Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 1 January 1895 — Page 1

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Indianapolis, Jan. 1.—The Right Rev. David Bueli Kuickerbacker, D. D., olis this morning.

bishop of the diocese of Indiana, died at fi o'clock Monday evening of pneumonia. He was born at Schaght-icoke, Bennfcoiaer county, N. Y., on Feb. 54, 1M53. lie was tlie youngest son of Harmon Kuickerbacker, widely known as "Prince Kuickerbacker."

He is alluded to by Washington Irving as "My Cousin, the Congressman," ami when Mr. Irving visited Washington lie introduced him to President Madison as "My Cousin, Diedrioh Kuickerbacker, the great historian of New York."

Bishop Kuickerbacker re-entered Trinity college, Hartford, and graduated from there in lfs53 re-entered the general Theological seminary in New York city, and remained there three years. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Potter in Trinity church, New York, June, lNoC, and immediately went to Minneapolis as a missionary, officiating there for the first time Dec. T, He was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Kemper in Gethsemane church, Minneapolis, July 13, 1857. Minneapolis at this time was a hamlet with a population of about 500.

In 1877 Dr. Knickerbocker was olected missionary bishop of Arizona and New Mexico, which election he declined. He was elected third bishop of Indiana in June, 1883, and on Oct. 14 following in St. Marks church, Philadelphia, he was consecrated. His consecrators were: A. Clevelaud Coxe, bishop of western New York Theodore B. Lyman, bishop of North Carolina Charles Franklin Robinson, bishop of Missouri John Medley, bishop of Frederickton, Canada H. B. Whipple, bishop of Minnesota William WT. Niles, bishop of New Hampshire, and George Gillespie, bishop of western Michigan.

S E A S S E S S O

Maryland Central to Adopt It—Power From tlie Susquehanna.

Baltimokk, Jan. 1.—The first railroad in the country to substitute electricity for steam will be the Baltimore and Lehigh, or the old Maryland Central, which is now beiug extended to York, Pa. President Housemann of the newly chartered Susquehanna Eleotric company, which proposes to harness the power of the Susquehanna river at Conowougo Falls, is prominently counocted with the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad company, as are also Winfield J. Taylor and J. Sunimerfield Bull, directors of the Susquehanna company.

There has been considerable litigation over the Baltimore and Lehigh railroad, and the managers of both the Pennsylvania and Maryland sections of the road are considering the. question of utilizing the Susquehanna electrical power for operating the road by electricity between York, Pa., and Baltimore, as soon as the line is changed to standard gauge.

Already preparations are being made to do this on tlie Pennsylvania section by VV. F. Wolworth of Cleveland. Ties and other material axe now being purchased, and it is expected the bond issue of $ 100,000, by the company, recently authorized, was to pay part of the expenses ot this improvement. This railroad alone would require a current representing several thousand horse power. Its route is only seven miles from the proposed sit^of the dam.

WYOMING POLITICS.

Two United States Senators to lie Elected in the Near Future.

Chkyknwh, Wy., Jan. 1. Two United States senators are to be chosen at the coming session of the legislature—one for six years to succeed Joseph M. Care}*, and one for four years to fill the vacancy occasioned by tlie failure of the legislature two years ago to elect a successor to Francis E. Wrarren.

Senator Carey is a candidate for reelection. Ex-Senator Warren is also a candidate for the long term senatorship. Both are residents of Cheyenne. Early in the contest the remainder of the state demanded that Cheyenne should decide between Carey and Warren, and that the other senator should not be a resident of that city.

The .several candidates concede Warren's election to the long term and a majority are willing that he should be elected first, in order to remove one of the disturbing elements from the contest.

Senator Carey has come home from Washington and is making an aggressive personal canvass.

For the short term senatorship, exCongressman Clarence D. Clark will have the unanimous support of the Uintah and Sweetwater county delegation.

Hon. J. J. Davis of Carbon county, Judge M. C. Brown of Albany and Judge Jay L. Torrey of Fremont will have the backing of their respective counties.

Old-Timer l'ardoned.

Pi,attsiu ko, N. Y., Jan. 1.—Daniel Finley, the oldest convict in Clinton prison, Monday, through the clemency of Governor Flower, ceased to be an inmate of that, institution, his lifesentence having been commuted after lie had served •'M years. Finley was convicted ol murder in the second degree in New ork in 1800. His crime consisted in pushing his wife out of the window of the tenement house lit •which I hey were living, t::e fall killing her. Finley is IK) years ol age. All his friends are dead. He says he will 'go back to Ireland and die in peace.

