Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1907 — Page 1

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WANT AN INCREASE Clover Leaf Section Men Will Strike DEMANDS LOOK REASONABLE A Scale of $1.50 per Day is Asked — Strike Will Effect Entire Line From Toledo to St. Louis. The Clover Leaf railroad confronts a trying situation at the present time as the management will have to decide what to do with the demands of the section men of the system. The men are asking an increase of wages and it is said thir demands have been returned ungranted. Fifteen sections or districts on the Charles-ton-St. Louis divis’on are out and the rest will follow suit. It is alleged that the strike will extend to the other divisions as the scale of wages is the same all along the road, says the Charles Courier. The scale of H wages for Clover Leaf section men is $1.35 per day, and their demands of 15 cents a day more does not, on ac- | count of the increased cost of living, I seem to be out of reason. The ques- | tion that strikes the many who are rest ceiving a compensation of $2 a day and I more, is how can a man support a | family on $9 a week? Sec'ion work is | responsible and at the prsent time E when the call for labor is heavy and | can hardly be supplied, where can the I road supply the places of the men I who leave this grade of work? It is I said the men have received the inI formation direct from headquarters I that foreign labor wifi be employed. o— I ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN . Fierce Battle Follows Between Officers and Desperadoes English, Ind.. April 25.—-A desperate I attempt was made this morning to | wreck a train on the southern railroad I near here. The bridge was set on I fire and a battle between the author- | ities and the desperadoes followed. I Marshal Cummings was shot through I the bowels and will die. One of the I train wreckers was arrested, but the I others escaped. ■ WILL HOLD OVER

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Old Officers of Merchants Association fire department discussed Hitch Racks for Use of Farmers May be Arranged—Committee Appointed to Investigate. The Retail Merchants Association, of Decatur, met last evening in special session. One of the important events scheduled was the election of officers, but it was decided that the time for this, as provided in the bylaws had expired, and that consequently the old officers would hold over for another year. They are Charles F. True, president; M. Burns, vice-president; Fred ' ■ Mills, secre tary and Charles Voglewede, treasurer. A partial report was made on the fire department question and the mat ter again discussed at some length, but no definite action was taken further than deciding to again meet with the cily council next Tuesday even ing. The business men seem determined to have fire protection and *il keep up the fight until they get it. Another matter brought before the association was that, of providing hire i ing racks for farmers and a committee was appointel to inquire into the advisability of such a move and to find locations. Those in view now I are First street, at the foot of Madi son, Market street, opposite the jail, and the vacant ground back of the Niblick store. They will report at the I next meeting. SPECTACULAR PITTSBURG FIRE Pittsburg. April 25—About $300,000 ■ is a conservative estimate of the loss lat The Zoellen Packing company’s I Plant, where thousands of pounds of I lard suddenly took fire creating a I spectacular blaze.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

AN EXPLOSION AT MONTPELIER Peculiar Accident Causes Very Serious Results. A mystyfying explosion at Montpelier Tuesday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock in the barn belonging to Matthew Timmons, resulted in the death of James Brown, 10, and in the fatal injury of his half sister, Leona Helvie. The children were passing the barn,, on their way to deliver some washing, when without the slightest warning, there came a great crash, accompanied by a blinding flash of light, and Che barn fell in ruins like a house of cards. The boy was thrown thirty feet to the other side of the road and was mangled almost beyond recognition. One arm was blown off and the body was otherwise horribly mutilated. The little girl was picked up , near her brother and will probbaly die. i The origin of the explosion is not known, but it is thought to have been due to either dynamite or nitroglycer- . ine. Timmons, the owner of the barn, says there was no explosive stored in the structure, so far as he knew, and is heading the party of investigation, which is trying to discover the cause of the accident.

