Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1913 — Page 1

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: ■PUNS FOR ■ NEW DEPOT SBI t HHHH ■ ■facials of Clover Leaf R a ;i. ■ way Here Today Asking t f° r Aid in Project. * HK - gVILL BUILD SOON ie a Arrangements Can be | Made to Secure Small I Strip off Old Cemetery. i ■a new and handsome and r;i HMpot in Decatur Is again I ned by the Clover Leaf, and t! s t ■P t!; good chances of it be. Is Hinkle, ■hendent; J. p. Kelley, sup.-rin-H. <H of bridges and buildings; E", MP 1 ’ ■ division freight super :■■■ JSBy I - and F R Ramsey, chief m.-in. • men as pleasant to meet as ever Sgßrt. d after any project, spent ;h<here, takmg the first * '^SMfc! BSary to give 118 this ,!;i; properly about $.>,000. The old WeM ° f Winchester street, is on little plat of ground, that has ;■]. We are informed < a :>, d a .•<»;. aMP**’' when the propositi «;■- |B|lßced. to expend any money for a in Decatur, because is gfeal! to arrange properly yJWUnetu .. of the public as well ■ ~ A plan has therefore 3 out by the officials to “ MH e n ® W depot on ,h ‘‘ Pa ' T sid " MHbchester street and to use the .>!d {■* tioTi for a freight house. To d > this according to plans, the conipnnv secure a tract 80x220, and th s ■jjW ll ' ll require a small corn, r, lag 1.5-100 of an acre off the old p gMe [cemetery. The rest of the land no dotTht be secured reason BMBthe plan will no doubt work <>->t f proper arrangement . ■BgM cemetery ground <an lie ’Tie CI( ver Leaf committee < .]!. ■ members of the city < ouncil, cmm.’y ■ issioners and com ty :■’■.■.. and were assured far as possible and ti • ■ ont!<><•■. ykvbry bright for this impn-v.-:m ' t. jg„ argued that it need not ■■pay way With th.. propos. d t iti'l of building a park to take th. the old cemetery. In fact this v hi ®nly aid that, as the rioter 1..;/ ; pie would agree to ke> p tin in excellent manner, thus !!:■-: ••> rather than detracting from the park. 14 Would also mean that tin re vec.i l yfcis employees of the company 11, all Rhe time and they could keep .1.1 eye on the park. Mr. Hinkle will at Once prepare a petition stating the plans and desires of the , >m:at. i Will present same to the coun y <<u 1 <■ JMStio-i. rs next Monday and to ti.e City council next Tuesday evening, so that the initial steps can be legally taken and there is no reason why that Mportion of the city should not be tlrns .'.tetpro' c Tt is certain that a s.s.'Wl bultSlng Would greatly add to the a;>Pearar . o f that portion of town. T • Cloter Leaf needs the depot. I'. turheeds it. Why not do the thirm „ that is best for all concerned? The ■■ Officiid of the railroad say they will do all they can to insure the imildimt Os th‘ new station in the early sum- ■ ’ good TURN DESERVES ANOTHER An evangelist, recently rm ■ that nowhere in his wide field, 1.;.. | : been so free with tin-ir space; gratis, to church notices. may be that ministers of other cities go kind to the press as 1 !■.■-■■ of this city. As a rule all are very thoughtful here, in returning favors, giving timely notices on weddings, t 1 nerals, and other matters of general interest, as well as of interest to h s eburch only. The press appreciates •uch returns and a telephone call from a minister, as soon as he has performed a wedding, brings joy to the heart of the reporter who is thus saved many a minute which may ■ MH profitably be devoted to other matter. “MgKgUNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. A Bingin' evangelist is needed more ■Eb» home than on the road. I

