Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1907 — Page 1

ALL THE NEWS AU. THE TIME

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“THE FRONEFIELD DIVORCE CASE Decided Today—Divorce Granted— Cause Was in Court Only Five Days—Judge Erwin at Bluffton. Marriage licenses have been issued to Lewis S. Schilling, aged twentythree, a telegraph operator, and Dora M. Hower, aged twenty-two, both of Decatur; Verlow L. Ott, aged twentyone, of Boliver, Indiana, and Evelyn 2«JBtevens Brown, aged twenty-one, of r Decatur. The latter bri£e has been married once, having been divorced last September. Special Judge Lutz yesterday gave k gave his decision in the case of Malinda Fronefield vs. William Fronefield, suit for divorce and alimony. He rendered a finding and judgment that plaintiff be granted a divorce from the defendant, and that the plaintiff’s former name of Mallnda Zimmerman be restored. Judgment vs. plaintiff for costs. The alimony was settled ‘by agreement. This case was filed last Thursday morning and though there was more record than usual in making the issues in such a case, it was disposed of in five days, showing that the wheels of justice can grind | rapidly. Sheriff Butler Tuesday even- . Ing " arrested Theodore Hendricks, of Monroe township on a charge of petit larceny, the result of a grand Jury indictment returned last November. Hendricks is accused of purposely short! changing a neighbor at a public | sale held last fall, and the case, if it | comes to trial, will no doubt prove quite interesting. Hendricks gave bond for his appearance and was released. o SUFFERED FOR OVER A WEEK . Never Regained Consciousness After Paralytic Stroke—No Funeral ArI rangementa Made. L | ; Uncle “Billie” Burdg died Tuesday I noon at his home on Mercpr avenue I after suffering for a little . over a I week from a stroke of paralysis. Death ■ relieving .him at two o’clock. Mr. I Burdg was seized with the stroke that ■ eventually caused his death a little ■ over a week ago and from that time ■until his demise he never regained ■consciousness. He was one of the ■ oldest and best known citizens in ■Adams county and was always hailed ■by those who best knew him as “Uncle ■Jillie.” His entire family had been ■ummoned when he was first stricken ■nd were at his bedside when he died. ■No funeral arrangements have been ■made at this time, but will be an■iiounced later. ■L O—■recovers price of whiskey ■(Lawyer Moffett, of Hartford City,Wins K Out in Peculiar Demand. ■ E. D. Moffett, as attorney for a ■artford City man, has recovered the Brice of a part of a consignment of Mphiskey from the state laboratory ■which after making an examination of ■the whiskey found it to be a very bad ■article. The price paid was for the ■samples sent to the chemist to be ex■amined. The whiskey was purchased ■by a well known Hartford City man ■who read in an advertisement that so ■many bottles of the “pure article” ■would be sent upon receipt of so much ■money. The amount of whiskey of■fored was wholly out of proportion to ■the price, but it was suckers the firm ■was after and the Hartford City man ( ■bit. The whiskey was shipped and ■duly sampled. After consuming one ■bottle the purchaser became aware ■hat it was not palatable and the other were sent to the chemist. ■ The name of the pufwaser is not B)ublished on account of his church Bnembership. It may be said in truth ■owever, that he bought the consignBftent of whiskey wholly for medicinal ißbe. He believes there are many ills Mwiich can be reached effectively only Ilfc’Ae use of good whiskey. H®t is not necessary to say that the Manufacturers are not selling any B>re of the brand in Indiana. The Bangest thing about the whole busi||Bss is that the distillery which made ||Bb goods is in Kentucky, a state Biich was supposed to make no bad —Hartford City News. I o Iglßiarry O. Grove, of Linn Grove, was caller to our city today.

