Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 129.

FLEW THE CHANNEL Charles Rolls the Third to Accomplish This Daring Air Ship Feat. CONNORS RETIRES New York Democracy Together —Taft Speaks to the College Girls. (United Press Service.) Dover, Eng., June 2 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Charles Stewart Rolls flew across the English channel this afternoon, starting from the English shore. He is the third lo accomplish this feat, the first being : ; Oeviott and the second Count DeLessets. (United Press Service.) New York. June 2—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—'‘Singing" William J. Connors today retired as chairman of the democratic state committee, which is in session here, and he was succeeded by John A. Dix of Washington county. Connors' retirement has unified the party in New York state. (United Press Service.) Louisville, Ky., June 2—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The first real evidence of how Alma Kellner was murdered is expected to develop at the coroner’s inquiry, which will begin immediately after the report of the chemist experts. A reward of *50,000 for the apprehension of the murderer is being agitated. (United Press Service.) Philadelphia, Pa., June 2—(Special to Daily Democrat)—That marriage without love is almost criminal is what President Taft told the graduates of Bryn Mawr heer today. “I dissent fro mthe views that a college education unfits a man or woman for business,” he declared. “It may be that the tastes which lead persons to seek a college education are not those which insure business success. The home and family give the highest happiness but an ideal is not furnished by circumstances which force a woman to marry without love to avoid a life of poverty.” (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind.. June 2 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The democratic state committee convened at the Denison hotel here this afternoon at about 2 o’clock to discuss plans for the cam-1 paign. Nothing has been given out as to what action was taken. A number of the state candidates were present. CENSUS WORK IS COMPLETED. The task of taking the census of the Eighth Indiana congressional district, as a part of the thirteenth decennial census of the United States, has been completed, and yesterday Supervisor J. Riley Broyles closed his offices that he maintained on the second floor of the Patterson building, corner Main and Walnut streets. He has made all of his reports to the bureau of census at Washington, and all the local work has been completed. Muncie Star. ■ ■ - o— THE TOOTH CASE DECIDED. The case of Neptune vs. Steele, tried before ’Squire James H. Stone, was completed last evening and the court returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the work done on the set of teeth, SIO.OO. It is reported that the case will be appealed to the circuit court, though no action to that effect has been taken. o WILL GIVE MUSIC RECITAL. Miss Martha Kettler of Fort Wayne, who has a fine class of students in music in this city, is arranging io give a recital at library hall in a w’eek or ten days, in which her pupils will take part. — * "U ' BABY BOY. Mrs. George Braun received a card announcing the fact that the stork had visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Hammer and brought them an eight and one-half pound boy. It arrived on Decoration Day.

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REV. EHLE HAS ARRIVED. Reside on Monroe Street—Pastor and Family Cordially Received. Rev Ehie and family have arrived from Branson. Mich., and are moving Into the Doak residence, first house v.’est of the Christian church on Monroe street. Rev. Ehle is the new pastor of the Baptist church, and is being heartily welcomed here. He is not a total stranger, having preached here on several occasions, and is much liked by those who have already made his acquaintance. A reception Mas given for them on their arrival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Moser, which was quite largely attended and a cordial greeting was extended to the pastor and his family. A general reception will be given at the church Sunday afternoon, to which the ministers of the city and others are invited to extend a greeting to this new brother and family. A FATAL ILLNESS Edwin Reinking Born and Reared in Union Township Passed Away. EARLY THIS MORNING At His Home in Ft. Wayne —Brother of Gus and Hugo of This City. Gus Reinking received a message from Fort Wayne this morning bringing the sad news that his bre .her, Edwin Reinking, had died this morning at 1 o’clock at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Reinking, 464 East Creighton avenue. Fort Wayne. The young man was but twenty-six years of age and had been a sufferer since last fall from consumption, and his death, coming in the prime of young manhood, has cast a deep gloom over all who knew him. : He was born and reared on the Reinking homestead in Union township, but for the past eight years has made his home in Fort