Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1909 — Page 1

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I COURT HOUSE NEWS Hi 11 ' Hu'-' ■ [jury Disagreed in the Mollie I Fravel. Perjury Case I OTHER COURT ITEMS ■l I Dan Bailor and Warren I Reed Were ArI rested ■ ...■>*■ 11lI' A jury was dispensed with in the |‘ case against Melvin Gallogly for asI A&ult and battery, and the evidence I was hear<|.by the court. The case ■ -Will likely be argued tomorrow and I > decision made. I Samuel Bailor and Warren Reed I Were arrested on warrants Issued I the receipt of stolen propio erty. Their bond was made at S2OO I and the cases will come up later in I the term. The stolen property was | coal taken from the Clover Leaf railI load by the Baker boys and sold to I them, mention, of which was made I several days ago. I f. There was a round of juvenile court r|n which the two Baker boys figured. I They plead jjullty to petit larceny, I .and were sentenced to the Indiana | School for Boys, at Plainfield. FredI G Ayres was also sent to Plainfield, I he being an ineorrgible. After deliberating for eighteen I hours the jury in the Mollie Fravel I case announced to the court their I Impossibility of agreeing, and the | -court discharged them. The evidence I and arguments were all completed I yesterday evening before the close of I court, and they were instructed and sent out They reported at 9:30 this I' morning and after stating that it would be impossible for them to agree they were discharged. The case was rather a hand one for the state, and it following after a similar case ■ against Johnloz, the result Is about what was expected. Adam Mosure who Is on trial in the Wells circuit court for criminal ggi'sault, is a product of French townpsliip. He is charged with assault upon Elsie Pearl Martin, aged fourI teen, arid an Inmate of the Wells the charge, it may go~hard with Mosure. We understand that he will try and prove an alibi. The state case against Merl Leisure for petit larceny, has been discharged and defendant discharged. Louis Keller, the Monroe saloonkeeper, pleaded guilty in open court to the grand jury indictment of permitting persons In saloon on Sunday. Ho was assessed a fine of $lO and costs. / . ■ The last will and testament of Joseph Brown, deceased, was admitted to probate. It bequeaths to the brothers of the deceased, Isaac Brown, $200; Adam Brown $225; John Brown |150; William Brown 110, and his sisters Clara Brown $l5O, Martha Brown |l5O, Drusella Mumma $250, Amanda Miller SSO, Victoria Brown SSO, Abraham Brown S3OO. The will also provides for the payment of all debts, and names Joseph Brown as executor of ■the will. " R. S. Peterson as special judge, will render his decision in the Bremerkamp guardian case at the opening of | court tomorrow morning. The transfer of real estate includes Samuel OpUger to David Meshberger, ; a small piece of ground in Hartford township $54. Thomas J. Vorhees toj Frank D. Brewster, thirty-nine acres in Jettereson township $3,000. F Z.7. .... n o . ■-■■■ 5 ATTACKED BY FOX TERRIES Evansville, Ind., Feb. 17. —While Mrs. Thomas Whitney, wife of a wellknown railroad man here, was walking along the street,- she was attacked by a fox terrier dog, which bit her I .. in the arm, mistaking a lynx head on her fur coat for a live animal. The —woman U in a serious condition and blood /poisoning is feared. Several people on the streets i who witnessed the attack ran to the rescue of Mrs., ; Whitney and beat off the dog. [ " V —.- v -■* ■ ' ‘‘ ■ Be * I

