Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 227

ON THE WAR PATH Billy Fronfield Causes a Rough House ASSAULTS the entire family Knocks Ike Zimmerman Unconscious Then Attacks Ike’s Wife and Mother.

The Fronefield’s, who for some time past have been in trouble about every other day, are again in the limelight of justice, and the case this time pronises to furnish some sensational evidence. For several weeks past William Fronefield has been drinking 4 uite hard, and has been making life miserable for his wife, who has been endeavoring to make their home plea sant since their last divorce proceedings. However, the entire affair came to a climax Monday when Mr. Fronefield came and proceeded to abuse and mistreat his wife, his actions being so strenuous that he came to town and filed an affidavit against her husband charging him with assault and battery’, which case will be heard Saturday before Squire Stone. Yesterday Mrs. Fronefield started In to clean up her house to be ready for a church socal that was held at her home this afternoon and invited her son's wife. Mrs. Isaac Zimmerman ov.er to assist her in the work and she remained over night with Mrs. Fronefield. This morning William Fronefield again appeared on the scene, kicked in the screen door and after effecting an entrance into the house and ordered Mr. Fronefield to stop his abuse and leave the house, this he refused to do and before any one could interfere seized a stove poker and started to assault Mr. Zimmerman striking him over the head and face bruising and cutting the same in a frightful manner. Not content w-ith this he seized a heavy stone that was being used to hold a door open and struck Zimmerman over the head with that several times knocking him down and rendering him unconscious. He then turned on the terror stricken women and told them that he would murder all of them if they ever breathleft the house, coming to town. Mrs. left theh ouse, coming to town. Mrs. Fronefield, undaunted, assisted in bathing and dressing her son’s wounds and immediately came to this city and filed an affidavit asking that Mr. Fronefield be placed under a peace bond as she is afraid that he will do her more violence. A warrant was issued immediately.

MOST LIKELY A PIPE Bryan Soon to Make a Public Statement NEGROS AGAINST MR. TAFT They Also Will Not Warm up to the President—Roosevelt not a Candidate. Washington, Sept. 19- —Stirred to activity by the energetic efforts to rally the conservative forces of Democracy around the standard of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, of New York, and concerned over the growth of the Chanler movement in the south, William Jennings Bryan will, within a few- weeks, take the country into his confidence in regard to his attitude |owafd the Democratic nomination in 1908. He will announce his willingness to lead the party again if the masses of Democracy deem him the most available man. To assist them in reaching a conclusion as to his availability. Mr. Bryan will state his position on all public questions that are likely to figure is issues In the campaign. He will discuss the tariff, trusts, railroads, federal mJ state powers and their respective spheres and limitations, and other important matters.

Washington, Sept. 19- —The first important practical step on th e P arl ®f the negroes of the country to throw the support of their delegates ' n the Republican national convention next year to some candidate for (Continued on page 2.)

USED SAME WAGON FOR YEARS John Brodbeck Has One Bought Thir-ty-Two Years Ago. Thirty-two years ago, Fred Schafer, the veteran hardware dealer sold his first wagon to John Broodbeck, a well known firmer. Yesterday Mr. Broodbeck was in town in that same wagon and it looks good for thirty-two years more. Though used for half an ordinary lifetime, the wagon has had absolutely no repairs, not even new tires. It is needless to say that Mr. Broo'dbeck takes excellent care of his farm implements. The wagon was made by Fish Bros.

