Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 43, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 August 1906 — Page 4

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Only Republican Xewspap f in the County. HENDRICKS & COMPANY Pt;SLI3HEBS. OFFICE Bissell Building, corner Laporte nd Ccn:er btreets. Entered at the Postoftice at Plymouth, Indiana as second-class matter. Plymouth, Ind., August 2, 1906. When the bolters' chairman makes an affidavit that bolters are not popular it is time for all Republicans to join the regular organization. JC Garn, the man who wants to be county chairman, has made an affidavit that he is not nearly so popular and influential in Marshall county as William G. Hendricks. J J The movement to check the How of money from corporations into party funds for campaign purposes will be a larger element in doing away with corruption in politics. Money to be legitimately employed will be forthcoming, but the moneys that have been questionably used will cease, to the betterment of politics. 4 J Whether or not elections will really be held in Russia trns year and another Douma will be -onvoked, as promised, " next March, a question that is open to serious doubt. The members of the late Douma have no faith in the czar and his bureaucratic clique. They are inclined to think that if repression succeeds the whole "constitutional" experiment will be abandoned, for the present at least. 0 .4 Goodrich and his political trusts are developing violent opposition in almost every county in the state. Independent Republican candidates for congress are talked of in three of the strongest . Republican districts, tut Goodrich and his henchmen go right ahead making enemies and stirring up all the party strife possible. If the Republican party of Indiana can win under such leadership, the Democratic party is certainly very weak. Jl Jt Ol v Francis Edward Garn, having learned that at least 2,000 Republican of Marshall county want him to stop contending that he is county chairman, his gone into court and made an affidavit that William G. j Hendricks has an undue influence over the people of Marshall county We wonder what Ed's feelings were when Parks and Merrill Moores told him that he would have to swear that Hendricks had more friends than Ed. Garn. v & Ed Gam having gone to the county clerk's office and made an affidavit v that he has no influence with the Republicans of Marshall county it is now more than probable that every Republican nominated at the t convention caiieu Dy darn will refuse to accept and will come into the regular Republican organization and thus compell Garn, Yockey, & Co., to abandon heir efforts to destroy the Republican party of Marshall county. J J J George McCullough, the traction magnate, says that electric railroads in thinly populated sections of the country will never pay. lie says that street railways in small towns never will pay. That a town to be able to maintain a street railway that will be profitable must be over 20.000 or be a town that is growing. He I is inclined to the belie? that thefe companies . that are willing to invest their money should be considered public benefactors. Indiana is no longer in that section of the country designated a 'thinly populated.'" Jfi & & A South Becd paper says the citizens of Marshall county have lecn amazed during the past two weeks at finding letters advertised by the Plymouth postmaster for some of the pioneers and best known citizens of the county. This is a mistake; the period of amazement has passed. Du.';.ng the term of the present pr.st-ma-ter more than 200 such Utters have been advertised and probably twice that many have beety returned to writers marked "uncalled for" or "unknown" when many oi the persons addressed had boxes at the Plymouth postoffice. Jfi J J The chairman and secretary of t'v? Republican state committee seem to be in a peck of trouble. The Revnblican organizations in more than twenty counties in Indaina are fighting Chairman Goodrich and no.v Secretary Riddick has been compell ed to bring suit to try to get the county printing which Iai been refused his paper, the Wrn.:"ac Republican. It seems tt here are people in Pulaski count ho think that Riddick is a Republican for revenue only. His actions in "cahoots" with his brother-in-law, S. E. Boys, has proven this in Marshall county. J J J Republican stump speakers ' and newspapers will, in 19or, have an easy and pleasant task in retting forth the benefits which the tariff has conferred upon the country. They can point to more prosperity at home than has ever been seen in the past, and can show the largest foreign trade which has ever been rolled up. In the aggragate exports and imports of merchandise the $3,000,000 mark has been almost reached. In the fiscal year 1906 the exports aggragated $1,744,000,000 and the imports $1,220,000,000. In each item the highest figures of the past were left far behind. We sold to the outside world double as much merchandise in the Roosevelt year just ended as we did in Cleveland's year just ten year's earlier. The balance of trade : n our favor, which was $101,000,000' in 1S9C, was quintupled in 1006, when it reached $518,000,000.

