The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 31, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 November 1912 — Page 1

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DEATHS OGGURRINb THE PAST WEEK Mortuary Record And Funeral Announcements Os Grim Reaper's Victims. John Bartholomew. John Bartholomew, of Milford, died after a long illness from stomach trouble He bad been a sufferer for several years and had spent much money at hospitals and underwent several operations. Deceased was 64 years of age and leaves a wife, son, and daughter. He was a brother to the late Zack Bartholomew, of Leesburg. The funeral was held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. Burnworth of Goshen and Rev. Groves officiated. David L Hoover. David L. Hoover, aged about 83 years, died last Thursday morning at 10 o’clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. D. Blough four miles west of Goshen, of the infirmities of old age. Deceased was one of the early settlers of Harrison township and was well knowffi in that section. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Blough, and a son, Samuel R. Hoover of Harrison Center, and his wife. Catherine Denning. After suffering for several months from a complication of diseases. Mrs. Catherine Denning, aged 79 years passed awsy Sunday evening at Warsaw. Mrs Denning was the widow of John Denning who died of typhoid fever during the civil war. She had lived in Warsaw for thirty years coming there from Silver Lake. Two daughters, Mrs Coffin and Mrs. Warren Smith, also of Warsaw, suivive. Civil Service Examination. Ten aspirants for Rural Mail Route service took the written examination conducted by Postmaster J. H. Miller, last Saturday, in the Neff room. They wr*e Chas £. Bowser, Roscoe Howard, Harry Culler, Leonard Rex, Walter Rex, John Gants, John Brunjes, Lawrence Dewart, Ed. Phelps, and Ralph Lung. —Th" things we show a preference for .pre the signboards by which people tell who we are and what we are. He- Mi-La candies are the choice of people who use discrimination in little things as well as big problems.

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Milo Klingaman Shot. Milo Klingaman was painfully injured last Saturday morning, by an accidental discharge of hisshet gun, while preparing to hunt ducks on Lake Wawasee. Milo and his brother, John had gone to the lake and found their boat partially filled with water. It was agreed that John should secure Will Hendrickson’s boat while Milo emptied the water out of their own. John departed on his mission and Milo after cleaning the craft reached for his gun which he had leaned on a log. In dragging the weapon towards him the hammer caught on an obstruction and was released with sufficient fore" to discharge the gun. The shot entered the hip and was deflected outward by the hip bone. He was taken to the house and ad ministered to. It is thought that the wound will not prove serious, barring the possibilites of complications. McCall’s Magazine Free. We are going to give a presen to each one of our subscribers who will pay a year or more in advance. The present is one year’s subscription to McCall’s Fashion Magazine This popular monthly is full of the latest fashions in woman’s dress and also contains interesting stories. If will cost you fifty cents a year an\ where else but we give it to you absolutely free with a paid-in-ad-vance subscription, whether new or renewed. May Be Health Resort. It is reported that when workmen were laying out and drakiing th<golf links near the Inn, that a spring of water of curative quality wh discovered Who knows. Wawa see may in the future, rival West Baden Swings, and other famous health resorts. Kosciusko Man To Longcliff. Isaac Blitz, who lived near Kuhn’s Landing was taken in custody last week by Sheriff Charles A. Klntzel and on Thursday he was taken to Longcliff at Logansport. Mr Blitz has been mentally unbalanced for several months. Come in and let the Journal show you the finest line of monogranf stationery and engraved cards you have ever seen. | Send the Journal to an absent ' friend and receive McCall’s Fashion Magaz ne free for yourself. Try the Cent-a-Word column. —You’ll do better at Beckmans.

