Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1907 — Page 2

WAS SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD The Funeral Will be Held Friday from the United Brethren Church in This City. Henry Chronister, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of cur city, died Wednesday at eleven o’clock at his home at the corner of Eleventh and Adams street, after a very short illness, death resulting from an obstruction of the bowels. Although he had been ailing for several years, his sickness had taken no serious turn and most of that time he bad always been up and around. However, Sunday he took a sudden turn for the worse, and was forced to take to his bed. On yesterday he felt so much better that he got up and walked around the house and yard some, but soon tired and returned to his bed, and from that time his condition grew gradually worse, until death relieved him. Mr. Chronister was born in the ■fate of Pennsylvania seventy-five years ago, where he resided until'he was fifteen years of age, when he came to this county with his parents and settled on a farm. Soon after coming here the call for volunteers was made by his county and he laid aside all his personal affairs and was mustered in the ranks and army of Uncle Sam in company I of the 89th Indiana Volunteers, with whom he faithfully served his time or until the end of the war when he received an honorable discharge, and returned to this county, which he called his home. In the year 1853 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth Miley, and they took up their abode on a farm, where they dwelt for several years, until he moved to this city, where he engaged in the timber business, which he continued to follow until forced to quit on account of ill health. The funeral services were held Frlfay afternon at two-thirty o’clock at the United Brethren church, Rev. Kessinger officiating, and interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. He Iteaves three sons, three daughters and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. —o • SHOT THROUGH THE HEART Funeral in Chicago Tomorrow—Mrs. Wemhoff There—Much Sorrow Expressed. Chicago, August I.—Albert L. Walsh, thirty-two years old, 4544 Indiana avenue, was shot to death early yesterday by a robber who was surprised while ransacking the flat. The murder occurred in the presence of Miss Annie Walsh, sister of the dead man. Her screams and the action of Walsh in pursuing the robber through the hallway of the flat were followed by the fatal shot. A description of the slayer is in the hands of the police and a man hunt that extends to all sides of the city is now in progress. News of the murder reached the Fiftieth Street Police Station and a wagon load of policeman and detectives were hurried to the scene. Walsh, who had been shot through the heart, was still lying in a pool ®f blood, while his sister, who was lysterical and would have thrown herself upon the prostrate body of her brother, was being restrained by neighbors in an adjoining room. A cursory examination of the wound had been made by a physician who arrived at the flat before the police, but he held out no hope for the man. Death had come speedily and what little vitality remained with the victim Mad been 'exhausted by his desperate effort to describe his slayer. Detectives examined the rear window .which had been found open, and declared that the work showed evidence of an expert burglar. A jimmy had been empiisyed and the window catch had been snapped in two. Footprints were found outside the window and other clews which led the detectives to believe that two men might have been concerned in the robery, one acting as lookout while the other ransacked A FACT ABOUT THE “BLUES" What is known as the «Blues** fei seldom occasioned by actual exist* tag external conditions, but in the great majority of cases by a dis* ordered OVER. — THIS IS A FACT which may be demonstrated by trying a course of . Tutt’sPills They controland regulate the LIVER. They bring hope and bouyancy to the mtad. They bring health and elasticity, to the body. TAKBHjO substitute,

> the flat. After entering the flat through the window the first precaution of the burglar was to open the , rear door to afford a ready means of escape should the occupants of the flat be aroused. After the murder the robber fled through the rear yard into an alley. His dark form was seen by neighbors who had been aroused by the sound of the shot, as he vaulted a fence and r then darted away. Miss Walsh, alt though almost overcome by her grief , and hysteria, was able to give the t police a disconnected account of the tragedy. “I was awakened by some noise In my room,” she said. “It 1 sounded as if some one had bumped , against a chair. I felt sure that some , one was in the room, so I sat up in j bed and peered around me. I could see a dark form huddled in a corner • as I looked. I screamed and jumped > out of bed. The plan leaped toward i me and I started back. I thought he i was going to grab me when I heard [ my brother’s footsteps in the hallway. ; The man then darted out of my room , and my brother tried to catch and hold him. I heard the threats he [ made, then a shot, and I screamed for > help." Miss Anna Walsh, mentioned in the i above dispatch, visited the Wemhoffs i in this city just a short time ago. Mrs. Wemhoff hastened to Chicago soon after receiving the telegram briefly telling of the tragedy. The funeral will occur tomorrow. o BELIEVES IN RIGHTS OF STATES Federal Centralization of Power Is Not Good for Government Either National or State. Elkhart, Ind., July 31.