Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

/oinme VI Number 92

|T LOOKS STORMY ■Twelfth District Convention ■ is on at Kendall- ■ ville B • ■no ballot cast yet ■Three Candidates Showing I Up With a Pretty Fight ■ Kendallville, Indiana, 3:30 p. m. ■ Special to Daily Democrat—No ballot ■ had been taken at the above time. I [ Kendallville, Indiana, April 16.— 1(3 p. m. Special to the Daily DemoE crat) —The afternoon session opened ■ with a scrap over a rule to abolish ■ nominating speeches. Much oratory ■ was cut loose when this rule was prefl seated, the opposition to it being led fl by Hon. A. A. Adams, of Columbia ■ City. The rule lost on a close vote. H The nominating speeches delayed the |l work of the convention, at three fl o’clock no vote having been taken. The A voting down of this rule made it look fl like a stormy convention, and one that fl would not surrender to a nomination |l right oft the reel. The crowds confl tinue to come, every train and interfl urban car being crowded with Twelfth fl district Democrats. r| Kendallville, Indiana, April 16. — II (Special to Daily Democrat) —The ■ Democrats of the Twelfth congression|B al district have taken Kendallville toll day. Their congressional convention fl is on and it is the largest and most IB enthusiastic gathering of the Demfl ocratic clans that ever assembled in I I the district. Three candidates were in IB the field, Cyrus Cline of Angola,Judge II J. W. Adair of Columbia City, and Fred 11 L. Feick of Garrett. District Chair- ■ man Hoffman called the convention I to order at eleven o’clock. Mr. Chas. I M. Neizer, of Fort Wayne, was select- [ I ed as temporary chairman and delivI ered a rattling keynote speech upon I the issues. The convention met in I permanent organization at half past ■ one this afternoon, and after an en- ■ dorsement of the state platform, bofl gan balloting for a candidate for conI gress. [TEAM RAN AWAY E Charles Steele Had Exciting Runaway at Ossian Tuesday I BUGGY IS DAMAGED I Although the Occupant Escaped Uninjured — Automobile Frightened Horses I Charles Steele of the firm of Atz I & Steele experienced an exciting runI away at Ossian Tuesday in which he I luckily escaped without serious bodily injuries, although a new buggy ! he had on the wagon which he was i going to deliver to an Ossian man, was practically . demolished. Mr. Steele was driving along the main street of our neghboring little town with the new buggy on a display wagon. when William Hoopengardner of that place approached in an automobile. The horses became frightened and Mr. Steele lost control of them. F Dashing into an alley the team ran across ah yard crashing into trees, and not stopping until the wagon came into contact with a large tree. Mr. Steele, however, was not frightened in the least and as best he could, tried to stop the frightened animals. The team broke fk loose from the wagon and were capJ lured a distance in the country. The | new buggy was badly damaged, although the wagon team and Mr. Steele escaped uninjured. Mr. Steele went to Ossian today to deliver another buggy to the man who had purchased i the one that was in the wreck.

