Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1907 — Page 6

ARE STILL AFTER HARRIMAN H. E. Barnard of Indiana Given a Place Under the Pure Food Law. Washington, March 25. —Charles A. McGonagle of Muncie, deputy auditor for the postoffice department, is receiving numerous letters from the Eighth district suggesting that he make the race for the Republican nomination for congress. While he has been a regular Republican and has voted for George W. Cromer he could not be called a factionist. He says that he is not a congressional aspirant and that he is well satisfied with his present position. Washington, March 25. —The administration will not give up its pursuit of Edward H. Harriman. He may soon have to confront prosecution in the courts. The question now is whether the disclosures befor4 the Interstate Commerce Commission in the investigation of the Harriman system are sufficient to warrant legal proceedings under the interstate commerce laws, the Sherman anti-trust act or the constitution and laws of Illinois. Two weeks hence the Investigation will be resumed in Washington at the point where it ceased the last of February after Mr. Harlrman gave his testimony in New York. The date set for the resumption of the Investigation is Thursday, April 4, an.’ it is thought that Harriman will then come to Washington. Washington, March 25. —The secretary of Agriculture has written to H. E. Barnard, Indiana state Chemist, asking him to take service with the department as a first-class chemist under the pure food law. The department desires the services of Mr. Barnard outright, but if he prefers to remain with the state he may accept service with the government under the per diem plan, which would mean that he would receive pay at the rate of $lO a day for services performed for the government o TAFFY FOR THE OLD SOLDIERS Hon. George W. Cromer is Still Showing Life. Some newspapers in the district are printing the following: “That George W. Cromer doesn’t propose to remain a political dead one any longer than the people just force him to, is evidenced by his latest attempt to curry favor with the veteran pensioners of the district ' “As is well known, a bill which passed and became a law some little time ago, provided that all soldiers of a certain age, were to receive a pension of a certain amount. There were three age limits named in the bill, each drawing a different amount of money. All that was needed in order to get the service pension was to send in the old certificates, if the soldier was already a pensioner, or to make proper affidavit of service if not.

“Mr. Cromer is now writing letterto all the soldiays who have benefitted by the increase, congratulating them on their success and endeavoring by the context of the letter to leave the impression that he secured for them their increase in pension, something entirely remote from the truth. A number of the letters have been received in this vicinity, it is said.” o THIS MIGHT BE TRIED HERE Marion Will Make Its Hoboes Work Out Fines. ■ nil

Today ■will witness the culmination Os a plan long cherished by £Ee city and county peace -officers. The new scheme is not expected to be popular, however, with the drunks, hoboes and loiterers, who are' in the habit of speeding a considerable portion of the)r .time in the county jail. All the petty offenders who are incarcerated in the jail from this time on - will be required to worjf during their periods of sentence. No more will the days following a sentence of $1 and costs be filled with luxurious easfe, but the weary Willies will be compelled to take up their spades and shovels and earns their beans by the sweat of their brows. The prisoners will be put in charge of a competent man and will be placed at work, which will be commenced today in rebuilding and strengthening

the levee. It is announced that the i ball and chain scheme will not be! used at first, but this method of re- j straint will be brought into use on' any of the men who show a disposition to escape. It is hinted that the bill of fare for the man who refuses to work will be limited to a very simple diet —Marion News-Tribune. o Jeff Klopfenstein’s new hotel at Preble is nearly completed and one more week and he will be ready to swing open his doors. Jeff is a. hustler

'ACTION IN SOME OTHER CASES ♦ Mary Clymer Is Refused a Divorce — Probate Business—A Marriage License la Issued. The case of Slxby A Grumme company of Portland, vs. Hirschey Bros, et al., of Berne, a suit in conversion, demand S3OO, is being tried before a jury in the circuit court today. The suit is to recover for a gas engine used in the oil fields. Synder A Smith of Portland and D. E. Smith are attorneys for the plaintiff and Frank Cottrell of Berne and Merryman & Sutton appear for the defend-, ants. Dyonis Schmitt, guardian of Peter Braun et al. vs. J*hn Braun, partition of real estate, default of defendants. Adam Diehl vs. Emma Diehl, to annul fraudulent marriage, defendant failed to appear and the prosecuting attorney was ruled to answer. George A. Bohrer Brewing Company vs. Harry Cordua et al., suit on bond, demand $650, affidavit filed for change of venue from court

