Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAIIY DEMOCRAT.

Wolume V. Number 196

I SPECIAL SESSION ■ty Council Transact T Important Business ■ MILE of cement sidewalk Kntract Let for New Boilers—Mercer ■street Ordered Paved—Seventh I Street to be Bricked at Once. ■The council met last evening in Kecial session, Charles N. Christen selected to act in the capacity ■ chairman, owing to the absence of Beyor Coffee, and he at once called He meeting to order. A resolution H s then read and adopted ordering He construction of a cement sidewalk Hong Second and Winchester streets He walk to commence on the east Hie of the street at the K. of P. lot Hnning thence south to Jefferson ■reet, the walk in this territory to H thirteen feet wide and on the same ■de of the street between Jefferson H ( i Adams the walk to be six feet Hide and from Adams to the Erie Hilroad the walk to be five feet wide Hid built next to the curb stone. On He west side of the street the imHovement is to start at the interurHn station and to run south to the H*ie railroad and the same is to be Hmpleted this fall. A resolution orHring the clerk to give notice for He receiving of bids on the ChronBter sewer was read and adopted and tds will no doubt be received at the ■st meeting night in September. The reet and sewer committee to whom ■d been referred the petition of the Hoperty owners along Mercer avenue ■or a brick street reported favorable Hi the proposition and a resolution Has immediately adopted ordering the ■•instruction of the same. This will H all probability be the last step tak■l this fall as the council do not Hvor the undertaking of such a large Hb of paving with winter so close at ■and A petition signed by all the Hading property owners along Sev■nth street between Monroe and ■dams streets asking for a brick ■treet to be constructed yet this fall Has read, and upon motion was reHrred to the street and sewer comHittee, who immediately filed a favor■ble report and a resolution ordering ■he construction of the same was ■dopted and the council set Tuesday ■venlng, August 21st, as a time to ■ear objections on the same. From ■resent indications the street will no Boubt be built yet this fall. The finance committee then filed a report ■howing that they had received six Jiids from various boiler houses, which I eport was adopted and upon motion he bids were opened and read and rere as follows, to-wit: sterling Con. Boiler Co $5,925 Sterling Con. Boiler Co 6,05€ Sterling Con. Boiler Co 6.220 Standard Safety Boiler C 0.... 5 950 Mias Engine Works 5,400 McNaull Water Tube Boiler. 5,163.43 Heine Safety Boiler Co 5,095.00 Franklin Boiler Works 5,800.00 The council then went into executive session and each of the boiler men were granted fifteen minutes in which to tell the good points concerning their machine, and the council thus gleaned many facts they never knew. After hearing all the representatives the bids were figured out and it was found that the Atlas Engine orks was the lowest bidder and they were consequently awarded the contract. By the terms of the bid the boiler is to be in working order by December Ist and they expect to start in immediately on the construction of the same. No further business coming before the council they adjourned to meet in regular session next Tuesday.

CLIFF BALES A NAUGHTY BOY. Entered Society at Monticello. But Finally Got Licked. A correspondent for the Muncie Star at Monticello has the following to say concerning Cliff Bales, the former Bluffton ball player: “Clifford Bales, the base ball player in jail at Hartford City for wife desertion. played here during May. June and July. While here society took him up. He was popular among the ladies, some of whom took him to and from the grounds in carriages He left here in a hurry after being whipped within an inch of his life by J H. Randall, a local business man and manager of the ball team at that time. Randall thrashed the man in the presence of a wealthy young lady with w-hom he had been «n quite friendly term."

EPILEPTIC VILLAGE NOW OPEN They Ask for Fifty Patients from County Asylums. The board of trustees of the state Epileptic Hospital met with Governor Hanly yesterday and announced to the governor that the institution is now ready to receive about fifty patients. The board asked the governor to issue his proclamation which is necessary before a new state institution may be thrown open for use. Dr. W. C. Van Nuys, the superintendent of the epileptic hospital, said the first fifty patients will be taken from the county institutions of the various counties. The law provides that they shall be selected from among the ablebodied epileptic men, the purpose being to pick out the men who will be service on the farm of the institution. He said he believed there were more than fifty such patients in the county institutions of the state. Two buildings have been erected on the epileptic farm, three miles north of Newcastle. On will be occupied as a residence for the employes and for the kitchen and dining rooms for employes and patients. These buildings were erected with money from the original appropriation made for the purchase of the farm. The appropriation of SIOO,OOO made by the last legislature is not yet available for use, and no more building can be done until October.

