Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 April 1895 — Page 3

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We have received Some Special Bargains in.

,^'n ele8'ant

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following

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1 Silksand Dress Goods

And will put tliera on sale Tuesday morning. There are too many of them to quote prices, but if you will call we will show you

some of the greatest bargains.ever offered. And now for your

I FINE MILLINERY

We have the correct styles and caD suit you in a Hat or Bonnet y- from the verj- cheapest to the very finest. We also guarantee to please you both in style and price. ^5 X-- We offer this week 25 Ladies' All Wool Capes in Navy Blue at 00c -3 5^ Also 25 Ladies' Double Cloth Capes in Black, Brown, Navy and ^2

Tan at 81.39, worth 82.50. They are elegantly made and full sweep. fin Ingrain Carpets as low as 20c per yard. Several styles all wool ^3 g- arp ets at a big bargain.

I' Abe Le

Cliantz Wrapper, nicely made, only 00c this week.

Vinson.

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We Build The Best

That is why everyone should purchase a vehicle from us. We have a full line and the largest in the city.

QUALITY

DOVETAIL COnPANY,

SALESROOM—110 South Washington St., in charge of W. W. Watson.

BOOKS! BOOKS!

-AT-

THE FAIR

Paper Back Books are regular

FOR io CENTS.

John Halifax Ships That Pass in the Night. The New Magdalene, Cleopatra, East Lynne, Black Beauty,

The Son of Porthos, The Heiress,

And 100 others at 10 cents. 1.000 books by good authors to close out at 5 cents. 100 Cloth Bound Books by best authors only 25 cents. That good book "TRILBY'' only 81.49.

The great World's Fair Book, finely illustrated, 300 Magnificent Photographic Niews, nicely bound cloth and gilt. You should not fail to get one "for only 81-08, at

THE FAIR,

South Washington st. Crawfordsville, Ind.

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

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VAULT affords positive and absolute security against the Grave Robber, and prefects both casket and body from dampness, mould and decay, and from burrowing animals and vermin.

Everything you want and at way down prices. New Furniture a Specially. Opposite City Building.

STEPHENSON & DILL.

-i.C. BARNHILL,

runeral Director and Embalmer

Hew litnford Vlock, 213 8. 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 S. Washington St. Crawfordsville,Ind.

J. r. SWANK, Assistant

IH£ BOYD CRAVE VAULT

40,000 Human Bodies Mutilated every yearon Dissecting Tables In Medical Colleges in the United States. Protect the dead. Thousands' of graves robbed annually. No grave, regardless of location, is safe from the ravages of the human ghoul. The BOYD GRAVE

For sale by D. C. Barnhill, Crawfordsville, Ind.

The Best,

STYLE

Up to Date,

PRICE

We make a specialty of three-quarter work, and build special wcrk to order. Don't fail to give us a call before you buv.

To Meet the Times

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Chester J. Britton,

M.

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VeterinarvSurgeon And Dentist.

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

Office over Mottett & Morgan's drug store, 23M east Main street.

Twflrmary at G. F, McDonald's livery stable, 222 east Market street.

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Is absolutely nirtifght

and water-proof

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Springfield, Ohio,

VOL. 48—NO. 1G CRAWFOKDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 19 1895.—TWELVE PAGES

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The Dairy Barn of David Martin Destroyed With All Its Contents Including Many Cattle.

IA MOST GALLANT DEED OF HEROISM.

Chief Horsey Climbs a Dizzy Wall and Saveg a Young Lady From the Flames.

Shortly after 12 o'clock Sunday morning the dairy barn on David Martin's farm just south of town on the Whitesville and Danville road was destroyed by fire. Mr. Martin does not live on the farm which is managed at present by Walter and Jesse Armentrout, who live in the residence just north of the barn. They were asleep and knew nothing of the fire until apprised of it by Ed Seering who arrived on the scene just as the barn roof was falling in. Strangely enough none of the neighbors were awakened by the light or roaring flames and the barn was destroyed with all it contained. There was a shocking loss of live animals which must have suffered terribly. Twenty-two cows, a calf, six good horses and a number of hogs perished miserably in the flames and smoke. Besides the live stock all the implements, milk wagons and buggies, hay and corn were destroyed.

The report of the fire was circulated on the streets Sunday morning and during the day hundreds of people drove and walked out to witness the scene of the disaster. Of course every bit of inflammable material was destroyed and in the large lot a sickening sight was presented. Upon the blackened arena where the immense barn had stood a few hours before lay the charred and smoking carcasses of the poor animals that had perished so awfully. The intense heat had actually burned much of the raw flesh leaving only bones, save on the very fleshy parts. The carcass of one horse lay in the center of the carriage room showing that he must have broken loose and maddened by pain broken through from the stalls into the other section of the barn.

