Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1906 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT - ■ - . —jbverythursdaymorning by LCW G ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHED >I.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE, Batered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY POLITICAL CALANDEB Oct 4—Berne, C. J. Lutz and H. Lankenan. Oct 4—Geneva, J. T, Merryman and J. W. Tyndall. Fri. Oct. s.—Kohr school house in Union tp—Dore B. Erwin and Henry F. Lankenan. Oct. 5. —Tinkham school house, Blue Creek township, J. T. Merryman, and J. W. Tyndall. Oct B—Decatur, Democratic headquarters, Judge John M. Smith of Portland. At each oi tne above meetings township officers will be nominated and at Kirkland township meeting a county councilman at large will be nominated. At Berne a councilman for thee third disrict will be nominated. At Geneva, a coun--man for the fourth district and one at large will be nominated, and at Decatur one councilman for the i second district and one at large. i IT’S ADAIR. The campaign being made by he Hon. J. A. M. Adair for congress in this districth is exciting the admiration of every voter, regardless of his political belief. He is meeting daily every man, woman and child and every night is speaking to large au- . diences, who are with him heart and ' soul. He is making such a canvass and is placing the merits of himself < and Mr. Cromer before the voters in , such away that there is but one to . choose —Adair. It is up to the Democrats to accomplish his election. There 1 is no question but that the Republi- 1 cans will furnish sufficient votes to i turn the triek, and if tile Democrats will get out their vote, it is all over but the shouting. This should be encouragment enough for the Democrats to be especially active and energetic along the lines mentioned. Adams ' county democrats should bend their energies early and late to accomplish • this. We might add that the eyes of the whole district are upon us, they expect a good report from the democrtic counties, and now is a good time to begin the labor of love. Let it never be said that the Democrats of any county in the district, faltered in their sacred duty to ; democratic opportunity. From every county in the district comes the most favorable reports. Conditions every where indicate that this one time Mr. Adair shall represent the eight congressional district in congress, and to make it an assured fact, every democrat should ~wdrE~ The Republican politicians object to laboring men “goinv intn politics.’ But there is nothing t>. r nge or unreasonable about the attitude of laoor ing men in this campaign. The fol lowing frum a late speech by Mr. Bryan will show why they are opposing the Republican party: “The Republican party has not only failed to satisfy the demands of the people on the tariff question and on the trust question, but ’he Republican party has failed to satisfy the demands of people on the labor question. There are laboring men in this audience —many of them possibly, who have voted the Republican ticket. I want to ask you to read the review of the Republican campaign book that was published within the week. Ifound it very in erssting. It told what the Republicans had donein —■——— Fifty Years the Standard DR, yW CREAM BAKING POWDffl A Cream of Tartar Powder Made from Grapes NO ALUM

the way of legislation during the last session, and then it gave list of the bills upon which action was deferred until the next session, and 1 was inter eeled to find that all the laboring bill were in the deferred list, and were waiting for the second session. Laboring men, if the Republican party is not willing to pass a labor law before the election when by your votes you can indorse or condemn, don’t think for a moment that it is going to pass a law after the election when you have lots thejpcwer to register a piotest. ROOSEVELT AND BRYAN ON PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. In his annual message to congress last December President Roosevelt said. “I wish to see such supervision and regulation of them (the railroads) in the interest of the public as will make it evident that there is no need for public .ownership. ” If this means anything it means that if there can be no effective regulation “in the interest of the public,” then there will be a ned for public ownership. Mr. Roosevelt said that he did not want public ownrship and Mr. Bryan says that he prefers effective regulation to ownership, but both seem to agree on the proposition that if no other adequate remedy for abuses can be found public ownership may ultimatey come. It is a matter of the distant future, however, and its solution will depend largely on the attitude of the railroads hemselves. IT IS NOT TRUE. The Republican state committee has put out a pamphlet yjhich sa_>s, among other things, that -‘a vote for Republican state and legislative