Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 91,

DISAGREEMENT THE VERDICT I They Stood Seven to Five For Murder I ' in First Degree

THREE FOR THAW jury Has Been Out Nearly Forty-Eight Hours | A FAMOUS case ends ■Case Has Cost State of New York I SBO,OOO and Thaws Three Times That Amount. I New York, April 12.—At four o’clock jfche jury reported that they were un■gble to reach an agreement. Judge ■Fitzgerald discharged them. || At 7:06 this morning the jury went ■put to breakfast at Broadway Central ■otel. having been locked up since | Rindnight. As the jurors who had, ■been in continuous session thirty -eight ■ours filed out of the building, they' ■appeared haggard and distressed.' ■ome of the jurors are apparently, ■nearing the limit of physical endur-i ■nee. Juror Steele, who is regarded ■s being the man largely responsible ■or the disagreement, smiled at the ■lewspaper men, who were on hand Bo see the jury leave, as if to indicate i ■there was even a longer wait in store’ Bor the reporters. The jury returned Bo the criminal court building at began deliberations. At ten Bj'clock this morning there were perrumors about the court house ■which were given considerable cre■feace by both attorneys for the de■lense and state, that at that time the ■jurv stood nine for conviction on mam

OLRT HOUSE NEWS J - t i Quiet Title Case Was Heard Today ! J - _ I IEVERAL CASES SET FOR TRIAL Hire* State Cases to be Tried Next Week—Hall-Reif Case at Portland. I The case of Eli Meyer vs. Julius paugk, suit on account, set for trial Wednesday, May Bth. 1 I I Charles E. Bollinger vs. John Everb*rt. Jr., et al, default of all defenpmts. submitted, finding for plaintiff, file quieted in plaintiff as against all ■fondants. John C. Moran appointed commissioner to make deed I George C. Bohrer Brewing company t 5 Harry Cordua, suit on bond, cause to John F. LaFollette. of Iky circuit court. B Abraham D. Galentine vs. IS S. [phes, on contract demand $500; ■k to answer absolute within ten

I ] ■ hhu h. Green vs. Rachel Dailey, demand *200; set for hear- ® motion for new trial. Friday. V IMh. S * France et al vs. Calvin Miller et ■muu on account, reply to second of answer, set for trial ■pfey. May 6th. ■ Manuel Woods vs John S. Bowers complain on account; set f ,r Thursday, April 18th. cause of Penina Silbers, ex K* 510 vacate certain lots, streets from Jay county, redoekK/ fro ® appeal; opinion of appel- ■" ordered spread on record iM"' Moran appear for Silvers. ’’a state cases have been set

slaughter and three for acquittal Steele, Brearly and Bolton are said to favor acquittal. It is said that the states attorneys have given up hope of convicting Thaw on first degree murder, but that Jerome expects the jury to deal some sort of punishment to the murderer, if only to subdue his exaggerated ego. Thaw’s trial has cost the state SBO,000, while the Thaws have spent $235,000. The women of the Thaw party arrived at the court house at 10:25 this morning and went to the judges’ chambers. Evelyn appeared much refreshed. After opening of court this morning Thaw was brought over from the tombs. He show-ed ill concealed impatience over the jury's failure to come in. He gave out this statement: "I wish the jury and every one else to understand that no one despises a person who carries concealed weapons more than I. Only after my life was in jeopardy as I was informed by persons and it was communicated to me by professional detectives did I protect myself. Then I employed I Pinkertons and they could neither I prove nor disprove these statements, I so I could not be afforded protection lof the law. When doubting my own judgment, I consulted an ex-chief of ' police, a man respected in this community and be advised me my duty I was to protect myself. In this trial I I w-ished my case based solely and , simply on laws of the state and upon I evidence which had convinced not ' only myself, but also the district at- , torney, that I am innocent under the ■ written laws of the state. The court I I recessed until two o’clock. I A most remarkable demonstration ■ was given the elder Mrs. Thaw and i Evelyn as they left the building for ■ lunch. Thousands upon thousands ‘ of working men and women gathered ■ in Lafayette street to cheer them and - they did so frantically. It was the ■ most remarkable demonsration of its - kind ever seen here.

