St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 May 1897 — Page 1

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VOLUME XXII.

ARIZONA LETTER. Phoenix. Arizona, May 9. '97. Mrs. Weston's hand and arm are healing remarkably well and much better than we dared hope at the time of the accident. The middle finger will have to be amputated and by that means the rest of the hand will be saved, though of course it will always be crippled. The entire arm to the elbow had to be covered with borrowed skin by the process known • as skin-grafting and we all contributed a piece. The doctor took his pincers and a razor and went at us. He took from

my leg a piece about as large as my hand. m—, so painful as I should imagine, though oTcnurße it was sore enough for several days to make it rather difficult forme to get around. To our great delight all of the grafts took the first time and her arm is doing splendidly and if nothing happens will be entirely well be fore the hot summer weather comes on. All last week the thermometer has been over 100 degrees in the shade and yesterday and to day at 2 p. m. it was 110 degrees. The nights, however, are very pleasant and at the mine it is actually too pleasant to sleep. The bicycle business here is overdone in every line. I sold my wheel over a year ago. It had become so out of date I was ashamed to ride it. Everything is up to date here. In wheels they ride the best. Cheap wheels don't sell here at all. It is too hot to ride here during the summer, however, and the riding season here closes about the time that yours begins. June Ist all the churches close for the summer and the town will be dead for six months. We shall be up in the mountains most of the time, only coming to Phoenix for our mail and supplies. The property we are working now is a copper mine only 22 miles north of Phoenix, and we make our trips mostly at night to avoid the in tense heat. We keep two relays of men at work at the mine, a day and a night force and we work from sun till sun, bos ses and all. The amount of work we have before us in the next two or three months is enough to keep us hustling, but I enjoy this kind of work and the constant activity and excitement is all that will keep me or any one else alive in this country. I believe if I'd lose my grip and just sit down and brood I wouldn't live a month I'm going to "keep a movin'' as long as I last. I just came from the mine last night and will go back tomorrow morning. I have given up the idea of coming to Michigan this summer. I could not possibly leave for several months now on account of our mining interests. Towards fall I may come for a short visit. Foster is entirely recovered from his sick spell and fairly reveling in his beloved occupation, mining. If there is one thing that he enjoys more than killing Indians that is being up in the mountains working arcand a mine. The further away from “the maddening crowd” and civilization the better it suits him. I enjoy such a life intensely but I like to come to town and shave and clean up occasionally or it becomes too monotonous. J. P. Jones. FOR YOLRSCRAP BOOK. America has 1,000,000 tramps. Chicago cigarette license is SIOO. Japan makes paper underclothing. London has 10,000 union compositors. The states contain 9,000,000 farmers. Chicago has 40,(MX) ra’lroad employes. In Japan 35,000,000 people wear woolen shoes. Leeds (England; woolen operatives get from $3 to 85 a week. A new Colorado law prohibits blacklisting and boycotting. Tn fifteen months the Standard Oil 1 company has paid its owners eUoooo.OGO. A new Connecticut law provides tine ; and imprisonment for conductors who fail to register a fare. At Konjica, in Herzegovina, a sanctuary of Mithra was recently discovered, being the first ever found in the Balkan : peninsula. A miner came into Ellensburg, Wash, one day recently with S4OO as the result of a week’s labor on a claim located on Williams creek. Wedding.

Last Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock Edward Watkins and Miss Anna Everly were united in marriage at the U. B. parsonage. The groom is in the service of the Grand Trunk railroad. They will go to housekeeping in Stillwell, in which vicinity they both live. They have the best wishes of their friends. Home seekers excursion tickets on sale at all I. I. & 1. stations. These tickets are on sale the following dates: March 2nd and 16th, April 6th and 20th and May 4th and 18th. We can give you any route you desire in connection with our line. For full particulars call on our agents or address, J. S. Bartie G. P. A., Streator, Ills. The Independent and Toledo Blade $1.75. A cheap combination. Take advantage of the offer.

■ . TTffih’ — WALKERTON. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY. INDIANA,” IaTUROAyT MAY

KNIGHTS OF THE MACCABEES. Initiation of New Members--lntere®t-ing Ceremonies. : On Wednesday evening the Knights of the Maccabees initiated ten new can didates into the mysteries of the order. The exercises, which were held in the K. of P. hall, began about 9 o'clock p. m., and continued until 12 o'clock. The La Porte and Tyner tents were well repre sented, there being 25 members from the former tent and 75 from the latter in attendance. North Liberty and South Bond tents were also represented. The

