St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 February 1887 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT. BY WILL A. EYDLEY. Entered at the WalKcrton Postuilice as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION: For One Year £1.50 For Six Months 7 ’ For Three Months 40 X A blue mark across this notice shows that your term of subscription to litis paper inis expired- We respectfully solicit a eonti"u;inec of your patronage, and trust that you will no' iiy us promptly as to your intentions in tHc matter. Wo can not give longer time than six mouths on subscriptions. Those who have not paid in adVance will please bear this in mind. W. A. ENDLEY, Publisher. WALKERTON, IND.. FEB. 2C, 1887 L .M—JU——if—ii I —I ■ aiMWiimn - ■ ■uni m t m Congressman-elect Shively succeeds the present in cumbentjlun. Geo. Ford, March 1. A MAN had to wait so long for his mail at Etna Green, Ind., that he fell dead from heart disease while at the delivery window of the * post-cfiice there. = . A STOCK company at Tecumseh, Mich., has been organized for the purpose of herding skunks. Abo: r 100 skunks have been procured fur breeding purposes. It is said that Mrs. Sawyer, a treasury clerk, looks so much like Mrs. Cleveland that even Grover can hardly tell them apart. We wonder if the president don’t enjoy a promenade ia the department, A Philadelphia dentist attends all the fashionable parties in that town with i warrant in his pocket for the arrest of a woman who bought a S2OO set of false teeth from him and failed to pay fur them. SPARE OIR BLLSIIES. The William, the Norman of the press, whoso left arm with the fist doubled up is a six months sickness,. Will A. Endley, of the Walkerton Independent, boldy crossed the channel to South Bead, and bore away Miss Nellie Jones and made her his charming bride. Did he woo her, like William of Normandy, with fists—and arms? At any rate the gallant knight is fittingly rewarded, as he deserves to be.—LaPorte Daily Public SpiritBen Perley Poore thinks Gen. Grant was never happier ia his life than when, cheered by his young wife, he farmed sixty acres, labeled in the fields, chopped wuud at “Hardscrabble,” hauled it to St. Louis and sold it for $4 a cord. — __ Thebe is a man in Baltimore ’’"ho claims to have be’en forced ou three different occasions to go through the marriage ceremony with women who were perfect strangers to him, and none of whom he has seen since. He isn’t tired out yet, but be desires to file his objections to that sort of business. Women are sometimes obstinate creatures. Oue of them who turned up in Washington the other day and demanded a pension of SIOO,OOO, wouldn’t gratify the commissioner’s curiosity by explaining bow or why she was entitled to it. Indeed, she told the gentleman to shut his head, and gave him only twenty minutes in which to pin duce the cash. Edison has invented a new machine called the “Nutricator,” which it is claimed will transform anv earthly element into nutritious food very economically.—Exchange. Every newspaper man with pelm wood patrons will need a “Nutricator.”—Albion New Eta. That strikes us. A “Nutricator’' we’ll have, and one of the largest size at that. Jesse Arnot’s livery stable burned in St. Louis, recently, and the hearse in which the remains of the martyred President Abraham Lincoln were conveyed to their last resting place was consumed in the flames. This hearse was built bv Mr. Arnot for this special purpose, and since that day has never been out of the building. Its owner refused to have it profaned by any meaner use after it had been thus consecrated by the greatest and most hono.ed man of the centurv. Mr. Arnot had received many offers for this vehicle, but bad always refused to part with it, preferring to retain it as a sacred relic. WONDERFUL CURES. W. D. Hoyt & Co, wholesale and retail druggists of Rome, Ga , say: We have been selling Dr. King’s New Discovery, Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for two years. Have never handled remedies that sell as well, or give such universal satisfaction. There have been some wonderful cures efft-eTed by These medicines in This ciTy. Several cases of pronounced consumpTion have been enTirely cured by use of a few boTTles of Dr. King’s New Discovery, Taken in conner-Tion wiTh ElecTiic B TTvrs. We guaranTee Them always-. Sold by Dr. ArlingTon.

