Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 17, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 February 1889 — Page 1

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16. 1889.

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Mrs. Nat U. Hill is visiting in Cincinnati.

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$10,000

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J- Judge Mavity, of Paoii, Tas ati tending court this week? ? Mrs, Walter Lindiey is visiting her parents in Indianapolis. I . George Riley has gone with "the Ennor Comedy Co. as assistant to s the manager. j.

i J, N. Alexander ana wife have v visiting Capt.Prank Feeaad family,

at, Greencastle?

VICTIM SUES FOR DAMAGES.

WILLIAM NORMAN'S TERRI

JBLE BEATING.

DRAGGED FROM HIS HOME

A R MIDNIGHT,

AND FLOGGED IN PRESENCE

OF II lb WIFE AND . . DAUGIITEHS;

THE THRILLING STORY TOLD

IN COURT. .

' . Wasmngton s Dirtauay, next unlay Fellow citizen s and pa t riots, fthail we celebrate?.

platedood as new. Wall sell at a j j. bargain. Inquire at thi office. ' There will be a supper at the Walnut-Street Presbyterian church on the night of Washington's birth,-

TRYING TO FIX THE GUILT

ON HIS NEIGHBORS.

FULL PARTICULARS OF AN

lNtgiiTING

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- Frank Arnott, son of Mrs. H. P: ,Arnott of this city, was recently married at Greenup, 111., to Miss -Laura Adams.

Mrs. Mary A. Duncan, of Bedford is a guest at the residence of

Bon. H; C. Duncan, on jWest KirfcVwood avenue. : Mrs. Enoch Fuller left the city last week for Summerfield, Ohio, to attend.the f anervi; of her mother, ' Who died at the advanced age of 82 years. A hog case was sent to court from ? Polk township. A maa stole a hog and killed it, and the Justice who bound the man over sent in the dead liog as evidence in the ;ase. : The Knights of Pythias Xnnivcrsary will be celebrated next Tuesday. There will be a street parade in the afternoon by the ' Uniform Sank, and a social, dance k and supper at night.

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I The Al. Ennor Comedy Co.closed a season of eight nights in this city on last Tuesday nighWj It was the , most successful engagement,financii ally, ever played' by a dramatic company in this city. - r Last Friday night the residence -of- William Elsjnaynear Ilindostan, was destroyed by fire. ' The family was visiting in -ih'e neighborhood at the time. It is said that the loss V will reach about $800? with no in- - aurance. Nothing was saved.

The property South of town on the West-South pike, formerly ownd by C. B. Purdue bat more re- - cently by Peter Bowman, has been purchased by Henry Gentry. There is a good house and ' 29 acres of ground. r The, price paid waa $2,KGTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.

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There will be a meting of stockliolders of Big- Creek Stone Co., of t Stinesville, on Monday Jf areh 4th, J 7 p. m., at Bloomington, Ind., in the office of Miers & Corr for the election of nine directors and other r important business.

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Mr. Lew Warner, ef the Ennor 5o.- is. truly a versatile performer. From: irish and negro charcters, r JUid'other low comedy parts, to the aolemn Dr. Jekyell and the terrible -Jfr.Hyde, is a broad stretch, but

. Mr. Warner is equal to the task.

His interpretation of the dual role is excellent, and his -rendition of it 4nblime and terrible. There were

Si Unity XUUiCB WlliU mia6I Bg.-,UCl CO, I ; in the city, after seeing Warner's ; : V Bev. H. V. Givler,.pastor of Trin- - ity Mi E. Church, occupied the pul-

, pit at Centenary church Sunday forenoon.His topio was:" Religion t in the family; and the sermon was one that could be repeated with profa it three or four times a year in ail the Protestant churches of the city. It was replete with plain truths and .gave the key to the-deterioration in many of the churches, particularly , to the departure from religious principles of so many of the sons and

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rr' ' - j.set for here in this court, parents. The dUseonrse was intensely - . wrr 4u .. . . v Lcamevin my south jara g

interesting , irom iirsu to ips anu many of the statements of the able

minister intensely" startling. He held that the foundation of religious character was laid in trie family and not in the church, and that parents were responsible, largely, if not entirely for the departure of their children from religious beliefs and practice. New Albany Ledger. ' -rMr. Berry man is in charge of the delivery at Smith & Son's grocery.1 Gooda,: delivered .free

