Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1916 — Page 1

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NO MORE LIGHT Shed on the Persia Sinking by Affidavits of the Survivors. ENGLISH LABORERS Give Conscription a Blow —America Must Train Voluntarily. BULLETIN. Washington, Jan. 6,—(Special to the Democrat)—A dispatch today to tthe state department from consul Garrelf at Alexandria indicates that the) government now has all the Information it is likely to have regarding thd sinking of the Persia, unless it conies from Vienna of Berlin. Garrelfs message said affidavits taken from survivors threw no more light on the incident. Jan. 6,— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Labor leaders struck a heavy blow against conscription today when resolution protesting in the name of three million trade unionists, against compulsory enlistment was introduced, by the executive comm’t', tee when the National Labor Congress I met. The resolution was greeted with l cries of approval from all parts of the hall. In contained expressions of regret that the solidarity of the nation ha» been gravely imperiled and industrial and political liberty menaced by tl,e attitude of the conscriptionists. Wiphington. Jan. 6,—(Special to the ( Daily Democrat)—America must adopt . voluntary military training or face conscription. This was Secretary of War Garrison’s warning today when he opened the army national defense hearing before the house military committee. He declared a large standing anny undesirable and utterly futile. He asserted reliance upon the state militia uterly unwarranted as an unstable foundation. His continental plan. Garrison said, was the only leasable alternative if compulsory military : training and conscription for service < is to be avoided. >' Marseilles, Jan. 6,—(Special to the . Daily Democrat)—The French steamer Mmk carrying 250 passengers was , Sensed all night in the Mediterranean 1 Mt a big submarine, but eluded the atttniersible and arrived here today. She brought survivors of the British Maamers Middleton and Abelia, subqßfcrine victims. HKhe submarine abandoned the chase Jwawn today. When the Karnak out la,[many of the passengers were hysi *w tal with fright - “ The subniariue gjgjited us at about dusk last night,” a said one of the Karnak's officers, “the « sßtain ordered full steam ahead and wel raced for it through a heavy out bow splitting big waves.” BULLETIN. Rondon, Jan. 6,— (Special to Dally rat)— That representative of million english trades unionists will adfrpt by a large majority a resolution condemning conscription was in-

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dicated on a test vote this afternoon The delegates voted flown, by nearly four to one, a motion to lend support to a modified conscription bill. BULLETIN. London, Jan. 6,—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Failure of the British government to send fifty thousand re-in-forcements he had requested caused the collapse of the Dardenelles camgaign general lan Hamilton asserted in his final report today. ISSUES A CALL. (United Press Service) Washington, Jan. 6, —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —The controller cf the currency today issued a call for a statement of the condition of banks December 31st. o ■ NOTICE. The comrades of Sam Henry post are requested to meet at the post hall at 7 o’clock this evening to make arrangements for the funeral of Comrade Wetter. B. W. SHOLTY, S. M. ANNUALJEPORT Dr. D. D. Clark Sent Annual Report as Coroner to State Statistician. TWENTY-ONE INQUESTS Held During Year —Seventeen Deaths from Natural Causes—The Report. Dr. D. D. Clark, coroner of Adams county, today forwarded to W. Brolley, state statistician, his annual report for the year 1915. The report showed that the coroner has been called on twenty-one inquests during the year, of which number twelve were males and nine females. Os these seventeen deaths were from natural causes, three were caused bydrowning, and one, a Mr. Roth, met death when his head was severed by a saw. One of the questions asked on the blank form sent to the coroner for his report is, “How many deaths were directly or indirectly caused by automobiles?” In this county during the year there were none but, ‘it is Jikely that the total due to this cause over the state will amount to a considerable number. Dr. Clark’s report was complete and accurate. AFTER ARMY POSTS. (United Press Service) Washington. D. C„ Jan. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Secretary Garrison this afternoon was directed by the senate to furnish full information as to the original cost, maintenance cost and general usefulness of every army post in the United States. The action came in a resolution by Senator Kenyon of lowa, who plans a fight on what he regards as vast extravagance. o A PASTRY SALE The February section of the Evangelical Ladies’ Aid society will hold a 1 pastry sale at the gas office Saturday.