• degree work was in charge of the La Porte team, who are given much praise for their excellent work. The state officers present were H. G. Kenney, Great Lieutenant Commander, Roches ter, and Henry Hildebrand, Great Master at Arms, LaPorte. The intervals during the evening were filled by well selected and nicely executed selections by the orchestra from the Tyner tent. The newly acquired members are as follows: Mason Jacobs, Harry Granger, Howard Walter, L. U. Strang, John Hummer, Will McDaniel. T. J. Wolfe, Jr., Claude Wolfe, Phay Graffort, Will Lontz. After the completion of the initiatory work entertaining speeches followed from a number of the members, the pro gram closing with a lunch of sandwiches and hot coffee. The Maccabees have a good member ship which bids fair to bo increased considerably within a short time. W, C. Larew, the organizer, who has been here for several weeks, will remain two or three weeks longer with a view to scour ing more new members for the order. Program arid Exercises for Decoration Day, May jq. Line will form on the L. E. A W. grounds under the order of II A Adie, his aids and staff, at 1:30 o’clock p. m. sharp and move in the following order to the M. E. church: Citizens' Cornet Band, Sunday School scholars in charge of President of the W. R. C„ Mrs. Woodard hoi aid- and Haff. 1 ud< pen dent Order of Odd Fellows, K. of I'.. Re bekahs, Maccabees, Foresters, Town Officials, Citizens, etc. committees: Executive Committee A P. Atwood. Silas Baker, M. R. Burger. Com. on Invitations J, Thompson, B. F. Rinehart, I’. Augustine. Music Vesta Lcibole. John 1. Strang, Jennie Pool. Flagsand Stand M. E. McCarty, Ed son Goit, 11. P. Woodard. Flowers anil Boquets Women’s Re lief Corps, Marking Graves, Walkerton Cemetery W. G. Brown. W. H. Teeple, W. 11. Johns. Oregon Cemetery Philip A wald, John Wolfram. James R. Lampson. Blissville Cemetery James Snyder, Robert Beagles, Jonas Haag. Barber Cemetery J. H. Barber, San ford Sheaks, John Sheaks. Center Cemetery James Falconbury. Dr. R. Neville, Jonothan Lemert. PROGRAM OF EXERCISES. Music by the Band. Prayer by Post Chaplain. Song by Quartette. Reading Roll of Honor by Adjutant. Song by Quartette. Address by Judge W. B. Hess. Song, America, by Quartette. Service Exercises at the Cemeterv bv the W. R. C. Music by the Band. Decoration of Graves. Benediction. Return in vice-versa order. H. A. Adle, Post Commander, A. P. Atwood, Adjt. NORTH LIBERTY. Nellie Knott is visiting at W. D. Knott's this week. John Jolly and family, of Hamlet, were in town Sunday. Mrs. Fannie Bose and child, of Walkerton, spent several days of last week in t >wn. Mrs. Sarah Hoffman is visiting rela I lives at South Bend. M. E. Irvin and family and Geo. King and wife visited friends at Three Oaks Mich., this week. Jessie Teel is spending the week at South Bend. F. L. Weakly and wife were in Chi-

cago several days this week. Belle Foster and Ora Jimmerson were at Knox, Sunday. The Progressive Dunkards will have church in Hoffman’s hall Sunday evening, May 23. Fred Burrell, of Canisteo, N. Y., visited John Hoffman several days last week. Frank Drennon is visiting relatives in Illinois. Born, to the wife of Richard Singleton, twin boys, May 19. The North Liberty Unions defeated the Teegarden base ball club at Teegar den last Sunday. Score 17 to 16. Harvey Houser and Minnie Frank were united in marriage at the M. E. parsonage Sunday, May 16, Rev. E. R. Johnson officiating.