A peculiar incident of the fire was the escape of a fine mare. She had broken loose and actually crawled through a manure hole about three feel square. She leaped the fence and fled to her old home near Balhinch where she was found yesterday, her mane and tail burned off and her body frightfully bruised by sqeezing through the hole. Dr. Chester Britton says she will recover with the loss of an eye which was burned out. Her escape seems to contradict the old tradition to the effect that a horse will never leave a burning building unless blindfolded and led out.

There is no unquestionable explanation as to the origin of the blaze. ODe of the Armentrouts had put up his horse at 11 o'clock 1 upon returning from town but had used no light.

The most reasonable explanation is accidental incendiarism. Kelly Cunningham living near by had a set of harness stolen that night and it is thought that perhaps the rascals who visited his barn also visited Mr. Martin's and accidentally fired it by striking matches.

Mr. Martin evidenced the great American spirit of "git thar" by the manner in which he faced his loss. He Sunday secured new milk wagons, arranged in the neighborhood for the securing of first class milk and was around Monday morning waiting on his customers.

The loss is heavy but the insurance will go far toward relieving it. Mr. Martin was insured for $2,700 in the Ohio Farmers', §900 on the corn and the balance on the contents.

A GALLANT DEED.

Monday shortly before 9 a. m. an alarm of fire called the department to the residence of James Blankenship, just west of the Y.M.C. A. building. A fire originating in a defective flue was raging and volumes of smoke were pouring from the eaves. The house is a story and a half affair with a brick front raised before the old building, hiding a window and leaving a little alcove between the brick front and the house. The firemen were busy working away when suddenly Henry Coolman, the blacksmith, shouted in thunder tones: "My gawd! A helpless female is perishing in the flames!"

The crowd ran around to the west side of the house when a horrible spectacle burst upon their startled vision. Miss Hattie Blankenship upon the outbreak of the fire had hustled up to the front room to secure her Easter bon­

net and in attempting to return found the egress cut off by reason of the suffocating smoke. She climbed out of the front window mentioned abote, and walking between the old front and the new brick front reached the west wall upon which she stood like Patience on a monument. From the dizzy heigth of some fourteen feet she gazed down upon the excited throng below. Upon the cruel pavement men seemed no larger than pigmies, and raising her eyes to heaven (to which it seemed that she would be pretty suddenly called), the poor girl clasped lier hands in silent prayer. The spectators sick at heart groaned and many turned away. Suddenly a joyful shout went, up. Rescue was at hand! The firemen bold began to run their ladders iip the wall. Would they fall short? The awful dread was relieved when the last inch of the ladder on the scene banged against the top of the wall like a policeman's club on the cranium of a loitering bum. A loud huzza rent the air in several pieces as Chief Dorsey ran up the quivering rungs with fawn-like grace. The rolling smoke encircled his brow like a laurel crown as he reached the damsel and unheeding the faint plaudits of the wildly excited masses in the street far below he took the position for the two-step waltz. The lady jammed her easter bonnet on her head in happy abandon and held on for grim death. The perilous journey down the ladder was safely accomplished and impeded only by the lady occasionally sticking her feet through the rungs of the ladder at the imminent risk of having them broken off. Arrived upon the pavement the escaped victim of the cruel, hungry flames was restored to her happy relatives while Chief Dorsey. unconscious of bis heroism, turned his attention to the subduing of the fire fiend.

The building was saved with a loss of perhaps 8400. It is the property of Mrs. Mary Lee and was insured for $700 in tlie Phoenix, of Hartford.

Quick Work.

WAYNETOWN, Ind., April 10, '95.—To whom it may concern:—This is to certify that our barn and contents with our horses, which was destroyed by fire March 27, '95, was insured with A. S. Clements in the Home Insurance Company, of New York, was promptly adjusted and paid to our satisfaction and we cheerfully recommend Mr. Clements and his solicitor, T. N. Myersj to the insuring public for liberal and fair treatment in case of loss. Also we wish to to thank our friends and neighbors for their kind assistance in this, our great need.

T. J. WlLLSON,

d&wlt MINNIE WILLSON.

ONLY $2,000.

That is All That Billy Goben Gets for ail Evening's Entertainment.

When Billy Goben got on board a Monon train at Indianapolis a few months ago bound for llennselaer he litttle thought what a piece of luck was in store for him.

Billy didn't buy a ticket but paid the conductor the fare, receiving a rebate check for a few cents. In a few minutes the conductor came back and demanded fare again. Billy refused, stating that he had paid. Then the conductor became abusive, called Billy a liar and when the train stopped at Westfield pitched him off in the mud. Billy was rather warm under the collar and he sued the road for $5,000 damages. The case came to a close last week at Delphi, where it was tried on a change of venue. Billy was represented by A. B. Anderson and the jury awarded him a verdict for $2,000.

