Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 112

WOMAN ARRESTED Who is Thought to Be Mrs. Guinness the Multi-Mur-deress of Laporte ONE MORE BODY Added to the List of Gruesome Relics—lnvestigation Continues

Utica, N. Y., May 9. —Detectives Niess and Donovan, of Syracuse, arrived here this morning at 1:40 o’clock on the New York Central with a woman who, according to the police, resembles the description of Mrs. Belle Ounness, the Indiana murderess. She was arrested on the train and gave her name as Mrs. A. L. Heron, of Chicago. Laporte, Ind., May B.—One more body was added to the death roll of the Gunness farm today, the grewsome relics now numbering teu. Developments in the case come thick and fast this evening, each additional circumstance brought to sight being of a nature to strengthen the charges against Ray Lamphere, who is accused of first degree murder, because of the deaths of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her three children. Lamphere today sent a request to his attorney, asking the latter to send to the farm of John Wheatbrook for the trunk which Lamphere left there when he was arrested April 28. But before this word*had reached the attorney, the trunk had been confiscated by the local authorities. It contained a number of letters written by Mrs. Guinness to Lamphere, after the latter had talten employment at the farm of John Wheatbrook. near Springville, seven miles north of this city. The exact dates of these letters were not announced but that they were recent is evidenced by the fact that Lamphere went to the Wheatbrook farm Feb. 3, 1908. The woman wrote to Lamphere, urging him to return to her farm, and to “bring your sweetheart with you if she has money enough.”

A LARGE ESTATE Disposed of in the Will of the Late Christian SchamerloK » PROBATED TODAY Includes Two Large Farms. Stocks in Bank and Telephone Co. and Cash

One of the largest estates in Union was that of Christian SchaK merloh, whose will was filed for proft bate at the clerk’s office. After pro- ■ Tiding for the payment of debts and funeral expenses, he gives to his son ■ "William, 120 acres of land in Union K township and four shares of capital ■stock in the First National bank; to B his son Henry he bequeathed 195 acres ■ in Union township, subject to the con- ■ dition that a daughter Annie SchamerB koh shall have two rooms 1n the ■ house, upstairs on the east side, durE ing her life and be properly cared ■ for, To Caroline Thieme he gave | $4,000, to Annie Schamerloh $4,000 and ■ seven shares of capital stock in the ■ First National bank and to Beatee B Bleeke $4,000 and fifty shares of CitiE zens Telephone stock. In case there ■ is not a sufficient amount of money B and stocks to pay the bequests, Wil- ■ liam is to make up the deficiency and E if there is any over, the same is to Bbe divided equally among the chil- ■ dren. William and Henry Schamer- ■ loh are named as executors. The will B was written September 30, 1907, and ■ witnessed by E. X. Ehinger and C. A. ■ Dugan. 0 Harry Peacock, of Union City, Ind.. ■ left for Upland, to make advance ar- ■ rangements for the lecturer “Fanning" ■ who will lecture at the Christian ■ church Monday afternoon and at the ■ court house Monday evening, May j ■ll inns

RAILROADS TO RAISE RATES. Said to Be Doing it With Consent of Administration. New York, May 9—The World today publishes the following dispat th from Washington: That President Roosevelt and officials of his administration have consented to an arrangement whereby the great railroads will be permitted to effect a gigantic combination and raise freight rates is now strongly suspected by many senators. That this compact has been carried to such an extent as to result in definitely determining the first commodity on which rates shall be advanced is received with credence almost equivalent to conviction. It is thought that Senators Foraker, of Ohio, and Culberson, of Texas, will from day to day bring forward a few additional facts calculated to establish this political and business agreement until a grand climax of accusation is reached. They do not intend to rest until some kind of statement is given out by the president, the interstate commerce commissioners and others interested In bringing about such a restoration of peace between the administration and the corporations.

