Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 49.

THE COURT NEWS _■ I Judge Merryman Held a Short But Busy Session —Bailor Sentenced. A NEW CASE FILED A Four Thousand Dollar Damage Suit Against Fred Scheiman—Other News. Judge Merryman managed to reach the court house this morning, though he is not feeling extra good. He held a busy session, disposing of a number ■if important matters. Attorney C. J. Lutz has filed a new cage entitled Charles Lammlman vs. Fred Scheiman, damages, demand, $4,000. The complaint alleges that June 1, 1908, Mr. Lammiman sold to Mr. Scheiman 126 acres of farm land for which Scheiman agreed to pay him |12,000, for which $4,800 was cash, he assumed a mortgage of $4,500 and transferred to him stock In the Decatur Packing company for $3,300, rep- ' resenting this to be worth par and that it would pay 6 per cent dividends. The complaints says that Mr. Scheiman was president of the company and knew the value of the stock ■while Mr. Lammiman had no idea of its worth. He says the stock did not . prove as represented and is therefore demanding damages in the amount of $4,000 to re-imburse him. The case of Letta Thomas vs. Elsie Thomas, replevin, is set for trial Tuesday, March Bth. • Anna Hollder vs. Edwin C. Holl- ; der, for support, dismissed at costs of plaintiff. Gottlieb Brandt vs. Thomas E. Mann et al., suit on note, demand $l5O. set for trial for Wednesday, March 9th. Sam Bailor, convicted for receiving stolen goods, was brought into court this morning and sentenced on the verdict to five days in jail and to pay a fine of one dollar and costs, amounting to $37.50. Old Adams County Bank vs. Cardwell Box Company et al., appearance was entered by Lutz for the box company and J. T. Vail, by Beatty for Allison and by Vesey for A. T. Vail. Isaac Teeple vs. Joseph Ellenberger et al., suit on account, $137.87; rule to answer made absolute within five days. S. J. Laman et al. vs. Nicholas Wagoner, suit on note, demurrer filed to complaint Otto D. Beiberick was appointed administrator of the estate of W illiam F. Kirchner and filed bond for SI,OOO. J. M. Miller, administrator of the Ida 'Whitright estate, filed a petition for the sale of personal property and it was so ordered at private sale after ten days’ notice. A number of current and final reports were filed and allowed by the court. ‘ Real estate transfers: Harvey Harruff to Ada Yocum, inlot. 1019. Decatur, $150; Frank Foreman to Geo. Shrank, 60 acres, Blue Creek tp„ ' $4350; Aaron Strickler to Frank Strickler, 35 acres, St. Marys tp., $733; Reason Shaffer to Henry M. Crownover, 80 acres St. Marys tp., $6800; Anna Hirschy to William H. Haggard, 80 acres, Monroe tp., $7200; W. H. H. Bears to Daniel Beeler et al., 42 acres, Wabash tp., $2700; B. F. Ault to W. H. Bears, 50 acres, Wabash tp., $3000; John W. Beavans to Lydia L. Heaston, 80 acres, Wabash tp., $6800; John R. Wagers to A. F. Ryf, 40 acres, Blue Creek tp., $3400; Luella Sullivan to A. F. Ryf, 20 acres, Monroe tp., $2500; J. D Kemper to Charles Rumschlag, 80 acres, Washington tp., $7600. —O — The Ladles' Aid society of the Salem Evangelical church, furnished lunch at the Dan Erwin sale yesterday and realized therefrom about twenty dollars, which will be a welcome ad dltion to the treasury of that society, which is doing so much practical good. . » -a.*.

