Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1915 — Page 1

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DECLARED WAR MBervia Declares War on | Bulgaria Because of Attacks on Frontiers. FIGHTING ■City of Loos Again Being Bombarded and Front • is in Death Grapple. (United Press Service) I London, Oct. 15, —(Special to Daily K)eniocrat) —Servia declared war on ■Bulgaria today. The official Servian ■unification to the British government ■aid that a state of war existed with ■lulgaria because of the latters attack Belong the line from Zaitcher to Rad■viste. Announcement of the Servian ■decision ended all hope that Bulgaria ■ might not actually fight with the Teutonic allies. I Paris, Oct. 15,—(Special to Daily ■leiuocrat) —A violent bombardment ■aged throughout Thursday night be■ore Loos, announced the French official statement today. Fierce artillery ■fighting progressed along northeast of ■Souchez. There were hot grenade ex■lianges in the trenches at some points Hall along the Champaign region, the ■Germans directing an intense canno■made against the French front. The ■trench replied energetically. I Copenhagen. Oct. 15. —(Special to ■Daily Democrat) —Attacking a German ■cruiser and two destroyers at the ■south entrance to Oer sound today a ■British submarine torpedoed one desHtroyer which sinking, exploded, accord- ■ nig to advises forwarded from SweeJS ish points. The cruiser and one des■troyer escaped. Berlin, Oct. 15, —(Special to Daily ■ Democrat) —“We are driving tiie SorI vians farther south from Belgrade,,” ■an official bulletin issued this after■noon anounced. “The Rusians have ■have pierced out positions northeast ■of Wessolowo,” said another bulleI tin. Berlin, Oct. 15.—(Special to Daily ■ Democrat) —Capture by the AustroI German of the important fortified Ser- ■ vlan town of Pozarecatz was officially I announced this afternoon. I.ondon, Oct. 15, —(Special to Daily I Democrat)— The British killed at the I Dardenelles number 18,957 and the I wounded 77,957 thus far. stated an offi- | cial statement today. o RIOTS IN CHARLESTON (United Press Service) Charleston. Oct. 15, —(Special to tae I Daily Democrat)—One man was killed | and several were injured in a riot I that arose over an election dispute here today. The man killed was Sidney Cohen, a newspaper reporter I drawn to the scene by the sounds cf i shooting. Conditions were so threatI ening that following the original outbreak Governor Manning resopnded to a request from this city, and ordered out the militia. The militia had only ■ dispersed Monday morning after having been held under arms in the city the feeling preceeding the primary bad grown so strong that clashes were constantly going on in the streets. Today the canvassing board met to determine who had been nominated for mayor. There was a fight, somebody shot, and in a moment a hundred shots had been fired. Then the crowd came to its senses and dispersed. The reporter lad dead, a shot killing him instantly.

PROGRAM APPROVED. (United Press „ Washington. D. C., Oct. 15 (Spec ial to Daily Democrat)—Final approval was given the naval progi am of Secretary Daniels today by President Wilson. It included approval of a great amount of building by the government itself, more than ever before has been attempted. It is the plan to make every government shipyard a manufacturing plant as well as a repair shop. Large amounts will be spent to equip them. This year for the first time the government will build aeroplanes. SHANKLIN RESIGNS. (United Press Service* Washington, D. C., Oct. 15—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Arnold Shanklin, United States consul general at Mexico City, has resigned to take a position with the WatersPearce Oil company, a big American concern in Mexico.

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MARSHALL SPEAKS (United Press Service) Monmouth, 11!., Oct. 15 —Responding to the call of western lllonois democracy, thousands of supporters of the president gathered here today to hear addresses by Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Vice President Thomas R. Marshall and Elza Willliams, candidate lor the nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket. The day was set aside for the democrats by the general committee of the Military Tract Tractor show'. Conservative estimates placed the crowd at 15,000. MRS. BLOEMKER OPERATED ON Mrs. Schneble of Louisville, Ky„ anj her son-in-law, Fred Blocmker, of Magley, went to Fort Wayne this morning to call on their daughter and wife, Mrs. Bloemker, at the Lutheran hospital. She was operated upon Tuesday morning at ten o'clock for gall stones and is getting along as well as is consistent. That He is Going to Get the Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway. ACCORDING TO ITEM In Journal-Gazette — Says He is Going to Get it for SIOO,OOO. Although terms of the order of sale of the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway are that it is to go to the highest and best bidder, Dolph, the capitalist, seems to be assured that he is going to be the luck purchaser, according to the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, as follows: “Purchase of the Fort Wayne and Spiingfield, or Decatur, interurban line, by Fred A. Dolph and associates for part of the proposed Indiana-Ohio interurban is practically assured. This became known yesterday when French Quinn of Decatur, receiver for the road, set the date of private sale for October 2fi. This was in accordance with the order made Wednesday in court at Decatur when former stockholders forfeited $5,000 in failing to make good with their bid erf $78,000. The sale price probably will be SIOO,000. "When asked last night if this (Continued on page 2)

