Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

■Volume V. Number 169

(COURT HOUSE NEWS ■lnventory Filed in the I Shroll Estate ■new suit on account filed ■Big Reward Offered for Murderer of I Marshal Cray—Final Adjustment by Board of Review. I In the estate of Joseph Shroll, de■ceased, George Shroll, administrator, Kan inventory was filed by William Kshackley and Henry Michaud, ap■praisers, the total amount of personal being $44.50. I Attorney D. B. Erwin has filed a ■new case, the title of which Is FrankKlin Spease vs. Fred Huffman, and Joel ■Liddy, account, demand $l5O. I Will Lefever, of Berne has been ■granted a license permitting him to ■hunt in Adams county for one year. I Sheriff Meyers has received posters ■which offer $2,175 for the arrest and ■conviction of the murderers of Colum■jus Cray, marshal of Woodburn, Allen ■county, who was killed a month ago ■>y three men who were robbing a ■saloon. SSOO is offered by the county ■and $1,675 by citizens, the latter ■amount being secured at the Woodspurn bank. I The final adjustment of the board ■of review fixes the valuation of real Upstate, improvements and totals in ■the various townships gb follows: Real Est. Imp. Total. ■Unions27.2l $6.04 $33.25 Htoot 28.18 5.25 33.43 Kreble 28.06 6.24 34.30 ■St. Marys 28.93 5.97 34.71 ■Blue Creek 27.55 4.69 32.24 (Kionroe 30.26 5.97 36.23 fifrrench 27.40 6.64 34.04 ■Hartford 27.80 5.64 33.44 ■KJefferson 26.99 5.24 32.23 o ■CIGAR FACTORY (Clarence Kintz Opens | One at Geneva ■has necessary experience KUnd Will Succeed—His Leading Brand Wil) be "The Geneva” and Will Be a Good One. m? ' — ‘J -*■ I Vlarence Kintz, who has lived in city nearly all his life, with the of the past year, when he ’Jias been w’orking at the cigar trade St Lima, has resigned his position at place and completed rrangements Kto open a cigar factory at Geneva. The and revenue papers were drawn (Lp today and next Tuesday morning Kir. Kintz will have his factory in op■Bratton in the Briggs’ building at GeKpeva, one door east of Al Fristoe s store. The name of the leadKng (fligar that will be manufactured this new factory will be “The Ge(Kieva” and without doubt it will be jK’ecognized as one of the leading on the market, as Mr. Kintz is aKm expert at the business and knows ■what it takes to make a good cigar, ■le is possessed of good business qualand the success of this un.dertaking seems assured from the fact ■that the proprietor is not only a good (■workman, but also a gentleman who ■can mix with the people. The Demojoins his many friends in wishing Klim abundant success in this business ■venture. o " I There was joy in the camp of the ■Bluffton team last evening when Pirl ■Larue announced that he had decidKed to turn down the offer from the ■manager of the South Bend Central ■league team and would remain here ■for the remainder of the season. He ■said that if he intended making base ■ball his life profession, he would have ■accepted the chance, as it would have ■given him a better opportunity to ■rise, but he now thinks he will re■tire from the game at the close of ■this season and enter business perHmanently.— Bluffton Banner.

