Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 17, Number 29, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 October 1895 — Page 4

NAPPANEE NEWS. Nawanee, Elkhart County, Ind. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. By GORDON N. MURRAY. Capt. Anson’s winning percentage in dollars may be all right, but the Hoosiers at Indianapolis can give him points on first plaee in league ball playing. The Indianapolis team did their city proud this season. The Morning Herald , it is announced will be anew newspaper for favors at South Bend. Geo. P. Rose andChas. Taylor are the promotors of the new enterprise. The latter was at one time an employe on Morning Herald of years ago. A young man who recently kissed several Warsaw girls on the street and against their will has been adjudged insane.— Exchange. The jury, perhaps, did not consider the matter only from one point of view, and that is, a sane man would have kissed the girls on the mouth. The decision of Judge Shirley, of Kokomo, denying the motion to dissolve the injunction on which the Roby race-track was closed, puts an effectual quietus on the use of the track until next April. The new association scheme didn’t pan out as was expected by the formulators. New York advices have it that General Harrison has withdrawn from the presidential race. Here in Indiana, ex-President Harrison’s home, it was not known that he was in the race, excepting, perhaps, in a newspaper sense. His might be considered in the same sense, perhaps. Whitecaps have bobbed up in Missouri. At Fulton they, took a man from his house and whaled him nearly to death. The fellow had gone home drunk and ran off the premises his wife and children. Whitecapism is a bad thing to say anything in favor, but .it does sometimes fit particular cases to the queen’s taste. •And now comes the information that the New York Democracy is not in harmony—that is to say, the Tammany tiger,has his paws on the county organization again. New York politics, it has always been claimed, is more difficult to fathom than Ihc balance of the United States.a,ll told. It looks pretty much that way. The nearer the time approaches for the Corbett-Fitzsimmons mill, the more the champions seem to work their mouths. There seems to be no especial effort on the part of one pugilist to out-do .the other in modesty. After all, there is considerable brag and bluster with promoters of the prize ring, either inside or upon the outside of the ropes. Tiie time of year approaches, when the head of the household with marriageable daughters thinks long and hard of prospective coal bills: and the thoughts of the hobo are turned on the free-lunch counter and the soup house. No matter what the station in life, a man can always find something to ponder over at this the most delightful season of the year. The News received a document the other day from a patent medicine concern asking the question, shall Cuba be free? While the News wishes Cuba all the good luck possible, it wouldn’t do to say yes, in answer to so pointed a question, for the News has no guns nor yet dollars to train on those pesky Spaniards. At the present writing, collections on subscriptions are too dull to arouse our patriotism, we fear. TnE “windy” effusion in the Milford Mail of last week indicates that the News must have hit the dyspeptic editor in a vulnerable spot—exact location unknown. It must have been a relief to one surcharged with bile to have an opportunity to throw it off, even at the expense of subscribers—and the latter are the real sufferers from it. It required over a column of valuable space—we are accustomed to using the term “valuable space”—to prove what? That he could make an ass of himself if he only had the room, and that, he seems to have taken. It IHay Do a* Mach for Yon. Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, 111., writes that he had a Severe Kidney trouble for many years, with severe pains in his back and also that his bladder was affected. He tried many so called Kidney cures but without any good result. About one year ago he began use of Electric Bitters and found relief at once. Electric Bitters is especially adapted to cure of all Kidney and Liver troubles and often gives almost instant relief. One trial will prove our statement. Price only 50 cents for large bottle. At J. S. Walters’ Drug Store.

