Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1913 — Page 1

Voluinn XI Number 171

MR. BEATTY DIES SUDDENLY Prominent Attorney, Representative, Former Mayor and Well Known Citizen Victim Os Heart Trouble

Amon P. Beatty, Adams county representative in th,. In,llana legislature, tor many years one of the leading attorneys oi tblw'f faj former mayor and nt Hr,, in businass and professional life lime for a Quarter of a centuiv. die,! very suddenly al ton minutes after ten' Sunday night at hin/iome on North Second street. Death was due to heart trouble. Tile news caused a severe shock? lor no nrnn in the city of Decatur was better known, lie had been in good be..,lh and cot even the closest members of his family thought he was se-i nonsly ill when he retired shortly after 9 o’clock. When he arose Sunday morning he complained of severe and ’ ’ i- i pins i n t he region of the stomach, but thought nothing serious I would result- After dinner he walked down to his office for a short time, r turnin', home about nn hour later. At .’ oclock in the afternoon the j.'iins increns •<! and seemed to affect t! heart slightly and Mr. Beatty called a physician, who gave him medicine and recommended a mustard plaster. The treatment again brought ' relief and though the pains did nori, leave entirely, he said he felt fair’." good. He complained during the evening of feeling tired and about 9 o’< lock retired, deciding to sleep on *- > 1 I i Lui. f ' t-i-'twiUl the couth in the living room, where ne could assist his wife, who has been in very bad health for some months end who often needed asistance c medicine during the night- At about 10 o'clock' Mrs. Beatty, who was in a ced room adjoining, noticed that her husband was breathing in an unnat-t-ral manner and hurried to his side. She realized instantly that his cond! tic-n was serious and crawling to the telephone on her knees asked central to send a. physician at once. Dr. D D. Clark tmsfcr.dcd within live minutes, but the patient did not bieathe mor.' than once or twice alter lie reached • his side. Restoratives were tried, b-.-. without off ct, the spirit having departed. Relatives were summoned and tlie news soon became general. This morning the sad news was on the lips of every citizen, and seemed almost unbelievable to those wi.o bad talked with Mr. Beatty in good health but n few hours before. He ai d as formerly stated been in excellent health, but seemed worried I I ready over the poor health of Mrs neatly, to whom he was most devoted. Ilfs death has taken away a splendid citizen, a devoted husband and father, :> man prominent in the walks of life, ore who was ever cheerful, who had much ability and who will lie greatly missed. Story of His Life. Amos P. Beatty was born in Paducah, Ky , -March 8, 1853, moving with his parents to Van Wert county. O-, in 1861. He was educated in the common schools of that county and later took a course at the Hobroke Normal at Lebanon, Ohio. He taught seve.al terms of school and during vacations and in the evenings, learned td be a telegraph operator, which he followed ts.-vi-rnl years. He came to Adams county In 1863 and for two years conducted a general store at Ceylon. Indiana. For several years prior to that time he hart read law, whenever too opportunity presented itself, and ho read two years with Judge Price, one o> the best lawyers of western Ohio.

