Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 11 January 1896 — Page 1

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VOL. II. NO. 42

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GREAT BIG FAT BARGAINS

Sliced out of our dress goods 8 department for woraem, girls and children.

J. Ward Walker & Co,

This stor closes at 6 p. in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays. Thursdays and Fridays dur* ing January, February and March. Mo day and Saturday nights the store will open as long as you desire to trade. J. Ward Walker & Co.

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HAVE'YOU EXAMINED THEM? Many Improvements Heretofore' Overlooked[by Other Manufacturers.,

^'Improvement the Order of tfe* ige.'' Three New Models.

Address THE SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER CO., 76 E. Market St., Indi* napolis,|li.d.

VETERINARY SHOEING SHOP.

Having made a study of the horses foot 25 years past, 10 years of which I was a practical horse shoer, I am fully convinced that nine out of ten cases of lameness can be traced to the foot. The following are some of the diseases and habits I cure, prevent or remedy:

Corns, Seedy Toe, Toe and Quarter Cracks, Braises, Ossified Cartilages, Thrush, Cankers, Hard and Bri Feet, Quitter, Over reaching, Forging, Pigeon Toes, Nigger Heels, Interfering, Arm Cutters, Knee Bangers and many other things for which I charge nothing extra. My shop is i,n the rear of Jeffries & Son's livery barn. I haye in my (jmploy a general blacksmith and can also do Jtt kinds of repair work in wood or iron on short notice,

s*5®S AS LOW AS THE LO WEST.

Ipewiilerrs

Premier

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of your patronage. Stalls in connection

-hile waiting their turns. Horses in the city returned. GOOD WORK OR NO PAY,

Y. SHAFFER.

COUNTY SEAT

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Long Litigation Decided by the Supreme Court.

BIG VICTORY FOR ENGLISH.

Hereafter That Town Will Be the County Seat of Crawford County—Decision of the Fowler Will Case—A Child Smothered to Death by Its Father—Other In-diana-State News.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 11.—The supreme court has just decided that the county seat of Crawford county shall be removed from Leavenworth to English. This ends a contest that has extended through many years, and has engendered much bitterness in this southern Indiana county. Several times during the long controversy bloodshed between the factions has been narrowly averted.

Various propositions for the removal from Leavenworh to English have been before the legislatures of the last half dozen years. At the session of 1889 an act was passed which made it possible for the friends of the town of English to succeed.

The proceedings originated before the commissioners of Crawford county, from whose determination of the matter there was an appeal to the circuit court. A change of venue was taken to Washington county, where the circuit court entered a judgment relocating the county seat at English.

The case was argued orally during the last sitting of the court, and so early a decision was not looked for.

English has been going ahead with preparations to become the county seat. Anew courthouse is being erected, and other improvements necessary are being made.

The court also affirmed the celebrated Fowler will case from White county. It is held that the will of Moses Fowler devised his real estate in fee simple. Fowler died in 1884, 60 years old. At the time of iiis death Fowler owned 20,000 acres of land in Benton, Tippecanoe and White counties, and his estate amounted to $850,000. Fowler and his wife were living apart at the time of his death and his children were the appellants. The litigation has been carried on 10

years. Protected His Mother. RTJSHYLLK, Ind., Jan. 11.—Edward Johnson, deputy postmaster of New Salem, who shot and wounded James A. Williams, a farmer of that section, has been released by the prosecutor. Mrs. Johnson, mother of the defendant, is the postmistress, and several months ago Williams, while intoxicated, attempted to enter the Johnson home. Mrs. .Johnson was protected by her son, and when Williams made a second effort he was shot.

Gas Giving Out.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 11.—L. R. Leach, the city supervisor of natural gas, in his annual report announces that the gas territory is becoming smaller and that the supply is gradually decreasing. The gas area now empraces the following counties in whole or in part: Blackford, Decatur, Delaware, Grant, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Jay, Madison, Miami, Marion, Rush, Shelby, Tipton, Wabash and Wayne.

