Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 157.

COURT HOUSE NEWS A New Case Filed—Claims Against Other Counties Prepared WILL BE COLLECTED Nineteen Marriage Licenses During June —Other Items Attorneys Erwin and Underwood, of Fcrt Wayne, filed a new case en- 1 titled The Rurode Dry Goods company of Fort Wayne against Frederick Schafer, suit on account, demand S7OO. Clerk Haefling is preparing claims against various counties in the fol-I lowing cases: Jay county, $7.50. Chas. ! McConnell vs. Florence N. Greiner; Allen county $154.75, Siegfried Geisler vs. City of Fort Wayne; $23.50 D. B. Ninde ys. R. Klein; Wells county, $23.50, State vs. John Wilson; $3.00 Elias Tice et al; SB.OO Thomas j L. Fisher et al, ex parte; SB.OO George I O. Pence et al, ex parte; $182.25 Abraham Wiel et al vs. Charles F. Davison; $lB4 State vs. LeSiay. There are also a number of other similar claime which will be prepared In a few days. The clerk will turn these claims over to Auditor Lewton, whose duty is to collect same. Jacob C. Schwartz et al has deeded to Eli Zook 40 acres in Wabash township for $2,800; Samuel J. Durbin gave Benjamin F. Brown a deed for sixty acres in St. Marys township for $3,600. Judge R. K. Erwin, of Fort Wayne, was here today attending to business of importance. Speaking of the Miller murder case he said that they would argue a motion for a new trial and if this is denied would certainly appeal to the supreme court, where he is confident the verdict of the jurywill be reversed. County Clerk Haefling has completed his report for the month of June. This month of brides, brought forth but nineteen marriage licenses, somewhat below the average which usually reaches twenty-five or thirty and its leap year, too. WERE WEDDED AT MONROE. Miss Leota Nelson and Jesse Johnson Ar e One. Yesterday afternoon ,at three o’clock a wedding ceremony was solemnized at the home of Rev. E. L. Jones, at Monroe, which joined the lives of Miss Leota Nelson and Jesse N. Johnson of this city. The ceremony was impressively performed, after which the happy young couple returned to this city, where a gathering of the Blends of the contracting parties took place at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nelson. This es»imable young couple will make their home with the groom’s father, L. Johnson until next fall. • o A WARNING. A warning 'has been sent out in which the public is urged to be on its guard against salesmen of cloth for suits, which it is alleged is of inferior quality in most cases. The agents sdlling these goods travel through the country taking orders and the warning letter concerning them declares they are imposters. They se’l goods branded as British, French and German manufacture, but it is declared that in most cases these alleged woollen goods are imperfect goods which have been sent back on the mills, which in turn sold them at a low- price to the impostors. Some of them have been dyed so to hide the imperfections while others are Purely cotton. — o The six car loads of machinery which have been received in the city i>y the Ward Fence company from their Marion factory will soon be installed and ready for operation. The other machinery will, in all probability be shipped in time to be Installed before the latter part of next week.

