Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 December 1895 — Page 1

County Library Semi = Weekly Independent. Vol. II. PLYMOUTH, MARSHALL COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1895. No. 7

A Bargain

IS WHAT EVERY MAN WANTS, AND HERE THEY ARE.

From now on until January 1, 1896, for each and every cash sale I will give the following bargain: With every suit of clothes, an extra pair of pants of the same material as suit; with every single pair of pants, a good pair of suspenders; and all overcoats will be made at rock-bottom prices. Give me a call. KLEINSCHMIDT, THE TAILOR.

GENTS'

Furnishing Dept.

CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS.

Neckties, all designs, all styles, all prices. Umbrellas, medium and good grades, in any size you want. Gloves and Mitts for all purposes. Mufflers, pretty effects, beautiful patterns, much cheaper than ever. Kerchiefs, cotton, linen and silk, larger line than heretofore, better selections at less money than elsewhere. Many other articles that we will show if you will only trouble us to see. Inspection and comparison is solicited. Jn every instance we will save you money.

Ball & Carabin,

PLYMOUTH

FARMERS, DO YOU WANT CASH ?

Then cut your second growth White Ash into bolts and logs and deliver to our factory. Boits cut 4 1/2 long, 6 inches in diameter and up, $6.50 per cord. Logs cut 5 1/2, 11 or 16 1/2 feet long, 12 inches in diameter and up, $18 per thousand. Must be straight timber and free from knots.

MILITARY BALL.

CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY CADETS ENTERTAIN WITH MUSIC: AND DANCING.

Academy Gymnasium. A Brilliant Scene --Guests from Chicago, St. Louis, Toledo, South Bend, Plymouth and Laporte.

The academy gymnasium of the Culver Military Academy was a brilliant scene Friday night. Over one hundred guests were present in response to the invitations f the academy cadets to attend and with the most excellent of music, furnished byElbel's orchestra of South 13end, the evening was spent 'mid the pleasures of a most delightful dance. In addition tc the orchestra the Kenwood Mandolin band of Chicago was also present, having tendered its talented services for the pleasure of guests as a compliment to the academy, and come without expense to the management. It was unanimously complimented for its brilliant 'execution and finished performance. Leslie's Weekly was represented by Artist 13. A. Atwater, who secured two flash light shots of the ball room in one of its most brilliant and animated scenes and carried away two photo

graphic negatives for reproduction in !

To l'reveiit Collision. , A new arrangement for prevent in; ! collisions of trains in tunnels i.s at present !eing tried in Germany. It con j sists of a series of electric lights at -I

tached to the tunnel walls and elect really connected with tin rails in such a manner, that as soon as the train reaches alight the latter is extinguished. It remains thus until the train has proceeded a distance of about loOO feet, when it is automatically relighted. The lo 'emotive engineer, on entering the tunnel, can see, at a glance whether the track is clear, and, if it is not, has sullicient time to bring his train to a stop. The arrangement, out side of its automatic functions serves the tunnel watchmen for the purpose of transmitting signals. This certainly looks like a prevenative of tunnel accidents.

NATIONS PLAYING CHESS.

Airaet from He-. lv Hie

the Intti-xitw of V. lii.-tMo Inter- Oeeun.

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THAT DISTRICT MEETING.

The leathering of Pythian Knights at Importe. Plymouth Ixxlfre well Represented.

Wednesday noon some twenty-five Pythian Knights assembled at the L. E. & W. depot preparatory to embarking upon a pleasant mission. The train arrived on time, and we were soon on the way to Laporte. When the train

INDIANA NOVELTY M'F'G CO

stopped at Walkerton, a number of the

the paper he represented. These pict- i Knights of that hustling burg, accomures were taken during the waltz im ; panied by the Walkerton cornet band, mediately following intermission. j joined the already enthusiastic crowd

Among the guests present were the following: From Plymouth: Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Simons, Mrs. Drummond, Messrs. Geo Wolford, Bert Howell, Lew Steele, Ed. Tanner, Jno. Grimm and Ed. Kuhn: Misses Daisy Bowell, Hattie Wolford, Erma Winings, Myrtle Minzer, Queen Cleveland, Kose Soice, Bertha Boot, Bose Brown, Minnie Clark, Mame

Souhworth, the Misses Leonard, Miss

King and Dolly Beeves. From Chicago: Mr. and Mrs. F. M Blount. From St. Louis: Mr. and Mrs. II. II.

