Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1909 — Page 1

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THE FAYLOR CASE Records Returned Here by Supreme Court—Will Be Tried for Sixth Time OTHER COURT NEWS A New Case Filed—Page vs. Niblick Case at Bluffton Tomorrow Francis M. Elkins vs. William M. Pearce, suit on note, answer filed bydefendant. The transcript in the Thomas Fayior et al vs. David D. Studabaker case, containing the complete records, briefs, etc., have been returned here from the supreme court and are now in the hands of Clerk Haefling. The box weighs about fifty pounds, and the return -was made on petition of Mock & Sons, of Bluffton, who are attorneys in the case, and must be returned to the supreme court. That this case will again be tried, making the sixth time, is evidenced from the fact that action was taken here thismorning when suggestion was made of the death of Elizabeth Stout and Jacob. Edwin, Hugh, Warren, Carl, Earl. Grover and Omer Stdut and Minnie Smith were made parties plaintiff.

The case of Charles Page vs. Catherine Niblick, admx., account $85,000, will begin at Bluffton tomorrow. The attorneys are Heller & Son and J. C. Sutton and C. J. Lutz. County Clerk Haefling will also attend, being required to take some records along. Gottlieb Brand vs. Thomas E. and Charles A. Mann, is the title of a new suit filed on a note, tha demand being $l5O. The suit is an appeal from a justice court. J. H. Runyon is attorney for the plaintiff. Samuel W. Goble vs. Samuel Kuntz, damages SSOO, rule to answer Is made absolute within five days. J. F. Snow, commissioner, this morning offered for sale the Elizabeth C. Martin farm, 80 acres in Hartford township. It was bid in by on page 2.) o ARTERY SEVERED Charles Cole, Salesman, Received Painful Injury LAST EVENING At the Schaub, Gottemoller and Company Store

Charles Cole, salesman at the Schaub, Gottemoller and company hardware store, received an injury last evening which is causing him much pain, an ugly wound having been inflicted in his wrist by a hatchet which fell from a shelf upon the memher. Mr. Cole was working at the shelf where the hatchets were stored, and in some inconceivable manner one of the pieces of iron fell upon him, severing a small artery in his wrist and leaving a gaping wound. The injured man bier profusely and hastily repaired to the office of a physician, where his injury was cared for. It is not hought that serious developments will be caused, although the best of care will be necessitated to prevent It. Mr. Cole though suffering much pain, resumed duties at the harware store this morning, and he will not be detained from his work unless unforseen complications set in. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH. English preaching at our church Sunday afternoon at two o’clock. A cordial invitation is extended to all. J. H. Klausing, Pastor. i

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TEDDY BOUND TO BE HEARD Talks About Himself in the Current Number of the Outlook. New York, May 14.—Ex-President Roosevelt, in the current number of the Outlook, combats the statement credited to Count Leo Tolstoy that Bry an represented the party of peace in the last presidential campaign. On this point Mr. Roosevelt says: “Naw there was but one point in the platform of either party in 1908 which contained any element of menace to the peace of the world. This was the plank in the Bryanite platform which demanded the immediate exclusion by law of all Asiatic laborers, and therefore of the Japanese. Coupled with this was the utterly meaningless plank about the navy, which was,however, intended to convey the impression that we ought to have ""a navy only for the defense of our coasts; that is, a merely ‘defensive’ navy, or, in other words, a quite worthless navy.” Discussing Tolstoy, the expresident expresses the opinion that the Russian writer has “swayed or dominated only the feeble folk and the fantastic folk,” and that his influence over “men of action” has not been great. ALMOST A MILLION Os Dollars Have Changed Hands at Horse Sale Barns DURING THIS YEAR More Than 3,000 Head Have Been Disposed of Altogether The horse sale today was a hummer (from start to finish, and Auctioneer McNabb, in his same clever manner, conducted the auction most successfully. When it comes to disposing of horses, Mack is certainly the goods. IHe knows the value of horses at sight and knows how to sell them. The consignment represented the best bunch of horse flesh ever presented to the public in the city. Promptly at ten-thirty o’clock the sale began the commission horses being the first to find new homes. The draft, general purpose and driving horses came next and they were of such an excellent quality that buyers gobbled them up in great shape. The city presented a very busy appearance today, and

