Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 29 February 1912 — Page 1

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CHARGE OF RAPE Preferred Against Edward 'Tobin—Thirteen-year-old Florence Counts ■ < WAS HIS VICTIM Arrested Last Night by MarSjßhri Peterson—Tobin Has a Bad Career. — IgSfrlu arrest of Edward Tobin WedWSday evening at 7 o'clock by Marshal Krank Peterson on the charge of committing rape upon thirteen-year-old Violence Counts brings,to light a most condition of depravity in a girl hat has passed but one year in fier teens, and v, tio should be blessed With the u’oom of innocence and happteess. Tobin has been in the emptoy 01 the E» ie railroad for some time. Several years lie was one of the l umpers at the tank, but lately had been appointed to care tor the engines that might stop here while the crew wasfebliged to take its rest. For some time affairs had indicated that the relations of the couple were not what they should be, but no definite evidence could be gathered against them. Wednesday night, however, Marshal Petersen got a tip as to their whereabouts and finally located them at 7 o'clock among the logs and bolts of the handle factory. Evidence was finally gotten whereby the marshal made affidavit charging Tobin with rape, last Monday, February 26th, being the date specified in the affidavit, evidence having been such that proof was given that the couple had been guilty also on that date. It seems that the couple's relations have been such for some four or six weeks last past, and tuat last summer also they were guilty Os misconduct. Officials stated that the girls mother said that her daugher had deceived her by leaving home in. the early evening on the pretense of going to the theaters. The fact that she always returned early in the evening, the girl's mother said, led her to believe no evil of her. It seems, however, that the early evening hour was chosen tor her absence, not only to 'mislead the mother, but also to escape the officers, as the marshal stated that thetneeiing with her“lover”took place about the time that he, the marshal, was at suppeK, the couple thus escaping his vigilance. Tobin's bond was fixed at $2,000 and he Is still in jail. This is the second time within the 'past lew weeks that Tobin has been in j£il here with the prison staring him in the face. It will be remembered that he was charged with having committed sodomy on Francis May, a feeble-minded youth at the county infirmary, last June 20th, and that when the case came to trial, January sth, of this year, it was dismissed by reason of the fact that May, who was the ■chief witness, had been adjudged of unsound mind by the court, and therefore incapable, according to law, of giving his testimony. At that time the cast! was brought under the name of Fiiank Smith. .A T h, ‘ flaule man, under an alias of Edward Johnson, is said to have been sent to the pen from this county, seveif or eight years ago, on conviction stealing chickens, which he sold toithe packing house. £ Y e mad is said to be about forty yArs of age, thought he looks to be h older, as his hair is tinged with gray Mfrli" fact that the girl was undei the St&uiory age of sixteen years or the ysliße of consent, makes the offense HMb<', even though she might be a willIfljY party. The punishment on convicijtitfn is from one to twenty-one years prison. LAID TO REST funeral service for Joseph .M. ■B>ch, whose death occurred Sunday Hit at his East High street home, ■L. place Wednesday morning at 9 O’aloi k at the East Walnut street t'a'h'oik church. Rev. Father Travers had charge of the services and burial took Bur at the Trinity cemetery near Corydon. Among the friends and tJelatives in attendance were: Finley vß<l Lewis Atkins, Mr. and Mrs. JosGruber and Mrs. John Walters, all lllgrnion City; Dr. and Mrs. George Mfcrtnagle of Delphos, Ohio; Frank I of Chicago: Mr. and Mrs. Chas ■it east of Geneva; Mr Bremerflpt' p and son. Ray. of Decatur. I’oi t Sun.

