St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 January 1891 — Page 1

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VOLUME XVI.

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WALKERTON. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1891.

The Milford Mail takes a “lay off” this week. E. Zimmerman, editor of the A alparaiso Messenger, is great on short paragraphing. AVe like his style of newspaper work. Doctor William G. Porter, of St. Louis, treated Henry Shaw recently in his last sickness, losing the patient and presenting a bill of $-1,995. Doctor Porter charged one hundred dollars a day, which was allowed by a jury, the account being collected by law. A dying man at Hock porte, Indiana, recently confessed that he committed a murder for which an innocent man was hung. About one ease of that Lind ought to be enough to put an end to hanging, but such instances are notuncommon. —LaPorte Argus The Macy Monitor- took on a fresh jag of religion last week and advised everybody to go at once and give something to the poor that they might be happy Christmas. The result was that everybody in Macy remained at home waiting for somebody to bring them something. The editor mid propiietor, Brook 11. Bowman, of the Bremen Empiirer, sold out a few days ago and bid a kind adieu to friends mid patrons in his last, week's issue. We wish Editor Sinuinger, the now proprietor, abundant success^ Should he fail, it will sun 1y be bis fault, for the Enquirer certainly has a good field.

Crooks select high noon ns tho an« pinions hour at which to rob banks in South Chicago. Tho Merchants Ex change Bank, of South Chicago, was robbed at noon Monday of this week, by John Corbett, Harry Benin tt and Harry Featherstone. Sixteen hundred dollars was the amount taken. Then f nil ?w n iptl v arrested. and it ; “Vui lut luu'iurri, ir will probably serve a twin. It won’t answer to monkey with South Chicago. f- - - Here is evidence conclusive that von can’t place any reliance in a jury. War saw sent Ben Osborne and Charles Bonewitz to the northern prison for murderliny were (tied by different juries, Osborne getting fifteen years and Bonewitz twenty one. It was shown that S they tilled a defenseless old man for his money. “Trial by jury” Trial by thunder! There is a peg out somewhere. The law is surely lame in the management of murderers. No, just what a fool jury will do, you can’t most always sometimes tell. By the confession of a dying man it has turned out that another innocent man has been hanged for murder. A man died at Rockport, this state, a feu days since and before his death confessed that he was the murderer of John B. Bilderbaek mar that, place, twenty years ago, for which Thomas Camp was hung. Camp asserted his «> innocence to the last. It the d'ing statement is true it shows that a terrible mistake was committed resulting in the death of an innocent man.—Michigan City Dispatch. Bettor let ten thousand guilty men go free than take the life of one innocent man. Such heart-rending reports are calculated to make one hate even his mother-in-law provided she champions the practice of capital punishment. It is an outlandish, horrible law, and we can t believe that any sane man or woman ever yet believed that it was strictly right. Down with the relic and avoid the commission of such horrible crimes as the above. Elmer Sharkey was executed in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, December 19. Os all the horrible and bungling jobs that one capped the climax. Ihe Knot in the rope slipped around under his chin and the man slowly strangled to death, causing a thrill of horror to go through all in the execution room, those connected with the job, spectators and all. turning their backs to the sickening sight. His writhing, strugling and loud gasping for breath continued just four minutes, and it was seventeen minutes from the time the noose was adjusted until he as pronounced dead. Were it not i -so many bungling and sickening jobs, and for the fact that so many innocent, men are ex- I ecuted there might be a shaddow of a | reason for argument in favor of capital ! j punishment. Bat for the above reasons, I ' if no others, the brutal practice should ' , be abandoned

