Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1907 — Page 1

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“SCOTTY” CAMERON KILLED A Well Known Ball Player Murdered Sunday

SHOT IN A SALOON By Bartender Named Joseph Schulte PLAYED HERE LAST SEASON Was One of the Best Ball Players Known to Semi-Professional Class. “Scotty” Cameron popular young captain of the Decatur base ball team last season, and who expected to return here this year, was murdered by a bartender in a Detroit saloon Sunday. The Detroit News of Monday, gave the following account of the affair: Alton Cameron, brother-in-law to Judge William F. Connolly, of the recorder’s court, was shot through the heart and killed by Joseph Schulte, a bartender in August Wells’ saloon 1485 Russell street, shortly before 8 o'clock Sunday night. Several young men had gathered in the barroom, drinking and smoking, Young Cameron, it is said, began hammering on the stove, creating some little noise. “Cut that out. Nothing like that goes here,’ 'said the bartender, Schulte. Cameron, it is said walked over to the bar and, with his open hand, struck a man who stood there on the hat, denting it in. Again Schulte spoke to the young fellow, and his words were quickly followed by the sound of a revolver shot. Cameron turned and ran out of the room to the sidewalk outside, where he lunged forward and fell on his face in the snow. At the sound of the shot all the men in the saloon save Schulte and a young man named Joseph Peck, of 35 Cameron avenue, a friend of Cameron’s, who had entered the place with him, ran out in fear. Peck, who says he had been keeping an eye on Schulte, remained. He niade a step toward Schulte, but found the muzzle of a revolver staring him in the face. Keeping Peck covered, Schulte jerked out the drawer in which the money was kept, snatched its contents, backed around the bar and dashed out in the street. Friends carried Cameron into the Crescent drug store, owned by Dr. O. S. Bell, at 1501 Russell street, and summoned Harper hospital ambulance, while other scurried about the neighborhood, searching for nearer medical aid. In less than 20 minutes the ambulance arrived, but Cameron had breathed his last. Joseph Peck called Judge Connolly over the telephone and the latter came hurrying to the scene. It was a sad sight that met his eyes. On the bare, wooden floor of the drug store, lay the young man, only 22 years old, surrounded by a gaping crowd of morbid sightseers. The judge at once identified Cameron as a brother of his wife, who lived with another married sister, Mrs. James Mclntosh, 17 Guilloz street. Soon after Coroner Parker had arrived and begun his investigation. John Cameron, a brother of the dead man, was admitted by the police. Alton Cameron, known to his friends as “Scotty," had quite a reputation as a base ball player. For several years he had played oh the best local teams, but soon graduated to the ranks of the professionals. During the season of 1906 he was captain of the Decatur, Ind., team. Previous to that he had played with the Marion, Ind., team and with the St. Thomas team in Canada. No adequate motive for the shooting could be ascertained by Coroner Parker, although one of the bystanders said there had been bad blood between Cameron and Schulte for some time. A diligent search was made for