Mary E. Clymer vs. Wilson E. Clymer, divorce refused, finding for defendant, judgment against plaintiff tor ‘costs. Rachael Felty vs. Charles F. Felty et al., partition, summons ordered returnable first day of April term for Frost Vorhees. A final report and assessment was filled by the drainage commissioners in the David Werling et al., petition for drain. Nancy Sheet's, guardian for Ruby V. Sheets et al., filed an inventory of personal property- which was approved. ' Henry Lankenau, guardan for Arnold Meier, et al., filed a current report. I. N. Veley, administrator de bonis Jon. for ibe V> ilium J, Colins estate was ordered to file final report. y A marriage license has been Issued to Martin F. Martz, aged fortyrto May L. "Lamar, aged thirty-five. Each lias been married before. The groom is an engineer and lives in this City. o NOT A CANDIDATE AGAIN

He Thinks the President Stands Today Where He Stood When He Made the Declaration. Washington, March 25. —That the third-term boomers are on the wrong track is the opinion of William Dud•jy Foulke of Richmond, Ind., who is here consulting with some of the ration’s leading statesmen. He spent me evening at the White House in an extended conference with the presi lent and last night he was a guest over night at the home of Attorney "leaeral Charles J. Bonaparate, in Bal ci more. He was seen today at the Cosmos club. ' There Is every reason to believe that he could have a good .osition under the administration, probably that of first assistant secretary of the Interior, if he would accept it, but he has no ambitions in <.hat direction. He will sail from New York Thursday with his daughter for Norway, where they will spend two or three months. When asked today what he thinks of the third term talk he said: “I have no authority whatever to speak and no definite .-knowledge, but I believe that the president stands today ex ; actly where he stood when* he made the statement that he would not be a candidate.” KJ JAMESTOWN IS NOT ON THE MAP

Some Facts of Interest Concerning First Town of United States. Many people are looking on the map to find where Jamestown, Va., is located. They will not find it on any map, for there is no town there. It was the first permanent settlement tn the United States, on an island in the James river, thirty-seven miles I northwest of Norfolk. It is the site ;of a Spanish settlement founded tn' ■ 1526, but was soon abandoned. The I Ixmdon company sent out a colony of gentlemen who landed there May 13th, 1607. and formed the oldest permanent English settlement in the United States. The colony grew slowly and suffered from disease and famine, I which prevailed until the settlers concluded to till the ground for a living instead of hunting for gold. It was burned during the Bacon rebellion in ‘6.6. The only relics of It are the towers of the church and a few tombs.

WILL GO TO ST LOUIS End of a Three-Cornered Spectacular Contest Among Religious Sects— The Mission Wins Out. Capt Mihm of the American Salvation Army, delivered his farewell sermon last night to a few of the faithful who gathered. Today the barracks were closed and the captain will go to St. Louis, where he wilt do city mission work. He was utterly disgusted with Decatur as a site for a barracks and said no effort will be made to continue a branch here. And so ends a rather sensational series of events in a religious warfare in which the Mission has driven from the field all competitors. About a years ago Capt. Mihm arrived here and began work. He opened a barracks, was Insistent, earnest and soon had quite an army. Prospects seemed bright until early winter when Rev. Hopkins, wife and daughter came to town and opened the Mission hall. For a time both seemed to be prospering, then the Booth army heard of the fertile fields here and also made a spectacular entry but gave up after a few weeks. Hopkins got crossways with his congregation and left suddenly and for a few days the Interest dwindled, Capt Mihm’s army picking up again, but another evangelist, a Mr. Roberts, appeared and soon revived the old-time spirit which since flourished. They are now holding street meetings and seem to have put both Salvation armies out of commission in Decatur. They gave up their quarters in the Morrison block, these rooms having been rented by the interurban company as a depot. Capt. Mihm made a good fight, even securing a visit here from the commander-in-chief, James Duffin and staff. Last Christmas he fed 125 families and during his stay here did many kind acts. We believe he is a Christian gentleman who will succeed in a large city like St Louis where there is a field for his work. o MIAMI CHIEF IS BURIED AGAIN The Famous Francis Now Sleeps in a New Grave. Huntington, Ind., March 26.—After two burials within sixty years, the bones of Francis -LaFontaine, great chief of the Miamis, were disinterred for the third time, and are now permanently at rest in Mt. Calvary, the Catholic burial ground north of this city. The bones of his three sons and a grand son, with their wives, were exhumed at the same time and all were buried in the same lot. Chief LaFontaine was one of the best known Indians of the early days in Indiana. The tribe had headquarters in Huntington and adjoining counties. On his return from the Kansas reservation, where he had accompanied his people in their removal to the government allotment, he was taken sick at Lafayette, where he had sheltered himself in an abandoned home. He died there, and was buried on what is now the St. Peter and Paul schoolyard, April 13, 1847. He was 38 years old, .and he weighed 360 pounds. Thirty years later his body was taken up for reburial in the old Catholic burying ground, and it was found to be partally petrified. Yesterday nothing was left save the massive bones. The removal of the dead chief and his family was caused by the abandonment of the old burying ground. Mrs. Archangel Engleman, the only living child of the dead chief, and who still lives in the old home place opposite Miami park, directed the removal of the bones.

