Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1912 — Page 1

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HEARST WAS IF William Randolph Hearst Was Before Senate Investigating Committee. WRECK LAST NIGHT Kills Seven People in Ashtabula. Ohio—Peace Conference Adjourns. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C-, Dec. 17—(Special to Daily Democrat)— With William R. Hoarst as their star witness the senate campaign contribution investigating committee resumed its probe today. The publisher said he never saw the original letters from the Standard Oil company to United States senators and representatives, but that ho purchased photographs of the originals from John Eddy, who wrote tile first four articles of the sensational series. Hearst said he did not know who photographed the originals. New letters were read incriminating former Senator Foraker and former Representative Grosvenor of Ohio and Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania. The committee adjourned shortly before noon today to reconvene on the call of the chairman London, Dec 17—(Special to Daily I>emocrat) —Because of the continued protests of the Turkish government against the presence of the Greek envoys to the peace conference the sessions today lasted but three hours. An adjournment was taken until Thursday morning The Turkish and Greek fleet were again engaged In a naval battle today in the mouth of the I«rdanelles, the strait leading past the capital of Turkey, and the news came while the peace conference was in session and probably increased the friction between the Turkish and Greeclan delegates. — Ashtabula, Ohio, Dec. 17 —Special to Daily Democrat -State and railroad authorities today investigated th« wreck last night which cost seven lives, to place the respjonsiblllty for the fact that the grade crossing gates were not lowered — ■ - POLICE COURT NEWS. Ed O'Neil, a tramp, was arrested •bout 4 o'clock Monday by Marshal I'etereon on a plain drunk charge and this morning was brought before ’Squirts StonF. who ordered him out town. O'Neil and four of bis com Patriot* who waited in vain for their drinks Monday night, were given a shnrt time to make a get-away, which they did. Marsha] Peterson touk up a foreign •r thia afternoon who was very much under the influence of boor* ll* will bs brought up for trial probably to morrow, when he sobers up. COURT HOUSE NOTES. The evidence In the rebuttal in the Willard Steele case was begun today The end of the case la not yet lr. •IrfL - taring Bricker qualified as admlnis Bator of the estate of Nelson Brick •r. Hhe gave W* bond , 11 Real estate transfers twites A Hunslcker et al to Albert D llunslck I *t, lot SIJ, Decatur, ||(*» —• " o 1 ‘ ■ REID’S FUNERAL FRIDAY (United Press Service) London Eng. Dec 17— (Hp**lal tn Daily Democrat —By the eapress dr i •Ira of King George memorial sent- • tor the late Ambassador Reid will • h *M In Westminster Abbey at > "clock In the afternoon of Fi'"!”' Mrs, Retd was bearing up rrmarkal'b’ Well ar>( | expressed a desire to lea** •Ilk her husband's body for New City on •aturday WM BIEBERICH VERY ILL. r ounty Clerk William Bieck* «»« 1 sited this afternoon io th* torn* of fc te brother in law, William Bieberich. '• Prebl* township, who Is very I”’* •His* cosoptkwtlon of disc) ee* Mr. Bteherirh has b*en 111 9 *Mt with a sever* cold and It I* feared that typhoid fever will develop '

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p XMAS mails - ICKINC up „ tommow° h t rt h Btmaß JUSt “ week begun to’lnvXX 0 ' haVe “ Me O, S e tI OrCe U be * lnn,n * t 0 ‘<*l a has no ? aUght ' but the rush bulk of th* 1 ! begU “ ln Parnest - Tbe ! the man I" ,’ ,reaße ° f mall 18 felt of packages to b* sent to r - wto the foreign places. A - •- U. TONIGHT. I- The regular meeting of the Amerlan Insurance Union will be held thio emng at the Yeomen hall. All memberg are urged to be present. must pack well e Butter, Lard and Perishable '■ Articles Sent by Parcels e r Post Must e 1 I. be well packed if a ‘ — j To Prevent Damage to Other Mail Matter—How to i Send It. r] • I I Washington, D. C, Doc. 17—The • rules that are to govern the shipment of commodities from the farmer producer to the city customer under the ( new parcels post law made public by the postoffice department are interesting. *| Butter, lard and perishable articles ■ such as fish, fresh meats, dressed fowls, vegetables, fruits, berries and I articles of a similar nature which deI j cay quickly, will be accepted for local i, delivery when so packed or wrapped ‘,as to prevent damage to other mail : matter, either at the office of mailing i. or on any rural route starting therei from 1 When inclosed In an Inner cover and I a strong outer cover of wood, metal, heavy corrugated pasteboard, or other suitable material and wrapped so that ■ nothing can escape from the package, they will be accepted for mailing to all offices within the first sone. Vegetables and fruits which do not decay quickly will be accepted for wailing to any sone if packed so as to