St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 September 1896 — Page 1

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VOLUME XXII.

ELDER J. H. WILSON EXPELLED. Presiding Elder of the Valparaiso District Ousted from the Church. A Terre Haute special to the Chicago Record of Friday says: The Northwest Indiana conference is in session here. The sensation of the day was the expulsion from the church of Presiding Elder Wilson, of Valparaiso, on the charge of immorality. Two months ago Elder Wilson, of the Valparaiso district, sent his resignation to the bishop on the ground of bad health. It was accepted. This much was disclosed by a brief statement of Bishop Andrews this morning, when y ti re ~¥ a Ypttrnwu j Aiwyr Let haiuuel Rt&k was uppoiqtU.7 ed/t^suiA^ed WWon, afid, at Hie eon rogurd to the net, -he -mm’ed-^RC the resignation of Wilson be received and that his name be entered on record as “withdrawn from the church under complaint.” The Rev. A. A. Gee, of South Bend, wanted a committee appointed to make a report on the case tomorrow, and the venerable Dr. Smith, of Valparaiso, the oldest minister in the conference, wanted the case disposed.of without discussion. He knew the facts, he said, and he knew there would be nothing wrong in taking this summary action. His idea prevail ed. The feeling against Wilson was strong, and the action is, in effect, expulsion from the church. Wilson was transferred to this conference from an Ohio conference, and has had a meteoric career. He was famed as an orator. Grand Church Dedication. On Sunday, September 27th, the new Catholic Church at Walkerton will be solemnly dedicated. The ceremony will be performed by the Very Rev. Henry Drees, C. P. P. S., the Provincial of the Most Precious Blood Order of America. The dedicatory sermon by the Rev. Father Benedict, C. P. P. S., of St. Joseph College, Rensselaer, Ind. Subject: “The True Church.” Half fare rates on the I. I. I. R. R. Trains arriving at 8 and 11 o’clock a. m.; departing at 7 p. m. each way. Services begin at 11 o’clock. Dedication, Solemn High Mass and sermon. The Dedication banquet served on the 'church lawns at noon by the lames of the parish. Come all and share in our festive day. Bev. Father Dominic, Pastor. The Bicycle Aeolian Harp. The young bicyclists have discovered a new use for the bicycle and a number have transformed them into musical instruments similar to the Aeolian harp. To secure the desired effect it is neces sary to secure two strong rubber bands, which, however, can be stretched so the rear wheel of the bicycle will pass through the band. The rubbers are then stretched from the frame of the bicy cle under the saddle to the axle of the pedals. The rubbers will give out but little noise until a good rate of speed is attained and then they hum and buzz like a miniature sawmill. The new form of amusement was introduced in this city several days ago and it has been taken up by a number of the young bicyclists.- New Albany Tribune. Kankakee Improvement Association. A dispatch states that a meeting of UkUfWCankakee River Improvement associaation was held at Hanna last Saturday to perfect a permanent organization. The following board of directors was elected: LaPorte county, J. S. Long. C. F. Holmes; St. Joseph county, D. W. Place; Starke county, John Donelson, Wiliam Schilling; Porter county, Abraham Stowell. The association discussed plans for making the improvement which, it is said, will reclaim 50.000 acres of land • covwM hr 1 - ?.?Aer. Representatives were present from all counties traversed by the Kankakee river, and the prospects are regarded as favorable for the straightening of the river to the Illinois state line. It is proposed to begin work next spring. Wedding. Last Sunday evening just at six o’clock, Mr. James L. Barden and Miss Minnie M. Brown were united in matrimony at the home of the bride’s parents. Rev. J. W. Riley, pastor of the U. B. church, performed the ceremony according to the ritual of the above church. At the close of the service the guests were treated to a very bountiful supper, after which they departed in peace leaving best wishes for all the friends and relatives. Reporter. G. A. R. Picnic. Jesse Coppock Post, G. A. R., and the Women’s Relief Corps will hold their annual picnic at Koontz s lake Saturday, Sept. 26. All welcome. Bring your baskets well filled and prepare for a day of recreation and enjoyment.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY. IN|4ANA. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1896.

