Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 189.

THE HOOSIER POET James Whitcomb Riley Suffers a Stroke of Paralysis—lll Two Weeks. GAYNOR’S CONDITION Bullet Has Been Located— Will Not be Removed Unless Necessary. (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Tbe condition ci James Whitcomb Riley Is today reported to be slightly improved, following a mild stroke of paralysis, which, it became known today, had confined him to bis homd for the past two weeks. His attending doctors say the affection was due to a severe nervous shock and not likely to prove fatal this time. His health is considered very serious, however. (United Press Service.) Hoboken, N. J., Aug. 12—(Special (e Daily Democrat)—Dr. Charles M. Dowd today announced that arrangements had been made to retain an operating surgeon constantly in Mayor Gaynor’s room and at the first indication of infection the mayor will undergo the knife. Dr. Down explained that the wound as yet shows no signs of infection from the fragments o[ bullets. The attending doctors today continue to issue encouraging bulletins. At 7 o’clock this morning the bulletin stated that Gaynor had slept adl night and his genera) condition was excellent. When a second set of X-Ray pictures, taken yesterday, were devel oped today, the position of the bullet was shown to be in the larnyx, back of the nose. It is said it can be quickly extricated if necessary.

SECOND QUARTERLY MEETING. The second quarterly meeting of the year will be held at the Evangelical church, this city, over this Sunday. The elder, J. J. Wise, of Fort Wayne will preach this ev ning, Sunday morning and Sunday evening. After the sermon this evening the quarterly conference will convene. o — Mrs. W. P. Haskonen of Geneva lett today for her home after a pleasant visit in the city with Mrs. H. F. Snow. TO VISIT CANADA Tames Moses Leaves Tuesday to Call on Son, Carl, and Tony Hckman. HE WANTS COMPANY Adams Couty Boys Meet With Success in the Saskatchewan Country. James-Moses, one of the well known farmers of this section, will leave next Tuesday for Saskatchewan, Canada, where he will visit his son. Carl, and Tony Hackman, who went there last spring and bought a section of land, 640 acres. Mr. Moses invites any persons who so desire to accompany him. He will go to ( hicago, from where he secures a special rate of thirty dollars for the round trip. Carl and Tony are more than pleased with their prospects. The first crop of flax seed, on raw land, will yield about fifteen hundred bushels to the acre, which at the market price of two dollars per bushel will nearly equal twice what the land cost. The wheatzyield for them will average nearly thirty bushels to the a< re and at one dollar a bushel keeps up the average to the flax. This is a wonderful result on land never farm ed and the boys will soon pa? 11,1 on their proposition and own a se< tlon of the best land on earth. If any of the Adams county people wish to make the trip, they will be welcomed by Mr. Moses and they will at least have a delightful outing, visiting the richest farming section in the world

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

A LARGE ATTENDANCE Characterized Funeral of Mrs. Chas. Kern—Held Today. Funeral services for Mrs. Charles Kern were conducted this morning at 10 o clock from the Evangelical church in this city, the Rev. D. O. Wise officiating. The services were largely attended by the many relatives and friends of the deceased, many of whom had known her from girlhood. 1 he body arrived Thursday afternoon at 3:23 over the Erie from Chicago, where the death occurred Tuesday noon after a few days’ Illness from peritonitis. The remains were accompanied by the husband and children. The body was taken to the home of a sister, Mrs. Leo Wilhelm, on Ninth street until the funeral this morning. The deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mumma of this county, and the greater part of her life was spent in Adams county.

