Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1907 — Page 6

r 1. . — END OF LONG LEGAL BATTLE Attorney* for the State Object to Proceedings and Terrell Will Not be Allowed Hl* Liberty. When Judge R. K. Erwin this morning entered upon the criminal docket in case No. 1204 entitled “The State of Indiana vs. John W. Terrell, indictment for murder by shooting,” an order striking the case from the docket and discharging the defendant, from the present appearance of things and in accordance with the contention of Mr. Terrell’s attorneys, Jay Hindman, and R. W. Stine, forever freed Mr. Terrell from the charge that is hanging over him. The method by which this has been accomplished has been a slow and tedious one and filled with technicalities well night incomprehensible to the layman. It will be remembered hat case No. 1204 was the original indictment upon which Terrell was tried and sentenced for life, later being taken to the asylum where it appeared that he was mentally unsound. After case No. 1356, returning a new indictment was on the docket, the one No. 1204 was ordered off at the motion of the State’s attorneys. When Judge Surgls came on the bench the attorneys for the defense made a motion to have the case ordered back on and this was done. Judge Sturgis then assigned 1204 to R. K. Erwin for further deposition. Today Mr. Erwin assumed the bench to hear further motions in the case and the defense made a motion that the indictment be stricken out. The court took no action on this motion, hut when the State made a motion to order the case off the docket the motion was sustained and there was an exception by the defense. Mr. Hindman then asked the court, if he felt that it would be proper, to make an entry discharging the defendant. The attorneys for the State, it is understood, will contend that No. 1365 the last case filed, holds good and will insist upon the arrest of the defendant should an attempt be made to remove him from the asylum. Should further action come under 1365 a new judge will have to be appointed as at the present time there is no one in evidence who has proper jurisdiction in that case. —Bluffton Banner IS WORKING ON HIS MESSAGE _ It is understood that Governor Hanly is getting his message licked into final shape now, and that the last ■work will be largely that of elimination. Nothing has been given out concerning the message, but from the many consultations that the governor has had with different politicians, state officers, lawyers and others, the general situation as to the message has become pretty well understood. It seems that now the question is one of cutting out and cutting down. Questions that the governor thought he would be able to touch upon, and which he included in the early drafts of the message are to be eliminated altogether. The point about these eliminations is that they make not only for comparative brevity, but also for greater concentration and great emphasis on the remaining parts of the message. The word has gone out, too, that the elimination of certain subjects from the report does not mean that the governor will oppose measures relating to them. His friends make the point that he can not possibly specialize on every, meritorious measure; all that he can do is to select certain measures for active support and give other measures that he favors what support is left over. —o TWO DIVORCE CASES ARE FILED Charles Carpenter Says He Wa* Fooled in Hi* Bargain—Effie Johnson Also Ask* for a Decree. Three months of wedded bliss was more than enough for Charles Carpenter and Laura E. Carpenter, according to a complaint filed by Attorney L. C. DeVoss today. They were married June 3, 1904, and lived together until the following September. The plaintiff supposed he was marrying a pure young lady, but says he discovered ■otherwise shortly afterward and immediately abandoned her. He asks for a plain divorce. Another divorce case filed was Effie V. Johnson vs. Robert If. Johnson, divorce. Hooper & Lenhart are attorneys. The usual charges of cruel and inhuman treatment are made. The plaintiff was formerly Miss Effie Brokaw of this city. —o Rev. W. B. Culliss is now located at "Warsaw where he is temporarily at least pastor of the Baptist church. His many Decatur friends hope that his Stealth will sufficiently recover to perI xnlt him to fill any pastoral place with old-time vigor.

