Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 October 1894 — Page 3

sell for

look nobby.

DON'T WAIT

Until Our Elegant Line of Clothing is All Broken Up.

Come Now

Thore is no change in the quality of the goods

have always sold. We propose to maintain our

reputation for handling only the best clothes.

But owing to the close times we are obliged to

Smaller Profits.

Ladies are especially delighted with our new

line of Children's Suits. They make the boys

Just this week we filled up a show case with

new Gloves. We have some nice driving gloves

for these cool days.

Tannenbaum Brothers. :-To The Farmers-:

We wish to call your attention to our

HEAVY BOOTS AND SHOES

For Winter wear. We make a specialty of this class goods. We also handle the Goodyear Glove Rubber Goods, the best there is made. Call and see them.

A O

THE SHOE DEALER.

105 N. Washington St. Crawfordsville, Ind.

Remember you get a chance to get the S25.00 with every purchase.

D. C. BARNHILL,

Funeral Director and Embalmer

Mew Tilnford Block, 313 S. Washington St,

All Grades of Work Furnished from Cheapest to the Best. Black and White Funeral Car. The only White Funeral Car in the County.

Residence, 415 South Washington Street

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.

Head of a horse that died through inattention to his teeth.

Chester J. Britton, jU. J), c., VeterinarySurgeon

And Dentist.

Graduate of the Chicago Veterinary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated.

Office over Mottett & Morgan's drug store, 23fcj east Main street. laflrmary at G. F. McDonald's livery stable, 222 east Market street.

THE YOUNG CASE.

The Defense lie| iiia tlio Introduction Their Testimony.

The first witness of the defense was Judge Harney, who knew Mr. Young for 40 years, lie wrote the will and the codicils and was positive that Mr. Young was perfectly sane at all times. Lie understood its contents perfectly and it was a.s he wished it. Mr. Young was very much prejudiced against the I.rookshires and declared that the girls were old enough to take sides and abide the result.

Silas Mills, the witness of the will, cnew Mr. YToung for many years and thought that he was perfectly sane all the time.

Ezra Kyle transacted much business with Young and found him always shrewd and jareful. Believed him perfectly sane always.

J. G. Fall was Y'oung's close friend and neighbor for many years. Believed him to be perfectly sane and capable.

N. G. Kessler thought Mr. Young was mentally ail right after he had failed physically. YToung once told him that if the girls acted well toward him that he would remember them.

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Thursday afternoon the plaintiffs in the Young will case brought their evidence to a close, excusing several persons who had been summoned. Miss Grace Young testified that her grandfather had always treated her affectionately and it was not until the last that she saw a change. Mrs. James Tobin testified that she had never influenced her daughters in the least against their grandfather and James Tobin also gave testimony to the same effect.

Silas F. Ashby and J. L. Havens were both sure that Young was never mentally unbalanced.

J. C. Routson thought Young was always "bright as a dollar." The decedent loafed at his store a great deal and once when Dr. Wilson told him that he ought to provide for the girls Young said that if he had anything left after lawing the Tobins he would have sense enough to know what to do with it.

Robert Lockridge, of Putnam county, was certain that Young was sound in every particular and on every subject. Y'oung told him once that he would spend every dollar he had to keep the Tobins from getting hold of that disputed 100 acres of land.

Treacherous Daddy Mills.

All is not serene in the Democratic camp as could be wished. There is blood two inches deep all over tlie countenance of pale luna. It occurs that James Wright has been the Democratic election commissioner in times past and as he has been so faithful and acceptable it was naturally supposed that Chairman Mills would continue liiin. Mills promised that he would and kept on promising so up to the hour of the appointment. Then lie turned around and appointed John Booe. His object in doing this was that a certain Democratic paper which the wheel horses call "a disreputable upstart sheet," might get to print the ballots, Mr. Booe favoring that while Mr. Wright favored the Anjus-News. The appointment caused a regular howl of rage and as a result a divy has been effected. The Artjus-Newa gets half the printing and the "upstart" the other half. The Rcvieiv gets nothing and says it doesn't want any. The Argus-News was rescued by Clerk Sparks, who insisted on preserving 'peace and harmony" even when daddy Mills protested.