candidates is a direct vote for the debt reduction and tax reduction.” This statement is ridiculous. It is also not true. The state debt was reduce* 1 as “odiols,” “unjust,” “cruel” and so forth. This legislation, which the Republicans did not dare “revise,’ as they threatened, made the reduction of the debt compulsory. As for tax reduction, there has been none. There is no more of the state debt to be paid until 1910, but the sinking tax fund tax of three cents was not sus pended; it was just transferred to the general fund for current expenses, thereby increasing the tax for such expenses by that much, which means about a half million dollars a year. ‘ '' The campaign) in Adams county is on. Chairman Moran has the democratic forces well in hand and will make a lively and well directed campaign, the kind that will land every democratic vote in the box on election day. The voters of Adams county should this year show their appreciation of having for the first time in the history of the county a representation on the state ticket. Judg Erwin was honored with the nomina tion of judge of the supreme court for the fourth district, and as every one in the cojinty personally knows his sterling worth, ability and fitness be should be given a vote of confidence. The size of that vote of confidence should be measured by the ' number of voters in Adams county. It is understood that the Republi- ‘ can state central commitee will insist i on Vice President Fairbanks making > some political speeches in this state. ; In the summer it was given out that i Mr. Fairbanks would make no politi- , at his apartments at the Ansonia cal speeches during the campaign. If he now breaks his resolution it . will probably be due to the fact that Hanley’s friends are booming him fo r the presidential nomination and to the additional fact that the state is to be invaded by Speaker Cannon, Secretary Shaw and perhaps other candidates. To an outsider it looks very much as if the Indiana Republicans are widely divided in their affections. Keep in mind that to move from one township to another means the loss of your vote. After next Saturday the limit expires for moving from one township to another. A ertain Cure tor Aching Feet. A powder for swollen, tired, hot, smarting feet Sample sent FREE. Also Free Sample of the Foot-Ease Sanitary Com-Pad, a new Invention. Address Allen S. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y.

AN ACCIDENT LAST EVENING. The victim a Laborer and Leaves a Large Family in Destitute Circumstances. Without a moments warning and unconscious of any apparent danger, Ira Smith, a well known laborer, who for years has made his home in and about this city was injured at four o’clock Monday afternoon near the transfer houte, by being struck in the back by an engine that was pulling a heavy train of cars on the Erie railroad, and in three hours died from the result of the injuries received. George Winters who is a flag man at the Clover Leaf crossing on Line street just a square away- from where the accident happened, saw th occurrence. It seems as though Smith had been doing some work in the west part of the city and was just returning to town and was walking down the Erie tracks east. At the target it .seems as though there was some mix-up between the different railroads as to which road was entitled to the target first, there target man, however, gave he right of way to the Erie and it was while Smith was looking at the other trains clearing the way that the big iron monster on he Erie bore down on him and before he received any warning struck him in the back just above the hips and then dragged him along for several yards before his clothes became disentangled from the pilot on the engine. The train was stopped as soon as possible and the trainmen hurried back and tenderly lifted the injured man up and carried him along the right of way into the grass. The railroad surgeons were immediately summoned and the unfortunate man was given the best of care and attention and his injuries dressed. He was then placed on a cot and taken to the home of his daughter, who resides in the west part of the city and it was here thfft a closer examination was made and it was found that his body was badly crushed above the hips, he having sustained internal injuries and a partial broken back. His left hip was skinned and bruised in a terrible manner and his left hand was crushed from the knuckles back to the wrist until the hones showed. The doctors did everything in their'"power for the unfortunate man to relieve his suffering, and pain and he was kept under influence of morphine until death relieved him at seven o’clock last evening just three hours after he received his injuries. Mr. Smith was fifty-six years of age and was a laboring man, bavins made his home in and about Decatur for a number of years, his family at present residing ’ on the- Widow McClelland farm, north