Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

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COURT HOUSE NEWS The Jury Will Not be Used this Week—Attorneys to Attend Convention NEW CASE FILED To Partition Real Estate— A Divorce Case Set for Friday—Final Report Filed Several cases were set for trial this week, but it is quite likely that the jury will not be used until next week. A number of the attorneys and court officials are arranging to attend the democratic state convention, while others will attend the Anderson congressional meeting. A marriage license has been issued to Harley Swygart and Aldin e Marschand, both of this county. The groom is twenty-three years old and by occupation a fireman and the bride is twenty. Harry M. Daniels, guardian for Harley Swaggert et al, filed his current report, which was allowed. Dora D. Hilyard. guardian for Irvin and Andrew Hoffman, filed his final report and was discharged. C. S. Niblick, admr. for estate of Mary M. Shank, letters granted' on application by legatees and filed bond. Hooper & Lenhart are attorneys for a new case entitled William L. Raudenbush vs. Andrew W. Scales et al, to quiet title of real estate; a notice of non residence was filed. City of Fort Wayne vs. Leikauf Packing Co., to abate nuisance, demurer to complaint overruled. Dora Hower vs. C. J. H. Hower, divorce case, set for trial Friday, March 27. Jonas Gilbert vs. Norma P. Gilbert et al, appraisement of real estate filed by Commissioner J. C. Sutton. Carri e Shoemaker vs. George E. Shoemaker, divorce, sum of $75 ordered paid into court by defendant for use of the plaintiff within five days. (Continued on page 2.) A BUTCHER KNIFE Was Used by Elmer Smith in an Attack Upon Emil Caper

AT STEELE’S PARK Struck the Belgium While Later Was in Bed —Lichtensteiger Saved Life A scrap in which the two participants had murder in their hearts, occurred at Steele's park last evening, between Elmer Smith, a local character and Emil Caper, a native of Belgium. Both men are employed at the Frisinger & Sprunger horse barns. During the day Smith became jagged” and toward evening became very insulting. He used some ugly words when talking to Caper and the latter, a big fellow, bumped Elmer's head on the floor. Smith went to his home at the entrance building, secured a big butcher knife and told his wife he was going to kill the foreigner. He went over to the barn, where Capet and Henry Lichtensteiger were in bed and raising a window’ struck Capet two or three times with the knife, inflicting slight injuries on the arm. Caper jumped out of bed, grabbed a heavy poker and had it not been for Lichtensteiger, would undoubtedly have finished Smith's earthly career, but Henry got the door locked and held the Belgium a prisoner until he had cooled his anger. Caper is a peaceable fellow and a good worker, whom Mr. Frisinger brought here last fall and by those who know of the affair is said to have been, entirely blameless in yesterday's affair. No arrests were made.

HEALTH BOARD ON WATER. Water From Wells Wdl Not Stand the Test of Purity. H. E. Barnard, state food and drug commissioner, has just received copies of reports given by health officers all over the country in regard to the advisability of permitting the use of private water supplies in cities. The sentiment of all health officers is decldely against the use of water from private supplies. In a number of cities of the country the people are not permitted to use for domestic purposes water from wells In other cities there are few wells, and these on the outskirts of the city only, and in no city is the use of well water for domestic purposes recommended by the health officers. All officers say that the water in wells must sooner or later become contaminated and that the use of water from wells is dangerous to the public health.

FOR DEFENDANTS Jury Declare Kalver & Hurst Not Guilty of Maintaining a Nuisance LEGAL BATTLE. ENDS The Company Will be Reorganized and the Plant Made a Modern One At eight o’clock Saturday evening the jury in the case of the Stat e vs. Kalver & Hurst returned a verdict, finding the defendants not guilty and when court convened this morning they wer e legally discharged according to the records. The defendants, Isadore Kaiser and Will Hurst, are the owners and proprietors of the fertilizer plant located on the Coverdale farm, north of the city. About a year ago an affidavit by Mr. Fuhrman caused their arrest for maintaining a nuisance. They were tried last fall and the jury disagreed and the retrial began last Monday morning and continued until Saturday afternoon, when it went to the jury. The costs in the cas e had the defendants been convicted would hav e reached nearly $1,500 land prbbable such a result would would have meant the abatement of the plant. Kalver & Hurst are now reorganizing a SIO,OOO company to take over the concern, purchase the ground and put in a modern and up to date fertilizer factory. A larg e perecent of the stock has already been subscribed for and a plant employing quite a number of men may develop within a few years.

