Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

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PECULIAR I ACCIDENT ■Bliss Mary Palmer Thrown ■Beneath a Big Touring Car Escapes Unhurt Kiorse frightened Hyumed Quickly and Threw | Her Out—Escape from Injury Wonderful — Ipiiss Mary Palmer, stepdaughter of Bfcank carrier and known to some by that name, bad a narrow escape from being crushed to death last evH|iing beneath a big touring car. The accident was a wonderfully fortunate one for al! concerned, and those who kno w of it have been figuring all day how it could have resulted so luckily. ■Epart.v of five Modern Woodmen had gt’bcen out all day in the big car owned j by W. H. Fledderjohann, advertis- . Ing the log rolling and were returning to town about six o'clock last evening They had reached a place in fro: of the home of Alva Nichols on south Mercer avenue, and met a load of hay. As the car, driven by Will 'Warn passed around the car they met a fbuggv jn which were Miss Palme. VBnd a younger sister. The horse the girls were driving, became frightened and whirled suddenly right in front of the car. Miss Palmer was hurled | rfroni the buggy. Her body darted jf'feei first under the big car, and be■piveer. the front wheels. As soon as Hsey saw the rig Mr. Ward, threw on P. the brakes and whirled his car over f to the side of the road into a big mud [ hole. This no doubt saved the young L lady's life. The car passed entirely Mover her body but did not injure her in the least. The axles of the car was the only part to touch her and | these only forced her down into the mud. The men jumped from the rig Cgpecting to find her mangled body and were surprised to find her smiling when Sheriff Meyer helped her from beneath the big car. She was in a Berry plight of course. Her cream colored dress was coated with myd and she was plastered from head to foot, but had not a scratch to show for , the close call she had passed through. She was soon on her way home. Not so with the occupants of the auto, however, for it required about two hours for them to work out of the mudhole into which they had dashed to avert the accident. The men seemed to be frightened as b’adly as the young lady and none of them care to repeat the experience. r o WHY YESTERDAY'S TRAINS LATE Passenger Train Due Here at Noon Ran Into Engine. ~Pas-ngor train No. 2 on the Grand Rapids and Indiana road, due here at noon, dashed into a Lake Shore switch engin > on the crossing at Kalamazoo at 9 o'clock Thursday morning and derailed both engines, the baggage car and two of the pasenger cars. The passengers and the train crew were shaken up somewhat, but fortunately none was injured beyond slight scratches which did not in the least disable them. Engineer A. J. Nickell, ofjypassenger train, had a clear track signal and was moving his train along at the usual speed, when suddenly the engineer on the Lake Shore switch engine started across the G. R. & I. tracks and got on the crossing just in time to meet the other engine. The impact was severe and the fact that there were no personal injuries is considered a most remarkable circumstance. The tracks of both lines were blocked two or three hours and passenger trains were obliged to make « detour, the G. R. & I- trains leaving that line at Vicksburg going north. Conductor L. B. Hushour had charge of the G. R. & I- train- Both en " gines were badly damaged, but the cars remained upright and were not damaged and the train completed its trip in its entirety with the exception of the engine—Fort Wayne Sentinel. James Fristoe went to Winona Lake today to join his wife, who has been at that place for the past month. Mr. Fristoe will spend a few days fishing before returning.

Number 168.

RAISED AN ENTIRELY NEW POINT Congressman Cullop Thinks Tariff Law Unconstitutional. Washington, July 16.—An entirely new point, which sent the lawyers of the house of representatives on a search through their law books, was presented in a speech delivered today by Representative William A. Cullop of the Second district of Indiana. Mr. Cullop has made what appears to be an interesting discovery. He has found a clause in the title of the tariff bill which he believes renders the whole act unconstitutional. He asserts that even if it passes it will not be worth the paper it is written on and, therefore, the special session of congress, which is costing the country so much bother and worry, will accomplish absolutely nothing, in his opinion. FARMS IN MONTANA Uncle Sam is Giving Away Farms in Montana IRRIGATED FARMS Settle Pro Rata the Cost of Irrigation—Time for Payment You'll have to hurry if you want to get one of the free farms which Uncle Sam is giving away in Montana. Two irrigation projects in the state now have lands subject to homestead entry, but at the rate they are being filed upon the homeseeker of a fewmonths hence will either have to look to less favored localities or wait un-

