Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 200.

GERMAN NOTE IS-EXPECTED Explanations Concerning Torpedoing of Arabic Foreshadowed. SITUATION IS TENSE Captain Finch’s Official Report Made Public Sunday —Bodies Recovered. (By Charles P. Stewart) Washington. Aug. 21—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Threatening as was lhe German-American outlook, officials were still hopeful that the Arabic affair would not lead to a break. Explanations were looked for from Berlin. The administration is not irreconcilable is was said on high authority, it will not submit to a slap in the face from Germany but it has no intention of disregarding the kaisers foreign office if the latter has anything to say. Iteports were current that an explanation of some sort had already been foreshadowed in messages, The suggestion most prominently advanced was that Germany would declare: That the Arabic was torpedoed when still within its armed convoys protection zone. That the White Star liner tried to ram the submarine. That the liner either tried to escape or at least executed some maneuver which entitled the German commender to believe an escape was being attempted. Pessimists believed that none of these contentions could be made good. The situation was tense. It was recogntzed that posibly a break is inevitable.

Ixmdon, Aug. 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Full details of the circumstances currounding the attack on the White Star liner Arabic with a loss of life estimated at between 40 and 50, were promised today as soon as Captain Finch makes an official report: "It may be necessary to withhold certain facts from the public at present” said one official "but this ia only because they might give useful information to the enemy.” The first survivors reached here early today from Queenstown. At 10:45 the White Star offices here gave out another revised list of missing. Mrs. Josephine Brugulere of New York and Dr. Edmonj Wood of Janesville, Wis., were the only Americans en the list which included 12 other passengers and officials said they were satisfied the final list will show only two Americans perished. The American consul at Queenstown filially admitted today that only two Americans perished. Pracically all American survivors made affidavits upon their arrival at Queenstown. Ambassador Page today cablej a summary of them to the state department. It was understood he reported all the Americans agreed the ship was torpedoed without warning.

London, Aug. 21,— (Special to Daily Democrat)—The White Star liner Arabic was not being convoyed when she was torpedoed atfd sunk by a German submarine acording to the statement passed by the press bureau this afternoon. The statement it was said was authorized by the admiralty. New York, Aug. 21,—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—Five British war shops, working in relays convoyed the White Star Liner Cymric for 36 hours on her vayoge front Liverpool to New York according to passengers aboard the liner which arrived today. The Cymric took practically the lamo course traversed by the Arabic. Queenstown, Aug. 21, — (Special to Daily Democrat) —The bodies of two victims of the Arabic disaster, the first recovered, were brought to Queenstown today and placed In a morgue to await identification. Paris, Aug. 21,— (Special to Dally Democrat)—A Naples newspaper is authority for the statement that Bulgaria has concentrated 100,000 on the Turkish frontier. The report was unconfirmed. London, Aug. 21,— (Special to Daily Democrat)—The Amsterdam corree-( pondent of the Exchange Telegraph! cent the following message today re- ( garding the feeling in Berlin over the torpedoeing of the Arabic. "The Berlin Lokal Anzeiter is jubliant over the sinking of the Arabic declaring Germans have special reasons for jubl'a-

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tlon, as it seems the passengers and crew were saved. The Lokal Anzclter also rejoices over the Zepplln rails on England declaring "why should the British be spared when their dear Russian allies are so emphatically feeling the strength of our swords.’’ ' Petrograd, Aug. 21, —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —A German Zepplln heavily laden with bombs was shot down by the Russian anti-air craft gun while approaching the railway center of Vilna, east of Kovno. The crew was captured. This is the first Instance since war began in which a Zepplln has been brought down and its crew captured. Berlin, Aug. 21—(Special to Daily (Continued - cn page 2) TRAGirnHTH Mrs. Ella Mulford of Fort Wayne, Niece of Andrew Krumenacker, Falls DOWN CELLAR STEPS At Vacant Residence—Body Found After All Night Search—Know n Here. The following story from the Jour-nal-Gazette tells of the finding of the body of Mrs. Elja Mulford at Fort i Wayne yesterday. Mrs. Mullord was < a uiece of Andrew Krumenacker of this city, and a very intimate friend 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Baker, having i often visited in this city at the Baker home: , "After an all-night search on the ; part of the police and relatives the . lifeless body of Mrs. Ella Mulford, j aged fifty-eight years, was found at the foot of the cellar steps at the va- ( cant residence at 824 Lafayette street . by her two sisters, Mrs. Ida Thomas, ) 129 East Washington street, and Mrs. Allie Hammond, 3425 South Webster j street, at 8:30 o’clock yesterday morning. Mrs. Mulford had been living with her daughter, Hazel, at 336 Madison street, and had left the family residence at 4 o'clock Thursday ' evening to look at several houses. “Mrs. Mulford was seen at the Evans apartments at 4:30 o’clock Thurs- |l day evening. At 5 o’clock she secured the key to one side of the double house at 824 Lafayette street. The house is dark inside, even in the day time, and it is believed the aged woman opened the cellar door and started to walk ahead, thinking it to be ' a closet.

