Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 54.

ARE GOING THE CLIP The House Goes Into a Committee of the Whole PASSING BILLS x ~~ Both Houses Are Making a Record for Work Indianapolis, March 4—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —At halt past ten this morning the house went into session as a committee of the whole, with Judge John M. Smith, representative from Jay county as presiding officer and chairman. He was appointed by Speaker Honan and up to this time is meeting the expectations of his friends. They will likely be in session for the remainder of the day and part of the night, and it will be war to the hilt every minute of the time. The fight will be over the appropriations for the various state institutions, the general trend being toward paring them down, while many of the members will want to favor certain institutions in which I they are interested. The appropriaticn bill is the one sore contentious point in every legislature, and the Democrats will try to score a reduction, if such reduction will not Impai? the usefulness of any of the institutions. Judge Smith stands close to Governor Marshall and as chairman of the committee of the whole, he will wield a great influence, as to the action of the majority. Indianapolis, March 4. —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Before going into a committee of the whole, the house this morning passed a number of bills. Bills Passed in the House. House bill 452, a bill to provide for the organization of a battaiion of colored infantry of the Indiana natioal guard. House bill 509, to amend section 359 of an act entitled an act concerning proceedings in civil cases. House bill 566. an act giving common councils power to require the sales of certain articles by weight or measure. / Senate bill 75, an act to provide for the erection or the change of any levee or the change or improvement of any water course, etc., within incorporated cities. Senate bill 61, an act to amend section one of an act authorizing cities of ten thousand or more, to create the office or police matron, and to provide for compensation. Senate bill 45, an act to provide for the combination of two or more cemetery associations whose grounds are contiguous, and providing for its management by one corporation. (Continued on page four.)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

BRINGS TO MIND A TRAGEDY. Relic of the Hinshaw Trial Brought to Light at Danville. Danville, *lnd., March 4—When Judge James L. Clark of the Hendricks circuit court ordered the storage room of the court house cleared out, in order to make certain changes and repairs, the custodian of the building found, among other things, the bedstead on which Mrs. Thurza Hinshaw, wife of the Rev. William E. Hinshaw, was reclining when she was murdered at Belleville, this county, Jan. 10, 1895. Judge Clark ordered the bedstead destroyed, and all day relic hunters have been busy grabbing for pieces of it to preserve as souvenirs of the great tragedy and the famous trial that followed. The court house custodian became so busy sawing off pieces of the bed that he is now charging a small fee for his work.

THESTATE FINANCE The Appropriation Bill to Be Reported Today LOTS OF MONEY The Committees Are Inclined to be Liberal With this Item Indianapolis, March 4.—The regular appropriations bill for 1910-1811 was introduced in the house yesterday afternoon by Representative Garrard. This is the bill that provides the appropriations for all the state institutions, departments and offices for these two years. The bill carries appropriations amounting to several hundred thousand dollars more than was recommended by the legislative visitation committee in its report, made early in the session. The house ways and means committee and the senate finance committee, which prepared the appropriations bill, were liberal with Indiana university, Purdue and the State Normal. The State Normal gets $115,000 for a new manual training and domestic science building that was not recommended by an additional $30,000 for its machinery hall. The school for the deaf gets SIO,OOO extra for the superintendent’s residence. More money than was recommended by the visitation committee was given the board of health and the board of charities. Nearly all the proposed reductions in salaries in the state house were restored in the appropriations bill. This is particularly true with regard to the salaries of stenographers, many of which were reduced by the visitation committee from S9OO to $720. According to the notice given the legislature by Governor Marshall that he will not receive any bills after Friday night, the legislature has only today and tomorrow in which to get the appropriations bill 1 through both houses. Senator Hawkins’ bill, providing that money lying unclaimed in the state and go to school funds, to pass for lack of a constitutional majority. This bill was one of the number falling under the provisions of the Bowser motion, made in the morning, providing for immediate consideration of nine senate bills. The Hawkins bill was drawn by Attorney-General Bingham. It was amended to provide that unclaimed money should escheat to state in seven Instead of five years. The amendment was offered by Senator Harlan. The vote on the bill was 25 ayes and 22 noes. —o FROM BEDSIDE OF JIM TOUHEY He is Resting Fairly Well and no New Complications. Fort Wayne, March 4. —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Attendants at the St. Joseph hospital report that Jim Touhey seems to be resting fairly well today. He is suffering considerable pain, but there is no new complications. His attending physician has advanced no hopes that the bones will properly knit, and that he stands any chance of being able to walk again.

