Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 September 1897 — Page 9

VOL. 50-TO. 38

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OUR COMPLETE LINE OF

WINTER CLOTHING

As it is now a well established

fact that we manufacture our

own Clothing it would also be

proper to inform you that our

line of woolens for this season

were purchased direct from the

mills before the rise in prices.

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Men's Cheviot Suits from $4.50

up. Boys' suits from 75c up.

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Manufacturing Clothiers,

Corner Main and Green Sts,, Crawfordsville, Ind.

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Why will you go and pay these traveling agents "$30 more for a SteeljRange when you can buy one of Barnhill, Horna" day Pickett at $35,00 to $40,00^the best Steel Ranges made. We can give you a St. Louis Steel Range, made by

the Quick Meal Stove Co, A finer Steel Range never made and no better one, and just think of it, $30 cheaper than these stove agents sell their ranges. Do not throw your money away when you can save it and buy a better Steel

Range. Come and take a look at our ranges 3»T JC

FURNITURE

For the next sixty days we will sell you Furniture cheap.

Oak Bed Room Sets $12.50 Oak Rockers 1.00

Call for a trading card and get a premium' when you trade

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Real Vanilla Is Scarce

Prescription Druggists, The Binford Corner.

Much of that sold is entirely artificial, being made from a coal tar product. Some Is com" posed largely of tonka bean. Tonka costs about one-sixth as much as vanilla. It is a first rate tobacco flavor but is not fit for food. Oareful housewives should avoid this. Ifyiu buy our vanilla you are perfectly safe. It id just what we say—Extract Vanlila. It is that and only that— nothing more, nothing less. Our vanilla is allowed to age. This Imparts to it a rare and peculiar delicacy obtainable in no other way. We use no tonka. We'd make it better if we could Your friends.

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31 r. Gray AMenipIs to Give Tills Yule of Tears tlic Colli Shake Hut Kails.

Andy Gray, the well known teamster, was cut down Saturday night in the bloom of his youth and beauty. If he had been cut down fifteen minutes later he could not have been resuscitated. Along about 9 o'clock the police were called to his home by the information that he was drunk and very disorderly and needed quieting Burning with the laudable ambition to paste him a few clips over the head with their q^libs a couple of coppers went gleefully out. Arrived there all waB quiet but after searching over the premises for a few minutes in the dark Andy was observed standing under an apple tree. One of the police rushed up and grabbed him by the arm starting on a dog trot with him for the gate. But Andy didn't come worth a cent. He made no resistance but just stuck. Investigation showed that he was hanging by the neck to a limb of the tree, his toes barely touching the ground He was quickly cut down and regained consciousness in a few minutes. He had attempted to quit us and would have succeeded except for the fact that when he swung off the limb bent, allowing his toes to touch mother earth. He was Blowly strangling to death when found The old fellow was duly repentant next morning and states that he was evidently out of hie head when he made the rash attempt. There is too much good red liquor on earth to think of quitting it yet awhile.

A MANLY GOVERNOR.

The Democratic New York World Pays a Handsome Tribute to Governor Mount.

New York IForld: Governor Mount, of Indiana, gave the officials of Ripley county twelve hours in which to answer his telegraphed inquiry as to what they were doing to wipe out the impression that the State of Indiana is, at least in part, in a condition of savage barbarism. Getting no reply, he sent the Deputy Attorney General hurrying down there. "I told him," said the Governor, "that the State woyld stand by him, and that he might use any power in the State to prevent further violence. No matter what the pretext is, they who take the enforcement of the law into their own hands and lynch men in Indiana shall be punished."

And there is not the slightest doubt that the conduct of this efficient and courageous executive will be worthy of his words. Already he has removed part of the stain from the fame of Indiana and has aroused public morality and enthusiasm for law throughout the State.

In no settled and organized part of the country has there been in a generation a lynching so cruel and so causeless as this. Indiana is fortunate indeed in having a real man with moral principles, and the courage of them, in the Governor's chair, instead of the usual timorous and hesitating type of the time serving politician.

We Have No Liquor Law.