Wayne, where he was employed as a machinist in the Kerr-Murray machine shops, and was an excellent mechanic, as well as a young man of the highest integrity. Last fall his parents went to Fort Wayne to make their home, since which time he has been living with them. The deceased was the fourth child of the family and there survive him, the following brothers and sisters: Gus Reinking of the firm of i Yager Bros. & Reinking, this city ; f Mrs. Henry Eix, Mrs. Ed Lahrman, Reinhart, George and Blandina, and Hugo, the latter with the Holthouse, Schulte Company of this} city. The news of his death will be received with much sorrow by his many relatives and friends of this county, where eighteen years of his life were spent. AESCHLIMAN-ISCH WEDDING. Ceremony Sunday Evening United Prominent Young People. A wedding ceremony took place Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Aeschliman, five miles east of Bluffton, which united in marriage two of the best known, popular and highly esteemed young people of that community. The happy bride was Miss Emma L. Aeschliman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Aeschliman, and the groom was Mr. Fred Isch, a son of the late Jacob Isch, and one of the most prosperous and prominent young farmers of the big German settlement. Thd wedding ceremony took place about 5 o’clock in the presence of about one hundred of the relatives and immediate friends of the happy young couple, and a minister of the Christian Apostille church officiated. Following the ceremony a bounteous and excellent wedding supper was served. Mr. and Mrs. Isch will reside on his farm, just across the line in the edge of Adams county, on one of the largest farms in that entire section of the country. They have the congratulations and well wishes of a host of friends — Bluffton News. -o — Mr. and Mrs. T. b. Miller and daughter, Mary Ann, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mcßride and son, Ralph, have returned to Fort Wayne after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Vance.

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, June 2, 1910.

!THE COURT NEWS 11 Judge’s Bench to be Lowered and Remodeled by Titus Ernst Soon. NEW DIVORCE CASE ■ Mrs. Louthan Wants a Separation—Other Matters in Circuit Court. Judge Merryman this morning issued an order that the court’s desk or bench be lowered and repaired. T. H. Ernst was appointed to perform the work during vacation. Fort Wayne Foundry and Machine ' Co. vs. Geneva C. Murray, note, $l5O, cause submitted, finding for plaintiff in sum of $117.20. Oliver W. Storer vs. George Epsteen, note and foreclosure, demand, $275, from Jay county, judgment rendered by agreement of parties in open court for $175. Judgment against plainti fffor costs. In the case of William Mesel vs. Ellen Rayn et al., judgment rendered on verdict for $22. Judgment against defendant for costs. Attorney J. W. Teeple has filed a new case in which Ellen V. Louthan asks a divorce from her husband. Howard T. Louthan, They were mar- , Tied March 6, 1899. April 3, 1909, defendant abandoned his wife and their four small children. Mrs. Louthan ’ also accuses her husband of adultery ' and beating her on various occasions, i Six children have been born to them, . two of whom are dead, and the other , four are in the hands of the Board of : Children’s Guardians. Mrs. Louthan i asks reasonable alimony, a divorce ■ and the return of her former name, i Ellen Springer. <t RAISES JULY IST. 4 • i ! Railroads of This Section ‘ Have Filed Notice of an Increase. ‘ . 1I IN FREIGHT RATES 4 ______ f James J. Hill Declares Country Too Rich to be Hurt by Mistakes. i (United Press Service.) , New York, June 2—(Special to 1 Daily Democrat)—“America is too rich a country to be hurt by the mistakes of the government," declared James J. Hill oX the Great Northern i today in discussing the action in preventing freight rate increases on the western railroads. Hill declared there j is no anti-trust law which could prevent the railroads from promulgating j increased rates, uniform with those i charged with all other roads. I- ’ (United Press Service.) f Washington, D. C„ June 2— (Spec- ., ial to Daily Democrat)— Twenty-two 1 railroads, comprising the Central Freight association, operating in the territory between Cincinnati and Chi5 cago, today filed with the Inter-state e Commerce commission new tariffs, in- ’ creasing transportation charges from ' six to thirty-one per cent. The increases are to be effective July Ist. 8 Increased rates were also filed on commodities by the New Central system, effective July Ist. B Or--j BALLOON ASCENSION SATURDAY. 1 The business men of Decatur have 3 subscribed a sufficient amount of ■. money as a guarantee to have Prof, i Ed Foster of Oklahoma make a bal- - loon ascension here next Saturday afternoon, The event will occur promptly at 2 o’clock on the Teeple d lot just east of the Monroe street i. river bridge. Dent Spencer, who has s- charge says the ascension will posit tively take place at that time, unless rain prevents it.