WAS JN ERROR Supreme Court’s Certificate Should Have Said That Decision HAD BEEN AFFIRMED In Glendening-Cowens Case —Finding Favors the Trustee, Mr. Cowens. Noticing a discrepency in the Indianapolis news reports of affirmation, and the certificate received yesterday by Clerk Bleeke from the supreme court clerk, in which it was said that the Glendenning-Cowens decision was reversed. C. J. Lutz, attorney for exTrustee Cowens, telephoned to the supreme court clerk and asked about it. He informed Mr. Lutz that the certificate received by Mr. Bleeke from.him, was in error, and that the decision rendered in the Adams circuit court by Special Judge Townsend was affirmed by the appellate court. This is the case in which some of the patrons of Hartford township sought to enjoin Trustee Cowens from building the $30,000 Linn Grove school house. The lower court's decision, which is thus upheld by the supreme court, was that the temporary restraining order granted, was dissolved and rendered of non-effect. The Indianapolis News says: Suit for injunction to prevent erection of school house, and abandoning school District .3 of the township. Demurrer was sustained to the complaint. The suit is under Acts 1913, page 331, regarding erection of school houses. This act has reference to townships in which no high school has been established, and as the com(Continued on Paga 2.)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, October 15, 1915.

STATE MEETING Os Indiana Board of Charities and Correction Will be Held Soon IN RICHMOND, INDIANA Mrs. W. A. Lower of This City on Committee for Local Development. The Indiana Bulletin on charities and correction just issued announces | the twenty-fourth annual session of the I state association to b£ held in Richmond, Oct. 30 to November 2, under the presidency of Amos. W. Butler, secretary of the state board of charities. The conference will open Saturday night and close Tuesday night. The purpose is to bring together the men and women of the state who are engaged and interested in social work, either private or public. The Program Committee has arranged to hold general sessions Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, evenings, and Monday afternoon. There will be mass meeting Sunday afternoon. Round tables will occupy the entire morning, both Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday afternoon the delegates and visitors will be given oportunity to visit local institutions. All meetings will be held in the Indiana Yearly Meeting House of the Friends' church on East Main street. Noted educators will be on the program. The bulletin publishes the names of committees on the development of local charities. The one named for Adams county is Mrs. W. A. Lower of this city. , o HOG CHOLERA •■ i ~ i Department of Agriculture Issues Government Instructions Concerning i t TREATMENT OF SAME i And Preventative Measures for the Average Farmer ; —Seems Severe. In its campaign against hog chol- 1 era. which annually destroys live 1 I stock to the value of many millions of dollars, the department of agricul- . ture has issued suggestions to hog > owners to aid them avoiding infec- , tion. Hog cholera is most prevalent in late summer and fall. These sug- j gestions deserve particular attention , now. They are: , Locate your hog lots and pastures away from streams and public highways, and do not allow the hogs to run free range. Do not visit your neighbor or allow i him to visit you, if either of you have ; hog cholera on your premises. Do not drive into hog lots when returning from market or after driving on public highways. Do not use hog lots for yarding wag- , ons and farm implements. , Do not place newly purchased stock . or stock secured or loaned for breeding purposes, or stock exhibited at county fairs, with your herd. Keep • such stock quarantined at least two weeks, and use care to prevent carrying infection from these to other pens in feeding and attending stock. Burn to ashes or cover with quicklime and bury under four feet of earth all dead animals and the viscera removed from animals at butchering time. They attract the attention of buzzards, dogs, etc., which are liable to carry hog cholera infection. Confine your dogs and do not keep pigeons unless you confine them. • If hog cholera appears in your herd: Treat your nogs' immediately with anti-hog cholera serum, after which they should be kept on a light diet and pure drinking water and confined to limited quarters that may be cleaned daily and sprayed three times a week with one pound of cresol solution to thirty quarts of water until .the disease has abated in the herd. To obtain the best results the serum must