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lb I'B7 he brought his family to Dec•iiur and he began studying law in the oih< ,-s of France A- Merryman. A care fnl student and earnestly desirous of Incoming a lawyer, he developed ra)iuly and in 1890 when he formed a partnership with Paul (1. Hooper, he was recognized as an attorney of much ability. Two years later he be- ' came associated witli .1. Frank Alam, and the firm of Mann A- Beatty existed until 1899 when Mr. Mann moved ! to Muncie, since which time, Mr. Beat-1 tv lias been alone in his business. Ho i enjoyed a splendid practice, represent"d tlie various railroads and had a number of important clients his business being largely office work. He served four years as mayor of Decatur and his administration was one that attracted considerable attention. being progressive and clean Mr. Beatty was elected mayor of the city of Decatur, May 3, 1898 and took iiis place the following September, serving four years, lie served as city attorney and lias hold numerous other appointments and places of trust. He lias for several years been the probation officer for this county and modestly and carefully looked after the welfare of the boys and girls who fame under his charge. He was elected last fall as representative and served during the last session with much credit. No man who served in that body can point to a cleaner or better record than Mr. Beatty. He was always with the people and every vote was cast in the way which he believ♦<l the largest number of those ho I (-presented would desire, Mr. Beatty was married thirty-nine years ago last March to Miss Jane Prrwn who survives him. and who rrourns at this time. For some years she has been in very poor health and though she bears up wonderfully today, her grief is deep and genuine Surviving also are two sons, Simeon > P. and Carl who are employed in thej offices of the Wells-Fargo Express company at Des Moines, lowa, and one daughter, Mrs, Flora Kinzell, of this city: also two brothers, Henry, a farmer in Van Wert county and Lee, a contractor living at Great Faps Montana, and one sister. Mrs. John--oii, of Oakland. California His tlicr died some years ago and his mother, whom he brought home from ( alifornia lived until just a few years ago. | Mr. Beatty took a prominent part in c i“0 work. He was a member of th" F. & A. M-, the Chapter, Scottish' Rite, Shrine, the B. P. O. E., and the Red Men having been secretary of the local order for many years and having held nil the < hairs, and of the National Union. Fueneial Not Arranged. A message from S. P. Beatty was received this morning, stating that I his wife and Mr and Mrs. Carl Beatty | will leave Des Moines this evening j arriving here tomorrow afternoon. It I did not state when he could come and the arrangements will not be con-i chided until further information is re-1 eeived, but it is likely that the funeral, , will not be held before Thursday. It is possible that the Scottish Rite ser vice will be given, though this fact I has not been determined upon. Only last week, Mr. Beatty was ap-j •pointed by Amos W. Butler of the state board of charities, as a member . Os the committee on child welfare, i He had not entered upon those duties yet. but anticipated that It would give him an opportunity to do valuable ser j vice for the children of the state who ■ i needed aid. 1 a telephone message from Bluffton at noon asked information concerning tlie funeral of Mr. Beatty, who was well known in that city, where he. I had frequently practiced law, and 1 stated that the bar from there de- * sired to attend (he funeral in a body. i ——- — - — ELKS TOMORROW EVENING. V All members of the B. P- O- E. n~e t equested to attend a meeting to be t i ->ij Tuesday evening at eight o'clock ' for the purpose of arranging to at- ' tend the funeral of Brother Beatty. By ■ order of Charles Christen, Exalted • 'ruler,

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-i &.gap ;■ ty-— , _ . _ ---. . , jff. np ■ i KT mM1 ; ' ft' .'“ ■ '■< y _53. CLERKS IN LARGEST BANK COUNTING OUT BIGGEST BREACH OF PROMISE PAYMENT. (Copyright bv International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) Our Photographers Were Extended Rare Privilege in Being Allowed to Photograph the Weighing of the Gold Used in the Settlement. Rarely arc photographers allowed within the sacred portals of th" Bank of England. The accompanying photograph, however, shows a clerk | at work in the famous banking institution counting out id gold the $250.<•00 which Miss Daisy Markham, the English actress, recovered from the youthful, but flighty, Marquis of Northampton. A quarter of a million' dollars is said to be the largest sum ever paid in England in settlement of a suit for breach of promise to marry.

FUNERAL TUESDAY Service For Diedrich Meyer. Prominent Allen County Farmer WHO DIED SATURDAY From Apoplexy—Did Much Business In This City— Well Known Funeral sendees for Diedrich Meyer, the well known Allen county farmer mention of whose death was made in Saturday evening’s paper, will be held from the late residence at Hoagland, at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and an hour later irom the German I Lutheran church of Madison town-I ship, Allen county. Kev. Hassold will officiate. Mr. Meyer, who was a well-to-do' retired farmer was sixty-nine years, | three months and one day old at death. Mr. Meyer was born in Ger-1 many, April 18, 1844, and came with his parents to this country in 1847. They settled on an 80-acre farm in Madison township'. He resided in Al-! len county from that time until his' death. He was a member of the Ger-! man Lutheran church in Madison township. The deceased was married to Mias' Annie Seddelmeyer, May 25, 1871. Mr. i Meyer had always been a hard working man. a good farmer and a splendid citizen. A few years ago he sold a 129-acre farm and bought property; in the town of Hoagland, expecting to live a retired life. However, he soon tired of idleness. He wanted to de something and so he helped his neighbors wherever and whenever he <oiild- Ho owned a horse and would | plow his neighbors truck patches. Friday afternoon lie was engaged in plowing a potato patch for a neighbor and about 7 o’clock, when he had almost finished, he became uncon-1 scions. He remained so until death; telieved him. Surviving are the widow and four daughters—-Mrs. Emma Boehnker, Mrs- Sophia Selking, Mrs. Wilhelmina! Selking and Mrs. Lizzie Bulman. He also leaves nineteen grandchildren, two brothers and two sisters, ■ the latter being William and Frederick Meyer, at Staplehurst, Neb.; I Mrs. Wilhelmina Hockemeyer, of Gar Creek and Mrs. Caroline Franke, wife of County Commissioner F. William' ! Franke of Madison townshipMr. Meyer was well known in Dec-: atur and Adams county, as ho made I this place one of his business and trading points.

