Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1907 — Page 1

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GOOD PROGRAM ranged for the Municipal Convention UCH MEETS IN NEXT JUNE Logansport —Mayor Dunne of Chicago, and Other Prominent Men on Program. Che Municipal League of Indiana 1 hold their annual convention at gansport, June 18, 19 and 20. J. »d France of Huntington is presilt of the association and among ise who are on the program this ir are Mayor Dunne of Chicago, [ayor Bookwaiter of Indianapolis, 1 other prominent officials. Several catur officials will likely attend, e complete program as arranged is follows: JUNE 18. Afternoon session—Call to order by jsideut, J. Fred France. B. B. Bigler. D. Greeting from the city by MayGeo. P. McGee. Response by Geo. Durgan, mayor, Lafayette. Roll call ■ cities. Applications for member[p. Announcement of query box, the president. Short talks on the eds of municipalities, led by Joseph irphy, Wabash. Announcement of setings of the diffecent sections by e president. Adjournment. Evening session—Sectional meetg, 7 to 8 p. m., 8 p. m., address by esident and report of the meeting the League of American Muncilities. The best and most econoical method of the collection and sposal of garbage by W. P. O’Neil, ember of Board of Works, Richond. Discussion, led by George W. ■een, Mayor of Vincennes. JUNE 19. Morning session —Report of sec>nal meetings. Discussion of same, ties and towns law, its amendments id application, by Mayor Roy L. lattuck, Brazil. Discussion, led Guy Coierick, city attorney, Ft. syne. Adjournment. Afternoon session—Should the presit law be amended and, if so, how? f Charles A. Bookwaiter, Indianapis. Discussion led by Albert Vansman, city attorney, Evansville, tould it tend to elevate the standrd of municipal offices to eliminate jlltlcs? James McWeeney. chief of slice of South Bend. Discussion led y Lawrence Beker, Hammond. Admrnment. Sectional meetings. Evening session —Local committees ill supply. JUNE 20. Morning session — Entertainment, y Country club, special car leaving te Interurban station at 9 a. m. el come, Response by Lemuel Darjw, mayor of Laporte. Election of ofcers. Selection of place of meeting, djournment. Afternoon session— Answer to ueries. Municipal ownership by Edin F. Dunne, mayor, Chicago. Balnee of program in hands of local ommittee. o “ ENCAMPMENT DATES CHANGED Indianapolis, March 7. —Judge Samlel M. Hench of Fort Wayne, who s in the city today, made the followng announcement: "By order of the council of adminstration of the Grand Army of the tepublic, and with the consent of Detartment Commander Brown, the <1 itt or the state encampment at Foit Vayne has been changed from tin lecond week in June to May 21, > ind 23.” Judge Hench is chairman of council of administration. " hen thi fune date was chosen, many o. th Port Wayne veterans raised the ob ection that it was too late and add. tonally unfortunate from the fact th Jt followed the unveiling of the La' on monument in this city. I h. jhange has been made in accordan.i with the wishes of the Fort M a.' m Committees. o The remains of the babe that bund last Friday under a bridge he Preble-Decatur road was bury his morning by Horace Botthoff 1 ’emains had been held subject >t tactions from the trustee and norning, Mr. Botthoff was orden o bury the babe.

