Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1914 — Page 1

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GERMAN ARMY GAINING GROUND IN BELGIUM Allied Troops Are Centering Around Ant-werp-French Are Clearing Al-sace-Lorraine Os Germans

ARE MOVING German Artillery is Becoming More Effective and Slaughter is Great INTEREST DECLINES; ""' 1 1 Pope’s Death in Italy Overshadows War Interest and Sentiment Dies Out WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Opposition to sell ships to the government under' its national corporation plan, reached the White House today. What lines made the opposition are not announced but it was believed the North ; German-Lloyd or the Hamburg-Amer lean lines were included. The administration is expected to introduce its l>ill for the government purchase of ships for European and South American trade before the close of the ■week. PARIS, Aug. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Belgian and French armies are battling desperately in Belgium. The Germans have gained: the initial advantage. They have tak ' en the Belgian advance position in Ixtuvian. The Relgium general staff explained that the city itself had been evacuated to save it from destruction, a? For the first time the German artillery is said to be effective and under its'cover the infantry is pushing forward and entrenching as it comes. 6 In Alsace-Loraine the French position is described as ‘'excellent.’’ They are gaining ground at every point. : ROME—Death of the pope has distracted all attention from the war and the pro-war sentiment is declared to be dying out. it-LONDON. Aug. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The mystery surround ing the whereabouts of the British expeditionary forces was further increased when the war office press bureau issued an official statement denyii g that the British forces were not engaged along the Belgian-French .position now being attacked by the Germans. Heretofore it had been bellevied that British troops were in Belgium. WASHINGTON— Sercetary of War Garrison announced today that the relief ship Tennesee was proceeding to .Rotterdam and that she would remain at Holland Corts until further orders. ST PETERSBURG— The war office tonight issued an official statement saying that the general Russian movement against Austria is now in progress. It stated that Austrian cavalry guarding the frontier had been crushed by the Cossack advance guard and that Russian infantry is now being pushed forward. Officials o the Red Cross here officially charged that he Austrians were using explosive shells. WASHINGTON— In the report to th'e British embassy here, the Stsdement says: “Since declaring war fleet has been responsible for the safety of the expeditionary forces which completed its disembarkation „ L. is. work or <l.e in the Atlantic and elsewhere in safe guarding trade routes is most ex nv plary and in Lloyds of yesterday'the war risk rate Has fallen to 40 shilling per cent, for almost any voyage British vessels, whereas the rate ; insure shipments ot corn < to cent. The

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military position is as follows: The | German fcrce'at present extends from north of the neighborhood of Basle tc the east through Liege to a point in Belgium to the east of Antwerp and near the Dutch border. The outstand ing feature of operations up to the present has been delayed as the result jof the check to the contemplated Ger man movement across the Meuse, by jthe defense or Liege where the forts lare still intact. This has permitted an orderly mobilization and concentration of the French array and British expeditionary force. German troops have now crossed the Meuse both above and below Liege and are gaining some ground west but the advance cavalry has been checked by the Belgians. In the south where (the German army is apparantly on the defensive, the French are advancing into Alsace and Lorraine, a great .extent of which they now occupy after driving back in several engagements the troops opposing them. LONDON—The German army in [Belgium is gradually driving the BelI gium-French column backward toward the French front. The success in the north however is admitted offset in the south where the French are clear- ■ ing Alsace-Lorraine of the enemy. ' Muelhousen and Guebwiller have been taken at the point of the bayonet and the French are moving toward Strass- ' burg. Meanwhile great interest is felt regarding the movement of the fleet. i The admiralty is expecting developments, of what source no one can tell, (but it is announced that the German 1 fleet is bottled up and that is believed to indicate they are in Heilogoland . or Wilhelmshaven with the British fleet on constant guard. The admiralty has ben expecting a night raid by ' German submarines and destroyers but so far no offensive movement has been made by the Germans. —— II— Paris, Aug. 20,—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The German army of the Meuse has reached Dinant while the i advance guard is taking position along ’ the river Dyle. This official announcement today indicated the enormous extent of the German advance. The Belgians are admitted to be retiring on Antwerp. The official announcement ■'says that the Belgian line? are slowly giving way before the German as- ■ sault as required “in accordance to the I plans.’’ Nothing is said ■ of the position of the allied army in > Belgium. Presistent rumors continue i that the German army had entered ‘ Brussels. The combined German army -1 of the Meuse and of the Moselle are II attacking the allied lines near Brussel This is assured. The German advance during the past two days has been slow ' but steady. Namur is in danger and ■ persistent reports state that Louviane > has fallen. An official statement to i day declared that the French position . was excellent and that the German re tirement toward Strassburg still con 3 tinued. t o— — hoosier hikers homing. ’ Byard Smith and Kenyon Walters ■ the Hoosier Hikers, who hiked frorr 1 here to Toledo in less than a week ; will return this evening with th< 1 Methodist excursionists having speni 3 the day at Walbridge Park with them where they undoubtedly were heroes of the day. The boys left a weel i ago this morning, in spite of the sac -jthat it was “the thirteenth” and go s through safely, without more in ? convenience than a few blisters am J a slightly twisted ankle. They ar i rived at Toledo yesterday. 3 MRS. SUDDUTH LOW. ? Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sudduth an< s son, Argo, left at 2:30 for Ossiat t' where they were called by word tha a 1 Mr. Sudduth’s mother, Mrs. Suddutl v who went there from here yesterda; 3 'for a visit, Is seriously ill. Detail: e ’ were unknown.