SKYGART-MARCHAND NUPTIALS. A Quiet Wedding, Solemnized Sunday Evening. A very quiet marriage was performed yesterday evening at five o'clock when the Miss Alta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Marschand, became the bride of Harlo Swygart, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Swygart. Rev. B. Haist performed the ceremony, which was simple but impressive. Miss Clara Hockeymeyer was the bride's only attendant and Earl Marchand, a brother of the bride, was the groomsman. The young couple are well known throughout the vicinity, and have hosts of friends who will join in wishing them a happy future. They left this noon for Chicago, 111., where they will make their future home.

ATTENDED AN ELKS BANQUET The LaDelles Success on the Michigan Circuit. Frederick LaDelle, who with his family are touring the Michigan vaudeville circuit, just now, writes us from Bay City, where they were an attraction at the Bijou last week, and made the usual hit. On Thursday evening the Elks of that city gave their annual banquet and class day memorial. The entertainment was a novel one and Bro. LaDelle and family were among the features, the Tribune of that city saying that their stunt was as clere as anything ever seen there. The LaDelles were also well received at Grand | Rapids, where the newspapers gave I them splendid notices.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening March, 23 IVOB.

CHILD RUN DOWN Three-Year-Old Son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ross Hurled by Buggy WAS UNCONSCIOUS Monroe Young Man Does Reckless Driving and Runs Into Child Excitement was at high tension on Second street last Saturday night when Walter, he little three-year-old i son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ross was hurled to the pavement with terrific force, caused by careless and reckless (driving by a young man by th e name of Reickard who resides at Monroe. The Monroe youth had driven to the city and seemingly was trying the speed of his horse as he drove north on Second street at an exceedingly rapid rate. In arriving at the corner of Second and Madison street he turned his hors € quickly to the east just as the Ross child, accompanied by its parents, w’ere starting across the street from the Elzey & Vance clothing store. Th e child, however, was a short distance ahead, although but a few feet from the curb when it was struck in the head by the wheel of the buggy, rendering it unconscious, and hurling it for several feet. A larg e crowd soon gathered and several persons made an effort to apprehend the reckless driver, but without avail as he hastened away. The mother of (the child fainted from the shock of the accident and it was some time before th e child regained consciousness. Medical aid was hastily sumimoned and administered and the child it is thought will soon recover. However, this does not exonerate the young man who ran the child down and we are Informed that he will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the I law.

BUTONEONTHELID Indiana Congressmen to Attend Their State Conventions ADAIR COMING HOME Will Not be a Candidate for Governor Before Convention Washington, March 23—The exodus of congressmen to the state conventions will begin today. Present indications are that only one member of the delegation, Representative Holliday. will be left here to hold the fort. Mr. Holliday insists that somebody ought to b e left "on the lid" and, being a back’ number politically, that duty by right falls upon himself. Representatives Rauch and Cox will start to Indiana today. Representative Adair will leave Washington Tuesday evening and w’ill arrive in Indianapolis about noon Wednesday. He says he is going so that he will be on hand to put a stop to any mention of his name in connection with the nomination for governor. He is not a candidate, he says, and his name will not go before the convention w’ith his consent. Neveretbeless if the convention nominates him he will accept and will devote himself to the campaign with characteristic vim and vigor. “I shall go to the convention in the interest of Mr. McCullough and Mr. Lotz, the two candidates from my district,” h e said. Representative Dixon will be one of the men in charge of Slack’s candidacy for governor. — o One of the features at the Spencer Troubadour show at the Bosse Wednesday night will be a five round sparr. ing exhibition. "Kid” Wilson and Billy Smitley, of Lima, Ohio. This part of the entertainment will alone be worth the price of admission and the home will no doubt be crowded.