SOLICITING STOCK Linn Grove is Thawing Out Real Handsomely ROAD EXTENSION Looks Like Bluffton, Geneva and Celina Road Was a Go Linn Grove, Indiana, March 4. —W. W. Briggs and Otis Juday of Geneva, have been working here for several days solicting stock for the Bluffton, Geneva & Celina Traction company, and have been meeting with unexpected success. It now looks like Linn Grove and vicinity would subscribe for $20,000 of the $75,000 in stock to be raised by the Adams county end of this enterprise. Linn Grove has been looking for years for an outlet by rail In any direction, and this is the first one that looks like it might be a certainty. Many times in the past different projects have been advanced and for a time looked feasible, but the bottom always fell out before they reached a definite form. This one, however, is the real thing, as the Bluffton capitalists are as much in earnest as are the people who want the road, and the absolute promise has been given that in the event of the Geneva end falsing $75,000 in stock for the extension. There is a firm belief that there is no hot aii about the extension of the road, and if it goes through, the people at Linn Grove and surrounding territory will be the happiest people on the face of the earth, as they ought to be.

FIRST STEP TAKEN Interurban Officials Will Extend Line at Once ORDERED CEMENT A Car Load of the Material Has Already Been Ordered i The first preliminary step toward tht extension of the Fort Wayne and Springfield Railway southward subsequent to the granting of the franchise by the city council permitting them to extend high tension wires through the city, has been taken by the management who have purchased a car load of cement. It will be remembered that in granting the franchise the council required that the companyplace cement under the track in the city- that the street would be preserved. It is not known how soon the cement will arrive, but immediately after its arrival the interurban promoters will begin the construction of the line southward in the city. Three new men were employed this morning by them, and during the latter part of the week several more will begin work. It is the intention of the officials of the road to extend the line to Berne as soon as possible and we are reliably informed that this will have been accomplished before the passing of many months. The citizenship of Decatur, Monroe, Berne and the contiguous country will anxiously await the materialization of these plans.

STILL HEARING EVIDENCE. The Poling-Ho|thouse Case In the Jay Circuit Court. Portland, Indiana, March 4. —(Special to the Daily Democrat)—There has nothing startling been developed in the Poling-Holthouse suit now in progress in the Jay circuit court. The taking of evidence is still the order, and just how long the case will be prolonged is problematic, but likely some time tomorrow it will be ready for the arguments. o —— "Will Evans returned to his home in Root township after being in the cityyesterday afternoon on business.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, March 4, 1909.

THEY MADE ANNUAL REPORT The Wabash Valley Traction Company Made Money. A financial statement covering the earnings and expenditures of the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction company, submitted in the report of President J. Levering Jones to the annual meeting of stockholders held in Fort Wayne today, shows that during the year 1908 the big traction system earned a total of $1,322,635.34. Its operating expenses in the same period were $737,133.82, leaving the sum of $585,501.51 as the net earnings for the year. After the payment of interest, taxes, etc., there remained a surplus of $96,830.38. No dividends were declared, this surplus all being expended in paving, reconstruction and betterments of the system. In this connection it is shown that the single item of taxes alone for the year was a trifle more than $45,000.

LONG LIFE ENDED Peter Decker Died Last Night at His Home WAS ILL LONG From a Complication of Diseases—Was a Patriot The sorrow of his entire acquaintanceship has been enlisted by the demise of Peter Decker, late of Third street, whose life has been one replete with good deeds and eventfulness. The outgoing of his long and useful life was recorded last night at 11:10 o’clock and the news of departure from worldly ties soon was propagated over the city signaling expressions of profound sorrow from all who knew him, either in his early or late days. Mr. Decker has lived long; he has lived well. After a career of nearly seventy-seven years, the trials of which had caused his body to wither; after fighting with valor of a true patriot and an American loving citizen for the freedom of .his countrymen, Peter Decker, beloved as only a man of high ideals, of irreproachable principles can be, has surrendered his all to the Almighty and his spirit has calmly and peacefully passed into eternity. In the history of her exstence, Decatur has never harbored a man possessed with more patriotism, more loyalty to the cause of right than was he. His enthusiasm was not only manifest amid the shot and shell of warfare adversities, but until he was forced to retire to inactivity, until he was an invalid which sad plight he was subjected to several years ago, Peter Decker was always the first to apply to the committe for the privilege of carrying “Old Glory” if a parade was to be had by the G. A. R., so proud was he of the stars and stripes under which he so nobly fought. A loss has been rendered to the community whic hroortal hand cannot replace, but as long as shall his acquaintanceship survive, the memory of his career of usefulness will live on as does that of every man whose life has been dedicated to the cause of right. August 16, 1862, the year following his removal to this county from Hancock county, Ohio, Mr. Decker enlisted in Co. K, Indiana Infantry and after being with his command during its full term of service on all its marches, skirmishes and battles, during which time it marched 2,363 miles on foot, he received his final discharge July 19, 1865. He fought valantly for his country and was ever found willing and ready to render service of any nature. The deceased was united in marriage in 1861 and took up his abode near Pleasant Mills. About eight years ago a complication of ailments enveloped his body and it was not long until he became practically helpless. He has been seriously ill for several months and while death came as no surprise to those who were conversant with his condition it has caused most poignant sorrow among his many friends. The funeral services will be held from the home tomorrow- afternoon at one o’clock, Rev. Spetnagle to officiate. The members of the G. A. R. will attend in a body.

