Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

olume VI. Number 305.

N CIRCUIT COURT ‘hree Judges Served in Adams Circuit Court Today " < PETITION APPEALED I "or Macadamizing West Monroe Street—Transcript is Filed Three judges took care of the busness in circuit court this morning, udge Merryman attending to the egular routine and Special Judge R. Peterson and J- C. Sutton looking after matters before them. The petition for the macadamizing jf Monroe street, signed by Jane Fi'oods and others, has been appealed From the commissioners court, the transcript being filed in circuit court. (Valters, Hooper & Lenhart and Beatty are the attorneys. The Monitor Oil company vs. City yf Decatur, suit on account. A motion, supported by affidavit was filed tor a continuance and same granted it cost of the defendant. Delilah J. Butler vs. Margaret and Henry Mayer, trespass, before Jesse C. Sutton, special judge, set for trial, on January 7th. Charles E. Simons, administrator of the estate of John C. Simons, filed a report of sale of personal property, which w-as approved. Judge Macy, of Winchester, is scheduled to arrive here next Monday, at which time the issues will be completed in the case of the Telephone company vs. The Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction company and the cause will likely be set for trial. There is a quietness about the court house that foretells that the holiday Beason is here. A few matters in court, a transfer or two and now and then a marriage license about completes the daily story these days. AT THE CHURCHES • Christmas Entertainments Will Be Rendered at Various Places of Worship TOMORROW NIGHT The Presbyterian and M. E. Church Will Observe the Holiday The cantata to be rendered by the M. E. Sunday school tomorrow night will be far above the average. “A Counterfeit Santa Claus” is the title of the entertainment which will consist of charming songs, interesting dialogues and pretty drills. Much hard work has been done in preparing for the doings and those who attend will be given a rare treat. The Presbyterian Sunday school will give an interesting miscellaneous program tomorrow night, which will be of unusual excellence. Those who will take part in the entertainment are working diligently to make it the best ever. Everybody is invited to attend. The cantata entitled ‘‘The Star of Blessing” to be rendered at the United Brethren church Friday night, will be a very pleasant entertainment for those who attend. A large num her will participate in the program and excellent musical and litrary numbers will be in order. A cordial invi tation is extended to the public. REVIVAL CLOSES SALOONS Ottumwa, lowa, Dec. 23.— Every saloon in Ottumwa was closed tonight as the result of a religious revival. Saloon men claim the petition upon which the saloons were closed Is insufficient and one dealer will open to stand proscution as a test case.

WILL ENCOURAGE HOOSIERS. Department Believes Southern Indiana Good Tobacco Section. Washington, Dec. 22.— The department of agriculture is convinced from investigations it has made that tobacco growing under the proper stimulus would became profitable in southern Indiana. The department is anxious to assist in developing this branch of agriculture in Indiana, and has called upon several of the Indiana congressmen who represent districts made up of the southern counties of the state to assist. The department has obtained possession of a supply of carefully selected tobacco seed, selected from the Improved strains of tobacco. It has turned over 300 packages of seeds to. Representative Foster to be used for experimental purposs in Spencer and Warrick counties, and has called upon Congressman Chaney to distribute 250 packages to the farmers of Green and Martin counties. The department will await results with considerable interest. o MEETING TODAY

Republican House Members Having a Conference LOCAL OPTIO N The Action of House Members Being Discussed Indianapolis, Dec. 23. —“What shall b’. the Republican attitude toward the repeal of the county local option law?” U the question that Is Interesting the Republican members of the house of representatives coming to the city for their meeting at the state house this afternon to talk over the minority plan of action for the approaching session of the legislature. Few of the minority members had arrived last night. There appears to be an apparent reluctance toward coming to the meeting, although it is understood that at least two-thirds of the Republican members will attend. There are those w’ho believe that Governor Hanly may attempt to force the minority to present a solid front, if possible. against the repeal of the law. It Is stated by the committee which called Ute meeting, however, that there will be nothing binding about it. The purpose of the meeting is more to afford the new Republican members an opportunity to become acquainted with the old ones than anything else, it is said. Representatives Schreeder and Hewig of Evansvills. have refused to attend. The indications are that the attitude of the minority toward its party platform pledges and those of the Democratic opposition will be discussed about the hotel lobbies and during the meeting this afternoon. No definite plans have been announced for the meeting. It is the intention, merely to talk over in a general way. the work that will come before the next session. There is a tendency among the legislators of both parties to seek to place the responsibility for the repeal of the county local option law on the other side. Neither party, apparently, wishes to take the initiative, although most of the Democratic members of both houses, in talking of the coming session, say the law should be repealed. Yet they see that if the Democrats bring about the repeal of the law they will have taken the responsibility from the Republican party, which enacted the law. and place it on their own shoulders, even though a ward and township local option law should be substituted. The liquor Interests of the state are none too anxious that a ward and township law even should be enacted. o CRISTMAS GIFTS STOLEN Mail Pouch Taken From Kansas City Baggage Room. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 23. A mail pouch containing sixty pounds of registered Christmas packages consigned to eastern points, was stolen from the baggage room of the Beit Line railroad tonight. Although the postoffice authorities refuse to make any statement as to the contents of the pouch, it is believed to have contained much i valuable merchandise. There was no ! money in it. The pouch was made up in the Kansas City postoffice.

