St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 September 1897 — Page 4

dl)e Jndcpcndcnt. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY AT WALKERTON. - - - INDIANA. W. A. Endley, - Editor and Publisher. — .$1.25 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. SATURDAY, SEPT. 25, 1897. MAKE WAY FOR PROSPER!! V. Wheat is Jumping. Fairly humping, With an upward pace is pumping. And the farmer weais a smile ne’er seen before. «Soid is pouring. Mineis boring. Cnknowu Arctic fields exploring, Kar *ne millions which the earth has laid in store Silver's dropping. Theories popping. While the p ps their eyes are mopping. As the mortgagers are paying off their debts All is hustle, All is bustle, Work for brain and work for muscle The calamUylles are pay it g up their bets. —New York Sun. Mountain climbing, besides being a healthly pastime is the most elevating us all sports. Indianapolis has six candidates for mayor. The present incumbent Thoe. Taggart is thought to possess the best chance for winning. No more sound advice was ever given than Horace Greeley's “Go west young man go west.” Young men of strong muscle and character are needed to help develop the country and no labor goes unrewarded. An Alaska gold mining company has been organized tn Chicago and are sell ing shares at §1 each. It is lots easier to sit in an office and open letters containing money, from suckers, than to en dure the hardships of actual mining in Alaska. "The First National Bank, of Benton Harbor, Mich., has failed and the depositors have a promise of receiving 75 cents on the dollar. The cause of the collapse is attributed chiefly to bad loans. An investigation of the usual

kind will be made. Judgeing from present state of completion, we predict that the new court house at South Bend will not present a very startling appearance in the way of architectural beauty. It is plain in the I extreme and from a distance looks like a storage warehouse with adobe walls. The finishing touches may however greatly change its present appearance. But be that as it may it is our opinion that it will never compare in any parti cular with the new court house recently completed at St. Joseph, in Berrien county, Mich., and which by the way cost just about a third as much as the one now nearing completion. The champion of bimetalism, W. J. Bryan, was in a railroad wreck the other day. He was neither killed nor injured. However, all that some people think ought to happen to the Nebraskan is, perhaps, not printed. It is customary to give “credit" when clipping from an exchange's editorials, but the above from a near by exchange is so entirely void of any credit that we blush with shame for the intimation implied and the paper in which it appeared. We consider that it reflects unfavorably upon the editorial fraternity of northern Indiana to have among its number one who is so devoid of charity, as to wish a person off the earth who cannot agree with him politically. There are times when the speedy application of justice, administered by an aroused community to a guilty criminal, seems to be appropriately applied. It is not always an “angry mob’’ or a “gang of inhuman brutes” that take the law into their own hands and apply well deserved justice. The lynching affair at Versailles last week in which justice was unlawfully applied to a gang of un condemed criminals, was composed of fair minded and law abiding citizens, i The gang referred to, had long been , operating in their neighborhood and had i been committing many depredations. , It was their special delight to attack lone tvomen, and when other means failed would stand them on a hot stove to make them divulge the hiding place of valuables. Farmers were waylaid and robbed and defenseless women assulted. These things had been going on for years although there had been a few arrests and a still fewer number of convictions. The whole gang was captured and there was no reasonable doubt of their guilt. To avoid any posible repetition of the offences committed and to save the county many thousands of dollars expense in prosecution, was doubtless the intent of the lynchers. If it was they accomplished their object. One should hesitate before commending any act contrary to the laws of the land, but it appears to us, and we base our opinion upon quite an extended observation in a country where violations of law are dealt with in a very speedy and practical way, that the above affair should reflect favorably upon the community where it occurred, more than otherwise,

