Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAIIA DEMOCRAT.

■olume V. Number 185

b|ED LAST NIGHT Lath of Henry Chronister Was Unexpected Las seventy-five years old | e Funeral Will be Held Friday from the United Brethren Church in This City. ■Henry Chronister, one of the oldest L (i most respected citizens of cur ly died last night at eleven o'clock I his home at the comer of Eleventh Id Adams street, after a very short ■ness, death resulting from an obluction of the bowels. Although I had been ailing for several years, ■s sickness had taken no serious Lrn and most of that time he had ■ways been up and around. However, luday he took a sudden turn for the ■orse, and was forced to take to his Id On yesterday he felt so much Ltter that he got up and walked Lound the house and yard some, but Lon tired and returned to his bed. Lid from that time his condition grew Ladually worse, until death relieved ■m. Mr. Chronister was born in the late of Pennsylvania seventy-five Lars ago, where he resided until he las fifteen years of age, when he Lme to this county with his parents Ld settled on a farm. Soon after Lniing here the call for volunteers las made by his county and he laid ■side all his personal affairs and was Lustered in the ranks and army of jfncle Sam in company I of the 89th Ldiana Volunteers, with whom he lithfully served his time or until the nd of the war when he received an onorable discharge, and returned to bis county, which he called his home, a the year 1853 he was united in marlage to Mrs. Elizabeth Miley, and bey took up their abode on a farm, rhere they dwelt for several years, ntil he moved to this city, where he ngaged in the timber business, which e continued to follow until forced o quit on account of ill health. The uneral services will be held Friday fternon at two-thirty o’clock at the ’nited Brethren church. Rev. Kesinger officiating, and interment will e made in the Decatur cemetery. He eaves three sons, three daughters and host of relatives and friends to nourn their loss.

Mrs. John Vail has gone to Logans>ort. Indiana, for a short visit with Rev. and Mrs. J. C. White, before going to Winona Lake for a short visit. SOME GOOD HORSES Many Premiums Given by Fair Association JOHN P. STEINER IN CHARGE Some of the Best Steppers in the Country Will be at the Fair this Year. The horse department erf the Great Northern Indiana Fair always causes much interest and speculation, especially among the farmers who take a fancy of raising good clean cut horse flesh, and then exhibiting the same to the public for their inspection. The association this season Is offering special inducements to the lovers of show horses and the prises and pre* miums in this line will aggregate no mean sum when all is totaled up. The prizes offered range from one dollar to twelve and this is no mean amount when taken into considera tion the number of other premiums they must offer to exhibitors to get them to make their displays. The horse department is under the super vision of John P. Steiner, who is a man of ability in this line, and who will handle the department in a pro* ficient manner and will see that all the accommodations necessary art furnished. Under the rules governing the entries no animal can compete for more than one premium ex cept in span or for championship, and in no case for more than two in grand sweepstakes, which may be third. Horses entered in speed cannot com Jiete for class premiums.

In all pure-bred classes exhibitors must provide themselves with pedigrees to settle any question of breeding that may arise; and in grales with statements showing the amount of improved blood in each animal. No team matched for the occasion merely will be eligible in any class, and all matched teams must have been owned by the exhibitor at east sixty days prior to the exhibition. Every exhibitor must take his own choce as to the class in which he will enter his horse and abide by it; great care must be taken to enter each horse in its proper class, as no alteration can be made after the entries close. So, farmers with the great inducements that are offered, get your horses in the best possible shape and enter them at the Great Northern In diana Fair on August 27, 28, 29 and 30. 0 Mrs. W. H. Leas, of Waterloo, Ind., has returned to her home after making a pleasant visit here with her daughter, Mrs. Earl Peters. WAS COLDBLOODED Details of the Murder of Albert Walsh SHOT THROUGH THE HEART Funeral in Chicago Tomorrow—Mrs. Wemhoff There —Much Sorrow Expressed. Chicago August 1. —Albert L.Walsh, thirty-two years old, 4544 Indiana avenue, was shot to death early yesterday by a robber who was surprised while ransacking the flat. The murder occurred in the presence of Miss Annie Walsh, sister of the dead man. Her screams and the action of Walsh in pursuing the robber through the hallway of the flat were followed by the fatal shot. A description of the slayer is in the hands of the police and a man hunt that extends to all sides of the city is now in progress. News of the murder reached the Fiftieth Street Police Station and a wagon load of policeman and detectives were hurried to the scene. Walsh, who had been shot through the heart, was still lying in a pool of blood, while his sister, who was hysterical and would have thrown herself upon the prostrate body of her brother, was being restrained by neighbors in an adjoining room. A cursory examination of the wound had been made by a physician who arrived at the flat before the police, but he held out no hope for the man. Death had come speedily and what little vitality remained with the victim had been exhausted by his desperate effort to describe his slayer. Detectives examined the rear window,which had been found open, and declared that the work showed evidence of an expert burglar. A jimmy had been employed and the window catch had been snapped in two. Footprints were found outside the window and other clews which led the detectives to believe that two men might have been concerned in the robery, one acting as lookout while the other ransacked the flat. After entering the flat through the window the first precaution of the burglar was to open the rear door to afford a ready means of escape should the occupants of the flat be aroused.

