Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 December 1891 — Page 7

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WEEKLY JOUKNAI.

SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1891.

MACE,

Wheat ie looking fine. The farmers have all their corn in. The M. E. Church will have a tree on Christmas night.

There were services at the Christian church last Sunday. The spelling school at Hunt's school house last Friday night was a success.

The oyster supper at Walnut Chapel Just Saturday evening, was almost a failure.

The members of the Presbyterian «hurcli will have a tree on Christinas eve.

The S. of V. organized a camp here last Friday night. It will soon be in a flourishing crndition.

Mrs. Sue Brown died last Saturday morning after year's sickness. The funeral was held at 2 p. 111. Sunday. The funeral was well attended.

—Any one desiring to Bee the operation for Cross Eyes, will have the opportunity at the Nutt Hotel, on l)ec. 31, when Dr. Barnes will operate upon a young lady from Veedersburg.

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Wallie Ellis is at home on a vacation. After the holidays he -will work for the Big 4.

Elder Pritchard did not fill his appointment at the Christian church last. Sunday on account of sickness.

W. S. MofTett was hp- l»«t Saturday looking after the Harw estate, which he has been appointed to administrator on.

Alex Bible had a valuable cow to die ...last Friday from hemorrhage, the result of a vicious boar which tusked her in .more than twenty places.

Philip Hays will move his harness ssliop, buggies, etc., to the room of M. ...Herzog, which is undergoing repairs, on

Main street, the first of January. John P. Brown, while at Indianapolis last Thursday with a car load of hogs ,(" which made him a hatful of money was so unfortunate as to be losing a valuable mare at home.

The question is, What kind of stock will yon take, gas or bank? There is .several thousand

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now taken and

it is hoped that the rear future will find us supplied with both a bank and a gusher.

The Methodist people will have a ladder on Christmas eve at their church and everybody is invited to come and •take part. Don't forget though to bring a nickle. for that is the price of admission.

Several of the K. of P. boys volunteered their services and assisted Dan Thompson revise and cover his new mill last week. When the fraternity will lend each other help in that way it speaks well for the order and success will surely crown tl.esr efforts.

Elder T. J. Shuey filled the Waveland pulpit last Sunday and also contracted with them to do so once a month during the coming year. His whole time is now taken, he having been retained at the other three points he has been during the present year.

Last Thursday our little city was the scene of several disgraceful drunks. Amongst those who were making the town hideous by their yells, profanity, etc., were church members, K. of P.'s, and business men of the town. As usual the scene had to end with some fights and torn clothing. The'question has often been asked, where was our marshal that day, but echo answers, I don't know.

—Although Dr. Barnes is not an Indian Doctor, he uses the roots, herbs, barks and plants, placed in the ground by the Great Spirit for the benefit of mankind. His date is Nutt Hotel, Doc. 31 to Jan. 3.

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The sick child of Mrs. Graves is improving. —-Miss Mollie Walkup, of Terre Haute, is here.

H. F. Brown, sr., of Waynetown, was here Saturday. County Superintendent Zuck was here Tuesday.

Robert Egbert, of Lebanon, is visiting parents here. Charley Routh has purchased the grocery owned by Ed Inlow.

There was a party given by Miss Charity Bell at her house Tuesday night.

Several of the I. O. O. F. members were called to Jamestown Tuesday to help bury their brother, Dr. Burk. sm®:

—Dr. Barnes, of Indianapolis, eye, throat, cancer, and pile specialist, will be at the Nutt hotel Dec. 31 to Jan. 2.

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Ohio Food Commissioner, shows

ROYAL the purest Baking Powder.

Every -other Baking Powder tested contained impurities from o.i 8 per cent, to 86.23 per ceni. of their entire weight.

ALAMO.

Gubert Titus remains about the same. Mrs. Clint Grimes is on the sick list. John Mitchell has been wrestling with the grip for the past few days.

Mrs. Dr. Talbot and daughter, Jessie, have returned from Oxford, Ohio. Mr. Ensminger is sick at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jones Rountree.

Mr. and Mrs. Tillie Albright, of Crawfordsvelle. spent Sunday with her parents.

The regular quarterly meeting of the M. E. church was held at t:iis place last Sunday.

The family of of James Stafford has moved into the property ot MrB. Stafford, lately deceased.

Rev. Albert Jackman delivered his farewell sermon at the Christian church last Monday evening.

The friends of Mrs. T. R. Ham went in Wednesday and gave them a surprise in honor of her husband's forty-second birthday.

The pupils of Charles Peterson met at his home Tuesday evening in a pleasant Bociable, where they presented him with a beautiful album.

