Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

ilurne VI. Number 236.

PROPOSES | TO SHOW ’EM ' Governor Hanly Induces ■ Johnson to Change His Mind Again WILL NOT WITHDRAW Will Run for Legislature and I Hanly Will Speak in Every Township SSJndianapolis. Ind., Oct. 2. —(Special ' to Daily Democrat)-Representative J'- Mbnson, cf Clinton county, whose dwunatic voting cn the option bill has not been forgotten, has again K charm- d his mind. Yesterday he announced ,nat he would decline to run for the legislature this fall, although he had already been nominated by the Republicans in his county. Governor Hanly heard of Johnson's decision late yesterday afternoon and last night he got hold of Johnson. He labored with the legislator until late in the night and today Johnson announced that he will remain on the ticket and fight it cut. The governor’s plan ie to make it a moral fight in Johnson's district to prove that the people appreciate Johnson’s attitude and to show what small strength the saloons really have against awakened constituency. He has promised Johnson that he will speak in every township in his district if Johnson desires it, and besides all the aid that the antisaJoon league can muster will be given him. Hence Johnson’s declaration that he will fight it out with the gov- - ernor’s assistance. — o A STIFF BATTLE Was Engaged in by Two Well Known Farmers Near Pleasant Mills FOUGHT IN ROAD Dave Archer Worsted by M. F. Aspy—Latter Paid a Fine David Archer and M. F. Aspy are farmers who live just opposite each other a short distance south of Pleasant Mills, and both are well known. ■ There has been'a feeling of unfriendliness existing between the two for I, tome time. Yesterday they met out I in the road just betwen the two homes ■ and a quarrel ensued over a flock of turkeys, which is said to have K Wound up in a scrap that was the reel thing while it lasted. After an or tw’o of blows, Aspy it is ■ptegtd landed a solar plexis which put Archer on his back. Taking adE Vantage of this Aspy is said to have ■'followed with a rain of blow’s that ft- hold on Archer’s face and the latter ...Was getting sonsiderably the wrost of the affair when his wife and son arSSitved on the scene and went to the Mbsistance of the under man with a Wlub. The battle was raging fiercely When a farmer driving down the road Egfeadn-d the spot and preceded to sepHSfate the bcligerents. Roth men were J ta town today and show the result of the mill. Aspy was arrested fcn<j fined. The two men have • law suit in court now. over \a[claim of Archers against the Tague ■»tate of $9.50. and this was to have Been tried yesterday, but was delayed.

SPECIAL SERVICES NEXT WEEK Various Pastors to Assist Rev. Wise at Evangelical Church. Seme time ago we announced a series of special meetings to be held in our city church during the month of October. These are to begin with the Sunday evening service. We are anticipating an interesting as well as a helpful campaign—a meeting in which spiritual life will be quickened and also many of the unsaved of cur city may be reached. There will be present several pastors of adjoining fields, including the presiding elder of Fort Wayne, to help in these meetings. On Monday evening Rev. Metzner, cf Huntington, Ind., will occupy the pulpit; Tuesday evening Rev. Kraft, cf Scott, Ohio, and Wednesday evening Rev. Zuber, of Waterloo, Ind. Further announcements will be made as the meetings progress. Special music will be rendered during the entire meeting. You are fnvited to come and enjoy the meetings. x Rev. D. O. Wise. o SQUIRES COURTS Marshal F. Aspy Pleads Guilty to Charge of Assault and Battery ON DAVID ARCHER Mrs. Phipps Institutes Ejectment Proceedings Against J- Long The case of the State of Indiana vs. Marshal F. Aspy, wherein the defendant was charged with assault and battery was aired in Squire Stone's court this morning. Aspy was arrested on the above charge, it being alleged that he assaulted David Archer. He plead guilty to the offense and was fined $1 and costs, amounting to $9.30. After satisfying the court he was released after being admonished not to repeat the offense. Mrs. Phipps this morning instituted ejectment proceedings against James M. Long and demands $24. as payment of the damage sustained. The trial is set for October 7th at 9 o’clock a. m. The ejectment case entitled Bertha M. Rice vs. William Williams will be tried before Squire J.' H. Stone Monday. In the case entitled Dallas Butler vs. Frank McConnell, in which $4 was demanded, a judgment was rendered against defendant this morning by default. o FLEET PASSES ZAMBOANGA. Manila, Oct. I.