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DRUNKEN MAN IS BADLY HURT

August Pieniuskey, generally known as "Dutch Gust" fell from the back stairway of Wolford's saloon Sunday forenoon, and sustained injuries that may prove fatal. How he fell no one seems to know, but he was evidently coming out of the rooms above the saloon or the hallway. He was drunk and seems to have fallen from near the top of the stairway, his head striking the stone that forms the base for a small cellar way into which he rolled. His head was badly cut, his tongue bitten almost off, and he was badly bruised and unconscious when he was found. Efforts to get a physician at any of the offices on the streets failed and Dr. Martin was called from the Methodist church. He had the wounded man taken to the barn east of the Windsor house where he was made as comfortable as possible. He regained consciousness during the night but one side seems paralyzed. He states that his mother, now almost 90 years old, lives in Detroit, where he also has a sister. "Gust" has been about town for seven or eight years. He is a stone mason, a good workman and gets good wages but his money all goes for liquors or something worse and he sleeps in barns much of the time during summer. Some of the saloon men say they do not sell to him because he always gets drunk and that they cannot obey the law and sell to a drunken man. Others say that none of the laws are enforced in this city and that when church members attend ball games on Sunday, that is just as unlawful as selling whisky on Sunday and they cannot expect liquor dealers to obey the law. It seems time that Plymouth officials were waking up to the fact that laws are made to be enforced. Not Fit To Be President. The democratic papers have been telling us that the New York Evening Post wants Judge Parker elected president. On the first day of July, 1903, the Evening Post contained the following article: ""We presume that Judge Parker's greetings in Georgia as "our next President" will not ruffle his judicial calm. Like the rest of us, he has seen too many next Presidents a year before election. They usually swarm like grasshoppers in the July before the nominating convention. But the Judge will be subjected in his Georgia address to a pretty sharp test of his fitness for president, next time or ever. Will he have the courage to speak a direct and wholesome word to the people of the South on the question which is rapidly becoming the leading National issue? We mean, of coarse, the whole matter of abridged suffrage, denied citizenship, refusal of equal treatment before the law, and the recrudescence of slavery, as affecting our negro population. The Southern papers are full of it, and demanding that the South be "let alone" in its challenge of human rights and disregard of the Constitution. Mr. Edward M. Sheppard told the people ot New Orleans that the South ought to be left to go Its own way. But can a man named as "our next president" agree to such a local nullification of National laws? If he can, he is not fit to be president next year or any year." Is Anarchy Abroad in The Land? There is something very like civil, or worse yet, social war in Chicago. Men have been brutally beaten eyes have been gouged out, the police hrve been qarreled with for trying to maintain order, and on Saturday a man was killed. Last week there was a shameful negro-burning in Georgia. There have recently been labor riots in New York city. We all know of the war on law' and order m Colorado, which has just broken out afresh. And we have just had a touch of anarchy in the army. What does it all mean? Are our people losing, not merely their respect for law, but their very sense of what law means? We seem to feel that we are not bound to obey laws that do not suit us. Indianapolis News. Township Ticket Nominated. The republicans met in convention at the Court Yard this afternoon and nominated Fred Corse for Trustee and Elias F. Sherer for asse jsor. H. n. Bonham, M. A. Jacoby and W. G. flendncks were chosen delegates to the judicial convention, at Rochester August 24.

WORLD'S FAIR BOILED DOWN.

