St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 May 1897 — Page 1

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VOLUME XXII.

Some Facts About the Walkerton Schools. From the address given by Hon. T. J. Wolfe to the class of '97 we extract the ! following information concerning outschools which will be of interest to many of our readers: “The course of study in our schools, as prescribed by the school board, consists of 12 grades, with from 7 to 10 studies, or classes in each, making in all 98 stud ies, or classes for each pupil to pass through before they can graduate, or be entitled to a dinloma. A scholar must be quite bright and apt and very studi ons tonass from one made to the next

OUS W num one giaue V'- “v-'v higher in one school year of from 8 to 9 months, and there have been more that / have failed to paes each year than have I been able to make two grade* in one / year. Therefore, you will see that with 1

very few exceptions it takes a pupil 1-’ years from the time he enters the first grade until he completes the course of study as prescribed by the school board. The expense of supporting the schools of Walkerton is quite an item. For teach ere, janitor, fuel, etc., it is from $2,100 to $2,350 per year, then add the enormous salaries of us members of the school board S2O per year each, or a total for the school board of S6O then the necessary supplies for the course of instruction, and you have a grand total of nearly $2,500 per year. Os this amount we re ceive about SI,OOO per year from the state, as our proportion of the interest received on the state school fund, then about S2OO per year from liquor licenses, leaving about $l,lOO or $1,200 to be raised from taxes levied on the property of the town. But over one-third of this is paid by the three railroad companies that have lines running through the town, which leaves only about one-third of the expense of our schools to be paid by the resident tax payers of Walkerton. For many years our school board had a sufficient amount of money to meet all the requirements of the schools, and on Aug. Ist, 1892, had $2,469.30 on hand, and all the expenses of the previous year paid. This amount they had at the beginning of the school year of '92 and '93 and the levy for local tuition was 25 cents on the SIOO. On Aug. Ist. 1893, there was a balance on hand of $1,950.66 and the levy was cut down to 10 cents on the Aug. Ist, 1894, the balance on hand was $1,827.50, and upon request of the auditor and treasurer of the county, the levy was raised one cent on the SIOO, making it 11 cents. On Aug. Ist. 1895, the balance on hand had dwindled down to $1,313.11 and the board raised the levy to 15 cents on the SIOO. In May, 1896, we could plainly see that we were not going to have money enough to run the schools, and we raised the levy from 15 to 25 cents. And when I became treasurer of the school board, on Aug. Ist, we only had $662.37 on hand, and were obliged to only have eight months school the past year, and we are now in debt to our teachers $550, which will have to b« paid out of our June distribution, which will not leave us over SIOO to start next year's school with. But we have increased the levy for local tuition from 25 t 035 cents and trust that within two years we will get money enough on hand so as to pay our teachers promptly. I am at a loss to know whether the levy was cut down from 25 to 10 cents in 1893 to cripple the schools, or to not allow future treasurers to have money on hand to loan or speculate on." The Town Wins the Annexation Case Again. The Walkerton annexation case came up for a hearing in the St. Joseph circuit court before Judge Hubbard last Wednesday, resulting in a verdict in favor of the / town. The case occupied the greater / part of the day. Quite a number of wit- I nesses were subpoenaed from this place I but only a few were examined. The ; witnesses summoned were: Lewis Paul, James McDaniel, O. R. Fulmer, Stephen Grommon, S. J. Nicoles, E. Leibole, Chrs. M. Stephens, Edward Grider, Thompson Turner, Grant Tank, Will

Clem, David Swank, James Cook, 11. Applegate, G. H. Leslie, I). W. Place, Sam Hudelmyer, S. Wenger, W. A. Dail ey and T. J. Wolfe. After the evidence had been taken the case was turned over to the jury which, after a brief conference, ren dered a verdict as above stated. The attorneys in the case were; MacKibben and Henderson for plaintiffs, and Funk and Brick for the annexationists. The remonstratore, it is said, will appeal the case to the state supreme court. South Bend Tribune: The fish liar starts in early. Os course he is a Chicago man and he tells of catching 200 pounds of black bass in Cedar lake, Starke county, Indiana, in six hours with a single buck tail bait. He had the whole bass family in the lake hypnotized and some of the crazy things could no^ wait for the hook to touch the water but jumped up four or five feet to grab it.