Joseph Plow, a man about 27 years of age, was captmed iu a house at Syracuse, a few nights ago, as being the person who mur- : dered the Dunham family near > j Warsaw last week, of which we ' spoke of in the last issue. He was I taken to Warsaw and lodged in I jail. When arrested a pocket-book * containing a small amount of silver ’ was found in his person. When asked if be had anv more money he protested that he had not. He de- ‘; nied having purchased a pocketbook at North Webster. On search 1 being made in the bed where b 1 slept, a wallet containing SBS in bills was found secreted between the sheets. He said that it belonged to him, but he had forgotten 1 that he had placed it there. It is thought that the pocket-book found ou his person can be indentified as the one owned by Dunham. Plew has always been an impecuni- ■ ous, ne’er-do-well, and intimate acquaintances say that be never had ( that amount of money of bis own. . He can give no satisfactory account of the way be became posessed of it. lie took Lis arrest , cooly, and has been self possessed > and apparently indifferent ever since. He talks freely, but lias • told two or three different stories of bis actions and whereabouts for the past week. He was subjected , to a clone examination iu the jail . and contradicted himself continu- • ally. There arc blood spots ou his j clothes, a large spot on his collar, and blood stains ou rhe outside pocket of his blouse. One of the bills found in his bed also bears the well-defined marks of bloody Augers upon it. —Ex. LEG AS AMEE-ID. 1 Mr. West Dare, whom all our citizms know, he being a resident of this place fur a number of years, had one leg cut off below the knee near the ankle and the other badly mashed. The accident occurred at , Deshler, Sunday about noon, and । the particulars, as near as we can learn them, are as follows : He is a fiieman on the Baltimore : and Ohio railroad, and acting iu ; that capacity Sunday when the ac- ' cident happened. The freight train on which he was, arrived at Deshler, the engineer getting off, leaving Mr. Dare to lake the engine to the coal schute and load up. Ai riving there be threw the lever of the en giue back, stopped the engine, took down the apron of the schute, preparatory to letting coal into the lender, when the reverse lever slipped back, letting the engine move about ten feet. The apron being made of iron is very heavy. Mr. Dare seeing it was liable to strike him in the body, swung himself toward the cab, letting the apmn miss his body but catching his feet as above described. As soon as the news arrived at this place a lot of West’s old fiiends procured a hand car and went down to see him, and nearly every day some of our citizens who knew him have gone down to see their old liiend iu his adversity. The writer of this article was acquainted with him in a business capacity fur several years, and can safely say that he bad not an enemy in this town, and ranked as one of our foremost citizens. The people of Garrett City, Ind., where he has lived fur the past two years, since he has been a railroader, have raised $l5O for him. His mother is at Deshler at the present time taking good care of the patient, and the Baltimore and Ohio officials have been very kind to the sufferer. Our citizens all regret the misfortune of the sufferer. The community had not ceased to mourn for Wm. Frederick, the fiieman who lost his life in the wreck at Republic, until the startling news came of Mr. Dare’s injury. Who will be the next ?—Holgate (Ohio) Times. I. A P4Z. Reported by the Independent’s Correspondent. LaPaz is dull. Items are plenty but hard to get hold of. Sugar-making is the main topic with the farmers iu this locality. Mr. Ui auk Stump returned to : his home in Kansas Tuesday. He has been visiting friends in this locality. Mrs Jtsde Thomas returned to t her home in Kansas last week. ( They will remain there. Anybody desiring to buy or trade for a hoise, buggy, cutter harness, all complete, and cheap as dirt. Call and see S. F. Seybold 1 three miles northwest of LaPaz. Mr. Peter Forney is preparing to return to Ohio. We understand t he is going to engage in the mercantile business. ( We never knew John Halt to be t so venturesome in all our life as he ] manifested a few Sundays ago. He hardly ever goes out in the rain. j But he claimed that she would j have to be at her school early lor I Monday mornimg. I j Duffer.