What the Editor of the South Bend Times Says of The Great Exposition Its visitors substantially concur in the opinion that of the World's Fair at St. Louis it can be said truthfully that nothing like it has ever before been seen. It is twice as large as was the Chicago exposition, six times as large as was the Pan-American and oigger, in fact, than the Chicago and liuffalo shows combined. It is a commor fallacy that one fair is similiar to all others, and that seeing one is seeing all. This attitude is a form of mental inertia and a large portion of our people are affected by it. The fact that there have been other fairs should not operate against the St. Louis exposition for in all truth there never has been another fair like this one. The average American does not want to repeat experiences, ne wants something new. He can avoid the former and secure the latter by going to the St. Louis exposition. The exposition is a novelty and it contains objects that neither he nor his neighbor has ever seen. Thousands of people are going somewhere this summer and autumn, and a large percentage of them will go to the fair if they only stop to consider its real attractiveness. There can be found In a degree never before exhibited the odd, whimsical, bizarre, and grotesque or the beautiful and the wonderful. The fair is a transcript of the world; this fair of all fairs, for none before ever enjoyed the extensive foreign patronage which the St. Louis exposition has secured. The four corners of the world have I sen ransacked for their treasures, the best of everything has been gathered from everywhere, the finest work of the cleverest brains of all the different nations of the earth have been confined within the limits of this exposition. It is doubtful if any one now alive, except probably babes in arms, will ever see another exposition to compare with this one. In our opinion it will be the last big fair in years to come. In 1965 or 66 there may be one to compare with it in honor of the closing of the civil war, but probably not before. If you can possibly get to see this exposition go; you make a great mistake if you miss it. It is a grand educational force. It is a remarkable school of architecture. It is a fine panorama of the world's work. It is an echo of the highest and best in civilization. It is a reflection from the workshops, a master-piece of the artist, a triumph of the artisan and an apotheosis of the brain of man. The cheapest tickets ever sold to a big exposition are on sale every day at all ticket offices of the Pennsylvania Yandalia short lines. The Reign of Law. There were 101 lynchlngs in this country last year. Thus far this year there have been thirty-seven. The last one took place Monday in Georgia. The crime was horrible enough. But the point to be insisted on is that the mob will not let the law do the work. As was said about the wholesale lynching of a few days ago, it had been determined in advance to kill the men by mob, no matter what the law should do. The law convicted them and they were sentenced to death, and would have been hanged, the day being fixed. Immediately the mob seized the men and burned them. Nothing in the history of humanity from the early days of Rome to the present is demonstrated more clearly than that the punishment of the populace without law increases crime, instead of decreases it. In the long welter of blood from the dawnings of Roman historv until the law made peace, spasmodic outbreaks show that murders and every form of violence grow by what they feed on. No private punishment has a deterring effect. The vendettas of Corsica and the feuds of ths Kentucky mountains prove that. It is only when the law steps in and asserts itself, not once, but continually, that crime is reduced to a minimum. Indianapolis News. Rev. Mr. Ltneberry Re-elected. The state conference of all the Methodist Protestant churches In Indiana, in session at Elwood, held an election or officers Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. W. W. Lineberry pf Plymouth, was unanimously chosen president to succeed himself, and the Rev. G. W. Bundy, who was formerly assistant secretary, was elected secretary. The conference got down to regular business Wednesday and the appointments to churches representing 10,000 members in the State, will be made Monday morning.

