Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 2 October 1895 — Page 3

Local and Personal.

This is charming weather. George Alford went to Anderson today. A. J. Bridges went to Richmond today.

October is the finest month of the year. -.e council meets touight in the new city hall.

Mrs. F. Rosebrough is moving to IudianapoUs. Oysters are now in greater demand than ice cream soda. j* Uncle Jack Wills is lo^iug his eye sight quite rapidly. (I Judge Offutt went to Xoblesville to day to try some cases.

Mrs. W. A. Tolen, of Wabas,h. is visiting her SOD, Charles Tolen. Will A. Hough left this morning for Jjlumbus, IikI., on lsrg^l business. i&Mrs. Ed Flo-vavd ami MLV. I. P. Ponlson drove to Ituliauapoiis today.

Mrs. M. E. Newsou, r! U.-irthsge is "visiting her brother, J. 13. IJusey. Tyner .K: i'yner shipped a car lo:id of fine hogs to East Liberty, Pa., todaj.

Oysters just in from Baltimore in bulk and in caus. E. P. 1'JIAYKli Co.

Harry Thomas got the contract for piping the new Christi:iu ciuirch for gas. For rent, two newly furnished rooms, e.'UtLMlly Loc ityd. Imi'iue at this office.

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M. A Fry, Arthur Walker and Arthur Wilkius returned from ludiauf.polls this morning.

Harry Meek leaves Saturday for I:idianapoiis wiitjre he will work iu a bicjcio chain works.

Will Gambrell went to Indianapolis last evening to work in the Union Depot rest ivu'iint..

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Miss Laura Moulden went to Martinsville today, where sha will spend a few days with friends.

Dr. A. J. Smith who left our city a few months ago is having his household goods shipped to Dallas, Texas.

The Hesperian Reading Club holds its first meeting Saturday at the residence cf Mrs. Dr. Cooper.

Daniel Morford and family who have been visiting relatives here, left for tlieir at Memphis, Tenn., today. of Terre Haute, ^who has

City Marshal Scott returned last evening without Wineburger whom lie went to Indianapolis to arrest for the theft of $80.

While John T. Duncan was watching them work on the Masonic Temple, a stone fell on his foot and mashed it badly.

Ephraim Marsh went to Terre Haute on legal business today and his partner, Will Cook, is at Iadiauapolis also on business.

Gus Hamilton leaves soon for Coffeeville, Kansas, where he will work on a cattle ranch for his father, M. W. Hamilton.

Harry Meek, Gus Hamilton, Charles Reed and Will Gambi^U returned home last evening from Indianapolis where they have been visiting lady friends.

We have one of the finest line of school supplies of all kinds ever in Greenfield. Call and see what hvrl-iom? tablets we are selling at way down prices. Leader Drui Store, W. A. Wiikins, Prop. 39t3

C. F. Hensley, of Wampa, Idaho, who has been visiting his brother, John Hensley, left today for Anlerson where he will spend a few days and |,then return to his home.

Charles Reed le ives Thursday for St. Louis, where he will assist his father, George W. Reed in a buggy and carriage exhibit which they are making for the Cincinnati firm for which they travel at the big fair there.

Those going to Indianapolis today are James Thomas, Will Cook and wife, John Ward Walker and wife, Arthur Wiikins, Murray Ellison, Eugene Glidden, F. G. Banker, Mrs. N. R. Spencer and Mrs. James Bragg.

The ladies of the G. L. League will meet at the home of Mrs. M. T. Smith, 24 North street, Friday afternooD, Oct. 4, from 2 until 4 p. m. The class will be led by Mrs. Swope. It will be to the interest of every member to be present.

Elmer Brooks was tried before 'Squire Geary yesterday for malicious trespass. He was fined $5 and costs. The case was appealed to the Circuit court. The attorneys for the State were Downing & Hough and E. W. Felt, while Marsh & Cook had charge of the defense.

The W. R- C. will hold its district convention at the G. A. R. hall Oct. 10, 100 delegates are expected to be present. The Samuel H. Dunbar W. R. C. will exemplify the work. Mrs. W. W. Webb is the presiding officer. Mrs. Turner has charge of the mnsic for the occasion. There will be a camp Are to which all ^ill be Invited in the evening.

Explore The Country.

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factory to W. S. Gaul's building on West Maui street. L. P. Newby, of Knigbtstown, is holding court for Judge Olfutt who is at Noblesville todaj'.

