Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 282.

DR. COOK CONFESSES Writes “His Own Story For the Hampton Magazine” For January. WAS HALF CRAZED Will Arrive in This Country December 22nd to Spend Christmas. (United Press Service.) New York, N. Y., Nov. 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Dr. Frederick A. Cook has confessed. This announcement was made today by Benjamin Hampton, editor of Hampton's magazine, which paid $50,000 for Commodore Peary’s story of his discovery of the north pole. “In his own story,” the first installment of which will appear in the January number of the magazine, Dr. Cook frankly admits his doubt that he reached the north pole. In the opening he declares: “Did I get to the north pole Perhaps I made a mistake in thinking I did; perhaps I did not make a mistake. After mature thought I confess that I do not know whether I reached the pole or not. Fully, frankly and freely, I shall tell everything and leave the decision with you. If, after reading the story, you say Cook is sincere and honest, that half-crazed by months of isolation and hunger, he believed he reached the pole, that he is not a fakir, then I shall be satisfied." Dr. Cook declares that at the time that he convinced himself he had reached the pole he was half mad. He spent two and a half years in his search and during that time hunger and privation that he says, would unbalance any mind. Cook says that it would be impossible for any man to demonstrate that he has been to the north pole. He characterizes the far north as “A region of insanity, where one cannot believe the evidence gathered by one’s own eyes." One of the most remarkable facts brought out by his own story is that in all the time he has been away, he has never worn a disguise and has never taken any unusual precaution to conceal his identity. Part of the time his wife has been with him. part of the time his children, they now bebeing in a retreat in France and Dr. Cook and his wife are in England. Cook will return to the United States with his family December 22nd to spend Christmas with relatives. PHI DELTA KAPPAS Are Coming to the Front — Initiated New Member Last Night and TWO MORE TONIGHT Are Arranging New Rooms in Bowers Building—Up to Date in All Ways. The Decatur Phi Delta Kappas are coming rapidly to the front. I uesdaj evening they initiated a new candidate and it is quite probable that they will hold a special meeting this evening for the initiation of two more. Not only in the rapidly increasing membership are they coming to the front, but also in the matter of club rooms and other things pertaining to the comfort and advancement of the chapter in all ways. The Decatur chapter has moved into new quarters in the new Bowers building and while everything is not yet arranged, it will be the matter of only a short time until the boys have one of the most com sortable suite of rooms in seven states. The suite comprises seven rooms, and these will be handsomely fitted with a parlor, reading room, kitchen, card room, etc, with all the comforts of an up-to-date club. o J. S. McCrory was looking after some business at Monroe yesteiday.

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LAST RITES TODAY. Funeral of Bruce Shady Waa Held at the M. E. Church. The funeral services for Bruce Shady, the young man who mot death Saturday afternoon in Chicago, by being run over by a railroad train were held In this city at 10 o’clock this morning in charge of the Rev. Sherman Powell. The body arrived here Tuesday afternoon at 3:23 over the Erie, accompanied by the father, Geo. W. Shady, of McMillen, Michigan; the young mans grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Warner, and the boy’s brother, Raymond Shady, of Kimmel, and other relatives. Relatives from this city met the cortege and escorted it to the home of the boy’s aunt, Mrs. Israel Rex, on North Third street, where the body lay until the funeral services this morning. Among other out-of-town relatives who attended the funeral were bis uncle, Marion Warner, and wife of McGill, Ohio. While working as fireman on his road the young man, in Englewood, a suburb of Chicago, stepped from the track onto another in the way of an approaching engine, which struck him and passed over his body. Interment in Maplewood cemetery. greatHcampaign In Union Evangelism Now on in Fort Wayne—Chap-man-Alexander. I AND THEIR HELPERS Open Campaign Last Night —Came Directly From Chicago. The great union evangelistic campaign in Fort Wayne, in which all the surrounding towns are interested, is on, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette | of this morning saying: “Under the personal direction of Mr. Charles M. Alexander and a force of evangelistic workers and singers, the Chapman-Alexander campaign opened in all its force last evening. | Five simultaneous meetings were held in different parts of the city and Fort Wayne is launched upon the greatest religious movement of its history. Twenty noted evangelists comprise the party which will attempt to open the eyes of the people to things that are