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REV. G. C. OWEN LEAVES. He and Family Thia Morning For Future Home at Sandborn. Rev. and Mrs. G. C. Owen and two 1 children left this morning enroute to | their future home at Sandborn, Knox county, where he wii serve as pastor lof the Christian church. They will 1 stop at Indianapolis to visit with Mr. i Owen's sister, and then go to Mart.insville, to visit with another sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Foley, proprieters of the sanitarium there. On arriving at Sandborn, they expect to board for two or three weeks until the parsonage is vacated. They formerly resided at Sandborn, and will be much at home there. Their parental homes are also near Sandborn. SENT TO PRISON Fifty Women Suffragettes Sent to Prison for Two Weeks Each. SMASHED WINDOWS Iwo Men Washed Overboard from Submarine Near Carolina Coast. Norfolk, Va. Jar. 29, 1913.(Special Ito Daily Democrat.)A wireless despatch says that Electrician Campbell and Mechanician Hurst were washed , over board the Submarine D 2 while off the Carolina coast last night enroute , to Cuban waters. I i H London, Jan. 29, 1913.(Special to ' Daily Democrat.)—Fifty women were sent to prison for a period of two weeks each for window smashing after refusing to pay Tines ana tnreateniug . a hunger strike. Mrs. Flora Drum- . mond who with Miss Pankhurst led the raid against one of the prominent politicians were sent to jail for fifteen days also after refusing to pay fines. The women declared that they would go on a hunger strike even if they starved to death. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 29, 1913. (Spe- , cial to Daily Democrat.)—The house today by a vote of 61 to 30 passed the Branaman bill prohibiting the drink- , ing of liquor on all public conveyances except in buffet cars. The bill will now be sent to the senate. Democrats and Republicans in the . senate joined forces heartily in killing the bull moose member’s fill for , free text book today. FREE WATER CUP II ■ Individual drinking cups without tost to patrons are to be provided on , the lines of the Union Traction Company of Indiana, beginning February 15. Officials of the road received the announcement from the executive officials at Anderson yesterday. The announcement that cups will be free is expected to gratify many thirsty travelers who, since the fight against the germ-laden drinking cup was begun months ago, have been compelled to carry pennies in their pockets to buy paper cups on trains. The measure is one which the federal health authorities took up recently and a general order was issued placing a ban on public drinking cups and towels. A machine filled with cups will be installed on all Union Traction company cars. BAPTIST BROTHERHOOD MET. Rev. Ball, pastor of the Baptist church, gave a reception to the members of the Baptist Brotherhood at his home, 411 Adams street, Tuesday ev'ening. Fifteen members were preseut and the following officers were ■elected: Cal Peterson, president; C. .E. Hell, vice president; Samuel Hite, second vice president; O. P. Mills secretary; Simon Brandyberry, treasurer. Five-minute talks were made by several of the men present and a luncheon was served. SANDS' BILL PASSED TODAY. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 29—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Sands’ mothers’ pension bill passed the house this afternoon, 63 to 30. It now goes I to the senate.

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THREE MORE DAYS Tenth Anniversary of Daily Democrat Has Been a Splendid Success. WE ARE PLEASED First Number of Our Magazine Supplement Will Appear Next Saturday. Three more days will mark the closing of the month, during whicn we have celebrated our tenth anniversary. We are greatly pleased with the success of that celebration, hundreds of our faithful readers renewing their faith and pledging support by paying their subscription until 1914. We have given away many dozens of knives, which will no doubt be kept for years. Our patrons we believe were pleased with the souvenir and we hope they will continue to read the Daily Democrat with more interest than ever. We shall use every means possible to give you all the news of the community and the important items of state and national interest. In this connection we wish to announce that we have arranged for a monthly magazine of current events, the first number of which will accompany the Democrat as a supplement next Saturday, February Ist. Later we hope to give you this magazine oftener. There will be no advance in the price, but a renewed effort on our part to please you. Our slogan is 6,000 subscribers in 1923 and we are going to try to reach that mark. If you have any friends who want to read the paper, tell us about it. If you have not paid your subscription to 1914, be sure to get in this week and get one of the souvenilrs. • — ■■ IS NEAR DEATH Aged Wanderer Found Near G. R. & I. Railroad After Paralytic Stroke ■STILL UNCONSCIOUS At Infirmary—Said to Have Been Soldier—Doubtless Came from Portland. The aged man, found paralyzed along the G. R. & I. railroad, near the Krick & Tyndall tile factory Monday afternoon, and who was taken to the county infirmary here, where he now lies at the point of death, is thought to have been the same man who was seen in Portland last Sunday. At Portland he gave his name as Mark O'Are, and was suffering 'badly from rheumatism. He had come there from Fort Recovery, Ohio, and stated that he wanted to get to Berne, where he had hopes of getting help to enter the county infirmary here. The Portland authorities, to be relieved of any further care, furnished the money to send him here. The man who was found here along the G. R. & I. railroad Monday afternoon, it is said had arrived Sunday afternoon from the south, and spent the night at the Krick & Tyndall factory Hotel de Hobo. Later two of his chance companions, who had been with him earlier in the day, found him along the track, having been overcome with the paralytic attack. They built a fire along the way to provide warmth for him and then notified officials here, who in turn notified Trustee Butler, who made arrangements for caring for him at the county infirmary. His two companions, with whom he had made a chance acquaintance, stated that he had told them his home was in Detroit or Grand Rapids, Michigan, and that his name was Brooks. The man at the infirmary is said to be about sixty-five years old and was at one time a soldier. He is helpless and unconscious, and very little can be learned about him. It is said his death is likely to be the matter of only a short time.

