Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1908 — Page 6

Farmer!! whose lands are cut by ditches, dug by ’he county are warned that the banks of these must be kept free from weeds as specified by law. Many instances are known where no attempt has been made to clear away there weeds and in a short time action on the part of officials is liable to follow. From the new drainage law "he following is quoted for the benefit of those who have not as yet complied with the same. “That land owners through whose lands such ditch shall run shall be required to keep all noxious weeds and grass removed from the bank of such ditch so running through his, her or their land, between the first day of June and the firs' day of August of each year.” Mr. and Mrs. William H Laughrey who for many years resided in this city, the former going to Fort Wayne but a few months ago, are having an inning in the superior court at Fort Wayne, Mrs. Laughrey asking for a divorce from her husbhnd. The following from the Sentinel tells of their troubles in the Summit City: Judge Carl Pa pie had his time taken up in the superior court during the forenoon and in addition to granting a decree to Etta Laughrey. who sued William H. Laughrey, he heard arguments in the action of Lottie against Joseph Manier and took the matter under advisement. The trouble in the Laughrey family was a sixteen-year-old stepdaughter, 1 who was accused in the proceedings of being quarrelsome awd bringing about a disagreement between her father and stepmother. While in this city the Laughreys have had much domestic trouble. The past three years of their wedded life! has been most miserable ones, each 1 party accusing the other of misconduct on various occasions. It is hoped that, the court decision will put an end to their troubles. Plymouth. Ind., July 23. —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —The Demo- 1 crats are taking Plymouth today, the I attraction being the congressional, convention for the thirteenth district. It was one of the best conventions ever held in the district, the crowd being large and enthusiasm being high. There was considerable talk of Shively early in th e day, but the at- ■ mosphere finally cleared and Editor, Henry A. Barnhart was nominated by ( acclamation. The nominee is one of the best known and most popular Democrats in the district and it is thought he will giv e C. W. Miller, the Republican nominee a run for his money. Bluffton. Ind.. July 22. —Matt Crum, for several years employed as a section hand for the Clover Leaf railroad at Craigville, has been missing from his home since last Monday and it is reported that his flight was to avoid arrest for forgery. During the past few months he has disposed of about 1800 worth of notes for cash, the securities I on the same —David Crum and Adam Pease —being false. The losers on the notes are the Decatur banks which cashed them, and they will make a determined attempt to bring the man to justice. The above is true in part. Up to date the Old Adams County bank holds the sack for two notes, whose total value is $133. They were given them March 3 and 31, 1905. Mat Crum or rightly James M. Crum representing himself as Henry Smith, to whom the notes were drawn, they being signed ( by David Crum and Adam Pease, two well known and well to do Adams county farmers. On Jun e 17, 1908, James M. Crum presented at the bank an order for $23.45 given him by the Clover Leaf, and it was at this time that the bank positively recognized the Henry Smith who negotiated the two notes in 1905. In th e meantime the bank, through Attorney A. P. Beatty has run to cover complete and positive evidence, and Mat Crum is up against the testimony that will convict him of forgery. Crum has worked this game freely and as areeult several citizens of Craigville and in the German settlement near there are minus coin of the realm in small amounts. His absence now is not alarming those who want to see him placed where he cannot work the game. But his work is really smooth,and does credit to the short fingered profesh, but like all those who fail to trod in the straight and narrow way, he has come to grief. L. I. Scott’s local independents will play a game at Decatur Sunday afternoon. The entire team will go over in Sam Keller’s picnic wagon and in addition a crowd of fans enough to fill several rigs have signified their intention of accompanying the team. Th e round trip in the Keller rigs will be fifty cents and any one wishing to be accommodated should leave word at the bam Saturday evening. The Decatur team was defeated by the locals in a game at Decatur two weeks ago and will make a strong effort to win this time. Scott will pitch for the locals or at least open the game. He may be assisted by Schauppe, a Geneva comer who will probably be tried out in the box for a few innings.— Bluffton News.

