Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 171.

■ gets a verdict I Wabash Valley Gas Com- ■ pany May Have I Gas DECISION BY MACY The Temporary Restraining Order Was Dissolved Though it was unexpected, Judge Macy rendered tig decision in the gas case mentioned Thursday. The decision, too, dissolved the temporary injunction and permits the Warren and Indiana Oil and Gas company to I sell their supply of gas to the Wabash Valley Co., and that means of course that Decatur .can have the gas, providing there is any to sell. The case is rather complicated and was first instituted by the Citizens Company at Portland, on the claim of a previous contract with the Warren and Indiana to supply Portland. Judg e LaFollette granted the temporary restraining order, and then the case was transferred to Judge Macy, who heard the evidence and arguments in the case. Judge Macy in his findings found that the agreement between the two contesting companies terminated before the contract was mad o between the Warren and Indiana and the Wabash Valley companies. This all means that Decatur can have natural gas, providing Warren and Indiana company can supply it. The Portland newspapers bring the cheering news that the pressure is greatly reduced and the supply not sufficient to be of any benefit. The decision will not be entered of record until the September term of the Jay circuit court, and was given at this time on the request of the lawyers in the case. In speaking of what th e decision means to Portland the Sun says: This decision means that Portland’s (Continued on Page Two) SCHOOLBOARD MET Last Night and Transacted Important Business— Bills Allowed TO REPAIR BUILDINGS Teachers Salaries Will Be Materially Increased this Year The city school board held an interesting meeting last night at the office es the Kirsch, Sellemeyer & Sons lumber yard and business es vital importance was transacted. The proposed improvements of the ward buildings was talked over. A fire escape will be placed on the west ward building, after the specifications for same ar 0 received from the state department. A new stairway will be constructed at the north ward building and the only improvement to be made at the south ward is the construction of a banister. After discussing facts pertaining to the increase of the teachers’ salaries for the coming year, which will be adjusted according to the grades, the following bills were placed before the body and allowed: Holthouse Drug Co., supplies, $8.40; Charles J. Sparks Co., blinds and crayon, $304; Pag e Blackburn, supplies, $6.25; Leo Auth, repairing clock $1.00; Citizens Telephone Co., phone rental $18; J. D. Hale, $1.30; Elijah Mann, plastering, $7.00. This is tho last meeting to be held by the board for several weeks. ■ o Mr. and Mrs. G. Yager and grandchild left this morning for Fort Wayne where they expect to make a few days’ visit with friends and relatives. Decatur was visited by a small Saturday crowd today, not many of the farmers coming to town owing to the fact that they are busy at the present time.

THROUGH FELONIOUS HOMICIDE Coroner Reports Upon Last Victim of Mrs. Belle Gunness. Laporte, Ind., July 18. —Coroner Mack has filed his report in the in- | quest of Andrew Helgelein, the last j known victim of Mrs. Belie Gunness. I The body of Helgelein was th e first of the ten found in the private graveyard. Coroner Mack finds that Helgelein came to his death through felonious homicide, the perpetrator of whom is to the coroner unknown. Th e only new feature of the case is the formal report of Dr. Walter S. Haines, of Chicago, on the examination of Helgeleln’s stomach. The statement that arsenic and strychnine i had been found in the stomach was ■confirmed. Dr. Haines stated that he I found sufficient strychnine in oneI third of the stomach to have produced i death. The amount of arsenic pres>ent was considerable, h e adds. In his j opinion death was caused by the i strychnine, as its effect upon the sysI tern is much quicker than the arsenic. o— BE RELEASED SOON Charles LeMay Has But a Few Weeks to Serve in County Jail WILL PAY HIS FINE Michael Everett Must Serve Several Months Yet Unless Fine is Paid Charles LeMay, who several months ago was sentenced to jail for six months after being found guilty of assault and battery upon Miss Mabel Metts, then of Bluffton, will be released from custody in a few weeks, as he has but that much time to serve. However, he must pay a fine of S2OO which was included in his sentence. It is understood that his aged grandfather will pay th e A ne - Mr. LeMay expects to secure a position in some piano factory after his release. He is an expert wood carver and during his incarceration he has made many pretty relics which he gave away to thos e who visited the jail. Michael Everett, who is also serving a sentence in the county institution, has several months yet to serve including the heavy fine whfch was imposed upon him by the jury. An appeal to Governor Hanly by Everett proved futile, the chief executive declining to interfere with the verdict. The expense of keeping LeMay in the Adams county jail must be paid by Weils county, the case having been venued from Bluffton to this city. o WHO SENT THE TELEGRAM? An Effort to Locate the Sender of the Message to Hearst Lincoln, July 18.—(Special to the Dally Democrat) —It is reported that at the request of Bryan an effort is being made to locate the sender of the telegram to W. R. Hearst, which was signed by Samuel Gompers, and which resulted in the statement cabled by Hearst that leaders of Democracy are corrupt. It is said by many here that they believe tho telegram was a "plant’’ and was sent to make a channel for the airing of Heart’s views. Many houses for rent are in great demand over the city and the supply is not half enough for the demand. Whil e many new homes are going up throughout the city, the supply is very limited and the house question is getting to be a very serious proposi•tion.

