Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 283

THE FINAL APPEAL I Gompers, Mitchell and Morson Before Supreme Court Today. HANDS DOWN ONE The Court Gives the Railroads a Decision on Terminal Charges. Washington, November 29.—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The final appeal of Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison was formally presented this afternoon to the United States Supreme Court by Judge Alton B. Parker. The defendants were accompanied to the rooms of the court by Vice-President O'Connell of organized labor. Judge Parker ably defended the men who, according to a former ruling, were remanded to serve time in prison, and owing to the extreme prominence in labor circles, the case is perhaps the most celebrated of its kind ever presented to this court. Washington, November 29.—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—ln an opinion handed down today by the United States Supreme Court the right of the interstate commerce commission to fix terminal charges was denied. The case was taken up in the case of the commission against the Chicago & Great Western whose terminals are In Chicago. COURT HOUSE NEWS New Case Filed Today, for Breach of Warranty, D. E. Smith, Attorney. SOME PROBATE NEWS Application by Mrs. Van Camp to Test a Will— Marriage License Issued. Attorney D. E. Smith filed a new case entitled Abraham Brown vs. Fred Schafer et al., for breach of warranty, demand $350. The case of Samuel Leman et al. vs. Charles E. Martz, suit on note, default of defendants, submitted, judgment rendered in sum of $225.60 and costs. '•-J I — May Lacaster vs. Persa R. Bell, suit on note, demand, $55, second paragraph of answer filed by defendant, answers also filed to interrogatories by defendant. ■ —» C. S. Clark, administrator of the estate of Angeline Schlegel, filed a petition for the sale of real estate. ' - A petition was filed by Laura VanCamp, executrix of the estate of Anson Van Camp, for permission to test a mill at Akron.-Indiana, erected by Mr. j Van Camp an dthe court so ordered, j R. K. and Catherine Allison, executors of the will of the late Robert ; B. Allison, filed their current report i which was duly allowed by the court. < — i A marriage license was issued late 1 Saturday night to Ralph A. Knott, formerly of this city, now located at Lima, Ohio, Miss Mary Falb aged 28, of Lb n < Grove I diana. 1 •

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THE BOIiLEH is bursted. An Accident to the Heating Plant Installed at the Methodist Church. Work on the heating plant at the Methodist church is being delayed on account of an accident. U"known to those working there the pipes were filled with cold water and when the fire was turned on the boiler bursted. This will necessitate new parts for the boiler and will mean a couple weeks delay before the damage is repaired. Work upon this repair began this morning and will be rushed to completion. HAD BIG MAJORITY DeKalb County Went ’’Dry” by Nearly a Thousand Majority. MAKES SIXTY-FOURTH That Many Counties Have Voted “Dry” Under the Option Law. Auburn, Ind., Nov. 29. —The hardest fight the brewers and liquor interests have made to send a county “wet” since the passage of the local option law was lost Saturday when DeKalb county rolled up a “dry” majority of 980 and prevented the return of the saloons for two more years. But six precincts out of the entire thirty-seven went “wet,’’ four of them being in Garrett, and the gains in all of them were so small they were hardly noticeable in the total result. Every precinct in the city of Auburn, contrary to general forecast, was won by the anti-saloon forces, and in Union township alone a lead of 159 was given. Garrett, as ’was expected, went “wet,” but instead of 500 majority, as was claimed by the saloon element, by only 115. East Garrett, or "Dutchtown,” as it is known because of the many Germans residing there, gave a majority of 40 “wet,’’ and Altoha, the western suburb of Garrett, 17 “wet.” Butler and Wilmington townships gave “dry” majorities in every precinct, totalling 251. Waterloo and Grant township, “dry” strongholds, held firm and turned up a majority of 98. The only “wet” paper in the county was published at Waterloo. North Smithfield precinct, one of the six to vote “wet,” was won by but four votes. The precinct Is comprised of Germans for the most part and was conceded by the “drys’’ by many more votes than the returns show. By carrying South Smithfield by nine votes the "drys” have cause for elation and are greatly surprised, the settlement being German and considered “wet.” Warren county votes tomorrow and this is likely to bd the last connty that will vote upon the question until some time next spring. There are now thirteen counties in the state that have voted “wet’’ and nine that have had no election under the option law. Six counties are dry by remonstrance and sixty-four by local option elections. A FEW SOCIETY NOTES. The Ladies’ Aid Society of Mt. Pleasant will meet with Mrs. S. P. Sheets Wednesday afternoon of this week at 2:30. Al] members are requested to be present. The Ladies’ Aid Society of Buelah • Chapel will give a social at the home of Rev. J. C. Valentine at Preble Wednesday evening, December Ist. This social was to have been given : November 16th but was postponed on account of bad weather. Everybody ' invited. i The Daughters of Rebekah will meet 1 at 7:30 tomorrow evening. At this 1 time there will he held the election of officers and other, matters of import i tance and it is desired that all mem- I bers be present. The Euturpian club will meet at the . home of Miss Midge Smith on Thurs- ' <jay evening instead of Tuesday even- f ing as was first announced. ! V