Call for Republican County Convention. The Republican voters of Marshall county are hereby requested to meet in mass convention in the court house yard in Plymouth at 2:30 p. m. on Saturday, September 15, 1906, for the purpose of nominating a Republican County ticket as follows: Representative, Clerk, Auditor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Coroner, Surveyor, County Assessor, Commissoner of First District, Commissioner of Third District, Councilmen-at-large, and Councilmen for the First, Second, Third and Fourth Districts in the order named. Said convention shall be apportioned among the various townships on he delegate plan at the ratio of 1 vote for each 10 cast for Roosevelt in 1904 as follows: Hourbon 40 German 37 Union 27 Green 1? Walnut 31 Tippecanoe IS North 1. Polk 27 West 27 Center 7() Total 301 Necessary to a choice 151. By the above plan every Republican present will be allowed to casi a vote and his vote will be pro-rated in his township with the above ap portionment. If the number of voters present do not equal the number of delegate votes to which the township is entitled, the voters that are present may cast the full vote of the township. Undor the rules adopted .by tin Marsha 1 county Republican Central romnvitee at a regular meting, held in Plj mouth, July 21, 190G no perion receiving a nomination at any rcvio'is county convention held in Marshall county during the year 190i vill be allowed a place on the ticket and all persons attending this convention will be subject to these tiles and be governed accordingly. W. G. Hendricks, Chairman Condie M. Ptrks, Secretary.

Shivtly Will Be Nominated. A special from Goshen says B. F. Shively of South Bend was there conferring with leading Democrats is to the political situation. Efforts o get him to express himself public ly regarding his rumored Democratic congressional nomination candiIacy were useless, for he declined to talk on the subject. He afterward left for Kosciusko county ,vvhere he will also . meet some politicians. Goshen politicians who are close to Shivtly and practically speak for him say it is tacitly understood he is to accept the congressional nomination to be made in Plymouth next month md that it is agreed it is to be tendered to him without him piibb'cly announcing himself or putting himself in the light of seeking it, which he does not care todo. f ? The Democrats here are for Shively to a man, being firmly of the opinion that he is the only .Democrat in he district who stands any chance whatever of running a race with Brick. The reported willingness of George A. Briggs, the Elkhart county chairman, to make the race, wa coldly received here, and Mr. Briggs has abandoned what aspirations he m3' have had for this fall, at least. ' Ignorance or Perfidy. The Chronicle of last week after printing a statement in regard to the call for the Republican convention svhich Boys knew was a point blank lie, abuses Mr. Hendricks and denounces the call because it specifies that the names of the persons who have accepted a nomination from any other convention sh.ill not be considered in the Republican convention. Mr. Boys and all other bolters know, or ought to know, thai the election laws of Indiana preclude the placing of the same name on more than one ticket. See section 34 of the general election laws. Consequently the committee was only reiterating the law in their call. No person's name can appear on two tickets; but Boys & Co., it seems wish to violate this law as they have other laws since they began their career as bolters from the Republican party. ' Miss Cleveland Married. Miss Victoria C. Cleveland of this city and Mr. Franklin Sbeppard of Germantown, a suburb of Philadel phia, were united in marriage at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon, by Rev. W. S Howard, at the home of the bride in this city. Particulars of the wedding will be given in Thursday's daily. Miss Cleveland is one of the best young ladies in Plymouth and has good wishes of all who know her. Mr Sheppard is certainly to be congratulated on winning one of the best and most intelligent women in Indiana. Indiana G. A. R. Posts. According to the semi-annual report of the assistant adjutant-general, which was completed Saturday, there are in Indiana 399 posts of the G. A. R., with a membership of 13, 309. During the last year 240 members died anJ 403 were suspended; 150 were mustered in and 339 reinstated. The total receipts of the posts for the year were $G9,8SS 'il and the disbursements $01,820 0?.. The property owned by the posts is valued at $124,303.84. When You Can Hunt. The hunting, season begins on Aug. 1. All licenses are good from this date for one year. From Aug. 1 t oOct. 1 hunters arc allowed to sl oot squirrels; from Oct. 1 to Jov. m it will be unlawful to shoot either squirrels or rabbits. Then from Nov. 10 to Jan. 1, both squirrels and rahbitf may be hunted. From Sept. 1 to April 1.1 water fowl may be hunted. Quail may be hunted from November 10 to Jan. 1.