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' FOR THE ROAD I The Linn LGrove business men and 'citizens are desirous of helping boost Bluffton, Geneva & Celina Tractton line and for the purpose of putting their efforts into concerted action a meeting of railroad promoters will be held this evening at a public hall in Linn Grove. A party of Bluffton men including Abe Simmons, w, A. Kunkle, R. F. Cummins and L. CZ Justus will make the trip from here in a big bob sled, over much the same route as they hope before this time next year to make in one of their new traction cars and at that place they will be met by a party of Geneva citizens. The Geneva boosters have already .raised in stock subscriptions over one-half of the $75,000 which they proposed to. place—Bluffton New»- " ' ■ thecomlmeet Matters Making Progress for the New City Building A SEWER John Merica Petitioned for a Sewer in the South ' Part of City > Regardless of the inclement weather the council met In regular session Tuesday night,Mayor France presiding and every councilman being present and answering to roll call. The session was not a very busy one, as there was not many matters to be taken up and at half past eight the members adjourned. The first matter taken up was the reading of a petition signed by John Merica et al asking for a sewer in the south part of the city, and upon motion the matter was referred to the city engineer, C. Vogt, who was advised to look into the legality of the matter and to report back to the council at their next regular meeting. Architect Oscar Hoffman, whose services were some time ago secured by the city to prepare plans and specifications for the new city hall, was present at the meeting, and presented Sis specifications for the building, which were read and after making a very few minor changes in the same, the specifications were approved by the council. This proceeding was followed by the reading of a resolution authorizing the city clerk to' give notice In a newspaper of general circulation that the council would, on the 16th day of March, 1909, receive sealed bids for the sale of city bonds amounting to twelve thousand dollars, these bonds are to be In the denomination of one thousand dollars each and are to bear interest at the rate ot four and one-half per cent to be paid semi-annually. Immediately after the sale of the' bonds on the above named date the council will then, adopt a resolution to advertise for blds for the construction of the building, and from that'time on the same will be rapidly pushed to completion. The following bills were then read and allowed: : Johns, Mandat & 00.........$ 20.97 Union Gil Works 2747 Lagonda Mfg. Co. ............ 13.02 Central Electric C 0............ 5.95 Bass Foundry ... 7.90 George Kiser & C 0........... 1.31 Sunday Creek Coal Co 109.96 O. B. Wemhoff...... 1-80 D. F. Teeple 47.67 C. & E. .... 160.55 J. D. Hale 48.35 iF. Sputter 6.08 ! Steele Bros. .. 23.62 H. Harruff q....... 20.00 F. Foos ’ 2.10 Union Steam Pump C 0... 18.23 < Ft. Wayne Electric Works..... 37.85 i National Mill Supply C 0........ . 5.66 ; Standard Oil C0..J?....' 86.23 L. G. Elllngham 34.95 No further business coming before j the council they adjourned,, to meet : at their next regular meeting. < -■■■ , - ■ 0 •!> ' | Senator Beveridge Is seeking to i have SIOO,OOO appropriated for a post- • ioffice building at Goshen instead of, the $70,000 originally contemplated, Ii

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SCOTTISH RITERS A Two Days’ Session at Masonic Temple March 16 and 17 THEIR NEW HOME Their Beautiful Cathedral Will Be Complete for the Next One The final semi-annual reunion of the bodies of the Ancient and Agcepted Scottish Rite of the Valley of Fort Wayne, In the'* present quarters In the Masonic Temple building, will be held on tne 16th and 17th of March, and will conclude with a big banquet on Wednesday evening. By next September, the time for the next semi-annual convocation, the Scotltsh' Rite bodies will be Comfortably housed In the Scottish Rite cathedral, now in process of construction on the corner of east Washington and Clinton streets. The program for the March convocation has been issued from the press of C. J. Lose. It calls for the inauguration of the work on the afternoon of the 16th, at 2 o’clock, when rites from the 4th through to the 13th will be conferred. The sublime and mysterious degree of perfection, the 14th, will be conferred In the evening, and the 15th and 16th on Wednesday morning. Wednesday afternoon will be for Emanuel Chapter of Rose Croix, when the 17th and 18th degree work will be Carried out The banquet concluding the convocation will be one of the biggest features of the two days and invitations to guests In all northern Indiana will be sent. Hon. Edward G. Hoffman will be the toastmaster. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. ■ : ~ — MUCHDAMAGEDONE The Citizens’ Telephone Company Repairing Lines SLOW PROGRESS Better Weather and Ail Lines Will Be Working The damage done to the wires and other property of the telegraph and telephone wires is yet hard to estimate, but it Is expected that within a day or two the weather will subside sufficiently to get a line on the actual damage done. The Citizens* Telephone company are heavy losers, and the damage done will take some time to repair, although service will be given their /patrons nearly everywhere In a very short time. The greatest Inconvenience will come in their country lines, miles of which are now out of service. Arrangements are already going forward for the immediate repair of ail the defects and it is a safe bet that no other telephone company in the country will be giving complete service as soon as will the Citizens’. < The Citizens* 'Telephone company will soon have a new telephone directory for the use of their patrons. Since the last one was published the company has grown so that a new book is needed for that reason it for no other. Linemen for the Citizens* company were working in the southern part of the county yesterday, but the progress was slow and the wreckage great. Dr. Miller, |he evangelist, who is conducting the revival services at the M. EL church, is interesting large audiences by his clever preaching and singing. He has with him about three hundred beautiful stereopticon views which are shown in the illustration of songs which the minister sings with guitar accompaniment.

