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Crawfordsviile, Indiana, Saturday, February 18,1899.

ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY.

WHISKEY AND KNIVES.

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Mat Zigler Whit led Up by a Drunken Comrade.

Friday night about 9:30 a police call wae made from Court street, saying that a man had been murdered. Policemen McDaniel, McCoy, and Dicker BOD, responded, and arrested Cha9, W. Leisure, as the guilty one, at the home of his victim, Mat Sigler. The two men had been down town together, had gotten drunk drunk, had quarreled, and had gone to the home of Zigler early in the evening, when the sparring was reuewed, finally ending in Leisure whipping out an old pocket knife and searching for the jugular vein. He came very close to it, one cut two inches long on the* right side of the neck, just above but deep enough to reach a vital spot, another terrible gash on the right side of the face, reaching from the ear to the corner of the mouth, laying one of the lips open, anil still another ash several inches long on the left side of the face. Leisure in tlm melee was thrown across the cook stove, his head striking a pan and cutting a gash. Both men are day 1 aborere.

Zigler is a married man, has four small children. Leisure is a very large man, much larger than Zigler, Jane Leisure, sister of the cutter, and mother of the victim, was badly cut in endeavoring to separate the men. Drs Barcus and Niven dressed the wounds. Zigler will get well, but will be disfigured verv badly.

Obituary.

Heverlo LoHand was one of the four sons of a family of six children. He was born in the State of Delaware, Susses county, at the citv of Milton, in the year 1815, on the 10th day of March, which would leave him 81 years of age, lacking 29 days. When he was five years old his father and mother died, leaving him with his uncle until he was 14 years old. He was then put to work at brick and Bhoe making trades near Philadelphia, Pa. After serving his time as an apprentice, he returned to the home of bis childhood days and there worKed at the shoa makers' trade until about 1842 when he emigrated to the State of Indiana. He came to Montgomery county with his brother, who was a tanner. He also attended a term of scnool taught by Mr. Caffey where he got a quainted with his companion. He al&o united with the Methodist Episcopal church about this time. After school he began shoe making at Waynetown, and on the evening of August 4. 1844, this companion became his wife. About the year 1846 he settled where he lived up to the day of his dea»h. In their beginning a site wis found, the hazel bushes were remove!, the trees of the forest were felled p.nd a crude log house whs built, 18x20 feet Here be enjoyed his best happiest days. Unto him was horn five childern, one. son and four daughters, all of whom survive him. More than avearagohis companion died. Then to him earth life became a trouble. Those beautiful pleasures which he once loved seemed to have faded into that thought which cauees man to look to his God to find that friend in whom he may confide in future beyond the grave. Man sickens, lieth down, giveth up the ghost, yea, Bad where 1B he? Wo know on the 9th of February,1899,he gave up his earthlyy possessions forever and forever. The funeral services were held at bis home by Rev. McDauiel, of city. The body was interred at Oak Hill.

JOHN M. LOFLAND.

Another Engagement

In the Philippines has again brought victory to the American forces, and one more step is taken in humanity's cause. Muhieisen's famous Hoboe cigar scores a victory every time it conies in contact with a lighted match. It is strictly home-made and union-made and in the cigar world stands without a peer.

Dead on Luzon.

The first victim of the eastern war from Montgomery county is Larkin Sandlin, of New Roes. He was mortally wounded in the battle with the insur-

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at Manilla and died the next day. ian also of New Rosa, haa been dangerously ill at the hospital there. They belonged to the regulars.

L. W. Otto wiil remove his jewelry store to the room on Washington street lately occupied by the restau rant.

The law firm of Paul, ^ancleave and Paul has been dissolved. Each member will continue in business by himself.

On next Monday night, Feb. 20th, ••What Happened to Jones" will be presented at Music Hall. If you want to laugh don't miss "What Happened to Jones." The company iB first-class.

On next Tuesday night, Web. 21, the Edna Page Comedy Company will appear for five nights and matinee Saturday afternoon at 10, 20 and 30 cents. Vaudeville specialties.

There was an exceedingly hot debate in the Phillis Wheatly Society, Thursday evening, in which Drake and Foster, covered themselves all over with glory, intellectual contest with Hopkins and Patterson. Thr question was Resolved, that labor unions area detriment to the colored man." The affirmative won out.