—Upholding the rights of the individual states against the encroachment on these rights by federal legislation, Governor Hanly in a speech delivered here to the Chautauqua assembly took occasion to speak for conservatism in dealing with the problems of the country. He thought most of them were problems that the state could solve without the intervention and help of the national government and he deprecated the reaching out of the federal arm in purely state matters. Incidentally he takes issue with President Roosevelt on some of these matters. After referring to problems resulting from the combinations and trusts and the accumulation of large and swollen fortunes, Governor Hanly said: “In matters of such moment we cannot afford to thoughtlessly follow impulsive leadership, however high its character or pure its purpose. As a self-governing people we must needs be thoughtful and considerate lest we open the door to greater ills than those we seek to- cure. President Roosevelt has earned the confidence and the gratitude of his countrymen by courageous work and signal service and I do not speak in unkindly criticism, for I believe in the purity of his purpose and in his greatness. But he is not infallible, however strong of soul and pure of heart he may be. Proposals even from him which are calculated to affect relations of the federal government to the several states should be thought upon, studied and analyzed before we adopt them. The tendency of the times is toward centralization of power in the federal government Public necessity as he has viewed and understood the public need, has fitted well the president’s peculiar temperament. And it will indeed be surprising if those do not at times lead him into error.” o THE CLOVER LEAF SETTLES SUIT Pays August Hirschke $8,200 for the Loss of Both Legs. The claim agent of the Clover Leaf has just paid August Hirschke, a fireman on the road, who had run between Toledo and Frankfort, the sum of |8,200 for the loss of both legs and the suit that he had filed against the company for $30,000 damages for personal injury in the Superior court at Toledo, has been dismissed. While he was out upon his run, Hirschke was injured in a colllson between two engines near the Toledo yards, he being caught in the wreck and both legs were so badly crushed that it was necessary to amputate them both. The accident happened on the first day of last December. Hirschke was a minor and his guardian, J. G. Shepherd, filed the suit and was also authorized by the court to accept the $8,200 from the company in payment of all claims and in full settlement of the suit. o - — “TO KEEP WELL The whole year through,” writes L. A. Bartlett, of Rural Route 1, Guilford, Me., I and my family use Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They have proven most satisfactory to all of us.” | They tone the system and cure bilious- | ness, malaria and constipation. Guar- , anteed at Blackburn drug store. 25c. 1 . o DEMORCAT Want Ads Pay pig.

t JUDGE ERWIN WRITES ANOTHER l " f They are Thia Week Doing the Yels lowstono Park—Many Things of Interest in ths WssL i ■ i . ■ On board Northern Pacific, near Mis- . soula, Mont,. July 28, 1907. ! We have now set our face toward ’ the rising run. We left Portland on ’ Thursday morning at 8:00 o’clock, and arrived at Seattle at 4:10 p. m. i same day. We left the Harriman system at Portland, since which time we are under the direction and control of J. J. Hill, almost as great a magnate as the formerOn the Harriman lines they burn, oil exclusively both on boats and railroads, which makes it very clean traveling—no cinders, no smoke. Washington is the making of a great state, but I think they are making a mistake in booming it as a farming country. If they would pay more attention to the mining interests I believe it would bring greater returns. The mountains are full of gold, coal and copper undiscovered, and, of course, undeveloped, but every day men are making finds of these deposits which make them wealthy. It will take capital to develop the country and build railroads to where these ores and -minerals lay. Besides the mountain streams are sufficient to produce all the motive power the state will ever need, and 'I predict that at some day in the no far distant that electricity will be used to move trains on all these ‘mountain railroads, and the waterfalls along the routes will furnish the electricity. , Seattle is a wonderful city, but is largely made up of hills and hollows, but by means of the water coming down the hills and directed through nozzles, they are washing the hills Into hollows and lowlands, and are making a lot of what they term “tide lands.” The union depot is built on tide land and long trestle work is used by all the railroads to reach the same. Pubic highways and streets are built for miles