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: WED IN BLUFFTON ■t Hazel Macklin Becomes Bride of Dr. Cova R. Graham of Bryant a i- 1 ’ AT THE M. E. CHURCH In Bluffton — Leave on ® Wedding Trip—To Make r Home in Bryant. 8 , Miss Hazel Macklin, daughter of Mary Macklin of this place and Dr. t C. R, Graham of Bryant were united ! ip marriage at the Methodist church at Bluffton, Ind., last night at about eight o’clock. For several days it was “noised about” that this event was soon to happen but no definite information could be gotten until Wednes- • day evening after Miss Macklin left for Bluffton on the 6 o’clock car. Dr. Graham had gone to Decatur in the afternoon, procured the license and left ■ that city for Bluffton in the evening. After the ceremony Im Bluffton they went to Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and other parts of the state and will be gone for about a week. Dr. Graham is leading physician of Bryant and a brother to Dr. O. M. Graham of this • city. The bride Is one of Adams county’s best known young ladies, having taught school in the south part of ’ the county for few terms and has spent several months in the Decatur office of her brother, Philip Macklin, county surveyor. The couple announce that they will be at their home in Bryant after Feb. 1, 1916. We join 1 with their friends in wishing them I much properity.—Geneva Herald. Miss Macklin is well known here having assisted her brother in the , clerical work in the surveyor’s office for some time. She has been a medical student for a number of years. NEARS THE CLOSE Miller-Barger Breach of • Promise Case Will go to Jury Tomorrow. ’ LETTERS ARE READ But Prove Ordinary—Evidence Concluded at Noon Today. r 1 The $25,000 breach of promise trial -of Sarah Miller, maiden lady, fifty- ’ ■ three, of near Convoy, against Samuel f | Barger, fifty, bachelor farmer of near ', Magley, is drawing to a close in the I Adams circuit court. The last evi3, dencewas introduced at noon today f and this afternoon the attorneys are arguing the case. It is not likely that the jury will be instructed and the case given them until tomorrow morni- ing. 1 If the large audience that had assembled in the court room to hear the - thirty letters written by Samuel to Sarah, expected to hear a lot of “mush” they were disappointed. They were merely friendship letters, very ordinary, and spokt, very little of any feeling warmer than friendship. Sam addressed her as “Friend Sarah,” and up to the tenth letter had only sent one kiss. Very Nature seemed to be against his courtship, as every leter expressed a disappointment that he did not get, to come to see her. At first, plowing took all his time; and he looked forward to a visit the I next month. Then corn planting was in season and it went on through month by month to haying, but he finally found time to go to Convoy to visit her. Then there were more visits later. Sam said, himself, that he was a better man at the plow than at the pen, and asked his correspondent to forgive him if be made blunders in his writing. That, and a natural cautiousness, learned from experience, probably made the letters very short and business-like, but Sam said that when he camo to see her he would tell her all he knew and “then some.” The talk of marriage, it seemed, was confined to their visits with each i other, and not to the letters. In one, however, he told her “that he had > been true to her and had not gone with any other girl since he had been i to see her.” The case is watched with much in-

iterest by the large audience, the auditors having increased in numbers with the passing of each hour. EIGHT PERSONS MISSING J (United Press Service) Parkerburg, W. Va., Jan. 6, —(Specal to Daily Democrat) —Eight persons are missing and may have been drowned when the Ohio river steamboat Kanawha was blown against a r pier o fa dam eight miles south of here last night and sunk in thirty two feet of water. The accident occurred dur- ( ing a howling rainstorm that had put out the lighthouse signal and prevented cries of persons on board the vessel from reaching the shore. TODAY’S HOOSIER ODDITY. , (United Press Service) Seymour, Jan. 6 —(Special to Daily • Democrat) —The United States is planI nlng to grab a few feet of ground from the city of Seymour, but so far . as known Seymour will make no pro- , tests, diplomatic or otherwise. It was found that the lot on which the . new postoffice is to be erected is too narrow by three feet., The plan is to make the sidewalk narrower and to shove the curb a few inches into the alley, o THE COURT NEWS