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SENDS HIS HORSE TO SCHOOL Harry Worden Hires Education f or His Saddler. A Marion horse has started to high school. This is rather a novelty in the horse line, but H. A. Worden this week shipped his thoroughbred riding horse, “Hoosier Denmark,’’ to Wabash where he has been placed in the hands of Prof. Edwin R. Sims of Chicago, who agrees within thirty days to have the horse doing six different saddle gaits and twelve movements. “Hoosier Denmark" is one of the finest horses ever on the streets of Marion and his owner expects him to turn out to be one of the best saddle horses in America. —Marlon Chronicle. IN TIaD WRECK Mrs. Joseph Thomas Slightly Injured EN ROUTE FROM CARDWELL To Attend the Funeral of Her Mother—Fast Train on Clover Leaf Collided With Freight. Mrs. Joseph Thomas, en route from her home at Cardwell, Mo., to this city to attend the funeral of 'her mother, Mrs. Lammiman, was painfully injured in a wreck on the Clover Leaf, which occurred at Neoga, 111, last evening. She camo on to Decatur, arriving about noon today and is now at the Jacob Hart residence on Monroe street. Dr. Coverdale who attended her found that she had received no serious injuries. Her left shoulder and the left side of her face were badly bruised, but she will be able to attend the funeral services of her mother, which occur tomorrow. Seven people were injured in the wreck, four being very seriously hurt. East bound passenger train No. 4 ran into a local freight, both trains running late on account of a wreck at Mode, 111. The engine of the passenger train was demolished. The seriously injured: Edward Kennedy, engineer freight train of Charleston, Ill.; Mrs. Cora Welton of Greentown, Ind., Allen Gaskell of Neoga, 111., Mrs. E. J. Ford of Delphos, O. The engineer's injuries will likely prove fatal, and the recovery of Mrs. Welton is doubtful. Mrs. Thomas was thrown from her seat into the aisle and is lucky to have escaped with only slight injuries. o A HOT MESSAGE Gov. Hanly Hands One to Legislature IN VETOING THE POLICE BILL Effort to Pass the Bill Over His Head Fails for Want of Constitutional Majority. Indianapolis, March *7, —Governor Hanly vetoed McCullough’s metropolitan police bill today, which means the death of it. It was immediately sent back to the house where an effort to pass it over the governor’s head failed by a vote of forty-three to forty-two. A motion to reconsider this vote was then lost by a vote I of forty-six to forty-four which means the bill may be taken up again. The governor s message ananuncing his veto was the hottest thing passed on to the legislature this session. The clos- . ing paragraph says in part: “You may repeal this law; you may march with enemies of the state and do their bidding if you, like; you may t lit. the leadership of brewers, sa- ■ i keepers, dive keepers and gam- ■ ,-s if you like, but I prefer to cast lot with the law-abiding citizens t the commonwealth and to stand i-or honest law. honestly administered, ladianawlis. March 7—The house i concurred in senate amendments to l>!ie depository bill, thus sending it So the governor for signature.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening March 7, 1907.

POST COMMISSION Investigation of the Service Begins in April PRESIDENT FOR SHIP SUBSIDY Will Say Something on This Subject on His Western Trip—Brick After Cannons. Washington, March 7. —The postal commission of which Representative Overstreet is the active head, expects to be ready to put its plans f or a thorough investigation of the post- < fiice department in effect about April 1 The commission has $75,000 at its c-.imand -’it.: which to employ experts to go through, the departimurs and is now looking about for the best material to be had for this work. It is also authorized to make use of the clerical force of the department. The commission will meet here from time to time during the summer and fall to receive from its experts reports as to the progress of the investigation. Washington, March 7. —The president indicated to several senators today that he will talk ship subsidy on his trip to the middle West this spring. He did not say whether he would discuss the subject in his Indianapolis speech or his speech at Lansing. In the course of the conversation he expressed deep regret that the ship subsidy bill had failed, and said that he realized that it was the opposition in the middle West that killed the bill . He believes he can do something toward changing the attitude of that section of the country on the proposed legislation. 'Washington, March 7. —Representative Brick is putting in a few days “running” the departments in Washington. He has obtained two cannon from the War department as a loan to the Auten Post G. A. R., of South Bend, and they will be placed on the grounds of the post in that city. He has also received a promise from the fish commissioner for a lot of fish to be sent to Notre Dame lake, and he has recommended Daniel Kelley of Winamac, for a naval cadetship at Annapolis. FAIRBANKS REACHES HOME Getting Ready to Make Expensive Speaking Tour. Vice President Fairbanks, who has returned from Washington, is engaged now in looking over his correspondence. The first engagements to demand his attention will be to attend the Chicago Press Club luncheon. March 18, and in the evening of the same day, as a part of the St. Patrick's day celebration, to address the Good-Fellowship Club, an Irish organization of Chicago. He intends to so to his Illinois farm when the weather becomes settled, and will spend some time there. Invitations to speak at a number of public functions will be taken up later, and he will accept such of them as he can. Among the invitations is one to attend the international convention of Christian Endeavor societies to be held at Seattle some time next July. “The stff.on ot congress which has just closed,” said Mr. Fairbanks, “has been a busy one. A large amount of excellent work has been done. Some measures of moment failed by the expiration of the term, but. it is doubtful if more good and important legislation was ever enacted at a short session, than was enacted at the session which has just closed.” BLITZ UND DONNERWETTER! The Sauer Kraut Manufacturers are Forming a Trust. Toledo, O„ March 6. —Representatives from sauer kraut manufacturers of Illinois, New York, Michigan. Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana met here today for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization. Committees were appointed to draw up a constitution and by-laws

