Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 September 1893 — Page 1

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At Our Great Fair on Birdsell Wagons.

Wedding Presents

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FOR

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M. C. KLINE,

The Reliable Jeweler.

Main Street, Opposite Court House.

New Fall Goods

ARRIVING DAILY AT THE

Trade Palace.

A handsome line of new Fall Straw and Felt Sailers just in. We will sell these at popular prices.

We show the Greatest Variety of Novelties and New Ideas in Dress Goods and Trimmings in Crawfordsville.

Silk Tapestry, Chenille And Damask Draperies, Lace Curtains, etc., etc

In the Greatest Variety and Most Reasonable to be found anywhere.

THE TRADE PALACE.

McClure & Graham,

Farm Wagon made. Best

Painted and Ironed. Come

and examine them and be

convinced.

We are Headquarters For all kinds of

DOORS, SASH, GLASS,

PAINTS AND OILS.

YOL- 5L CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1898.

DIVOROEJDAY.

The Quarterly Tearing Assunder of Sweet .Household Ties Occurs.

Judge Harney wore a new shirt and a sunny smile with a eix foot frontage when he mounted the royal throne in the circuit court Wednesday and donned the robes of spotlesB ermine.The wild but winning orgies of "divorce day" had been booked for this morning and if there is anything calculated to inspire the heart 6f the average court with throbbing joy it is a divorce suit with an absent defendant and a sweet faced plaintiff with an artistically blacked eye.

The usual number of lazy loafers were on hand to drink in the details of domestic unhappiness and incidentally to shelter their worthless carcasses from the driving rain.

May Grimes was the first plaintiff to stick her head out of the water. She accused John Grimes, her erstwhile beloved husband, of drunkenness and kindred brutality. John wasn't there but the oourt ran a corkscrew into his matrimonial ears and yanked out his lungs without ceremony. May was given the custody of the child and a check on the sand bank for alimony.

It was along last April that Lawson Scott got funny and struok Jennie, his wife, with a stick of stove wood simply because she hadn't chopped it tine enough to suit his fine haired tastea. He also cursed and abused her until she had nervous prostration and was in the, collapsed condition of a pocket book that has gone up against the Midway Plaisance. He called her a chippy and other endearing names and made life as miserable for her as the career of a foot ball player on a losing team. She received her divorce and went forth with a smile which extended "from Maine to Oalifornia and from where Niagara's thunders roll to the great south gate." She smiled all over and back again.

Eliza Nossett led the blushing Jim Nossett to the marriage altar just about fourteen years ago and Jim proved a docile and tractable animal until eight years ago when he scared at the cars and ran off. Since that time he has been at home only intermittently. One of these festive occasions was July 7. He was at home and objected to Eliza going to a Sunday school picnic. Eliza told him he could go to Jericho. Then he slapped her over a sofa and left presumably for the point designated. He made home life mighty unpleasant while around and Eliza made up her mind to get along without him in future. Judge Harney wiped the slate clean and said she could begin the matrimonial problem all over as she solved it incorrectly the first time.

Frank E. Stout came up with a plush bound complaint set in precious jewels and alleged that his wife was the most disappointing creature below 6ky blue canopy. Her errors and faults stand out on the dark back ground of her connubial history like a hair cut on a hoodoo. She led Frank Buch a life that he was obliged to wear a padlock on his heart to keep it out of his mouth. Here area few of the short comings alleged against her and which induced the court to cut the bonds of matrimony like a cold cheese: She was too intimate with numerous other men, she slapped, kicked and scratched the saintlike Frank, she cursed him constantly, her upper jaw working with the oily ease of the lid to the lunch basket, sue staid away from home for weeks at a time, she refused to cook and perform other domestic duties, she took whisky in her tea, she would get drunk and come home to raise Abel's brother, she broke up the furniture and insisted on doing aB she pleased in all things.

Frank Sperry was eminently successful in obtaining a divorce from sweetfaced Minnie Sperry, who ib at present keeping a fashionable boarding house for young gentlemen, in the north end. That's what's the matter. Her boarders are transients and while they pay well taxeB are high, the house being pulled entirely too often. Frank never did have any taste for the hotel business, anyway, and is glad to be entirely released from the trying position of host.

