Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 November 1895 — Page 2

THE BANNER TIMES. GRE^NCASTLE. INDIANA FRIDAY ''OYEMBER 22 189o

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The largest Stock of

COLD SPIMLIS Ever brought to the County. Do not trust your eyes to Ped-

dlers or Jewelers.

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Iiisuranee, Real Estate And Loan

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Money Loaned At a Very Low Rate of Interest

hind ai.d exemption from taxes. If the right spirit existed among our citizens the town could he encircled with factories within the next ten years. This infernal spirit ot distrust and discouragement ought to he cast out and a spirit of eneouragement and faith established that would make success worth striving for. This thing of fighting everybody that tries to do anything and of predicting failure of every new enterprise will crush the life out of anv community and its best men

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will leave for more favorable loea lions. As long as we trade jack knives among ourselves, swap ! horses and fight each other we may expect to be a town away down in ; the business scale.

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The following corn li ■ has been (lugged in on a druv and laid at the (door of Pat Furlong, John BilUter, A1 Donahue and Dan O’Brien, and ; the lie has been lied about so much ; we do not know who is really responsible for opining it. As the story goes one of this patty rented ;a bit of ground in the shaley side ofone ov Oiter creek’s blad knobs and did a little quiet fanning in the pale moonlight. He planted a bushel of corn in a patch the size

| "f il lettuce bed and put | ie arose about

STILLWELL MURDER DEPOSITIONS AttorneyH tor the Hearne* Learning; What ilia State’* WitneftMen Will TeMify. special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. Hannihax, Mo., November 19.— The defense at the celebrated murder ease, entitled the State of Mis souri vs. Fannie C. Hearne and Dr. J. C. Hearne, charged with the murder of Amos J. Stillwell, the wealthy pork packer and the first husband of Mrs. Hearne, began taking depositions before S J. Harrison, notary public at 10 o’clock today. The witnesses were those who testified befor the Grand Jury, and the evidence was taken simply to ascertain what they will testify at the tilal, which will take place at Bowling Green, Pike county,

some time next month.

The State was represented by If Clay Heather, prosecuting attorney of Marion county, and Hon. R. P Giles. George M. Harrison aj> I pea red for the delense until noon, when Col. N. C. Dryden arrived from St. Louis. The reporters were excluded, only the notary, stenographer, attorneys and wit-

nesses being present.

John A. Johnson, n plasterer, wholived at the time of the murder In a house abating the Stillwell property, and was janiloi of the Congregational church in the same

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worth of fertilizer on the patch. The ci rn was planted so close together that the whole blooming thing went into one stalk. It grew faster than Pat Furlong’s whiskers. One night a trump laid dowu under the shelter of this stalk to sleep tying Ids dog at the bottom of the

12 o’clock on the night of the mur-

der and went to the church to. , .... .

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woman (mss from the woodshed to I. the Stilllwell house, and again from the house to the woodshed. Heard , one ask tile other if everything was all right; he was r>() or 60 feet from

stalk, [lie next morning he found them, and could not identify them,

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hie dog etnne dead hanging eight feet above him. The utalk had grown that much during the night. Late this fall the owner went up in a balloon to shuck the corn, and came down with enough to supply a distillery for a year. And this is

no lie.

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E. V. Dkbs was today liberated from jail. He will speak in Terre Haute tomorrow night. Onk of the best ways to return thanks on next Thursday will be to hunt up some poor family and give them a dinner. The London Time* is for Cleve land. This is a sure argument that the people of the United States should be against him. When the snow began to fall several days ago we contracted for a Gatling gun. The first person who turns down Vine street with anything in his hand which bears the least semblance to a poem on the beautiful will be promptly sent into the presence of his .Maker. This offer holds good until July 4.

T in Murphy in floyt’a “A Texai Steer.” Of the many plays by Charles H. Hoyt, none have acheived more success than “A Texas Steer.” which comes to the opera house for an engagement tonight. The play will be presented by substantially the original company, headed by Tim Murphy, who will be seen in his great creation of “Maverick Brander” a character in which he has appeared upward of 1600 times. The record of “A Texas Steer” has never been equalled in point of the consecutive performances given throughout the country, it having run in the city of New York 407 consecutive performances; in Bos ton it had a run of 180 nights; in Chicago it was played for 19 con secutive weeks, and in Sun Francisco, 90 performances. The play • will be presented here with due regard to detail, etc., which characterize all of the Hoyt productions? and that a highly amusinir performance will be given goes without saying. ChttWinft (film. “What States use the most chewing gumV” “Well that’s a hard one to answer,” said a traveling chewing gum man at a hotel last evening. “Chewing gum, which has been anathematized from pillar to post by preachers and teachers for years, has grown to be a necessity, not a luxury. All the States in the Union have become addicted to the habit, and it would be a hard matter to tell which chews most or hardest. Pennsylvania and New York are first, with the New Knglund States a close recond, and the West is rapidly coming to the front as a masticator of healthy gum. Europe is also getting to he a field for our gum drummers, and in another year we will tackle Africa and Asia, where we will try to convert the heathen from hemp and opium to the American product.’-

