Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 172.

A BITTER FIGHT Xdbked for by Republican of House to Defend Nomination OF PRESIDENT TAFT Wle Sam Opens Second J|ttack on Steel Trust—- ■ New York Murder. V ‘ ' .? k; ’ * (United Press Service.) U Cory-ton. lud.. July 19—(Special to Daily ran -Charles Self, forty, son of George W Self, reporter of the iuuiaua supreme court, died here today of apoplexy, after a few hours il| . nass r •/'"« *■ L lIMMi MU. £• ~ . J Washington. D. C., July 19— (Special to Doily Democrat) Republican leaders of the senate and house are preparing sot. one of the most bitter fights ever staged on the floor of con-, gross to defend the legality of President Taft’s renomination at Chicago. The progressive wing of the Taft forces assembled today and hurriedly held a conference for a counterattack which promised a unique spectacle, when both houses of congress have a conference on the alleged ‘frauds ’ in Taft’s renomination. Senator Root of New York is scheduled ■to be Taft s chief spokesman, while Senators Clapp and Cummins will define fraud charges for the colonel New Tort. N Y., July 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The bitter feeling between the police and district at tomey, Whitmann, as a result of the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal, was further intensified today 'vh“u Whittman took issue with the police regarding Jack .Rose, who is being he!<J in connection with the murder When Whittman's attention was called to charges of the police thai they "had turned Rose up,” he sneerj «d end said, ’ Yes. when I made it very plain that they had to get this man they sent word to him to come to headquarters, but they didn't tell him that charges of murder would be launched against him, I don't'believe Rose was actually present "at the mur- , tier. He had been a collector of police graft and knows all about the system and I intend that he shall stay where we can get at him when we want him,” Washington. D. C., July 19—(Special to Daily Democrat i—In an order issued by the Interstate Commerce t Commission, announced an investigation of Hie rates and rules governing the transportation of iron ore. wire and Steele, Uncle Sam today opened another attack on the steel trust While the commission’s order does not name the steel corporation it was pointed out that the trust is concern-; wd largely in the manufacture through Its own plants of the product mon tioned. and in addition is alleged to have an interest in transporting the A' AMMnodttiea ' .y. HAS BOUGHT A FORD. | Karrv Kooken, a well known citi- ■ zen of West Adams street, and a val-| ue<j employee of the Krick-Tyndall Tile company. Thursday night closed | a deal with Mr. John Stewart, the j local agent for the Ford automobile, by which a five-passenger Ford ear ( of the latest design becomes his , property. The deal was made within , a couple of hours speaking well tor the hustling abilities of the Ford agents Mr. Kooken is well pleased with the car and bought one with all the equipment which will make the operation of the ear easy and pleasurable This is the second car sold to local people this season by Mr. Stewart. ■ - o BAND PRACTICE TONIGHT. V All members of the city band are re quested to be at the. hall for practice this evening. Preparations are being made to go to the Zion’s Lutheran picnic to be held Sunday in the Wischmeyer grove near St. John’s. ICE CREAM SOCIAL SATURDAY. The Star of Bethlehem will give an ice cream social on the Niblick lawn on Court street, near the library, Saturday evening of this week, to which the public ia cordially invited. A good time <a guaranteed, and the ladies will i appreciate your patronage.