Excursion to Wyandotte Cave. Attica Ledycr: After hearing from Prof. Millis, of our city schools, and PresidentjBurroughs and Prof. Milford, of Wabash College at Crawfordsville, and finding that they are enthusiastic in relation to a proposed excursion to Wyandotte Cave, Dr. Blu has made all the necessary arrangements for one except the date, which will be after June 19th. It will leave here on the midnight train for Danville Junction and then go over the C. & E. I. to Evansville. There the excursionists will be transferred to a steamboat and go 138 miles up the Ohio river to Leavenworth, Ind., then by hack^five miles into the country to the cave. Afte# eating dinner at the cave hotel they will go through what is known as the long route of the cave and return to Leavenworth and board the boat at 10 o'clock the same evening for the return trip. The -distance of the round trip is nearly 500 miles and will take about three days to make it. The expense, including car fare, meals and beds on' boat, hack fare, hotel bill and cave fee, will be only $10.

A Joke On the Monon.

The lawyers of the Monon road who conducted the road's defense in the case of Will Goben are probably kicking themselves at present. Just before the case went to trial the plaintiff offered to compromise for $300, which proposition was refused. In the trial the witnesses of the defense were all rattled and gave damaging testimony, which resulted in a verdict of $2,000 for the plaintiff.

THE NEW SOLDIERS' HOME.

How the lieauttful Asylum

will lo

Ar­

ranged for the State's Heroes.

The trustees of the new State Soldiers' Home have accepted the plans for the general buildings and the laying out of the grounds prepared by J. H. Alexander & Son, architects, Lafayette. The trustees believe the buildings can be erected within the appropriation of $75,000. The plans provide for a hospital and dining room for patients, a general dining room, old men's home and old people's home, a quartermaster's building, a coinmissarry building, and a power house and laundry building. In the old men's home there will be a general reception room, and the remainder of the building will be divided into wards.

Two verandas, one above the other, will be at the front of the building. The hospital will be arranged for one hundred persons. The cooking for the sick will be done in the hospital building. The officers and physicians will have their headquarters there. In the building there will be eight rooms set aside for the very sick. The commis sary building will stand on the side of a hill, and will have a large basement, in which can be stored two thousand bushels of potates. In front of the main dining room there will be a reception room. Over the dining hall will be rooms for very old people.

James It. Carnahan, of the board of trustees, received from the Woman's Relief Corps of the State $587.70, which is to be used in the erection of a cottage at the home. Provision has been made for ten cottages to be erected by the G. A. R. of the State, and this one by the W. R. C. The trustees have plans by which tliey expect to secure twelve or fourteen more cottages. The general plan of grounds has been made with the expectation that in time there will be one cpttaga for each county in the State.

Sunday School Convention.

The following is the programme of the Franklin township Sunday school convention to be held at Garfield, Ind Thursday, April 25, 1895 9 J0—Devotional exercise conducted by

Itev. J. U. Ulaek

10:90 -Our duty In the Sabbath school.... iC. U. Shaver 5-Ollg. 10:M0—Recitation Cora Long 10:40—Plans to Induce Study ol liCssous

C. W.HOSB

•Song.

11:10—Miscellaneous business. 11 :.'i0—Adjournment. 12:00—Dluner. 1:00—Devotional exercise conducted by

He v. K. P. Trotter

1:15—Election of oflicers. 1:40—A Mother's Influence In the Babbath School Mrs. Jennie Paddock

Sonic.

2:00—Uecltation Pearl Cox 2:15—At What Age Should Wo Quit Sunday School Work R. c. Harper 2:45—How May the Superintendent Inouce Persons to Teach In the Sabbath School W. D. l'eebles

Song.

:i: 15—Recitation Recitation 15:^0—Address, Our Work the Past Vear ., W. C. Klrnler .1:4u—Miscellaneous business. 4:00—Adjournment.

Dinner will be served at the church. All are cordially invited to come and spend a day in the Sunday school work. W. C. KIMLKU, Pres.

Indiana Dunkards in Dakota. The following special from Mayville, N. D., will interest the friends of the Dunkards who went from this county to join the colony mentioned: "The Dunkard colony near this place has not yet settled down from the excitement occasioned by the recent arrival of a contingent of four hundred members of the faith from Indiana, although the newcomers are rapidly accustoming themselves to their new home and the changed order of things. The Dunkard colony which has, so far, attracted little notice, now numbers nearly one thousand members. It is the ultimate intention to concentrate all the Dunkards in the United States at this point and in other near-by parts of North Dakota, and thus establish a colony as clannish as that of the Mormons in Utah.

