Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 16, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 April 1898 — Page 8

MASONIC. PLYMOUTH KILWINING LODGE, No, 149, F. and A.M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Daniel MeDonald,W.M. Tohn Corberly, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No 4j, R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. L. Southworth H. P. J. C. Jilson, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, N026K. T.; meets secondhand fourth Thursday of each month I) McDonald E. C.; L.TannerRec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs Mary L. Thayer V. M.Mrs. G. Aspinall. Sec ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan st. Ed Campbell N. G. Chas. Shearer Sec KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117 meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Lou Allman C. C. Chas. S, Price K. of R. and S. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No. 499; mcets the second and fourth 1' ridny evenings of each month, in K. of P. hall. Elmer Werntz C. R. Daniel Cramer bee. HYPERION TEMPLE RATHBONE SISTERS, meets first and third Friday of each month ( Mrs J. G. Davis, Mrs. Rena Armstrong K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. Dan.Jacoby, Com. fames Hoffman, Record K teper. L. O. T. M. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M. hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Flora J. Ellis, Commander. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE NO. 2S; meets every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs. Maggie Fogle, Com., Alma E. Lawrence, Record K eepcr. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third r Wednesday ev enragfl of each month in Simon's hall. Moses M. Lauer, Regent. Francis McCrorv, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE MORL D Meets lirst anl third Wednesday evenings of each month in K.of P. hall. C. M. Kasper, C. C. Toe Eich, Clerk O. A. R. MILES II. 1 I DUETS POST, G. A. R: meets every first and third Morula J evenings in Simons hall lKvight L. Dickerson Com,. Charlie Wilcox, Adjt. SONS OF VETERANS. Meets every second and fourth Fri day evenings in (j. A. R. hall J. A. Shu nk, Captain. Cora B. North, ist Lieut. CHURCHES. P Ii K S Ii V T E R I A N CHURCH Preaching at I0:3U a. ra. and 7 p. m. Sabbath school at noon. .Innior Kndeavor at 4 p. in. senior Kndeavor at R p. nj. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Teacher! meeting immediately following. Re. Thornberry, Pnetor. M KTI 1 1 ) I M T. lase meeting every Sunday morning at SlJO o'clock Preaching at 1030 h rn.. and 7 JO p. m. Sunday school at 12 m. Ppworth league ai ':'.Vi p. m. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 700 p, m. L. S. Smith, pastor. .1 W. Wntfong, class leader. P. Prank Hedd. sabbath school superintendent. PROTEST AS T EPISCOPAL, st Thomas' church. Pev. Wm. Wirt Raymond, rector. Sunday services, 10:30 a. m.. 7 3 p. m. Sunday service, at noon. Services Wednesday evenings at 7:30. Communion on holy days at 10 a. m. CHURCH OF (.OD (iarro and Water sts. Pegular servii t-3 10:30 a. m.. each Sunday. ' Third Sunday in each month preaching l.y J. P. Wince: fourth unday by II. '. Peed. 1080 Sunday morning and 730 sunday evening. Sunday school at 12 o'clock: Pva Railtbadk Sn'pt. Prayer meeting .at 7:30 each Thursday exening. ! N I TED BRETHERN. Sondaj 9:90 a. m., class meeting. 10:30 a. m., and 1 MO p, m., preactiing Oy the pastor. 1 30 a. m., Sunday School. SrOO p. m. Junior Y. P. C. IT. meeting. SsOO p. m.. senior Y. P. C I '. meeting. A cordial invitation is extended to the public CATHOLIC CHURCH Church re held on Sundays as follows: Pirst mass? at 7 30 a. m . second mass at 10 a. ra. 'etpers at I p. m. Week day mass at 7:43. Pather Moench pastor. ARE YOU ALIVE To 1 be frt tbal ad MCCeMfa baslecm men TCStl their fMMH to th- iieml ue of print- ' Wh not profit by ibt.t riper encef

THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.