prevent damage to other mall matter. Eggs will be accepted for local delivery when so packed in a basket or other container as to prevent damage to other mall matter. Eggs will be accepted for mailing regardless of dis tance when each egg is wrapped sep arately and surrounded with excelsior, cotton or other suitable material, and packed In a container made of double corrugated pasteboard, metal, wood, or other suitable material, in such manner as to place each egg on Ila end and to prevent them from striking together or against the side or top of the container, which must have an outside cover of double corrugated pasteboard. m’tal, wood or other suitable material and stopped so that nothing can escape from th* package. All 'such parcels must be labeled "Wte-” Halted, dried, smoked or cured meats and other meat products may be admitted tc the mails and may be transported regardless of distance. Fresh m*st tn form, however, may be transiorted only within the first son*. Manufacturers or dealers intending to transmit arUdrs In considerable quanUlle* must submit to th* post- ' master at the mailing office for approv‘J . specimen P«rrol. showing the manner of parkins ’Taro of thank*. — II )■■ i Mrs. Anna Vote* nnd children 1 wish to thank nil th* neighbors, pn.l 'bearers and nil the kind friends who assisted th*m In so many ways, during their late bereavement, in th* dent* of their son and brother. Joe \»lmsr attend traction meet. Edwin Flcdderjohann and Albert ( ficheumMA of ll* tornl iniwurban of nee were at WwnP ,o4 * ,r “ ,U ? d tng* the meeting of Indiana Bartlon £m*rs * h,< ‘ h W ° h ” W st the Anthony hotel WHERE THE *TORK »TOR*. A ane on pound baby boy **• born .» —> ' m,7 mood-

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Decatur, Indiana. Tuesday Evening, December 17, 1912.

STAYED ALL NIGHT Burglar Makes Bed Behind Furnace in Buetell Cellar —Sleeps There. ■■■ HE TOOK EATABLES Including the Roast and Fruit—Left Half of the Butter. When the Adam Buetell family, residing on South Third street, arose Sunday morning and looked about for the roast to prepare for dinner, a thorough search failed to reveal it. This was a very queer circumstance, and an investigation was at once begun. It was learned that the roast was all that was missing from the kitchen, but the cellar stores showed a decided deficit. About six cans of fruit, including luscious pineapple, etc., were gone, two pounds of butter were divided and half of It taken, and wines and other good things in the edible and drink line were gone. Pumpkin pie and cake, however, were left untouched, and only things that might keep for some time and could be easily carried away, were apparently the loot desired. The broken cellar window and torn screen showed how the burglar entered. It was not until a more thorough search Monday noon, that it became known that the burglar had stayed all night. For this purpose he made a bed behind the warm furnace, taking some old overcoats belonging to Mr. Buetell, which he had left hanging in the cellar, and some other old clothing, part of which he rolled into a pillow, and the rest he used for spreads and matress*s. The invader is thought to have been tramp. He did not enter the other parts of the house and made no attempt, it seems, to search for valuahies. — O - —" ■ MAKES GOOD AGAIN Rev. G. Hunter Myers Wires Father of His Success in Endowment Work. WESLEYAN COLLEGE Has Raised Large Sum in Bloomington Which Assures Accomplishment. As will be remembered by our readers, Rev. G. Hunter Meyers of this city, last February moved to Bloomington. Illinois, having signed a contract. following his appointment as financial secretary of the Illinois Wesleyan university, a Methodist college of that etty. Bls duty was to raise a fund of |6'.<».o<k> to be used as endowment. with which to Improve and keep up Ibat splendid ediaatinuai Institution It sv- tiied to many at that time a bopeh** t»»k. but Hev Myers, undaunted and energeUc. went <o work In a manner that soon proved his abll Ity to handle the job. He ae«-ur*d the promise from on* man of IJbo.ooo and from another lioo.ooo. provided he would raise In th* eity o< Itloomington *lJ3,two. For nearly len months h* baa been everlastingly at the work and yesterday w*nt his father. Rev, W J Myers of thia city, a m«msss* which annouticed that he had complsdrd that part of the task, the donations amounting to |1*7,000. While It would only be necessary under hte contract to secure lIJS.tW In th* two central . rmfecenre districts of Illinois. He» B** determine to secure twice that much and will de vote the next year ««> **»•* ‘That hr will succeed la admitted and bin friends ar* glad lnd**d that he has again mom than mad* good Th* ar romplinhm*nt gtven him a reputation seldom equalled, and Ute Christman thin v*ar will be a bright nnd happv on* for He*. Myers nnd hte family and friend*, nn well as for the hundreds of that community who fs*l • ,]rrp interest In the university for which this endowment m*ann no much

