Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 188.

HAS HIS TROUBLES George Paillee. an Amishman, Accepted Money from Insurance Company AN INVESTIGATION Is Now Being Made by His Churchmen—May Be Ousted George Paillee, an Amishman, cue of the real, long-haired kind, living bet-ass-en Berne and Monroe, l s in all kinds of trouble, with chances very much In favor of his being ousted from his church and doomed to spend the remainder of his life with tbe worldly folk. Several weeks ago ,it is said he committed the unpardonable sin qf having his barn insured. Shortly afterward he had a fire and the company’s adjuster came along, it is said and dropped about $154 into George’s outstretched hand. Then his church brothers heard something that made them stand aghast—one of their members had been insured. They called and he admitted It. They demanded that he the money and policy and after a few days he claimed to have went to Chicago and doae ao. Whether he did or not has not been ascertained probably not — and each day some Amishman from the church i s here as an investigating committee. Some of them charge George with transactions not permitted by law, and which if proven would have factious results, but these will be overlooked and he will be ted to remain in the fold and his friends will even reimburse him themselves if he will but renounce the insurance company and return their contaminated gold. The outcome of the affair will be watched with interest. -o DREW THE HIGHEST PENSION W. J. Craig on the Government Pay Roll fdr Seventy-Two Dollars. 'W. J. Craig, whose death occurred Wednesday, drew the highest pension tinder the law, $72 per month.-He was absolutely helpless, being able to move his hands only and those a few inches. By putting a cigar on a long stick with a forked end he could move it to and from his mouth. His condition was due to an incarceration in Andersonville prison for fourteen months. Mr. Craig was placed in the hospital department and was on the outside of the prison as a trusty, but the suffering was so terrible that one day he walked back into the prison stockade and stayed with the boys until paroled out. During all his life Mr. Craig was one of the practical jokers of the town and he never lost his sense of humor. When he first came to Bluffton all the business portion had woden awnings that overspread the sidewalks. They grew old and dilapidated, dripped the rain but no one had the nerve to move them. One dark night Mr. Craig, Hugh Dougherty and the young men of the town tore them down, and in the next issue of the Banner Mr. Craig scored the perpetrators to a finish. No wooden awnings have appeared in the town since that date. —Blutfton Banner. o _ — WHAT CAUSES FIRES. Fire insurance men estimate that 40 per cent of barn fires are due to lightning, 10 to 15 per cent to carelessness, 8 to 12 per cent to overheated flues, the balance to other causes, including incendiarism. According to the report of the weather bureau of the department of agriculture for 1900, the total number of strokes of lightning in 1899 which caused damage was 5.527. the number of buildings injured 6,256, value of property lost, $3,016,520, number of deaths by lightning. 563. number of persons injured, 820, number of live stock killed in the field. 4.251. Tall chimneys emitting smoke that carries moisture with it are more often struck than other objects, barns containing hay that gives of moisture by evaporation, and porous tree barks are frequently struck. For the same reason icehouses are more attractive to lightning than other storehouses.

