Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 50.

NEW PROPRIETORS For Clothing Store of Late Peter Holthouse at Redkey, Ind., Are J. LYONS AND SON Deal Closed Wednesday Store is a Good One and One in City. The clothing store of the late Peter Holthouse at Redkey, Ind , was sold Wednesday morning to J. Lyons and son of Kokomo. Ind. The deal had been pending for some time, but as thereby ere a number of prospective buyers for the store it was not closed until Wednesday. Tony Holthouse, the surviving heir of the estate of his father, Peter Holthouse, had been at Red-

key for about six weeks looking for the best party to whom ao dispose of the store, and finally managed to close the deal, and received an excellent price for it. The new firm of .1. Lyons & Son has a number of clothing stores, besides the one they purchased at Redkey. They own one in Kokomo and Peoria. 111., and are also connected with the Gumbiner Brothers, of Muncie. The late Peter Holthouse started the 1 clothing business at Redkey sixteen I years ago and for the last six years John Ponder has acted as manager. I’ 1 is the only clothing store in that city, 1 having a population of about thirty-five l hundred people. The reason for selling the store is that Tony Holthouse could not take care of the large amount of business which was left him by his father, and also give his attention to the business out of town. A LONG DELAY In Receipt of Letters from Mrs. Morrison Near Oaxaca, Mexico. CAUSES SOME ALARM To Relatives—ls Thought, 1 However, That She is in no Danger. Relatives of Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison, who with her son-in-law, Dick Wallace, wife and babe are at their home at Oaxaca, Mexico, aretroubled over their continued silence, no letters having been received from them for several weeks. It is thought, however, that there is no immediate cause for ala r m for their safty, as they are located about 4&0 miles south of Mexico City, the seat of the greatest unrest. Quite recently there was an uprising of the Sorrenta Indianas, near Oaxaca, but no accounts of any serious trouble have been given in the newspapers. It is thought that the continued silence is due to the fact that the mails are being held up at Mexico City, an' l that all communications are held in the congestion. None of the relatives here have received word from Mrs. Morrison for three weeks or ntore, and her sister, Jdiss Hattie Studebaker, who is now at her summer home in Florida, writes that she has had no answer to three or more letters written ao Mrs. Morrison. Mrs. Morrison and the Wallaces have mlrflng interests in southern Mexico, and returned there only a short time before holidays, having been here several months following the former late trouble in Mexico, when all Americans were advised to leave.

ABOUT 1 HE SICK. 8. e. Tlnkham and daughter, Elta. vi Blue Creek township, went to Fort Wayne today noon to call on their wife and mother, who is a patient at the Lutheran hospital, where she was recently operated upon. R«n Hoagland is off duty at the Schafer hardware store suffering from a case of the good, old-fashioned mumps.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

CHARMING ENTERTAINERS. The recital given by Miss Mabel Weldy and Miss Qsee Armstrong of Ridgeville at the Christian church last evening was very good. The young ladies are remarkably adejtt in the art of expression, and they gave a wide'y varied program, equal in nature and artistic rendition to any given by 'he regular lyceum courses. The pro- ' ’a;n consisted of child impersonations, musical monologues, costumed impersonations, poslngs, a pianologue, [Playletts, covering a wide range in dramatic expression. Miss Marie Danills gave a piano solo and played for tlie posings also, and Miss Margaret Daniels sang.

COMMITS SUICIDE French Auto Bandit Takes Poison in Cell—Thwarts the Law. TROOPS GET ORDERS To go to Eagle Pass ,Texas, Where a Battle is Considered Imminent. Paris, Feb. 27.—(Special to Daily Democrat.) —Taking poison in his ceil Edward Carouy, one of the Auto-band-its sentenced for life, died this after- [ noon before he could be reached by prison physicians. One of the most 'dramatic moments ever experienced in the court came when the condemned men were allowed to speak. “I am innocent," cried Dieudonne, one of the four men condemned to die by the gilloutine. The bank messenger swore that Dieudonne shot him through the breast. There was a piercing shriek from the audience and Dieudonne’s youthful and pretty wife cried hysterically. "Dieudonne is innocent,” declared Caliemin who has been sentenced to lose his head, “I myself shot the bank messenger. Dieudonne was not present at the hold-up."

