Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 133.

COULD NOT BE REVIVED Efforts to Resuscitate Doyt York Proved Fruitless After Hour’s Work FUNERAL SERVICES Will Be Held Sunday Afternoon—Was Popular Young Man The funeral services for Ralph Ledoyt York will be held from the Methodist church Sunday afternoon at two o’clock, the Rev. Imler officiating. Everything possible was done to resuscitate life, after the body of the young man had been recovered, and for an hour Drs. Beavers and Costello and a number of men worked Incessantly trying to restore life, but to no avail. For a time there was slight hope when a better color seemed to manifest Itself In the boy's face but finally the effort was abandoned, and the body was brought to the Gay & Zwick undertaking rooms, where they were prepared for burial and later <n the evening were taken to the home of the parents. Doyt as he was known, was a young man of many good qualities, in fact he was a model boy, and his parents and friends are almost prostrated with grief over the sudden death. He was the son of Mr. an<f Mrs. A. M. York and was born in Van Wert county, Ohio, September 14, 1888, being aged at the time of death, twenty years, nine months and nineteen days. He came here with his parents several years ago, and was admired by all who knew him. He was an active worker in the United Brethren church and Sunday school and was an industrious and splendid fellow. During the past winter he taught successfully a term of school near Willshire. He is survived by his parents, four sisters and one brother, besides numerous otfier relatives and friends. Coroner J. C. Grandstaff was notified last evening and came to this city at once, where he held an inquest, his verdict being that death was due to asphyxiation caused by drowning. The doctors who saw the boy taken from the water say that death was due to cramps and strangulation. Many believed that owing to the fact that there was but little water in the body that death had been caused by heart trouble, but this theory is not given credence by the physicians. It is believed thet Doyt sank at about 2:40 and the body was taken out at 3:35, being in the water almost an hour. —o —■ — FLOCKING TO INDIANAPOLIS Saloon Men Changing Their Base of Operations. Indianapolis, June 3. —That saloon keepers who have been driven out of business in their home towns by county option elections are coming s o Indianapolis to engage in the business Is a source of much concern to the trade” here. Brewery agents say that these new “Independents" are robbing the brewers of the credit of reducing the number of saloons in Indianapolis. Some time ago the local brewers and brewery agents decided that it would be well to follow a slightly different policy as to the extension of the business in the city, and this was followed more recently by bringing about the discontinuance of unprofitable nr unpopular saloons. It is with the last-named policy that the new ’“independents” are interfering. It has been tbe policy of the brewers to discontinue such saloons from time to time as the property leases expired. As long as the brewers owned leases they had to pay rental that was too high for any other business than the saloon business. Just so long as they were lease-bound to pay for such places the saloons, whether they wen» unpopular or mot, were continued where they were not profitable except under the management of men who went the limit" in the business and thus brought disrepute to the trade

■generally. ~ ' Mrs. John Everett returned from Idea, Ohio, today, after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Switzer of that place.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

THE FIREMEN’S TOURNAMENT Hartford City Making Great Preparations for the Event. Os amusements at the tournament of the Northeastern Indiana Firemen’s association in this city, June 24, the water battle will doubtless be a feature. Hartford City firemen attired in rubber garments will choose sides and with two strings of hose will fight, the side succeeding in drowning out the other being declared the victor. Pearl Cox, Jacob Moore, Isaac Waters, William Leonard, Frank Smoots and Guy Ducey have been appointed members of the committee to arrange for the battle. An exhibition fire will be given by the local department. A structure will be erected on the vacant lot just east of E. Smilack’s junk house. The Fort Wayne Electric Works company’s department sends word that it will be accompanied by the Packard band, one of the finest musical organizations in Indiana. Bluffton will ask for the 1910 convention. There are now two cities —Bluffton and Fort Wayne—pulling strings for the next meeting—Hartford City News. IPS A GREAT FIGHT Cotton and Woolen Schedules Now Up in the Senate WANTS AMENDMENT