After the murder the robber fled through the rear yard into an alley. His dark form was seen by neighbors who had been aroused by the sound of the shot, as he vaulted a fence and then darted away. Miss Walsh, although almost overcome by her grief and hysteria, was able to give the police a disconnected account of the tragedy. "I was awakened by some noise in my room,” she said. “It sounded as if some one had bumped against a chair. I felt sure that some one was in the room, so I sat up in bed and peered around me. I could see a dark form huddled in a corner as I looked. I screamed and jumped out of bed. The man leaped toward me and I started back. I thought he was going to grab me when I heard my brother’s footsteps in the hallway. The man then darted out of my room and my brother tried to catch and hold him. I heard the threats he made, then a shot, and I screamed for ht Miss Anna Walsh, mentioned in the above dispatch, visited the Wemhoffs in this city just a short time ago. Mrs. Wemhoff hastened to Chicago soon after receiving the telegram briefly telling of the tragedy. The funeral will occur tomorrow.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, August I, 1907.

AT OYSTER BAY New Mexico Now Needs a Scrub Brush MANY RAILROAD ACCIDENTS The Record Is Appalling—the Interstate Commerce Commission Makes Ruling. Oyster Bay, N. Y„ Aug. I.—Governor George Curry, who arrived in the United States ten days ago from his post as governor of the Philippine province of Samar, to assume the duties of his new post as governor of the territory of New Mexico, consulted with President Roosevelt for two hours today. The governor arrived at Oyster Bay with Federal Judge B. S. Rodey, of Porto Rico, formerly delegate in congress from New Mexico. Judge Rodey, who called on Secretary Loeb during the conference at Sagamore Hill, remarked that in his opinion, the situation in New Mexico was the worst, from the standpoint of discord, intrigue and crookedness, that could be found in any of the dependencies or territorities of the United States, "and the President could not have found a better man than Curry to straighten out the tangle,” he said. Washington, Aug. I—Shocking railroad accidents involving great loss of life and property occurred during the three months ending March 31, in the United States, according to accident bulletin No. 23. issued today by the Interstate Commerce Commission. While the number of lives lost and the number injured are somewhat less than during the previous three months the record is appalling. The bulletin shows that the total number of casualties to passengers and to employes while on duty, during the three months, was 20,563, as compared with 20,944 reported in the preceding three months —a decrease of 381. Washington. Aug. I.—An important decision relating to car distribution was announced by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the opinion having been rendered by Commissioner Clark in the cases of the Ohio Railroad Commission against the Hocking Valley railroad and the Wheeling & Lake Erie. The two cases were heard at the same time and argued together. The basis of both complaints was that the defendant lines unjustly discriminated against the owners and operators of coal mines along their roads in the distribution of cars.

