Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1910 — Page 7

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New York, June 2 —(Special to A Dally Democrat) —“America jgnwg rich a country to be hurt by the mlstakes of the government,” declared James J. HUI of the Great Northern today In discussing the action In preventing freight rate Increases on the western railroads. 'Hill declared there Is no anti-trust law which could prevent the railroads from promulgating increased rates,. uniform with those charged with all other roads. (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C.» June .2— (Spec--7 lai to Daily Democrat) —Twenty-two railroads, comprising the Central] Freight association, operating In the

territory between Cincinnati and Chicago, today filed with the inter-state Commerce commission new tariffs, increasing transportation charges from six to thlrtyone per cent The lix ; creases are to be effective July Ist. Increased rates were also hied on commodities by the New York'Central system, effective July Ist. ■■■ ' >" ' —■ The infant baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Maulier, .residing three miles east of the city In St Mary’s township, died at the family home during Wednesday night. She was but five hours old and funeral services were held privately next after- ] noon fro mthe house. Interment at the Salem cemetery.

r RIV EHLB HAS ARRIVED I I Roalde on Monroe Stress—Pastor and Family Cordially Received. Rev. Ehle and family have arrived from Branson, Mloh., and are moving Into the Doak residence, first house west of the Christian church on Monroe street. Rev. Ehle is the new pas- ? tor of the Baptist church, and is being heartily welcomed here. He Is not a total stranger, having preached here on several occasions, and is much liked by those who have already made his acquaintance. A reception was given for them on their arrival at the home of Mr; and Mrs. John Moser, which was quite largely attended and a cordial greeting was extended io the pastor and his family. A general reception will be given at the church Sunday afternoon, to which the ministers of the city and others are invited to extend a greeting to this new brother and family. o -"■" Gus Rieinking received a message from FL Wayne last Thursday bringing the sad news that his brother, Edwin Retaking, had died that morning at 1 o’clock at the Home of his parents, Mr. and Mra. William R. Retaking, 464 East Creighton avenue, Fort Wayne. Th® young man was but twenty-six years of age and had been a sufferer since last fall from consumption, and his death, coming In the'prime of young manhood, has cast a deep gloom over all who knew him. He was born and reared on the Retaking homestead in Union township, but for the past eight years has made his home In Fort Wayne, where he. was employed as a machinist in the Kerr-Murray machine shops, and was , an excellent mechanic, as well as a young man of the highest integrity. ■ Last fall his parents went to Fort Wayne to make their home, since | which time he has been living with [- them. The deceased was the fourth child of the family - and there survive him, the following brothers and sist tore: Gus Retaking of the firm Os Yager Bros. & Retaking, this city; Mra. Henry Elx, Mrs. Ed Lahrman, f Reinhart, George and Blandina, and l /Hugo, the latter with the Holthouse, | Schulte Company of this city. The I news of his death will be received I with much sorrow by his many rela- [ tives and friends of this county,, I where eighteen years <rf his life were I spent . .. <|i | AEBCHLIMAN-IBCH WEDDING. I I . > ' ... .j 1 I Ceremony Sunday Evening Unite< I Prominent Young People. A wedding ceremony took place Sunday evening at the home of Mr. ■ and Mrs. John Aeschlfman, five miles f east of Bluffton, which . united in I marriage two of the best known, popI ular and highly esteemed young peoI pie of that community. The happy I bride was Miss Emma L. Aeschliman, I a daughter of Mr. anil Mrs. John I Aeschliman, and the groom was Mr. I Fred Isch, a son ot the late Jacob Isch, and one of the most prosperous | and prominent young fanners of the J big German settlement The wedding f ceremony took place about 5 o’clock 1 in the presence of about one hundred | of the relatives and immediate friends i. of the happy young couple, and a i minister of the Christian Apostille • church officiated. Following the ceremony a bounteous and excellent wedding supper was served. Mr. and Mra. Isch will reside on his farm, just t. across the line in the edge of Adams county, on one of the largest farms ’ in that entire section of the country. |. They have the congratulations and I well wishes of a host of friends. — I Bluffton News. o I Judge Merryman Thursday ic- ■ Sued an order that the court’s desk | or bench be lowered and repaired. T. I H. Ernst was appointed to perform I the work during vacation. I - --- I Fort Wayne Foundry and Machine I Co. vs. Geneva C. Murray, note, |l5O, I cause submitted, finding for plaintiff I in sum of J117.2D. I Oliver W. Storqr vs. George EpI steen, note and foreclosure, demand, | 1275, from Jay county, judgment renI dered by agreement of parties In open ' court for |175. Judgment against 1 plaint! fffor coats. » In the case of William Mesel vs Ellen Rayn et at, judgment rendered i on verdict for $22. Judgment against ■ defendant for coats. Attorney J. W. Teeple has filed a pew case In which Ellen V. Louthan asks a divorce from her husband, Howard T. Louthan. They were married March 6, 1899. April 3, 1909, defendant abandoned his wife and their four small children. Mrs.' Louthan also accuses her husband of adultery and beattag her on various occasions. Six childfen have been born to them, two of whom are dead, and the other four are in the hands of the Board of Children’s Guardians. Mra. Louthan

