Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1913 — Page 1

Voulme XI. Number 153.

816 EVENT WAS SUCCESS Large Crowd Heard Band Contest, Closing Volunteer Firemen’s Meet. HARTFORD WINNER With Muncie Second, Union City Third—Other Afternoon Contests. It’s the day after. The delegates! to the eighth annual convention of the Norteastern Indiana Volunte r Firemen’s association and their friend* have gone, and there remains only the remembrance of a succors. 1 fwl and happy event, considered the riofit delightful in the history of the organization. The hose-laying contest held nt ! o’clock last evening with four entri. - '■as won by th© Berne companj of ten men in thirty-one and one-half seconds: Fort Wayne Electric com ! pany, second: Fort Wayne I-arapj Company, third, and Union City, fourth. There were four entries for the water battle and two events were given, three men to each side, Union City defeating Hartford City, the prizes being ten dollars to first and five to second. The next battle between Bluffton and the Fort Wayne Electric t«nni was won by the latter, bitt Bluffton, as usual, registered a complaint of unfair treatment and contested the decision, with the i salt that it will have to be decided by the organization. The president will I probably try to have the money ;li-i vhhal evenly. The buret concert was held last * cuing on Court street and thousands listened to the beautiful music. At the last moment the Berne baud could not enter bc'aiise of the fa< t that the leader was incapaeiated a:v! the two classes were merged into one, all prize money being offered -to the winners. In this event, Hartford t’ity won first, fifty dollars: Mime:-, playing for Winchester, second, for > dollars, and Union City, third, twent five dollars. The Judges were F M Fchirtneyer, Morton Stubs and J. C.! Sutton. Th© crowd lingered until midnight and enjoyed the various events to i ■ limit. The free atraction. the Trones, trippie bar expert gave tl < cioaing attraction at 9:30 last evening at the stand on East Monroe street. The program was given as announced and the men who ga° * Decatur a big day are to be congratulated. It was.in every way a success. The crowd was easily handled hero and there was no excuse for anybody I being hungry, as several of the res-i tr.urants had a large stock of goods I left. The local company looked after thr big crowd in good shape, cxtm poli’> ( being on hands to care for any enter-1 gency. The down town district wan ped off and there were no serin;,accidents. List of Prizes Awarded Auto truck and hose laying con test, Decatur first: Bluffton s ond time 1:19. and 1:27%. Decoration — Business House*Holthouse, Schulte ft Co., '"'rtt: Fullenkamr. second. ResidinceW. H. Myers, first; Dr. C. V. (Vniieli and J. C. Patterson, second. parade— Largest uniformed , company, Union City first: Berne bocoh 1 . Fort Wayne third. Automobile—Best decorated ear. Dr. D. D. Clark, first; Will Kreiie peoond: Charles flower, third, and Ed Zimmerman, fourth. largest Delegation —Berne, fir.-t, with 286 people. Hoso Laying Contest—Hand cart. Berne with ten men. first, in ..1 'z S' ends; Fort Wayne Electric W»r fourteen men, second In 31 Beeoijls, Fort Wayne Lamp Works, ’ l' l ', l ’ third, in 36% seconds: Union City, ■ men, fourth, in 45 seconds. The m ’t made a 200 yard run. atached to drant and then placed 200 feet ,oi hose. Water Battle—First contest, 1 n|on City first: Hartford City second. Second battle between Fort Way|m Electrip Works and Bluffton, wou by Fort Wayne, but contested on tin * _ (Continued on Pago ’) t . (

