Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 August 1894 — Page 8

WEEKLY JOURNAL.

ESTABLISHED IN 1845.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. 1894

GENERAL GOSSIP.

It Concerns Rverything and Everybody and is, Therefore, of Interest to All of Us.

The Battle Ground campmeeting is in progress. —Mrs. A. C. McKinsey, of Colfax, died Monday night. —Miss Hannah Tousey is the guest of Mrs. M. B. Binford. —The postoflicc civil service examination will 1)2 on August 11. —Mrs. H. M. Carr, of Louisville, is the guest of Mrs. Purviance. —W. E. Nicholson returned from Lake Maxinkuckee Monday evening. —M. E. Clodfelter and family have returned from a visit at Indianapolis. —Miss Lois Buskirk has returned to to I'aoli, after a visit with Will Buskirk. ilgi

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from the Spiritualist camp meeting at Anderson. —Mrs. .Jennie Peterson has returned to New Ross, after a visit with her son, Frank Davis. —Roy Lane and wife, of Indianapolis, are guests of their daughter, Mrs. Ed. VanCamp. —Misses Hattie Detchon and May Kline have gone to Toronto to visit Seymour Detchon. —A woman at Indianapolis lias sued a grocer because lie sold her butter milk that made her sick. She wants 85.000. —A woman in Lafayette burned down a chicken house in attempting to eradicate the lice with a burning torch. —Mrs. J. C. Elston and Miss Mary Elston have gone to Marietta, )., called by the serious illness of Mrs. Elston's mother. —Miss Carrie Turner has returned to Chicago, after a visit with Capt. Billingsly and wife. —Clarence A. Widener, of Elmdale, passed through the cityTuesday on his way to Clifford, N. D. —A bicycle factory lished at Michigan City tentiary convicts will chines. —L. YV. Otto and wife have returned from a visit to Friendship and other points in Southern Indiana. —A partition suit has been filed by Martha .1. Brinson vs. Albert C. Shobe, administrator of the estate of Amey R. Brinson, deceased, and Arthur Hrinson, Walter Brinson, Myrtle Brinson, Anna Hrinson and Mary A. Smith. —Talk about hard times. You would not even dream there was such a thing if you were to have been at the Trade Palace of MeClure it Graham and had seen the people spending their money at their net cost sale. Net cost sales "by MeClure & Graham mean something and the people know it. —No successor to Prof. Smith has yet been selected by the trustees of Wabash College. Prof. Stokes who was Prof. Smith's predecessor at Chicago University, is an applicant and was here a few days ago. Prof. Bently, a graduauate of Harvard, and now in the Arkansas State University, was also here looking after the place.

is to be estaband the penirnake the ma-

—Randall Lookabill writes from Bridgeport, Ky., that he is delighted with the people and country of that locality. We fear that he is so well pleased with the place that he will decide to locate there. Should he do so the Christian church of this place will lose one of its very best members. Randall is an exemplary young man and will be an honor to any community in which he may choose to reside.

NOIIMAL ITEMS.

The ball team has begun systematic practice. The school still increases in numbers and interest.

Since Saturday's questions were seen there has been a rush toward the geography class.

Supt. Zuck was not able to meet the class in arithmetic yesterday. Saturday was a hard day for him.

Nicholson Brothers, the photographers. will make a picture of the school soon. If you are a member of the school be there.

The class in English is listening to the reading of a series of interesting papers prepared on topics in Julius Csusar, by members of the class.

The class in Methods lias for two days grappled with the problem, "What is the object Some one hinted that mation of character.

of education?" it was the for-

Dcatli of Miss Shelley.

Miss Maggie Delaney Shelley, aged 70 years, died Tuesday evening, at the home of Miss Maggie Busenbark. on east Main street. The funeral was conducted Wednesday by Elder M. M. Vancleave, at the Indian Creek Primitive Baptist church, nine miles southwest of this city, where the interment was made.

She made a will last Sunday. After the expenses of the funeral were paid half of the assets were to be given to a sister and the other half to the three children of a deceased sister.

CAPTURING FORT JACKSON.

