Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1908 — Page 6

THEY WERE BEATEN To the Tune of 2 to 0 After a Hard Fought Game Was Completed The base ball fans of Muncie witnessed one of the fastest games ot base ball yesterday afternoon that t>»s ever been played in that city, when the Decatur boys lined up against the much heralded Shamrocks. Manager Cunningham got a hunch that Decatur was strong and for the occasion he secured three Cincinnati players to help them defeat the locals, which they did to the tune of 2 to 0, only after nine innings of fast and sensational ball was played. Promptly at 3:00 o’clock the game was called with the Decatur veterans at bat. The first three innings passed into oblivion without a single man of either side crossing the rubber. However, in the fourth an error and a hit gars the Muncie club one score. There was nothing more doing until the seventh when a two bagger and a scratch single netted them another run. In the meantime, however, Decatur passed up several opportunities to defeat the semi-pro bunch. In the fourth, Decatur filled three bases w' '» but one out arid the side was retired on easy flies to the infield. Cal Rooison pitched the best, game of b’s base ball career yesterday. He was in excellent form and only permitted the Muncie boys to touch him safely Ifor three hits. He pulled himself cut of several dangerous situations by phenominal pitching. He had worlds of speed and made a decided hit with the Muncie fans. There was not a Decatur player that did not fulfill his position in a creditable manner, although Wolford, Ellis, Bales brothers and Pennington deserve special mention for their unusually clever work. The Fort Wayne Greys play here n >xt Sunday and the lovers of this popular amusement will make no mista*? in seeing the game as the locals are playing great ball. ■ ■ ■ - IS A CABMAN

And Transferred Woman on a Stretcher Who Answers Description Laporte, Ind., May 11.— AU roads In Laporte county led to the Gunness farm Sunday, upwards of 15,000 sightseers visiting the place of death before the sunset. Practically every able-bodies resident of this city made the trip and the railroads and trolley lines brought about 4,000 more to the city. Sheriff Smutzer, who thinks the woman is dead, despite the decision of the coroner’s specially appointed board of Drs. Long, Wilcox and Meyer which rendered a verdict that she is not dead and that therefore, of course the woman’s body found in the ruins of her burned home was the body of some other woman, has received a letter from Jesse H. Hearst, of Decatur, Ind., who writes: “I am a cabman. Last Wednesday a man came to us and wanted us to haul a sick woman from the Erie to the Grand Rapids and Indiana station. He acted very sneaky about it. He was six feet tall, had light complexion, dark hair and dark mustache and weighed about 180. He had a large woman on a stretcher. She must have weighed about 225. The man said they were both from South Dakota, but did not say where they were going. They went out on the Grand Rapids and Indiana. I learned they had purchased a ticket for Berne, Ind. “From the way they acted I think the woman was Mrs. Belle Gunness trying to make her ‘getaway.’ I don’t think she was really sick, but pretending. Her face was wrapped up.” Sheriff Smutzer will investigate, believing it to be a plausible explanation of the woman’s disappearance. ARE CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES The Clover Leaf Have Caught the Fever and are Laying Off Men. A dispatch says that orders were received yesterday by the foremen in the several departments of the Clover Leaf shops at Frankfort to lay off all the men and in consequence 250 men are out of employment and do not know when they will be taken back. The foremen have no word as to when work will be resumed, the report being that they will be closed down for a month and possibly for a still longer period. Only about twenty-five men were left at work, just enough to keep things moving along. A few months ago the shops gave employment to 750 men, but these were gradually laid «ff until fewer than 300 were at work.

