Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1909 — Page 3

r.uty, demand »3M_ Th. nf Samuel -.t .J i ik? case oi samuei Leman et ax- I !f va Churl pa P Mart® nn nnf a I went rendered in sum of 1225.60 and COStS. •' '■ i . < - I May Lacaster vs. Persa R. Bell, suit on note, demand $55, second para- , graph of answer filed by defendant, answers also filed to interrogatories by defendant. ■ - 7 C. 9. Clark, administrator of the estate of Angelina Schlegel, filed a petition for the sale of real estate. — A petition was filed by Laura Van* Camp, executrix of the estate of Anson Van Camp, for permission to test a mill at Akron, Indiana, erected by Mr. Van Camp an dthe court so ordered. R. K. and Catherine Allison, executors of the will of the late Robert B. Allison, filed their current report which was duly allowed by the court, j A marriage license was issued late Saturday night to Ralph A. Knott, formerly of this city, now located at Lima, Ohio, aged 29, a brakeman, to |&fs Mary Falb aged 28, of Li< n Grove I dlana. — —o ■ The final killing of the twenty-five I year artificial gas franchise asked by the Indiana Lighting Company, the adoption of a resolution for a new water tube boiler at the city light and water plant, and a general ble over salaries and a bill of S7OO presented by and allowed to Mayor Hamilton for special services as an assistant to City Attorney Stine in fighting a number of lawsuits for the city were the chief items that furnished one of the liveliest and scrappiest meetings of the city council Friday evening that has been pulled off in a long time, says the Bluffton News. Had the fireworks only been advertised the council would have had a full house for their oratorical efforts. After much argument on the gas question Concllman Poffenberger made a motion to reconsider the vote of two weeks ago when Omt motion to pass the franchise to third reading was lost, and at the same time Mr. Mulholland tiptoed from the council chamber In order to get the first car back to Fort * Wayne. Mr. Poffenberger’s motion to reconsider carried, and the franchise was passed on third reading by a unanimous vote. Then Mr. Poffenberger made a motion for the final passage of the ordinance and every councilman voted no. Mayor Hamilton added that the clerk might also record his vote no. This kills the franchise being called again, and if the new council has a franchise presented it will have to start one of its own . _____ ■, o | Auburn, Ind:, Nov. 29.-The hardest fight the brewers and liquor interests have made to send a county “wet” since the passage of the local -option law was lost Saturday W DeKalb county rolled up a “dry” majority of 980 and prevented the return of the saloons for two more years. But six precincts out the entire thirty-seven went “wet,’* four of them being in Garrett, and the gains in all of them were so small they were hardly noticeable in the total result. ' 1-.. ? v Every precinct in the city of Auburn, contrary to general forecast, was won by the anti-saloon forces, and In Union township alone a lead of 159 was given. Garrett, as was expected, went ‘•wet," but Instead of 500 majority, as was claimed by the saloon element, by only 115. East Garrett, or "Dutchtown,” as it is known because of the many Germans residing there, gave a majority of 40 "wet,’» and Altona, the western ( suburb of Garrett, 17 “wet” Butler and Wilmington townships gave “dry” majorities In every precinct, totalling 251. Waterloo and Grant township, “dry” strongholds, held Sand turned up a majority of 98. |snly “wet” paper In the county gpublished at Waterloo. North Smithfield precinct, one of the six to vote “wet,” was won by but four votes. The precinct Is comprised of Germans for the most part and was conceded by the "drys’> by many more votes than the returns show. By carrying South Smithfield by nine votes the "drys” have cause for elation and are greatly surprised, the settlement German and considered “wet.” Warren county votes tomorrow and this is likely to be the last county that will vote upon the question until some time next spring. There are now thirteen counties In the state ♦hat have voted “wet’’ and nine that have had no election under the option law. Six counties are dry by remonstrance and slxty-four by local option elections. ' — o-‘ ————• ' . -

I. a <rl<ranVte automobile industrf a plant which guarantees to employ 2,000 men within a year after begin- ■ clinic operations, v < I Peter president of Huntington’s committee for the settlement of industrial conditions, is now In [dally communlcaton wth offlcals of the big firm. They have given assurance that they will have representatives in the city immediately for the purpose of completing final arrangements. It is understood that the factory asks an appropriation of 1100,000 to locate in this city. Members of the boom committee are ready to give It. From this It appears that the big project is a sure tiling. The only thing that now remains to be done in the matter is to get the required amount. Mr. Scheiber gives the happy assurance that this will be a comparetively easy matter. He is not