Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 March 1897 — Page 6

DISASTROUS FLOODS.

VAST EXTEXT OP RECENTLY SUBMK11GED TERRITORY IN SOUTHERN INDIANA.

In This Christian Land-Allrn County Toil Road War ^Mystery of the Famous IiOgt River—State News.

The Flood at Vincennes.

Vincennes special: The Wabash Is 19.3 feet above low-water mark and is on a standstill at this point. The levee on both sides remains intact, and it is thought will stand the pressure. White river ip flooding the county. Men row from Vincennes to Lawrenceville in boats. Nearly all the bridges in Lawrence county, Illinois, and Knox county, Indiana, are gone. There is great loss of live stock and grain. It is raining and another rise Is feared. Prospects in the flooded districts are very gloomy. Water stands three feet deep in the St. Thomas Catholic church, this county.

Nine Bridget) Gone.

Mitchell special: Shcssls still continues in a lamentable condition and can only be reached by boats. A work train carrying two hundred men made two attempts to reach the town today, but was compelled to return after running several hundred feet through water fifteen inches deep. Several boats were loaded on the train and were used to make ingress and egress to the town. The officers of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern in their private car have just arrived from the East equipped with boats, pile drivers, boarding car and an army of men enroute to Shoals to work day and night until the road is cleared. An unexpected situation confronts the people in the flooded districts. Bridges supposed to be' in good shape were undermined by the floods and are beginning to break loose. One tunnel and eleven bridges gave way last night on the Bloomfield branch of the Monon in the northern part of the county. Near Springville nine were badly demolished and two partially wrecked.

In This Christian Land,

Terre Haute special: Mary Po61e, aged 18, was so unfortunate as to die, last week, in a house of bad repute, after one year of dissipation. The remains were taken to Nisbet's morgue. William Barr, the girl's brother-in-law, came to claim the body. He had but $2 and the coroner ordered the county undertaker, Mr. Hickman, to take charge of the remains. Barr tried to have the body taken to the depot, but Hickman refused. He says he Is entitled to any money which is to be made on the bodies which come into his possession. Hickman says there is a combination of undertakers in the town which is trying to beat him out of all the jobs where there is money to be made. Hickman contracted, some time ago, to give ail the paupers of the county free burial. This does not look like a good business proposition, but Hickman comes into possession of pauper corpses frequently whose relatives are well-to-do people. In this way he makes enough money to allow of free burial of paupers. He's going to make the county commissioners decide whether he has not the right to control all the corpses unclaimed over which the coroner sits. Undertaker Hickman burled the girl at his expense.

Alien County Toll Road War. Fort Wayne special: The farmer^ of Allen county have been waging: war upon tjie to|l roads for the last two years, and have succeeded In getting moat ot them

purchased by the county. With the fevv remaining they have begun new and unique tactics. They now propose to take the Maumee avenue gravel road away from the company that has owned it for many years, without paying a cent for the property. The farmers began by rendering the road almost valueless. They simply laughed at the gate keeper when he attempted to collect toll. The directors brought proceedings against John Luntz to enforce payment. There is a statute which provides that farmers need not pay toll when the road is in a bad condition, and Luntz cited this in his defense. Fifty farmers testified to the i^or condition of the road, and Luntz won the suit. There is another statute which provides that the toll road charter may be revoked If the road is in bad condition for more than six months, and the farmers have begun proceedings to annul tl:e charter under this statute. It has not been six months since the county commissioners offered the directors of the road a good price for it. The spirited and concerted action of the farmers is likely to win.

Tlie Famous Lost Klrer.

For many years scientists have sought for the Invisible course of the famous Lost river, which suddenly sinks from view at a |.olnt a few miles south of Mitchell, near the town of Orleans. No trace of this underground river was ever discovered until since the heavy rains of the 5th instant, it is now believed that Lost river runs directly under the town of Orleans. This belief is based mainly upon the fact that during the recent flood the water burst forth from what was supposed to be a small cave in such volumes that the town was flooded. The water has now ceased to flow from the cave, but any one standing near the entrance can hear the rushing of the torrent, apparently hundreds of feet below. The explanation of the sudden appearance at the cave is that owing to the great volume caused by the rain the subterranean channel was insufficient to carry it off, and the pressure became so great that it sought relief through the cave. This belief is further confirmed by the fact that some years ago there was an attempt to bore for gas at Orleans. After a depth of about five hundred feet

NEW SOUTHPORT BAPTIST CHURCH.

