Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 January 1896 — Page 1

VOL. 49-23 O. 4

H. R. TINSLEY& CO.

Buy a Stalk Cutter and cut the stalks before plowing. We sell several kinds.

The Old Reliable Imperial Steel and Wood Beam Plows are still in the lead. Call and see them/ Our stock of Hardware is very complete in all the lines.

Call and see us.

H. R. TINSLEY & GO.

Our Bargain Window.

Kline's series of cut sales on Silverware and China have begun. Watch the display window and judge for yourself.

8, 1896,

an Any Old Thing

Keep Your Best Eye Open _^-

fl. C. KLINE,

Jeweler and Optician.

Auction Sale

Implements Buggies

Saturday, Feb. 8th,

At o'clock p. m. Joe E. Fisher will sell at public auction a limited number of Farm Implements and Buggies. You will need Cultivates, Breaking Plows, Harrows, .Rakes, Tedders, Loaders, Farm Wagons, Buggies, Surries, Road Wagons, etc.

No reserve will be made on any goods bringing

per cent of cost value. I: .TERMS:—Negotiable note with approved endorser due Sept. ist,

1896,

and all interest waived on

all notes paid on or before maturity. /A discount of

per cent per annum will be given for cash paid on daj of sale. This is your opportunity. Don't forget the clay, Saturday, Feb.

at 1 p. m.

JOE E FISHER.

TUDE HAMILTON,' Auctioned

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iLET US PRINT YOUR SALE BILLS.

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Around the farm that you have no use for, but which you think someone else might want can be advertised to advantage in the People's Exchange. The rates are very low. Two cents a line each insertion. Nothing less than 10 cents taken.

SO MORE ROYAL FLUSHES

Will Be Thrown ou Crawford nvtllo Slot MacliincR After Hnturday Night— Mayor Bandel Makes a 1'imtl

Decision.

"Free" cigars will be memories in Crawfordsville after Saturday night. The philanthropic dealers who have been maintaining slot machines for the dual purpose of amusing and benefitting their customers will be barred from further generosity of this character. The edict has gone forth and the slot machine has got to go. For some time past there has been a loud and bitter protest gone up to the local authorities from many quarters but it was decided to await the decision in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis authorities declared against the machines and when Mr. Beveridge, the attorney of the machine owners, declared to his clients that they might as well give up the fight, the matter was settled. Mayor Bandel was in Indianapolis Wednesday and was thoroughly advised in the matter. He has, therefore, decided that after next Saturday night those maintaining machines in Crawfordsville will be prosecuted. "I will be as heavy a loser as anyone," said Mayor Bandel this morning, "as my mrchine was a profitable one. It is contrary to the law, however, and will have to go. I shall be roasted on the one side for taking the machines, I suppose, and on the other side I should be roasted if I didn't. Between the two I might as well be roasted for doing the right thing."

'Almoat a Miracle.

Doubtless every reader of THE JO

NAL

Mr. Welch is a fine looking, middleaged man of excellent physique and by profession a minister, formerly a Methodist, now of the Congregational church. He makes no charges and lives by the free will offerings of those he cures, $50 being the greatest amount he ever received. To the family and friends who know the circumstances the change in Mrs. Bood seems nothing less than a miracle, however it may strike those not familiar with the case.

CR^WTORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24-, 1896.- TWELVE PAGES

has read newspaper accounts of alleged faith cures performed in remote places and has in every instance put them down as due to the too vivid imagination of the correbpondent. The writer of this article, however, has such direct knowledge of a very remarkable cure by a faith healer that it is impossible not to believe it.

