Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII. Number 26.

TWO MORE ARE DRY ■Randolph and Noble Counties Join the Dry Column large majorities Randolph Gives a Majority of 2,470, Noble From 800 to 1,000 H| NINE NOW DRY. Hamilton, Decatur, ’’ ' Tipton, Pike, Putnam, Wabash. ■jS Winchester. Ind.. Jan. I>< t j.ir blizzard which prevailed. Rancounty voters yesu-rduj §Mut to strike a blow at the liquor Biffle. Last night the report* indithat they succeeded by the ],tgmajority yet reported in any Bounty of the state which has held an election The indicated tnafor the “drys" is 2.470. The vote cast was decidedly short the figures of the last regular elecbut the country people did not tSjoin the stay-at-home class and the and its result was v. rv :• _■ the temperance workers. The unvote gives the total for the as 3,828 and the ''wet'- vote was carried by the "drys " and the element made no tight whatThere are now only two sain Randolph county and these ■: the result of today's election will to go out of business win :: their expire. The two saloons are Union City, which has been the “wet” town In the county, as result of remonstrances under Nicholson law. The wea'her last was unfit for any public celebraMkn and it is not probable that any ■< monstration will be made by the over their victory. There was zealous interest on the side of the forces, but not enough a resistance to make the cot.test <xfl Kendallville. Ind.. Jan. 30.—8 y a ■cod majority, considering the vote Spoiled, the tem]>e:ance forces won victory In the option clectnc in N county yesterday. Returns w< re precincts heard from there is an ■kdicated majority for the 'drys'' of was decidedly agpi::-' an turn out. the snow and w: . l to almost a blizzard This many people at home and !>•<=- ned activities around the < Ils to ■h small degree. The campaign ■lt'> the election was a lively .n- There twenty saloons in the coun’yj Brhich will be affected by t 'day ■ vo»-, and these with their be • -rs did lot of hustling to prevent their being abolished. 1 offset |£he newspaper campaign of the drys ■ advertising of their own and a campaign with < ■ ' liars. E*l'hr> towns which have saloons are MKendalivllle, 7; Avilla. 3; Ligonier. "Ms Kimmel, Cromwell and Laotto 1 Hyeuch. Albion and Rome City have ■een without saloons, due to remonrance work. • —o ■They took change of vfnue JBsr. Holcomb to Be Arraigned on February 10. igl The celebrated case of Dr. John H. the Uniondale physician. with perjury, because of aijßeged false testimony given in the ®rial of the Charles Cotton divorce had only a short inning in court ntorning. When called for a prehearing in Justice \\ albert s at ten o'clock the attorneys Dr. Holcomb petitioned for a of venue and this was grant and the case assigned by Justice to Justice J. K. Rinehart. JBbe hearing in Rinehart's court was Het for Wednesday, February 10th, at In o'clock and the bond of Holcomb as continued at 32,000, the same as red by Justice Walbert last Monday hen Detective Harrod first presented ie accused in court upon his return Ith him from North Carolina— Bluffm News.

ARE CENTRALIZING TOO MUCH Elihu Root Gave Expression to Real American Sentiment. Albany, N. y., Jan. 30—United States Senator-elect Root yesterday addressed the senate and assembly in joint session. He told the legislature that he believed there were two dangers. due to the development of this country. One he said was the danger of the national government breaking down in its effective machinery through the burdens that threaten to be cast upon it. “On the other," he continued, “is the danger of breaking down the local self-government o’ the states. The tendency of vesting all powers in the central government at Washington," he said, “is to produce the decadence of the powers of the states." o — CLASS OF TWENTY The Elks to Have a Big Time on Next Friday STILL HAVE FEVER A New Elks’ Home Among the Coming Possibilities At the Elks regular meeting last night they finished up on the twentieth petition for membership, and arranged to have a big doings on next Friday aftemdpn and evening, at which time they will take this class of twenty through the mysteries of Elkdom, and show them many things they never saw before. The big show will begin at one-thirty in the afternoon, and continue without a break until the work is done and the class entire have been given all that is coming to them. While the order has had a steady growth since its institution, yet this is the first time that the membership has jumped up twenty at one time. It is expected that many visitors will be present, as they are loath to miss a good time, such as this will be. A supper of gigantic proportions will be given in the evening, and it is kiddng on the square, to say that they will have the time of their lives. It again developed at the meeting last night, that a new home is seriously in the minds of many of the Decatur Elks. They are thinking seriously and within a short lime some action will be taken looking toward such an addition. Should the attempt be made, the job will be done in the manner and in the style as only Elks do things. They will have the finest and the best that money can buy. The boys who were down to Fort Wayne during the first of the week, visited the new Elk's home there and they pronounce it the best they ever feasted thier eyes on. It is perfect in every way and contains all the ccnveniences. style and beauty as seen in the many homes of this kind. oGOTTSCHALK INTRODUCES BILL Would Stop Itinerate Vending of Medicines. Indianapolis. Ind., Jan. 30.—House bill number 259 was introduced yesterday by Representative Gottschalk of Adams county. It is a bill for an act to regulate the itinerant vending of medicines and providing for the licensing of the business. If this bill becomes a law, any person who sells medicines from a pack, a wagon, a valise or in any other way must appear before the Indian Board of Pharmacy. give a sample of goods which is examined and if found pure and of value, he is then granted a license for which he pays a fee of SIOO per month. The bill provides for a fine of from SIOO to S4OO for each offense and would practically put out of business the old street man as well as many merchants who sell from wagons through the country. o The stockholders of the Bliss Hotel association will hold a meeting next week, when the annual election of officers will be held and other business which comes up before the annual meeting will be considered. At this meeting Del Locke, present manager of the hotel, will ask to have his lease changed so that the rent will be lowered. —Bluffton Banner.

