Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1916 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Volume XIV. Number 146.

FUNSTON ASKS FOR 65,000 TROOPS

MILITIAMEN REPORTED READY FOR DUTIES QUfiRTERMfISTERS DEPARTMENT ORDERED TD BUY FIFTY THOUSAND HORSES—ARREDONDO CANCELS ENGAGEMENT WITH LANSING.

BULLETIN San Antonio, Texas. June 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —General Funston today wired the war department for a number of militia regiments to report at the border at once. He declined to state the exact number requested but it is believed to be sixty-five thousand. The request was in response to a war department message asking Funston how many troops he desired at once. The troops will be distributed from the eastern Texas gulf ports to California, a brigade here and there. No indications were given as to what militiamen would be called first but it was believed that the New York and Illinois regiments would receive the initial orders. The quartermaster’s department at Fort Sam Houston was authorized to buy fifty thousand horses and mules for the national guard to furnish mounts for cavalry and draft animals for the artillery. BULLETIN. Washington, D. C., June 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Mexican Ambassador Arredondo this afternoon cancelled his engagement to see Secretary of State Lansing at 2:30 o’clock. He broke the engagement after having received this government’s reply to General Carranza's demand for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico. No reason for his action was obtained from the state department. BULLETIN. Washington, D. C., June 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Special Agent Rodgers at Mexico City today wired the state department he has arranged for a special train to take Americans from Mexico City tomorrow. The message carried news of the first anti-American demonstration there. The demonstration did not take a serious turn, Rodgers said. BULLETIN. Eagle Pass, Texas, June 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Anti-foreign feeling at Saltillo is so intense that several Americans and Englishmen were forced to take refuge in the British consulate Sunday night, according to reports received here today. The demonstration occurred shortly after Consul Silliman received his passports and left for the border. BULLETIN. Mexico City, June 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —“If the United States wishes war with Mexico they will have to begin invading our territory," General Carranza told a delegation of men and women teachers and students who called on him today. “We will tolerate the sending of no more punitive expeditions across our borders exen on the pretext of hunting bandits and assassins,” added the first chief. New York, June 20—(Special to the Democrat)—American donned the liAbilments of war today. Almost every city in the nation saw khaki clad men answering the call for a general mobilization of the milita. Statistics gathered by the United Press showed that the national guard of all the states called out by President Wilson have answered the call to the colors with instantaneous unanimity while recruiting is booming everywhere. By the end of the week every one of the hundred thousand guardsmen service will be in concentration camps drilling and hardening for actual service wherever needed. In many cases this concentration

calls for super human efforts by engineers to construct sanitary water supplies and arrange for the disposal of sewage. That the mobilization will be a test of railroads and food supply stations as well as of the guard itself was becoming more and more apparent today. Nearly every city in the country today saw its “boys” off or saw them making ready for the grim business of war. No such scenes have been witnessed since the Spanish-American war of 1898. Recruiting stations for national guardsmen throughout the country are flooded witli applications. Indianapolis, Ind., June 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Indiana national guard reached peace strength today. Adjutant General Bridges in a statement issued at noon estimated that 2.500 militiamen are under arms in the state. Reports on recruiting showed a larger enlistment today than yesterday. With their companies nearing war strength, Indiana militia officers began a race for the honor of being the first to reach Fort Benjamin Harrison. The companies at Terre Haute. Goshen and Indianapolis appear to be leading in the race. Governor Ralston and Adjutant General Bridges were still undecided when the mobilization order would be given out but it was officially statted that the first guardsmen would probably go into camp at Fort Harrison on Friday or Saturday. The work of the quartermaster’s department at the state house and at Fort Benjamin Harrison proceeded without interruption today. The fort is almost ready to receive the militiamen as arrangements had been practically completed for the citizens’ training camps, which have been cancelled. Though Governor Ralston has not announced whom he will place in command of the guard in the field, it was believed Colonel Aubrey L. Kuhlman of Auburn, ranking officer of the guard, would take charge of the troops at concentration camp. The state capital today took on a martial appearance with the streets dotted with uniformed guardsmen and business houses decorated with flags Washinugton, June 20 —(Special b Daily Democrat) —Fearing that i would be construed as an act of war the war department has decided t< withdraw its request to congress foi the passage of a resolution authorizinp the president to use the national guard in Mexico until later. ADVANCING ON DEL RIO San Antonio, Texas, June 2(k—(Spec ial to Daily Democrat) —Interest :r the border situation today centered on Del Rio directly west of here on the Rio Grande where it is reported that 1,500 Mexicans and Yaqui Indians are approaching the city and transmitted to General Funston by Colonel Sibley, commanding at that place. General Greene commanding the Fa gle Pass patrol district, sent a bat'.ilion of the 3rd infantry on motor trucks to Del Rio, immediately upon receipt of the information. Sibley’s command is of fair strength and with the reinforcements he should be able to defend the city against the Mexicans and Yaquis in case they attack, acording to Funston. The presence of the Yaquis so near the border is taken as confirming the recent reports that the governor of Coahuila had sent a band of the In-(Continued-on page 2)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, June 20, 1916.

