Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 18, Number 30, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 7 October 1896 — Page 1

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We are now carrying a line of Ladies’ Wraps which for style, quality, and price, cannot be excelled. A full line of Capes in plush, astrachan, and novelty varieties. Cloth capes from the best to the cheapest. Misses’ and Children’s cloth coats in both plain and novelty. SGIP’We are getting out some excellent bargains in the above lines, and urge prospective purchasers to examine our goods before going elsewhere. OVERCOATS. ]£§r We have a complete line of Overcoats and are giving good values for little money. Are selling good overcoats as low as $2.00; and better values at proportionate pricas.

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Our variety of Hats is almost unlimited. The Longley is the latest and up to date. gARTMAN gROTHERS. TTTTi 1 . Columbian Our stock is now complete in all departments. We are displaying the best line of Ladies’, Children’s, and Misses’ wraps of any season yet; and prices are within the reach of all. Our immense line of Men’s medium priced suits, and fine dress suits are going like hat cakes. Our |Srs7.so Men’s all-wool Beaver overcoat, and Men’s Clay Worsted in frock, square, and round cut suits hold against anything in Elkhart county for the money. Our Clay Worsted suits for young men, at $6.50, and all-wool, are an unusual bargain; do not fail to see them before you buy elsewhere. We have a man’s Ulster in black and gray strictly all wool, and guaranteed water-proof. If you are in need of any pantaloons, in all grades, we have them on hand now. They are lower in pi ice than ever before. DRESS GOODS!. DRESS GOODS! More new novelties in dress goods this week. Always remember that we carry the best assortment of dress goods in town; but this season we a re displaying an extremely beautiful line of novelties. If you need a piece of.Donet flannel, give us a call; We have a good one. Our ltne of Ladies’ Plush Capes at are way above the average. Ladies’ fine dress shoes are among the latest with us; come and try a pair of the New Woman shoes. Our oil grain shoes for women and children are just fte things for wet weather. Fidlek & Rickert.

THE NAPPANEE NEWS.

NAPPANEE, ELKHART COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1896.

Elkhart’s Gilman and The Pretty Woman. Here is additional information about the troubles of Gilman, the Elkhart real estate agent, which is found in the Toledo Bee that says: “Thursday morning Benjamin F. Rogers,a railway man from Adrian, Mich., came to Toledo in search of his wife, who had run away from him. He found her, or claims to have found her, here in company with one Henry Gilman, a wealthy resident of Ft. Wayne. Mr. Rogers claims that his wife was enticed from her home in Adrian by Gilman and came to Toledo, where she put up at the St. Charles hotel with him, both registering under assumed names. Rogers at once swore out a warrant for Gilman’s arrest, and late in the afternoon the latter was taken to the police station. While officers were looking for him Rogers consulted some attorneys in this city, and as a result an action fur $50,000 damages was begun, the ground being the alienation of Mrs. Rogers affections. In the petition Rogers asserts that Gilman enticed Mrs. Rogers away from home, brought her to Toledo and here held improper relations with her. Mrs. Rogers is said by those who have seen her to be a remarkably handsome woman. Gilman will have his hearing on Oct. 7th. He was arrested 4:40 Tuesday afternoon, and soon thereafter released on SSOO bail.” Gilman has his side of the story, too. He is quoted as saying that he never knew the Rogers woman prior to Monday one week ago. That for many years tho Rogers woman and her husband lived in Elkhart, and while there her affection for a certain railroad engineer caused her husband to move his family to Adrian. Last week, he says, Mrs. Rogers wrote him, asking the whereabouts of the engineer. He replied that he did not then know, but if he could ascertain he would stop off at Adrian while on his way east, and tell her. He says he was astounded to see her on the same train coming into Toledo, and that was the lirst time he had ever talked to her. “I have never attempted to gain her affections, nor have I anything to do with their family troubles. The engineer is the man they are really after,” he said.