“Her body was found on the basement floor at the foot of the stairs. Bipod had oozed front her bead, and .her white waist was blood stained. She had apparently made a feeble effort to crawl back upstairs as she was several feet from where she had first struck, judging from the position of her hat and small pieces of flesh on the floor. "After an examination Coroner Edward H. Kruse stated that death was due to a perforation of the skull on the left side of the head and into the brain. No bones in the body were broken. Dr. Kruse does not believe that Mrs. Mulford suffered consciousnessfc in the darkness of the empty house for any length of time. In fact, he is of the belief that she never regained consciousness after striking her head either on the cellar floor or on the shnrp edge of a step. He further believes that she died within two hours after the fall. He will hold an inquest at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon.

"The sisters of the deceased woman with the police had made a fruitless search during the night, and early in the morning started a systemat ic hunt for the lost woman. They began to search all the vacant houses in the neighborhood, knowing of several their sister had been looking at. When they entered the house where the body was found and started down the cellar steps the light would not work. It Was with the aid of light from a match that they found the prostrate form on the cellar floor. They immediately called the police, who, in turn, notified Coroner Kruse.” o THE STORKS VISIT

A l>aby girl arrived at the home of Mr .and Mrs. Dora Debolt, who live in the Haugk property near the north bridge, at 2:45 Thursday morning. The babe weighed B*4 pounds arid lias been named Lucile. Every body recovering nicely. This is the fifth [child there being two sons and two daughters besides.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, August 21,1915.

WILL -CONTINUE Weather Prophet Parson Hicks Makes Forecast for September. WILL HAVE FROSTS About Seventh of Month, With Vast Inland Storms Beginning on Fifth. According to Parson Hicks, September will be a month of storms, the first regular storm perioj being-central on the second, beginning the last two days of August and continuing to September 5. Vast inland storms are scheduled to sweep from western and northwestern regions eastward and southward, extending in their fury ' over the northern lakes, eastward to the Atlantic ocean, Autumnal thunder rain and hail are among the things possible and probable, especially in

southern regions. The first reactionary storm period tails on the 7th, and probable disturbances are looked for. There will be. danger of killing frosts, following' within forty'eight hours of electrical disturbances. The second regular storm period is one on the 14th, extending to the 17tii, W’arm rains will visit the northern sections, bringing clear weMher and a change to much cooler, autumnal weather. Frosts will follow on about the 18th and will be natural in the northern sections. The third reactionary period is due the 20th. The moon will be on the celectlal equator and high temperature with vicious electrical and atmospheric storms can be loked for. The third regular storm period begins the 25th anj continues to the 28th. Disturbing conditions will pass from west to east, attended by cloudiness, rain and wliul. High gales may be looked for on the Great Lakes. An early fall may be looked for.

SECOND PRIZE Captured by Indiana for Educational Exhibit at Panama Exposition. AT SAN FRANCISCO State Superintendent Greathouse Given Gold Medal for Excellent Work. Indianapolis, Aug. 21,—Indiana has won second prize for her educational exhibit at the Panama Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. A telegram has come to the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Charles A. Greathouse advising of the award, The same mesage contains the information that the exposition board has awarded a special gold medal to Superintendent Greathouse for his excellent work in the part which he had in preparing the exhibit showing the work of the consolidated township school system.