righteous, and if the first night s enthusiasm is kept up during the three weeks of the campaign, success is assured. “Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman was unable to conduct the opening meeting, having been detained in Chicago until today, but in his place was Mr. Alexander, who had charge of the central meeting at Princess rink. The large auditorium was filled with an interesting and interested audience. The service consisted principally of singing, and if you cannot sing, you had | better learn before attending the meetings, for Mr. Alexander simply makes you sing. “Fresh from a successful six weeks campaign in Chicago, members of the evangelistic party arrived at noon yesterday and registered at the Anthony hotel. All the evangelists except Dr. J. W’. Chapman and wife were in the city last night. They are Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Alexander, Rev. Daniel S. Toy, Frank S. Dickson, Rev. William P Nicholson J, Raymond Heninger, Gordon Johnson, E. W. Naftzger, Robert Harkness, George T. B. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. William Asher, J. J. Lowe, Mrs. Ralph C. Norton, Miss E. Stafford Millar. “Mr E G. Chapman, J. J. Lowe and Mr and Mrs. Ralph C. Norton were already in the city, having come Monday to arrange preliminary details." One of the songs in the music deprtment of the Woman’s Home Journal for December is composed by Charles M. Alexander, the evangelist now singing in Fort Wayne in the great union evangelistic services. MR S. BAILEY ON LIBRARY BOARD. Judge Merryman today accepted the resignation of Mrs. Nellie Elllngham and appointed in her place, Mrs. Mattie Wolfe Bailey, who assumes her position at once. _____ O ’ 1 WOODMEN NOTICE. The Modern Woodmen will have nomination of officers this evening. All members should

HE WAS ORIGINAL Is One of Many Good Things to be Said of Dr. Robert Parker Miles. OF HIS LECTURE Given Last Night—Gave Character Sketches of Great Men He Met. One of the best lectures that. Decatur people have ever heard, was that given Tuesday evening at Bosse’s opera house by Dr. Robert Parker Miles, this being the third of the lyceum series of the Decatur high school. Dr. Miles sustained his statement made in the opening that he would be entirely different from the general lecture scheme —that things “to take" and be “worth while” must be original and reflect the individuality of the “doer.” At the moment he appeared on the stage in his "every-day” costume —and his free, easy, “at home manner,” instead of the long-tailed, evening costume and dried and cut manner which has characterized “lecture courses” from time immemorial, the audience drew a long, deep breath, assured that he would present his truths in a manner new and his own. Dr. Miles’ subject was “Tallow Dips,” and he presented in a clever and most true manner, the characteristics of the great men he has known and met — men whose lights have helped the world —drawing from their lives the best that can be useful and helpful in the lives of us all. Dr. Miles is a newspaper man of much experience and eloquent portrayal of an actor of and studying the great people of the times. Selecting with the true eye of the artist, the salient characteristics of great types, he presened these chief characteristics with the forceful, eloi quent style all his own, and the true and elequent portrayal of an actor of much abaillty. The characters he selected from which to draw his truths, were Geo. Francis Train, illustrating eccentricity; Gladstone, the statesman; the mother of Dwight Newell Hillis, showing the influence of the mother, and Pope Leo VIII. The next lecture of the series will CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR THE 49 REMEDIES Are Becoming as Well Known From Coast to Coast as the OLD FORTY-NINERS Os Gold-seeking Fame —Five New Pieces of Machinery • For Plant. The “49 remedies,” manufactured by Hensley and others who have formed a company for the putting up of these medicines from the famous true and tried recipes of Dr. Hensley, father of D. M. Hensley of this city, are becoming as widely and famously known from coast to coast as the original "forty-niners” of early California gold-seeking fame. Only this morning two orders for these remedies—one from Maricopa, Cal., and another from Sabanna, Texas, were received by the clerks in the local office and these are but two of the many orders coming in from many states in the union—ine one morning, as high as fourteen orders having been received. The strange part is that the company has done but very little advertising, aside from this locality, as the company is comparatively a new one. The one extensive advertisement out to date appeared in the November Indiana interurban railway guide. The plant is adding to its equipment in great measure, having within the past few days added five pieces of machinery thereto. Quite recently the company decided to put up one of the remedies in a tube instead of the box form, and this machinery will be used in tubing the medicine. A new form of carton has been’ abopted for the tube.

