Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 April 1896 — Page 4
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FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1896.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM McKINLEY, Of the United States.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND vetoed only two pension uilis Wednesday.
PINK pills for p£,le people with "political prejudice" is the proper prescription.
ILLINOIS Democrats are-preparing for a Republican majority of 150,000 or 200,000. They are talking of Altgeld for Governor.
MCKINLEY is still gathering in the delegates. Tennessee's "big four" have been instructed to cast their votes for the Ohioan.
TIIK rate of taxation for municipal purposes is 81 on'the S100. This y-ields an annual revenue of about 830,000. This rate is less by from 15 to cents than any neighboring city.
THE Argus-News and "political prejudice" are strangers. They have been divorced and so long have they been separated that if these two old chums were to meet, an intrbduction would be necessary.
THOSE who oppose instructions to the delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention seem to act upon the theory that the people do not know what they want, and that it is the divinely appointed mission of the bosses to tell them. The politicians^ will learn that the people are not to be bamboozled out of their choice.
THE road roller cost83.S00. As a part of the contract the company from which it was bought was to keep it repaired for two years. Repairs have not cost the city one cent, notwithstanding the statement of the ArgusNews that the repairs have cost 81.200 which the tax-payer have paid. Thus another lie has been nailed and coffined.
THE overmastering argument used by the Democratic calamity howler, to bolster up the chances of its aldermanic ticket, i8 to the effect that the Democratic candidates if elected, will not "continue" to publish the council proceedings in pamphlet form. As this practice waB dropped nearly two years ago by the present council this overmastering argument overmasters itself and the peewee minded man who gave it birth.
IF Democrats are chosen an effort will be made to manage the affairs of the city economically and honestly.— Argux-Ncws.
Of course nobody but Democrats could thus manage city affairs. The way to rise above "political prejudice" is to vote for the Democratic candidates for Councilmen. Democrats are not asked to lay aside their "political prejudices." This advice is only ad dressed to Republicans.
LAST winter the City Council bought „the dirt that was taken from the basement of the Christian church and had it dumped about the new bridge over the Monon on Wabash avenue. Now the dirt is being hauled off and gravel put in its place.—Argus-News.
As a matter of fact the City Council did not buy the dirt referred to. It was a gift. Neither is the dirt being hauled away from where it was placed The work of grading is in progress for the reception of the gravel. And this is what the Argus-News calls rising -above "political prejudice." Plain everyday people would call it lying.
A CORRESPONDENT of the News is surpr'sed that anyone should question the election of General Wallace as delegate to the St. Louis convention and assumes that it cannot be. That a scheme was on foot ten days ago to defeat him is, nevertheless, true.— Indianapolis Journal.
If there has been any scheme' on foot to defeat General Wallace it has been done by the anti-McKinley men and the Indianapolis Journal is in position to know. General Wallace's well-known sentiments in favor of Mc Kinley of course would invite opposition from those who are opposed to Mclvinley's nomination.
THK sooner the tax-payers of this city divorce their business affairs and political prejudice the better it will be for the city and for themselves.—Argus News.
In the eye6 of the Argus News none but Republican tax-payers are governed by "political prejudice." The only tax-payers in the city who can rise above "political prejudice'' are the
AT THE COURT HOUSE.
Marriage License.
John McCaw and Bertha Brown. John M. Switzer and Mannie Rush. Albert R. Hysong and Iris M. Beck. Wm. O. Smith and Martha B. Eltzroth.
Wm. L. Livingstone and Caroline Clough. Morgan M. Welever and Elizabeth McDonald.
Term About Over.
The March term of the circuit court will close this week, the business being about completed. The May term will begin the first Monday in May.
CIRCUIT COURT.
J. M. Shultz, assignee of W. H. Durham vs. George T. Durham et. al. Judgment rendered for defendants.
Alice Ammerman vs. city of Crawfordsville. Damages. Plaintiff files bill of exceptions.
P. S. Kennedy vs. John L. Goben and Jesse Goben. On note. Plaintiff awarded judgement for 3423.85 with costs.
May Harp vs. G. W. Britton. Complaint. Kennedy & Kennedy allowed 850 attorney fee.
Mary A. Corbin vs. Grant Hamilton, "or possession. Case dismissed. Keystone Manufacturing Co. vs. J. !. Buck et. al. Complaints. Defendant files motion for a new trial.
T. J. Griffith vs. J. F. Brewer and Mary J. Brewer. On judgment adjudged that plaintiff recover 8279.40.
Anna Beverly vs. Frank Beverly. Divorce granted. Mary Walker vs. Otto Walker. Divorce. Defendant makes default.
John M. Shultz, assignee of Wm. H. Durham, vs. George T. Durham et al. Finding for defendants.