The noted Polk township White

Cap case was called in the Circuit

Court last .Monday,. 'and both sides were read or trial.The case is a suit

for $10,000 damages by Wm Nor

man against the following citizens

of Polk township : Win. Norman, Margnis Reed, Isaac Bon ham, J ohn Norman, John Carson, Hezikiah NormanJ Eli Souders, Jas II. Ragsdale, Frank Norman, Isaac Sipes, Jr.. and Wm. Staekleather. Norman claims that on the night of the first of last May these defendants came to his house in the

dead hour of night and forced him lout of doors and gave him a whipping, from the elfects of which he did not recover for several weeks. It was not hard to get a jury, and the following panel was soon selected: R. W. Farmer, Thos Kilpatrick, A. J. Robinson, Jos. Lindsey, Wm. Lee, J. L. Dowden, Wm. Nunn, P. O. Butcher, T. J. Bates, Thos. Brown, I. Milt. Rogers and Jasper Myers. The plaintiff first took the stand and told his story, which in substance, was as follows: One of the front doors of Normals residence at about mid-night was broken open and the crowd of some dozen or fifteen rushed into the front room in which Norman and his wife were sleeping. He was dragged out of bed across the foot

board, and dragged some 200 yards

to a tiee and while held by two of the lynchers unmercifully beaten, not with switches but clubs and boards. His wife was compelled to witness the frightful scourging. During a portion of the punishment the daughters and the son also either heard or witnessed the cowardly pounding. One of the daughters Miss Lizzie, in her fright, ran off into the woods, in her night clothes, to the head of a hollow, where she fell upon a pile of brush, and in great terror remained there until the crime was all over, and the guilty party had ran away. Contradictions of the plaintiffs story are said to be found in the tracks of the horses and a mule,and in the conduct, action, and whereabouts of certain ones of the dependents. -- In brief, the salient points of Mr. Wm, Norman's evidence are a3 follows: Have known Mr. Reed, the defendant, some 10 or 15 years; have known Mr. Bonham 8 or 10 years; have known Marshall Norman all his life. I expect I have known John Carson ever since he was a little boy; have known Hezikiah Norman all my life, I reckon ;

have known Souders 10 or 15 years; have known Ragsdale ever since he was a boy ; have known Frank Norman all his life, and I expect! have known Stockleather 5 or 10 years. The ptai-ntin!' testified to a" sort of kinship between himself aud Some of the defendants,and to a relationship running, in some form, near or remote, all through the defendants. Coming down to about the time of the whipping he said : After certain litigation a year or so ago my half brother, Hezikiah, one of the

defendants, and I have not been very friendly. Shortly before the time set for a trial between me and my brother Hezikiah, growing out of the first litigation last spring,

about two weeks before that, some persons came to my house, the night before the time that trial was first

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iffirst intimation of their coming was

my dog barking. I raised up in my bed where I was sleeping with my wife and- locked out. the window and -saw six men, two on each side of one of my front doors and two at the gate. They had clubs in their hands. I raised the window and

stuck my head out, this was one o'clock or after in the night. I never recognized any of them hut my half brother, Hezikiah Norm am. He spoke and said : "Ho d on he is up 1"

away. They had come up on my steps with clubs in their bauds aud said: "Can we stay all night?" I said "No, sir," They then asked the way to Bloomington and ran out. Next morning we found clubs, and leather platted together, about the yard, hickory and black walnut clubs and sticks, and a piece of plank. Next day I came here to town and found my case had been set down for another day, the following Thursday, On the night of

Last Thursday the postofSce clerks handled over 500 valentines.

A new assistant in the prepara

tory department Master aged 3 days.

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John R. Brill attended church at Gosport last Sunday. At least ho spent that day in what he considered a divine presence. It is expected that Senator G. W. A 1 Cord will fill the pulpit at the Christian Church on next Sunday,

Tuesday before that Thursday J Feb. 17th. Ail v are invited to hew

somebody came to my house again.

They broke open my door,, c ime in

a rush, knocked over the stove,shot

and broke the lamp ; jerked me over

the foot of the bed,out of doors,outside the yard, jerked off my drawers

leaving me with nothing .&ja but a

shirt f heldme and caught my family; brought my wife along with me end at some distance they stopped. Mark Reed said, "hold on this is

far enough." They were partly

masked ; two held me and the others whipped me. Ragsdale and another

had been holding me during this

time. Beat me with clucts xroin tne small of my back to my heels, was perfectly black; had to lie on my

face, was., bed-fast three weeks, and

lave been able to do no work since.I

was hit across the breast and have

it. I had been

blind-folded; they turned me loose.

I asked them to take off the hand

kerchief, but told me they would

ill me if I looked. I was notified

by Reed and Carson not to appear

in court against Hez. Nor in an. I

ecognized the voices of the defend

ants. These men went oil in di

rection of their homes. None of

these defendants came to visit me

while I was sick. Just awhile be-

ore this attack Frank Norman

came to my house the first time in

wo years. We were in bed when

ne came, uarson toia me aicer tue

whipping that if I proved he was in

he crowd that whipped me,I would

never prove it on another. It was about I o'clock when the whipping

was done.