Bristle l'.ldge to Have a Paper. New Richmond Enterprise. It.seems that our remarks about the feasibility of running a newspaper at a crossroad, has fouud lodgement in the brain of some misguided wretch and now he proposes to establish a paper at Elmdale, claiming that he will have plenty of backing from Bristle Ridge, whose interests lie proposes to serve. The new organ will likely be called the "Porcupine" on account of the stiffness of the bristles used in the composing rooms.

A New Gas Corporation.

The Citizens' Gas, Light and Electric Power Company is a new corporation of Lafayette, which has filed articles of association with the recorder. It has a capital stock of 8100 000 and the directors are P. C. Somerville of this city, A. O. Behm and Laban Sparks. Mr. Somerville is the only Crawfordsville stockholder.

Birthday Dinner.

Oct. 13 Mrs. Gus Truitt entertained at a sumptuous dinner party about sixty relatives and friends. The affair was in honor of Mrs. Truitt's mother, Mrs. Beal, who then celebrated the seventy-fourth anniversary of her birth. The affair was a most pleasant one and was greatly enjoyed by all who were present.

THEY WILL SOT TRY TO VOTE.

At I.eiiHt Two of Crawfordsvlllo's W. C. T. U. Delegates Disapprove the Move.

The JOURNAL stated last Thursday on authority of Mrs. Whiteford that the Crawfordsvillle delegates to the late convention of the W. C. T. U. in Indianapolis had pledged themselves to march to the polls at the coming election, with as many others as could be induced to join them, and try to cast their ballots. At least two of the delegates, Mrs. H. M. Kingery and Mrs. Minnie McKnight resent being placed in this false position. They were present in the convention when the rising vote was taken, but retained their presence of mind and were not among those who favored the action.

The reports given out by the JounXAI. and other papers have done injustice not only to these two ladies but also to tlie W. C. T. U. as a whole. The organization is not political, much as a few of its prominent members desire to make it so. Its aim is to do all that women can do for temperance and social purity, and while many of its members would consent to vote if convinced that it was their duty, many more believe that there are other and more effective ways of attaining the same end.

It is not true as lias been stated that 300 delegates to the convention pledged themselves to go to the polls. The whole number of delegates was 371, and of these not more than one-third took that stand, even in the excitement of the moment. The apparent vote was swelled by the addition of some spectators, but of the delegates proper at least two-thirds kept their seats.

Nor was the vote in any sense an integral part of the convention's proceedings. Mrs. Gougar, in the midst of a characteristic speech, announced her determination to test her right to vote, and adding that her chance of success would be increased if as many others as possible would unite with her in the demonstration,asked that all who were willing to pledge themselves to such a step would rise. The result was as stated above.

To return to the text, Mrs. McKnight and Mrs. Kingery will NOT be on exhi' bition at the polls on November G.

Jenkins Jerked.

People here will remember the accomplished and versatile Mr. Charley Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins is a baker and a year or so ago lived here working for Gilbert and later for Hearn. He mar lied a Miss Parker of Goose Nibble and after shamefully abusing her ran off. She still lives out on the Nibble with her mother. Charley sojourned in Illinois and several weeks ago at the Greenup fair he robbed J. F. Barford of §285. Mr. Barford came here and secured the services of Marshal Grimes to run Jenkins down. Mr. Grimes cast about by inquiry and learned that his game was in Decatur. He made a fly ing trip there Sunday and scooped Jenkins up. He took him overland to the jail of Toledo, 111., and left him there in tlie custody of the officers of the law. Jenkins will doubtless locate soon in Joliet.

Jackman Challenges Vory.

Last Friday there was quite a squabble between the Prohibitions and Democrats at Jackville. It appears that Vory Brookshire and his Prohibition opponent, Jackman, were both booked for a speech in the same church. Jackman had the inside track, however, and refused to give up to the Democrats. He declared that he intended to speak first, but was willing to give way and make a joint debate out of the affair if pleasurable to Brookshire. He accordingly wrote out a challenge which was taken to Brookshire, who promptly declined it. Jackman, therefore, went ahead and spoke for an hour, after which the honorable Mr. Brookshire elucidated for sixty minutes to the commingled saints and sinners.