THE FOUR COUNTIES. News of St. Joseph, LaPorte, Marshall and Starke Counties । Briefly Told. Cromwell is getting to be a dry town. With the exception of the town pump । and a couple of others the wells have fill | gone dry and pe. pie from half a mile । . away are carrying water for domestic | purposes. The widow of Oscar Christensen, the i South Bend policeman who was shot and killed by James Mullaney some months ago, has just been paid §I,S(X) by the Lake Shore railway company in full of all claims against them. The mur derer will be tried at the coming session of court at South Bend. Two freak tramps struck South Bend last week. One broke into a minister’s residence during the minister's absence, took a bath, slept in the pastor's bed, took a shave, put on the preacher's new suit and stove pipe hat and started off to be a gentleman. Another was arrested for sleeping on the sidewalk, taken before a justice and fell asleep during the hearing and finally pleaded guilty because it took less effort to say "guilty” than to say “not guilty.” Warden Harley has a plan to employ the idle convicts at the northern prison. « He proposes to lease 1,000 acres of low land near the prison, to ditch and re claim it and put it in a good state of cultivation and raise potatoes, onions, cabbage, celery and other vegetables to supply all the state benevolent and penal institutions, all the work to be done with prison labor. Under the new contract law 900 men will soon be idle. He believes the lease could be obtained for the improvement of the land. 15,(MX) acres of lowland, now almost valueless, are located very near the prison. - ——.—: ■ ——l Farm for Sale. An 80 acre farm, one mile west of Walkerton, well improved, with fair buildings. Call at Independent office or address P. O. box 77, Walkerton, Ind. It is now given out that the world will come to an end on Feb. 13th, 1899. The earth w ill come in contact with the sun and all the inhabitants on the earth will be burned up. This is not a very pleas ing item to communicate to the people but yet it will undoubtedly be a great source of satisfaction to delinquents to know that they still have two years in which to settle with the editor.

Rev. Pavey. preached his farwell sermon to a crowded house Sunday even ing at the M. b- church. He took for ' his text Isiah 53-1. Although suffering । with a bad cold he preached in his usual l powerful manner. After the sermon he gave a very plain and candid talk to his congregation and exorted them to cooperate with their new pastor if they desire to see good results from their labors, i "Since coming among you” ho said, j "I have preached the gospel with the courage of my convictions and have tried to induce all to Hee from the wrath to come. 1 believe my efforts have been appreciated. If a man preaches as an apology he will bring the gospel into dis repute. For twelve months 1 have pro claimed the gospel here and desired to be a strong gospel proclaimer, but who has believed? Salvation has come to those who believed. 1 regret to say that not many have believed. Is it because 1 have lacked fervor or power. I have tried to preach in the spirit of the master.” He thanked those who had ex tended courtesies to him and especially the Ladies Aid Society The financial showing of the church as given by the pastor is in substance as follows: Paid for support of pastor, presiding elder and bishop §516.15, of which the Ladies Aid Society raised §117.21. The Thimble Circle, a society composed of young ladies accumulated during the year the neat sum of §105.09. They paid for benevelances during the year §lO3. The pastor said, in substance, that he regretted very much that the church was shy on his salary about §113.85. Rev. Pavey loaded his car on Monday and left on Tuesday for hie new field of labors at LaFayette, Ind. DIABETES is a disease which if allowed to fasten I its hold noon the vietim will surely : land him in a premature g r ave- It is I caused by inactive kidneys. I hey fail I to filter from the blood the impurities i and poisons which it takes up from the j food, and which should be thrown out of the system byway of the urine. i Weak or inactive kidneys and all ! symptoms of Diabetes can be CURED ■ | It is pretty tough on a man who has I to work hard for a living to be a con । I stant sufferer from weak kidneys and backache as I have for many years past. • Being laid up at home so often with my 3 aches and pains, I have lost a good many days' pay, besides paying lots of 8 doctors’ bills. The doctors called my ' trouble diabetes. It is a source of B । pleasure to me to say now, after using a few boxes of your Sparagus Kidney Pills e that they knocked all of those old pains out of me. 1 can now work hard all day - at my trade without feeling the least bit 1 tuckered out. In fact, I think I am -about as healthy as anybody now, and _ must thank sou for It. S. P. Campbell, Logansport, Ind. HOBBS ! Sparagus Kidney Pills. , HOBBS REM EDY CO., Proprietors, Chicago. b Dr. Hobbs Pills For Sale in WALKERTON, IND., by J. F. REID, Druggist.

