Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1905 — Page 1

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ELECTRIC LIGHTS Milliard Steele Wiring the Fair Grounds Fiur Street Lights will be Placed Along the Levy Jost Across the River. Under the management and sup ervision of William Spencer, the electrician, a force of men are busily engaged at Steele * pirk taday stringing electric wires all over the park, on which lights will be connected also that the park will be well lighted during the coming fair and that exhibitors and refreshment people may have e<>me way m protecting their property. The plans at present call for lights all along the main entrance and through that section of the park that willjbe occupied by stands, and in this manner it will permit everyone to engage in doing business after fair hours The electric line from the city to the Ball-View farm was completed soma tim> ago at the expense of A R. Bell and Williard Steele, both of whom were desirous of using electricity for their own domestic use, and since the construction of the same Mr Steele has conceived this new idea. The county commissioners while in session during this term als, agreed since the electric line was up to put in tom arc lights along the levy ju-t east of the St. Marys bridge t< • furnish protection to people wh" 1 have to drive along this dangerous piece of road after night This w.U also prove a good thing during , the fair, as much traffic is carried on along that road about that time It will also prove a good thing tor , future use, as it is a dangerous trip of road, ana at the cost of a few dollars now may save the countv money in the end, as accident' may thus be avoided

LOCKED UP Henry Deltner Shows Signs of Mental Weakness. Henry Deimer, a middle-aged man, who for acme time past Las been engaged in the upholstering business, was arrested* by Night Policeman Frank today, and landed in jail. From all of Dei mer's actions there is no question but that the man is demented, and it was through some of his queer actions 4hat caused bis arrest When first notaoed Deimer was walking along Monroe street and as he came to the electric light pole stationed in front of the Boston store, he climbed the same, came down, knelt and prayed, then went on up street This performance he went through several times, when Policeman iFntnks attention was called and he was taken into custody These are the first strange aotionsth at Denner has been seen to go through and if foe is demented the attack has certainly struck him quickly. His case however, will be looked into by the officers. ISDECLINING Yellow Fever Outlook is Appearing Brighter. By ‘Vnifed Press News Association. New August 10—Dr. Kohukhe said today that although the city board of health subordinated its powers federal government, they will continue to force the physicians to make prompt reports on the cases ot yellow fever. It is taken for granted that there has been a material decline in the virulence ot the disease.

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CLOSE CALL A Two Huntington Lads Take a Hair Raising Ride. Two young chap* who refused to dicslose their names, but who gave their home a* being at Huntington. jumjied off of No. 14, the fast Erie express train last night, one of them being in a state cf utter exhaustion. The little fellows bad boarded the train at Huntingtin and caught hold of the oar step rails and were unable to crawl up between the care, owing to obstructions, and as the train was under a full spied thev were unable to get off and there they clnng for life for thirty mile*. M hen the train stopped here one of the little fellows instead of jumping off merely collapsed and fell off The position of the boys was a dangerous one, for had the tram ran across any bridges with sides the boys would undoubtedly have lieen swept off from their po sitions. They left later on a freight for their homes. VERY LOW Jacob Closs Almost Collapsed at Noon - —IIM. A Lone Standing Case of Rheumatism Which for a Time Found His Heart. Jacob (.'1 >ss. who tor some time past has Is en ailing with rheumatism. took a sudden change for the worse at .noun today, and is very low. He was sitting in a rocking chair on his back porch talking to James K. Niblick, when all at once he seemed to collapse and would have fallen from the ohair bad not Mr. Niblick caught him. He was carried into the house and Dr H. F. Costello called, who did all in his power for him, stating that the rheumatism that he had so long suffered with had gone to his heart and how well he would l*e able to stand the shock could be told in a short time. Mr. Closs is one of the city’s oldeat citizens, and was about the streets only a few days ago. NOTED MAN Rev. W. B. Calliss will Occupy a Bluffton Pulpit. r 3 v. W. B Calliss, who will preach at the Baptist church next Sabbath morning and evening, is a noted personage. His home is in Chicago, but he has been in the lecture field the past few years. The “Wisconsin State Journal, has this to say of him: “Mr. Cuiliss is a man of wide travel and enviable experience. After completing his studies for the ministry he devoted several years to the work of general secretary of the Philadelphia Young Men s Christian Association, and to lecturing in the interest of the associations, visiting all the leading cities of thisjoountry and Canada. Following this he settled in Philadelphia as pastor of one of the large churches. He has alternated between the pastorate and the evangelistic work of the minstry and has been associated with Moody and many of the leading pastors of all denominations In this country and Great Britain. —Bluffton News.

