Decatur Democrat, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1908 — Page 3

Bad Breatlu • wel»-V“o' UVT * ptiysician. who rndotibtedly kaows, declares that £ad breatli has broken off more matches tixan bad temper. " There are ardent lovers who must some times wish v ~Jf tfa ei r sweethearts ”' x-“\ presented sweeter mouths to t”>e kissed. //?'‘"'■iSjf J'S, Good teeth cannot |j \XcJ j prevent bad breath Vj yf'/\ tt when the stomach is Vl I ill disordered. \» Ks*>\ VI The best cure for bad breath is a 'll lli jj cleansing out of the ’j ' 1 ’ body by use of Lane’s Family Medicine ♦he tonic- laxative. This is ’a herb medicine, sold tn sjc- and 50c. packages by druggists and it is saving more doctor’s bills than any other medicine has ever saved. It cures headache, backache, j-..;’, v-srion. constipation and skin distw-ae*--

DENI-ES THE CHAEGhS Arguments AAZill lie -Made this Evening and Ccse Gfl to Jury at Ten O'Clock Portland: In 3 , Minch 11 —(Special | ) —Mayor* Coffee just 'conciuded h»s direct " dvlde-ncx> and the "crcws ei*mination hair begun. 'M. I -Coffee denied- ceariy every • -charge I made against him 'and said be had mt •jjeen Intoxicated ‘between September j- 4. 1906 and. December 3. 1907. the .dates to. which Judge L-aFellette has confined* the testltaonv He said- thit f* on. Nowember 3. 1907, ha took drinks f- in several saloohs tout was .not it. I icated. that- be -plead ■guilty to. the. dtalge of intoxication on . the’ advh <- [ of Marshpr Green, w,ho t *xl<l hjm s.j.nc Fane else -would file .an affidavit, if hi didn't. Regarding the evidence’ of the "three worn*, n. be denied all" but -that I -of M-rs. Gall-ogly,- said there was a jarge crowd.* that "some one" pu-tn-J iim and he aecidentaHy threw ■ . L arm abojat Mrs ■ ogy to pr°v. nt I himself from- failing. He expianxol all the incidents •T'eptioned <n ;ne i council .room and his testimony se-ni rd, to make a favorable impression The evidence will conclude by. so n o'clock. Portland. Ind . March 11. —(Special) —The Coffee Impeachment case will i go to"the pury some time tonight prob- • ably about ten o’clock. Judge '.I-a Follette has insisted on this' as he has •nether important case set for trial tomorrow morning. Mayor. Coffee testified in bis own denying all the principal charges against him •nd will conclude about f<Mir o’clock, when the arguments will begin, the court having signified that each side will 17- allowed three hours for s P <-ech I making. . Isaac Chrontter was the first Witness this morning. He told the trouble be tween the mayor and council which ted up to the charges alleged that he abused the members, told the tax levy episode and others. He also «ated that he was at the fair on Thursday- with the mayor who was sobe, a..1 day. He has known the mayor

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for_ many years and never saw him Intoxicated. Fred Behnke explained his appointment as marshal and said he had known Mayor Coffee eighteen years and had never seen him drunk. He said he and Mayor Coffee wenj bugsy riding one day but that the mayor was sober. Several witnesses including Dyonis Schmitt. Janies K. Niblick. B. J. Terveer, Charles Spencer, .1. H Yager, Jacob Martin and R«ter Holthouse testified that they had never seen Mayor Coffee and that, his general character Is good. Mayor Coffee took the stand at 1 o’clock this afternoon, being the last witness in the case. TI ESD AY' AFTEiiN <>O \. The first witness called at the afternoon session was Mrs. Willis McQueen who testified that she had resided in Decatur for several years past and that on thv- evening of November 9. 1907, she went down street to hear the RMvalivn Army and .'-mi, g p e * wax standing on the walk in front <.* True’s store she saw Coffee come from Murray's saloon and start across th* street toward the army and that the next thing she realized was that the mayor came up beh'nd her and em brac'd. her. She Jerked away and went in search of her husband, wßom she found later and he started out to find Coffee and" settle with him. Mrs. McQueen testified that she then started home and saw Coffee go Into the Nickel Plate saloon. . When asked the question as to whether the de’fendant was drunk or sober at the time of- the transaction she said that he was drunk- as she smelled liquor on his breath. On cross examination >frs MbQueen’s tgst'imony could not- be shaken TIIE DEFENSE BEGINS. At about three o'clock Tuesday afterndtm the evidence for Mr. Coffee began. Daniel Haley Wag called and testified th’at he had known Coffee" for a pum ber of years