What is a town without factories? It is a cannibal island in which every man eats the flesh of j his neighbor. Is is a good place J

to steer clear. Greencastle ought j all trains including Monday, Nov. 2'> to encourage factories to locate i Lure $1 round trip, here. Many towns give factoiiesj Oarbonettes are the latest, at Niebolencouragement by douaiious of . sons only. Post office gallery. 2i)eod.

Kxruriion to IndianapoliH,

The Vaiulalia will run i special excursion train to Indianapolis tomorrow account tlie DePauw-Butlcr foot ball game. Train leaves Greencastle at 12:45 p. m., tickets good returning on

and could not tell whether they were black or w-hite; saw them strike matches in the woodshed. George W. Hernig, an employe of the Standard Oil company, testified to the effect that he saw Mrs Hearne, then Mrs. Stillwell, coming out of Dr. Hearne’soffice and heard her say to Dr. Hearne, “Is every thing ail right for tonight?” He replied, “Yes, everything is all fixed.” This occurred about 3 p. m. the day before the murder. Josie Peake, a colored girl, who was a servant in the Stillwell mansion, testified substantially as she has on previous occasions. She thought it was about 1.45 a. m. when Mrs. Stillwell awakened her and said that Mr. Stillwell had been murdered. The deposition mill will grind again tomorrow if two of the State's most important witnesses can be found. They are Mrs. J.L. Gleason and Dr. Vern-tte. Both are out of the city and the sheriff has been unable to get service on either of them. Another of the witnesses, Alva Briggs, died last week. Tom Winters, a negro, is in the county jail, and a third is in Illinois, hence it cannot be stated when the deposition taking will close. Hannibal, Mo., Nov. 20.—No depositions were taken today in the Stillwell murder case, for the reason that the witnesses could not he located by the sheriff. It is expected that both the state and the defendants will announce themselves ready for trial when the case is called next Monday at Bowling Green. The impression prevails that the defendants will ask for a severance and a continuance for Mrs. Hearne, but this is only a surmise, as the attorneys for the defense have not divulged their plan of defense.

The Way Other Cities in Indiana Build

and Operate Factories.

Some of our citizens visited the furniture factories of Rushville this week and were surprised to find so much enterprise displayed in a town smaller than Greencastle. The Ennis & Pierce factory makes bed room suits and employs about one hundred men. This company lost their old factory by tire about three years ago and the citizens gave them about $19,000 with which to rebuild. (This was a gitt without any strings tied to it. No subscription for preferred stock or anything o( the kind.) The build | ing lias a foundation or basement story built of stone while the lemainderof the structure is of brick. The machine room is xO ft. by 220 ft. one story above the basement. The remainder of the building is three stories above the basement. The building is equipped with the latest improved wood working mil cbinery and the total investment in grounds, buildings and machinery runs up to $55,000. This is one of the most complete furniture fac-

tories in the state.

The other factory visited makes nothing but dining room extension tables and employs between fifty and sixty men. This factory is built of brick and occupies about the s m • amount of ground as the

the Green

M aim factoring company,

I but it is one story higher. The company running this table factory knew practically nothing about the manufacturing business when they began but were given pointers by the Ennis & Pierce company, in fact, the plan of the building was designed by Mr. Pierce, who also advised them in many things and started them on the road to success. Our people can learn a lesson from this if they will that may prove of inestimable value—that of mutual helpfulness. Success in any undertaking is difficult enough under favorabls circumstances but when it has to be attained under most extraordinarily unfavorable circumstances, requires heroes to

accomplish it.

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We make one or the best quality and fitting overcoat at $15.00. 7YG. LESTER.

ANCIENT LOG CABIN.

ST AMDS ON LAND THAT LONGED TO WILLIAM

ONCE PENN.

P. H. Christie is nice warm lined wear.

showing some very shoes for ladies’ 33 3 t .

