Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1907 — Page 3

THE DOINGS OF CONGRESS The Agricultural, Poetoffice and Pension Appropriation Bills Passed the Senate Yesterday. Washington, Feb. 26. —The ship subsidy secured a marked impetus yesterday in the house, which just before adjournment adopted a rule that will probably insure the passage in the house of tjie Littauer substitute for the senate bill and result before the final adjournment in positive ship subsidy legislation. Washington, Feb. 26. —A bill is pending in the house supported by a favorable committee report to add the secretary of agriculture and the secretary of commerce and labor to the line of presidential succession. These two offices have been created since the existing law providing for presidential successors in case of the “removal, death, resignation or inability of both the president and the vice president.” Washington, Feb. 26. —The senate today passed the agricultural appropriation bill carrying nearly $lO,000,000; the postoffice appropriation , bill carrying $210,000,000, the pension appropriation bill carrying $145,000,000, and the bill authorizing the establishment of an agriculture bank in the Philippine Islands. The principal fight today over the agricultural bill took place on the Beveridge amendment requiring the packers to pay the cost of administrating the meat inspection law. This amendment was defeated on a point of order. ■ o Last week over at Huntington five people were fined $lO each for violating the postal laws. The trouble in nearly every case arose from the fact that in sending away tobacco tags written notes were enclosed. Written matter goes at 2 cents per ounce or fraction thereof; ignorance of this provision did not excuse the Huntington parties, nor will it ex. cuse any one else. By a ruling of the postoffice department it will be permissable to write on be 4 of souvenir postal cards ithoiit additional postage. The right 1 If of the card must be reserved for he address but if desired the left ha 4half of the card ma y be used for writing. The country has been flooded with this style of card, which is of foreign origin, and much trouble and misunderstanding has been caused. Farmers and gardeners who depend upon the moon to difect their potato planting will have to get busy unusually early this season. Three weeks more and the “sign is right” for putting the seed in the ground. The first day for planting early potatoes is March 11, Monday and the next one Monday, March 18. Good Friday, held by many the proper day for planting, comes this year on March 29, much earlier than last spring. The attorneys for Thaw seem to be afraid that the state’s attorney will be able to prove that he has been crazy for the past four years at least and is still in the same condition. Jerome, under the circumstances, may ask the clerk to declare him insane and have him sent td an asylum. But Thaw’s craziness is harmless, now •that White is out of the way, unless the fickle Evelyn should grow wejiry of him and thus arouse the ' killing passion in his breast again. He ought to be confined in some institution until it is pretty well ascertained that he is a fit subject to be at large. —o MRS. ANNA MALLONEE IS DEAD Well Known Lady Dies After Months of Suffering. Mrs. Anna* Mallonee, aged fifty-six years, died at one forty o'clock at the home of William Darwacter in the north part of the city after an illness of several months, death resulting from a complication of diseases! It will be remembered by our readers that Mrs. Mallonee fell some few months ago and broke her hip and since that time has been con. fined, to her bed, she making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Darwacter. She was the widow of Ezra Mallo. nee, who died a few years ago in Michigan and had recently returned to this city to make her home, they r having formerly resided here. Mrs. Mallonee was well known and has a host of friends who will be grieved to learn of her sudden demise. The funeral arrangements have not as yet been announced. —— o— — Frank Stone of Fort Wayne, was a business caller to our city today. Mother Grays sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse In Children’s Heme, New York, breaks ud Colds In 2 4hoUr», vuie Feverishness Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, and Destroy Worms. At all irntf-iristß. 25c. Sam pl mailed r -RW Address Allen S. Olmstead, X«Roy, N. Y.

