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NOVEMBER 25, 1897.NO. 41.at least 75 letts is still s are coming elp make all t in the end of the bankMiss Bertha ig couple of married, one mlt of a ban-were togeth-f matrimony , in the banked that he lid and Miss !. The couple r took as a jok-e bantering y out the joke rushed out ster, but the id, and in 30 the proposi-i married.n of affairs two families Reporter. A traded wives of two days )lted at the o her lawful 3k her back returned to ected by her hen went to s, where she ce been pro-ants in this re familiarly ten, at least, le streets, nor as been mixedECTIVES.:ern!ng Same, to nal Meeting.anded us the iroceeding of the National : Association, son, Indiana, sident of the nutes contain ch commends the excellent :d in fayor of showed that n years, 152 icted throughthe Associates that had nbers, 74 had3ted declares yery form,and i to the sup-as possible by . The lax en-iaws and thecriminal class recated, and a such an en-lat same will il doers. The C press in its violence was srnor Mount determination e in the state, air was con-3, and it wasnbership “set .gainst white-Mr. Wiley committee onne county has mpanies withFomlinson, pres-etary, and J. C.Worrell, presi-tary, and W. E.Lane, president;L Manson HeadL Hartlng, presl-ry. and Marionulin. pftsident; ind A. O. DuUn,;ncer, president; id Smith F. Cox,p-—A.R. Hollings-Cory, secretary,ames A. White. , secretary, andCox, president; d Sanford Kingsisted by Rev.•dsyille, is con-eeting at Mt. ist of townee-night of lastthisNOW ANOTHER HEROJesse Robertson, Revolutionary Soldier, Burried Near Mr. Andrews.Hts Son, Osiah Robertson, Still a Residentof Clinton Township—Torching Incident Concerning a Daughter.When the board of commissioners were petitioned to erect a monument at the grave of Arthur Andrews, a revolutionary soldier, buried at Hope-well cemetery in Clinton township, it was thought he was the only one who fought for American Independence and had hi9 last resting place in Boone county soil. But it has been discovered that there are perhaps a half dozen. Little did they think who dedicated the Andrews monument, that within fifty feet of that hero’s grave there reposed the ashes of another soldier of the same war, and that some who participated in the exercises of the unvailing, trod ruthlessly on this grave-without nothing the fact that there was even a grave there. The spot wa9 marked by a small slab until last summer when the Matter was knocked down by some stock that had gotten through the fence.This son of independence was namedJesse Robertson, and he was laid to final rest in 1846. His son, Osiah Robertson, now in his eightieth year, is still living, and resides one-halfmile south of Elizaville. The senior Robertson was born near Richmond, Virginia, on soil which is now embraced within the limits of that city, and when the revolutionary war came on he and his father joined a Virginia regiment to battle for freedom from the tyranny of the mother country, and the father sacrificed his life in behalf of the cause. Soon after the war, our hero moved to Boones-borro, Kentucky, and there assisted in building the first fort for defense against the Indians. He married in Kentucky, and in 1839 moved to Indiana, locating one and one-fourth miles south of Elizaville. When the war of the rebellion broke out, he had thirteen grand sons, who following the precedent of their ancestors, went to the front and assisted to put it down. Six were killed in battle, three afterward died natural deaths, and the four yet living are all residents of Clinton township.A touching incident is related concerning Jesse Robertson’s oldest datugter, Susannah, and her husband, James Townsend, who lived in the mountains of Nicholas county, Kentucky, sixteen miles from Mt. Sterling. Mr. Townsend raised a company of union soldiers in the fall of 1861. and was soon made colonel of a regiment, with of his sons in the ranks. After five or six months service, he was given a furlough, and went home to remain a few days. The bushwhackers of the vicinity, learned of it, surrounded his house one night, and demanded his surrender. The house was a veritable arsenal, and Thompson and .his wife made a brave resistance. The wife did the loading and the husband the firing, and succeeded in keeping the intruders away, until finally a stray shot struck Mrs. Thompson. He turned to assist her to a bed, and attempted to staunch the flow of blood, and while doing so the bushwhackers broke in, killed him, set fire to the house and burned all to ashes. Some these borded ruffians, were members of John Morgan’s company of raidersthat were such a terror to the country for a season.Township trustee Joseph M. Swope and his brothers are the grandsons of Jesse Robertson, their mother being a sister of Osiah Robertson.AFTER PRANK SHITE.street is He has je weeks, Doctor thinks he drinking olio way’sworking.Whites-the road at a runaway gait. The marshal was knocked down by the buggy wheel but got up in time to fire several shots after the fleeing culprit, one of which took effect in the horse’s neck. Further on Shupe caught a train and made his final escape, and has been in hiding eyer since. Mr Thompson thinks he is hoton his trail and will soon have him safe behind the bars. He is accompanied by a Mr. Liebhart of Oxford, Benton county.Excitement ran very high in Warren county at the time, as the people shot were very popular, and