Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII. Number 171.

STRIKE STILL ON Tinplate Mill is Now Operating Some Additional Machinery STRIKERS CONFIDENT They Claim They Will Win Out in the Contest Elwood, Ind., July 20.—The only apparent change In the strike situation today was the putting in operation oi ope new hot mill and two stacks in the tinhouse department this morning. Eight mills and twelve stacks are nowrunning and the company claims that it has sufficient men to operate these continuously the three turns. A number of new men have been received at the plant since Saturday, and the company states that several of these are Elwood workmen. There was some trouble at the plant yesterday when a young man by the name of Nuzum who has been employed inside the factory got into an altercation with several of the imported workmen. There was quite a lively fight in progress for several minutes and this was only stopped by the interference of the special officers on duty at the factory, who ejected the young man from the plant. Everything is • quiet here and the strikers claiming that they have received favorable word from the east, seem to have added confidence that they will win 1 out in the struggle now on. The f strikers are determined that the esI forts on the part of the non-union men which have been made to smuggle whisky and intoxicants into the plant shall be stopped and special men have been stationed at all of the saloons to watch them. All of these men are watched from the moment they enter any of the saloons and the duty of those doing the “shadow’’ is to report the matter to the police when | the man leaves with “wet” goods for I his fellows at the factory. Already I several arrests have been made on S these grounds. Things appear to be ! reaching a climax here and it is I thought that there may be many de- ■ velopments in the situation during |>; the present week. Many of the men I are looking for some sort of a settleI ment in the near future, but neither £ side appears willing to give in and | a compromise from the present' point | of view will be the only settlement that can be obtained. Neither the I company nor the men appear willing | to take the first step and both sides H are to all indications, as firm in their ■ stand as they were two weeks ago. o —— I THE DEATH CALL I Summons from Life Little Dorothy Harmon, Aged Eight Years I ILL THREE WEEKS — I But Condition Not Believed So Serious and the End Came Suddenly I Little Dorothy Harmon, eight years k, old a, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Harmon, died at their home ou north Tenth street at about 2:30 yesterday afternoon, the announcement ■causing a shock to her many friends over the city. She had been ill for : about three weeks, suffering from K*Mhtma and some peculiar complications, but from all appearances was improving. Yesterday she seemed h tetter until during the afternoon,when she began sinking and almost before the dear ones could realize it, she had passed to the better land. She was born in this city in 1900 and was aged eight years and ten months. A r bright and hgppy little girl, she made Sfefriends w’ith all whom she met, and her death is a sad event. She is sur|thrived by the father and mother and K&ree half sisters. The funeral services will be held from the house at two o’clock tomorrow afternoon, the Rev. Richard Spetnagle officiating. I

