Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 189.

A CUCKOO CLOCK Alleged to Have Been Stolen by Fred Gerber—Bound Over to Court COURT HOUSE ITEMS Mechanics’ Lien Case—Marriage License—Another Divorce Case Fred Gerber, of Hartford township, will answer in circuit court to the rare, bfit nevertheless serious charge of stealing a cuckoo clock. Albrecht Rebey, also of that township, filed an affidavit before Squire Alfred Johnson charging Gerber with larceny, his being that on July 20th, Fred.- stole and carried away one cucko? clock valued at twelve dollars. When the time for trial came, Attorney F. M. Cottrell appeared for the defendant, waived the preliminary hearing and his client was bound over to court, where he will be tried next fall. Deputy Prosecutor Jffcob Butcher appeared for the state. Through her attorney, John F. Snow, Anna Shellne has filed a complaint for divorce from Ludlow L. Sheline, to whom she was married January 20, 1902. They lived together until May 18th last, when Mrs. Sheline says her husband abandoned her. She accuses him of otherwise treating her cruelly, failure to provide and says he has been unfaithful to his marriage vows In many ways. She thinks Mr. Sheline is worth SI,OOO and emands S3OO in alimony. Attorney J. C. Sutton filed a new case entitled The Berne Lumber company vs. Peter 0. Roth et al, complaint -to forclose mechanics’ lien, demand $75. Lucy Colchln, guardian for Agnes. Philimena, Walter and Arthur Colchin, fled an inventory and current report. Peterson & Moran prepared same.

Elizabeth Wherry has sold eighty acres in Union township to Warren A. Wherry tor $7,000. Anthony Colchin has deeded part of inlot 269, Decatur to Herman A. Colchin for SI,OOO. Geo. R. Dickerson, guardian gave Charlotta Weaver a deed to five acres in Wabash township for $142.85, and Sylva D. Heirs gave a quiet claim deed to the same tract for $lO7. A marriage license was issued to Rudolph Bowman, a farmer, aged twenty-five, tt> Sarah j Lelmenstalj, aged twenty, daughter of Rinebard Leimenstall. NOT IN POLITICS The Anti-Saloon League Are Squaring Themselves FOR NO PARTY E. S. Shumaker Makes a Statement for the League Although the campaign has not progressed far, the charge has been made frequently that the Anti-Saloon League is in politics, and that it has joined hands with the Republican state organization. This, it is charged was brought about through the adoption by the Republican state convention of a county local option convenwhile the Democratic state convention declared for a local option law, but said it should apply to townships and city wards. Acordlng to the charge made, the Anti-Saloon League has gone lover bodily into the Republican camp, and is working for the Republican nominees throughout the state, but E. S. Shumaker, state supeirntendent of the