| asks reasonable alimony, a divorce and the return of her former name, Ellen Springer. — -V - ■ — '• ' County Suprtatendent Opliger is busy these days preparing for the annual commencement which will be held at Geneva on Thursday, June •th. There will be 131 graduates and the program as prepared should be a very interesting one. The details of the event, always an important one, have been practically, worked out and if fair skies are permitted the occasion will be the most successful of the kind in the history of the Adams county schools. The program in full follows: Orchestra. Music — Selected — Dudley Male Quartet. Invocation —’Rev. Harbour. Music — Selected — Dudley Male Quartet. Class Address —Dr. W. N. Ferris, , president Ferris Institute, Big Rap ids/Mich. i Music — Selected — Dudley Male Quartet. * Presentation of Diplomas—Prof. Elmer G. Bunnell, aasistant state superi tatendent. ( Music — Selected — Dudley Male , Quartet. Song—“ God he With You Till W< . Meet Again’’—Audience, led by Dud- ■ ley Male Quartet. Benediction —Rev. Waldo. Orchestra. Music furnished by the Geneva or- ■ chestra and the Dudley Buck Male , quartet of Fort Wayne, Ind. > The orchestra will give a concert i. beginning at 9:15. Come early and ) enjoy the music. I ’ —II'! O'— " - ' ' — i Bankers of Adams, Wells, Fulton, . Huntington, Kosciusko and Marshall i counties will meet with the Twelfth » District Bankers* association, wheu F that organization holds its* annual i meeting in Fort Wayne next month, » and an entirely new association; com- - prising bankers of these twelve count ties, will be formed to take the place I of the present district organization, , pursuant to resolutions abopted by 1 the state bankers of tadiana, at their annual convention held at Fort s’ Wayne a year ago, when the bld dis--1 trict organization was done away with • and the districts were cut down from , "thirteen to eight iff number. i|Bfr. C. H. frdrden of the Ffrst National bank, organizer for the new district, which will be known as District No. 1, will bare charge of the formation of the new association, and, with .■iir. Theodore Wentz, of the GermanAmerican National bank, will arrange h program for the Joint meeting hnd » set a date for the gathering. Chairman Wentz, chairman of the j Twelfth district bankers, announced i yesterday that Mr. W. C. Brown, viceh president of the City National bank of >. Auburn, haa been appotated by Presi- / dent Sale of the state association as , secretary of the district, succeeding 1 Mr. Harry Schott of the Steuben County Bany of Angola, who has removed j to California.—Fort Wayne Journal--3 Gazette. j ‘ o. — ? George C. Steele, one of the proc prietors, of the Steele & Weaver rack--1 et store, has received from the head- } quarters of the Associated Trade l Press an invitation to give a twenty- > minute address on a trade topic be- » fore the convention of the Five and > Ten Cent association, which will be I held in Cincinnati, Ohio, September f 6th, 7th, Bth and 3th. Mr. Steele has ( not yet determined whether he will i accept. The invitation comes because of the great interest displayed by I this firm in all matters pertaining to . the Advancement of this line of business. The June number of the Five and Ten Cent magazine, issued-month-ly in the interest of this line of trade, ’ will contain a cut of the exterior of ■ the Steele & Weaver racket store, ■ while the September number will con--1 tain a view of the interior. The proprietors are interested in all that will push their business to advancement ' and make it one of the best in the ’ country. o KRAUSS CASE STILL UNDECIDED. Judge Elliott is Going Over the Evidence Again. No decision in the Krauss divorce case will be rendered this week, as had been-expected. IL is now said that a decision may be made next week, though the exact day on which is will be given has not been fixed. A decision in this celebrated case, involving as it does a murder mystery, has been anxiously awaited' since it was tried more than two months ago. Judge P. H. Elliott, before whom the case was heard, indicated Monday that he Will take time to review the evidence! again before! arriving at a final conclusion. y Besides the principals and the attorneys in the case, probably no persons are more interested in the court’s ruling than the twelve jurors who heard the evidence. The jurors

