Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Vtfljine VII. Number 176.

COURTHOUSE NEWS Habeas Corpus Proceedings to Keep Mrs. Hendricks from Asylum filed this morning By Attorneys Peterson and Moran —A Marriage LiI cense —Other Items

.Ha!-- is corpus proceedings were filed this morning, through attorneys Petarson & Moran, to prevent Sheriff Meyers from taking Mrs. Sarah E. Heilirioks to the insane asylum at Bjekis nd. It will be remembered that about ten days ago, an inquest ■was held on Mrs. Hendricks and she •was declared of unsound mind. Her sons Theodore, with whom she lives, and John E., when they read of the action, were much surprised and came to this city and employed attorneys to. prevent such action, claiming that their mother was not insane, and that they wished to care for her. The papers were received today admitting her to the asylum and the attorneys at ■j once filed the action. They say in thefcomplaint which is against Sheriff Meyer, that Mrs. Hendricks is in very poor health, but is of sound mind and ■ will be able to prove this if given an opportunity to do so in court. As soon as she is able she will likely come here and the cause will be heard before Judge Merryman. A marriage license was issued to Chari's Nlcolet, 21. a cutter in a paper box factory at Fort Wayne, to Mary Agnes Best, 16, of Preble. •Real estate transfers: Jesse A. to Jefferson school township tract in Jefferson township, S4O. D. D. Heller & Son. attorneys, filed a new case entitled Evaline Archer et al vs Mary Byson et al. a petition for theapartition of real estate. K- —o ——— ■Bases Fannie McConnel and Florence Kunkle returned yesterday from Indianapolis, where they visited irieftds. ■ •- o MOTHERLEFTHOME sST Sheriff Meyer Beseeched to J Look for Mrs. Weaver of Union, Ohio CAME TO GENEVA Four Weeks Ago, Not Heard from Since—Her Mind is Slightly Affected Sher’if Meyer this morning received a Communication from Sylvester 1. Weaver, of Union, Ohio, asking him to Ist them in locating his mother | "who left her home there about four weeks ago, saying she was coming to this county to visit with relatives of her deceased husband, who live' near Geneva. Since then no word lias been received from her and it is feared Bhe has met with foul play. She is shout sixty-five years old and when Jftto left home had with her fifty dolB lam, in cash and some valuable notes ■ and other papers. She is described as being about five feet high, weighs 180 Pounds, slightly gray, wore a black and white dress and her mind is slightly affected. Her husband had a number of relatives at and near Geneva and the Mr. Weaver who wrote theßetter is her only son, but is in Poor health, and unable to come here 'to look up his mother. Sheriff Meyer sent the letter to Marshal Jack Atkinson at Geneva, who will no doubt thoroughly investigate the affair. o Mrs. Emmett Kelley returned to her home near Tocsin after attending to business in the city. Mrs. Sol Sheets gave a dinner party yestorday afternoon. The guests were toSStained in the afternoon with; music. ,

IN INTEREST OF POOL SELLERS Montpelier Races Were Run for the Gamblers. Bluffton people who attended the Montpelier races Friday came home with a big howl against the manner in which the races were conducted and declare that the events were run for the benefit of pool-sellers. Moreover that the pool-sellers made no bones about their operations, but openly operated in the presence of the entire grandstand and the officers, and further they claim the races were plainly miscalled. One horse owner became so angry at the manner in which the free-for-all was conducted that he drew hjs horse out, and refused to return it under threats of being suspended, and finally was suspended for the season and fined SIOO. He declared he would contest the race. If the kicks are well-founded and they are made by reputable persons here, it means a blackeye for Montpelier in future races.—Bluffton Banner. CAME HOME TODAY Mr. and Mrs. Otto Haubold Landed at New York and Start for Home FOURTEEN WEEKS On Delightful Trip Through the Various European Countries Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas received a message last evening from their daughter, Mrs. Otto Haubold, announcing that they had landed safe and sound in New York City. They left that city last night on the Pennsylvania flyer and arrived at Fort Wayne, this morning, coming on to this city on the one o’clock car over the interurban. They left here April 19th and sailed from New York two days later, having been absent three months and a half, and their trip has certainly been a pleasant one. They have visited the prettiest spots in Italy, France, England, Switzerland and other countries of Europe, always seeking the places of the most interest and from the tone of letters, must have found them. They sailed from Southampton on the steamer Cleveland, on July 16th, coming over the Hamburg lines and being on the ocean nine days. Their many friends here will be glad to see them and hear of the wonderful sights they have seen abroad.