especially the restaurants at meal hour. Six car loads of animals were received by the Decatur Horse compahy from different points in Indiana. Since the first sale held this year the company has disposed of more than three thousand horses, and approximately three quarters of a million dollars has changed hands as a consequence thereof. It Is certainly a great business for Decatur. Two more sales will be held this spring and they will be the last until fall.

WAS INJURED BY A FALL Ed Beriing Received Some Serious Bruises in a Ball Game Recently. Miss May Beriing returned last evening from Fort Wayne, where she visited with her brother Ed, who was injured by a fall last Tuesday morning while participating with a few of his friends in a game of ball at Sweeney park. The services of a physician were required, and it was discovered that aside from a few minor bruises to his right band and chest, he had sustained a badly sprained ankle, which compels him to get around with the aid of crutches. Ed is detained from his duties as chief night clerk for the Pennsylvania railroad as a result of the accident, but -expects to resume his position within a few days. ULREY IS CONSIDERABLY ALIVE Mrs. L. V. Ulrey whose husband is interested in a mining venture at Oaxaca, Mexico, received a newspaper clipping from a friend in that city yesterday telling of the death of Mr. Ulrey in that city. As a matter of fact, Mr. Ulrey is in Indianapolis looking after his business interests in his usual aggressive manner and his wife yesterday mailed him the clipping in order that he might read his < own obituary. Mr. Ulrey suffered a slight accident several weeks ago and it is supposed that the report of his death originated from this—Fort Wayne ’•Journal-Gazette.

DEMOCRATIC HELP Eighteen Democrats in the Senate Helped the Standpatters MANY TELEGRAMS Wholesale and Retail Merchants Not Responsible For High Prices Washington, May- 14. —The most extraordinary scene that has been witnessed at this special session of congress occurred when eighteen Democratic senators made a center rush to vote for a duty of 25 cents a ton on iron ore, thus fulfilling the wishes of the United States Steel corporation, better known as the steel trust. The total vote was: Yeas, 54; nays, 24. This unexpected development is regarded as highly significant. It shows that a very friendly feeling exists between Senator Aldrich and a large bunch of Democratic senators, and that the Rhode Island senator, leader of the standpatters, probably can control enough Democratic votes through the entire tariff revision session to put through the senate his program of high duties, thus sending to the conference committee a practical reaffirmation of the Dingley law without the reductions that are most demanded by the ultimate consumer. It suggests the time not many years distant when a Democratic president applied the words “perfidy’ and “dishonor" in describing the treatment which a Democratic senate accorded the Wilson tariff bill. This Democratic support is the Rhode Island senator's most valuable asset, and he will make the most of it. Washington, May 14. —A large number of telegrams reached senators from wholesale and retail merchants in various parts of the country protesting against the statement repeated several times in the senate within the last few days that the wholesaler and the retailer are responsible for the increased cost of living. Evidently these charges made by the standpatters have aroused the jobbers and retail dealers everywhere. Today's telegrams insisted that such talk must not be permitted to go unanswered.