ALLOW SALARIES School Board Held Interteresting Meeting Last Night MANY BILLS Were Allowed and Teachers’ and Janitors’ Salaries The members of the school board met last night in regular monthly session and looked after business relative to our public institutions.” The salaries of the teachers and janitors were allowed after which the following bills were acted upon and orders drawn for same: Decatur Democrat printing, $6.00; L. Auth, repairing clock, $1.00; Andrew Welfly, insurance. $12.00; J. J. Foughty, freight, 35c.; Decatur Lumber company, lumber, $1.13; Decatur Publishing company, printing, $10.50; Gallogly & Lower, three insurance policies for five years, $98.65; Decatur Filler company, conrods, $5.00; C. J. Sparks Co., sullies, $60.00; Decatur Hardware company. $17.80 and T. A. Leonard, $6.90. The Decatur schools prospering beyond precedent. Interest among pupils and teachers alike is intense, attendance is good and every prevailing condition is decidedly favorable to the welfare of the educational institutions. The school board is working hard to advance the interests of the schools, teachers and scholars and they deserve the hearty co-operation of the people in the noble effort they are making. We as citizens, should feel a great responsibility resting upon us as in a large measure, the destinies of educational Institutions are contingent upon the activity or inactivity of individual citizens. —— o Brick has been laid one story high on the new Schafer building and from appearances not much time will be needed to complete the structure. o NOT IN SYMPATHY Tariff League Not Wrapped Up in Tariff Conference WANTS A PENSION The President-Elect is at the Gatun Dam Today Washington, January 30.—1 t is evident to most persons here that the American Protective Tariff League is laying larger plans to offset any influence that may be exerted by the forth coming tariff conference in Indianapolis in favor of the appointment of a permanent tariff commission. The ways and means commiittee of the house of representatives is not in sympathy with the object of the Indianapolis meeting, and the prevailing comment here is that unless the Indianapolis convention shall be representative in its makeup and emphatic in its demands, congress will not pay any heed to the recommendations it may make. Washington, Jan. 30. —Congress will be asked to grant a pension of SIOO a month as a tardy recognition of an Indiana hero who is a martyr to the cause of science. In a day or two Representative Barnhart will introduce a bill providing for a pension of this amount for John R. Kissinger of South Bend, the first man who ever volunteered to be bitten by a yellow fever mosquito for scientific purposes. Panama. Jan. 29. —President-elect Taft today made his eighth trip across the isthmus and everywhere was greeted with marked demonstrations of good will. With his party Mr. Taft landed this morning at Colon and proceeded by special train to Culebra, where tonight he is quartered at the residence of Lieut. Col. Goethals, chairman of the Panama Canal Com-

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, January 30, 1909.