THE INDEPENDENT’S CAMPAIGN.

1 Editor Independent: Campaign Shots. A few days ago the United States paid r to the western Indians $70,000 as interest f money due on a land purchase. This - money was all paid in silver dollars. Had s this interest money been due to a Wall 1 street bondholder, would the government 3 have paid it every dollar in silver? No, t sir! Secretary Carlisle is too honest to i do such an act. Gold would have been k paid the bondholder without his asking -for it. The producers of t his land to day are served no better than Indians. \on ■ >aay demand gold for your labyx ^•TlUWlwtrther give you silver dollarsand paper promises to pay a dollar. Gold, my dear sir, is for the favored class. Why is it. if one dollar is equal with and good as gold that we have one kind . of dollar (gold) for the bondholder and ■ another kind of dollar (silver or pap-r) ■ for the producer? There is an African > in that wood pile. Who is it that prospers under “the . existing gold standard? ” Is it the farmer that is growing so rich on his farm ; that he can sell his farm at sight for three times its value? Is it our retail i country merchants that are so prosperous that they could sell their stock and i business for throe times its face value i because it is such a money maker? Is • it our factories and mills that are not protected by patents that can be sold for three times their value, forsooth they are such rapid money makers? Not one! Is there any class of business at the present day that is worth three times its face value as a money maker? Yes there is one business. Here it is, advertised in every daily paper in the land. I quote from the stock market: BANK STUCKS S^'.TNhT 7'.. 32" XI" Alin- Nut i ISO Fourth NT——J2!o;2L'' Mk l NalT — U.J LI N. I.afette- 2801285' . Wen Ger 840 ... Mei. Nat 120 I'2o (' s 1> A T 7C Cit Nat '2001220 <’ T * S 1> —1 7t Germ. Nat —1205‘ FATN Co* |.ss lie. Filth Nat . I 77 Ger N < ov 12.’C C■ The single gold standard is evidently a good soil for growing millionaires. Their property is worth more than three times its face value! Wherever you find one African you generally find another. I Give that wood pile another shaking and you will find another nigger. Weare told that the reason produce is so cheap is that we have overproduction. If that were true we would have an ex cess of everything to eat. drink and wear. Our granaries and warehouses would be filled to bursting with the good things we could not sell and all we would need to do would l>e to quit work and rest for a season, sell one half the present crop, holding the other half for sale next year. The truth is there is no overproduction. You sell all you produce but get only

Walkerton Corn. Paragraphs have been appearing in I the newspapers in regard to the ini ' < mense corn which is being raised in ' ' various parts of the country. We have seen no statement, however, where . these stalks of corn have reached I*2 feet. This locality smashes the record. । so far as reports show to date. John Bell, who resides near this place, brought several stalks of corn to the Indepex dent office last Tuesday which eclipse- : anything of the kind we ever heard of in this part of the country. One stalk i is 13 feet 1 inch in height, another 13 feet, and the rest do not fall more than , < two or three inches below this measure ■ । ment. Some of the stalks have two ears, measuring a foot in length. The ears are about six feet from the ground. ; These specimens are but a sample of i Mr. Bell’s average crop, he having out ( 18 acres and ’Be ’•- o.’ • * a veHlglr’" 1 *T' ( * ; , . J in low marsh ground which was broken ’ last vear for the first time, and will ; yield 75 bushels to the acre. ; Knocked Senseless. Last Saturday afternoon while E. G. Lancaster was batting a ball on the cross walk between the Hudelmyer and Bender blocks Valentine Awald, of near this place, was crosing the street and not seeing the batter nor the latter seeing him j i Mr. Awald was struck across the breast with the bat with such force as to knock him senseless. He sank to the ground and became unconscious, remaining in s this condition about 10 minutes. He j was raised from the ground and assisted to Dr. Denaut's office where he was cared for and after a short time had i recovered so that he could be taken to his home. He is said to be getting along ! well. John Stough, of Lagrange county is the next man who has marketed his second crop of strawberries and if anything they were better flavored than the first crop. He received 30 cents per quart.

