Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 April 1896 — Page 4

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A. D. SMITH, Qeneral Manager. Offlct, Corner (Jam and Michigan Streets. Telephone, 84. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. One Year. Six Months, One Year, cash. Six Months, cash. Three Mouths, cash, Per Copy, $1.50 .75 t.00 .00 .35 .03 Kntered at the post offlce at Plymouth. Indiana, as matter of the second class. ANNOUNCEMENTS. r.. . n. r Vivif nf Hnurhon townshiD. Is a t nAnL v. . - candidate for the office of county treasrrer. sub ject to the declslo ot me uemutrsm- uuim natiog convention, to be held June 8, 1S0G. ANNIYKRSAH1KS APRIL 11 In 1794 Edward Kverett, the American orator was born. Cardinal Baaufort died in 1447. The treaty of Utrecht. End of Queen Anne's war in 1713. Napoleon was banished to Elba in 1314. In 18T1 Foit Sumter surrendered. In 1893 the tirst railroad opened in Siam by the king. APRIL 14. In 1577, Duke of IJothwell, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1865 occurred the attempted assasinationof William II. "Seward, Secretary of State. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. In 1S79 an assassination was attempted upon Emperor Alexander II of ltus sia. In 1893 the Duke of Veragua was received with public honor in New York. It is not what the majority may be, but what is right that should be the impelling motive with every honest voter. Our esteemed friend of the Independent No. 2 should be explicit when referring to the different wards of our city. Instead of saying "several," he should say "three." The prestige made by The Independent in its one year and a half will have greater weight with the intel ligent people of our city than the efforts made by the will-o'-the-wisp independent organ No. 2. There is no greater cowardice manifested by any man than the falling in with the crowd in any political or partisan issue when he is fully convinced in his own mind that the crowd is wrong. The decision with every man should be for what he believes is right, without any reference to what others think or advocate. In speaking of the candidates for county treasurer, the independent organ No. 2 remarks that there will probably be no opposition to W. J. Rankin, owing to the fact thai the oflice (from a financial standpoint) "is not worth anything." How patriotic Mc. is! Why, dear fellow, you should seek the nomination, so as to show your patriotism for the tax-payers of Marshall county. You are aware that that is the policy you have been advocating. QOOD FORM FOR COLLECTORS. Vom Hann am Stood on Ceremony and Tfai "Not at Home." The death of Tom Ilannum, one tim a well-known habitue of the press galleries on both sides of the capitol, was sincerely deplored among old-time members yesterday and some amusing anecdotes were told of the popular newspaper man by his friends In the course of the dayv says the Washington post. One f the best is worth repeating. H&nnum was In the habit of taking a late breakfast at the Press Club every morning. On one occasion, while he was vigorously discussing a hearty repast of ham and eggs, a bill collector suddenly walked up to Hannum's side and laid his account before him. Ilannum looked at the bill and then at the collector and in a deliberate tone began: "You blamed fool, can't you observe the amenities of ordinary civilized society? Don't you know that a man's club is like his home and that you are In danger of being summarily ejected for coming In here without being introduced? The rules of this club require that if you have business with a member to wait in the lobby outside until a waiter takes In your card and ascertains whether the gentleman with whom you have business is present. Now, you go Into the lobby take this bill with you nd comply with the rules of this club." The collector apologized for the infraction of the rules of the Tress Club, which, to tell the truth, were never enforced on anything, and waited until the steward came to ascertain his wishes. "Please announce me to Mr. Han num." said the collector. The steward told him to wait and he carried the man's card to Hannum, who looked at It carefully, then handed It back to the steward and laid: "Not at home."