THE NORTH-WEST Dispatches of Interest from Spokane,Wash. THE WORLD'S BOWLING RECORD Electricity Cured Hiccoughs—Wealthy Rancher Lost in Mountains—New York Lady Claims Mine. Spokane, Wash., April 25. —William Dodson,a member of theCoeur d'Alene bowling club, of Spokane, scored what prominent bowlers declare established a world’s record, by getting the seven and ten pins twice in succession on a regulation alley in this city a few evenings ago. Dodson scored both splits in succession, and in both instances cleaned up the pins on the second ball, getting the seven pin on the kickback from the cushion. The performance is said ro b remarkable from the fact that it is the ambition of bowlers to score the seven and ten pins to get a spare. Hundreds of trials have been made, but the play is lare. it has been scored iu niaxih games, but this is believed to be the first time the feat was accomplished twice in succession on a public alley. Owney Patton, one of the foremost bowlers in the northwest and twenty others who witnessed the play, will prepare an affidavit to have the score recognized by the national association. Electricity was successfully used in checking an attack of hiccoughs, from which little Irene Sherrod, of Staublefield Home, suffered more than a week. Every means were employed by the attending physicians, but they were unable to stop the paroxysms for more than ten minutes and it was not until the electric battery was applied that the girl experienced any relief. Medical men declare the case is without a parallel in the northwest. Spokane. Wash., April 25. —Philip Standley, a rancher near Camas, Ore., who was to be married to Miss Edna Bushnell, a popular young woman at Olalla. is lost in the mountains near Rosbeurg, and though searching parties have been out several days, the return of his horse is the only tidings that has been received. The families of the bride and groom-to-be are engaged in the search, and as there was no opposition to the marriage, and no other suitor for the hand o# the girl, the case seems the more inexplicable. There are some who believe that Standley is a victim of foul play,while others declare he met with an accident. This theory is strengthened by the fact that the saddlebags which the horse carried remained intact. Spokane, Wash., April 25. —Miss Althea Norwood, a pretty young woman from New York City, has come to the northwest to claim a half interest in the Virtue mine, in the Baker City district, south of Spokane, left by her father, who with a prospector, named Crawford, located a group of promising mines before his death, a short time ago. She joined her grub-stake with Crawford, after ascertaining that she has a legal right to half of the property to dispute the right of other claimants.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, Evening, April 25, 1907.

IN A SOCIAL WAY Ladies’ Aid Society Meeting Postponed U. R. K. OF P. HELD A SESSION Order Will be Reorganized—The Shakespeare Club Ladies Will Entertain Tomorrow Evening. Those fortunate enough to have been invited are anticipating a most delightful evening tomorrow when the closing event of the Ladies Shakespeare club for the year will be given at the library, the exercises beginning at eight o’clock. A splendid program has been prepared, including local talent and a lecture, “The New Aristocracy,” by Prof. Ernest 0. Holland, of Indiana university. The meeting of the Ladies Aid Society of the Christian church, which was to be held tomorrow (Friday) afternoon with Mrs. Mangold, will be postponed until next week. The date will be announced later. The company No. 70, U. R. K. of P. held a very successful meeting last evening at the Castile Hall to reorganize the order. The members exemplified their drill work which was highly appreciated by all of the men. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday evening. The church societies meetings today are: The Ladies Aid Society of Presbyterian will meet with Mrs. Phil Macklin. The Ladies Aid Society of the Evangelical church with Mrs. Noah Locke. The Euchre Club will have no meeting tomorrow evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Walters entertained at 6 o’clock dinner last evening in honor of Mrs. Campbell, of Midland, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nichols will have as their guest Mrs. Campbell, of Midland, Mich., who is enroute to Kokomo. o KILLED ON THE RAILROAD.

Nephew of Mrs. D. D. Heller Meets a Tragic Death. James McClure, a nephew of Mrs. D. D. Heller of this city, was instantly killed at Arcadia, Ohio, a few days ago. He was foreman of the concrete bridge force on the Nickle Plate and was attempting to board a moving passenger train for his home at Fostoria, when he was hurled under the wheels and his head was amputated. He was thirty-eight years old and leaves a wife and seven children. The funeral, services were held Sunday at his former home at Walnut, Indiana. His death attracted considerable mention as this is said to be the first instance on record where a human body derailed a train, this being true in this case and a serious wreck was narrowly averted. a THE LADIES ARE THANKFUL Aid Society of Christian Church Say a Few Word*. The Ladies Aid Society of the Christian church take this means to publicly thank the people for their patronage at “Uncle Rube" Monday and Tuesday evenings and they also feel deeply indebted to the members of the cast, the chorus, the Pony quartette, Messrs. Thomas and Fristoe, and manager Bosse for courtesies extended them. The proceeds enabled them to pay their brick streets assessments for the current year and the ladies feel highly elated at their success. BOSTON LAWYER WAS SMOOTH Said to be Chief Conspirator in Bond Robbery. New York. April 25. —A Boston lawyer is said to have been the chief conspirator in the bond robbery of the Mercantile Trust company and he is in New York today. Every bank and trust company in the city is today examining their securities. Douglas' easy robbery of the company for which he worked has opened the eyes of the bankers. Both Douglas and Dennett say they were dupes of the Boston lawyer.