Two cases were filed by Prosecutor Kennedy in the circuit court against George W. Buskirk this term, one for selling to a certain individual in a less quantity than five gallons, being brought under the late act of 1897. The defendant swore Judge Harney off the bench, he calling Judge Snyder to sit in the case. Judge Snyder quashed the affidavit on the ground that the act of 1897 was inoperative for the reason that it had no penalty. The second case was brought under the act of 1881, for transacting a business without a license when one was required by law. Judge Harney quashed the affidavit in this case for the reason that the law of 1897 was a special law with a special penalty for selling intoxicating liquors, and hence a prosecution would not avail under the general law of 1881.

Prosecutor Kennedy filed the two cases in the Supreme Court Wednesday and has made arrangements to get a speedy decision. In the meantime those who operate quart shops can expect a house to drop on them if the act of 1897 is upheld.

Going to the Country.

Indianapolis Journal: Governor Mount has leased from Dr. J. R. Hussey the old Woodruff mansion, in Woodruff Place, and his family will move into it Nov. 1. The house is a roomy and comfortable frame of three stories, very handsome in exterior and finished throughout in hardwood. It occupies a commanding position in Woodruff, on the corner of the West

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ANDY'S EFFORT. HE STOLE WHEAT.

and Cross drive, and is surround-

CRAWFOKDS^VTLLE, INDIANA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1897—TWELVE PA.GES. pA T?.T SECOITD

•John Ichaels, An Old Soldier of Ripley Township, i* 1-laced In An Kmharrassing Position.

John Michaels, of Ripley township, is in the county jail, having confessed to stealing five bushels of wheat from Charley Edwards, who lives near the Hibernia mill in Ripley township.

Last Saturday before 7 o'clock Marshal Grimes was notified by Yountsville parties to be on the lookout for Michaels, who had passed through that place about daylight and who was suspected of stealing Marshal Grimes and Oflicer Bannister captured Michaels in front of the Sherman House about 8 o'clock. He had deposited the wheat at Crabbs & Reynolds' elevator and had the ticket for it in his pocket. Ho at first denied having stolen the grain, but when closely questioned by Marshal Grimes and Prosecutor Kennedy he acknowledged all. He had stolen it about 3 o'clock that morning from Mr. Edwards' barn and brought it right on to town. He declared that it was his first crime and had been committed because he was in destitute circumstances and needed money to feed his five small and motherless children. Michaels sold some wheat to Crabbs & Reynolds some days ago under the name of Mitchell. He sold the wheat last Saturday under the very appropriate name of Steele. He is about CO years of age and is an old soldier, being a member of the 150th Indiana regiment. Information was filed in the circuit court against him on Monday.

A Very Chilly Bluff.

In Lacey's window is seen a very elegant photograph of Harley Ornbaun and P. O. Rudy standing with conquering hero pose beside what seems to be a mammoth muscalungue, fully as large as either of the boys. Judging from the blended expression of seraphic innocence and pardonable pride depicted on either countenance the average citizen might well believe that the gentlemen were really present at the death of that fish. A. B. Anderson, who brought the picture down, however, explodes the fallacy. He states that the big fish was manufactured by the Chicago Novelty Company. It is owned by a traveling photographer who does a land office business in visiting fishing resorts and charging unsuccessful amateur fishermen one dollar each to be photographed by the side of his mammoth rubber fish.

No Fight in Prospeet.

Crawfordsville sports have been interested in a prize fight which was booked to take place between Ed Cory and a Covington lad named Snyder. Everything is up in the air now, however, as Snyder's friends are afraid to back him. They looked upon him as invincible until last week when a pug named Tourney, who had been loafing about Crowfordsville for several days, wtnt to the capital of Fountain and made a monkey of its pugilistic pet Since then the Covington sports have failed to pin their faith to their whilom idol and Cory's friendB, who were slyly chuckling in anticipation of a big haul, are left to mourn.

ISlcycling In Alaska.

W. H. Evans reports that there is only one road in Alaska adapted to wheeling. This is at Sitka and is a little over a mile in length. Several wheels are owned there and command the admiration and wonder of all. The editor of the paper at Juneau received a letter from the States asking "how about the roads" and "how far into the gold region can a fellow ride on his wheel." As the only "roads" are bolder strewn and ice clad mountain passes the letter was published in the joke department of the paper.

