Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 January 1897 — Page 9

UNEXPECTED

It's the unexpected that is always bappemiig. We expected to close our great

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Dissolution Sale

the first of the year, but unexpectedly received orders from our headquarters at Sr Cincinnati to CONTINUE the sale of our entire stock of &

Winter Clothing

at the same prices that has made our dissolution sale a great success. Any Suit or Overcoat in the house at exact cost of manufacture during January.

THE AMERICAN

$ Manufacturing Clothiers, Corner Main and Green Sts., rawfordsville, Ind.

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IS FULL OF BARGAINS OF EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN THE WAY OF

House FHirnisRitigs

Our Furniture Stock Is immense. Oujf€arpet Stock Consists of 3U*tfie latest patterns possible to buy.

Our Window Shade Department is Up-to-date. Our Line of Stoves

Are not Equaled.

Our Line of Hardware Is Complete. Our Line of Tinware

Is of the Best.

Our Line of Dishes Catches all the Ladies. Our Mantles and Grates

Are Elegant.

In fact our store is the only store in town where you can buy all you need for housekeeping, and our prices will cerainly please you. Give us a call and be convinced.

Mahorney & Son.

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VOL. 50-NO. OKA.WFOKDSV1LLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1S97-TW KLVE IMAGES.

A BROKEN FLANGE.

It Causes ii i:iml Piling- l']i of" l.nmlcil J'i'eiijlit Curs Down ill Jlii' Milium Million ].:tst Kill lirduy iil-,vp.:' l'"our O'Cluek.

Engineer John Nicholson, of the Motion road, must be carrying1 a hoodoo with him. Lust Thursday, while running1 down about Smithviilo with a traiu consisting of bisieeu empty cars, a, uheel broke and ten ears hunched up in beautiful style.. Lust Saturday at 4 o'clock lie was running- an extra north through Crawfordsville and had a more harmssing experience even than that of tin night -fore.

The extra that morning was made up of thirty-eight heavily loaded cars and was under Conductor Hale. It ran into Grawfordsville without incident, and when the. Market street crossing was reached had eascid up and was running about eight miles an hour. Just, north of the crossing head brakeman, Hob Hill, who was standing midway of the traiu on a flat ear loaded with slack coal, felt something give way under liiiu. With a whoop of mortal terror he leaped into the air and landed on the middle of the. next car It was well he did so. A flange had broken on one of the wheels of the car on which he stood and a moment later it was oil the tracks. Hy the force of the great moving weight behind it the ear was pushed on. It settled aod its trucks were torn to broken fragments. The car was then swung around endwise, one end being caught between the fore and aft cars and the other end projecting out across the sidetrack on the west. It was pushed along over this siding and for two blocks it tore up rails, ties and frozen earth in a manner beautiful to behold. Just before the station platform was reached, however, the car collapsed and, very fortunately, for had it held out for fifteen feet further it would have demolished the south waiting station and caused great damage. Thirty feet further on it would have plowed out a section of the new station. When the disabled car collapsed the damage was done. The six heavily loaded coal cars immediately behind it piled up on the wreck and made a nfhss of coal, broken wood and bent and twisted iron that made the wrecking crew look sick when it arrived. By the time of the demolition of the sixth car the force of the wreck was broken and the other cars in the rear escaped injury. The wreck was such a quiet affair that those living right at hand did not hear it. Had the cars been at a high rate of speed, however, when that flange broke the wreck would have been one of the ugliest in the history of the road and, perhaps have been attended by the loss of life.

The wrecking crew WBB at once called up from Bloomington and arrived about 7:30 o'clock with J. B. Sucse and Boadmaster Cornwall in charge. The work of clearing the track was begun and the east siding admitted the passing of trains by 9:30 o'clock.

OftlcorH Installed.

Last Friday Montgomery lodge No. 30, I. O. O. F. installed the following officers for the ensuing year:

N. G.—Ed Welch. V. G.—D. P. Smith. Sec.—W. H. Webster. Treas.—P. C. Somerville. Warden—Harry Mikels. C.—C. L. Cruse. R. S. to N. Q.—Ben Oliver. L. S. to N. G.—G. A. Bird R. S. to V. G.—Geo. Rumble. L. 8. to V. G.—Dr. Willis. R. S. S.—T. N. Myers. L. S. S.—Wm. Layne. Chaplain—H. F. Bushnell. 0. G.—D. H. Martin. 1. G.—Emery Krug.

