Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 66

DEATH WAS SUDDEN Mrs. Ernest Buuck Prepared Supper Last Evening— Died Two Hours Later WAS OLD RESIDENT Came to this County Seventy Years Ago—Granddaughter Died Sunday Without scarcely a moments warning, Mrs. Ernest Buuck, for three score years and ten. a resident of near Freidheim. in the northwest part of the county, answered the final call, at nine o’clock last night, the cause of her sudden death being pleurisy of Uhe heart. A daughter-in-law, Mrs. William Buuck, who lived in the same bouse, had been very ill during the day. an infant child having died at birth and the elder Mrs. Buuck. apparently in usual health, had prepared the dinner and evening meals. At supper time she complained of feelIng rather badly and afterward laid down supposing that a rest would refresh her. Thos e about the house "were busy attending the younger sick ■ Woman, not knowing that the aged mother was seriously ill, until some t one noticed her labored bneathing. A few moments later she. died without g'-'recovering consciousness. During five | wears of her life she had suffered from rheumatism and walked by the aid of I' -canes. Mrs. Koldeway, who died at tWtort Wayne Sunday was her granddaughter and she had expected to go * to that city last evening, but was degPjtaiiied because of the illness of Mrs. ■William Buuck. A physician who attended the younger woman during the ■ Krening. also prescribed for the elder ( 1 lady but at that time there was no |t'-tadication that she was in a serious ® Condition. Mrs. Buuck was born in Qerniatiy, and was seventy-one years K and four months old. In 1837 when eight months old she came to Es this country with her parents and lorcated near Freidheim, wherie she has since resided. Her husband, a veteran of the civil war, survives her as do r Sever children, Fred', Ernest, Martin. William, Mrs. Henry KruckenK'berg and Mrs. Norwal, of Allen county. B' The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Preuss at the Freidheim church, Fr.iday afternoon at 1:30 O’clock. HEART FAILURE Caused Almost Instant Death of Joseph Hocker this Afternoon | IN HIS DRUG STORE At Monroe—Was Father of Prof. Charles W. Hocker of this City Joseph Hocker, of Monroe, one of | the best known men of the county, died at I’3o this afternoon, very sudt <enly and the news caused a shock to his many friends here and elseWhere over the county. »On e week ago he suffered an attack of stomach trouble with a slight bronwaßkial complications, but in two or three davs he seemed entirely recovToday he was busy about his |Uug store and at the hour mentioned MMas engaged in piling up some empty boxes, when suddenly he was heard to scream and persons in the store •w him grasp his hand over his and run into an adjacent room Where he fell on a couch and expired ■ino.-t instantly. A physician who Was nearby responded within a minute ■ two but Mr. Hocker was dead when -ft reached his side. He was about years old and leaves a wife, ■arsons and two daughters. He was ■ father of Prof. C. W. Hocker, prin■al of the Decatur high school. He sh a soldier of the rebellion, enter- ■> the army when but sixteen years ■• as a member of Co. K 18th Ind. ® (Continued on page 2.)

ROOT AND UNION INSTITUTE. Last Session of Year in Those Tewnships Heid Saturday. The teachers of Union and Root townships held their last institute Saturday at the Aber school district No. 2. Every teacher was present and the meeting was a very interesting one. At 12 o’clock a sumptuous dinner was served' by the teacher and patrons to which every one present did justice. The following resolutions wer e adopted: Resolved, That we, the teachers of Union and Root townships, do hereby, extend to teacher, pupils and patrons our sincere thanks for their good cheer anl royal entertainment and bountiful dinner. Be it further resolved, That we thank the trustees for their presence and cooperation during all our meetings for the present school year of 1907-08. Be it further resolved, That we wish to each and every member of the institute, success in their every effort.

