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6 a THE FORT WAYNE JOURNAL -GAZETTE. SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 25, 1905. NAMES UNCERTAIN IN EARLY DAYS QUEER OLD DESIGNATIONS OF IN. DIANA COUNTIES AND TOWNS THAT HAVE ENTIRELY DISAPPEARED.

PA" Why.1 Howard County Was Once Called" Tiptonia and its Name Changed for Political But LiGeneral Tipton Has Since Been Placed Elsewhere on the Indiana Map, (Indianapolis News.) "My father lived in three different counties of Indiana without ever havIng his residence," sald a well known citizen. was simply legIslatured from. one, county to another by change of "And mine," said another man, "was bora in' a town with a big name that was afterward vacated by the leg4 Changes in names of counties and islature and wiped off the map." towns early settlement of the state were frequent. The creation of new counties went on slowly and when the tide of emigration first began and before the movements of population were well. defined, some towns were planned and laid 'out by land owners on paper.

which did not develop according to the expectation of their projectors. Some of these towns died la natural death, others were vacated by act of the legislature, and others survived under law names. Those that bad been Incorporated required an act legislature to vacate them. Thus in 1818 an act was passed attaching the town of Liverpool to the town of Washington, the seat of justice for Davies county." Liverpool was put out of commission. At the same session an act was passed declaring that "the town of in commission." At the same session an act was passed.

declaring that "the town of Vienna, in Jefferson county, is hereby declared, to, be vacated for ended all Vienna. intents purposes. That Another act declared that "the proprietors of the town of Edinborough, in connity of Dearborn, are hereby sald town, and Cadd all its lots, streets and alleys to the town of Lawrenceburg, after which the town of Edinbcrough shall be vacated." Lawrenceburg absorbed 'Edinborough before InBo, dianapolis was located. Other towns which their projectors had hoped would become centers of population or important- trading points were vacated by later acts of the legislature asl. New Lexington, Grant county; Bairdstown, Harrison county; Lebanon Jackson county; Northampton, Harrison county, etc.

Sometimes the names of towns were changed special act of the legislature Newburg In Randolph to Spartanburg; Greensborough, Franklin county, to Blooming Grove; Carthage, Putnam county, to Mount Merldian; Middleton, Tippecanoe county, to' West Point; Danville, Fayette county, to Fayetteville; Jacksonville, Brown county, to Nashville; Portersville, Porter county, to Valparaiso; Fullerton, Parke county, to Jamestown, county, to New Lisbon, Mongoquinong, 'LaGrange county, to Elma; Edinburg, Franklin county, to Drewersburg, though afterward it was changed back to Edinburg; Maukport, Harrison county, New Market; Ceylon, Franklin county, to Andersonville, Parkersburg, Montgomery counts. to Faithville; Wilmingtoll; Ruch county, to. Manilla; Paris. Lawrence county. Bryantsville: Jasper county, to Rensselaer.

and others. The reasons for these changes do not appear in the record, but' doubtless they' were considered sullicient at the -time. Lamasco Absorbed by Evansville. One of the oddest names ever adopted for an Indiana town was that of Lamasco. for a town adjoining Evansville, and 1.

also furnished a queer case of one name being absorbed by another. The two towns adjoined each other from the beginning, and, separate municipalities, they were, to all- intents and purposes, one town. Evansville was named in honor of Gen. Robert M. Evans, who had come to Indiana from Kentucky at an early day, and settled near where the Princeton now 18.

served with distinction of 1812 and. settled in -Evansville in 1824. He spent four 'years in the socialist COmmunity at New Harmony, where kept a The town of Lamasco got its, in a curious way. It hater out by fours men, two brothers Law, and Macatt and Scott. In selecting A for the town they, took the first name two letters of Law Macatt and the first three letters of Scott, making Lamasco.

When the two towns grew an attempt WAS made to together change the name of Evansville to Lamasco. Discussion of the matter was finally settled by an act of the Lamasco EvansS ville. The name Lamasco is still preby Lainasco Camp, Fraternal seryed Legion. and 'Court. Lamasco, Independent.order of Foresters.

