Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 July 1894 — Page 2

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WEDNESDAY, JULY IS, 1S94.

HOI.I.OWAY. like Debs, talk with his mouth.

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DKIIS seems to be fighting tiivlv with his mouth.

AVE need compulsory education more than we need compulsory arbitration. THIS is a mighty unlucky year for some people. At least Debs ami llollowav think so.

Foil several days Debs has been looking for a soft place to light. lie found it on the upholstered stone slabs of the Cook county jail.

ERIIK.Nl'. VAX^I I-UKD DKHS succeeded in tieing up several railroads, but lie failed most egre.giously to tie up the I'nited States grand jury.

IIoi.i.oway has already told six different stories concerning his connection with the Kontanet wreck. As a liar he is the equal of the laie distinguished John W. CotTev.

Jx the Tenth district yesterday the anti-Landis faction met at Hammond and nominated .ludge Johnston for Congress. If the differences of the Republicans of that district are not settled by arbitration they wilt result in the election of a Democrat. To outsiders the whole business looks like a blank piece of idiocy.

SOMK of the fruits of the tariff bill are already apparent. The State Department has received otlieial notice from the United .Mates Consul-General at Havana that a duty of .'4 per cent on all articles now admitted itito Cuba from the I'nited States free of duty. under the reciprocity act with Spain. •..will soon rgo into effect, and that

In the light of events bv the news from Washington to the effect that the .'Democratic conferees of the Senate and llouse have failed to agree on the tariff bill the arrogant assumption of •the A lywSarx appears to be somewhat ludicrous. Developments have proven that Senator Gorman was not wide of the mark when he made the statement on the Hour of the Senate that the Wilson bill could never pass that body, Until the Democrats in the

Senate could agree among themselves as to what kind of a tariff bill they ...wantod they were very willing to listen to what the -I rtjws-Xeirx calls the ".senseless chatter" of the Republicans.

TJIF, Republican members of the conference committee on the tariff bill were admitted to the sessions of the committee for the first time yesterday. It was the lirst time in the history of lepisl ution when the minority members were excluded from the meetings of a conference committee. It is not only a courtesy but it is a right which belongs to the minority, but the Democratic majority ignored all courtesy, all precedent and all law when they held their dark lantern meetings without the presence of the Republican :members. It was not so when the Mc-

Kinley bill was in uonference as the Democratic members were present at every meeting of the committee. However. the Republicans were graciously admitted yesterday and were informed that the majority could not come to an agreement. The chief .bones of contention are over sugar, coal, metal, wool and cotton. These differences will probably be reported to the House and Senate within the next two days. As to the final result we must be content to "wait and see."

CONCKIJMXG WAGES.

Under the baneful oppression of trusts, combines, etc., which sprang, into existence under a quarter of a century of Republican misrule wages have been constantly going down.— A rijw-Xcwx.

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wheat and Hour the duty will be raised to correspond with that to be imposed on Spanish wheat and Hour. This means a loss ou farm products alone to Account" ami the people of the I'nited States of! nliout SI:.'.ODO.OOO a vear.

HAi. it not been fur Republican ob- iowirig ijat

(•Hid tini lui 11 i.nn 1 -ii 11 structiori the Wilson bill would hav become a law long ago.—Aiyii.--.\ci(v.

$720 in 18(10, an increase of $2r3 or 52 per cent: and he also shows that the greater cheapness of things necessary for ordinary family support virtually makes that increase of wages from

to-10 per cent more. In other' words he shows that the things which the worker could buy in 1860 for his average wages of $48 he can buy now for 8348, a saving of $138. Adding S252, his average gain in wages, to 8138, his saving in the cost of family supplies, and we have a net average gain to all

mechanics of 8390 a year. These figures, coming from so eminent authority, must be regarded as true. They furnish incontestible proof of the statement that protection helps

the

workinginan, and that wages instead of "constantly going down" as the Argw-ticu's asserts, have been constantly going up during the last thirty .years.

Hit opportunity had come to him this evening. It was at a carpet dance at the house of Mrs. Venable, a friend of his uncle, sMr. John Ordo, that Marcus Gray, a young American over on hia travels, having screwed his courage to the sticking place, proposed to Mary Lumsden, the eldest daughter of a well to do city merchant. They had met several times in the course of the preceding month, and it had not taken Gray long to discover thut in Miss Lumsden he had lighted on the girl who, for him, was "the fairest flower the sun shone on."

