Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1909 — Page 1

Jfoluine \ 11. Number 46.

NOTHING EXCITING r I The Legislature Had a Slow Grind Today PASSED A FEW a |HK The House Begins Their Holding of Night Sessions ■lndianapolis. February 23.—(Special |to the Daily Democrat) —Governor Marshall is in high favor here today, »nd they are praising him from all ®Mes over his veto of the several E«our bills. Senator Bland is bluffing . «ono and it might be such a thing that he would bring enough partisan force to pass the bill over the governor's veto, but even this is not possible. In the house such afcroctM-dings would not get a pleas- , ant look. F . There is nothing exciting in either Hp branch of the legislature today. The B housr passed house bill 563, introgduceil by Judge Smith. The bill is | unimportant, being a bill simply to F correct title to a law made in 1883. I The bill was passed under the susK pension of the rules. Kphe house also indefinitely postfcpcned senate bill 30. This bill has t been in every legislature for the last L;hßndred years, and is for an approEbpriation for William H. Drapier for ■j. making legislative reports of the fiftyB.Wtcor.d and fifty-third general assemblies. K In the senate they passed senate f bill 75, which provides for the erec- . tiou or the change of any levee or ■ the improvement of any water course, in an incorporated city. I - t The senate also passed house bill 144 which concerns water for domestic Kjk Mee, providing for its protection from pollution and for its purification. — | The house has spent most of the • day in handing down bilis on second E reading, and tonight they begin their ■ ■first night sessions in order to crowd ' K through with the work of the session. — o — J INVENTOR TO GO TO ASYLUM Peter Hack, Once Worth $500,000, Declared Insane by Commission. | Laporte, Ind.. Feb. 22.—Formerly ,* the possessor of a $500,000 estate and V .Ma Inventor of considerable note. Petter Hack. 86 years old. and the father .’of six children, today was adjudged ■lnsane by a commission in Justice court and will be taken to Rthe asylum at Logansport. In his ■early years the man made a remark-E'-able record as an inventor and is K, generally known in connection with Hthe “Hack'' pump. In an effort to ggobtain patents. Hack lost, the larger Bpart of his fortune, and of late years ■bi> mind has shown the effects of inwork. He suffers from the that some one is trying to Hiteal something from him, be it only Hh kerchief, and occasionally declares ghls life is in peril.

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WELL KNOWN PRINTERS' DEVIL He Makes His Paper Tell a Few Unbalded Truths. The printers “devil” was making up his first form. The paper was late and the boy got the galleys mixed. The first part of the obituary notice of a pecunious citizen had been dumped in the form and the next handfull of type came off a galley describing a recent fire’ It read like this: “The nailbearers lowered the body into the grave and it was consigned to the flames. There were few if any regrets, for the old wreck has been an eyesore to the town for years. Os course there was individual loss, but that was fully covered by The widow thinks the editor wrote the obituary that way because the lamented partner of her joys owed him five years subscription. —Ex.

TO GET BACK AT HIM I The House to Have Farewell Fling at the President PRESIDENT’S SALARY They Vote on it Wednesday —The Aprpopriations Agreed to Washngton, Feb. 23. —President Roosevelt’s attack on Senator Hetnenway and his charge that the Indiana senator's secret service preliminary report Is inaccurate and misleading and characterized by exaggerations, caused a great flurry here today and the leaders of the senate spent a good deal of time in trying to figure out away to get back at the president. At first it was proposed tLat Senator Hemenway issue a statement contradicting the president's assertions, but this idea was abandoned and it was practically arranged that the best plan to “blister” the president will be to have the house special committee on the secret service make public a red-hot report couched in strong language. This report will be made while president Roosevelt is yet in office, and it is being licked into shape with a view to tanning the executive hide some time this week or early next. \ Washington, Feb. 23. —The house leaders have fixed 'Wednesday as the day when the house shall vote on the proposition to increase the president’s salary from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO a year. It looks now as if the provision will have rough sledding, as a surprising amount of opposition against any increase whatever in the president’s salary is developing. Washington, February 23. —If the appropriation bills become la.ws in their present form the total appropriations for this session will amount to $1,038,000,000, or about $30,000,000 over the amount appropriated last session. The total includes the permanent annual appropriations.