Decatur, Indiana. Wednesday Evening, January 29, 1913.

T. R. MOORE IS DEAD T. R. Moore, well known veteran and business man of the city, who has been ill with heart trouble for several weeks, died at 3 o’clock this afternoon. His condition has been serious for a month and his death had been expected until a few days ago, when he seemed to improve. He was about sixty-five years old and ior many years had charge of the business tor the Standard Oil company here, further details of his life will be given tomorrow. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at the house. The body will be taken to Avilla for burial, the funeral party leaving on the G. R. & 1. train Saturday morning. ACTIVE TURNERS TONIGHT I Will Arrive With Car Load of “Rooters" to Give City Team Drubbing. One of the fastest and most interesting basket gall games of the season will be witnessed this evening when the Active Turners of Fort Wayne meet the local city team at the Porter hall, it win be a fight for supremacy from the first blast of the starter s whistle to the end of the forty minutes. Several weeks ago the locals played the Turners on their own floor in Fort Wayne and managed to hold the score down to 24 to 22 and as the Turners are considered as <Jne of the fastest teams in Ft. Wayne and as the spectators claim that the game was one of the cleanest and I fastest ever witnessed on the floor it I certainly goes to prove that Decatur lis stepping right up to the front in the athletic line. This evening’s game will be the last game of the season lor Captain Core as he finds it necessary, on account of unpreventable circumstances, to lay off for the balance ! of the season.

CREATES EXCITEMENT. , Does Rumor That Team of Horses Had Been Stolen from Stables. A great deal of excitement was caused this morning when the report I was spread that a very valuable team j of horses had been stolen from the Fashion Stables, but upon further investigation it was discovered that the (horses had simply been taken to the wrong barns. Mr. Woods, superintendent of one of the Erie construction gangs, had hired the team for the day and when the work was finished sent the team back in charge of the ‘dago’’ foreman. The driver, however got mixed up in the barns and instead of taking the team to the Fashion Stables took it to the Schlickman stables on Third street. When the team had failed to turn up this morning, Mr. Holthouse communicated with Marsha! Peterson, who immediately began a search for it and found the animals in the Schlickman barns. APPROPRIATION FIGHT. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., Jan. 29—(Special to Daily Demcorat) —-The biggest fight of the present session was caused today over the proposed erection of a $2,000,000 memorial in Washington to Abraham Lincoln. Representative McCall opened with a thrilling plea for the construction of a temple. Representative Sherwood, a civil war veteran, declared it was absurd to think of erecting a Greek temple to I a man who did not even know the Greek alphabet. Representative Bolan declared that the tpmple would be inappropriate and would be condemned by the American people. He urged that a broad highway, to be national property, be built around thd battlefield of Gettysburg. MRS. JAMES ROWAN DEAD. Mrs. James Rowan, a well knowu resident of Linn Grove, died at her home about 1 o’clock Tuesday alternoon. She was stricken with paralysis at 11 o’clock Tuesday morning. The husband and five children sur vive, as follows: Mrs. Ida McCray of Bluffton; Mrs. Forest Runyon, who resides in Canada; Charles Rowan, whose home is in Oregon; Leander Rowan, whose home is in Linn Grove, and Mrs. George Brown of Berne. Also a sister, Mrs. David Gerber, of this city. Mrs. Rowan was a Miss Meshberger before her marriage and she was a sister of Mrs. David Gerber of this city.

