Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1915 — Page 1

■Volume XIII. Number 273.

GERMANS ESCAPE HH * • A German Sailor’ Escapes | from Norfolk Navy Yard Thursday Night. lancona news shy ______ • ■Government is Increasing the Secret Service to « * Watch Suspects. — I Washington, Nov. 13, —(Special to Kfkiilv Democrat)—Sweeping investigations directed by attorney general Gregory of bomb plots and fire conspiracies are being made by the departjustice it was announced tot. day at the White House. The president is keeping in direct touch with all developments. It was added that the attorney general would confer with the president within a short time relative to progress being made. It was learned today that the government >o\v had so many people under surveillance that it had been found necg eesary to increase the force of secret service men. BULLETIN B Washington. Nov. 13, —(Special to -Daily Democrat)—Secretary Daniels asked Secretary Lansing today whether marines guarding the interned sailors at Norfolk may fire on those who attempt to escape. Norfolk, Va„ Nov. 13,—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Escape of another German sailor from the interned cruiser Prinz Eitel Friderich was announced today by admiral Beatty, commandant of the Norfolk navy yards. S.. Thiery, a seaman, escaped Thursday night. It is belived he lowered himself over the side of the Printz Eitel and got away by swimming under the docks along the navy yards. All boats and trains are being watched in a search for the missing man. London, Nov. 13,—(Special to Daily riddled the Italian liner Ancona and swept her decks while pasengers were fleeing in wild .panic to boats according to an interview with Dr. Cecile L. Griel, of NewYork, telegraphed here today by a Paris news agency. Dr. Greil was • among the survivors landed at Ferryville—she told a thrilling story of the .. attack on the liner by the Austriansubmarine but did not make clear whether the Ancona tried to escape. Dr. Greil, herself, had a narrow escape from death the dispatch declared. A shell entered the cabin through a port hole and killed her maid, just before she herself rushed into th cabin to get some clothing. She returned to the deck to late to make one of the boats but leaped into a launch. Most of the pasengers were in the dining room eating when the submarine's first shots was heard. When they ran to the deck the submarine could be seen through a light fog only about one hundred yards away. Men, women and children rushed to the boats but the submarine continued to pour shell fire at. the Ancona, according to Dr. Greil. Shells struck several points above the water line but failed to sink ' the liner. The submarine then dispatched a torpedo. Washington, Nov. 13, — (Special to Daily Democrat)—Evidence in the possession of the department of state concerning the actions of Alfcxamder Von Nubers Austrian consul gq|eral at New York city has rendered him persona non grata to this government. The decision as to what will be done about it lies with secretary of state Lansing. Berlin, Nov. 13,— (Special to Daily Democrat)—Arms and ammunition for the Turks are beginning to arrive at Constantinople from Germany advices received today from the Sultan’s capital said. , Berlin, Nov. 13,— (Special to Daily Democrat)— "We have repulsed the Russian attacks” anounced the war office today of developments in the eastern war zone. The west front was reported as being quiet. Paris, Nov. 13,— (Special to Daily Democrat)— Destruction by a submarine, supposedly Austrian, of the Italian steamship, Firenze, 3973 tons burden, with the death of 6 out of sengers and 15 of the crew of 111, is reported in advices from Italy today. The vessel has not been officially reported lost it is said that it was tor-

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pedoed last Tuesday. It was not stated where the attack occurred but as ' the vessel left her home port of Genoa for Alexandria it Is presumed the affair must have occurred in the Medl- ' terranean. Athens, Nov. 13 —(Special to Daily Demorat) —Negotiations between the Greeks and the allied governments were in progress today according to . the newspaper Hestia, to insure the allied forces in Servia "against unforeseen circumstances resulting from Grece’s present attitude.” Berlin, Nov. 13 —(Special to DailyDemocrat —Crossing the Jastrobac I mountain range twenty mijes southeast of Kruse vac, Austro-German troops joined the Bulgarian forces in pursuit of the main army of Serbians today and captured more than 1,100 prisoners. THECOURTNEWS Dan Straub Wants Divorce —Says He Was Used Cruelly—Wife Called HIM A “SLOUCH” And Wasted His Earnings —November Term of Court Opens Monday. Deputy Sheriff L. D. Jacobs this morning served a summons on Sarah J. Straub to appear in the*Allen Superior court to answer the complaint of her husband, Daniel Straub for divorce. The Journal-Gazette says: zette. says: Daniel Straub has filed suit in superior court for a decree of divorce from Sarah J. Straub, alleging that the wife called him a "slouch” and that she wasted his earnings. They were married in 1882. L. C. DeVoss is attorney for the plaintiff. A marriage license was issued this morning to Charles D. Hart, blacksmith of Muncie, born February 14. 