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i^==s^^==sa^W !=^ were permitted to answer only the interrogatories that were prepared by the court, and while they did not rule direct on the question of granting a divorce, they decided that Wit Ham R. Krauss, while not implicated in the murder of his daughter, had condoned in her crime. The jurors served merely in an advisory capacity, and the court may or may not be guided by the jury’s answers to the interrogatories. . The Krauss case has no parallel in the history of the state or the country for that matter. The case represented a legal battle from the start to the finish. More than half a dozen of the best lawyer® of the state were engaged in the trial of the case, ' which lasted for two weeks. Interest in the case will not lag until the | court has made a final decision.—Marlon Chronicle. — o—--1 TO CONDUCT BIG PICNIC. South Half of County Will Have Big 1 ' Time July 4th. The Sunday schools of the six townships—French, Monroe, Blue Creek, Hartford, Wabash and Jelterson — composing the south half of Adams county, wiU unite in holding a grand union Sunday senool picnic and Fourth of July celebration. This is what was decided upon at a meeting of the pastors and superintendents of the schools of the six townships mentioned at a meeting held in the Evangelical church at Berne. All were agreed that because of its central location, and for the reason that the rain greatly interfered with last year’s celebration there, Berne should again be the place. It was also decided to hold the celebration in the Isaac Lehman grove a short distance south of Berne. j , o WILL MARRY MRS. LAPOINTE. Howard Johnson to Wed Half-Breed Murderess. Bluffton, Ind., June 2 —“ Handsome” Howard Johnson, the “man in the case,” in the murder tragedy in this city on July 28, 1907, when Mrs. Ella LaPointe, a half-breed Chippewa Indian woman, shot and killed Mrs. Florence Besancon in a fit of jealous rage, when she met Johnson and the Besancon woman, passed through Bluffton on his way from Fort Wayne to Indianapolis and spent several hours here with relatives, to whom he imparted the information that he was on his way to Indianapolis with the purpose of marrying the Indian woman. After spending almost a year In jail here awaiting trial the Indian woman pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to the woman’s prison at Indianapolis for a -term of typo to fourteen years. Johnson Maid that he had kept up a correspondence with the woman and that they were to be married as soon as she was released from the prison. He has been informed, he said, that she would be released this week, upon serving her minimum term and he proposed to greet her when she stepped from the .prison doors and to claim her tn marriage Immediately and take her back to Fort Wayne with him, where he is a foreman on street work. --o Howard Foughty went to Pleasant Mills for a short visit with friends.

• FARMS FOR SALE. One 200 acre farm, three 120 acre farms, one 93 acre farm, one 90 mis farm, four 80 acre farms, one 00 aew farm/three 4 Oaore farms, and one 20 acre farm. All well improve* farms, from S3O to SBO j>er acre. Come quick and get your cholie. JAS. M. GILPEN, 44t« Wayland, Ifleb. , —o JOHN STOLER DEAD. David Stoler is ta receipt of a message conveying the Intelligence that his eldest brother, John Stoler, of Wadsworth, Ohio, died Wednesday afternoon. About two weeks ago David Stoler of this city visited with his brother, who was at that time very sick and not expected to live. The deceased is also a cousin of T. H. Ernst, Al, George and D. V. Steele of this city. o TO MOTHERS IM THIS TOWN. . , | Children who *iw delicate, feverish and cross will get immediate relief fYom Mother Gray’s Sweet Powder® for Children. They cleanse the stom- ■ ach, act on the liver, make a sickly child strong and healthy. A certain cure for worms. Sold by all druggists, 25c. Sample free. Address, Allen S. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y. - -» « Miss Bertha Deam, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Deam, was obliged to submit to the amputation of the forefinger of the right hand, he finger was amputated close to the hand, Drs. Smith and Beavers performing the operation. While she is suffering much pain the operation was most successful and she will soon be entirely recovered, it is thoughL The amputation was necessary from a very unusual cause. About four years ago Miss Bertha unfortunately skilled some carbolic acid over the hand and this ate into the flesh and finally into the bone and refused to heal. Scraping the bone was tried time and again without success and it was found that the only way to stop the spread was to amputate the finger. 0 t HAS ■MWYTY TURKEYS. Mrs. KMava Sennemaker, Glasford HL, aarw “My neighbors have lost Ml Meir young turkeys. I haw eighty head of fine Bourbon turkey® and I give ttwm Bourbon Poultry Cure M the drtaking water twtoe a weak and bnvo not lost any.** Sold by M. H. Braaaartan*. ■ - — <- Pointers dn Poultry. Mra. D. A. Brook®, Sturgla. Ky-« ®ay®t *T have been nstag Bourbon Poultw Cure and think It is the beat poulW remedy I have ever used. If you will get odf druggist here to handle it I can recommend IL I am an old hand at raising chickens and so many come to me for pointers on poultry. Bold by H- H. Bremerkarap. 11 O''" Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Fonner, who eloped May 25th and were married at Jackson, Mich., have arrived home and have taken up their residence with his father, Dr. G. M. Fonner, of East Creighton avenue. Young Mrs. Fonner was formerly Miss Susanah Canada. —Fort Wayne Journal-Ga-zette. — o—< — A Stera Pw —pec. Mr. Frank Y. Otay, Parte, Ky„ says: •Loot year I n®4oed hundreds of chickens free from gapes by giving them Bourbon Pwritry Cure in Cbeir drinking wuter. X ate® find CM® remedy to be a sure cure for aholer® and llmberneck. Bold by H. H. Bremerfcaagk