Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 178

I WERE IMPRESSIVE I Exercises at Unveiling of I Morton Monument I hundreds of veterans in line I Mrs. Morton Unable to be Present— Description of the Beautiful Monument for the Great Soldier- '■ Indianapolis, Ind., July 23. —The oft- ■ repeated prayer of Mrs. Oliver Perry I Morton has been partially granted, and ■ she saw the light of the day that wit- ■ nessed the unveiling of the monu- : ■ ment of her husband, Indiana’s war ■ governor. But she did not see the exercises at- ’ I tending the unveiling. Dr. Warren ■ R. King, president of the monument i ■commission, and Dr. A. W. Brayton. ■ Mrs. Morton's physician, decided yes- ■ terday that it would be impossible for ■her in her present condition to endure ■ the excitement of such an occasion. ■ Consequently, she saw it, as it were, I ■through the eyes of her friends. j The parade, in which from 2,000 to > ■3.000 soldiers, veterans of the civil war ■ and battalions from Ft- Harrison, ■joined, started from Governor Hanly’s K home. 1208 North Alabama street, at ; ■1:30 o’clock this afternoon. As soon as' the procession arrived ■the program was opened by the singt’Bing of “America” by the entire assemBbly. The speeches were delivered by Hanly. Dr. King and the Rev. j Bd. R. Lucas, secretary of the comraisIBsion. The monument was unveiled by J ■Master Oliver Perry Morton, grandson .Hos the war governor, and was decorat--1 Bed with a wreath by a committee of 'Hthe Daughters of the Revolution- ‘ I The Morton monument stands thirty rHfeet above the plaza on which it rests. '■The figure of former Governor Morton Bis twelve feet high, standing on a ped■Bestal eighteen feet high. The monu-

(Continued on page 2.) ■SECURES LIBERTY V. J. Bobo Temporarily Released &Y ORDER OF THE COURT Continued Until First Day of I September Court —Plaintiff Placed in Charge of His Mother. I Patrick J. Bobo, the well known man. who has been in varinsane asylums of the state of for five years past, was a hearing before Judge John ’y LaFollette in the court room here ■t nine o’clock, a petition for a writ ■f habeas corpus having been filed. Bobo was represented by Attorneys A. P. Beatty and D. D. Heller Bind Son. The marinette institution Bas not legally represented, but Petand Moran appeared for Sheriff Bkeyer and Marshal Green Mr. Peterstated that the only interest they Kad in the case being the legal protecof the officers. The entry upon docket was as follows: “The presKt judge of this court being out of state of Indiana. John F. LaFoljudge of the 58th judicial cirnow assumes jurisdiction of this and the defendants each now a seperate return in one paragraph and the plaintiff is now granted until the first day of the next Sferm of this court or until this cause ■ called for hearing to file his exto such return. It is now that the hearing of this cause MK continued until the first day of the term of this court or until such before said first day of said term that the court or judge in vacation may determined for such hearing and it is now ordered that the petition herebe placed in the custody of Almira H Bobo, his mother, until such hearcan be made or until the farorder of the court or judge there- ■ in vacation. I—o — — ■Lagrange county will resist the pro■an of the state tax board to inMtase its assessed valuation 20 per ■&t., asserting that property there is listed as high as lands of the grade in other counties of the

ELIJAH HAYES DYING AT WARSAW Man Who Gave Fortune to M z E. Missionary Society. Elijah Hayes, the man who gave $150,000 to the Methodist Foreign Missionary society is dying at Warsaw. In his conscious moments he made plans for his funeral, selecting the hympa he wishes sung and naming the pall bearers. Mr. Hayes has been ill ever since he was taken back to Warsaw, from the Home for Old People at Edgewater, 111., last winter. He was seized with spasms and on account of his age there is little or no hope for him. He celebrated his 90th birthday June 4th. Through Bishop McCabe, Mr. Hayes was induced to give his entire estate to the Missionary Society and in return was to receive an annuity of sl,000 for the missionary society. The Hayes hotel in Warsaw and numerous business blocks are owned by the Foreign Missionary Society as a result of Mr. Hayes’ generosity. His first request to the societies was in 1889, and since that time he has saved from his annuities enough to give a large sum to the Mercedes college, situated at Mercedes, S. A. This last bequest was left in charge of a board of trustees composed of Bishop McCabe and Bishop Fitzgerald, L. W. Royse, William Alleman and E. H. Hill, all of Warsaw.

