Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 September 1899 — Page 1

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1 Como tadepeede A. PLYMOUTH, MARSHALL COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1899. No. 39: Vol. 5.

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' J. H. Wilson, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. PLYTIOUTH. INDIANA. Office over Bill & Carabiii's store. DR. N. S. LINDQUIST. Physician and Surgeon. Office hi MMlel l.uiMiu:. Tel. VX. Mlit calls rfluutleil to. A. C. HOLTZENDOKFF. C. F. HOLTZENDORFF. Physicians and Surgeons. Coriifr Michigan ami Jetlerson streets. NiIit calls answered. John S. Bender, Attorney-at- Law. OTUV rUHl.U'. Special attention trlveu to Conveyaueiiv. Ouietiun Titles, an.l 1'robato business. Offli-Hover Shoemakers resuurdiu. Plymouth, lud. R. B. OGLESBEE, Attorney-at-Law, PLYMOUTH! INI). Kuhu liulldlng, l'lioue 14ü. TESTED FREE. H. Q. PATTON, Opt. G., First Door South of Postofflce. Koom 4. Office open every afternoon except Monday. MONEY AT SIX! 6 O TODAY , o IT COTS VOU OTHItlG to CALL om WRITE JOHN C. CAPRON, Packard Blk. ATTENTION, FARMERS! You who have been iayl i: 7 ami 8 per cent. on inortnaire loans are respectfully solicited to call ami see me. I have a limited amount of inonev that I will loau at 6. 5'i and t per cent. which rates I am sure cannot be surpassed In the county. No delay money ready a soon as abstract Is approved. Office over Jiail & Co. Plymouth, lnd WILLIAM EVERLY. 1 SHOEMAKER'S RESTAURANT can always supply you with Fresh ISrentl, Cakes, I'ies ami everything in hatter JJOOUS. i Our Lunch Counter is always supplied with just what you are looking for to satisfy your appetite. We serve warm meals at any time. Oysters served in any style. Special Attention r. .: t n I given iu uiauuiaLuuiug ui uuc A -" 4 Aä, t) I A HntriP in tho ' -r -r , f . I Dunny ouinwesi Missouri We can furnish you 160 acres of One farm land for only FiftyFive Dollars. Finest Country for Fruit, Grain, Hogs, Sheep or Cattle. Climate and Water Unexcelled. No swamp or malaria. TITLE PERFECT. SPECIAL RAILROAD RATES. For particulars and book of informa tion, call or write AMERICAN LAND CO., Suite 714, 59 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. ILL. If you lif our city, all ad $ee us. Me men Mod thU paper. HUMPHREYS' WITCH HAZEL OIL C Piles or Hemorrhoids Fissures Sc Fistulaa. Burns & Scalds. I I Wounds Sc Bruisea. Cuts & Sorer. B Boils Sc Tumors. Eczema & Eruption Salt Rheum Sc Tetter E Chapped Hands. Fever Blisters. Sore Lips & Nostril Corns Sc Bunions. w Stings & Bites of Insoota Three Sues, 25c, 50c. and $ixx 60U by drugglats. or aeot postpaid on receiptor prtQT

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O Value of Miii-rthnll Comity Properly. The table below gives the propor tionate and total valuation of taxable property in Marshall eo-inty as esti mated during the last assessment. The Pennsylvania railroad company's prop erty has not been added in as the state board of equalization has granted that company an injunction and the settle roent will have to be mad 3 in the courts, several years may elapse be frr Anvthincr rifffinim rnmoR of it. ' Union 1,100,700 center 1 508,033 (ireen 713,350 Rourbon U70J85 TiDoecanoe 820.820 German 1,2'J8,030 a" vl HI .... .... .... .... .... .. 'jV j I UlK aiotu west 001,125 Walnut i,uz.s,ii.u Total townships $CJ,'J72,023 Plymouth $1,140,040 Kourbon. 