Mrs. Pleasant Bond, of Indianapolis, whose daughter, Miss Nina Bond, is well known in Crawfordsville, has been an invalid for three years or more. Doctors of all kinds were unable to agree as to the nature of her disease and equally powerless to check its gradual but sure growth. Change of climate and sanitariums afforded only temporary or no relief. About a month ago there was a consultation of several of the leading physicians of Indianapolis who finally united in saying that Mrs. Bond had congestion of the spine and that her death was only a question of a short time. For eight months she had not left her bed, and a great part of the time suffered intense pain for the relief of which opiates were constantly administered. She had become resigned to her fate. As a last resort her husband and daughter decided to send to Kansas City for a Mr. Welch, a faith healer, but Mrs. Bond's consent to the procedure was obtained only after much argument and persuasion. Mr. Welch came, spent three days at the Bond home and left Mrs. Bond as well as any woman in Indianapolis, excepting, of course, the weakness naturally resulting from along time in bed. Mr. Welch arrived during one of Mrs. Bond's worst attacks of pain which usually lasted an hour. In five minutes she felt no pain and has not sinc^ that minute, now over a week. Mr. Welch stayed two days more, giving two more treatments, which consist simply of laying his hands on the head and chest of the patient and engaging in a short earnest prayer. He tells his patients they must have faith as he has and nothing more is required. There is no Christian science or mental science about it, simply faith, nothing more or nothing less.

An Explosion.

A bottle of peroxide of hydrogen exploded at the Central. Drug Store yesterday, knocking from the shelf four or five other bottles and entailing a loss o£,$5 or 86. Mr. Myers attributes the cause of the explosion to an uneven temperature in the room, as he had been in the habit of turning off the gas of nights during the mild weather. Fortunately no one was hurt, but from the pale complexion of Mr. MyerB it is quite evident that he was badly scared. ....

SOMETHING QUEER.-

A farm That let Mortgaged for Twice ltd Worth and Tlien Traded for Another Farm,

For some time past there have been ugly rumors afloat concerning the value of certain school fund loanfc made on real estate by John L. Goben during his term as county auditor. One of these cases has been bumping up in the commissioners' court for some days, and the circumstances surrounding it are of a very questionable character. Some years ago an old man named P.eyton, died near Bluff Mills, leaving a barren farm of 105 acres in that vicinity. His administrator, Mr. Wills, of the same neighborhood, offered the property for sale but could find no buyer for along time. Finally it was sold, however, for §950 and came into the possession of Myers Chenault. Then came the queer part of the whole business. The property was in some way or another apDraised for $3,075 and Auditor Goben m&de Chenault a loan of $1,850 on it—twice the worth of the property. Then in some manner not clearly explained, the land passed out of Chenault's possession and came into the possession of Frank Reed, of Wolcott, Mr. Goben buying out Reed's interest in a store there about the same time. Mr. Reed is quite a trader in his way and it wasn't long before he had a trade on with John Roe and George A. Rushton, brother-in-law, who owned an eighty acre tract worth $1,600 near Wolcot.t. These men are not exactly "sharks" and, indeed, are no brighter than the law allows a man to be and the result was that they traded their farm in White county for 'the Chenault place, assuming the mortgage of $1,650 besides. They were told that the Chenault farm would bring $45 an acre any day, and in their guileless simplicity they believed it. When, however, a few weeks ago they arrived here and took possession of the prize—when they saw the grand medley of hills, hollows, rocks and sassafras bushes which comprised their goodly heritage in the promised land, their hearts grew sick and ihey longed for the boundless bogs of White county. They knew they had been taken in and came to Crawfordsville to see all about it. The commissioners were called together to investigate the matter and after an extended search the papers in the case were found. The outrageously high appraisement according to the report on file had been made by the regular appraisers, Wm. Osborne, of Wayne town, and Wm. Remley, of Wesley. They, according to' the report, had placed a valuation of $35 an acre on the place. The valuation had been filled in by lead pencil and Mr. Osborne's name v?as signed in lead pencil writing. Mr. Remley's signature in ink followed it. The other papers in the case were regular and Mr. Byers, president of the board, was obliged to tell the men they had no recourse. News of the affair came to the ears of Mr. Remley, however, and he appeared at the court house asking to see the statement of appraisement. He vigorously denied ever having appraised the Chenault place and declared he had never even seen it. He was astonished beyond measure when shown his signature and while he could not deny itB genuiness he protested that it had never been signed by him to the testament in question—at least not knowingly. He knew nothing whatever of the Chenault appraisement beyond the fact that he had heard the angry protests made by those living near the place in regard to the bogus character of the whole transaction. Well, naturally this put a new and dubious light on the question and Messrs. Rushton and Roe began to have hopes. About this time Myer Chenault came in and he had a conference with the White county men. As a result they came forward and stated that Chenault had made matters satisfactory and that the case need not be further investigated on their account.

