Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

■Volume VII. Number 78.

NEW KIND OF GAS By ill Be Furnished to the Patrons of Indiana Lighting Company MNCLUDES DECATUR Mulholland Ex- | plains the New Fuel and How It is Made — ■ Patrons of the Indiana Lighting are now being served with coal and water gas for both and illuminating purposes Ktwhich the company officials state better satisfaction on all Heretofore the artificial gas in this city has been formed Miron, the hydrogen in water, but the | >ew plant, which has been in process ! ’-of installation for the past six or eight Efißionths. was finally completed TuesEflay and the new gas was immediateply turned into the mains. While the ■company does not expect that many of the gas fixtures will Rbe necessary there will of course be ■ a few inconvenienced for a short time. S but any reports to the main office ■srill he promptly attended to. The ■nature of the new gas now being ■nado at the Superior street plant fi.consists chiefly in a greater per cent of efficiency and is the kind being BStnade in most of the larger gas ft plants. General Manager Mulholland E explained the new gas as being a ftßlixture of the hydrogen gas from waS ter and the methane obtained in the destructive dissolution of coal. Steam ft from water is passed over a hot bed of coals and the oxygen is absorbed | while the hydrogen with a few impurF Ities is mixed with the methane gas from the coal. In the process under which the coal goes everything but the carbon is removed and that remains as coke. The result of the mixture is a gas of much better quality and stronger so that in some cases it is necessary to mix more air with it. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. The Indiana company is the concern which is arranging to furnish gas in Decatur. o ASKS FOR ALIMONY I Mrs. Edward Johnson Sues for Divorce and $5,000 Alimony feCASE FILED TODAY ■ —■ — I Lather Sensational Are the i Charges Against a Business Man | Attorney A. P. Beatty filed a divorce ■case in which the charges are rather g Sensational, this afternoon. The ■plaintiff is Mrs. Hattie Johnson, and ■the defendant is Edward Johnson. gpAbout a week ago this family had Raw serious trouble, in w’hich the Rmarshal was summoned and at that ■time Mrs. Johnson packed her beBlongings and left, for good. The comBplaint filed today says that Mr. and Kiirs. Johnson were married August ■22, 1899, jmd lived together Until ■March 24th, 1909. During that time ■according to the papers in this case ■Ed has been guilty of cruel and ■inhuman treatment, having cursed and ■rudely taken hold of his wife, and ■otherwise ill-treated her. On the evlening of the twenty-fourth it is alleged he repeated his former actions and drove her away from the house, she being forced to spend the night with her sister. She also says he is addicted to the drink habit, and has ■other very serious faults, including V bad associations, all of which makes felt very unpleasant to live with him, Kand she therefore asks for a divorce. ■Mrs. Johnson claims that her husband ■owns real estate to the value of $lO,g 000 and in addition to her decree she asks a judgment for $5,000 alimony, ■The parties are well known here and over the county.