2UU.185 430.3ÜÖ 281,530 12I.J50 Kremen. Argos . . . Culver... Total towns S2,287,750 Grand total S12.25UJÖ0 In 18') I the total reached. . . .S13.9G4J33 I.ont III Fortune. A few years ago Miss Grace Quive, of North Manchester, who had won fame as a sweet singer, being a member of the Kostonians, deserted the stage and married Charles Van Studdiford, a millionaire of St. Louis. Misfortune has since visited them and she will return to the stage. A recent special dispatch to a Chicago paper says: Recently a real estate firm in which Mr. Van Studdiford had invested most of his wealth went under practically wiping out his fortune. Hut he had his horses at the fair grounds and during the last stake race backed Sidbow and Sidbow lost. Yesterday after the stake race Sidbow's owner and his wife sat down to talk over their shattered fr rtunes. It was hardly a time for jollity, but friends say they stood up hand in hand, smiling bravely. The wife told her husband of her new-made resolve. He was too much touched by the depth of her loving sacrifice to deter her. It will be like starting life anew for them. He has his racing stable and it is a suc cessful one. She has her glorious voice aod assured success before her on the stage. Labor Day at Month ltMil. There were six thousand visitors at South liend Monday to witness the celebration of Labor day. In the fore aft. b mm noon speecnes were aeiiverea ana in

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all the afternoon a parade three miles long passed through the principal streets. Well-known South Hend women appeared in carriages gorgeously decorated with llowert.. The first pirze was awarded to Mrs. J. M. Studebaker, sr., and the second to Mtb. Kdmund A. Chockelt. The prize for the best decorated pony trap was awarded to little Miss Florence Harrett. The features of the industrial parade were the exhibits of the merchants and manufacturers, lion. Clem Studebaker and J. M. Studebaker, sr., the only living brothers of the celebrated firm, ap peared on one lloat clad in workingmen's clothes. Clem Studebaker was at the forge and his brother at the bench. At night there was a monster bicycle parade. Winter Apple. People who are banking upon a sur plus of winter apples this year should post themselves a little, said a Berrien county fruit raiser recently. "Here the commission men have been paying us a dollar a barrel right on the trees, they picking tbem and paying shipment charges. I'm holding mine for a better price. There were plenty of Maidenblush and Astrachans, but winter ap ples are not so plentiful by any means. Then there is Missouri with scarcely any apples and New York with an inferior supply. No, winter apples will not be burdensomely cheap, you can rest assured." Vrog in Stomarli. The strangest thing that has happened in Lake county in some time has just occurred. The Un-year-old eon of .Mrs. .Minnie wenuacx, resiaincr near Deep river, has been complaining of an itching sensation in his stomach. Tues day last he was taken with a violent fit of vomiting and what was the surprise of every one when a frog, about three or four inches in length came hopping out of his mouth. It is believed that while out hunting early in the summer the boy drank from a spring, and it is supposed that in the water he swallowed a tadpole, which has since developed into a frog. Smitllpoi In I'orter County. i no Valparaiso Messenger says Trustee A. . Lantz, of Porter town ship, notified A. 1. Letherman, secre tary of the county board of health, that a supposed case of smallpox had been found at the home of Mr. Harms who resides near the Porter-Lake county line in i'orter ounty. The suspect is Harms' son, who came there from Crown Point. Dr. Letherman ordered the house quarantined. Harms lives about twenty miles from Valparaiso.

