Star-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 November 1908 — Page 1

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<iKKK.N<'ASTI.K, IM»!\\\. K1JIDAY. NO\ I'MIJEU 27. DtilS.

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'CLONE DESTROYS PUTNAM COUNTY LEAVES RUIN

HOMES; IN WAKE

SACHELBER BASE AGAIN SPEAK OF KNOCK-OUT DROPS ? I ; th<? minor children filed an objection,

declaring that the fees were excessive. The guardian holds that 25

•'■lit \gainst tlie Trustee ol 1 Warren T<>uisship Wliicli Was Supitoscil to Have Iteen Settled Comes to

the Fore Again.

Prisoner- Ilel'ore Mayor Hays lledare Tliey Were Yictiins o( Foul Play

per cent of the amount received a?

Which Visited Putnam County Thai Morning Acoompaiiei by AMENDED COMPLAINT IS FILED ONE LOST HIS NEW OVERCOAT

shaped Cloud Which Came from the Southwest and Traveled Ndtheasterly Direction-Struck Just West of Fillmore

Haturday Night in This City— for the attorneys and asks that the Special Sunday S»-»»ion of Court. $500 of the sum paid to the attor-

“ ! neys.

USE TORN FROM ITS FOUNDATION

pee of John Sinclair, West of Fillmore, is Lifted from its Support --Two Barns on the Farm ot Mrs, William Dimier Destroyed and Her Home Badly Damaged—Wind Mill, too, is Wrecked

Lction crew watched the cloud

j Saw Poles Twisted Off, Hay and Straw’ Stacks Lifted into the ^ir. Trees Uprooted, and Plainly heard Roar of the Storm as it Passed Behind Them They Narrowly Escaped by Running from the Cloud as They Saw it Approach

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ed to hit and then bounce into the air again. It went across the country as if by great leaps. The car crew saw great trees uprooted, hay and strawstacks whirled into the air, fences torn down and as the cloud crossed the interurban tracks only a short

in the form of a funnel shaped distance behind 'hem. saw a large

■ high tension wire pole twisted in it stru.-k the earth it would two.

■ i whit h came with I Tuesday morning struck west I] causing much damage. Ty loin-, which was traveling In \ ! direction, struck Just i r. half mile west of Fillmore. It | • s ir. .'dock. The cyclone

| out trees, lift hay and straw I air, tear down rail ! demolish any large bnildi its path. It would strike the w:rh a, roar and seemingly

Intel-urban Prattle Tied Up. The breaking of this pole caused i traffic on the interurban to be tied up | for more than an hour. The men say jtbat as the tail of the cloud would l ' ly to light Jal 1 feet a ;• is it struck the earth the cyclone then arose Into the air ! 1 for quite a distance. again. Hi- ! urn From Foundation. Aftor pasaing Fillui ■ the cy- • lion." of John Sinclair, be- ; clone continued in a northeasterly l: Fillmore was in thej'orn down, howey?,. and no word of

ARGUMENT FOR A RECOUNT

. The house was foundation and set to fc Tli* laniage will amount

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f nces and trees which hap-

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we demolished.

B ; a ;:ai k of ruin in V >-vn aft* r striking the ■ ,e it struck on the farm ill i Dimier near Fillmore. | farm WM demolish* iof was torn off of another, mill was wrecked and the badly damaged. The storm

The case of the State of Indiana Ex Rel Charles \V Bachelder against Luther T. Evans, trustee of Warren Town-hip, came to the fore again Friday, after it was supposedly off the docket. Last term of court the cas< .vas argued before Judge Rawb’y, who took it under advisement. Before he rendered his decision in the ca- a compromise was effected between the parties. According to this c impromise, as understood by the council for the plaintiff, the defendant trustee agreed to transport tbt children of the plaintiff. Now it appears that the defendant refuses to have the wagon used for ‘.he transportation of the children driven to the house of the plaintiff, out continues to allow it to stop some distance, about a hundred yards, from the residence. This, it is alleged, is a hardship for the children and that they must go to this point and wait for the coming of the wagon, even though the weather be very bad. In view of this fact the attorneys of the plaintiff, Messrs. Lyon and IV k, Friday filed an amended com- ! laiiit, and the case will be taken up again. Speaking of the law upon the matter. Judge Rawley stated that the statute was very badly drawn. No one could tell just what was meant. He declared the statute -hould be re-enacted and made

plain.

