St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 November 1893 — Page 4

Clje JuDeptnbeiiL WALKERTON, INDIANA. NOV. 11, 1893. W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. Election news on inside pages. The draiocrats carried Kentucky. The editor of the Rochester Republican claims that he has been threatened with assassination. mti it i ■ n imMKWiamgno The supreme court of Michigan decides that the women can not vote in

that state. Now that the fair is ended, the world _ will look anxiously to see what Chicago will do next. New Ycrk city is agitating the matter of annexing Brooklyn. Anything to beat Chicago. The art building at the world’s fair has been closed, as have nearly all the rest of the important exhibits. In 1690 Chicago was spelled She-Kaw-geo, according to an old map made by LaSalle, the French explorer. People in general ^are glad that the Dr. Briggs trial is not to be re-opened. The New York presbytery has so decided. A silver crank has threatened the life of President Cleveland, and the

white house at Washington is guarded by detectives. George B. Swift, republican, has been appointed mayor pro tem. of Chicago. A special election for mayor will be held Dec. 12. 3'he Texas Siftings observes with great truth that “none are so deaf as those who do not hear when they are asked to take a drink.” The extra session of congress cost the government $500,000. Some good was accomplished, however. That is, from one point of view. - UhrSun in an article Bremen Enquirer, is now in the employ of the Goshen Times as circulator and solicitor. Cal can “circulate” and also solicit. The small-pox quarantine has been officially withdrawn at Muncie, and the event was celebrated by the citizens with a ratification. The plague has had a paralyzing effect upon Muncie’s business interests. Ex-Governor Jennings’ grave, the location of which has been in doubt for some time, has been found at Charlestown. The location of an ex-governor’s grave in doubt! How fleeting are the honors and glory of this world. At last the celebrated “John Doe” has been disposed of, says the Mishawaka Enterprise. He robbed a hardware store at Delphi, this state, and was sentenced to eleven years in the penitentiary. Now for “Richard Roe.” The Indiana Watchman, edited by Anton W. Becker at LaPorte, began its second volume last week. The Watchman is an able and outspoken advocate of the principles embodied in the platform of the People’s party.

Prendergast shrinks and crouches like a whipped cur when brought into court. Re is fearful that some one will do him bodily harm and seems to be in a state of extreme nervousness whenever taken from the jail to the court. His actions are so much like those of Guiteau as to suggest a strong similarity in their characters. Old Sam Rivers, a noted counterfeiter, was freed from the Michigan I City prison last week. He is sixtynine years old, and thirty-eight years of his life have been spent behind prison bars. His last sentence was for three years. He is said to be one of the most skilled counterfeiters in the country. He expresses a wish to hereafter live in harmony with the laws of the country. Mrs. Rice, presumably the same person who has cut so much figure recently in Chicago, is now preaching in South Bend. She was taken into cus- i tody there last Sunday for obstructing the streets, but was released without being fined. She promptly repeated her offense in defiance of the authorities. Mis. Rice evidently thinks as much of creating a sensation and ■ being talked about as she does of sav ' ing souls. Where the preaching of the gospt 1 is associated with so much blare and fuss there is usually some-1

It don't pay to laugh too long over politics. Another day is coming, and ’ it may be democracy’s time to yell next. Chicago had a genuine London fog l ist Wednesday, and the “chappies” in that city are said to have been in ecstacies over it. 'rhe republicans carried Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, lowa and Chicago. Old Virginia and Kentucky still remain in the democratic column. Says Uncle Mose: “I’d jes like to know why it is data chu’ch has to hab

a spiah st ickm’ way up in de air for people to find it, an’ a beer saloon kin do a big business down in a back street.” Attorney R. A. Wade will be the counsel for the defense in the case of Prendergast, assassin of Mayor Harri son, and will be assisted by Robert Essex. The trial is set for Nov, 27. Here is a sample of the “senatorial courtesy” we hear so much about: “You ain’t got no sense!” says Senator Stewart to Senator Dolph! “I’ve got. as much as you have,” says Senator Dolph to Senator Stewart. ■DOHaßuaKnMmaßi The suit against the John Reynolds estate for back taxes was brought up in the circuit court at South Bend on Thursday of last week and by agreement the sum assessed against the estate was $9,000, the administrator ' being directed to pay the amount with-I

