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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
Lincoln aud the Highway.

The following is a current story of
Abraham Lincoln, which, if it is not
true-as it probably is not-iS at least
entitled to a place in legendary Etera-
ure: Lincoln was once riding along a
lonely road when an Unlocking man,
who held Il cooked revolver, suddenly
faced him.
what do you want, my friend:" Lin
coin asked.
II am going to shoot you" answered
the man.
Well" said Lincoln, 81 don't mind
being killed, but should like to know
your reasons"
Il once vowed" said the man, "that
II 1 ever met man homelier than |
am, would shoot him."
Lincoln looked critically at his as
sailant for minute, and then said:
''Well, If l am any homelier than you
are, then for PHYS sake shoot"
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
Minor State News.

JOHN BIACkENSTiFF' : large barn, near
Wabash, burned. Loss $1,000.
WM. SHAW was probably fatally injured
in runaway accident at Shelbyville.
Rev. W. r. Higgins. well known pres
byterian minister of Tcrre lIaute, is dead.
a FISH hatchery will be established at
Richmond by the fish and game club of
that city.
ADoLpH STANG, s years old, of Clark's
Station, was drowned while bathing IN
Lake Michigan.
IN order to employ the convicts in the
prison south new residence will be erect
ed for the Warden.
THE Studcbakers are arranging for
fine reed and horn band among their en-
ployes at South Bend.
THERE is now II ,953 voting strength in
Madison County, as against little more
than 1900 at'the last enumeration.
WILLIAM House. commission merchant
and peddler, of Terre llaute, was very
dangerously injured in runaway accident.
Mrs. SAMUEL RoYEAR, aged - years,
residing in Chester Township, Wabash
County. died from injuries sustained by
falling out of a cherry tree.
KEW. ISABELLE. WHO Sucu tlc IOlulHOuS
Herald for 100 because the paper accused
him of conduct unbecOming minister and
lost the ease, has been dismissed as minister
of the Second baptist church, Columbus.
THE southern part of Porter County was
visited during the past week by an army of
grasshoppers. which is literally eating up
the crops. Whole fields of hay and corn
have been taken by them. The damage
amounts to thousands of dollars.
FRANK JONES, while painting, at Perth,
lost his balance and fell from the ladder
distance of about thirty-five feet. His
head struck the sidewalk, crushing his
skull. He died about noon from the in.
juries.
Mrs. JAMES c. Young, of Brandywino
township, Shelby County, lost some cattle
by poison a few weeks ago. Later
strychnine was found in her milk pans,
and the other morning the hired hands
found several piles of salt in the field which
were mixed with Rough on Rats and pow
dered glass. Mrs. Young some time ago APP
piled for divorce from her husband and is
fearful for the life of herself aud, children.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
WHAT is A LETTER.?
Some Points Not Generally known
About Foreign Mails.

Most people have supposed that any
thing sealed against inspection and de-
liyered TO the pV,toffice constituted
in effect Il letter" which at the regula-
ton rate of 2-cent postage per ounce
the mail service would be Obliged 10
forward to its destination SO far as
the domestic service is concerned, this
suppositiCn may be correct, and would
seem TO be implied by the wording of
official decisions, which declare that
AL matter sealed or otherwise closed
against inspection is also of the first
class. But with the foreign mail ser
vice, at least, the condition is different.
a provision in the postal treaty Speci-
fies that letters lin their usual and ordi-
nary form are TO be forwarded at
given rate. Just what constituted this
usual and ordinary form" has not Jill
now been defined and officially declar-
ed. and this is the way in which the def
milton was brought out:
A Boston architect offered at the post
office in that city Il sealed roll addressed
to the Commissioner of Patents 1T OF
tawa, Canada. on which the proper
amount of postage, at letter rates. had
been paid. The clerk in charge of the
window declined to receive the roll as
q letter, and on the matter being re-
ferred to him, Postmaster Coveney de-
cided that the term letter is to be con-
Strued to mean and embrace sealed
packages consisting of an envelope of
any size. but fiat, rs is the usual letter
The ObjectOr did not think that this
ruling and definition of letter was cor
rect. and gave his opinion that a letter
was Il package containing personal
matter of no salable value" The mat
ter being referred to the authorities
Mt Washington for decision. the super
intendent of foreign mails in due time
forwarded n decision embodyinS the
Joint opinions of Canadian and Aincri-
can postal authorities, to the effect that
1.-THE term letter, in its usual and Ordi-
nary form, is to be construed TO en-
brace sealed packages consisting of
an envelope of any size. but of the
usual letter shape, and its contents;
but that rolls or package not Enclosed
in an envelope as the word envelope
is generally used. cannot be considered
to be n letter in its usual and ordinary
form sealed package in the form
of a roll is, therefore, not entitled To
transmission in the mails exchanged
between the United States and Canada;
and your office was correct in declining
TO receive the sealed roll mentioned"
This would seem to settle the matter
as to what constitutes n letter within
the meaning of our postal treaties
The Paper World
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
or four minutes had sunk TO GeAc. This