A Big Fair Circuit.

Arrangements are being made for a fair circuit in Western Indiana which will run from August 1 to the middle of October. It will include Sheridan, Lebanon,Frank fort, Boswell, Lafayette, Crawfordsville, Covington. Bloomington, Bedford. Seymour, Washington and Vincennes. A meeting of the secretaries will be held at Lafayette on Oct. 20.

Will Be Held at Waynetown. The committee appointed by the K. of P., to select the place for holding the next annual reunion of the lodges of Montgomery county met last Saturday at Castle Hall. Nearly all the lodges were represented and after canvassing the matter it was decided to hold the reunion at Waynetown the third Saturday in August. '95.

BR00KSH1RE AT DARLINGTON.

A Voter Mukos Southing ttaviow of Wlnit He Culla a !Spcecli,

For some time prior to the fourth of October John llulett and liarap Boolier were very busy billing this part of tlie Eigtli district for the great Prophet Elijah, and they succeeded in getting out a fair audince, composed of onethird Republicans, a few Populists, with a number of ladies. Elijah appeared on tlie track in good shape driven by Grover, and after running that automatic arm of his a few revolutions and scoring up and down the stretch a few times, he was sent off against time at a break-neck gait, which he maintained throughout without making a break or a hit and went under the wire the champion of the world, in 1 3-i flat, breaking all former records either of stallions or geldings, having told 150]4 lies in a less given time than

the public. He told us how he had taken the farmer, the mechanic and the day laborer in his arms of love and mercy and voted for them to have better pay and no work at all. lie told us how he.had twice voted for free sugar, and that the Republicans with three traitorous Democrats and three Populists are responsible for the 40 percent, duty which is now on sugar. He told how many millions it would save us according to the way the Ways and Means committee "figered" it, over the McKinley bill which he said had (50 per cent, duty on sugar, which is a 100 per cent. lie. He then tried to excuse Grover and the administration by asking if the lowly Nazarene was responsible because Judas proved a traitor and sold out (to the sugar trust). Two or three 'of the old fathers shuffled their feet in response but he asked them to hold their enthusiasm till later, but he never got them to that point again. He told us how he had been given a place on the Committee on Appropriations, and that he is the youngest man that has had a place there for twenty-five years, a fact of which he is duly proud, and then his mind seemed to wander and drift for a time into the hazy and to him unknown realms of truth, and -made the statement that "truth crushed to earth will rise again," referring as his auditors supposed to McKinleyism in Maine and Vermont. He compared the Republican party to a ship at sea without a compass or rudder and sailing around not knowing which way to go for land, but the Democratic party knows' what it»wants to do, but he forgot to tell us that they don't know how to do do it.

any other man that ever stood before join with the Illinois jobbers outside of

He gave us some very startling news in the statement that the Angel of destistiny has been hovering over the Democracy for a hundred years and protecting it for a special purpose. If that purpose was to bring on a panic, that angel is now out of a job. After stating that he was almost exhausted he gave his arm a few more turns and smiled his best smile and told the ladies it was lovely, oh, so lovely in them to come out and hear such a dry speech.

MOHAL.—Four life long Democrats have been heard to say that he is the biggest fraud in the country that they had voted for him three times and he had done nothing and they would never vote for him again.

A VOTKK.

Hard Granite.

The great boulder which is to serve as the monument of the late Judge Davidson has been placed in position at Oak Hill cemetery. Sidney Speed has undertaken to face and inscribe the rock but has found the task no easy one. The granite is of the most stubborn and enduring character and the chisels break off on it like cast iron fence pickets in zero weather. Acid fails to effect it and special tools will have to be made.

S iivSi Kcv. Howe May Leave. There is a very strong probability that Rev. W. J. llowe, pastor of the Christian church, will tender a resignation to his congregation in about a couple of months. Rev. Howe is a Kentuckian and a flourishing charge in his native State has offered him a salary of $2,500 to come there. Now, 82,500 is considerably more than the Crawfordsville church can pay so it is likely that there will be a vacancy here very soon.