A Bad Showing.

At the annual meeting of the State Swine Breeders' Association the other day a State map was displayed purporting to show the prevalence of hog cholera and the loss from the disease in the several counties. Montgomery county was labeled 47% per cent, the largest in the State, the next nearest being 39 per cent. Most of the counties ran from 1 to 10 per cent. The loss in Montgomery county is great but the JOURNAL is sure that no such a loss aB 47% per cent from hog cholera occurs. Pessimistic reports of thiB character do the county no good and those submitting them should bp more guarded in the statements.

Thanks Rendered.

To the Editor Journal. DAHLINGTON, Jan. 7.—We deBire space in your paper to express our appreciation of the kindness shown us during the illness and death of our daughter Lulu.

EPHHAISI AND REBECCA LIVENGOOD.

SORROW FOR SANTA CLAUS.

lii-1 --1mus Tret* 2s l)«st*oy«'iL I.nst Saturday Wi' -|it lSrl'iii-c tli«' ICjcs of the .ii .v IJtitr I/ittlo Children.

The residence of Mrs. Ilacliel Oppey, 411 west Market street, was the seenc of quite a disaster in juvenile circles lust Saturday. Ceorgo Stout's family resides in the Oppey residence and for some days in an upstair room a state.ly Christmas tree has stood, strippe.i of its variant fruit, it is true, but none the less dear to the heart of childhood. Every morning and every afternoon too, for that matter, the children carefully examined the. limbs to see if any new buds were sprouting in eloquent prophecy of drums, jack knives, pistotb and other "purties" supposed to be the natural fruitaire of the popular tree. It wouldn't have surprised the dear little things a bit to have .suddenly seen the true burst into a bloom of express wagons, dolls and candy cin'ars and in fact wonder was excited in their breasts that it didn't. Last Saturday about 0 o'clock the little ones assembled in "the Christmas tree room" and began to look for buds. In ore'er to better discern these germs of promise they lighted one of the little candles on the tree. Now the tree had grown very dry under the influence of the natural gas and when the iaudle was lighted the limbs took fire. I-. made an elegant bonfire and if it hadn't been indoors would doubtless have been appreciated. As it was it created something of a flurry in the household. Just a mild flurry, perhaps, but still a flurry. The lire department was called out but before it arrived the cruel hungry flames bad been 6ubdued. They weren't so hungry as they were, however. They had eaten the tree and most everything else in that room, including the new carpet. Next year the Christmas tree in that household will be made of asbe&tOB.

NO TWO CENT RATE.

Tho Railroad Men of All Classes are on Hand to Bitterly FIjfht tho BillIts Bad BeHnltu ^Pointed Oat.

Indianapolis'JTCiUis:. ,Th fight against a bill to make thp j^al ,. rate of rail

started in earnest. One of the largest lobbies that has ever' appeared here will try to convince the members of the Legislature if such a bill is passed it will mean a great reduction in wages of the employes. Railroad law yers, railroad officials and railroad employes are opposing it. The railroad labor organizations will send a committee here asking that it be not passed. The railroad employes in both Houses, and there are many, will see that the bill does not get to the third reading if they can help it. The traveling passenger agents and other representatives of foreign roads are also busy. Alton D. Perry, of the Chicago & Alton, talking of the proposed bill, said: "New York passed such a law, and it stopped all excursion rates, all passes, all favor of every kind and character, which even railroads have been known to be guilty

of towards

the villages, towns and cities along their lines. If any one will examine the tabulated earnings by the mile for passenger traffic for several years, he will find that the excursion rates make the average earnings by the mile less than 2 cents, and, with the excursions taken from the earnings, there are trains running all over this State that would have to be taken off entirely because they would not pay."

Already there are fifty-five enginemen, firemen and conductors from Indiana railroads at the different hotels of the city.

The Traveling Men's Associations that are favoring the bill Bay that the railroads would not reduce wages if such a law were made, and the roads could make plenty of money at the two cent rate.

Mike Wtt* There.