. Indiana Anti-Saloon League, declares that this charge is untrue, and that" lit has no foundation whatever. "We are not bound to any political party,’’ he said. "The Anti-Saloon League avoids alliances of any kind with any party. We study the individual candidates and choose from among them those we shall support. The fact is that the league favored county local option and worked for it long before either state convention was held. The constitution of the league guarantees that in no case shall the league espouse the cause of any political party, as such, but will remain nopartisan, and will seek only the election of candidates who are in accord with the legislative policy of the league. Right now we are favoring the election of Republican candidates for the legislature in some counties, while in numerous other counties we are working for Democratic candidates. Then there are some counties where we are doing nothing at all, because the candidates on both tickets are unfavorable to our policy, and it makes no difference which side wins. “For over four years the Indiana League has been seeking the enactment of a county unit law for the exclusion of saloons. When our attorney, R. C. Minton, drafted the original Moore remonstrance law in 1905, it had in it county, ward and township features. The committee on public morals, however, eliminated the coun(Continued on Page Two) —o WAS SET ON FIRE Kramer and McGill Blacksmith Shop Visited by Firebug AND BLACKMAILER Threatening Letters Were Received by Mr. Kramer and Partner A dastardly attempt to destroy the Cramer and McGill blacksmith shop near the Monroe Street bridge was made last evening by parties who will no doubt be called upon to face the serious charge of blackmailing and arson in the near future. At about. 11:00 o’clock a blaze was noticed in the upstairs of the shop and the fire department ■was hastily suhimoned and did heroic work in extinguishing the flames, but a meager loss of $25 being sustained. That the conflagration was purely and simply of incendiary origin is conclusive, first for the reason that no one lives in the upstairs of the shop and there was nothing to catch fire unless by forced means; secondly, for the reason that Mr. Kramer has received two letters and his partner one, stating that if he (Kramer) did not get out of business soon, he would be whitecapped. With the enclosed clause in the letter that Mr. Kramer had insulted their daughter, for a blind, the man to whom the finger of suspicion points has endeavored to blackmail. Mr. Kramer is a prohibitionist, and has taken an active part in his cause and he believes this the reason for the threatening he has received. The letters receieved read as follows: Mr. McGill, we have warned your partner to leave the county, and if he don’t we will put him out of business. The reason for this i s he insulted our daughter? for the last time. The above is the first attempt at blackmailing. The next reads: Mr. Kramer: You have insulted our daughter for the last time, and it you don’t get out of business we will w'hitecap you. We will give you thirty days to get out. The next reads: Your time gets shorter every day you live in this town. The Shamrocks base ball team of this city will go to Rivarre tomorrow where a hot game is expected to be pulled off. The boys are going with the intention of returning with the large end of the score, and from past performances the other fellows will have to go some. At the Pictorium the Loyal Sisters are making quite a hit singing western cow’boy songs, “Gypsy Ann,” “Montana,” "SanAntonlo” and others. Their costumes are up to date and they look like the cowgirls that are in reality when at home on their ranch the Diamond D, at Great Falls, Montana.

WILL BE GALA TIME • Modern Woodmen Will Receive Forty New Members Intp the Fold THIS EVENING Ex-Congressman Robison and District Deputy Corsant Will Speak The M. W. A. of Decatur have spared neither time nor expense in preparing for the big event to be held in the city tonight and it is anticipated that more than three hundred visitors will be present at the I. O. O. F. hall where a class of forty candidates will be initiated into the fraternal organization. The degree team of Fort Wayne camp 4561 will arrive at 6:45 after which they will give a fancy drill on the main street. A special and a regular car will leave Fort Wayne at 7:00 o’clock convey, ing the main delegations of the two big Fort Wayne camps to the city. The visitors will be escorted to the hall immediately, where the proceedings will be called to order by the loca camp. C. L. Walters, clerk of the local camp, will then deliver an address of welcome after which Edwards camp, of Fort Wayne, will be given charge, and they will obligate the neighbors and confer initiatory work upon several candidates. At the conclusion of the work the assemblage will repair to the banquet hall where the Royal Neighbors will proceed to satisfy the hunger of all present. James Corsant, district deputy, will then deliver an address, after which ex-Congressman James Robison. of Fort Wayne, 'will talk on Woodcraft. o- ■ BERNE BOY WAS IN TROUBLE Stole a Watch and Landed in an Ohio Jail. It is about a month since Edwin Gilllom, northeast of Berne, sent his hired hand to Decatur on a bicycle to get some repairs for a binder, and waited ever since for his retur.n Nobody was able to learn of the boy’s whereabouts until this week when E. M. Ray received W'ord that he is in the bands of the police at Ottawa, Ohio. Mr. Ray at once proceeded to Ottowa and found Lloyd locked up in jail, charged with having stolen a watch. He secured his release and brought the boy home. Lloyd has probably had enough of experience in the world during the few weeks he was gone that he will decide to hereafter stay at home, and with the proper encouragement and assistance of friends we hope it will be made easy for him to chose to live right and honorably. When he was sent to Decatur about four weeks ago by Edwin Gilliom for whom he had worked, he went to Bluffton, Indiana, and there sold the bicycle for $3.00, and then went to Bluffton, Ohio. He worked at odd jobs in Allen and Putnam counties, Ohio, until he got into trouble and was picked up by the police. This may he the turning point in his life. We hope he has bad enough experience of the evil way g that he will forever turn his back to them. He is at present at home with his mother in Berne. —Berne Witness. A GREAT ENTERTAINMENT J. B. Stoneburner Putting on Excellent Shows. ■ • Again the Pictorium was crowded last night with appreciative audiences who were more than pleased with the excellent performaifces. The moving pictures were unusually interesting after which an Indian song was cleverly executed by the two ladies who have been engaged to furnish up to date vaudeville. They are far above the average and in the unique costumes they made a decided hit. Hadji the wonderful horse, hold the audience spell bound by its clever feats. Never in the history of Decatur has an animal ben seen in Decatur having such a remarkable intelligence *as has Hadji. With its master several feet away, it will add, subtract and multiply numbers given from the audience, beside telling the time of day. The horse will perform tonight as well as good singing and dancing, and the people cannot afford to miss the rare treat •

