Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 May 1894 — Page 1
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CRAWFORDSV1LLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1891.
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Thursday Evening's Storm. I.o those who enjoy such exhibitions, the Pt.oriu of Thursday evening afforded a beautiful electric display. The atmosphere was in an almost eoustaut I quiver for at least Uventy minutes and the zigzag of lightning across the sky, followed by tile sharp clapping of thun- 1 dor, made a scene not soon to be forgottun.
Three buiidings in and near the citv were struck by lightning. The dwelling of Samuel. Douglas, just outside the city limits on tlio Wayni".uwn road, v.as struck, the bolt running down the chimney and scattering brick in a promiscuous manner over the rooms. A daughter of Mr. Douglas was hurled violently across the room but escaped injury.
The house of James Chad wick, in the northwest part of the city was struck, tearing up one corner considerably, but no person was injured.
Mention of the burning of Mort Heckner's barn appears on another page. Southeast of the city and in the vicinity of Mace, the storm took the form of a hurricane. Chimneys were blown down, trees uprooted and much damage done to fencing. No fatalities have been reported up to this writing.
A Terrific Cyclone in Ohio. Lata Thursday afternoon northwestern Ohio was swept by one of the most terrific cyclones in the history of the country. George Oxinger, a farm hand, was lifted into the air and his lifeless body found ICO rods away. A Toledo special thus speaks of the storm: "Reports received here from various points in Williams county give meager particulars of a cyclone in that part of northwestern Ohio late this afternoon. The section of country between Kunkle and Montpelier. on the Detroit division of the Wabash railroad, appears to have suffered principally. The exact amount of damage done cannot be givon correctly, but it is known that ten persons were killed and at least ten others .seriously injured."
.Miss Oakie Manna attended the Indianapolis musical festival. Miss Dorothy Menry is in Denver. Col., to spend the summer.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Snodgrass died Wednesday night.
The candidate that rides a bicycle is getting over lots of ground theso days, Lou llrooks has gone to Indianapolis to join an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company.
Mrs. Lester Wilson has returned to tier home in .Milpitat. Cal, after a six week's visit hero.
Kev. Updyke lectured on "The Blues, and Ilow to (,'ure Tlieiu" at the Christain church last night.
The weather has turned off decidedly cool since Thursday night's storm and there may be some frost.
The suit of D, \V. Yeatrley vs. .7. AV. .Stroll, was re-tried at Covington this week. The verdict has not yet been learned.
The basis of literary work for the May examination held by Supt. Zuck will be Webster's speech on the "Constitution and Union."
The Y. M. C. A. Juniors played a splendid game of basket ball and captured the State championship with the Lafayette team at the association rooms on Thursday evening. The score was 1:3 to 11.
C. L. Kost, the jeweler, has designed and copyrighted a neat pin or charm for tne Tribe of Hen 11 ur and it has been adopted by the Supreme Tribe. The manufacture and sale of the pins will be controlled by Mr. Kost.
(Mark Warren living just north of the line in Clinton county, has a cow which cave birth, last Thursday, to three perfectly developed and healthy heifer calves. They are living and promise to do well. Lebanon l'ioneer.
The total school enumeration of the county as compiled from the reports by Supt. Zuck is 10,977. This is a decrease of 372 from the report of last year. One gratifying feature of the enumeration is that there are only two persons of school age in the county that neither read nor write. 'The opening of J.A. Gilbert's music house in the Y. M.C. A. building took place Thursday afternoon and evening. CallerB were coming and going all evening and were rewarded by seeing a most neatly appointed room and a magnificent display of instruments. The famous Lincoln piano, manufactured by Smith & Xixon for the Kentucky building at the World's Fair, was on exhibition. The upright pianos in Corea wood, Hungarian ash and French walnut attracted much attention.
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I artificial ice plant is talked of for I this city, with Thomas Shepherd at its head.
Crawt'ordsville needs a new school building, but the salaries of Mm city ofi„,.jicials had to bo raised first.
is? Summer heat is upon us right in the I middle of May. The mercury lias reached S3 and SO several days.
Interest in the Updyke meetings still increase:-. I'.uties from some of the out towns are present every evening.