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It is truly marvelous how far political animosity will go in this day and age. It has beanie so pronounced that even brothers will fall out and forever be mortal enemies over a little difference on political lines. Church relationship, social equality, and everything else that pertains to the betterment of mankind is cast to the wind when it comes to securing political pap. Last Friday an incident occurred that can fitly demonstrate the point to which men wiil go in their mad political scrambles. In Wellington, Kansas, A. A. Richardson, editor of the Daily Mail, and Robert Simons, of the Caldwell News, had for some time been at daggers' points over the Sumner county printing. It has been the bone of contention for many moons, and, last Friday, resulted in the fatal shooting of an old friend of the senior editor of Tin: Independent, who was an innocent looker-on at one of their periodical scraps. These two editors met at South Haven, Kansas, where Charlie Rranscomb, editor of the New Era, ol that place, met with them at the depot. The same old quarrel was renewed, and, pulling their revolvers, they commenced plugging away. Unfortunately their aim was not good, and Rranscomb fell mortally wounded; all on account of a struggle over a little polit ical patronage. Last Saturday, in our own little city, occurred an incident which, although not proving destructive to life, conclusively shows how men in the heat of passion so far forget their better and more manly principles and enter into a scrapping match equal in all its bearings to a disgusting street fight. In the main, it makes no difference who was in the wrong, the evidence stands out in bold relief that the desire for political oflice led to the trouble. Each of the beligereDts in this fistcuff, so far as The Independent knows, is a friend ot the writer, and owing to the position of this paper, we propose to give in an unbiased, and, as nearly as possible, an unprejudiced account of the affair. Our contemporary of the Republican would, for political reasons, cover up, while our distinguished brother of the Democrat would, for political purposes, be inclined to spread it on a little too thickly. So the only way to receive such, or, in fact, anything of a political nature, in a true light, is through the columns of the only independent paper in our city. Conclusive evidence goes to prove that the trouble that ended in a tight last Saturday between Major W. M. Kendall and Attorney J. W. Farks originated some time ago, and, without doubt, is a struggle for political supremacy between two factions in the republican ranks. This breach gives conclusive evidence of the inability of the would-be leaders to adjust matters peaceably. It first gave evidence of its activity this spring, when Major Kendall was desirous of going to the national convention as a delegate, and his opponents, among whom he is reported as stating were Ed S. Urooke editor oi the Republican J. W. Siders and J. W. Farks, who, it is reported, worked against him at the convention which elected delegates to the district convention. This, no doubt, was one of the rea sons which caused Major Kendall to put on his fighting harness and work against Mr. Farks at the convention Saturday and endeavored to secure a delegation to Rochester favorable to Hon. W. 11. Hess. It seems that while Kendall was working for those delegates that he was in favor of he was approached by J. W. Farks and accused by the latter of working for men who were not representative republicans. The major, it is said, emphatically denied the accusation, and immediately became warm under the collar. Uninterested lookers-on said that Mr. J. W. Farks at this stage of the game became very much excited and reiterated the statement, and, it is stated by some, shook his finger under Kendall's nose. At this point it became intensely interesting and those who had reserved seats were favored with a view of the first smoke of the battle, as Kendall, without -any further ceremony, reached forth and smote Mr. Farks. V At this stage of the game it was not conducted under any rules, and we defy any two men who witnessed the rest of the 6kirmish to tell the same jtory. It did not last very long, but what little time was occupied by the affair was taken advantage of. After the two gentlemen were straightened out the convention proceeded to select delegates. The ticket on which Mr. Farks claimed were the names of men not representative republicans was made up as follows: O. li. Gibbons, S. (Jretzinger, M. (Jreer, Poter Heim, John Kuhn, Upton Stansbury and W. M. Kendall. The result of this little tilt will, in ail probability, widen the breach be

tween the two factions, and as the n fessed leader of the faction against

Kendall is a man of very little generalship, it will probably prove disatrous to the republicans. Under the present condition of affairs it is probable that the prospects of Marshall county to get thejudgship are considerably lessened The democrats are, of course, greatly pleased because taking it all in all they believe the chances for election of their candidate are largely increased. However these things may be, there is no doubt that Mr. Farks chose a most inopportune time to question the representative qualities of delegate candidates on the Hess ticket advocated by Mr. Kendall. It is surely to be regreted that this personal trouble occured, but it goes to show what men will do at times when they are assembled even as representatives of the same party. Our republican friends should remember these words; A house that is divided against itself cannot stand." MAKING HATS BY MACHINEA Work In Which Women Inventor Have Ileen Troiulnont. Among the inventions of women on exhibition at Atlanta is one interesting for two reasons, says the New York Times. The first that it dates from a period before women were accounted active in any but the domestic world, and the second that it deals wiUi a department of industry into which women always venture at the risk of being suspected of scant knowledge and less experience that of mechanics. This is the straw-sewing machine, which is entered by the committee on Inventions by permission of its inventor, Mrs. Mary P. Carpenter Hooper of New York. Although its patent has now expired, and its usefulness in part done away with, this littler machine, not so big as a typewriter, worked a revolution in a great industry, and today there is not an inch of stiaw braid sewed into hats by machinery anywhere that does not employ a part of Mrs. Hooper's invention to accomplish the work. Mrs. Hooper is the daughter of a former New York lawyer, whose fingers itched with inventive skill, while he kept them bound by the red tape of his profession, so the source of Mrs. Hooper's inventive faculty is not hard to find. It was while she was still Miss Carpenter that she learned through friends of the curious state of affairs in the straw sewing trade. Up to that time, 1S71, there had been but one practical straw-sewing machine Invented, which machine was controlled and used by a combination of three or four firms engaged in the manufacture of straw hats and bonnets. It was called the Bosworth machine and was immensely valuable, although the operator had to be expert before she could make a hat, as the sewing had to be done backward, from the brim to the crown, and when done the hat was wrong side out a condition which often resulted in breaking the straw while it was being turned right. As Miss Carpenter had shown herself possessed of pronounced inventive skill, of which the patent office already bore record, these facets were pointed out to her by some of the leading manufacturers, who were obliged to sew all their straw goods by hand, and she was encouraged to make a new machine which could be generally used. In 1S72 she received a patent for her first model of a machine, but it was not satisfactory to herself and no second machine was built from it. A second attempt a year or two later did not yet fulfill all the requirements she strove for, but in June, 1873, Miss Carpenter completed a machine that could make a hat from iti tip or top to the outer edge of the brim without taking it from the machine, and when it was finished it wa3 right side out and did not have to be turned, and, moreover, concealed the stitch a result heretofore unaccomplished.