Said Nothing About Marrying. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 11.—Ex-President

Harrison left for New York yesterday afternoon. His private secretary says that he is going there to consult with other attorneys in the California irrigation cases, thence will go to Washington for the argument in the United States supreme court. His secretary will make no statement concerning the current stories that the ex-president is to marry Mrs., Dimmick.

A Gunshot Wound Eiuls Fatally. ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 11. Nelson

Webb, who was shot in the neck on Christmas day, died last night, after suffering untold agony. The bullet was never extracted as it was behind the jugular vein, and could not be reached. Webb never recovered consciousness. James Jones, who is charged with the shooting, and is out under $1,000

bond,

has been rearrested, and will be held without bail. Badly Hurt in a Fall.

FRANKLIN, Ind., Jan. 11.—Mrs. W. B. McCollough was dangerously injured last night at her homo on North Water street. She was just starting to church, when she slipped on the ice and fell heavily to the ground, striking the back of her head with great force. Concussion of the brain is feared, though her condition has not been such that an accurate examination can be made.

An Escape From Jail.

LOGANSPORT, Ind., Jan. 11.—Herman Barrons, alias J. P. Harrington, awaiting trial for horse stealing, escaped from jail Thursday evening. He nsed an iron rod to force off a section of the iron plating, and to punch a hole through the brick wall. The jail is notably weak, and a building of a safer structure has been recommended.

Smothered Hit CbUd.

KBNTLAND, Ind., Jan. 11.—Albert Tollis, a farmer living nine miles north of here, was brought to this place yesterday and lodged in jail, chsffged with murdering his 8-months-old child. The infant's crying annoyed him, so he placed his hand over its month and smothered it. Popular feeling runs high and violence is feared.

Attempted Suicide.

BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 11.—Mrs. John H. Moore, wife of a prominent citizen of this place, attempted suicide last night by taking both morphine and chloroform. Her life vrt9&saved by hard work.' Despondency oicer the death of two of her children vras the cause.

Thejpeadly Corn Shneker.

PITTSE/HO, Ind., Jan. 11.—Daniel Et tris, a jprmer, living one and one-half milegporth of Brownsburg, lost his left handffn acorn h.ueker ye*i

GREENFIELD INDIANA SATURDAY EVENING JANUARY 111836 PRICE, TWO CENT?

REVIEW OF TRADE.

B. Cl Dun & Company Reports Business I Somewhat Retarded. NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—R. G. Dun &

Company's weekly review of trade says: The new year begins with such uncertainty that business is somewhat re{tarded. The proposed sale of bonds offers ground for confidence in the future, but no one is able to determine what its earliest effects may be in the money market and for the time it is a pause of hesitation other than hopefulness.

Speculation in products has not been active. Cotton is unchanged, although the receipts for the week have not been very large, but some slackening appears in the foreign demand. Wheat is about 1 cent higher and corn the same, without distinct reason in either case, for the government report, tardily conforming to commercial estimates of some months ago, did not command great confidence. Wheat receipts at western points were almost double last year's, 2,505,702, against 1,305,704 last year, but Atlantic exports were a little larger than last year, flour included, 2,337,936 bushels, against 2,010,756 a year ago. Corn receipts are about a quarter larger than last year, while Atlantic exports are about four times as large.

The industrial situation has not materially changed. There is much hesitation in the iron business, with some advance in Bessemer pig because of the expectation that Connellsville coke and lake ore will both be dearer, and yet finished products of iron and steel tre on the whole quoted a little lower, and the nail association is still in session to determine whether it will abandon the effort to maintain a fixed price. That branch of business is extremely slow, nothing is doing in rails, and while there is rather a better demand for sheets and plates and several good orders are reported for structural works, angles are quoted a shade lower. Everything turns on the contracts for ore, which are still unsettled, but the great excess in production of pig iron over the present demand is no longer denied, and it is expected that quite a number of the furnaces will presently discontinue production. Lower prices for Alabama iron renew competition with eastern furnaces.