STILL ARE GUESSING Cromer Still Maintains the Attitude of Strict Silence HE HAS A SCHEME They Say He Will Control the Convention and Nominate Himself Muncie, Ind., March 16. —With the Eighth district Republican congressional convention only a week off. George W. Cromer, of Muncie, ex-rep-resentative of this district in congress, maintains his original silence upon the question of being a candidate for anotheo- nomination. For several months Mr. Cromer has been looked upon by politicians generally throughout the district, regardless of political faith, as being engaged in a deep plot to take the nomination away from the others after the convention is in progress. His plan, it is said, is to have the delegates to the convention so absolutely under his control that they can ballot several times upon the other candidates without nominating and then, seemingly from necessity, turn to Cibmer and hand him the nomination. The convention is to be held at Anderson March 26. Repeated efforts on the part of Mr. Cromer’s intimate political friends to draw him out along this line have availed nothing. H e has refused steadfastly to say anything whatever about his attitude toward the nomination and he even declines to say which of the other candidates he will support if his name is not presented. The announced candidates for the nomination for congress are Albert H. Vestal, of Anderson, Senator Nathan B. Hawkins, of Portland and Theodore Shockney of Randolph county. Vestal is considered a Cromer man; Hay kins never has been particularly active on either side of the Cromer war. -while Shockney several times has openly opposed the Muncie man in his political ambitions. Within the last two o r three weeks two elements have entered into the nace that may have an important bearing upon the action of the convention delegates. One was the halfentry of G. B. Slaymaker, of Anderson, into the contest for the nomination and the other was the report that Mr. Cromer would give his support to “the candidacy” of Senator Hawkins. • —■— NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH. John Liechty, of Berne, Pulled from Beneath Moving Train. A man. named John Liechty, from Berne, had a load' of “bug juice” on and went to the G. R. & I- a t noon to board a train for home. A freight train was on the side track and Liechty who was in a pitiable and almost helpless cfcndftion, crawled under one of the cars just as the train started to move out. Car inspector George Sheeler happened to see him and pulled him out, just in time to save him from being crushed to death.

IT COSTS MONEY Taft Breaking a Record at Spending His Brother’s Money A RECORD BREAKER Hanna or Hearst Not in the Same Class With Taft New York, March 16.—A Washington dispatch to the World says: If William Taft is inaugurated next March it will be as th e result of the most expensive campaign ever waged for a presidential candidate. Practically every cent of the money spent comes out of the pocket of a bewhiskend citizen of Cincinnati who looks like a Methodist deacon, and is, in fact, a "dead game sport,” Charles P. Taft, owner of the Cincinnati TimesStar and half-brother of William H. The expenses of the Taft campaign reached on December 1 last the limit established by Mark Hanna in 1896, $500,000. Hanna broke the record when be started in to spend money to nominate and elect McKinley. According to Hanna’s own admissions in private, the entire amount of his expenditure from the day h e starttd to boom McKinley to the date of the presidential election, wias SS|OO,(HIO. In the easel of Taft this limit was reached before a single delegate had been elected outside of Alaska. Since that date, three months ago, an additional quarter of a million has been spent. The total expenditure to date is $750,000, and the monthly expense is increasing in geometrical ratio. Each month sees, not alone the expense th© month before, but new ways of spending. The irruption of Frank H. Hitchcock and his large and expensive staff into the Taft boom, for instance, boosted the expenditure away beyond what it was a month before. If you listen to the anti-Taft senators you will find this $750,000 estimate laughed at as utterly inadequate. It is, however, based on admissions made in private by Taft leaders. William Randolph Hearst four years ago achieved a considerable reputation as a spending candidate. As a matter of fact, Hearst is entitled to rank as a piker in comparison with | Taft. o VIOLENTLY INSANE Is Ernst Oscar Schienfeld Who is Confined in County Jail TEARS HIS CLOTHES And Does Everything That Becomes an Insane Man —Papers Were Sent Ernst Oscar Schienfeld the demented dutchman, who was not across the pond long (enough to take a long breath until placed behind prison bars, is causing much disturbance at the county jail, where he is imprisoned awaiting his committment to the East Haven asylum, at Richmond. Since his incarceration, he has done everything on the calendar except break out of jail and he is a very disagreeable prisoner. As stated in yesterday’s issue he has been placed in a small cell. A mattress and bed clothing was also placed in the cell but as Gothard Brown, of old, he has torn it to atoms. This did not satisfy his erroneous desires and he tore all of his wearing apparel to pieces with the exception of his shirt. He persists in making hideous noises and at times crouches in a corner of his cell where he bumps his head unmercifully against the wall, rolling his eyes savagely. He possesses every characteristic of a confined insane man, and it seems miraculous that he has not committed some rah act while at liberty In our city. Papers were sent to Richmond this morning asking per(Continued on page 2.)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening March, I7 1908.

