St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 July 1897 — Page 1

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Hog Cholera in Indiana. According to reports received by the ■ Station during the early part of this month, we are safe in saying that there , is probably more swine disease in the j state now than at any corresponding , period in recent years. This must be taken as an indication of severe loss to । follow later in the season and it should ( be a warning to farmers to exercise more than usual care to prevent loss. Remedial measures are costly and are not successful; preventive measures to be effecual must be applied soon. Large herds should be divided into bunches according to size; clean pastures with a reasonable amount of shade and an abundance of pure well water are safer than pens: do not permit the use of wallows or of surface water under any consideration. It has been found in a series of years, that the highest per cent, of loss has occurred along the rivers and streams to which the hogs have access. Use any ration that will keep the hog healthy. An occasional drink of soapsuds to expel worms and the use of charcoal, salt, and ashes as an alterative will prove beneficial. If the disease should break out in the herd seperate the well from the sick and not the sick from the well. On removing the well hogs from the sick, place them on a part of the farm where no diseased animal has been. Burn those that die as it is the only sure method of destroying the germs. Keep everything clean and let the sun have a chance to do the disinfecting. The Station will undertake a number of field experiments this year and we desire very much to have immediate reports as to the presence or absence of the disease in every locality in the state. It is as important to us to know w here the disease k. absent as where it is present. We therefore ask immediate reports giving us as far as possible the date of the beginning of an outbreak, the percentage of loss, and any marked peculiarity of the disease in the locality. We also solicit like information upon all fresh outbreaks as they occur during the season. —Purdue Newspaper Bulletin, July 13.

Ingersoll on the Strike. In a publie letter to a newspaper on the strike situation among the coal miners Col. Robert G. Ingersoll says: “The question of wages for the coal miners ought to be settled by the employers and it would be if the employers were civilized. “It is very easy to ascertain what wages ought to be paid. It is easy to find how much it cost for good, wholesome food, for decent clothing, for rent, to take care of children. When this is found it is easy to say what wages should be. “When men work all day and just get enough to keep life in them so that they can work the next day; when nothing can be saved; when old age can have only a rag and a crust; when a youth of industry ends in poverty and want, it is about time for the decent, the intelligent, the humane to assist the children of toil. “I do not blame the miners for striking. They must strike or starve. All I blame them for is for not acting together. Every miner in the United States should strike and then if they demanded only the reasonable they would succeed. “My sympathies are with the men and women that toil —to whom the future promises nothing but work and want nothing but failure at last. “As the employers are not civilized enough to act fairly I advocate a general strike —a claim for fair and reasonable wages and hope that all miners will have sense enough to join. I know of no other way for them to protect themselves. If they are reasonable a vast majority of the people will he with them. Ao T say success to the strike. “If employers import laborers who will work for less than an American can live on, then I say stop the importation and if such laborers come here of their own accord, then I say by legislation send them back and stop their coming. “I believe in protection to American manufacturersand to American labor ers.” Telephone Talk. The telephone, it is said, is not making much progress in Russia. And no wonder? Fancy a man going to the ’phone and shouting: “Halloa, is that you Duisostkivchemartzoiczski?” “No, it’s ZollemschouskafFrnockstitfsgewoff. Who is speaking?’’ “Sezimochockiertrujauksmzykischokemoff. I want to know if Xliferomanskegski Imajuwschast towaeksweibierski is still stopping with Dvisostkivchsmatvoiczski?”—LaPorte Herald. Before buying a grain drill see those at Machinery Hall. Thompson Turner takes charge of the postoffice Aug. 1,

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1897.

Death of Christina Stickley. The painful news of the sudden death of Christina Stickley on last Monday ! afternoon was a shock to her many ’ friends in this community. On that day she had dressed herself as usual and ' with her mother had started for a drive to Walkerton. They had only come a 1 short distance when she was taken with hemorrhage of the lungs. She made an effort to get out of the buggy but could not and was assisted by her mother and sisters. Neighbors ran to their assistance and seeing that it was impossible in her condition to carry her to the house, they laid her by the roadside and did everything possible for her comfort and relief but in a few minutes she expired. About three years ago she began to be troubled with a catarrh or bronchial difficulty which induced her two years ago to spend the winter months in the south. She returned in the spring so much improved that she taught a term of school last fall but was obliged to give it up, and on last January 3, she went again to Knoxville, Tennessee. The climate for a time seemed to benefit her so m”ch that she was able to take a position as book-keeper which she hold un til within a few days of her return home. About nine weeks ago she lost her voice and since then was able to converse only in a whisper. About three weeks ago her brother went to Knoxville to seo her and found her so failed in health that he induced her to come home with him and they arrived here July 3. She was possessed of so much energy and ambition that she has been for some time no doubt much worse than she would admit even to herself. She was a consistent Christian since fourteen years of age, having been a member of the M. E. church. She was highly educated and cultured, and for many years one of the most successful teachers of this vicinity. She taught mostly in LaPorte county near her home, but two years ago taught a term in the Walkerton schools, but to the great regret of the patrons here she was obliged to leave and go south on account of failing