His opportunity had come to him this evening, when he and Mary by some happy chance found themselves alone

in the curtained einbayuient of a projecting window. At any moment they might be disturbed by some other stray couple in search of a quiet nook, and what Gray had to say, if he did not wish the occasion to slip through his fingers, must be brief aud to the point.

fact that not more than three minutes elapsed from the time of our people finding themselves alone in the alcove to that of their emergeix-e. It may further be assumed that their conversation, brief as it was. had not proved unsatisfactory to either of them, seeing that, as Miss Lumsden's partner for the next dance came up to claim her, Gray contrived to whisper in her ear, "I will call upon your father in the course of tomorrow."

Mention has been made of Marcus Gray's uncle, Mr. Orde. John Orde's dearest friend was Edward Lumsden, Mary's father. Their friendship dated back to their school days. They took to each other, as the saying is, from the first—so much so indeed that some portion of the holiday of each was generally spent at the home of the other. When the time came for them to push their fortunes in the world, the city of LoudoD acted as a loadstone to both Lumsden found a stool in the office of drysaltery firm in Upper Thames street, while Orde went under the tutelage of his father, whose business was that of a shipbroker. Years passed, bringing with them their inevitable changes and vicissitudes, but in 110 wise interrupting the current of their friendship. In the course of time Orde

succeeded to his father's position, while Lumsden started in business

dance. Both Lumsden and Orde had deemed it advisable a little while before to put themselves in telephonic connection with such of their customers aud agents as preferred to specify their wants and wishes through that ready medium of communication, aud accordingly a wire had been laid on the premises of each. Although Lumsden and Orde wero in no way related in business affairs, they frequently used the telephone for messages about private matters, such as a little while before would have necessitated the writing of a note or the transmission of a telegram. For instance, Lumsden, having got himself "switched on" at the exchange, would telephone Orde an invitation to dinner or a request to join him at his club at a certain hour, while Orde, on hia part. would inform Lumsden through the same medium that he had just had tickets sent him for a concert or the theater, and would specify when and where he would look to meet his friend and wife unless they happened to be otherwise engaged.

What had happened to his friend? Had he been the unwitting auditor of a tragedy in which Lumsden had played the pint of victim? If nothing had happened, why had the latter failed to respond to his summons? But the need for ascertaining, beyond the possibility of doubt, whether his fears had any foundation in fi'ct was a spur to immediate action. Ho rang and ordered a hansom to be fetched with all speed. While waiting for it he signaled again through the instrument, hoping against hope to hear his friend's cheery "Hallool" in return, but Hie sileuce that ensued was as the silence of the grave. It was with a heart replete with foreboding the most dire that, a few minutes later, he found himself on his way to Saint Augustine's alley, in which narrow but important thoroughfaro Lumsdeu's offices were situated.

But quick as he had been in reaching the scene, the tragedy which had been enacted there—for nothing less did it prove to be—had already become public property. The premises wore in charge of the police, while the alley itself was blocked by a surging crowd of men aud 1 youths, each aud all anxious to glean the latest particulars of a crime so startling and mysterious, for it is not often that a merchant of the city of

Loudon is murdered in his own office in broad daylight. On the oblong mahogany table, at which ho had sat for so many hours every week day, lay the dead body of Edward Lumsden, a terrible wound on I his left temple, as if caused by some blunt instrument, revealing to all present the nature of the foul play to which he had fallen a victim.

The particulars of the affair, so far as they had yt. been ascertained, were as follows:

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At twenty minutes to two o'clock on the afternoon of the aforesaid June ninth, the itself was cnou telephone bell in Mr. Orde's private' office signaled that some ono was de-! sirous of speaking with liim. Mr. Max, one of the staff, whose duty it was to attend to the instrument during his employer's absence, at once responded to

the summons, which was followed up

by the usual preliminary question, "Are you there?' To this Max replied with the stereotyped, "Yes who are you?" "Lumsden," was the answer. Then, evidently recognizing that the voice was not his friend's, "Ls not Mr, Orde there?" he queried. "At present he is out, sir," replied Max "but I am expecting him back every moment." "In that case 1 will keep the connection open for a few minutes. Tell him to signal me immediately he returns." "All right, sir," responded Max, and with that the conversation came to an end for the time being.

So far as could be ascertained afterward, it would seem to l^ave been

That zealous freetrader, Edward Atkinson. the eminent statistician, admits that the condition of the workingman in this country has been greatly tween himself and Mr. LumBden. Goimproved since 1SG0 for in a recent re- forward into his room he took np port by him to the Bureau of Statistics

he shows that the average annual

wages of all mechanics in the I'nited have advanced from 84'iS in

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For a few moments longer Mr. Orde stood with the tube glued to his ear like a man stupefied, but no further sound of any kind reached him. Then his wits came back to him in some measure. He gave the signal lie had been on the point of giving before and waited,with a sickening suspense impossible to describe, for a response. But none came. Again he signaled, and again he waited but with a like result, or rather with no result at all. The tube dropped from his fingers and he sank into his chair utterly dazed and confounded.

