphine and Cocaine Taken in Job Lots — > Dr. D. 0. Clark Refused to AdmMster the Drus but the Fiend Applied the Remedy. A young|tnan giving bis name as Walter Williams, and his home as being in South Carolina, was arrested yesterday evening by the marshal, who found him lying in the stairway leading to Dr. Clark's office. The young man was not intoxicated, neither was he disorderly, but he was one of the rank- ' est morphine dope fiends that ever trod the streets of Decatur When lodged in jail he at once set up a wail for morphine and stated that unless he would get it he would go crazy or die. Marshal Green took Dr. D. D. Clark, the county physician, to the jail and examined the young man His arms and in fact his whole body was tilled with - small holes, where he had driven in e the needle with telling effect in '• giving himself this drug. When y asked the amount he generally took v he replied, “Oh, only te n grains of y morphine, and two gra ins of cofl caine", which in itself is enough to d kill any ordinary man unless he be o a dope fiend. Dr. Clar k refused to t do anything for him, although he h lagged hard, stating that he whs e only employed to prescribe for sick o people. The fellow carried his a own needle and did all the work e himself. He was turned loose this • morning and ordered out of town.