Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 5 February 1896 — Page 1

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VOL. II. NO. 63

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WARD WALKER & CO

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We invite your consideration to our stock of Groceries. We make a specialty 01

Fine Teas and High Grade Coffees. These will suit your ste and also your pocketbook. Our line of Candies and Fruits are complete. Smokers, try some of our

Fine Cigars.

Headquarters for high grade coal oil. Try a can.

S. A. REINHAMER, Prop.

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, Bruises, Ossified Cartilages, Thru -h, Cankers, Hard and Brittle Feet, Quitter, Over reaching, Forging, Pigeon Toes, Nigger Heels, Interfering, Ann Cutter®, Knee Bangers and many other things for which I charge nothing extra. My shop is in the rear of Jefl'ri-s & Pon's iivery barn. I have in my employ a general blacksmith and can also do all kinds of repair work in-wood or iron

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solicit a share of your patronage. Stalls in connection iW for horses while wailing their turns. Horses in the city sent for and returned. GOOD WORK OR NO PAY.

DR. M. Y. SHAFFER.

short notice.

OIL FIELDS ACTIVE.

Flush Time Resulting From the Advance in Crude Oil.

BRIGHT PROSPECTS IN FUTURE.

During the 1'resent Year a Wonderful Impetus Is Expected to Be Given to the Oil Industry of the State—Gas Supply Giving Out. Other Indiana State News Dispatches.

A O IT Ind., Feb. 5. Everybody in the oil regions of Irclia aa has money to throw to the bfrds. Ho eis and boarding houses are packed, la ids are being bargained for, negi tiacion* for the opening of new oil fields have been made, old wells are being revived, and resorts are doing a driving business. In fact these are flush times. It is all due to the boom in crude oil. The greatest activity in the Indiana oil belt has come within'the past year.

In the original six counties—Blackford, Jay, Adams, Wells, Grant and Huntington—a feverish feeling is now shown, the same as marked the wild days in Pennsylvania years ago, and it is estimated that within the past two weeks contracts have been let for at least 500 new oil derricks. Oil men are taking leases of everything in sight, and the drilling and completion of test wells will be pushed with frenzied activity.

Much difficulty is experienced in getting timber out of which to construct derricks,^and in ^transporting derrick machinery, so overwhelming is the rush, but notwithstanding the wells which have been put down in 0 unities and the contracts which have been let, it will be months before the field already under lease is developed sufficiently ro give an approximate idea of the extent of the product. There is a great area of undeveloped territory in the.se counties, especially in Grant and Huntington counties, which is known as ten-barrel territory, and the work means millions of dollars' investment to Indiana.

It is the theory of the practical oil men that this oil belt extends from the St. Mary's and Mercer fields in Ohio, clear through Indiana, with Noblesvilie, in Hamilton county, which is one of the central counties of the state, marking the southern edge, until it reaches the Vigo county fields on the western limit of the state.

During the present year a wonderful impetus is expected to be given to the oil industry of Indiana, and operators are preparing to see a repetition of the Titus creek days, when fortunes w'ere made and lost every 24 hours.

Even in the primitive yield the present day of discovery of oil has worked wonders in this state. Farms in the six original counties, more particularly in Blackford, Wells and Jays, are today a mine of wealth in royalties to the plodding farm-owners, and hundreds of land-owners have been made independent 1\.T life, because, of the development of outside capital.

The state is awakening to the fact that the oil industry is Indiana's greatest resource, excelling oven her wonderful gas supply, and from this 011 it will receive that attention from the state department which its importance warrants.

It is a theory of oil men that eventually gas will entirely disappear in this state, to be replaced by oil, and this belief is shared to some extent by officials of the state, and manufacturing interests dependent upon gas for fuel purposes.

This is an additional fact, giving great weight to the developments so far made, the more so as the belief is even more general that oil must be looked to as the fuel of the future in the Indiana belt.

A Figiit at a Dance.

El,WOOD, Ind., Feb. 0.—During a dance at the resi'Vnce of Andrew Fracellon, and at a .ate hour, Charles Melrose was attacked by a young country boy named Shields, who accused him of eavesdropping. A friend of Shields joined its, and while Melrose and this fellow v-'ere quarreling, some one, thought to be Shields, attacked Melrose troni the rear, cutting him in a number of places about the head and face. Melrose is liadly hurt.

