Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 156.

OFF TO NEWCASTLE A Movement i$ on Foot to! Enter Clay Peterson in State Institution A DOZEN OTHERS Epileptics in Adams County Are Eligible and Should Be Entered A movement is on foot to obtain admission to the Newcastle Epileptic ! instituion for Clay Peterson of the south part of the city, who has been a sufferer from epilepsy for many years. It is the opinion of Interested parties, that this young man |will be admitted in due time for his subjection to the dread disease is of' the nature which the state institution is prepared to successfully treat. The Indiana Village for Epileptics is growing more popular with the passing of each day. The news of the successful, scientific treatment of unfortunate individuals has propagated throughout the country to the extent that inquiries reach the beard Jof managers frequently from far off states asking admission thereto. This institution is located on a picturesque spot in southern Indiana. It is beautiful lu its construction and wonderful in its treatment. The clever manner in which the place is conducted has already reflected much credit upon the legislative body of 1905, who passed the measure which authorized its existence. There are at least one dozen epileptics in Adams county who are eligible to enter the Newcastle institution and that the necessary procedure to enter them immediately Is the proper thing to do is conceded by all for the patients will be better taken care of and scientific treatment which will enlarge their menial capacities and fit them for a responsible life will be administered. No parent should neglect sending their children so afflicted to the Indiana village for the epileptics as their destiny may hinge upon an action of this nature. ■ —-■ o GAVE A DISSENTING OPINION In the Liquor Case Appealed from Montpelier. Judges of the supreme court entertain dissenting opinions in the celebrated diuor license case of the City of Montpeler vs. Lee Mills, appealed from the Blackford circuit court. The majority in the higher court recently made its finding, reversing the decision of Judge Sturgis. Friday the dissenting opinion "was given out. It read as follows: Where the city council arbitrarily refused the holder of a county saloon license any opportunity to show himself also entitled to a city saloon license under a city ordinance, and refused him permission to offer any evidence in support of his application, after he had tried in every manner to comply with the requirements of the ordinance, the city ought not to be allowed to maintain an action for the prescribed penalty for selling liquor without the city license. A city council merely acts in a ministerial capacity in granting or refusing a city saloon license, and can exercise no judicial power, and where a person fully entitled to such license is arbitrarily refused one without a hearing he should be accorded the same legal standing as if it had been issued. The opinion was written by Judge Jordan and Judge Gillett concurred. Mills was granted a license to engage in the sale of intoxicating liquors at Montpelier by the board of county commissioners. The Montpelier city council refused io accept his city license fee. Not to be outdone Mills placed the fee in a bank to the city’s credit and engaged in business as though there had been no opposition to the issuing of a license. o Commissioner Stults is doing some good work on the streets, and the work done is evidence in itself that the street commissioner knows his business. Adams street is among those recently improved, and it looks it.

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FILE DISBARMENT PROCEEDINGS I Two Hartford .City Attorneys Are Up Against It. Disbarment proceedings again st Henry S. Fargo and David H. Fouts iwere brought in the Blackford circuit i court Monday morning by Attorneys i Luther B. Simmons, Enos Cole and i Elisha Piere, the committee appointed oy Judge Sturgis to prosecute the action. Immediately following the filing of the cases Mr, Fouts withdrew his membership from the Blackford County Bar association, and the court dismissed the disbarment case against him. Mr. Fouts will move elsewhere, probably to Upland. The allegations , set forth In the complaint against i Squire Fargo are exactly the same as previously published in the News. Summons has been issued for Squire Fargo returnable July 4, the last day of the June term of court. Some weeks ago Mr. Fargo exprssed his .intention of making a defense, but later he refused to be interviewed. Should he fight the case he is entitled to select legal talent. The case will be public. A trial would develop j sensational features. —Hartford City News. SIX CAR LOADS Os Ward Fence Machinery Has Arrived in Our City WILL BE INSTALLED The Decatur Institution Will Be in Operation Next Week Six car loads of Ward Fence machinery and equipments have arrived in the city and being prepared for installation at the new plant located in the vicinity of the Coppock automobile factory. Notwithstanding the fact that twenty more car loads are yet ro be shipped from Marion to this city, the management expects to have the machinery in operation here by the last of next week. Work Is still going on in the Marion factory and