Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 289, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 289.

DEPOSITS WITHDRAWN Ohio State Treasurer Draws Funds from the Union National Bank. AND REASONS GIVEN William Calhoun of Chicago Becomes the Minister to China and Accepts. Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 6.—(Special to the Dally Democrat)—State Treasurer today withdrew from the Union National Bank of Columbus the sum of |96,000 deposited there as a depository. The withdrawal was made because of the bank's refusal to permit the treasurer and governor of the state to examine the accounts of a former state treasurer. Suits have been filed to recover Interest paid to a former state treasurer by the banks and the investigation at this time is for that purpose. Washington, D. C., Dec. 6. —(Special to the Daily Democrat)—William J. Calhoun, of Chicago, has accepted the ministership to China. According to an announcement made at the state department here today the Chinese government has expressed satisfaction regarding the appointment. o WORK OF U. S. SUPREME COURT. Charles Morse Must S«rve Fifteen Years for Wrecking Bank. Washington, D. C.. Dec. 6.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The supreme court of the United States today refused to grant Charles W. Morse a review of his case. He must serve a fifteen years' sentence at the Atlanta penitenUary, a3 Imposed by the New York federal court, for the alleged wrecking of the National Bank of North America. The court granted the application for a writ asking for a review of the % Judgment of the circuit court of appeals against Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison. This means a delay of the men going to jail. The court refused at this time to consider the suit of the Southern Pacific against the Interstate Commerce , commission involving the right of that body to fix railijbad rates. They remanded the litigation to the lowei court for proceedings in accordance with the law. —o ’ CALLED BY MOTHER'S ILLNESS. Rev. Vernor Leaves for Evansville This Evening. The Rev. P. H. Vernor, pastor of the Church of Christ in this city for Several months, last evening received a message from his parents’ home in Evansville, stating that his mother, who has been sick for some time, Is worse, and he will leave this evening lor his home. The church has granted him two weeks’ absence, and his next preaching service will be held heie a week from next Sunday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

MARRIED SATURDAY EVENING. 'Squire Smith Officiate* at Wedding of Nou Dishong and Wm. Smith, A quiet wedding took place Saturday evening at 7 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Eliza Dishong on Third street, when her daughter. Miss Nora Dishong was united in marriage to William Smith. The ceremony was performed by 'Squire J. H. Smith, the only witness heing the bride's mother. Both bride and groom begin their new life with wishes of a host of friends. They will make their home In this city.

THE SUGAR TRUST Congressman Cullop to Introduce Investigating Resolution. HAS DECLINED AGAIN W. J. Calhoun Will Not Go to China—Cotton Futures. Washington, Dec. 6.—That the democratic minority in the house will make a determined effort to gain an Investigation of the Sugar Trust Is one of the developments preliminary to the opening of congress. At the first opportunity thereafter, Representative McCullop of Indiana will introduce a resolution calling for a sweeping investigation of the Sugar Trust frauds. Mr. Cullop was in consultation today with Champ Clark, the democratic leader, who approved his resolutions and offered suggestions which Mr. Cullop will follow as to the best methods of getting consideration of the resolution The democratic leader is ready to back up Cullop’s resolution and the democratic membership may be expected to line up solidly,for it or for some resolution of similar tenor which may be brought out by the other side of the house. Washington, Dec. 6—W. J. Calhoun of Chicago It was announced here tonight has declined the appointment of minister to China, which was tendered him by President Taft. Mr. Calhoun Is a member of the law firm of Calhoun, Lyford & Sheean of Chicago. Mr. Calhoun rendered conspicuous service to the United States in culmination of the troubles In Venezuela, acting as commissioner in the adjustment of difficulties with President Castro. From 1898 to 1900 he was a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, appointed by President McKinley. Washington, Dec. 6.—That dealing in cotton futures is pure gambling Is the statement made by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, in his report to the president on the conduct of cotton exchanges. The practice of dealing in futures, as Is carried on at present, is condemned, although the report does not condemn the existence of the exchange. — o — WITNESSED TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. Charles Colter Tells of Accident at Sawmill at Raymond. Charles Colter has returned from Raymond, a town about twenty-five miles south of Richmond, where he attended to business for the Smith & Bell Lumber company, and he relates a serious accident that happened just shortly after he reached there, which he witnessed. A man by the name of Joe Burton, who had been hauling logs for the Sa mßall sawmill at that place, was caught under a falling log and both legs broken one at the knee and the other just above the knee. He was badly injured and is now in the Richmond hospital, where he will likely recover. The Ball mill was formerly owned by the Smith & Bell company of this city Mr. Ball the present owner, beS a brother-in-law of Walter Kauffman of this city.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, December 6, 1909.