Washington, D. C., Feb. 27. —(Special to Daily Democrat.) —A detachment of troops have been ordered to Eagle Pass Texas, because of a threatened battle between Mexican rebels and the federals. Approximately two thousand refugees are reported to have crossed the border into the United States seekling safty. 1 El Paso, Tex., Feb. 27.—(Special to Daily Democrat.) —Fighting is general in Sonora and Morelos. Maderista 'troops are being armed and put in the field but are as yet without a general leader and are armed mostly to avenge the death of Madero instead of electing a new president.

A SPECIAL SERVICE Story of “Red, Red Rose” to be Given at the Presbyterian Church ON SUNDAY EVENING Rev. Gleiser to Deliver Story Assisted by Chorus of Twenty Voices. ' a special service will take the place <if the regular evening service at the Presbyterian church next Sunday evening when the rendition of the “Red, Red Rose" will be given. This is an exceptionally interesting service, the story being delivered by Rev. Gleiser, with each point and climax being illustrated and vividly portrayed by solos, duets and chorus by a choir of twenty young people of the church. The service was given last year by the regular choir and was so highly appreciated by those fortunate enough to hear it, that it was decided to give it again Sunday nisrht. Mr. F. H. Hubbard has charge of the training and drilling of the chorus which includes some of the best talent in the city. A special Easter service, ‘‘Light and Darkness," is being prepared by the regular choir 'under the direction of Dr. F. I. Patterson. This is one of the highest classic cantatas published and will bo ably rendered by the choir. I

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, February 27, 1913

NOT ONE WOMAN In Indiana Was so Tired of Life Theft She Ended it During January. TWENTY-FIVE MEN Committed Suicide — 176 Deaths from External Causes During Month. A record that has not been approached for years in Indiana was made public in statistics prepared by the state board of health, showing that not a woman committed suicide in Indiana in January, though twenty-five men killed themselves. No such lack of feminine suicide ever has been apparent before, according to state board officials. The suicides of the men were caused by asphyxiation, poison, hanging and strangulation, fire arms, knives and other agencies. There were 176 deaths from external causes during the month, 32 of them being women. Fourteen murders occurred, four victims being women. Seven murders were committed with guns, one by a knife and six by other means. Accidental causes resulted in 137 deaths, twenty-eight being women. Food poisoning was responsible for three deaths during the month, and other acute poisonings caused one death. One person was burned to death in a fire and twelve met death through other burns. Twelve persons were drowned in Indiana during the month. Six were killed in mineaccidents. Railroads killed thirty-five persons, and street cars, two. Three persons were killed by electricity.

BACK FROM NAVY Oscar Shady, Son of Mrs. Samuel Howard, Completes Term OF HIS ENLISTMENT Was on Battleship Georgia Visited in all Parts of the World. Quite a large number of Adams county boys h'ave seen service in Un-cle-Sam’s big navy, one of the finest in the waters. Among those who have served and received honorable discharge is Oscar Shady, son of Mrs. Samuel Howard, of Tenth street. Mr. Shady has just completed a four year’s term and is at home for a visit with relatives. He will probably not return to the navy, though this in undecided, his relatives wishing him to remain here. He served on the United States battleship Georgia. During his four years in the navy he had the privilege of visiting countries in all parts of th® world and his work was a pleasure as well as a liberal education. The young man is twenty-four years of age, having enlisted when only twenty years old. Landing at Poston he proceeded to his old Adams county home. His first days here are not especially pleasant as he has contracted the grip and is now ill at the home of a sister at Tocsin. o MRS. HIGH DEAD AT BLUFFTON. Mother of Will Kunkle and Had Many Relatives in Wells and Adame. Bluffton, Ind., Feb. 27—Mrs. Mary A. High, aged eighty-five, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert Souders, in this city, at 6 o’clock last evening after an illness of several months, resulting from a fall received last October, to which were added the complications of old age. She was the mother of Will, John, Calvin and Hort Kunkle and the sister-in-law of Samuel Kunkle of Monmouth. The funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Methodist church in Bluffton. She was one of the best known ladies of this county and a pioneer here.