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Aravella Dill vs. Edwin S. Dill. Divorce. Dismissed at plaintiff's cost. Wm. T. Armstrong vs John S. Zuck, administrator of Mary Rush's estate. Claim. Courts finds for the plaintiff in the sum of 82,500.
Matthew Lynch vs. Wm. Mendall et al. Foreclosure ordered to satisfy udgment of 8481.25.
Democrats. They rise so high above the vanities of politics that the wonder is what they were made for. You never knew a Democrat to have any 'political prejudices." Even the editor of the Argus News will throw aside his 'political prejudice" long enough to vote against Mart Smith.
IN different hands the board of public improvements will find abundant employment for our laboring men, at good wages.—Argus-News.
Similar promises were made in national affairs in 1892 if the people would but turn the rascally Republicans out and turn the honest Democrats in. They were taken at their word and for over three jears the laboring men have been eating the bread of idleness and drinking the wine of disappointment. Democratic promises and fulfillment are two different things. Promising laboring men abundant employment at good wages and at the same time reduce taxation is an irreconcilable proposition.
NEW RICHMOND.
House cleaning. Candidate
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are plenty.
Good country butter is getting plenty. Tom Kirkpatrick is rustler at the elevator now.
Several of our people paid taxes in your city Monday. Health is quite good and the physicians are consequently idle.
John McCardle is this week putting in a new engine at tne elevator. George Long is repairing his home by adding a cistern and brick foundation to his house.
Harry Wilson is painting and papering his drug room so it will shine with any in the county.
Mrs. John Bible was quite sick with fever the early part of this week but is improving slowly.
Dr. Lynn announces the arrival of a ten pound girl at Dick Wells' on Wednesday morning.
The Clover Leaf stock train which passes here in the morning for the East is hauling lots of stock the past few weeks.
Wm. Livingston and wife will go to house keeping in the Carter house north east of here. 'Ihey were married Monday.
F. A. Smith has purchased the Creamer land and will make a houe of it by cutting off the timber or otherwise destroying it.
Frank McDermond, of Attica, was here Wednesday visiting his brother and arranging to add to his store an additional line of goods.
D. A. Messer and Bert I'ogue wt
Abijah Dowden vs. Rachel Dowden. Divorce granted. Wm. R. Jacobs vs. Simpson Montgomery et al. Complaint. Change of venue granted to Fountain county.
John N. Hays et al. vs. Wm. H. Brown et al. To quiet title. Case taken under advisement.
Eli H. Timmons vs^ Milton H. Barter et al. On mechanic^ lien. Judgment for plaintiff in the sum of 821. S5.
Assignee of Wm. H. Durham vs. George T. Durham et al Ruling for plaintiff to pay costs.
James T. Sutherlin vs. estate of Hannah Davis. Claim. Plaintiff allowed S28.25.
Charles A. Clark and T. C. Carroll vs. estate of Hannah M. Davis. Claim. Plaintiff allowed 817.40.
Ed H. Fuller vs. estate Hannah M. Davis. Claim. Plaintiff allowed 870. Agnes Turner vs. Wm. Ham. Foreclosure ordered to satisfy judgment for S27.33.
Edna Campbell vs. Mary I. Irwin. Slander. Plaintig files her motion for a new trial.
Hostetter, Ashley & Goodbar vs. Big Four R. R. Co. Complaint. Plaintiffs awarded 8332.43.
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Laura E. Lewis vs. Big Four R. R. Co. Damages. Plaintiff files her motion for a new trial.
New Suit*.
Jacob H. Amburgh vs. Wm. W. Washburn. On account. Esther C. Williams vs. Chas. W. Anabel and Harriet Anabel. To quiet title.
Abraham Himes vs. ^Mary Ann Himes. Divorce. Wm. E. Bible et al. vs. Thomas Shepherd et al. Highway appeal.
Probate Court.
Wm. M. Reeves discharged as guardian of Jennie Hamilton, who has become of age.
E. T. McCrea, guardian, makes final settlement with Christopher J. Oppy's heir.
Alvin Breaks has been appointed administrator of the estate of James Groendyke, deceased.
E. P. McClaskey has been appointed administrator of the estate of Samuel Beckner, deceased.
the first to put in side walk this Spring in front of their homes. We hope that many more will be put in this year.
Jobe Westfall's wife writes back from Louisville, Ky., that she feel6 considerable older since the arrival of a granddaughter at her daughter Mima's home in that city.
Coal Creek couhty Republicans held their convention on Saturday at Hollins' opera house with a large attendance. Everyone was enthusiastic over past successes and everything passed off lovely.
We will have no election this Spring, was the decision of t&e voters at a town election last Tuesday evening. After a year's experience with our officers they werg commended and will hold the offices another year.
The Lee tile factory being idle this year deprives our merchants of about 84,500 that they got from the laborers heretofore employed there. Low prices of farm products cause the farmers to stop buying tile and the consequence shutting down.