Culver, Miss Culver and Miss Young-

blood.

From South Bend: Mr. and Mrs. A B. France, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Beynolds, Mrs. A. II. KelJey. Mrs. II. I)

Johnson: Messrs. Irving A. Sibly, Walter Gish, Jno. Gish, Horace Kizer, Win. Mee and Horace and Shirley Beynolds: Misses E. hel Crockett, G ?rtrude Miller, Essie and Mamie Taylor, Anna Listenberger, Maude Daugherty, Lizzie Heller, Wilhelmine Kizer, Grace Trainor, Zu'a Johnson, Birdie Miller, Blanch Case, Ada Zeigler, Lottie Beckwith and Bessie Klingel. Miss Lonn of Laporte, also accompanied the South Bend guests. From Toledo: Mr. Sam F. Fisk and two daughters. A number ot guests were also present from Marmont and vicinity.

At twelve o'clock, midnight, a special train, sent down by the Vandalia for the aceommoaqtion ot guests from Plymouth and South bend, backed in on the academy siding and at 12:20 a m., pulled out with sixty eight passengers homeward bound leaving those from this city at the Vandalia depot at 12:50 this morning. The affair was conceded to be most enjoyable in every respect.

"Paul's Joiirnvv to Koine." The lecture d. livered by Mr. Thayer at the Presbyterian church Faiday night was very interesting and entertaining, and was delivered in a manner which was pleasing to the heirers. Especially the one point presented, of Paul's

trial before king Agrippi and his journey to Borne. He also gave a graphic description of Paul's trial before Caeser. Mr. Thayer also gave a description of the prison in which Paul was incarcerated, which was in the shape of an egg so that a person could neither lie, sit, or stand with any ease or comfort. Also a vivid description of the palace of the Caesors, the Appian way, the Collisseum and the Forum. A hearty applause was given at the close of the lecture which shows that everyone was highly pleased and entertained.

and a few numbers by the band pre

pared those on board to enjoy whatever came their way. On arriving at Laporte headed by the band and reception committee the Knights marched down the principle streets to the castle hall. The meeting proper commenced at 2 o'clock, by which time the large and handsomely decorated lodge room was comfortably filled. After the assembly was called to order, and a song by a male quartette, the mayor of the beautiful city of Laporte bade the visitors welcome in a i anner tnat convinced his hearers that his heart was in the well chosen words This was followed by more music and addresses by Lieutenant Governor Ney and Grand Instructor Hunt, wir; were down on the program. These remarks were followed by others among whom we might mention, Hon. II. G. Thayer, who under all circumstances is ready to eloquently p )tray the inlluences and benefits of Pythianism. Brother Turner, of Walkerton, also responded to a request to talk awhile to the Knights, while the speech making was ended by a few words by Grand Prelate Peacock. The crowning feature of the atternoon session, was the music, prepared for the occasion; ncrdo we feel as though we had expressed the appreciation of the Plymouth knights, if we did not make particular mention of the part taken by the Misses Poole and Higgins. While the other numbers were excellent, the

musical numbers presented by these ladies captivated everyone present. Miss Higgins in a solo, caused a thrill of profound veneration for the inspired strains of sweet music she so ably rendered, and those of this locality at least, would undergo another journey to our sister city for an opportunity to hear that same sweet solo rendered. After the public reception of Grand Oilicers, At- A ... . i

me meeting went into secret session, when the exemplieation of the unwritten work of the order was given by Grand Instructor, Union B. Hunt.