on trestle work, and around the eastern and southern port of the city it looks like the Chicago stock yards. All roads being upon stilts, I might add that here what I forgot to say of Astoria, Oregon, is nearly all built in that way, but over the Columbia river, which is seven miles wide at that place, and business men in' that city can cut a hole through the floor of their business houses and catch fish. But again to Seattle and Tacoma. Tacoma is in about the same condition as washed into her swamps she would be a fairly level city. Tacoma has a good street car system and is supporting some good factories. Is the division point of the Northern Pacific railroad, where all trains stop going to and returning from Seattle. Watch her grow! is the watch cry of all Tacoma. We spent one day in Seattle and then took train for SpokaneNow, while you are talking, here is a city that is all right. We met Dr. Freeman here, also a Mr. Peay and a Mr. Lautis, both of them formerly lived in Wells county. at Bluffton and Mr. Lautis near Markle. They are interested in mining and from all appearances are flourishing, , They have interests in Washington i and also at Goldfield, Nev. We spent 1 the evening at the home of Mr- Peay. ( Spokane has the greatest water power 1 anywhere in the west, operating street i cars, electric lights, mills, factories, ; and everything where power is re- i quired and has plenty to spare. i We left Sopkane this morning at < 9:25 a. m. It is only fourteen miles i to Idaho, which we crossed before < we knew it, it being only forty-three 1 miles across at this point Then we 1 headed into the mountains and began crossing Montana. We are running ' at an average speed of thirty miles an hour. If we keep this up we will get through the state at 6:43 tonjor- 1 row evening, making over 900 miles < across, counting the crooks in, the railroad. We saw some beautiful country, to- i day, and some that was not so beautiful. There is an Indiana reservation in the valley of Clark Fork river that is very fine, and it is said that i one of the old chiefs living near Plains is worth more than a million of dollars. He has in one herd of cattle more than 20,000 head. He formerly owned a herd of Buffalo, 200 in all, which he sold at S3OO per head- He owns 1,800 horses that run on the plains. Not long ago he had a trunk stolen in which he had $30,000. Notwithstanding all this, he wears a blanket and gets drunk about once a week on an average. If any of your readers desire to write him, direct to Plains, Mont. We are notv making preparations to put on an extra engine or two, to push us over the continetal divide. I believe they call it, anyhow it is a for sure divide and I would not give a continental to get up on it. They say it will take three engines to pull

I us over, but that is tame. When we came over the Shasta road from California to Oregon, we had three en . glnes in front and two behind- It was night when we came over and about all we saw was Shasta Spring, where we got a drink of seltzer water, and saw the falls. We will get to Livingston in the morning, where we expect some mail from home and a paper. If everything is reported all right at home we will “do” Yellowstone Park for a week and then come home. There were a great many things happened while we were away that would not be proper for the public to read, but which I would be glad to tell to any person applying confidentially. We have seen the Pacific coast and candidly, if it were not for the east furnishing so many tourists, she would go to pieces, in a year. Everybody out there who does anything wants a tip, and are not backward about saying so. Will tell you more when I get home. Yours, R- K. ERWIN. ■— ; O — SELLING IN DOSES THAT COUNT O. T. Johnson Sells Over Seven Hundred Dollars Worth. O. T. Johnson, of Rural Route ten, Wednesday delivered to Decatur dealers live stock in chunks that count. He sold hogs and lambs which brought a total of $727, and he has sixty odd left for future delivery. This is engaging in stock farming in away that counts. Mr. Johnson is one among the most successful farmers of the county, and makes money irrespective of the sort of weather that is handed out o — NOT MUCH EXCITEMENT A Marriage License Issued—Business is Painfully Quiet at Court House. Attorney D. B. Erwin filed a court case, entitled Fanny Kocher vs. Josephine Moser et al, suit for partition of real estate. The suit involves real estate IB Berne, and asks for the appointment trf a commissioner and the sale of the realty. A marriage license has been issued to John Aeschliman and Amelia Drayer. The former is a resident of Wells county, aged twenty-four years, and the latter lives in French township, and is eighteen years of age. S. B. Boyce, of Blue Creek township, secured the contract for the Maggie Miller ditch. The contractor lives in Blue Creek and has long been a successful contractor of ditch work. The surveyor’s office is busy with specifications for ditch and bridge work, the season not being very rushing for this usually busy office. HAVING FINANCIAL TROUBLE. Private Banker Tully up Against the Real Thing. Converse, Ind., July 31. —After a meeting of twenty-six creditors, it became known