St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 January 1894 — Page 4

SnDcpcnticut. 4'ALkERTON, INDIANA. JAN. 13, 1894. W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. President Cleveland is evidently opposed to an income tax. Some of the stars are of all colors, violet, bine, green and red predominating. Hoss Gordon, of Lafayette, a newspaper man of wide reputation in the state, died recently. Hon. William McKinley was installed as governor of Ohio for a second term last Monday. Senator William Lindsay, democrat, was elected by the Kentucky legislature last Tuesday United SUdes tor to succeed himself. T " 111 । -

It is reported that the Richmond Independent and the Fort Wayne Journal have espoused the cause of the republican party. Dr. Metcalf, of the state board of health, reports the general health of the people good and the state practically free of contagious diseases. The estimated amount expended in advertising annually in this country is $200,000,000. What a lot of fools there must be to throw away so much money on something that doesn’t pay! It is estimated that 80,000 wage earners are out of employment in New York City and with no means of getting a living. Charity is doing its best to help this great army of sufferers. Fire in Jackson Park last Monday

night destroyed the casino, the peristyle and music hall and did great damage to exhibits in manufactures building. The fire, it is thought, was started by tramps. Several candidates are bobbing up here and there for the appointment of state pension agent. Dr. Norman Teal, of Kendallville, Col. I. B. McDonald, of Columbia City, and a commercial traveler named Mclrneny are among the number. An Indianapolis telegram says: ■ ‘The Republican State committee has tion of the precinct and township Re-

publican bodies. This is the initial step toward the most thorough and vigorous campaign prosecuted in Indiana for years.” Carnegie offers to donate $5,000 a day for two months in aid of the starving poor of Pittsburg. This munificent offer shows Carnegie to be a man of exceptional generosity and nobility of character, and deserving of kinder words than his carping critics have been wont to grant him. The Indiana Watchman, edited by A. W. Becker at LaPorte, has suspended publication. The failure was due principally to a large list of unpaid subscriptions, which could not be collected. The Watchman was a vigorous, aggressive and able advocate of the principles of the populist party. Here is a bit of postal information: The international postal laws provide that only postal cards of a certain size may be sent to foreign countries at postal rates. All cards of a regular size must be sent at regular letter rates, and if charges are not prepaid, double the deficiency will be collected at the destination. The largest size of our cards conies under the ban of this law. The managers of the Duval athletic

■■■"iPiidu i.i ij have consulted the law carefully and that the governor of Florida has no judicial authority to prevent the Corbett-Mitchell light. They assert that they were willing to test the case in any court but this being denied them, they propose to have the contest and are willing to abide by the result. The fight, they say, will take place at Jacksonville as advertised. * Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage has a wonderful imagination and is apt to paint exaggerated pictures of things sometimes, but it is to be hoped that his following rosy prophecy of our temporal prosperity may come true: “The land is full of prophets, and I have as much right to prophesy as any one. I prophesy that we are con ing toward the grandest temporal prosperity we have ever witnessed in this country. Mechanics are going to have larger wages. Capitalists are going to have larger dividends. The factories that are now closed are going to run day and night to meet demands. Stores are going to be crowded with custo^ners. impatient to get waited on.”

By the St. Joseph, Mich., Press, we see that the county seat of Berrien ; county is to be removed from Berrien to the twin cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Westen, the old-time pedestrian, has returned to walking. Recently ,he walked from New York City to Albany, beating the schedule time of 11 hours and 25 minutes. Gen. Reub Williams and his son have purchased the late Quin Hessler's interest in the Indianian; hence the editorial management of the paper will continue as heretofore. The democratic members of the ways and means committee of the house have decided in favor of an income tax on all incomes of $4,000 and over. The vote in committee was 6 to 5The I^giapapojis Journal says; “Previous to last week 66| cents a

ever reached in Chicago. Friday it dropped to 65| cents. At present the hard times restricting the consumption is one of the causes of the very low , prices. Overproduction in the world , is the first cause.” The Indianapolis Journal says business is improving with the car works. Haskell & Barker, at Michigan City, have put one-half their usual force at work. The Peninsular car works will start up after the holidays with five hundred men. They have a contract to build six hundred cars for the Chicago & Northwestern. At the Wagner car works one thousand men are at work. The Indiana car works have two good contracts and more in prospect and will soon be giving employment to two hundred men. Sim Bosserman, ex-treasurer of La-

Porte county, is out of pocket $5,214.20, as the result of a mistake made by him during his term of office. The mistake was in giving the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and Chicago road credit to the amount of $4,745.68 for taxes when | the road paid but $5.50 of this amount, which was for personal taxes only. The whole amount of the taxes including the ten per cent delinquency penalty is $5,214.20, which from present appearances Mr. Bosserman must lose, I as therejs no law by which the county commissioners can refund the money to him, as they can not go back tit the i ■tivWSierS books. The" that, « ■ he has is in suing the railroad compa-

ny, which would be a very doubtful proceeding. Congressman Conn is represented by a Washington correspondent as being “in favor of a state banking system under national restrictions. He believes that state banks should be permitted to issue currency only upon the deposit of certain securities, gold and silver preferred, with the United States sub treasury, subject to federal approval. This, he thinks, will insure that the state bank issues would pass the legal tender in every other state in the union. Mr. Conn does not approve of the bill repealing the state bank tax, which is pending in the house. Neither does he think that a bill increasing national bank circulation to the par value of the bonds deposited in the treasury could pass the house. He is opposed to it, as are nearly all the silver democrats in the Indiana delegation.” The St. Joseph Valley Grange at a recent meeting in South Bend expressed their sentiments on the road question in a resolution, as follows: “We are now as we ever have been, in favor of good roads, and will continue to construct the same as fast as can be done consistently on the pay-as-you-go principle, but are earnestly

