Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-08-30
State Items.

A truck wagon loaded with 5000
pounds of castings run over the neck
Of Hartman Dales at Goshen last
Thursday, causing serious and pos
sibly fatal injuries.
The house of j. G. Stuck, of Elk
hart, was entered b. thieves Tuesday
night, in the absence of the family,
and $500 worth of jewelry, ETC., taken.
No money was secured.
Clarence Harrison shot and fatally
wounded Mike Sullivan last week in
street encounter in Covington.
Harrison fled, and has not been ar
rested at last accounts.
Matt Brown, proprietor of one Of
the most disreputable saloons in
Fort Wayne, fell dead on the street
at 3 o'clock last Thursday. The death
is ascribed to bad whiskey.
Pete Wolf, of Bartholomew county,
fell from a threshing machine weigh
ing 1000 pounds, and the wheel trav-
ersed his spine and shoulders with
out infiicting any injuries.
An old citizen of Lafayette, named
John Lockstand, fell from third
story window in the hall Of the new
post office building, last week, where
he was attending a concert, sustain
ing injuries which proved fatal.
Miss Frank Whitaker, for many
years a member OF the NJ. e. church
at Goshen, and Mr.. L. NJ Dennis.
travelling salesman for Goshen part
les, eloped last week, went to Niles,
Michigan. where they got married,
and left fo- Kansas.
AtKokomo last week Thomas Ian
non, son OF a policeman, was shot in
the mouth and instantly killed, while
conversing with friends, by man
named Mike Giloory. There was an
old grudge existing on account Of a
former arrest. Giloory is in Jail.
1t turns out that young Pope, who
was reported killed by a tramp at
New Haven, was really accidentally
killed by his brother, who fearing TO
tell, manufactured the story OF the
tramp. A man arrested for the deed
barely escaped lynching by the time
ly confession.
Monday afternoon OF last week at
Monroeville, Allen county, young
lady named Leeds, aged twenty, who
was visiting at her uneles's house, fell
dead in the parlor where she was
star ding with her hand on the door
knob talking to some young friends.
Her health was apparently good and
the cause OF her death is a mystery.
At Fort Wayne, Saturday. Faulien
Dyer, a carpenter, fell from the sec
ond story OF a new brick building on
which he was working to the pave
ment below, a distance OF twenty-five
feet. His body was frightfully bruised
and mangled, and IL is feared that he
received internal injuries which will
prove fatal. f M
DIR. j. w. Younge, who recently
came to Fort Wayne and engaged in
practice, eloped on Monday evening
with Miss Clara Hill, aged eigh-
teen. the youngest daughter OF John
II. Hill. Esq one OF the old and sub
stantial citizens. The parties went
to Van Vert where they were mar
ried. and proceeded east on their
bridal tour.
Last week q son OF Peter Phillips.
living east OF Goshen, was very badly
hurt by being thrown from his horse,
his foot catching in the stirrup and
dragging him some distance over the
rough road. He was found In the
road in an unconscious and bleeding
condition. Both arms were broken
and his head and shoulders frightfully
cut. w
The depredations Of tramps in the
vicinity Of Goshen are becoming
alarming. Tuesday tramp entered
the house OF William Bowser, three
miles west of Milford, and threatened
to sneot Mrs. Bowser IL she gave an
alarm. and then quietly searched the
house from cellar to garnet, carrying
of a valuable watch and other arti-
cles. ..... ff.t 81