be administered before the disease has progressed hi the herd. To rid the premises of infection: Remove al) manure and satuate with quick lime. Burn all litter, rubbish and old hog troughs. After the premises are thoroughly cleaned, spray walls, floors, and other surfaces with disinfectant (one part compound cresol solution to thirty parts waters Where hog houses are small, turn them over, exposing Interior to sunlight. Wallow holes and cesspools should be filled in, drained, or fenced off. All runs underneath buildings should be cleaned and disinfected and then boarded up. Destroy hogs that do not fully recover, as they may be carriers of cholera infection. >■ FOR llMPlicrTT Judge Wm. H. Eichhorn Advocates New Ideas for State Law. JURIES SIMPLIFIED And Charging Jury Discarded—Advocates Measures in the Citizen.

(United Press Service) Indianapolis. Ind., Oct. 15—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Indiana’s constitution has one provision that is unique among the states of the nation, according to Judge W. H. Eichhorn of Bluffton, the trial judge in the election conspiracy case of Mayor 8011. This provision, which no other state has, is that “in all criminal cases whatever the jury shpll have' the right to dc-termine the law and the facts.” In an article written for the Citizen under the title, “Shall Right of Trial by Jury Remain Inviolate?” Judge Eichhorn declares that “if there ever was a sound reason for such a provision. it has been lost sight of and forgotten.” Judge Eichhorn called attention to the fact that notwithstanding the prevision noted above "the judge presiding in a criminal case is required to instruct the jury in writing and very many criminal cases reversed by the supreme court on appeal are reversed for errors of law committed by the trial court in giving instructions.” The Wells county jurist added that “the essential province of the jurors is to determine the facts and it is real ly a violation of ‘trial by jury' to burden this ‘fact’ body with intricate issues of law.” Judge Eichhorn also favors threefourts or even two-thirds verdict by the jury in civil cases rather than a unanimous verdict as is now required. He reasons that it would be a saving in time and expense for the litigants and public by preventing disagreements and that litigants would have “less fear that a verdict had failed because of bad influences or improper motives operating upon the jurors.” o WILSONS SUMMER HOME (United Press Service) Washington, D. C„ Oct. 15—(Special to Daily Democrat) —President Wilson today accepted New Jersey’s invita tion to make “Shadow Lawn", John A. McCall’s place at Long Branch, New Jersey, his summer residence. More than a score of New Jerseyites called on the president. The great estate was offered the president at absolutely no expense whatever, except expenses attendant upon the main tainance of his own household. The president, however, asked that he be allowed to pay the rent he has been accustomed to pay for his summer home even if the committee devoted the money to some chartiable use. o HOOSIER HISTORY IN TABLOID In the midst of the Whig success, “bard times came a knocking at the door.” The vast scheme of internal improvements gladened out. Property value depreciated in value, while the taxes increased many fold. The state was on the brink of ruin and the hands at the helm seemed helpless. “The Whig party was guilty of flagrant misgovernment. It’s punishment was not unmerited", says Sarcy in his history of Indiana. At any rate its punishment came. It heli) to more or less dead issues while the Democrats, keeping pace with the public sentiment, reaped their reward. The Whigs lost power never to regain it.

HOMEJSJPENED One Hundred Thirty-six Knights and Ladies Formally Open Home. KEKIONGA NO. 65 Contests, Dancing and Luncheon the Big Things on the Program. One hundred thirty six Knights ami their ladies gathered at the Knights of Pythias home last evening to formally o|>en the home for the season. At eight o'clock chairman Dore B. Erwin started something by making the announcements. As the visitors came in the door James Fristoe gave them a number. This number drew the prize in the general contesr. Harry Helm had the lucky number. George Tester consented to mask and it took John Adam Smith about twenty minutes to guess his identity, but John was the first to make the correst guess and he won that prize. Mary (’allow, daughter of Horace Cal low won the picture guessing contest. Pictures of eighteen Knights, taken at any time, were exhibited. The pictures are being shown to the public in the Callow and Rice window, one being run each day. At nine o’clock the room was cleared for dancing and Albert Sellemeyer master of ceremonies handled the dance in good shape. While the younger generation was dancing the older ones found the luncheon spread in the dining room to their- liking. The batchelors and ! real old Knights could be found in the card room most of the evening. The home is now formally opened and the hours will be from ten o’clock in the morning until ten o’clock at night.

