Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 301.

DR. COOK A FAKIR Investigating Committee at Copenhagen Declare the Records Insufficient. A STRIKE WEDNESDAY Unless Favorable Report is Made Today by Railroads A Battle Coming. (United Press Service.) Copenhagen Dec. 21.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The investigating committee today reported to the University of Copenhagen that the explorer's records do not carry conviction and that the records and observations are wholly Insufficient to warrant a verdict that he discovered the north pole. The members report that Dr. Cook’s records and observations are no more convincing from a scientific standpoint than was his newspaper accounts of his explorations. Walter Lonsdale, Dr. Cook's private secretary, who brought the data to Copenhagen is greatly disappointed over the report The consistory's finding today is the final judgment so far as they are concerned. One of the members of the committee, after the findings had been approved by the con-, Bistory, said: "It took the committee but a few moments to see that his observations and records were worthless. We could have made a report at once but our surprise was so great that it took us several days to recover. The so-call-ed records of the doctore are only the result of his observations rather than the observations themselves and were thrown aside without a moment's consideration. I cannot understand how a man of Dr. Cook's reputed scientific standing could have consented to prove such a claim on such flimsy evidence.” (United Press Service.) London, Dec. 21.—(Special to Daily Democrat) — A positive statement made today is that eighteen persons lost their lives in the burning of the big department store at Clapham, a shopping district of this city. Eight bodies have been recovered, while ten are missing, according to the records. (United Press Service.) Minneapolis, Minn. Dec. 21. — (Special to Daily Democrat)—Unless the necessary' officials give a favorable report today, 5,000 men in the railway department of the American Federation of Labor will strike tomorrow. There seems but little chance for arbitration. (United Press Service.) Bluefields, Dec. 21.— (Special to the Daily Democrat) —Reports received j today from Rama say that Estradas army is advancing to Vasques, just outside Rama. A battle is expected. I This is the most decisive move of the army Madriz for president. (United Press Service.) St. Louis, Mo„ Dec. 21.— (Special to Dally Democrat)—The guard around the Bellville jail was redoubled today as a precaution to prevent the lync ing of Will Clark, the negro charged with killing a motorman and seriously wounding a conductor in a stre< t car hold-up here a few nights since. T e •situation seems to warrant the ring ing of troops. (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C.. Dec. -1lai to Daily Democrat)— There wi H’ a congressional investigation <> Ballinger controversy. On the <’<> , of the senate today Senat ' m publican, of California, offered a rej lution which was adopted. ° alllng the president for all reccip s statements pertaining to the c ‘ .gainst or Ballinger, by Glabis. thei.atter Senator tones. rep' letter from Mr. Balling ep( , t to him. demanding in the terms, a thorough> ,nV^ rv branch . •department and the f ■ ~ ELECTION 0F All members of the Sa . Alliance and Sunday sc lem Evangelical chut. ■ on to be present at election o , at Salem church, < present' time. You are urged and thus help to * 1 aright. THP

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I -dont kick- says fancier. To Exhibitors Show-The Judge Knows Hit Business. As the poultry season Is here It may not be out of place to drop a few suggestions to exhibitors who may mr et defeat in the show room. If there is something you don't understand. or there appears a rank decis- , lon it is perfectly proper to ask the Judge to "show you," but don't be too severe on the judge. The probability is that he knows | his business, and if you are wrong you will always regret any boisterous exhibition you make of yourself in criticising his work. So many breeders get too attached to their birds that they cannot see the possibility for them to be beaten, while their defects are really apparent to others. 1 If you really feel inclined to complain ’ it is a good plan to postpone any demonstration you feel like making, for 1 later you may change your mind about ' making it; anyway you may not make ■lt so strong if you “cool off" first. ' A FANCIER. A GOOdT SPEAKER : _ ! 