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* When, in 1870, this manufacturing company was seeking a person i. the West, they had their attention directed to l'era. Har pers . by others donations of land and building material, secured the establish art of the work. b. re.
They were pushed with vigor und wann est into operation, har in 1och they are Iestroyal by her, the bad being One that has suk wwwthers 4G .! bu. dlings, They were ahur'ly rebwelt ami manulsethting rommel with largely opposed production
Here the celebrated Il we sewing machine was tople, los ! entning Www ant to making y variety of tarostyrr usel in & lust . nthope nur . phichr.
D'ungang, with a capital stock al CanliMay.
This manufactory was established her by Meware, table -. it's Co. It manufactures bissel, mille per-, chethis pin do wes sure, and run an extensive saw-bull to do it's own an I cultura worth.
" now the washing out of the fam. Mo ors Base "filler . sie hat. Peri sei and roluule heir mail at a grunt west of Box loay wir th. I. P . I'M R. track, which a residual . for terms in" und ingung They have a trat- am mill for merehst it mtul ristai work.
I würth, and on far seret se I datathus listados supplying a large hamele menu
The evlere1 people, though generally puor, have sucrec Iel in hillings Best brick church on bast l'hard street, in which services are held weard- muy to appeminent They are not yet able to main'un a regular puter Their energy in treompushing what they Lave is highly er-litable.
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elu best thing, es so long, is a question involun; . the eternal house of
Nume genseit tacie in rezind s their way of living and their
of seedans, clamtering eine , In height dank . and if it was , waere the gend sanshine parsed in the dogand, progress and wi's birer the played their warte there au | red bergs a plus cal da they ·promover the low punte which grew up in why frage what the
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Frerething .. the any ? Jadines and som banery is tuely st the establish
Jungs Har pler, at the feels Ja, long & will at which all the work
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1spl # .. non. on Ichth street. tror Baluch Bulwer, has another nh" at the sy w kindl with all the woahnen for turning ant all kinda .
the cotton er .. and the demand i always in preparing to the moment of
The price of slane of the 1. 1. A I' R. B and permanently die stel bere t'en auf les emusteres are mails and tejames, and wenty employ. I meet to quenta a large number of employee, what is a good thing. aun poverty and are citizens who will remain John M. hemos a Master M .- chanic, ticurve Young. Forvann, and tisorge bethere Foreman of the carpen- ter shop
These shops neways some three meres of ground, in the west ale of town, and are built with all the modern improvements, in the most sub- stancial mauner.
THE WADA.It ROAD
Mec lisa repair shops here, on a small scale, which give empintment to . few bandly
RAILROADS.
PERL A INDIANAPOLIS RAILED LIA,
W . J. Holan, of this county, was the projector of this mal. ile wns the first to propose the onderisking, and to bin is blue the credit of which commencement a+ insured ite completa He is the preliminary survey and estinites, and by togores, which are no proverbial for the verveuy as is George and his little hatebut story proved that ate construction wis en- timely within the resources of the people living along as line Aimard and PunoDary as the project wremed to wany, muu ridiculed As be was for wien- caing such a sikl scheut he never watered in bis convictions or westie ! in the task he lind unsjertikra. The worst muretrig on the subject was held in l'eau, in 1&15, at while a few enthusiastic nur il men subscribed naboer five hundred ballare in stock With this eajaful. tien. T .A. Morris, of Indianapolis, nas ehiph yed to run the line and urine esfunntes prehnannes to e Dituenein: ilber mertings were held along tar line, in byplanl+ suli acnibel to the stuck, nil, shortly after, all the enmises hetwech this and Marion autmeribed. ns counties The work wi- commenced at the mouth end, and the rol wn- mise, ilter wonderful dithcultes an i the utier es. baustjon of onauciel re- urees, up to Noblesville, as a flat bor rowut! Ahont this time, they got some mortgages on it, stol got it into court, and the wreckers came along and tak the thing in, and left the Hocorer rariron t- buildlers to mature at their leisure wbut they knew about relrowling an.l what they were going to slu about it. They got more nmortgages un it, un !.. it was compleiel to l'eru, in [X14, an) hnalfy sont out at such heures ny to make it a first-class paying investment.
