Daily Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1906 — Page 1

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I LEFT SATURDAY Mr. Birdseye Left for ■ Other Fields of Action ■is Investigation was Hardly in the K" -Square Deal” Class—Postmaster Brittson Has a Good Record. A- stated Saturday, Mr. Birds,ye ink his departure with him snd left the city Saturday aftersoon, going to Fort w Wayne. Re wrts have it that Ossian is his destination and from there he will likely fe° Muncie, where he can work for the good of his cause—that being to give Ccngressiaan Cromer all the mental worry he ran From what can be learned of his investigation here, he came for a one side story and of course got it, as any one can who starts on a mission of this sort. His ' Square deal ' policy, or rather that cf Presideent Roosevelt, is the sort of a one sided "square deal” that has not even any semblance of being square. Bathe certainly got what he wanted, tiecause he went at it in away indicative that he would get that and would not take anything else, were it offered, ißut the investigation for the pres lent I* completed and it will give Itbe postal employees an opportun ity to breathe easy. It must be like .walking Jon [sharp tacks, to Ebave a government kewotive trying to scent something [wrung, and 'especially when that ■government detective wants to (went something of that sort real If*. Thia is certain, Albert Britt I--. :.t- been a progressive b i-i BBM postmaster. Business manage Its.,nt has prevailed througcut is lad ministration and the office shows lit Political investigation is all [right hut when it comes to shoot ing daggers at the business end of bn (administration, .we take the [liberty of registering .a kick, and [every other business man should Id - likewise. I PLEAD GUILTY Gustav Conzeman Enters Plea of Guilty IThe Piej was Sprung as a Surprise When the Case was Called in the Federsl Court. I ®y Ua led Press News Association. I Indianapolis Jan. 29. —The de | f ‘n> -■ sprung a surprisejn th. f i l«rs. court this morning, when •I .- |U"e < , nzoman, the Torre Haute Itanksr phad guilty to a govern charge cf embezzlement t ■*b« funds of the Vigo Countv Na ■*‘r.al bank, and appropriating ■*rty thousand dollars to his own Attorney - John B Elam an that his client would a-k ■* dismissal 0 [ certain counts in indictment, but Judge Aiib’i’ ■*® n r?ftißed to grant this until the ■^ Or t could become more familiar B*db the case ■ toec.ji Telegram' To Th* Democrat ■ Indianapolis. Jan -‘o.—lodge later took up the ca*c Sentenced Conzeman to eight imprisonmnt. I fifty Thousand. X » Unlttg Press News Association■j/hllsdelphia, Penn . Jan. 2.» — ■ ' e Bairs undertakinng establish burned this morning Six ■thT )ye- were awakened bv the ■lvm Dln tlm ® to escape with’their »■ Two dead bodies awaiting Wero saved from cremation. ■ 9 'bs g is Astims ted at fifty thoas- ■ a4 dollars.

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BROKEN ARM Mrs. Barney Lngerlck Falls and Sustains Injury to Her Arm. Mrs . Barney Lengerich, who re sides south of this city, had the misfortune to fall Sunday morn ing and break her arm between the wristband the elbow. She had lett the house and was enroute to the summer kitchen when she slipped on the sidewalk and was thrown to the ground, the entire weight of her body filling on the right arm. causing a very had break. Dr D. D Clark was called and dressed the injury and stated although nothing serious was very painful. PNEUMONIA I Samuel Schlegel Died Saturday Afternoon His Illness Lasted but Twenty-Four Hours—Fnneral Services Were Held This Morning.

