Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1907 — Page 1

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USES SARCASTIC LANGUAGE — >Calls Evelyn the “Angel Child” of the I Floradora Company and Says Its Nonsense. L * — New York, April 10. —It not; Suntil 11:40 that Jerome began his iargument in the Thaw case. He said: j“We seem to have been wandering jthrdugh a field of romance for two tdays.* No matter how fine the orator Iwe must not be swayed by what we idesire, but we must remember what the safety of the state and the safety of all of us demands. Such an 1mI portant issue in a man’s life cannot 4 be (etermined by biblical quotations; j this is no civil suit; it is not a quarrel between Stanford White’s executors ;and Harry Thaw; it is not a legal bat;tle to determine whether Stanford fWhite assaulted Evelyn Nesbit, but it is an issue between Harry Thaw and fthe state of New York.. We must deteide this case on the evidence. I will flproVe to you that in what he djd this ‘defendant disobeyed the law and he ,/must answer to the law for it.” Jerome /{then discussed the possible verdicts /and said: “Thaw is either guilty or pnot guilty. If not guilty it is because ’he was either insane or the act was •justified, but justified does not mean ■dementia Americana, but means self 'defense. When a man is setting calmjy looking at a play and is suddenly ■jshot down, no stretch of imagination, ■this side of the Mississippi could call |at self defense.” The district attorney then took a clap at Delmas by saying that injecting appeals to the jurors passions as Delmas had done is not considered professional on the Atlantic coast.* “As to dementia Americana,” said / Jerome, “does it wait three years and /glare at its enemy, then kill? Does this dementia Americana flaunt the woman for two long years through the Capitols of Europe and then kill? Dementia Americana never hides behind the skirts of a woman,never puts ■a woman on the stand to lay her shame to protect it. Jerome then gave the entire story of the murder. When he came down to the point in the narrative where Thaw approached -White, he picked up the . exact revolver from the table, advanced toward the court stenographer /and snapped the trigger three times. He then launched into a severe at- ‘ tack on Evelyn and incidentally he //{built up a defense of White which he could not offer in evidence. He sneered at Evelyn’s story of her ruin gby White and sarcastically referred Ito Evelyn as the “Angel child” and tore to pieces her whole story of her •wrongs at White’s hands. “White,” ».he said, “has been pictured as a brute, ■as a Doctor Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, as a ■ravisher of women; his life has been ■pictured as one round of sensuality. RFor such men the stimulus of recipSrocated passions is needed. We have no way to show or prove whether the *'■ story of White is true or not, as told hy this “Angel child.” What nonsense she of the Floradora chorus dragged . Into a den and drugged.” Jerome continued until late in the afternoon. / o MRS. ANDREW NIBLOCK DEAD ® { ’ 1 'Lived at Asosco, Michigan—Had Relatives Here, Mrs. Andrew Niblock, of Ososco, Mich., formerly a resident of this city, died Sunday evening at her home, death having been due to dropsy. She was past fifty years of age. The deceased will be remembered by Huntington friends as Miss Alice * Ity alloy. Her marriage to Andrew Ntblock occurred in this city many years ago. The Niblqck family have been residents of Michigan fifteen tyears or more. The remains will artive here Tuesday for burial, and —may be viewed at the Chas. Hammond on East Market street until the -hour of the funeral Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock. No services will be held at tlie Hammond home. The deceased was a sister-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Hammond. In the immediate family an adopted son survives. Also a brother, John Malloy, lives in Lima, Ohio, Richard resides at Wa.bash, Robert at Owosco, and a sister in Logansport.—Huntington Her- • : Mrs. Niblock was known here, being aa relative of Mrs. J. W. Place, the jMylotts and others. Several Decatur people attended the funeral. *o ‘/WELL KNOWN BANKER DEAD. A New York, April 10. —John H. Clews, Jof.the banking firm of Henry Clews & • Company, died today. ■O/', . ' r /- 3