tjl new units of the big government projects are completed. Several hundred farms are already in cultivation, and and churches have been established throughout the projects. Alfalfa, one of the great wealth producers of tne west, is the principal product, but wheat, barley and oats yield abundantly and are of excellent quality. Sugar beets also promise to be a most profitable crop. Commercial apple orchards are being set out extensively and berries and small fruits in these sections give good returns. Dairying is very profitable. Alfalfa is all that is needed to prepare cattle and sheep for market, and hogs can be raised on alfalfa, peas and hulless barley. There is a good local market for practically everything that can be raised on the farms, but excellent transportation facilities are furnished by the railroads which connect the sections with the Pacific coast cities and the Mississippi valley. One of the most pleasing features in connection with the government projects is found in the fact that new towns have been laid out at short intervals throughout the farming communities. The development of the towns is keeping pace with the farming communities. Graded schools, churches, banks and business houses are being built, and the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker are all finding opportunities for making money with limited capital for a beginning. Each settler is required to pay his pro rata share of the cost of building the irrigation works, but the payments are made in annual installmenst extending over a period of years, and no interest is required. If you are looking for an opportunity to get a fine farm, write to the Statistician of the U. S. Reclagiation Service, Washington, D. C. ■ PREACH AT PLEASANT VALLEY Worthy C. Williams, of Pennville, the superintendent of the Portland quarterly meeting of Friends, will be at Pleasant Valley next Sabbath and Sabbath night. He will be accompanied by the Rev. Rhoads, an evangelist of note, who will preach at this time. Throw off the lethargy, and get up a little energy and come out and hear them. It might do you good. —o Bluffton will have her first Sunday bal Igame of the season on next Sunday ,and they are trying to put a little life in the game by running an excursion on the Clover Leaf. The base ball business this year is not a swimming success and several of the clubs of the northern league are near the rocks.

THAT DIXON FIRE People There Still FeelingUncomfortable About It ORIGIN UNKNOWN The Insurance Adjusters Will Likely Arrive in a Few Days Adjusters for the Dixon fire are expected to arrive on the scene in a few days to take up the matter of the insurance adjustment. W. A. Lower spent a few hours looking over the ruins, which by the way, are such that it does not make an insurance agent feel glad. The fire did its w-ork complete, not leaving anything worth talking about in either the elevator or the hardware store, both buildings and contents being entirely wiped out by the conflagration. Its origin is still a mystery and at present writing about half of the population of Dixon are afraid to turn in at night for fear the hoodotf is on them, and will light the torch at any time. There is some speculation that the hardware store was visited byburglars on the night in question and that this may be the medium through which the fire fiend got in its work. The threads bringing about this conjecture come from the fact that the safe bears a few marks of having been bored, and if this can be substantiated it will settle in the minds of the people the origin of the fire. But on the whole the people generally ip Dixon are feeling mighty uncomfortable, and naturally- do not like the many suspicious fires that hive occurred there in the last few years. LIGHTNING STRUCK Home of Will Pennington During the Storm Last Night

STRUCK CHIMNEY Mr. Pennington Was Getting a Drink from Well —Was Badly Shocked Last night during the thunder storm the home of Will Pennington w'as struck by lightning, striking the chimney and running down the roof to the eaves spouting where it seems to have scattered. When the crash came, followed by the terrific crash of thunder, it was thought by the whole neighborhood that something was struck close by. At the time Mr. Pennington was in the yard getting a drink from a well, and he was so shocked that he fell to the ground. Mrs. Pennington was also shocked so that she it utterly prostrated. Inside the house the rooms are covered with soot, which will be difficult to clean, for the furnishings and walls are covered with a thick coat of the soot, and the family at present is wondering w’hat to do with them. Q SON BORN TO DE SAGANS Anna Gould is a Mother by Her Second Marriage. Paris, July 15.—-A son was born today to Princess De Sagan, who was Miss Anna Gould, of New York. Prince Helie De Sagan and Mme. Anna Gould were married July 7, 1908, after her divorce from Count Boni de Castellane. o AEROPLANE MAKES RECORD Glenn H. Curtiss Travels at Rate of Thirty-Six Miles an Hour. New York, July 15. —Nine miles in fifteen minutes were made by an aeroplane under the control of Glenn H. Curtiss, this morning. He made two attempts, but the first was cut short by fog. Curtiss has made a number of successful flights but the record made this morning is his best mark.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, Juy 16, 1909.