QUICK HAIRCUTS Marshall Gives a Remedy for the Grafting Habit GOOD ADVICE The Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Spoke at Logansport

“Os recent years,” he said, “the tendency has been to shift the responsibility of government on the officeholders, when, as a matter of fact, good government depends on good citizenship. Every man in Indiana ought to feel that he is personally responsible for the affairs of the state, and he ought not to be interested alone on election day or in the mere making of campaign speeches, but he ought to study the constitution, both national and state, and realize the difference between Democratic and Republican views; make up his mind which view is the correct one, and then get out and try to impress others. It is t|ie duty to ascertain whether public officials, who are his servants and not his masters, are faithfully performing their duties. Public officials should be made conscious of the fact that they are but servants of the people; that they have simply been hired to do a certain work, and have not been set up as demagogues to look down on others. Officials who do not faithfully perform the duties of office should be discharged and he who attempts to graft should be given a quick haircut and a striped suit of clothes. That is far better than appointing a guardian to watch and see that he does not steal. If more quick haircuts and striped suits were given there would be less grafting. The creating of an endless chain of new offices is a grafting practice that should be stopped. Until we return to what office holding really is. ‘service of the people,’ we may expect the continued multiplication of offices. There are two contending forces of civilization —the Democrat, who believes in man, as a man who thinks he is able to govern himself; who believes with Lincoln that God never made a man good enough to be another man’s master, without his consent; who thinks that written constitutions should be strictly construed; that the home should control as much as it can and what it cannot control, may be delegated to the township, and what the township cannot control be delegated to the county and state. The other idea is the federalist idea now entertained by some but not all Republican leaders. It is that some men are born to rule; that God made some men with better civil right than others; that in the old world this lead to the divine right of kings to rule; it made the slave-holding aristocracy of the south, it has flowered in this age in the men of special privilegs; the man who believes that the dollar is more important than himself. And so we are at the old conflict between those who believe in men on one side and pin their faith to a few men on the other side. The conflict is ever old, but ever new, and it will nev(Contlnued on page 2.)

COURT HOUSE NEWS Mrs. Emerine Granted a Divorce But Mrs. Myers Was Refused COUPLE TO REMARRY Walters Drain Petition Sustained and Drainage Comsioners Named

Harriet B. Emerine was granted a divorce from Benjamin Emerine and judgment was rendered against the defendant for costs. The petition of Albert Walters et al, petition for drain, was sustained, and referred to L. L. Baumgartner and Charles Morrison as drainage commissioners, to meet with John P. Steiner at the county auditor’s office on Saturday, May 16, and ordered to report May 29. Carrie Shoemaker vs. George E. Shoemaker, divorce, reset for Monday June Bth. Sadie E. Myers vs. Harvey E. Myers divorce cause, heard last Monday was decided, Judge Merryman refusing to grant the decree. Mary J. Weeks, admr. for the Grant Weeks' estate, filed a current report which was allowed. Edward Moser, guardian for Francis E. Moser, filed a current account and same was allowed. A marriage license was Issued to S. M. Leidy, aged forty, a school teacher from Cloverdale, Ohio, and Alta Leidy, aged twenty-seven, of Geneva. The parties were married once before and were divorced in the Adams circuit court about two years ago. Mr. Leidy was formerly a minister. Attorneys Heller and Son filed a new case today entitled Conrad D. Gallmeyer, trustee, vs. Edward Gallmeyer et al injunction, quiet title and damages. —

IS AT LARGE AGAIN David Wormcastle Spent Last Night in County Jail HE CARRIED WEAPON € Is Wanted at Fort Wayne So That Bondsmen Can Be Relieved

