Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 64

NEWTRIAL REFUSED Judge LaFollette Entered Judgment in the Coffee Case Today — JUDGMENT ENTERED No Appeal Prayed—Motion for a New Trial Was Argued and Overruled to Democrat»—At one o'clock this afternoon Attorney R. H. Hartford, argned a motion for a new trial in the case of Ed Green vs. D ,D. Coffee, mayor of Decatur, impeachment pro- ■ Hidings. This procedure was set for this morning but was delayed on account of a criminal case in progress, indge LaFollette listened attentively to the argument of the attorneys and then overruled the motion and rendered judgment on the verdict which W. found Mr. Coffee guilty on the first' ■oount of the complaint. B- He then entered such a record, ordering Mr. Coffee’s removal from ofdKtee. Up to this hour (two o’clock p. no appeal to a higher court had Reen prayed. In giving his decision ■Jon the motion for a new trial the Ecourt stated specifically that the verE diet as returned found for Mr. Coffee [on four of the counts, but against ■phim on the first and that under the Elaw his only course was to remove I GOOD THE WINNER [Huntington’s Chronic Aspirant Named as Candidate for Congress [ON 609TH BALLOT II Wild Scenes Mark the Close of the Eleventh District Convention I Marion, Ind., March 13. —Dr. Charles g 11. Good, of Warren, Huntington coun■ty, was nominated for congress by the ;> Republicans of the Eleventh district at 7:05 this evening on the 609th ballot. It was on this ballot that WaH bash county, which had stood solid for Murphy, split, giving Good fourteen and Lockwood three votes. Good had 61*4 and Lockwood 51 %. Murphy , moved the nomination of Dr. Good be jg made unanimous, and after a second K, by Lockwood the motion carried. K Wearied by twenty-seven hours of conEstant balloting and the repeated attempts to break the deadlock which ■Lad held the Eleventh district in ses- ■ [si on since Thursday morning at 11 [o’clock. Warren G. Sayre, tepresent[ing the Wabash county delegation, 1 [ arose and in answer to the roll call < [said: “Wabash county gives fourteen [votes to Dr. Qharles H. Good.” Before the words had passed, the | speakers lips the crowd was on its [feet, yelling madly and crowding about Good to grasp the hand of the I nominee. Murphy moved that the [nomination be made unanimous and ■ Lockwood seconded it. A few minutes [ before the final vote Blackford counE ty broke away from Reeves and after ■ [ a ballot or two went to Good solid. j[ The convention was one of the greatest in histony. S o * W Mrs. Harry Leggett, of Portland, |H passed through the city enroute to j[ohk> City, to visit with her parents. |[ Mr and Mrs. C. W. LeValley.

