Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

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LAST DAY OF TERM Session Continued as to Faylor Case—Gallmeyer Case Not Decided PETITION FOR DRAIN The Haugk vs. Fritzinger Case Will Be Heard on Morning of July Ist This was the closing day of the April term of the Adams circuit court and considerable time was occupied in the allowance of bills, and the routine usual to the end of a term • ♦ * * Fruchte & Literer are attorneys in a petition for a drain filed by them and signed by Sophia and Louis Conrad and a number of others. The cause was set for docketing on September 6, * * * A demurrer was overruled in abatement filed in the divorce case of Rosie Passwater vs. Charles Passwatei. * * * Judge O’Rourke was here today to hear evidence in the cause of Julius Haugk et al vs. Erastus Fritzinger et al, suit on street lien and it being impossible to hear all the evidence in the case, this being the last day, the cause was postponed until July 1, 1909, at 9 o’clock a. m. * * * An entry was made in the FaylorSludabaker case, providing that since this trial is in progress and has not

been completed that the term be' extended so far as this cause is concerned. However this does not allow any other matters to be disposed of. * * * Unless Judge Macy, of Winchester, should arrive this afternoon, which is not likely, and this being the last day of the term, the case of Conrad D. Gallmeyer, trustee, vs. Edward Gallmeyer et al, the big case heard about three months ago, cannot bo decided before September. Judge Macy has been sick for some time, and for this reason has been unable to render his decision. * * * W. B. Weldy, guardian for Francis Laman, filed a petition for an order to buy a piano for the ward, which was granted, piano not to cost more than S3OO. * * * In 'the Cory E. Irwin estate, David Zehr, executor, the widow, Belle Irwin filed a petition for a distribution. * * * Proof of publication of final notices were filed by Paul G. Hoper,’admin-j istrator of the Anna Malloonee estate and by Alice Ray, administratrix of. Shelby Ray estate. * * * In the William Sheets estate, Clara, D Sheets, administratrix, a petition was filed for an order on the admin-I istratrix to show cause why claims are not paid; petition sustained and administratrix ordered to make a report within twenty days. CHILDREN'S DAY M. E. CHURCH Appropriate services of" great interest will take place at both the ■morning and evening hours at the Methodist church. At the morning hour there will be baptism of children. A large number are expected. All parents who have children who have not been consecrated in baptism are affectionately urged to thus present their offspring to the Lord. Master John Dwight Peterson will sing "That Sweet Story." The pastor will give a special address on “The Real meaning and blessed Results of Children's Day.” The choir will render ‘ Wake the Song," by Excell and “Gloria from 12th mass by Mozart. In the evening the exercise will be given by the Sunday school and is a splendid Program entitled “The Children s Hour.” Recitations, motion exercises and songs, and a flag drill and splen ■ did music with orchestral accompaniment will fill a most delightful evening. The church will be appropriately decorated. The usual collection will be taken for the Children s day fund. Everybody Is cord 5 ally invited.

generous business men Gas Magnates Are Kind-Hearted People—At Ossian. 8 E. Mulholland, assistant manager and Attorney Huffman of the Indiana Lighting company, spent some time here recently securing the right of way for the new pipe line. It enters the town at the alley near the Krewson residence and thence south through the town on the first alley east of Main street. The town trustees wisely considered this best as Main street has been put in good condition and it is best to let it remain so. The company is managed by generous, kind hearted business men who will treat the people nicely if given a proper chance to do so.—Ossian News. EDITORS ADJOURN After a Happy Session at the Indiana State University City ADOPT RESOLUTIONS