TOLD HIS STORY Gothard Brown is Willing to Talk TELLS OF HIS MANY MISDEEDS Born in Holland and Came to this Country When Eighteen Years of Age.

When interviewed by a representative of the Democrat today, Gotthard Brobeil alias Gotthard Brown, told the story of his past life in a novel manner. He talked freely and without reserve of the many unlawful acts he has committed. He stated that his true name is Gotthard Broheil and he only assumed the name of Brown six years ago, when the people in the vicinity of Berne with whom he was affiliated, found it difficult to pronounce his true name and called him Brown for short. He was born in Holland and on account of trouble he had with his stepmother, left home and came to this country when he was eighteen years of age. He was at Buffalo, N. Y., for six months after his arrival, and went from there to Chicago and worked on the Rock Island railroad for six months. Then becoming tired of working on the section, he went to St. Louis, where he drove an ice wagon and hauled coal. He then started off on a tramp of the country. In some manner he became acquainted with a hobo who told him that there was a German settlement at Berne and they would be pickings for him if he could get in with them. Brown at once started for Berne arriving in this vicinity about ten years ago for his first time. After getting acquainted with many people in the German settlement, he began to steal money, clothing and other valuables from them, and he was arrested, tried and convicted for the same. He spent five years in the Michigan City penitentiary and was released one year ago last February. He then went to Lafayette to work and according to his statements was a law abiding citizen, but owing to the fact that he had served time under the name of Brown and was paroled under that name, he says he wanted to come back co his old stamping grounds and get proof of his true name and return to Lafayette. It seems that he lose sight of the purpose of his trip back to the Amish settlement, and instead of proving anything concerning his name, he relieved some of his German friends of some of their money and other valuables, besides satisfying some old grudges by cutting harness, killing trees and breaking window glasses out of houses. Brown is for-ty-three years old. — — D. D. Coflee returned this morning from Huntington, where he was attending a state convention of the C. B. L. lodge. He reports a very enjoyable time.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, August 14, 1907.

THE BETTER CURE Incarceration is More ol a Disgrace CARDINAL GIBBONS INTERVIEW Moral Suasion Alone Will Not Accomplish the Reformation that the People Want. New York, August 14.—Cardinal Gibbons, highest dignitary of the Roman Catholic church in America, who is resting at Southampton, L. 1., has erpressed himself as follows regarding the punishment meted out by the federal court in Chicago to the Standard Oil company: “The fine of $29,240,000 imposed on the Standard Oil company for violations of the law is indeed a large sum of money, but I am not prepared to state whether or not it was excessive. If, however, it is inadequate in compelling a compliance with the law, the incarceration of the guilty officers with its attendant disgrace would prove a more effective remedy. Moral suasion alone will never accomplish the needed reformation in this direction. Many fine sermons might be preached to these men, but they would continue to accumulate millions by the same methods which are now being exposed. The disgrace of imprisonment would prove a certain remedy, according to my understanding of its effect upon this class.’’ Concerning the crime situation in New York the cardinal made this comment: “As a remedy for the crime wave now sweeping through New York City I would suggest that penalties be imposed that will be commensurate with the crime. The principal preventive to such sentences being imposed and carried out lies in the fact that able and influential lawyers lend themselves to the defensive of the criminal and the crime, and through astuteness secure a majority of the cases either acquittal or a nominal fine.’’