GYPSY TROUBLES Olga Stevens Tells a Story of Woes and Has Her Husband Arrested. BEGS FOR CLEMENCY But ’Squre Smith Soaks Him For Ten Dollars—Queer Scene in Court. A gang of fifteen or twenty gypsies, the real thing, dirty and filthy and mean, arrived this morning and began their work of begging. They came here from Ossian, where they were run out of town Thursday, after one of the women had picked Jacob Fatcher’s pocket for twenty dollars. About 11 o’clock one of the women went to the sheriff's office and told Sheriff Meyer and Prosecutor Heller a tale of woe, insisting on the arrest of her husband, sne said tnat four months ago her father forced her to marry Tony Stevens in New York. She is a Brazilian and the rest of the gang are Russians. She says her husband stole S4OO from her and when she would return from a bad trip of begging or fortune telling, her husband, assisted by his mother and the rest of the gang, would beat her. She wanted Tony artested so he would give her enough money to get away from the gang. She fina..y swore to an affidavit charging her husband with assault and battery and Sheriff Meyer arrested Tony at the camp just east of town. He was taken to the office of ’Squire J. H. Smith. On the way up town he and the rest of the gang talked in their own language to Olga. When arraigned and the affidavit read to him Tony stood still, speechless. Olga seemed to have changed her mind, and whether from fear or love, is not known, but no sooner was the affidavit read than she began a plea that the prisoner be released this time. Tony finally said he had licked his w ife because she was lazy and preferred to drink and smoke and talk to other men than to working. ‘The half dozen women and men talked so fast and furious that the court was finally forced to smile and give up. But he insisted that the man could not plead guilty to wife beating and then be given his freedom. He fined him a dollar and costs and told the sheriff to collect ten dollars or take Tony to jail. One of the women offered three dollars, but the officer shook his head, and as Tony was being lead away, they declared their willingness to pay, so the sheriff accompanied them to the camp, where he got his money, and the gang hurried out of town. Olga, who is nineteen, will probably get ten dollars' worth more of lickings as soon as the gang reaches a safer place. In her story Olga said the gang was a bad one, that they have robbed people and done about everything else. At one place they caught a stranger and stuck a knife into his leg until he gave them his money. She said in four months they had been arrested forty times. Miss Clara Schultz went to- Fort Wayne yesterday to attend the ice cream social given by the girls at the electric light plant at Sweeney park. Miss Schultz was formerly employed at the plant. She will visit nutil Sunday.

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, August 12, 1910.

THREW ACID BOMBS Two Men Arrested in Chicago on Charge of Assaulting Visitors. WENDLING AT HOME Supposed Murderer of Alma Kellner Now in Jail at • Louisville. (United Press Service.) Chicago, 111., Aug. 12 —Special to Daily Democrat) —John McKenna and Aura Louvell were arrested today in connection with the throwing of acid bombs into taxicabs late yesterday, burning the hands and noses of the Knights Templar visitors. Mrs. J. F. Boeke, wife of a Minneapolis Knight, and J. C. Lewiq, eminent commander of the Darius Commandry, Minneapolis, were two victims. Mrs. Lewis, also in the party, escaped injury. (United Press Service.) Louisville, Ky., Aug. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Joe Wendling, cjharged with the murder of little Alma Kellnßr, arrived here this morning by train from Evansville, in custody of Detective Carney, who has brought him all the way from Califor-

nia. No demonstration was attempted when he was taken from the depot to the jail in an automobile. Wendling’s counsel immediately began a fight to prevent the prisoner from being subjected to a “third degree" examination. — TO GET RID OF ANTS. The plague of ants has afflicted many during the hot, dry season, and the following remedy suggested by an exchange may be worth trying locally: — small bag of sulpnur kept in the cupboard or drawer where ants are seen will drive them away. A strong solution of carbolic acid and water poured into the holes kills all ants it touches and the survivors leave immediately."

