Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1906 — Page 3

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Fort Recovery Disaster Dr. D. D. Clark arrived home this morning at eight o’clock from Fort Recovery, Ohio, where he assisted last night in dressing the wounds of those injured in the terrible explosion, which occurred there yesterday. B. J. Smith and G. T. Ulmer, who accompanied him, will not be home until this evening. The explosion was one of the worst in history and caused a damage of from SIOO,OOO to $200,000. The entire town is wrecked and not a window pane remains intact. The hardware store of Joe Mienerding was totally destroyed and his loss is SIB,OOO. Mr, Mienerding had just stepped from the store to look at a horse, by request of a friend, and had been away only a few minutes when the explosion occurred. . Four people were killed, all employes of the Mienerding store. The cause of the terrible accident will probably never be known, but the general belief now is that it was caused by natural gas in the office of the Fort Recovery printing office, located next door to the Mienerding store. The dead are Miss Cleo Weis, Henry Laumer, Charles Wagner and Joseph Roesner. At least a hundred people were injured by falling walls, flying debris and glass. One man, a farmer, is fatally® injured, but the others’ hurts are not considered serious. The Mienerding hardware store, John Isenhart’s livery, , the Bank of Fort Recovery and the home and blacksmith shop of B. W. Roops suffered the most. Help in fighting the fire that broke out was given by firemen 1 from Coldwater and Portland. A livery stable two blocks away, was ruined and the Catholic church, seven blocks away, was quite badly damaged. A half dozen brick biddings are either partially or entirely destroyed and the town has the appearance of having been fire swept. Among the Decatur people who were at Recovery at the time besides the Mienerdings, were Joe Heffner and family, Mrs. G. T. Ulmer, Miss Nona and Mr. Vincent Forbing, Bob Gillig, Charles Fehrenback and sev- • e'ral others. Strange to relate, none ! of them were injured in the However, the friends here were greatly concerned until five o ’cock last evening, when a message from Joe Heffner reported all safe. Mr. Mienerding is nearly beside himself and in fact, the entire community is so excited that they scarcely know what they are doing. Two of the dead men leave/families, while it is reported that the young lady and gentleman clerks who were killed were to have been manjecl in the near future. The telephone exchange was ruined and twd operators injured, but none killed. While some believe there is still a body or two in the ruins, this is generally discredited. The seriously injured are: Mrs. T. Reichard, deep gash fn neck; may die. ■t/ohm Walls, cut on head and face with glass, Mrs. John McMullen of Monterey, cut and bruised by fly- , ing timbers. W. D. Jordan, hand mashed and burned. Al Rosier, black- i smith, arm broken and injured inter- ! nally. E. J, Money, printer, bruised ! and' cut by falling timbers. Frank i Reasoner', shoulder broken, hit by falling timber on head. Guy Meyers, printer, leg broken and hurt internal- I iy. B. W. Cunningham, hand broken. . Dr. Kidder of Salamonia, Ind., leg I broken and cut by glass. Henry Phlan- ! german, clerk, legs badly cut with ’ glass. Edward Kensley, hand and el- i bow injured. ; o - . . J Miss Amelia Niblick went to Ft. Wayne this morning to take treatment for her eyes. She was aecom- J panied by her brother, James K. Nib- t lick. < ’ i

MRS. ANDREWS IS DEAD Her Daughter Buried Yesterday and a Babe is Dying. Mrs. Arden F. Andrews of North .Tenth street, died this morning at nine o’clock, after an illness of four weeks ;,death requiting from blood poison.. She was twenty-two years of age, atid was popular in tha community, and her untlmery death is mourned by all who knew her. Dr. Wilson of Berne, was summoned this morning and arrived at eight o’clock, but one look, at the patient told him that his services were useless. Mr. Andrews certainly has the symapthy of the entire city as during the past week he has had more than his share of troubles and afflictions. It was only yesterday that he buried his two year old daughter and now his wife is dead and from all reports the infant four weeks old child can hardly survive the week. The funeral services will be held Saturday morning at ten o’clock at the Methodist church, Rev. J. A. Sprague of Markle, officiating, and interment will be made in the Salem cemetery. o Harry Daniel vs. C. M. Kenyon et al., appointment of receiver, submitted on complaint anl cross complaint. Peter Soldner, guardian for Samuel Girod and eight others, final report as to Elvina and current report as to five others and same was approved. The will of Abraham A. Sprungei of Berne, was probated today. The will was written December 28, 1905, and w.as witnessed by J. C. Sutton and J. F .Lehman. He. bequeaths full possession of his real estate to his wife, she to be assisted in the eonThe Loch, Dirkson &. Co. receivership case had an inning in court today, an effort being made to ascertain what accounts standi against the firms of Noah Loch, Loch & Dirkson and Loch, Dirkson & Co. A half ji,dozen attorneys, representing various wholesale firms and the members of; ‘the firm were present today. The affairs seem to be rather tangled. Nellie M. Pence vs. Ethel L. Pence, divorce and alimony, appearance by Peterson & Moran for defendant, rule to answer. Alfred Ferman vs. Daniel G. Brechbill, $250, note, from Wells county, demurrers filed to complaint