Damages of $15,000,000.

Indiaapolis Sentinel: There are in the city a number of bridge contractors who are on the ground ready to bid for the railroad and county contracts for replacing the bridges that are gone.

One contractor returned last night to the Bates after an unsuccessful attempt to reach some of the submerged county seats. He lias been traveling over the flooded district for several days, and says the damage in the state will be fully jl5,000,000. "People who have not seen the floods," said he, "know nothing of their vast extent. I have just been in Lawrence and Jennings counties, and in those two counties the damage is terrible'. Lawrence county has lost twer.ty-eight bridges and Jennings county eighteen. The loss in the former will be, I believe, Jl,000,000, while Jennings county is injured at least $000,000. Then there are Decatur, Bartholomew, Shelby, Jackson, Rush and many other counties badly damaged. "The B. & O. Southwestern is damaged to the extent of fully $2,000,000 in track and bridges, while the Panhandle has caught It for $200,000. "In Jennings county the court house at Vernon Is three feet under water, and I guess another attempt to move the court house and county seat to North Vernon will be successful."

had been reached water gushed forth with terrific force, and continued to flow from tlie top of the well for many months.

Kvansville's Danger.

It appears that the report that the Ohio river had cut across a bend In the river, leaving Evansville by about eight miles. Is correct, notwithstanding the strenuous denials sent out from Evansville. Capt. C. G. Perkins, who is running the steamer Jewell out of that port, says: "The river is changing its course,vand threatens to leave us and our new water-works just far enough away from the river proper to hear the boats whistle for Henderson. You have no idea," he adds, "of the current now running through the cut-off. We came through from the Kentucky side, and it took us fully three hours to make the trip. I am willing to wager that we could have gone through with the current In fifteen or twenty minutes. The trip was made for the purpose of sounding the water to see whether or not the steamer Jewell could safely pass through. The water was found sufficiently deep, and, in all probability, the Jewell will, on next Sunday or sooner, run excursions to Henderson via the cutoff. Another flood or two will leave Evansville high and dry, and will bring Henderson, Ky., over Into Indiana.

Anthony de Francesville, Moonshiner. English special: The government officers during a recent raid in the hills of Perry county confiscated a copper still and other appurtenances of a "moonshine" distillery, together with a quantity of whisky. Anthony de Franceville, the alleged "moonshiner," is seventy years old, and his wife, who is very old, is blind. Neither of them can speak the English language, and De Franceville, through an interpreter, admitted that he had been distilling for twenty-five years, not knowing that the business was IIlegal. ..

Kankakee Seven Miles Wide. Crown Point special: The flood in this county had receded to a great extent, but the heavy rains of yesterday again caused a general overflow. The Kankakee river, which seldom flows faster than five miles an hour, is a raging torrent, seven miles in width. The river was never known to be so high, and great loss will be sustained by the land-owners In the Kankakee valley. The Monon railway bed is in danger of being washed out between Shelby and Water Valley. The other rivers In this county are also overflowing their banks, and all trains from the south and east have been more or less delayed.

The new Baptist church at Southport has been dedicated. The building cost $G,000 besides some very generaus contributions by members of the congregation. The present membership numbers 1*7.

A FATAL PLUGE.

AN EVANSVILLE & TERRE HAUTE PASSENPER TRAIN GOES DOWN.

Four Men Killed, Many Injured and Several MlHHing—111 Fated Cars Float Down the Stream.

A Princeton, Ind., special sayB: The Chicago and Nashville limited passenger train on the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad plunged into a washout when nprpoaching Hazelton, six miles above here, about 3 o'clock tills morning. According to Engineer McCutcheon the train was going twenty-fivo miles an hour along a stretch of track on a sixteenfoot bank, next to which a bend of White river has been raging since last week's flood. The water had eaten its way under the track and the engine turned a somersault down the bank and sank in the river. It was followed by the combination mail and baggage car. The more weakly constructed smoker, in which were a number of passengers, was telescoped on the baggage car, being cut in two lengthwise. The ladles' coach and the sleeper remained on the track, but the crevasso in the bank soon widened to a hundred feet or more and this afternoon the ladles' coach fell into the river an floated a mile down stream. The passengers in the last two cars were all removed without serious injuries and sent back to Vincennes, but four are known to have met death In the accident. None of the bodie-s has been recovered from the river and the report is that a dozen or more were in the smoker. Only two escaped from the car. They are William Henderson, of Kokomo. Ind., the youngest brother of ex-Auditor of State J. O. Henderson, and Brakeman Haueisen. The known killed are:

GEORGE A. SEARS, conductor, of Terre Haute, in the smoker. JOSEPH BOLEMAN, fireman, of Evansville, buried under the engine.