IT IS A GOOD BUSINESS. Toledo, Ohio. August 13.—David Robinson, Jr., has been appointed receiver of the Press Publishing company, publishers of the Toledo Evening Press, of which Hiram P. Crouse, is president and editor. The appointment was made on the application of Edward H. Best, of Boston, on a claim of $189.12 for press blankets. The total indebtedness, it is jaid, will amount to $95,000, of which SIO,OOO is unsecured. HAS THE HABIT Jack Augustus Frequently Whips His Wife NEIGHBORS FILE A PROTEST And the Next Offense will be the Signal for the Application of a Brand New Cure. The citizens who reside in the south west part of the city are very indignant over the actions of one of their neighbors, Jack Augustus, who, during the past four or five weeks has formed the habit of beating and assaulting his wife and unless his actions cease and his conduct becomes much improved he stands in a very fair show of receiving a dose of tar and feathers. It seems that every time Augustus gets a drink he wants to take his spite out on his wife, and that poor frail' thing during the past month has suffered several severe beatings. To cap the climax Augustus yesterday proceeded to load up on booze, and last evening returned home and started in on his usual pastime of beating his wife and only ceased because several of the neighbors interfered and ordered him away from the premises. From what we are able to learn, Mrs. Augustus is a hard working woman, and practically provides for the family and in connection must tolerate these beatings from her husband whenever he gets drunk. The neighbors arts getting tired of his abuse, and actions, and say that if it occurs again they will try a new cure.

A NEW FACE FOR THE PENNY. Has Been Accepted by the Government —Other Changes. Philadelphia, August 14. —Philadelphia numismatists have received with interest the announcement that new designs for United States coins by the artist, August Saint Gaudens, have been accepted by the government, Three denominations will be affected, the double eagle, the eagle and the bronze cent. A radical change is made in the design of the cent, and though the India 11 head will be retained, it will bear little resemblance to the old one, and is expected to be more characteristic of the head of the American Indian with real head dress instead of the present design. The present Indian head is really a Caucausian type, the face having been posed for by a little daughter of James M. Lognacre, the engraver of the Philadelphia mint, who designed the present penny in 1859. More radical changes are noted in the design for the ten dollar gold coin. While the obverse still shows the head of liberty, on the reverse is a flying eagle, closely modeled after the pattern of the dollars and half dollars of 1836 and 1838. Christian Gobreclt, who designed these coins, used as his model “Peter,” the live eagle, known as the “mint bird,” which, having its home at the mint in this city, flew all over town, returning each night to roost at the mint, and which was afterward killed by being caught in the machinery of the plant. o A COAL COMPANY Girt Reynolds & Co. Arranging for Business WILL OPEN NEW FUEL YARD Are Building Near Erie Tracks and Expect td Be Ready for Orders Within a Short Time.

Girt Reynolds, who quite recently disposed of his interest in the People’s bakery to Mr. Bailey, has again launched into business. He has purchased four lots along the Clover Leaf railroad track, upon which coal sheds are being built tor the purpose of containing coal to be sold to consumers. The new firm name will be known as Girt Reynolds and Co., coal dealers, and after their buildings are completed, they will have one of the best coal yards in the city. The best coal on the market will be handled at this yard, and the very best quality obtainable will be furnished their patrons. Work on the sheds is in progress at the present time and as completed, they will be filled with coal and the proprietor will be ready to handle all orders. o A VERA CRUZ WOMAN DEADWas Past Four Score Years of AgeBorn in Switzerland. Mbndjay occurred the death ojf Mrs’ Barbara Steffens, wife of Peter Steffens, who lives near Vera Cruz. Mrs. Steffens was attacked by a stroke of paralysis about twenty years ago and has been confined to her bed most of the time since then. Barbara Steffens was born in Berne Switzerland, December 11, 1825, and came to America in her youth. Shortly after she arrived in this country she was united in marriage to Peter Steffens. She died August 12, 1907, at the age of nearly eighty-two years. Seven children, Enoch, Tobias, Peter, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Mrs. John Mailer and Mrs. John Kipfer survive her. The funeral was held at the Christian Apostle church today with interment in the church cemetery. o AN ARMY SERGEANT IS HERE. Looking for Recruits for the United States Army. Walter A. Marley, a recruiting sergeant of the U. S. army, located in the Jones building at Muncie, was here today distributing advertising matter and starting a campaign for army recruits. He expects to return to this city soon, probably fair week, and devote several days to his work. If any of our young men from eighteen to thirty-five years of age, are interested, they should watch our columns, for definite announcement of his visit here. Special inducements are offered to persons of trained ability in any trade.

