Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1906 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LCW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER M.OOPBR YEAR IN ADVANCE. ■■»"' ■ — — catered at the postoffice at Decatur.lndlana as second-class mall matter. WFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CCLNTY STOLL FOR BRYAN In an editorial over a column in length and headed “The Slide to Bryan,” John B. Stoll, editor of the South Bend Times, comes out for the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1908., The editorial starts out in this way : “The most remarkable political phenomenon of this generation is what may be aptly termed the ‘slide’ of the' Democratic party to the support of William Jennings Bryan for the presidency in 1908. It has not been a lurch, a rush or a jar, but a easy, natural movement of a hillside loosened by rains or the starting of an avalanche warmed by the sun.” * In closing Editor Stoll says: “Still further there are indications that outside of the Democratic party people are considering Bryan as the proper and logical successor to Roosevelt. It is, of course, unsafe to prophecy two years ahead on a political campaign, but stranger things have happened than that the Democratic slide to Bryan in 1906 should become in 1908, a national avalanche that will overwhelm the greed, coiTuption and vices that so long have made the peor pie a prey.” The South Bend Times supported Bryan in 1896 and again in 1900, but more through party loyalty than anything else. . s FLOUNDERING The desperation of the standpatters in their losing battle against, an honest tarff is clearly shown •by the floudering pf that high priest of protection, Secretary Shaw. In an attempt to bolster up his statement that “no political pary within the last :<f, fifty years has ever revised the tariff (downward and carried the next election,” he referred, along with other things, to the passage by the Republicans of the tariff law of 1890. h The 1890 law was known to fame as the “McKinley bill.” It did, not reduce bqt it raised tariff duties, sit was an extreme manifestation of protectionism, and many duties were intentionally made prohibitive. The people rebelled and at the succeeding November election the Democrats swept the country and had ,142 maf*jority in congress, At the electtoif' of 1892, this same law being still in force, the Democrats were again successful. The result was largely dub to the protest of the pepole against the iniquities of the “McKinley bill,” which, it may be confessed, was not half as iniquitous as the present Dingley law, for which Shaw and his like are standing pat. ————————i—— | T’S FUNNY It has* been established that the. watch trust ships its watches to foreign countries and sells them there so cheap that they can be purchased from the foreign dealers, brought, back to the United States and sold, here cheaper than the trust will sell its watches in theTiome market. Con-' gressmen Rainey of Illinois and Williams of Mississippi brought these, facts prominently to the attention pf the country by speeches in the hoilse. How did it affect the standpatters? The congressional report says: 11 Mr. Boufell of Illinois replied to the speeches qf Rainey of Illinois and Williams of Mississippi on the ‘watch trust.’ Mr. Boutell spoke in a humorous vein, referring to the subject as a ‘great drama,’ to which he gave the title, ‘Government by advertisement, or who gets sold most in the watch trade.’ ” Exposures of trust extortions are always treated lightly by the standpatters. They are funny—are things to laugh about. It is only the people who suffer who “get sold most.” A short time ago it was announced