RAPS PRESIDENT Governor iianly Against Federal Control BELIEVES IN RIGHTS OF STATES Federal Centralization of Power is Not Good for Government Either National or State. Elkhart, Ind., July 31. —Upholding the rights of the individual states against the encroachment on these rights by federal legislation. Governor Hanly in a speech delivered here to the Chautauqua assembly took occasion to speak for conservatism in dealing with the problems of the country. He thought most of them were problems that the state could solve without the intervention and help of the national government and he deprecated the reaching out of the federal arm in purely state matters. Incidentally he takes issue with President Roosevelt on some of these matters. After referring to problems resulting from the combinations and trusts and the accumulation of large and swollen fortunes. Governor Hanly said: “In matters of such moment we cannot afford to thoughtlessly follow impulsive leadership, however high its character or pure its purpose. As a self-governing people we must needs be thoughtful and considerate lest we open the door to greater ills than . those w e seek to cure. President , Roosevelt has earned the confidence:, and the gratitude of his countrymen (

by courageous work and signal service and I do not speak in unkindly criticism, for I believe in the purity of his purpose and in his greatness. But he is not infallible, however strong of soul and pure of heart he may be. Proposals even from him which are calculated to affect, relations of the federal government to the several states should be thought upon, studied and analyzed before we adopt them. The tendency of the times is toward centralization of power in the federal government. Public necessity as he has viewed and understood the public need, has fitted well the president’s peculiar temperament. And it will indeed be surprising if those do not at times lead him into error.” o The funeral of Mrs. Anna Joebker was held this afternoon at three o'clock at the Freidheim church, Rev. Preuss officiating, and a large crowd being present to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased. Interement was made in the Freidheim cemetery. HOMEWARD BOUND Seattle, Sbokane and Ta* coma Are Live Ones JUDGE ERWIN WRITES ANOTHER They are This Week Doing the Yellowstone Park—Many Things of Interest in the West.

t On board Northern Pacific, near Mlss soula, Mont., July 28, 1907. I We have now set our face toward . the rising run- We left Portland on . Thursday morning at 8:00 o’clock, and arrived at Seattle at 4:10 p. m. 1 same day. We left the Harriman sys- ’ tern at Portland, since which time we > are under the direction and control of ' J. J. Hill, almost as great a magnate as the former. f On the Harriman lines they burn oil exclusively both on boats and railroads, which makes it very clean travt eling—no cinders, no smoke. Wash--1 ingtop is the making of a great state, * but I think they are making a mis- ■ take in booming it as a farming coun- : try. If they would pay more atten- ' tion to the mining interests I believe ' it would bring greater returns. The ! mountains are full of gold, coal and - copper undiscovered, and, of course. ■ undeveloped, but every day men are : making finds of these deposits which ' make them wealthy. It will take cap- ' ital to develop the country and build > I railroads to where these ores and minerals lay. Besides the mountain streams are 1 sufficient to produce all the motive power the state will ever need, and I predict that at some day in the no far distant that electricity will be used to move trains on all these mountain railroads, and the waterfalls along the routes will furnish the tricitySeattle is a wonderful city, but is largely made up of hills and hollows, but by means of the water coming down the hills and directed through nozzles, they are washing the hills into hollows and lowlands, and are making a lot of what they term “tide lands.” The union depot is built on tide land and long trestle work is used by all the railroads to reach the same. Pubic highways and streets are built for miles on trestle work, and around the eastern and southern port of the city it looks like the Chicago stock yards. All roads being upon stilts. I might add that here what I forgot to say of Astoria, Oregon, is nearly all built in that way, but over the Columbia river, which is seven miles wide at that place, and business men in that city can cut a hole through the floor of their business houses and catch fish. But again to Seattle and Tacoma. Tacoma is in about the same condition as Seattle. If her hills were washed info her swamps she would be a fairly level city. Tacoma has a good street car system and is supporting some good factories. Is the division point of the Northern Pacific railroad, where all trains stop going to and returning from Seattle. Watch her grow! is the watch cry of all Tacoma. We spent one day in Seattle and then took train for SpokaneNow, while you are talking, here is a city that is all right. We met Dr. Freeman here, also a Mr. Peay and a Mr. Lautis, both of them formerly lived in Wells county. Mr. Peay at (Continued on page 2.)