MRS.BARKLEYDEAD Mother of Mrs. U. S. Cress Died at Monroeville Home *" ■ A PARALYTIC STROKE And Two Preceding Ones the Cause of Her Demise Mary A. Barkley, mother of Mrs. U. S. Cress of this city, died at her home at Monroeville this morning at five o'clock after an illness of several months caused by three successive strokes of paralysis, the last one occurring last Monday. The husband of the decedent preceded her in death by more than one year. Mrs. Barkley, seventy-one years of age, was the victim of a paralytic stroke in February, and consequently suffered much pain. A few weeks later she was the victim of another. Her condition was thus weakened and she gradually was losing strength when the third stroke occurring last Monday rendered her practically helpless and robbed her of every chance for recovery. Mrs. Barkley was a good woman and during the times she visited in Decatur made many friends, who with her marjy other acquaintances join the relatives in their bereavement. The funeral services will be held from the Monroeville M. E. church Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Cress went to the bedside of her stricken mother last Tuesday, and has remained continuously with her until the time of her death. Mr. Cress will go to Monroeville tonight and remain for the funeral.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, May 14, 1909

IS A PUZZLING QUESTION Railroad Companies Want to Know About Dry Territory. Atorney-General Bingham has been asked by the law firm of Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, of Chicago, to give an opinion as to whether under the operation of the county option law in Indiana, railroads operating dining or buffet cars in the state can legally sell intoxicating liquors whbn passing through a county voted dry under the law. The query has been turned over to Assistant Attorney General Cavins. While the law firm does not state specifically its reasons for asking such an opinion, it is gathered that it represents a number of roads operating such cars, and that the companies desire to know whether their privileges in the state, are to be curtailed, when once they have taken out the SI,OOO state license provided for by an act of 1907. According to this act, any railroad or railway company desiring to serve intoxicants on its trains in the state is required to obtain the license, which is issued by the auditor of state. Thus far only four roads have renewed their licenses. Nine companies were licensed last year. 0 SUSTAINED A FALL Grandpa Kunkle, of MonMouth, Received a Badly Sprained Hip Yesterday WHILE IN DECATUR Alighting from Wagon and Fell—ls Nearly EightyNine Years Old Grandpa Samuel Kunkle, of near Monmouth, is in a serious condition as the result of a fall sustained in this city yesterday. He had accompanied his son, C. D. Kunkle, to town and was alighting from the farm wagon in which they had rode, when he lost his balance and fell to the pavement. The fall was a hard one, and it was feared at first that he had sustained a fractured hip, but an examination by the physician called did not disclose any injury more than a severe sprain. He was confined to his bed today, however, and owing to his age, being nearly eighty-nine years old, it is feared the recovery may be slow. He has a rugged constitution, and it is believed he will survive the injury.

He has relatives in Decatur and acquaintances all over this section of the country, who sincerely hope to hear tidings of his immediate improvement. o BOOSTING THE MEMBERSHIP Indiana Democratic Club Working for New Members. Indianapolis, May 14. —The efforts of the Indiana Democratic Club to obtain a membership large enough to warrant the club to begin the erection of a club house were furthered Wednesday night at a dinner given by the club at the Denison Hotel, when Governor Marshall and a number of other prominent Democrats of the state were present. About 175 guests attended and helped “boost’* the movement. Each man present pledged himself on a card which lay at his plate to obtain one or more new members by June 15, when it is hoped to have a membership of 2,000. If the pledges given last night are carried out more than 300 new. members will come into the club as the result of the dinner. ' — o BERNE TEACHERS SELECTED They Make Their Choice for the Coming Year's Work. The Berne school board have selectde their instructors for next year, room one being given to Mrs. Mary Baumgartner, room two Miss Cora Schug, rooms three and four by Misses Flora Neaderhouser and Matilda Sellemeyer, the latter of this city, room five, Asa Sprunger, room six and the principalship are yet to be supplied. The assistant principalship goes to G. A. Lehman, and the principalship to F. D. Huff. All the teachers are good instructors and the Berne sehols are among the progressive ones of the county, now having a commissioned high school and many other elements of strength tn school work.