Scoring Democrats and Republicans and Praising Those Worthy Bloomington, Ind., June 11—After a final session today in which resolu • tions were adopted strongly scoring the attitude of Democrats and also of Republicans on the tariff issue and mildly praising Senator Beveridge , with its fingers crossed, the Indiana . Democratic Editorial association ended its business and pleasure trip to , Bloomington. An excursion to seven lof the finest stone quarries in the state was the final entertainment feature of the meeting. A special train was furnished by the Monon railroad and the ediotrs spent a busy day. The second ousiness session was held in the student building at Indiana , university this morning, when Charles j J. Arnold of the Greencastle Democrat ! talked on "Foreign Advertising” and Fred B. Johnson spoke on “A College , Course in Journalism.” The editors I were especially well plaased the ideas of Mr. Johnson, who said i the course was intended to give the young men a practical training in newspaper work. The resolutions adopted indorse the administration of j Governor Marshall as being wise, economical and patriotic; commend the t Indiana university department of journalism and express appreciation for the hospitality of Bloomington. | At the session this morning the 'editors adopted resolutions in which | they say: “Recent events have disclosed that many men ostensibly Democrats are really protectionists, and many pretended Republicans are Democrats. The big question is whether legislation shall be class or ■ mass. The tariff question can never ibe settled until the schedules are I revised in the interests of a long suffering people. The need is tariff revision downward to a tariff for revenue only.” The desertion of some former Democrats on this issue is deeply deplored, and Democratic editors are urged to preach against the tariff. Senator Beveridge is com mended for what he has done, though fear is expressed of his protective tariff training. Senator Shively and all the Democratic congressmen who voted for a revenue tariff oply are also commended. Governor Marshall is indorsed, his' administration lauded, and the use of the executive veto commended. The resolutions express gratitude to Indiana university for establishing a school of journalism, and a mechanical course is suggested also. The unique entertainment furnished the scribes at the student convocation was a source of enjoyment. The 2,000 students made things lively with their songs and yells. Governor and Mrs. Marshall occupied seats on the stage and the governor remarked that he felt perfectly at home among the students. President Bryan presided and after a talk on behalf of the students by Ralph Solliet and a speech on behalf of the faculty by Dean Hogate, responses were made by Governor Marshall, Clay Metsker, Plymouth Democrat; O. W. Whitlock, Huntington News-Demo-crat A. B. Crampton, Delphi CitizenTimes; A. D. Moffitt, Elwood Review; Royal Purcell, Vincennes Sun.

THE FILM BUSINESS A New Line of Manufacture That Has Become a Great Big Thing IN RECENT YEARS One Travels Mighty Fast in Twenty Minutes at a Picture Show To date the board of censorship, composed of civic bodies and instituted by the Motion Picture Patents company, which controls over five thousand motion picture theaters in the United States and 90 per cent, of the film product of the world, has examined 200,000 feet of film. After the film has been approved it is released to the hundred licensed film exchanges throughout the country, who distribute it to the theaters. A. reel of film averages about one thousand feet and includes one, two and sometimes three subjects. Eighteen new reels are released each week. At the average speed of operation, 14 separate pictures pass the eye every second that the machine is in motion. Thurs the censors have seen about 46% miles of film and at the rate of twenty minutes runnin’g time for each thousand feet, have looked upon 3,360,000,000 separate pictures. Scenes depicting crime, brutality, depravity, sensuality or drunkardness are condemned and cut i out. At the last meeting only 24 feet out of 18,000 feet examined were discarded. The manufacturers study I the discarded sections and do not reIpeat similar errors. They have been (quick to realize the real demand and are eager to supply it. It will be a [matter of but a few weeks when they l will know exactly what is regarded as good and what bad according to the 'high moral standard of the censorship [board ,and will produce only such | films, thus leaving no further work 'for the board to do.

CRAWFORDGOTOUT Demented Man Made Get Away from Jail Premises WAS IN THE YARD And He Ran Away—Captured in an Uptown Alley Frank Crawford, inmate at the Adams county’ jail, where he awaits commitment to the East Haven asylum at Richmond, yesterday escaped from the jail premises and before he could be captured he had gotten in the alley at the rear of the Schafer Hardware company store. Crawford's confinement had been telling on his physical condition and Sheriff Meyer decided to allow him to be in the yard for a short time yesterday and left him in the care of Joseph Eley a prisoner. Crawford was outside the jail but a few minutes when he started on a dead run down First street. Eley followed in pursuit but could not overtake the man until he had reached the down town district He caught up with Crawford behind the Schafer store and was about to capture him when the latter secured a paving brick and threatened to hurl it at his pursuer. Eley succeded in getting him down and held him there until the officers arrived. The man was taken back to jail. o KNOCKED OUT BY WOLGAST Milwaukee Boxer Disposes of Peppers in Tenth Round. Kansas City, Mo., June 12.—1 n the last round of a ten-round fight here tonight Ad Wolgast, of Milwaukee, knocked out Ted Peppers, of Kansas City. A hard right to the stomach sent Peppers to his knees and there he remained until countd out. Wolgast is scheduled to meet Battling Nelson in Los Angeles next month.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, June 12, 1909.