ALL A MISTAKE Is Name of Home Talent Play for Benefit of Fire men’s Association. TO BE GIVEN FRIDAY — Who the Players Are and Something About Who Represent. Much interest centers in the threeact farce comedy, “All a Mistake,” which will be played Friday evening, January 31st, at the Bosse opera house, by a cast of home players, under the direction of Miss Mabel Edith jWeldy. The play is being given under the auspices of the local firemen’s organization, the proceeds to be used by them for the convention and tournament to be held here next June. The tickets are going rapidly, and they can be reserved at the Holthouse drug store Thursday morning at 8 o’clock. The scene and play is the house and grounds of Captain Obadiah Skinner, Oak Farm, Westchester, adjoining the State Insane asylum; time, the present; and the following cast to carry out an intteresting plot: Captain Obadiah Skinner, a retired sea captain—Fred T. Schurger. Lieut. Geo. Richmond, his nephew— Bruce Patterson. Richard Hamilton, a country gentlemen —Clayson Carroll. Ferdinand Lighthead, a neighbor— Sherman Beery. Nellie Richmond, George’s wife — Frances Cole. Nellie Huntington, a friend —Jean Butler. Cornelia (Nellie) Skinner, Obadi[ah's sister —EffiA Haines. j Nellie Mclntyre, a servant—Mabel I Weldy. PASSED TWO BILLS I House Votes Favorably on Tingle Inheritance Tax Law and Adams Bill. ( • KILL THE FAIR BILL Senate Passed Seven Bills and Received 20 New Ones—The Legislature. Indianapolis, Jan. 29.—The house of representatives passed two Democratic party measures yesterday, one of them being the Tingic inheritance tax law bill, which is expected to add between $400,000 and $500,000 to the state revenues annually, and the other the amendants to the corrupt practices act included in a bill of Representatives Adam of Indianapolis. The Adam bill passed by a unanimous vote of the house, while the Tingle measure had opposition, the vote standing 58 to 37. Representative Branamann, of Jackson County, lead the fight on the inheritance tax bill, seemingly voicing the opinion of other opponets when he said that 1 the proimsed legislation worked a hardship on the widow and orphan and also affirmed that the county I should also be a beneficiary instead of the state solely. County Fairs Bill Falls. A bill by Representative Isenbargrr of Wabash county, to permit county commissioners to appropriate funds for county fairs, lacked a constitutional majority for passage. The vote stood 50 to 48. The senate passed seven bills and received twenty, among them being the compensation act recently agreed on by representatives of organized and Indiana manufactures, intro duced by Senator Grube, of Plymouth. A public hearing on this measure has been set for Thursday evening and the senate committee on labor expressed the wish that Indiana manufacturers give their opinion on the bill then. o UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. My sun Bud what wurks un a nuspapur sez th’ ones tbet git th’ maddest if th’ papur is late is them whut borrers ut. Sech is life.

■ — ■' — ; DATES ARE CHANGED For the G. A. R. Encampment in Indianapolis in May. - The executive committee for the G. A. R. encampment changed the encampment dates from May 20, 21 and 22, to May 21, 22 and 23, because it is impossible to obtain Tomlinson hall for May 20. It is planned to inr vite all military and civic organizations in Indianapolis and many state organizations to participate. The reviewing stand probably will be in J Military park and the members of the G. A. R. who will lead the parade, will fall out of line at that place and review the remainder of the parade. The executive committee plans to meet every Saturday until the encampment. • COURT HOUSE NEWS 1 • Dockets Ready for Opening i of February Term of Court Next Monday. i 5 MARRIAGE LICENSE i ■ Granted This Morning—- » ' First in Several Days— New Case Filed. i Hooper & Lenhart for Eli Myers have filed suit on note and attach- ■ ment against George Gunset, also attachment bond. A marriage license was issued to Matilda Kirchhofer, seamstress, of l Berne, born December 22, 1871, daughter of Abraham Kirchhofer, to wed David Haliegger, farmer, born November 27. 1860, son of Peter HaI begger. The groom was married once before, the wife dying August 9, 1910. Real estate transfers: E. Willard ' Steele to Otis O. Hocker, 42.75 acres, 1 Washington tp., $4200. Attorney D. B. Erwin will go to Van Wert, Ohio, tomorrow, when sale of the farm of the late Joseph G. | Miller will be held by the executor, Wilford Miller. Mr. Miller’s farm lies iin Van Wert, Ohio, just across the ■ line from Adams county. Clerk Bleeke and Deputy L. L. ' Baumgartner have the new dockets ready for the opening of the February term of court next Monday momi ing. POLICE COURT. John Murphy, a drunk, was arrested late Tuesday afternoon on a charge > of public intoxication by Marshal Peterson. He was so drunk that it was ■ necessary for the marshal to carry ’ him to ’Squire Stone’s office, where ! he was given a fine of $1 and costs, I amounting to $9.80. In some manner ’ or other, so he told the court, his money had slipped away from him ; ’ and at present he was financially em- ’ harassed, so it was necessary to send , him to the “county hotel” for ten ( ■ days. •-■ u ■ I BRINGS JURY TO TEARS. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The jury and I gallery wept this afternoon as Mrs. ( Gertrude Hassler, the singer, who is ! the plaintiff in a $500,000 breach of ■promise suit against Carl Fisher, a millionaire club man, told of the conversation that led to the intimate relationship with the capitalist. She completed her testimony this afternoon. - ELECTED SENATOR. (United Press Service) Dover, Del., Jan. 29—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Willis Salisbury, democratic committeeman, was today elected United States senator after a deadlock in the senate for the last several days. HARDWARE DEALERS MEET. Freb Schaub and Will Dowling, proprietors of the Schaub-Dowling hardware store of this city, are at Indianapolis, attending the State Hardware Dealers’ Association convention. o—- — - Earl Melchi returned to Grablll this t afternoon after a visit here with his uncle, Cephus Melchi and family.

