Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1907 — Page 2

Ben Mclntosh, of Monroeville, was a pleasant caller in our city today, and while here paid our office a visit and renewed his subscription to the Daily Democrat Macn is a good, whole souled fellow and is always welcomed to our midst. He is one of the best boosters of the little plcae in which he is located. County Auditor C. D. Lewton was the guest of County Auditor Lindemuth, and other friends, at the court house Tuesday. Mr. Lewton is the present auditor at Decatur and one of the young democratic leaders of northeastern Indiana. Personally, he is a man of fine personality.—Ft Wayne Journal-Gazette. Ben Mclntosh, of Monroeville, was a business caller to our city today. Ben is looking our city over with the view of going into business. We add right here that Mr. Mclntosh should look no further, as we have the best city on earth. He will return again next week and will then fully know what he expects to do. Art Hamilton, 35 years old, was killed by a Clover Leaf freight train at Coffeen. The accident occurred at a very late hour and the remains were found at an early hour yesterday morning. Hamilton, who was a farmer, was walking home and chose the Clover Leaf tracks as short cut. He was well and widely known in that section of the country.—Frankfort Crescent. A new rule put into effect on the Union Traction lines last week, makes round trip tickets good for two persons traveling one way as well as one person traveling both vjays. In many cases this means a reduction of fare. For instance the single trip is 75 cents and the round trip is $1.40, two people can now travel the one way for 70 cents each. This rule does not apply to interline tickets, but to Union Traction line fares only. Wesley Brumbaugh, freight conductor on the Erie railroad, escaped from serious injury at Sterling Sunday afternoon. One of the stakes holding some lumber fell down on the crew. Mr. Brumbaugh was pinned under a pile of lumber, while the other members of the crew escaped uninjured. Both legs were bruised, but no bones were broken. He will be laid up for a few weeks by the accident. —Huntington Herald. Monday Rev. Jas. A. Sprague received a message apprising him of the serious illness of his mother at their home in Osceola. He at once left for her bedside. ■ The mother has had two operations for cancers, one last fall and one this spring; in spite of this, however, others have broken out and one on the neck is obstructing her breathing. That her death is imminent is apparent. Meantime, all hearts go out in sympathy to Rev. Sprague In his Borrw—Markle Journal. The chief justice /of t the United States is incased in a legal armor which makes him almost invulnerable to political attacks, and when he takes his seat he is reasonably sure that it will be for life, as nothing short of misdemeanor or trason can make him lose it. Hence this office has long been called “The heaven of legal ambition” and has given rise to the phrase, “I would rather be chief justice of the United States supreme court than president of the United States.” Mrs. C. C. Myers, of Hartford City, who is a guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Cugill, of west Main Street, went to Dedatur Friday to visit over night with her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eliabeth Myers, returning here to remain over Sunday. Mr. Myers will join his wife here Sunday, the two expecting to leave Tuesday for Robinson, Illinois, where he has a position in the oil fields—Portland Review. A newspaper man is an enemy to bulletin board advertising on principle, but there are occasions when bulletin board may bring better results than a paper. The editor for an exchange remarks that he observed one in front of a store in this city not long ago, which read, “B 4 U Buy Pants Come In and See Ours.” He went in, and there was not a confounded man clerk in the store (they were all female), so he bought a fan and walked out.