1 Is Dr. Herbert Who Will 1 1 Lecture Here Wednes- < I day Evening. f 1 HE WAS AT WABASH 1 t 1 Last Week Where He Gave ‘ Entertaining Lecture— J Loudly Applauded. i Dr. Herbert, a famous lecturer, will s lecture at the Presbyterian church at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, December 22nd, for the benefit of the ( senior class of the Decatur high < school, and everybody is invited. He c I gave a lecture at Wabash last Friday and the press dispatch to the various newspapers gives him a great puff. . One of them is as follows: | , “I tell you I have been all over this country and I know what the people want. They want him for the presi- ] dency.” This was the assertion Dr. L. G. Herbert, who addressed the TriChurch Lecture Course at the Christian church Tuesday evening, in speaking of Albert J. Beveridge, Tn- , diana’s senior senator, as a coming (candidate for president. “Uncle Joe” Cannon was rapped , vigorously and often. Dr. Herbert asserted that Cannon was a relic of the old governmental days when men were whipped into party lines and voted the party because told to do ! g0 He held that Cannon was an obstructionist, that he was a boss, doomed to fall. I or Herbert asserted that the "spirit of the great west” was awak- t ening and even conservative. New 1 England is taking notice. The days i of Joe are numbered. ' Dr Herbert's subject was the “Trin- i Itv of Power." He held that this trin- t ,tv Is education, patriotism and re- < ligion He asserted there will be a ] conflict between the Occident and the 1 orient but he asserted this would not . bp on the sea as Hobson says nor on t the land, but will be a peaceful con- . test of brains rather than brawn < Russia, a republic, due to these three powers, he asserted, Is sure. P °p r Herbert's ideas of religion and . religious tolerance would no doubt i have shocked some staid old church j f q f e w decades ago, but they ; Ce applauded aS h ! he,d jZ preachers would keep out of it 1 I congregations would get togeth- ( I Twanted church lines obliter- . l«Md and a cosmopolitan worship, lib- < t en ough to allow the reign of con- < science and 1 TANKED UP ON BOOZE. I . 11nW from Decatur by the A young fellow iron Flzev was placed in jail last name f officer L K. Plessinger and nigM thei ht there recovering he spent the n g that. ( ; r ft m himin S a condition where he could i le f t. him was so wild | almost see Fn^ rlson ers took him in , l that the an ° d pla ced him in the padded I ce ' ♦ nnd the fear that beset him i sre "‘ l ix*

Decatur, Indiana. Tuesday Evening, December 21, 1909

WANTS INSURANCE Mrs. Gaskill Formerly Viola Stevens of This City Has Filed a Suit IN FORT WAYNE Knights and Ladies of Honor Refuse to Settle, Claiming Suicidal Death. Viola Gaskill, widow of Roy K. Gas-' kill, formerly a coachman and houseman in the employ of Fred E. Hoffman, contends that her husband did not commit suicide and this morning the trial of a suit was begun in the circuit court under which she is seeking to recover on a policy he held' with the Knights and Ladies of Hon- ' or. The action is directed against the supreme council of the order. The collection of the policy is resisted on the ground that he shot himself and that under the terms his beneficiary cannot collect. The | amount involved is a little over S3OO. Gaskil was found in the kitchen of the Hoffman home on West Berry street, on May 30, 1908, with a bullet wound in the middle of his forehead. The coroner investigated and returned a finding of suicide. He was alone in the house at the time and the body was discovered by Mr. Hoffman. The case had not advanced far enough to bring out the theory of the widow but nobody saw the act and the action places upon > the order the bruden of proving that I the death wound was self-in-flicted. Creighton H. Williams represents Mrs. Gaskill and Breen & Morris are defending the suit. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. Mrs. Gaskill was formerly Miss Viola Stevens, daughter of Henry Stevens, of this city. Her husband’s death occurred a year and a half ago, ft will be remembered, while Viola was visiting her parents in this city. BE WELL FILLED Big Baskets Full of Everything Needed for a Big Christmas Dinner TO BE GIVEN AWAY To the Needy of the City by the Elks—The Committee is Appointed. The Elks, best people on earth, will again demonstrate that old nickname, by providing Christmas dinners for all the needy of Decatur. A meeting of the lodge was held Monday evening to decide such things as are necessary for this annual event, certainly a splendid thing for such an order to do. A committee was appointed, consisting of Will P. Shrock, Mayor C. O. France and David E. Smith, who will see that the baskets are well filled and properly distributed. To this end they ask the cooperation of the public. Any pne knowing of any needy person, whom they believe entitled to this charity will confer a favor by notifying any member of this committee and the party named will be assured of a good Christmas dinner. Each basket will include a chicken, a peck of potatoes, celery, corn, candy, bananas and such other articles as are necessary to make a good wholesome Christmas dinner complete. It is an acknowledged fact that no fraternal order in the world can compete with the Elks when it. comes to charity and they have often proven that fact in Decatur. ——. o— NEW STEEL CEILING. A force of workmen were busy today putting in a new steel ceiling in the Bowers building, occupied by the gas company, that will render the place more fireproof. | I Mrs. Ada Mustard of Ada, Ohio, who has been visiting Mrs. Plnsy Bell, left this morning for Goshen, where she will visit with her mother, Mrs. Mary Bremerkamp.