Wash Titus and Miss Maebl Grimes were married at her home on Wednesday at 8 o'clock p. m. Many friends of both gathered to witness the ceremony. Miss Nellie Rountree and Guy Grimes were in attendance. The bride is 14 years cf age and the male attendant wore knee pants.

The Ripley township Institute convened at Alamo oa list Saturday and as the teachers came up street they were a tired looking set. Their conversation waB not very favorable and ran like this:

O Lord, fer^rive tlie wild guloot. Who organized tlie institute: lie's source a mun, lie's scarce a brute. Not. very wise, hut rather cute— For he h«Mt us with the institute.

Some men tin killed by fiendish brute, Some by the bullet's keen salute. Or, by tlie hangman's ropeot jute. Or better to electro cuteHut the surest is the institut',-.

LAV L.\ SD.

Lambert Smith moved to his new residence last week. School is out till Monday week.

The Lapland folks were all called to court last Friday. The great trial of "Holland it Davis was up.

John Holland had a lot of bad luck last week. He got beaten in hi6 law suit la6t Friday, and then fell over the fence last Saturday night and sprained his ankle.

Jas. Brush attended to business in the city this week. A. T. Hicks and wife went to the city the fore part of the week.

Thomas ar.d John Brush. to of our neighbor boys that went West last fall to shuck corn, are back again.

Wm. Smith says he has got as fine a Christmas present as anybody. It is a tine boy baby.

SOME RESULTS OF PATIENCE.

A stamping machine lias been invented that will stamp -4.4: I letters an hour

Tin most important ship of the French na\v, the llivniius, has been launched alter two years and a half building, al a cost, of lis.000.000 francs. Ilcr heaviest trims, of which there are three, are of liity-eight tons

A I'oin liritoN (Mich.) diver will endeavor to recover the treasure that went down in the l'ewabic in Lake Huron, twenty-six years ago Sixi.y feet is about as far down as a diver can work with safety, but this one will work in one hundred and six feet of water

StNcrc the new regulations have made it necessary for conductors on London omnibuses to examine tickets inore carefully, electric buttonhole lamps are being employed. The lights in "buses are said to be bad. but when the conductor touches his pocket battery a vivid light from his buttonhole lamp makes definite and clear the number and particulars on the passengers' tickets

The Remainder.

Mother—Nellie, if I should give Effie half of that pudding, and give the othei fcalf to Eddie, what would be left? mki

Nellie—I'd be left.—Truth.

E.isy exuectoration, increased power of the lungs and the enjoyment of rest are the rewards upon taking Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, to all consumptives.

—See great bargains in pictures at the great 99c. Store fire sale.

FROM H00SIERD0M.

Bits of News of Especial Interest to Indianians.

Women Drove Htm Out.

MADISON Ind., Dec. 24.—Considerable excitement prevails in this section over the forcible expulsion from the village of Cliarlestown, Clark county, just south of this place, of Simon Robinson, proprietor of a quart saloon, by the female crusaders of the town. They assembled in front of Kobinson's groggerv Tuesday evening and threatened him with personal violence if lie did not leave at once. The warning was delivered in such an emphatic niar.ner that Robinson began to immediately pack up his spirituous vft'ecti and b'iXre io o'clock in the evening had turned liis back upon the place, leaving there for parts as yet unknown. lie was escorted to the confines of the village by a large crowd of crusaders, who accelerated his movements by occasional lashings with whips across his shoulders. Char1 .own lias for many years been a tr iinvrauce town until about a week o, when Iiobinson deliantly open'-u up there and was fast luring thp ov.ng men of the place into his it has been ascertained that •mson was doing bv oiuess without !•.»». .Y

Loi.t II iM Vuse.

Po„ ii.ANi), Ind., Dec. 24.—A peculiar case lias occupied the circuit court for several days. Richard Powell, Sr., was formerly a resident of this place, but moved to Indianapolis and died shortly after, leaving notes and money amounting to S500. \V. Hart was appointed executor and the property was to lieve been turned over to his wife, Letitia, when another woman appeared calling herself Alezina, and also claimed to be Powell's wife. The ease was brought into court, and after a hard-fought legal battle was decided in favor of Letitia Powell's, and all her husband's property will be turned over to her.

Died ill ii llujtBj- Shi'd.

Munch-:, Ind., Dee. '.i-i.—The. little town of Albany, in this county, was excited Wednesday morning by the finding of the dead body of a welldressed man in an old buggy shed. Ilenry. alias Dick I lines,' lost liis situation in this city, and it is thought lie started to walk to Sandusky, O.. where a brother and sister reside. While at Albany he was attacked with heart disease contracted in the amy and being too proud to solicit aid concealed himself in the shed and died. IK- v. as for a long time foreman at Hubbard's spoke factory at Hartford City, whe.re lie was mucli respected.