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Ambassador to Russia Will Succeed Bonaparte. Rumors current some time ago that George L. Meyer, ambassador to Russia, would quit his post at St. Petersburg and become a member of the Roosevelt cabinet are now fully confirmed. The latest news from St. Petersburg regarding Ambassador Meyer's plans indicate that the cabinet changes which will make room for him at the president's council table are not far distant. It is probable that Attorney-General Moody would have retired from the cabinet some time ago to engage in the private practice of law, had not the anti-trust suits, come to the front so prominently. HavHg taken an important part in the work of preparing for the trial of the'Standard Oil cases Mr. Moody wished to see the prosecution fully under way before relinquishing the portfolio, ; The suits will be well along before snow flies in ,the north. Secretary Bonaparte is slated tö succeed Atomey-General Moody and Ambassador Meyer is slated to succeed Mr. Bonaparte as head of the navy department. When Mr. Meyer becomes secretary of the navy for it is regarded as so much of a certainty m Washington that it is hardly necessary to qualify it with any doubt he will bring to that position, an expert knowledge such as has not been possessed by any predecessor of recent memory. At the very present he is utilizing his position in the diplomatic service to make, a systematic study of the general navy situation in Furope, and so will be able to take charge of the American naval service in a manner that would not be ex pected of a man chosen from, private life, no matter what his interest in it may have been or bow zealous he might be in its upbuilding. State Signs Contracts. Contracts were signed by thettatt officials Saturday for 'the erection of the new institution for the education of the deaf, which is to be built on a forty-acre tract of land near Indianapolis and north of Forty-second street and adjoining the Aionon rail road on the east. The buildings wil. cost in the neighborhood of $700,ooo. The general contract was let to Heinzman Brothers of Noblesville. The contract for mechanical appliance and heating was let to the Woolen & Callon Company and the contract for electrical work to the Sandborn-Marsh Electric company of Indianapolis. The new institution will consist of sixteen buildings of pressed brick and trimmed in Bedford stone. The principal school building will face Forty-second street, the other buildings being at the side and back. There will be four dormitories, containing sleeping rooms and a large assembly hall. There will also be a hospital, isolation ward, gymnasium, residence for the superintendent, extensive stables and numerous other smaller buildings. The dormitories will be semi-connected, but the other buildings will be separate. None of the buildings will be higher than two stories. Excavation for the buildings will be begun immediately. The institu tion will be located in a fine walnut woods. The buildings will be plain and substantial and there will be little display either in the stone work or in the interior decorations. Bryan is Defied. William Jennings Bryan attempted to take active charge of the Dem ocratic party Tuesday by taking a hand in Illinois politics and ordering National . Committeeman Roger O Sullivan to resign his office, which the newly hailed leader of Democ racy declared had been gained through fraud. Refusing point blank to accede to the request of Bryan, Mr. Sullivan issued a statement de nouncing the Dunlap-Thompson clique, which he charged with indue ing the Nebraskan tb meddle in Il linois affairs, and he administered a rebuke to Bryan himself by stating that the Democrats will not accept autocratic leaders or czardom. "I would like to remind Mr. Bry an," concluded Mr. Sullivan in his retort, 'that the fundamental principles of Democracy of which he speaks do not include recognition of political czardom. Democrats may have their leaders, the leaders may have their followers, but their leaders will never be autocrats and the followers will never be serfs obedient to the orders prompted by court favorites." ' That the request of Bryan was prompted by Millard F. Dunlap, leader of the Dunlap clique which fought him so bitterly at the state convention, was the contention ' of Mr. Sullivan in his reply, which, he issued in order to offset the influence of the public command to discredit him issued by Bryan. Big Increase Shown. Property appraisements of Indiar.-t corporations for 1906, as made by the state board of tax commiisioners shows an increase of approximately $10,000,000 over the valuation of 1903. Of this amount $12,000.000 is due to the increased valuation of steam roads. The remainder of the increase is distributed amon- electric lines, telephone and telegraph companies, pipe lines companies end other smaller corporations. Starke Republicans Nominate. Starke county Republicans in delegate convention Saturday at Knox nominated the following ticket: Clerk, Mahlon J. Hartzler; recorder, Sidney J. Childs; treasurer, Jacob S. Short; surveyor, William Morris; assessor, O. B. Rockwell; coroner, A. B. Parker; commissioner First and Second Districts, W. H. Emigh, S. C. Warkentine. James H. Bingham, candidate for attorney-general, addressed the meeting..