MRS. BUMP IS RECOVERING Woman Who Murdered Babe Will Son Go Home. Fort Wayne, Jnd., July 16. —Mrs. Ralph Bump, the young mother who is at the Lutheran hospital recovering from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid taken Sunday night when she poisoned her baby, is improving rapidly and will soon be able to go to her home. In the meantime the authorities are not taking any steps in the case and are not even guarding her at the hospital as she is in charge of the members of the family, who still remain constantly with her although she has changed her mind and says she wants to live. She rested better last night than at any time since she wag taken to the hospital and there is no probability that she will be detained w-hen she is ready to leave. A bond may- be prepared which it will be necessary- for her to sign, but she will not know the import of the document and will return to Lafayette township without the knowledge that she is charged with any crime. o CORPORATION TAX • It Will Likely Be Incorporated in the New Tariff Law DENOUNCES IT Congressmen Barnhart and Korbly Denounce the Bill Washington, July 16.—President Taft has won his fight for a corporation tax. It was conceded today- by members of the conference committee that, out of deference to the Presss ident, the conferees will agree to include the corporation tax in the finished bill. The president has made a most determined ngnt for this feature, and the decision to accede to his wishes is perhaps the greatest victory he will win in connection with the tariff. The house conferees, who stood out at first for an inheritance tax, have yielded to the president's desires and will support the 'corporation tax. Washington, July 16.—Two of the Indiana members of the house of representatives, Messrs. Barnhart of the Thirteenth district and Korbly of the Seventh, today expressed very positive views in regard to the Aldrich tariff bill. Neither can see any hope for the consumer in the sort of tariff bill that Aldrich proposes to foist

upon the country, Mr. Barnhart, although a Democrat, does not hesitate to denounce the Democratic solons who have been helping in the task of framing a bill that will best serve the special interests and he suggests that it would b'- a good idea to kick them out of the Democratic party. Washington, July 16. —A nip and tuck contest is now going on between the friends of tariff commission legislation, and those who would like to drop out of the tariff bill everything bearing on the subject. Speaker Cannon. who once pretended to be friendly to the tariff commission provision in the senate bill, has grown lukewarm and is said to be encouraging opposition to it in conference. o : PROMISES HUSBAND TO LIVE Woman Who Killed Her Baby and Attempted Suicide is Forgiven. Fort Wayne, Ind., July 15. —Mrs. Fred Bump, who killed her baby and : then attempted to commit suicide, j promised her husband today that she would not make another attempt on her life. The husband has forgiven her folly. The authorities are doing nothing in the case and it is said that they may let the matter drop. 0 PERSIAN SHAH A REFUGEE Nationals Seem to Have Made a Success of Revolution. Teheran, July 16. —The shah has taken refuge in the Russian legation. A deputation from the British and Russian legations is now on its way to inform the nationalist leaders of the fact.

