Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 September 1897 — Page 2

THE REVIEW.

BY

F=V. T. L-UQE.

TGItMS OF SCHSCim-TlCN:

One Year, in the county ....81.00 Ouo Year, out of the county 1.10

Inquire at Office lor Advertising Kates.

Science continues to progress. The latest alleged evidence of this is the new microscope perfected by Prof.. Gates, of Washington, D. C. Mr. Gates claims that by means of his compound doubleacting discovery lie can magnify objects to the extent of 3,000,000 diameters. The best microscopes now in use only magnify 10,000 diameters. The secret of the discovery is said to be a proccss by which the magnified image projected 011 a lens can be magnified by a sccond lens as if it were the original object

There are three Territorial delegates in the present Congress—all Democrats. All three are Southern men. The delegate from Arizona is a Kentuckian. His rise in politics was rapid. He arrived in Arizoiia in 1881 and was elected to office in 1882. It is claimed that an Ohio man could not have done any better. Hhe delegate from New Mexico is a native of Alabama. He was olected by 19,000 votes to 66 votes cast for his gold Democratic opponent. The delegate from Oklahoma is a native of Missouri and was formerly a clergyman and operated a sawmill.

"The world is lookin' at us" Hoosiers. The Pasha of Egypt recently sent an order to an Indiana "bike" factory for two wheels because he considered that the common "sod-cutters" manufactured in iingland and the I'.astern States were not good enough for him. The wheels •were made to order for the Pasha, and pnncc of his court. The Pasha weighs 223 pounds, but when it comes to wheels lie ss a dude in the matter of taste. The order was for cushion frames, to be enameled royal cream. They were wrapped and crated water and air proof.

Information that seems to be genuine has been received at Washington to the effect that a. "sure enough" gang of Chinese pirates have set sail in Bering sea for the purpose of capturing the goldladen steamers from the Yukon. The information came officially to the Treasury Department, and one steamship company has already appealed to the government for protection for their vessels. The reports will be investigated, and if found to be reliable the patrol fleet in Alaskan waters will be ordered to escort tmasure-laden vessels to a point where saiety is assured,

At the beginning of July there were 13.778 applications on file for government employment as laborers at the civil service board at New York city. During July 537 additional applications were filed. During June two laborers died, one resigned, and seventy-five new places were crcatcd or made vacant by removal, thus affording a total of eighty-two chances for the vast army of more than 14,000 men to draw their wages from the coffcrs of Uncle Sam. The outlook for employment through the civil service all over the country is not bright, vacancies being comparatively few and far between.

At the recent convention of factory inspectors at Detroit, Inspector Mayo, of Minnesota, spoke smiiewhat disrespectfully of Chicago. The Chicago delegates protested and Mr. Mayo proceeded to add insult to injury by calling Chicago "that modern Sodom at the foot of Lake Michigan, where every vile and vicious plant in the garden of humanity is nurtured, and where each spring the worst of them are sent to the Legislature to be bought by corporations." That is pretty rough on "Lots" of good Icoplc who may not have received divine warning to "escape for thy life look not behind thee."

It is related of Henry Clay that 011 one of his trips home from Washington to Kentucky by stages he stopped en route 011 the edge of a very high precipice in the Alleghenies, over which the road passed, and wrapping his cloak about his towering form he gazed below in silent meditation for some time. He seemed to be listening for something intently. Filially his companions became restless and one asked the great orator what he was listening for. Standing there on the top of the mountain, Mr. Clay said in his wonderfully impressive manner: "I am listening to the tramp of the footsteps of the coming millions of this continent." Prophetic words indeed. That procession is now passing. "Men of action clear the way."

Mr. J. J. Valentine, of the Wells. Fargo & Co. express lines, a recognized authority in business circles, has tabulated various lines of bonds and stocks of the numerous railway lines in the hands of receivers throughout the country. The detailed statement is too lengthy for reproduction in our columns. One example of the effect of the financial depression on associated capital is that of Union Pacific stock, which a few years ago sold at $125 and higher per share, and paid 6 per cent, dividends: it is now quoted at $7 per share, with 110 possibility of dividends. A summary of Mr. Valentine's table shows that the holders of $25,000,000 of bonds, debenture certificates and preferred and common stock of 50,000 miles of railroad in the hands of receivers in this country have lost quite as heavily

by the financial stringency of recent years as the owners of other kinds of property.

