Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1914 — Page 1

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Volume XII. Number 225.

MOBILIZATION OFTROOPS IS ORDERED BY VILLA Fighting Between The Germans And Allies Is Continuous With But Little Advantage On Either Side

BOMBARD_FORTS Entire Line of French Forts i Are Being Successfully Attacked by Germans. i TO LEAVE COUNTRY• 1 Turkish Ambassador In- • i forms President He Will I c go Within Two Weeks. I —i . t Chihuahua, Sept. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat) —General Villa today i ordered the mobilisation of 25,000 1 troops of the constitutionalist army of t the north, at Torreon, where he expects to withstand an attack by 10,000 Carranza troops now reported to be ] moving northward. t I Washington, Sept. 24 —(Special to < Daily Democrat) —Carranza will at- ] tempt no offensive campaign against ( Villa nor make any attempt to put i down the rebellion by force. This ’ was tile substance of a message re- t ceived from Consul Silllman at Mex- ( Ico City by the state department this j afternoon. He said Carranza will fight f only if attacked. Washington, Sept. 24—(Special to ] Daily Democrat) —Villa's reported re- j volt against General Carranza will not ] change but only delay the plans for ( evacuating Vera Cruz. Neither will t the reported uprising cause an issu- t ance of a new embargo on arms. This j was the official announcement at the ; white house today. I Washington .Sept. 24, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —It was officially an- , nounced at the White House today ( that there will be no change in the j plans for the removal of the American ] troops from Vera Cruz, by reason of j the present trouble between Villa and j Carranza. The new revolution of VII- ; la against Carranza’s authority has . thrown into confusion all of the plans 1 of the administration for peace. The ( first important action was the order to Consul Carrothurs to confer with Villa and learn whether he will [ consent to other methods than hostilities to end the dispute. The new break came like a bolt out of the clear sky to President Wilson who has been , led to- believe that a united goven-. ( ment would soon be established. London, Sept. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Germans are making supreme efforts to break through the French center between Argonne and 1 Meuse. This is admitted at the war office. It is stated that for the past forty-eight hours the fighting has been : continual both night and day. The : Germans, heavily reinforced, are trying to force the withdrawal of part of the- French line, which continues to push the German right slowly backward. The French lines are holding firm. There are enormous losses on both sides, outdoing anything in the war so far. The entire battle ground ; is covered with dead and wounded, neither side having had time to col- 1 lect them. The fighting is also desperate on the extreme north although the allies have not been able to make any very long gains. Both sides are frantically reinforcing. A significant note comes in the announcement that the winter equipment of the British troops is already being transported to France. This indicates there will be no let-up in the struggle. Washington. Sept. 24-(Special to Daily Democrat)-The Turkish ambassador has announced that /e has already notified the president, that he had asked for a "leave of absence" and

