Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1909 — Page 1

V olume VII. Number 286.

SAILS AT HIGH TIDE Battleship Prarie Ordered by Department to Report at Once. FRESH WIRE NEWS Fred Rosena, Murderer, Had to Strengthen His Nerves With Strong Opiates. « ♦ Washington. D. C., Dec. 2.—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —It was offl dally announced at the navy department here today that the Battleship Prairie had been ordered to sail from Philadelphia for Nicaragua, at high tide this afternoon. So far as known the war department has not ordered any troops to report at Nicaragua and it is be’ieved that the navy will be able to handle the situation. New Castle, Pa., Dec. 2.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Fred Rosena had to be given a dose of Strychnine and a half tumbler of whiskey'this morning before he could be led to the scaffold where he was hanged. It is said that opiate and liquor were given the condemned man during the night and he was in a frightful condition according f to Dr. Elmer Norris, the county physician who was in attendance at the hanging. Hoboken, N. Y„ Dec. 2— (Special to the Daily Democrat) —Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson claimants for the heavyweight championship of the world today accepted the bid of Tex Richard and Jack Gleason for a state fight. The offer from these men was slOl,DOO and sixty-six and two-thirds of the picture receipts. The fight must be held in Utah, Nevada or California. Washington, D. C., Dec. 2.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The collection of the Prairie fleet has been ordered to take place at Colon Panama. If when they get there the situation at Nicaragua is not improved they will proceed to that place. . SCOTT-GRAHAM CASE DECIDED. Plaintiff Won the Suit and is Given Judgment for Nearly a Thousand. Bluffton, Ind., Dec. 2.— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Judge Sturgis .gave his decision today in the case of D. E. Scott vs. L. A. Graham, tried here sev- , oral weeks ago. The case was one for an accounting. The defendant offered to confess judgment for $350. Judge Sturgis’ decision was for the plaintiff , and he gave judgment in the sum ol . $984.16. i — o— SENATOR SHIVELY BETTER. ] 1 South Bend Ind., Dec. 2—Greatly j improved in health and accompanied i by Mrs. Shively and three children, < Senator Shively of South Bend will 1 depart Friday for Washington. They ; will’reside during the wl ter at IS 1 f street. Mrs. Shively, in the society < of Washington, is expected to renew t her popularity attained in her girlhood i days when she lived in Washington i with her father, George P. Jenks, who i was solicitor general under Preside* t * Cleveland. 1

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FOURTEEN HEAD CATTLE KILLED. Allen County Infirmary Lost $700.00 Worth. An order was entered in the county commissioners' court today for the destruction of fourteen head of cattle at the county Infirmary which were found by Dr. George W. Gillie, city and state inspector, to be diseased. The cattle are valued at about S7OO, but there will be come salvage as the hides will bring an average of $9 each and the carcasses can be disposed of at the rendering establishments. , Last August one of the animals was sent to the Eckart Packing House to be slaughtered and the government inspector condemned the flesh. A few days ago another died suddenly and yesterday Dr. Gillie was called in and made the tuperculin tests. He advised that the cattle be destroyed and that the barns and barnyards be thoroughly dininfected and a new herd bought after the animals had been proven by the tuberculin test to be free from disease.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. THE SENIOR CLASS Will Give Decatur Benefit of Lecture Course. PUBLIC WILL HELP They Will Endeavor to Make : This Lecture Course a Great Suscess. The senior class of the high school, has undertaken a lecture course for i the coming winter, the first number being Dr. L. G. Herbert, a lecturer who will appear on the evening of j December 22nd. On January Bth the | Parland Newball company and on February Bth the Skovgaard Concert company. The last of the number is an open date for May and it goes without saying that the entertainment to be furnished by this course is all first class and will be well worth the price of admission. Besides all this it will give the seniors a needed workout and if they succeed the profits will help them in paying many necessary expenses that always hang heavily about the time of graduation. The public can well afford to be generous in this instance a-d help the seniors with making a rip roaring success of this most excellent lecture and musical course. Every one will be well repaid for the price df the tickets as the various numbers are all good, and the entertainment to be afforded upon the nights of their engagements is well worth the cost. Help the seniors in this preliminary skirmish in active life. — o—that supreme court decision. Thought They Will Hand Down a Decision Next Weew. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 2. —The decision of the supreme court on the local option law will have a very strong effect of politics ia Indiana next year. Os this there ran be no doubt. The general belief is that the court will hand down its decision the first of next week. The court adjourned a few days ago until next Monday and this may be the reason for this belief. The court has ha<» the briefs in the case for months. Il is even said that members of the court took the briefs away with them on their summer vacations and read and studied them. There is a report around the state house that the court is divided on the question of the constitutionality of the local option taw. It is said that one judge who has been on the supreme bench for years and who is a leader in the court is strongly in favor of sustaining the law and that there are two other judges who agree with him. There is a fourth judge, however, who is said to have wavejed for a while and it is not known which way he dropped. The first mentioned judge is a strong temperance man. It is said that he has insisted all along that the court ought to hand down a unanimous opinion sustaining the law. Another judgo, however, is a stickler for the constitution, and it is said that he feels that by no twist of the constitution can the court find any warrant for a local op- < tlon law under the constitiou. It need not cause any surprise, as the matter stands now. to see the four members of the court declare the law either constitutional or unconstitu- 1 tional. «

