Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 April 1895 — Page 8

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FRIDAY, APIUL 26. 1895.

IS A GAY DECEIVER.

"Luckj" Italdwln'o Novel Defense in a lireacli of Promise Suit.

E. J. Baldwin, better known as "Lucky" Baldwin, the millionaire horse owner, mining man and land proprietor, whose scrapes with women in the vicinity of Crawfordsville have made him notorious, has filed a most remarkable demurrer to the suit of Miss Lillian Ashley against him for trilling with her affections. Baldwin has so many times been the object of similar suits, that, as he says, he no longer worries about a little thing like that. In this demurrer Baldwin pictures himself as a gay deceiver, and says that his reputation is so well known that no woman of experience would trust him. The demurrer says that knowing Baldwin was a married man, Miss Ashley ought to have understood his protestations of love were insincere, and that his expressed sentiments of affection were but the means toward an end. Miss Ashley knew the general character of her betrayer, and should not have permitted herself to be led from the path of virtue by such evidently insincere protestations of love.

llow to Kill Apple Lico.

The Indianapolis Journal saj-s: State Geologist Blatcliley will start out today again for Parke county, where he and his assistant, T. C. Hopkins, of the Chicago University, are investigating the red sandstone deposits. Until this work is finished the geologist will be in his office only Mondays and Saturdays, the rest of the time being spent in field work. Mr. Blatchley, yesterday, in speaking of the unusual and most destructive development of apple tree lice in northern Indiana, said that the insect could be destroyed by spraying the tree with an emulsion composed of thirteen gallons of water, one of kerosene and one quart of milk, or with a tobacco tincture made by pouring boiling hot water upon a pound of tobacco and letting the mixture stand over night.

GENERAL GOSSIP.

it Oonoerus Everything and Kverybodj anl la, Therefore, of Interest to All of Us.

Lee S. Durham is in the city to remain indefinitely. —Dr. Tucker will address the Odd Fellows next Sunday. —A daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wilhite. —Will Hessler is now in Valparaiso and may locate there to open a dental office. —Jere Townsley went to the Kankakee on Wednesday to spenS. a few weeks. —Mrs. W. S. Haynes has left for a visit with her parents in Memphis, Tenn. —Albert A. Bowers has sued (ieo. E. Grimes, of Brown township, for S.'iOO for breach of contract. —L. A. Swift has purchased the Jacob McNeely property on east Jefferson street and will occupy it. —Mrs. Win. S. Lamb has arrived from Oklahoma to spend the Summer with her parents, Cicero McClure and wife. —Already this week five car loads of fine horses have been shipped from Crawfordsville for the foreign and northern markets. —Mrs. Sarah Shirk has taken out a building permit for a §700 brick room adjoining the Atkinson grocery building on east College street. —On Tuesday a two year old child of Dr. Olin, of Elmdale, died of the measles. This disease has already caused several fatalities in this county. —The Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, with its usual promptness, Tuesday adjusted the loss of D. II. Martin on his barn and dairy stock for the sum of $2,200. —Indianapolis News: Mr. and Mrs. George W. Benton and family have removed to Irvington, where they will be until the summer, which they will spend in Denver, Col. —Miss Lena Tipton, of Mt. Sterling, Ivy.', who has frequently visited tiie family of G. S. Durham, was recently injured in a runaway accident. Her kneecap was fractured and will not be able to walk for a year. —Miss Fannie Watson went to Indianapolis Tuesday where she will remain two weeks. During her stay she will take the civil service examination, it being her desire to teach in an Indian school in the far West next year —The national convention Knights of St. John at Evansville in June will be housed in tents by the hospitable citizens of Evansville, and by that means the expenses of .visiting Knights will be lessened and the time of their stay lengthened pleasantly. —It has been astertained that the damage to the telephone system bySunday's electrical storm did not exceed S25. It was at first thought that the loss would be much larger. Supt. Zirown, of the electric light works, says that 810 will cover the light plant's loss.

PLEASDRE TRIPS.

Numerous Kxciirtaionfl the Coming Summer ut Reasonable Kates.

