Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 231.

OPTION BILL PASSES HOUSE Big Crowd Cheers and Rushes to Office of Governor Hanly HOW THEY VOTED Iver Johnson Gives a Melodramatic Effect to the Roll Call Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 26. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The house passed the ccunty local option bill just before noon today by a vote of 55 to 45, four republicans joining with the minority democrats in opposing the bill, while the recalcitrant republican ' votes were offset by six democrats, i The republicans voting with the democrats were Geish, Schroeder, Condo and Keller, while the democrats voting for the bill were Sicks and Pierson, both of whom vcted with the republicans on Thursday, against the indefinite postponement and Green, I Hottell, White and McKinney in addition. The republicans were successful in winning Iver H. Johnson, who voted against them Thursday, over. Seldom has a more dramatic• scene been enacted in the Indiana legislature. With the floor and aisles and gallery and lobby crowded with republican and democratic politicians, anti-saloon league members and spectators who were generous in applause both for and against the bill, the air was full of excitement. The house was called to order at | ten o’clock. The fight had been waged « up until the minute of opening and t both sides same in convinced that ■ they would win, although the republi- ■ can leaders seemed the more confiI dent. After prayer, the speaker handI ed down the bill and the roll call was demanded immediately. Minority i leader Honan addressed thd chair, but the speaker refused to recognize him and ordered the roll call to continue. Immediately minority leaders Honan and Sweeney protested against the gag-making rule, asking for fair play and likening the method to that of Czar Reed and Cannon. The - speaker was unperturbed and the roll continued with the excitement intense. The first real suspense came when the I clerk called Billingsley’s name, he having voted with the majority Thursday, but it was feared could not be held in line. He did not hesitate in thundering out his "aye,” and cheering and wild applause followed. The t relief of the temperance people over this vote was short lived, however, 1 foi the very next man, Bowles, who ■ won his measure of applause by voting "aye.” Then the crowd settled and waited for Condo. This republican voted *• he did on Thursday, against the bill. The roll showed nothing unexpected until Green was called. He said that after being, entreated all night by a delegation from home, and believing as I do that I am no less a democrat. I will never sell my vote,‘‘l vote aye.” This was the first democrat ... convert and the crowd went wild. Hottel was the next democrat to vote J aye. The most dramatic incident of all came when Johnson was called. He had voted against the bill on Thursday When he arose to explain his vote there was a stillness, intense. His daughter, on whom the temperance folks had relied to get her father’s vote sat beside him. Much agitated he started in a broken voice: “I have not favored this measure. It. has not been to my liking, but because of certain influence, I” —and he laid ibis hand on his daughter’s shoulder, and looked in her sace —“I feel it my duty to vote—” Here he broke down and cried, utterly unable to proceed. ‘ I cannot talk, Mr. Speaker, aye” and his daughter’s arms wound around him ag he resumed his seat. The enthusiasm of the crowd can be understood. This broke the backbone of the opposition, and as the names of McKinney, Pierson, Sicks and White, democrats were called, they voted for -the measure. A motion was made to reconsider >aud another to lay that motion on the table, both of which carried and cinched the bill. A recess followed and the whole mob went down to Governor Hanly’s office, where that official received them.

WAS A REAL SLIDE FOR LIFE And Resulted in Death of Madam Laffere at Albion. Albion, Ind., Sept. 25.—1 n view of ; hundreds of people who were attending the street fair at Albion today, Madam Laffere, who performed the hair raising act of sliding for life on a 800 foot cable which was attached to the court house tower, met her death. At 5:30 this afternoon Madam Laffere ascended the court house tower and after all preparations were made for the act/ made a bow to the . specetators and after fastening her hair to the wire by which she makes the for life, started on the long act. She had mot proceeded mere than twenty feet when the wire broke and she fell to the pavement, a distance of 100 feet. She was picked up unconscious and after an examination it was found that both limbs and shoulders were broken. She was taken at once to the New Hope hospital. where she died at 6:45 p. m. I 0 The new schedule for the G. R. & I. gees into effect tomorrow morning and parties wishing to travel over this road in the future should consult their new time table, as several material changes have put been into effect for the winter. TO SPEAK IN CITY Thomas R. Marshall, Candidate for Governor, Here Last Week of Campaign ROBINSON SPEECH The Twelfth District ExCongressman Here Monday Evening Ex-Congressman James M. Robinson, of Fort Wayne, will speak at the court house on Monday evening at 7:30 o’clcck, and that place will no doubt be well crowded with the voters of this district, who are greatly interested just at this time in the important political issues of the day. The present campaign is becoming the hottest in all thqjristory of this wonderful republic, and each day brings forth some new and startling development. Mr. Robinson, whose, ability to explain the burning issues, is well known over the state, will tell you all about it at the Monday evening meet. The city band and a ladies- quartet will enliven the occasion with good music. I The announcement has just been made that the Hon. Thomas R. Marshall. democratic candidate for governor of Indiana will speak in this city during the last w-eek of the campaign. The exact date has not been decided upon, but will be given out within a few days. It is needless to say that the occasion will be made an important one in local political circles and that the candidate will receive an enthusiastic reception here where he is admired by men of every party. ——oG. R. & I. CAR ON FIRE. A Narrow Escape from a Costly Blaze. Thursday afternoon between four and five o’clock, fire was discovered in a freight car which had just been run in on a siding north of the Grand Rapids and Indiana depot. A passerby noticed the smoke issuing from the top of the car and gave the alarm before’ much damage was done. The department was not called, the fire being extinguished by* 1 the employes at the station. The car contained the household furniture ’of Rev. Fred Tormohlen, of Amboy, the new Friends minister, who is moving here to succeed Rev. T. E. Williams, as pastor of the church. The fire is supposed to have been started by a spark from an engine. A hole several inches square was burned in the top of the roof but the contents were not damaged on acoount of sheet iron which lined the car. —Portland Sun.