LOC4E NEWS- , The Nappanee board of health decrees that that town be vacillated. ( Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and i Wednesday w^ro-big days for holiday trade in Walke.ion. ( Tlie Cornet Band played on the streets < Christmas day£^> the afternoon. Played well, too. _ Edward Co’X V^^^Ljonth, aged fifteen years, w o skating one Jay lu» ’aThe B. & OW-’lks are preparing to build some ne .v^ide tracks for the new factories in Nappanee. The days arc growing longer. One week ago last Sunday was the shortest! day in St. Joseph county. Christmas services were held at the Catholic church in this place on Thursday and Friday, Rev, Father Kroll officiating. There are slim prospects that the old cobwebbed town of \\ akarnsa will brush up a little. They are thinking of getting a (louring mill there. South Bend will get a sovent vfive thousand dixlnr public building, that amount having been appropriated by I Congress f>V the purpose. 1 Dr. A. F. Schafer, nt Dr. J. A s Kettrmg’s old office, Oliver opera house ‘/Mock, South Bend. Diseases of eve, p ear, nose and throat. Fitting and ■ furnishing glasses a apeeialtv. 1 i — The Indian >polis Sun says. “There’s ' I fiini ll V ill \\ :d k ••! I m mm . f

a iauui\ iu ifaiseivon composed <>i six persons ami each one has six toes to a foot." We believe the Suu liw3.—Men--1 tom* Gazette. You ought to know, being the originntor of the lie. 1 Christirvvs in Plymouth was exceed 1 iugly quid, ami save for tho attempt r ' fellows who wanted to IH| ' _ ■'» " dor of '“’PaT *• locked £«> by Mumj yon would lutC thought tho day was Sunil day.—Plymouth Republican. On December 23, Je -biot'lem, s m of . farmer George Clem,living a couple of . । miles north of town, and a young Mr. . ! Reel, were out hunting. Reel, in putt I ting a cap on his old blunderbuss, carer ! lessly let tin’ lock g.» down discharging . 1 the contents of th- gun in Clem’s face, . tearing out tho entire lower jiw b moon , the right side ami injuring the upper t one to some considerable extent. It i was thought at the time that the voung man could not live; but at this writing — Tuesday, December 3), it is believed that he may recover. Doctor Arlington regards the injury as being quite dangerous, but believes there are 1 some chances lor the boy to recover. A large and beautiful evergreen heo was heavily leaded wjth Christmas presents principally for the children at the M. L. church Wednesday evening. Members of the church and Sabbat h school had charge. An almost unlimited number of presents, useful and otherwise, were presented by the “Bell Suicide, ” alias Santa Clause, alias Chris Kringle and assistants, to the insuppressible joy of the recipients. An interesting feature of the exorcises was the recitations, being delivered in a masterly and highly pleasing manner. The vocal and instrumental music were not ealeuJa^-d to be sneezed at, either. The rec IP^s of tho evening amounted to somef|hing upwards of foiuteeen dollars, 'ye think. The attention of the readers of the Independent is called to the article in this issue under the caption of “Thoughts of a Prohibitionist.” The Independent proffered its columns to those wishing to discuss any religious or political question which they might choose to argue. We were taken at our word ami an article on. prohibition was handed in for publication. The article is a little drawn out, slightly beyond the limits mentioned in our offer. But we forgive the author and publish the article in its entirety believing that his whole soul is wrapt up in the great question of prohibition, and that it was difficult for him to put on the brakes _ when once under headway. The argu- । ment rips the two political parties clear up their backs, and leaves but here and ' there a fragemeut of either of them. । Should there be enough left of either ‘ of the old parties to strike back. Gt P

To Mr. and Mrs. .Emmet Nichols, a son, December 27, ’9O. i The schools at Westville were closed on account of an epidemic of measles ( raging there. Drawns, the jeweller, is prepared to do all kinds of repairing of watches clocks and jewelry. Give him a trial Located in postoffice building. They are putting a new iron bridge across Pine creek at the southeast edge of town. What company it iA we hnv»> j not learned. AVe learned long ago, hov 1 ever, that a new bridge I ed at that point. 7 Ross & Bose, the hardware dealers, authorize the Independent to say that they could use a few of the pump tongs which they have loaned to different parties, as they need them in their business. “A hint to the wise,” etc. Before the mayor this afternoon a man named Blyler was fined $5 and costs for not providing proper shelter for his horse, and a butcher the same sum for bringing ducks to market with their legs tied. Both these cases were brought by the agent of the Humane society.—S. B. Tribune Let the above be a warning to the readers of the Independent in this locality. A surprise was held at Mr. ami Mrs. L. C. Strang’s on last Monday evening : it being the thirty fourth birthday an- । niversary of L., C. Strang, lie was made the owner o? a fine chair by his wife, and other useful presents by his friends. A grand supper was served and the evening spent in singing and i prayer, all present enjoying a good