1876, son of Harvey A. Hart, to wed Minnie D. Watson, clerk, of Geneva, born August 25, 1877, daughter of Jerry Swank. Both have been married before. Tiie groom was divorced from a former wife of 1912. The bride lost companion by death. Real estate transfers: Frank M. Schirmeyer, to Newton C. Andrews, lot 12 Decatur, $290; Newton C. Andrews to John Wagner, lot 12, Decatur $125. The November term of court will open Monday morning, after a week's vacation. The grana jury also report for duty at this time. The dockets are quite heavy, though few cases have been filed during the week's vacation. The criminal docket has twenty-one suits, the civil 195. There are twenty divorce cases awaiting disposal, and one breach of promise to marry, besides several support cases. Hunters’ licenses have been issued to Harold Sace, Ottie Wilson, Carl T. McWhirter, Oren Charleston, John J. Scheer, jr., Arthur Beeler, Phil Schug. Samuel E. Beeler, Isaac Byrd, Joe Engle, Verne May, A. H. Haecker, Ross C. Hayes. Reuben F. Metier, D. D. Metier, Kenneth J. Reiff, C. A. Heare, Nelson H. May. Warren E. Buckmaster. Armantrout and DeVoss are attorneys for Rule Boze, of Geneva, who filed suit for divorce from Ora Boze. They were married January 30, 1909 r , and lived together until Nov. 30, 1914. ( On that date Boze says he learned that she committed adultery with one David Husshire at Winchester, and also with divers other men at various places. He says she would often be ’ gone from their home until midnight ’ or later and associated with lewd persons and drank intoxicating liquor with them. When he learned of her . infidelity he says they separated and have not since . lived together. He says she is now living with a married man out of the state of Indiana. ’ DR. STEMEN DIED TODAY r Judge D. E. Smith received a mes- - sage this afternoon anonuncing the - death of Dr. Christian B. Stemen of ■- Fort Wayne. The funerhl services i- will be held Tuesday afternoon at two s o’clock. Dr. Stemen was one of the ’. oldest practitioners of Fort Wayne !- and well known here. He was a thir-ty-third degree Mason.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, November 13, 1915.

; HOME WEDDING Daphna Fern Hill and Wil- ' liam Rash Married at J J Home of .John Hunt ) SUNDAY AFTERNOON 1 m In Presence of Several Guests—Will Live on i Farm Near Wren, O. i ___ ’ At the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt on Sunday afternoon promptly at 2 o'clock took place the wedding of Mrs. Hunt’s daughter. Miss Daphna Fern Hill, to Mr. William Rash in the presence of several guests. The bride wore a very girlish and becoming dress of tan, while the groom wore dark blue. Immediately after the wedding there was a bountiful and pleasing supper served to all the guests. The couple received many useful presents. Mr. and Mrs. Rash will live on a farm near Wren, Ohio, CARD OF°THANKS. We desire in this manner to thank our many friends and also the neighbors for their beautiful floral offerings and kin dassistance during the illness and death of our beloved wife and mother, and also the minister for his kind and comforting words. JERRY DRAPER AND CHILDREN. BID FILE£W Messrs. Kalver, Bornstein and Fernberg Offer Cash for Traction Line. WOULD “JUNK” IT Two Other Prospective Bidders for Road Which Cost Half Million. I. A. Kalver of this city, A. Bornstein of Indianapolis and Abe Fernberg of Muncie this morning filed with Receiver French Quinn, a bid of 51,647.65 for the Fort Wayne & Springfield traction line, accompanying same with a duly certified check for $5,000 as required under the order of court. Mr. Kalver is well known here, Mr. Bornstein is one of the most extensive junk dealers of the middle west and Mr. Fernberg is a Muncie banker and business man. If they secure the road they will immediately pay the balance or their bid in cash, shut down the road, dismantle it and sell thd material for what it is worth, retaining the real estate. The road originally cost $600,000 of $700,000 and has operated nine years between here and Fort Wayne. The men who made the bid say they made it in good faith and think they have a chance to secure the road, even though the amount offered would not meet the receiver’s certificates and the court costs. It is not generally believed that he road will go to them, as there are two other prospective bidders, including Mr. Dolph, who wired from Philadelphia yesterday that he was proceeding with firs negotiations and it is not expected that the Fort Wayne parties interested in the road will permit the road to be sold at the figures mentioned. The bidders announced today that in ease they secured the road they would not attempt to operate it, but would immediately proceed to “junk” it. Judge Hartford of Portland is expected here within a few days. The bid offered today is limited to fifteen days and must be accepted within that time, if at all. Mr. Bornstein has purchased a number of railroads over the country and is an expert in his line. _o IT FROZE LAST NIGHT The themometer stood at 28 degrees at six o’clock and ice one half inch thick appeared on exposed still water. This is the third morning this fall that ■ ice has been seen, but formerly only > a thin scale was noticed. f —o— — . INTERURBAN FREIGHT > The winter schedule has been » adopted for the interurban freight car. 5 It will leave the Decatur station at - 8 o’clock in the mornings, instead of 7 o'clock.