WIFE THREATENED TO KILL HIM Vida Robison Granted a Divorce and Custody of One Child—Some Probate Matters. Peter Smith believes he is entitled to a divorce from hia wife Odessa M Smith, and has filed suit to obtain same. They were married October 14, 1904 ( and lived together until December 23, 1905. However, these few months of married blessedness seems not to have been happy ones, for Smith says his wife often cursed him, accussed him of wrongs of which he was innocent, threatened to poison and put his lights out. She finally abandoned him, has since re. mained away from him. D. M. Shive. ly and A. P. Beatty are attorneys for plaintiff. Merryman & Sutton, representing the plaintiff in a new case filed, Alexander Foutz vs. Geneva Oil com. pany, suit on account and petition for a receiver Jacob Butcher appointed temporary receiver and bond fixed at $2,000. Viola M. Gilbert et al„ vs. Ruby Sheets, et al., suit for partition of real estate. Horace Butler, Phillip Baker- and Levi Baumgartner appointed commissioners. Partition ordered according* to prayer of petition. Finding that parties are owners of real estate as set &ut in petition. Vida Robison vs. Jesse D Robison, divorce granted plaintiff, custody of Clifford Robison given to Mr. and Mrs. Perry Robison, John E. Robison given to plaintiff. Judgment against plaintiff for costs. Mrs. Robi. son ordered not to marry for two years. William Hall vs. John H. Reiff et al, suit on $l5O note, change of venue granted, sent to Jay Circuit court for trial. —— + Sarah E. Hart has been appointed administratrix of the George H. Hart estate and filed bond signed by William and Emanuel Hart. Christina R. Niblick, administratrix of the William Niblick estate filed a petition to sell stock in the Bank of Berne, Bank of Wren, Columbus National. Petition also filed to pay debts at Bankers National Bank at Chicago and release collateral paper. So ordered. A junk dealers’ license was issued, to G. S. Calkins and Emerson Purdy of Geneva. Sam Sprunger, wanted on a warrant for violating the “blind tiger” law, is said to be hiding and officers have not been able to land him. GIVE THEM THROUGH TICKET Sang of Gypsies Ordered to Move Into This County. • It’s all right to be a gypsy in the good old summer time, but when the thermometer is hovering close to the zero point, you have little or no money, the little gypsies are without shoes or sufficient clothing, ancient canvas tents begin to let the wind whistle through the perforations and all the wood and provender you can secure is what you get when the other fellow isn’t looking, then it’s an entirely different story. The gang that was chased away from their camp south of the city a few days ago are likely to fare but little better at their present location. Today they are located at a point half a mile north of the Klopfenstine distillery and several of the farmers in that vicinity have consulted with the officers as to the best course to pursue in getting rid of the troublesome people. As a matter of fact, while their "condition at this time is such as to excite pity, the proverbial laziness of the tribe in general is against their exciting much sympathy and their room is more to be desired than their presence. It is likley that the officers will visit them with a request that they move on toward Adams county.—Bluffton Banner. o LUCKIEST MAN IN ARKANSAS. “I’m the luckiest man in Arkansas,’ writes H. L. Stanley, of Bruno, "since the restoration of my wife’s health after five years of continuous coughing and bleeding from the lungs; and I owe my-good fortune to the world’s greatest medicine, Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, which I know from experience will cure consumption if taken in time. My wife improved with first bottle and twelve bottles completed the cure.” Cures i the worst coughs and colds or money ' refunded. At Blackburn’s Pharmacy. 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free.

! 1 ■g.'gr. TENDER UNDER CONSIDERATION The Term of the Present Postmaster Expires Some Time Next March. Washington, Feb. 23. —The postmas. ership at Muncie has been offered to George W. Cromer, who will retire from congress March 1. It is understood he will reach a decision early next week. The offer of the place to Mr. Cromer was made by First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock, who “O. K.’s” the president’s recommendations for postmasters at presidential offices. The appointment of Cromer would be agreeable to members of the Indiana delegation in congress. The office pays about $3,200 a year, and Cromer’s friends feel that it would in four years put him on his feet financially. The term of David Lambert, the present postmaster, will expire early in March. Several men have aspired to the office since it became generally known that Lambert would not be reappointed. It is understood that Cromer hesitated to accept the office because some of his friends would like to have it. The Decatur and Adams county friends of Congressman Cromer doubt whther. their idol will accept the proffered postmastership, although it is a place well worth having. It pays a handsome salary and in reality would afford the* soon ex-congressmau an opportunity to lay plans for future control of the destinies of his party in the Eighth district Mr. Cromer has sounded the warning in no uncertain tones that he intends to remain a factor in the congressional situation. His friends know him and know his ability to make good. HiS warnings have occasioned many ambitious men in the district to sit up and take notice. He will doubtless continue to do this no matter whether he is Congressman Cromer, Postmaster Cromer or just plain, every day George Cromer. o SOCIETY BOYS GIVE ADVICE Get Saucy in Reply to Their Lady Friends. Over at‘Logansport, a town on the Panhandle wesfy of Bunker Hill, there is now on a war between the young men and the society girls. One of the young women recently complained to the Logansport Reporter that Logansport boys were tight wads, that the girls entertained them but the boys never thought of returning the favors. The young lady’s remarks caused one of the Tight