ARE COMING HOME. Paris, Sept. 18. —Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, and Mrs. Beveridge sailed from Cherbourg tor New York today on board the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm. o ARE SPECULATING Indiana Politics is Warming Up REACHED THE MANAGER’S STAGE Watson and Miller the Two Leading Republican Candidates—Root for Senator. Now that two candidates for the Republic! n nomination for governor, Miller and Watson, are formally in the race, there is much speculation as to who will be their political managers. In recent years it has been the custom of gubernatorial candidates in Indiana to have “managers.” While the aspirant is gallivanting over the state doing a tall handshaking stunt the “manager" remains at home and wrestles with the candidate's 'rouble sheet. The “manager” has g.own to be a very import! nt campaign functionary and is depended upon to straighten out whatever difficulties and entaglements may cross the candidate's path. L. G. Rothschild is known as Charles W. Miller’s Fidus Achates, but whether he will act as Miller's manager hroughout the campaign is yet to be seen. It has been reported that Union Banner Hunt, who was J. Frank Haniy's manager In 1504, will serve in the same capacity for James Eli Watson, but Mr. Hunt says the report is untrue. From other sources it is learned that Mr. Watson probably will make 1 heavy draft on the wisdom of that shrewd old political general, Uncle Jack Gowdy. It is expected that Mr. Watson also will be surrounded by a number of bright young men of political experience. Francis T. Roots, of Crawfordsville, Who wis here yesterday, made the interesting announcement that he will be a candidate for United States senator. Mr. Roots had intended to be a candiate for the nomination for governor, but has changed his mind since Representative Watson trotted into the gubernatorial race track. He will not seek the nomination for- congress, contrary to reports which had slated him as an aspirant for the congressional toga in the event of Watson’s announcement for governor. o TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE Reported by the Decatur and Loan Company, of Decatur, Indiana. Money to loan on firm and city property. Very low rates of interest; privilege of making partial payments. Abstracts of title and insurance of 1 titles. William P. Stipler to Edward Bentz part section 23, French township, > $1,295.00. Jacob J. Eichler to George A. : Stone, S W section 15, Wabash tp., « $300.00. | 1 Wm. Arnold to David C. Fuhrman, i part S W section 25, Washington tp., I 1 t $2.00. John Walker to, George B. Mauer, 1 part section 18. Jefferson tp., $1,50. S Diniel N. Erwin to F. Oldiger, inlot r No. 985, Decatur. $250. Elzie N. Kintz to L. O. Sullivan, part i outlot No. 24, Decatur. S2OO. Ollie Zagg to Edward A. Goidner, a lot NO. 12, Preble, SBSO. < Lewis Dolch to Jacob Dolch, inlot f No. 353 Geneva, Ind., SBSO.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, September 19, 1907.

AFTER PERJURERS Prosecutor Emshwiller Wants the Truth IT DON'T PAY TO FORGET Officers Are Using Different Means To Make Grand Jury Witnesses Testify. Prosecutor Emshwiller has introduced his court of inquiry methods into Montpelier and it is understood that there is quaking among the saloonkeepers there. Mondi y a number of witnesses were rounded up and questioned concerning the unlawful acts of the liquor men. Enough evidence is believed to have been secured to make it uncolnfoi; fable, for several men against whom affidavits will be filed. A feature of the inquiry that surprised some of the witneses was that they were compelled to sign their statements where it appeared they were not telling the whole truth. If future inquiries shall make it appear that the conflict with the truth is too glaring prosecuions for perjury may be instituted. At Bluffton some time ago Mr. Emshwiller prosecuted for perjury a man who gave false testimony before a court of inquiry. At Winamac George Moon, the son of a farmer, has been sentenced to two to fourteen years in the penitentiary because he testified falsely before the Pulaski county grand jury in the liquor cases that are being investigated by that body. Such prosecutions as these will have a deterring effect on those witnesses who “can’t remember” when they appear in the grand jury room or before a court of inquiry.—Hartford City News.

THEY MAKE MONEY Profits of the Standard are Enormous THE REMARKABLE BOOKKEEPING The Indiana Company Made One Thousand Per Cent, in One Year. New York, Sept. 18. —More light was shed upon the remarkable earning capacity of the vaious subsidiary companies of the Standard Oil company today when Frank B. Kellogg, who is conducting the federal suit against the company, succeeded in placing upon the record the profits of seventeen of the principal subsidiary companies in the years 1903 and 1906. The statement of earnings of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, which was recently fined $29,240,000 by Judge Landis of Chicago, for rebating, disclosed that in 1906 the company earned no less than $10,516,082 on a capitalization 1 of $1,000,000, or over one thousand per ' cent a year. The Indiana company In 1 1906 earned more than any subsid 1 iary company of the big combination. '

Mr. Kellogg developed while Clar ence G. Fay, assistant controller of the Standard Oil company was on the stand, a curious problem of financial bookkeeping, or handling of accounts, which Mr. Fay failed to explain. From figures submitted it was shown th/t the Standard Oil company of NewYork in 1904 made a profit of $7,751,160 and paid in dividends to the Standard Oil company of New Jersey the total sum of $32,998,430. This transaction reduced the net assets of tho New York company from $40,425,900 to $15,179,706, while the liabilities leaped from $47,646,235 in 1903 to $81,395,149 in 1904, an increase of nearly $34,000,000. The gross assets of the New York company, however, increased from $88,074,561 in 1903 to $96,574,852 in 1904. Meanwhile the accounts receivable of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey grew from $19,045,041 in 1903 to $58,272924.