AMISH IN TOWN Judge D. D. Heller & Son Enter Appearance for Their Defense WILL STAND TRIAL It Developes that Paille Was Not the Real Thing But Adopted The Amish elders will make George Paille preve that they have been the cause of his losing the affections of his good wife Katie and the two children, and of his character being besmirched if it was. This was the day fixed for them to 'appear in answer to tfhe summons and they were here in force, all the Swartz’s, the Eichers, the Hilty’s, etc., with their wives and children. When the case was called, appearance was entered for the defendants by D. D. Heller & Son for all defendants and they were ruled to answer. The action was a very common one which ordinarily would not have caused the defendant in a suit to appear, but the Amish, conscientious and sincere, will take a great interest in every step of the trial, and will spend much time about the court room until the affair is adjusted. It is said that Paille the man who brought the suit, and who the elders say has done other things contrary to their belief, is not a real Amishman, not one cf the born and genuine kind, but that he was a wanderer who strayed into the settlement, a haven for the weary and hungry, for the .Amish never turn any one away, several years ago, and lived there some months, allowed Iris hair to grow, accepted the belief and finally married Katie Swartz, and parties of that neighborhood remember that the occasion was made one of unusual festivities. Since then he has been a faithful member until recently he began such worldly acts as having his property insured. His downfall of course was a natural result. ARE AFTER THIEVES Four Men in DeWalds Car Stolen from Fort Wayne Thursday Night TOOK TRAIN HERE Two Bought Tickets to Indianapolis and Two Were Put Off at Portland Officials from this city and Fort Wayne are making a determined effort to land the men who, on Thursday night, stole the big $3,500 PopeToledo touring car of George DeWald, from in front of the Temple theater at Fort Wayne, and which was found two miles north of here yesterday noon. The location of the car was reported by a lady near whose farm the car was left, and she will probably receive the SIOO reward offered. It is learned that there were four men in the car. They came direct to this city, where they seem to have run short of gasoline and at one o’clock got. one of Hower brothers out of bed to get them some gasoline. It seems they couldn’t get the car started again, though nothing seems to be wrong with the machine, anyway they decided to abandon the stolen car and they boarded the midnight train south on the G. R. &I. Two of the men bought tickets to Indianapolis, while the other men who had only $1.12 paid on the train. They insisted on being allowed to ride to Richmond, but were put off at Portland. The officers have a good description of the thieves, and may succeed in bringing them to justice. The theft was one of the boldest on record. o Thirty-five teamsters employed in hauling stone upon tfbe roads in Warren township, Huntington county, went on strike, demanding that either the day’s mileage be reduced or the pay be increased from $3 to $3:50 per | day.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, September 26, 1908.

