Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 February 1899 — Page 9

VOL. 52—NO. 8

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GILL'S PLEA.

Asks the Legislature to Allow Farmer to AIak& Horse Laws.

Last week in the legislature Senator Hugg's bill regulating the practice of veterinary medicine, which was killed by the adoption of the minority report of the committee on public health, provoked much laughter before it was finally shelved. Senator Gill, the Populist member, took the bill more seriously than Senator Hugg himself. Senator Hugg did not draft the bill, however, and was not affected by its provisions nearly so much as was Senator Gill, who had at times before announced that he was a horseman. The Populistic senator made an impassioned speech on the bill, in which he appealed to the senate to kill it before it went any further. The bill provided that a veterinarian, before he would be alowed to practice, must hold a certificate of his competency. Senator Gill said that the "quack" horse doctors were the best that the country had, and it was that class who could care for a horse or a cow when the gentlemen who had certificates of proficiency could not. He said he had lost in a few months over 81,000 worth of horses, and they were not common horses, either, but "roadsters," and that he did not want to have to lose more animals while experimenting with the horse doctors who hold veterinary certificates. "You lawyers," said the senator, who holds his own caucuses, nominates and seconds the nomination of his own Populistic candidates, "can do what you please with the bills which concern the courts and law and all that, but, for goodness sake, take your hands off and let UB farmers, who know something about what we are talking about, have the horses to ourselves."

The lawyers were with the Populist, and on vote of the senate the veterinary bill was laid away where it will not be heard from any more this session. "That's the way to do it," responded the senator of Populism, with a sigh of relief, after the bill had been killed.

Warning: Against Small-Pox.

Danger of an outbreak of small-pox being imminent, the county board of health deem it necessary to urge upon the public the necessity for immediate vaccination. The disease is prevalent in many of the surrounding states and in several counties of Indiana. Vaccination having been so long neglected, there is great danger that the disease will become generally spread over the entire country. One case of smallpox in this locality at the present time would undoubtedly mean the exposure of several people that are not protected by vaccination, and consequently the spread of the disease to an unlimited extent. With the disease so generally distributed over the entire country as it is. and communication and travel between infected pointB and the outside world so unrestrained, it would be no surprise to have a case of smallpox appear in our midst at any time. Vaccination done in an aseptic manner and with glycerinated lymph is not followed by severe results.

The public cannot be urged too strongly to heed the warning tod see that everyone is vaccinated at once.

I PAUL J. BARCUS, Secretary County Board of Health.

From One Who Was Warmed.

The Thorntown Argus chortles as follows- "THE CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL says the natural gas supply there haB failed, half the fires in town having given out completely, and those that continue burning are hardly equal in warmth to an ordinary lamp. If the street fair directors had exercised the forethought of stacking up in four foot lengths a little of the 'warm time' shed abroad in such profusion there last fall, they might have had enough calorific energy to tide them over the present cold snap."

If tradition lieth not the editor of the Argus knows whereof he speaks. He attended the street fair and was warmed until he, .was a rich seal brown.

.... Will Go to Manila.

Lieutenant Charles D. Herron has been assigned to the 18th infantry, which is now in Manila, and will leave here on Saturday to report in San Francisco next Wednesday. Upon graduation he was recommended for the artillery service, but upon learning that he would have to remain in the states he withdrew and went into the infantry. Quite a number of his classmates will go to Manila with him.

Bowers- Uendricbson.

Charles R. Bowers, of Veedereburg, and VeBta Hendrickson, of Layton, were married by S. A. Stilwell, J. P., at his office last Thursday.

ORAAVTORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FBI!)AT, FEBRUARY 24, 1891J—TWELVE PAGES.

The Appraised Value of His Library and 1'ergonal Property.

Indianapolis Journal: Harold Taylor, administrator of the eBtate of Robert B. F, Peirce, yesterday asked and was granted permission to take certain action in the administration of the trust. The petition of the administrator was passed on by the circuit court. The petition recited the fact that at the time of his death Mr. Peirce was one of the defendants in a suit against the Crawfordsville Water Company. The suit is to recover penalties for the alleged violation of their duties by the officers of the company, in failing to make collections of capital stock and make annual reports. The administrator has now become a defendant to the suit and is authorized by the court to have such depositions taken as are necessary and transact other business in connection with the suit.

The administrator also shows that Mr. Peirce was president and one of the chief stockholders of the National Electric Headlight Company at the time of his death. Mr. Taylor says that negotiations were then pending for the sale of the concern, and he is granted permission to proceed with the sale as contemplated by Mr. Peirce. Mr. Taylor filed a report with the court yesterday Bhowing the value of Mr. Peirce's personal property. His law library contained ninety-three volumes, valued at 8783.35. The total appraised value of his personal Dropty is 81,447.35.