CASES SENT HERE FOR TRIAL Jay County Criminal Suits Venued to Adams Circuit Court. After having had under consideration since April 2, the motion made by George D. Allen for a change of venue from the county, in the two remaining cases against him, for compounding a misdemeanor, Judge John F. LaFollette on Wednesday morning, sustained the same, and sent the cases tfo Adams county. Twenty days were given defendant in which to perfect the change. No ruling has yet been made on the motion filed in the first case, in which there was a conviction, for a new trial. Allen a few days ago, made it known to a certain number of his friends, 4hat it was his intention, as soon as the charges pending against him have been disposed of to go to one of the new western states and take up a claim. He stated that his resignation as constable, filed a couple of weeks ago, was tendered with this object in view—Portland Commercial Review. MOVE CAREFULLY Taft Refuses to Talk for Few Days THE GAME OF POLITICS IS ON Notables Enroute to the Jamestown Exposition—Cannon Denies Indianapolis Story.

Washington. April 24. —President Roosevelt is planning to aid Taft and Burtjon in Ohio in their contest with Foraker and Dick, just as he has planned to assist Hughes in New York, by giving the general offices to their supporters. How far the chief executive will go in disciplining men who no whold federal office if they do not climb on the Taft band wagon is still a question. The president has called on Taft and Burton to fill the last Ohio vacancy in federal offices, the Toledo collectorships of internal revenue, held by George F. Waldorf. This is the more significant because the senators have endorsed Gen. W. W. Macken for this job. There is small likelihood that this National Guard general will be the choice of Taft and Burton. The leading candidate from •jhelr standpoint at this time is C. Locke Curtis, a Toledo newspaper man, and a reform Republican. Although they have reached no final decision, President Roosevelt has heretofore followed the recommendation of Taft and Burton in appointing a federal judge when the senators had another candidate. In answer to a specific question as to wheffier he intended to make any announcement in the near future regarding his political purpose, Secretary Taft today said that he certainly would make no such statement before his Ohio trip which begins Friday, and he was not prepared to state whether or not he would have anything to say after that trip. Rpublicans of note from various sections of the country, who are here, indicate very clearly that the party intends to move cautiously in the matter of choosing a candidate for president next year. The drift of the talk is that there will be no stampede to any particular candidate during the next few months. The party in Pennsylvania, which is to hold a state convention June 6, is looked to to set the example. Some of the aspirants for the nomination for the presidency would be glad to have the indorsement of that state at this time, but Pennsylvanians say it is practically settled that the convention will refrain from expressing any choice. It will not even consider resolutions to indorse its own favorite son at this time, Senator Knox. Everybody expects the Ohio rumpus to continue tio occupy public attention, but outside of that state there will be no party action. Speaker Cannon. Senator Hemenway, Representative Watson, Jos. B. Kealing. United States attorney for Indiana; James P. Goodrich, chairman of the Republican stat committee, and Henry W. Marshall, Tenth district committeeman, arrived here today enroute to the Jamestown exposition (Continued on page 2.)