After displaying a 32 calibre revolver and in other ways antagonizing the citizens, David Wormcastlc, of Mon roeville, a character of questionable repute, was lodged in the county jail last night at ten o’clock, where he remained until this morning, when he paid a fine of S2O for carrying concealed weapon. The man had driven to the city and proceeded to load himself with bad whisky. His drunkenness relieved him of what common sense he possessed and he busied himself flashing a revolver at every saloon he visited stating as he did that no officer could escort him to jail. Marshal Bohnke heard of the unbecom ing actions of the man and after find ing Policeman Fisher they started a search for the drunken man, finding him in the Sheline saloon. Wormcastle was queried as to having a revolver and he bitterly denied it. The evidence being of so little value, they thought best to make a search and be certain kbout the matter. Wormcastle did not take kindly to the proposed search and offered resistance. However after casting a glimpse at the pursuader held by Fisher, he reconsidered the situation and calmly submitted. Marshal Bohnke knew Wormcastle, and further he knew that he (W r ormcastle) was wanted at Fort Wayne, so after lodging him behind the bars, he telephoned Sheriff Grice asking him whether or not Wormcastle was still wanted. The Fort Wayne officer said he would look it up and let him know. This he did this morn(Coatiaaed on pace 3)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening May 9, 1908.

®rSMoijs PEOPLIfO BY FANNIE M LOTHROP / - M. -1 I ’V v Ih H u i j * Photo. W Fuou. Puli MADAME CURIE The Famous Discoverers of Radium All the known radium in the world could be put into a tablespoon, yet this less than an ounce of the magic metal has set the scientists of two continents guessing at this new conundrum of nature. The answers are very wonderful, very stimulating, but very unsatisfactory, so far as the theories are concerned, that seek to explain this rebel element which seems to defy so outrageously Nature's strictest laws. To the late M. Pierre Curie, a chemist. and his wife, belongs the honor of discovering the miraculous metal. They were poor, hard-working people, consecrated to science, caring little for wealth or fame or position. Reserved and conservative, they spoke with extreme caution as to their discovery made in 1898; although tha non-scien-tific world has just awakened to the revelation in the past two years. In a little, old-fashioned house at the extreme end of Paris, near the outer boulevard, whose criminals have given the section an unsavory name, lived the devoted couple with their one child and M. Curie’s father, who is also a famous chemist. Some years ago Mlle. Sklodowski, a poor Polish girl, went from Warsaw, her native town, to Paris to study. She had talent and pluck for the double fight against poverty and opposition. Her first triumph was when she entered a competitive examination for higher mathematics. Her success was so overwhelming that the other competitors were eclipsed and eliminated. Not having money enough to enter one of the regular schools, she entered a municipal working-class Institute, where M. Curie directed the laboratory. Soon she was his assistant and a little later his wife. Some of the experiments of Becquerel on the radio-activity of uranium specially appealed to her, and she determined to experiment on the refuse ore of pitchblende, from which uranium is taken. It was then considered worthless, like the culm of our coalfields. She drew her husband into the search and it took four years to get enough traces of this metal, worth three thousand times its weight in pure gold, to show its properties. Her paper oa radium won for her the degree of Doctor of Physical Science. As a grain of musk will perfume a room for a century or more, constantly throwing off fine particles witho-'t decreasing its weight, so radium bombards the ether with light, heat, energy, and half a dozen other marvellous effects, without appreciable loss, and in a thousand million years it would have lost only one-millionth of its bulk. It is the Andrew Carnegie of the metals, constantly giving but never growing measurably poorer. Copyright transferred to Wm. C. Mack, 1906.

"JINKS” FRANCE AT BLUFFTON Half Owner in a Good Stock Show Playing There. "Jinks" France, who spent some of his early boyhood days as a resident of Bluffton, is one of the principal characters in the Jordon Stock Company which is playing at the Grand. In fact Mr. France is one of the owners of the show, which by the way can truthfully be reported as the finest company playing in repertoire that has been at the Grand this season. That is, they showed up exceptionally strong on their first night, and as the company is composed of first class people throughout there is every reason to predict that the shows tonight and Saturday night, also the Saturday matinee, will be good. The entire company is high class and their costumes are also strictly up-to-date and true to the characters they represent. The company furnishes both tragedy and comedy and it is in the latter line that “Jinks” France shines. Mr. France and Mr. Jordan are the owners of the show and they have been meeting with splendid success on their tour, which will he very gratifying news to the friends of Mr. France here. —Bluffton News.