WHAT HAPPENED TO SMELCER

Is Not a Circumstance to What Will Happen to Him If He Continues His .Evil Course.

Last Tuesday the case of the state vs Charles Smelcer came up in the mayor's court. There were two affidavits, one charging him with keeping •a house of ill repute and the second with associating. Smelcer WBB on hand accompanied by his'lawyer, Tom Stilwell, and finally pleaded guilty to the s&cond charge with the understanding that the charge of keeping a bad house be dismissed. He was fined 85 and costs and before being dismissed was lecturedj&by the mayor. Mayor Elmore stated that since Smelcer had had control oft a the Junction House it had sustained the worBt sort of a reputation and that it had been the trysting place of evil 'characters. He warned Smelcer. that the police would hereafter be jkept hot on his trail and advised him to tear out without delay.

The Junction House will hereafter be closely watched by the police and a determined effort will be made to break up this foul neBt. Smelcer keeps a saloon and lunch counter there and it is boldly charged that the rooms are given over to immoral] (characters. It has more scandal connected with it than any dive that ever nourished in the county and the railroad authorities have been bitter in their complaints as to the degradation of the place. All the ticket selling business has been dropped and the roads boycott the dive BO far as possible. It is a festering hole of sin and corruption and should be bombarded out of existence and that right speedily.

Death of Mrs. William H. VanSlyke.

Delilah Ornbaun was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, March 32, 1833, and died at Crawfordsville Saturday evening, Feb. 18, 1899, in the 67th year of her life. With her parentB she moved to this city in 1835, when but three years of age, and here she grew up, married and reared her family. On the 6th day of November, 1853, she was married to W. H. VanSlyke, who is still living and is a wellknown citizen. One son and three daughters also Burvive her. The son is W. O. VanSlyke. The daughters are Mrs. John O. Williams, Miss Maude VanSlyke, of this city, and Mrs. Hymann Polwosky, of Denver, Calorado. Mrs. VanSlyke was a life-long member of the First M. E church, having united therewith when she was a girl of thirteen. Funeral services were conducted at the family residence, 805 squth Washington street, at 3 o'clock Monday. The interment was at Oak Hill.

Anniversary of Pythianism.

The thirty-sixth anniversary of Pythianism was celebrated at Darlington Sunday afternoon. The large hall was crowed by the knightB and their friends and the exercises were of the most enjoyable and profitable character. Excellent music was a feature of the entertainment and the sermon by the Rev. Frank Mikels, of Frankfort, was an admirable and appropriate effort. The occasion was one long to be memorable in the annals of the Darlington lodge.

PEIRCE'S ESTATE. OLD SOLDIERS

Ifroin the National Military Home at Marion Want Saloons liomovod.

Of the nearly 3,000 soldiers in the national military home at Marion, 1,700 have Bigned a petition to the Indiana legislature asking that body to prohibit, by enactment, the opening or maintenance of a saloon within one mile of the home. The significance of this can be appreciated when it is understood that a large number of the veterans use liquor to a greater or less extent. Only a few of the soldiers refused to affix their names to the paper. Thirteen saloons come within this limit and the proprietors are determined upon an aggressive fight to prevent the passage of a bill, asserting that if the saloons are removed beyond the limit, the soldiers who visit them and become intoxicated are liable to robbery and violence on the long journey home. The Ohio law establishes the two-mile limit.

Expansion.

THE JOURNAL is a firm believer in expansion and has been putting this theory into practice for the past ten years with regard to its own internal affairs.

In 1893 we expanded into the handsome building we now occupy, built especially for the purposes of a printing office and owned by the proprietors of THE JOURNAL.

In 1895 the process of expansion had reached the point where it was necessary to enlarge again, and an annex was added to the building.

Material and machinery have continually been added until the building is now crowded full from cellar to roof. And in the midst of this growth and as a result of it we find it necessary to increase our power. The eight horse power Otto gas engine, which for nearly ten years has turned our presses, folders and other machines, in too small to do the work now and will be replaced in a few days with another engine of the same make with thirteen and a half h^orse power, costing 81,000. When it is in position we shall extend an invitation to the public to call and see it.

For all this growth we acknowledge ourselves deeply indebted to a generous and appreciative public. Without the substantial patronage of our friends it would have been manifestly impossible to build up in this community a paper of such circulation as THE JOURNAL and a printing plant which iB acknowledged to be unequaled in Indiana outside of the larger cities,

Fighting the Court House.

The citizens of Boone county have divided into two factions and a war which threatens to eclipse any church organ faction fight that ever brewed, iB now going merrily on. The county commissioners by a vote of two against one last week ordered a new court house built, the sad need of which every •ywjitor to Lebanon will testify to, and last Saturday a mass meeting of citizens under the leadership of Judge J. G. Adams assembled and denounced the two commissioners who orderd the house built. They say they defrauded certain people into Bigning a petition for an order for a new court house and a fund of 883.50 was subscribed in a twinkling with which to fight the board.