————— ( WANTS METHODIST PASTORATE Rev. John McMurray Joins Northern Indiana Conference. Rev. John McMurray, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, may accept the pastorate of a Methodist church after the expiration of his pastoral charge in this city. He has made application, the News is informed, for admittance to the Northern Indiana Conference of the M. E. church, and has been recommended for admission, but Presiding Elder Wade has reported that there are at present no churches in the conference without a preacher. Rev. McMurray, if he enters the conference, may be given a charge, however, at the annual meeting of the conference at Logansport in April, or he might be transferred to another conference. — Bluffton News. IS FIXING FENCES George W. Cromer is Still in the Ring CHALLENGED TO RENEW EFFORT He Will Fight His Old-Time Enemies With Renewed Relish —Still in Politics, Washington, March 7. —Although kicked and buffeted, squeezed by his enemies and tempest-tossed on the sea of politics George Washington Cromer of the Eighth Indiana district is still in the ring. Mr. Cromer tarries in Washington. He is looking after his political fences. It will surprise many people to learn that Mr. Cromer has any fences left. They do look as if a cyclone had blown over them, but there are broken rails here and there and Cromer, with characteristic perseverance, is gathering them together and getting them in order. In conversation with his friends Cromer has let it be shown that he has no intention of dropping out of the political arena. He tells them that even if he had Intended to quit politics his old-time opponents, by the recent attacks they have made on him, have challenged him to renewed efforts and he will not decline to fight when the gauntlet is hurled at him. There is a growing impression that Senator Beveridge did not acquit himself with any particular credit when he made it impossible for Cromer to be appoint postmaster of Muncie. At present Cromer is an “under dog” in the struggle of life and a comment frequently heard in Washington is that there was no honor to be gained by kicking an “under dog.” tlndoubtedly Cromer has the sympathy of a large majority of the members, not only of the house but of the senate. It is recognized that he has spent all the money he ever had and is in debt and this fact naturally begets sympathy.— Louis Ludlow 7 . o MRS. ELMER SPRAGUE IS DEAD I * ” Lived at Monroeville —Sister of Mrs. Belle Hughes. Monroerille, Ind., March 5 r —This morning at 8 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brown of this place, occurred the death of Mrs. Elmer Sprague at the age of thirty-six years. The deceased had been ill for nearly a year and last December underwent an operation at a hospital in Fort Wayne and. recovering somewhat wished to be taken to her home near Monroeville, but was not strong enough to be taken farther than Mr. Brown’s home here. Mrs Sprague was a woman beloved by all who knew- her and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Wood land. Surviving her are her husband, three sisters —Mrs. Etta Johnson of Canton, O.; Mrs. Belle Hughes of Decatur, Ind., and Mrs. Kate Board of Hartford City,—and two brothers— Samuel Darr, living near here, and Fred Darr of Michigan. o Watch for particulars ot the big lot sale in Decatur to be held soon. II will interest every citizen.