’I Bluffton, Ind.. July 23.—There was 1 a most unusual circumstance in the ■ funeral in this city of Ellie H. Johnson, a Confederate veteran of the civil ’ war who served three and one-half years in the First North Carolina infantry in the sou-hern army of the ■ Potomac. During his twenty-one years ’ residency in Bluffton he formed many friends among the veterans of this city who fought in the Union army during the great conflict, and at his funeral yesterday members of the Lew Dailey Post. G. A. R., of this city, took part in the services. Although the G. A. R. veterans did not attend as a post, six of its members acted as pallbearers. and the officiating minister, Rev J. F. Warner, s a son of a G. A. | R. veteran. It was the first funeral ever held in Wells county where a Confederate veteran was buried by mem-. bers of the G. A. R.. and only goes to show the more strongly that all en- , mity has died out between the sol- . . diets of the blue and the gray who were opposed in the sixties. HOW THEY DO IT IN MARION The man who tries to peddle medicine from the street corners, or sell it from bouse to house in the city of Marion, without paying a license fee of $25 per day. will be in for a lot of trouble if the ordinance read and referred last evening at the meeting of the Marion city council is adopted. Beside providing for the collection l of a fee of $25 for each day during which medicine is sold by people not residents of Marion, the proposed ordinance provides as a penalty for i its violation a fine of not less than $25 nor more than SIOO. each day to constitute a separate offense. I A. J. Smith, a member of the board of managers of the Great Northern Indiana Fair association was at Fort Wayn e yesterday where he conferred ■ with the officials of the G. R. & I. ( railroad company in regard to operatI Ing trains to Portland on the evenings of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the fair. In former years, people from the south part of the county and Portland found it inconvenient to ’attend the Great Northern in that no train was operated n the evening so ;they could return to their homes, but ■the G. R. & I. officials have kindly * consented to relieve this situation by operating trains as proposed by Mr. Smith. This fact alone assures a much larger attendance to this year’s fair and every other indication points to the biggest success in the fair line ever held in Adams county. The fair grounds w-as a busy place during the past few days. The various merchants who will have displays have been arranging their booths to make ready for the great event and we will say here that the displays will be larger and better this year than ever. I It Is high time that every Adams county resident get in the harness and boost until time for the doings as it means much to us all. The only apparent business around the court house is by those officers who are struggling with their yearly budget of estimated costs of maintaining their several offices. This is a yearly custom and is filed with the auditor for the use of the commis- . sloners at their August session. Every item of cost is estimated and these various funds are used for the purpose of determining the rate of taxation which will be necessary to carry on the government of Adams county during next year. A warranty deed has been given by Lawrence Schell to Elizabeth Guist, lot in Geneva, consideration S4OO. Adultery with other women, cruel and inhuman treatment, habitual . drunkenness and temporary abandonment are a few of the allegations ’ made by Mrs. Cora’ Belle Adams in . her suit for divorce filed this morning against her husband, Frank Adams. ■ In addition she asks for an order ’ restraining the defendant from disposing of any of his SIO,OOO worth of , property. Mrs. Adams says that she wag married on July 18, 1903, and ; almost from their wedding day he ■ has shown for her nothing of the love he had professed. He was wont, she says, to spend the greater portion of the nights drinking and carousing with women of low and degraded character and ill repute and would come . home intoxicated to abuse with blow and epithet.—Bluffton Banner. WILL ENFORCE THE LAWS. George M. Eberhart, prosecuting attorney, will insist on the enforcement , of the liquor laws of the state of Indiana, as interpreted by Attorney General Bingham. In other words he will hold that so-called temperance drinks are within the statute governing the sale of malt liquors and will be governed accordingly in his enforcement of the law. Such drinks being classed malt liquors, a license for their i sale will be required and the sale of the same without such license will be prosecuted under the "blind tiger act.