and overruled, answer and interrogatories filed. trol thereof by Levi A. Sprunger, Burkhard Lehman and Albert N. Sprunger. The property is to remain in the name of his wife during her life unless she should remarry, when she is to receive one-third and SSOO, and the balance to be divided among the children. He bequeaths SI,OOO each to his son Hiram and daughter Ella, to be> paid them when twentytwo years bld. His son and .son-in-Iqw ate to have the first privilege to by certain Huets of real estate as named in the will. A marriage license has been issued to Peter Inninger, aged thirty and Anna Habegger, aged thi.rty-t.hrt~, both of Monroe township. The bride has been married before. A license was also issued to Thompson Noll, aged twenty-three and Ollie Bender, aged twenty-six, both of Pleasant Mills. o Misses Carrie Cogswell -and Agups Kriek went to Auburn this morning to attend the Foreign Mission convention in session at that place.

hasn’t bees leeg rfnee he met, for party consultation in an Orleans bank, the famous Ed Ballard, the gambler of all gamblers in the French Lick valley, and who has made liberal contributions to Republican campaign funds. A few years ago, when our governor wal trying to break into the United States senate. Captain Harry New. then the proprietor and editor of the Indianapolis Journal, and now acting chairman of the ReBubllcan national committee, said of him 1 his paper: "His services to his party do not justify his selection. Either of the four gentlemen who oppose him has rendered the party much greater and longer service. His claim to being the poor man's candidate is not sustained by the lavish display being made in his behalf. His political, oratorical and professional attainments are surpassed in each case b*- some one'of his competitors, no one of whom has ever demanded or received financial compensation for whatever he may have given in the way of campaign effort.’' According to this picture drawn of Mr. Hanly by Captain New, he was then sailing under false colors and demanding pay for whatever he did toward the success of ills party; and he has never yet changed his colors. He pretends to be morally shocked over Taggart’s poser chips, when it is charged, and he doesn’t deny it, that he is a stockholder In the Columbia club (a corporation), that maintains, runs and operates a saloon, bartering and selling intoxicating liquors every hour of the day. A corporation can not obtain a license to sell whisky, and a stockholder In a cor-I notation that deals in wnisky is nothing less than a saloon keeper without a license in the background. If Governor Hanly will repair to his mother’s grave hand in hand with Tom Taggart, and there, some night when the voice of nature is hushed and the language of conscience most easily interpreted, comFare records with him from their boyhood, assure him the national charlatan will not suffer in the comparison. Gordon’s Opinion of Hanly. One of the leading Republican papers in Indiana Is the Richmond Dally Item. Its proprietor mid editor is Bennett Gordon, a stanch Republican, and a scholarly nod cultured gentleman. He is for law and order. In a long and able editorial on the governor’s Tipton speech, he says: "When the peace and sanctity of the home, and the protection and safety of the fireside was the issue in Richmond a year ago, where did Governor J. Frank Hanly Stand? "He stood for a polluted home, legalized and blackmailed prostitution, and political corruption, and stood there knowingly, defiantly, insolently, because he had an alliance with the machine of this city." So I submit that to whatever extent the governor Is in charge of the management of his party, his party is utterly discredited under tne Bryan test that the governor adopts for the guidance of Democrats. Let no one deceive himself that Governor Hanly is better than his party. He Is a part of its machine, and knows of its corrupt operations. He misleads no one in referring to certain Democrats as bosses, and will not be able in this way to have the iniquity of himself and party to pass for virtues. I am speaking advisedly. Judge Roby’s Speech. One of the nominees of the recent Republican sthte convention is Judge Frank 8. Roby, now appellate judge and a candidate for re-election. Judge Heaton, of Ft. Wayne, was also a candidate before that convention for the nomination cf supreme judge, but was defeated. On the Saturday following the state convention Judge Roby, who Is an honest man and an able jurist, made a speech before the Republican district convention at Ft. Wayne, in which he made serious charges against the management of the Republican party in Indiana. Hear a very brief part of what he said: “What 1 mean is the corrupt lobby representing large interests that spent thousands of dollars within the last week to work Its will in the Republican party In Indiana » » » “These men have the balance of power and it Is to those who hold It that I direct my words. “It Is an actual fact, which I know, that every man who has proved derelict In his duty, has become a thief and a defaulter in Indiana had hts warrant for the nomination written for him by a corrupt Influence at work in the organization of the Republican party. "I say to you, gentlemen of this convention, that ths time must pass when Republican state tickets are written in any other state or by any other control than the people of Indiana. I say to you that the time must end when six men can meet on the eve of a state convention, the day before the balloting, and strike off this man’s 'name and put on that one, ns it might suit their muster’r