that Congressman Watson was enjoy-1 ing life in Washington from a soft seat in a fine automobile that some generous, but unnamed admirer had put at his disposal. Then came the relative” of Senator Hemenway had given him the exclusive use of a luxurious yacht, on board which he was entertaining his friends in royal style. One one of his trips Speaker Cannon was a guest and “the life of the party.” Cannon had been represented often as the special friend and patron of both Hemenway and Watson. And Cannon, it is affirmed, has become a two-millionaire while serving in congress at a salary of $5,000 a year. Perhaps, Cannon, too, has had some wealthy and mysterious “relatives” and friends who have made life at Washington pleasant for him during his legislative career. After all the meat trust uproar the packers, aside from the temporary disturbance, gre not going to fare so badly. The Republicans in congress have so arranged the meat inspection bill'that the government —that is to say, the public—is to pay the cost of inspection, which is $3,000,000 a year, and is to guarantee the quality i of all products. This guarantee is worth millions annually to the trust. Besides, the civil service" law, under which inspectors are appointed, is to be suspended for a year. This will insure the appointment of an army of Republican job-hunters and add to the machine power of various Republican congressmen and senators. The people? Well, they just pay the taxes, and buy an occasional steak if they have anything left. Speeches being in order, Richard K. Erwin of Adams county, candidate for the Supreme bench, made a short address, in which he eulogized Senator Tillman and W. J. Bryan as patriots, stirring up great applause at the latter’s mention. The trusts came in for a touching up, also .the meat question and the injustice to General Miles ten years ago, when he called attention to bad meat? in the army. Governor Hanly’s alleged reformation was given a broadside, and “Poor Dave Sherrick,” was,not forgotten in an allusion to state house scandals on the Republican party. The alleged fact that 10,000 saloons are running with but 5,000 paying state license was mentioned, and Hanly was called a, “grand stand player.”— Muncie Star, -y- — • 1 ■ .?. it appears that the Hon. Charles Warren. Fairbanks has engaged in a Struggle with the Roosevelt offieehold- ' ers for the control of the Republican ‘ organization in Alabama. Control of the organization in that state means control of the delegates to the national convention, and Mr. Fairbanks intends to have the Southern delegates if he can get them. But it is a costly business, as other Republican candidates learned years ago. Mr. Fair-, banks, however, seems to have the price. mi i With five of the responsible offi- / cials of the Toledo ice trust in jail, each under a sentence of $5,000 and one year’s imprisonment in the workhouse, that particular trust is doubtless “busted” completely. And with the courts of St. Louis holding that a ‘ trust cannot collect a bill for goods I sold by it, other trusts will find thfe business unprofitable. Is it any wonder that just now Deacon Roekefell- • er prefers the salubrious air qf France ? ————■*■———— “With a cabinet officer at the head of the Republican national! ; committee receiving this fund (insur- . ance company and ; distributing it, is it any wonder that i the president has ceased- talking of , publicity of campaign receipts and - expenses?” Congressman Lloyd of Missouri asked this question in a speech in the House, but no Repub- > lican came forward to show him. There is no man before the people just now so well calculated to carry on the work of reform inaugurated by Roosevelt as William J. Bryan, and that fact is generally recognized

by people in all parties who are not ■ blinded by party prejudice.—Columbia City Post. If the millionaires should be kept out of the United States senate, as suggested by a judge of the Wisconsin Supreme oourt, the present Republican representation in that body would dwindle down to almost nothing. Congressman Cromer will be forced to take A-aare from the Democrats.— Muncie Press. REAL. ESTATE TRANSFERS. Real Estate Transfer Reported by The De cat ar Abstract <fc Loan Co. Money to loan on farms and city property at lowest rate of interest with privilege of partial payments. Office, Rooms 3 and 4, Studabaker Block, Decatur, Indiana. John H. Beery to Joseph Reinhard and wife, sec 34 irkland township, 80 acres, $3,100. Lewis H. Bailey to Richard Bischaff, sec 9 Union township, 20 acres, $1,200. Edward Marschand to Christian Oberback, sec 1 French township, 80 acres, $5,250. Abraham Kneuss to Alfred Kneuss. sec 14 Wabash township, 30 acres, sl,I 550. Christian C Sprunger to Levi E. Amstutz, inlot 472 Berne, Indiana, $250. Nenno S. Liechty to Peter Hoffstetter, part inlot 472, Berne, Indiana, $215. Christian C. Sprunger, to Peter Liechty, part inlot 473, Berne, Indiana, S3OO. ' Sidney Warmouth to Charles M. Meyers, sec 36 