half price for it. Under consumption may cut some figure in it. Over production is not in it. The farmer raises no 1 more oats this year than last but he g^ - t only ten cents a bushel for it. A far fe i does not feel very proud when ridin 1 town on a load of ten-cent oats.^^ T I he is a very sick man and it i t a very small dose of the old tar ^Br. i , toaet on him as an emetic. ~ . f , , T>.-ig only per cent. UJ? l between tin Wilson tariff an/ lU 1 a : Kinley tariff, it we h.^ ren ‘ o< product; ■ >h,it we need isk : • , J Brvan states “Not morti'ifference

i —. x more monev to buy wjmt the g [' already ovcrprociut-^ xIA “ ’ 4 •• The increar • ' iMroOfiooo in of manufa z Rm'dgoods since of il.v ^McKinley bill,” says the New VfirK World, “is one of the things that is the matter with Hanna, and also with the tariff logic of Hanna’s principal.” i This is in the nature of a hard hit. Even the people who do not think, and devote themselves to new worship rather than । the study of economics, will come to ■ know after a while that Major McKinley is not the adept on the tariff he is “crack | ed up to be.” Mulhall, the English statistician,gives the values of the manufactures of nations | in 1888, t<> wit: United Kingdom $4,16O,O()O.(MIO [ France 2.400JMM>.000 ■. Germany 2,900,000,000 Russia 1^00,000.000 Austria 1.200,000,000 Italy 600,000,000 Spain 400,000,000 The United States 7,200,000,000 He also gives the wealth of nations in the same year: United States $64,0)0,000,000 (•reat Britain 47,000,000.000 France 42,000,000,000 : Germany 33,000,000,000 Russia 25,01),000,000 \ tria 19,000,000,000 It.ib. 14,000.000,000 i Spain 12,500,001>,000 “ We stand to day like a great big over I grown boy, strong enough to crush a score of the insects alxuit him with his I hand and yet so thoroughly unconscious of his strength that ho goes blubbering to his ma because some little nation will not let him slide down their cellar door,” । their financial system) We lead alt other nations in uehhh and production and it is high time were opening our doors to the markets of the world through a more ri'asotinble < tariff. However, as Mr Bryan states i “ If your taxes are not high enough, vote f<>r m<>re tariff, for tariff is a lax.” Robert G. Ing<rs. 11 ■-nd of the tariff;. “ 1 Indieve in nu king the cradle of an in fant industry, but when that infant grows । to six feet two incht's in its so«'ks and i threatens to whip me if 1 stop rocking. I think it lime to call a halt.’’ Gartiehi said that he believed in a tariff that eventually looked to free trade as the ■ ideal condition. , J. W. Aki.in<.ton.

Obituary of Susan McDaniel. Mrs. Susan Mel>aniel died at her home, one mile southeast of this place, last Saturday, Septemla r 12. She was born in Pennsylvania, January 27.1825. Her age at her death was 71 years, 7 monthsand 15 days. She had lived in St. Joseph county nealy 40 years. She with her husband coming here in an early day went through many hardships and at the same time raised a very large family. She leaves a husband, three sisters and four brothers, most of whom are living in other states except Louis Paul, who lives near this place. She leaves 12 children, nine boys and three girls, thirtyseven grandchildren and six great grandchildren with many friends to mourn. The near relatives attending her funeral were: Mrs. Black, of Mishawaka, Mrs. Zigler, of Albion, one son and wife from Chicago, one daughter and husband ' ' City. William McDaniel, her husband's brother from New Car lisle, Mr. and Mrs. Rust, from c and Mr. and Mrs. Eby from Tyner, together with her children who live here. Mother McDaniel was loved by all w ho knew her. She was a member of the Methodist church about fifty years,and died in the triumphs of a living faith. The funeral service was held at the residence in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends who came to pay their last respects to her.