AGED LADY DEAD Mrs. Elizabeth Nussbaum of Linn Grove Passes Away at the Home OF HER DAUGHTER Mrs. .1. H. Gentis—Seventyone Years Old—Burial at Linn Grove. Mrs. Elizabeth Nussbaum, who was seventy-one years old last October 13. passed away at 11:40 o’clock this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Gentis, where she had been the past six weeks, and with whom she had been making her home a portion of the time in the last six years. Death was due to a complication of ailments, with dropsical affection resulting. She was a native of Berne, Switzerland, coming to American at the age of eleven years. She lived first at Vera Cruz, and later at Linn Grove, where she made her home for fortyseven years, being one of its pioneer residents. There are four children: Mrs. A. R. Hopkins, Phelps, S. D.; Frank Nussbaum. Linn Grove; Mrs. J. H. Gentis, Decatur; Mrs. C. G. West, Bluffton, Ohio. She also has two stepchildren —E. E. Mossiman, Bluffton. Ind.; Mrs. A. Furthmiller, Fort Wayne. The funeral will probably be Friday at Linn Grove.

TO ATTEND STATE MEETING. County School Superintendent Ed S. Christen will go to Indianapolis tomorrow morning to attend a two days’ session of the county superintendents of the state. ft GLOBEJROTfER Jeff Davis, Nineteen Years a Hobo, Now Rich Man, Tells About it. THE HOTEL DE GINK Originated by Him and Through it Saved Thousands of Men and Boys. Jeff Davis, the world's greatest globe trotter, who has three times circumgavigated the earth, traveled 600,000 miles as a hobo and studied men in every nation of the world, is spending some time in this section. He is thirty-two years old, looks fifty., and says he feels a hundred, and is 'he most interesting chap you ever talked to. He was reared at Cincinnati, ran away from home when thirteen years old, went to New York and became a newsboy and a bowery hobo. Later he traveled over the world and soon recognized the difference between the hobo, the tramp and the bum. A number of years ago he started the first Hotel de Gink in Seattle, later established a similar home at Cincinnati, then at New York, and is now located at Five Points, Michigan. He says there are now no unemployed men in the cities among the class who want work. During his travels he has saved thousands of men and boys, sent them home or started them into honest ways of making money. He asks them three questions: “How do you live?” Why do you live as you do?” “How can you live better?” and then he proceeds to show them. He is a phiiosophical fellow and to see him now neatly dressed you would not think he had ever been classed as a hobo, but he admits he was for nineteen years. He has done more good than the average man, preaching the fellowship of man and fatherhood of God all the time. He has, it is claimed, secured more free publicity than any man in the country and has press notices and magazine articles from papers in every state in the union. Recently' a Wall street millionaire asked him to turn over to him all the money he had that he might Invest

it. He gave fifty dollars and in three months that $50.00 invested in stocks was worth $50,000. Now he is rich and a marvel of the age, but he is still king of the hoboes and is continuing his work among the men whom he feels need his assistance. He has a personal acquaintance with every big man in the country, letters from President Wilson, former President Taft and others of note. His list of men who were once hoboes will surprise you. for It includes congressmen, senators, governors, Charlie Chaplin, big business men and others. He says a hobo is an optimist and a good fellow out of work, a tramp is a fellow who believes the world owes him an opportunity, and the bum is a fellow who thinks the world owes him a living. There’s a difference, and Jeff can tell you all about it. He has ideas that he feels will solve the “unemployed problem” and he expects to devote his life in working it out. a ldckHscape Will Ruckman Fell from Bicycle in Front of Car Driven by E. S. Moses. LATTER TURNS CAR And .Jumps Ditch Alongside Road to Avoid Runing Over Man and Wheel. Will Ruckman, well known Monroe street barber, had a narrow escape from death qr serious injury yesterday afternoon and he owes his life to the nerve and ability of Ed S. Moses. The latter with Mrs. Moses and their daughter were enroute to Ft. Wayne in their automobile and had just crossed the traction line north of Monmouth as the northbound car was passing. Ahead of them Mr. Ruckman was riding a bicycle along the path on the wrong side of the road. Because of the interurban car he could not hear the auto horn until the machine was almost upon him and then he turned directly in front of the car, and has he did so the wheel slipped and he fell to the road. Mr. Moses had two choices, one to run down the man on the wheel, or to turn his car into the ditc halongside the road. Quicker than a flash he did the latter, risking his life and that of the occupants of the car. His machine leaped the eighteen-inch ditch and landed in the soft mud on the other side. David Rice happened along and helped to pull them out. Luckily no one was injured, but all were badly frightened and realized they had been within a foot or two of a very serious accident. ELECTION - HELD Mrs. Charles Burdg Reelected Most Excellent Chief of THE PYTHIAN SISTERS At Meeting Last Evening— Excellent Stall' for Ensuing Six Months. The Pythian Sisters have elected the following officers for the next six months, Mrs. Grace Hunsicker to, be installing officer: Most Excellent Chief —Mrs. Rachel Burdg. Most Excellent Senior —Mrs. Jennie Miller. Most Excellent Junior —Miss Ireta Erwin. Manager—Mrs. May Butler. Mistress of Records and Correspondence—Mrs. Lydia Shamp. Mistress of Finance—Mrs. Lydia Elzey. Protector —Mrs. Bieneke. Guard —Mrs. Ella Peoples. Representative at Grand Temple— Mrs. Ella Peoples. Alternate —Mrs. George Houser.

