Star-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 November 1906 — Page 1
Eetublished 1858.
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DEMOCRAT
Forty.\inth Tiear.
{sfrit. Vol. 48, No. 29
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, NOV. 2, 19(6.
{sX. Vol. 3, No. 10
It’s a Quality Proposition
DISCUSSED ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN
Th<‘ liainlti'idx’- (t.iiul Dili Much to Make the- M«'e4iuj^ a Success Tuesday Ni^ht.
No Louse Citn grow year after year unless it makes value giving the main appeal for business. Friendship, “Hot Air’’ or location may bring temporary success, but to be of the lasting sort, every sale must have back of it Quality This has been our foundation stone, and every year has brought more business than the previous one. You will tind the suits and overcoats we are selling at $10.00 to $25.00 Are better than we ever offered before.
(Jrecncastle's best Clothiers
TEe BELL
The SAVINGS DEPOSITS OF The Central TrusL Company Have more than doubled in the past year and new accounts are coining in every day. You can not afford to be without a saving account. Start now while you are making money, so that you will not be dependent on others in old age. ONE DOLLAR WILL OPEN AN ACCOUNT
JOHN SNYDER IS THE VICTIM
Y., as his home. The chiefs of police in both the latter towns have been asked by wire to investigate and see
Was Struck By Falling Timbers.— if relatives can be located and a mesHead And Chest Crushed.— |sage has been sent the girl.
Coroner King called the Indianapolis woman up by phone but she was
Man Little Known.
lobn Snvlt.,
better known as
“Jack” Sjvdrr, a carpenter employed by Tuttle & Oo., the contractors building the Big Walnut bridge, just west of town, was killed Friday afternoon, at near 5 o’clock, while
working there.
Snyder was struck by two falling beams and killed almost instantly. The timbers which struck him were about ten Inches square and twelve feet long. They struck him on the back of the head, crushing his skull and mashing him to the ground. His chest also was crushed. When fellow workmen lifted the timber off his
body he was dead.
When the accident occurred, Snyder was wo-k ng directly under the two larger beams which were being hoisted. They had been hauled about twenty feet into the air when the chain, which held them slipped off and the Umbers rell upon him. Synder had been living in Greencasitle since about July 1. He made the Juniata Hotel his stopping place. For the first two months he worked for Jones Bros., the contractors who are grading for the Big Four. About twe months aeo, however, he went to Tuttle & Co. where he has worked
since.
There was nothing In the pockets of the dead man’s clothes to give the coroner any clue to his relatives and as his fellow workment knew little of IPs history, the body was taken to the undertaking rooms of the Edward Lynch establishment, where It is being held. Tho only clue Coroner King has to work on are several letters from a woman named Clara McLean of Indianapolis and the fact that some of tie workmen say they have heard
unable to give any information regarding his relatives. She said, however, that she had their address In a letter somewhere and that she would look It up. She may come to Greencastle she said, and take charge
of the body.
KNIGHT’S CONDITION
Considered Critical by I'hysiciuns Who Fear Internal In-
juries.
BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 31.—Attorney George A. Knight, who was knocked down in a fight with Judge S. M. McGregor in the Circuit court room here yesterday, Is in a critical eondiUon, and his physicians fear that pneumonia will set in as the result of the Injury, as he Is suffering with intense pain in the back and chest. He was helped down stairs to dinner today, but took litle nourishment, and this evening Drs. Williams and Gifford stated that (he is slightly worse, and that they think he sustained internal injuries when he struck the cuspidor
yesterday as he fell.
Although a case was set for trial today. Judge Presley O. Colllver, remained at his home In Greencastle, and It may be sometime before he rules on the disbarment motion that caused the fight. Judge Colllver Is expected here tomorrow, and It is probable that toe will impose a fine on Mr. Knight and Judge McGregor
for contempt of court.
Mr. Knight, who Is past C7 years of age, Is not very strong physically and probably will be confined to his home
the supreme
es he -eem.': b weeks more of ca .Mr. Bowers ope stating ilia ! lie h Greene as le to ma speech but had < o his mind ol g.vin chance to know h Vial questions •hi
fore the coun' they ini eh t ki when he sot n called upon to spoke of the b
for some time, even If he does re-
him speak of Dunkirk and Glean, N. cover from his Injuries.
