Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 286.

IT’S NUMBER ONE Indictment Against Charles Wolfe is for Assault With Intent arrested TODAY Sheriff Meyers Went Out After Him this Afternoon Indictments one, two and three, as returned by the recent grand Jury, were placed on the docket, in circuit •court. They are In blank, the names being placed on after the return is made. Indictment number one is against Charles Wolfe and is entitled State of Indiana vs. Charles Wolfe. Indictment for assault and battery, ■with intent to kill and murder. As ■prepared, it is in three counts, the first alleging that on October Sth. 1908, in the county of Adams and State of Indiana, said Charles Wolfe did then and there feloniously, purposely and with malice aforethought in a rude, insolent and angry manner, unlawfully touch, strike, "beat and wound one, Jacob Mangold, with premeditated malice to kill and murder him contrary to the form of the statute and contrary to the peace and dignity of the state of Indiana. The second count alleges that the assault was made with a club, used upon the head of said Mangold. The third count gays that tne assault was made by Wolfe with his fists and also with a piece of timber, three-fourths of an inch thick. 3% inches wide and three feet, ten inches and threefourths of an inch long. Sheriff Meyer went out this afternoon to arrest one of the others indicted and on his way back will stop and serve the papers on Wolfe. The latter is under the charge of murder now and is out under |5.000 bond, which will hold until arrested on this charge. It is likely that the charge of murder will be withdrawn after his arrest for attempt.

A GOOD DUCKING Was What Jim Wright, of Monroe, Got Yesterday, While Here on Spree HE GOT TOO FRESH And Mrs. Charles Dutcher Unloaded a Pot of Water in His Face A man giving his name as James Wright and claiming Monroe as his home, created a disturbance on First > street yesterday afternoon which caused his arrest and confineent in the county jail. Wright, an elderly man, who had imbibed freely of the flowing bowl, was sauntering down First street when a notion entered his deranged mind that he wanted to enter a house. He proceeded to the apartments in the old court house building occupied by Charles N. Dutcher, and knocked at the door. Mrs. Dutcher opened the door and seeing that he was a drunken stranger, she closed it quickly and turned the lock. The man instead of leaving the premises, began kicking the door fiercely. Mts. Dutcher, who was engaged in washing clothes, started for the door upon hearing the commotion. and took with her a pail of water, the contents of which she hurled on the intruder. Wright then made his getaway, and had the appearance of a drowned rat when seen or. the streets. He talked abusively of the woman who gave him a soaking and as a consequence was lodged in jail by Policeman Fisher. He was given a hearing before Mayor France and after being given a severe lecture was ordered to leave the city within thirty minutes which he did. - -o The Men's Club of the Presbyterian church will meet a tthe church parlors at 7:30 o’clock this evening for re-organization. The session was to have been held last Tuesday evening, but a postponement was necessary because of the furnace at the church being out of commission.

POSTAL CARD WRITER FINED. Pays $lO and Costs for Addressing Man as “Discredited Sir.” When John W. Baxter, of Auburn, Ind., started off a postal card communication with the words “Discredited Sir,” he did not know he was violating a federal law. Baxter sent the card through the postofflce at Auburn, addressed to a man with whom he had had a quarrel. The recipient of the card, when he saw the words with which Baxter had addressed him,made complaint to the federal authorities and the arrest and the subsequent indictment of Baxter followed. In addition to the “discredited sir” Baxter used other language on the card which tended to injure the recipient. Baxter wag arraigned before Judge Anderson in the federal court yesterday, and entered a plea of guilty to the violation of the postal laws. He was fined $lO and costs. —— o— — PEACE WITH JAPAN Senate Ruffled Over Another Usurpation of Power A LARGE DEFICIT Postoffice Department in the Red Ink—lncrease in Freight Rates Washington, Dec. 1. —It developed that the senate has, or thinks it has, a quarrel with Secretary Root over the manner in which the new peace pact with Japan has been formed, and as the first step in what promises to be an animated row it is probable a resolution will be reported next week out of the senate committee on foreign relations calling upon the state department for all the papers and other information bearing upon the subject. It is by adopting such a Resolution as this that the senate usually starts a fight with the executive branch of the government. The senate sees in the new agreement, or “exchange of notes,” another executive usurpation. The constitution o p the United States makes the senate a part of the treaty-making power and provides no treaty shall be effective unless it is ratified by the senate. It grates on the nerves of the senators that they should be excluded, contrary to the peace and dignity of the con stitution, from any part in the epochal diplomatic achievement just concluded. The state department is under suspicion of having stolen a march on the senate. Washington, Dec. I.—Postmaster General Meyer in his annual report states that the total expenditures of the department for the year were $208,351,886.15, while the receipts amounted to $191,478,663.41, showing a deficit of $16,873,222.74. This deficit is admitted to be the largest in the history of the postofflce department, but the postmaster holds if the panic had not intervened and if the wages of postal employes had not been increased there would have been a surplus of receipts over expenditures of $2,234,563.85. Washington, Dec. 1. —As a result of the business panics of last year the railroads of the country have permitted their equipment to get into bad shape, and, according to the interstate commerce commissioners, there will be a big shortage in cars, locomotives and general rolling stock as soon as the revival of industries is a little further advanced. The same officials say that the roads propose to take advantage of this situation by making sweeping advances in their rates. o — KILLED WOMAN AND SELF. Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 1. —Mrs. Myrtle Evans was shot and killed here late last night by R. J. Bymen, supposedly on account of her refusal to meet him. Bymen then turned the revolver on himself, inflicting a wound that proved fatal within a few minutes. Both are negroes, about 30 years of age, and residents of this city. It is said the woman rejected his advances at a dance Thanksgiving night, and upon passing the woman tonight Bymen attempted to force his company upon her and, upon being repulsed, opened fire with a revolver, killing the woman I and then himself.

