Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 17 December 1897 — Page 3

VOL. 50-NO. 50

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C. BARNHILL,

Funeral Director and Embalmer.

CRAWRORDSVILLE, IIND.

All grades of goods carried in stock. Calls attended day and night. Office 213 S. Washington St. Residence 415 S. Washington St. John B, Swank, Assistant, Telephones No. 61^81^83

Good Clothes Much

Good (honestly woven) ClotH Good (strong, fast colored) Linings Good (pure dyed, not leaded) Silk: Sewings Good (pure linen thoroughly shrunk) Interlinings Good (uniform and skilled) Tailoring

Good (handmade with silken twist) Buttonholes. Good (firmly with linen thread sewn shank) Buttons, Good (properly fashioned, hand cut) Style.

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TTHis is the Way Our

Suits and Overcoats

-Are All iVIade.

THEY RANGE IN PRICE:

Suits $5, $7, $io, $!2, $15, $20 Overcoats, $5, $7, $10, $12, $15, $20

We ask a trial and satisfaction will be guaranteed. Call and see what we have Yours Respectfully,

TANNENBADM BROS.

TDF7 with a reliable com

patiy. One good risk

Is worth a barrel of cheap ones. You've never had a lire, but can't tell when you might. See

LOUIS M'MAINS,

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW OfHce Rooms 3 and 4. Fisher Building

MONEY TO LOAN.

At 5 Per- Cent.

On farm and city property. Take "a policy with the Columbian Kellef Fund Association, which pays $10 per week for sick benefits.

EL AM T. MURPHY CO., .. Oilice liooms 3 and 4 Campbell Block.

LOWER, STILL LOWER 1

Choicest Hand Made Creams to 15c a Pound, In a Beautiful Box Besides. 1

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1897-TWELVE PAGES.

NIGHT MAIL SERVICE.

It Kills linen Secured for Crawfordsville anil Will l$e Kitallislied |at Once.

The JOURNAL on Tuesday received a telegram from Congressman Landis stating that he had succeeded in securing a night mail service for Crawfordsville and that it would be established at once. This announcement will be received with great pleasure by the public as the service has long been needed here, and its absence kas occasioned thousands of vexatious delays and mistakes. Who will obtain the new position of nightclerk remains to be seen.

K. OF P. ENCAMPMENT.

Attendance 011 Former Similar Occasions Awakens lOxpectatlons.

Indianapolis

Neivs:

The Indianapo­

lis committees are not idly basing their estimates of attendance at the national encampment of the Knights of Pythias, to be held in this city in August of 189S. The report of attendance at the encampments of the order from 18S8—the one held at Cincinnati and the first encampment of the uniform rank such as they are considered to-day—has been secured. There were in camp in Cincinnati in 1S88 10,000 members of the uniform rank, and it was estimated as a minimum figure that 80,000 visitors were attracted to that city because of the gathering of the knights. At the Milwaukee encampment there were 16,000 members of the uniform rank in camp, and over 100,000 visitors were in the city, and a majority of them for the full week of the encamr ment. In 1892 at Kansas City the attendance of knights in camp was 15,000, and the visitors were numbered over 100,000.

There was a slip up on rates to Washington in 1894, and the attendance of the uniform rank there numbered only about 10,000, though the attendance of visitors was enormous because of the natural interest centered in a visit to the capital of the nation.

There was no national encampment in 1896 because of another difference with -the railroads. At Minneapolis, where the national encampment was to have been held, there was only a brigade encampment, with an attendance of about 3,000 knights of the uniform rank in camp. The attendance from the subordinate lodges of the order was generally confined to the locality of the Northwest. In the same year at Cleveland thez was a larger encampment, with about 8,000 in camp.

The question of railroad rates enters largely into the success of all encampments or gatherings of this magnitude, and Indianapolis is well fixed in this regard. Within a radius of 250 miles, and this covers a territory within which there are 300,000 members of the order, a S5 bill will cover the expenses of a visitor.

Democratic Meeting.

The Democrats of Montgomery county will meet at the court house January 8 to elect eleven township precinct committeemen, eleven members of the county central committee and nineteen delegates to the district convention to be held at Frankfort on Jan. 11.