BY FANNIE M LOTHROP r __ I I I I / ' i Photograph by Davis <4 Sanford ’ MARCONI, THE FATHER OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY F"'UGLIELMO MARCGNI, at the age of twenty-eight, has added a new chapter to the wondrous fairy taie of modern science, and made wireless telegraphy—a dream seemingly as hopeless as perpetual motion —a reality. When, on December 14. 1901, he announced tuat on the day previous he had heard, through a telephone attached to his apparatus at Cape Race, Newfoundland, audible signa’s sent from Cornwall, England, 2000 miles away, the wise-men smiled, some were even charitable enough to forgive the statement, because cf his youth and his enthusiasm. They knew that . electricity traveling at the rate of 186,000 miles a second would require only one ninetieth of a second to cross the Atlantic; but that this boy did it without the leading strings of cable to show electricity the way, was really ' too much; it was crowding credence too far—about 2000 miles too far. Now it is Marconi who smiles, and the world believes and accepts, for I wireless telegraphy l.ai proved itself. This modest, gentle, unassuming man who has so much enthusiasm for his science that he has no time for vanity or pinning medals on his coat, was born at Bologna, Italy, where his father had large estates upon which at tl:e age of seventy he still lives. His ■ mother, an Irish girl, daughter of John Jamison, the famous Dublin whisky manufacturer, humored her ooy when he began at eight to show Inventive . ability; she sympathized with him when at twelve his tutor attempted to rob him of one of his devices; she was with him, heart and soul, when at sixteen he was absorbed in mathematical, electrical and chemical problems, and spent money freely for books, instruments and every thing else he needed. When at twenty he talked of telegranhing without wires, through hills and forests, across fields and lakes, she still believed in him and went with him to England in 1897 when he made his successful test of tw-o miles at Salisbury Plains, a record increased to thirty-four miles by the end of that year; traversed the English Channel by wireless telegraphy two years later, ; and in 1901 sent a message across the ocean. The latest of his many inventions is a ship detecter by which the exact position and every move of a steamer on the ocean can be known every moment at the home office, by a method somewhat like wireless telegraphy, but requiring no operator or wireless plant on the vessel. Copyright transferred to Win. C. Mack, 1906.

WATCH WAS STOLEN. I 7 ‘ Percy Nelson, a young inan residing in the west part of the city, was rcbbed of a gold watch last evening while listening to the medicine man who held forth on Madison street. Nelson was standing in a crowd listening attentively to the talker, when seme miscreant slipped his watch from his pocket, and made his get away. The young man did not get a glimpse at the thief and consequently it will be impossible to find him unless the timepiece is found on his person. A NEW SCHEDULE New Time Card Goes Into Effect on G. R. & I Tomorrow Morning MATERIAL CHANGES Have Been Made —The North Bound Flyer Has Been Taken Off The schedule for the G. R. & I. passenger trains will be materially changed, beginning tomorrow morning at eight o’clock and the usual winter schedule will be observed. The north bound flyer will be taken of! and a train put on at 12:47 a. m. The Sunday night train will leave here at 8:36 and the afternoon northbound daily train will leave here at 3:07 instead of 5-15.’ The new time card as it will appear after Sunday is as follows: South Bound. No. 6 —Daily 12:47 a.m. No. 12 —Daily ex. Sun 7:16 a.m. No. 2—Daily,, ex. Sun 1:11p.m. No 16 —Sunday only 8:36 p.m. North Bound. No. s—-Daily 1:28 a.m. No. 7— Daily 7:57 a.m. No. 3—Daily, ex. Sun 3:07p.m. The G. R. & I. has run some fast trains this summer and the service afforded was far above the average.

LINE IS FINISHED Telephone Service Between Here and Fort Wayne is Excellent IT COST MONEY New Line Follows Old River Road for Over Eighteen Miles The final work on the new telephone line between this city and Fort Wayne was done yesterday afternoon and those who have tested the line say it is positively the best which Operates from this center. The consruction work has been done under the very able supervision of the superintendent, George Kinzel, and this accounts for the fact that each portion of the job was done according to specifications. About two months ago the Decatur line was cut eff from Fort Wayne, owing to the fact that the noise on the lines had become so bad that it was affecting the city lines in the summit city. This noise, it is said wag caused by he high tension, alternating system used by the traction line. At any rate it became necessary to move and it was done. A portion of the old poles were used but the wire and material ou the line is all brand new, first class ard up to date. The change of the line has ben quite expensive, but was necessary and the company is not objecting. During the past two months it has been necessary for the local company to send the Fort Wayne messages byway of Van Wert. The official board of the M. E. church, at a recent meeting, ordered the month of February, 1909, set' apart for evangelistic services, and Dr. Wilcox was instructed to secure the very best of help. As a consequence O. A. Miller of the Moody’s Bible institute of Chicago, will be here. |

