Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 30 May 1907 — Page 1

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WAS KNOWN IN THIS CITY Tragic Death of Carey Farllng—His Uncle Thought he Was a Burglar I and Shot Him. | Carey Fading, a young man aged 17 years, son of Amos Farllng, of York township, died yesterday about II o’clock from wounds inflicted by his uncle, George Morrison. It appears that young Farling had been working for Mr. Morrison on his farm about five miles southeast of this city, on the Van Wert and Jennings road. Sunday evening Mr. Morrison and his wife attended church/ returning home about 9 o’clock. The story goes that Mr. Morrison had been missing meat from his smoke house and as the couple returned from church they became impressed with suspicions that some person was lurking about the premises with the tntehtion of further depleting their meat supply. An investigation was determined upon and securing a shot gun they started in the direction of the barn. The form of a person soon came into view and believing that he ’was a meat thief, Mrs. Morrison called upon her husband to shoot. Acting on the impulse of the moment, he fired the gun in the direction of the form in the distance, intending to alm so low that no serious results would follow. Unfortunately the shots entered a vital portion of young Farllng’s body, about thirty of thfj shot entering his abdomen and his hip. The Victim fell to the ground and soon became unconscious. When the awful been discovered, that instead of firing upon a thief their nephew had been stricken down, everything was done to aid in his recovery. The young jnan remained’ in an unconscious condition until yesterday morning, i when he rallied, and in the presence I of Drs. Files and Ellis, of this city, / who had been called to attend him, Like made a statement exonerating his ’Aincle from any intentional wrong ’ and blaming himself for not letting them know who he was, as he saw his uncle with the gun before he fired the shot.—Van Wert Times. , o AT DR. AMOS REUSSER’S HOME

Family Numbers Five Thousand Peopie Scattered All Over the World —Date is Jurle 6th. The announcements have just been . issued for the Steiner reunion which ’ Will this year be held at the home of Lpr. - Amos Reusser, at Berne, Adams ■Mbunty. This is one of the biggest asIgfeirs scheduled for the summer in the Jhvay of a family gathering and will be worth going miles to see. The Steiner family numbers about five thousand souls, and the members are scattered all over the United States, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. It is expected that a conservative estimate of the number that will be present June 6th is 2,000. This reunion is the fourth one since the idea of having a big meeting each year aas started. One of the people interested in the suocess of the meeting stated this morning that three or four hundred lived in Indiana and a large number in Adams and Wells counties, Adams cpunty having the most. They will /ive a monster picnic dinner and one of the features of the day will be a collection of ancient Bibles. Some of the Bibles that have descended from generation to generation are rare indeed. A family tree wilt show just how* each member is related to every Sther member and the Steiners will I have one of the greatest times of their life. —Bluffton Banner. I —oFather Heidelang, the Roman Cath!*olic priest at Celina, has refused to I receive women wearing “peek-a-boo” j waists at holy communion. He. will j not even tolerate short sleeves. This ;Hias raised the wrath of his fair par- ! ishioners, but the priest has stuck to his decision, and declares that onl£ women modestly and properly attired will be allowed to approach the Lord's .._Supper in his church. He maintains he will carry out this order to the letter, even if all the woman in his congregation are excommunicated thereby. The women are loud in their protestations, but are yielding, and will obey the Imperative decree.

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TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL SATURDAY Report of His Death Proved Untrue Though His Condition was Critical for a Time. A rippld of excitement was caused Saturday evening when the report became circulated about the streets that Samuel Laman, senior member of the Laman & Lee hardware firm and one of the best known business men in this city had died very suddenly at his home, corner of Madison and Fourth streets. The report proved untrue, we are glad to say, though for an hour or two he was so near the portals that it was almost impossible to say whether life exist* ed or not. However, he is greatly improved today, is out of danger, and will be able to resume his business duties within a few days. Mr. Laman had worked at the store all day Saturday, eat a hearty supper and was out on the porch of his residence, just starting back to the store when he suffered a severe attack of gravel, a painful and acute kidney ailment. Physicians were summoned and administrated the usual remedies given in such cases to aleviate the terrible About eight o’clock he had a sinking spell and a few moments later it was feared he had ceased to breath but the physicians continued to work with him, finally reviving the heart action and placing him practically out of danger. He regained consciousness Sunday and is today reported much better. His recovery is welcome news to the many friends who were so shocked at the first report.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF EQUITY Object of Session is to Adopt a System for Marketing Their Grain Crops. J. A. Everett, of Indianapolis, who invented the American Society of Equity, supposedly composed of grain growers all over the country, has called a national convention of grain growers at Omaha, June 5, 6 and 7. The objects of the convention seem to be praiseworthy if'they are feasible, but they will not appeal to the gamblers on the Chicago board of trade, who derive their wealth from the conditions which it is the aim of the society to correct. It is proposed to adopt a system of marketing grain crops that will insure a steady supply going to market, equitable and profitable prices for the farmer and free the country from the evils of speculation. It is the Intention of the society to prosecute and extend the pledging campaign for 1907 crops so that grain may be released only as the needs of the market require; to provide for the storage of grain until such time as it can be released at a profit; to provide for financing the crops so that poor farmers may obtain advances while holding their grain; to direct the marketing so that the fair prices agreed upon may be obtained; to secure fair and equitable transportation; to decide upon commissions to be paid by handlers; to market more directly to mills and foreign countries and guarantee them grain free from adulteration and manipulation. If these objects can beo btained by the methods of the American Society of Equity at the Omaha convention, it will be the most important meeting of farmers ever held. o— — — . . HARRY HAY TAKES A BRIDE. Former Member of Decatur Ball Team Is Married. Harry Hay, the “boy wonder” pitcher of the Dunkirk ball team and Miss Bertha Jones, of Dunkirk, were united in marriage Tuesday forenoon at the county clerk’s office by Justice Lewis. Hay has won a home in Dunkirk by his success on the ball diamond. Mrs. Hay is well known at the Crown City and the newly wedded couple will start the long game of life with well wishes of a host of friends and enthusiastic base ball fans, not oniy at Dunkirk, but all adjoining towns. —Portland Commercial Review. Hay was a member of the Decatur team several months last year, and is well known in Deca.tur.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 30, 1907.