DECATUR'S NEW PAPA. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Vance Have New Arrival, Lee Vance, the popular clothier, was in his place of business this morning at about five o'clock and before leaving deposited a small slip of paper in the cash drawer which bore the following inscription: “A seven pound girl." He returned to his home to rejoice over the new arrival and in the meantime the clerks engaged local artists to exemplify the antics of the new "papa.” Several signs bearing the forged signature of Mr. Vance were displayed throughout the clothing store which were unique to say the least. To show the boys that he was no piker, Mr. Vance wrapped the signs in a neat package and carried them home as relics. Mother and babe are doing well. CALLED TO REWARD John Henry Wilkinson After Year’s Illness Answers the Call OF THE DEATH ANGEL Died this Morning at About Nine O’Clock from Consumption A year’s suffering from consumption in its w'orst stage culminated in the untimely demise of John Henry Wilkinson of Thirteenth street this morning, a few moments before nine o’clock and thus another of Decatur's well known citzens has passed into eternity. The deceased has lived an eventful life. He was born January 16, 1863, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Barton yard. Radcliff Gate, England. Following in the footsteps of his father, in early life he attained a remarkable ability as a stone cutter, which vocation he has pursued during the course of his entire life. Mr. Wilkinson’s coming to America was brought about by the fact that a staunch friend of his father, residing at Buffalo, New York, who was'also in the stone business, had written that opportunities were exceptionally good at that place. It was twenty years ago that Mr. Wilkinson left his native land for America, landing at New York from where he at once proceeded to Buffalo. After remaining there a few years he went to Cleveland, where he became aftiliated with the promoters of the Chicago and Erie railroad, who were at that time constructing the line westward. The deceased was engaged to take charge of bridge gang and under his superintendency many railroad -bridges were constructed. In coming westward he located temporarily at Decatur and formed the acquaintance of Miss Minerva Woods, to whom he was married sixteen years ago last Monday. As a stone cutter he had few peers in this section and his services were in great demand. He has lived continuously in Decatur since his marriage and two children, Warren, of fifteen years, and Walter, twelve, came to bless the union. About one year ago his lungs became affected, which is supposed to have been caused by dust from stone, apd since that time his health has gradually declined, consumption developing immediately. During the closing chapter of his life, the deceased has suffered much pain, However, he has been content to trust his case in the keeping of the Almighty. It was noted this morning that he had grown much weaker and the attendants expected the end at any moment. He retained consciousness until the last, although too weak to talk and he passed away as if it were hut a sleep.. The bereaved wife and children knew months ago that death ■was inevitable, and while his death 1 caused no surprise, it brings with it untold grief to the devoted family 'and many friends. Surviving, beside jhe family, are a brother. Joseph Wilkinson and sister Miss Harriett, both of whom reside in England. The funeral services will be held from the home Sunday afternoon at two o'clock and interment at Maplewcod cemetery. ——o —— B. P. 0. E. ELKS MEET TONIGHT There will be a special meeting of the Elks at their lodge room at eight o’clock tonight. Members please bo present.

WAS AT PORTLAND A. J. Smith Was Boosting “Great Northern” at Our Sister City ON THURSDAY He is Filled With Proper Kind of Enthusiasm Says Portland Sun Mr A. J. Smith, of Decatur, president of the board of directors of the Great Northern Indiana Fair association, was in the city Thursday afternoon interesting the citizens in the fair which will be held at Decatur August 25 to 28. Mr. Smith announced that this year the fair will be greater than ever before in its history. The organization has secured a number of special attractions for each day and instead of centering its efforts on one big day will aim to make three the same success as one. Special arrangements have been perfected with the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad to run a special train south during the three principal days cf the fair and this train will leave Decatur about seven o’clock in the evening. Mr. Smith has made some investigations and finds that heretofore Decatur has sent about three people to the Jay county fair to one going from Portland and vicinity to Decatur, and as he is a believer in reciprocity, he contends that the citizens of Jay county should come and return this kindness. Mr. Smith is one of Decatur’s leading business men, and is filled with just the right kind and necessary amount of enthusiasm that is bound to make the project with which he is identified a thorough success.—Portland Sun. WOMEfT BARRED Postal Carriers for Uncle Sam Must Wear Trousers Hereafter IT IS A NEW RULING * From the Department—“For Men Only” is the Order Passed Out i Men’s rights have at last prevailed and the steady encroachment of the weaker sex into masculine positions has received a set-back from the postal departments where a new ruling has been handed out excluding the new woman" from positions as postmen and rural route carriers. Hereafter all places to be filled will bear tbe tag ‘for men only.” Acting Pastmaster General Grandfield has decided that a woman could not be a mail carrier without making it decidedly embarrassing for her and causing her to lose her womanly modesty nnrt incidentally her skirts. At Idaho Falls, Idaho, an examination was recently held to obtain a carrier for the installation of city free delivery and the civil service commission certified the name cf a young woman to the department. The question arose as to whether a woman wsa eligible for appointment. There did not appear to be any legal reason to interfere and the young woman of the department. The point of receiving the job when there was discovered a statute in large bold type which stated that carriers were to ■wear trousers, the description of which was fixed in detail by a former postmaster general following the enactment of the law. When this discovery was made it was decided to ask the civil service commission to hold another examination. Acting Postmaster 'General Grandfield's native modesty compelling him to abstain from asking the young lady who was eligible whether if appointed, she would comply with the law and regulations regarding dress.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, August 7, 1908.