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I that he would leave this country within two weeks. Paris, Sept. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Tire official announcement made this afternoon at 3 o’clock is as follows: "On our left our troops proceeding between Somme and Oise have advanced in the direction of Roye, 25 miles southeast of St. Quentin. The center is holding while there is no particular change on the right in the vicinity of Nancy and the Vosges.” Berlin, Sept. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The war office officially stated that the Germans are now, bombarding the entire chain of Meuse fortifications that extend from Verdun to Toul and their reducement is now Relieved certain. Tire great siega guns that demolished Liege and Namur are being used with telling effect, slowly battering the French for- ' tifications to pieces. Washington, Sept. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Siasconsett station of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company was today ordered closed at noon tomorrow by Secretary Daniels. This action was taken because the company transmitted unneutral messages to a British cruiser. The navy censorship was instructed to see that the station was tightly closed up. The company’s first move fn the fight probably will be to apply for an injunction to restrain the navy. Paris, Sept. 24. —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Germans last night in a series of night attacks failed to 1 break through the French center. This' attempt coupled with the unusual ac-[ tivity on the French right proved that the Germans are making every possi- 1 ble move to relieve the pressure and are slowly crumbling, the military experts say. Petrograd, Sept. 24,—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The Russian artillery is reducing the five main forts at Prezemysl. Great breaches have been made in the walls by the siege guns. I It is said that the city must soon fall. It is confidently declared that the Russians will be before Cracow within a week. The official reports state that the steady western advance of the Russian troops continue, Washington, Sept. 24, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The demand for the recall of A. Rustem Bey, Turkish am- 1 bassador to this country was imminent today. It is understood that his action will be taken because of recent utterances concerning the interior affairs of the United States. London, Sept. 24,—(Special to Daily Democcrat,)—The Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily News wires that syndicalists are pasting posters l on the walls around Berlin and other | German cities reading: "We want ( peace; down with the Kaiser.” It is ( stated that the police have been unable to locate the authors. —o MAY BE IN NEW YORK. Relatives here have received word that Miss Bertha Luckey, daughter of Professor Luckey, of Lincoln, Neb., who has been in Germany 'for two years with her brother, as a student, was expected to arrive in New York City yesterday. Her brother, who remained in Germany to complete Ids studies, it was said, had finally left and expected to join his sister, but whether he did so before she sailed and whether they are now together, was not learned. Miss Bertha left Germany in advance of her brother, to make an attempt to sail for the United States before the hostilities became so great. It will be remembered that they stopped here enroute to Germany with their parents. Professor Luckey is a brother of Mrs. JcZn Brock. Mrs. Martha Spuller and Mrs. Mary Kern. Mrs. Luckey is a sister of Mrs. J. S. Boyers.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, September 24, 1914.

FOR a NEW TRIAL Arguments in Ohio Supreme Court for Motion for New Trial FOR RALPH HOOVER Convicted on Charge of Murdering His Young Wife, Helen Hoover. The arguments in the case of Ralph Hoover of Van Wert county. Ohio, convicted of wife murder, offered before the Ohio supreme court, were along the same lines as those presented in

the lower courts. The defense, in the effort to have the lower courts overruled and a new trial granted to Hoover, argued that the implied admission, which deals with the statement made by Helen Hoover, should not have been permitted to go to the jury, because it was unreliable and prejudicial; that the state failed to show a motive for murder; that the circumI stances were consistent with the theory of suicide; that it was error to impeach certain testimony given by Dr. L. A. Ellis, in which it was shown that this witness declared that the deceased could have committed suicide, although he had previously issued an oral statement which was construed to mean that he believed the prisoner at. the bar had done the shooting. The attorneys for the state vigorously combatted all of the claim set forth and on the latter score, too, the position that whenever opinion evidence is a subject of inquiry, and the witness is an expert, his opinions given outside of court, inconsistent with those given in court, are subject to impeachment. The weight of the state's argument against the suicide theory were on familiar lines, being to the end that it would have been impossible for the deceased to have shot herself and afterward regained consciousness, recovered the revolver and fired other .shots into her head without creating i more than one pool of blood, or smearing blood about the room in which she I was fund. The pinion of the supreme court, it is expected, will be delivered on the twenty-ninth instant, or shortly after that date. —Van Wert Daily i Bulletin. o — PROGRAMSJSSUE For the Meeting of the Indiana State Teachers’ Assocation. WHICH WILL BE HELD i In Indianapolis October 29, 30, 31—Five Thousand Programs Sent Out. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Fresh from the printing press the official proof the Indiana State Teachers' 'association to be held in Indianapolis 'October 29, 30, 31, are being distributed among the educators today. Five thousand programs were sent out. The excellence of tiie general program and the line of work laid down for the sectional meetings will, the officers believe, attract a great of educators. The management of the Severin hotel, social headquarters, is making preparations to take care of a much larger crowd than last ' winter. In selecting men to address the teaching body along social service [ lines tiie executive committee, of 'which E. P. Wiles of Evansville is chairman, used great care. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York City, will speak at the opening session on [Thursday evening on the topic, "The .Task of a Teacher in a Democracy.” Some of the other noted speakers for (he general association meetings and their subjects follow: “The Citizen Teacher,” Dr. J. Y. Joyner, superintendent of public instruction of Raleigh, N. C.; “The Fellowship of the Common Life,” Dr. Charles Zueblin,

