Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 190.

SQUADRON MAY 60 TOMEXtCO Anti-foreisn Demonstration and Actions of Carranza May Develop Into SERIOUS SITUATION Wilson Returns to Washington—Carranza Expected to Defy U. S. (United Press fierviee) (Charles I’. Stewart! Washington. P. Aug. 10 —(Special to Daily Democrat) Trouble with General Carran/.e was deemed imminent today. Government officials admitted growing anti-American reeling at Vera Cruz. Carranze was hastening preparations to move to Mexico City. On top ol' this came the important announcement that President Wilson had decided to end his vacation suddenly and come to Washington presumably because of the situation. Most sensational of all was the practically certainty that before night American war ships would be sailing toward Vera Cruz. One report said orders were ready for the sailing of the entire Atlantic fleet. Two of these ships were coaling and would be ready to sail before night. The navy department officially denied that ships had been ordered to Vera Cruz. Nevertheless. there was every sign that the order was about to be made. It " ■was agreed that Carranza's position at Mexico City would be much stronger than at Vera Cruz. Once in the interior. it was believed he would defy the United States. That this would be the signal for anti-American demonstrations was thought highly probable. Commander McNamee, in charge of the American naval force i at Vera Cruz, reported the anti-Amer-ican sentiment was rapidly develop- , ing. He said lie feared trouble. The < navy department denied t hat he had , asked for more ships. McNamee said Carranzistas were holding mass meet- . ings in the streets of Vera Cruz de- , nounring Americans particularly and : foreigners in general. Minister Ortega of Gautamala and his family took refuge on the United States gun boat ( Sacramento at Vera Cruz at 9:20 ( o’clock last night. Ortega was ordered to leave Mexico by Carranza. The department was informed that serious , food riots have broken out at Durango. The sign of extraordinary naval activity followed close on a conference of naval authorities. Carranza’s attitude was believed to foreshadow a desperate resistance to the "get together” program of Lansing and the Latin-American diplomats. It was supposed General Scott was in consultation with Villa. How the new development would affect his program to see Villa and then Carranza is unknown. Should Carranza reject this he would be declared an outlaw. Another capital would be established and an arms embargo would be enforced against Carranza. (Charles P. Stewart) Washington, D. C., Aug. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Before the Washington administration can get another proclamation calling on the Mexican factions to get together, General Carranza intends to notify the world that his is the only authority in Mexico to be reckoned with. Conclusive proof of this from government reports in the revolution-torn republic was in official hands here today. The first chief’s idea was said to be that he would be in a stronger position if he issued his manifesto in advance of the Washington administrations', thus according to his view, placing the United States in the attitude of assuming the aggressive against him, instead of himself assuming a position of defiance toward the United States. The belief was that the general’s coup would take the form of a declaration of himseif as provisional president. At any rate, everything indicated lie was on the verge of declaring himself the paramount authority in Mexico. Newport, R. 1.. Auic 10— (Special to Daily Democrat) —The battleships Now Hampshire and Louisiana are under rush orders to leave today foi Vera Cruz to guard against an antiforeign demonstration there. Washington, D. L.» Aug. 10 (special to Daily Democrat) —The secretary of the navy denied positively that the battleships New Hampshire and Louisiana have been ordered to Vera Cruz. Washington, Aug. 10, (Special lo

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Daily Democrat)—That orders have been sent to all war ship commanders of the Atlantic squadron to hold their vessels in readiness for immediate service in Mexican waters was stated on reliable authority, tills afternoon. F.l Paso, Tex., Aug. 10, —(Special to Dally Democrat) —Gen. Villa has agreed to the administration's new Mexican policy. Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief of the staff of the United States army was completely in his mission to the rebel chieftan. London, Aug. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The British coast was raided today by a German air squad. It was officially announced this afternoon that thirteen persons were killed and twelve wounded. A Zeppelin participating in the raid was brought down and destroyed. HUNTINGTON SELECTED (United Press Servlee) Indianapolis, Aug, 10, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The state executive committee of the Indiana Y. M. C. A. today announced the selection of Huntington for the state convention, November, 19. THIEVESJAUGHT Wholesale Auto Stealing is Traced to an Organization of Men WITH HEADQUARTERS At Angola—Machines Stolen from Northern Indiana and Ohio. An investigation Rtarted by the Fidelity-Phoenix, the Pennsylvania and Firemen Fund, and other insurance companies whose business it is to insure automobiles againsP loss by stealing, has; resulted in the recovery of thirty eight machines that had been stolen at Cleveland and which were traced to Angola by detectives. Although rewards had been offered for the detective of the thieves they could not be located.