GO TO MONROEVILLE SUNDAY. The Shamrocks go to Monroeville Sunday, where they will cross bats with the city team of the place. Both teams are in good form and will put up a good exhibition game. The Shamrocks were beaten last Sunday at LaGrauge by the score of 8 to 4. June 12th they go to Fort Recovery, Ohlo ( and meet that fast aggregation, and the following Sunday, June 19th. they will go to Geneva. The Shamrocks have new uniforms and are certainly making things go their way. No games will be scheduled here on account of having no ball grounds. They are trying very hard to get a diamond at the Maple Grove park. The line-up will be in tomorrow's issue, and some additional ball news will be given. A GOOD PROGRAM Will be Rendered at the Annual County Commencement June 9th. ADDRESS BY FERRIS Diplomas For 181 —Event Occurs at Geneva Next Thursday. County Suprintendent Opliger is busy these days preparing for the annual commencement which will be held at Geneva on Thursday, June 9th. There will be 181 graduates and the program as prepared should be a very Interesting one. The details of the event, always an important one, have been practically worked out and If fair skies are permitted the occasion will be the most successful of the kind in the history of the Adams county schools. The program in full follows: Orchestra. Music — Selected — Dudley Male Quartet. Invocation —Rev. Harbour. Music — Selected — Dudley Male Quartet. Class Address —Dr. W. N. Ferris, president Ferris Institute, Big Rap ids, Mich. Music — Selected — Dudley Male Quartet. Presentation of Diplomas —Prof. Elmer G. Bunnell, assistant state superintendent. Music — Selected — Dudley Male Quartet. Song—“ God be With You Till We Meet Again”—Audience, led by Dudley Male Quartet. Benediction —Rev. Waldo. Orchestra. Music furnished by the Geneva orchestra and the Dudley Buck Male quartet of Fort Wayne, Ind. The orchestra will give a concert, beginning at 9:15. Come early and enjoy the music. NEWSPAPERS TO BE MERGED Seymour Democratic Sun Owner Purchases Contemporary. Seymour. Ind., June 2—The Seymour Democrat, which has been owned and published for the last seven years by Charles W. Burkart, Thomas M. Honan and Judge Joseph H. Shea, has been sold to J. N. Gibson, the owner and publisher of the Seymour Democratic Sun, and the two papers will be merged under the management of Mr. Gibson. The Democrat is the oldest paper in this city, having been established in 1870. - — — ' o—■ ■ ICE CREAM SOCIAL. On next Tuesday evening by the Epworth League of the Methodist church and under the direction of the Rev. Powell, an ice cream social on the church lawn will be given, which the public is cordially invited to attend. Other refreshments will be served and anything in the social line can be purchased that evening. The music for the occasion will be furnished by a number of people from the city and the event promises to be a jolly one. ——o INFANT DEAD. The infant* baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Manlier, residing three miles east of the city in St. Mary’s township, died at the family home during Wednesday night. She was but five hours old and funeral services were held privately JJiis afternoon fro mthe house. Tntferment at the Salem cemetery.