Indianapolis, July 23.—John Michell, former president of the United Mine Workers and one of tb e vice presidential probabilities in early days of the Denver convention, was in the city. He came down from his home at Spring Valley, 111., on private business and will return to Chicago. The fact that Mitchell seemingly has become an important factor in the democra'ic party, while W. D. Ryan, secre-tary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, has become a republican candidate for congress in the Springfield (III.) district, does not seem to have changed their close relationship. They were at the Hotel English for dinner and were in conference this afternoon. “What do you think, Mr. Mitchell, the republican and the democratic I platforms adopted at Chicago and . Dnver?" he was asked. “From the standpoint of labor the democratic platform is decidedly the better of the two. Those declarations on the injunction and the anti-trust laws in the democratic platform were written by the American Federation of Labor executive board and were incorporated into the platform word for word. In addition to that the Denver platform is clear on the eight-hour day and other demands of organized labor. Mr. Gompers stated after the Chicago convention the republican platform was not satisfactory to organized labor.” “Do yon think that the Denver platform. together with Mr. Taffs persona non grata status with the American Federation of Labor because of his judicial rulings will have much effect on the labor vote in the campagn?” “I have no doubt, that the satsfactory declarations of the platform and the American Federation of Labor’s attitude will affect the laboring class very largely, and that it -will mean a great many votes for the democratic nominees,” was his emphatic reply. Mr. Mitchell refused to make any direct comment on the altitude of labor toward Mr. Taft Washington, July 23. —President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, in a 6,000 word editorial which will appear in the next Issue of the American Federationlst. the mouthpiece of his organization, sounds the first blast of th e conflict which he intends to wage for the purpose of influencing organized labor to support the democratic preeiden'ial ticket Much of this first installment is history. Mr. Gompers reproduces the planks which he submitted to the republican convention at Chicago and then quotes the planks which that convention adopted on the subjects involved. In commenting upon the results obtained Mr. Gompers says: “At a glance the plank adopted will be seen to be a flimsy, tricky evasion of the issue. It is an indorsement of the very abuse against which labor justly protests, and would, if enacted by congress, gives statutory authority so rthe issuance of injunctions in labor disputes, an authority which does not now exist. It is a pro-in-junction, not an anti-injunction declaration. It is worse than ‘meaningless and evasive,’ as the capitalist-corpora-tion press has designated it. It would make more acute the wrongs by which the toilers are forced to bear the unjust, judicial burden of injunction discrimination.” Mrs. L. C. DeVoss and daughter, Doris, who were called here last week on account of the illness of the former’s sister, Miss Libbie Kendrick, South Medidian street, returned on the Wednesday morning train to their home at Decatur. The condition of Miss Kendrick is greatly improved. —Portland Sun. The management of the Maple Grove park has engaged the famous Heller band to play at the park on next Sunday afternoon. This great band will render a fine musical program of popular airs as well as classical music between the hours of two and four -p. m. The organization consists of tweniy-five skillful and talented musicians and will be one of the best attractions secured at the park yet this summer. Come out and hear his great band, all free. Bales, formerly of th e Alices, is still with the Charleston team and is playing first base. He was ill last night but expected to be in the game today. Since joining Charleston Cliff has played every position on the team except that of catcher and each has been filled well. —Vincennes Sun. In a game Saturday Cliff played first and had 18 putouts and no errors and got two hits. It is understood that a deal is on to trade him to the Toledo team in the Central league.—Bluffton News. A FINE EQUIPPED STUDIO Martin Jaberg, who recently purchased the Sautbine art studio, was at Fort Wayne yesterday, where he purchased supplies for his business. Mr. Jaberg is a hustling young man and is well experienced in the photography business. He will have one of the best equipped galleries in this section of the stat© when he opens the doors 1 of his studio to the public one week from tomorrow. Watch for his announcement in the Democrat for the offers he win make.