SALOON MEN TO VOTE TOGETHER

Liquor Dealers' Protective Leagues will be organized in every county in Indiana. These liquor dealers' protective leagues have a constitution and bylaws, and every meeting is held in secret. No one is admitted to these meetings who does not have a certain kind of badge engraved with his name, and this badge must agree in name and number with a register kept at headquarters in Indianapolis. While there are no signs, grips nor passwords, there is a word by which the members of the leagues know each other. The preamble of the constitution and bylaws sets out that the object of the league is to preserve the "vocation of Its members honorably and legally, without fear of their foes, and without favor from the officers of the law" to "protect its members from unjust laws," and to "repeal all laws harmful to the retail liquor business." Every member of the league is compelled to subscribe to the following pledge. "We pledge our honor mutually to each other to lay aside individual and political preferences and to lend our aid and influence and votes to defeat any and all candidates for office of public trust who are known enemies to the licensed liquor traffic". There are In Indiana 5,100 licensed retail liquor dealers, and an effort will be made to get all of theminto the leagues. There are about 10,000 bartenders and 12,000 agents, brewery workers, salesmen and others who make their living directly or indirectly, from the retail liquor traflic, and it is the intention to get all of these in the district leagues, if possible. At the present time the membership in the district leagues is about 1,400. No brewer can join. On the recommendation of five members of a district league, and a majority vote of all the district league members, a brewer may be elected an honorary member of a district league, but he can not have a voice in the deliberations of the league. The declaration is made by members of the leagues that two years ago the brewers' organization attempted to buy votes enough in the Legislature to repeal the Nicholson law, but the scheme failed. The Liquor Dealer's Protective League is going to accomplish the same end in another way. The league proposes to elect men to the Legislature that will do its bidding, and to fight candidates for the Legislature who will vote to sustain the Nicholson law. The leaders of this liquor league argue that if saloon men will stand together, they and the prohibitionists can control enough votes in close counties to elect liquor men to the legislature, as in most of those counties from 100 to 200 temperance men will vote for the prohibition candidate for the legislature and thus take that many votes away from anv temperance candidate of either the democratic or republican party that might otherwise be elected. The saloon men believe that with the aid of prohibitionists who are fighting the Nicholson law they will be able to put the anti-saloon league out of business in this state and secure the kind of legislation the saloons want. A Sad Death. Walter Parker, who came here with bis parents from Illinois when they bought the Schrom farm near Inwood died at his home on the farm at noon yesterday. His death was caused by peritonitis from which he bad been suffering about a week. Dr. Bundling the celebrated surgeon of South Bend, assisted by Dr. Knott, performed an operation Tuesday afternoon, but it was at once apparent that there was no chance to save his life. He was 24 years old and leavos a wife and twin baby girls about one year old, his parents and other relatives. The remains will be taken to Aurora, Illinois. More Republicans Now. Ex Auditor Henderson told the Indianapolis Star-Journal that the splendid rainfall was a good thing for his party and quoted the old proverb, "The more rain the more corn, the more corn the more whiskey, and the more whiskey the more democrats." This saying was of great force when people were raising 15-cent corn, as for instance under Mr. Cleveland's second administration, but in these days when our farmers are raising 45cent corn 'it will not wcrV: it will make less whiskey and m-re republicans.

Criminals of Indiana. From reports which have been received ond compiled by State Statistlcan Johnson, there, were during the last year in Indiana-946 jury trials, 1352 convictions for felonies and 3107 for misdemeanors in the state. Nine counties in Indiana furnished one-half of the number convicted of felonies. They were Marion, Madison, Sullivan, Martin, Vanderburg, Allen, Grant, Johnson and Lawrence counties. Indiana courts began the year with 4,151 criminals cases on the docket, and 7.671 were added during the year, making a total of 11,823 criminal cases on the docket. Of these, 3,105 were for misdemeanors. There were 4459 convictions for felonies. Of the cases tried in Indiana during the year 2,392 received punishment by fines and 715 by fine and imprisonment. There were 946 jury trials during the year, and 70 per cent, of a!l cases were dismissed.