today that Mark Tully, for many years head of the Tully Exchange bank of this place, which recently sold out to the Farmers’ State bank is in financial straits. On June 6 last, Tully sold out his private bank but it is said kept the time deposit accounts, amounting to about $60,000. In an interview Mr. Tully said he has settled all accounts with the exception of claims amounting to $18,500 and requests six months time in order to realize upon property he owns. The creditors will hold another meeting' tomorrow at which definite action will be taken. —o THE WAIL OF THE TAILENDERS Oh, what a headache. If it had been anybody else but Decatur we I could have smiled in our misery, but with that bunch putting it over us, never. It was a case of not being able to hit, slow and stupid fielding ; and rotten work, pure and simple, all j the way through and unless something is done to put some good, wholesome ginger in the team it will not “be hard to guess where we will end the season in the league race. —Bluffton Banner. - o George Teeple.who suffered a stroke of paralysis some time ago, is reported as being much better and greatly improved, and should the progress he' is now making continue, he will soon 1 be himself again. i

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•*«■ B.i. e SCHEDULE SAID TO BE FAIR k L- 1 * It Now Looks Like League Ball Will e Be a Succeae—Umpire Ques--1 tion Unsettled. r 1 Manager L. A. Holthouse this morn- •- ing received the new schedule from 9 President Kling, of the Indiana-Ohio league, which was adopted at Rich--9 mond and as the race has commenced, t a very Interesting hue and to meet : with the clamor of the many fans I who desire to know just where the . team will play in the future, we publish the same for their benefit, which I is as follows: t t July 30-31, Aug. I—Richmond1 —Richmond at I Van Wert; Decatur at Bluffton; Kokor mo at Portland. t Aug. 2,3, 4—Portland at Decatur; . Bluffton at Kokomo; Van Wert at ; Richmond. Aug. 6,7, B—Kokomo8 —Kokomo at Decatur; Portland at Van Wert; Richmond at Bluffton. . Aug. 9, 10, 11 —Decatur at Richmond; Van Wert at Kokomo; Bluffton . at Portland. Aug. 13, 14, 15 —Richmond at Decatur; Kokomo at Van Wert; Portland at Bluffton. Aug. 16, 17, 18 —Portland at Richmond; Vah Wert at Decatur; Bluff- ; ton at Kokomo. Aug. 20, 21, 22—Decatur at Van . Wert; Kokomo at Bluffton; Richmond at Portland. Aug. 23, 24, 25—Van Wert at Porti land; Decatur at Kokomo; Bluffton , at Richmond. The schedule is fair in every respect to all teams concerned and was made with a view of cutting down mileage so that every teata might prosper. The new league is creating no little excitement and every evening the local bulletin boards where the returns are received are eagerly ■scanned by the hungry fans who try to figure out the dope. The teams have all so far shown that they are evenly matched and that the patrons of the Indiana-Ohio league will see some very fast base ball in the near future. From all appearance the league is bound to be a success and will prove most satisfactory in the end. The most trouble that President Kling is experiencing at present is the matter of selecting umpires who can stand the gaff and who will stay with the job regardless of the taunts and jeers of the crowds. —o FRANK SMITH HAS A GOOD ONE It’s a Bait That Will Catch Them . f > Napping at any Stage of the Fishing Game. Frank Smith, the gunsmith, who is an enthusiastic fisherman, is working at present on a patent which when he completes means much to fishermen and will, no doubt, prove to make his fortune. While fishing at Rome City some time ago, he studied the manner in which the bass and other fish would grab at the bait as long as it was kept in motion and that the moment the tackel would stop moving and the fish saw what it was they could not be enticed into biting. The idea at once came to him that if he could only perfect an artificial bait that would keep dancing about the moment it struck the water, that bass fishing would be great. Putting, his ideas into execution upon arriving home he immediately set to work upon this new fishing tackle and his efforts up to the present time have met with well merited success, and it now looks to him that he is going to succeed. As, to the secret of his patent he would disclose nothing, al- : though he claims that he has his ar? tificial bait fixed in such a manner that the moment that it strikes the water that it commences to dance and in this manner attracts the attenof the fish and gets the desired results. He has just a few minor deI tails to carry out yet in perfecting his model and when the same is completed he expects to secure and protect himself by having the same patented. If this artificial bait proves a success, ' and has the desired effect, there is ■no doubt but that Mr. Smith’s fortune is made and that he has solved the one thing that has always mystified fishermen. Mr. Smith is of an inventive turn of mind, and is a first class mechanic in every respect, and | his many friends wish him success in his new venture. — o— — Mrs. C. M. Myers, of Geneva, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. I M. Fullenkamp, for some time, has | returned to her home.