About midnight two well known street characters with two men were picked up on the street. The men put up bond for the women They gave the names of Wilson and Pauline Adams. Nellie Young was masquerac.nr under the one name and Blanche Mourning under the other. Blanche is a dyed in the wool sport, while Nellie is a white girt One of the men is a bone-beaded sport from th- wild s of Decatur, where he conducts a thirst parlor.—Fort Wayne News. Who the Decatur man is who conducts a thirst parlor is not known, but as to the Fort Wayne tough wornen no surprise is caused, as -;t has the reputation of harboring some of the lowest type of the feminine sex on earth. August Bth. only Sftees day s distant, will mark the expiration of six more liquor licenses in the city of Portland, and the consequent extinction of wet goods establishments belonging to Edward O. Green. South Ship street. LaFayett e Davenport, north Meridian street. Joseph Fox. north Meridian street Elmer Hutzler, north Meridian street. John McCoy, west Main street and William Leggitx, south Meridian street. These, with the others gene before and more to follow, will increase the number of vacant business rooms of the city and a consequent lowering of rents will quite naturally follow in order that the owners may secure more desirable tenants, or in fact any sort of a tenant for their rooms—Portland Sun. That the farmers of Indiana are preparing to feed more stock during th e coming winter than they fed last winter is indicated in the tremendous increase in the acreage sowed in clover this season, as shown in reports from which compilations of figures have been made by the state bureau of statistics. The acreage has been more than doubled this year, a total of 1,157,915 acres now growing clover, as against 555,890 acres last year. The indications are that Indiana will likely have arecord-breaking clover crop. The crop, it is expected, will be about as heavy to the acre as it was last year. The average yield per acre last year was 1.18 tons and the total crop for the state was 658,874 tons. The clover seed threshed out last year totaled 266,901 bushels. Albert Buhler is home from Mt. Clemens, Mich., where he was taking treatment. He was there for three weeks and received great benefit, and is entertaining high hopes of a complete recovery. For several years his nervous system has been trid to the limit, and from this he could not regain his former bearings and at the same time devote active and daily work at his business. He kept up the clip until just before his departure for Mt. Clemens. At that time he almost completely collapsed, losing the use at times of his right leg and being otherwise on the hummer. His return now so greatly improved is pleasing news. Sam Acker, now sole owner of the Acker and Teeple clothing store, opened up the store for business last Saturday morning. The rooms have been repainted and repapered and remodeled in various ways to add to its convenience and attractiveness. While we regret to lose Mr. Teeple as a fellow business man, we are sure that Mr. Acker with his experience will keep up the reputation of the store. We wish Mr. Teeple success in his retirement, and also Mr. Acker the success h e deserves in continuing the business in our city. Both gentlemen for business qualities have built up a reputation during their career in Geneva. that they need not be ashamed of. —Geneva Herald. County Assessor Gentis is working upon an abstract of the assessment of all live stock. The abstract is being made by townships and when complete will be a valuable index and guide for the work of next year. The figures at hand from the compilation made, shows a great variance in these assessments. Townships alongside even are at great variance and these discrepancies can easily b e rectified and adjusted. Mr. Gentis is showing especial good judgment in his work as county assessor, and will without doubt make an excellent record during his Incumbency of the office. Equitable assessments i s about the hardest nut that officials have to crack. Sheriff Meyer came home last night from Plainfield, after turning over to th e officials there Harold Crawford, who goes to that institution of learning until he is twenty-one years old. A Cralgviil e man who was in town today said that almost the sole topic of conversation there is the disappearance of Matt Crumm It is said that his operations with forged papers extend back eight or ten years and that his brother David and others have been victimized to the extent of about $1,200 in that time. Only two or three years ago about S6OO was straightened up for him.—Bluffton News.

