Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1908 — Page 1

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Ifcs BEGAN TODAY ’ amp —— jak-nf Hard Fought—Gave Ug: s Sick Wife Strychnine K| Powders Bg9 " Onio. May 12.—(Special) HT-t Brown. charged with the mur- ( Kpf his wife. Mary Brown, who Mt iLafvet. ai d nuineruua acquainin peea ur. is on trial here, was completed this mornw' ! * continue for a week cKv evidence given before the Dr. R. R- Richison. show ffiV. t he day before the death of hF (j'e Mart Brown bad inquired UM- number of persons as to what hH., ki:l the quickest, strychnine On the morning of the ■ wife died he purchased ten ( f strychnine at Boroff’s BT stere- claiming he wanted it to IK'-.'i'-c!' ai d before the next niorn|K i, a su.eru-nt before Coroner B^hc:■ s'a > d that be ha<l n< " Jmr ' drugs oi any kind tn any of drug stores in the last Bgi heme a..d told his wife that the MMgy physician had prtesCribed powd--rs. His children testhat their father administered to th" mother. Dr. Church K family physician, had not preM 9 powders; strychnine was tn Mrs. Brown’s stomach after with another woman, whom he had lived in the same in Lima for over two weeks, to her that he and his wife rot live together. After the reof Brown and the woman to Wert she testified before the that Brown called her up on average of once a day and that told her he thought a great, of her and would marry her he could get divorced from Brown The prosecuting aitotKs being assisted by one of the Mr. able attorneys cf northwestern Bf> Horace G. Richie. The defense M Me.g made by Attorneys C. V. and Clark Good. jfei MEETING THIS WEEK Sr.ator Dolliver Will Likely Be the Temporary Chairman Chicago, May 12.—The presiding ofhers of the Republican national contntion will be chosen at the meet!z of the national committee this woh. Chairman Harry S. New, of Mianapolis. arrived in Chicago and Dday the headquarters of the comUttee were formally opened. Secretty Elmer Dover, of New York, ar*ved today, and, with Sergeant-at-Ws Stone, took up the work of prefor the convention. The meet- !? of the subcommittee in charge t the convention is scheduled for Wednesday, and it is at this meeting the temporary officers of the ravention will be named. Senator fridge, Leslie M. Shaw and Sen®w Dolliver are the candidates whose •toes have been most prominently •rationed. The places of the secre•ry and chairman of the various comtotees have not been determined up- “■ This matter will be the main Ware pt the meeting of the subtotnittee of the national commit- * »ud will take up most of- the time the two days’ session. It is exWed that the officers of the convenbe named by- the end of this Today Mr. New and Mr. Dover *^ ne d their offices in the Coliseum w ill remain there until the con®uon is over. So far there have 161 twe lve contests filed with Sectory Dover, but it is expected that week the south and west will add ! is st - It has been the intention hairman New to call a meeting of entire committee as soon as a Ity of rh.e contests have been , w ith the committee. Chairman said today that the demand for eis to the convention is unprece•ted fiu. • The requests are still com--11 nr the rate of one hundred a day. k^ Srs ‘ J- W. Brown and James of Wren, Ohio, passed through enroute to Fort Wayne to w ith relatives there for several

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INSURANCE SETTLED Was Paid in Full—Complications in the Case of W. A. Pitcher Fort Wayne, Ind.. May 12.—Three suits have been filed against the owners of the Aveline hotel property and more coming. The plaintiffs are John P. Strohecker, of Charleston. 8. C., who demands $5,000 for injuries, and 1 James C. Foster, of West New ion Mass., and Fred C. Phillips, of New York, who claim $25,000. They were badly hurt by jumping and by burns about the face and head. The defendants are Susan R. Shoaf, owner of the building; her husband, John Shoaff, and Frederick Stevens, and John McAlevy and Mrs. John McAlevy, who compose the firm that conducted the Aveline hotel for many years and was also proprietor of hotels in Richmond and Crawfordsville. The settlement or the insurance risks gives the Shoaff estate the fuil amount for the building. $41,200: $lO,000 for loss of fixtures and furniture, and $5,250 rent insurance. A letter has been received by Chief of Police Ankenbruck from a woman in Pittsburg, who says she is the widow of William A. Pitcher, who lost his life in the Aveline hotel fire. Pitcher traveled for the Bowser Oil Tank Works and was supposed to be single and engaged to marry Miss Ora Russell, of Duluth. Miss Russell came here from Duluth to attend the funeral and escorted the body to the place of burial in Bellevue, O. Pitcher carried a policy of $3,000 on his life, payable to his sister, Mrs. E. 13. Long, of Bellevue. It is not believed that the Pittsburg woman has any legal claim to his property, but the executor of the estate, George Pitcher, his brother, is Investigating.