TOLEDO, WADA-H & WESTERY
Along shout 1852, an enthusiastic man nt Tulelo commenced writing up the importance of a railroad trum To slo to St. Louis He got up the first meeting at Lozansport, which was largely attended from all the important poiz:s along the line Sue's was saliraber, ahol sich an impetus giren to the work as -eared its completion by the Spring of Isis Bus the po- projector, who had espendel bis talenti nil money in giving the thing % start, was never heard of afterward, except occasionally as a crazy man. And so it goes.
THE CHICAGO, PITI41 BEM & AT LOEH RAILWAY was complete! through the southern part of the county in 1836.
THE DETROIT & EEL RIVER.
following Fel River from Ligansport through M.atni, was completed 10 1952 ant is in connection with the I , P. & # ... which was Sotahed from Peru to Michigan City in IM+3.
These ruals are nil doing a heavy business ia freight wol passengere and give our county uil the facilities of the kid'l che nerds.
GRAVEL ROADS.
Some years ago, the city of Peru have to four gravel road companies 310, ext each to encourage on / aid them in building paul route to the city The money was not as well expended as it might have been, but will It u:sle the rowle much better The Pery & Strantown, Pern & Armin, l'eru & Cisti andl P'emu & Pawpor were the roadw that receitail fhas ail. The Peru & Mexico, the best of our roa.in, was made before, and rereivel nune of this money.
THE WAR VOLI STEPRS.
la the patentic duty of furnichung troops at the call of the General fioreruinent, Winmi t'ounty will compare favorshl; with any other in the ['Date.] Sistrs.
When the Meriray War required volunteers, our cuunty wus in it- in- Fancy, but she primapela furnished a rangway, which went to the field under the com. and of the Inte to . " Wien
in the war of the Rebellion, we were represented in tuinty-four peri- Dim. in the brat year, we bud a th. pont man in the perstor nuit ig tu The time. 1."ka, no shown by the myster pulls exclumise of - are two bun dred volunteers raised to repel the Margin ried. Of a bird euro'laws of 2.217 aptvert tu bulitary duty, over me-and were in the bold They par- tratated in nearly all of the bautles in which Indiens soldiers were engaged during the' wir
I. aldatpen to this force in the field, our people at Line at uner care of addiere fanless "Their contributions for the purpose. amounted
MISCELLANEDIN.
Here is a showing of how the people a aprove aquarel the public barney4 lung szo.
An Isholat of the Herapie and Expenditures, f Mais N'aenty, from the let of Nusewiser. Juli, to the Int of November, Ih4 ;.
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funn I now aloge afterward, i a pele, grat grat . Kryburn a. I home- stend The lune gute, mintmed with journey and marked by a stope. on the monk of the river near He Be bop popleter, is where he was born I're some to the organization, the territory of Months was allahel in fase $1,141 32 | for judicial and electoral purposes, and tasty ron I and other unpageant rec.
nedo, sustaining to its early history. will only be found nhung the archives nf t'as+
The letting of nodivisjon of the canal, from Le titn | Togunsn' . nult.