INCORPORATE FOR $50,000

INDIANA & OHIO STONi; O)., WHICH WAS OKOAMZKI) \KTKIt Till: I’FIICHASK OF THE LLILI U I LL LAND JUST WEST or TOWN. IS PLANNING EXITiNSIVi: m'SINESS FOR THE “TONE INDI STHY IN PUTNAM COUNTY.

Several men appeared before the*

Mayor la>t Monday and on Sunday for intoxication. In several ca s they claimed that they had been tb< | victims of foul play. Buford Wilson was before the mayor in a special session held for ins benefit Sunday. He declared that he ha 1 entered a saloon Saturday night and had taken but two light drinks and then knew no more. He declared that knock-

out drops had been used on him. George Arbor was before the may-

or Inst Monday. He hails from Morgan County and declared that he. too, was suffering from some drug that had been put in ids booze. He stated that he came here from Morgan County on Saturday and purchased an overcoat and other articles. That lie took a drink or two and knew no more till he waked up in

jail, minus the overcoat and other re- , . a tic (undulates

cently purchased tilings. Leonard Miller was also up. All three re-

ceived tin usual $1 and costs. It is probable that these men are

not vised to the extra brartd of red eye that is served here and mistake its effects for deadly dope. Evident-

ly they are not properly insolated.

Den.c'fats \nd Itepiibli, ans Present Plans fin- a Review , f tin* V<>(<‘ in

'daiion County.

Will be DECIDED on fridav

NEAR DEATH FROM BURNS

what damage wa c :.e nrrth was net known up to noon. Tite Wind Svril;, li .'vg-. Three men were driving along tin road near the Dimier home just as the cyclone reached that place. The cyclone struck the buggy and rolled it into a field but luckily none of the men were badly injured. The names of the men are not known here at this time.

hr- Humphries of Cloverdale, U.d's liito a kettle of Ituiling Water While Butchering Hogs on Friday.

CIRCUIT COURT NOTES

Andrew E. Durham, Administrator of Estate of Alice I. McGaughey, deceased vs William Maote -on, Bessie

Special Judge Frank T. Edenharter heard arguments yesterday as to the recount in this county, as proposed by defeated Democratic candidates for -tate offices and defeated R‘ publican candidates for county offi •<•*-. but will not make a ruling until Friday afternoon at 2 o'clo k. Henry Seyfrfed, William W. Spencer and Willard New were among those who represented the Demo-

and all of them

spoke. Pleadings were also filed for the Democratic state candidates. The second paragraph of the plea in abatement filed by Attorney General Bingham was overruled on a motion filed by Mr Seyfried on behalf of the • • • i state andidati ■ This paragraph took the ground that a local court had no jurisdiction in some of "he cases becaua-' this was not their legal residence, and the judge concluded that this was. under the law, their residence a^ state officers. They had not had much hope for the ) plea, anyway, Mr. Bingham had ex-

I plained.

ARE READY TO WORK ON PROJECT

. D. Mitchell and .1. \. Yauger, Two Of the Largest Stockboldcrs. Were At the Site Monday—Are Now Boring to Find Stone Deposits— Other Land Purchased From David Houck.

Plans for extensive improvement of the stone quarries on the Glide- < ell farm, just west of town, which was purchased from the Glldewell estate a few weeks ago by C. I). Mithell. .1. A. Yauger and several others are being made. Last week the company was Incorporated in Indianapolis under the name of the Indiana k Ohio Stone Company. The company is incorporated for $511,000. No officers were named in the incorporation papers. Since buying the Glldewell farm, the company has purchased 25 acres which adjoins the Glidewell farm on the n rth. from David Houck. The company now has men at work drilling ami testing tne stone. Tin location of the crushers will be detern ned from the results of these • sts. u is -aid unit when completed the new company will have one of the largest and most up-to-date stone crushing plants in the state.

Palmer el al, land sale; sale reported The Democrats filed a demurrer and approved. Deed reported, sale I also to the first parr-.-uph of the

PlEAOS GUILTY TO ASSAULT

COF'CiTIOft VERY SERIOUS STILL

Cyclone or Tornado.

The storm at Fillmore this morning was distinctly cyclonic in its

L! r w .-t of Fillmore and did I f ' hara <' ter ' ThP fyclone is a wind U ; ,. ,h e -own .storm with a circular motion, the f Thone and telepraph wires greatest intensity at the center | ; vn down as the storm swept ' 1 decided lifting motion ’ m and details of the affair ! is always funnel shaped. A tornado extremely hard to secure. is usually formed by the meeting of

‘two storms at le.-s than a light angle. ! The two then unite and move forward in a line that is the resultant of

and

The cloud

Mi u saw Niorm Approach. i.n Voldt-raner, motorman

I . and Bert Walden, eon-

interurban freight car.