G. CARLTON GUY NOT INSANE Announces in the Clipper That He Has Not Missed Day’s Engagement. G. Carlton Guy, inserts in this week’s issue of the New York Clipper, the official theatrical paper, an announcement that he is iiol insane, and he has no idea how the report started as he has not missed a day’s engagement with his company in two years. It will be remembered that various papers in this section printed the statement that Guy was hopelessly insane from playing Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde and was confined at a hospital at Athens, Ohio. His many friends in Decatur will be glad to learn that the report was a false one. — — —= SERIOUS INJURED Edward Heckman of Bingen, at the Lutheran Hospital AN OPERATION Unless Other Complications Develop He May Recover Edward Heckman, of Bingen, is at the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne being treated for a severe wound in the abdomen. The accident occurred at the Heckman home on Sunday, he being struck by the shaft of a buggy, the wound being inflicted in the lower abdomen and tearing the bowels. He was taken at once to the hospital at Fort Wayne, where an operation, was performed, it being the only means of saving the unfortunate man’s life. The operation was a success, and the patient being but nineteen years old, aids the cause of recovery, providing no other and more serious complications set in. Young Heckman was in the act of hitching his horse when the animal reared and the shaft was thrown forward striking him as indicated. It was thought for a time that the injury would prove fatal before anything could be done to relieve him, but at this time he has a fair chance at recovery. Mr. Heckman is known and has relatives here, who are anxiously awaiting news from the hospital. — —o - ELLA GINGLES IS NOT GUILTY The Jury Returned a Verdict in the Famous Gingles Case. Chicago, July 20. —“We, the jury, find the defendant, Ella Gingles, not guilty. We further find the charges against Miss Agnes Barrette unfounded and untrue.” With the foregoing double-tipped verdict, the jury in Judge Brentano’s court tonight wound up the famous Gingles case, the case of petty larceny which swelled into one of the greatest psychological puzzles in legal annals and made reputations tremble with weird charges of “■white slavery” and stories of psychopathic nature comparable only to the testimony given by Evelyn Thaw in the trial of her husband for the murder of Stanford White. The verdict was at once a release for the girl from the charge of stealing lace and a vindication of the position taken by the state, which was that in her terrible story of mistreatment at the hands of Miss Barrette, her accuser, and Miss Barrette’s associates, Ella Gingles lied. —o , A REAL ESTATE DEAL Martin Worthman Purchases the John T. Myers Property. A real estate deal has Just been arranged by the real estate firm of Fruchte & Litterer which transfers the present home of John T. Myers to Martin Worthman, next year the teacher in the eighth grade of the Decatur public schools. The new Worthman home is located on north Sixth street, and will make an ideal place for the new owners. Mr. Myers will soon move to the home recently purchased of Prof. Beachler on north Fourth street, and which is one of the ideal homes of the city.

ARE ADVERTISING The Old Settlers Meeting on Sunday, July 25, in the Long Grove ARE MANY SPEAKERS A Great Day for the Old Settlers of Adams and Jay Counties Nelson Bricker, of Geneva, was here today spreading the advertising for the old settlers’ meeting, the same to take place in the Long Grove, located at a convenient place midway between Geneva and Berne, about two and a half miles from each place. The meeting will represent the old settlers of both Jay and Adams county. and a program has been arranged for the entertainment of the old settlers during the day. Among the speakers mentioned on the program are the names of Congressman Adair, E. E. McGriff of Portland, Hon. Clark J. Lutz of this city, and Judge R. K. Erwin of Fort Wayne. A handsome prize will be given to the oldest settler present at the meeting, and an effort will be made to have a thorough enjoyable day and one that long will be appreciated, especially by the old settlers of the two counties. The Geneva band will give a concert, and the people generally are invited to take their dinners and make Sunday, July 25, a memorable one in the minds of many hundreds of people. This is the first meeting of this kind ever held in the county, and it is deserving of everything that can be said for it. WELL AND HEARTY Grandpa Kunkle Has Recovered from His Fall of Two Months Ago IN THE CITY TODAY Though Eighty-Nine Years Old, He Recuperates from Severe Injury Grandpa Samuel Kunkle of Monmouth, who will next month celebrate his eighty-ninth birthday, was in town today looking as hearty and brisk as a man thirty years his junior. His vitality is something quite wonderful. About two months ago, while in this ■city with his son, he attempted to i alight from a wagon and misjudging the distance, fell quite heavily, injuring his hip. It was at first feared that the bone was broken or dislocated, and he was laid up for about six weeks. If it was a fracture it was a light one, and at any rate he was on his feet as soon as would have been many a younger person. Last Sunday he walked over to Monmouth, a distance of a quarter of a mile an% today he came to this city. He is a well known citizen of this part of the county and his interesting anecdotes of the early days when this section was a wild and woolly wilderness have proved of interest to many who have talked with him. o WILL BE GREAT SPEED EVENT The Races at Fort Wayne Will Be Good Ones on July 28-31. The coming Red Ribbon race meeting which will be held at the mile track in Fort Wayne, July 28 to 31, proimses to be the best exhibition in the line of speed events seen in tins section of the country for years. Three great stake races have been arranged for each of the first three days and some of the best horses of the country will be entered. Automobile races .will take place on the fourth day. I o j This is a week of picnics. The Presbyterian Sunday school have one . today, the Evangelical Sunday school on Wednesday and the Methodist Sunday school on Thursday. Gala times will be had at all of them.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, July 20, 1909.

