Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 May 1895 — Page 5

VOL. 48—NO. 18

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THE IEEE IS PLANTED.

The Seniors, Grave and Reverend, in Their CapB and Gowns, Perform an Impressive Ceremony.

At 10:4") Tuesday morning1 occurred the Senior tree planting-in the presence of a large audience. The faculty cooperated with the class in making the affair a success by suspending- all college duties after this hour. The order of exercises as announced was carried out, meeting- with marked favor: .' Invocation Hey. E. B. Thomson History of the tree C. Claud Travis Glories of '95 louis G. Wltlierspoon Poem Homer J. Slgler Address Kev. R. J. Cunningham Benediction Kev. E. B. Thomson

The ceremonj' of planting- the tree was a most impressive one, the class standing in a semi-circle around the tree and the audience completing the circle. The tree was placed in position before the commencement of the programme and needed but the application of a few sliovelfulls of earth to complete it. While the class sang their class song three men appointed by the class stepped forward and completed the planting, thus inaugurating the new custom at old Wabash. It is hoped that this commendable move will be copied by each succeeding class with the result that many new trees may be added to the campus. The custom of leaving a memorial by each of the graduating classes is a time honored custom, but in the planting of a tree the class of '95 has separated from a«ll precedents.

NOTES.

The large stone bearing the names of the class of '95 was stolen Monday by some vandals and carted three miles north of the city, where it was buried. Tuesday morning, however, their conscience or cowardice caused them to divulge its hiding place, from whence it was rudely dragged to its final\resting place by the side of the tree.

CLASS SONCr.

To wanderers in the vale of blight, Willow ol' Habylon Be thou the lone star in the night,

Lead on and always on.

'Twas from thy side the cross was hewn, Thou weepest evermore, And ever more thine earth is strewn,

With tears uushed before. But lying dark between the years A thread of gold is spun, Is spun of rich repentant tears

And reaches to the Son.

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liaise, sanctified in every part. Thine arms of golden spray. Light up the lonely pilgrim's heart,

Star of a newer day.

It Must Be Falling.

The new State Gas Inspector Leech has completed his first trip through the gas fields and evidently agrees with"the late inspector, Mr. Jordan, as to the failing supply. Jordan was unmercifully roasted for declaring that the supply was decreasing. Mr. Leech says: "There are many sections of the gas field that I have not visited at all and am therefore not sufficiently informed to give an intelligent estimate of the gas supply but judging from what data I have at hand I believe that the static pressure of the gas field is decreasing. True, there are some wells that show a very slight decrease if any, but this is the exception and not the rule. The belief in many places is that the gas will last forever, and the extravagant use and waste caused thereby are doing great damage to the commercial interests of the gas field for no one knows better than the manufacturer who is looking for a location for a factory that at the present rate of reckless wasting of this precious fuel the time is not far distant when he will have to return to coal. The gas companies have realized this for some time and are doing all they can to husband their supply and I am glad to say that in some places the people are awakening to these facts are doing what they can to create a sentiment against the waste of this fuel.''

Want a Slice of Campus.

Abraham & Krout have entered suit against Wabash college for §100. The complaint alleges that the money is due them as a commission for securing a purchaser for the Weyman property on east Jefferson street, recently sold by the college to Daniel llemley.

EAST END NOTES.

H. F. King has bought of Henry Alfrey for the use of his pottery plant the engine, boiler and other machinery, they being the fixtures of the old heading factory.

R. H. Whitted is in receipt of a letter from a friend in drouth stricken Kansas who would like the use of our steam roller to pulverize their soil for the coming crop as that is about the only thing that would break the clods. The news of the purchase of the roller has traveled all over the country.

Marriage UeinMi,

Albert C. Goodbar and Clore. Wm. S. Thomas and Lulu Darnell. George A. Moore and«Maye E. Donofan.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 3 1895.—TWELVE PAGES PART SECOND

TOOK POISON.

Jeff Serlng Formerly ot This City, Ends His Life by Taking Morphine.