BERNE OFFICE ALWAYS OPEN. Berne has been made a twentyfourhour telegraph office by the (1. R. & I. Railway company. For the present Agent Broughton is working first trick from 7 a. m. until 1 p. ns. s. P. Bowsher of Van Wert, Ohio, working second trick from 1 until 10 p. in. R. M. Keever of Lynn works the third trick, from 10 p. m. until 7 a. m. Alter the installation of the block system another operator will be furnished who will work first trick in the place of Agent Broughton, who will attend only to his duties as agent, being relieved of telegraphing by the three operators. Mr. Bowsher is a married man and expects to move to Berne as soon as he can secure a house; he will occupy the Jacob Baumgartner property, located on Main street, now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kelly, who expect to move into their own property on East Water street as soon as vacated by Rev. G. R. Schroeder.—Berne Witness. WHAT SHE THINKS Orville Harrold’s First Wife Says He Probably Found Wife He Wed WHILE A DRIVER Was Unsuited to His New Development—Says He Was “Not Bad.” Lydia Talbott, the young singer who married Orville Harrold, the famous Muncie tenor, last Thursday, in New York City, was his affinity long before he was divorced by his wife in Muncie last Monday*, according to Mrs. Harrold No. 1, at Muncie. “Oh, it’s all right for him to marry whom he pleases,” said Mrs. Harrold. “Myself and my little brood if three will live some way. Orville was not

such a bad fellow, however. While it is not natural for a wife to bury her jealousies sufficiently to say that she hopes her former husband may be happy, I could not conscientiously wish him to be unhappy. The woman he has married I understand to be a singer. Maybe the two are suited temperamentally to each other better than we have been. Nobody can ever say with certainty what is the divine plan of human conduct. "I am trying to be decent and square toward the father of my three children, and am trying to keep that something from tugging at my heartstrings. I suppose everything is all right and for the best, but it seems hard to think that after a hard struggle along for years, helping him in every way I knew to attain his present success in the world of song, that I should be cast off for another in the early dawn of his probably great accomplishments. "Yet I suppose tjie girl he married when he was driver of a grocery wagon and who was so congenial with him then, may not be satisfactory to him after he has attained world-wide fame as a singer, and I should not complain.” Mrs. Harrold only laments because her eldest child, a daughter of thirteen, was given into Harrold’s custody. The care of this child was awarded by Robert Van Atta, of Marion, judge of the suj>ejior court, to the father because she is showing signs of great musical promise and her father has her in a school of music in New York City, where she will have many advantages. A St. Louis dispatch says: The marriage of Mrs. Lydia Mae Talbot Wednesday in New York to Orville Harrold, operatic tenor, recalls the young woman’s foriper marriage, which culminated in her acquittal on the charge of killing her husband, Robert Talbot, “prince of gamblers,’’ at Reno, Nev., in 1911. In 1908, when 20 years old, Lydia Mae Locke was living in St. Louis with her sister, Mrs. John A. Schmitt, of 3428 Humphrey street. She was studying music, and showed promise of great talent. One day she disappeared and the next her sister heard of her was in a telegram from Denver saying she had been married to Robert Talbot. In November, 1911, Mr. and Mrs. Talbot met in an attorney’s office to arrange a property settlement. They were siting side by side conversing quiely when Talbot was shot. Mrs. Talbot was tried and acquitted.