yet ready to state his method but says hft hAR srlven the matter deep thought and that he will not be without plans when the final proposition is laid before the committee. — Huntington News-Democrat ' , O" ■ ■■ Washington, Nov. 28. — Walter Wellman, wnose preparations for a conquest of tne north pole in an air ship were abandoned upon the announcement of Dr. Frederick A. Cook ard Commander Robert E. Peary, issued tonight a long statement in which he analyzes the narrative of the two explorers, declaring that of Peary “precise, workmanlike,, consistent, 'credible in every particular,” and denouncing that of Dr. Cook as a self-evident and even deliberate imposture. “Cook’s story is suspicious both in what it tells and what it does not tell,” Mr. Wellman declares. “He is generally vague and indelntte, but, like most men of his class, entirely too precise at the wrong place. Nowhere does his story ring true. It is always an approximation of reality itself. This is true of his figures, his description, everything. “Those of us who have had a share in arctic work,” says Wellman, in concluding his analysis, “and who have felt anxiety that no blot of fraud ataantt stain the proud record of effort and sacrifice had a first hope—that Dr. Cook would be able to demonstrate his good faith. This has dissolved in analysis of his own story. “A second hope—that he was the victim of some hallucination or mental illness and believed hirfiself he had been at the pole, though, of course, he has not, vanishes in the light of earlier and subsequent events. There remains, though one says it with keenest regret, only thewretchedaltentative that the journey which he did make and the report which he gave of it were deliberately planned from the odtset.” The gist of Mr Wellman’s finding Is that with his meager party and equipment Dr. Cook could not possibly have accomplished the feat; that his astronomical data are too minutely precise to have been made under the asserted conditions tn the field, and that, the explorer’s dash for the lecture platform and fits acceptance of "crowns of flowers placed upon his head .by innocent women and children,” before submitting Jhls field records to scientific exrmination, all conspire to his discredit \ ' - --Q Another pioneer of Adams county hail been called to his final reward. Harlb Mahn, known from one of the county to the other, and a highly respected and in his younger days a progressive citizen, died at the home Os his daughter, Mrs. Frank Gilpen. at half past four o’clock Sunday afterInoon. Mr, Mann was in poor health for a year or more but not until a week ago last Thursday was he confined to his bed, and since that time he rapidly failed, the end being a peaceful and happy -one after a useful and active life. Harlo Mann was born In Ohio near Cleveland, September 15, 1885, and in April the following year his parents rifcved to this county, locating in Preble township and where the deceased grew to man hood. On becoming of age he learned the plasterer’s trade, and on February 11, 1858, he married Miss Winifred A. McAlhaney, daughter of Hamilton fe-Sarah McAlhaney, old settiers of Blue Creek township. The faithful Wife and four children survive, the children being Mrs. C. H. Lamlman.of Monroe township; J. Frank Mann, of Muncie; ,Mrs. Frank Gilpen and Mrs. Harry Reichard, both of Monroe township. In 1861 Mr. Mann located in this city, following his trade, until two years later when he went into the grocery business with C. H. Lamiman and John B. Burkhead. In politics Mr. Mann was always a democrat, and for six years he was assessor of Washington township, and later was trustee for four years. For the last several

• years He nas uvea on ms larm mi X nrO M^nn W belng P ’ B o a ?eeble, they were taken to the home Os their daughter, I Mrs. Gilpen, and where death came to this splendid citizen late yest<a day afternoon. The funeral services will be held from the house on Wednesday morning at half past nine o’clock, the services being in charge of Rev. Ralph C. Jones, of Ossian, and an old pastor of the deceased. Interment wllt.be made in the Decatur cemetery. The deceased has long been a member of Bt. Mary’s Lodge, No. 167, of this city. —_ Washington, Nov. 29.—Presidept Taft’s message ti congress has been overhauled Sand reconstructed, and with many changes already made it is not yet in final shape. If what the president originally mapped out as his message could be laid down by the side of what has been left by process of elimination many striking points of difference would be observed. - The influence of the so-called “conservative” leaders of congress has been strongly exerted in the white house in an effort to induce the president to pare out of his leglslatuve program several reform measures which the “conservatives,’’ sometimes known as "reactionaries," do not want enacted into law. The president has listened freely to the advice given by both "conservatives” and progressives,” but the alterations in his program seem to please the “conservatives” more than the “progressives.” Washington, Nov. 29.