HERBERT ALLEN, Evansville, said to be one of the doorkeepers of the last Legislature.

UNKNOWN MAN, supposed to be W. H. Lang, commercial traveler for W. W. Phillips's Fort Wayne shirt waist house.

It is also said there was a Hebrew traveling man in the smoker who cannot be accounted for. The injured are:

JOHN M'OUTCHEON, engineer, Evansville, throat cut nearly to windpipe, legs badly burned and otherwise bruised.

H. J. HILL, express messenger, escaped from baggage car with a few bruises. HAUEISEN, brakeman, pinioned five hours in smoker with head above water, foot and leg crushed.

BALDWIN, brakeman, several

cuts and bruises. WILLIAM F. HENDERSON, Kokomo, Ind., injuries not serious.

Conductor Sears was seen in the smoker before it was washed away, several hundred yards by the flood. How many were In the smoker other than those mentioned, no one can tell. From a gripsack found It is believed one of the lost was a traveling man for W. B. Phillips, of Ft. Wayne. This afternoon the flood swept away the ladies' coach, leaving only the sleeper on the track. Many Evansville people were in the sleeper, including State Senator Leich and wife, returning from Indianapolis, and Sheriff Covert and wife and Miss Ada Ragon, returning from the inauguration of President McICinley.

Tlie Farm King Dead.

Keithsburg, 111., special: William Drury, the millionaire land owner, died tonight at his magnificent home "Verdurett," north of the city. He was the largest individual land ownpr In the United States, having hundreds of thousands of acres in Colorado, Nebraska. Kansas and Texas, besides G,000 acres of the richest farming land in this county. He was eighty-seven years old, and came to this county in 1831. His investments were In farm land and stock alone, and he added every year to his vast possessions. Mr. Drury was an Ohloan by birth.

Hosing For Mayor.

The mayoralty contest In Chicago Is now a four-cornered light Postmaster Heslng having been nominated by a nonpartisan convention for Mayor. A complete city ticket, which will go on the official ballot under the caption "Business Administration of Municipal Afairs," was also nominated.

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INDIANAPOLIS NOTES

If you want an office you may as well tvrite to Governor Mount about it if you cannot call. He has a few to dispose of and is beseiged by ten applicants to one position—but that makes no difference. You may as well present your claims and you may at least receive an autograph letter in due time from the Executive Department. It is probable that the Governor will dictate his reply and you will have to be content with a typewritten letter. "Jim" would be delighted to correspond with you in his own hand-writin', but from what I hear I am of the opinion that the genial Governor is a trifle over-worked. Still, don't be backward about coming forward. The State pays that type-writer good wages and the machine may as well be kept at work and I really think that Mr. Mount will get through in time to go out and look after the Spring plowin' at Shannondalc. The work of the Legislature has left him many appointments to make, though few of them carry any emoluments. Following is a list of the places he must fill in the near future, not vouched for as complete: lax commissioner (not Republican).

Factory inspector. Two labor commissioners. These men must be of opposite politics, one a laborer and tlie other an employer.

Boards of control of the following institutions: The four insane hospitals, the Knightstown Home, the School for Feeble-minded, the Institutes for the Blind and Deaf and Dumb and the State Prison. Of these the prison directors and the members of the board of the Knightstown Home are the onty one drawing salaries. Each is a board of three, no more than two being of the same party.

The Boards of Metropolitan police commissioners, composed of three- residents, not more than two being of the same party, for the following cities: Anderson, Mttncie, Elkhart, South Bend, Michigan City. Logansport, Lafayette, Terre Haute, New Albany. Jeffersonville and Richmond.

Five members of the State Medical Board. Superintendent of buildings and grounds (State house custodian).