Claud G. Bowers, the young man who is making such a telling campaign against Hou. E. .S. Holliday, for itepreseu . ui r- in Congress from this diNtric;, \va* here Tuesday evening and spoke o a crowd that filled the large assembly room at the court house. The famous band of niusicias from Bainbrrdge, under the leadership of Prof. McKee rendered some excellen: music before ihe speaking began and put ihe large crowd in the best of humor to hear what was to come in the political argument. Mr, Bowers has been going every night for the past seven weeks, but with
Uty that he possesst>e good for seven
Impaigning.
e;ir>d his remarks by bad not come to ake a bitter partisan r >me with the idea in the voters here a w he stood on the rat were pending be--o 'hat if elected w what to expedt Wasuington and was cast his vole. He that was introduced
at the las: —-In of Cong loss make big corporations keep their hands off of politics by contributing to the campaign funds of the party the trusts wanted elected. The bill in question compelled political partieto file sworn statements of their expenses but somehow the bill was allowed to die in the hands of the oommithee on elections. President Roosevelt was for that measure and was anxious that it become a law and the speaker scored a good point when he said if he had been in Congress he would have stood by the Preside!)' better than some of the Republicans
did.
He took up the different measure that had been passed by Congress, such as the pure food law, the railroad rate regulation measure, and others and showed that they were supported by Democratic members of Congress and but for the Democra s’ support they could never have been passed. Mr. Roosevelt was big enough and broad enough to acknowledge the good work of the Democrat members of Congress even If the stump speaker did try to claim credit for their passage. These laws were not Roosevelt measures or Bn in measures, they were American measures and came from the Representatives of the people without party bias and prejudice. Mr. Bowers spoke of the pension question. He paid a high tribute to the soldiers that went forth at their country’s call and shouldered the musket to do and to die that this grand republic should be preserved He said Mr. Holliday did not like fur him to speak on that subject because Mr. Holliday’s record was not just as clear as be would like it. He declared in favor of a liberal pension system and the doing away with the red tape that surrounds the pension bureau and often kept a crippled soldier in poverty until his death because some technicality had not been looked after. He said he wanted the government to quit looking upon every soldier who applied for a pension as a sharper who was trying to beat the government that he gave up his home and health to save. He only referred to the record of Mr. Holliday by stating that the old soldiers of the district knew more about how he had treated them than he could know and promised if elected he would look after their interests and not write back that he was too busy to call up their cases or offer some other excuse. Mr Bowers took occasion to compare the work accomplished by Mr. Holliday in all his years in Congress with what Lincoln Dixon, of the Fourth District, who had only been there one term. He said the Congressional Record showed that Mr. Dixon had done more in his first two years than Mr. Holliday had in all his experience In Congress. Mr. Bowers said he did not care to pose as a brilliant star to make the Fifth District shine out above all other sections In Indiana but he wanted it so that the Fifth District would again be recognized as being on the political map of Indiana. The entire speech was listened to attentively by the large audience and all were satisfied that with Mr. Bowers in Congress there would be something doing about Washington that would be to the interest, not only]
of the people of the Fifth District, hut to thp toiling masses of the en-
tire country.
Mr. Bowers Is confident of vi tory next Tuesday. He left here last night I at nine o'clock to be in Terre Haute j this morning where he will commence his campaign in Vigo county. He will close up the campaign of the district by a thorough canvass of Vigo county and the last days will be full of hard work for him.
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What’s
DIED AT 1:45 FRIDAY MORNING
Two Services Will lie Hold Hi rc Before the Body is Taken to Flora for Burial.
Of paying your good money for a hand-me-down Suit, one that was made for no one in particular and seldom fits any one, when you can come to us, select the goods you want, and
have them made as they should be made.
We guarantee a fit every time.