HUNT-COMES TO AN END.

Alleged Postoffice Robber Captured at North Judson. In spite of the fact that Postoffice j Inspector A. R. Burr spilled the salt twice, ! that Deputy United States, Marshals Boyd and Rankin saw the j moon "over their left Shoulders, and the entire party was haunted by "13s" the three officers successfully . trailed and captured two alleged postoffice robbers the other day Charles Downey and Edward Conway, 'who have been wanted by the federal authorities for alleged complicity in the robbery of 'the postoffice at Denham, Ind., on May 31, were located last week and the officers were at once sent in pursuit of them. . Conway was arrested in Chicago : while working as a motorman on a, street car and Downey was ca' :?ht near North Judson, Ind. Judson Sturtevant, who is said to be the third member of the party of alleged robbers, was arrested June II and was bound over to the grand jury under $2,000 bail. At this time it is said that Downey announced that he would kill the man who tried to arrest 'him, and openly boasted that he 'was afraid of no federal officer.' RankiW, Boyd and Burr started on the man hunt after receiving a "tip" as to their whereabouts on Tuesday. While in a dining car Burr spilled salt every time he touched it, and Rankin and Boyd both saw the new moon over their left shoulders. On the first night out the officers stayed at a hotel in Logansport and were assigned to rooms 213, 313 and 413. Burr then announced that the chase was hopeless, and that such a series of omens was too much. However, Boyd and Rankin preferred to continue the chase and the following morning it was again taken up and the party' proceeded to Chicago, where" Conway was arrested. -The officers then returned to North Judson, and arrested the other man. Downey was the man who had threatened to do the killing, but he wiltcil when the marshals and the inspector appeared, and made no attempt to use the revolver which. was afterward found in his pocket. Vith both men prisoners the officers returned to Logansport and were again assigned to rooms 213, 313 and 413. Burr. thereupon insisted that the men would surely escape Trom the- jail that night, but no such adventure occurred and the accused men were ar raigned before Commissioner Charles H. Stuart Thursday. Both waived examination and wre releas ed on bail secured from neighbors through the pleading of Downey's sister. The robbery for which Downey. Conway ami Sturtevant are held was committed on the . night of May 31 The safe at" the postoffice at Denham was blown to pieces. Will Not Contest the Will Elizur Sage, a' nephew of tW late Pnccoll S-tr. and who inherits $25,--e- . ,li. 0O0 under the will, has declined to join with the other heirs in an effort to break, the will. He lives on a rent ed farm near Rensselaer, and his life has been one of toil. He is the son of the late Elizur W. Sage, himself a farmer in reduced circumstances, and the elder brother of the money loan er. He died twenty-three years ago, and to his death he never called up on his brother for aid in any way Elizur. Jr.. dnring the war of the rebellion, served in the Thirty-third Illinois Infantry. His health was broken during his service, but he ac cepted it without a murmur, and has continued to struggle along as best he cotild. The bequest will suflice for his wants, and with that he will be comtented. New Credit to China. Trial by jury did not have its or igin. in England; the principle is many, many years older than tne Magna Charta. According to a translation from the Pei Vang Kuan Pac, which the United States minis ter to China has sent to the S te Department, containing a memorial ou the commissomers charged with a revision of the Chinsee code, it orig iirated way back in the good old days of the Chou dynasty, centuries be fore the historic little incident at Runrjymede, but it has not yet been put into practical operation in the Celestial Empire. The Chinese didn't want to be in a hurry about the mat ter. ' Band Concert Program Thursday Evening, August 2nd. Marclt "Waving riumes" Miner Waltz. Suite "Loveland". . . Holtzinan Tuntton "I don't know where 1 m going, but I'm on my way out". Bren Characteristic March "Happy Hay seed" Kolte Serenade "Cupid's Charms". . .Miller Medley Selection "Southern Songs ...j. Conterno March "Love of Liberty". . .Scouton Corn Special August 9. Arrangements are being made by the members of hte faculty of the Pumdft School of Agriculture at Lafayette for the entertainment of the visitors, who are coming to Lafayett)e on a "corn snecial." to be run August 9 from Laporte and in addi tion to the inspection of the Purdue farm and buildings, side trips to Tecumseh Trail and Battleground will be takert (r, nn n nil 0 QQV1 mm SCOTTS Fl!lirVttJ mM j m f) hump back rtriisht, nt!ätf wi3 tt make i a short leg long, but it tuit Mft bone f 1 and hcali dtaA hftn nd It unontf Z IL - . . t i icw genuine means of recovery in nucu ma Done consumption. Swd for fre Mmpl. SCOTT BOWNE, ChemUU, 409-4 "5 Street, New York. Soc.tad $ ifOo; all drugjfatM.