MADE RUN ON BANK Upland Bank Had a Run Upon Its Deposits for a Time. Marion, Ind., July 20.—When the local bank at Upland, this county, opened for business yesterday there was a big rush of depositors anxious to withdraw’ their money. One man withdrew S4OO and others .took out smaller amounts. The depositors were all promptly met and some even went back and re-deposited their money. The reason of the rush was that on Sunday a rumor got afloat that the bank was not iu the best of financial standing on account of the glass factory, which is the mainstay of the town, suspending operations for the summer. The men after quitting work on Friday and did not receive their money and knowing that some of the owners of the factory were also interested financially in the bank, the rumor was started. MISSION IS(CLOSED The Pews and Benches Have Been Removed and There Will Be No Church LIVED THREE YEARS Had Enormous Crowds at First and There Were Many Conversions

The Mission church has closed its doors, the furniture was last even- < ing carried from the Bremerkamp. building on Madison street, loaded I onto a hay wagon and quietly hauled to the Willard Steele farm east of the city, from where they were rented some years ago. The Mission was inaugurated about three years ago, by a family of musicians and preachers who happened here and found the field accessible. For a time they held the meetings on the streets, buL-soon rented the Morrison building, where they held services during the entire winter and to crowds that packed the big building from one end to the other. In the spring the leaders left town and there were rumors of shortages in the treasury. Quite a number of people had joined the faith and they held together. An effort was made to convert them into a Salvation Army band, but this failed and they finally moved into smaller quarters on Madison street, where they have have since held forth. Various leaders have tried to keep the organization together and they succedeed - until recently, when some discord arose and | this with the fact that the matter of raising funds had always been a serious one finally caused them to disband. It is possible they may open up again in the fall, ’but just vow the mission is defunct. Several men and women were in earnest in the work, and they did quite a little good. o IT IS A CRITICAL PERIOD Mrs. Fowler Regained Consciousness Yesterday Morning. A letter came this morning to John B. Stoneburner from his wife at East St. Louis, saying that Mrs. Delota Fowler, formerly Miss Dink Beery, had for the first time become conscious at nine o’clock yesterday morning. The attending physician said that if she remained conscious during yesterday and today, and should no other complications arise, that she had an equal chance to live. No further word has been received, and her many friends here will now almost hold their breath until further word is heard from her. It is indeed a critical period and every one is hoping for the best. o REV. KLAUSING HAS RESIGNED Rev. J. H. Klausing, who has served as the pastor of the German Luthi eran church at Preble for ten years past, and at the church here since its I organization, has resigned and will accept a call to the church at Big Rapids, Michigan. At present he and . his family are visiting at Cincinnati, and will go to Michigan August Ist. Rev. Klausing is an earnest worker, a man of ability ana will be greatly missed in this locality.