Farmers in many counties in the state are complaining of a new wheat pest that did much damage to this year’s crop and threatens to discourage many {from further efforts pt wheat growing. The insect works on the straw of the growing crop and is known by experts as joint works. They have appeared in much greater numbers in the southern part of the state. Kittie Smith, of South Whitley, the girl wi’hout arms, intends to again enter Taylor university at Upland next year in order to equip herself as financial secretary of a commission that will attempt to raise sufficient funds to establish a home for crippled children. The buildings and grounds are to be located on the outskirts Chicago. D. W C. Teal, one of the oldest residents of Ligonier, is dead at the age of 82 years. He was born in Preble county. 0., in 1826. and located in Noble county ten years later making the trip on foot. He had been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1850. and was a charter member of Albion lodge, the first lodge organized in Noble county. J. H. and Chr. Meyer, tailors, of Decatur. have moved to the south half of the county, the former to Berne and the latter to Geneva, wher e they have opened tailor shops. The Mr. Meyer located here has opened a shop above the Peoples State Bank building and is prepared to take your orders for suits or to do cleaning and repairing. No doubt he will do a nice business. Here’s our wishing for success. —Berne Witness. The grading for th e extension of the Fort Wayne and Springfield interurban is progressing at a rate that is surprising even the officials of the road. With but thirty-five men employed thus far, the teams are working more than two miles from Decatur. The only difficulty encountered is the deep ravine on the Miller farm which necessitates being filled to a height of fifteen feet. In view of this, however, a rapid progress is being made and it is now thought that the filling of this low place will be completed within three weeks and the bridge will be constructed across the small creek. Civil Engineer A. W. Fishbaugh, who arranged the profile, reveals th e startling fact that the filling of this hollow will cost one-third as much as the entire grading to Berne, which, by the way, will cost $1,300 per mile. William Richards has charge of one gang of workmen, while William Roe has control of the other .and the amount of work that is being done is indeed astonishing. We are reliably informed that the track will be laid and cars will be operated to Monroe within three months. The work of laying the track will begin at this end of the grading, while the other end is being graded, and thus the work will be accomplished rapidly. Many mor e men and teams will be put to work soon and we can safely say that before snow flies cars will be conveying people to and from Monroe. Chicago, July 24. —The government will ask a rehearing of the Standard Oil case before the circuit court of appeals within thirty days. This fact was revealed in astatement by United States District Attorney Sims. He said: “We will file a petition for arehearing of the case before the circuit court of appeals within thirty days. If the court denies this, we will push the prosecution of all the cases against th e Standard Oil company. The fight has just begun.” For a week past things have been coming John D. Rockefeller’s way. Since last Thursday Standard Oil stock has advanced 48 points. Os course this was good news for Mr. Rockefeller, who happens to own $33,000,000 of the $98,538,300 capital stock of the Standard Oil company, and the rise is equal to a little market gift of $15,840,0(j0. Just what gave Standard stock its boost before yesterday's decision reversing the ruling of Judge Landis, who fined the corporation $29,340,000 for violating the anti-rebate law, is not definitely known, but for several days Wall street had been expectant and apparently confident. This fact led many people to believe that something or somebody had sprung a leak and that all the speculators and interesred parties had to do when the decision was announced was just to appear to be surprised. There was something about the movement in the price of the stock that suggested that some one had leaked. ’ Any one having acquaintance with 26 Broadway. New i York, th e main office of the Standard i Oil company, can understand the re- ] sources for information which center , at that particular locality. No one ] has intimated that any one connected , with the appellate court is in the ] market, but court justices have friends < and the quick advance in Standard Oil 6 stock would indicate the latter were , either in possession of definite infer- 1 mation, or were good guessers of the i judicial mind. *