TO HAVE A CORN SHOW. I*l. . _ J A corn show will be one of the interesting. features in connection with the farmers* institute to be held in ,the assembly room of the court house in Fort |Vayne on February 26 and 27. The congest is open to the farmers of Allen chanty, and Hon. G. V, Kell, ,of Huntertown, is superintendent of the contest. Regarding it Mr. Kell says: "First, Second and third premiums will be awarded on the following: Yellow, white, Lawton and other varieties, Ajso valuable premium for sweepstafces. We desire to make the exhibit instructive. Each sample will be scored by the Indiana Corn Growers’ association score card. A duplicate card will be placed with each sample scored which will enable the owner to study the strong as well as the weak i points in his exhibit. Ten ears of one variety constitutes an exhibit—Folt Wayne Sentinel. , ■. o 0» PACIFIC COAST One-Half of Navy to Be Kept on Pacific | Waters AGAINST COURT BILL . I, The Fairbanks Are to Make a Trip Around the [ , World Washington, Feb. 17. —One-half of the United States navy should be kept, on the Pacific Coast at all times 1%. the opinion of the senate*. An • amendment to the naval bill was 1 agreed to providing that in the dis cietlon of the president one-half of the navy shall be kept in Pacific waters, so far as practicable. The president already has the authority so to divide the fleet, but the amendment amounts to an expression of congress | in favor of such action. As introduced originally, the division of the navy was -mandatory. 5 Washington} Feb. 17.—Attorney General Bonaparte fired a broadside at the Indiana federal court re-organ-ization. In a letter to Chairman Jenkins of the house judiciary committee the attorney general goes on rec- , ord in the most emphatic terms against the plans of the re-organizers, which, he says, would Involve a great deal of expense and would be without counterbalancing benefit to the people of Indiana Washington, Feb. 17. —In the opinion of President-elect Taft philander C. Knox is now legally eligible to 1 receive the appointment of secretary ‘ ot state. That he will be the premier in the Taft cabint was positively stated by Mr. Taft at the white house, ! the statement being made after two today between the pres-ident-elect ' and Mr. Knox. 1 Washington, Feb. 17.—Vice \president and Mrs. Fairbanks are contemplating taking a trip around the world shortly after the adjournment of congress. They probably will take a steamer at San Francisco, visiting Hawaii and the Philippine islands, then China And Japan and returning via Europe. The time of their return is not definitely fixed. A— >0 . HE PbEAD GUM.TY. Columbia City, Ind., Feb. 17.—Dr. J. W. Hartsog of Fort Wayne was arraigned before Judge L? H. Wrigley of the Whitley circuit court Monday afternoon and plead guilty to a charge of illegal practice of medlclnd. He was fined $25 and costs. The affidavit was made at the instance of Mrs. Frank Schneider of Churubusco. Last April Dr. Hartsog, who is a licensed oculist, gave the mother of Mrs. Schneider some medicine with which to treat her eyes and total blindness resulted. —o . A loss of $1,500 was caused at Ligonier Tuesday, when the four-story wall of the Banta-Bender Manufacturing company’s building along the Elkhart river bank in that city fell in. The foundation has been undermined by the water.