Wad boys to take up his pen and pay his respects to the society belle. Here is a part of what he says: ‘A young man who has the principles and ambition of true manhood has but little respect for society belles and when the latter take the ‘tight wads’ off their social list they will confer a favor which will be appreciated by the boys if they have the right kind of American blood coursing through their veins. “Our society belles are to be compared to butterflies. They are attractive to the eye, flutter aimlessly about and both have about the same valuation. One of these girls has given her views of young manhood. Now for a young man’s idea of true young womanhood. “It is a young lady who is not ashamed to wear an apron or get her hands in dishwater, and who is capa. ble of taking charge of not only the parlor but the entire house from the front door to the back yard. “No one has ever yet been able to tell for what purpose the good Lord created the society belle an the brainless dude. A society belle will devote her time looking in the mirror and trying to make herself believe she is a beauty and a jewel, while her poor old mother is in the kitchen on her knees scrubbing the floor and wondering what purpose her .‘attractive’ daughter has in life. “The sooner our society , belles find out there is something more noble in life than such silliness the sooner the boys will thaw out. Here it comes! The announcement is made that railroads are to make a general raise in freight rates. This is the sequel to the raise in employes’ wages the railroads proclaimed so loudly not long since. The increase in freight rates will pay the additional wages and a big profit to the railroads besides. But it will be different sometime. The railroads will keep on skinning the people until they will stand for it no longer and then legislation will adjust matters so railroad millionaires will live only in memory. Bub Mischaud of Berne, was a business caller to our city today. < f

AND NINE WERE BAPTIZED Sunday Was an Enjoyable Day to All the Members of This Congregation. The revival meeting at Union Chapel U. B. church closed Sunday evening with thirty .one conversions and twen-ty-five accessions to the church. The services were always particularly marked by a spirit of intense interest and hearty co-operation on the part of the congregation throughout. Personal work under the influence of straight gospel preaching contributed very largely to the success. At the morning service nine received the sacrament of baptism; in the evening the meeting closed with a good rally of converts who formed a circle while the congregation passed around them shaking hands with each and they in turn shaking hands with each other, and singing “God Be With You Till We Meet Again,” until everybody had shaken hands with everybody else. The pastor then addressed a few remarks to the circle, commending them for the stand they had taken, and earnestly urged that each main, tain his position through life, and to always conscientiously endeavor to prevent the breaking of the circle by any dereliction or evasion of a known duty. “A safe way is not to inquire as to the amount of wrong involved in a temptation, but rather to ask conscience ‘ls it right?’ and then verify the answer by consulting the word of God.” The church has taken on new life and the community is thoroughly aroused to a higher sense of personal responsibility for prevailing religious condition. Rev. Samul Cramer, together with other splendid talent of the Evangelical church, rendered valuable assistance. o TO TRY THE TERRELL CASE Judge Erwin Selected to Try Terrell on Second Indictmnt. Judge R. K. Erwin was today ap. pointed special judge in the John Terrell case by C. E. Sturgis. He is slat, ed to try the case on indictment No. 1396, the one that was returned by the grand jury after the higher courts had held that the first indictment upon which Mr. Terrell was tried was no good because of the fact there isn’t alleged any Impossible date. On indict, ment 1204 Judge Erwin heard motions some time ago, the Indictment was held no good and the defendant was discharged. The attorneys for the defendant claimed at the time that this left their client with a good chance of escaping further punishment as the fact that a record of discharge on an indictment for murder would show that the defendant had been in jeopardy and that he could not be tried again for the same offense.'Now that a judge has been appointed to act on the last indictment filed, some further action on the part of the attorneys may be expected.—Bluffton Banner. o WANTED —Gentleman or lady to travel for mercantile house of large capital. Territory at home or abroad to suit. If desirable the home may be used as headquarters. Weekly salary of SI,OOO per year and expenses. Address, Jos. A. Alexander, Decatur, Indiana. 48-7 t. o PERSISTENT RUMOR IS AFLOAT That Jerome Will Ask for a Lunacy. Commission for Thaw Before Day is Over. New York, Feb. 25. —Interest in the Thaw trial at the opening of the sixth week has not diminished. Thaw was amused at some freak letter he got and showed them to those who sat about him. Evelyn was the first witness and entered the room with a springy step. She looked well except the . sad expression of her eyes. Jerome asked her about the money left for her at the bank by White, but she held her own. There is a persistent rumor the court housecorrldorsthatbefore the day is over Jerome will ask for a lunacy commission for Thaw. Jerome is said to have made this statement privately before court opened. Mazie Follette, a former chorus girl and friend of Evelyn’s, now an ally of Jerome’s, was in consultation with the district .attorney this morning, giving him points for the cross-examination. Mrs. Thaw testified that Harry sent her $55 once with a box of flowers. J ■ ■/>■■■ — ■ ■ Shall We Tan Your Hide? The average stock raiser hardly re- ’ alizes the value of cow, steer and horse hides when converted into fur ( coats, robes and rugs. Get the new * illustrated catalogue of the Crosby Frisian Fur Co., Rochester, N. Y. It will be a revelation to you. And “Crosby pays the freight.”