or fou- minutes had sunk 70 G6Ac. This
was a great surprise to the bull clement,
which hoped for firmer market The
bulls tried to talk, but were choked off.
week ago when the market was hang
ing fire they were somebody, for they
could brighten the bears With Il little tele-
gram telling how wheat was growing in
10 the shock or something of that kind,
but Tuesday morning their .hinch Jugs
were dead, their hot winds didn't blow.
and their frost melted.
If the bulls were disappointed when the
price of September went to 66Ac they
were doomed to greater disappointment
later. They smiled when a little rally 20
CHE was made, but that market was
only fooling them when it went MP there.
1t soon turned around and came down hill
lickity-cut again, and sold down to Ga
cents. But this wasn't the bottom
Along toward the close of the session the
price simply leaped over the G5's and
closed at 621ac.
In New York the speculative ryro-
technics at the Produce Exchange were
dazzling to both the bulls and the bears
in wheat, and both factions were equally
astonished. A drop of cents a bushel
made the hair of the bulls stand on end
and it made the bears blink. That makes
s cents in two days. The bulls thought
the course of prices altogether too much
like tobogganing. The sudden tumble
the greatest in years-caused a great deal
of excitement and interest in Milwaukee.
The fact that wheat closed at GO 5-S cents
represented drop within twenty four
hours that was calculated to create al
n
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
DEATH THEIR DOOM.
THIRTEEN PILGRIMS TO ST,
ANNE'S SHRINE PERISH.
Second Section of al Excursion Train
PlOws Into the First-Pullman Cars
Teiescoped-Wheat Drops Five Cents
In ChiCaEO-CorneII Wins.
Was n Fatal Crash.

AT CraiS's Road station, Quebec. q pill
grim excursion on the Grand Trunk road
from SherbroOke was being run in two
sections. The first section stopped at
Craig's Road TO cross an uptrain, when
the second section ran into it, the engine
blowing through the Pullman and first
class car. Thirteen persons we're killed
outright and over thirty hurt. Ten
passenger cars and the engine were
wrecked.
The pilgrims were en- route to the
famous shrine of st. Anne de Baupre,
where every summer large numbers of
sick and crippled gather to invoke the
saint to cure them of their diseases. The
trains were made up of residents from
Sherbrooke, Magog, Windsor Mills, and
surrounding parishes. The forward train
was making good time, having left Rich
mOnd at 10 O'Clock the night before On
the rear of this train was a Pullman, in
which were the priests and others in
charge of the party, and it was in this
car that most of the loss of life occurred
The first train reached Crais's Road,
which is fourteen miles west of Lewis,
about o'clock and stopped at the tank
to take water. Precautions were taken
and the semaphore thrown TO danger
against the following train. Only the
trainlnen were out and about, attending
to taei: duties. The Pullman in the rear
was wrapped IN silence and the sleapers
were unaware of the terrible fate hat
was rushing upon them.
Suddenly there was a great crash. The
second train coming at full speed dashed
into the rear Pullman of the first section
So great was the impetus of the coliding
train that the engine embedded itself
in the palace car, and the latter Plunged
forward and partly telescoped the first
class car il Tedately in front. Every
berth i'll the Pullman was wrecked and
some of the occupants who were killed
never knew what happened to hem. They
died sleeping. Others awoke to their hor-
rible surroundings and position, MANNED,
bleeding, and bruised, conscious of little
else but the agony that racked them.
The cries of the wounded and the means
of the dying. and the outpouring of pas
sengers from cars that were not badly
damaged, and the hurrying forms of the
uninjured trainmen with their Pickering
lanterns, all combined to make q sight
seldom exceeded in its horror.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
Claims of Silver Advocates,