FRANCHISE IS DEAD Bluffton Council Finally Throttles the Proposed Grant to Gas Company. II ... .1 AN EXCITED MEETING Mayor Hamilton Secured Special Allowance for Fees - Other Matters Up. ■> I » The final killing of the twenty-five yfar artificial gas franchise asked by the Indiana Lighting Company, the adoption of a resolution for a new water tube boiler at the city light and water plant, and a general squabble over salaries and a bill of S7OO presented by and allowed to Mayor Hamilton for special services as an assistant to City Attorney R. W. Stine in fighting a number of lawsuits for the city were the chief items that furnished one of the liveliest and scrappiest meetings of the city council Friday evening that has been pull-’ ed off in a long time, says the Bluffton News. Had the fireworks only been advertised the council would have had a full house for their oratorical efforts. After much argument on the gas question toncilman Poffenberger made a motion to reconsider the vote of two weeks ago when the motion to pass the franchise to third reading was lost, and at the same time Mr. Mulholland tiptoed from the council chamber in order to get the first car back to Fort Wayne. Mr. Poffenberger's motion to reconsider carried, and the franchise was passed on third reading by a unanimous vote. Then Mr. Poffenberger made a motion for the final passage of the ordinance and everv councilman voted no. Mayor Hamilton added that the clerk might also record his vote no. This kills the franchise being called again, and if the new council has a franchise presented it will have to start one of its own . AFTERA BIG ONE Huntington is Confident of Landing an Automobile Factory from East EMPLOYING 2,000 MEN Will Reuire a Donation of $200,000 Which They Think Can Be Secured. Efforts of the Huntington boom committee are now centered upon the greatest project that has been brought to their attentio since the organization several years ago. The location of a gigantic automobile industry, a plant which guarantees to employ 2,000 men within a year after beginning operations. Peter Scheiber, president of 'Huntington’s committee for the settlement of industrial conditions, is now in daily’ communicaton wth. officals of the big firm. They have given assurance that they will have representatives in the city immediately for 'the purpose of completing final arrangements. It is understood that the factory asks an appropriation of SIOO,OOO to locate in this city. Members of the boom committee are ready to give it. From this it appears that the big project is a sure ' thing. The only thing that now remains to be done in the matter is to get the required amount. Mr. Scheiber gives the happy assurance that this will be a comparatively easy matter. He is not yet ready to state his method but says he has given the matter deep thought* and that he will not be without plans when the final proposition is laid before the committee. — Huntington News-Democrat.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, November 29, 1909.

CRAIGVILLE WILL REMAIN “DRY.’ Enoungh Signers Have Been Secured to the Remonstrance. Adam Richey arrived back in Craigville today from a visit in Pennsylvania, and he did not bring along a wife, thus proving rumor false. Adam arrived back, just in time, however, to learn that Lancaster township has gone “dry” and he will not get his saloon license in Craigville. One of tne leading temperance advocates today Informed the News that there were at noon today thiry more names than the rel quired majority on the remonstrance, and a considerable number in addition are expected before the last day for filing, next Friday, December 3rd. In round numbers 290 names are necessary.—Bluffton News. HE DERIDES COOK r > Walter Wellman Claims the ’ Explorer is a Fakir. t I ‘HE DENOUNCES HIM J —. Says it Was a Deliberate Effort to Defraud the Public. a—- ; 'Washington, Nov. 28. — Walter • Wellman, whose preparations for a conquest of the north pole in an air ' ship were abandoned upon the an- > uouncemeut of Dr. Frederick A. I Cook ard Commander Robert E. , Peary, issued tonight a long statet mpnt 'in which he analyzes the narrative of the two explorers, declar- - ing that of Peary “precise, workman- ; like, consistent, credible in every ■ particular,” and denouncing that of 1 Dr. Cook as a self-evident and even deliberate imposture. “Cook's story Is suspioious both in what it tells ’ and what it does not tell,” Mr. Wellp man declares. “He is generally vague and indelnite, but, like most , men of his class, entirely too precise at the wrong place. Nowhere does his story ring true. It is ar- , ways an approximation of reality It- ' self. This is true of his figures, his description, everything. “Those of us who have had a share in arctic work,” says Wellman, in concluding his analysis, “and who have felt anxiety that no blot of fraud stiotud stain the proud record of effort and sacrifice had a first hope—that Dr. Cook would be able to demonstrate his good faith. This has dissolved in analysis of his own story. “A second hope —that he was the victim of some hallucination or mental ill- - ness and believed himself he had been at the pole, though, of course, he has not, vanishes in the light of earlier and subsequent events. There remains, though ,-one says it with keenest regret, only thewretchedalternative that the journey which he did make and tfre report which he gave of it were deliberately planned from the outset.” The gist of Mr Wellman’s finding is that with his meager paYty and equipment Dr. Cook could not possibly have accomplished the feat; that his astronomical data are too minutely precise to have been made under the asserted conditions in the field, and that the explorer’s dash for the lecture platform and his acceptance of “crowns of flowers placed upon his head by innocent women and children,” before submitting his field records to scientific examination, all conspire to his discredit. —O —; SUFFERING FROM APPENDICITIS. Fred Jones Was Operated on at Lutheran Hospital at Fort Wayne. Mr. a d Mrs. P. F. Jones and daughter of near ( Wren, Ohio, wer» here this morning en route to Fort Wayne jwbere they will visit, their son, Fred, who is a patient at the Lutheran hospital. Fred was in good health until last Friday when he suddenly became ill. Physicians were summoned and sortn diagnosed the trouble as appendicitis. He was taken to Fort Wayne and was operated on late Saturday evening. A telephone message yesterday said he had recoverel from the anaesthetic and seemed to be getting along all right, though the outcome cannot be told for a few days. *