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, December 2, 1909.

HOME FROM NORTH Dr. Neptune Returns from a Hunting Expedition in Northern Michigan. X ”” REPORTS ACCIDENT Mr. Nick of Greenville Mistaken by Hunter for Dear and is Killed. Dr. J. Q. Neptune arrived home Tuesday night from a month's bunting trip in the northern penninsula of Michigan. He was with a party of twentytwo people from this section and western Ohio, including George Nettle, the Gideon brothers, Dr. Leslie of Convoy and others known here. They were successful, each member of the party bringing home a deer, which is all that is allowed under the laws of Michigan. The pleasure of the camp was marred during the first few days by an accident. Near where the party was camped was another crowd from Ohio. It is customary when hunting for deer to wear red coats and caps so that the hunter will not be mistaken for a deer or bear. A Mr. Nick from Greenville, Ohio, did not do this but wore instead a canvas coat, making it almost impossible to distinguish him. Several times a hunter had leveled his rifle at Mr. Nick but not firing. O nthe day mentioned however, Nick was hunting, creeping quietly through the woods. He was spied by another hunter, the sheriff of DickI erson county, Michigan, who mistook him for a deer and sent a bullet into him, piercing the liver and killing him I almost instantly. The terrible accident ' almost broke up the camp and for sev- ■ eral days there was not much pleasure for the boys. Dr. Neptune says no one blames the sheriff who fired the shot, as it was of course entirely accidental. It is reported that the officer’s mind is affected from worrying over his deed. THE NEW OFFICERS Modern Woodmen Held an Important Session of the Lodge Last Night. DISCUSS BUSINESS. Monroe and Berne Camps Will be Invited to Join in Fort Wayne Trip. The Modern Woodmen held an important session last evening when they elected the officers who will serve during the ensuing year. A large number were present and the lodge Is in a very prosperous condition. The new officers are: Counsel, James O. Hoagland ; advisor, W. Q. Johnson; banker, Eli Meyer; clerk, C. M. Rice; escort Will Engle, physician W. E. Smith; watchman Thomas E. Miller; secretary,' Walter Noack; manager, Horace E. Butler. It was also decided to invite the Monroe and Berne camps to join the local lodge on the trip to Fort Wayne on December 20th. A flat rate has been secured over the interurban for sixty cents and an effort will be made t<» take a large delegation to that place where about twenty-five candidates from this county will receive the iniation work. The Woodmen lodge is growing rapidly and all things point to a continuation of this growth. BART FRANCE TOOK A HEADER Fell Down Stairs and Was Quite Badly Bruised About Hands and Face. Barton B. France, the cigar man, made a high dive last evening and his face looks today as though he had slid through a cider press. In some peculiar manner Bart fell down an open stairway near the interurban stationjast evening and was quite badly hurt. His face is bfuised and cut, he wears a black eye and his right "hand was severely bruised. However, no bones were broken and Bart will soon be o. k. in a few days.