—The Atlantic battleship fleet entered the Basilian straits at one o’clock Wednesday moving in single column. The fleet arrived opposite Zamboanga at one o'clock, finally clearing the straits on its way to Manila at four o’clock. An interesting and picturesque demonstration of welcome was accorded the ships as they passed Zamboanga. Gen Bliss commanding the department of Mindanao, aboard the coast guard steamer Negros, headed a large fleet of steamers, launches and Moro vintas or native canoes, all gaily decorated. The Negros fired the admiral's salute in honor of Admiral Sperry as the Connecticut steamed by. leading the fleet, and the flagship replied with the governor’s salute in honor of Gen. Bliss, as department commander. .. o KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MEETING Our regular meeting Monday night. October sth, of Knights of Columbus, will be of special interest, as we will have with us Dr. E. J. McOscar, of Fort Wayne, who will entertain us on a talk of his travels at home and abroad. Let every Knight turn out and hear him. By order of Grand Knight. Mrs. Edward Shearer, of Union township. Huntington county, made an attempt to end her life by the use of an anaesthetic. She was unconscious many hours, and the outcome is yet in doubt. It is believed Mrs. Shearer is mentally unbalanced.

TELLS SAD STORY Does Complaint Filed by Attorney L. C. DeVoss Today FOR ROSA COUNTS Husband Spent Wife’s Money and Property Then Abused Her / Attorney L. C. DeVoss filed another divorce complaint today, the title being Rosa Counts and the allegations are made in an unusually literary manner. The story as told by the papers in the case is the common one of abandonment, and recites that the parties were united in marriage in Allen county, Ohio, on June 26, 1881, that seven children were born to them, four of whom are under age and whose custody the mother desires. When they were married Mrs. Counts bad considerable property, many friends and moved in good society, and they had an apparently happy future, but John dabbled with the red wine and the flowing bowl, went from bad to worse, spent the money on hands, then the property and failed to provide for his family, who were kept together only through the efforts of Mrs. Counts who was compelled to take in washings. They lost their friends, were driven from society, and made the object of scorn. Finally, without a cent, John began, tramping the country, an outcast, whose only ambition was a drink, absenting himself for months at a time, while his poor wife was bending over a wash tub. He has been absent now for several years and as he is out of the state, notice was given by publication. Other allegations made in the complaint are that Counts often beat and cursed his wife and children and did various other things which will no doubt cause the court to quickly grant a decree as prayed. o Mrs. Ed ! Forry, Inf Berne, who visited ten days vwith her brother-in-law. Virgil Chew and family of west High street, left on the seven o’clock train Thursday morning for her home. —Portland Sun. IN A BAD WRECK Miss Genevieve Mylott Narrowly Averted Death at Chicago ON ELEVATED ROAD She Was on Her Way to Work When Crash Came —Her Mother There Mrs. Thomas Mylott has hastened to Chicago as a consequence of receiving a telegram stating that her daughter, Miss Genevieve, was all but dead as a result of figuring in a wreck on an elevated railroad. Miss Genevieve went to the windy city about two months ago, accepting a position as songster in a moving picture show. Last Frday as she was on her way to work aboard a train on the elevated rilroad, two cars clashed, and (she was frightfully injured, her skull being so badly fractured that she was taken at once to a hospital, where portions t?f bone .Were removed. A woman sitting beside Miss Mylott was instantly killed. Mrs. Mylott was immediately sent for and she left this city Monday morning to be at the bedside of her daughter, who was in a serious condition and thought at that time to be fatally injured. Developments. however, are indicative of her chances for recovery and unless something unforseen happens she will recover rapidly. The girl w’ill be brougnt home as soon as she is able to withstand the trip. Herman Miller, of Urbana, died suddenly from heart disease Tuesday night. He had not been ill, and his lifeless body was found by his six-year-old daughter who slept by his side.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, October 2, 1908.

