Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 181, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1913 — Page 1

■Volume XI. Number 181.

| DETAILS GIVEN . REGARDING THE ■ TUNELUJEATH (Qu- p. (1 H® Tell ot Suicide of Mi s. ■ Van Camp Tunell. |pARE RECEIVED HERE K.By Harry E: it/iu^-i-- Had I [ Negotiated for Purchase ■ of Racket Store. Bi f Hairy Fritzing.-r <,-• ti.i-. .in ii;.‘<’d ct.pie-. Up i einaili. io-. K,p|otl» !'»•" P;':i|H is of Jim.. . uiO-1-ii< ulars o. Up- sui< :<!•• of Mis’. £ Be Tuneil hnmei'ly <-, city, Tlie newspapers sent E-’to Mr. Fritzinger ti.s.d. ~ t.-:,? . Cornva'lis t - r||oily Gazette-Times says: '‘During a tempo’, art 'TCythis morning at 11: In. Mrs E II .'Jtinell, ol Xnrtli i : . i-' — ii' 1: st!". I fe j. allot an .■■iziiippp--.. .ir-oin da ■■wjHhtriee Vhh 'amp. in the breast. In: Mftband in the right slioulder. and Bglj herself through the le-.i. l Mrs. T died instantly and the h i.-band |g|£- daughter are at the Cormallis liospit-nfe'-'ld in a serious bit not iineessar:'.' MBs'Critical condition. Tie- tragedy ■.•- < tirr< <t a' the lamin S&B” 0111 " at and Tyler. T::" EEfthrl, who was ill and in bed upstai"-. Bgrwas the fit st victim. The mother ■B. c ine to the bedside with one arm a' mb I her side and rather behind her. and the other hand over her mouth Mfcf!..- kicked at the daughter without MMri-i eating and suddenly pressed tl:-' ■ ■revolver to her breast and fired. The MUrroina t then it.ehed downstairs into ■F the yard ami met her husband comf itig from the back porch or an outbuilding and opened fire. She fired trice, and one of the bullets took ef-| feet in the right shoulder as stated. ■ H»* turned and ran to the home of a ft neighbor. A. if. Garvin, across the K E 1.-'ock. said he had been shot and ft L asked that a doctor be called. An-j ■ ■'.other shot was heard, and when ■. arrived on the scene. Mrs. IBm ’j linell was found in the yard dead. |ft g "Mrs. 'i'miell used a levoiver of hut i thirty-tw o caliber, mid this probably ac : I,? Counts for the fact that the otherK B are alive, it appears that she had had ■ u'rie spells recently, and on Sun-. ft.ftiiav she had threatened to kill some ■ P‘, BTi the family The husband kept lire-; BLurm® about, and be gatheied these and |BBLi:l ammunition and. bid them, as be thought. Mrs. Tunell found the BMp.-valver and cartridges and this mo: ■::■ BOKng did What she threatened to do th dav before. KF | Mrs. Tunell was aged about ' ■ 111 had iemale difficulty, and k teently had brooded over affairs g- aR|b| Eally. This is supposed to have al-BS-Woeied "er mind The Tunells came Mt Lorn Dakota about, six or eight e M' months ago. and not long ago bought property where the tragedy occurBEd They originally came from DeB catur, Ind., and are said to have in lair circumstances, so. ttpimrently there was little cause tor broodB* Ek.' However, her thought was to her children and husband to (heaven. this sb.- having expressed at limes before. There was another ■ldamd’.i-r. Edwina Van Camp. who K [fhe house at. the time. Mrs. Hindi Bfetu. married I elore her marriage ftft >;\fr. Tunell. By I. “Chief Wells. Deputy Sheriff Pi I Attorneys Wilson and < l.u’ e /*®v--cre called immediately and were on scene before the psysieiaus reftft’moved either of the wounded to the They looked over the situgc. niton, and familiarized themselves 4 land were prepared to do the legal.ties. .1.4 kl,ether an inquest will be held is ftft Mot vet determined. ■ -i nter, at 4:10 P. m-. Hf |n caring for the remains ol Mrs. I finds that she shot herself twim. bullets entering her breast vety near the heart and less than a lia e inch apart.'' The Daily Republican ’- |U ft'g«!s known here of tlm family, who atBOr'ved in this city la: ' February. < one Ing from North Dakota- Mrs- I Bf . negotiated for the pnr.-liase ol one o '■ the leading local hmket stores M I this city and mad- a payment ol (Continued on Cage ->