AN ALLIANCE AGAINST BRYAN A Little Politics Being Played Out in Nebraska. Omaha, Neb., July 26—It has long been 'the acme of Mayor “Jim” Dahiman's ambition to become governor of the state of Nebraska, and in order to reach that goal he has formed an alliance with Governor Shallenberger, which means the sacrifice of William J. Bryan, who he-etofore has been considered one of his closest friends. The surprise which the announcement of this alliance created in political circles can well be imagined when the fact is taken into consideration that Mayor Dahlman has always been a pronounced whisky advocate, while Shallenberger is bitterly opposed’ to the traffic. According to the terms of this unique merger of political Interest Dahlman is to perfect an organization of his cohorts that will pave the way for Shallenberger to step into the United States senate, while he himself will assume the mantle of Nebraska's chief executive. That there had been a break between Bryan and Mayor Dahlman came to light when Governor Johnson of Minnesota, Bryan's only dangerous opponent in the last Democratic national convention, was asked to speak on the occasion of the annual picnic of the Dahlman democracy, while the commoner was not even invited to attend the affair. It is a well known fact that Bryan is anxious to take up the senatorial toga, but his dignity and pride precludes the possibility of his becoming an avowed candidate. ■ Miss Martha Fonner entertained Mr. Bernard Fonner of Fort Wayne and Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kunkle at dinner Sunday at her home north of town. |

FIRST WORK DONE! Plowing on the 8., G. & C. Traction Line Began this Afternoon OTHER GENEVA NEWS Twilight Services Largely Attended—Many at Old Settlers Picnic A Geneva, Ind., July 26. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Rev. G. M. Meyers preached an able sermon to a large and appreciative crowd Sunday evening, the occasion being the twilight service. His subject was “The Unity of Churches.” In the course of his remarks he showed where all the protestant churches are united in the services of one Savior and all working toward reaching one great place—heaven, but the only difference is the difference in the creeds and that it would J>e a great blessing to all mankind if all the protestant churches were united in one great body to battle against sin and garner sheaves for the Master. Our town was very quiet Sunday as nearly everybody was in attendance at the old settlers’ picnic northeast of town, where was gathered a large concourse of people. Every one spoke in the greatest praise of the able address delivered by the Hon. C. J. Lutz of Decatur, and the entire program was carried out as advertised Much credit is due to the managers of the affair. : Work, real work, commenced at Geneva today on the Bluffton, Celina and Geneva traction line. At just 1:17 this afternoon the plowing began for the grade. A large force of men are at work setting the grade stakes and , doing the other necessary work. The line will be pushed to ah early completion as the contractors, Brown, Bears & Company have a contract to complete the grade within sixty days. Who said Geneva w’as not going to have a traction line, even if it does come dowh a side street? W. B. Sawdy, formerly of Geneva, but who for a year has been conducting a hotel at Pennville was here Saturday looking for a house. He has sold his hotel and will move his family back to this place. Nelson Richter, manager of the Anderson & Knepper drug store, went (Continued nr. page 4.) o — . SOLD THE BONDS Peterson and Moran Make Transaction in Jay County * $12,000 IN BONDS For Jay County Road Were Disposed of Last Saturday Attorney J. C. Moran was at Portland Saturday, where he closed the sale of a $12,000 issue of macadam road bonds for Wabash township, Jay county. The bonds were issued in August, 1908, and on account of the difficult |procedure which must be observed preparatory to the disposal of same they had not been able to sell them. Attorneys Peterson and Moran were, engaged to sell the bonds and the necessary red tape was well taken care of by them and they lost no time in disposing of the bonds. The sale was made to E. M. Campbell’s Sons and Company of Indianapo’is, who Saturday consummated the transaction at Portland. The sale of the bonds will now permit the construction of the road in Wabash township, Jay county and the farmers whost* land abuts the road to be Improved are elated to know that the highway will be given immediate attention. The Decatuj- attorneys have made an enviable reputation in this line of work and the results of Saturday is but a repetition of what they have been I ioing for years.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, July 26, 1909.