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Jordan’s poultry house.’

Hens Sprinirs, IH 1 IK.-ES 2 Turkey hi ns. i> Turkey, old toms 5

Turkeys, younir 12|idH.unu over i Itolce rat. 4 Geese, f. f. over 4

I lurks.

Kan* fresh subject to handling Holler, irood

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A CENTURY HENCE.

Samples of Items That May Then Appear

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A horse, an nnimul said to have once been quite common in our city streets, was seen in this city yesterday. He attracted much curiosity and he was followed wherever he went by immense crowds. It is almost impossible to believe that our ancestors could have trusted their lives to so formidable a creature. It is understood that the animal escaped from the Equine Food abattoir

in Brighton.

An almost unprecedented event happened ir this city last evening, when Mr. and Mrs. John Brownsmith celebrated the anniversary of their marriage. The Brownsmiths were married a year ago. It is qnite remarkable for a couple to live so long together in the state of wedlock, and their celebration naturally drew to their residence a dense throng of admiring friends. Con- I gratulutions were poured upon the happy pair, with wishes that they might

With Addltlunn It Ik One of the Old Manor Houftcr and Wan the lllrtliplare of Prominent Famlltea—Finding an Knellxh Coin of 170 Year* Ago. In the northwestern part of the pretty little town of Media, the county seat of Delaware county, I’a., on a truer of land known as “Htar Mount,” owned by Samuel W. Powell, is located a genuine curiosity in he form of an old log house, which contains much to interest the antiquarian, and to afford material for the historian. The structure measures 22 feet in length and is 20 feet wide and 15 feet high. It is said to be one of the original manor houses con structed shortly after tlio arrival of William Penn and his' colony ou the banks of the Delaware river. Circumstances point towaui that belief, and prove the claim to autiquity, which makes the old loghousi an important link connecting tire distant past with the present. This house is constructed of oak and chestnut logs hewn from the primeval forest, while standing beside it is a giant oak, the largest by all odds in tbo surrounding country, w Inch is a living witness of the age of the Jowly dwelling which finds shelter beneath its lingo outspreading arms. Tree and house are each the complement of the other, and seem destined to continue their intimacy during succeeding years, and perhaps

ages.

In the year 1C81 A. D., on tho 2d day of March, Petri and William Taylor purchased the land upon which these objects of interest stand from William Penn in England, and on the 22d Inst. Thomas Powell took title to tho land upon which the bouse and tree stand and adjacent tracts, and after numerous transfers it finally came into the possession of Mr. Powell, who formerly resided in this city, but who now lives in “.Star Mount,” in northwest Media. Upon discovciing the historic value of the house and oak, he subsequently took precautions to preserve the objects of a

post age and civilization.

The house is constructed of logs, and to prevent the entrance of cold air they were chinked with mortar. The small windows and doors were hand made, from the primitive oak cut from the forest. The faces and ends of these logs are scarred and defaced by exposure to the storms of at least two centuries, aud show plainly the ravages of the l “tooth of time,” bnt at heart areas hard aud sound as when first placed in position to form a house for one of

Penn’s followers.

The present owner, desiring to both pieserve this ancient structure and to improve its surroundings, added some seven or eight years ago several additional rooms to the original mansion, bnt outside the massive old chimney is exposed to view, and inside the log4 with their plastering, the windows aud doors with their wooden latches and

0 m House,

FRIDAY, NOV. 22nd

The Eminent Versatile Comedian MR. TIM MURPHY In Hoyt’s best Comedy A TEXAS STEER. The laughing success of the American .Stage.

Mr. Murphy will be supported by Mil»bintiiilly ilieoi'iginal excellent company of twenty people who have appeared in their respective parts more tlian 1,i>ikj times.

Admission 75c & $1. Gallery 50c

HnlUltiy Calendars.

The holiday season, when the purse of the people is freely opened, and everyone feels the general goodwill so universal at that time, is

close at hand.

The shrewd merehant avails himself of the opportunity to present his patrons with a holiday souvenir, prized for its beauty and elegance, and which will, if in the shape of a Calendar, prove an advertisement of his business throughout the entire succceeding year, and there-

fore a money maker.

The Banner Times has been fortunate in securing the agency ofthe August Gast Bank-Note and Litho Co. of St. Louis, which is the largest manufacturing and importing house in the country, and whose fine work requires no introduction. The advantageous terms that we have made enable us to olfer their medium priced and fine im-

strings may be seen, while the low ceil- designs at prices which are ing of homemade boards point ton date unequaled. and as low. if not lower, when the ax and saw were almost uni- than prices made by that eelebrat-

versally used by our forefathers. ed firm direct.

