Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1905 — Page 1

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LUTHER COLLINS ON TRIAL J ury Em paneled ==Requ i red Several Hours

EVIDENCE HEARD a Judge LaFollette of Portland is Hearing Case Th rly-one Mtn Exam ned Before Jury Vi; Acre pt.d—Case Will Last Several Davs. Luther Collin* is again on trial tor causing the death of Malissu tsmitley. The case began this morning before sjiecial .Juage LaFol'ette of Portland. Seveial hours were re juired to secure a jury, thirty one men being examined be fore a satisfactory ptnel was obtained, the jurymen being Russell Ling. Robert Davis, John Birrone, William Alfather. Henry Soheifer stine, Chris Reppart. Joseph Kiess, Charles Miller. Charles Mumtna. J. A. Sprague D. B Reynolds and Joseph Brandyberry. Only the four first named are of the regular panel The hearing of evidence began at 1:30 this afternoon and the trial will probably continue , during the greater pirt of the week. 1 The case is one, the particulars of which are well known to most of our readers. Malissa Smitley a daughter of Mi. and Mrs. John Smitley of Jefferson township died about a year ago after a few days illness. The physician refused to issue a permit and the county coroner was called who after examination reported that death was due to a Criminal operation. The finger of suspicion pointed to th» girl's brother-in-law, Luther Collins, who was arrested. He was tried at the November term of court and convicted. Judge Smith granting a new trial but resigning from further service in the case, owing to business reasons. The case was then assigned to Judge LaFollette. Prosecutor John Moran is being assisted by D. E. Smith. C J. Lutz and L. C- DjVoss are defending. Collins is in oiurt and appears easy and confident Ho is a voung business man and has lived at Chutanooga, Ohio for several years, Quite a number of specta tors were in the court room this morning. —o— Liuis A. Henning assignment case, n otion to strike out j otition ofWe.ke sustained. Exception by We ike 1 . TO SAVE MONEV Decatur Boy Walking to Marlon Helped b Bluffton Man. A telephone message from Bluff ton this morning said that a blight little fellow, sixteen years old and claiming that he lived at Decatur whore he sipports a widowed mother was seen by Amo* King last evening just as he was craw! ing i ito a straw stack for his nights lodging. He said ho had a position nt Marion anl was walking through to stive money. He had an honest face and Mr. King took care of him, gaie him a bed and breakfast and started him on his way with ado ar in his poo <et. Lt is not known who he was.

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MR. LABADIE Famous Scenic Production Faust litre Tomorrow Nlßht. — Mr. Hubert Lebadie and supporting company gave an exoellett production of “Faust” at the Capitol theatre last night to a good siz» d audience. The best seat in the h raw was sold for 75 cents and it is t d mbtful there are any who have the temerity to say that they did not get their money's worth. The members of Acacia Lxlge of Perfection No. 1, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, occupied seats in in the boxes a* the guests of Mr. Labadie who is a prominent shriner, being u memlier of the Michigan consistory of Detroit. Mr. Labadie enacted the role of | Mephisto, and though he was not a second Lewis Morrison, there is no fault to find with his interpretation of that character, which is indi ed a hard one to SIL Miss Mary Von Tromp was a splendid Marguerite. The production was the lest seen here this season. The biokenscene was an excellent electrical effect. Opera hcuse, Tuesday, Feb. 28. THE LEGISLATURE Legislative Accomplishment up to Date Thirty seven Bills Have Been Sign d by the Governor and Seven Vetoed. Thirty six bills signed by the governor and seven vetoed comprises the results attained by the legisla tore np to date. Os the bills sign led, twenty originated in the senate an I sixteen in the li man. O th ise vetoed, three orig'nat d in the senate and four in the house. P’-eminent among the measures which have been approved are h> Newhouse, bill, establishing an additional host pital fur the insane; 1 the bill appropriating |3),000 for the erection of a monument to Oliver P. Mort n; the Keyes Lili, es t iblishing a state lubratory of hygene; the Moore bill, providing for two yenrs’ remonstratrance and the Kean bill adding six mills to the tix levy for ichool purposes Tue Birku* bill making "spite f-no es" a private nuisance an! the Lyons bill, giving United States sail- [ o s and tnnrines preference in ndI ministrativo appointments were the ' mist imp rtant mei surcs vetoed, j Chief among the bill* passed hy ' both brunches and now waiting the governor's are the Nuwhors ’Jbill, creating a state railrond commission ; the Htigg bill p oviding for track elevation in Indianapolis; the Parks bill pr h biting the i s> of oi- ' garettes, the codification counnisi 1 sion's bill concerning public offens--1 es. and the Uirey bill providing 1 track elevaton for Fort Wayne.

DECATUX INDIANA, MUNDAY EVENING, FEBKI'AKY 27. 1905.