Decatur, Ind. Wednesday Evening, November 30, 1910.

HOAGLAND MAN WA3 RELEASED. A human interest story, with liquor as the root ot evil, was unfolded before the court in the case of William L. Waltemath, formerly postmaster and keeper of a small drug store at Hoagland, Ind. Waltemath was delayed by a late train and did not appear before the court until yesterday afternoon. A Fort Wayne attorney told the story of the man's downfall, attributing it to whiskey. He said his client kept no records of the receipts of the postofflcie and that he had a wife and five children to support. The man was penniless and JundgAnderson suspended sentence, telling Waltemath that return to drinking would mean his return to court. —Indianapolis Star. GET IT OFF EARLY What to Do to Get Your Sweetheart’s Christmas Present There RIGHT ON TIME Express Companies Sending Out Instructions to the Patrons. Do you expect to send your mother, sweetheart, or friend a Christmas present tms year: Ii so, and you find it necessary to patronize some express company, it would be well to bear in mind the following suggestions submitted by an expressman: Ist. Ship your packabe early, by the 18th, if possible. The express company will give you a small label to past on the package, reading: “Don’t open until Christmas.” This will insure the package reaching its destination before Christmas and give the additional pleasure to the recipient of the gift of having it Christmas morning. 2nd. Use wooden boxes for packing. Glass or fragile articles should be well protected. It may cost a fewcents more, but the danger of loss or damage is very much reduced. True, if the shipment is lost or damaged, the express company will pay for it, but that will give your friend no pleasure. 3rd. Write the address in full, state, county, city, street, and number, on the box or package with ink, or crayon. Tags are frequently torn off and! lost. 4th. If you want to prepay charges, write the word “paid” in large plain i letters on the package. sth. Insist on a receipt and see that the amount paid is marked on the receipt and package, and the value of tho package declared thereon. 6th. Write your own address in full somewhere on the package, following the prefix “From ” 7th. Enclose a card in each box or package, reading: From (writing plainly your own name and address) To • • (Consignee’s name and address plainly written.) This ir ordered that should the outer marking be destroyed the inner mark will insure prompt forwarding and delivery. Bth. If not convenient to ship in wooden boxes, use strong wrapping paper (not newspaper), and tie with strong cord. 9th. If package contains anything of perishable nature, write word “perishable” in large plain letters on the box or package, to insure special attention and first delivery. If you will observe these suggestions, you will greatly assist in insuring the prompt delivery of your gift in good condition. - ■— 9 FATHER IS DYING. Dr. Keller, who a few days ago returned home from Monterey, Ind., where he was called on account of the serious Illness of his father. John Keller, was again called to his bedside this noon by a message stating that he was dying. Mr. Keller left at once to be at his bedside, and wishes to state that he will not be at his office for several days. The father is well up in years and is suffering from appendicitis, and his death is expected at any time. NOTICE TO FARMERS. I will, on December 5, 1910, begin buying new corn. All corn must be sorted and free from soft and rotten corn. Yours truly, * G. T. BURKE.