The Same Kay on a Shady Transaction. This is the same Ray who figured in this county and received some newspaper notice. A dispatch from Hammond says George Ray, formerly of Shelbyville, but now of Chicago, was arrested there on Thursday on a charge of bribery, made by Township Trustee Robert Ross. Ray has been at his old tricks in the school supply business. He claimed to hold warrants against an cx-trustee and is charged with offering Trustee Ross $2,500 to cash them. At the preliminary hearing a change of venue was granted and the sent to Justice Irish to he heard Friday afternoon. In default of bonds for SI,OOO Ray was placed in the city jail. Not Itadly Hurt. Arthur Rosenberger, who fell from the Canton excursion train as accounted in these columns last week, arrived home on 17 Wednesday afternoon. He was not so badly injured as one would expect a man to be who had fallen off a train running at the rate of 40 miles per hour. He says that he fell from a sitting posture on the steps where he placed himself because of being sick and faint. There were several bad cuts in his scalp and one leg was badly sprained. His internal injury is principally from the terrible jar he received when he struck on his bead. It seems to have been a miraculous escape from being killed, to say the least. If Troubled. With KhematUm Rea l Till*. Annapolis, Md., Apr., 16tb, 1894. —I have used Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for rheumatism arffcl found it to be all that is claimed for it. I believe it to be the best preparation for rheumatism and deap seated muscular pains on the market and cheerfully recommend it to the public. Jno. G. Brooks, dealer in boots, shoes, etc., No. 18 Main St. ALSO READ TIIIB. •' Meciianicsville, St. Mary County, Md.—l sold a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm to a man who bad been suffering with rheumatism for several years. It made him a well man* A. J. McGill. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by J. S. Walters.

Good Record For Dock Hunter*. The News does not want to make trouble for Messrs. J. O. Kantz and Frank Reed, by relating this duck story, but it is so much out of the ordinary that it would be more than cruel to let it pass without a just mention; more especially when the two hunters could, if get affidavits of reputable eye-witnesses—-which some will require them to do, and therefore the trouble they will be put to by the News getting this into print. Well, to relate it, Messrs. Kantz and Reed went to the Bremen lake last Friday. Each man, aside from the necessary equipments for the trip, carried a repeating shotgun, the magazines of which, hold sixteen loads. The gun is loaded witha slidirig-trora-bone motion, but with altogether a different noise, of course. At the lake they discovered a good flock of ducks, and waded out within about 50 feet of the birds, being protected by the rushes. Both trained on the flock on the water and emptied their guns, followed by five loads each pumped into the flock as the birds raised and flew. When the smoke rolled away they gathered in 18 ducks, besides afterward recovering 5 cripples. During their stay the gentlemen bagged 46 ducks. ResolutlAn*. Resolved, That, we, tho W. C. T. U., of Elkhart county, in convention assembled, stand Arm for the extermination of the liquor traffic; and that we believe it to be the duty of the ministers of the gospel to express themselves openly in favor of its overthrow; and further, that we implore the men of our county to interest themselves to the same end, at the ballot box. Resolved, That, our attitude toward narcotics remain unchanged; that we make relentless war upon Sabbath desecration; and that we in every way encourage the teaching of scientific temperance in the schools. Resolved, That, we request the W. C. T. U., of our State, and all temperance women, to work to bring about a special election in which the voters of this State may be free from any political issue, and vote yes or no regarding the liquor question—whether liquor shall be sold in our State as a beverage or not. • Resolved, That, we extend our thanks to the trustees of the M. E. church for the use of the said building; taall who have assisted in making the convention a success; and that the visiting delegates thank the people of Nappanee for hospital! ty extended. Mrs. Mary Bechtel, Mrs. R. C. Travis, Mrs. J. E. Tilman, Miss Cordelia Clark. Tlie Law. Section 2341, Revised Statues of Indiana, says: Whoever, for the purpose of influencing a voter, seeks by violence or threatens to enforce the payment of a debt; or to eject to threaten to elect from any house lie may occupy; or begin a criminal prosecution; or to Injure the business or trade of any elector; or if an employer threatens to withhold the wages of or to dismiss from service any laborer in his employment; or refuse to allow to any such employe time to attend at the place of election and vote, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars nor less than twenty dollars, imprisoned in the state prison not more than five years nor less than one year, and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit for any determinate period. Important Move For Lake County. It is stated that work will be begun soon op the preliminary survey for the proposed Wolf lake inland harbor, for which purpose the sum of SB,OOO was appropriated at the last session of congress. This work will be rushed through as speedily as possible, it being the intention of the engineer to have it completed by the time congress meets In December. Wolf lake is about three miles long, situated In Lake county, and in some places is a little over half a mile wide and wholly separated from the big Lake. It is connected with Lake Michigan by a channel about one thousand feet long. The location is particularly adaptable for the proposed harbor. Mail! It be 16 to 1? Silver men say yes, gold men say no. But all who have used it whether gold or silver men concede that Foley’s Honey and TaY Cough Syrup is 'superior to all others as 16 is to 1. Henry Fischer, druggist.

