Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1907 — Page 1

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BUT ONE FLEET Strength of Atlantic Fleet to be Increased NOT PERMANENT IN PACIFIC It Will Demonstrate Feasability of Moving Such a Vast Naval Force. Washington, September 6. —It is authoritatively stated at the navy department that President Roosevelt does not contemplate the creation of two battleship fleets. Nor does Secretary Metcalf, nor even the general board which is supposed to represent the extreme view in naval development, favor either the division of the present magnificent fleet under Admiral Evans’ command or the creation of another fleet in order that there may be a formidable American navy in both oceans, the Atlantic and the Pacific. On the contrary, it is regarded at the navy department as a better policy to maintain one perfectly equipped and well-drilled fleet, free to move speedily to any part of the globe at short notice and the present plans contemplate the increase of the strength of the Atlantic from eighteen to twenty-eight battleships. This will afford a command as large as can be properly directed by any one officer and it will moreover about mark the capacity of the ports and dry docks of any section of the world. So it is asserted positively at the department that there is not the least intention of keeping the battleships which will go to the Pacific permanently in those waters. That fleet, it is added, will surely return to the Atlantic seaboard after it has performed its mission, and demonstrated the feasability of moving such a vast naval force between the two oceans. ... <i Bull evidences in the Chicago, Toledo and other markets of the country had its influence on the local grain market yesterday, and an advance of several cents in wheat, oats and corn prices were recorded. Grain prices have developed a strong front in the last few days, due to various causes, including cool weather, which has its effect on the price of corn; poor quality and small yield, which affected the oats prices, and excellent demand abroad and locally for wheat.

THE FIRST WEEK School Days Gliding by Again THE ATTENDANCE IS LARGE Prof. Beachler Makes Report Showing the Attendance in the Various Grades. The first week of the school term has already slipped past and th® P u " pils have settled down for the year s work. The weeks and months will glide by rapidly and the boy or girl who works the hardest at his books will be the one best repaid in future years. Prof. Beachler gives us the following report of the first week s showing: The city schools open with increased numbers. Many of the rooms in the grades are too crowded to expect the best kind of service from the teachers. The high school is much larger than last year. Only seven seats in the assembly room are vacant and according to present indications, the few remaining ones will be taken within the next two weeks. The following is a report of the schools b> wards: North Ward West Ward J South Ward „„ Central—Grades Eighth grade High school Total ’ ™ Non-resident pupils in high sc ’ 30. Wm. Beachler, SupL

SHELDON MAN MET DEATH. Prosperous Farmer Fell Under Wagon and Was Killed. • One of the most horrible deaths one can think of overtook William C. McMahon, aged 69, a prosperous farm, er, residing near Sheldon, Saturday. Mr. McMahon came to Allen county from Illinois about a year ago and has since been taking pains with his farm and fixing it up in an approved manner. Saturday he was hauling tile for draining purposes and drove into a hole partially covered by brush. He wag thrown from the wagon violently and the loaded wagon passed over him. A physician was immediately summoney who ordered him to be taken to the Lutheran hospital at once. It was found that he had sustained three broken ribs and a ruptured liver. The operation at the hospital failed to relieve him, and In fact he could not rally from it as he died about twenty minutes after it was performed. The funeral services were conducted by Lawton G. A. R. post of Fort Wayne at the Ossian M. E- church Wednesday forenoon about eleven o’clock and interment here was made immediately after. —Ossian News. COURT HOUSE NEWS Two Marriage Licenses Issued Today