BITTERLY OPPOSED TO THE TAX Indianapolis Has No Use for the Corporation Tax. Washington, July 26. —From Indiana there has come a veritable deluge of objections to the tax on the net incomes of corporations. It is an interesting and perhaps significant fact that the gigantic corporations of the country, particularly the trusts, are urging no criticism of this contemplated tax. This has given rise to a belief that the high financiers, who operate through these enormously capitalized concerns, see away of juggling their accounts or of changing their methods of bookkeeping that will enable them to escape a large share, if not all, of the tax. The objections come from state like Indiana, where corporations do an honest business in an honest way and jugglery and deception in corporate management are not known except in rare instances. MORE BONDS HERE Bonds for the C. C. Sprunger Road Came Saturday

Afternoon THE AUGUST SESSION Board Called to Bluffton on Wednesday of Next Week The bonds for the C. C. Sprunger macadam road arrived Saturday at the auditor’s office, and as soon as they are signed will be taken up by purchasers of these gilt edged securities. The road is a Monroe township improvement and will like be built yet this summer. The commissioners will meet in their regular August session next Monday, but at present writing there is nothing of importance that will take their time, and it is likely that the session will be short and sweet. The most important part of their labors will be the preparation of their estimates of the expenditures for next year. On Wednesday of next week thd commissioners of this county go to Bluffton, where they sit in joint session with the commissioners of Wells county, and hear objections to the construction of the James A. Engle macadam road, which proposed improvement traverses the county line dividing Nottingham and Hartford townships. The improvements going on in the basement at the court house are about completed. It has long been a needed improvement which the general public will appreciate. ' NO AFFIDAVITS FILED The Bluffton Antis Spent Good Money for Nothing, Inquiry today brought out the fact that none of the members of the Civic League or of the police force or Detective C, C. Clark have consulted the prosecuting attorney with the purpose of filing affidavits against anybody in consequence of the raid last Saturday night. It was reported last night that with the arrival home of Rev. A. H. Brand, who had been away all week that action growing out of the detective’s work and the raid would start today, but up to this afternoon this prediction had not been confirmed, and Rev. Brand, president of the Civic League, or others of the league had not consulted the prosecutor. Detective Clark said today that his work was ended here and he had so informed -the league and that there was no further reason for him to stay in Bluffton and that it is necessary for him to leave to look after other work, and he said that he was trying to complete arrangements to leave Bluffton this evening in company with his wife and little son for Indianapolis. He declared emphatica'ly that this .is the last liquor case that he wants to get mixed up with.— Bluffton News.

