Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 January 1898 — Page 7

ESTABLISHED 1841.

HOLIDAY GOODS.

In endless variety in Gold, Silver and Art Metalware. It will pay you to inspect our stock as it will make your selection easy. We are offering some special inducements. See our $ro Gold Filled Watches i'or Ladies. Our $3 solid sterling silver tea spoons. Our

15c

JOHN DRURY.

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In Case of Fire Ring The Towel

No.

solid sterling

silver thimble. Remember we engrave .all goods sold free of charge.

OTTO, THE JEWELER,

111 South Washington Street.

MEDICINAL WHISKY

Doctors prescribe it in many cases and insist on their pa ients getting the best. You can always get it at

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Eat, Drink and Be Merry

No. 207

Bast Market Street

DRURY'S PLACE.

Where they sell nothing but the finest whiskeys made. A sample will convince you of this. No. 109 north Washington street.

WILL DRURY.

Before gbing to the Are stop and get a glass ofgood Cold Beer at

"The New Idea."

North Greon Street.

RUBBN'S

BATES HOUSE CLOTHING PARLORS

West Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind.

$8.00 buys choice of 597 suits, consisting of Scotch plaids, clay diagonals, fancy cassimeres, etc. Every suit carefully tailored and elegantly trimmed.

$10 buys choice of

357

Paddock Overcoats,

made of fine all-wool Kersey cloth, raw edges, lapped seams, satin sleeve linings, Farmer satin body linings. These coats are an exceptional bargains.

$12.50 buys choice of 4?9 extra fine suits, in plaid worsteds, silk mixtures, Scotch plaids, etc., many of them silk and satin lined, sell French faced and finely tailored.

$15 buys choice of s69 extra fine unfinish»Vorsted Overcoats, box styles, welt seams, French facings, fancy wool body linings, Skinner satin yokes and sleeve linings. See them in our west window.

CANDY

CATHARTIC

CURE CONSTIPATION

When you come to town and feel like "taking something," with

bite to eatjjthrown in, don't forget

ALL

DRUGGISTS

"THE LODGE."

A PIONEER TRAGEDY

Known. o..- •••••••,

CRAWFORPSVILLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1. 1898.

In Which a Murder Was Ascertained

to Have Been Committed, But the

Perpetrator of Which Was Never

A Hainan Arm for Club.

Early one morning of the summer of 1844, a email country lad was walking along the high ground, at the summit of what was known as the "Attica hill," directly north of the present iron bridge which spans Sugar creek, in the extreme northwest part of the city on hunt of a cow for his parents who resided near by. Picking up wh*t he at first supposed was a club to throw at the slow moving bovine, he was astonished to find it to be a human arm with a portion of the hand attached to it. Hastening home with this gruesome encumbrance, his appearance with it immediately created a sensation in the household. Two or three near neighbors were informed of the find, and a consultation held regarding it at once. Somebody they reasoned had been badly hurt or murdered, and may be it had occurred close by. With this conclusion an investigation was determined upon. The men followed the roads of the neighborhood for some distance in various directions, also the paths leading through the woods, and were finally rewarded by finding only a a short distance away from where the boy had picked up the arm, the body of a man dressed in the clothes of a laborer, and minus an arm. The clothing titling around his Ireast was found to have been cut through with some sharp instrument, and on removing his coat and vest a wound from which blood had flown freely was disclosed on the left side of his breast. The wound had doubtless caused his death, and after a short time a large case knife, sharp and covered with blood, was found near by. A foul murder had been committed, and the instrument with which it had been committed it was evident was now before the excited men. The intelligence of the discovery of a murder soon reached the then village of Crawfordsville, and soon scores of people hurried across the creek to view the eight of a man murdered and speculate on matters connected with the affair. The body had been terribly mutilated by hogs, and the arm found at a distance of a dozen rods from the body, had been torn off and carried that distance by them. The excitement created was intense for some days, as much or more so probably than a similar event happening now would. It was soon ascertained that the name of the man whose life had been taken so clandestinely was Leak, who had for some time been engaged in the work of the excavation of the mill race north of town, known now as Sperry's, but then as Elston's. He was a young man arid single. The next step was to ascertain the guilty individual and his method for the deed.