Rev. Riley, pastor of the U. B. church, preached the funeral sermon from the words, “ As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.” Isaiah 66:13. Excellent singing was furnished by Mr. Otis Williams, Miss Pool, Miss Minnie Berger and Miss Platts. She • was laid to rest in the Walkerton cemetery. May a kind Heavenly Father com- ■ fort the bereaved through life and bring > them all to a grand reunion in heaven at last where all tears are wiped away, and sorrows never come. J. W. Riley. Major W. M. Kendall, of Plymouth, is reported to be seriously ill.

| The Green Goods Man. TUt ^ld thread-bare fake the “ green dias been fishing for suck ers ii this place. He has a very tempt ‘ un h* B h°°k, which the dishonest i and tU »ble might be induced to bite at. idential” letter from an enter leal er in these “ goods ” was reht'T»Yoprietor of one of Walk- ■ wTUsiness houses a few days ago. prisi r holds out great inducements, ceivJ^B writer conveys the idea that he erto Ji “ esß t,H l w vially to befriend peoThe 1^^ want his goods. He is eager to . j^Mbalth upon others by selling his price. He ini' article. 1 n

he incloses a sup- ,' a newspaper which I grilling account of how n ce;^ yas arrested for counter ', feitifjg^y. bu when the government , expt (•’’ifeb'ii ^IOO,OOO of these green ' W carried in a valise, and wert * to defect the difference be ' twee j| Cot) it feit and the genuine, the jr^fe'r « > leased and gathering up 1 putting it back into < the lb ved to go his way uni mol a/‘ ' M P<'al to man’s avarice very strong, and is calthe right kind of game l greener than the goods trk is seeking customers. |e was a slip which undress as follows: “U. Kfonte, Pennsylvania I CF dential. jt a desirous of obtain te it in your hxalitv to ■e I enclose herewith ■jg which gncs all the xmld lie desired and ^Riinking you are in a Bk my g<*wls safely. 1 »wnt<' j<al ami if you in this enterprise. 1 Ji s*’ the liberty 1 have proposition. I have > tide of the kind in K issued or put on the Bi un from one to twenty, bit every note to be piT *|4oring. vignette, print ^nature, etc., and when having been used or ■bfer ths.wtJ>ui,k < rk Tl'-'V " > <;>».* n«t and perfect as h make it, and there is k in using it. Remem rhejc which will go anv where, leaving for you a u ten to twelve hundred ! ding to the amount you j de cannot Ih' detected in I rw of trade, and onh at ! Vashington, through the c numbers, ami not then. J thijlMßferfbill of same number is still । h *Vso that thev arc really as ' ~ W hen vou come here 1 I iny entire stock from one tht>usand dollars, com the genuine, and in fact t» any test you se<- tit be me a single dollar, then, ^lomughly satisfied <>n J’‘ u can whatever dp*- pay i-.oh f' ■ oe|k must be done FACE t< ; PACE; ex^^nee has taught me that ' this absolutely safe wav to iraceTtet -tTiljf R^siness. and imrd satis Lirju^ both. When you Come iwSa- ^Ai rail are me and what you are HuyH(f v and'T #an see and judge the man । I am 4* plaue confidence in for future ’ business. Brides it is absolutely neces i sary (hat I should see you on our tlrst dpal. as here are some few secrets : I pertaining to fee business and neerssarv to success, w ' ich I don't care to put in writing, and « only imparted to a customer by wc d of mouth at a personal ; ( interview, a> a customer only has the | sutoe hitero-t I have in keeping these i I bfi ’’abv mat ers to myself. Re:uvmber. ! |T 17 uJk or expect to be paid one 1 cent* ;1 vou have the . i v ur • own possession. Do not ask me to sead I goods by mail or express, as it is not a ; ; safe wav for either of us. It is better to ' bo safe ai d sure than to transact a bust | ■ I ness of this nature in a careless mahßcr? " i if 1 a : satisfied at a personal interv \ you woe J make me a good agent. T i rm-7 '-o r. oLifcliberal inducements to tab the state agency and make you ■ a special rate for any deal over s2g.ihkl i I 1 know you have some distance to come. , but considering the tremendous profits । and no risks whatsoever, it is well worth the slight inconvenience of a journey. ■ and as far as expenses are concerned. 1 - will make a liberal allowance to cover