Port Arthur a Tomb. Word comes from Moscow, by way of London, that General Stoessel, the brave commander of the Russian garrison at Port Arthur, has telegraphed a friend as follows: "Farewell forever. Port Arthur will be my tomb." Port Arthur has already been the tomb of thousands of brave men, and it will be the tomb of many more. It is known that the Japanese have lost thousands of men in their efforts to capture the place. They are reported to have thrown away thousands of lives. This is no douot true, for the Mikado has ordered that the place be taken no matter what the cost may be. His commands are being followed to the letter. The dispatches from Russian sources, it is true, say that in the five assaults made July 26. 7,000 Japanese were left on the field, killed or wounded. In another assault it is said that 10,000 men were lost. And the total losses thus far are estimated at 28,000. We need not accept these figures as entirely accurate, but they are probably pretty good guesses at the truth. Of course, the Russians have lost heavily, too. Inexperienced Ttachers. Returning from a -Äur of official visitation among the county institutes in different parts of the slate, State Superintndant of Schools Fassett Cotton, makes the rather startling statement that fully one-fourth of the teachers employed to teach ia the common schools of Indiana the coming winter are new and inexperienced, says the South Bend Sunday News. At no time in the history of the state have so many young and untried teachers signed contracts . with township trustees, and it is a question that Is giving our leading educators not a little concern because of its probable Influence, both immediate and remote, upon our schools and people of the state as a whole. The Next Council Meeting. The adjourned meeting of the city council next Monday evening will be an important one. All officers elect were ordered to prepare and have their bonds ready for filing and approval at the session of the council to be held on the first Monday of September at the usual hours. , The city treasuerer was ordered to prepare and file a complete schedule of all his receipts and expenditures as such officer during bis full term of office the same to show fully the conditions of all the several funds in his hands. Rather Odd Horse Deal. Two well dressed strangers arrived in Plymouth last Thursday and put up the team they were driving in Ormond 's livery stable. The following day they sold a horse worth over $100 to John Bowell, formerly proprietor of the Ross house, for $60. The strangers then left the city by rail but mailed a letter before boarding their train to Joliet liverymen, telling them that their team was in Plymouth. The Joliet owners arrived Saturday and indentified the horse left in the livery stable and also the one purchased by Mr. Bowell. The owners took the property and Mr. Bowell is out $60 in the transaction. Purdue to Have Exhibit. Purdue university will have a novel exhibit at the Indiana state fair at Indianapolis on Sept. 12-16. Under the direction of Prof. H. E. Tan Normaa, associate professor of dairying, a model dairy will be conducted and a small class of Purdue students will be at work during each day. The exhibit will be a complete dairy and butter will be turned out at the state fair just as it is churned, molded, packed andshipedat Purdue,

JUDGE PARKER, AND NEGROES

A. B. Sibert, of Rochester declares that Judge Parker is insincere or else inconsistent in his Philippine declaration. lie says the basic stock of our American blacks is the African Negro. The basic stock of the Filipino is the Negrito. Physically and mentally the Negro is as superior to the Negrito as an improved Poland-China pig is superior to an "elm peeler." The Southern Negro has been surrounded by civilization for ages, and has crossed blood only with civilized Southern whites. The Filipino has been always surrounded by barbarism or political corruption, and has been crossing, for hundreds of years, with Malay pirates, Spanish buccaneers, Chinese coolies and banished outlaws from almost every country on earth. Our blacks are similar in race, religion, language and customs. The Filipinos comprise more than one hundred distinct tribes, with more than half that many distinct languages, and differ more widely in race, religion and social customs than did our American Indians, one hundred years ago If the "niggers" of say South Carolina, who speak the same language, practice the same religion and indulge iu the same social customs as their white neighbors, are incapable of decent self government, as our democratic friends assert, how can they expect decent self government from the less intelligent and more vicious Philippine "niggers?" If, after a hundred years of effort at civilizing our American Indians, we are still compelled to keep soldiers near the reservations to prevent their cutting each others' throats, how can we expect to weld into one homogeneous mass, the equally savage and more widely differing tribes of Filipinos? In three of the southern states the blacks outnumber the whites, and if permitted to exercsse their constitutional rights, could easily carry those states against the dominant democrats, but by violence, fraud and dishonest legislation the black vote has been suppressed and the constitution trodden under foot by the very men who are now clamoring for constitutional suffrage and and independence for Filipinos. If Judge Parker desires any information as to why this is thus, frontiersmen will tell him that dead Indians are the only good ones, and Ben Tillman and other eminent democrats will assure him that no where on earth has the Negro yet demonstrated his ability to establish and maintain decent government. Peculiar Death of a Steer. A valuable steer belonging to Lee Beatty, a prominent stock farmer residing nearSharpsville, died in a most peculiar manner. The animal placed its nose into a gallon bucket of molasses and the flange of the bucket caught on the steer's nose. When the animal attempted to open its mouth the flange, which turned in, cut into the flesh and held all the tighter. Unable to breathe because of the molasses in its nostrils, the animal smothered to death in a few minutes. It was valued at $1,000. Shortage in wheat Dop. From reports which are coming in to the state statistician's office the Indiana wheat crop, which was harvested this year, is estimated to be about 35 per cent of the normal crop. Additional reports are being received of the damage to the corn crop because of the lack of rains. Much corn is already pronounced by inspectors in the field to be almost ruined. Charles Stephtnson Surprised. Tuesday, August 16, was Charles Stephenson's 32hd birthday and fifty of his friends surprised him, gave him a fine supper and bad a jolly good time for several hours Tuesday evening. Ice cream and cake were a feature of the evening, the birthday cake, one of the largest and finest ever seen in this county, was baked by Miss Londell Staley. Meeting of Detective Association, The annual meeting of the Marshal County Detective Association will be held at the court room in Plymouth Saturday, September 3, at 2 o'clock p. m. Officers will be elected and other important business transacted. Every member is requested to attend. Marriage Licenses. Ellis Fisher . , Pearl M. Elkins Erwin A.. Stafford MaryE. Swinehart 25 16 21 17

ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

Mrs. Ben Fetters is visiting at Ilanna this week. J. T. Liggett is spending a few days at South Bend. The price of wheat has declined slightly this week. Miss Lizzie Dickson is visiting relatives in South Bend. Frank Ryan, of Fort Wayne is visiting at Dan Brown's. Ben and Claude Switzer are visiting relatives at Hammond. Dessie Matthews has gone to Warsaw for a visit of a week. Mrs. Eli Boone of Tyner, visited at J. F. Langenbaugh's Wednesday. Rev. I Rothenbergerand J. B. Carter are at Winona this week. Mrs Addie Seider and daughter, of this city are visiting in South Bend. There wil be a big crowd at the old settlers picnic, at Lapaz Thursday. Washington Knoblock's pension has been increased to twelve dollars per month. Mrs. Fred Shoemaker and son, John, are visiting relatives at Michigan City. Rev. J. Pressnall is attending the Wesleyan Methodist annual conference at Fairmount. Earl North has returned to South Bend after a visit ot a few days at his home in this city. Mesdames Lydia Appleman and Eliza Long have gone to South Bend to visit over Sunday. Misses Stella Compton and Serepta Cochrane of Bourbon, have accepted positions in South Bend. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman, of Argos, are visiting at Otto Alberts and spending a few days at Pretty Lake. Gust Piuinskv, the man who fell down stairs Sunday was taken to the countv farm today. He will recover. Miss Viva E. Russell of Donaldson, has gone to Laporte to resume her studies in the academy the attended last year. The 19th annual reunion of the 73d Ind. Regiment will be held at Argos, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 21 and 22, 1804. ; Mrs. Murdock and daughter Ruth, of South Bend, are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank numrichouser north of town. Edward J. Duckett has returned to bis home at Maxwell, Ind., after a visit with his daughter, Mrs. George Long, north of towo. It is somewhat disconcerting to the New York markets to have the local sausage men go on a strike during the prevalence of the dog days. Mrs. J. E. Houghton has returned from a visit of almost three months with her daughter atConnersville and relatives at Greenfield, lud. Before asking too insistently for help from the miners, the striking butchers might take into consideration the fact that the miners are not without prospective troubles of their own. Fred Gilbert stole a bicycle at South Bend Saturday and sold it for five dollars. He confessed his crime and was sentenced to Jefferson ville from 1 to 3 years. Nelson Alleman one of the old settlers of Plymouth, died at Chicago Wednesday and the remains will be brought to Plymouth for burial, but we have no particulars. Leroy Staley will have a sale of personal property at his farm four miles southeast of Plymouth, Friday Sept. 9. He is going back to Louisiana because the climate there keeps him strong and healthy. Rev. E- A. Labounty has been appointed to preach for the Methodist Protestant ' churches in this county. The Walnut Grove and Mount Olive churches and a church in Tippecanoe township belong to that organization. Miss Stella Brink, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, James H. Brink, was married at her home in South Bend Tuesday evening to Mr. Elbin Henry. Miss Brink was born in Plymouth and grew to womanhood here, where she has best wishes of scores of friends. William Morrison arrived from Ocmulgee, Indian Territory, Tuesday afternoon. He is in excellent health and says his town has grown from a village ot 200 to a city oi 3,000 since he located there. His son, Earl, who is a graduate of the Plymouth schools is now a teacher in the Indian schools. Hon, Jonh W. Baker of the Columbia City Commercial was here Wednesday for his mother who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Campbell in this city nine weeks. They will go to Ohio for the Switzer family reunion and after a visit in Ohio his mother will return to Columbia City.