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publicist, Boston; "Socializing the High School," W. D. Lewis, William Penn high school Philadelphia; "The Social Significance of the Teachers’ Responsibility for Discipline,” Dr. W. C. Bagley, University of Illinois. Dr. Bagley is also down for the topic, “The Social Achievement of the American High School." Anotiier topic assigned to Dr. Joyner is “The Teacher’s Work and Reward.” All of the visiting speakers will give two or three formal addresses. One of the strong men on the program is Dean James E. Russell of the Teachers' College. Columbia University, who Is to speak on "Social Aspects of Methods of Instructions.” At one of the general sessions Rabbi Wise will discuss the topic, "Plays, Moral and Immoral,” or “The Drama of Our Times." Charles A. Greathouse, superintendent of public instruction, has sent the' following letter of interest to teachers to the executive committee: “Provision is made by the statute for school boards and trustees to pay teachers for attending associations. The change of date, plan of meetings and excellence of program makes the meeting of the Indiana State Teachers’ association for 1914 of unusual value. School authorities should make it 1 possible for every teacher in Indiana to attend." The association has arranged with the Chicago Ensemble Quartet for the principal musical features. WiTHIICfCHILD In Her Arms, Martha Linker Makes Way to Her Former Home. CHILD PASSED AWAY Few Hours After Arrival There—Sad Case is Reported. The death of a girl baby, Luretta Linker, aged one year and twenty-six days, which occurred Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, but was not reported to the local undertaker until yesterday' afternoon about 4 o’clock, is the unhappy ending to a case that is sad in the extreme. The babe was l>orn to Martha Linker, daughter of the late | Vai Linker, August 29, 1913. The mother and child had been given the privilege of staying at the home of her sister near Markle, since Mr. Linker’s death, in consideration of the payment of SIOO. The time for their residence there would not have expired until March, but some difficulty is said to have ensued and the mother and child were told to go, it is reported. They left the sister’s home at Markle on the train Tuesday afternoon and arrived at Peterson in the afternoon about 3 o’clock. From there they went to the Holthouse farm, west of this city, on which the Linker family formerly resided, until the home was broken up by Mr. Linker’s death a short time ago. When the tenants who were away on her arrival, reached home, they found the young woman sitting on the porch holding her babe in her arms. The babe was found to be very ill, and a physician was called, as the family feared it was at the point of death. An hour after the physician arrived the babe passed away. It is said to have been in poor health from birth, and was suffering from a spinal, trouble, complicated with heart disease. A little white casket was ordered from a Decatur undertaker and a little funeral service will bi; held this afternoon and the short and unhappy life will have its last chapter written when the little body is laid away finder the turf in the Shady cemetery. GO TO FORT WAYNE. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Marhenke went to Fort Wayne today, where they will spend the winter with their daughter, Mrs. Carrie Busse. Mr. Marhenke has been ill since last winter, and it is thought he has developed Bright’s disease. They are not closing their home here, but will remain this winter with their daughter. o TO HAVE OPERATION. Drs. Clark will operate upon Earl Hoagland of the Mills grocery tomorrow for appendicitis.

TO CENTENARIAN Mrs. Caroline P. Ferry is Poem Dedicated by the Hendersons. OF FORT WAYNE Written to Her on Her One Hundredth Birthday Anniversary. Among the callers during the reception of Mrs. Caroline P. Ferry of Fort Wayne, late of this city, on her hundredth birthday, were Kathryn and Jack Henderson. After Mrs. Ferry repeated the first