NOTE AND CONTRACT SUIT FILED An Old Case Dismissed—Will of Fred Christianer ‘ Probated —Other Probate Business. A divorce case,Henrietta Waters vs. Wilson G. Waters, was heard Monday morning, Judge Erwin granting the plaintiff a decree, S3OO alimony and five dollars per month for the support of the children, payment to begin June 15th. Defendant was ordered to pay the costs. The custody of the children was given the plaintiff. Delilah J. Butler vs. Margareth and Henry Mayer, trespass, plaintiff ruled to answer the cross complaint within five days. Cottrell and Beatty are lawyers for the plaintiff in a new case filed in circuit court, entitled, William Fleetwood vs. John C. Swartz, on notes and contract, demand $625. In the William Glendening et al petition for a drain, proof of service of notice was filed and the cause ordered docketed. Deputy United States District Attorney J. J. M. LaFollette, of Indianapolis, was here Monday attending to business in the court room. The case of William R. Wheat vs. Jesse J. M. LaFollette and Oscar H. Adair, brought here from Jay county, March 11, 1889, over eight years ago, was dismissed Monday morning at the costs of defendant LaFollette. This was next to the oldest case on the docket. It was tried once and a new trial granted, but the parties never got ready again. The last will and testament of Fred W. Christianer was probated, providing for the payment of debts and bequeathing to his wife Christine, all of his real estate, consisting of eighty acres in Root township, also all of his personal property, consisting ot stock and farming implements.. The will was written April 11th of this year and witnessed by A. H. Hener and Henry Lankenau. Henry H. Hart filed his final report as administrator of the Elizabeth Hart estate and was discharged. Frederick Liddy, admr. of the Levi Schnapp estate, filed final report, which was allowed and the administrator discharged. Wilhelmina Holthouse was discharged as administratrix of the estate of Roman J. Holthouse, her final report being filed, examined and allowed. L. G. Botkins, executor of the Sarah Botkins Will, filed his final report and was discharged. — o—— HIS FATHER DIED SUNDAY Young Man Taken In by Officers Here Sunday Claimed by His Relatives. Austin Wilson, the man who was arrested Monday by Marshal Green and against whom a charge of loitering had been made, so as to hold him until further information could be ascertained concerning him, was taken back to his home at Montpelier Monday by relatives, who came to this city for the purpose of locating the young man. That the young man is demented was fully explained by his relatives, who state that he wandered from his home several days ago and that they were at a loss to know where he had gone and had searched every place for him. His father, who was sick at the time, he left home, died Sunday afternoon, and was buried Tuesday afternoon, the young man being taken back home to attend the funeral. He hardly recognized his relatives who came after him, and stated that he did care to return to Montpelier. However, with a little persuasion, he was talked into going and they left last evening on *the nine o’clock ClOVer Leaf train. His relatives expect to place him to a sanitarium for treatment o ■ Miss Maggie Hanltn, of east Votaw street, went to Decatur - Tuesday morning where she will remain several days doing some canvassing.— Portland Review.