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

funeral services Os Mrs. J. D. Van Camp Held This Morning From Home. The body of Mrs. .1. D. Van Camp, 11 lighter of .Mrs. Amelia Hoagland or Eleventh street, arrived in this city 11 ursday afternoon over the G. R. ft I. from \iiderson, where death occured and was immediately taken to the Hoagland homestead. The funeral i \ ice was held this morning at 10 o< lock, Rev. Stephenson officiating. Burial was made in Maplewood cent- ’ t<-ry. Mrs. VanCantp’s death occurted Wednesday morning as the result "t an operation which was held upon *-i' in an Anderson hospital. SLEEP IN ~PARK Hundreds of People in Indianapolis Take This Method to Escape Heat. BOTH FEET CUT OFF Brakeman Slips Under the Trucks of Train and Loses Both Feet. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind, June 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Hundreds of ! persons slept in the parks last night to escape the heat and humidity. The weather this morning has made n good start for a new high mark. No 11 lief is in sight. | New Albany. June 27 -Walter Dutr, a southern railroad brakeman, lost loth feet under a train today. Durr ’ was working on a hot box on h’s train when another train passed on the opposite track and he slipped uni der the trucks. Indianapolis, Ind., June 27 —(Spec- , * ml w •ietdy Demm ratt—Frsw Awarn who was injured in yesterday’s auto accident on the speedway cannot recover. according to the physicians in . the local hospital. A fractured skull and internal injuries makes bis chances slim. S nth i:ml, June 27 —Special to Daily Democrat) —This city will be reached tonight by the Boy Scouts’ relay tarrying President Wilson’s mes--:im> from Washington to Chicago tor the opening of the Olympic games. Th- fir ’ of the Toledo, Ohio Scouts ! received the message last night at midnight. I; June 27 (Special to Deiy•- . it)- Atty. General Mcßeynolds may ! be asked to take steps to stop Jack Johnson’s flight co urope. Attorney i \V, >dy will ask that Mcßeynolds ■ Canada to stop him and send him back to the United States as an undeniable. -Johnson is in desperate I stru ts finam tally and I presume that : ■ . saw his chance to get to Paris and I > malic and make some money” said I T eWoody. He also thinks that the I negro's bail of >15,000 should be forfeited. York, June 27—(Completely I i xliausted after spending two nights in Hie park. Helen McCarty, sixteen i yiars old, is Bleeping in her apartments today. Poor health mid a Holding caused the child to run away. * —— —o — - 1 business got too brisk. The I A. Kalver wholesale liquor house, the ot)ly place in Decatur where liquors might be obtained by these who wanted to Indulge In them, was closed for one hour Thursday, t ,in 5 to C>. The doors were locked hv Mr Kalver voluntarily, as things were getting a little rough about the i place. A few of the many patrons began to throw and break bottles wherever they could pick them up. A rumor was going about the city that some of the ’happy” fellows in the gang of glass blowers were of the opinion that the bottles from whDh they were drinking beer, were not : made by a union and they were doi termined to break as many of them as they could lay hands on. This report was denied by the superintend-, mt of the glass blowers, as he said i their company did not make beer bottles. Mr. Kalver states that he clos- , e d morel'- on his own account in order that some of the most boisterous members of the crowd could leave his ■ premises. ~ X-A

“DECATUR CAN AND VILL”

- f At ! Z -f • . wv-... .1 am. if jKn&n w? ’; ; 0- iiitftn m • i * 1 ’ k 4 t I DEFEAT OF GREATEST OARSMEN. (Copyright by International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) Champions of the Rowing World See the Victors Cross Line Half Beat Length Ahead of Them. Remarkable picture showing the finish of the most sensational varsity eight race in the history of rowing. Syracuse nosing out Cornell for the 1913 intercollegiate rowing title at the Poughkeepsie regatta The Syracuse crew finished approximately half a boat's length in front of the hardy ( orneli eight, thereby displacing the Ithacans as champions of the rowing uhiierse. Ihe prow of the Washington state shell can be seen coming in third, only two seconds behind the Cornell boat.

A BOLD BURGLAR Invaded Home of Rev. Gleiser—Was Caught in the House by Pastor. WHO HAD RETIRED Burglar Begged Off and Then Sprinted—Companion Waited Outside. "Hello, Paid; let’s shake,” said a friendly burglar to his impromptu tost, the Rev. W H. Gleiser, last evening. when the minister, hearing the invader, got up and turned on the lights in his studio as the gentleman burglar wa/ making himself at home. Rev. Gleiser grabbed his visitor’s band and kept it locked on the burglar’s until he had escorted him to the door where the whimpering; fellow was let go.