JEWISH HOLIDAY NEXT FRIDAY The Day in Some Way Resemble* Protestant Easter. Friday, March 29, will be the first of the seven days devoted Jo the observance of Jewish feast of the Passover. Whls feast almost corresponds with the Christian feast of Easter and this year, being as Is Easter a movable feast, It comes on the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month Nisan, as early as It ever comes in the Jewish calendar, depending on the full moon. It will be remembered by all readers of the Scripture that Pharoah, the King of Egypt, commanded that all the first born be killed, and for that reason the Jews rejoiced that the angel of mercy had spared their offspring. This Injunction has been ordained for all time to come, but chiefly as an event of their liberation from the house of bondage was this Pesach feast ordained; it was subsequently celebrated also as a feast for spring--time and the blossoming of all fruit 'and trees, and it thus becomes a law -of the Jews, that from the 14th to the 21st day of Nisan (the Jewish month), the feast was to be celebrated, and that they were not permitted to eat any leavened bread; hence, the Jews, during all ages, prepared mat»o* ■’■- ■ • ’i&G fink

•OME TALK OF JIM ROBINSON Frank Braden Is Booming Durbin for i Governor—Geake May be a Congressman. It is discouraging news to William S. Wells of Fort Wayne to learn that Snator John Tyndall of Decatur, has a hankering to come back to the state senate for another four years, representing Allen and Adams counties jointly. Mr. Wells represented Allen in the house during the recent session and his ambitions are to capture the Democratic nomination so joint senator next year and sit on the other side of the state house for four years. It was understood all along that Senator Tyndall had had enough of it and would not seek renomination, but it is now reported by some of his friends that he is figuring on getting into the race again next year. Dr. John Visard who represented Adams in the house, also wants to get into f be senate. If n?ne of them are headed off there will be a three-cornered fight for the Democratic nomination next year. Wells would have the advantage in Allen county by reason of living there and having a wide acquaintance, but should there be a fight Adams county would give him the icy stare. There is going to be something doing in political circles in the Twelfth district within a very few months. “Jim” Robinson, the FL Wayne Democrat, who was laid on the shelf by the Republican landslide of 1904, after he had served eight years in congress, is about ready to take off his coat and announce that he is willing to go back to Washington and draw the $7,500 a year. When he does this the political fur .is certain to begin flying. The Republicans of the Twelfth would rather see the Democrats nominate any other man in the district than Robinson, because be campaigns twenty-four hours out of every day and does not rest on Sundays.