DECATUR DAIRY DEMOCRAT

JOHN CHENOWETH ASKS DAMAGE Another damage suit went to trial this morning in circuit court, before Judge Sturgis and a jury, in which John Chenoweth of this city demands damages in the sum of SI,OOO from James M. Gilbert, a farmer of the south part of the county. The suit is based on alleged personal injuries md other damages suffered by Chenoweth in an accident which occurred about two years ago. Chenoweth, engaged as a sewing machine and piano agent, was driving along the highway, he alleges, when a team of horses belonging to Gilbert ran away and crashed into his, Chenoweth’s vehicle. He alleges he was hurled from his seat and thrown violently into the roadway, leeeiving a shock which temporarily > linded him, and gave him injuries ■■nidi disabled him for weeks.—Bluffton News. Mr. Chenoweth was a former resident here. REGISTERED HERE Unique Register of “Hoboes” at Krick & Tyndall Tile i Plant Shows ROBINSON'S NAME ' Tan Killed at Akron, Ohio, Monday, Stopped Here January 3rd. 1 The unique register started several years ago by ‘ Cap" Allen, night man , at the Krick & Tyndall tile factory, in . which the many hoboes or other unfor- ' innate "traveling" public who spend 1 the night there, in the warm dry rooms are asked to register, may be the means of l.elping establish the identity of the man killed at Akron. Ohio, Monday morning by a train. Ac- . cording to word received here Wednesday from the coroner there, the un- , fortunate man's name was Jambs Rob- • inson and some bills round on his peri son showed that he had received a , shipment of some goods while in this i city. The marshal was asked to aid , in his identification. It has developed , from a search of the register at the Krick & Tyndall factory that a man named J. C. Robinson registered there and stayed over night January 3rd. He is said to have canvassed the city at that time selling packets of needles and he is undoubtedly the man w’fio met death at. Akron. As those who stay at the factory come and go, and many hundreds atop there during the year, little is of course known of each. The register shows that during the past year about 1600 men stopped over night at the factory. The register shows the name, occupation and home iesidonce of each, and every state in the union and every trade and profession is represented—barring, perhaps, that of the ministry. Prefacing the register are the following rules: "No smoking allowed;’’ “No sleeping with boots on;’’ “Clean up your sheets in the morning;’’ “Hours, 6 p. m. to 6 a. m." Evidently those stopping there do not and the rules too rigorous, as the registry shows that the same person has stopped there more than one night. The register shows that eleven stopped there on the night that Robinson did. As many as twenty in one night often put up at the Hotel de Krick. -— ■£ n “THE COUNTRY KID” Will be the Second Night's Stand at Crystal Theater This Evening. Thfcse who witnessed “School Days" the opening night of a three night's stand of vaudeville at the Crystal Wednesday evening will not in-the least desire to miss attending the entirely new program of this evening, when “The Country Kid,” wilj be put on. It, like that of Wednesday evening, will be a cfljnedy from start to finish, and one of those which always rtfakes friends and a return of many patrons. Those who witnessed last evening’s entertainment report it as being the best ju the vaudeville line that has struck our pity and the manager is to be congratulated upon the securing of the company. Don’t forget,to attend this i evening if you had not the opportunity of doing so on the opening night. Ad- . mission, 5 and 10 cents. . .. I— ! —.-Q- " ■“ II "'I Tice l iman of north of the city made a business trip here today.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, February 29, 1912.

