Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 175.

NADE INSPECTION Street Committee and Offi cials go Over New Pavement This Morning. WILL ACCEPT IT. West Monroe Street Completed—Work on Ninth and Rugg Begins. Official Inspection of the brick pave-; n.ent built on West Monroe street fom Eighth to Thirteenth, by E Woods & Son, was made this morn-! Ing by the street committee of the <ity council, Messrs. Isaac Chronister, C N. Christen and Jacob Martin.. i hat, they, will recommend the acceptance ol the street in their report to tlie city eouiit’il one week from next Tuesday is evidenced from the fa< t that they agreed uiat it was one oi i tin best streets ever built in this city. ! Tlie contract was awarded to Woods ><■ Son last spring. Work was begun j May 10 and the 1990 feet, thirty feet wide, with five-foot cement walks alongside, was completed Wednesday 01 this week- It is a beautiful street and the property along it has been 1.:- i < reused, in value to a large extent, i When the old walks have been removed and the yards graded where necessary, it will be as attractive a thoroughfare as can be found anywhere Tlie contract on this street was for tlie pavement and sidewalks 'complete and has proven the best way to handle these matters. The sidewalks were built by Fisher Al Bogner, who took the contract from Woods & Son. The same contractors have tlie job of building Ninth street. Tlie grade. Is complete and a half block of brick :s (town ft will Be finished next wHi nnd Wocds & Son will then begin on tlie work 01 paving Rug, street. Ninth street is 84 feet long, Monroe to Nuttman, and 25 feet wide, while Rugg is 505, feet long and 24 feet widq. Metropolitan paving brick is

being used and you will agree that the contractors have done tile work well, after you have examined tile I new street. The contract on West Monroe street was *11.700 for street and sidewalk The grade was built; under the three-mile road law by thtownship. The Inspection party let t this office promptly at 9 o’clock, Mr Woods providing a covered picnic i wagon for the jaunt. In the party were the council committee. Engineer | Kintz, Street Commissioner Buhl' I ',' Marshal Peterson, W H Myer. Mayor j Teeple and representatives of th* press. THE TUBERCULOSIS TOPIC. Practically the only support give i the anti-tuberculosis movement in Indiana up to this time, aside from the state-'a expenditures at Rockville,, cctnc through the sale of lied Cross ( hi istmas seals. Don’t give tuberculosis to others and don't let others give it to you A careless consumptive is moi dangerous thgn a leper. The United States bureau of mortality statistics declares that in tlv'■ nation one death in ten is caused liv tuberculosis In Indiana the ratio is one in eight. One death in three between the ages of nineteen and thirty-five is < aused by tuberculosisSmallpox caused twelve deaths in E>idimia last year. Tuberculosis, a'most 4,000. The first tuberculosis sanitarium established in the United States wa.ii opened at Saranac Lake by Di K' wffe’d L. Trudeau in 1885. The National Association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis was organized .In March, I'" 11 1,1 Indiana association was organized in 1911. DECATUR CIRCUIT. Ice social at Washington and at Pleasant Valley Saturday o enlng -Charlie Blooah, the native African, will preach and sing at Beulah Sunday morning: Pleasant A all".' Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Remember the special Epwprth League p.ogram at Mt. Pleasant Sunday evening. Members of other leagues an Invited to enjoy the program gi I>y the three chapters. KARL THOMPSON. Pastor.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

LEFT FOR ATOKA. OKLA. Mr. and Mrs. James Wittenberg, who were recently married arrived hist evening from Muncie and were guests over night of his parents. Mr. | ! 11,1,1 Mrs. Charles Battenberg. They j I l“it tills afternoon -for their future! home in Oklahoma. Mr. Battenberg 1 has been superintendent of the Atoka schools and was selected again for i tliis year While here he received an j ■ Offer to become principal of the agri- ■ cultural school, but has not decided 1 whether he will accept. Although there is a thousand dollars difference in salary, he has many friends at Atoka, whom he dislikes to leave, and lie is rather inclined to remain there. His decision will not lie made until ; his return to Atoka. o . TO LEAVE MONDAY Miss Margaret Daniels Will Go to Lutheran Hospital First of Next Week. TO ENTER CLASS For Nurses—Special Call Came—Had Planned to Go October 6th.