FOR TEN INNINGS Decatur and Hartford City Battled VISITORS WON THE CONTENT One Lonely Tally in the Tenth Being the Only One Secured—Was a Great Game. “Dutch” Wise, care tender of the grounds and general handler of the side line ropes made an error in the ninth inning of yesterday’s game which prevented the locals from tieing the score and incidentally lost us the game. During the first half of the inning Dutch took the ropes down part way in order to hurry through with his arduous duties and this fact permitted catcher Hardin to go over to the telephone booth and pull down a foul off Weber’s bat,- thus preventing the three base hit he had up his sleeve, which would have at least tied the score and perhaps won it for Wallace w r as on first. The game was a pretty exhibition and Hartford City earned the victory after ten innings of hard work and brilliant playing. Way pitched for the locals and Mclyee for the visitors, each allowing but five hits. Decatur had one error and Hartford City a clean record. Not a man crossed the plate until the tenth inning, when the visitors got lucky and cratched in the lonely and winning tally. One man was down when Lacy was hit by a pitched ball. Bales bunted and was out at first, Lacey going to second. Pitcher McKee was up and jumped into a slow pitched ball alowing it to hit him. He was returned to the plate and accidentally hit the next ball over third base, one of those mean Texas leaguers. Burns fielded it as rapidly as possible, but too late, and Lacey scored the big one. In the fifth inning Decatur should have scored. Behringer bit for two bases. Burns hit to pitcher, who threw to third and Berry was caught between bases, Burns going to second. The next man fouled out and Wallace hit safely to right. Burns had a poor lead and was catlght at the plate. It was a great game and the fans were well pleased. The score: Decatur. AB R H PO A E Nastl rs 4 0 0 0 0 0 Behringer. 2b.. 4 0 11 2 0 Burns. If 4 0 0 1 oH ? S Witham, 3b ... 3 0 0 0 5 0 Winger, C ... J J. — — Totals 32 0 5 30 17 1 Hartford City. Gorman, 2b ... 5 0 2 1 3 0 Thomas, 3b • 5 n 0 n o' 0 X‘ n ib 3 0 0 n ° DeVore, cf .... 3 0 1 4 1 Keller, ss .... 4 ® Lacey, if •• • • J (Continued on Page 4.)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, July 24. 1907.

WITH STATE BOARD Members of County Tax Boards are Meeting SESSION HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS Auditor Lewton Represents Adams County—State Insisting Upon a Fifteen Per Cent Raise. Indianapolis, Ind., July 24. —County attorneys, auditors, assessors and commissioners, representing the nine-ty-two counties of the state, are explaining to the state tax board this week why the real estate valuation for taxation for their respective counties should be' lowered, raised or left alone, as fixed by the county boards. Nineteen counties were represented by one or more officials in the crowd before the board when the first session was begun yesterday. Secretary of State Fred Sims presided, and the members of the board, Auditor Billheimer, John Wingate, Park Martin and John McCardle were present. Without exception the counties first heard showed an increase in valuation over that of four years ago—the valuation over that of four years ago—the valuations being taken quadrennially. Clinton county came near being an exception, reporting an increase of only 4 per cent., which was small compared with the majority reported. Farm lands and improvements were reported at an average valuation of $11.96 an acre. This, according to J. W. Morrison, and Harry Sheridan, county attorney, meant that the valuation fixed was about 60 per cent of the selling value of the land. Property in Frankfort, the county seat, he said, was assessed at about 65 per cent. Auditor Lewton is representing Adams county at this very important meeting.