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comes a good description

the force of the two storm clouds, i There Is no rotary m tiou iu the tornado. and Its fore crushing rather

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1 it town when the* motor- \OTKS OP THf

"innel shaped cloud ap- Jacob Fogle, was driving n. s ingle J* ■ ■ • ’‘- from the southwest. His horse near the farm ol Wgltei Cool p ' time was directly In the er. southeast of town, v hen the wind

Realizln - his 8tr " 1 hlm - Hm "' - * : : "" 1 ' 1

I , , W. • -Wi.n file:, t (I and ovei | : on fu.l speed and I turned. Fogle was curried to the • of Walt. , Cooper, but proved

• the other members of the to be uninjured

James Humphries, of Cloverdale, met with a serious and painful accident on Friday afternoon. Mr. Humphries was engaged, with several others, in butchering hogs. A large kettle of water had been heated for the purpose, and Humphries, in some manner stumbled and fell iuto the kettle, it overturned upon the unfart,mate man, making the burns even worn As It is his leg and side are terribly injured, and his condi- • on is considered very serious. At ten i'l l i k Saturday he had improved but little, and was suffering ■rtenvely.

:■ 'h"y had escaped, had a • i "Pi ortunity to view the i:, "V saw it approach in a ‘ from the southwest ami ?:-at speed. The tail of • V0 "Id strike the earth with

Walter Cooper los- more than two hundred shocks of corn fodder. It had just been shucked and tin wind

cleaned the field.

The general course of the storm was from southwevi to northeast. |i began not far from tin Deer Creek crossing of the Cloverdcle road and

: im-' up anything it happen- extended beyond DHmar.

F s WEY OF CLAY CO. t’:

Hud veuued from

that county. There have neon a

considerable number of cases extend-

jing back over a number of years. Th<’

pu- Sends niu Mf , n most notable and most expensive nisi

that has thua far come from Clay for trial here Is the Benjamin Simpson forgery ease, which cost the people of that county the sum of $1,046.85. The total amount of the costs of the cases thus far tried $2,106. A number of cases are yet for trial, notably some twenty cases for damages against the Vandalia Coal Company of Clay County. These costs, however, will not come in until next

year.

'■ H<t,‘ I nun ttur Neighbor ih - West, Amounting to

0oo 'H.v Mint.

|°E fOR THE CASES TRIED

Moffett last Monday filed

against Clay County

' (| sts of the cases tried in

THE REWARD iS NOW $300

c ( ly council tit its meeting Tuesday voted to aid $100 tt> the $l(in i flered Py the interurban company and ti c $100 offered by the County Con in■oners for the apprehension of the murderer of night interurban agent Hendren, who was shot to death while on duly at the station one night several weeks ago. This makes the total reward $300.

STORM WAS VERY GENERAL

confirmed and cause stricken from

the docket.

R. Benton Johnson, Admr. with will annexed of Emily Johnson, deceased, petition to sell real estate; land ordered soid at public -ale with

four weeks' notice. H. B. Lynch ap- j v jqi ng (or

pointed to sell. Bond in sum of !

$6,000.

Lee Firestone, Admr. of estate of James. Bressla.' vs. Kichard Presslar, 1 petition to sell real estate; Frank j Presslar called and defaulted, answers of other heirs filed. Sale order- ; ed at private sale without notice. The State of Indiana, E.\ Rel, Arthur L. Evans vs. The Warren Township Advisory Board, cause dismissed State of Inuiana, Ex Rel, Jefferson D. Rader Trustee and Jackson Huffman vs. Ed. L. Herbert, a member of the Advisory Board, cause dismissed. Monday morning trial was begun in the case of Hannah Hadley against the C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad. The case is one in which the plaintiff asks damages for Injury to property resulting from the cutting of the grade for the newly laid out line of the Big Four. A jury was tern red this morning and the trial Is going forward. It is likely to continue for

seviral days.