WILL BE PLENTY OF DITCH BILLS The General Assembly Will Reform the Ditch Law. There are one hundred and fifty members of the General Assembly and it is declared that at least 149 of them will have a ditch bill. The present ditch law cut a great figure in the last general election and those who were defeated by it want to get back and those who were elected because of it, want a law that will keep them in the General Assembly for a term or two more. The present ditch law was the work of a trust, the ditch and dredge machinery trust. The government is back of a drainage law that will be asked by the owners of swamp lands in the northern part of the State, especially in Laporte county, and an effort will be made to have embraced in that law all the provisions of the proposed new ditch law. Among the other measures that will come up are the bills for a pure food law, to give the school teachers more wages, the election of county superintendents by popular vote and the repeal of the metropolitan police law. The township trustees will have several bills, the most important of which will be to allow themselves to be reelected and to get more pay. Then there will be the big contest between Purdue and the Indiana University over the medical school; the garnishee law will have another round with the labor committees; the sheriffs will have a lively lobby to get themselves more fees. Os course, the regular appropriation bills will take up considerable time, and there will be same changes in the laws governing the institutions asked. The usual effort will be made to abolish the Board of State Charities, or at least cut down its expenses. —-o ■ USED DEADLY CARBOLIC ACID Struck Miss Clarice Gordon, Then Sat- , urated Her Face With the Acid. | 1 A mysterious attack upon Miss j Clarice Gordon, a young lady who has made her home with Mr. and Mrs. C. 1 C. Schafer for a year or two past, was 1 made Friday morning and so far the affair has not been fully investigated by the police, though it is supposed what the motive of the unwelcome ] visitor was. , At about two o’clock that morning i Miss Gordon, who is a very light sleep- ' er, heard some one moving about down 1 stairs. At first she supposed it was one of the Schafer family, but later when she heard the party creeping : up stairs and noticed that no lights 1 were turned on, she knew something ■ was wrong and quickly went to her bed room door, which was open, to , ascertain the cause. As she stepped into the hall, she walked into the arms of a man, who immediately grabbed her, struck her a terrible blow in the face and then holding her, proceeded to dash a bottle of carbolic acid into her face. The girl screamed and the villianous field fled. Mr. and Mrs. Schafer were aroused and found Miss Gordon in a state of collapse, her face bleeding from the effects of the acid and suffering terrible. They called to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Archbold who responded just in time to see the man run through the back yard. A physician and the police were summoned. Miss Gordon’s injuries were dressed and it is not believed the burns will leave any marks, though they are very painful. The acid struck Miss Gordon on both sides of her face, the chin, neck and breast and only the fact that Dr. Archbold arrived within a few minutes and applied antidotes, prevented her from being terribly marked. 1 The man entered the house through ■ a down stairs pantry window, by cut- > ting the screen and raising the sash, • which was unlocked. 1 Miss Gordon came to this city from I Washington and has but few acquain- • tances. Her condition is greatly imi proved today and she will recover I without any serious results. It is presumed that robbery was the 5 motive and the police are still investigating. While no lights were on, Miss Gordon was able to detect the fact s that the man work a mask and was -of small stature. The attack was a ■ cowardly one, even for a burglar, and 3 if the fiend can be captured, he should J be severely dealt with. 3 -— Sam Henry W. R. C., No. 41, sent a Christmas box to the soldiers’ home t at Lafayette, containing 100 pounds, t It arrived in time and was thankfully } received. There are now 75 patients in the hospital. The home is very 3 much crowded this winter, 865 people - being registered. Over 400 of these' i are women. Al| look forward to the 1 j holidays for some gift.

— PARALYTIC STROKE WAB FATAL Frank Yahney the Victim of Pneumonia—Long Hines* of Michael Stevley End* in Death. Frank L. Yahney, a painter, living in the Meibers addition, north part of the city, died at ten o’clock Wednesday evening after an illness of only one week. He had resided here about three years, moving from Fort Wayne, and was well known. He was always in a happy frame of mind and had a cheery word for everyone he met. About a week ago he contracted a heavy cold, which soon developed into pnuemonia and he sank rapidly into the sleep which knows no awakening. He leaves a wife and two children. The deceased was forty-one years, seven months and two days old and had spent most of his life in Allen cdunty. The funeral services, will be held Friday afternoon at two o’clock from the house, Rev. Hessert officiating. Michael Stevley, aged fifty-nine years, died at his home three miles east of Monroe, at two o’clock Thursday morning. He was one of the best known men of his community and had lived in this county for twenty-one years, coming here from Mahoning county, Ohio, where he was reared. For many years he has suffered from catarrh of the stomach and this ailment finally caused his death. He leaves a wife, one son, five daughters, five brothers and three sisters to mourn their loss. The funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at the M. E. church, Pleasant Mills, leaving the house at one o’clock. Rev. Hollingsworth, a Quaker minister from Lynn, Indiana, will officiate. William Elzey, the well known horse trader, who has been a familiar figure about here for many years, died at his home near Bobo at about 9:30 this morning. He was in this city Saturday and went home in the evening. He was found some time later underneath hs buggy, nearly frozen to death, having suffered a stroke of paralysis. The funeral arrangements have not been announced as we go to press. o DEATH OF MISS CARRIE STOOPS Was Due to Typhoid—Took Sick at St. Louis. Miss Carrie Stoops/ eldest daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Stoops, died of typhoid fever Monday afternoon, at the parsonage on East Crawford street aged twenty-six years. Miss Stoops came home ill several weeks ago from St. Louis, where she had been canvassing for a publishing house, and was quite sick from the first. Memorial services were held at the First Evangelical church, this morning, at nine o’clock, attended by all the pastors of the city. The remains were taken to Bobo, lad., where a funeral service was held this afternoon and the burial occurred. —Van Wert Bulletin. U, (J . DEATH OF WILLIAM ELZEY Well Known Horse Trader Died From Exposure. William Elzey, the well known horse trader, who died Thursday morning at his home near Bobo, was sixty-seven years of age and had made Adams county his home nearly all of that time. He was a frequent visitor to this city and people always hailed him as "Bill.” He was peculiar in his way, but everywhere he went he made friends and was genial and plbasant in his manner toward all. His business was that of a horse trader and it was while returning to his home from this city Saturday night that he fell from his buggy while asleep and when found was nearly frozen to death. The exposure he had, together with his advanced age, hastened his death and on yesterday morning he peacefully slept away. The funeral services will be held Saturday morning at ten o’colck from the M. E. church at Rivarre and Interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. o- . Albert and Emanuel Neuenschwander have returned home from their extended trip to the Southwest. They were away from home about eight months and the greater part of this time they spent at Long Beach, California, where they worked at the carpenter trade. The boys have their good health and they are much pleased with their trip. Peter Hoffstetter, who was with them, has not yet returned, but may do so soon.— Berne Witness. The Mennonlte Teachers’ Training class passed their examination Friday evening and it is thought that all the pupils made a passing grade and that many of them made excellent grades, i The result will be published as soon I as the returns are received from the State Sunday School Association.— | Berne Witness.

WANTS TO FIND HIS SON u . • ' Celina Editor Seek* Aid From New York Journal. The editor of the Celina Advocate, has asked the New York Evening Journal to aid in finding his missing son, George, who he says, was frightened through the machinations of enemies into leaving his home last June. The father says he is prepared lo protect his son against these enemies. This is the letter received from Phillips, dated at Celina, O. Hon. William R. Hearst: Dear Sir: —On the 2Qth day of last June my son, George Phillips, jr., was scared away from home by the machinations of a couple of men who should be in the penitentiary. He is a young man, twenty-two years old and is a fast typesetter. He went east from this place, and I desire your assistance to help locate him. I have no money to do so and am getting along jn years and need him. to look after business in the Advocate office. What I desire, if you will kindly do so, is to have a notice put in your papers asking him to write to his aged father at Celina, 0., and request other papers to copy it and thus assist an old father in finding his son. Very truly yours, GEORGE W. PHILLIPPS, Editor Advocate.o—————. ROCKFORD FARMER IS WORKED Troy Fruit Men Get in Their Graft Again. The Van Wert Times tells of another mortgage given fruit tree agents, in the following: "The Troy fruit tree men made another haul on an old unsuspecting farmer. John Matthias, an old Englishman, residing near Rockford, was induced to give a mortgage to these people for >2,300 on his sixty acres of land. He got four or five thousand trees of various kinds and received a lot of gooseberries and strawberries thrown in on the side. He recently got out of debt and took these trees to raise fruit “for profit” as they represented it to him. The note which was due April Ist is secured by mortgage and was sold to the Rockford bank. The old man sees his savings of years get away in a moment and is nearly frantic. This is destined to be a country of fruit —a great country as long as the ‘suckers’ bite.” o AT STATE TEACHERS’ MEETING Attacked the Courts and Prosecutors for Not Collecting Fines, This Morning. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 28.—Lotus D. Coffman, superintendent of the Connersville city schools, attacked the prosecutors and all concerned who fall to collect fines. He vigorously assailed the courts and prosecutors who permit fines to go uncollected or remit them, while the prosecutors’ fees are collected, thus filling he pockets of officials while the schools suffer. Henry Van Dyke was the speaker this afternoon at the meeting at Tomlinson hall, his subject being “Poetry and Human Intercourse.” Governor Hanly was to have presided but his illness prevented that part of the program. Coffman’s speech was the sensation of the day. He showed by the constitution of the State that the only person who may remit fines or suspend sentence is the governor, yet political judges and prosecutors have been doing this right along. He showed where the school fund which profits from fines has been allowed to suffer and has been losing thousands of dollars every year in this way. - O' ■ > MODERN AND UNIQUE INVENTION Decatur Man Invent* a Labor Saving Device. Frank Snyder, living in the west part of the city, who has, for the past few years been engaged in the mason business, has Invented a device, by the use of which buildings can be raised without digging holes in the ground in order to get the jack-screws under the foundation. The new device is Constructed wholly of iron, and Is arranged in such away as to permit ordinary sized jack-screws to be set under It. While Mr. Snyder has not applied for a patent as yet, we are informed that he will do so in the near future, and no doubt a patent will be quickly granted to him for such a labor saving device as he has. o School house number six, in Blue Creek township, known as the Prairie school house, was totally destroyed by fire last night. It was rather an old building and the loss is probably covered by insurance. The cause is unknown, in fact but few people were aware of the blaze until this morning, when they saw the ruins.