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CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., FEB. 18. 99. Bring back the stove, the dear old Btove, rr.y childhood used to know, and let me rest my weary eyes upon its ruddy glow. Fill up the coal and let the dust fly rampant through the air. 1 want to rub it from my eyes and comb it from my hair. Who cares for dirt and all of that, for carpets and for clothes, if he can roast his stiffened limbs, and thaw his frozen toes? What bliss once more to find retreat from fiercely raging storm, and feel the touch of radiant heat, and stagnant blood grow warm! Let me but grasp the rusted door of that old stove of mine, and fill it full to ru-ning o'er with coal, and oil and pine! How I would make the chimney laugh, the flames would dance and roar, and sparks wocld fly like golden chaff from beaten thre6hiDg floor! The gas is out, the lights are gone, the water pipes are burst, and all the world is upside down and everything accurst, I'm tired of wearing overcoat and gloves both night and day, of pouring coffee down my throat that tears the flesh away ot breaking teeth in solid bread, whene'er I try to eat of chopping off a scanty fare from chunks nf frozen meat. I want to eat a steak that's burned and singe my eyebrows off, and Boil my clothes and scorch my shoes, anU drive away this cough. But what are all those little things when Boreas doth blow in every breath a million stings, a thousand tons of 6now? For to that battered, rusted stove, eweet heaven lies quite near, when mercury and gas,alike, resolve to disappear. Then bring it back, and set it up, this household god of flame, and drink to it a loving cup, and ever bless itB name.

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The taking away from Crawfordsville of the Barbed Wire and Nail Factory has given our people a taste of the power ot the Trust. Nothing could be brought to bear that would keep the institution in our midst. Money had bought it, and what did consolidated wealth care for the interests of Crawfordsville or her people? The shops here will be left to the mercies of the bats and owls and spiders—a rendezvous for tramps. All the men employed here have been discarged. Some of them have secured employment in factories controlled by the Trust elsewhere. It is announced that the rate of wages will be increased 20 per cent. ThiB is flourished abroad by the Trust as an item in its favor, but it fails to also heiald abroad the fact that the price of barbed wire and nails has been advanced so that the consumer will have to pay the advance in wages. There are many beautiful things about a Trust which can be seen with the naked eye," when we get close enough to it. It is to be hoped that the voters of Montgomery county will not forget this lesson in Trusts by the time the next election day comes, and vote to have them ended sun-manly by putting in a straight Democratic ballot. Do not be duped by the ''honest dollar'' and "prosperity" story a second time.

A poor devil of a Lieutenant is die. missed from the service in disgrace for "sassing" the Colonel, while Gen.Eagan has a sentence of a few years of retirement on a salary of $5,000 per annum for cursing the Lieutenant General of the army, as no man was ever cursed before except in a Papal bull of excommunication. There is evidently something "rotten in [Denmark? when such things occur.

The war investigating committee has applied a generouB coat of whitewash to the whole business. They make in their report excuses for almost all the short comingB of the managers of the war. They criticise General Miles for his rashness in telling what he knew to be true, and in which there are mtmbersof Co. M. who will back him up, and de­

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clare that the beef furnished the army was "pure, sound and wholesome," and nmch else of like tenor. It will now be in order for the powers that be to perform the office of "Dreyfusing" General Miles. This is to be a nation where the army management is the great Joss sacred from molestation by unwholesome truths being told about it. We are to be Frenchified. There may be "flaws" in the management but there can be no "fruads" according to the report of whitewash artists who made up the investigating committee.

Secretary Alger says he wants the war department investigated and he wants it done with a "firm hand." If half be true that is told of it, it needs disinfecting worse than investigation.

Senator Stephen M. White in addressing the Silver Republicans at Los Angeles, Cal., on the subject of "Expansion" ridicules the President's Baying: "We are engaged in benevolent assimilation for the Filipinos." White declares that we are engaged in nothing of the sort, but in a conquest of the world through trade. He said, among' many other things: "The mission of this republic is to bring its people together into one harmonious, indestructible whole.

They need not le*-el the Krag-Jor-gensen or the rifled cannon, but the whole world will bow to their superior intelligence and education. I tell you that never yet was there any gospel shot out, of the mouth of a cannon that had upon it the indorsement of the God above us."

One morning several years since an angry Dutchman came rushing into the office of the late Hon. Thos. i3. Ward at Lafayette, and breathless he made the demand that Mr. Ward bring suit.for damages Jagainst a neighbor of the Dutchman. Mr. Ward advised him not to do it, that damage suits very seldom amounted to much, that it would be best not to make any further trouble about it. The Dutchman WBB unyielding, and insisted that he had good cause for action. The neighbor had accused him of appropriating to his own use things which did not belong to him. Mr. Ward after exhausting his supply of pleasant argument turned on the fellow and said to him: "Have you ever thought about it he might prove it on you?" This struck the client hard and scratching his head a moment he said: "Mein Gott, dot's BO. I guess we not Bue dot mon." This is good advice to all hot-headed individuals in a like position. Don't be too hasty.