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I DOUBLE MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI ' Husband Kills Wife and Her Lover and Leaves Bodies in House. $ (United Press Service.) Satrinvllle, Miss., Feb. 26 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —The cries of a starving baby, whose mother lay on the floor of the house, with her head crushed and her throat cut from ear to ear, attracted the attention of a ' negro early today, resulting in the discovery of what is believed to have been a double murder. Near the body -of the woman lay the body of DuKe Willis. He had been killed with a crow bar, which stood In one corner of the room. Both the man and the woman had been dead for several days. Isaac Sarkman, a farmer, and the husband of the woman, when ar--1 rested today, refused to discuss the 1 finding of the bodies, or what may 1 have led up to the killing. f o , WERE KNOWN HERE t Three Deaths at Ft. Wayne of Interest to Man/ of Our Readers. i ; MRS. G. BIEDENWEG i . Sister of Henry Schulte—t Daughter of Ferdinand Reinking is Called. > ■ ■ , Mrs. Louise Biedenweg, fifty years of\ age, wife of Gottfried Biedenweg, s residing at 1855 Smith street, died at 1 the Lutheran hospital at 6:30 p’clock Thursday evening. Mrs. Biedenweg was born in Hontei borg, Osnabruck, Hanover, Germany, and was a member of the Zion Luthran church and of the Ladies’ Auxil- ' iary to the Bruederliche Unterstuetznngsverein. Surviving children are Mrs. Emma Reinecke, Fort 'Wayne; Mrs. Martha Dalwick, Cleveland, and I William and Loulsia Biedenweg, of ’■ this city. Eight grandchildren also ! survive. ’ The other relatives include the aged ’ father, Frederick Schulte; two brothers, William Engelbeck, of Petoskey, Mich., and Henry Schulte, of Decatur, ’ and three sisters —Miss Augusta En- ’ gelbeck, Mrs. Frederick Fuelling and ‘ Mrs. Charles Lenz, Fort Wayne. Funeral services Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the residence and at 2:30 from Zion Lutheran church— | Fort Wayne Sentinel. . t ! Mrs. Louise Prange, widow of William Prange, and for many years a s resident of Wayne township, died I Thursday afternoon at her home south of the city. Death was due to paralysis. Mrs. Prange was seventy- ( two years of age. She was born in Use Windheim, Prussia, Germany, and came to Allen » county in 1845 with her parents. Five 1 children survive. They are Mrs. Fred 1 Gerke of Adams township; Mrs. Fred Klein of Adams county; Mrs. Louise Bohley and William and August Prange of Fort Wayne. There are , sixteen grandchildren and two brothers, William Hartman of Wayne township and Fred Hartman of Grand r Rapids. Funeral services Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the residence and at 2 o’clock from Emmaus Lutheran c church, of which the deceased was a member.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. Mrs. Martha M. Schleichner, wife of . William Schleichner, a carpenter re- ; siding at 1410 Fletcher avenue, died at r her home at 10:30 o’clock Thursday ’ morning at the age of thirty-seven g ’ years. t- Mrs. Scleichner was the daughter o of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Reinking and is survived by the aged mother, ’ i her husband and two daughters, Mary 0 ' and Helen, aged seven and nine, respectively. There are also three brothers and three sisters. The dee ceased was a member of the Cond cordia Lutheran church. y Funeral services will be held Mony day afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from 1- the residence, and at 2 o’clock from r, the Concordia Lutheran church, the il Rev. Lange officiating.—Fort Wayne | Journal-Gazette.

Decatur, Indiana. Saturday Evening, February 26, 1910.

SPRING IS COMING Herald the Merchants Who Are Beginning Their Annual “Furbishing Up.” MUCH REMODELING And Papering and Painting and General Beautifying is Going On. Just as sure as nature puts on her spring gown of fresh beauty for the new season, just so do the merchants follow suit and one of the first signs of spring is this “furbishig up”—as ; sure as the chirp of the bird. Decatur merchants Ire already heralding its approach. The Winnes shoe store after a period of much labor, has undergone a thorough change. The walls have been neatly and handsomely repapered and the woodwork repainted. These changes have even extended to the officG of W. J. Archbold, city treasurer and express agent. The booth has been moved from the east side of the room, facing the wesf, to the north side, with Mr. Archbold facing the sunny south. The Smith, Yager & Falk and the Black- I burn drug stores are coming out resplendent In coats of paper and paint, and the store room at the rear of the Meyer & Scherer furniture and undertaking establishment is being remodedel for use as a salesroom to accommodate the increase in business. The paper on the walls of the .Deininger millinery store is being regenerated and will come out shining, as a fitting background for the new ' spring hats, which are now coming in and will soon be put out in all the beauty and verdure of spring. The Forbing building, now occupied by the Hitesman & Gerard Fair store, has undergone a complete renovation and is a place of real artistic beauty, with its clean-looking, buff walls and white , woodwork. The Parrish restaurant building, which was rendered so woebegone in appearance, is taking on a happy expression that grows each day 1 with the work of the carpenters and other workmen now hustling with all< ► their might to get the place ready for business again. All these and the plans of others, who are getting ready for their annual spring “rid-up” tell us that “spring is coming.” o OFFICERS ELECTED I The Linn Grove State Bank Selects Board of Directors and Officers. OPEN APRIL FIRST Peter Hoffman is President and Homer Neaderhouser is Cashier. Linn Grove, Ind., Feb. 27 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —The Linn Grove State Bank is an assured member of the Adams county list of banking institutions. The required amount of stock, $25,000, or rather the desired amount, has been subscribed and at a meeting held at this place Friday the board of directors who will control the bank during the first year of its career were chosen, those selected being Samuel Oplinger, Peter Hoffman, Albert Kindle', John Shoemaker, Joseph Beers, Lemuel Bears and Michael Gottschalk. Immediately afterwards the directors met and selected officers, who are: President, Peter Hoffman; vice president, Samuel Oplinger, and cashier, Homer Neaderhouser. The new bank will 'open April Ist. The exact location has not been decided upon, but a temporary home will be arranged until such time in the near future when they will have their own building. The bank will start on its business career with every indication of a successful future. Quite a large class took the teachers’ examination today at the Central school building.