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. TWER CITI. Reported by the Indcpeisdent s Correspondent. [The following items were left over from last week’s correspondence.] The latest is that Simon Casady intends to quit farming and go into the sawmill business with H?.nk Ford, who is doing a good business. A fur dealer and buyer, of Columbia City, Ind., by the name of Mosier, visited Geo. Haag, his brother-in-law, this week, ami seemed we]! pleased with this town, and after marriage intends to make this Lis home if Chicago does not suit him at that time. Will Mead, his brother and another fellow, all of Maxenkukee, camo to this city Monday to enjoy the dance at Johnson’s Hal), on Valecline day or evening. The wind was in the east Thursday morning, and Mr. Black prophesies a spell of weather followed by another spell, then snow and rain; Wo are informed that, the Salva tion Army are coming to Tyner soon; they have already engaged the Hall of Mr. Johnson ; that will be a matinee for this town. Mell Shupp says there are too many learning the sawmill trade, he therefore quits it and goes into the buggy and chair factory of this city. A nephew of Dr. Moore was visiting at the Dr’s, this week, and expressed himself well [(leased with the surroundings of this vicinity. He is traveling in the interest of Lloyd & Wertz, ot Toledo, Ohio. Henry N< If is making preparations |o go south soun, to make bis home in Flotida. this week’s items. Mrs. Drollinger, of near Fisk Lake, is home on a visit to her mother and brother, but will return 500... Geo. Herman and Albert Place ate working iu a saw-mill near Stillwell, Last Sunday Will Ransted’s in- ; fant daughter was buried here in the Tyner grave yard. It was five months old, R?v. Snyder preached the funeral discourse. Noah Miller is selling a good book and meets with good success. Hank Neff has gone to Florida where he intends to locate ami send for his family. Come, Duller, don’t you act silly on account of my poetical non-ense ami resign, as your items arc of an unsurpassable nature. Well, here we are ready to say, howdy, correspondents over the way; lor my part 1 fuel quite well, ami the ttmh 1 am ready always to tell, but Duffer seems grieved for my taking Jack’s part, but, sir, I did it with all my heart, ami hoped that others would not be offended, lor what I said I real)) intended. Bill Bliffner. UKEWLLE Reported by the independent's Correspondent. James Fisher has bought the house and lot of Mrs. Henderson, west of town. Allen Hardy, norih-west of t wn , is improving slowly horn his severe illness. Chas. Sweezy, of Naj>[»anee, was in town last Thursday. Mr. ISweezy was formerly a trustee of Union township, Jacob Boyer started for Kansas last Monday, to join his brother Adam. He intends to make that his future home, Jacob Smith returned home from Germany, where he has been visiting since last fall. He says he enjoyed his visit very much. (Jharles Ragan’s wife has returned from Ramstown, this state, where she has been visiting her parents for several weeks. Dr. E. E. Fast made a visit to Buchanan, Mich., last Tuesday. Hz. McNab, of SouHi Bend, was iu town this week on business. Mr. Gonsoe, west of town, is lying at the point of death. (’has. Hupp, of South Bend, visited with his parents this week. Albert Hardy’s child died on the 17th inst. from the effects of lung fever. A rumor is afloat that the Forest Hotel is about to change landlords. Elder Hummer, of Walkerton, was with us during the Sunday evening sei vices. Perry. WORTH LIBERTY. Reported by the Independent's Correspondent. John Rupel has returned from school. James N. Reece returned to Chicago last Tuesday to attend the spring term of lectures at Rush Medical College. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Irvin’s young babe died last Friday morning. George Kellogg has returned to Liberty. The church social at E. T. Lee’s was well pat ionized.