east of this city, in a log house. They are in desitute circumstances, it ’ being all Mr, Smith was ‘able ■to do, to furnish food enough;for his family, which is a large ohe, and now that the head of the family is taken from them they will no doubt be thrown onto the mercies of the community, and it will l?e a good place for some charitable organization to show their worth. The funeral arrangements have not as yet been completed as the family does not seem to realize what has happened and are unable to do anything and have turned all arraffgmets and every thing else over to Trustee Henry Hite, wfeo .jytll ®ja]ke the neces- - sary some time this ' evening. Everyone who saw the accii dent claims that the man was given , due warning by the approaching train and that it gave several long blasts. But according to Mr. Smith’s own ■ statmement before he died, he claimec > he did not hear the approaching train and never realized his danger until he was struck. ————_o GRAND LODGE IN SESSION. t r ■ Knights of Pythias Meet at Indiant apolis. i 3 • [ The thirty-eighth annual session of - the Grand Lodge, Knight of Pythias, domain of Indiana was held in Indianapolis beginning on Tuesday. Eight hundred representatives and probably half that number of visitors will be in attendance. Routine business, comprising reports by the grand officers, recommendations relative to the completion of the new Grand Lodge building and election of officers will take up the greater part of the two days’ session. For the office of grand outer guard, the only competitive office -in the order, there are a dozen or more candidates, and each is doing a great deal of campaigning. Rivalry for this offfice will be spirited. The candidates are scattered well over the State and each has his own lodge and the lodges of his neighboring towns and cities working for him. By the pro-

cess of annual promotion, which is a custom as old as Pythianism itself, the new officers will be installed as follows: Grand Chancellor, Jonce Monyhan, Orleans; vice-chancellor, Frank L. Gass, Muncie; preltae, Arthur J. Lowe, Greensburg; master at arms, Aria M. Brown; inner guard, William C. Converse, Richmonrd; Harry Wade, keeper of records and seal, and William A. Morros master of exchequer, will be re-elected without opposition. The report of Frank J. Dunten, grand chancellor, shows a membership in good standing on June 30 of 59,722, a net gain for six months of 3,448, which is a larger gain than ever before recorded in a similar period or even in a period twice as large. The report of Secretary Wade showed that 7,074 additional names were placed on the roster of subordinate lodges in Indiana. o ... ■ A YOUNG MOTHER AT 70. “My mother has suddenly been made young at 70. Twenty years of intense suffering from dyspepsia had entirely disabled her, until six months ago, when she began taking Electric Bitters, which have completely cured and restored the strength and actitivy she had in the prime of life.” writes Mrs. W. L. best restorative medicine on the globe Sets Stomach, Liver and Kidneys right, purifies the blood, and cures Malaria, Billiousness and Weakness. Wonderful Nerve Tonic. Price 50c. Guaranteed by Blackburn Pharmacy. A BIG WEDDING TOMORROW. Miss Wietfeldt and Mr. Knipstein to ‘ Marry. Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Fuelling church in Union township occurred the wedding of Miss Emma wietfeldt and Mr. Herman Kniepstine, two of the most popular young people of that township. The ceremony will be performed by Rev. Dornsief and will be witnessed by three hundred invited guests. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and groom together with the invited guests will go to the home of the brides parents, where a w-ed-ding dinner will be served and the event duly and properly celebrated. The young people are very popular and come from the best families in Union township, where they expect to make their future home. A number of Decatur people will be in attendance. — o— ——— OBJECTED TO A JAIL CELL. New Corydon Giri Says She Isn’t Insane. Portland, Ind., Oct 2. —Miss Eliza- [ beth Moes, residing southeast of New’ Corydon, was declared insane on Mon- ; day morning by a commission. A ' short time later relatives telephoned ; to Sheriff Barr that she was danger- - ous and asked that she be confined in s the county jail until she could be j taken to the hospital at‘ Richmond; a -Shortly after dinner she.arriyedat the 5 jail in-charge of her father and two - brothers. She protested that she was i not insane, although admitting that i she had been temporarily unbalanced . the day before and protested against i going to jail. Her appearance ant every demeanor indicated that she i was perfectly and the -rela--3 tives changed their mind aud dedidec to take her back home. The long ride to this city had evidently done her much good, and she will be taken out by her family every day, in the