$ 13.50 And Higher
SUTHERLIN
Russell Miller, the high school tad,! ' who was accld''nta!ty shot with a re-1 I volver in the hands of his school: mate and companion, Allison K fer, I , last Saturday afternoon, died at I 1:45 o’clock Friday morning at the .home of his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Sandifur, on east Hanna: | street. His mother, sister and two
brothers, were at his bedside when the end came. From the very first the physicians • who attended the young man said that there was little hope for his re-1 eov< : y. His wonderful strength and cheerfulness during the first few days of his illness, however, gave his friends hope that he would recoviI'or ihe past three days he had been slowly sinking and his death was hourly expected. The burial will be in the family burial ground.at Flora, Indiana, near where the family lived until a year ago when they moved to Ordway, Colorado. The body will be taken I to Flora Saturday, leaving here on the Monon noon train north. Two services will be here, however, | before the body Is taken away. The I first will be at 9 o'clock at his grand parents home and will be for the i high school pupils exclusively. It will be a simple service. The school will I sing and Miss Martha Rldpatb will offer the prayer. At 10:30 o'clock; the second service at the home will be held. The Rev. O’Haver and the Rev. TToagland will conduct the services. The three companions of the lad. who were with him when the accident occurred, Lamar Grubb, Robert Huffman and Allison Keifer and three of his high school class mates. Ward Christie, Bert Hughes and Will Shepherd will he the pall bearers. The high school pupils In a body will accompany the body to the train.
A MILLION DOLLAR. BANK Which is larger than the total assets of all other Banks in Putnam county combined, as is shown by the following sworn
statement of the
CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK of Greencastle At the close of business September 4, 1‘JOti:
Txwun Overdrafts Unitinl States Bonds County Bonds Prenihims on U. 8. Bonds...
Banking House
Due from U. 8. Treasurer .. Cash
"Y
*433,888 95
1,911 07
JO 00
.
Surplus
101 Vd 41 I Undivided Profits . ..
National Bank Notes Deposits
VJ ■*! 1 ,MW 72 , 10,000 00 5,000 00 1
2117,7:12 :io 1
$1,002,043.45
luxi.ooo 00
luo.ooo 00 S.404 20 100,000 00
<190,579 26
L. O’HAIR, Pres.
$1,002,043.45
J. L. RANDEL, Cashier
Family of Lee Coffman And Miss Cora Lee Maze Thrown Out of
Overturning Big.
FIVE PERSONS IN THE CARRIAGE home when the accident occurred.
The team scared while crossing the tracks and suddenly turned to th« left. The buggy toppled over Just after It had cleared the tracks. Had the horses not broken loose from the buggy just when they did. some oj the people probably would have been
badly injured.
The victims of the accident returned to the home of Mr. Maze and stayed until today, when they took a
The pair of horses driven by Lee Coffman, who lives three miles south of Cloverdale, scared at a train at the Vandalia crossing in South Qreencastle, about 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon and ran away. The buggy was turned over and Mr. and Mrs. Coffman, Miss Cora Lee Maze, and 3year old son and 18-months old daughter, Virginia, of the former were thrown to the ground. Luckily none was seriously injured, although all of them received bruises of minor
importance.
The horses tore loose from the buggy and ran south to the home of Mac Jones, where they stopped. 'The buggy was not badly damaged. The Coffman family had spent the day at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Maze, and had started
train for home.
Road Contracted. The contract for building the Frank B. Alice et al free macadamized road in Mill Creek township has been awarded to a firm composed of Walter E. Alice, Frank B. Alice, Everett Sandy, J. W. McAnineh, Albert Wallace and J. P. Allee, the consideration being $2,700. James Hamilton was In Indianapolis Friday and returned with the 12,010 State ballots to be used In the election here November 6.
Dress Well It is Your Privilege
We are Greencastle Distributors of
STE.IN-BLOCH SMART CLOTHES FOR MEN
The following statement of Stein-Bloch taken from an Indianapolis Daily iand by the way published in nearly every large city in the States) says: “The honor of our house is bound up in our label and the reputation of fifty-two years is pledged w ith every suit and overcoat that bears the Stein-Bloch name-’’
“You will find the label inside each coat underneath the flap below the collar.”
Stein-Bloch Suits are $16.50 to $30.00 and the same money does not buy better suits—anywhere.
The man w ho cares to pay $15.00 or less for his suit or coat can come to us w ith this assertion on our part that nowhere else will his money buy as good clothing for what he pays-
ALLEN BROS.