Geo. q. Merrick, President of the
Colorado State Silver League, says the
silver advocates may state their claims
rs follows: Equal rights 10 silver and
gold, with free coinage to both ut I'll.
ito not greater than 16 to 1, without
discrimination in favor or against either
coin in its monetary uses, and to do
this without waiting for the assent Of
any foreign power
To do this will be to do justice, to
restore tie laws under which the ma.
ton prOspered. 1t is to leave the con-
troll OF the volume of metallic money
to automatic regulation through the
minis, and to the energy, skill and en-
tcrprise of the American people eXpend-
ed in commerce.. manufacturing, agri-
culture and mining. 1t is TO give to the
people Il volume of full debt-paying
mOney-primary money without the in
tervention of banks. 1t is to increase
the general prosperity. not of any class
but of all classes of peCple-if such eX,
list. The strongest advocates of gold
monometallism in Europe admit that
immense prosperity would follow such
action by the American people through
their congress. And. while the Ameri-
can advocates of true bimetallism of
this country wage no war against the
productive industries of any European
nation. they do claim that with nations
as with individuals an intelligent sell
fishness and self-protecticn is ncces-
sary, especially SO in Il republic, where
the people are the origin of all power.
the ultimate source of all authority.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
international Agreement.

<Aei
There is one result projected romi-
nently from the Memphis convention,
and it is result that will be welcomed
by bimetallists. because it clears away
the clouds which some of the gOldbugs
have been attempting to place around
the pending controversy. The conven-
ton declared plainly for the gold stand
ard, unless there shall be complete in
ternational cooperation for bimetall-
ism. This ought to put an end 10 the
silly talk with which straddlers have
been accustomed to conceal their
thoughts concerning fuller use of
silver, etc. The question is simply
whether the United States shall con-
tinue to endure the evils arising from
the single standard until such time as
the creditor nations of Europe believe
that it has been sucked of all the life
blood it can afford to lose, or restore
independently the system Of finance
under which it saw it's grea test devel-
opment and prosperity.
The resolutions adopted by the Mem
phis convention are designed to have
effect in section of the country where
The sentiment in favor Of free coinage
Is admitted to predominant. They are
therefore rs little outspOken us they
dare be in the direction of the gold
standard, but they nevertheless declare
unequivOcally for perpetuation of the
present system until there has been an
international agreement. This is pre-
cisely what the News warned the coun-
try against the time the proposal for q
conference came before Congress. The
design of the gold mon is to admit that
the free coinage Of silver in itself is de-
sirable. but that it must be attained
through a conference or not at ALL They
do not dare TO affront the free coinage
feeling outright, and so they would lead
it into the Guide sac of Il conference.
where it would remain ineffective until
after the election of another gOldbug
President
But the franker advocates OF The sin
gle standard do not attempt TO hide
their intentions under smooth phrases.
The Philadelphia Times in an editorial
viciously attacked the principles of BIZ
metalliSm, and used this expression:
international agreements and kindred
delusions,' in reference TO those mod
crate persons who honestly believe
that an international agreement must
be waited for. The New York Times.
in an editorial a few days since, used
these words:
when the bimetallists themselves can
agree upon Il ratio it may and may not
be found possible for the commercial
powers to discuss it. Until such an
agreement is reached no conference
will amount to anything
In the face of these expressions from
representative organs Of the gold senti-
ment, what is the use of silver men n
lowing themselves to be led astray by
suggestions of a conference? When
this country restores the unlimited
coinage Of silver there will be little time
lost in coming TO III International agree
ment, and that is the only way TO bring
it about.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
HOOsiers for Silver.

