Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1913 — Page 1

■Volume XI. Number 141.

COMING WEDDING I Miss Aline Vail Announces Approaching Marriage to Benj. J. Schwartz. Ito be in September I Bride-elect is Niece of John | Vail and Mrs. Dan Sprang of This City. Miss Aline D. Vail gave a beautiful i i>arty *t her home on South Webeter street yesterday afternoon. About! twenty young ladles enjoyed a game of Are hundred in the drawing room 1 which WM artistically decorated with | vases of peony blossoms. About G ( o’clock the guests were invited to the dining room where an elegant dinner *aa served. The table was decorated in yellow and white. A brown basket of daisies formed an attractive centeri piece and each guest received a corsage bouquet of daisies. From the I centerpiece yellow ribbons extended J to each place. When the ribbons were drawn tiny envelopes wer e dis covered in which a card bearing the; following inscription was hidden 'Miss Aline D. Vail and Mr. Benja mln J. Schwartz, September," thus announcing the engagement. While the engagement has been known to Intimate friends for som® time this is the first announcement. The extending of hearty wishes for future happi ness to the bride-elect followed. Miss Vifl is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.) A. T. Vail and her frank, genuine dis position has endeared her to her large, circle of friends. She was educated In the Fort Wayne high school and then went to Lake Forest, where she attended Ferry Hall. Mr. Schwartz Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. H F. and is a progressive young businexs maM. He is the proprietor es the Bask | pharmacy on Calhoun street. M'ss Donaldson of Warsaw, who is visiting Miss Vail, was an outof-town guest — Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. The bride-elect is a niece of John Vail and Mrs. Dan Sprang, and is well known here.

FAILED IN DUTY Is Decision of Senate Investigating Committee of the Civil Authorities. MILITIA WITHDRAWN Committee Recommends the Enactment of Amendment Giving Women Ballot. Charleston, N. C., June 13—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Martial law ceased to exla tin the coal fields of West Virginia today and Governor Hatfield has returned the power to the civil court The subject of the first section of the senate committee’s inquiry is therefore closed and they will report that the civil authorities failed In their duty of safeguarding the rights of the miners. The committee was unable to substantiate the charges of peonage. Washington, D. C., June 13—(Special to Dally Democrat)—The senate committee on women suffrage today recommended\tbat the senate pass a resolution for the enactment of a constitutional amendment granting the ballet for women. Indianapolis, Ind., June 13 —(Special to Dally Democrat* —James White, a hewspaper man, was today appointed on the staff of Fire Marshall W. E. I-ougly as special investigator of incendiary fires. White formerly lived in Muncie. Standford, Con., June 13— (Specie to Daily Democrat)—The death list in yesterday's rear end collision on the New Haven road was increased to six today when Gregory Humes a re Porter on the New York World died (torn injuries received. The engineer and firemen on the train and who are alleged to be responsible for the ac(Continued on Page 4)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT —— “DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

MOTHER’S ILLNESS Called Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly to Van Buren. Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly and fam- ■> left last evening for Van Buren. *here he was called by a telephone message of the serious illness of his mother ,Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly. Mrs. ally has been a sufferer from heart trouble for some time and lately bpr condition grew worse. She became so critical that all her children were called to her bedside, she is sixty-six year. old. DECATUR CIRCUIT. Chuch services at Pleasant Valley Sunday morning. Children’s day program at Washington Sunday evening. KARL THOMPSON, Pastor. A TRUE' DOUBLE Os Vice President Marshall is S. F. Whitman, Former Decatur Man. COMMENT IS MADE

In Indianapolis News— The Likeness Continues Through 24 Years. Living in Oklahoma City is S. F. Whitman, a former Decatur man. who is a living picture of Vice President Thomas Marshall. The Indianapolis News has a picture of both men, and if the names of each were not printed below, it would be difficult to tell “who Is who.” With the pictures, is the following story: Oklahoma City, Okla., June 13—S. F. Whitman, a coming young man of Decatur, Ind., walked into the office of Thomas R Marshall, a coming young man of Columbia City, Ind., about twenty-four years ago, said "Howdy do,” and expressed a long cherished desire to see the fellow that looked like him. “Oh, yes I've heard of you," said Mr. Marshall. “I have been told many times that you and 1 resemble each other quite a good deal. Now let's look In a mirror together and se e if we can tell each from the other.” Whitman has gained distinction in the Oklahoma legislature by virtue of the fact that he closely resembles the Vice-President of the United States. The resemblance is so striking between recent photographs of the two men that hundreds of men in Oklahoma have commented on it, and Whitman daily for the last four months (Continued on Page 41