HOUSE BY PARCELS Krick, Tyndall Co. Sends Their Share of Brick House to Chicago. BY PARCELS POST Brick Manufacturers Are Sending Product to Build House at Coliseum. The Krick Tyndall company sent by parseis post this morning a brick of local manufacture to be used in building a brick house at the coliseum, Chicago, during the Clay Products exposition which is to be held February 26 to March 8. This brick will be one of 25,000 sent by parcels post from every brick plant in the United States to be used in the construotion of this house, which will be given away and reerected after the expositon. The idea was originated to test the merits of the parcels post system and it is certainly a novel one. A record will be kept of each brick from the time it is mailed until it is delivered In Chicago in order to see how speedily Uncle Sam can deliver a brick house by mail. It is probable that Uncle Sam’s mail carriers io. Chicago will not be overly enthusiastic'Tor this method of delivery of a brick house. Other mail carriers throughout the country will watch the experiment with interest and fear and trembling. While the fireproof brick home is becoming more and more popular because of its permanency, economy and superiority, it is not probable that they will be delivered by mail to any alarming extent. At any rate Krick, Tyndall & Co. will have a brick in the first brick house ever sent by mail.

OSSIAN, DEFEATED By Local Independent Team to Tune of 45 to 27—Visitors Put Up CLEAN, SNAPPY GAME Exceptionally Fast Work of Local Boys Causes Their Defeat, The basket ball game played last evening at the Porter hall between the Ossian city team and the local Independents resulted In a victory for the locals. The visitors put up an exceedingly good game and played some very nice ball, but our boys proved too much for them in the way of team work and snappy playing. The first half ended with the score 24 to 14 in favor of the independents while the second half resulted 21 to 13, also in their favor, thus making the total score 45 to 27. Captain Core of the locals, assisted by Vail, played exceptionally fine bail, making twelve baskets while Shoemaker also came in for his share of the honors. The line-up was as follows: » Vail GJackson BremerkampGSummers CoreCKrehe ShoemakerFHunter Ferguson F.. Smith-Ferguson Referees —Peterson and Durr. Friday evening of this week at Porter’s hall will occur one of the fast games of the season, when the Central college team from Huntington comes here to meet the high school team. This game will test the playing qualities of the local lads and will be a good work-out for them before they tackle the fast Marion bunch In that city next Friday evening. The college team is a fast one, having defeated a number of the best teams in the state and having a clear record for the year. The game will be called at 7:45 sharp so the visitors can leave at 9:30. The line-up for Huntington will be Tuttle and Stemen, forwards; T. Stemen, center, and Haines and Moats, guards. For Decatur, Tyndall and Franks, forwards; Vancil, center, and Lose and Peterson, guards. The locals want to

win this game, for it means much towards the Bloomington trip. Turn out and help them do it. - o* - MOVING TO MICHIGAN. Mr. and Mrs. John Beckner, their son and wife, and Mr. Beckner's brother, Samuel Beckner, left today for Michigan, where Mr. J|hn Beckner has purchased a farm of 137 acres. The farm has two houses and two sets of buildings, which will be occupied by the two families who will work the farm jointly. Mrs. Beckner is a sister of Thomas Perkins of this city, and the families visited here this week. They formerly resided near Ossian and recently held a sale there. FOR HER LOVER Was Mrs. Rosa Blazer Here Interceding — Returned Unsuccessful—Hadn’t ENOUGH MONEY FOR Shaw Who Must Pay Sum for Support of Divorced Wife and Children. Mrs. Rosa Blazer returned to Fort Wayne on the 11:30 car today noon after an unsuccessful mission of intercession for her lover Harvey Shaw, who is here in jail. Shaw was brought here just a week ago today from Fort Wayne, being wanted here to show why he should not be punished for comtempt of court in failure to pay the monthly allowance of" $6 to his divorced wife for the support of herself and children, as ordered when she was granted her divorce last spring. Shaw was not located until he came into the police limelight in Fort Wayne a few weeks ago when both he and Mrs. Blazer, who was also recently divorced, were jailed there, for adultery. Mrs. Blazer was released first, and it is said had gotten things ready for her marriage to Mr. Shaw which was to take place as soon as he was released. Instead the strong arm of Adams county stepped in and snatched him away from the maritabaltar, and he has been here in jail sfnee. Mrs. Blazer visited Decatur attorney’ today to sea what steps could be taken for his release. It is said the prospective Mrs. Shaw number two had to depart unsuccessful in getting the prospective groom from jail, as the money available would not be enough to pay the back sums due the former Mrs. Shaw number one, as decreed in her divorce, and which Shaw has failed to pay for ten months or more. It is said that he will probably be given a hearing on the contempt of court charge tomorrow morning. TWENTY FUNERALS In Fort Wayne Tuesday Caused Shortage of Hacks —Skillful Planning. TO FILL THE ORDERS Unusual State of Affairs Noted by Decatur People Attending There. Decatur people who atended the funeral of a relative In Fort Wayne Tuesday report an unusual state of affairs. On that day, twenty funerals were held there. The demand for