On Wednesday some one telephoned down from Frankfort inquiring about that Chenault farm and stating that he was thinking of trading for it. It seems to have passed out of the hands of Messrs. Roe and Rushton, therefore. Perhaps if all the facts in the case were known they would make" a real interesting little story.

Elijah Olore's Intention.

Elijah Clore expects to have a big sale of horses about June 1st. He expects to sell a part of his farm also and move to a small place near Crawfordsville.

Child Adopted.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed S. Black Wednesday adopted the infant daughter of Evaline Lawson.

HELD DP.

Dr. Alonzo Brown, of Alamo, In He!,l Up and Itobbi-d on IIU Way Home From Crawfordsvlllo.

Dr. Alonzo Brown,of Alamo,yesterday sent TIIE JOUUNAL word of a rather unpleasant experience of his Tuesday night while on his way home from Crawferdsville. Dr. Brown came here to attend the meeting of the county medical society, which was held in Dr. Barcus' office, and after the adjourn* ment of the meeting he started home in his buggy. Sonje three hundred yards this side of the Big Four crossing on the Yountsville road there^is a sharp curve to the south, and at this curve a dark woods corners. As Dr. Brown approached this lonely spot he observed a light in the road, but supposing it was a light on somone's surrey he paid but little attention to it. When he reached the curve, however, his horse was suddenly seized by the bridle and the glare of a dark lantern thrown full in his lace. Dr. Brown saw at the buggy's side two men, both pointing ugly revolvers at his head. One of the men brutally struck the Doctor across the hand with a club as he stopped. There was a momentary pause and then one of the men exclaimed in an authoritative voice: "This is the man we want! Get out of that buggy!"

The Doctor, with an effort to be cheerful and agreeable, replied: "I guess I'm not the man you're after." "Yes, you're the man! Get out quick!''

As the revolvers were cocked to suit the word the Doctor piled out in a hurry. He was told to hold up his hands and did. While one man held the horse, and a second held two revolvers in the Doctor's face a third went through his pockets. Money to the sum of $18 was taken and then the Doctor's gold watch was yanked out. The thief opened the back and r.oticing the Doctor's name engraved therein, handed it back, saying, "We can't use it, sir." In his hip pocket was a package of drugs and this was examined and also returned with a commentary on its uselessness to the knights of the road. When the search was completed the spokesman of the thieves turned to the Doctor and said: "Now, climb into'that buggy and drive on!"

Dr. Brown did 60 in a hurry and as he started several shots were fired by the robbers. He arrived at Alamo without further incident. He was

startled and astounded by his experience that he is unable to give an accurate description of the robbers. They were masked, however, and did not appear to be tramps. If Doctor Brown had telephoned to the police here upon his arrival at Yountsville, perhapR his assailants could have been overhauled.

A Marvelous Revival

Is that in Waveland, where the four churches, -Methodist Presbyterian, Christian and Baptist, are unitied'and working as one people under the diriction of the pastors of the first three churches, the pastor of the latter being absent on a vacation. Three weeks ago last Sunday Rev. Vessels and his church began special meetings for revival with only a small but nightly increasing attendance. At the end of the first week and at the beginning of the week of prayer a u,nion between them and the pastor and. members of the Presbyterian church was effected, and before the week of prayer was ended the Christian and Baptist churches were united in the good work which is moving forward most hopefully, taking "on each evening increased interest in attendance and the spirit of inquiry for salvation. Several have been saved from their pursuit of sin, and concern in this is spreading among the unsaved classes, and the unifying of Christians is still increasing. The marvelous thing about this unification of the several churches is, that no such means and plans as consultations and plans, propositions, etc., were resorted to, but the whole matter s&ems to have come about as a special,condition of divine providence. From the first Rev. Vessels made prominent the duty of God's people to combine in the conquest for soul Baving, and it ia here most really and as never before, and it is hoped to stay till the town and' community are reconstructed morally and spiritually. The music in the meeting is furnished by singers of the different congregations under the efficient leading of O. E. Vessels, a singing evangelist of Rockville. Now as never before it does 6eem will come refreshing showers from the presence of God. The end is not yet. z.