KILLED BY TRAMPS. A Gang of Tramps in South Bend Kill a Policeman. Oscar Christiansen, a member of the South Bend police force, was murdered by tramps while patrolling his beat on the Lake Shore railroad grounds last Tuesday night. The murder occurred about 10 o’clock. Only about ten minutes before the dead body of Christiansen was found he was seen patrolling his beat by a brother officer. The bullet, which caused the man's death, was 38 calibre and passed from a point about three inches at the left of the nose clear

through the head to the back of the neck. As Christianson s revolver was ’ found in his hip pocket it is supposed that he had no chance to defend himself ( but was killed in cold blood.

As soon as the murder was discovered Chief Cassady sent out an emergency call which brought most of the force to the station, and from there they scoured the territory in and about the city wher ever hoboes would likely be in hiding. They succeeded in gathering in over 100 tramps all of whom were placed under arrest, in the hope of getting the guilty one. For several weeks the territory between South Bond and Mishawaka has been infested with a small army of tramps who have bis'ome bold and troublesome. The murder of Christian sen will no doubt arouse the authorities to do their utmost to drive away the dangerous gang of hoboes. It is said that a man from Elkhart saw the shoot ing, but being on top of a freight ear at the time was unable to identify the murderer. The sensational charge is made by Lake Shore Detective Carney that Detective Mullaney, of Chicago, who was with him watching tramps, was the man who shot Christiansen. Mui laney Jias been placed in custody. Christiansen, the murdered man, was born in Denmark and was 33 years old He is survived by a widow ami three children. CHRISTIANSEN'S SLAVER U’PKEHENDEH. A dispatch from South Bend on the 13th inst. says that the authorities have the murderer of Policeman Christiansen in custody. He is Detective James Mui laney, of the Lake Shore road, and he does not deny the shooting, but says it was a mistake. Mullaney, with John Carney, another detective, was on the same freight train with the tramps who broke open a car at Elkhart, and they were guarding the car in the South Bend yards, when Christiansen, who was sent to arrest the tramps on a tele graphicorder from Elkhart, was observed by the two detectives approaching the ear. Christiansen had on a long mac kintosh, completely covering his jnilicc uniform, and the detective, not recogniz ing him. tired point blank at Christiansen, killing him instantly. Tramps were numerous about the yards and the car which had been broken open, so the natural conclusion was that they had committed the crime. As telegraphed 1 yesterday 157 of the hobos were locked up between Elkhart and LaPorte in the ! r hopes of finding the guilty man. but ' soon after dinner Chief Cassidy had sufficient information to cause the dis 1 charge of the tramps and the arrest of Detective Mullaney. He and Carney ’ had gone to their homes in Chicago after 1 the murder, but they were led to return by a ruse. Chief Cassidy said he w ant ed them to identify one of the tramps under arrest. As soon as the officers entered the station house they were locked up and accused of the murder. Carney “peached" on his fellow detective, giving the facts as related above. Mullaney was placed in a cell and Carney was re / leased on his own recognizance. MulI laney took his arrest philosophically and seemed to think that the troub would not amount to much. Later in the ft»»r noon Mullaney was arraigned on acharge of murder and manslaughter. He was held in $5,000 bonds, in default of which I he was remanded to jail. The Dev il to the Governor.

1 IIV » II IV IIIL VI Ilir I . Charles F. Wilson, the governor's pri ! vate secretary, has reached the eom lus i ion that all the cranks in the state, and ' a good many who do not belong to the 1 State, are engaged in writing letters to the governor. The latest communication is dated “Hades,” and is signed by “the devil.” It arrived in a scorched envelope, and bore other evidences of having ex perienced a “hot" time. Otherwise, the letter was witless. Indianapolis News. Card of Thank*. We wish to extend to our good friends and neighbors our sincere thanks for the ! many kindnesses shown during the sick ness and death of our little child. Orlena. ’ We shall always remember these kindly acts with gratitude. Mr. \n» Mrs. James Batson. t > You can get a two-horse Chilled breakt ing plow for seven dollars at Machinery i Hall.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA. SATURDAY. MAY 15. 1897.