in 90 days. The number of people killed and injured by the railroads of the United States during the last nine months is seven hundred and fifty-seven persons. A large per cent of these deaths was due to the work of the car stove and oil lamp. When will these instruments of destruction be replaced with safer appliances? The well-meaning W. C. T. U. reformers have really discovered nothing new, observes the Chicago Journal; they have contributed nothing to the wel--Jare bf_the fallen women. They have simply shocked their own nerves to .vision) that is a poor substitute Prendergast, for an insane "mSw > seems to have a very clear perception of the terrible situation in which he is placed. By his actions, as described 1 by the daily papers, he certainly does not manifest the symptoms of an insane man. It would seem that he is simply a crank with a warped brain, but sufficiently intelligent and clear minded to distinguish right from . wrong, and therefore mentally rer sponsible font he crime he committed. A writer in the Coming Nation truthfully says: “A politician—a stuof political and social economics—is one of the noblest of professions. The ’ stigma attached to the word does not . belong to it. Notone man in a hun- ' dred who is elected to office has ever - studied the science. All they know is - to get out of the office all they can. These are the men who have made the . word a reproach. People do not go to ] a farmer when they need a physician , nor to a physician when they need a machinest.” Murder is becoming quite a popular 5 pastime in Indiana.-—lndianapolis Sun. This is strange, too, in the face of the

fact that capital punishment is a penality in this state for the crime of murder. It would be interesting to have the advocates of capital punishment explain why it is that states which inflict the death penalty show as large a per cent of murder, as a rule, and in some instances larger, than the states in which capital punishment has been ! abolished. Why is it? The advocates of neck-breaking can present a very : nice argument, but the plausibility of I their theory is not vindicated by-prac-j tical demonstration. )Ot ’ High and Grammar School Notes. ’ The report cards of the High and Grammar Schools wpre given out this week. This means many hours of mi pleasant work which it is hoped have yielded some sal is fa ci ion io tde parents of these pupils. In the eleventh grane the names of tho pupils ranking highest in deportment are Elmer Price and Elmer Sneatben; in the tenth grade J. ; Mattie Ross and Dora Conrad. In the eleventh grade the two highest in scholarship were Ella Hollyday and Allie Applegate in the tenth grane Laura Groshans and Josie Robbins. In the ninth grade Mabel Conrad and Will Stophens were equal. Etta Harbert ! coming third in both deportment and scholarship. In the eighth grade Louin | Shelton led in depoidimu^^ an l

DIEO. Esther Latson, died on Sunday, Nov. sth, of paralysis, at (ho home of her daughter, Mrs. L . N. Ball, near Mill Creek, LaPorte county, aged 77 years, 5 months and 20 days. Do ceased was born in Duchess county, N Y.. June Uth, 181(5; removed to Indi ana Nov. Ist, 1845. She was marriec to Orvis Hull in 1830; by this unioi she had five children, all of whom survive her. The companion of heryoutif departed this life 1849. Deceased waj married a second time in 1856; by thJ union she had three children, two a whom survive her. She was zealously devoted to tH 1 doctrines of the Christian churcO ( Almost her lost words were that , future happiness appeared bright. V torment at Webster, Kosciusko Co.'^bL Help to extend Walkerton’s t boundaries by advertising in the IxnA PENDENT. " The nobbiest line of overcoats iif^m ; town are shown at T. J. Wolfe’s. A nice lot of buggies to be sold at special low prices for the next 30 days at N. B. Shoemaker’s. Ignorance of the merits of De Witt’s Little Early Risers is a misfortune. These little pills regulate the liver, cure headache, dyspepsia bad breath, constipation and billiousness. Bellin ger and Williams. Men’s and boys’ fine fur stiff hats to close at 88 cents at the Globe. —.—

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