IT WILL BE HOT Local Option in the Senate Beginning to Warm Up Some ARELINING UP Its Report from the Committee Will Be Delayed Indianapolis. February 17. —In the fight in the senate against the Proc-tor-Tomlinson bill, the charge will be made that the bill would not only repeal the county option law, but that it would also repeal the remonstrance feature of the Nicholson law, and would wipe the Moore blanket remonstrance law off the statute books. A leading Republican of the senate declared yesterday that the bill “teems with iniquity,” that it would do all these things, and put in the place of these temperance measures, a law which means pretty nearly nothing. While the enemies of the bill are lining up against it no action is being taken toward reporting it by the committee on public morals. The : pcllcy of delay, adopted a few days ago by general consent among the Republicans of the senate, is being carried out Senator e Mattingly, chairman of the committee, said yesterday that no meeting of the committee had been arranged, and that he did not know when one would be held. Further than this he would make no statement It is generally understood among the Republicans who oppose the measure, however, that the Republican members of the > committee, wiht the possible exception of Senator Orndorf, who may support the bill, if amended, will hold , a report back as long as possible. GETTING TICKETS > t. The Election ers Are Busy Today i i ARE WORKING HARD Much Work is Being Done I by the Organizations I Election Commissioners P. K. Kinney and D. N. Erwin are busy today counting, wrapping and sealing election ballots for use in the election next Tuesday. The ballot is not a very portly looking affair, having nothing on it save the squares “yes” and “No” opposite which is: “Shall the sale of intoxicating liquors be prohibited.” With the idea in view that each and every voter may express his sentiments, the Democrat would again admonish its readers that the wording on the ticket is misleading, and that if you want to vote dry mark the square encircling the word “yes,” and if you want to vote wet, mark the square containing the word “no.” Both the wets and the drys are working hard and the contest bids fair to be pretty evenly matched by election day. Much personal work is being done, and by the end of the week the organization work on both sides will have been complete. ' 80LD THE RINEHART FARM John C. Moran as commissioner in t£e”W, D. Hinehart estate has sold the forty acres farm west of the city, it bringing one hundred dollars an acre, the purchaser being Joseph Meyer. The Commissioner also had for sale a house and two vacant lots in the west part'W the city, but the bidders failed'' to make any advances on it. The farm is ai good one, and well worth the price named, although it is unusual for land tb bring such a price when sold by officer ot the court 1 ■ — _

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HAVE PAID THE JUDGMENT Dickey Wickey, Christ Swartz, Joseph Hilty and Bishop „ Joseph A. Swartz, of near Berne, foer of the defendants in the Amish damage suit here in the circuit court on change of venue from the Adams circuit court at Decatur, were in this city Tuesday and deposited with Whitney * E. Smith, one of the attorneys in the suit, the sum of $1,036.35, the amount of the judgment and a part of the ecsts rendered against them. In conversation with those who were here Tuesday it was learned that Paille and his wife are still co-habitatlng together, but not in the true sense of husband’ and wife, Mrs. Paille still cooking his meals but not eating at the same table with him and occupying different sleeping quarters.— —Portland Sun. ——o — A GOOD PROGRAM A Sunday School Institute to Be Held Thursday THREE SESSIONS It Will Take. Place at the Presbyterian Church The Sunday school institute for all workers in every Sunday school of all denominations will be held at the Presbyterian church on Thursday of this week, bids fair .to be largely attended with workers from all parts of the county. The program gives evidence that the meeting will furnish plenty of entertainment, the sessions lasting through the morning, afternoon and evening. Officers and members in all the schools of the county are invited to attend and participate in the day’s program* which fellows: Morning—s:3o. The Acts und Epistles (1909) (45 minutes E. W. Halpenny. The Standard of Excellence Mrs. M. J. Baldwin , The Intermediate Department 1216 —Characteristics E. W. Halpenny Appointment.of Committees by Pres- ; dent City Sunday School Ass’n. Noon—2:00. Lesson Preparation Mrs. M. J. Baldwin The Intermediate Department (Problems and Suggestions) .. E. W. Halpenny Reports of Committees and Business. Parallel Conferences — (a) Elementary Grades (1-12).. ;. .led by Mrs. M. J. Baldwin (b) Adavanced Grades and S. S. Officers... .led by E. W. Halpenny Evening—7:3o. The Missionary Spirit *in Sunday . School .E. W. Halpenny Z Stories and Story Telling / ..Mrs. M. J. Baldwin Offerings for State Extension Fuqfl. °— —y DOINGS IN POLICE COURT. Charles Sezer Arrested Selling Llqudr to Minors. ' Night Policeman Amos Fisher this morning filed an affidavit against Charles Sezer in which selling liquor to minors was charged and the de; fendant will be arraigned before Mayor France. Henry McLain who last Friday was placed in jail on a charge of public intoxication was released this morning after furnishing bail for his appearance in court next Wednesday, when his trial will come bffe Henry became ill while in jail, and. asked to . be given a chance to furnish bond. o— — Mrs. Frank Drabenstot, of Huntington, has just located her daughter in White’s institute at Wabash, after a separation of eight years. “Fifteen years ago the woman’s husband died, leaving her destitute with a family of children. She was compeNed to place them in an orphan asylum and had . lost track of them In the intervening years. The daughter is now 18 years of age.

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