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TERRELL HAB NOT IMPROVED A Dispatch from Richmond Says He is Still Insane and no Evidence of Improvement. o A correspondent at Richmond sends oqt the following: It has been four years since John W. Terrell, of Bluffton, tried and convicted for the murder of his son-in-law, Melvin Wolfe, was declared insane and placed in the Easthaven Indiana hospital for the insane, west of this city. Terrel does not seem to have improved. He sits with bowe* head in his chair or walks feebly across the floor of his ward, never uttering a word except in response to a question, and then answering in a listless and generally unintelligent manner. The doctors do not think he is feigning insanity, despite the views of some people in Wells county who are trying to bring the murderer to trial again on a new indictment returned since his confinement in the hospital began. Dr. S. E. Smith, medical superintendent of the hospital, said yesterday that he had read in the newspapers that Judge R. K. Erwin, of Decatur, intended to pay a visit to Terrel in order that he might be better enabled to rule intelligently on points now pending in the case. Dr. Smith, however, has not been officially notified of the coming of Judge Erwin, nor has there ever been received any official communication from the court relative to the new indictment. Terrel stands in the same relation to the medical superintendent today that he did the first day he was received in the institution. He is convicted murderer none the less because of his being transferred to the hos- • pital for the Insane, and should his recovery take place he would be returned immediately to Bluffton to face trial oh the new indictment. The medical staff at the Eastern Indiana hispital was convinced of Terrel’s mental unsoundness almost as soon as he became an inmate five years ago. They are just as much convinced today as they then were. In fact Terrel’s condition practically has been unchanged, except for increased feebleness. His chances for liberty would be much better were he not an inmate of the hospital, but were confined in the Michigan City prison. o f FRONEFIELD DIVORCE CASE Tried this Morning Before Special Judge Liftz—No Decision Rendered —Bixler Divorce Case Set for Trial. A marriage license.was issued Saturday evening to' Jffliri Brothers, aged twenty-two, of Rivarre, and Ella V. Dibble, aged twenty, of this city. A junk dealer’s license has been issued to Samuel Wyatt of this city. Sammy also served notice that he would sometime this week file application for a marriage license, but he prefers that nothing be said about that just now. Merryman and Sutton are attorneys for Christian W. Boknecht in a new suit filed against William Cardua to collect on account of $525. John Zant has filed suit . against Albert Gage/to collect a note, demand |270. F. M.Cottrell, of Berne, appears as attorney for the plaintiff. In the case of Malinda Fronefield | vs. William Fronefield, the defendant* filed a motion for a change of judge, which was sustained and Hon. C. J. Lutz appointed. The evidence was heard Monday, bu(t no decision was rendered. Daniel B. Ford vs. Smith Shoemaker et al, appearance by D. E. Smith for defendants; ruled to answer. This is a |4,000 damage case. *- R. D. Patterson vs. Christina R. Niblick, admx., claim 187.50; amended claim filed; summons ordered returnable May 4th for Fred and Chalmar Schafer. Pearl Bixler vs. Peter Bixler, divorce; set for trial. Friday, May 2nd. Dyonis Schmidt, guardian, vs. John Braun; plaintiffs attorney allowed 125.00.