Death of Mrs. George W.Snyder. Mrs.George VV. Snyder, aged 83 years, died last Friday at 9:30 o'clock at her home on east College street, after an illness of t\vo years, her disease being paraly* s. Snyder was a sister of the late .J. N. McConnell, and of Mrs. James Lynn and Mrs. J. II. Benefiel. She was among the early settlers of this county, and during her long life has been a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. She leaves a husband and several children to mourn her departure.

Sailed for Japan.

Mrs. J. C. Hutton Monday received a letter from Guy Huestis in which she learned that his father and mother, Captain and Mrs. Huestis, had sailed on the 5th for Yokolioma, Japan, and would be absent from this country about three months. They anticipate a delightful voyage and a pleasant visit in the land of the Rising Sun.

PART FIRST

A BURLY BRUTE

Heats Ilia YVlfo Tn Shameful Manner and Is Given a Heavy Sontom-e.

Fred White, a negro brute, has long figured in the police courts as a wife beater and has served time for that offense on several occasions. His wife is poor creature who married him in jail, where he was laying out a sentence for trying to cut her throat. She works to support him, and last Friday gave him a dollar, which he spent for whisky.

Friday night he took offense because she had no more money and proceeded to beat her again. He seized her by the throat with the clutch of a foul fiend and beat her to insensibility by striking her heavily in the face with his fist many times. He then kicked her into a corner and waited for her to regain consciousness. When she came to he again demanded money, which she had not. She refused and was again choked and beaten senseless. When unable to stand he threw her out in the street and, following, struck her a terrible blow on the forehead with a club. She fell to the ground while blood gushed from the wound in a torrent. He evidently became frightened here, for he picked her up and dragged her to a drug store, where a bottle of arnica was purchased. This he had her pour on a filthy rag and bathe the cut. Just here the police arrived and hustled the brute off to jail.

Next morning he pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and given in addition 90 days on the stone pile by Mayor Bandel.

IHli BALTIMORE CONVENTION.

Full Details of the Excursion of the B. If. 1*. U. A. Next July.

L. A. Clark, Indiana Transportation leader of the Baptist Young People's Union lias issued the following official circular: "To the Baptists of Indiana:—This is to advise you that the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (Big 4 Route), and the Chesapeake it Ohio Railway, have been selected as the official route for the Indiana delegation B. Y. P. U. A. to our Fifth International Convention to be held at Baltimore, July 18, 19, 20 and 21, 1895. Arrangements have been made for elegantly equipped vestibuled special trains to leave Indianapolis July 17tli, at 4 o'clock p. m., which will make the run in about twenty-two hours. The rate will be one fare for the round trip.

All who can possibly do so are urgently requested to converge at Indianapolis and all others at convenient points east thereof and join the State delegation on the official route.

In addition to the personal supervision by the Transportation Leader of all the details of the excursion there will be two special assistant leaders ii} each coach who will assist in the social and other interesting features of the trip and have charge of the train song services and devotional exercises in the evening of the 17th and on the morning of the 18th.

The time from Indianapolis to Baltimore will be delightfully and profitably employed as a preparatory to the grandest convention of Baptist people in the history of the denomination. Every one who can possibly attend this convention should arrange to do so. In addition to the railroad fare the expense will be from SI to $1.50 per day."

Transfers of lteal Estate.

List of deeds recorded in Montgomery county and ready for delivery. Furnished by Thos. T. Munhall, Recorder and Abstractor. Sarah Graves to A Busenbark, 42 87-100 acres in Scott tp $ 1,929.15 Sarah Graves to Is'G Kessler, 51 55-100 acres in Scott tp.. 2,319.75 Martha Ilardin to W LaFollett, lot in Darliugton 100.00 M. F. Buxton to W. ft. Allen, east lot in Pleasant Hill 100.00 W. It. Allen to.I. N. Henry, east y2 lot in Pleasant Hill 150.00 M. 10. Dain to L. R. Kramer, lot in ivirkpatrick 500.00 J. li. Linn to Win. Hawkins, tract in Walnut tp 275.00

W Stroll to .1 os Goldbtirg, lot in city 800.00 10 Mikels to II Milner, lot in Darlington 300 00 A IIall to Hall, 1-7 int. in 120 acres Walnut tp 400.00 W Miller to Adah S Miller, 3 lots and part 5 lots, city.. 7,500.00 Jos Piles to W an-d A Piles, 40 acres in Madison tp 1.00 Tim Casey to and N A Hall, fi 8-100 acres in Union tp 1,200.00 Thos Hall to 11 Hall, 0 8-100 acres in Union tp 2,200.00 Geo S Taylor to Taylor, tract in Brown tp 000.00

15 transfers consideration.818,434.90

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