Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 279.

MUCH IMPROVED Charles Moore Believed to Be on the Road to Recovery WAS VERY LOW T .R. Moore Returns From Visit to Bedside of His Son T. R. Moore arrived home last evening from, Phoenix, Arizona, where he was called *on account of the very serious illness of his son, Charles, and he brought home the good tidings that he left Charles some better and with hopejj fior his recovery. The young mans life was despaired of when Dr. Conners, an osteopath, was called ,and it is believed he will be able to restore him to health. The history of the case is as follows: When about twenty years old and while working near here, Charles suffered a sunstroke. This it is said always affects the nerve which leads to the back of the brain. Charles is a rural mail carrier and delivers hi« assignment each day on a motor cycle. The constant jar caused the nerves affected by the sunstroke to hecrme congested anfi when on October 15th he fell from his wheel the accident added the needed cause to make him very ill. He went Into convulsions which became more and more severe and frequent. On last Sunday evening when Mr. Moore arrived his son suffered from forty of these convulsions. When T. R. left for home these had been reduced to one or two a day and these by no means as severe as before. It is the hope of Charles’ many friends here that he soon recover entirely. DEPARTS THIS LIFE “Coony” White, Familiarly Known By Almost Every Decatur Resident is Dead

BEEN HERE 20 YEARS He Died at the County Infirmary this Morning from Tuberculosis Conrad White, more commonly known in Decatur as “Cocny" who for many years has been a familiar character about the streets of the city, died this morning at 4 o’clock at the county infirmary, tuberculosis being the cause of his demise. Born in eastern Pennsylvania, Mr. White left home when about thirty years of age, wandering westward. He landed in Decatur, arid has since made this his borne. He has pursued different lines of employment, but has principally worked as a helper to a mason. The man hag been a sufferer from lung teoubls several years, his condition growing worse each day. He became so weak that he sought refuge at the infirmary last Monday night, wheie ths closing hours of his life were spent. A telegram was sent to his parents in Pennsylvania, telling of his condition, which elicited a reply requesting that he be sent home, but death was too near and it was known that he ctuld not withstand the trip. A second telegram was sent announcing the death and asking what disposition they wanted made with tin body. As yet no reply has been received and it is thought that burial will be made at the St. Joseph cemetery. The parents of the deceased are said to be well to do people. o - Friends cf J B. Merriman, represen-tative-elect from this district, are wonaerltig zhat Me-ilman will do with his dog when it,, pres to the legislature. dog to’lows him everywhere be goes and whenever Merriman g-ds te»t of its sigh • the animal visits all loafing places of its master on the search.— Bluffton Banner.

BUYS HALF BURT HOUSE LOTS James Browning, of Indianapolis, Makes a Purchase, According to a transfer of real • estate filed at the county recorders office here, Nate Link has transferred to James E. Browning, of Indianapolis, the undivided one-half of inlots 271, 272 and 273 in this city, the consideration being $3,500. These lots are located on Monroe street and are 1 the lots where the old Burt hotel stood for so many years. The transfer' came by mail and nothing Is 1 known as to the purpose of Mr. Browning in making the purchase, though the Decatur people hope he may decide to make his investment a paying one by building a modern structure thereon. DENSE IGNORANCE 1 Is Disclosed by Fred LaDuke on the Witness Stand ■- ■ ’ HE KNEW NOTHING Not Even Dates of Holidays —But His Story Counted the More Fred A. LaDuke, the man who made thp confession that led up to the arrest of the men charged with the murder of Marshal Columbus Croy at Woodburn, was on the witness stand in the circuit court nearly all of today giving for a second time the test!- ■ mony that was the principal factor in the conviction of Herman Miller and that is chiefly relied upon by the state to prove the guilt cf John Stout, who is now on trial. The witness demonstrated first that he is densely ignorant, as he testified that he did not | know his own age until two years ago j when a brother told him he was thirtysix, swore that he does not know what day of the month Christmas falls cn nor does he know in what month Thanksgiving day occurs. He said he : hadn’t paid much attention to the mat-1 ter and could not tell the month that i New Year comes in, does not know the name of the county seat of the county in which he was born and. lived a great portion of his life, does not know the names of his brothers and I sisters who died, some of them before he was born, and never took the pains to inquire the name of the woman his father married at his second marriage although he lived in the same house with her for two years or more. LaDuke is not even possessed of the i cunning that sometimes accompanies ignorance and that is usually emphasized on the witness stand. With all his legal ingenuity Judge R. K. Erwin in the course of his severe cross-ex-amination could not lead him into a pitfall, not because of any acumen on the part of the witness, who never i parried once, but for the reason that I the fellow has not the brains to con-1 ccct a He nor the mind to adhere to ■ one after he had concocted it. To a less ignorant witness the cross-exam-’ ination would have been a grilling, but to LaDuke it was not because during the whole course of the searching inquiry into his story he did not once lose his temper, did not deviate from

