Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1897 — DEATH OF MRS. HOPKINS. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF MRS. HOPKINS.

Mrs. Mary E. Hopkins, of Reusseiner, died last Monday night, March 20th, at St. Vincent’s hospital, at Indianapolis. She had been luoi/ i fs afflicted for several years vith an internal tumor, und which about two months ago, began to increase greatly in size and malignancy. About three weeks ago sin l went to Vernon, lnd remaining there a week with a rela tive, and then proceeded to St. Vincent’s hospital where, March lGth, the tumor was removed by eurg cal operation. Dating the week foil >\ving her condition was favorable, but the second week she ra idly failed, until released by' death She was a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Sayler, was bo r n in Marion county, Ouio, June 3d, 1834, and at death her age was (52 yeaiS, 9 months and 26 days. In the year 1850 she accompanied her parents to this county, wher she has ever sine* made her home. — A few \ ears ago her mother died, but her father survives, and is a resident of Rensselaer. November 4th, 1855, she was married to Newman W. He kins, who died “April 12th, 1875. Six children were born to them, of whom five survive her: Arthur H., Albert F., Alfred W. Hopkins, Mrs. Alice C. Meyer, and Mrs. Ada D. Crosscup. She had bee , reared in the M. E. church, but for many yens and at the time of h>r death was a worthy member of the Presbyterian congregation. She was a charter member of Evening Star Chapter N@. 41, Order of the Eastern Star, faith ful in her duties, and funeral services were conducted in accordance with its ritual. Rev. R. D. I ttcr conducted funeral services at the Piesfcyteri iui church, Wednesday afternoon, j Interment in Weston cemetery.

Monday, March 22,18 D--7, John L. Jasperson died at his home, in Walker township, from measies, aged 23 years, 6 months and 2 days. On the following day, Baetnus Jasperson, father of til above, died from the oame disease, -"aged 49 yeurs, 10 mouths and 23 days. Lathe and sou were interred in the same grave, Wheatfield ceinetery. liev. B. F. Ferguson conducted the funeral service s. A female footprint 15£ inches long has been discovered in the mud at Chicago, and now every St. Louis girl is preparing to prove an alibi. Though Connecticut went over to McKinley, her manufactories are shitting down and more men are being out of employment. There was a miscalculation iD Connecticut, .just as there was everwhere else.

Congress and McKinley together should be able to give that promised wave of pros)eritA a boost which will result in its getting a decisive move on itself We are all still wailing. Corduroy is used almost exclusively for workingmen’s clothing and for clnap caps. The Wilson duty on the cheapest varieties is 47 per cent., while that proposed by

the Dingley bill is 137 percent, on the cheapest corduroy, costing 14 cents a yard, decreasing as the cloth grows more expensiv i until on corduroy worth 30 cents a yard the tax is 8o pei cent. Thus on the cheap corduroy the Dingley tax increases the price from 14 ennts a yard to over 33 cents.

M. E Ingalls president of the Big Four railroad com pany, a Democrat who cin tributed largely to the elect ion of Ma jor Mckinley last November, said in New York .just before sailing for Eu rope on a business trip: Tlie Republicans are overdoing the tariff business, and will undoubtedly find to their sorrow the mistake they have made when the Deople have an opportunity to express themselves at the polls. There certainly willbe a re action. I find dissatisfaction shown on all sides over the Dingley bill. Through this un fortunate tariff tinkering we shall have the silver question up as an issue in 1900 as sure as you are alive.

The Republican leaders are doing their best to make the tiriff an issue in the next cam pain.

A curfew ordinance has deen introduced in the South Bend city council- It provides not only that children under the age of IT years should be kebt off the streets after a c* rtain hour in the evening, bnt it thoroughly covers the grouu of suppressing hoodlumism in all its forms It legislates against the gathering of “kids ’ on the street corners, und p the i h etne lights or in a11,. v opening, and is really a r ood thing in its line. Engineer B.istwick will get you up plans and Specifications for building, ('marges reasonable. Office up-stairs, in Forsythe building. •SEBT ANTED—FAITHFUL MEN OR women to travel for res onsible e tablished house inindiana. Salary S7BO and expanses. Position permanent. Ref erenee. Enclose seli-addressed stamped envelope. T 1 e National. Star Insurance Bldg,, Chicago.