It had been Mr. Lumsden's practice

Presumably it was so, in \:ew of the this ninth of June, about five minutes

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his own

to neither tf them did

fortune prove unkind. We come now to a certain memorable a a

Mrs." Venable's carpet

himself with the care of the

establishment during luncheon time, which was limited to half an hour, when, as a rule, he and an office boy were the sole occupants of the ground floor, which comprised a couple of rooms —Lumsden's own office" and a much larger one for the use of the staff. Ou

after the half dozen clerks bad left in a body, the Office boy, Houghton by name, was sent by his master with a note to the head of a lirm some distance away, and, according to his own account, was gone just a quarter of an hour, during which time it must have been that Lumsden tiied to open up a communication with his friend by telephone. O11 the lad's return he was horrified at finding his master's body stretched lifeless ou the floor It was evident that Lumsden had been struck down while seated close to the telephone waiting for the signal that Orde had returned. Appearances led to the conclusion that the safe had been hurriedly rifled of whatever notes aud gold it might have contained, the door being open and the

far all inquiries had failed to elicit the slightest evidence of any one, either a 6trauger or otherwise, having been seen to enter or leave the premises between the time of Houghton's quitting them and his return. And there, for the present, the affair rested.

As the dead man's oldest friend it now became James Orde's uuenviable duty to break the terrible tidings to his wife and family.

CHAPTER 11

"Hello, Garry you here?"

Marcus Orav had taken his ticket at Victoria Station and two more minutes would have seen him iu the train on hia way to Streatham, where the Lurnsdens lived, when his attention was attracted by the placard of an evening newspaper. "Mysterious Murder This Day of a Citv Merchant" was the startling announcement which stared him in the face. Now, his uncle was a city merchant, one of thousands of others, and that of to cause him to invest a penny in the purchase of a paper.

It is enough to say that Uray did not

go to Strnatham that day, nor for many weeks afterward. Some days passed without any wi

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ing forthcoming, other than that which their first crude investigation had brought to light. Thut the safe had been rifled there

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doubt, seeing that neither a note nor a coin of any ..kind was found in it but in view of thcj'att t.ial Mr. Lumsden had been in tr:o h:.'.,- of keeping all cash matters connected with the business in his own hands, it was difficult to ascertain with any degree of exactitude until certain books should have been gone through what moneys he had in hand at the time he came by his death. The chances, however, were that the sum was not a large one, the dead man having been in the habit of banking day by day. Mr. May, the managing clerk, had no knowledge of any cash having been

Lumsden's intention to ask Orde to meet '''s '-'"p'oyer on the morning of him at his club and dine with him, his wife aud daughter being under an engagement to accompany some friends that evening to a concert.

Four minutes later Mr. Orde pushed open the swing doors of the outer office and was at once informed by Max of the conversation that had passed be-

telephone tube with the intention of

signaling to his friend that he was there and at his service. The tube was in his hand, and he was on the point of putting it to his lips -:i a sound which reached him tlirou it arrested his attention and caused him to clap it to his ear instead. What he heard sounded to him like an inarticulate cry, as it might be, of surprise or fear, followed, the moment the tube touched his ear, by the words, "Oh, Harry, Harry—this from you!" Close upon which came a groan, then a dull thud as of some heavy body falling, and last of all, after a brief silence, but very faintly, what seemed like the clashing of a door.

the ninth but, on the other hand Houghton averred that on taking some letters into his master's room about eleven o'clock ho found tliero a gentleman dressed in deep mourning and an entire stranger to him, who, at the moment of his entering, was in the act of handing a number of bank notes across the table to Mr. Lnmsden. The notes in question were uot now to be found no entry of them had been mado in tho cash book neither could Mr. May throw any light on the personality of the man who had paid them over.

At the inquest, which was more than once adjourned in the hope that further evidence would presently be forthcoming, a verdict of "willful murder against some person or persons unknown" was eventually returned. The funeral had taken place .»ome days before.