BADE PRISONER GOOD-BYE Oliver Bradley, Convicted of Killing Wife, Says He is Innocent. Noblesville, Ind., June 12.—Oliver Bradley, who was taken to Michigan City after being convicted pf killing his wife, was brought to this city by Sheriff Mangus, and the prisoner took dinner with his mother. The news that Bradley was in the city soon spread and a crowd of more than two hundred of his old friends assembled at the station to say Farewell to him. He seemed to be cheerful and greeted all with a hearty handshake. To several of them he insisted that he was not guilty of the crime of which he had been convicted. “I will tell you, boys' that an innocent man is going to the penitentiary," he said, “but I live in the hope that some day the truth will be known, and then I will be given my freedom. The parting with my mother a few moments ago was the saddest thing in my life.”

THE TARIFF LAW It Will Be Made in Conference—President Taft Has Some Views AND WILL INSIST On a Bill to Meet Campaign Pledges Before He Will Agree to Sign Washington, June 12. —The tariff law will be'made in conference. That was the solemn declaration of Presi dent Taft weeks ago and it still holds good. The president is determined that the extortionate schedules of the Aldrich bill shall be reduced and he proposes that those reductions shall be made in conference. The president is preparing to wage one of the greatest fights ever waged in behalf of the ultimate consumers of the [country. He will take up the program for tariff reform, where the senate progressives leave off and he will use all the power of his high ofiice in seeing that justice is done to the masses of the people, who are affected by hign tariff duties. The president has so far assumed a waiting attitude, not because he was indifferent to the sort of revision that is to be enacted, but because he has such high regard for the constitutional limitations of his office that he thought he ought not to interfere as long as the tariff bill was before the house and senate. As soon as it gets into conference his time will come and he is awaiting that opportunity with anxiety. The president, following custom, will virtually be one of the conferees. It will be for him to say then what sort of a bill he will sign and what changes must be made before thejending bill can secure his signature. What the president intends to do, it has been learned definitely, is to inform the the conference committee that he does not approve many of the features of the Aldrich bill; that its excesses must be toned down and that it must be “revised downward” in many of its schedules. The president does not believe that the Aldrich bill is a faithful redemption of the promises of the Chicago platform and of the pledges which he himself made in his campaign for the presidency. President Taft insists not only on large reductions from the Aldrich rates, but he also stands for a veryconsiderable free list. He favors free lumber, free iron ore, free hides and free raw materials generally. His attitudf in favor of free iron ore and free lumber is likely to cause some discomfort to those Democratic senators who voted for a tariff on iron ore and lumber and who have since spent a great deal of their time trying 'to explain tn their constituents.

MOB LYNCHES TWO NEGROES Murderers of a Young Man Strung Up in South Carolina. Branchville, S. C., June 12.—A telephone message from Smoaks, ten miles from here, states that Quillie Simmons and Frank Samuels, arrested there today charged with the murder of young Ben Smoaks, two w’eeks ago were lynched this afternoon by a mob of over 500. The victims are negroes.

