Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 29, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 May 1889 — Page 1

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iMaiv.Sii,-towidks,. ages I 14 ' Well' worth '2$ per ceeit mbre. BOFS SUITS, AGES 14 TO IS, AT $3 00 AND UPWARDS, , CAN'T BE DUPLICATED: SOME OF THESE AT $3.50 AND $4.50 JUST RECEIVED, AND SOLD FOR THAN THE CLOTH COSTS TO MAKE THEM.

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A sad story conies from the very quiet lStle village of EUettsvillc, this county. A story 'shocking in its detail?., unfit to print in language of plain ternis,yetthe public appetite te for sensations is such thai nine-tenths of the people wjuld denounce a newspaper that, would fail to print a story of the kind. The chief actor in this drama of

real life was Ad die Branam, a girl 18 years of age who had been engaged as a domestic it the Whitesell House; of EUettsville, for the past year. She was an orphan girl, and had to woik for her own living She came with her mother from Worthington, and they had about $1,000, the proceeds of the sale of a house and lot they had in that town. The money was invested in business in EUettsvillc, and soon lost, and the mother shortly after died. Addie was a w ay ward girl, and for severaf years past her character in the neighborhood hr s beca questionable, to say the least. Some three or four years ago, it is said, she was in just such a scrape as this one, only the physician's treatment was by the aid of medicines only. A certain family now living near Ellettsvilie had to pay

from four to six hundred dollars for that trouble. In the present case there are several young men implicated, but, it is said, that the girl accused Bert Butler with being the author of her trouble, and it is supposed that the others in the case were there to help him out,thdr relations with the girl probably being such as to cause them to fear that the accusation might fall on either of them. The girl being in such a condition that a short time was certain to bring about exposure, it is likely that with the past experience site had, she suggested that medical aid be summoned. At all events,

some of the young men went over

to Spencer one day last week and

found a ready tool in the person of

Dr. jjinllxuix, a physician whom, It

seems, was ready to go into the

murder business for the pitiful sum

of $25. The Doctor braced himself

up with liquor and so did the young men. Last Wednesday sight in an old barn, one-ha'f mile West of the town, a surgical operatic n was performed upon the girl. She then returned to town, and weYit to the

louse of a lady friend. On Friday

morning,in an out-housc,t-he mangl

ed remains of a child were brought

into the world, it haying progressed about three months toward maturi

ty.' Dr. W bitted was called in and o him the girl related the whole

story. Warrants were issued xor

several voting men and J. S.Brown,

of -Ellettsvilie. came to this town

Friday to arrest Butler and Braxton,

who lived here, but another young

man implicated, Fred Owens, had

been here and warned them and they had left the country. So the only two arrested were Owens and

Beecher Figg, who gave bail of $1,-

000 each for trial on May 20th, the

girl being unable to apyear before

that time. It is said that after

AND LOTS OF BLUE RIBKOHtf FLUNG.

EVERYBODY SWEARING OFF.

BIG MEETINGS NOW IN PRO-GRKSS.

AY. J. Murphy a noted temperance revivalist, end son of Francis Murphy, arrived in this city Tuesday and ;it nigh4; began u series o meetings to last all the week. Sir. Murphy "nad no sooner stepped oil

the cars than he beiran his work

shaking hands right and left with everybody around and inviting them to come to his meeting. On his way up town he passed a number of "the boyu," and he invited them to "come to-night and take

somcthiro with me. The Court;.

house would not hold the people

night, so the meeting was moved to the Christian Church, which was soon packed with an eager multitude. It took but a short time for a Blooinington audience to add its endorsement to the hundreds of others as to Mr. Murphy's power as a temperance advocate he soon had ninety per cent, of that large crowd vith him. and at the close of

i t , ih- to supply the town. The v feel very an e oouent and convincing talk 11 - J

assistants could not tie on th blue ribbons fast enough nearly B00

PUMPING THE PEOPLE FOR SOM.E'1 H1KG TO PR! .NT.