THE FOUR COUNTIES. News of St. Joseph, LaPorte, Mari shall and Starke Counties t Briefly Told. LaPorte is to have a new $15,000 Epi copal church. George H. Service will become poe® master of New Carlisle on June 20th. ® Plymouth, Marshal county, reports th® apple and cherry crop prospect to tie on® of unbounded yield, though pears The trial of John Pinkerton. for murdering his nephew, in St. JeuMß. county, will he heard in ImPorte cour^BM on a change of venue and will be Hock® eted for trial at the May term. 1 A correspondent writing from South I Bond says farmers in that vicinity hav*l found that last year’s corn is unfit ft. ' d seeding, ns it will not grow. This is said I to be due to the wet weather that pre- 1 vailed last season. The result is that | corn of two years ago is in great demand at 81 per bushel for seeding purpoMM. LaPorte Herald: During a thunder storm the other day at Door Village, lightning split a large oak from top to root, burned up a large quantity of wire

fence which the bolt followed, and broke out all the windows in a house near by without doing further damage The IgvPorte Argus tells a at<»n of a sch<M'lma am who had a dread of all kinds of contagious diseaw-a. She sent a child home because her mother was sick. The next day the child presented herself at school with her finger in her mouth and a little h«*xl swinging by the string and said. “Wese got a little baby at our house, but it's not cntching." Congressman Royse has rec, mmend ed the apjx>intmvnt of the following Ismrds of medical pension examiners Fulton county Dre. C. J. luring. C. R. Gould and S E. Terry . K -sciusko ty Drs. F. Moro, F. M Pearmnn and 11. (). King: Pulaski county Dre E. J. Smith. S. J. Brown and H G Jones; Starke county Drs. Chas. Waddell, lasac M, Smith and A. 11. Henderson: Marshall county Dre \ O Ren ami Luiter Johueou North Judson News. The olX^r day, for some infraction of the rules of the household, n little fellow in the north part of town wasalsmt to get n whipping. Just as the father was alsmt to com menev operations, the child naked if he could go into his room for a moment. Thi» father told him that he ci»u)d. Tij tm'ing to the door the man, with a switch in his hand, saw the little fellow kneel ing at his bedside and heard him say "O, God, if you cut did want to help a little bo> now is your time That np peal sufficed. The prayer was answered and the whipping jHistpmcd

ORtiLLIA S WRITING Pretty Toujjh Stories About the Ecceetric Old Editor. There was only one printer who could read Greeley's writing well enough to put it in type. He used to boast that he could read the great editors wondrous scrawl a mile away, says the Journal of Education. One night the boys in the Tribune composing room “put up a job" on the old man. They took two roosters, made them walk around on a newly inked form and then run them all over ten sheets of copy paper. The foreman wrote over it in Greeley's well known scrawl, “The Plain Duty of Congress" and put it on old man Law ton's h<xik. 1 think his name was Lawton, but if it was not it does not matter much. The old printer picked it up, swore a little, remarked that they had to shove the stuff on the old man, as usual, adjusted his spectacles and began stick' few minutes, but beyond a muttered i i oath or two he gave no sign. Lawton 'went on setting type until half way | through the “copy. Then he was st uck. He took the copy over to the foreman ! and asked: “Jack, what is that word?” “I don't know," replied the foreman. “You know 1 never could read the stuff.” Law ton took the sheet dow n to < Ireeley and pointed out to him a particularly awful scrawl of the rooster's foot, asking what word that was. Greeley looked at it a moment and replied, with a frown: 1 j “ ‘Unconstitutional,’ of course.” Lawton went back to the composing room and finished his task with the ' utmost sang froid. The old man never knew how the “copy” was produced. , I'he finest SSO top buggy now on the c market, at the old established Pitner , Carriage and Wagon Works in LaPorte.

PEN AND SHEARS. The cost to the people of the United States to lie born is twenty five million dollars annually, to be married three hundred millions, to be buried seventy five millions and to get drunk nine bun dred millions. Peek’s Sun tells the following on a girl out nt Bellwood, Nebraska: Upon i being asked why she did not marry, she replied: “I have considerable money of buy own. I have a pnrrot that swears, a mamkoy that chews, and a stove that Liuokes, so you see I am not in need of a kftelgind very badly.” I A man named Simmons is said to have ■BClined to become the private secretary man named Green for a peculiar Mbd. The salary was tempting, and ^KwßVork would have been light and ^^Hable; but then, as he said, he Kuldn t bear the thought of signing ■ttere, Green, per Simmons. I The only flying machine that has ever ■dually flown that is. maintained and ■oved itself in the air by energy gener ■ed by its mechanism is one lately fcnstrm ted. after years of hdswious and Snppanting experiment, by Prof S P langley, •scretary of the Smithsonian iistitution.