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DEATH CAME SUNDAY NIGHT W. 8. Johnson, Phom inent Lawyer and Citizen is Dead—Had Relatives Here. W. S. Johnson, one of Van Wert’s well known attorneys, died at his home on North Washington street Sunday night, of heart trouble. For some ten or fifteen days he had been ailing with the grip and had not been at his office. Friday he was feeling much better and was up in the city transacting business at his office and in the probate judge’s office, where he filed an account. Friday night he felt well enough, after the day’s work, to go to Convoy to attend a meeting of the Red Men’s lodge. He arrived home at about 12 o’clock and at once retired. He tr d scarcely done so when he had an attack with his heart A physician was called and after receiving treatment he rested easier until morning. Saturday he did not go to his office and seemed to be suffering no ill effects from tlhe attack of Friday evening. Sunday he made no complaints, and while he was in bed all day yet he ate a hearty dinner and a light supper. At about 8:30 in the evening it was seen that he was suffering from weakness of the heart, and about 10 o’clock death came. —Van Wert Times. Mr. Johnson is quite well known here and has numerous relatives in this county. oFURNITURE MAN UNDER ARREST To Test New Law in State of Washington. Chehalis, Wash., April 24. —For the purpose of making a test case of the recently enacted law, declaring that all employes must be paid in cash, H. B. Coffman, manager of the Chehalis Furniture Company is under arrest as an, individual and corporation for aleged violation of. the statute prohibiting the issue of time checks. The information was filed by Maurice Leghorn, prosecuting attorney of Lewis county after a conference with state labor commissioner Hubbard and assistant attorney-general Falkner. The court records show that corporation and manager appeared when Coffman answered to the charge before Judge Rice, and at the request of the defen- ► dants’ attorney were given further time in which £l plead. Mr. Falkner with the evidence in his hands he can convict corporation and manager, declaring that both will be fined. -————o FOUND RICH TIN ORE MINE Miner's Lucky Discovery in Old Lead —Silver Mine. Evergreen, Wash. April 24.—Miners working in open cuts in a lead-silver property near here, abandoned by Patrick Clark, of Greenwater fame, last fall, encountered tin ore, running from 10 to 40 per cent, the seam being 20 inches high and nearly 100 feet wide. Assays made by A. W. Stowell and Richard March show an average of 15 per cent and it is given out that more than $1,000,000 worth of commercial ore, similar to that found in Wales, is already in sight. As this is the first deposit of pay ore encountered upon the continent, outside Alaska, there is much activity among mining men and options are being taken upon lands in various parts of the district. Four men are interested in the find near Evergreen, as follows: Col. W. J. C. Wakefield, Charles Theis, Charles P. Robbins and Richard March. They will work the mine and install machinery for refracting the ore, and as they have the capital necessary, none of the stock will be placed upon the market.. The finders will claim the government reward for the finding of the deposit BOSTON LAWYER UNDER ARREST New York, N. Y., April 24. —It was hinted today that a Boston lawyer is, the high-up man connected with the Douglas thefts from the Merchantile Trust company. Dennett, a broker, was arrested in connection with the case, and was given a hearing this afternoon in police court. He declined to discuss the matter at this time. Douglass says there are others connected with the Trust company in the game and if they do not get him out of the fix he is in he will name them. o .8. S. Bartlett, of Huntington, was attending to insurance matters in our city today.

ALL KINDS OF FUN THERE Harry Sheridan of Frankfort Already Announced and Will Try to Land the Plaee. Making Jlberal allowance for > “moonshine” in the talk that is being . indulged in throughout the Ninth district touching the matter of the next Republican congressional convention, it must be admitted that there are : signa that point to an interesting and exciting contest, says the Kokomo Tribune. From nearly every quarter of' the district come reports of the 1 grooming of candidates. One story is tihft five of the eight counties already have aspirants. There are those who profess to bei lieve that the Republicans of the Ninth district will have a new standard hearer in 1908. They argue that the time is ripe for a change and that the party will see to it that a change 1 is made. Still others are hazarding ; a guess that Mr. Lahdis will not be a candidate for renomination for * congressman believing that long bei fore the congressional convention is ■ held he will have announced his can--1 didacy for his party’s nomination for * governor. Up to this time the only man who has unqualifiedly asserted his inteni tion of being a Candidate for the congressional nomination is Harry Sheridan, a prominent attorney and leading Republican of Frankfort. Mr. ■ Sheridan authorized his friends several weeks ago to let it be known that he would ask for the place. o ELWOOD BLAZER IS ACQUITTED Court Finds Him Not Guilty of Keeping Child from School. The case entitled State of Indiana vs. Elwood Blazer, wherein it was charged that Blazer failed to send his child to school, the child being at an age that the law demands the parents to sec that it is educated to some extent; at least, was tried before ’Squire Smith Monday night. J. C. Moran represented the defendant, while Henry B. Heller looked after the state’s interest, and the trial was hotly contested throughout. The defense, however, proved that the child had been sick, and jt was for that reason the child was detained from school. After due consideration the ’Squire rendered a verdict of acquittal, explaining that if the child was detained on account of sickness, which was proven by a number of witnesses, it would be impossible for him to convict the defendant. o BISMARK PICKED UP AGAIN. The Glass Eater .Released and ReArrested on Same Day. August Rauers, known as Bismark, a police character, was found by Police Sergeant Pappert and Patrolman Linker last evening lying in front of the Nichols & Wise saloon, on east Main street, with an ugly scalp wound on the back of his head. Dauers was badly dazed, either from liquor or thgj wound, but he quickly rallied when placed upon his feet and asserted that he had been slugged by the bartender in the saloon. Persons in the saloon, however, stated that there had been no trouble of any sort there, that Dauers had staggered into the place and had fallen against a three-cornered post and cut his head. Blood marks on the post seemed to indicate the truth of their story. Dauers was released from jail yesterday morning, after having served a sixty-day sentence for drunkenness. He immediately contracted a “jag” and went to police headquarters, where he was allowed to lie down for a time. Some time after 6 o’clock he left the station and it was shortly after that he was picked up.—Ft. , Wayne Journal-Gazette. , — o STATE PERPETUALLY ENJOINED , The Jeffersonville Reformatory Contracts no Good. 1 Indianapolis, Ind., April 24. —Judge ' Leathers of the superior court handed 1 down a decision this morning when i he perpetually epjoned the state of ' Indiana through the reformatory and 1 Its board managers from carrying out 1 the contract! for the manufacture of 1 chains by prison labor entered into 1 in 1905 with the Indiana chain works, < The decision involves the construction i of the law of 1901, which abolished the i contract labor system.