LOCATES AT KENDALLVILLE. Ed Young, Formerly of Geneva, Go e s intel Business. Ed Young, who was In the saloon business until remonstrated out last fall, has gone to Kendallville, where he has established a creamery and his friends say that he will make good and that there is more money in a creamery in Kendallville, than there is in three saloons in Geneva. If this is true Ed is in luck, and will thank his friends in Wabash township for putting him in the down and out club. Mr. Young is not a bad sort, and has many friends in Geneva, where he lived for many yetitf. LAD CONFESSES ROBBERIES. Richmond, Ind., Feb. 22. —In the confession of Delno Doty, 14 years old, colored, the police have a new and unprecented record of juvenile depiavity. The attempted burglary of four grocery stores and a previous series of thefts and petty crimes are included in the lad’s narrative. He is being held to await the action of the county juvenile court on a charge of entering a house to commit a felonly. William Hage is also implicated in the trrouble.

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A WORLD’S CRUISE The American Navy Are Some Pumpkins All Right A NEW RECORD Gone Fourteen Months and Covered Forty-Five Thousand Miles Old Point Comfort, Va., Feb. 23. — With pennants streanyng behind, twenty bands playing the "Star Spangled Banner” and saluting cannon roaring tribute to President Roosevelt, the battleships of the American navy ended its world cruise here yesterday, After steaming in review of the president, whose eagle crested flag of blue was at main of the cruiser yacht Mayflower, sixteen white battleships finally cast anchor in the same fairway off Hampton Roads in which they started fourteen months ago on their notable journey of 45,000 miles. According to present arrangements, the fleet will remain in formation for several days, after which eight of the battleships will steam for the navy yards to have their hulls scraped, boilers cleaned, machinery overhauled and painted work renovated. The other eight vessels, later to be selected, will remain in Hampton Roads until after the inauguration of Mr. Taft. The Illinois, the Kearsarge and the Kentucky are to be temporarily placed out of commission, so will remain with the last eight named. Their places in the fleet are to be taken by the new battleships Misissippi, Idaho and New Hampshire. During the time that the fleet lies at anchor off Old Point members of the senate and house naval committees will make an inspection of the vessels while foreign naval attaches will probably make an effort to obtain as much information as possible. “The cruise is a great lesson to all the civilized nations of the world.” foreign naval attaches have said. “From every point of view the experience gained by the men and the tests which the machinery of the vessels will have to undergo will be invaluable information.”

A LARGE VOTE CAST At Noon Indications Pointed to a Heavy Vote in the County ARE VOTING EARLY The Democrat Will Endeavor to Get the Returns At noon a heavy vote had been polled in every precinct in the city, First Ward “A” reported 121, “B” 103; Second Ward “A” 176, "B” 100; Third Ward "A” 160, “B” 156. This is a record breaker and denotes a heavy vote in the city. At Berne over three hundred votes had been polled and this is nearly three-fourths of the total vote there. At Linn Grove they reported that there would be but forty or fifty votes wet out of a total vote of 175. Geneva and Monroe both reported a heavy vote, the most of it coming out early this morning. The Democrat will make the effort to get the returns as far as it is possible. This city and two country precincts, North Monroe, Berne, Geneva, and perhaps Linn Grove can be reached. All this will give a forecast of what the result will be, and that will be the best perhaps can be attained tonight. However, we will make every effort possible, but the chaotic condition of the rural telephone service will handicap our good intention. The Democrat will be open to every one who cares to come, and those who cannot may feel free to call by telephone as often as you may like.

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TO GIVE HIM A PUNCH BOWL James E. Watson to Be Remembered by His Friends. Washington. 23.—Representative James E. Watson, whip of the house, will receive a handsome present from his fellow members when he retires from congress on March 1. Arrangements are being made to present to him a costly punch bowl of strikingly beautiful design. The movement began several days ago, but did not become generally known until today. The propriety of presently the recent “water-wagmi candidate” for governor, of Indiana with a punch bowl was questioned by same of the representatives but the objection was over ruled. Nearly every member who was called upon for a siffiscription chipped in five dollars, and so many evidenced a desire to contribute that it looked today as if the fund may reach SI,OOO.

HAS NOT YET BEGUN Senator Fleming Says the Proctor Option Bill Will Pass the Senate HANLY A FACTOR It Has Been Figured Out that Hanly May Be in the Senatorial Race Indianapolis, February 23. —Senatorl Fleming said that the option fight had not yet begun. He made this assertion when he was told that report was current that he had given up a fight and had conceded that the Tomlinson bill would be defeated. “The Tomlinson bill will be passed without a doubt,” he said. “I had thought that I would keep my hands off. but since there must be a fight I will get into it. I have not given up by any means. They got me all wrong on that bill in the first place. I was not responsible for that amendment to the bill which would permit saloons in territory which is under the fourmile police jurisdiction of cities and Incorporated towns, and that section which would permit roadhouses will be stricken out here in the senate. With that section out the bill will be passed without a doubt. You’ll hear something today or tomorrow. The idea of the chairman of any committee saying whether a committee shall hold a meeting on any bill or whether it shall not. The chairman of a committee, as I understand it, is here to serve the people.” Senator Fleming In speaking of the chairman of a committee, was referring to Senator Mattingly, chairman of the senate public morals committee, which has the Tomlinson bill. So far the commltte has failed to act, although it has had the bill for several days. Senator Mattingly is opposed to th e repeal of the option law. That J. Frank Hanly, former governor, will be a candidate for United States senator in the republican caucus two years hence in case the county option law is repealed by this session of the legislature is the opinion of a number of members of the legislature who are familiar with Indiana politics., The argument is made that the repeal of the option law will give Mr. Hanly the working material which he would wish In such a race. The repeal of the option law would put the option question hack Into politics, Mr. Hanly would have all the thunder he wished for a speaking tour of the state. It is admitted also that he has great power as a speaker.