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IN NEW ORLEANS Rev. Lankanau Writes About Yellow Fever Four Hundred and Seventy-Five Cases Reported and Eighty-Nine Deaths Resulted. Rev. F. J. Lankenau of New Orleans. La., son of Henry Lankenau, writes to his parents under date of August 7th as follows, about the yellow fever: “While the situation here is serious, the authorities still hope to stamp out the dreadful fever before it gains too great a headway. Up to this date four hundred and seventy-five cases have been reported and , eighty-nine deaths These caaes have been mostly confined tc the Italians, bnt as the fever spreads it will grow more and more difficult to confine it to this nationality, and drastic measures will have to be used, and used at once. In order to stamp out the scourage in a week or two Our local and state authorities feel this and have therefore called on the national government to take complete charge of the situation. New Orleans is cast off from the outside world as far as passenger traffic is concerned, and no one will be allowed to leave or enter the city until the fever is under complete control. It is the opinion of those that know, that, if the fever is not under control in about two weeks it will continue its ravages until it is killed by frost sometime in D icembsr ” BUSINESSCHANGE —— Gus Rosenthal Quits Business Here Saturday The Stock will be Invoiced to Myers & Dailey Beginning Monday.

Only two more days of Gue. That simply means that on Saturday evening the business career of Gus Rosenthal will cease active operation in Decatar. as on Monday following the store will be closed and the stock will be invoiced to its new purchasers, Myers & Dailey. Gus Rosenthal has been engaged in the clothing business here for a number of years, and he temporarilly leaves it with all the earmarks of success. This success is due to strict.busniess methods an everlasting push of advertising. He always advertised, every week and every day. New we are not foolish enough to contend that every advertisement paid him full value, but the everlasting, day in and day out method won the business. It did it for him and it will do it for any one else who will try it, and stick to it. Gus Rosenthal knows the merits of printer's ink, and when he engages in the mercantile trade again, the Arts item of expense he will incur will be a bill for advertising. . Mr. Rosenthal has been a good citizen, and it is with regret that we note his retirement from business pursuits in Jour Joity. After closing up his business affairs he will rest for a time, and expects about the first of the year to .leave for "an extended absence in Germany. The new firm of Mvers & Dailey are both Decatur boys with lots of friends und plenty of business push, and will make business a success.

SMALL GRIST The Court House Furnishes a Few Items of News. Judson W Teeple tiled a suit which will be known as Clarence Cowan vs Will J. Cowan, et al, a snit on note, the demand being 167.29. | The Kleinheuz Humphries case reached the clerk's office today on an appeal from the justice's court, and is numbered 7011. It will be one of the cases tried at the September term | Two marriage licenses have been issued and they to Otis Elmer Stetler and Lavina Huston, and Arthur DeAnnand and Olive Wegers. THEY FLUKED Bluffton Ball Fans Have a Yellow Liver Terms Could not be Agreed Cpon so the Licking They Deserved and Would Get, is Postponed. After virtually dictating the terms that the Rosenthals ana Bluffton teams would be governed I by during the proposed series of I games la-tween these two cities, Bluffton bus backed down and will not live up to her end of the contract, and the game here next Tuesday has been virtually knocked in ■ the bead, and all future efforts to get the two teams together will be | useless so tar as tue Rosenthals are concerned. From all present indications Bluffton because she has a little team called the “Giants, ’’ who are drawing an imitation salary, thinks she should be in a poI sition to dictate any and all terms ' that teams desiring to play with her should accept, but in this they have failed once, and they have found one team or city at last that proposes to have some say in the distribution of the funds and on what conditions the teams shall play on. While in this city on the day the Kentland team played here Frank Dailey, who seemed to be representing the Bluffton team, told Manager Reynolds that in order to get the meet the Rosenthals that Bluffton would accept any proposition that Decatur might make, and that they would come to this city at any time. At this time it was fully understood and agreed that Bluffton should oome here on any day the local management saw tit and play for a guarantee of twenty-five dollars with a privilege of sixty and forty per cent of the gate receipts. Upon this under standing Manager Reynolds teday called Bluffton up and set next Tuesday as the date for their team to come here and do battle, und that the Rosentuals would return the date there on the following Friday. This was acceptable, but Bluffton at once began to qnible over the terms, stating that they would give no more than twentyfive dollars, the privilege being cut out. Manager Reynolds then in formed them that he would live up to his contract, and unless Bluffton would stay by the word of their representative be would not con sider any proposition to play, and ail future efforts to get the teams together would end. Bluffton, still desiring to be the dictator, would do nothing, and concluded to keep their little team of/Giants’, in theii own back yard and leave the white folks alone. This move, however, was no more than ex pected, as Bluffton is very seldom known to live up to any of her agreements. Still the tans will not be without baseball, even if Bluffton won’t come.

