Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 27, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 June 1899 — Page 1

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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. North Michigan 5treet. Telephone No. . rl.YMOlTII. 1M Xijjcht calls promptly responded to. DR. E. O. BELL, No. 117 North Hichlgan St., SOUTH BEND, IND. Practice limited to Diseases of the EYE, EAR, NOSE and THROAT. Fitting Glasses Accu rately (7urdflfce. E. W. Viets, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. O lice at residence. Nortli Michigan street. J. H. Wilson, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. PLYTIOUTH, INDIANA. OlVtce over Ii ill & CaraWn's store. D. C. KNOTT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PLYMOUTH. IND. Ottlee over Flist National Hank. Ofliceand residence telephone No. l. DR. N. S. LINDQUIST. Physician and Surgeon. Office in Model Imildii Tel. 120. Night calls responded o. A. C. HOLTZENDORFF. C. F. HOLTZENDORFF. Physicians and Surgeons. Corn r Michigan and Jefferson streets, calls answered. Night John S. Bender, Attorney-at- Law. NOTARY PUBLIC Special attention iriven to Conveyancing, quieting Titles, and Probate business, otliee over Shoemaker's restaurant, I'lymouth, Ind. R. B. OGLESBEE. Attorney-at-Law, PLYMOUTH, IND. Kuhn Building, I'hone Chaoce of a Lifetime! Closing out our ENTIRE STOCK of fine, up-to-date millinery regard less of cost or value. We will sell our entire stock of Trimmed Hats and Bonnets pattern hats included all the latest styles and colors. $5 for hats that were cheap at J9, $10 and $12. $3 for hats that would sell at $b, $6 and $7. $1.95 for hats that were made to sell at $3 & U. $1.00 for hats made to sell at $1.50 and $2. An elegant line of fancy and plain ribbons, to close, choice 25c per yd. We make the above low prices right in season and you will be wise to avail yourself of this opportunity. Dial 5 Millinery 219 Michigan St., Plymouth, Ind.

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Lake Erie & Western R. R. ANNUAL Niagara Falls EXCURSION. Wait for the Old Reliable Lake Erie & Western Personally Conducted NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSION. Leave Plymouth 9:50 a. m. Thursday, Aug. 3, 1899. Rate: $7.50 for Round Trip. Also Sauitusky, Iut-ln-"ay, Cleveland and Buffalo, with side trips to Lewlston, Toronto, Thousand Islands, Ktc. For tickets, rate, time and pamphlet containlnK general Information, call on any ticket agent of tlm above route, or address C. F. 1ALY, General fassender Ageut, Indianapolis. TESTED FREE. H. Q. PATTON, Opt. G., First Door South of rostofllce, Uoom 4. Ofllce oien every afternoon except Monday.

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K. HAYEs WIS IT KS F1SOM HONOLULU.