SHIVELY TO SPEAK The Indiana Society in New York at Its Annual Banquet A GREAT TIME Indiana Becoming Well Represented in New York New York, March 4. —On March 15, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, Senator Shively and other eminent and distinguished people will address the Indiana Society of New York, on the occasion of its annual banquet. The society, of which Col. James B. Curtis, formerly speaker of the Indiana house of representatives, and captain of the Indianapolis light artillery is president, is doing much good by supplying a rallying point for Hoosiers in New York. The annual banquet is one of the most successful of such things given and the list of speakers always surpasses that of other state society events for the reason, of course, that Indiana is the hotbed of oratory as well as of literary accomplishment. The society congratulates itself on securing as its star guest this year, Senator Shively, who is admitted to be not only one of the most eloquent speakers in the senate, but with the possible exception of Senator Beveridge the best looking man in that distinguished body. Invitations to the banquet and all information about the society may be secured on request to Horace B. Hord, secretary, 38 Park Place, New York.

DEATH OF BROTHER Joseph Mougey Died at Piqua on Yesterday A MESSAGE CAME Peter Mougey Will Attend the Funeral Services Tomorrow A message reached the city last evening bringing the sad intelligence to Peter Mougey that his brother, Joseph Mougey, had died during the day previous at his home at Piqua, Ohio. The deceased has been ill for a long time with cancer of the stomach, from which he suffered greatly, and at no time were there any hopes of recovery. The deceased is sixty-five years old, and leaves a wife and five children. There are also four brothers and two sisters, they being Peter Mougey of this city, William Mougey of Piqua. Frank Mougey at Sidney, Bush Mougey at Berlin, Ohio, John Mougey at Columbus, Mary Pilliod of Piqua, and Anna Mougey of Cincinnati. The funeral will occur tomorrow at one o’clock, and Peter Mougey and son Alf will leave tonight for Piqua, and will be present -with the other brohters and sisters at the funeral obsequies. The deceased was a well to do and respected citizen of his home town, where he had lived for the past twenty years, and where too, himself and family enjoyed the respect and confidence of a large circle of friends. THEY ARE ALL PUFFED UP One of the officials of the local Liquor Dealers’ association- is responsible for the statement this morning that the association is not making nor has not thought of any definite plans to block the temperance wave. He further said that there is no direct cause for fright here as it is the belief that Allen county will be one of the last four or five to vote on the liquor question. Continuing, he said: | “We have a very good organization here and but for the fact that there are so many of the lower class of saloonists in the city we would not have to fight. If this county ever does go “dry” it will be due. I believe, to this class, but we will all have to suffer with the bad.”—Fort Wayne Sentinel. |

RECOVERED STOLEN RIG. Stolen at Berne and Recovered Near Huntington. A horse and rig stolen Saturdaynight at Berne has just been recovered along the Wabash river, near Huntington, though the thieves escaped. The discovery of the rig has brought to light the fact that the outfit, with three men in it, was in Fort Wayne Sunday night. DeputySheriffs Walter Immel. Buck Courdevey and Barney Schoenfeld were returning from a trip from the rolling mill district and discovered the outfit coming along Broadway. It answered the description of the stolen property and Officer Immel ordered the men to stop. Instead, they whipped up their horse and quickly got out of range. As the officers were not sure of their ground, they did not shoot. —Fort Wayne News.