Mrs. Ed Duckworth on Tuesday received a message from Lebanon stating that her brother, Jeff Sering, had ended his life by committing suicide. Monday night he took a large dose of morphine and was in a dying condition when found.

Jeff Sering is also a brother of Perry and Ed Sering, of this place. He formerly lived here and is well known. He went to Lebanon, engaged in the saloon business and got to drinking. His wife left him and being despondent he concluded to end all his troubles in oblivion.

Official Crop Bulletin.

Dry, warm, fair weather, with badly distributed local rains on two days were very favorable to farm work and also to crops, but rain is needed much, especially for wheat and grass. Winter wheat in general is promising a good harvest, especially that on loose, bottom lands on uplands not fertilized and in clay ground it is less promising, standing thin and spotted in some fields, the continuous dry weather relieved at long intervals, only by light showers retarded the growth of wheat in the central and northern portions it is not stooling out well, but with nice rain in the future the prospect for a good crop will be enhanced. Oats is sprouting early. Rye is in goo 1 condi tion. Clover and timothy in general stand well but pasturage is short, and but little live stock on it in many counties. Plowing for-corn progressed rapidly and is nearly ended, and planting has begun in most counties, less so in the northern counties. In southern and central portion apple, pear, plum and some cherry trees are full of bloom and in the northern porlrrm they are beginning to bloom but peach bloom is very scarce. Cut worms aud the army worm are doing some injury in few counties in the southern portion and the small green insect is injuring blossoms in few counties in the central portion.

Juries Drawn.

The jury commissioners metTuesday morning and Clerk Sparks drew the following juries to serve during the May term of tlie circuit court:

AN I) JURY.

Harvey Miller—Clark. John B. Groendyke—Union. James II. Steele—Ripley. Daniel M. Swain—Brown. Kenj. N. Grimes—Brown. Wm. Tomlinson—Union.

PETIT JUKY.

Asa P. Anderson—Sugar Creek. George Runyan—Wayne. Wm. C. Loop—Walnut. Stilman A. Goff—Coal Creek. Wm. Munns—Wayne. John K. Parker—Madison. John M. Walkup—Walnut. Henry Krug—Coal Creek. Wm. T. Smith—Scott. Chas. N. Oglesby—Brown. J. J. Insley—Union. Chas. Bratton—Union.

Case lie versed.

M. E. Clodfelter received word on Wednesday that the case of his client, George Livingstone, convicted of stealing clover seed, had been reversed. Livingstone was sent to the penitentiary for 'one year and has already served three months of his term.

The case of Livingstone was the first one prosecuted by Dumont Kennedy after coming into oflice. There is no doubt at all of Livingstone's guilt as he was captured in the act. Mr. Clodfelter worked hard on the case, however, and succeeded in gaining a reversal. Judge Monks in making his decision said:

It is reversible error for the court to tell the jury that they must send the accused to the State prison, if guilty at all, when under the indictment they could have given hiin a jail seutence.

Of Interest to Lovcis of Chrysanthemums. The Yaryan green house offers a cash prize of 85.00 to the amateur who exhibits the best collection of plants at the Montgomery county chrysanthemum show this Fall, collection to contain not less than eight plants.

To all pupils of the county or city schools a cash prize of three dollars will be given for the two best cut blooms, in two colors, all plants to be purchased at the Yaryan green house. This offer will no doubt result in some fine flowers as only the cream of the gilt-edged prize winners will be offered for sale.

The Boy WltU a Sling.

Mrs. Bridget Mahoney, of Ladoga, was in the city Tuesday in attendance on Judge Chumasero's court. It seems that the son of Mr. Peffler, the Ladoga "surgeon to old shoes," had passed one pleasant afternoon in practicing with a sling on Mrs. Mahoney's window lights. The youth succeeded admirably and put artistic holes through twenty panes. Mra. Mahoney sued his father but the case was compromised Tuesday before coming to trial.

A MAN'S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE.