The first meeting of the centennial commission, appointed by the last General Assembly, was held at Indianapolis last Wednesday, when it was decided to refer the formulation of plans to a committee. It is proposed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of Indiana’s territorial government on the 4th of July, 1900, by a creditable exposition, ejtc. Five years ought to be sufficient time in which to carry out the plans for a very creditable show. Now that Maj-Gen. Nelson A. Miles has succeeded Gen. Schofield as com-mander-in-chief of the United States army, West Point will have a kick coming. Gen. Miles is distinguished for his field of experience instead of his school of learning, and is the first general in command of the army not a West Pointer since General Winfield Scott commanded. Gen. Miles, of course, has a self-made record as a soldier that no lover or critic of military affairs would be ashamed of were he himself to meet it. Hon. B. F. Shively, of South Bend, recently delivered an address on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the new court house at Rochester. The board of commissioners of Fulton county were so pleased with it that they adopted the following resolutions, very complimentary to Mr. Shively: The board directs the auditor to extend' to the Hon. B. F. Shively, of South Bend, Ind., the thanks of the commissioners of Fulton county, for his able, pleasing and patriotic address delivered in Noftsger’s Grove, Rochester, Ind., on the occasion of the laying of the corner-stone of the Fulton county court house, Sept. 19th, 1895 - , f TnEKE Seems to be no little enmity with the Roby gang against Governor Matthews on account of the executive’s persistent efforts to weed out the aforesaid gang from the State. In fact, the Governor’s friends have felt solicitous for his personal safety,on account of sundry anonymous letters that he has received of late, the contents of which is said to have been of a bull-dozing and threatening nature. There is every reason for believing that the Governor is not the individual to be frightened from the direct course he believes to be his duty, and the threats will have about as much effect as that of so many dogs baying at the moon. The past year has been prolific in Nappanee for advertising fakirs. More “skin” work in this direction has been been introduced here than during anyone year since the News has been under its present management. The merchants and business men, if they would give such things a little thought, or study the theme of advertising for profitable returns, would at once conclude' that money expended in “snap” advertising schemes might as well have been thrown to the winds so far as profits go with them. The shrewdest men who ever sold goods over a counter and whose success has been marked by advertising have long ago given advertising fakirs the go-by, and are devoting their work wholly to the newspapaper columns. It has never been the purpose of the News to defend an individual in wrong-doing, but when the greater portion of this paper’s constituency is, as a whole, made the subject of venomous attacks and impudent charges by some jayhawker who deals in glittering generalities, the News is ready to defend, them, even to ignoring any far-fetched complaints. It may as well be understood right here, too, that the News does not now nor will it ever pose as an apologist for the shortcomings of any individual. One grasshopper may make a spring, but it is generally understood that it requires more than one swallow to make a summer, and more than one individual to make a community. Whenever the News starts out to condemn a wrong, it usually gets close enough to the spot, that an entire community is not brought under blame, though that community may be one in which the paper has no interest. The Truth thinks that there are entirely too many “John Does” in Elkhart; that the police should either rid the city of them, or when they arrest a person see that the proper name is placed on the docket. There is considerable, wisdom in this suggestion. Yet, the newspapers would have ten tiipes the influence of the police in getting rid of the “John Does” if they would publish the names of the offenders. It is generally an easy matter in a city no larger than Elkhart to learn the correct namt of an individual who gets it on the'docket as “John Doe”. It is an indication that the offender has not lost all

regard for his welfare when he is afraid to allow his name to go before the public. But, by the continued sub rosa methods the offense may be repeated without fear of public exposure; and the publication of the name, “John Doe,” in connection with justice court proceedings is, in itself, a bid for the beginner in petty offenses against society. A little painstaking work on the part of the reporter in his daily rounds would soon put a stop to the “John Doe” business without the aid of the police. When people get into court, whether in a favorable or unfavorable light, the people have a right to expect of the newspaper some matter to the point. However, where offenders are deliberately permitted to escape prosecution, the public has no right to expect the papers to take the matter up on behalf of the community. This paper believes what its contemporary hints, that the official who undertakes to shield an offender ought to be himself exposed and held up to public view as an individual unfit to serve the people. There has been a case filed in the circuit court at Wabash that will be watched with more than ordinary interest. H is one wherein Erastus Ellis, administrator of the estate of John Ellis, deceased, has brought action for SIO,OOO damages against one James Darnell, proprietor of a saloon at Converse, and his two bondsmen. It is alleged that Darnell sold liquor to the late John Ellis when he was intoxicated and that he was thus made incapable of handling his team. On his way home the team ran away, Ellis was thrown out and sustained injuries from which he died. The plaintiff claims that in selling the liquor to a drunken man was a violation of,law and thaU Darnell and his bondsmen must necessarily become responsible for all damages arising .therefrom.. Should the plaintiff recover damages, it will make this kind of a violation of law by the liquor dealer a very precarious business to say the least. The position of the county board of commissioners regarding the investigation of Supt. Boyer, of the poor asylum, is criticised by the press. The facts are that the county attorney advised the board the investigation was outside their jurisdiction. The Review docs not agree with the attorney, but at the same time an -official in that position is supposed to know, and the board is unwise if it fails to take his advice and gets into trouble thereby. The cry of “one man board” is silly twaddle. The grand jury will be called upon next week to look into the matter, and its verdict will either secure indictment or acquittal. The commissioners will then be relieved of responsibility, which they will probably not regret. The Review, however, believes as before that the duty of investigation lay upon the commissioners, but does not blame them for taking the attorney’s advice. —Elkltart Review. In this, the News agrees with the Review. The commissioners are wholly responsible for the proper and improper management of the asylum for the poor. They are certainly vested with the same right to dismiss a superintendent for misconduct or bad management, as they have to appoint one in the first place. A grand jury can’t do either one nor the other. A thorough looking into mattersjat the asylum by the commissioners might reveal a state of affairs that would justify the superintendant’s dismissal or it might result to the contrary. The grand jury may find nothing on which to indict him. It isn’t likely that they will, in fact. There the matter will end, though the county board at the same time might have found by the same investigation sufficient to warrant the man’s dismissal from the responsible position he holds. It may be expected that the commissioners will of course follow the advice of the county attorney. An acquittal by the grand jury will not essentially satisfy any thing but the superintendent’s job and the matter of suspicion of criminal conduct. Nothing outside of that. Former Elkhartan Acquitted of Murder. Harry K. Burgess, formerly of Elkhart, was, Wednesday, acquitted of the charge of murdering James I’. Doyle, at the Marquette building in Chicago, last November. The verdict was brought in under instruction from the judge, the evidence showing that Burgess acted in self defense. He was attacked by Doyle, a labor union official, because he was a non-union man. You Have Seen Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin advertised for months, but have you ever tried it? If not, you do not know what an ideal stomach remedy it is. A 10-cent bottle (10 doses 10 cents) will show you its great merit as a cure for constipation, indigestion and sick headache. Regular size, 50 cents and sl, at J. S. Walters’.