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Indianapolis will be the Mecca for the Catholic societies in the United States July 14 to 17. It is announced that everything is now complete tor the sixth national convention of the American Federation of Catholic societies, which will open in the presence of high church dignitaries at St Peter’s and St Paul’s cathedral Sunday, July 14. Besides the regular representatives there will be in attendance two Indian chiefs from South Dakota, who will represent 10,000 Catholic Indians. The chiefs will be accompanied by a missionary. Bryant’s Fourth of July celebration was attended with a number of very serious accidents, the most serious of which are told in the Independent in the following summary: David Ferris, eye blown out, nose torn off and face mangled badly. Peter Bonifas, hand mangled and finger torn off. Samuel Clase, hand lacerated and burned. Arthur Rogers, injuries similar to Mr. Clase’s. From the foregoing, we would judge that the Bryant celebration was a pronounced success. —Geneva Herald. While working under a car at the Erie this morning Andy Kauff met with an accident which will no doubt cause his to lose the use of his left arm. He was engaged with the pipes under one of the large furniture cars when the switch engine kicked some cars down on the same track. Mr. Kauff was in the act of getting out from under the car and had his left hand on the rail when the wheel passed over his hand and a portion of his forearm. He was fortunate enough to remove his arm before the other wheels came in contact with it. —Huntington Democrat. Kosciusko county farmers who have been disappointed by reason of the lateness of their com planting, have hit upon the idea of sowing buckwheat in its place and from indications the plan will work out admirably. The plan has been tried with gret success in the southern portions of Michigan. The buckwheat usually yields well and ther eis god money in it. The season is not too late and those who follow the example of those who are trying it will yet have time. The wheat matures in October. This is the eleventh day of July and not a single acre of wheat cut in Jay county. The binders will not be started before the last of the week and the chances are that the bulk of the crop will not be cut and in shock before next week. Wheat harvest this year is from ten days to two weeks behind time. One farmer who has resided in Jay county all his life, said he did not remember a year when wheat harvest was so tardy. Usually July 4th finds much of the wheat in shock. —Portland Sun. It will be the original ‘g ad hand”* that the Elks of Indianapolis will extend to the Elks of Indiana when they stop in that city on July 13, to be entertained for a short time before the departure of the Indiana Elks special train that will bear the lodge men to Philadelphia. A great ciond of members of the B. P. O E. are expected to arrive in the city on Saturday, and they will be entertained until 71:45 Saturday evening—-the time for the train to leave over the Pennsylvania line—by the reunion committee of lodge No. 13. In the event that the Logansport Presbytery dissolves the relations of the church and Rev. Bigler, who has asked to be released, it is said that the congregation of the church will have an official meeting and decide whether they will protest against such action of the Presbytery or concur therein. It is understood that the majority of the members of the church favor sending delegates to the Presbytery with the request that the body refuse to release the minister in which event Rev. Bigler will give up the management of his farms and devote all his time to the church work. The recent heavy rains have caught most farmers in a pinch. Owing to the fact that most hay has been cut only a day or so the rain did little damage as it had not yet dried. Otherwise it would probably have been ruined. Farmers are. now hoping that the weather will be fair for a week or two at least. Wheat harvest has started and fair hot weather is needed until the grain is all in the shock. A few heavy rains or hard winds now while the wheat is ripe would knock it down so that it would almost be impossible to cut all the grain. Shortly after noon today the management received a telephone call from Gills, who was injured in the morning game with Decatur on the Fourth and forced to return to his home at Hartford City until he recovered. He said that he was not able to join the team again and was just then starting for the car that would get him into this city at one o clock. When the car arrived here there was no Gillis aboard, nor did he come on the three o’clock car and the management has decided that the big fielder had turned us down and will remain at Hartford City.—Bluffton Banner. * .