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

MISS MAC QUIRE BUSY. Make Engagement by Telephone for Corset-fitting. Hiss Mat Quire, demonstrator fori 'I.- Henderson and Igil’rlncess cors. 11 laetory, who arrived yesterday at the '.ass ,y Meillers store for a three days' '■iy. has been so very busy meetin,; tile ladies win, called, that it wotlltl | ie well for those who contemplate ' it there, to make An engagement I ' telephone lor a fitting. The cor:et: shown are the front-lace corsets at.d meet the requirements of the cor■le< t lire, er so perfectly that they are in the highest demand The cool 'till, room, fitted with electric fans, ! ii akes the fitting a perfectly comfort- : i'ie one, and with the assistance givn by tills expert corsetiere, one is : sured of getting tile best through a comfortable means. Miss Mac Quire v ill be hero today and tomorrow. All j aie cordially invited to call. DEATH FOLLOWS LONG ILLNESS Prominent Union Township Farmer and Civil War Veteran Answers Call. ~- I . DUE FROM PARALYSIS Had Been Suffering Intensely the Past Few Months —Funeral Monday.

Charles Joesph Kurber, living five mi.es northwest of the city in Union' township, one of Adams county's! H ast prominent and well-to-do farm-; ors, passed away this morning at his | home at 11 :(>.".. the cause of his death i being paralysisMr. Kurber had long been a suffer-' 1 from paralysis, suffering throe se-■ vere attacks during the past two I i years 11“ continued to grow worse,] the paralysis taking a strong hold I upon him, and making him almost helpless. The end to all this suffering and pain came this morning witli .his death, and by it Adams county lost one of tier best citizens. Mr. Kurber was born in Boudtn,. German, In October, 1843, coming to this country with his mother Mrs. Mary Kurber, in the year 1849. They | resided in Root township for a while and later moved into Union, which lias been his home ever since. In 1882 he was married to Miss Margar,i t Miller and to this happy union three children were horn, one ci whom died shortly after birth. On August 14, 18(12, he enlisted in Company I. 89th Indiana infantry, and during his three years of service, vhieh ended August 8, 186.">, lie was one of the foremost soldiers in 'he . regiment. Mr. Kurber is survived by the loving wife, wlto did her utmost to try to make him as comfortable as possibl. during his sickness and great suffering: and the two children, Frank, who is on the farm, and Mrs. John Miller, south of the city; also the io'.lowing brothers and sisters: Mrs. Barney Melbers. Mrs. Agnes linker, Port Wayne, and Anthony and Mike Wcrizberger, hall brothers. One sister, Mrs. Anthony Spuller, died a number of years ago. The funeral will be held Monday; Morning from the St. Mary's church, | this city, and burial will be in the l St Joseph s cemetery. His War Record. Charles Kurber enlisted in Company , I, si'th Indiana infantry, August 14,1 1,8ii2, at Decatur, Ind., and was discharged at Indianapolis Ind-, August! ■ s i sii.T. with his regiment. During his j ' tliree years' service he never misspii ; day s duty being with Ills company • r ,t all time® and ready for duty. His I regiment participated in some of the hard-fought battles on the Red River campaign, Tupelo. Miss., Nashville, Tenn., and Fort Blakely Ala., being ■ the most important ones, besides seeeial o' minor note. The regiment marched on foot three thousand, tliree Hundred and sixty-five miles. Tile ■ soldier. Kurber, marching .every mile of it As a comrade lie was held in ’ tlie highest esteem by Ills officers and • loved by his fellow comrades and • had the courage to meet any and evI ery emergency that confronts a so'I' dler. il Will Schrock has returned from a ! lew days outing at bake James.

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

• r-— - ... ..... — > ' ' /■ .a : . ' i* 1/ 4 i ' I I t s ii to »4 Ls. * "'IB ' BBliF * wK' -J-. ww® A'-’ 6 'W JL a k I ’ , k - - -- ) REMOVAL OF MUTINOUS SING SING CONVICTS TO AUBURN. (Copyright bv International News Service: supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) Terrible as it may seem political strife in New York state has affected tile administration of affairs in the state prison to such an extent ! that through outside influences the convicts were worked up to express ■ their disapproval of administration changes by often rebellion which lias resulted in the mutinous prisoners being removed to Auburn prison, a fate almost as terrible as being sent to Siberia In this line were men convicted and sentenced for crimes unspeakable, yet they felt the felon's shame, as shown in the protograpli, tried desperately to hide their faces from the camera. Not even a convict need be devoid of all inner feeling. These men were not. Perhaps some of them had friends in the great outside world who did not know of their degredation Possibly some of them sought to protect then families from still further shame—the shame of having their convict ' faces and gray garbed forms flaunted before the world.