SEASON OPENING One Horse Brought a Dollar Per Pound in Local Market Wednesday. OTHERS ARE BUYING Stock to Replete Their Lines and Market is Rapid— Good Prqspects. $ The spring horse sale season is just entering into the busy part in which stock is sold and resold in a lighti Ing-like manner. More especially is this applicable to the lines of stock handled by the big importers who make a specialty of bringing over the best registered stock of the old countries to build- up the quality of the American horses. Frisinger & Sprunger of this city, and by the way, one of the recognized large importing firms of the United States, is entering the season with stables well filled with blue-blood stock. Tuesday they sold three horses, 'two for immediate delivery and one for future delivery. Both the horses 1 tor delivery at once are Belgians, and one goes to Joe McCoy, of Midland. Mich. The other is a sorrel, weighing two thousand pounds, and it goes to Fred Churchill of Cassopolis, Mich., he paying a fancy price for the animal Exactly two thousand dollars, or a dollar per pound was the figure that took this noble animal. Another horse was sold to Snow’ & Chatman of Finlak, I Mich., it being a roan weighing a ton t also. This is the seconcfhorse sold t to this firm and proves that the first one must have given entirely satisfactory service. Other buyers are arriv--1 ing daily and from now on the sales > will be rapid indeed. > -O . ■ — ... BRIDGE COVERED Elmer Archer Finds Pleasant Mills River bridge InL ’ / » undated With Water. i i - HE COULDN’T CROSS I Hence Half of His Route l i Was Unable to Get Any i 1 Mail Yesterday. I ; I Elmer Archer, rural mail carrier on $ ’ Route 6 “ran up against it” Wednes- . day while delivering mail on his route, > when he arrived from the east at the i St. Mary's river bridge at Pleasant ' Mills and found the water three feet deep over the bridge. In leaving here he crosses the river at the Monroe ; street bridge, serves tnc east side of i his route and then crosses the river at , Pleasant Mills, covers his rou’e or , the west side, returning to this city, i As he was unable to cross al Pleasant Mills he was therefore obliged to turn > back and recover his route on the west ing the half of his route on the west side of the river unserved. This morning he started out on the west side - to servo those whom he was unable to reach Wednesday, and should he not I be able to cross the bridge at Pleas ant Mills again today, the east half of his route will have to do without their mail. SOCIAL OF THE SEASONS. Will be Given This Evening by the Presbyterian C. E. The Christian Endeavor society of , the Presbyterian church will give a ‘ social of the four seasons’,’ this evening at the church parlors to which all the young people of the city are iiwltt ed. Something unique and entertaining has been provided and a good time will be in evidence. REV. WYER WILL PRESIDE. — The second quarterly meeting of the Rivarre U. B. circuit will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Pleasant Grove U. 1 B. church. The presiding elder, the Rev. Wyer, will preside and will be assisted by the pastor, the Rev. Sheperdson, of Huntington.

MISS CARVER, BLIND VOCALIST Singing at Special Services at Wayne Street M. E. Church, Ft. Wayne. Miss Bertha Carver of near Salem, I this county, a blind vocalist, of unusual ability, who has sung' in this city, is gaining complimentary notice at Fort Wayne, the Fort Wayne Sentinel containing the following article, illustrated with her picture; “One especially notable feature of the special services inaugurated by , Rev. C. Claude Travis at Wayne Street Methodist Episcopal church Monday evening, is the appearance of Miss Bertha Carver, a talented young vocalist, who is blind, and who will sing nightly during the progress of the meetings. "Miss Carver’s home is near Deca--1 tur. She has been blind since babyhood, and was educated at the Indi- ’ ana Institution for tha- Blind, where her marvelously beautiful voire was ’ quickly recognized and where especial attention was given to her musical education. Miss Carver is now in Ft. Wayne for further studies in music, and she readily consented to assist ’ in the services at Wayne street. 1 “These special, services will con--1 tinue for a period of two weeks, and 1 the opening sermon tneme ol Rev. Mr. 1 ‘ Travis was “God in the Heart." On ’ Friday evening the Men’s chib of the ’ church will be in charge of the serv--3 ices, at which time the pastor will 1 speak on A Man's Religion." AID LIGHTING COMPANY. > _____ Subsidary Plant With Capital Steck of $150,000 Filed Its Papers. ' - The Indiana Gas Transportation Co. ’| cf Fort Wayne, an auxiliary to ths ’ I Indiana Lighting company, with a I I branch in this city, has filed papers of i incorporation, calling Mr $150,000, with I the secretary of state at Indianapolis, land its object will be to supply heat I and power to adjacent tow ns surround | mg Fort Wayne, including Decatur, LoI gansport, Peru, Wabash, Frankfort and other cities. The capital stock is I placed at the above quotation and the directors of the new company include Albert E. Scheithe, Bernard B. Shear on and L. E. Warson, all being employed by the Indiana Lighting company at ': Lafayette. “The new company is merely sub- ! sidiary to the Indiana