HARLO MANN DEAD Another Pioneer of Adams Called to His Final Reward. BURIAL WEDNESDAY Services at House at Half Past Nine O’Clock on That Day. Another pioneer of Adams county has been called to his final reward. Hdrlo Mann, known from one e’d of the county to the other, and a highly respected and in his younger days a progressive citizen, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Gilpen at half past four o’clock Sunday afternoon. Mr. Mann was In poor health for a year or more but not until a week ago last Thursday was he confined to his bed, and since that time he rapidly failed, the end being a peaceful and happy one after a useful and active life. Harlo Mann was born in Ohio near Cleveland, September 15, 1835, and in April the following year his parents moved to this county, locating in Preble township and where the deceased grew to man hood. On becoming of age he learned the plasterer's trade, and on February 11, 1858, he married Miss Winifred A. McAlhaney, daughter of Hamilton and Sarah McAlhanpy, old settlers of Blue Creek township. The faithful wife and four children survive, the children being Mrs. C. H. Lamiman, of Monroe It ownship; J. Frank Mann, of Muncie; Mrs. Frank Gilpen and Mrs. Harry Reichard, both of Monroe township. In 1861 Mr. Mann located in this city, following his trade, until two years later when he went into the grocery business with C. H. Lamiman and John B. Burkhead. In politics Mr. was always a democrat, and for six years he was assessor of Washington township, and later was trustee for four years. For the last several years he has lived on his farm in Monroe township, and both he and Mrs. Mann being so feeble, they were (Continued on page 2.) POLICE AFFAIRS Culbertson, the Vaudeville Chain Man, Serves His .. Time and Was Released. MARSHAL IS ON DUTY Only One Arrest Saturday Evening, But Several Were Close To It. George R. Culbertson, a chain king from the vaudeville stage, who got in bad when he called on a competitor and hurled various ungentlemanly epitaphs at him, resulting in an eighteen days' sentence to jail, was released Saturday evening, having served his time. He had threatened to whip several people, but seems to have been satisfied to drop siently out of the limelight, for he left town immediately. Marshal Butler has returned from a three weeks’ absence a’’d is again on duty, Policeman Fisher returning to the night job. — J. Closs returned from Fort Wayne Saturday evenng and was locked up by the officers. He was released Sunday afternoon and allowed to go home. He will appear before 'Squire Smith sometime today to answer to a charge of public intoxcatlon. The Saturday evening cars broukht in a big load of the boys who are bound to have their beer. Some of them brought a few bottles along for over Sunday. The officers make all these cars and insist that when they can't han'dle themselves they will be locked up. Mrs. Catherine Confer remains in about the same condition as for several days. She is Still quite low.