IS BEING ENFORCED HERE Such Cards Must be B .. Envelope- • ' Was V«t ' ■ Postmaster Frisinger requests us to again call the attention of our readers and patrons of the Decatur postoffice that the sending of tinsel postal cards through the mails without enclosing them in an envelope is a strict violation of law and same never reach their destination. Quite a number of tihese cards have already accumulated at the office here, and as usually only initials are signed, the attention of the writer cannot be called personally to the postal law, which must be strictly enforced. This law is only about two weeks old and followed the death of a Detroit postal clerk, who, while handling the mail, scratched his hand on one of these tinsel cards and died a few days afterward from the effects of blood poison. Please remember that when you send one of these cards to inclose it in an envelope or it will never reach its destination. o A VAST ARMY OF SHEEP. Ready for Shearing In the Yaklnia District. Spokane, Wash., April 24. —Three hundred thousand sheep, which will yield more than 2,000,000 pounds of wool, are ready for shearing in the Yakima district, southwest of Spokane. Shearing camps have been established in Yakima, Douglas, Chelan and Kittitas counties and the work of remov-* ing the wool is under way. Electricity is employed in one of the Kittitas Canyon camps, where 2,000 sheep are handled daily. One firm of ranchers oyns 75,000 animals and they are being grazed on 50,000 acres of deeded land and 24>000 acres leased from the state. The herders will start their flocks westward in a few days and if the favorable weather continues they will be sens into the summer ranges, going afterward to the Wenatchee mountains, wfifere they (will remain till late in October, returning to the winter range near Trinidad in December. o PROF. M.W. CUNNINGHAM COMING Will Give Entertainment at Baptist Church Friday Evening. Prof. M. W. Cunningham, of Cumberland, Md., humorous entertainer and master of his profession, will appear at the Baptist church in this city next Friday evening. He is one of the very best entertainers on the platform and deserves a packed house. His program for the evening will be as follows: Reading from Tennyson; Reading from Riley; The Obstructive Hat, . a humorous monologue of three characters; Their First Spat, a very laughable scene; Scene from David Copperfield, characters, Mr. Wlckfleld, David Copperfield, Miss Trotwood, Agnes Wickfield, Uriah Heep; Courtship Under Difficulties, determined lover is frequently