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Schulte by the police, but shortly after 10:30 o'clock the man came into police headquarters and gave himself up to Supt. Downey, who locked him up, after having him registered and searched. The charge registered against him is murder. Schulte is 43 years old, unmarried and a brother of Albert M. Schulte, the well known vocal teacher at 300 Brush street, and lives at 1485 Russell street. Besides the wife of Judge Connolly, Cameron leaves two other sisters, Mrs. James Mcliftosh, 17 Guilloz street, and Mrs. W. O. Briggs, of F?erry avenue and Hastings street; three brothers, John, of 646 Wabash avenue, head carpenter for Pardridge & Blackwell; Donald, of Chicago, and Raymond, who lives with the judge at 2015 North Grand Boulevard east. His mother, Mrs. Jane Cameron, lives with one of her daughter. Lewis Cameron, the lad's father, is dead. During his life he was a well known street car man and for years was the driver of a horse car on the Brush street line. . By direction of Judge Connolly, the remains were turned over to Undertakers William Cavanagh & Co., 1362 Woodward avenue. "Schulte’s statement to me shows no justification for the murder,” said Capt. Baker of the central precinct, after hearing Bartender Joseph Schulte’s statement of the shooting. “I was not drunk when I shot,” said Schulte. “Although I got a load afterwards. I didn’t know Cameron was dead until my boss, Wells, found me in Herman Zorn’s place on Cadillac square. Cameron w’as drunk and ugly and had smashed a man’s hat over his head when I told him to stop. He swore at me and I pointed a revolver at him to scare him. He made a threat and I shot him. Three weeks ago he came into the saloon with a club and smashed three lights and afterwards he went outside and fought a cripple.” Schulte is an unprepossessing person. His father, Peter Schulte, is a respected retired merchant living at 300 Brush street. A warrant charging Schulte with murder, will be asked for today. THE BIG TAX SALE Twenty-Seven Still Owe Delinquent Tax THE LOB DITCH ASSESSMENTS Commissioners Meet Monday—Macadam Road Sale—New Furniture. If twenty-seven taxpayers owing delinquent tax, will liquidate between this time and ten o’clock Monday morning, Treasurer Lachot would be relieved from holding a delinquent tax sale at all. Since the list was first published fifty-seven have paid up, and it is a pretty safe proposition that several of those remaining unpaid will do so before the time for sale Monday morning. Auditor Lewton is still battling with lob ditch assessments. The last day for payment is Monday, and after that time those who are assessed will have to pay it in bonds, with interest added. Several thousand dollars has already been collected, but one-third or perhaps one-half will be collected through the issue of bonds The regular session of the February term of commissioners’ court will begin Monday. In the grist will be one macadam road sale, the Magley & Preble road. Some improvements are promised for the sheriff’s office in the way of' furniture.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening January 30, 1907.

ERIE ENGINEERS ARE WARNED The Officials Take Extra Precaution Against Wrecks. Definite instructions have been issued from the office of Superintendent F. J. Moser to engneers that owing to the roughness of the track and unstableness resulting from recent excessive cold and inclement weather, no attempt should be made by any train to exceed schedule time. Where track weaknesses are liable to occur, enigneers are cautioned to reduce the speed of their trains to a limit assuring safety. All trainmen are requested to report any track defects whatever. The bulletins issued indicate that the existing conditions due to the heavy rains, sharp freezes and following are matters, at present, of no little concern. Precaution is necessary on all hands to avert constantly Impending trouble, as it is realized that rail spreading would not at all be unlikely should the tracks be subjected to severe usage. So far the Chicago & Erie has been fortunate in escaping serious disasters such as have taken place on numerous other roads in this vicinity, but as a local official remarked Monday: “Trouble is always ahead and bobs up when least expected, so a little precaution is not unwarranted.” —Hutington Herald. TO bTIONG FIGHT Thaw Case Will be Very Tedious One 9 THE TENTH JUROR IS SELECTED Another Special Venire of One Hundred Men Ordered, Making Four Hundred in All. New York, Jan. 30.—District Attorney Jerome today began an investigation of several rumors that talismen in the Thaw case had been approached and that an attempt will be made to reach the jurors who are to try Thaw. The talismen were asked today if they had been approached. One or two said they had been asked about the case in the corridor of the building. No explanation as yet why two of the jurors were excused yesterday. Justice Fitzgerald anounced at the opening of the trial today that he would permit no more sketching of the principals in the trial and asked the artists to leave the court room. Harry C. Brearly, an advertising agent, aged thirty, was selected as the tenth juror to take the place of Harold Faire, who was excused yesterday. Justice Fitzgerald ordered an additional panel of 100 men today, making a total of 400 veniremen out of which 265 have ben examined and ten jurors secured. It will be a long drawn out fight for the life of Harry Thaw, as is shown by a glance at the counsel on each side. Thaw is reconciled to the plea of insanity as a defense. o THE SUPPLEMENTAL INSTITUTE Farmers. Will Meet at Berne Thursday of Next Week A farmers’ institute will be held above the People’s State bank in Berne on Thursday, February 7. The following program has been arranged by Secretary Teeter: Opening—9:3o a. m. Poultry, for Pleasure and Profit C. S. Mumma Discussion Eli Waggoner Farm Management C. J. Whistler Discussion from a financial standpoint C. A. Neuenschwander Recitation Afternoon Session. Music Seed Corn, Selection and care.... Ralph Gates Discussion J- L. Aspy Disposition of the Corn Crop.... C. J. Whistler Potato Culture Sylvester Pontius Discussion Daniel Welty Recitation Music conducted' by Gid Reisen. -o SIXTY-FIVE MINERS ARE DEAD Scripps-Mcßae Special. Fayetteville, W. Va., Jan. 30.—There is no hope entertained of getting the victims of the explosion out of the Stuart mine alive. The number of dead will reach sixty-five.