Ministerial Convention. The ministerial convention of the Goshen district of the Evangelical church convened In Nappanee yesterday, Tuesday, lor a three-days session. The attendance of ministers was fair for the opening day on Tuesday, but not anything what it will, perhaps, *be to-day. There is no little interest manifest by townspeople. The convention Is being held in the Evangel-ical-Mennonite church on Centennial street. Gtorgs Gilchrist Drops Dead at BremenGeorge Gilchrist, of Bremen, and a pattern maker at the Radiator works, dropped dead In the office of Dr. Nusbaum last Wednesday evening. Gilchrist had been drinking hard, and on this occasion had gone into the physician’s office to get something to quiet his nerves. He was in company with Holland of the Radiator works. The last thing the man said, was to his friend Holland to help him up, after he had fallen to tho floor. The doctor had stepped into an adjoining room, after giving the man medicine, to get a glass of water for his patient, but the man needed it not, as he only breathed slightly fora few minutes afterward and explced. The deceased was the man whom the News mentioned as getting into the trouble in Nappanee while hero with "his friend and employed of the Radiator works, and who were fined in Justice Corns’ court. He had no relatives in America. A. Railway Scheme Still on Tap. It is announced that the projected Cincinnati, Union & Chicago railroad, three years ago projected from Union City to Huntington, will soon be built. The panic of 1893 caught the promoters of the enterprise, work was suspended, and the company has been involved since in almost endless litigation over claims for labor and material. Judge Bliss and F. W. Short of Chicago, have acquired nearly all of these claims and secured control of the property, and tho old management, which ran the line into debt, has abdicated. Mr. Short says they have bought the $23,000 judgment against the company, now In tho Wells circuit court, and that this winter enough funds will be at hand to assure the resumption of work on the road,..which Is partially graded, not later than next spring. Walking; for HU Llvlnf;. Harry Chester, who not unlike a great many people who are walking for a living—though a poor one It may be, dropped into Nappanco last Friday evening on his way to New York. This trip only brings hinrf* the paltry sum of ssoo—but then, he is to earn It in 24 days, don’t you know. This affords a satisfactory explanation for the discrepancy between Chester’s earning capacity in 1895 and 1896, which Is done by the omission of one cipher from the aforementioned sum. Chester’s explanation, that he didn’t know until this year that he was walking under gold standard times will furnish some amusement, if not consolation, to his ma'ny competitors who walk for their living—when they can’t catch onto un “empty.” This year in his travels, Chester has with him Dan Parker, presumably to keep down the blues, If not expenses. Dan had already a flash-light experience in Indiana on account of the red pouch he carries. A bull set hirn over the fence, and he now sees wherein he made a mistake in going toward a city where bull fights are not Indulged in, thus losing his valuable experience. They will, probably, come again, as it Is a steady thing they have struck. Much Dcpendlnic on a DecUlon. Judge Baker has something of a question pending before him, and as he Is the sole arbiter in the case, his decision Is awaited with much anxiety by Noblesvllle, says the Goshen News. The big strawboard plant standing for $300,000 want to build a dam and reservoir If It can empty Its refuse into the river, which the court, must decide. Pending the decision the works are closed, and If an adverse opinion is rendered will remain closed for all time, throwing out of work 200 people and stopping a weekly pay-roll of $2,000. The plant Is the largest in the world and the blow will fall heavily on the business prospects of that town. This is the company that has bad so much trouble and litigation during the past summer by reason of its refuse matter being dumped into the river.