MISSOURI NOW A DOUBTFUL STATE

Democrats are beginning to realize that Missouri is a doubtful state. The South Bend Times, the leading democratic paper of this state says: "A red hot tight is on in Missouri between United States Senator Stone and Joseph W. Folk, the democratic nominee for governor. Folk accuses Stone of a purpose to knife him at the election. Stone denies this and charges Folk with duplicity with having sought an alliance with the machine men in order to insure his own nomination to the governorship. Both have made statements through the press. Stone is an out-and-out machine man and about as unscrupulous as they make them. But it must be conceded that he makes out a pretty strong case against Folk." "The trouble that Joseph W. Folk has brought upon himself is due to trimming. It Is well known that the "election" of delegates to the state convention, in St. Louis, was an outrageous fraud. Folk was largely in the majority in the state convention. All that he needed to do to unseat these fraudently appointed delegates from St. Louis was to give the word. His real friends urged him to do this, but he wavered and the beneficiaries of outrage and fraud retained their seats. There were over one hundred of these. The immediate effect of this was the nomination of two objectionable machine men for secretary of state and auditor Sam Cook and a man named Allen. Oil and water don't mix, as Folk ought to have knovn. He could easily have prevented the nomination of Cook and Allen, but for some unaccountable reason he weakened at the critical moment. Now he finds himself between the devil and the deep blue sea. What the final outcome will be can be conjectured, but not foretold with mathematical precision." McGowan family Reunion. The "McGowan SixthAnnual Reunion" was held at the residence of D. D. McGowan at Harris Station live miles north of this city, Sunday, August 21st. Relatives began to gather Saturdav afternoon and before noon Sunday jthe number present had reached sixty. Asocial good time was enjoyed by all in the forenoon. After service at 12:00 m. a dinner wasserved to which all seemed able to do ample justice. A business meeting was held at 3:00 p. m. and officers were elected for the ensuing year. It was decided to hold the next reunion at the residence of James McGowan at Milford, Ind., August 18, 1905. Among those present were Mrs. Lucy Marks, W. II. McGowan, Isaac Fulton and family, Simeon Fulton and family of South Bend;C. J. McGowan, Dan Walters and their families and D. B. McGowan of Elkhart: Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Ames, Graytown, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Tintsman, Nappanee; L. D. McGowan and J. F. Patterson and wife, Buchanan, Mich.. Al McGowan and family, nibbard; Otto Brant and family and Claude McGowan and wife, Milford; H. A. Hershberger, and family Bremen, I. L. Hibbs and family, Kimmel, Ind., Rea VanGilder and family, Ira J. Robinson a-3d family, L. E. McGowan, Plymouth and C. H. Robinson and family, Three Rivers, Mich. Grand Army Picnic A grand Army picnic will be held at George Peeple's grove, on Saturday August 27, 1904. All members of the G. A. R. and their families are cordially invited to participate. A band ai splendid vocal music will be features of the occasion. A peculiar disease among cattle has broken out In DeKalb county. The disease assails the fatty portion of the eye and pushes the eye ball out until the animal becomes blind. The cattle in the early stages of the disease graze and drink, but as they grow worse there is. loss of actiyity. Several persons who are familiar with cattle diseases have examined them but could not tell the cause or give a remedy. Information has been received from Petersburg, Ind , to the effect that Charles B. Thompson, the former Walkerton banker, was arrested two months or so ago at Philadelphia on the charge of grand larceny and perjury in connection with a transaction Involving some stock in a coal mine at Winslow, Pike county, Ind, At the last term of court Thompson secured a continuance and his bond was fixed at $20,000. He is now iu the Petersburg jail awaiting trial.

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