The moon was shining so that

Norman had no difficulty in recog

nizing the defendants. 'The whip

ping was kept up for a long time,

they being-present at the house for

fully au hour. They went off toward Heltonsville, the direction most of the defendants lived. The son

recognized John Carson that night,

and pointed him out in Court,as he did also Marshall Norman. The daughters also recognized Marshall Norman aud John Carson, and the scene in Court was quite dramatic when they pointed out the men. Wm. Oliver said he recognized four men on the road at 9 o'clock on the night of the outrage upon Norman, and that the next day he tracked the horses to Norman's and part of the way back again to their home. Wm. Murphy followed and testified that on the night of the assault he was waked up by Norman's son, and went over where they were whipping Norman, and recognized three of the defendants. "The moon was shining and 1 could see plainly," he said. "I found Norman's

eighteen-year-old daughter, Lizzie, trying to crawl under the house,and when I spoke to her she came and begged my protection and I took her to my house. After the whipping I examined Normans back arid found it black down to his heels." Cornelius Norman, brother of prosecuting witness, stated that the crowd, after the whipping, came down to his house where his mother lives and threatened to whip her also. The principal part of the defense was testimony tending to prove an alibi, Each of the defendants swore that they had nothing to do with the whipping, and gave an account of their whereabouts on that night.

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Wm Lucas, charged with stealing a package on the cars, from Conductor Grafton, was acquitted in the Circuit Court. He was defended by R. A. Fulic. '"" The mail for Uuionville and

Fleener now goes three times a week Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays at 2 p. ra. Arrives at 12:30, noon, on the same days. Beach & Bowers Minstrels will be here March 16th. This. js an

immense' show, and standing room in the Opera House will be at a premium on that night. W. J. Turner has purchased the stock of dry goods from Turner & Buzzard, and is going to close it out a wholesale prices. This is no humbug, but a positive closing out sale as the stack must be turned into money at ouce. Comrade: You are respectfully invited to attend the 15th Reunion of the Veterans of the Mexican War, to be held at the City of Indianapolis, Thu rsday, February 21, 2889, at the Agricultural Rooms, State House.

The various Missionary societies connected with the Walnut-Street Presbyterian Church will hold a Praise meeting, Tuesday evening, Feb. 19th in the church at? o'clock. The exercises will consist of music, recitations, &c. The public is cordially invited to attend. 4 All the active professors in the University but live have signed the call for a Tariff Reform convention in Indianapolis on March 4th, the object, of the convention being to organize a State Tariff Reform League. The professors who have signed the call are: Profs. Jordan, Atwater, Van kuys, Clark, Hoffman, Von Jagemau, Dahney, Woodford, Karsten, Osthaus,Miter,Campbell, Kingsley, and Gunn. An old citizen says he remembers just such a winter as this in 1828. Farmers came in without overcoats and frequently ifS thcirjshirt sleeves up to the first of Febuary, but that day it got colder than an3rof us ever saw it. The Ohio river suddenly froze over. It was at a time when emigrants had just started west, and a number of these while going through Illinois were ; rozen to death aud their oxen frozen stiff in their 3'okes as they were driven along the road.

Mr. Ragsdale' a merchant at Heltonville, introduced testimony to show that he had not been out of nights for years, and in that respect proved himself to be a model husband. Testimony was also introduced to, show that Win Norman, the plaintiff, and his wife were persons of bad character, and iu that the defense called a number of citi1 zens of Bloomington. The evidence was all in and Friday morning the arguments were

begun. A verdict is not expected before Saturday evening, if then. Norman made a good case up to the close of his testimony, but the defense made a pretty good alibi, and have, no doubt, at least so confused the case that the jury will disagree, if they dont acquit, It may be however, that they will convict s unc of the defendants, but not all of them. The following are the attorneys employed in the caserForthe plaintiff, Miers & Corr. and East & East and Duncan & Batman. For the defence, Buskirk & Bnskirk,- Louden

No Invitation is necessary to admit any Knight of Pythias to Ball or Supper. All others must present Invitations to obtain admission. Anyone desiring Invitations for friends should call on C. R.Worrail chairman of committee. Tickets, Ball and Supper, $1.00; special rates at Ball room door to all Knights, supper free to all Knights. Tickets on sale at usual places and at the door. T he Public is invited to the Literary and Musical exercises at K. of P. Hail at 7 p. m. Hnry Gentry's exhibition of trained dogs, bigger and better than ever, will be at the Opera House the latter part of this month. We remember several years ago when Henry went away from his home here to go with the Morris show,and since then, by an honorable course and strict attention to business, he has met with success not equalled by many. By his gentlemanly deportment he makes friends wherever he goes, and his return to any point where he has been with his showwould be sure to meet with a royal welcome.

Rev, Stark, who formerly preached for the M. E. Church in Brown county, and who was a candidate for the Legislature last summer, is dead . W e have not the parties ! a rs It will be remembered that Mr. Stark was injured m the railroad wreck on the P., F. & M, R. R.,near Mprguntown, last Aug. Nashville Democrat.