GREAT SHOW AT PICTORIUM i Hadji, a Wonderful Horse, Does Remarkable Feats. Large crowds visted |he Pictorium last night and were well pleased by ■the excellent performance. Beside educating and amusing moving pictures, Hadji the most '-wonderful of Educated horses interestingly entertained the vast audienco. It can tell the time of day or night, can add, tract cr multiply and applause followed each feat it accomplished. Hadji is abeautiful animal.» It is valued so highly that insurance In the amount of $15,000 is carried oh it. Clever dancing and singing is itfcluded in the performance and all who attended were well pleased. This wonderful horse will be at the Pictprium during the remainder of the week and it will well pay the people to see it. Admission ten cents. A FALSE DOCTRINE Mrs. Holloway Writes a Letter About the Mormons IS DEGRADING Morman Teachings Should Not Be Tolerated Here If it is true, as announced, that a company of Mormon elders are to invade Decatur and force upon its citizens their infamous teaching, it is greatly to be regretted and the unwary should be warned against them. While our community is and has been tolerating to her discredit many practices that are likely to prove reactionary and exceedingly harmful to tbe morale of her future eftizentship and while we hear much false teaching in the name of religion that has no foundation in fact, or reason, or Scripture, yet nothing so degrading to American womanhood and American homes, has ever been permitted in our city, as this pernicious polygamous Mormon doctrine, which is a conglomeration of Judaism, Polytheism and perverted Christianity. The Apostle Paul was surely looking down the ages with prophetic sight when he wrote to the church through Timothy and warned the people against “men who creep into houses and lead captive silly women." There is an earnest effort being made by reformers all over this land to exterminate what is known as “the white slave traffic in girls." And parents, what else would your daughters be than white slaves if these perfidous men should persuade them to accept their polygamous teaching? I beg that when these oily tongued rascals come to your doors with their insidious literature and their ungodly doctrine, that you forbid their entrance into your homes and refuse their tracts. Give them no quarter. An ounce’ of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There is nothing more menacing to the stability of the United States government —whose moral strength is in her homes, than this iniquitous Mormonism. In its creed Joe Smith and Brigham Young occupy a higher place than either Moses or Christ. Their doctrine is as false as Satan from whom it emanates. It is hoped that our municipal authorities will see how unwise it would be to allow- them to get a foothold here —they should be ordered to “their own place." M. L. HOLLOWAY. . —o - — J. WILL KELLEY GOES WEST Secures Position With Kansas Real Estate Firm. I The Portland Sun says: Attorney J. Will Kelley, who some time ago accepted aposition at Topeka, Kansas, with a large real estate, loan and insurance firm, left on the 7:01 o’clock train Thursday morning for that place to take up his new line of work. His position is a very lucrative one and his knowledge of law makes his service all the more valuable to his employers. He will retain his residence in this city until after the election in November, at any rate, so that he will not be deprived of his vote. His family are at present visiting with relatives in Pennsylvania and will not join him until they move to the western home.