and that to his’ knowledge the defendant" had." never been intoxicated. H<- -also related a con vernation had with one Georg* Worden. who" is alleged to have suited that he tjow had a chance to Xet even with Coffee and would give him h—. Ont cross examination Haley stated that lie did se“ the mayor drunk ax one time, that being on the*day before he was arrested for public intoxication and to which charge the mayor afterward plead guilty. Harmon Yager. Dr. C. C. Clrk, T. \V. Shelton, and Albert Butler all tested that they had rfever seen the mayor drunk although they had seen him frequently. During the afternoon the court adjourned to permit the Republicans to hold a convention which resulted Jn a victory for Watson who secured tKe entire delegation of this township. Portland. March 10. —(Special) The prosecution in the Coffee impeachment case concluded its evidence Friday afternoon and the case will go to the jury some time Wednesday afternoon. The plaintiff is represented by L. C. ( DeVoss, C. J Lutz and 8. A. D. Whij/ pie, of Portland and the defense by D D. Heller. Peterson & Moran and R. H. Hartford, of Portland. Squire James H. Smith was the first witness called this morning. He identified the records showing that Mayor Coffw 1 plead guilty. He also testified that in August. 1907, he saw Coffee intoxicated and heard him use abusive language to Ed Irvin when many people were passing George Worden said that in August, 1906 he saw Coffee intoxicated bn the street, saw him come out of Ostetneyer’s saloon and saw Fred Bohnke put him in a buggy and start to the country. On cross examination he ■aid he" had trouble with Coffee 26 years ago and had often been fined in Mayor Coffee's court. Ed Bultcmeler Mid he saw Coffee ' go in the Ostemeyer saloon, but could I not swear whether he was drunk or sober. I Dick Boyd saw Coffee intoxicated on Wednesday of fair week and heard him abuse Irvin. I Charles Christen said he attended ' council regularly, had heard Coffee use boisterous and abusive language toward the members, and that he had threatened to throw him (Christen) from the count'll room. In his opfn- j ton the mayor at such times was elth er under |h<> Influence of liquor or drugs. On cross examination he explained what caused Mayor Coffee to use such language as he did. • Is A. Graham said he had seen Coffee ko Into the Nickle Plate « 1 loon several times a day and told of three times he had passed him on the street when, the mayor staggered. | Mrs. Gallogly told of a time when she and two children were on the street listening to the Salvation Army when the mayor came out of * saloon snffi hugged h"r; she said «bo be Iteved he was Intoiicated. Mrs WhH right teettfled to a similar I occurrence on the same evening In j November, l»0«

MONDAY AFTERNOON. Court convened promptly at onethirty o’clock, thirty minutes being consumed by D. D. Heller, attorney for the defense in outlining their case and what they would try to show. The first witness called by the state was city clerk C. 0. France, who was used in relation to identifying the city records number nine and ten which will be promient factors in the case. D. D. Coffee was then called by the state and questioned at' length con cerning his term of office and during the examination admitted that he was the custodian of the license record in which Were conrsined all t'i. licenses issued by him during a period of time from September 4, 1906. to December 5, 1907, which was the time th e case was filed During that time he stated he issued a hundred and ten licenses for which he charged a fee of fifty cents each, making a total of |55 received by him. Hl« docket record was the next taken up and he admitted that he had during j the above named period tried thirty-1 one cases, sopie being criminal cases 1 ••nd others for the violation of city ordinances and that In all these cases he charged a docket fee of two del lars, making’ , In all sixty two dollars, which he appropriated to his own usand never made any settlement with the city for the same On cross examination he informed the jury" that his rpasons for so doing wej-e that he thought under the statute the same belonged to him. Green, was the next witness palled his testimony • toeing in relation u> the fact -that he had served a* marshal of the city of Decatur under Coffee and that last August he was requested te resign, which he did ifter a pso . longed, fight H e informW the jlry that he had the mayor intoxlcat 1n August, September and Novem ber and described ope time especially He further testified that while* in