HORSES DIE FROM DUST. , Long Drought Causes Loss of Number of the Animals. "As a peculiar result of the almost unprecedented drought, horses over this section of the state are dying from dust, which fills their lungs and causes death by suffocation. Many really valuable animals have recently been lost by the farmers from this cause recently and the financial damage will be considerable. The dust, which lies five and six inches deep on country roads, permeates the horses’ breathing apparatus as they plow through the death-dealing dirt. After a time death results, and examinations cf the bodies by veterinary surgeons has disclosed in manyinstances the remarkable fact that quantities of dust, varying from a pint to a quart, were held in the , horse’s lungs. Nothing to prevent the killing of the herses can be deI vised beyond keeping them in the stables until rain lays the dust. At the present time the dust on the ' country roads is said to be worse than mud in the spring time. A wagon trip on one of the main thoroughfares is said to be about as disagreeable a proceeding as can be imagined. It is probably due to this condition of the roads that but few farmers are coming to the city these days.—Fort Wayne News. o THE REAL MANAGER The President Now Running the Republican Campaign MUCH CRITICISM Too Many Managers is Said to Have Caused Friction New York. Sept. 25.—President Roosevelt has taken hold cf the ReI publican national campaign with a firm grip. Some of the men about headquarters here think he will make a mess of it. Others declare he will have a Taft campaign of consequence under way within the next week or ten days. Just where Mr. Hitchcock holds forth in the present complex arrangement is a question with a good many of the leaders. According to Mr. Taft, Hitchccck is in supreme command, but the headquarters view is that the nominee is mistaken. Mr. Roosevelt, as they understand it, Is the supreme commander. They have been told that Mr. Hitchcock and the committee with which he has been surrounded are not to make any important moves without consulting the president over the long-disance telephone. Mr. Hitchcock’s friends feel, and evidently rightly so, that he is 1 a much abused person. The campaign i has not gone well; everybody associated with it admits that, but the responsibility. Mr. Hitchcock’s friends assert, cannot be laid at the door of the chairman. “If the public could only know what he has had to con--1 tend with it would say he has done remarkably well,” said one of his friends today. Giving expression to some additional views this same friend of the chairman said: "The trouble is we have too many managers in this campaign. Maybe the new arrangement —the creation of a committee that is to be with the chairman at all times and the assignment of Senator Crane as a sort of general advisor will remedy the real trouble, but I doubt it.” o BRIDGE CLOSED NEXT MONDAY While the Brick Street is Being Improved. Street Commissioner James Stults, informs us that on Monday morning he will tear up the brick street at the approach to the Monroe street bridge ( for the purpose of raising same to , conform with the improvements at j the bridge, and that consequently 1 there will be no travel allowed over the bridge. The work will be complete by Monday evening and travel ] can be resumed by Tuesday.

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A GREAT MEETING Southern Indiana Turn Out to Hear Bryan HE IS A FAVORITE Talks Issues to an Immense Throng of People Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 26-Twelve thousand people, many drawn from out-lying towns, assembled here yesterday and heard W. J. Bryan, cratic presidential nominee, plead for their support. He made two addresses, one in the afternoon at Athletic Park and a second in the evening from the court house steps. Mr. Bryan’s principal speech, that of the afternoon, was largely a duplication of those previously delivered with the addition of a tribute to his running mate, John W. Kern, whom he termed as congenial, and to Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic nominee for governor, whom the Nebraskan hailed | as a ' winner," The nominee enu- > merated three causes which, he asserted. prevented the rule of the people—corporate contribution to cam- ’ paign funds, the present method of electing United States senators and the despotic character through Speaker Cannon and his associates. As a panacea for these so-called "national ills” Mr. Bryan offered the planks of the Denver platform. Mr. Bryan scored President Roosevelt in connection with the campaign condemning his acts as degrading a public [ office to party politics. The plea uttered twice before in Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio, for a "square deal," was reiterated.’ ‘For twelve years," said Mr. Bryan. “Mr. Roosevelt has been advocating a ‘square deal.’ Now let Ihim give us a square deal for a month : and a half.” Mr. Bryan in his re- . marks on the labor question, the trusts t the tariff and publicity of campaign contributions, injected a new feature. He conducted an imaginary ernssex- : amination of Mr. Tcft. on the issues I of the campaign In which he placed ; Mr. Taft in the attitude o’ finally ad- . mitting. after a good deal of pressure, that, the Republican platform was all wrong and unsatisfactory to him and ‘ that, the Democratic platform was I right. The novelty of this method of > argument created no little amusement > among the crowd. r — o— —— — • DOINGS AT GENEVA L - Mrs. Bair Has An Eye Removed —Had Caused Her ’ Great Pain i > MR. ADAIR SPEAKS i r 1 Made Good Impression —G. H. Gift in Charge of I > Drug Store i i Geneva, Ind., Sept. 26. Mrs. C. M. Cook, of Cheboygan, ■ Mich., is visiting for afew days with . Mrs. F. M. Lee. Mrs. Bair submitted to an operation this morning for the removal of an eye. It has caused her much pain and trouble recently, and its removal was the last resort. The lion, J. A. M. Adair was in town yesterday afternoon calling on his friends and looking after his fences. . He spoke last night to a large audience and every one, friend or foe. seemed pleased with the manner in which be acquitted hlmSelf. As a speaker Mr. Adair has the happy faculty of expressing himself in clear : and perspicuous language, and one • that listens cannot doubt the speaker’s meaning. The Anderson-Knepper drug store is now under the management of MrG. H. Gift, of Rochester. Ind. Mr. Ralph Brayton, for several years in the employ of the company, has resigned and will go west. Just where i e not yet fully determined.