BY FANNIE M LOTHROP W Wry X. > ■ SIR ALFRED HARMSWORTH The Publisher of Forty-Five Periodicals. The most successful newspaper publisher in the world is Sir Alfred Harmsworth, who owns forty- five periodicals, seven of which are dailies, in the leading cities of England. He was born in Ireland in 1865, the eldest son of an English barrister, and was destined for the bar, but before he had completed his grammar school course he determined to be an editor, and though sentenced by his father to go to Cambridge, he succeeded in having this sentence reversed. At seventeen he was installed as editor of one of Sir William Ingram's journals in the office of the “Hustrated London News." Four years later he married, and when twenty-three started his first paper, "Answers" a penny journal of popular information, and the foundation of his present fortune. The publication office was a small room, hardly large enough to draw a long breath in, and the four dollars a week he paid in rent was quite an Item. The first number sold 13.000 copies; within a year it rose to 48,000, and four months later, by puzzles, schemes, guessing contests, prizes arid clever and daring methods of winning publicity unknown to the conservative British press, the circulation rose to nearly three-quarters of a million. When the unappreciative government officials stopped the competitions the battle was already won and victory perched on the Harmsworth banners. Then followed a long string of minor publications, until, in 1896, he bought the “Evening News,” a paper with an unsullied record for faiiure, and by the Midas touch of Harmsworth it was on a paying basis In a few weeks. The next year he started the “Mail," an instant success, which now has the largest circulation of any paper in the world; sells five times as many copies as any other London daily and pays its editor —a man only thirty—a salary of $125,000 a year. No one in the employ of the firm, which comprises Sir Alfred and his six brothers, works more than live days a. week; every one is granted a vacation each year, and if an employs desires to leave England and travel Sir Alfred pays half the expenses. The Napoleon of journalism owns half a dozen fine country houses besides his magnificent town house in Berkeley Square, and more than a dozen automobiles. He does everything on a large scale, and recently bought a tract cf forest land in Newfoundland, half the size of Vermont, from which he will make all his paper to be carried to England in his own ships. Copyright, 1906, by Wm. C. Mack.

mission. His reception by the Panaman officials both at Colon and Culebra was most cordial. Tomorrow Mr. Taft will visit the site of Gatun dam. o TAIL END OF BLIZZARD. Has Struck Decatui—The Worst is Coming. The tail end of the blizzard srtuck Decatur yesterday and when the thermometer stopped falling, the temperature had grown pretty cold. Early yesterday morning a driving rain turned to a sleet and hail and later in the day assumed proportions of a fine drifting snow. Everything was disagreeable before the day had passed. At 6 o’clock a perciptible drop started with the thermometer which at that time registered 40 degrees above zero. At noon a fall of 12 degrees was marked and at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon the official register stood at 22 At 6 o’clock last evening a still lower mark was seen with 20 degrees and at midnight the recorder marked 10 degrees above zero, and still getting colder. It continued to snow and the high wind created a very unpleasant climatic condition. The weather prognosticator remarks that things will not be much better tomorrow and that the real center of the cold wave will land in our midst sometime during the next twelve or fifteen hours. So prepare for it. o FIVE BODIES IN A COFFIN. Mother and Four Children Had Been Burned to Death. Logansport, Ind., Jan. 29. —One of the saddest spectacles which the citizens of Galveston, a small town ten miles east of Logansport, ever witnessed, was the funeral of the wife and four children of Frank Ingles, of Millstone, Canada, formerly of Galveston, which took place there today. The mother and four children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at night and the bodies were so charred that all five bodies were easily placed in one casket and sent here. 1

FUNERAL SUNDAY Remains of Late John Haggard to Be Laid to Rest AT RAY CEMETERY Decedent Was Resident of Adams County for Many Years Monroe, Ind., Jan. 30—(Special to Democrat) —The remains of the late John Haggard arrived at this place Saturday afternoon at 1:24 o’clock via G. R. & I. railway anu were conveyed to the home of William H. Haggard, a brother, who resides 5n this town. The body was accompanied from Parrington, Michigan, to Monroe, by the family of the decedent and his three brothers, William, James and John, who reside in Monroe township. As arranged by the relatives the funeral services will be held from the Monroe M. E. church tomorrow morning at ten o’clock, the Rev. Edgar Jones officiating. Interment will take place at the Ray cemetery. The decedent lived In Adams county for many years and enjoyed the fellowship of a large circle of friends, who are grief stricken over the news of hte death. He has been married three times and was the father of fourteen children, five of whom have preceded him to the great beyond. Many sorrowing friends will attend the funeral and pay their last respects to the memory of the departed estimable man. o DIED AT AGE OF NINETY. Wabash, Ind., Jan. 30. —Judge J. D. Connor, ninety years old, one of the city’s pioneers, died yesterday. He was known throughout Indiana as a lawyer and a politician and served in the state legislature;. He was named as delegate and attended the first national republican convention ever j held. He was tendered a federal I judgeship of the state of Nebaskra by I President Lincoln, but declined. 11