C. F. Kepper, the Steam Boiler Engineer, Gets Into I'retty Serious Difficulty 111 the South End.

Ida Tyler, of the south end, is an ardent admirer of steam rollers. Next to the roller she admires the man who knows how to run them. Therefore she was much taken with C. F. Kepper, the engineer of the steam roller which is now engaged in furnishing our enlightened citizenship an unending topic of red hot discussion. Tuesday evening Miss Tyler met Mr. Kepper on the streets and Mr. Kepper remarked that it was a fine evening. Miss Tyler ventured to suggest that the apple blossoms never smelled sweeter. Mr. Kepper was sure the new moon never looked more inviting for a stroll. So he and Ida strolled. About 11 o'clock they reached Ida's home and went in. Now Mr. Kepper is a ver}' spoony young man and he made violent love to Miss Ida. In the words of the poet: "He hugged till he almost busted her

Precious diaphragm, And kissed her sixteen hundred times With the zest of a battering ram." He was just smacking his lips preparatory to beginning on 1001 when pa Tyler kieked the door in and proceeded to knock Mr. Kepper into a cocked hat. Mr. Kepper acted in a violently resentful manner so Mr. Tyler drew a knife and proceeded to slice him up with the studied exactness of boarding house pie. Mr. Kepper, therefore, discovered that he had business down the street and went away to attend to it, exercising the expedition of a scared rabbit. Dr. Jones was summoned to the Robbins House and took about a dozen stitches in the young man's arm. Wednesday Mr. Tyler, Mr. Kepper and Miss Tyler were all fined by the Mayor.

No one blames Henry Tyler for the action he took in the matter. A man's house is his castle and should be protected from the encroachments of the violations of the law.

Hurt 11 IH Nerve.

Speaking of the suicide of ing formerly of this city, the News says:

Jeff SerLebanon

Last evening about 3 o'clock he came home to his mother's and said he wanted some beefsteak for supper. Mrs. Birch was -the only one at the house then and she went out and got it for him. When she returned and was cooking his supper he remarked, "This time to-morrow I'll be a corpse." But as he had been disheartened and nervous for some time his sister paid no attention to the remark. He then took a box containing morphine and took a big dose, after which he sat down and ate a very good meal. While still at the table the poison took effect and he became unconscious. He was put to bed and about 10:30 p. m. his sister noticed that he was dying. Before 11 o'clock he had departed this life, having never regained consciousness. Dr. Miller held the 'inquest this morning and after examining several witnesses decided that he had died from the narcotic effect of poison in the shape of morphine, intentionally administered by himself.

Case Affirmed.

A case which the Crawfordsville banks and others have watched with considerable interest was acted upon Tuesday by the Supreme Court. It was the case of Ezra Voris vs. J. P. Bible, Sheriff of Montgomery county, in which Voris sought to recover a note of Milo "Tomlinson, whose administrator had judgment confessed after the manner of the Illinois law in favor of others than Voris. Voris won in the Montgomery circuit court and its decision was upheld by Judge Hackney, who says that a party that confesses judgment must do so with ali the formalities required by the statutes in order to make it effective. Former adjudications of a court of record must be proved by the record

Married.

Albert L. Goodbar, of Ladoga, and Mrs. Emma Clore, of Waveland, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony Tuesday at 7 o'clock at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Charles Rice, 013 west Wabash avenue. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Frank Fox, of Ladoga, in the presence of a small company of relatives. The newly married couple will settle down in Ladoga.

Tom Nicholson's lleeord. i'Said an old time wheelman last evening: "The Indianapolis Journal is dead wrong in its statement concerning the only national record made by an Indiana man. It was Tom Nicholson, not Lon Lee, who won the national race and it was held at Detroit in '87 instead of at Buffalo in '85."

He 1* Putting (Jp^the Stuff.

