Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII. Number 42.

A SUDDEN DEATH Brother of J. F. Tisron of this City Died in Michigan HAS BEEN HERE On Several Occasions and is Well Known—the Funeral John F. Tisron, of Eighth street, returned last evening from Boyne Falls, Michigan, where he was called on account of the serious illness of his brother, who had been the victim of a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Tisron left immediately after receiving the message, but arrived too late to see his brother alive, the spark of life having become extinct while he was enroute. A sister of the deceased was delayed several hours and she, too, arrived after the death of the man. The funeral services were held Wednesday. The departei man was suddenly stricken with a stroke of paralysis, which rendered him unconscious immediately, and he did not regain rationality. He has visited in Decatur on several occasions, and while here made many acquaintances who will regret to hear of his death, which fame so The family of the decedent are inconsolable, as are the brothers and sisters who survive over the sad death of the estimable man. o NO MORE DANE FOR JOE Gans Willing to Fight Anybody but Battling Nelson. New York, Feb. 17. —Joe Gans will fight Jabez White at the National A, C. This ought to be a good one. It will be unless White is in Spike Robson’s class. Remember what Joe did to Robson; just hit him on the back of the hand and put him out. That's an actual fact. Robson was trying to cover and Joe punched the Englishman's own glove back against his jaw. Gans says he'll enjoy anybody save Nelson. No more Nelson in his. He’s satisfied as far as the Dane goes. Says if he wasn’t satisfied he’d be “a plain hawg.” White fought once before in this country. It was years ago with Britt, and the police stopped the fight just before the end of the twentieth round, while White was down. If White is still as good as he was at that time he’ll give Joe a run, o —— LONGBOAT HIS OWN BOSS Indiana Declares That No One Has Claim on Him. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 17.—When pressed for a point-blank answer to the question, "Have you broken with Powers?” Tom Longboat, the Indian runner, said: "No one has claim on me, for a contract with an Indian Is jDr good. I’m my own manager. I won’t let any one arrange races for me. If any one wants to run races w-ith me they will have to come to mt to arrange it. Just tell them that I am making Reseronto my headquarters. I won’t run again until I am in shape. I have beaten the best of them, and I can beat them again, but I won’t run until I feel like it.” Toronto advices say that both the expected Buffalo and Indianapolis races are off now, and that if Longboat races Shrubb it will be on Canadian soil, probably at Montreal. o——— CHOOSE DRISCOLL TO WIN - ■— New York Critics Believe Briton Too Clever for Attell. New York, Feb. 17. —That Jem Driscoll, of England, will out-Attell Abe Attell, or, in other words, mystify the featherweight champion at his own game—clever boxing —when the pair meet before the National A. C. next Friday night, is the general belief of local pugilistic authorities. Clever as Attell is, the general impression is that the Briton has considerable on Abe in the line of fancy boxing. Driscoll’s victories over Baldwin, Hayes and Cross have been so decisive that he probably will go into the ring against the admitted king of the featherweights a slight favorite.

THEY PASSED UP BLUFFTON Nice String of Horses Coming in for the Horse Sale. The Decatur Horse company had twenty-seven horses in Bluffton over night and the string was taken on to Decatur this morning. The animals were bought up around Warren and brought this far yesterday and a few more were added in Bluffton this morning before they started. When they left here two boys by a new arrangement, were leading twenty-one head. A steady horse with both a harness and rider headed the line. It was hitched by a single tree to a long rope and the horses followed tied to the rope two by two and jockeyed apart. On the rear end of the rope another horse in harness held back and kept tight the rope. The bunch was an exceedingly good one, and they will all be sold at the next sale of the company in Decatur. —Bluffton News.

