Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 June 1899 — Page 7
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Jeweler and Optician
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You may be before having you eyesight fitted with our tine Crystal Lenses, but your looks and sight will both be improved by our tine eye glasses and spectacles when your eyes have been tested, and the proper glasses adjusted. We make no charge for testing your sight, and our prices for glasses are reasonable.
M. C. KLINE.
Opp. Court House.
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A Coiqplete PQrpss and Buggy Store!
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Clores Block, Crawfordsville.
RUBEN'S
Bates House Clothing Parlors.
We make our HARNESS from
Good Selected Stock.
A 1 Buggies bear the name-plat
of the maoufacturer, and are sold
under a'.strict guarantee.
The BEST Buggy and Harness
Store in the county
A Reputation For Integrity
Cau only be maintained by truthful statements. Temparary advantage may be gained by deceptive announcements but it retracts. Customers are the only effective advertisements their indorsement carrics weight.
Stipe Suits..
We are showing a full line of the popular stripe Suits in all the latest and richest patterns at extremelp low prices.
Bales House Clotlpg Parler.
110 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind.
For One W' CK OD' I"'IC following are a tew of our Bargains:
iufauta' OoDgola I'dtent lip 2 to 6. worth 30c, s«rice S .20 Child's Glove Grain ButtoD, glt our prio- .75 Misses Dongola Button, 13 to 7 Ladies'Dongoln PittfDt Tip, 1 itU ••.
Youths' Calf Ball, 12 to 2. won .s., Boys' Calf BBII,3 to 5, worth SI,25, uui pr^-u Men's Satin Calf. Congress or Lace, 6 to 11, worth §1.50, our price 1.10 Men's Kip Boot, 6 to 11, worth 81.75, our price 1.25
All heavy winter shoes sold at actual cost. Don't forget the place.
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the express
MACHINE HOME AND TRY IT FOR 20 DAYS
TAKE THE If yon are perfectly satisfied with the machine, keep It, otherwise return It to the express agent, and he will give you all your money back. 'If yon prefer, wewlll shipby freight and draw,on yon through your nearest Mnk, draRAttftcbed to Bill of Lading, when machine comes pay draf|,and take machine from station. If you don't like It. return It by freight and we will refund, we guarantee tbe machine tor t«nyears. Remember you take no risk. It don't cost you one cent unties yon take the machine. We have sold over 1
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Oak or Walnut
That Prompted Two flen to Decoy Charley Dailey Away?
THE YOUNG MAN RETURNED
TO HIS HOME THIS MORNING WITH STRANGE STORIES.
A Hystery Yet Surrounds |His Case with no Possible Clue as
to Intent.
Three months since Charley Daily a young man 19 years of age and deformed, came to the city from Lafayette to make his home with Doc Boraker and family of Whitlock avenue. The young man was left an orphan by a mother's death and the unknown whereabouts of a father from whom he has not heard for eleven years. Charley has been an ambitious young man and has earned his maintenance by selling the city newspapers. Along last March a letter purporting to come from Laurence & Laurence, a law firm of Danville, 111., reached him. In it Charley was requested to seuu them his name, age, occupation, names of parents, etc. The young man ignored the letter, thinking it of no necessity, until recently he received another communication advising him to
COME AT ONCE
to Danville on some business that greatly interested him or he would regret it. Being amazed at this he resorted to the telephone and called the supposed lawyers up, who perchance were found and informed him that the [letter was positively correct By this time Charley decided that maybe it was best to go learn what was wanted of him and he accordingly
LEFT THURSDAY MORNING
on the Big Four for Danville, having something over$9on his person. Upon reaching Veedersburg he was approached by two strangers who may nave been on the train when it left Crawfordsville. One of the men took a seat opposite him in the car while the other fellow sat down with Charley. A conversation was at one sprung by the stranger who asked the boy where he was going and whether or not he was going to meet some lawyers in Danville. Charley felt it was none of the strangers business what he was going for and told him he was going to see a news agent. "Oh no!" replied the stranger, "You are going to see two lawyers," and he further seemed posted as to tne young man's mission. Not until Danville was reached did he become suspicious, even after he had been asked if he intended to return to Crawfordsville. Here the men watched him closely at the Junction, one man staying with him while the other went away, but soon
RETURNED WITH A CARRIAGECharley was then informed that the two men were the lawyers and that they would drive him over the city. In the party were four persons, the two strangers, Charley and anotlieV lad bearing similar deformity to himself. This third party appeared deaf and dumb, having nothing to say at any time. The drive with the black horses had consumed some little time, when one of the men took frcui his pocket a fountain pen a:, a paper, and opening it purfi .!!•. irman'ed ChnvK-v to sign it. Th- IMV WAS NET t'"i