PERSONAL MENTION. Clayton Strohm went to Chicago yesterday. - Chas. Gran and Peter Hare were oyer to Elkhart Monday. Attorney Early was attending circuit court at Goshen Tuesday. Mrs. J. D. Coppes has been spending a couple of days in Chicago. Lenus Miller and family were over from North Webster on Mondav. John Frazier, of Tippecanoe lake, has been visiting his brother, Ben S. Frazier. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Stoops have been spending a week with relatives at Albion. T. F. Stevens, of the Advance went to Warren, Minn., last Thursday, his former home. ■ Harry Hewitt is at Goshen wiring the Hawks factory for one of the Uline Mfg. Co.’s dynamos. Mr. and Mrs. Josiali Slabaugh from Syracuse spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fligor. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Zook are visiting his son Harold in Chicago where he is attending school. Rev. Peter Stuckman left on Monday for West Alexandria, Ohio, where he holds revival meetings. Mrs. Frank Rowell, of Goshen, has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. Kate Fales, and other relatives. Postmaster Peddycord is at Peru today as a witness in the Stuckman case taken from Whitley county on a change of venue. Frank Binkley took in the Ft. Wayne races last Thursday and Friday. He says the attendance was large and the races good. Mrs. O. W. Russell, of Goshen, who spent last week here with her husband, and her aunt, Mrs. M. Teal, returned home Thursday. Frank Fuller is now in the telegraph office at Lapaz Junction. His wife will join him there to-day, where they will go to housekeeping. O. Stair from Baugo township, and sister-in-law Mrs. Jacob Stair from Altamont, 111., were the guests of R. Terwilliger and wife last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. R. Terwilliger spent Sunday with their son Warren and wife at Elkhart. From there Mrs. Terwilliger went to Altamont, 111., to visit relatives. There were ajlarge number of people who took in the “Ohio Excursion” last Thursday, from this place and vicinity. Some of them have already returned home. Elder Thomas was here from North Manchester oyer Sunday to attend the Quarterly meeting at the United Brethren church, taking place Saturday and Sunday. Prof, and Mrs. B. F. Deahl who were visiting friends here a week ago, returned to their studies at Ann Arbor last Friday. Mr. Deahl has one more year at law school when he will return to Goshen to practice. Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses have been granted since the last Issue of the News: Levi Burt Price and Estella Choate. Chris. E. Blough and Nora Harper. Jonathan F. Gemberling and Mertie B. Ott. George E. Ecklebarger and Tillie Raatz. George C. Kistner and Ella Miller. Agents Wanted! IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY, ADDRESS THE LEHMAN MED. CO. NAPPANEE, IND. NAPPANEE REALESTATE EXCHANGE! No. 516. Good little house and firstclass lot on N. Elm street. It can be had for $350. No. 528. New house and lot on North Main street. You can get this home for only S7OO No. 529. 40 acres i mile south corporation line, fair barn, good spring, orchard, and good timber. Price S6O per acre. Good terms. No. 530. 40 acres J mile south corporation line, good orchard and timber, well drained. Price S7O per acre. No. 531. 122 acres, 8S" acres cleared and fenced, good water and wind pump, good house and fair barn, at SSO per acre. 3 miles west and onehalf mile south of Nappanee. No. 532. 80-acre farm 5 miles west of Nappanee. 60 acres under good cultivation, medium house and good barn, good orchard and tubular well. Price, S3B per acre; SI,OOO cash balance in easy payments. See us for BARG AIN S

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