St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 January 1894 — Page 4

JntapenbcnL WALKBUTON. INDIANA. JAN. 20, 1894. w - A. BNDLEY, Editor. The state of New York is out of debt, the first time in seventy-live years. Hon. W. D. Owen, of Logansport, has announced his candidacy for secretary of state. Hon. Aaron Jones, of this county, is a candidate for the nomination of secretary of state. The Wanatah News has entered on i

its fourth year. The News covers the field it occupies exceptionally well. “How to live without work” is the one great question uppermost in the minds of many men. And some of them seem to have solved the problem. Wm. P. Bidwell, editor of the American Eagle, the A. P. A. paper at Fort Wayne that contained the objectionable article about the Catholic orphans’ home, has been arrested. Rev. Walter Scott, who lias been rector of St. Paul’s church, LaPorte, for the past nine years, has resigned to take effect April 3. The resignation has been accepted. Painter, who was to have been hanged in Chicago on Friday of last week, was again reprieved by the governor

within a few hours of the time set for his execution. The reprieve was granted on the strength of new evidence, the governor granting fourteen days in which to examine into the matter. Wakarusa, Elkhart county, reports improvements in the way of building to the amount of about $40,000 during the past year. In addition to this a newspaper was added to the town’s industries during the same period, which is no small item in its favor. The citizens of Chicago have begun agitating the overthrow of the gas companies there and the establishment of a gas plant by the city. It is claimed that the gas companies are extortionate in their prices and dishonest in their dealings with the consumers. The use of the tight check rein is not only a useless and cruel practice but causes permanent injuries tc the horse. Five hundred veterinary sur^2l geons have signed a paper condemnTb^t. Distortion of the windpipe, paralysis of the muscles of the face, megrims, apoplexy, coma and inflammation are some of the results of the tight check rein.

Bob Ingersoll has laid aside his lecures on the bible and religion and instead will have for his theme the martyred president, Abraham LincolnThe change will be a most refreshing one, as Bob’s old re hashed ideas from Tom Paine and Voltaire on matters religious are becoming stale and the public would like to hear something else from the brilliant Bob. The exigency of the times demands a settlement of the tariff question at once. The uncertainty involved in the proposed policy of tariff reform is causing a mischievous suspension of business in many lines of commerce throughout the land. Every day of unnecessary delay in this matter on the part of our national legislators is doing the country a great deal of harm. Anything is better than the present uncertain aspect of things. The World’s Fair attracted to it the best people of the world, but unfortunately it also attracted the very worst elements that live, says the Inter Qeean. Multitudes of these remained, and tin’s fact accounts for the crowded

^■^mdition of the Chicago jail today its 600 prisoners awaiting trial for their crimes. Fifty-two of the number are charged with murder. The courts of justice will for some time be taxed by such echoes from the great fair. The Chicago Herald recently contained an article on the bank robbery at South Bend which maligns the Character of Cashier Myron Campbell. The article was so cleverly worded as to preclude the possibility of holding the paper criminally responsible. It was a most contemptible, cruel and unwarranted reflection upon the character of an honest, upright and true man, and is receiving the condemnation of all justice-loving people who are acquainted with the particulars of the affair. The facts connected with the case are sufficient to disarm all suspicion as to Mr. Campbell's guilt and prove to the public that he is inpocent of any connection whatever ^yith the robbery.

It is said that the Indianapolis News says that it is said that Hon. B. F. ■ Shively is “in training for senatorial honors.” A Goshen firm advertises to loan money at 4 per cent interest on improved real estate, with the privilege of partial payments, It is announced, and with good authority, it is said, that ex-President Harrison will not consent to be a candidate for the presidency. A new secret order called the “Tribe ( of Ben-Hur” has been incorporated at j Indianapolis. As its name would suggest the new society’s ritual is founded upon Gen. Lew Wallace’s great novel,