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Discusses Mitchell Boom. in a two column article Saturday the . Indianapolis News discusses the vice-presidential boom of John -Mit-chell, president of the United Mine Workers of America. 'iThe News takes the position that it is not at all an unlikely matter to conceive of Mitchell's being .nominated on the Democratic ticket for the second place, and that, what is more significant, it is not unlikely that he would accept such a nomination. The News points out that whereas, in the past, when political houo . . . itchell, he has immediately disclaimed them, he has not done so this time. He has not come out with a positive statement that he would consider the question of following his name to be used in connection with ; the vicepresidential nomination. He 0 has hedged the question. The position is taken in this article that Mitchell is very available material for the second place on the,Dern ocratic ticket. He is a sane leader of labor; labor has determined to go into politics; Mitchell himself has advocated the participation of the laboring man in politics; he has standing with the conservative element of the people, and the confidence of the working element. ' Over against these advantages, the following disadvantages are named; he has no money; he would be opposed by the larger captains of industry; he is antagonized by the other labor leaders, who are regarded as being jealous of him. Then, again, the question of so cialism comes in. If the labor movement is to be a socialistic movement, Mitchell will stay out, for he has always stood against the social ists in the miners organization. The Real John Brown. The artie'e on "The ' Real John Hrown" in The Record Herald's Sunday Magazine, by Frank B. Sanford, a friend and supporter of, John Brown in his most active days, contains, a number of letters written by or to him and a number of incidents of his life which are well worth preserving. The letter which John Brown wrote from prison on the,' morning of his execution to his friend Loren Case is especially worthy of frequent reproduction: "Your most kind and cheering letter' of Nov. 25. is received," he wrote. "Such an outburst of warm-hearted sympathy, not only for myself but also for there who have no helper, compels me to steal a moment from those allowed me in which to prepare for my last great change in order to send you a few words. May you ever prove your self equal to the high estimate I have placed on you! Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is, as I understand it, an active, not a dormant, principle. I send you my salutation with my own hand. Remember me to all yours and my dear friends. Your friend, "John Brown." Such a letter shows most vividly the stuff of which martyrs are made. Whatever judgment may be , passed on Brown's wisdom, Mr. Sanborn is surely not wrong in predicting for him an ever more commanding place among our country's heroes. Why Indiana is Proud. Indiana enjoys the distinction of being the center of population, and center of agriculture, the center of commerce, the center of modern literature, the center of the great American railway system having more miles of rail road to the square mile of territory than any other state in the union of having the best natural gas supply, of increasing more rapidly in manufacturing industries, of owning more property to the man than is owned by any other state, of having a larger percentage of church membership and richer school fund than any other commonwealth; also the percentage of scholarship is better than any other state. It has more cattle to the acre, more bushels of wheat, more money in the bank, more pianos in the parlors and more diplomas in frames than can be located elsewhere from sea to sea.