I THEY GAVE IT THE LAUGH. Bill for a Macadamized Highway from Ocean to Ocean. 1 Washington, April 15.—T0 transform the thirty-fifth parallel of north latitude into a macadamized rollerskate, pedestrian and automobile highway, to be constructed by the United States from the blue Atlantic to the , Golden Gate, via Newbern, N. C., electric lighted, policed and bordered with new idea garden cities, wherein no man nor maid shall break the eightr hour law, is the project of a bill introduced by Representative Bourke Cockran, of New York —by request. Old timers held a mock inquest on the bill soon after its appearance and pronounced it the most remarkable legislative contrivance that ever found its way into the curiosity catacombs 1 of the house. Speculations as to its authorship were rife but futile, for none but Cockran had the secret and - he kept it. : IN LEGALAFFAIRS , A Ditch Petition Has Been I Filed by Daniel O. Roop of St. Marys Tp. CASE AT FT. WAYNE Five Decatur Attorneys Will Engage in Law Suit at Fort Wayne By their attorneys, Peterson & Moran, Daniel O. Roop et al have filed a petition in which they ask that the ditch located in St. Marys township be cleaned and made wider and deeper, so that It will be adequate to carry the drainage from the land. The ditch is but one mile long and hence must be filed before the county commissioners as aitcnes must be at least three miles in length before they can be entered in the circuit court. The petition contains the names of nine farmers and at their next meeting the commissioners will pass upon same. Attorneys Peterson & Moran will go to Fort Wayne tomorrow, where they will represent the plaintiff in the case entitled Erie Stone company of Huntington vs. Calvin Miller et al of this city. The settlement of an alleged account is asked. Attorneys D. D. Heller, A. P. Beatty and D. D. Heller will represent the defendants. In the case entitled Daniel B. Ninde vs. Richard Klein, both parties of Ft. Wayne, in which judgment was rendered against the defendant in the Adams circuit court some time ago. Peterson & Moran are arranging 'a brief of the testimony which will be submitted to the supreme court. The suit was over a Persian lamb skin jacket which was sold to the defendant. —o — J, H. HELLER AT FRENCH LICK He is a Game Sport and Will Try a Round With Pluto. John H. Heller left on the early Clover Leaf for French Lick Springs, th efamous Carlsbad of America. For the next week or ten days he will drink the waters in the hope of renewing the bloom of youth. The press reports that more people than ever are already housed at this resort, and for the next sixty days the influx of resorters will be enormous. It is hard to put to cover a Democrat editor, but Pluto is not to be rambunctlously trifled with. — o WILL BUILD ANOTHER HOTEL. Terre Haute, Ind.. April 16.—Announcement was made here that Thomas Taggart would build another hotel at French Lick at a cost of $350,000. Architect W. H. Floyd of this city who returned from French Lick today has the contract for the new building. The hotel is planned to have 200 rooms, and is to be elaborately furnished and equipped. ————— ■ . Another sale will be held by the ■ Decatur Horse Sale company the 24th ■ day of this month in which draft, gen- - eral purpose and driving horses will ■ be disposed of. A large number of II buyers are expected to attend this •sale.

COUNTY’S ANNUAL 1 The County Commissioners Report is Very Interesting < SMALL COUNTY DEBT } i Eighty Macadam Roads ' Are on the Tax , Duplicates i The commissioners’ annual report I contains much of interest to every 1 taxpayer in Adams county. The county bonded indebtedness is given at ( $26,000. Os this amount SIO,OOO Is i refunding bonds and $16,000 is county , | infirmary bonds. The first of June not two months distant, $5,000 will be paid on the refunding debt and j $2,000 on the county infirmary bonds and this will leave the total county debt at $19,000. The total receipts for the year including a balance on hand of $19,292.92, is $91,257.97. The report shows eighty macadam roads < on the tax duplicate, and the total indebtedness for these eighty roads is $424,564.54. Every township in the > county is affected in this road indebtedness, from two to six road extensions having been made in every township. According to United States government reports there are more miles of macadam roads in Adams county than in any county in the United States. This is but another • evidence of the brand of progress ! that abounds 1 in the most fertile and , well peopled spot in the country— Adams county. To add to all this gayety, there is not one farmer living along any of these eighty roads, that would suffer the removal of the road ‘ for fifty times its original cost. And . that is not all, the demand is stren- i uous for more roads. The bottom , dropping out of the bond market has . been a sore disappointment to the , many not only wanting but demand- , ing more roads. Some road bonds are now hanging fire, awaiting a purchaser. A few of these have been . negotiated the farmers along the pro- . posed roads making up two or three per cent, but even with this advantage the market remains dull. AFTER SUNDAY < New Rule on Marriages . Goes in Effect i Easter ( 1 WILL BE ENFORCED ! — The New Rules Will be Read from Every Catholic Pulpit in the World I Rome, April 15. —Catholic sweethearts must make their engagements . In writing after next Sunday. Catholic marriages by Protestant clergymen or magistrates will be invalid. 1 I Such marriages have always been punishable, but the church considered them binding. They are not even i that under the new Catholic law. The 1 revised betrothal and marriage rules will be read from every Catholic pulpit in the world at Easter and be- i come effective at noon. Speaking of i engagements, they say: Only those I are considered valid which have been 1 contracted in writing, signed by both I parties and by either the parish priest 1 or the ordinary of the place, or at < least by two witnesses. Private engagements are referred to as an in- 1 citement to sin and causing the de- 1 ception of inexperienced girls and 1 afterward giving rise to inextricable I dissensions and disputes. Only those 1 marriages are valid says the papal, 1 mandate, which the contracted before i the parish priest or by the ordinary i of the place, or by a priest designated by either of these, and at least two witnesses. The marriage must be by i or with the consent of the priest of 1 the parish in which either the bride, i the bridegroom or both have lived ' for at least a month.