hacks was so great that not nearly enough for any one funeral party could be secured, and all of the livery establishments of the city had to have a system planned to perfection by which they could accommodate as many as possible. arranged so that while one funeral party was at the church for the service they could drive away to conduct another to another church, then return to the first to take the funeral party to the cemetery, and so on. All this required some very skillful maneuvering, but still there was a shortage of hacks and many who would hare liked to attend the services at the grave were denied, for want of conveyance to the grounds.

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MUCH EXCITEMENT In City This Morning—Several Talked With Man They Thought WAS THE GRAFTER Wanted at Kalamazoo. Mich. Gave Same Name—Looked Like, Him, 'J’oo. Much excitement was created in this city this morning when four or five men called at this office and stated that they were quite sure that the farmer grafter, who worked a smooth landgrafting scheme at Kalamazoo, Mich., and got a loan of $3,500 on a forged deed, had- been in this city Wednesday. The article, which was printed in this paper Wednesday, on request of the sheriff at Kalamazoo, through Sheriff Durkin, warning real estate men and money loaners to be on the lookout for him, and offering S4OO reward for his capture, seemed to be bearing rapid fruit. From various sources it was learr J that the strange man visited Wednesday at the Adams County bank, and other places about the city,. Those who had talked with him stated that he said he was a farmer, lived near one of our neighboring cities, and was here to look over the sugar best raising proposition, as he wanted to raise beets. He had also been at Paulding, Ohio, prior to coming here. His name, by the way, it was learned later, was the same as d'ne of the many aliases given by grafter. No suspicions were created by him Wednesday, but after the article came out warning them to beware of the Kalamazoo grafter, several who met this man were convinced that he (Oonrrunw. en Page 21

STOOD OPERATION '» ‘ Mrs. Mertie Dunbar Underwent Very Serious Operation This Morning AT DR. CLARK HOME r.-.. Had Been Sick for Some Time With Appendicitis and Peritonitis. Mrs. Mertie Dunbar, aged twentyeight years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hayslip, proprietress of the Madison house, underwent a very serious operation at 9 o'clock this morning at the home of Dr. D. D. Clark on Third street. The physicians in charge were Drs. D. D. and C. 8. Clark and J. M. Miller. Mrs. Dunbar had been sick for the past year and during this time had suffered a number of attacks of appendicitis. Her condition -was not thought as serious as It really turned out to be, but the operation was a success and it is thought she will get along all right, if nothing sets In. Reports from the Clark home at the time of going to press were that she was resting well. Miss Blanche Harshgerger is the nuuruse in attendance. 1 o FOREMAN BABY DEAD. Edward Foreman, three-months-old babe of Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Foreman, residing on South Twelfth street, passed away this morning, death being due to intestinal tnyible, from whleh it has been suffering for about a week. The ’babe was born December 4, 1912, being two months and twenty-three days old at the time of its death. The funeral will be held from the home Friday morning at 8 o’clock and interment will be made tn cemetery near Geneva. ASSISTANTS NAMED. William Blackburn, assessor for Washington township, announces his department assessors for the coming season. He will be assisted in Decatur by Lewis Fruchte and David D. Coffee and in Washington township by I John W. Myers.