A correspondent of the Indianapolis
Sentinel asserts that the fact is q very
large majority of the people of Indiana
demand the free coinage of silver as
primary money by the United States
without awaiting for international BIZ
metallism or any other delay or device
by which the present advantages enjoy
ed by the mOneyed classes can be con-
tiEued, perpetuated or augmented.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
THE SILVER DOLLAR.

They talk about "sound money" and they
sigh and preach and sing;
But the ''soundeBt' of all money is the
dollar with ] ring,
The dollar that is brighter than silver
sunshine's CLEAN;
With a jingle that is sweeter than "the
music of a dream
Jingle, JINGLE SO it goes!
IT'S solace for our woes,
And it makes 4 fellow happy,
While its rhy thmic music flows.
They talk about "sound money" but the
soundest note of all
Is the Naturalization in a silver dollar $
fall.
How it gives the world its color. how it
makes the winter spring.
And the whole creation dance to silver
dollars ring,
'Jingle, jinglew SO it goes!
IT'S 4 solace for our woes.
And the winds grow sweet with music,
And the world with honey flows.
They talk about Sound money" Let
the silver dollars chime.
And the whole world will so singing
down the corridors of time..'
They CLEAN with nooday splendor; they
are suns serene and bright,
They make splendid every morning,
and they glorify the night.
Jingle, jingle" SO it goes.
How the silver soothes our woes!
The world rolls round in music,
And we triumph Ger our foes.
Atlanta Constitution.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
PANIC IN THE PIT.
Wheat Drops Five Cents Bushel Mid
Exciting Scenes.

Tuesday was the most nervous and ex-
citing day the Chicago Board of Trade
has seen since the farmers came into
town some weeks ago and bought wheat
up from 80 cents to S2X cents. Wheat
declined 5 cents, and many an excited
man chased his fortune to the brink Of
the wheat pit to sec it sink out of sight
And these crazy bulls, says Chicago
dispatch, brought their graphing hooks
In the shape of reported damage to North
west crops by hot winds, and tire ltening
frosts, etc., and dragged the pit, but they
couldn't find their gold. Surely enough,
it seemed to be a bottomless pit.
The bulls were never i'm it ut all. The
bears ran the whole show from the start
Wheat opened up at 81 Csc, and in three
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19

At the Eureka colliery. Windorist,
Pa, where 1000 tons of bituminous
coal are turned out every month, there
is not a single mule dragging out its
gloomy life I'm the long underground
works. Electricity has replaced animal
power to good advantage to the mine
operators and to the mules rs well.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
Tariff La Not in II

President Andrews, of Brown Uni
versity, one of the representatives of
the United States in the last monetary
conference, recently said that neither
Of the great political parties can afford
to ignore the silver issue i'm the next
presidential campaign. 1t will over.
shadow the tariff and cast 1t in the
background"
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
CORNELL THE WINNER.
sensational Result of the Long Ex /.
peCted International Boat Race

All the flower of England's nobility, So
ciety and college folk saw Cornell de-
feat the crack English eight, the Lean
ders, without rowing against them in the
first days race for the Grand Challenge
cup of the Henley regatta. The Leanders
were not ready when the gun was fired
and the C0rnells started over the course
alone. The winners of the two other
races for the Grand Challenge cup were
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
The Worlds Lanouaye.

Statistics prove that nearly two-thirds
Of all the letters carried by the postal
services of the world are written, sent
to, and read by English-speaking peo-
pie.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19

There Is every reasop to believe that II
Howard Gould has promised to marry
Mics Clemmons he will do it. That girl
ID a prOtege Of Buffalo Bill
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19
NEWS OF OUR STATE.
A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING
HOLSTERS.

What Cur Neishhors Arc Doing-Matters
OF General and Local Interest-Marriace
and Deaths - Accidents and Crimes
Pointers About Cur Own People.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19

Doing right doesn't come as hard as
getting credit for it.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-19

Danger is none the less real because 1t
happens to be far off.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-18
well assistant. All subordinate officers
were also appointed The reformatory
viii be opened August 20.
HE Is FOR hEsUBMIssION.
Eckstein Says that It Must Come Up ut the
Special Session.