TWO INDIANAPOLIS mis mom Howard and LaFoliette Manr Lose Lives in Fall Creek, j POLICE SEARCH FOR BODIES Lad Leaps Into Water to Save Brothei ■nd Both Die—Their Mother Is In a Precarious Condition. . Indianapolis.—Howard and Lafol lette Mann, aged seventeen anc thirteen years, respectively, were drowned in Fall creek, near the Indiana avenue bridge. While the search for the bodies was In progress, Mrs. Mann, who has been ill tor some time, left her bed and went to the scene. She fainted at thi creek, and was carried home in a se rious condition. One of the boys fell in the watt and the other leaped in to save hiand both were drowned. While the police were dragging t’ hole for the bodies. Charles Mann, f ther of the boys, came up and askt them who was drowned. The polk said; they did not know the names c the boys. Mann saw a little black do. on the east side of the creek, and sai he believed the deg belonged to hi boys. “Come here, Gyp,” Mann called to the dog, and it swam to him. Thi. convinced him that it was. his boys that were drowned. The Mann family moved to Indian apolis from New Albany. Tries to Shoot Sheriff. Greensburg.—Following a robber? at the home of Clyde Meek the police arrested a man calling him self Harry Brown, and found in hit possession seven diamond rings and a gold watch. The timepiece was identified as having been taken fromthe Meek home. When Brown was approached by Sheriff Patterson and his deputy, James Grinstead, he at tempted to shoot the sheriff, drawing a revolver and placing it against his body. It was knocked from his hands before he could pull the trigger. Officials believe that Brown has been arrested for robbery before and assert that he spent some time in an insane asylum in order to escape a prison sentence. Put* It Up to Consumers. Muncie.—Dr. H. E. Barnard, chief chemist of the Indiana pure food commission, made a talk here on “The Consumers’ Relation to the Pure Food Movement,” at the semiannual meeting of the federated clubs of this city. Doctor Barnard declared that the responsibility for the enforcement of the food laws lies with the consumers themselves. He discussed conditions in general and gave a resume of the pure food movement in Indiana. Dr. Caroline Hedger of Chicago spoke on “How to Rear a Child.” and gave some valuable Information to the mothers. Man, Seventy, Held for Bigamy. Marlon. —John Lindley, age seventy, of this city, formerly of Indl- k anapolis and Elwood, was arrested” here on a charge of bigamy. Emily Lindley of Elwood came here and filed the charge, asserting that on November 15, 1910, Lindley married her in Madison county. She says, also, that on November 14. 1911, Lindley married Jane Dunlop of Marion county, his marriage to the complaining wit- ; ness not having been dissolved. • Asks $5,000 of Neighbor. ! Columbus.—Alleging that Andrew 1 Curr assaulted her with various weapons with Intent to kill her, 1 Mary Caln of Brown county has filed shit in the Bartholomew circuit court 1 against him, demanding $5,000 damJ ages The defendant lives in John- > son county and the case was brought J here on a change of venue. Their 1 trouble arises about the division of : some land. , Fined $5 for Murderous Assault. ! Anderson—Thomas Perry, a young ’ farmer, accused of assault and ’ battery with Intent to murder Venus Goldsberry, who was found ■ guilty of plain assault and battery, ; was fined five dollars by a circuit > court jury. » Business Man Stricken. ; Bedford.—Ziba Murray, fifty-five ! years old, well known business ’ man of this eft'y, WaS stricken : with heart failure at his home, and ; died a few minutes later. He had been Suffering with the complaint for some time, but his sudden death came as a great shock to his family and friends. Mr. Murray was the father of Charles D. Murray, owner of the Grand theater here. Two other sons ' are also engaged in the theatrical i business. [ Box of Currency Is Burned. I Rensselaer.—‘William C. Faylor, a • farmer living seven miles north* i west of this city, lost $2,000 in currency when his farm residence , burned. He was afraid of banks, not ; even the postal savings bank appeal- > ing to him. He had planned to erect ; a fine new home next year. The > money Was in a cigar boi in an. Up- ' stairs room, and when the house was ' discovered ou fire Faylor tried to $o up the stairs, but was forced back by the flames. ’

SYRACUSE, INDIANA THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1912.