THE JUNE APPORTIONMENT. The States Distribution of the School Revenues. Indianapolis, July I—The semiannual June apportionment of common school revenue for tuition purposes, just made by Fassett A. Cotton, state superintendent of public instruction, amounts to $1,624,099.80. This is considerably more than w-as sent out from the state treasury last June for such purposes, the amount a year ago being $1,339,568.68. The increase is due to the new educational laws, also to the increase in the value of taxable property. The last legislature passed laws designed to increase the salaries of teachers. It was necessary, therfore, to pass laws to get the money to pay the teachers, so the state tax levy for school purposes was raised from 11>£ cents oa the SIOO to 1314 cents. The distribution this year is based on an enumeration of 756,790 school children. The distribution last year was based on an enumeration of 778.819. Although the difference is only slight, the increase in the tax levy and value of taxables raises the per capita distribution from $1.72 last June to $2.12 for the present apportionment. Adams county reports 7,267 school children and will get $15,585.27. WAS KNOWN HERE Lawyer Wilmer Leonard, of Fort Wayne, Died Suddenly A BRILLIANT CAREER Judge R. K, Erwin Pays Him a Beautiful Tribute Wilmer Leonard, one of Fort Wayne’s ablest lawyers, and who was well known in Decatur, having appeared in court at various times as counsel in important cases, died suddenly i Tuesday morning of apoplexy. He had been to Albion Monday trying a case and returned home in the evening, ate a hearty supper and shortly afterward was seized with severe pains in the chest. Physicians were summoned, but were unable to give him more than temporary aid. Two other attacks followed and the third at midnight proved fatal. He was born at Muncie in 1862, moved with his parents to Fort W’ayne when he was eleven years old. graduated from high school and later from the lawdepartment of Ann Arbor college. For twenty years he has been in the lawbusiness with his twin brother Elmer and they were most successful. He leaves a wife and two children. The Allen county bar held a meeting yesi/‘rday, when tribute was paid |to their departed brother attorney. Among those who spoke was .lodge R, K. Erwin, of whose talk the Jour-nal-Gazette said: Judge Richard K. Erwin, who knew Mr. Leonard from the time of his youth, paid a beautiful tribute to the deceased. He said: “I care not what this man’s religious views may have been. I know that bis views of life were altogether sweet and good and honest and pure. He w-as a great lawyer. a good man. a kind and loving friend and now. that he has approached his Maker, I do not fear but that the verdict has been: ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant.’ “Gentlemen of the bar,” said Judge Erwin, “Wilmer Leonard is not dead, j His star has gone down toward the horizon, with his lifework just begun. He did his work well here on earth and he will do his work in the great beyond. To know Wilmer Leonard is to know that he would do his work. His Master has said his work on this earth is finished, but his higher, greater work has only begun.” Here the speaker quoted several passages of Scripture, concluding his remarks with an eloquent tribute to the decedent which brought tears to ' the eyes of many In the room. — — The Fourth of July will be royally celebrated at Maple Grove Park and many people are planning to visit same. Prof. DeKay will make the i slide for life two times during the day.

FOUR STORY BLOCK To Be Erected at Once—K. of P. Lot Was Sold this Morning FOR $5,0 00 CASH Messrs. Fledderjohann, Koenig and Lammers the Purchasers A deal which has been hanging fire for ten days past, was closed this morning, when Messrs. W. H. FLedderjohann, John H. Koenig, Edwin Fledderjohann and Louis Lammers purchased the lot on south Second street, between the Hensley jewelry store and Everett, Hite & Co.’s paying therefor the sum of $5,000. The deed is to be delivered within thirty days, but the deal is bound by an ironclad contract. The purchasers are four of the leading stockholders of the Fort Wayne & Springfield traction company and in an interview they stated that they will at once erect a modern four story block on the site, one that will be a credit to the city as well as to themselves. The building will be 44 by 132 feet, four stories high, constructed of brick, with a sandstone front and modem in every respect. The first floor is to be occupied by the interurban company as a depot, freight offices, with office and press rooms of the Decatur Times in the rear. The second floor is to be used for professional offices and the third and fourth floor for lodge rooms. The building will be steam heated, will include an elevator and be strictly modern in every respect. The plans will be prepared immediately and work should start by August Ist, it being the owners’ desire to occupy the building by January Ist. The new block will add materially to the appearance of the business section of Decatur and is but another proof of the splendid advancement of the best town in Indiana. The estimated cost of the new building is $40,000. A FEW MORE DAYS And the Fourth of July Will Be Here in All Its Glory WHERE YOU GOING? Celebrations at Maple Grove. Monroe, Geneva and Willshire Saturday will soon be here, a holiday celebrated the United States over by young and old. It’s the Fourth, and while Decatur has not arranged for any special program, there will be as usual, plenty doing. The banks, postoffiee, lumber yards, dry goods stores and others have announced that they will close. As usual there will be no issue of the Dally Democrat on that day. Decatur people will patronize the various celebrations at nearby places. Maple Grove Park has a slide for life, music and flrew-orks in the evening. Monroe will have a big day, a parade, ball games, races, speech by Hon. C. J. Lutz, and fireworks in the evening. Geneva also has planned for a fitting observance of the day, with Hon. David E. Smith as the principal speaker. Willshire, too, will make the eagle scream and Huntington and other cities have spread their advertisements over Decatur and all will get some Decatur people as visitors. Get ready to celebrate, whether you stay at home or go away. It’s the one day of the year when you can make all the noise you want to and when you are expected to make some. o Frank W. Leslie, of ths People’s Savings bank, leaves tomorrow for Montreal, from where he will sail Wednesday on the Sardonian for Europe, returning about the middle of August. Mr. Leslie will tour France. Holland, Belgium, England. Scotland and Wales.—Van Wert Times.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, July 1, 1908.