HARRY HAY PINCHED AGAIN. And Manager Frazee Goes to His Rescue. Underhanded Harry Hay. who came here Friday with the Dunkirk base ball club, was to be pinched at the close of Friday's game by marshal Worley, for his failure to settle a board bill with Landlord Wright, of the New Hartford hotel. The bill is for $6 and is of long standing. For fear that Hay’s arrest would interfere with the game, Mr. Wright was persuaded to take no steps until the game had been played. Hay was arrested at Decatur a short time ago on a similar charge. Manager Frazee settled the bill that the flinger might accompany the team home. — Hartford City News. Harry seems to have a habit of overlooking these little accounts and this and his other peculiar traits is what no doubt keep him out of faster company. o DEAL IS CLOSED Dr. Blackman Leaves August First TAKE POSSESSION SANITARIUM Has Purchased the Famous Robe r tson Institution at Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Wilbur Blackman returned last night from Atlanta, Ga., where he had gone to look after the proposition of taking over the Robertson, sanitarium in that city. Mr. Blackman came back with a signed agreement and will go to Atlanta August Ist, and at that time will assume entire charge of the institution, and will later, more than likely, become the sole owner of the place. Dr. Blackman first heard of the Atlanta institution through Senator Tillman when he was here last fall on his way to Pennville to deliver an address. The senator and his wife have both been patients of the sanitarium, and were well pleased with the method of treatment. He met Dr. Blackburn and in a conversation said to him that if he ever visited the south to visit the Robertson sanitarium. This the doctor did before returning from Florida, where he spent last winter. When Dr.. Blackman visited the sanitarium, however, he had no idea of ever being connected with the institution. The sanitarium has been running for the past thirty years on a water and hygienic diet treatment plan, and now that Dr. Robertson Is compelled to retire he gladly adds oesteopathy. The institution is the only one of its kind, and is only three blocks from the capitol building in Atlanta. Atlanta is 1,100 feet above sea level, being higher than any point east of the Rocky mountains, and has a fine climate. Dr. Robertson, the founder, was a classmate of Dr. Kellogg, of the Battle Creek sanitarium, and their ideas of treatment are similar. Dr. Blackman thinks the proposition a fine one and will give the best of his life toward its success.—Bluffton Banner. o — —- JOHNSON INSULTED WRONG ONE And She Proceeded to Clean Him Up About Right. Tom Johnson, a junk dealer from Willshire, received an unmerciful beating yesterday afternoon. Tom had been in Decatur and started home and when near Pleasant Mills, came up with another junk dealer’s wagon. The owner had gone into a house to buy some junk and his wife was holding the horses when Tom came up and became abusive. The woman leaped from the rig and soon had Johnson taking the count. She knocked him down a half dozen times and then her husband appeared on the scene and put on the finishing touches. Parties who saw the “go” say it was one sided, but interesting. o— Another Wells county young man has been most fortunate in becoming associated with one of the world's largest manufacturing concerns. Geo. Snyder, of Craigville, left this morning for South Bend to take a clerical, position which was secured for him by the faculty of the Bluffton Business College, with the Studabaker Wagon Co., whose factory covers 101 acres of ground, being the largest of its kind in existence. —Bluffton Banner.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, July 13, 1907.

COULDN’T PAY IT Lloyd Judy Arrested on Serious Charge BY THE CENTRAL LOAN COMPANY He Borrows Forty Dollars and They Charged Over Sixty Dollars Interest, Then Had Him Arr e stedLoyd Judy, who lived here ten years ago, was arrested at Hartford City Thursday and taken to Peru, to answer a charge of obtaining money under false pretense. He is said to have mortgaged furniture, which did not belong to him. According to the Hartford City papers, Judy purchased furniture at the Lenhart store in Peur on the installment plan, and later went to the Central Loan company's office and borrowed money, representing that there was no mortgage on the goods. He was advanced the loan, and shortly afterwards he had his family, of a wife and two children, moved to Hartford City, where he secured employment in a factory. Mrs. Judy explained the affair and said that the Peru parties misrepresented the facts in their statements. She declared that the furniture belonged to her husband, and that all he borrowed was S4O. This amount with interest, she says, now made the demand of the Central Loan agency $lO2, showing the usurious rates which are paid for such loans. She says that the Peru company had opportunity to take the furniture on their chattel mortgage, as it belonged to her husband, but that instead, they were causing this unnecessary trouble. She said that his father, living at Pittsburg, had been notified and had wired that he was now on his way to Peru to pay the entire amount demanded, and secure his son’s release. According to her version there were no grounds for the charge against her husband. o SUFFERINGS OVER Mrs. Frank Eddington Died Yesterday AFTER SOME MONTHS’ ILLNESS A Well Known Lady, Whose Death Has Caused Sorrow Among a Large Circle of Friends. Mrs. Frank Edington, a well known lady, died yesterday afternoon at her home on Third street at two o’clock, after an illness dating back several months, death resulting from tuberculosis. She was the edest daughter of Mrs. Philip Kern, who resides on a farm east of our city and was bom and reared in this county and it was here that she received her erly training and education. She was a graduate of the Decatur public schools, and was considered among the leaders of her class, being a careful and industrious student. She was united in marriage several years ago to Frank Edington, and since that time had made their home in this city. Mrs. Edington was thirty-three years of age. Although ailing for several years, her illness assumed no dangerous stage until last fall, when she took a sudden turn for the worse ,and from that time until her demise, her decline was gradual. The funeral services will be held Sunday morning at ten thirty o’clock at the Evangelical church, Rev. A. B. Haist, officiating, and interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. o— The lovers of good clean sport on next Tuesday evening will be given an opportunity to witness a card that cannot be equalled anywhere in the state at the Bosse Opera house. Mr. Morarity, of Ft. Wayne, who is at the head of the entertainment, informs us that he has arranged an excellent card and that the lovers of this kind of sport will see something that will set them on edge. Mr. Morarity has the reputation of putting on nothing but good bills, and as next Tuesday is Eagles’ Day, he has made an extraordinary effort to put on something special.