HE HAD TO SETTLE Boys Heard That Will Schrock Had Joined Benedicts CALLED HIM OUT Made Him Treat—A Joke for Which Victim Threatens Dire Vengance ■— ■ ■ Will P. Schrock’s the fall guy. He's been asking “Who?” in a Sherlock Holmes way for a year and no one suspicioned until last evening that he was “it." Bill’s one of the busiest old bachelors in town, and only about four times a year, he finds time to make a social call on his lady acquaintances. Last night he appeared in “biled" shirt and Prince Albert regalia and the boys knew he was about to cause some lady's heart to flutter. He passed the gang with head up, a candidate bow of the head, and a sweet maidenish smile. Some one says, “What’s on for Bill?" Kornie Conter answers “Why, didn’t you hear about it. he’s to be married tonight.” One urchin standing near caught the remark. It was enough. Visions of redhots, a sandwich and a bottle of pop arose and in ten minutes he had shadowed Bill to his destination, one of tue city’s fashionable homes .and a half hour later returned with his gang cf ‘ hellers’’ armed with tin cans, dishpans and other noise novelties known only to the “kids.” Mr. Schrock came forth and denied it, but his beaming happy countenance was but more conclusive evidence to the noise beys, and they kept up the din until Bill came across with the necessary funds with which to appease their appetites. He came and he’s still coming, as he had to square so many people to keep the joke out of the newspapers. Now he has sworn a terrible oath that some time in the dim and hazy future he will make his friend Conter repent that he ever uttered that cruel and infamous remark. o BERTSEGUR WRITES Has Arrived at Honolulu — Is in the Government Service INTERESTING LETTER t Received from Former Decatur Boy—ls a Graduate of Purdue Mongolia, June 8, 1908. —4 miles from land (straight down) —We got off at Honolulu yesterday and took a look at the principal city of the Sandwich islands. As we approached from the distance we could see first the protruding mountain peaks of the leper island on our left. This is a very small island and only used for the people who have contracted leprosy. Beyond here we could see the peaks of Oahu rising in the dim distance on our right. I had given orders to my cabin boy to call me at 4:30 and so it was yet a little dark. From the distance the peaks liked i barren and dreary, but as we drew closer, we could commence to make out the form of vegetation upon them and when we finally got closer and could see the tropical vegetation a sight greeted our eyes well worth the seeing. The tall points with their large beamlike trunks,' the banana trees with their clumps of bananas growing as a stem, the crawling sand I grass, the mango trees, tbe sugar 1 plantations, the made harbor, the bun- I galoos open to stmshinf? and rain . alike, the thatched roofs, all combined to make one bit of really beautiful ■ tropical scenery At 9:00 g. m. having been inspected by the U. S. medical inspector, we were permitted to go on shore. We patronized the street car companies liberally the rest of the day. We found the brown mulatto conductors much more pleasing, intelligent and obliging than the street car conductors of San Francisco. The people of these islands are mostly Chinese, Japanese. Hawaians. Americans and mulattos. I s«* three

Turks in their native costume. The Hawaians dress in very lose clothing and bare foot, men and women alike. The women still wear the mother hubbards introduced by the early missionaries. The Chinese and Japanese dress as they do in China and Japan, and for the first time I saw women carryir,§ their children on their backs. We seemed to be very amusing to a large share of the dark mulattoes, but I* l6 feeling was mutual. The chief industry of these islands is sugar. The sugar men have scoured the world for the cheapest labor to be fousd, and at last have found it in the Japanese. Many of the sugar plantations pay from 18 to 24 per cent on the investment, but this process has had its reaction. The coming Japs have learned that Hawaii is a great business center, and have taken to shop keeping, sugar raising, etc., and are slowly hut surely driv(Oontinued on Page Two) BRYAN CAMPAIGN He Will Spend Three Days in Chicago this Month PARKER SPEECH A Great Reception in Los Angeles—Kern to Make a Trip Faiview, Lincoln, Neb., August "• —That William J. Bryan proposes tn a considerable extent, to conduct his own campaign for the presidency, was disclosed Here when he announced that he would spend three days in Chicago, beginning August 22. The democratic headquarters will be in full I swing by that time and it is Mr. Bryan’s intention to meet and confer with Chairman Mack and other leaders of his party and give them the benefit of his counsel. Another speaking date has been arranged by Mr. Bryan H e will leave on the giorning of August 21 for Des Moines, where he will discuss the tariff question. That night he will proceed