CLAIM CASE WAS FILED Partition Suit Heard and Sale of Land Ordered—Judgment Renin Account Case. Two new marriage licenses issued at the county clerk's office were to Edward Fennig, aged twenty, a Jay county farmer, and Myrtle Fogle, aged twenty-three, of Jefferson township; Isaac E. Marquardt, aged twenty-six, a farmer from Allen county, and Bessie Lee, aged twenty, of Union township. S. P. Shelby, a stave manufacturer of Toledo, Ohio, has filed a claim against the W. H. Niblick estate for $342.15. William Drew', the venerable Geneva lawyer, transacted business before Judge Erwin this morning. Judge Erwin devoted an hour this morning in going over the docket, setting down cases and stiring up the attorneys generally, stating that he would like to have as many cases disposed of as possible during the present term. Nettie Druly vs. Dennis Druly, divorce suit, proof of notice to nonresident filed, default of defendant. Lydia Martin et al vs. Julia Betzell et al, finding that defendant, Julia Betzell, is the owner as tenant in common or one-tnird of real estate in ques. tion. A sale was ordered, J. C. Moran being appointed commissioner, and his bond fixed at SB,OOO.

William Hall vs. John H. Reiff, suit on note, $5.25, case ordered left off docket. Martin J. Bligh vs. Charles D. Murray, suit on account. $800; judgment by agreement for $607.70 without relief. In the matter of Raymond Z. Stalter, the guardian. E. Z. Stalter, was ordered to file his report within twenty day%. — -o The temperance people at Lebanon won out in their fight to blanket the second ward. After a session of a day and a half to determine whether the remonstrance filed by the Good Citizens’ League contained a sufficient number of legal signatures to prevail the board of commissioners decided in favor of the remonstrators. The saloon people succeeded in removing. enough names from the remonstrance to reduce the ma ority from 23 to 14, but that was all and the attorneys for the saloon men gave ward, u , «t

Decatur, Indiana, Friday’ Evening, September 6, (907.

MACADAM ROADS Contracts Made by the Commissioners EIGHT BIDS WERE FILED Michael Miller and Gottschalk and Yoder W e re Low Bidders and Get Contracts. Bids were opened for two macadam roads, the C. E. Bollinger traversing one mile in Monroe township, and the Fred Blomberg road in Preble township and is two and one-half miles long. The bids were as follows: C. E. Bollinger Road: J. L. W. Bears $3,269.55 William Reppert 3,199.00 Sam Nusbaum 3,238.00 F. Hoffman and Sons 3,480.00 M. Miller 3,017.00 Fr«d Blomberg Road: F. Hoffman and Sons $7,382.00 Gottschalk and Yoder 6,860.00 Julius Haugk 7,200.00 Contracts were duly entered into with Michael Miller for the Bollinger road and with Gottschalk and Yoder for the Blomberg road, and work will be begin not later than the first of next May. Bonds for both roads were ordered sold. Bids for supplies at the county infirmary were opened, the lowest bidders being T. R. Moore for oil and gasoline. Winnes shoe store, Holthouse Drug Co., drugs. Holthouse, Schulte and Co., clothing, Keubler, Moltz Co., dry goods, Everett, Hite and Son groceries and tobacco. o While racing with a freight train near Lawrenceburg, Italians on a hand, car were thrown over an embankment and one was killed. Giovanni Brogni died as a result of his injuries and his twin brother, Gabriella, who had been speechless for eight years, had the power of speech restore J to him as a result of the shock and injury to his tongue, which was badly cut Dr. Smith, the coroner, who held an in quest over the dead man, stitched the injured man's tongue and said it was the most unusual case that he had ever seen. Giovanni Brogni had only recently sent SSOO to his sweetheart in Italy, to whom he intended to go within a month and wed.

SET FOR TRIAL Number of Cases Dated This Morning ISSUES IN OTHER CASES Will Soon Be Completed and the Causes Set for Trial During Present T*rm. e Cases in the Adams circuit court have have been set down for trial during the September term as follows: All criminal cases for week of September 16th: Gaar, Scott and Co., vs. Thomas Coffield et al, foreclosure of shattel mortgage. $1,650, Friday. September

20th. Sixby, Grumme and Co., et al vs. Thomas E. Kraner, two replevin cases, Wednesday, September 18th. Nina A. Beeler vs. Samuel Beeler, replevin suit, set for Wednesday, September 18th. John Coffee vs. Catherine Niblick, administratrix of the estate of W. H. Niblick, claim s449.37,Monday,September 23rd. Dave Ritter vs. Catherine Niblick, Administratrix, claim $87.85, Wednesday. September 25th. William Sudduth vs. Catherine Niblick. administratrix, claim, $125.78, Tuesday, September 24th. The issues in a number of other cases will be complete within a few days and will be at once set down for trial. The term begins to look as though considerable business would be disposed of.