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> MRS CLAUDE MATTHEWS DEAD. Widow of Former Indiana Governor v Dead. 1 Clinton, Ind., July 19—Mrs. M. A. R. Matthews, widow of the late governor, Claude Matthews, of Indiana died at her home here at 10 o'clock last night. , Mrs. Matthews called for many of her old friends and bade them goodbye. Mrs. Matthews is sixty-six years old and has been seriouly ill for sevl , oral months. Her father was James Whitcomb, governor of Indiana from 1843 to 1-848 and later United States senator from Indiana. STILL IN SESSION a Governor Wilson and Democratic Leadcip Conferring at Spring Lake, — ' DEAD BODY FOUND Federal Judge -rchbald Given to July 29th to Prepare His Defense. ✓’ (Continued on Page 2) Seagirt, N. J., July 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The conference between Governor Wilson and the democratic leaders was resumed at the New Mannouth hotel at Spring Lake today. Chairman McCombs, and Secretary Davies planned to leave for New York this afternoon to meet exChairman Mack of the democratic national committee to begin a hunt for national headquarters. Indianapolis, Ind., July 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) — badly , crushed body of Ira Souders, aged I seventeen, was found between a mail' and a baggage car on the Monon ’ railroad today when they were being uncoupled. Souders, who lived here, was on his way home from Chicago, and was riding the ‘ vestibule bumpers.” It was not known how long he had been dead. Washington, D. C., July 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Sitting as a high court of impeachment the senate this Afternoon allowed-Judge Robert W. Archbald of the commerce court until July 29th to prepare his defense agahisk grave charges formulated by the house. There were no indications that the senate desired to push the trial and complete the case before the adjournment of the present session. The house “prosecutors” were given until August 2 to reply to the defense. Attorney A. S. Worthington for the defense stated that his client would “not plead guilty." o KIDNAPER CAUGHT. (T'ntroc i reus Service) Buffalo, N. Y., July 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Pursued, across i three counties by police on motorcy- | cles and in automobiles, and running i at the rate of nearly fifty miles an | hour in her own car over mud roads, I Mrs. Herman F. Lehman of Buffalo ■ was finally captured by the police, charged with kidnaping Evelyn Mildred Sloan, aged eleven, daughter of John Sloan, proprietor of a hotel at I Attica, where she secured the child. The child is claimed by Mrs. Lehman to be her daughter, having been taken ' from her by her husband in Chicago, and given to the Sloans. WAS INSTANTLY KILLED. Renssalaer, Ind., July 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —R. W. Baradach, stock promoter of the Southern Life Insurance company, was instantlykilled today when he lost control of his automobile which he was driving in a heavy fog. Dr. W. 11. Barricklow of Chicago, who was riding with him, had a leg broken. — o HAD BIG FIRE. (United Press Service) Bluefields, W. Va., July 19—(Special to aDily Democrat) —Fire, which for a time swept the wholesale district here, destroyed a half dozen buildings and entailed a loss of $300,000. \ ‘ —— o DECATUR CIRCUIT. ■ < Services at Pleasant Valley SunI day morning at 10:00; Washington, 1 ' Sunday evening at 7:30.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, July 19, 1912.

SPEAKS TONIGHT Hon. J. C. Moran Will Give Address to Old Settlers at Linn Grove. THE FOURTH REUNION Will Continue Over Saturday and Sunday- Great Time in Store. e Hon. J. C. Moran of this city will go to Linn Grove today, where this evening he will speak at the fourth annual reunion of the old settlers of Adams, Weils and Jay counties. The reunion begins today and will extend over tomorrow and Sunday. It is being held in the Splehger grove a half mile south of Linn Grove and will be a joyous occasion for the young as well as the older ones. Several bands have been engaged and there will be plenty of music. Judge James J. Moran of Portland will speak Saturday morning, while at 1:30 Mayor Lew Shank of Indianapolis and Abe Simmons of Bluffton are in the program. At night J. B. Merriman of Bluffton will entertain the people. TE« forenoon address Sunday will be by Judge George B. Lindsay, of Marion, this being followed by a number of talks by old settlers present, recounting experiences of the earlier days In three counties. In the afternoon, addresses will be made by Hon. Samuel J. Vining of Celina, Ohio, former speaker of the Ohio house of representatives; Hon. E. 0. Hoffman of Fort Wayne and J. Frank Matin of Muncie. During the three days' there will he special traction car service on the M. B. & E. past the grounds. Mr. John C. Moran's address this I evening will be relative to the pro--1 gressiveness of the county and the people, and will be given in his usual happy vein. WATER INTERFERES Progress at Monroe Street Bridge Crippled from Swollen River. i RAISED LAST NIGHT Work Being Continued With Mafiy People Watching the Daily Progress. The work at the new Monroe street bridge is going along in spite of being handicapped by the high waters, although not as rapidly as otherwise, and as desired by the contractor. The water which had been receding since the heavy rains of Saturday evening, took a foot or more rise durig the night, from a heavy rain which is reported as south of here. The river m still far from being at its normal stage, and several days will be necessary until the swollen creeks are emptied and their usual level reached. The work at the bridge is now giving the people a more complete idea as to how the lower part will look, the form for the east arch, with the abutment in the center of the river, having been completed, and other minor things done so as to continue work when the water falls enough to permit the workmen to go ahead. Crowds of people visit the scene each day to keep themselves posted with the progress of the bridge and to watch the work of the men in charge of the improvement It will be a beauty upon, completion and one of the handsomest spans to be found in the state. — —o ■ - - ATTENDED EXHIBIT. Dick Meyers has returned from a several days’ stay in Chicago, where he attended the furniture exhibit and bought the fall stock for the firm of Gay, Zwick & Myers, the well known furniture dealers. Mrs Myers and children who accompanied him to Chicago, went from there to Almond, Wis., for a visit with her brother, Theodore Long, and will remain some time.