ASKS COURT TO SEVER THE TIE Os Matrimony, Mrs. Martha Eley Files a Suit for Divorce FROM JOE ELEY Cruelty, Habitual Drunkenness and Non-support Are Alleged Grounds. Tlie climax of endurance of cruelty that has increased witli tlie years, was .eached July 28. by Mrs. Bertha Eln. , when she and her husband, Joseph Eley, separated. In a divorce 3u't filed in tii» Adams circuit court by, tier attorney, I, ('. DeVoss, she asks for legal separation front her husband, five hundred dollars alimony and tlie care of their two children. Jennie, aged 18. and Robert, aged fourteen, of their four children only two are living. She also asked, and was granted, a restraining order prohibiting the defendant from visiting tier home cr the lot. or interfering with her in any way, until the first day of tile next regular term of court. The two were married March 2>'. i 18—, and lived together until ate ■ | days ago. she says lie has been an ■ habitual drunkard during tlie past tea years: that lie lias been guilty of cruel I and inhuman treatment of her ;:!! their married life, this increasing witli tlie years. He lias called her die names and has also called their ! daughter, Jennie, vile mimes, in the ■ presence of the mother, all of which ; she thinks is done to tease and torment tlie plaintiff. She says lie lias 1 threatened to k.ill her and their lari■lily and often told them the "White Horse" would get them all soon. Non- ■ support during tile past two years is I also mentioned in the complaint. She • says lie makes good money, hut spends it in drunken carousals mid remains ' 1 away late at night TO ATTEND FUNERAL. i 1 Mr. and Mrs Fred Krueckeberg and 1 Edwin Steele went tn Fort Wayne this I morning to attend the funeral of Osi car Kriesmelmeyer. which was held I this afternoon- His death occurred : T uesday. A daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. i j Krueckeberg married a brother of jthe deceased.

Decatur, Indiana,Friday Evening, August 1, 1913.

i “HIKER’’ KLINE KNOWN HEREIs Nephew of Mrs. J. D. Nidlinger and Formerly Worked for Them. J. Russell Kline, wlio is one of the lour "Hoosier hikers" of Fort Wayne, who will pass through Decatur m xt Monday on their 1,000-miie walk tn I Waterlick, Va , is a nephew of Mrs. I. D. Nidlinger of east of Hie city. He at one time worked for the Nidliugers and is known to many of this I county. ■ — n— K. OF C. MEETING. Tlie regular monthly meeting of the| Knights of Columbus will lie heid Monday evening at their hall and every menxber is requested to lie present. MANY ATTENDED AND ENJOYED DAY Reunion at Robison Park Thursday Proved Best of Five Reunions. OF PAST FEW YEARS Will be Held in Decatur Next Year—New Officers Elected for Year. The best one of tlie five annual -eI unions of the Magley family was held I I ! yesterday at Robison park, Fort I Wayne, inasmuch an there were fewer i ttraetions to divert tlie mind, and a ' longer time was thus allowed for vis- ' iting witli each other. 1 The gathering was held by the de- ■ scendnnts of Christian and Mary ' (Flickinger) Magley, who came (o ■ tills country from Switzerland during ' tlie latter part of the 1820's, settling ■ in Fairfield county, Ohio. They had ' seven children, tlie youngest one, .la- ' cob. naw deceased, being born on Hie ' steamer In French waters Os there ' seven children, but one. John U . a bachelor, one of Hie "forty-niners, who went, to California, is now livin The descendants of tlie oldest son. CJiristian. are his six children and I their descendants living in tills conn 1 ty, and in parts of Ohio. Albert, <> Irdianapolis, is a son of Jacob, born I on tlie steamer enroute here; the d I Hcendants of another son, live j i Whitley and Allen counties, ami of several daughters in Columbus, Ohio, (Continued ou Page 2)