GOOD ADVICE t The Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Spoke at Logansport “Os recent years," he said, “the tendency has been to shift the responsibility of government on the officeholders, when, as a matter of fact, good government depends on good citizenship. Every man in Indiana ought to feel that he is personally responsible for the affairs of the state, .and he ought not to be interested alone on election day or in the mere making of campaign speeches, but he ought to study the constitution, both national and state, and realize the difference between Democratic and Republican views; make up his mind which view is the correct one, and then get out and try to impress others. It is the duty to ascertain whether public officials. who are his servants and not his masters, are faithfully performing their duties. Public officials should be made conscious of the fact that they are but servants of the people; that they have simply been hired to do a certain work, and have not been set up as demagogues to look down on others. Officials who do not faithfully perform the duties of office should be discharged and he who attempts to graft should be given a quick haircut and a striped suit of clothes. That is far better than appointing a guardian to watch and see that he does not steal. If more quick haircuts and striped suits were given there would be less grafting. The creating of an endless chain of new offices is a grafting practice that should be stopped. Until we return to what office holding really is. ‘service of the people,’ we may expect the continued multiplication of offices. There are two contending forces of civilization —the Democrat, who believes in man, as a man who thinks he is able to govern himself; who believes with Lincoln that God never made a man good enough to be another man’s master, without his consent; who thinks that written constitutions should be strictly construed; that the home should control as much as it can and what it cannot control, may be delegated to the township, and what the township cannot control be delegated to the county and state. The other idea is the federalist idea now entertained by some but not all Republican leaders. It is that some men are born to rule; that God made some men with better civil right than others ; that in the 'old world this lead to the divine right of kings to rule; it made the slave-holding aristocracy of the south, it has flowered in this age in the men of special privilegs; the man who believes that the dollar is more important than himself. And so we are at the old conflict between those who believe in men on one side and pin their faith to a few men on the other side. The conflict is ever old, but ever new, and It will never cease until the lion and the lamb shall lie down together or the lamb lies down inside the lion. In speaking thus of special privileges, tending to build up the aristocracy of wealth, I want it understood that the Democratic party is not the enemy of thrift, enterprise and money-making. It only insists that the dollars which a man makes shall be clean enough for his babies to cut their teeth on. It realizes that it is not the external but it is the internal quality that makes the man. It is not what I have said, but what I do with it and how I feel that makes me a Democrat or an aristocrat.”

® TWO MEN WERE ARRESTED, t f Charged with Attempt to Murder Pete Poffenberger. I Bluffton, Ind., May 9.—Affidavits 1 were filed yesterday afternoon in cir--5 cuit court against Frank Brown and t Orval Clum, charging them with as- ■■ sault and battery with intent to kill, and each was placed under bond of SI,OOO awaiting a hearing. Neither of - them can furnish the bond and they wiil have to lay in jail until next September to secure a trial. The affi- ’ davits against the young men grew out of the cutting affray last Friday 8 night, in which Peter Poffenberger, a local character, was slashed across the throat by Clum and very nearly 8 killed. Hisi windpipe fwas partially 1 severed and only the prompt work r of physicians saved his life, and he is I still lying in a serious condition and i lias not been pronounced out of dant ger by the attending physician. The :• latter stated today that another operat tion will likely be necessary. Although l ” Clum is charged with being the prinr cipal criminal in that he did the real r cutting, it is charged that he was ini cited to do the act by Brown, who > was with him at the time and that it i was Brown’s razor in the bands of I Clum which did the terrible cutting. Poffenberger is confined closely to his bed in charge of a nurse.

CLEARS EVERYBODY Says Zimmerman AppointWas by Consent of AH the Officers To Editor of the Deca'ur Democrat: In reply to the Bluffton News of April 24, concerning the statement of the resignation of Harry O. Grove, I will say that it is a mistake. With the consent of all officers of the French Township Fire Insurance Co., with the exception of S. H. Hocker, who failed to be present at the especially called meeting for that purpose, Mr. E. E. Zimmerman was to act as assistant to Harry O. Grove and to keep the company’s books for the secretary, Harry O. Grove, until the annual meeting to be held the first Saturday in October, 1908. At that time Hany O. Grove was to be present from Texas a'nd to give a correct and complete report of the year's work. I will further say that Mr. Zimmerman had not been asked to turn over the books by any authority whatever. We, as a company, had no right to the new books until we, as a company, had pa.’d Mr. Grove for the work that be had done in transcribing the business from the old books to the new' ones, correcting the many mistakes found in the old bocks and doing the every-day business of the company. I feel that there has been an injustice done to Mr. Zimmerman by the publication through the Nqws of April 24, 1908, in saying that he was a usurper of the office of secretary; and that he absolutely refused to turn over the books.