I SNUBBED GOVERNOR. Topeka Club Does Not Like Their Temperance Governor. Topeka, Kans., Dec. 2. —Governor Stubbs will not be allowed to attend a dinner to -toe given by the Topeka Club tonyorrow night In honor of Chief Justice Johnson of the Kansas supreme court. This is because Governor Stubbs, while a member of the exclusive club, made a losi g fight to compel it to abolish the liquor locker system and later resigned his membership. "Oh, I guess I’ll live through it,” said the governor tonight, when in formed that the club directors had ordered that he stay away from the dinner. “I am right, however, in ordering the prohibition law enforced and intend to stay by it. FOR THE PRIMARY The Voting Precincts of the Democratic Primary Election. i ELECTION NOTICE Chairman Gallogly Gives the Notice for the Big Event. As established and agreed upon by the Adams county Democratic central committee, the Democratic primary election to be held Friday, December 17, 1909, the following named places, have been selected as voting precincts: Union townshin, two precincts, one at Broadbeck school house and the other in Arthur Blakey resiI dence north of Kohn school house. West Root in Monmouth; Preble, two. North Preble at Friedheim, South Preble at school house north of town of Preble; Kirkland two, North Kirkland at school house in Peterson and South Kirkland at Honduras; Washington township, one precinct at dwelling house east side of railroad; St. Marys, two, North St. Marys in the town of Bobo; South St. Marys, at Pleasant Mills; Blue Creek two, North Blue Creek at Steele, South Blue Creek in the Prairie school house; Monroe township, three, North Monroe in town of Monroe, Berne “A" east of Grand Rapids railroad to corporation line east of Jefferson street thence south to line vote at Cottage hotel, Berne “B” west of Grand Rapids railroad to corporation line and west to Jefferson street to township line, vote at town hall; French school house; Hartford, two, North Hartford, Linn Grove, South Hartford, Brushwood school house; Wabash three, North Wabash at school house in Dist. No. 2, Geneva “A” town calaboose, Geneva "B” in Hutton building: Jefferson, two, West at Buckmaster school house, East at Booher school house; City of Decatur, three, in First Ward in Linn and Patton's shop, Second Ward, north room of court house basement, Third Ward, Holthouse livery barn. Such election shall be held in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Adams county Democratic cen-‘ tral committee. ELECTION NOTICE All democrats of Adams county, Indiana are hereby notified that on Friday, the 17th day of December, 1909, there will be a primary election held under the Austrialian Election laws of said state for the purpose of nom» inating democratic candidates to be voted for at the November election of 1910. That candidates will be nominated for the following named offices: One State Representative. One Prosecuting Attorney. One County Clerk. One County Treasurer. One County Recorder One County Surveyor. One County Assessor. One Commissioner, Third District One Commissioner, First District. Also one—eounty central cbmmitteeman for each voting precinct in the county. Such committee to serve until the next Democratic Primary Election. T. M. GALLOGLY. Chairman. o — All the sterling favorites of Our Own Stock company from the Majestic theater at Fort Wayne will be in the production of “Charley's Avt” at the Bosse opera house Friday evening, and the laughing success will be given completely as to cast, scenery, costumipg and other detail. It will be the biggest laughing show this city, has ever known.