The Story of Farragut's Promotion and Bravery Retold, and a Famous Ship Duel Vividly Described.

The Government hesitated long in selecting the man who should have the chief command of this naval expedition, and the choice was not made until the preparations were almost completed. It fell upon David G. Farragut, then a captain in the navy. He was a modest, quiet man, doing the duty which came to his hands without show or parade, but he was now to have an opportunity of showing that he possessed the highest qualities of a commander. He was in full sympathy and was loyally supported by his subordinates, Porter, Bell, Bailey and the officers and men in every vessel in the fleet. The battle was begun on the morning of the 18th of April, by a shot from Fort Jackson. Porter's mortar-boats responded. The latter were supported by the gun-boats but after pounding the fortifications for several days, Farragut, satisfied that he could not reduce them, prepared to run by them in the night of the 23rd. The mortar-boats led the way, and the rest of the navy followed, gallantly breasting the swift flowing current that went over the river banks and flooded every bayou. The perilous passage of the forts was begun at 2 o'clock in the morning. The motarboats were to cover the movement of the gun-boats. Farragut, in his flagship, Hartfort, with two other strong vessels, was destined to keep near the right bank of tlie river and fight Fort Jackson while Captain Bailey, commanding eight gun-boats, was to keep close to the eastern bank and fight Fort St. Philip. To Captain Bell was assigned the duty of attacking the Confederate fleet above the forts, with six gun-boats. The night was intensely dark, and a tremendous battle was waged between the mortar-boats and the forts. The gun-boats as they came up gave the latter heavy broadsides of grape and canister shot which drove the garrison from their barbette guns. The scene soon became grand and terrible. Firerafts, sent down by the Confederates, blazed fearfully, and "rams" plunged against the National vessels with terrible force. The Hartford, which was a wooden vessel, was set on fire, but the flames were soon extinguished. The fleet had scarcely passed the forts when it was assailed by a large flotilla of "rams" and gun-boats. A grand and awful scene followed. The noise of twenty mortars and two hundred and sixty great guns, afloat and ashore, made a terrific sound. The explosion of shells which struck deep in the oozy ground shook the land and water like an earthquake. An eye-witness writes of it thus: "Combine if you can all that you ever heard of thunder and all that you have ever seen of lightning, and you have perhaps, a conception of the scene," in the darkness before daylight. From the fore-rigging of his ship Farragut had watched the combat through his night-glass and conducted it as far as possible. Within the space of half an hour after the National vessels had left their anchorage, the forts were passed, the great struggle had occurred, and eleven vessels—nearly the whole of the Confederate flotilla—were destroy ed 1 or this and other famous duels between the ships of the civil war, see "Frank Leslie's Scenes and

Portraits of the Civil War." On another page will be found particulars concerning this great opportunity. For three coupons cut from the columns of this paper and ten cents in coin, we will supply the readers of this paper, weekly.

Lost, Found and Keturned.

Monday afternoon Miss Jessie Davis dropped a S10 bill from a music portfolio as she was passing along the street. A man was noticed to pick something up near where'she thought she had lost it, and when the marshal came around on the hunt he was in formed of this fact. The marshal got into a buggy and drove to the house of the man and told him that he had come after the money he had found. Ile at once handed it over and remarked that he was both lucky and unlucky.

The Monon Shops.

The Lafayette Bridge Company has been awarded the contract for building the Monon machine shops at Lafay ette, Ind. The buildings, without the contents, will cost 8140,000. The shops will cover a forty acre tract of ground The stakes have been driven and plans accepted, and the work is to be com pleted by January 1, 1895.

K. of P. Celebration.

There is a movement on foot to hav a K. of P. celebration in this city, the latter part of September, in which all the K. of P. lodges of this county will participate. It is the intention to giv purses and make the affair both pleas ant and successful. The matter is be ing discussed, and will be determined upon in a short time.

A Good Guesser.

George Goben, a prominent farmer of Coal Creek township has a forty-acr field of wheat which he predicted would make one thousand bushels His wheat was threshed a few day ago and measured exactly one thousand bushels and thirty pounds.