“ time. A caller at the Sentinel office to day was Mrs. William Ake, of Walkerton, Ind The lady’s visit to the city remind Gier of the pioneer days of Fort Wayne, when as a maiden and young woman, then Ann Killen, she lived at the mansion of Hon. Jesse L. Williams a< a nurse. She recalls many incidents of the primeval Jays when tho Indians f were as numerous, if not more so, as * 1 The most pleasant gathering of young people that has met for many a h >li lay mot at the home of Miss Dell . McConnell last evening. It was amass ked affair aid the costumes Were varie L Those from a distance were W. T. Underwood ami E J. Roberts, of Chicago, Ed Zeis, of Rochester, and Mr. J. P. Barnhart, of Walkerton. — Oxford Trib- ’ nue. The Indianapolis Sun says: “There’s i- > a family in Walkerton compose 1 of six persons and each one has six toes to a | foot.” We believe the Sun lies.—Mentone Gazette. i he Monitor believes every word the ’ Su i says about the matter. 'Theonly won dor is, tl at fix re are no more families in that place in the same predicament. . It is the result of the teachings of a non- ■ partisan paper being published in the place.—Mae} Monit'>r. , What can't they stuff down you! An elaborate account of the hanging ! of four Indians at Missoula, Montana, I was handed us by Attorney Nicoles the other day. The Missoula' Gazette, a six quarto, contained the account, which I occupied almost five pages of that | paper. The Indians were all murderers ! and were named as follows: Pierre j Paul. La I.a-Sce, Antley and Pascale. The murders for which some of them were hanged were committed as long ago as five years. Attorney K. M. Nicols, well known here as Mart Nicoles, son of Attorney Nicoles of this place, and junior member of the law firm ot Reeves Stiff, & Co., Missoula, was appointed to and did defend Pascale. Bat the evidence was so conclusive and damaging against Pascale that even the old gentleman, Attorney Nicoles of this place, could not have saved Pascale's skin, or rather, neck. The hanging took < place, December 19. In calling attention to the article on prohibition elsewhere in t his issue, we do ’ not do so in ridicule by any means. The article is a fairley strong one, the c author appealing pathetically to all lovers of that which is right and good in appropriate and forcible words. He calls upon fathers and mothers, sisters ' ~ and brothers, uncles and aunts, big I boys and girls, boys and their ‘-best’' । e girls, each and every one to rally to the cause of temperance. We are sure that 11. G. M. is in profound earnest, that he does not write for notoriety, that he 4 speaks his true sentiments, ami which have been his sentiments for several p years. We ask in behalf of H. G. M. ! an 1 f ol . ‘•'l per isni of the production.

NUMBER 26.

The Westville Indicator of last week was tinged. The Auditorium Building in Chicago cost $3,200,000. General Packard in the New Albany Tribune asks, “What is meant by editing a newspaper?” Can’t tell you. AA r e know perfectly well what is meant by “trying” to edit one. The city of Chicago is twenty four and one half miles in length, from northern to southerulimits. The greatwest limits, is fourteen and one halt miles.' The editor of the Kewanna Herald says he’s got a boil on the back of his neck, or words to that effect. You’ll probably soon begin to realize that the way of the transgressor isn’t all milk and honey, and flowery beds of ease. They are now figiunig on transporting passengers back and forth from one site to the other of the world’s fair to be held in Chicago, in balloons. Ihe balloons are to be attached to cables running from one site to the other. La, sakes! but that will make us Hoosiers dizzy In the course of an article on tramas the Michigan City Dispatch says; “It would ba well to refuse the solic- ■ itations of these fellows entirely should | they inflict their presence on Michigan i City. They do not tarry long where their begging is unsuccessful. If they visit your door set the dog on them and give your charity to unfortunates that are worthy of it. Correct. Go up one!

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