one 'of these intoxicated conditions the mayor used vulgdr. ebscene and indecent language m hf" streets and*in the presence of Women, ’men and children, and thrft he was forced to file an affidavit against him for public toxicatton to tfhich the mayor plead guilty and .Was assessed a flqe of a dollar aqd costs. Green further tes npon numerous and divers occasions he »a< the mayor in sdloona and upon each and every one of these occasions he*,waa j-ithef drinking bMT os whiskey He then* relno-d some of the mayor’s actions In the council room and told of thesibu-ive manner in which the mayor at t!m*s Jalked to the council. Green* made an ex cellent witness In his own behalf and upon cross eaamination could not be shaken from his original story The case is attracting considerable atten Gon and the court room Is well fi] .-d •at ail times. GAVE.. STRYCHNINE Dead Woman Was §ister of Mrs. Lon Fisher—Special Grand Jury Called Mrs. Martin Brown, a sister of Mrs Lotf.Fisher fornietly of this cit; * sod well kn<p*n here, died al Van Wert last Wedesday night. She had been sick with gripi* for a few days but not serious. On the day mentioned her husband bought ten rente worth of strychnine and the children test I I fit d he gave her aeveral white >»*• 'ders during the day. Brown |« said to be infatuated with another woman and shortly after his wife's desth called the wornaa by phone and Mid ''that recipe worked all right."" Brown was arrest*d and a special grand jury is now investigating and Van Wert people are showing great Interest In I the result which will not be known I for several dtya. A Fort Wayne I chemist examined the desd woman • I stomach and la said to have found j I strychnine. A special from V«n Wert .says: | The Jury had ocvreely gone into session yesterday morning until a large crowd gathered In the <wriders of the court house and upon th" aid* walks eager to aee and hesr. To an observer it was a reminder of a rtr>' jms day. Everybody had hie eye «« the room containing the twelve men. who, with the prosecutor was hear Ing the evidence In the most s*n«i t tonal case before the court of Vsn Wert In recent yearn It han been announced through the papers that no | verdict would be reached by the jury for eeveral dsyu, ye*, notwithatatutlng 'the crowd wsa expectant and wanted to be on hand when the uerdlct wan announced g. JildKi J E Hturgia spent the fn-e ' noon at the court bouse He le es'n Ing strength each day and etated Ible morning that h» would be able tn go on the bench In the IttaeMwrd court st Hartford City neat Monday —Bluffton Banner.

The Knock-out Blow. 9 Th" blow wlafch kiMs-ked out Corbett I was a rrvelstlon to th« prjae fighuva. 1 From the earliest days of tho ring the ! knock-out blow was aimed for the jaw, th>' temple or the jugular vela. Nu<mach ptinehrs were throw 1. In to worry and Weary the fighter, but If a scientific man had told one of the old flglitoru that tbe mat vulnerable ai«>t was the region of tie stomach, he'd have laughed at him tor an Ignoramus. Dr. Pierce Is bringing hoag-to tbg pub.lc a parallel fact; that th< slotnaekli the moat vulnerable organ out ofYlw prtjerlng an well aa In it. We Wuhatbur >.w?he thruau, feet •nd lungs, out HieSAdbAbbNMe are utterly indifTeret>'. to, until dlsHSAflnda the solar plexus •rd knock* us out. Make vourttomseh cures "s.Tk Stomach.- Indigestion, or 1 dyspepsia, torpid liver, bad. thin and Im- , pure bl<sd and other disease* of the organs of digestion and nutrition. The -Golden Mcdl<-al Discovery - has a I •pecifle curative effect upon all mticotia ' surfaces and heree cures catarrh, no | matter where hs-ausi or what stage it «.> have reached. In Nasal Catarrh It is well to rleaiise tb r paaauta- - with Dr, Sage's Catarrh ID-medy fluid while u -g ' : th* * Discovery - as a constitutional remedy. Why the i i-1. M- > il TNiwit I ery-eun, catarrhal dl» a«s. as of ths stoma* h. bowels, bladder and other pdvlo organs will be plain to you If you will read • booklet of extracts from the writing' of esnlnent medlctd authorities, tt* dorsing Its ingredients and explaining ♦heir curative propsvtiee. It Is mailed /rw on request. A'idtvwK Dr R V Pierre, Huflalo. N. V. This buokh t glvra all the ingnsilente entering Into Dr. Pierce's medicines fr-m which It will be seen that they contain not a drop of alcohol. ,>ur», triplervAn<*d glycerine bring used ln**Uwd. Dr Pierce's gn at thousand page lllute tratMi Common Mmar Medical Adviser will he writ free, paper-bound, for 21 oneeent stamps. <>r elmh hound f« Jl atamiM, dddrow Dr. Pieros aa shoves 1111 - !■ .