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PRAISE FOR EVELYN THAW. Says She One of God's Most Noble Creatures—Attacks, Hummel Again. New York, April 9. —Attorney Delmas, for Harry Thaw, continued his argument, at this morning’s session, having said he would finish by the noon recess. District Attorney Jerome is suffering from a cold and said he would ask for a continuance until tomorrow morning. Habitues about the court house do not share Thaw’s optimism about the verdict They believe the jury is hopelessly divided, and that a new trial will be necessary. Delmas began his argument with “Gentlemen, I shall relieve the long suspense of many weeks and so far as the defense is concerned, shall place this case in your hands.” He then referred briefly to how he had shown the early life- of Evelyn, her meeting with White, her betrayal at his hands, her meeting with Thaw and how he had endeavored to analyse the evidence of Hummel. He again went into an attack upon Hummel’s testimony, referring to it as the only thing against Evelyn’s story. “May my eyes never see a high officer of the people,” declared Delmas, “stand here and upon the testimony of this convicted fellow, whom he examined, when proof of his perjury was open before him, ask twelve men to return a verdict that would make this young wife a widow. No actress, day after day, could have stood all the tricks known to lawyers to break down a witness, unless the story was true. I shall now try to depict the effect that story had on the mind of Harry Thaw. I shall prove it from his wife’s statements. She says: “He said that no right-minded person would blame me, that I was only a poor unfortunate girl, but in spite of what happened, he intended to marry me any way. I told him it was not right, because Stanford White’s friends knew of it and they would sneer at him. I wanted to marry him, but I loved him too much to let him make that sacrifice.” “It may be,” continued Delmas, that man canot rise to the heights of self sacrifice, and self abrogation, but thank God, the Creator has placed in the nobler, more tender breast of womanhood the power to rise to those heights.” *

Delmas then clinched his assertions that the story was true by reading from one of Thaw’s letters to Attorney Longfellow, the original of which is in the possession of Jerome, in which Thaw said that he proposed, but that the girl had turned him down, because “she didn’t want to drag me down.” In her little, noble heart this spirit of self sacrifice rose and she said: “Harry, I won’t drag you down. I can’t make you an object of pity at which the slow finger of scorn will point. I will be all a woman can be to you but I won’t pull you down, the moment you think it, I will go back to my sad, dreary life and you to your mother and siters, while I drop lower and lower until I disappear.” “That is all,” said Delmas. “She would not marry him because the world thus shut him out.” Delmas concluded this afternoon. o_ OFFICERS WERE ELECTED

E. Burt Lenhart is Consul—Degree Work to Be Exemplified Saturday Night. Modern Woodmen of America, Decatur Camp No. 9770, was organized at the K. of P. hall Tuesday evening by James Corsant, district deputy from Anderson, Indiana. The following officers were elected: Consul, E. Burt Lenhart; Adviser, James O. Ball; Banker, Eli Meyers;- Clerk, C. L. Walters; Escort, George Everett; Watchman, W. P. Briggs; Sentry, J. B. Stroud; Physicians, W. E. Smith and E. G. Coverdale; Managers, W. H. Fledderjohann, C C. Enos and Burt Mangold. The latter board elected for three, two and one year respectively. The officers were then installed and Instructed in their duties. A class of forty-four were elected to membership, after which Mr. Corsant made an excellent talk to. the members, telling them of the many good things about the order which by the way, is one of the largest in the worltl. The membership here includes many of the best known business men of the city and we predict a healthy future for the new order in Decatur. The lodge will meet Saturday night when the degree work will be exemplified by the Fort Wayne camp, and in the meantime a number of new members are expected to join the ranks.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 1907.