IN CIRCUIT COURT Scott vs. Graham Case Reset for Trial on December 31st CASES CONTINUED Johnloz and Fravel Perjury Suits Go Over—Action in Page Case

Though five criminal cases were set for trial yesterday, none of them got to the jury. One was tried by the I court, in another a plea of guilty was . entered, and the others were continued. The case against Julius Johnloz. I was set for today, but was continued ■ when Attorney DeVoss, representing the defendant, filed an affidavit that a very important witness was absent. Johnloz is charged with perjury, it being alleged that when summoned before the April grand jury he gave false testimony. It is likely the case will not be heard before the February term of court. The David E. Scott vs. Louis A. Graham suit for accounting, was reset for trial on Thursday, December 31st. Charles Page vs. Christena R. Niblick, admx., et al. claim $8,500, before John F. LaFollette, special judge, cost bond filed by plaintiff and approved. Leave asked and granted plaintiff to file second paragraph, making new parties defendant. Same filed making Aaron T. Vail, John W. Vail and the Fort Wayne Coperage Co. new parties defendant. Summons ordered returnable December 16. State vs. Mary Fravel, perjury, continued until next term of court on motion by prosecuting attorney. An inventory was filed in the estate of Lusetta Love and same was approved. The personal property amounts to $15.15. A certified copy of the bond, oaths and letters were filed by W. G. MeCarmack, guardian for Warren and Lavetta M. McQuiston. The guardian filed a petition for the sale of real estate. Real estate transfers: James C. Harmon to Raymond Marquard et al, lot 10 Rivarre, $365; Almond Shaffer et al to James C. Harmon lots 6,7 and 10 Rivarre $500; James R.' Boyd to Charles W. Yager, lot 20, Pleasant Mills, SBOO. The petit jury has been excused until Wednesday, December 9tb, when they will report again. Attorney J. C. Sutton filed a petition for H. M. Zook and company, a corporation conducting a creamery at Berne, the petition asking that the name of the concern be changed from H. M. Zook & Co., to Swiss Milk Co. The petition was signed by A. N. Sprunger, the president. Attorney Dore B. Erwin has filed a new case, the title being Jacob Atz and Charles Steele vs. Albert Meyer, complaint on notes, demand SBO. The notes call for $55 and were given July I, and the demand includes interest and attorneys fees. Hunters’ licenses were issued to A. C. Bailey, Fred Linn, A. P. Hardison and Albert Meyer.

o SHE WANTS A DIVORCE. Tomorrow in Decatur Mock & Sons will file a complaint for divorce for Jennie Kirkwood. Linn Grove, formerly living in Nottingham township, against William Kirkwood Jr., a real dent of Nottingham township, son of William Kirkwood, Sr. In her complaint the plaintiff alleges that shortly after their marriage, February, 1907, her husband became abusive to her and frequently threatened to leave her. She claims that he repeatedly told her that he loved her no longer and wished to be free. It is In hopes of being free from him that the wife has brought the suit for divorce. She alleges that he finally left her and went tn Robinson, 111., where he was employed in the oil field for a while. The couple was barely over sixteen years of age when they were married. They had one child by the union. This the wife asks the custody of.—Bluffton Banner.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, December 1, 1908.

THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY. Rt. Rev. Herman Joseph Alerdirvg, Bishop Diocese of Fort Wayne. Today marks the ninth annicersary of the consecration of Rt. Rev. Herman Joseph Alerding, D. -D., fourth bishop of the diocese of Fort Wayne. Quietly and happily the beloved prelate enters upon his new year of labors in the episcopate and this evening will be the honor guest at a happy celebration to be given by the students at St. Augustine's academy. The scholastic celebration will be held in the music hall of the academy which has been artistically decorated with ferns and flowers for the occasion. That future years may still find the gifted churchman enjoying health, happiness and success in his labors in this diocese is the wish of his wide |crcle of friends. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. MAY MOVE WEST T. M.Gallogly is Considering an Offer of Splendid Position INSURANCE LINE Has Been Offered District Agency in Kansas —Will Look It Over Thomas M. Gallogly, the well known insurance man of this city, will leave here January sth, on a trip to Galveston, Texas, for a several days’ visit. Enroute home he will stop at Topeka, Kansas, to look over the field ifi the insurance business. Mr. Gallogly has been offered a district agency for one of the leading fire insurance companies doing business in that state and may conclude to accept same, if he can dispose of his interests here. He is one of the best insurance men in this part of the country, and if he concludes to go to the west to locate, as now seems probable, he will unquestionably make good. He is holding the job open and it is quite likely that he will soon leave this county where he has so long been a citizen.

BERNE MAN SUSPECTED. Dr. Haughton Says Farm is Depleted. Dr. A. H. Haughton, the retired physician of this city, who had a sale ton days ago and lost his old renter, Nathan Sprunger, reports that his farm premises since the departure of Sprunger present a rather sadly depleted condition, owing to the fact that Sprunger either took along a number c° articles when he left which did not belong to him or they were stolen after Sprunger moved his goods to Berne to be shipped today to his future home in Nebraska. Dr. Haughton thought at first that Sprunger had taken the extras along, but they may have been stolen after Sprunger departed. Missing are a good hay fork and a complete outfit of pulleys for the barn, a buggy tongue, a fence machine, a wire cutter, and other minor articles. The doctor reports that everything was taken away but the well, and he does not doubt but that his would have been taken along could it have been managed. The doctor has a new tenant moving on the • place. He is Jacob Groh. —Bluffton News. —. o —

STILL IN THE LIMELIGHT. 1 Indianapolis, Nov. 30—Before leav- • ing for Newton, Kansas, today, Gover- • nor Hanly made the appointment of , delegates from Indiana to the fifth annual national rivers and harbors ' congress, to be held in Washington, D. C., Dec. 9-11. The delegates to the rivers and harbors congress are: George V. Hill, Huntington; Fred J. Smith, Whiting; W. J. Hosey, Fort Wayne; C. L Hackett, Roanoke; E. R. Colbert, Anderson; J. E. Beyer, Rochester; Warren Bigler, Wabash; Chas. Van Behler, Evansville; W. V. Dixon, Evansville; George W. Cromer. Muncie; W. H. Duncan, Terre Haute; ’ Spencer F. Ball, Terre Haute; J. M. Cravens, Madison; William M. Laldley, Madison; Adam Heimberger, New Al- i bany; George B. Caldwell, New Albany; Alexander Hartman, New Albany; Clyde Howard, Jeffersonville; i I James D. Burke, Jeffersonville; J. C. 1 IZulauf, Jeffersonville.