—Important recommendations urging remedial legislation by congress for securing public lands are the principal features of the annual report of Secretary of the Interior Ballenger. These recommendations Include specific authority to classify and segregate the lands into well-defined divisions according to their greatest apparent use; legislation designed to conserve the coal deposits as a public utility and to prevent monopoly or extortion in their disposition and authorizing the classification and disposition ’ of all lands capable of being used for 1 water power development under the Interior Department. Washington, Nov. 29.—The number of Uncle Sam’s employees is tncteah l I Ing, the grand total at present being approximately 370,065, as against i 8061141 in £907. These facts are . brought out in the government blue book for 1909. There were 28,947 persons in the federal employ in I Washington on July 1 last, the annual pay roll for them being $31,541,- ■ 225, an average of nearly $l,lOO each. The for the poultry men 1 and farmers this winter will be the • poultry and corn exhibit to be held 1 in this city January sth to Bth. The corn show is a new feature in con- • nection with the poultry exhibit and since these have been combined there will be no corn show in connec- ■ tlon with the farmers’ institute. The . officers for the Poultry Association . are: C. 8. Mumma, president; C. H. Getting, vice-president; Charles E . Magley, secretary, and B. F. Brokaw, > treasurer. The executive committee ’ is Sam Simlson, J. T. Buriey, Henry Gunset, C. D. F. Belberick and W. A. Fonner; superintendent of poultry, ’ Alfred Debrot; superintendent of com, Michael Miller. The premiums on corn will be: On ten ears of yellow, first, $2.00; sec- ’ ond, $1.50;. third, I.W; fourth, ribbon; game prises on White and same on ■ any other. Sweepstakes prise, ten ' best ears any variety, a beautififl sil- ■ ver cup. A fee of twenty-five cents 1 will be charged on each entry, all entries to compete for sweepstakes ‘ prizes, free. The entry fees on poultry will be fifteen cents on each single bird; fifty cento on eatih pen; trios, ’ fifty cento; pigeons, ten cents each; 1 pet stock, twenty-five cents; dogs, one dollar. The association would like to have any person interested in these 1 lines to join them, but you are in- • vlted to enter your poultry, stock, etc., any way and enjoy the week. • .0 111 ■ Thomas Hudson, one of the oldest residents of the city, died at the home of bls son, Albert, on Short Sixth street, at 1:45 this moral g. He had been in poor health for some years, suffering from cataharral affection Which finally developed Into tuberculosis. He had been bedfast for three weeks and the end was not unexpect- ' ed. He was bora in Ohio January 2, 1885, and came to this city when a young man. At the tme of his death te was aged 74 years, 10 months ahd 27 days. He Is survived by three sons, two sisters and two brothers. The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock from the house, Rev. Imler officiating. Interment at Maplewood cemetery. Mr. Hudson f has been a hard working, honest man ' and had many friends and acquainten--1 ances In this secton.

[suffering FROM APRENDICITIS.iI iplfc ? ? 1 Fred Jones Was Operated on at Luth- i eran Hospital at Fort Wayne. i V. I Mr. a d Mrs. P. F. Jones and daugh- 1 ter of near Wren, Ohio, were here 1 Monday en route to Fort Wayne < where they will visit their son, Fred, 1 who is a patient at the Lutheran bos- < pital. Fred was in good health until < last Friday when he suddenly became < ilt Physicians were summoned and 1 soon diagnosed the trouble as append!- I citis. He was taken to Fort Wayne I and was operated on late Saturday i evening. A telephone message yes- I terday said he had recoverel from the i anaesthetic and seemed to be getting along all right, though the outcome cannot be told for a few days. 1 i TWO GOOD REELS FOR CRYSTAL. I '■ - < Manager Biggs of the Crystal has < two ainusing and interesting reels for I tonight. The first is “The Belated 1 Wedding” which shows how the plans 1 for several wedding parties were up- -1 set by the dilatoriness of the mayor < of a little town. The second is 1 "Bob’S .Electric Theater,” wherein < Bob gives a special show for his 1 brother and sister. They are good and ' will please all who see them, young ’ and old. i ‘ *0 — CRAIGVILLE WILL REMAIN “DRY.” Enoungh Signers Have Been Secured , to the Remonstrance. Adam Richey arrived back in Cralgvflle today from a visit in Pennsylvania, and he did not bring along a wife, thus proving another rumor false. M Adam arrived back, just in time, however, to learn that Lancaster township has gone “dry” and he will not get hie saloon license in Craigville. One of tne leading temperance advocates today informed the News that there were at noon today thiry more names than the required majority on the remonstrance, and a considerable number in addition are expected before the last day for filing, next Friday, December 3rd. Di round numbers 290 names are necessary.—Bluffton News. —■ ———• ’ THE BOILER. 