House Burned.

Friday afternoon the residence of Charles Carver, south of town and near

COLORADO honey at south Walnut street.

A POLITICAL MOVE.

The Sugar Slump Iti-ought About I5y Democratic Milliliter* to Influence Votes.

The equality plan of selling sugar to the retailer, which the jobbers composing the Indiana Association established last April, has been killed by the action of the Chicago jobbers, who were included, in retiring from the agreement. Under its provision tlie jobbers reaped a certain profit on each pound of three-sixteenths of a cent, which was paid in the form of a rebate by the sugar trust. The Indiana jobbers lament the fate of their cherished scheme which changed an article of certain profit to one of certain loss. They say the sugar sales average onethird of the business of the jobbers, and that the losses must be borne by the other two-thirds. It is not believed that there will be any immediate effort to revive the plan just now, but the association expects some time to

Chicago who retain the plan, and are now, they say, selling at a loss with hope of future gain. A member of the Association at Indianapolis on Saturday said: "The trust failed to support us and sold to anybody. It wanted to break down prices just now in order to bolster up Democratic chances. There is no doubt in the mind of any jobber here that tlie Havemeyers are in cahoots with the Democratic managers to make a reduction in the price of sugar to last until after the election. There is no limit to the power of the trust to regulate the price, and if the present decline is not due to Democratic pressure on Havemeyer the party leaders are not living to their records for shrewdness. They have, no doubt, threatened the trust with more trouble unless it should yield. The price of raw sugar has shown no such decline as to warrant the prevailing slump to the jobber and retailers, and it can only be explained on the score of party pressure for past and prospective favors."

Township Trustees.

the Shady Nook school House, was Indianapolis last summer. Lew burned to the ground. Most of the household goods were saved. The fire originated from a spark from the chimney. The house was owned by Eph C. Griffith and was insured.

So far State Superintendent Vories has received notice from seventy-eight counties of ninety-five trustees serving under appointment. Fourteen counties are yet to be heard from. Under the decision of the joint committee appointed by the two State central committees there will have to be two sets of trustees nominated in those townships where the trustees are holding by appointment, one set for the short term, from the election until August, 1805, and one set from August, 1805—for four years. Superintendent Vories thinks that the list of appointed trustees will run over 100.

Colorado Honey.

That consignment of Colorado honey for I. M. Kelsey has arrived and 10,000 pounds have been placed with the various grocery merchants of Crawfordsville. The honey is made from the alfalfa flower, and when you see it you will pronounce it the richest and whitest your eyes ever beheld. Colorado leads the world in the richness and beauty of her honey, a.s was attested at the World's Fair where it carried off the first premium. And the honey on exhibition there came from the Uncompahgre Valley, the same Valley where Mr. Kelsey lives and where his honey was made.

Tough Cigar Makers.

Sunday afternoon a couple of sporty cigar makers, late arrivals here, hired one of Insley's rigs and loading up with a coterie of fair maids from the Sherman House, drove down to the valley. Here a runaway occurred and the handsome surrey was literally knocked to kindling wood. Later in the evening one of the cigar makers tried to ruu the Sherman House and was fired out into the gutter by landlord Nolan.

Divorce Asked.

Monday morning in the circuit court •Jere West filed a suit for Clara Stewart who prays for a divorce from James Stewart. The ground of the complaint is cruel and inhuman treatment. The case is a peculiarly sad one. Mr. Stewart is a sober industrious man who has accumulated quite a little property and who has the respect of all. His wife is a very estimable lady. Both seem to have tempers, however.

Bet urn of a Native.

Lewis G. Fry, a native and an old resident of Crawfordsville, is visiting in the city, having come from the wild and woolly west. He is the gentlemen who was falsely reported to be the leader of the hobo army that camped

states that he has not yet joined the ranks of the Coxeyites and doesn't intend to.

COLORADO honey, wholesale and retail, at Isoxn Williams', under the old 1 opera house, north Washington street.

J. D. Iiuffner's, Colorado honey took first premium at the World's l^uir.