WHEREJ£ GOES Deputy Auditor Completes Sheet Showing Where Spring Taxes ARE PAH) OVER And the Amount of Each Fund to State, County and Township. To those who wonder just where and how the taxes go, and how much in each fund, the settlement sheet just completed by Deputy Paul Baumgartner, showing how - the money paid in on the spring installment has been distributed will be of interest. As stated yesterday, this shows the sum of $280,502, as the total amount for which the county treasurer is chargeable on the spring collection. Os this amount, $3,261.51 is credited in road receipts. This money has been apportioned as follows: Funds to the State —State tax, $7.042.76; benevolent institutions, $9,051.79; state debt sinking fund. sl,357.80; state educational institution fund. $6,336.25; state vocational education tax. $6,336.25. County Funds —County tax, $36,174.68; turnpike repair, $17,969.89. Township trustees and school boards: Township tax $11,427.50 Tuition 20,759.96 Special school 38,597.50 Road 4.402.05 Additional road 9,155.82 Township poor 1,422.07 Corporation 24,538.37 Macadam road 73,383.61 Library 984.20

GIVE RECEPTION Reception for Rev. .1. H. Mavity and Family This Evening at the CHRISTIAN CHURCH The Public is Invited—Good Program of Music and Address Prepared. The reception for the Christian pastor, the Rev. J. H. Mavity, and family, this evening at 8 o’clock at the Christian church, is an event to which the public is invited. Everybody will be cordially greeted. The following program has been prepared : Music —Orchestra. Doxology. Invocation —Rev. Rilling. Welcome, Behalf of Church —G. T. Burk. Tiano Solo —Marie Daniels. Welcohie, Behalf of Ministerial Association —Rev. Hanna. Talk—Rev. Thornburg. Piano Solo —Irene Eady. Talk —Rev. Rogers. Violin Solo —Thelma Williams. Talk—Rev. Stolte. Reading—Mabel Weldy. Talk—Rev. Mavity. Benediction —Rev. Harman. Music —Orchestra. STRIKES ARE SETTLED. The threatened strike of the field I men of the Decatur Sugar plant will probably be averted. The foreigners in the Marion field who reported that they would leave the job Sunday have concluded to remain on the job, and word has been received that the men in the Woodburn field have also changed their minds about reporting today for their time. It was a bood job of diplomatic work and shows that tl.e local company know how to handle their workmen to best advantage as in other fields the men have left the jobs placing the farmers and sugar company up against it. The local plant feel assured that they will be able to retain plenty of men to do the work this season.