From Tiptonia to Columbia. One of the changes of county-seat names was that from Tiptonia, Bartholomew county, to Columbia. This was not done by the legislature, but by the county commissioners. If tradition 18 proceeding was based on contemptible. motives.

Among the early pioneers of Indiana none possessed higher patriotism, more generous traits or greater aptitude for public affairs than Gen, John Tipton. twenty- Coming to Indiana in 1807 at the age of one, affairs be became once Arst' as captain of a indentifled with local at to' surpress-horse-thieves and counterfeiters in Harrison county, that ended, then; as an officer in the campaign in battle of Tippecanoe. Later he became brigadier general of militia, of sheriff of Harrison county, member the territorial legislature, one of the to locate the capital of the state, commissioner to locate the boundary line between Indiana. and Illinois, Indian agent, and finally Uniter States senator for several years, so that he was closely indentified with public affairs for more than thirty. years and an ardent promoter of state progress.

It may be added he was the third order in grand master of the been Masonic a Indiana, having elected in 1820 and reelected in 1823. Tipton Lodge, at Logansport was named for him. Among Tipton's superior officers in the battle' of Tippecanoe was Lieutenant-Colonel (afterward general) Joseph Bartholomew. Ho commanded battalion of Indiana milita in the battie and was seriously wounded. For his wound he received a life pension.

After the treaty of Greenville lie settied as a farmer in Clark county, Indiana Territory, where he lived many years. Thence he removed McLean county. Illinois, where he died in 1840. In January, --1881, the legislatures passed an act forming a new county out of and on motion of Samuel Merrill, seconded by General Tipton. It was, named Bartholomew.

Tipton assisted in conferring this honor on his former comrade in arms, but in later years he became more closely indentified with the affairs of the county than the man whose name it bore. After the county WAS organized the commissioners at their first meeting in February, 1821, contracted for the purchase of sixty acres of land for a county-seat. Of this land thirty acres was owned by one Luke Bonesteel and thirty acres by General Tipton, who was then living in Harrison county' 'Bonesteel received 000 for the thirty acres and Tipton male a gift of his. The commissioners accepted the gift, located the county-seat and named it Tipton, In honor of General Tipton. This was not a bad name, but after a short time the commissioners changed it to Columbus.

No reason wag assigned for this ungracious act, but tradition says it was due to political reasons. Party spirit ran bigh in those days, and General Tipton had his political enemies as well as friends. Possibly the new town might be handicapped by the name of a living politician, Columbus was a safe name since, as known, the discoverer of America had no politics. General Tipton got his reward when the county of Tipton and its county-seat: were named for him. Richardville County.

Perhaps not 'many persons know that there was once a large county in Indiana named Richardville. An odd name for a county. It came in this way. M. Derolle de Richardville was a French efficer.

In 1764, when Louls St. Ange, then in command. at Vincennes, was ordered to another post, he assigned Richardville and another officer to the command of Vincennes. He had a son, John B. Richardville, by an Indian girl who was 8 sister of Little Turtle, a chief of the Miamis, who lived in Turtle Village, a few miles northeast of Fort Wayne.

The half-breed, John B. Richardville, was born in 1761. On the death of his Indian uncle, Little Turtle, in 1812, Richardville became chief of the Miamis. He was a man of great executive alility and fine business sense. He died in 1841 and was buried in the Catholic cemetary at Fort Wayne, On February 16, 1839, the legislature passed an act declaring that a certain described part of the Miami reservation including the present counties of Tipton and Howard, "shall form and constitute a separate county, to be known and designated by the name of Richardville, and when the Indian title shall be extinguished and the population within the same will warrant, the said county shall be ganized as a separate county." January 15 1844, an, act was passed setting off the county of Tipton and defining boundaries of the county of Richardville.