MRS. DILLIB’ LABORS END Dies From Typhoid Fever—Both .Funerals Will be Held Monday Afternoon. I Mrs. Benjamin F. Cramer, aged 18 years, died Saturday morning at her home on Thirteenth street, after an illness of two weeks’ duration, death resulting from blood poison. The dread disease was contracted several weeks ago the result of child birth and her decline was rapid. She was a patient sufferer and was never heard to bemoan her fate. The funeral will be on Monday afternoon at the M. E. church, Rev. John C. White officiating and interment will be made in the Salem cemetery. She leaves a husband and a little babe to mourn their loss. Mrs. Dennis Dille, aged twenty-five years and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hower, who reside on South Eleventh street, died Friday even, at eight o’clock, after an illness of several weeks, death resulting from typhoid fever. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at two thirty o’clock at the Methodist church Rev. J. C. White officiating and interment was made in the Decatur cemetery. She leaves a huband, mother, father and several sisters to mourn their loss. 0 ————— A LARGE CROWD WAS PRESENT The One Thousand Dollar License Bill Was Killed in the House Yesterday. Indianapolis, Feb. 22. —The Mattingly SI,OOO liquor license bill, which has been holding the center of the legislative stage for the past several weeks, was indefinitely postponed in the house late ttys afternoon. Rpre. sentative Sweeney (Dem.) of Tell City, offered a motion to indefinitely postpone the measure. This was car. rled by a vote of 51 to 47. Two members did not vote. Thirty-nine Democrats and twelve Republicans voted to indefinitely postpone; eight Democrats and thirty-nine Republicans voted for the bill. Grieger, Jackson, Ratliff and Meeker today voted to kill the bill. They voted for the bill Wednesday. Pierson voted for the bill today, but on Wednesday voted against it Volz, who did not vote Wednesday, today voted against the bill. Zeis and Schroll, also absent Wednesday, voted for the measure. Billingsley and Holloway did not vote today or Wednesday. Great crowds that had been squeezed into all the surplus space about the chamber of the house and the galleries from 1 o’clock until 3, when the bill came up, were disappointed by the lack of debate. The leaders of the fight against the bill determined to bring the matter to an issue at once. None of those who had been insisting that the bill should be amended or that a compromise should be reached stood by their demand. o FELL TWENTY-FIVE FEET » Larry Scanlon the Only One Injured and He Will Recover in a Few Days. •_ I Fifteen employes of the Standard Oil company, who are building the big oil tanks at Preble, were more or less injured Satimday afternoon, the result of a scaffold breaking. The men were putting the finishing touches to one of the big tanks and were working on a scaffold twenty-five feet, high and during ,part of the work the men were closely bunched together, when the scaffold broke, hurling them to the ground, the accident being caused by too much weigljf being centered at one point of the scaffold. The men were all bruised and scratched up considerably and several of them will be forced to lay oft for several days. The most serious injuries were received by Larry Scanlon, who seems to be strained all over and is now confined to his room at the Park hotel. The scaffold was built from heaVy timbers and it was not thought'possible that it would break sq easily. The fact that not one -of ~the fifteen men received a broken bone is considered miraculous. o Daniel J. Schenck, Jr., sen of Rev. D. J. Schenck, and former pupil of Decatur High school, who went to Alabama with a party of .lumbermen, has quit the lumber camp, and accepted a position as a teacher in a school near Mobile, Alabama. o U Mrs. Ed Vancil and son returned this morning from Portland, where they were visiting with relatives.

