Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 177.

LOOKS LIKE N. E. MACK The Chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee Unsettled HE WILL ' ACCEPT Bryan and Kern and the SubCommittee in Session Chicago, July 25. —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —All the members of the subcommittee of the Democratic National Committee met Mr. Bryan, their candidate for president and Mr. Kern their candidate for vice president, at the Auditorium Annex at ten , o'clock this morning. As yet no formal session of the committee has been held, but the plum of national chair- • man will _go to Norman, E. Mack, of New York, if he will take it. He has consented, providing it is the wish " of Mr. Bryan. At this informal session, several men wer e considered, but , none of them seemed to fill the bill as completely as did the name of Mr. Mack. It is thought beyond perad- • venture, that he will be the chairman cf the Democratic National Committee. Many leading Democrats from all over the country were present, and discussed with the members of the sub-committee and the candidates, important features of the organization, 1 as well as the conditions bearing upon 1 the success of the campaign. Mr. ■ Bryan is apparently more popular than i ever, but upon all occasions side- , stepped a discussion of campaign issues. o ’ BELOW THE HEART ] ] The Thirteen-Year-Old Son 1 * of Mr. and Mrs. A. M • I ( York Was Kicked BY VICIOUS HORSE Two Ribs Were Broken and His Arm Badly Mutilated Charles, the thirteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. York, of the west part of the city, was kicked by a hors e at the Perry Sells home last night, and as a result he is suffering from two broken ribs, badly cut arm and other slight injuries. The lad was unhitching a horse when the animal backed into a broken shaft. The sharp end of the shaft came into contact with the horse when in an instant it kicked fiercely, striking the lad just below the heart The boy was hurled to the ground with great force but he was on his feet in a short time and started to the house. He had ■only gone a short distance, however, when he fell to the ground on his face, where he wns found by Mrs. Sells a few moments later. The boy found it difficult to breathe and his pulse was very weak. Mr. and Mrs. York were notified cf the accident and at the same time a physician was called, who administered medical aid to the Injured youth and lie will recover. However, had the blow been struck a few inches higher, he could have lived but a short time. — ■ o Mrs. Charles Rinehart went to Fort Wayne this morning where she is spending the day with friends and relatives. Elsewhere in this issue appears the Program for the famous Prof. Heller band at Maple Grove park tomorrow. The program includes all pieces of single suitable to each and every one s taste and Is very popular. This band has been sectored under great expense and the park management is expecting luge crowds out to hear it.

HAS BEEN CALLED OFF. I Old Settlers Meeting at Pennvi!! e Will Not Be Held this Year. The officers of the Jay, Wells and Blackford county Old Settlers’ Association, having in charge the arrangements for this annual gathering have annouced that it will not be held this year. For several years, the annual gathering has been held In a grove near Pennvllle, but this season It was impossible to secure it. No other suitable place being in sight, it was decided best to call all arrangements off. These meetings have always been largely attended and thi3 decision of the officers will be a disappointment to a large number of people. —Portland Review. o The Improvements at the Erie railroad in this city, have been all completed and present a neat appearance. A new cement sidewalk has been laid which adds much up to dateness to the place and other improvements are noticeable. Now for the Clover Leaf, with that new station and we will be right in it.

ARTERYIS SEVERED And Joseph Peterstein of Preble Will Probably Die as a Result WORKING IN TANK When a Piece of Flying Steel Severed Jugular Vein— Condition Serious • Preble, Ind., July 25. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —While working at one of the large oil tanks of the Standard Oil Co. In thi3 place today in company with about twenty fellow workmen, Joseph Peterstein, an employe of this Company, was most severely wounded by a flying piece of sharp steel, which penetrated his jugular vein, cutting it almost in two. H e may die as a result. The accident happened about 9:30 o'clock this morning. Mr. Peterstein, in company with other laborers, were working at one of the tanks, when in knocking pieces of steel off the same, one of the sharp edges of a flying .piece struck him with the already told results. Dr. Grandstaff of this place, was hastily summoned, and did all in his power for the injured man. However, very little hope is given for his recovery on account of the great amount of blood which was lost before the physicians’ arrival. 'The sympathy of the entire community certainly goes out to the unfortunate victim.

A similar accident to that which befell Joseph Peterstein at this place, occurred to an employe of the pipe line by the name of Brown. He was also working on one of the tanks when a piece of steel struck him on his cheek inflicting a deep gash several inches long. The accident happened about fifteen- .minutes before that of Mr. Peterstein, and this man was at the office of Dr. Grands .ass getting the wound dressed when a cah for the doctor came from the other Injured man. The wound of Mr. Brown, which, fortunately, will nut result seriously, was quickly attended to, after which the physician attended to the injury of Mr. Peterstein. o — — ON THE BATTLESHIP ILLINOIS Ernest Baumgartner a Member of the Marine Corps. It may be news to many to learn that Ernest Baumgartner, son of Emil Baumgartner, is a member of the marine corps on the battleship Illinois, now touring around the world with the American flet. Ernest left here for the Philippine islands in August, 1907, and there joined the navy. He enjoys his position greatly, and it certainly agrees with him, for he is said to have gained thirty pounds since he entered army life. He wrote his brother here that the fleet left Honolulu last Monday for Australia. Berne Witness. a Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Hite and family have returned from a several weeks’ outing at Rome City and report an enjoyable time.