Sales of wool are larger, 6,699,300 pounds for the week, against 5,236,715 last year, although a large part of the purchases is of a speculative character, based upon belief that prices may be advanced if the new tariff bill goes into effect. The opening of woolen goods shows a further tendency toward lower prices, in spite of the prevalent behef that higher prices would be realized before long if the revenue bill which passed the house should become a law. The cotton mills are generally running, though not all with full force, and some are piling up goods without regard to the immediate demand, which is comparatively slack, as they apparently believe that the short supply of cotton this year will ensure them profits in the end, as it has during the past half year. Nevertheless goods have decidedly weakened in price, quite a number of changes having been record duringed the past week.

There were 446 business failures in the United States this week, an exceptionally heavy total. Last week the aggregate was 403, in the week one year ago it was 405, and in the corresponding week of 1894, just after the panic, it was 484, while in the like week of 1893, five months prior to the financial disturbance that year, the total was only 301.

HOLOCAUSTAL ORGIES.

Two Members of a Drunken Family Burned to Death. LYNN, Mass., Jan. 10.—Mrs. La Moire, a 53

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her home yesterday, and her daughter-in-law, Anna La Moire, aged 28, was so terribly burned that she is lying at the point of death at the hospital.

After the fire was put out the father and son were found in a closet connected with the house naked and almost unconscious from intoxication. Both were considerably burned, but not dangerously so. The police say that a lamp was upset during some sort of a fracas and that the inmates of the house were all too drunk to put out the fire. The building was not badly damaged.

Grand Army Colony Booming. ABBEVILLE, Ga., Jan. 11.—The Grand Army colony recently started here by General Fitzgerald and ex-Governor Northen, is constantly receiving accessions. One hundred and twenty-five colonists arrived at Fitzgerald, the colony center, last night from the northwest. The old soldier town is rapidly assuming city proportions. A new weekly paper, The Leader, will be started next week by F. Knapp & Son. It will be Democratic in politics, but will eliminate political discussions and treat of industrial matters only.

Big Reduction in the Gold Reserve. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The treasury yesterday lost

$1,626,000

Sared After Being Given Up For Lost. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 11.—Purser McDonald, the second mate and two Japanese seamen from the Strathnevis, who left the disabled steamer in an open boat when off Destruction island, and who were believed to have been lost, arrived in port yesterday on the lighthouse tender Columbina, which picked the party up after they reached the island.

Fireman Killed.

CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—William Borst, fireman of passenger train No. 10, on! the Council Bluffs division of,the Chioago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway,1 was killed in a collision between several derailed frelghtcars and the pastenser train at Franklin station last night.

I will sell them for

1844

in gold, of

which $1,250,000 was for export. This leaves the true amount of the gold reserve $56,100,164. The treasury department yesterday began the task of sending to each postmaster in the United States a copy of Secretary Carlisle's circular of Jan. 6

asking for proposals for

the purchase of the new bonds. By direction of the postmaster general these notices are to be posted in a conspiouous place in each office.

sent gratis.

The, Christian Church,

|W. M. GARD, PASTOR,

Subject tonight, at 7 p. m.,

"The Thorn of Paul

Strangers in the city and traveling men will receive a most cordis* welcome at these reviv a! services. They shall be given a seat, even members have to stand or return to their homes. Services begin at p. m., standard tiirn.

LOOK AT THIS.

AN3S-DAY HALF HOUR STRIKE CLOCK

Sounds the Ala-rm.

I have pure-based fiity of the clocks. I did it because I could buy them cbeap. I am going to sell tliem cheap. They are no cheap made clock, but made by a stands©!' clock manufacturer and are fully warranted for one year.

$2.50 CASH.

M. A. FRY,

WATCH MAKER.

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A thrilling Detective story by C. E. Carryll, entitled "The River Syndicate," perhaps equalling SherlocE Holmes' best work. Illustrated.

Jcel Chandler Harris' characteaistic tale of a faithful slave —"The Colonel's Nigger-Dog." Other. Christmas stories are "A White Blot," by Henry Van Dyke, a poetic and imaginative tale of a picture, (illuslustrated.) "Heroism of Landers," by A. S. Pier, (illustrated, and "Hopper's Old Man," by R. C. V. Meyers.

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