A Plymouth Hoy 011 the Lonjj Journey to the Philippines. Honolulu, May 31, 18011. Dear Mother: I thought that I would write you to let you know that I am well. I am 2,372 miles from San Francisco at an island by the name of. Ha waii, and i have got 5,080 more miles to go on the water yet before I get to Manila. When I get to Manila I will be 10,238 miles from home. I am in the Gth infantry in company F. Well I will not get to write to you for a long time, for it will take 23 days more before I get to Manila, and it will take 38 days more before a letter will get back from Manila. Mother all I have seen for eight days has been water. I have not even 6een a ship in those eight days, until we got here at Honolulu, and here there are about 40 big boats. Our boat is taking coal so it can make the run to Manila, and from there it will run to Spain with a load of prisoners lo reiease. At about 4 o'clock this morning we could see this place for it is all a mass of mountains and there are two volcanoes on this island. Ttu-re are plenty of bananas grown here and cocoanute grow like walnuts for they are so thick, and pineapples are the same and lots of other kinds of fruit. This is a very nice place for there are all kinds of trees. I could not tell what kind they are. The people here are about all Chinamen and Japanese, and there are a few Americans, and a few old soldiers. They celebrated Decoration day and we shot 21 guns at 12 o'clock today The guns are about six pound guns. There are f our on this boat and they went off a9 fast as I could count and when the 21 phots were fired the band played several pieces. When I left l'resido I went all around the place and took the cable cars and went out to the cliff house and there I saw about CCO sea lions. The next day after we left San FranCisco I saw threo whales. They were about 40 feet long. Well, 1 do not know how long I will have to stay at Manila, but I think it will be all of my three years in the army. It is 6 o'clock in the morning here while it is 4 in the evening in Indiana. We left San Francisco at 9:40 oi Monday, May 22, and it has been a long and tiresome journey; but the longest part of my journey is yet to come. We have had a gocd ea so far. We are making very good time. When we left San Francisco we went at the rate of 11 miles an hour, and during the last few days the rate of speed has increased to 10 and 17 miles. This is Decoration day and as I am A ..A. t Vila w uui at, nome 10 see it.ua 8 grave, I can think of her here. I was sea sick the first two days of my journey, but now I feel as though I were on land, as the rocking of the boat is just like swinging in a swing, although the waves are about 40 feet high at the present time. Well, I will close for this time, hop ing to hear from you soon. Your son, Edward E. IIayks, Co. F, Cth Infantry FOUNDED 11Y A HIGHWAYMAN. Ke-Ident of Hourbon Saves Cash but is Had!y Hurt. Rourbop, June 13 Charles A. Corn wall, manager of the Rout ton empor ium, is believed to be the victim of an organized band of robbers which has been operating in this section lor sev eral months. As he was going home late last night he was knocked down by a blow on the head. The assailant, after making a brief search and finding nothing, al. though Mr. Cornwall wore a gold watch and a diamond ring and carried S200, lied, being frightened by his victim's cries. Mr. Cornwall returned home. where he was cared for. His condition this evening is eerious. The police have been unable to find any trace of the highwayman. A billy, composed of two large stones wrapped in a white cloth, was found near the scene of the attack. Our School Hooks. Requisition for the new school books to be used in the Indiana schools are pouring into the otliee of the state sup erintendent of public instruction from many counties of the state. All the re quisitions ask for readers, and Super intendent Jones has ruled that no readers shall be sent out, but the re vised readers on which Prof. Clark, of Chicago, is now at work. His work is almost completed. The requisitions for copy books, arithmetics and geog raphies have beeu forwarded to the irms which have the contracts to fur nish the books. Injury of Mm. Harmon. The Warsaw Times gives the followng account of the accident which befel Mrs Albert Harmon of Etna (ireen, a sister of Mrs. Martindale of this city a short notice of which was given in ast night's Daily Independent: "Mrs. Albeit Harmon was badly in jured in a runaway accident one mile west of Etna (Jreen on Monday afternoun, the lady had just come from Etna Green and was driving a single horse attached to a buggy. A pig was in a crate in the back part of the vehicle, and a farmhand was just lifting