AN EXPLANATION Owing to the fact that a coil of wire in the motor which furnishes power for our Linotype, burned out at noon today, our news colums present a rather delapidated appearance, A new motor is being obtained and we will make up tomorrow for the lack of news today.

HE HAD TO SETTLE Decatur Girl Pinched a Bluffton Boy JUST AS HE WAS LEAVING For the Philippine Islands—Hattie Burkhead and Bill Higgins are in Trouble. With his pirns practically perfected for leaving for the Philippines, James Higgins, son of William Higgins, was arrested last evening by Constable John Deam on a charge of bastardy, Miss Hattie Bulkhead, of Decatur, claiming he is the father of her unborn child. Higgins had all arrangements made to leave Bluffton last Sunday evening for the land of the Filipino, but for some reason did not get iway at that tme, but had expected to make the start at a later date, probably this w£ek. Te served three years with Uncle Sam's regulars n the Philippine army, and was intending taking another hitch at the job. When he was arrested by Deam he gave bond for his appearance before Squire Walbert this afternoon at 1 o'clock. At the time set for the hearing this afternoon it was reported o the court that a settlement of the case had been affected between the parents of the parties. It is understood that $l5O changed hands and tbit th ecase will be dropped.—Bluffton Banner.

“Lets we forget,” we say it yet, that there are some places in our beautiful city where the sickle and the shovel could be used with marked effect. Some of the gardens are overgrown with high grasses and rank weeds. At this season of the year these places are seed beds for next year’s crop. Enterprising citizens who have a pride in their surroundings will not certainly let these unsightly surroundings mar the beauty of their happy home. Patrons of soda fountains in this city are son to be informed what beverages to drink and what to avoid to keep from impairing their health. Dr. Wiley, in charge of the government chemists at Washington, has announced that he is going to commence a series of tests to tell which beverages are injurious to the health. A pamphlet will then be published and people given a chance to use only the kinds which are beneficial. He will also examine many so-called mineral waters and those which are frauds

will be mentioned. The price of milk has been advanced to 6% cents a quart for the winter. The increase took effect this week and from now until the spring season when pasture is plentiful again local dairymen will charge 25 cents a gallon instead of 20 cents. Feed will be unusually high this winter and it would not be surprising if mil), prices go even higher before the summer rolls around again. Hay is worth sl2 a ton and bran is the highest it has been for a number of years. Corn is scarce but , the hot weather of ne past few days , has materially aided the crop -which j otherwise would not have yielded j nearly as heavy.—Hartford City Ga- j zette. ] Mr. and Mrs. Ed Luttmann and son i John went to Fort Wayne this morning 1 where they will make a visit with s friends before returning.

TWENTY THOUSAND Oklahoma Solid for the Democrats PROHIBITION BY 30 THOUSAND They Elect Four Out of Five Congressmen and Get Two United States Senators. Oklahoma City, Sept. 18. —The returns from Tuesday's election continue to be of the same effect —that the constitution had been adopted, 3 to 1, that prohibition has carried by at least 30,000 and that the whole Democratic state ticket, headed by Charles N. Haskell, of Muskogee, has been elected by a majority of more than 20,000. In the congressional election the Democrats seem to have chosen four of the five representatives according to returns received tonight. The legislature is Democratic by a large majority and will elect as United States senators, Robert L. Owen, a Cherokee Indiana, and T. P. Gore, the famous blind orator. They were nominated by the primaries in June. The convention that framed the state constitution was heavily Democratic and the constitution as completed was obnoxious to the Republicans. Setfralary Taft, speaking recently at Oklahoma City, advised Republicans to vote against the constitution, because of the strong desire for statehood. However, the Republican party did not attempt to defeat the constitution. The new state must await the constitution’s indorsement by President Roosevelt, who will either confirm or reject it upon his judgment as to whether or not it conforms to the enabling act of congress and the constitution of the United States.

In the enabling act congress provided, for prohibition in the Indiana Territory for twenty-one years from January 1, 1906. The prohibition clause voted on today applies the same provision to the Oklahoma side of the new state. If it has carried, as seems possible, state wide prohibition will be a part of the constitution for twenty-one years and at the end of that period will remain in force indefinitely unless repealed.