Decatur, Indiana,Thursday Evening, August 20, 1914.

PROMINENT MAN - I I -I I John Huser, One Os Most Substantial Farmers Os French Township ' DIED LAST NIGHT Until Three Months Ago Had Been A Strong And Robust Man Berne, Ind., Aug. 20,—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—John Huser, one of the oldest, most influential and substantial farmers of French township, deid last evening at 6:30 o’clock at his home. Until three months ago, Mr. Huser had been a strong and ro(bust man. Doctors did not agree on ,the nature of his illness, some stating it was of the nature of a stroke of paralysis, and others rheumatism. Mr. Huser was sixty-two years, six months and one day old and was born 'on the farm on which his death occurred. The widow, seven sons and a daughter survive. One daughter died at the ’age of sixteen years. Three sisters jof the deaceased are dead, and two are living. | The funeral will be Saturday morning at nine o’clock at the home and at ten o’clock from the Defenceless Mennonite church In French township, two miles from Linn Grove, in charge of the Rev. Lantz. In Mr. Huser’s death the community suffers a loss that cannot be refilled. —: o ICE CREAM SOCIAL SATURDAY. Kolter Bros, will hold an ice cream social at Magley on Saturday August 22nd. Everybody is invited. —• o — ■ - WRECK ON ERIE Meat and Merchandise Trains Have Head on Collision Early This Morning NEAR RIVER BRIDGE Three Cars of Meat, One Car of Merchandise and Empty ( Car Demolished While traveling at a speed of 25 : miles an hour until within a hundred ! feet of the scene of the wreck, the | east bound Erie fast meat train No. 78 crashed into a westbound extra freight No. 2084 at 5:25 this morning at a point several hundred feet west of the St .Mary’s river bridge and resulted in three cars of the meat train filled with oleo oil, lard and meat, and one car of merchandise and an empty stock .car of the freight train, being completely demolished. The engines of both trains however, kept the track and were but slightly damaged. The meat train was in charge of Conductor Burt Nevins and Engineer Hurd while the extra was in charge of Conductor Royston and Engineer Zentine. The impact was an exceptionally hard one owing to the fact that the extra freight was stationary and formed a greater resistance by having the air brakes Idown on every car. According to a statement made by Engineer Hurd of the meat train, when he passed the signal tower he was given a green block, which means a clear right of way, and as customary he called the signal to his fireman who confirmed it. The engine and several cars had passed the tower when Conductor Nevins looked out of the ca- , boose and saw that a red block was being displayed. He immediately put on the air from the caboose, but owing probably to the fact that the j train was under such headway and the impetus formed by the heavily loaded meat cars, the resistance was not felt by the engineer. It was not until the engine had rounded the curve at the Mercer Avenue crossing that Engineer I Hurd realized his danger. He then i threw on the air and did everything : possible to stop his train but the space i was too short and the two engines r came together with a loud crash. The i engineer and fireman of the meat train leaped when they saw the collision