FOR THE RELIEF OF AMERICANS N OLD MEXICO Secretary Bryan Recommends Appropriation of SIOO,OOO. — — MULHALL IS EXCUSED Until Next Monday—Will Hear Watson—Wilson to Return to Mexico. ■ (United Press Service I Washington, D. Aug. I —(Special to Daily Democratl - An emergen--cy appropriation of 1100,(100 for the' relief of destitute Americans in Mexico and to provide them with trans-1 I.ortation to tile United States, w: s asked from congress today by Secretary Bryan. —— Washington, D. Aug. 1— (Spec- ■ lai to Daily Democrat i M. M M. ' hall ended Ills three weeks of test!-1 n.ony before tile lobby investigating committee this afternoon. He was excused until Monday On Monday James Watson of Indiana w ill take | tile stand to explain Mulhall's references to him. In replying to some questions Mulhall said he saw i collected by D. M Perry and ('. Heneh for Watson in the Indiana mernatorial campaign of ISOS. Th. (Continued on Page 2)

STiLL HUNTING HIS LOST MATE Reub Wilken Puts Good Oik Over on the Marshal at Warren, Indiana. AND AMUSES CROWD Thought He Was Crazy and Officer Took Him in Charge for Short Time. The la st practical joke of the season and a good many other seasons lei that matter, was tlie one inwlii. li a smooth stranger and Mar mil ■ Mosburg appeared in tlie leading ro> ' Monday afternoon, says the Warren j Tribune. Tlie stranger was first seen shortly alter 1 o'clock <n Wayne street. He was steady and had the appearance of a man wh > was trying to dress up, but he did not know how it should lie done. His j clothes were several sizes too small | lor him and a little bunch of r-d chin whiskers gave him a rather com i ical appearance. He seemed to 1>" < razy and soon had a crowd about him. lletried to explain in a squeal'y high-pitched voice that his wife had run away witli another mam He said they had got into a imgg.i ami driven north. He was terribly woii ;ed over it and would ery and y 11 J like a lost would in perdition. iby j t.tailed to run north on tlie sire- ' but would stop to accost those Im ' met and ask them if the.' had seen i Marinda. his wife. Finally Marshal • Mossburg went to liim and ask' d what he wanted. He repeated b. story in a suplGring, bewilder'.: ' manner, all the time making toward > llie Eikenbarry corner. Arrivin', ; there lie had a big crowd and made :. : speech on woman's suffrage Tlien ■ I lie wanted tlie marshal to go witli him - to tlie traction station to telephone ■ to ills family a Bluffton- where lie ■ claimed lie lived- On the way to flu > station lie explained his boy was to be married Hie. next day and it, was just . too bad that ills wife had run away . "They got their invitations .ill I Struck." lie said witli tears in ill ; voice, "Won't you have one of Hie in' i tiltions, Mr Officer’.’" and lie tiand'sl i the marshal a piece of tar. board inviting him to attend the Marion tnir this week. Dan tumb| tlie crowd veiled and tile stranger grinned like a ■ ml licking up cream. Coining back (Continued on Page 2)

BIG PICNIC NEXT SUNDAY. Arrangements for Home Coming at S‘? John's Giove Complete, Preparations for a big time, at tl, ■ annual picnic to be given at St. John'grove, seven mhos north of the est. . in xt Sunday, have Let n eomni.'ted and the general public is inyit.-d to attend Interurban earn will lie nn to tlie ground and the event this y nr will it is believed excel those of former summers and that's saving a gm d deal. This years event is also a Homo Coming an o<. asion when > old friends will m •t. There will !„■ good band music, entertainment Tv tile Zither (lub, declamations, comic and otherwise, and the usual picnic events. You are cordially invited to spend the day at St. John'- It's next Sunday, August. 3rd. TALENTED LADY IS KNOWN HERE Thomas Ehinger Identifies Picture Published in Thursday’s Democrat. MRS. W. BACKESTOE Made Many Friends in Decatur During Visit Home Coming Week. We were very pleasantly surpris'd Thursday evening to receive a call from Thomas Ehinger informing us that, the pictiir:> which we had publi hed in that evening's paper was t'"pliotograr.il of Mrs. Anna Woodwa’J Baskestoe who, durin, her visit her? Home Coming week, had stayed with the Ehingers and had formed a la"?circle of friends and acquaintance: thiough them Mrs. Baskestoe is th ■ wife of Willard Baekestoe, who bed charge of the attractions and shows that week. She is a famed soprano soloist, having been for a number of

