Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 October 1901 — Page 1

VOL. 54—NO. 42

•ITHat Headache

"fl That annoys you so much ^j/doesn't always come from a. .^disordered stomach, or state l$of your nerves, but from defective eyesight. Don't neglect the warning that nature gives you, and be sorry too late. We will test your eyes

free, and fit carefully with a fine pair of crystal spectacles (or eyeglasses at a reasonable price,

M. C. Kline

THE RELIABLE JEWELER and OPTICIAN,

TO BE THE PET OF A PRINCE.

Capt. T. T. Munhall'a Handsome Spot* ted Horse Goes to France to Live In the Stables of an Aristocrat.

Several dags ago there was a horse buyer from.Paris in the city and while here he noticed the handsome "calico" horse of Capt. T. T. Munhall and made him an offer. The offer was not accepted but the Captain fixed a price of $400, which was on Thursday accepted through Walter Bros., and the horse started Thursday for France. The buyer told Captain Munhall that his horse was wanted for the stables of a prince who lived in Paris, and whose stables were as handsome as many residence houses. The prince is very partial to horses marked like Mr. Munhall's and always treats them well, and never sells them, now having some animals thirty-five years old in his sta bles. It was only the buyer's assurance that the best of treatment would be accorded the pet of the family that persuaded Mr. Munhall to let the animal go. When Robinson's circus was here Mr. Munhall was told to bring the animal out to the tents after having tixed a price of $600 on him, but his heart failed him and he never took the animal out. He was fearful of the treatment that the animal would receive in traveling over the country with a circus. The horse is a gelding ten years old and Mr. Munhall has own«d him for seven years. There was „an affecting scene when the animal left home for his long trip Thursday morning.

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Just a Little Break.

That break down at the Poston brick plant a few days ago was but a small affair oausing less than a day's delay, and the exaggerated reports concerning it have done the engineer, W. H. Newkirk, an injustice. The engine which broke was only two horse power.

Birdsell and New Tiffin.

These Wagons Lead All Others and the Prices are Right.

Elwood and American Fence

Any Sifce Come and See Us and Got a Catafosuff and PfJce.

I W A A A W

H. 1^. TINSLBY & CO., CrawfordsviSle.

WHAT 1HEV DID TO MR. COX.

He Is Fined $1,000 for Dodging the Assessor and Will Have to Pay Up Back Taxes for Seventeen Years.

It will be remembered that over a year suit was filed against William Cox for failing to give in a lot of property to the assessor for taxation. Mr. Cox Is a wealthy farmer living near Darlington and is rated by his neighbors as worth two or three hundred thousand dollars. Thursday he was fined 8.1,000 and costs in circuit court and $47,000 more added to his assessment for this year. In addition to this the assessor will go back seventeen years and find out just how much property he failed to give in collecting back taxes for all this time.

Big rlgures.

The figures given below are taken from the reports of the supreme scribe and supreme keeper'of tribute of the Tribe of Ben-Hur in the October issue of the Chariot'. Balance In benefit and reserve funds

September 1, 1901 $248,414.36 Received from monthly payments $38,878.70 Received from Interest 513.41 89,392.11

Total .8287,806.47 Paid out for death claims, September.... 32,250.00

Balance in benefit and reserve funds October 1, 1901 1265,556.47

Cash in banks, Crawfordsville, Ind,.$ 54,127.17 Cash in Ladoga banks, Ladoga,Ind. 3,000.00 Invosted in municipal and county bonds 149,518.34 First mortgage real estate loans (one-third value) 38,900.00 Invested in real esta'e (home of the order) representing 4 per cent, investment 10,010.96

Total resources $255,556 47

Cheap Money to Loan.

If you want to borrow money, rea^ Clements & Evans' ad on the fourth page of this Issue/

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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Cora Brown at Her Home Near^ Fruits, Takes Chloroform and Tries to Die.