OFFICIAL FIGURES Sent Out by State Board of Health VITAL STATISTICS FOR YEAR 1906 Showing Marriages, Births and Deaths With Some Interesting Comments. The tables of vital statistics of the state for 1906 are just completed by the State Board of Health. They present much that is interesting, and are of the greatest importance, showing as they do, the facts and relationships of marriages, births, deaths and disease. The marriages numbered 26,225, the births 45,300, the deaths 35.992. Birth rate 17.1, death rate 13.5 per 1,000. Os the births, 23,469 were males and 21,831 females. The white males numbered 23,013, the colored 456. The white females numbered 21,418, the colored 413. The largest number of births occurred in October, 4,263, and the smallest number in June, 3,255. The nationality of parents is of interest. The American born fathers numbered 40,166, America born mothers. 40,919. Foreign born fathers, 2,901, foreign born mothers, 2,360. 9,779 mothers had had two children, 7,059 three children, 4,481 four children. 3,333 five children, 2,352 six children, 1,627 seven children, 1,128 eight children. 685 nine children, 306 twelve children and over. As to the ages of parents: 648 fathers and 4,795 mothers were under twenty years of age. In the age period of 50 to 60 there were 928 fathers and 23 mothers. Age period 60 to 70 there were 111 fathers, but no mothers, and in the age period 70 to 80, there were eleven fathers but no mothers. The illigitimate children born in the year numbered 806, males 429, females 377. The plural births numbered 862, males 455, females 407. There were sets of triplets. As to marriages: Total marriages 26,225, an Increase of 615 over the proceeding year. The largest number occurred in October, 2,762, and the least in May, 1,675. As to deaths: Total deaths, 35.992

rate 13.58 per 1,000. In the preceding year 26.502 rate 13.78. Os the deaths 19,009 were males and 16,983 females. The death rate is slowly growing less, for the average rate for the last seven years the period during which time accurate statistics have been collected, is 13.8. The rate in 1906 was 13.5 a decrease of 0.3, representing a saving of 975 lives. 8,004 of the deaths or 22.2 per cent were of children under one year of ago. It is a little startling to think that one-fourth of all babies die before they are one year old. And the fact becomes especially startling when we realize that at least eighty per cent of the innocents are killed by either over care or lack of care. The total number of deaths of children under five years of age was 10,466 or 28 per cent of the total deaths and 23.1 per cent of the total births. After the child arrives at five years of age the chances for living increase as shown by the fact that the deaths in the age period 5 to 20 numbered 2,585 or 7.1 per cent of the total. 36.2 per cent of all deaths occur before the twenty-first year. In the prime of life, 20 to 50 years of age, there were 7,942 deaths, 22 per cent of the total The largest number of deaths occurred in March, 3,321, and the least number in June, 2,429. There were 1.103 still births, which are also counted as deaths. There was less consumption, less pneumonia, less typhoid fever, less bronchitis, and less diphtheria in 1906 than the average for the last seven years. However, there was more infantile diarrhoea and diseases of infants, more accidents, more Brights disease, more cancer, more stomach disease, more cerebro-spinal-meningi-tis, more suicides, more rheumatism and more diabetes. It will be noticed that the diseases showing an increase are usually due to malnutrition,either bad food or insufficient food, or more likely, too much rich food. Plain, well cooked foods, in right quantity for all would measurably reduce disease and death. The awful loss of infants is a comment upon our ignorance in the feeding and care of babies.

LETTER FROM LEADER STETSON Explains the Affair at Mission Hall Sunday Afternon. _______ x — To the Editor of the Daily Democrat: In your last night’s paper I noticed concerning a boozy man at the Mission Hall, I wish to say the man that wrote the piece either was misinformed in regard to the facts concerning the case or was blind as to what he saw. It Is a fact that such a man visited the hall. But he did not get to set down until he was led to the door and told to go his way. I cannot say whether the police were summoned or not, but do know, there was no one fainted during his boozy career and I also know that the meeting went on just as if nothing had happened. We sang praises to our heavenly Father, while he was led from the hall and the spirit of God was in our hearts at all times. Yes there was one woman fainted at the meeting, but it was as much as an hour after the stranger left the hall. There was one person at the mourner’s bench long after the stranger left. I wish the readers of the Daily Democrat to know that the stranger did not make much of a disturbance in the hall. If he got boisterous or caused any great amount of excitement it was on the outside of the hall. I was not on the outside and I can not say what he did there, but will say this is not the only drunken man that has been in the hall. These are the ones that Jesus died to save. These are the facts concerning the case. Yours truly, Chancey Stetson, Leader. -o THE EMERINE-McCLURE WEDDING Popular Young People Were Wedded Last Evening. A pretty wedding was solemnized last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Smith McClure, who reside on Eleventh street, when their beautiful daughter, Miss Rose, became the wife of William Emerine, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Emerine- The event took place at eight o’clock sharp and in the presence of the immediate relatives and a few invited friends of the contracting parties. Rev. Kessinger, of the United Brethren church officiating. The young couple are well known in our city coming from most respected families and have a host of friends who wish them much joy and happiness- They will make their future home in this city. o — Miss Martha Fuller arrived home from Ft. Wayne enroute to her home at Pleasant Mills.