BETTER BE A LITTLE CAREFUL. Supreme Court Holds That Bank! Must Give Information. The supreme court handed down a decision last winter that settles the much argued question as to whether persons can lie to the assessor regarding bank deposits and escape detection by the refusal of the bank to furnish information rega:ding the bank account of the person in question. It has been the custom for many to fail in giving in their bank deposits as they knew that they were favored customers of the bank and that the officials of the institution would refuse to give any information that might cause them trouble. A case of this kind was carried to the supreme court and a ruling was handed down that a bank must furnish any information asked for concerning an individual but that they cannot be forced to give a list of all depositors. So any one working the assessor should frame a plausible enough story that he (the assessor will not care to investigate. HANDOFWELCOME Was Extended by Hundreds to Rev. Spetnagle and Family Last Night A' PROGRAM GIVEN Address of Welcome by D. B. Erwin Followed by Response by Rev. Spetnagle Exoeptidnally beautiful did the parlors of the Presbyterian church appear last night when the members and their friends responded to the invitations which were Issued by the young people of the Christian Endeavor society for an informal reception given for Rev. Spetnagle and family, who arrived Thursday noon from Rockford, Ohio? Large ferns and carnations were used and which formed a pretty background that made the rooms very cozy and homelike. During the entire evening music was nicely rendered by the high school orchestra, which is becoming quite popular. The members and wives of the session, who were Messrs, and Mesdames Ed S. Moses, Wilson Lee, Charles F. True and the complimentary guests Mr. and Mrs. Spetanagle, received the guests as they entered and the ses-. sion extended the greetings of the evening. The first number on the musical program was “Meditation” rendered by Mr. Will Shelton, followed with a prayer by Rev. A. B. Halst, while the guests were standing with bowed heads. Miss Mary Erwin j sang in her sweet girlish voice “Bless- I ed Be the Tie that. Binds.” The wel- ■ come address was delivered by Mr. Dore B. Erwin, in behalf of the C. E. society. A response was made by Rev. Spetnagle. Miss Marie Berry, accompanied by Miss Frances Merryman on the piano, favored the guests with a solo which pleased. The presiding officer of the evening, Mrs. Ed Lyons, then invited the guests into the refreshment room where punch and fancy sandwiches were served by the twelve young ladies who form the class of Mrs. J. N. Fristoe. The church was entirely filled with good people of Decatur, desirous of ex- , tending the hand of welcome to Rev. j Spetnagle and family. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. Mr. J. H. Weldy, pricipal of Monroe schools, visited high school here Monday afternoon. Mr. Martin Jaberg, a teacher of Preble township, visited high school and eighth grade Tuesday. Mrs. Moraison and Mrs. J. W. Tyndall visited the eighth grade Tuesday. Attendance has been fine the past . few weeks. The high school students are learning some very nice songs in the two ! mornings allotted to music each week. Mr. Cotton was favorably impressed with teaching and the conduct in our high school. Mr. Frazee Is developing some fine students in electricity. The boys are adding equipment to the laboratory by virtue of their own mechanical skill. 1 — —-o ————— Guy Colerick, city attorney of Fort Wayne, was here today attending to legal business.

A GLORIOUS TIME i Boys of M. E. Epworth League Prove Themselves Royal Entertainers I SESSION LAST NIGHT ■ And a Fine Program Was Rendered at Vail Home —Delightful Session II x . . | The reception that was given at I the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Vail , last night by the boys of the M. E. , Ep’worth League was well attended, , and a fine program was rendered. . The affair was unique in that the boys fiad charge of the program and refreshments. Promptly at seven-tnirty , ' o’clock, after th e guests had arrived, > the program began by an instrumen- > tai solo by Miss Carrie Thomas,which was enthusiastically received. This was followed by a song by the soph- , omore quartet of the D. H. S. The first selection they tendered was “The Way We Have at School," composed by the boys, who were Frank Mills, Howard Wisehaupt, Tom McKean and Don Bttfke. This was fine and they were forced to rspond to an encore twice, singing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” land “We're respectively. Don Burke then gave a violin solo which was followed by a reading ' by Mrs. Leota Beery. Miss Margaret Mills then favored the gathering by rendering a beautiful instrumental solo. This closed the program after which an. Epworth art gallery contest was Indulged in. Punch and Nabisco . were served during the session and Don Bu:ke gave a stump speech that was well appreciated. The boys of the league served the refreshments and in fact had charge of the entire ; evening’s program. , o—... DOINGS IN POLICE COURTS. Several Cases Disposed of Today in the Courts. Nolan King and Elmer Johnson were arrested this morning upon the charge of assault and battery upon the persons of Lafayette Ellis and Mr. Hopkins, the latter from Plttsbuig. Each was fined $9.00 which they paid and were discharged. They were tried in J. H. Stone's court. — I Ernst Oscar Schienfeldt, who came to this country with Julius Haugk. _ got into trouble this afternoon that will give him ten days’ service at the county jail. He was drunk and walked up to Charles Bittner and hit him a terrible blow. He was arrested and given a hearing before Squire Smith who sentenced him to ten days in jail. JURY WILL REPORT MONDAY. Van Wert Man Will Likely Be Charged With Murder. Van Wert, March 14.—(Special)— The grand jury, called especially to investigate the murder charges against Martin Brown, adjourned Friday until Monday. About sixty witnesses have been examined and it is believed the session is practically closed and that they will shortly after convening on Monday. It Is almost certain that Brown will be held for murder and ; that the web of evidence will be of a i most convincing nature. He has a rather bad record, having forged several checks and in other ways secured money under false pretense, but always escaped arrest. Q A SALOON FIGHT LAST NIGHT. Another disgraceful saloon fight occurred last night in which a half dozen men participated, but the details ! could not be obtained. However, it is ■ rumored that Elmer Johnson and Nolan King, two Pittsburg horsemen, got decidedly the worst of the encounter, and their faces this morning showed some signs of having been up against something mo;e than a bluff. Such occurrence only hasten the early death knell of the saloons in a community. ■ ■' o H. L. Confer will leave Monday morning on a week’s trip to the various large cities where he will contract for artificial ice to be used here this summer. He will visit some of the largest plants in the country. while gone. I