THE NEXT STEP Rev. Shirey, of Fort Wayne, Says It Will Be State Wide Prohibition SAYS PEOPLE WANT IT But Wants the Fight Kept Out of Politics—Gives * His Reasons The Fort Wayne Sentinel said: According to Rev. N. C. Shireys own statement today, the next decided step in the temperance wave in Indiana, which is being anticipated and eagerly awaited by the anti-saloon workers all oven, the state, is the passage by the legislature of 1911 of a state wide prohibition law. Such a bill, he asserts, will positively be presented to the legislature and if efforts to keep the question out of political platforms should be successful, the league reasons that the measure will be enacted. In further speaking, Mr. Shirey said: “If the mater must be brought up in the political platforms at all, it should not be anything more than a commendation of the laws already in force in regard to the liquor question. It seems to me that the mighty success with which county option elections are meeting shows the attitude of the state upon the matter, none of the votes resembling in any manner the respective party votes. Our state board of trustees,’ 1 said Mr. Shirey, “has not yet purposely discussed such a measure, yet they all realize that a state wide prohibition law is uppermost in the thoughts of many. The league will sponsor the bill and there is every hope of pushing it to a successful completion, if, as said before, the matter can be kept out of politics. ’ The reasoning upon which hopes of success are based is very simple and to many minds conelusive. The attitude of the people in the many recent county option elections proves to the league officers that a “dry” law for the state would be acceptable in many places. “Surely,” the league superintendent said, “all those who were with us in elections would vote to put the man in the legislature who is opposed to the liquor traffic and they alone would be practically enough to assure a fav(Continued on page 2.)

THE FIRST ANNUAL Linn Grove High School to Hold Commencement MAKING PROGRESS J The Schools There are Making Great Strides and Doing Well The Linn Grove public schools will give their first annual high school commencement at the Evangelical j church, Friday, May 21, 1909, at 8 o'clock p. m. This being the first high school commencement In the history of the school. The address will be delivered by Rev. John A. Gray, Ph. D., of Fairmount, Ind. A free offering of a silver coin is requested at the door. March Nona Hoffmann Invocation Rev. John Reese Solo Ida Baumgartner Address—" The Man of the Hour” John A. Gray, Ph. D. Piano duet—‘Columbine’ Misses Meshberger Presentation of Diplomas '• L. E. Opliger, Co. Supt. Duet —“Abide With Me” .Glenna Miller, Tressie Meshberger Benediction Rev. John Reese The Linn Grove schools are among the best in the county, and have an excellent system and good instructors. They have made great progress in the past few years, and the commencement exercises scheduled for the evening of May 21, will be attended by many of the loyal supporters of the schools, and those too, who are interested in their success.

GIVEN ROYAL RECEPTION The Wrights Shown Many Honors in Dayton. Dayton, 0., May 14. —Thousands of persons were at the station when the train bearing the Wright brothers, aviators, and their sister. Miss Katherine Wright, arrived. In this throng were many of their friends and neighbors of the western section of the city A L. Shearer, a well known local merchant, and a cousin of the Wrights, was at the head of the reception committee. The first test of the brothers' aeroplane flying machine wat made at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903. In 1905 they made a successful long distance flight near Dayton. They have recorded in magazine articles the fact that they had to develop a science of aeronautics by long and patient experiment, finding practically all the text books on the subject faulty. Their success abroad has been great financially as well as mechanically. It is estimated that in France and Italy alone they have collected more than $500,000 for the rights to their machines. Outside of these sums they have won prizes estimated at $250,000, and they aparently are destined to become millionaires.