FIVE HUNDRED MINISTERS Report for First Roll Call—Bishop McDowell Arrives and Takes Charge. Logansport, Ind., April 10.—Bishop William T. McDowell, of Chicago, arrived today to preside over the session of the Northern Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference. The conference meets for the fifth time in the fifty-four years of its history in Logansport. Bishop McDowell comes here from Annapolis, Md., where he presided over the Baltimore conference. The morning session was devoted to the roll call of conference ministers, workers, leaders and members. The capacity of the city was tested today by the early arrivals. In the storm and snow and wind the Meth-odist-ministers and their wives had been conveyed to the places of entertainment in open street cars, the ordinary cars not being sufficient. The Market Street Methodist church was turned into a business office, with branch postoffices,telephone exchange, telegraph office, book stores and correspondence rooms installed. Five hundred ministers arrived today and were assigned to local homes. The appointment of various pastorates will be made just before adjournment next Monday. BIGGER THAN EVER THIS YEAR Speed Program Includes Three Great Days of Racing With $2,500 in Purses. The 1907 premium lists of the Great Northern Indiana agricultural fair are out announcing the dates August 27, 28, 29 and 30th. George Tricker, as president, and C. D. Kunkle, secretary, with a list of able and experienced directors and will again .have charge and we are promised the greatest of fairs. The premium lists this year contain sixtyeight pages of prizes andt purses offered for every known article and the speed program includes three days of good racing for which nearly $2,500 is offered in premiums. Secretary Kunkle greets the patrons of the fair with this announcement: The Great Northern Indiana Fair Association announce this the seventh annual exhibition, which we predict will outclass any previous one. We offer thousands of dollars in premiums, purses, and great care will be taken to place this money with the worthy ones. Our race track, new buildings, thousands of beautiful shade trees with gravel walks and drives winding among them, the lake with its numerous boats, the entire exhibition grounds (consisting of more than one hundred acres) are unsurpassed. Parents may feel safe in bringing or sending the young people to this exhibition, as no gambling in any form will be allowed, nor any intoxicating liquors to be sold. Decatur may be reached via. Grand Rapids & Indiana, Toledo, Saint Louis & Western, the Fort Wayne & Springfield Electric line, and the Erie Railroad, making it Very convenient both for the exhibitor and the visitor. The grounds and buildings are lighted by electricity. o — MONROE LADY IS DEAD Mrs. Brandybftrry Dies at Age of Seventy-Six. Mrs. Louisa Brandyberry, aged sev-enty-six years, and one of the oldest and best known women in Monroe township died at her home in the town of Monroe, Tuesday morning at seven o’clock, after an illness of several months, death resulting from organic heart trouble. The deceased had made her home in Monroe for years, and was loved and respected by all who knew her. The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at one o’clock at Monroe and interment will be made in the Ray cemetery. Elks at Bluffton are planning to erect a lodge home. Mrs. John Ault, living two miles east of Pleasant Mills, died Thursday evening, and was buried Sunday forenoon at Mt. Tabor cemetery. Her death was due to dropsy and other complications. Her illness was of several months duration. Relatives of this city attended the funeral.

BIG DAY THERE TOMORROW. Decatur Delegates to Attend the Session—Great Program Has Been Arranged. Hartford City, Ind., April 10. —The members of Otsego Tribe No. 310, Improved Order of Red Men, are making every possible preparation for the district meeting of the order which will be held in the opera house in this city this aftemon and night. Forty-five tribes of the redskins will be represeted at this meeting and from many of the tribes large delegations are preparing to come. The tribes are located at the following places: Union City, Yorktown, Albany, Montpelier, Winchester, Ridgeville, Eaton, Daleville, Cammack, Farmland, Bluffton, five tribes at Muncie, Keystone, two tribes at Marion, Millgrove, Gaston, Dunkirk, Baldwin, Gas City, Decatur, Parker, Barbers Mills, Windsor, Emporia, Selma, Royerton, Redktey, New Lisbon, Jonesboro, Progress, Fairmount, Matthews, Chesterfield, Warren, Hartford City, Monroeville, Dillman, Oakville, Rigdon and Balbec. There will be large delegations especially from Muncie, Union’City, Oakville and Yorktown. The teams of these last named tribes are on the program for the exemplification of the order. At 1:30 p. m. a special great council fire will be kindled by the great chiefs for the purpose of conferring the past sachem’s degree on all past sachems who are entitled to the same. No one but the great chiefs and past sachems are admitted to this session. At 2:30 p. m. the great chiefs will kindle a tribal council fire for the purpose of examplying the unwritten work of Adoption, Warriors’ and Chiefs’ degrees of the order. All chief degree members are urged to attend this session of the meeting. One of the special features of the district meeting will be the public parade which will take place from the opera house at 7 p. m. Degree work will commence at 8 p. m., and the degrees will be exerfiplified as follows:

The work in the Adoption degree will be the degree Team of York Tribe No. 63, of Yorktown, and Moccasin Tribe No. 390, of Oakville. The work in the Warrior’s degree will be given by the degree team of Mlssissinewa Tribe No. 62, of Union City. The work in the Chief’s degree will be given by the degree team of Keechawa Tribe No. 275. of Muncie. These fication of the degrees in which they are to do the work, and it will be quite a treat to all Red Men to witness these ceremonies. Otsego Tribe has been doing some hustling for pale faces for candidates on this occasion, and up to this time has twelve candidates for the Adoption, eighteen for the Warriors’, and twenty for the Chiefs. -... ■ FOR LOSS OF HIS PROPERTY. Files Suit Against Shoemaker and Anderson for Causing a Disastrous Fire. **~*~*" Peterson & Moran and C. J. Lutz are attorneys for Dariiel B. Ford, plaintiff in a suit filed against Smith Shoemaker and William Anderson in which $4,000 damages are demanded. The complaint says that on a certain day last fall the plaintiff owned 124 acres of land in Wabsah township on which was located a frame house and additions thereto valued at $2,400, and personal property amounting in value to SI,OOO. That about that time the defendant, Shoemaker,was engaged in the business of baling hay and was employed by Ford to bale a quantity of hay at the latter’s farm. He employed Anderson to help him and they accordingly moved their machinery to the Ford farm. They carelessly stopped too near the summer kitchen attached to the house and started a fire in th traction engine, using dry wood. Sparks from the engine set fire to said woodshed and the flames spread to the residence causing a complete loss of buildings and contents amounting to $3,400. It is alleged that the engine worked imperfectly and no spark arrestor was used, the engine emitting large coals and sparks of fire from the smoke stack, and thus causing the fire. The complaint is in two paragraphs, the first demanding $2,500 for the loss of the buildings and the second $1,500 for loss of personal property, a total of $4,000.

THE SENTIMENT GROWING. Recommends That Prisoners in the County Jail Be Worked on Streets or Stone Pile. Much has been said of the plan of working prisoners who are in county jails and now Aitaos W. Butler, secretary of the board of state charities, in an interview comes out squarely in favor of working the inmates on the stone pile, the streets, around the jail, the court house or other public buildings — anywhere, almost, just so they are worked some way. V “All over the state the sentiment is growing that the county jail prisoners should be employed in some form of useful, if not profitable labor,” said Mr. Butler. “From counties in every part of the state the' word comes that the sentiment of the people is gradually working around to the belief that the prisoners should be employed. In St. Joseph, Elkhart, Laporte, Vanderburg, Vigo, Wayne, Madison, Delaware, Grant, and Fayette, the jail officials have taken some steps looking to the employment of the prisoners. In some of these counties they are being worked in some way or other even now . “The stone pile is good; I would not object to working the prisoners on the streets; or around the public buildings in any city or town; anything that the work be useful to the public in some way.” o PROBATION OFFICER'S REPORT Filed by Henry Lankenau, Showing Condition of Affairs Regarding Unruly Children.

A marriage licence has been Issued to Franklin R. Johnson, a painter, and Belle Longacher, both of Decatur, and each aged thirty-seven years. This is the first Venture for the groom, but the bride has been married and divorced twice. Her maiden name was Belle Grim. A junk dealer license has been granted to B. Kaminsky to buy from house to house in Adams county. Henry Lankenau, probation officer for Adams county, has filed his biennial report for the period from October 15, 1906, to April 1, 1907. His list of delinquents include Jessie Watkins, Lawrence Biggs, Fred Chronister and Durbin Harb, all at home and all going to school, except Watkins, and obeying instructions. Watkins is at work. Margaret Moser and Frank Houston, incorrigibles, are at the county infirmary, and Warren Wilkenson is at Plainfield. Other boys who got off the track a little have been looked after by Mr. Lankenau and are behaving nicely. The probation officer says in closing his report to the court that he has patrolled the city at different times in the evening and has not found as many children ’on the streets as heretofore, after eight o’clock. Mr. Lankenau also filed his bill for the period from November 2, to April 8, calling for twenty days pay, a total of $57.00. WILL ASSIST MR. HOLTHOUSE. Some of the Best Talent in Decatur. Among those who will assist Mr. Holthouse at his recital are Miss Myrtle Beachler, who has just returned from the Richmond Conservatory of Music. She will render a sonata by Beethoven. Miss May Niblick, a pupil of the American Conservatory, of Chicago, will sing several grand solos. While the vocal abilities of Miss Clara Terveer, Messrs. Jess Emsberger, Hugh Hite and Louis Holthouse are worthy of and command our best praise. Do not miss his recital. Tickets are on sale at The HOlthouse Drug Co., 25c, to any part of the house. o “UNCLE RUBE” IS POSTPONED The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Christian church are extremely sorry, but owing to the illness of True Frlstoe they are forced to announce a postponement of “Uncle Rube” until Friday, April 19th. Tickets bearing date of April 12 will be honored at that time, and the board will open Thursday the 18th, at 8 a. m. Holders of tickets please take notice. The ladies are truly sorry, but under the circumstance hope that their friends will not be disappointed and they look forward to seeing them all attend “Uncle Rube” Friday, April 19th.