MRS. LESH DIDN’T MEAN IT. Said She Would Kill Huiband But it Was Only a Joke. The arguments nl the Lesh divorce were to have been made this afternoon before Judge Merryman at Decatur, but owing to the judge being on the sick list nothing was done. Mrs. Lesh in conversation with representatives of both local papers Thursday afternoon made the statement that should the verdict be found in her favor or not, many charges had been made against her that were false and she wished corrected. During the course of the trial witnesses told that she had repeatedly told her husband she would kill him. Mrs. Lesh does not deny having made these statements, but says they were used only as a slang phrase and only said in a joking way. Mrs. Lesh is still making her home with her son in the property owned by Mr. Lesh on West Wiley avenue. —Bluffton Banner. o — SOLD THE HORSE Belonging to His Employer, John Sherry, and Skipped With the Money. LEAVING THE BUYERS To Hold the Bridle is Trick Played by Man From Virginia. Selling his employer’s horse, and 1 then skipping out with the $l5O in! cash, leaving the buyers holding the ' empty bridle, with nothing to show but a sad experience, is the trick played by one George Miller, supposed to be a Virginian, a stranger, who two weeks ago applied at the John Scherry home near Magley, for work and was taken in by that family as a “hired man.” Mr. Sherry and the young man came to town yesterday with the team and wagon, putting the same up at the Schlickman feed yard. In the meantime Mr. Sherry went to ►attend a sale and the hired man got busy. He went to the Decatur Sales company and represented that the horse was for sale. Guy Johnson and Jaibes Stults, two <sf the employees, went to the Schlickman yard to look at the horse, and as the Schlickmans knew that Mr. Sherry had the horse up for sale, all was supposed to be going along in a perfectly proper way. Tho horse was bought and the animal taken to the Sales company’s barns on First street, where it was winded and the transaction closed. The young man took the money and that was the last seen of him here. When Mr. Sherry returned to the Schlickman feed yard to get his team and wagon to go home, the crooked work was discovered, as Mr. Sherry had not authorized him to sell the horse, nor had the man turned the money over to him for the horse. Officers were immediately put on the case and word was sent to all surrounding cities to be on the lookout for him. The sale took place sometime between 2 and 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon and it is supposed that the man got away on one of the trains leaving shortly after. Unless he can be found and the money recovered from him, the two boys who bought the horse will be the losers as the animal was at once turned oved to Mr. Sherry. FfESIGNS POSITION AS CLERK. Miss Marie Heckman, who for the past year and a half has served as clerk for the True & Runyon store, where she gained many friends through her courteous and efficient service, has resigned her position there, the same to take effect this evening. Miss Heckman will on next Monday begin work at the Boese millinery store, where she will finish learning the millinery art. Miss Heckman has already served several seasons at the Boese millinery store, so the work will not be new to her. Her friends wish her the highest success in her undertaking. T — —- Charles Pennington, who has been sick the greater part of the week with the grip, is somewhat better, though still unable to put In an appearance at the store.