Otis Beabm has moved to LaPorte county. Ho has rented a largo farm near Union Mills. Mrs. Shafer, wife of Dr. G. J. Shafer, died last Saturday morning after a short sickness. The funeral was held on tho Tuesday following, Rev. Pettit officiating. Miss Laura, daughter of deceased, arrived here from Nebraska about six hours alter the funeral. B. L. Keck has been with friends at Wolcottville lor the past low days. The protracted meetings at the Weoleyan M. E. church, two miles ealt ot here, are still being kept up. Six persons have united with the church and about lifieen others converted. Prof. Moon was visiting school here during the past week. Miss Ryan, of Granger, has been visiting her sinter, Mis. Geo. A. Bettcher, for some days past. J. C. Miller has two desirable pieces ol land for sale. “See him.’’ The services at the M. E. church at this place will be held in the morning of each Sabbath at 10:30 o'clock so long as the Lakeville meetings are kept up. Verdant Horn. A PRHATE LETTER FROM C. R. STONE GIVING THE PARTICULARS OF THE ASSASSINATION OF HIS SON, HOMER. The following is an extract from a letter written by 0. R. Stone to his uncle, Dr. 0. M. Richmond, of this place, giving a detailed account of the tragic death of tin former’s son, Homer Slone: "Nxosha Rapids, Kan , t üb. 15, 18S7. My Dear Uncle: Your postal of the 9 h inst. is at hand. We appreciate your word ('f simpathy and condolence in thi our hour ofd“ ( p s ffi ctiou. Homer was assassinated on the evening of Jan. 21st, Homer had the superintend -uey of unloading the military stores at Price, Utah Teriitory. 'This is 200 miles south of Sult LakeVity; it i> the teiminus of the R R, and a rough place. These govcinmeui stores are li eightt d to Foi t Duchesne l>y teams. In connection with this business he Lad opened an eating Louse. A trtimp by the name of Louis Steen, came to this pluce without money and Homer to k him in. In fact, the papers stated, Lt' never turned any away, but would diiide the last th.’Jar. 4 his Stn ii staid about awok or ten days. Homer was own ; ng his cook $2 50, which was talked over at the supper table ami all Was sat b factory b tween Homer and the cook. Tlii^ Stet u had been drinking, and allied the privilege of the cooi; to dun or collect this $2.50 of llotm r K .ecu accosted him about it in a m i„.,Lor ing business n om. lloim-r told him that was not the place to dm. a man, and that he had no right, to a&k Lun for the bill. Homer wi-hed to [tay it to his cook (a man) instead of this tramp. Steen [Hilled his coat ami said if he did not pay it to him, be would take it out of his hide. H >mer let him know he had a revolver ami was able to defend himself. Steen then put on his coat ami went and borrowed a gun, and told othirs that he was going to kill Stone. To (fleet this Uj.-et he followed him up in the dark. About 8:20 in the evening he shot him from behind, the ball cutting off ihe aoila near the heart. He died instantly. Steen fFd iu the darkness, but was captured the next day, cui fessed to the murder and implicated 3 other->, who are now in jail. The }»apers say it was one of the most atrocious ami unprovoked murders ever committed in the Territory. Nothing will be left undone*to bring the culprits to justice and their doom, as Homer had hosts of friends and of the best iu the city and Territory. 'ihe papers stated that he was probably the most extensively known of any man in the Territory, as be had been connected in compiling and getting up a Ga^-teer ol the Territory. Homer told me when here about one year ago, on bis way as delegate to the National Cattlemen’s Convention in St. Louis, in behalf of the Press, that he had a speaking acquaintance with, ami could call by name, in Utah, 15,000 [mrsous, and that he never I'uigot laces oi names. I can hardly reconcile myself to the terrible deed —lo think 1 shall never see him again in this life. 1 received a long ami interesting letter from him (2 large letter sheets full) written ihe same day of his murder. The letter and dispatch of bis deatli both arrived within 15 minutes oi' each other. I did not receive the message iu time to get there to his funeral, but the great kindness of his numerous ' friends there, somewhat, heals ihe ' terrible wound in our hearts. Your nephew, C. R. STONE A bran, new steel plow, in good 1 order, worln g-15 will be sold for $5 cash. J. F. Endley. 1