TO JOIN TWELFTH Bankers of This County and Five Others Will Meet Next Month AT FORT WAYNE When a New Organization Will be Formed to Take Place of the Old. Bankers of Adams, Wells, Fulton, Huntington, Kosciusko and Marshall counties will meet with the Twelfth District Bankers' association, when that organization holds its annual meeting in Fort Wayne next month, and an entirely new association, comprising bankers of these twelve counties, will be formed to take the place of the present district organization, pursuant to resolutions abopted bj the stats bankers of Indiana, at their annual convention held at Fort Wayne a year ago, when the old district organization was done away with and the districts were cut down from thirteen to eight in number. Mr. C. H. Worden of the First National bank, organizer for the new district, which will be known as District No. 1, will have charge of the formation of the new association, and, with Mr. Theodore Wentz, of the GermanAmerican National bank, will arrange a program for the joint meeting and set a date for the gathering. Chairman Wentz, chairman of the Twelfth district bankers, announced yesterday that Mr. W. C. Brown, vicepresident of the City National bank of Auburn, has been appointed by President Sall) of the state association as secretary of the district, succeeding Mr. Harry Schott of the Steuben County Bany of Angola, who has removed to California. —Fort Wayne JournalGazette. o ON TRADE TOPIC G. C. Steele Asked to Give Twenty-Minute Address Before Convention of u • • „ ~~~~ .•>■»• • TRADE ASSOCIATION In Five and Ten Cent Line to be Held at Cincinnati, Ohio, in September. George C. Steele, one of the proprietors of the Steele & Weaver racket store, has received from the headquarters of the Associated Trade Press an invitation to give a twentyminute address on a trade topic before the convention of the Five and Ten Cent association, which will b- 1 held in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 6th, 7th, Bth and 9th. Mr. Steele has not yet determined whether he will accept. The invitation comes because of the great interest displayed by this firm in all matters pertaining to the advancement of this line of business. The June number of the Five and Ten Cent magazine, issued monthly in the interest of this line of trade, will contain a cut of the exterior of the Steele & Weaver racket store, while the September number will contain a view of the interior. The proprietors are interested in all that will push their business to advancement and make it one of the best in the country. JOHN STOLER DEAD. David Stoler is in receipt of a message conveying the intelligence that his eldest brother, John Stoler, of Wadsworth, Ohio, died Wednesday afternoon. About two weeks ago David Stoler of this city visited with his brother, who was at that time very sick and not expected to live. The deceased Is also a cousin of T. H. Ernst. Al, George and D. V. Steele of this city. Frank DeVoss has taken a position ; as reporter on the Times staff and began his new duties this morning.

TO CONDUCT BIG PICNIC. South Half of County Will Have Big Time July 4th. The Sunday schools of the six townships—French, Monroe, Blue Creek, Hartford, Wabash and Jefferson — composing the south half of Adams county, will unite in holding a grand union Sunday school picnic and Fourth of July celebration. This is what was decided upon at a meeting of the pastors and superintendents of the schools of the six townships mentioned at a meeting held in the Evangelical church at Berne. All were agreed that because of its central location, and for the reason that the rain greatly Interfered with last year’s celebration there, Berne should again be the place. It was also decided to hold the celebration in the Isaac Lehman grove a short distance south of Berne. o AMPUTATE FINGER Miss Bertha Deam Suffers Operation—Spilled Carbolic Acid on Hand. FOUR YEARS AGO And Injury Refused to Heal —Ate Into Flesh and Bone—Painful. Miss Bertha Deam, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Deam, was obliged to submit to the amputation of the forefinger of the right hand, he finger was amputated close to the hand, Drs. Smith and Beavers performing the operation. While she is suffering much pain the operation was most successful and she will soon be entirely recovered, it is thought. The amputation was necessary from a very unusual cause. About four years ago Miss Bertha unfortunately spilled some carbolic acid over the hand and this ate into the flesh and finally into the bone and refused to heal. Scraping the bone was tried time and again without success and it was found that the only way to stop the spread was to amputate the finger. ■ o - ■ KRAUSS CASE STILL UNDECIDED. Judge Elliott is Going Over the Evidence Again. No decision in the Krauss divorce case .will be rendered this week, as had been expected. It is now said that a decision may be made next week, though the exact day on which is will be given has not been fixed. A decision in this celebrated case, involving as it does a murder mystery, has been anxiously awaited since it was tried more than two months ago. Judge P. H. Elliott, before whom . the case was heard, indicated Monday that he will take time to review the evidence again before arriving at . a final conclusion. Besides the principals and the ati torneys in the case, probably no per- ' sons are more interested in the court’s ruling than the twelve jurors who heard the evidence. The jurors were permitted to answer only the interrogatories that were prepared by the court, and while they did not rule direct on the question of grant- ' ing a divorce, they decided that William R. Krauss, while not implicated in the murder of his daughter, had condoned in her crime. The jurors served merely in an advisory capacity, and the court may or may not be guided by the jury’s answers to the interrogatories. The Krauss case has no parallel in the history of the state or the country for that matter. The case represented a legal battle from the start to the finish. More than half a dozen of the best lawyers- of the state were engaged in the trial of the case, which lasted for two weeks. Interest in the case will not lag until the court has made a final decision. —Marion Chronicle. i o ... FOR CHILDREN'S DAY. All members of the infant class of the Presbyterian Sunday school are 1 requested to be at the church Friday s afternoon at 2 o'clock for practice for the Children’s Day exercises.

