Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1909 — Page 1

■Volume VII. Number 14.

IN THE JAWS I OF DEATH Brank Schumaker Met a HorUible Death this Morning CLOVER LEAF TRACK Mlis Body Was Severed Near | Diaphram—Lived But Few Minutes Bpblivious of the pending danger. . his head wrapped in a large scarf impairing sight and heating, Frank MSfctii'.acher. aged 65. for many years aKtailor with headquarters located ■njbove this office, walked into the jaws Os death this morning at about eleven o'clock, a Clover Leaf engine passing over his body severing the trunk the diaphram. The aged man purchased a sack of feed and . >iitfcrt' d for his home, which is located south of the railroad. With the sack aero- his back and a large scats , Wrapped about his head, he approached the road at a point a few feet west of the Decatur Produce building. Erid* ■ Uy his eyesight and hearing were greatly impaired by the scarf for the stepped upon the track just U the iron monster approached, and he 'Was crushed beneath the wheels ©f the engine, his body being almost entirely severed and abdomen crushed |nto a pulp. The fireman saw the accident and the engine was immediately stopped, but the deadly work had been done and Schumaker lay all but lifeless a distance of several feet from the scene of the terrible accident. He was still breathing and assisted by a number of trainmen, section foreman S. B. Ramsey removed (Continued on page 3.) 0 CONDITIONSERSOUS - Mrs. L. L. Kintz May Be Operated Upon Again Soon WENT TO LIMA — Where She Will Consult a Specialist About Condition Mrs. L. L. Kihtz has gone to Lima. Ohio, where she will remain for some time to take treatment from a specialist. It will be remembered that ShsKinderwent an operation at that nltyfpjKmie time ngo for the removal c? Superfluous growths and for a time subsequent thereto she seemed to be on the road to rapid recovery. Howersr, since new complications have developed and from indications the , woman will be compelled to again submit to the surgical knife in the near future. She will remain at Lima for some time to take treatments, and if these fail to relieve the abnormal conditions, another operation Will be absolutely necessary, but will probably be deferred until some time in the spring. The many friends of Mrs. Kintz are sincerely hoping that her : condition will so improve as a consequence of the treatments that it will not be necessary to be operated upon again and suffer the atteny dant pain. Mr. Kintz will be informed of her condition every. few days and the extent of her affliction will soon be known. ■ !■ O' — TOM MARSHALL HAEFLING. Marshall Haefling was boro at noon yesterday, and at this time gives evidence of a healthy youngster and the pride of his parents. Clerk and Mrs. James F. Haefling. He tipped the beam at strong ten pounds, and is a mighty fine looking American citizen. The mother and babe are getting along nicely.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

LUCY TERRELL TO MARRY Rumor Has It That She Will Try Matrimony Again. According to reports which have ben current in the vicinity of Petroleum and the old home of John W. Terrell, Lucy Wolfe, daughter of John Terrell, is soon to be married again. This time she is to marry a man considerably older than herself, an old bachelor who has lived in that vicinity for some time, but who recently moved to the western part of the state. The report had been current that she and her prospective came to this city to get a license some time ago, but this report proved untrue. From other sources it is claimed that as soon as the Terrell murder trial is through or some disposition is made of his case the marriage will take place and the couple will live in the western part of the state. Just how much truth there is to this could not be learned. —Bluffton Banner. THEY ARE LIBERAL The Fort Wayne Diocese Gave Lots of Money FOUR THOUSAND Given Last Sunday for the Earthquake Sufferers As the result of the collections taken up in the churches of the diocese of Fort Wayne last Sunday, approximately $4,000 has been realized for the benefit of the earthquake sufferers in southern Italy. Ninety-four of the parishes have thus far sent their donations to the chancery and as soon as all parishes have reported, Rt. Rev. Bishop Alerding will forward the diocesan offering to Pope Pius X, for the assistance of those in the stricken districts. There are 153 parishes in the diocese and 110 resident pastors. Hence, out of these parishes there are fifty-nine yet to be heard from. The donations of the Fort Wayne Catholic churches were as follows: Cathedral. $225.50; St. Patrick’s $107.40; St. Mairy's, $182.75; St. Peter’s, $86.50; St. Paul’s, $71.50; Precious Blood, $44.20, making a total of $717.85 for the local churches. The collections in this diocese have been much larger than expected and when compared to the collections of other diocese demonstrate that the people have responded most generously. The Chicago diocesan collections are said to have amounted to $21,000 but considering the great difference in the population of that diocese and this the result is most gratifying to all concerned. Rt. Rev. Bishop Alerding will leave tomorrow for Hammond, where on Sunday he will officiate at the dedication of the new church and school building in All Saint’s parish. Rev. Edward Barrett is the pastor there. The edifice to be dedicated is a large brick structure, the lower portion of which will be used for parochial school and the upper portion for the church. — Fort Wayne Sentinel.