THE REVIVAL Rev. Left's Sermons Continues to Please Larne Audiences. The theme announced for this evening at the Christian church is " The (Treat Cotnmtesion ", Ti« audiences Saturday and Sunday Evening continued to increase, and many were turned away last evening unable to gain admission Rev. L gg s e men -eemed to strike a popular chord. Very tenderly ho pieeenteed the claims of Goi's , book, as G id's revelation and will;; towards the children of man, ■ ami at the close received manv Congratulations. The meetings will continue this week. < FORTY-NINE — William A. Kuebler Has a Birthday I A Genuine Surprise and an Elabsrate 1 Dinner at the Kuebler Home. i i William A. Kuebler was fortynine years old Saturday an i just to show him, ’Mrs. Kuebler perpetrat ed a surprise yesterdey that was complete in everyjparticular. The , event took place at high noon when the victim walked in to his own home and also in'o the midst of a h st of friends invited to ( celebrate with him this anniversary day. The surprise was genuine, < and like all good men be acknowledged the corn owned up th it he was innocent to the last. At this point in the program Judge R. K Erwin secured the floor and in his usual pleasnt way presented the , guest ot the occasion with a very ( | b indsome dress suit case. T en at , tention was called to another tea’I ure of the day which was played in th i dining room and which took the guests through an elaboration of courses th it was hard to beat. It wound up with blarney stones with which there was also a guessing contest, in which Dr. Roy Archbold curried oft first honors, and Doll Locke the booby. Those who ■ enjoyed the pleasures of this occasion were Doll L eke of Bluffton, I Mr. Clarke of <>f Toledo. Judge K. E'win, C. A Dugan, Dr. Koy Archbold, F. M. Sohirtneyer, Daniel 1 Donovan. L. C- Waring. Frank Bar t ioI, R J. Holthouse . H R. Moltz, E X. Ehinger, H. L. Confer, Nick Miller and L. G. Ellingham. SAW THE FIRE Dan Erwin and Family Were Near Hot Spring B'azt. Judge Erwin received a letter this morning from his brother Dime! who with his family have been at Hot Springs, Arkansas, for two weeks His friends here have been greatly worried since the big. fire which wipid out the business portion of the city Saturday. His letter says the fire started witbin a stones throw of their boarding place but luckily for them went the op posite direction. They had move I a few days before their former hotel being in the very center of the burned district. Dan says it. was a terrible fire and many people are 'destitute. The los* is ten million dollars and a number of lives were lost.

BORN LAST NIGHT Knights of Columbus Lodge in This City Forty-seven Chaffer Members O rjanze and Elect OlTkers List Night. A Kuights of Columbus L >dgc was born in this city lust night, the! organisation being under the guiding hand of Prof. John G Ewing of Notre Dune. About fifteen members from Fort Wayne were here to assist an i see the new order come to life. It bgins with a membershp of forty seven, the officers selected being E. X. Ehinger Grand Knght:D D. Coffee, lecture “H. J. Yager, Chancellor; Dr. H. F. Costel--10; Warden, Tbo'iias Haeflng and John Baker, guard*; Charles Voglewede, treasurer; B J Smith, Recorder. C- 8. Nidck, secretary, W. A. Kuebler, Dyonis Schmidt, and P. J. Hyland, trustees. The meeting was held in the C B. L. rooms and they will likely meet there until permanent quarters are secured The membership attained at this stage indicates that sot n it will be nnmliered among the strong order of the city. Generally speaking this order has had a re markable growth all over the connry.it being only a few years since the first permanent lodge was organized. GET READY The Assessors kill St rt Out Wednosdav Morning The township assessors fcr Adams county will meet here Wednesday when Elias Crist will give them find instructions and start them o i their annual trip of listing prop e-iy for taxation. The law desig nit* s the first day of March as the bisis ofa 11 assessment* and all per ' sonal property, inclu ting in inn.’, notes and bunds, (except govern meat, state, county and municipal bonds) which you possess on that day must be listed for taxation. All improvement lonis issued ur der the Birrett law, such as street, sewer, etc., are taxible and must bi listed. Dogs three months old on the first day of M irch must bo given in for assessment at the time If you do not own the dug, but ; allow it to stav with you, you are hat |e fir harboring said dog. The assessor begins his work on tie first Monday in March and is allowed seventy-flre days or till the 15th M .y in which to complete the wort, but ihrouhgout all tnt time he s trying to find out what you had on the first day of March; theres ire f you can save time for yourself aj d greatly facilitate his work "by taking a ccmplete list of all your prop erty on the above date, or as near thereto as postsble. If you will < o this the assessor will detain you , bat a few moments when he calls. If you hold notes, taxable bonds, building ami loan stocks, or accounts, you mav deduct any debts you may ov e from the sum thereof by rnakir g an itemized list of yoar indebb dness. You cannot take credit, against cash on ham’, or, on 'deposit for any debt th. t you may owe. C. W. B. Program Program for C. W, B. Meeting of the Christian Church, to nie-t a; the home of Mrs. Gea. Steele, Thursday. March 2nd, at 2 p. tn. Song. Bible lesson,“The Irnmistryof Faith II Kings V 1-1(1. Prayer by leader. Song. Reading Sketch of Young Peoples work ” Mrs. Buhler. Sketch of Pendri Road, “Mission India,'' s'rs. Holloway. Items on Bina Mission India, by Society. Busiu ms.