will. I am talking, gentlemen of this convention, about conditions, not about theories. ♦ • • I say to you that the who. as much as any other wan, made that slnte and left from it the name of yevr distinguished fellow-citizen Is a resident of the state of Kentucky and a part owner of a Republican newspaper in this mstt’et. “Gentlemen of the convention, Judge Heaton, and myself, in some way. Incurred the animosity of these men, who spend corporate money to buy legislation and influence counts. I had rather ten thousand times be defeated on an issue of this sort than have been nominated and elected by votes thu» obtained.” An to Bose-Ridden Indiana. There Is the charge directly made by the nominee of the go-vernor-s own party that thousand* of dollars were corruptly used to control the last Republican state convention, and If- I remember correctly Governor Hanly and his friends boasted that that convention was under his control. It comes of ill grace, in the light of Judge Roby’s scathing charge, for the governor to talk about the boss-ridden condition of the Democracy of Indiana. ‘ Again applying the Bryan test solely upon the strength of Republican evidence, would the Republican party merit a single vote at the polls this fall? I commend this test to those Republicans who think more of thstr state than they do of the band of conspirators and traitors who, throngh the Instrumentality of the Republican party, in the language of Judge Roby, “with corporate money buy legislation and influence courts." Ths Democratic partys record tn the management of state affairs in the past U a guarantee of what the people may expect in the future, If they again elect to restore it to power. I can not. In the Course of one speech, discuss all the meritorious things going to make up its claim •upon popular favor and at the same time give.ptoper consideration to the venal acts Os commission of the party In power. Tn addition to the creditable things done by the Democracy, to which I have already alluded, the voter should not forget that the Democratic party has stood for the preservation of our Institutions and for public morals through a pare ballot. It gave to the state the Australian ballot system, over the hostile opposition of the Republican party and has continuously labored to preserve and strengthen that law, over the persistent efforts of Repub- I Heat boodlers In every way possible, to weaken and render It noneffective to the end that voters might be corrupted with- 1 out the purchaser and those back of him incurring the risk of prosecution. Democrats and School Book Law. Democracy rescued the state over the apposition of Republicans from the corrupt, heartless and oppressive control of the school book octopus, nnd saved the people more than ooe-half of what they had heretofore been paying for books. < Under that law the saving amounted to millions, and to whatever extent the octo- ] pus is again controlling the situation and operating In Indiana is directly charge- 1 Sble to the unholy alliance It has with the , lepubllcan party. ™ 1 The heart of Democracy has always I beaten In sympathy with the struggling . masses. Ours Is not only' the “white 1 man’s” party, but first, the ”poor man’s” 1 •party. It has always tenderly guarded i the Interest of labor. It has to its credit ■v long list of laws enacted' for the benefit ~t workingmen. Some of them to which 1 may direct your attention are: The elght-hiur labor law, the law prohibiting < “pluck-me” stores, the repeal of the nefarious Republican intimidation laws, the 1 law prohibiting the Importation of Pinkertons. the law prohibiting “blackmailing,” ’ th* miners' law providing for the proper . ventilation of mines and the use of honest 1 weights and screens: the law protecting . workingmen tn the right to organize for 1 mutual defense, the co-employes' liability i law, the mechanics’ Hen law, the law pro- » iuu.ting the forced collection of fees ma

employes of railroad corpora tic ns tb rn» tain company hospitals and restaurants, the law guaranteeing the civil rights of all citizens and the law prohibiting th Importation of paupers and aliens unde, contract into the state who have no pur pose of becoming citizens thereof. The conditions and methods of our benevolent and reformatory institutions hart been Improved by the board of charities law, given the state by the Democracy. Under this law our splendid system of charities has attracted wide attention and ia a monument of honor to the party that originated it. The service rendered the state by the Democratic party entitles it to the support of the people. They have enjoyed the fruits of its labor, skill and honor, given for the public welfare without having to endure shame and humiliation while It was intrusted with power. It points to a clean record. No charge has ever, been made that a Democrat, wnlle holding a state office, became a felon. The contrast is shocking and admonishes the Christian citizenship of the state to vote for a change of administration. HOME WORKMEN CUT BY THE TARIFF. The following la clipped from the press dispatches In the Indianapolis Star (Rep.): Chicago, Oct. 11. —A revision of the general tariff *iaws of the United States and better reciprocity with foreign countries, especially England and Canada, was demanded in a resolution adopted by the National Association of Agricultural Implement and Vehicle manufacturers at the closing session here today of its thirteenth annual convention. The news contained, in the above dispatch is of special interest in Indiana, which has many large manufacturing concerns that have had large