THE SOCIETY NEWS St. Vincent De Paul Society Met Yesterday MRS. MORRISON A HOSTESS Delightful Time at Pedro—Many Society Events Given Notice in These Columns. Mrs. C. Radamacher pleasantly entertained the St. Vincent De Paul Society yesterday afternoon at a social gathering. The ladies were invited to take their sewing and just enjoy the afternoon. At four o'clock light refreshments were served. The guests numbered tw’enty-five. Church societies of this afternoon are as follows: Women’s Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church at the home of Mrs. Fred Mills. The Missionary meeting of the U. B. church is be held this evening. Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison is hostess at a thimble party this afternoon in compliment to her guests from Fort Wayne, Yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Earl Peters presented a lively appearance as the fourteen ladies were engaged in playing progressive pedro. Mrs. Lizzie Schmacher was the leader among the club members in having the highest score, and she was awarded a beautiful china cup and saucer, and Mrs. Erman Boozer won the guest prize. The dinner, which was served at 12 o’clock, was elegant and the hostess was assisted in a charming manner by Mrs. Howard Burdg and Mrs. W. H. Leas. The ladies returned to their home at Waterloo on the three o’clock car. o SELLING IN DOSES THAT COUNT O. T. Johnson Sells Over Seven Hundred Dollars Worth. O. T. Johnson, of Rural Route ten, yesterday delivered to Decatur dealers live stock in chunks that count. He sold hogs and lambs which brought a total of $727, and he has sixty odd left for future delivery. This is engaging in stock farming in away that counts. Mr. Johnson is one among the most successful farmers of the county, and makes money irrespective of the sort of weather that is handed out.

COURT HOUSE NEWS A Partition Suit Filed and Sale Asked NOT MUCH EXCITEMENT A Marriage License Issued—Business is Painfully Quiet at Court House. Attorney D. B. Erwin filed a court case, entitled Fanny Kocher vs. Josephine Moser et al, suit for partition of real estate. The suit involves real estate in Berne, and asks for the appointment of a commissioner and the sale of the realty. About the only excitement around the auditor’s office is the filing of reports by township trustees. The August term of the commissioners begins Monday, and then the show for news will brighten. A marriage license has been issued to John Aeschliman and Amelia Drayer. The former is a resident of Wells county, aged twenty-four years, and the latter lives in French township, and is eighteen years of age. S. B. Boyce, of Blue Creek township, secured the contract for the Maggie Miller ditch. The contractor lives in Blue Creek and has long been a successful contractor of ditch work. The surveyor's office is busy with specifications for ditch and bridge work, the season not being very rushing for this usually busy office.

THE CLOVER LEAF SETTLES SUIT Pays August Hirschke $8,200 for the Loss of Both Legs. The claim agent of the Clover Leaf has just paid August Hirschke, a fireman on the road, who had run between Toledo and Frankfort, the sum of $8,200 for the loss of both legs and the suit that he had filed against the company for $30,000 damages for personal injury in the Superior court at Toledo, has been dismissed. While he was out upon his run, Hirschke was injured in a collison between two engines near the Toledo yards, he being caught in the wreck and both legs were so badly crushed that it was necessary to amputate them both. The accident happened on the first day of last December. Hirschke was a minor and his guardian, J. G. Shepherd, filed the suit and was also authorized by the court to accept the $8,200 from the company in payment of all claims and in full settlement of the suit.

AUGUST SCHEDULE Where the League Plays During This Month SCHEDULE SAID TO BE FAIR It Now Looks Like League Ball Will Be a Success —Umpire Question Unsettled. T “ Manager L. A. Holthouse this morning received the new schedule from President Kling, of the Indiana-Ohio league, w'hich was adopted at Richmond and as the race has commenced, a very interesting hue and to meet with the clamor of the many fans who desire to kjow just where the team will play in the future, we publish the same for their benefit, which is as follows; July 30-31, Aug- I—Richmond at Van Wert; Decatur at Bluffton; Kokomo at Portland. Aug. 2,3, 4 —Portland at Decatur; Bluffton at Kokomo; Van Wert at Richmond. Aug. 6,7, B—Kokomo8 —Kokomo at Decatur; Portland at Van Wert; Richmond at Bluffton. Aug. 9, 10, 11—Decatur at Richmond; Van Wert at Kokomo; Bluffton at Portland. Aug. 13, 14. 15—Richmond at Decatur; Kokomo at Van Wert; Portland at Bluffton. Aug. 16, 17, 18 —Portland at Richmond; Van Wert at Decatur; Bluffton at Kokomo. Aug- 20, 21, 22 —Decatur at Van Wert; Kokomo at Bluffton; Richmond at Portland.