Another Kesigiitt.

Nkw York, Jan. 1. President James C. Martin of the police court announced that he would, within a few days, send his letter of resignation to Mayor Strong. Mr. Martin said that now that the Lcxow committee is through with its work, and as he felt that he was exonerated, he would resign. He added that he hoped Mayor Strong would accept his resignation immediately.

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GREENFIELD, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY' 1, 189S.

Local and Personal.

Pocahontas.

Miss Lulu Crawford went to Indianap-

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hart are guests of Mrs. Hunt at Tudianapolis to-day. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cheeney went to Suelby ville today to visit his parents.

Mrs. Ed Keeley and daughter Lora are visiting friends at Philadelphia to day. Mrs. Hattie Willetts, of Indianapolis, is a guest of her aunt, Mrs. Rader Boyd. "Pocahontas, the Indian Princess." Burlesque operetta. Home Comedy Co.

Peter Cupp has bought 100 acres of James Mitchell off his farm near Eden. "Pocahontas the Indian Princes," two act burlesque operetta by Willard Hendricks.

New ton Orr left this morning for Mooresville, where he will canvass for fruit trees.

Robert Martin, who is attending school at Bloomington, left to-day to resume his studies.

Mr. and Mrs. A1 Rottman are guests of her mothe

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George McCole, of Noblesville, who has been visiting bis brother Walter, left for home to day,

A, O. Jones, the undertaker, went to Lafayette, to-day, to visit his brother-in-law, J. D. Clay burn.

Will Kight and wife and bis mother, Mrs. Isaiah Kight are visiting his brothers and sisters at Indianapolis.

Miss Mollie Lynam, of Indianapolis who was visiting hor brother, Jerry Ly nam and other relatives went home today. ,,

A new deputy postmaster has arrived in the person of a flue boy baby born to Postmaster Eugene Lewis and wife last night.

Walter Brandon, wife and son Cliff, of Anderson, were guests of Mrs. B's parents, J. T. Loehr and wife, yesterday and to day.

Miss Ida George, of Columbus, one of that city's excellent and good looking teachers, is a guest of her friend, Mrs. Allen Cooper.

Mrs. Saml. Pearsey and Marshall Boblctt were called to Rushville to day by the probable fatal illness of Mrs. George Pearsey, their sister*^ --,,-2.*—

The Star drummer of tho average merchant ir a well worded advertisement in the local paper. Try the Daily and VV ekkly Republican.

Mi Florence Howard is a guest of her aunt, Mrs. H. C. Gooding at Indianapolis. She will attend a handsome party at the Propylaeum to-night given by Miss Lemcke.

The ladies of the Christian church gave a very pleasant and profitable ten cent social at the church last evening. Every one had a good time and the ladies took in $10.00.

The glass workers here are rejoicing that Simon Burns, of Gas City, this State defeated J. P. Eberliart, of Pittsburg for the presidency of L. A. 300 by a handsome majority. ("j

The ladies of the M. E. church furnished an excellent New Year's dinner to a large number of our citizens today in the Gant block. They wTill serve supper at the same place.

The city schools will begin again tomorrow. No doubt the teachers and scholars are all refreshed by their vacation and will return to their work with renewed zeal and energy.

Subscribe for the Indianapolis Daily and Sunday Journal, the Evening News or the Daily Republican, or better yet take all of them. Agency at the Republican office or see our carrier boys. 29t6

The Ladies Aid Society of the M, E. church will serve dinner and supper in first class style en New Year's day in the Gant block, second door west of Masonic Hall. The public are cordially invited. d25t7vv

B. N. Johnson and Ills mother Mrs. Mary S. Johnson, were guests of Green township relatives over Sunday. Moiiday Mrs. Johnson was 81 years old and she was given a fine birthday dinner at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Wilson near Kdcu.

Get the local news of Greenfield, Hancock county and the general news from the United States rind all over the world by taking the Daii.v Rki'UBLICan and the Indianapolis Daily Journal or Daily News. Subscribe at the Rkpuiiucan office.— Tell your friends. 3J)tC.

A. very handsome Christmas folder has been issued by the passenger department of the Chicago & North-Western Road. It is particularly intended for the use of California travelers and gives a very interesting description of how the trip may now be made in 3J^ days. It is elaborately illustrated with finely executed half-tone pictures, and altogether is among the prettiest things of the kind that have been issued.—Chicago Evening Post, Decern Vier 24, 1894.