'j WA1TNETOWN.
Dan Stout has gone to Hot Springs for health. Dennis Springer lost a valuable horse last Tuesday.
Candidates this week have been entirely too numerous to mention. Jesse Lough spent most of this week with home folks in Parke county.
Editor Small and Dr. W. J. Hurt are the latest to join the bicycle club. Bud Runyan and Marion Lucas have formed a partnership in the meat business.
Rev. Brewer will preach at the Christian church Sunday morning and evening.
Jas. Stewart, of near Sugar Grove, was here Thursday dealing with our business men.
Wm. Burris will sprinkle the streets here this summer beginning May 1 and quitting Oct. 31.
Rev. C. U. Stockbarger and wife, of Walkerton, have been the guests of relatives here this week.
Sam Anderson has taken unto him self a brand splinter new wife whose maiden name was Gertie Wade.
Charley Munns has bought the prop erty lately owned and occupied oy
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\1. Culver, just east' of the M. E church. W. H. Kerr was here Monday mak ing arrangements to erect a large two story brick building on the cornor of Main and Vine streets.
George D. Brown and wife, who have been absent from here about two years seeing the sights in the :ar West, returned last Sunday to spend six or eight weeks visiting relatives and friends, after which they propose going back to California to make it their permanent home.
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PEARL BRYAN CASE
Famous Mwder Trial Is Moving Rapidly Along,
INDIANA WITNESSES EXAMINED.
Murdered Girl's Sister Made a Model Witness Lay Figure In the Rloixiy Dre-js Causes an Audible Shudder ol the Audlenoe—Dr. Glllisjiie Gives Damaging Evidence.
NEWPORT, Ky., April 23.—The trial of Scott .Jackson charged with murdering Pearl Bryan moved in a gallop yesterday. Six witnesses were examined in the forenoon and four in the afternoon. The purpose of the examinations in the forenoon was to establish the identity of the headless body found near Ft. Thomas as that of Pearl Bryan's and to prove that she was murdered at the very spot where she was found. The lndentity of the body was strikingly proven by the abundant evidence that the bloody check dres3 was Pearl Bryan's, also the shoes, the hat and the bloodstained underwear. Expert testimony of Coroner Tingley, Surgeons Oaxothers and J. O. Jenkins was introduced to prove by the condition of the body as they found it at the scene of the murder and at the post mortem that the killing was done just where the body was found and that the health of the victim was perfect.
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The first witness placed on the stand yesterday was Mrs. Stanley, a sister of the murdered girl, who made a model witness. She identified the clothing of her sister, fingering tl\e bloody, muddy garment a^id bearing up bravely under the most of her testimony. The defense would not cross-examine her. Joseph Pearcy, a young Greeneastle druggist, was placed on the stand for a few minutes. He said he sold Pearl Bryan a pocketbook Jan. 23. He identified the one found in Scott Jackson's effects after his arrest, as the one ho sold Pearl Bryan in Greeneastle two weeks before. A handkerchief found in Jackson's effects was also introduced, uud the cost mark and two dots were identified by Isaiah Vermillion, a Greeneastle merchant, as a murk used in his store. Pearl Bryan frequently traded there.
Lieutenant Atkinson of Ft. Thomas, was one of the first men to arrive at the scene of the murder. He described the surroundings again. The blood on the bushes, he said, was 20 inches above the ground, and directly above where a body appeared to have lain. The defense objected to a question as to whether the blood seemed to have been spurted there, and was sustained. Dr. Robert Carothers, who performed the autopsy, said the girl was alive when her head was cut off. This was shown by the absence of coagulated blood in her veins.
Lay Figure Causes a Shudder.
When the lay figure with the bloody dress of the murdered girl on it was brought into court in the morning a contagious shudder, which was all but audible passed from the jury across the courtroom, well it was that the figure was removed It was too violently suggestive of a headless girl. The dress, however, was allowed to remain on a table in companionship with other bloodstained garments and belongings of Pearl Bryan, the victim. In the afternoon the defense began to cross-examine witnesses. It then became apparent that the defense by its failure to crossexamine in the forenoon virtually admitted that the dead body in question was that of Pearl Bryan. Cross-exam-ination in the afternoon indicated two lines of defense, one that the body was killed by some drug several hours before it was beheaded where it was found, also that all confessions of Jackson were made under durance, were not voluntary and will be incompetent as evidence. The attack was made fiercely against Jackson during the afternoon. Dr. R. J. Gillespie of Greeneastle testi* fled that about Jan. 1 Jackson admitted *to him that he was illicitly intimate with Pearl Bryan and she was in trouble. He asked Gillespie's advice and was told to marry Pearl. He then positively refused. Mayor Caldwell was on the stand to testify to confessions made by Jackson already reported.