Decatur, Indiana,Monday Evening, July 21, 1913.

I - ~ - 4- - —- : BAR WILL HOLD MEETING. |’ To take what ever steps are deem-' I ed necessary and fitting, because of I the death of Hon. A. p Beatty, an esteemed member of the Adams County I Bar association, that body will meet j at the court room at nine o’clock. Tuesday morning members are requested- to be presentRED MEN MEET TONIGHT. All members of the Independent order of Redmen are requested to meet at the hall at seven o’clock this evening to arrange for the funeral of! brother A- P. Beatty. o POCAHONTAS NOTICEAll Pocahontas members are r. quested to be at the hall this evening at seven o'clock. By order of the Pocahontas. A narrow ES mt Fifteen Months Old Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Chronister FALLS UNDER WAGON Driven by Conrad Gillig and Fas Narrow Escape From Fatal Injury. Helen, fifteen months old daughter ol Mr. and Mrs William Chronisteresiding on High street had a very! narrow escape from death this morn-; tug at eight o'clock, when she was run over by the heavy farm wagon driven by Conrad Gillig. Mr Gillig i had just finished unloading a load of rails in the alley at the rear of the Chronister home, and had started to drive out, not noticing the little girl, who had been playing in the yard, ! but had run into the alley when the ; tram started. It is not known by Mr. I Gillig whether the front wheel of the j wagon or the rear wheel ran over the body but it is supposed that the front wheel grazed her thus making her i lose her balance and fall under the j rear wheel. The little girl is Just | beginning to walk and it may have been that the passing of the wagon made her dizzy. She fell in such a manner that the wheel passed over , iier hips. Medical attention was at once summoned and an examination ■ showed that no bones had been brok-! en, but that the flesh had been badly ' bruised, and that unless some unforseen complications set in, she will be ! alright in a couple of days.

TO ETERNAL iiOME Death Comes as a Relief After a Year of Suffering to Lawrence Kessler EIGHT YEARS OLD Complications Setting in From Typhoid Fever is Cause of Death Complications setting in from typhold fever was the cause of the death of Lawrence Raymond, eight-year-old son of Mr and Mrs. P. \V. Kessler. Residing in Monroe, who passed to his eternal borne Sunday afternoon nt 2 o’clock. A year ago hr suffered with a aiege of typhoid fever, from which he really never recovered, complications setting in in the form of water on the lungs. For this he had been operated upon two times during the past year, the last, time seeming to have given him noticeable relief, as he was able to be up and around the house. About a week ago, he was taken very ill again. | however, and medical attention was ■ cf no avail, he having passed to that I home that knows of no fstin. Besides ! the bereaved parents to mourn th" loss are two brothers, Forest and Roxy, and one sister, Demarius, bei sides a host of friends. The funeral i will be Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clo< k i from the Friends' church in Monroe. WIN THE VICTORY Local Shamrocks Win an Easy Victory Over the Monroeville Greys SUNDAY AFTERNOON Game Was One of the Best That Locals Have Ever P’pyed Pefcre. The gam" o' base ball yesterda’ • •„ „ v j^, rr y f Pr |] tr , m wh--n they b h ’’on- oevi le G T via 'tor? had " good cla sLui h of r’ayers and rut up a ■nighyr ir c gam-’, but the local boys 'ound their pitcher in the first part of the game and it was al! up for their, then. Despite their excellent fielding the ShatnrocKs ran is men across th" ’ - me plate, while the vistiors managJ to get only tive of their men sale. The Shamrocks played one of tlie fastest and cleanest little games of base ball that they have ever put up this season. Every player was in fine condition, played his place and with tlie assistance of Shady in tlie pitchers box and Briggs in tlie catchers placo they simply walked away witli the visitors. Nert Sunday tlie contest will be with tlie Huntington Specials. This team was here in June and gave the Shamrocks an awful drubbing. I'he story is going to be a different ' one this time however. o - DR- WEAVER'S MOTHER IS DEAD. Dr. C. R. Weaver of this city, received a message this morning, nnncuneing that his aged mother, Mrs. Martin Weaver had died Sunday morn ing, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Milton Peflly nt Goshen. Mrs. Weaver was seventy-six years old and had been bedfast for many months, sufering from the complications of old age. The funeral will be held Tues- ; day afternoon at Goshen. Dr and Mrs. Weaver will leave some time j this evening to attend tlie funeral re-' turning to Decatur Wednesday morn ing. WARREN WILKfcNUON PAROLED. f A Washington dispatch says: The President today issued a pardon to Warren Wilkenson, of Decatur, nn army deserter. Wilkenson deserted a j regiment of infantry at Ft. Shelton, N. Y., a year ago, and was sentenced to serve two and a half years at the Ft. Leavenworth military prison.