the crate from the buggy. A squeal

from the pig frightened the horse and Mr6. Ilarman was unable to control the animal. The horse ran away and threw the occupant from the carriage into a I I I . a n . uurueu wire ience wun disastrous re sults. Uoth arms and shoulder blades were broken one of the arms fractured in two places, above and below the el bow. I he barbed wire cut her above the eye and deep gashes across the breast. Drs. Duntee and 1'arks attended the case and it is thought she will survive. Two little children of Mrs. Harman escaped the accident by get ting out of the buggy just an instant before the animal started to run.' TIIUEK It ASK HALL GAM KS. Plymouth Will Have Three Opportunities to See Good Games July 3 and 4. Arrangements have been completed whereby I'lymouth is insured three ball games on July 3 and 4. The Nebraska Indian base ball team will cross bats with Uremen on the afternoon of the 3d at the fair grounds. On the same afternoon the Eogansport team will play Rochester on the same grounds. The Indian team is composed of genuine red men. This is their second annual tour. The team contains Seminoles, Shawnees Chippewas, Siouxs, Oneidas and Win nebagos, gathered from the various reservations. Among the players are Burkhart, a Shawnee from Indian Territory; Ba-bar-ma-in-we ding, a Chippewa catcher from Minnesota; Henry Weston, a Sioux; Albert Ninharu, an Oneida pitcher of Wisconsin; Good Voiced Elk, a Sioux pitcher from the AntPfi AorftrPV Honrr lnrro o firctbaseman; Romey Dupins, a Sioux sec ond baseman; Spotted Crow, short 6tcp; Iron Eyes, left fielder; Cochita, son of "Shaking the Earth"; Charging Eagle, right fielder; White Eyes, nephew of On the afternoon of the Fourth, Logansport will play liremen. TheBe will all be first class games and no doubt thousands will be attracted from all parts of this section of the state to witness them. Two Women Create Great Kxeltement. Warsaw, June 14. Warsaw was all excitement yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, when Sheriff Matthew's deputies Messrs Ripple and Tuley, drove up Indiana etreet to the jai! Mrs. John Lane and daughter in a carriage, screaming at the top of their voices. The women for two years past have refused to give possession of property sold for taxes jacKson tiie8sner, a retail shoe merchants, purchased a tax title on the property some years ago, amounting to SCOO or S800. Glessner offered the women the property back for ( per cent on money invested, or lo give them 8200 in cash to vacate, all of which was refused. Mrs. Lane threatened the judge who ordered the sheriff to take possession of the property; also the life of Glessner. She always locked hereel in the house when an ofiicer approach ed to serve legal notice. Today an entrance was effected by breaking in a door. Rut little sympathy is extended to the women. Admiral Schley Writes Mr. Ogleshee. in repiy to an entreaty irom our Jourth of July committee Admira cniey addresses it. is. ugiesbee as follows: Washington, D. C, June 7th, 1899. My Dear Sir. Thank you very much for your kind invitation to be present on the occasion of your first annual re union of the 157th Indiana Volunteers on .juiy 4in, ana l regret mat an en gagement made some weeks ago will oblige me to forego the pleasure of be ing with you on that day. Wishing you a propitious day and the happiest enjoyment, I am Very truly yours, W. S. Schley. Crop is Near an Kml, The strawberry crop is neanng th end. me latest vanety ot berry is a rw . now on the market and the end of this week will 6ee about the last of the crop. t rices have been bo low this year that many growers became disconraged aud did not pay to have their berries picked. The cherry, raspberry, blackberry, whortleberry and grape crop will be large and pears and plums as well as apt les will be plentiful. Peaches will be scarce and high priced. Council lroeeedliis. The city council met Tuesday night with all the oüicers present. No busi ness of any great importance wae transacted. The usual number of bills were al lowed. Ordinance No. 217 regarding the pavng of Sophia street was passed" over for consideration till the next regular meeting; as was also the election of members for Hoard of Health. W. M. Kendall was re-elected a mem ber of school botrd. Mrs, Miller Will Recover. Peter Miller, the Warsaw wretch who tried to kill his wife and theu himself, may not recover. Miller begged the surgeons to desist in their treatment and let him die. Mrs Miller will recover. A surgeon states that had the razor wound on the right side of her throat gone an eighth of an inch further it would have struck the jugular vein and of course proven fatal.

NICHOLS SUMS IT UP.