The home of the Rev. and Mrs. W H. Gleiser of the Presbyterian church | was boldly entered last night about 9:30 o'clock by the burglar, while his companion waited outside. Unfortunately tor the invader the house was not iincectipied as he evidently supposed, and the Rev. Gle’ser, awakened by the burglar’s call to bis companion, arose, from his bed and being humbly beseeched for mercy by the burglar, quietly hustled him to the door and bade hitn begone. He sprinted. Later it was found that he had taken about two dollars in money from the kitchen cabinet. The fellow entrance at one of the front windows on the first floor Os the house Neighbors of the Gleisei's sitting on their porches, saw the fellow about the house, but supposed it was Rev. Aleiser taking in his wheel or examining the windows, and thought nothing of the occurrence until later. The fellow entered and walked from room to room and finally upstairs. Evidently finding the house as he supposed, unoccupied, he called to his companion waiting below, that al! was quiet and to come up. This awakened Mrs. Gleiser, and she in turn, aroused her husband. By this time the burglar entered their sleeping apartment. He was suddenly frightened by a call from Mr. Gleiser “To get out.” The burglar then made for Mr. Gleiser’s study, and when later confronted there by the master of the house, begged pieously to be allowed to go. His request was granted and he showed no resistance, when he was shewn the door. Hit waiting companion was seen later by neighbors to (Continued on Page 3)

Decatur, Indiana,Friday Evening, June 27, 1913,

MRS. M. STAIR NEARLY SHOT. Shots fired carelessly by some person along the Clover L- as railroad near Williams endangered many of the residents of Lancaster street street, especially Mrs. Martin Stair and her grandson, Elmer Studabaker, son of Harry Studabaker, of Convoy, Ohio, who is visiting at the Stair home. Mrs. Stair and her grandson were sitting on the front porch when a shot was heard and an instant later the bullet whizzed past Mrs. Stair’s head and struck the back of the chair in which Elmer was Mtting. The bullet missed the boy’s head by only a few inches.—Bluffton Banner. Mrs. Stair was formerly Mrs. Peter Ashbaucher of this place and is the mother of Fred and Ed Ashbaucher and Mrs. Herb Burroughs.

SURPRISE FRIENDS Henry Adler and Miss Cordelia Lehman Surprise Friends, MARRIED WEDNESDAY By Rev. J. H. Rilling—The Groom is Shipping Clerk at Schafer’s. It was not until the marriage license issued Wednesday afternoon was brought out for record this morning at th© county clerk's office that the friends of Henry Adler the well known shipping clerk of the Schafer Saddlery company, learned of his marriage. The wedding was a very quiet one and took place Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock, the bride being Miss Cordelia Lehman, daughter of Benjamin Lehman, of Berne, 'rhe ceremony took place at the home of the groom's sister, Mrs. Orva! Hamtff, and was solemnized by the Rev. J. H. Rilling, of the Evangelical church. The only witnesses were -Mr. and Mrs. Harruff

The young couple will make their home for the present with Mr. and Mrs. Harruff. Both are young people of excellent quality. The groom is a son of John G. Adler of Linn Grove and for fourt years has been employed by the Scliater company. The bride is a popular young lady of Berne and will be royally welcomed by Decatur friends, as a resident of this city. ■ i ' ■ -o DECATUR CIRCUIT. Preaching services at Washington Saturday evening; Beulah, Sunday morning; Pleasant Mills, Sunday evening. KARL THOMPSON.* Pastor.

BIG LEAGUE GAME Will be Played Here Sunday When the Lima Team Plays With the DECATUR SHAMROCKS This is the Only Professional Team Traveling Out of Lima. Sunday s base ball game is sure going to be some corker and will be full of fast playing and sensational stunts. The Lima K. G. E. team will meet the local Shamrocks' team in a battle for supremacy. This team Is the only professional team traveling out of Lima. They have about the same line-up that they had when they were here last season and put up such an xcnlng game. They have defeated three of the state league clubs this season and are confident of an easy victory here. However, the local boys were never in finer condition, as was evidenced by the drubbing they gave Rockford last Sunday, and it is safe to bet that Lima will lose some of their confidence. Shady will again be in the box for Decatur and he is sure some pitcher. Remember the game starts at 3 o’clock prompt.