Whether the tourist's fancy directs him to the New England States or the Atlantic seaboard to the South, or to the lake region of the North, or to the Rocky Mountains and the wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be giv en opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for railroad fair this year. There will be low rates to Baltimore in May, account the American Medical Association, to Decatur. 111., account the German Baptist (Dunkard) meeting. and to Pittsburg for the Presbyterian General Assembly. There will also be low rates to Meridian, Miss., account the General Assembly Cumberland Presbyterian (church the same month. In June excursion tickets will be sold to Omaha, account the National Jr. O. U. A. M.: to Chattanooga, Tenn., for the International convention of Epworth League to Cleveland, Ohio, account the National Republican league meeting, and to Roanoke, Va., for the German Baptist meeting. Excursions for July include low rates to Baltimore for the Baptist Y. P. Union meeting: to Asbury Park for the L. A. W. meeting, and to Boston for the Christian Endeavor convention, and to Denver, Col., account of the National Educational Association meeting. In August excursion tickets will be on sale to Boston, account of Knights Templar conclave. The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but the inblic generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbury Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful ocean resort. The Denver excursion will be just the thing for a sight seeing jaunt of the far West, as tickets will be honored going one way and returning a different route through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Variable route privileges will also be accorded Boston excursionists by some of the lines, enabling them to visit Niagara Falls, Montreal, Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence Rapids, the White Mountains, the Hudson river territory, and to run by steamer on Long Island Sound, after sightseeing at Newport, Narragansett Pier, Nantucket and the Cape Cod resorts to New York, and thence through the agricultural paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and uniata rivers, over the Alleghenies, around famous Iloi\3e Shoe Curve, through historic Johnstown and the coke and iron regions of western Pennsylvania.

12AST KM) NOTES.

Married, at the home of the groom's parents on south Water street, at 7:I!0 o'clock Monday evening, James Butcher and Miss Adda Miller, both of this city. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Fuson in one of his happiest efforts. The bride looked very sweet, in a bridal robe of cream albatross trimmed in silk, while the groom wore the conventional black. There were a number of guests present, those from outside of the city being James Butcher, of Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. Lilly Stokes, of Danville, 111. The presents were numerous and useful and some of them valuable. Ice cream and other refreshments in abundance were served and everybody seemed full of life and young again. We congratulate Jim on his selection of a bride and must say that the bride is to be commended for her selection of a husband. Miss Bertie and Master Freddy Caldwell furnished the music for the occasion and did splendid for children. After all were satisfied with refreshments and music the guests quietly returned to their homes.

COLLEGE NOTES.

The friends of Orrie Ilouts, '91, will be pleased to learn of his marriage to Miss Maude Clough, of Oakland, Cal. The affair was not without romance. Last fall Orrie was hunting away off from civilization iu the mountains and broke his leg. He lay up in the mountains for several weeks and then rode 200 miles on horseback to the railroad. In order to rest he wi^fit to Oakland to visit Walter Rosebro. There he fell on the sidewalk and refractured his leg. He was laid up for five weeks and during this time he met Miss Clough who delighted to bring him bouquets and sing to him. They became engaged and were to have been married in une. Orrie went up to his ranch to get ready and last month fell off a bridge, again breaking that leg. Maude came up as soon as she heard of it and married him while he was down. She considered it both a duty and a privilege to render him assistance. They are extremely happy.

A Heavy Insurance.

John S. Gray, who died at Waynetown last Tuesday, carried a life insurance of £10,000 in the Northwestern of Milwaukee. He had been carrying it for a number of years.

The First Wool.

The first wool bought in Crawfordsville this year was purchased Wednesday by McClure A, Graham. It was a 500 lb. lot and the price paid was 15 cents.

JOHN SANFORD GRAY.

An Aged and Honored Citizen, Whose Life AVas a Hcnediction, Is Called to His Kewanl.

John Sanford Gray died Tuesday at 0 o'clock at the residence of his son, James Gray, near Waynetown. He had been in failing health for several months and for the few days previous to his demise the end seemed hourly at hand. The funeral occurred today at 11 o'clock from Union chapel, near Waynetown, the services being conducted by Rev. O. II. P. Abbott, of Indianapolis, and Rev. Yanderman, of Bainbridge. The interment occurred at Wesley chapel.

Mr. Gray's wife died twenty-four years ago. The following children born to them still live: James, John Iv., S. P., William, Ben T. and E. A. Gray, Mrs. II. 15. Suvder and Mrs. James Vaughn.

John Sanford Gray, or "Uncle Sant,'' as he was generally known, was born in Ohio eighty-six years ago next June and there grew to manhood. Then he was married and iu 1832 he came to Montgomery county and purchased the farm of Christopher Mann, near Wesley, a place now owned by Isaac Davis. Mr. Gray begau life as a pioneer and most ably represented as a type those hardy men wlio braved the trackless wilderness and from it wrought the goodly land we now enjoy. Powerful in mind and body J. S. Gray became a leader from the day of his advent here. He had been a cabinet maker in Ohio and his services were constantly in demand here. Often after a hard day's work in the new ground he passed the night in shaping a coffin for some dead neighbor, catching, perhaps, a few minutes' sleep on the shavings about his work bench. But he prospered and his name was known and respected in all the adjoining counties. Like the most of the rugged characters who blessed our earlier civilization with their lives he lived in the fear and admonition of the Lord. He and his wife were staunch Methodists and their home was the home of those devoted circuit riders whose religious zeal gave a heritage to the State in those days when the people were too poor to build churches or support spiritual advisers.