for trial next Monday. They are State vs. Isaac Robinson, intoxication; State vs. Paul Crites, assault and battery; State vs. Nelson Bricker, assault and battery. Attorneys Lutz, Merryman and DeVoss are at Portland appearing in the case of William Hall vs. John H. Reiff, a suit which is being tried for the fifth time o - - - G. R. 4 I. HAS NEW PRESIDENT Joseph Wood, of Pittsburg, Succeeds McCrea. At the annual meeting of the directors of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway company In Pittsburg, Joseph Wood, of Pittsburg, was elect'ed president in succession to James McCrea, who recently was made president of the Pennsylvania system. The other officers succeed themselves and are: W. R. Shelby, vice president and (treasurer; J. H. P. Hughart, vice I president and general manager; R. R. Metheony, secretary and auditor. All are of Grand Rapids. The board thereupon reappointed these officials all of whom but Mr. I Hudson, who makes his headquarters in Fort Wayne, are established in Grand Rapids; James H. Campbell, acting general counsel; W. B.

Stimson, assistant general manager, E C. Leavenworth, general freight agent- C L. Lock wood, general passenger agent; J. W. Hunter, superintendent northern division; ■ H. Hudson, superintendent southern division; E. H. Barnes, chief engineer; Henrv Sullivan, purchasing agent and paymaster. J. E. Keegan, superintendent of motive power; J. F. Haves master mechanic. All of the various maintenance of wav officials were reappointed and have the same stations as formerly. — o . A good laugh is better than a tonic. There will be 150 laughs in H>o minX in “Uncle Rube" at Bosse Opera House Monday, April 22nd. benefit of th e Christian church. “Uncle Rube - H 1 you" are dyspeptic attend “Uncle Rube" and laugh and grow fat.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, Bveainx, April 12, 1907.

NEW LAW IS FAR REACHING Pure Food Bill Makes .Trouble .for Egg Dealers. 1 The pure food law will be far reaching in its effect if it is rigidly enforced. At this season of the year and during the summer months there are many bad eggs put upon the market and sold to confiding customers. Heretofore grocers have never “candied” the eggs they bought to test their soundness and consequently have borne considerable loss from bad eggs. It is thought that under the new law not only will the farmer who sells the eggs be compelled to give all good eggs, but likewise the grocer must know that he delivers good eggs to his customers. If the grocer is compelled to deliver good eggs he will be compelled to test all the eggs he buys. The matter is being seriously considered and it is not known yet what will be done. Plainly, the only fair way for farmer, grocer and customer, law or no law, is to test all eggs so that everybody along the line will get good, sound, fresh eggs. sigTHmanager Ralph Behringer to Have Charge of Team BASE BALL IS ASSURED Decatur Will Have a Good Team This Year—Season to Open Decoration Day. The base ball season for 1907 was formally launched last evening at the commercial club rooms when the directors of this association closed a contract with Ralph Behringer, of Frankfort, to manage and captain the team this season. The contract was closed without much trouble, as Mr. Behringer's ideas concerning a ball team compared favorably with the ideas of the directors of the associaion, and we predict a successful season. Under the terms of the contract, Behringer is to manage and captain the team. He is to sign all ball players and has the power to discharge the same without any meeting of the directors. He is to attend to the matter of making all daes and to attend to the wants of the team in general. In fact, all the local association will have to do is to attend to the financial end of the business. Behringer informed the directors that he had a line on a number of good men whom he could sign at reasonable terms, and stated that the team be put into Decatur would be no experiment, but would be composed of well seasoned men, who were ready to jump into the game at a moments notice. Mr. Behringer himself is an experienced man, having followed the national game for several years, and is fully acquainted with what it requires to make a winning team. He is a hard and conscientious worker, and will get everything out of his men that can be gotten. In signing Mr. Behringer, the local management have made a ten strike, as no better man could have been secured. About one hundred letters addressed to secretary Vaughn from ball players were read. Among them being letters from Burns, Henderson, Notts, Linderbeck and Hillinger of last season's team, and an army of other men who consider themselves fast and able to deliver the goods. Mr. Behringer will not have his men report until May 20th, as the season will not open until the Decoration Day.when a double header will be played. While here Behringer had a talk with Tom Railing, and it is possible that Bluffton will lose the service of Tom this season, as he intimated he would like to play here if satisfactory terms could be made. Now that the season has been started let every fan put his shoulder to the wheel and push the good cause along. —_ o Figures compiled at he office of the bureau of statistics show that 1,122 persons were adjudged insane in the year 1906. In the year 1905 only 950 persons were declared to be of unsound mind. In 1904 the number was 1,105. Reports to the bureau show that in 1906 in the courts of the state 27,981 civil cases were filed. This is almost 1,000 less than were filed in 1905. The number of cases disposed of in 1906 was 24,602.