CONGRESSMAN ADAIR TALKS. Interested a Large Geneva Audience Thursday. Congressman Adair filled his date for speaking at this place last Thursday night and the attendance was fine, the room being crowded. Mr. Adair made the best speech that we have yet heard. His spech was greeted with applause. Regardless cf what his oponent, N. B. Hawkins, has been hurling against him, during this campaign, even- charge of which is disproved by the congressman, in his speech with profo frem both sides of the bar and places of high office in Jay county, Mr. Adair has an increasing following. It was evident that in the face of all Adair has not lost anything but is constantly growing in popularity, because he has made the people ager d representative. Without a speck of party feeling we can say that the people of this district never had a better representative in congress. We heard some of his auditors say it was a most convincing speech, and carried all sentiment with him. Here’s to the success of Mr. Adair in his race for a second term. —Geneva Herald. o BE A MONTH YET Most of Legislative Acts Not in Force Until Published NO EMERGENCY Local Option Law Did Not Contain Emergency Clause Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 2.—Frank I. Grubbs, Deputy Secretary of State, said that it would likely be the latter part cf the month before the work of publishing the acts of the special session of the legislatu-s is complete. Although only seven bills were passed at the special session, the time required for publication will be almost as long as that required for publishing the acts of a regular session. More than 20,000 copies will be published, and while the work of printing will not amount to much, it will require just as much time to bind 20.000 small I volumes as it would to bind as many parge ones. All of the measures passed by the legislature had emergency clauses except the local option bill and one bill relating to the use of bits in coal mines. Those that had emergency clauses become laws as soon as they have been signed by the governor. All have been signed by the governor except the bill relating to mining and a night rider bill. The Johnson mining bill has a emergency clause and the Bland mining bill has none. These bills otherwise are identical and the governor, of course, will sign only one. If he signs the Johnson bill it will become a law at once. These measures increase the maximum size of bits which may be used in coal mines from two and one-half inches to three and onefourth Inches. The night rider bill that has not been signed, increases the penalty for destroying tobacco. For the destruction of tobacco it provides a jail sentence of not more than six months or a penitentiary sentence of from one to five years. For any threat made with a view to getting a tobacco grower to sell his produce to any particular dealer, it provides a fine of from $25 to $560 and a jail sentence of not more than sixmonths. The bills that have been signed by the governor are the local option bill, the bill relating to specific approapriations which would have reverted at the end of the fiscal year, the measure providing appropriations for certain state institutions and $12,000 for the preservation of old battle flags, the bill regalizing the contract between the beard of commissioners of the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane and Pulse & Porter and the bill appropriating $40,000 for the expenses of the special session. Although exact figures have not been compiled it was estimated yesterday that the expense of the special session would amount to about $26,000. The legislature was in session thirteen days, including two Sundays, and it was estimated that the expenses were $2,000 a day. While the number of clerks was not so great as during a regular session, the payment of (Continue* en Pace Two)

A SALOON FIGHT Will Not Be Made by Antis Until Early Next Spring TO USE SYSTEM Will Vote in Large Number of Counties on the Same Day Indianapolis. Oct. I.—The Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Anti-Salcon league, which will have general charge throughout the state of the work of eradicating saloons under the authority conferred by the county iccal option law. today outlined the plans of the league in regard to the enforcement of the county option law as far as determined. “Our first move,” said he, “will be to petiticn for elections in a number of counties simultaneously. The purpose of bringing a number of elections at the same time is to make it difficult, if not Impossible, for the brewery and saloon interests to colonize voters and carry the elections by tricky methods, such as might be possible if they were able to concentrate their efforts in a single county. The first elections will be in counties where there is a pronounced sentiment against the liquor traffic.” “How soon will the Anti-Saloon league put the machinery of the law in motion?’ 