Mike Foley spouted at the Jackson Club banquet in Lafayette last Friday and, according to the Lafayette Journal, abused the Republican party outrageously for not bringing unequalled prosperity three months before it comes into power. The most deadly comment of the Jottriuil, which is the Democratic organ, was: ''Mike Foley spoke at length."

lloga, Wheat and Silver.

Abe Caster last week sold 67 April pigs which averaged 270 pounds a. 83.15. They brought him in the neat little sum of 8509.83. Mort Edwards, of Mace, was the purchaser who shipped them to Indianapolis. He has 1,200 bushels of wheat for which he has offer of 90 cents. He has no silver but if he had he could only get 04 cents an ounce.

A ('use Wlivi-i-in AVlint is Morally IEifclat. mid l'l-opi-i- is I.ennliy Oeriiired to .I»o Wron nnd I ntpruprr.

Th JouitNAi. last week noted a reversal by tho Supreme Court of the case, which J. S. Zuck, admistrat.or, won in the circuit court over 'Squire Ru-k mid other heirs of David Husk. The interested parties all livo in Wayne township and, it is saH, the feeling against, the Supreme Court's decision is very bitter there. Last Friday a gentleman interested in tho case gave the .iouisxAi, tho following version of the case, which is certainly au interesting one:

Some forty years ago David Kiibk, a ividower with several children, married tho widow Munas. Slio owned about 250 acres of line land and had alio it S2.50I) in money beside liusk had nothing when he married but soon after he had his wife's property in his own naine. :Slie was all right and they lived together very happily until he died. Before, he died, however, he had sot up all his children by his first wife in business on their own account and they were doing well. He left a will leaving eighty acres of land and certain personal property to his wife during her lifetime, but with -the proviso that it go to his heirs at her death. Now Mrs. Rusk took a twelve year old orphan boy, Will Armstrong, to raise, and he proved a most excellent youngster. He was willing to work and he was soon indispensable to her. When young Armstrong was coming of age Mrs. Rusk became an invalid and for eleven years continued so, until re lieved by death two years ago. The means left her by her husband were inadequate to her support iu her invalid condition and it devolved on young Armstrong to care for her. It is alleged that the Rusks refused assistance of auy kind to the old lady's support, although often solicited. Armstrong, however, devot -d himself to the old lady's welfare with a zeal which was not only commendable but heroic. Eleven of the first years of his life be gave to caring for her, the last five of which she was as helpless as a year old child, and claiming much more attention.' He filled the dual province of nurse and bread winner, and never once complained. The young men with whom he had grown up were marrying and establishing themselves in business, but young Armstrong had something else to do. Finally the old lady died and the heirs of David Rusk stepped smilingly in and took the eighty acres of land. Then the people of the neighborhood fairly howled. They declared that Armstrong should be paid for his devotion and he finally reluctantly consented to an action. J. S. Zuck was made administrator and suit was brought to recover damages for Armstrong. The caBe was tried here and the jury gave Armstrong damages in the sum of S3,500. The case was appealed and iB now reversed. Armstrong's years of toil go for nothing. So the world wags. Armstrong is a very popular young fellow and will be remembered a6 the leader of the. Waynetown band.

A Silly Fake.

Sensational rumors have been published hereabouts to the effect that the young dead beat insurance agent, who operated here for several months and who Bkipped by moonlight some months ago to escape his creditors, was drowned in the wrecking of the Cuban fillib'ister, "The Commodore." The report reached Ritter's home in Logansport and the Logansport Journal telegraphed the Jacksonville, Fla., Citizen for particulars and received the following reply: "JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 0.—Journal, Logansport:—Edward B. Ritter, assistant engineer Commodore, resident Jacksonville twenty years about 45 years old, leaves wife and two children. Citizen"

The young Ritter known hereabouts was never connected with Cuban liberty except in newspaper stories. Last week he wrote his parentB from New Orleans that he had enlisted in the United StateB army.

Philip Hauk's^Cuse.

Indianapolis News: The appeal of j^hiup Hauk, a Montgomery county school teacher, from a sentence of imprisonment for five yearB for procuring an operation which caused the death of a sixteen-year-old girl that had attended his Bchool, was argued before the Supreme

vCourt

this fore-

aoon. M. E. Clodfelter, of Crawfords* ville, made the argument for the appellant, and Attorney-General Ketcham presented the case for the State.