GENERAL MANAGER Employed by Decatur Packing Company GETTING READY FOR BUSINESS The Entire Output Will Be Approved and Stamped by a Government Inspector. Within two weeks the Decatur Packing company will be in readiness to start their new plant in full operation. The plant has a capacity of 600 hogs per week, forty cattle per day, and they have the equipment and machinery adequate to manufacture five thousand pounds of sausage each day. Six large storage rooms have been completed, two of which are in use at the present time for pickling and curing hams and bacon. One of these rooms will be used to freeze the meats, three will be used to contain dressed carcasses and one will be used to keep miscelaneous meats. This plant will be operated in a clean manner and all meat that is shipped from this concern will bear the stamp of approval of the government. Within the next two weeks a veterinarian and meat inspector in the employ of the government will be here to inspect the plant, the processes that are used and everything that bears on the cleanliness and quality of the meat products to be shipped from this plant and when the stamp “U. S. inspected and passed on” is found on any container of meat food products, dressed carcasses or primal parts theres, this is an absolute guarantee that the contents are wholesome, sound and fit for human food. Clemen J. Keller of Ft. Wayne, has been engaged by the Packing company to be the general overseer of the inside work. Mr. Keller is a man of ability along this line, as he has been in the business for more than twenty years, six months of which he served as an inspector. The proprietors of this concern deserve much credit for the step they are taking to have their plant inspected by the government, as it is only necessary for them to submit to inspection from state inspectors to do business in the state.

The building of the cement sidewalk along the big store corner on Madison street is attracting considerable attention and a large crowd was standing around all day watching its progress. AFTER TWO YEARS John D. Hale Recovers His Valuable Watch A PECULIAR TURN OF AFFAIRS Handsome Gold Watch Lost Many Months Was Finally Left in Mr. Hale’s Barn and Found Yesterday. Nearly two years ago John D. Hale, the well known grain merchant, lost his handsome and valuable gold watch. He supposed it had dropped from his pocket while he was at work about his ware room, but the strictest search failed to disclose any trace of it and long ago he had given up ever again seeing his highly prized timepiece. Yesterday two neighbor boys, while playing in the barn on the Hale residence premises on Fifth street, found the watch as bright and handsome as the day it was lost and in good running order. Mr. Hale believes the watch was found by some one who happened to be about the warehouse and who held possession of it, hoping to sometime convert it into cash, but was prevented from the fact that Mr. Hale’s name was deeply engraved on the outside and inside of the case, and i the party who held it so long finally becoming conscience stricken, decided i to restore it to its rightful owner and dropped it in the barn, where it was 1 found. Mr. Hale feels very much elated over the recovery of his watch and is grateful to the person who returned it even if it did require many months for him to stimulate himself to the task. ]

IS OPPOSED TO PAROLE LAW. Judge Cooper, of Kokomo, Says It Does Great Harm. In the return of Carl Hunt to the Indiana School for Boys at Plainfield, Ind., Judge R. M. Cooper of the Kokomo city court finds occasion to join the ranks in Kokomo opposed to the parole laws of the state. “The return of Hunt is a shame," said Judge Cooper. Hunt had been In Kokomo some time, living a quiet, honest life, seeking to live down the past and had even assumed a different name, joined a Sunday school, and was earning a good living at his employment as fireman at the rod mill. “If there is peonage,” observed Judge Cooper, “it is in this state reform institution. After they reformed Hunt, then he had to be taken back, and I venture the statement that he will not be as good a man a year after his release as he is now. “Some one tried to lay at his door that he had robbed a grocery, but such a charge was so flimsy that the court dismissed the case with contempt. The trouble with these parole laws is that they make the ‘knocker’ king, and his story is greater than a trial by jury and a conviction.” o— COURT HOUSE NEWS Getting Ready for Fall Session of Court MANY CASES ON THE DOCKET Final Report off Administrator Filed — State Auditor’s Report on County Assessments. The fall session of the Adams circuit court will convene two weeks from next Monday, and will continue in session almost continuously until next June. The usual number of cases are on the docket, but there is nothing extraordinarily exciting. George B. Schott, administrator in the estate of George W. Schott, filed his final report. George W. Schott disappeared a number of years ago, and has not been heard from since. Recently he was officially declared dead in court and his estate of $1,083,34 has been divided among his brothers and sisters. The new docket for the September team has been prepared by Deputy Clerk Baumgartnr. It shows 103 civil cases and thirty-three criminal cases. Os these twenty-six civil suits and twelve of the criminal cases have been filed during vacation time. The criminal causes include about everything on the calendar excepting murder. The report of state auditor Billheimer showing the action of the state board of tax commissioners in increasing or decreasing the assessments as returned by the county boards has been received at the county auditor’s office. In fifty-four counties, including Adams, the lands and town and city lots were assessed as returned, while in the other thirtyeight counties an increase of from two to twenty per cent was made. The fact speaks well for Assessor Gentis and his assistants of this county.