When the war broke out the great issues of the day Jed to a dissension in the church of which Mr. Gray was a member and he with his family and others founded the Christian Union church, an independent organization which still flourishes. He was a great Sunday school worker all his life and a truly devoted Christian. lie coupled farming with stock buying and amassed quite a fortune. He was better known from his connection with the Horse Thief Detective Association, perhaps than from any other cause. Along about 1840 liorse stealing was a profession followed by hundreds, and the law could not put it down. Finally matters came to such a pass that it became necessary to meet organization with organization, and from this stern necessity was born the "Wabash General Horse Thief Detective Association." In the year 1841 J. S. Gray called a meeting in Waynetown to perfect an organization. He with two others—Simeon Osborn and Thomas Hall—there organized for self protection. These men quietly, but rapidly, established chapters of the new organization at Shawnee -Mound, Wesley, and numerous other points in the most severely afflicted sections of the State. They were men known far and wide for their wealth and honesty alike, and all their charters were given to men of like character and standing. The first general convention was held in 1847, when the society had grown famous for its swift and effective work and at this convention the secret work and cabalistic signs were first introduced. After this convention the growth of the order was rapid and its power came to be felt and feared as well as respected. It was in 1850 that the order extended itself to Ohio and Illinois, and at this year's convention Thomas McKibben, of Danville, 111., a fearless man with Indian blood in his veins, was elected president, with John S. Gray, vice-president. At this convention the name of the order was changed to "The Wabash Horse Thief General Detective Association." Three years later John S. Gray succeeded to the presidency and served for thirty-eight years, or until 1891, when the convention held at Greenville, O., created a new office —that of grand organizer—and elected

Mr. Gray to this for life. At the convention the name was again changed to "The National Horse Thief Detective Association."

From a sketch of Mr. Gray, published a year ago in connection with the Detective Association we quote the following: "John S. Gray, better known as "Uncle Sant Gray," the venerable head of the order, is now eighty-four years of age, but is hale and hearty. He organizes every new lodge, giving the unwritten work and instructions. His name is a synonym all over western Indiana and eastern Illinois for sterling integrity. He was at one time a very wealthy man, but by the failure of others, whose security he was, he lost a few years ago, his entire fortune,and

was plunged into debt fully §50,000. He was then an old man, but instead of sinking under his misfortunes he went to work to liquidate that indebtedness. His courage and honesty have been rewarded, and he now owes less than §1,000, a debt, too, which he never contracted, save by indorsing other men. He works hard and can do considerable manual labor, but he lives princ.pally for the Detective Association, in which he is greatly interested and which he considers 'to be the grandest things on earth, next to the church of God." He never tires of relating the incidents connected with the early history of the order, and his stories are told with a force and charm which thrill his hearers."

In the death of Mr. Gray Montgomery county loses one of her best citizens. A man of strong convictions he was true to them always. "His words wore bonds, his oaths svere oracles, His love sincere, his thoughts Immaculate His tears pure messengers sentfrom his heart His heart as free from fraud as heaven from eurtli."

THE GAUGHAN DIVORCE CASE.

Judge Harney Decides in Favor of the Lady, Granting Her the Decree.

The arguments in the divorce case of Julia Fletcher Gaughan vs. Anthony Gaughan were made Tuesday after' noon and the court took tlie'case under advisement until next morning. Upon the assembling of court Judge Harney made known his decision by granting to the lady a decree of divorce. Judge Harney stated that while the evidence was lacking in some things that it showed that the two were not compatible and could not live together. They had experimented several times and failed. It is not the province of the law to bind people together who have nothing in common.

The lady in the case is worth $50,000 and has one of the finest estates in the county. Oaughan is her third husband.

union Evangelistic Meetings. The union evangelistic meetings, in which all the churches in Crawfordsville will unite, to be conducted by Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D., will begin May 2. The music will be led by Mr. P. P. Belhorn, assisted by a chorus choir. The services will be held in a large tent with a capacity for seating 4,000, and which will be pitched on the Crawford lot on west Main street. All are cordially invited to attend these meetings.

FOR wedding invitations see TUB JOURNAL Co., PRINTERS.

127-129 EAST MAIN STREET, CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.

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1895 Happiness.

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