Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1914 — Page 1

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Volume XII. Number 98.

Hundreds Os American Citizens Are Being Held As Captives In Various Interior Towns Os Mexico

FOUR MURDERED IN MEXICO 01FY Three Were Dragged From Street Cars and One Killed at Y. M. C. A. REFUGEES COMING 1 ■ 1 » Many Will Land in Galveston—National Guard Has Not Been Called. (United Press Service.) VERA CRUZ, April 25— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Four Americans were killed in Mexico City according to reports from the capitol published by the local newspaper today. The paper declared that one man was killed at the V. M. C. A. and the three others were dragged from street cars. WASHINGTON. April 26—(Special to Daily Democrat) —On a dozen ships In the gulf today with their prows turned toward Galveston are 3,057 refugees from Mexico City, many of them destitute. The van guard of 329 was due to arrive today. About 1.300 more will leave Mexican ports for Galveston within a few days. The resources cf the navy and army are being masaed in preparation for the fugitives. The refuge question is most difficult now, cabled Admiral Badger from Vera Cruz. From Tampico alone 1,054 refugees have been sent to Galveston. Those arriving today are also from Tampico and have waited many days for British and American ships for passage. Galveston is to be made the landing point for all refugees. Receiving camps and hospitals will be provided by the government with food and clothes supplied and free transportation to their home towns. NOGALES. ARIZONA, April 25— (Special to Daily Democrat)—Refu gees arriving from the interior of Sonora said that their train had been boarded south of the border by federals who confiscated their arms and amunition. The constitutionalists say that they have received bulletins announcing that American marines have landed near Guaynos. ■— ■ I II—WASHINGTON. April 25—(Special to Daily Democrat)—l2s American men. women, and children were taken from a train between Vera Crux and Mexico City according to an official state department statement this afternoon. They were not arrested nor detained. The state departments original announcement said merely that some refugees had been taken from the train. INDIANAPOLIS. April 25—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Governor Ralston

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said today that there was absolutely no foundation to the report that orders had come from Washington concerning the Indiana National Guard. He said no order had been received in any way relating to the guard. WASHINGTON, April 25—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Admiral Howard today reported to the state department that there was an anti-American demonstration in front of the consulate at Mazatlan last night. The mayor of ths city has made every preparation possible including the posting of a guard of federal soldiers about the consulate. The German consul is extending friendly offers to obtain the steamer Sidner for the purpose of removing all foreigners. o I ' i ■ THE COURT NEWS Edna Sprunger Given Divorce From Abraham, S3OO Alimony And ——— HER MAIDEN NAME Fort Wayne Case Venued Back to Allen County— Marriage License. Edna Sprunger was granted a divorce from Abraham Sprunger, >3OO alimony and costs of the case and the restoration of her maiden name. EdI na Brewster. The damage case of Charles Nassal ! vs. The Wabash Railroad Company, was dismissed without prejudice. Judgment against the plaintiff for costs. The 1200 damage case of Charles i Elmore of Bluffton vs. the Union 1 Traction Company, was reset for June i 8. At a prior trial, the jury disagreed 1 ■ — Jacob Atx and Charles Steele were ' given a judgment of $92.52 and costs against Robert Fritzinger on note. The damage case of Andrew Sekura vs. the Pennsylvania railroad company, which was venued here from the AHen Circuit court has been venued to tlie Alien Superior by agreement of the parties. Report of Aaron Bricker, guardian of Perry F. Miller, was approved and the , yuardlan was discharged. A marriage license was Issued to David Simon, laborer of Berne, born January 2. 1592. ton of Anthony Simon. to wed Bertha Kuntz. born June 22, 1592, daughter of Henry and Christen* Kuntz. Officials received receipt today from Mrs. Bell Wendall showing that she lias made good the forty dollars loss sustained by tlie Berne Hardware company in cashing the certificate of deposit tendered by her son. Emmett Irwin, who Is now In a Michigan re(Continued on Page Two)

Decatur, Indiana. Saturday Evening, April 25, 1914.

NEPHEW IS DEAD I I ! Wesley Valere Sholty, Nephi ew of B. W. Sholty This City—Died Yesterday : IN FORT WAYNE • Had Visited Here only a Few I Weeks Ago--Opcration For Mastoid Trouble. B. W. Sholty received a message last evening of the deatli of liis nephew and namesake, Wesley Valere Sholty. son of his only brother, Frank O. Sholty and wife of 1306 North Harrison street. Fort Wayne. The boy's death occurred on his sixteenth birthanniversary and resulted from mastoid trouble, an operation having been performed at the Hope hospital, where his death occurred yesterday morning at 3:50 o’clock. He was bom April 24. 1898, nt Phoenix. Arizona, and Mrs. B. W. Sholty of this city who was spending several months in Arizona was will: the family at the time, hence feels especially near to them in their bereavment. Mr. Sholty and the son, now deceased, visited here a few weeks ago. when they came from Montana. , to make Fort Wayne their home and , he wks I I good health. The deceased was a pupil of the Bloomingdale school The funeral will lie held Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the residence. Services will be private. Interment at Lindenwood. Mrs. B. W. Sholty left this morning to be with the grief-stricken family. The son was their only child. elecFofficTrs Epwort League Re-organizes —A. D. Suttles Re-elect-ed President. A GOOD STAFF • i Os Assistants-—Gentlemen Entertained for the Ladies 1 Last Evening. i 1 Tlie Epworth League of the Methodist church elected officers last evening when the regular social and bus!i ness meeting was held at the church. • the gentlemen entertained the ladles, i Tlie following were elected: i President A. D. Suttles. I Vice-president-Florence Myers. I Assistant vice president—Etta Mai lonee. Second vicregruaideut—Doris DeVos*