A story reached them of the boasting of a young man by the name of Clifford Spurgeon that he had purchased a Ford for $25. This was the first clue picked up. Spurgeon was then taken to the police headquarters and finally made the admission that one Joe Madden had sold him tlie machine and gave out the information to the police that Madden was at Angola, Indiana. The sheriff of Steuben county was asked if Madden was there and on receiving a reply that he was, he was asked to arrest him. Wednesday A. L. Soper and the detective arrived in Angola. While seated in tlie hotel they noticed a young looking man who acted queer. The detective left the hotel and he was followed by the suspect. Soper followed on the sidewalk and opened up a conversation with the man who was Conway Recks of Cleveland. He was taken to the sheriff’s office and it was not long before he made a confession, and Madden seeing that ‘he jig was up also coughed up. Madden had been selling Ford machines and was living with a' woman, not his wife. On the information given in the confession decoy letters were written to members of the band of automobile thieves and when they asked for the letters they were arrested. William Cary and Mike Kehice of Detroit; Clark McKinley of Bellview, Ohio, and Harry Scott and Slim Spurgeon were picked up in Cleveland. A man by the name of Miller was picked up in Toledo Saturday. Columbus and Akron parties mixed up in the deal have all been rushed into Cleveland by the police of the different cities. A carload of stolen Fords was shipped from Angola and Mr. Soper will return to Angola and ship two more car loads this week. o ALL-DAY S. S. PICNIC An all-day Sunday school picnic will be held by the St. Johns and St. Luke’s Reformed S. S. Thursday, August 12 in tlie Henry Presdorf Grove, two miles north anj one and three-quarers miles east of Vera Cruz, two miles south and seven miles west, of Honduras. The Berne band will play; there will be speaking by Rev. Jacob Kombar, a native of Turkey; ribbon drill by twelve girls; singing, ball gamo and other attractions. Lunch will be for sale on the ground. Everyi body is welcome.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, August 10, 1915.

BURIAL MONDAY Emil Baumgartner, Aged (>O, Stone Mason at Fort Wayne, Victim of Gas. BURIED AT BERNE Lived in That Vicinity for Many Years—Moved Later to Fort Wayne. The body of Emil Baumgartner, GO, a stone mason, well known here, was taken yesterday from Fort Wayne to Berne where burial took place in the M. R. E. cemetery. Death occurred from suicide. He went home Friday at midnight, it is said, and turned cn the gas in his bed room. When his wife went to call him Saturday morning, she found hint dead in bed. He had been drinking, according to the Fort Wayne Sentinel, and had not been home for nearly a week, up till Friday night. Mr. Baumgartner was well known in this county where he worked at his trade for many years. He was a native of Switzerland and emigrated to this country with his wife, settling near Linn Grove, ufter living in that neighborhood for a number of years, he moved to Ft. Wayne where they lived only a short while, after which they again reutrned to Berne. There his wife died. A number of years later he married his second wife, who survives him. They were divorced a few years later, but were again married, and have been living together since then. Mr, Baumgartner visited his fatherland twice after emigrating to this country. The following children survive him. Mrs. Merz, Ft. Wayne; Mrs. Jacob Amstutz, Berne; Emil Baumgartner, Decatur; Mrs. Thomas Givert, Vera Cruz; a married daughter, Lydia of Grand Rapids; Ernest, Ft. Wayne; and a son of his second marriage, who was living with his parents at Fort Wayne. HOLDS DESTINY