FISHER WINS A RICH BRIDE. Well Known Ball Player Has a Romantic Love Affair. On September 25, William Fisher, the popular third baseman on the Richmond team of the 1-0 league, will be married in this city to Miss Anna Schwab, of Simcoe, Ontario, CanaJa. Miss Schwab is a college graduate and a former resident of Hartford City, Ind. Mr. Fisher and his bride will live in Richmond the coming winter. There is quite a romance connected with the union of these two young people. While Miss Schwab was a resident of Hartford City she was one of the society belles of that place. In the spring of 1906 Fisher joined the Hartford City independent team. Hartford City went base ball crazy and Miss Schwab became quite a fan. Fisher’s sensational third base play-

ing attracted her notice and he soon became the idol of this pretty little base ball fan. Finally Fisher was introduced to her and both young people were attracted to each other. Fisher courted Miss Schwab the remainder of the season, before the close of which she promised to become his w’ife. Miss Schwab is an orphan and lives with an aunt. This aunt objected to Fisher's constant attention to her niece, but ths obstacle in the course of true love was overcome by the young people. The first of June Miss Schwab moved with her uncle and aunt to Simcoe, Canada, where her uncle is engaged in the oil business. This spring, after South Bend had farmed Fisher to the local team, he visited in Hartford City and while there Niss Schwab consented to marry him after the close of the base ball season.

Miss Schwab’s father, at his death, left her a consderable fortune, which she will fall heir to on October 1, which date is her twenty-first birthday. Her grandfather, who recently died in Pittsburg left quite an estate of which Miss Schwab will receive her share. Mr. Fisher comes of a well-to-do family. His father is one of the wealthiest farmers in Morgan county, Indiana, his farm being near Martinsville. —Richmond Palladium.

FRIDAY THE 13th. “FRIDAY, THE 13TH.” And beneath in one of the columns: "TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN VIRGINIA’’ “The Most Prominent Citizen of the State, ex-Unlted States Senator and Ex-Governor, Judge Lee Sands of Sands Landing, While Temporarily Insane from the Loss of His Fortune and Millions of the Funds for Which He Was Trustee, Cut the Throat of His Invalid Wife, His Daughter’s, and Then His Own. All Three Died Instantly.” In another column: -"Robert Brownley Creates the Most Disastrous Panic in the History of Wall Street and Spreads Wreck and Ruin Throughout the Country.”

A hideous picture seared its every light and shade on my mind, through my heart, into all my soul. A fren-zied-finance harvest scene with its gory crop; in the center one livingdead, part of the picture, yet the ghost left to haunt the painters, one of whom was already cowering before the black and bloody canvas. Well did the world-artist who wrote over the door of the madhouse: “Man can suffer only to the limit, then he shall know peace,” understand the wondrous wisdom of his God. Beulah Sands had gone beyond her limit and was at peace. The awful groaning stopped, and an ashen pallor spread over Bob Brownley’s face. Before I could catch him he rolled backward upon the floor as dead. Bob Brownley, too, had gone beyond his limit. I bent over him and lifted his head, while the sweet woman-child knelt and covered his face with kisses, calling in a voice like that of a tiny girl speaking to her doll: "Bob, my Bob, wake up, wake up; your Beulah wants you.” As I placed my hand upon Bob’s heart and felt its beats grow stronger, as I listened to Beulah Sands’ childish voice, joyishly confident as it called upon the one thing left of her old world, some of my terror passed. In its place came a great mellowing sense of God’s marvelous wisdom. I thought gratefully of my mother’s always ready argument that the law of laws, of God’s and nature, is that of compensation. I had allowed Bob’s head to sink until it rested in Beulah's lap, and from his calm and steady breathing I could see that he had safely passed a crisis, that at least he was not in the clutches of death, as I had at first feared. Bob slept. Beulah Sands ceased her calling and with a smile raised her fingers to her lips and softly said: “Hush, my Bob’s asleep.” Together we held vigil over our sleeping lover and friend, she with the happiness of a child who had no fear of the awakening, I with a silent terror of what on a day like to-day, when you see the results of my work, the results of my handling of unlimited gold, you must agree that if I were taken off I should stand more than an even show of landing in hell where the sulphur is thickest and the flames are hottest.” We were at the entrance of Ran« dolph & Randolph’s office as he pour* ed out this terrible torrent of bitten ness. He glared at me as a dungeon prisoner might glare at his keeper for his answer to “Where can I find liberty?” I had no words to answer him.