Now, to the policy holders of the French Township Insurance <lO., the following officers of the company met at the call of Harry O. Grove and they acknowledge the above. Joel Falk, S. Campbell, G. W. Schaffer, A. J. Smith, Jos, Milholiand, J. M. Beck and G. W. Rupright. G. W. RUPRIGHT, Pres French Tp. Fire Insurance Co. - -o WEDDED LAST NIGHT Happy Couple Have Gone to Housekeeping in South Part of City

Andrew Welfiey is now among the benedicts and is comfortably located in his home in the south part of the city since his marriage Sunday night to Miss Eva Powers, of Fort Wayne. Mr. Welfiey wended his way’to Fort Wayne yesterday, where he remained until the quiet hours of the evening when be and his bride to be boarded the south bound G. R. and I. train for this city. After arriving they repaired to the home of Squire James H. Smith, where the words were gracefully pronounced that made the happy couple man and wife. Immediately after the ceremony the happy couple went to their newly furnished home and began housekeeping at once. This morning Andy was the happiest man in town. The groom is among the prominent business men of our city and is held in the high esteem of all. He is engaged in insurance and real estate business, of which he is making a success. The many friends of the newly wedded’ couple extend congratulations. HAVE BOYCOTTED THE STORES Hartford City, Ind., May 10.—Despite the reports that leaders of both the saloon and anti-salcon parties had requested that no boycotting be resorted to on account of business voting to oust or retain the saloons, several places are said to be boycotted by the saloon sympathizers. A restaurant, a bakery, a meat market and a grocery are named as being among the places from which the saloon forces have withdrawn their trade on account of the anti-saloon activity displayed by the proprietors. People who have stopped patronizing the business houses named say that there is no boycott on and that they are changing of their own accord and are not responsible if others decide to change also. The saloonists still declare that the Third and Fourth wards will be shown to be “wet” at the time the first application for a license is filed. After a canvass of verification, the temperance leaders say the saloonists have nothing on which to base their claims, as all disputed signatures have been examined and the signer called upon by solicitors, who verified the card and made certain ihzt the signature would stand in the courts. — o —- Messrs Stephen Blalsing and A. A. Kammerer, of Garrett, were in the city last evening the guests of friends and returned home on an evening car.

LOOKING FOR HIM His Firm Refused Telegram —He Worked at this Office Two Months In the effort to get some information of one J. N. Wilson, whose effects recovered from the ruins indicated that the missing man was connected with the International Chemical company, of Chicago. Claim Clerk J. P. Brennan last night telegraphed the Chicago concern. To Mr. Brennan’s amazement the firm declined to receive the telegram which was sent "collect.” It is the first incident of the kind that has developed in all the telegraphing that has been done in the effort to unravel the tangles of the situation following the fire. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. Wilson is well known here. He came here about three months ago from Fort Wayne and was given a position in the circulation department of the Daily Democrat. He worked at this office about two months, when he was recalled by his firm and he went to Chicago If he was in this locality egain it was not known by his Decatur acquaintances, and H is possible his belongings were left at the Aveline when he came from there to this city. A SUCCESSFUL YEAR

Is Nearing Its Close—Our Medium of Education is Great Next Friday afternoon the students of the Decatur public schools will remove their school books to their homes and the 1908 term will be closed with the exception of their examinations of next week. A material advancement has been made in the various grades during this yea” and our medium of education is better today than it has ever been in the history of our schools. It can well be said that the instructors are of the very best and the teachers and the school board have put forth ev ery effort to advance the interest of every student. It is no little task to successfully educate and qualify the young men and women for future life. As time goes on there is a greater demand for educated people. In fact the time is near at hand when the young man or woman without an education cannot speculate for future prosperity, hence it behooves the young people to improve the opportunities that are presenting them)selves. In consideration of the above, a responsibility rests upon the teachers as well and all in whose hands the success of our schools is entrusted. There is no one thing that is as essential fo’ an American man or woman to possess as education and every citizen of Decatur that is interested in the wel fare to the growing generation should lend their assistance to make our institutions better. WHICH BEGINS FRIDAY