IS IT HJR NOT C. C. Wilder, Jovial Meat Dealer, Awakes to Find Shoes and Coat Gone. PROWLER ENTERED His Home at Monmouth and Made Away With His Wearing Apparel. Like the woman of Mother Goose fame, C. C. Wilder, the jovial West Monroe street meat market proprietor might well have exclaimed “Lauk-amassy-me, Is this I or not I?” when he awoke yesterday morning and found itis shoes and coat and a dollar or more in money gone. He is wondering today who is stalking around in his good new shoes and wearing his coat and spending the shekels that once were his, but which have melted away like the morning dew before an August sun. Mr. Wilder goes home to Monmouth every evening on the 9:30 car, and he does not forget to take some good juicy bones home to his faithful watch rog. He arrived home in the rain Wednesday evening, but did not forget to go to tiie back door and call out to the dog, throwing the bones out as he did so. He wondered the faithful dog did not rush up to greet him as fondly as usual, especially since the hones were in evidence, but stayed out in the back yard and continued barking, never setting foot upon the back porch, from the door of which Mr. Wilder called. Mr. Wilder removed his shoes and coat and left them in the kitchen over night, by the good warrp stove to dry. In the morning when he acrose, the shoes were missing and the back door, which in the good and peaceful quiet burg of Monmouth is never locked, was standing partially open. It was thought the dog liad entered and carried the shoes away. But the coat was also found to be gone, and with it a dollar and some small change, which had been placed in the pocket. Suspicion was lifted from the dog, es : pecially after a search of the yard failed to reveal the missing articles. It is believed that a tramp or other prowler was hiding on the porch, at the time of Mr. Wilder’s return, and

I that the dog's barking and failure to I come up to get his bones, was due to the presence of the invader on the l>ack porch. It Is supposed that after Mr. Wilder retired for the night, the man entered the home and made his get-away with the new shoes and coat and money. —o WHAT THE BRIDE WORE. The bride and groom presented a regal spectacle, never equalled since the proud Cleopatra sailed down the perfumed, lotus.bearing Nile in her gilded pageant to meet Marc Antony, while all the world stood agape at the unheard triumph. To describe the bride's costume beggars the English language; and imagination falls faint and feeble before the Herculean task. She was gorgeously arrayed in a calico dress, ami a pair of lace curtains floated about like a dream about her figure.—The Rushville (Mo.) News. A CORN CUTTER William Wells Uses a Corn Cutter to Clean Up His House Yesterday. MR. REYNOLDS WINS Wife and Two Daughters in Danger from Alleged Drunk and Disorderly. William Wells, a laborer, in trying to govern his family last night, found it necessary to use a corn cutter, and i as a result neighbors who interfered. I found it necessary to call Patrolman I Reynolds to care for the head of the ' house. Wells, who awaits trial on a charge ' of disorderly conduct and drunk, is; said to have gone home in that con- ( dition and growing incensed at the . way his home was being managed, began to break up a perfectly good I stove and the dishes that were in sight. The Mrs. objected and Wells proceeded to chastise her with a corn i cutter. At this juncture Reynolds ar- , rived, and Wells thought he could I lick the patrolman. Wells lives in the old court house : building on First street and of late 1 has been cutting corn. His wife and i two daughters were in the home when j he began Ins house cleaning. The • trouble occurred about 7:30 o’clock I Thursday night.