John Harris, familiarly known in polite society as "Bull," appeared in court this morning with a smile that looked like a brother to the morning star. The The winsome "Bull" had complaint to make of Oln, his wife, and he Bwore that she eclipsed all that was sweet and fair in nature. She swore like the British soldiers in Fiander and fiequentlv indulged in a head punching contest, using "Bull" as an objective point. "Bull," as may be inferred from his name, is a weak, consumptive cuss and he didn't relish such treatment. He got a divoroe with a big, red seal and blue ribbon on it. He is having it framed and will make his friendB who can't read believe it is a diploma from the Keeley Institute.

Lily Britton, from near Ladoga, was on band asking alimony and inoidentally a divorce from Jesse Britton. Jesse, we are sorry to Bay, is a miserable wretch. He refused to talk to her and often amused himself by driving tacks into the baby's eyes 'h a hammer the hired man used in cracking walnuts. He Bhook a pistol at Lily and said he didn't know it was loaded and that he really hoped it wouldn't go off and make a hole in her head. He obliged her to go home to her father, and otherI wise maltreated, her. The divorce was

granted and the court is scratching his head over the alimony. The time Wednesday afternoou was consumed in a consideration of the support suit of Emma against Fred Thomas. This wasn't exactly a divorce suit but it was along that line, and the only reason it wasn't was because the plaintiff knew it would tickle the defendant nearly to death to lmve it so. In fact it was adduced in evidence that the chivalric Frederick has offered his wife a new dress, a gold watch and several other "purties" if sin would only sue for a divorce. It appears that Emma and Fred had been married about two weeks when a son and heir arrived to bless their union with its sunny smile and mellow midnight squawk. Freddie, old boy, stood the midnight melody for about half a week and then left. He states that the racket reminded him of the opening session of aa international auctioneers' convention. Fred never came back. The court decided that he would have to pay $400 to help support the human melodiau for whose living he was in some degree re-

Ida Zachary strode boldly into the ufrena under the gallant chaperonage of I^id Hanna. The bright red featherB iS her hat were only rivalled in brilliancy by the bright red blood in her ej^e and the way she tore out the plumage of her recreant lord and husband, Ben Zachary, was a caution to the Philistines from Askelon. She stated that Ben had proved wholly inadequate in his effort to provide truffled grouse and champagne, and in consequence she was obliged to rustle for grub in the official capacity of a kitchen mechanic. This w.'.s tough enough, but it was too much when Ben insisted in coming around and throwing stones at the mansions where she worked, filling the air al) the time with peacock blue profanity. The court set her free and scratched his chin reflectiyely.

Mrs. Emma Springier came waltzing into the charmed circle around the judge's bench with an armload of manuscript, devoted to Betting forth the shortcomings of Henry Springier, her husband. Henry Springier is a serpent with a glide like unto that which caused trouble in the Garden of Eden, several years ago. Henry was considered quite "flip" when he married the bewitching Emma, and for a while their married life was as sweet as sugar of lead. It I was all to be changed, however, and

Henry, the fond and loving husband, soon began to manifest hiB snake like I propensities. He abused his wife in a mci reprehensible manner and resorted to all sorts of ludicrous indignities,

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Upon one occasion he dragged her out in the back yard and looked her up in a dirty hencoop. He kept her there for

half a day, occasionally appearing on the scene with a pan of hot coals with which he threatened to fire her involuntary domicile. He acted like a wild beast from Hagenback'e circus, or an inmate of Lebanon and the court made short work of granting that divoroe.

This afternoon the suit of Ben vs. Cora Crowe is on trial and is being hotly contested. There are several more to follow. All is joy in the circuit court and unbidden arises the poet's admonition "Hang sorrow! Care would kill a cat

Therefore let's all be merry," There are several other cats to kill and Judge Harney has his knife out.

The Oollectorship.

The Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal sayB there was a good deal of surprise expressed when the nomination of Capt. William H. Bracken, of Brookville, to be collector of internal revenue for the Eastern district of Indiana, was received, and the nomination of a collector for Indiana's Western district did not appear at the same moment. It was understood that both of the Hoosier collectors wold be named at'the same time, and that Joshua Jump, of Terre Haute, the special friend of Senator Voorheee, would be the man. The omission was regarded, by Indiana men, a9 significant. There were those who believed the distinguished chairman of the Senate committee on finance had been "turned down/' or that the President suspected that he did not have his whole heart in the management of the silver repeal bill, and would keep him on probation a while longer. Inquiry revealed the fact that the four years of the collector of the Western district will not expire till November, and that his resignation has not been called for or received. It i6 not the purpose of the President to fill that position till November. Whether he will name Jump is not yet known, and there is a good deal of anxietv about it.

Happily Wedded.