The "synchronograph'' is a new one, and it has undertaken the job of revolutionizing the present telegraph systems of the world. Claimed that messages may now be sent at the rate of 4,300 words a minute over ordinary lines. Five hundred words a minute may be transmitted by cable lines. The apparatus is now mounted in the general postoffice at London, England, from which point all experiments have thus far been made. The messages arc both sent and received by the aid of a dynamo. It is believed that by the new system letters of five hundred words may be transmitted at no greater cost than by present postal rates.

A line of "sentinel" ships is projected that will add materially to the safety ot ccean travel on the Atlantic. The capital is to be furnished by a French syndicate. The peculiar pattern of stationary- vessel that is to be used is the joint plan of an Italian named Carvello and a Frenchman named Lemieux. The framework of the vessel is to be entirely of steel tubes covered with steel netting, with quarter-inch meshes filled with concrete and rubbed smooth. About seventy-five vessels will be required for this great ocean picket line. The ships will be stationed fifty miles apart, and will be anchored by cables to the bottom of the sea in a way to make thenj absolutely safe. They will be providcrj with searchlights and telegraphic apparatus. and will be in fact occan hotels, where ships might "pass the night" ii necessary. The immense advantage oj the scheme to all who "go down to tho sea in ships" is apparent to all, but just how toll sufficient to maintain the outfit is to be collected is not explained.

INS I' R.GENT VICTORY.' The Cuban insurgents appear to have gained a decisive victory at Victoria do las 1 unas. one of the most important cities in the province or Santiago de Cuba. Even Spanish officials admnt tha defeat and regard the loss of the place as a serious setbaek for the royalist cause. As a matter of fact, it seems that the Spaniards now regard Cuba as irretrievably lost. The only question is, how to "let go of the 1/ar." This victory demonstrates also that the Cuban insurgents have recently made substantial gains both in arms and men. Heretofore they have avoided pitched batlsles and have not dared to attack fortified cities. Victoria de las Tunas is strongly fortified with seven forts and a heavy armament, and commands the main highway between the central and eastern parti oi the island. Its capture makes the insurgents masters of the eastern part of Cuba, the city of Santiago de Cuba being the only place in the province of that name still in control of the Spaniards. It is expected that the Cubans 'fill at once establish their capital at Victoria de las Tunas and demand recognition as a belligerent state. day of reckoning is at hand.

NATIONAL DANK STATISTICS. The abstract of reports of conditions of national banks on May 14, just issued from the Government Printing office, is accompanied by a diagram prepared by the controller of the currency and the chiei of the Bureau of Statistics. The diagram displays graphically the growth and changes in the principal items of resources of national banks from 1864 to ]Kq6, inclusive. In October, 1864, the capital of the 508 banks amounted to $86,800,000: a year later the number of banks had increased to 1,513, and the capital to S393.coo.ooo. The capital gradually increased to $504,800,000

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October 1. 1875, tV highest point readied until 1883, when it amounted $509,000,000. The increase thereafter was gradual until 1892. when the highest point was reached, namely, $686,600,000. In the fall of 1896 the amount bad de clined to $648,500,000. Loans and dis counts reached their maximum between 1864 and 1880: in 1875 the amount was $984,700,000. In 1880 that amount was exceeded by $56,300,000 with one exception from that date to 1892 there was a rapid increase and the highest point ever reached was in October, 1892, namely. $.M7i.ooo,ooo. In 1893 there was a drop to $1,843,600,000, but a re covcry in 1895 to $2,050,400,000. In the fall of 1896 there was a decline to $1,393.300.ooo. The deposits have fluctuated to about the .same extent a-s loans and discounts: the maximum being reached in 1892, when they amounted to $1,779,300,000. in the following year deposits declined to $1,465,400,000, and reacted the following year to $1,742,100,000. The circulation outstanding in 1866 reached $290,000,000. and the highest point was reached in 1873, the amount being $341, 000.000. The minimum amount outstanding is shown to have been $i22r 900,000 in October, 1890. At the close of the report of the year 1896 the amount had risen to $209,900,000. The average per capita of banking funds of all national banks is shown to be $37.14, varying from a minimum of $2.72, in Arkansas, to a maximum of $120.59 in Massachusetts. The diagram shows the average in each State. The diagram also shows by States and geographical divisions the capital, deposits and loans of all national banks and in addition an illustration of the changes in the various classes of paper money in circulation from 1864 to 1896. The chart is being sent to all national banks and leading newspapers.

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D1VIXK lIKAIiKll SCHRADER BADLiY "BIjUFFKI)" BY A y-h KOlvOMO MIMSTKIi.

Bull Fight in Putnam County—Mastodon's Skeleton Found—Counterfeiters Cnptured-State New*.