CROWD AT CARNIVAL LAST NIGHT Everybody Had a Good Time—lt Closes Tonight. The carnival grounds were covered with people last night and every one there seemed to be out for a good time. A squad of twenty-five business men went down the pike and took in everything from the merry-go-round to the “Girls in Red.” Much to the delight of the ticket sellers. The “Slide for Life” and the “Leap the Gap” acts were both given and more than pleased the “vast multitude" as the “spieler” announced. While the carnival is small and soon taken in, it is about as good as the average. o— The Misses Mayme, Ada and Bert Deininger, Bert and Dude Vogelwede. and Mayme and Rosa Conter, will go to Rome City tomorrow for a two weeks’ outing. THE STATES PRISON Something About the Convict’s Life BOARD OF PARDONS IN SESSION Considered Many Cases —How the Prisoner Secures His Release from Penit e ntiary. The board of pardons at the Michigan City prison, considered a large number of cases at its July meeting. The members are each furnished with a brief biography of the convicts neatly typewritten. Each one goes by number. The age, former prison record of the convicts, if they have any, what they are sent up for and the length of time they are to serve under the indeterminate law and the class to which they belong and marks of credit are set down with other data. The information is so complete that members of the board can tell at a glance when number so and so appears before them whether he is entitled to a parole. There are 1,028 prisoners at Michigan City penitentiary and out of the entire number but one is in stripes. This is the third and lowest class. There are twenty-two in the second and about 1.000 of them in the first class. Those in class A are garbed in blue suits in order to add as little stigma as possible to their enforced confinement. Whenever a prisoner has served his minimum sentence he comes before the board at its next meeting and his case is considered. If his prison record is good and it is his first offense he is usually paroled, provided a place for him to work in can be secured. If, as frequently happens, he is a born criminal, his record shows that he is. There are many cases where the record of a prisoner of this class discloses that he has been in one prison and out, in another and out, a half dozen times before he is forty. Such convicts are given little consideration. There is no use to parole such a prisoner, for he will commit another crime as surely as he is turned out. There are many prisoners who belong to the class of criminally insane, who never appear before the board. There is no use, for the board could not parole them if the members so desired. Prisonrs who are paroled must have work to do before they are released. The employer of such a person must report once a month what the, parole man is doing and what his habits are. If the paroled man gets in bad ways and criminal company the warden at Michigan City penitentiary is soon in possession of this knowledge. If he so far forgets the condition of his parole as to break the law again or to show such positive signs that he is going to, he is taken back to prison. His chances then for release on parole are materially lessened. Prisoners are not allowed to talk and if caught they get a mark of discredit. When three black marks are against a prisoner he is reduced to the next lower class. If he still refuses to be good and gets other marks he finally is reduced to stripes. o A fierce fight took place early in the evening at the carnival ground, between two strangers, but the men were both separated before they did any material damage to each other. This is the first fight that has been reported on the grounds since the show opened.