SHOW WAS GOOD “Little Dollie Dimples” Scored a Hit at the Bosse Last Night A BIG CHORUS Dancing and Drills Was Fine—A Great Comedian With Them “Little Dollie Dimples'" pleased a small audience at the Bosse last night in a very clever musical comedy which unquestionably surpassed any performance ever witnessed on the local stage, the choruses, costumes, singing and fancy drills being of a high character. The company, composed of more than thirty people, Is well balanced, embracing strong character people In Miss Cameron and Harry Bewley, the latter evoking vociferous applause from the audience at his every appearance by clever sayings and ludicrous antics. He did well in the juvenile lead as did Miss Cameron in her character sketch. Not the least of the features of this famous play was the chorus of ten beautiful girls and their drills and dancing. They were frequently on the stage and at no time did they fail to be encored for their return. Nine musical numbers, of the catchy and up to date kind were rendered during the performance. The dancing of three of the gentlemen of the chorus was absolutely the best ever witnessed in the city and all in all the show was fine, in fact the caliber that shows at Fort Wayne for a much larger price. Decatur theater goers who did not see “Little Dollie Dimples" missed the opportunity of witnessing one of the best musical comedies on the road today. MERCHANTS GIVE J. S. Lower Secures Signatures of Business men for Institute Prizes WILL BE BIG EVENT Various Business Men Will Give Prizes on Yellow and White Corn J. S. Lower, by his untiring efforts, has secured a new feature for the farmers’ institute to be held at the county court house January 27 and 28 which will not only be highly appreciated by the farmers, but will cause the corn display to be better than ever before. For two days he has worked diligently in soliciting premiums from the merchants who display the best corn and his efforts have been crowned with success, as the following list will indicate: Niblick & Co., $3 umbrella; F. B. Tague, fl slippers; Holthouse, Schulte & Co., $3 hat; True & Runyon, sugar $1; Smith, Yager & Falk $1 lantern; Holthouse Drug Co., $1 in trade; Decatur Lumber Co., $1 nails; D. Jvl. Hensley, $2 silver cup; Page Blackburn, $1 lantern; Laman & Lee, $1,25 halter: Decatur Hardware Co., $1 hammer; Anderson & Baker, $1 candy; J- HVoglewede and Son, $2 shoes; Kueblet & Moltz, $2 blankets; A. Van Camp, small sack flour; Schafer Hardware Co., $1 in trade; U. E. Cramer, $1.25 horse shoes; Everett & Hite, $1 sugar; Harvey Sprague, ten shaves; F. V. Mills, 50c coffee, M. Burns & Son, 50c whip; Winnes Shoe store. 85c rubbers; Adams County bank, $2; National bank, $2; Milt Leavell, $1.50 horse shoes; Gay & Zwick, $1.50 'high chair; Elzey & Vance, $2 sweater; Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson, hat and shirt, $3; J. D. Hale, one sack oyster shells; Daily Democrat, one year's subscription, $2.50, and H. H. Bremerkamp, flour. 65c. The business men have responded nobler to the call in offer(Continued cn page 2.)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, December 23, 1908.

SEARCHING FOR IRA HAGUE Young Man From Near Delphos Has Disappeared. Ira Hague, a young man residing southeast of Delphos, left his home Friday morning and his relatives are searching for him'. He left home about 10 o’clock, in the morning intending to drive to Delphos, and informed his wife that he would return before dark. He did not return at night and when he had not shown up Saturday morning his relatives became anxious. He had used a horse and buggy belonging to his father-in-law, Peter Ridenour. Mr. Ridenour came to Delphos Sunday morning to make inquiries about his son-in-law and found the rig at the Kundert livery barn. It was also ascertained that Mr. Hague had purchasa new hat and left the old one at the clothing store. Inquiries were made at the various depots, it being thought that the young man had gone to Arkansas, where his parents are residing, but nothing definite could be learned. He had only a small amount of money with him when he left home. Mr. Hague is about 17 years old and was married to Miss Edna Ridenour last spring. There is no reason for his leaving home unless it was his desire to go west.