SPECIAL SERVICES AT BRIDGE

Former Custom of Marching to the -Cemetery will not be Carried Out this Year. Members of the San Henry Post G. A. R. and the W. R. C. have practically completed arrangements for the Decoration Day services for Thursday. More than the usual interest is being manifested and the occasion promises to be a most fitting one. As announced previously the G. A. R. post will march to the old cemetery during the morning and the graves of the veterans who sleep at Maplewood, St. Joseph ond other cemeteries will be strewn with flowers this work being in the hands of special committees. Contrary to former years, the soldiers and their friends will not march to the Decatur cemetery. Instead, special services will be held at the river bridge. The address of the day by Rev. Kissinger, and a suitable musical program will be held at the court house at one o’clock. Promptly at three o’clock a procession will be formed including the soldiers, W. R. C., Sons of Veterans, lodges and fraternal orders and school children. They will report to D. K. Shackley, officer of the day, who will form the line on Third street, the right resting on Jefferson street, marching east on Jefferson street to Second, thence north to Monroe street and east to the river bridge, where further services will be conducted in charge of the Women’s Relief Corps. Here the children will strew their flowers upn the waters of the St. Marys in memory to the soldiers of the navy. The procession will then .continue through the bridge, east, countermarch west to Fourth street, thence south to Jefferson and there disband. Children from the public and parochial schools and a number of lodges will participate. * ■ . -o AFTER AN EXCITING CAMPAIGN

Vote was Close, the Majority Being Twelve—Decision Good for Another Two Years. For two years more the thirsty Willshire! tes who care to look upon the wine when it is j?ed or flip the collar off a schooner of beer, will have to go elsewhere to do it. The election Monday proved another victory for the “drys,” the total vote being 75 to 63, a majority of twelve. Two ‘years ago the “wets” were defeated nearly two to one and the three or four saloons were closed. To secure another electidn it was necessary to wait two years and then present a petition signed by forty per cent of the voting population of the town. This was done so easily that the “wets” expected to win out without much trouble and the verdict of the ballot boxes came as a surprise. Peter Shaffer, it is understood, had already purchased a stock of goods, and expected to be operating a saloon within a few days, but now his hopes have been dashed away for another two years. Considerable interest was manifested in the campaign, and the vote was equal to that of a national campaign. The vote rather shows a gain In favor of the saloons and at the same rate the “wets” will assume control easily in another two years, but that’s a good ways off and the statements not given as a prediction. ■■ -o George Eppert, of Ft. Wayne, was a business visitor in the city today. Owing to the fact that Thursday is Decoration Day, the interurban people will not run their freight car between this city and Ft. Wayne and no freight will be received at Ft. Wayne on that day. Freight, however, will be received in this citj and stored in the freight house, but will not be moved until Friday. This is a custom established by all railway lines and the local line will fall into the same rut. C. N. Christen, E. X. Ehinger, H. J. Yager, Dr. Costello, Dyonls Schmitt, Ben Smith, Dan Niblick, Dr. D. D. Clark and C. J. Voglewede will leave this evening for Indianapolis, where on the morrow they will receive the fourth and last degree work in the Knights of Columbus lodge. This is the only place in the state that this work can be received, and when this is over they have reached the pinnacle in this order. The boys are going well prepared for the work as they expect it to be the limit.

AFTER YEARS ILLNESS Slept Away Peacefully and Without a Struggle—President and Vice- / President to Attend Funeral. Mrs. McKinley, the long suffering widow of the martyred president, William McKinley, died at 1:05 o’clock Sunday afternoon. The end came peacefully and without a struggle, the transition from this to the other life coming so gradually that the worlds best physicians could scarce tell exactly when the last moment arrived. The beloved woman never regained consciousness after the severe stroke Thursday, and never knew the effort made to save her life. At her bedside when the end came were Secretary Cortelyou, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Barber, Mrs. Duncan, Mrs. Luther Day, Justice and Mrs. Wiliam R. Day, Drs. Portman and Rixey and the nurses. It was announced tonight that President Roosevelt and Secretary Loeb will arrive in Canton Wednesday morning to attend the funeral services. Vice President Fairbanks, who had often been a house guest of the McKinleys, is expected to reach here in time to attend the funeral service. The body of Mrs. McKinley will be placed in the vault in West Lawn cemetery, which holds the remains of her husband, until the completion of the national mausoleum on Monument Hill when both caskets will be transferred to receptacles in that tomb. Ida Saxton McKinley was born in Canton June 8, 1847. She was married to Mr. McKinley January 25, 1871. In 1877, after the death of her mother, and her two baby daughters, Mrs. McKinley, broken hearted, broke down and for thirty years remained an invalid, even the brilliant political success of her husband failing to restore her to the health lost by the sorrows which came to her during her early married life. Mrs. McKinley was universally loved and admired and the announcement of her death has caused grief over every state in the Union.