The Reindeer's Kndoranc. Mr. F. G. Jackson has marvelous tales to tell of the reindeer, their speed and endurance as animals of draft so marvelous indeed that he must forgive us for suggesting that he has made a mistake in his figures. "I have myself," he writes in the London Spectator, "driven three reindeer a distance of 120 versts within twelve hours without feeding them, and I heard of a case where a Zirian drove reindeer from Ishma, on the Fechora river, to Obdorsk, on the Obi, a distance of 309 versts, within twentyfour hours. A reindeer, or Samoyer verst. by the way. Is equal to four Russian vevsts." In other words, Mr. Jackson says he has driven three deer for twelve hours at the rate of forty Russian versts, or twenty-seven English miles, an hour. And the Zirian, with a similar team, covered 710 miles in twenty-four hours. The latter, by the way, must have crossed the Ural mountains and one or two rivers In the bargain. Surely there must be some mistake. There exists. It is true, a well-known tradition of a reindeer which once about 1700, we believe carrier Important dispatches for the king of Sweden 800 miles In forty-eight hours, and, dying in tho service of the king, Is still preservedin skeleton form in a northern museum. Rut that, after all, is only a iradlthn. Retter authenticated records do not give a higher rate of fpeed than 150 miles to nineteen hours, which is considerably higher than what la attained by any other animal. "A few doses of Brazilian Balm cured i of one of tho worst colds I ever had, with loss of voice." Qn. W. 3. McNAia. For sale at the People's Drugstore.

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TONIGHT. Dr. HOUSE R, gives one more of hU unexcelled r-LECTURES for everybody. A magnificent display of stereopticon pictures. The audience will be taken on a tour of gay and wicked PARIS. Admission only a nickel. Consult Dr. Houser one more day at the Ross house. 4 y !vl .7" vj! -J! f. j j h f A Sound Objection is justly taken when you purchase a musical instrument and tied it doesn't come up to the guarantee. Too careful judgment cannot be exercised in the selection of these necessities. If you are a musician you want the best, and you don't want to give too much for what you get, either. We keep a lull stock of pianos, organs, piccolos; all or standard makes and bargains. Sheet Music a Specialty. .5,000 copies at 10c. each. Eye Tests and Spectacles a Specialty at 5 doors north of Postoffice. E. SPANGLE, JEWELER and OPTICIAN, REPAIR SHOP. JNO. S. GAST & BRO. UMBRELLAS Repaired and lie-covered. StO VG Repairing of all kinds. . Stoves also stored during summer with best care at reasonable prices. We will remove them in the sprinjr and replace lv them in the fall. General Repair Work of every description at low prices. (lasoline and oil stove cleaning and repairing a specialty. Jno. S. Gast & Bro. Kast llasement iloom, Model Jllock. JAS. K. HOUGHTON, Prosecuting Attorney Collections, Depositions and Civil Business Attended to Promptly. VAN DAM A LINE TIME TABLE, In Kffect Juno 10, 18'. Trains leave 1'Iynioutti I'Olt THF. OKTII. No. f2, Kx. Sun.. ..12:1 1 p. m. for St. Joseph. rs, Kx.Sun 7:34 a. in. " W, Kx. Sun. ...10:03 i. in. South Komi. roit tiik south. No. r.l, Kx. Sun.... 5:23 a. m. for Terro Haute ' 53. Kx. Sun. ... 12:50 p. in. " 57, Kx. Sun... 7:27 p.m. " Logansjtort. For complete Time Card, giving all trains and stations, and for full Information as to rates through cars, i tc, address T. A. DOWNS. A cent. rivmouth, Ind. Or A. FORD, General Passenger Agent. St. Louis. Mo.

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NEW SPRING GOODS IX ALL DEPARTMICNTS,

A line line of new Percales tor waists; also a iiue line ot new hirt Waists, etc. Linen for dieses with linen emb.oulery to match. Linen effects in cuttmi vCuikIs. Diniettes, Lawns and other new spring goods too numerous to mention. It will pay you to make a visit t The Chicago Store and see them. And we have a lot of Hoys ssiits, sizes from I to H' years, that we will close out. if low prices wiil do it. We are offering any of them at Cost and Some of them Below Cost. Come ami see them before buying.