RETURNS FROM NEW YORK CITyJ Manager Mulholland Attended an Exhibit of Gas Appliance*. General Manager S. E. Mulholland, of the Indiana Lighting company, returned yesterday from New York City, where, with Mrs. Mulholland, he spent a week . Mr. Mulholland attended the national exhibition of gas appliances and manufactures at Madison Square Garden and the Indiana Lighting company’s manager says it was the greatest show the world has ever known. It gave Mr. Mulholalnd an opportunity not only to study the natural gas problem, but he was able to see it applied to all phases of life —lighting, heating, power and domestic i uses —with all the appliances the i world knows in form to demonstrate gas. Mr. Mulholland is applying himself to the needs of the people, is seeking to enlighten himself on the best and/ most economical uses of gas and his experience in Madison Square Garden j I will enable him to improve the servi ice of the Indiana Lighting company in all its centers. The Madison Square Garden exhibit was in progress for eight days.—Fort I Wayne Journal-Gazette. o COURT HOUSE NEWS Mrs. Sarah Hakes Files a Sensational Cross-Com-i plaint in Divorce Suit. i AKS FOR SSOO ALIMONY i Judge Sturgis Assumes Jurisdiction in the Johson- ’ Amacher Case. 1 t ~ i Judge Sturgis of Bluffton arrived 1 this morning and assumed jurisdiction 1 in the Johnson vs. Amacher et al., f tending toward the completion of the issues were made by the attorneys. | In the matter of the Angeline Schlegel estate, C. S. Clark, administrator, suggestion was made of the ' minority of Charley and Julia Schlegel and D. B. Erwin was named as guardian ad litem and filed hfs answer. E. B. Lenhart, guardian for Andrew Meyer, a person of unsound mind, ill- ' ed a petition for the sale of his life estate In real estate. F. T. Harmon and E .E. Mitch were appointed as appraisers and the sale was ordered privately. Gottlieb Brandt vs. Thoms E. Mann et al., suit on note; demand, $150; motion by defendant to suppress part of the depositions was filed. - William F. Moellering et al. vs. < Robert B. Gregory, account; demand, $100; default of defendant. , In the Joseph W. Hakes vs. Sarah • Hakes, suit for divorce, Mrs. Hakes • has filed a sensational cross-com- • plaint, in which she accuses her husband of non-support, infidelity and other things, asks that he be denied a divorce, but that the decree be . granted to her, that her former name , of Sarah Ayres be restored to her and that she be granted the sum of SSOO alimony. — Abraham Brown vs. Fred Schafer . et al., warranty suit; rule against, de- . fendant to answer made absolute in five days. < i Leota Ross vs. Homer Raudebush, . breach of promise, appearance by C. , J. Lutz as attorney for plaintiff , “ I No remonstrance of objection being filed to the David J. Barkley ditch and the report, having been filed ten days, the same Is ordered constructed. C. C. Ernst was appointed superintendent of construction, with a bond of $2,000. A marriage license was issued to James Stewart, aged twenty, an Allen county farmer, to Miss Josie Mumma, aged eighteen, daughter of John A. Mumma, of Root township. o - Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Wilcox and Miss Margaret Bell will spend the holidays in Decatur, visiting relatives and friends. J,

NO FURTHER WORD Has Been Receivd Regarding Death of Lee Porter at Seattle. IDENTITY IS SURE Message Sent by Churm of His, Frank Ullery, Formerly of Decatur. No further word has been received by the Porter family concerning the death of the son, Lee, which, according to a telegram received here Monday, occurred Saturday evening at Seattle, Wash., after being injured by I falling from the roof of a high building on which he was working. No further word will probably be received until the body reaches Chicago on its way to this city. Rumors wer* heard yesterday to the effect that I there was some doubt as to whether the boy killed at Seattle, was the Lee I Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Porter, of this city, or another boy of i the same name. These rumors were without foundation, however, and the identity is most surely established. The message was sent by a churm of his, Frank Ullery, son of John Ullery, formerly of this city, with whom he had been rooming while in Seattle. The boys were chums here many years ago when the Ullerys lived hpre, and when Lee went west to Seattle the boys were friends and were I rooming together at the time of the accident. o Among other students who will arrive home within a few days to spend the holiday vacation are Otis Dibble from Indiana University, Bloomington; Ben Beaves, from Wabash college, Crawfordsville; Avon Burke, who is taking a law course at Indiana University; Brice True, from Wabash college; Ted Sowers, from Winona academy. CLOSE WEDNESDAY School Children Will be Free to Enjoy The Holiday Vacation. CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS Will be Given Wednesday Afternoon by Many of the Rooms. Wednesday the city schools close and the city school children will be free to enjoy their holiday vacation, which this year extends from Wednesday, December 22nd, to January 3rd. Many of the pupils, under the direction of the teachers, have prepared appropriate programs which they will render Wednesday afternoon, and to which the patrons have been Invited. The invitations, in many instances, are written by the pupils, and decorated with little water color sketches, in which holly and Santas predominate, the invitations being of their own make. The literary societies of the high school have also made special preparations for their Christmas program and the exercises there promise to be unusually good. Many of the teachers who live away from Decatur will spend the holidays with their parents, and many will attend the state teachers’ association meeting at Indianapolis, which convenes there three days during the holiday week. — o BURIAL OF MRS. BISCHOFF. Body Rrirved From Huntington Where Death Occurred. The remains of the late Catharine Bischoff, a well known lady of Union township, whose death occurred Sunday at the home of her daughter in Huntington, arrived at 1:59 today over the Erie, the funeral cortege Including a largo number of her relatives and friends. A funeral service was held in Huntington this mo^ gthe body being brought here for burial In the Bleeke churchyard in Union township.