COURT HOUSE NEWS Distribution of Surplus Dog Tax Fund TWO CASES FROM BLUFFTON Bricker Cace Continued —An Administrator and a Guardian Were Appointed. f Judge R. K. Erwin, of Adams county, arrived in the city this morning and at once proceeded to assume jurisdiction in the Homer Smith case. Smith is charged with the theft of thirty dollars and the prosecuting witness is Alex Green. It is claimed that the money was taken when Green was drunk. The case is before a jury and the whole population of Ossian Is interested from the number that are on hand for the trial. In the examination of Green this morning, one of the attorneys for the defendant asked the witness whether or not he did not indulge in poker parries and similar society functions at his home and while the accusation was stoutly denied, the witness had a bad half hour. —Bluffton Banner. Certificates showing the standing of the Union Central Life Co., Fidelity and Casualty Co., Germania, Connecticut and Aetna fire insurance companies were filed today by agents Hirschy and Winteregg, of Berne. The annual distribution of the surplus dog tax to revert back to the township trustees for use in the school fund was announced by county auditor today as follows: Union, $42.92; Root, $42.92; Preble, $43.68; Kirkland, $39.64; Washington, $54.27; St. Marys, $42.37; Blue Creek, $42.88; Monroe, $92.28; French, $45.65; Hartford, $49.47; Wabash, $71.86; Jefferson, $45.98; Geneva, $37.46; Berne, $40.84; Decatur, $142.84. The total is $835.06, and the distribution is reckoned according to the school enumeration of 1906. The defendant, in the case of D. M. Osborne & Co. vs. Mattie Young, suit on guarantee, has filed seventh and eighth paragraphs of answer, to which demurrers were filed. Judge LaFollette has assumed jurisdiction in lii David Werling et al, petition for drain. Two criminal cases have been ordered sent here for trial on change of venue from Wells county. They are the Slate vs. Frank Cotton and State vs. Wilson, both being on charges of perjury. They will be tried some time next month. In the case of the State vs. Nelson Bricker, assault and battery, before J. T. Merryman as special judge, the defendant filed a motion for a continuance and the cause was continued until the next regular term.

Wilfred S. Smith has been appointed guardian for Wilda, Forest and Wilfred Ray and filed his bond. Joseph A. Eckrote, guardian for Artie M. Eckrote, filed his final report and was discharged. Amos Herschy has been named as administrator of the Peter Ininger estate and filed his bond. Lew'is C. DeVoss, executor of the Maria Amerine estate, filed a petition and consent of the heirs to buy a monument. o BURDG FUNERAL TOMORROW. Services to be Held at the Home, Conducted by Rev. Bergman. The funeral services for Uncle “Billie” Burdg, the aged and respected citizen who died yesterday afternoon at his home on Mercer avenue, after an illness of a weeks duration, death resulting from a stroke‘of paralysis, will be held Friday afternoon at one o’clock at the home, Rev. Bergman, of the Baptist church officiating, and interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The remains may be viewed at the home this evening between the hours of seven and eight thirty o’clock, and tomorrow morning between the hours of nine and eleven o’clock. o Gideon Reisen, of Berne, was a business caller to our city today.

TOM HAD ANOTHER SCRAP Covault Licks Man Who Interferes With His Love Affairs. Last evenings Bluffton Banner said: The officers today reported a scrap between Herb Stout and Tom Covault, old-time enemies. The fight occurred Monday night and took place near the Lake Erie station, hostilities extending from that point to the Lew Scott saloon where it is said Stout made his last stand. Those who saw the fight claim that Covault knocked Stout down several times and that he then followed him, heading him toward town to a point where Stout was able to gather a brick. When he turned loose this brand of ammunition, the bystanders scattered and Covault ceased to pester him further. A girl for whom each has expressed mutual admiration was said to have been the cause of the trouble. n Dutch Linderbeck went to Lima today, where he will remain until the later part of next month, when he will return to Decatur and get ready for the opening game of the season. o RECORD BREAKER Grand Chancellor of Uniform Rank Talks f ~L -I - BIGGEST OF PYTHIAN EVENTS Will be the State Encampment to be Held in August—Large Attendance is Expected. Grand Chancellor Monyhan, of the Knights of Pythias, declares that the encampment to be held at Indianapolis the second week in August by the uniform rank will be the largest Pythian event ever held in the state. “We will have from 6,000 to 8,000 men in uniform," said the grand chancellor, "and the members of the subordinate lodges will be present in great numbers. Altogether there will be 50,000 members of the order in Indianapolis.” The grand chancellor says that Indianapolis business men have pledged themselves to raise $5,000 toward paying the expenses of the encampment. The Knights of Pythias lodges have agieed to raise another $5,000. "We propose to have,” said the grand chancellor, “not only the uniform rank of this state present, but we are going to have knights in uniform from the states of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky. We have arranged for two craek teams of Ohio knights to confer the third rank on candidates som night during the encampment. This will take place at Tomlinson hall. The knights in uniform from the different states will compete for the prizes that we intend to give. We will have about SIO,OOO to spend on the encampment and a substantial part of this will be put up in prizes.” The grand chancellor says the dedication of the new K. of P. state building at Massachusetts avenue and Pennsylvania street will be dedicated on Wednesday of encampment week. On that day there will be a street parade in which all the visiting knights will take part. The new building will be dedicated by Supreme Chancellor Charles A. Barnes. The last of the K. of P. district meetings, the most of which were attended by the grand chancellor, were wound up afew days ago. This state has twenty districts. “I have jusl received a report from the grand keeper of records and seal,” said the grand chancelor, "and the reports show that Indiana made a net gain in 1906 of 2,992 members. This is the largest gain any state in the union has yet reported. Two years ago the state of Illinois was ahead of us in point of numbers, but now we have raced ahead agan. Illinois has a membership of 58,000 while Indiana has about 60,000. SPIRITUALIST CAMP BURNED. Millers Falls, Mass., April 25. —The spiritualists camp at Lake Pleasant, containing a hundred cottages and a big summer hotel, was destroyed by fire today. BUTLER PROVED AN ALIBI. Dover, Del., April 25. —Frank M.I Butler, arrested on a charge of murdering Horace Marvin, was released this morning, having proved an alibi.