ERIE WILL TRY NEW SYSTEM. Will Operate Trains Without Issuing Orders. Information is general In Erie circles that a change is imminent in the | system of train operation on the Erie I system, the same to be adopted enItirely or in part similar to that used on the Great Northern railroad system. The new system is for the operation of trains without the necessity of issuing train orders. The blcck system remains, but a clearance card is issued and as worked on the Great Northern saves much time in avoiding delays where the train crews are now required to await train orders. The installation of the new system will be under the direction of A. H. Mansfield of the Cleveland offices, who has the office of chief operator on the Erie system. Os mor e important local interest is it I that a trial of this operating system will be made on the Chicago & Erie i divisions. No date has been made for jits adoption. A school of instruction for dispatches, operators and train crews will have to be conducted preliminary to its installation, which will take some .time to thoroughly acquaint the attaches in the opeiating department with the new plan. ■— o TOM BURKE HERE Most Widely Advertised Traveling Man in Indiana HOW HE DOES IT Secures Free Space, Just Like this Everywhere He Goes Tom Burke, of Kokomo, was here last evening, sold several car loads of Y. B. cigars, and a box or two of cheaper brands, told a few stories ■that “had ’em all skinned” and otherwise kept up his reputation as the best advertised traveling man in the Hoosier state. Tom’s all right. Don’t let any one convince you otherwise unless you first talk it over with Tom. In the first place, he is a Democrat, a real one and two years ago w-as prominently mentioned as a candidate for secretary of state, withdrawing at the proper time, but nevertheless remaining in the race long enough to shake hands with nearly every Democrat in the state, of course mentioning his cigar business inadvertently, and receive an announcement of his visit in each city, town and hamlet visited within the term of his campaign. His latest meteoric episode was an official announcement from the Muncie police that he had been Induced to make a sensational leap from the fifth story of the Delaware hotel, into a bottle of green ink or a lifenet, just as Tom should decide. He finally chose th© latter and when the time came decided to reduce the space by several feet and instead of climbing to the dizzy heights of the hotel, mounted the seat of the hose wagon and made a hair raising and sickening fall of four feet and two inches Into the net, escaping without a scratch. Tom’s a big fellow all right and when weighed on Tim Corbett’s candy scales last evening tipped the beams at just 336 pounds and while he refused to be interviewed said that the Muncie story began as a joke, but there was a strong probability now that he would have to actually make the jump from the hotel as over SSOO had been raised for him and he just simply can’t afford to let it pass, when times are so hard as at present. Os course if Bryan is elected, he probably won’t have to do it, but he says if that should happen he would feel so elated that he wouldn’t mind jumping off the Delaware without, a net. Well, you’re the best, Tom. Any time you hre smooth enough to get a half column writup free in every town you make we are ready to take our hat off. Your firm owes you for advertising and if you havn’t included it in your expenses account, you're a bigger “sucker’’ than you appear to be to a reporter looking through a smoked glass.

