Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 7 October 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII. Number 239.

TO CHICAGO HOSPITAL Anson Van Camp Will Be Taken this Evening in Charge of Dr. McOscar MRS. VANCAMP HERE To Complete Arrangements —Believed Only Hope for His Recovery Anson Van Camp, Decatur business man and councilman, who has been so seriously ill for some time past, will be taken to Chicago this evening where he will be placed in a private sanitarium, and will be treated by the most successful nerve specialist in the country. That everything possible is being done to save the life of this good man is evident. Mrs. VanCamp arrived from Fort Wayne this morning, where she has been at the bedside of Mr. Van Camp at St. Joseph hospital for a week past. She made all necessary plans for the conduct of Mr. Van Camp’s business during his absence and such other arrangements as were necessary, returning to Fort Wayne on the 2:30 car. Accompanied by Dr. McOscar, and a trained nurse, she will leave Fort Wayne with Mr. Van Camp this evening and by morning he will be in a nerve hospital where he can receive the very best of care, for the disease from which he is suffering. This course was advised by Dr. McOscar and the other physicians in the case, as nothing further could be done for him. His condition today was not quite so good as yesterday and it was planned to at once get him to a nerve hospital. Mrs. Van Camp would have preferred New York, but the physicians objected on account of the long trip and it was decide! to take him to Chicago instead. His friends here will eagerly await good news from his bedside. o M. E, RUMMAGE SALE IS ON Store Opened for Business Today With a Good and Varied Supply. The Methodist ladies are conducting the annual rummage sale at the Gregory building, corner Madison and Third streets. They have a stock of all kind of clothing, including men’s overcoats, suits, etc., also ladies’ and children’s wraps and clothing and many other things which will be appreciated by those who need them. The prices are of course very low, and these sales enable many to keep comfortable during the winter which will soon be here. The sale is now in progress and the ladies will wait upon you any time you call. If you need anything come, if you know any one who does tell them about IL 0 _ — THEY LIKE THE MONUMENT

The Wemhoff Monumental works, of Decatur, has just completed the installation of a handsome granite bust of the late Dr. H. G. Nierman, who last January sacrificed his life on the altar of science, at his grave in the Catholic cemetery. The bust, which stands seven feet high with the depestal it surmounts, is the peer of anything of the kind ever put up in the city, being pronounced by many a speaking likeness of Dr. Nierman. It is particularly acceptable to Mrs. Julia A. Lange and Mrs. C. F. Centlivre, surviving sisters of Dr. Nierman. who had the work erected. —Fort Wayne Journal-Ga-zette. I •_ -o— A special train was run over the G. R. & I. railroad this afternoon which carried Governor Marshall to Richmond, Ind., where he will, this evening make a speech. Charles Hhmmell. Oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hammell of the south part of the city, arrived this morning from California, after an absence lof ten years. His family reside in Los Angeles, while Charles is employed as foreman of the largest oil company in the state, his business being to look after the gas engines. He will be here <Aout two weeks.

CONDUCT EVANGELISTIC MEET Rev. Roop Goes to Scott and Will Conduct Meetings at Grace Mission. As a result of the layman’s district convention held in Fort Wayne, by the Evangelical church, Rev. E. R. Roop will go to the Grace Mission at Scott and begin the ten days- evangelistic meetings. Jtev. W. H. Mygrant, of Van Wert, Ohio, will arrive there on Tuesday and Rev. C. D. Rarey of Fort Wayne, will be there on Wednesday. This meeting is but one of the four which will be he’d in this district, beginning on next Sunday. Rev. C. E. Trythall, of Fort Mayne, will fill the pulpit at Calvary in the morning and at Salem in the evening. LOST FOUR HORSES Christley Swartz, an Amishman, is Out About sl,000 in Horse Flesh KILLED ON RAILROAD John Hocker Saved His Dog but it Was Expensive—Monroe News

Monroe, Ind., Oct. 7. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Christley Swartz, anAmishman living two miles south of this place Jalong the G. R. & I. railroad, met with a severe loss early this morning, when four head of horses valued at from $250 to S3OO were killed on the railroad. Mr. Swartz had let the horses out in the pasture lot last evening and was as careful as usual to see that the gates were closed, but during the night some one opened the big gate and j the four horses wandered out onto the track where they were hit by the northbound passenger and all four were instantly killed. The total loss will be about $1,200. John J. Mayer and family have arrived here from Kendallville and are are now sure enough citizens of Monroe. They will open their flew five and ten cent store on the 16th of the month, and will have a new and complete stock of merchandise to show the people.