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A TRANSPORT SUNK Off the Coast of Philippines All on Board Escaped in Life Boats. WALL STREET LOSSES Amount to Many Millions Yesterday—Hoff Got a Birthday Present. (United Press Service.) Mania, P. 1., June 2—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The United States transport Indianapolis today sank In twenty fathoms of water, eighteen miles outside the harbor of Corredidor Island. The vessel struck a log and went down rapidly. All on board took to the life boats and every person was saved according to advices received here. (United Press Service.) New York, June 2—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The loss among speculators and stock exchange houses, resulting from yesterday's near panic over the federal prevention of freight rate increases, today is estimated at $123,670,367 in twentyone leading railroad stocks and United States steel. Wall street bitterly resents what is termed a “doublecrossing” by Washington experts who had a “tip” that the attorney-general would attack the railroads that remained silent until all the big houses had been loaded with selling orders. (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind., June 2 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A birthday present in the form of a release from jail and a charge of wife-murder, was to day granted Edward Hoff by Judge Pritchard in criminal court here. HoC was jailed last October on a charge of having pushed his wife off the White river bridge near Broad Ripple and drowning her. The trial jury disagreed and Prosecutor Hooton recommended that the case be dismissed. Hoff is twenty-six years old today. o WILL MARRY MRS. LAPOINTE. Howard Johnson to Wed Half-Breed Murderess. , «t Bluffton, Ind., June 2—“ Handsome" Howard Johnson, the “man in the case,” in the murder tragedy in this city on July 28, 1907, when Mrs. Ella LaPointe, a half-breed Chippewa Indian woman, shot and killed Mrs. Florence Besancon in a fit of jealous rage, when she met Johnson and the Besancon woman, passed through Bluffton on his way from Fort Wayne to Indianapolis and spent several hours here with relatives, to whom he imparted the information that he was on his way to Indianapolis with the purpose of marrying the Indian woman. After spending almost a year in jail here awaiting trial the Indian woman pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter and was sen fenced to the woman's prison at Indianapolis for a term of two to fourteen years. Johnson said that he had kept up a correspondence with the woman and that they were to be married as soon as she was released from the prison. He has been informed, he said, that she would be released this week, upon serving her minimum term and he proposed to greet her when she stepped from the prison doors and to claim her in marriage immediately and take her back to Fort Wayne with him, where he is a foreman on street work. o KING BARNS WERE DESTROYED. Celina, Ohio, June 2 —A destructive fire took place at Rockford yesterday in which two Standard oil tanks, toe company’s wagon, barn, and a barn belonging to W. H. King, was completely destroyed at an estimate loss of $15,000. Rockford citizens have always been fearful that the gasoline tanks holding 200 barrels would explode and wipe one the surrounding ! residence portion. Luckily the expio- - sion of the gasoline did not shatter the tank and this fact is now attributed to the tanks being made of boiler iron, which proved able to withstand the explosion. f o ? David Studabaker, who is a student r at a college at Staunton, Va., is exr pected home tomorrow or Saturday to spend his summer vacation.