Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 February 1898 — Page 1

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A Grand February 3 Net Cost Sale Commencing Tuesday Morning, February 1, at Graham's

Trade Palace, Crawfordsville, Indiana.

This announcement means much to buyers and business for us. Our invoice is now done our course for spring mapped out. Our sails are spread and decks cleared to catch new business and to do this and meet the expectarion of the people we will offer one of our characteristic bonafide net cost sales. One of those red hot sales strong in Bargain Richness that has made the Old Trade Palace the popular trading place in Montgomery County. We have not space to call your attention to individual prices, but invite you to a sale that shall embrace the whole of our Mammoth stock of -,

Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Millinery, Wraps, Lace Curtains, Portiers, Carpets, Rugs, Matting, Linoleum, Window Shades, Wall Paper, and hundreds of things that cannot be told of. A sale where price and quality tell an interesting story and will forge fetters of friendship with oui patrons. People may well wonder what impels us to murder prices at a time when goods are so rapidly advancing in price in the markets. We answer there is much in knowing when to take a loss. We have thousands of dollars worth of goods and need their value and room for spring stock. Consequently we can much better afford to sell them at cost or less, than pack them away. So here's to you and yours for the

on record. Its dollars and dimes we need now, not goods, and we will make a jingle in prices to make tbem move in this February Net Cost Sale. Remember everything goes, not an article reserved. First come shall be first served from the best stock in Crawfordsville.

We carry the Moline Plow Co.'s full ine of Riding and Walking Plows, inclnd-

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.898 Improved Sulkey. The "Good Jnough," and "Scotch Clipper" Walking 'lows. Call and look over our line.

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NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY

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R. Tin,' ley & Co.

ESTABLISHED 1841. CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, SATURDA V, FEBRUARY 19. 1898.

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Labor Union Resolutions. The foilowirg resolution was passed by the Labor Union at its meeting last evening and will be presented to the City Council at its next regular sesBion:

WHEHEAS, Tha streets of our city, which should be fne object of the .special care of our Common Council and the pride of every inhabitant, are now in a most deplorable condition, amounting almt et to disgrace to the city and

WHEREAS, There is in reasonable reach of our cit an inexhaustible supply of grave the best known material of like cost lor improving and repairing said streets and

WHEREAS, a vast number (the largest known in the history of the city) of our laboring citizens a-e unemployed, and in the absence of an opportunity to gratify their earnest desire to earn a livelihood by toil, they are forced to seek aid from public charity, thus increasing the burdens of the tax-payers without* giving anything in return therefor,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the American Federal Union of Crawfordsville that the interests of our city will be promoted most by the City Council immediately appropriating a stated weekly sum of money as large as the fundB or credit of the city will at present allow or justify, to be paid out to the laboring citizens of the city for the repair of the streets by hauling and placing gravel thereon.

H. H. MODANIEL, CHAS. C. BENJAMIN.

W. P. DAGGETT, Press Com.

A Delegate Convention. About seventeen of the twenty-three candidat'*B for city offices before the republican city nominating convention are wondering just now "where they are at." They wanted a primary election, those seventeen did. They wanted every man of the party to say by hiB vote who should be chosen as candidates. The republican ring, composed of a half dozen persons, decided otherwise. The ring said delegate convention and thus it will be. Many of the candidates are red hot over the fact. The few candidates that did not want a primary election, it is understood, are the favorites of the ring, and wi)l probably he nominated. In being nominated and then being elected are two different things, say some of the Candida tea, and they accompany the ascertion often with a sly wink

Death of l*lary Elston Braden. Mrs. Mary E. Braden, wife of Hector S. Braden, died at her home on east Main street last night at 11:45 o'clock, of peritonitis. The deceased was born in the city in 1886, and was the second daughter uf the late Major Elston. ID 1862, she was united in marriage to Hector 8. Braden. To tbem DO children were born. Mrs. Braden was a loving Christian woman, charitable to a fault, and her death will be keenly felt among the poor of the city. The funeral will occur from the residence Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock and will be private.

CHALLENGES WALLACE I

For Utterances That Are Both Un­

patriotic and Unmanly.