Stump Divorce Case Was Dismissed—Mary Russell Estate Closed. MOTION TO DISMISS Divorce Case of Daugherty Filed—Probate and Civil Court Notes. • Real estate transfers: Myrtle Brown et al to John Chronister, lot 2, Decatur $300; Otto Reppert to Fred Reppert, lots 904 and 1803 Decatur, $300; Decatur cemetery association to E. T. Jones, lot 503 DeeaflfK-eenTeWrrW 80; Benjaeiin Amerine to Annette L. Fisher, lot 205 Decatur, $1,000; Annette L. Fisher to Benjamin Amerine, realty in Washington township, SI,OOO Arden S. Burley to Catherine Lewis, 32.80 acres of Wabash township, $2,000. A marriage license was issued yesterday evening to Cova R. Graham, physician of Bryant, born December 12, 1886, aon of Augustus A. Graham, to wed Hazel Jane Macklin, student born September 12, 1889, daughter of R. A. Macklin. The groom was divorced from a former wife December 28, 1914. Certificate of incorporation of the Town of Monroe were filed with the County Recorder Aaron C. Augsburger. The town was incorporated following an election to determine such. March 20, 1905. The township trustees are making their annual reports of money received and expended, filing the same with the county auditor. In the case of Edward T. Berling Vs. Henry H. Bremerkamp, appearance by Erwin for defendant, who is ruled to answer. - Alva A. Miller vs. George M. Mong, et al. Cause left off trial calendar. The petition of Joseps L. Hook et al. ’ for a drain was docketed as a case • in this court. 1 In the divorce case of Lydia . Daugherty vs. William H. Daugherty, -a motion by the defendant to dismiss t the case for want of prosecution was filed. ’ Rosa A. Stump vs. James Stump. ’ divorce, case dismissed and costs or--3 dered taxed to the plaintiff. 1 U. G. Russell was discharged as 3 executor of the estate of Mary J. Rus- ' sell, upon the approval of his final 3 report. i Sheriff Ed Green went to Richmond - today, taking Sarah Stepler, who is - being returned as a patient to the ■ Easthaven insane asylum. Relatives • of the patient also accompanied her 5 there. i r Lewis O. Adler qualified as notary 1 public and Jesse Swartz renewed his commission as such, filing bond with County Clerk Will Hammell. 11 MRS. .WEMHOFF ILL. I d Mrs. Mary Wemhoff, who has been e ill a week of grip, yesterday noon sufn sered an attack of the heart and is confined to her bed. She is, however, i- better today.

■ SUGAR JOW SAFE Water Has Fallen Several s Feet and Fires Will he ‘ Started Under Boilers I AT SUGAR FACTORY — ; L Sometime This Evening— Men to Report Soon— Biggest Loss is in Time. The big supply of sugar, two millim pounds in the ware room at the sugar plant, threatened by the flood waters, is sate. The water fell from forty-five inches yesterday to about one foot this afternoon and it is believed that by morning the building will be cleared. Twenty-five of the night men will be put on tonight for the purpose of cleaning the lower floor and preparing to resume the run. Fires are now being built and by tomorrow evening the big plant will be started nicely on the run which will probably require ten days or two weeks. The full day crew will be on tomorrow and the night men tomorrow night, excepting in the sugar room where they will not be required probably until Saturday, though just exactly when each man will go on cannot be foretold until Karnak carrying 250 passengers, was essary in getting ready. There was on hands at the factory about 6,000,000 pounds of sugar, two thirds of which was stored on the second floor and was never in danger. The flood results are considered fortunate as none of the sugar was lost and but a very few beets, the greatest loss being that of the time. LONG LIFE ENDS Mrs. Samantha N. Dorwin, Member of Oldest and Best Known Family HAS PASSED AWAY Died at 9:30 This Morning After Illness of Only a « Week. Mrs. Samantha N. Porter Dorwin, a pioneer lady of the county and city, widow of Dr. Thomas T. Dorwin, passed away this morning at 9:30 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Dugan. The death of Mrs. Dorwin, coming in great suddenness, after only a brief illness, was a sad shock to the innumerable friends of this esteemed lady. Just a week ago yesterday, she, with her daughter and granddaughters, were hostesses at a musical, one of the largest parties of the holiday season, and she seemed in her usual state of health. The following day she became ill of the grip and complications of pneumonia followed. This with the infirmities of old age, were more than the feeble body could endure, and she passed away, after an illness of only a week. Mrs. Dorwin