Indiana Weather and Crops. The Indiana weather service crop bulletin says in review of last week: High temperature prevailed and the drouth continued, only interrupted by light and moderate local rains in few localities on Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. All growing crops, but especially corn in some fields, need rain very much indeed to insure a good crop. On fields where good rains fell the preceding week and the latter part of this week, on good, black, heavy soil, the crop is almost assured, but in light soil, gravel or clay the crop suffers much, and if no rain should fall there within from five to ten days the crop would be ruined Most corn shows a good color it is tasseling, and early planted is in "roasting ear that on clay ground is burnea somewhat in general it is backward but good rains in the near future would make an excellent crop everywhere still. The wheat threshing [still continues, and reports on the yield continue very flatterin. Oats threshing has begun the yield is heavier than last year. The hay is all secured in best condition, while the quantity is less than last year's the quality is better. Hot, dry weather injured the potato, and the prospect is less favorable than earlier in the season. Pasturage has been much injured and water is scarce in some localities the stock has to be fed. But little plowing for wheat has been done yet, the ground is too dry and hard.

A Historic liell.

Dr. J. L. Wilson, of Terre Haute, Ind., has in his possession a bell with an interesting history. It was cast in Spain in 1708, and during Bonaparte's invasion of Spain it was captured and carried to France. In 1S34 it was presented to Joseph Piquet, heading a group of French emigrants, who finally settled at St. Mary's, Jasper county, 111. Mr. Piquet presented it to the church in 1852, and it was used in summoning the people to worship until it was cracked by an accident and had to be removed. Recently it attracted the attention of Dr. Wilson, who found it lying neglected in the churchyard, and he purchased it. The bell weighs 227 pounds, and is made of copper with a mixture of silver.

A New Corporation.

The American Incrustation Preventive Company is the name of a concern that is about to be incorporated. It will manufacture the boiler incrustation preventive heretofore controlled and as now improved by E. C. Noland. The capital stock is to be $25,000, of which 10 per cent, will be paid in. The stock is already one-half taken, and the remainder is nearly all enaged. Each of the following gentlemen have taken twenty-five shares: D. W. Yeagley, E. C. Noland, Lewis McMains, Dr. T. J. Griffith, 0. U. Perrin.

Indiana Corn.

The Agricultural Department on Tuesday issued from the Chicago office the following bulletin concerning the growing corn in Indiana:

Badly distributed showers since Friday and rains the preceding week sustained corn in many fields. Corn in heavy soil in best condition, good color, tasseling and ears appearing, but on ight and clay soil corn has suffered much. Rain in five or ten days will secure a good crop still.

To lteduce Expenses.

The American Express Company lias notified its messengers on the Monon that each one will receive a "lay off" of five days in the month. The expenses of the company must be cut down and this rule was adopted to prevent discharging one man. The five days for each one is equal to one man in a month. The new rule took effect Tuesday.

Took a Notion To Die.

There is a good story being told on Dr. McLane and Mike Callihan. It is to the effect that they bought a horse and were feeding it, expecting to make a speck. The horse was kept at the Britton barn. Tuesday the feed bill was paid and Wednesday morning the horse was dead.

Iiattle Ground Camp Meeting. It is expected that there will be a large audience this year, as many cottages are being opened that have not been for some time. The grounds are beautiful and everything is in the very best condition for one of the best meetings that has ever been on the grounds,

Birthday Surprise.

Members of the Second Baptist church gave Mrs. E. W. Robinson a birthday surprise Monday p. m. The evening was pleasantly passed and many presents were given. Mrs. Rob inson returns her mpst humble thanks for tlioir hospitality.

Letter List.

Following is the list of letters re maining uncalled for in the postoffice at Crawfordsville, Ind., for the week ending July 31, 1894. The persons calling for same please say "advertised:" Alward Snyder Wright Beckley N Smith Mrs A Brock Willard Simmons Alice Carver Mrs N Stewart Mrs Mollie Craig James Thomas Mrs A Campbell MrsMary Wagoner Eli Hanna Mrs Minnie Williams W Martin Walter Williams llan'bal A Schonberg O

Ei YOKIS, Postmaster.

WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

Information of Espeolal Interest to Indianians.

1 a a it a a JEFFEBSONVILLE, Ind., Aug. 1.—Andrew Litzler

was

attacked Tuesday by

copperhead snake 3 feet long. Litzler was engaged in cleaning

well, and after having attained

depth of 85 feet he was confronted by the reptile coiled behind a piece of timber. Observing Litzler the snake hissed and afterward made a lunge with its poisonous fangs, biting him in several places on the legs. The snake then coiled around Litzler's body in its efforts to get at his throat. Litzler says that he then seized the copperhead by the neck and held him until taken from the well. On reaching ground Litzler's wounds were badly swollen. He was conveyed to the nearest physician and the bites cauterized. Tuesday night he suffered great agony and it is thought he cannot live.

Exonerated from All Blame. COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 1. Coroner Falk went to Newbern Tuesday morning and procured tlie ante-mortem statement of Miss Grace Cohee, who was shot Saturday night by her lover. Dr. Gonda Beck. She exonerated Beck from all blame. She is still alive, but she does not believe she can live. Her physicians say, though, that there is a bare possibility she may recover. Dr. Beck has never left her bedside except when brought here to be placed under 33,000 bonds awaiting the result of her wounds. There are many sensational rumors connected with the matter, but both Beck and the girl most positively deny them all.

Ilobbs Willing to Go to Prison. MUXCIE, Ind., Aug. 1.—Heniy llobbs arrived home at Albany Tuesday from Tennessee. His secret marriage to Miss Anna Austin recently caused quite a commotion, and the girl's father threatens to prosecute Ilobbs and Banker Fred Cliilcote for making affidavits that the girl was of age. nobbs left for parts unknown, but decided to return and act like a man, standing by tlie side of his wife. He says if he is sent to prison, when he gets out he knows Anna will still love him. Mr. Austin is proprietor of the Albany paper mills.

Small Grape Crop.

JEFFEBSONVIJULE, Ind., Aug. 1.—The grape crop of this vicinity, which Is one of the principal industries of this section of the state, will be poor this year. Only the Mortons, Virginia, Rushing and Elvira are the varieties which will do any good, but they are excellent. Prof. Paul Mosemiller, owner of extensive vineyards, reports that the crop will not average more than onethird this y*ar. The failure will affect the market seriously.

HATTLESNAKE.

Alex Hennington has bought a new wagon. Wheat all threshed and of a good quality.

Mack Smith.happy. It is a girl this time. W. J. Coons sold a bunch of cattle to Ben Easley last-Monday.

If nothing happens the present clover seed crop, will be excellent. The present corn crop looks fine afler the good rain we had Saturday.

Howard Gale-y and Will Thornberry painted Samuel Galey's house last week.

W. B. Galey and son sold their lambs to Wm. Deere aind delivered them last Friday.

The basket meeting at the Baptist church last Sunday was a success in every particular.

Harvey Gray is marketing his garden truck. He is a hustler when it comes to gardening.

Miss King, of Kansas City, Mo., visited her sister. Mrs. Ilerrington, last Saturday and Sunday.

Uncle Will Galey visited his daughter at Lafayette last week and returned home Monday, sick.

Mrs. Eva Layson and husband visited her parents, W. J. Coons and wife, last week and returned home on Sunday evening.

Now, Mr. Editor, you set the time and place for the reunion of the correspondents and THE JOURNAL faculty and we are your pard.I

W. J. Coons and family and Mrs. Laura Galey visited the family of Mr. Wright, southwest of Alamo, last Tuesday and had quite a pleasant time.

There was quarterly meeting at the U. B. church last Sunday, Elder Hamilton presiding. It was well attended and quite an interesting meeting was held.

W. J. Coons was in Ripley township last Tuesday. He says he did not see but one Democrat in his travels and he was a dwarf with a hump on his back called free trade. Of course there are other Democrats in old Ripley but they are all in the bushes looking after the tariff bill.