18 BURSTED. An Accident to the Heating Plant Installed at the Methodist Church. Work on the heating plant at the Methodist church is being delayed on account of an accident. Unknown to those working there the pipes were filled with cold water and when the fire was turned on the boiler bursted. This will necessitate new parts for the boiler and will mean a couple weeks delay before the damage is repaired. Work upon this repair began this morning and will be rushed to completion. ————————o — HE HAS MOVED HIB OFFICE. - r - - - ' Judge ,R. K. Erwin Is Now Located In the New Shoaff Building. The Decatur friends of Judge R. K. 1 Erwin will please take notice that his office rooma are now located in the Shoaff building, just erected on the site of the Aveline hotel, and which ' too, is one of the finest office bulld--1 Ings in the state. . Judge Erwin was foMjply located in the Pixley-Long block, and this change is made in ' order to better locate himself in the ' practice of his profession, in which he is making rapid atrdes in the courts of Allen and surrounding counties. ■ "" : 1 "i> / Mr. and Mrs. Albert Butler have re- ; turned from Albion ,Ind., where they ' have been for a week, Mr. Butler ' looking after a big contract wMch the firm has near there. The contract 1 fqr a ditch five miles and a half long was secured some time ago .by Butter, 1 Son & Peterson, and they are now starting the work which will require about six months* time. Last week a large shack was erected along the route of the ditch where the boys will have their headquarters during the winter and where they will live In regular frontier style. Dallas Butler and Tom Peterson will be in charge of the job and will be assisted by about ten men who will do the work as rapidly as could be expected on such a contract A cook is now being secured who will feed the boys when they' come in tired and hui« gry. This firm has handled some big jobs in the past year, having put in many miles of cement walk at Fort Wayne. They do ditch work in winter to round up the year’s work. The old Indiana House which has been a land mark tn Decatur for a third of a century, is to be rebuilt into a modern and comfortable structure, suitable for a boarding and rooming "house. The building was purchased recently by John and Herman Yager, the sale being necessary to close up the estate of Mrs. Mary Beglln. who conducted the hotel for so many years. This morning con-

Bran the' They part of. addition e, makdouble use. A modern ng and' I when; y modb. ' Just has not i likely 1 down • which [ ible de- / — Special. lice of, Ing for j impllkidnap 11 king e, John was re-' i well [inerva, discuss- !, Ohio,! tely in-j « plans ( ic were B. The | te have so. — ?ork toich will i house j at this time like the biggest success of the kind ever given in Decatur, and if work and hustle will do It this will come true. The ladies need the money and the profits will be used towards paying for the furnishing of their department in the beautiful new Pythian home now nearing completion on Third street The title of the show to be put on is “The Jolly Widow/* a lively and interesting comedy which will please all who attend. The work is in charge of Mr. Hubert Labadie who is assisted by his wife. They are good in this line, having demonstrated their ability last week when they staged a play for the Knights of Columbus. -Members of the Pythian lodge will visit surrounding towns and there will be an effort made to have parties from each place attend the show. Watch for the “Jolly Widow.” -— o ———— WANTS HIM PARDONED. Friends of Dr. Ross are Walting for His Release. Despite the fact that Dr. Nelson B. Ross, the Muncie physician, now serving a life sentence at the Michigan City prison for the murder of Daniel Under, a muncie and Portland car conductor, has served less than a month for the crime of which he was found guilty, a petition is now in clrculaton to effect hs pardon. The document is in the hands of Willis Hale, a Muncie stock dealer, who has been striving for the past few days to get Muncie people to attach their signatures, recommending ! the physician’s release. ■' . Q . "DRYB” CLAIM WARREN COUNTY. Rev. Shoemaker Closed the Campaign There. i Williamsport, Ind., Nov. 30. —The “drys’’ are claiming victory in the Warren county local option election held today. Probably in no other county has there been such indifference as has existed in Warren county throughout the present temperance campaign, for more than a year the entire county has been “dry.” The majority of the “drys” Is estl- . mated at from 1,200 to 1,500, if the : full vote is gotten out The climax of the campaign came last" night when the Rev. B. E. Shumaker, state superintendent of the , Anti-Saloon League, spoke in the Methodist church, where he served four years as pastor and where he preached his first temperance sermon tn this county about ten years ago. — - ---o —— “ Greenville Ohio, Nov. 30. —After murdering his brother and an officer who had attempted to arrest him and probably fatally injur Inga-other woman and her husband, Clyde Weaver, thirty-four years old, completed the tale of bloodshed by committing suicide near here this afternoon. Weaver was declared by physicians to be afflicted with exaggerated ego and was under suspended sentence from the probate court At 2:30 this afternoon Sheriff John F. Haber and Deputy Sheriff William H. Farrell went to Weaver’s home to arrest him. The appearance of the officers seemed to drive the man violently insane. He opened fire upon them from an upper window with a shot gun and Farrell fell wounded. A moment later Weaver’s mother rushed from the hour* crying, "Pm shot” and fell dead at the feet of the sheriff. While Haber was trying to revive