Scliradcr Harked Down.

Koltomo special: Tho Kokomo preachers are after Sehrader, the "divine hauler." Sehrader has been here a week with his brido blessing tho people attending the. county fair. To test the powers of the healer the Rev. T. II. ICuhn, pastor of the Main-street Christian church, took a hack load of cripples to Schrader's quarters and watched the proceedings. The afflicted ones received the usual blessing, but, receiving 110 benefits, were carried out again by Mr. ICuhn. who then denounced Sehrader as a fraud and impostor. Mr. Kuhn went to Sehrader again and tho latter said his faith was so strong that he could drink poison and not be affected. The minister then pulled a vial labeled "strychnine" out of his pocket and asked Sehrader to drink it. The healer refused to swallow the stuff. The potion was epsom salts. Nearly all the preachers in tho city denounced Sehrader in their pulpits to-day.

Tlnll Fight in Putnam County. Greencastle special: James Foudray tested the merits of Spain's national amusement, and comes out of the contest with a dead bull. 1-Tis son went to the barn to feed tho animal, which was a valuable Jersey. He was attacked and escaped with difficulty. Mr. Foudray himself then took charge of affairs armed v.lth a pitchfork. The bull made for him as soon as he entered the door. He planted the tines of the fork between the animal eyes. This only infuriated the beast all the more, and it made another rush. Again the sharp fork was brought into play, but Foudray was pushed back against the wall. His position was extremely dangerous and was rendered vastly more so by tho breaking of the handle

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of the fork. A neighbor rushed in with a rifle, shot the mad brute down and probably saved Foudray'# life.

Mastodon's Skeleton Found. There is a great deal of excitement at Waterloo and in the vicinity just northwest over the finding of the skeleton of a huge mastodon. The discovery was made by Laurel Spiudler, on his father's farm, late Sunday afternoon. One tusk, which was broken in two pieces, was measured, and after allowing a reasonable length for crumbled portions was fifteen feet long, and measured two feet in circumference. One tooth weighs a little over live pounds. The skeleton is complete as found excepting the bones of one foot. When standing upright, the bones being measured separately, gives the standing height about eighteen feet. The skeleton is in a fair state of preservation.

Captured Counterfeiters.

Valparaiso special: Major'Carter, chief »f the Indiana division of the secret sen Ice, arrived here yesterday, and Thomas J. Porter, chief of tho Illinois division, H'ith detective Ai Gallagher, of Chicago, have been in this city several days looking for a gang of counterfeiters. L. L. Leathtrman, postoffice inspector from the ClnMnnati district, rendered valuable assistance, and to-day, assisted by Sheriff Green, a raid was made 011 tho home of II. A. W. Brown ,a well-known photog*rapher, and he was placed under arrest, fn a search of his premises plates for one, two, five and ten-dollar certificates, series of 1891, were found. The offlcers then flrovo to the home of John Hansen, in !he country, where Theodore Hansen was arrested, ana a search of the house disclosed a complete outfit for printing the aioney with a printing press, inks and sight counterfeit five-dollar bills. Both ncn were lodged in jail. Brown is fifty rears old and is a great traveler. He is laid to have been prominent in anarchstic circles up to the time of the Hayaiarket riot in Chicago, and numbered Parsons and Ivneebe as his personal friends. Hansen is twenty-eight years lid.

The arrest of the two men was a great mrprlse to the people. Through this gang large amount of the stuff was floated in the South Side in Chicago last Monlay, and some in the surrounding towns luring the past week. Tho government

officials consider this one of tho most Important captures of counterfeiters In years, and officers Porter and Carter are the recipients of many congratulations. Tha men say they have been operating about three months, Brown doing the photographing and making the plates in his gallery, and Hansen operating the printing press. .«

Burglars Captured.

Versailles special: Sheriff lienry Busching received a tip that the store of Wooloy Bros., at Correct, this county, was to be entered last night. Selecting a posse, he made ready to capture the burglars. The burglars appeared at the place and gained an entrar.ee. The sheriff demanded them to give up and received a bullet in his wrist in reply. The shooting became general then, but the burglars, badly wounded, made their escape. They were traced into Osgood and it was found that Bert Andrews and Cliff Gordon were in tho care of surgeons. Andrews was shot in tho stomach and Gordon each shoulder and in his legs. Neither aro supposed to be fatally wounded. They were placed in an ambulance and taken to jail. Lylc Levi and William Jenkins, jr., were also arrested as accomplices. Tho excitement is high in this county, as many robberies have lately been committed and the people believe the leaders have been caught.