Apropos to Kipling's poem: "The White Man's Burden," we have from the Detroit Free Press the following which will bear reading in the light of recent events: "We've taken the White Man's burden,

We've sent forth the best we breed Our sons are bound to exile To feed our selfish greed. They fought in heavy harness

In foreign lands and wild We beat thoBe sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.

e've taken the White Man's burden, And reaped his old reward The death of those who love us,

The death of those who guard. j.he cry of hosts we humor, (Ah, slowly!) toward light— 'Why bought ye us of the Spaniards,

The people we could fight?'

"We've taken the White Man's burden, And now we have to fight We've got to kill the heathen

To put them in the right. We have to lose our heroes, Who give their lives and time To raise that sullen people

Above ignorance and crime.

"We've taken the White Man's1 burden, We've done with childish days They scorned our proffered laurel,

They did not like our ways And so we had to kill tbem, For we bad to have that land No matter how much life it takes,

Our empire must expand.

General Aguinaldo's courage may be of the kind called admirable, but it is equally certain that his judgment iB of the variety which deserves to be despised. Men who attempt to contend against modern arms by means of bows and spears have a most excellent opportunity of dying the death of fools,

That excellent young man, Mr. Reser, of Tippecanoe, has evidently become inspired with the laudable ambition to make a reputation aa an anti-reform legislator. Unfortunately he has never yet learned to discriminate wisely be­

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tween sanne and suumi, and' his utterances usually border closely upon the puerile. But one thing is always evi« dent, and that is his fervent opposition to reform of any kind. To mention reform in Tippecanoe, is like saying "hemp" in the house of the hanged. The Augean odors from that county "smell to heaven." Mr. Reser knows his friends, and is manifestly a firm believer in the "flesh pots Surely the righteous and the faithful shall have his reward.

How embarrassing it sometimes is to receive one's dearest wish! The painful predicament of the Republican majority in the General Assembly of the State of Indiana^increases in accuteness every day. A reform platform ie a good thing for campaign purposes, but when the responsibility of repudiating it, or of giving up the advantages of office, confronts^the average legislator he is in a perilous state indeed. After this can the people of Indiana ever hope for any reform legislation from a Republican •jurce? Did ever any party more openly violate its pledge? Were those.'pledges merelykwords—idlesound—no more? It remains to be seen what fata shall be allotted to these fellows at the hands of a people whom they have outraged.

As lndianajhas gone into the pension business and* Mrs. Morton has been granted a pension of $100 per month, we take the liberty of calling the attention of tLe."Reform" Legislature to the case of the widow of the late Governor Chase. Mrs. Chase is in every way a* worthy as iMrs. Morton, ani in addition she is in very straiteued circumstances, besides being almost totally blind. We are not in favor of pensioning her on the State, but according to the precedent set by the Legislature, she ought to have one.il But there is no halo of sentimentality hanging about the name of Chase as there is about that of or-•••••' ton. Yet one is aa worthy as the other apd no distinction should be made.

The Dog Fight.

Ed Cory'and Elsworth Snyder, one of Crawfordsville and the'other of Covington, were billed for a prize fight at Covington, Wednesday night.g_But the selfrespecting Sheriff of the£county chased the disreputable bruisers out of town, with the JCrawfordsville and] Covington contingent of plug uglies, and they took the train for Danville,^111., wliero they pulled off thejmillj^at] Leonard's road house. Se vera High ts^'oecurred among various members of "do gang" at Covington!|before the train bore them away. They say that Cory pounded the face of his antagoniatjinto a pulp yet failed to finish his man. Thc^thing was called a "draw" and the purse of §75 was divided between the two sluggers, at the end of the tenthJround. On the way home

BillJBly and "Kid" Henderson engaged in a|mill at Danville Junction, in which Bly was badly damaged. So it ended and the guilty parties are not yet arrested.

Coal for Poor.

TheJMonon Route* managemet deserves the thanks of the people of Crawfordsville (for authorizing their agent here to stop a car of the company's coal at this place to be distributed by the Woman's Union to suffering families. It was distributed in 500 pound lots to those*who had no fire and no money to buy fuel. It was indeed a graceful act on the part of the Monon, and many blessings were pronounced on the managers.

Dwelling Burned.

The'house -owned by Dora Johnson, situated three miles south of New Market, andjoccupied by George Gentry and family was burned to the ground on Tuesday night. The contents were saved by the help of the neighbors. The loss to the property is estimated at 8500 with 8300 insurance. Cause, defective flue.

Mrs. Wykoff Dead.

Thursday morning at her home on Wabash street occurred the death of Mrs. Catharine Wykoff, widow of Garrett Wykoff. The funeral took place at 10:30 today.

Old Fiddlers' Contest.

The great hit of the season, an Old Fiddlers' Contest will be held at Music Hall, Crawfordsville, on the evening of February 28. You cannot afford to miss it.

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