- r> health. She was born in LaPorte county .Tune 13, 1661, and died July 19, 1897, being aged 33 years. 1 month and 6 days. The funeral services were held at the Island church, near her home, on July 21, and were conducted by Rev. Pavey, of the M. E. church, assisted by Rev. Riley, of the U. B. church. The remains were buried in the \\ alkerton cemetery in a grave which the loving hands of many girl friends had lined with white flowers and beautiful green foliage. She will be sadly missed, by her sorrowing parents, brothers and sisters, her many pupils whose love she won by her beautiful example as she led them on to the loftier ideas and aims of education, and a large circle of loving friends who unite in mourning her untimely death. Road to Lake. Editor Independent: I thought it might be of interest to the readers of the Independent to learn that the new road that was run straight through was to be graded wide enough for two wagons to pass, at least so I was informed by one or two of the road supervisors. The Starke county supervisor put in good dirt roads clear to the county line. Also the St. Joseph county supervisor was to have done the work on the new road but for some reason he failed to do so. Now if the supervisor would have done part of the work on this road it would have been better than all on one road. Also while the new road was in progress they could have put in some good gravel. The road ditches will help the farmers a great deal. There is Mart Miller's farm, Curt and Jack Wolfenbarger's, Mr. Wenger’s and Mr. Decker's, of LaPorte. True enough, there is no good gravel right along that road but where it can be obtained we think the interested farmers in Starke county would donate a day or twos work on it. Why not pass a subscription paper and obtain all the names that will donate work? A Citizen. | Indiana llinois & lewa Railroad Grand Niagara Falls Excursion. Our twelfth annual Niagara Falls Excursion will leave Streator by special train Monday, August 16, at 1:45 p. m. The rate for the round trip from all stations on our line to the Falls $7.50, to Toronto $8.50. The train will consist of baggage car, day coaches, and Wagner sleepers, the finest in the land. The coaches will be well supplied with ice and water and thoroughly cleaned at several points enroute, and an agent of this department will accompany the train to Niagara Falls to assist in mak ing the trip pleasant and satisfactory. Sleepers will be set apart for offices Streator and Kankakee, the rate will be $3.00 per berth or $6.00 per section. Sleeping car space should be reserved early. For further particulars see agents I. I. A I.

---——-— ; ~ 1 W THE FOUR COUNTIES. News of St. Joseph, LaPorte, Marshall and Starke Counties Briefly Told. Argos proposes to do things up right , and will put in electric lights and water works at the same time. Charles McClung, formerly clerk of , LaPorte county, is reported to be seriously ill at his home in Union Mills. I Plymouth News: Mrs. Marsh, living , in the country, claims to have caught a singing mouse. Its vocal efforts resem-'i ble those of a canary bird. LaPorte Herald: Friday Homer Deck- ; er threshed on a half miles east of town, a field of whew J consisting of 60 acres, the yield of whicKj was 30 bushels to the acre. A man at LaPorte found a seven leaf; clover, something extremely rare. Thei finder claims that he has frequentlyfound five and six leaf clovers but neverbefore saw a stem with seven leaves. LaPorte Argus: Probably many LaPorte people are unaware of the peculiar fact that Clinton township has no church, no cemetery, no saloon and no pauper. It is rather an unusual circumstance. Dr. Samuel F’rance, of Bourbon, died suddenly one day last week. He was 68 years old and had been a resident of Bourbon for many years. He was an old soldier and a member of the Masonic fraternity. A fan has been placed on a sewing machine by a South Bend gentleman, who has applied for a patent. The operator keeps perfectly cool while at work, and it is said the fan can be run with but little extra exertion. Arrangements have been completed for a conference of Ohio. Michigan and Indiana Baptists, to be held at Pine Lake, near LaPorte, beginning Aug. 12, and continuing for ten days. The ablest pulpit talent in the Baptist ministry in the United States has been engaged to conduct the deliberations of the conference. John Albright, living east of North

Liberty, says the News, has two pigs on his farm which are considered curios-, ities, indeed. One pig has six legs the other has five. The extra limbs arc on the front part of the hogs, and joined from the knees. They are both in excellent health and Mr. Albright says they are for sale. Mishawaka seems to be a great town for the cultivation of homing pigeons. Many interesting tests of flight are made there with the birds by the devotees of this pleasant pastime. A homing pig-

eon belonging to Peter Tollens, of Mishawaka, made a remarkable flight from Holly, Miss., to its owner’s home recently. The distance was 506 miles. The bird was released at 5 o'clock Saturday morning and reached Mishawaka at 11:29 Sunday morning. Patrick Payne, until recently a resident of Alida, this county, whois under sen tence of death at Monroe, La., for the murder of his wife, formerly Miss Della Toppock, of Westville, has asked friends and relatives in this county to unite in an appeal to the governor of Louisiana for a commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment. Payne will be hanged on