- The Courisr pumper selected Mr. W. W. "Wicks as a victim, to get some information for the public in regit: d to the gas well :Mr.Wicfcs said the company was simply waiting on the contractors to go on with the work. An assessment of 30 per cent on the capital stock and been made and raid iu,and another assessment of 20 per cent, ordered. The company has a good bond from the contractor, ud the work was to have begun last month, but they claim the delay vas caused by their inability to sjet s. car, at New Albany, on which L load the machinery. The frame tower, IK feet high,

j has been erected and ih-a uiaohin- ! AMrivn1 W rr. x- Antic I ? nif'!L

man is interested m the contract, and P. G. Pauley, of this city, is one of the bondsmen. Mr. Wicks said if the Salem well was only half as good as reported, it would be a good thing, and such a wsli here,to begin with, won d be very satisfactory. If the company got any gas at all by their first well they would keep on until they got enough wells

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The fair premium list is now in

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Sirs. -Prudence Arnott has returned home to spend her summer Yaeation. '

The Knights of Pythias worked in the amplified second rank last Friday night. The fellow who wants to know, It hot enough lor you?" ia put of winter quarters. John M. McGee is at home. -He expects. to, move to Marion, Ohio, Where he will go into businessi

; The enterprising Eagle Clothing Store distributed a number of caps, free, among , the school boys, last Wednesday. The old reliable and popular Comer Clothing, Store has a big ad. fQttbia paper; and-the bargains offered by H. T. Simmons and his

assistants are bigger still. They j

are always aitw to the, people's wants. . ' .The Iron and 'Steel . Hoofing factory of Seward and Nool is crowded with orders Jor spri ag

Pearl, a daughter of Kath. Stock-

well, is down with a severe attack

of rheumatism.

sits, i-rncy bcnuilz, -ox xexas, a

cousin of John K-. Anderson, is here

to spend the summer.

Hon. H,C.Duacan and bis daughter Antoinette, returned from

Washington City last Mondy.

Mrs. J. G. Mclrheeters attended

the funeral of her. uncle, C. W. Bar

ber,.' in Ter re Haute, Wednesday.

The fa:r.ily of Fred Apgar ac

companied by Miss Julia Clark are spending the week at Eel River

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people went home that night with temperance colors flying and a card pledge in their pockets. Wednosnight the meeting was held in a large unfinished room in the second story of James

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very kindly donated the use of the room free of charge. An electric light was put in and the M. E. Church, and Opera House furnished about 500 chairs. Over 600 people vere in the room by 7:30 o'clock. Those who donued the blue ribbon were numerous, but not so many as th first night. Another large meeting was held Thursday night, and fc jey will be continued all week. Of course those who sign the pledge are principally women and uhildand men who never drink, but oc-

isioaaly a man addicted to drink Chairman, and communication will

has "swore off1' on a Murphy card, immediately beheld with IheMonon

and the meetings will do much good. PP'- Aiupie assiscance win uu

oiicrca me company, ana every eifprfc w ill be made to have the line extended so as to shorten the distance as now proposed. The gentleman said he considered the above simply a "bluff" for I he Pennsylvania road with which the Monon is competing for Chicago and Louisville business. The Monon can take passengers through between Louisville and Chicago as quick as the Pennsylvania line can via Indianapolis, so what use would a line from Indianapolis to Louisvi.ie be unless it was for tratlic bethose two chies. If the Monon really wants to build a line between those two cities, they certainly do not want to st rike the same towns as the Louiuvilie branch of the

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BUT WE SCARED 'EM HALF TO DEATH.

THE CITY ELECTION,

returned fram Riverside, California, last Monday. The Monon will soon put three naw Pullman 'sleepers on the Louisville and Chicago run.