1 was asked. "We shall not be in a hurry,” he said. "Our plan will be to wait until the November elections are cut of the wayl and partisanship has had time to subside. My present impression is that the fight to wipe out saloons by elections with the county as the unit will not begin in a general way until next spring. It will be our purpose to consult with the temperance workers in counties that contemplate local option, and to advise with them as to the timeliness of bringing on the campaign.” Mr. Shumaker officially estimated that at least forty-five counties will go “dry” during the next two years as a result of campaigns to be brought under county local option. MR. HEARN IIS DEAD \ Father of Charles Hearn of this City Died Wednesday Afternoon AT PORTLAND, IND. Paralysis the Cause—Several Decatur People Attended the Funeral William Hearn died Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at his late home on west Walnut street, after an illness of paralysis. He had been ill for a couple of years and at various times his condition had been quite serious. Wednesday noon he was taken worse and lay in an unconscious state until his death. He was born in Georgetown, Brown county. Ohio, and had he lived until October 25th would have celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday. Mr. Hearn moved to lay county when he was about fourteen years of affe and was a resident here until his death. An aged wife and the following children survive: Charles Hearn, of Decatur; Rena, wife of R. W. Randall, of Richmond : Robert, William U., George and P. M. Hearn, of this city. Funeral services will take place Friday morning at ten o’clock from the residence, in charge of Rev. Fred Stovenour followed with burial in the Hearn cemetery, two miles west of this city. — Portland Sun. A number of Decatur people were in attendance at the funeral today. o _ Mrs. Leona Smith and Mrs. H. Gibson have returned to their homes at Hesse Castle, after a pleasant visit with the Dodane family.

POLICE DECIPHER MESSAGE. Read Portion of Advice E. A. Wright Was Sending Out at $2.50 Per. The trial of Earl A. Wright, the Bloomington young man charged with attempting to work a campaign swindle, was set for Oct. 10 in police court yesterday. The police desire to obtain more evidence against Wright before taking the case into court. Yesterday a part of the message which he was sending out to Republican precinct committeemen of the state by express—C. O. D. $2.50 for each message—was deciphered. The closing paragraph cf his message follows: “Whatever may be occupying your attention be enthusiastic about it. Believe 'in (yourself. Believe in your subject and cultivate a desire to let every one know about it. Work up enthusiasm in others whenever it is possible to do so. Some people are naturally enthusiastic and only need an excuse to show it. Have a good idea and say it. When you have said it, end the interview. Bear in mind to end all intervews with a hearty handshake.” SHORT ON FUNDS Republican Campaign Funds Experiencing a Panic 1 V NEED THE MONEY The Card Index System is Not All the Game Washington, Oct. 2.—-The Republican campaign is, or has been demoralized. So far the funds amount roughly to $300,000, which is the answer. The Republicans have never spared expense when it came to saving the country. They don’t know how to save it any other way. Well founded report puts past Republican campaign funds as follows: 1896, $6,500,000; 1900, $3,500,000; 1904, $2,500,000. Republican strategy and tactics have been developed to this scale. Senator Hanna paid generously for patriotism, from the $25 for farm posters on his barns to $2,500 to a senator for a series of speches. He would have tossed $300,000 to the lithographers. Charles P. Taft and William Nelson Cromwell crowded to the cashier's counter when the window opened this year and each deposited $50,000. For Mr. Taft this merely meant another item in a big and well thumbed ledger inscribed “To cash, Brother Bill.” Becoming brother to a president is an expensive process. William Nelson Cromwell has cabinet ambitions. At any rate the Republican fund started well —and stopped. Under the circumstances the headquarters in New York and Chicago could do little but twiddle idle thumbs and gaze curiously at the mysterious, indexed, filing system of Frank H. Hitchcock, the filing system that was to revolutionize all known political methods. So the situation stood at the middle of September. There was hardly a sign of such activity as the Hanna system taught as necessary to victory. o PAPERS NOT MERCHANDISE. District of Columbia Decision Under Child Labor Act. Washington, October 1. —In the Juvenile court today Judge Lelacey rendered a decision declaring the constitutionality of the act to regulate child labor in the District of Columbia and decided that newspapers, in the sense in which they are named in the act. are not merchandise. In the case of the district against Linn L. Reider. a boy under sixteen years of age, the prosecution sought to prevent his employment in the delivering of newspapers before 6 o’clock in the morning on the ground that the act provided that no child under sixteen should be so engaged in the delivery of merchandise before that hour. Jugde Delacey, holding that newspapers are not merchandise, dismissed the case. - ' " o ■■———- Miss Esta Tague, who resides at the home of her uncle, J. G. Johnson, of Greene township, went to Decatur and Monroe, Thursday, on a bus|iness trip. —Portland Sun.