EC2oCc1u S0y8 tnat IL must COm0 Up 8t tine
Special Session.
A special from Topeka says:
lotto Eckstein, member Of the legis-
Ia ture from Wichita, informs reporter
that he feels certain that special ses-
sion will be held during the coming
winter, and in expressing this opinion
uses the following strong language:
II do not see how it can be helped
It would take only five members of eth
er body to assemble and demand a call
of the house. when absentees could be
arrested and taken to Topeka. But as
a majority of each body believes that
the constitution means what 1t says,
they will meet when the time comes
whether called by the governor Or not
Mr.. Eckstein is an outspoken cham
pion of project to Iesubmit the pro-
hibitory amendment, and processes to
believe that the legislature in special
session will authorize vote on the pro-
position. He says:
"'It is now being an assured fact that
the legislature will hold session dur
ing the coming winter, work in the in
terest Of resubmission should at once
be commenced. Couple local option
with resubmission, and have no doubt
but that the necessary two-thirds vote
could be easily secured. 1t is within
my knowledge that members who rep
resent costituents that are largely in
favor Of local option and resubmission
were opposed to a resubmission reso-
luton alone, and with good reason.
They would have favored resubmission
had local option proposition been as
sociated with it, Taken up at the com
mencement of the session. there would
be no difficulty in securing all the votes
naodod
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-18
THE CHURCHES.

Prof Harry G. Clay of the Cincinnati
conservatory of music is Sunday
guest of Mr.. T. r. ellis of South Law
renee avenue. Mr.. Clay is enroute to
San Francisco.
1.-The Woman Sun-dressed and Star
crowned; and the Red Dragon" is Pas
tor Sims morning theme. "a Great Gulf
Fixed Between" is the evening theme.
Come and welcome.
North Emporia Avenue Baptis:
church, corner Emporia avenue and
Tenth street; Rev. j. J. Shepard, pas
tor-Rev. W. W. Durham will preach
for the pastor mornig and evening.
Brown Memorial Reformed church
corner Lewis street and Topeka avenue
Bruce Griffith qastor-Divine services
at 10 a. m; Y. P. S. c. E., meeting at z
p. m.
This Afternoon at 2:30 the First Metho-
dist Sunday school will devote consider
able time to the Young Ladies' Rally.
All of the classes will meet in the lee
ture room at 1 O'Clock, and all young
ladies of the city are invited to be
present. w. Z. Stanley, superinten-
dent.
First Baptist church-Holds services
in the Y. NJ. c. A. auditorium, corner
First street and Topeka avenue. Preach
ing at IL a. m, and p. m, by Rev. G.
e. Baker; Sunday school at 10 a. m;
Young Peoples meeting at 6:45 p. m.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend all these meetings
Central Baptist cuhrch-Services at
Garfield hall. corner First and Water
streets, at IL a. m. and 7:45 p. m, l.. A.
Hall, pastor. Morning sugject: 1.-The
Wedding Garment" Evening theme
1.-The Paralytic." Sunday school at 10
a. M; Junior Union at p. M; B. Y. P.
u. at 7:45 p. m. E. B. Walden, chorister.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-18
New York Loan Market,

New York, Aug. 1.-THE New York
Financier says: The statement of
associated banks OF this city for the
week ending Aug. II reflects in part the
gold export movement and the opera
tons of the bond syndicate which were
concluded the week previous. That
there is no immediate prospect OF firm
er money rates is evidenced in the in
crease of s.. 423 600 in the volume of idle
capital now lying in the New York
City banks.
The banks gained 3,54s, 900 in deposits
during the week and the increase in
legal tenders was s3.003,009. The dis
tribution Of the large percentage OF
money due to banks by the bond syn
dictate of course operated adversely on
the call loan market but aside from
this it was not noticed. Despite the ap
parent dizziness the banks are now car
rying $4,000, 900 more loans that at this
time last year. Deposits, notwithstand-
ing an increase of 5000, 900 last week.
are $1,000 900 less than for the same
week in August, 1894. and the excess re-
serve is between s26,000.00O and s27 ,O00,-
0f0 less