“Ben-Hur.” 1 The Westville Indicator has abandoned the eight page size and reduced to four pages. The Indicator has been I too good a paper for the town in which , it is published. An eight-page paper . in a four page town can’t be made to , p {i y- । The feasibility of a fusion of the ' Baptist and Christian churches is being discussed by leading divines and members of both denominations. Many conferences have been held of ’ late looking to the unification of the two churches. “If an effort js made to hold the 1 Corbett and Mitchell fight in Jacksonville the Duval Athletic club, so- I called, will provoke a conflict with the state for which it alone will be re- 1

sponsible.” This is the mandate of Gov. Mitchell, of Florida. The governor has already ordered the state militia to be in readiness to prevent the fight. The St. Louis Globe says that it is well to bear in mind that while the number of business failures in 1893 was greater than ever before, the number of business enterprises was also greater. The proportion of failures to the number of persons in business was not much larger in 1893 than it was in several years in the past in which there was no actual panic, while it was not as large as during the convulsion in 1873. The Indianapolis Journal says that Adjutant-general Robbins has prepared a form of blank and book in accordance with the act approved March 11, 1889, providing for recording the enrollment of all soldiers now residing in this state who were engaged in any war; also of the names of the widows and orphans under sixteen years of ’ age. These blanks are being mailed ’ to the clerk and auditor of each coun- > ty, whose duty it is to prepare this enrollment from reports of the township assessors next April.

The report that the Seventh Day Adventists at Battle Creek have again set a date for the world to come to an end, in March next, is denied in print by one of their number. The writer says that the Adventists make a practice every Christmas of making their annual gifts to the missionary cause, and these being unusually large this year, together with the fact that a big revival was going on at the same time, are given as the cause of the above rumor gaining currency. We can all, therefore, rest easy for the present. “LaPorte, Ind., Jan. 17.—Victor Hardenbrook and William Cook, the latter of Michigan, fought eight rounds with six-ounce gloves in the town hall at Walkerton last night. At, the end of the eighth round the fight was declared a draw. Both principals were severely punished. The authorities refused to interfere and the battle was fought before an audience of 300 sporting men.” The above is a dispatch sent from LaPorte to the Chicago Record Jan. 17. The correspondent who furnished the above information to the Record

was misinformed, or else purposely exaggerated the facts in the case in order, perhaps, to insure the publication of his special. We are inclined to think that the latter is the case. The dispatch is erroneous and misleading, and the Independent desires to rectify the misstatements therein contained. There was no prize fight about it, it being simply a friendly sparring exhibition for points. Neith- ; er of the principals was badly punished, as it was understoocj from the , beginning that there was to be nothing vicious about the match. The town authorities did not interfere be- : cause there is no law against a sparring match of the character that was , held here. Had it been a prize fight, ' the authorities would have interfered here as promptly as in any other well--1 regulated community. A prize fight . would not be tolerated in Walkerton. - There are a few other mistakes in the i ■ dispatch which it is not necessary to I speak of.

All things are engaged in writing their history. The plant, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the . mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones m the stia- j turn; the fern and the leaf, their mod- J est epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face.—Emerson. High School Notes. About this time parents may proper- I ly inquire for report cards. ’ At the suggestion of some of his teachers the superintendent has favored the introduction of occasional written reviews upon the grading of which the standing of the pupil is largely determined. These do not materially interrupt the daily program J and from their greater frequency the temptation to dishonest practices, Fu Examinations too often become—au .5 end rather than a means. We are always glad to see visitors at our Township Teachers’ Institutes, " which assemble in the high school room. The next session will occur in two weeks, Feb. 3. It promises to be an unusually interesting gathering, Amongst other attractions we are promised a recitation by Mrs. Walter McCool, a student of the Delsartean system of expression. A full program will appear in next week’s Independent, with remarks upon the same. The Dollar We Want What we want, says an exchange, is a dollar easy to got and hard to let go; a dollar that will pay four dollars’ worth of debts and then come back by the means of a string attachment; a dollar that snuggles easy in the socks I of John Smith, but withers like the manna of old in the safe of a railroad president; a dollar that will buy some flour and meat while it buys much whiskey and tobacco; a dollar above drawing interest and yet will double itself while the owner sits in the shade and spits at a crack in the pavement; a dollar that will circulate without appreciation; will buy shoes for baby while it buys fun for a man in places where he can’t take his wife; a dollar that will surely repair the waste of sloth, appetite and bad judgment; a dollar that comes to the lap of indolence like worms to the craw of a fath- ' erless robin; a dollar that will removefl the sentence pronounced upon Adam^t reverse the order of nature and trai^^ form the nature of men. This accord^ ing to our esteemed contemporaries, in; the kind of a dollar we want. Family of Freaks. Jason Hiers/ of Munson, Pa., died last week. He was only an ordinary laboring man, but was the father of the oddest family of children of which there is any record. There are seven iu number. The eldest, a boy of 18, has thirteen fingers and thirteen toes. Next to him is another boy, 16 years old. As long as this boy is quiet no one would suppose that there was anything unusual about him, but the moment he opens his mouth to talk he loses all control of his hands, arms, feet and legs, and they jerk and work and kick around as if they were hung on wires. It is no uncommon thing for bis legs to have carried him a rod ‘ or two away before be is able to say yes or no. The third child is a girl who is a hunchback and a dwarf. She is 14 years old. A boy next to her is deaf and dumb. The fifth child has a bright red birth mark encircling her neck like a strip of red flannel. It is an inch wide. The other children are twins, 2 years old, a boy and a girl. The boy’s head is covered with a dense growth of hair, while the girl has not the sign of a hair upon her head. The girl is fat and the boy lean. Every one of these odd children is healthy and bright. Harringtons California Midwinter Fai-hi Excursion, February 24. ’94. , Send for book giving full particulars as to Low the party will travel, list of hotels where they will stop, price of tickets and map showing route over which this excursion will pass. Seven thousand miles will be traveled in elegant Pullman Vestibuled Sleeping Oars, with Dining Car attached, fol ! the exclusive use of this party. De not forget that if you are going to ! California and do uot wish to return with this party, you can do so, and sc • have the benefit of this special service of elegant Pullman Vestibuled Sleeping Cars and dining Car, as well as I visit all the many points of interest ■ mapped out for this tour en route to t San Francisco. Call ou or address ' G. L. HARRINGTON, . ( 46 N. High Streety-W Telephone 868. CoJumbus,