JUHIM W. NICHOLS TELLS WHAT HE THINKS OF OLD VIRGINIA. He Spent a Month There and Gives a I1 interested Account of the Conditions ana I'ossihiiitie for th Benefit of Those Who Contemplate Kmlcrat inj;. John W. Nichols, of Twin Lake, has recently returned from a month's visit in Old Virginia, where he went to in vestigate the advisability of emigrat ing tnereto. since his return, he lurnishes us the following interesting account of the advantages and disad vantages cf that section of the country "Apparently the native farmers of Virginia are behiDd the times. The wheat lookR well, however, though the acreage is small. "The soil ie very red, giving an ap pearance quite novel to a northern man. The soil in that part of Virginia which I visited, has a good red clay sub-soil. A high 6tate of cultivation is possible, because of the sub soil. The country between Roanoke and Lynch burg is very mountainous. Roanoke has a population of 22,000. She has made herself and died within the last ten years. I he whole city is for sale, trade or rent The people of Lynch burg seem to be prosperous. In this section the mountain sides are farmed On the mountain side you see a negro and an ox plowing. "Inext visited South Boston in Hali fax county. The county is fair aericultural land in the river bottoms there is 6ome fin land, but the rivers sometimes overflow. One crop lost in ten years by overllow is the average. South Roston is a great tobacco town. Tobacco is all 6old at auction. The grower takes his tobacco to a Bale house and auctions it off. There are plenty of buyers there. "Corn was knee high in May, while 1 was there. There were some new po tatoes already. Wild strawberries. blackberries, dewberries, grape?, mul berries and plums are in abundance. Plenty of peaches, apples, pears and cherries. "Much of the land is in timber and a good deal is only good for woods and pasture. Price of land ranges from S3 to ;?10 per acre. The $10 land lays near the towi.s. "The country is well supplied with churches. In fact, if one is to judge by the number of churches, I conclude that heaven is just as close to Virginia as to Indiana. "There is plenty of soft water. They have the noted Lithia water, which is sent north for medical purposes. "Rivers and 6mall streams are numerous. Fishing is fairly good. I caught live eels in one day. "They have very good schools in the towns and cities, but in some localities in the country there are no schools. This is because of the laree plantations, the owners of which send their children to the cities. "The climate is splendid. They escape the long, severe winters of the North and the severe heat of the South. The winters nre only about twomoirhs in duration. Ice seldom freezes more than two inches in thickness. Temperature hovered around zero last winter, the coldest in many years. It is a great custom to wear your coat in public places in Virginia no master how hot it is. "At the foot of the Rlue Ridge mountains, fruit is the money crop. Wood is the principal fuel. Many hotels have wood lire-places, some taking wood five iett in length. "The people of Virginia are as a class very clever, and as kind-henrted as any people I have ever met. They seem to delight in making a stranger feel at home. They are polite, edu cated and well informed on most all topics except farming. There are some exceptions, and their large crops show the possibilities of the country. The most of the farmers look to the tobacco crop as the only money cropbut in my humble opinion tobacco growing is now and has t.lways been a curse to the country, as old tobacco growers have long ago come to the conclusion that clover and grasses were an injury to tobacco. You will find thousands of acres with no grass. The ground will not take naturally to grass without sowing the Reed. "Land is cheap, I think, because rf the changed conditions since the war. Instead of negroes working under a boss, as before the war, the whites de serted to the cities, leaviug the negroes with the farms. They had no money and progress was slow, if at all. Farm tianas only get 40 cents a day and board, or 50 cents and they will board hemselyes. A good lim-class cook works for -S2.Ü0 per month. Some people try to farm on shares with one horse or ox and a sorrv inh hey make of it. There is au opporunity for young men with means in Virginia. Uy using the cheap labor here, money certainly can be made if the farms are properly handled. "The aboye is a description of the arming conditions in Old Virginia as nearly as I was able to sum it up. "John W. Nichols, "Twin Lake, Ind."

A LYNCHING LIKELY.