ILL BUT A FEW DAYS From a Stroke of Paralysis and Succumbed to Rav- . ages Thereof George W Lincola. of Fort Wayne. /ttrnvM-iy a resident of t'nton township and* famMim-ly known by maay people of Adam* county succun-te-d to the >*ff<cts of a sever* stroke of par•lf• • Tuesday night at g IS oclock after bring aflllctrd tor but a tew day*. The d*c*aaed was bom and -alsvd In I'nlon township on what Is known as th* Gladdep farm, moving from there to Fort Wayne abffet twetty year- age where be accepted a poet tlon ig* ntght watch at the Combs A Co. factory. He served In this an-rau-lty for more than years ro tiring fro m activity responsive to th* d*-,'blen**a attendant to hie old age. A? out Beto years ago h*» became to u*y blind In a my«tert««Mi manner no being able to state n-astflu for sa oe. He ha*, however, ,»njov*d good h* dth since until Ist* Frida* when he wag p.e victim of the stroke of par a''Bia. which usher« 4 his spirit into •‘-fatty Th* deresuwd ha* lived a b* all who knew him Hl* surviving • t'e Is a sister of J A ♦tmith. of this of Wash. Diek and AHI- Burrell Be «l!a these three* dnuchtet* Daisy. X ra. Etta and a multitude of friends t>> vlv* to mount, the departure of this r tff eetlmabl* man. who hktf }<•«! • for tW ffoMHml teir* •<* a* yH Wvr. • tt that h«- will W btt'WM tn Adam* nmntr I fowtter Wttfon, late es WMfo h too ah iM fo* railed bv ifo <Hlta tier al'Mn th* period ot tfow w a foe aoa es Itaat w Lfoeafo hMtati of Ira •• waa atat*d hi *• f a« A inetl<na**r John r*4»aur!«4 a very suce**sf«l *»b for Mromrs L D Orts*old and 3, D tsssvell yester d.if and the proceeds aggr*g*t'd «•*' I Ifl.flflfl H ta oetlmated that I•» 1 tpl* were prowrut and Rpulter baa d <4 them eteverty AR.WMfowi.ffr. mrfo'aref'fo I* -toriurn. has an entirely n*w «b«»» I for tonight a *uierssi*tt«»e*ii and I* •* i| < a., doubt b* Well iwtrotsU-d Th-1 lag and oehalf dollar* in gtdd ws« giram to Wlf FMaltW a**n* •< *h> 4'ioeer !.**♦ railroad I mo**m*nt is ♦♦♦» foot to otgaaW’" I a locifi baa* bail team for tbia y*«r i and a mswtiaa h> the n**r faint* t«> perfect pten* f«*r •***»* A very •<■*! •matear lentb ran be gotten ti»ro-<h*” h«-f* and .b* bupa Would b<t doubt be well p«trobto*d Wai'*’ l‘mttu* wbo ha* been lOflE" ed I* North |**h«*a sot th* pas* flv* V*ra. ar iwd M ’he etty T**«4*’ morMM for a «»*h with hl* fstb*r flylvoaier fouuio* wfomi he bad *«•< wwa tn aia ymara T*maa Itentiu* had b**« W» Cteffiwtebd. Oktaboms visiting hia atetaww end hefofw fetata Mg to Mo«k Dokm. will **emd » fo* dare a« Mo bob** sow WMt of O*W-v. Hta father IB IB the enemy ho.pHe’ *••»« aad-rgtm-s* opsrawikm a .week ago —Rflrtibfo t'ommrtvtal R**tew