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening April 16, IVOB.

FOREIGN AUTOS MAKE GAIN. L The New York-Paris Race is Getting Interesting. Seattle, April 15. —The crews of the Zust and De Dion autos in the New York to Paris race, with their cars, became passengers on the Pacific liner Aki Maru for Japan, from whence they will ship to Vladivostok , for the long run to their destination. By catching the Aki Maru out of Seattle yesterday they gained three , weeks’ time on the homas American car. The latter was shipped to Alaska and tried the trails there, but found them absolutely impassable. The Thomas will return here Friday by boat, and will take the next ship to Japan. The foreigners took advantage of the Americans’ experience in Alaska to ship direct to Vladivostok. THAT FATAITiRE Mrs. John Ritzj.Well Known by Many Decatur People Lost Two Children IN COLLINWOOD FIRE She Was in the City Yesterday and Has Gone to Rockford, Ohio, for Visit Mrs. John Ritzi, well known by manypeople in this city who. before the time of the disastrous fire in which many school children were burned to death, lived in Collinwood, a suburb of Cleveland, was in the city yesterday and was treated for the removal of a growth on her temple by Dr. C. S. Clark. Some time beiore rhe fire, Mrs. Ritzi was visiting in this city. She made special trips to the office of Dr. Clark for treatment and when she notified the physician that she expected to return to her home at Collinwood, she was instructed to be sure to return in four days for further treatment for the cancerous affection. The lady promised, but when four days’ time elapsed, she did not appear. In fact she did not return until two weeks afterward and her husband accompanied her to this city. They had I the appearance of being broken hearted. and when asked waht caused thensadness, the parents related of how two of their children whose respective ages were nine and twelve years, had burned to death in the Collinwood fire. So broken hearted were these parents over the tragic death of their children that they have not yet returned to their home, but they are staying at Convoy, Ohio with relatives. The sympathy of their Decatur friends is extended. o_ SMASHED BATTLESHIP PROGRAM President Roosevelt Lost Out on His > Four Ships of War. Washington. April 16.—The house of representatives smashed President Roosevelt’s program for the construction of four large battleships.- The bouse has been In continuous rebellion all this week over the president’s plan of spending approximately $40,000,000 in building four fighting engines of war, and this afternoon it voted down the proposition by the decisive majority of 199 to 83. If the house had not knocked the president’s program into a cocked hat, the senate would have done so. Tbe common Interpretation of the president’s defeat is that he is losing his grip on congress. Certainly he put in many hard licks in trying to line up recalcitrant members for his pet project of four battleships. That the verdict was so overwhelmingly against him is consignificant. His administration is nearing an end and there are many who doubt whether he ever will have the influence over congress that formerly caused congressmen to step lively when he cracked the whip. Only forty-two Republican members of the house stood up and were counted on the side of the president. — Patrick J. Bobo has returned from an extensive trip through the eastern states, and he states that business is fine. Pat is the picture of health. He will remain here for some time with his mother.