SENTENCE PASSED t On Chas. Drummond Who Robbed Christen Drug Store at Fort Wayne. I - ’ HE TELLS HIS STORY i i > | The Young Man Confessed and Says Harry Chisten Sold Him the Liquor. A Charles Drummond, the young man . who robbed the Christen drug store ■ at Fort Wayne early Thursday morning, appeared before Judge O'Rourke late Friday afternoon, where he plead guilty to grand larceny, the prosecutor not insisting on a charge of burglary. Judge O’Rourke refused to grant a suspension of sentence on so serious a charge and the young man was immediately sentenced to from two to fourteen years at the reformatory. Curley Simons, who received a part of the money, also plead guilty, but the court has not passed sentence as he will first hear character witnesses. It has developed that instead of over S3OO, the amount stolen was about $l5O and the greater part of that was recovered by the police, so that Christen Brothers will not be losers very much. However, Harry Christen, one of the members of the firm, will have to answer to a very serious charge, that of selling liquor without a prescription, for i which the minimum fine is SSO. In i his confession Drummond said that j at 1 o’clock on the morning of the robbery, Christen went with him to his drug store and sold him $1.50 worth of whiskey, which he claimed so crazed him that he committed the crime. Prosecutor Hilgeman said Friday evening that the affidavit against Christen would be filed today. '- o SISTER SERIOUSLY SICK. Mrs. W. H. Meyers received a message this morning stating that her sister, Mrs. George Copeland, of Guide Rock, Neb., was in a very serious condition at the Western hospital, Kansas City, where she had undergone an operation. This is the third operation with seemingly no relief. It is feared that she cannot recover. FIRST WEEK ENDS Rev. Elliott Delivered Another Brilliant Sermon at Presbyterian Church. BEGIN AGAIN SUNDAY Rev. Spetnagel Will be Assisted During Week by Out of Town Ministers. Rev. Elliott of Auburn brought the week of services at the Presbyterian church to a fitting close Friday evening. His sermon on “Following Christ” was a fine climax to the splendid sermons which have been delivered from evening to evening during the week. There will be no service this eyetiing, but Sunday, the pastor, Rev. Spetnagel, will continue the meetings and will preach at the morning and evening hours. Beginning Monday evening again there will be a continuance of the splendid meeting and the public is most cordially and earnestly invited to attend any and all of these services, when inspiring sermons will be delivered by various pastors from this part of the state. On Monday evening Rev., Arrick of Kendallville will be the speaker, and all who can should hear him. He will help you to an understanding of perplexing questions and aid you to be better men and women. o Miss Margaret Walters returned today from Berne, where she has been i teaching for the past week and will spend Sunday with her parents.

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A LITTLE CONSCIENCE. MONEY. Two Dollars for Seed Corn Secured Twenty-Five Years Ago. The Jefferson township farmer, who the first of the week received $2 conscience money from a man who drove seventeen miles to pay him for two sacks of corn is Volney Grim, one of Jefferson’s best known citizens. In the first article given the first of the week the News was requested not to use his name but since it has been made public In an adjoining town there is no use to withhold it longer. The man who paid Mr. Grim is a farmer reported living in the edge of Adams county, now well-todo, and owning a farm of his own. He told Mr. Grim that he secured two sacks of corn from Mr. Grim's father, twentyfive years ago, for which he never paid.—Bluffton News. A MURDER MYSTERY The Frightful Murder of Miss Sarah Schafer Again Called to Mind. EXPECT INDICTMENT Detective Owens Has Never Quit Work and Will Ap,pear Before Grand Jcry. The Marion News Tribune of yesterday said: “Detective Robert Owens was in Marion yesterday on bls way to Bedford, Ind., to lay certain evidence before the grand jury relative to the famous Sarah Schafer murder case. Detective O’-’ens says a true bill will undoubtedly be. returned against a prominent citizen of Bedford and also against two “thugs” previously arrested. The grand jury will meet next Monday and the detective says he has positive proof that the murder was not committed in the alley where the body was found, but that it occurred elsewhere and the body was hauled to the alley in a cab. He also says he has the letter written by Miss Love, the chum of the murdered girl detailing her experience in an Indianapolis hotel, mention of which was made during the previous investigation of the murder. “The present prosecuting attorney, Underwood, who was the attorney in charge of the prosecution at that time and was elected to the office with the understanding that he would ferret out and convict the guilty party or parties. So well is this fact understood, said Detective Owens, thfft two attempts have been made upon the life of Underwood and other attempts have been made to secure evidence which he is known to possess, bearing on the case. Owens, himself, has also been attacked with murderous intent, and to a News-Tribune representative he declared he will surely land the man he is after. Miss Sarah Schafer was a teacher employed in the Bedford schools during the term of 1903-04. On tlfe morning of January 22, 1904, her badly mutilated corpse was found lying in a shed at the entrance to an alley In the city of Bedford. The condition of the body showed that a criminal assault had been followed by murder. Several arrests were made, one of a well known and prominent citizen, and two others, of tough character, but no conviction was secured. Robert Owens, a young detective, was conspicuous in running down the perpetrators of the foul crime, but for some cause was unable to secure a conviction. He was confident yesterday, in detailing the case, that he now has the necessary proof and will be able to secure an Indictment at this session of the grand jury. o JUDGE MARRIES COUPLE. Miss Jossphine Herschey Becomes the Bride of Grover Cook. Hearts that beat as twain were made to beat as one this morning about 9 o'clock when Judge Merryman said the words that made Grover slerk’s office. The groom is a farmer Hershey, eighteen, two young people from near Geneva, man and wife, the wedding taking place in the county • clerk’s office. The grom Is a farmer i of near Geneva, and the couple will re--1 side there. Best wishes of all are extended to them.