was inevitable and escaped without injuries. The freight cars were broken into kindling wood and strewn over the tracks as were casks of oleo oil, lard and merchandise. The merchandise car on the freight train was the first car back of the tender and was crumpled into a space of about four feet. A tramp was sleeping in the stock car, immediately back of the merchandise car and after the crash crawled out of the splinters, picked up a pair of new shoes from among the wreckage and beat a hasty retreat along the river. The wreck attracted large crowds and required several hours for the wreck train to clear away the de(Continued on rage 2) OEAfTraLTS Charles H. Patton, The Well Known Contractor, Died Last Evening From TYPHOID - PNEUMONIA Was 11l But Three Weeks— Had Been Resident of This City for 22 Years As the result of complications of typhoid fever and pneumonia, from which he has been suffering for the past three weeks, Charles H. Patton, one of the most popular and highly es-j teemed residents of this city, passed , away last evening at his home on ■ Grant street at 10:30 o’clock. Although ' his death had been expected for twenty-four hours prior to the time, the word of his death came as a distinct shock to his multitude of friends and acquaintances in the city and many a heart was saddened that such an exemplary man should be parted from his home and loved ones in the veryprime of his life. During Mr. Patton’s twenty-two years of residence in this city, he had proven himself one of the most progressive and Industrious of citizens. Always assisting in every way possible for the further advancement of the city and forever giving his ability toward bringing the county up to its present high standard. He was an active member in the K. of P. and Red Man lodges and his departure will cause a vacancy in these orders that will be hard to fill. Mr. Patton was born near Ligonier, Indiana, September 8, 1864, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Patton. He grew to young manhood at the place of his birth and was united in marriage on April 23, 1889 to Miss Flora Murray of this county. After their marriage the couple resided in | Ligonier for 3 years and then moved to this city. Upon his arrival herMr. Patton joined partnership with Fred Linn in the contracting and build- 1 fConUnueti on f.ige 4) WILL SPEAK HERE Judge McKinzie Cleland, the Prison Reform Judge Will Speak Here Saturday of CHAUTAUQUA WEEK Drs. Wm. A. Colledge and Leslie W. Sprague Will Also Lecture Here Judge McKinzie Cleland, the prison reform judge of the Chicago municipal court, is to be the headline attraction here Saturday afternoon August 29, of Chautauqua week. With such big orators on the program as Cleland, Olt, Flowers, Colledge and Sprague, this year’s Chautauqua cannot help being better than ever. There is hardly a man in the county today who Is doing a more practical work for prison reform—especially for the reform of the pretty offender, than Judge Cleland. The subject of his lecture here will be the “Newer Justice." Judge Cleland claims that petty offenders, more than 200,000 yearly are jailed in many instances because of failure to pay a small fine. These offenders, he says, are oftimes made in to (Continued on Page Four)

WAS A BIG DAY * For the Spanish American Boys of 160th at Bluffton Yesterday FOURTEENTH ANNUAL Reunion Held—Many From Decatur Present—Next Year at Winona Lake The boys who attended the 14th annual reunion of the 160th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of the Spanish American war in Bluffton yesterday report a good time. There were'about 150 of the veterans and their wives present at the business session. Registration headquarters were in the Grand Opera house. There was a band concert in the morning, dinner at noon by the W. R. C. followed by another band concert. The business session was in the afternoon and in the evening the big camp fire was held at the opera house. The Bluffton and Wells county boys were fine entertainers. This is the second time Bluffton has entertained the “vets,” the first being in 1900. The following from Decatur, of Company “B” were registered: Company B —Thomas J. Johnson, Monroe; Alfred Kahnert, Monroe; William Noll, Decatur; Jonas Fisher, Decatur; J. D. Andrews, Decatur: Charley E. Merriman, Decatur; E. B. Macy, Decatur; Leslie Andrews and wife, Decatur; Jas. F. Wilson, Decatur; R. D. Myers, Decatur; C. E. Barnhart, Attica. The 1915 reunion will be held at Winona Lake on the third Wednesday in August.

