Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
EASTERN.

| II Is TumOIeu at NEW 1OTk tHdl II. II.
Kohlsaat, of Chicago, has bought the
New York Times.
General Francis Peabody, Jr., has been
nominated for Mayor of Boston by the
Democratic city convention.
b. III. Douglass & Sons, confectioners,
New Haven, Conn.,, asked for a receiy-
er. Assets, $150,000; liabilities, $780,
600.
Martin V. Strait, of Elmira, N. Y,
shot his wife to death, shot his sister-in-
law, and fired three bulle 6s into him.
self.
The officers of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company announce that on and
after Dec / there will be reduction of
10 per cent. in salaries over 81 900 per an
mum.
Edwin Booths memorial portrait was
formally presented to the city of Balti-
more. Critics pronounce the design and
execution perfect in every detail. 1t de-
I lineates Mr.. Booth in his great imper-
I sonation of the character of Hamlet.
! Frank c.. Ives, the young Napoleon
of Billiards." demonstrated his right to
the title of champion billiardist of the
world Saturday night, at New York, by
defeating Jacob Schaefer, the Wizard
by the score of 5000 to 3,074 points.
Ives has been challenged by Eduard
Fournil, the French expert, to play for
$500 side.
Mary Leilson, % years old, of Phil
adelphia, while dining at Norwich, Conn,
in response to toast, laughingly drank 4
glass of carbOlic acid with suicidal in
tent and died soon afterward. Not one
of the party suspected that the liquid
was poison until its fatal effects were
seen. Grief at the death of her hus-
band led to the act.
The brilliant life of Dr. James Nc
Gosh, the venerable ex-President Of
Princeton University, came to it's close
Friday night at Princeton, n. j., as
peacefully as the sun sets at evening.
his recent illness, increasing weakness
being the only indication of approaching
death. He was conscious until death.
While the inhabitants of the village of
Rundown, Pa, slept Tuesday night an
organized gang of robbers swept down
upon them and stole horses, hogs, sheep,
and fowls. The army of thieves slaugh-
tered the hogs, sheep, chickens, ETC., be-
fore carrying them away. The raid was
made at a given signal. 1t is believed
the robbers carried their booty to caves
in the mountains.
Harry Morton Buckingham, q member
of the take Light" Company, died at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Balti-
more, Md, from burns received in the
theater. Mr.. Buckingham was in his
dressingroOm getting ready for his part
when his clothes caught fire from n stove,
and he was fatally injured before his
burning clothing could be torn from him.
He was formerly known as Harry Nor
timer.
The arrest in Boston of III. II. Holmes,
of Chicago, is, the police claim, the pre-
liminary move in the expose of the big
gest insurance swindling scheme ever
cOncocted in this country. The police
say the prisoner was the ringleader, and
that murder was committed in order to
secure $4,000 life insurance. The pris-
oner has confessed everything but the
murder. He admits that there was
conspiracy to defraud the Fidelity Mu-
tual Life Insurance Association of Phila-
delphia, but asserts that his partner, on
whose alleged death the money was paid,
is still alive. The latter's name is Benja-
min +. Pitezell.
Robert G. Winthrop died Friday night
at Boston at the age of "a years. Mr..
Winthrop was the oldest surviving eX-
United States Senator of Massachusetts,,
he having served in 1S5O-'51. Mr.. Win
throp was also one of the oldest graduates
of the Boston Latin School and of Har-
ward College. He was the oldest surviv-
Inc e Al TT e
Representatives, having been elected to
the Thirteenth Congress. He served on
the floor only three years when he was
elected to the Speakership. He also en-
jOyed the distinction of having personally
known every President of the United
States with the exception of Washington
and Jefferson. Mr.. Winthrop was the
chosen counselor of George Peabody in a
number of his benefactions and has been,
ever since 1867, at the head of the Pea
body educational fund.
The situation among the striking New
York clOakmakers is desperate They
started out with strong faith in the out
come. This confidence was justified en-
pirically by the supineness of the manu-
facturers in the past. But the firms,
which had suffered with many difficult
ties all the year, finally determined by
cooperation to make the fight In a
short time the strikers had nothing but
hope, based on the chances of an order
for a general garmentmakers' strike
When this failed and the firms still held
out, the wOrkingmen were reduced to
charity, and that is their sole reliance
now. Affiliated unions have sent them
some aid, united labor generally will
raise something for them at mass-meet-
ings soon, and business men, saloon
keepers, and others are supplying some
food and promises of clothing. Such ac-
ton will not help long, and as the strikers
are disposed to hold out, it is probable
that 5000 or 10000 able-b0died men and
women, with 4 skill for which there is
no market now, will be thrown on the
charity of the community before the win
ter is over.