Marshall County Independent, Volume 2, Number 2, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 November 1895 — Page 7

PROPRIETORS OF THE CASH SHOE & CLOTHING STORE hau- UtMi iI t. o-Ntiin:' t!t ir SPECIAL SALE OF OVERCOATS Frost Killers at $3.79. i t on anil le happy. Their I'uuM shoes are wann ami roiulortaMe. Call ami see them. North of Postofiice, Plymouth. 0?e3nbepenbent From Friday's Daily. Only 81.00 per year. The honorable C. II. Reeve is on the sick list. D. C. Knott was called to Ilibbard this morning. Dr. C. A. Broun drove over to Argos this forenoon. George Thayer returned from Chicago last evening. J.C. Warrens went to Argos, this morning, on business. W. 15. Yost went to Warsaw yesterday on business. Mrs. C. R. Leonard returned from Peru last evening. Jacob Woolverton, of South Bend was in our city to-day. Miss Mary Stein entertained some young people last evening. J. W. Lifwer, of Warsaw, was in the city yesterday on business. Theo. Adelsperjer, of South Bend, was in town this morning. Miss Mary Hoham has accepted a petition with Cressner and company. Rev. W. W. Raymond returned home from Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Two fancy new show cases were received at Kleopfer's new store yesterday. Mrs. Nettie Coinpton, of Bourbon, called in our city to day for a few hours. Mrs. M. M. Lauer left for a week's visit in Chicago with friends, yesterday afternoon. John 1). Hay went to Chicago this morning to witness the motocycle race to-morrow. Numerous minor depredations were commited by mischieveous Hallaween boys last night. The Telephone Kxchange, at Argos, isbeing removed into the jewelry store of Chus. K. Bowe. Dr. and Mrs. Wilson went to Chicago this morning and will not return until to-morrow evening. Miss Anna Shoemaker returned home from Chicago yesterday afternoon where she has been visiting for a week. The Indian was in the city yesterday all painted up and making himself obnoxious to every one who chanced to pass him. Bev. S. Light, one of best Camp fire speakers in Norther Indiana, will be present at the S. of V. Camp lire tonight at (J. A. B. hall. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Hoover was agreeabiy surprised Wednesday upon receiving as a present a new Hallet and Davis Piano. A ghost party was held last evening by a party of young people at the house of Miss Came (loss. Ghost stories were told and good candy was made. John Wolford has just received a fine bred horse which ho bought at the Chicago horse sule Wednesday. A hostler drove the hcrse through, arriving here last evening. The Marshall County Ixukpkndknt has entered its second year with a splendid record as a newspaper and hopeful outlook for future success. Monticello Press. J. E. Kllis and Mirion McNulty of Kewanna have rented a room over the Shoemaker restaurant, where they start a cigar factory. The gentleman come well recomended and will commence work very soon. A ton of hay sells for 13 dollars and a horse sells for a song, and winter keeps steadly approaching. A common horse will not only "eat oil" his own head this winter but he will devour the profit on all the other horses in tr e barn. It is said by an exchange that W. C P. Breckenridge advertises himself as "neither a J oseph or a J udas." It com

ments on the above assertion by saying, 'No one will question the first half of his declaration. Breckinridge never lost his coat in a manner like Joseph. Peter Low, of Sullivan, Indiana, and editor of the "Sullivan Union" called in our city lor a few hours to-day. Mr. Bow is an old resident of Marshall county formerly living at. Argos. J.B. Powell was suprised last evening when alter the -upper work had been done, to hear that his cook Mrs. Wively had just been married, at the parsonage of Bev. Smith, to a gentleman by the name of Unvi who is at present running a teed barn back of the Windsor House From Saturday's Dally. Only 1.00 per year. M. A. (). Packasd left for Chicago today. Dr. Knott left for Argos this forenoon. Tramps are numerous on our streets again. Harry Petwiler is visiting friends in this city. Fd. 1 'unison, of Warsaw, called in town yesterday