A GREAT SUCCESS l „ i Was the Teachers’ Mid-Win-ter Institute Held Here on Saturday. • EVERYONE PLEASED Afternoon Program Proved as Interesting as Was the Morning Session. % The teachers' institute which closed here Saturday evening at 4 o’clock was pronounced the best of the kind ever held In the north part of the county. The attendance was splendid and the program was very Interesting as well as Instructive. The afternoon session opened with a song by the Berne quartet. David Swartz then gave a meritorious talk on “The Kingdom of Peace.” He said that society is composed of the home, school and church. The most important is the home of course but the others are also very necessary. Miss Vergia Buckmaster gave some good “Hints on Primary Teaching,” and her talk was well to the point. Prof. E. E. Rice then gave one of the Interesting talks on “The School of Today,” and the question was further discussed by F. D. Huff. A recitation by Miss Elizabeth Beitler pleased the teachers. “Our Common Schools” was next by J. A. Buckmaster and was excellent as was the discussion by J. H. Walters, who said that manners should be taught and who suggested that the teacher should not bottle up his enthusiasm. An educational quiz with three-minute talks closed the day's work and proved a very delightful half hour. The institute was pleasant and profitable and all who attended were enthusiastic over the session. CARS WERMDLE The Main Shaft at the Interurban Blew Out and the Line Was Dead. UNTIL AFTERNOON t Luckily the Accident Happened Just as the Last Car Arrived. The Fort Wayne & Springfield interurban company have been having a streak of had luck during the past twenty-four hours and until after noon today no cars were operated. To begin with the car due here at 9:45 last evening jumped the track near the power station and it required considererable time and work and patience to get the plagued thing back. Then at 12:15, just as the last car had reached the station here, the head of the main shaft at the power plant blew out and It was impossible to move a peg until this was repacked. This Is no school boy's job and requires a considerable time. A force of men were at once put to work but It was stated that there could be no care operated until this afternoon. The last passengers would have been more or afternoon. It was rather fortunate that since the accident had to occur, it did not happen when the car was out a distance in tfhe country, else the passengers would have bee nmore or less inconvenienced. o WILL JOIN NAVY. Frank Zeser, a well known young man and the son of Mr. Peter Zeser. of south of the city, left this afternoon for Fort Wayne and from there will go to San Francisco where he will enlist In the navy. He successfully passed his examination along with two men of Fort Wayne and will be enlisted for the next three years. As to what place he will be sent when arriving at San Francisco Is not exactly known.

BIG BARN RAISING TODAY. Fine, Large Barn Built on the Perry Robimon Farm. Quite an Interesting event, that of a “barn-raising,” took place on the Perry Robinson farm, a few miles north of the city today. The barn will be a fine frame structure, one of the largest and best In this section of the county, and is built on the site of the old one which was destroyed by fire more than ten years ago. jt Is of the bank barn variety, with the foundation and lower story of concrete. This lower part was finished and the foundation timbers laid last week, and everything in readiness for the raising of the structure this morning. 4 FORTHESOLDIER Congressman Adair Wants Every Soldier to Have a . Dollar a D ary. AN ANTI TRUST BILL Instead of Fining'Them He Wants Conviction and Sentence. Washington, Dec. 6.—Representative Adair will introduce a bill to pension all soldiers at 930 a month, and abolish the pension agencies. He says the records will show that about 48,000 veterans of the Civil war will die this year, reducing the pension payments about ten million dollars in the aggregate. He insists the time has come when every soldier of that war should have a dollar a day pension and he believes enough money can be saved by economies of administration, including the abolishment of the agencies to obviate any Increase of pension appropriations. Representative Adair will Introduce an anti-trust bill which will provide penltenltary sentences for trust magnates. "That's the only way of getting at the trust evil,” he said. "The only way to break up the trusts Is to treat the guilty trust baron just like he was a chicken thief or a man convicted of any other larceny. When a few trust performers are put behind the bars and forced to don stripes there will be no more complaint of the trusts. To fine a trust will never accomplish anything, as the trust simply raises fts prices so as to collect the amount of the fine off of the people, and goes right on violating the law. The more fines the government assess the trusts the more the people will be forced to pay for the necessaries and comforts of life.” Washington, Dec. 6—Representative Barnhart will Introduce a bill in behalf of the old veterans, providing “that any person who served In any capacity In the military or naval service of the United States during the late Civil war or In the war with Mexico, and who has been honorably discharged, upon making proof of such facts, according to such rulep and regulations as the secretary of the interior may provide, shall be placed on the pension roll and be entitled to receive a pension of S3O per month; or if such person be past eighty years of age, S4O per month; or if blind, SSO per month. — o TO USE LAND NAVAL FORCES. Resolution Offered in Congress Regarding the Nicaragua Trouble. Washington, D. C., Dec. 6. —(Special to Dally Democrat) —Representative Sulser today Introduced a * resolution in congress proposing that the president use land naval forces of the United" States to restore order, maintain peace and protect life and property In Nicaragua. The resolution also demands the arrest, trial and punishment of President Zelaya. o The work on the erection of the new building for the Bowers-Nibliek grain elevator on West Monroe street, has reached an interesting stage, the frame work for the second story being j already erected. I