ANSWER THE CALL Mrs. Ann O. Ampsbaugh is Called to the Great Beyond ILL FOR 30 YEARS From Asthma, Lung Trouble Developing During Past Few Months Mrs. Ann O. Ampsbaugh, one of Adams county’s oldest residents, answered the call of the death angel this morning at 8 o’clock after ailing for mor e than thirty years from asthma. The deceased who was sixty years, five months and 1 day of age at the time of her demise, was born and raised in this county. In young womanhood she was united in marriage to Noah Johnson, who answered the call of the grim reaper about twenty-five years ago. Some time afterward the deceased was married to Noah Ampsbaugh, who also preceded her to the great beyond, his death occuring about twelve years ago. Since the death of her second husband, Mrs. Ampsbaugh has mad e her home with her daughter, Mrs. John Ampsbaugh, two and one-half miles west of thi scity. During the past five months the deceased has suffered untold pain. Lung trouble in a serious stage developed during the early part of this year and she has gradually griwn worse from day to day. While no surprise has been caused by the death of this most estimable woman, most , poignant sorrow has saddened the hearts of her innumerable friends. The departed woman was a stepmother of Peter Amspbaugh of this city and beside him, three children, Mrs. John Ampsbaugh, Mrs. C. Arnold and Miss Lucy Ampsbaugh survive to cherish the memory of a loving mother. The funeral services will be held from the Beery church. JOIN THE~BAND Three Decatur Young Men Will Play in Boys’ City Band AT WINONA, INDIANA They Will Leave Here Monday Morning and Stay Three Weeks Dick Peterson, Bruc e Patterson and Ralph Moser will leave Monday for Winona, where they hav e been engaged to play in the boys’ city band. These young men possess unusual ability in the playing of band music and their work will without doubt be much appreciated. The boys after arriving at Winona will join the band and for their trouble, two weeks' training will b e given them absolutely free of charge. After the first two weeks, however, they will be on their own expense, but it is thought that they will easily make their expenses by playing for entertainments, etc. It will be a great trip for the boys and they will make the most of it. There are hundreds of boys at Winona already and their meeting promises to b e the biggest boy event ever held in Indiana. ■ ———o BANK HITS TOBOGGAN Cleveland, Ohio, July 18. —The Farmers’ and Merchants' Banking company assigned to Edward F. Spurney attorney. Lack of available cash and inability to realize on securities on demand are given as the causes of the bank’s distress by E. M. Shay, attorney for the bank. The assignee says depositors will b e paid in full. The last reports gave the assets and liabilities at $750,000. Shay says since the financial stringency last fall withdrawals have been heavy.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, July 18, 1908.

fiSirFSious reoO® by FANNIE M LOTHROP W - ■>... c w& jrag Grover Cleveland, Copyright 1903, Rockwood, N. Y. City. THE MORAL COURAGE OF GROVER CLEVELAATL '"THE whole political life of Cleveland has been one long, constant protest A against whatever he felt was wrong. He was relentless, uncompromising and fearless. Right or wrong he had the courage of his convictions. He never cringed, never talked sophistry with his conscience, never shut his eyes to evils which it might be impolitic to antagonize. His last weapon to stop a bill that he did not approve was—“veto,” and he might have been called the' “veto President”; for he vetoed more bills than all the other Presidents combined. “Veto,” from the Latin “I forbid” expressed his attitude toward trickery, corruption and all attacks on the honor and integrity of the State. It was his veto of extravagant appropriations while Mayor of Buffalo that made the outside world recognize him and led to his election as Governor of New York. His sturdy fight against State corruption at Albany emphasized his individuality and integrity, and assured Lis choice for President. When the bill permitting the New York Elevated Railroad to charge ten cents was passed by both houses, Cleveland said to his pastor, Dr. Milton Merle Smith: “Doctor, I feel that this is the hardest thing I have ever been called upon to do, to veto this bill. It is backed by such tremendous influence that my vetoing it may mean my political annihilation; but it is such an outrageous injustice to the people that I shall veto it, cone what will.” At his second inauguration, he said in a voice vibrant with intense feeling: “I start upon this term determined to do right no matter what the cost. Here I am with a hungry party behind me, and such pressure is brought to bear that sometimes it seems as if human nature were unable to withstand, but right I shall do every time as I see it. before God.” He signed the bill introduced by Roosevelt changing the offices of register and county clerks of the city of New York from fee offices to salaried ones despite all the threats and pleas brought against him. He abolished the State paper, because he thought he ought to do so. though it was a gold mine to his warm friend Daniel Manning. He set forth his Tariff Reform Message on the eve of his second candidacy, though it placed in jeopardy his re-elec-tion and he knew it. The sterling moral heroism of the man who does right for right's sake was manifest in countless instances in Mr. Cleveland’s career and was recognized alike by both political parties. Copyright transferred to Wm. C. Mack, iqo6.