Superintendent of machinery (State house engineer). Of these there are more applicants for the position of State house custodian than for all the rest put together— and there is no dearth of applicants for the other places. The Governor is taking his time about making his appointments, and is giving full consideration to the claims of the various applicants.

Attorney-General Ketcham these days is kept busy replying to telegrams of inquiry as to the extent and effect of the quart-shop law passed by the recent session. Queries are coming from grocers. druggists, bottlers, brewers and country merchants all over the State. The law is sweeping in its effect and the attorney-general said in reply to a report that the law would be inoperative because it lacked a penal clause: "The trouble with that law is not that it is inoperative, but that it is too operative. Any persons who starts in on the supposition that the law is of no force or effect will be liable to get caught up with a jerk." The law amends the old law of 1875 by amending so as to include all quantities less than five gallons instead of one quart. All drug stores will tinder it be prohibited from selling bottled goods except on physicians' prescriptions, and grocery stores having a bottled goods department will have to abandon it or take out a State liccnse. Country drug stores will be affected, as they cannot sell any of their bottled goods except 011 physicians' prescriptions. Bottlers will be affected, as they cannot sell less than two dozen quarts at a time unless they take out the proper license by advertising. Brewers we included in the same way and cannot sell a dozen bottles of beer unless they also take out a State license. All of the quart shops, of which there arc forty or fifty in this city known as "barrel houses," are legislated out of existence by the law.

The Legislature adjourned Tuesday but the monkey theater stayed out the week and some people are mean enough to say that the actions of the star performers in the latter combination were quite as sane and reasonable and vastly more entertaining than many of the antics enacted in the halls of legislation at $6 per antic and found. The tendency of modern statesmen in various Legislatures and in Congress to waste the valuable time for which they are liberally paid to work for the interests of the people in what is designated as "hoss play" is one of the discouraging signs of the times, because all parties are equally open to censure in this particular and also because there is no hope of real reform. There is "a time for all things" according to the Scriptures, but the time for "fun" by legislators certainly is not when great and important public interests are pending and awaiting action. i- 7

A Greater Indianapolis is almost an assured fact, and that very quickly. It has been ascertained for a certainly that a majority of the council favor the proposed scheme, and unless there is a

marked change of heart there may be a unanimous vote in its behalf when the time for legislative action arrives. As the territory that will come in will be fairly well divided politically the Republican members of the councj^Jiave so far looked upon annexation with rather a favorable eye, and several of them have openly avowed themselves as advocates of it. The Democratic members, however, do not intend to risk 'anything upon the action of the opposition party. As yet no opposition has developed in administrative circles, and there is very small chance of any so developing.

Extension improvements are contemplated on the Denison hotel which will involve the outlay of $50,000, with the probable expenditure of as much more within the next year. Some change is also contemplated in the management of the institution, but negotiations have not as yet been completed. The improvements contemplate a system of cafes and restaurants for the accommodation of gentlemen and ladies, and include a cafe with smoking and dining-rooms for parties of gentlemen, as well as private restaurant for ladies. The office and lobbies will be entirely remodeled and changed to accommodate the cafes, reading-rooms, smokingrooms, private bar and ,'adies' restaurant 011 the first floor, wliile the base ment will be remodeled and occupied by an elaborate Turkish bath, with swimming pool and all accessories to the modernly equipped bath-rooms. An extra wing is contemplated, to contain a large increase in the number of sleeping-rooms, as well as an assemblyroom capable of seating 400 or 500 people, but this addition will be regulated by the growing needs of the house. v. C:

Private information has been received by a prominent hotel proprietor of the city that Mr. Louis Reibold, formerly of the Bates House, has been in Cincinnati during the past week and has closed a deal with the Emorys of that city by which a ten-story stone and steel hotel building is to be erected in the near future 011 the flatiron piece belonging to the Emorys, at the corner of Washington and Illinois streets and Kentucky avenue. It is known that Mr. Reibold has completed plans for a hotel building on this piece of ground and the information, which comes from Cincinnati, says that the deal has been closed between Mr. Reibold and the Emorys, which includes the erection of a building to cost $500,000. Mr. Reibold is out of the city and is known, has been in Cincinnati recently. The information is regarded as authentic.