MONROE IS QUIET A Shoe Repair Shop Added to the Business Section of the Town. THE BERNE CHOIR Delighted a Large Audience at the Methodist Church Sunday Evening. Monroe, Ind., Dec. 6.—(Special to Dally Democrat) —Monroe Is to have another business house added to its rapidly growing list, this one being an up-to-date cobbling and boot and shoe repair shop which started up here this morning and is being conducted in the John Hocker building by John Wittwer & Son. Both are experienced shoemakers and merit the patronage of the public in town and surrounding county. The Monroe people were pleasantly entertained Sunday evening at the M. E. church by the Menonite male choir of Berne, consisting of sixteen voices, and every member an artist in his line. The choir gave a sacred concert for the benefit of the Ladies’ Aid society. The house was crowded notwithstanding the severe storm and rain here during the evening. The choir is always welcome among our people. Dr. Rayl left Saturday for Richmond, where he will attend to some business during the next ten days. J. Fred Mayer of Winchester was here to spend Sunday with, his parents. * Mrs. Lee Johnson left Sunday morning for South Bend for a few days’ visit. . * SURPRISEWEDDING Mrs. Mary Baxter Married Thanksgiving Day to Bluffton Man. KEPT IT A SECRET Wedding Took Place at Kalamazoo, Mich. —Will Live in Bluffton. J- 7A marriage license that took place Thanksgiving day but which has just become known to the most Intimate j friends of the contracting parties, took place at Kalamazoo, Mich., Mrs. Mary Baxter, for many years a resident of this city, becoming the bride of E. D. Ward of Bluffton. The couple have been warm friends for some time and while their friends have been anticipating the wedding, the fact that it occurred about two weeks ago comes ?ts a surprise. On Thanksgiving day the couple left for Kalamazoo, presumably on a visit to his daughter. Instead, they went at once to the Presbyterian parsonage at that city and were married at 7 o’clock that evening by the Presbyterian minister. Mrs. Baxter returned to this city Friday and the groom to his work at Bluffton, where he Is employed in the piano factory. Mr. and Mrs. Ward will make their home In Bluffton as soon as a house can be ohta'ned there. It was thought that one could be obtained this week, at which time the wedding announcement would be made, hut owing to a dearth of houses for rental purposes they cannot begin housekeeping there until after the holidays. Mrs. Baxter has made her home here for many years and is well and favorably known. The groom is an estimable man of Bluffton, and both have the well wishes of their many friends. The bride is a sister of Mrs. L. H. Purdy of this city and of Marshal William Tucker of Berne. The meeting of the official board of the Presbyterian church will be held at the office of W. A. Lower Wednesday eeenfng at 8 o’clock, at which time busines of Importance will come | before tho order. '

PUT HIM DOWN AND OUT. Marion, Ind., Dec. 6. —Sheriff Tony George and his deputies visited Gas City yesterday and arrested Frank Jones, who has been operating a soft drink establishment since the local option election put him out of business, on a charge of running a “blind tiger.” The sheriff suspected that Jones was keeping liquor in a large safe that occupied a place under the bar and he commanded Jones to open it. Jones protested that he did not know the combination, but he finally opened the safe, exposing three pint bottles of wniskey. Jones gave band. THE CANAL SURVEY Senator Beveridge Will Introduce Bill for Appropriation. AN INJUNCTION BILL Wants t.o Modify Practice in the Federal Courts.