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening March, I 4 1908.

FAMOUS PEOPLE!® BY FANNIE M LOTHROP ' J 1 |L * > * ' • .. * -*' * ; ’ ■ Photo, by Marceau, New York. JOHN MITCHELL, THE LABOR LEADER. » T OHN MITCHELL, the labor leader and President of the United Mine WorkJ ers of America, at the age of thirty-three headed an army of 150,000 men in , the great coal strike, the greatest labor struggle in history. His calmness, I coolness, self-poise, courage and sterling honesty carried him bravely and unfaltering through a fierce fight. He had to meet on the one hand, millionaire mine-owners safely entrenched ■ behind the ramparts of their wealth, and able to stand a long siege; on the other > hand the members of the union itself, thousands of whom were ignorant foreign- . ers whose passions might in a moment convert them into a mob; vain, envious, self-seeking orators and delegates looking for spoils; and scheming, tricky, am--1 bitious leaders even in the councils. Between the millionaires and the miners > was the world of industry clamoring for coal to keep the wheels of trade moving. With remarkable strength and to his personal credit, Mr. Mitchell kept a r clear mind and acool head in a severely testing crisis. He was bom in Braidwood, 111., the son of a miner, in 1889, and at the age of four was left an orphan under 1 the care of his stepmother. His school training was slight, for at thirteen he was • picking coal at the mines; but he studied at night and became interested in econt omic questions and at sixteen joined the Knights of Labor. For five years he traveled in the West, working his way froiy one mine to another, earning enough ' to keep him, and broadening his mind by a larger outlook on life and a closer I study of labor problems in a practical, personal way. These years of experience ■ made an excellent training for the larger future of young champion of labor. ; * In 1895 he became Secretary-Treasurer of a district organization of the United Mine Workers, and rapidly rose from one post of honor to another until ! he became President in 1899, the membership of the Union increasing from ■ 43,000 to over 300,000 in four years and winning great victories in increased wages, shorter hours and other concessions for its members. Mr. Mitchell is a man of such wonderful executive ability, such shrewd business sagacity and so magnetic in his strong personality that he could readily earn more than his present salary of SIBOO a year were he to enter the business world. He has stood loyally and steadfastly by all contracts with Capital, feeling that the one basis dt the strength of organized labor must be its respect for the sacredness of the contracts and agreements, which honor, not law, must make them fulfil in their battles with organized capital. Copyright transferred to Wm. C. Mack, 1906.