OPPOSED TO THE INCREASE. Western Lumber Men are Making a Fight. Spokane, Wash., Sept. 6.—Lumber manufacturers and wood working plants in eastern Washington and Oregon and northern Idaho, in which territory more than 350 saw mills are in operation, announce they will make an independent fight for a reduction of the rates which the transcontinental lines will put into effect October 1. They insist upon a 10 cent differential in favor of the Idaho lumber interests, which the coast manufacturers will not accept. This prevents an alliance between the interior and coast plants on the proposition of opposing the advance on lumber and shingle rates. R. L. McCormick, secretary of the Weyerhaeuser Timber syndicate, has gone east and on his return he will stop off at St. Paul to confer -with James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway company, regarding a plan to abandon the increased rates, but the appeal for a differential of 10 cents a hundred pounds is opposed by the coast lumberman.

THREE ARE DEAD Result of Accident Near Hartford City FAST TRAIN HIT BUGGY Mrs. Gueseman, Son and Daughter Hurled Into Eternity While Singing Hymn. Hartford City, Ind., Sept. 5. —Mrs. Robert Gueseman, aged 40 years, a daughter. Gretta Gueseman. 18 years old, and a son, Frank Gueseman. aged 20, of Millgrove, Ind., met instant death just east of this city last night, when a buggy in which they were riding, was struck by a fast Lake Erie and Western train. The husband and father identified the victims at the morgue. The two children were the only ones the couple had and the fath. er is prostrated as the result of the accident. Mr. Gueseman was at home and had not accompanied his family on the drive.

Mrs. Gueseman and her two chil--1 dren had attended prayer meeting at this city and were on their way home, near Millgrove, when they were run down by north-bound passenger train No. 36, on the Lake Erie railroad, at the paper mill crossing, nejnr this city. Only a moment beforejhey were hurled to death, the brother and sister were singing hymns they had heard at church, and the watchman at a paper mill near by said their voices were raised in the refrain of “We’re Going Home to Die no More,” as they approached the crossing. It is believed that the mother, as well as the children, were so engrossed in the music that they failed to hear the approaching train. The train was stopped within a short distance of the scene of the accident and the passengers assisted the train crew in placing the mangled corpses aboard the train which brought them to this city. The bodies of Mrs. Gueseman and her son were decapitated and the legs were severed. It was at first believed that the .third body was that of a young woman, who lived near the Guesemans and it was not until Robert Gueseman, the father, was called to the morgue, that the names of the victims were known. The three were the only immediate members of Gueseman’s family.

A partnership that has existed for 35 years is mutually dissolved since Monday, namely, the firm of Hoffman and Gottschalk, with drug stores at Berne and Linn Grove. The store it Berne will hereafter be conducted by Andrew Gottschalk and that at Linn Grove by Peter Hoffman. To lose this old familiar name of Hoffman and Gottschalk will be like losing an old friend. It' was the oldest firm in Berne, yes it was as old as Berne itself and its dissolution deserves to be put down in the annals of Berne’s history.—Berne Witness.

TRIAL OF BORAH 1 Another U. S. Senator on the Rack LAND FRAUDS IN IDAHO A United States Consul Committed Suicide by Asphyxia, tion. Washington, September 6.—The department of justice is keenly interested in the forthcoming trial of United States Senator William E. Borah and other prominent men of Idaho under indictment for land frauds. The indictment against Borah, Frank Martin, who was attorney general of Idaho under Governor Stuenenberg, and several of the officers of the Barber Lumber company, was returned last April, but the warrants were not served until yesterday. At that time the trial of William D. Hayw’ood was coming on, and Senator Borah had been retained by the state as a prosecutor in the case. When information unofficially reached the department of justice that Borah had been indicted the senator was asked to come to Washington for conference with the president and the department of justice. United States District Attorney Ruick was also asked to come here. No one on the outside knows what transpired at the conferences, but the serving of the warrants on the indictment was postponed until after the Haywood trial. It has been alleged that the indictments w'ere suppressed until Senator Borah got the Haywood trial off his hands.