Commissioners were appointed to locate the county -seat of Richardvillo: county. December 28, 1846, an act was passed changing the name of Richar-iville county to Howard county changing Its boundarles. An Indian Name After All. The name of Howard was in honor of Gen. Tilgham A.

Howard, a distinguished Indianian, who had died two years hefore. Richardville- hardly deserved the honor of having a county named after him, and besides the name an awkward one. The commis sioners appointed to locate the countyseat met the second Monday in 'May, 1844, and selected the present site of Kokomo. The site of the town was first visited by a white man only two years before, in the spring of 1842. The name of Kokomo WAS given in honor of Kocomaw, a Miami chief, who had been very friendly to the whites.

So, while the name of one Indian chief WAR dropped from the county, that of another was preserved in the name of the county-seat. SOUTH SIDE HOME ---A BARGAIN For a short time only, a desirable home on Home avenue will be offered for sale. House of seven rooms, with modern bathroom complete, electric lights, furnace, large porch, beautiful shade trees, fine lawn and good fences. It would take ten years to put A new place in as fine. a shape.

Lot eighty feet frontage. Convenient to. Broadway or South Wayne car lines. If this pros perty will not sell in two weeks owner will take it off the Can be purchased for part cash and part on time if desired $3,600 will buy it, with sewer assessments paid. Address "Home Bargain," care JournalGazette.

DAVIS KERN GOT THE LIMIT AND DESERVED IT. Decatur Man Fined and Sent to Jail for Whipping His Aged Father, Justice Washington Kern, (Special to the Journal-Gazette.) DECATUR, June Kern, A disreputable, character, was this morning given the heaviest fine ever Imposed upon a prisoner in Adams county, when Squire James. H. Smith assessed him Afty-five dollars, and Ave daya in Jail for whipping his old and feeble father, Washington Kern, who is justice of the peace of St. Mary's, township.

Young Kern came to town early this morning, loaded up on bad booze and at noon returned to his father's home, demanded money and because it' was refused him became so enraged that he knocked his father down and then deliberately kicked and beat him unmercifully hard until neighbors, who heard the off man's cries, hastened to his assistance and' dragged young Kern away and brought to this city And then fled the affidavit, Mr. Kern, was unable to attend the trial on account of his injuries. What makes Young Kern's actions so henious is the fact that at the time, of the assault Washington Kern, his father, was suffering from a broken 10g and. was at time walking about old man's injuries are serious and the only with the aid of crutches. a The doctors fear that in the melee his.

leg was again broken: Young Kern is now in jail. MARY HOWE AT WINONA MUSIC FESTIVAL Miss Mary Howe, who is to sing at Winona in the June musical festival, has arrived in Indianapolis from the east to spend a week quietly with her sister there before coming to Winona. Miss Howe has been making tour of the east, being engaged A8 the prima donna at a number of the New England musical festivals, a position given only to such artists as Sembrich, Schumann-Heink and Nordica. In her native state of Maine' Miss Howe is regarded with great pride and the people turn ont in such crowds to hear her that the managers offer her enormous prices for engagements there. Her concerts at Winona will be on Wednesday afternoon, June, 28th, Friday June and Saturday afternoon, July, 1st.

Seats have been taken large parties from Fort Yayne, Anderson, Muncie, Marion Wabash, Columbia City, Elkhart, Goshen, South Bend and Peru. From sevveral of these cittes the musical clubs are going in a body to Winona Jake. Some of the well known musical critics from Chicago have, signified their intention attending the openIng concert, Wednesday afternoon. Miss Howe's. appearances in the west have' been 10 rare that her Winona engagement's are attracting wile attention.

COLONEL HECKER CUFFS TITLED SON-IN-LAW. Suit for Divorce Revives Interest in Noted Society Wedding In 1900. DETROIT, June de Czillasy, one of the trio of American girls whose marriage to foreign tities formed the principal topic of international gossip in 1900, Chas 'revived the slumbering interest in her match by Aling suit for divorce in this city. The countess was Miss May Adele Hecker, daughter of Colonel Frank J. Hecker, millionaire railroad builder and a member of President Roosevelt'8 first Panama canal commission.