ENGINEER ROBBED Erie Trainman Had Twenty Dollars Stolen from His Locker in Cab. WHILE WAITING HERE At 5 O’clock This Morning —Chased Robber Into Lumber Yards. The engineer on an eastbound freight train on the Erie railroad passing through this city at 5 o’clock this morning, carried out with him anything but fond memories of this city. For it was here that a robber parted him from between nineteen and twenty dollars in "cold” cash —if cash can be called cold with the thermometer hovering near the 95 degree mark. The engineer and fireman had gotten out of the cab and sat down along the track this morning, near th© Bennett coal yards east of the freight house In this city, to await train orders. They saw a suspicious looking man walking away from their engine and suspecting that he had visited there, hurried up into the cab. There ttiey found the locker broken open and the money taken from the engineer's trousers which were in the locker. They sprinted after the fellow, who was disapjiearing in the distance and followed him over the Clover Leaf ar.d into the Smith & Bell lumber yards where he was lost. They were obliged to give up the chase.

YOUNG MAN IN JAIL. Failing to give the >SOO bond for his appearance in court to answer to the paternity proceedings begun against him by Martha S. Linker, aged thirty, ct Kirkland township, a mittimus was issued against Lewis Gearhart, of Kirkland* township, and he was taken to jail. The case, entitled State ex rel. Martha S. Linker vs. Lewis Gearhart, was filed in the court of ustice of the Peace Amos Stoneburner of Kirkland township, and in the hearing Thursday, Gearhart was adjudged guilty and bound over to the circuit court. COURT HOUSE NEWS. Real estate transfers: Davis Dailey to Chicago ft Erie R. R. Co., realty in St. Mary's tp., >55. Licensed to wed: Henry Ernest Adler, painter, born August. 19, 1880, son of John G’eorge Adler, to wed Cordelia Ijehman, born January 3, 1890, daughter of Benjamin Lehman, ot Berne.

CHAUTAUQUA MEETING. This Evening at 8 O’clock at the Bow ers Realty Office. A special meeting of the guarantors mid all parties interested in the coming chautauqua will be held this evening at 8 o’clock at the Bowers Realty office and a large attendance is desired as business matters of importance will be discussed. ■*— —— 8080 CIRCUIT. Sunday services as follows: Bobo, 10:30 a. tn.: Clark's Chapel, 3:00 p. m.; Pleasant Mills, 8:00 p. m. J. O. HOCHSTEDLER, Pastor. CHILDRENS DAY At the Calvary Evangelical Church Sunday Will be Splendid One. A GOOD PROGRAM Has Been Prepared for the Evening Service—Readings, Songs, Dialogues. There will be children’s day services held at the Calvary Evangelical church, five and one-half miles east of the city on next Sunday evening, June 29th. A cordial invitation is extended to all. The following program will be delivered: Opening Exercises. Song, “Hosanna” — Choir and School. Song, “Cadets Are We” —Class No. 3 Carol —"Christ is King.” Prayer. Song—“ Let Us Gather for His Gar-

net*. Declamation —“Make Way for the Children”—Rogere Walters. Declamation, “Some Don'ts"—Glen Jackson. Solo, “I Love Him. Don’t You?”— Oliver Gottschall. Dialogue and Drill —March of the Leaves. Declamation, “Dorothy Rose” —Faye Jackson. Song—“ King of Kings.” Exercise, “Talking too Much”—Four Boys. Declamation, “Nobody Knows”— Alice Krick. Solo, “A Little Lamb” —Faye Jackson. Declamation, “Children's Day Tide” —lva Barrone. Song—“ Birds and Flowers"—Class No. 4. Dialogue, “How to Save the World” I Declamation, “Little Boy's Question’’! —Lee Miller. Declamation, “Help the Children” —| Mamie Krick. Remarks —Pastor. Offering. Song. “Suffer the Children to Come” Dialogue—Two Little Girls. Declamation, "Some Advice” —Dallas Krick. Declamation, "Good-bye” — Dale Koos. Song, "In His Arms of Love.” Declamation. “Just Next Door"— Bessie Lichenberger. Exercise, “A Ladder of Praise” — Classes One and Two. Song—" Look for the Rainbow.” Declamation, “The Sermon’’—Vora Mitch. Dialogue—“Summer’s Bright Blossoms.” Declamation, “Johnny Jenkins’ Sermon" —Wildas Shifferly. Song—“ Keep on the Right Side.” Declamation, “The Parting Words” —Roland Miller. A Closing Song—“Up in the Sunshine.’' o FUNERAL OF MRS. MAY. Funeral services for Mrs. Christena May were conducted this morning at Clark’s Chapel by the Rev. Culbertson. The death of this aged lady occurred Wednesday afternoon after a long Illness of paralysis. Besides the children named yesterday, Miss Ida Magner of this city, is a daughter. o- ■ WILL HOLD EXCHANGE. The M. E. ladies will hold an exchange at at the gas office Saturday, boginning at 10:30. Monte made bread, cake, cookies and other good things will be on sale. Your patronage is solicited.