FIRST PASSENGER First one is Ready for the Test TO BE MADE TOMORROW Much Work Necessary to Complete the Motive Power System—Boys Will Banquet. The work of installing the necessary machinery in the first passenger car for the Fort Wayne & Springfield traction line will be completed today and the test will be made tomorrow preparatory to beginning the regular schedule on Friday. Many people think the delay in fitting up the cars has been unnecessary, but it should be remembered that about fifteen Westinghouse experts have worked incessantly at it for several weeks. This is the fourth road in the United States to be fitted with this system which means an immense saving of power. It has been proven the greatest system in use today. To equip a car six tons or 12,000 pounds of machinery is added between the trucks and the bed, giving some idea of the work necessary. Several of the Westinghouse people will leave tomorrow night and they will celebrate the event with a banquet. The boys and their wives and a few, friends will enjoy the evening at the skating rink before going to the feast. Most of the men, however, will remain here another month to complete their work at the power house, where they are fitting up several more cars. HURTY IS SCARED In Kot Speeches by the Legislators WHO CALL HIM A LOBBYIST His Salary Bill Defeated—The Senate Passes a Bill Governing Tax Ferrets. Indianapolis, Jan. 30. —Dr. J. N. Hurty, Secretary of the State Board of Health, was given a severe treatment in speeches of several members of the lower house today. Condo of Grant county, called Hurty a lobbyist, and eloquently appealed to his colleagues to defeat Hurty’s bill, asking for an increase of salary. Although Hurty declares he had not asked for an increase in salary, the General Health bill which the attorney general prepared, went down in defeat. It is also said that the friends of organized labor claimed to have heard that Hurty was opposing in the lobby a bill which they favored, to prevent the second use of bottles and they took occasion to knife Hurty in return bydefeating his bill. Hurty was vigorously attacked during almost the entire session. The senate passed a bill making it impossible for tax ferrets to go back farther than ten years to recover requestered taxable property., o NEXT MONDAY IS THE LAST DAY For Paying the Assessments on the Lob Ditcn. Monday, February 4, is the last day | for paying assessments on the Lob ( Ditch dredge, after which bonds will • be issued covering the deferred assess-, ments. The total cost of the dredge as esti-| mated by Joseph A. LeFavour, the, superintendent of construction, is near i the $39,000 mark. The contract price , of the dredge as bid in by Franklin I p. Wade, the contractor, was $33,500, ; to which is added the cost of surveying, attorneys' fees, superintendent’s pay and court costs, running the aggregate up to nearly $39,000. A large per cent of the assessment falls on Adams county- land owners who pay their assessment at Decatur. About $22,000 has already been paid in—sls,ooo in Adams county and $7,- ( 000 to Auditor W. Lea Smith. —Port-J land Sun.

WILL GIVE THEM HOMINY Editor Patchell is Fighting Next Congressional Election. George W. Patchell of Union City, who is sometimes called “the fighting editor,” while in Washington during the last few days, gave warning to his friends that they may expect “something doing” in the Eighth Indiana district, next year. Mr. Patchell is consistent supporter of Geo. W. Cromer and his admiration for the Stilwell faction does not amount to a passion. “George Cromer and his friends,” said Editor Patchell, “have always been regular Republicans and if a regular Republican is nominated for congress next year we will give him our earnest support, but if a renegade Republican who knifed Mr. Cromer last year gets the nomination, there will be 5,000 good Republicans in the district who will vote for the Democratic candidate for congress. The Stilwell bolters, who have been the disrupting and disorganizing factor in Eighth district politics for years, are now crying for harmony, but we will give them hominy instead of harmony.”—Bluffton Banner. o LADY IS STRICKEN Mrs. Andrew Gottschalk Fatally 111 A WELL KNOWN BERNE LADY Formerly Lived Here —A Late Message Says Hopes for Her Recovery are Slight. (Special to Democrat.) Berne, Ind., Jan. 30. —Yesterday afternoon during the revival services that are being conducted at the Evangelical church, and in the midst of a season of prayer, Mrs. Andrew Gottschalk, wife of Druggist Gottschalk, was the victim of a serious stroke of paralysis, which completely paralyzed her entire life side, head and body, making her utterly helpless and speechless. She had completed a prayer, and in an effort to rise, found that she was in a helpless condition, and was compelled to solicit aid to be removed to her seat. Mrs. Gottschalk thought, however, that it was only temporary affection and when the minister called for testimonies, she made an effort to rise for the purpose of giving her experience, and it was then that she fully realized that her condition w-as serious. Medical aid was hastily summoned, and the physician pronounced her case to be a very serious one after a thorough examination. Mrs. Gottschalk is an earnest Christian worker and commands respect from all who know her, and her many friends hope that she will speedily recover from her illness.