MRS. LEBRUN RECEIVES BURNS Explcsion Caused by Pouring Coal Oil on Live Coals. Mrs. Alex. Leßrun was badly burned about the face and hands this morning by an explosion of coal oil which happened in the usual way. About seven o’clock Mrs. Leßrun attempted to hurry her fire along and to do so poured a small quantity on a bed of live coals. Almost immediately an explosion occurred. which might have resulted much more seriously. Mrs. Leßrun’s face and hands were blistered and her hair singed, but her injuries are not serious. Mr. Leßrun says he gives us this item not as news but as a warning for other people who engage in this very dangerous practice of pouring oil on live coals.

EARNS PROMOTION Homer P. Moses Becomes General Manager of Big Wholesale House AT FORT WAYNE A Former Decatur Citizen Makes Good With Chaska Notion Firm An important change in Fort Wayne business circles occurred today when Samuel Chaska acquired the interest of Charles Falk in the big firm of the Falk-Chaska company, engaged in the wholesale notion and furnishing goods business at 610-612 Harrison street. Mr. Chaska thus becomes the sole owner of the business, which he will continue under the name of the S. Chaska company, with H. P. Moses as general manager. Mr. Falk retires from the firm with which he has been identified since! Its organization. It is understood that Mr. Falk has not yet fully dtecided upon his future course, having a number of advantageous opportunities under consideration, but in all probability he will locate in New York. The firm is an old and well established one. It has always been prosperous and has always occupied a prominent place among Fort Wayne mercantile houses. It was established in 1888 by Charles Falk and Joseph Rothschild, under the firm name of Falk & Rothschild. A year later it becam e Charles Falk & Co., and about one year and a half ago the firm style became the Falk-Chaska company. It carries an extensive stock, occupying the basement and five floors of its big home on Harrison street. The new owner, “Sam" Chaska, as he is familiarly known, located in Fort Wayne in 1874. He is well known and popular, both socially and in a business way, and has been a traveling saleman in this territory thirty-two years, twenty of which have been as the representative of the house of which he now becomes the sole owner. He has been with the firm from the outset, and was its first buyer. Mr. Chaska has a large clientele of friends and patrons, both in Fort Wayne and over a large contiguous territory, who will wish him abundant success in his new and larger Interests. Mr. Chaska will remain “on the road" for his house, precisely as when he was merely a partner in the business, and the public will find him the same courteous and agreeable gentleman they have known for so many years. H. P. Moses, who becomes general manager of the business, came to Ft. Wayne from Decatur fourteen years ago. He has been with the present concern for the past eight years as credit and assistant manger, and is well known, eminently competent and personally popular. He will have entire supervision of the house end of the firm’s business. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. — —o In response to a elegram from Bellview. Mich., conveying the sad news that his grandmother had died, M. E. Brackett, accompanied by his wife, left early Sunday morning for that place. The aged lady has been sick for some time and the news of her demise did not caus e much surprise to her many friends.