Henry Stein returned from Lapaz last evening. J. S. Myers, of Culver City, was in the city last evening. Mr. J. Greer, of Bourbon, called in the city yesterday. A. J. Ball, of Notre Dame, is home on a two days vacation. Clem Shoemaker, of Illion, was in the city yesterday on business. Bev. Light delivered the lecture for the S. of Vs. last evening. G. W. Holman of Bochester was in town yesterday on business. Brooke Bowman, editor of the Bremen Enquirer, was in the city to-day. Miss Julia Gilbert left for Chicago where she will make her future home. C. T. Watson, of Bourbon visited with the family of Dr. Jackson yesterday. Chas. Schmidler loaded his house hold goods for LaGrange, Georgia Via the Vandalia Boute. Miss Kllie Snyder who has been visiting Mrs. Henderson for a few days returned to Burroak to-day. Bert Ashton, Wm, Clark, Edward Giller, and Simon Myers Jr., attended the Jance at Lapaz last evening. Mrs. Frank Lampson returned yesterday from a few days visit with friends at South Bend. The jury in the Durrant murder case has done just what the general public expected it would do. In the patent oilice reports of this country, W" different styles and varieties of pens are described. Mrs. J. C. Martin, of Mullberry, Ind., and daughter are visiting her father who is very sick at present. Bed ink was formerly made of a solution of Brazil wood, combined with alum, tartar, water and gum. Jack Dempsey, the famous pugelist died yesterday morning, at Portland, Oregeon, at 0:& of consumption. The largest check was one of 8-, W3.230, drawn on the Bank of England in payment for the Kimberley diamond mines. In Middle Smithlield, Pa., there is a chestnut tree that measures nineteen feet in circumference four feet above the ground. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, of St. Louis, Mo. who have been visiting with the family of Chas. Harris, left this morning for Otsego Michigan. Bev. Bell, presiding Elder of the U. B. church, passed through the city yesterday on his way to Grovertown Ind., where Quarterly meeting will be hel in the U. B. church of that place. Ex -Congressman Conn made a hasty visit to his old home at Elkhart last week. He has purchased property in Washington and will make his home in that city. The Indiana Buggy Co., at Elkhart, have a graphophone to dictate their business letters and then type-write them. This does away with the shorthand work. The operator only has to put the tubes to his eftrs and typewrite them as fast as the machine turns out the words. The II. J. Heinz Co. pickle factory closed yesterday for the season, ha veing ground up over .T2,000 bushels of apples and made over 12.,000 gallons of cider. Mr. II. II. Cowan, who has been taking care of the Tactory, leaves for his home at Pittsburg, Pa., to-morrow morning. J. M. Cleveland If Teledo.Ohio and E. A. Farnham, of Edgerton, Ohio, attended the stock holders annual meeting of the Edgerton Maunfactoring Co. whi ;h was held in in this city Thursday. The directors elected Mr. Arna Cleveland Sectretary, to fill vacancy left by J. B. Smally. From Monday's Dally. Only 1.00 per year. G. Miles of Maxinkuckoe was in town to-day. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Smith a boy. Dr. Wilson was called to Argos yesterday. Miss Effie Disher is very sick at present.

E. Botzm went to Culver City this forenoon. Wil.'iam Young left this morning for Chicag . Miss Daisy Loshier left for Chicag this morning. Wm. Gordon, of Argos, was in town to-day. John Baugher, of Walkerton, ws in the city to-day. A rowd of young people drove to