Leak had no known enemies, had quarreled with no one, and his conduct as far as known was correct. Ia those early days detectives were unknown and the manner of ferreting out crimes not system itized as now. Suspicion was directed to a man named Taylor for a time, but a* he worked as zealously es any to find out the author of the dark deed and bad had no wrangle or trouble with Leak, this was soon abandoned. To the west of the scene of the tragedy about a fourth of a mile stood a cabin in a .field, occupied by a man named Felton, a quiet unobtrusive individual, but of a determined mien, whose wife, unlike Ceasar's, was not above suspicion. In delving around for clows, it waB ascertained that Leak had made occasional visits to this man's home during his absence. It was thought that Felton had encountered Leak one night returning from there and killed him with the knife. There was no proof of this, however. Pelton made no effort to leave the locality, and seemingly was as anxious to unravel the mystery and capture the murderer as any in the neighborhood. After a short season interest in the matter began to fade away. Pelton continued to reside in his cabin, although in the minds of many lie was tiie guilty one. No arrests were made, anu Lime Boon obliterated the affair from the memory of the residents. Felton lived for some ypars in lh» neighborhood, dying. we believe, here iti town. His widow, the supposed cause of the trouble, afterwards was married to an old German, who up to only a few years ago resided in the neighborhood of the fair ground, but bo of them now are dead. The tragedy is remembered particularly from the fact that it was one of the first homicides in the county, and that the guilty party, whoever he was, escaped punishment and remained forever unknown.

Sheriff Canine took Henry Courtney the young colored boy who robbed the home of Mrs. M. B. Steele, to the Jeff•raonville penitentiary Monday,

A VETERAN'S STORY

IN WHICH THREE SOUTHERN WO

MEN ARRESTED AS SPIES,

WERE RESCUED WHILE EN

ROUTE TO THE PENITENTIARY

THROUGH HIS INTERVENTION.

Seventeen Years Afterwards He Is

Recognized By One of Them and

Thanked Many Times Over for

His Kindness.

James Boots, of this city, servod his country as a soldier for three years in the 20th Indiana Battery. The battery held a re-union, the other day, at the residence of Mort Liter, and out of the 15G men originally composing it, only about a dozen men were on hand. Death, the grim reaper, has gathered in probably two-thirds of the men who formed it. while the remaining third being generally widely scattered. In a very few years there will be no soldiers' reunions from the absence by death of all those who were in the war and are called anoually together to talk over the camp, the march, and the battles of the years now hastening away. It will soon be all history with no survivors to relate the scenes of those dark days.

One day in July, 1864, Mr, Boots was granted a short furlough, from sickness' and took the train at Bridgeport, Ala., for Nashville. Getting into a box car in which were a few plank seats, his fellow passengers were three beautiful young ladies, sisters, guarded by a soldier with a Winchester, who was taking them to the Nashville penitentiary. Their lady like appearance, refinement of manner, and at the same time sad and humiliating countenances at once attracted his attention. Just after he was seated one of them remarked to the domineering individual with the rifle, who seemed to aim to inspire and awe the women with his importance' "You one hundred day's men have not the courage nor sense enough to kill a rebel." The remark at once interested Boots, and drawing close to them, and posing as a Confederate soldier, be at once asked them the trouble and why they were there. Their names he ascertained wac McFadden, and their homes Kingston, Ga. One of them at once replyed that they had been arrested as spies for the Confederate army and were being taken to prison, and between the outbreaks of grief with which she was filled, said: "We are not spies nor do we want to be. But you know our father is a colonel in the Confederate army, and our two brothers were in his regiment. On the night of July 7th my father and two brothers crossed the river, theEtewa or Chatahoocha, I have forgotten the name. As I said, my father and broth' ers felt sure that their army'would leave at once for the further South, and of course he wished while so close to come home once more and did during the night, but they did not leave for several days So we girls concluded to cross the river aid see them on the day named. And Oh, what a trial. We went down the river some distance and then took our clothing off anu tried them on our heads and proceded to wade the wide shallow river. We had scarcely crossed halt way when those horrid Yankees began firing on ue, and it seemed that they would kill us, and rnnning down to the waters edge ordered us to come out of the water or they would surely kill us. We were almost frightened to death. They would not let us dress until we came clear out of the water. Oh dear, it makes me sick when I thiBk how cruel they were. We soon dressed and they marched us off to headquarters, and we are now on our way to Nashville Tenn.. there to be put in the penitentiary. Oh, aint this awful."