» MR. KNODLE GOES TO FT. WAYNE. Acepts Place on Journal-Gazette—Mr. Patterson Joins Democrat Force. 1 Mr. Homer H. Knodie, who has been connected with the Daily Democrat for two years past, as reporter and assistant business manager, has resigned to accept a position on the staff of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. , He wll assume his duties at that place > on Friday of this week In bls place here the Daily Democrat has secured the services of Mr. Bruce Patterson, | who has been connected with the i Ward Fence company for some time past. Previous to his employment there Mr. Patterson had considerable experience In the newspaper field and is well equipped for the duties which devolve upon him in this office. DRUNKEN TRAMPS t • Became a Nuisance at Erie t Depot Monday Afternoon and the Agent i r LED THEM TO JAIL r J 1 Four Walked—Fifth Was ’ too “Water-logged” and 1 Was Carted Up. 1 —— 1 To be pestered with a plain tramp is bad enough, but when there are F f five or more, and they are drunk, that i ■ la more than human patience can en- ? dure, thinks Agent Anderson of the Erie. Five such loitered around the ', Erie depot Monday afternoon about I 4 o'clock and made themselves so t'much of a nuisance that Mr. Ander t son decided to put them In safe keep-' Ing. Accordingly ha ted four—those 1 whose rudders were not so hopelessly r gone that they could got be steered, • to jail. The fifth was. so “water-log- - god” that be could net be l*d and ac- j wOrdingly the Welte-Farm express wagon standing near waa pushed Into | service. With a few dexterlous lift*' | and turns the man waa gotten on and carted to the jail, and peace and quiet reigned supreme at the depot. The tramp question la getting to be quite > a serious one. Not a day passes but' what these back-door callers appear and often the busy housewife has as many as three or five callers for food during a single meal hour, from them. PLACING STEEL Work Train on Erie Rail-, road Scattered Steel Rails I Monday Morning. > FOR USE NEXT SPRING •I — i Bridge Work Will be Begun at Earliest Possible Time i 1 » |i —Will be Large. * It looks very much Ilk* the Erie meant to g*t their double tracking * system In working order In the abort I eat poaalble time, judging from their; ; activity along the proposed line of the I new Improvement. West of her* the < ) grade has been practically finiabed I I nnd Monday a work train carrying sev- < i era! car Iraida of heavy steel ran into i the local > ardr and the crew scatter- I ' *d th* steel over the section where It t will be used next spring to lay the t tracks. | < i At the river bridge site th* work of i building the bridge ba* begun Last t > i eummer the concrete abutments for I the larger nnd mor* modern bridge I were placed and a* early an It I* t>oe- ( i aibl* for ib* [•lacing of the balance < i the work will be started The bridge I to be erected here will doubtl*** be I th* largest bridge In th* countx. Ov*r t 200 f*et long and wide enough lo ac- t commodate two tracks and mor* strongly, accordingly, will be a mono- t meat of eagln**ring skill. I With gangs of construction m*n r working all along the proposed route | it It probable that the new track will « be open neat fell. * i ■ ■■■« ■ -a- i ■l l ■ , t Mrs Anna Laman and her guest, Charles FMty .of Youngatown. Ohio. « weal to Ftert Wayne today noon. h

DELAY OF THE CAR Caused Heavy Loss to Ed Ahr in Shipping Stock to Cincinnati, Ohio. FORTY-FIVE HOURS On the Road Without Food and Water—Similar Hog Suit Filed Today. Ed Ahr, the stock dealer, suffered quite a heavy loss last Saturday, when he shipped a car load of cattle and calves to Cincinnati, Ohio. A claim will be presented to the railroads at fault, and if settlement is not effected ,a suit may result. Ahr loaded the stock for shipment last Saturday evening at 6 o’clock for Cincinnati, Ohio, railroad change to be effected at Ohio City. The car did not reach its destination until forty-five hours afterward, and claim is made that the greater part of the stock suffered much from want of water and . food during this time, causing it to depreciate much in value. The loss is said to be between four and five hundred dollars. According to a government law, stock Is not to be kept on the car longer than twenty-four hours without food and water, or, if a contract is signed by the shipper, releasing the company from blame, not longer than thirty-six hours. A suit resulting from a similar neglect or failure of the railroad company to get its cars through on time, j was filed in the circuit court today by Peterson & Moran, attorneys for James Bain and John Rex. against the Toledo, St Louis & Western Railroad company, demanding |2OO for loss sustained on a car load of hogs, sent to Toledo, which failed to get through I on time,- and resulted in depreciation of value of the stock. GIFT FROM PRISON ■ ■ UWIM« l « W Lester Cook, Prisoner at Michigan City Gets Money Working Overtime AS A STONE CUTTER Sends Check to the Sheriff’s ■ Children Who Were Good . to Him. I Among the presents which Santa i'laua will