3Iol Kiiriulue at trrtt to llmi( a Fiend. Auburn, Ind., June 12. Jacob Helme, of Garrett, confined in the county jail here, may be lynched before rooming. The crime of which he is acensed ie assault on the two daughters of James Smith, aged 9 and 11. Helms was arrested last night and Sheriff 11 athnway had great difliculty in lodging the prisoner in jail. To-night one of the little girls died. The news created great excitement and a big mob is gathering with the purpose of coming to Auburn, taking Helms from jail, and hanging him. Extra precautions have been taken by the sheriff, and a big force ot deputies is sleeping in the jail. Flight of Carrier Pigeons. Mishawaka and South Rend homing pigeons were liberated at 8 o'clock Sunday morning at Watkins, Iowa, a distance of 300 miles from home. For a llignt of this kind excellent speed was recorded, the biids making about 35 miles an hour. The winners are: Felix Van Vink, Miehawaka, first; Charles Lekens, V. Verplaetze, Peter Vander Haeght, South Rend, second, third and fourth respectively; Clement LaRoyt Mishawaka, fifth. A Mishawaka correspondent says local owners probably would have won most and possibly all of the prizes but for the fact that their birds were most aggravatingly 6low to enter the traps, enabling them to be caught and carried to the judges. Two lost 30 minutes in this way, while another, which was in for first prize easily, consumed 38 minutes in Hying around its loft. The latter are unusuai circum stances for distances of 300 miles. The Fourth of July. Our Fourth of July celebrationis now an assured fact. Everything in dicates that it will be a great success and that we will have a larger crowd on that day than ever before. The ex ecutive committee need money to carry on their work. Postmaster Conner haa been appointed a committee to collect subscriptions. he is authorized to select his assistants. We urgently request all subscribers to have their money ready when called upon not later than Thursday that there may be no delay along this line. If there are any who have not yet subscribed and desire to do so please see Mr. Conger for we will need the money. A strong pull and a pull together will make this a day long to be remembered in Plymouth. EXECn iVK I'liMMirrnSmallpox Cases. Regarding the smallpox cases in the state the Indianapolis Journal says: Secretary Hurty of the state soard of health, was urged by telegraph to go immediately to three different places yesterday where smallpox had broken out. I he telecrrams wrp snt hr tha health oihcersof Spencer, Lagrange and Harrison counties. Secretary Ilurty replied that he could not make a personal visit, and he gave the health oilicers instructions as to quarantine and other methods of heading the spread of the disease. Rnrknnrt ha f.. ivt- cases, Lagrange county one aDd Corydon an unstated number. A Preacher's lVcuinr Claim. A case which will attract much atention and speculation is to be brought nto the circuit court of Crawford county. Rev. J. J. Riunk contests the collection of poil tax, not only against himself, but against the ministry in genera'. The plaintiff maintains that he is church propertv: the nronerfv of he congregation jutt the same as the lastoral residence, and that, as such, he is exempt from taxation. Owing to the number of ministers in the state who would be benefitted if this novel plea should be sustained, the suit is of general interest. It Was Not Small Pox. Shipshewana Tribune: Why is it that when a story is told the second time it has little semblance to th. real truth. The story is out that a number o Shipshewanaites h3ve been taken down with small pox. The parties are even named in the 6tones, yet not a snule soul here has any idea of taking that dread disease. People here only hugh at the two old fossils at Lagrange, who diagnosed the case of II. A. Yoder as varaloid. Gret News from It re in en. Rremen, Ind., June 14 Emissaries aie working Marshall county organizing the farmers for trie purpose of the formation of a trust to fight combinations oppressing the agricultural classes. St. Joseph county in next to be organized. The movement in Marshall count - is assuming formidable proportions. A meeting will be held at Indianapo.is to perfect a state organization. Will l.c Put on Tax Duplicate. The Staike county officials have been advised that immense tracts of land along the Kankakee river will be surveyed, platted and placed on the tax duplicate. This means that a large part of the Kankakee region will be opened for settlement aud revives the report that the drainage of the lands will sooner or later result in the formation of a new country.