THREE YEARS AGO Decatur Public Library Opened Three Years Ago Tonight IT HAS GROWN Excellent Reports by the Librarian, Miss Moses, During That Time As a sort of reminder of the passing of time comes the fact that just three years ago tonight the Decatur public library wrns opened to the public and dedicated to the use of the people of this city for the purposes intended. At that time three years ago the use for such an institution was somewhat doubted, but there is no doubt today. The library is used by the greater part of Decatur'g popiD lation, and the many excellent reports by Miss Mosses the librarian, tells the story of its use and its success, as nothing else could. Each report finds the number of visitors, the number of borrowers increased and the library has in every other way grown in the public estimation until now it is known as a necessity to the needs and demands of the people of this city. With the opening of the library Miss Moses’ services as librarian began and she has more than proved her worth in this capacity. System has been the one great card that has brought the work at the library up to a high standard, and in jthis the affairs of'the Decatur public I library are ranking among the best. The personel of the library board has! I made several changes since the opening three years ago. - o REV. FOOTE DYING Manager of the U. B. Publishing House at Hufitington Cannot Live OPERATION MONDAY But It Was Too Late and the End is But a Question of a Few Days ■ I Rev. H. C. Foote, manager of the 1 United Brethren publishing house at | Huntington, and well known in this city and county, is dying at his home in that town. For several months he has suffered from some serious complications of the liver and heart,which have finally developed into a cancerous condition. Three times he has been operated upon, the last time yesterday, but without success. After the first incision yesterday it was discovered that he was beyond help and that the end was but a question of ; how many days. He is at the hospital at that place and will be taken home in a day or two, to die. He has not eaten a bite for more than a week and but little for a month. Rev. Foote is a very popular man in this section and his serious condition will be greatly deplored by all of his acquaintances, as he was a great worker in his church.

-— — ■ - DEATH OF MRS. ADDISON HAYES Colorado Springs, Colo., July 20. — Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of the late Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, died last night after an illness of six months. Mrs. Hayes was the wife of J. Addison Hayes, president of the First National bank of this city. Many messages of inquiry were received from friends throughout the country who had gained the impression that Mrs. Hayes was suffering from cancer. The cause of her death, as announced by the attending physicians, was a complication of diseases. Mrs. Hayes, the last of, the family of the late president of the Confederacy, after the death of her sister, Miss Winnie Davis, at Richmond, Va., made a trip , south a few years ago, when she was made a Daughter of the Confederacy in her sister's stead. Her mother, widow of the southern president, died ■in New York about two years ago.

MARRIED MONDAY MORNING Alva Booher of Geneva, Marries Louella Macklin of Bryant. At the office of 'Squire A. G. Lewis at eleven o’clock Monday forenoon and by him occurred the marriage of Alva Boher to Miss Louella Macklin, the former of Geneva and the latter residing near Bryant. Hie gloom is employed in the northern part of the county by the Standard Oil <ompany and after a short weddin< trip to Indianapolis and other places they will return here to make their future home. Miss Macklin is seventeen years' of age and is a daughter of the late George W. and Ida E.(Daugherty) Macklin, and is a ward of J. W. Polley, of this city, the latter giving his consent to the issuance of the license. — Portland Sun.

STILL UNCERTAIN Fate of the Tariff Bill Not Yet Known to a Certainty GOT THE MONEY Francis J. Heney Done the Government Good and Hard Washington, July 20. —Until the conferees on the tariff bill submit their report no one can foretell with any degree of certainty what the outcome' of the present complicated situation . will be. The surface indications point to a speedy termination of the long drawn out contest, but everybody realizes that there is the possibility of weeks of delay in getting final acItion on the bill. The president is between two fires. The progressive Republicans in both senate and house are watching the development day by day in order that they may be able to make up their minds quickly when the proper time comes as to whether they shall support the conference report. Until the president took a positive stand in favor of downward revision the ten Republican senators who voted against the Aldrich bill w’ere planning to vote against the conference report unless it granted in the main, the concessions for which they fought for more than ten weeks. In the house a group of Republican representatives, largely from the states representing the ten progressive senators, have made a compact to vote against any conference report : that does not meet the expectation nf the downward revisionist wing of the party. Today these progressives in the senate and house are awaiting developments. In the absence of any definite word from them the assumption is that they will, with but few exceptions, be guided by the course of the president. The conferees will submit their agreement to the president before it goes to the senate and house. If Mr. Taft gives it his approval the progressive Republican . legislators are very likely to do the ■ same thing, although it may not en 'tirely meet their wishes. The Repub- | lican senators, who would not hesitate .to vote against a conference report I that did not suit them, although it I had the approval of the president, are La Follette, Bristow and Cummins.