WILL VISIT THE MISSIONS Chicago, Feb. 23. —W’hile in Africa, President Roosevelt will not only visit a number of missions, but will make addresses giving his observations when he returns to this country. This statement was made here today at the Methodist, ministers’ weekly meeting by Bishop Joseph G. Hartsell, who has charge of the Methodist African missions and who recently visited the president at the white house. “The said the speaker, “asked me for a list of missions in the territory which he will visit, and he expressed marked sympathy with the work they are doing.”

FIVEOFTHEMTODAY Adams County is Not Alone in the Option Business TWELVE IN ALL The Option Fight in Adams Has Been Open and Fair Votes Today: County. County Seat Howard Kokomo Daviess Washington Adams Decatur Grant Marion Newton Morocco Wednesday. Morgan Martinsville Thursday. Fountain Covington Hendricks Danville Fayette Connersville Friday. Carroll Delphi Gibson Princeton Saturday. Rush Rushville Adams county is not alone in the option business, a® there are eleven other counties that during the week will vote wet or dry. Five of them are voting today, and a Iviely scrap is on. Both the temperance forces and those opposed are leaving nothing undone to win the battle. We are glad to say that nothing has occurred up to a late hour this afternoon to mar the good feeling of the opposing forces in this county. .Each is simply going out to win, if it is in«the cards, and they are apparently going to win by fair means or not win at all. This has apparently been the feeling during the ten days’ campaign. The hardest scrap in the bunch today was at Marion anff Grant county. There they fought the battle, and they fought it without sparring for points. The newspapers and nearly every on c else took a hand, and the returns f-oin Grant will be eagerly scanned for the name of the victors. Whoever it may be, earned it, for there was never a time when the white flag went up.

IT WAS A SUCCESS Maude Willis Company Pleased Large Audience AT THE OPERA HOUSE Last Night—Senior Class Netted a Neat Amount The Maude Willis company was all that was claimed for it and more, when it showed at the Bosse opera house last night under the auspices of the senior class of the Decatur high school. The members of the company acquitted themselves grandly, and the large audience present was more than pleased with the entertainment so ably given. •The music was great, it was inspiring. The high school students are to be congratulated upon their ability to secure such a high class attraction for the Decatur public. The senior class reaped a god reward for their efforts as the receipts aggregate about SBO. This money will be used in defraying tbe expenses of members of the senior class in their graduating exercises to be held in the near future. The public responded nobly and gave the students their loyal support in the effort. It was right that they should. It there is any one who is deserving of the support of the people it is the student who is struggling for an education. The senior class and all other classes of the high school and the common grades can rely upon the citizens for aid in their undertakings which are right