Township Trustees Meet.

The township trustees will meet on Monday morning at 10 o'clock to make the January draw and determine the length of the ensuing school terms.

PART FIRST

THE RELIEF OF THE POOR.

Different ClagHGH Applying For Aid—Some Worthy and Home Not—Hungry Children and Desolate Homes.

"The poor ye have with you always" holds as good t.o day as when Christ spoke the words centuries ago. No person can or does begrudge aid extended our worthy poor, and it is this closs the poor that has the sympathy of our people. When you see a widov/ with four or five children struggling along to keep her little ones together family ties, she is a worthy person to aid in every way possible. Then there is that class of men who are industrious, who will work when ever they can get any thing to do, who is driven by actual hunger to ask for aid for himself and family, from the fact that there is no work for a day laborer or if there is there are twenty men ready to do the one job. One such a family was recently driven to ask for aid on account of the death of their child. The father was a soldier, is honest and industrious, and has a wife and eight children. This man has two sons who live at home, aud work when they can get it to 3o. There are also other men in this city who have had no wcifc to do for weeks and they have been forced to ask for aid. in order to keep their children from cold and hunger. Then there is that class of shiftless men, who have "that tired feeling" mixed up with more laziness, who are undeserving themselves, but their wives and children must not suffer, and in order

aid th6 family such men are also aided, because there is no way to aid one without aiding the other. ,,

Then there is that class of persons who sail along Smoothly in summer when work is plenty, and live up every penny they earn, and undoubtedly go upon the plan af "sufficient for the day is the evil thereof," and "take no thought for the morrow." When work slackens in the fall they have nothing to do and no money to buy the necessities of life for their children. When they have plenty they seem to think it right to "eat and be merry, for to-morrow ye die," and when the to-morrow of Winter comeB along they would die from hunger if not aided. Such people cannot be pitied for their condition, yet the£ cannot be permitted to Buffer and their little ones cry for bread.

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There is also that class of persons who would not receive aid if it were not for their children, whose faceB sho" that their hunger is never satis-' fieu and whose bodies are thinly clad and^heir feet upon the ground One of the most pitiful objects is a small child, whose very eyes seem to ask for food, and there are many such in orir midst. One such a child was asked if he was going to hang up his stockings for Christmas. At first his eyes' sparkled as he thought of Santa Claus and all the nice things he is credited with bringing but as the thought came home to him that Santa Clans did not coma to their home, he looked toward the floor and remarked, as the tearB came to his' eyes, that "Santa won't come to see us." '7±Jv,

There are now families in our city who actually need more than theTrustee feels warranted in giving. Persons who have clothing or shoes for children that they cap spare, if they will send word to the Trustee he will Bee that these needy children will come around and get the clothes. Or the clothes can be left with the Trustee, who will also be glad to know the condition of any family needing aid, or who is .'now receiving aid unworthily.

Worthy of Example.

Michael Clerget, of Remington, the Frenchman who was relieved of his money near the Monon station ou Tuesday night, was sent to Terre Haute by the township trustee. He said that he could get the money to pay for the ticket as soon as he arrived in Terre Haute, and would return it to the trustee who could then pay for the ticket for his passage. The trustee is accustomed to having this said to him very often and really had no idea that the money would be returned. However,on yesterday morning mail the $1.60 was received from Mr. Clerget, showing that he had lost no time in getting the money after arriving in Terre Haute and returning it.

The police have been investigating the robbery of Clerget and have found where the money went. It seems that several of the notorious tough characters thereabout plyed Clerget with" drugged liquors until he was maudlin and then in the Overstake dive the women coaxed $20 •away from him. The rest of the money is supposed to have been taken from his-pockets by the rounders while he Blept. The police will endeavor to bring Clerget back and to make it warm for the sinners.

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