ATE CANNED PEAS And a Decatur Lady Became Very 111 SEVERAL OTHERS ARE AFFECTED Miss Niblick and a Number of Bluffton People Poisoned by Eating Impure Food. According to the Bluffton Banner, a Decatur lady became very sick from eating impure food. That paper said: Here’s food for the pure food inspectors and cranks. Last evening Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shedd. 121 east South street, entertained at supper Miss Sadie Niblick, of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Horner, of this city, and one of the articles of the meal was canned peas that were partaken of by the entire company. A few moments after they had arisen from the table Miss Niblick became deathly sick and one by one the guests and hosts followed her example and guessing that something they had eaten had disagreed with them, Dr. J. W. McKinney was sent for and arriving found five very ill patients anxiously awaiting to know what was the matter with them. Inquiry as to the supper menu found the peas on the list and making a hurried analysis of what remained found it to contain in no small quantity ptofaine infection. He administered an antidote in each case and although sick the greater part of the night, all had entirely recovered from the effects of the poisoning this morning. o Gordon Rosenthal left for Cincinnati this afternoon after a several days’ visit with old Decatur friends. Walter went to Indianapolis, where he will visit a few days with Rollo Reynolds before returning home. Both boys hold good positions in a large Cincinnati wholesale clothing house. 0 SEVERAL PARTIES Delightful Society Events in Decatur MRS, J. T. MERRYMAN A HOSTESS Mr. Weaver, of Auburn, a Guest of Honor at a Happy Evening Party at the Dugan Home. Mr. Chalmer Weaver, of Auburn, Ind., was the complimentary guest at a small informal evening party last night given by Miss Frances Dugan, at her home on Monroe street, to a company of twenty young people. Several contest prevailed during the evening amusements, besides dancing and music. Dainty and delicious refreshments were served the guests. Mrs. J. T. Merryman gave a delightful party yesterday afternoon from two until six o’clock in honor of her daughter, Mrs. June Quinn. The ladies were invited to take their sewing and enjoy the afternoon. At six o’clock small tables were prettily placed on the lawn and a threecourse luncheon was served. During the luncheon period, sunflower fans were given the guests as favors. The ladies who enjoyed the hospitality of the hostess were: Mesdames Roy Archbold, Earl Adams, C. C. Schafer, Fanny Cole, Blanch Hoffman, of Preble; Geo. Flanders, C. D. Lewton, Misses Nina Case, of Magley; Elizabeth Peterson. On Monday evening the Maccabees will have their regular meeting. Miss Lillian Egly, of Berne, wil sing at the M. E. church of this city tomorrow morning, and at the Presbyterian church tomorrow evening. Miss Egly is noted for her sweet voice and deserves to have the churches filled during both services. She will arrive this afternoon. A birthday dinner which occurred yesterday noon at twelve o’clock was the one given by Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Mills In compliment to their little (Continued on page 2.)

WANT POSTOFFICE RE INSTATED Curryville Citizens Say Rural Route Service is Unsatisfactory. The citizens of Curryville, whose postoffice was discontinued the first of July, expect to have it re-instated and with that end in view have forwarded a petition to the postoffice signed by forty patrons of the office. In the meantime they are refusing to receive their mail off the rural routes, two of which pass near or through the place, but take turns in walking to Craigville, a mile distant and securing the mail from the Craigville office. They say that the rural route service, at their place has proven very unsatisfactory, especially in bad weather and that as they are directly on the railroad, they believe the department will give them back their office. USE BOTH SIDES New Order August First for Postal Cards RECENT PUBLIC LAND DECISION A Lady Employee for the Government Receives the Fancy Salary of Two Thousand Dollars. Washington, July 13. —For years Americans and others have been sending to the United States from foreign countries postal cards and post cards (private mailing cards) with messages written on the front as well as on the back of the cards, although in this country this advantage has been denied the users of government postal cards. Some months ago the United States postal laws and regualtions were amended so as to give that privilege to buyers of post cards, but such concession was not made applicable to postal cards. In order to remedy this inconsistency and to prevent any further confusion and annoyance to the public, Postmaster-General Mayer today promulgated an order, effective August 1, 1907, providing that the face side of a postal card may be divided by a vertical line placed approximatedly one-third of the distance from the left end of the card; the space at the left of the line to be used for a message, etc., the space to the right to be used for the address only. Washington, July 13. —The Interior Department is receiving a flood of inquiries regarding the effect of a recent decision of the department relative to the rights of school teachers in the matter of taking up public lands under the homestead law. The decision was rendered in a contest made against the entry of a woman teacher employed in Minnesota, and, while it was shown that she had lived on the land only during her vacation, covering only about fourteen weeks, for each year of the four years she had held it, the department failed to sustain the contestant. Washington, July 13.