I irmac Davis was up from Rockville tile middle of the week, whore he is making money in merchant tailoring.
Rose Thomas asks the court to grant her a divorce from Charley Thomas and the custody of their daughter, Margaret.
Doctors G'tt and Taylor attended the State meeting ot Homeopathic physicians in session at Indianapolis Thursday and Friday.
James Dickerson left Wednesday to accept a position with a water company in Now York city. Mis family will follow in a snort time.
A special session of the city council will be held next Monday evening to confer with the school trustees relative to the proposed new building.
Southern Indiana strawberries arc in the markets. The home crop is begin ning to ripen, but will not be in market before the middle of next week.
The Last Chance saloon out in the Sperry valley has put up a high board fence to protect the teams of its patrons from tlie gaze of the public. It is sup posed tu be lor the benefit of people of "cultall. •,
It pa tu conic to Crawfi rdsville especially if you have wool to »ell. The price dropped off one cent at all towns surrouuding, the first of the week, but our buyers are still maintaining the top notch of 15 cents.
By the torch of an incendiary Tuesdaynight over 81,000,000 worth of property in Boston was reduced to ashes and oCO families, mostly of the poorer classes wore rendered homeless. A space of 20 acres was burned over, the blaze starting in the League ball grounds.
Treasurer J. C. Mutton and deputy auditor, Walter Mulet, were at Indianapolis Monday to make their semiannual settlement with the State. The total collections made by the treasurer for the past six months were 813G,000and of this amount 837.853.8(1 was paid into the State on Monday.
An open violator of the law walked ir.to town Tuesday with a gun on his shoulder and a string of bass in his hand. The largest specimen is said to have weighed 4'r, pounds and each fish on the string had a bullet hole in its head. Tho grand jury will doubtless take a hand in this kind of gunning yet.
A heavy down pour of rain that almost equalled a cloud-burst fell north of the city, between 8 and o'clock Tuesday night. Fields were deluged and every little water course was soon a raging torrent. Black creek raised so rapidly that fording was soon impossible. In the vicinity of Cherry Grovo the growing crops were more or less damaged.
Henry Sloan, the north Washington street grocer closed his store for assignment Tuesday morning, naming Henry lluleft as assignee. Slow collections and the payment of a note sinco the death of Mrs. Davis made this step necessary. Mr. Sloan is one of tho most enterprising grocers 111 the city, and we tiope to see him soon be able to resume business.
The theatre going public will be gratified to know that Mace Townsley is now not only manager, but lessee of Music Mall. Ho has been residentmanager of the house for several yen«-s and tho lease of Leslie Davis having expired on May 1st, the Music Hal! association has given that trust over into tho hands of Mr. Townsley. He already has several good attractions booked for the coming season.
The fourth quarterly convention of the Montgomery Sonday School Union will tie held at ('.enter Presbyterian church,Crawfordsville.011 next Monday. Tho State president ol Sunday schools will be with us and make addresses. All persons interested in Sunday schools are urged to be present. Ample provision has been made to entertain delegates and friends. Dinner will be ser-
ved in the church. Let eveiybody I come. Hon. James A. Mount, of Shannondale. and Phillip Dewey, of New Richmond vicinity, have brought in the ban ner wool clips yet purchased by Mc dure A-. Graham. Mr. Mount's clip consisted of 220 fleeces that made an average of 0 pounds to the fleece, from which I10 realized nearly 8300. Mr.
Dewey had 219 fleeces and there was but 32 pounds of off wool in tho tho entire lot. Who will dare gainsay tho fact that sheep husbandry pays, when intelligently conducted.
FHEAXS
TtUoday -Niidii's Delugo Does Lots of Daniace, Especially ia tho H011 hern Part of the County. l'.\i bridges ove Ham1! Creek, one on the Darlington and Boone county line gravel road and the other 011 the Wm. Hampton road, were carried away by the flood. Both were wooden structures. Ono of them was carried clear out of seeing distance. Both bridges were east of Darlington.
A stone abutment to a bridge 011 the Darlington and Boone county line road was washed out at Darlington.