DRANK CONCENTRATED LYE Frona Johnson, of Winchester, Tried to End Her Life. 4 Winchester, Ind., Feb. )23. —Tired and dissatisfied with life and alleged continual domestic wranglings, Frona Johnson, wife of Harvey Johnson, a young man residing southwest of this » city, drank a cupful of concentrated lye in the Franklin hotel here about 5 o’clock Monday morning. She is in a very critical condition afid the attending physicians state that there is no hope for her recovery. Mrs. Johnson’s despondency, it is alleged, has been growing for some time. She was married several months ago and since that time, according to reports, her life has not been a pleasant one, as she and her husband have been unable to agree. Mrs. Johnson formerly resided at Portland and her maiden name was Wood. o LEGISLATIVE DAY The House Pass the Bank Guarantee Bill A BUSY TIME Gounty Assessors Bill Killed as is Also Bill to Abolish Road Supervisors Manufacturers of goods coming in competition with prison-made goods were before the house ways and means committee yesterday, urging a favorable report on the bill introduced by Representative Seidensticker. which prohibits the sale of convictmade goods, except binder twine, and provides for an appropriation of $75,000 for 500 acres of land to constitute a farm upon which to work convicts. Among the manufacturers were A. G. Middleton of the Middleton Broom Works, Indianapolis; C. A. Urban of the Stahl-Urban Garment company, Terre Haute, and T. Frank of the J. L. Frank & Sons Garment company, Terre Haute, The house passed the Behymer bank deposit guarantee bill yesterday by a party vote of 55 to 36. It is one of the Democratic platform measures. In all, the house passed eight bills and advanced twelve to third reading. Senator Yarling's bill, changing the salaries of county assessors, was also killed. The bill provided that the assessors receive 35 cents for each property list made, and $2.50 a day for each day spent in real estate appraisement. The bill would reduce the compensation of the assesssors. Definite provisions are made for the construction of township line roads under the Kistler bill, passed yesterday. The bill requires that at least fifty freeholders of the townships affected shall petition the commissioners, and the latter are to decide the merits of the question. It provides for an appeal to the circuit court on the question of damages. The bill abolishing theoffice of road supervisor, and creating in its stead a road superintendent for each township, was killed by the senate yesterday The bill was introduced by Senator G. R. Hanna. The King bill to increase the tax levy for the support of Purdue, Indiana and the State Normal School from 2% mills to 4 mills on the SIOO was passed by a vote of 52 to 40. Senator Powers’ bill, extending the jurisdiction of the drainage laws, came up for passage, but action on it was deferred until this morning. Senator Wood’s bill, providing that casualty companies deposit the same security with the auditor of state as other companies, was' made a special order for 2 o’clock this afternoon. o CHOLERA SPREADS TO 10,000 St. Petersburg, Feb. 22. —The cholera, which ha snow been epidemic here for 16 Odays, today reached the ten-thousand-mark. There have been 3,928 deaths from this disease in St. Petersburg, the highest number of j new cases in one day being 444 and t the lowest nine. I

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LAST GUN FIRED Temperance Meeting Last Night Largely Attended COURT ROOM PACKED E. S. Shoemaker Delivered An Eloquent Address The last gun in the temperance campaign was fired at the court room last night when E. S. Shoemaker, state superintendent of the anti-sa-loon league of the state, delivered a powerful address to the largest audience which has gathered at the temple of justice for many months. The court room was packed to its capacity early in the evening and as Mr. Shoemaker did not arrive until 8:30 several other speakers entertained the audience by short talks in the meantime. The first to be ntroduced was Rev. Stewart of Portland, who came here to refute the report that there were two hundred and fifty empty houses In Portland and twentyfive empty business rooms, the same Being reported by J. W. McCoy, a saloonkeeper at that place. Rev. Stewart told of what empty business rooms there were and according to his statement there are only seven, three of which are under lease and cannot be rented at any price Unless the leases are surrendered. Rev. Stewart said that thirteen saloons had been remonstrated out, and there were only seven empty buildings and this he said was a fact calling for generous praise. L. G. Holmes, a real estate man from Portland, was also present, and he followed with a talk in which he said that the business men Ipf Portland were more prosperous without the saloons than they were with them. Mr. Shoemaker appeared and after a vociferous demonstration. he began an address which greatly enthused his auditors. He elicited applause many times. His address was closed by a pathetic appeal for dry votes. The room was so crowded that chairs were obtained from the jury box to accomodate 1£ dies who came in late. o— — ARE CIRCULATING A PETITION Blackford County May Have a Local Option El e ction. Have you signed yet? Signed what? Why that petition for a local option election in Blackford county. Workers for the anti-saloonists, 150 strong, are now as busy as bees canvasing the county with a petition which will be presented to the board of commissioners at its regular March meeting. The movement has been anticipated for several weeks and while the "dry" forces have been quietly working their sudden activity occasions no surprise. To be deemed sufficient the petition must bear the signatures of not less than twenty per cent of the aggregate vote cast in the county for secretary of state at the last general election. The total vote for secretary of state at the last election was 4,210 and 20 per cent of that number amounts to 842. the number necessary. —Hartford City News. WILL TRY NEW YORK WORLD To Extradite Mr. Pultizer First and Then Delavan Smith. Washington, Feb. 22. —Spencer F. Eddy, Senator Beveridge’s brother-in-law, is here. It was reported here today that the government will make its attempt to extradite Joseph Pulitzer and his subordinates on the New York World before it proceeds with the extradition battle in Indianajolis and Chicago against Charles R. Williams and Delavan Smith, of the Indianapolis News. If this should prove to be the government's plan, proceedings in Indianapolis and Chicago might be delayed for several days. District Attorney Baker, when seen tonight, said he had just returned to the city, after being gone several days, and was not prepared to say what course the government n.ay follow.