Tlinl ller Son Was Dead.

Vai.i'akaho. Ind., Dee. 24.—Marshal Sargeatil. is iu receipt of a letter from Pcrrysville, Ind., in which inquiry is made as. to John M. Dickerson, who mysteriously disappeared last spring. it now transpires that Dickerson. who went under the assumed name of .1. C. Morgan, was killed in a railroad accident near Wanatah last summer. Dickerson was the support of an aged mother, who has been unceasing in her efforts to find her boy. and at last her vigilance is rewarded by the sad intelligence that her onlv son lies buried in an unmarked grave.

Stopped Work on I lie Tiimi-1. Coi.fMiiis, Ind.. Dec. 24.—'I he Patton tunnelon the Air Line will not ee open in three months. '1 lie bill persists in caving iu. The present rain makes the cave-in more persistent than usual, and report readies here that the work must be abandoned. Tuesday night a number of men were carried out of the tunnel insensible, due to an avalanche of dirt and rock which partly buried thein. None were fatally injured.

A ntnun iKsiny.

Chicago. Dee. 24. Lor ti'.c last three days detectives have been searching for Mrs. .1. A. harsh, wife of a druggist ot Bennington, Jnd., who came to Chicago last Saturday afternoon on a suburban train. It is known that Mrs. Larsli reached the city, but since then she has disappeared, and although her husband and the detectives have been making a diligent search they can find HO trace of her.

Ini-reasint* the Town,

Ponxi.Axn. Ind., Dec. 24.—Portland is spreading just at present. The city couucilhas annexed to the corporation the Evans, Votaw. Pierce and Perdicauadditions, including in all upward of 3,500 lots. This is done with a view of increasing the valuation of city property so as to issue a large amount of water bonds in the near future.

Suclclrn Death of nu Indian Chief. l'UKU. Ind., Dec. 24.—The old Indian olilef, John Mongoza, of the Miami tribe, dropped dead in a saloon in this city Monday. Mongoza was 58 years old and wielded a powerful inlluence over the Miami braves. The Miatnis number between 800 and 400 in this county, and to a great extent still adhere to their early customs.

Children Ory for Pitcher's Castoriai

CONFIRM LD.

Tlia Sc"nto V'jtos to Admit BlLins to tho Cabinoc.

the :ii:3e (mmiiics cihiskn.

l.Ut or tin- Chii-meii ol' tli« Most lin-port-tut Stiver to Doings ot the SiMinto

Tur*Juy's Session.

I.KINS HKTS Til Hum II.

W\suiN(iToN, Dec. 2: —The senate, in executive session, has continued the nomination of S. 15. Klkins to be secretary of war.

Mr. Klkins. who is in New York city, was informed of his continuation by a telegram from the president. As he has arranged to spend tlie Christmas holidays with his family at Klkins, W. Va., it is supposed he wdl not assume his new duties until New Year's day or soon after.

Judicial Nomination* Not Considered, All of the military nominations. 2(52 in number, received up to the present date were also con tinned. The judicial nominations were not considered, as they have not received action by the committee on judiciary. Among the more important nominations confirmed was that of Knos II. Nelieker, of Indiana, United States treasurer.

Th«- Mouse Committri'M.

Washington, Dec. -H. —-The house committees will be announced bv Speaker Crisp to-day. The chairmen will be as follows:

Ways anil means, Springer 111. appropriations, Holtnan iliul.t .-lections, Karrall iVu.) judiciary, Culberson tTi-x.): banking mul currency. Bacon N. Y.): coinage, Hiunil (.Mo,) interstate ami foreign commerce. Mills iTex.K rivers unit harb.rs, Ulanchard (La. ij merchant marine. 1-Vwler ,l". post offices, Henderson (X. CM public lands, Mi-Ra/! (Ark.) Indian affairs, Peel (Ark.) territories, Washington (Teiin.) railways mid cana's, Cutcliiugs (Miss.) manufacturers, l'age (H. I.) mines anil mining, Cowles (N. C.) public liuild'.ngs, Bunltlieail (Aln.) Pacific railroads, Keilly (Pa.) improvement o* the Mississippi river, Robertson (La,) Ednration, Hayes (la) Labor, Tarsncy (Mo. I, military, Luno (111) patents, Tillman (S. C.) invalid pensions, Mnrtlu (Ind.) pensions, Wilson (Mo.) claim*. Bunn (N. C.): war claims, lleltslioover (Pa.): District of Columbia. Hemphill (N C.): printing. Richardson (Tenn.) civil service, Andrew (Mass.) accounts, Rusk (Mil.) library, Cummings (N. Y.): alcoholic liquor traffic, Haynes (O.) emigration, Stump (Md.): expenditures in navy department, McClellan (Ind.i expenditure* in tne department of justice. Allen (MUs.) revision of the laws, Ellis (Ky.): election of president and vice president, Chipnian (Mich.) world's fair, Durborow (111,) agriculture. Hatch (Mo.) foreign affairs, Blount (Oa.,: military aflairs. Outhwaite (O.) naval affairs, Herbert (Ala.).