Although the regents of the soldiers' monument did not get the desired appropriation from the Legislature to complete the work, they have in hand an available fund of $40,000 which can be used. They have already made contracts for the stone sculpture which is to be set in around the base of the shaft and for the alteration in the fountains and approaches to the monument. This work is to be completed by Sept. 1st next, and work upon it will be begun within a few days. When the fountains are completed according to the large design they will carry the largest volume of living water of any artificial fountain or waterfall in the world. In addition to this work the regents hope to be able to squeeze enough out of their savings to pay for four magnificent bronze candelabra to surround the base of the monument. The work incident to these changes will be prosecuted very energetically.

The Monon Railroad was sold Wednesday morning to its present owners. the consideration being $3,001,000. The sale took place at the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago round-house at 11 o'clock. There was no one to bid except the buyers and the sale was accomplished with no excitement. Besides Special Master Van Buren, who made the sale for a fee of $3,000, there were present President Thomas, Receiver McDoel and several other officials, the party going to the roundhouse in a private car. The writer remembers seeing this road sold once before (the old L. N. A. & C.) to the late W. C. Depauw, representing bondholders, at sheriff's sale along about 1870 or '71. Mr. Depauw and party came to Monticello in a special train and the little county seat was for an hour or two greatly agitated by the presence of a number of Eastern millionaires who attended the sale. Sheriff Henderson's legal fee in the case would have made him a wealthy man, but it was generally understood that he received but $500 according to an agreement previously made.

A new Jonah story: Apropos of the numerous Denison House conflagrations a good story is told of a precocious small boy of this city who was very much interested in the subject. His Bible education had not been neglected but he got things a little mixed and undertook to illustrate his idea of the cause of the fires by saying to his grandpa that "the Denison must have a Jonah." To guy the boy the grandfather said: "What's a Jonah?" "Why grandpa, said the boy, "don't you know who Jonah was that man that Munchausen said the whale swallowed when he was throwed over-board." The old gentleman "give it up."

A. P. K.

WIlili INTEREST CREDITORS

A Kansas Blacksmith Invents a New "Way of Collecting Old Debts. Debt collecting is not an easy process in Kansas. This fact has long weighed on the mind of Mr. Fred WenlioR blacksmith, of Wathena, who is obliged to give credit to the farmers for whom he works. After long thought he decided to try a new method of debt collecting, according to the New York Jour nal.

To all his debtors he sent out the fo|. lowing instruction: "As I have to meet payment of a note I find it necessary to call upon all those who are indebted to me to help me out as much as you can. Therefore I have decided to select one day, and kindiv

quest your presence at my shop at Wathena and pay the amount herein stated, and all those complying with this request will receive a special treat Lunch and refreshments will be served from 1 p. m. to 6 p. m. in my basement that day, and a very good time assured to all present. Please present this card when you call and show the amount of your account, which is dollars and cents. Hoping all will p. spond and you will have a good, social afternoon."

The treat offered was a great inducement to the thrifty Kansas farmers. It was all the more attractive because beer was provided and Kansas is a prohibition state. Hardly one of those who came had the cheek to refuse to pay his bill, and the entertainment was a great success. The scheme will be employed regularly by Mr. Westhoff.

A Prize Competition.

A first prize of $500 and a number of smaller prizes have been offered by The Century Co., publishers of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, for the best answers to a hundred and fifty questions covering a broad rangs of information. A sample question, which is easier than some of them, is as follows: "What is the approximate difference in altiUiie between the loftiest Alpine summit and the bed of the greatest depression in the Mediterranean basin?" An additional prize of $500 is offered to any one who can answer go per cent, of the questions from any ten published works of reference other than The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.

MARCH AND APKIL

Arc tlie Most Disagreeable Months of the Year In the North.

In the South, they are the pleasantest snd tnost agreeable. The trees and shrubs put forth their buds and flowers, early vegetablej and fruits are ready for eating, and in fact all nature seemB to have awakened from its winter s.eep. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company reaches the Garden Spots of the South, and will the first and third Tuesdays ol March and April and Hell round-trip tickets to all principal points in Tennessee, Alabama and West Flordia. at about half rati's. Write for advertisi ng matter'and particulars of excursions to C. P. AI more. General Passenger Agent, Louisville,oKy.

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If you would know what it means to be rich, find out that it is blessed to give.

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