LAST SAD RITES The Remains of Late Rev. W. H. Daniels Were Lowered Into the Grave WAS A NOBLE MAN The Masonic Ceremony Was Impressively Performed— Many Pay Respect The last sad rites over th e remains of the late Rev. W. H. Daniels were performed yesterday afternoon at the beautiful Maplewood cemetery, by a large number of his brother Masons and the immediate friends and relatives. The Masons, forty in number, assembled at the hall and marched to the home of C. C. Schafer at 2:30 o’clock. From there they proceeded to the cemetery, th e friends and relatives being conveyed by cabs arriving at the vault at 3 o’clock. The body was removed to the burial plot in the north central part of the cemetery by Masonic pall bearers, where with sad hearts the present ones paid their last tribute to the departed noble man. The ceremony was Impressive in its performance. D. E. Smith executing the ritual characteristic to the Masonic lodge and the painful duty of lowering the casket to its final resting place was performed in the midst of sincere tears and the eloquent language of th e Masonic ceremony. As solemn as the occasion was the bereaved ones found consolation in the fact that he is safe in the hands of Almighty. No nobler man has trod the streets of Decatur ( than was Rev. Daniel and his long j life of Christian activity has left its i traces on the lives of many people with whom he has come in contact. He was ever doing things for the advancement of th e Christian cause and the results of his untiring efforts for the betterment of humanity will be much in evidence after his body has many i years been in the tomb. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Daniel, of Chicago, wehe present, beside the widow, Mrs. Daniels, daughter, Mrs. C. C. Schafer and other friends and relatives.

A GREAT SUCCESS Col. Fred Reppert at Home After a Successful Western Trip HIGHLY SPOKEN OF Is Considered the Best Hog and Cattle Auctioneer in the Land Col, Fred Reppert is at home after a several months trip through the west, where he conducted over a hundred hog and cattle sales and with splendid success everywhere. Fred is acknowledged to be one of the best in the business and his services are greatly in demand everywhere. The Kansas City Farmer and Stockman spoke of one of his recent sales as follows: The third annual sale of Duroc Jersey hogs by Mr. Samuel Drybread, of Elk City, Kan., Friday, March 13th, was well attended. The offering consisted of fifty-five head', eight tried sows, four fall yearling gilts, twentyseven spring gilts, eight foil open gilts, eight summer and fall boars. An average of S2B was made on the whole. One of the attractions of this sale was Col. Fred Reppert, of Decatur, Ind., who has a reputation of being the best Duroc Jersey auctioneer on the map. This was the first opportunity that the western breeder had to hear a first class up to date auctioneer. All the breeders present who weee contemplating holding a sale in the near future were making every possible inducement to the Colonel to cry their sale. He was ably assisted by Col. J. \V. Sheets, of Fredonia, Kan., and Col. J. H. McColloch, of Clay Center, Kan. o Mrs. Amanda Moats has returned to her home in the eity after a week’s visit at thg home of Mr. and Mrs. John Brodbeck near Bobo.

RUNNING AT FULL BLAST. Ward Fence Factory Operating Day and Night. The Ward Fence Factory at Marion is running day and night in an effort to meet th e demands for the output and they are still far behind in fulflillment of their orders. Last Saturday two car loads of small orders were shipped from the factory, but as rapidly as the orders are filled, new ones arrive and a busy year is in store for them. The sewer men employed by the commercial club will complete their work today and men employed by the company began work this morning and Contractors Myers & Davis will begin on the foundation tomorrow or Wednesday with two gangs of workmen and they expect to complete their part of the work by Saturday night. Contractor Adamson is ready to begin work on the buildings at any time and they will be rushed to completion.