was a woman remarkably well preserved in all ways, and to > the very last maintained a interest in the affairs of the city and the world in general as well as those in her immediate circle. She was a member of the Shakespeare club for many years, and took an active part in all its sessions and in the program thereof to the very last. She was a mem- ' her of the Presyterian church, and a ! consistent and faithful Christion lady, well liked by all. 3 One son. Dick, died twenty-five years " or more ago, and Mrs. Fannie Dugan is the only child and daughter. / She leaves four granddaughters, 3 Frances, Naomi, Dorothy and Helen i Dugan. Miss Frances Dugan who returned to Brownnell Hall, Omaha, Neb. only a Tew days ago, where she is instructress, will return home tomorrow ii on account of her grandmother’s death. [- The funeral will be held Saturday s afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Du- •, gan home, In charge of the Rev. J. C. Hanna of the Presbyterian church.

• HIS FlhsT PINCH ■ Special officer William Biggs made ills first pinch this morning after he- ■ ing re-employed by the city. He arrested William Nash, living at the H. S. Hall home on South 13th street on a charge of bastardy, brought by Miss Mary W. Kutchlnskl of Big Rapids, Michigan. Nash refused to return to Michigan and Sheriff Green telegraphed the sheriff there that it would be necessary for him to bring the girl . and prosecute Nash here, as extradition is not honored in such cases. Biggs made the arrest at six o’clock this morning. Nash works at the handle factory. o CARD OF THANKS. E. T. Jones and family, Jacob Rawley and the Coverdale sisters wish to express their sincere thanks to all who assisted them and showed them many kindnesses during the M»ess and death of their wife, daughtSmd niece, Mrs. E. T. Jones. PLAN NEW ST/fE . ■ ■ ■ »1I t Citizens of Upper Michigan Peninsula Plan a Commonwealth. NO REPRESENTATION And the Resources Total More Than Many Other States. (United Press Service) Calumet, Mich., Jan. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The forty-ninth star in the American flag representing the great commonwealth of Superior, was in prospect today, folowing an address made last night by Roger M. Andrews, Menominee, Mich., at the annua! banquet of the Calumet Business Men’s association. A vigorous campaign, which will be carried on during 1916, was launched at the banquet. Mr. Andrews predicted that the campaign will soon result In a separate statehood for the fifteen counties in the upper peninsula of Michigan, which are geographically separated from the lower peninsula and which were ceded to Michigan by congress in 1857 in settlement of the Ohio boundary dispute. Mr. Andrews pointed out that: The upper peninsula comprises nearly one-third of the state of Michigan, the largest state excepting Georgia, east of the Mississippi. The upper peninsula at no place touched the lower peninsula, but the former is bounded by its thousand miles of lake shore, touching three of the five great lakes and 180 miles of border adjoining Wisconsin. The one-ninth of the population of Michigan residing in the upper peninsula, pays nearly one-seventh of the state taxes. The upper peninsula is larger than Delaware, Massachusetts and Connecticut combined and thirteen times as large as Rhode Island. Employed in the peninsula are more wage earners than in Nebraska, Kansas, Vermont or twelve other states. About 7,000,000 acres are now being turned into profitable farm land. In seventy-eight years six Michigan men have been members of the cabinet and not one of them from the upper peninsula. Twenty-five United States senators have been elected from the state and again not one came from the upper peninsula. Only one governor out of twenty-eight came from that territory. I “There is no reason why this great empire of the upper peninsula should not take its rightful place among the states of the union,” said Mr. Andrews in conclusion. “There is room for another star in the flag and that star should and will represent the : state of Superior.” , TOCSIN POSTOFFICE ROBBED ’ (United Press Service) Bluffton, Ind., Jan. 6, —(Special to s Daily Democrat) —The safe in the i at Tocsin was blown last night at one o’clock and the robbers , got S7O in money and $3.50 in stamps, i Tocsin is on the C. and E. railroad - eight miles west of here. — ■ • A BOY. r Robert Max is the name of the • eight-pound boy born to Mr. and Mrs. ' William Strickler of near St. Paul. - The mother was formerly Miss . Laura Wolfe. Both mother and babe are getting along nicely.