hope that it may entirely and completely restore her reason. JAMES WALDRON VERY ILL. f Suffering With Typhoid Pneumonia at ’ Merril, Oregon. i ' I James Waldron is dying from ty- • phoid pneumonia at Merril, Oregon, > a little mountain town, - fifty miles Free Millinery Secrets "MJTLADY who wants her fall and JYL winter hats to be stylish should write for our new Catalogue, illustrating latest fashions in head wear. Our prices are lowest and fashions latest. We sell to the largest wholesale houses in the United States. Every hat is made in our own factory and sold at factory prices. We are the ! largest exclusive Millinery Mail Order House in "the country. Catalogue free. CINCINNATI MILLINERY CO. 234 Mais Street, Cincinnati, 0. i . ' ’ • ... ■

. from any railroad station. His sister,' Mrs. C. S. Niblick received a message a week ago today, giving the first' news of his illness. Messages were at once sent for particulars and ordering the best of care for him. Last evening another message came saying the doctors had given up all hope. Merrill is a mining town in Klamath county, Oregon. Jimmie has many friends here who believe that while there’s life, there’s hope and are eagerly awaiting better neyvs. o— A NEW SCHOOL FOR SOUTH An Industrial School for Childrei of Georgia. Coumbus, Ga., Get. 2.—Embodying a unique effort to provide an industrial education for some of the tens of j thousands of children, who under thej new anti-child labor legislation oi; Georgia must leave the' factories on January 1, 1907, and go to school, the Columbus Secondary Industrial School will open its doors on Monday. [ Child labor legislatipn and the great demand for skilled labor in the South are responsible for the founding of the Secondary Industrial School here —-in the heart of one of the most important centers of cotton manufacure in the South. Children' under fourteen years of age will not, after January 1, 1907, be permitted to. work in any fatcory in Georgia. There will be thousands of boys and ■girls between ten and fourteen years of age forced out 6f the factories and into the schools. The grammar schools of the State are already overcrowded, and many of the factory) children will not find places. In large cotton mill centers this will work a ( great hardship, and the real purpose of the child .labor bill, passed by the, Georgia Legislature >in June, Will, in nearly 'm|ll the large cities of the [ State, be defeated, for a time at least, by the lack of public "’school facilities. Realizing that child labor legislation was inevitable, the manufactur- 1 ers of Columbus, led by G. Gunby] Jordan, President of the Eagle and Phoenix Cotton Mills, founded the Secondary Industrial School, a distinct departure in the field of education. Its purposes are two fold, to offer the children of the three thou-j sand cotton mill operatives of Co-j limbus an Education in trades in which they have already had practical training, and to furnish the mills and factories of this city and vicinity with skilled labor. o DON’T TALK TO YOUR HORSE. Some Advice for Those Who Need It. * — ~ t - A horse who has always Been made to obey quickly, will respond to com- . mand from any one, whereas the crea- . ture who has been 'petted and talked to accords, unless hungry, scant' at- ' tention to any one. 'We talk to horses - altogether too much, and it is a silly | I and dangerous custom. “Whoa!” ■ should mean but one thing, and slip, 1 slide or fall, should meet with instant 5 obedience. Not another word should • ever be used, beyond''possibly the orJ der to .ft stand over”, in the stall > (although even that is'best unsaid) 5 except, the “click” of the tongue fpr t increased speed. The animal’s attenI tion is kept if you are silent —he does not know what you will do next, and as he distrusts and merely tolerates ’ you, even as he fears you, his anxiety is always to find out what you wish done, or what move you will next 5 make. —F. M. Ware in “The Mental 3 Limitations of the Horse,” in The 1 Outing Magazine for October. 3 o — ' AND TAKE OATH OF OFFICE. The board of Children’s Guardians "for Adams county recently appointed [. by Judge Erwin, the clerk’s office late Monday afternoon and qualified and took the oath of office. The board is composed of Mesdames D. D. Heller, C. S. Niblick and S. D. . Beavers and Messrs. S. B. Fordyce. . Henry Lankenau and Lewis Fruchte Immediately afterwards the board organized by electing Mrs. Heller president and Mrs. Niblick secretary and treasurer. They will meet Fri- . day afternoon at the library to adopt rules and regulations. They will look after children who are neglected by their parents and when necessary will file affidavits in court whereupon the judge will take such action as he deems necessary for the good of the children, providing them good homes. It is said there are at present two or three cases in Decatur badly in need of attention from this board.