A FINE IMPOSED Red Wentzer Pays Eleven Dollars for Camping on Highway PLEAD NOT GUILTY And He Had Witnesses to Prove His Good Character Yesterday afternoon at four o’clock the trial of Red Wentzer, charged with camping on a public highway, occurred and after evidence was submitted on both sides subsequent to a plea of not guilty. Squire Smith assessed a fine of one dollar and costs amounting in all to eleven dollars. By a number of reputable witnesses Wentzer proved that he was not a gypsy, as it was first intimated, but that he was a dealer in horses, and a man of unquestionable repute. He gave as his reason for camping west of the city that one of his horses became sick and that he could not go further with the animal. Attorney D. E. Smith represented the defendant, and the case was fought bitterly. Following the judgment of the court the defendant and a number of horsemen who had gathered discussed the feasibility of appealing the case to the circuit court, and at a time it appeared that such an action would materialize. However the amount involved was so meager that it was decided later not to urge such an action. Wentzer resides at Marion, and is known over the country as a horseman of note. Attorney- Chauncey Lautzenhizer, deputy prosecutor, represented the state, and he demonstrated his abiliyt in making a good case, one that would stick. Attorney Lautzenhizer is a brilliant young attorney and will be heard from in the future.

HE HAS RESIGNED Prof. William Beachler Tenders His Resignation AS SUPERINTENDENT Os Decatur Public Schools —The School Board Met At a called meeting of the school board held last night the contract for four car loads of coal was let to J. D. Hale of this city, his price being the lowest of a number of bidders who sought the contract. The contract provides that Mr. Hale is to furnish four carloads and the board has an option on one or two more cars, at the price of $3.20 per ton. The Wards cast iron coal will again be used in the schools next winter. After awarding this contract the resignation of Prof. William Beachler as superintendent of the Decatur schools was read and accepted by the board. Mr. Beachler has been here for two years, and during that time labored industriously for the betterment of the schols. He has several offers, but as yet has not decided which he will accept. In whatever field he may engage his Decatur friends will extend to him and family their very best wishes. The school board has received two applications for ths superlntenueßey, but they will not engage the services of either until they have gone thoroughly into the matter. The board expects to secure a well qualified man to take the place. • o-— TWO EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS Marseilles, June 12.—Two earthquake shocks, running from northeast to southwest were felt throughout the Riviera between 9 and 11 o’clock last night. At Lambeso, a town or 2,500 inhabitants,, twelve miles northwest of Aix, several houses collapsed and eight persons are reported killed.

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KILLED GOING TO A DANCE Conductor Knocked from Car by Pole —Record Breaking Run Made. Laporte, Ind., -June 11. —While bringing over a special car for the society people here to go to Michigan City to attend the annual June hop, Harold Young, conductor on the car was killed. He was knocked from the car by a pole as he leaned out to put on the rear lights. He received injuries from which he died three hours later in the hospital. With the injured man the motorman made a record-breaking run to the hospital. The young wife and the mother were called to the bedside and soon after they arrived Young died. o SEASON IS CLOSING Over a Million Dollar Business Was Done by the Decatur Horse Company SINCE JANUARY BTH Not Fully Determined Whether or Not to Hold Another Sale this Year The horse season is closing. Another auction was held at the First street barn this morning and about fifteen head of rejects were disposed of, cleaning up the stock on hands in good shape. Yesterday’s sale was as good as any held this season, but the company has not decided whether or not to try another sale, as two weeks ffrom now will bring it mightyclose to the first of July, a dead time in the horse business, and while a sale was announced yesterday, it is , possible that it will be called off , and that the 1909 season is over. It has been a wonderful one, proving ; that square business such as the De- , catur Horse Sale company does will ; pay in the long .run. They are not i done growing yet by any means. Yes- ; terday there were more buyers here 1 than at any former gale, and next ] year will find thin the best market i in the country, in fact it is now the < equal of anything «n the west. Peo- ’ pie of Decatur do not realize, at least 1 the most of them, what this company - means for this section of the country, ] because they do not stop to think of < the immense business done. This i year's sales started on January Bth ] and have been held every two weeks t since. In that time a few over three t thousand bead of horses have been t bought and sold. At an average of ; S2OO and those who have attended the f sales know that this is a fair esti- 1 mate, the total amount of money re- s ceived for the animals is $600,000. Further than this every deal made represents two, that is to say, that the horses must be first bought up • by the company here and are then resold on sale day to the buyers, who come from all over the country. Thus tlfe enormous sum of $1,200,000 • has been handled by this company. < They have made some money, we are ; glad to say, not fortunes, enough , to encourage them tn continue in the business, and this means that the farmers and stockmen of this section of the state may continue to have the best market in the world right here at home. The firm buys their horses over this and about twenty other counties in this section, and they have a reputation for fairness unequalled in the country, every horseman and every farmer speaking of them in the highest terms. Here's hoping that he next season will double this one. o KILLED IN TEXAS TORNADO — Four Meet Death in Storm and One In Train Wreck. Fort Worth, Tex., June 12. —Reports received from Lueders, one hundred miles west of here, say four persons were killed there today in 'a tornado. During a terrific windstorm last night a Kansas City, Mexico & Orient pas- < senger train was blown from the 1 bridge across the Brazos river, be- S I tween Knox City and Benjamin, Tex. p IJ. E.Stafford, of Crowell, Tex., a pas- f; i senger, was killed. Several persons v were injured, none fatally. J

