Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-07-06
NEW SERIES.-VOL. III, NO. 4.
State News.
Henry Myers, of Wolf Lake, SAYS he
can beat any man in the State playing
checkers.

can beat any man in the State playing
checkers.
All but four counties i'm the State
have received the May distribution of
the schOol-fund allowed to them.
The assessment of Hamilton Coun-
ty will fall short about 100000 of the
assessment of last year.
A few nights ago thieves entered the
Postoflice at Kendallville, AMI sue
ceeded in blowing open the safe and
getting away with $1,000 i'm currency
and $50 in stamps.
The assessment of taxable property
in indianapolis this year will be about
SlS,000,000 less than that last year, or
S56.00o.000. This will require rate
of one and half per cent to meet ex-
penses.
William Morgan, a clerk in the Com
mercial House. New Albany. dissap-
peared six or seven weeks since, and
few days ago his body was found hang
ing to tree near Six-Mile Switch, in
Floyd County.
At Logansport. on the 14th, DIR.
Wright Smith and a man named
Henry Young engaged in quarrel,
which resulted in Smith shooting
Young several times in the side and
back, inflicting presumably fatal
wounds.
A farmer, named John Lemon, took
chloroform, at Anderson. on the morn
ing of the 10Th, for the purpose of
rendering himself insensible to the
pain of removing a thorn, from his
foot. During the operation he died.
AtLafayette, on the lith, lad named
Charley O'Neill, six years old, in nnder,
taking TO get on a wood wagon. lost his
hold and fell to the ground. The wagon
ran over him, and he was so severely
injured that he died during the night.
Casper Hartman, a well-to-do farmer
living eight miles north of Anderson,
shot and mortally wounded his wife
on the morning of the 18th. Jealous
ly and family troubles were the sup
posed causes Hartman has been ar
rested and claims that the shooting
was accidental,
While Michael HOuregan, aged fifty,
a section-hand on the Jacksonville,
Madison, & indianapolis Railroad, was
sitting under a tree near Jonesville, on
the 18th, eating his dinner, he was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
Samuel Roebuck, who lived four
miles west of Lafayette, jealous of the
excitement and sensation caused by
Moons suicide, concluded to have some
on his own account, and created it by
swallowing bug poison, from which
death ensued in a short time.
A few nights ago John Keller and
Charles Ballard Were discovered lying
insensible near the railroad track just
west of Warren. Kellar had bad
wound in the head He revived some
what while being cared for, but not
sufficiently to state how the injuries
were received. Ballard was badly
wounded about the head and back,
and died soon after being found. When
discovered the men were clincbed to-
gether, and it is not yet known wheth-
er they were struck by some train and
thrown from tie track, or whether
their injuries were received in some
other manner.
a. j. Walker, of indianapolis, was
recently arrested on charge of oh
tanning money under false pretenses /:
1t seems that Walker telegraphed to a
Mr., Green, living in Manchester, New
Hampshire, that his son was in Jail
and that for 1925 he (Walker) could
secure his release. If the S125 did not
come to hand the young man was GER
tain to 90 to the penitentiary. The old
gentleman not only sent the money
but came on himself, when, to his sur
prise, he found the story of his sons
arrest was a myth. On being arrested
Walker claimed that Green and him
self had "set up little job to get
some ready cash. 1t may prove an ex-
pnsive job.