WILL GO TO MUNCIE. Local Ball Team Leaves Tomorrow Morining. Captain C. E. Pennington and his ball team will leave for Muncie on the 10:32 Clover Leaf train tomorrow morning to engage in a battle for honors with the Muncie Shamrocks. The locals wil| present a strong linup in tomorrow’s game and with favorable weather it is anticipated that a large crowd will witness the initial debut of our boys on a Muncie diamond. Cal Robison, who so cleverly decorated the center mound against the Fort Wayne Greys last Sunday, holding them down to five hits, will pitch the game. A number of new faces will be seen with the locals tomorrow. Every member of the team is requested to meet at the Model cigar store tomorrow morning at 10:00 o’clock.

ANSWERS CHARGE Presidentßupright of French Township Mutual Issues a Statement CLEARS EVERYBODY Says Zimmerman AppointWas by Consent of All the Officers

To Editor of the Decatur Democrat: In reply to the Bluffton News of April 24, concerning the statement of the resignation of Harry O. Grove, I will say that it is a mistake. With the consent of all officers of the French Township Fire Insurance Co., with the exception of S. H. Hocker, who failed to be present at the especially called meeting for that purpose, Mr. E. E. Zimmerman was to act as assistant to Harry O. Grove and to keep the company’s books for the secretary, Harry O. Grove, until the annual meeting to be held the first Saturday in October, 1908. At that time Harry O. Grove was to be present from Texas and to give a correct and complete report of the year’s work. I will further say that Mr. Zimmerman had not been asked to turn over the books by any authority whatever. We, as a company, had no right to the new books until we, as a company, had paid Mr. Grove for the work that he had done in transcribing the business from the old books to the new ones, correcting the many mistakes found in the old books and doing the every-day business of the company. I feel that there has been an injustice done to Mr. Zimmerman by the publication through the News of April 24, 1908, in saying that he was a usurper of the office of secretary; and that he absolutely refused to turn over the books. Now. to the policy holders of the (Continued on page 3.)

ROHRER GETS BRIDGE JOB Lands Good Sized Contract at Portland. The Board of County Commissioners were in session Thursday and let the contracts for the construction of seven bridges and as many concrete abutments located in Bearcreek, Wabash and Jackson townships, known as the Beck, Glentzner, Fifer, Minch, Sisk, Williams and Rupel bridges. All of the work was awarded to the Berne Witness company of Berne and will be constructed in accordance witjh plans and specifications furnished by them Instead of those already on file prepared by the county surveyor. The total of the seven bids amounted to $2,585.24 or $1,144.74 less than the amount of the appropriations. Other bidders for the construction of the work were Emile Thornburg, Attica Bridge Co., Herman S. Fox, Martin Kessen, G. F. Fennig, G. W. and Asa A. Layton. Indiana Bridge Co., W. T. Metzer and P. B. Sawhier. Friday the commissioners will meet as the county board of finance to check up the receipts and expenditures of the other ccunty officials during the month just closed. —Portland Daily Sun.