1 As I noted the awful changes in every line of his face, the rigid hardness, 1 the haunted, nervous look of desperation, which seemed a forerunner of . madness, I could not see, either, t - w-here his millions brought any hap- ( piness. His hair, which once was smooth and orderly, hung over his forehead in an unparted mass of tangled curls, and here and there show 1 ed of white. Bob Brownley was still handsome, even more fascinating than before the mercury entered his soul, but it was that wild, awful beauty of the caged lion, lashing himself into madness with memories of his lost freedom. i "Jim,” he went on, when he saw I could not answer, “I guess you don't know where I can swap the yellow mud for balm of Gilead. I won't bother you with my troubles any longer. I will go up-town and see the little girl whose happiness Tom Reinhart needed in his business. I will go up and show her the pictures in this week’s Collier's of the fine hospital for incurables that Reinhart has so generously and nobly built at a cost of two and a half millions! The little girl may think better of Reinhart when she knows that her father's money was put to such good use. Who ’ knows but the great finance king may dedicate it as the Judge Lee Sands s Home’ and carve over the entrance j a bas-relief of her father, mother, and a sister with Hope, Faith, and Charity f coming from the mouths of their t hanging severed heads?” Bob Brownley laughed a horrible s ringing laugh as he uttered these aw- s ful words. Then he beat his hand b down on my shoulders as he said in a j hoarse voice, “Jim, but for you I should have had crimps in that jackal philanthropist's soul by now and in a the souls of his kind. But never .mind. He will keep; he will surely u keep until I get to him. Every day f< he lives he will be fitter for the crimp- t] ing. Within the short two years since he finished grilling Judge Sands' soul, ho hag out himaolf In

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appreciate ms reward. I see by the press that at last his aristocratic wife has gold-cured Newport of its habit of dating back the name Reinhart to her scullionhood, and it has taken her into the high-instep circle. I read the other day of his daughter’s marriage to some English nob, and of the discovery of the ancient Reinhart family tree and crest with the mailed hand and two-edged dirk and the vulture rampant, and the motto, ‘Who strikes in the back strikes often.’ ” He left me with his laugh still ringing in my ears. I shuddered as I passed under the old black-and-gold sign my uncle and my father had nailed over the office entrance in an age now dead, an age when Wall street men talked of honor and gold, not gold and more gold. In telling my wife of the day’s happenings I could not refrain from giving vent to the feelings that consumed me. “Kate, Bob will surely do something awful one of these days. I can see no hope for him. He grows more and more the madman as he broods over his horrible situation. The whole thing seems incredible to me. Never was a human being in such perpetual living purgatory—unlimited, absolute power on the one hand, unfathomable, never-cool-down hell on the other.” "Jim, how does he do what he does? I cannot make out anything I have read or you have told me, how he creates those panics and makes all that money.” “No one has ever been able to figure it out,” I answered. “I understand the stock business, but I cannot for the life of me see how he does it. He has none of the money powers in league with him, that’s sure, for in the mood be has been in during the past two years it would be impossible for him to work with them, even if his salvation depended on it The mention of any of the big ‘System’ men drives him to a fury. He has to-day made more money than any one man ever made in a day since the world began, and he had only commenced his work when he quit to please me. As I stand in the Exchange and watch him do it, it seems commonplace and simple. Afterward it is beyond my comprehension. At the gait he is going, the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Gould fortunes combined will look tiny in comparison with the one he will have in a few years. It is beyond my power of figuring out, and it gives me a headache every time I try to see through it.” CHAPTER VIII. A number of times during the following year, and finally on the anniversary of the Sands tragedy, Bob carried the Exchange to the verge of panic, only to turn the market and save “the Street” in the end. His orofits were fabulous. Already his (To be continued.) o TO COLLECT TAXES State Board Will go After Delinquents WILL ENFORCE THE LAW

County Treasurers Must Submit a List to the Board, Who Will Cooperate With Them. If the recent contention of the state board of tax commissioners that they have the authority to see that the delinquent taxes are collected in the various counties is correct there w-ill be a stirring up of the delinquent taxpayers as well as of the county treasurers. The state commissioners have unearthed a statute which not only

gives them this authority, “to see that the delinquent taxes are collected,” but also makes it their duty to do so. The commissioners now propose to take up the matter of collecting delinquent taxes in earnest. Each county treasurer will be required to submit to the state board a list showing the several delinquencies and the total for each county, and on that showing the state board will cooperate with the local authorities in collecting these back taxes.

“These taxes are due the state and should be paid,” said Commissioner McArdle. "In every community there are the tax dodgers whom it is hard to reach through the local authorities. Supported by the state tax commission, the highest taxing 1 body in the state, however, I believe that we will be able to do some good with these delinquents.” In every county in the state there are thousands of dollars of taxes delinquent. Recently the county treasurers have been making unusual efforts to collect these taxes, but with the know ledge that the state board has a list of the delinquents they will double their exertions.