STATEHOOD AGAIN Beveridge Wanted by His Committee in Washington JUST A KNOCKER Any One Who Kicks on Lock Canal is a Plain Knocker Washington, February 18. —The Republican members of the senate committee on territories want Senator Beveridge, chairman of the committee, here on Friday. Before the Indiana senator had been out of Washington twenty-four hours, a nasty state of affairs developed with reference to the statehood bill. The supporters of the bill, when they learned that Beveridge had gone to Indiana and would not be back for nearly two weeks, declared they would ignore the committee in the consideration of the bill. A canvass of the senate showed that the friends of the legislation had enough votes to put through any action they might plan. As a compromise, the Republican members o' the territories committee agreed to hold a meeting on Friday to consider the bill, and with that understanding the bill was referred to the committee in the regular way.

Washington, Feb. 18. —Any attack made hereafter on the lock type of the Panama canal, according to the opinion expressed by President Roosevelt in a message transmitting to congress the report made by the engineers who recently visited the canal zone with Preident-elect Taft, “is in reality merely an atack upon the policy of building any canal at all.” The report, in Mr. Roosevelt’s opinion, “shows in clearest fashion that the congress was wise in the position it took and that it would be an inexcusable folly to change from the proposed lock canal to a sea level canal.” Washington, February 18.—Important legislation agreed to by the house was incorporated in the penal code bill, which was under consideration. The legislation seeks to regulate the interstate shipment of intoxicating liquors. Speaker Cannon took the floor and voted for the legislation. ■ e ARE COMING MONDAY EVENING The Maude Willis Company at the Bosse Opera House. The Maude Willis company who are boked for the Bosse Opera House next Monday evening, the coming under the auspices of the Decatur high school, have some of the best press notices going. The lovers of this sort of entertainment should not fail to hear the great musical talent that is contained in the Maude Willis company. The reserve seat board will be opened at the Holthouse drug store on Saturday morning at eight o’clock, and the friends of the public schools, and especially’ of the high school, should show their friendship by supporting them by'buying a ticket to the entertainment on Monday evening. It will be well worth the price.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, February 18, 1909.

SALE TOMORROW 250 Horses Have Been Quartered at the Sale Stables GOOD CONSIGNMENT Many Buyers Will Be Present to Bid on the Animals For tomorrow’s big horse auction the buyers for the Decatur Horse company have quartered at the spacious sales stables on First street, the largest and best consignment of animals ever offered for sale under the hammer in the county, and that is saying much. From the rear to the extreme front of the barns all that can be seen is a mass of excellent horseflesh, which tomorrow will be bought for the high dollar, and without a doubt an unusually large number of buyers will be present. Even the auction room is filled with horses. When the auctioneer announces the beginning of the sale tomorrow morning, it is thought that at least fifty foreign buyers will be present to make the bidding spirited. The market in the east is fairly good a: present, although not to be compared with that of a year ago, but notwithstanding this fact the Decatur Horse company is experiencing no difficulty in securing good prices foi their horses, as they are always of the best. Decatur has established a reputation as a horse market which is envied by many cities. More high grade horses are sold here during the season than at any other market in this section of the country. The farmers are especially invited to attend the sale as good farm horses will be sold as well as draft.

A SECOND SPEECH Hon. John F. Cunneen, of Chicago, at the Bosse Opera House A GREAT SPEAKER He Will Be Here Two Days —Organization Meeting The second public speaking for the drys in the local campaign will be this evening at the Bosse opera house the speaker being Hon. John F. Cunneen of Chicago, and one of the best Irish orators that is on the stump for the cause of temperance. He will be here for two days and will speak at the Bosse both tonight and tomorrow night. He is a great personal worker, his long suit being among the laboring classes, and It is expected that he will have two busy days in this city. His jpress notices are certainly a credit to any one on the platform, and the boosts given Mr. Cunneen certainly place him in a class all by himself. The dry organization had a meeting this morning and while nothing was given out as to what transpired, yet it is understood that the organization work was reported on, and arrangements made as to the work to be done during the remaining days of the campaign. CAME HOME FROM MICHIGAN Alfred Ayres Spent Several Days There. Alfred Ayres came in from a several days’ visit to various parts of Michigan, where he reports that there is an abundance of snow’, but that the air is fine, and everything looks good and is as good as it looks. He likes that country, and thinks there is great opportunities in many different lines of business. He says that John E. Kern who now lives at Saginaw, has made a lot of money and that he is in line for the making of plenty more.