to Chicago. After his three days’ stay in the latter city he will go to Indianapolis to attend the notification ceremonies of John W. Kern, which will take place on the 25th. On the return trip he will speak on the 27th at Topeka, arriving in Lincoln the next day. The reception accorded Judge Alton B. Parker in Los Angeles last night, when he delivered an address strongly supporting Bryan and Kern, was a source of much pleasure to Mr. Bryan. It was the expectation that Judge Parker, in response to an invitation from the Democratic nominee, would stop off in Lincoln on his way east, but Judge Parker wrote that before the invitation was received he had planned to go home by another route. He. however, pledged his services during the I campaign, and will make numerous J speeches. Mr. Bryan has summoned the treasurer of the national committee, Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, to Fairview for an important conference as to the finances for campaign work. The contributions, while coming in reasonably fast, hardly approach in volume the amounts expected and there is under contemplation a plan whereby the needed funds may be quickly raised. Haskell is expected here this evening. Indianapolis, August 7.—John W. Kern, Democratic nominee for vicepresident, received a telegram from W. J. Bryan, in which Bryan says h e will discuss the trust question at the Kern notification in this city. August 25. It is likely that Bryan’s, speech will be delivered in the evening. although this has not been de- ■ cided definitely. Myron W. King, of ■ this city, and State Chairman Stokes I Jackson are making the arrangements | for the Kern notification. Mr. Kern left last night for a speaking trip jin the west He will speak first at a Chautauqua gathering at Charles City, la., and then go to Indianola, where he lived in his boyhood. From there he will go to Lincoln. Neb., for the Bryan notification, on August 12. On August 19 he will speak at Milwaukee, and on August 26 he will make a speech at Fountain City. Ind. o Lawrence Vogiewede, who is a clerk at the Vogiewede shoe store, was unable to attend to his duties today on account of illness.

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SHE WILL RECOVER A Serious But Skillful Operation Performed Upon Mrs. J. E. Moser AT ST. JOE HOSPITAL This Morning— A Superfluous Growth Had Caused the Illness St. Joe Hospital, Fort Wayne. Aug. V- (Special to the Daily Democrat) — Mrs. J. E .Moser, of Decatur, who. a few days ago entered St. Joe hospital, submitted to an operation this morning at 10:30 o’clock for the removal of a superfluous growth of the stomach. The operation was a serious one, skillfully performed by Dr. Rosenthal, assisted by Dr. J. M. Miller, the family physician, and from indications at this time, the patient will recover without inconvenience. She is at the present time reviving from the anaesthetic and in all probability she will be able to be taken i home in the near future. The growth which was removed had been preying heavily upon her constitution, and it is fortunate that the operation was i accomplished without further delay. • • O' — ACCIDENT MAY PROVE FATAL Frankie Ross of Near Willshire, Was Badly Injured. Frankie tjie eight-year-old . son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Ross, southeast of town two miles, met with an accident Saturday evening, which may yet prove fatal, although it is hoped by the people of the entire commun- ; ity that the suffering little fellow will fully recover. He was thrown under- ' neath a wagon load of dirt being hauled from the Erie stone quarry in this town. The young man in charge cf the team and wagon laid down on the load to take a nap. intrusting ' the driving to the little boy. Something went wrong with the reins, and Frankie got down on the tongue to fix them up. When he placed his hand on one of the horses the animal made a lunge, which threw Frankie to the ground, the wheels passing over his limbs. The thema bone, between the knee and hip of one leg, was broken clean off. so that one end of the broken bone protruded through the flesh and skin. Other parts were badly crushed and hruished. and Drs. Roller and Christy, who attended the injured lad. express the gravest of doubts as to the final result of the unfortunate accident. —Willshire Herald. COMMISSIONERS MAKE A VISIT Inspection Tour to Portland and Ridgeville Quarries. The three county commissioners of Adams county, together with County Surveyor Baumgartner and Michael Miller, the later a contractor from Monroe, were in this city Thursday afternoon paying the Jay county commissioners a social call. They had been out on an inspecting tour visiting the stone plants belonging to the Armfield & Cartwright company in this city and Ridgeville, where they inspected the quality of stone, with a view to purchasing a large quantity for the construction of several macadam roads petitioned for by Adams county residents.—Portland Sun.