LIVEI Y AT FT WA’'NE Eleven 1 hCongressional Convem cn—Other Political Items At pre* -n writing W. H. Blodgett the fastli oiis and evidently fashionable poll ra| blackmailer of the In dlanapol! sews, la spoiling sixes in ctmvinri' < eat peoph* that local o,e tlosi as L vo rd by the Indiana Demo crata, is nu thing but as excuse to abmgaie Mt -resent remonstrance law. It fs not sgt toy Billy Blodgett to deliberately N<> about the motives of any Indh do *1- If he be a Democrat—ao It Is *. a, lor him now to lie about those wl » nay have in charge the framing f ♦lie Democratic state plat-1 torui. It ev*»ry confeieuce n|>ou this pirtlculs p Int. the onject of local Option It b> strengthen the present i temperat • I »ws. The present ranoast re nee I w 1« mg to bo repealed, but V> to lu artrttgthened by the «prfvll*ges of or I option. • There will be blood on the moon Friday Is F*rt Wayne, the date of selectin* deb gate* to the Republican alate co 'ee lon. Congrswsman Wat •on has >eer. on the ground for two day* an hit opponents In the rsce were cl' W < a his heels. Frhm the samples of tuahwhacklng being In dulged I. by these great and glorious Candida- a, I*, would appear that there h but Hute dignity and no honor, t be lag governor of Indiana. • The U*p9 vllcana Eleventh coogressloe. «>. vrntlon la Friday The scrap a«nca o be between Dr Good, of H<-' agtiit. and Editor Lockwood, of Peru anu Marion There is w»me talk cf Td trying to break lnb» th- mat ng but the chances are against im • Thnr* tai a on foot In Madison row. .y to get two thousand signalu. -s to cards wtlcn pledge the signers to v. ie for clean men. Ims*i <h* ffsHr party affiliation* The its etner., la said to h*e,. excited leader* a bo h prrtiea. , Hon s'tUet J Lola, of Muncie, waa accotde the jrl’tlrp of naming bl* de|e**t * to tl*e state convention and In com Hance with that request he has Mr W nil etopfl g «*d .nd faithful Demoer ta. Ha te making a splendid sbowlnt la hi 1 race for attmn- v gr«eral ao*’ jsov 'ooka iikfl an easy via aar • 1 Many ompl* • * being printed by the -res* ia all sect loc s of | B d!*ia I vorla* the Hon. Abram Aim mon. 01 Bluh ««.•• one of the Big F»«ir' a hh • Denver coavt st ton There I noth ng too cnoff f r Abe •nd we -pe h* will wta* At * com “ulttf* ss**’iiti< <»t tbc Jay tfMßi’ rwmocraf*. dk> > <Nit « »*ry oar ft tight Co© eAMi f«* ««w*raor. W H Harkin* far pf *«!4c©Chl ekwtar, and Mr Har fehtrfc. for to r^naint 1 i« th f thr J&r moaty I a , Th«» H glor* ia a *d**r akMw tb. ’•**•ar’*tog It f •or-sV a vary ©rat ipprir aa<**» k* *• Fir a. a tfimtiMr froti' IlMHoa a« raaaaH to wort it I I*h 1 • afor tala t and ? • H • -■* I raid’d tc * from IS •» hr rh rgr of .fttoi I Lamtout M ftsH IBM A ftdiw rr of !• tya la to# ■**otral I rat j®*® froSM t f*df fwfrMtrrah*ra A hm* a itch tea HM mad* sad the parties « • well If »«-•» and II H w rm* aS* thry a 111 asawor U» Iwp OOOHt Any ’2 Ye it Old Giri Can rr »ktr t>ow ddicioui Lrtti'*n Chocclfttr ard Cti» tard pit fl a* w« II a* lhe morr experie irrd crolc if »he met “Ot’R ?iE** preparation, which it now Did by near’y all ffro« «f» at 10 cent! per Mcltar * ~,e proper ingrcdi *nt« in each package.