opposed to dictation and compulsion by manufacturer® of wheels and a combination of speculative interests, by the issuing of bonds. Second. We urge upon the farmers of our county and state that they take early advantage of the law which compels trustees to duplicate any amount of donated labor on roads with dollar for dollar from road funds, and by so doing control said fund. Third. We will ever be on the alert and watch with earnest eye any attempt to fasten upon us and our posterity a bonded indebtedness for roads and will endeavor to checkmate the same by both vote and influence.” ' MILES’. NERVE & LIVER FILLS Act on a new principle—regulating the liver, stomach and bowels through the. nerves. A new discovery. Dr. Miles Pills speedily cu*e billiowsness, bad taste, torpid liver, piles, constipation. Unequaled for men, women, children. Smallest, mildest, surest^ 50 doses, 25 cts. Samples free at J. Endly s. A car of shelled corn just received. We want to sell it. Walkerton Milling Co.

Foster’s Forecast. Weather Prophet Foster makes thLg following predictions: The next etor^ will reach the Pacific cost about t|i 12th, cross the western mountains If close of the 13th, the great oenttK valleys from the 14th to IQth, and t* SR. eastern states about the 17th. T warm wave will cross the weste*^ mountains about the 12th, the central valleys about the 14th, and ttg eastern states about the 16th. T» e cold wave, which will be a cold wave in the northern states, will cross j be western mountains about the 15th; I he great central valleys about the If and the eastern states about the 19 A Chapter on the Credit System Is Independent, Jan. 6, considered Farmer. J L s The Independent thinks bupa 9 a men and people in gensi al will m. rebig haul by reading, pondering an fleeting over the chapter. Sa/k .

charged pvisohous matter 7 healthy systems and cheap credit T7: . d good natured merchants and his H*”' ures and lack Of-yes, he refers pai I“°' ularly to the farmer as being the , of this bad state of things. Foi’ p|J°° he says the farmer when he has a of wheat to a bull calf he hmat IfS)^ spot pash. Too bad, almost a 7 Would say to that president who circular letter, merchant of WalkeiF.| and the Independent to click togeK - e> and while the farmer is unload" wheat take the calf from him. ■hU a He Didn’t Advertise. A few days ago a Pittsburg citizen! r L into a pound of butter which hef,.^ purchased at a grocery whose projife^ tor does not advertise, and found thM in a small tin box, which con tai ne, V “ piece of paper bearing the follow, 3 ng ’ written iu a neat feminine handr [ ’T am a girl eighteen years old, gc looking and an excellent housekeei Should this be found by some nun ried Christian gentleman, will he ph !ftße write to the following address,” etc The finder, being a bachelor, deci to unravel the affair, and succeet I only to destroy the romance. The | who had written the note had < I many years ago, leaving an aged 1 lU8 ‘ band and a grown family.—Ex. Harringtons California Midwinter f air Excursion, February 24. '94. « Send for book giving full j. 7'^ ■ as to bow the party will UitveP, 4iotels where they will atop, pr 7^l * Can ticketsjind

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G. L. HARRINGTON, 46 N. High Streep Telephone 868. Columbus s . COUNTY SEAT NOTES. I Compiled from our South Bem' changes. y Fred Tescher, charged with poii^' ing with intent to kill Lillie Lloyd Rn • * inmate of Popcorn Jennie’s place ‘ acquitted of the charge before Msr r Leeper on Saturday. . City Attorney Joseph G. Orr married to Miss Theresa Brennan^ Ann Arbor, last Sunday afternooi * Mr. Crockett’s term as postman® expired last Monday, but as yetg. successor has shown up to take, £ ■ do on &

piece. The trial in the circuit court of e-i * Hungarian, Steven Vinco vics, (Hi stabbed Officer Charles Keller, city police, while the latter was iU?! charge of his duty, resulted nJ verdict of guilty last MonW The punishment was fixed aj fine of $5 and imprisonment in state’s prison for two years. & The Sunday News says: “TheT pathetic thing about the robbew^ the South Bend National bank in sacrifice made by Air. Myron (W bell, who as cashier shoulderedH entire responsibility for the los^jl has turned over everything hesf i sesses on earth to make it good t» bank. Mr. Campbel) djd t^ 7 ®^ - matter of honor and what it m® 001 him let men of middle life andi|pß| ate means judge for themselves^ ; A new trial was granted in the of Steven Vincovics convicted 1 day of assault, and battery with i u » to kill Officer Keller, on the gr-J that the jury’s verdict was notikl cordance with the law and eyidvu^

Bones of a Mastodon Found. The bone of the hind leg of a mastodon was unearthed by ditchers east of town last Friday and brought to this office by three stalwart men. Judging from the size of the bone the animal when living must have weighed over twenty ton. People from all sections of the countrv are flocking to Macy to see the bone, ow iu possession of Wilson Palmer. Parties are now excavating for all the bones of this huge animal. Subscriptions received for all the magazines and periodicals, at the Inkependent office. We will save you expense and trouble of sending. q.,P r ’ A - D ‘ K «y n °Ws is in town e-erv ai. e » SßS ?r Drop in at Townsend’s barber near he postoffice, when you l !: M“‘k hair-cut or shave. * 1 oe past tiigiuMud

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