will continue until the major part of the machinery is removed therefrom. The new plant is nearly completed, a small , portion of the floor remaining to be laid and the equipments will be installed immediately. A large force of men will be on the pay roll when ' the factory is in full operation and Decatur is assuming the air of a manufacturing city. Mr. Harry Ward, one of the pro- ’ prietors, has removed his family here and they are occupying the Van Camp house on First street. E. Shoemaker, shipping clerk and family, have arrived to make their future abode. O. H. Lamborn and family are here • from Marion. Mr. Lamborn is a weav- , er in the employ of the Ward Fence • company. k ■ ■ 1 "■ — Charles Throp. packer, is among the • Ward Fence employes who have taken • up their abode here. William Slusher and family are • among the-new arrivals. Mr. Slusher > is also an employe of this concern, i Ed Lyons, the general foreman of ; the factory has also arrived. 1 A number cf the employes will re- ? main at Marion temporarily until ar- • rangements can be made to move - here. s J. E. Lawrence, special traveling r representative for the Ward Fence f Co. hag returned from a business s trip to Meridian, Miss., where he closed s a contract for the sale of 5,000 feet s of ornamental fence, a ————— SALOONS OUT OF LINN GROVE. Morris Ehrsom closed his saloon at e Linn Grove today, the last to go out e of existence in that thriving commun,t ity, after the remonstrance victory of s several months ago. The saloon men g took their banishment from business s in a good natured way, celebrating the [event in the usual jolly manner.

IMPORTANT EVENT Will Be the International Congress at Washington This Year FIRST SESSION HERE Every Country in the World —Every State in Union to Be Represented The International Congress on Tuberculosis which is to be held in Washington Sept. 21 to Oct. 12 meets every three years, and this is the first time it has come to this country. The last meeting was held in Paris, France, in 1905, and three years before that the gathering took place in London, It is not likely that the congress will convene in he United States for a great many years, as the honor of entertaining it is eagerly sought by the countries abroad. Preparations for the gathering are engaging the attention of every enlighened nation. The white plague is no respecter of persons or of races. It is not limited to any quarter of the globe, and the common ground on which Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America are meeting, is the belief that this disease may be brought under as complete control as smallpox, plague, yellow fever, and other infectious diseases have been by- wide-awake peoples. Committees of arrangements for the congress have been organized in every foreign country, and in every state in our own land. In every section. plans are being perfected for number of the foreign country, and in every state in our own land. In every section, plans are being perfected for representation in the congress. A number of the foreign governments have already announced to the state department at Washington the names of their official delegates; while others have acquainted the secretary general of the congress with their plans for participation in the congress and in the great exhibition that will be held in connection with the gathering. The exhibition and the congress are to be housed in the National Museum, adjoining the Smithsonian. The exhibition promises to be practically a word's fair on the Subject of tuberculosis. It will Show what is being done around the globe in the fight against tuberculosis, from Alaska down to the Cape of Good Hope, from the Steppes of Northern Russia to the diamond fields of South Africa. Every state in the Union is expected to be represented in some way at the congress. The governors of forty states, including Indiana, have authorized the secretaries of state boards of health, the heads of instituions, or other officials, to arrange for participation in the gathering. o —— IT’S A NEW DRINK. Tastes, Smells and Foams Like Beer But it is Not. A new temperance drink has made its appearance tn New Castle and other dry towns. It is manufactured by the breweries and is an exact counterpart of the lager beer except that it contains less alcohol and therefore will not be intoxicating. Jt contains the same hop taste, same color and foams just like the real article. It Is known by many names, 'dry beer," “Nip," “Tonica,” etc. and is becoming quite popular. The manufacturer and dealer who sell this new brand of temperance drink will escape the high revenues. o WILL NOT BE REMOVED. Harry K, Thaw Will Have to Stay at Matteawan Asylum. New York, June 30.—Justice Dowling denied the application of Harry K. Thaw to be removed from the Matteawan state asylum for the criminal insane to some other institution on the ground that Thaw ’ is a dangerously ; insane person, not to be punished, but : to be kept under restrainst so that he • may not injure either himself or any 1 one else. The justice adjourned the i case until July 13, when further ari gument will be heard, and ordered . Thaw to be returned to the prison at Poughkeepsie in the meantime.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, June 30, 1908.