his story, although the examining lawyer turned upon him his whole bat-1 tery of legal knowledge and experience-1 His testimony bore every earmark of, truth. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. —o BATTLESHIP PLAN FAILS, Navy Department Trying to Stop Endless Chaifi Scheme, I Washington, Nov. 20.—The secretary of the navy is in receipt of many postal cards which indicate the existence of either an endless chain or some other scheme to provide funds for a battleship. These postal cards have attached to them a 2-cent stamp, with the request that it be applied to a fund to be used for the building of a battleship to be named 1 the United States. Such cards have been received from all sections of the country. It is stated on the cards that an average of 20 cents from every citizen of the country, would pro duce the sum M $16,000,000 to build and maintain a battleship. As the government is not permitted to receive donations of this kind, each card is i returned to the sender.

TO PRACTICE LAW Governor Hanly to Form an Indianapolis Partnership OPENING UP OFFICE Hanly, Artman & McAdams Will Be the Combination Indianapolis, Nov. 21.—A new law fi.m will be established in this city within the next few days, to be known as Artman & McAdams. The members of the firm will be Judge Samuel Artman, of Lebanon, and Charles V. McAdams, who, until recenily, was a member of the Indiana Railroad Commission. The partnership will begin on December 1, the firm’s offices being at 705 and 707 Odd Fellows’ building. About the middle of January Governor Hanly will become a member of the firm, which will then become known as Hanly, Artman & McAdams. Governor Hanly said yesterday that he would not have any interest in the firm until after the expiration of his term of office in January. It has been understood for some time that Governor Hanly and Mr. McAdams would form a partnership for the practice cf law, and it was also said that McAdams’ resigned as member cf the railroad commission in order to get an office established, but it was not known until yesterday that Judge Artman would be a member of the firm. Judge A rtman was defeated for re-election as judge of the Boone circuit court at the recent election. It was he who more than a year ago handed down a decision holding that the saloon is a nuisance and inherently wrong and illegal, and that it could not be licensed by law for those reasons. The decision was reversed by the supreme court. It is understood that the new law firm will engage in the general practice of law and that it has already been retained ■as counsel for several insurance comjpanies.

NEXT SATURDAY Teachers’ Association of Adams County Will Meet IN THIS CITY Program Complete as Sent' Out by Prof, Opliger Today The Teachers’ Association of Adams . • county will meet at the First Pres-' byterian church in this city one week ' ' from today. Counity Superintendent ' L. E. Opliger sent out the programs teday, announcing the event and it is expected that every teacher in the . county will be present The official program as announced will be as follows: f MORNING SESSION. Music Decatur Schools I Devotional 8. C. Cramer i Music Decatur Schools; “Phonics in the Lower Grades”.... ( Miss Nellie Winnes I Discussion Miss Mind well "Case “The Young Man of Today” Wm. G. Teeple Discussion G. W. Warner Piano duet Misses Mntscher 1 "Dream Life —Its Place in Our Public Schools”... .Ncah B. Gillion?.' “A Visit to the Cliff Dwellings’’.. I Miss GraceEHis Burke , AFTERNOON SESSION. Music Decatur School'. “The School Ideal”O. G. Brim Discussion W. P. Merriman : Recitation Miss Goldine Fink Educational Quiz Vocal Solo Robert Poer < Lecture —“The Book of Job —A Literary Study”.. Prof. Wm. E. Smyser, Ohio Wesleyan University. 0 Mr. Wells, of Geneva, was a business caller in the city this morning and went to Fort Wayne on an early car.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, November 21, 1908.