Bulgaria May Decide European War--Makes Known Her Demands for REMAINING NEUTRAL Or Joining Allies in Driving the Turks from Their Territory. (United Press Service) (By Henry Wood. Copyright 1915 Great Britain) Sofia. Bulgaria, Aug. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Bulgaria will send her armies marching against Constantinople in twenty-four hours, fi Servia will cede Servian Macedonia to her. V. R. Abeslavaloff, prime minister of Bulgaria, and the man who more than any other today holds the destinies of Europe in his hands, made this statement to me. In an exclusive interview granted the United Press the Bulgarian premier for the first time revealed to the world exactly what Bulgaria demands in the present negotiations, what he asks from AustroGermans for remaining neutral, and what he asks from the allies for driving the Turks from Europe, and operation that would admittedly prove the turning point of the war for the allies. Os equal importance was his reply to the report circulated in European capitals that Bulgaria having won Constantinople, would demand the Ottoman capital as her prize. “That fear is groundless,” he said With emphasis. "The internal and commercial responsibilties attached to a city occupying the geographical position of Constantinople are too great for a nation that must always remain small—like Bulgaria. We will fight for but one end, that is to extend our I frontiers until they embrace the peo- ■ pies of our own blood, but that end I must be guaranteed to ua beyonu an doubt. If we are asked to fight alone, we are ready. If we are asked to fight with Greece, Servia and Roumaina In a new Balkan alliance on tlie side of the allies, our willingness remains the same."

NOW BUYING BY WEIGHT. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Iml„ Aug. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat)-While the women of Indiana looked on, Indianapolis women went to market today to try out for the first time the system of buying produce hy weight. It was believed Unit if the new system inaugurated today should prove an unqualified success, other cities in Indiana might odopt it. The new ordinance requires that all commodities, except those usually sold hy numerical count, shall he sold by weight. Herman F. Adams, city inspector of weighth and measures, said today com mod les bought in small quantities must be sold by the pound. He announced a list of commodities and (tie proper weight per bushel. Among them were: Peaches, 18 pounds; apples, 40 pounds; dried peaches. 32 pounds; dried apples, 25 pounds; pears, 50 pounds; onions, 57 pounds; turnips, 65 pounds; tomatoes, GO pounds; beans, GO pounds; walnuts, 50 pounds; potatoes, GO pounds; coal, 80 pounds; gooseberries, 50 pounds, etc. ABOUT JE SICK Mrs. Catherine Eady Better —Roy Wolford Badly Skinned and Bruised. THROWN FROM WHEEL Joseph Geels RecoveringAble to Sit Up—J. S. Lower Very Low. Little Leona Zwick is getting along nicely at the Fort Wayne hospital. The grafting of skin to the wound in her forehead was completed last Friday and it is healing nicely. She has been at the hospital several weeks. Mrs. Coat Cook who has been quite ill remains about the same. Miss Agnes Rumschlag went to Ft. Wayne to call on Joseph Geels at the St. Joseph hospital. He is recovering nicely from his operation for appendicitis and expected to be able to sit up a while today.

Roy Wolford, rural mail carrier, was badly skinned up and bruised when he was thrown from his wheel this morning while coming in from his home at Monmouth. A little dog. who is strongly inclined to run after and bark at people as they pass, gave way to his inclinatons and getting in the way of the wheel, threw Mr. Wolford off. He continued his way to work with difficulty. Mrs. Catherine Eady is reported as being somewhat, better. The quarantine for diphtheria has been lifted on the Lawrence Green home, Mrs. Green and her brother and sister having recovered. A WATCHFUL WAIT Enabled Erman Mentzer to Collect S2O of Which He Had Been Defrauded NOVEMBER 1, 1912 By Worthless Check Given by Baseball Umpire— He Recognized Him. Watchful waiting has paid in the instance of Erman Mentzer, of Blufftoil, formerly of Decatur, who, after folowing that policy three years was able to collect S2O of which he was defrauded on November 1, 1912, by John Keifer through a bad check written by Keifer on the National Bank of Indianapolis. Keifer has acted as a baseball umpire in Bluffton three years ago, but disappeared after bilking Mr. Mentzer with the worthless check and arrived hack in town yesterday morning in an elTort to secure space for an attraction during the Bluffton street fair. Mr. Mentzer recognized him and confronted him with the alternative of paying over the sum he had wrongfully secured or going to jail. Keifer finally borrowed S2O from his companion and settled with Mr. Meijlzer.