CHARLES LACKEY WRITES US. Says He Has Been Slandered —Denies Owing Any One.

Charls N. Laekey, formerly of this city, and who recently purchased the Rainier restaurant at Willshire, has written us a letter, in which he denies that he owes anybody in Decatur or anywhere else and says if he does he stands ready to pay any account. He also encloses an article of agreement with L. L. Sheline, showing that he was to work for the latter until June 3rd w’hen he was to become the owner by paying $550. He says the people don’t understand the deal and that he has been slandered, o A NEW BASE BALL TEAM. Shamrocks Organize—Are Ready for Date*. The Decatur Shamrocks, a new base ball club was organized here last evening and the boys expect to win their share of games during the season. Charles Girard is the manager: Tom McKean, captain; Alva Buffenbarger filed coach and the lineup will be as follows: Stevens 2b, McKean 3b, Smith lb, Graham ss, Ault catcher. Engle catcher, Girard If, Crabill cf, Cusac rs and Buffenbarger pitcher. The Shamrocks are open for dates any old place. BROKEN JAW BONE Was Sustained bv Miss Mabel Dailey, of Near South Salem BROKE HER JAW BONE Her Head Caught in Wheel of Hay Tedder as Horses Ran Away One of the gravest accidents which we have ever been called upon to dhronicle befell.' Miss Mabel, the twnty-three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J J. Daily, of near Sou’h Salem, yesterday afternoon at on.“ o’clock when she fell beneath the wheels of a hay tedder and sustained a broken inferior maxillary. Miss Daily just returned a week ago from Cairo, Mich., where she has been teaching school for the past year. Wishing to assist her father in getting in his hay crop, she boarded a tedder and began to work. Th’e chain of the tedder broke and the horses became frightened. In the wild flampage the unfortunate girl was thrown to the ground and her head protruded between the spokes cf a wheel in such a manner as to cause the wheel to slip as the tedder went along. Miss Daily was dragged nine feet and when recovered from the perilous situation she lay prostrate and unconscious for more than fifteen minutes. Medical aid was hastily summoned and the lower jaw was placed in form of piaster pails. From present indications Miss Daily will recover without much inconvenience. The injured young woman has been assigned to teach the same school at Cairo, Michigan, nxt year as she did the past year with a material increase In salary. She is a cousin of C. K. Moses, of the firm of Meyer and Moses and a niece of Ed S. Moses, the greenhouse man. She is also a graduate of the Decatur high school. ■ —o — LOOKED NICE ON SUNDAY. The Street Sweeper Was Working Saturday Evening. The street sw’eeper was dn duty last Saturday night, and as a result Second street looked her best on Sunday. Marshal Bohnke wishes to notify the farmers that it will be a convenience to the street officials and perhaps themselves too, if no horses were hitched on this thoroughfare late in the evening. Several farmers Saturday evening thought their animals were stolen, but a short Investigation found them on side streets. This wa s necessary in order that the street could be cleaned. o It is said that all of the women in Denmark work until they are married, 1 Some of them don’t |in tjhlsi country, but all of them do within a few months after the knot is tied. As to what labor, if any, “father” performs in the country of the Danes, we are not informed.