SECOND FIRE YESTERDAY. Additional damage amounting to twenty dollars was done to the. home of Mrs. Fanny Nowcka, 438 Mercer avenue, yesterday afternoon when fire broke out anew, from a spark left from the first blaze at 10:30 o’clock in the morning. Clayton Shafer, bookkeeper for the sugar company, passing the house, noticed smoke coming from the house, and an investigation proved the interior of the house to again be in flames. It was necessary to tear of most of the siding to put the second fire out. The department was not called. The house is owned by William Parent, manager of the Crystal theater, HURT Clover Leaf Engineer William Cuppy Found With Throat Slashed. MYSTERY IN CASE Missing Several Days—Finally Found in Serious j Condition. Charleston, 111., June 20 —With his face bruised, discolored and swollen almost beyond recognition and a deep wound in his neck, William F. Cuppy, the Clover Leaf employe, who mysteriously disappeared last Tuesday night, was found lying asleep near the Big Four river bridge at 9 o’clock Friday morning and brought to this city, and is demented. Cuppy's condition is considered extremely serious. The wound which extends from just below th® left ear to the front of the neck is about three inches in length and is thought to be almost two inches deep. The wound was evidently inflicted a day or two ago and was badly infested when the unfortunate man was found. It is very serious and every precaution will be necessary to prevent this in jury proving fatal. Cuppy’s head is covered with bruises, one large bruise extendin: from the forehead to the back of tin head. Both eyes are bruised and dis colored and were almost closed witl swelling when the man was found His hands were bruised and had beer pierced by thorns in many places. Weakened by exposure Cuppy wa unable 'to walk without assistance when found. While sitting in police headquarters he suffered one chill aft er another. The attending physician stated thai the nature of the knife wound and bruises on the head are suspicious Although he does not desire to make a statement at this time, he stated positively that the wound on Cuppy'* neck was inflicted by a knife, expos ing the jugular vein and cartold artery. Cuppy told the physician that he had not carried a pocket knife for some days, but was unable to explain how he was injured. Oren Grey and Ben Walden, broth ers-in-law of Mr. Cuppy, found binlying on the bank of a small strean which empties into the Ambraw rive; just south of the railroad bridge. Hi: feet were lying in the water and tin .wandering man after wading across the creek, has evidently fallen aslee] from exhaustion. When awakened by Grey and Wai den. Cuppy seemed to recognize them and accompanied them from the rivei without making any resistance. The unfortunate man was taken to the M. A. Montgomery sanitarium where he was given treatment. Friends of Mr. Cuppy advanced the opinion that he became temporarily insane Tuesday night by falling from the tank of engine 194 after going to the water tank to fill the engine. They say that a large bruise on top of the unfortunate man’s head could easily have been sustained by falling in this way. They believe that his mental condition was made more serious by the exposure to the downpour of rain since Tuesday night, as he is thought to have been without shelter during all the time he was wandering about the country. Whether the wound on Mr. Cuppy’s neck was self-inflicted by a knife or whether he was injured by failing on some sharp object or was caught while climbing a barbed wire fence will probably never be known.

Price, Two Cento.

THE EPWORTH LEAGUERS HERE Os Ft. Wayne District Gathering for Annua) Convention at M.E.Church. THE OPENING SESSION At One O’clock Today—lnteresting Program for Evening Session. Epworth League delegates from the forty-eight churches and towns of the Fort Wayne district began arriving last night and this morning for the annual district convention which opened in the First Methodist church, this city, at noon today and will closo Thursday noon. The church parlors were a busy place this morning, the delegates registering and being assigned to the various homes where they will be entertained. In charge of the reigstrar were Gertrude Kienzle, Ruth Gay, Naomi Butler, Nola Snyder and Bessie Teeple. On the reception committee, which met the delegates at the trains with autos, and accompanied them to the church were Ruth Parrish, Doris ‘beVoss, Anita Swearinger, Byard Smith, Gregg McFarland, Robert Colter. Mrs. Owen Davis, Clyde Butler. Decorations of the church are in the league colors, red and white, and there are also pennants in these colors, with vases of red and white flowers. The district league slogan, “Whatever, w'herever. whenever pleases Him.” occupies a prominent place on a poster. After a lunch at noon, served by the Junior Epworth Leaguers, the convention, proper, opened at 1 o'clock. Miss lona Easley, of Fort Wayne, district president, is presiding at the convention. Rev. F. F. Thornburg, pastor of the local church, conducted the department on “Elements of Successful Christian Living,” and “Practice of Bible Study,” and another interesting speaker, who was talking at the time of going to press w'as Rev. J. A, Nipper, of the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission. His talk was on “Temperance as Seen by the City Mission Worker.” The various department conferences will be held this afternoon and reports given by sub-district officers. At 5 o’clock the convention will adjourn for a picnic. Evening Social. A feature of the social entertainment arranged for this evening ill be the social at the church from seven to eight, following the picnic supper at Waterworks park. Several of the Epworth Leagues will contribute sketches and little features to this and tho local league has planned to give a mock wedding. Harvey Everett will be the preacher; Miss Ruth Parrish, the bride; Chalmer Porter the bridegroom; Doris DeVoss a bridesmaid: Robert Colter, a groomsman. Flower girls and other members of the bridal party will make a very complete east. The public is invited to come. This precedes the regular evening session of the convention. Evening Address. The address of the session tonight at 8 o'clock will be delivered by Rev. Charles Smith of Peru. Rev. Smith is the publicity man on the Wawasee institute committee. Ernsbergers Here. Dr. D. O. Ernsberger, the district missionary, in Belgaum. India, will bft in attendance at the convention, as will his wife and their son, George. Dr. Ernsberger is a brother of JesseErnsberger, former Decatur resident. The health of Dr. D. O. Ensberger does not permit of his public speaking, but his wife is on the program for tomorrow morning and afternoon. The son, George Ernsberger, will talk Thursday morning. He came to America to be educated, was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university in 1914, and is now a student in the Western Reserve Medical school, preparing for medical missionary work. Miss Mary Corbett has returned to her work at the Morris store after a short illness.