GOOD GAME ASSURED. Fort Wayne Badgers Coming to Win from Locals on Next Sunday. The base ball game to be played Sunday between the local Shamrocks and the Fort Wayne Badgers is furnishing plenty of ball dope among the local fans, who believe they will hav-"* their hands full to conquer the visitors. The Badgers have once defeated the home team by a score of 16 to 6 and are coming with the hopes or repeating the dose. This, the locals say, cannot be done and are strengthening up their weak points and making changes wherever they deem necessary. The line-up will be an excellent one and they hope to see a large attendance present for the game They have been working , hard to give Decatur a fast team and ' are deserving of the patronage of evI ery one. ’I 0 | AMONG THE SICK. j Friends of Mrs. Ben Schrank are * pleased to learn of her daily improv- ’ ing condition, and that those attending her are more than pleased with her condition. Today was the first since the ordeal on Tuesday that she ■ was permitted to take a little beef broth. She has been lying in the 1 same position since the operation, and will still be unable to move until Sun- : day, when she will be permitten to change to her side and afford great relief. One of the two nurses has been I dismissed, but she is still requiring the best attention. | — Martin Gallmeyer, the young man i who had his arm broken the first of the week when he fell from a wagon, is doing nicely but still has to carefully guard same and nurse it for the present. o I PICNIC PLANS PERFECTED. J , That the day will be one of unsurpassed pleasure for the Zion’s Lutheran congregation and all their friends, is already assured, those in charge having perfected plans to that effect for the annual picnic which will be held next Sunday afternoon. July 21, :at the Wischmeyer grove near St. | John's. The city band will be there and will furnish music for the occasion; the children have prepared j an excellent program and amusements j and refreshments without number I will contribute pleasure to the event. Arrangements have been made with I the interurban company ot a special [ train leaving here at 1 o'clock for f the grounds and leaving the grounds ' for the return trip at 6 o’clock. WILL RETURN TO MEXICO. Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison and daughter, Mrs. Dick Wallace, are daily expecting a telegram recalling them to I Oaxaca, Mexico, whe'e they resided i for some time, being obliged to leave i this spring during the revolution. Mr Wallace is already there and the Americans who were obliged to leave on account of the insurrection are. returning in great numbers, the danger . having subsided. D — POLICE COURT NEWS. Mike Brady, a tramp, was brought up before the mayor, on a plain drunk charge, and was given a lecture and a time limit to get out of town. He easily made the time and nothing further was seen of him. THE CENSUS REPORT! Helen Tzmlse is (he name of the baby born yesterday, the third in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Zera David of North i Closs street. Mrs. David was Miss | Emma Kline of Vera Cruz before her ! marriage. o NOTICE. The committee on the old Soldiers' Monument will meet next Monday evening at the office of the Bowers Realty company. All members urged to ■ attend. . ARE NOW WORKING. The Krick Tyndall tile factory is again getting in shape to run full force, they having been badly crippled on account of the heavy storm of last week. The extensive tunnell system i has finally been pumped free of water and the kilns which were drowned out have been repaired. The factory will resume full force as soon as the clay bank can be gotten in shape to furnish the full amount of clay. Sam Doak and his nephew. Waiter i Doak, of Kirkwood, Ohio, went to Fort I Wayne this afternoon.