work, u. labe boel sale of lots in logo took place the most das ist air
PHỐ Nº LHTI TUS lạ the citiếc n nộ từ bay thất bắc alning rẻ cạnh ** * hay near the List at the last of The street, should base in acht letter ross,
Toet The 1ar-in was ti zare Las an important mitmio . I the gies wars
Frame wn well as Jag buildings began to be put up imoswhitely ster the anle of Tools. Amning the envinst of these were a fan-stary frost & hange northeast corner of Second und Mount streets mult and cempiel to Ves- andler Wilson, ex a sara mood swelling house. alder burned down iaw. story from houve, triethwest corner of Fame and shout streets be tand kept hy John tamper as a tavern, since burned down | Mr. l'ex per v . mne of the contractors who built the Lon] ; a one- story home, corner . " Trar ! and Drasbrug, bunt and occupied as is store- the " Emp rium" 2, finner B. Fulwater, she now beenged by Conun Hall Block a twitter, france house, northwest alley warner, west sale of Broadway, between Ses fall Think royte, built by [ B. Beirss, and vecupiel by bim ind Judge de 1 A share anl welbin _. they having hr-t nprard their atisk. in Mit, sport, building see barned down: a two-story from louise to theast . wer of Main and Minustreets, butit and occupied by IL. A Tark vetou as acero since torn down ned site orcupied in print by the Foropnl i .rch . a two-story house, northeast corner of Canal and Broadway, basit no or cu- fied by Mellommack, at Latayere, my s store a one alors france loan to the north sale of Second street, east of Broadway, bass and seek, al by Iru tas ins & f'w., as a store, tion awned hy Win. south, in-t still . - ting. and a une-story house on the southwest corner of the a 'sy sinh . de . Second street, between Broadway and Wabash streets, alt and intel by l'omper, burgen & Semager ay a store, white the sam sas hubt . - movel hy Low, Thayer & Burkett lo their bent on Went seront street, There were other buil.hugs, no sloubt, aor bere mentionedl, but theso were stavug the very ratitest Immie structures erected.
PIRAT TAVERN4
The taveras that were first huilt anil in operation as early an June 1 = 15. waro a two-story log building, northwest corner of l'aun' at' i'n .. , press. at the lawn, built nul kept by 1. Murphy a double ing house. 1 . . lol west of Murphy's, built at I hept by James Enni-, who s + huilt, ' xime year, & IMustory frame on the third los west af Marghy 4, which he reu- piel as a tavern; a two-story trame on the northwest corner of I ir d und Minimi streets, built and kept by John Cooper and seminned for may years after as the National Hotel. a two-story frame, Dortheist & ear of Main and Mining streets, halt and kept by II .A. Tark ngton, as bolas Price, aby højat the ferry across the Hatunk just let the bestis kept a tavern on the north sule of Canal street, about ha ! a square ist of Broadway. The rest at Kilgore & Stark's store, corner of Broms and Unio, was the site of the Broadway Hotel, owned and kept by l'endieon a llenby.
Besi le there place of entertainment for the traveler, a.' the best -ilers took care of friends who enme to look at the euuniry, amil they woila ieca- swiunlly take in n stranger.
It is not to be quy.tume-1 that these hostelries put on any euch airs . the Palmer, of Chicago of Fifth Avenue, of New York, but. w. a leer : . e.s. pheasants, squirrels an I other game about the town plat hog wiel away in the farler, fish of vole-a variety in the river, and I will his wife prairie hiy, they were prepared to furnish a wul stantinl " el af tuth tive conte and lodging at a shelling, Board, by the weak, was from ya ar to one dollar in twenty-fire cents, which would be paul be making . ... . twenty-the cents a hundred. of which work there was plenty, the . sople lengthwy and wanting soir is nearly fennel.
BUSINESS MEN AND AISINIER PLACKA OF THE FARLY 1.41 IN 1' 8
The business men and places in Peru, for a feir genre : er the p.s. w1. tnid att, were ny fallon. Wlært Cale, dry purls, etc., wighwest - mer n! Biroulway sul this I streets; largh Linzee, dry mails, ha . luare, au ery. etc. ant sheriff of the jaunty, Bomlway. \ Milan my yel ele. northeast corner of Mount and Sound store. W. W Bisous in. onHlv, etc rmipormui, northwest o ruer of Hropl iny aun ! hil -ir. Bradbird des gnore, et ... . and street : [ .. B. Herthele Ary gr final street, most of Breadway. 1. 1. Willer & I'm, dry . ole, etc. . and street, north -ale, between Beivad Jag une Mtem: D E. Bare- In: 14. maths Internal growers, northeast mother of fans and Broad way 2 1
Rush attarany at low, repair of Korelway and Frem Sirel
maker, error of Main mil issa. \ Mowbray, hair-share and . . .- Serp| spot. rest of Brodway. The parfondere mal por wie 1 5
"last ned birth, were blacksmith . 1. 40 Brish. Mount ettert, I. . . r.