Last Monday the case of the C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad against H ina Hadley was redocketed after hav ug been off the docket for a yea: or more. It was a condemnation suit in which the railroad secured eehain land for its right of way. Later Jt was discovered that a portion of the land secured was not covered by the complaint, and for this reaton the ca.-'' is. again placed on the ducket. Motion was made to file an amended complaint and it was overrule;!.

plea, and it is on it that the case will

<> decided. The paragraph takes tin 1 |j|.,ke \p|ieiiis

position that the law as to the recounts, pasoed in 1S81. had been repealed and did not refer to voting machines. Mr. Bingham, in arguing this, tc"k the .--.and bat the law pro-

tic Vtstralian allot,

Before the

Mayor, is I'lrund Guilty and is Fined ski.-, ln«l Cost-. \mounting to

885.

th c mi END OF A SATURDAY NIGHT RGW

Tuesday’s rain and wind was quite general < < :• the state. From one to two imhes of water fell in the various counties. High winds were felt In many places and storms of cycloid, intensity were experienced in Putnam County and Grant County. Damage was done in other sections of the state. The rain has benefltted wheat, though A is still a question whether, coming thus late the rain will enable Indiana farmers to make a wheat crop. The streams have not, as yet, been affected greatly. The ground was so dry that most of the rainfall was absorbed at once.

law. passed twelve years later, ..' Mi repealed the recount law by !mpBcptijn. Against him In his position were both the Democratic candidates for state offices and the Republican candldates for county offices. John M. Weaver and Mr. Moores spoke for the local Republicans. Mr. Weaver argued that a law not pertaining to the precise purpose of another law did not r“peal the older law and that there fore, the Australian ballot law and the voting machine law, not touching upon the subject of contests or recounts, did not affect the law of

1881.

V.r. Moores among other things. u ■ ! on Mie fa -t that the law of l 11- a- not inapidica! le to voting maci :nes, and that since it had not actus;!;.’ been repealed it was still to be adhered to. He called attention to the fact that a contest where voting machines are need is even more effective than a contest under the Australian ballot law, which provides that the uncontested ballots shall be burned, because after the vote is taken on the machine it stands there. He suggested, too that the Legislature must have had something in mind when the provision was made in the voting machine law that the machines should be left for thirty days .without change. Some of the candidates suggested when Mr. Bingham asked for a postponement until Friday because he | said !;• felt it hi- duty to go to AnANQTHER CASE FROM HENDRICKS | the monument there tomorrow, tha -

Final Sett lenient of t!>e Estate of at the storage pin • x ..• tiUliui’les A. Palmer < sum's to Put- bines a: ■ ept. Th* In .:! R‘ , i.nam Oountjr on a < ' ange of Venae 1 can and Dei locrat

Bingham said, however that the law did not provide for such watchers and that the candidates could do as

At 2 o'clock Friday afternoon Homer Blake, charged with assault and batter! upon Edward Siddons, was b» f ir Mayor Hays. Edward Siddons appeared as the prosecuting witness, together with members of his family. After hearing the testimony of the witnesses the Mayor found the defendant guilty and assessed a fine of $25 and costs amounting to $35. The fine was stayed. The trouble occurred last Saturday night. Henry Blake gave Siddons a dozen bottles of beer to take to Blake's home. Siddons started but failed to find the right house and W"nt home and to bed, leaving the beer in the yard. About 12 o’clock Homer B’.ake appeared on the scene and demanded to see Siddons. lie was called by his sister and at length appeared on the porch. After some words Blake struck him and Siddons was rendered unconscious. He still beais the marks of the severe treatment he received.

A case involving the final settle- | ment of the estate of Charles A. Palmer was today brought to Pjtnam County on change of venu< from Hendricks. It appears that th* eels te brought suit to recover lamages for the death of the deceased. That two law firms were attorneys f or the estate, and that they were paid as follows: to John F Neal $250; to Doan and Orbison $S7D. To

they pleased about hiring them, dianapolis Star.

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The Program Committee of the Putnam County Farmers Institute will meet Saturday, November 28. at 1:30 o’clock in the assembly room of the court house.

RUSH AT CLERK'S OFFICE

!»i\ ViitTk.ge Li'ciise- Are Issued 3!>d One \Y< tiding Ceremony is l'< t; fined Tiler During the Day.

It was a rushing day at the office of Mie Circuit Clerk. Seemingly a k;”g- i: ’.mher of Putnam Count'y vi mg people arrived at the decision lo marry at the same time and yesterday afternoon and today eight licenses were granted to would-be wedded ones. When the clerk was not ssuing marriagi licenses he was wi ting ou! papers for those who des r< to spend Thanksgiving in pur- - ;it of th* feetive rabbit and coy q rail. So between the hunters of game and the hunters of falicity the office was crowded most of the time. In addition to the issuing of the licenses one wedding was performed in the office. Harry L. Fall and Eva R Anderson were united in marriage the Rev. Smith of Roachdale officiating.