Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-09-19
NeighbOring Notes.

Chicken thieves harass LaPorteans.
A "chess congress" has been organized
at Peru
The Starke county court house has at
new bell.
Wabash has sent $500 to the yellow fe-
yer sufferers.
LaPorte has $50 pupils attending her
high school.
Kosciuskos circuit court will convene
Monday, the %.
The South BEND BIZ Poster is no more.
Happy radiance.
The Fort Wayne Medical college will
open October 1st
The new M. S. and NJ. e. depot at South
Bend will cost $4,000
The rebuilding Of the "burnt district"
of Pierceton has commenced.
Mishawaka did not have an interment
during the month of August.
The salaries of the city officers of Wa
bash amount to s1.4OO per year.
There will be meeting of the old set
tiers of Starke county. at Knox, Oct 2.
The city tax of Wabash for next year
will amount to seventy five cents on the
$780, i.
Peaches are more plentiful this year in
DeKalb county than in any year since
1854.
During the year ending August 31st,
1878, Fort Wayne reduced her city debt
| $4,0l1.93.
The police are having lively times in
out of Kokomo
The Studebaker wagon, of South Bend,
received the highest award at the Paris
Exposition-a silver medal.
Warsaw has overdrawn her city school
'uud $2.27 and had out 1924 hand h.
.pnmcnce the fall term OF school
| Rev Phillip Flelschman, past " of the
herman Lutheran church at KendaIlville,
died in that city Tuesday, the 10Th inst
| An Indian tpnlis fishing part, recently
.aushi five or six hundred pounds 81
ass and pickerel IN The iakes ear Anso-
| Ia
Hon stewart l. Woodf,rd. of New
| \ .rk. one of ihe allc~l men in the En-,
pire stale, "ill speak la LsPort, on the
24th.
The officers Of the c w. & NJ Rail
way are TO be removed from Wabash to
Elkbart sometime during the present
month.
The Crown Point Register SAYS over
8. 200 people were in attendance at the
laying Of the corner stone of the Lake
County Court House list week.
The South Bend and LaPorte papers
are engaged just now in explaining how
their respective fire companies were
cheated" out of the prize at the late tour
nament in Chicago.
OF the eleven that graduated from the
high school, last commencement, one is
studying medicine. two go to college, two
are teaching In the country, and four are
teaching IN the city.-LaPorte Argus.
Jerry Sullivan, an inmate of the Lo-
gansport poor house, while in a state OF
delirum caused by fever, threw himself
from an upper window to the ground
Wednesday night, rupturing blood ves-
sci and injuring him so that he died in a
short time. His attendant was worn out
by long watching and had just fallen
asleep when his charge made the fatal
leap.
Thrashers who have gone over the
same territory in this county that they
passed over last year say the wheat crop
ten thousand bushels short up to the
esent time.-LdPorte Chronicle.
Lon. N. Baker, a clerk in the employ
INA Mr.. Washburn. at Columbia City, hal
been detected in embezzling funds be-
longing to his employer. From 81 500
to $4,000 were taken at various times.
Wm. Beers, a farmer of Mishawaka
aged about seventy. endeavored to pull ,
ramrod from loaded rifle, when thu
piece was discharged, blowing the roo
through him, killing him in an hour.
The red-eyed law gobblsd Allen Goble
of Lafayette, while he was enjoying hi
honeymoon with his second wife. undo
the impression that his first had obtained
divorce from him. No. I inspired thu
, suit and then got her divorce pending tn
, trial, and Allen was sent TO Jail for thre
months His brevet bride was made nj
: lawful wife at the bastile door.
Richard Traster, aged about sixteeI
> years, who lives with his father SOM
three miles west of Syracuse. had hi
right arm terri bly, broken and torn, las
, week, while attempting to put belt on
wheel at the engine of thrashing ma
chine The steam had been shut of, bu
the wheel was in motion, and in putting
, the belt on, his arm slipped into the whee
and was twisted around the shaft. Badl.
as II Is broken, the doctors have hopes O
saving the arm yet Wdrsap Republican