C W. METSXER, Pub. and Prop. PLYMOUTH, - - - INDIANA. Minor Happenings cf the Past Week. EVENTS OF LAST SEVEN DAYS. IVlltUal. Religious, Social and Criminal JtN lugs of the Whole World Carefully Condensed for Our Readers The Accldent Record. Carthage. Ill Mrs. H. J. Flynn, daughter of W. C. Hooker of this city, drowned herself in a cistern. She was undoubtedly insane. Washington The famous filibustering tug Dauntless has been offered for sale to the navy department. She will be inspected and will probably be purchased. Milwaukee, Wis W. C. Williams, the foremost criminal lawyer in Wisconsin and attorney in some of the most celebrated cases in this city and stat1, is dead. Quincy, 111. William Layton, an Inmate of the soldiers' home, was killed by a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy freight train. Paris The Princess de Joinville, wife of Prince Francis of Orleans, is dead. Washington Representative .'ohu Simpkins of the thirteenth district of Massachusetts died at his residence in this city of heart failure, induced by gastric complications. Green Bay, Wis. The big department store of Simon & Oppenheim caught fire. The fire was confined to the upper story, but the stock is ruined by water. An estimate places the stock at ?50,0uC and the insurance at ?25,000. Akron, O. George and Anthony Aldersmott, young sons of John Aldersmott. were killed by an electric street car. Their bodies were mangled horribly. Washington By unanimous vote of the executive committee of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Gen. David S. Stanley has been designated to act as president of the society, vice Gen. Kosecrans, deceased, until the next annual reunion. McAlester, L T. A terrific windstorm swept over the country between this place and Lehigh and Colgate. Four farmhouses were demolished and the occupants of three of them are reported to have been killed. James Seafoam, wife and three children are reported among the dead. Greencastle, Ind. Clarence Snyder, aged 31, was arrested here charged with rifling a mail pouch at the Big Four depot on Feb. 19. Salem, Mass. Abner Cheney Goodall died here, aged 1)3 years. He perfected the first printing press that printed on both sides in one operation. Terre Haute, Ind. Prof. M. Seiler, who until two years ago was a member of the faculty of the state normal school, f( !1 downstairs at his residence and died soon afterward from the shock. Muneie. Ind.- Tanks in Ball Broe.' fruit jar works burst and 300 tons of molten glass fired the factory, which was destroyed, in the pit of the fire were twenty-one of the patent blowing machines. These form a big per cent of the loss, which will amount to from S '0.000 to $G0.c00, with $22.000 insurance. South Bend. Ind. The University of Noire Dam has given the Leetare medal of honor to Timothy EL Howard, chief justice of the supreme court of Indiana. Detroit, Midi. J. T. Wing & Co. and T. W. Noble were burned out. Loss 150.000. Areola, 111. A barn belonging to William Harmon, ten miles west, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $1.200, partly insured. Perry, 111. Fire destroyed business property worth $10,000. Clinton. Iowa While burning rubbish Mrs. Gears Risch was burned to dearh. London Forty-seven Japanese warships have been ordered with short terms of delivery in England, France, nermann and the t'nlted States. Grand Rapids, Mich.- The Furniture Manufacturers' association has adopted reauttatforaa urging the importance of rcciproeK? wHa Canada on lumber. Wash union Wheeloek Ct. Veazey of Vermont formerly member of the lntjfiar' foaacne ommission. Is dead. Plttabwrg If is announced that a voluntary edeanet of 10 per cent In wages ha? been given the 00 employes at the C arrfe fnrnaeea. Kaasafcee. 111. The bank of John Pout r as of St. Anne was entered and the vault blown open with nitro-glycer-ir.. but the thterea were frightened before they rcenmenued work on the safe. A small amoonl of --ash was secured! Fort Madison. Iowa Mis Etta Price drank prmnrfc a: id arid died. Youngstown, O. Mrs. Henry II. Cornell appeara oa the ticket for a member of tlx- hoard at education Btoomlngton, 111. Mrs. John Sheeh;in died in iliis rity. aged 102 yea it She was a native of County Kerrv Ireland, and had lived in this utntry forty-one years. Auburn, Ind. J. B. Zu bber of Antwerp, .. was brutal! assaulted and robbed of J." Ottawa. Ont. The bill prohibiting the entry lato Canada of nursery stock from the United States Was ligned by he governor general. London Many persons were killed Bttd injured a: Montego. .Jamaica, by a dynamite tiptoetoi in the fTTTtmMal iorehouse.

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DESIGNED TO FIGHT.

WHAT A REAL BATTLESLIP IS LIKE. An Officer of a Monitor Is Responsible for a Nf Design That May lie of Great .iu- to the w Not a Thing of Beauty. The accompanying sketch was made by a naval officer who has had some experience on the larger monitors. It represents ia a general way his conception of the ideal battleship. All ships are compromises, aud this design departs materially from the wellknown and approved monitor type in having a superstructure forward. This feature enables the ship to maintain DESIGNED TO FIGHT, her speed in a head sea, which Is wholly impracticable with the ordinary monitor, although a sea abeam has but little effect on the speed of this peculiar craft. For about two-thirds of its length the design presents a freeboard of only thirty Inches, which may be considered the monitor standard. The freeboard at the bow is ten feet. The twelve-inch guns are well located for sea work, being eighteen feet above the water line. The turrets are housed In barbettes. The height of each barbette above the deck is twelve and oneTHE COLUMBIA, half fet. A leading feature is the conning tower, which is a tower In fact as well as in name. It has a height of twenty-seven and one half feet above the water line. Is twenty-five feet in diameter, and twenty iuehes thick. There is nothing equal to it now afloat. MAXIM'S NAVAL GUN. (It Works Automat bally and la Onerally Kept in a Warship s Conning Tower.) The conning towers on most ships are mere death traps, and many om-