THE FIRE FIEND • Has Been Very Busy Here Since Saturday Afternoon—Four Fires REPORT TWO SUNDAY Neither One Resulted Seriously—Elevator Will Likely Be Rebuilt The fire fiend has been quite busy here since Saturday afternoon, starting with the destruction of the big Niblick elevator, but none of the other fires have proven disastrous. Sunday morning the alarm was turned in from the house owned by John Coffee, corner of Madison and Tenth streets and occupied by Chill Omlor, but the blaze was out before the fire company arrived there. The loss was small. At the same time a fire occurred at the Henry Knapp machine store on Monroe street, starting under a desk and was burning quite briskly when discovered by Mr. Badders. It was soon extinguished by means of a few buckets of water. Saturday afternoon while the elevator fire was in progress, the peanut and popcorn machine of T. C. Corbett, standing in front of his cigar store ,on Second street caught fire and caused Timothy some excitement for about half an hour. The machine was saved, but the stock of peanuts wag depleted. The Niblick elevator continued to burn nearly all of Sunday, the smol- , dering timbers and grain springing into a blaze several times during the day and it was necessary to turn the water on. The loss was about as stated in Saturday’s paper, reaching close to SB,OOO, and if the building was to be built now and placed in as good condition for operating as it was, the loss would perhaps be SIO,OOO. The ' grain loss included 300 bushels of ! wheat, 165 bushels of clover seed, 80 I bushels of rye, some oats and quite i a lot of corn. Mr. John Niblick said , this morning that nothing had been , done as yet toward rebuilding and the . matter will not be decided for several I days or a week. Several parties are desirous of buying the ground to build an elevator, and Niblicks who own it may decide to sell, or they may I decide to rebuild. It is however, . practically certain that a new and modern elevator will be erected by ' some one where the old one stood.

PLAYED THEM HIGH Noah Marker of Tipton, is More Than Fifty Thousand Short BANKER GONE WRONG He Was Assistant Cashier of the First National Bank Tipton, Ind., July 26.—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Another banker has gone wrong. Noah Marker, assistant cashier of the First National bank of this city, has disappeared and investigation shows that more than fifty thousand dollars besides the money on hand at the close of business Saturday evening is missing. The bank is temporarily closed. The bank examiner vis’ted the bank Friday .and found the embezzlement, which was a clever manipulation of the books, and it was an easy matter to trace the embezzlement to the absconding bank official. The First National is one of the strongest banks of the state, with a capital of one | million dollars.

ORDER TO SELL A FACTORY Fence Brace Factory on Hands of a Receiver. An order will be asked of Judge Sturgis this afternoon for the sale of the Extension Fence Brace factory. There will be several men who will try to buy the plant, it is claimed, when the receiver offers it for sale. E. L. Thompson who has the patent for the fence brace which was manufactured, will be one of the men who will try and buy it. Sylvester Lounsbury and several other men who are interested, will also try and make the purchase. Since the company went into the hands of a receiver there have been a number of orders received and filed. It is stated that when the factory is again in the hands of a private corporation that there will be a large number of orders and that the factory will be kept busy. Only the machinery in the factory will be sold by the receiver, as E. L. Thompson owns the patent and this cannot be sold. —Bluffton Banner.

WORKED SUNDAY - , I I President Taft Did a Few Tariff Stunts Yes- , 1 terday I THEY MAY REPORT . 1 It is Hoped That Congress Will Adjourn by Last . of Week Washington, July 26.—Eight of thC progressive senators who voted against the Aldrich bill on its passage in the senate Saturday made known to the conference committee upon what conditions they will vote for the conference report when it is presented to the senate. Their notice to the conference w r as in the nature of an ultimatum, and was in response to inquiries secretly conducted by agents of the conferees. The ultimate of the progressives was that they do not propose to be tricked by any fake and meaningless concessions, but they must be assured that whatever reductions are granted are real reductions which will benefit the consumers. A significant part of their reply’ was that, in addition to the concessions on coal, oil, hides, lumber, print pare, iron ore and boots and shoes, they will Insist on a. heavy cut in structural steel and some very substantial reductions in cotton goods. The progressives suspect a trick in the announcement that the conferees are ready to make reductions “in the cheaper grades” of cotton goods. To the uniniated this sounds good, but Senator Dolliver, who is an expert on the cotton schedule, says there is a senegambian in the wood pile. He explains that there is no demand for reductions in the cheaper grades of Cotton, because cheap cotton cloth is not worn by American women because of its rough, coarse character. Cheaper cotton cloths, according to the lowa senator, may good enough for Chinese and others, who are particular as to their dress, but only the higher grades of cDtton have any appreciable sale in America. Washington, July 26. —Sunday brought no cessation of President Taft's tariff activities. His conference with house and senate leaders covered practically the entire day. Even the customary Sunday afternoon ride through the parks was canceled. Although he admitted frankly to several of his callers today that the situation was not all that could be desired, the president expressed hope that another twenty-four hours would suffice to straighten out the tangle in the conference, and that the report of the conferees would be presented in the house on Tuesday. It is further hoped at the white house that the report will be accompanied by a definite plan of action which will be acquiesced in by the house and senate and that congress may adjourn by the last of this week.