Frank Braden, the Portland editor and politician, appears to have gone into the political boom business. He is now booming ex-Governor Winfield T. Durbin’ of Anderson for the Republican gubernatorial nomination next year. Col. Durbin himself has given no intimation that he would accept a renomination and possibly he knows nothing of the efforts that Braden is making in his behalf. But Braden is booming him just the Same. “I would like to see Col. Durbin get into the race,” declared Braden. “I’m ready to take off my coat for him if he does.” William Fruechtenicht of Ft. Wayne who was one of the three Democratic representatives from Allen county in ths lower house of the last legislature, declares that he will not seek renomination. Asked for reason, he said: “I can’t afford to be a legislator. A man spends all his salary paying campaign assessments and his living expenses while in Indianapolis, and his losses are just what he would earn in the sixty days that he is away form his business. Not being blessed with riches I can’t afford that sort of thing.” o FRIGHTENED MANY ENGINEERS The White Signal May Be Changed Soon. To see a big white light loom up ahead of you, if you are an engineer and feel the cold chills run down your back and the hair rise on your head as you await the collision, and then to find out that it was only the white block of a signal light—that has been the experience of many a railroad engineer. Many an old engineer will tell you of the experience, and tell it graphically. It is a deception more apt to occur on misty nights, when the lights are hard to distinguish. It does not require imagination to make a white block signal, which means “go ahead,” look like a headlight, which means the shriek of the wreck whistle. This is the reason railroad men In general welcome a plan which is on foot to do away altogether with the r.hite block signal light. The change is being discussed by railroad officials over the country, and has been approved by the General Manager’s association. The present color code of signal lights consists of red, green and white. The new colors will be red for danger, ; yellow for caution and green for "go ahead.” — o — The American Bridge company has purchased 100 acres of. land from the big tract recently acquired by the United States Steel corporation at Gary, Ind., and will erect a big subsidiary plant there. This corporation has also assigned nearly 300 acres of land to another big steel company, the name of which is withheld, but it is believed to be the American Steel Car company, which will erect a plant at the steel city. Three electric interur; ban railroads have applied for franchises to run through Gary.

COMPLETED THIS MORNING Diehl Case Set for Trial for Next Friday—Some Probate Business Transacted. The evidence in the case of Slxby & Grumme company vs. Hirschey Bros., to recover payment for a sec-ond-hand engine, was concluded last evening and the arguments were heard this morning, an hour being allowed each side. Speeches were made- by Morryman & SuttonFWYU made by Merryman, Cottrell, Smith and Snyder, and the case went to the jury at a few minutes before eleven o’clock. Hooper & Lenhart have entered their appearance for Stump and Stump in the case of Bernard J. Kohn vs. Rosa Stump et al., suit to foreclose mortgage and demanding SSOO. Rule to answer. Adam Diehl vs. Emma Diehl, -to annul fraudulent marriage, answer filed by prosecuting attorney and case set for trial Friday, March 28th. E. Burt Lenhart, administrator of the Sydna Reed estate, filed a petition for an order to pay to Widower Reed $176.59 as part of the distributive share. So ordered. Junk dealers’ licenses have been Issued to Joseph DeWood for Berne and Geneva, and to Arnold Bros. & Mesel at Bryant. —o~ TWO OUT OF THE THREE GAMES I However, the Uncle Sam Boys Make ‘ a New High Score That Will Make the Boys Go Some. STANDING. Played. Won. Lost. Pct. Postoffice 55 39 16 .709 Elks ...... 35 19 16 .543 Klondykes 54 28 26 .518 Palace ...... ...41 18 23 .439 K. of C ..57 25 32 .439 The unexpected happened again last venlng when the Elks by some pretty fair bowling managed to take the. Postoffice team down the pike two out of three games and as a result the Postoffice boys are hanging onto the ragged edge of .700 and may soon be in the six hundred mark. The Postoffice team, however; bowled a magnificent game the first time, making the high team score and setting a pace that will be hard to beat. Their total was 932 and it was beauty. This effort, however, seemed to take the life out of the boys, as the Elks won the other two games easily and are now making great headway toward the top of the per cent column. The scores:

POSTOFFICE. Frisinger 215 143 226 195 Vaughnl92 136 150 159 Dorwln 189 120 156 155 Schafferl7B 197 149 175 Petersonlsß 203 160 173 T0ta15...932 799 841 ELKS. Petersonl77 164 147 163 Klein 182 190 211 194 Lankenaul4s 156 147 149 Mangold 117 174 190 160 France .165 136 174 158 Totals7B6 820 869 o— WHOSE SON WAS KIDNAPPED Pronounces Crime Worst of All Save One-Will Do All in Power of the Government. Washington, D. C.» March 23. —Dr. Marvin of Dover, Delaware, whose four-year-old son was kidnapped about two weeks ago, has appealed to President Roosevelt for assistance in the recovery of his child. The president today forwarded the following letter to Dr. Marvin: “I am in receipt of your telegram of 22nd inst. Any thing that the government can do to help you, will, of course, be done, for save only the crime of assault on women, there is none so dreadful as that which has brought heart breaking sororw to your household. It have at once communi- ' cated with the postoffice department asking that all aid we have in our or In any other way which may be practicable, be given you. "Sincerely yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” o L PORTLAND IS TRYING TO BOOM L. D. Price of Chicago, Trying to Liven Them Up. Portland, Ind., March z 6 —The committee named at the business men’s meeting last Friday evening, to submit a plan at a Yneeting on next Friday evening for booming the city, will hold a meeting on Thursday night, at which they will listen to L. D. Price of Chicago, a commercial evangelist who has been very successful in his line of work. Much Interest is being manifested here in the meeting next Friday evening, and the session at the council chamber promises to be well atU.d.d,