SCHOOL DAYS END Thirteen Decatur Young People Will Graduate from D. H. S. Next Month WITH HIGH HONORS They Have Paved the Way for a Successful Busiiness Life All of the high school students, especially the Juniors and Seniors, are looking forward to commencement week, when a great time will be enjoyed. As usual, the Juniors will entertain the Seniors at a ropal reception and many other events will be observed. While commencement week is one replete with brilliant social events, yet in a measure the students who arte about to enter on thear business career are loath to consider that their scholarship in the Decatur public schols is at an end. It is an important time in the life of the students who graduate. They have studied diligently in an effort to pave the way for a success in their business career and their restinies hinge upon their undertakings of the first few years after graduation. Students who have studied and recited side by side for years will soon leave the Decatur public schools, each of whom may seek a different line of work and locate in entirely different fields of labor. They may never see each other again but the fond recollections of the old school days will be revived and talked about around the hearth of the representatives of the Senior classes of the D. H. S. in years to come. However distant may the graduates locate and however different their work may be, it is the sincere desire of Decatur people that their lives will be attended by an abundance of success. Thirteen young people will bid adieu to the faculty and students of the D. H. S. the last of next month, all of whom will graduate with high honors. Some will lead the life of pedagogue and will qualify for same this summer. G. L. Mclntosh will lecture at the commencement and as people know who heard him at the Presbyterian church, he is an interesting and forceful speaker. MACADAM SALE One Advertised by Treasurer Lachot for April 27 MACADAM ROAD DAY Eight Road Petitions to be Presented to the Commissioners Treasurer Lachot Js advertising bonds on the Elzey macadam road in Root township, and also bonds for the Blomberg road in Preble township. The issue for the Elzey road is $4,060, and the Blomberg road is $7,300. Both are payable in twenty semi-annual installments and bear four and one-half per cent Interest. The date of this bond sale is Monday, April 27, and bids will be received until ten o'clock of that day. Monday. May 4, will be old times in commissioners court. At that time eight macadam road petitions will be presented and favorable action asked thereon. The roads are the J. P. Neusbaum road, Joel Hirschy extension, Bucher extension, Broadbeck extension, Hendricks extension, Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash extension four, French township central extension and Washington-Kirkland extension. It Is the first macadam road business that has been pulled off before the commissioners for several months, and if the bonds will sell, there will be a great revival in the building of macadam roads. ——• ■ ■ - —- Mrs. Jack Reynolds returned from with her son Rolland at that place with her son Rolland at trat place for three weeks.

ARE AFTER THE QUACKS. State Medical Board Are Up on Their Ear. In connection with the meeting of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination to be held at the state house April 21. a conference of ail the officers of medical schools, district medical societies and medical counselors in the state will be held at night in the Claypool hotel. The purpose of both meetings is to discuss methods of gathering information for the prosecution of quacks and men who are evading the medical laws of the state. According to Dr. W. T. Gott, of Crawfordsville, secretary of the state board, who was at the state house yesterday, there are many in the medical profession who are ignorant of the law as well as those who are seeking to get around its provisions. PREDICTACONTEST The Anti-Bryan Movement Being Boomed by Its Friends ANOTHER RUMP Virginia Republicans Having Their Troubles—Congress to Adjourn May 16 Washington, April 16. —The Democrats who are encouraging the antiBryan movement are almost ready to predict that there will be a real contest at Denver. The claim is now made that more than ono-third of the delegates will be opposed to the nomination of the Nebraskan. The number required to tie up the convention is almost in sight, it is asserted. Some of the antis said they could see three hundred anti-Bryan delegates today. “And the movement has just been put under way,” they said. The action of the New York Democrats in refusing to send an instructed delegation encourages the men who are engaged in the effort to prevent the nomination of Bryan. It is admitted that much depends on the attitude of the south. Emissaries from the anti-Bryan camp are now at work down there trying to convince the party that it would be wise to drop Bryan and take Johnson or some other good man. Washington, April 16. —The Republican party in Virginia is about to split over the presidential nomination. A call was issued for another convention to be held in the Seventh congressional district for the election of delegates to the national convention. Arrangements are also being made for the call for a second state convention. The representatives of the party who are eigaging In the revolt allege that the conventions already held, state and district, did not represent the party in the state; that they were controlled by federal officeholders; that representation was denied the negroes, etc. It is alleged that in some of the district conventions entire subdivisions were barred because the office-holding clique could not find any one in those subdivisions who would follow their commands. Washington. April 16.—Saturday, May 16, is the day set for the ad journment of congress. The president said that the date would be satisfactory to him, and the leaders in the senate and house at once began making plans to close down the session on that day. Representating the : speaker and the committee on order i of business in the senate Mr. Watson, I of Indiana, talked the legislative sitI uation over with the president. Mr. Roosevelt made it plain that he wanted certain things done, but he exI pressed a willingness to bow to the ; will of the legislative body. THIRTEENTH DISTRICT ELECTION ' Governor Hanly announced that he • . would fix the date for a special eleci tlon in the Thirteenth district to elect , a successor to the late Congressman Brick for Nov. 3, the same date as that for the regular election The vacancy will be unfilled, therefore, dur- , ing the remainder of the present ses- < I sion of congress. 1