WILL VETO THE BILL Atlanta, Ga., July 26.—Governor Brown will veto the Alexander nearbeer bill, should it pass both houses. The governor, by an ante-election pledge, is bound not to call a special I session of the assembly, even if the Prohibitionists desire one.

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BIG CROWD AT PARK Balloon Went up but Miss Wright Was Left on the Ground Below WILL TRY IT AGAIN Ascension to Be Made Sunday at Four O’Clock at the Park Between two and three thousand people visited Maple Grove park Sunday afternoon, and all enjoyed themselves even though the balloon ascension proved a fizzle. Each car from neon until four o'clock was packed and a long string of buggies and automobiles near the park told the story of how many had arrived at the place of amusement. The Juvenile band furnished the music for the occasion and the crowd enjoyed themselves, eating ice cream cones, drinking pop, riding the merry-go-round and otherwise until five o'clock. At that hour, the big balloon was ready to cut loose. The men in charge had worked two hours to fill the big bag and had accomplished the work in good style. The weather was ideal and it certainly looked as though the feat should be accomplished in a perfect manner, but it was not to be. At the hour mentioned, Miss Hazel Wright was in her place on the trapzee and the signal was given to let ’CT go. The balloon started upward with good speed but just aw tjie aeronaut had reached a height of about three feet the parachute Jjroke loose and she was thrown Id the ground, bruising one arm, while the balloon sailed on heavenward with nothing to balance it. After rising to a height of about three hundred feet, the bag overturned and descended at a spot not more than twenty feet from where it started. The management of the park had a contract with the balloonist that they must make a real ascension to get the money and will hold them to it. Miss Wright and her manager insist it was not their fault and tried to get ready for another ascension, but could not because one of the poles had broken and it was finally decided to make the ascension Sunday afternoon at four o’clock. ,—o MANYLANDOWNERS Will Be Effected by a New Ditch Which is Prayed For

FOUR MILES LONG Peterson and Moran Are Busy Preparing the Petition < ■ / Attorneys Peterson & Moran are preparing a ditch petition which will next Monday be presented to the county commissioners and docketed In their court as the preliminary step previous to its presentation to the circuit court, which will involve land owners in four Adams county townships. The ditch prayed for will be four miles in length and will drain land located in portions of the four following townships: Wabash, Jefferson, Blue Creek and Monroe. The [ petitioners are Samuel Teeters, Jacob i Rawley, Fred Scheiman, Rebecca Ab- ' net, Charles Abnet, Edwin Kocher, C. ' E. Sullivan, Stengel and Craig, John , Huser, Calvin Teeter, J. W. Abnet, I William Fleetwood, Jess Cook, Thomas Rawley, Pearl Rawley, Jessie Raw ley, Emma Rawley, Lizzie Bury, Wil1 liam Farlow and Effie M. Farlow. A 1 ditch with proportions as the one prayed for must be presented to the circuit court notwithstanding the fact that the commissioners first docket the cause. If granted the ditch will be very beneficial to a large number of land owners in the south part of the county. Misses Irene and Josephine Laugie returned to their home at Windsor, Ind., today.