ASKS A DIVORCE Mrs. Josie Stewart Asks for Legal Separation from James O. Stewart. CRUEL TREATMENT Failure to Provide and Abandonment Are AllegedWants $5,000 Alimony. A. P. Beatty, attorney for Josie Stewart filed a suit for divorce today In the Adams circuit court. The defendant is James O. Stewart to whom the plaintiff alleges she married December 22, 1909, and with whom she lived until July 2fl. 1911, when she claims he abandoned her. She alleges that he has failed to provide for her during the past two years. She also fives cruel and inhuman treatment as her grounds for divorce. She states that when she was ill and unable to leave her bed, her husband cursed, swore and would leave her alone at nights to go to town, where he would get drunk, then come home and call her vile names. For ten months before he abandoned her, she was confined to her bed on account of illness. He is an able bodied young man. according to her complaint, and able to work His father owns several farms and the son has an expectancy of S2O 000. She asks that she be given $5,000 alimony and the restoration of her maiden name, Josie F. Mumma.

DR. BOYERS HOME Returns from Champaign. 111., Where He Attended Commencement of STATE UNIVERSITY Daughter, Miss Bessie, Was Graduated With Bachelor of Arts Degree. Dr. J. S. Boyers returned last ev-' ening from Champaign, 111., where he attended the commencement of the Illinois university. His daughter, Miss Bessie, who was graduated from the institution, with* the bachelor of arts degree, will return this evening with her mother, who has been with her a week or more, at Champaign. The commencement day exercises were held Wednesday, June 11, and the festivities began at 10 o’clock in the morning and continued through the day with varied program. The number of graduates this year from all departments of the university was 700. Many thousands attended the commencement, these including relatives and friends of the graduates, as well as others interested in the great institution for educational reasons alone. Miss Boyers has not yet decided her future course, but will probably take a year’s rest. WAS TAKEN UP J. Gustav Stein, the Grafter. Who Was Here Tuesday, Was Taken Up by HUNTINGTON POLICE Thursday—Delphos Chief of Police Got Him—Told Thrilling Story.

The Delphos chief of police passed through Thursday evening enroute to Huntington, where he took into custody J. Gustav Stein, the young German, who is wanted in Detphos on ■ the charge of obtaining money under I falst pretenses. Stein, who is alleged | to be an imposter of the smoothest kind, was in Decatur Tuesday. According to stories, he tells he is a thirty-third degree Mason and is well informed on the work of that order. He uses this as a blind and from unsuspecting Masons obtains money under false pretenses. From here he went to Huntington and was taken into custody shortly before noon Thursday by Chief of Police Baker, upon suspicion and telegraphic communication with authorities at Delphos. Stein talked freely in Huntington of his alleged experiences as a survivor of the Titanic and Huntington papers printed columns of his spiel. He declared he was fourth engineer on the Titanic and positively stated that Captain Smith was alive: that he saw him shoot over his shoulder on a pretext of suicide and then join Ismay and others in a rush for a life-boat He claims he saw Smith lately in Baltimore, and talked with him; that Smith had shaved his beard and moustache and colered his hair, but Stein hays he saw him through the disquise. In further startling statements, Stein declared that he was sent to Germany by former President Taft with instrucUons to keep ills knowledge concerning Captain Smith to himself and that he testified before the senate investigating committee after which he was again ordered to say nothing of his knowledge of Captain Smith. Upon returning to this country from Germany, Stein avers that he figured in an accident in Baltimore and while in a hospital was visited by the widow of John Jacob Astor, who was a passenger in the lifeboat of which he had charge after the ocean catastrophe, and given a sum of money tvr his gallant service. - . . Mrs. George Chronister vent, to Monroeville today for a few days' visit with her husband, who is building a German Lutheran church there.

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, June 13, 1913.

FRECKLEFACE. Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly Spots, How to Remove Easily. Here’s a chance, Miss Freckle-facc, to try a remedy for freckles with the guarantee of a reliable dealer that it will not cost you a penny unless it removes the freckles; while if it does give you a clear complexion the expense is trifling. Simply get an ounce of othine—double strength from your druggist and a few applications should show you how easy it is to rid yourself of the homely freckles and get a beautiful complexion. Rarely is more than one ounce needed for the worst case. Be sure to ask the druggist for the doubl e strength othine as this is the prescription sold under guarantee of money back if it fails to remove freckles. ACCIDENTAL CURE Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly Finds Cure for a Felon in Accident. STRUCK HIS FINGER On Fence—Felon Begins to Grow Better at Once— Sac Broken. Deputy -Sheriff Jesse Kelly, who suffered a painful felon on the middle finger of his right hand for three days, has found relief and probably a cure, in an accidental blow to the felon. This came about, from Mr. Kelly's accidentally striking his hand against a wire fence. The pain at once abated and Mr. Kelly expects the felon to grow less, day by day, until a perfect cure is effected. This cure is not a miraculaus one, nor does it have origin in superstition. It can be figured out in a perfectly scientific way. A felon results from pus forming in a sac between the periosteum and bone, the periosteum being the membrane that covers the bone. It follows as a matter of course that unless the pus has an escape, the pain and gathering will become worse. If the sac is broken it can escape, and relief is felt for a while. If the opening is not made through the flesh, the pus will gather again, and the cure will not be effected. Hence the necessity for an opening clear through. Much pain can be prevented by having the lancing done as soon as the felon appears.