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H One Day in Seven. A bill providing for "one compulsory day of rest in every week was lately passed by the French Chamber of Deputies. It is not intended as a "Sunday law," and is not based on religious ideas, but is a recognition of the scientific an I economic fact that continuous employment leads to the physical and mental deterioration of the worker and consequently affects the industrial output. In France and other counties of continental Europe Sunday is not de voted to religious observance, but is regarded rather as a day of recreation for the multitude. Where many take their pleasure, however, many more must necessarily be employed in providing for those who setk enjoyment. All means of transit are in operation more actively on that day than any other; hotels and restaurants have their best custom then and places of amusement their greatest patronage. All these industries and enterprises are therefore in operation seven days in the week, and the tendency is to keep the same workmen constantly employed without any day of rest. Often it is their preference, because in that way they earn more money. It is not proposed by the new French law to check Sunday business but to provide that on some one day of the seven each worker shall be free. Presumably hte labor element is back of the measure, though this is not stated, but in any case it is a reform of importance. Men work better and are better physically, intellectually and morally when they 'iavc a day in the week to themselves for rest and wholesome recreation, unless employers are compelled to grant it to them they will not always get this benefit, and the action of the French House of Deputies is, therefore, a practical move. The Distribution of Property. The suggestion made by President Roosevelt that an inheritance tax might become necessary to insure an equitable distribution of dangerously swollen fortunes has been widely discussed. Most of the comments' of social and political economists have favored the proposition. A graded income and inheritance tax seems to furnish the most equitable means of meeting the expensesof government, and if the "grade" be such as to bear heavily upon enormous incomes or fortunes, the equity seems to be only the more apparent. But one objector comes in Prof. James Walter Crook, of Amherst, whoever he may be. His objections are two-fold. First, that it would discourage the private enterprise which is necessary to the accumulation of a fortune and which indirectly stimulates general prosperity; and, secondly, that the large sums which would come into the treasury by means of this excessive revenue would encourage extravagant expenditure. He thinks it reverses the maxim that those who spend should be held to strict account by those who pay, by holding the payer to account by the spender. Prof. Crook may be better in political economy than in logic, otherwise his opinion can not be weighty, does he not perceive that one of his objections totally destroys the other? If the discouragement of grad ed taxation prevents the enterprise that would accumulate fortunes.' there will certainly be no enormous revenue to encourage extravagance. Took the Electrical Cure. George E. Steele, one of our well known farmers, had a strange exoerience Sunday. Two or three fingers of one of his hands had been stiff about 35 years as a result of catarrh. During the storm last Sunday he stepped to the door to fasten the screen and placed one hand on the telephone and as he did so received a slight shock of lightning. Immediately Mr. Steele noticed that the stiff fingers had become perfectly limber and they have remained so ever since. He now has as good use of the fingers as he ever had. Mr. Steele is now a firm believer in the efficacy of electricity as a curative agent, but he wouldn't as a rule, recommend taking the cure in the way ha: did. Walkerton Independent