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especially for them (they having arrived too late for the singing) they presented her with a copy of their latest song, “Firelight Fancies,” and in turn Mrs. Ferry gave Miss Henderson a beautiful rose from her birthday bouquet. Afterw’ard they wrote the following poem in honor of Mrs. Ferry’s hundredth birthday: Erect she held her queenly head, Her mind still bright and clear, Received her guests with outstretched hand. Though in her hundredth year, She sang the song of stars and stripes, Her silv’ry voice still strong Her birthday thus she celebrates And entertains the throng. She lived to see the forest go The ox team put aside — No more they use the saddle horse — In aeroplanes they ride. She decorates her home with flags. Her friends now congregate And gently take her by the hand And thus congratulate. SWINGS ON AMALGAMATION Galesburg. 111., Sept. 24, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Col. Roosevelt swung hard upon the republican-pro-gressive amalgamation movement in an address today that opened a two days’ speaking tour of Illinois. “It is the veriest of absurbity to ask any progressive to turn back and join the republican ranks” said the Colonel. o— END IS NOT YET End in LeVan Baker Trial at Celina, 0., is Not Yet in Sight. TRYING TO SHOW That He Had “Spells” When He Couldnt Tell Right from Wrong. The Baker murder trial at Celina, ’ Ohio, is not yet at an end, the de- [ 'fense making a strong effort to es- ' tablish the contention that LeVan 'Baker was probably insane when he struck down and murdered Wilbur E. j Phillips of Lima, Ohio. Tiie trial of | 'Dennis Baker of Bobo, Ind., on the [ I same charge, set for opening on Tues-' 'day of this week, has been continued ! pending the outcome of the trial at [ bar. A number of witnesses have been called who testified that they ' knew LeVan Baker for a number of years and that al times he had some kind of "spells” at which time they thought he was unable to distinguish right from wrong. o UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES Til’ uncommon meny deths set me ■ a musin’. Aftur all nobudy ez wholly happy. Sum hez real for-sure graves [where they kin hev sum konsolatlon in layin’ un a reath now an’ then; an’ .sum hez jist graves in their hearts ez they grow old —graves uv ded hopes an’ anbishuns an’ ideals thet brings th’ tears when nobuddy ain’t a-lookin’ an’ un which they kan’t lay any reaths fer fear o’ bein’ laffed at. But shucks —whut’s a-gittin me. I’m haff a-cry-in now and sumbuddy’s a-comin’.

HAS LEFT DECATUR And Says He Will Go to Fight for His Country. Charles R. Kolin, the Paris cleaning and dye works man, with rooms above tiie Ward Fence company's office, left this city Sunday morning, telling his wife he was going to Bluffton to look after business and would not return until Tuesday. Up to today lie has not .appeared, and has written his wife from Chicago that she need not worry about him as he was going hack to his country (France) and fight. It is not known whether or not the stories told about him are true, but anyway a number of Decatur business houses are holding tiie “sack,” some to a considerable loss. He says his accounts will be paid out of his mother’s estate. Mrs. Kolin says she will go to Chicago and make her home with iter sister. SEASONOPENS High School Athletic Association Begins Season Tomorrow. BASKET BALL GAME Between Berne and Decatur —Will be in Open Air at High School. Tiie High School Athletic association. under tiie able management of High School Principal Martin Worthman expects to have a good year. It will open its season tomorrow afternoon at 3:45 o’clock witli an out door basket ball game at tiie high school campus, the game being with the Berne basket bail team. Tiie admission will be free. Everybody is invited. •The association wishes to accomplish much during the coming season and to do so will need some funds. The association has decided to add to its treasury by conducting a refreshment stand at the fair next week. Everybody should help the boys out. - ' o NO MAIL AT SIDE DOORS Washington, Sept. 24, —Housewives and business men in many cities who have been accustomed to receiving their mail from obliging carriers at I rear and side doors now must arrange Ito have postmen call on the front entrances. Instructions to this effect were mailed to postmasters today to . become operative in two months. Many carriers lost much time, it was said by making circutious routes to rear and side doors to oblige the patrons on their routes. ——o TO INDIANA HARBOR. Norbert Holthouse, son of Mrs. R. J. Holthouse, left this morning for Indiana Harbor, Ind., where he will accept a position as stenographer and bookkeeper in the office of the Indiana Harbor Lumber & Coal company. Mr. Holthouse is a graduate of [the St. Joseph’s college, Collegeville, [having completed a three years’ 'course last June. It is without doubt