Samoa! Schlegel, aged fifty years died Saturday afternoon at his home on Jackson street, about four o’clock, aftvr an tlloes so only one day, death resulting from (pneumo nia. His sickness came on Friday afternoon abeat (oar o'clock, and just twenty four hours later he lay cold in death. From what we can learn concerning his case is that it was dae mure toexpisare and want than anything else. He had scoured the streets for work for days but could no| find any and while doing this contracted a icold which settled on his lung* land in a few hours hi* demise oc curred. For several months past ha has been living In a house own ed by William B)*se cn Jackson street and their destitute circum stances have been something awful. i The little children were thinly clad Share was no fire in iha stove and ' the home was damp an.l co! 1 Dr. j McMillen, wh-' waited cn the de iceased, did all in bis p wer to save I him. bat his efforts weie useless, as i the disease haa too firm a grip on j him and his weakened condition i was powerless to fight the disease. A number of local charity organ! zations at once took hold the family in chaige and attended to t’neir immediate wants J The funer al services were held thia morning at ten o'clock at the Evanglical leharoh. Rev. A. B Haist officiating j and interment was made in Maple wood cemetery He leavt-s a wife and five chihlron to mourn their lo**. WILL PROBATED Last Testament of William Reddinf Filed Today. The last will and testament cf William E Redding. Ute of BlueCreek town-hip. wa~ probated to day Ater providing (for the pay mentof all debts sand funeral ex peases he bequeaths »300 to Roy McDonsl. a boy whom he reared He gives one third ;oihis estate to his wife. Mary E Redding four ninths’to his daughter, Frances Gillen, two ninths tc hi. adopted | daughter' Orpha Barf ling, his gold watch to his grand son. Orange Gil’en The will was written Jan | nary 19, 1906. |

DECATUR, INDIANA, MONDAY EVENING, JAM ARY 29, I9of>.

AT WABASH The Presiding Elders to Meet Wednesday They Will Canvass Many Things Important to the Coming Conference Session. The annual meeting of tbt- presiding elders of the Northern Indiana oemferenoe of tie Methodist Epi* copal church will be heli in Wa bash Wednesday The meeting is held annually a month ! re the yearly conference m order that the presiding elder* may go over van om- matters! pretaintng to the i church that will likely com* up nt ■ the conference It is th*ir object |to have a oonnultati. n in order (that if there I* »nv important change* to be made they an be di»<’u*«ed and the sentiment of the different district, of the Conferen* • made clear The meeting was held last year at Indianapoll*. the presid ing elder* having been there m »he interest Os the Indiana horpita which was built by the Methodists, and (having also arranged for their annual meeting while ttey were » there together The conferencewill be held at Alexandria the first week in April. Tho*.- who will at tend next Wednesday are Presiding elders E L Bemans. C V Wads* of the Fort Wayne district of W H Bennett Goshen , L G Naf/ger Muncie, H. N Herrick, Kokomo. G H Hill, Richmond The mm i stern wiiijbe in Wabash a. day as the guests of Dr. Seamen* but the meeting will not be open null 1 o’clock in the afternoon The meeting will i>e of a private nature, although the \\ abash minister* f the Methodist church wii call at the house during the day COURT HOUSE

Business not Brisk at Temple of Justice Two Cases Filed.-Many Paying Taxes. - Commissioners to Meet Monday. Paterson A- Moran filed a suit en titled National Supply company vs I The Stueben D-Kalb Oil oompan v The anil i* for an account of friSO note and mechanic'* lien Another case tiled by Attorney David E. Smith represents the plaintiff, Thomas Giblin vs Robert Giblin at al, and in a suit for par tition of real estate Treasurer Lacnot report* the payment of jweny five or thirty of those first reported delinquent in their taxes . Should the rats of payment continue the tax sale a<l vertised for Monday, February 12, . will be no more of a harvest than the previous sale* have been This i* the second week of court vacation, and the outlook is not bright or much activity around the court hou*** before next Monday, when tho new court term begins. Next Monday the county oomtnis sinners will also meet, and along ether business of importance will be action on five macadam road pe titions in Union township—the only township in the county that now has no macadam roads. They ask for the privilege of voting, and thia will no doubt be granted them, and then if they are wise, they will carry five mecadam roads there.