Aug. 23, 24, 25 —Van Wert at Portland; Decatur at Kokomo; Bluffton at Richmond. The schedule is fair in every respect to all teams concerned and was made with a view of cutting down mileage so that every team might prosper. The new league is creating no little excitement and every evening the local bulletin boards where the returns are received are eagerly scanned by the hungry fans who try to figure out the dope. The teams have all so far shown that they are evenly matched and that the patrons of the Indiana-Ohio league will see some very fast base ball in the near future- From all appearance the league is bound to be a success and will prove most satisfactory in the end. The most trouble that President Kling is experiencing at present is the matter of selecting umpires who can stand the gaff and who will stay with the job regardless of the taunts and jeers of the crowds.

HAVING FINANCIAL TROUBLE. Private Banker Tully up Against the Real Thing. Converse. Ind., July 31. —After a meeting of twenty-six creditors, it became known today that Mark Tully, for many years head of the Tully Exchange bank of this place, which recently sold out to the Farmers’ State bank is in financial straits. On June 6 last. Tully sold out his private bank but it is said kept the time deposit accounts, amounting to about $60,000. In an interview Mr. Tully said he has settled all accounts with the exception of claims amounting to $18,500 and requests six months time in order to realize upon property he owns. The creditors will hold another meeting tomorrow at which definite action will be taken.

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A VERY SAD SCENE A Sister Claims Body of Murdered Woman DECEASED HAS FOUR SISTERS T h e Remains Taken to Arcola for Burial —LaPointe Woman Held on Murder Charge. There was a sad scene at the McBride undertaking establishment this morning when Mrs. Fremont Winget of Fort Wayne, arrived to claim the body of her murdered sister, Mrs. Florence Besancon. She had not learned of the awful tragedy until Monday evening and then only through a postal card from Coroner Fred Mcßride, asking her what disposal should be made of the remains. She at once notified her four sisters, but not hearing anything from them yet this morning could wait no longer and came to this city at once, explaining to the coroner her delay in attending to her duty. The body had been suitably clothed by sympathetic Bluffton ladies and placed in a casket and at 10:18 this morning Mrs. Winget left with the remains for Arcola. At Fort Wayne she was joined by Frank Besancon and family and the two little children of the unfortunate woman and they accompanied her and the body to Ad Cola. At that place they drove to the Eel river cemetery, between Arcola and Churubusco and the remains were laid to rest beside the father and mother in the family lot. There was no service held except a short one at the grave side. Coroner Fred Mcßride has not yet rendered his verdict but will do so this evening or tomorrow. The preliminary hearing of Mrs. LaPointe will be had before Mayor Hamilton Friday and she will answer the charge of murder in the first degree. The filing of a charge against her at this time is merely in order to hold her, the real indictment upon which she will receive trial in the circuit court, to be returned by an especially called grand jury. As yesterday she remains silent and orderly in her cell and seemingly unmindful of what her future will be.—Bluffton Banner. o Mrs. James T. Merryman and Mrs. C. K. Bell were called to Toledo, 0., this morning owing to the serious illness of their sister, Mrs. F. M. Til; bury. She is undergoing an operation in the hospital at that place today. Mrs. Tilbury’s home is at Napoleon, Ohio.

IT’S THE TRUTH _________ The Herald Trying to Boom Geneva NEED EMPLOYMENT THERE They Have Every Facility for a Good Little ToY/n and Lots of Business. At this time, when Geneva residents, the breadwinners of the town, are casting about for employment, would it not be an excellent thing if the business men of the town would get together and try to locate some establishment in the town that would employ labor and be of lasting good to the town? Men of Geneva, who have their money invest ed here, can ill afford to sit back and see the town lose her grip on the constant outpouring of her citizens. Yet. that is just what they are doing. No town is better located for keeping up the pace in growth and development, and it lies with the business men of the town whether or not she continues to grow. Facilities are here, good substantial business rooms are here, and plenty of good residences available, so that there is practically nothing in the way of locating some good substantial enterprise here that would be a source of employment for fifty or a hundred families at least. The thing for every property holder in Geneva to do Is to put forth united effort. It Is to your interest to do so. —Geneva Herald.