HURLED A BRICK Neighborhood Quarrel is Getting Fierce MRS. BLAZER TO FILE AFFIDAVIT While Lying in Bed, a Neighbor Woman Threw a Brick Through the Window, Striking Her in the Face. Mrs. Ellsworth Blazer, of sawdust avenue, in the south part of the city, was down street last evening searching diligently for the prosecuting attorney and while making inquiry approached a representative of this paper and told him the following story of a dastardly attempt of murder toward her by some unknown person. For some time past there has been a regular neighborhood quarrel along her street and it is a case o f fight or quarrel every time the neighbors meet. Monday Mrs. Blazer had some words with her neighbor during which conversation some very strong language was used and some very serious threats were made. However she thought nothing of the matter as the same thing had occurred before, and about ten o’clock she retired with her babe and it was while lying in bed nursing her child that some one hurled a brick through the window, striking her a terrific blow under the left eye, cutting a gash an inch long and causing that optic to turn black and blue. She hurried to the window and could distinguish a woman running away from the house toward another house, and her suspicions were at once aroused, although she could not state positive who the woman was at that time. However, she says she has since learned who the guilty one was and will file an affidavit and will endeavor to deal them just punishment.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Oldest Couple on Record Secure Marriage License ■ ■» •!l ■ Lm • ______ BOTH PAST THE SEVENTY MARK > It *t Another License Also Issued —Assesssor Gentis is Busy—“ Five Weeks More of Vacation. A marriage license has been issued to John Breiner, aged seventy-eight, of Preble township and Mary Beltz, ager seventy-three, also of Preble. Each has been married once before. This is believed to be the oldest couple ever granted a marriage license in Adams county. They will perhaps not celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, but we sincerely hope for them a long and happy future. Another marriage license issued was to a couple just the reverse of the former one, the parties being just in the springtime of life, the bride, Rose McClure, being eighteen years old, and the groom, William Emerine. being twenty-one. Both live in Decatur. County Assessor George Gentis is busy these days going over the work of the board of review and making the proper record of same. Vacation time is slipping away, and five weeks from next Monday will find the Adams circuit court again grinding away. At present there are no very serious signs of a busy fall term, though the docket presents its usual appearance. W. D. Reiter, of the People’s drug store on the South Side will soon move the business from its present location to the building which has been for some time occupied by the Morgan implement company. The Morgan firm are now moving their stock the street into their new store building and the old building will at once be remodeled, and changed so much that it can hardly be recognized when it is completed. It will be thoroughly arranged for an up-to-date drug store. It will probably be several months before the building can be occupied by the drug store. — Huntington Democrat.

TO HOLD A fOLDEN JUBILEE. Catholics of this Diocese to Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary. The golden jubilee of the formation of the Ft. Wayne diocese will be celebrated on September 22, and the Catholics of the entire diocese will make the day a notable one. Special services will be held in every church in the morning, and in the evening there will be appropriate exercises in every parish which has facilities for a meeting. In Ft. Wayne all the congregations of the city will unite in a mass meeting at Library hall, at which addresses will be delivered by some of the leading clerics and laymen. On the evening of Wednesday, September 25, the Knights of Columbus will give a banquet in honor of the anniversary, and a large number of the knights from other cities in the diocese will be present. Bishop Alerding has completed his history of the diocese, which is now in the hands of the printer.—Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. o E. E. Meredith, press agent of the Hagenbeck and Wallace combined shows was in our city yesterday afternoon looking after matters relative to the show. This show is at Bluffton in the very near future and a number of Decatur people will no doubt attend.