Mrs. Gottschalk lived here a number of years, during the time her husband served as county treasurer, and her many Decatur friends are also hoping for her recovery. A telephone message from Berne at three o'clock this afternoon said Mrs. Gottschalk was just alive and that hopes for her recovery are very slight. o AS TO JUDICIAL CANDIDATES Bill Introduced Forbidding Campaign Contributions. Candidates for judicial positions I will have no opportunity to swell the ' campaign fund if a bill, introduced I yesterday by Senator Hugg, becomes 1 a law. The measure makes it unlaw- | ful for such candidates to give campaign contributions and unlawful for I political chairmen to request such doj nations. The candidate who gives to ' such fund may be fined from SSOO to ' SI,OOO and disqualified for holding ■ office, and those who request such contributions may be fined from SSOO to SI,OOO and imprisoned for two years. The bill applies either to candidates I for nomination or candidates for eleci ion. BASE BALL TO "".1 The directors of the base ball asso- [ ciation are requested to -meet at the J Commercial Club rooms at S o'clock j this evening Business of importance.

CONGRESS’ DOINGS Postal Employees Sure to get an Increase SENATOR B-ACKBURN TO RETIr’E Newspapers Protesting Against Legislation —It is Known That There is a Watch Trust. Washington, Jan. 30. —In order that there may be no slip-up on the provision of the postoffice appropriation bill, increasing the pay of rural carriers, city letter carriers, postoffice clerks and railway mail clerks, the committee on rules of the house will bring in a special rule at Mr. Overstreet’s request, making the legislation in order on a appropration bill. In the absence of a rule the legislation could be rejected on a point of order. Washington, Jan. 30.—When Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn of Kentucky, doffs the senatoral toga on March 3 of this year, to retire permanently to private life, there will be no Democratic leader of the United States senate until the following December, unless an extra session of congress is called by President Roosevelt for the enactment of important legislation. Washington, Jan. 30. —A good many newspapers are protesting against the legislation proposed by the postal commission. Objection is made to the recommendation that the postoffice department should have authority to enforce a rule that advertisements shall not cover more than 50 per cent of the space of a publication and to the recommendation that supplements that do not conform to the body of the paper shall be prohibited. Many members received telegrams today asking them to oppose most of the recommendations of the commission. Washington, Jan. 30. —It is announced that the department of justice will soon be ready to proceed against the watch trust. Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, has succeeded in convincing the department that there is a watch trust which habitually charges higher prices for goods in this country than abroad. Assistant Attorney General Purdy has been conducting an investigation and his inquiries have convinced him that all the facts submitted to congress by Representative Rainey were w’ell grounded.

TENDERED HIS RESIGNATION Foxy Governor Swet*enham Get the Rubber Boot. HEAD LATER London, Jan. 30. —Governor Swettenham of Jamaica, has tendered his resignation and it was promptly accepted by the government, according to today’s Globe. Continuing, the article in that paper says that the resignation was caused by certain facts coming to light with which the governor should have become acquainted, but which he knew nothing about. .. It is probable that this turn is the result of an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the recent affairs at Kingston, when Admiral Davis of the U. S. squadron was ordered away, when giving assistance to the distressed and injured. o THEIR REPORT LOOKS GOOD First National Bank Makes Another Good Report. In answer to a call the First National bank presents their report, showing the condition of that institution at the close of business on January 26. Their resources and liabilities figure a total of $631,531.86, and their deposits are $482,877.12. The latter figures show that the people hereabouts have money and plenty of it, and that the First National is doing an exceptionally healthy business. PENNSYLVANIA ENGINE BLEW UP Ft. Wayne, Jan. 30. —A Pennsylvania engine on the main track near Columbia City, blew' up this morning, killing Engineer Bender and Fireman Bauer, both of this city. Traffic was tied up for several hours.

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