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SHE IS VERY LOW k Mrs. Amanda Schirmeyer Overtaken by a Sudden Illness IS VERY SERIOUS Aged Mother of F. M. Schirmeyer is Critically 11l Mrs. Amanda Schirmeyer, mother of F. M. Schirmeyer, is lying at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Rice in a very critical condition. She is hovering betwen lite and death. The afflicted woman who has passed her eightieth milestone, was visiting at the home of her daughter when yesterday afternoon she became suddenly and seriously 111, a dangerous sinking spell coming as a culmination of a long siege of suffering from a complication of ailments. Mrs. Schirmeyer suffered much during last night and is reported as being no better as we go to press. The infirmities of a ripe old age are contributing to the seriousness of the case, and whether or not her constitution is sufficient to withstand the ravages of th* l ailments is where the thread of hope is placed. The aged woman came from Belt, Montana, one week ago yesterday, and was enjoying as good health as usual until the siege of yesterday afternoon. She is beloved by innumerable Decatur people who will sincerely hope that she will speedily recover and be able to be about again. o LAWYERS LIKE VACATION Pleased With Plan of Adjourning Friday Evening. The Bluffton Banner said last evening: Tonight the attorneys of this city who have been in the StudabakerFaylor case at Decatur, will return, after another hard week's grill. The custom of dismissing the court on Saturday is meeting with favor with the Bluffton attorneys, as they have a chanee to come home and attend to whatever business they might have. It also gives the jurymen a chance to go to their farms and straighten up for the following week. W. H. Eichhorn, one of the atorneys for D. D. Studabaker, was home Thursday night, he having come via Fort Wayne in order to attend to’ some business for the road company, which has the contract in Tennessee. F. C. BAcey, one of the members of the company, stated last night that the two carload of tools for the contract, are on their way to the south and that the work will be pushed as fast as possible. A gang of men has been employed for some time doing some clearing and other work. o TWO FINE PROGRAMS Tomorrow Morning and Evening at Presbyterian Church. All arrangements are complete for a fine day at the Presbyterian church tomorrow. This being the usual day for the children, it was planned to give over the entire day to the young people of the church. Following out this idea the committee on arrangements decided to give tne morning hour to the Sabbath school departments. The little folks are always original and interesting. But this year the committee outdid itself In making up the program, and you may ' expect a very happy nour with the little people. The usual childrens’ i day offering will be received at this > service. An exceptionally fine musical and literary program will be rendered at the time of the evening service, 7:30 p. m. Special papers have been assigned and fine music has been prepared. This will be a great ’ service. “Come thou with us and we will do you good.’’ —o ’ OLD VIOLIN BRINGS $4,625 I Instrument of Antonius »tradivarius Sold for Record Price. London, June 11.—At the sale of a collection of musical instruments $4,625 was paid for a violin by Antonius Stradivariuos, said to be the highest price ever paid for a violin by the famous maker. Another large price was SBOO for a violin by Domenico Montagnana.