WILL BE BUSY TIME New Laws That May be Tested by Federal Court A STATE AND FEDERAL CLASH The Situation in North Carolina is Being Closely Watched by Many People. M Washington, July 24. —Policies of government suggested by President Rosevelt and which will, if enacted into statutory law, eventually be tested as to their constitutionality by federal judges, include among others the following propositions: 1. The control of all railways or other methods of transportation within the individual state limitations as coming under the Constitutional provision retaining governmental control over post roads. , 2. The control of all trusts transgressing federal laws through receivers to be appointed by federal judges. 3. The control of all indivdual fortunes by the imposition of an income tax. 4. The control of all agencies enploying labor in so far as the liability of the employer is concerned by the elimination of the plea of contributory negligence. 5. The control of all coal deposits now on government reservations to be developed under license from Washington. 6. The control of child labor. 7. The control of all railroads engaged in interstate comerce by means of governmental regulation of rates. Washington, July 24. —The federal authorities are intensely interested in the situation in North Carolina, where a clash is believed to be imminent between the state and federal judiciary over the question raised by the Southern Railway Company as to the constitutionality of the state law prescribing a rate of 2% cents a mile for passenger traffic. It is believed here that Judge Pritchard’s decision will precipitate a crisis that may be serious in its consequences. Federal officials are of the opinion that it will again bring to the front as a political issue the old question of state rights, and while no one here apprehends any such discussion of the subject as preceded the civil war period, the difficulty in North Carolina is not underestimated. The Roosevelt administration is watching the trend of events in North Carolina. Peter G. Pritchard has been prominent in the Republican politics of North Carolina for many years. He was United States senator from the state for six years, and on the expiration of his term was appointed a federal district judge by President Roosevelt. Later he was promoted to the circuit court. While he has held aloof from politics since he has been on the bench, Judge Pritchard has kept in touch with political affairs, state and national. He is a personal friend of President Roosevelt.

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AT FRENCH LICK Editorial Meeting was the Best Ever A GREAT HEALTH RESORT The Mineral Springs Afford Beneficial Treatment to Thousands Each Year. For three days last week and over Sunday the center of attraction was at the French Lick Springs Hotel, the famous health resort of Hon. Thomas Taggart. Upon this occasion the Democratic editors of Indiana, with their wives, sons and daughters met in annual mid-summer conclave. The meeting was one of the best ever held by this association, and this is saying much, as the association has reached its majority and has to its credit many pleasant social occasions and profitable ones as well. The first business session occurred on Friday morning at which time good papers were read and interesting discussions made. We dare say that every newspaper publisher was benefiited in more ways than one, and finds the time thus spent a profitable investment. On Friday night occurred the banquet, at which four hundred plates iMere laifll President Cramjpton, of the Delphi Times-Citizen, made a stirring address, and he was followed by B. F. Louthain, of the Logansport Pharos, who talked politics and laid down a platform headed by tariff reform for 1908. Both addresses were sound, substantial and well received. A flag was given the congressional district that supplied for this meeting. the largest quota of its editorial (Continued on page 2.) AFTER A GRAFTER Dick Townsend Prosecuting a Slick One CAUSES ARREST OF F. L. MONROE A Smooth Chicagoan Who Defrauded Him Out of $5,000 —Other Cases Against the Man-

F. L. Monroe, who lives at River Forest and has offices at 1107 and 1108 Great Northern building, was arrested yesterday on a charge of obtaining $5,000 from Richard Townsend, Peoria, 111., by means of a confidence game. Townsend said Monroe advertised for sale a large amount of stock in the Marinette Gas Engine company, of Chicago Heights. Townsend answered the advertisement, and he alleged that Monroe promised to make him manager of a branch office of the company if he would purchase $5,000 worth of stock. According to the complaint, Townsend attempted to sell his stock back to the company, as an agreement of that kind was included in the contract, but the company refused to buy the stock. The Marinette company was put into the hands of a receiver in February, 1906. Frank H. Jones, of the American Trust and Savings company is said to be the receiver. Immediately after his arrest Monroe was released on bond. He will be arraigned at the Harrison street court this morning. It is said six other complaints of a similar kind will be filed against him.—Chicago Tribune (Tuesday). The above refers to Col. Dick Townsend, of this city. His friends knew of his being defrauded out of the $5,000 and have been expecting some action in the matter. Today’s Rec-ord-Herald says in reference to the matter: F L. Monroe, who has offices in the Great Nortehrn building, was arrested yesterday on complaint of Vance M. Millermon of Atlanta, Ga., who claims he was defrauded on a $5,000 purchase of stock in the Marinette Gas Engine company, made from Monroe. Another warrant had already been served on Monroe charging him with a like transaction in the case of Richard Townsend of Peoria, 111. Judge Fake continued the matter to July 30.