Washington, July 20. —That Francis J. Heney, special counsel of the department of justice and also assistant prosecutor in the so-called graft cases in San Francisco, received from this government last year $23,000 for which he performed no service was the frank admission of Chairman Tawney of the ’, appropriation committee in the house ' today. > ■■ ■ =—*- ■ ,» , POOR FORT WAYNE MERCHANTS t Fort Wayne, Ind., July 20.—Tn reply 3 to many criticisms of their action in - asking a discontinuance of the Chicago 3 excursions on the ground that the e excursions take buyers of merchandise - to Chicago, the Fort Wayne Retail - Merchants’ Association today declared ’ that it is not asking that the excur-i - sions be entirely done away with, but s that the time limit be restricted to s two days instead of three, as is now > the case. The railroads running ex- < curstons are becoming incensed at the,; (merchants ,and one of the roads de- i | dares that if the agitation continues J < it will not grant any concessions in rates on parties coming to this city, i

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THEY ENJOYED IT Kendallville Woodmen Happy Over Securing the Next Meet OF THE LOG ROLLERS They Say Decatur Was a Good Hostess and Will Try to Outdo Us Through the .efforts,, ms Frank Kimball and A. E. Haskins, delegates from Camp No. 3922, Kendallville, to the big Log Rolling at Decatur last Saturday, the next session of this big body of fraternal men will be held here. At the Decatur meeting there were perhaps two thousand members of the order present, some twenty-five or thirty camps being represented. There was a fine pro’ I gram by the Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors, the principal addresses being made ny State Deputy J. D. Volz, of Indianapolis, and C. E. Whelan, national lecturer, of Minneapolis. Then there were contests and drills and marching bands and, in short, hundreds o? good looking intelligent people enjoying themselves. So the Kendallville boys went to work to land the next log rolling at Kendallville and succeeded. The few members of the order who went from here assisted the regular delegates loyally, and when the vote was taken Kendallville was the winner. The principal contest was between Kendallville and Huntertown, and when the votes were counted, it showed 37 for Kendallville and 27 for Huntertown. The log rolling will be held some time next year, preferably in August, and Kendallville will have an opportunity to make a record as an entertainer. The fair grounds will be an ideal place to hold the log rolling, for at least three thousand people may be depended upon as visiting us at that time. The delegates report that Decatur proved a splendid hostess. The town was prettily decorated, and the people just made a holiday of the affair. No pains were spared to make the visitors feel at home, and the crowd thoroughly enjoyed the occasion. Kendallville will have to “go some” to outdo the efforts of Decatur, but this city may be depended upon to do the handsome thing. It will mean, however, much hard work on the part of the local camp, who will necessarily have to take the lead in the w'ork of entertaining the enthusiastic visiting Woodmen. —Kendallville Sun.

IT WAS PICNIC DAY Presbyterian Sunday School Holding Forth at Maple Grove Park HAVE A GOOD TIME Everything in Readiness, With the Usual Pastimes and Sports The Presbyterian Sunday school ’s 1 having the event of the year today, > the annual picnic. The big event is i being held at Maple Grove park north ! of the city and of course, every one 5 is enjoying the occasion. The crowd left the church this morning at 8:30, boarding an interurban car which took 5 them direct to the beautiful park, where everything was in readiness r for the event. The committees had 1 arranged everything tor the comfort J and entertainment of the young fofks » and from the moment they landed the ; fun began. There were swings and I j hammocks, games of various kinds, I music and all that goes to make such la day a ten time winner. Os course the feature occurred at noon, the dinner and laughter and good cheer reigned supreme. Thts afternoon one of the banner events was the ball game between the married and the unmarried men, eaco side with an even number of rooters. The crowd will return this afternoon, tired, no doubt, but happy.