MUSIC AT THE PARK B. C. Hellers Famous Military Band Will Furnish Music at Maple Grove SUNDAY AFTERNOON They Will Render TwentyFive Pieces—Street Parade at 2:15 p. na. The management of Maple Grove Park have arranged to have the famous Heller band at the resort tomorrow- and without doubt a large number of people will. attend to hear this beautiful military music, which will be rendered. The Heller band is recognized as one of the best in Fort Wayne and that the music w-ill be high class. The cars will be operated or the usual schedule tomorrow. The following is the program which will be rendered: Street parade at 2:15 p. m. Jeresy Carnival (march) au Alfred Roth.

Overture Facile au L. P. Laurendean. American Beauties (march )au Floyd St. Clair. Southern Home (waltzes au Alles. Melodies from Faust au Gounod. Flower Girl (intermezzo) au Harry L. Alford. Wooing the Muse (novelette) au Ellis Brooks. Gems from Tabasco Land au Clark Veit and Dillon, a—Final act. b—Miss Muffet. c —Laddie Boy. d —Molly Malone, e —Floating in a Marcel, f —Rose of Mexico, g—Tobasco Lands. Overture (idealisttc)au Ellis Brooks. Loves Golden Dreams au Geo. Stevens. March Victory Commandery au Tom Jones. A JOINT SESSION Lobsiger Macadam Road Sold to Myers & Klopfenstein WERE THREE BIDS

J aas Neuenschwander is Named as Superintendent There was a joint session this morning of the county commissioners of Wells and Adams counties, at the county auditor's office in this city and bids were opened for the construction of the Lobsiger county line road running from the Wabash river a little more than a mile north. Three bids were received and the contract was awarded to Meyers & Klopfenstein, of this city, the lowest bidders for $6,664. Other bids were Amos G. King, $6,997, and Rrinneman & Addington s7.(pa. The yqommassioners appointed Jonas Neueuschwander of Adams cdunty, as superintendent of construction. The work on this road will be started in a very short time, according to reports, as parties interested in its construction have agreed to buy the bonds. There were only fqur of the six commissioners of the two counties present this morning. Commissioner Levi Huffman was unable to be here, and one of the Adams county commissioners was absent. — Bluffton News. ■ o in a letter to friends in this city, Mrs. Maria Rogers who is a member of the Bluffton colony at Oden says that many of the local people at the lake ar e suffering from more or less serious indispositions. She says that Mrs. George Williamson was able to be about this week for the first time since going there and that Paul Postal and Fred Tangeman two of the small boys of the colony have been ill for some time. Others of the party ar e more or less under the weather. —Bluffton News.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, July 25, 1908.

PEOPLE'S ny l ANMfi m LOTHROP ‘1 Photo, by Cox, Chicago, JAXE ADDAMS A>’D HULL HOUSE. THE name of Jane Addams and Hull House, Chicago, are inseparable, so interwQven are the strands of activity of the faithful worker and the noble work. For seventeen years Miss Addams has consecrated her life to the social settlement of Hull House which, with Miss Ellen Gates Starr, she opened with high hopes of usefulness and development in 1889. The institution is an oasis in the desert of South Halstead Street with its dull, prosaic atmosphere of tenement life in the close, hard, day-by-day struggle with the world. Hull House is an intellectual and social sun radiating help, strength and inspiration in a section that William T. Stead denounces as “ the foulest place on earth”. It is not a charity; it is a broad-gauge scheme for bringing together those who desire to cooperate for mutual progress and companionship. It is a large, practical solution of present-day social problems, by earnest men and women. It means bringing larger opportunities for growth and self-development to those who need just this illumination of a broader, fuller, freer life and the helping hand of sympathy and fellowship, till they learn to walk alone. It gives love, not theory; companionship, not condescension; an atmosphere of help to heart and head and hand. Hull House has a kindergarden, a day-nursery, a diet-kitchen, a gymnasium, library and reading room, an art gallery, classes, clubs, concerts, lectures, and entertainment and instruction for boys, girls, young men and young women of all tastes and all needs. Miss Addams was born in Cedarville, lIL, in 1860, and after graduating from Rockford College in 1881 spent two years with Miss Starr in travelling through Europe for the sake of study and to get bearings on the choice of their future careers. Their close contact with the life of the poor in Continental cities impressed them with the narrowing, benumbing and crushing effect of poverty, where no sunlight of hope shows a broader, happier to-morrow of true living. The two young women earnest, strong and enthusiastic, determined to make their sorrow over the sin, suffering and privation of poverty, something more than a mere passing mood of regret, A few yeais after their return, the monument to their noble effort was begun at the now famous Hull House. The debt of this work to Miss Addams can never be measured. With the unselfish absorption of a great worker, she gently effaces herself as much as possible from publicity and retires modestly behind the work that is so dear to her heart. Copyright transferred \> Wo. C. Mack. igo6.

