The ndependent. VOL XXXI.-NOr ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1897.. WHOLE NO. BrarlllM. A PROFITABLE MEETING. LOSS BY FIRE. Village Caucus. 7 • _____ A Democratic-People ’a-Union-Silver THE TILLAGE WINS! the Crowley telephone —No. 7. Brotherhood of St. A ml row In Session ’ at caucus for the purpose of placing A Fine Young Horse Perished In the —8ilver men, are you registered ? Flint. Kmination candidates for the vari­ The third annual convention of the Devouring Flames. —Reuben It. Smith, of Eureka, has ous village offices and for the transac ­ Brotherhood of St. Andrew, of Miclu- About 5 o'clock last Friday morning tion of such other business as may prop ­ In its Suit Against the County- been granted a pension. By the Republicans for County n, was held in St.Paul's church. Flint, the bam of James A. Keeney, situated erly come before it. will be held at the Board oi Supervisors. —A pension has been granted to Sol­ School Commissioner. Kit Saturday and Sunday. There were Eugine House, in St. Johns. Monday omon L. Richards, of St. Johns. about 75 delegates present. In the se­ about 60 feet from the rear of his resi­ eveuing, March 1, 1897, at 7:30 o'clock. —Ex-county clerk Geo. H. Marshall lection of officers for the ensuing year, dence on Lansing street, was discovered The committee urges that all who sym­ is suffering from an attack of nuralgia. G. S- Scofield, of St. Johns, was chosen to be on fire, first by Mrs. Keeney, who pathize with the principles advocated SXALLI'OX HILLS Ml'ST BE PAID BY CONVENTION ELECTED DELEGATES a member of the council. Saturday —Mrs. F. A. Percey gave a very pleas ­ had risen from her bed to learn the time by this party, turn out and see that a COUNTIKS. ant “afternoon, ” Monday, to her lady TO THE STATE CONVENTION, noon a very fine dinner was served in strong ticket is placed in the field. friends. the chapel of the church by the ladies of day, when the light from the burning Rodney A. Beebe, of tbe parish. Among the delegates bam attracted her attention* She at L. D. Parr , ' —Born, to Wm. Shioyer, of Riley, were Rev. F. Hall and J. II. Corbit, who The Supreme Court Rendered » Deelsalon Saturday morning, February 20, a And Adopted Resolution* In Favor of XV. H. once informed her husband of the fact, O. A. Whitlock , went from here Saturday morning, re­ when he sprang from his bed aud com­ Committee. to That Effect LhM Week. daughter. Bruiisou ’* Candidacy for District turning in the evening. C. O. DuBois menced dressing himself. While thus —The latest thing out is “Gould's Attorney. went Saturday evening and remained engaged frantic neighbois pounded on Program Seal Brand ” cigar—a sweet aud refresh ­ over Sunday. Prominent among the his bedroom window and informed him Of the High School Literary Club, to be In 1895, the village of St. Johns pre ­ ing smoke, 10 cents. 2w-19 delegates present were A. M. Hadden, that his barn was on lire. Before our given Tuesday evening, March 2 : sented to the supervisors of Clinton —Ed. Kuhns has bought the stock of The Republicans of Clinton couuty associate secretary for the United alert fire department could reach the Music...................................................Mandolin Club clothing of Sullivan A Kuhns, aud will States, and W. J. Webber, of Detroit. scene of destruction, the building was Kecitutiou..................................... .... Alice Branch county bills aggregating $2,810, that be ­ remove it to Fowler. met in convention in the circuit court beyond the saving point. The barn was Vocal Solo .......................................Mrs. Ed NcabU Obituary. Essay........................... ........................Adah sturrls ing the expense of the epidemic of small­ —See to it that you are properly regis­ room last Friday at 1 p. m. Every town ­ of good size and was almost surrounded Ftauo Solo .......................................... Mabel DaFoe pox in the village in 1894. The bill in ­ tered and prepared to vote at the ap ­ ship, except Westphalia, was more or John. Washington, one of Eureka's with good roomy sheds, which, altogeth ­ Recitutlon ........................................W. Vredcnburyr cluded an item of $690 as extra com- proaching village election. less represented, and something like a old residents, died Friday, February 19, er, involved an outlay of about $750. In Vocal Solo ................................. ...Thurza Judd 1897, aged 61 years, Mr. Washington the barn was a fine young horse, placed Head!or ................................................................. Alice Kelly pensiou granted health officer Palmer at —Washburn ’s orchestra will furnish Newspaper .....................................................