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The Prices^i^

ihe crowd of shrewd buyers who appreciate buying-opportunities continues. We have fixed things now so that everybody can enjoy a real Merry Christmas. You don't have to buy the children poor, sickening Candies. We have dropped the price of our ... ck

We have, also, all kinds of Dolls, and all kinds of Books, Handkerchiefs, Chinaware, Lamps—Everything imaginable in a Holiday line. By the way, a nice Cape or Jacket or a beautifully trimmed Hat makes a fine gift. We have a full line. All prices. §&

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MR. LANDIS1 POSITION.

He Is Not, Opposed to the Civil Service I.IIW Hut to Its Allllsfs.

A Washington special to the Indianapolis Journal says: "Representative Landis wishes to add a few lines to the interview which was published in the Journal a week ago. He says: 'I am not opposed to the principles on which our civil service system is based. I am opposed, however, to the abuses with which that system has been loaded down, and favor correcting them. The very

beBt

friends of the system

should be the ones who help us, and not those who antagonize us in our effort to make the administration ot the law sensible and effective, and along the lines originally contemplated. We want to strip the system of its hypocrisy and make it honest. It long since came to such a pass that any fraud and fake could make any sort of a proposition affecting civil service, label it 'civil service reform,' and at once enlist the civil service reform clique all over the country, not only in its behalf, but in an army prepared to resent any criticism of it as malevolent, and to stamp those who might try to point out its defects as spoilsmen and rullians. It is thissham and false pretense that we want to tear away from the system, and to give the country an honest law, administered honestly and for the general good. The system as we now find-ruiling it fairly reeks with abuses. We do not have to go out of our way to hunt them. They confront us wherever we are. I will mention one little instance to illustrate: I was up in the sixth auditor's office the other day, and .at the desk of that official I applied to see a list, which the auditor handed me, and said contained the names of the c'.erks in his ofiice charged to Indiana. The first thing that caught my eye was the name of Miss Hattie Craft, charged to Delphi, my own town. I know every man, woman and child in Delphi, and I knew there was no person of that name living there. On inquiry I learned years ago a man by Craft made his home in short time, and that ne daughter by the name of Hattie. After an absence of fourteen years, during which time the Crafts were never in Delphi, a Hattie Craft was appointed, in 1895, to a departmental clerkship in Washington as being from Delphi. This is a fraud on its face and rank injustice to bona fide residents of Delphi who have taken the civil service ex amination in good faith, and whoBe appointment may have been blocked by the fact that there was somebody on the rolls purporting to be from that town. I have heard of a great many other similar

that sixteen the name of Delphi for a had a young

caseB,

but this one

I happen to know about myself, want to see to what extent the government pay-rolls are falsified."

Captain Nelfs Injuries.

It appears that tbe injuries of Cap tain Neff, of Ladoga, in the Monon wreck Saturday evening were not so serious as at first reported. The Bloomington

Telephone

on Monday

says: "W. Neff, a stock dealer of Ladoga, on his way home from Montgomery, Ala was in the front seat of the rear car, aod was thrown against the side of the seat so as to seriously injure his side. He was taken to Dr. Harris' otlice and an examination proved that two ribs were fractured, and he was otherwise bruised. After his wounds had been dressed he was taken to the home of Josiah Daugherty, north College avenue, where he was cared for until to day, when he was able to be taken to his home. He is an oid friend of fie Daugherty family, and as soon as he was injured asked that they be notified."

Preparing for Another Campaign!'

The State central committee of the Republican party will meet in Indianapolis Tuesday, Dec, 28, 1807, for the purpose of fixing a date and issuiog a call for the re-organization of the party for the campaign of 1898. It is the desire of the Stale committee that this meeting at Indianapolis, Dec. 28, shall be the occasion of the general assembly of the leading, active and working Republicans of the State. It is also the wish of the State committee that every county in the State shall be represented at this meeting in order that general encouragement and enthusiasm may be given to the Republicans of Indiana.

lC»t rayed.