LIFE IN FAR EAST Bert Segur Tells of the Ups and Downs in His Work AS AN ENGINEER In the Roads Department of the Philippines—To Be Promoted P. 1., Oct. 5, 1908. Dear Father: —I got your last three weeks’ letters in a bunch when I \ got up to Cebu, the other day, and I I will now answer. I expect to get I $1,600 before many months and I like it here. I can’t spend money much to my credit here. Last Friday after waiting all week, we started from Loay. The boat was to leave at 7:00 but like all Spaniards, the captain and the agent exchanged drinks until 2 p. m„ little thinking or caring that we would soon be bringing over 200 or 300 laborers and be having hundreds of tons of supplies and that these delays would kill him with us. It took us three and one-half hours to go sixty miles. In the meantime two chino passengers opened up a gambling den and cleaned the crew and nearly all of the passengers out of their money. The chinos are the big gamblers of the east, and they certainly do the act up brown. Cheat everybody in both honest, and dishonest deals. The Philippines or any Oriental can buy cheaper than the American, so we always give our money to some of the native servants and have them do the jewing, thereby gaining 50 to 100 per cent. When we got to Cebu we landed in • a banco and couldn't find a carriage ’ or dray anywhere, and we had al! of • our luggage to see to. Cebu is a city > of 100,000 and yet like most other I eastern cities there is no regular dray . line or livery stable in the town. Each . native liveryman has one or two ’ horses and a tartinalia. These tari tinalias are cab-like two-wheeled carts I with room for two men in each. These i cabs are paid 20c gold an hour. All ■ light baggage is hauled in these tari tinalias. Heavier baggage is hauled in cariboo carts, heavy carts hauled by a caribou pictures of which I will send later.

We shouldered our baggage and with the help of two natives, carried ■ it a mile and a half. We finally got to bed, four of us in grimy cots (our own) in a room 20x20 feet. We got up at 6-00 o’clock Sunday morning, • awakened by the chimes and firecrackers. We then knew that there • was a fieste (celebration) on. We dressed and went down to the only eating house in town (at the back end of a saloon) for breakfast. By this time the parades were everywhere; everything was decorated. ■ Imagine our surprise when we found it was the birthday of some saint that would never be thought of in America. At nine o’clock we phoned out to camp 6 and got orders to come here today. What we thought can better be imagined than said. All of our shoes had the soles torn off in Boliole from cliff climbing. The last trip had been thirty days and all but a few days of it had been fourteen hours a day of hard work. Our clothes were torn, the instruments out of adjustment, the dishes broken and ourselves nearly worn out, and we were given thirty hours to start on another mountain trip of- twenty-one days. I got a fetecha cart (a flat board with two wheels under it) and rode to camp 6, fourteen miles up the mountains and got a new wardrobe. I got back at 9:00 that evening and learned that as soon as this trip was done 1 was to go over to Bohole as Asst Supt. or chief engineer second man on that road, whatever you wish to call it. We came here at 11:20 by rail, leaving all our cooking utensils, etc., at Cebu to follow us on the 5 o’clock train. When we got here (a town x of 50,000) we found that there was one place in town to get something to eat, a saloon with a center table in the barroom, where four men could sit down at once. ' There were eight Americans ahead of ; us, and we waited. In the meantime we gave our four Philippines and the i one chino cook some money and told i them to hunt up their own food. When i it came our turn, the bread was out t and when we were half way through t the other stuff gave out, too. We, a (Continued on Page Two) I

1 MEMORIAL FOR CLEVELANDLife Insurance Presidents and Former Cabinet Ministers Will Speak. » New York, Nov. 30. —The first memorial exercises in honor of the late former President Grover Cleveland will be at the opening session of the second annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents in this city Friday and Saturday. Mr. Cleve- >■ land w'as chairman and general counsel of that organization. Addresses will be made by Paul Morton, presif dent of the Equitable Life Assusaqce Society, and John H. Finley, Ph. D., president of the College of the City of New York. Letters of tribute will be read from Adlai E. Stevenson, vice president in Mr. Cleveland’s second administration, and from several surviving cabinet officers, including Gov--3 ernor Harmon of Ohio, Hilary A. Her- [ I bert of Washington and Governor I I Hoke Smith of Georgia. o II WITH MUCH POMP 1 ) President’s Inauguration is i > Now Attracting Washt r ington 5 t A GREAT EVENT ) ) ’ A Democrat as Chairman f of the Inaugural Committee t y Washington, Dec. 1. —The inaugura- ® tion of President-elect Taft promises r to be one of the most notable dems y onstrations in the history of the national capital. Washington, which a takes plenty of time to prepare for e these ceremonials, already is in the f throes of expectancy over the coming y inauguration. When an inauguration r is on the tapis, so to speak, the capiy tai city always arises in a beautih fully nonpartisan spirit to the occao sion. Politics is lost sight of and r- the business men of the city co-oper-s ate harmoniously and effectively in e trying to make the affair a success. 11 This explains the fact that the chairr- man of the inaugural committee, apn pointed the other day by National y Chairman Hitchcock, is a Democrat. U Edward J. Stellwagen, who will serve in that important capacity, never has 1 been anything but a Democrat. As I a resident of the District of Columt bia he has not had a vote, but he has r been free and outspoken in the ext pression of his political preferences. He is a friend, politically and per- - sonaliy, of W. J. Bryan, and those s who know him best never have doubt- ’ ed that if Jac had been permitted to y vote in the recent election he would t have cast a ballot for Mr. Bryan. It f may seem strange to some straight- - laced partisans that a Democrat should • be put at the head of the committee t that is to arrange for the inauguration t of a Republican president, but here - in Washington the political phase of i the question never has been given ’ a moment’s consideration. The people of Washington have only praise for t Mr. Hitchcock’s selection. If he had searched the city with a fine-tooth '■ comb he would not have been able to find a man who would give such general satisfaction. Mr. Stellwagen is a middle aged business man of great ability, who has arisen from a subordinate position in one of the governmental departments to be a recognized leader in the business circles of the city. He is remarkably successful in everything he undertakes. The inauguration of Mr. Taft will not resemble, in its essential features, the inauguration of President Roosevelt I four years ago, but It will be a great show nevertheless. It will be lacking in the human curiosities that formed such a distinctive part of the Roosevelt inaugural parade. President Roosevelt has an eye for the < unique and volunteer attractions of a ' more or less ridiculous character came I to Washington from various parts of the country to participate in the in- < augural. They were assigned to the rear section of the parade, which reminded visitors of the old-fashioned a hippldrome. The Taft inaugural par- t ade will have no hippodrome section, v but it will contain some very impos- ? ing military features that will be an v impressive object lesson of the power n and dignity of the military and naval b arms of the government. The fact V that Mr. Taft has been secretary of c war —the most popular secretary in a a (Continued on Page Two) b