THE TWO JOHNS “Gentleman from Indiana” in Congress Will Attend Johns’ Picnic AT EATON, AUGUST 12 John Kern and John Adair Coming for the Big Annual Event. Washington, Aug. 9,—The two Indiana congressional Johns—John Kern and John Adair —will attend a picnic of a large number of other Johns at Eaton, Delaware county, Ind., on Aug. 12. Says Louis Ludlow's Washington despatch. Several years ago there was formed in that section of Indiana a "Society of Johns” composed of men who have tlie plain, old-fashioned front nam», John. John Adair was telling John Kern about it at Congress Hall hotel the other afternoon. “ You ought to atend the meeting this year; it will be a hummer," he told tlie senator. “But I’m not invited,” was the reply. “You don’t need an invitation; ju3t go." said Adair. “Will you meet me there?” inquired the senator. "Sure; I always go; wouldn’t miss It for anything.” “Well, then, we'll meet at Eaton”, declared the senator. Adair said that these meetings of the Johns are wonderful from (he standpoint of attendance. “There will be anywhere from 5,000 to 8,000 persons at the coming meeting” he said. “Eaton is a pretty little place and the meetings take place in the park, which is Eaton's major attraction." Kern and Adair are the only “Johns” on the Indiana delegation.

THE COURT NEWS Martin Scheuler Escapes from Easthaven Asylum —A New Case FILED IN COURT August Marriage Market Slow—Sheriff Called to “Move” Gypsies on. Word was received here that Martin Schueler. who has been at the Easthaven insane asylum at Rich mond for several weeks, has escaped. August marriage market is exceed ingly slow, not ~ne license having been issued up to noon today. In Au gust of last year, there were only nine. Two of these were issued up to August 8, and three up to August 15. Sheriff Ed Green was called out twice in the past several days to tell a band of gypsies “to move on.” He was first called to Union township, where they had camped along the wayside; later to a point southeast of Monroe, in one place a neighbor complained of their taking oats. In another, they had let their many heads of horses run loose and the people of the community were afraid they would get into the corn fields and destroy the crop. Mr. Green made ine trip at midnight and the gypsise agreed to tie up their horses and move oil in the morning. Application has been made to recommit George Snyder of near Geneva to the Easthaven asylum, of which he was an inmate from January 11, 1908, to January, 1913. Hooper & Lonhart are attorneys for Samuel H. Christy in a suit against John J. and Erma Meyers, for foreclosure of mortgage, demand, $70(5. EVANGELICAL CHURCH. Wednesday evening at 7:30 is midweek service at the Evangelical church. L. L. Baumgartner has kindly consented to take chargo of this meeting. Let there be a good attendance. J. H. RILLING, Pastor.

HOOSIER HISTORY IN TABLOID. 1 (Prepared for the United Press by the Centennial Department of the Indiana Historical Commission). Early Mail Service. One of (he greatest privations of the pioneers' exile was the absence of letters from home. There was no post and every one was dependent upon chance travellers to “fetch and carry mail." When any one was going on a journey It would be known, anil the whole region would bring letters to him to take with him. for postage on a letter cost forty rents. Many of these missives from the frontier were written with a quill pen, dipped in pokeberry juice for ink. It was a great thing, wrote an old lady in later times, when the pioneers began to get mail regularly twice a month. Sounding his horn, the postman approached on horseback, and every one came trooping out of the house to get a letter from "back east.” Sometimes he would be several days behind time, on account of high water. It often happened that the postmaster had to spread the mail out In the sun to dry. —Julia H. Levering in “Historic Indiana.” CHANGE IN TIME On G. R. & I. at Fort Wayne Will Affect Rome City Visitors. FROAI THIS CITY Makes Difference in Connections — Seven - day Train is Effective.

A change in time on the G. R. & I. that will affect Rome City visitors making the trip from Oecatur is announced from Fort Wayne as follows: “Two trains are discontinued, one is made a ‘through’ train, and time is changed on two trains, as the result of the new time card to go into effect next Sunday on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, according to announcement made yesterday afternoon at the G. R. & 1. division offices. "Train No. 8, now getting here at 5:05 in the evening from Grand Rapids, will arrive at 7:15, effective next Sunday, and will continue to have Fort Wayne as its southern terminal. “Train No. 9, now leaving Fort Wayne for the north at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, will be discontinued locally, and will run only between Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. “Train No. 6 will arrive here at 11:30 at night from Grand Rapids, instead of 11 o'clock. This city now is the southern terminal for this train, but Sunday will run through to Richmond, connecting with the Pennsylvania trains until 12 o’clock here, and will leave at 12:01 every morning. It is changed from a six to seven-day train. “Train No. 4, now getting here at 1:15 o’clock in the morning from Grand Rapids and leaving at 1:25 for Richmond, will be discontinued." o MAKING BIG INCREASE Northern Indiana farm’ers have grown twice the amount of sugar beets called for in 1915 contracts with a value equal to nearly $350,000, according to a report filed with the state board of arriculture, by J. A. Brock, secretary of the Domestic Sugar Producers. According to Mr. Brock's report, the total number of Indiana beet growers in 1915 was 979, conijiarcd to 505 growers in 1914, while the acreage for the present year is 7,448 acres against 3,029 acres last year. In his report Mr. Brock states that during! 1914, 34,250 tons were harvested upon which the sum of $171,251,45 was realized. Indiana has but one beet sugar factory—at Decatur, Ind„ —erected in 1912 at a cost of $1,000,000. Last year this factory produced 4,020 tons granulated sugar. It has a capacity of slicing 500 tons of sugar beets daily. Lake county ranks first in sugar beat production, having 479 growers; Grant county has 149, Adams 97 and Wells 26. —Berne Witness. A CANNIBAL SNAKE. It has been reported that Ed Elliot’s children, west of Berne, recently killed a snake which had ninety-one wee little live snakes stored away in its stomach. When the news reached the neighbors a great taany went to see the strange phenomenon themselves. It attracted not a little attention since no one knew that snakes were cannibals.—Berne Witness.