session opened at 5S

Since the publication or an interview mi the Turkish- Armenian question with our distinguished citizen, the Hon. W. B. Hess, by the Chicago Inter-Ocean of last Tuesday there has been such a demand for the published article that we believe we are more than justified in re-publishing the extracts given below. Mr. Bess was Consul General at Constantinople in 188(J ll and is a recognized authority on current international affairs centering in the Ottoman Empire. He said: The situation is very critical. The treaty powers are simply playing a game on the diplomatic chess board for positron. The policy of the Cleveland administration in not protecting Armenians who are Amerian citizens is altogether wrong. Ic has been an entering wedge to despotism because it has permitted the Turkish government to rule out anybody as a suspect. The trouble originated in President Cleveland conceding to the Turkish government tho right to exclude from the empire all "undesirable persons." Had the Sublime Porte undertaken to apply that doctrine under former administration, under Blaine, or even under Freiinghuysen, the assumption would not have been tolerated 'for a moment. They would have carried out the long-established principle of our government, which is to protect naturalized American citizens the same as native born. I hold the treaty powers morally responsible for the Armenian massacres because under the Berlin treaty the provinces were placed under the control of the treaty powers and were promised a better government under the direction of the Christians. Notwithstanding, things have been growing worse and worse ever since. There is no doubt in my mind that those powers there will just dilly dally w ith this matter until they can succeed in getting a satisfactory arrangement and agreement as to how the spoils shall be divided up, and then whenever that is done it won't take them very long to simply say to the sick man to move across the Bosporus or even the Euphrates or to perform his obsequies outright. As a mater of notoriety the Sultan holds his tongue today, in Europe at least, simply through the jealousy of these six great powers, and he knows that just as well as anybody. For instance there is in the Imperial Ottoman IJank, an English institution controlled by English capital, a notice that it has loaned the Sultan si, 000,000 How thai bank, with its thirty odd branches throughout the Ottoman Empire, would not, m my judgement, have made that loan if it hud not been assured by the British government that there was no imminent danger of the dimeinberment of Turkey. And be

sides that, England and France hold a threat amount of Turkish bonds, and both countries have their own agents at Constantinople to collect a portion ot the revenue direct from the Turkish government to apply upon the principal and interest of the debt, not even letting the money pass into the hands of the Turkish ollieials. How would we like lo have a foreign government run such an agency in connection with our treasury? 1 believe the naval deniontration in theBay ot Salon ica was not for the pur pose solely or principally of compelling the Sultan to accept those reforms. When England got her war ships there, those other powers got jealous, and practically steamed up into Smyrna Bay and rouud about to kind of watcri the British union jack. It is all a bit of ma leuvering for most advantageous position. It is not at present to the

commercial and financial interests ot the powers that the Turkish Empire should be dismembered. The spoils are recognized as a certain reversion.

-A. IV

evening

$G.OOO Judgement. Mrs. Imogene Hyatt, of Mentone, re

ceived judgment in Miami circuit court about one year ago against Albert Tucker, of Kosciusko county, for 30,000. The judgment was on last Thursday

aflirmed, in the supreme court of Indiana. Mrs. Hyatt was in our city yesterday consulting her attorneys Mc

Laren and Martindale.

To Owner of Wheeln. When the bad weather comes and you

can no longer ride yourt wheel, take it to Underwood & Walls, Center St., and

have it cleaned, oiled and stored for the

winter. Prices reasonable.

o clock, and work in three ranks was given. At 15 o'clock p. m., after word of commendation from the Grand Oilicers,

and cordial hand shaking, the district

meeting adjourned to meet in its next

session at South Bend. NOTKS. A large number of the Plymouth

knights, took in "Trilby" at the opera

house. The mayor told the boys that the police force would be off of duty and that i he street cars would run all right. We did not see any of the uoys using the street cars, although some of them had pressing engagements several blocks away. It seemed to be a difficult task to secure a bed, and we heard of one fellow who walked up and down the hallway of the European hotel calling for bed clothes. The invitation given to "take what wa9 in sight, and if you did not see what you desired, to call for it," was followed out to the letter. The boys all returned home yesterday at 0:15; and while they were unanimous in pronouncing it a grand time, it was pleasing to note the smile of satisfaction exhibited when the familiar scenes of Plymout.i presented themselves to view. The universal expression was heard : There's no place like Plymouth.