RETURNED FROM NEW YORK. Official* of the B. G. & C. Have Returned From the East. R. F. Cummins, secretary of the Bluffton, Geneva & Celina interurban company, and C. W. Clark, superintendent of the M. B. & E. traction company, returned Sunday afternoon from New York City, where they went to inspect material to be bought for the new road. They will make a report to the board of directors of the company at a meeting which will be held sometime in the near future. Mr. Cummins said this morning that he could have nothing to say regarding his trip to the eastern city until after the meeting of the directors, as nothing will be closed up until that time. He said that his trip was merely a trip of inspection and nothing definite could be done until after the members of the board of directors met. It is thought that, at the next meeting of the board of directors the question as to whether there will be a power plant built or power purchased from Marion will be decided. —Bluffton Banner. o ABOUT UNCLE JOE Former Congressman Watson Talks of Speaker Cannon. DOES NOT BELIEVE That Uncle Joe Will be a Candidate for Speaker Again. Washington, Dec. 21.—Speaker Cannon and former Representative James E. Watson will start west today. The speaker and Mr. Watson have been together a great deal during the last few days. “I do not believe that Mr. Cannon ever will be a candidate for the speakership again,” said Mr. Watson today Some time before he ran for speaker the last time he gave his friends to understand that he desired but one more election to that office, after which he would retire from the speakership but not from the house. That, I believe, is still his attitude. I do not think, however, that anybody could get from him now a statement that he will not run for speaker again as that would be like he was retiring under fire. He still has a lot of fight In him, and as long as the ‘insurgents’ are keeping up a fullisade on him it need not be epected that he will make any announcement that will look like he is showing the white flag. I think ft is perfectly safe to predict that no such statement will be forthcoming as long as the speaker is under fire.” Victor Murdock, the leader of the house Insurgents, says that it has been suggested to him that the fight on Cannon ought to be drawn off that the speaker might have an opportunity to announce that he will not be a candidate for speaker without being put in the attitude of running away from a fight. “That Is my view of It, ’ said Mr. Murdock. “Speaking for myself, I will say that I have no idea of letting up on Cannon. I think he will announce his retirement finally in any event—that he will be driven to do so to save a number of his friends in the house from going down in defeat. To stop our fight would simply give the Cannonites a chance to say that the opposition to Cannon has petered out, and when the impression once got abroad Uncle Joe would fool us and refuse to capitulate. We have got him on the run and now is the time to push the fight on him.” HOME FROM NORTH DAKOTA. Mr. and Mrs. Shanon P. Miller an< family, formerly of this county, bu now living in Mott, North Dakota, ar ! rived in the city for a visit of a montt or more with Mr. and Mrs. Cary Britt son, in the west part of the city. Mr 5 Miller left last March for that place 1 where he purchased 320 acres of land - and has now one of the best and 1 most valuable farms in that communlf ty Land has almost doubled in prict - since Mr. Miller’s arrival there and Is • still Increasing. A railroad is Just a quarter of a mile from his place now. Thirty miles was the closest when he purchased his land. He likes tlv' place very much and expects to make that place his future residence.