DID NOT GET THE RABBIT But the Law Agents Got Smith— Fined Several Times. Indianapolis,. Nov. 26.—“ Walk on, oi Fll shoot.** It wasn't Arlsona or ths . wild west. It was in Marion county just three and one-half miles north of | Clermont. The stage for the little drama was in the stubble of a farm er’s overgrown meadow and th« i speaker was Ella Smith, a hunter oi I rablts. The smoke from the gun hardly had drifted after Smith had taken a “pot-shot” at a rabbit when he faced Deputy Fish and Game Commissioner Fred Ehlers. “Now, walk on, or I’ll shoot," growled the hunter. Ehlers walked on. He traveled in a semi-circle. Smith kept him covered. Suddenly a command came from behind. “Hands up! And drop thal gun." Again Smith turned, but this tims he was too late. From the grass twenty feet away a Coifs automatic was pointed. Behind it stood Deputy Commissioner Lan ph ere. N*ar Lanphere was Deputy Gleason. Slowly Smith dropped his shotgun and Deputy Ehlers grinned. They took Smith before Justice oi the Peace Kennedy, of Danville, Ind. Smith Was fined $39 for hunting on Sunday He also was fined $34 for hunting without a license. A third time he was fined $lO for drawing a gun on Deputy Ehlers The single rabbit Smith killed was left behind. “It was the first thriller of the year,” said George W. Miles state commissioner of fisheries and game, today. INDIANA NEWS IN BRIEF, r Bedford —Elmer Corbin, age five son of Virgil Corbin, was struck by the fender of an automobile and his skull was fractured. His death followed. Evansville—Lena Chapman has filed suit in the circuit court here against the Sunnyside Coal Company for $lO, - 000 damages, alleging her husband William Chapman, was killed in the company’s mine. Martinsville —Bert Staley was run over by Vandalia freight cars and sc badly injured he died about two hours later. Staley was walking at the side of the>rack. but the cars struck him aftd knocked him down. Glenwood—John W. and Maria Lin dale are celebrating their fifty-eighth I year of married life. They were mar tied at Philadelphia in 1854, and have three x -grandchildren and hree’%rea|fer!tfidch'ldren living. Sullivanj-The Frank Hnoper mur der case will be tried in the Sullivan circuit court January 6. Hooper was charged with murder in the first de 'tree following the shooting of twe men In a. Bicknell saloon last sum mer. The case was brought hers on a change of venue from Knox county. Lawrenceburg—John W. Bennett, age twenty-three, night watchman foi the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago «fi St. Louis Railroad Company, almost lost his left arm when he attempted to eject William J. Kitchell, age forty seven, a horseman, from a passengei coach. Kitchell attacked Bennett with a razor and slashed his arm severa' i times. The large artery in Bennett’s arm was cut and he almost bled tc deJtK | Columbus —Sensational disclosures I about gravel road affairs in Bartholo- 1 mew county are threatened\ by E. H . Kinney, justice of the peace J and J. R I Dunlap, a Columbus contractor. They were .. E. Ro : mine, who had a contract to build a ‘ pike. Romine left the county sudden ly and has not been heard from. Jus Jtice Kinney and Mr. Dunlap, as bonds men, had to finish the contract, and thereby have lost over four hundred 'dollars each. i ( South Bend —That her husband vio lated the state law in compelling his thirteen-year-old daughter to work sc he could remain idle, was the story • of Mrs. John Ferencz told in the city court The mother had become die gusted with her husband’s delinquency and caused his arrest for deserting bis children. Greenfield—Leslie F. Pope, the New . Palestine merchant who was released from jail here under $1,600 bond, tc appear for trial on two warrants alleging forgery, was rearrested in this pity while consulting his attorneys, on ! two additional warrants on affidavits ' of the prosecuting attorney, each alleging forgery. | ' Lawrebcieburg—Thb Epidemics oi 'diphtheria and scarlet fever are slowly spreading and each day several new cases are reported to the board of health. Five well developed cases of smallpox in the family of James B Chase, a farmer, living in Clay township, have been reported. The board has ordered all residents of the township who have not been vaccinated t during the last three years, to be vacjcinated. More than a hundred have . complied. Marion—Ola Garrison, age thirteen, son of Benjamin Garrison, of Laton- * taine, received a hole in his left hand while hunting when a shotgun he was carrying was accidentally discharged. Muncie—Carney Bartlett, a scloon keeper, pleaded guilty in circuit court to the charge of having assaulted Georg Shaw, a “dry" worker, a few , 1 -weeks ago. was assessed a fine of; lsso and court costs. Because of his attack’ on Bhh'w the county commie-; •sloners refused Bartlett a renewal ofj his liquor license, but he appealed and | received the permit from the circuit