THEY MET AND ORGANIZED. Movement for County Local Option Election Taking Shape. Another meeting of the leaders tn the movement to make Adams county dry was held this morning, at which officers were selected who will have In charge the movements of the dry organization. The president is Rev. I. Imler, and the vice presidents are Revs. L. C. Hessert, Richard Spotnagle, D. O. Wise and Dr. C. B. Wilcox. secretary E. M. Ray, treasurer S. W .Hale. From another reliable source It is learned that it is the intention of those who will wage this war, to have their petition asking for a county local option election ready to present to the board of commissioners at the first day of the February term, which is Monday, February 1. Under the law an election will be called within thirty days of that time. o Considering the weather there were a goodly number of farmers in town today, and the merchants did a good business.

STILL LOOKS GOOD Hon. E. G. Hoffman Comes Home from the Seat of Battle HE IS SMILING Pays Senator Shively Many Well Deserved Compliments The Hon. Edward G. Hoffman arrived home Thursday from Indianapolis, where he had spent the greater part of the past two weeks in the interests of his candidacy for the United States senatorship. Despite the long and trying ordeal, which kept him at work eighteen'or more hours a day for more than a week, Mr. Hoffman loked fresh. He was disappointed at his failure to receive the caucus nomination, but his perennial good nature was with him and he took his defeat good naturedly. His gratification at the loyalty with which the Twelfth district stood by him made up for his defeat. “That alone was enough to make a defeated man feel good,” said Mr. Hoffman. “The Twelfth district delegates never wavered and it was not until all hope was gone that any of them left me. My friends in the Eighth district also stood by me until the end. I can never forget the steadfastness with which my friends supported me. Had Mr. Slack been able to hold his followers I would have been nominated. I feel sure that had it not been for the fact that his supports left him because of lack of organization in their own ranks I would have received all his support toward the last. That would have meant my nomination. But it’s all over now,” said Mr. Hoffman smilingly. “It was a great contest, interesting as it was exciting. and while I regret that I was not nominated. I am not sorry to have been in it. Mr. Shively will make a grand senator and I am confident that he will fill every requirement.” —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

STATEHOOD FIGHT Two New Stars May Be Added to the Union of States HAVE AGREED The Venezuelan Dispute in the Stage of Settlement Washington, Jan. 16 — A spectacular fight over the completion of the union of states is in progress, with President Roosevelt, Senator Beveridge and Representative Watson the central figures in the statehood drama. Powerful influences are lining up behind the movement to add two new stars to the flag at this session and thus bring into the union the last of the remaining territories, except, of course, Alaska, Porto Rice, Hawaii and the Philippines, which probably never will become organized states. President Roosevelt is much Interested in proposing separate statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. Representative Watson, after a conference with him, said that if Mr. Roosevelt were permitted as president to sign the bills completing the Amercian Union he would consider it the crowning act of his public career. Speaker Cannon, who has long been an Insurmountable obstacle In the way of getting separate statehood bills through the house, has at last consented, and Mr. Watson, who "was put on the territories committee recently by the speaker, is organizing the fight in the house In behalf of statehood. The two fenabling act*' j will be prepared soon. They will provide for a considerable grant of the public domain as a present from the general government to each of the new states, "Washington. Jan. 16.—After years of patient waiting on the part of the United States there is a prospect of the settlement of the disputes with

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, January 16, 1909.

FAMOUS PEOPLE")® BY FANNIE M LOTHROP ■ ■ ■ R — ———-—: : r —5 : u..u.L - \ “ «■ - '-a ML ' ■ isF > ; : -A « | Photo by Elliott At Fry, London SIR GILBERT PARKER The Famous Novelist and Journalist. A tall, well-built man, with dark hair, closely trimmed beard, calm, observant eyes, gentle, and with the ease and polish of a fine stock intensified by the culture that comes from travel—this is Sir Gilbert Parker, Canada’s great novelist. In the famous city of Quebec he was born in 1862, the son of an officer in the Royal Artillery and the descendant of many generations of fighting men. It seemed natural that he, too, should woo the cannon, but he had his eye on the cassock and was educated for the church. He was ordained a deacon but his train of thought was switched off the clerical track when he began to lecture on English literature at Trinity College, Toronto. In 1886 he went to Australia for his health, and as one of the editors of the “Sydney Herald” had a roving commission to study the South Sea Islands and their people. In his three and a half years in Oceanica he broadened in mind and grew more sturdy in body; he wrote and lectured, became interested in the stage and with wide-open eyes saw life under new conditions. The literary harvest of this period was an adaptation of Goethe’s “Faust,” produced in Sydney, another play “The Vendetta,” and two books of travel. Then he went to England, and his real literary genius had its first outcroppings in his works of fiction. His remarkable short stories “Pierre and his People,” opened up the literary dark continent of the Hudson Bay country. They were fresh, crisp, vigorous and virile tales; the field was new, the treatment masterly, the character drawing vital, real and sympathetic, and the open-air atmosphere bracing and tingling as a cold-water plunge. They had the same note of sureness, the same unquestioned revelation of the coming of a great writer, that marked the d6but of Kipling in his “Plain Tales from the Hills.” Most authors have a special sentimental fondness for their first-born, but Sir Gilbert bought back and suppressed his first novel “The Chief Factor,” after more than fifty thousand copies had been sold. Os his twenty or more books, perhaps “The Right of Way” has inspired most discussion and added most to his prestige and popularity. This famous novelist, journalist, lecturer, poet, dramatist and member of Parliament, lives in London, in the aristocratic seclusion of Carlton House Terrace, a short street closed at one end, so that the rumble of traffic comes only like the surge of the sea heard at a distance. In a study on the fourth floor Sir Gilbert does his literary work. Success, which turns the heads of many of fortune’s favorites, simply gives new poise, ease and dignity to others. Simple, strong and unaffected, Sir Gilbert carries with an unconscious grace the honors he so justly won. Copyright, 1906, by Wm. C. Mack.