dealings in Canada. In retaliation for our Dingley tariff the Canadian manufacturers have been looking out for themselves and have had a protective duty put on for their own benefit. Under it it costs the American manufacturer of threshing machine outfits about S4OO to get an outfit into Canada and other agricultural machinery and vehicles in proportion. The result. is that many American concerns have built plants in Canada and manufacture their goods there in order to escape the tariff.. Os course this will force their American competitors to do the same thing. The result is, of course, that American manufacturers who go across the border will employ Canadian workmen in their plants, thus taking work and wages from our own citizens. The high Dingley “protective" tariff is responsible for this condition. If It were not for it American manufacturers would not. be compelled to build plants over the border, but on the contrary would continue to make all of their goods in their local factories and give wages to our home people. ‘ The tariff should be revised, but the Republicans will not do it. The Democrats will. DO YOU CARRY A WATCH Most men and many women, for that matter, carry watches. To nearly all who use them they are a necessity and not a luxury. The business of hundreds of thousands of persons compels them to buy watches. All such will be interestd In the following from the St. Louis Republic: “The consignment of watches received at headquarters of the Democratic congressional campaign committee in Washington will be an instructive object lesson in the methods by which the American consumer is robbed under the benign protection of the Dingley act. "These watches were made In the United States, but they were not bought In this country. They were bought in Europe at $7.9# each, whereas the lowest price at which the watch trust would sell them to American dealers Is $10.68 apiece. The difference is $2.60 on each watch. "The Dingley tariff, therefore, enables the watch truet to charge the American dealers exactly one-third more for the watches It makes than it is willing to take for the same articles in countries where the tariff does not give it the power to levy tribute upon people who want to know the time of day. ’“By the time the retailer's profit Is counted in, this tribute of $2.60 amounts to $3.50 or $4 on each watch of this grade carried In an American pocket. It is paid by railroad conductors, engineers and other train hands, by railroad station agents and telegraphers, by streetcar conductors and motormen and by hundreds of thousands of others whose business requires them to carry a serviceable but not too costly timepiece.” When Governor Hanly was a member of the state senate Tn he voted against the general fee and salary law, the tax law and all of the other reform laws proposed by the Democrats. But the Democrats ha& a majority in the legislature and passed these laws, notwithstanding the opposition of Mr. Hanly and the other Republicans. Mr. Hanly’s entire legislative conduct showed him to be anything but a reformer. Many American-made sewing machines are sold abroad for about onehalf the price that is charged for them In this country. This is one of the things for which the Republican party in this campaign stands pat A change in the tariff might disturb this business.

“ m TBJIE w in Voters Should Read Carefully the Following )( , i , , Specific Instructions. Every voter “who goes to the polls is interested in making his ballot effective. Instruction in voting, therefore, cannot be too thorough. Not only Is this especially true as to first voters, who will have their first experience with the Australian ballot system, but it is true of all others because of the changes that have been made in the law since it was originally passed. At public meetings and privately voters should be given accurate information as to what is required in casting a ballot. The following instructions, therefore, should be studied, as they will be found of value: The device at the head of the Democratic ticket is a rooster. The device at the head of the Republican ticket is an eagle. « The Democratic ticket is in the first column, the Republican ticket is in the second column, and so on. Below is a sample of the heading of the Democratic and Republican tickets, with the respective party devices, in the order in which they will appear on the ballot: I 4 JJ/ DEMOCRATIC TICKET. REPUBLICAN TICKET. ' For Secretary of State, For Secretary of State, i DEM - JAMES F. COX. KKR FRED A. SIMS. .J When you go to your voting place you wIU be handed three ballots: The State ballot —On red paper, containing the candidates to be voted on for State offices, except for Senator and Representative. The county ballot—Printed on white paper. The township ballot —Printed on yellow paper, containing the township candidates. If you want to vote a straight Democratic ticket, make a cross within the circle containing the rooster at the head of the first column of the ballot. INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: First. You must get your ballot and the blue pencil from the Polling Clerks in the election room. Second. If you desire to vote a straight ticket, then make a cross, thus X, within the -large circle at the head of the ticket containing the device of the party for whose candidates you desire to vote. If you do not desire to vote a straight ticket, you must not make a cross in the large circle containing Ing the device of a party, but must make a cross, thus X, on the small square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote, on whatever list of candidates it may be. If the large circle at the head of the ticket is marked with a cross or otherwise and the ballot is marked with a cross or otherwise at any other place, it will be void and cannot be counted, unless there be no candidate for some office in the list printed under such marked device, in which case you may indicate your choice for such office by making a cross, thus, X, on the square to the left of the name of any candidate for such office on any other list. The cross must be placed within or on the circle or square, or the ballot will be void and can not be counted. Third. Do not mutilate your ballots, nor mark them, either by scratching off a name or writing one upon th°m, nor in any other way put a mark upon them,, except by placing one in the circle or on the squares, as above described. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. You must not put any mark of any kind upon your ballot except in the manner above described. Fourth. After you have marked your ballots, and before you leave the •lection booth, fold them up separately so that the face of each one can not be seen, and so the initial letters of the names of the Polling Clerks on the back thereof can be seen. Then hand your ballots to the Inspector, the pencil to the Polling Clerks, and immediately leave the election room. Fifth. If you are physically unable to mark your ballots, or can not read English, so inform the Polling Clerks, and make an affidavit to that effect. They will then go with you into the election booth, and you can then tell them how you desire tc vote, and they will mark your ballot for you. Neither you nor the Polling Clerks must permit any other person to hear or see how your ballot is marked. It Is a penal offense to declare you can not read English or can not mark your ballot, if, in fact, you can. [ln no case can the ballots be marked by the Polling Clerks if the voter ean read the English language and is physically able to mark his ballot. Nog ean they mark it until the voter has made the proper affidavit.] Sixth. If you should aeoidentally, or by mistake, deface, mutilate or spoil one of our ballots, return it to the Pol! Clerks and get another one of the samo kind. „ Seventh. You must not accept a ballot from any person outside of the election room. Jmv ballot outside is fraudulent; and it is a penitentiary offense to have it ip your possession, whether you attempt to vote it or not. Eighth. You must not attempt to hold any conversation in the election room except with members of the Election Board and the Polling Clerks. Ninth, Uss only the blue pencil handed you by the Polling Clerks in marking your bffßots. if you mark with any other pencil, your ballot so marked wffl be void, and will not be counted. Tenth. You must not put any mark of any kind on your ballot, except ae above described. VOTING BY MACHINE. ft you are unable to vote by machine on account of physical disability o* inability to read English, and make a a affidavit to that effect, you will be instructed or assisted by the Polling Clerks, as in the case of voting by ballot II you request it you will, upon being registered by the Polling Clerks, be ineGracted by them as to the manner of voting by machine. You can not remain in the voting machine booth more than one minute; and no person can be in er near the machine when a voter is in the voting machine booth unless it in the Polling Clerks while instructing or assisting the voter. THE NEW LAW AS TO BUYING ANO SELLING VOTES. (Approved March 6, 1905. Acts 1905, p. 481.) Penalty for Buying Votes, 1. That whoever, directly or indirectly, hires, buys or offers to hire or buy, or furnish any money or other means to be used, or directs or permits hti money or other means to be used, or handles any money or other moans, knowing the same to be used to induce, hire or buy any person to vote or refrain from voting any ticket or for any candidate for any office, to be voted for at any election held in this State; or whoever attempts to induce any person to vote or to refrain from voting for any candidate for any office to be voted for -el any election held pursuant to law or at any primary held in this State, by offering such person any reward or favor, shall be fined in any sum not more than fifty dollars and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any oSe of trust or profit for a period of tots years from tie date ot auoh convio tfWh. PChalty for Selling er Offering to dell VeSee. 2r Whoever sells, barters, or offers to |oU er barter his vote er offers to roMtn from voting for any candidate for any Mice to be voted for at any electioEheld in this State, either for any mowy or property or thing of value or for any promise or favor or hope of reward, given or offered by any candidate to be voted for at any election held in this state or by any other person or persons, shall be fined in any sum not moro than fifty dollars and disfranchised and rendered Incapable of holding any office of trust or profit for a period et ten years from the date of such conviction. Witnesses. 3. Any person called as a witness to testify against another for the violation of apy of the provisions of sections one or two of this act, is a competent witness to prove the offense, although he may have been concerned as a party, and he shall be compelled to testify as other witnesses, but such evidence shall not be used against him In any prosecution ter such or any other offense grow'ing out of matters about which he testifies, and he shall not be liable to trial by Indictment or information or-punished for such offense. ,