Mr. Orde did not fail to impart to Inspector Fountain, who had charge of tho affair on the part of the police, tho particulars of what he had so strangely heard through the medium of tho telephone. The inspector appeared to be much struck thereby and mado ample entries in his notebook. There was reason for believing that during the next few days ho devoted a considerable portion of his time to endeavoring to ascertain whether the murdered man lu.d been on intimate terms with any ono, either a friend or a relative, whoso baptismal name was Harry or Henry, but all such inquiries proved of no avail To his initiative it was duo that an advertisement was inserted in The Times and other newspapers requesting that should the same meet the eye of theper-

son who on the morning ot t!\o ninth of June paid the late Mr. Edward Lumsdeu, of Saint Augustine's alley, a sum of money in bank notes he would at once

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likely to remain a dead letter. That the merchant had come by his death at the hands of some one who was aware that at that hour of the day he and the office boy had, as a rule, the premises to themselves, could scarcely be doubted. In all probability Houghton had been seen to leave the office, and advantage had been taken of his absence. But all such suppositions uiorety served to deepen the mystery which clung around the affair.

Mr. Charles Lnmsden, Edward's younger brother, camo up from the country to attend the funeral. He, the widow, Mr. llice, the lawyer, and Mr Orde met in the drawing room after all was over for the reading of the will. James Orde was already aware that he was appointed sole executor.

As a matter of course the bulk of Mr. Lumsden's property devolved upon his wife and children. To his brothers was bequeathed a legacy of one thousand guineas, aud to his cousin, Eustace I Crake, one of five hundred guineas. There were minor legacies to Mr. May and others, while to Mr. Orde was devised a diamond breastpin and one or two other mementos. "And, pray, where is Mr. Eustace Crake to be found?" asked Mr. Orde of Mr. Charles Lumsden, when the lawyer had brought his readiug to an end. It was the first time ho had heard of the existence of such a person, or if he liafl heard of it iu years gone by he had forgotten. "That is more than can tell you," was the reply. "All his life Eustace Crake lias been one of those rolling stones which are proverbially said to gather

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moss. Indeed, if 1 were to

term him the scapegrace of the family, 1 could hardly be indicted for libel. 1 am quite aware that my poor brother had always a sort of sneaking regard! for him, imt for my part any cousinly feeling 1 may once have had for him I died out long ago." "Then 1 suppose our only chance of finding him is to advertise for him?" "That is what I should recommend, At the present moment he may be in Timbuctoo or Peking."

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tisement was needed. On going through his friend's private palters a few days later Mr Ordo found among them a letter of recent date from Crake—an application, in point of fact, for what lie termed '"a further loan" of twenty pounds, attached to which was the tissue paper press copy of Mr. Lumsden's reply, in which occurred these words: "1 wholly decline to lend you any more money why not say give, for that is what it really comes to? because I am

in my will." Crake's latter w»s dated from some obscure street in Peutonville, to which adtiress Mr. Orde at once wrote, asking the legatee to call upon him with us little delay as possible. Crake was shown into Mr. Orde's office next morning as the clock was striking eleven. He was a handsome but dissipated looking man, with sunken cheeks, a heavy mustache and red rimmed eyes in age somewhere between thirty and forty. His clothes were of a fashionable if somewhat horsy cut, but worn to tho verge of shabbiuess. His demeanor was a cnriouscompoLind of jauntiuess and servility, but there was a veiled insolence in his eyes which proclaimed him for the bully he doubtless was at heart. A swarthy flush fjowed through his sallow cheeks when told for what sum his name was down in his cousin's will. •Poor Ted!" he murmured, half under his breath. "Who could have dreamed that lie would come to so terrible an end?' "It seems somewhat singular, Mr, Crake," said the merchant, "that you did not think tit, more especially in view of all he had dune for you from timo to time, to utteud your cousin's funeral.

You can scarcely plead ignorance of the fact of his death, or the mode of it, seeing that there was not a newspaper in the kingdom which did not publish ample details of the affair." "I was in Paris at the time, and while there 1 never saw an English paper. It lias been a source of regret to me ever since that I was unable to pay a last tribute of aii'oction and regard to on* to whom 1 owe so much."

The word themselves showed no lack of good feeling, yet there was something "In the way they were spoken that grated on Mr. Orde's ears. Before more could be saiil tho door opened and in came Charles Lumsden. It was his last day in London, and he had come to bid Mr. Orde good by. Ho started as his eyes fell on Crake. "Hello, Uarryl you here? Where on earth have you sprung from?" he exclaimed.

It was Orde's turn to start when the word "(.Tarry" fell from Charles Lumsden's lipe. For the next minute or more he was as one in a dream, heeding nothing of what tho two were saying to each other.