“OLD HOME WEEK” 1 i Managers Held the Regular Meeting Last Night— Governor Replies. • MAY COME HERE 8 ? Cannot Give Definite Reply 3 r at Present—Tmusement 3 , Committee is Busy. r . ? 1 F. M. Schirmeyer, president of the . "Old Home Week" association this morning received word from Governor Marshall that he had received the invitation to speak here during the big week In October, and while ? he is unable at thin time to make any dates, awaiting the demands of the national committee, he said he 1 expected to make as many speeches t in Indiana as possible and might be a able to come here It is hoped that f he can do so, not for any political , purpose but as the governor of the I slate. Other arrangements are being completed for the occasion. The 5 board of managers held their regular meeting last night and prepared for 1 further advancement of the event. T The advertising committee will get busy at once and the week will be well advertised. Banners will he j placed across the street and various C forms of bills and circulars distributed. The invitation committee will soon issue their invitations. H. , J. Yager, chairman of the committee on amusements announced the other members, including Will L. Lehne, O. L. Vance, Henry Thomas and C. S. Niblick. They will go to Fort Wayne today on their first trip and will try '. to secure some of the attractions now being shown at the Buffalo car- ’ nival there. One of the features of the week is to be a museum, at which will be shown as many relics of special interest here as possible. ’ ; This feature and as many others as possible will be free. »' • < BIG CORN YIELD . The Government Experts Estimate Crop at 2.811,000,000 Bushels. A BUMPER CROP i Is Anticipated This Year— More Favorable Weather May Make it Larger. In round numbers 3,100,000,000 bushels of corn were harvested in the United States three years ago, and, by a curious coincidence, the number of bushels was approximately i the same as the money value of our ■ entire international commerce, meas- ’ tired in dollars. Since that time this I commerce has been increasing, where as not so many bushels of corn have been harvested in any year since the record corn crop was made. The crop experts employed by the ■ government forecast a harvest of 2,811,900,000 bushels of com this year. But the record which is to be made by i our international commerce in the ' present calendar year, will, unless there be a great slump in the fall probably be in excess of the $40,000,009,000 money value. We are command ing foreign trade more rapidly than ’ we are growing corn, if the comparison be made in this way. It has been ■ pointed out that the government’s esi timate of the com crop, made public on Tuesday, was in great measure made before recent favorable climate conditions prevailed over the corn belt. Therefore, unless there should i be scorching heat and protracted t drought the probabilities are that the I harvest of corn this year will approximate 3,000,090,000 bushels. i o DOLLY IN DISMAY. 1 ’ Dorothy—Mother, when I get mar- ! ried shall I have a husband like papa? ► Mother—Certainly, my dear. Dorothy—And If I stay single shall I be an old maid like Aunt Anna? ■ Mother —I think you will. i Dorothy (with a deep sigh)—Well, I am In a fix.

— TO COVER JULY. Resolution Passed for Part of Postoffice Appropriation. Although the bill for the appropria tlon for the service of the postoffice department has not yet become a law, a resolution has been passed providing for the appropriation of onetwelfth of the amount, for this purpose, covering the month of July, according to a notice received from headquarters by Postmaster W. A. Lower. Advices, however, that no appropriation for any extra expenses has been made and advice is given not to incur such for carriers’ substitutes, etc. o C. TRESSELT DEAD Ft. Wayne Oldest Business Man, Well Known Here, Passes Away. WAS ; A _ MILLER At Eighty-eight Years of Age Was Still in Active Business Life. Christian A. Tresselt, aged 88 years ten months and fifteen days, the oldest business man of Ft. Wayne, head of City Mills, is dead at his home in Ft. Wayne. Mr. Tresselt is known to many here. Death resulted from I old age and came peacefully to the pioneer. Up until ten days ago, he ■ had been able to attend to his duties j at the offices of the City Mills and at that time was apparently in the; best of health. He was a native of Thurungia, Germany, where he was I born September 3, 1823, his father Au-1 gust Ludwig Tresselt, being an artist. Christian A. Tresselt, the son engaged in mercantile business in Germany until twenty-two years ago! when he came to America. After fifteen months in New York, he came to ' Ft. Wayne, where he later became ■ proprietor of the City Flour Mills, j He was married in Ft. Wayne to Miss ; Elizabeth Sicmon, who died ten yeaiT I ago. Three sons; Otto W., Herman! C„ and Frederick., all of whom have ! been identified with the father in the l flour business, survive. The funeral I will be held privately, Saturday afternoon at the residence. o HAD FAST RIDE. Charles Christen, who Thursday took a load of heating supplies to Rockford, Ohio, enjoyed a much faster trip on the way back for a short strip than on going over, winning in the long run by cutting short the time. He had reached the Erie railroad, when one of the straps broke, causing the tongue to strike against the horses’ heels, and excited, they started on a mad run. Mr. Christen, who was alone, managed to keep his ' horses right in line, and when the I interurban station was reached, had his team nearly down to the natural gait, when others aided him in making the repairs. No damage was done, hut had the horses had a further trip to make there might have been a smash-up. o KOENEMAN BEET FIELD An inspector from the sugar factory this morning, looked over the beet field of Henry Koeneman on the Houck farm north of the city about seven miles, and he pronounces it one of the best fields he has seen this year. it contains twenty acres and shows that good care has been taken. The field Is free from weeds and will develop a dandy big crop. Several beefs being pulled for the test weighed a pound and a half. Farmers in that locality should watch the Koeneman beet crop. It is being handled carefully and should be a producer. ■— o ENJOYED LAKE CRUISE. S. E. Hite, the south end grocer, has returned from a four-hundred-mile cruise on Lake Erie. He joined a traveling salesman friend at Toledo, from which harbor they set sail and in their cruise touched Buffalo, Putin Bay, and others of the larger cities or noted summer resorts along the Erie coast, making a most delightful week’s vacation trip.