Price, Two Cents.

MAN GROUND INTO PIECES Unidentified Man Mangled Beyond Recognition by Early Morning Train NEAR MONROE DEPOT Believed to Have Attended Firemen’s Convention— Wore Decatur Hat. The body of a mac, maneled beyond recognition, but believed to be a man hailing from Geneva or Ceylon, was found dead this morning at 5 o’clock on the railroad track north of the G. K. ft I. depot at wionroe by County Commissioner James Hendricks. Near him at the side of the track, sitting on end, was a whiskey bottle. It is believed that the man, intoxicated, had set down on the track to drink, when he was run over by passenger train No. 12, southbound, which arrived at Monroe about 3 o’clock this morning, running a little Ute. The man, it is thought, was one of the attendants at the firemen's convention in this city yesterday. John Mayer and others of the Monroe cili-

zens well remember seeing a man, believed to be this one, at the G. R. & I. depot in this city, waiting for the southbound special leaving here at 9; 30 o’clock. The man at that time v.as badly intoxicated. Mr. Mayer remembers seeing him get in the car. When they reached Monroe he saw him get up, but passing on, Mr. Mayer did not see whether he got off. It is believed, however, that the man, Intoxicated, thought he had reached home and getting off. wandered north down the track. When found, the greater part of his body was lying a half block north of the depot, near the hand car house. This is also near the James Hendricks home. The crowd gathered rapidly and a coffee sack was spread over the body, which was completely stripped of clothing in the mangling, to await the arrival of Coroner D. D. Clark of this city. A part of the coat and clothing was found near the depot, and the rending caused by the train was so great that one sleeve was turned wrong side out, and the coat shredded. Parts of the body also were strewed along the track. Coroner D. D. Clark made the trip to Monroe at 6 o’clock this morning. As far as identifying the man was concerned, his trip was fruitless. After viewing the remains, he directed that care be given it, and the body was brought to this city and taken to the Meyer, Scherer & Beavers morgue. Here an attempt will bo made to bring the features back to some semblance of their former appearance, and it may help in the identity of the man. The body was literally cut to pieces. Evidence at the track showed that he had been first sitting a block and a halt north of the Hendricks home. The gravel was trampled in and it was there the whiskey bottle, with onethird of the contents gone was found. The body was evidently dragged along by the train, each grind of the wheels cutting off more. At ono place a foot was found; a little further, the knee cap, a shoe, then a piece of kidney, liver, skull, brains, and other parts of the body. The greater part of the body was found near the Hendricks house The last cut made by the train was to cut it In two near the waist line. Not a scrap of any paper to identify him was found, all, if there was any, having been ground to pieces. That the man resideil in this trading community is probable, as he wore clothes purchased in a Decatur store. The hat bears the Ilolthouse, Schulte brand and is a broad, black, hat known as the Dakota hat, size fi'A. It is In a very good condition. The clothes also bore the Holthouse, Schulte brand. With the skin drawn away, and his features crushed, his brains having been driven out through the top of his head, and his head ground into the dirt, his features are entirely unrecognizable. It is thought he was (Continued on Page 3)