NEW MOTOR GLOB Being Organized Here by Representative of Hoosier Automobile Association. WANT 200 MEMBERS Boosters for Good Roads — Have Clubs in Many Counties Over State. Mr. M. E. Noblet, representing the Hoosier State Automobile Asociation is here to organize an Adams County Automobile association, as a branch of the state organization, which is affiliated with the A. A. A. the national order. The principle purpose of the organization is to advocate and work for local, state and federal aid In the construction and maintainence of good roads ami Mr. Noble expects to secure the necessary twelve charter members here with which to organize. The local organization should then tepidly increase to 200 or more, becoming a strong factor in local affairs and wielding an influence in this part of the state for better roads. The association also aide in the proper enforcement of auotmobile laws, encourage touring and secure, prepare and dissimnate information relative thereto at a low cost to the members. The fee is six dollars which includes the membership, one years subscription to the “Hoosier Motorist,” an official radiator emblem and a copy of the official road map and touring guide of Indiana. Similar organizations have been effected in nearly all the counties 'of northern and central Indiana.

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“MOVIF_ PARTY Young Folks Had Delightful time Last Night at “Miss Decatur" Party. SAW THE FUNNY MOVIE And Had Banquet at Hartings & Wilson’s—Dance at K. of C. Hall. The young folks gladly responded to the invitations to attend the “Miss Decatur" movie party last evening given by the boys in honor of the leading actress and actor, Miss Leona Bosse and Mr. Raymond Hartings. The party met at the K. of C. hall at 8:30 o’clock and at 9 o’clock went to the Hartings & Wilson case, where they sat down to one of the most delicious and tempting banquets ever served in the city. A long table reaching from one end of the case to the other was gaily decorated with vases and baskets of pink carnations for the enjoyable event. The banquet was served in three courses. The menu was as follows: Creme Tomato Bullion Fried Chicken Mashed Potatoes Baked Sweet Potatoes Oyster Dressing Chicken Gravy Celery Pickles Olives Cranberry Charlotte Ice Cream Cake Milk Chocolate The proprietors of the case did everything possible to make the affair ] a success and it certainly was. The | banquet was served in the finest of ' style and greatly enjoyed by all pres- ’ ent. After the, feast the party went Ito the Crystal theater and saw the ' movie. Through the courtesy of Mr. : Parent a special show was conducted ' for the party. Os course there was I enough fun in it to make the crowd j roar. Miss Bosse and Mr. Hartings I played their parts to a tee. Mr. Reid, the father of the young ‘•married’* couple, acted as if he was a regular Francis Bushman or Warren KerriI gan. After all the sights were shown . the party returned to the K. of C. hall where the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing. Those invited to tiie party were: Misses Leona Bosse, Mayme Hartings, Agnes Kohne, Laurine Keller, Frances Deininger, Fay Hammell, Margaret Simth, Leah Hensley. Vera Clark. Margaret Gerard. Glenys Mangold. Rose Voglewede. Bert Voglewede, Mayme Deininger, Rose (’outer, Ada Deinniger, Margaret (’outer, Ray Hgrtings. Truman Tumlin, Lynn Shoemalftr, Geo. Baker. Norbert Holthouse. Arthur Holthouse, Eugene Bremerkamp, Herman Ehinger, Elmo Smith, Dan Falk, Leon Crawford. Bernard Terveer, Dr. Andrew Clark. Fred Schurger, Jesse Niblick, Clem Kortenbrer, James Westfield. o DRUGGED TO DEATH (United Press Service) Noblesville. Oct. 15,—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —John Bond, a wealthy farmer living north of Carmel died today from causese that have not yet. been definitely acertained. One report widely circulated was that he had been drugged and robbed. Mrs. Bond returned home last night and found Bond unconscious in the yard. Deatli is believed to have resulted from apoplexy. The robbery report is believed to have resulted from confusion over the robbery of a jewelry store last night of several hundred dollars. Neighbors of Bond said today that a strange rig stooff in front of the Bond house for some time yesterday afternoon. This and the fact that Bond recently held a sale and may have had a considerable sum of money in the house lent color to ‘he robbery story. Physicians said that Bond had been drugged. He was fifty years old. GERMANS ARE PRISONERS (United Press Service) Washington. Oct. 15, —tSpecial to Daily Democrat)—Believing that six German officers from the interned cruiser Kron Prinz Wilhelm at Norfolk have escaped on the yacht Eclipse and may be trying to damage British commerce in the south Atlantic the navy department today revoked leave of absence for all Germans on the Kron Prinz and also the Prinz Eitel Friedrich. The German seamen and officers wil be kept prisoners on their ships until it is nostvcly determned whether the six officers have violated their parole.