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FIELD EXAMINERS The State Accounting Board Make Public Their First List. DIVIDE POLITICALLY Half of Them Are Democrats and Half Are Rpublicans in Politics. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 21.—Special to Daily Democrat)—The state accounting board have made their first list of appointments of field examiners under the accounting law. For several weeks they have labored, and labored hard in the grading of examination papers, and in looking into the character and ability of those who sought a place in the service. It is proposed to place in the field one hundred examiners and in this way give the law a fair and impartial test. Requests for such examinations, especially In the townships, have come to the board from all parts of the state, and in numbers that at times seemed as if the accounting board would be swamped in their efforts to satisfy every one for an examination. Beginning the first of the year they will make the effort, and calls will be made upon the following list of appointments, as they may be needed to carry on the work, under the careful guidance of the state accounting board. Those who have been favored with appointment follow: Democrats —Clem T. Kain, Bluffton; John V. Foster, Spencer; John W. Kurtz, Knox; John L. Shum, Tipton; E. B. Swift, Kokomo; Edwarp P. ißrennen, Indianapolis; Frederick Dahling, Reynolds: E. T. Carson, Shelbyville; O. C. Herdrich, Lebanon: Theodore T. Pringle, Bloomfield; Edward C. Simpson, Indianapolis; M. O. Sullivan, Shelbyville; F. M. Wilson, Lafayette; T. E. Matthews, Crawfordsville; William A. Hammond, Fort Wayne; William C. Winstandley, Bedford; Charles W. Cruson, Indianapolis; John B. Groves, Newport; G. Ray King, Brookville; W. M Madden, Evansville; William D. Lalley, Indianapois; Lloyd R. Christman, Indianapolis; E. F. Hedges, Lebanon; John E. Sherman, Alexandria; M. W. Salmon, Frankfort; Clark B. Davis, Seymour;* John S. Joyce, Kokomo; Ira Holland, Brazil; H. D. Barrett, Greenfield; George W. Campbell; Rushville; Samuel L. Wallace, Indianapols; L. L. Hankley, Omega; Horatio Harryman, Bedford; A. R. Hardesty’, Valparaiso; William P. Duffy, Indianapolis; Webster Parry, Richmond; Henry A. Kernodle, Lebanon; Horace G. Casady, Indianapolis; William A. Marsh, Indianapolis: E. S. Moore, ’ Kingman; Albert N. Doyle, Marlon; ' William Maloney, Indianapolis; Jas. Gardner, Lebanon; William F. Handy, Indianapolis; John S. Mitchell, 1 Windfall; M S. Briscoe, Laporte; M. B. Dunn, Anderson; Frank Swisher, Elwood; E, S. Edgar, Winchester. Republicans—Charles E. Weybright, Columbia City; Edwin Caldwell, Marlon; E. E. Luse, Anderson; Jos. C. Lockwood, Anderson; Willis A. Sellers, Kokomo; Charles H. Gerhardt, Indianapolis; Oscar W. Shryer, Bloomfield: Leonard R. Schrader, Columbia City; Earl C. Morris, Ander--1 son; O. C. Baker, Noblesville; Jacob ’ H. Winter, Indianapolis; Charles B. Daly, Winchester; William H. Stevens, Columbus; Charles H. Knapp, Auburn: Walter S. Merritt, Frankfort; Ulysses Jordan, Indianapolis; John G. Davis, Kentland: Henry L. Smith, ' Indianapolis; Cyril C. Connelly, Greencastle; Virley R. Rudd, Danville; H. W. C. Fosdlck, Indianapolis; L. D. 1 Hutchins, Wabash; W. A. Lewis, Elwood; Harry D. Orchard, Bloomington; B. Wilson Smith, Indianapolis; Thos. V. Thornton, Indianapolis; Harry R. Embree, Princeton: Walter J. ld Twiname, Indianapolis; C. D. Sherl,t win, Goshen; E. D. Farmer, Bloomr ington; Harry R. Ellis. Plainfield; J. h parlow, Shelbyville; Milton A. Aexander, Indianapolis; William R. r p res snall. Huntington: Paul S. Ra--0 gan. Wabash: Amos D. Morris, Kent--1 land: C. C. White, Noblesville; Wm. M. 1 Alkman, Washington: Curtis E. Ray, Bedford; Edw. Poulson. Warsaw: W. ’ F. Gerhard, Mellott: Theo. E. Gregg, 1 Rushville: John S. Haines, Marlon: E. P. Lacey, Sullivan; I. D. Wiest, Indianapolis; Guy B. Howren, Liberty: Charles W. Sutton, Indianapolis; William J. McCoy, Indianapolis; Dil1a Wiseman, Corydon: H. E. Dukes. Thorntown.