Washington, September 6. —William H. Abercrombie, formerly United States consul at Nagasaki, Japan, committed suicide by asphyxiation at his apartments in Stoneleigh court here. He was sixty-five year old. o Attorney Jacob F. Denney, whose friends in Portland and Jay county are legion, left Friday for Chicago where he has accepted a lucrative position in the legal department of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad. Jake was one of the shining lights at the local bar, having begun the practice of law in this city fifteen years ago. He served one term as mayor of the city and made a good one, too. While his many friends regret to lose him as a citizen, they rejoice with him in his merited advancement. —Portland Sun.

TWO YEARS MORE T. H. Ernst Again Selected as Custodian RIGHT MAN IN RIGHT PLACE Court House Shines from Top to Bottom —Receive Bids for New Walk. T. H. Ernst was selected by the commissioners as custodian of the court house and grounds, the term of such selection being for a period of two years, from September 5. The contract price as agreed upon is S6O a month up until January 1, 1908, and after that date $75 per month. Mr. Ernst has had such charge and control for several years, and but a glimpse through the temple of justice reveals that he is the right man in the right place. The court house shines from cellar to the top of the dome, and it means many long hours and hard labor on the part of Custodian Ernst.

The board will receive bids for the construction of a cement -walk on the north side of the court house, in compliance with an ordinance from the city council, which furnished Madison street with brick streets and cement walks. o_ Coon Brake accompanied by Mary Garard and Agnes Costello, will leave tonight for a two weeks’ trip to Louisville, where they will visit the former’s daughter, Mrs. Max Garard.

GOVERNOR HUGHES INDORSED An Assembly District in N e w York Make a President. New York, September 6. —Governor Hughes was indorsed for the Republican nomination for the presidency at a meeting of Republicans held in the Twenty-ninth district. The meeting was that of the Plaza Central Park Republican club and took place in Tuxedo hall. This district is usually referred to as the “diamond back” section. Frank Herrick, who aspired for the leadership of the district last year and whose aspirations were defeated by County Chairman Herbert Parsons, who had his man, Frederick Dewitt Wells, elected to the leadership, got revenge when he introduced the resolution indorsing Governor Hughes, which was unaimously adopted. o — A private picnic was enjoyed today at the St. Johns grove by the following: Mesdames Eli Peterson, R. Ernsberger, William Baker, Charles Rinehart, H. Helm, C. Mygrant and the Misses Ruby Miller and Fannie Frisinger.

BROOKSIDE FARM Scene of Unusual Gayety Yesterday PROGRESSIVE PEANUTS TONIGHT Ladies' Aid Social —Missionary Society—A Party at the Knodel Home -,■«** —Other Events. ■ I ——— By Perle Burdg. Brookside Farm, the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lutz, situated south of the city, was a scene of pleasure, yesterday afternoon, as the ladies of the Presbyterian church and their

friends held their regular Aid Society meeting. The ladies gathered at the church, and were taken out in carriages furnished by the hostess. The meeting opened first with the regular devotional exercises and then the business period, followed with a solo, sung by Miss Florence Sprunger in sweet and expressive manner. An instrumental solo was rendered by Miss Irene Schirmeyer. The selection was very difficult, but Miss Schirmeyer was at ease and played the selection splendidly. Next two numbers were very interesting, and am sure each was appreciated by all of the guests. First was a description of how to teach the deaf and dumb, given by Miss Nellie Schroch, who is a teacher at a deaf and dumb school, at Indianapolis, therefore a vivid description was given by Miss Schroch. who had the ability to do so, from her own experiences. Miss Sprunger then