J oUß=== w ai Ten M Co* is loaded down with Bargains I that you can’t afford to miss. Qood Kerosene Oil I 8 CENTS PER GALLON. UM M- sgepHSNS. 5 £ £ FRV-DOITGHERTW BLOCK. ■ WIST These Panicky Times drove us to it. To do so we propose to throw =s3,ooo=

Worth of i DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, Notions. Boots and Shoes On the Market Regardless of Cost! Be Wise while you Live for you will be a lons’ Dead, And take advantage of the Oyjji|LL'^Tortunity of your life time and lay in t— a supply of RUiU life at about k ‘ NEW or USW ONE HALF PRICE to Bridge over the Hard Tinies. FOR EX 431 PEE: Some Cheap Prints to close 2Jc Good Muslin, 4|c 10 cent cotton flannel, - 7|c 75 cent overalls 45c 75 cent gloves, 43c $1.50 shoes 89c EVERYTHING MUST GUI 'l’lio First That Coihp Get The Best. HOLMAN & F©©TE. Located in the Woodworth room just vacated by Chas. M. Stephens. THE GkQBE IT IS HARD TIMES! AND POCKET BOOKS ABE QUITE Slim and People Generally Feel Poor. iis»' A r But we will make your dollars go a good long ways by speudthem with us. We are selling (Jlothing, plats, (Japs, Boots AND SHOES, ETC., HARD TIMES PRICES, Now is the time to buy an overcoat at a bargain, as we are closing out our entire stock of Overcoats at Wholesale Prices. Thanking our customers for past patronage we ask a continuance . of their favors in the’future, promising to give them honest value t for every dollar expended with us. l SAMUEL KOONTZ, JR,.

100 Acre Farm for Sale. Good, well improved farm for sale cheap and on easy terms. New house with seven rooms, cemented cellar good bai n, good orchard, good fences’ etc. 85 acres under good cultivation’. For a„y information call on JOHN F JOHNSON, Agent, Tyner City, lud. Subscriptions received for all the magazines and periodicals, at the Independent office. We will save you expense and trouble of sending. Dr. A. D. Reynolds is in town every Saturday prepared to treat diseases of the horse. Drop in at Townsend’s barber shop, near the postoflice, when you want a slick hair-cut or shave. KARL’S CLOVER ROOT, the great Blood Purifier gives freshness and clearness to the complexion and cures constipation, 25c , 50c. For sale by Bellinger & Williams. Cripe, the barber, will give you a neat hair-cut, shave or anything in the tonsorial line. KARL’S CLOVER ROOT will purify your Blood, clear your Complexion, regulate your Bowels' au<l make your Head clear as a bell. 25c. and 50c. For sale by Bellinger & Williams. Short breath cared by Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure. SHILOH’S CURE, the great Cough and Croup Cure, is in great demand. Pocket size contains twenty five doses only 25c. Children love it. For sale j by Bellinger & Williams. Oysters, pickled meats, pies, etc, for lunch, at Snyder & Son’s, in basement of Hudelmyer block. 1894!

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