Third vice-president—Margaret Mills I Fourth vice-president—Ruth Bowers. | Secretary—Rutli Baltzell. Treasurer —Byard Smith. Pianist —Celia Andrews. Chorister —Abbie Bigham, During tlie social period, a muslsnl program was given and tlie young men served delicious refreshments. A violin selection with piano accompaniment was given by Charles Brock and Celia Andrews and a special feature was the duet by tlie Rev. D. T. Stephenson and Dwight Peterson. - t> MACCABEES TO MEET. The Maccabees will have a special meeting this evening at 7 o’clock at their hall. Every member is urged to attend. By order of Commander, John Logan. BILLISDRAFTED Providing War Tax,, Showing How Funds Will be Raised if Necessary —* EACH PAYS SHARE Tax O nChecks, Tobacco, Cigars, Drafts, Medicine, Liquors, etc. It looks like war and war costs , money and where this nation would se . cure the big amount of cash that would | be necessary is a matter of interest' to all. As in other times of trouble j it would be necessary to have a war i tax law. in fact the bill preparing for j this is even now drafted and ready i for passage. It would place a tax on medicines, tobaccos, liquors, etc., and the following will give you some idea ' lof how each individual would pay r. ! share toward the expense: If the war tax goes on again, the tax i on fermented liquors will be doubled. 1 as it was in 1895. Special taxes will | be levied as follows: Bankers employing a capital not exceeding $25,000. |SO when using a capital exceeding 125.t‘oo, $2 for every SI,OOO exceeding $25.000; broken. SSO; pawnbrokers. S2O; commercial brokers, S2O; custom house brokers. $10; proprietors of theaters, museums, moving picture shows and concert halls in cities hav-I tag more than 25.000 population, $100; i proprietors of circuses. $100; proprletors or agents of all other public exhibitions or shows for money, $10; proprietors of bowling alley* and billiard rooms, $5 for each alley or table, llonds. debentures, or certificates of (Continued on Page 2) A COLO STROKE Os Lightning Splintered The Barn On Mrs. Rosanna Dailey Farm TORE THINGS UP But There Was No Damage By Fire-Insurance Was Carried One of the earliest damages done by spring thunder ntorms, was thio morning at six o'clock when a “cold" bolt of lightning struck the bam on • th* farm of Mrs Rosanna Dailey east of town. The Irani was splintered up some board* Irelng ripped off the >M«. as well ■* some of the shingles Irelng torn up. A brace was also splintered. Mieklly fire did not break out. and the loss will not be more than fifty dollars This was fully covered by fire ami lightning insurance tn the Decatur In rurance agency. Carpenters began work at onee on the repair. Home farm hands and horsts* were in the tram at the time, but fortunately none were hurl,

DIED AT BERNE Daniel Baumgartner, Father of Deputy Auditor Paul Baumgartner. DIED LAST NIGHT Was Nearly Eighty Years of Age—Had Been 11l For Some Time. Daniel Baumgartner, a well know; aged resident of Berne, father of De- ! puty Auditor l*aul Baumgartner of this city, died last night between eight and nine' o'clock at his home In Berne. He had been ailing for some time iof heart trouble and dropsy, and it i was known that death could not be j far distant. The son. Paul, of this city. | witli others of his children were 1 with him when he passed away. Had ho lived until next August, he I I would have lieen eighty years of age. He was bom in Switzerland, but came t. America nearly sixty years ago. He I ' settled first in Ohio, and later came! I to Berne, this county. and also lived . |in Michigan nt various times. He was twice married. His first i wife died about forty years age. His 1 second wife, and a son Alex, by the i latter marriage survive, also the folI lowing children by the first marriage: Peter, of Newville; Daniel, of Dayton, Ohio; Jacob. Chattanooga, Ohio; Sam ' uel. Pratuin. Oregon; Paul, of this city. | A daughter, Mrs. Anna Beitler, died' about six years ago. The funeral will be held Sunday morning at eleven o'clock from the Pleasant Valley church near Berne, and burial will take place in the churchyard cemetary. ' -o , . TO BE GRADUATED Miss Helen Evans Completed Four Years’ Course in Three Years IN DOMESTC SCIENCE I I At Kansas State Agricultural College—Will be Graduated June 20 > | —— • In far off Kansas, an Adams county young lady, will on June 20, he listed , among a number of graduates from * the domestic science department of the Kansas State Agricultural college, at Mahnttan. Kansas. She Is Miss ! Helen Evan*, daughter nf Mr. and

ADMIRAL BADGER AND HIS FLAGSHIP r~~'< — 11 . - '' ~ \ / * A I i \ "t * e Me./ tai, < 1 . 7— —— • Rear Admiral Charle* J. Badger, in command of the Atlantic fleet, ordered to Tampico to enforce the pretldaatl • demand of a salute to the flag by tbo Huerta force* there. Tho batilratiip Arkamnu* Jr tlie admiral ■ flagship.