NEW TRIAL ASKED Distribution Ordered in Re* ceivership—Other Items of General Interest The case of Henry C. Davis vs. Fred W. Fuelling, suit on note, demand |IOO, went to the jury at eleven o’clock Tuesday morning. The evidence was completed last evening and the morning was spent in argument. The record shows the exceptions to the court instructions, in a manner indicating the cause may be appealed by the loser. At 1:30 the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. Attorneys Erwin and Erwin for the plaintiff filed a motion for a new trial. The defendants attorneys were J. C. Sutton and D. E. Smith. Appraisers appointed to fix the damages in the condemnation proceedings brought by the Fort Wayne and Springfield interurban company against Andrew and Mary Miller and who will meet next Tuesday to determine same, are James W. Archbold Conrad Gilllg and James D. Brown. William E. Schwartz vs. Journal Publishing Co., for receiver, petition for order to first pay labor liens to amount of $83.87 filed and so ordered. Receiver ordered to distibute S4OO of money to general creditors. Receiver allowed $15.00 and attorneys $25.00. —o—■ —- W. M. Bell, of Zanesville, and Christian Eichler, of Adams county, who were appointed as viewers on the county line road running from the Neumanese church to the river, met at the court house today and recommended that the road be built. While this is a very hard and expensive piece of road to build on account of the hills and gullies that have to be taken into account still it will be greatly appreciated, as It Is the road leading to the Vera Cruz cemetery. —Bluffton Banner. Judge West made a decision today which a new one in Indiana and has never been passed on by the supreme court. He decided that ministers may file their bills with administrators and collect for their services for preaching the funeral of the deceased. This has been a disputed question and the ministers will be glad to learn that their funeral service 'bills are collectible. —Crawfordsville 'journal.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May I 4 1908.

AT SAW MILL i Got His Left Hand Caught ] in Large Circular Saw— Was Amputated John M. Lenhart, one of the proprietors of the Myers and Lenhart . saw mill located near the Krick and tile mill, had the misfor» I' tune Tuesday at one o'clock of t 1 having his left hand cut entirely off ' s while at his regular duties of head sawyer. Mr. Lenhart had gone W> the mill at noon and after starting the machinery in operation he attempted to brush the dust out of the pit below the large circular saw, when in some manner his hand struck the saw and was completely fievered before he was aware. Immediately after the painful accident, Mr. Lenhart went across the street to the home of Eli Crist, where he lay down until a vehicle removed him to nig home cn Marshal sTeeL Drs. S. D. Beavers and W. E. Smith were hastily summoned and after administering an anaesthetic they properly cared for the injured member. It is thought that nothing serious will set in and that the patient will soon recover, although he will be incapacitated to assume his position as head sawyer hereafter. o DIED THIS MORNING At Her Home Seven Miles from Monroe—Consumption the Cause After suffering for more than one year frem ccnsumption in its worst stage, Mrs. Sarah McDaniel, a lifelong resident of the county, and widow of the late Perry McDaniel, who died three years ago the fifteenth day of last March, succumbed Tuesday ►> the ravages of this dread disease. The deceased was reared in this county and was known by almost every resident in th vicinity of Monroe, as well as Decatur and other surrounding towns. The death of her husband caused the aged lady untold grief and since his demise her health has gradually declined, and about one year ago she was taken ill from consumption. However, her condition was not of such a serious nature as to confine her to her bed until last Wednesday evening, with the exception of a few weeks during the winter months when she was stricken with a severe cold. Last Wednesday evening the afflicted woman became suddenly worse and it was readily seen that the end was near. Her condition grew weaker and weaker until the sufferings were relieved by the call of the grim reaper. The deceased was sixty-eight years of age. One brother, Henry Shepherd, of St. Louis, is the only near relative surviving. The funeral services will be held Thursday morning at Spring Hill church at 10:00 o’clock and the remains will be interred at the Backesto cemetery.

HIPPOPOTAMUS CAUSES PANIC, Eight Horse# Hitched to “Hippo” Wagon in Runaway. Cleveland, Ohio, May 12. —Eight horses attached to a big circus wagon with a hippopotamus in it, became frightend during a parade today and ran away. They dashed’down Scranton road hill at a terrific speed. The crowd was panic stricken as the wagon, weighing tons, careened back and forth across the street, threatening to upset at any moment. The hippopotamus snorted in fright, adding to the confusion. There were many narrow escapes from death, the wheels of the gilded chariot narrowly missing several persons in Its path. Finally two front horses broke loose from the wagon. The whiffletree snapped and the last two horses were entagled in the harness. Both fell. The great wheels rolled over them and they were crushed to death. The back wheels caught on the bodies of the horses, however, and the chariot came to a stop. The frightened beast inside jammed himself against his cage and endeavored to break loose, but the keepers finally quieted him.