Count's Title All Right, It was at this period that his pretty daughter met and captivated the dashing Count Rudolph Van Arnot de Czillasy, secretary of the Austrian legation at the capital, the scion of one of the oldest familles of the Austro Hungarian empire, and officer of Franz Joseph's. personal staft. Their wooing was brief comparaand of the three weddings that tively hers was the most interesting beyear cause her family had been less known in the society of the tar east previously than in European capitals. titled pair went to De Czillasy palace in the old world after the wedding in Detroit. Scandal Hushed for a Time.

Soon there were rumors of unpleas ant Incidents, and six months later the bride came home to her father. But friends of both families interposed scandal and the countess to avoid a make another attempt to agreed to live with her husband. half year brought stories Another ill treatment, and, Anof personal abuse, which Increased ally, a rumor of the ocean interview with his sontook Colonel Hecker acroes for a personal stormy meeting and in law. It literit said that the nobleman was his father-in-law, who ally thrashed by countess home with him. brought the Her bill for divorce alleges simply nonsupport.

The countess has one child, four years old. THE STATE OF AFFAIRS. "Ah. how are you, landlord?" saluted patent church man as he entered the the tavern at Polkville, Ark. "How are you, and how are things in general?" "Ho, there! 'Round again, I see!" genially returned the host.

"Me? Aw. I'm in sorter town here--well, thinga.is lively: livemoderate, thank ye! As for things lier than a gooseberry merchant selun' 'em a berry at a time. We've got a guessin' contest on hand between this town and Torpidville, over which needs a new opery house the worst and which won't get it first. And feller that WAS in love, or something that-a-way, tried to commit suicide the other day, right in front of the postoffice, by his head with A pistol: shot four times, but, he was havin a chill tuat himself. them and The shook so's the didn't hit followin' new and Interestin' books: Mrs.

pubife library. announces the Sigourney' Poems. 'Little last Lord work. Fauntleroy' and Sut Lovengood's There was 'a tollable lively fight at the revival last--well, forget just what night it WAS. And we have an otherwiseworthy lady who 1s all puffed with pride' b'ous while she was away visitin' she saw a century-plant in full bloom: and all the rest of our wives, speakin' in round numbers, are dead set to g0 viaItin' too--and several of their husbands have had to whip the century-plant womhusband on account of it.

Eh-yan! Things 18 pretty blamed lively -Tom here P. in Polkville, lemme just tell you!" Morgan in July Smart Set. VICKSBURG, LIKE THE BANK, 18 BANKRUPT. VICKSBURG, June connection with the closing of the Vicksburg Exchange bank yesterday, it has developed that the village of $34. Kloksburg in the is ylilage bankrupt.

treasury and hair There la only of this amount check on the closed bank. The village owes the bank: $7,000. NEW LIQUOR LAW CLOSING SALOONS OVER 100 ALREADY AFFECTED BY REMONSTRANCES FILED, UNDER MOORE AMENDMENT. Cities Defining the Limits Driving the Liquor Business Out of Realdence Districts The Conditions Throughout: Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS, June 24.

The Moore amendment to the Nicholson. law, generally termed the "Moore law," has been in effect only two months, yet over 100 saloons have been either driven out of business or will be forced to quit selling liquor when their licenses expire, This has been accomplished mainly through the clause of the law which permits the filing of remonstrances against the business; in other words, permits a majority of the voters of a township or ward to say whether they will have prohibition or liquor. Remonstrances Good for Two Years. Under the amended law a remonstrance against the (business holds good for two years; under the original law it was necessary to renew the remonstrance every time an application for license was fled with the board of county commissioners. The change has encouraged the temperance people in making counties to make stronger efforts to obtain sufficient signatures to bar out saloons.

some townships which have been "dry" for years under the old form of "blanket" remonstrances new remonstrances have been filed under the Moore amendment with the view of Insuring a cessation of agitation for two years. -Though remonstrances against the business have proved to be the most effective way of striking at liquor traffic, remonstrance against individuals have been fled in several instances. The latter method, however, is not as popular as the former, for the remonstrants must convince the county commissioners that the applicant's character makes him an unfit person to retail liquor. Batoons in Residence Districts. Another clause in the new law permits cities and towns to define the limits within which liquor may be retailed.