‘T’he town election in Millersburg Elk hart county, it is claimed, was illegal, for tii<« following reasons The ballots were printed on red paper; there was no print i around the large circles, the republi < can candidaUxe were placed first on the 1 tkiset and the instructions to voters ppetad at the palling place were not in cenformity with the new law. Hereafter eat'h township will haw to । sustain its own p»>r. The poor bills * will lie allowed by the County Commie same re as heretofore. and paid out of ! the county fund, but will lie charged to imuJi township where im urred, to be re fandrd. This will require a levy for the poor m each township, but w ill per | mit a dm'mww* of the county levy after | thakownshij* Iwgin to refund Mb'"" •<» r** ««• i s-d • for \prd | ov^y tin same tmmlb a year »g > R G * i>7»X < o. say that near!* all will l« , U» barn that actual sahw in . leading L ns’« m <Jub !u । Ib3wß'ky Mountains average only als'iit 1 I®*’’*'«< I'** l l ‘ an 1” 'pnl. W’S. the y * of Go larg' - ■'• w^®t>J per cent more It u. 11 if • - srei7lu List year A western editor has indented an in fermd macbitic which he j im . * 1: m cn velcpe and wouda to th>«M- who "ri'firee the paper after taking it thr«” , without laying for it Ihe machino ex 1 pludes and kills the whole family, ai 1 th» fragu cute that fall it the baa y.v ! kill the ri <• y 1 ■ ’ > editor whew lie gets into the sau< tuary

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Cane Seed Free to my customers. Seed can be found at the Red Star or at my residence. Wil make molasses for 18 cents a gallon. A. C. B.muikn. There is a rage for aecordian pleated chiffon this spring. See it in all colors at Millard’s. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE IN DEPENDENTS CLUBBING KAIES. The I > DU'ENdent office has blank deeds anti m wtgnges, notes and receipts for sale. You will save your carpet by getting one of those durable cocoa fibre door mats at Vincent's. Mre Julia Falk, a widow,of Hunting ton, was awarded $5,000 damages against the city of Huntington for injuries sustained by falling on a defective sidewalk. It is sometimes an expensive luxury fora town to neglect its sidewalks. Take your wool to Stephens.

wiuiiuiwimi^^ Fire! Fire! | ~56,000-1 -WORTH OFCLOTHING | | TO BE SLAUGHTERED! | .— I . .! cjtoKew/ bunted; e> e'‘tu smoked. B ibu r -.7 -d: dttlv wed and aie Wi tnk’ed I 3 aud mus eu up some. zr 3 273 Overcoats, 254 Men’s Suits, E s I J 4 Men's Co its and Vests. 253 H 3 Pairs of Men’s Odd Pants, 97 £ s Men’s Odd Co its, 205 Boys’ F = Suits, a large lot of Hats & Caps B 2 «>«»<»»»•• fXX' EX—x The above goods will ALL be sold with- g in the next 30 Days for | l - - Spot Cash! I At from 40 to 75 Cts. F on the Dollar.. —• 3 (dome (JdkCs witu your t Wild t/iose 3 who come y.vst will have the largest stock to 2 select from E. | T. J. Wolfe. I ISENEML HAMWME. I I Paints and Oils, | I Rubber HOSE and all Attachments, 5 Screen Doors and Window Screens, 5 A Good I line o| Gook and I Gasoline Stoves, | | Hai'Ficd and Smooth Wire. 3 | ROSS & JARRELL. | ^UiUUUUiiiUUiUUiiUiUUUiiUiUiiUiiiiUUiiUUM^

NUMBER 13.

The most dainty and stylish fronts are made of chiffon embroidered in colors to mutch the gown. See them in their lovely designs at Millard’s. Ladies, have you seen the new spring hats at Ida Bench’s? They are beauties । i TmEi Faiws’ 4 M Walkerton, IndJohn E. Johnson, Pres. Morgan Johnson, Vice Pres. Thompson turner, Cashier. Does h general banking buNiness; buys nml sells exchange, makes col’eclions on nil points at lowest possible expense. Accounts of imlividmils 1 nml corporations soliiuted. Use Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasters for SPINAL WEA K N ESS. All druggists sell 'em for 25c.