SAW THE SUICIDE Employees on Early Morning Interurban Car Witnessed Horrible Sight. IN FORT WAYNE Man Who Committed Suicide Was Lying on Door Step—Shot in Head. Fred Smith, motorman, and D. H. Hunsicker, conductor, on the first morning interurban car, on their return trip to this city this morning told of a horrible suicide which took place just as they arrived at Fort Wayne at about 6:30 o'clock this morning. A middle-aged man, living on South Pontiac street, had committed suicide on his door-step by shooting himself in the head, and his body, with the blood oozing from his head, and down over the door-step, was lying there in full view as the Decatur car passed. The coroner and other officers had done the necesary work, and the ambulance was just arriving to take the body to the morgue when the Decatur car pulled in. The sight was a most horrible one, and the Interurban employees who witnessed the sight found it difficult to free themselves from the depression which it caused. The man was of middle age, married and it is thought domestic troubles were the cause’for the deed. WILL MAKE TRIP THROUGH EAST. Miss Pauline Cole of Garrett, who has been the guest of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Brokaw, for ' three weeks past, returned home today. She will leave Monday with ■ her mother, Mrs. L. G. Cole, on an exI tended trip through the east, visiting I New York, Syracuse and Niagara i Falls and at Erie and Garard, Pa.

ALVA BAKER BADLY HURT. A Falls on Head From Load of Wheat— Severe Pain in Head. Alva Baker was quite badly injured Thursday afternoon while assisting in threshing at the Andy Schurger place west of the city. The young man was riding on a load of wheat when the load gave way and slipped from under him. Mr Baks was thrown off and in the' fall struck on the wagon on his head, and then fell to the ground. He was brought to the city for treatment, bu has suffered severely at times from pains in his head. He is resting easier today.

GET ON THE CAR On Court Street Instead of Second Street—lnterurban Makes NEW ARRANGEMENTS Change Made Because Draymen Said Car Blocked Way to Alley. Henceforth the interurban cars will make their fifteen minutes’ wait in this city on Court street instead of Second street as has ben the custom heretofore. Instead of turning on the “Y” and then backing up on Second street as lias been the custhe car will be run down on the “Y” on Court street, where the car will wait for the passengers and then complete the last half of the “Y” and run out on Second street and then make the run directly to Fort Wayne. This change has been made in compliance with a request by the city officials on complaint made by draymen that the waiting car on Second street blocked their progress in the alley at the east side, between the Hensley and Hite Stores. While the new ord-r is nearly as convenient as the old, it takes the passengers some time to learn the new order of arrangements, and many still forget and stand waiting on the comer for the car to take its accustomed place on Second street. O T ABOUT THE SICK. Morris Jacobs, the young tailor, who became sick while enroute to his home in New- York City from Spokane, Wash., and was put off the Erie train here for treatment and taken to the Park hotel, where he has ben given good care, was well enough to leave yesterday afternoon for his home in New York City. Mrs. William Sellemeyer of near Magley was in town Thursday. She is getting along well from the injury received last Monday in which a bone in her left wrist was broken in a fall. The accident happened just the day before the funeral of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Christena Selemeyer, who made her home with her. o DATES FOR THE WHEAT TRAIN. The Wheat Improvement Special which will make a number of trips over Indiana, will pass through this city on Thursday, September Ist and will stop here for an hour. The schedule sent out for that day shows they will arrive at Geneva at 12:45; at Berne at 1:05; at Decatur at 1:55, and at Hoagland at 2:45. The lecture here will be forty minutes in duration and every farmer and grain man in this section should hear (hem. ——o —— PRESIDENT HAS VISITORS. (United Press Service.) Beverly, Mass.,'Aug. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Senator Aldrich, on board his steam yacht, slipped into Beverly early today. He took breakfast with the president and talked pol itics for forty-five minutes. He came and departed before the appointed hour. Secretary of the Treasury Macveagh and Postmaster General Hitch cock are expected this afternoon. o— - MERSMAN. PLEADED GUILTY. Joe Mersman, who was arrested Wednesday evening for public intoxication, was brought before' Mayor Teeple Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock, where he pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined one dollar and costs, which he arranged to pay.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Sarah Mundhenk and Joseph J. Leichty Married at Clerk’s Office. SECOND MARRIAGE Commissioners and Superintendent Graber Buy Team of Brood Mares. Sarah C. Mundhenk, aged thirtysix, of Geneva and Joseph J. Leichty. thirty-eight, a hay merchant from Berne, were married by ’Squire James H. Stone at the county clerk's office Thursday afternoon. Ten years ago next Sunday the bride was married at the clerk’s office to Samuel S. Studabaker, a divine healer from Wells county. They lived together only a short time and were divorced the same year they were married. About a year ago Mrs. Studabaker filled a petition to have her name changed to Mundhenk, which was her maiden name. Real estate transfers: Alvina r. Barnes to T. E. Kranor, lot 395, Geneva, $100; Chauncey Brokaw to Ada Yocum, lot 1019, Decatur, $150; Ada Yocum to Perry Ogg. lot 1019; S2OO. County Commissioners James Hendricks and Martin Laughlin and Superintendent Jacob Graber of the county infirmary made a trip to Jefferson township Thursday, where they purchased a team of brood mares from James Kinney. The team is a good one, costing the very neat sum of S4OO. BUSY BEES’ PASTRY SALE. The Busy Bee section of the German Reformed Aid society will conduct a pastry sale Saturday afternoon beginning at 1 o’clock in the Ehinger building, north of the Page Blackburn drug store, in the building formerly occupied by the Leonard tin shop. The members of the aid society are also hereby notified that the fruit jars from the Orphans’ home are here for refilling.