Yinol Our delicious Ced Liver preparation without oil. Better than old-fashioned cod liver oil and emulsiona to restore health for Old people, delicate children, weak run-down and after sickness, colds, coughs, bronchitis and all throat and lung troubles. Try it on our guarantee. SMITH YAGER A FALK. WELL KNOWN HERE His Brother at Fort Wayne Suffers Stroke of Paralysis and Cannot Recover * A b tier received here recently from EUensberg. Wash., conveying the sad nows that William Lincoln of thxt place who was born and raised . in t'nlon township had died, will no doubt cause much sorrow among hia many acquaintances Ln this vicinity. The deceased was a son of Ira Lincoln •ho was a pioneer, of this county and **ll known by nt least all of the older pwple, who lived in this locality lathe early days. About thirty years i ago be moved to Washington for his future abode and has since resided In that state. Two weeks ago last • Frtday he was the victim of a severe > s'reke of heart trouble, and died quite , iiwide.'Jy. He was an uncle of Waah- . iMgtaa and Dick Burrell. » To add to the grief of the friends t and relatives of this family, George » W*. Lincoln, who was also a resident of I'nlon township, who for the past twenty year, h*» liwd at Fort Wayne. i suffered, a stroke of paralysis last 1J Friday, just rtro ve ks from the time »|af l;ls brother's death and since then • Ihe has not uttered a woid nor swal- • t. lowed anything, aud tt is but a ques'l Gon of a Abort' time until he will pass into eternity. George W. was also bom tn I'nlon township, and U wen • known tn this county. He is a broth- • er-tn-law of John Adam Smith, of this d cit.'- and an uncle to the Bum-1 boy*. • The misfortunes of these estimable ! men • 111 awe most i>oignant sorrow d among their many friends in Adams •* county. I - Q - - - STRICT QUAKATHTNE i > —— Physicians and Authorities Use Best Efforts to Stamp Out the Disease '•< Aaisil.m has broken out afrosb, in llNeved the epidemic waa Aiflder coo- . I I inti. School No. 4 has closed again | I* st*tnj*<l out, Th«* BhifiTto© 11* u xTvHid f ha, lin** in Adm u* y |grti*Attx. who n*e»*ttly mowed to |Adw eaa»r *.z and ’ uwa after taking t<p his residence was I tab*-a sick hut the cause of his til w. «.. not known until after many I 4 the new twighbors of the tsmiiy 1 had Wiled them and laid ihema Ives I open to contracting the dlseaavTbre* children of Jesee Gerber are I sick, bat all the cxses are mild Dr. I Warner, the health officer of Vera t nu. Is ©araatlnlng every family I that has in my way been rxi*o»*d and I <ae ban over the loaies will not be I lift, d until It can be seen that no I who earo-v Into their midst with the I e*rt»»» of th* midrm. vd to t*r,’V* nt LiMAteT mlimtfc » he I dnrtoro there at •* not ailowmg sny one ta amvt from cootmunlty. Mrs. Jake D«iHuger, who was to have XHael be* LushAi’d te make be* bom* la H off co. yesterday, hod vt'dted at th* flrhosrt* hom* before Juc! was fsk<n sick and Munday Dr. McCain. nt Lian Orow. qustaflttn*'d her fee*Ing that she n.lght come to lltii'ftoo and be taken 111 hero, where be »»• for for ‘•i’ r * - 1 <;! ■ adv would be mor* pro table. V, M Hensley left Ute morning for a week a visiting at Atwood laxke Ukia morning He will be joined by several men from F*tt Warn* snd various plaon enl duel, burning will he th* male fextaro of the we*k w