I MARRIED .ON CHRISTMAS DAY r Many Were the Invited Friend* and Handsome Were the Present*. A very neat wedding was solemnlz- , ed nt the bride’s home in Union township, when Clarence N. Miller and Mary E. Echnepp were united in the bonds of holy wedlock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. C. B. Sweeney at 1:30 p. m., Christmas day. After the service and congratulations had been offered the guests were ushered into the dining room, where a sumptuous and appropriate wedding dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are prominent and estimable in their community and we prophesy a happy and useful life for them. The presents given were numerous and useful. Those present were: Jeff Manly and wife, Cora Manly, Dora Manly, Flossie Manly, Solomon Schnepp and wife, Olive Schnepp, Floyd Schnepp, Freeman Schnepp, Adrian Schnepp, Harold Schnepp, John Barrone and wife, Edwin Barrone, William Barrone, Bertha Barrone, Floyd Barrone, Ben Schnepp and wife, J. W. Jeffrey and wife, Harry Jeffrey, Leander Johnston, James Stevens, Emma Stevens, Eva Stevens, Mildred Marker, Flossie Spahr, Nora Drake, Otis Bishoff, Lizzie Baber, Gertrude Schnepp, Mandy Westfall, Mr. and Mrs. Valley Schnepp, Frank Schnepp, Hannah Schnepp, Charley Schnepp, Henry Schnepp, Abe Schnepp, Emma Schnepp, John Schnepp, Blanche Schnepp, Ralph Schnepp, Mary Murphy, Dee Murphy, James Murphy, Frank Murphy, Leo Murphy and Hannah Schnepp. o — i A DIVORCE ANSWER IS FILED New Case Filed by Old Adams County Blink and An Old Case I* —Decided. If the case of William Hall vs. John H. Reiff, in which the original amount in controversy was >6B, is ever decided, it will require a fifth trial as the jury has again disagreed. They were discharged Friday, after . being out nearly twenty-four hours. Judge O’Rourke coming down from Fort Wayne .especially for the purpose. The jury agreed to disagree this morning at ten o’clock, but Judge Erwin ordered them back to their room, as such a verdict is not lawful. 4- ' Attorney A. P. Beatty filed a new case entitled The Old Adams County Bank vs. Fred Hockemeyer, Loch, Dirkson & Co., suit on note, demand >135. Deputy Sheriff Dallas Butler arrived home Friday night from Jeffersonville where he took Harley Baum who will serve a term of from two to fourteen years for his daring daylight robbery of National Express funds. Jeptha Liechty>et al., vs. John Reed, mechanic’s lien, demand >75, cause dismissed and costs paid. Martin F. Martz vs. Mary Martz, divorce, answer in general denial filed by the prosecuting attorney. Rosie Burgess vs. Minor Burgess, divorce and >3OO allomny, answer filed by prosecuting attorney. Old Adams County Bank vs. William Getting et" al., note >IOO, submitted, finding for plaintiff. Judgment for >90.95, finding that Loch, Dirkson & Co. are security for Getting, the latter’s property to be exhausted flrfet. Susie Melchmg vs. William MeTching, divorce, summons ordered to the sheriff of Wabash county, returnable January 16. Mary A. Morgan vs. Orvanda Morgan, divorce, answer filed, by prosecuting attorney. A petition was filed by the National Express company for an order to have th sheriff .turn over to said express company, >72.50, so ordered. Homer Watkins, charged with stealing chickens from George Worden, was discharged on motion by the persecutor. Charles Hendricks arrestedj at the same time, was acquitted last week. Emanuel Woods, surviving partner of the Woods, Morris & company, filed an inventory and bond. James O. Wyatt was granted letters as guardian for Emily and J. A. Wyatt and filed his bond. , .0, Unclaimed letters are at the postoffice for Harvey M. Drake, H. B. Madden, Mrs. R. R. Scruggs, E. L. Storer, Mr .and Mrs. J. R. Swigart, George Keiser & Co., and Mrs. Tibrith Case.