Beveridge Wants Internal Tax on Cigars and Tobacco Revised Washington, June 4.—The greatest fight of the entire special session, as far as the senate is concerned, is in progress Senator Aldrich Is putting forth every effort to prevent any material changes in the cotton and woolen schedules, which from his standpoint are the most important features of the tariff bill. The progressives, on the other hand, are lining up against the cotton schedule, which will be the first disposed of “I do not think that we shall lose a vote," said Senator Beveridge, “and the indications are that we shall gain several votes on the Republican side in trying to reduce the cotton schedule. I believe that every Democratic senator will vote to lower the rates contained in this schedule.” A report that is serving to help the progressives is to the effect that if the cotton and woolen schedules pass as in the Aldrich bill a yarn trust will be organized with an enormous capitalization. Plans for this trust, even to the articles of incorporation, have been prepared, it is said, and the promoters are simply waiting for congress to put its “O. K.’’ on the Aldrich bill. Washington, June 4. —Conditions are ripe for a spirited contest in the senate when Senator Beveridge calls up his amendment offered three weeks ago to revise the internal revenue tax laid on cigars, cigarettes and tobacco. It seems probable that the government will be bound to support the amendment. The bureau of corporations made, some time ago, a very comprehensive investigation of the American Tobacco company, and other tobacco companies. Following the speech of Senator Beveridge, in which it was alleged that the government has lost at least 1100,000,000 In revenues since the Spanish-American war tax was repealed, the senate asked for the report on the tobacco trust known to be in the possession of the bureau of corporations. The document will soon be in the hands of the senate. ——o ATTENTION, HOLY GRAIL! All the Knights and Esquires of the Holy Grail are requested to meet at the church on Saturday evening at 7 sharp for a brief but very important business meeting. Sherman Powell, Mertin. The Methodist choir will meet promptly at 7:30 this evening. Everyone come. —oMiss Grace Purdy has resumed her duties as clerk in the Baughman [store after a several days’ vacation.

THE BANKERSMEET Jesse Rupp, of Berne, Elected Chairman of Program Committee MANY WERE PRESENT At the Session Held at Anderson Yesterday—Good Program The annual meeting of Group Eight of the Indiana Bankers’ association was held in the country house of the Anderson Country club,, Anderson, yesterday. The visiting bankers were met at the town house and taken through the city in automobiles. A luncheon was served at the clubhouse to the fifty who were present. The following program was given at the meeting: Roll call; welcome address; report of the secretary-treasurer; report of committees: appointment of committee on nomination; topics for general discussion: “Postal Savings Banks,” discussion led by J. L. Forkner, cashier National Exchange bank, Anderson; “Money Reserves,” discussion led by C. H. Church, cashier Delaware County National bank, Muncie; discussion of other subjects suggested by the members present; new business; report of the nominating committee; election of officers; adjournment. The nominating committee submitted the names of the following officers to serve during the coming year: Merl Chenoweth, cashier, Gaston Banking Co., president: J. E. Rickert, cashier Ridgeville state bank, secretary-treasurer; executive council, J. W. Mills, cashier First National Bank, Portland, ex-officio chairman of the committee on arbitration; E. B. Williamson, cashier of the Wells County bank, Bluffton, exofficio chairman of the committee on unifor maction; Jesse Rupp, cashier of the Bank of Berne, ex-officio chairman of the committee on reception and program. Jesse L. Vermillion, president of the Anderson Banking Co., ex-officio chairman of the committee of protection and fraud; B. F. Shroyer, assistant cashier of the Merchant’s National Bank, Muncie, exofficio chairman of the committee on tracts and publications. The report was endorsed unanimously. 0 OSSIAN OBJECTS Indiana Lighting Company Will Have Troubles in That Town, Too TROUBLE BREWING Town Board Does Not Like

Idea of Having Streets Torn Up

Ossian, Ind., June 4. —Bluffton is not the only place in which there is trouble with the Indiana Lighting company. A fight will probably occur at the meeting of the town board tonight when the subject of a franchise for the company will come up. The company is insisting in Ossian as in Bluffton that the old franchise still holds good and - that there is no necessity of a new franchise. The corporation at present is not wanting to do anything more than get the right to put the pipe line through the city, or at least there have been no communications in regard to rate. The members of the town board are not objecting to the company laying a line through the town, but the board members believe that the board ought to be considered in the interests of the town in regard to the route which will be used. The old franchise gave the company a right to go down Main street. This is the cause of the contention between the gas men and the trustees. The trustees have agreed to permit the company to go through an alley on the outskirts of the town, but will not consent to the taking up of the main stret. They argue that this would necessitate the tearing up of the main street and putting It in bad condition.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, June 4, 1909.