JOHN KULE IS STILL IN JAIL Insists He is Rich—Will Be Declared Insane. John Kule, the silent man, is still in jail. He is strictly sober today and insists that some stranger left $40,000 at the bank for him and that th;y won't give it to him. He don’t know .who the man was that left it there, or why he was chosen among so many needy as the one who had to accept the troublesome gift ,but insists it is true. This is his only hallucination, and it will probably be enough to place him in the insane asylum. A board composed of Drs. Clark and Miller and Squire J. H. Smith held an inquest on him today, but have not reported yet. It is likely they will do so tomorrow morning, finding that he is of unsound mind. Word has been received that the party of Decatur and Fort Wayne men who were to have left for Cuba Tuesday have been delayed by business and will not get away until the latter part of this week. o CONFERENCE OPEN North Indiana Methodists in Session at Greenfield OFFICERS CHOSEN Rev. White is Assistant Secretary—Many Important Changes Greenfield, Ind., April 1. —The North Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opened Its sixtysixth session in the Bradley Methodist Episcopal church in this city yesterday. Almost all the 300 active preachers were present with Bishop William Anderson, D. D., LL. D., presiding. Dorie C. 'Williams was reelected conference secretary, and he selected John C. White and Wallace W. Martin as assistants. Lewis Reeves was elected statistical secretary, and chose J. M. B. Reeves, P. C. Neal and C. C. Dunn to assist him. W. B. Freland was elected treasurer, and selected James McNary, John McNary and David Jones as assistants. On the announcement that the postmaster had arranged to keep the office open in the evening for the convenience of conference visitors, the conference postoffice is eliminated for the present. M. A. Harlin was elected representative for the Methodist Review. The program, as prepared by the comraittee, was adopted, thus officially giving the time for opening and closing of the daily sessions. The bar of the conference was fixed near the center of the house and the visiting ministers from other conferences, the resident pastors of this city, and the wives and widows of ministers were invited to seats within the bar. The list of standing committees were read as announced at the last session. The North Indiana conference at this time has a church membership of about 80,000 and a total valuation of church property of more than $8,000,000. There will be a number of changes in pastorates at this session from retirement. Earl Naftzger left the first of the month to become pastor, of Trinity church, Bellingham, Wash., resigning at Hartford City, effecting a change with J. E. Williams. L. A. Beeks of Elkhart, will enter the evangelistic work. Dr. E L. Semans of Winchester, will retire. C. B. Wilcox will retire and become of a newspaper in Michigan. Madison Swadener of Kokomo, is said to be planning to go to Washington, D. C„ to devote his time to lecturing. J. A. Patterson, pastor at Middeletown, may retire. J. O. Campbell of Richmond, who surrendered his pastorate to enter the race for the Republican nomination for congress, will again go into the regular work. o FILED PETITION IN DELAWARE Muncie, Ind., April 1. —With twice as many signatures as are needed the officers of the Delaware County AntiSaloon Jeagjie this afternoon filed petitions for an option election in this county. It is believed the election will. be held during the week of April 26.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, April 1, 1909.

NEW MAIL ROUTES City Carriers Began Today Under the New System of Delivery WITH FOUR CARRIERS Will Practically Cover the City—Clyde Rice Begins His Duties Clyde Rice began his duty as a mail carrier this morning and as a consequence the carriers were redistreited so that the entire city is covered. There are a few places not reached because of the fact that they have no sidewalks and the houses are not numbered, but if they will comply with this order they will be served. The carriers will make four deliveries each day to the business district, at 7:30 and 9 o’clock a. m. and at 1:30 and 4 o’clock p. m. This district is divided as follows: No. 1, O P. Mills, outside boundaries of route and coverng all territory between, from Monroe street south on Jefferson, Second, north to Court, ■south to Clover Leaf. No. 2, Wid Dorwin, west side Second street to Court, west to Third, north to Monroe and east to office. No. 3, Fred Vaughn, north on Second to Marshall and west on Monroe to G. R. & I. No. 4, Clyde Rice, east side of Second street to Evereitt & Hite grocery. Residence routes, deliveries at 9 a m. and 1:30 p. m. —Mills, from corner of Third and Madison south to Erie, on Line street to corporation line. Rice, Third and Madison to Erie, west to Line, south to Elm, west to Thirteenth, north to Madison and east to Court House. Vaughn, west on Monroe to Fifth, north to Nuttman, west to Eleventh, south to Monroe, west to Fifteenth, south to Adams, east to Thirteenth, north to Madison, east to Court House. Dorwin, all that part north of Monroe and east of G. R. & I. except that portion from Fifth and Nuttman covered by Vaughn. This system will be used for one month, when the number of parcels and letters will be totaled and weighed. and if found unfair to any carriei, the routes will be re-arranged by taking off and adding to where necessary. PAYING DIVIDEND The Ward Fence Company Paying Quarterly Dividend THEIR BUSY SEASON Their Spring Rush is on and They Are Doing Big Business Stockholders in the Ward Fence company today received their first quarterly dividend for 1909, and this fact is a matter of congratulation to the company, who since locating in Decatur have developed all and even more than they promised they would. Their business during the year has been in every sense a record breaker, and this dividend is expected to be a permanent feature of their business. They have one of the most complete fence factories in the country, and are now able to cope with most any sort of a demand upon them for the many kinds of fencing they make and ship to all parts ot this and other countries. They expect to grow even more and to make their business one of the greatest ot its kind. That they will thus succeed every one believes, as they thoroughly understand all the fine points, manage the business throughout up- ’ on the high plane of good business' and will thus get all the dividend pay-, ers that is in such a manufacturing enterprise. Their busy season will soon be at Its heighth, and their dally mail indicates that this year will far outstrip that of any former year of their career. i