IN JAIL William Rose Guilty of Horse Stealing Fined and Costs for Cutting Harness was Nineteen Dollars Which he Could not Pay. William Ross, the young man who was accused of cutting the harness owned by Frank Smitley, was arrested last evening by Deputy Sheriff Titus Ernst, at the place be was residing, .two miles east of the county line in Ohio, near Chatanooga. He was brought to this city and at once arraignea l>efore 'Squire Smith, where he plead guilty and was assessed a fine of five dollars and costs, i amounting in all to nineteen dollars Being unable to pay this amount he was taken to jail, where be will board it out with Sheriff Butler During the hearing, Rose, who is a half-witted fellow, told of his past life, and if everything is true, the young man is more to be pitied than censured. He claims to have lieen born and reared in Greenville, Ohio, where he made hie home with his parents until his mother died, which occurred when he was fifteen years of age. Immediaetly after his mother' > death his father was arrested and found guilty of horse stealing and was sent to the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary, which place his father is now confined on a similar offense. Tlrs virtually the young man on his own resources, and he drifted westward, locating at Chattanooga, where he has since been working at any job he could secure Up until the time he got into the trouble of cutting harness the yuun:z man bore a good reputation, and was well thought of in that community, and the people of that neighborhood are inclined to believe that someone put the young man up to do the job. All during his testimony his mind seemed to be wandering, and he was unable to confine himself to one subject.

SOMETHING DOING The Sarah Schafer Murder to be Sifted Deep. By United Pre** New* AMOdation. Indianapolis. August 10—W. H. Blodgett in the Indianapolis News tonight, will say that sooner or later the murderers of Sarah Schafer will be indicted, convicted and hanged, and but for a political ring infesting that county, it would have been done long ago, and the assassins now in their giaves He quotes Attorney Underwood, saying that the murder was committed tv hired thugs. The affidavits are prepared and ready to file, but the absence from t’u city on a vacation of the two men chaiged with the crime, has delayed the tiling. ARE SPARRING Peace Commissioners May Not Reach Question of Terms Today By United Pre** News Association. Portsmouth, Mass., August 10— There was a glorious sunshine thoughout the day, when as expected Japan made her demands for the assurance of peace. Previous to the noon adjournment some doubt was expressed, where Japa n would lay down the terms today. Ab Komura seemed to be sparring for time. Before they were announced the Japanese envoys gave not the slightest hint of what was to be expected. There is excellent reason for believing that the Japanese are as willing as the Russians to parley on terms and give and take in air.

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GOOD PLAY The Holy City at the Bosse Optra House Friday Night. If half that may be read 11 true, Gordon & Bennett'* latent production ia one of unusual beauty. It is generally conceded that the performances of “A Royal Slave," were su|>erior, but there has been provided for City’’ dramatic embellishment and stage accessories of even more remarkable magnificence. The powerful story, vetoed by those forming one of the largest and most talented companies traveling, is so aided by allegorical, musical and spectacular effects that astonishment and delight is manifested in every mention of this play. In the complete satisfaction that each production of this capable and praise-worthy management insures, jiast successes are understood and future confidence inspired. To the lavish expenditures necessary to the presentation of “A Royal Slave,'* theatrical pessimists shook their heads and predicted failare. The managers paid their bills and banked their surplus. The much greater ex pense attending representations of ' The Holy City," is met in sagacious belief that for the drama loving public nothing can be too good; with always increasing artistic en. deavor, Messrs. Gordon & Bennett prove their commercial intelligence. Opera house, Friday, August 11.

NO DAMAGE Corn Crop as Good as Before the Storm Moth Parties a Fad. - Sickness not Flourishing.—Arnica Trade Leads Them All. (Special Correspondence.) Geneva, Ind., August 10—It is now believed that the ternffio storm Saturday evening did not damage the corn nearly so much as was thought it did. While a great deal of it was blown down, there was scarcely any that was broken or torn, and since the oorn has obtained its growth, it is thought that which cannot even be straightened up will r.pen and be none the worse for its wrestle with the wind Geneva and her people are bound to be in style, and now as there is nothing so tashionaable as the “buffalo moth” everybody is “looking for moths.” Many jieople have found them and are sorry too. for, with the finding of the insect came the discovery that a great amount of clothing had been ruined. It is said that in the near future, several parties are to be held where the guests, instead of playing cards or enjoying the other time-worn amusements, will hunt moths, a prize to be given the tinder of the most J“orawlers. ’’ To ,be in date now you must hunt for moths, and the slogan of the Geneva people is, “Have you found any buffalo moths?” The physicians of this place report that there is very little sickness just now, something very remarkable for this time of the year, when green apples, the makers of pain, are in market. There are but a very few oases of illness, and nene of these are regarded as se rious. The Geneva fat men are good and sore over the game with the Decatur fats. There is no other word that expresses it better than “sore.” Os course, in saying that, it does not mean they are mad, but it means just what it says—muscles, joints—the whole body sore. The drug stores had flourishing arnica sales Wednesday, and today it is said that most of the soreness is gone.