it is likely if Shupe had not made his escape, he would have been lynched.HER MIND UNBALANCED.Detective Thompson of Warren Co., Hot on His Trail—The Shooting at Rainsville.C. B. Thompson, deputy sheriff ofWarren county, was here Sunday inthe role of a detective, looking for Frank Shupe, a grandson of “Indian Jim'’ Powell, at one time a noted character of this county, but now a resident of Clinton county. Shupe is wanted for shooting a boy and a married lady in the neighborhood of Rainsville, Warren county,some time ago, against neither of whom he had any grievance, but they happened to be in company with a young man whom Shupe was determined to murder. In his attempt to get his man, the others were accidently, or rather ruthlessly, wounded almost unto death. Shupe was hunted down and found in a fence corner on hands and feet, aping a hog. He was arrested, put in a buggy, driven to town and left in charge of the marshal who stood by the buggy while his captor went into a telegraph office to send a message. Shupe saw his opportunity, laid whip to the horse and was soon going downMrs. Mollie Bennett Sangston Takes to tkeHospital for Treatment.The friends of Mrs. Mollie Bennett Sangston, wife of Jacob Sangstony will regret to learn of her misfortune as well as that of her family. They live in Indianapolis and for some time she has felt that her mind was giving way. Last week she became furious, imagining that she was being pursued by some demon, and rather than be tortured she would kill herself. Her conduct was watched closely and she was not permitted to harm herself. She will be taken to the central hospital for the insane this week. In demonstration of the old saying that misfortunes do not come singly, Mr. Sangston has just passed through a siege of typhoid fever which took him off the police force after only a brief service. His sickness was so prolonged that the vacancy thus created had to be filled, and he may not succeed in getting on the force again when he is physically able.There are four children in the family ranging in ages from eightj months to eight years. These have been distributed among the relatives for the time being, Mrs. H. C. Wills, of this city, taking the oldest; Mrs. Ora Spahr, of Indianapolis, the youngest; Mrs. Sangston’s sister, Susie, the other two. It is sincerely hoped that Mrs. Sangston may soon be restored to her family, and that the cloud of misfortune which now hangs over them may be dispelled.CONCERNING CITY LIGHTING.plant a con-City Clerk Tull Answers Some QuestionsFor The Benefit of Wabash People.City Clerk, Will A. Tull, received a communication from the city attorney of Wabash a few days ago making a number of inquiries concerning city lighting with a view to determing whether it shail be a wise policy for that city to put in a of its own next year or award tract to a private corporation.In answering the gentleman’s inquiries, Mr. Tull gave the following information concerning our local lighting:We closed a ten-year contract for manufactured gas in I«W. During the term of that contract we had 118 lamp posts at $15.00 each per annum. The city council entered into a contract with the Citizens' Electric Light ice Co., for 45 arc lights, March 15* lnyrt to be located by the committee at ISO a light per annum for ten years, the city to get a rebate of live per cent on receipts from all arc lights and two percent on all incon-descent and commercial lights. Since then there have been located fifteen more lights at ?80.00 “flat.’' on an annual contract. Our lights are 2100 candle power and burns from twilight to twilight, every night, all night. Our light is all right so far as it goes, but we need at least 100 arc lights to properly light the city. We had suite pending in the circuit court against the Big Four for failure to keep lights at crossings in ^accordance with a city ordinance. The cases have been settled by compromise, the road agreeing to maintain the lights. This will give us from 8 to 12 more lighls from the Big 4 and C. S. E. Ry., companies. I am' on my sixth year as city clerk and have endeavored to study the city’s best interests, and it is my op’nion that when the city controls matters of this kind the results are betier. Our city owns its waterworks and both railroads are furnished their supply of water from us. We have almost 600 consumers and the works have now become self sustaining, and the plant will eventually become a source of revenue.lt is my opinion that all municipalities should own and control their light and water plants. All lights for city building and water plant are furnished free. Respectfully,Will, A, Tull.The ordinary legal document, say^an exchange, whatever it may be, is-usually a mass of verbiage which is not only useless for any practical effect, but is ridiculous. And still the courts and the lawyers go on yielding obedience to the crabbed and senseless forms of centuries now dead, in age of brevity, of 6trict economy and of incomparable haste, simply because some clerk with his quill pen and his ink horn invented the duplication of these phrases a few hundred years ago to fill his scanty puree. _William Mutchler, Co. K., 10th Indiana, has been granted an increase of his pension through the agency of Capt. J. O. Pedigo.
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Lebanon Patriot
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 25, 1897
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