Juniors Give Reception for Seniors Friday Evening at Niblicks The first event of commencement week for the senior class of the Decatur high school will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick next Friday evening when the juniors tender a grand reception in their honor. A short program has been prepared for the occasion and an elegant time is promised. Sunday the baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by Rev. Spetnagel. On the following Tuesday evening class day exercises will be observed at the public library and an excellent program will be rendered at this time. The commencement exercises proper will be held at the Bosse opera house Wednesday evening, May 20, at which time Dr. Mclntosh, president of Vv’abash college, will lecture and several musical numbers w illbe given during the course of the event. Following the commencement a reception will be given by the seniors. As planned commencement week will be interesting throughout to the thirteen members of the senior class as well as those who receive invitations. o— — Edward Slack, a traveling salesman representing the Wyandotte Washing Powder company, was in the city this morning and told of his thrilling experience in escaping from the Avellne hotel fire. He was on the sixth floor and climbed through the window to the cornice and thus escaped the awful doom that was threatened.

HE CARRIED WEAPON Is Wanted at Fort Wayne So That Bondsmen Can Be Relieved After displaying a 32 calibre revolver and in other ways antagonizing the citizens, David Wormcastle, of MonroevHle, a character of questionable repute, was lodged in the county jail Friday night at 10 o’clock.where ae remained until this morning, when ne paid a fine of S2O for carrying concealed weapon. The man had driven to the city and proceeded to lead himself with bad whisky. His drunkenness relieved him of what common seuse be possessed and he busied himself flashing a revolver at every sa loon he visited stating as he did that no officer could escort him to jail Marshal Bohnke heard of the unbecoming actions of the man and after finding Policeman Fisher they started a search for the drunken man. finding him in the Sheline saloon. Wormcastle was queried as to having a revolver and he bitterly denied it. The evidence being of so little value, they thought best to make a search and be certain about the matter. Mormcastle did not take kindly to the proposed search and offered resistance. However after casting a glimpse at the pursuader held by Fisher, he reconsidered the situation and calmly submitted. Marshal Behnke knew Wormcastle, and further he knew that he (Wormcastle) was wanted at Fort Wayne, so -after lodging him behind the bars, he telephoned Sheriff Grice asking him whether or not Wormcastle was still wanted. The Fort Wayne officer said he would look It up and let him know. This he did this morning but it was after the wanted man was tried, paid his fine and was re, leased. Sheriff' Meyer and his deputy Green set out at once to find him, but no information whatever could be ascertained as to his whereabouts. Wormcastle is out under a SSOO bond on the charge of rape and the Fort Wayne officers would like to lay their hands on him so that the bondsmen can be released.

— o — HIS INJURIES SLIGHT Three Passengers Fatally Hurt and Seven Seriously Injured H. M. Romberg arrived Saturday and shows the result of his participation in the traction wreck on the I. U. T. which occurred a mile south of Logansport Thursday evening. Mr. Romberg was on a limited car going from Indianapolis to Logansport. When about a mile out of the latter city and going down a steep grade, they turned a sharp curve and dashed into a repair car. They were running at a rate of fifty miles an hour and both cars were shattered. Mr. Romberg noticed the approaching danger, saw the Motorman leap and just had time to throw himself to the floor. This perhaps saved his life. As it was he received an ugly gash on the right arm, a cut on the face and a badly bruished hip. 'Walter Quinton, of Anderson was so badly injured that he died soon afterward. Two others were fatally hurt and seven others badly injured. Mr. Romberg helped extricate his fellow passengers and worked on hour before he realized that he had injuries that needed attention. A big leather pocket book which he carried in his hip pocket perhaps saved him from receiving a fractured hip. Will Wade was in Bluffton this morninfe on bis way to Indianapolis after a trip to Portland, where he was looking after some ' gravel road bonds. He did not buy any of the bonds which were sold and says that the bulk of the bonds went to Breed & Harrison, of Cincinnati. The latter firm took the bonds, after interested parties made concessions which make the bonds worth about five per cent to them. They are taking bonds at many places on the same plan.—Bluffton News. Dr. Mark Moran, who has been spending the past two years in medical school at Cincinnati, is in the city, the guest of his brother, James J. Moran and wife, of west High street. Dr. Moran last week gradnated from the Cincinnati Electric Medical Institute, and is ready to enter the practice. He has not yet doermind where he will locate. After a couple years of general practice. Dr Moran will probably re-enter school and specialize in some branch of the ?ie°w BSi ° n ~ POrtland Abraham Debolt, of Union uownship suffered a slight stroke of paralysis Friday and is stUl quite ill.