THIS SPACE BELONGS TO J. W. ARLINGTON. WATCH IT. GEO. WYMAN & 00. South Bend, Ind. Will slaughter the [nice of Dress Goods, Silks and Velvets, Cloaks ami Shawls during January and Februrary ami may be longer. Wo shall offer 25 -cent Dress Good? for 22j cents. We shall offer 50 cent DroGoods at 25 cents in combination suitings and sebaslipools. We shall oil r SI.OO and $1.25 Dress Goods al 50, 601 and 75 cents. We shall < ffer Silk Velva to, all colors, plain 16 imh' 75 cent-; 19 inch SI,OO. Fancy Velvets a: $1 0), $ 1 50, $2 00 an I $2 £ that b: ve been double th it price. We shall fli' r one lot of Dollar Silks in Gross Gr in and Sunah al 65 cent-, and am tb r lot id 50 c< uts. Sumim’i^Siiks at 25 ceiiH. We shall <4f. r Shaw Is at alam: 66 c uts on the dollar. \\ e take pride in ofi'eiing pood.to our cu ti mrrs at a prici than many people rsk hr them, ami llit n if you think they are higl. we w ill knock off seme, >et ' for the goods don’t cost mmdi. It d- ta not cost us much to j-ell them; it deesnot cost you anything to look al them, iu fact, there is m t much cost about it. 8). (’emo ami Sue U<. Geo. V* yiii’Aß Co. Open till six p. in. except Satuid iy night G 5104 EiT: OV> v. Reported by the Independent’s Correspondent. Wc notice tlmre lias been two loads of slum* hauled foj the f. undatiuu of the chuieb building- al present wiiting, Feb. 23. More improveim-uts in town. Sam Uncapher has erected quite a substantial building. William Uucapber has traded his farm for a stock of groceries, the paity getting the farm thinks of going into the poultry business. Sam Dipert says that a 10-pound boy has already issued Iwo proclamations and Las taken charge ot the interior. Mr. Morrow says poultry is on the decline in Chicago, but turnips are advancing. A small boy belonging to Geo. Hopkius while playing last week had his leg broken, but is getting along nicely at present. We understand that Abe Sult is going to buy tho goods and store building formerly owned by J. W. Woodward, of this place. Henry Allen is building a new fem e around his yard, which will be quite an improvement. Duffer came to the front last week with ears laid back ami vengeance in his eye, and said that Grovi rtown reporters Nos 1 and 2 seemed to lie on a strike. He is sadly mistaken; but. No I does not have to got No. 2 to plead the J. W. & S. M. ease for him. The school mams feel verv sorry for Jack to think Lis counsel has been pleading the ease for bis own interests instead of Jatk’.-, and then when the money is all gone try to turn the case over to another whom Duffer styhs the “silvertongued attorney,” who tries to give his ideas in poetry. Too much, Jack, we vonld not stand it. Well, Sam and Jake, we understand you got your gold watches. Now you can tell us what time it is especially if the sun shines ’yZack ■

GREAT CLOSING OU j I SJLLE! ——At™“ Tom W olfe’s I will sell FOR CASH until March 15th, Men’s imported Worsted Suits, worth sls for sl2 50 “ Best cassimero “ “ 15.C0 “ 11.50 “ All wool “ “ “ 12 50 “ 9.00 “ Union “ ° “ 10.00 “ 750 “ Odd Suits C.P.&V. different 12.00 “ 6.00 Youths’ worsted suits worth 12.50 “ 900 “ all wool cassimero “ 10.00 “ 7.50 Boys’ suits from $1 25 up Men’s fur caps worth 1.75 for 1.00 “ scarlet undershirts “ 75 “ 40 “ wool mil tens “ 35 “ 20 Ladies' Hosiery, half price. “ Jewelry, “ “ ' J. Willis WAI KEBTON, IND., Jt*. j* j jL* . I f ■ --' ■ . : ; ;uA<C:iker One and Two-Horse W AG-OKS f AND > yy | . 1 ■’ A V X ’ — _is. _ M— Bissell Improved Cl illed and Steel Plows Faii^old and Toledo Chilled and . Steel PlowsROLLER GRAIN DRILLS, SUPERIOR IIOE AND SHOE DRILLS, PICKET WIRE FENCE MADE 'IO ORDER, AND READY MADE, FROM 40u to Cs c PER ROD. © *>»■•> «--p» q ' ilA©Wf VI । Py TR ; AND SUPPLIES. I Machine Cits, CHAMPION J;(!WE1IS, hearers ad BINDW. WHEELBARROWS & ROAD SCRAfERSS’• 1&OSS C/Oey geherll hakdwake, stoves, Glass, sash, Door Blinds of all kinds, Wood and Iron i Pumps, Tinware, Oils. ’ paibts. Os aU colors and shades. In fact everything fomd in a first-cass Hardware Store. j ” ^ICES Lott as ths Lowest