Wm. Pauley':for a few days ome this aftefnoon. Home Circla, the original

Bible Class, will meet at the home of Mrs. Cash Carry Thursday afternoon. John Miller leaves Saturday for San •Francisco, Cal., where lie will spend the winter with his brother, F. J. Miller.

rock ribbed coast

of 2sTew England to the vineclad slopes of the Pacific and nowhere else in Hancock county will you find such a stock of first-class Groceries as at the

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We are very' careful in our purchases and aim to get only the best goods, such as you can rely on to be strictly pure and wholesome. Do not forget this important factor when in search of iirr- t-c! isrt Groceries.

HARRY

THE OLD RELIABLE

It will be roadv lor business

Save votir work for us.

Best of work.

Prices Reasonable.

59 W. Main St., Gant block.

LOUIE L. SING, Prop. 202 tf

Two good residences, centrally located, one a house of seven rooms, good stable on lot, for rent. Call, on Henry Saowg& Co., 14 S. Penn. street. tf

We carry all kinds and grades of slates, tablets, etc. Our lines are of the best quality and we have some that are sold very low. No store in the city sells cheaper than the Leader Drug store. Call and see us. We will take cire of J-you properly W. A. Wiikins. 39t2.

Miss May, daughter of Dr. J. W. Selman, has entered the Girl's Classical School at Indianapolis conducted by Mrs. May Wright Sewall. This school is one of the best of it3 kind in the country and is patronized by many of the leading families not only of Indianapolis but the State.

I do not have to run a wagon all over Hancock connty to get to sell two or three more^loaves of bread than other bakers. I take the expense of running a wagon and put it in rny bread. Therefore if you want five cents worth of bread come to me and you will get it, the best and largest, ready for inspection any time. Harry Regula—between Thayer and Tollen's meat markets. Main street. 210 tf &

Mrs. Rev. J. Lineback and eon Daniel, of Blue River township, were driving to Carthage to see her daughter, Mrs. Wm. White, and when about three miles south ot Charlottesville, their horse became frightened at a roll of barbed wire and backed down an embankment about six freight feet high and upset the buggy and threw both occupants out. Mrs. Lineback fell on her right shoulder and hurt herself very seriously, if not fatally. K'ie is a bad cripple aud has just recovered from a spell of sickness. Her injuries nmy prove fatal. People should be very careful not to haye anything on the public highway that will scare horses.

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment pronounced it incurable. Science has proven cattarrh to be a constitutional treatment disease and there fore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrah Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonfnl. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surface of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any cas it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address.

F. J.CIIENKA &Co., Toledo, O.

Jfk.Sold by Druggist, 75.

DEATHS.

As reported by Max Herrlich, funeral director New Palestine. Sept. 28, of flux, Ernest Edward, son of Samuel and Florence Ely, of Gem aged 8 months. Services at the house. Interment at Hendricks cemetery.

A REVOLTING SIGHT.

SO SAYS PROFESSOR ANTHONY OF DEATH BY ELECTRICAL EXECUTION.

He Says That the Chief Claim For This Method of Capital Punishment Has Ucen Disproved—Other Moaus That Are by Far Superior to the Chair.

It is difficult to conceive of a much more revolting spectacle under the old regime than is presented at electrical executions. A number of eminent physicians are gathered in the death chamber not only to witness, but to take official part in the execution. The condemned man is brought in, strapped securely by strong leather straps into the death chair and the electrodes fitted to the head and legs. At a given signal the. current is turned on, there is a most violent musculai contraction that would, except for the secure bindings, have thrown the man from the chair. Then follow a smoke and smell of burning flesh. The current is turned off, the body becomes limp, one of the physicians tears open tho shirt and listens for the heart beats. He exclaims that the heart is still beating. The wires are I again hastily connected, and the current I .turned on a second time. There is more muscular contraction, mure burning flesh. This time the several physicians in turn listen for the heart beats and pronounce the man dead. The body is taken from the chair, laid upon a rough table and cut up, according to law.

Those are the details as given 'in the daily papers, in one of which the reporter writes over his own signature. They may be exaggerated, but there can be no doubt that death by electricity is anything but the calm and peaceful death that the authors of the law were seeking to provide for the condemned murderer.

Why was electricity chosen as the agent Why not any onccf several other means of causing death? I can conceive of no icason except that the effects of electricity were least understood and there was tho least actual knowledge of how best to set about it to kill a man by this means. No one even now know exactly how electricity kills. Recent experiments by Dr. Eleilo of Columbus, O., remarkable for the ingenious and thoroughly scientific methods by which all t'he effects havo boeu studied, have thrown new light upon the subject, but even today we are very far from knowing, with the precision with which other causes of death are known, just how death is caused by the electric shock. Neither do we know how to apply the current. Certainly if there is no less cumbersome apparatus and no less clumsy method available than that in use at Sing Sing this of itself is sufficient reason for abandoning this modo of executing criminals.