Parties desiring this folder should send a postal to W. A. Thrall, General Passenger A.gent, Chicago, 111. 31t6&w

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A new fire alarm whistle has been placed on the water works, known as the mockingbird whistle. It is a lonesome sounding kind of a whistle. Infact it reminds one of a lo* of wolyes or coyotes howling in the wilderness. It waked a good many people up last night when it sounded the old year out and the new year in. We trust it will not have to be sounded for many fires during 1885.

Nice, But IJifalutin.

Editor W. S. Montgomery, of the Greenfield Daily and Weekly Republican, paid his .respects to his wife, who is visiting in this city, Sunday. Walter is a genial, social fellow, whom it is a pleasure to meet. Since he located in Greenfield, six years ago, he has given the newspaper fraternity some good pointers about the work. He is a hustler and has done much towards building up Hancock's county seat.—Neblesville Ledger

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

The drug firm of Wilkins & Beckner, by mutual consent have dissolved partnership, W. A. Wilkins having purchased the interest of S. A. D. Beckner. Mr. Wilkins-will continue business at the old stand and cordially invites all their old customers and everybody else to come and se&him. All outstanding accounts due the firm are payable to Mr. Wilkins.

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SOlt Yourself at a lleductlon.

For 'one week beginning Saturday, Dec. 29 we will give our customers the benefit df. the following offer: $12 00 Trousers for $8 00 «/l 00 7 00 .10 00 6 00 *. 9 00 5 00

Reductions in Suits and Overcoats. These t^re all first class and new goods, and y.ou have a chance to get them at a bargain. Made and trimmed in best style and guaranteed to fit. 29t6 J. Riioadakmer. Merchant Tailor, Over Bohm's Bakery.

New Masonic (JfHcers at Warrington.

Hall of Warrington, Lodge No. 531, F. & A. M. The following officers were installed Dec. 27, for the ensuing year:

William Marsh, W. M. Joseph W. McDaniel, S. W. J. H. Pennington, J. \V. A. B. Thomas, Sec. W. G. Caldwell, Treas. C. C. Pratt, S. D. "X J. W. Hays, J. D." William M. Thomas, Steward.H. H. Duke, Steward. I. A. Wilson, Tyler.

A !*ijf Harn ISurned.

Monday morning about 9 o'clock the barn of VV. E. Sargeant, in Buck Creek township, in some unknown manner, caught fire, and, together with its contents, burned Ihcre was hay, oats, wheat, 900 bushels of corn, and farming implements, including a binder. No stock was lost except a lot of chickens, which ran under the barn in the excitement. The loss amounted to $1 300 or $1,400, and was insured in the Continental for $800 Mr. Sargeant said he never believed in insurance until Ves Orr, the Continental's vigorous agent for this county, happened along one day about two months ago and insured him. He is now a thorough believer in insurance. Bro. Orr has proved a blessing in disguise to many a man.

New Liquor Laws. Strict, If True.

It is said the Republican State Senators, who have held several caucuses in Iudianapolis during the past three weeks, have given considerable attention to a remodeling of the existing liquor laws of the State, and have about coucluded to support a measure based on the following provisions:

First—License of $1,000 per annum. Second—No license -,o be granted in any incorporated town or in any ward of a city unless a majority of legal voters in the same acquiesce in the matter, sks

Third—Breweries or bottling "works shall not be allowed to have an interest in tho furniture or fixtures of any room or building occupied for barroom purposes. «t'

Fourth—County Commissioners shall be required to give due respect to remonstrances filed in opposition to tlie granting of licenses.

Fifth—Screens and all other obstructions to the view of barrooms from the outside shall not lie allowed.

Sixth—No tables, chairs or other furniture will be allowed in bar-rooms, so as to prevent wine rooms and the assemblage of loafers in the same. Other provisions may be added, but the foregoing constitute the main features of the proposed amendments to the existing law.

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31arriage Licenses.

Oliver P. Keller and Cora B. Jones. John Glascock to Luzeua S. Carter. Napthalie H. Beeson to Esther Simon.

Married for the Second Time.

Marriage license was granted to-day for John Glascock and Mrs. Luzena S. Carter. This couple was married a few years ago, but mutually agreed to disagree and were divorced. Once again, however, they have concluded to try the matrimonial sea and the Republican* wishes that their voyage may be long and pleasant.

Tlie Mocking Bird Fire Alarm Whistle.

W. A. Wilkiins.

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FOR THE DESTITUTE.

Georgia Renders Aid to the Nebraska Sufferers.

GOVERNOR NORTHEN'S SCHEME.

On January 15 a Long Freight Train Will

full Out of Atlanta Laden With tlie

Silver and Golden Grain For tho Suil'ur-

ers KcMiding 111 Her Sistor State 111 the

Far West.