THESESSION CLOSES District Pocahontas Meeting Enjoyed y PROGRAM WAS A GOOD ONE Many Speeches by Grand Officers and a Large Class Initiated Into the Mysteries. The last session of the District Convention of the Pocahontas lodge was held last evening at the Red Men's hall and the Elks rooms, in the third story of the Studebaker building on Main street. The grand officers, Mrs. Iva Hunemieier, of Washington, Mrs. Rosier, of Richmond, Ind., and Mrs. Graham, of Anderson, Ind., arrived on the noon train from Muncie where they were attending the convention. The convention at Muncie showed that they had forty councils in their district, which is the largest in the state of Indiana, and the number of councils of this district numbers eleven, which is the smallest in the state, although if it is the smallest, the reports show it to be among the very best of the state. The work of this year has been the most prosperous year of the district, and the reports were fine from each council. The opening session for the public was held from seven to eight-thirty o'clock, at the Elks’ rooms. Mrs. James Fristoe presided over this meeting and she proved that she was more than capable of handling such a vast crowd, w’hich she did in a dignified manner. The opening address was made by Mr. A. P. Beatty, in which he gave the three main principals of the order, which are Freedom, Friendship and Charity, closing with the welcome to the stranger among the guests. The response address was made by the Great Pocahontas, Mrs. Iva Hunemieier. Next was the duet rendered by Mrs. C. J. Lutz, and daughter, Miss Jean. This was highly appreciated by all. Following the duet came a splendid reading by Miss Merle Burdg. A vocal solo was rendered by Mr. Fred MeFeeley, of Fort Wayne, Ind., which was a surprise to all of his friends in Decatur. Mr. McFeeley was formerly of Decatur, but is now at the stated place. An excellent reading from Indiana's favorite writer “Riley” was given byMiss Faye Smith, and also the Great Keeper of Records, Mrs. Graham, of Anderson gave a reading which was

(Continued on page 2.) SELECT TEACHERS School Trustees Held an Important Session NOT A CHANGE WAS MADE Entire. Corps of Instructors Re-elect-ed for Service for Next Year in Public Schools. At a meeting of the Decatur school board, the very important matter of selecting teachers was taken up and disposed of by the selection of the same corps of instructors now in service. This is the first time in history perhaps that not a single change was necessary, but as each teacher has given satisfactory service, it was decided to re-elect, as each had filed application. The list includes Prof. William Beachler, superintendent and C. E. Hocker, J. C. Tritch, D. A, Baumgartner, O. E. Frazee, Rose L. Dunathan, Emma Byerly, Mattie Bailey, Mary Miller, Lizzie Peterson, Bess Congleton, John R. Parrish, Florence Johnson, Della Sellemeyer, Eva Acker, A. D. Suttles, Grace Coffee, Nellie Wiftnes, Nora Ahr, Clyde Rice, Rose Egan, Emma Sellemeyer and Fannie Rice. The schools were never in better condition and each teacher has given entire satisfaction, there having been practically no complaints. The board believe they have acted wisely in their action and we predict that the year 1907-08 will be the most successful in the history of the Decatur schools.