It cost John Hocker several dollars to save his little dog’s life a day or so ago. John was driving in his automobile, with the dog sitting beside him, and as they neared the residence, Mrs. Hocker came out. The canine spied her and immediately got ready to spring from the car. John saw Vie pup and grabbed him, but in doing so lost control of the car, which circled and dashed into the barn, demolishing the headlight, the repair of which will cost considerable, but he saved the dog. o OWNIE BUSH IS TWENTY-ONE Birthday Friday When the Big Series Opens. When Owen Bush, the Indianapolis lad who started his professional base ball career as a member of Clarence Jessup’s Marion club of the lamented Interstate league that struggled through a few months after Isadore

Mautner took a flight at Dayton that practically canned him and Fort Wayne both, faces the big crowd expected at Forbes field in Pittsburg on Friday in the first game of the world's championship series he will be a man. In other words, the sensa. tional shortstop will attain bis majority on the same day that he will be pitted against the great Hans Wagner and it will probably be the first time in base ball history that a player under twenty years has been a member of a championship club in the major leagues. Bush is not frightened because he will play opposite the great Hans Wagner in the coming world’s series. M agner is conceded to be the greatest player base ball has produced, but Bush has friends and admirers who believe he will show spectators at the world s series that there are others who also know how to play shortstop. Bush | smiles when asked what he will do 'before the countless throngs that will I witness those games.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Attachment Issued for Chauncey Debolt Who Settled When Brought in JUDGMENT TAKEN In Two or Three Cases by Default—Real Estate Transfers—Other News Emaline McCune, admx. of James McCune estate, filed a report of sale of personal property. Una Taylor vs. Alonzo J. Powers, note, default of defendant, submitted, finding for plaintiff in sum of $470.40; costs against defendant. Ella Debolt vs. Chauncey Debolt, divorce; motion for order on defendant to show cause why allowance has not been paid. Attachment issued 'for defendant, returnable forthwith. The defendant was brought into court, paid the allowance of sls and was discharged as to attachment. Albert Miller vs. Grand Rapids & Indiana Ry. Co., damages $5,000; demurrer filed to complaint. W. F. Rice et al vs. Bertha M. Rice et al partiion, final report filed; commissioner discharged; clerk ordered to pay share of Kenyon B. Rice, 3183.50 to his legal guardian. The Whittakes Paper Co. vs. De- ■ catur Publishing Co., account $100; i default of defendant submitted; . judgment far $83.42.

John W. Watkins vs, John W. Meibers, alienation of wife’s affections, $6,000; demurrer to amended complaint overruled; answer filed m one paragraph. Real estate transfers: Morton J. Martin to Mary C. McCollum, lot 347, Geneva, $140; Frank C. Masters to Ira Steele, Hot 26, Pleasant Mills, $1,000; Andrew J. Porter to W. L. Roudebush, 40 acres Blue Creek township, $4,500; Decatur Cemetery Association to Jos. McFarland, lot 512, $34.50.

TWO NEW MEMBERS Court Appoints Miss Studabaker and Mr. Lachot on Charity Board FOR THREE YEARS Will Begin Duty at Once— Work is Important, But the Pay is Small Judge Merryman has appointed Miss Hattie Studabaker a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and John F. Lachot, a member of the Evangelical church as members of the county board of charity and correction, to serve a period of three years from this date. Miss Studabaker will succeed herself, having served for three years past as a member of the board, and proven her adaptability to work of this kind. Mr. Lachot succeeds Anson Van Camp, who has also been a member of the board during the past three years. The association is one which does a large amount of good in the county, it being their duty to look after the poor and the wayward children, pro- , vide homes and do what is possible . to make them good men and women, j The appointments by the court at j this time are good ones and will ■ please every one. As the positions , are only “thank you’’ ones it means , a sacrifice to do this work solely i for the good of the community. 1 o ] The Rev. Übaldus Webersinke, an ( aged Catholic priest, well known in , Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, died at j St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette j Monday. He was a noted linguist and < was known as one of the leading ■ priests in this part of the, country at ] one time. ]

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, October 7, 1909.