HONDURAS FAIR Big Event Planned For Henpeck Park For Tomorrow Evening, August 13th. A GOOD PROGRAM A 400 Foot Slide For Life by Muri Leisure and Many Other Events. There will be big doings at the Henpeck park at Honduras tomorrow evening and the biggest crowd ever gathered there is expected. The event is the Honduras fair and ice cream social and the boys have made big arrangements for the event. The evening will include a number of special features, including a high-class and up-to-date vaudeville performance by the famed wire king, Muri Leisure, who will make a slide for life down a 400-foot wire. There will be trapeze performances, bicycle races, foot and sack races, high jumping and a six round boxing match for the championship of Adams county that will be sure to please. For those who do not like that kind of sport there will be a program including violin solos by Joseph Koehr and comic and coon songs by C. G. Beavers. It will be a big event and it’s just a nice drive. Take your girl and go. You will have the best time you ever had in your life, if the committee in charge can help you have it. Remember it's the Honduras First Fair. — ■ o Miss Bertha Bieberich of Preble, who has been qujte sick for several weeks, suffering from gall stones and a complication of diseases, has nearly recovered and was able to come ',o Decatur today.

HAD NARROW ESCAPE. Lester Stanley's Bicycle Collides With Automobile. Lester Stanley, assistant In tbe Western Union Telegraph office, bad quite a narrow escape from injury about 6:30 o’clock Thursday evening. The lad was returning to the office, when just as he reached the Kuebler & Moltz corner he met the Schaffer automobile, which turned west on Monroe street from Second street. The two collided and Stanley's wheel was turned around in such away that the rider was thrown off and the back wheel of the machine received the full brunt of the shock. Stanley narrowly missed striking his head on the curb, but luckily escaped injury. The spokes of the rear wheel of the bicycle were torn out, but little other damage resulted.