Again he s«emed to hear the last words of his poor murdered friend, 'Oh, Harry, Harry, this from you!" Next moment, however, he asked himself whether the name which had thus reached his ears might not have been Garry and not Harry, as he had not unnaturally assumed it to be, in which case there could be but little doubt that the assassin of Edward Lumsden was at that moment sitting within half a dozen yards of him. It was a possibility which sent a chill shudder through him from crown to toe. He sat for several seconds, staring dumbly at Crake, and it was as well perhaps that just then all the latter's attention was given to Charles Lumsdeu. Presently be rose to take his leave. "Then 1 may look to hear from you, Mr. Orde, at the earliest possible moment," ho said as he turned to the merchant. "As soon as ever the estate has been wound up, Mr. Crake, and probate granted, you may rely on my communicating

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with you Hardly was the door shut behind him before Orde said to Mr. Lumsden: "Why did you just now address that man by the name of Garry?" "The explanation is very simple. When ho and 1 aud my brother were lads together, each of ns was known to the others by a nickname. Mine was Dixie, Crake's was Garry what pool Ted's was I have now forgotten."

Thereupon tho subject dropped, and presently Mr. Charles bado tho other goodby and went his way. The following day Orde made it Lis business to call on Inspector Fountain.

Despite his professional phlegm it was evident that that official was considerably impressed by the further information now brought him, and as a matter of course the inevitable notebook vrns again brought into requisition. "I will at once causa certain inquiries to be mads respecting Mr. Eustace Crake," he said, "and will let you know the result with as little delay as may be."

Five days later it waa'Fountaih's tnin to seek Mr. Orde. Crake, it appeared, was a member of a low &ng of betting

men who mado a point of attending cvory race meeting within a radius of fifty miles around London. As a rule his evenings were devoted to billiards. Further, Fountain had satisfied himself

communicate with the police but t'no ouui«in nau saiisnea mmseu and the advertisement seemed

ay®

which elapsed

between the murder of Mr. Lnmsden and his funeral Crake wasjiot in Paris, as ho had averred, but on each of the days in question had been seen at one or another of his usual haunts. So far, however, uo information had been obtainable as to where he was or how he spent his time between the hours of twelve and three ou the ninth of Juno, and in the inspector's opinion it seemed doubtful whether there ever would be.

A week later he called on Mr. Orde again, but without having anything fresh to communicate. He went so far, however, as to hint iu pretty plain terms that there was littlo doubt in his miud as to the identity of the murderer. "You may rely on it, sir," ho said significantly, "that 'Garry,' and not 'Harry,' was the name you heard through the telephone only 1 am quite sure that on such a piece of evidence, unless it was backed up by something much more positive, no magistrate would take upon himself to issue a warrant."

A despondent man was Inspector Fountain when ho went his way that afternoon.

Some time before this a reward of five hundred pounds had been offered by the widow for tlio detection of her husband's murderer but days merged into weeks and uo one came forward to claim it.

A month passed without bringing the least change in the situation. Lumsden's business affairs had taken a longer time to wind up than his executor had anticipated, and although Crake had written to him, pressing for an early, payment of his legacy, Mr. Orde was not yet in a position to write him a check for the amount. It was while affairs were in this position that one I forenoon the merchant was waited upon I by a person who sent in his name as "Mr. William Parkinson." It was a name he had no knowledge of, and when the bearer of it was shown into the office he proved to be an utter stranger, "1 have but just lauded from New

York," he began, "or 1 should have called on you before. 1 am here in response to an advertisement requesting that the person who paid a turn In bank notes to the late Mr. Edward Lumsden on the ninth of June last would make himself known. Sir, on the morning of the day in question 1 paid Mr. Lumsden, in liquidation of a debt which had nothing to do with the ordinary routine of his business, ten Bank of England notes of five pounds each. An hour

later 1 had Flirted for Liverpool on my way to the Slates, so that, as it happened,

convinced that the various sums you I knew nothiug whatever of the sad fate have already had from me have done which overtook Mr. Lumsden so soon

with documents of various kinds. So you more harm than good. Should 1 after my interview with him till some

however, happen to predecease you, you days subsequent to my will find that 1 have not forgotten J'ou York."

arrival in New

"May I ask. Mr. Parkinson, whether you have any record of the numbers of the notes paid by you to Mr. Lumsden?" "No record whatever, I am sorry to say." "Is it not possible," suggested Mr. Ordo, "that the person out of whose hands they passed into yours may have kept a list of their numbers?"

Mr. Parkinson shook his head. "Those notes. Mr. Orde, came into tny possession in rather a singular way. They were found at the bottom of an old tea caddy which had belonged to my late Aunt Deborah and wero handed over to me as her heir-at law. How long they had been in her keeping and whence she had obtained them was known to hcrsr-lf alone."