A LITTLE FAMILY TROUBLE. Rev. Harter is Still the Cause of Some Grief. Even if the Rev. Mr. Harter, of Mentone, did not have improper relations with Mrs. Mary Rose, of Nottingham township, Will Rose, the husband of the accused woman, thinks so, and since the “investigation” several weeks ago the couple have quarreled continually, he berating her for her charge. The situation became so strained last Tuesday night that Mrs. Rose packed up and left the house, going to the home of her mother, Mrs. Jennie Courtney, living in the same neighborhood. She remained there until last evening when Will made an overture for truc e and she was only too glad to accept and return with him. Since being reunited there has been no report of further disturbance and it. is supposed that Will has agreed to say no more about his wife’s alleged intimacy with the cloth. There has been nothing done in Rev. Harter's case, although the residents of Poneto and the southern part of the county, his former parishioners, continue to demand a more careful examination of the facts already brought out and the others that they are prepared to submit. —Bluffton Banner, o HE IS GOING TO EUROPE. Hon. W. L. Taylor, of Indianapolis, former attorney general of Indiana, was in the city today enroute to Wolcottville for a visit of several days with his mother. Mr. Taylor took the Toledo and Chicago interurban, in which he is interested as counsel, from this city to Kendallville. Next Monday Mr. Taylor will leave on a business trip to Holland, returning in time to deliver the oration at the dedication of a new park south of Indianapolis on Labor day. The ground has been purchased by the union labor organizations at Indianapolis, and it wij be dedicated to the cause of labor. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. o Julius Haugk left this noon for Indianapolis. where he will try to engage the services of a colored man by the name of Brown for the laying of the brick on the new improvement on north Sixth street. This man has worked here several times before and is an expert in the business.

THEY CELEARATE Ninetieth Birthday of Mrs. Rhoda McCullough A GOOD TIME She is the Oldest Inhabitant of St. Marys Township Mrs. Rhoda McCullough who resides at the home of her son-in-law, John W. Brodbeck, seven miles southeast of the city, was made th e subject of a pleasant surprise Thursday, July 23, when a number of her friends gathered to assist her in celebrating her ninetieth birthday. Every one enjoyed a good social time, the sumptuous dinner which was served at noon being a matter of course. The following guests were present: Mrs. H, F. Callow and children Stanley and Mary, Deeaiui, Mrs. John Falk and daughter Mary, Decatur; Mrs. Pernetia Springer, Decatur; Mrs. Hattie Colter and daughter Frances, Wiltshire, O.; Mrs. W. H. Ayres, Willshire, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Colter, Bobo, Ind; Mr. and Mrs. Joel Falk, Bobo, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Springer and daughter Maude, Bobo, Ind.; Mrs. W. O. Bigham. Mrs. Henry Foreman, Mrs. W. H. Teeple, Miss Vera Gilpin, Mobile, Ala.; Misses Fanny and Flossie Cowan, St. Paris, Ohio; Miss Alice ■ Dailey, Decatur; Miss Ora Gilpin and Miss Abby Bigham. Mrs. McCullough . is the oldest inhabitant of St. Marys ■ township. She moved from Licking ; county, Ohio, to her present home in . 1853. In spite of her extreme age, she still is strong and hearty and able to go about with the ease of one • many years her junior. It is hoped by i all that she may enjoy many more i such occasions. . . o i Mrs. G. Schlagle left this afternoon i for Monroe, where she will make an 1 over Sunday visit with friends and relatives.