AFFAIR WAS TRIPLE TRAGEDY Mrs. Laure Vancamp Tunnel Kills Self After Shooting Husband and Her Daughter Beatrice I—..

Tantalized to insanity by th" taunts of her husband, E. 11. Tunnel, to whom she had been married little more titan a year, and whom site ac- . eased of squandering all her money. , I after having married her tliroui-h . misrepresentation <>i ins own standJ ing, Mrs. Latin- Vant’amp Tunnel, >1 shot her husband, iter daughter. Beat- \ rice, and then shot herself nt their >1 home at Cornvallis, Ore., Mrs. Tt'it- • nel died instantly, the husband w: s slightly wounded and lias been re1 leased from the hospital, while the ' daughter, Beatrice, wounded through ’ tlie abdomen, is very badly injured '. and may not recover. She is still i t -| lite hospital. Though the triple.trig-f qedy happened June 26—nearly four 1 weeks ago. word of tlie same did not -’teach here until now. f Mrs. Tunnel was the widow of tlie ' Into Anson Vant'amp. A year ago in ’ April she went to tlie west, with her ' two daughters, to join Mr Tunnel, 1 whom she married. They resided on • a ranclt near Dodgen, N. D, until this 1 spring early, when they moved to Portland, Oregon, thence to Cornvnl- • lis. Oregon, where the tragedy re- ' suited. ’ The first word of the tragedy wns received in a letter last Saturday by ! Mrs. Gus Brodlteck, of Vnion town- , ship. Tlie word came from a sister-in-law, Mrs. J. M. imstman. of l rYana, Ind., wife of a former Evatigdical minister of this city- Site in tern I heard the same of George Pullman, of that town, a young ministerial stu- + dent, who hnd often visited here atite Vant'amp home, li ■ being the fiance of Miss Beatrice Deßevoise. daughter of Mrs Vant'amp Tunnel, by a mormer marriage. Tlie two were students at Napierville, ill. Mr. Pullman was studying to be a minister, ! graduating last spring. Ho and Beati rice, it is said, are to lie married in a year. On June 27 Mrs. Brodbeck had received a postal from Mrs. Dustman in which, It seid "Mrs. Vant'amp died ■ os’erday ” It was at this-time that T r> VanCamn of Anderson d ; "d, "nd it. w"s s”rrcsed by M T, rodbeck th"t Mrs Dustman had reference to that. The letter received by her Seturdav j,fr S Brodbeck so; this morning, when Interviewed by a Democrat reporter at her home, was in answer to inquiry about th? word on the postal. Reference in tlie lette” to the tragedy was very brief, as fol- ’ lows: "George's girl, Beatrice's mother, became insane and shot Beatrice, her (Mrs. Tunnel's husband, and shot herself twice and toll dead. Beatrice is getting better. They got tlie bullet one inch from h?r heart. They are both in the hospital." < This was the first word received i here since tlie terrible occurrence. ( This morning at 10:30 o’clock Mrs > Ida Vant’amp Woods, step-daughter of. j the dead woman, talked to George i Pullman, of Urbana, fiance of h step-sister the injured girl, Beatrice. f over the teiphone. He gave the fullest detail of the affair yet had. 1 He stated that Mrs. Tunnel had ] been taunted into insanity by her bus- . hand, and in a moment of madness j had shot him, her own daughter, Beat- : rice Deßevoise and herself. She, , died instantly but the two who were wounded were taken to the hospital. Mr. Tunnel, it is said, was only l slighty wounded and has already I been able to leave the hospital. Beatrice, who was shot through the abdo-j .men, is very badly injured and it is feared, may not live. It chanced that Mrs. Tunnel's younger daughter. Edwina, whas not at home at the time, and so escaped. It Is said that Mrs. Tunnel's life witli the man she la: t married had not been a happy one, and that he had misrepresented fa< to her, inducing her to marry him. I When she arrived at their futtc ■ home, which was supposed to have i been a ranch near Dodgen, N. D.. '-lie ■ found him practically without any-' thing. He held the position of i -t- --' master, which is a very little one at i that place. It. Is said, also, that she' • accused him of squandering h>■:• 1 money, and it is said they were res I duced to poor circumstances. They | moved this spring to Portland, Orc-