The information imparted by Mr. Parkinson, while elucidatory of one hitherto obscure feature, failed to advance the case a single step beyond the point at whichsit stood already. In all probability tho stolen notes had been put into circulation weeks ago. But whether tliev had or uot, there seemed no likelihood of any link being forthcoming by the aid of which it would be possible to trace theiru Such was the opinion of Inspector Fountain, and such was Mr. Orde's opinion, but fate willed otherwise. ______

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CONTINUED.

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25 pes beautiful designs Satin black grounds 32 iuches wide, worth 12^ cents, this 71r sale, per yd

.Print Department.

100 pes white ground lawns with black and brown figures, the usual 5 cents kind, 01p this sale, per yd "2*' 25 pes good calico like some »ur nelgli- Olp bors ask 5 cents for, In this sale, per yd^a^ 100 pes tho handsomest designs cotton challles we have ever sold, worth OH. this tr sale, per yd 50 pes fancy prints 200 pes good indigo blue prints worth 5 to 7 cents, this sale, per 1p yard

Kead the Print PriceB.

500 pes the bflst pr.nts made In Aroeilea, Iu" cludiufr Simpson black and grav iDOurn-^p liiys. worth fc In any store, price per yd

Domestics.

Tho ready response of hundreds of shrewdest 6hopier6 will be noticed In our domestic department. Hero la the reason whv: Heavy brown cotton flannel, good value Ql/ at U'He, per y&rd Lilue aud brown Denims worth 15c, iu ||r this sale, per yd

Extra heavy blue and white etrlne feath- 4 4 er ticking worth this sale per yd

34 inch wool casslmeres in pray and 01^ brown mixed, wortb 50c, in this sale... vuv* 50 pes blue and brown plaid shirting 24 pes staple check apron gingham worth )C, in this sale 50 pes fast color plaid shirting worth 0V4 20 pes good style domets 160 pes best staple check ginghams, worth 8^c, In this sale 10U pes 3C-ln. heavy shirting plaid, fast colore, worth HHc.ln this sale

U4W

Johnson -Hook-fold gingham, staphs check, extra fine, worth 12!4c, In this nnl

ie 1 Co 9-4 wide brown sheeting worth iG^, in this sale

Pepperrell It brown and excellent bleach muslin worth 7^5, In this sale, per yd Full yard wide brown muslin worth 5c, 01^* at this sale Lawrence 30 inch brown muslin, Jl^ worth 0^c, at Cabot and Hope bleached muslin, wortb f*lr 8Hc, at TiOnsdale.MusonviHe and Fruit bleached worth 10c Lousdalecumbric worth l^J^c at

Bead the Domestic Prices. comforts worth

1,000 cotton batts for 8»»c. in this sale 1,000 lbs. carpet wrap, all colors, 15c, white, this sale

DC 12ic

White Goods and Linens.

Tim busiest corner in the store will bo tills department while this sale lasts. Tho wherefore rests in these clearing sale pHcos: L'O pes extru line dotted Swisses In pure white and solid shades, wblto with colored dots, the same (foods we have sold at 25c, tills sale, per yard

10 dozen e»tra large brown Turkish towels: 25 dozen assorted linen towels Tlr worth 1 "ic to 20c at

-'2*'

50 dozen Turkey red napkins wortli 5e 4 fro at lOi) pcslG-ln. plaid glass crash rod andAlf.

Iiluechcck worth 12)^, go at "4*" 10 pes plaid and striped white goods, very proper for aprons and dresses till Ap the 15c and 20c styles go at

Promptness

5 dozen Hue and large bleach and browu Turkish towels 20 dozen lino llnon towels with colored borders, knotted! Qr fringe, worth 25c to 35c

20 pes 18-ln Barnsley crash worth 12^4c at 8S' 20 pes 16-Inch Barnsley cra8h71r worth 10c at

Bead the White Goods and Linen Prices. 10 pes fancy plaid Turkey Red table UnOl,, en 58-in, worth 3Io, at

In Plumbing

4J'-

5 pes oitra heavy 50c unbleached tabloQSp linen 58 inches wide lu 3 designs at... .«uw Host 5-4 table oil cloth worth 20c, 2'c in this sale '"H*"

ONLY. We sell too cheap to charge to any one.

Is a rare virtue, But we have it.

WILLIAMS BROS,,

121 South Green Street.

I Next to TIIK JOURNAL Building.

A few more weeks and the Spring and Summer business ot '94 will be history—its most important event—our Great Clearing Sale. We won't speak of the weather, but of the highest grade Dry Goods, in many instances less than cost.