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DECATUR HELPED Bluffton With the Assistance of Coffee, Ellis and Ba? s Defeated Ossian TWELVE TO NOTHING In a Well Played Ball Game Bales Allowed Not a Measly Hit Probably the last game of the season and especially with Ossian was played cn the west side diamond yesterday afternoon with the local independents winning by the overwhelming score of 12 to 0. The crowd that witnessed the contest wa s comparatively small, owing to the disagreeable weather, but the game was all one sided and it was not very interesting to sit in the grand stand and watch. The Ossian boys did not even get a hit or anything that had the least apearance of one, Only three men reached first, one of these getting the bag on a walk. One of the men managed to reach second base in some manner, but this was the end of his journey. Ossian had several old stars in the game, such as Oscar Way and Jack Smith, but with this addition they could not get one hit. Way was chalked up with four of the fourteen errors made by Ossian. The Bluffton team appeared the strongest of the entire season, a great addition being secured in Pfefferle, Laßue, Bales, Coffee, Betts and Ellis. Two home runs were made, one by Pfefferle and the other by Laßue. Four two baggers were pulled off by the locals. The Ossian boys did some fine work when they stopped the hit and run game for a minute by two double plays. One of these was made by Bowman unassisted and the other Beaty to Way. Only two errors were made by the local players. Twelve hits were secured and it looked like several more could have been added to this list. Bales was in fine form, striking cut eleven men. Moore, of Ossian, struck out four men and walked none. The batteries for the two teams was as follows: Ossian. Mocre ard Smith; Bluffton, Hales and McKinney.—Bluffton Banner. MEET AT MONROE Methodists Will Hold Convention There on Monday INTEREST OF MISSION Various Pastors Will Take Part—Good Musical Program A convention in the interest of Christian missions will be held in the Methodist Episcopal church, Monree, on Monday the sth of October. The brethren who will participate in this convention will be the pastor, Rev. E. L. Jones. Rev. D. A. J. Brown and Rev. C. King, of Geneva. Rev. C. E. Linn and Rve. P. H. Walter, of Portland, also Rev. A. E. Powell. The subjects will be "The Macedonian Cry.” ‘.‘The Duty and Obligation of the Church to Conference Claimants.” "Conference Philanthropy." "Methodism and Education.” "What Has the Freedman's Aid Society Done for the Negro in the Southland?’ "An active Willing, Consecrated. Never-Give-Up-Pastor and His Relation to ‘All Full' Benevolent Collections. Helpful Suggestions.” Heme Missions and Church Extension as Factors in Winning America for Christ. "Foreign Missions and Their Marveous Triumphs.” In addition to these addresses there will be special music. Miss Wheeler, of Geneva, will be present and sing some selections. Rev. P HWalter will give us some violin solos. Miss Flfle Haggard will give a reading and Miss Vera Andrews will smg. Mr. Homer Oliver will favor the convention with an instrumental selection- CKIN * Chairman Division G.