Dick Burrell, proprietor of the city newsstand has installed a peanut and popcorn machine in his popular place of business.

A STRAW VOTE Bryan is Far Surpassing the Expectations of His Friends Chicago, May 12.—The Tribune, which has been making a canvass of I preferences for the Democratic nom|inee for president, sums It up by saying: illiam Jennings Bryan is the first choice of 72 per cent of the Democratic workers invited to contribute their views. The overwhelming majority of the party in favor of Bryan jfonecasts his nomination at Deaver. Applying the two-thirds rule. Bryan still has the nomination on the face of the Tribune’s returns. His nearest competitor is Governor John A. Johnson, of Minnesota, who obtained 11 per cent of the total of approximately 4,600 votes. The difference between the two leaders is so extraordinary as to indicate that Bry- j i an is practically the unanimous choice ! iof his party. There is a good deal of opposition to Bryan in the eastern slates. It seems to be confined largely to the men who were behind Parker four years ago. These people have, to a certain extent, taken up Governor Johnson, because, in some peculiar way, they have conceived the idea r he is conservative, tl is not so much that they like Johnson more but Bryan less. But so overwhelming is Bry- > an's lead, so far as the Tribune’s ballot is concerned, that it foreshadows his nomination beyond possibility of opposition. He is much farther in advance of the field than Taft is on the Republican side of the fence.”

New York, May 12. —A Washington special to the Herald says: In his contest for control of the national

Democratic convention, which meets at Denver, July 7, William J. Bryan continues to distance all competitors. The impartial summary of the progress of delegate-getting for the last week and its estimate of conditions in various states shows that the twice-de-feated candidate is surpassing even the expectations of his friends. Sympathy must be expressed for the eastern Democratic leaders and the gold Democrats, who have been dreaming of defeating Bryan. They desire some other candidate intensely, and they say they are still hopeful, but there is little ground for hope unless conditions change. Mr. Bryan is rapidly subjugating the “enemy’s country.” o —— SWIPED ANOTHER Senator Hemenway’s Ash Pan Bill Gone the Route Washington, May 12—The getaway spirit was in control of congress again yesterday. The leaders put their heads together and decided that adjournment must come at the end of next week if possible. This decision was reached without any consultation with the president. Senators and representatives were wondering it |he would rush another message when he heard of It. If the program tentatively agreed cn today is carried out the president’s legislative program will be pretty generally ignored. It means that there will no anti-injunc-tinn legislation, no attempt to change the Sherman anti-trust law and no enactment of a law giving federal employes the right to sue the government for damages in case of personal injuries while on duty. Washington, May 12.-The great railroad systems of the country have succeeded in killing Senator Hemenway’s bill requiring locomotives to be equipped with ash pans that can be emptied without the presence of the fireman underneath the engine. The senate committee on Interstate commerce, of which Mr. Elkins is chair, man, gave the bill its death blow by postponing further hearings for two weeks. This means that the bill cannot pass at the present session. The men who are here to represent the organized railroad brotherhoods before congress are very much disheartened by the committee's action.

A CROSS COMPLAINT In Which Mr. Holthouse Asks for Accounting of Nine Years’ Business Attorneys Peterson & Moran were at Portland Monday where the case of John W. Poling vs. Peter Holt house suit on note, demand $628, was set for trial. Holthouse owns a clothing store at Redkey which Poling managed for nine years for a salary of SIO.OO per week and half the profits. After they had dissolved partnership Poling sued Holthouse on the note given in 1904. Holthouse filed an answer in which he alleged payment, failure of consideration, and also claimed a set-off byway of a counter claim. He said .hat when the store was opened at Redkey, Poling was to have a stated sum as salary for managing the store, was to buy all goods, employ all help and pay all bills, the net profits at the end of the year to be divided | equally. Hclthouse claims that a business averaging $15,000 yearly was done,- at a yearly average profit of 25 per cent. This arrangement continued for more than nine years and his share of the profits were in the neighborhood of $17,500. Holthouse declares he has never, in that time, had an accounting, and that practically all of the sum is now due him. When they were nearly ready for trial yesterday a new issue was raised and the case was postponed until June 27th. Mr. Holthouse Is the well known clothing man here and Mr. Poling is also a native of the county and is well known.