Miss Margaret Daniels severed her connection with the Citizens' Telephone company last evening, and wtll leave Monday for Fort Wayne to enter j upon her three years' training for a nurse. Miss Daniels had expected to enter the hospital October 6. and to continue iter work here until the middle of September. A special call came yesterday, however, for her to come ■ at once, hence her resignation last evening. Miss Daniels has been with the telephone company eleven years,’ and will be the guest of honor at a • plead given tomorrow evening by, the "hello" girls. Who will succeed Miss Daniels as one of the two chief operators has not yet been determined. o CALL FOR TROOPS Rioting of Copper Miners in Michigan May Necessitate Martial Law. AMBASSADOR WILSON Arrives in New York From; Mexico—Will Go Direct To Washington. I insing. Mi’h, .July 25- iSpecial to. Daily Democrat) If rioting continues among the copper miners in the mining country around here, martial la v will bi de-dared. This was said at ‘ the Governor's office today. Trains carrying militia are running ns spec-1 ials and by Saturday morning 2,s<V)| men will be on the scene of the I strike. 500 militia men were there] this morning. Possibilities that thej <c, per miners strike will extend to the iron miners thereby involving 30,-1 DOO men, is worrying the officials t >- day. X'ew York, N. Y , .inly 25.—(Special to Daily Democrat. Ambassador WitI son arrived today from Mexico on the war liner "Mexico" from Havana. He expects to proceed immediately to Washington this afternoon. It is not probable that lie will take up the sit-1 nation with President. Wilson or Bryan tonight. London. Eng. .Inly 25 t Special to Daily Democrat) -Mrs. Etnlline Pan’cl ursl today underwent an operation i for transfusion of blood in a desperate attempt to save her life. i; Washington, I). C, -Inly 25.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—With Secretary Bryan in the city ready to take - up the Mexican situation today was ■ declared to be quiter than a-t any time ■ during the past six weeks. It is bc- ) in-ved that after the conference wild) Wilson the President will send his (Continued on Pago 2)

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

■ w'>». -«• ,41*, wSrWß' " bl ■ A 1 - — - ——l "Star , <—■— ; LJ, --W-—■ ... k • — —- Jzzzzziy FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GREAT BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, FACTORY FIRE. • __________ (Copyright bv International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) Seventy-five Girls Were Supposed to Have Perished in this Terrible Holocaust. One of the most disastrous fires which has occurred since Vie famous Triangle fire is the burning of the Binghamton Clothing Company at Binghamton. New York, in which it is estimated tiiat 75 girls lost their lives, and only 38 out of 111 persons in the building escaped unhurt The president of the company attributes the cost of the fire to tlie carelessiipss of an employee in throwing a lighted cigarette under a stairwav. District Attorney Meagher has startec an investigation to place the responsibility.

MISSION FESTIVAL Annual Festival Will be Held by Friedheim Lutheran Congregation — SUNDAY, JUNE 27T11 T n Conrad Doehrman Grove Visiting Ministers Will Preach Rev. ('. It. Preuss, pastor of the Fiiedheim Lutheran church, announces that the congregation will celebrate its annual Mission Festival next Sunday, July 27. This will no held in the grove o' 1 Conrad Doehrman, located one-half mile east of Zion church, and is an ideal place for the same. Several visiting ministers will preach Among them are the Rev. August Buiick of Wren. Ohio, who will speak at the morning service. Another is Director Lueeke of Concordia college. Fort Wayne, who will preach in theafternoon. The Freidheim band has been on gaged to furnish the music, and re freslunents of all kinds will be servoed on tile grounds by a committee. A cordial nvitation is extended to all. ■ o STAID BUSINESS MEN Os Huntington Will Edit the Paper Tomorrow. Business men of Huntington who may occasionally have found fault with articles that appeared in their daily papers, will have a chance to show the people of Huntington how, according to their ideas, a newspaper ought to be run, as today's and Friday's edition of the Huntington Press will be put out by a force of editors chosen I'otn the Huntington Commercial association Tills plan was decided upon in order give the entire reportorial staff, including M. H. Ormsby, editor and publisher, a two days' vacation. .1. W. Caswell, president of the Commercial association, will be the editor-in-chief, and the reporters will represent all lines of business. M B. Stults, an undertaker. will write "deaths.” Dr. Charles 11. ((rod will teport the sick and A- F. Greeman, manager of thetelephone office, Ims been assigned to duty at the telephone office to get whatever he will be able to learn by eavesdropping on the telephone lines. Members of the Press staff predict that the merchant editors will be only too glad to turn their Jobs c ver to them at. the conclusion of their two days' attempt at newspaper work.