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Tenjr«anc« Thrcateucd.

Osgood special: There will be an awful reckoning for the slaughter of tho live men in the Versailles jail. All the victims have many relatives and friends, who have determined that somebody must suffer for the wholesale lynching. Kverybody here feels that more blood will be shed. .There is a feeling that the mob acted hastily as to l.evi and Jenkins. The only testimony against them was llostetler's statement that they were Involved in the Wooley burglary. Tho inquest was resumed. Many witnesses were called, but not one could identify any one connected with tho mob. Circuit Judge Now says that every possible effort will be made by the authorities to punish the mob participants. isflpjkv

Storm at tli« State Fair

JAMESB. RAY.

Governor of Indiana Two Terms, 1S25-1S31.

A terrific storm passed over the State

Fair grounds about 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, blowing down trees, overturn* ing tents and injuring several people. One horse was killed by a falling tree and four persons were seriously injured. The storm spread general consternation and created almost a panic in the grand stand. Considering the manner in which limbs and portable missiles of all kinds were flyig through the air for some time it is considered miraculous that there was not a great destruction of life. About D:Hn o'clock there was another squall, accompanied by blinding rains, terrific thunder ('laps and sharp sheets of lightning. and this added to the alarm and confusion.

INDIANA STATIC ITEMS.

Monon railway locomotives are suffering for water along some parts of tho line.

Massive stone portico is to be built to the administration building at the prison north.

The new State Normal School building at Terre Haute is fully completed and is hard to beat.

Logansport takes a. lesson from Peru's successful street fair and thinks she may have one, too..

The Ohio Falls car works has oroors for nearly COO new cars, besides repairs of 300 cars for the K. & O. S. W.

Michael Baltes, Fort Wnyne lime merchant, was prostrated with heat Wednesday. Two school children were overcome.

Mrs. Dick Weaver, near Oaklandon, gave birth to triplets, this week. They were named "William, Jennings and Bryan.

The defunct Ambia State Banlc will reopen under the name of the Citizens' Bank of Ambia. AH depositors of the old bank will be paid in full.

Tho pungent odor of smoke in all parts of lloosierdom indicates that the farmer will soon begin suing the railroad companies for burned crops.

Delaware county corn crop is short bocause of tho drought. Apples and grapes are not developing. Wheat is lying in the ground or is eaten by insects.

Some township schools in Hamilton county, in the very center of the famed Indiana gas belt, are preparing to burn wood, because gas rates arc too high.

AN "AWFUL" MAN.

I had watched her for some moments as inv 'bus rolled slowly down Piccadilly, and was greatly taken by her appearance. The pavements and the carriages were full of well-dressed and beautiful women but somehow I seemed to have eyes for no one but that girl. She wore the sweetest costume—something in blue, picked out with white at the collar and cuffs, and, I inferred, white upon the front of the bodice. She was steering her bicycle with skill and boldness through the 5 o'clock traffic of Piccadilly, and I longed to see her face, which, I felt convinced, would please my eye. But this, of course, I could not do, as she was riding steadily about ten yards in front of us. nu can not shout at a girl on a bicycle from the top of a 'bus, even if von know her name, and I could scarcely expect her to look back at a whistle.

I leaned forward to the driver, handing him my open tobacco pouch. "Do you think," I said, "you could hurry up a bit and pass that lady ahead? I want to see her face."

He turned, and jerking his head in the direction of Hyde Park corner, said: "Lidy on the bike—blue dress—cut saucy?" "You've guessed it," I replied. lie winked. Then he brushed his horses with the whip, and passed the Victoria 'bus ahead, which seemed in no particular hurry to arrive anywhere. The girl ahead, seeing a clear space before her, quickened up, and held her own. "I don't think we can do it," I said, resigning myself to disappointment.

He he'd his pipe between two fingers, and filled it with the remaining two. feeling meanwhile with his thumb for a match. I gave him my match box. "It's all right," lie said as he nursed the flaming match in his fist, and puffed his pipe into action, "there's a block at the corner."

The girl slowed down, and* stepped easily and surely from her bicycle. She stood upon the corner at the curb of St. James st., leaning on her machinc. I admired the poise of her head, the set of her shoulders, the pointing of her foot, as she stood motionless and expectant.

As the 'bus drew up by her side I leaned over and saw her face. I was /lot disappointed. It was as I thought She was, to mc, amazingly beautiful. "You will excuse me, sir," said a voice at my side, "but you have gained your objcct."