It is often claimed in behalf of electrical executions that death is instantaneous and painless. In no report that I have ever seen is there any evidence of instantaneous death. All the evidence that can be gathered from reports of accidental shocks goes to show that resuscitation is possible if the exposure to the current is of short duration.

Painless no doubt it is, but so would be the effect of a pistol shot through the brain. And why not. use a pistol shot for executing a criminal? He might be strapped to a mattress, a semicircle of pistols arranged around his head terminating at the temples, and, if desirable, another group could bo placed over the region of tho heart. If electricity must be used, arrange to fire the pistols simultaneously by pressing a button. Why not? Would it be mora uncertain? Would it be less humane? Would it be moie blood curdling? Would it be less "instantaneous?" But perhaps there would be too little mystery about it and too little complicated apparatus required. There would be no need of cutting a man up to soo what killed him or whether he was really dead.

If we must inflict the death penalty and wish to be really humane about it, there are surety many ways by which death can be brought swiftly and certainly without inducing muscular contortions, or burning the flesh, or mutilating tho body. The criminal could be given a sleeping draft and then laid out in a glass case, which could then be filled with the fumes of burning charcoal.

I see no reason why we should seek to make death particularly easy to the criminal. I look upon the whole scheme of dapital punishment as a hideous blot upon our civilization, but if a man must be punished with death it is certainly not upon the theory that he must be put out of the way in the easiest possible manner for lii-m. It is assumed that the dread of the death penalty will prevent cuimes that otherwise might be committed. The penalty, if it is to be inflicted, should come in a form to be dreaded, yet there is no excuse for torture or for the semblance of torture. The criminal should come to his fate with a full knowledge of what awaits him. The execution of the sentence should be by a method that is swift and suro, without mystery, and about the effect of which there is no uncertainty. There should be no opportunity for doubt as to the result, and no reasou for excuse for a repetition of an operation. Electricity does not fulfill these re quirements and nover can until we know far more than we do at present of its offects in the human organism. If we knew all we ought to know to warrant its use, I believe an instrument that could be carried in the pocket Would accomplish the results as surely lis the hundred horse power engine and tlynamo now employed.—Professor W. A.. Anthony in Chicago Electrical Journal.

Austrian Crown Treasures.

Among.the treasures of the Austrian Grown are some religious relics that would make the fortune of a church. They include a nail from the cross, a fragment of the cross itself, a piece of wood from the manger at Bethlehem, fragments of the apron worn by the Virgin and a tooth of John the Baptist

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A. Conan Doyle W. Clark Russell Alfred R. Calhoun

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SPANISH WARSHIP SUNK.

It Was Alon the Cuban Coast but May Havo liecn an Accident. HAVANA, Oct. 2.—Another SpanisTi warship has been lost. The cruiser Cristobel Colon has been wrecked near Cape Antouio and it is believed will prove a total loss. The crew were all saved after desperate, wdrk.

Of course the friends of the insurgents are civculating the usual sensational stories regarding this, the latest disaster to the Spanish government, claiming that the cruiser was sunk by a torpedo exploded by insurgents.

In official circles, however, this report is classed as being "nothing more than an invention of the rebels," and the distinct statement is made that there is absolutely no reason for doubting the official announcement made that the Cristobal Colon was driven on the Colorado reef by the violence of a storm and not as a result of the explosion of an insurgent torpedo.

In spite of this official assertion, there is no doubt that the government has not thought it proper to make public all lie facts in the case.

Train Roller Confessos.

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 2.—dim Smith, one of the Wuupuka train robbers, was captured by Sheriff Peterson at Neenali, last night. Smith and Jacob Conners, better known as "Diamond Jack,'' came into Neenah in the afternoon and started out to paint the town. They had not gone far, however, before Sheriff Peterson got on their tracks. He arrested Smith, but) Connors got away. When accused of being implicated iu the train robbery. Smith at first denied it, but he told such contradictory stories as to his whereabouts and doings for the past two weeks that it was decided to hold liim, and he finally broke down and made a confession.

Explosion iu a Sawmill.

WAYCROSS, Ga., Oct. 2 —Henry Carpenter, a Plant System engineer, and three negx-oes were killed yesterday near Dupont by a sawmill explosion. The boilers of the mill exploded while the train was passing the mill, and the victims were blown some distance and their bodies terribly mangled.