BOSTON FLOODED With Club Women Who Are Holding a National Convention MRS. NIBLICK THERE Excellent Programs Are Being Rendered and Great Time Enjoyed Boston, Mass., June 30.—This week the city of Boston is flooded with the club women of the world in convention here. Mrs. Sarah P. Decker, of Denver, has been a strong president during the last term, but she is about to step aside and there is great rivalry for the office for president. The two prominent rivals for the post are Mrs. Philip N. Moore, of St. Louis, and Mrs. May Alden Ward, of the Massachusetts Mrs. Moore, who was elected during the year of the world's fair, when the biennial took place in St. Louis, as a compliment not only to the woman and to the west, but to the entertaining city, has the tradition of the s> called logical candidate to support her claim. Before her Mrs. Charles H. Denison, of New York, who has filled the position of first vice president while Mrs. Rebecca Lowe was in power, succeeded her principal in the chair. Among the notable speakers to be heard at the evening meetings are Senator Beveridge, of Indiana. and Commissioner of Labor Charles P. Neal. Fully 10.000 delegates and visitors are expected to be here when the convention opens Monday. The arrivals today found awaiting them a carefully prepared program planned by the club women of Massachusetts. The incoming trains were met by a band of young women, acting as guides, to direct the visitors to hotels and the convention hall. At the latter place a bureau of local information was opened today. The main auditorium will be Symphony hall, where morning and evening meetings will be held throughout the whole of next w’eek. Five evening overflow meetings will be held in Chickering hall. At Symphony hall a branch bank has been opened for the convenience of the delegates, and 1 other features include a special postoffice and physicians and nurses In constant attendance in the rest room of the hall. The entertainment prpgram arranged for the week will embrace a complimentary sail down the harbor, a visit to the homes of Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and historic places of Concord and Lexington, a luncheon at the home of Whittier r.t Amesbury, and trips to Salem and Plymouth. Mrs. John Niblick of this city is in attendance at this meeting of the club women. She is accompanied by her husband. • — o QUEEN ESTHERS TO ENTERTAIN A Musical and Literary Program for Tomorrow Evening. The Queen Esther Circle of the M. E. church are preparing to give an entertainment “Queens and a Kingdom,” in the M. E. lecture room Thursday evening July 2nd. They will be assisted by Miss Fay Smith of this city as reader and Mrs. Brookhart, of Celina, who is a singer of rare ability. She is one of the singers who took part in the choral contest at Winona last Friday. The girls desire your patronage Admission adults 20 cents, children 10 cents. The Queen Esther girls are noted for their entertaining qualities and the public is promised an interesting and cleverly executed program. Remember the date, Wednesday evening. July second. o On Sunday, June 28. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Elliott, east of Berne, was held the annual family reunion:. Those present w’ere: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Elliott, Milton Edgel and family, Edward Elliott and family, Albert Buckmaster and family, of Berne; William Sietz and family. Mr. and Mrs. Conn Kelly and son, of Van Buren; Harvey Studabaker and family, of Chattanooga, O.; George Clouds and family, of Rockford, O.; Elmer Smelser and two sons and daughter, Mr. William Ireland. —Berne Witness. Fred Reppert writes us on a beautiful souvenir postal that the Repperts have arrived at Denver O. K. and are located at the Albany hotel, democratic headquarters.

THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. There are Sixty-Five Factories Now in the United States. In 1897 there were but six beet sugar factories in the United States, producing annually 37,500 tons. Now there are sixty-five factories, producing last season 433,000 tons. The value of the present output of domestic beet sugar is $43,300,000. Os this sum over one-half is paid directly to the farmer for his beets. If the 1.700000 tons of sugar imported yearly from Cuba, Java and Europe were produced at home 250 more beet sugar factories would be needed, and about $110,000,000 each year would be paid to the farmers growing beets. The United States can, if it wishes, produce all I the sugar it consumes, vast though that amount is. Germany has 398 beet sugar factories and produces 2,400.000 tons of sugar. France has 307 beet sugar factories, whose annual output is 1.075,000 tons. Russia produces 1.450,000 tons; Austria, 1,509.000 tons; Belgium 328.000 tons; Holland 27,000 tons. The American consumer buys his sugar cheaper than any people in the world, except the English, who produce no sugar. All these facts are of tremendous importance to California, Michigan and the other beet sugar states. WORK HAS BEGUN Surveyors Fixing Grade for Interurban Extension South BEGAN THIS MORNING Grade Work Will Start Fri day—City Line to Be Extended at Once The first actual work on the extension of the Fort Wayne and Springfield traction line from this city to Berne began this morning, when a corps of engineers under A. W. Fishbaugh of Celina, began the real survey. He is assisted by Mr. Weiser of St. Marys, Mr. Grass, of Cleveland and Will Richards of this city. They began work at the Frlsinger farm and will set the grade stakes over the entire right