Tuesday evening at her home near Fruits, Miss Cora Brown took £a large dose of chloroform with suicidal intent. Wednesday morning when she failed to get up as usual,her mother went to her room and found her very.sick with a bottle of chloroform in her hand Dr. Bunnell, of^Waynetown, was summoned and succeeded in bringing Cora back from the coral 'Strand and planting her feet again on this terrestrial ball. Tbe girl did not want to live, but she was forced to do so. She has bjen employed until recently as domestic in a family in this city, but left her place suddenly without giving any notice. She gives as her reason for attempting to take her life that the people of this city were talking about her and her company. It appears that a married man livlug at ithe edge of the city, had been paying iher attention and some talk had been aroused among the neighbors by his action. The Brown girl is a very good looking young lady about twenty years of age, and was in this city Tuesday afternoon, coming in from her home on a bicycle, and it is probably} at this time she got the poison thatjshe later administered to herself. The doctor states that she will pull through all right, and it is hoped that her close shave fromldeath will restrain her from any future attempts. Her father, Thomas Brown, committed suicide several years ago on the same farm that is now occupied by the family. The family is very much respected in the Fruits neighborhood and the members of it very much deplore Cora's rash attempt atlself destruction.

McKinley and Harrison on Bank Notes. The portrait of the late President McKinley will be placed upon the ne^t series of #10 national bank notes.£jThe charters of the national banks expire in 1902, a ad according to the law a new series of notes must be issued. Treasury officials are of the opinion that Congressional action will be necessary in order to extend the charters thus for a second time. Anticipating it they are already planning the design of the new notes. It will be a portrait series with Wm. McKinley'8 face on the tens and Harrison's on the fives. Although portraits have appeared on silver tcertifica tes and on treasury notes, it is a noteworthy fact that none havefappeared hitherto on national bank notes except Garfield's. His picture was first used in this manner in 1882j.shortly after the assassination.

Will Soon Be at Home.

James B. Johnston, who has.been at the Deaconess hospital in Indianapolis for some weeks, is rapidly improving *nd is expected home this week.

CRAWFORDSVILLE. INDIANA. FRIDAY OCTOBER 18 1901-TWBLVE PAGES

LETTER FROM LIEUT. HERRON.

He Tells of Meeting With the Famous Insurgent Cailles—A Trip Up the Klver to Pagsanhan. '•"'"-r"7, ______ VE*

Capt. Herron is just in receipt of a letter from his son, Lieut. Herron. written in the Philippines before he started for America. In is as follows

Lo.S BANOS, Province of theLaguna, P. I., Sdpte'nber 8t,h, 1901.—Dear Papa:—The "Ivilpatriek" is not in yet, but I sent you a cablegram the middlo of this week for it seems to be practically certain that the regiment is going on her whenever she does come. They now expect her Tuesday or Wednesday, in the meantime I am still at Los Banos. But Thurj-day I went with O'Connell on the gun boat"Napindan" up the lake to Santa Cruz where we stayed all night with the Colonel of the 8th Infantry.

The next morning, the Colonel, his wife, their son and tbeir niece all came on board and we went up the lake and then into the most beautiful river that I have ever seen in the islands, steamed up it for about half an hour and made a landing at Pagsanhan, which is the richest and swellest town in the Islands, outside of Manila. There we were entertained by the Presidente, who lives in a fine big house with wall paper on tbe walls and a grand staircase leading up the second story. It is a straight flight of stairs, twenty feet wide(and made of white and blue tile, with a row of potted plants on either side of the middle of the stair. The inside of the house was splendidly furnished with fine furniture made of the native hard woods. They had lots of very badlstatuary and some'-splendid bi/ mirrors that were brought'_,from Europe.

But the trip on the river was the best, for the Colonel had brought the iole 8th Infantry band along and they played while we sat on the upper deck of the gun boat and looked at the scenery. The river banks are covered all the way with coooanut trees, and it is from themjithat the eigbborhood gets its wealth'. A cocoanut tree, once planted, never requires any further care and produces about a'dollar and a half in cocoanuts every year. An acre will •. bear twohundred trees quite easily. We got back about noon and let the party off at Santa ^tCruz while O'Connell and I came back to Los Banos. Verily, it is not the rich who have everything. Miss Conner, the niece, is quite a pretty girl, so I do not feel at all worried over the fact that I have to go back to Santa Cruz Tuesday to testify before a general court martial which meets there. While in Santa Cruz 1 met Cailles, who was the last of the big nnsurrectos to surrender and who is now helping to bring in the scattered gangs that remain in the field. He says that in a month there will not be a vestige of the insurrection left and that Malvar never travels with more than eight of his soldiers so that he may escape capture. The twentieth infantry finally found his barracks on the other side of the mountain a few days ago and though Malvar escaped fifty-five of his men were killed. Cailles says Jthat he will never be able to get those who escaped together again. CaillesiLis the finest looking native that I havejever seen and is very intelligent. But though he was born here, his father was a Frenchman and his mother from India. He is a very interesting man and seems to be thoroughly converted, but that will not be proven before^the next insurrection.