THE FOUR COUNTIES. News of St. Joseph, LaPorte, Marshall and Starke Counties Briefly Told. The Michigan City fish company caught in a pound net 12 sturgeon weigh ing 3JO pounds. Gon. Jasper Packard, of Now Albany, has accepted an invitation to deliver the Memorial day address at LaPorte. The Argos Reflector says: “Solicitors are traveling through parts of Marshall ( county taking orders for grocerie* from farmers at much higher prices than are charged by local dealers. Trustee Wheeler, of South Bend, now has 83 widow wards on hie list and 47 women whose husOands have deserted them and of these 47 deserted women 32 have be -n deserted during the past two years. The Knox Republican office is getting out a ditch notice for the south east part of Starke county. The ditch starts at Houghton Lake in Marshall county, and runs south west to Manitou I*ake. From Manitou lake it runs nearly west for about four miles, and then south aliout three miles, emptying into the Tippecanoe river nt North Bend. Plans have l>oen cmsummntod pt Lt Porte for a conference of Methodists, clergymen and laymen, of southern Michigan anti northern Indiana at Pine Lake, commencing June 11. ami rontin uing ten days. Dr, J. .B. Wright, of Washington, D. C., will preside and the program which is now in course of pre paration will include platform talks and lectures by the a b oat pulpit talent in the Methodist Episc »pnl ministry in the United States The South Bend Times snis it has been learned that n woman of that place eom|<els her ousbam! to stand up against the wall while sho lays a eat > nine tails over a certain ex|*»sed portion of his body whenever he d. w any thing to dis please her. Another of her punishments is to compel him t <1 p< nance by fetid mg on plain bread and water while the others of the family rat chuk< u, oven making him sit so that the wind will blow in his fare And yet they speak of suffering womankind. Liddle A Park, a* attorneys for the plaintiff. William Zahrt, of LaPorte, have lilcd a complaint in the circuit court which asks that a judgment in the sum of ^Ki.ooo be given the plaintiff against the John Hilt lee I’ompany for damages alleged to have been sustained. The Herald says that Mr. Zahrt is the owner of property 'oordering on the east shore of Pine lake. He claims ownership to the ice formed on thr lake a certain dis tance from shore. This ice has been harvested by the defendants for the past seven years. Mr. Zahrt claims that he should be recompensed. Union Mills News: The postoffice at Wellsboro is likely to prove a “white elephant" on the hands of the lucky appli cant. Mrs Geo. White, who secured the Iflcky plum, is chief clerk in her husband's store in fact is the only hand when he is away, as well as housekeeper. The intention was to move the postoffice to the store and combine business with pleasure, but now somebody suggests the disagreeable fact that the store is located “over the line" in Union Mills and Uncle Sam cannot be made to be lieve that Union Mills is large enough for two postmasters. There may yet be a postoffice to let to some hungry office seeker. A letter received by the prosecuting attorney from Chicago makes allegn tinns against Detective Mullaney, who shot Officer Christiansen, that are of the most damaging character, not fewer than four killit gs being alleged against the man,who is further described as by far the most dangerous when under liquor's influence. If one half alleged against Mullaney is true, the hangman has missed an overripe job. The letter hints ’ that the railroad company will make a big fight to clear Mullaney in order to save themselves a damage suit. Sentiment is strong against Mullaney, he seeming to have few friends, or at least they will not show themselves. Railroad men do not feel friendly toward him, for his overbearing ways. The defense realizing the sentiment here against Mullaney will take the case to another court, and it promises to be a hard fought legal battle. Mullaney will probably find it less easy to work the Indiana juries than was the case in 1 Chicago. ( May 17 to 25 inclusive, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will sell excursion tick ets to Warsaw, Ind., and return, at rate of one fare for the round trip, account General Assembly Presbyterian Church, L United States. Tickets will be good for return until June 5, 1897. V or any information you desire call on agents I. I. & I. railroad.

T 1 mepiorial day. V Headquarters Jesse f. a Coppock Post No 9 (378. G. A. R. L TPs Post Commander requests that oupVmuorial Day, May 29, the W. L. C., a lH.'3 soldiers, S. of V.'s, civic so cieties, J^iool children and citizens who revere Sgt flag and will honor the dead heroes US scattering flowers on their gra,v<%_Htfi into line with the G. A. R. who wiil officiate in conducting the ser vi^s. 2. T । the day is set apart by the niemkp^aeir sleeping comrades. We A be observed by all as a day of '*’^ ll,n lk^nd that all pleasure such as rm liSf Waying at gamesand the like be ‘b«t’<W^iith 3 I®!'’. . ' During the hour of the decor ating that the business hous«« IKLhpU I ItWkc wish of the commander have cultivated flowers spare aj, yns th< , v can fiir ,j, v ,, r servirj a ‘ ^^^pbildren are hereby invited ant ^ Wtitute the committee on ^bem to the G. A. R. ' !i as 9 o'clock a. m. By order nf 1 H. A. Adi e. P C.. ■ A. P Atwood. A djt. K PfiN ANO SNBARS. has gained only 17,900 in Populll*) in the last forty fl o years. York City has forty nine dnil\ new*pa4r». Brooklyn siv < !n. i^.. twei. ty screw Philadelphia twenty two. st L>uis twlve, Boston eleven and Haiti more A Ixiyof Union Mills, LaPorte county, tied n tie can to a dog’s tail, last week, and thrdr runaways resulted. A lumber wagon iplit in two and five milk cans spilled contents along the highway July Bit the printing and use of pri vate n II Jig cards with a cent stamp attach ^, ■. j|J |> and it is fair t > .wwMmi«Brogrt‘weivn busince# men will have (Kz bwwtnsws printed on them. The ha* bwru approved by the autlu" ’’ ' <" the governws us (fie ditf. «>i f u • ' of theoMwand stamps A Kati*^ drought is thus described • The air i« *> dry that the m- .n r.n- s a dust a# it ■ through the sky. tin rnoistum has all evaporated out of the! milky why until it lowks like a long trail of pub.crued chalk, and they throw pebble*the sbiblvs to make the cowk think it i» rain falling and not biwiuc diecou raged." Hon. (Jeorge W. Julian has just com pleted hi* Wth year in life and the anni vemary I was appropriately observed at his hoiie in Indiana. Mr. Julian, the New Albany Ledger says, had a long and useful service in congress, beginning as far back as 1850, when he beat the whig candidate, the late Samuel W. Parker, of Connersville, in the old "Burnt district, by running h» a democrat free soil candi date and receiving the entire Quaker vote, which was strongly anti slavery. There were then but two democratic newspapers in the "Burnt district one of them published at Richmond by the late James Elder, the other at Conners ville by Chas. W. Cotton, now of the New Albany Ledger, and both supported Julian and free soil. PtfRELY VEGETABLE.

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