Venezuela. The refusal of the government to arbitrate resulted last spring In the breaking of friendly relations between the two countries. Today the state department announced that W. I. Buchanan, the special commissioner who has been in Venezuela for several weeks, had reported that he had reached a basis of agreement and that a protocol to that effect was now being drawn up for signature. Presumatively the ease will go to the international court of arbitration at The Hague, but a positive statement to this effect will not be made by the state department. ! o MANY CLAIMS ARE FILED. The Ossian Mutual Live Stock Association Still Having Troubles. Attorney Hood, of Ossian, and F, W. Gordon of this city, are preparing a number of claims to be filed against the Ossian Mutual Live Stock association which is now in a receiver’s hands. Five of these claims went on record this morning, and are as follows: Leslia Meeks, claim for $l5O for death of a horse; Paul Burkholder, claim of $l2O for death of a horse; Albert and David Russell, $112.50 for death of a horse; and John S. Wnodying, $75 for death of a horse. There are other claims yet to be filed ranging from SSO to S2OO. These claims come in natural order of business and are on policies carried with the company before it went into the hands of a receiver.—Bluffton News. o - ■■— THINK IT WILL BE LAMB His Friends Think He is a Winner in 1911. Indianapolis, January 15. —Democratic leaders yesterday expressed the belief that John E. Lamb, of Terre Haute, has the best chance of securing the nomination for senator to succeed Senator Beveridge in 1911 in

the event the state should go democratic at that time. Mr. Lamb’s support went to Kern three times, and it lis said part of it went to Shively I twice. The Lamb-Kern combination developed a weakness in its attempt to secure an adjournment of the caucus that worked to its detriment in , alter ballots.

A GREAT OVATION Citizens of South Bend Honor the New Senator A RECEPTION GIVEN Senator Shively Enthusiastically Received by His Home Folk South Bend, Ind., Jan. 16. —Benjamin F. Shively, choice of the Democratic caucus of the Indiana legislature for United States senator, arrived in South Bend at 7:15 o’clock last night and was met at the Vandalia depot by a crowd of 5,000 people, who gave him one of the most enthusiastic ovations ever tendered a fellow townsman who has been given political honors. Shively’s appearance on the platfrom of the car was greeted by deafening cheers, the flare of red lights and a display of fireworks. Because of the heavy wind that was sweeping over the city, Mayor Fogarty, who had taken charge of the senator-to-be, did not allow him to make an address, but, headed by Elbel’s band and the crowd, Mr. Shively was escorted to his residence in the north part of the city. Mrs. Shively was on the front porch to greet her husband, and she was quickly In his arms, while the great crowd cheered with renewed vigor as he kissed his helpmeet repeatedly. The chgdren also greeted their father with loving embraces. In response to the applause Mr. Shively briefly thanked the thousansd for the demonstration in his honor. “This testimonial,” he said, “is worth more to me than any honor or fame that can come to me. I know not what the future holds for me, but for that I care nothing so long as I can have the confidence and respect which you have shown me by your loyalty and generous support.” The parade from the depot to the home was through streets brilliantly light-