LIVES EASY — , Murderer John Godfrey the Lion if the Hou'« John Godfrey wh<> was recently convicted of having shot his father is certainly retrieving a lion's ! share of attention In slang phraseology, his “living easy,"in spite ot the fact that he is compelled to spmd hi* time behind prison burs. To bngin with, he hi* hid the •unique distinction of having received apologies*from several jurors who vote! to convict him. iH r has had the pleasure of receiving money from at least one of the jurors, he witnessed the grief of another who wept to sei' him in a prison cell and ho recieved the glu I news that one of the twelve good men an*’ true was circulation a petition for his pirdon. 11 addition to these attentions, several hundred people called at the jail yesterday afternoon to greet him and to leave remembrances in the s tape of fruits and cigars. Sheriff Grice estiin ited the number of j visitors vesterday at 400 and he stated taat at least four of every five went to see Godfrey. Os the number many were women. John Godfrey is a young man of sound sense, else his head might be turned at the evidences of good will shown him. To all the domrs he expressel his thanks in a sensible, yer grateful manner and he sm led cordially at his well-wishers. —Fort Wayne Journal Gazette MRS.WELFLEYDEAD Well Known Lady Answer Final Call Sjrv.vw Her H island but a Few Weeks — Had Lived Here Nearly Half a Century. Mr.*. Catherine Scrg Wellley <lud at seven o’clock this morning «t I her home three miles north east of the city. Her husband John Welfley died about ten weeks ago arid the aged comp inion bi gin declining at once. She suffered from l.ij r ppe, rheumati-m and a complication of infirmaries. Mrs. Welfly was born in Germany in May 1837. When seventeen years old she camo with her parents to this country, j locating in Wooster Ohio, where I she was married to John Welfley. Tuey came to Adams county 111 years ago and have since resided in , and near Decatur, being one of the I best known families in the com | rnunity. Two sons and one da ugh tei were born to them, a son and daughter having proceeded the par ents in death. The only remaining child is Andrew Welfley. Bennie Beavers, u grandson, one sister, Mrs. John Weber of Fort Wayne and two brothers, Michael and Fred jsorgof Minnesota ure ths other r datives. The funeral arrangeJments have not been complete 1 ' a i news is being awaited from tne ' brothers, but the services will probably be held from the Presbyterian church here Wednesday ( 1 morning. Masonic Meeting There will be a special meeting of ? Decatur Lodge No. 571 F. & A. M. Tuesday evening, February 28, at 1 7 o’clock prompt. Work in tho Fellow Craft* degree. Visiting ,b;others cordially invited. Henry B Heller, W. M.

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WASH DAY — Judson W. Teeple Writes ahw Lines He Does N t Relish the Michne as Operated by Cinvesinm [Crrmir. To The Indianaj o’.is Star: I note that in Inst Hnturdav's issue that in an interview with John T. Elli* of Anderson at Washington, D. (’., heisquoted a* saying ('rimer's race fir Congress next year will |>e the easiest of his political carter, because he his a magnificient machine of his own that is with him in every county in his district. Are the Repbulioans ot this great Eighth Congressional District willing to submit to the dictates of a machine, or will thev rise in their severeign manhood and «mn*h the machine into a t iou*and pieces, and say to Mr. Cromer that unless he is abte to obtain the nomination for the re election to Congiess without the sharp practices of a machine, he shall and must he relegate ! to the rear, and that oblivion where all such belong who trample np >n the rights of the people? If Mr. Cromer has been faith ful to the trust placed in his hands, why should he need this magnificient machine of his Mr Ellis refers to? The people,[if he] is true to them, will carry him gloriously through this struggle. But ah! Methinks that like Belshazzar of old. he already sees the handwriting on the wall, and for that reason builds this nmgnfijient machine Mr. Elli s refers to. The people of the Eighth Congressional District are not willing to have a machine dictation. JUDSON W. TEEPLE. Decatur, Indiana. Thus it will ba seen that great chunks of harmony are again breaking out in the congressional race, in which Congressman Cromer and his machine are prominent f . tors. 'Mr Teeple cracKs some pretty truthful nuts about what American pride aid independence ought to do. It sounds real nice, but it will take u long time for this s irt of principal to soak through the individuals who have become so u*ed to machine dictation. Mr. Teeple ciuld have said ninny other thing* about Mr. Cromer and been within tho bounds of tho truth. His personal experience, for instince, wou d have been in’e. ">8 ting. Come on n>w Mr. Teople ' keep nothing back. Lots wash out the dirty lin n. A MYSTERY B oktn BuiJCy and Spots of Blood Cause Talk at Monroe b People who name to town this morning reported th it n buggy with one wheel demolished and otherwise damaged was standing along the road a half mile south of Monroe and that about the rig were . 'several spots of blood. Concerning I the accident there seems to be some sort of mystery and rumors were ' rather numerous. The one generally believed is that John An--1 drews, u Monroe saloon keeper of more or 'ess fame had some family trouble and started to leave home, f His wife so lowed and a innaway . happened to one of the rigs. Fo t far as could be learned no one was > hurt, and the blood is believed to ; have been lost bv the huse wh’ch r probably fell anl cut himself in some way.