We had visitors to-day for lunch,four civilians from Manila, the chief collector of internal revenues for the islands, the assistant auditor and assistant collector of customs with) the second assistant. They were .'all out for thefiday on a launch and started for Manila again this afternoon. Mrs. Minor is still ill and I think is going back to the States at the first opportunity. I am having the most idle time I have ever had in my life and if peace time in the army is all to be like this al do not believe that I can stand-it long.

We had word last night that the President had been shot at the Buffalo exposition. It is a terrible thing to have happen and I hope that it will not be fatal. Such a thing is anlespecial shame to a republic.

Major Minor, who has been-down to Manila on business has just come back and says that the "Kilpatrick" got in Friday and that we Iwill have her mail to-morrow. We have been having high winds and much rain alljweek, all of which has made the weather passably cool. Nothing more for this time.

With love to all. "n CHARLIE.

Petit Jury Summoned.

Judge West has ordered the petit jury summoned for Monday, Oot. 28.

OlIR WIRE COMPANY LUCKY.

The Only Factory Outside the Trust That Can (Jse a New and Valuable Patented Machine.

The Crawfordsville Wire and Nail Company is rejoicing over a lucky deal it mauaged to consomate last spring, says a special to the Indianapolis .Yei/'.s. The Cruwfordsville factory was ready to begin operations in barh wire, and had been making nails for some time, when it ascertained that all the effective wire nviohines were iheld by the American Wiro and Steel Company (the trust), which owned the Bates patents. A number of other machines were in use, but were not performing practical work. On the suggestion of O M. Gregg, the president of the first wire trust, the Crawfordsville company hunted up an old Bohemian in Chicago by the name of Schnable, a machinist and inventor, who had designed the first machines used by the original Crawfordsville company, iwhich was gobbled by the trust several years ago.

Schnable agreed to invent a machine that would make barb wire practically without infringing on the BaUs patents. He made the blue-prints, and the machine was manufactured in Crawfordsville. When set up and tested it demonstrated that it could make better wire than even the Bates machine, and both the company and Sohnable were delighted. Schnable brought from Chicago the officers of the trust and they saw the machine work. They affected to think lightly of it, but offered to buy the patent if Schnable made a "reasonable" figure. This he refused to do, setting his price atijfo0,000.

The trust people went away laughing and the inventor then IJbrought to Crawfordsville the officers of the Kokomo, Ironton and other companies, and they all expressed themselves as pleased. They refused to come to Schnable's [Jterms, however, he demanding $800 each for the machines which cost him not over $300 to make. The Crawfordsville factory, however, hairing purchased the original shop right, went ahead and placed an order in Indianapolis for ten -new machines, and these will soon be ready for use. A few days ago Schnable wired Crawfordsville to allow no one else to examlneithe machine, and the meaning of this was made manifest yesterday by the announcement that l.Schnable had sold out to the trustfat his original figure—$50,000. In the sale, however, it was stipulated that the Crawfordsville company should Jibe protected in its shop-right. Thus the

THE HORSE POW.

All Indications Point to a Fine Display of Stack and a Big |Day Saturday.

Secretary William Morgan has received many inquiries regarding the horse show to be given in this city Saturday, and be statesi'that the indications all point to aibiglcrowd and a fine display of stock,i if jfcthe weather is propitious. Entries are now being made and can be made at his office up until Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The horses will be shown on Washington street, just west of the court house, and the judging of the animals will begin promptly at 10 o'clock. The show has been well advertised along all the rural routes in the county, and while a fall show is an experiment here it is believed that it will prove a success. One point in which it will be different from a spring ehow, will be in the number of tine colts that will be shown. It Is expected to finish making the awards by 4 o'clock and a parade of all the premium stock along »the principal streets will wind up nthe show. The premiums will all bo paid in gold immediately after the parade at the secretary's office.

JThe Mayor's Court.

Thursday Bob Harris ^appeared and pleaded guilty to a oharge of profanity on an affidavit filed by Chartes Keltner. Harris told a story .of how Keitner had driven ["fourteen of his turkeys into a coop and]{claimed them as his very own. Mr. Harris stated that it was an occasion where profanity was a very necessary article with which to express the fcellngs that such an action would naturally arouse. Bob insinuated that he was not the only man that swore that day, and also stated that Keltnenhad threatened to lick him, his gray hairs only preventing him from hopping him right there. Harris told Keltner to imagine his hair was black and coma on. Harris was fined and then filed an uffidavlt against Keltner for provoke, the trial of whioh will come up later.,

lournal.

aCrawfords

ville people will be the onlylparties not in the trust that«can'[use othe valuable patents.