| HART-WATSON. J 'Squire G. F. Kintz Dons Matrimonial Robes. ’Squire G. F. Kintz donned his glad- ■ dest matrimonial togs this morning when he officiated at the wedding at 9 o’clock of Charles D. Hart, a Muncie blacksmith, son of Harvey A. Hart, and Mrs. Minnie Watson of Geneva. The bride is a daughter of Jer- • ry Swank of Geneva and had been a clerk in her father's grocery store. She wore a pretty gown of dark blue | flowered messaline. THANKSGIVING SERVICES Owing to the fact that repairs are being made at the United Brethren church it has been decided to hold ( the union Thanksgiving services at , ten o'clock Thanksgiving morning at . the Christian church. You should arrange to attend these services. Every- , body cordially invited. WASBIG_SUCCESS Box Social at Monmouth School Nets $37 for Domestic Science Room. A LARGE CROWD Enoyed Fine Time—J. J. Baumgartner Auctioneer —Fine Music. The spacious Monmouth school could scarcely accomodate the large crowd that attended the box social parcels post sale and general social given by the school. Forty-five dollars were taken in, and some thirtyfive or thirty-seven cleared. A special interurban car from Decatur was filled and automobiles took out many more to the festival. There were about thirty or forty boxes of lunch and these brought high prices, as sold by J. J. Baumgartner, special auctioneer. The parcels post sale also netted considerable, as did the fish pond. There was also a cake walk. The assembly formed in circles and marched and the one who was finally left in the ring, when the march stopped, was given a cake for being “it”. Cakes were given Mrs. Louis Murphy and Miss Naomi Mayer. Fred Heuer of the Holthouse Drug Company, had a Victrola and furnished music and music was also provided by Frank Rumschlag. Roy Wolford and Irma Houk. The teachers and pupils wish to thank all who helped make the afftir a success by therr presence and also those who helped with the music and other entertainment features. The proceeds will be used in fitting up the domestic Science room of the school. Guy Brown and Miss Helen Fonner are the teachers. AMY SMITHDEAD Amy Smith, Wife of Landon Smith, Died of Tuberculosis Friday. ILL A LONG TIME Funeral Services in Monroe Sunday Afternoon—Burial in Maplewood. Amy Smith, 23, wife of Landon Smith, died at the family home east of Monroe last night at eight o’clock, after an illness lasting for several years. She was born in 1892. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Andrews of near the Washington church. She is survived by the husband, the mother, a three-year-old son, one sister and one broths er. i The funeral services will be held from the Monroe Methodist Episcopal t church Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock, , burial to be in the Maplewood cemetery at Decatur. LAUKHART FUNERAL SUNDAY z i The funeral of Cyrus Laukhart, 62, of Jefferson township, who died Thurst day of tuberculosis, will be held Suns day morning at ten o’clock at the Bethel church, seven miles from Berne.