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not knowing what it meant. The men would not tell him its purport, but stated sharply that if he did not sign it he "WOULD NEVER RETURN ALIVE." "Kill me and I won't sign it," Charley told them briskly but emphatically, and time and again as they would pull the paper on him after allowing him to meditate he as firmly refused. It was, to the best of his rememberance, 10 o'clock Thursday night when upon noting his persistent refusals, the men stood him up and searched him, taking a child's glove his pocket handkerchief a lead pencil and
RELIEVED HIM OF HIS MONEY everything the boy had save a mate to the glove taken. It may have been that he was chloroformed, as he does not remember his money being taken. They drove all night Thursday and yesterday and when he was released it was near the green house here on west Wabash avenue at three o'clock this morning. He was let out of the rig and was told "Now go d—n you,we are not through with you yet."
In alighting rudely Charley made a grab for the man lowering him from the carriage and caught the chain of his spectacles breaking it and bearing a portion home as a souvenir of bis
peculiar experience. He did not know where he was .until he rescued NValnut street and was fearful least the men again overtake him, but they turned around and
DROVE RAPIDLY WESTWARD.
and away. When Charley became couscious of the fact that file was in foul hands he seut a message from Danville to Doc Boraker, telling him to "come quick." Mr. Boraker left yesterday morning, but of course has missed the boy who has returned alive, luckily, but not much the worse for wear, although since he left on Thursday morning he has had but a single sandwich which the men gave him, until to-day. It is thought the paper they wanted him to sign was an insurance policy and that theother delormed lad was a substitute they would use after they
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HAD KILLED CHARLEY.
On one occasion Charles knocked the pen from the man's hand. He suys the men were half drunk all the time and that they talked and laughed freely, one man addressing the other as "Matthews" which is the only name he heard at any time used. Both men were sportily dressed. One man was smooth shaven while the larger man wore sandy chin beard but had dark hair and eves. Their identity or real purpose will probably
never be known. Charley received another mysterious letter this morning telling him to come to St. Louis and signed by a well known woman whom he knew at Lafayette, but written in poor lanuguage and misspelled. It said when he arrived there not to recognize her until intra iuced that a man would meet him in her stead. Of course Charley won't go, but the mystery still hangs
A Good Thing.
11 is reported that the warden of the prison North, has one hundred acres of land near the prison upon which he has employed fifty of the convicts, who would otherwise be idle. The prisoners are more than glad to do such work rather than remain shut in their cells. This is too good a thin to last and will probably be stopp but certainly some means should be devised for furnishing employment to these men. The monotony of existence without work is maddening,
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Pntnam and flontgomery Democracy. It is announced from Crawfordsville that Montgomery county will have candidates for Senator in the district of Putnam and Montgomery.
It has been so long since Putnam county has had a man in the state senate, that the memory of man runneth not.
In the year 1900 Putnam county will have a candidate for the senate, in the district of Putnam and Montgomery, and, we trust, he will receive the nomination and be elected. It is not merely because this county gives the majority that we are entitled to this nomination, for if no better reason could be assigned than that, then our claims would not meet with serious consideration. It is true we give the majority and it is always expected of us to give an electing majority for a district.
Putnam county gave way when Sen ator Sellers wTas nominated in the three cornered fight in 1892. It was to be our turn next. But in the next, Montgomery was thrown in another district and there she accepted a Pop ulist Senator.
There are private reasons why Putnam should, when the time comes, insist on the nomination coming to this couuty and said reasons in no wise reflect on the ability of the two or three most excellent gentlemen mentioned for the place from Crawfords ville.
Putnam county Democracy is a most consistent Democracy. We have given away time and again to our border sister counties. As a Democratic county we are in a somewhat insolated spot and yet our demands are few. But right is right and in 1900 some men in Democracy's ranks who iv in in is in on tii... Uiis nomination be given to Putnai.i. (xreencastle Democrat.