r Members of the Indiana State 1 Board of Registration and Rxamina. 1 tion of Nurses declare that the last r legislature made a mistake in chang--3 ing the law regarding the practice r of professional nursing in the state. » The board has re-organized by elect- . ing Mrs. Isabelle Gerhart, of Indlanap- - oils, president and Miss Edna Humph- - reys, of Crawfordsville, secretary and - treasurer. Said one of the nurses i yesterday: “The legislature changed ) the law so that a girl need only have s a grammar school education to be permitted to do trained nursing. Under t the other law she had to be a highr school graduate. j Because the Bluffton and Decatur t teams objected to being robbed by . the policeman-umpire, hired to steal I games for the Ft. Wayne Shamrocks from visiting teams, the Ft Wayne Journal-Gazette has taken upon Itself I to champion the underhand methods . of their home team and the crooked . cop, and its entire staff of editors and t reporters has been set at devising and writing dirty and malicious articles concerning the two independent clubs. However, the circulation of the Jour- ! nal-Gazette outside of Ft. Wayne, t where it is known to be yellow, is " limited to exchanges with other news- ■ papers, and hence their misrepresen--5 tations amount to nothing.—Bluffton 1 Banner. ! o • WAS HERO OF PURDUE WRECK t t Labored Like a Mad Man for Hou>*s 1 i at. the Rescue Work—Was First One on the Scene. 1 “Sunny Jim” Pierce is one of the b ' members of the local ball team who . will always be a favorite here. With s his always the same smile, his droll > remarks and witicisms, he has cap--1 tured the fans and a few of the ladies. ’ Always in the game wherever they play him, and with a hit when we want it the worst, he bears his honors ; modestly. Though only twenty-five ■ years old, his hair is tinged with gray leading many to think he is much [ older tha£ he really is. Jim got those gray hairs in a few short hours, , during which his ever ready smile was missing for he was the hero of the , Purdue wreck, and his work of that . day was loudly praised in the various . newspaper reports. At the time he , was working in a school supply house , and standing in the doorway, witnessed the awful spectacle, a train loaded with light hearted, merry college students dashing into a heavily laden freight Others stood spell bound, but Pierce leaped over the ground like a deer and was the first to lend aid 1 to the injured. He and - one other workman labored for forty-five minutes, before relief came and then for hours more, carrying out the dead and injured, cheering those who could hear and aiding in a hundred ways. It was a sight and experience never to be forgotten, eighteen were killed and thirty-six injured, and when Jim returned to work three days later, his comrades noticed the many silver gray hairs, a souvenir of the day, which will remain many years. Jim’s heroic actions were substantially rewarded by his firm, but the railroad ; company have never had time to even thank him, though he no doubt saved a number of the injured from dying. —z o ; BLOCK SIGNAL EXPERIMENTS . 1 1 Railroads Appoint Board of Experts— Tracewell Appointed Upon Tr e as- ] ury Committee. ‘ : — i Washington, July 12.—A vigorous protest has been received by the gov- 1 emment from the Japanese and Kor- ‘ an expulsion league the headquarters of which is at Seattle, Wash., against what is asserted to be an organized traffic In Japanese women, who, it ! is alleged, are being brought to this country in large numbers for immoral * purposes. The protest declares that J wholesale misrepresentations, of per- < jury and fraud are perpetrated on the part of Immigrants, and perjury and ’ collusion on the part of the Japanese residents in this country/ It is stated that the traffic is regularly organized, and that women are brought j into the country and sold into a system of slavery. ; Washington, July 12.—Following a , conference with a committee repre- , senting the American Railway Association, the Interstate Commerce Commission announced the appointment of a board of experts to supervise and conduct experimental tests of block signal systems and other safety devices as provided for by the joint resolution of congress. The members of this board are Prof. M. E. Cooley, chairman; Capt. Azel Ames, Jr., Frank G. Ewald and Bi B. Adams. The first meeting of the board will be held tomorrow, when organization will be completed and a plan of work outlined.

» ACCOUNT OF THE ACCIDENT Was Driving Across Railroad Track I ■at Fessenden, North Dakota, When Hit by a Fast Train. The funeral of Otto Schug, the Berne young man, who was killed Monday in North Dakota, was held at Berne, Rev. Frank Hartman conducting the English services and Rev. H. H. Kattman, German services. The remains arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Schug, the bereaved parents, early Thursday morning, accompanied by two cousins from North Dakota, and by John Weldy of this city and Rudolph Schug, of Berne, who met the party at Ft Wayne. Young Schug was twenty-two years old, eldest son of Phil Schug, and beside his parents leaves a sister and two brothers. The Berne Witness describes the accident as follows: Otto Schug went to North Dakota two years ago last March, to his uncle Daniel Neuenschwander, worked a while at Fesseden. then took a business course in the agricultural college at Fargo, later took up a claim of 160 acres of land, 360 miles from there in the extreme southwestern part of the state, made some improvements on it, building a little house, etc, went back to Fessenden and had intended to return to his claim last Tuesday. July 9th, the day after his sudden death. He was last working with six other men for a rich farmer near Fesseden and had the care of the best team of horses on that farm, a span valued at SSOO. He was driving to town Monday morning after some