Atlanta, ja., Jan. l.—Ex-Cxovernor W. J. Northen is heading a ovement to send corn from (reorgi- ._ the starving people of western Nebraska, and is meeting with assurances of success. On .lau. 15 a long freight train will pull out of Atlanta laden with the silver and golden grain, a New Year's present from the overflowing bins of Georgia to the empty cribs of suffering Nebraska.

Govornor Northen lias kept the wires warm with telegrams to the mayors of all the cities and towns in Georgia, asking them to give out of the superabundance to the stricken families of Nebraska. He has also sent dispatches to the railroad officials of the leading roads yf Georgia, asking them to enter the good work by granting free transportation to such corn as is shipped over their roads for the sufferers.

In response to these requests he has received assurances from President Hoffman of the Seaboard Air Line, from the Atlanta and West Point railroad and from the Western and Atlantic offering their freight facilities free and auch other assistance as may be in their power.

Mayor Brown of Carrollton answers the appeal as follows: "Your telegram received this morning and the appeal went straight to my heart. While money is scarce, what you ask for God ha« bountifully blessed our country with. I had at each church, and the Baptist church appointed a committee to solicit help for the sufferers. I will appoint committees in each district throughout the county for the same purpose.''

HAS THERE BEEN f-JUL PLAY?

An Arre*£ Made That May Unearth a Foul ,, Crime.

Nkw York, Jan. 1.—Whether or no Harry W. Tilden of Greensboro, N. C., has met with foul play, is suggested by the arrest here of Max Mechela, who is suspected of being a steamboat crook. Mechela was arrested last Wednesday, and in the Essex Market police court Monday afternoon he was remanded till Wednesday in order to afford the police an ojiportunity to obtain evidence against him.

When Mechela was arrested, seven trunks and valises containing property

of the aggregate value ot tfoOO, were

found in his apartments, in addition to I

some mining stock of the face value of

Phon Tilden, a reporter on the Baltimore News, also writes that he is a brother of Harry W. Tilden.

THE ROSY

QUESTION.

Will Say to the

What Governor Matthew Legislature.

Indianapolis, Jan. 1. Governor Matthews has made public that part of his message touching upon the Koby question. He said that he had made some very strong recommendations, which, if acted upon, would result in the suppression of Robyism in the state. In fact he said he had handled iioby without gloves.

A few v^eks ago he had some correspoi "*'4 nth Judge Gillette of Lake coul .id informed the judge that he wouki oe thankful for any suggestion which he or Jiny other competent citizen mignt make. He did not know that Judge Gillette was preparing his suggestions in the form of a bill to be introduced in the legislature, but hu hoped such was the case.

FIRE HORROR.

A Mother'and Five Children lturned Death In Their Own Home.

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Ellsworth, Wis., Jan. 1.—Monday morning at an early hour, Mrs. Michael O'Connell and five children were burned to death in their home in the town of EL Paso. Mr. O'Connell was tlie only member of the family who slept down stairs and he barely escaped from the building in ^liis night clothes. As he rushed out, his wife appeared at an upper window and dropped the youngest child in his arms, and returning inte the room for the others, she was undoubtedly suffocated for she never returned.

Another child jumped from a window and was saved. Mr. O'Connell was perhaps latally burned in his attempt, to save Ins lamily.

Death l{ i(e ill New oi k.

New Yokk, Jan. 1.--John 1. Nagle, M. D., chief of the bureau of records, made his annual renort Monday. The report shows that the health of the residents of this city has been better during lb'J4 than in any year since Ibi4, when the death rate was li.ati to the 1,U0U. The deaths tins city in the past year were 4I,'JU\ against -11,180 in 1N!W. The deaths tenements amounted to 2l, 149, agaiust vJb.yTii last year, decrease of

Snow in North Carolina.

Ralkush, Jan. 1.—The first real snow storm of the season struck here and reached a depth of four inches. Tho storm extended over tho entire state and the snow iu the mountains is very deep.

PRICE. TWO CENTS

TilE PUBLIC !1 KALTH.

IS THE EURIAL OF THE DEAD A MENACE 70 THE LIVING?

Disease flerms Not Iiestroyed lj.V Kartli Sep­

ulture—Advantages of Cremation as i*

Moans of F\t iugitish nj Contagion—Poi­

son In Old Cemeteries.

Tho unquestionable prevalence of smallpox in various parts of the world raises anew ho necessity of considering modes of disposing of dead bodies so as Hot to make them perennial causes of danger to the living.