Successful Storekeeping

Does not mean gigantic profit—it means doing business—continually—constantly—selling

seasonable goods—even at a loss—before holding them over for many months. We

are successful storekeepers and will sell thousands of dollars worth of sea

sonable stuff at even less than cost, while you most want them.

This is the argument for the great

DISCOUNT CLEARING SALE-

Dress Goods,

Iu this sale we wilt offer some of the ivst values ever shown lu this city. Our word as successful storekeepers backs this statement. lOpes.'lfMn wide all wool str^e, tfood shades lOpcs fancy novelty suiting formery sold at 50c, lu this sale, per^J^

50 pes English worsted cashmeres in all shades In:hiding black, regular price] Qr 25t\ In this sale per yard

In this sale per yard

5 pes 50-1 wide black 6llk warp glorias I worth 05c, In this sale per yard •tjc 10 pes black silk grenadine worth

lH.0OJ()r

Bead the Dress Goods Prices.

10 pes '14-ln fancy mixed suitings iu grey and brown effect* worth 15c, in(W,lr this sale per yard Good yard wide selesta and percallues lu all shades, worth 15c, in this sale per A0 yard

Louis Bischof.

Only two ways to run a business—a right and a wrong way—years of success, of progress, convinces us that this is the right way. Every department manager lias his orders, every salesman and saleslady will be alert, every price is a trade winner.

"Hake Hay While the Snn Shines." Is a maxim to be applied with peculiar force to the dry goods business. But "hay making" time is passed— now is Clearing Out time—and for the balance of the season, is per cent, 20 per cent, 25 per cent and even 50 per cent will drop from the prices of every article in all our departments. Our patrons will buy cheaply. Our stock will be reduced. The object desired— turning merchandise into cash—will be accomplished.

Bead the Notion Prices.

Good stockinet dress shields worth 15c. at 7c. Horn dress sDays, all lengths, worth 10c a dozen, at 4o.

Good quality spring curling irons worth 10c, at Go. Adamantine pins, 200 in paper, 2 papor3 for lc.

Good quality safety pins, large size 2c a doz, small size lc. Pure castlle soap, iioats on water, 2 cakes for 5c.

Nice white pearl button, all sizes, wortli 10c a dozen at 5n. Large size satteen ties, all shades, worth 10c at 5c.

Your smallest wish Is as much thought of here usyour greatest desire—we neglect uothlng. 200 good quality all bristle boue handle tooth brushes worth 15c, at Kc.

Largo papers brass mourning pins or steel with jet heads, worth oc at 2c. 600 yardsapools basting thread worth 5c, 3 spools for 5c.

Best darning cotton, all colors and black, worth 10c a dozen at 5c.

Don't forget the above are only a few items selected at random and only a sample of

our bargain prices. Every item in our store will be sold at a discount price. Come to us for

your wants and save money. During this great discount sale all goods will be sold FOR CASH

LOUIS BISCHOF.

'The Big Store." 127-129 E. Main St.

C. M. SCOTT,

Fire, Life and Accident

fx INSURANCE,

Heal Estate and Loan Agent.

Agent tor the Bartlett Bindery. Anyweekly newspapers desired. Agent for the Stat* Building and Loan Association oflndiana. Call on me for rubber stamps, stencils, seals, house numbers, accident tickets. Office over Keeney's drug store, south Washington at., Crawfordsville, Ind.

Ladies' Waists.

of J)*

All ot our waists—of percales, ot Jf

ZODIbeautiful

lawns, of zephyrs, they all go at tho discount

prices.

10 doz ladles waists in satiu and peroMe pattern, prints light and dark styles, worth 40c. at LlC 10 doz ladles'waist* made of besi percales and Scotch lawns, eleirant siyloNlIU„ at 75e, go at 00C

Hosiery-

Hischof's way of doing the hosiery business is decidedly original Hosiery Is suoiraed to be staple st-ck, perhaps it Is, nevertheless superior hosiery gets a severe mark down at the clearing sale. 100 doz. ladles' fancy stripe aud lioot pattern hosiery, extra tine guage In all shades and black boot worth 20c 135c per pair go at I 500 do/,, ladies', Misses' and children's hose in black, solid colors aud i'aucy stripes 100 doz. men's mix half hosleryAC,^ worth 8c to 10c, tltls sale "OC 25 doz. Indies* Lisle thread hosiery.every shade and black neatly embroidered, regular :J5cand 50ciuallty in this salc^^Q

50 doz. ladii s' Misses' and infants' hose in black and colors worth 25c in this 01^,. sale at lioC 25 doz. (xlds and ends ohlldren's fast black hose worth 20c and 25c pur pair 4 inthlssaie 'trC

Bead the Hosiery Prices.