OF UNSOUND MIND Is the Verdict of the Sanity Boards Inquest on Mrs. Hendricks WABASH TOWNSHIP Will Be Sent to East Haven —Has Many and Queer Hallucinations Squire Joel Liddy and Drs. ■C. H. Schenk and Amos Reusser of Berne, held an inquest this morning at the clerk’s office, declaring Mrs. Sarah E. Hendricks a well known woman of Wabash township, of unsound mind, and she will be sent to the East Haven hospital -as soon as possible, probably next week. She has been unbalanced for about three months and her condition is very serious. She imagines she is very wealthy, talks of buying a big touring car, of traveling as an agent or pedler, is hilarious, sings, shouts, threatens, rings the dinner bell at all hours of the night, swallows pins to keep the children from getting them and does many other strange things. The report says that from 1878 to 1885 her married life was very unpleasant and that during that time she suffered a severe mental strain which probably caused this trouble of the mind. It has been necessary to watch her very carefully since June 10th. She is at the home of A. J. Meyers, who is caring for her as best he can. The lady is 64 years old, was married thirtytwo years and has four children, the youngest being at this time twentyeight years old. Her husband has | been dead for several years. WOODMEN READY For the Big Log Rolling to Be Held Tomorrow AT ' STEELE’S PARK Great Program Will Be Rendered During the Day Decatur camp No. 9770 is now hi readiness for the Woodmen log rolling to be held at Steele's park tomorrow, and it promises to be the biggest event pulled off in Adams county for many years. The reception uoiumittee will escort the visitors who arrive on every train to the established head quarters where they will await the big parade. Music will be furnished during the morning hours. The business men will decorate in the colors of the fraternity —red, white and green—and in many of the stores cards will be placed in the windows w-elcoming Modern Woodmen. Several interesting addresses will be delivered in the morning at the park after which dinner will be served by the Royal Neighbors. Following this a number of contests will be pulled off w-hich will afford much interest to the spectators. National Lecturer Whelan of Madison, Wisconsin, Is on the afternoon program for a lecture and this will be of great interest. Everybody —Woodmen or not —are cordially invited to enjoy the day at : Steele's park. In the evening a large | class of candidates will be initiated. o A shower was given last night at the home of Miss Elma Ashbaucher for Miss Mabel Bowers, who will be married some time this month to Ed Craven. The guests were entertained by contests and in conversation until about 10 o’clock when lunch was served. Miss Bowers was compelled to fish for her many gifts and this pastime afforded no little amusement. Present were Misses Gusta Markley, Mabel Bachelor, Lucile Cook, Zeffa Bowers, Sarah Baumgartner, Mabel Ashbaucher, Evelyn Craven, Clara Cook and Mrs. Homer Baker, Mrs. ,Rozzie Cleaver, Mrs. Fred EmshwilerJ jof Montpelier—Bluffton Banner. |

MISS BEABER GOES TO PERSIA Fort Wayne Lady Begins a Six-Year Service as Foreign Missionary. Miss Lillian Beaber, of Fort Wayne, left this week to resume her work as a missionary in Tabriz, Persia. She spent ine years in the work at that place and has just concluded a year of rest. She has charge of a school for girsl in Persia and has been very successful. She is supported by the Presbyterian people and during her visit at home gave a lecture here, telling many of her experiences. Miss Beaber is a widely beloved woman and just before her departure on this trip the Fort Wayne people gave her a shower, at which time she received many costly and beautiful and useful gifts. She will not be home again for six years. BE A BUMPER CROP Corn Was Never Better in Old Adams County than this Year FARMERS PROSPER Wheat, Oats, Corn and Hay is this Year Above the Average From information obtainable this time there has not been a season since the very earliest of Adams county history, in which prospects for a big corn crop were as encouraging as is the case at present. One can travel from one boundary of the coun- i ty to the other without seeing a single field of poor corn, but to the contrary it is invariably exceedingly good. While last season was a bountiful one for a number of the farmers for corn, reports from every section of the county confirm the assertion that this year's harvest of the valuable grain will by fur exceed all former records, unless conditions undergo a serious change. It will not be uncommon this fall it is said, to hear of many seventy bushels to the acre averages and this will be certainly a record. The hay thus far in old Adams has been of the very best. Farmers have reported that a single trip around a field, cutting one strip , has been sufficient to make a big load. What wheat there is is good, but it will be remembered that not much ' was planted last fall as a consequence ' of the prolonged drouth. Many of i the farmers have but from two to ten i acres of wheat planted. Every indi- I cation points to a big oats crop and ’ oats this year is good. Thanks to < good providence, Adams county farm- 1 ers can this summer whistle as they 1 work, and make money as they sleep, i When the farmer prospers the rest of I the folks do. i