NEW CHURCH LAWS * -r» After Easter New Laws Will Be Observed in Catholic Church A DECIDED CHANGE In Laws Regarding Engagements and Matrimony in Catholic Church After Easter Decatur Catholics who marry will be governed by the new laws regulating marriages issued by Pope Pius X. Some radical changes are announced regarding engagements as w.ell as marriages. Under the new law-an engagement will not be regarded by the church as binding, unless it be a written agree ment, witnessed by the parish priest or two witnesses. The most drastic change is that which makes invalid marriages before a civil magistrate or minister, where one or both parties to the contract are Catholic. Under the old law such marriages were valid. The rules are as follows: 1. Every matrimonial engagement after Easter must be in writing, although there is no necessity nor obligation to enter into a formal engagement before marriage. 2. In the eyes of the church and before God, private betrothal after Easter between Catholic parties, or between fallen-away Catholics, begets no matrimonial obligation whatever, because the church decrees that every pre-nuptial contract is void unless it is written and duly attested. 3. Parties wishing to become engaged must sign the pre-nuptial contract, and have the bishop or their pastor witness it. In the absence of the bishop or priest, two witnesses must sign the engagement. If one or both of those to be engaged, cannot write, this should be noted and three lay witnesses must sign the engageI ment in the absence of the bishop or I the parish priest.

4. These engagements should be encouraged. If made some months before marriage, they will help to stop hasty alliances, which are the cause of so many divorces outside the church and of so many unhappy marriages amonfc Catholics. 5. Protestants and all who have never been baptized in the Catholic faith are not subject to this law. hence their private contracts bind f<# the simple reason that, the church has not made these conditions under which they must enter into an engagement. 6. All fallen-away Catholics whether they have become Protestants or infidels, are bound by the law. The church, like the state, can bind her refractory subjects. The rules governing marriages are as follows: 1. Every bishop or vicar general or administrator of a diocese can validly marry in his own diocese any parties, irrespective of the country or place whence they come. The bishop can delegate any priest to do th e same. 2. The bishop outside his diocese, and the pastor outside the limits of his parish, cannot validly marry their own or other subjects without duo authorization. 3. Marriage before a priest who is suspended or excommunicated' by name will be no marriage at all. 4. Marriage of all Catholics (both parties Catholics) before a minister or civil magistrate will be no marriage at all. unless the holy see makes a special law for the United States. 6. Marriages of a Protestant to a Protestant, provided they were never baptized in the Catholic church, is valid. 7. Marriage of a non-baptized man to a non-baptized woman is valid as a lifelong contract. These parties do not receive, however, the sacrament of matrimony. 8. If for an entire month, parties cannot secure bishop, parish priest, or any priest appointed by either of two witnesses, there is no marriage if there be not two witnesses, declare their consent to marry. They are then in the eyes of the church and before God married. As soon after the marriage as possible they should send their names to the parish priest for registration and do whatever Is required to have their marriage legally ’ recognized by the state.

YOUNGEST ENGINEER ON ROAD. Clover Leaf Man Died at Richmond Hospital. Isaiah Gilpin, former engineer on the Toledo. St. Louis & Western railroad, died at Easthaven hospital. Richmond, Wednesday. The body was shipped to Marion. George Gilpin, a brother of Delphos, and Isaiah, an uncle of this city, were at the hospital when he died. Isaiah Gilpin was the youngest engineer that ever had charge of a railroad locomotive on the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad. He was competent and was promoted to the position of passenger engineer several years ago and continued his run until his mind was affected by an injury sustained in an accident. He is survived by two daughters who. live in Bluffton. The funeral was held Friday.—Marion Chronicle. Miss Rose Smith came hom e from Monroe to spend Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith, of Mercer avenue. the mid Sight oil Burning it Late at the White House and Congress is Excited FUTURE MOVEMENTS The Fleet to Visit Pacific Possessions—The Taft ✓ People Worried Washington, March 14.—Congress is in a “state of mind" over the activity at the white house. Tlhinijs were running along in a humdrum way when news reached the legislative l>ody that the president, without consulting any of the leaders in cong?ess, was preparing a legislative program of his own and would Insist on its receiving consideration. Since the story of the midnight conference at the white house Wednesday night leaked out, it develops that the president and three or four members of his cabinet have been working on the amendnseais to the Sherman anti-trust law for several weeks. Numerous night conferences have been held. Herbert Knox Smith, chief of the bureau of corporations, was instructed to prepare the amendatory bill. He submitted one draft which was not entirely satisfactory, and at the Wednesday night conference another draft was considered. Persons who have been asked to some of these conferencss say the president knows what he wants, but the lawyers in the cabinet have not yet found away to put his demands into legislation that will be constitutional. Washington, March 14. —Admiral Evans’ battleship fleet, after leaving San Francisco will visit Hawaii, Samoa, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. the Philippines, and return to New York byway of the Suez canal. Sec retail Metcalf, of the navy, announced the future movements of the fleet after the cabinet mj’eting. It will leave San Francisco on July 6 for “various Pacific possessions,” as Mr. Metcalf styled it. The vessels will first touch at Hawaii, wher e they will coal. After that they will go to Samoa, following this up by a visit to Australia, where they will stop at the cities of Melbourne and Sydney, the invitation to visit that country having been supplemented by a more cordial one from the British ambassador, Mr. Bryce. Washington. March 14. —Influential . New England Republicans ate not at 1 all inclined to accept the proposition i of the managers of the Taft campaign that the New England states combine with the thoroughgoing Democratic states of the south to nominate a Republican candidate for president. The Taft people now realize that unless they can get New England and the nine southern states which never send a Republican to congress, they cannot ' win. , o — i C. C. Powell, of Fort Wayne, the ■ noted musician and composer, was in . j the city this morning transacting bus- ■ iness with John Stoneburner, who 1 bought a large selection of “He Died ■ on the Battle Field," Mr. Powell’s lat- - est composition. The words of the • selection are very touching and It is worth the price of the piece.