That ew American forests abound tn plant* which possess the most medicinal virtues is abundantly altered by scores of the most eminent medical writers and teachers. Even the untu tored Indians had discovered the uaefuL ness of many native plants before the advent of the white race. This information, imparted freely to the whites, led the latter to continue investigations until to-day we have a rich assortment of m, ~ valuable American medicinal roots. Dr. Pierce believes that our American forests aHb((nd In most valuable medicinal root* (o* tbe most obstinate and fatal dl»eaJes, if wtwdbWproperlj- Investigate themand ia>e#Crisathm of this conviction, he CilAOHli pridbjfc the. aJmfrst marvein.,. f-nres effected by j]jS -ficlfien y,--coverjr," which has nrarrn. Jtaelt to to rr.Bl efficient Stnmsrh lonic. l| rf . f ir.v:y. r . star, bean tonic and regulator, y.d t,’ ~j cleanser known to tpedjcal science. sia. or indigestion, torpid liver? ranetk r, ar and even valvular and other affections of the heart yield to its curative action. The reason td»v it cures these and many other affections, is clearly shown in a little book oi extracts from tbe standard medical woiks which Is mailed free to any address by Dr R V. Pierce, of Buffalo, A. Y., to ail sending request for tbe same. O O Not les* marvelous, in tbe unparalleled cures it is constantly making of woman * many peculiar affections, weaknesses and dlstxftsfng derangements, is Dr. Pierce's Favorlte\J’rescripU3t»KSs Is amply attested by thousands < w Fn> s contributed by\j)rteful patTßwm who have been cured by it of catarrhal nelvicdralps,jamTrr periQdSt irregularities. prolapyis.jndvnTr displacements, capstjl bx. ul’yt St ion of uterus andklndred affectl-?ns,oT T 7n after many other advertised medicines, and physicians bad failed. O O Both the above mentioned medicines are wholly made up from the glyceric extracts of native, medicinal roots. The processes employed in their manufacture were original with Dr. Pierce, and they are carried on by skilled chemists and pharmacists with the aid of apparatus and appliances specially designed and built for this purpose. Both medicines are entirely free from alcohol and all other harmful, habit-forming drugs. A full list of their ingredients is printed on each bottle-wrapper. See the Guy Stock company present their famous play “Father and Son’’ under their tent at the corner of Fourth and Monroe streets. The play is a new One and has neverbeen seen here before. William Straub, th e young man who was frightfully injured at the Erie track Thursday by being caught between the bumpers of two freight cars, is resting a little easier today, although the pains caused by the internal injuries are intense at times. It remains a mystery how the young man could survive such an appalling accident and that there is not a broken bone in his body is still more mystyfying, the only explanation being that his side only was caught between the big iron bumpers. This, however, does.not afford a solution to the mystery as to how he escaped instant death, as for several seconds he was pinched between the cars and bystanders could detect him breathing. Every circumstance surrounding the accident furnishes complications, which no on e seems able to solve and the one fact remains that the youth can thank his maker that the spark of life is still within his bosom. The physician gives hopes of his recovery, with nothing unforseen setting in. Hon. W. L. Taylor, of Indianapolis, former attorney general of Indiana, was in tbe city today enroute to Wolcottville for a visit of several days with his mother. Mr. Taylor took the Toledo and Chicago interurban, in which he is interested as counsel, from this city to Kendallville. Next Monday Mr. Taylor will leave on a business trip to Holland, returning in time to deliver the oration at the dedication of a new park south of Indianapolis on Labor day. The ground has been purchased by the union labor organizations at Indianapolis, and it will be dedicated to the cause of labor. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. Charles, the thirteen-year-old son of Mr and Mrs. A. M. York, of the west part of the city, was kicked by a horse at the Perry Sells home Friday night, and as a result he is suffering from two broken ribs, badly cut arm and other slight injuries. The lad was unhitching a horse when the animal backed into a broken shaft. The sharp end of the shaft came into contact with the horse when in an instant it kicked fiercely, striking the lad just below the heart. The boy was hurled to the ground with great force but he was on hfs feet In a short time and started to the house. He had only gone a short distance, however, when he fell to the ground on his face, where he was found by Mrs Sells a few moments later. The boy found it difficult to breathe and his pulse was very weak. Mr. and Mrs. York were notified of the accident and at the same time a physician was called, who administered medical aid to the injured youth and he will recover. However, had the blow been struck a few inches higher, he could have lived but a short time. It may be news to many to learn that Ernest Baumgartner, son of Emil Baumgartner, is a member of the marine corps-on the battleship Illinois, now touring around the world with th e American flet. Ernest left here for the Philippine islands in August, 1907, and there joined the navyHe enjoys his position greatly, and it certainly agrees with him, for he is said to have gained thirty pounds since he entered army life. He wrote hig brother here that the fleet left Honolulu last Monday for Australia - - Berne Witness.