brick, was about three miles from Fesseden, when a fast train running at a speed of seventy miles per hour struck him with horses and wagon on a crossing, making kindling wood out of the wagon, mangling the horses so that they could‘hardly be recognized, and throwing Otto a distance of about eighty feet. Death resulted instantly. When he was picked up he had a deep cut on the back of his head, bruises on the side of his face and one arm and both legs broken. The train did not stop until flagged by a farmer ahead .of it who was an eyewitness to the disaster and says the train failed to whistle for the crossing. o MISS SUSAN GLASPELL IS WISE Gives Her Lady Friends a Few Don’ts That are Right. Miss Susan Blaspell, of Davenport, la., recently gave the clubwomen of her city some interesting facts in relation to the newspaper business ,and included in her paper were some very valuable “don’ts” that will meet the approbation of every newspaper man. Thy ought also to meet the eye of every person who has to do with the newspapers in an unofficial way and be followed. Here they are: Don’t come to the newspaper office Thursday with something that happened Monday. Come on Monday. Don’t come at two minutes of 3 o’clock when the paper goes to press at two minutes after. The assassination of the president of the United States would be resented at that hour. Don’t ask a reporter to run a column of reprint stuff which may serve your cause, but lias practically no news value, and then when you have a good live story give it to the other paper. The reporter will not like that a bit Don’t go to the managing editor and ask that a legitimate news story be kept out. It would be just as unreasonable and just as indelicate to go to the banker and ask him to give you money or to the lawyer and ask him to give up one of his cases. A newspaper is a business enterprise. When you ask it to keep out news, you ask it to Injure its own business. Don’t blame the reporter if something you gave him or her does not appear. It is not the reporters fault. The city editor is the court of last appeal, and he works on the principle of the survival of the fittest. The fact that your committee is going to do some thing may be very important to you, but the fact that some girl drank carbolic acid is more important to the city editor. Don’t say, “I can’t understand why the papers make so many mistakes.” If you had ever been in the business, you would say instead, “I think it one of the miracles of the age that news- , papers can do that amount, of work under that amount of pressure and make so few mistakes.” o DEMORCAT Want Ada Pay Big.

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r TOTALLY DESTROYED BY FIRE c The Dwelling of J. G. Miller Totally Destroyed by Fire—Origination Unknown. s During the thunder storm last FriI day evening the dwelling house -of I Fred Bilderback, who lives on the J. M. Bilderback farm on Blue Creek, three miles southwest of Willshire, - was struck by lightning. The bolt » struck the chimney, down into the stove pipe, which it ripped open from j one end to the other. It also tore out the studding at the chimney. A portion of the electrical current deflected 1 after the chimney was struck and ! striking the rain spouting, tore down • along the summer kitchen, into a ■ cistern, knocking off a great deal of 1 the siding. The seven-year-old daugh- • ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bilderback had 1 been sitting, leaning with her back ' against the stove, not over a moment before the lightning struck, but had 1 been called by her father to another > part of the room, otherwise she might 1 have been dangerously injured or • killed outright The bolt that struck • and demolished the chimney scatter--1 cd the brick in every direction, some 1 of which nearly struck the young son 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Bilderback. The • property is now owned by the minor ■ heirs of the late L. Brandt It was fortunate that no one was killed or injured and that the house escaped conflagration.—Willshire Herald. The dwelling house of J. G. Miller, in Blue Creek township, Adams coun- ■ ty, Ind., was totally destroyed by fire the afternoon of the 4th, while the family was attending the celebration at Monroe. It is thought the fire originated from an incubator. The loss will aggregate S4OO, including $65 in money.—Willshire Herald. — -o HAVE COMPLETED THEIR DUTIES Increase on Appraisement Over Fou r Years Ago is Seventeen Per Cent —Other Newit of Interest. Hunters' license were granted to Smith Shoemaker, of Berne, and Adam Egly, of Geneva. It seems that old Adams county still has a number of hunters who love the sport well enough to go through the necessary red tape. There seems to be a combination against the marriage business, said Deputy Clerk Baumgartner, as not a single license has been issued since July 3rd, and ohly one in two weeks. L. L. Vandiver, owner and manager of the Ideal Amusement company, called at the county treasurer’s office this morning and paid his show license for the week, the amount charged being ten dollars. Friday afternoon at Reformed church day anmial session of the board of review, and every member expressed his willingness to resign his position. The work is tedious and by no means pleasant, but the present board retires feeling they have completed the duties assigned them. Today was spent in ■ revising the work transacted during < the term and closing up a few minor details of same. They inspected several properties in Decatur today where a visit was necessary before conclud(ing their consideration. The average rate of increase on appraisement of farm lands in the county over four years ago is seventeen per cent. o Mrs. Henry Magley on Friday ( entertained a number of her lady 1 friends at six o’clock dinner in honor 1 of Mrs. E. B. Uhl, of Wooster, Ohio. i A delightful time was reported and 1 Mrs. Magley proved herself a charm- ’< ing hostess. 