favored the company by another vocal solo. Immediately at the close of this, the second talk, by Mrs. James Fristoe, was given on “Winona,” including all of the main interests of the great resort, such as the boys' city. Sabbath school, Bible conference, and its principal characters. Mrs. Fristoe also gave a short account about the evengelistlc choir, consisting of twenty one noted singers, instructed by E. O. Excell, of Chicago. Several other important points were mentioned, which were enjoyed and too numerous to mention. The veranda was beautifully decorated with golden glow and as approaching the home it gave a pretty effect to the delightfully inviting spot. The various garden flowers were used in an artistic manner to make the inside of the home more attractive. During the afternoon punch was served the guests in the dining room. The pleasant afternoon, which was spent by all, was brought to a close by serving a delicious two-course luncheon. The attendance was large and the collection was remarkable for it amounted to twenty dollars and thirty-three cents.

A six o’clock dinner of his evening which will be of an unusual charm, will be the one given by Mrs. Howard Burdg, in compliment to a small informal party of friends. Progressive peanuts will be exciting feature of the evening party this evening, given by Miss Anna Amsbaugh, in compliment to her guest. Miss Dollie Tucker, of Greenville, 0., (Continued on page 2.)

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TO MEET TONIGHT Council Will Have Many Visitors MARSHALS CASE TO BE HEARD Many Interested in What They Will Do With H. F. Bohnke’s Bond as Marshal.

A very important session of the city council will be the meeting this evening. At this time bids will be received on the Myrtle Chronister sewer and hear objections on the John M. Lenhart sewer. However, these are not the principle attractions, which promise to pack the council chamber, for at this time it is expected that some action will be taken on the dismissal of Marshal Ed Green. The newly appointed marshal, H. Fred Bohnke, has his bond ready and the council probably be asked to approve it. What their action will be cannot be foretold but it is likely that there may be some division of opinion, at least there was considerable talk on the streets to that effect today, and ever since Mayor Coffee sprang his surprise. Mr. Green has employed attorneys Peterson and Moran to represent him and the affair may wind up in a very interesting case before the supreme court of Indiana. n WORKED VERY CLEVER GAME. Young Man Took South B e nd Citizens in for SI,OOO. .

South Bend, Ind., Sept. 6. —South Bend men of prominence, who thought they were flattered a few days ago by an invitation to join the Jefferson Memorial association, and who did so at an expense of S6O each, now wish , they had their money and the letters of recommendation they gave. A w’ell-dressed. giib-tongued, affable young man arrived in the city and had little difficulty in making several very well-known young men believe he was an accredited representative of the worthy association formed to erect a memorial to Thomas Jefferson, in Washington, D. C. He stated in addition to the donor’s having a brass plate in the memorial building with his name on it, he would also get a set of valuable books on Jefferson. One very prominent manufacturer gave him the cash and a letter. Another ws anxious not only to have his name, but his biography as well, on the plate. Another wrote the young man, declinisg the honor, and so on. After the supposed repesentative had departed, one of the subscribers started an investigation. The headquarters notified him that the young man was not an authorized representative. The deal netted the young man better than SI,OOO.

MEET AT GENEVA Portland and Decatur Ball Teams FOR AN EXHIBITION GAME Next Monday Afternoon —Many Fans Will Go from This City to Witness.

Decatur and Portland teams of the Indiana-Ohio league will play an exhibition game at Geneva Monday afternoon, play to be called at 2: 30. No doubt a big crowd of “rooters” from this city will accompany the team as many supporters of the Jay Birds are going to meet us at the “half way" to boost their boys to a much wanted victory. Both teams are fast and the Geneva enthusiasts will see a splendid exhibition of the national game. Those desiring to attend may leave at 1:19 p. m. and return at 5:15, the train running just right for our “fans.” While the game will be an exhibition and will not count In the per cent column, it will be a battle from start to finish as each tea-Ji wants to win. Don’t forget this game It will be a happy half holiday.