Decatur, Indiana,Friday Evening, July 25, 1913

CLEM KNOFF ILL. Seized With Attack of Stomach Trouble While at Funeral, While attending the funeral of Gert Reynolds this morning, Clem Knot;' was seized with an attack of stomach trouble and fell. He was removed to I the Chronister home nearby and a physician called and he was then taken home, where he soon became better. Mr. Knoff's illness resulted from gas on the stomach, which in turn affected the heart. WANTS A DIVORCE Also Possession of Household Goods—Lillie M Hancock Files Suit. ’JAS. R HANCOCK Is Defendant—Alleges Desertion and Non-Support —A New Case . Lillie M. Hancock of Wabasli township is the plaintiff in divorce proceedings lnstii.ui.ed against her hit. - band, James It. Hancock, now residing at Kendallville . Mrs. Hancock says they were married September 29. 1896, and lived together until June, 1909, when she says he left her and lias refused to inrnlsh her any support. The plaintiff claims that she is the owner of the household and kitchen '. iurniture and besides a divorce, asks that she be given a Judgment for that. Peterson &• Moran are her attorneys. W. Wise Suit. A second divorce case was filed this afternoon by Milton Miller, attorney ; ior Willis Wise, who wants a divorce from Myrtle Wise. Willis says tliey j were married March 13, 1907, and llv- < iV together until November 1. 1912. His wife was guilty of cruel treat- | irent, be says, that lias left him mentally and physically distressed He i alleges she was guilty of scolding ami 1 that she upheld her daughter, Gladys 1 Chronister, in scolding and harassI Ing, him .even when rhe went to the extent of calling him a fool. When lie objected, she told hint if he did not like it he could go. His heart was made sore and heavy when his wife told him that he thought more of other women than of her, when she know that such was not the case The limux came when she persisted in al- ■ iowing Charles Chronister to come to •| tile house to board Said Charles, he ■ aiieges, got drunk and disturbed the (Continued on Page 4)

t INJLRY TO ANKLE Leland Frank Dislocates His Ankle When Heavy Iron Fell on Member. AT POWER HOUSE Believes He’s Victim of a , Hoodoo- Had Hand Injured Last Week. Leland Frank, son of L. W. Frank, ol West Monroe street, is disabled, having been painfully injured Thursday afternoon when his right ankle was dislocated .the accident happen- | ing at the interurban power house. where he is employed. Witli Kenneth Vancil, Mr. Frank was engaged in manipulating some machinery, when a part of the heavy iron fell on his right leg, with the . aforesaid results. • 4| He suffered extreme pain all night, apd while he is able to bobble about S a little, it will be some time before i lie fully recovers the use of the mem-

’ her He was unable to work today. Leland is inclined to believe lie is *i the victim of a hoodoo. Only a few t days ago he had one of his hands badr' h cut on a tin can in the bottom of ‘ the lagoon at Steele's park wMleXli' - ■ ! liig. He announces himself as a can li ■ (tale for accident insurance, not liming carried any thus far. UNJUSTLY BLAMED Geo. Pullman Writes That > E. H. Tunell Was Not ► Direct and Only Cause 1 OF WIFE'S DEED I I