Commissioner Peterson says the damage done by the deluge to tho Darlington and Boone county line road will be over 81,000. It will probably take 80OO to make repairs on the Hampon gravel road.
Up in the northern part of the eour.ty a man had left his corn planter standing in the fie I 1. Larly next morning the field was a perfect sea of water several feet deep and nothing but tho driver's seat of his corn planter could bo seen above tho murky water.
About midnight the hands were called out to the Sugar creek bridge on the Big Four where work on the new steel structure is in progress. The water rose so rapidly, however, that it was impos siple to do anything and the false workwas all swept away.
Black Creek rose seven feet in a short time and could not be forded. Commissioner Allen Byers should be glad that he is alive. And the more he thinks of it the gladder he gets. In company with a party of fishermen, he had gone down to Scott's dam on Sugar creek the evening before for a two days camp. The next morning they were up with the sun to see tho first rays peep slyly through tiie rich foliage of tho adjacent pines. Mr. Byers had irone down below the dam and reached au island or sandbar. 011 either side of which ran a current as tho water left the dam. Suddenly our worthy county guardian looked up the creek to behold a flood swooping down upon him. The water seemed to come down like the unfolding of a mammoth scroll and with in the brief space of ten minutes his minnow bucket was over afoot deep in water indicating arise of about twenty inches. While he was not alarmed, ho was in danger and shouted for help. Mr.Fleschauer, the miller, hastily came to his ret cue on a horse and in going out from the island to tho shore the water struck tho horse half way up his sides. As Mr. Byers cast ono fond, longing look behind for his fishing rod and minnow bucket, not a pebble was poking up its head on tho island. His early training having been somewhat neglected, he could not swim and was in danger. It was a most thrilling scene and one that rarely ever occurs. Inside of an hour, the miller said, 'here was more water in the creek then there had been for nearly two years.
Corn Holds nlong^tlie Sugar Crenk bottoms )jeIwoun this city fiuj Darlington were givally ilnningod. Twenty acres wore toru up for .1. .\1. Ivvans, macros for David Jackson arid 10 litres tor Willi* .fackinaii, alt ol wliiuli will Ij.ave to be ]iluut6d over.
The Standing Committees. At the council meeting Monday night Mayor Handel appointed tho following committees for tho ensuing year. The tirst name on each committee being the chairman of that committee:
Board of public improvements— Myers, Vanarsdall, Reynolds. Board cf health--Wilbite. Robinson, McCain jibe il.
Po!:\c Board —Robvipon. McCampbell, Myers. v-/--Firb Board— Mc"V.nipbell. Vanarsdall. Wil.hlle.
Judiciary —Reynolds. Myrcs, Robinson. Petitions and Overtures -Myers, Van arsdall, Reynolds.
Finance Reynolds, Vanarsdall. Wilhito. -i Ordinances- Myers, Vanarsdall. 'Reynolds.
Printing and Stationary Robinson, McCampbell, Myers. Schools and Public Buildings--Wil-hite, Robinson, Reynolds.
Klectric Light- Vanarsdall. Wilhite. McCampbell. Water Works--McCampbell. Robinson, Myers.
Accounts- -Reynolds,,Myors. Vanarsdall.
Wife Htmtimr in Clay.
Ben Everwine, a young man down .near Saline City, who married about two months ago, and whose brido stole away from his bed ono night recently after making fruitless search for her for some days resorted to the virtues of advertising, wrote out and posted tho following at various public points:
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"Stolon in this ciy frida night, May 4, 181)4, one lady, the property of Ben Evorwine. I will give notis that I will prosieqte anybode that harbors horor said male Everwine, and I fureher stait she or I ant any good and ant onflllo to credit.
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53RD YEAR.—NO 38.
iJU SESSION TILL MIDNIGHT.
rirst Aieetiug of the (JUy Council Since
'he Election,
I lie neu common council met iu regular session on Monday night t,j
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their salaries, fire out some police and put uthors in. and it was midnight before it was all over. Anticipating tho changes to be made in the re-orga Nation tho chamber WHS filled to stai.ding room. The board of school trustee^ vas there to press upon Ihe august body the .i..i.ds of .1 !,t \v school building, but as II K.IO was more important, business pending, namely, the raising of salaries, lie matter was postponed for an extra session, to be held next: Monday night.
