St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 July 1895 — Page 4

Independent WALKERTON. INDIANA, JULY 6. 1895. W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. Fitzsimmons has been acquitted on the charge of killing Con Riordan. Another boom for prize fighting. The tin plate industry in this country is growing. There are at present 38,000 men employed in this industry. □'lie new state laws, including the Nicholson law, went, into effect the fore part of this week by the proclamation of Gov. Matthews. The gold reserve in the national treasury has reached the $100,000,000 point. That is the highest it has reached during the present fiscal year. The Kentucky state election will be held August 5. The republicans think they have a chance to win in the contest. The chance is a very slim one. The general average of the wheat crop in Indiana this season is estimated at eight bushels to the acre, or 20,000,000 bushels. That is about two-fifths of a crop. Evaporated potatoes are now successfully prepared. It has been found that they will keep good for an indefinite time and retain the most of their food value when prepared in this way. The Torrens system of land transfers has been adopted by Illinois. It originated in Australia. Under this law the state guarantees a title to land after it has been perfected, which does away with all disturbance of .titles. "The Warsaw Daily Union has sus , pended after a brief existence. It was an expensive experiment, as there was no field there for a second daily. : The Daily Times, published by Messrs. Williams & Son, fully meets all demands in the daily newspaper line at , Warsaw. The prospects for a war between Russia and Japan appear to be grow- . ing brighter. The coming together of these two powers would mean a desperate struggle. Should it be prolonged to any considerable extent the United States would probably be the gainer in a commercial way. The county commissioners refuse to grant Mishawaka’s petition to extend her coporate limits. It is stated that their reasons for so deciding were partly on account of the belief that the territory asked to be annexed was of too large a scope. “Greater Mishawaka” is therefore not in it for the present. The annual meeting of the Democratic State Editorial Association closed its session at Lake Maxenkuckee on Friday of last week. The money question was the uppermost topic that came up for consideration, but the association, however, did not commit itself on this question. The editors wisely steered clear of breakers. Bradstreet has found that at sev-enty-live points east, of the Rocky Mountains 227 factories started oe-1 tween April 1 and the end of May, ' giving employment to 55,000 employes. Within this period, too, according to the same paper, the wages of 175,000 employes have been advanced an average of 10 per cent. According to the Elkhart Truth Notre Dame university, a Catholic university, has conferred the title ofL. L. D. upon the Rev. Washington Gladden, a Protestant clergyman. This is said to be without precedent. There is perhaps not a minister in the country whose opinions are further from the Catholic creed than Mr. Gladden’s, but at the same time there is no one more tolerant to others’ opinions than he is. This incident displays a genuine catholicity on the part of the Roman Catholics that cannot but be helpful to all concerned. A discussion of the silver question will be held in Chicago by W. H. Harvey, author of “Coin’s Financial School,” and R. G. Horr, a noted student of finance, commencing about July 13. There will be no speeches, but the debate will be conducted in a conversational way. A stenographer will take down the discussion each day and the same will be published in the daily papers. The referees will be Lyman J. Gage for Horr ana Howard S. Taylor for Harvey. This discussion is looked forward to with great interest by the public, as it is believed much light will be thrown on this mooted question as a result of the ideas advanced by these two able men.

The Leader, one of Chicago’s big retail dry goods establishments, has . failed. William Entler, formerly editor of the Huntington Democrat, has taken editorial management of the Elkhart Truth, Col. Conn’s paper. Air. Entler is said to be an able editor. Philip D. Armour, the Chicago financier, takes a cheerful view of the business situation. Heis quoted sis follows: “It is to be a great year for the farmer, and utimately for that reason a great year for the merchant. High prices are going to more than compensate for any loss in wheat, and the country is going to get the benefit in a moderate way of rat her light crops abroad. There were never such prospects for the northwest.” It is said there is a man in St. Louis who can repeat the whole of the bible word for word.—Walkerton Independent. Yes, and it is altogether probable that the man who said it is the biggest liar in St. Louis. It may be that this St. Louis man is like those people who “can” read the bible through—but they never do.—Nappanee News. There is a great deal of probability that the above item, which was first published in a reliable Chicago paper, may be the caper of some telegraph liar. But so far as the feat of memorizing the bible is concerned, there is nothing impossible about that. The memory is a wonderful thing and capable of being developed by cultivation to a degree which is phenomenal. We hear of people who can repeat readily from memory the whole of Milton’s Paradise Lost, Pope’s Essay on Man, all of Shakspeare’s plays, etc., etc. The ancient Greeks and Romans gave great attention to the cultivation of the memory, and authentic history speaks of noted scholars of those times who not only memorized one large book but many of them. It is not at all among the impossible things that St. Louis may have a citizen who can repeat the whole of the bible from memory. A Four-Legged Chicken S. J. McDonald has n curiosity in the shape of a four legged chicken which he has hud taxidermized. The chicken lived about three weeks when it died from an injury received in some manner. It was healthy and strong and the four legs were perfectly formed. It belonged to a brood of chickens owned by Mrs. Vandermark, of near Union Center. July Weather. Hicks predicts a variety of weather for July. He says the first few days of the month will be stormy. Cooler weather will succeed, until the 6th, when a storm condition with high temperature will prevail until the 10th. The regular storm period will follow with high temperature and thunder showers. The 17 will be the center of a disturbance of the barometer and an overworking of the thermometer, and the regular storm period will continue from the 20th to the 24th, during which time more rain will fall than at any like period of the month. The heat at this time will be excessive, and destructive storms will follow. Scattering midsummer showers will mark ; the last few days of the mouth ami there . will be plenty of heat, but little rain. Why go elsewhere when you can get better prices and better goods at Vincent's. Martin V. Starr, editor of the Goshen i News, was married last week to Miss Mary Louise Butterfield, of that city. The saloon-keepers of Walkerton are conforming strictly to the provisions of the Nicholson law. They close on Sundays and 11 o’clock each night. The eminent pianist and piano ! teacher, Mr. Victor Heinze, of Chi- : cago, will give a concert in this place s on Monday evening, July 8, at the . Presbyterian chinch. Entertainment > begins at 8 o’clock. Admission 25 i cents. George F. Steel, house painter, grainer and paper hanger. Kalsomining, etc., done to order. Work guaranteed to give satisfaction. Address । box 27, Walkerton, Ind. Residence near the Pleasant Grove chapel. 'The colored people are arriving here ’ to day—Friday —for the camp-meet ing 1 | which begins in Place’s grove this even--1 I ing. This meeting will be a great ’ novelty in this locality. Plantation * melodies will be an interesting feature of the meet ing. i I A lot of hay which had just been - cut was burned on the Wolfen Larger I Bros.’ place on Friday. L’he fire was i caused, it is said, by ashes from a pipe s which the hired man was smoking. i The amount of the loss has not been ascertained.

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