The wife of Buck Hicks, on Robert's Creek, in the edge of Monroe count', has been declared insane and sent to the asylum at Indianapolis. She was in ill health

about a year before her dementia

committing the dastardly deed the ieVeloped. Martinsville Gazette.

The L., N. A. & C. people state

that they will have the Louisville Southern extension completed to Lexington, Ky., by August 1, 1880. A grocer from near Blooinington was in town, yesterday, and took out with him a wagon load of groceries. He said he reads The Republican, and as the merchants here advertise, he comes here to do bis trading, instead' of Bloomington or other places nearer to him.

LarUnsyiUe RepubcaK.

Doctor eame to this place with some

of the young men, and lay drunk

here all day. He left that evening, and since then nothing has beer; heard of him. Words are not strong' onough to condemn the deed and the men connected with it, and the girl is far from blameless, when her past life is considered. She voluntarily sought the company of these young men, as well as others, and was recognized about Ellettsvilie as a girl of highly loose morals. At last accounts the girl was improving fast, and will probably be fulty recovered in time for the -ferial on the 20th.

Hon. John W. Buskirk, of this city, has been secured to defend Owens, and an attorney from Spencer, J. B. Williams, will defend Figg. All are young men of respectable parents, and in printing

this, as a matter of news, wa have spared the accused ones, to a great extent, only on account of the other hearts that ache, The owners of t'ue City Hall at Bedford after a carefuil

investigation into tbe merits of

the different knids of Metal Roofing in the market gave tbe preference to Noel's Improved

Steel Roofing made by Bo ward &

"Turn the rascals out V1 We like the candor of the "Bloomington Telephone" :m this demand. It "hopes that Sir. Chambers, the new Republican U, S, Attorney, will dismiss the last one of the election in dictments now pending." "An honest confession," &e. Martinsville Gazette.

hopeiul since the .success of the Salem well, because if there is gas there, there no reason -whj' gas should not be found here. When strong indications of gas are found, the well will be shot with dynamite. A gentleman who lias had experience in railroad matters handed the GouiUiJS the fallowing newspaper item which is groins the rounds. The new proj ct of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago It, li., known as the SJ haomBoiite to build an air line branch of their road from New Albany to Indianapolis, is attracting the greatest attention from the residents along the line, and the company is being petitioned to at once carry out its project. At Seymour, Ind., Thursday night, the citizens held an important meeting in the interest of the pro nrt&tvl fh an?? A r.n?mm!.t.te Wsa

appointed to represent the people.J . It is reported that there was an

with Hon. Jason 15, Brown as its election in town last Tuesday, but

the information comes mostly from a Republican source. Wo would doubt it were it not 'for the fact that we saw numerousfV(?arriage.i flying about town, and several person enerased in mustering" blocks of five." It is also said that the Democrats had a ticket in the field, but it flopped about without any head, and it seemed to be a case of every man for himself, and the d , we man the Republicans for all. Those who were on the Democratic ticket made good fights, and succeeded in scaring the Republicans so bacily that

they wildly dashed about to get out a full vote. The Democrats had no candidate for Mayor. The Republican majority in town is usually about 250. On last Tuesday, the majority vas 218 for J. Hunter for treasurer ; 201 for Geo. Owen for Marshall; 20G forR.G. Greeves for Clerk. In tl e First Wjird. Jav

Gil more, for Councilman, cnt the usual Republican majority of 80 down to 40, and J, H. Pedder was beaten by only 32 in the Third Ward. The Republican candidate for Mayor, M. M. Dunlap, had no opposition, nor did BonjamLu VosS Councilman in the Second Ward. There was a prohibition ticket in the field but it polled only a few votes. The following is the vote by Wards:

1st 2nd 3rd 173 171 172 28 10 48

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Bakery, ConfectiGiiary) Iiun'ch Boom.

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Fresh Oysters in . OAlf oisBULK.

BAKING DONE EVERY DAY

Oysters, Hot Coffee and LuocK at all hours.