manding officers say they would rather fake their chances ca an open bridge than to occupy one of the alleged "conning towers." The smoke pipe passes up througn the center of the tower and receives protection from it. The smokepipe is utilised as a mast, and carries the usual fighting top and signal yard. The top of the smoke pipe is 100 feet above the water line, and as the fighting top is fifteen feet below the smoke outlet, the men at the top guis ought not to suffer any discomfort from smoke. The barbettes and conning tower rest on the main deck, which is two inches thick. The side armor is continuous and has a mean thickness of twenty inches, twenty-four inches amidships, tapering to sixteen indies at the ends. The depth of side armor is six and one-half feet. The thickness of armor on turrets, barbettes, and conning tower is twenty inches. The length of the vessel on water line is 300 feet; beam, seventy feet; draught forward and aft, twenty and one-half feet; displacement, about 8,COO tons; twin screw; indicated horse power, 5.0Ö0; speed, about thirteen and one-half knots per hour; coal capacity, 500 tons; main battery, four twelveinch and six four-inch guns; secondary battery, six six-pounder rapid-tiring guns and two thirty-seven mm. Hotchkiss revolving cannon. The sketch represents the ship cleared for action, the boats at other times being stored on the superstructure. The presence of a superstructure amidships adds much to the comfort of a monitor's crew and does not increase her size as a target, as bridges and other gear would incumber the space between the turrets and give the enemy as good a mark as does a superstructure. This point is illustrated by a comparison of the Minantonomah and the Amphitrite, the former having no superstructure. The model of this design is necessarily

THE FASTEST VESSEL IN THE UNITED very full, otherwise ih- enormous armor weights could not be borne. The absence of elght-ineb gunfl mean ; ariiflee of offensiv power, but there is a corresponding gain la armor protection and In general simplicity. The ship ran be commanded by one nan Mid ha. idled by a snuill rrew. TU designer believes that this ship, although coating not over two- thirds ;iv mm h a the Indiana and lfing much cheaper 10 maintain, would be more th;;n ; match for the pride ,f the Hooaier Mate. OsMstd 1 1-ltlPd for Anion. Attention has been attracted to the merchant Bteamehtns thai are classed a auxiliary cruisers to the navv. and which COUld be fitted out in ; short time so as to serve most effect ively aa commerce destroyers or as speedy transput ts for the handling of troops. The available steamships that could be utilized b the government would constitute a h'K fleet, and experts believe that it would prove of great service in the event of war with any country. The four big sfnsmrk: of (he Anieiicnu

line, the St. Louis, the St. Paul, the New York and the Paris, are the largt ; .: ships of the number, and besides the 1 there are the steamships of the New York and Cuba Steamship company, and the Mallory, Morgan. Red D and Panama lines. All of these reaaelfl could be fitted out and prepared fur duty in a very short time. They would be supplied with guns of the DriggsSchroeder and Hotchkiss pattern, which are designed to throw a targe number of small projectiles with great rapidity. Naval offers do not believe that all the available merchant steamships would be called upon to do duty as commerce destroyers. They believe that half a dozen cf the fastest

JUDGE ADVOCATE If ARIX. (He Carried the Report of the Main Inquiry to Washington.) ones would be more than enough I wipe Spain's small commerce from the seas in a comparatively short time. The navy yard at Brooklyn could accommodate ten large steamships at (!-. time if it were necessary to fit them out at short notice. Horror of War. "War," said the old colonel, a h stirred his toddy, "is too terrible to contemplate. It should not be lightly STATES NAY T. : spoken of. sir: it i- a serious, sad affair. I have two graves in Virginia, 1 one in Tennessee ami three in Kentucky, and but for war the inn, who fill them would be living yet ! " "Your ! sous, colonel?' asked the llntener, in an awed voice. The colonel io-sm! ff his toddy nent, .nd stroking hi- gruj beard said: No. si;: my enhetitute; the brave men who fought, bled and lifer THE O'HIGGINS. (Now Belongl to Chile. But M.iy He Purchased by Uncle Sam.) died for me!" Then the listener coughed and observed that wbiaky was not ;is good now as it. was before the war

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VISITED WESTERN CANADA.