Lighting company,” declared General Superintendent S. E. Mulholland of that company, Wednesday. The supplying of beat and ■ power to the villages adjacent to the j cities that our main lines intersect ! will be a separate business, and is, j therefore, incorporated separately. The ; new company will run pipe lines from the cities menitoned to the smaller places in close proximity." In the east there has been perfected a method of supplying gas in tanks, such as are now' used for acteylene lights for automobiles. Electric power will also he transmitted. It Is likely that the Indiana Gas Transportation I I company will handle the tank business ' | as a side issue to the Indiana Lighting company. MONROE ENTERTAINMENT Monroe, Ind., Feb. 29—(Special to Daily Democrat) On Friday evening. : March 1, at the school house, will be held a literary program by the Monroe schools, which will consist of vocal and Instrumental music, dialogues, debate, efc. This entertainment will be held for the purpose of securing money to be applied to the piano fund, as it was intended to be paid by the lee- " Hire course, but owing to the insuffi- ' cient patronage the management has experienced a deficit of $2 75 on the venture. It is hoped that all will turn out and give those interested encouragement so that the piano fund will bo realized. The price of admission is only ten cents and is small enough to enable every man. woman and child to attend. You will enjoy this entertainment. This is a worthy cause, and j something that all should endeavor to assist. Turn out, the time is next Friday evening, March Ist. ■ ■ o— ——— —■- ■ I HARD COAL FAMINE. There is a hard coal famine it town, and woe be unto the person that has not enough in his coal shed to last until the dealers get their supply, which is expected daily. W. R. C. MEETING. The W. R. C. will hold a meeting at their hall Friday evening. All mem- : bers are requested to be present as there is important business to attend to. By order of PRESS CORRESPONDENT.

A BIG TIME Will be Held by Local Ben Hurs on March Seventh —Fort Wayne Team. WILL DO THE WORK (Large Class Will be Initiated — Big Delegation Expected from Fort Wayne, j At the meeting of the Ben Hurs to be held Friday evening arrangements for a big initiation service to be held March 7th, will be completed. At that time the place where it will be held will be announced, and all members dei siring thus to know should be presi ent Friday evening. The Fort Wayne team, comprising twenty-six members. ’ will do the initiating, apd a large class v. ill receive the degree. All applica tions should be in by the meeting FriI day evening of this week, that they may be acted upon. Fully two ear ' loads/of Fort Wayne Ben Hurs arc ex pected, and as the local hall will be unable to hold the large number who : will be present, is has become neces i sary to secure another hall for (lie i big services. The place will be anI nounced at the lodge Friday evening i PRESBYTERIAN SOCIAL TONIGHT, f ’ The Christian Endeavor society of ■ the Presbyterian church will give a : season social at the church parlors '' this evening. No admission will be I I (barged but you wiH be invited to buy ’ j if you find anything you want at the ’jTooths. You are most cordially invit- ’ j ed, under the guarantee that you will ' | enjoy yourself, thoroughly and com- ' I pietely. It’s tonight. Be sure to ’' come. I o WILL BE STAGED Mrs. Porter’s Novel “Freckles” Has Been Dramatized by Big Company. I; IN NEW YORK CITY Will Soon be Produced by Castle & Baker —Book is Popular One. “Freckles.” beautiful pastoral story told in the sweet, original language of i tile authoress. Mrs. Gene Stratton-Por- ; ter, of Geneva, has just been dramatized and will soon be produced on the stage of New York City, by Castle & Baker, one of the best known firms of that great theatrical center. This , news will be heralded with delight by the many friends of Mrs. Porter in > this city and county. “Freckles" was . written several years ago by Mrs. PorI ter, Adams county's most gifted writ- . er. It tells a pretty story of life in > the “Limberlost," a spot in southern . Adams, which this authoress has made i world-famed. It has been read by . nearly every one in this county and . the book has for several years been i at the top of the best selling lists in .' every city in this country. Last year's i sales of a book written five years ago were really marvelous and the sac» I that .the- story will now’ be told from i the stage will but add to the sale of i *he book. Mrs. Porter’s new book, i "The Harvester,” promises to equal in popularity the record of ‘ Freckles." I , - TRUSTEE ELECTION. To the Members of the Decatur Evan gelical Church. Notice is hereby given that on the evening of March 13, 1912, a business , session will be held for the purpose of i electing five trustees of the Ebenezer : Church of the Evanaellcal association , in the city of Decatur, Ind., said trustees to serve for a term of three years or until their successors are elected. the members are urged to be pres ent as this is one of the most irnport | tant elections ever held in the local -1 church. Remember, the date is March 1113, 1912 (Wednesday evening); the 1 place is at the church on Winchester | street, and the hour is 8 o'clock. D. O. WISE, Pastor.