The county auditor has refused to spread the order of the board on record and both he and the one commissioner who opposed the order were highly praised. The meeting reBolved: "We do hereby express our well founded fears that a new court house commenced in fraud, will be finished in corruption, and we submit that a building so erected would be hardly a fit place to administer justice."

KDJoying the Trip.

Ed Sergent on Monday received a letter from his son Harry, of the regular army, who with a number of other Crawfordsville boys is on his way to Manila in the transport "Grant." The letter was mailed at Gibraltar and in it Harry states that all the Crawfordsville boys are well arid enjoying their trip immensely. They like the life on shipboard and fare splendidly. Pies, cakes, and other delicacies are on the menu. On the trip two storms were encountered but no danger was experienced. Great pleasure is anticipated on the Mediterranean.

An Ugly Fire.

Monday night the barn of Wm. Tomlinson, four miles northwest of town, was destroyed by fire. All the grain,' feed and implements were burned and four good horses perished in the flames. The fire was presumbly of an incendiary origin. The house on the farm was destroyed by fire aeveral years ago. Mr. Tomlinson had a partial insurance on his loss.

PART SECOND

MR. LANDIS' VIEWS.

He Makes Some Vigorous Comments In Inference to the Policy of the President.

A Washington special says: Representative Landis is one of the Republicans in congress who

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the effect of an extra session forced by the refusal of the President to accept the Cockrell or any other compromise that does not give him the military support he needs. "The President and the Republican party," he said, "need not fear the political consequences of such a session. The country, irrespective of party, is with the President and will repudiate with scorn and indignation

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threw the country into war, then tied the hands of the President and went home. Every senator and representative is aware of the demand the country is making for the mustering out of the volunteer soldiers. The Hull bill is a fair and. just one. The President may not need over fifty thousand BOIdiers, but he may need 100,000, and this contingency must be provided for. The country has BO much confidence in the President as to believe that he would not keep one more soldier in service than necessary."

A WOMAN INTERVENES

But Does Not Save Her Son From Being Cut to Mlioe Strings By His Hilarious Old Uncle. 11

Court street is do-»vn in the southwest end of town and one of the leading factionsresident thereon or therein, as the grammarians please, is the Leisure-Sigler faction. Sigler has a wife and four children and with him lives his mother and her brother, Charles Leisure. Both Sigler and his festive old uncle are fond of corn juice, rye extract and hop ale, and last E riday they went down town and indulged their abnormal appetite for these delicacies until the irrigation committees at the several bar rooms refused to accommodate them any further. The merry gentlemen then turned their fairy foot steps toward Court street and arrived there in the course of time—much time. Once inside the house they fell to quarreling and from words they passed to blows. Sigler, being more husky, was giving his uncle some fancy points in boxing when the old blatherskite discarded all the rules of the ring and drew a pocket knife, known in polite parlance ae a "frog-sticker." Armed with this weapon he made short work of MB aggressive nephew. The first cut slashed the end of one ear, laid open a cheek and cut a piece off his lip big enough to bait a cat fish hook. The second blow laid open the other cheek and the third was jabbed straight into his throat an inch from the jugular vein. A half a dozen vicious slashes along the neck and throat were then made and when Sigler threw up his hands to save himself these members were stabbed and slashed most cruelly. Finally the young man's mother ran in to save her son's life and her now fiendish brother turned upon her and stabbed her half a dozen times on the hands and arms. A small artery in her arm was cut and she bled like a butchered animal. She undoubtedly saved the life of her miserable son, however, for help arrived before Leisure could put the finishing touches on his beastly work. The police were summoned and the old man was trotted off to jail. He was also bleeding profusely, for in the fight he had been knocked over a chair and had fallen on a basin, which cut him in half a dozen places. Dr. Niven and Dr. Barcus were called in to attend Sigler and

mother and had hard

work to keep them from bleeding to death. The cuts, while ugly and painful, are not necessarily fatal, but Leisure will be kept in jail until all doubta as to their recovery are removed, Should either die he will be tried for murder and at best will not escape a trial on the charge of assault and battery with intent to commit murder.

A Close Call.

Howard Houser, the butcher, had a close call from asphyxiation Sunday at his home on Plum street. He connects his gas with the stove by means of a rubber tube, and when the gaB came up Sunday night after the family had retired the force was 60 great BB to blow the tube off. The gas streamed out into the house and fortunately one of the family awakened before unconscious. He staggered to the door and threw it open, admitting the free air. Then he turned the gas off and roused the other members of the family. They arose and adjourned to the yard in their night clotheB, drinking in great draughts of fresh midnight air while ^the gas escaped from the house.