Argos last evening. Mrs. Chas. Drummond left for Chicago this morning. J. AV. Palmer and wife of Culver city Sunayed in the city. Joel Hoggs, of Argos, called in the city today on business. A. A. Yoast was in town Saturday afternoon on business. Miss Minnie Cox, of Culver City, visited in the city yesterday. Sheriff Smith was called to Culver City Sa urday evening. .John Eadd, of Argos, was in town on business this forenoon. Norman Baily, of Walkerton, called in the city over Sunday. Otto Alberts has accepted a position as clerk for G. Wolf & Son. Wilson Hutchings, of Muncie, Ind., is visiting friends in the city. 1). L. Guilfogle, of South Bend was in town to-day on business. Bert Nussbaum, of Culver City, spent Sunday in the city with relatives. Forest Stevens, of Argos, drove over last Saturday evening on business. One hundred and thirteen new buildings were counted in our city yesterday. Manie Harris, Bert Harris and Chas. Corbin drove over to Bourbon yesterday. Mr, Beatty, of Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting friends in this vicinity for a few days. A Big Black steer was struck by the 10.08 passanger train going north last Friday night. Mrs. J. M. Douglass, of Pierceton, Ind., spent Sunday with her sister Mrs. D. E. Moore. Bev. Lattimore, of Evanston 111. has been in the city visiting with friends for a f o v days. Daniel Shively, from the eastern part of the county, was in town on special business to-day. C. B. Hammerei, of Broughton, Ohio, has purchased the lunch room formerly run by Chas. Wilhelm. Mrs. Dr. Beynolds, had to telephone last Saturday evening for assistance to get a crazy tramp out of the house. Miss Lena Koonz left Saturday for Laporte to spend a number of weeks with her sister, Mrs. Sam Braverman. The Y's will meet Saturday night at the residence of Miss Olie Williams, corner Washington and Center streets. The Saint Michaels congregation went in procession to their cemetary west of town yesterday to honor their dead. The six large ice houses located at Shelby Ind., the property of Anderson A: Freeman, of Chicago, burned Saturday. Deputy Auditor Poulson and county clerk Chandler, of Warsaw, attended the Sons of Veteran's camp fire last Friday night. The postollice known as Berlinton has been abandoned, and hereafter residents of that section will be compelled to get their mail at Bremen. Wm. Bristol, of Bourbon, was in the city for a few hours to-day, on his way to Lapaz, where he is doing the brick work on Leonard Logan's new store building. Dr. Frank Ilectar, of Bochester, Professor of diseases of the eye and ear, of the Indiana Electric Medical College, is in our city to-day doing some special work m eye surgery. Eugene Welch left last evening via Argos over the Nickle Plate railroad, for Buffalo and Boston. Mr. Welch and Mr. Kleopfer drove over to Argos in the afternoon. It is the easist thing in the world to die a Christian. The most of those who die upon the gallows pofess to die Christian. The greatest trouble we have heard of along this line is to live one. This surely worries the most of them. A woman living near Keiders Mills, become insane last week and wandered away from homo with her little eightmonth old baby in her arms. It is said she roamed through that section for several days without any thing to eat and when discovered, tho littlo babies hands and feet had been badly frozen That Omnipresent Young Brother. Featherstone "1 wonder if yoursister realizes, Willie, that during tho last month I have given her ten pounds of candy V Willie " Of course she does. That's why she is keeping her engagment with Jim Burling a secret." Harper's Bazar. A 2,5000 damage suit his been filed against the Tipton County sheriff and a Frankfort contractor, named Whitowan by farmers Abuer Nelson. John Erb and Bobert Freeman, who were arrested, and put in jail without cause during a strike of contractor Whiteman's men

Jail breaking has become so common at Logansport that the sheriff has found it necessary to employ a regular guard to watch the jail from the outside every night. One night the latter part of last week the pnsoj ers were surprised

at sawing a heavy iron bar holding the scuttle in the roof. From Tuesday's Daily. Only sl.m per year. Yesterday was pension day. John Oilier is remodeling his house. Tom Dye, of Warsaw was in this citv to-day. Dr. Wilson went to Argos this morning. -V. A. Yoast, of Akron, was in town to-day. m. Everly left for Bremen this in rning. Mrs. S. S. Shakes is at South Bend for a few days. Jacob Deveny,of Argos, was in town yesterday. Floyd Mc Grew, of Argos, was in town to-di.y. Ed Kuhn went to Argos on business this forenoon. The graveling on Plum street is being linished. Lige Cannon, of Argos drove over to-day on business. John Shirey, of Argos, was in town to-day on business. Edwin Mayer left for Wauatah this morning on business. M. O. Packard returned from Chicago this afternoon. Ball A: Carabin are the possessors of a new gold leaf sign. Mr. aud Mrs. Dr. Dutt drove over from Argos yesterday. Frank Firestone, of Bourbon, was in town to-day on business. John Leonard is arranging a newsewerage on Garro street. S. D. Leady, of Bourbon, called in the city on business to-day. M. L. Essick, of Bochester, called in the city yesterday on business. The Alter Guild meets next Monday evening with Miss Ida Klinger. Jean Marshall's new house south west part of town is nearly done. Judge Bearson, of Knox, is on the bench to-day at our court house. Brinks new house in the south eastem part of town is nearly completed. Henry Sever, of Culver City, was in town on business yesterday afternoon. Dr. Denniston, of Laporte, called in the city to-day enroute for Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. McCormick drove over from Argos yesterday afternoon. M iss Minnie Smiley, and Miss Ilattie Pickerel drove over from Argos yester day. Miss Kllie Snyder, of Bourbon, visited with her uncle J. E. Snyder this afternoon. A new drainage pipe is being laid at the corner of Walnut and Garro streets. J. W. Wiltfong has built a new fence at his residence in the souih east part of the city. G. W. Holman and J. II. Biler, of Bochester, called in the city yesterday on business. W. B. Draper and wife, Grand Bapids, Mich., called in the city a few hours this forenoon. Miss Lizzie Welch returned from St. Louis last evening, where she has been visiting for some time. Mrs. Ira Buck, of Marionette, Wis., is the guest of her brother-in-law Mr. Harry Buck, of this city. John Palmer and wife, who have been visiting with Mr. and Mrs Hoham left for Chicago this afternoon. About thirty people from the surrounding vicinity left this morning via,. theL. E. & W. B. B., for the settlements in Georgia. In consequence of the numerous express robberies of late, tho various companies have advance! the rates for carrying money from ten to twenty per cent. A new Telephone pole was raised yesterday morning that was 50 feet long and 18 inches at the butt, it is the heaviest pole raised in the city for line purposes. A box containing three large Salmons were shipped to the U. S. Express oilice from Seattle. Washington Territory. They are very large and weigh about ten pounds. J. W. Burns and wife, of Ft "Wayne were in this city to-day enroute for TVrre Haide, Ind., to attend the Y. M. C. A. convention. Mr. Burns is tho Secretary at Ft Wayne. For the rapid construction of trolley wires, Chicago beats the world. On Saturday evening no evidence of an electrie line was to bo seen on Indiana avenue, and at 10 o'clock tho next day electric cars were running from Thirty ninth to Fifty-first street. A bogus iostonico inspector was run down yesteiday at Chestertown. He entered t he post oilice and wanted tho book 4, claiming to be in search of a missing money order. Be failed to show the proper credentials and postmaster McBoney had him arrested. ie refuses to give his name or resi dence. He is about forty-live years old and well dressed.