Old Residents.

PoKTRI?.!OUTH, O., Oct. 2.—A special census shows that in Madison township, Scioto county, there are 46 residents between the ages 75 and 95 years. Twenty-four are males.

lJrowiied in Africa.

CAPIC TOWN, Oct. 2.—Advices received from Blantyre are to the effect that Bishop Maples of Nyassaland, and a companion, were drowned in Lake Nyassaland on .Sept. 12.

.IC.\plosion in a Mine.

LONDON, Oct. 2.—An explosion occurred in a mine in the village of Tyldlestey, near Manchester yesterday, by which five persons were killed.

1'ioneer .Millionaire Dead.

SAN FIIANCISCO, Oct. 2.—Ira P. Rankin, a pioneer millionaire, philanthropist and ^prominent congregational layman died yesterday.

No Hope For Mulione's ltucovery. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. Ex-Scnator Mahoue's eonditiou is unchanged. He is very low and his physicians can offer no hope tor Ins recovery.

are with him.

JUot's taik about tho "old" woman awhilo. She's a good sight more interesting than the so callcd "new" woman and doserves some attention.—Glens Falls Times.

Ono of tho great questions of the day: "Will tho now woman drink tea like a man, or will slio continuo to sip it with a spoon, after the fashion of a bird?'"^—Milwaukee Journal.

Leaving tho word "obey" out of tho marriage ceremony is not likely to make tho "new woman" either moro or less obodiont to her husband. Tho now woman, liko the old, is apt to obey heE own impulses during family jars.—Boston Heruld.

TALMUDIC PROVERBS.

While thy foot is shod, smash the thorns. The sun will go down all by itself, without your assistance. ?§&

The camel wanted to have horns, and they took away ^is ears.

.Excursion Kates, Atlanta Kxp j.-.'tioit. Round trip ticket to Atl'inna, G-i., ao count the Exposition now on sale via Pennsylvania Lines at reduce 1 rate-, Persons contemplating -a trin to the South during the coming fall and winter will fl id it pr li'.aMe I to apply to ticket agents of th Pennsylvania Lines for det-ai sou to see at Greenfield is W. H. Scott. HtJtfdw

Tlie American I'eople

Appear to be waking up to the fact thut the Yellow Stone Park is SOUK-thing we ought to be proud of. The travel to the park this year is heavier than evr. Germany, Eugland, France atul oth^r foreign countries annually send iarye numbers of travelers to s^e that faint, region. Vt least thi United States it-,eit seems to want to "be in the swim Drop your business for a fortnight

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pone that other vacation scheme and go and glory in the glories of n»ture. For six cents I will send you a beautiful book that describes the park.

Chas. S. Fee, G. P. A. Northern Pacific R.., St. Paul, Minn.

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J. E. MACK,

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Violin, Piano, Cornet

Residence, North .Street, next to New Christian Church. diV-waug

DR. C. A. BELL

Office 7 aud 8 Dudding-Moore block, Greenfield, Ind.

Practice limited to diseases of the

NOSE, THROAT, EYE and EAR

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family

DR. J. M. LOCHHEAD, B0ME0PATE10 PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.

Office and residence 42 N. Peuu. street, west side, aud 2nd door north of Walnut street.

Prompt attention to calls in city or country. Special attention to Children^, Women?1 aud Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louia Childreus Hospital. 39tly

FOR SALE.

13 acres choice land, within corporate limits of city,

JOHN ORCORAi

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Notice to Contractors.

NOTICH is hereby that the Common Council of (lie city of Greenfield, Indiana, will receive Healcil proposals up to 7 o'cloek p. in.,

Wednesday, October 16, 1895,

for radinf? and ronstnietinK a oenient side walk oil each side of South street from the ist. line of Mechanic street to the West line ot State street, ill said city of Greenfield, Indiana.

Specifications for smil work are now on file In the Clcrk'3ollicu of said city, and can bo Inspected by persons desiring to bid. Said work is to be done in accordance with the specifications heretofore adopted by said Common Council. Each bid must lie accompanied by a good awl suOicicnt bond in the amount,of $200 with 8Ufli cient sureties, residents of the .State ot lSuliana, one of whom must be a resident of Hancock county, or a certified check, conditional that ih tlie event said contract, he awarded said bidder, he will contract within five (5) days with anti execute to eaid City the required bond.

The Council reserves the right to reject aQjr and all bids. By order of the Common Counoil of the City Of Greenfield, Indiana. •#58wt3 WM R. McKOWN, CI* CMlfc*