ATTACKED COURT Charles Reeves, Hartford City Editor, Lost His Temper in Court. THREATENS TO FIGHT Court Acquits Him on a Technicality, But Says Evidence is Strong, Hartford City, Ind., Nov. 30 —Justice of the Peace James Lucas, who Monday evening heard the evidence in the case against Charles Reeves, a local newspaper publisher, who was found in a room at the Interurban hotel a few weeks ago with Lillian Ford, a Chicago art firm’s representative, announced his decision last evening. He discharged Reeves from custody, but in summarizing the evience stated that in the strict meaning of the law Reeves Is not guilty, though circumstances reflected strongly against him. Justice Lucas further stated that the prosecution had failed to show that Reeves and the woman were guilty of an offense more serious than merely being in the room together and the court gave this failure on the part of the prosecution as his reason for not i regarding the case against Reeves as ' being sufficient to warrant a verdict l of guilty. The Ford woman pleaded ! guilty- after the arrest and left town and has not returned. After Justice Lucas announced his finding, Reeves strenuously objected 'to the wording of the decision, particularly to that part referring to the fact that circumstances, not formally substantiated by the evidence, pointed to his guilt. George R. Dale, business partner of Reeves, also joined in the i argument, and for a while the scene was rather lively. Loud talk was indulged in, and the affair threatened to end in personal encounters, but finally I it terminated in Reeves and Dale leaving before such a serious was reached. o— Charles Voglewede, who disposed of the Packing company’s plant a few days ago, is closing up the affairs of ! the concern, and hopes before many I days to file his final report with the . court. COURT HOUSE NEWS — Grand Jury Has Another Busy Day—Date For Adjournment not Set, JUDGE ERWIN HERE Appearing For the Allison Company—A Marriage License Issued. The grand jury continues to grind and this was one of the busy days of the session, the lobby in front of the office being filled all day with those subpoened to tell what they know of law violations. Judge R. K. Erwin has entered his appearance for the Allison Land company and R. K. Allison, and was here today going over the papers and taking up the making of issues in court. Peterson & Moran filed a new case, John Schafer vs. The Buckeye Brewing Co., suit on contract, demand SSOO. Alice M. Bittner vs. Charles Bittner et al., partition, appearance by D. E. Smith for all defendants except Alma and Luna Bittner. Rule to answer. First National Bank vs. George M. Tyndall, note, SSOO. Demurrer filed by plaintiff to defendant’s plea in abatement. Christian Hoffstetter vs. National Supply Co. et al., demurrer by defendants to amended complaint. A marriage license was issued to Frederick John Scherer, 27, farmer, Allen County, and Minnie Henriette CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR

BAKER GETS ANOTHER TRIAL. Third Reversal In the Croy Murder Trials. The third of the Croy murder cases was reversed by the supreme court yesterdaywhen that body held that by admission of certain evidence in the trial of John Baker at Huntington in March, 1909, the minds of the jurors were prejudiced against the defendant, an the case was sent back to the lower court for trial. Although Baker's minimum sentence of two years expires the latter part of next March, be will insist upon a new trial, accoring to his chief counsel, Judge R. K. Erwin. Baker will at once be brought home from prison to the Huntington county jail to await his second hearing, which may not be held until late in the winter. The evidence held to be unfair by the supreme court was the conversation alleged to have taken place between John Stout and Herman Miller seven months after the murder and in the absence of the defendant. In its desicion the court says that this test-i mony might easily have biased the opinions of the jurors.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. THE OCEAN BLUE Roeland Conrad, a Signal Boy on U. S. Battleship Connecticut. NOW IN ENGLAND Enjoyed Trip—Writes His Father, John Conrad, of Navy Life. John Conrad has received a post card from Weymouth, England, from his son, Roeland, who for the past four months has been one of the U. S. boys on the battleship “The Connecticut,” which recently landed in England. The post-card was mailed the 18th and he stated thereon that they expected to remain there until November 23rd. At the same time Mr. Conrad received a letter from his son, giving the following interesting and very well written account of his trip there: U. S. S. Connecticut, Nov. 15, 'lO. Dear Folks at Home: Am now .sitting down to try and write you a few lines to let you know I am well and enjoying myself. Hope these few lines will find you all the same. The sea is so rough and the ship is rolling and pitching, so it would-be impossible for me to write with pen and ink. The