Country by John's I Felwater
From the noite it will be won that Que, wie nor manenel Ine "liret, in the early iln; . Init wentto mi+] olt over IngH
The meaur baby foot is brought to mand that of the fore going hel ios who, forty years ago, were actively en need in the Iof erel phtomate. to
bar Lesion and A W Thigains hve elershrie, whp ait the ser
ALEX JAMESN. JNO. W MILLI R. WAL. M. RETOURN.
Commisnaners.
Altret. B. H STOTT, Clerk.
The ratification, in the laver part of 1837, of Warwaall'. Tresty, was a muster no great rejoicing, as it opened to seullement what was ka en ny the Five Mile Reserve, wlucht comaneed cast of Peru, Prietofed up Le Wabash nve malen, and back to Fel Kiver.
lu July, 1-24, Win. N. Hast, one of the town proprietors, as i a very enterprising wid publie-spirited citizen. bed, and lus denase was reparlei as a pubhe enlimity.
At the August election of 1834, a;it votes were polled. In the same month, Dr. Jen Heuton, in ligging a well on bis Cot, at the rear end of Davenport's store room, came in the top of a tree at the depth of Sfiren Ivet . and it stout forty feet i elow the surt we they struck upon the roots of the same tree, supposed to be a tammruch.
Saturday, the last of August. 1891, Thomas J. Wyatt was Lilleint Mer- ico, by the acer lental discharge of a short riffe, in the hands of EJ. l'e- ples. T'he wwuwiel man nul in about hfteen minutes after the novi lent. After the fratruction of the recuril-, Iy the burning uf the c . art louise. there was great excitement among the people us to the manner of their re -. toration -- une fifty being in favor of the courts restoring their respective recueil. and the other of a Special l'oramissioner.
The court pian carriel at the election. but the Legislature ny .piel the Special Commi-amer methul It turned out, provencally, that at Sinde but bitte difference which plan was adopte 1, us but a waill amount of this kind of business was over tranviete ).
At the Anguer election of 1440, there were hur five townships in the county mit the atender of votes in cache, oh flowernor. was as follows: Peru 217: Jeferen, No: Town, 15: Perry. il. Richard k & total in the county of 56 votes. This was'd hardly when the sure of each to an- alny. as, under the law at that time, the outer could vote in ary township he pleased, unit l'ern generally got more than her share
The first public sale of canal lands in the commit took place factober 5. 1940, at the enrner of Second -mol Minun streets, the Wilson corner A large number of las Ichayers were 17 from abril, and the towerne wer full for several weeks before the sale Some 10,ANmi Acres were volil.
Godfrey a allation to the town of Peru irul heen food of and a public wale of in and out lets tunk place on the 5th and ath of October by Allen Handlion, executor of the will of t'het fieldroy, to whove estate the land belon zeil.
The county went fur Harrison, in Helt, by a majority of f< The whole
The first lather in the county estab ished himand here for a short time in ISI. He - 19 a colored in an nained lunch. A town seven years with- out a barber' Think of the swing blonds af to-day who part their hair io the waddle and share the barber y inst scent, suffering such a rivatino The nrit was Aexamier Muss, who ca.ne in 1812. a.ul ims I en sere ever sineo.
In 19:Pt and 1-10, 1 Wilson & Co, packed park. The first year, they undertisk to get it to New York, but tale i on nement of low water in the Manure, the rest year, they built Mit-laite on the river bank shave the tratar vil whit feed to Nowe Delenns. They bat manay both time, but they -howHT enterprise, Amit all that soit et thir z
der Wi-on wire the seugnad I'matmosphere nate , in the " inter of the Bruge I'moping, and called a meeting of stock hinder for Ve . Na puisted Albert Pole, Z. K i'mlipton, Heury Aver 2. 1. prin. o. r. R. Trang. Jan. S. Tuelle and Bergman Hinten a dita stare At & tweeting of clarkholders, beld at the head / W Predicted. a Per Theater In, stare, Sensual Bagge and / W Sop Heten were cited a Itund fruto.
agr Ise take part of his pay to wars: the store.) lere failed to pay tip.