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COURT HOUSE NEWS Webber vs. Webber, a Divorce Case is Filed THE RECORD TODAY Mrs. Margaret Briggs Appointed on Board of Charities Attorney E. A. Mock, of Tipton, filed a suit for divorce, the contracting parties being Emma E. Webber vs. Samuel A. Webber. The plaintiff lives at Geneva, and the defendant is a saloonkeeper and lives at Indianapolis. The complaint is written in four paragraphs and alleges abandonment, cruel and inhuman treatment, adultery and many other allegations too numerous to mention. They have three children, two of them past the legal age and one a minor whose age Is not given in the complaint. They seperated April 1, 1906, and since that time have not lived or cohabited together. Tre plaintiff prays for a deeflee of divorce, custody of minor child, alimony in such sum as may be deemed right and just, and for all other proper relief. Judge J. T. Merryman will be at Huntington tomorrow presiding in a damage case in Judge Cook’s court. The resignation of Mrs. E. X. EhInger as a member of the county board of charities, was filed and accepted. The vacancy was filled by the appointment of Mrs. Margaret Briggs, of Geneva. The Flint Stone Stone company vs. Calvin Miller et al, rule to answer absolute in five days. Citizens Bank <sf Portland vs. Rosa E Smitley et al, motion by Louis Brandt to compel plaintiffs to make complaint more specific. Albert. Butler vs. Noah Mangold et al before Clark J. Lutz, as special judge, and he assumes jurisdiction. James H. Sullivan vs. Grand Rapids (Continued on page 4.) THE HOUSE CRY Is Now Heard More Distinctly Than Ever—Who Will Build Them WE NEED THIRTY At Least to Meet the Demands of the People Who are Coming The cry for more houses is more distinct now than ever. We must have them. Twenty-five families are preparing to move from Marion to this city and where will they find shelter? There is scarcely a vacant, house in the city and why the people with capital do not meet the demand and reap a good harvest therefrom is the question that is perplexing ’he minds of the people. The Ward Fence buildings are being rapidly constructed and the expert wire makers and their families must be taken care of when they arrive. Beside these, there are many other people who desire to locate in Decatur if they could find a suitable home. Our city is In a crammed condition. Often times it will be found that two families live in a small house, scarcely adequate for one family and the trying situation must be relieved. The people who own lots in the vicinity of the Ward Fence and Coppock Motor Car companies would do well to build houses as good rent would I be paid for the use of same. Who will ■be the first to make the initial movement to make room for the people who will move to our city? —o —— Professor Witthaus, of Berne, passed through the city to Preble, where he will transact business today.