BLUFFTON BECOMING ANXIOUS Can’t Understand the Methods of the Gas Company. The big guns of the Indiana Lighting company do not appear to be in any great rush about getting into Bluffton under an artificial gas franchise, for they have not approached city officials with any proposition for three weeks, but thj local agent, Henry F Hnneck, is going right along getting ready for I operations here. He has been collecting for some time, all of the meters I which the old Fort Wayne Gas company used at residences in this city and is having them tested at the local office and then proceeds to doctor them up with a coat of new paint. There are about 1,000 of the meters in the city, and the majority of them are already in the office, either repainted already or waiting their turn | to be painted. All in the south and , west part of the city have been gath-1 ered up, but those on the north side ’ are yet to be collected. None of the j meters will be used unless they test perfectly until they are sent back to the factory to be overhauled. Decatur will get artificial gas before Bluffton because the company already has a franchise there, has workmen on the job with new lines, and has had work started on the large receiving and storage tank. —Bluffton News. o EPWORTH LEAGUE Will Hold Their District Convention at Fort Wayne ON JUNE 22ND Fred Rohrer, of Berne, is One of the Speakers on the Program Opening on Tuesday evening June 22, and continuing until Thursday evening, June 24, the Fort Wayne district Epworth League convention will be held at the First Methodist Episcopal church in this city. It promises to be one of the largest affairs in local churches this season and will be attended by several prominent clergymen. Prof. M. J. Hill, of Wellsboro, Pa., will have charge of the congregational singing during the convention, and special music will be furnished by leaguers from various portions of tne district. Rev. M. C. Hartzell, D. D., of Park Avenue M. E. church, Chicago, is one of the live wires of the church, as is witnessed in his recent crusade against the saloon element in Chicago. Rev. M. C. B. Mason, D. D., corresponding secretary of the Freedman’s Aid Society, is one of the distinguished colored orators of Methodism. Both Rev. Hartzell and Rev. Mason are on the program for addresses at the convention. The musical setting of the latter’s lecture will be a carefully selected program by Schlatter's orchestra, whose work in connection with previous affairs of this nature has called forth very favorable comment. Another speaker will be Fred Rohrer, editor of the Berne Witness, who made Berne dry by remonstrance despite the dynamiting of his own home. Prof. Lester B. Rogers, a member of the faculty of the Tri-State normal school at Angola, will be heard during the convention. The Epworth League in this city has five branches which form what is known as a city cabinet. All / have been working earnestly for the success of the coming event, and it is expected to be one of the most notable affairs they have ever given in this district. The district officers are: District superintendent, Rev. C. U. Wade, D. D., Fort Wayne; president, Miss Nellie E. Mason, Bluffton; first vice president, Frank S. Hickman, Fort Wayne; second vice president, Paul Bachelor, Angola; third vice president, George Warner, Fort Wayne; fourth vice president, Leota Burke, Geneva; secretary, Etta Mallonee, Decatur; treasurer, J. C. Trltch Decatur; junior superintendent, Jay Griffith, Portland. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. 0 Mr. W. Decker, the singer at the Pictorium, who has pleased his audiences highly, went to Geneva today to sing tonight. With the aid of a drum and other instruments. Mr. Drake successfully represents the noises of city and country life.