A REAL SCARE At the Home of Ezekial Elzey - Children Were In Danger. Two emal: children of Mr and Mrs. Ezekiel R Elzey, living near Murray had a narrow escape Thurday from being burned in a fire al their home. The two children were playin?wv nne room by lhemscive* when their mother was alarmed by sudden •cries of terror from the i little tot She rushed nto the rcom i to find it so filled with sn>< ke that at first ehe’cculd not find the ch ; dren and feared that they were on fire She finally bund, however, after a frantic search that the fire wa* confined to a (t «>f cloth og which she bad ironed and thrown over a chair near the stove P - *upp<-< ; that tli- ■ aby had np«et the chair against the stove MrElzey «xtingni«hed the flame* be I fore much damage wa* done ano the loss ”wa» paid today by the Hitchcock As .Fetters agency t>r I 4 25, after Mr Elo y came to town and reported articles horned. Neither of the two small children were burned —Bluffton News MEET THURSDAY Republican District Chairman to Meet

Whether a Congressional Primary or Convention Will be Decided. — The Antis Bracing I p. District < bairman Terhune he* notified J. M Fry»mger hairman ;of the republican committee here that a meeting of the district ch» r men will be held at Mancie next ' Thursday The meeting i* for the pnrpom of deciding whether » pri : mary eb-ctwn or a del*gat* coaven tion ohall be ad< pled a* a means of 1 nominating their candidate fur congress if a convention 1* far orel the dab- will be named an i in that event Bluffton striving to land it Bth the Candida’s* to be glued to the proposition that : a primary election is the favorite ■ with them and rhould Mr Stillwell not be bluffing it will probably be a primary Whichever wav it mav be then- will be the kind Os a i jWlitioai scrap that make a demo 'Cratic primary in Adairs county i look like thirty uent* Both can lidate are (boodling ’boedlcr* and they will throw th* lung green tn ali direction* at the same time. Il will be a merry Um- The Adam* j county anti Cromerites have taken courage since the developments tn the organisation, 'and they boldly assert that Adams county is not tied to the apron string* those who turn the trick I r the Cromer slate After Thursday perhaps we will know whether it is to be a con I vention or a primary PETITION FILED — Adams County Bar Wants More Federal Courts. • Louis Ludlow, the Washington Correspondent to the Star league, print* a petition sent io Congress man Crumpasker by the Adams County Bar association, favoring better federal court facilities The petition was tileil with the judiciary ' committee and will, no doubt l>e sufficient to cause that committee to forthwith acceede to the demands made by the legal lights here. A bill has been introduced in Ocagress making short ’terms of the federal court in different parts of the state aud it does seem that such would prove a convenience.

STILL MAKING GOOD Tom Railing Pitching Phenominal Ball A Mob Who Bet on the Loting Tee® Tried to do H<m Bodily Injury at a Game Recently. -— A letter received from Tom Railing, who is pitching for the (Hirer base lai! team tn Mexico ( ity, ’ >ld Mexico, state* that '.dating a game the first part Jof the last ' week, he nuns very neer losing i his life as did his wife Tom was picthtng <ne of hi* usua masterful game* against another team <' the ’"ity league and hal them beaten bv a score of three to nothing in the eighth inning The ninth tn ning started off without any apy-ar : ent trouble in sight, when all at ;once a commotion wa* *tar’cd tn flic grand »tand and in a few mom-nt* the crowd was m a 11 muit, and cries of “mob him’” and other mean thing* were hurled al Tom,. Ina few moment* the playing ground wae thr ng«*l wit angry Max an*. wb<> thnatenol Railing violence Tom tn some, manner managed to get to bls I wife, who was sitting m the grand stand and in a second they were j surrounded by a h wliuk mob who at any moment tbreaten-d to !» them bodily injury The police at once -ame t<> his a*e;s*an-e, as did the hail players and T>m wa* esccrted Io the hotel without in I jury. An investigation disclosed the fact that the trouble was *t,rt ed by a number • sports from the hills who bad t<et their money >5 the <n.' teem an 1 when they actually *aw their m ney slipping, away from them endeavored lodo ; vic ence to Toji wb- tn their eager eye* was the cause of their down tall The Meximna are a tree'her Sous ;ct and Toni says he dies nd know what to expect next However he wound up by saying he expected Io be able Io play in Dec* tar next season BUYING JUNK John Dudley and C. W. Wagner Arrested Tried Before Ejquirt Smiih tad Dtscfunitd on Hit Evidence of B. lUlver It Son. John Dudley and C W Wagner, two junk dealers from Fort Wayne, were arrested yesterday by Marshal Green on a charge of buying junk without a license The men were , lodged tn jab until this morning at eight o'clock, when they were ar raigned before 'Squire Smith, where they stated they were buy | ing for Barney Kalver and had not the least 'ntenfton of violating the law Mr Kalver *ub*tantta*ed their evidence, after which the court discharged them, giving as his verdict that be figured the men had no intention to violate any Saw Tbev were instructed however to at onoe take out the necessary license Carnation Day. •y United Press News Association. Washington, D.C. Jan 29 — Carnation day was genera iy ob. served throughout the capital to ; day, All statesmen wore President McKinley's fa vorite flower. Large bequets occupied the desks of Pres i'lent Roosevelt and Secretaiy Loeb.