HIS EAR DRUM IS BURBTED Unconscious for Several Minutes—* Hearing of Left Ear Entirely Destroyed. Ed S. Moses, one of the best known farmers of the county was very badly injured Saturday while at work in the woods on his farm east of the city. He was clearing and in some unaccountable way a piece of wood is supposed to have been hurled against his left ear with such force that the ear drum was bursted. The pain was terrific and Mr. Mpses soon became unconscious. He revived in about fifteen minutes sufficiently to call Mr. Hindenlang who was working nearby and who assisted him to the house. He was completely exhausted and so weak that it is believed the result would have been most sqrious had it not been that Mr. Hindenlang was within hailing distance. A physi. cian was summoned and Mr. Moses is some better, though he is still very weak. He will be confined to his room for perhaps ten days and the hearing of the left ear has been conipletely destroyed. o . THE PENSION BUSINESS IS GOOD • I Veterans After Increase Allowed by Law Just Passed. • Veterans of this city and vicinity are sending ip their declarations for increases of pension under the act of Feb. 6 last, which allows pensioners certain sums monthly at certain age limits. Robert Blackburn, the local pension agent, has sent in a number of applications since he received his blanks, and is still devoting the greater part of his time attending to pension business under the new law. The blanks are a declaration of the pen. sioner, showing that he is a pensioner, giving his rate, certificate number, age and date of birth. The applicant also declares himself entitled to an increase under the new act in accordance with his age. o Send Your Cattle and Horae Hides to the Crosby Frisian Fur company, Rochester, N. Y., and have them converted into coats, robes, rugs, gloves and mittens; better and cheaper goods than you can buy. Never mind the distande, “Crosby pays the freight.” See our new illustrated catalogue, page 18. If Interested send for it n THE MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE Large Audiences Heard the Evangelists Sunday and Thoroughly Enjoyed the Services.* Notwithstanding the fact that Dr. Hobson is genuine when it comes to stirring men’s souls in evangelistic effort, himself and assistants have departed hence, bag and baggage. Mr. Hobson is of pleasing personality and always talks with a full head of steam on. He says something, too, and his pleasing address and eloquence is of the sort that charms. He came last Thursday and preached two sermons besides the services held cn Sunday. All the Sunday services were not only well attended, and the audiences sympathetic, but every indication pointed to a well directed revival effort. Sunday night, however' without any further announcement than that God called him elsewhere, he gave his first public declaration that he must go. Today at noon he left over the Clovfer Leaf for his present home at Anderson. Prof. Kuhn and Eddie Thomas have also gone. This sudden leave taking will npt be understood by many and never will be. Rev. White gives out thestatement that such an announcement came to him like a thunder clap from a clear sky. It is said, however, that, such acts are not infrequent with Mr. Hobson. He heeds these divine calls, in fact he can not resist them. His leaving places Rev. White in rather an unpleasant position, but he will no doubt prove himself equal to the occasion. The congregation last night, stood loyally, by him, and insisted that the revival services con. dr no Hobson. Services will be held iat the regular tinje this evening and plans for continuing them will be discussed. o ‘ ’ ’ SIO,OOO From 14 Acres. * “I expect to pick 10,000 to 12,060 boxes apples from 14 acres,’-’ says B. B. Holcomb, Wenachtee, Washington. “My apples average SI.OO per box.” This is only one of hund-eds of reports that tempt die hard working farmer to take up more agreeable tasks. Great Northern Bulletin 83, on Washington, tells all about it. Sent free on request. Address C. W. Pitts, 220 S. Clark street, Chicago. o HE WAS IN TROUBLE. “I was in trouble, but found away out of it, and I’m a happy man again, since Dr. King's New Life Pills cured me of chronic constipation,” says E. 25 cents at Blackburn’s Pharmacy.