THEDEPOTBURNED The Lake Erie Had a Fire Loss at Bluffton Last Night THEY COLLIDED <• Traction Car and Automobile Caused Some Excitement Last Night Bluffton, Indiana, May 14. —The Lake Erie depot burned last night entailing quite a loss to the company. The fire originated in the office and was discovered about three o’clock, when the alarm was sent and by quick work by the department the fire was entinguished, but not before the building was entirely ruined, and what remains of it will have to be torn down. All the tickets and everything else of value was burned. It is likely that the company will immediately begin the erection of a new depot, w’hich w’ill be more modern and convenient for those who patronize that railroad. Bluffton, Indiana, May 14.—An automobile accident occurred here last evening when the Union Traction car collided with a car being driven by Marion Reiff. The automobile was knocked several rods to the windward and outside of considerable damage to the machine, nothing serious is reported. The turn over occurred at the corner of Cherry and Johnson street, and was the means of causing considerable excitement for a time. Bluffton, Indiana, May 14.—The first grand jury indictment of the fifty that was returned at the recent session of that body, was drawn by Jay White, and the officers made the arrest, the charge being robbery. He is charged with several offenses of this kind, his long suit being the steaM ing of hardwood and selling it to whom he could work up to the point of exchanging a little of the bad coin for the stolen ware. Bond was furnished In the sum of $1,500 and the case will come up later in the Wells circuit court.

A COMMISSIONER’S SALE John F. Snow Sold the Elizabeth Martin Farm in Hartford Tp. John F. Snow* as commissioner held the boards at the east door of the court house this morning and sold the Elizabeth Martin farm, located in . Hartford township in the oil territory > and one of the best and most fertile ; sections of land in the county. Some i lively bidding was indulged in for a , time, and the tract of eighty acres i was finally sold to Morton J. Martin for $7,200, or ninety dollars an acre. | The farm is a good one, and the buy- 1 er will make good with the pur-1 chase. Ninety dollars an acre is not! half bad for land sold by order of the.: court. 1 '

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DOINGS AT GENEVA Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Glendenning Died Thursday WAS ILL LONG TIME Other Doings Around Our Sister Town—Two Ball Teams Geneva, Ind., May 14— (Special to Daily Democrat)—Clarence Glendenning, aged eight years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Glendenning, died Thursday morning at eight-thirty o’clock, at his late home on west High street, after suffering for many weeks from inflammatory rheumatism and other complications. The funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon from the Hartford church, located three miles west of this town. The Rev. G. M. Myers will officiate.

C. M. Brow*n, competitive barbers, in this city, have perfected the organization of tw*o ball clubs, which will furnish amusement for the residents during the summer months. The line ups are strong and snappy games are assured. B. S. Ault, who moved his family on his farm early in the spring, has sold same and returned to this city for future abode. W. D. Cross returned Tuesday from eastern Ohio, where he was looking after interests in the oil fields. Dr. O. M. Graham has gone to Chicago, where he will remain for several days on a business mission. O. O. Juday and son Robert left Wednesday for Canton, Ohio, where they will be guests of friends and relatives for some time, Jim Fristoe, the tax collector, was in town Tuesday to put a hustle on some of the local residents. The town council is at present working on an ordinance which when enacted, will govern the speed of automobiles operated within the corporate limits of the town. The same (Continued on page 2.) o ARE YOU GOING? Home Talent Show Will Be One of the Best Ever Shown in City THE SYNOPSIS The Cast is a Notably Strong One—Attend and Aid the Band Boys "In the Village by the Sea" the home talent to be given at Bosse oplera house Monday, May 17th, under the auspices of the Juvenile Band, bromlses to be a big event. The cast is a notably strong one, and the specialties will be pleasing, and a big feature of the entertainment will be

the music by the new orchestra. SYNOPSIS. ' Act I. Tom Manly’s Home, Harpswell, Maine. Act 11. High Point Island lighthouse, two weeks later. The robbery. The storm. JWhat the lightning [ showed. > Act HI. Scene 1. Squire Ham- , mond’s Gardens. Scene 2. Toms new home in Boston. Scene 3. Death of , little Nellie, Act. IV. Drawing room in Squire > Hammond's home. An interrupted i wedding. The end of Farren. All is 1 well that ends well. Admission twenty-five cents to any I part of the house. Seats reserved at I Holthouse drug store. Board opens Monday at 8 a. m. The band boys .solicit your patronage and assure you |it will be appreciated.