A caucus or two was held during the evening which greatly prolonged" tho session.
Treasurer Nicholson submitted hia monthly report, and also for the current year ending May 1st. The monthly repat Biiom-d an increase in linauces since the first of April when the cash on hand was 811,551,02. During the month he has paid off a 810.000 loan and still has a surplus amounting to 82U.'172.20. Twelve months ago he had a balance of 825,080.5!) but the total receipts for tho year were only 8Gl.213.69 as against 805,830.00 the grand totai disbursements.
Supt. Brown's report showed tho electric light receipts for April to be 8(3:13.01 and the expenditures 81,42-1.72 leaving a deficit of v770. 1 or an average cost of 85.IG per arc light.
The election of city employees had been looked forward to with much expectancy, especially by tho long list of affable gentlemen who wanted a place and some looked for changes wore mado in the police force, which Tin-:
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believes will be beneficial to the city. The offices to be tilled being first de-' elated vacant, the council entered into an election aud the following were chosen, the city attorne}', city engineer and chief of fire department four years and the balance for two rears: W. T. Whittington, city attorn,y James M. Wacgh.eity imginesr Robert Larsh, street commissioner.
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O. C. 1 sorsey, chief Ernest JDorsey, ..ssistant chief Doc Griffin, driver John Bell. Frank Nicholson, Frank Smith, inside minute men Win. Vance. Lew Elliott, Clarence Newell, Will Hays, I1 lute McGillarn and Robert Gwin, outside minute men.
ELECTRIC Linirr PLANT.
Fred T. Brown, superintendent John Conrad, chief engineer Fd Ames, ass't engineer rank Prowitt, night fireman Will Birch, wiper Tom Riley, trimmer W. S. Somerville, lineman Ivy Carr, ass't lineman.
J. P. Grimes remains policeman until September ii-m he assumes his duties as marshal, rank Wade, 10. Bannister, Lu Mart in, colored, and II. G. Brown policemen.
Most of the above named are re-elect" oti, the only new ofliciahi being Larsh. street commissioner to succeed Ilal McDaniel, and tho foui cops to fill tho sandals of Officers Gill, Transue, and Milholland. retired. In the fire department Frauk Smith takes tho plaeo of Jim McGillarJ and Lew Klliott, Clarence Newell and Robert (5 win succeed George Hummel. Dan Picket and Henry Schenck, resigned. At the electric light house Will Birch takes the place ol Kd Holloway, aud Ivy Carr is an addition to the force.
Two Notable Women Gone. Death stopped the "feeble pulsations of a life grown infirm with 88 years of usefulness, in tho demise of Mrs. Elizabeth Harding, at the home of her son. Henry Harding, three miles south of tlie city, I uosday night. Sho was born in ir^inia, March 12. I^O'Iand was married on May 12, 182S. to Josiah
Harding in S'jelby county. Ky. They came to Indiana in ItS'W. Five sons blessed the union, four of whom. Charles, illiam, John and Henry, survive the aged' mother. Mr*. Harding was the oldest Methodist iu Montgomery county and probably the State, having been a member for over 70 years. Horn was a noble life, full of good deeds. The funeral (occurred Thursday afternoon conducted by Revs. Tucker and Green, followed by interment in Masonic cemetery.
Mrs. Nannie Bright died at her homo east of Darlington Tuesday afternoon of consumption, ill her 31th year, Sho was formerly Miss Nannie Williams of this city. She was a member of tho Baptist church. Rev. C. Fuson. assisted by Kid G. W. Staiford, conducted tho funeral service Thursday forenoon.
Mass Meeline- for Uhildren.
State Sunday School Superintendent writes: "1 will bo with you for tho mass meeting for children at tho Y. M. (J. A., hall on next Sunday. Tell all of tho children to be present. Fill tho hall to its utmost capacity. We invito overy child in Montgomery county to bo present." Lot every body come and hoar our Stato Superintendent, good music
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