At the time when the additions above

mentioned were made an old English coin was found. Upon examination the coin proved to he a ismuy of the reign of King George I, and while the date is almost illegible, it seems to be 1724, or perhaps an earlier date. This old English {Mtiiuy was lying under the old woo«leu door sill, and had become imbedded in the ground, and was only brought to light by the use of pick aud shovel. History and tradition unite in

continue together long enough to ob , . ,, , serve the second anniversary of their | tbe * tor y 1,1 rflut ' uu ‘° tl,,e old house, wedriinu BeKiiininK with the river Delaware The directors of the Euripides Mann- ' uu<1 filing as far as portions of Ches-

facturing company have been convicted

Drop us a postal and will call with over one hundred samples to select from. 2

A stranger with an evident penchant for entomology asked me one day whether 1 could distinguish by their behavior the masculine from the feminine Ilea. Confessing my entire inability to do so, he proceeded : I can tell you how. You place the flea on

the back of your hand—so. now mark

ter comity, and bounded also by Ridley W, ‘*L If he jumps away, it is a male

Koilnrn Her**. The boilers for the new plant of the Greencastle Manufacturing company are here ard a skilled workman from Indianapolis arrived ibis morning to place them in position. The engine will arrive on Monday. iSiibseribe for the Banner Times

of the charge of failure to examine into the accounts of their treasurer, aud have severally been sentenced to imprison ment in the state prison for a term of five years. Their counsel argued that, i inasmuch as the treasurer's accounts, as shown by expert examination, were faultless during his ten years of service and that no suspicion hud ever fallen upon him, the sentence should be lighter, but the court very justly remarked that the offense was the same as if the result had been severe loss to the stock-

holders.

It was curious to see a pedestrian in Washington street today, tho first one that has been seen in the city for many years. He occasioned no small amount of vexation to the unicyclists, in whose way he was getting continually. There cun be no objection to people walking in their own houses or in the country, where there is plenty of room, but it is clearly out of the question that the practice should be permitted in our crowded ! city streets. The death of Solomon Strongmind, which occurred this morning, calls to mind the remarkable fact that during his long residence of five years or more in this city he has never mysteriously disappeared for even once. Undoubtedly Mr. strongmind was somewhat eccentric in his habits generally, but iu this especial matter the controlling cause must have been something fur more potent than mere oddity. A man appeared on tho street dressed iu trousers and cutaway coat yesterday. Ho was promptly arrested and carried to tho station houso. When ho next made his appearance ho hud donned tho petti-cout.-i and other garments appropriate to bis sex.—Boston Transcript.

and Crum creeks, were some two tracts of laud deeded to the Taylors, Powells and others in 1H81 by the proprietor and founder of our state, William Penn.

flea, if SHE jumps away, it is a female flea.” I thanked him politely for this valuable information, excusing my defective knowledge on the ground that

associated

little creatures

Upon each of these two tracts or parcels ] ha(J never been i, lt i Iliate i v

of laud log houses were erected, and one w j t(l

of them was destroyed by fire. One of . . ...

these houses, the one now owiipd by Mr. 1101 ,m understanding liecii ciilnPowell in Upper Providence township, v,,t,; d on that line but rather in the di-

adjoiuiug the town of Media, is the sole rection of music and

survivor, and it is correspondingly j

prized by him.

The house aud old oak, together with the curiosities connected with them, are very antique, and there is no doubt hut that the claim of antiquity is well founded. In 1715 it was iu the old log cabin that John Powell changed from the (Jnukcr to the Baptist faith, and or- i gunized the First Baptist church of Del-j aware county, known as the Brandywine chuich. The congregation was formed on June 14, 1716, with 15 mem-1 hers, and among the delegates were 1 Abel Morgan of this city and James Jones and Joseph Eaton of Delaware. Thus the old house, constructed by a

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Mrs.

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first settler from the virgin forest, which SAMPLES. OP DRESS GOODS extended from far inland to the shores! mbs. lai ka iu klky. of the Delaware river, has both a civil i

and a religions history, and lias been,

both the birthplace of prominent fami- j (j. vine si

lies and the habitation within whose | walls a prominent denomination of thisl and surrounding country first sprung in- i ^o existence—Philndelnhia Telecvauh I

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