A BADLY BURNED GIRL, I I or boy, man or woman, is quickly out . of pain if Bucklen’s Arnica Salve is applied promptly. G. J. Welch, of . Tekonsha, Mich., says: “I use it in my family for cuts, sores and all skin , injuries, and find it perfect.” Quickest Pile cure known. Best healing i salve made. 25c at Blackburn Phar macy, j STRUCK BY LAKE~ERIE. Mr. Johnson Was Democratic Nominee for County Commissioner .. and Was Well Known. Henry Johnson, of Liberty township, Wells county, democratic nominee for commissioner and one of the.best known men of his county was struck by a Lake Erie t/ain at Bluff- ' ton, at 1:30 Monday afternoon and. received injuries from which he died two hours later. When the acciden 7 happened, Mr. Johnson was drivings west on South street with a big wagon [and team of sorrel horses. Just east of the main track at South street and up to the curb line on each side of the stree, a string of box ears was backed up so that a view of the main track in either direction was impossible. Evidently Mr. Johnson failed I to hear the approach of the train for he drove right across the. track . almost in front of the engine and when the engine struck his wagon,, he was hurled with terrific force under a box car standing nearby. His wagon was smashed to bits. Wheelswere stripped free from spokes, showing the terrific force with Which he i was struck and the wagon and harness was torn free from the honses. ! They ran for a short distance but were caught and taken to the Keller , livery barn where they were found tobe unihjufd. [ Johnson’s skull was crushed, oneleg broken and he was injured intern-/ ally. He was forty-eight years old* and leaves a wife and four children. nj OTTO MUMMA WANTED AGAIN, Stole Horse and Buggy at Plainfield Sheriff Butler has received' a card from E. E. York, superintendent of I jthe Indiana Boy’s school at Plain- | field offering twenty dollars reward for the arrest of Volney Brumson and Otto Mumma. The latter is a nativeof this county and has Beeh continually in trouble for several years; He was recently returned to ’ Plainfield and a few days ago he and Brumson stole a heavy brown horse hitched to a black steel tired buggy from the hitchrack ’ at . Plainfield* "find escaped Otto is twenty years audios, already been charged with nearly all the felonies on the statutes;; If captured this time he will likely - be pro moted to the Jeffersonville ‘reformatory. '•! . ~ o — — . DANGER FROM THE PLAGUE. There’s grave danger from the- ■ plague of Coughs and Colds that are!.so prevalent, unless you take Drj King’s New Discovery for Consump- ' ’ tion, Coughs and Colds. Mrs. Geo. > Walls, of Forest City, Me., writes r ; It’s a God send to people living im 1 climates where coughs and colds pre- r - vail. I find it quickly ends them. It. I .prevents Pneumonia, cures LaGrifipe,. Igives wonderful relie4'in , ’Asthma fiHay Fever, and makes weak lungs; - strong enough to ward of Consump--5 tion, Coughs and Colds, 50c and I I SI.OO. Guaranteed by Blackburn 5 Pharmacy. Trial bottle free. i r .1 Cet k SCOTT’S Emulsion i 1 When you go to a drug store ’ and ask for Scott’s EmulsitfH - 1 you know what you want; the man knows you ought to have ' it Don’t be surprised, though* if you are offered something ■olio. Wines, cordials, extracts, ‘ etc,, of cod Rver oil are plenti- ; ful but don’t Imagine you are- \ getting cod liver oil "when you . take them. Every year for thirty- > years we’ve been increasing ' the sales of Scott’s Emulsion. ! Why? Because It has slways‘been better than any substitute [ for It i k Send for free sample t ■ f :[ SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists 1 j 409-415 Pearl Street, New Yortci 5Qc. and SI.OO. All druggists 1 ' I