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More Light Shed Upon the Dastardly Depredation from an Interview with Itev. IVter. In an interview with Kev. Peter Wednesday he stated that he had con victiug evidence aqainst the rowdy element in Lapaz. There is no doubt in his mind but what the saloon element was at the bottom of the late dastardly assault upon his house and family. When the fall terra of court convenes in this city, he said, things will come to light which will startle the people immeasurably. In order that the public may more fully comprehend the trend of mattere, it must be understood that Kev. 1'eter caused a barkeeper to be ar rested at Lapaz last Wednesday on the charge of keeping the blinds of the sa loon down on Sundays. He plead guilty and was fined. On the next day Kev. Peter caused the arreet of Frank Yocum, supposed to be the owner of the saloon on a charge which dated six weeks back. Mr. Yocum was allowed to go free because no convictiog evi dence could be produced to show that he was the proprietor. Saturday night occurred the destruc tive dynamite explosion in which the front part of the preacher's house was completely demolished. Mr. Peter states in connection with this, that the dynamite was placed within eicht feet of his desk where he habitually sits when writing or studying. Hadhebeen at home on the night of the depredation he certainly would have been sitting there and nothing but a miracle could have saved his life. Thus it looks like a deliberate plot had been made to assasinate him. When asked his reasons for making war upon the lawless element of Lapaz, Itev. Peter disavowed any sentimental motives. He did not arrest the saloon men from spite or from any fastidious impulse. He said, ' I am not a prohibitionist; I drink beer when I care to. I reserve the right to refuse it. I made what arrests I did simply because the law was being broken which was wrong and which therefore came in my province as a minister to correct if possible. I intend to tight the lawless element in Lapaz to the end." KTOI.K A I'll FX' K AND CASH KD IT. Karl llrollitirt. Who Live Near Lapaz, Make Trimble for the Authorities. Another incident of sensational char acter has aroused Lapaz. Last Tuesday noon while Joseph Streba, loreman of the Heinz Salting works, and his gang of workmen had gone to dinner, the olllce was broken into and two checks, one belonging to D. Hostetler and the other to I. S. Warren, were stolen. After a thorough examination of the topsy turvy otlico no clue could be gained and the matter remained a mystery until the next day. Wednes day, different banks iu the surrounding cities were telephoned to and warned against accepting the checkB. The warning came too late, for the State bank of this city had cashed one of the checks for $20.50. Earl 15rod hurst, the son of a well-to do farmer near Lapaz, was remembered as having presented it and ollicers found him on our streets a few minutes later with the cash and other checks in his possession. He was immediately taken in charge by Con stable Samuel Thomas, who proceeded with him on the way back to Lapaz. Soon they were met by the young man's father. The latter requested tbat he might take his son in his own carriage, which he did, after obtaining permission. They drove ahead for a short distance, while the constable and his deputy, W. K. MclJeth, followed in the rear. For a mile or so. all went well, but after that the son was seen to be struggling. The whip was given to the constable's horse. When along side the pair be found that tie young man had produced a revolver, which the father was trying to extract from his grasp. Through the combined efforts of all parties, the weapon was secured and placed ia safe keeping. Upon arriving at Lapaz, young lirod hurst was taken before a justice who, after proper bearing, placed him under a $1,000 bond, which the father fur nished. The young man is said to have had some trouble last year over a note that had been altered before beiDg presented at the bank. TIIKIK JACK I.ANTKKX KXl'I.OOKO Two Country Hoy Indulge in Nport that l'mvetl l)iHHtrouH. Two boys, aged sixteen and eighteen years, sons of Philip Drewer, seven miles south of Bremen, indulged in some sport on Monday night, which proved very disastrous before they got through with their fun. The boys had made a jack lantern out of a large pumpkin, intending to frighten some voung ladies who were returning to their homes from a singing school. About nioe o'clock they placed the jack lantern on a corn crib that was built against the barn near the road. The elder one of the boys then took the bottom from an old lantern and filled it with kerosene, which he lit with a match and placed inBide the pumpkin. The boys then ran across the road, and had just concealed themselves among som3 bushes, when there waaan explosion in side the jack lantern, and in an instant