COSTS TO HAVE SMALLPOX Jefferson Township in Wells County Has Had a Round. The smallpox epidemic in Jefferson township has up to date cost the county $l3B. Today Dr. Severin filed bills amounting to this amount. Yesterday nineteen houses which had been under quarantine, were visited by the health officer and the quarantine lifted, the occupants being permitted to go about their business. For this twenty dollars worth of formaldehyde was used. Ninety dollars was the bills filed for Albert Weikel, who has acted as guard in one case and twenty-eight dollars was in a bill for another case. These bills will come up at the regular meeting of the board of commissioners. The epidemic is not ove- in that section of the county yet, but it is not believed that there will be many new cases which will break out. Dr. Severin has worked industriously in the cases and there have been few exposures since it was at last found that the disease was prevalent there. —Bluffton Banner. THE KANSASPLAN Getting an Opinion on the Guarantee of Bank Deposits THE TARIFF WAR The South Is Against the New England Idea on Tariff Washington, April 1. —Attorney General Wickersham gave a hearing to the governor and other officials of Kansas on the question of the right of national banks to participate in the benefits and assessments of the bank guarantee fund created by a recent law of that state upon the same terms and conditions as apply to state banks. There were present on behalf of the state, Governor Stubbs, Attorney General Jackson, Bank Commissioner Dolley and Senators Bristow and Curtis, Controller of the Currency Murray and Judge Oldham of his office were also present. The Kansas bank deposit guarantee, is is said, contains certain provisions limiting liability, etc., which do not exist in the Oklahoma law, the terms of which Attorney General Bonaparte decided could not be legally accepted by national banks. Washington, April 1. —The warfare of the south against New England in the shaping of the tariff bill reached an acute stage when Senators Elkins and Scott of West Virginia held a conference with southern and western members of the house who are “off the reservation.” The action of the West Virginia senators, who are bitterly hostile to what they call the “New England influence,” was a surprise and was contributed to incite rebellion In the house and to thwart the efforts of the house leaders to get the contending elements together. Notwithstanding this sporadic outbreak, house leaders insist that Republican factional differences will be quieted to such an extent within the next ten days that a vote on the Payne bill will be possible on April 10th. Washington, April 1. —Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kitzelman, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Wood of Muncie were introduced to President Taft yesterday by Representative Adair. o WILL CASE IS NEARING CLOSE Big Portland Suit May End this Evening. Attorneys interested in the trial of the Manor will case now on in the circuit court before Judge J. T. Merryman of Decatur and a jury, stated Wednesday noon that the case would likely not be completed before (Thursday afternoon or Friday mom.ing. Wednesday morning before the ; case was begun the jury v as corralled in the sheriff's office while the attorneys argued a point at law concernlng the admission of certain 'evidence which the defendants were : prevented from introducing Tuesday, I—Portland Sun.