(RETURN OF “THE MISSOURI GIRL” - In the last dozen years “The Missouri Girl” has been seen in this city several times, and the visit again this season which is announced for Monday, March 4th, will be hailed with delight by the numerous theatergoers who have so long contended that this attraction is the greatest of all comedies and that “Zeke" and “Daisy” are the funniest of all stage characters. The company this season is said to be even stronger than when the play was seen here last, and the unusual demand for seats so far in advance augers well for capacity business. The prices are in accordance with the times and so reasonable that everyone can afford a brief holiday with “Zeke" and “Daisy.” The play Is an American comedy of the better sort, with music. ' singing and dancing interspersed, and 1 the whole production is in keeping ! with the high standard of excellence that has always characterized Fred 1 Raymond's attractions. 0 COURT MOUSE NEWS J I Yaney-Foreman Case Still on Trial — Tinkham-Hakes Partition Case. ) LAND ORDERED SOLD iC. L. Walters Appointed Commissioner — Many u Real Estate Transfers, d ■' ; The case of the State ex rel. Luella J I Yaney vs. Manley Foreman'■was still ;on trial today. The state concluded its : evidence by noon and it was thought I the defense would conclude by this I evening. « i Caleb B. Andrews, guardian of Ma- |; hala Magner, reports sale of personal ' | property, which is approved. A peti- ' Lon for order to roof dwelling and I build garden fence was granted A. H. Perfect & Co. vs. Riverside i Milk Condensory, on account. $350. i Rule to answer made absolute in five ■ cays. | Henry Gerke vs. William FledderI johann et al., on note, $450. Rule io i answer made absolute in five days. | In the Tinkham-Hakes partition case, on finding of indivisibility, the I court rendered a decree of partition. I and ordered land sold at private sale, ■ for not less than appraisement, terms. ; one-third cash, one-third in nine | months, and one-third in eighteen. C. ■ ’ L. Walters was appointed commission- , er at $5,000 bond, Realty transfers: Decatur Cemetery ■ Assn, to Elizabeth Cloud, lot, 545; Eliz--1 abeth Coon to Catherine Pine, realty in ‘ Hartford tp., $1; Catherine Pine to 1 Martha Coon, same, $1: George Sea- ’ right to Charles W. Brewster, 8 acres, Jefferson tp.. $1200; Emaline Lehman i to Frank Amstutz, lot 371, Berne, ’ $500; Gene Stratton Porter to Elhanan • Callihan, lot 147. Geneva, $1,000; ■ Elhanan Callihan to George 1 E. Shoemaker, lot 401, Ge--1 neva, $175; G. E Shoemaker to Mi- ‘ chael J. O. Hara, lot 44'-, Geneva, $175; Malo Sales to Arnold Aschleman, realty 1 in Hartford tp., $7000; and another I piece for $100; Mary Aeschleman to l Arnold Aeschleman, realty in Hart 5 ford tp., S4OOO. i ’ County Assessor George Gentis has I I everything ready for the meeting ol I the township assessors to be held with > j him in this city tomorrow, March Ist “SAVED AT SEA” j Will be Subject of Rev. Gleiser’s Sone Story. The Rev. Gleiser announces that on next Sunday evening at the regulai ' service hour, he will give a song story 3 entitled, “Saved at Sea." This will be I similar to the "Story of the Pink ‘ Rose,” which he gave in the summer. 1 and which was received so well. ——o , ATTENTION, DEMOCRATS! Democratic headquarters, opposite the court house, on Second street, will - be open every Saturday from 1 to I p. m„ until further notice, and I in i i vite you to call. Any information re ■ garding the registration law, or othei matters, will most cheerfully be given J. W. BOSSE, I County Chairman.