BECOMES A BRIDE Mary Fancheon Rice Weds a Popular Fort Wayne Young Man A PRETTY WEDDING Ceremony Was Performed at Home of the Bride’s Parents In the presence of a few friends and relatives a very pretty wedding ceremony was performed last evening at I the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Rice [when their daughter, Mary Fancheon, [ became the bride of Amos Yoder, a prominent Fort Wayne young man. The ceremony was performed at six o’clock by the Rev. Sherman Powell, the bridal party marching to the altar amid sweet strains of “Meditation” played by R. J. Lyons of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. William Wormaid, of Barberton, Ohio, they being intimate friends of the bride and groom. The vows of the happy young couple were plighted by the use of a pretty ceremony employed by the Rev. Powell and after receiving showers of congratulations the bride and groom together with the friends present, partook of a sumptuous wedding supper, which had been well prepared for the occasion. The bride is a young woman or many accomplishments. As a musician she is popular and she posseses those qualities which go to make a really ideal girl. Her following of friends is large and unswerving and as she starts on her matrimonial career she has the well wishes of innumerable friends for a life attended only by happiness, that which she deserves. The groom is a promising young carpenter residing at Fort Wayne, who is held in the high esteem of all who know him and upon him the congratulations of Decatur people are bestowed for his ability to win the hand of such a popular young woman. The couple left last evening on a wedding tour and will be at home in Fort Wayne in the near future. Those present at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Butler, R. J. Lyons, Fort Wayne: Mrs. William Wormaid, Barberton, Ohio; Mrs. Edward Rice and son Newell, Berne, and the Rev. and Mrs. Sherman Powell. EDITORS TO MEET Mrs. Ellingham of this City on the Program at Summer Meeting MEETS NEXT WEEK At Blooming — Governor Marshall Will Give an Address—Good Program The Indiana Democratic Editorial association will hold their summer meeting at Bloomington, Indiana, on Thursday and Friday of next week. The event promises to be as pleasant as those of former years, and the various committees are busy preparing for the event. The sessions open with a business meeting on the afternoon of Thursday. At 7:30 o'clock that evening will occur the banquet with Dr. William L. Bryan as toastmaster, Mr. Bryan being the president of the Indiana University. The program includes an address by the president of the association, Walter S. Chambers, his subject being “The Indiana Democratic Editorial Association.” The next number on the program is “The Editor’s Wife,’’ by Mrs. L. G. Ellingham of this city. This is followed by a toast “Good Citizenship," by Governor Thomas R. Marshall, and the affair closes with impromptu speeches. Friday will be enjoyed with business meetings and a good program which will be of especial interest to newspaper men. At 10:30 the party will attend the university convocation and the afternoon will be spent by making a trip to the famous stone quarries of that section. Miss Rose Dunathan has been selected as principal of the high school and Mrs. W, A. Lower has again been selected as the substitute teacher.

BUGGIES COLLIDED AT GENEVA Mrs. George Fink Was Quite Badly Injured. Tuesday afternoon while Marion Connor and A. G. Briggs were driving the former’s bay horse to a buggy and leading a sorrel horse behind the buggy from the farm, they met with an accident that proved very serious to Mrs. George Fink. The horse Mr. Briggs was leading jumped upon the hind wheel of the Briggs’ buggy, and could not get off, finally breaking the buggy down,and throwing them out. They let go the lines to the horse they were driving, and it ran down Railroad street, colliding with Mrs. George Fink’s buggy, throwing herself and little girl out. The little girl was uninjured, but Mrs. Fink suffered an Injured jaw and a broken knee cap. She was taken into what is known as the Schell house in front of which the accident occurred and a physician summoned who made a careful examination. —Geneva Herald. ■ ■ o PORTER GOES WET The Eleventh Victory for the Liquor Forces in L the State FEARED BUSINESS Laoprte County Election Cause of the Wet Victory Valparaiso, Ind., June 4. —Porter county at the polls yesterday declared in favor of the licensed saloons by a majority unofficially placed at 375. This is the eleventh county in the state to vote “wet” under the option law. The “wets" carried Valparaiso by 102 majority, and carried ten of the twelve townships. The township majorities are reported as follows: For the “wets" —Center, 134; Liberty, 38; Washington, 10; Morgan, 27; Union, 21; Westchester, 203; Jackson, 21; Pine, 75; Porter, 23; Pleasant, 45. For the ‘drys"—Boone, 199; Portage, 25. Six saloons and several “quart shops” are operated in the county. The saloon victory, however, means that this city and county will be regarded as a fertile field for the liquor i men hereafter. The effect of the Laporte county election, which resulted, in such a great “wet” majority, was very apparent in the voting. A big percentage of the total vote was polled and it seems from the result that the county had a large element which feared loss of business in favor of Laporte county should this county vote “dry-.” The option election was the culmination of the most intense political battle ever waged in Porter county. With splendid weather following a night of storm and rain that did not, however, dampen the ardor of the workers, the vote came out early. Excitement at the polls gave way tn an earnest, silent effort to get out the vote that proved unusually successful. Women worked at the polls in Pleasant, Boone, Westchester, Jackson, Morgan and Union townships furnishing an incident of much interest in what has been a spectacular campaign. The Vidette, the Republican organ, came out editorially strongly for the “drys," though it gave space to the “wets." The Messenger was neutral, giving space to both sides. A big factor in the fight was that the “wets” were helped by some thirty of Laporte county's prominent citizens, who helped along the victoryin that county. O' — WILL VISIT RELATIVES HERE Mrs. Amanda Schirmeyer and Mrs. Young Due to Arrive Here Today. Mrs. Amanda Schirmeyer and daughter, Mrs. A. C. Young, are expected to arrive here this afternoon for a visit with F. M. Schirmeyer and family. They came from Belt, Montana, their home, to Fargo, North Dakota, about six weeks ago and left the latter place yesterday morning for this city. Mrs. Schirmeyer is the mother of F. M. Schirmeyer and was vei'y ill during the winter. This will be her first visit her for fifteen years. Mrs. 1 Young is a sister to Mr. Schirmeyer, ; befrr gformerly Miss Lizzie Schirmeyer. t