JWKmoijs peoplelSl BY FANNIE M LOTHROP Photograph by Marceau, New YotS DAVENPORT, THE GREAT AMERICAN CARTOONIST A CARTOON is an epigram in art. It means hours of argument concentrated in a picture. It inspires thought, kindles indignation, rouses action, lashes weakness, ridicules individuals and punctures folly with a few strong, simple lines that tell the whole story at a glance. One of the greatest living cartoonists is Homer C. Davenport. He has a keen sense of humor, is prolific in ideas, powerful in his stroke, clever in his groupings and cutting in the lash with which he flays wrong-doers. In the little village of Silverton, Oregon, where he was born in 1867, he won no medals of appreciation from the populace. He was a big, awkward, overgrown lad, good-natured and happy, yet while everybody liked him, the unanimous vote of the community elected him “the most worthless fellow Silverton ever turned out.” He left i beautiful trail of failures behind him in his early undertakings. At school he was conspicuous for inability and broke away with hardly a shred of education clinging to him; he tried farming and failed; he soon tired of “firing” and “braking” on the Silverton express; his career as a jockey on the track, and as clown in McMahon’s one-elephant circus, with occasional invasions into other lines of spasmodic activity proved he had not yet come to the realization of hitnself. As a boy he drew pictures on the barn walls and doors, on the benches in the old school-room and on every scrap of paper that came to his hand. His mother, who died when Homer was four years old, had been a great admirer of the genius of Thomas Nast and used to say over and over again as if it were a magic formula: “I shall have a son some day who will be a great artist like Nast,” and when Homer was born her dream was realized. Nature was watching over his evolution in his early days and gently led him in strange bypaths that quickened his observation, broadened his life, strengthened his sympathy and preserved his individuality. In 1892 he began to make pictures forth» “San Francisco Examiner,” with such growing success that in 1895 Mr. Hearst transplanted him to New York. Here his originality, strength, vitality, biting satire and genial humor made him famous. His Mark Hanna with the dollar-marked suit, his colossal, overgrown Trust figure with its brutal strength and small head, his modernized Uncle Sam and his other conceptions, all bear the hall-mark of his individuality and genius. Copyright transferred to Wm. C. Mack, 1906-

ROBBERS SECURE $6,000. Attica (O.) Citizens Held at Bay While Job Was APcomplished. Attica, 0., Nov. 20. —Robbers held several citizens at bay early today while they blew open and robbed the safe of Renninjger & Silccx of $6,000 in cash. The robbers were fired upon but escaped. o ELK’S MEMORIAL The Occasion Will Be Celebrated on Sunday, December Sixth I AT THE BOSSE T’ ree Speakers Will Deliver Addresses — Special i Music by Quartet > i T’? members cf the Elks’ lodge at ! 1 their regular meeting last night def cfiled to hold their memorial services ! Sunday, December sixth, at the Bosse £ ' opera house. The services will be , very appropriate, during which three i ' peakers will deliver memorial ad- i dresses and sacred music will be ren- 1 d< r?d by a male quartet. Thus this 1 will pay tribute to their i deceased brethren. Inasmuch as the t ' subjects for the addresses had not i b en selected the names < f the speak- t ers are withheld for the present, but t it is assured that those chosen will i deliver interesting talks. The male i quartet composed of Messrs. Jesse 1 O. Sellemeyer, H. B. France, D. W. t Beery and Fred Bell will render beau- I tiful sacred selections and Prof. True i R. Fristoe will have charge of the < music. The meeting will no doubt t be attended by a large audience which t will join with the Elks in commem- t orating those who have gone to the t great beyond. • t

ARE FRAMING UP Republicans to Control Committees of the Senate A NEW RESOLUTION They Will Not Give the Lieutenant Governor Any Rope Indianapolis, Nov. 21. —A plan by which the Republican majority in the state senate will expect to control the committee appointments in that body, and, incidentally, to name the ste- . nographers, despite the fact that Lieu- ■ tenant Governor Frank J. Hall, the presiding officer, is a Democrat, became known yesterday. Under the present rules of the senate the president. who is the lieutenant governor has the appointment of the committees of the senate, but this is by virtue of a senate rule, which may be changed at the approaching session, according to the plan now contemplated. :f the appointments were left to President Hall he would naturally be expected to appoint Democrats as chairmen of the committees, and to give his party a majority on each com- i mittee, which would be embarrassing to the Republican majority in a good many ways, and would be especially : undesirable because the law provides that the committee chairmen shall name the clerks of the committees, 1 who are the stenographers of the body. ] While it is by a rule of the senate ] that the president has the appoint- ■ ment of the committees, the appoint- i ments of the clerks, pages, doorkeep- , ers and others are regulated by law, i and the law could not be changed by | either party at the coming session for j the reasen that the Republicans will ] be in the majority in the senate and i the house will be Democratic. i

EXPRESS CAR TO INDIANAPOLIS ‘ Coppock Company Turns Out Practi- ■ cal Delivery Car. Harry C. Satterwaite, the Indianapolis representative of the Coppock Motor Car company cf this city, left this morning at ten o’clock for that city in a new car which he recently sold to an express delivery company cf that place. He will pick up Mr. Schcneker, general salesman of the. Coppock company at Marion, and they will arrive at the capital this evening, | The car was built for wear and will stand the racket in away that will bring orders to the company. The Coppock is gaining the reputation for building the best machine on the market in the truck line, and are constantly receiving orders. COLLECT CUSTOMS By Putting’ a Collector in the Stores Where Such Goods Are Sold MANY INTERFERE Taft May Take a Hand in Organizing Next House Washington, November 21. —Nathan Straus, the successful New York merchant, said the other day to a group of newspaper men that if he could be permitted to carry out a plan he has he could convince every consumer in the United States that the present tariff tax is a needless burden in nearly every instance. “Instead of having the government collect duties at the customs houses.” said he, “I ■ would let the imported goods go to i the shelves of the retail merchants undisturbed. On one side cf my store I would have the domestic made goods jand on the other side the imported goods. My customers could come in and take their pick. Near the store's