PLAN LE3KS OUT Cromer to Formally Decline the Nomination for Congress TO VOTE FOR HIM And Nominate Him Against His Wish—How’s That for Nerve —? — Muncie, Ind.. March 23. —Friends of former Congressman George W. Cromer, of Muncie, say he will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for congressman when the Eighth district republican delegates meet in the Grand opera house at Anderson next Thursday afternoon, according to the plan now outlined by his forces, the latter say that an active and probably successful endeavor to land the nomination for him will be made over his objection and after, he has declined to allow the use of his name. That is the plan Cromer’s friends have finally agreed on, and unless the premature publication of it should cause it to fall through, that is the plan they will carry out at the convention. As conditions now stand, Mr. Cromer probably will arise on the floor of the convention after his name has been put in nomination and decline the honor. Whereupon the thirty-one deledelegates from Delaware county, the seven from Adams and the five from Wells will pay no attention to him, but vot e for him notwithstanding, and will continue to vote for him indefinitely. If the balloting lasts long enough, and Nathan B. Hawkins, of Portland, fails to get out of Mr. Cromer's way, as it is thought he will do at the proper time, Mr. Cromer's friends expect the Muncie man to be the second choice of enough delegates from Randolph and Madison counties to give him the fifteen that will be lacking to nominate him on the first ballot. But before such a condition is brought about it is entirely within the range of possibilities that the number of ballots taken will rival those of the Eleventh district republican convention early this month. In the long run. however, Mr. Cromer's friends have little doubt of the outcome. ■ o— 1 — AN OPERATION TOMORROW Eli Prasdorf Will Again Submit to Operation. Dr. McOscar, of Fort Wayne, and Drs. D. D. and C. S. Clark will perform another operation on Eli Presdorf tomorow. The incision made by the previous operation will be closed and it is thought that the patient will recover. The nurse, Lizzie Springer, who has been caring for the sick man and who fell, and injured her limb, will be taken to Fort Wayne today, where she will be cared for. Miss Lillie Girard will take charge of Mr. Presdorf. o D. M. Hensley will add another specimen to his large collection of animals as soon as he can mount same. It is a possum caught east of the city. Miss Myrle Springer returned to Ft. Wayne to complete her school duties after spending Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fillmore Springer. lat Wren, Ohio.

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SAYS HE IS SANE F. L. Watkins Talks Intelligently in an Interview About His Life HE EXPLAINS ALL Os His Actions and Attributes His Melancholy Spells to Religious Influences Fred L. Watkins, who a few days ago was placed in jail after papers were filed alleging his insanity, insists that he is sane and he wants to be released. In an hour’s Interview with the imprisoned man, a representative of the Democrat was told of his life from boyhood until the present time and his talk was intelligent. He explains his actions for which he is adjudged insane by stating that he has been vested with the power of God and that the actions of a truly religious man seem strange to a wordly person. He related of a time before he was married when he attended a Quaker church and how, befor e leaving. he was impressed by the holy spirit to preach the gospel. He states that he has tried to ward off that impression since, but that it continued to bear heavy upon his mind and that he has worried to a great extent. He reiterated, however, that it has not affected his mind in the least, and aside from his conversation in regard to religious illusions, his conversation is indeed rational. Mr. Watkins has been a hard working man since boyhood. He was left an orphan when but a small boy and aside from the car e of his grandmother, he has grown to manhood without the kindly words of advice from loving parents. It is indeed pitiful that he has met such a doom. He expresses his desire to have his family well taken care of and be states (that if he is taken to a medical in- ! stitution he will soon be released. His confinement, however, does not worry him in the least, but he is anrious to gain liberty so he can support his family He asserts that he has never threatened violence to (any member of his family and that it [was far from his thought. His many friends hope that he will soon prove his sanity if he is sane and be released. A DELIGHTFUL TRIP Enjoyed by Sixty-Five Decatur Ladies at the Tyndall and Dugan Home A TRAVELERS’ PARTY Proved One of the Season’s Happiest Social Events — Out-of-Town Guests Sixty-five ladles responded to unique invitations issued by Mesdames Dugan and Tyndall for a “Travelers' Party’’ given Saturday aiiernoon at the homes of these two ladies. Al the hour named the guests gathered at the home of Mis, Tyndall and were met at the steps by Master Ralph Tyndall and little Miss Helen Dugan who handed each one a "railroad ticket." On reaching the door the ladles were handed over to the efficient "conductor” Dan Tyndall and "porter" Carl France, who escorted each passenger to a comfortable seat on the Pullman. It was not the intention of the management to put on an emigrant car, but on the arrival of the A ouug Matron’s club, all decked out in linen ulsters, straw bats, etc., and carrying band boxes, bird cakes, grips, Teddy Bears, babies and numerous boxes and bundle, another car was attached to ihe train. Finally Conductor Dan blew his whistle, called “all aboard and the train started. A telegram from Miss Marie Patterson was received and read stating that she was very sorry but her boat had missed connection with our train at Toledo and she would be unable to make the trip. After the (Continued on page 2.)