Preble township, 77 acres, $5,817. Catharine A. Liby to Joseph Reinhard, et al. sec 34 Kirkland township 40 acres, $2,000. Cassius V. Rice to Merrill O. W. Butcher inlot 58, Geneva .Indiana,, sl,000. Fred Peck to Otto Peck and wife, sec 25, Preblet ownship, 80 acres, $6.400. Nathan Cole to Isaac Baker sec 33 Wabash township, 17 acres, SSOO Isaac Baker to Phillip A Macklin, sec 33 Wabash township, 17 acres, SBSO. Luther Brown to Lucy J. Fields, sec 21 Hartford township, 16 acres, SB4O. Emeline Valentine to Joseph Rich, pt NW % sec 5, Monroe twp. $1,560. Mary E. Ward to Wm. O. Satbine, sec 26 Kirkland township, 40 acres, $,3000. Fred L. Litterer to Frank D. Annen inlot 830 Decatur, Indiana, S3OO. Trustees of M. R. E. churches to Joseph inlot 195 M. R. E. cemetery, sls. Peter Baumgartner to David Runyon sec 33 French township, % acre, $76. Isaac Lehman to Joseph D. Winteregg and wife inldts No. 447 and 447, Berne, S3OO. Henry Doehrman to Conrad Doehrman, $2,000. Lewis Long to Russel B. Long, pt sec. 16, Wabash township, SI,OOO. Malissa E. French, et al. to(fcVm. Hall, sec. 3 Hartford township, U acre, sl.000. Isaac Lehman to John A. Hendricks/ sec. 8 Wabash twp. 45 acres SISOO Daniel Troutner to Andrew Jackson et-al pt S Vt S W % sec. 35 Washington twp S6OO. . Isac Lehman to Ida Lehman Inlots"' No 437 438 Berne Indiana. S2BO > John Cook to Ulysses Stauffer part ■>ui mt 6 Berne Indiana Wiliam Stepher etal to Albert Geisel sec 27 Kirkland twp $2900. <• Henry Colter to Daniel N Ervn sec. 6 St Marys twp 108 acres SSOOO. Ester Clendenen to Pearl Cross sec. 21 Hartford twp 20 acres , SSOO. Pearl Cross to Ester Clendenen part NE NE % sc 29 Wabash twp SSOO. Frederick Hailey to Celina Della Sopp, sec 22 Wabash township, •20 acres, $1,200 David T Wells to Hannah Wells sec 18 Blue Cr,esk twp, 20 acres, SIOO. Walter D. Cros to Catharine Cross pt inlot 146 Geneva $3,000. Minnie L. Daniel to Charlie ,C. Waggoner, E % NE % sec 22 Root township. $3,200. •->' ■■■•-. .>”1; • Charles Miller to : J.M. Andrews, N ¥2 SEI4 sec 3 Monroe twp. $3,800. Petry Andrews to Charlie Miller et. al. pt SE % seci 33 Washington town-., ship, $2,000. f,, W. E. Chrisman, to F. M. Rourke, sec y,. Wabash township 120 acres sl. Erastus Fri,t?inger to Wm. Li ley sec 24 Kirkland twp 120 acres $10,340. Freeman H. Walters to Andrew Stigmayer pt NW sec 29 Union twp., S9OO. 1 . WORK WEAKENS THE KIDNEYS Doon’s Kidney Pills Have Done Great Service for People Who Work in Decatur. Most Decatur peoplew ork every day in some strained, unnatural position—bending constatnly over a desk—riding on jolting wdgons or cars—doing laborious housework; lifting,reaching or pulling, or trying the back in a hundred and one ways. All these strains tend to wear, waken and injure the kidneys until they fall behind in their work of filtering the poisons from the blood. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys, put new strength in bad backs. Decatur cures prove it. / Henry Peters, an employe of Foundry & Boiler Works, living on Eleventh street, Decatur, Ind., says: “Doan’s Kidney Pills did me a vast amount of good and I have been recommending them for a number of years and will continue to do so. My work requires a good strong back and when that part of my body was made weak, it was very difficult to continue my work. For two years I was troubled with kidney comnlaint’ and Could not do anything. Backaches clung to me, the attacks sometimes being so severe that I almost had to give up and sometimes I was so stiff and sore that I could not get home, and even tn the morning -I did not feel as well, as I should have felt. I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills procured at the Holthouse Drug Co.'s store and they helped me wonderI fully ands oon I was completely relieved. In' 1902 I was glad to recommend , Doan’s Kidn'eyPHls through the news- | papers and I am willing now that you should continue the publication »f.-my statement. Doan’s Kidney Pills is a great remedy for backache and kidney complaint and evreybbdy ought to know about It. I advise all kidney sufferers to use it.” For sale by all dealers. Brice 50 cents. Foster-Milburn, Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—DOAN’S—and take no ether. Woman’s Missionary Meeting. The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Evangelical church will meet’ on Thursday afternoon at .2:00 o’clock at the church. 