PROVED FATAL I I Harry Fleming, Prominent ? _ ( Young School Teacher, ( Succumbs to Typhoid I 1 DIED LAST NIGHT , i I Was Principal of the South 1 i Ward School —lll a Few i ■ Weeks ______ Decqtur is saddened in the death of j one of its prominent young school i teachers, Harry Josephus Fleming, for ' several years principal of the south ward school, who died last evening at 10:30 o’clock, after a several weeks' illness of typhoid fever. Mr. Fleming : was but twenty-six years, two months 1 and nineteen days, of age, and was ' in the very early prime of life, with ! prospects of a long and most useful , career, until suddenly stricken. i He was the son of Trustee and Mrs. 1 J. A. Fleming of Union township. It 1 was there that the young man was ’ born May 30, 1888, and where he was ( reared. After receiving a good educa- i tion in the county and normal schools, , lie began teaching and iiad risen rapid- | ly in his profession. He was married , a few years ago to Miss Irene Merle Barkley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Barkley. The widow witli ; three children, two girls and a boy, ; the baby only a few weeks old, sur- , vive. Besides the parents, there are also one brother and four sisters. They are John and Edna Fleming, at home; Hazel Gibson of Allen county and Monetna and Lucile Fleming, at home, Mr. Fleming was a man of fine character and attainment, and in liis deatli the community and the profession, has lost a valued man. For several months he had served as assistant to County Superintendent. L. E. Opliger, and continued with Superintendent E. S. Christen, until he became ill. A sad thing is that a daughter, Ruth, aged sixteen months, is also ill of typhoid fever. The funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at l;00 o’clock August 22, at the Evangelical church in charge of the pastor, the Rev. J. H. Rilling, and the Rev. D. T. Stephenson of the Methodist church.

CITY DEPOPULATED. * - The city was very nearly depopulated today on account of many. Including the city band, being at Walbridge Park, Toledo, Ohio. The excursion train, with many hundreds of passengers, left very early this morning, over the Clover Leaf. The excursion was given under the auspices of the Methodist Sunday school. o - UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES A mother's lap ez th’ best place t’ lay yer hed fer a good kry; but th’ best uv et ez thet she soon hez y’ a-laffin’ again. HEART_BROKEN Are George Paille, Amishman by Adoption, and His Wife Who ARE NOW SEPARATED 1 { By the Peculiar Beliefs of the i Church—Figured in Law , Suit. 1 The Portland Sun savs: Il _ ‘ i“George E. Paille. the Adams county ‘ Amishman, who six years ago figured ’ as the plaintiff in a suit tried in the ' Jay circuit court against Jacob!, Swartz, his aged father-in-law, and 1 , other elders of the Amish sect of I; Adams county, spent Tuesday after '] noon and Wednesday in tl|is city , calling on friends he made during the ( week that he was here in the trial of ( his case. “Paille is a heartbroken man in every sense that the term implies, if ■ his actions speak the truth, and while talking with him one had no reason for doubt. He is no longer permitted to reside with his wife and two little sons, aged eleven and six years, the youngest born within two or thr e days following the termination of the] I trial here in which Paille was award ed damages in the sum of SI,OOO for the alienation of the affections of his wife. At the time of the trial lie was allowed to live in the same house witli his wife but not as her husband, she being restricted to the extent that she could only provide his meals and mend his clothing and not even being allow * ed to converse with him except in the 1 presence of others. This was all I brought about by his violation of one i of the rules of the Amish church by > taking out a fire insurance policy on < his farm buildings. When his barn < burned to the ground tie collected $l5O |1 and in the belief of tiie Amish, his ac-h ceptance of the money condemned hit 1 < soul to hell. j1 "Following the trial the couple con-' 1 tinued to live together under former ' restrictions for some time but finally 1 the wife was persuaded to take her ( 1 children and return to her parents'.( home to live. She has since declined p to return to him. He at last dispos- : ed of his forty-acre tract of land in J the Amish settlement and purchased 11 sixty acres of ground four miles dis-jl tant, where he has accumulated some I money, by tilling his eoil and raising s stock. Only occasionally can he stop] I at the Swartz home and see his wife I and children and then cannot speak to I them except when others, unfriendly < towards him, are about that, they may : hear what is said and see everything 1 that takes place. 1 “The court here in sustaining the 1 judgment rendered in Paille’s favor by : a. jury of twelve men, did not include i in his finding that the bonds of the church, which prohibit the wife living with her husband, should be broken. Because of this she still believes that if she should associate with him so long as he is not a member of the] church in good standing that she too. 1 would be condemned and her soul be I lost forever. He has been denied permission to the church, even though he has offered to settle all court costs and the judgment rendered in his favor and to make amends necessary to again be permitted the companionship of his wife and children. “For nearly eighteen months, Paille was at Camden, N. J., his boyhood home and touring through Switzerland. “I went there,” he said, "thinking that I could forget or that my absence might again win my wife back, but it ■ did not.” At Camden he visited with - his aged father and mother, his father (Continued on Pago Four)