One chestnut sorrel horse, 8 years old height, 15 hands, 3 inches star in forehead foretop cut off shod all around with rolling motion shoes in front. Anyone having him in their possession let me know, or leave word at Lee Long's feed yard.

Ai.o.v/.o YOUNG.

AFFIRMED.

lie .lodgment of tlx, Fair Aravclla Dill Against ttie First National Itank Is A Itlrnu'd.

Special to the Journal. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 14.—The Supreme Court to-day affirmed the judgment for xteen hundred dollars recovered against the First National Hank of Crawfordsville by Aravella Dill for money transferred from her bank account to her husband through a series of bucket shop deals. The court arraigned the bucket 6hop business aB a fruitful source of embezzlements and recommended legislative action.

RESUMED.

Three Thousand miners Hot urn to Work After A Successful Strike.

Special to the Journal. BEI.I.KVIM.E, 111., Dec. 14.—Thirtyfive mines of the consolidated and Madison Coal Company resumed operation to day and three thousand miners returned to work. The mining company acceeded to the demand of the men and agreed to pay the Springfield scale of 37 cents per ton.

A ROAST FROM JORDON.,

He Gives tlieFestive lliicket Shop a Hougli Criticism in Deciding the Dill Case.

The JOIJHNAI, Tuesday contained a special noting the Supreme Court's in the Dill case,and as the matter is interesting we copv to-day Judge Jordon's remarks from the Indianapolis News.

The Supreme Court to-day allirmed a judgment for 81,607 recovered against the First National Bank of Crawfordsville by Avarella Dill for money transferred from her bank account to that of her husband through a series of deals by the husband in futures" and "margins" at a bucketshop in Crawfordsville.

In pronouncing the opinion of the court, Judge Jordan said: "The evidence fully proves that appellant Pearce was operating what is commonly known as a 'bucket-shop.' He was engaged in the illegal business of dealing in what is termed 'futures' or 'options.' The products which he pretended to sell he did not have at the time, and it was mutually understood and intended by both parties that the wheat or corn which was claimed to be delivered, but when the time fixed for its deliverd arrived the market value at Chicago should constitute the basis upon which the settlements would be made. "As the market price would rise or fall, there would be a loss or gain to the purchaser. Such deals or transactions are hostile to public policy, and, therefore, illegal. They are of like character and akin to bets made on a game of poker or faro, and are equally as uncertain and hazardous. Embezzlements and other crimes on the part of public officers and bank officials having the custody of money belonging to others have been in the past some of the evil fruits directly traceable to dealing in futures in these institutions, and the question of prohibiting such business, as it is generally conducted, merits the consideration of the Legislature."

Keviv.'il nt Kinjjsloy Church. A very profitable revival has been in

progress at Kingsley M. E. church the past two weeks. It began with the quarterly meeting and has grown in interest until much good has been accomplished. Such interest has been manifested that the people go from miles until, on oven some of the darkest nights, the house has been filled. There have been some conversions and a number of accessions tip to the present time, and the meeting is still in progress.

There will be the regular services at the Mace M. E. church Suuday morniDg and evening, and a protracted meeting will be begun Monday night, Dec. 2-7, i":-

Filed IIis

Treasurer Johnson begins his second term on January 1 and lias filed his bond for $300,000 with the board of commissioners, that body approving the same. The board is signed by the following freeholders: James Hutchison, J. H. White, II. C. Armstrong W. L. Smith, Win. M. Davis, I. N. Gott, George Johnson, J. W. Hanna, E. C. Voris, J. R. Bonnell, Win. M. Reeves, P. S. Kennedy. S. N. Warbritton, G. W. Markley, F. M. Dice, Foster A. Fletcher, Isaac Davis, J. S. Brown, H. H. Swindler, A.« E. Reynolds, W. T. Whittington, R. C. Walkup, C. E. Davis, E. T. McCrea, A. D. Thomas, A. W. Johnson.

A Jtrancli HOUHC.

Roberts, Shideier & Co., wholesale commission merchants of Indianapolis, have opened a branch here in the Elston block on east Main street, with W. H. Roberts in charge.