interrupted by passipg peddlers; Daisy Biflger and the Duke, humorous dialogue between Mr. and Mrs .Bulger; Pat Connor, a very pathetic story; April Fools, a very laughable monologue of two characters; Scene from Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, characters, Brutus, Mark Antony; Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Pike, a monologue of five characters, humorous and having a moral; She Didn’t Want Gas, garrulous woman tells dentist of all her friends’ experience with gas. Tickets, are on sale at Everett & Hites grocery. See Miss Ina Everett.. — o— The case of the Dean Fruit company vs. the Clover Leaf railroad company, asking S7OO damages for alleged losses due to negligence of railroad employes in handling a car of peaches over the line in 1902, will be brought up in the courts at St. Louis this week and employes at St. will attend as witnesses. The car was turned over to the company at Decatur and agent Miller at that city says that within two hours after the arrival of the car there on the G. R. & I. it was transferred and sent out and the agent at Frankfort claims ice was placed in the refrigerators at Frankfort. Employes of the railroad at St. Louis will testify that the fruit .company did not call for their shipment until two days after they were notified that the car was in the yards. —Frankfort Crescent I

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: RESULT OF PARALYTIC STROKE • Stricken Last Wednesday Afternoon and Never Regained Consciousness. Mrs. Lydia McKean, one of the best known ladies of our city and the wife of John W. McKan,died Monday even- . Ing nt their home on wut Monroe i street at eight o’clock after an Illness I I of just six days, death resulting from . appoplexy. Mrs. McKean, according • to the statement of her physician, was [ seized with a stroke of paralysis on last Wednesday afternoon about five , o’clock and immediately lapsed into unconsciousness from which she nevt er rallied. Although she had been [ ailing for some time prior to this, her I condition was not considered dangerous, and if anything, she had been . slowly Improving. However, Wednes- . day afternoon she was seized with [ this stroke and from that time on her [ demise was only a question of time, ! death relieving her last evening. Du-- . Ing the five days she never regained consciousness' and never rallied enough to recognize the fond ones who surrounded her bed. Mrs. McKean was a little past sixty-four years of age, having been bom in Allen county, > Ohio, in the year 1843, where she resided until she met and married John W. McKean and to this union were , bom ten children, seven of whom sur- [ vive her, they being all sons. The > funeral services were held Wednes- , day afternoon at two o’clock at the Beery church and interment was [ made in the Beery cemetery in the family burial plot. ■ Q- .. i X . WAS A POPULAR CITIZEN 1 —— ' i Wealthiest Man in Kirkland Township and Universally Lovod and Respected. ';is; The last sad rites over the remains of Henry Hilderbrand were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 oclock from the German Reformed church at Mayley, Rev. Snyder officiating. It wgs one of the largest funerals ever held in the county, one hundred and thirtyfive carriages forming the cortege, which left Hilderbrand house at two o’clock. The deceased was the wealthiest man in Kirkland township and was very popular all aver the county. Kind and generous, a splendid citizen and a noble man in every respect, he will be sadly missed. Besides a wife, he leaves three daughters, two sons, a half brother and a half sister, Mrs. Ernest Schlickman of this city. He was fifty-four years old and had been in rather poor health for many years, suffering from a nervous malady. About a year ago his youngest daughter died, since which time he has failed very rapidly, for the past six months his condition having been serious. A party of sixteen relatives and friends from Fort Wayne came down to attend the funeral and while here were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Schlickman. •■ *■ . ».'■*' O A SUDDEN RUSH OF BUSINESS Parties of Various Ages, Style and / Fortune Write Their Plights for Future Years.

Another rush in the marriage liI cense business was noticeable from the records at the clerks office Thursday morning, where five couples were made happy. The licenses issued were to Dr. James Q. Neptune, aged fortyeight and Celeste M. Kintz, aged eighteen, both of Decatur; Rlchison W. Buckmaster, carpenter, aged thirtynine, and Florence Rachael Beavers’, aged thirty-two, both of Decatur; Earl Adolphus Straub,telegraph operator, of Chicago, aged twenty-one and Sadie Sarah Limanstall, of Peterson, aged twenty-one; Edward F. Moser, traveling saleman, of Berne, aged twentysix and Chloe E. Watson, aged twentyfive, Berne; Isaac H. Arnold, aged fifty-two, a farmer from Blackford county, Indiana and Rhoda Rockwood, aged forty-four, of Geneva. The latter couple were married this morning at the clerks office here. Squire James H. Smith officiating. The'groom has been married twice before, his first wife dying in 1895, and his second in 1905. The bride has never married before.

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