Marshall County independent., 1894-12-21
WESTERN.

Eugene Weir. a San Francisco drug
clerk, was killed by burglars.
The Minnesota Federation of Labor re-
solved to ask the Legislature to stamp all
convict m;de goods.
The bodies of the Schultz children who
wandered from their home near Waupun,
Wis, were found in bog.
Bucyrus Ohio. is endeavoring to secure
the Corbctt-FitZsimmOn fight. Business
men are said to be behind the project.
An unsuccessful attempt was made near
Upper Sandusky, O.. to wreck the Penn
sylvania 5 New York and Chicago linn
tied.
Robbers stopped Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy freight train near Marshland.
Neb., under the belief that it was an ex-
press train.
An explosion of gas in the new post
Office building at Danville. H., blew out
all the plate glass windows and otherwise
badly damaged the structure.
Conductor Ccllister and Brakemen Sib-
ley and Brown. of the Northwestern road.
were arrested ut Boone, Iowa. tor rob-
bing freight cars of bonded goods.
john w dtlS ellSdSeu
in q fight during the services in the Meth
odist Church ut Harmony, Ind. Watts
received dangerous knife wound.
Warden Patton of the Indiana prison
south has assured President Cleveland
that reports that Zinck, whom he recent
ly pardoned, is in good health are false.
a Chicago undertaking firm is reported
to have stolen collins they have used dur
ing the last five years out of country
graveyards in Illinois. Indiana. Michigan
and Wisconsin, and, after retitting, resold
them to country firms.
Sheriff George Brooker, of Mason
County, Illinois, died from the effects
of a gunshot wound received while at
tempting the arrest of John Fuller, an in
sane man who had been released from the
asylum ut Jacksonville, pronounced
cured.
Joseph Landes, cashier of the st. Clair
County Bank at Osceola. Mo-, charged
with embezzlement on fourteen counts,
has been sentenced at Warsaw, Mo-.
where the case was taken on Il change of
venue, to two years in the penitentiary
The remaining thirteen counts were dis
missed.
George NJ. Mcdonald, President of the
Guarantee Investment Company, is in
Jail at Chicago. His sentence is eleven
months. Mcdonald was convicted of vio-
lation of the postal laws, in that the
Guarantee Investment was, in effect a
lottery company, and its use of the mails
therefore illegal.
Two hundred men spread out in n
straight line over the whole township of
Trenton in Fond du Lac County, Wiscon-
sin. are sweeping the surface of the earth
inch by inch over prairie, across swamp
and woods, in search of two little chill
dren, aged and years. of Chris Schulz,
who have been missing from home since
last Monday.
In transferring the records in the cleo
ton commissioners office it was discov-
cred several of the packages containing
ballots cast at the Chicago special May
orally election had been tampered with.
So far, it has been impossible to judge
what persons had a motive in doing this.
The special election is now matter of
contest in the courts.
Eugene V. Debs was found guilty of
contempt by Judge Woods in the United
States District Court 9t Chicago Friday
and sentenced to six months imprison-
ment in the Cook County Jail. The other
officers and directors of the American
Railway Union were also found guilty
and their punishment fixed ut three
months confinement in the jail
Henry r. Pomeroy. charity patient
at the Indianapolis Hospital, died Thurs,
day. He was 20 years Old and last winter
both himself and wife we're inmates of
the county poorhouse. Although an OBJ
ject of charity at the time of his death,
! he had been a personal friend and neigh
bor of Lincoln, II compguion of Grant,
and an acquaintance of Arthur. He was
! once part owner of the St Louis Globe
Democrat.
The murder Of w. III. Price and the es-
cape of the murderer In Cleveland. .Oh16
have brought the authorities to tie con