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GOES TO THE JURY Fate of Murderer of Ed Wright is in Hands of Fellow Citizens ARGUED YESTERDAY Went to Jury Last Evening —Both Sides Confident of a Victory Albion, Ind., June 3'. —The Gulley case opened today with the defendant on the stand and his testimony corroborated with those who had preceded him. The prosecuting attorney in his examinations referred to a letter written by Wright to Guiley, which was claimed to have been written on the Uth day of September and arrived at Bowling Green, Mo., on the 12th. As the envelop had no post mark, Postmaster Northum, of Rome City, was called to the stand and made the statement that there were times when a letter goes through the hands of the postmaster without a postmark, but that the stamp was always canceled. Guiley stated that he had no trouble with Wright before the time of his death. Attorney McNagny, of Columbia City, was the first of the attorneys to make the plea for the prosecution and he spoke for an hour and a half. Attorney Bodenhafer for the defense began his plea at 10:45 and talked for an hour, pointing out that Guiley wag in Wright’s home by Wright's sanction and was properly deporting himself. The court opened this afternoon at 1:15 with Attorney Redmond, of Kendallville, for the defense on the floor, who. occupied the attention of the court for one hour and fifteen minutes. A recess of ten minutes was taken when Henry Colerick, of Fort Wayne, was the next attorney to take the floor and who dwelt on the good character of the prisoner. Colerick spoke for an hour and ten minutes. Prosecuting Attorney Carver made his spech and Went over the evidence, leaving the cgpe to the jury and asked that they look over the law- and evidence in deciding the case and presuming them to do their duty. He spoke for three-quarters of an hour. When he closed his plea Judge Wrigley read the rules of court and the case went to the jury at 5:10 p. m. TO WAR ON NEAR BEER ITest Case Has Been Taken to the Supreme Court, v Indianapolis, Ind., June 3. —In the office of the attorney general preparations are being made to rout the be'ief which prevails evidently, in a large part of the “dry’’ territory in Indiana that “near beer” and similar malt liquors can be sold without a retail dealers' license. The question is to be settled in the supreme court in a case which has been appealed from the Clinton circuit eourt. In this case the defendant, Bert Johns, was convicted of having violated the law- by selling a species of “near beer” without a liquor dealers’ license. He was fined in a justice of the peace court at Colfax, where he operated, and appealed to the Clinton circuit court, where Judge Joseph Combs sustained the decision of the lower court on the grounds that the statute declared that a license must be procured before selling spirituous vinous or malt liquors and that therefore the defendant was guilty as charged The traffic in “near beer” in the “dry" territory of the state is large, according to information received at the office of the attorney general and that it can be stopped under a former decision of the supreme court is a contention on which the action from Clinton county will be sought. The decision, found in the ninety-third Indiana, and corrobated ’ by a subsequent decision in the appellate court, was based on a prosecution brought for the illegal sale ■ of beer and has never been directly 1 applied, by a superior court, to “near i beer.” . WILL GIVE ICE CREAM SOCIAL Kit Cowan, of BObo, has arranged for an ice creaqi social at his store on Saturday evening of this week and requests everybody who wants to enjoy a good time to come. He will handle ice cream from this time on and if you are in that locality, stop and get a dish.