Miss Anna Woodward. Soprano at State Fair ©r ■ 't ■ I x \ ** t \ * *— , r- — * ♦ * * years concert soloist with tlie So: z.e band and tlie T iiom.i or.'lostla. two i of tlie greatest musical <>. umizatlom in the coiintr.', and also haviim lie >i ' featured at tlie state falrt. in 1912. While here Mrs. Baekestoe proved to I : lie a greater entertniiier than al! o' i tlie attractions of tlie week combined, witii her impromptu solo work at th" ; home of Mr Ehinger, large crowd-.: ;of friends and neighbors gathering there each evening to lie entertained j with her singing. She is a culture.' : refined, modest lady, radiating with hospitality, and with a charming ir i resistible power of forming a do ;e i friendship with everybody wlto m lier, and it is witli tlie greatest c , pleasure that we are permitted to | publish her picture DECATUR CIRCUIT- — Tlie pastor and Charles Blomih, d ■ African boy missionary, will lie at i Washington Saturday evening and Mi I Pleasant Sunday morning. Tlu*iinio;'. 1 ; Epworth I-eagiu- program " ill be held : , .it Mt. Pleasant Sunday evening KARL THOMPSON. Pastor.

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WILSON ISSUES A FIRM DENIAL TO WILD RUMOR Believed That President Huerta of Mexico Will Soon Tender Resignation |WANT MARTIAL LAW * In the Calumet District-— Deadi List in Motor Cycle Reaches Eight. il’nted Press Service.) Washington, D. c., Aug. 1 -(Special to Dally Denun lali - Angered over the reports made public of the statement ttiat foreign governments were | bringing preasure to hear in order to . settle ttie Mexican situation President Wilson today said. "The statements ’ are entirely without foundation " The j resignation of President Huerta i ' Mexi ois eminent it ir said in offi. | ’rcles today President Wil-on to'd leading Mexicans that he would never zmognize the Huerta government and I influential Mexicans are said to im rallying around a new leader. Calumet, Mich . Aug. 1 —(Special to Daily Democrat l Either immedlaie martial law or construction of eant|s ! a here non-union miners and their families may be protected by tlie troop?, is neccessr.ry in the coppe- mining district, according to the officers in charge. The situation is growing more serious every day. Heav •'.mird was today placed around the l.r.n . mectin Houghton aihi H.ii'uick the resjilt ol tlie plot to destroy it by dynamite A large quantity i. dyn-iiiit.- Ims ■•■ n slolen ;iom,th. mines. Cincinnati. ().. Aug. 1 Suecial to Dally Democrat > - With the deaths resulting'from the motor ycle a.■< ideitt at the motordom here Wedmsd ■, 1 numbering eiglit physicians today ;>ro

li ' i 11: irx • t ><mtti tvua,' < < - . exp.'cting two more to die from injur- ' ies. Muncie, Ind . Air.'.. -(Special to i Daily Demo rati -Derailed while cuing at it rate of 6il mill an hour in the middle of the bridge over Buck Creek. <1 miracle saved a Dip Four passenger train No. 20 from fi,-.nrt;r in t serious wreck at midnight, Not .1 passenger or trainman wa- iifjnn ! Four crowded Pullman com h »»• le '• the track ami two steel rails , we-e driven through the floor o: one of the I cars. New York, Aug., 1 (Special to Dai‘iy Demo: rat 1 rhe new fusion ticket 10 defeat the Tamanj party resulted ! in die nomination for mayor of Joh’fi , T. Mitchell, recently appoint- <1 eolle< tor of port. Mitchell was mimed mayor by a majority of two votes over ('has S. Whitman. PAYS TO HAVE MUMPS. Earl Hoagland Gets sl7 for Eight-dav Illness, It pays to have the mumps when on have Insurance covering pt-vtd«'.«u taken om .in the National Life. Ed , Green, the company's local agent, paid ; to Earl Hoagland of the Mills grocery, i .1 check for sl7, covering th;- eight days that Earl was off duty on m ■ 1 count of the mumps. THREATENED WITH TYPHOID. | Andrew Myiott of Chicago :r i'l I the home of his pa: nt" Mr. and M' '1 Thomas Mflott, ai.T-rin-. 'lom .1 threatened ease of typhoid fever, tie had not been feeling well for the pn ■' two weeks and came home a few days ' ago to recuperate, fie baa been having several fainting spells, brought on 1 1 I y the illness. o .—_ — THE BIRTH REPORT. ' bey baby was born yeaterdnv ■- - ( rnoeu to Mr. ami ,'lrs Iley Mumma tdnms street. I , .— —o~ — . TO PREACH AT SALEM. I Announcement is made that the Itev. John M. Gibson will preach nt the Salem church Sunday morning