ed by electricity, red fire, roman candles and fireworks. As the procession moved it was rapidly augmented and Mr. Shively ste;R>ed from the carriage at his residence the streets in the vicinity were filled with not less than 10.000 persons, all anxious to get a glimpse of their fellow townsman. Suspended in front of the residence was a huge electric sign, “Welcome,” which had been hung by Mr. Shively’s neighbors. Tonight's demonstration was entirely devoid of politics, party lines being forgotten, Republican and Democrat marching side by side in the parade to and from the depot. As a tribute to Mr. Shively the St. Joseph County Bar Association, composed of nearly 100 lawyears, marched in tonight's parade. At a meeting earlier in the day the association made preliminary arrangements for a reception in honor of Mr. Shively soon after the legislature ratifies the action of the caucus. Arrangements are also in progress for a public reception at the Elks temple. HAD GREAT SESSION School Teachers of Washington Township Held Meeting Today A FINE PROGRAM Was Rendered and Great Benefit Derived from the Same The teachers of Washington township held their regular monthly institute at the office of the trustee today and enjoyed a very interesting session. The meeting ensued this morning at nine o’clock and was opened by appropriate exercises led by Miss Nota Winans. The subject “School and its Life.” was then ably discussed by Wilson Beery and Melvin Mallonee. after which Miss 'Winans discussed Geography. An adjournment was then taken for the noon hour, and the afternoon session was introduced by a discussion on “Theory of English Government” by Miss Tillie Moran. Miss Pearl Miller followed with a declamation which was well received, after which the subject “Industrial Education” was ably handled by Ed Kintz. A reading lesson on “A Crowded Street,’' was then studied as well as the biography of the author, William Cullen Bryant, Miss Magley acting as teacher and the other teachers as the school. Assignment of duty for the next institute was then made and thus one of the most successful township institutes ever held in Decatur closed. These institutes have proven very beneficial to the teachers. They signal advances in educational departments and better equip the teachers to place the different studies before their pupils in a right manner. o RECEIVED STATE SCHOOL FUNDS Adams County Gets More Money Than She Sent to the State. Auditor Michaud has received the report from the state auditor which shows that Adams county gets $12,231.70 of the state school fund distribution. The amount paid in was $10,360.59, so it will be seen that, the county fared well. Treasurer Lachot reports but fourteen delinquents still remaining and he is making life miserable for them, in the hope that they will pay up the amounts charged against them before the second Monday in February, the date set under the law for the sale of delinquent taxes. It is the hope to have a clean slate by that time, in which event no sale would be necessary. —— o BAD HITCH MAY KILL WIFE Husband Used Reins and Runaway Smashup Resulted. ■ Southampton, N, Y., Jan. 15. —As the penalty for her husband's carelessness in tying their horse with one of the reins, Mrs. John Wilier may die. The animal becoming frightened. slipped its bridle and galloped down the main street, colliding with a fence. The carriage was demolished and the woman occupant hurled to the ground and badly injured.

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HAVE A FAT PURSE The B. P .O. E. Cleared $216.99 on the Minstrel Show SIXTEEN PETITIONS They Will Have Big Doings Some Day and That Soon At the meeting of the Elks last evening the affairs pertaining to their minstrel show were all settled and their surplus after the payment of all expenses was $216.99. This is a comfortable little chunk and will be used for the purpose for which it was Intended. the helping of the poor. The boys did well, both with the show and with the amount realized. They are rightly proud of the achievement. Sixteen petitions for membership into Decatur lodge number 993 have been acted upon favorably, and now it is up to the exalted ruler, B. S. Lower, to set a day for the grand killing. It 1® their purpose to do this work all on one day, beginning at two o’clock in the afternoon, have the same interspersed with a banquet and then continue with the work until late at night. At this rate of new membership it can easily be seen that the Decatur B. P. O. E. are going some. This event will be one of the great ones in the history of the local order, and it is even hinted that the sixteen fresh ones will get theirs on this day and date. On the day of this big Initiatory event the members will enter into a serious discussion of the advisability of building or buying of an Elks home. The boys have the fever and while time and serious thought may change their opinion, yet at this time they think most favorable of the project. o A SPIRITED FIGHT Over the Three Mile Extension Road Law SOME OTHER BILLS Several of Them Are Important to the People of the State Indianapolis, January 16. —Perhaps the most spiirted fight of the legislative session will develop over the repeal or retention of the three mile extension macadam road law. Sentiment is divided and somewhat drawn already, and it is apparent that when the bill comes up there will be a fight to a finish. The friends of the law rightly contend that a few amendments will make the law the best road law ever on the ludlaua statutes. One of these amendments Is the making it discretionary with the board of commissioners whether a road shall bei mproved. Senator Roggen. of Allen county, has a bill that would put a crimp in all temperance laws, should it be passed. According to the opinion of members of the house, it would inaerfere with the Nicholson law, the Moore law, the county local option law and every other law that seeks to eliminate or curtail the privileges of those engaged in the liquor business. A bank guarantee bill has been introduced and will run the gauntlet of the legislature. The bill provides for a separate banking department, and calls for a guarantee fund of onehalf of one per cent on the average daily deposits of all banks. - Mr. and Mrs. McCullough went to Delphos this morning, where they will spend the day with the latter’s sister.