ITS A GOOD REPORT 111 1 ' t Mr. Haefling Did Good Business Last Quarter at Clerk’s Office. CHANGE ON BOARD J. A. Hendricks Succeeds William Miller as Commissioner. Clerk Haefling’s quarterly report which will come before the commissioners at their sesion which begins Monday, is the second best report ever made by that official in getting the money. It was mostly office business and shows $341.07 for civil cases, $195.72 for probate, $lO6 for marriage licenses, $25.30 for certificates, a total of $668.09. This shows in away the magnitude of the business done in the office of clerk of the Adams circuit court. I i r The board of commissioners will meet in their December session on , next Monday. The new business that will come before them is not heavy but as the end of the year is nearing there is a great deal to do in finishing the business of the year, which all have to be completed during this month. The 'board will hold another ■ session the last of the month and I at that time will wind up the affairs ■ of the year. , A new face will appear on the • board the first of next year, J. A. Hen- • dricks taking the place of William . Miller, whose term expires at that ■ time. Mr. Miller has served the coun- . ty for six years in this official place , and during that time has made a care i ful and conscientious servant of the . people, and he will retire With the - good wishes of every one. Jim Henl drinks comes into the official lime- ■ light wit hthe same good wishes and • being an exceptionally good business . man, he will also leave behind him • a good record. . e MRS. CONTER DEAD 1 If - t I [illness of More Than a Year Terminated in Her Death • ' Wednsday Evening. 1 ! MAD MANY FRIENDS! i I ’ Lived Here Sixty Years— I Survived by Seven Children and Other Relai t tives. i - After an illness of more than a year, i the past four months of which she was continually bedfast, Mrs. Catherine Bosse Confer died at her home on First street at 8:15 o’clock last evening. More than a year ago she suf- , sered from tin attack of strangulated hernia to which later were added com- ' plications. She was taken to the St. Joseph's hospital where she was operated on and for a time seemed to . iifiprove but on July 13th last she began to grow worse and since that time has«declined gradually. On Tuesday of last week she suffered a sinking spell and has been very low since until the hour stated last night when she passed away. Mrs. Conter was born in Cincinnati July 23, 1846, and was aged at the time of death sixtythree years, four months and eight, days. When but three years of age she came with her parent, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bosse, and has been a resident of Decatur for sixty years. Her husband Lewis Conter, died a number of years ago. Mrs. Conter is survived by seven children, Herman L., Mrs. A. A. Arnold, Fort Wayne; Maymc, John of Detroit; Frank, Rose and Marguerite; two brothers Frank - and W. J. Bosse and one sister, Mrs. • Mary Smith. The funeral service will| s be held Saturday morning at 8:30 , o’clock, standard time, from the St. I Mary's church of which the deceased ' had long been a devoted member. InI terment at St. Joseph’s cemetery.

LINN GROVE MAY GET IT. A Sub-Station for Power House on Traction Line. The directors of the B. G. &C. traction line have at last come to the conclusion that the overhead system is the one which they wish to use and today the contracts for the materi! for the system were let. The Westinghouse company got the contract for the insulation work, while the other 1 contracts were scattered around. The material will arrive as fact at the local company wishes it. R. F. Cummins, secretary of the new company, said that the directors as yet had not decided where the substation which will be used will be located. Owing to the fact that the men have not decided as yet where they will get their power this could not be decided upon. Linn Grove has been ahe most favored place so far. —Bluffton Banner. GAVE MUSIC TESTS Interesting Recital Given at the St. Agnes Academy of Music. THE SEVENTH GRADE Misses Niblick and Kohne Please all Who Hear Them Last Evening. Last evening at the Academy of music of the sisters of St. Agnes another recital was given in which the students of the’seventh grade took part. The Misses Agnes Kohne and Noma Niblick, in the presence of a number of people who had been asked to be present, were put through a vigorous test and showed by their work to be perfect in the grades they have gone through. For two years they have been students in this art and demonstrated last evening that hard work had been done and great interest taken by both the teacher and pupil. Several beautiful selections were rendered, Miss Niblick playing “Galop Di Mraruia La Cascade De Roses," which was very beautiful ana she received many compliments from those present. Miss Kohne followed with “Last Ideas of Weber Bells of Shandon,” and showed by her work that great interest had been taken to reach the point which she has. After this several selections of composition were given which is the most difficult music there is. Miss Niblick again playing “Martha,” and Miss Kohns “Grande Polka De Concert." On December 3rd the sisters will give a , recital in which the Misses Niblick and Kohne will receive gold medals, they being perfect in the finger movement. Since the sisters have established music here they have turned out a large number of scholars, all excellent players. Those who atended last evening were the Mrs. William Parent, Mrs. Dr. Connell, Mrs. P. K. Kinney, Mrs. Frank Gass, Mrs. John Walters, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Keller. Mrs. Peter Stein, Mrs. R. J. Holthouse. Mrs. Dan Niblick, Mrs. H. L. Merry, Mrs. William Kuebler and Mrs. Jacob Eady. This evening a recital similar to the one last evening will be given in which the students will play for their parents. o THE FUNERAL TOMOR- . ROW AFTERNOON Mrs. Sarah Craig Will be Buried in Fairview Cemetery at Bluffton. The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Craig t will occur tomorrow at Bluffton from . the home of Mrs. D. E. Studebaker, i a sister of the deceased. The services 3 will be held at the house at 2 o'clock 1 in the afternoon, they being in charge | ' of Rev. W. W. Martin. Interment | t will take place in Fairview, ft if I . probable that quite a number of the I Decatur relatives and friends will af- > lend the funeral tomorrow. During ; the six years’ residence of deceased : in this city she became well and favor i ably known to a large circle of our s people. <