DON’T THINK MUCH OF DAKOTA Huntington Man Says the Land Doesn't Equal this Section. Huntington, Ind., Oct. 7. —Lawrence Myers, former Erie fireman, who resides north of the city, has just returned from a six weeks' stay in Dakota, where he helped harvest the wheat crop at McHenry, North Dakota. He says that the man who has a farm of 160 acres of land in Huntington county has a much better thing than the man who owns a section of

640 acres of land in North Dakota. He says that the wheat crop in the Dakotas was a failure this year. He helped thresh more than 12,000 bushels of wheat and he says that seven bushels to the acre was the average yield, while twenty bushels was an exceptionally large yield. 0 A GRIST OF BILLS Was About the Only Business Before the Council Last Evening

< A REGULAR SESSION ' t i Sidewalk Along the Curb on 1 Mercer Avenue South < of the Erie i 1 The regular session of the city council postponed from Tuesday ev- ’ ening on account of the city primary was held last evening. It Was one of the shortest ones of the year, there being no committee reports and' adjournment was made after a half [ hour. All members were present excepting Mr. VfinCamp, who is sc seriously ill in a Fort Wayne hospital. Mayor France is attending the I St. Louis celebration and Mr. Chrisj ten was chosen to preside. A petition was presented asking for the location of a sidewalk next to the curb, along Mercer avenue, beginning ( south of the Chicago & Erie railroad j ’ and extending on both sides of the 3 street to High street. This was , granted. The finance committee reported the following bills which were t allowed: y C. U. Dorwin, pay roll $274.55 t Henry Peters 13.0>) Water works pay roll 51.32 M. J. Mylott, pay roll 227.50 « Wm. Geory 1000 k Amos Fisher 50.00 Sam Butler 13.50 Sam Butler 17.62 Sam Butler 40.21 - Sam Butler 24.27 Harry Cooken 50.00 L. L. Baumgartner 32.00 National Exp. Co 3.40 John Sprague 82.50 D. F. Teeple 8.46 J. S. Peterson 24.30 > Niblick & Co 12.60 l John Appleman 24.00 Geo. Keiser & Co 5.41 Ft. Wayne Electric Wks.... 17.32 ■ Essex Coal Co 8.94 Sunday Creek Coal Co 101.22 Electric Appliance Co 52.74 National Mill Supply Co 2.25 Globe Oil Co 27.38 Advance Packing Co 10.00 Bass Foundry 5.25 H. W. Johns Co 6.10 j Andrew Cowan Co. 9.75 General Hocking Fuel C 0.... 21.36 E. A. Cole & Co 74.56 p

O. Gara Coal Co 29.16 Larkin Mfg. Co 13.00 P. J. Hyland 65.33 D. F. Teeple 61.03 John Sprague 45.90 C. & E. Ry. Co. 233.09 Julius Haugk 22.50 o APPELLATE COURT AFFIRMED Huntington Saloonkeeper Got Soaked in a Court Case. A judgment for $1,200 damages recovered by Mrs. Lizzie Niehaus against a saloonkeeper at Huntingburg on account of the death of her husband by falling down stairs while intoxicated, was yesterday affirmed by the appellate court. The defendant insisted that he did not know the husband was intoxicated at the time of the sale, but the court said his knowledge made no difference if the man was actually drunk at the time or if he habitually became intoxicated and due notice of that fact had been given. The case is some thing similar to that of Mrs. Rhetta Sours against Haiwey GUV brought here from Huntington for trial. — Bluffton News.

THEY STILL INSIST Bluffton’s Gas Fight Continues as Complicated as Ever WORK GOING ON