Tho germs of many contagious diseases are not destroyed by inhumation. They work their way up upon tho slightest opportunity and are disseminated by tho air to repeat the catastrophe that gave them freedom. Inasmuch as the most tender of hearts desiro for tlie dead only such disposal as shall be reverent and safe, burial, if it be shown to be prolific of disease for the living, should not seem either reverent to the dead or safe for the living, whoso rights the dead themselves, could they speak, would be most anxious to protect.

It is authenticated that sepulture in tho ground has prolonged pestilence in every part of the world. Battlefields have had to be treated with tar and fire to destroy germs of plague following burial of slaughtered men. Only by using chemicals are plagues stopped in countries where graves are damp or near the surface of cemeteries. Cremation has been found necessary at various epochs and in many countries as tho only means of extinguishing contagion. While water, polluted by germs of cholera or fever, has been demonstrated most potent in spreading such diseases, it is equally certain that inhumation of bodies of persons dying with such dis-

the telegram announced eas,'s been producti\e of plague also. and the pastor of the

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well arranged paper entitled "Tho Torch Versus the Spade," has brought together many startling proofs of tho need of right reason about cremation as the only prudent mode of disposing of dead bodies. The paper appears in The Clinique. The author cites from the report of the medical commission sent a few years ago from this country to Central America to investigate yellow fever. They examined a cemetery in which 80 years previously many who died of that plague had been interred. They found the surface filled with yellow fever microbes. Pasteur has shown that earthworms become infected with the germs of consumption from the bodies of its victims in the earth. They reach tho surface, deposit their poison, and it is diffriSWl by tlie air. Inhaled by the livthis air is the depositor in turn of

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$45,000. It is supposed that these bonds years ago was a potter field.are owned by Harry VV. Tilden. It is asserted by physicians that children In court, the policeman who arrested living on the lirst floors of houses in tho Mechela said he had received a letter streets touching upon it languish, and, from C. \V V. Tilden of iill Asboro if they dwell in 1 lie vicinity a few years, street, Greensboro, N. C., saying that die. las brother Harry VV. had left for Europe eight months ago, and had not since been heard from. The writer goes on to say if the bonds found in Mecliela's possession belong to Hairy W. Tilden, the latter had probably met with ioul play.

y11^01' New York city,.

Dr. Arnnl:)!iy claims that a handful! of earth taken out of any long ust»tv cemetery and subjected to chemicaL tests will reveal a subtle septic sub-: stance which, injected into a pigeon, a. cat or a small dog, will kill it. He says concerning the bacteria emanating from decaying bodies whoso one time tenant--. perished of certain diseases that thev germs "are endowed with tremendous vital power. They may be drowned in. water, or dried up in sun heat, or buried ,, for years, and still, when accident orf neglect brings them to light again, they-r. may fasten upon tho unsuspecting passerby, with unabated power to breed disease and death.

Why there should bo a popular superstition that burial is more gentle than. cremation it is difficult to understand. Burial subjects the body of tho dead t-j I dangers of attack and ravage by loathsome creatures that dwell in the nioisture and the soil. So rapid is decay, as a rule, that only the most insensible^ daro contoniplato the features of thos«? beloved after they have lain even a brief term under the sward. Degeneration is I necessarily promoted by vermin that I abound everywhere, and nowhere as I thickly as where the congregation of cadavers invite their armies to forage on what was once the fairest flesh. Tho sight, the sound of burial, is the most awful, the most appalling, that-suffering hearts have to undergo. Yet the custom persists because, notwithstanding itshorror for tho quick and its horrors for tho dead, people will not look upou its* alternative, cremation, with reason,

In time law will ordain that cremation shall bo the only lawful mode of disposing of tho discarded cases that are no longer potent for good and that may, if not subjected to purgation by fire, be made powerful for evil. It is a reproach upon the intelligence of Americans that right thought, concerning burial and. cremafion is so slow among lliem.— Chicago Herald.

lloslon to !5e I'oouird. -vjw.-rti::-.-:-.-1..'

A movement, has been begun in Boston to place that city in tho front rank of commercial emporiums. The purpose is to do away with the grade crossings, provide adequate and convenient terminal facilities for the railroads and ti* rebuild and extend the dock accommodations. All of this will be done aerording to a well digested plan, and not. by piecemeal, so that when it is finished symmetrical rounding out of Boston's .'commercial facilities will bo the result.

Tho city's richest and most influential men are back of Ihe project, and when it is carried out that city will stand among the. first in the world for tho facilities and accommodations that it offers to commerce.—Exchange.