Mrs. Tunell Became Insane , Through Business Reverses and 11l Healh. Urbana, Ind., July 23, 1913. Dmocrat, Decatur, Ind.: Gentlemen:—l noticed in the Wa- ■ bush Times-Star an extract taken | , I Irom your paper concerning the death ’ and tragedy of Mrs Van Camp Tunell. i However, tlie facts are badly deranged, and I write tills to make soi 1« correction. Mr Tunell is not the direct and only cause of everything and visit to make that correction. He importuned upon her going to Oregon and desired that she invest some of ■ her money in a business for him. i ■ 'lliis, however, was not done and Mrs. ■ Tunell from further developments : seems to have been disappointed in , her affections. Her losses and tinl'or- • tunate investments weighed heavi.v • upon her mind and perhaps whet “ caused the break in her mind was > tlie fact that she was undergoing a nervous change in life, ami witli nil ‘ matters touching her so deeply and i being despondent over affairs gene:’- ' ally, she went insane and committed the awful acts. Beatrice was first ■ shot; the bullet entering her left side. Jost missed tlie heart and going through her stomach ami lodging '' near the surface on tlie right side of Cher spine. For four weeks she was ■ Hat on her back mid recovery was tin- ' certain: however, a telegram Monday ■ states she Is improving nicely un i • she is eating again Iler recovery is assured. Mr. Tunell was shot. Just ■ over the heart, the bullet piercing the I ■ left lung, lie bled profusely, but i" I now out of tho hospital. Mrs. Tunell i then shot herself in the heart, dying j • instantly. Edwina, the younger ' i (laughter, was out visiting and os- ‘ I called tlie tragedy. Mrs Tunell stat ’d I that she wished her family to go to > heaven and sought to put them there ' by shooting them Beatrice was ly- ■ lug sick at the time. The bullet ' wounds have healed nftelv and she ■ will get well again. Trust you will make this e.orrec1 tion in your paper, and would thank i you for copy of same, > Very truly, GEO. C. PULLMAN.

IS SOME BETTER TODAY. Elmer Smith, who was severely injured Thursday, July 3, when thteam of mules he was driving took irlglit at a lire cracker, throwing Mr Smith under the wheels of the wagon, and breaking a bone in his leg, s some better today. He has been con lined to his bed since the accident and the injured leg is still enem ed in ; a plaster parts east, with the hope | that the broken bone will knit together. His condition was very lov yesterday, and the report that death] was near was circulated among hid Mends on the street. The injur- d leg may have to be amputated in ord i to save his lile HOME FROM EAST E. J. Bailey Returns From Westfield, New York— Daughter Will Come AT LATER TIME Will Take up Teaching Near Berne—Will Dispose of Home Here. • E. .1. Bailey has returned from Westfield, X. Y., where he lias be* :i since tlie death and during tlie illness oi his wife, whose death occurred at her girlhood home there, July 7. Miss Leota Bailey, the daughter remained

to be with relatives until next month | when she will return here to be ready to take up her teaching when the fall term opens, at her school near Bern The Baileys will not return to housekeeping in this city, but will dispose of their residence property, 1 ■- rated at the corner of Jefferson an-.l Fourth streets. Miss l.eota will be accompanied here by her aunt, AT’ ■■ Jennie Clever who will assist her in arranging affairs of tlie household n the goods which they wish to retain will lie stored. Miss Bailey will r turn to Westfield for her summers. TO BE INSTALLED Ben Hurs’ New Official Staff Will Take Offices This Evening. ADAM WEIS CHIEF Morris Hay Will Install—- | Some Officers to be Appointed. The Hen Hur lodge will hold its ii stallatiou of officers Illis evening, Alo; ris Hay to do tlie installing. A mini-; I ber of tlie officers take their place bappointment, mid these will be named this evening. Those elected w.io Past Chief Emma Burk Chief Vdain Weis Judge Mrs I . E. Cramer. Teacher Ruby Baker. Seribe—Mrs Minnie Daniels Keeper of Tribute Mary Artman J Captain Mr. Harris. I Guard Russel Acker. Inner Gate Keeper '.label Cramer. Outer Gate Keeper William Tee- | Pie. Pianist Mrs. Mel Butler. o ASK MAIL READER "FIRED.” Girls Sore on Postofficj Maiden Who Reads °ostals. Washington, July 25 Postmaste' General Burleson solves many riddh . The latest is a quarrel between young women patrons of the postotiiee in a thriving western town mid ,i young lady clerk. The "scrap" was broug'.t to Mr. Burleson's attention by the following letter: “Dear Sir The girl li, Ilie postoftiee here reads us giii- ' cards and tells us what is in them ' Also has a beau, her man standing at the window spooning all the time. , Wish you would look into It mid ' , change it. for wo are very sick ol her. Farmers cannot get to the win-, ’ dew niter mail. I remain. Us Girls of