GEO. Sift TORN NOTE INDICATES TERRE HAUTE MAN WAS MAD ACCORDING TO THE CORONER Dr. J. G. Morriton. Who Had Been Treating Him for Nervous Trouble, Bays He Received a Call for Sage at 12:30 P. M.—Other Indiana News. Terre Haute, Nov. 25.—When George Sage stabbed his wife to death and turned a butcher knife on his own throat and chest, alipost duplicating the wounds which caused his wife’s death, he was a maniac, according to Coroner Jett and the police. Dr. J. G. Morrison, who had been treating Sage for nervous trouble, says he received a telephone call for Sage at 12:30 p. m. Sage asked the doctor to come to the house. It was after 1 o’clock when the doctor arrived, and, no one answering the bell, he looked in a window and saw Sage on the floor. The body of Mrs. Sage, which was in another room, was almost cold, indicating she had been dead some time, possibly before Sage called the physician. Most of he” clothing was torn from her body. A note torn into fragments was found i on the oor. It was written by Sage ' That which is intelligent as well :• legible, when put toge.her, leaves n doubt he was insane, according to the coroner. He says in one place “This wuipan is doing me out of my money. God knows how much she has planted. S’ne has bought a sea’, skin coat. She is trying to get ri of me. I don’t propose to go alone In another place he says mone would be found in his shoe. Afte this had been deciphered, his shoe at the hospital were examined an S3OO was found in one of them. George Sage was removed from th* hospital to the jail that he might b under closed care to prevent suicide He is in a straight jacket, but tbsurgeons say that if he manages U jerk his head sufficiently to rernovthe bandages on fris throat he will b able to cause his death. The wound ' several inches long and had seveYe-’ .he windpipe, but surgeons were ab’ to sew the windpipe wound togetheSage said to a reporter who enterc his cell: “1 called Dr. Morrison tr be at the house at 12:30. He did no com on time. I got nervous. W(meaning himself and wife) ha-’ eaten some mince pic. I felt worr and worse.” Staring in front c him, past those in the cell, he almo'-f shrieked: “Blood! Blood!” Ther he begged those present to kill him He asked Dr. Stunkard, whom h ■«recognlzed, to give him chloroform There is no doubt now that he ha felt the mania coming on him an-'' called the doctor. After the deat' of his father, W. H. Sage, a candmanufacturer, and who founded confectinery business sixty years ag .George and his brother Wig condvmf ed the business but disagreed and George continued it. Later Wig succeeded him and for a year George had no business occupation. Mrs. Sage had been a clerk in the store several y?ars when he marrie'’ her a few years ago. She was tb< divorced wife of R. Morton Rogers | known in Vaudeville and, like herself ! a native ,of Clinton. Her maiden 1 name was Emma Smith. ( Women Shuck Corn for Church, Terre Haute, Nov. 22.—Fifteen j women from the Mt. Pleasant neigh- : borhood rode into town yesterday on top of a wagon load of corn which they had shucked the day before, doing so on the banter of a farmer that If they would shuck and sell it he would give the proceeds to the Mt. | Pleasant church. E. Z. Hanks, applicant for the postmastership, bought it at 63 cents a bushel, 27 cents more than the market price, and there were . orty bushels. Railroad Sold for Junk. Greensburg, Nov. 25. —A railroad, six miles long, extending from this city to Harris City, was sold for junk. The line was built thirty-seven years ago exclusively for the transportation of stone from the quarries to the main line here. Army Nurse Dies. ; Evansville, Nov. 25.—Mrs. Jose- ' phine Files, who was a nurse in the j Unioq army during the civil war, Is flehd here. Her husband was a member of the, 65th Indiana regiment durthe war. She was known as “the angel of the sixty-fifth.” Refused New Trial. Columbus, Nov. 23.—Judge Wlckens of the Bartholomew county circuit court overruled a motion for a new trial in the case of Anser Reed, who was convicted on the charge of dynamiting the heating plant of the school building at Hope. More Artistic Billboards.' French Lick, Nov. 22.—Billboards in the future will be more artistic If the promises made by the itoard of directors of the Advertising Men’s Association of the United States and Canada are carried out faithfully. Use “Mudstone” on Boy. i Newcastle, Nov. 25.—Harold Brook- : Shire, the ten-year-old son bf Thomas '■ Brookshire, was attacked by a dog I and was bitten several times ou the face. The Bundy “madstone” was annlind tn the lacerations.