PROBATED TODAY Includes Two Large Farms. Stocks in Bank and Telephone Co. and Cash One of the largest estates in Union township was that of Christian Scha. merloh. whose will was filed for probate at the clerk’s office. After providing for the payment of debts and funeral expenses, he gives to his son William, 120 acres of land in Union township and four shares of capital stock in the First National bank; to his son Henry he bequeathed 195 acres )D Union township, subject to the condition that a daughter Annie Schamershall have t-wo rooms in the house, upstairs cn the east side, during her life and be properly cared for. To Caroline Thieme he gave $4,000. to Annie Schamerloh $4,000 and seven shares of capital stock in the First National bank and to Bea tee Bleeke $4,000 and fifty shares of Citizens Telephone stock. In case there is not a sufficient amount of money and stocks to pay the bequests, William is to make up the deficiency anl if there is any over, the same is to be divided equally among the children. William and Henry Schamerloh are named as executors. The will was written September 30, 1907, and witnessed by E. X. Eh Inger and C. A. Dugan. ■<> ROHRER GETS BRIDGE JOB. Lands Good Sized Contract at Portland.

The Board of County Commissioners were in session Thursday and let the contracts for the construction of seven bridges and as many concrete abutments located in Bearcreek, Wabash and Jackson townships, known as the Beck. Glentzner, Fifer, Minch, Sisk. Williams and Rupel bridges. All of the work was awarded to the Berne Witness company of Berne and will be constructed in accordance with plans and specifications furnished by them instead of those already on file prepared by the county surveyor. The total of the seven bids amounted to 12,585.24 or $1,144.74 less than the amount of the appropriations. Other bidders for the construction of the work were Emile Thornburg, Attica Bridge Co., Herman S. Fox, Martin Kessen, G. F. Fennig, G. W. and Asa A. Layton, Indiana Bridge Co., W. T. Metzer and P. B. Sawhier. Friday the commissioners will meet as the county board of finance to check up the receipts and expenditures of the other ccunty officials during the month just closed. —Portland Daily Sun. RAILROADS TO RAISE RATES. Said to Be Doing it With Consent of Administration. New York, May 9. —The World today publishes the following dispatch from Washington: That President Roosevelt and officials of his administration have consented to an arrangement whereby the great railroads will be permitted to effect a gigantic combination and raise freight rates is now strongly suspected by many senators. That this compact has been carried to such an extent as to result in definitely determining the first commodity on which rates shall be advanced is received with credence almost equivalent to conviction. It is thought that Senators Foraker, of Ohio, and Culberson, nf Texas, will from day to day bring forward a few additional facts calculated to establish this political and business agreement until a grand climax of accusation is reached. They do not intend to rest until some kind of statement is given out by the president, the interstate commerce com»missioners and others interested in I bringing about such a restoration of (peace between the administration and the corporations.

Rv. C. A. Rowand, pastor of the First M. E. church, left last evening: for St. Louis, where on Sunday he will preach both morning and evening at the Union Methodist Episcopal church, and will also address a men’s meeting in the afternoon. This is one of the churches which has for several months been endeavoring to secure the Fort Wayne man as pastor, sending a committee to this city for that purpose. Rev. Mr. Rowand, however, accepted the return appointment to Fort Wayne and expects to complete the conference year in this city. He goes to St. Louis at this time in obedience to a promise made some weeks ago to supply the pulpit for one Sunday during the absence of the regular pastor, who is attending the general conference at Baltimore. Rev. A. S. Preston. f° r five years pastor of Wayne street church, will preach at the First church Sunday, both morning and eveningFort Wayne Sentinel. Rev. Rowand is well known in this city.