PREACHED BACCALAUREATE. Rev." L. A. Stangle Called to Craigville. Rev. L. A. Stangle was called to Craigville to deliver the baccalaureate sermon for the high school on Sunday evening. This is a community in which he taught school seventeen years ago and the service affoided a reunion with former students which was most happy and greatly enjoyed. On yesterday morning he conducted the third quarterly conference at Craigville for Rev. W. V. Mullikin. Mr. F. A. Miller was granted quarterly conference license to preach and Mr. L. N. Klingkinight was elected delegate to annual conference to be held at Bourbon next September. In the absence of the pastor, Rev J. M. Gibson preached at the Decatur U. B. church. The pastor will deliver the on “The Signs of the Times” on next Sunday evening. WILL BEHELD2IST County Diploma Examination Will Be Conducted Here this Month MANY WILL APPLY Resolution Passed in 1901 is Observed in All Examinations On (the |twehJty-first day of this month a county diploma examination will be held in this city by Superintendent L. E. Opliger, and a large number of students are expected to apply for teachers’ license. The applicants will be required to pass a good examination in English, Grammar, Physiology, Arithmetic, United States history (including the constitution), Geography, Reading, Orthography, Penmanship and Music, and to make a general avenage of 80 per cent not falling below seventy in any one branch. The following resolution was passed by the county board of education May 6, 1901. and will be observed in all county examinations: Candidates for graduation must hav e completed the full eight year's work. Teachers are to recommend for graduation only pupils who have been thorough in their work and have passed successfully the bi monthly examinations furnished by the state. Notwithstanding the fact that the examinations are rigid, a large per cent of the applicants jn Adams county pass successfully and this bespeaks much for the instruction in our schools. Another county diploma examination will be held here May 16. this year. An examination will ,be held at Berne th e twenty-first of this month and at Geneva April 18. n WILL ADJUST A FIRE LOSS. Mann & Christen Went to Napoleon, Ohio, Today. E. A. Matnn and Charles N. Christen left today for Napoleon, Ohio, where they will represent the school board in adjusting the recent fire loss with representatives of the insurance company. The loss is estimated at $15,000, the fine being confined to the third story of the building. The school house was a three story structure valued at $75,000 and will be repaired as soon as possible. Mann & Christen who were the original contractors, expect to bid on the work. Arrangements are being made to resume school Monday, the 800 pupils having enjoyed a vacation since the fire. The blaze originated from the hot air furnace pipes in the attic. 8080 IS DEMANDING RELEASE. Sheriff Lipkey telephoned to the Marion Soldiers Home this morning and the authorities there wanted the local officers to take Bobo back to Marion, but they were instructed to come after him if he is wanted at the home. Bobo was in jail this afternoon but is demanding release. He says that ther e is no charge agalnt him and he should be turned loose. He appears to be off to an extent mentally.—Bluffton News.