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DAILY OCCURRENCE Is the News Reporter Asked to Keep This or That Out of the Paper. A LITTLE ADVICE Keep Out of Trouble and You Won’t Have to Ask This Favor at All. <r The prevailing custom of seeking to suppress legitimate news items has about exhausted the patience of most newspaper publishers in this country, says an exchange. There is no logical reason why such news should not be published regardless of the persons concerned. The fellows w'ho get into trouble never give a thought about their mothers or their sisters until after their sins have been found out and then they rush to a newspaper reporter—who, as a rule, they never before considered worth being treated civilly—and on bended knees, tears in their eyes, and slobbers on their lips, beg to be spared the notoriety which they have so richly merited. About this time they are dreadfully concerned about their poor mother or their supersensitive sister. This class of fellows are not worthy of consideration. They are cowards in the first place, or j they would stand up like men, make i the most of a bad matter, and make J amends for the past by future good i behavior. As sot- the dear old moth- ' era and sisters, they need not be worried, for no one whose opinion amounts to as much as a yellow dice, ! will censure the good old mother cr sister, or even the old man and the brothers for the misdoings of some ! black sheep. Os course relatives dislike to see the name of their kin in print in an unfavorable light. Neither . do they like to see him in jail, but sometimes it becomes necessary to ! put them there, and when ther acts warrant their arrest, they should also > receive the publicity that is due hem. ■ If you do not make news that is un- ! favorable to you the newspaper will have nothing of the kind to publish, I but if you persist in making it then ; you must expect to stand in the spotI light of publicity occasionally. If there is any disgrace it Is in the aci tions of the parties themselves, not 'in the publication of the facts. The I people pay for the news and it is a I publisher's duty to get it if he can. Every subscriber to a newspaper takes the paper, not to see what has been, supressed, but to ascertain the facts concerning what is going on in his home town and abroad, and it is an implied obligation on the part of the publisher to furnish the readers all the information possible. o "LAST DAYS OF POMPEII.” This play will come to Fort Wayne I for six nights, commencing Monday, July 22nd, for benefit of the Children’s i Playground association. Fully five hundred people participate in the stirring episodes, ballet pageants, etc., of this big exhibition, and the beautiful scenic representations of the ill-fated cty of Pompeii occupies an area of several acres of ground, These fascinating and thrilling mid-summer night shows of the famous Pain have for twenty-seven years been the one big night attraction at fashionable Manhattan beach, New York, and also for the same length of time at Alexandria, Palace, London. The production to be given in Fort Wayne surpasses anything ever seen in the open air amusement line in this country. As is known to most readers Pain’s "Last Days of Pompeii is a thrilling realistic re-enactment of the greatest catastrophe in the world’s history; the awful destruction of an ancient city and its people by earthquake and volvanic eruption. (j AUTO TURNED TURTLE. Two people were slightly injured when an automobile, wrived by Earl Marquardt of near Monroeville turned turtle at a point just west of the town. Mr. Marquard’t son, Donald, had a hand badly bruised and Mrs, Daniel Marquardt, of Hamlet, suffered a dislocated hip. The accident occurred when one of the front tireo exploded, causing the machine to skid. The Injured were cared for by Dr. S. R. Mentzer, of Monroeville. The machine was badly damaged.