Transferred.

The case of Elbert Marion, trustee, vs. Wm. H. Shobe, taken up from this county, has been transferred from the Supreme to the appellate court.

1'AliT SECOND

AN INJUSTICE. AN ARMLOAD OF SPARE-RIBS.

Slwritt, ,Hm .-mcli'iive {ietii

to Im-c tin- Inside ,,r His Old llmiw Kiii!:irrnssiiiK CirciiuiKtuiti'CH.

Jim Vancleave, live biir double listed politician from Halhinch, who served is deputy sheriff during tho administration of A ex Harper, eiuno to grief Saturday night. Jim lias seen better days. Time was when Jim's word might stand against the world in Halhinch, but now not even the improvident woodchncks there are so poor as to do him reverence. lie who once blossomed is now seedy, his past and present condition presenting a notable lesson in botany. On tlio sleek surfack of his lonir I'rineo Albert coat unwary flies slip and break their necks and there is a beautiful and elaborate filiigree work at the lower extremity of each trouser's leg. For some time past Jim has beeu luxuriating in Crawfordsvillo, staying with his old side partner, Bill Ball, down in tho south end. It is presumed that Jim felt that it was his bounden duty to contribute to the larder and on Saturday night he made a gallant stagger to this end. *im had been imbibing somewhat too freely to exercise due care and liiB predatory foray ended disastrously. :io passed the grocery store of L.

Lee sou ."time afer 8 o'clock and picked up from 1 i.i front about ton pounds if spareribs. lie walked on south and at tho next grocery he came to he gave a grand stand exhibition of nerve by bracing in and begging enough paper to wrap up his plunder. He then proceeded in maudlin triumph to the Hall residence. Young Mr. Kelly, who clerkB at Lee's place, had seen the theft, however, and he lost no time in starting Officer Bannister on tho trail of the thief. Vancleave was quickly overhauled and ruthlessly thrust into jail. Sunday he was released, Mr. Lee deciding not to prosecute him. However, the police took him in hand Monday on the charge of drunkenness, and on a plea of guilty he was duly fined.

VutiHion Exuiulnero l'rotectod. Doctors W. T. O H. Jones, Irwin A. Detclion and hundreds of other pension examiners in all partB of the country will read the following dispatch from Delphi to the Indianapolis Journal with pleasure and hundreds of Republican physicians will have a different sensation after its perusal "Sharles B. Laudis, Con-gressman-elect from the Ninth district, relative to a number of communications denying the report that the .tjoards of pension examining surgeona were under the operation of the civil service law, has received a letter from

Hon. John R. Proctor, president of the civil Bervice commission at Washington, stating that "pension examining surgeonB are in the classified service." Mr. Proctor states that the commission has not a printed list of tho positions under the operation of the civil service law, but says a concurrent resolution has passed the House and is now pending in the Senate to have such a list printed. Unless Presidentelect McKinley suspends the order placing these boards in the classified service, and it is said he has not the power to do this, they will remain as they are now constituted, unless removals are made for cauBe. Vacancies will be fllled by competitive examinations open to all physicians in the various counties. It will thus be seen that congressmen will have no voice in the [selection of the members of these boards.

The Great City.

The largest evening audience that has yet greeted Rev. A. J. Alexander was present at Center church Sunday night to hear his sermon on "The Modern City, Its Growth, Its Problems, Ita Redemption." He held his audience closely from beginning to end as he described the wonderfully rapid growth of cities in modern times and compared the present situation with the preceding generation when the vast majority lived in the country and villages. If the present movement of population from country to city keeps on a few years more, he said, the problem of the great cities would be the problem of the country and the problem of the world. At one point he touched gently on the Mayoralty question here in Crawfordsville suggesting that a great deal depended on having a good strong man in that office.

Will Be Tried.

Judge Harney Monday held that the complaint of Mrs. Helen McMechan against justice of the peace Vannuys and his bond was good. This suit is recover the S3,500 Mrs. McMechan lost through a clever swindle which waa made successful by the use of Mr. Vannuy's seal.'-