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i gon, and later to Cornvallis, Oregon. Quite recently. Miss Naomi VanI t amp of this city, a step-daughter of tlie dead woman, received a letter : from her former step-mother, in’ which she seemed to be in poor splri its. She slated iii that letter that rl.c i wished site were witli papa and Cha-- ; lotto," meaning her former husband, Mr. Vant'amp, and their I aby daughter, both of whom are dead. Why she would wisli to wound he” ' daughter Beatrice, is not known, hut J it is supposed that she did not wish | to free herself from life and leave j her children to face the world alone. Miss Beatrice had been with her I mother and sister at Dodgen, N. D, tlie past winter and had been teaching school there. The family will be very well • remembered here. Tlie mother and two daughters. Bteatrice and Edwina, tame to tins city several years tr.-o Irom tlie east, upon her marriage to Mr Anson Vant’amp. Since that time they resided hero, and became quite well known. Both daughters were graduates front the Decatur high school. After graduating. Miss Benttice went to the Evangelical colle - rt Napierville, 111., to take a eour , and while there met George Pullman, a ministerial student to whom it b: said she is to be married when 1 <- finishes his course and becomes tledAfter Mr. Van Camp’s death the family resided here in the ,’anC: x: -esidence on First street until a year . eo; whr-rt they went w> ■ i and s’l was married to Mr. Tunnel Miss Beatrice remained for a while at Narieryille, and Miss Edwina accompanied her mother west. About two weeks ago, County Clerk BJeeke received a < ommunicath u irom a bank in Oregon, asking for ,i copy of the will of the late Ans< n Van Camp, and asking what provision had teen made for the step-daugh-ters, Edwina and Beatrice, and wheti er they had a;iy guardian. This -a as ail given in tiie letter, hut it *s now supposed that this communication grow outof th? suicide. George Pullman, Miss Beatrice’s fiance, lias been having more th’ n his share of sorrow in the past few v -eks June 2G, his fatbt who was nn Evangelical minister, was taken to the hospital at Urbana for an op? eration and on July 4, died, this being the same time that Miss Beatrice was lying at the point of death. Rev* Pullman is quite well known here. POLICE COURT. John Denton managed to get on the cutside of an extra load of "fire water" yesterday afternoon and attempted to take down tlie canvas surrounding the ball park, while the game was . in progress, and also used some obnoxious language while doing it. O - ‘'(r-r Mc’chi happen -d to be on t’.ie spot and csccned him to Major Teele's office, where he secured bail for his appearance in court this morning. He was given trial at 9 o’clock ami pleaded guilty to the charge of public intoxication and was given ;> fine <A' $1 and costs, amounting to 111. H<stayed the docketO’"' SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY Os th e Opening of the Decatur Library—Rapid Growth. Today is the seventh anniversary ■" tlie opening of the library in this city During that time the library lies 1 made rapid growth under tlie excellent management of the board, and the librarian, Miss Annette Moses. For a number of years, the library was a city institution only- Now Washington township residents tire included among those ulio may enjoy its prfv- • iieges free. RED MEN MEET TONIGHT. Notice is hereby . given that th' members of the Independent Order of Red Men will meet at their hall thin evening at seven o’clock to arrange to attend the funeral of Brother A. P. Beatty.