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IN HIGH ESTEEM Mr. Beatty Was Held by Attorneys of Adams and Jay Counties. THE RESOLUTIONS — ll— I — Committee from Each Counl ty Speaks of Late Attorney in High Terms. — ■ ■»— ADAMS COUNTY RESOLUTIONS. Again our bar has lost one of It.i leading, active members by the death of our lamented brother, A. |>. B-attv. He was admitted to the roll of membership of this bar on the 23rd day c.’ January, isnu and immediately entered upon the active practice and was engaged in very many of the important cases in this court, ami in eve-y 1 ontest we of the opposition felt tlie i force of his experience, his judgment, his legal skill and his untiring energy. For more than twenty years it has been our almost daily pleasure to meet • him and enjoy his wisdom and his wit. He was an able lawyer and incorruptible in tlie practice of his prof- seon and in the several exalted positions he was called upon to fill. He was universally kind and courteous to the court and his brothers of the ba". He was genial, companionable, generous and charitable to a fault. Was li > without any faults? No, who is? Ho was quick and emphatic in resenting u conceived wrong but was just as piompt in acknowledging it when ha

was shown to be in error. At tlie suffering of childhood or of the aged, he was moved to tears, and was quick to help tlie needy <>, lo<',v station. He was broad in comprehension and mature in judgment and was possessed of an unusual degree of natural ability. He was true and fuitl'.f ”1 tc every trust committed to him and was as "firm and loyal to his fricttfL : ships as he was in ids convictions. At the mid-day of his active, use" d and helpful life and «e-miegly when most needed he was called to Ihy down life's activities, with its pleasures and its burdens for a well earned rest We are grieved at tlie parting and extend our lieartfeld sympathy to his solely bereaved wife and children; therefore, be ft Resolved. That tlds memorial . Le spread of record in the order book <>:' tlds court upon a page dedicated for tliat purpose and a copy her, if be given the family of tlie deceased mid published in the daily papers. PAUL G. HOOPER JAMES T MERRYMAN. CLARK I. LUTZ JAY COUNTY RESOLUTIONS. We, your committee, to whom wa ( intrusted the preparation of a suitable memorial upon tlie demise of tho Hon. A P. Beatty, who fen- a number of of years preceding his death was a member of our neighboring liar of .’.dams county, respectfully submit the following: Tlie subject of tlds brief sketch is Amos P. Beatty, who was born In the state of Kentucky on the sth d iy .o, Marell. 1553. While in Ids youth ’ds parents left the state of his nativity mid look up their home in Van Wert county, Ohio, where he grow into ■ young womanhood. There ho nttendd tlie c ommon schools, and tlds common school education was supplemented by a course of training at tlie Normal Sc hool at Lebanon, Ohio preparing himself as best he could ill ord- r that be might be a useful citizen to society. l.ater he became a residext cl Adams county. Indiana, and so remained until tlie time of his death. I.ilce many young men of his tin. • lie came into the world surround’d with but fc-w of the luxuries c:l' life, and thus ho matriculated early in the chool of hard knock:; mid rugged exi periences, which, together with Ids native courage, made Idm strong and i fenrjess ill life's struggle, so much so that he was seldom heard to coniplam 1 about the lack of opportunity In his I youth. He was willing, ready, and he did go into life's vineyard witli I.me hands and tlds did not embitter him ak to humanity nor a< to nature. De possessed a genial disposition and a cheerful countenance. His jovial nuitil tier, together with a mind well stored with information, made him a very companionable gentlemenHe took lip the active practice of ■| law at Decatur in IX9O, and while lids, . indeed, is no place for fulsome praise (Continued on Page 2)