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COUSIN OF FRED SOHEIMAN Lad Had Number of Relatives in this County and Was Well Known Here. Robert Scheman, aged fourteen, of Fort Wayne, a cousin of Fred Scheiman of this city, was killed Saturday afternoon by a Wabash freight train. The Journal-Gazette tells the sad story as follows: With two companions, Frank and James O’Connor, Robert had been in the western part of the city and returning home, it is thought, had boarded an incoming freight. He alighted just west of the Fairfield avenue crossing, the other boys remaining on another part of the train. Shortly after he stepped off the local freight came in from the west and took the siding just before reaching Fairfield avenue. Robert, at that time was on the main track. A switch engine was going east in the. yards, east of the crossing. The boy, under the impression that the incoming local would take the main track, stepped from it over onto the side track, which was south of the main track, and 'was struck by the locomotive of the local, the wheels of which and one of the cars passed over him. He was pulled out from under the second car by Conductor Al Metzker and others, both of his legs being cut’ off. He was taken to the Lutheran hospital, where he died two hours later. ERIE TO TAKE THE 0. H. & D. Reported That the Plans Have Been ’ Perfected. Within a month a plan will be outlined for the discharge of the receiver of ■i:.e U. H. &TX a T 'Jfife Pere Marquette, and their return to the control of the Erie railroad, says the Cleveland Leader. Plans are working in that direction steadily, and it is expected that inside of two weeks some definite action will be taken by which the intention of the Erie railroad to take over those properties will be thoroughly understood. A good many rumors have been Abroad concerning this transaction during the last few weeks, but none of them has been authentic. The first actual news of the situation was obtained Friday. It is now known beyond peradventure that the Erie is making all preparations for taking charge ~ of /hese properties. ‘ MEAT INSPECTION TO BEGIN Hereafter the Government Stamp Will Mean Something. Ser l ops-Mcßae Special. Washington, July 2.—The secretary of the treasury has issued a circular calling for bids on $30,000,000 of canal bonds. The bids will be received July 20th and the bonds issued for S2O, SIOO and SI,OOO. This will make it a popular loan. Scripps-Mcßae Special. Washington, July 2. —By direction ,<?f the president, Secretary Wilson today issued an official statement concerning the new system of meat inspection to be put into effect immediately. This statement is intended to destore the public confidence in canned meat products. The statement says the products must be examined from the field to the pael”*r and t’-»«>t the g-ivernment. r‘-xir" on packages hereafter means cleanliness. THE THAW CASE IN OCTOBER. • Scripps-Mcßae Special. New York, July 2.—District Attorney Jerome returned from the Maine woods today and took personal charge of the Thaw case. He says there are eighteen ahead of it, and this will delay it until the latter part of October. Merely a Passing Fancy. Dennis—Fwhat’s all this fuss they’re makin’ about the pa-ackers? Larry—A lot o’ cranks is star rtin’ a fad f’r clane mate. —Chicago Tribune. The Erie, never far behind and more often initiating in matters of progress, has at last joined the van along with several other progressive roads by placing an order for four passenger motof cars and one combination passenger and baggage motor car, with the St. Louis Car company. These care will be equipped with 75 horse power Westinghouse A. C. motors. They will be used in handling commuter business at large terminals and on short divisions. The Erie recently conducted a motor car test with one of the Northern Pacific fast motor ears. That ear was run over the entire system. The satisfactory 1 results following* preceded the pr.eslent order for new equipment. - |