This special exhibit comprised several features. The topographical map of the township, showing the original one-room school houses scattered about and showing also the consolidai ed school, the roads and special means of transportation was the only one of the son in the exposition and has attracted much favorable attention and comment. Above this topographical plaster cast was a flat map Illustrating the same subject, showing the community center, the school, churches, lodge rooms, the social center of the township collected about the consolidated school. The special articles shown from these schools, and the one hundred specially prepared colored views which were shown in the stereoptlcau, were colected with the assistance of G. I. Christie of Purdue, C. E. Cox of the State Normal and R. J. Leonard of Indiana University. There are a nui 1ber of delegations from other states and other contries who are so much interesteu in this feature that they are constantly booked ahead for ex-

elusive use of the hall for special hours where they may have the chance to study the work. MENNONITES TRAVEL BY RAIL Goshen, Ind. Aug. 21—After a ten day conference here, members of the Menonite church of America will return to their homes tomorrow but not on horseback as was the custom In Menonite communities for years after the ■ railroad had become a general means of transi>ortation. Though slow in adopting new customs and modern conveniences, the followers of Menno Simons have taken a number of forward steps. ■ o REVIVAL AT HARTFORD CITY Hartford City, Ind., Aug.2l—A revival made Hartford City a saloonless city. In hopes of keeping it dry the first revival since the visit of Evangelist Bob Jones will open here tomorrow at the Grant M. E. church. The Rev. O. C- Brown of Upland is the Evangelist.

THE AUTIHAXES Bring Nearly $6,500 Into Adams County First Six Months of This Year. MORE THAN PAID By Over sl,ooo—Report Received by County Treasurer W. J. Archbold. Automobile owners of Adams county paid the sum of $5,453 for licenses during the first six months of the year, while this county received back $6,463, or more than SI,OOO over the amount paid in. While other counties may have some complaint to offer as to the cost cf conducting the departn\ut. there certainly can be none offered from here. County Treasurer Archbold has received his notice from the office of Homer L. Cook, secretary of state, together with the voucher for the amount due. Adams county showed 500 miles of improved road which entitled them to $2,950, while we get the sum of $1,812.78 as the prorato share of one third the entire amount paid in anj $1,699.75 as our share in proportion to the number of automobiles owned in the county. The report shows that Indiana has a total of 28,263 miles of improved r0C(1 in the state. The amounts drawn by other counties in this section were' Allen, $11,177.87; Blackford, $4,181.82; Huntington. $7,256,96; Jay, $6,069.62; Randolph, $7,024.23; Wells. $7,767.11; Whitley, $3,645.57; Brown county received the lowest amount, $2,064.37 and Marion county the largest amount. $22,642.26.

WEATHER_PROPH’ Julius Heidemann is Gaining Reputation as Being a Weather Prophet. HITS IT SQUARELY One Business Man Acted on His Prophecy Four Times Hit it Yesterday. Weather Man Hicks has nothing over Julius Heidemann, the well known Adams county farmer, living south of the city, when it comes to telling you what the day and even what hour it is going to rain. Mr. Heidemann can almost tell you at what hour the rain will start and during the past and even this wet spell he has hit it almost every time. In fact we have not yet learned of a single instance in which he missed it. Within the past ten days one of the leading Decatur citizens has referred to Mr. Heidemann four times, and every time he gave a prediction it turned out to be the truth. Only yesterday this business man asked Mr. Heidemann if it was going to rain before noon and he stated that it would not. As you will remember, the rain did not start until about 12 o'clock. Other men who are anxious to know about the weather have also asked his advice.

SUIT IS BROUGHT To Declare Mr. Haugk a i Bankrupt—Another Link in Allison Cases. ________ IN FEDERAL COURT Well Known Local Man Defendant—Has Been Builder and Contractor. Through its attorneys, Vesey t Vesey, the First National bank of Fort Wayne has filed a petition before lhe United States Commissioner Thomas J. Logan to have Julius Haugk, of Decatur, declared a bankrupt. The petition alleges that the bank loaned money to the Cardwell Lumber company and the Allison Real Estate company. that Rufus Allison executed the bonds guaranteeing payment of all