All ray old customers and iw arc respectfully invited to call.

College Avonue.

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W. IT. Snoddy has moved to his own farm, ore mile from town. He has lived oa a rented farm on Moore's creei since 1865, and during that time the farm changed owners four 'arae, and last fall it

was sold to I). L. Grove from Kansas. Snoddy has paid twice as much in rent as the land is worth, and after so long a time has very sensibly concluded to get a farm of his own, which many, other renters might do, if they had the determination. . Charley McPheeters wants to sell you your groceries. Give him a trial. Always a full stock of fresh groceries, at Whitaker's, Duvand Block.

ton. If they did buiid the line the newspaper article talks ofrat would not leave Bloomington with nothing

but-a local road, for t he Pennsyl

vania would j imp right in and build a road from Bloomington to Gosport and thus give a short and direct line, via I. & V., to Indianapolis, which would take from the Monon all of Monroe county's freight and passenges traffic for Indianapolis and the East. It is very likely that this line will be built, anyhow, within thj next two years. We are all broke up, said a Republican politician, over the blue

outlook for getting any of the offices to be dealt out by the present administration. The d legation just returned from Washington brought us no encouragement. Tus town, all the department headquarters and even the White House are swarmed with men seeking office,so that it is impossible to .get in to speak a word. Then the boys are

kicking because almost everything worth having requires that the applicant shall pass a civil service examination and answer such questions as what is the ditto ranee in pound of pressure to the square inch between air and steam, and lots of other such d n nonsense. The prospects look now as if there wouldn't bes a man in Monroe county that will get a government job. We are "going to keep hammering away though, and I know there will be no let up to Clay Duncan's efforts for the boys, and Nat Hill, too, will do what he can to keep the boys from going empty handed.

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of Frankfort, Ind., have opened a Brunch House at Bloomington, Ind., lor the purpose of buying

Take your country produce to Charley MoPhQetoi's'jQroeYCg' i-d- staadv

It will pay to trade at W hit a ke v $ gro rco ry . Dura u d

For Mayor Dunlap Scattering, For Treasurer Hunter, Ryors, For Clerk Greeves, Hail, For Marshal Owen. Kennedy.

168 73 160 72 163 U

156 50 169 43 152 50

153 133 172 1X7 154 135

For Councilman, Henry Alexander got 40 majority in the First Ward, Ben Voss 247 in Second, and Frank Dobson 33 in Third. The Prohibition candidate for Mayor received a total of 44 in all the Wards.

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Lowest prices and best goods always at Whitaker's grocery. Go and have your eyes tested by II. P. -T onriier, as he guarantees satisiactio Rt, aiiu bus the very best of scientific instruments. The largest and most complete line of opticial goods in the city can be found at his place. Remember, eyes tested free. The latest designs in Jewelry, also watches, silverware, &c, can always be found om door Bust Bank,-

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EGGS and POULTKI.

They will at all times pay the Highest Cash Price. Mr. J. B. Dillmau will conduct the business for them, f tore Hour o will be the same old stand- that Mr. Dillmau has formerly occupied, near the Depot. It would be to the interest of every farmer in Monroe county to call and get instructions' about raising capons for the coming season as they wilt pay him more than double the profit of anything else he could r iso. H, St'SS0NBBB&3B & CO., ; Bloomington, Ind;

Groceries delivered free aud prompt, by M. Whitaker.

Durand Block. You can save from 10 to 20 per cent, by buying your earpets at the Banner. Remember that Charley McPheeters, formerly in ' the diardware business, is now proprietor of the Greeves corner grace rV v.' here he wUl.be pleased to see his old customer, aftd a diost of new ones-

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and Qualities. . have rt Special bargain ifc a Bliatsfef: all wool Corl? Ser suip . which I warra a t tliie 6olof Pricfe $6;00 ifc iuifc whicli J myself and all others haVe been goSing from 17.50' ;

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