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WAS MUCH ORATORY I « , It is Indiana Day in House of Representatives at , Washington. THE WALLACE STATUE I ———— A Brilliant Address Made by the Hon. J. A. M. Adar of the Eighth District. Washington, February 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat —)This was Indiana Day in the house of representatives, the proceedings in accepting the statue of General Lew Wallace being made a special order. At 1 o’clock the galleries were filled, many of the visitors being Hoosiers. Among the speakers was the able and distinguished Hon. J. A. M. Adair, his address in part being as follows Mr. Speaker It was in 1864 congress invited each state of the Union to erect statues of two of its most eminent citizens in the old hall of the house of representatives. In pursuance of this invitation many of the states have accepted the privilege, Indiana being among the number. As you pass from one end of the capltol to the other you must of necessity go through “Statuary Hall," and in passing through it you never tail to observe the large number of visitors charmed by the scene. Not only the statues attract, charm and win the admiration of all who pause and think, but the memories that cluster around every object and bring fresh to mind the memorable scenes in the history of that hall and unite to constrain you to feel that you -are in the presence of objects rendered ’ sacred by their history. Mr. Speaker, in selecting from the illustrious dead of our state of Indiana the two most worthy to be represented in the Hall of Fame, it seemed to the general assembly of our be loved state appropriate, first of all. to choose the w-r governor, Oliver p. Merton, whose s’aivs was presented tc the nation nine years ogo. And seeotm, the scholar, patriot, lawyer, soldier, and author, General Lew Wallace, whose staue now stands beside that of Morton. It is both fitting and fortunate that these two statues should stand together. During the dark days of the sixties, when the black clouds of war hung heavy and thick over our nation's capital, these two men were united in their effort to preserve the Unfon. Morton, as the governor of Indiana, made a wise selection when he appointed Wallace adjutant general, but Wallace was not contented in sending other men to the front, but asked to be relieved from the duties of adjutant general that he might go in the active service and fight for lib- ' erty, justice. and the preservation of the Union. And it was by reason of ■ the service of such men as Wallace, that the current of American patriotism was widened and deepened and the country saved from the peril that threatened her existence almost fifty years ago. Such patriotism infused a spirit into American citizenship that will guide and protect the Amercan Union for centuries to coifie. Lew Wallace was a man of such irreproachable integrity of character that all men who knew him were constrained to acknowledge his virtues. As a citizen, he loved his country and her institutions and rejoiced in her progress and prosperity. As a soldier and author he ranked high, while as a debater and a lecturer he was expectlonally gifted. As a politician he never claimed to be a success and as a legislator his experience was limited. While by voice and by vote he contributed but little to the laws of our state, he always urged a strict observance of all the laws, both state and national. While he believed that bad laws, if any there were, should be : repealed as speedily as possible, he also believed for the sake of example s they should be sacredly observed f while in force. He also believed as - did Lincoln that every American, evr ery lover of liberty, every well-wisher r to his posterity should swear by the b blood of the Revolution never to vioe late in the least particular the laws of V the country, and never to encourage r their violation by others. As the pats' riots of seventy-six did to the support :- of the Declaration of Independence, so (Continued on page 2.)