CtRCULATIOM 2800 WHKLY

■ LIFE LONG RESIDENT HERE ’ Born and Reared in Adams County and Had a Very Wide Acquaintance. • Mrs. Latilla Lenhart, one of the best I known women of our city, died Satur- . day afternoon at her home on Monroo ! street, after an illness of seven weeks i duration, death resulting from dropsy. • She was fifty years of age and was , born and raised in this county. She ' was the wife of ex-County Clerk John , H. Lenhart, now deceased, and for a i number of years past, had made her home on Monroe street. Although : she had been ill for some time, her many friends did not think she was in i such a serious condition, and all were shocked when her demise was ani nounced. She took a sudden turn for the worse last Wednesday and from : that time on her decline was rapid, i until death relieved her Saturday afi ternoon at three twenty o’clock. She , was a member of the Methodist church and was a devoted Christian and an earnest worker in its behalf. The fuenral services were held Monday afternoon at two o’clock at the chuch, Rev. John C. White officiating and interment was made in the Decatur cemetery. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. Millie Rice, who resides in the south, and two sons, E. Burt and Norman G., to mourn their loss. o OTHER SOCIETY NEWS ITEMS Surprise for Miss Harting—Miss Frances Dugan, Guest of Honor at Fort Wayne Party. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Hurst, corner of Monroe and Thirteenth streets, occurred the wedding of their beautiful daughter, Miss Fran ces to Mr. Albert Katterhenrlch, Saturday evening at 7 o’clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. John C. White, in the presence of the immediate relatives of the contracting parties. The ring service was used and was simple but very -impressive. Immediately following the ceremony, an elaborate dinner was served. Miss Frances was eighteen years of age, Saturday. She is a leader among the young people in society. Mr. Katterhenrich is employed by the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction company as bookkeeper. He is one of the popular young men of the city, and has lived here for over two years. He is certainly to be congratulated on winning one of Decatur’s fairest young ladles. They will be at home with her parents on Monroe and Thirteenth streets. ' » Miss Fayma Bradhaw entertained very Informally but most delightfully last evening for Miss Frances Dugan of Decatur, who is visiting Miss Elizabeth Porter. Four tables of pedro were played and the guests spent an unusually merry evening, at the close of which a delicious supper was served the players.—Sunday JournalGazette. o —- ■ MRS. KIRSCHNER IS DEAD Had Lived In Preble for Many Years— Well Known. Mrs. Pauline Kirschner, aged seventy years and one of the oldest and best known ladies of Preble township, died at her home in the town of Preble, Sunday afternoon at three o’clock, death being due to cancer and other ailments. She was born in Germany and came to this county when but a mere girl, her parents settling in this county and she had made her home here ever since. The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at one thirty o’clock at the Preble Lutheran church, Rev. Preuss officiating and interment will be made in the Preble Lutheran cemetery. She leaves four daughters and three sons to mourn their loss. 0 The funeral of Mrs. Pauline Kirschner was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Preble Lutheran church, Rev. Klausing of this city officiating. A large crowd was present to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased and Rev. Klausing protrayed the past life of the deceased in a beautiful manner. The remains were laid to rest in the family burial plot in the Preble Lutheran cemetery. o-————— E. B. Adams returned this morning from Flint, Mich., where he was visiting with relatives.

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