TO TAKE IT BACK Fourth Class Postmasters and Civil Service Not Working Good COMPLETE HEARINGS New Tariff Bill Now Being Framed by the Committee Washington, Dec. 23. —It is not impiobable that the order blanketing fourth class postmasters under the civil service, which affects 1,084 Indiana officials, will have to be rescinded. There has been no decision yet to annul the order, but its impracticability is becoming demonstrated more clearly as the president and civil service commission proceed with their efforts to enforce it. The president issued the order at the suggestion largely of the civil service commission, which for several years has been working to the end of trying to bring all postmasters under the civil service. As soon as the president began the preparation of plans for the enforcement of the order he realized that he was in deep water and the farther he has gone the deeper he has become involved. He has taken counsel with Senator Penrose and Representative Overstreet, the chairman, respectively, of the senate and house committees on postoffices and postroads, as well as with Postmater General Meyer and the members of the civil service commission, but the obstacles to the enforcement of the order have not grown fewer in number nor less in size. Washington, Dec. 23.—The house ways and means committee completed its hearings on the proposed revision of the tariff, and the subcommittee, consisting of the Republican members of the full committee, began the work of revising the present law into a tariff bill. The bill is to be submitted to congress at the special session, which it is understood Mr. Taft will call together next March. In order to complete its work in time the subcommittee will hold daily meetings behind closed doors until the new bill has been framed. No tariff revision committee has ever had at its command so large a fund of information as the present one, and the individual members will facilitate the work by devoting a large part of their time to the consideration of the testimony that has been given before the committee and to the perusal of the numerous reports available for their use. INSANE WOMAN STARTLES Bourbon, Ind., Dec. 23. —After putting a lamp in her bed. covering it up with the bedclothes, Mrs. Mary Gunder turned in a fire alarm and aroused the neighborhood with cries of “murder” and then ran to town in her night clothes. She has been found insane and taken to jail to await transfer to an insane hospital.

JAIL SENTENCES Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison Draw Terms in Prison CONTEMPT OF COURT Justice Wright Gives Labor Leaders a Severe Calling Washington, D. C., Dec. 23. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —JusticeWrlght of the supreme court of the district of Columbia today sentenced President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor to one year in jail for contempt of court. He also sentenced vice-president John Mitchell and former president of the United Mine Workers to nine months in jail on the same charge and secretary and treasurer Morrison of the federation to six months in jail. Justice Wright decided that Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison had flagrantly violated the , injunction granted by Justice Gould in the Bucks Stove and Range case. . In his opinion which was of extended length Justice Wright characterized the various utterances of the defendants with respect to the courts as utterly rampant,insolent, defiant, unre- . fined, insulting, coarse, vulgar and in- ■ dignant. NOWANEPIDEMIC Has Visited Magley—Seems Residents of That Village Are Unfortunate CASE TO REBUILD Is Keeping Store in a Small Building at Present— Scarlet Fever The little town of Magley is not getting misfortune singly, but they are all coming in a bunch. First of all nearly the entire town was destroyed by fire, the general merchandise stores of Robert Case burning to the ground after which the elevator and a coal shed went up in ashes. Now an epidemic of scarlet fever has struck the place and as a result over half of the houses in the little town are quarantined. As a result business is at a standstill. Mr. Case is preparing to rebuild his store as soon as possible. At present he is conducting a small store in a nearby residence. The stock he has in it is the kind that he has been able to get through rush orders. The absence of the general store is greatly missed by the residents of the place. The many Decatur friends of Mr. Case hope that he will soon have his new store erected and doing business as he did before the disastrous conflagration. o LIFE INSURANCE MAN SUICIDES New York, N. Y., Dec. 23. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Frederick A. Burham, former president of the Mutual Reserve , Life Insurance company, committed suicide today by dnhaling illuminating gas in his apart- i merits. He was under indictment in j connection with the insurance scandal, s

CRACK POSTOFFICE SAFE. Robbers Obtain Almost SSOO in Stamps and Currency at Van Buren. Marion, Ind., Dec. 22.—Safe blowers visited Van Buren, ten miles east of here, some time last night, cracked the safe in the postoffice, obtained nearly SSOO in stamps and coin, stole two- horses and escaped from the town without being discovered. The robber ywas not disclosed until Postmaster L. A. Bachelor went to the office at 6 o'clock this morning and found the shattered safe. The robbers had obtained tools at Spencer Losure’s