FOOLED VITH THE ENGINE.
Wayne Ash, oi The Indiana Printing
Co., Badly Surned.
Sometimes a fellow rets the worst of it by just looking uii. while some other fellow fools with danger. This is the case with Wayne Ash. of the Indiana Printing Co. The power is furnished the printing office irom the engine of Crabbs & Reynolds. It is a gas engine and this morning Mr. Ashe was in the engine room watching the engineer turn on the power, when the concern threw out a sheet of flame, and he was badly scorched. Both arms are burned badly and he has several good burns about the neck and face. The hair on his face and head is singed and ruined, for awhile. His burns are painful but not dangerous. He will inspect gas engines now from a distance.
Marriage Licenses.
Boyd Greensburg and Mamie L. Bowerman.
The Y. M. C. A., millinery parlors is headquarters for fashionable millinery. Prices to suit the times.
MESSAQE TO CARRY BACK.
A ?6 to I Standard Advocate Gives One to Will H. Thompson to
Take Back to Seattle.
EDITOR DAILY .REVIEW: It hds grown to be a fad for Republican newspaper men to interview a few gold bug democratic politicians, color their remarks with Republican jingoism and pass the words out as sweet morsels for their own readers to masticate. A corporation lawyer from
Pacific slope is the latest victim of this fad. His interviewer, doubtless wise in his own conceit, evidently believes that this gentleman of precious memory is one of the makers of the Democratic party. As I have always understood Democracy, it is the right of the people to rule and to shape the principles under which, in their judgment, the most beneficient results to all shall follow from the least amount of government. Is a man a Democrat because he brands himself "I am a Democrat," or "I belong to the old school Democrats?" Not by any means. The medal of Democracy is not self bestowed. The people who desire that the people and not the wealth of the corporate "its" shall rule in this country have the right to withhold diplomas of Democracy. They also have the power to recall diplomas when the possessor of them shows by words and deeds that the right of the people to rule is no longer advocated by them. The gentleman fram the Pacific slope if he was rightly quoted, is sadly out of harmony with Indiana Democrats, who are not Democrats from sentiment, but from principle. They are believers in the Chicago platform of 1896, which contains no catch word phrases such as many who put politics above principles, would have put there. Indiana Democrats have abandoned trash-heap fortifications. They are in favor of holding tlie trenches to which they advanced in 1896, and will turn down every leader who advocates a retreat from the earth works of principles to a less secure position of party policy. The campaign of 189G was one of education. The instruction has since been vigorously going on, both as to the principles advocated in the Chicago platform and as tp the dangers lurking in the development of the colonization schemes of the administration.
The formation of future platforms of the party is not in the hands of those who put politics first and principles in the background as a secondary consideration. Will the gentleman from the state of Washington bear this message back to the Democracy of the state of Washington? 16 TO 1 STANDARD ADVOCATE.
Crawfordsville and Trusts. Thirty years ago, this city then in short clothes so to speak was quite a manufacturing center. There were plows made here- Miller & Co., and Doherty & Deighton were running large buggy factories. The Sperry mill and Brown fc Watkins were running all the time. This wras a great grain market* The Yount Woolen Mills at Yountsville consumed all the wool grown in the county, and. drew much from surrounding counties. There were wagon makers here. A large brewery was in operation, there was a large tan yard. Later on N. S. Joslin equipped a large shoe factory, which was frozen out by our own people refusing to patronize it. Great corporations took it upon themselves to supply the world with plows, wagons and buggies and Crawfordsville plants were forced to shut down and a number of men were thrown out of employment and forced into other channels. The flour used here was formerly made by the home mills Now the flour manufactured here is sold mostly in other towns, while the county wheat is shipped away and flour shipped back with freight paid two ways. The wagon and carriage makers art employed in mending vehicles manufactured somewhere else. The brewery has been absorbed and the buildings raized. The straw-stacker factory is gone, the barbed wire works gone, and the trust is reaching out after the coffin factory and the Dovetail Company. Looking at what has been, and what might be, it is cer tainly time for the intelligent voter to look before he leaps on the next election day. Without the trusts Crawfordsville would boom, with them her fate as a business center is sealed. We have hundreds of men looking for work, and there is none. There is no reason why anyone should be idle under proper conditions in this city. There is an element of course that discourages manufactories, and the- workingman, but that element is apart of the body politic who have no interest in the human family outside'of their own little, narrow circle, and whom no one outside of that circle would miss were they to pass out of existence to-morrow. Let every man strike the trusts a blow at the ballot box. "'i
Pension Increased.