A Lebanon special says: "Boone county republicans celebrated Lincoln's birthday with a banquet last night in Lochinvar hall. One of the most interesting speeches delivered last night was that of (Jen. Lew Wallace. In concluding his remarks he said: "I will tell you at this time of an incident which 1 have never before made public. I do not know that it is proper, bat the man whom it is about is gone and I will relate it. I had made an engagement with Lincoln to call at the White House and present two ladies who desired to meet him. The time 6et for the call wa9 11 a. m. As I was ushered in I saw at the father end of the long room the tall form of Lincoln leaning against a window. My heart filled with sympathy for him, for I knew something was wrong. As I approached him and looked into his face it seemed to me it was the saddest and most troubled countenance I had ever beheld. There was deep linPa if suffering about the face, the features were drawn and pinched. His hair was thin and uncuubed. As I drew nearer and caught his eye 1 was oiore deeply impressed with the sadness which permeated his whole being. If I were to live a thousand years I would not forget the anguish of the expression of his face. I said: 'Mr. Lincoln, I hope you are not BicK." "'Ile replied: 'No, I am not sick.' "I said: 'You look sad. Something terrible must have happened.' "He made no reply, but calling a servant he asked how long it would be until the' boat left the wharf for Harrison's Landing. The answer was: 'In thirty minutes.' Then, turning to me, Lincoln ?sid in an undertone, and the sadness of his face deepened as he said it: 'I must go on that boat to Harrison's Landing on the James river.' 'What for?' I asked in surprise. "His voice dropped to a whisper aBbe replied: 'I must go to Harrison's Landing to ke^p McClellan from surrendering the army." "It was after the seven day*6 battle and the leader of the great army was retreating before the Confederates."'

The above statement has by this time spread to ihe uttermost parts of United States, and the soldiers who served under the General are stamping the lie to it as rapidly as they can be heard. As an evidence of the intense feeling it has aroused, we reproduce the following from Tuesday's lndiauapohs Sentinel. "George E. Oaks, who served in company K, First Michip-an infantry, and was under McClellan, takes serious exceptions to the charge made by Gen. Lew Lew Wallace in his Lebanon speech. Private Oaks pronounces the charge absolutely false ind emphasizes his remarks with a well selected assortment of epithets. "i "To a Sentinel representative he displayed a letter addressed to Gen. Wallace in which, after dilating upon the alleged falsity of the charge, he inviteB the general to meet him upon the field of honor, allowing him the privilege of choosing his own style of weapon. Private Oaks says he is willing to fight it out with anything from brawn to bowie knives. "He said he felt that the honor of the branch of the army commanded by McClelland was at stake and since the general is dead he (Oaks) proposees to tight for the honor and glory of his late chief."

Visiting Masons.

Monday nearly one hundred and fifty Masons from the different lodges in the county assisted Montgomery lodge in conferring the third degree on three candidates. Large delegations were present from Ladoga, Darlington, Waynetown, Linden, Alamo, New Richmond, Wingate, Roachdale, Waveland and Thorntown. These visiting members were banqueted at a six o'clock dinner at the hotel Ramsey, and another spread was served in the hall at the close of the meeting.

To Be Remodeled.

Michael Price will remodel, enlarge and re-equip his elevator plant on east Market street within the next two months, putting in a new 12,500 elevator. The machinery was furnished by John W. Pouet.

Close Within Three Weeks. All the schools of Union township will close about the 11th of March, throwing nearly forty teachers out of immediate employment.

Geo. Lew Wallace, at Noblesville the other day, declared that Abraham Lincoln's only rival was Jesus Christ. His innate modesty restrained a public expression of the individual belief that the only rival of Jeaus Christ is Lew Wallace.—Indianapolis Independent

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Local Political Qossip.

There is more than the usual number of Candida es for prosecutor on the derrocratic ticket this year. Two have already announced their names, and four other persons—two at Ladoga— expect to be candidates.

R. C. Walkup in a card in the Journ»l last week gracefully declines to run for

Mayor, saying there is plantv of gnod timber from which to select a candidate without him. Probably the fact is he feared to moke the race judged by the slaughter he met with when he ran for Clerk in 1896. Again by declining to run he can get an opportunity privately to even up with a lot of his po litical enet iee.

David A.'Canine will be a candidate for the re-nomination for Sheriff on the democratic ticket, and if there are any other candidates we have not learned of them. Mr. Canine has made a satisfactory and accommodating official thus far, attending closely to the duties of the office, and will probabiy be renominated.

Allen Johnson, the deputy county treasurer, is the only candidate thus far announced on the republican county ticket for the office of treasurer. There will probably be other candidates, however, as there are other names mentioned in connection with the office.

There are seven announced candidates for Mayor on the republican city ticket. Republicans tell us that Stilwell, bmith and McCampbell are the three most prominent candidates and that the others are "not in it" at all. If they will give it to McCampbell he will probably also agree to serve as street commissioner and councilman at the same time. Stilwell is in the habit of telling them in electioneering that it takes'much knowledge of law to fill the office of Mayor. We were unaware that he was overloaded with it, but that being the case why would not McMains fill the bill? He is a lawyer. Neither Carr nor Bandel had any knowlege of law to hurt, yet thev seemed to run the city about as well as any Mayor that knows law. The re is a "good deal of rabbit" about the Mayor having to have any extended knowledge of law to fill the place satisfactorily. The law of common sense Is all that is mostly needed, and. besides that the city pays for an attorney and he can at most times furnish tho necessary law.

R. C. Harper, Sugar Creek township, wants to makfe the race 'again for Sheriff on the republican ticket. He made rather a poor showing before, being as some of his republican brethren say "too d—d moral" to run for any office, and anything but a man to mix up and get acquainted with all olasses of people. He will probably have opposition for the nomination.