Jackson's Writing Identified.
Dr. Gillespie then was required to identify seven different letters as written by Jackson which he did and to each of which the defense objected and was as often overruled. Some of these letters are to Dr. Gillespie. What their contents are will be unknown until tljey are used in evidence. The new points in Mayor Caldwell's testimony were that Jackson when arrested was first brought privately before him and was shown the telegraphic order to arrest him for the murder of Pearl Bryan. Jackson exclaimed: "Oh, my God, what will my poor mother do?" He then walked the floor and asked, "what shall I do?" "Tell the whole truth," said the mayor.
The mayor said he told both Walling and Jackson that they were not com pelled to answer any questions.
Flood Destroys Bridges.
PORT ARTHUR, Out., April 23.—About 120 feet of the bridge across Kainiiiistiquia river at Stanley has been carried away by the floods. The Slate river valley bridge, over Kaministiquia river, is badly dajnaged, but is still passable. The Port Arthur, Duluth & Western railway bridge is down. Traffic will bo delayed four or five days.
Kurly Closing Not Popular.
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Weather.
Indiana—Increasing cloudiness, with probably showers tonight. Illinois Increasing cloudiness and probably local rains warmer.
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ALTGELD NOT ALARMED.
Fay* a Visit to Champaign, but Is Mot Served With Legal Papers. SPRINGFIELD, Ills., April 23.—Gover
nor Altgelcf and the members of the board of trustees of the University ot Illinois held a session at Champaign yesterday for the purpose of considering the location and architecture of the pro-
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posed new library and administration building. This is the first visit the board has made to Champaign since its Indictment by the grand jury for flag law violations, but no service of legal papers was made. Governor Altgeld is •of the opinion that no service can be had on nim. Superintendent of the Public Instruction Inglis believes that nothing will be done.
TILLMAN IN KENTUCKY.
His Silver Address Listened to by Enthusiastic People. Qv. TNSBRO,
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Ky., April 28.—Senator
Ben Tillman of South Carolina spoke here yesterday afternoon to 5,000 en thusiastic people. He was introduced by ex-Congressman Ellis and for twe hours had the closest attention of hit hearers. The crowd was madeup of farmers, and all classes from this section oi the state and many from Indiana and Illinois. His remarks nearly struck home at Lindsay and Carlisle, of this state and the appreciation of his efforts was evidenced by the continued enthusiastic applause. The crowd almost went wild at his arraignment of the administration and Wall street. He arraigned Cleveland, Carlisle, Lindsay and others in his characteristic style, arousing the farmers to the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
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party. He said he would leave the unicago convention if the platform was not for 16 to 1. He invited the straying Democrats who had gone to the Populist party to join in the movement to reform their old party and save the government from the single standard monopolists. While even the gold men were interested in his illustrations and foroible manner the Populists and silver Democrats were wild in praise of the advocate of popular principles for the relief of all classes.
Millinery Store Manager Suicides. RICHMOND, April 28.—Gustavious A.
Kohn who has had charge of large millinery establishments in London, Paris, St. Paul, Chicago, New York and Richmond, committed suioide in the Reservoir park, about a mile from this city yesterday afternoon, by shooting himself. He came
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from New York and took charge of the millinery department of a store. He was about 40 years old and leaves a wife and child.
Will Release the Americans. HAVANA, April 23.—Captain General
Weyler, it became known yesterday afternoon, has decided to release Rev. Albert Diaz, the American Baptist missionary and his brother Alfred^ from, custody
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meditaely leave Cuba.
Weyler Confident of Success. HAVANA, April 23.—Captain General
Weyler expressed his view of the situation in Cuba yesterday, both present and prospective, which he claims to feel is very encouraging for the Spanish cause. He believes that it will be iin-' possible for Maceo to pass the trocha and get out of Pinar del Rio, even in the rainy season.
Miichlue SliopH Burned*
RALEIGH, N. O., April 28.—Fire yesterday entirely destroyed the Seaboard air line machine shops. Loss, $70,000.
Kiv SHORT WIRINGS.
Ralph Gregg, 23 years of age, lost both feet while swinging off ft freight train at Alexandria, -Mo. His parents reside aV* Carthage, Ills.
France has notified Russia that the former will permit the Russian r.ed cross detachment going to Abyssinia to cross the Obok territory.
The contract for the Menard cou nty, Ills., new courthouse has been let to a Danville, Ills., firm. It is to be of granite and sandstoue and will cost $44,000.'
The body of an unknown man about 30 years of a«e, and apparently a laborer, was taken from the bay at Neenali, Wis. It is thought to have been a ease of suicide.
Hon. Francis.Tewett, ex-mayor of Lowell, Mass., who had served three terms in that office, died suddenly at his home yesterday of heart disease. He was 75 years of ace. _.
MONEY to loan. C. A. MILLKR.