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. MR. WETTER DEAD Veteran of the Civil War i Found Dead in Bed This Morning. WAS CHURCH WORKER 1 Funeral Services at the Home Saturday Afternoon at 1:30. The sudden death of William A. Wetter, one of the early settlers of Adams county, shocked his many friends in Decatur today. He was found dead in bed by his wife early this morning. At 5 o’clock Mrs. Wetter visited his room and found him in his usual condition, and later in the morning upon a second visit, found him dead. Mr. Wetter followed farming as a profession, and owned forty acres of land in Root township. He was born in Switzerland, September 12, 1836, and was nineteen years of age when he came to America. He settled in Seneca county, Ohio, living there one year, after a tour of the northwest, he returned to Switzerland. Spending six months in his native country he returned to America, accompanied by his father and two sisters, and purchased eighty acres of land in Union township, this county. His father, Andrew Wetter, returned to Switzerland and died there in 1869, at the age of seventy-two years. William A. Wetter was married October 6, 18658, to Anna E. Struby, who was also born in Switzerland and who came to America in 1865. One child, Mary E. Wetter, was born to this union. Following the death of this wife Mr. Wetter went to California, where he followed farming for three years. He returned here in 1882. On September 12, 1882, he married Mrs. Anna Heiptley, widow of Rudolph Heiptley. One child, Letta, was born October 2, 1883, to this second union. A step-daughter, wife of Wesley Stults, also survives him. Mr. Wetter was the last charter member of the Zion Reformed church, this city, and for years was an eider, taking an active part in the church work until his death. He was one of the best workers in the Sunday school and always attended up to one week ago Sunday. He was also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and served in the civil war. He enlisted August 15, 1862, in Company K, 89th Indiana Volunteers, and served honorably until he was mustered out at Mobile, Ala., July 19, 1865. He participated in eight battles. His age was seventy-nine years, three months and six days. The funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the home on North Third street and about 2 o’clock from the Zion Reformed church. o ARREST YOUNG THUG. (United Press Service) Evansville, Ind., Jan. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Detectives arrested Bert Bickey, 27, of Sullivan, here today, They assert he has confessed to having made away with his thousand dollars of the eight thousand dollars which was taken from the paymaster of the eLattaa Creek coal mine near Linton at the point of a gun last October. The police said Bickey told them that his “pal” saw a holdup man hide the booty in an old jug. He said he and his “pal” took the money and spent all but four dollars , of it at the Panama exposition. CLORE REMAINS SILENT [ (Unttod Press Service) , Indianapolis, Jan. 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Leonard B. Clore, ( “corn king” of Laporte, who t anonunced his candidacy for governcr j as an opponent of J. A. M. Adair before the democratic primary, is not ready to announce his principles, but will do so in a few days. A statement to this effect was made to the United > Press today by Mr. Clore in response 3 to a telegram. t — , FALL RESOLUTION ADOPTED (United Press Service) 1 Washington, Jan. 6,—(Special to .he Daily Democrat)—The senate this afternoon unamiously adopted the Fall resolution calling on President Wilson 3 for information as to the status of the Mexican problem. Senator Fall questioned the existence of a government s in Mexico and declared the senate j has no official knowledge of the president's diplomatic dealings.