TO GRAFT FLESH Mathias Miller Will Have Small Tumor Taken from Lower Eye-lid. FLESH FROM CHEEK Will be Grafted in—Gert Reynolds Arrived Home Today Noon. Mathias Miller went to Ft. Wayne yesterday to consult a specialist regarding a small tumor on one of his lower eye-lids. He advised an operation for the removal of the same, and Mr. Miller entered the St. Joseph hospital, where the same will be performed. Mrs. Miller and daughter, Anna, went to Fort Wayne today to call on Mr. Miller. It is said the operation will be quite an unusual one, Inasmuch as it will require the grafting of flesh from the cheek to the part from which the tumor is removed. Mr. Miller will probably be required to remain at the hospital for two weeks. Gert 'Reynolds who has been in a Fort Wayne hospital for several weeks after an operation, was brought home today noon over the interurban. He is still very weak, and was unable to walk, but is getting along very well. Al Steele arrived from Fort Wayne. He reports that Mrs. Steele at the hospital is getting along very nicely but will probably not come home until the middle of next week.

ANNUAL PICNIC At St. John’s on Sunday Will Draw Immense Throng —Children’s Exercises. WILL BE FEATURE Also Basket Ball Games— Decatur K. of P. Band Will Furnish Music. a The annual picnic and Children's day festival will be given by the St. John's Lutheran church, in the Wischmeyer grove (the usual place) near the church. This will be next Sunday afternoon and th e interurban will no doubt carry large numbers from De catur and all points along the road The Decatur Knights of l»ythias band will furnish music; the children will give a good program; there will be I games and other things to provide a good time. A feature of the sports will be the basket ball game between ; the two teams of the school. The 1 children are those from the St. John's scool They will be in charge of the former teachers, S. C. Cramer and Miss Huldah Hauer, of this city, and of the new teacher, Professor Hohnhaus, late of Fort Wayne. Mr. Holinhaus will teach the coming term and has already taken possession of the house at St .John's, provided forth- : teacher.

OUR NATIVE BIRDS Will be Subject of Leander S. Kevser. “The Bird Man”— Coming Soon TO GIVE LECTURE At Concord Church—Beautiful Stereopticon Views —To be Free. Leander S. Keyser, known as “The Bird Man,’' will give a lecture Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock, June 18, at the Concord Lutheran church in Root township. The lecture will be “Our Native Birds,’’ and will be beau-; tifully illustrated with colored stereopticon views. The lecture will be, free. Dr. Keyser has been a student ot i birds for over forty years; is the author of five popular bird books: extensive traveler; well known lecturer i and college teacher. Dr. Keyser is the president of Wit-: tenberg college. Springfield, Ohio., where several Adams county students ; attended, and is one of the leading men in the Evangelical Lutheran I church. His study of birds has been extensive. He has studied from the Atlantic ocean to the snow-clad crests' of tire Rocky mountains; from the' great lakes to the gulf; in the thick woods of Canada, in many European , countries; on the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean, lonian and Black seas. The colored pictures are captivating. They flash along rapidly, with no long, wearisome waits between Keeping pace with them, the lecturer tells the graphic story of his feathered comrades—their songs, nests, haunts, travels, antics, instincts and economic value; also how to study, protect and befriend them. Original poems, bird songs on the musical staff, some touches of humor —all are features. It is a lecture of real distinction — something genuinely different. - o \ HAD ROUND ABOUT TRIP. Mrs. George Rettig and daughter, Doris, of Sharon, Ja., arrived in the city yesterday afternoon expecting to take the 1:10 train over the G. R. & I. for Portland to visit with her father, E. A. Robbins, and family. On arrival here they found their train gone and were obliged to take the interurban to Fort Wayne, thence to Bluffton and in a round about way by interurban to Portland, in order to avoid a stay here until the early morning train.