PART FIRST

"HONEST HENRY.

olored Youth ol Kstalilirtlied Honor Proves Ken-cant ami Gallops on* Itli a l.ot ol 1111 ported Duds.

Haird Saltzgaber is a student of Wabash College who spent last summer joshing about Europe purchasing a lot of duds just like those which are worn by tbe l'rince of Wales, Henry Chevalier and Mons Natalie, the justly celebrated trainer of the troupe of wonderful performing pigs at the Olympia garden in London. "Honest Henry" Courtney is the virtuous son of a colored barber in Danville, 111. Henry

haB

never been in

Europe, but he has a natural penchant for, fine feathers. Some months a^ he came to Crawfordsville and assunuoll the position of cook in the west Main street boarding house of Mrs. M. Steele, where Mr. Saltzgaber

hangB

out. Last Monday Mr. Saltzgaber came in and deposited his English mackintosh, overcoat, crushed white hat and watch on the sitting room table, while ho went in to supper. When he came out his things were gone and so was honest Henry. The police were called in and upon hearing the facts at once pronounced Henry tho thief. Mrs. Steele was much opposed to this deduction, as she thoroughly believed in the honesty and integrity of her chef. 11 seems that Henry made his reputation for honesty last summer.

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Steele's daughter, Mrs. Elmer Hills, lost two valuable rings and the household was greatly disturbed by their unaccountable disappearance. No one grieved more than Henry, and finally he declared that he believed that Mrs. Hills must have thrown them out with the slop. He made a personal investigation of the slop barrel and returned to the house with tho missing rings and the announcement that he could now rest easy since the lost was found. This exploit enshrined the youth in a niche of honorable esteem, and not until Monday did ho tumble therefrom.

The police, after being informed of Saltzgaber's loss, nt, once began tbe hunt for Henry, Tne Derickson joint and all his other haunts were visited in vain, and it was nearly half past 1 o'clock, when Marshal Grimes and Officer Hiatt stood on the corner of Market and Water streets just ready to abandon the search for the night. While they stood the object of their desires came scooting south along the Monon track. He had Saltzgaber's soft white hat with the brilliant plaid band, jauntily perched on his curly head, and the rest of the duds tucked under his arm. He was quickly overhauled and after a straight talk threw up his hands and confessed. He had hustled to Martin's ice house after the theft and had rested there in the saw dust until he heard the clock strike one.

He then tore out for the Junction, hoping to catch the Rig Four train there for Indianapolis, and ho would probably have been successful had ho not been Headed off. He was landed in jail and seems pretty cerlain of a free ride to Jefforsonville.

-'IIOUCKI Henry" Sentenced. "Honest Henry" Courtuey, the colored boy who stole Baird Saltzgaber's imported clothes tho other evening, was before Judge West Wednesday and on a plea of guilty was sentenced to tho Jeffersonvilie reformatory for an ^determinate period. Henry's best girl, the notorious "fat Phoebe," was present and sighed like an overworked threshing engine when the fatal words fell from the court's lips.

Trouble at Nexv .Market.

Prosecutor Kennedy was called to New Market Tuesday to prosecute eight boys for gambling. Childers' saw mill has for a long time been the meeting place of the youth of this goodly town to learn tho art of poker playing. Since the mill burned they have been meeting in the barn of Simeon Vancleave. Mr. Vancleave filed affidavits against all the boys for desecrating the Sabbath. They all pleaded guilty and were fined by 'Squire Brown. The affidavits for gambling will be filed in tho circuit court if the boys do not do better, ami all will be sent to Plainfield. This is the last time leniency is to bo shown these young violators of the law.

I-ottor I,IH1.

Following is a list of tho letters remaining uncalled for in the postotliee at Crawfordsville for the week ending Dec. 14, 1807. Persons calling for same please say "advertised": AndersonMissG'tio Linn Mrs Blanche Burns Val Conroy I N Cash Geo Day Guy W Goodman A

Miller Mrs Hattie Schneider M'sMab'l Thompson Lee Thomas MissB'rtha Wyckell MrsSyntha

Kennedy MrsMary Wat6on Marion