sums owing by the two corporations and that Julius Haugk and Henry Hite were sureties. The bank has exhausted all the property of Allison, the complaint says, and there still remains due on the bond the sum of SIO,OOO—■ Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette The above suft is another link in the long chain of legal turns and methods in closing the business pertaining to the Allison Land Company and two or three other Allison companies. Similar suit was brought against Mr. Hite a month ago, Messrs, Haugk and Hite having been security on a $40,000 note, held by the Fort Wayne hank. Mr. Haugk is one of the best known business men of this community, one who has had many ups and downs and has made large sums of moeny. He has just completed the erection of a handsome new business block on Madison street in this city and has always been known as a builder, and a man who does things. He has built more miles of macadam road in Adams county than any other man living and has done a large amount of other contracting.

JOINS THE NAVY Francis Howard Now Member of U. S. Fighting Machine at Sea. KEPT IT A SECRET Feared His Parents Would Interfere and Asked Officers to Keep it Mum. Tlie mystery of the disappearance of F. M. Howard, whose parents live north of this city lias been fully explained. He is now- a member of Uncle Sam’s navy and may see actual service if this nation gets into serious trouble with any of the great nations now at war. The Fort Wayne Sentinel of last evening contained the following: F. M. Howard, 19 years old, well known young man residing in Decatur, was accepted for enlistment in Uncle Sam’s navy Thursday at Indianapolis. He made application at the Ft. Wayne recruiting station and having passed the examination here was sent to Indianapolis for a final test. Before leaving Fort Wayne Howard was very anxious that nothing be said of his enlistment until after he had pass-d the final examination for the reason that he did not want his father to know until after he had been accepted. He was afraid that his father might object, and after he had been accepted lie knew it would then be too late.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET bounty and city officials have received a letter of invitation to attend the Uth annual convention of the county commissioners association of Indiana to be held at Indianapolis September 28, 29 and 30th. It is urged that the officials not only attend but bring along the public work contractors, members of the county council, road men and any others interested in the roads, drainage anq bridges. The program is exceedingly good this year and it is hoped the attendance will be large. Several from this county will no doubt attend.

‘ MOTORCLCLE RACES ON TODAY Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 21—Motorcyclists this afternoon made another attempt to break the fair ground track , record of 49 seconds for a mile made by Ray (’revision of Converse, Ind. on an Indian last fall. It was the third attempt this summer to lower Creviston’s record. A varied program of races from a five mile novelty race to side cars In which the pasengers and drivers changed at the end of each hour, to a fifty mile event drew a large crowd of the two wheeled motor race bugs. A pursuit race In which the riiders starthed at equal distance and put rivals out of the race by passing them was the most popular race of the afternoon. BOY CONFESSES Robert Smith, Arrested at Fort Wayne Friday for 1 Stealing Bicycle > ( ALSO ADMITS THEFT <

Os Both Miller and Fenstenmaker Horses—Thought to be John Small. After having been tricked into giving several damaging answers and becoming badly tangled in his testimony, the young man arrested at Ft Wayne yesterday by Detective Imel cn the charge of stealing the bicycle belonging to Charles Helm of this city, and who was brought here late yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Green, made a complete confession this morning to Deputy Sheriff Jacobs to having stolen both the Miller horse from this city and the Fenstenmaker horse from Geneva, in addition to the bicycle. The prisoner gave his name as Robert Smith, aged twenty, and his home at Danville, 111., but according to the testimony of a local resident, who saw him on the street in the custody of the sheriff this morning, he is be lieved to be John Small, a son of Frank Small, residing near Williams. The man who made the identification stated that the boy "had worked for him practically all of last summer, sawing wood. Smith was arrested yesterday by a piece of expert work on the pai< of the Fort Wayne detective. Without any description whatever Detective Imel arrested the young fellow in a pawn shop just as he was receiving ■ his ticket for the wheel. He was, taken to headquarters and there it was found that he answered the de scription of the Geneva horse thief, with the exception of his shoes. He