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PERSONAL MENTION.

Short Items Relative to the Comings and Goings of Crawfordsville People and Their Friends.

—Glucoso 5, 10 and lfc cans —Wnitenaok's. —Mrs. F. T. Luso is visiting in Covington. —Laxative cold cure curcs cold, 10c— Whitenack's. —Mr. and Mrs. Laroy Clore have returned from Veedersburg. —Try Jickey perfume,—vory Gno— Whitenack's. —Mrs. George R. Coons returned from Indianapolis yesterdiiy.

Mr. and Mrs. VV. W. Watson and wife are visiting in Indianapolis. —Marion Belt?, fathor-in-law of Vint (Craig, is very sick at his homo in Darlington.

Mrs. G. W. Martin and two children have returned to Nashville,Tenn., after being the guests of E. B. Curtis.

Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Iloff wont toChicago Tuesday, where they will spend few days and then go to Lincoln, Neb., for short visit. From there they will go to Denver, Col., where they will remain for a year. —We expected a heavy corn crop1 and laid in a big stock of barn lumber and shingles. Rather than carry this" stock over winter we are making especially low prices on it. Investigate and see if we don't save you money. Stroh & Co.

Oh, That Pic!

At the Fiskville school Frid ay night, Oct. 25. All kinds of fun. Your face will let you in. Remember date.

CHAS. E. LOOICABILL.

Music Hall.

The Lincoln J. Carter's big show, "The Flaming Aarrow," will be at Music Hall next Tuesday night, Oct. 22, with three car load of scenery,their horses and Indians.

Fresh Cement.

We have just reoeived two cars "Lehigh" Portland and "Star," Louisville cements for cistern and cellar work, We are going to sell this cement as low as our competitors Bell their old cement. Sruos & Co.

In the Mayor's Court.

The case of Ol Gill, charged with a violation of the Nicholson law, went to the jury at o'clock Wednesday and the twelve men wrestled with the case until nearly six o'clock, at which time they stated that it was impossible to arrive at a verdict and they were accordingly dismissed. It is understood that they stood seven to five for conviction. The case will come up again for trial.

Birthday.

A number of relatives went to the home of Mary Harp on south Walnut street Wedensday and took possession and placed a most elegant dinner on the table. When she came home at noon of course she was amazed and remembered she had a birthday. In the after-^ noon several neighbors came In. She received a number of presents, and she with all present will remember this anniversary with much pleasure. X.

Fine Farm for Sale.

We have for sale one of the finest 240 acre farms in Montgomery county. All in cultivation, black land and sugar'

tree soil, thoroughly tiled,'good fences good house and large barn, near market and on gravel road and rural route." In good state of cultivation, never has been rented. Will sell worth the money. See us soon.

107 N. Green St., Crawfordsville.

Son of John Clemton Robbed. Howard Clemson, living at No. 1128 north West street, reported to the police to-day that this morning at 1 o'clock he was held up and robbed at Illinois and Wabash streets by two men. They got a gold watch, a five dollar gold piece and two silver dollars. He thought the men were carnival frollckers and didn't resist until they took his watch. He succeeded Inknocking one of the men down and got a good description of the two which he furnished the detectives.—Indianapolis

News.

Letter List.

Following is the list of uncalled for letters remaining in the postoffice at Crawfordsville, Ind., for the week ending October 16, 1901. Persoas calling for same will please say "advertised." Bals, Edward, Lyt)\ rivan A, Bancroft, Mrs. E. P, Miller. Ka'.lr Branch, James, McQ ionn, Vi\ A. Brown, Mrs. Lizzie, Murphy, Loin, Cannary, Jamos, Nelson, Hiram,• Downs, S. B. Rivers, Ch is. GUlaspy, Daniel (2) St. Cluir, Morri*. (2) Hawk. Chas, Voyles, Nellie, (2) Howard •& Si mens, Walthck. U. B, Hunter, Harry, Ward. Y. Y. HutohlnBon, A. A. Wiseman, Mrs. Jennie. Jamqs, Mrs, Lizzie, Williams, W. I?,

Yow, Perry,

CLEMENTS &-TCVANS,