them and I promise that if you do not find my goods just as represented, or should you upon any reasonable pretext ! whatsoever, decline to consummate a i trade, I guarantee to refund to you your ' entire expenses, from the time you leave ' home till you return, and make a liberal allowance for loss of time, inconvenience

to business, etc. -My' terns are three hundred dollars #3(Mj £> three thousand dollars (§3,000-: ffennhandred (§400) for five thousand i^VKXhisix hundred and fifty (§650) for ten-thousand (§10,000); one thousand for twenty thousand (§20,000): tSßLthgusand (§2,000) for forty thousand fj3,0000 for §3OO is the very smallest aiiirount 1 will sell under any circumI will give you the state right. rhnJ fey the sole privilege of handling the I goods ..throughout your state, if you invest from §650.00 upwards. Remember, t sell my goods so cheaply on the first ’ deal in order to give my customers a fair

start to build up a trade. On all after deals, which surely follow’, I charge 25 1 cents on the dollar. I will not do are tail trade, as thereby it would let too many into the business and its secrets. If you feel disposed to handle my goods, send me a telegraph dispatch as'worded and numbered on enclosed slip. Do not sign your own name to your dispatch, but sign same as the enclosed I slip. I will know you by this number and this signature only. On receipt of your telegram, 1 will send the instructions to the same name and address as this letter unless otherwise ordered by you, and will appoint a place of meeting. Don t attempt to come on to find me without first telegraphing for instructions. Send telegram by the Western .. te-sido your expenses, but desire to engTige in this iiusmess, jet me Know by’ ioi* egram, but under no circumstances send a letter to me at this address, for if you do it will not reach me. I hope you will take no offense at the alxive, if you do not like the business. 1 will trust in your honor not to do me any harm. Please destroy this letter. Yours confidentially.

Annual Clearance Sale. For ten years I have each season made a clearing sa’" of a o CD / > l \ ITj i SURING AND SUMMER STOCK AUGUST AND" SEPTEMBER And This Year Will be no ExceptionI offer anything in Spring and Summer Goods at a reduction of ONE THIRD to ONE-HALF and all new goods, and other FALL AND WINTER SOODS At a lower price than any of my competitors. Nothing is reserved during thissale. Come, get prices and witness bargains. T. J. WOLFE, Rensberger Block. ROSS, JARRELL & CO.— ^GENERAL HARDWARE AND -FARMyW IM.Barb and Smooth Wire,

Ql ICK ME A j gas ° une stqves —__ ELEGANT NEW DESIGNS. —. SEE THE NEW OLIVER Walking Plow and James Oliver Sulky.

NUMBER 9.

Local Briefs.The Davis sewing machine is one of the best machines on the market. Vincent’s sell them at S3O to $35. — Bread, pies and cakes always fresh a-t the Domestic bakery. The Independent and Toledo Blade $1.75. A cheap combination. Take advantage of the offer. The famous Hoosier Shoe and Hoe Grain Drills for one and two horses, with prf^ps right, at Machinery Hall. Heav^Veather team tly nets at your own priu£ at Akes. Must close them " file wed* oFThe state fair; Sept. 11 ih, ' - ’ 19th, and tickets will be good to return Monday, Sept. 21. 11’ANTED—Several faithful men or won en to ’’ travel for responsible established house in Indiana Salary 8780. payable 815 weekly and. expenses position permanent Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. Th# National, Star Building, Chicago.