first four days we were out it stormed and rained, and was miserable weather to be out on the sea, but the best of all things is to know that there is no sea that is strong enough to sink one of our heavy armored battleships, so rthe waves that they don’t pass over they go right through. The next five or six days the weather was as fine and nice as anyone would want to see. I only wish you could have all been with us on this trip, especially while we were passing through the gulf stream, when the days were nice. In the morning when the sun would rise, it would give as pretty a piece of scenery as I have ever seen in my life, for the few white clouds that would be hanging over the horizon, as the sun would begin to beam up through them and the sky. It would make a golden purple and red, and reflect all over the eastern skies. The same would happen in the evenings. During the nice days we signal boys would have battle signal drill practice, which is very interesting for us and tre rest of the crew. There drills would last from 8 to 9 in the forenoon and from 1:30 to 2:30 in the afternoon. The gun crews would have practive in ranging their guns on other ships of the fleet, which gives them excellent practice In sighting and training their guns on anything that they wish. This makes them as good in sighting as would be necessary in case war should break out. The sea has been very rough since we left the gulf stream, and most all I have had to do is to sit around and read books out of the ship library. Yesterday and today the waves have been rolling at a height of twenty to thirty feet. lam growing to like the ways of the navy and the rolling of . the sea better every day, as it is imI CONTINUE® ON FAGE FOUR

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DEBEMBER I4TH Democratic Members of Indiana Legislature Will Hold a Meeting AT THE DENISON To Talk Over Plans For Organizing and For the Coming Session. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 30 —It has practically been decided that the conference of the democratic memberselect of the Indiana house of representatives will be held Wednesday, December 14th. Notices to this effect probably will be sent out within the next ten days. It has not been decided who will call the conference, but three -or four nanvs of members and members-elect will appear on the notices. Democratic representatives-elect and senators-elect will not hold a joint session, and the senate conference may he held a week or more in advance of the house conference. It was the general impression around the Denison hotel yesterday that the senate conference will be called for December 7th or Bth, but Lieutenant Governor Frank J. Hall, who was in the office yesterday, said that he might call the meeting a little earlier than that date. Mr. Hall said he believed about the middle of next week would be as good a time as any for this conference, but he had not definitely decided upon the time. The members-elect of the lower branch do not look with favor upon a joint conference with the senate. “If we’d go into a joint conference with the senate the first thing we’d know the senators would be telling us what to do; we don’t want that; we want to outline our own work,” was the way John B. Faulkner of the house placed himself on record in discussing the question yesterday. It was proposed first that the democratic mem-bers-elect of the assembly get together in a joint conference, but that plan has been abanoned and the members of each side will take care of their own business. John B. Faulknor of Michigan City, candidate for speaker of the house, was at the Denison hotel yesterday. Mrs. Faulknor accompanied him and they expect to stay a day or two. Some of the democratic leaders believe the race for speaker finally will dwindle down to a fight between Governor Marshall and Thomas Taggart. It is believed, however, that the governor will not take a hand in the contest unless he is forced to do so. TO HOPE HOSPITAL Mrs. Jess Brenenman Taken to Fort Wayne to be Operated Upon. CONDITION IS SERIOUS Operation Will Take Place Thursday or Friday—lll Five Weeks. Mrs. C. L. Johnson left this morning for Fort Wayne, where she accompanied her sister, Mrs. Jesse Brenenman, who will enter the Hope hospital at that place, and it is thought will undergo an operation, according to the decision of the physician. For the past five or six weeks she has been very ill, suffering with a complication of diseases, and the attending physician deemed it necessary for her to be removed to Fort Wayne and a thorough examination made. The examination will be made today, although no time has been set for the operation, but It is thought will probably take place Thursday or Friday. Her sister, who accompanied her, will remain for a day or so. The many friends of Mrs. Brenenman will be anxious to learn of her condition and wish for her a speedy recovery. Miss Frances Merryman left this morning for Greencastle, where she will visit with college friends.