JiiHcd by l-Vllow Inmate.

EOCKPORT, Ind., Feb. 5.—Seth Cooper, 70 years eld, and inmate of th.9 Spencer county infirmary, was assaulted and killed by Seth Thomas, who is GO years old. Thomas struck him over the head wii.h a club, and also stabbed him with a kniie. in his active days Cooper was a well known contractor and builder, being one of the men who built St. Aleinrad college and church.

Twenty Years Separated.

L.\ PORT",, Ind., Feb. 5.—August Arndt has commenced a search for his sister, whom he. has not seen in 80 years. In 1875 the sister and three small children became inmates of the Porter county poor asylum. Subsequently the children left the place and secured a home in Michigan City, the sister later disappearing.

Suieide by Hanging.

LAPORTE, Iiul., Feb. 5.—John L. Andrew, a prominent farmer, 60 years old, ended his life by hanging himself. Andrew was eccentric, and, in the absence of any known motive for taking his life, the deed is believed to have been committed while temporarily insane.

Sehool Building Burned.

SO E N Ind., Feb. 5 —The Poish Catholic school building burned yes-, terday, the fire starting from a defective furnace. The estimated loss on building and contents exceeds $4,000, on which there is partial insurance.

Insane Parmer's Death.

A O ,, Ind., Feb. 5.—Driven insane by religion, John L. Andrews, a wealthy farmer, committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself.

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As she passed through the Narrows, followed by a little flotilla of tugs, the passengers on the North German steamship Lahn crowded on her decks and cheered for her safe entry into port. The white-coated band on the Lahn played "Hail Columbia," and kept on until she ^yas moored at the pier of the American .ie company, wrhere she was greeted joyously. Captain Jamison, with his first and second officers, was 011 the bridge when the steamer came up. He remained there until she was safely moored at the dock.

Captain Jamison refused to talk. The vice president of the company, A. C. Griscom, Jr., however, made the following statement: "The ship, so far as we know, or rather, so far as we can see, has not sustained the slightest injury. We feel very proud of the ship during her adverse trials. We are now willing-to run her to Southampton. We will have our own men inspect tin.: ship externally and internally and, in addition to that, she will be examined by the proper authorities who will probably be more able to tell whether or not the American line or its ships are capable of carrying mails and passengers from this country to England~safely."

Shipping men are already at work fixing up a general average list of the losses sustained by the St. Paul. Opinions differ as to the amount of the loss, but all agree that the salvage that will have to be paid will be the largest ever collected from any one vessel since the business of building ships was begun. The lowest estimate places this amount at $100,000. The loss will fall 011 the underwriters, as the American line does not insure its own vessels. If mismanagement could be proved against the officers of the company, however, suit may be brought, and the total loss collected from the steamship company.

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.

A Alan Hjfld Up and Relieved of $545, but the Money Was .Recovered. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 5.—On au outlying street here yesterday, in broad daylight, C. P. Pauly, cashier of the Standard Oil company, was robbed of $545 which he was taking to the bank. The highwayman was John Searcy, 22 years old, a local tough with a bad record. Searcy was captured after an exciting chase and the money recovered.

Pauly carried the money in a canvass bag and was proceeding along South Harrison street, when Searcy waylaid him in the middle of a deserted block and demanded the money at the point of a revolver, which lie shoved in Pauly's face. A demand to ''drop that money" was quickly obeyed by the bewildered cashier. Searcy darted away with the money, followed at a distance by the cashier, whose cry of "stop thief soon brought a crowd to his assistance.

For several blocks Searcy sustained a lead oil his pursuers, turning ou them half a dozen times with his revolver. He was finally coralled, however, and the money recovered. At the station Searcy asserted he was sick and that he had stolen the money t« nvdicine with.

ALMOST A FIST KiGHT.

First Row Over the Senatorial Contest in Kentucky. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 5.—The jointassembly yesterday developed the first big row of the session, and for a time it looked as if a fist fight would result between the leaders of the Blackburn and Hunter forces on the floor of the house. The trouble grew out of a ruling of Lieutenant Governor Wortliington.