—Miss Henrietta M. Kelley, who is employed in the office of the director of the mint here, has been promoted, and hereafter will receive a salary of $2,000 per annum. This is the first time a government employee of the opposite sex has achieved such a dazzling height. It was given to Miss Kelly by Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou, solely because her work entitled her to the salary. Miss Kelly has been receiving $1,600 per annum. She is the kind of girl that sticks to her desk, attends to business and is obliging always. oIf the farmers of the state had only known last fall what they know now, it is probable that they would have made several changes in their crop plans. Owing, probably, to the fact that the wheat crop was such a success last year, a greater wheat acreage was sown last fall for this year’s crop than for some years, and if this year’s yield were average, Indiana would almost regain its old prestige as a wheat state. The average yield of wheat an acre this year, however, will be low, as compared with last year. o Hi Ki Pierce called us up from Willshire this morning and Informed us that he and Mr. Raymond Bremerkamp were there on very important business but would arrive home in time to fill all engagements for this evening.

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A SAD ACCIDENT Caused Death of Little Israel Macklin WAS KICKED BY A HORSE Struck in Throat and a Hemorrhage Filled the Lungs, Causing DeathBrother of Phil Macklin. Israel Macklin, eleven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Macklin, who lives southeast of Geneva, was kicked by a horse at seven o’clock last evening and died four hours later, as a result of the accident. The first news of the accident was received at about 7:30 o’clock last evening by the lad’s brother, Phil Macklin, of the Hub clothing store. He left for home at once, driving through and arrived twenty minutes before his brother died. The boy had gone to the barn to unharness one of the horses, an ordinary farm animal, usually quiet, and in some manner the horse kicked the boy in the throat just above the Adams apple cutting a deep gash, which bled profusely filling the lungs and eventually smothering the boy to death. A physician was summoned and everything possible done but the flow of blood could not be checked. Israiel was conscious until a half hour before he died but insisted that he was fatally injured. His parents and the seven brothers and sisters, who remain are grief stricken over the terrible accident. The lad had contemplated a visit to his brother Phil here today and expected to remain over Sunday. The funeral services will be held Sunday from the house. o H. Peed, the night operator at the Clover Leaf, has resigned and Ralph Newcomet will take his place. Newcomet has learned the business in the local office and is a splendid operator. Peed will go to Minnesota City, Minn., where he has secured a position paying more money than he got here, as engineer in a large flour mill. —Bluffton Banner. o ANNUAL MEETING Date Fixed for the Stockholders' Session THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Will Meet August Sixth to Select the Board Who Will Control This Old Institution. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Old Adams County bank one of the oldest and foremost banking institutions in the state, will be held on August the sixth in this city at which time the stockholders will be called upon to elect seven men to constitute a board of directors. Following a long established custom, the stockholders are called together every year, at which time a board is chosen and other matters of interest are taken up and discussed. Who the members of the new board will be no one is able to state, as each stockholder is entitled to cast their vote according to the amount of stock they own. The old board has rendered the bank valuable services and it would not be surprising if the entire old board would be re-elected. This bank is considered one of the best and strongest in the state, and it is safe to say that the selections made will meet with the approval of all. The annual meeting however, always causes a ripple of interest. 0 A blacksmith by the name of Johnson attempted to ride to his home in Markle Thursday evening on the pilot of the engine pulling train No. 13, on the Erie, but was prevented from doing so by an Erie police officer. The man had come to this city in the afternoon and finding that he had lost the return stub of his ticket decided to get home without paying his fare. He did not consider the danger of the ride. As the train was leaving the station he was discovered on the front of the engine and the train was stopped at the Wabash junction to put him off.—Huntington Herald.