A „ Friday of this week, unless the efforts now being made for a respite prove successful. Payne is well known at points along the Monon railroad, where he served as telegraph operator. Michigan City Dispatch. South Bend Times: A Michigan man who drove a meat wagon between Baroda and Galien, and out of season worked in the Pullman shops, is reported to have struck it rich in Alaska after a stay est two years in the gold fields. He is to have come back to the states wit> $96,027, and was in the city Monday wit® | a certified check for $50,000. He st ml I owns the mine from which the treasure came. Gene Smith has decided to follow Alaskan fortunes and expects to start for there as soon as he has finished the painting contracts he has on hand, which will be sometime next month. A young man about 25 years of age is in jail in this city. Sheriff McCormick took him into custody this afternoon. His name is Louis Ake and he is charged with being a bicycle, thief. It is claimed that there is direct evidence which will convict him. The crime with which he stands charged was committed in Niles, Mich. Sheriff McCormick will take him to South Bend this evening where he will be met by an undersheriff from the Michigan town who will take him to the place where he is wanted. Ake once sold a stolen bicycle to E. P. Chapman, of this city, but its owner was found and the wheel was turned over to him. It*is claimed that Ake has stolen five differJuly'l^ 18 ' LaPorte Herald > Monday, i I. I. &I. railroad.

-■ - PEN AND SHEARS. A census just taken gives Muncie a population of 30,619. If the ice melts too fast in your refrigerator you can save it a great deal by , wrapping a newspaper over it. A refrig , erator should be kept clean and free j from decayed meat or vegetables then ■ the articles in it will not be tainted. The coolest place in a refrigerator is be- • low the ice, not on it. Westville has the champion hot weather liar who declares that he ^hopped wood so fast once that it re^quired two axes to keep him busy. I While he heated an ax red-hot he had a D^y cooling pff the other axe by holding p in a creek, the water of which got so 5 hot that it would scald hogs a mile below where he was chopping. The young girl graduate who said now that she had graduated she mustfurther inform herself in psychology, philology, bibli— was at that point interrupted by the practical mother thus: ‘‘Stop where you are. I have arranged for you a thorough course in roastology, boilology, stitchology, darnology, patchology and the general domestic hustleology. Now get on your working clothes. A person with a considerable amount of spare time on his hands has collected the following list of words which may be spelled forward or backward palindromes, as they are called in learned language: Anna, bab, bib, bob, bub, civic, dad, deed, deified, dewed, did, ecce, eve, ewe, eye, gog, gig, gag. level, madam, now, otto, pap, peep, pip, pop, pup, redder, refer, repaper, reviver, rotator, sees, shahs, tat, tit, toot, tot and tut. The state medical board adjourned Thursday night of last week at Indianapolis. (Inly 3,605 certificates were issued to physicians with the right to practice. There are nearly I,(MM) practicing physi cians in the state who have not applied and wdl now have to come in just as be ginners, submit their diplomas or take an examination and a fee of $5. No action was taken concerning the Chinese doctors in Lake county who have diplomas from the college at Canton, China. An exchange gets off the following on the sleeper: “A sleeper is that in which the sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which the sleeper which carries the sleeper while he sleeps runs. Therefore while the sleeper sleeps in the sleeper the sleeper carries the sleeper over the sleeper under the sleeper until the sleeper which carries the sleeper jumps off the sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the sleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper, and there is no longer any sleeper sleeping in the sleeper on the sleeper.”

I am opposed to the use of paris green in any form for cabbage worms as it is dangerous. I have grown cabbage for many years and have never used this poison for the worms, but have a remedy that is sure death. Dilute strong beef brine one-third with water. Dip a whisk broom into this mixture and shake it over the plants at any time when there is danger of worms. The solution is a fertilizer in itself and will not harm anyone. I have used this for the past twenty years with perfect success, never failing to kill worms or raise fine cabbages. It will not answer for cucumbers, squashes or pumpkins as the salt will

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A ©ood ^ime to Is when material is cheap. The hard times have made every thin g cheaper, and building material is very low now. Ip you think of building now is a good time. Estimates Cheerfully Furnished. I CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF LUMBER, Lath and Shingles, Sash, Doors, Blinds and Mouldings, Lime, Brick, Hair, Stucco and Cement, Hard, Soft and Blacksmith’s Coal, Mixed Paint, White Lead and Oil. D. N. Hudelmyer. New Goods! New Goods! Since the fire in February we have received over Three Thousand (Dollars worth of new goods which makes our line complete, with all the la* test styles of CLOTHING, HATS, SHOES, and the largest and best selected stock of MEN’S FURNISHING GOODS, and at the lowest prices ever before seen in W alkertoil. ' Fire Sale! Red Tag Coods! We have about $2,500.00 worth of “damaged goods” on hand yet ? which we will leave the old Red Tag Price on, and sell them to good parties on 60 days’ time, or give 10 per cent off for SPOT CASH. Come to us for your Goods and Save Money, as you always have done. Thos. J. Wolfe, THE CLOTHIER. i CEMIL JMWL j | Paints and Oils, | p Rubber HOSE and all Attachments, 3 Screen Doors and Window Screens, g A Good Line o[’ Cook and | Gasoline Stoves, I E Barbed and Smooth Wire. 2 | ROSS & JARRELL. 1

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