’f HEADQUARTERS IN CHICAGO 1 Th* Roosevelt Third Term National League la Already Doing Business. CHICAGO, Bee. 28. —Republican politicians are puzzled about the Roosevelt Third Term National League, which has opened headquarters in the Tribune building. Edward A. Horner formerly of Colorado, is the president of the league, and today promulgated an address declaring that President Roosevelt is the people’s choice, irrespective of party, and demanding his nomination in 1908. “We intend to have a member in every county of every State in the Union,” said Mr. Horner. “The State chairmen will be sounded on the matter and their co-operation will be sought, but this is a people’s movement, not a politicians’ movement. It is true the President has said he would not run again, but we take the position that if the people need him and insist that he serve another term he cannot refuse.” • Platform. * We, the members, of the Roosevelt Third Term League, having at heart 1 the great social and political problems now confronting the people, and in order that the rights of the masses be protected and that national harmony be preserved, deem it Imperative that Theodore Roosevelt be re-elected to the presidency in 1908. We have come upon days in our social and political life, fermenting with distrust and requiring firm control. We view with alarm the evils grown from the abuse of corporate power and see in these evils a fertile field for the demagogue, from which might readily spring a political and social revolution, and believe that nothing short of temperate and prayerful solicitude, on the part of the people, will hold our political and social structure Intact.To the people irrespective of party lines is due-the credit that their president, today, is Theodore Roosevelt. A new era of real freedom and vitality in our institutions of government and politics was demanded, and they wisely saw in him a means to attain it. So valiantly and wholeheartedly has this man reflected the wishes of the people, that his personality has entered into and beconle a part of every department of our national life. He has won the confidence of the people, and this fact alone, makes him the most potent factor in the solution of the present disturbing conditions. To eliminate this personality—-which is to eliminate that confidence—at a time when the people, as a whole, are restive and trembling with apprehension, is to Invite national disorder. So closely woven is this bond between the president and the people, that he has become to them a public necessity, an essential part of things in the social and political fabric. Therefore, Theodore Roosevelt is not only the logical candidate for nomination, but manifestly is the only logical’ president for the people. Already has it been demonstrated that the frightened and vengeful • wealth controlling forces of the country will resort to any means to defeat his nomination for a presidential third term. We, therefore, must be on the alert and quick to action if we would save that which has already been accomplished by our illustrious president. We are not unmindful of the fact that Theodore Roosevelt himself declared in 1904 that “under no circumstances would he be a candidate for, or, would he accept another nomination." We challenge, however, his right to refuse to accept the Presidency of the United States for a third term, in the fact of the people’s demand, especially at a time when so many undertakings of the highest importance have been brought about and set in motion by him, and so subjbet them to the danger of an untried and unproved successor, to whom public confidence would be reluctantly extended, if at all. Manifestly, the selection of its president rests with the people. The public, alone, is judge. No man may say he will not accept. —It is not the province of Theodore Roosevelt to say he will qr will not be the president He, who acts as president, acts solely as a servant of the people and when called by them, must come. We further hold that in point of fact his re-election in 1908 would not constitute a third term. HE HAS BEEN ELECTED TO THE PRESIDENCY BUT ONCE. Inasmuch, however, as the issue has been so generally spoken of as a third term, the league has adopted the title. We, therefore, in the interest of public welfare, demand that Theodore Roosevelt be nominated for the presidency and be re-elected in 1908, and to that end hereby pledge our support EDWARD A. HORNER, President. E. C. HAYEK, Secretary.