A Mammoth Excursion.

The Monon excursion to Chicago last Sunday was quite a success. Over 800 people went from Crawfordsville and had plenty of room in the fifteen coaches provided. The run each way WBS six hours and the train did not reach home until five o'clock Monday morning, having left Chicago at 11. There was no rowdyism on the cars and except for the cold weather experienced everyone had a good time. For an excursion of such magnitude it was admirably conductad.

Carried Gun.

Paul Gardner was arrested Monday night for carrying a revolver and on Tuesday was fined a dollar and costs in the Mayor's court. It was not stated at the trial what game the young man was gunning for.

Soldiers'Keuiuon.

The Ripley Township Veteran Asso elation of Montgomery county will hold its third annual reunion at Levi Wilcox's grove, three miles southwest of Yountsville, on the Alamo gr&vol road, on Saturday, Sept. 25.

JUSTIFIES THE LYNCHING.

A Klplcy'Oounty Mini in the C'll.v Who Siiyn the Lyncher* Were Served Right.

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C. Lewis, of Ripley county, and a former deputy sheriff of that county, was in the city Saturday and was a caller at the

JOUKNAI.

CLOE'S CLAIM.

Slie Wants Walter S. ISrown to Shell out, $,000 I'or Making LuvoTu Her.

Miss Cloe Richman has filed a breach of promise suit against Walter S. Brown, who resides in the north part of the county, and she wants that genial young gentleman to thaw out financially to the extent of 85,000. Miss Richman states states in her complaint that along in March laBt year the defendant, who had been her steady company for some time, requested her to marry him, and like a sensible girl she agreed. Brown was naturally very much tickled and for awhile was devoted and attentive as a gold brick swindler. And that, according to Miss Richman, is what he really was. His tender of affection was the worse case of gold bricking in the history of the country. Corn hadn't been laid by before he was paying attention to other girls, and long before fodder time he was reported to bs badly Bmitten in another quarter. He evidently was, for just about a year after he secured Miss Cloe's promise he was married to another girl. During all this time Miss Cloe had conducted herself in a highly proper manner, and when other young men had come around on Sunday evenings in their buggies and with their handkerchiefs properly perfumed with old reliable "Jockey Club," she had turned them down and waited in vain for the watery, weathery Walter. She finally served notice on him that she was ready for the preacher man to propound the vital question, but Walter paid no attention to the delicate hint. When he married another, Cloe waB greatly vexed and now decides to make her former lover jump sideways for a season.

Iffiirnal

He is of the opinion

from his experiences of the outlaws of that county that the mob was justified in lynching the men in the Versailles jail. He says for thirty years a band of thieves have been committing depredations, and notwithstanding the officers of the law have exhausted every means at their command to bring them to justice they have utterly failed. They carried on their robberies and depredations so long that forbearance had ceased to be a virtue. In 6uch a state of affairs he thought the people were justified in taking the law into their own hands. He sayB all the better class of citizens, while they deplore the disgraceful affair, nevertheless are of the same opinion with himself. He says there is no grand jury that can be obtained in that county that will ever return an indictment against any man who was en gaged in the lynching. It must be confessed that this is a fearful state of affairs and shows that there needs to be a reconstruction of society in that part of the country.

Hetter Attendance. T--

D. M. Geeting, Superintendent of Public Instruction, estimates from the reports received that the new compulsory education law has already increased the attendance of the public schools of the State 25,000 or 30,000. County and city superintendents in all party of the State write the department that the schools were never before so well attended. The superin* tandent, who has just completed the visitation of county institutes, says that at each of the thirty-seven institutes he visited he found the teachers and other persons interested in educational matters favorably impressed with the new law. The superintendent spent Boveral weeks in the field, and traveled 4,315 miles within the State

Uasyo-Vim cleave Wedding. At the home of the bride on Franklin street wa6 solemnized the marriage of Orville W. Basye and Mary P. Vancleave. The wedding was a private affair and the ceremony was performed by Rev. R. Daniel Trick. The bride is an estimable young woman and an active member of the First Baptist church. The groom is a very genial and accomplished young man. They have the best wishes of their many friendB for a prosperous and happy life. The young couple will make their home in this city.

Will Bo Released.