TO RECLAIM LAND Scheme to be Worked Through Congressional Action APPROPRIATION BILL Tied Up Over Abolishing Seventeen Pension Agencies Washington, May 9. —Sentiment in congress is crystallizing in favor of the beginning of a national movement resigned to reclaim the swamp and waste land of the nation. Ever since the work of reclaiming the arid land of the west by means of irrigation proved a success many public men have been asking the question: “Why not reclaim the swamp lands also?” It required ten or fifteen years to get congress in a mood to open the way for the reclamation of the arid lands, and while it may not take as long to get the work of reclaiming the swamp lands started, no one expects hasty action. The subject has received a good deal of attention during the past two sessions of congress. Bills providing ways and means for carrying forward the work are oi) the calendars in both senate and house, and the whole subject is being very carefully looked into. The senate took what is regarded as an important step recently by asking the secretary of agriculture to report to it regarding the location and area of swamp and overflowed lands susceptible of being drained for agriculture. Washington, May 9. —The house passed the sundry civil appropriation bill, the consideration of which was completed yesterday. The bill carries a total appropriation of $106,966,369, or $1,241,000 more than as reported by the committee. The deadlock in conference over the pension appropriation bill will continue. The committee is tied up over the proposition to abolish the seventeen United States pension agencies outside of Washington. The senate today lexpressed itself vigorously in favor of holding out for the retention of the agencies. The house today agreed to the conference report on the army appropriation bill, which now goes to the president. Os the seven millions provided for increased pay enlisted men will receive approximately five millions. Washington, May 9. —The great railway systems of the country have united in an effort to kill Senator Hemenway’s ash pan bill. This is the only labor measure that the friends of organized labor have felt confident would pass at his session, and the powerful opposition of the interstate carriers has caused the labor leaders to lose heart and to admit that the outlook for Senator Hemenway’s bill is not as bright as it was. Miss Laura Beck, who made a pleasant visit with her sister, Mrs. Walter Johnson, returned to her home at Tocsin this morning. She was accompanied by Master Lamar Johnson.

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AN ESTATE MUDDLE Causes a Big Law Suit in Which Complaint Covers Twenty Pages WAS FILED TODAY An Injunction and S2OO Damages Asked—Conrad Gallmeyer, Plaintiff

A new case was filed today by Attorneys D. D. Heller and Son, in which the complaint covers twenty pages, and which will prove of interest to many, as the parties who live in this and Allen county are well known. The suit is brought by Conrad D. Gallmeyer trustee, against Edward Gallmeyer and sixteen others. In February, 1905. Wilhelminia Gallmeyer died, leaving a will in which she gave an eightyacre farm in Preble township to her son Wilhelm, he to pay all debts, her funeral expenses and to give to each of the other children certain sums varying from $275 $450 and to keep and care for Miss Anna Gallmeyer, his sister, so long as she remain single. He accepted the trust, but last fall became dissatisfied, called a meeting of all the children, and proposed that they sell the real and personal property and divide the proceeds in a satisfactory manner. This was agreed to generally and Conrad Gallmeyer. one of the heirs, was made trustee. A sale of the personal property was held but before the trustee found a buyer fo’- the farm which he held at $7,200, it seems that Wilhelm Gallmeyer gave Fred W. Jaebker a quit claim deed for same for $3,595 and took a mortgage on said land. August Conrad has possession of the farm now as a tenant and this suit asks for possession of same, a partition and for S2OO damages, the loss of this years crop. The case looks like a stubborn and entangled legal battle. Ex-congressman Robison, of Fort Wayne, and J. C. Sutton, of this city, will appear for a part of the defendants.

WAS IN BAD WRECK H. M. Romberg Was Passenger on 111-Fated Traction Car HIS INJURIES SLIGHT Three Passengers Fatally Hurt and* Seven Seriously Injured H. M. Romberg arrived here today and shows the result of his participation in the traction wreck on the I. U. T which occurred a mile south of Logansport Thursday evening. Mr. Romberg was on a limited car going from Indianapolis to Logansport. When about a mile out of the latter city and going down a steep grade, they turned a sharp curve and dashed into a repair car. They were running at a rate of fifty miles an hour and both cars were shattered. Mr. Romberg noticed the approaching danger, saw the Motorman leap and just had time to throw himself to the floor. This perhaps saved his life. As it was he received an ugly gash on the right arm, a cut. on the face and a badly bruished hip. Walter Quinton, of Anderson was so badiy injured that he died soon afterward. Two others were fatally hurt and seven others badly injured. Mr. Romberg helped extricate his fellow passengers and worked on hour before he realized that he had injuries that needed attention. A big leather pocket book which he carried in his hip pocket perhaps saved him from receiving a fractured hip. Mr. R. Gilpen, of Fort Wayne, while in the city a few days ago, lost a twenty dollar bill, after drawing some money from the Adams County bank. Frank McConnell found it shortly afterward, but did not know who had lost it. However, Mrs. Gilpen made it known and It was duly returned to her iast last night.