Convinced that the words of the woman were true, that they had simply aimed to call on their father and brothers while they were so near their old home, that there was nothing contraband nor secret in their aiming to cross the river to the camp of the Confederates, Boots at once began to interest himself in their behalf, with the object of having them returned home as soon as possible. Arriving at Nashville, ho had the prisoners held in the waiting room of the depot, after which he repaired to the quarters of Gen. Mitchell, in command at Nashville at that time. Tho facts were stated to hiin by Boots regarding the arrest of tho women. Mitchell immediately issued an order releasing them and returning them to their homes,

In 1882 Boots "made a short tour thr ugh the South, and Kingston being en route he stopped there for a few hours. Making some inquiries regardthe McFaddea family he ascertained that a lady just boarding the car at the eame time he was, bore thai name.

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I BEFORE-

caI1

COURT NEWS.

Estate of R. P. Fowler vs. Vandalia R. R. Co. Complaint. Motion for new trial overruled and appeal to Supreme Court taken.

J. L. Shrum et al. vs. commissioners of Montgomery county. Appeal. Plaintiffs file motion for new trial.

J. M. Waugh vs. Virginia McLane et al. Complaint. Dismissed. New Hampshire Fire Insurance Co. vs. Indiana Natural and Illuminating Gas Co. and Pat Slattory. Complaint. Judgment rendered on jury'B*|verdict for W70.16.

J. H. Sbrader VB. M. E. Shrader et al. Complaint. Finding for defendants. L. A.Foote and W. W. Morgan are appointed jury commissioners for the ensuing year.

Estate of Margaret Grimes vs. estate of Benj. N. Grimes. Claim. Plaintiff allowed $320.

Joseph H. Airhart vs. Minnie M. Airhart. Commissioners' report of partition is made and approved.

Much Fiction.

A very pretty story is going the rounds about Wm, J. Cord, an old school teacher of Coal Creek township, thrashing one Wallace Mitchell,|a stout rugged young man, who was a former pupil of his. The account further says that although. 75 years of age, Cord easily threw the fellow down on the floor and held him until he bawled lustily for help, etc. It all sounds very romantic, but is probably much mixed up with fiction. Cord is not anywhere near 75 years of age, besides beiDg small in statue and frail, and unless Mitchell is somewhat delicate physic| ally the highly wrought affair did not

.Death of He!lie Haas.

57TH YEAR.— NO 21.

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Knives

He Bpoke to her and learned at once that she was one of the three sisters ararrsted in 1864 and taken to Nashville as a spy. She was surprised to know that it was a "Yankee" soldier that had interested himself in behalf of her and her sisters, and that he was then before her, ana whom she soon recogzed after he stated many of the facts in the arrest and transportation to Nashville. Regarding her sister, who had done the talking and so strongly denounced the Yankees when they iwere at the mercy of the Federal soldiers, she had afterwards, burning wiih revenge for her treatment, denned the clothing of a man, enlisted in the Confederate army, and was shot dead in a quarrel with a comrade. The lady in recounting the facta of their arrest seemed much pleased in again'after the war was over to have a talk with the man whose intervention had liberated her, and had very mich changed her opinions regarding "Yankee" solders.

and Forks at $3.50 dozen.

M. C. KLINE.

Call and look through whether you wish to buy or not. See our priees, they are low.