-Bertha Keys full convention was visible. was a man aud neighbor of high esteem. there the night before by a brother-in- Adtniee'on, 8 vents. the rate of $10 per day, and $150 paid music for the “Judas Maccabeus ” play C. C. Vaughan, chairman of the coun ­ His religious character was above re­ law of A. D. McCabe, a neighbor, and FANNY CHURCH, • him as a physician for attending indi ­ at Ovid, Saturday evening. ty committee, rapped the convention to proach. He was a charter member of without the knowledge of Mr. Kee­ Chairman of Program Com. gent patients. The board allowed the —A fine 16x20 portrait, gloss or pla- order, and after briefly stating the ob ­ the United Brethren church, to which ney or any member of his family. Had whole bill, except the $690. The circuit tino finish, for only $1.00, with orders, ject of the meeting, called J. T. Daniells, be remained faithful to the last. It may Mr. Keeney known that the horse was BUSINESS LOCALS court granted a mandamus to compel at Stage's East Side Studio. of Essex, to the cnair, aud, on motion, truthfully be said of Mr. Washington, there he might have been able to res­ the payment of this item, and last — Rep. Jackson has introduced a bill Mr. Vaughan was made temporary sec­ and not of all who profess and cal! cue it from its distressing situation. ep Thursday this action was sustained by in the House to provide for shutes or retary. themselves Christians —“none of these There was stored in the barn a new bean Shoes. P’rices from 25o to $1.00 per the supreme court. ladders in Maple river at Duplaiu. On motion of J. C. Brunson, of Vic­ things move me.” For many years sheller. a separator and a hay press, ail pair. Woodruff &’Troup , Counsel for the county contended —Miss Julia Smith entertained about tor. committees on credentials, perma ­ nearly all the burdens of the church of which were burned. The Shoe Dealers. that the health board cannot tix the nent organization and orderof business, rested on him. He did all with Chris ­ Through his heroic acts, which result­ compensation of one of its members, twenty of her friends at her home in To The Public, East Bingham last Thursday evening. were made to consist of three members tian willingness, looking for his reward ed in the burning of one of his hands in and thus bind the county for the pay ­ to be appointed by % the chair. The fol­ where nothing is withheld or forgotten. a painful manner, Mr. Keeney was en ­ Reports to the effect that I shall leave ment of the amount. The court did not —Several piekeral have been caught lowing were appointed : For several weeks he was a great suffer­ abled to pull out his tool-chest, a cutter St. Johns, are untrue. I shall stay right sustain this, inasmuch as it was con ­ at Moore' * Lake lately, the two largest On Credentials—D. II. Hunt, Bing ­ er, but bore it all with Christian resig­ and a buggy. This is about all that was here so long as the people show by their ceded that the charges were reasonable, weighing 16 and 15 pounds, res pectively. ham: A. M Birmingham, Duplain ; C. nation. saved. The estimated total loss is be ­ actions that they think I have the right nor did it sustain the further contention —Judge Daboll will deliver his lec­ C. Taylor, Ovid. Ilis funeral took place aj the Evan ­ tween $900 to $1.(XX), on which there is to live. If there are “too many jewelry that the law places the burden of pay ­ ture. “The Capture of Fort Fisher, ” at On Permanent Organization and Order gelical church, at 1 p. m. on Sunday last, an insurance of $500—$300 on contents stores here,” and the public elect that I ment of health officers upon the town ­ Dennis' hall. Eureka, oa Saturday eve of Business—John C. Brunson, Victor; and was the largest ever held in that and $200 on building, in the Clinton shall be the first to go, will do so, but ship, city or village. On the contrary ning of this week. Itobert Anderson, Essex; Marshall place. Rev. F. M. McClintock. presiding County Mutual. not until then. Realizing the extreme it held that it was the intent of the leg­ —At the business meeting of the Hand, Olive. elder of the U. B. church, officiating. Had it not been for the promptness business depression, I have decided, un ­ islature to put upon the county the bur ­ Michigan Republican Club, in Detroit The report of the committee on per ­ The discourse was an able one. A wid­ and alertness of the members of our fire til “prosperity comes,” to make the fol­ den for extraordinary services rendered this week, E. P. Waldron, of this vil­ manent organization and order of busi ­ ow and two daughters survive him. His department on the spot, the house would lowing prices on watch work : to prevent the spread of contagious dis­ lage.