On Friday night of last week the the members of theEnnor Comedy Co. were handsomely entertained

by -Hoik C, R. Worrall and wife at their home on East Kirk wood A v. A number of prominent persons of the city and University were c!so present; There was music, dancing and several members of the Ennor company xave some of their mfeal. specialties. The entertainment was on the order of those

given in the large cities by the Elks society. By special invitation, arid in company with Mr. Worrall, we had the pleasure of witnessing one of these entertainments at . Indianapolis last week. All highly enjoyed, themselves last Friday night, the supper being the special feature of tti6 evening. The company J:elt highly complimented by the splendid reception given them by Mr. and -Mrs, Worrall and will ever kindly remember the hoSft and hostess, as well as all tin neur-made acquaintances of the evening. The bill appropriating- $60,000 for a library building for the State pniversity at this place has passed the lower House of the legislature, aud will soon be a law. The bill was opposed by Cullen, Republican Representative, who said : This university is situated in a little town with but one railroad running through it in an obscure corner of Indiana. The only time I was ever there was when on my way to the southern prison on a visit, gen tlemen, Mr. Dolan, said he did not propose to make a long.wii.ded speech. In 1880 the main buildings were destroyed by fire. Monroe county contributed $50,000 and $3.0,000 was made up in insurance to rebuild it. Monroe may not be a very populous county, but it affords facilities for cheap living and good accommodation for students, "I am glad," he said, "that the gentleman, from Wayne came to our county, even if he was on his way to the penitentiary."

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Attention, Division Order No, 1.

"Hold on they are up 1" They went Rogers, and Moses P. Dunn.

All Sir Knights, Uniform Rink, will assemble at Armory in Full Dress on Tuesday, Feb. 19th, 1889, at 3 o'clock p. m.. to participate in Grand Street Parade in honor of Silver Anniversary K, of P. Oilicial, C. R. Won ball, .Captain. W. E. SjswabDj Recorder,

Ren C. Smith & JSon are how in the grocery business at the Dunn corner 'business, Joe Alexander's old stand, and are ready to supply their friends ami the public generally with anything in the grocery Hue. Come and trade with us, bring your produce, and we will treat you

Inman has joined the Delta Tans. Prof. Clark was imlisposed Monday. Oskias, of Prep, is the now Phi Gain. Rev. Lyons visited college Wednesday Hartlofl Suzidaycd with Greeuckstle friends. Prof, Bryan spent Satmrtay and Sunday at Indiana polish Carrie Brown is the latest addition to Independent's roll. Lee Richardson enjoyed a visit irom his mother the past we.k. U. H, Smith reported the "White Cap" case for the Telephone this week. Mat-tie Bust has quit college for this term. She will re enter nexr term. Von Buskirk has returned home -;froin Law school on account of ill health. Ella Corr who taught in this county this winter, will enter college the spring term. Dr. Jordan gave a lecture to the latin students of rep. in Owen hall on last Friday evening. Messrs Wei burn and Downey, twe Phi Gams from IePauw,visited their brothers here Saturday night The Betas with the assistance of Mr. New, of the Pres toman class, have organized a new fraternity. The D. S. B's. The lecture by Dr. John on "Religion and the Law of Continuity," was pronounced by many as the best of the course Prof. Boone delivered a lecture at Kokonvj lat Satnday evening and did not return In time to hear Ins classes Monday Dr. Jordan will deliver the lecture Sunda' afternoon. His subject is "Education upd'the State. The fact that Dr. .b rdanwiHjalk will insure large audience. Philipps, who .was called homo hut Friday by a telegram announcing the sor ious illness of UU mother, writes back that his mother died before he was able to reach home. He will return to ccdlege and graduate. with his clasa The college skeleton wasi found standing guard over Wv lie hall Monday inorring. It took 50 feet of new rope aud some scientific climbiug to get it down. Janitor Stewart ea s he knows the guilty parties and they must help to arrange the heavy stones in the cupola or they will be exposed. The anniversary exercises oti the 22nd will be given by Independent and Athenian literary societies. Miss Alice Test and llagorty will represent Independent and P. B. Alonical and Chas llhetts, Atho niau. Dr. Dabney gave a talk oti Civil Service Reform in the college chapel Tuesday afternoon with a view to securing members for the State association. Quito a number have subscribed their names aud more will follow. It costs nothing to belong to the organization and each mem

ber gets the beneilt of all the literature upon the subject.

It will pay to trade at W h i t a ker'fi gro roe ry. Dura u d Block.

Thursdays is special sales day for Gloves at W. J. Turners always great bargains.

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Remember that Charley MoPheeters, formerly in the hardware business, is now pro-: prietor of the Greeves corner gracery where he will be pleased" to see his old customer and a host of new ones.

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