Mr. Johns, Democrat, of Floyd, who has beeu refusing to vote for Blackburn was proceeding to make a lengthy political argument announcing his support of Blackburn, and giving his reason for such a course, when his remarks were declared not in order. Senator Brons- ©4 ton, Democrat, criticised the lieutenant,! (eft governor's ruling as arbitrary and par- f--4 tisan, and the presiding officer replied in such hot language that it was a time before peace was restored. The muddle was finally settled and Mr. Johns finished his speech. Rice, anti-Black-burn Democrat, also voted for Blackburn. Ko election resulted from the ballot.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—A fire which started in the drying room in the basement of the Gilsey House early yesterday caused no little excitement among the 224 guests in the house, many of whom became hysterical, 'while others fell down stairs in their efforts to escape from the building. The fire was extinguished in a short time and the guests went back to their rooms. Tlio damage will not exceed

miner Killed by a Train.

ALLIANCE, O., Feb. 5.—James Hemmingway, aged 45, a coal miner residing east of this city, was struck by a train near his home and instantly killed. The remains were found strewn along the track. He was returning home on foot after an unsuccessful tramp of several days for work. He leavea a wife and seven children in poor circumstances.

Coal Miners Quarrel.

A S A N Ky., Feb. 5.—In alight at the coal mines at Mount Savage, Carter county, Ben Stamper used a

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PULLED OFF THE SANDBAR.

The Steamer St. Paul Relieved from Her Perilous Position. N E W O Feb. 5.—The steamer St, Paul of the International Navigation company's line which went ashore on the sandbar off Long Branch a week ago last Saturday, was pulled off the bar yesterday. The four wrecking tugs of the Merritt and Chapman Wrecking companies succeeded, with the aid of the kedge anchors, in getting the St. Paul off the bar. Fifty minutes later the vessel passed the Atlantic Highlands, bound for New York, under her own steam.

A Mother's^ Experiment.

"I am trying this winter," confided &ne of a group of mothers to her listeners the other afternoon, "the Chinese plan to prevent sickness in my family. You know they pay their medical adrisers only when they are well. With illness the fees stop. So far there has not been a cold and only one slight attack of Indigestion among my five children.

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offered a prize to each one of them who will preserve an unbroken record Df health till the first day of May, and with this end in view they listened patiently, and, what is better, heedfully to my brief lecture at the beginning of the Reason on how to keep well. They don't follow their friends to the door and Stand in the cold for a little more talking they don't sit on the stone steps as they did in July and as they are apt to do throughout the year. My 9-year-old boy actually came in and changed wet stockings for dry ones the other day, something unheard of on his part before. I feel that for this winter, at least, while the novelty lasts, mine has been a happy thought."

How to Manage a Burglar. Miss Lena Burns knows how to manage a burglar. With a revolver held against her head Miss Burns had sufficient courage to resist a burglar who entered her room at night and who has since been arrested for his pains.

The young woman was asked by a reporter to give a few general instructions on the treatment, of hnvclnrs to women

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readers of The Times. Tersely put, is her advice: Think quickly.

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Never lose your presence of mind. Use all the weapons nature has kiuffcly given you.

Hold your breath when you are teh* chloroformed. Don't let a little thing like being gqgged divert your mind.

If you can't scream, throw things I#the window to attract attention. Remember that while you may not as strong as he is, ten to one yon 4mft much brighter.—Philadelphia Timssfc.

A Pointer on Dress*

A pointer—the more you get yotrrse3f up to look as if the materials had bea» draped about for you for that partiouljsr occasion, as if the neckband had tied a few minutes before and become a straight piece of ribbon whsfti untied, the more you can look as ityvm could command maids enough to pose" your toilet from morning to afternoon and from afternoon till evenitsg^ and the less you look as if your things were made up and finished off to last thaiseason through the more Parisian anc£ "stylish" you will be.

It doesn't matter whether there arffls a it so re a re S I inches apart or five, but there must be am airy, fairy grace, au evanescence about", them—in effect—to make them quite to the acme of fashion reached by t£s$Parisian masters and mistresses of theart of. ire*s.

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