Report of Delegates Sent from Michigan to Alameda District. The following letters have been selected from a large number of those sent by delegates to report on Western Canada to their friends in Michigan, and as a remit of which hundreds of people expect to leave this spring for the Free Grant Lands of Western Canada. Alameda, N. W. T.t Aug. 31, 1897. Dear Friends of Saginaw: Those desiring to secure a good and sure home will do well to take our advice, and examine the land in the neighborhood of Alameda, as we know that everyone who sees this land will be agreeably surprised. Before seeing this land we were partly in doubt as to moving here, but after looking it over we at once decided to make our home here, and we beg those of our friends who are desirous of securing farms, not to let this chance slip by, as the soil is of the best and the water can not be excelled. The finest wheat we ever saw is also raised here. We shall return home In haste, straighten out our a airs, and movd iiere at once. 01 Yours truly, (Signed) WILLIAM GOTTOWSKI ALBERT MAI, WILLIAM RIEDEL, Of Saginaw. Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 10, 1897. Mr. M. V. Mclnnes, Chief Colon Lotion Agent, Detroit, Mich. Dear Sir: We are pleased to state to you that we have found the country in the vicinity of Alameda fully up to what you and Mr. Keller had represented It to be. I is, in fact, an ideal location for mixed farming. The soil is the best we ever saw, and as the farmers were all busy at threshing, we had an excellent chance to see its productive quality, which cannot be surpassed anywhere. The cattle could not be in better condition. We saw two year old steera equal to three year old raised in most places, and these, as are all others about Alameda, were fed on native hay in winter and herded in summer. Aa we had previous to this visited the Northwestern States in behalf of a large number of farmers, to locate suitable land for mixed farming, we are now in a position to say that the Alameda district of Western Canada surpasses them all. The country ia equal to that about Thüringen ln Germany. We were rather sceptic before starting, and our intention was to settle in spring, if we were suited, but we have now decided to move at onee; that is. as early this fall as we possibly can. We left Mr. Riedel at Alameda, and take back his report, and we will take his family and effects with us when we go. Yours sincerely, (Signed) ALBERT MAI FRED GOTTOWSKI. Ludington. Mich.. Nov. 1, 1897. M. V. Mclnnes, Esq., Colonization Agrnt. Detroit. Mich. Dear Sir: We have just returned from the West, and were exceedingly well pleased with the country. We are going back to take up our homesteads in early spring. We received 35 per month and board working for farmers, and the board was the best we ever had- -the beef and mutton especially were excellent. The fine flavor js owing to the fine grasses which the cattle and sheep feed upon. The people are very hospitable, and treat their hired help with much kindness. The grain i- much heavier than here; wheat being 6J lbs. to the bushel; oats 48 lb., and barley often 55 lbs. Any man with a good team and money enough to buy provisions and seed for six months can become rich there in five years. Many people who arrived there five years ago with little, or nothing, are well off now. One man I met held his wheat from last year and was offered $10,000 for this year's crop and what he had held over from last year, and la holding at ftl pr bushel. We are going back in the spring to work for this same farm er until serdina. afur which we ,111 homestead between seeding and harvest. We think we will nenle on the Manitoba & Northwestern R. R. You can refer any one to us for this part of the country, while w-i are here, and we will cheerfully answer any questions which anyone may wish to ask. Yours truly, (Signed) CHAS. HAWLKY. JOSEPH DOLA. SU!-l iv- Ytr i ltl;u kMiUlh. When a man has reached 81 yeara and has worked at bkickriiiithing unceasingly for sixty-five years one might excuse him if he ehandofeed lie anvil evermore, but ; smart old fellow down in Maine aaks no release in these cireurastaBeec and coatittucs merrily on. Wgnlstosl t lie Niove. A suit for divorce in Chicago the 1 other day brought out the Bad that ihe husband and wife had not spoken to noch other Cor eleven years. Wlna Um husband wanted to jaw his wife ho would g into the room where she was ; and all the BtOVe all sorts of names. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has improved ita height facilities in Philadelphia very materially during the past year. A new pier, No. SI Botath, which was completed in Dt comber 357 feet long and ltd fvt wide, and is said to be one of the finest in the city. Vessels of the deepest draught an tie up on both sides of the pier, thereby affording every facility ior the prompt handling of freight. The pier and sheds are lighted with improved lucandeaceat liht- ind well paved drivewayt hive bee m-ovided. This improvement enables the B. and O. to handie about three tin is much business as formerly. The different freight yards throughout the city have been improved by the laying rat additional tracks, and arrangementa have been made with the Pennsylvania Warehousing and Safe Deponit Company by which the B. and O. handles grain, flour, hay. straw, ranncd goods and other merchandise through their warehouses and elevatorg.