TEACHERS LEAVE To Attend State Meeting at Indianapolis—Begins Tonight A GREAT PROGRAM About Fifty From This County Will Enjoy the Session About fifty teachers from Adams county, including nearly every teacher from this city, left this morning for Indianapolis, where they will attend the joint session of the northern and southern Indiana associations which convenes this evening, and continues throughout the ’ week. It is expected that fully 5,000 teachers from over the state will register as members and the program is the best ever offered to them. Tonight will open the sessions of both associations. The Northern association meets in Tomlinson hall to hear an address by Brander Matthews, the noted literary critic of Columbia university. There will be music by the Tabernacle Solo Quartet and an address by John A. Wood of Lafayette, the retiring president, who will introduce the new president, J T. Giles of Marion. President Giles ! will then make his inaugural address, after which Dr. Matthews will be heard. The invocation will be pronounced by the Rev. Harry Blunt. At Caleb Mills Hall! Governor Marshall will introduce former Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri, who will address the meeting on “The Era of Conscience.” There will be a violin solo by Hugh McGibney, a reading by Elsie Brown of Chicago and the Invocation by Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht. The retiring president, Robert J. Aley, will introduce T. F. Fitzgerald, the incoming president, whose inaugural address will be upon the subject, “Positive Life in the Schools.” A change will be made in the program for tomorrow night for the Northern Indiana association at Caleb Mills hall. Walter Howe, the Shakespearean reader, will be heard In his reading of Hamlet, a play in which he has played every part that can be taken byta man. He was formerly associated with Henry Irving. Mr. Howe takes the place of William Lyon Phelps of Yale university, who is unable to be present on account of sickness. Mr. Ilowe is reputed the best Shakespearean reader in America. APRIL FOOITdAY This Was a Very Interesting Occasion for the Young SOME FAMOUS PRANKS That Gained a World Wide Reputation in Years Past AU Fools Day or April Fool’s Day as it is known in our country is an important day to many. However it is not dignified enough to become a legal holiday. The day is observed i.i France, England, Scotland and Germany. It used to be the custom for .every one to play some practical joke. A pigeon was once found in New York, supposed to have been sent by a North Pole explorer which created great excitement, when some one suggested that since it was April first an investigation be made; perhaps some one had been fooling them. It was found later that such was the case. It was all a hoax. It doesn't often happen that so many are fooled as were fooled in Chicago about twen-ty-five years ago. A man inserted an advertisement to buy cats and dogs. Those who wished to sell were to appear at six o’clock the next day at a certain number, just around the corner of a well known street. The next morning the street was crowded with all kinds of human beings with dogs and cats under their arms and adding to the noise. Os course there was no such house. Now the children take the most interest in the day, and this was no exception.

PALM SUNDAY SOON HERE Religious Feast Will Be Ou»erved Next Sunday. Next Sunday, April 4, is Palm Sunday. This feast is in honor of our Lord’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. It receives its name from the circumstance of palm branches having been thrown under the feet of Jesus, the people crying out, “Hosanna to the Son of David” (Gospel of St. Matthew 21st chpater). On this day palms are blessed in all the Catholic churches and distributed to the faithful. Easter, the resurrection, will occur on Sunday, April 11. This is a feast in honai of the rising of our Lord from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. It is kept on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the 21st of March and is a movable feast, occuring sometimes one day and sometimes a few weeks after that date. It is called Easter, from “Oriens,” which signifies that east or rising and is one of he titles of Christ.