the roof of the corn crib was a mass of flames fed by the burning oil. liefore

water could be secured the ilames had communicated to the barn. Mr. Drewer who at the time was just retiring for the night, hurriedly went to the barn, and with the aid of his sons succeeded in getting the horse and a buggy out. The barn, which was small, was old and as dry as tinder, and in a 6hort time was in ashes. Several tons of hay and a set of harness were destroyed with the barn. The loss will probably be 8300. There was no insurance on the barn or contents. Keturii from Western Trip. W. II. Nichols writes an interesting letter concerning his trip in the far west, in company with C. H. Grube, O. A. (irube and E. Clifton. They left June 5th and but recently returned. While in the west they visited Martin Albert, at Forest (i rove, Oregon, a son of Mr. Albert of West township. They took a trip up the Columbia river, the scenery along which appealed to them as exceptionally grand. They also visited the noted Spokane falls. While crossing the Rockies, Mr. Nichols said that the rails spread and the engine with three coaches went down a fifteen foot bank, they being in one of the coaches. They were badly frightened but came out without a scratch. Upon theii return they visited near Devil's Lake, North Dakota, calling upon M. M. Strawhecker, formerly of West town ship this county, who emigrated to Da kota three years ago. Mr. Strawhecker now has a 320 acre farm and ample machinery for manipulating it. Mr. Nichols says that he thoroughly enjoyed the trip but would advise no one to go west of the Kocky mountains for em plovment. He thinks the Dakotas otler best inducements. & Uli day School Aooiat ion. The annual session of the Tippecanoe township Sunday-school association wil be held at Center church Sept. 10, WM ri&OGKAM. AFTEKNOON SESSION 1:30 O'CLOCK. Music Center Sunday-schoo Invocation A. J. Duryee Music Summit Chape Dlrliculties in the village and country schools Chas. i.Cooptr Discussion Mrs. A. Vernette Order in the Sunday-school. Why? How? Hiram Horn Discussion A. M. Laird Schools at home and abroad J. W. Park Music Tippecanoe Sunday-school If Christ ßhould come into the Sun day school David Harrington Discussion Mrs. Irene linger Losses sustained by children not in the Sunday-school Will Coar Music. . .Summit Chapel Sunday-school D;8CU68ion Mrs. Mary E. Hume Question box J. W. Wiltfong Music KVKNINU SESSION', 7:30 o'clock. Sone service, led by C. F. Cooper Lecture: The Sunday-school, as it was and is Hon. II. (J. Thayer Benediction J. II. Coopek, Pres. West-Walters Itetrothal. Charles We6t, of St. Joseph, Michi gan, and Mise Nettie Walters were married yesterday at the home of the bride in Columbia City. A number of their friends who reside in Plymouth were present to witness the ceremony. The young couple are so well known here that it is scarcely needful to remind the public that Mr. West was for several years employed in the Vandalia oflice of this city while his bride held the position of clerk with Ball & Carabin. It is the would-be pledge of their friends that worldly wealth, celestial happiness, and every blessing of a married life may be their lot henceforth. Suicide at Knox. Yesterday noon Mrs. Frmcia Seider, wife of the county surveyor of Stark county, committed suicide by shooting herself. Her husband and three little children aged respectively six years four years and seven months, survive her. No motive is given for the deed though it may be remarked that she had been in ill health for some several weeks and at times her mind seemed shattered. She is well known in Plynouth, being a sister-in-law to Denny O'Brien and a relative to John Appleman and others in this vicinity. Hörnet Kiid a Service. A nest of hornets was stirred up by a child playing near the Catholic church at Rochester, Ind., while Father Zern was conducting services Sunday evening. The angry insects Hew into the church and attacked the priest. He was badly stung about the face, and both eyes were closed. The serviee came to an abrupt ending. To Test Law. A dispatch says the state compulsory educational law wi?l be tested in Laporte county, where a congregation of Christian Scientists will resist the order of vaccination of school children issued by the etate board of health. Tie same matter was fought out in Wisconsin and the Christian Scientists won in the courts. Not lee. 1 have determined to remain in Plymouth, and my old clients and friends will find me in the Wheeler block fully prepared to do any kind of law business. wtf Chas. P. Dkummond.

AT THE CONFERENCE.