Washington, Dec. 6. —Senator Beverlde will introduce on the first call for bills a measure appropriating SIOO,OOO for a survey of a ship canal from Lake Erie to Lake Michigan via Fort Wayne. The senator has faith in tht’ practibility of this enterprise. He attended the convention at Fort Wayne held f<# the purpose of advancing the project and there pledged his word that he would help the movement along in congress. The introduction of this bill making the appropriation for the survey will be a fulfillment of this pledge. The survey would cover the question of expense, the question of feasibility and would be expected to Indicate whether or not the canal would be largely used. Senator Beveridge believes that legislation certainly will be enacted at this session modifying the practice of the federal courts in the issuance of injunctions. He has prepared and will introduce a bill which he believes would put the proper restrictions on the.exercise of that judicial power. The text of his bill is as follows; “Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That no temporary injunction or temporary restraining order shall be issued without notice by any court of the United States in controversies between employers and employees, and all such temporary injunctions and temporary restraining orders shall, be heard by the court Issuing the same within a reasonable time, not to exceed seven days from the date when said temporary injunction or temporary restraining 'order is Issued: Provided, That said court, upon agreement of parties, or at the application of defendant, may postpone said hearing to a later date than said seven days in the discretion of the court: Provided, further, That nothing herein contained shall be held to authorize the Issuing of a restraining order or an injunction in any case in which the same Is not authorized by existing law.’’

‘•HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.” Large Number of Ladies Take instruction in Physical Culture. Mrs. Louis Mclntyre and Miss Margaret M. Hall of Danville, 111., arrived from Bluffton today and this afternoon are giving a lesson at the library hall in “Health and Happiness." Quite a number of ladies of the city were present to take this initial lesson in physical culture. After the lesson a class for the continuance of the work was , organized, with quite a large member- / ship. j o—notice. The play “The Jolly Widow” which will be staged at the opera house this , evening will also be repeated on to- i morrow evening in order for all to i have a chance to witness the play. The i board will be out at the Holthouse < Drug store tomorrow morning at 8 ] o'clock. 1

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COURT HOUSE NEWS R. O. Johnson Files Injunction Suit and Asks for a Restraining Order. NOTE SUIT IS TRIED. The Heffner-Hunsicker Case Set for Trial—A Marriage License. A new case has been- filed, the title of which, Roswell O. Johnson vs. Christian Amacher, Ira Wagner and Elii Meyer, sounds familiar. It is an injunction suit and petition for a restraining order. W. W. McMillen vs. Henry Meyer, note; default of defendant, submitted and finding for plaintiff for $68.70. Cardwell Mill and Lumber Co. vs. John W. Vail et al., note, $250; rule to answer made absolute in five days. Letta Thomas vs. Elsie Thomas, replevin suit; demurrer to complaint overruled; exceptions by plaintiff. Orlo E. Lcsle vs. Sadie B. Lesle, divorce; appearance by C. J. Lutz for plaintiff. Isador A. Kalver vs. Decatur Furnace Co., aditional 20 per cent distribution ordered and attorney allowed fee of S2OO and receiver allowed S2OO. Charles Heffner vs. Jacob Hunsicker, demurred overruled, reply filed, answer filed to set off Cause set for tril Monday, January 3rd. In the Sophia Conrad et al petition for drain Superintendent Haruff filed bond for $4,000, which was approved. Dyonis Schmidt, guardian, vs. John Brown, partition suit; cause assigned to R. S. Peterson as special judge. Real estate transfers: John Sehmitley to C. C. Elett to Richard Harris, tract in St. Mary’s tow-nship, $10,400; James Brunergraff to Catherine Brunergraff, lot 260, Decatur, $2000; Maude H. Hughson to John W. Hendricks, lot 4, Monroe, S7OO. A marriage license was issued to William Smithe, 21 a laborer, Decatur, to Nora Dishong, 17, of Decatur. GRAY GAINS THE DECISION. ’ i Guaranteed Salary by National Baseball Commission.

Cecil Gray, well known in sporting circles as a member of the famous old Van Wert team in the IndianaOhio base ball league and at present employed at the College Inn billiard hall in this city, won his case against the New York Highanders yesterday before the National Baseball commission, in session at Cincinnati. Grey I contended that he played with the Johnstown, Pennsylvania club in the Tri-State league until the end of their season, September 6th, and at that time he was notified by the manager of that club to report to the New York American League club, at Philadelphia, with the statement that if he made good that club would draft him. Following this he did report i to the Uew York club and was with I them until the 16th of September, when he was sent to the Jersey City 1 club; that he played with that club ten days, and was then stopped by the president of the Eastern League ' and told that he belonged to the New York club and was sent back to that I Club, with who he remaiised until | the 29th of September, although he did not receive his salary up to that time. The player's claim is for salary from September 16th fc to September 29th, amounting to $152, and the commission handed down a decision in his favor awarding him the desired sum. He will very probably be a member of the New York team the coming season, leaving Van Wert the latter part of February.—'Van Wert Bulletin.