Geo. Freese’* Son* Adding; a Refrigerating Machine. The firm of George Freese’s Sons, proprietors of the creamery and heavy dealers in poultry and eggs, are adding very materially to their facilities. A representative of a Chicago firm who manufacture Barber’s refrigerating machines, is expected here to-day, soon to begin the preliminary work of putting In a plant of this kind for the Arm mentioned. This is not only anew departure of this firm, but It will be one of the first refrigerating plants in this part of the country, and is therefore worthy of more than a passing notice. It Is, of course, for the purpose of increasing tho firm’s capacity for handling butter, poultry, and eggs. They have been putting up 500 tons of Ice every winter, and that not only means considerable expense but it occupies refrigerator room, which might be used for storage of the stuff they handle If the ice could be done away with. Now It Is proposed to do away with this putting up of such a quantity of ice, and the change will swell their refrigerator capacity to over 40,000 cubic feet. There has been a general overhauling of the oldest refrigerator in the old building preparatory to introducing tho new service. The new and largest one will receive an elevator attachment so that tho upper floor where Ice is now kept, can be utilized for storage. Wc are not acquainted with tho minor details and workings of a refrigerator plant. However, they are all on the same principal of Jack ' Frost—freeze by making things cold. The process is by chemicals, operated by what is called a compressor, and u largo quantity of pipes fastened to the wall, resembling a steam heating plant where pipes are used. The capacity of the plant Is measured by u six-ton machine. That is to say, It will accomplish the same work per day for a refrigerator that the consumption of six tons of ice would in tho same given time. For this purpose, either a single or double acting compressor, will supply 16,000 feet of piping. They already have a steam power plant, so the compressor will be one that can bo operated right from their engine. It is put in by the Chicago firm under a guarantee. The plants are, of course, time-tried and does away with anything In the experiment line. The same mechanism is used In freezing ice, except in that case an addition of the brine tunk, and its equipments, is used. The guarantee is for summer weather and calls for 15 to 20 degrees above zero,—3o,.belng freezing. This equals zero In winter If the same capacity of the plant was used, which is not then necessary. The plant and Its workings will be a curiosity, for It Is one among the few things resulting from man’s genius that hustles Dame nature. The firm of George Freese's Sons, has the goaheadltlvencss of its founder, and this addition to facilities for carrying on their Immense business, is only in keeping therewith. Lotv Kxeuralon KitU.it Tin llultl morn Si~ Oh 10. Half rates to Washington, D. C.:— On October 11th, 12th and 13th the Baltimore Sc Ohio railroad will sell excursion tickets to Washington, D. C., at rate one fare for thl round trip, account Union Veteran Legion, Annual Encampment. Tickets will be good for return until Oct. 20th, 1896. Half rates to Chicago, 111. :—On Oct. Bth and oth the B. & O. railroad will sell excursion tickets to Chicago, 111., at rate of oue fare for the round trip account “Chicago Day” 25th Anniversary of the Chicago Fire. Tickets will be good for return one day from date of sale. On Oct. 9th the Chicago Day Parade under the auspices of the Chicago Business Men’s Sound Money Association promises to be the largest demonstration of the kind ever held In. the United States. The parade will present a great many unique features. There will be 500 floats gotten up by the various Industries characteristic of sound money. Applications for places in the processiof) have been received from over 100,000 men. The music will be furnished by 150 uniformed bands. For further information call on or address any B. & O. Ticket Agent, or L. S. Allen, Ass’t Gen’l Passer Agent, Chicago, 111. —ls you want good stock and good printing bring your work to the News office.

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