; Mrs. John R. Evans of tills city, form I erly of Root township, and is a graduate of tlie Decatur high school, after which she was a teacher in tlie county schools. She entered the Kansas school three years ago and lias very creditably finished tlie four years' domestic science course in three years. While in the west, she spent much of her time witli her grandmother, Mrs. T, E. McLaughlin and her aunt Miss Maud McLaughlin, at Wichita, Kansas, where Miss Maud is a teacher in tlie public schools. They formerly lived here. Miss Irene Evans will probably go to Kansas to attend her sister's grad-1 nation and visit a couple of months or I so with her grand mother and aunt. FIND BLIND PIG » Officers Make Onslaught On Kurt Johnson Establishment And TWO ARE ARRESTED ( Johnson and His Wife Plead , Not Guilty to Liquor Law Violation. — A little “blind pig” blind, to be sure. I but fat and plump, and with the curl- ! lest tail imaginable, and a squeal; I that will doubtless turn to a disgruntl- i 1 Icd grunt soon was caught last night 1 as the courthouse clock boomed out the hour of eleven o’clock. The little “blind pig” was rounded up in the room over the Brock store, occupied j by Kurt Johnson and his wife and the officers to whom the credit is due for IJ the capture are Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelley, Marshal Ceph Melchi, Night j 1 Policemen Smitley and Sam Frank. Kurt Johnson, aaginst whom the' | officers allege clear evidence of the il legal sale of liquor, was taken last night and lodged in jail. His wife, against whom the evidence is just as t strong, the officers state, was allowed ( to remain in her home over night. Tlie charge against them was not filed in the circuit court until this morning, and Isitli Kurt Johnson and his wife. Hazel Johnson, are made defendants. Tlie affidavit charges them | with operating a place for the sale of , Intoxicating liquors, on April 24. ani , si times prior to that and charges that ( they were found in possession of the , good*. The affidavit was made by Marshal , Melchi. Mrs. Johnson was arrested , tills morning and both were brought , into court where they pleaded not , guilty, and will evidently make an effort to fight the case. Their bond was fixed at S2OO but neither gave 11. und , went to jail. , For some time the conditions gave , rise to the l»»»Hef that the city was not , (Continued on l 'u<te 2) —

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WILD RIDE INTO PORTOFSAFETY Is Thrillingly Described By United Press Correspondents on the Scene. VILLA IS FIRM Will Break With Carranza Before He Will Consent to Fight U. S. Washington, April 25, —(Special to Daily Democrat) The arrest of several Americans before Charge O’Sliauhnessy’a train left Mexico City was reported in the state department dispatches from Consul Canada today. Tlie report, said that J. Star Hunt and liis foniily together with several other Americans were taken from tlie train at Mexico City just before starting. Tlie O’Shaughnessy party reported to Canada that a perfect reign of terror prevailed in Mexico City. They confirmed tlie story that tlie George Washington statue had been pulled down by the mob. Lafayette. Ind., April 25, —(Special to Daily Democrat.) —in case of a war with Mexico. 1.000 students of Purdue will enlist for active service. Lieutenant Kirkwood of the standing army, will command the cadets' corps and began today to organize a brigade of light artillery subject to the first < all of volunteers. In all. 450 students have signed and this will quickly he increased to 1,000. The students come from every part of Indiana. Newly organized companies are drilling In tlie streets of Monticello. Chalmers, and Reynolds, north of here. Chicago, April 25, —(Special to the Daily Democrat)—Twenty refugees, nineteen of them Americans and one a British subject, are believed to have lieen executed following their capture by Huerta's men near the plantation of The Mont::o-Rango Co of Chicago, late Friday. (By Wm. G. Shephard Copyrighted 1914 by I'uited Press.) Vera Cruz, April 25. (Special to Daily Democrat,)—Every interior city of Mexico is holding American prisoners as hostages. With the exception of O'Shaughnessy every member of tho diplomatic corps arrived here from Mexico City last night and privately expressed the opinion that only the early arrival of troops at the capitol and tho overthrow of Huerta will savo tho marooned Americans. Tho passage of O'Shaughnessy's train from the capitol was most dramatic. Tho Charge with hi* wife and children and member** of the embassy staff left Mexico Chy at uiiuiiig'it (Continue* on rit« 2*