blacksmith shop and had blown the door of the safe with dynamite. The interior of the office was wrecked. The robbers escaped from the town with horses belonging to John L. Camblin and Jacob Jones, farmers living near the town. is stilTwilling Bryan Speaks at a Dollar Banquet in Pennsyl- > vania , TALKS LEADERSHIP [ Says He Will Continue as Long as Democrats [ Desire ( Uniontown, Pa., Dec. 23.—With “A Battle Over; the War Begun’’ as the 1 text. W. J. Bryan announced that the . Democratic party, in his belief, must continue its fight for reforms, the 5 abandonment of which would be both disastrous and dishonorable, and said he would not give up the principles -for which he has fought nor the fight for their adoption in the national government. Concerning his continued leadership of the Democratic party, • Mr. Bryan said that leadership had , come to him without effort on his own part, and as long as the party wanted him to continue such leadership he did not feel that he could relin- ’ quish it at the behest of those who might be personally interested in such action upon his part. Os the late election, he said Mr. Taft had been elected through a combination of financial, commercial and industrial interests of the country and that he would rather remain a private citizen than be a president and be subservient to these interests, as Mr. Taft must be under the conditions that elected him. Mr. Bryan said that President Roosevelt had degraded his high office by making it the football of party politics dining the recent campaign. Mr. Bryan spoke at a “dollar dinner” arranged by prominent Democrats of the coke regions. His address was in part as follows: “If there is one state in which a Democrat ought not to lose caste merely because he has been defeated that state becomes accustomed to defeat. If there Is one state in which the Democrats are not expected to abandon a principle merely because that principle embodied in a platform has failed to win a victory, that state is Pennsylvania. For you have gone to defeat in Pennsylvania with great regularity, no matter how good your platforms.” The speaker then took up the various things for which the Democratic party has contended during the last twelve years and pointed out the vindications that have come to the Democratic position. He said that the Republican party would not meet the expectations of the people and that the voters would find relief only . in application of Democratic principles. 1 —■■ ■ o i PITTSBURG EDITOR FAVORED. George T. Oliver Indorsed by Alle- ; gheny County to Succeed Knox. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec 22.—George T. . Oliver, owner of the Gazette-Times ] and the Chronicle-Telegraph, was in- ( dorsed unanimously today by the 1 Allegheny county members of the leg- i islature for United States senator to s succeed Senator Knox. The caucus r was attended by all members of the s delegation—twenty-four members of I the lower house and six senators—and Mr. Oliver’s name was the only one presented, although Congressman 1, James Francis Burke and John Dal- v zell had announced their candidacy. f

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THE PLAN OF ANTIS To Have Both County and Township and Ward Option Laws — ■■ GOVERNOR’S BALL Arrangements Being Made For This Great Event Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 23.—R. C. Minton, attorneys for the Indiana Anti-Saloon league, has a proposal for consideration by the democratic members of the legislature, which, he says, will enable them to carry out the pledges of their state platform, while not interfering with the county option law as placed on the statute books by the special session of the legislature in September. Mr. Minton's plan is for two local option laws, and he bases his suggestion on a theory that of two liquor laws, when not conflicting and when the one last adopted does not repeal directly or by implication the former, both will stand. Mr. Minton has advanced the idea that the legislators may enact a law providing for township and ward local option without repealing either directly or by implication the county option law. This compromise measure was proposed by Mr. Minton as a means of placating those democrats in the counties ■where a township and ward unit is desired, without interfering with the wishes of those in the counties where preparations are already under way for voting on the saloon question under the present law. The plan was proposed by Mr. Minton w’hen the legislators were considering the county option bill in the special session, but did not receive consideration.

, Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 23. —Art rangements are being made rapidly for the reception and ball to be ten- ] dered Governor and Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall at the Propylaum on the ’ night of Monday, January 11. The affair is to be known as the governor’s inaugural ball. Several hundred in- , (Continued on page 2.) AN INSTALLATION Masonic Blue Lodge and Royal Arch Install I Their Officers FOR ENSUING YEAR Attendance Was Good and a Luncheon Followed Ceremony An annual event, always enjoyed was the installation of officers in the Masonic Blue lodge and Royal Arch, which occurred at the hall last evening. The members, their families and friends were the guests and all enjoyed the occasion. After the ceremony a luncheon was served to which those present did ample justice. A few of the officers were not present, and will be installed at a later date. Those who began their terms of office for the ensuing year were: Blue lodge—D. E. Smith, worshipful master; Charles Dunn, senior warden: Jeff Bryson, junior warden; E. Adams, secretary; J- Q- Neptune, treasurer; C. L. Walters, senior deacon; Charles Ernst, junior deacon, Newton Parrish and J. C. Sutton, stewards and Barney Kalver, tyler. o yal Arch—P. L. Andrews, high priest; T R. Moore, king; J- D. Hale, sc e, John Tyndall, principal sojourner; Henry B. Heller, captain of hosts. Charles Helm, royal arch captain. ■ P. Schrock, grand master of t e veil; C. L. Walters, grand mas J* r , second veil; ,Charles master of first veil. R ■ secretary; Isadore Kalver, treasure , Barney Kalver, guard. ,

The “Dollie Dimply left this afternoon jor where the \ w,!l Da yton, Ohio, from there they go to