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i l i $U Suits urauu anu ine durability and fit, and dress Shozs. U IB O' 1 o i IE DEB s rCRJUBHJtD T J c::zzz:i2 c cö.v.rr.ny j ( 59 J K 1 --rt i , til i ttA prcm...iy w j .jt: . i Lewis Dillon and wife to Aaron L Warner, lot in Culver; 22J. Walter h Culver etal' q c d to Emily J Culver, lots No. 1, 2, and 3 also part of lot 4 also n hf of nw q all in sec 15 tp 32 r 1 also part of se q of se q of sec 10 tp 32 r 1 also 3-4 a in sec 16 tp 32 r 1; $ioyo. . William H. Bojlman and wife to Richard C Bollman, part of ne q of sec 18 tp 33 r 1; $5000. Matilda J. Paul and bus to Jesse D. Williams, part of lot la east Plymouth; $500. ' Julia E Thompson (Devisee) to Edward micher, e CO ft of lot 20 Roses add Plymouth; $iC0. Willis Koch and wife to Carrie E and Laura G Reeves, lots 4 :nJ 6 Koch's plat Pretty Lake sec 11 tp 33 r l; $200. Elizabeth Judy and hrs to Ervin Judy, e hf of e hf of sw q of sec 33 tp 35 r 3; $1CC0. Mary M. Vanskyhaw!; ar.d bus q c d to William Sparry, part of lot 2 sec 7 tp 34 r 3; $125. Lizzie K. Reed and hus q c d to William Sparry, part of lot 2, sec ? Margaret A Nicholas and hus q c d to William Sparry, part cf lot 2 sec 7 tp 34 r 3; $2M). Emanuel Geller and wife to Sophronia A. Reed etal, lots C and 7 Wheeler's add Plymouth; $uoo. ' Lcanore A. Kloepfer and hus to Monroe Steiner and wife 10 ft s of and north 50 ft of lot 3 Niles add Plymouth; $i25. Willis A Koch and wife to Sarr.aniha J. Linkenhelt, lot 2 Koch's plst Pretty Lake; $100. Lester E McGowan to Samantha J. Linkenhelt, part of out lot 51 Niles & Serings par to Plymouth; $500. .Willis A Koch and wife to Theressa Linkenhelt, lot 1 Koch's plat Prettv Lali" ?no ci.a iv. jacoDy eat Dy gdn gen d to Sarah A Pershing etal, und 2-3 of und 1-5 of w hf of nw o also w hf of se q of nw q of sec 25 tp 34 r2; $500. William S. Gear and wife to Jot.n Hare, w 8 a of n 35 a of e hf of se q of sec 12 tp 33 r 1; CCOO. Frank Rädel a.nd wife to Julia Lambright, lot 61 and n hf of lot C Wheeler's add Plymouth; $500. Elizabeth Vollmer etal to Caroline Kleitz and hus und 3-4 of tract in n hf of ne q of sec 305 tp 35 r 3; $G75. Herman J. Thomas and wife o Adam Rader and wife, lot 22 Lowery's con add Argos; $1023. Will Jam H. Alderfer and wif to State Exchange Bank, 76 acres in s hf of sec 36 tp 32 r 2; Frank N. Dinius etal qc d to Chas B Brttnig e 7C a of ne q cf sec C tp 32 r 4; $3000. , Doea Kct Checlx C:."." A red hot political fiht is on in Chicago not between Democrats and Republicans, but amon Democrats and Republicans. This is occasioned by the fact that nrimarv elections under the new law will U I 1.-1,1 . O a ... - ucai oaiuraay. All parties rr.ikc their nominations by ballot 9-n that day. Republicans lampoon Republican whom they don't want as c;idU dates, and Democrat indulge in the same practice. A good deal of nsstiness is thus brought ti light, bnt that doesn't shock Chicaga It used to such things. Dcith cf IZzz. Mrs. Anna Josephine Wade died at the home of her daush'ter, Mrs Frank Huba. :n thfs city Sunday night shortly after midnight, ed 86 years arid 3 months. She was born in Hesse DarmsteaJ. Germany and came to America aboi:t 36 years ago. Besides her daughter, Mrs. Huba, she leaves one s?-n, Peter Wade, in Laporte and several grand children. Funeral services at the Catholic church in this city Wednesday rr..rninp; interment in the Cs" -''- rciery. -. I . . .

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