COMMITS SUICIDE Jesse Ball, a Former Decaturite Ends Life With a Revolver HAD FAMILY TROUBLE His Wife Refused to Live With Him But Kissed Him Goodbye A dispatch from Elwood says: “Jesse Ball, 28, committeed suicide here this evening about 8 o’clock by shooting himself in the brain with a 32 calbre revolver. Ball is a glass worker by trade and lived with his wire at Kokomo until two weeks ago when they separated. Mrs. Ball returned to the home of her father, Edward Roberts, 1325 south K street, this city. Ball went to Bluffton to secure work land returned from that city late Monday afternoon. During the evening he went to the home of his wife and asked her to live with him but she refused. Monday evening he called at Mrs. Ball’s home about 6 o’clock and asked her to go up town with him. She declined saying that she was too tired. About 8 o’clock he called again. He exhibited a revolver which he said he had just purchased and asked her to kiss him goodbye; which she did. Then turning to her he said. “A true man never lies." With this he turned and ran and shot himself as he did so. He died instantly. Deputy Coroner Winans was called and removed the body to the morgue. Ball and his wife had been married six years and had no children. He was temperate In his habits and until a short time ago his married life was apparently happy. He became jealous of Mrs. Ball and this finally caused the estrangement which was responsible for the suicide. About a year ago however, Seill made an unsuccessful attempt to- end his life by taking carbolic acid. The suicide was a son of Zack Ball and his early life was spent in Decatur. WED AT PORTLAND Mr. Charles Niblick of This City Was Married this Morning TO MISS FAHRENBACH Will Reside Here—Crowd of Decatur People Attend Ceremony The marriage of Mr. Charles Niblick of this city to Miss Frances Fahrenbach, of Portland, took place at 9:30 a. m. in that city this morning at the church of the Immaculate conception in the presence of a large crowd of the relatives and friends of the contracting parties. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Father Travers. The bride was dressed in a becoming gown of pure white, her attendants being Misses Amelia Weber and Verena Niblick of this city, the former being a cousin and the latter a sister of the groom, while Miss Sophia Fahrenbach, a sister of the bride acted as the maid of honor. The groom was dressed in the conventional black, as was likewise his attendants, who wjere Messrs. Leo Weber, Herbert Bremerkamp and Jesse Niblick all of this city, the latter two also acting as the ushers. Immediately after the marriage ceremony the happy couple were conveyed to the Fahrenbach home on west Second street, where a delightful wedding dinner was served at 11:30 a. m. to the near relatives and friends of the bride and groom. The happy young couple left soon afterward on their wedding trip through the south and will be at home in this city to their many friends in a neat cottage on north Third street by the tenth of this month. Both young people are quite popular in this city and in Portland and the Democrat joins in wishing them many years of married life.

SALOON MEN’S PROCLAMATION. — j Issued by Various Proprietors at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., June 30—This proclamation is now hanging on the walls of a number of downtown cases and saloons: “Know ya that by the payment of the taxes, I am permitted to Well wines and liquors in my saloon in this county. To the wife who has a drunkard for a husband, or a friend who is unfortunately dissipated, I say emphatically, give me notice in person of such case pr cases in which you are interested, and all shall be excluded from my place. “Let fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters do likewise and their request will He kindly regardjed. I pay }a . heavy tax for the privilege of selling liquor, and I want it distinctly understood that I do not desire to sell to the drunkard, minor or destitute. (Signed) “ ” The notice has been posted only a few days and has evoked much comment. Recent work of the woman crusaders is said to have had influence in having the notice posted. TAFT STEPS DOWN The War Department Turned Over to Luke E. Wright AMERICAN TROOPS Dispatched to Protect Neutrality Laws on Mexican Border Washington, July I.—The formal transfer of the war department from the administration of Secretary Taft to that of Secretary Luke E. Wright his successor, will take place today, but the work of the department will be brought up to date by Mr. Taft before he leaves his desk this evening, and Secretary Wright will enter on his new duties with substantially a clean siatie. Ths last duty to be performed by Secretary Taft will be th e formal presentation of his successor to Assistant Secretary Oliver and to the bureau and division chiefs of <lhe ;war department. With ih,is best wishes to Secretary Wright for his successful administration of the great department, the affairs of which he has been chosen to administer, Secretary Taft will become once more a private citizen. From that moment until the fateful day of the elections next November he will devote himself assiduously to his campaign for the presidency of the United States. Washington, July I.