of way to Berne, the work requiring about three weeks. In the meantime the grading will be hurried along. Present arrangements are to begin this work Friday morning when thirteen teams and a force of men will begin making the big fill at Borums run on the Miller farm, this fill being one-third of the entire grade, so far as labor and expense are corncerned. When this is done and the bridge built the work will progress rapidly. The steel foi the extension of the line from the court house to the south city limits at the Frisinger farm, has been shipped and will arrive some time this w-eek, when the work of laying same. The first car to Berne will probably be run about October loth if present plans materialize. — POLITICS IS A GREAT GAME. According to the Sayso of the Indianapolis Star. This is the way politics is played. It is a game set up long in advance and the man that gets the most tricks will not turn them over to the other fellow. In such a game, as in many <them it is probably more consistent with decorum, dignity and fortitude to acknowledge the corn and get ready to shuffle the cards for another game than to snivel and whine and bellyache around that the other fellow seems to have high, low, jack and the game in his hand and woa t give you any points out of regard to the toiling masses and that unless he does you won't play in his backyard. o GILBERT GETS ANOTHER BOOST Washington, D. C„ June 30. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The board of insular affairs today appointed Judge Newton W. Gilbert, formerly lieutenant-governor of Indiana, as a member of the Philippine commission, the governingppo r er of the islands. I

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PROHIBITION TOO I Gen. J. B. Weaver Has a Plank for the Denver Convention i , THEY WILL AGREE I An Injunction Plank Will Not Be Hard to Agree [ Upon i L ; Denver, Colo., June 30.—The fight i over the anti-injunction plank in the 1 Democratic platform Is not the only struggle in which the committee on i resolutions and possibly the convention itself may be involved. It dei veloped that the prohibition question 1 is to be brought to the front and that ( a desperate effort will be made to have a plank declaring in its favor , placed in the platform. The prohibition movement will be headed bv Gen. James B. Weaver of lowa, who demanded of the recent Democratic Iconvention in that state that it declare in favor of prohibition. Gen. Weaver and his followers were not successful in their state, but have made arrange- , ments to bring the matter before the Democratic national convention. They claim strong backing from a number of southern delegations whose states recently passed prohibition laws. The ami-injunction plank continues to provoke a large amount of discussion . among the party leaders who have arrived for the convention. While opinions differ as to the exact nature of the plank which should be adopted all are of one mind in saying it should be a definite and specific statement and leave no possible doubt in the mind of any reader as to where the party stands on this question. • It is generally believed, however, the an‘.iinjunction resolution will not provide for trials by jury in cases of contempt of court, or favor in any way measures which might be construed as interfering with the prerogatives of the federal courts The friends of Mr. Bryan say such of his critics as ire expressing themselves in fear of a radical anti-injunction plank are fighting the air. The plank has not been written; it has not been drafted, and its form it still a matter which is under careful discussion. It is said to be the deire of Mr. Bryan to confer with a s many prominent men of the party as is possible before any decisive action in formulating this resolution is taken. Des Moines. la.. June 30. —“I am not going to Denver," said Governor Johnson in an interview today. “The story was out that I would be there, but it is not true. I propose to tend to my own knitting and run the state of Minnesota in the best possible way and do a little Chautauqua work on the side. However. I will be represented at Denver. Good political and personal friends of mine will be there. If Bryan is the choice of the convention will you seek recognition from the national party by agreeing to accept the vice presidential nomination?” “No, no,” he said hurriedly. “I am a candidate for the presidential nomination of my party. If I do not get it, I am not a candidate for anything else. My friends strictly understand this point.” A party of Fort Wayne men consisting of members and officers of rhe Cuban Land and Improvement, company will leave Thursday afternoon for Chicago from which point they will go directly to Cuba for the purpose of looking after some valuable realty holdings on the island. The party will consist of Bert Dennis, Dr. W. W. Barnett and son, A. D.Palmer and son and G. H Brewer, of Angola. The company is a local one and all of the men interested recently made trips to the islands looking up the lumber prospects. They came back with glowing accounts of the wonderful growth of hard woods, and the company was organized for the purpose of developing the resources of Uncle Sam’s protege in the Atlantic. The local men already control over 32,000 acres of timber land on the island.— Fort Wayne Journal-Gazete. The St. Joseph’s Catholic school will have its annual picnic tomorrow at Henry Eiting’s grov,e .south of the city. Fashion stables will run out hacks to the grounds to accommodate the people and nm doubt a laflge [crowd will attend it.