A DEPOSITORY BILL interest Measure Passed the Senate INTEREST GOES TO THE PUBLIC Two and a Half and Three Per Cent to be Paid for the Deposit of Public Money. Both the Woodfill public depositor} 7 bill and the companion measure by Representative Grieger, to regulate the salaries of the county treasurers, who have added duties under the depository law were passed in the senate. Senator Mattingly offered an amendment to the salary bill which lowers the salaries in several counties from the amounts named in the bill. There was considerable objection to this amendment from Senators Slack, T. T. Moore, Kistler and others, but it was adopted, several of the senators who voted for it declaring they would attempt to have the measure revised by a conference committee. The depository measure went through with only two amendments of consequence. One of these lowers the rate of interest to be paid on public funds. The rate on semi-annual time deposits is decreased from 3 per cent to two and one-half per cent, and the rate on annual time deposits from three and one-half per cent to three per cent. This amendment was offered by Senator T. T. Moore. The other important amendment offered by Senator Stephenson strikes out that section of the bill relating to the examination of public depositories by the auditor of state. This section provided that the auditor of state should make this investiagtion on the request of any board of finance. This amendment was adopted without opposition. The bill as passed provided that boards of finance shall select public depositories and have generally supervision over the funds of the state, counties and cities. The state board of finance is to be composed of the governor, auditor of state and treasurer of state. The board of county commissioners will act as the county board. The city and council will comprise the board of trustees in the towns. The board of school commissioners will act as the board of finance for each school city and the township advisory board will act the same capacity in relation to the township school funds. IN T SOCIAL WAY Various Lodge and Club Meetings SHAKESPEARE CLUB SESSION Held at the Home of Mrs. John Niblick—Presbyterian Dinner a Big Success. The members of the Pocahontas lodge are requested to be present this evening at their regular meeting. The Ben Hur order will have a meeting on the regular night, Friday evening. Miss Bessie Schrock is hostess this evening at the meeting of the Euterpean Society. Mrs. Studabaker will entertain a small company of friends from Fort Wayne, including Mrs. Vesey, at her home today. The Euchre Club will have one of their delightful meetings at the home of Mrs. T. M. Reid on First street, on Friday evening. The Young Matrons' Club will not hold their meeting tomorrow evening as scheduled. A very imc... and pieasant meeting of the Shakespeare Club .was held at the home of Mrs. John

Niblick, yesterday afternoon. The subject of the afternoon, was “Hymnology,” a story of all the old familiar hymns. A very delicious luncheon was served during the afternoon. The next meeting will be held at Mrs. Blossom’s home on Wednesday afternoon of next week. The dinner at the Presbyterian church today, was a splendid success in every way. The crowd was large and the dinner was one of those kind for which the Presbyterian ladies have long been famous. Anouncements have been sent out informing the many friends of Mrs. Elizabeth Archbold Hesler, and Mr. Henry Franklin Judd of their marriage, which took place Wednesday, March 6. Mrs. Hesler formerly lived in Decatur and Mr. Judd is a prominent farmer of Adams county. Mrs. T. M. Reid will entertain the Friday Night Euchre Club tomorrow evening at her home on First street at 7:30 o'clock, sharp. Mrs. C. D. Kunkle will entertain at a family dinner at her home in Monmouth, Friday at twelve o’clock. COURT HOUSE NEWS The Ninde vs Klein Case Concluded A GENEVA CASE UP TODAY Appeal on Remonstrance to Prevent Annexation of Forty Acres [ of Land. The case of Daniel B. Ninde vs. Richard Klein to recover $175 paid for a Persian lamb skin coat, was concluded before Judge Erwin yesterday afternoon but the court has not yet given a decision, a request for special finding of facts having been filed John S. Whitehead vs. David Latham et al., default of defendants, submitted, finding for the plaintiff, title quieted. E. Burt Lenhart appointed commissioner to make deed. George A. Bohrer Brewing company vs. Harry Cordua et al., suit on bond, demand $650, separate answer filed by William Roop, rule to reply. Julius Haugk vs. James W. Place company, suit on contract, demand" $250, cause reset for trial for Wednesday, March 13. The case of William F. Pyle and seventeen others against the town of Geneva and its board of trustees io set aside an ordinance for the annexation of territory is on trial before Judge Erwin today. Merryman & Sutton appear for the plaintiffs and C. J. Lutz is defending. In 1905 the trustees of Geneva passed an ordinance annexing forty acres of land, located west of the present corporation line of the town. The landowners or most of them objected and filed a remonstrance on account of the increase in taxes, and when defeated before the trustees, they appealed to circuit court. The land in controversy extends to and includes a part of the ball park and race track. About thirty people live in the tract proposed for amendment. William Bieberick, guardian for Merlin C. Bieberick et al., filed a petition for order to sell timber. A marriage license was issued to Daniel H. Habegger of Monroe township and Barbara J. Liechty of French township. Both are Amish. The groom was married once before, his wife having died in 1905. ENTERTAINED NEWSPAPER MEN Washington. March 7. —That the generals of industry have decided to take the public into their confidence was made plain by the attitude of Harriman, who returned to New York today, after six days in the capitol, his sole purpose in being here, seeming to be the purpose of getting acquainted with the newspaper men and treating them royally. In adopting this course Harriman is following the course cf John D. Rockefeller.

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