that he will make good. — o ■— - COURT HOUSE NEWS. Hunting and fishing licenses have I been issued to L. S. Meyers, J. L. Ulman,O. L. Vance, David J. McWliir[ter, Decatur; Jonas Gilbert, P. E. Fu'gate, Monroe; Frank Hisey, Berne. Celia Weiland vs. Martin Weiland, support 3 motion to make the complaint more specific was overruled, 'and exceptions taken; ten days to file bill of exceptions; demurrer filed to the complaint. John D. Stults was appointed guar dian of Joseph Shady, aged eighty four, who on account of old age ant infirmities is deemed incapable ol managing his own estate. Mr. Stulti gave SSOO bond. Grace M. Battenberg qualified as nc tary public. » Real estate transfers: D. B. Erwi ' to Jonas Fisher, lot 272, Decatur, con i missioner's deed, $695; E. Burt Let i hart to John Reed, commissioner’ -[deed to 26 acres in Root township $2,310.

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IS NOW PAROLED Roy Woodruff Given Release from Michigan City Prison. WORD IS RECEIVED I i By Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly Who Worked to Secure Parole. Through the efforts of Deputy Slier- , iff Jesse Kelly, Roy Woodruff, son of the late Reuben Woodruff, has been paroled from Michigan City prison. Such was the word received in a letter today by Mr. Kelly, from Warden E. J. Fogarty. He asked that. Woodruff’s clothes be sent to him at once, as he wishes to get away as soon as possible. Woodruff is about twenty-eight or twenty-nine years of age, and more than one-third of his young life has been spent in prison. He was sent up to Jeffersonville when he was about nineteen years old, having been convicted of driving away two steers belonging to Davis Dailey and selling them in this city. He was transferred after about eight years in tiie reformatory to the prison at Michigan City. About a year ago last May lie was paroled and came back here. He went to work and was doing well. In October lie was accused by some fellow workmen on the railroad of signing a . money order at Preble belonging to • another man. Two fellows were with . Woodruff at, the time, and they skipped out. Woodruff, however, remain- . led here and on him fell the blame, . although! it was not proven, and it is I not believed that lie was the man who >'signed the order. About that time he .was sent back to prison, not liecause . of the money order episode, of which .he was evidently guiltless, but 1 # ;- .jeause he failed to report on his paj role. J Thinking that he had spent enough > time in prison, and that he might be- . come a useful citizen, if given the op- . portunity, several men responded to I the efforts of Deputy Sheriff Kelly to 'secure his release, Mr. Kelly working 'strenuously for the man in the past month, and the welcome news of the 5 parole was secured today. > I Word wax sent to relatives that he /might go to Defiance, Ohio, from the prison, or might come here, In case ■ of coming here he said lie would want his clothes sent to him. This leads them to believe from the word of the > letter today asking that his clothes be sent, that he will come here. o SPECIAL EXAMINATION. According to a request sent out by State Superintendent Greathouse, County Superintendent E. S. Christen will conduct a special teachers’ examination next Saturday in the central . school house in this city. The law i provides that teachers' examinations [ shall be held monthly in the first, eight .'months of the year, the last regular .'one held being ip August. This special examination is found necessary, ,'probably because of a shortage of ' teachers, though this is not the reason given officially.

O NEW SCHOOL HOUSE COMPLETED Joe Kintz and Ross Mallonee arrivj ed home last night from Hoagland. • where they put the finishing touches -on the new and handsome school ■ house located northeast of that place and which has been erected this summer by Mann & Christen, the well , known contractors of this city. The ■'school is known as the St. Johann Lu,'theran school and will be dedicated e with proper services next Sunday, o ! ■ o RECOVERS FROM PARALYSIS. r- Charles Fritzfriger, who yesterday r- suffered a stroke of paralysis, aceordd ing to his physician had recovered suf>f fi cient ly to be able to come to town is today. He seems little the worse for his experience, except that he is still very stiff and sore. 0 . o GETS CHECK FOR INJURIES in Dr. D. D Clark who carries an acai- cident insurance policy in the National n- Life, of which Ed Green is local agent, ■’sjhas received a check for $12.85, for p, i injuries received in a recent automobile accident.