1 Washington, July 12.—Robert J. ’ Tracewell, of Indiana, controller of . the treasury, has been appointed by Secretary Cortelyou as one of a com- 1 mittee of five treasury officials to con- { sider a plan for improving the or- { ganizatlon of the department so that the business of the various divisions . and bureaus may be facilitated. Marriageable girls in three south- t ern Indiana towns have organized < protective societies and adopted by- ] I laws which provide that young men j who are candidates for matrimonial f honors must have a rating from Dun and Bradstreet and carry a life in- I surance policy. The novel idea i naturally originates in Indiana. t

■ J, 'lfJ.'TJlk.l '.'.rm.-L . AGAINST TOBACCO TRUST. Government Goee After One qf the Big Corporations. New York, July 10. —The government today filed in the United States, circuit court in this city a petition against the American Tobacco company, the Imperial Tobacco company, the British-American Tobacco company, the American Snuff company, the American Cigar company, the United Cigar Stores company, the American Stogie company, the MieAndrews and Forbes company, the Corley Foil company and fifty-six other corporations and twenty-nine individuals connected with the named companies. These corporations and individuals constitute what is generally known asthe “tobacco trust,” and the petition directed against them sets forth the purpose of the government to dissolve this trust by breaking up the agreements tinder which the consolidated, concerns are working. In showing the growth of the "trust” since its organization in 1890, the conclusion is reached that at an early Jay, unless prevented, it would completely monop- ’ olize the entire tobacco industry. That all of the defendants are engaged in interstate and foreign trade and commerce in tobacco and products manufactured therefrom is alleged by the petition. It is stated that the act of July 2, 1890, “to protect trade and commerce,” and subsequent-acts have been violated, and ‘ the therefore seeks to prevent and restrain the unlawful existing agreements, combinations and conspiracies and attempts to monopolize and break up perfected monopolies. o p WHEN STUDENTS TOTAL TWELVE Demands that Trustees Enforce the Law and Asks County Superintendents to See That it is Done. Fassett A. Cotton, state department of public instruction, has ruled that the law is very Imperative in requiring township trustees to abandon all the small schools In the townships. State Superintendent Cotton has informed county superintendents that the act provides “that the township trustees shall discontinue and abandon all schools under their charge where the daily attendance during the last preceding School year has been twelve or fewer; provided, the condition as to roads, streams and bridges permit of such discontinuance.” The county superintendents of the state are instructed to see that this law is enforced. It has been reported that some trustees have shifted the enumeration in order to increase the school attendance in these small schools next year. But this will not change the situation, as the abandonment must be based upon the last year’s attendance, and not upon the possibility of an increased attendance next year. • ——o Charles Eckler, one of the Clover Leaf’s passenger conductors, has been summoned to Edwardsville, where he will be a witness for the road in a damage suit, wherein the road is defendant in the sum of $20,000. The plaintiff is a youth who suffered the loss of a leg while a Clover Leaf passenger train was making a detour and was using the Illlonis Central tracks. The accident occurred on the Central tracks, but it is alleged the Clover Leaf engine and train were responsible.—Frankfort Crescent. A city mail carrier was heard to remark the other day that the mail carriers had their troubles during the summer months as well as other people. During this period when people are on their vacation, many of them go away without making any provislon whatsoever in regard to their I mail. Many of them do not have boxes and what to do with the mall 4s sometimes a puzzle. But the most tantalizing occurence is that of people who have no mail boxes and who while at home constantly keep their screens locked, leaving no place available for the mail. The carrier is then compelled to stand on the porch and “pound” on the door until the negligent housekeeper put in an appearance. This sort of business on a. “hot day in July when the mail is. heavy” is not calculated to keep the- , genial carriers in a very pleasant frame of mind. ■■' . 11 w — A• tI.M. Itchtar. Blind, Bteeam*. Protruttag Pile*. Drunlßto are authorised to refund moneyif PAZO OINTMENT falls to eer* to d to 14 tot