LOOKING FOR A BIG CROWD Official Canvass of Electoral Vote Will Occur February 10. Washington, Jan. 30. —Anticipating a big demand from the public to witness the official election of Taft and Sherman as president and vice president of the United States on February to, when the house and senate will meet in joint session in the house chamber to canvass the electoral votes of the states, stringent rules have been adopted by the house to govern admission to the gallery on that day. Practically the entire gallery, except those sections reserved for the press, the executive and the diplomatic corps, will be reserved for the wives and daughters of members and senators. Each senator and representative will be allowed two seats. o HAVING HARD ROW Local Option Repeal Legislation Not Making Headway TRIED TO CAUCUS Another Attempt Will Be Made for a Meeting Monday Evening Indianapolis, January 30. —The conerence called by Democrats of the house for the discussion of the local option legislation did not materialize last night. The meeting was to have been held at 7:30 o'clock, but it was after 8 o’clock before the meeting was called to order by Representative Strickland, the caucus chairman. The roll was called and It was found that there were but thirty-one present. A moment later two more Democrats came stragging in. and still there were not enough to do business, and adjournment was taken. It was decided that a meeting for the further consideration of the option question will be held Monday night at 3 o'clock. It was given out yesterday that the fate of county local option was settled as far as the Democrats are concerned. and that the temperance Democrats of the house, fourteen certainly and seventeen probably, would vote against the repeal of the county local option law under any circumstances. A Democratic senator, who did not wish his name used, but who is in a position to know of what he speaks, said there would be no liquor legislation at the present session of the legislature unless it should be some compromise measure agreed upon by both parties, both parties sharing the responsibility. The hope of the liquor interests was to obtain a repeal of the county option law by coupling the repeal with high license, severe penalties for law violation and restriction in the number of saloons, as concessions to the temperance element. It was for the purpose of framing some such compromise measure that the caucus of Thursday afternoon appointed a committee of three temperance Democrats. Hostetter of Putnam county, Clore of Johnson, and Merriman of Wells, and three liberal Democrats. Kleckner of Cass. Racey of Knox, and Behymer of Madison county. The three temperance members of this committee, however, decided yesterday to have nothing to do with such a measure and to report back to the caucus that from fourteen to seventeen Democrats would vote against the repeal of the county option law. o EARTHQUAKE WAS NOT SEVERE Late Reports Say There Was No Loss of Life. Madrid. Spain, Jan. 30. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Reports from western and southern Spain this afternoon removed all fear of the reported devastation by earthquake, as given out in the dispatches of last night and this morning. There were slight shocks in a number of towns, but no lives were lost. There are still rumors that northern Morrocan towns suffered from the landslide, but the number of deaths if any, are not known.

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THE LEGISLATURE They Adjourned Yesterday Until Monday Afternoon ACTION IS TAKEN Several Bills Advanced and Others Are Discussed Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 30.—Both houses of the legislature went through the regular program yesterday, adjourning at noon until 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Four bills were passed, two in the senate and two in the house. Among the bills handed down for second reading in the house was the Eschbach measure to decrease salaries of judges to $2,500. The bill caused the only contest of the morning session and was finally defeated by both democratic and republican votes. Representative Talbott made a motion that the bill be indefinitely postponed after the committee report favoring the passage of the bill had been read. The motion to lay on the table wae followed by the question to indefinitely postpone, which was carried by 45 to 51. The Haggard bill to increase the per capita allowance for the Lafayette soldiers' and sailors’ home was passed under suspension of the rules and after the reading of a message from Governor Marshall urging that more money be appropriated for the support of this institution. Bills advanced to engrossment in the house were those to require companies advertising for men to state if a strike is on, by Hays; to create a commission to revise the statutes, by White; to authorize the governor to issue patents on certain Michigan road lands, by Faulkner, and to repeal the three mile road law, by Sicks. The senate passed the Stotzenburg bill to allow the defense in criminal cases to make its statement immediately after the prosecution and the Fleming bill to give the state board o’ registration the right to restore physicians’ licenses which have been revoked. Senator Hawkins of Portland (Rep.) lined up with the Democratic members of the legislature yesterday when he took the floor against the Cox bill which provides for the payment of a claim of some $60,000 (this includes interest) to William H. Drapier for the compilation of legislative reports. The Wood bill, preventing discrimination in the sale of oil and said to be aimed at the Stand"rd Oil company in Indiana, and the Springer bill, to prohibit the making of false, derogatory statements concerning the condition of banks, were the most important bills offered. The Wood bill is brief but drastic, providing a fine of $5,000 for such discrimination and a docket fee of SI,OOO to be assessed as costs and paid the prosecutor.

STRICT RULES IN BASE BALL President Carson is Going to Have Things According to Hoyle. South Bend, Ind., Jan. 30. —President F. R. Carson will not stand for rowdyism in the Central league this season. Armed with authority of the directors of the crack minor league organization he will adopt measures to completely eliminate the evil from the circuit. With the opening of the season President Carson will have notified every club owner that games must not be started until at least two uniformed policemen are on the field ready to take charge of any player who shows auy Intention of resorting I to questionable tactics. What is more the grounds will be under the absolute control of the umpires as soon as either club takes the field for practice. — oWilliam Zimmerman, a well known man near Hicksville, attempted suicide Thursday morning by swallowing a quantity of rat biscuit, and it is feared he cannot recover. Zimmerman was despondent on account of ill health. He ate the poison and then went to bed to await results.