denied to the officers, however, that he had been at Geneva, stating that he had, however, been in Bluffton, ami had then come to Decatur where he had stolen the bicycle, rode part way to Fort Wayne, had stayed all night in a school house ami continued his journey in the morning. He stuck to this story until this morning, when Deputy Jacobs gave him a little third degree work and succeeded in securing a verbal confession to the steal Ing of the Miller horse. He then made a written confession to the stealing of the Fenstenmaker horse, | as follows "I took the horse and bug gy at Geneva Wednesday evening. It was hitched to a post in the alley. 1 drove one mile north and then west , until morning, when I unhitched him ‘ and tied him to a post. I then walk , ed back two miles and slept in a school house until morning, and then got into an automobile and went to Bluffton.” Signed, "Robert Smith.” The prisoner is also believed to be a petty thief as verious small articles, including switches, a hand mirror and other things thought to have been taken from a home in Bluffton, were found in his pockets when arrested at Fort Wayne. Smith was taken before ’Squire Lenhart this morning and bound over circuit court in the sum of SSOO. An effort will he made to locate. Frank Small and prove the identification. CONCERT MQNDAYEVENING The city band will give an open air concert Monday evening on the corner of Monroe and Second streets. Tlie ' boys did not appear last Monday as several of the members were away on a vacation.

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HAO NO SUMMER »I Year 1816 Was Without a Summer—lce and Snow in June and July. WORSE THAN THIS Built Fires to Save Corn from Freezing in Vermont—A Clipping. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette this morning contained the following dipping, sent to them by Mrs. IsaacJones of Monroeville, in which an account of the weather conditions in the year 1816 are given. After you read it. no doubt you will wonder if such a condition in the weather will repeat itself on its hundredth anniversary. The clipping is as follows: "The year 1816 was known throughout the United States and Europe as the coldest ever experienced by any person then living. There are persons in northern New York who have been in the habit of keeping diaries for

years, and it is from the pages of an old diary begun in 1810 and kept unbroken until 1840 that the following information regarding this year without a summer has been taken: "January was so mild that most persons allowed their fires to go out and; did not burn wood except for cooking. There were a few cold days, but they were very few. Most of the time the air was warm and spring-like. February was not cold. Some days were colder than in January, but the weather was about the same. March, from the first to the sixth, was inclined to be windy. It came in like a small lion and went out like a very innocent sheep. "April came in warm, but as the days grew longer the air became colder, and by the Ist of May there was a temperature like that of winter with plenty of snow and ice. In May the young buds were frozen dead, ice formed half an inch thick on ponds and rivers, corn was killed, and the cornfields were planted again and again, until it became too late to raise a crop. By the last of May in this climate the trees are usually in leaf and birds and flowers are plentiful. When the last of May arrived in 1816 everything had been killed by the cold. "June was the coldest month of roses ever experienced in this latitude. Frost and ice were as common as buttercups usually are. Almost every green thing was killed; all fruit was destroyed. Snow fell ten inches deep in Vermont. There was a seveninch fall in tlie interior of New York state and the same in Massachusetts. There were only a few moderately warm days. Everybody looked, longvd and waited for warm weather, but warm weather did not come. "It was also dry: very little rain fell. All summer long the wind blew steadily from the north in blasts, laden with snow and ice. Mothers knit socks of double thickness for their children, ami made thick mittens. Planting and shivering were done together, and the farmers who worked out their taxes on the country roads wore overcoats and mittens. "A farmer near Tewksbury, Vt., owned a large field of corn. He built, tires. Nearly every night he and his men took turns in keeping up the fires and watching that the corn did not. ireez.e. The farmer was rewarded for his tireless labors by having the only crop of corn in the region. “July came in with snow and ice. On the Fourth of July ice as thick as window glass formed throughout New ' England. New York and in some parts of Pennsylvania. Indian corn, which in some parts of the east had struggled through May and June, gave up. froze and died. "To the surprise of everybody. August proved the worst month of all. ' Almost every green thing in tills country and Europe was blasted with 1 frost. Snow fell at Barnett, thirty 'miles from London, England, on August 30. Newspapers received from England stated that 1816 would be remembered by the existing generation as the year in which there was no summer. Very little corn ripened in New England. There was great privation, and thousands of persons would have perished in this country had it not been for the abundance of fish and wild game.” o Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Gottemoeller and family who have been the guests of the William Hartings family left today by automobile for Celina where they will visit with relatives.