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IS TAKEN HOME — »»»-—- . _ ,1 Body of Mrs. Helen Hoover I Taken to Van WertViewed by Husband. -i \ FOR A BRIEF TIME — 'He Shows Emotion and i Asks Mother to Order . Flowers for Wife. \an Wert, Ohio, Jan. 29—The body , of Mrs. Ralph Hoover, who died in a j Fort Wayne hospital Monday night, as a result of gunshot wounds, arrived I here at 11:34 over the interurban railway, accomivanied by the girls r parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Drake. .The prosecutor ordered the remains I sent to the Vore undertaking establishment. AU afternoon friends and the curious visited the place to view the body. While the body was being , .taken to the undertaker’s, Hoover sat , in his cell little concerned. Several times, when the sheriff asked him if he had anything to say regarding his . wife’s death he answered in the negative. He is in much brighter spirits than he was soon after he had heard the news that his wife was dead. Hoover was informed that the body had arrived in Van Wert and the jailer asked him if he wished to see i her. He replied that he did and per- . mission was given him to do so. Ac- . jeompanied by Sheriff Wilson, Chief of ■Police Jackson, his attorney, Mr. and • Mrs. A. B. Hoover, parents of the boy, . and O. W. Kerns, his attorney, Hoo- • [ver was taken from the jail and se.cretly rushed to the morgue. Although [ his guards expected him to break down and make a confession of the crime, he said little. When he reached the casket in which lay the body of ■the young wife with whose death lie ,is accused of causing, he showed ■ signs of a breakdown. It was plainly (Visible that his grief had overcome him and he cried bitterly. He was told by his mother that he would never get to see Helen any more. The prisoner was deeply moved at this. After he had left he asked permission to go back again, but this was denied him. On the return trip to the jail he wept and moaned. Reaching the jail, he lay down upon his cot and said that he was sorry. Hoover still maintains his innocence, but it is the general belief in and around Van Wert that he can be convicted of the crime with which he is charged. An article in this morning’s Van Wert Bulletin, in conclusion, says: j “A post mortem examination was made at Fort Wayne early Tuesday morning, with Dr. Ellis, Dr. Good, Dr. Lawhead and Prosecutor Good of this city, and Dr. Rosenthal and Dr. Rhamey of Fort Wayne present. This showed that the X-ray examination had revealed the actual location of the bullet in the brain, and that death was due to infection and foreign matter carried into the tissue with it. “Mrs. Helen Hoover was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs, A. D. Drake and was born in Pickaway county, October 13, <1895, and removed to this county with ; her parents about five years ago. [Through a chain of unfortunate clr•cumstances she was married to Ralph Hoover, a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hoover, prosperous residents of Pleasant township. On January 10 she was the victim of a mysterious assault, for the commission of which suspicion soon fell on her husband, and died at St. Joseph’s hospital at Fort Wayne, Monday evening, January 27th. “The grand jury has been in session for several days investigating the various phases of the crime, convening Tuesday morning for an allday session, with further evidence to ,be heard. The jury adjourned Tuesday afternoon about 4 o’clock and will [convene again this morning, probabJly returning an indictment this after!noon, charging Ralph Hoover with .'murder in the first degree, conviction [for which means the expiation of the . crime in the electric chair at Columbus.” — o TEETH BY PARCELS POST. A local dentist called at the post- , office with some neatly wrapped ; small packages, asked for parcels ■ post stamps and sticking them on the ■ parcels, sent them out by post to his . customers, who no doubt will soon be reveling In the delights of a good, oldi fasfiloned dinner chewed again as in i childhood days, for the pacakges conItained teeth.