The pension of John F. Hayworth, formerly of Yountsville, but now at the State Soldiers' Home at Lafayte, has been raised from $10 to 917 per month.
58th Year, No 39
FARMERS IN LINE.
Preparing to fleet the Trusts
on
Their Own Ground.
The Baltimore American publishes what it claims is a genuine piece of information in regard to a trust which
will be the most gigantic in the world, for the reason that it will take in all the basic wealth producing people in the country the farmers. The Amerlean says: "In nearly every county in the state farmer's granges are now established. S The grange is to made the nucleous of the vast organization which will within a very short time appear under a new name before the public. Organizers are already out through Maryland, Pennsylvania and the Virginias and in the west, getting together the best men among the farmers in each
county to undertake the great warkof organizing a gigantic agricultural trust, which will put the farmers on a footing to hold their own.
With thorough organization and intelligent direction, the farmers' trust will regulate the production of grain, fruit and vegetables, as well as the production of cattle, and in fact, everything that comes off the farm.
A quartet composed of Messrs. Scott, Britts, Dorsey and Omelvena sang a selection which was warmly encored. They were recalled three times. W. M. White next spoke of the Object of the Order in eloquent and glowing terms. He set forth the patriotic and fraternal principles of the society, among the noblest that are cherished in the breast of man. He briefly recounted the history of the order here since 1890, showing its rapid and prosperous growth. It is composed of the best young men, and is one of the strongest, if not the strongest secret order in the city in point of membership.
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Take the grain production, for instance. In each county the agricultural board will regulate just how much is to be produced for the market will take full charge of the sale of the product, and the individual farmer will look to the.board for hisremuneration. At all the recent meetings of *|j the granges throughout the country the subject was discussed, and the best men in the granges in this and other states were selected to formulate plans. These have now been practically completed and the organization will be established in every state of the Union and iu the territories before many wreeks.
P. O. S. oF A. PARTY.
The riembers of That Order Entertain a Large Number of Friends. About four hundred members and invited guests of Washington Camp I No. 6, P. O. S. of A., assembled last evening in the beautiful and spacious hall of the order. A season of greeting and enjoyable conversation fol« ft lowed., every member of the order constituting himself a committee of one to see that each guest felt at home and received the greatest possible pleasure from the occasion. A short program had been prepared. Judge Jere West delivered the welcoming address. He spoke briefly and earnestly of the spirit of the order and the high purpose which should actuate the members of a society whose motto is "God, Our Couutry and Oui Order."
The speech of Mr. White was followed by dancing by Herbert Smith and Master Jim Townsley, which needs no description. It is needless to say that it received its share of applause
Mr. Scott sang a solo and responded to an encore, which was followed by more singing by the quartette. The regular program being completed, Hoboe cigars contributed by William Muhleisen, were distributed and ageneral good time followed amidst clouds of blue smoke. Punch was served to the thirsty at the door of the anteroom. There was more singing, Albert Miller and Herbert Smith each rendering a solo, while Masters Townsley and Woodworth added to the entertainment by the execution of some fancy steps.
The stag party was a success in every particular, and the guests are Joud in their praises of the local members of the P. O. S. of A. They are
splendid entertainers and have every reason to be proud of their order. It is growing rapidly—sixteen applications for membership being made last evening. A building of their own will probably be erected sometime in' the not distant future.
Captured Guns.
The guns captured from Spain will be distributed among the G. A. B. posts, soldiers memorial association aud municipalities, as gifts or loans according to act of congress. These are very much in demand and are certainly interesting relics of the late struggle with Spain. As years pass they will become more valuable from that association. They should be located in the places best suited for general inspection by the public. These are but few and they snould be left only in central points.
Probate Court.
Gilbert S. Blake has been appointed guardian of Flora Deere, a person of unsound mind.