IS VISITING RELATIVES HERE William P. King is a Member of the United States Infantry. Wm. P. King, of Detroit, Michigan, arrived in the city Tuesday morning for a week’s visit with friends and relatives in this vicinity, having spent the early part of his life here. Fourteen years ago he left for Arkansas, where he resided several years and in the year 1901 he enlisted with the United States infantry at Jonesboro, Arkansas, making a trip, early in the service, to the (Philippine islands, where he remained for fourteen menths, after which he returnd to the United States. He re-enlisted one years ago and has been located with the 7th U. S. Infantry at Fort “Wayne” Detroit, Michigan, and came to the home of his boyhood days to spend his furlough, and says that this is the first time during eight years in the service that he has seen any one that he had formetly known. There are eight regiments stationed at the Fort "Wayne” quarters, at Detroit, who will leave there on April 26, and sail from San Francisco for the Philippine islands to releave the 26th U. S Infantry.

REMOVE REMAINS Body of the Late Mrs. Ainsworth Have Been Removed FROM INFIRMARY To Clark Chapel Cemetery —Tribute to Her Memory The remains of the late Mrs. Jane Ainsworth, which a few days ago were buried at the county farm cemetery, were disinterred this morning and transferred to the Clarks church cemetery, where they wre .laid to rest. The aged lady, it will be remembered, ,was an inmate at the county infirmary for three years. She became ill some time ago from a complication of diseases peculiar to old age and died as a consequence thereof at the ripe old age of 75. Two well-to-do sons, William and Henry, survived, and were in attendance at the funeral services which were conducted at the chapel in the infirmary by Dr. C. B. Wilcox. The remains were interred at the infirmary cemetery. Subsequent to the burial the sons decided that they wanted the remains of their aged mother buried elsewhere, and they at once made application to the secretary of the state board of health for a permit for removal which was granted. It is a tribute paid to the memory o* the departed woman, which by her life’s toil she surely deserved at the hands of those who were dear to her from infancy to maturity.

WITHOUT AN OIL MARKET. Montpelier, on Account of Storm, Is Isolated from Important Marts. Montpelier, Ind., Feb. 17.—Owing to the condition of the wires, caused by the storm, Montpelier has been without an oil market for three days, the last message having been sent and received Sunday evening, at the local headquarters of the Indiana Pipe Line company. The fierce storm has snapped all the lines and there is no communication with Lima, 0., or any of the eastern oil markets. The company has been busy since that time getting things in condition and have at least one hundred men working in the Indiana field. Workmen have been sent out from Montpelier, Marion, “Geneva and Selma, but it will be several days before connections will be made and two or three months before the lines are back in their oldtime condition. O’—' HE CIRCULATED THE MESSAGE Bryson is circulating freely today a telegraphic message received from Marion, which contained the announcement that a girl baby had come to grace the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Torrence, the latter formerly being Miss Lucile Bryson. It is hardly necessary to say that the message indicated that the baby was the best and sweetest ever.

WORKING FOR ROAD An Enthusiastic Meeting Held at Linn Grove Tuesday Night ARE RAISING MONEY The Future Looks Good for the Bluffton, Geneva and Celina Road The prospect of the Bluffton, Geneva & Celina traction line begins to look brighter every day, according to the promoters of the road. Last night a trip was made by local stockholders of the road to Linn Grove, where an enthusiastic meeting was held. The crowd made the trip from here in a sled, driven by Chris Seabold. The purpose of the meeting at Linn Grove was to get the people there interested enough in the road to assist in the building of it. They will help subscribe for the $75,000 worth of stock, which the Bluffton people ask the people of Adams county to purchase before the road would be built. The school house In which the meeting was held was packed. There were twenty people present from Geneva. They are very enthusiastic about the road an dclaim that there has been one-third of the $75,000 subscribed in the town of Geneva alone. Linn Grove people said they would assist also. Abram Simmons, of this city, made one of the principal talks before the meeting, in which he explained the legal phases connected with the building of the road. Those who went from here were L. C. Justus, D. W. Brown, W’. A. Kunkel, Del Lccke, R. F. Cummins, Merle Williamson, Ralph Morrow, Cady Montgomery, Isaac T. Allen and Abram Simmons. —Bluffton Banner.