But Only to a Limited Extent—No Work on Tank Has Been Done Bluffton is still squabbling about the artificial gas problem, too selfish | and too stubborn to give up and too I short-sighted to see that if not careful they will lose out altogether, for there is a limit to the patience of even the Indiana Lighting company. - The News said last evening: The pipe line gang laying the pipe from Kingsland to this city for the Indiana Lighting company- has reached a point last night about three miles north of Bluffton or about half the

distance from Kingsland to this city. The work was continued without interruption this morning, while a new gang went to work today testing and putting the final touches to the line already in the trench. They pump air into the pipe and test every joint with soap and water for the least bubble showing a leak. As soon as the test is completed the pipe will be buried. S. E. Mulholland, district superintendent, and Jack Monyhan, who has been in charge of the company’s work at Decatur, came to I Bluffton in an automobile yesterday; afternoon and were out along the ' new line, and were in this city last I night, but they were not here to take up the franchise with the city offi--1 cials. although the matter was discussed to some extent. T T p to this afternoon the company had made no new advances and the city officials likewise were resting on their oars. The company promised to prepare a copy of an ordinance such as would [be acceptable and submit it to the | council, but it has not yet been placed on file with the Clerk. Mayor Hamilton seated positively at the last council meeting that he would veto it, no matter what its provisions if it sought to have the perpetuU franchise recognized, but the members of the council expressed no opinion in advance. QUEER POLITICS Neither of the Old Parties Have a Ticket in Field at Ossian CITIZENS & PEOPLES Each is Mixed as to Politics and the Result is Said to Be Doubtful There is a peculiar condition existing in a political way at Ossian, one I probably which never occurred in this section of the state. There

; neither the Democratic or Republican party has a ticket in the field, but ' instead there are a Citizens’ ticket ■ and a Peoples ’ticket, each made up of men from each party. At that the lines will be rather closely followed at the election and there is much speculation as to the results. The two tickets in full are as follows: Citizens' Ticket For Clerk —Jacob Fatscher, republican. Councilman —George Way, republican. Councilman—W. T. Hood, republican. Councilman —Joseph McElhaney, democrat. For marshal—E. H. Justus, demoi crat. Peoples’ Ticket For Clerk—E. D. Poffenberger. ’ democrat. 1 . I Councilman—E. T. Hawley, delno-l '■ crat. I Councilman—C. I. Deirich, repubii-/t In can. . Councilman—Alex White, democrat, tl JY>r Marshal—Waller Davison, re ] e I Os publfcan.

MR. ASH VISITS GENEVA He Was Formerly Associated in the Geneva Bank. J. H. Ash, was in Geneva, Monday 1 afternoon calling on Mr. and Mrs. C. ■D. Porter and numerous other i friends. He is off for a short vacation from service with the government, in the position of clerk at one of the offices of the Isthmus of Panaima project. Mrs. Ash and children

are in Oklahoma City. Mr. Ash was | a physician for some time, but has given up that profession for one he deems more lucrative. However at the time he resided here he was assistant cashier in the Geneva bank. He has been with the Panama project for two years.—Geneva Herald. I IT’S HEARST AGAIN Nominated by Citizens Party for Mayor of New York

LIVELY CAMPAIGN That Great City to Have Another Exciting Campaign New York, Oct. 7. —William Randolph Hearst,once defeated for mayor of this city by George B. McClellan, and later defeated for governor of the state, was nominated for mayor to- >’ night at a mass meeting of 4,000 of •' his admirers at Cooper Union. This • action was taken despite his authoris' tive statement last evening that he ) would not be a candidate. Resolui tions were adopted directing that a . i committee of five be appointed to 11 take steps for the naming of an en1| tire city, county and borough ticket, s I which will be placed in nomination ii by petition. The name of Mr. Hearst rjwas greeted every time it was mentioned with a salvo of cheers. When, 1 after a half dozen “opening’’ speech>l es, he was formally nominated the I demonstration that followed lasted ■ twenty minutes before the chairman’s ■ calls for order could be heard. The third party, which is thus suddenly projected into New York’s municipal ' campaign, will not be known as the

I Independence league, but will probably bear the title (“The Citizens' party,’’ or some similar designation. The principal address of the evening was made by William M. Ivins, who was the Republican candidate for mayor against Hearst and McClellan four years ago. Mr. Ivins passed over with scant mention the municipal ticket already nominated by his own (the Republican) party, but he devoted a full half hour to the Tammany ticket, headed by Justice William J. Gaynor. "Justice Gaynor is carrying the banner f4r the gang,” he said. “He is the stalking horse for Tammany. He leads the vilest ticket that has ever been placed before New York. o INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION Labor Will Likely Have Such a Fed- ' eration. - Washington. Oct. 7. —“Without I