Charles Mannington, who has been in jail for some weeks on the charge of stealing brass, is to be released, there being no case against him upon which a conviction can be secured Mannington is the fellow who boasts that b« has not worked a lick for thirty years.

AN EXCELLENT LADY DEAD.

Sirs. Kli/.aheth A. Itmriiiil. Idcnt ifiiwl Willi ,, the Kntire History of Criiwlordsvlllo. Passes to Her Keward.

Friday night Mrs. Elizabeth A. Binford died quite peacefully at her home on east Pike street. She had been quite seriouuly sick for several

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rave apprehension for her recovery was not entertained until InstTliurRday afternoon when she became unconscious and sank rapidly until death came.

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Binford was born at Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 0, 1813, and was the eldest of four daughters born to Wm. Jones and Susanna Dubois, and granddaughter of Touissant Dubois, a name identified with the French occupation of this territory. She came to Crawfordsville with the family of her uncle, Major Ambrose Whitlock, in 1822 and has resided here ever since. She was married to tho late Wm. Biuford June 20, 1837, and was the mother of four sons, three of whom grew to manhood, namely: Edward J., of

Denver, Col A. W., of this city, and Jas. W,, lately deceased, of Paris, 111. At an early age Bhe becaino identified with the Episcopalian church, continuing a loving communicant of her chosen church until the last.

Few wcraen in Crawfordsville have been better known than Mrs. Binford and certainly none have been better loved by those with whom their lives were associated. She was a lady of rare charm of manner and her long identity with the social and religious circles of Crawfordsville has left its impress upon them. Her home, like that of her uncle, Major Whitlock, was one of refined hospitality and most admirably did this excellent lady preside in it. Devoutly religious, her religion was not less one of daily life than one of activity in church affairs and her many deeds of charity and acts of kindness will long linger in the memory of hundreds whom she succored in their necessity. Her death leaves a place vacant which cannot bo filled.

MTB.

Elizabeth A.

Binford occurred last Tuesday at 10 o'clock at the family residence on east Pike street, and was attended by a large concourse of the friends of the esteemed lady. The services were conducted by Rev. John Hazen White, Episcopal Bishop of Indiana. Tho floral tributes were many and beautiful and were mutely eloquent of tho high regard in which Mrs. Binford was held. The pallbearerB were Messrs. L. F. Hornady, E. H. Cowan, Joseph Binford, C. L. Thomas, Louis Bischof and Walter Pickett. The flower bearers were Mrs. Landon Cabell Rose, Mrs. P. O. Rudy, Mrs. W. F. liulet, Miss Mary Smith and Miss Emily Thompson. The interment occurred at Oak Hill cemetery and a large number of people followed the body to its last resting place in that beautiful-city of the dead.

RED HOT RESOLUTION.

TI10Crawfordsville Presbytery Tips It Oir to the .Trustee* of Wabash College.

There was a regular meeting of the Crawfordsville Presbytery hold at Fowler last Thursday and was marked by a large attendance. In tho course of the proceedings a resolution was presented calling upon the trustees of Wabash College to open tho doors of the institution to ladies and declaring in unmistakable terms in favor of coeducation. The resolution was passed with a regular cheer, the greatest enthusiasm being manifested. When tho noeB were called for there were two dissenting voices but these were drowned in the roar of laughter which followed the vote on the negative.

A Pearl lie fore Swine,

Pearl Replogle has filed suit for divorce from Wm. Replogle, to whom Bhe was married in Knox. The town in which they were married was indicative of Pearl's matrimonial career. William was cruel and often beat and cursed her. When they were married Pearl had 81,700 in cash, but Bill blew this all in and then deserted her. Pearl wants a divorce and the restoration of her maiden |jime of Thorn-

Sent Over the Hc:»d.

James Sullivan, tho lad who Btole Henry Alfrey's coat and veBt, pleaded guilty last Tuesday and being only 22 years of age was sent to the Jeffersonville reformatory on an indeterminate sentence. "Plumps" Marley pleaded guilty to stealing a watermelon and was sent to Jeffersonville on a similar sentence.

Adjudged Insane.

Anna Scott was last Tuesday adjudged a person of unsound mind and a guardian will be appointed for her.