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SERIOUS TROUBLE Harold Cantwell Flees From Justice ACCUSED BY YOUNG LADY Hartford City Young Man Well Known Here is a Fugitive—Society is Shocked. Hartford City, Ind., April 24. —A warrant was issued in Justice Fargo’s court today for the arrest of Harold E. Cantwell, 21, on the charge of being the author of the ruin of Miss Crystal Parks, 18. Young Cantwell has lately left Greencastle and presumably has fled the state to avoid arrest. Both are prominent socially. Young Cantwell is a student at DePauw university at Greencastle, and the sheriff of Putnam county has been instructed to arrest and hold him. The young woman in the case, since last September, has been a student at Oberlin college, at Oberlin, 0., where she was prominent) socially, as she has been here for several years. Nothing in recent years has created such a profound sensation in Hartford City soceity, as both moved in the best circles and were graduates of the class of 1904 of the Hartford City high school. Cantwell was prominent in* athletics and the pride of his class At Greencastle he was also prominent in college affairs, and the order to arrest him was a shock in that city as well. His father was the late Sidney Cantwell, ex-speaker of the Indiana house. The young woman is of equal prominence. The offense is alleged to have been committed last September. Since that time the young woman has been in college at Oberlin. She returned hom ‘Tuesday, April 16, and then for the first time the facts were made known. It is said that the relatives and friends of the unfortunate young woman are determined that Cantwell shall be apprehended, and will pursue him relentlessly until taken into custody. Legal steps have already been taken, and unless he consents to marriage the criminal charges will be vigorously pushed. 0 READY FOR ACTION Twelve Cases Filed in Indianapolis AFTER THE LAW VIOLATORS State Board of Health Will File Many More Affidavit* in the Near Future. With three inspectors out over the state and one in Indianapolis, there will be many affidavits filed in the name of the state board of health soon. Some affidavits have been filed in Indianapolis already against dealers who have sold maple sugar that is alleged not to be such, and adulterated butter. Twelve such affidavits were filed in the Indianapolis police court, and others are to be filed within a few days, it is said. The other affidavits that are to be filed soon involve many kinds of food stuffs, according to H. E. Barnard, who is in charge of this work in the state. Mr. Barnard, who is the chemist of the state board of health, has been training the new inspectors provided by tjie last legislature for a month, and he finds them now equal to the task of going out over the state for inspections. Three are out now, one working in Indianapolis. In Kokomo the milk situation is receiving the attention of the authorities, due to information filed by Dr. Hurty, the state health officer, and one of the inspectors. Dr. Hurty confiscated some Kokomo milk, bottle and all, and found it) to be dirty. “Dowm at New Albany, our Mr. Bruner was received right royally,” said Mr. Barnard. “He was accompanied on part of his tour of inspection by the mayor, the members of the common council, the city health offiIcer and the chief of police, ail of whom showed a great deal of interest, in the work. In recognition of his work he was invited to a banquet. All (Continued on page 2.)