ON NOVEMBER 25TH Governor Hanly Will So Proclaim—lndiana to Exhibit at National Show The commission appointed by Governor Hanly to arrange and care for a large exhibit of Indiana corn at the National Corn Exposition to be held in Omaha, Neb., December 10 to 19, inclusive, at its first meeting yesterday in the state house decided to hold a corn show in every county in Indiana on November 25, the winning exhibits to be seat to Omaha. Governor Hanly will be asked to issue a proclamation setting apart November 25 as “Corn Day” in Indiana. The executive committee of the commission will appoint an agent or agents to represent it in each county. The agents will make all the arrangements for the corn show in their respective counties. The commission will endeavor to raise $2,000 or more to pay the freight on the Indiana exhibit and to be divided in prizes for competitors among Indiana growers only. The executive committee has been given full power to act in the matter of making arrangments for Indiana's exhibit at Omaha, and will hold a meeting probably next week to complete its plans. Thomas A. Coleman, of Rushville, was chosen chairman of the commission yesterday and L. B. Wore, of Franklin, was chosen vice president; Prof. G. I. Christie, of the Purdue Agricultural school, was made secretary. These men 1 , with J. M. Brafford, of Indianapolis, secretary of the Indiana Grain Dealers' association, and Charles Downing, secretary of the state board of agriculture, constitute the executive committee. Industrial organizations, implement companies and Individuals will be solicited for money for the fund. —•- THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED. Woman Transferred Here Was Not Mrs. Gunness. Speaking of the letter of Jesse 1 Hurst of this city to the Laporte authorities, concerning the woman : transferred here afew days ago, the ' Berne Witness says: The six-footer and 180 pounder was our Rev. H. H. : Kattman, who in company with his wife had gone to Ohio to get Grandmother Mrs. Steinhage, who is sick, < and who is the mother or Mrs. Rev. Kattmann. She is the woman that was transferred from the Erie to the G. R. and I. station on a stretcher. ■ a number were severely Injured. The 'members who perished were Maurice Hirsch and E. J. Ellis, of Chicago, and R. S. %hn, of Pana, 111.

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STATE DELEGATES Attendance Large—Many Heard Mr. Fanning’s Talk Last Night The Prohibitionists of Adams county met in mass convention Monday afternoon at the Christian church and the meeting was the best ever he’d by the party In this community. The attendance was five times larger than the session two years ago, showing the increase in interest. Rev. W. J. Myers presided and William Drew, of Geneva, served as secretary. During the afternoon Michael J. Fanning, of Philadelphia, addressed the convention, giving facts and figures on the temperance question, some of which were startling and all very interesting. While perhaps a little radical in some of his statements, he gave many true facts in proof of his position, impressed his hearers and drove home the one great issue that the man ufacture and sale of intoxicants is a menace to our country. Mr. Fanning is a polished orator, well versed in statistics, earnest of purpose and a fighter for the cause be believes just and right.

The selection of a county ticket resulted as follows: Representative—Rev. T. A. Cooper, Berne. Pros. Attorney —Wm. Drew, Geneva. Auditor —John Shifferly, Union Tp. Clerk —Uriah E. Cramer, Decatur. Treasurer —Jacob P. Hatbegger, Monroe. Sheriff—Martin M. Shady, Kirkland Tp. Coroner —Dr. Waldo E. Smith, Decatur. Surveyor—Samuel C. Cramer, SC. Mary Tp. Commissioner —Henry Fuhrman. Root Tp. Commissioner —Martin Beery, Washington Tp. County Chairman —L. T. Brokaw, Decatur. Delegates to state convention —Wm. Drew, Louis Brokaw, Archie Shady, W. E. Cramer, Crist Raessen, T. A. Cooper, Catharine Davy, W. J. Myers, W. B. Weldy. 1 Alternates—Joseph Shady, Martin Shady, Reuben Beery, Benjamin Em- ■ erine, Geo. Hartman, Madames W. . J. Myers, D. N. Myers, Archie Shady. At 7:30 Monday night Mr. Fanning addressed a crowd of several hundred ’ which filled the circuit room and all listened attentively to his two hours’ i talk, many were interested, some convinced and is a certainty that the pro- : hibition cause in this community was advanced through Mr. Fanning’s talks, i He interspersed his remarks with enough humor to keep every one in a pleasant mood and while handed a few “hot ones” to the old parties, he did it in a nice manner, which offended none. It was a plain discourse and there was more enthusiasm among those who have spent year-J in the temperance w-ork than was ever evidenced here. o ■ ■ ■ - LUTHERAN SYNOD TO MEET. At Fort Wayne—Will Consider Important Questions. Fort Wayne, Ind., May 12. —The great conference of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church, covering ten days the opening session of which will be held Wednesday, in this city, will consider fifteen questions of vital importance to the church. The presence of 700 delegates is expected, coming from every section of the United States, and also from Canada, and they will represent a constituency of many thousand members. One of the Important matters is the question of forming a gigantic church corporation to control and administer the property of the Lutherans in the United States and Canada outside of the churches themselves. It is proposed that this corporation shall control the seminaries and colleges of the church, as well as other properties held by the church. An. other question is the merging of the English-speaking and the Germanspeaking conferences In one meeting, this to be one step in the effort to make all of the churches more closely affiliated with American institutions. Coupled with this is the question of the feasibility of publishing a newspaper in English, issued with the German publication at St. Louis.

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