INDICTED THEM New York World and Indianapolis News Indicted CHARGE IS LIBEL They Slandered the President and Others so the Indictments Say Washington, Feb. 18. —The federal grand jury yesterday returned indictments against the Press Publishing company of New York and Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb M. Van Hamm and Robert H. Lyman, editors of the New York World, and the owners of the Indianapolis News, Delavan Smith and Charles R. Williams, charging libel in publications in connection with the purchase of the Panama canal. The Indicjtment changes Smith and Williams with libel on seven counts and that directed against the World charges Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb M Van Hamm, Robert H. Lyman and the Press Publishing company with libel in five counts. The persons alleged to have been libeled are President Roosevelt, J. Pierpont Morgan, Charles P. Taft, Elihu Root, Douglass Robinson and William Nelson Cromwell! The Panama canal purchase has been the subject of much bitter criticism from the time the big deal was consummated. During the campaign it was injected as an issue by the World, the Indianapolis News copying the World’s alleged exposures and commenting freely upon them. o MRS. H. P. MOSES AT HOSPITAL An Operation for Appendicitis and Other Complications. Mrs. H. P. Moses, of Fort Wayne, was operated on this morning at the Lutheran Hospital for appendicitis and other serious complications. Dr. 'Duemling, surgeon, assisted by Dr. Drayer, of Fort Wayne, and Dr. C. D Goodrich of Elkhart. Telephonic communication being Impossible, no word had been received as to the success of the operation. Her many Decatur friends are anxiously awaiting news of her condition. |

FORT WAYNE GETS A NEW ONE The American Steel Dredge Company Organizes. Announcement is made today that Fort Wayne is to get a new manufacturing institution of much consequence—The American Steel Dredge company, which is being organized with a capital stock of $150,000. It has secured an option upon thirty acres of land here as a site for its new plant to manufacture dredging machinery, and about one hundred men will be given employment from the first. Behind the enterprise is both local and outside capital, and the organization in Fort Wayne is largely due to the efforts of J. C. F. Sprankle. Others associated with him in the enterprise are W. A. Bohn, C. C. Schlatter, H. G. Keegan, P. A. Randall and Nathan Rothschild, of Fort Wayne; J. P. Karr and Owen Kitchen, of Monticello, and John D. Rauch and Mr. Anderson of Logansport. —Fort Wayne Sentinel.

KILLED THE BILL Proctor - Tomlinson Bill Likely Not be Reported Until Next Week PASSED SENATE Anti-Cigarette Law Will Be Repealed this Session Indianapolis, February 18. —Another Democratic member of the senate yesterday joined the “doubtful” list on the Proctor-Tomlinson bill repealing the county option law. The “doubtful” is Dr. M. M. McDowell of Vincennes. Senator McDowell is taking a position similar to that of other Democrats who have not been able to make up their minds to support the measure. He says that there is no doubt in his mind that he should support a party measure —the substitution of ward and township option—but that he has not made up his mind to support the Proctor-Tomlinson bill. Senators McCarty and Tilden are sure to vote against the bill, if it carries the repeal of the county option law with it, and Senators Long, Yarding and McDowell have practically decided to do likewise. Since the vote in the senate is 27 Republicans and 23 Democrats, it would thus be necessary, if all five of these Democrats vote the way they are now leaning, for seven Republicans to vote for repeal. The senators who are working to save the county unit say this is impossible. The repeal of the anti-cigarette law, as it applies to adults, passed the senate yesterday afternoon without a dissenting vote. There were forty votes cast in its favor. The ten absentees were Clark. Forkner, Halleck, Harlan. Kistler, Long, McCarty, Parks, Strange land Wood. During his talk Senator Stotsenburg jokingly addressed an envelope marked “Ananias Baker, State House, Indianapolis, Ind.,” and handed ft to a page to be given to Senator Cox. The latter treated it as a joke, and the members recalled a previous session of the legislature when Ananias Baker, then a member, created a sensation on the floor by waving five S2O bills in the air, which he declared had been given him by a lobbyist who opposed the enactment of the anti-cigarette law. It was the law passed at that time which the Cox bill seeks to repeal.