HOW THE FARMERS FEEL. Rochester Sentinel Tells of Experience of Hardware Firm. A few days ago a representative of a local hardware firm called on three farmers who had previously informed him they wanted their buildings protected with lightning rods. But they all refused to have th e work done because they did not have the money to spare. A bystander did a littl e figuring and found that the increase in the county and state taxes made by the republicans on one of the farms this year would have paid for the work needed on its buildings, while the second one had lost enough on a bunch of hogs, sold in the winter, on account of the republican panic, to have paid for rodding his buildings and left a nice surplus, and the combined losses of the third one on both of thes e accounts were large enough to have built a needed addition to his barn aud placed the protectors on all his buildings, These thre e men have learned they do not belong to the class the republican party is protecting— Rochester Sentinel. • o —• BARRED FROM THE MAILS The Atlantic Manufacturing Company Operating Fraudulently. Washington, July 18.—The Atlantic Manufacturing qompany, pf Minneapolis, was debarred from the mails on th e ground that the operations were fradulent. According to postoffice inspectors, the firm operated a scheme of advertising for agents to sell certain novelties, offering them a salary of from $lB to $23 a week and two per cent commission, together with a commission of five per cent on sales mad e by sub-agents. But first of all the company exacted a $25 security deposit with the signing of the contract The postoffice inspectors allege that the purpose of the scheme was to secure this $25 by hedging in restrictions in the contracts so severe that compliance was I practically impossible.

IN POLICE CIRCLES James Coverdale Arrested for Falling Through Plate Glass Window AT SPENCER STORE Junk Dealer and J. Smith Have a Round and Affidavits Follow Polic e court has again assumed a busy air, two cases having been filed before Squire H. Smith this morning. James Coverdale, while sauntering about the streets last night in a drunken condition, fell through the plate glass at the W. G. Spencer store. He was arrested by Night Watchman Geary and placed in jail. This morning he was arraigned before Squire J. H. Smith and after pleading guilty to the charge of public intoxication he was assessed $5 and costs, amounting in all to $13.50. The docket was staid and “Jim” was released. Joseph Koplin, a junk dealer, was arrested this morning upon the charge of provoke, preferred by Joseph Smith, true name unknown. When brought before Squire Smith, Koplin reversed affairs by filing an affidavit against Smith charging assault and battery. It seems that the junk dealer had been storing old wagon wheels etc., on the yard where the Smith’s hav e a plumbing shop. The junk man refused to pay the storage and he is said to have used abusive language, hence the charge of provoke. The cases ar e set for next Tuesday morning. o Harry Ehrsman returned to his work at Prover Bros, restaurant today after a five weeks’ vacation caused by sickness. Harry had intended to go away on a vacation, but sickness prevented.