TO DISCREDIT HIM Hearst League Intimate that LaFollette Will Be Their Candidate WILL HAVE TO PAY Packing Companies Will Have to Whack Up— Johnson’s Candidacy • Washington, Mauch 17—A prominent United States senator, who is deeply interested in the Aldrich currency bill, as he was leaving the white house gave out the information that William R. Hehrst’s Independence League Intends to nominate Senator La Follette for president. The senator* referred to had just been in conference with the president. Senator La Follette is to speak on the Aldrich bill, and it was regarded as significant that a senator who is much interested in th e bill should have put out the story. La Follette’s friends said at once that the only purpose could be to discredit the La Follette speech before the country. Washington, March 17. —The proceeding by th e government against the Armour Packing company, Swift & Co., Morris & Co., and the Cudahy Packing company, all of them operating in Kansas City, Kan., under which the companies were each fined $15,000 by the United States circuit court for the western district of Missouri, on the change of receiving rebates contrary to the provisions of the Elkins law. was decided by the supreme court of the United States adversely to those companies. The court’s opinion was announced by Justice Day, who held that the Elkins act is applicable to transportation anywhere and that an offense is not confined to the initial point. He also held it applicable alike to shipper and carrier. Washington, Mjarch 17. —Governor Johnson’s avowed candidacy for the presidential nomination has interested Democratic statesmen here as nothing else since the visit of Mb. Bryan. At that time the “peerless leader” bottled up his enemies so effectually that all opposition to his nomination apparently vanished, but when the Minnesota's Democrats got together and placed their governor squarely before the country, long pentup felings began to come to the surface. BROWN INDICTED Van Wert Mail Held for the Murder of His Wife— A Heartless Crime IST DEGREE MURDER Is Charged Against Him by the Grand Jury—Chain of Evidence Complete Van Wert, March 17. —The special grand jury in the court of common pleas, filed its report yesterday afternoon. The jury was called for the express purpose of investigating the death of Mrs. Martin Brown and to that end examined upwards of sixty witnesses. Martin Brown, the husband of the dead woman, who was arrested on suspicion, after the first day of a hearing before Dr. Richison. county coroner, is held by the jury to be responsible for her death. The charge placed against him is murder in the first degree. His crime was one of the most heartless ever committed in this section. DelibarMely and w ( ith intent to get rid of his wife that he might be free to seek the affections of another woman, he gave his wife strychnine powders, when she was suffering from the grippe. Mrs. Brown was well known and had relatives in Adams county. v The Helping Hand society at Reformed church wishes to announca that they have a variety of bonnets on display and for sale. The public’s patnonage is solicited.

HAS ANOTHER GUESS COMING. Congressman Adair Says Temperance Sentiment in Indiana is Strong. “The man who thinks Qie temperance sentiment is not strong in Indiana has another guess coming,” said Representative John A. M. Adair. “As proof of this statement I might cite the attitude of the people of Berne, Ind., toward the Littlefield bill, prohibiting the shipmen of liquors in original packages into prohibition or local option territory. This is the bill that the temperance forces are pushing before congress. Berne Js a German community. The people are the best type of German citizenship. They have formed a German temperance league and Fred Rohrer, secretary of the league, has forwarded to me, on behalf of the league, stirring resolutions in favor of the Littlefield bill. He states, also, that the members of the league wish to protest as vigorously as possible against the assertion, so often made, that the Germans, as a people, arc opposed to temperance.”