HE HAS MOVED HIS OFFICE. Judge R. K. Erwin Is Now Located in the New Shoaff Building. The Decatur friends of Judge R. K. Erwin will please take notice that his office rooms are now located In the Shoaff building, just erected on the site of the Avellne hotel, and which too, is one of the finest office buildings in the state. Judge Erwin was formerly located in ’the Pixley-Long block, and this change is made in order to, better locate himself in the practice of his profession, in which he is making rapid strdes In the courts of Allen and surrounding counties. MAKING CHANGES President Taft is Changing Many Points in His Message. BALLINGER REPORT. Many Recommendations Being Made - The Employees. Washington, Nov. 29. —President Taft's message ti congress has been overhauled land reconstructed, and with many changes already made it is not yet iff final shape. If what the president originally mapped out as his message could be laid down by the side of what has been left by process of elimination many striking points of difference would be observed. The influence of the so-called “conservative” leaders of congress has been strongly exerted in the white house in an effort to induce the president to pare out of his legislatuve program several reform measures which the “conservatives,’’ sometimes known as “reactionaries,” do not want enacted into law. The president has listened freely to the advice given by both “conservatives” and progressives,” but the alterations in his program seem to please the "conservatives” more than the “progressives.” Washington, Nov. 29. —Important recommendations urging remedial legislation by congress for securing public lands are the principal features of the annual report of Secretary of the Interior Ballenger. These recommendations include specific authority to classify and segregate the lands into well-defined divisions according to their greatest apparent use; legislation designed to conserve the coal deposits as a public utility and to prevent monopoly or extortion in their disposition and authorizing the classification and disposition of all lands capable of being used for water power development under the Interior Department. Washington, Nov. 29.—The number of Uncle Sam's employees is increasing, the grand total at present being approximately 370,065, as against 306p41 in *IOO7. These facts are brought out in the government blue book for 1909. There were 28,947 persons in the federal employ in Washington on July 1 last, the annual pay roll for them being $31,541,225, an average of nearly $l,lOO each. o TWO GOOD REELS FOR CRYSTAL. Manager Biggs of the Crystal has ] two amusing and interesting reels for ; tonight. The first is “The Belated' Wedding” which shows how the plans for several wedding parties were upset by the dilatoriness of the mayor of a little town. The second is “Bob's Electric Theater,” wherein Bob gives a special show for his brother and sister. They are good and will please all who see them, young and old. LQ. .. REMAINS LAID TO REST. ■ The funeral of Mrs. JadOb Magley I was held this afternoon at the house I • with Rev. Cooper, of Gas City, in ; ■ charge, assisted by Rev. Verner, of! this city. A large number of her friends nnd relatives were present to 1 show their respects for the last time. I Interment wa made at » Maplewood < cemetery. 1

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THE POULTRYSHOW Officers and Committees in Charge of the Big MidWinter Exhibit. IT LOOKS SUCCESSFUL Corn Show Will Also Be Given in Connection With Exhibit This Year. The big event for the poultry men and farmers this winter will be the poultry and corn exhibit to be held in this city January sth to Bth. The corn show is a new feature in connectiori“with the poultry exhibit and since these have been combined there will be no com show in connection with the farmers’ institute. The officers for the Poultry Association are: C. S. Mumma, president; C. H. Getting, vice-president; Charles E. Magley, secretary, and B. F. Brokaw, treasurer. The executive committee is Sam Simison, J. T. Burley, Henry Gunset, C. D. F. Beiberick and W. A. Fonner; superintendent of poultry, Alfred Debrot; superintendent of com, Michael Miller. The premiums on corn will be: On ten ears of yellow, first, $2.00: second, $1.50: third, 1.00; fourth, ribbon; same prizes on white same on aoy other. Sweepstakes prize, ten best ears any variety, a beautiful silver cup. A fee of twenty-five cents will be charged on each entry, all entries to compete for sweepstakes prizes, free. The entry fees On poultry will be fifteen cents on each single bird; fifty cents on each pen: trios, fifty cents; pigeons, ten cents each; pet stock, twenty-five cents; dogs, one dollar. The association would like to have any person interested in these lines to join them, but you are invited to enter your poultry, stock, etc., any way and enjoy the week. ANGEL OF DEATH Calls the Spirit of Thomas Hudson, a Pioneer to His Final Reward. X DIED EARLY TODAY Had Been in Poor Health for Some Time and Was Bedfast for Three Weeks. Thomas Hudson, one of the oldest residents of the city, died at the home of his son, Albert, on Short Sixth street, at 1:45 this moral g. He had been in poor health for some years, suffering from cataharral affection which finally developed into tuberculosis. He had been bedfast for three weeks and the end not unexpected. He was born in Ohio Januarv 2, 1835, and came to this city when a young man. At the tme of his death he was aged 74 years, 10 months and 27 days. He is survived by three sons, two sisters and two brothers. The funeral services will be held Tuesday asj ernoon at two o'clock from the house, Rev. Imler officiating. Interment at Maplewood cemetery. Mr. Hudson has been a hard working, honest man . and had many friends ai|d acquainted i ances in-this secton. i , Mrs. Catherin Allison, who has been I so seriously ill for some days past, is , resting easer tolay. However, she is not considered out of danger. Lorence Elzey, living west of town, lefa this morning for Fort Wayne to | take a ten months' course in theln- ' ternational business Colure. I The Ladies’ Aid of the Evangelcal I church will hold a handkerchief ba- | zaar in the mayor's office December 2, 3, and 4. They w’ill have for sale fancy handkerchiefs ranging in price from 5 cents to $2.50, baby hoods, combing jackets, hair receivers and home-mad? comforts.