HOME FROM A WESTERN TRIP. Fred Eichenberger and Brother Arrived Last Night. Fred Eichenberger and brother arrived home last evening from a two months’ trip through the west. They visited Colorado. California. Washington. Oregon and the other western and northwestern states. Fred suffered an attack of blood poison.brought on by a tight shoe and colored hose and was detained in the hospital at Palm Beach, California, for two weeks. Other than this he says he enjoyed his trip to the limit. He will probably engage in some business in old Indiana, which state he says is equal to any of those he visited. o————— Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas will entertain a company of twenty-four friends this evening at a six o’clock dinner, given in honor of their guests, I Mr. and Mrs. Knapp, of Evanston, 111.

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OPERATORS STRIKE Tickers Closed All Over the Country THE SITUATION IN INDIANA Western Union Office in this City is Open, But Doing Practically No Business. The strike situation among the telegraphers grows more serious each day, and so far as the wire service is concerned, the country is in a state of stagnation. Agent Patterson, of the Western Union is keplng the office here, but is reciving or sending no messages. Yesterday one grain telegram was received, but today there were none. The result is being watched with interest. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 13. —All Indiana felt the effect of the telegraphers’ strike in a most depressing way today. Not only is there inconvenience in communication with the outside world, but conditions are having a decided effect on the commercial interests of the smaller towns of the state. The grain business probably is the most seriously effected. In some of the cities of the state elevator men have announced that all business will be suspended within the next twenty four hours unless conditions change. Grain buyers are at sea and without market quotations from the great commercial centers, say it would be folly to attempt to continue business. Superintendent Wallick of the Western Union Telegraph company of the Indiana district says his company is running business without delay. Regarding the general situation, he read the following message from President Clowry: , “About 50 per cent of our force in New York went out, but we have ample force to move the business without delay. Less than 25 per cent of the men went out at Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburg and Buffalo. We are in good shape at these points.” o , THE DAUGHERTYS IN EUROPE. Visited Scene of Battle at Heidelberg University. Word has been received from Hugh Dougherty and family, who are touring in Europe, to the effect that they viewed the scene of a horrible and blody encounter between the students of Heidelberg University, in Germany, shortly after it had occurred. They went through the buildings when they were fairly compelled to wade through the blood and absorbent cotton filled with blood that covered the uoor. They saw and talked with hundreds of students that carried bandaged faces and heads, who were as proud of their wounds as could be. The students of Heidelberg observe the old custom which has been in evidence in the school practically ever since it was founded, of mixing up in sword fights several times a year, and slashing each others faces. The scars from such battles are exhibited with pride. The sight was an unusual and horrible one to Mr. and Mrs. Dougherty and daughter Beth who arrived on the scene only a few moments late to see the encounter. —Bluffton News.

THEY MAY EXPAND NEXT YEAR The 1.-O. Ball League May Have Eight Clubs. A press dispatch which tells of the success of the Indiana-Ohio league from the financial standpoint and carries the further information that next year the league will be absorbed by an organization to be known as the Indiana Base Ball League, with teams in eight towns of the Hoosier state, has been sent out from Richmond, whence most of the official information concerning the present league eminates. The gentlemen who are laying these plans might with propriety remember that Van Wert has a few rights in the present organization and has been an important factor in making the present season a financial success. Unless all signs fail the Richmond leader will fail in his plan to expel Van Wert from the organization for there are other managers to deal with. To all appearances the other managers are men of integrity and will hardly permit Van Wert to suffer such an injustice.—Van Wert I Bulletin.