• RAILING GOES TO TECUMSEH 11 His Release Purchased from Dallas, and They Now Claim Him as Their Own. STANDING. 1 Deeetu. Played. Won. Lost Pct. 5 ! 3 0 1-00® J }, j « 5 —■ The heavy rain yesterday afternoon 1 that fell in Bluffton caused a postt ponement of the game between that city and Decatur, and in all probability saved the asphalt city lads a nice beating, as the local team went • over chuck full of confidence and were going to take Bluffton’s measure, . whether or no. The postponement of yesterday’s game caused a double • header to be played at Bluffton today, 1 so that the teams could thus manage to keep their schedule up. Railing and Alberts \were scehduled to pitch for the locals, and Bluffton undoubtedly will use Hull and Guhl, their two star men, and two warm games may thus be expected. The local management, after thinking that they had everything finely .fixed and the team placed for the remainder of the season, received a severe jolt last evening when Railing showed them a message from Tecumseh, Mich., informing him to report at once as they had purchased his release from Dallas, and he was now free from that team and was their 'property. Tom seemed rather disappointed, but as his base ball future depends upon his own actions, he will report to Tecumseh Friday morning. This will necessitate the securing of another pitcher, and Geyer will be retained until another man reports. Mr. Holthouse is hot on the trail of another good man, and will fill the vacancy to the best of their ability. Van Wert, 0., July 31.—1 n today’s game between Richmond and Van Wert the umpire gave the game to Van Wert 9to 0. After only one ball had been - pitched, trouble arose over pitcher Wqntz, who it is claimed was signed by both Van Wert and Richmond. Wentz was in the box for Van Wert when Richmond protested.' PORTLAND DOWNS KOKOMO. Portland, Ind., July 31. —Superior fielding On the part of Portland and errort by Kokomo gave the second game to Portland by a score of 2to 1. The features of the game were the base running of Parker and Harden of’the Portland team, both taking chances many times and beating out the ball. The only feature that marred the game was the continual rag-chewing of the Kokomo players among themselves on the bench. The umpiring of Thompson in his second game here was very satisfactory to both teams, no kicks being registered by either team against his decisions. R. H E. Kokomo ..0 0001000 o—l 4 4 Portland .0 0000020 x—2 4 0 Batteries—Lacey and Orr; Gray and Harden. Struck out—By Lacey 4; by Gray 6. Base on balls—Off Lacey 4. Hit by pitcher—Gray, Comlngor, Gillis Passed • balls —Orr. Earned runs— Kokomo 1. Double plays—Plant to Wise to Comlngore. Time of game—--1; 20. Umpire—Thompson. *-" 1 o HARD BLOW ON LIQUOR TRAFFIC Prohibition in Georgia Means Loss of Many Millions. Chaos reigns in the liquor traffic as a result of the passage of the prohibition bill in Georgia. Dispatches from Savqpnah and other cities tell a story of financial loss that runs into many millions. Augusta will lose $2,500,000 in property values and license taxes. Columbus wil lose heavily. Atlanta’s loss will almost treble that of all other whisky sell places in the state. Brunswick’s loss will run above the million mark. Macon will suffer heavily in the loss of revenue from many saloon properties, and one of finest breweries in the south. It was stated that the railroads have offered to transport breweries and stills to other states free of charge. Florida and Alabama are the states to which the whisky interests will move from Georgia. Stimulation Without Irritation That is the watchword. That is what Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does. Cleanses and stimulates the bowels without irritation in any form THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.,