IN TROUBLE AGAIN Kirt Johnson Gets on Outside of Bad Whiskey and Caused Trouble HE WAS ARRESTED Julius Haugk Filed Affidavit Against Him Charging Provoke Kirt Johnson, the young man who just recently received his discharge from' the Jeffersonville reformatory, after being out on parole for several months, has again gotten into trouble. Last night he proceeded to load up with bad whiskey and went into one of the saloons, where he indulged in abusive talk to Julius Ilaugk. Johnson demanded that Haugk buy a drink and Haugk informed him that he was not buying presents foil everybody. Johnson became angry and called Haugk names that were not at all complimentary. Mr. Haugk went before Squire Smith and filed an affidavit against the young man for provoke. It seems that Johnson has not profited much by the punishment he has received as he has had every chance in the world to make good. The people of Decatur have reposed much confidence in. him but if he persists ir this kind of work, it will not be long until he will relinquish his claims. Johnson plead guilty before Squire Smith and was sentenced to ten days in jail. o WILL MEET APRIL 14 AND 15. Presbyterian Missionary Ladies to Meet at Ossian. Delegates from all the missionary societies in all the Presbyterian churches in this part of the state will meet at Ossian, Ind'., in annual conference on the 14th and 15th of April. Besides the delegates from the local churches there will be a large number of visitors. This spring meeting is known as the district neeting, while that in the fall as the state meeting. The purpose of this conference will be to consider the work of the missions, both home and foreign. The last conference was held at Auburn and officers will be elected and the next meeting place chosen at this coming meeting. —- - -oWILL BE OPERATED ON TODAY. Frank Martz Taken to Fort Wayne Hospital. Frank Martz, engineer at the H. H. Bremerkamp flour mills was taken to the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, on the nine o'clock car this morning, where he will undergo an operation for gall stones. He was accompanied by Dn J. W. Vizard, of Pleasant Mills and Dr. J. M. Miller, of this city, who will assist in the operation. Mr. Martz has suffered from this ailment for isome time and an operation was decided upon as the only means for a permanent relief. His many friends hope for his speedy and complete recovery.

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FROM OLD MEXICO Mrs. Morrison Writes Interesting Account of Her Southern Travels CITY OF TAMPICO Trip to San Luis Potosi Was A Red Letter Day— Other Points of Interest Dear Folks: —I have been too busy sight seeing the past six weeks to write letters. Cards, assuming you of my health and safety was all I could manage. Now that we are in the city for the second time, I hope I will find time to tell you something about Mexico, as I have seen it. Os course I am only getting snapshots as it were at the cities and country, yet if one keeps their eyes and ears open there is much to see and hear in a hmried journey. Passing the customs at the Mexican frontier was an easy task, although we were detained two hours or more while the officers did their duty. Our first halt in Mexico was at Monterey. I yrote from therq last winter so I will say but little. We found the streets torn up, building sewers and putting in electric lines. But on some of the streets the little old mule cars, hitched tandem were still in use. It had rained, and the sidewalks were dreadfully muddy. Soon our feet were a sight. Miss B and I called upon Mrs. Allen. The de Siliceo's had moved to Victoria, state of Lamaulipas and we were too muddy to call at the consulate to see G<(neral Hanna. We returned to the train and handed our shoes and garments to the porter to be cleaned. We left Monterey the capital of the state of Nueva Leon, and passed through the state of Lamaulipas. arriving the next morning at Tampico, the chief port on th e east coast of Mexico. The Panuca River here empties into the gulf. It is a great river and they claim the navies of the world might ride at ease upon it. The river is navigable for two hundred miles into th e interior, back into the rich tropical country. It loked very curious to see boats on the river made out of one log, paddled by a native Indian, in his white suit and pointed hat. Always in their bare feet, or a rude leather sandal on their bare feet. The market house liqs along the river and a walk through it was very interesting. (Continued on page 3.) SERVICESSUNDAY Last Rites Will Be Performed Over the Remains of Rev. W. H. Daniel BY MASONIC LODGE The Services Will Be the Impressive. Ritualistic Form The remains of the late Rev. W. H. Daniel, which have rested in a vault at the Maplewood cemetery since February 7th last, will be placed in the final resting place next Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. The services will be conducted by the Masonic lodge of which the deceased was a member and as usual, they will be brief, but impressive. The Rev. Daniel was an adveoate of Masonry, and was held in the highest esteem of ail with whom he has even formed an acquaintance. His death has caused much sorrow among his multitude of friends in this and other communities. The Masons will leave their hail in a body and will arrive at the cemetery at three o'clock. The ritualistic work will then ensue after which the 1 casket will be lowered into the grave. The casket will not be opened. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Daniels, of Chicago, will be present to pay- their l» st respects to the departed father, and it Is thought that several ministers from out of town will also be here. Many Decatur people will join the bereaved ones in the performance of their last sorrowful duty in respect to the dead but not forgotten noble man.