This feature of the law has enabled Brazil to close eight and Greencastle two saloons in the residence districts. The city council of Columbus also has defined a saloon district, but its action affected only one applicant for a license. Reports which' have been received at various county seats show that many applicants failed to obtain licenses at the June terms of the commissioners' courts and that more remonstrances will be filed at the July term. In five cases saloonkeepers have taken appeals to the circuit court, and in one case the remonstrants have appealed from the decision of the commissioners. In a few instances applications were withdrawn without contest when the liquor sellers heard that remonstances had been filed.

Some correspondents report an increase of loons in the year ending June 1. Grant County Leads the List. Grant leads the list of saloon closing counties, with forty-one saloons already under the ban and seven more to be affected by remonstrances at the July term of court. In Randolph county nine saloons have been closed or will go out of business when their licenses expire; in Jackson county, eight have been affected by the new law; in Orange and Tipton counties, five each; in Greene, four: in Allen and Pulaski, three each; in Adams, Blackford, Harrison, Johnson, Lagrange, Madison and White, two each, and one each in Clinton, Fountain, Gibson, Howard, Lawrence, Posey, Ripley, Union and Wells. Besides these A8 already stated, saloons at Brazil, two at Greencastie and one at Columbus have been knocked out by city ordinances.

Lack of patronage and Inability to sell on Sunday or after 11 o'clock at night are causing thirteen saloons at Anderson to go out of business. Three saloonkeepers at Logansport have quit for like reasons and two saloons have been closed in Tippecanoe county because of rigid enforcement of the law. A few counties report that saloons which obeyed the law for a few weeks are now running wide Sundays. Madison County, 180-Pike, None, Progressive Madison county, of which Anderson is the seat, has 180 saloons, but Pike county, often alluded to as the "backwoods," has not one saloon where liquors are sold by the drink. In Lagrange county nine of eleven townships are "dry," and in Wells' county, Harrison is the only "wet" township.

New Albany has ninety-nine of the 100 saloons in Floyd county. Danville, in Hendricks county. has not had a licensed saloon for years, Orange county is gradually running while Benton, Lawrence and Henry counties are becoming "wetter." No liquor 1s retailed in Oakland City or in Bloomfield. North Vernon supports, fourteen saloons, but, Vernon, a sister town, has only two. $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that sclence has been able to cure In all Ita stages and that is Catarrh.

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CHENEY CO. Toledo, 0. Bold by all Take Family Pulls for ton. W7 OUTING SUITS THAT POSSESS CHARACTER The woods are full of Clothing--good, bad and indifferent. Now we don't claim to have any particular patent on selling GOOD CLOTHING, but we do claim that no permanenr: suc cess can be built on a shoddy foundation, and as each year: of our clothing history in this city has gone on record with bigger sales than the preceding year, our clothing must have been right.

Indeed, each year in our march of progress shows improvements and the garments we show this season are the best yet. While we advanced the qualities, we have at. the same time, thanks to our continually increasing trade, decreased the prices. Witness These Four Examples SUITS, $7.50, $10, $12 and $15 Very finest clothing ments are the same ments made to order Our Summer Stock of Boys' and Children's Wash Suits Surpass all efforts made in this direction by any house in this section of the country. Never before have so many natty styles been collected under one roof.

Never before have such splendid qualities been offered at such formly low prices. ranging from $18 in every way (except by the swell tailors to $25. These garin price) as garof the big cities. FORT WAYNE'S WOLFFS' GREATEST CLOTHIERS.