NEW DEVICE FOR MILLERS A Patent That Will Leave No Flour in Middlings. Roy Stafford, of this city, has devised a bolting arrangement for use in grist mills that from general appearances would indicate that he has prospects of making a nice bunch of money through his ingenuity. Roy is employed at the North Main street mills and is a miller of ability. Millers have long known that in the shorts, or middlings that are left after the flour has been separated from the wheat, there is a considerable quantity of good flour. In fact the finest grade, that could not be separated with the devices now in use. By running the shorts through the machinery time after time it might have been accomplished in the end, but this would have entailed • an amount of expense that would have counteracted all the saving. Roy had devised a bolting arrangement that takes the middlings after they have gone through all the machinery now in use and from the middlings from a bushel of wheat, at least calculation a pound of flour will be secured. —Bluffton Banner. o M. E. CONFERENCE Annual Report of Secretary C. U. Wade REV. MAHIN IS THE OLDEST Orphanage and Old Folks Retreat at Warren Being Considered —Deaconess Home Improved. Logansport, Ind., April 11.—One of the features of today's session of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference was the annual meeting of the Preacher's Aid society. This occupied most of the morning session. The sacrament of the Lord's supper was administered by Bishop McDowell, assisted by presiding elders and visiting ministers, when the conference opened at 8:30. The program for this afternoon included at 2:30 an address by C. O. Merica on the Methodist Episcopal hospital and deaconess home at Indianapolis; an address at 3:30 by Edwin H. Hughes, president of DePauw university, on “The Problem of Man,” and the anniversary celebration. The annual report of Secretary C. U. Wade was as follows: Money loaned on unincumbered real estate, $33,566.16; loaned on approved personal security, $825; cash in treasurer’s hands, $2,570.09; cash in hands of general secretary, $210; good notes and accounts in hands of general secretary, $9,445; value real estate, SB,500; bond for deed value, $3,000; due from Chipman estate, $175; after death bonds, $11,075. Total assets, $69,366.25. Amount placed in hands of conference claimants, $1,851.49. It is probable that Indiana Methodism will soon undertake another work of benevolence, if plans nowmaturing in the North Indiana conference are brought to a successful end. The Rev. J. W. Cain, pastor of the Mehodist church at Warren, has presented to the conference a proposition whereby Mr. and Mrs. William Chopson, wealthy Methodists of Warren, propose to give $50,000 and a site for a Methodist orphanage and old folks’ retreat at Warren if the conference will agree to raise an additional $50,000 for its construction and maintenance. C. O. Merica, of Indianapolis, delivered the afternoon address on the Methodist hospital and deaconess home at Indianapolis, urging the necessity of new buildings. When the present plan is perfected these institutions will represent an investment of $1,000,000 of Methodist funds. The Rev. Milton Mahin, ninety years old, of Newcastle, is the oldest minister in attendance. He entered liie conference in 1841. Fifteen hundred visitors will be in the city Sunday. The conference appointments are expected Monday. There is as much evidence of underground work for preference as in a state conventon of a political party. o In spite of the cold weather the fruit crop is not in such a bad way as has been reported. It is true that many of the buds have been killed, but there remain on the trees enough buds to insure a good crop if nothing worse happens than has happened so far.

IS LOSING FLESH The President Showing Effects of a Strain PENFIELD MAKING MONEY The Administration Will Help Taft Make the Fight Against Foraker. Washington, April 12. —One frequently hears it said in Washington these days that President Roosevelt is not in good health as he used to be. The strain of the last twelve months has been telling on him. He has lost flesh very perceptibly and the ruddy glow of health that used to mantle his cheeks has in a measure disappeared. No one who sees him and talks with him has any idea, however, that he has any serious affliction or that there is anything the matter with him physically beyond a general run down condition due to several causes. In addition to hard work he has suffered a great deal of excruciating pain lately from an aching molar. Washington, April 12. —Judge William L. Penfield, who resigned the office of solicitor for the state department a year or two ago, has been thanking his lucky stars ever since that he had the foresight to break away from “Uncle Sam." In the capacity of solicitor this Indiana man drew a salary of $4,500 a year and plenty of hard work. In the capacity of an attorney in Washington he has a net income of more than twice the amount he drew from the government and he is “his own boss." Nearly all of his cases involve questions of international law and he practices chiefly before the state department. He has the finest suite of office rooms in the finest office building in Washington, and his son, Walter Penfield, of Auburn, Ind., has joined him as his assistant. Washington, April 12. —There is no longer any doubt about the attitude of President Roosevelt toward Senator Foraker. The chief executive intends to do everything in his power to bring about the defeat of the Ohio senator in the contest now on to determine whether Foraker or Taft is to be supreme in the state. It is intimated at the White House that if it should appear later on that Taft is not making a winning fight the president may decide to go to Ohio and make a speech or two in support of the Secretary of War. o BEGINS HIS WORK Fred Fruchte Taking the School Enumeration HAS THIRTY DAYS' TIME ft's a Big Job, and Every Parent Should Willingly Lend His Assistance. Fred Fruchte, who has been deputized by the local school board to take the school enumeration, started out yesterday to perform his arduous duties, and last evening reported that his success had been fair. The job, although it seems to be a soft snap, is far from it, as it requires a house to house canvass and means a talk with the head of every family. The taking of the school enumeration means much to the local school board and it is the duty of every' citizen to give the enumerator the correct answ’er to all questions without any parleying, as it has to come. From all present indications the enumeration promises to exceed that of last year, which speaks well for our schools. Mr. Fuchte has thirty days in which to finish his work, and every parent should lend their assistance in making his work as light as possible, and they may be able to do this by giving thp number of children atattending school from their family and their ages promptly. o- . The program for the Violin Recital I will be the best ever given in Decatur.