Mrs. A. T. Studabaker and Mr. 1 and Mrg. Marion French went to Decatur today to visit with L. L. Baumgartner and family.—Bluffton News. French Quinn vistied here Sunday with N. K. Todd and family. He was on the way from the south to his former home in Decatur on business. —Bluffton News. Decatur will be well represented in the Fourth of July celebration at, Anderson, where, among other features, there will be a reunion and a roll-call of former residents of that city and others. During the morning there will be a military and industrial parade, in which the Indianapolis Light Artillery will participate, and all factories of Anderson and probably others of the gas belt will be represented. While working Monday afternoon at the Waring Mitten factory at Huntington Miss Mamie Balzer met with a very painful accident which resulted in the loss of her hair. She was working about one of the machines and when she stodped to pick up something from the floor, her hair was caught in a line shaft revolving rapidly. The hair was torn from the scalp. According to the bulletins put out by the men who know what young America is going to do, the coming Fourth of July will be the greatest yet in the line of fireworks. A man who keeps tab on the fireworks business figured out, after the Fourth was over last year, that over $12,000,090 had been used up in fireworks in the United States, which sum will be greatly exceeded this year. He also stated that New York City alone will spend several millions for firecrackers, revolver ammunition, Roman candles, skyrockets, bombs, pin-wheels, punk ,etc. In the circuit court at Danville, 111., Benjamin F. Canady began d SIO,OOO damage suit .. against the Toedo, St. Louis & Western (Clover Leaf) railroad.. lOnly a praecipe has been filed. Walter V. Dysert and Thomas A. Graham are attorneys for the plaintiff. will be recalled that about a month ago Richard Canady, son of the plaintiff, was killed by a Clover Leaf passenger train at a road crossing near Ridge Farm. It is said that the suit is . the result of the accident. The full complaint will be bn file within a short time. —Frankfort Cerescent. I ' ' ■ _■' ’

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NOTES FROM THE COURT HOUSE Leander Johnson Declared Insane at Inquest. , Leander Johnson, the old man who has. been in jail two or three weeks, and who claimed he had $7,00b,000 bn ' deposit in the banks here, was declared insane today, the inquest being held Drs. J. M. Miller, J. S. Boyers and ’Squire J. H. Smith. His mind has been failing for a year, he is seventythree years old and a native of Union township. He was recommended to 1 the Richmod asylum for treatment. The case of the G. R. & I. vs the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction company injunction to prevent the latter from crossing the railroad near Monmouth, is being heard at Portland today. C. J. Lutz and Mr. Koenig represent the traction line and A. P. Beatty the G. R. & I. A marriage license was issued today to Wesley Edward Hoffman and | Erma Janett Dykeman. They will be married this eyeijihg. Does Your Stomach Bother You ? Dr. Shoop’s Restorative Cures All ♦ Distressing Stomach Troubles Through the Inside Nerves. : As you value your health and happiness don’t neglect to care for the slightest stomach pain—don’t let it go. At the first sign of distress use Dr. Shoop’s Restorative and end all these troubles. These aches are signals—they are symptoms of coming disease—is it wise to ignore them? You who never eat a hearty meal without a sense of fullness A. followed by a period of lassitude orA^.drowsiness —beware. Neglect those condi- and you surely invite distressing indigestion—you’ll become a sallow, miserable dy s - peptic. Do you A® experience any of these symp- toms? — distress after AflHh ■s^^^BKt ea ting,returuing of food to mouth, gnawing at pit of stomach. rumblingWLWßßl gas, belching of wi nd, of appetite. heartbum,wH■ hlLw?headache, dizziness? If youwßMjUfidWsuffer in any of these ways, yourwßKJwd uty is clear — there is but one\®Mßtourse open to you—strengthen the inside’^OKierves —these special •tom ac h nerves shake off forever this evidence of disease. Put”the digestive nerves in condition to act as nature intended they should. Don’t drug, don't force—just give the inside nerves natural force, gentle tonic, nature’s-help. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative (Tablets or Liquid) should be taken to do this—it is the only prescription which builds up,or even attempts ts restore the inside stomach nerves. Sold by I WM. H. NACHTRIEB.

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