George A. Ammerman and Miss Stella Byers, the only daughter of Allen Byers, were married Tuesday, the 19th, at 10 a. m. at the bride's home eix miles west of Crawfordsville. The ceremony was performed by Dr. W. G. Howe in the presence of fifty friends and relatives. A wedding dinner was served at noon. The newly wedded couple are now in Chioago to see the Fair. They will settle down to housekeeping shortly on Mr. Ammerman's farm near Alamo. It is a pleasure to extend congratulations to such a worthy young couple as Mr. and Mrs. Ammerman.

W. H. YOUNG will have a sale Wednesday, Sept. 27, five miles east of Crawfordsville on the Shannondale road.

HANDY WITH THE HARDWARE. HURRAH FOR HOG JAW!

Manipulators of the Ulassic "Jimrnie" Indulge in a Nocturnal Festival. The "jolly old burglar" ie now safely in the Plaiufield lieforni School, but his fellow craftsmen are not all so situated. There are others. There always are and it is well to bear this fact in mind before we draw the bed clothes over our heads and lie down to pleasant dreams with our diamond studded watchea and fat pocket books on a chair by the open window. Nothing is safe from the man with the "jimrnie," not even a down town hardware store.

Wednesday sometime between dewy eve and chilly dawn, the burglars held a little festival in the business portion of Crawfordsville that is truly refreshing to consider. They did not climb through the back windows, but went in at the front doors, and evidently had a wagon out in front, with which to carry off their plunder. The first place they visited, presumably was the hardware store of Houlehan, Quillen Co. The front doors are double and the accomplished gentlemen went through the IOOKS with ths traditional "jimrnie" in less time than it takes to tell alout it. The burglars took an inventory of the stock and carefully and painstakingl selected what they wanted and what they needed in their business. They took five double barrelled shot guns, ten choice razors, three double action revolvers, one case No. 32 cartridges, a half bushel of pocket knives and other bric-a-brao that struck their assthetio tastes. The front doors were left wide open to let the air into the holes made by the removal of the goods and the wagon was then driven down in front of TinBley & Martin's hardware store. Here also the lock was broken with the "jimmie" and the Btore entered. It is not known what was taken from this place but, evidently, not muoh of consequence. The front doors were left wide open here, also.

The thieves evidently went north, for a double barreled gun, which was found to be out of repair, was thrown into the yard of Kate Blue, on Walnut street, where it was found Thursday by one of the pretty little ladies, who was, of course, greatly surprised and delighted to find such a treasure lying out in the grass.

Officers Gill and Transue, who are on night service, and night watchman, Vance, knew nothing of the robberies until they arose Thursday. They can't exactly see how it was all done. The police are now endeavoring to find out who did it and where the evil doerB are.

Night watchman, Vance, states that the robberies occurred between 4:30 o'clock ana daylight. He passed both places at 4:30 and tried the doors. Everything was all right then. Mr. Vanc6 thinks home talent is responsible.

The Orop Reports.

The Agricultural Experiment Station at Purdue University has Bent out the following report for the week ending last Tuesday: "Abundant rains fell at the beginning of the week nearly everywhere it came too late to do good to corn, but pasturage, meadows and other vegetation were benefited by it and are improving the soil, being wetted several inches deep, was in good condition and plowing and sowing wheat were vigorously prosecuted. Much corn iB cut and in shock and that which is still standing can only be hurt by a very severe froBt within a few days, most being beyond all danger grasshoppers and criokets are very numerous.

The report of the Government officer, for the entire United States, says that the corn orop with the single exception of the extraordinary yield of 1891, it will be the largest ever produced in this country. Both the acreage and the average condition up to present dates are ahead of last year. In Colorado and some of the southern "States the condition is not up to that of the same date in 1891, but in other States it is above the average.

The Smallpox at Muncie,

Dr. Taylor, of the State Board of Health, has returned from Muncie and states that the investigation made there of the smallpox discloses Bome interesting facts. The local health officer ie doing as well as possible and has the disease confined to a a district south of the railroad. There are now 104 cases in the town and these are doing very well. It is thought that the disease is under control but things still look rather dubious. The spread of the disease is due to the local physicians who treated the first cases as chickenpox. Business is at a standstill in the town and no one is allowed to come or leave without a vaccination certificate and disinfected baggage.

Some More Joy.

The grand jury has brought in fifty indictments altogether. Twenty-six Tuesday ana twenty four Wednesday. That's the way to do business and the boys are to be congratulated. Several are made publio as follows:

Ward Burrows, grand larcency. Bill George,assault with intent to kill. Ed Brown, (the alleged express robber), assault with intent to kill.