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SUPPLICATIONS AREOFFERED Thousands of People Kneel I t in Prayer Around Vatican for Pope Pius X ■ ■> BODY IN STATE lid Is Resting in the Chamber of Death in Charge of Confessors of Vatican By Henry Wood, U. P. Correspondent. ROME. Aug. 20 (Special to Daily Democrat) In charge of the confessors of the Vatican, (he body of his Holiness Pope Pius X, rested today in the chamber in which he died Wednesday evening. Great crowds stood uncovered in St. Peter’s square. There, thousands knelt in prayer while in all the churches supplications were offered by other thousands who reverred the venerable head of the church and loved the man for his peasant, simplicity. Official announcement of I the death of the Popo was made at 1:20 o’clock today. It was known in I official circles however at bo’clock yesterday evening (noon by New York I time.) Such a delay in the announcement of the passing of the Pope is not unusual. Tin* Vatican with-held ]announcement of the death of Pope Pius XI for twenty-four hours and it was a similar length of time between the death of Pope Leo XIII and the official announcement of his passing. Born at Riese, near Venice, June )2, 1835. Studied in Riese, Treviso and Padua. Ordained Priest in 1858. Served as Curate nine years. Appointed Parish Priest of Salzano iin 1867. Chancellor of the Diocese, 1875. Vicar-Capitular, 1877. Bishop of Mantua. 1884. Cardinal and Patriarch of Venice, 1893. Elected Pope August 9, 1903. Pope Pius X was born Joseph Sarto at Riese, near Venice, June 2, 1835. He was the child of poor peasants IHe rose to a station considered by millions of peapie the most exalted in the world. Talent displayed at an early age and developed to an extraordinary degree, deep piety, broad | human sympathy and tireless energy brought about liis marvelous success. 1 All his life he held the love of his fel- , low men. He was the “Pope of the ' Poor.” His grandfather was a soldier in the papal army under Gregory XVI. His father worked in the fields and 'as communal carrier, struggling to ■ maintain with his meager income the jalrge family of two sons and six daughters. A small cottage was the birthplace of the pope. He attended the parish school at Riese. His attitude induced the family to send him to a school at Castelfranco, seven miles ’from home. To meet the expense Ins father labored even more hours daily than had been his lot. The boy walked the long route to school. He was a faithful student, and by winning laurels verified the wisdom of the family in making sacrifices to further his education. Precious documents still preserved by his sisters are the certificates setting forth his eminence in the entire range of studies. They were especially proud of his efficiency’ in Latin Joseph won a scholarship which enabled him to enter the semi- > nary of Treviso and afterward that of '■Padua. He distinguished himself in . the study of theology. In ISSB, when s 23 years of age, he was ordained a - priest. e— — 1 ROME. Aug. 20—Catholic hearts d were doubly saddened today when the e announcement was made of the death sos Rt. Rev. Father Francesco Wernz, head of the Jesuit, order. As e President of the order, Father Wernz d was frequently referred to as the I. “Black Pope" because of the enormous it powers placed in his hands by the e Jesuit regulations. He was one of It the best educated members of the I: priesthood and many of his contribur tions to literature have been accepted as masterpieces.