Price, Two Cents.

NEWSPAPER BOY Have You Ever Stopped to Think of Many Hardships Along the Way. IS MOST IMPORTANT And Yet Less Compaints are Heard from Him Than Any Other Employee. With the present severe winter drawing near an end, have you ever of the faithfulness of the news- | paper boy, who has been delivering ■ your paper each evening to your door, ' when you sat in warm quarters, waitI : ing for the day’s happening, and one jof your chiefly established ways of ; spending the evenings. No matter to 1 how cold it may change, or how rough ; the blusterous atmosphere be, with the ! cold close of the day, the time when he has to make his long and weary travel through perhaps through drifts , of snow, slush or endure the wintry breezes with the thermometer register- • : ing anywhere down to eighteen or ! tw’enty below zero, he has to make 1 his daily run and he does it without. I’ a murmur. How often have you blam , ed him if your paper was not at the door at the usual time, when perhaps it was not his fault at all, of, if after ! lie lias made the long and tiresome ' journey to your door, the whistling . w'nd may have carried the paper away i before he has gotten out of sight. You I may, perhaps, been missed once in a while, through some cause or other,, . but taking the years a whole, cold as it may have been, or hot in the summer months, when you are again glad when you can comfortably rest, how many of you could have bettered his , faithfulness, and take many knocks and scolding, which he is forc- ! ed to do each evening. After all he is the most important personage connected with the newspaper business, for what use would there be in printing a paper, if there was no way of getting it to the people? The best way to get it to the people is through the medium of the carrier boy. The prevailing winter is very hard on the carrier boys but they get their papers delivered just the same and they do less complaining than any other class of people. If his hands gets cold he blows warmth into them. If his feet becomes numb he stamps them until they are warmed by the increased circulation. He knows there is no use to be a quitter because his customers must have their papers. C. J. BROWN FOUND DEAD | 'A Near Paoli, Kans.—Relatives in Allen County—May be Decatur Boy. i i | | Sheriff A. M. Reichelderfer late Monday afternoon received a mecage from Paoli, Kans., announcing that a ’ man by the name of C. J. Brown had been found dead there and that letters ’ cn his person indicated that his relaj tives live on a farm near here The , \ authorities know of no one by that name.—Fort Wayne News. j It was feared by those who learned j the above, that he might be the “Cur- | tis L.” Brown, who, until two years . | ago was employed at the Smith, Yager } : & Falk drug store in this city. He left i two years ago for the west, but when . Mr. Falk, who corresponds with him. heard last, he had headquarters at ... Butte, Montana, being engaged ns trav , cling salesman for the M. K. Murford Drug company, his territory, however, being confined within Montana. His father is Adam Brown, formerly of this county, but now living in Fort Wayne, . lie owning a farm near that city. . , Later word received-established beyond doubt that it was not “Curt" ( ( Brown. The mesage said that he sold i rugs and house furnishings for the <’ j F. Adams company of Kansas City. ,' He was about fifty-four wears old, ■ weighed rfbout 140 pounds, and his hair j was brown, streaked with grey. He I committed suicide by taking carbolic | acid and before he took his life he destroyed a package of letters with the evident desire of preventing iden- | tifleation. J o THE STORK'S STOP. | A bright baby girl was born this ■ morning to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony LenIgerich, southwest of the city. EveryI body doing