NUMBER 13

A BIRTHDAY W. W. Webel of Bloffton, b SeventyEi<ht Yean Old. IV W Wefsell yesterday cele brated his seventy eighth anniversary and at the noon hour a numi her Os guests were entertained at the Weise home for dinner Mr. .Weisel state- that bi* iart four blrhtdays have been <•**; y remem-. te-red by him from the fact that ’on each ccca*i ,u be has suffered ! from some slight acchlcnt Yesterday he «m cutting a stick of ■ wood when a piece flaw into the air and struck Mr Wetsei 1 a blow |on the now A year ago he fell through a hay mow Onos before he foil I jack ward over a pile of wood and font years ago he slipped and sustained a few bad hiruisas. ■—Bluffton Banner. TOMORROW Poultry Show to Open Tomorrow Entries Received From Every Sarmadis* Town nd (he First Snow Will be o Success. ' >n tomorrow th* Adams County Poultry and Pet block Awwciaiioa , will opso their dour* to the publro »nd the first annua! show Will be on The building formerly pied by Loeb. Dtrkaon A C >mpMy I' has fjc.-n put m .•tuspe and is all ra iy for the p itr/ met Jo igmg jin their st*> k A large number cf ; entries have been received frem ■' Portland. Wiooheeteg. Wiliabuv F irt W ayne. Huntiugton Bluffton Deiph » and M inroevi e and from [all present indicate ns there will • be at least seven hundred chicken* entered the association is offering ; fine inducements and will present to the individual or f.rm that has th-» h;gu< st m-T-W bre, d ing pen a fine trophy oop valued as . u-n dollar* A number of people whe uav* pel sUx-fi have afoo *-nt in their entries tat a this no cash prizes will be given but thoee cap taring first and second prise* Wilf be presented with ribbons The snccaee of the show la an assured i fact and wtd be one of the mesrt -ig *ealur- * ->v • pr *ented l in our city. The show will be open during ’be -lav and fart ot the ; evening. LOSE OU Alien County Ratal Roa’e Stertened oai Account Poor Roads. Because roads were not kept in 'passable onditiua. re*:dents along three mile* d rnr.il free delivery rente No. I.’, n Adam* twonsh p, w 11 be depr v<?d of delivery on and after Feb 1. Orders to th s effect have been rece ved by Postmaster Page Ernest JH Felger. cair.er jUpon route No. -. has male re pealed oompia nts cf the cond t.onn |of the xiune along h;* route. The , histbwav was almost impassable and it * said the r >ad supervisor was given due not ce ?f the matter, j together w th a warning that failure to remedy the tefect would possibly result m the ’ ss of free I delivery. The thiee miles between what is known as coroner and Traudtman's corner thence east to the school house and north to'the Wayne trace real w , nit be covered by the earner after the first of next month—Fort Wayne Gazette.