SPECIAL TRAIN FOR BLUFFTON J < A Ball Game is Scheduled for That t Place Next Sunday Afternoon. I I The Clover Leaf railroad is adver- i tising a special train and a special i rate to the ball game scheduled at : Bluffton on Sunday. The game is < to be played by the Bluffton and the i Huntington clubs, and to excite a lit- 1 tie interest in the game for Sunday]: the fact is advertised that on Wednesday these same clubs played a seventeen inning game. Decatur may furnish a part of the crowd for the game Sunday as the special train will furnish an inducement for the fans. —o — ■ ■ THE SOCIAL WAS POSTPONED Will Be Given at the M. E. Lawn this Evening by Holy Grail Boys. The Ice cream social announced by the Holy Grail boys for last night had to be called off on account of the rain, and will be given this evening at the parsonage lawn, M. E. church. The special program will be given as arranged for and the same guarantee of last evening for a good time holds good for tonight. If you don't believe it, go up and see if you don’t have the] time of your life. | o — I County Treasurer Lachot has re-j ceived returns from trie state, and is I now ready to pay the warrants for It the July settlement. These officers Ir Iwill likely get their money within next few days.

Price Two Cents

LIKES ARMY LIFE V. J, Weaver Writes us a Letter from Fort Wright, Washington WILL GO TO ISLANDS Leave Seattle August Fifth —Brother is in Same Company With Him V. M. Weaver, a former resident of this city, now a menroer of the third infantry, United States army, writes us from Fort Wright, Washington, where he has been stationed for a few months. He is well known here and his many friends wlil be glad to hear that he is getting along nicely and that through a peculiar co-inci-dence he is in the same company with his brother, A. J. Weaver. The latter joined the army In November, 1907, ana seven months later V. M. decided io enlist and did so. He was sent to Columbus, Ohio, and from some unforseen reason was sent to Fort Wright, Washington, where his brother was stationed. Arriving there he was again fortunate in being assigned to the company in which his brother belonged. Thus they are camping together and enjoying army life to the limit. Both are well and happy and like the business. They have been notified that on August first their regiment will leave Fort Wright and proceed to Seattle,where they will be given an opportunity to see the big fair, after which they will I sail on the fifth of August for the Philippines, where they will no doubt remain during the rest of their enlistment. They are looking forward to the trip and to life in the foreign land with much pleasure and believe the experience will prove a valuable one. o THE STRIKE GETTING GOOD Tinplate Mill at Elwood Scene of Labor Warfare. Elwood, Ind., July 16. —The officers of the American Sheet and Tin Plate plant at this place anticipate no trouble over the proposed strikes in other departments as th®re are enough officers inside the grounds to keep down any rioting there. The city officials continue to patrol the outside day

and night as they have since the strike was called. The management is doing what it can to avoid trouble. The officers of the strikers are also doing everything in their power to keep down the spirit of riot. A number of men came in from the east last night and today and were at once taken to the mills, where they were put to work. Some of those who were imported last week have quit and gone back to their homes. There was considerable stir among the strikers today when it was learned Dave Rogers had returned to the city and had been to the mills in conference with the officials of the plant. Rogers is one of the strikers and was as good a man as the company had. He was offered a position at a good salary as manager of one of the departments. It is not known whether he accepted, as he left the city for the east immediately after the conference. o Samuel Acker, the cement man, Is at South Bend today in the Interest of the Acker Cement works of this city, which firm is doing a prosperous business. Mrs. B. Haefling will entertain at Sunday dinner a number of guests in honor of Mr. and Mrs. B. Uhl. Several social events will occur during . next week in honor of Mr. and Mrs . Uhl. , The Decatur Shamrock base ball , team will go to Geneva tomorrow to cross bats with the club of that place. 5 The locals are taking with them a , good bunch and they expect to make . their opponents go some to beat them. The committe on arrangemnets for the log rolling has made an alteraItion in the line of march and as relarranged is as follows: Form on First street at 9:30 o'clock, march west 'to Monroe street, to Second street, to Madison street, to Third, to Monroe, to Seventh, to Madison, to Third, to Jefferson, to Second, to Monroe, and to the park.