METHODISTS IN SESSION AT FRANKFORT. Full K'ireeitat ion of !-l'irate from the District - Speculation a to the Change of I'liilors llev. .1. II. UoIHuksuorth's Case Ke. lr. Scliell. Frankfort, Ind., Sept. 7. The 48th session of the Northwest Indiana con ference convened Tuesday evening at 30 o'clock in the Methodißt church. The trains during the day brought in a number of ministers and the attena ance upon the opening session was large. Judge .1. V.Kent, of this city, made the welcome address, and Kev. (I. W. Switzer, of Lafayette, delivered the conference sermon. The church was beautifully decorated with llowers and potted plants and presented a most inviting appearance. Electric fans were placed about the church so that the heat was hardly noticed. Kev. E. A. Schell, I). 1)., of Chicago, secretary of the Epworth league, and a man who will attract his share of atten tion in the conference, arrived during the day. When the ministers' charac ters are passed, about Thursday, will determine whether the Schell case is to be dropped or put to a church trial. It is generally believed nothing will be done. Dr. Schell is one of the bright est men in the conference. First lluslne Session The first work of the conference was Wednesday in the election of ofiicers and the appointing of the various com mittees by the presiding bishop, llev Dr. John F. Hurst, of Washington, D. C. Rev. J. A. Maxwell, who for vears has acted as conference secretary. was elected to that position without r.ciHr,n II 1; if lUl i. 1 J äJ m I The first request for the conference av r i - J i trA. i 1 xor next jear was uieu u ai. x aui s cuurcu, xjoiajciir, who ab uiai .ue) nave me nonor oi enieriaining me conference next September. The members of St Paul's church will push their claims for the conference. The program Wednesday included a missionary sermon by Kev. Dr. Schell and pentecostal meeting led by llev. Aaron A. Wood. Wednesday night was the missionary anniversary with a sermon by Kev. Dr. J. R Leonard, of New York. .Many Changes of rttor. From all indications there will be a number of changes in the pastorates of the larger churches made during the present conference. The cities talkd of are Valparaiso, Crawfordsville, Milburn church at, South Kend, Ura.il, (Ireencastle and Trinity church at Lafayette. Kev. W. W. Mountain has withdrawn from the pastorate of Trinltv church at Terre Haute. Of trie other Terre Haute pastors Kev. 1). TilI . . 1 I -'I . !, 1 . . It' W.Uppyand Lev. 0. 11. Kerry will in an prooaouny oe reiurneu iu rhurphpfl 1?pv I r 2 Shotlv. of ft VP- I land, has died and Kev. Claude Travis has been supply minister for the church. Kev. Mr. Crooks, of Indi anapolis, has supplied Trinity church at Lafayette in a very acceptable manner. Dr. II. A. Tucker has entered the work of the anti-saloon league, leav ing Valparaiso open. Kev. E. H. Krumbaueh. of the "First church at Crawfordsville, has been out of w rk on account of sickness. He will at tend the conference and may again take up the work. It is said that both Crawfordsville and Krazil will ask for Kev. L. C. Kentlv. Krazil asked tor him two years ago but Kishop Waiden refused the request. Now they feel that he should be returned. Grace church at South Bend wants Kev. J. W. Walker, D. 1)., returned. He spent three months in the holy land this year and on the continent. Grace church has grown under his pastorate. Kev. 3lr. HolliiiKworth, Crusader. There is a kindlier feeling amoi g the miniotar inward ltnv .1 1 1 . Hnllinrsworth, formerly pastor of the church in this citv. and his name is frequently heard mentioned by them. At tte fit Dr llnllincrswnrth rPRicntMi his pastorate here to unite with Mr. ,1. Stitt Wilson in the work of the social Crusade in Chicago there was considerable criticism of his course among the ministers of this conference. Kut the church and his brethren recognize his sinceritv and admire his bravery. The - - 0 conviction has also been growing that the work he is in is very important and that his real usefulness will not be di minished, but enhanced. There have been rumors alloat that he was suffer ing because of the necessities of lite. but these reports are no doubt exagger ated. The men of the crusade live very simply, but they do not suffer. There is a very kindly feeling toward Kev. Mr. llollingsworth in the confer ence, and should he desire to return to the recular work of the ministry the way would be opened for him. There - - is, however, no probability of bis re turning. cutter items. Peru ran a Labor day excursion to the lake, about six hundred persona being here. The special train consisted!