THEY ALL REJOICED E. S. Shumaker Spoke at North Indiana Conference TEMPERANCE WORK Sixty-Two Indiana Counties Dry and Twenty-One Petitions Filed Greenfield, Ind., April 1. —The rapidity with which Indiana counties are climbing aboard the water wagon was the one absorbing topic and a cause for great rejoicing among the ministers of the North Indiana conference of the Methodist church in session here yesterday. This rejoicing was evidenced in a remarkable demonstration during an impassioned address this afternoon at the celebration of the organization of the temperance society, delivered by E.S. Shumaker, of Indianapolis, state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. Mr. Shumaker’s plea for state-wide prohibitory legislation in 1911 was greeted by prolonged applause, shounts of “Amen!” “Hallelujeh!” and similar exclamations. The speaker was Interrupted several times by impromptu singing, the big audience joining in the doxology. Superintendent Shumaker reviewed the work of the Anti-Saloon League in this state, told of the work of the temperance people in behalf of the county local option law and discussed the numerous local option elections through which so many counties have ousted the saloons. The temperance wave, he said, is spreading in GerI many and will soon provoke bitter fights in England and France. “The German emperor.” declared Superintendent Shumaker, “has become a convert. He is himself a total abstainer and he is introducing temperance throughout the German empire. We have already passed the morning, I may say,’’ the speaker continued, “ in the destruction of this accursed monster, the liquor traffic, and the time is coming when on this whole globe of ours there will not be one foot of soil where the licensed saloon can exist. Today," said Mr. Shumaker, “there are sixty-two ‘dry’ counties in Indiana. Two more counties will vote next Tuesday. Twen-ty-one counties are filing petitions this week for elections next month. The counties which have already voted ‘dry’ have doomed 610 saloons. The counties which vote next month have 800 saloons in them.” o HENRY COUNTY LIKES IT Gave a Large Majority in Favor of the Drys. Newcastle, Ind., April 1. —The unofficial but complete vote in the Henry county local option election shows Henry county “dry” by a majority of 2,586. These figures are compiled from returns received by the local option league and are considered re-1 liable. Os the forty-two precincts In [ the county only one gave a “wet” ma-[ jority, that one being the Fifth, which. went "wet’’ seventeen votes. Factory | men live In this precinct, largely. 11 Newcastle gave “dry” majority of 326.’.

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ILLNESS WAS FATAL Fred Neaderhouser Prominent Business Man of Berne DIED THIS MORNING Sold His Store Three Weeks Ago—Was Well Known Man Berne, Ind., April 1. —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Fred Neaderhouser a prominent citizen of this place, and one of the best known men in Adams county, died here this morning. He was for years engaged in the flour mill business at Linn Grove, operating the plant owned for so many years by his father, (Emanuel Neaderhouser. He was born in Hartford township March 9. 1859. He came here about fifteen years ago and conducted a general store until about three weeks ago when he sold out to Heller & Stuckey. He suffered from kidney trouble and had been seriously ill about a week. He is survived by a wife and three children and innumerable friends. Ho was a prominent Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias. The funeral services w'lll be held Sunday afternoon at two o'clock from the house, interment at the Berne cemetery. The deceased is one of the best known men in southern Adams county, where he has lived all his life and where, too, he has been engaged in business ever since he left school. He made a great success and while he dies young, in fact right on the threshold of life Itself, yet he leaves fair sorrowing family with a fair comipetence. In Berne as well at every place else where he is known, he was a prime favorite and counted his friends by the number of acquaintances he had. His death is universally regretted and has cast a gloom over the entire town of Berne, where he was so well known and greatly admired. 0 APPROACH DEATH Jacob Tester Leaped from a Burning Structure LIBERTY CENTER, O. i ! Hotel Burned and Thinly Clad, He Escaped Thinly clad, frightened to an extent which only befalls one who witnesses the near approach ot an awful and untimely death, Jacob Tester , of this city made a timely exit from a burning hotel in Liberty Center, Ohio, yesterday morning, leaving to be devoured by the leaping flames his clothes, hat and suit case, saving only his watch. It was in an early hour of the morning that the weird sound of the burning structure ana an alarm from people below rang as a death knell through the hallway and awakening, Mr. Tester saw awful disaster and almost certain death staring him in the face. The door to ■ his room was ablaze and the attendant heat was difficult to withstand. He hastily secured his watch and attired in his night clothes, he leaped from the window escaping practically F uninjured. The communication received here from Mr. Tester is in part as follows: The hotel burned this morning at r three o’clock. Everybody got out. i My room d'oor was just burning F through when I was awakened. I had [ just time to jump out of the window. All of my clothes went with the /hotel. I saved my watch but lost Imy hat I don’t know whether or [not I will get through this week.— [Jacob Tester. Mr. Tester is at Liberty Center as- ' Bisting in Installing an engine for A. Van Camp.