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The shoes that we are cutting the prices on are the Plout Shoes and Brooks Brothers' Fine Shoes for Ladies. We are cuttmj: the price at about the middle. $4.00 hoes go at $'J.19; $3.50 Shoes go at $1.98. We ate also cutting the prices on the W. L. louglas and Karg Men's Kmc Shoes. Thee t.hoes are all the best makes. IVopIe wh buy t ht m d not lake chances, but get good shoes every time. Try a pair of them a"ud gel a big dollars' worth.

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No other house in this city ever DID WILL or CAN sell such sterling QUALITIES at such LOW prices as WE quote. i i

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A buckbonrd wagon given with every boys' suit.

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Dr. T. A. NOKTON. Physician in Chief. Dr. X. li. AM'IXAI.L. l'liysU ian in Charge. Dr. Borton's Plymouth Institute Kor the Cure of WliiHkey, Morpliine, Cocaine mul Xeuratlienici. Chicago Office:-In charge of Dr. McDriscoll. PLYMOUTH, ISD1ASA.

John W- Houghton, Real Estate, Insurance Agent and Notary Public.

HOWES ." to iV'i.iNH. Keutii! ami collect agency. JOHN W. HOUGHTON.

Conveyancer and Kxamiuer of titles. Will furnish a complete Abstract of Title to all lands hi .Marshall county. MONEY TO LOAN. Collections. Farm lands for sale and exchange. JOHN W. H0LÜ11T0N, Plymouth, lud.

Consumption. and the use of new remedies lor the treatment of consumption. Hope for all not iu last stages. Consultation free. Dr. Borion' Plymouth Institute. T. A lorton M. D.. Physician in Chief; N. 1'. Aspinall, M. D.. Assistant. I'rompt attention to corresIoiideuts. VERETT FIELD,

Star Restaurant For tine meals and lunches of all kinds. Fine cakes, ice cream ami fruits. We are to the front.

KEWSDÜALEK, and dealer in pel iodicals and current literature ot all kinds. At KENDALL'S STORE, Michigan Street. FREE to subscribers: For every new subscriber you send us, accompanied by J? 1.00 cash for one year's subscription, we will credit you with three months in advanco of date to which your subscription is now paid. Save money on your own subscription by interesting your neighbor in the best paper in the county. THE INDEPENDENT, PLYMOUTH, IND.

LOW PRICES.

Arc Still Slaughtering the Prices on Shoes. I". .I. AXIC, I 'roprietor. for your Spring Suit, there is to visit; one line you cannot We have everything and anything yon may want in spring clothing and furnishings at prices that will surprise you. Our boys' and children's department is full of novelties. Don t overlook this departmtJiib wiien you are buying the boys clothing. . - Price Out-Fitters County. PLYMOUTH INDIANA. W. JACKSON, M. D. Ollice; Soar's J'.lock. Residence Miner Street. Oflice Hours: 7:OU to O:0o a.m. 1 to a and 7 to : p. in. Telephone No. l:t. The EYE a specialty. WOOD l OK SAI E-ls-iii. h Miar. heed i. hickory Iroiiv ood. per single cord $MH. Set-olid glowth oak pT cord $1.75. Maple and elm per cord H U. Trice reduced on : or more cords (full cords i at one delhcry. Delieries Tuesdays. Thursda) s and Saturdays. Wood, green or dr. after April Ist. UM. W. JONIS. Uox 7:, I'lNiiioulh. Ind. jg W. VIETS, PHYSICIAN and St kid UN. Dllice and Residence.North Michigan street. Thone lo- Fly mouth. 1ml. Ilomeopathist . II H Kcgular 1 as.enger 1 rain service operated he tween Streator 111., and South r.end, Ind. Elegant new equipment and fast time. Westbound train Not leaves South F.end at 7:(K a. in., arriving at Streator at tt:.rK a. m. hast hound train No -1 leaves Streator at C. tr. a. in., arriving at South lieiid II :i: a. m. Follow In freight trains will carry passengers. West bound. Nos. 7 and 8 from all stations. No ; between South lleud and North .ludson. Fast bound. Nos. s ami in between all stations. No VI from Kankakee to Shelby and Wheatland No 14 f rem Streater. Dwlght and Kankakee t. Monience. TRAIN I.KAVK WALK KRTON W KMT IIOI'M). No. 1, Mail and Kxpress, No, '., Iak'hI. No. 13, Freight. 7:44 a in ::, n in 7:25 pin F.AÄT UOfNI). No, 2. Malland F.xpress. No. to. lAH'al. 10:;tt a tn 8:Mpm Trains No. l. 2, 7. 12. 13 and n dallv. Train 6, 8. audio dally except Sunday. Tickets can ue hau ior ,ui puucipai point. For rates nd inioriuauon apply to t, u. shokt, . A iron t Walk.

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