The wild animal was seen on the creek twice last week. It is of a brown color, larger than a big dog. There has been no one killed by it yet as we know of but it must live on something. W. J. Coons had one of his hogs taken last Saturday while he was gone. He thinks the wild animal got it.

Two Democratic candidates attended the basket meeting in Hinch last Sunday and gave their brethren the hand shake and as much as said you elect me treasurer and prosecutor and you will get $1.25 a bushel for your wheat and your coal and iron free, but you will have to pay duty on your sugar. See?

That Tired Feeling

Is a dangerous condition directly due to depleted or impure blood. It should not be allowed to continue, as in its debility the system is especially liable to serious attacks of illness. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the remedy for such a condition, and also for that weakness which prevails at the change of season, climate or life

Hood's Pills are purely vegetable carefully prepared from the best in gredients. 25c.

DEADLY STUFF.

Quantity of "Ruddite" Explodes In a Chicago Quarry.

DEATH AND RUIN IS THE RESULT

Thre* Hen Are Killed Instantly and Three Others Are Injured—Explosion of ft Locomotive Causes

Three Deaths.

A DISASTER IS CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.—An explosion occurred in a building occupied by the Western Electric company at the stone quarries of Dolese & Shepard, half a mile east of Hawthorne, at 11 o'olock Tuesday morning, in which three men were killed and three injured.

The Victims.

The dead are F. Corbin, Scott Clark and Richard Clark, his son. B. H. Rudd and an unknown man were probably fatally injured. The bodies of the three men who were killed were scarcely reoognizable when they were picked up blackened and torn and limp. HoleB were torn and barned in bodies, legs and arms, and the hair on the heads of two of the dead men was nearly all singed off. The poor victims presented a deplorable, revolting but pitiable sight.

That one of the injured men will die as the result of his hurts oannot be doubted. He was torn and mangled in a frightful manner and lacerated flesh hung from his faoe where he had been dashed into the stone the great engine was crushing into bits.

How It Happened.

Mr. Rudd and Mr. Corbin, his assistant, were making experiments with a powerful explosive called Ruddite, an invention of Mr. Rudd. Clark and his son wore in the dynamo engine room, which was constructed in the side of the quarry pit just beneath the room in which Mr. Rudd and Corbin were at work. It is not definitely known how the accident happened, but it is believed the boiler of the dynamo engine blew up and the fixe set off the explosive with which Mr. Rudd was experimenting.

With Terrllle Force.

There were four explosions. The first did but little damage, but the second completely wrecked tha building and the third and fourth were so violent that windows were blown, out of dwelling houses at Crawford, station, nearly a mile northeast of the quarries, and in houses, in Hawther: half a mile west. The bodies of Clark and his son were hurled nearly a hundred feet oat into the quarry pit, which at that point is 80 feet deep. Corbin's body was thrown through the front door of the building and landed near the railway tracks 20 feet away. Of the 400 men working In the quarries at the time nearly every one was blown off his feet, but none was injured. Bates and Stevenson jumped to their feet and started to run away, when two more explosions came, quite as violent aa the second.

For the last two years C. H. Rudd has been making experiments with his invention in behalf of the Western Electric company at Dolese & Shepard's quarries. The explosive waa prepared in. iron tubes 10 feet long and 2 inches in diameter. These huge cartridges were discharged by means of electricity.

Three Killed Near Winnipeg. WINNIPEG, Man.. Aug. 1.—A shocking accident occurred on the Canadian Pacific at Field station, resulting in three deaths. A freight train left Field, east bound, having an engine both front and rear until the train had passed a steep grade known as "the hill." The-boilerof the rear locomotive burst, blowing the engine into atoms, and instantly killing Engineer Wheatley and Fireman Hunt. A brakeman George Kemp, on the rear car was fatally injured by flying fragments and died Tuesday.

Two California Miners Killed^ SONOHA, CaL, Aug. 1.—The explosion of thirty-five pounds of giant powder in the Golden Gate mine Tuesday morning caused the death of Lafayette Carr and John Mangram, two experienced miners who had been sent to the-400-foot level to do some- blasting,

SENT HOME.