—American army forces are now in service for the enforcement of the neutrality laws along the Mexican border. Gen. Myer, commanding the department of Texas, has reported to the war department that directions already have been given for the dispatch of four troops of cavalry from posts in his department to Del Rio. As to other points he will be guided by his conferences with the civil officials. The employment of American troops for this pur. pose is almost without precedent in recent years and the law officers of the war department, as w-ell as the attorney general himself, have been obliged to give close study to the question of the extent to which they may exercise the power of preventing persons entering the United States across th© Mexican border. o ARE BUILDING AN ADDITION. Buhler Brothers Will Put in Up-to-date Wagon Shop. Buhler Brothers are making some improvements at their shop on First street, which will enable them to turn out all kinds of work rapidly. A twelve foot addition to their building is now under construction and a modern w-ag-on shop will be installed, fitted with the necessary machinery to do things right. They will be ready for anything in that line as well as in blacksmithing within a few days. They are hustlers. j

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GRAY BOOM IS ON Headquarters Opened for Him at Denver TALKING HARMONY Feeling Exists that There is a Chance this Year Denver, Colo., July I—The Gray presidential boom was formally launched and headquarters were opened in the Savoy Hotel yesterday. They wer e arranged some hours in advance of the arrival of Josiah Marvel, Gray’s manager, and during the early part of the afternoon a corns of expert bill stickers was going about the hotels putting up lithographs of Ch e Delew-are candidate. No other , pictures have been placed as yet, and the Gray men secured the most prominent places in the lobbies of all the leading hotels. The headquarters were thrown open after the arrival of Manager Marvel, but because of , the late hour at which he put in an appearanc e the Gray boom was not put into active operation. By tomorrow, however, it is expected to be in full swing. The Johnson headquarters will not be opened for several days, and the date on which the Bryan banners will be thrown out has not yet been determined, but it will be Saturday or Sunday, after the arrival of the Nebraska delegation. Denver, Colo., July I—ln the ea-ly stages of the convention preliminaries the tendency is all toward harmony. There is a sort of “in the air” feeling that this is to be a Democratic year. The advance guard brings in news of Democratic hope renewed; of a general getting together; of a better feeling than has existed in the party sine 1892. The early view—always subject to revision, of course—is that there are to be concessions all around at this convention; that there is really to be a getting together for an old-time campaign. It is evident that there will be some bitter disappointments if at the last minute Bryan, from his farm at Lincoln, shall upset the plans of many of the leaders In the party so to shape the proceedings of the convention as to open the way for every element in the party to get aboard the ship this year. This anxiety for harmony is leading many of the influential men in the party to stop off at Lincoln on their way here. From (all accounts the prospective nominee is receiving a ’ot of advice. Emphasis is being laid on the point that he must yield something to the conservative east and something to the radical west; that he must remember that the south has notions of its own which must receive respectful at. i ent ion MAY GET THE MONEY. Traction Line Promoters Are Encouraged. You can never tell who can build a railroad nowadays. The wise ones have been wont to look with humor upon the attempt of the promoters of the Bluffton. Berne & Celina traction road, but the attempt looks good now. Everybody sees a need for the road and people all along the line have been hoping for years that some one would start a ball rolling that would not stop short of the upholstered cars. Very likely Peter Neuenschwander and Jos. Gerber have started the ball. As has already been stated in the Banner, no trouble will be experienced in gtting the right of way and the grade by subscriptions of labor and land from farmers along the line. But now comes a propositon from a firm in New- York that has money, plenty of money, and says, substantially, that that if the proposed line does not parallel a steam road (and this one does not) they will furnish the lucre for the building. These are the fellows Peter and Joseph have been looking for, and they feel greatly encouraged in their project. —Bluffton Banner. —o —'• Ward Fence employes from Marion are arriving in the city daily and are preparing to assume duties at the Decatur factory.