Fred WilBon and Frank Bishop, petit larceny. Marion Insley, assault with intent to commit rape.

It is said that a lot of fiBh seiners were indicted and Bome other meanness looked after by that jewel of a jury..

NO SO

Johnny Uoherty Turns Up on the Uherokee Strip and Gets Eveiy thing in Sight.

Johnny Doherty, of precious memory, never got left but once in his life and that was when he kissed his aunt's hired girl and was (iced $7f by a jury of hard hearted farmers. That made Johnny mighty tired and he skipped the town and his bond with the alacrity of a tramp keeping an engagement with a Thanksgiving dinner party. He left for a land where kisses and everything else is open to the bravest and truest—where cast iron nerve counts for more than Oscar Wilde asthetics and where a youth with sixteen inches of muscle, sixteen inches of jaw and sixteen revolvers is decidedly in the push. Johnny was one of the first young men to put in his appearance on the border of the Cherokee strip and long before opening day Johnny bad things down pat. He knew when to go and how to go. And you can safely wager that the gentle Hogjaw got there. He waB constructed on that plan and his Craw/ordsville training had that end in view. When the booui of the starting gun sounded on "opening day" Johnny stuok spurs into his fiery mustang on which he Bat in the border town of Orlando and was off like the wind for the prospective town of Perry, just twelve miles away. Johnny was less than foity-five minutes in clearing the twelve miles and was only beaten by a woman who was a "sooner." When the van guard of boomers arrived Johnny had everything in eight. He had two corner lots opposite the publio square and two quarter sections of land juBt outside of town. Of course he could not enter there all in his own name. He had provided for all these, however. The law allows old soldiers to enter land without appearing in person and what Johnny couldn't gee through in his own name he entered in the name of his father and uncle Marsh, who served in the army and who at his request had sent out their certificates to him before the opening. Again are we constrained to remark that Crawfordsviiie talent is always at the front.

Statistics of the Oivil War.

It is manifestly impossible to secure absolutely correct statistics of the Oivil War. The Adjutant-General's office gives the following an the number of cusualities in the volunteer and regular armies of the United States: Killed in battle, u7,058 died of wounds, 48,012 died of diBease, 199,720 other causes, such us accidents, murder, Confederate prisons, eto., 40,154 total, 349,944 total deserted, 199,105. Number of soldiers in the Confederate servioe who died of wounds or disease (partial statement), 133,821 deserted (partial statement), 104,428. Number of United StateB troops captured during the war, 212,608 Confederate troops captured, 476,169. Number of United States troops paroled on the field, 16,431 Confederate troops paroled on field, 248,599.

Number of United States troops who died while prisoners, 30,156 Confederate troops who died while prii oners, 30,152. It is a striking coincidence that the last statement Ehows a difference of only four men in a total of more than 60,000. Gettysburg was the greatest greatest battle of the war Antietam, the bloodiest. The largest army was assembled by the Confederates at the Seven Day's Fight by the Unionists at the Wilderness.—Blue and Gray for September.

Skipped His Bond.

Jesse Booe, who stole meat from F. M. Dice last winter, has skipped and left his grandfather to pay his bond of $500. Booe was given a jail sentence, and about the same time tbat the meat was stolen from Mr. Dice several persons around Hillsboro bad been missing meat and upon coming to this city found that Booe had also stolen their meat, a part of it being found and identified where be had sold it. A complaint was made against him and when released from our jail he was taken to Covington to answer to the charge of stealing Pres Cooper's meat. He was placed in jail but in a few davs his father, Samon Booe, and his grandfather, Jesse Mendenhall, went on his bond, which was placed ut $500, and Jesse was released. He went to Hillsboro and then come to this city, where he has remained most of the time, going in a buggy with bis wife to Hillsboro Sunday and on Monday morning be, in company with his grandfather, went to Covington to appear for trial. He went into the court room and seeing that all the witnesses against him were present, quietly walked out and left the country, telling' his brother that as the chances were against him he would skip out.

His wife has returned to this oity.

Literary Work In Publio Schools. The literary work for the coming year in our publio schools has been assigned as follows:

Seventh year—"How Success is Won," "American Authors For Young People," and "Ten Great Events in History."

Eighth year—"Girls Who Became Famous," "Ethics For Young People," and "Evangeline."

MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Byron E. Cox and Myrtle J. Binford. John W. Tapp and Anna E. Kirk.