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, August 8, 1908.

ARE PUSHING THE WORK. Newcastle, Ind., August 7. —Contractors have completed the brick work on the new cottages at the Indiana Village for Epileptisc. north of this city. The structure will be enclosed within ten days. The building is 64 by 110 feet and will be thoroughly adapted for the care of patients. This is the last cottage that will be erected at the village this year. The appropriations by the last legislature have been exhausted. The next legislature will be asked to set aside at least $300,000 for the board of trustees of the epileptic village with which to erect additional cottages. There are five cottages at the village and nearly seventy patients. TO WED TODAY Mr. Meyer, of Bluffton, Claims One of Adams County’s Fair Daughters MISS PARRISH, BRIDE Happy Event to Occur at Home of County Recorder Steele this Afternoon A marriage ceremony that will unite two happy young people, will occur at five o’clock this afternoon at the home of County Recorder and Mrs. Hervey S. Steele on north Eleventh street. The bride is Miss Viola May Parrish, the pretty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Parrish, of Kirkland township, and a niece of Mrs. Steele, a charming young lady whose friends are many. Mr. Jerry L. Meyer, of Bluffton, is the groom. He is one of the most popular young men of that city, being in the electric and plumbing business with Tom Kerfoot. Rev. C. T. Paine, of St. Paul church, will perform the ceremony in the presence of a few relatives. They will leave on the evening Clover Leaf (Continued on page 3.)

BY FANNIE M LOTHROP I / \ i w I \ / \ / X' ■ / \J & / A Copyright Photo. Aime Dupont, New York. EMMA EAMES’ LIFE OF MUSIC. NEARLY half of Madam Eames’ life of thirty-six years has been spent on the operatic stage, where she is recognized as one of the greatest living sopranos. She was born in China of American parents, was educated in Boston and Paris, married in England, has her home in Italy, and two continents have been the stage of her triumphs in a repertoire of twenty-five operas, in which she has sung in four languages. When five years old she was brought by her mother from Shanghai, where her father practiced law, to the maternal home at Bath, Maine. Here she spent her girlhood, and her mother, an amateur musician, early recognizing the golden sweetness of young Emma’s voice, gave her careful musical training until she was sixteen, when they went to Boston. There, under the loving instruction of Clara Munger, Miss Eames’ voice won recognition in her splendid solo work in one of the church choirs, which she left for the finishing touches of a two years’ course under Madame Marchesi of Paris. At twenty she was ready for her debut, so she went to Brussels, hoping to find her opportunity at the famous Theatre de la Monnaie, the goal of so many aspirants. But after long and weary waiting, following the urgent advice of the director of the Conservatoire not to accept any secondary part, sad and dispouraged, she reluctantly went to Paris. A contract to sing at the Opera Comique temporarily gladdened her heart and lightened her sky with hope, but so often deferred was the promised opening that in despair she cancelled her contract. She returned home fearing to tell her mother of her rash act, but her world was suddenly filled with sunlight by the news that Gounod had selected her as the Juliet of his opera, “Romeo and Juliet.” Never did a young girl have a more splendid debut. She was only twenty-one, singing in a foreign tongue, in a rSle created by Patti, in the great Opera House of Paris, with Jean de Reszke as Romeo. The applause was enthusiastic, and the newspapers extravagant In their praise, and on the following morning her manager doubled her salary. Thus begun, her triumphs continued and increased in her later appearances in the great capitals of Europe. In 1891, after her successful London season, she married Julian/Story, the painter, and came to America for her first appearance. Her voice is of singular purity and strength, fresh and powerful in tone, and her notes are as true, clear and brilliant in the middle as in the high register. Copyright transferred to Wm. C. Mack, ayaf.