Yesterday at Danville, Ind., .lodge lladley overruled the motion for a new trial in the Hinshaw murder case and sentenced the prisoner to the penitentiary. The attorneys will appeal the case to the supreme court. Hinshaw it is feared will not live lone He will be

taken to the prison at South Bend to-day-Many of the farmers of DeKalb county this state have tohaul water to keep their stock from suffering, the wells and streams having gone dry. The drouth has been unusually severe in This portion of the state, welis and streams going dry that always before withstood the dry seasons. "Why don't you run a newspaper like that ""said a merchant toa county editor the other day. throwing out a Chicago daily. For the same reason that you don't run a store like that,' the editor replied, turning to an advertisement of a Chicago house, showing a big twelve story building. The merchant looked attentively at the picture for a moment and said:" "I never saw it just that way before." Ex. A dispatch from Whitney yesterday says, that the fires ttiat have been raging south of that point for ten days past have become so dangerous that the tire department was called out, and since that time has been doing efficient service. At one time it seemed that the entire town of Bobertsdale would be consumed, and it was only by extraordinary efforts that the llames were subdued. Guards patrol that entire strip of country at all hours. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Marshall County Agricultural Association was held yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock at J. W. Parks law oilice. There were fourteen present who elected first, eleven directors, who afterwards elected the following officers: M. W. Simons, president; Jerry Plain, vice president; S. N. Stevens, secretary; and O. G. Soice, treasurer. Their aim will be next year to excell all other fairs ever held in the county. James Brown, the self confessed train robber, was brought from Allegan, Mich., and placed in the jail at Albion, Ind., Brown confessed to the robbery of the Lake Shore express at Kessler, Ind., six miles north of Kessler on Sept. 12, IH'Xi and implicates Abe and John Smalley two notorious characters of that county. It is said Abe Smalley threatened his life, hence the confession. Brown says little of the sentence he expects to receive, but expects a light one. He said that he would tell the Noble county officials all they wanted to know of the robbery. A South Sixth street young man tells the story this way: I stood on the porch one evening when the sun went silently down; and the June bug bright in the starry night, llew merriiy through the town. Oh, sweet were the gentle zephyrs that blew trom the balmy south; and red were the lips and sweet were the sips that 1 took from her pretty mouth. Her tiny waist was encircled by my arm so strong and so true. Said I, "Whose duck are you, love''' "Yourn," she murmured, and "whose are you?" Oh, the hallowed hour that evening; oh, the cruel caprice of fate! Her father unkind stole up behind and kicked me over the gate. From Wednesday's Daily. Only 1.00 per year. Bev. Landis left for Lapaz to-day. Dr. Knott was called to Argos to-day. O. F. Ketchem went to Lapaz, to-day J. K. Houghton went to Argos to day. Theo. Cressner left for Argos this morning. J. French drove from Argos this morning. Judge Capron left for Bochester this morning. T. S. Kerns, of Kewanna was in town yesterday. lsreal Ladd, of Chicago, is in the city to-day. S. 1. Lontz, of South Bend was in town to-day. T. J. Stanton, of South Bend, was in town to-day. James M. Quivey drove over from Argos to-day. Dr. Linkenhelt went to Omer, 111., this morning. John Clapp is building a new house on the west side. Geo. Holeman, of Bochester, called in the city to-day. Judge Essicks, of Bochester, was in town this morning. S. J. Peters, of Bochester was in town this forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. II. E. Buck left for Chicago this morning. Dr. J. J. Hamilton, ot Lapaz, was in town to-day on business. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Miller, of this city left for South Bend to day. J. Sapp is building an addition to Ids house in the west part of city. The stone wall for M. W. Simons' now house is nearly completed. Mrs. Frank Fertig and Mrs. Goodell drove to Argos this morning. John V. Calvin, of Bourbon was in this city yesterday afternoon. A. B. Copeland, of Rochester was in this city yesterday on business.