,TYPHOID FATAL . Mrs. Ada Lochner, Wife of 1 Albert Lochner, Died at - • I Lutheran Hospital. tAT TEN LAST NIGHT J Mrs. Elijah Walters, Mother, Called to Her Bedside Yesterday Morning. i t Mrs. Elijah Walters, who received -a telephone mesage yesterday morning - that her daughter, Mrs. Ada Lochner. • wife of Albert Lochner, of Fort Wayne, was dying, and who left on the next car, that at 11:30, arrived in time i to see her daughter alive. Mrs. Lochi ner died last night at ten o’clock at the Lutheran hospital, where she had been for nine of the nearly ten weeks that she was ill of typhoid fever. Mrs. Lochner was thirty-three years of age. Her maiden name was Ada Johnson and she was born in Decatur. She is survived by the husband and three children —Edna, twelve; Harold, six; Marjorie, one; her moth- , er, Mrs. Elijah Walters, Decatur; sister, Mrs. D. A. Mosure, Decatur; brother, Joseph Johnson, Wren, Ohio. Mrs. Mosure, the sister, also went to Fort Wayne with her mother to be with her sister. Mrs. Lochner was a member of the Cedarville Methodist church. HDD CHOLERA Is Preventable and Efforts to Organize Adams County Are Made. MONROE IS FOR IT And at Meeting Last Night Formed Organization to Perform Work. Enterprising farmers of Monroe apd vicinity are going to profit from the expert advice which is available in combating hog cholera, and at a meeting hold in the assembly room of the school house last night two hundred persons voted in favor of holding meetings each two weeks for a bettor dissemination of knowledge concerning the disease. Prof. C. G. Starr of the Purdue university, head of the extension department handling hog cholera and hog diseases exclusively, was present and lectured on hog cholera. He illustrated the lecture with colored slides, showing the normal and the diseased parts, showing the methods of performing a post mortem examination, instructing in the care of cases, prevention, sanitation and all points a successful hog raiser should know to market his hogs free from disease or loss. Starting his lecture w’ith symptoms, he described in the minutest detail the beginnings of the plague. Some hogs, he said, do not show the aggravated symptoms others do. Some hogs have acute attacks, while others have cholera and it is barely noticeable. The diagnosis of the disease was discussed at length, the slides helping out wonderfully in explanation of the various examinations. The spread of hog cholera can be attributed to eight causes, four of which are easily preventable, and which, by the way, are the four causes accounting for sixty-six per cent of the cases we have today. Prominent among the causes of spread of the disease is visitors. Visitors to a hog cholera farm are the cause of the spread of 23 per cent of all the hog cholera in the state. Visiting to an infected farm is easily remedied. The farmers are urged to have the county agent furnish them the red quarantine cards and to post them where visitors will see them. The second great cause is birds. Crows, pigeons, hawks and sparrows. They cause the farmer 17 per cent of his cholera. The cure for this is a good shot gun. It should be used effectively and cautiously. Hogs dying from cholera should be burned, or • buried deep under earth; preferably ■ burned. Harboring germs is a third fatal - cause. Sixteen and one-half per cent of all cases are caused from harbor-

ing germs in filth, and filthy buildings on the farm where hog cholera first ‘ breaks out. A seven* and systematic clean-up will prevent outbreaks from , this cause, To do this effectively, ev- : ery wagon, horse and man coming on the place should be disinfected, especialls the wheels of wagons, hoofs of animals and shoes of man, with a two per cent solution of some creosol compound. Then burn all the filth, i old straw, and debris. Get sunlight on the ground benig used, sprinkle dehydrated lime over all other ground, spray the insides and north sides of all buildings with a two per cent solution of disinfectant which contains enough lime to make a decent whitewash. Use thorough methods in doing this as the germ causing hog cholera is so minute (hat the strongest microscope has failed to find it. Farm dogs carry nine and one-half per cent of the cases, and quarantnie (Continued on page 2) HAS’NOTHER WIFE Perry Hull, Who Married Beulah Youse, Has Wife at Leavenworth, Kans. AN ESCAPED CONVICT May Also Answer Charge of Bigamy Besides Other List of Crimes. Perry Hull, or Charles Warren, oi* Gifford, as his latest name is found to be, who married Beulah Youse, of Fort Wayne, daughter of Nelson Youse of this city, will answer the charge of bigamy, it seems, as he has a wife living at Leavenworth, Kans. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette says: “With the complete records to lay side by side, first as a Kansan convict, and later as a Fort Wayne crook, man of mystery and phony millionaire, the positive identification of Perry Hull, alias Charles Warren, as B. J. Gifford, parole violator and check swindler, who served time at the Lan sing prison for crime,, has been established. The Bertillion system of measurements and finger prints, which never makes a mistake, is responsible for the identification, as the records tally so perfectly that there is nothing lacking. Indeed, if there was any doubt, it would be swept aw*ay at once by a steady of the prison pictures of the man B. J. Gifford and a study of the features of Hull as he is today at the county jail awaiting trial in the circuit court. The facial expression, and same vacant stare, is there, and even the mustache worn in the Kansas picture does not hide the re semblance. "Detective-Sargeant Joseph P. Brennan. whose work brought about the identification, has received the complete record of Hull's activities in the west. The photographs, Bertillion measurements and finger prints forwarded by A. D. Hudspeth, record officer of the Kansas prison, have been found by Detective-Sergeant Brennan to correspond exactly with the Bertillion records secured here of Hull. Satisfied that Hull is the parole violator and escaped convict known to them as B. J. Gifford, the Kansas prison authorities have requested that he be returned to them to serve out the remainder of his five-year sentence. His official record is as follows: Convicted at Leavenworth December 17, 1910, on charge of securing money under false pretense. Received at Kansas prison. January 11, 1911. Paroled November 11, 1911. Returned for violating parole and escaped from penitentiary February 5, 1915. His wife, Cora Gifford, resides in Leavenworth at the corner of Fourth and Shawnee streets. He was employed as a barber while in the Kansas prison.” The fact that he already had one wife when he married Beulah Youse.adds bigamy to his list of crimes. "In the face of the new evidence from Kansas with which Hull or Gifford will be confronted, it is expected, that he will plead guilty when arraigned for trfal In the circuit court November 22.” NOTICE. Members of the W. R. C. are re- ■ quested to meet at the G. A. R. hall • Tuesday, November 16, at 2:30 p. in. ’ Bring your jellies and fruits for box, or leave them at Dr. Burns’ residence 1 on or before the 16th. Our regular t meeting November 18. All members - be present.

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FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED 1 John T. Ault, Justice of the 1 Peace of Jefferson Township, Died Suddenly OF HEART TROUBLE i Berne Odd Fellows Will be in Charge of the Funeral Sunday Morning. John T. Ault, 64, for many years justice of the peace of Jefferson township, died very unexpectedly of heart trouble at his home five miles south- , east of Berne, sometime between 3 o'clock and the regular arising time this morning. He was found dead in bed at her side by his wife when she awakened. Although Mr. Ault had been doctoring for the past year, his condition did not seem more alarming at this time and he had done as big a day’s work yesterday as was usual. About three o’clock this morning he experienced some discomfort and arose, but his condition did not seem alarming and the shock on finding him dead, when the wife awakened this morning was great. Coroner D. D. Clark viewed the body this morning and his report will be that death was due to mitral insuffi- . ciency. The widow and several children survive.* Mr. Ault was one of the best known men of his community and was also well known over the county. The funeral will be held Sunday morning at 10 o’clock from the Methodist Protestant church near Berne. Mr. Ault was a member of the Berne Odd Fellows and that body will have charge of the funeral. o ELMER JOHNSON IS HERE Elmer Johnson, fqrmer clerk of the Adams circuit court and for a number of years a leading politician hereabouts, came in this afternoon after several years residence In the northwest. He has been living at Langdon, North Dakota, where he represented a Minneopolis grocery house and where he has prospered. He has taken a leave of absence for three months to avoid the northwest winter which he says is to severe for him and has acepted a position in this section. He narowly escaped death last August 24th. when his automobile overtui ned and he was pinned underneath. His jaw was broken and he was unconscious when found. He has recovered however and is feeling fine. He expects to return to Langdon next March and again take up his work. His appearance is slightly changed as he carries a deep scar on his left cheek, the result of the accident. He was busy this afternoon greeting old friends and was as delighted to be home as one who has been absent several years from those he knows are his friends. MANY VISIT LIMBERLOST. • Though the fall winds have long since driven the pretty leaves, the beautiful flowers and the verdent vegetation from the spacious lawn surrounding Limberlost cabin, yet many people from miles around come to visit the former home of the great authoress. Sunday there were as many as a dozen auto parties coming from surrounding cities to view the old log cabin once again. Visitors throughout the summer months are indeed paid for their visit for tho flowers are beautiful and shrubs and trees present to the eye a most charming picture, but now, it is the mere curiosity of the house and premises , that attracts so many visitors. Visitors are forbidden privilege of going , into the house and they can be seen ( at most any time gazing through the windows at the vacant rooms, won- , dering why one could wish a place more grand or a home more beautiful. —Geneva Herald. o A BOX SOCIAL t A box social will be given at the Chapman school two and a half miles west of the city next Tuesday evening. Miss Ruby Parrish is the teacher. EvI erybody is invited to come. K. OF C. NOTICE. Important meeting Monday at 8:00 p. m. A lunch and smoker will follow the meeting. Let every member attend. G. K,