HH Our Special Sale 500 pair of Ladies', children and Misses shoes a little out of style at half the usual price, ranging from 20c to $2.35 per pair. Call and see them. You Can’t Af^ to Miss 0,,r Bargains! ■" S. P.^TARTIN. E OUR MOTTO: 5 “Where there’s a Will 5 £2.' e there’s a Wav.” 3 E When you buy anything that turns out 5 £ bad, what do you do? 5 •— —- Never buy at that store again, or go back —• •— and complain? No dealer is infallible; give ^3 him » chance to make the wrong rignt. If 33 he doesn't then's the time to quit. If you get anything hen* that’s wrong it's your own ^3 fault if its not righted. Allman's big doth ^3 ing, hat and shoe house. -3 I M. ALLMAN. j 7iuUlUUUUUiUUnMlUhuuuiuUUHUuiuuiauufi^^ The Undersigned Leads the ‘1 rude with Dig (Bargains in Dry Goods, Groceries, 9'# Doots, Shoes, Glass and Queensware * The Largest Assortment AT PRICES THAT OTHERS DO NOT MEET. Your dollar does double duty when you buy your goods of ^unsberger, Leader in Low Prices. ew Furniture and Undertaking Establishment. Have! opem dup j n business in the McDaniel room, lately occupied by Nichols furniture store, with a new stock of the best and latest goods in tle furniture line, and can as BUre the public that they will be pleased with my stock and prices. I h a coiup i„ t e outfit for the undertaking H, A. Yearick.

Notice of Insolvency. In the matter of the estate lln the St. Joseph ; ~, „,, c Ciruh Court. I Win. M. Liggett, deceased ) No. 4 26> Notice is hereby given that upon petition filed | in said Court by the Administralorofsaid Estate, ; setting up the insnfiicieni-y of the Estate of sain : decedent to pay the debts and liabilities thereof, : the Judge of said Court did on the 0 day of Sept I 1897, find said estate to be probably insolvent, and order the same to be settled accordingly. I lie creditors of said estate are theiefore here l y notified of such insolvency and required to file their claims against said esta e for allow, nee prior to Oct 11. 1897. Witness the Clerk and S t al of said Court at i South Bend, Indiana this 20 day of Sept., 1897. CEO. M FOUNTAIN. Clerk Use Dr. Miles' Nervk Plasters for SPINAL WEAKNESS. All druggists sell ’em for 25c.

|The S Globe* 11 — I | GREAT f | Clearing Sale! | I CLOTHING f yor?, OAS FT ! B | SATURDAY, AUGUST 14,1897, | We will commence to sacrifice our profits to the trade in order to 3 close out our Spring Goods to make room for our | Big Stock of Fall and 4 | | Winter Clothing S Which we have now bought. Now is your time to buy Clothing while so cheap. £ ——————— a JL Few Prices. E Men's Half Wool Suits, - - - now $ 3.50, worth 3 5.00 3 “ All Wool “ - 5.00, “ 8.00 B 3 - - - “ 7.00, “ io.oo B 3 " Clay Worsted, black, “ 6.50, “ 8.00 t S “ - - “ 8.00, “ 10.00 £ 3 “ - - - “ 10.00, ••• 13.00 - - “ 12.00, “ 15.00 “ ... « 15.00, “ 25.00 gB 5 We Have a Good Line of —> B | Young Men's and Boys' Suits | which we will sell at a very low price. We have a lot of Odd Pants 3 which will be sold just as low as the lowest. We also have a line of Percale Shirts with collars and cuffs, now 75 cents, worth sl. Bring £ H us your cash and see what good results we can give you. Er 1 ^^..l\oonfe & fair, i 3 Leaders in Low Prices. New Fall line of Dry Goods. Full stock of boots and shoes, groceries, crockery and queensware. ^Tiiis is your Oiia.nce for Bargains. Are now occupying the room recently vacated by the L. A. Reece Hardware Company. STEPMENS & GRIDER. ' A .New and (Bewildering .Assortment of Lawns and Dimities, and the .New POLKA-DOT LAPPET MULLS In all the Fashionable Colors. SHIRT WAISTS in the .New Lawns and Linens and Linnen Effects. A full line of Wrappers and a JYice Assortment of (prints. Jfew Line of Shoes in Coin Toe, and the latest effects in black and the new shades of purple and green, also a full line of Children’s Shoes. BRUBAKER & BLAINE

Last Chance. i On Sunday, Sept. 26th, 1897 the L. E. | & W. will run another popular cheap ex- : cursion to Indianapolis. Special train I will leave Walkerton at 6:57 a. m., rate 81. Do not fail to take advantage of this opportunity to spend a full day at the state capitol, visiting the beautiful parks and the other numerous attractive points of interest. Take your wheel along, as a baggage car will be provided for their accommcdation without additional charge. Indianapolis has miles of paved streets for the benefit of wheelmen and no license is required. For further information call on agent.