leave them at Christmas > tine, none wll) be appreciated more, 'doubtless, by the children of Sheriff and Mm. t nomas Durkin, than the I one which came to them thia morni Ing In the '.nail from the state's prison Int Michigan ('ity. This waa a chec k ! for five dollars, made out by Warden ; E. J. Fogarty, on request of one of the prisoners, Lester Cook, the showman, who was sent up on a serious charge from thia county. Mr. Cook, during his Inctirceratlon here, became much attached to the children of the sheriff, who were very kind to him In many ways, and Mr. Cook did not forget. On the several occasions when Mr. Durkin nmd* trips to the prison, with a prisoner, he often met Mr Cook, who n*v*r failed to Inquire about th* children The last time Mr. Duririn met him waa last May. Mr. Cook i» employed as a alone cutter In the granite works of the prison, and all of the lal>orars who work overtime and do Ktmd work, nr* allowed money for overtime work. Mr. Cook staled that he waa making about alx or seven dot lars a month, over time, and asked that he he allowed to send the children a gift. Mr. Durtdn adriaed him to keep hte money In hand for a rainy day, when he should be released, but the poor fellow evidently han a moat tender spot tn hl* heart for th* children, who were i so kind to him, and he had the warden malt* out th* check to come Just In time for the happy Christmas time. i Mr. Cook la about thirty-six years i of ag* and without a family, and homeless. In fact be stated that h* i

didn’t have a relative that he knew of. He was traveling with a show, and was one of Its followers, when he‘‘got in bad” during the stay of the circus in this city. THREATENED THIER LIVES. Marshal Peterson this afternoon arrested and locked up a foreign beet worker, Christian name "Mike,” surname unspellable, whom it is said threatened Monday night to kill his wife, and also Mr. and Mrs. Fiske, foreigners, all of whom live in ihe same house, the Niblick house, south of the Clover Leaf railroad. Charges will be filed against him later, and he will be given a hearing tonight HAD EYE REMOVED Nelson Fosnight of Geneva, Who Was Stabbed in Eye With a Fork LOSES THE EYE Defendant in Suit in Court Here—Case First Set for Trial Today. Nelson Fosnight of Geneva, who is defendant in a case in the Adams circuit court, which was set for trial for , today, and then continued a few days ago, is suffering much from an injured eye-ball, this no doubt causing a postponement of the trial. Monday a , Bluffton doctor, assisted by Dr. Graham of Geneva, performed an operation, removing the ball of the injured left eye. Two weeks ago Saturday .; Mr. Fosnight was accidentally stab- , bed in the eye, with the prong of a table fork in the hands of a child . in the family. The injury was not , painful at first and Mr. Fosnight went to his work without seeking medteal , attention. The eye grew Inflamed aft ler a few days and last week when he went to Bluffton for treatment the ' eye waa filled with pus and all the sight was gone H* was terribly sick from the affects of the infection In the eye and there was great danger that the ather eye-ball might be come infected. The operation removing the eye waa performed al the John Foster hospital on West Central avenue and was to every appearance successful. Mr. Fbsnight rallied nicely from the anaesthetic and la doing very nicely. The case in the Adams circuit court iin which Mr Fosnight is defendant, and which was first set for trial to- ■ day waa appealed from the court of Justice Dickerson, in Wabash township, in which John A. Hendricks sued Mr. Fosnight for twenty dollars' damages Hendricks claimed Fosnight kept a doc. which was vicious, and which, wen encouraged by Its owner, would kill hog* and other animate. He claims that this dog did, on October 26, 1911, kill a twenty-dollar hog belonging to him A Jury in the juctlce's court rendered a verdict In favor of Foanight and Hendricks appealed. MORGANS GO. TOO. (United Prats Service) New York, N Y, De*. 17 Hpecltl to Dally Democrat)- J. I* Montan, *r . J. I*. Morgan, jr., and Thoma* W Iji mont, of th* Morvan firm, left here this afternoon lor Washington to testify before the mcney trust Investigating committee which la In session there. The Morgan* used a special train and were accompanied on the trip by a small army of clerks, atenor raphera, lawyers, detectives and other employ***, who will be used by them It Is thought that they will b* rxamln *d before the committee Wednesday. ameew* aMMßßMaanaa* COOK FOR SPEAKKR. (United Pr«M ftervlce) Indlannpolte, Ind. Dec. 17 -tHperlal to I wily ttemocrat •- Th* election of Homer L. Cook of this city to be speaker of the house al the coming legislative session waa conceded by! those opposed U> his election. RETURN* FROM »OUTHWE»T, Peter Oaffkr has returned from a Severn) weeks' trip through the southwest, visiting In California. Texas. Arisons snd othsr places. He spent several days with the Jerry Coffee family In 1s» Angeles, nnd with Will 1 Patterson nnd Harry Wlnnea at Fret 1 no.