MAY BUY VOTING MACHINES Blackford County Flir l ing With Such a Proposition. The board of county commissioners was in session Thursday afternoon, consideraing a proposition presented by the United States Voting Machine company, through its representative, R. D. Bemise, of Indianapolis. The company desires to lease five machines to Blackford county for use at the fall election, th e county to pay SSO rental for each machine. There are 22 precincts in <h, } county and the appropriation for the election is $1,839. By the use of the voting machine considerable expense would bo avoided. That’s according to the vol ing machine salesman. Machines were brought to this county some months ago in an attempt to dispose of them to the county, but th e board did not take favorably to the proposition. The board has the matter under consideration and will decide at a later date. —Hartford City News. 0 VISITS FAIRVIEW John E. Lamb One of the Late Visitors at Bryan Home APPEAL FOR FUNDS Ask the Farmers—Colorado and Their Political Prospects Fairview, Lincoln, Neb., July 18. — Fresh imeptus was given the speculation concerning the Democratic national chairmanship by the visit of John E. Lamb, of Indiana, to the Bryan home and by his conference with the presidential nominee. Mr. Lamb, who is one of the most prominently mentioned as th e campaign manager for the Democratic party, refused to make any statement as to the subject matter under conversation with Mr. Bryan. Mr. Lamb refused either to affirm or deny the rumor that his visit to the Bryan farm was in connection with the national chairmanship. Fairview, Lincoln, Neb., July 18. — Th e first appeal for campaign contribution by the Democratic candidates for the presidency and vice presidency was made today. In a formal message directed to the farmers of the country Messrs. Bryan and Kern urge them to contribute according to their means and jn other ways assist in restoring Democracy to power. Colorado Springs, Colo., July 18. — The Democratic party expects the state of Colorado, as a sort of reward for holding the national convention in Denver, to give its electoral vote to Bryan and Kern next fall. If the election were to be held next week this would no doubt he done. As to what will be don e in November is another matter. It will be keeping on safe ground to say at this time that Colorado will be a close state. The Democrats are serenely confident, they will win. The Republican admit there will be a hard fight with the odds, they believe, with them. o- -- —— — MANY WILL GO TO CINCINNATI Indiana Republicans Interested in Taft Notification. Indianapolis, July 18.—A meeting of prominent Republicans was held at the Claypool hotel last night to discuss plans for the Indiana attendance at the notification of William H. Taft, which is to occur in Cincinnati, July 28. The following editors were among those who attended the conference: 8. N. Cragun, Lebanon; R. S. Truitt, Noblesville; J. A. Kautz. Kokomo; Julian Hogate. Danville; Harry Smith, Greencastle; F. T. Singleton, Martinsville and Edward Remy, Seymour. Reports from various parts of the state were submitted, which indicated that many Indianians desire to attend the notification.

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NOT A CANDIDATE B. F. Shively, of South Bend, is Out of the Race IN THE THIRTEENTH It is Thought He is Looking Forward to the U. S. Senate South Bend, Ind., July 18 —Benjamin F. Shively announced that he will not be a candidate for representative from the Thirteenth congressional district before the Democratic convention at Plymouth, July 27. “While I have never been an avowed candidate for the nomination for representative,” said Mr. Shively, “I feel that it is incumbent on me to state at the present time that I will not enter the list. I make this statement because mynna e has been frequently mentioned in connection with the office. The coming campaign, being a presidential one, will be an especially busy one. I shall be called upon to speak in different parts of the country. Hence, it would be impossible for me to devote all my time to this district, as would be necessary if I were in the race for representative. For this reason alone, I cannot allow my name to be presented to the convention. I appreciate greatly the honor for such a position and believe that a Democrat will b e elected from this district. I certainly will do all in my power to help the effort.” While Mr. Shively would not commit himself, it is believed that he will be a candidate for United States senator at the next session of the state legislature. Now •that it is officially known that Mr. Shively will not be a candidate, it is expected that other persons will enter the list. There is a feeling among the Democrats of the district that a St. Joseph county man should stand for the nomination. Os the several Democrats mentioned the sentiment of the district seems to favor Editor H. A, Barnhart, of Rochster. OPERATED UPON Charles Getting of Near Monmouth Submits to Delicate Operation REMOVE GALL STONES The Patient Will Be Able to Leave Hospital in • a Few Weeks Charles Getting, of near Monmouth, who for more than two years has been ailing, entered the German Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne last Tuesday. A diagnosis of the case disclosed the fact that he was seriously afflicted from gall stones. The attending physicians advised an immediate operation, which was duly consented to and Thursday the same was performed. While before the operating the condition of Mr. Getting was very serious, it is now assured that his health will be restored. However, the patient will be required to remain at the hospital for at least three weeks until the incision is sufficiently healed. The many friends of Mr. Getting will rejoice to hear that he passed through the ordeal so well, and that in all probability he will rapidly recover. "Dent” Spencer informs us that he and his force of workmen have just completed the job of washing the windows at the new foctory of the Ward Fence company in this city. They did the work in record breaking time, there being about two hundred 1 and sixty large windows in all, which they completed in one week s time. Mr. Spencer received a nice sum of mony for the same, and deserves a great amount of praise for the manner in which he and his helpers performed the task.