TO VISIT DECATUR Toledo Merchants and Manufacturers Will Stop Here August 22nd. TO SHAKE HANDS With Their Customers— Make Trip in Automobile —To be Here an Hour. The following letter received at this office will explain itself: Under the auspices of the Wholesale Merchants & Manufacturers’ Board of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, a series of trade extension excursions are being conducted. The first of these excursions was to South Bend and return. The second, which will start from Toledo Monday morning. August 22nd, will follow the line of the Wabash and Clover Leaf railroads as far as Wabash and Marion. The party will leave Todelo in automobiles and should reach Decatur Thursday, August 25th, at 9 a. m„ leav ing again at 10 a. m. The merchants going on the excursion will, while in your city, call on retail dealers with whom they do business in order that they may become better acquainted personally with them. Where it has become .known that the wholesale merchants and manufacturers were going to visit towns en route the suggestion has been made by the people of these places that some entertainment would be arranged for the Toledo visitors. Will you be good enough to state in your newspaper that, owing to the limited time at the disposal of the merchants it will be absolutely impossible to accept of any formal entertainment during the trip, and it is sincerely hoped that no such arrangements will be made. Our merchants simply want to shake hands with their customers and get better acquainted with them. Very truly, A. E. ALEXANDER. Assistant Secretary of Board. BLOOD HOUNDS AT OSSIAN. Search For Belt Thief Resulted Unsuccessfully. Ossian for the first time in her history had within her bounds Tuesday two dark brown blood hounds. They were brought here from Indianapolis by a deputy sheriff of Marion county for the purpose of locating the thief, or thieves, who carried away a big belt belonging to Davis brothers. Some time during Monday night a large canvass belt ten inches wide and nearly one hundred feet long was taken from Davis Bros, factory. A. R. Davis, the manager of the plant, discovered the loss of the belt when he went to work Tuesday morning and at once notified Sheriff Carlisle. The Indianapolis blood hounds were brought here on the 5 o’clock car Tuesday evening and put on the trail, but failed to reveal anything new. The dogs were returned to the capital city on a late car. Mr. Davis stated he delieved the theft was committed by small boys and that he had what he believed well grounded suspicion. The factory man Is not desirous of causing any one any trouble, but he wants his belt. He would be willing to drop the matter if the belt is returned to him. —Ossian News.

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CROMERWON OUT Appealed Point of Discussion to State Committee and Got Decision. ABOUT DELEGATES To Judicial Convention to be Held at Marion Soon. George W. Cromer, ex-congressman of this district, and who has figured in more political fights than any man in this section, is again comfortably located up to his chin in a scrap in his judicial district, composed of Grant and Delaware counties. George Is a candidate for the nomination for superior judge in a new district, composed of Grant and Delaware. They have never held a convention, as the old district was composed of Grant and Howard, but when the democrats elected a judge there the wise boys went to the legislature and changed the district. Now George wants the job of judge; so does one Bob VanAtta of Marion,, and so now does Fred McClelland, also of Muncie. Recently Chairman Culbert of Portland called a congressional convention for August 30th. and for the election of delegates on August 26th. The Cromer men wanted the judicial delegates elected at the same time. VanAtta supporters objected on the ground that this was unfair to him. as he has to go into Delaware to get a majority, for though his county has thirty-six delegates to thirty-five tn Delaware, the foxy George seems to have gotten over the line in some way and lined up a few of the obstinate ones. Anyway the fight regarding the election of delegates has waxed so warm that it was referred to the republican state committee who took up the question at a special meeting held Thursday evening. State Chairman Lee favored Cromer’s position, but decided to put it up to a vote of the committee. The state commitee seems anxious to get Cromer out of the road before the congressional fight comes up. By a vote of six to four the committee sustained Cromer’s appeal, fixing the date for selecting delegates on August 26th. They also decided that the convention should be held at Marion, lae Grant county men were deeply disappointed, but decided to stand for the decision, since they had’ no other course to pursue.

AT CONVENTION State Gathering of Retail Monumental Dealers is in Session at MICHIGAN CITY, IND. Mrs. Mary Wemhoff and Son. George, Are in Attendance. Mrs. Mary Wemhoff and son, George, left Thursday night for Michigan City, where they will be in attendance at the Retail Monumental Dealers convention, which is now in session at that place. It began on Thursday and will be brought to a close on Saturday evening. This is the first one that has been attended by Mr. Wehmoff, although they are held each year, and it will no doubt be of much benefit to him. A very interesting program has been prepared and was as follows today: Eight a. m., drill by the life-saving crew on Lake Michigan; 10 a. m., automobile parade through the city. At 6:30 o’clock this evening they will be taken through the penitentiary and shown the wonderful work that has been carved out of stone. On Saturday morning they will leave on a trip by boat to Chicago, under the leadership of Mr. Schuyler Powell, a brother of Rev. Sherman Powell of this city, and the head of a large wholesale monumental firm at that place. These conventions always prove to be • f much interest and are attended by great numbers from all over the state.