Danville (111.) Commercial: The Crawfordsville JOUBNAX. says that the contract for |grading Clodfelter's electric road from Anderson to Marion, Ind., has been let. Mr. Clodfelter is furnishing a large amount of the capital for the hew telephone company of this city:

BEASTS FROM BOONE.

An Outrageously Dirty and Villainous Couple .lulled Here for an Attempted Murder.

The boundless bogs of Boone county never yawned and gave up to the Montgomery county jail a more thoroughly disreputable and vicious pair than that which was lodged behind the bars this week.

Last Tuesday Wm. Hall, an old man residing some three miles from Darlington, came riding into that place as bloody as a slaughter house floor, and well nigh dead from cuts, bruises and exhaustion. He had his wounds dressed and swore out warrants for the arrest of Absalom Conrad and wife, of Thorntown, charging them with assault and battery with intent to kill. They were arrested as soon as the officers could reach them and were given a preliminary hearing before 'Squire Martin, who bound them over to the circuit court in the sum of glOO each. In default of bail they were brought here Wednesday by Roe Miller and lodged in jail.

A representative of THE JOURNAL called on them at the jail and found them to be ignorant, vicious, depraved and dirty. The woman swore furiously all the time she talked and had a vocabulary of slang, profanity aud billingsgate rarely heard outside the vilest slums of a great city. They gloried in their bloody deed of Tuesday and coolly stated that they had tried to kill Hal'.. According to their story they had temporarily traded horses with Hall and Tuesday went to HPU'S place to trade back. He insisted that the trade had been "for keeps" and during the quarrel struck Conrad with a whip. Then Mrs. Conrad fired at him with a whip. Then Mrs. Conrad fired at him with the shotgun while Conrad hopped onto the old man and beat him nearly to death. "I went in to do him up," shouted Conrad, his eyes rolling with insane fury, "and you bet 1 did it. My knuckles are all out of joint and if they hadn't hurt so I'd have killed him. The old woman shot at him with the gun and would have popped him with the revolver if 1 hadn't been so close she was afraid of hitting me."

The Assessments of Ileal Estate. Township assessor, Frank Maxwell, states that he is constantly asked why the notices of the assessments of real estate are not given out. They are being kept back in order to equalize matters and render everything as satisfactory as possible. The notices will be given out before June 1 and will thus be in ample time for those who vvi&h to make complaint before the county barrel of equalization.

Under the nc.y law the county board of equalization will- .neet the third Monday in June aud will composed, of five members. Treasurer laufcton, Auditor Goben and Assessor Elmore are members by virtue of their offices, and Judge Harney has appointed the other two members of the board. A. J. Wolfe, of Waveland, and S. S. Martin, of Darlington, are eminently capable and acceptable gentlemen.

A Crematory.

The following from the New York Tribune shows the experience of Scranton, Pa., with a crematory: "A couple of years ago the authorities of Scranton, Pa., applied the crematory to the solution of the garbage problem, with the results set forth as follows in the Mayor's message, recently published: 'The crematory which the board erected two years ago for the destruction of all kinds of organic refuse matter, has proved a complete success, accomplishing all that was claimed for it. The work of this furnace has been of vastly greater benefit to the city in protection of the public health than many of our citizens suppose. Between 30,000 and 10,000 barrels of garbase are cremated annually, besides many dead animals.'"

The Crawfordsville Normal. The Crawfordsville Normal School will open July 1 and be in session until August :23. This is the second year for the school. The instructors are M. W. Maker, W. W. Ewing, W. A. McBeth, E. W. Olive, S. S. Stilwell, R. W. P. Noble, Lloyd Hammond and Miss Laura Grubb, all teachers of recognized ability in their particular lines. Courses are offered in English, American history, geography, psychology and method, biology, mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Graduation Exerclaei of Unien Township.

There are thirty-eight graduates from the county schools in Union township this year and the large number precludes the holding of a single graduation exercise there will, therefore, bi four held at convenient points and the graduates will be privileged to at*ej»d the nearest one lid deliver their addresses. The Axarciaea'Wlll be held sometime in vie.'