LUDLOW A PIKER He Degrades the Profession by Misquoting Berne Citizens THEY ARE MAD The Three Interviewed Will Vote the Democratic Ticket Berne, Ind., Aug, 7. —The good Swiss-Americans who form the majority of the population of this nice little town are bread enough to laugh when Mr. Louis Ludlow, the Indianapolis Star correspondent, calls them all Germans. but those of them who are democrats —and they form a majority of the community—do not like Mr. Ludlow's way of asking them all out to be republicans because they are temperance people. This is not a German community, as Mr. Ludlow says. The citzens for the most part are natives of picturesque Switzerland, or their fathers or grandfathers came from that land, the stronghold of liberty in Europe. And they are thoroughly Americanized,, too. and although they found themselves turned into Germans at one fell swkop of Mr. Ludlow’s pencil, they could forgive this if the Star correspondent had not stretched his versatility to the point of quoting them as saying things foreign to their principles. In misrepresenting the utterances of the business men whom he interviewed Mr. Ludlow got in bad, to use expression, with the Berneseans, and when I made the rounds of the business houses today I met with a genral chorus of indignation and protest against what were plainly termed the untruthful stories in the state republican organ during the past two or three days. The Star correspondent interviewed half a dozen business men here who took part in the fight against saloons,

the fight that made Berne a dry town. The people of Berne would not object to anything these gentlemen might say, for their attitude is too well known, but the men quoted and their friends are exercised over the placing of a false construction on their utterances. To be brief, Mr. Ludlow found some of the business men here in favor of county, instead of township, option, and thereupon the Star jumps to the conclusion that they are going to vote the republican state ticket this fall. The fact is that most of these who were interviewed by Mr. Ludlow are supporting Mr. Marshall. Some f>t them believe in township and ward option, and some were in favor of county option and supported that measure in the state convention. But almost without exception, whether advocates of county or township option the demccrats here are loyal to the state ticket and have no thought of supporting Mr. Watson. There are republicans among the Berne people, too, who are suporting their national and state tickets, but even they do not relish the way the Star misrepresented the attitude of their democratic fellow townsmen. Mr. Ludlow's article quoted alleged statements from. E. A. Luginbill, Edward Lantz, Jesse Rupp, Fred Rohrer, and Elmer Neuenschw-ander, and with the exception of Mr. Rohrer all of these gentlemen claimed their statements had been distorted. —L. F. Bresnahan, Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. o SERVICES TODAY \ Remains of William Jackson Craig Laid to Rest this Afternoon SERVICES IMPRESSIVE Mr. Hackett Has Charge— Makes a Very Eloquent Talk A large number of sorrowing friends gathered at the Craig home this morning at 10:30 o’clock to pay their last tribute to the memory of the late W. J. Craig whose noble life ended its earthly career Wednesday afternoon of this week. The services, marked for their appropriateness, ensued, in charge of E. A. K. Hqckett, of Fort Wityne, a lifelong friend of the deceased, and the impressiveness with which they were dispatched will ever be remembered by all who were present A mixed quartet from the M. E. church choir rendered those solemnly sweet hymns, “Lead Kindly Light,” “Abide with Thee,” and “Sometime We’ll Understand,” after which Mr. Hackett read consoling words from the scriptures. He continued the services by delivering a talk in which he told of the wonderful achievements accomplished by the departed brother, as well as his excellent qualifications. In part he said: “We have come here this morning to pay tribute to the memory of one of the best lived lives that has ever been recorded. In Mr. Craig we have found a great man. I have known him for thirty-five long years; have been closely affiliated with him socially and In business transactions and I have always found him to be a true and invaluable friend. He not only made friends by his upright principles but he made dear friends. He was always willing to lend a helping hand to any one with whom he came in contact, and his warmth of heart will be remembered by all who knew him as long as they shall live.” He continued: “I believe thaf had it not been for the aggressiveness of William J. Craig the Clover Leaf railroad would never have been built. It was through his untiring efforts that the line was constructed.” Mr. Hackett pronounced the benediction, after which the procession left for the Clover Leaf station and the remains were conveyed to Bluffton, where, after short services were held at the home of L. S. Kapp, burial look place at Fairview cemetery. The relatives who attended the services here were L. S. Kapp, brother-in-law, of Bluffton; George Craig, brother, of Delphos; Mrs. Martha Miller, sister, of Delphos, Ohio, and Cal Miler, of Lexington. Ohio. Mr. J. B. Failing and daughter Bessie, returned to their home at Flint, Mich., last evening after making a several days' visit here with relatives.

