Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-14
Minor State ItemS.

JACOB SCnLENKER hung himself in his
barn at BTOOkVille.
COLUMBIA rifles, Anderson 5 militia COM
pany, wilLreorganize.
The corner stone of the new Court House
at Winamac has been laid.
TIE Johnson County school teachers are
talking OF professional library.
WHEAT Swindlers are getting in their
work on farmers near Newport.
MHLERSBURG people rejoice that cigar
cites cannot he purchased there.
GENTRY GILES. -. was accidentally shot
and killed at Roekport, by his son.
CAMPBEi.LsBUIG has increased the liq-
uor license from 500 TO $50 per year.
THERE are 10000 pensioners in Clark
County and they receive annually about
$4,000.
THE big antitrust distillery at Terre
Haute has been sold to New York
syndicate.
The town of Bremen is wild over the
finding of gold nugget the size Of a pea in
sand bank near thai place.
\ PASSENGER train ran into a runaway
team near Columbus, killing both horses
and demolishing the wagon.
y NEW oolitic stone company has been
capitalized at Bloomington for 81, 00O.0O0
The new company has already secured OPP
tions on two large Guarries.
SOUTH BEND fair stockholders have
elected new directors. The present debt
will be paid and fair Will be held next
year.
WABASH merchants are working against
the establishment of free mail delivery,
claiming that it will depopulate the streets
and ruin business.
AT South Bend, recently, small boy
fell in front Of Lake Shore engine. Tie
locomotive passed over him, but he was SO
thin ''it never touched him.
TIE 2-year-old son of John Williams of
Azalia, upset a cup of hot grease upon It's
body, burning himself SO severely as to
cause his death soon afterward.
MACInNISTs working in the Princeton
Jail left some tools inside the Jail. Ed
Thompson and VIM. Mckinney, prisoners,
took the tools and made their escape.
y FORT WAYNE woman. on leaving her
home for a shopping tour, hid her jewelry
and pocketbook containing $50 in the rag
bag. She forgot all about the valuables
when she sold the bag TO a rag dealer the
next day for few cents.
WILLIAM NANZAST and Firman Apple
gate were hunting near Fortville when APP
plegate'S gun was accdently discharged,
the contents striking Van Zant under the
right eye, killing him instantly. Van Zant
was 20 and Applegate Is years old.
W. W. SEALING, guard of the State
Prison South, was attacked by William
Flower. Il lifetime convict, and struck over
the head with an iron bar, inficting a seri-
Gus wound. The cut is several inches long.
The guard was taking an obstinate prison.
er by the name of Ra1Iert before the warden
for some misdemeanOr. when Flower who
is cellmate of Raffert'S, made the assault.
Flower is a United States prisoner.
AN outrage was recently perpetrated in
Washington Township, in the southern
part of Shelby County. \ few evenings
ago, while preparing to retire, Rev. Samuel
Hawkins noticed strange light shining
from the windows of the church next door
TO his house. On entering the building lie
was almost suifocated with the smell of
coal oil and smoke. He hurried to the
stove and found the handsome pulpit Bible
and the song books of the church saturated
with oil and slowly burning.
REV. j. :. NELSON. a prominent Luth-
eran. and pastor of Fort Wayne charge,
was given church trial at North Man
chester, on the charge of heresy. Rev.
Nelson recently wrote book entitled,
Baptism Forever Settled, or the Water
Line Obiterated." in which he ierides the
necessity of water baptism in any form.
The case was tried before sixteen ministers,
all of whom voted to deprive him of all
ministerial functions pending final de-
CiSion by the synod, which viii meet next
September.
I hog
aid in the determination of the destructive
grounding or woodchuck by paying
bounty for every scalp brought to the
County Auditor. Thousands or dollars
were annually paid out in this manner.
This county, bordering on Michigan, per-
sons in that State have taken advantage of
this bounty and shipped in hundreds of the
scalpS and received the reward on presenta-
ton. The County Commissioners learned
of the fraud and at once withdrew the
bounty entirely.
\ FEW weeks ago il was reported that
quantity of ccal had been unearthed near
williamsburg. Wayne County, on the farm
of James Cranor, and the subject is now re-
cciVing further attention. The coal has
been found To be cOmbustihle, and num-
her of competent experts pronounced L the
genuine b;UminouS variety. Mr.. Cr2nor
has made sufficient research TO satisfy him
that there is a large quantity of coal be-
meath his farm. and he announces his in
tentiOn of pushing the matter still further.
Iron and silver ore are also said TO have
been found near there.
PATENTS have been granted residents of
Indiana as follows: Joshua \. IIadley,
assignor of one-half to T. c. Smith, Brazil.
stove pipe fastener; John +. Hamburger,
Lawrenceburg, device fer steaming coffee,
tea, &C.; Edward Heating, Terre Haute,
span or arch; Edward Heating. Terre
IIaute, girder for truss bridges: Edward X.
Kirby, Terre llaute, car coupling: William
NJ. Six, WeStfield, train time indicators;
Alfred Weed, assgnor to Arcade file works,
Anderson, machine for stripping file blank;
William y. Whitley, assignor to L. \.
Kits, Muncie, hay tedder.
Mr.. JOIN llIMLER of Seymour, acct
centally shot his S-year-old daughter Rosa
with flobert gun. Mr. Himler was shoot
ing at English sparrows, and fired toward
the grape arbor, in which his daughter was
at play. The ball was cut out of the calf of