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HELD IN CHICAGO Henry Buffenbarger Held There Because of Suspicious Circumstances OF CHILD’S DEATH Babe Born to Domestic at Place Where He Boarded —Died Soon After. Henry Buffenbarger, a former Decatur man. Is held in Chicago uu a serious charge. His first wife, from

whom he is divorced, was formerly Miss Mattie Jeffrey of this city. After being divorced from her. he was married to Mrs. Alice Foughty, they residing in Fort Wayne. Quite recently they were divorced. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette says of his latest escapade: "Henry Buffenbarger, aged 28. a car inspector on the Pennsylvania and residing at 2227 Oliver street, and Mrs. Helen Pulley, aged 19, a domestic at the same address, are detained by the Chicago police because of suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of an eight-hour-old baby boy born to the young woman Sunday at the State hotel, 555 South State street, in that city. “Contrary to the story told by Buffenbarger to the Chicago detectives, he is not married to the girl, who was deserted by her husband last winter, and he had known her less than two months, according to the landlady at the house where they lived here. Why he should say that she is his wife and that he is the father of the child cannot be understood by friends here. “Buffenbarger, according to a dispatch from Chicago, declared that the child had been born dead, but Dr. Joseph Tinow, an ambulance surgeon, who was called a short time later, found a mark on the infant’s skull, which has not been explained to the satisfaction of himself or the police. No physician was present when the child was born. In an attempt to allay suspicion, Buffenbarger told the detective that three other children had been horn to them and that all had died a few hours after birth. “Mrs. Pulley left the Oliver street residence Saturday afternoon, saying that she was going to Chicago. She had confided in the landlady, who had given her work through pity, that she had no money to pay the expenses of child birth and that she was going to Chicago to enter a public maternity hospital, where she could receive free treatment. She said that she would leave the baby there at a charitable institution. Buffenbarger said that he would carry her suit case to the station and left the house with her. He did not return. “The young people met two months ago at the Star restaurant on Walton avenue, where the girl was then employed as a waitress and where Buffenbarger boarded. She held the position about two weeks and then went to tlie Oliver street home as a domestic. Employes at the restaurant say that she frequently went to the Pennsylvania yards at night to see Buffenbarger, but at the house, where Buffenbarger moved a week ago from 1125 Cochran street, nothing was known of an intimacy between the pair. “Before their separation Mr. and Mrs. Pulley lived in rooms at the corner of Brackenridge and Calhoun streets. Shortly after Pulley disapi peared the woman filed a warrant for wife desertion but he had fled the city and the police have been unable to locate him. | “Buffenbarger has twice been marj i ied. His first wife became insane and s said to be in Easthaven asylum at Richmond. His second wife, from whom he s not divorced, lives on Erie street. Two children from the first wife live with their grandparents at Decatur.” The first wife mentioned, was recommended for admission to a home for feble-minded instead of insane. —a — AND HE GOT THE HOOK. Crochet needles don’t make good chair cushions, especially when ono sits on the needle proper, so one Decatur young man can attest, since a recent visit to the home of a young lady friend. The needle in this case penetrated beyond the hook and the hook caught when the hurried extraction proceeding begun, “Look before you leap" has now been added to the I list of mottoes of the unfortunate young man.