An i:4-cl lent Meeting. Sunday afternoon one of the most pleasant meetings of the V. M. C. A.

citr uuenueu was neui. unuer me i (.e;V(Hi savs

leadership of Prof. Bedd the success of ,iaMe j,, ,,ut w, u are S5lbse. 41 .... 4 . - . 1 .. J il -I II

1i;iiin l'.iiiiM-. An old tuner in the newspaper work, and a man, too, who knows the kind of st nil that must be connected with a man's mrike up w ho desm-s to crtate a stir m ilie little corner of the earth he is helping to move along, w inds up w ith ttie following: "Our citizens will welcome the merchant, manufacturer, the capitalist or the mechanic who wishes to make a home in this bu-tling, busy town; but we don't want any "dead men." Of course when we speak of dead men in this connection we have reference to those antiquated old fossils w ho never do anything for the community in which they live who are blind to public improvement, and who are also croaking dismally about the future of their town. This class of men are barnacles. They are a positive hindrance to the growth of any place and when a town is cursed with their presence it behooves the citizens thereof to arrange a few first-class funerals with the friends of the barnacles as their chief mourners."

WANTS A HOMh.

A Gla Factory that Desire to Mote to a New Town. The following is taken from the Pekin, 111., Times, and while we do not know, or vouch for, tne truth of the report, it might be of material benefit for Plymouth to enquire into the matter. We have plenty of room for such an institution. " Pekin cannot have too many factories. She bhould endeavor to secure all that are in sight and that aie looking for a new location. The more factories we have the bigger and more prosperous we will become, and just now there is a chance of securing a big glass factory. The Lippincott Company, of Alexandria, Indiana, wants to move and is looking for a location. It wants a good place to build or buy a site and wants to have a place where there will be lots of fuel and sand easily arcessi-

Ule and a town where it can procure plenty of buys to work in the factory. It employs a force large enough torequire several hundred men and boys. The company makes chimneys, lantern globes and ware of that class and is a wealthy one. If the business men who want to see the town go ahead make tne proper offers to the Lippincott Company they can secure it for Pekin. It has already refused to go to Alton, owing to inability to secure boys enough in that town. Our improvement association has apparently lapsed into innocuous dessuetude and its work is nil, but the Tazewell club recently announced its intention of looking after the business welfare of Pekin and this is the golden opportunity. The people will expect them to act, and by making "a long pull and a strong pull," there is no doubt of the result." .V l'roper Promulgation. The National Union, in the following newspaper lines, says: 'To run a newspaper without occasionally publishing an item that is untrue or gives offense, is like running a railroad without having smash ups and accidents. It can't be done. No man in the world is so much imposed upon as the editor of a newspaper. Pushed with work continual! lie must rely upon second and third parties for information as to the events that transpire. Frequently statements are le

an exchange, irom re

these meetings is assured and there is

no doubt but great good will be acorn plished.

An effort, we are informed, will be entered into immediately to secure suf

ficient funds to proceed at once with

the work that is necessary to make this

association a success and it will devolve upon our business nien to give it the proper eneouragement. No one feature

is of more importance to a community than a Young Men's Christian association, and as our people never do things

by halves, we will in a short time be able to say that Plymouth has the finest in the state.

Judgre Hubbard Heilders an Important leclttlou In the Circuit Court. Judge Hubbard, of South Bend, rendered an important ruling in the La port circuit court Friday last, deciding in the Blodgett case from Union Mills that persons have a right to withdraw their names from a remonstrance. The

board of Laporte county commissioners

refused a liquor license on the ground

that a majority of residents had remonstrated. Agitation resulted in the with

drawal of names from the remonstrance commissioners held that the petitioners could not legally withdraw. Judge

Hubbard reversed their decision. Val

paraiso Messenger.

duent'y discovered to be without

foundation in fact. If therefore, kind reader, you find yourself aggrieved by a statement in your home paper keep the fact in mind. Do not "lly off the handle" but go to the editor and ask for a correction, and take our word for it, nine cases out of ten, if your case is just, you will be received like a gentleman and the correction made with pleasure. But, instead of doing this if you go around blowing about the editor and his paper, don't be surpiised if you get treated with scant courtsey when you visit the office. There are but few of us who are entirely faultless."

Fight to Flui!. Wednesday afternoon at In wood

Cieorge (Jerrard the justice of the peace and Elias Corn pt on a farmer of that viciuity met on the street ot that city

and had a few hot words between them, and presently blows were struck.

No one interfered and they fought the

matter out then and there. Neither

one was seriously hurt.

A True Hill Found. The grand jury, of Whitley county,

found a true bill against James Cuuning-

ham and Wm. Thompson, for the mur

der of postmaster Singer at Dunfee.