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iwu ui wuicu were piacarueu, one Indiana Manufacturing Company Mutual Aid Association," and the other 'Peru Street Fair and Farmers' Reunion Sept. 11-10." The day was cool and breezy and all seemed to enjoy themselves. The Peru band played some excellent music. Miss Alice Shultz has returned after a long visit with out of town friends. Last Thursday mornin? A. L. Porter ex-Deputy County Auditor and his famiiy left for 'he west in a covered wajon. They will pass through Southern Illin ois, cross the Mississippi, and making their way accrosa Missouri will spend the winter with (ieorge Hoke in LaKette county, Kansas. In the spring the two men will take up a claim in Oklohomo and make that their future home. Sunday, Sept. 17 the new Evangelical church justcompleted will be dedicated. everal eminent divines will othciate and the entire week preceding will be given each evening a sermon by 6ome visiting clergyman among whom will be Hevs. Fred Daniel and Samuel Zechiel. Horace Shugrue, who has been oper ator at Culver this summer will soon enter the Hervey D. Voreia Commercial college at Indianapolis. Horace was a second year high school pupil last year. While tying up the Aubbeenaubbee Captain Frook became entangled in the head line but fortunately extricated himgelf. He now nurses a sore limb. Harry Armstrong ia suffering from an abcees on his neck. After tire and a half months' employ ment in Chicago Miss Cora Geiselnian is spending two weeks' vacation with her parents. She will visit relatives and friends in Napnanee and Bremen be fore her return. Some attempts should be made to suppress the swearing and obscene Ianguage so common in puuac places. A few arreets would mitigate the evil. I The Terre Haute Express announces an excursion to the lake next Sunday, tne 10tn Fare , for the round lri Tnig m be , , excurfion from tbere thig 6eaeon and judglQg from the three previous ones it will be no email a Hair. Monday night the gasoline launch, Dewey, collided with the naptha launch. Tewfik, owned by H.A. Edwards and M. Shirk, of Peru. The Tewlik had six persons aboard and carried no lights, to which the accident is probably due. The naptha withdrew from the melee with a couple of cracked plank. The Notre Dame football team are practising daily on the academy gridiron. Mr. and Mrs. W. II . Porter and Mrs. Miriam Korp left Tuesdav lor New York where they wi'l visit with their brother and sister, Jacob Speyer and Mrs. Maxwell. Thev will return after the Dewey celebration. (J c;. , f bue.ffig the other day. 1 utöua ül ,a81 weeK t'. who has been proprietor of the Colonade hotel this season, suddenly departed for some indefinite place. Several creditors are left to place their accounts in the bad debts columns with no resources to draw from. Some of the bills foot up Siü, S?0, S10, S30, Ol OT ".I Tha To.., Iln... Vv..ro0a devotes a half column to his commer cial transactions. L. M. Lauer, attorney for Anton Herz, the owner of the Colonade, came down and locked up the round stand. As a result of a tussle with some from Plymouth m has a very lame boisterous fellows Marshall Mawhorter shoulder. Kev. F. O. Fraley, of the M. E. church, left at 1:14 Tuesday for Frank fort to attend the Northwest Indiana conference over which Kishop Hurst, of Washington, D. C, presides. The C886 of KeV. S?hell, of Epworth league fe, promises to occupy a prominent place in the proceediocs. We believe d hope Kev. Fraley will be sent back h?re for n an earnest, energetic young man, and two new churches are the result cf his year's labor in this circuit. I Castleman & 'o. have sold out their coal interests to J. 0. Ferrier. The Culver Military academy opens on the llHh. Charles Curtis spent his week's vacation at the lake. The date for the opening of our city schools has not been definitely fixed. Principal 11 ahn favors the lsth, while the board urges the 25th. The teachers have been employed as follows: High school department, Irvin S. Hahn; Grammar, Ira Howe; Intermediate, Nellie Voreis; Primary, Elsie Walters. The brick work on the new M. E. church was finished Monday evening. Sunday school will convene in the ii ,. .. casement at iu a. m. next Sunday. ruitry. We are paying 7c. for hens, 8c. for spring, cash. We anticipate good prices all fall. It will pay you to bring your poultry to town. w2 J, Swindell & Kno.