I exit I would station the collectors of customs. So long as my customers I purchased on the side of the store containing the domestic goods they would not be stopped by the collec- ' tors as they were passing out But each purchaser of imported goods would have to pay the tax before leaving the store. V,'ashington, November 21. —The intimations from Hot Springs, Va., that President-elect Taft may take a hand in the reorganization of the house of representatives, have had a disquieting infivence among many prominent Republicans. Cannon’s friends say that any effort on the part of Mr. Taft to prevent the re-election of Cannon to the speakership could only result in failure, and they do not put any credence in the stories that he is considering any such movement. Roosevelt,with all his fighting qualities always found it necessary, or at least preferable, to enter into a working agreement with Cannon. i Washington. November 21. —Representative Crumpacker in returning home Saturday is going via Hot Springs where he Intends stoppirig off for a day to talk with President-elect Taft. The Indiana congressman is now a member of the ways and means committee and Tiag been in attendance upon the tariff hearings in Washington. He will be able to tell Mr. Taft something new with reference to a revision of the tariff which he favors. — . o OFFERED PRAYER FOR RAIN

Not a Cloud In the Sky and Fires Rapidly Approaching. Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 20.—Without a cloud In the sky and fires rapidly approaching, the residents of Grand Prairie offered prayer today for rain, which it is believed will be necessary to gave thirty thousand acres of prairie land from devastation. Back fires have been started in many places, but with little result. Locomotives passthrough the prairie have already caused serious fires, n-umeroufe orchards having been destroyed, entailing a loss of thousands of dollars. Devalls Bluff, several miles from the burning prairies, is so obscured by smoke today, that it i 8 as dark as night. |

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SEWER INSPECTER That is What the Next Legislature Will Give Us BE SANITARY Good Health Will Be Better Provided for Then A bill will be introduced in the next legislature to provide that all plans iftoT sewers and waterworks in Indiana shall be submitted to the State Board of Health for inspection. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the board, will favor the passage of such bill and will do all in his p.wer to have it made a law. “A law of this kind.” said Dr Hurty, “would save thousands and thousands of dollars in Indiana each year. Under the present plan with new city officers coming in every few years, the problem cf building sewer systems and waterworks plants in the different cities and towns of the state is in the hands of untried and inexperienced men. A law requiring inspection by the State Board of Health has been in force in Ohio for five or six years and the State Board of Health of Massachusetts has had a sanitary engineer for fifteen years. Many other eastern states, including New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, have such laws. The fact that these states have such law s is an evidence of foresight. The decay of foresight is the first evidence of race degeneration." If such law should be passed in Indiana it would become necessary to employ a consulting engineer for the State Board of Health. This engineer, however. Dr. Hurty says, coul d perform many other duties aside from the inspection of plans for sewer systems and water works plans. He could make sanitary inspections of streams and public buildings, for example. o WILL ARRIVE SOON

Remains of the Late Mrs.

Y C. H. Love Are Expected t to Be Here Tomorrow s — DIED IN COLORADO '■ Was a Sister of Wilson Lee f of This City and Well t Known in the County r ’ The remains of the late, Mrs. C. H. r Love, will in all probability arrive ' in Decatur tomorrow from Florence, | Colorado, and in that event the fun- , 1 eral will be held tomorrow at the t i Bobo m. E. church and interment ; made at the Mt. Tabor cemetery. The deceased was reared in Adams county, leaving here with her husband - fourteen months ago for Colorado, ; where it was hoped she would regain > her health. Tuberculosis had fasteni ed its deadly grip upou her life, hov>- . ever, and it was known that death i was inevitable months ago. She • breathed her last Wednesday morning 1 and the body was prepared for ship- ■ ment at once. The decedent was a sister of Wilson Lee, of Decatur, and was known by many people of Adams county. She has heen ailing for a iong time from lung trouble, although her friends entertained hopes for recovery until it was given out that death could not be averted. The funeral services will be attended by many Decatur people. ■oBOYS FIND INDIANA “STILL” “Moonshine’’ Outfit Discovered by Chance in Crawford County. New Albany. Ind.. Nov. 20.—Revenue officers here have been notified of the discovery of a ‘moonshine” distillery in a dark hollaw in Crawford county, near Marengo. The still was disco, v ered by two small boys who were raj bit hunting. A half barrel of liquor found in the distillery indicates ’ a it has been in recent use. The 1 oung sters detached the copper w rm. which they carried to Marengo an | sold.