WAS A LANDSLIDE Jay County Exceeded the Two Thousand Mark as a Dry One THREE ARE WET The Wets Carried but Three Precincts Out of Thirty-Seven

Portland, Ind., March 4.—By a majority of 2,116 the voters of Jay county decided against the open saloon. The ■ drys carried 34 of the 37 precincts of the county, and with but few exceptions by good majorities. In the vote there were many surprises. While Wayne township, 1n which the city of Portland is located, and where the greater part of the fight of the “drys" was made, was expected to go dry by a good majority, not even the most sanguine temperance people were prepared for the overwhelming vote returned. The township went “dry" by 590, every precinct being carried by the “drys.” Dunkirk, recognized as the stronghold of the “wets” in this county, and where saloons have always flourished in spite of all efforts to remonstrate them out, went dry by 14, three of the five precincts being carried by the “drys.” Jefferson township, which more than two years ago, remonstrated out of business the worst licensed saloon ever in this ccunty, showed that they did not want it to return when the three precincts rolled up a combined dry majority of 12. Bearcreek township, which has one saloon, decided that it ought to go by a majority in the two precincts of 130.

' Sullivan, Ind., March 4. —As the re- , suit of the local option election yes- ■ terday which was a rather listless af- ’ fair compared with others in the state Sullivan county has voted to remain “dry,” the verdict of the electorate > reinforces the prohibition which had been started by the remonstrance law. The majority for the temperance forces is placed at between 1,500 and 2,000, whereas it has been expected to run as high as 2,500. The weather conditions caused a very light vote. • Hamilton township and the city of Sullivan thus far show a “dry" majority of nearly 300 and returns from thirty-three out of thirty-nine show a “dry’- majority now of 1,939. The election passed off quietly and with very little interest, especially in this city, where very little effort was made by the “wets” or “drys.’’ Demonstrations were made ar Carlisle, Paxton and Farmersburg by the temperance forces. The inclement weather ’ today was a factor in cutting down ’ the “dry” vote, and it is said this 1 evening that a large number of “dry" 1 voters Voted !“wet” through error. About 60 per cent of the vote of the county was probably cast today, or about 5,000 of the 8.500 votes in the i county. o Albert M. Foreman for many years a solid and |substantial citizen of Willshire, has located at Malden in the state of Washington, where he has purchased real estate and proposes to settle for the remander of his life and incidentally will endeavor Ito make money, as he always would.

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IT WAS A GALA DAY President Taft Inaugurated Amid Pomp and Splendor LARGE CROWDS We Print President Taft’s Inaug’.ttal Address Today Washington, March 4.—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—Notwithstanding that this is Inaugural day, Washington is entertaining the worst blizzard in her history. Eight inches of snow has fallen and the wind and sleet makes life put of doors next to impossible. As a result the program of the day had to be changed, and the inaugural parade shortened. Early in the day all traffic on all the railroads had to be abandoned, and incoming trains were cut out. The government took charge of the only wire that is in service in the city, which makes news from the capital city meager at the best. The president delivered his inaugural address in the senate chamber, and in all there is a greater clamor than ever for a later date for future inaugurations.

Washington. March 4.—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—At half past eleven the inaugural parade started from the white house on the march to the capitol. Pennsylvania avenue never before presented a more brilliant spectacle, and the throng of people took up every inch of space that was available. Traffic was abandoned during the entire morning, and the avenue was given over to the splendors of inaugural day. The president and president-elect reached the president’s room in the senate and at fifteen minutes after twelve the oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Fuller, and immediately thereafter he delivered his inaugural address which was composed of five thousand words. At halt past one the president was driven back to the white house, where he took his first luncheon in the white house home. At two o'clock he took his place on the reviewing stand and as we go to press he is still watching the brilliant pageants, the gold braid and hearing the plaudits of a mighty people. Following is his inaugural address. My Fellow Citizens—Any one who takes the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office upon which he is about to enter or he is lacking in a proper sense of the obligation which the oath Imposes. The office of an inaugural address is to-give a summary outline of the main policies of the new administration so far as they can be anticipated. I have bad the honor to be one of the advisers of my distinguished predecessor and as such to hold up his hands in the reforms he has Initiated. I should be untrue to myself, to my promises and to the declarations of the party platform upon which I was elected to office if I did not make the malnte nance and enforcement of those reforms a most Important feature of my administration. They were directed to the suppression of the lawlessness and abuses of power of the greatcombinations of capital invested in railroads and In industrial enterprises carrying on interstate commerce. The steps which my predecessor took and the legislation passed on his recommends tlon have accomplished much, have caused a general halt in the vicious policies which created popular alarm and have brought about in the bust (Continued on page four.)