I looked around at my neighbor and saw a lady, by 110 means ill looking, of about my own age, which is on the wrong side of thirty. There was something a little stern, perhaps a trifle contemptuous, in the cast of her features, and she w-as regarding mc with much apparent aversion. "You have seen the young lady's face, and now, perhaps—that's right, coachman, drive on."

The 'bus moved slowly forward. I reflected a moment, for I had not noticed my neighbor before, and was a little startled at her implied reproof. "Excuse mc." I said. "I haven't quite gained my objcct. 1 want to make her look at mc, and she won't. Xow what is the etiquette in such cases?"

I turned and waved my arm at her as the 'bus went on. But she was mounting her machinc. and, being occupied with the arrangement of her skirts, took no notice of mc.

May 1 ask. said my neighbor, "if that lady is your sister, or your cousin, or "Certainly not." I replied. "Why do you ask?" "Then. sir. I feel it my duty to tell you. that you arc 110 gentleman."

I sighed. "I know that." I replied. "But I always pretend to be. and the public is so gullible. How did you find me out?" "No gentleman." she said, "would seek to annoy a ,'adv in the street, especially a lady who clearly docs not wish to notice him. And I can see that girl is persistently avoiding you."

O, is she?" I said. "Just wait a moment. She 11 be as pleased as anvthing when she sees that I have noticed her. Nothing annoys a woman like indifference." "A girl—alone and unprotected she began. "She would be all the more pleased to see mc.' I said. She was abreast of the 'bus again, and 1 leaned over the side, waving my hat. She looked up with a glance of surprise. I nodded pleasantly. She lifted her evebrows and smiled, But a crawling lransom took her attention and she fell behind again.

There!" I said. "If ever a girl looked pleased, there she is. Who am I that I should refuse a momentary satisfaction to a lonely girl?"

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I turned and scut a nod in the direc tion of the girl, who was pedaling alonr quietly just behind the 'bus. She litJi one hand from the handle-bar and waved it to me in friendly response. "Under the circumstances," 1 ?a "i think I shall speak to her otherwise might miss her when I get off at Sloanstreet. Do you thing she would nin'ui" "Let 111c implore you." said my ncmn bor "if you do I shall speak to the duetor."

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The lady smiled and looked around. But the conductor was not in view. "I am going to get off at S!oane street." I called to her "will 0j stop there?"

Slue nodded, and bending slightly over her handles, quickly outstripped the 'bus and rode 011 past St. George's Hospital and down the slope. 1 leaned back in niy seat and watched her appreciatively as she floated away. "Never in my life," I murmured, "have I seen any one whom I admire more. A most delightful girl." "A most disgraceful incident,"' uid my neighbor. "You sec," I said affably, "two people meet—'twas a crowd—and their hearts rush together like magnets, or poles, or whatever the things are. It is quite dear to me that we were made for one another. Don't you believe in affinities? They are fun." "It is not a matter for jesting: it is 1 very serious matter to tamper in this way with the innocence of "I think it rather a joke," I said. "It may be a joke for the men—or, rather he may think so, mistakenly but you never by any chance think of the girl. And I fell it my duty as a woman to protest against "Bless my soul." I exclaimed, "I think of the girl always. She is never out of my thoughts." "The girl!" "Yes. the girl—that girl. Didn't I explain? O! here we arc!" "Sloane street!" said the conductor.*

I jumped up. "Well, we've had a most inlrreMinf: conversation." I said. "You see, she's waiting for mc at the corner. I knew it. I never underrate my attractions."

As I descended to the pavement, Cclia greeted me with a smile of welcome, while the eyes of my late neighbor bored two holes in my back. "How lucky to meet like this." said Celia. "Where did you see me first?" "O. in Picadi'lly," I replied. couldn't be sure it was you tmti your face. I want to get some mUutc here, and then we can walk along hotw together." "Had an amusing day?" said ('cli.i "Excellent," I said "more particular ly the ride down." "You seemed very much interested it the lady on the 'bus." said Cclia, as we stopped outside the tobacconist's. "r-J"Did you know her?" "Never saw- her before," I said. "Right under my own eyes, too Cclia. "I couldn't help it," I said. seemed to have some objection to inc. or to you. or to something or other—: seemed to sec something wrong in our behavior." "Didn't she know I was your asked Celia. "She didn't know mc." replied. "But didn't you tell her?" asked Ciiia. "Well," I said, "now I come to think of it, I don't believe I did."—Lhrcnce Poor in Black and White. loverl.', ibhoc shrdlu cmfwy pyw wxvf

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