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GREAT DECREASE Uncle Sam Feeling Effect of Temprance Sentiment. REVENUES DECREASE One Indiana District Shows the Greatest Loss of Them All. Washington, Dec. 2.—The Indiana county option law and the increasiag wave of temperance throughout the country have made a deep cut in Uncle Sam's pocketbook, according to the commissioner of interral revenue, R. E. Cabell, who presents some startling figures in regard to the decrease of liquor consumption in his annual report' issued today. The total collections of the internal revenue service for the fiscal year of 1909 show a decrease as compared with 1908 of $5,453,230, and nearly one-fourth of this entire decrease is reported from the state of Indiana. In 1908 the total revenue collections in Indiana wert. $26,546,753.39 and in 1909 the Indiana collections were $25,224,816.81. This is a falling off of $1,321,936.58 in Indiana alone during the year. One effest of the growth temperance sentiment is to cause Indiana to lose the position it has occupied as having within its borders the second internal revenue districts in the U ited States from the revenue-producing standpoint. For years the Seventh, or Terre Haute district has been next to the Fifth Illinois (Peoria) district in revenues collected, but on the showing made by the report just issued the Trre Haute district surrenders second place to the Fifth Kentucky (Louisville) district and drops to third place. Tn 1908 the collections of the three districts were as follows: Fifth Illinois $28,481,340.69; Seventh Indiana $15,968,799.97 and Fifth Kentucky $15,209,340.76. The figures for 1909 which displace the Seventh Indiana District and give it a position below Louisville district are as follows: Fifth Illinois $28,671,699.22; Fifth Kentucky $15,767,327.86; Seventh Indiana $15,171,027.38. In the Sixth Indiana (or Indianapolis) district the collections show a decrease from $10,577,953.42 in 1908 to $10,053,789.43 in 1909. During the last three years internal revenue reseipts for the United States as a whole have shown a constant decline. In 1907 the figures for the entire country were $269,664,022.85; in 1908 $251,665,950.04; in 1909 $246,212,719.22. If other states had shown the same proportionate reduction as Indiana during the last year the total cu tin receipts would have been enormous. The report shows that in 1908 there were thirty-one registered distilleries in Indiana, of which twen-ty-one were operated. In 1909 there were thirty registered distilleries in th state, of which twenty-one were operated. • -> INQUEST FOR MRS. HEIDERMAN. Well Known Woman in a Serious Condition —Mind Effected. 'Squire J. H. Stone and Drs. Smith, Miller and Keller are holding an in quest at the jail this afternoon on Mrs. Henry Heiderman. The latter Is a well-known lady. Recently she surprised her many friends by filing suit for divorce. This morning she secured a shot gun it is said and caused so much disturbance in the west part of town that it became necessary to lock her up and the insanity inquest followed. o ( VALUABLE STONE FOUND IN A CHICKEN. „ Mr. Walter N'oach, living in the west part of the city, on last Saturday killed a chicken for his Sunday dinner and when Mrs. Ndach was cleaning ft discovered that it had swallowed a stone but not thinking that it was of much value struck it with a hammer land broke it in several pieces. Last evening Mr. Noach took the pieces to Hensley's jewelry store and upon being examined was found to be a real garnet stone, and if it had not been broken would have been worth fifty dollars. It was still the rough uncut stone , and weighed something like a one karet.