I'r .Ir lopt la en dytg. wol gruveyanis hodl # I Merenf pub's in the
what teringsamable ground and I te procanal V awdher being held-
War with Wegen broke out in 121' sell when a . all i stroje was I'quan and de . He ver, lentement, and travel byl lapedig here, & enter. As they Ich for the -ent af wor in 1-b, on n fint at ny lie mnal, the etrikingly apparent
In time, is 'i, a young toon named kili Mary, on horseback as I carry-
Am want of -vont wallerted for Ik .:. Aunmut tore;eml fur entraya .
'hin men, Mirkrfs, vtr,
letters of full tank.
Sen! | 11 es niu Tejour ut slave
Fur1 ....
Hent of I lerk + othre I're nurer's comunil-sin Y'allretor's connusstun.
Lalunee in Treasury $1,188 14
$1,141 3:
properis here realized their hopes ated resur ion portugues at an ris sla ..
Sommer de was the "taleb forem" of the rush; city
INDIAN HISTORY. BY JOHN A. GRAHAM.
TOHLE was soluble Indian history, betard, of course, on their traditions, territory fammiel rist ig the Saluto, west In tos Bner, mouth by the thiện and north to the lakes. This would emlens part of time, ail at hadmint, part of Hlaors and the southern part a Mahogan. That the Mona should give the may to sich a conk lorns shows that they were powerful great Minun Clart srl to tirn Wine, at the treaty af farmville' " fiat base granted ost is ne the boundary har between the balans and the
ott From the haben s farge portion of ematry which last loven ragged to ny torplicher- troms time isoraportal, without molestation or , paste ti is well known by all my brothers prront, tout trs 1 æretother killed the nrel hre m Petr at , trom thence he eytrimit his hue, to the hea justery nf the Se mate, the meet , tx month down the times, to the month of the Wahunh ; thener to l'hu ago, in lake Michigan.
The Winnure were eslied Tuightwees qml were the most powerful branch of the contedetus They held siel wegspiel the extern portion of the winte erittement, that portion of' it lying dong the upper Walsh suul ent- bowed workin the hormis of Mini and meddinning panties was the very last In which they sibles paspasion
They dwelt in permanent vill iges, thu- wwhenung a higher civilization than that at the nomaler tribes of the farther wash. For this purpose they selected the most beautiful sure on the banks of risers and small version. While Ihvir principal sustenance wow diprived from hunting and fishing. their selection- For village utes and their treaty reservations, whetner uf
The Man who resdel within the area of this county numbered, in there not prosperous days, about ME . They were is proud haughty peude, In ling the neighboring tribes in rontempt, as un suferit
They were a warlike tribe and were alhes of England in the war berween that country and this, Their chiefs were nlde Iruders, the most outspicuous of whom, as at etnicemnn and warrior, was Little Turile
Their prowess in the hell is historienl un ler the leadership of this cele- brated clues, why, as commander of the alles lachan torres, defeated tien. Hurmer, October 1', 15'0) und tien. Sielar, Novender +, 1791-the most disastrona rever-es suffered by the whites at the hands of the ludiaus
And ont less conspicuous is the warlike character they aguamed io their dlefest by Gon, Wayne, at the little af Fort Wayne, August 20, 1594, by tien Harrison, nu the battle of Typeengor, November 17, 1811, amt by Col. Campbell, on the Wissennewa, atmot seven more east of the southeast corner of this county, in Herember, 1-12 Francis Galfray, Lowas laul- Troy, his brother, and Shop-pa-curial, or Deaf Van, residents of this immediate vicinity, were noted war chiefs, and participated in the battles referred to. [,rw14 Godfray give the signal for the Indians to attack nt the huttle of Tippecanoe, and he atul big brother Francis and Fleaf Man, were the Indian leniler+ in the battle with v'ol. Campbell, which was amarly a drawn fight.