question the visit of President Samuel Gompers to Europe will mean the establishment in the very near future ! of an International Federation of ' Labor, the autonomy of the trade union movement of each country be- ! ing ordained and guaranteed,” said ’ Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor today, ' after dictating a wireless message to be delivered to Mr. Gompers on board I the transatlantic! French liner La Savoie, now in midocean, headed for New York. This message informed Mr. Gompers that the court of appeals of the District of Columbia had not handed down its decision in the case of the appeal in the contempt! proceedings in the Buck’s stove casej in which Mr. Gompers has been sen- , teneed to imprisonment for twelve

fenced io jiupi — months. , meeting tomorrow night , The members of the Decatur Com- I mercial Chib will hold an nnpor ant , meeting tomorrow evening, and t ■ ■heir desire that every member atend. Business of importance is to , >e transacted. 1

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THEKRAUSMURDER W. R. Krauss Charged With Murder of His Own Daughter A CROSS-COMPLAINT I

Crystal Krauss Accuses Husband of Crime of Murder Hartford City, Ind., Oct. 7.—A sensation even more startling than the murder itself was sprung late Wednesday afternoon, when Rae Ander-man-Krauss, through her attorney, J. A. Hindman, filed a cross-com-plaint to the divorce suit of W. R. Krauss in which she charges him with the murder of his own daughter for which crime she is now serving a Hfe sentence. The complaint states that It was the father himself who administered the strychnine that

caused the death of Crystal Krauss. The complaint recites that Rae Krauss confessed to the crime of murdering Crystal Krauss knowing that W. R. Krauss committed the deed, out of love for her husband, who assured her that in event of her taking the entire responsibility on her shoulders and thus relieve him of all liability that the judge of this judicial circuit and the prosecuting attorney would see that she was re- • I leased from prison within a period of 1 1 two years, and that upon her release , they would go to some place where neither was known and live as husband and wife. Krauss, according to 1 the wife, dictated, composed and re--3 vised the confession. When it be- ' ' came known to Crystal Krauss that 3 iher father was considering matrimony " I and that his intended was Rae An--1 [ derman, it is claimed. Crystal re--1 belled, but to no avail. Immediately ' [ after the marriage Crystal and her > stepmother each sought to be mis--1 tress of the Krauss home, aud it * ! was only after Krauss had reached ' , the conclusion that he would be ob- ’ liged to do away with either his wife or daughter that he administered the 3 , poison, so it is claimed. The crosscomplaint is filed at this time to keep 5 j Mr. Krauss from dismissing the suit 3 j and escaping the responsibility of fighting the counter charges now be--1 I ing made by the defendant. It is ‘! short and does not go into detail,

" but additional paragraphs will be filed later in which the whole of the '• wife’s alleged secret will be bared. = Attorney Hindman, who defended 0 j Mrs. Krauss on the murder charge, and who knew nothing of the confes--1 sion obtained from her, until the day 1 she was arraigned in court, declares ’ that it was through deception that she 5 was induced to admit her guilt and ’ accept all the blame. Rae Krauss ’ confessed, he says, only after her husband had told her that he would 1 attempt to secure a pardon for her after she had served enough of her sentence to permit of public sentiment dying out. Attorney Hindman further states that the conviction and sentencing of the stepmother alone for the atrocious crime was the greatest outrage ever perpetrated on a community. It is well remembered j that the notes alleged to have been I written by Crystal were given to the [coroner by W. R. Krauss, who claimed they had been found under Crys-

tai’s bed. Before that time the room had been thoroughly searched by the coroner and undertaker. At the time i Krauss declared that the strychnine (was not the kind that he kept at his drug store. Attorney J. A. Hindman .states that immediately after the ar- ' rest of Rae Krauss her husband at- ; tempted to retain him to defend the . accused. Mr. Hindman says Krauss i informed him that if he would conduct the defense as he advised that he would pay him a fee that would be a good one. Mr. Hindman also claims Krauss asked that in event of him being placed on the ’ rftn «® s stand that the witness chair be turned in such a position (Krauss) would not be compelled to i face the jurors. T-rir»AV

I FUNERAL held TODAY I The funeral of Lucite, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Keller. I was held this morning from St. Marys church and a goodly number or (friends and relatives gathered for the [last time to show their respect toward the little one. Interment was made at St. Josephs cemetery.