ARE NOW AT HOME In Methodist Parsonage — Pastor’s Family Arrives. Mrs. D. T. Stephenson and three of the children arrived this afternoon from Indianapolis, where they have been visiting with Rev. Stephenson’s parents, while the household goods from Goshen were being placed in the Methodist parsonage. WARNING TO BANKERS. Andrew Smith, secretary of the Indiana Bankers' association, has sent out warning against a party claiming to be Roy Bates, 30 to 35 years old. weight 140 pounds, 5 feet. 5 inches tali. This fellow claims to be a second class quartermaster on the steamer South Dakota, and dresses in naval uniform. He passed two forged checks at Fort Wayne. A JU!\E WEDDING Magley Reformed Church Scene of Wedding of Miss Lena Worthmann and MR. JOHN HILGEMANN One Hundred Sixty-three Guests Entertained at Sumptuous Dinner. Not a prettier June wedding has been solemnized than that of Mr. John Hilgeinann and Miss Le”a Worthmann, two of Preble township’s best young [>eople. The wedding took place yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the German Reformed church at Magley, and was witnessed by hundreds of friends of the happy young couple. The day was one of ideal weather, and if the saying "happy is the bride whom the sun shines on,” is a true one, the pathway of this bride will be a bright one indeed. Miss Clara Snyder, organist, played the wedding march, and the couple, meeting the minister, th® Rev. Snyder, at the altar, plighted themselves to each other for life . The bride was lovely in her cos tume of pure white. She wore a hand some robe of embroidery, and in hei hair, nestled a single white rose, while the flowers she carried wera white carnations. One hundred sixty-three guests were entertained at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Worthman, at a sumptuous dinner. A (Continued on Page 4) o— x

OUT FOR BLOOD Base Ball Game to be Played Sunday Between Shamrocks and Montpelier. TO BE HARD FOUGHT Both Teams Have Been Working Hard and Sensational Game Expected.

The base ball game scheduled for , Sunday between the regular city team , of Montpelier and the Shamrocks will be one of the best games of the season, not only on account of the fast playing, but also because the Montpelier team’s record so far this season has remained untouched and the local boys are determined to drag their opponents’ banner in the dust Sunday was the only open date the, Montpelier team had for this season and it was only by a lucky streak that the Shamrocks seccured them. Shady will again appear in the pitcher’s box for the locals and t,here is not the least doabt but that ho will take care of his position. For Sunday, June 22, the Shamrocks baVe booked a game with their arch enemies, the Rockford team, the team J that started the local boys on the downward path and broke their winning record by a deplorable score < n Decoration day. Remember the game starts at 3 o'clock and admission is 25 cents.

Price, Two Cents.

THE MUSSER CASE Albert Musser Parole Comes Up Before the Indiana Pardon Board ON JUNE TWENTY-SIX S. A D Whipple Will go Before Board to Vindicate Himself of Accusation. Portland, Ind., June 13—S. A. D. Whipple, attorney, will,attend the session of the Indiana pardon board on June 26, when the petition for the parole from prison of Albert Musser, serving a life term for the murder of Mrs. Louisa Stoltz, in this city, many years ago, will be up for consideration. Whipple was one of the attorneys for Samuel H. Marshall, also prosecuted for the murder of Mrs. Stoltz, and helped to bring about his acquittal, but from evidence gathered by him later, it develops that Marshall was the real criminal while Musser was but an accomplice. At a recent session of the pardon board, when Musser's case was reviewed, J. B. Conroy, attorney for Musser, intimated that Whipple had acted unethically in the prosecution of the Musser case in which he was not employed. He charged that evidence discovered in the Marshall trial had been used against Musser witli the result that he had been convicted and that the Portland attorney knew at the time he was not guilty. Whipple was invited before the pardon board at that time, but was engaged then in the trial of a case here and could not leave. His purpose in going before the board at this time is to vindicate himself of any wrong doing and to lay before the board a confession made by Herschel LaFollette, a Portland man, who was implicated in the crime and who made a confession to his sister only a short time before he committed suicide to escape arrest. Decatur attorneys were also interested inthe case.

SHARE OF HONERS Taken by Misses Genevieve and Matilda Berling at the Academy. HOME FOR SUMMER Commencement Held Thursday Afternoon at Fort Wayne Theater. The Misses Genevieve and Matilda Berling, students at the Sacred Heart academy at Fort Wayne, carried off a number of the honors and special prizes. Miss Matilda Berling recdived a certificate in the third academic class, and also a scholarship prize in the academic department. A schcl-

tyship prize was awarded to Miss Genevtetvd Uerllng fn stenography, a prize in music, and also one in correct deportment, observance of rules. Miss Genevieve, who m a post-gradu-ate, took spectai work in tlie edmnie:--cial and mnslc departments’ this year and was graduated yesterday Miss Matilda; has closed her first ‘year and will return next year. She is taking a general course. Miss 'Frances Delnlnger was graduated from the commercial department. All the girl* returned tv Yiecatur last evening with relatives, who attended the cohtmencemont held Thursday afternoon. In the third academic class, certificates wore also awarded td Bernice Gbffee and Tlene Gandy, who are well known hero where they have often visited. 8080 CIRCUIT. Sunday services as follows: Holm, 10:30’ k. rtl.; Ideasant Mills, S:o<> p m, .GhUdfensf day services at t’lai k’s Chapel at S O’clock Saturday ■ ■ evening 3. O HtM'IISTWDi.HK, Pastor.