Ewfc of the

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.— Mayor Hopkins sent a telegram at noon to Gov. Altgeld recommended that eight companies of the First regiment on duty at various points along the Illinois Central railroad within the city limits be withdrawn from service. Three companies of the First will bo retained at Pullman under the command of a major. The Second regiment, which is in service in the stock yards district, will be kept in the field for some time yet, the mayor indicating that neither they nor the troops at Pullman would be recalled until the strike had been declared off. Gov. Altgeld during the afternoon complied with Mayor Hopkin's request.

Bmth of "Prohibition" Murray. TOPEKA, Elan., Aug. 1.—John A. Murray, the reputed author of the prohibitory act which bears his name died Sunday of yellow fever at Nueva Topeka, state of Oaxaca, Mexico. He was at the head of a colony of Kansas men who were engaged in coffee-rais-ing in Mexico.

An Insane Girl's Sololde.

BBODHEAD, Wis., Aug. l.—Lavina Linn, who lives 2 miles west of this city, saturated her clothing with kerosene and set it on fire. By hard work the house was saved, but the girl was literally roasted and died in an hour. Insanity was the cause.

For a Treaty of Arbitration. LONDON, Aug. 1.—It is said the arbitration party in the house of commons believes the government favors and that the prospects are hopeful for the adoption of a twenty-five years' treaty of arbitration between the United S a a re a it a in

A RARE OLD

RELIC.

FRANK LESLIES'

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Scenes

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Civil War.

Illustrating the- valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field.

These sketches were drawn by the most famous artists of the times, Forbes, Schell, Taylor, Ward, Becker, Lovie, Crane, Davis and numerous others equally as noted. Don't fail to secure the valuable work while it is being sold through the medium of this paper, and thus perpetuate the memories of our great heroes. Upwards of one million of men were in the roll of the army during the late war period Out of this number three hundred thousand had sealed their patriotism with their blood. As long as this nation standfe- the memory of these defenders©! the Union will be one of the holiest treasures.

Don't fail get the numbers as they are issued.

PART 6 contains the following full and double-page iilustrations of Our Great

Rebellion:

1. Portrait of Gen. Philip

II.

Sheridan.

2. The United States Transport "Terry" pushing her way through the swamps and bayous back of island

No. 10. Colonel Lewis Wrallace, of the Eleventh Indiana Volunteers, Zouave Regiment, and his staff, on service in Western Virginia. Night expedition to Island No. 10, in the Mississippi river—Spiking a Confederate battery. "). Embarking troops and General

Buell's artillery at Bird's Point, •Mo. General

Portrait Sturgis. Portrait Shepley. Portrait Couch. Portrait

KlUtla on Duty at Chlat(o Recalled*

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of Samuel D.

of General George F.

of General Darius H.

of General Willis A. Gor

man. Effect of the gunboat Confederates in the Royal, S. C. .Death of the Confederate General Zollieoffer, in the- battle of Mill Spring, Ky. 1&. Retreat of the Confederate garrison from Fort Walker to Bluffton during the bombardment by the

shells on the woods, Port

Federal fleet. Burning of the dead horses after the battle of Pittsburg Landing, near the peach orchard. "Gathering Confederate Oats"—an incident in the march of General Prentiss' division from Ironton to Cape Girardeau. Lieutenant Tillotson's naval battery of Boat. Howitzer, under Lieutenant McCook, of the Union Coast

Guard, at the battle of New Berne, N. C. "A Confederate Treed"—Capture of Lieutenant H. L. Segal, of the Confederate Arms, near Falls Church. View of tlie City of New Berne, N. C., from the Opposite Side of the Neuse River. Construction of the Floating Mortar Batteries, Etc., Upper Ferry, St. Louis, Mo. Battle of Pittsburg Landing—EDJ gagement on the Left Wing, General Hurlbut's Division, April 0, 1802.

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Battle of Pittsburg Landing—Retreat of Dresser's Battery, Captain Timony, Center of Federal Position, Sunday morning, April (i, 1S02. Refugee from Southern Missouri, Driven from their Homesteads by the Confederates, Encamped neap General Sigel's Division at Holla.