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JOHN STOUT IS OUT J — Last of Four Men Implicated in Murder of Marshal Croy of Woodburn. ' HAS BEEN PAROLED Returned Monday to His * ) Former, Work With the Ditching Gang. "John Stout, one of the four men implicated in th© killing of Marshal Columbus Croy or Woodburn, six > years ago, and according to Fred LaDuke, one of the quartet who confessed, the man who fired the shot which caused the officer's death, has been paroled by the Indiana board of pardons. and Monday morning started to 1 work as a ditcher east of the city,” < says the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. "Stout Is the last of the suspects of the murder to leave prison. He was [ arraigned in the Allen circuit court In 1909 and was found guilty of murder In the first degree. After serving two years In prison he was awarded a new trial because of error and was In Jail here when a compromise was reached between Prosecuting Attorney ’ Thomas and Attorney R. K. Erwin. • who conducted the defense of all of r the accused. s "By the terms of the compromise L Stout pleaded guilty to a charge of ( ' burglary and received a sentence of k | from ten to twenty years In prison. j Herman Miller, who since died in I prison, accepted a sentence of from I two to fourteen years for second deL . gree murder .and John Baker, the third-member of the party who had f already served three years for comj plicity In the crime, was let go. Itat 1 Duke, who was with the trio on the t night of the murder, and who had I spent nearly three years in jail awaiting to testify against the others, was 1 released because of his service to the B state in furnishing evidence. s j “Stout has protested his innocence ( ' since his arrest and there is no evi--1 ■ dence that he fired the shot except r -the statement of La Duke. When re- , leased from prison Stout camo directly to the home of his father-in-law, Hugh t ’ Welch, of 110 West Superior street, , and after inquiring as to the wheret about* of his three motherless chll- . dren, reported for duty on the ditching .'gang, with which he had emidoyment when he made bls plea for pardon.” t • A GOLDEN FLOOD. f (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., Dec. 17—(SpecI' lai to Dally Democrat)—A picture of a golden flood of dollars flowing Into J Wall street from all over the United I : States startled spectator* at the money trust investigation oday. Frederick , I told bow a market was . "manufactured" for California petro- ' leum stock H* abo admitted that th* ( promoters bought *7.5n0.0t>0 worth of r th* stocks, but was not permitted to disclose the total profits made in the ■ transaction* Enactment of a law to force publicity of pronuitera' i>roflts was suggested by Samuel H. Unter- ' meyer. J. W Nevin, an accountant I employed by the Investigating eom‘mlttee, gave data showing that "conns try" banks have continually In New , ; York City from alx to seven hundred million dollars, and that about half of • It la loaned out on stock exchange colI I lateral. When Interest I* high the flood of money into New York tncrease* and the country men hanta are .deprived of Its use In times of otrinE*nry. ONE TRUST KICKS. (United Press Service) Chicago, 111., Dec, 17—tHpeclal to I Dally Democrat)—Officials of the International Harvester M*puy again refused to produce certain documenta which had bwn subpoenaed by the government, nnd which th* government attorney says will [trove the extent of the monopoly, C. 8 Funk, genjeral manager of th* International Harvester company, refuses to show Ute contract which th* government says fix** the actual working capital at slaty million dollars The purchasing agent of th* company also failed to produce the contract whereby th* Key. sfon* Harvester company of Sterling, til . waa purchased The government attorney today, however, did not Indicate whst h* would do to force th* I production of the much-deelred documents