IS HAVING A BIG SALE At the Foot of the Rainbow, by Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter. It is said that the late book of Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter. “At the Foot of the Rainbow.” is having quite an extended sale, thus showing an appreciation by the public for a very charming story. The scene is laid in central Indiana, and the book throughout deals with rural and outdoor life, and depicts much devoted friendship as well as the many self sacrifices that are so real in the life of these i people. The Outing ..Publishing com- : pany are more than pleased with the success of the book.

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SENATE DOUBTFUL Muncie Normal School Bill Laid on the Shelf PASSED THE HOUSE Metropolitan Police Bill Passed House by Big Vote Indianapolis, February 18.—There were four bills killed, among the number being two introduced by Representative Fitch, one to establish a state normal school at Muncie and the other to provide that votes on constitutional amendments may be made part of the ticket of any party by resolution in the state convention of such party. The third was a bill introduced by Representative Stahl to prevent rebating of a premium, or a part cf a premium, on a fire insurance policy. The house accepted the senate amendment to the Clore resolution for an investigation of the state offices. The senate took exception to the phrase in the resolution which said the state offices should be put "on* a business basis,’’ and amended the resolution by striking it out. The senate Republicans declared the phrase to be political buncombe, rot, etc. The house rose above all petty consideration, and accepted the amendment without a word of comment. The house passed the Faulknor bill, repealing the metropolitan police law, along with eleven other bills yesterday. The hill met with practically no opposition, the only member speaking against it being Representative King (Rep.) of Wabash. The vote was 75 to 15. The court bills appeared to have the right of way. Three of those passed were for the establishment of new courts, and all went through by decisive majorities. The bill of Representative Davis to create a new court in Howard county was defeated on Tuesday, but was brought up again on motion of Representative Wells to reconsider, and passed by a vote of 58 to 31. The bill of Representative Maish providing that abandoned schools may be re-opened by petition and that children over two miles distant shall be transported by wagon on a station system plan, with shelter houses provided at cross roads, was passed by a vote of 68 to 18. Senator Bowser's bill establishing a new superior court at Gary, Lake county, passed by a vote of 72 to 19, and Senator Halleck's bill to provide an additional judge at Hammond went through by a vote of 63 to 22.

THEY HAVE RIFLE PRACTICE National Guards Stationed at Portland Have Many Good Shots. Portland, Ind.. Feb. 18.—At the regular drill of Company G. Second regiment Indiana National guard, Tuesday evening, there was rifle practice instead of the usual street drill, the weather making this Impossible. Some good records were made, Captain Fulton leading with a record of 21 out of a possible 25 points in five shots. Sergeant William Bright was second with 20, Sergeant Blaine Whipple had the same record. Privates Charles Harkins and Sherman Booher made 19, Corporal Paul Elliott made 18, as did also Sergeant Zed Wright. Pri vates Steed and Ripley Wright each ■ made a record of 17. BURIED BY FALLING WALL. > Young Woman Was Caught by Brick Falling on Her. Richmond. Ind., Feb. 18. A part of the brick wall of a residence that m being razed to make room for the . new St. Marys Catholic church, collapsed this morning and Miss Martha Miller, who was walking on the sidewalk. was caught and buried beneath the brick. She was severely but not fatally injured. . Miss Irene Hart, was also struck by falling brick, but eserped serious injury.