10 ooz. ladles' silk plaited hose in alllO^ colors worth $1.00 at 50 do/.. ladles' and Misses' fast black hosef worth 25c at 1 5 doz men's half hose In lisle aud linelQ^ ?ottou worth 40c and 50c at

Gloves and Mitts.

SO doz. damaged kid gloves like wc have olfered so many times before, and you wero SO glad to got, of tho 11.00 toll),, $2.00 iiuaiity at "•Odoz. ladles' pure silk mits. black, our K, regular 35e quality In thissale ul

Bead the Glove Prices.

Indies'silk gloves, 7."c quality it r,0i' ')r 50c quality at 35c 35c quality at. ....

fanB, Bibbons and Hosiery.

1,000 yds Jaconet embrolderv. 8 Inches! j_ wide, lu 20 patterns, worth 20e at

grays and

1'^

500 Japanese papor fans in lall shades.ft ,, worth 10c at UtH. 1,010 yds Jaconet embroidery. 12 to 15 inches wide, the 25c and 30i kinds at..» 500 Jap paper folding fans In beautiful/!(I (1 light shades, lfic goods at...."

Bead the Prices.

About 500 yt?s all Bilk ribbons, Nos. 4, 7 and !). worth 5c to 15o a yd at 02'c

Underwear.

The high quality of our underwear does not exempt them from clearing sale prices, so here you are: 3 styles ladies gauze vests, short sleeves, low necks, fancy silk embroidery arouudQ^ neck,worth 12^c to 15c, in this sale 2 styles ladles gauze vests, short sleeves, low neck, beautliully finished, worth 20c, I Or*

Inthlssaie

Bead the Underwear Prices.

Ladles gauze vest«,good quality, worth 10^ 4 style ladles vests, low necks, short sleev also long oleeves goods, either are good value at 35c, at

L^OC0

Men's gauze underwear the same excellent quality we have been selling at 35c, InOCw* this sale

Umbrellas,'

Also cut

parasols—a very considerable

throughout the line—and these umbrellas are the ueatest made lu all Crawfordsville. 100 extra quality gloria umbrellas with paragon 1'rameanu natural stick handles, an excellent article well worthT4 JQ 11.50, and we sell them at J)' 100 best Kngllsb gloria silk umbrellas fast oolor, natural stick handles with gold trimmings. You would think tbeuKT I ,4(1 ciieap at $2.00, go at 4)' ".

Bead the Umbrella Prices.

50 English gloria silk umbrellas with fancy bone, celluloid and metal hand-(Tf 7(1 les, beautiful 82.50 umbrellas at vJMW

Also parasols at cost and less.

Special for this department. 25 ladles' mackintoshes with caps, odds andTl (W| ends of goods that wero $3 to $3.50 at»P",vv

Some Specials,

lo doz IUCU'S domet shirts, light color aud weight, all sizes, that were 25c,are7i^ now All our men's shirts In domet, percale. madras and oxfords that were 50c.are4(lrk uow

Bead the Prices.

10 dozen ladies' all leather belts that are 4 (L worth 25c and 35c go at

Curtains and Draperies.

25 prs Chenille portiers with wide dados and heavy fringe, all shades,that woreffl 9s #5.00, are now 25 pes assorted curtain Swissesembroldered in various designs aud sold foHQ/ 25c to 35c at I 100 4-4 and 0-1 Chenille table covers, the regular 75c and $1.00 goods gnat*'*' 1(K) pes best cretons worth 15c, and 10 pes fancy colors drapery satlnes 3Mn. worth 10%c, are now,

Bead the Drapery Prices.

30 rncb sllkolines that were 15c are 11c 30 inch In 10%arenow '^2^ 30 Inch all silk draperUs that have sold'lQ^ for 75c are 00 large size Bates bread spread that V^ are worth $1.25 at Otic

ABSTRACT BOOKS,

A. C. Jonnlson's abstract, books oontaln a copy of every deed of rooord toevery traot of laud In the uounty. a* well us t» every unnatlaflod mortgage or lion. Hia twenty yean experience. aided liy these unriratatf facilities In tracing titles enable klin to claim tbat his oftieo Is the best plaoe to have Deeds, Mortgages leases and Contracts prepared, as w"cll as reliable Abstracts of Title. MON.EY"TO LOAN HEAL BSI'ATB AND

INSUUANCBAGENT.

O. U. PERRIN,

LAWYER

Will practice in Federal or State courts, taroffloe, Suite 2, Crawford IBulldlng, south Oreen Street.