JuliusC. Bowiey, of Bochester, is m town on business this morning D. J. Landers, of Columbia City called in this city to-day on business. Georg Burson. of Winneir.ac called in this city yesterday n business.

I A. J. Sherman, of Valparaiso, called I 111 the city on business es!erdav. i I Advertising can never se-m valuable to a T-.ian who has never tried it. Horace Corbin is building a new house in the south part of this city. m Moi.-r has moved hi household effects into the southeast part of the city. Otto Bot set, of Washington. D. C, is visiting with relaties m this city for a few days. Mrs. Major Mauk, of Fort Wayne, is visiting the family of John Dial lor a few days. Mrs. Peter Ciawfi -ni l.-ft this morning for Chicago where she will visit for a few days. An ordinance meeting, of union congregations, will be held at Pretty Lake church next Sunday night. Mrs. I. Rothenberger is on the sick list; she is suffering with a complication of la grippe and neuralgia. Mr. and Mrs. W. II. J. Flagg of Argos, are visiting friends and relatives m this city for a few days. Dr. Jacks 3ii was called to Pictoria, Ohio, yesterday on account of the serious illness of his only sister. The new llag stall' on the new Brink building is adorned this morning with the emblem of our country. The corn husking machine seems to get in its work. W. A. Banks, near Laporte had his hand badly mangled Monday while feeding one of them. Stephen A. Bothenberger, of Millberry, Ind , is visiting his brothers Bev. I. Bothenberger and S. W. Rothenberger, for a few days. Miss Jennie Maher.of the Ixdepexd ext oilice was called to her home in Joliet, 111., by a telegram announcing the serious illness of her mother. A large force of men was put to work Monday morning on the double track exensiori of the Ft. Wayne road, west of this city. The company wants more laborers. The postollice department has "spotters" in several cities shadowing letter carriers, to see if they devote their time to their otlicial duties, They have recntly visited Goshen and Elkhart. Messrs. II. ( J. Thayer, I. W. Bothenberger and A. R. Underwood will leave to-morrow morning via the Vandalia for the Y. M. C. A. convent ion at Terre Haute. Mr. Bothenberger goes as a delegate of the Y. M. C. A., band of this city. Perry Graham, aged eighteen years, of Grand Bapids, Mich., was injured yesterday under a Chicago and Grand Trunk freight train at South Bend. He was taken to the hospital, where his legs were amputated and where he died yesterday afternoon. At Bichmond, Ind., the Whitewater run, which Hows through that city, has risen several inches in the past two or three days, until now it llows over a dam that it has not ilowed over for many months. The cause is said to have been the recent earthquake. A delegation of hijjh school boys marched out Garro street at noon today with colors llung to the autumn zephyrs. Their color bearer bore a red bandana at the top of an eight foot clothesline pole. They were singing Bah, Bah, Bah to the tune of Old II nndred. It is said that the bean, the common every day white bean, the same kind used by Bostonians, was cultivated first by the Egyptians. The priests at that time believed it unclean, and not lit for food. It is mentioned in the old testament twice, and it is considered a certainty that the Hebrews knew of its existence 1UHJ years B. C. Andrew Gosbert a farmer living near Mentone, Ind., on the Nick Plate B. R.t committed suicide last evening by hanging himself to the rafters of his barn. He had mounted a barrel, aud, after placing the noose about his neck, kicked the barrel from under him. The body was discovered yesterday morning. Gosbert had been extremely melancholy of late, caused by financial reverses. He was about forty-live years and leaves a family. The mining situation at Carbon, Ind., is exceedingly bright. W. E. Eppert, general manager of the Eureka mines, reports Ins company behind with their orders, principally on account of not getting cars. The bulk of Iiis orders at present ate coining from the gas belt receiving one order last Friday for four hundred tons from that section. The other four mines near there are in about the same condition. F.very indication points to a bright future for the block coal. Republican cocks are crowing loudly and lustily to-day. Bepublicaus went t j the poles yesterday in tens, hundreds and thousands and deposited such myriads of fluttering ballots that some of the most cherished hopes of the oppo sition were so deeply burW that their recovery must be the result of long and faithful efforts of restoration. The weather man has predicted snow

(lurries for this afternoon and evening.