Price Two Cents

OPERATION FATAL Miss Tillie Yake Died at Home of T. J. McKean at Linn Grove FUNERAL IS SUNDAY Well Known Young Lady Had Suffered From Appendicitis Several Weeks Miss Tillie Yake passed away at five o'clock Wednesday evening at the home of her sister, Mrs. T. J. McKean at Linn Grove, where she had been taken for treatment ten days ago. She had suffered many weeks of sickness, following an operation at Hope hospital at Ft. Wayne for appendicitis. she convalesced sufficiently ftom the operation to give her friends hope that she would recover but the shock to her nervous system was such that she took a relapse. She was bedfast for the second time only since last Friday, at which time she bagn failing rapidly. The remains wete removed today to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Yake, east of Bluffton, in the edee of Adams county, and the funeral will be held at ths Zion church at Honduras at ten o’clock Sunday forenoon. Miss Yake leaves to mourn her death her parents, three sisters, Mrs. Charles Bentzel of this city, Mrs. T. J. McKean, of Linn Grove, and Miss Emma Yake. and one brother George Yake. A large circle of friends in this city are also left to mourn her death. She formerly made her home in this city when she was employed as an operator at the United Telephone company’s office.—Bluffton News. — o The picture of the Andersonville military prison that has been on display at the J. H. Voglewede & Son shoe store for some time, attracted much attention. THEY HELD A RUMP Bluffton Republicans Not Dwelling in Loving Peace SUN HAS A HUNCH They Figure Out the Dope for the Republican Congressional Convention Bluffton, Ind.. March 14—(Special) —There was blood on the moon among the Bluffton and Harrison township Republicans at their mass meeting last night, when delegates to the state and congressional conventions were selected. The divisions were Cromer and anti-Cromer and when th 0 former were beaten for the selction of a chairman, the Cromerites retired and held a “rump convention” and put through their slate of delegates. As a result two sets of delegates were selected for the township, and if carried to the two conventions, as they likely will be, the committee on credentials will have something to do. From reports at hand Cromer has four delegates, anti Cromer three, with the three selected at the Bluffton meeting makes ten in all. Portland, Ind., March 14.—(Special) —The Sun of this city, claims to have a hunch, and already knows the outcome of the Anderson Cromer convention. The Sun indexes their inside information with what is conceded by every one and that is that Cromer can have the nomination if he wants it. Their final vote of election is: Hawkins —Jay 15: Delaware In. Wells 5; Randolph 10; total 45. Vestal—Adams 7; Delaware 16; Madison 32; Randolph 10; Wells 5; total 70. Take the watch Mr. Vestal.