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LONG LEGAL FIGHT Was Effort of W. J. Craig to Collect Subsidy frarrX Frankfort, Indiana HE FINALLY LOST Original Sum of $20,000 Grew to sso,ooo—Was Rightfully His Frankfort, Ind., Aug. B.—The death of William J. Craig, at Decatur, recalls the remarkable fight he made to compel Center township, in which the city of Frankfort is located to pay a $20,000 subsidy voted to the Clover Leaf railroad company by the taxpayers of the township. Mr. Craig was president of the Western Construction company which had the contract of changing the Clover Leaf from a narrow to a standard gauge line. At that time there was an organization in this city known as the Frankfort and State Line railway company, composed of Frankfort citizens, who had undertaken to build the Clover Leaf to the state line. In order to aid the Frankfort company the township voted a subsidy of $20,000. The Frankfort and State Line company was absorbed by the Western Construction company, and the $20,000 subsidy was turned over to Mr. Craig, who at once look steps to enforce the collection. Some conditions of the agreement by which the township protected itself were alleged to have been violated, and the payment of the tax was resisted. It was back in 1876 that legal proceedings were begun, and the case was in the circuit, appellate and supreme courts of the state from that time until a year ago, when a final ruling of the supreme court was favorable to the township, and the litigation ended. The Center township tax case, as it became known throughout the state, was fought out four times in the circuit court in this county; there were two trials in Fountain county and three in Montgomery 'county, the case being appealed to the higher court in each instance by the losing party. The Interest on the original sum kept on Increasing until the principal and interest amounted to over $50,000 and in the defense of the case Clinton county spent hundreds of dollars. During the first few years of the long litigation Mr. Craig furnished the money to carry on the fight, but in more recent years, when financial re verses had overtaken him, it is said that friends came to his aid and provided means to continue the legal battle. General Corse, the war hero, to whom General Sherman sent his famous message to “Hold the fort, for I am coming,” was interested with Mr. Craig in the collection of the tax, and he is said to have aided him in a financial way. o — WILL ATTEND MEET Decatur and Berne Fire Departments Will Go to Garrett ON AUGUST 27TH Northeastern Indiana Volunteer Fire Department Will Meet There The meeting of the Northeastern Indiana Volunteer Fire association to be held at Garrett. August 27, will be a brilliant event. Departments from the various towns in this section of the state will be in attendance, also forty brass bands. The Decatur laddies will leave here via Fort Wayne & Springfield interurban and have secured a rate of 85 cents for the round trip. A goodly number from here have indicated their intention of attending the event The Berne department and band will attend, the party to consist of thirtyfive people. It will be a great day. Water battles and fire runs for prize# will beindulged in and excellent mus(Continued on Page Two)