THE BIDDING WAS VERY CLOSE Old Adams County Bank Secure* Bond*. *a Fear Road* aad WUd A Co. on On*. County Treasurer John F. Lacot sold bonds, on five gravel ro&dh thia rtaornlng, the- Old Adams County Bank securing all but one road and losing that by only twelve cents. The i bidding between the bank and J. F. Wild who secured the one road was. the closest ever knewn here, being as close as six cents, while not a dollar was found between these two on any road. Charles C. Wedding & Co. and Breed & Harrison of Cincinnati, also bld on the bonds. The results were as follows: (Md Adama County Bank. Root & Preble No. 1, S4IBO, premium. $4.18; Brushwood College Nd. 2, $6,820, premium $6.82; Reiter & Buhlman $8540, premium $8.54; French Township $5560, premium $5.56. J. F. Wild & Co., Indianapolis, Root & Preble No. 2, $4,480, premium $5.00. These roads will be built this summer, the contract, having been let several weeks ago. — : o BERNE BOYS IN A RUNAWAY One Received Broken Leg—Others Were Bruised. Melville Brenner, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Brenner on Main street, had his right leg broken, just above the ankle, in a runaway accident Thursday afternoon. Young Brenner is a junior in the Berne hlght school and on account of the absence of SupL Kizer, Melville, in company with Albert Winteregg and Olive , Schug, went on a fishing trip to the Wabash river, near Linn Grove. The boys had a horse and buggy belonging to the injured boy’s father and everything moved along nicely until the boys were on their homeward journey near the M. R. E. cemetery, where they had halted for a few foments to pay a visit to the city of the dead. When they were about to start for town the horse made a short turn, throwing over the rig and ran with the buggy upside down. The boys were spilled out on the road and young Brenner Sustained the fracture. Young Schug escaped with a few bruises, and Winnie was more fortunate, being uninjured. The top of the rig was torn off and the outfit was otherwise damaged.—Berne News. — * o i ATTACK OF HEART TROUBLE Hon. U. B. Hunt Stricken Twice Yesterday.

Indianapolis, March 26. —Union B. Hunt, chairman of the Indiana railroad commission, and former secretary of state, was stricken with heart trouble yesterday afternoon at the state house and, although able to go home in a cab, was still suffering from the attack late last night. Shortly aftre he returned to his office from lunch he started a letter to a friend. While he was writing the letter his heart action suddenly increased. He grew weaker and perspired freely. Charles B. Riley and others about the office went to his assistance. - My., Hunt was carried to a couch and in a, short time apparently recovered. He arose and resumed his work. few minutes later he had a second attack more serious than the first one./ o — . SUNDAY WEDDING SOLEMIIIZED A Happy Event at the Horece Botthoff Home. / At high noon, March 24, at thi home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Bottbpff, occurred the marriage of their daughter, Mary L. Lamar to Mr. Manin F. Manz, of Decatur, in the presence of a large company of friends a d relatives, after which an elabo: ite six course dinner was served. Aft ir. April Ist, Mr. and Mrs. Martz wi be at home in their cottage on Indlaia street in this city. o TO ENLARGE RICHMOND HOSPITAL There will be considerate improvement made next fall at the eastern hospital for the Insane at Easthaven. At the last sessin of the legislature the sum of $77,8® was appropriated for improvement/ at the hospital and plans and prparations for these ar now bping made under the supervilon S. E. Smith, medical suptintendent of the hospital. In an interview Dr. Sirth statedthat the amount appropriated by the legislature Is not availabt; at the present time and that he fought the work of making the desird improvements would not start unfl next fall. The first work that wil be done will be the erection two large cottages each of which rill be able •to accommodate from frty to fifty patients. The erection f these two cottages is absolutely ekential, Dr. Smith stated, owing to lie fact that the present quarters foipatients are overcrowded is.