the woman Weaver walked from the house carrying a revolver. He went to the woodshed where Farrell had crawled and fired twice at the wounded officer, killing him. *He then jumped into the buggy In which the officers had reached the house and drove ' to the home of Levi Minnich, a neigh- ■ bor, from whom he demanded protec- , tlon. When Minnich hesitated to allow him to enter the house Weaver drew his revolver and shot Minnich through the back. Weaver then tamed on Mrs. Minnich and shot her t twice. I A large posse quickly surrounded the house and two deputy sheriffs broke through the rear door. They discovered the body of Weaver under a . bed. He had used his last bullet to . blow out his own brains. The condition of Mr. and Mrs. Minnich is very critical. ■' o NO ADVANCE COPIES. Washington, November 30. —The de- : lay in the preparation of President Taft’s message to congress, due to his long absence and the accumulation of work awaiting his return, make it 'impossible to give out copes in advance to the press assocations. In recent years it has been customary to [have it put in type, printed and distributed by mall subject to release by wire. Now the press associations are arranging to “carry’’ the 25,000-word-message on their wires, probably only a few hours before its delivery. e Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 30. —All indications point to a majority of between 18,000 and 20,000 in Alabama against the prohibition constitutional amendment Chairman J. Lee Long, who has been in charge of the fight against the amendment, claims that the majority against the amendment will be fully 20,000. The early, returns indicated a landslide against the amendment and succeeding bulletins fully bore out the early indications. Jefferion county, in which is Birmingham, the largest cty in the state, in spite of the fact that the fight has been concentrated here, gave a majority of ever 1,000 against the amendment Mobile, Montgomery and Cullman counties show the largest majorities on the victorious side and it appears the amendment carried but , three counties, Talladega, Macon and Sumter, with Lee in doubt. Today’s election cannot be regarded as a straight antiprohibition victory because of the personal vote that has been injected into the issue.. A significant feature of the result is the fact . that sentiment against the amendment is so widespread. Rural precincts, small towns and cities alike, for the t most part returned substantial mar jorities on the winning side. There i has never been seen here anything I like the good feeling shown in Birc mingham tonight over the result, i Thousands of people from Jefferson 3 and adjoining counties were here to . see the returns flashed and down town . streets were one billow of enthusiasm. , — , The case of May Lancaster vs. Peit sa R. Bell, suit on note, was tried . Tuesday morning. The defendant filed 3 to appear and after the hearing the plaintiff’s testimony the court gave judgment for $52.80. , The case of Luther Lehman for fort gery will be tried by a jury, beginning tomorrow morning. The case has been on the docket for some time and is j of considerable interest in the south 3 part of the county where the defendi ant is well known. » The petit jury reported this momr ing for the first time this term. They s were, however, dismissed, with orders a to report tomorrow morning. . M. F. Rice, guardian for Newell B. a Rice, files his bond. Petition for sale of real estate granted, sale to be pria vate and for cash. > i i- ' a Frank M. Tremp, guardian of Elma e Tremp, filed an account current 1 which was approved. a s i Real estate transfers: L. J. Baumgartner to E. H. Baumgartner, 95 acres Monroe township, $5,000. Henr ry B. Heller, com., to John H. Yaker,. r et al. pt lot 28, Decatur, SI7OO. I A marriage .license was issued to , Ora Gross aged 18, a farmer, Wash--3 ington township, and Edith Necoiet, . aged 20 of Berne. -—— o • ■" 3 The Misses Bertha and Cecilia Kin- > ney went to Fort Wayne this mora- , lag where they will spend the day 3 with friends. , I * Mr. Robert E. Braun went to SanI ford, Mich., this morning to make a visit with his mother, Mrs. Catherine . Schrock. He will be absent from the . city for about two weeks. i The annual election of officers win 1 occur at the Modem Woodmen hall to- - morrow evening, and it is the desire > of the officers that a full attendance I ot the membership be present and participate la the business of the evehi Ing. • •’ - ' A ‘- i-. y•’ >' ’’ ’ A "■

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