CITY CAN FIX THE BOUNDARIES The Decision Also Declares That the Saloon Business is Lawful, Except as Declared Unlawful by State. Indianapolis, May 28. —The supreme court today held that a city ordinance, not only forbidding saloons outside of the business part of the city, but also defining the boundaries of the business part, so as to include only a few squares surrounding the court house and the place where most of the business is done, is valid. It held that the only ground on which such an ordinance can be successfully attacked is that the city has been guilty of an unreasonable abuse of its power and discretion in declaring such boundaries. It also declared that a state may authorize saloons to be licensed, and that the saloon business is lawful, except as declared unlawful by the state. A judgment in favor of John W. Thompson, in a prosecution against him for violation of a city ordinance of Greencastle, by keeping a saloon near the Big Four station, was reversed and anew trial ordered. The ordinance fixed the boundaries of the business parts of town as Columbia street on the north, Market steet on the west, Walnut street on the south and College avenue on the east, and Thompson’s saloon was four squares north of Columbia street. It was surrbunded by two railway stations, 'a beer depot, an oil storage tank, a livery stable, a poultry house and a restaurant, respectively, on different sides, and the nearest residence was 300 feet away 1 . o WILLAUCTION BURT HOUBE LOTS Link Brothers Announce Sale for June 22nd. A letter from R. M. Link, a member of the firm of Link Brothers, of Paris, Illionis, is authority for the statement that on June 22nd they will offer at public auction in this city the Burt House lots on Monroe street. The ground will be sold in three separate lots, each 66 feet wide by 120 feet long and they will go to the highest and best bidder. The lots are admirably located for business houses, and will no doubt cause some -spirited bidding. The present owners contemplated the erection of a handsome three-story block, but seem to have given up that idea and will convert the lots into ready cash.

CIRCULATION 2800 WEEKLY

AT THE METHODIST CHURCH Dr. Wilcox Gave a Pleasing Address to the Graduates Sunday Evening. Before an audience that packed the M. E. church and auditorium, Dr. Wilcox, the newly installed minister, delivered the baccalaureate address to the graduates of the Decatur high school, Sunday evening. The graduates numbering five and who were as follows: Winifred Johnson, Fannie Frysinger, Leona Winans, Harry Dibble, Walter Baltzell, marched down the isle to the strains of a march, played by Mrs. Ella Bell, followed by the teachers and school, and were ushered by representatives of Decatur high school to seats beautifully decorated with the colors of the outgoing class and school. The services were opened with prayer by Rev. Fowler, which was followed by music, especially prepared for this event. The subject for the evening was “Philosophy of Life,” upon which Dr. Wilcox delivered an impressive address. He spoke at length concerning how the students should prepare themselves for the battle of life. And to do this he advised them to always live in favor before the eyes of their Maker and to follow in every respect the golden rule as laid down in the scripture. His address was clear and every word uttered could be distinctly heard in every portion of the mammoth church. His address was one of the strongest ever delivered to a graduating class in our city. Dr. Wilcox was the recipient of many congratulations from his hearers and the class proper. Following the address another selection of music was rendered after which the audience was dismissed with the benediction by Rev. Kessinger, of the United Brethren church. "Y" — O * 1 ■ ’ IMPORTANT SESSION REBEKAHS "W

To Be Held Tuesday Night—Dr. Wilcox Delivered Address to the Heroes of Sixty-One. By Pearl Burdg. The Misses Mabie Erwin, Mary Miller and Mryle Beachler gave a miscellaneous shower for Miss Catherine Simcoke, who will become the bride of Mr. Walter Kauffman on Wednesday evening. It was given at the home of the former on Saturday evening to a large party of girl friends, and was truly a spring party for everything was carried out in purple and white. Large bowls of wild violets, arranged in shapes of pretty figures, lent attractiveness to the different rooms of the home. During the evening the hostesses had planned a fishing pond and when each guest fished they would receive an article that once upon a time belonged to Miss Simcoke also progressive games were played and Mrs. Josephine Edwards received a beautiful bouquet of pink and white carnations, and at the conclusion a two-course luncheon was served on small tables in the dining room. Miss Simcocke received many useful presents. The guests numbered twenty. Sunday morning about sixty-five old soldiers from the city and country marched in a body to the M. E. church, where Dr. Wilcox delivered a special sermon to these men. The morning services were opened with music? following was the morning prayer by Rev. Daniels. Mr. Wilcox’s subject being The Voices of the Dead. Every statement he made was an excellent thought and not only the soldiers appreciated the sermon, but all of the remaining congregation who were present. o ■ — — The Decatur high school base ball team will leave Saturday morning for Portland, where they will indulge in a battle with the Sluggers of that city. The local team defeated the Sluggers here some time ago and at this time defeated them by a score of | ve to two in a pretty contest and thi boys are confident of turning the \trick again. A small crowd of rooters will accompany the team and will endeavor to help them win the game by earnest rooting. * Leo Miller returned this morning from Huntington, where he has been working at the barber trade. He will go to Kendallville Friday, where he has aslmilar position.

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