Miss Ilellie Haas, th.. fifteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Georgeaeia Haas, died in Russiaville. where she was residing, on Christmas morning of pneumoniaTho remains wore brought to this city, and the funeral occurred from the residence of Joseph Grimes, on west Wabash avenue Monday morning at 10 o'clock, Revs. Brombaugh and Davis officiating. The deceased was a young lady of beautiful character, kind, gentle and a conscientious Christian, and leaves a host of friends to mourn her untimely death.

Hurt In a Runaway.

Last Saturday morning Mrs. John Mclntire, living three miles north of the city, met with a serious accident. The lady with her three children were comeing to town in a bobsled and when near the valley saloon, took fright and ran away, overturning the sled and throwing the occupants out. Mrs. Mclntire sustained a broken arm and nose and waa otherwise injured, while the children with but alight scratches.

Silver (Koifslties

NOVELTY IN BBIDGES.

UNIQUE STRUCTURE ACROS8 THE BUFFALO RIVER,

Folds, Lift* uti Close*—Work*

Lib* a

Charm, and I* Worthy of a Visit to the City to See It—Called Bftlonl* Bridge.

UFFAliO has anew bridge. It lifts and folds, and is a source ol wonder to those who see It. It 1b called the baa. cule or Jackkntfe bridge, and spana the river at Michigan street. It Is the only oridge ot its kted in tba

world, says the Buffalo Express, Mid was designed by John Gnist, of Milwaukee, "Wis., and appears to kave all the vitalities of easy operating, width: •f span, clear channel, durability iM( moderate cast. It is built ot structmat •teal, and with good tare ongfet t©las* fifty years, its total length to 3TO. feet, and M0 tons of ateel were swallowed up I* Ms construction. Tkere fS a double roadway, twenty-two feet In width, with sidewalks six feet wide on eash side ef the structure. Work began on February l# last, and the bridge was thrown open to traffic on June 20. The coat of the bridge waa 938,700.

The bridge is In two spans, each helag seventy-six feet long. They are •anried by two steel towers on either side of the canal. These towers are eighty feet high and eonitatn the lifting machinery. When the spaas are lifted they rise almost parallel with the perpendicular towers. Each span is hinged at the base of tbe towers and operated separately. There is a seven-ty-five horBe power Kriebel engine in each elevated power house, which operates a chain and sprocket gearing attached to an Immense and very powerful screw. ThlB screw is fifteen feet long and six inches in diameter. It ia Stationary in the tower and extends, to the upper angle of the nearest truss, passing through it at an angle of fortyflre degrees, just enough to give it plenty of "purchase." Eiacb r^yoluHon et the great screw draws the span inward and upward, precisely as a Jackknife is closed. As soon as the weight of the span iB removed from the live load tie bars which sustain it

when down, it is taken up completely by monstrous counter-balances at the top of the tower, which work on a very I steep incline and weigh thirty-five tons apiece, or 140 tons in all. Steel wire cables, one and a half inches in diameter, connect the spans with the count-er-weights over an ingenious system of "sheaves," and the cables are also lngeniously controlled, so that the strain is always equal on each. The long hinged zigzag steel bars which unite the middle of the towers with the span fold up as the bridge is elevated, and unfold to assume the weights of the structure as soon as the spans settle and meet in the center. Simply stated, the bridge is lifted by the engines, the weight being taken off the engines by the counter-weights almost as soon as. the span begins to rise. If the engine should give out there woirlil be no harm done. The spans would be supported by the cables and could be raised or lowered by hand power from below.

The engineers claim it was a wonderful mechanical achievement to find the precise curve for the track on which the counter-weights travel. These enormously heavy cylinders are at the top of the towers when the bridge is down. When it is raised they roll down on trades, pulling at the cables and almost wholly supporting the rising structure. When the strain Is first put on the cables the counterweights roll, or ra'.uer drop, down a track that is nearly vertical. As the span rises the strain is reduced and the vertical track gives way fer a curve on which the exact balance was ascertained only after long experiment.

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