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CELINA GOES WET Flection There Yesterday Resulted in Victory for the Saloons IT WAS ORDERLY The Women Paraded Streets —Church Bells Rang Every Hour Celina, 0., Dec. 1.-The local option election held in Mercer county yesterday resulted in a victory for the “wets" by a majority of 234 votes. The largest number of votes in the history of the county was polled, there being seventy more votes polled than at the late presidential election. Eight of the fourteen townships voted “wet.” The result means that the thirty-one saloons in business will not be molested, at least for some time. The “wets” polled 3.432 votes and the “drys” polled 3.198 votes. The election was held under the new Rose law and adds one more to the few “wet” victories in Ohio. The election was one of the quietest and most orderly contests ever settled by the ballot. Both the “wets” and “drys” worked with a quiet intensity of purpose that showed how determined each side wag to wrest the victory from the other. Groups of men collected on the streets at an early hour, but they were not allowed to collect within the 100-foot line that guaranteed the voter immunity from undue influence at the polls. Men who were never known as rigid temperance men voted dry. and others who seldom or ever drink, in some instances, voted wet. The women occa- ! sionally paraded the streets. Both : sides were careful and guarded. They 'intended their work should pass by unchallenged. At 5:30 a. m., noon and 5:30 p. m. all church bells rang together, and at every hour between.

‘ WILL NOT RECOVER Mrs. William Ault, Victim of Iron Monster, is in Death’s Shadow IS GROWING WEAKER And Hopes for Her Recovery Have Dwindled to the Slightest Thread Mrs. Elizabeth Allen left on an early car for Fort Wayne, where she will be at the bedside of Mrs. William Ault, who lies at St. Joseph hospital dangerously ill with hopes abandoned for her recovery. Relating of the illness of this aged lady, diverts the minds of the people back to an accident which happened at Fort Mayne several weeks ago. in which the afflicted woman's husband was ushered into the eternal world by the deadly sweep of a railroad engine. Arm in arm they were returning from church, when, like a flash, a Nickel Plate engine struck them forcibly. Mr. Ault succumbing enroute to the hospital, while Mrs. Ault sustained a broken limb and internal injuries. Since the accident she has helplessly lain in the hospital, taking what nourishment she could. Her health has gradually declined and she grows weaker with the passing of each day. until the spark of life is all but extinct. The untimely demise of her husband has contributed to the mentai strain of the aged woman. Mr. and Mrs. Ault , for many years resided in Decatur. —■ ' CLOSE FORTY HOURS’ DEVOTION The solemn close of forty hours adoration, commonly known as fort hours’ devotion, will close this e ' en ” with appropriate services at Marys church. This senfee sty with a mass at six ocl morning and the service on,g J‘ begin at 7:30 O'clock sun time. Father Wilkens and cere>er'of priests from out of the city.