THINKS HE WILL MAKE GAINS Hawkins Will Not Benefit by Fight Made on Adair. Williard A. Bartlett, of Muncie, the Prohibition candidate for congress in this district, expects to profit greatly by N. B. Hawkins- personal attacks on J. A. M. Adair. Mr. Hawkins is the Republican candidate for congress, and Mr. Adair the Democratic congressman cut for re-election. A great deal of comment has been caused by the articles published in newspapers at the instigation of Mr. Hawkins, accusing Mr. Adair of making statements in his public addresses In the district that are false. Mr. Hawkins is also employing an expert accountant to go over M-. Adair's books when he served as clerk of Jay county, thirteen years ago, with the purpose of publishing all the irregularities and crookedness that can be charged up to Mr. Adair. That the letters and stuff already published, will injure Mr. Adair's chances of election to some extent Is already conceded, and that they will hurt Mr. Hawkins as much is equally certain,—Bern e Witness. MAKE ATPEECH Bryan Sees Hope for a Democratic Victory this Year HAS A LOAD Republicans Have Much to Answer for in this Campaign Omaha, Neb., July 25. —William J. Bryan, while on his way from Lincoln to Chicago, was greeted by a large crowd of admirers when he arrived at Omaha yesterday. Although protesting that this Is not a speechmaking trip, Mr. Bryan was induced to mount a baggage truck at the depot and address the crowd during the fifteen minutes the train remained there. He was Introduced by Congressman John Sharp Williams, who is here to address a meeting of the Dahlman Democratic club tonight, Mr. Bryan spoke as follows: ‘‘Ladles an dgentlemen: I want to say to you that It is twelve years now since Williams began introducing me, and he has been at it off and on ever since. If all the states would do as well as Mississippi has done, I would, long ago, have been retired to private life after being president for four years, for Mississippi was the one stat e in which I carried every precinct in the state, and returns now indicate that T may reasonably expect the electoral vote from there this year. lam in rather an embarrassing position. I have not been notified of my nomination as yet, and it would not be proper for me to enter upon any discussion of politics until the platform is formally presented to me and X have been officially notified that I have been nominated. ‘‘ln the court , of the campaign I shall have opportunity to discuss the various questions that are at issue, but I shall not enter upon that discussion now. I will from time to time get reports from various sections. In fact, they are coming now, and the reports indicate this —that the Democratic party this year is more united than it has been since 1892 and that in itself l s a good omen, for when the Democratic party Is united It has very close to a majority of the votes in the United States, if not an absolute majority. (Applause.) When we commence with a united party, we are a long way on the road to victory. Then, too, the Republican party has been in power the last 16 years. The Republican party has a larger load to carry than it has had to carry before. It has. for instance. enormous appropriations to carry; it has a deficit to carry and it has a panic that it cannot lay on anybody else. It has very unfairly attributed all events to the Democrats when they were in power and it will take It more than four months to undo the arguments it has been making against Democrats.” o Mr. ami Mrs. Samuel Shamp returned today from Rome City, where they were enjoying an outing for several days. Mr. Shamp brought home a large bunch of water lilies which he got at Sylvan lake.

Price Two Cents

CONDITION IS SERIOUS John Anderson, of Geneva, Underwent an Operation A SUDDEN ATTACK His Many Friends Anxiously Await Good News Hope Hospital, Fort Wayne, 2:30 p. m.—Mr. Anderson stood th e operation fairly well, and at this hour is resting easy. The case is complicated and dangerous. Geneva, Ind., July 23.—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—John Anderson, the druggist, was taken ill Friday morning, and after a day under the care of Dr. Price, an operation for appendicitis was thought the only treatment that would save his life. He was taken to Hope hospital this morning, being accompanied by his father-in-law. Hon. S. W. Hale, and his brother. Sam Anderson, of Marion. The operation was performed just before noon, the patient standing the effects of the same fairly well and later rested easier, enough to warrant the physicians and others in grasping at the faint hope that success would crow n their efforts in saving his life. It seems that Mr. Anderson had a similar attack a year or so ago. and even before and since he has been troubled. The fear now is that the operation has been delayed until too late to accomplish the result hoped for. Mr. Anderson is (Continued on page 3.) FORT WAYNE RACES Some Fast Ones Pulled Off There Yesterday THEY END TODAY A Large Crowd Will Mark the Closing Event Today Yesterday's Results: 2:20 Pace —Gordon Prince, first; Ding Pointer, second; Joe Gans, third; and Legal Jr., fourth. 2:IS Trot —Queen of Woodruff, first; Brace Girdle, second; Dr. Gray, third; and Ila C., fourth. 2:13 Pace —Twis G. 8., first; Miss Castle, second; Minnie M., third; Stephen Decatur, fourth. %-mile Run (unfinished race) — Reinstate, first; Ingenieu, disqualified (foul). Fort Wayne, July 25—In spile of the inclement weather a large crowd of Fort Wayne horse lovers wended their way to the Driving park yesterday afternoon to witness the second day's racing card of the midsummer meet. The heavy rains of the past two days had not injured the track to any great extent, and in all the events the heats were negotiated in remarkably short time. Citation, however, was not sent away on bis exhibition mile against the track record, owing to the fact that the condition of the track was such that it was not believed to be possible for the great animal to turn the trick. The McMahon stables, at Chicago, with their string of equine racers, carried away the bulk of the day s purses, Dick McMahon, who drove his own horses, capturing two moneys and one first. He appears to be one of the coolest drivers that has worked on the local speedway since the beginning of the present meet, (Continued on Page Two)