The Seiutt e.

At the morning session a number of bills of only local importance were introduced. Senator Stanford (C'al.) accompanied by his colleague, Senator Pel ton, advanced to the clerk's desk and took the oath of ofliee for his new senatorial term: and then introduced bills to provide the government with nicans suflicient to supply the want of a sound I'irculating medium, and to encourage co-operation in the District of Columbia and to provide for the formation of associations for the purpose of conducting lawful business aim dividing profi ts.

Senator Stanford also introduced his bill of last session appropriating S'.»50,-00-J for the extension of the executive mansion in accordance with plans prepared by Mrs. Harrison, lie also introduced bills for the erection of public buildings at Fresno, Alameda, San Diego, Oakland and Los Angeles. Oil. and Ogden. I". T. Also his bill of last session appropriating SI. 1)00,000 for the establishment of a gun factory on the Pacific coast.

Senator Turpie (Ind.) introduced a bill appropriating 81,500.000 for the erection of a public building at Indianapolis.

Senator Gibson (La.) introduced with slight amendments his bill, introduced early in the present session, appropriating SI0,000,000 to improve the navigation and atVord safety to commerce on the Mississippi river and to prevent destructive floods. Amendments consist of only two unimportant verbal changes. ji

Senator Chandler (X. II. I introduced a bill to amend the act to regulate the carriage of passengers at sea so as to provide that in luture it shall be unlawful for any sttramship company to bring passengers Irom any foreign country unless suitable accommodations lor the com Tort of the passengers have been provided.

As a mark o:' respect to the memory of the late licprcscntativc l-'onl, of Michigan, whose death during the last recess had been formally communicated from the house, the senate at 1:10 adjourned.

No More Silver Hollars.f

WasiilNii'i)\, Dec. 2.'i.—The conversion of trade-dollar bullicn into standarc silver dollar* was completed 'luesday. The coinage of standard silver dollars is therefore at an end unless a change shall be made the policy of the treasury department or through congressional enactment or otherwise. Mr. Lecch, director of the mint, said that, while he was not authorized to speak of the future silver policy of the department. he thought there is scarcely any doubt that the coinage of standard silver dollars will be continued at the San Francisco and (.'arson City mints in amounts suflicicn t, to meet, the necessities of the service. lie estimated this at S100.000 a mouth for each mint.

Man-o-wa. the great Indian Herb Doctor, will beat L!ol/oms Monte, Crawfonisville, on Tuesday, Doc.

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.John Duvies, n-i.oiei Miner Who Hud 11ml I .us I Several I'ori iiuea, I'limteH

Awiiv In Chicago. CuK'aoo, Dec. 'i: .—.lohu Davics, one of the best, Icnowu mining experts in the west, died at the .Sherman house Mond.iy night ol pneumonia. Mr. Ihivics had made and hi*t several fortunes in (oluriidu and 'alifoi-niiu He died uliiioKt penniless. lie was the original owner of the Little Chief mine, near Lead villi-, which ho sold some ten years ago for^.VJO.OOl) to a Chicago syndicate headed by .1.

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well and the late Wirt Dexter. After evci-v member ot the syndicate had made fortunes out of the mine it was sold for .",()!)(),(itK). The Little Chief is Still being worked.

FIVE THOUSAND GRIP CASES.

I'lio I .|oii'Uile for tho lilg Deal h-El.it 4- 1 uel 11 iiut.i. Cin'i ix.N.vi 1. ., Dec. 'JH.—There are 6,000 eases of grip 111 this city and suburbs. The divnse is fatal beyond all precedent.. Not for years, if ever, have so many funerals been seen on the streets. Mesid"s this, pneumonia, lung lever and diplitneria prevail to an alarming extent and tin inctvu.se in the death-rate is si,i'.-L!.ug. lleports from the ucar-bv rural districts sye painful, showing even a greater deathrate than the city. In ten back counties of northeastern Kentucky people arc said to b.- dv ing l:'e sheep.

Senium I.»v:i !1 Ca-in. S r. l'.w f„ M.un., c. —Negotiations arc pending at Butt", Mont., for the settlement of the celebrated Davis will ease. A proposition comes from the contestants, represented by Ilenry A. Root It is positively certain that the case will not come to trial again. The absence of Administrator John V. Davis from this city causes delay. It ia

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