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GENEVA REBEKAS ENTERTAINED One Hundred and Fifty Out-of-Town Visitors Were There. The Geneva Rebekah lodge entertained about one hundred out-of-town visitors Wednesday evening at their new lodge rooms. Winchester sent a delegation of thirty-five. Decatur fifteen and Portland 35. The delegations were met at the train Wednesday afternoon by a reception committee, who escorted the orders to the lodge rooms where supper was served. When the lodge was called to order, three candidates were on hands to be initiated, the degree work being conferred by the Winchester degree staff. After the work of the evening addresses were made by a number of the visiting members and Miss Byrd, of Winchester, rendered several literary selections. At midnight a banquet tvas served and the three lodges returned home on the three o’clock train. —Portland Com-mercial-Review. o CHARGE OF ARSON Russell White is Arrested and Files Bond 'US ’ INDICTED BY GRAND JURY Geneva Man Charged With Setting Fire to the Haviland and Ault Slaughter House. ‘ ‘ 4»- ' ■ ’ L Russel White, a section hand living at Geneva, has filed bond for SSOO for his appearance in court this term to answer to the very serious charge of arson. He was indicted by the November grand jury, and it is said the evidence to be presented against him will be rather strong. The indictment is in three counts; the first setting forth the statement that on August 1, 1906, said Russel White unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully and maliciously set fire to and caused to be burned a certain buiding. located at Geneva, valued at SI,OOO, and owned by Christopher Haviland. The second count alleges that Haviland and one Byron Ault were owners of the building and the third count fixes the value of the building at $1,200 instead of SI,OOO. The case will come to trial some time in the latter part of this term and will no doubt be the most interesting criminal case of the

term. Prosecutor Heller will represent the state and attorney D. E. Smith will defend Mr. White. o TAYLOR’S PRESIDENT WRITES Who Was Job?—How Do You Read Your Bible? The Youth’s Companion recently told of a young lady who, while reading aloud, came to the expression “patience of Job.” She pronounced the name with the short sound of “o,” and then said: “I don't understand this. Who was Job?” “Have you never read the book of Job? Does the name suggest nothing to you?” was asked. “Nothing whatever,” she replied, except that I somehow associate it with printing. Was he a publisher?” A lecturer quoted from the twentythird psalm, adding, “As a sweet singer of Israel tells us.” One auditor nudged the other and whispered, “He means Mendelsohn, doesn't he?” To call a spade a spade —it is astonishing what ignorance of the Bible exists in a multitude of otherwise well informed, “up-to-date" (to use a popular phrase) people. “Up-to-dateness” does not seem to include a knowledge of the Bible and the way of life, despite the awful and glorious utterance of the Lord, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.” The multitude insists upon putting perishable things first. And they who bear the name of Christ are oftentimes wickedly negligent of the Bible. How can we “give a reason for the faith that is in us” without studying carefully, prayerfully, lovingly and devotedly the Word of our God? How can we serve Him without knowing about Him? How can we please Him without knowing His will? —University Register.