i • Surprise Party Twenty nine friends of Miss Velma Shocks gathered at her home near Vawter Park last Friday evening Nov. 22 before she returned home from school to remind her of her sixteenth birthday. Her mother had prepared a bountiful supper to which al) did ample justice. The evening was spent with games and music. She received many very pretty presents among them was a piano from her father and mother, a gold watch and chain from her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Ruple, and a beautiful signet ring from her aunt, Mrs. Mallen. Those present were John Snobarger. Virgil Mock, Guy Nicholi, Vivian Disher, Scot Hire, Jake Kline, Emma Rent | frow, Mary Sarjent, Marie Strieby,; Hatty Kuhn, Lydia Mellinger, Mr and Mrs. Chas-Byall, Mr. and Mrs Jess Grady and childreu, Mr. and Mrs A’len Ruple, Mr. and Mrs Wm. Mallen. Mr and Mrs. Roy Brown Miss Shock, is a highly esteemed youug lady and all wished her many more happy birthdays. The guests left at a very late hour declaring Shocks to be royal entertainers. # * * W. C. T. U. Meeting. The Retta Jones Wawasee Union met November 14th at tbehome of Mrs. Henry Rapp, with a large attendance. The raeetting ‘was very interesting. Mrs Brower favored the Union with two fine tecitations, reading by Mrs Brown, Mrs. Earnhart, and Mrs. Eagles. The Union decided to meet with Mrs. Milton Woods, Dec. sth but was afterwards decided to meet with Mrs. Allen Wright, Dec sth. Refreshments were served, after which the ladies adjurned, feeling the meeting had been a profitable one we urged all members especially the new members to be present at the next meet ing , Elkhart County Licenses. Richard Gwilt Goshen, 62; Mary E. Gilbert, Goshen, 50. Clarence Kelley, Mishawaka, 26; Grace Shaum, Elkhart, 18. Arthur Hartford, Laporte, 27; Lillian Kraning’ Michigan City, 21. Ora E Yoder, Middleburg, 23; Orpoa Reed, Middleburg, 19 Purinton Emanuel Hardesty, Goshen, 21; Hazle Gertrude Keasey, Ligonier, 19. Bowser-Defrees. Chas. Bowser, a substitute rural mail carrier, who lives south of here, and Miss Ethel Defrees, daughter of Henry Defrees, married at Warsaw, last Wednesday afternoon We are told they will make their home with the groom’s parents for the present. The Journal extends congratulation. Crow Will Probated. The will of Nathaniel Crow has been filed with County Clerk Longenecker and by its terms a daughter Mrs. Martha M. Fick, will receive all of the household goods. To Lulu Doll, a granddaughter, is bequeathed an automobile. The residue of property both real and personal, is left to a daughter and grandchildren of the deceased. Sheldon Harkless is installing a hot water heating plant in his residence on Main street.

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FORMER SYRACUSE LADY IS ■OEBEB Mrs. Cravens Was Known In Syracuse As Miss Grace Jones. Mrs. Grace Green Cravens, formerly a Chicago settlement worker, was shot four times last Thursday by her stepson, Frank Cravins, 19 : years old, in Hammond, Ind. She ; died later at St. Margaret’s Hospital. Young Cravens, realizing what he had done turned the weapon on himself and fired. Mrs. Cravens had hidden two revolvers belonging to the boy and *vas shot by him when she refused to give them up. One of the bullets struck a corset . steel and drove it into Mrs. Craven’s heart. She fell to the floor with a scream. A maid who had witnessed the shoaling ran to the police station. Young Cravens horrified at what he had done fired a bullet into his own body and fell beside his stepmother The police soon arrived and carried both to the hospital. Mrs. Cravens made a brief statement aud died. The boy refused to talk. The murdered woman lived here six or seven years ago, with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Ann Elliott, and was known as Grace Jones.- She later married a Ligonier man by the name of Green, under which name a ’ she was known among settlement workers in Chicago. Iler husband at the time of her death, Lincoln V. Cravens, is a lawyer. i Young Cravens lost a leg two years ago in a railroad accident at Thornton, 111 He has been studying law in Hammond. The boy died later. Wagon Struck By Auto. The ‘beer truck” from Goshen struck a wagon in which John Woggpman, who lives in the west part of town, was riding and completely overturned the wagon box. Mr. Woggoman was returning from the gravel pit Saturday evening, when the accident occurred. A woman, presumably the wiferrf the driver of the truck was thrown out into the road but not seriously injured. Mr. Woggoman escaped with several scratches. Kosciusko Jurors Drawn. Jurors for the December term of court have been drawn as follows; Grand jurv, David Kintzel, Warsaw; George Loveday, Warsaw; Loyd Dunlap, Franklin township; John L. Parker. Seward township; George B. Ward. Warsaw; Jame§ Barnes. Van Buren township; Petit jury, J. E. Forman, Franklin; Edward Moore, 1 Jackson; M. E. Klinger, Harrison; William Irvin, Scott; Charles E. Haden. Van Buren; Omar Igo, Harrison; 0. E. Heigh way, Franklin, Lawrence Stephens, Wayne; Isaac Williamson, Etna; Charles Pierce, Etna; The grand jury will convene on Monday, December 2. T. H. Hammond of Milford, drove here in his auto, Tuesday. —Pictures of the best quality by Miller, the new

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