It is observed that none of the present members of the city council whose times expire in May are seaking a re nomination. 'Tis well 'tis so. The voters of the city remember very dis tinctly the traffic and dickering last year over various city positions by the council, and will sit down hard on each and every one of them hereafter seeking anything from the city. To speak the truth they have no confidence in any of them, and they should willingly qu'etly retire.

The "old soldier" racket seems rapidly losing its power among republican voters so far as its application forsecuring votes is concerned. Capt. Elmore and also M. V. Wert, were both soldiers in the late war and worthy ones too, yet they stand little show for the nomination for Mayor, and from indications now will both be defeated.

The democratic central committee has rented spacious rooms over Laymon's cigar store on Main street, which will serve as headquarters for the campaign of '98. These rooms are splendidly located, lighted and heated, and the committee is to be commended on its excellent selection.

We notice through some of our exchanges that the impression is abroad that G. W. L. Brown is still in the Congressional field. This is a mistake. Mr. Brown is a pronounced candidate for Representative to the State legislature and is working hard for the nomination.

When the city is on the eve of a re. publican primary election the 'thug' is in hiB glory. Everything is done to "jolly" him along and its dollars to doughnuts none of them will see the inside of the jail until after the primary. The other day Mickey Orme was betore the Major for disturbing a religious meeting. The fine and costs amounted to something like 811, all of which were kindly remitted by the Mayor and the young "vag" was allowed to go free. Monday morning a notorious negro named Norm was arraigned for aesault with intent to kill. The assault was unprovoked and was made on a democrat who escaped with an ugly cut across bis abdomen

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of Xorris" race gathered in the court roonj when the trial was called and the Mayor, taking in the situation, graciously modified the charge to assault and battery, fined the culprit $1 and costs, and turned him loose. The costs in this case were also remitted. It is hard for one to believe that such a state of affairs could exist right here in cultured Crawfordsville, but such is the case.

Jake Joel's campaign for county treasurer came to an inglorious end some weeks ago. Jake stood the trials and tribulations of a candidate until the dead beats began to swarm around him demanding the loan of a half dol lar. This got to be monotinous and Jake concluded he bad enough and quit.

KILLED BY THE CARS.

H. L. Piummer, a Big Four Fireman, rieets a Terrible Death.

Wednesday morning at 5 O'CIOCK.JH. L. Piummer, fireman on an east bsund Big Four freight, met an awful death nearjthe Sugar Creek bridge. The train was a fast through freight and was a very heavy one, being pulled by two engines. As the train approached tho Sugar Creek bridge Piummer was standing with one foot on the engine

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the other on the tender shoveling coal.^when the coupling pin between the two suddenly broke. The engines shot forward like rockets and Piummer fell between the rails. Forty cars passed over his body, which was literally ground to pieces. His head was mashed to a pulp, the trunk of the body cut in two and the

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along thej track. His remains were brought to the city anr* taken to Carver & Robbins' undertaking establishment, and later were shipped to the unfortunate man's home in Moorefield. He was 23 jears old and unmarried, and livedjwith his parents in Moorefield.

Battle Ship Blows Up.

An Associated Prsss dispatch from Havana, dated Feb. 15, says: "At 9:45 o'clock this evening a terrible explosion took place on board the United States cruiser Maine in Havana harbor. More than 100 were killed or wounded. As yet the cause of the explosion is not apparent. The wounded sailors of the Maine are unable to exiplain it. It is believed that the cruiser is totally destroyed. The wildest consternation prevails in Havana. The wharves are crowded with thousands of people. It is believed the explosion occurred in a small powder magazine. The Maine was built in New York in 1890 at a cost of 12,588,000. She bad a steel hull and a complement of 871

Barton Qoes Free.

Daniel Barton, of near Kirkpatrick, was arrested and brought to this city Thursday charged with committing criminal assault upon Ethel Burnham. step-daughter of John "Ward, last week Barton is a farm hand, about 30 years of age {and unmarried. The arrest was made at the instigation of Borne of the. neighbors who have been investigating the case.. Barton knew an attempt was being made to lay the charge at his door, but he stoutly denied

quietly submitted to arrest. He was given a hearing before 'Squire Stilwell Thursday when Barton easily established his innocence and the case was dismissed, lhere seems to be considerable doubt in the minds of many as to whether or not the girl was really assaulted as she described.

Not Our Isaac.

A report current that Isaac Irwin who left this county in 1892 was lately sentenced to twelve years in tho San Quentin prison in California. I have positive proof that it was not our Isaac/ Those, if any, who disbelieve this statement will only do justice to the wronged man by calling on me and alio me) to prove the falsity of the report.

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M. W. Brunei was called to ,Te rOD_ ville this weiek by the death hia father.

The trfctf of Will Thorny- ha• again been! postponed. It is nn for March ltt .•

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