The Indian villages in this country were. We-aw's, on the north bank of Fel River, below Denver, at the month of Wo wow Creek: Flowers Villago, on the wuth orle, opposite Chil. nul surrel a Village, og the north side, nent Stor kelale. The landinns living ar Flowery' Villnge were Weas, subase- quently .engnared on the pay-tolla a Lel Rivers at We saw's, l'attowarto- taies, and ot - sifret's or Siconsali's, Soumis Mums intermarried. to some extent, with the Weak and l'attaquanttonnes, and, in the course of time, Indians of these trities were recognized n+ Miamie, signing Irenties and participating in annuities with thens.
The most naportnot village in this . anty why the junge, on the went bank of the Mussissinewn, one wile ahore its mouth, and two nuley nhore Peru. This was, builtless, the largest Mantui village belonging to the tribe. It took its name forms that of theage, its best clef. It was a heat- tiful site for a village, but is pose a vast cornheld. Su-ja-can-nul, or Ilest Wan, wus n wne chef of the villugr. He married Frances Slocum, the Indian captive, and evalushed whi us- called Dead Man's village, further up the river in the edge of Wabash "'ounty. There were uther somll vil- lages at different point-
France Gallray, son of Jurk. Jeques, or James Golfray, a French trader wuchs the India, succeeded Deat Man is war chief. He mat hi- brother Lowi wore ratingished men in the tribe from early manhood, and took a leading part in its important a fare Jary weer prominent in the huitles of Fort Wayne, Tippecanoe and the Vinesnews. Their high pass- ting in the tribe ad evalenerl by the fact that, in the treaty of st Mary y, made in 1X14 between Jonathon Jennings, Beniamin l'ark and Lớnje Frey, Comuns-myers of the I'usted states on the one purt, and the Mooni Tribe of Ichaux on the other, France was granted a reservation of his sechout of Imu.l on the Sa' .mente, at La I'riit Prunie ami Lewis aix seetunite on the St. Mary a. leme the reservation of Anthony Shine. The novetion of the brothers for each other is shown by an article of agrepigens now fotore the writer, male na the 21 day of December, 1-21, withered by tern. Tipton nil Joseph Harron, in which they agree to exchange one sertuoi of these reservaans, and land themselves not to sell or scherwie dispose of the WAThe, unless by mitnat ronsehi -the sole uliert and purpose of the exchange being that " the badhers Bury live nest each other
The wife nt C'hirt Birelfray, wul her wider, the wife of White Widf. were the daughters of i white muun named Idle, wiro hul heen esp ured by the
Francie talfray contracted fur Bir mibling of & IWesstory log mmse on the Show 0 1-2, whopp sind. The bream le ban tool not Feeling-quet, sal was located wane distance save the month of the WI == >>>iTrwa, ph tur Bolgsle He and tod propice from The Salamone until about 9427 boat top - seral spare precum to his resultat, alternated bis Presence between the two plus spooling a few months mash year by the
l'y the treaty of 14', he was granted y siempre of a section of ingel which extrmle une note ap the Wotrib em its trinn trink from h north and mail Ione a bottle most of Broadway ,acledig wachen or areon the past la al l'eau salg the treaty of labi, he was granted bee sections lol werd
He was a man of appended phgonal largement hing is foot high and
ka- day, and isnoise them there againel whom he taught se faitle the the I' was written 're I'ne .pient af the I ratel stars, which will rapduin it -. dr
I have the day reserved the sley tai wansback from your hands. ant I taw return iny thanks to that brass soul generous chief med waited
present to that hrase chiot aud warrior as Pyrlence of regird With ernti-
. Your friend and oldclient serv int.
I'mdone wa she is called in the letter, was the Indian way of pro
Brlors ho's death, the whites hod brouup (ptite ommer its, nel in all his bus intercourse with them, which was varied and estenuire, he ale
tuned his reputation od honor and street integras. He had sloves senseof , the bright how to town and productos bom from his saeines proud to second his white trimade in way enterprise parking to the general
He Malt a stare-rooms un his pas sortions, just adjoining the eastern loan- the firm of Godfroy & Berthold kept s store or nale with the Iphone sal whites, op to Ists, Almost is, , he bought from A. W Pouleton the frame house between the east and river at the en l of the brulge, nhich, afier his death, uns bought of lus motor, sti 1 .. Hart
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