Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-28

pioye-y Tor having driven him to suicide
. by q mercileSs system of questioning
Wisconsin's Supreme Court has issued
writ requiring Judge Wallber. of Mil
waukee, To sentence John Sheldon or
show cause why he does not do so.
Ex-Congressman Jere HARRISON, found
guilty of forgery and perjury at Little
Rock, Ark, was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment or to pay fine of $1,000.
| Fifty members of Terrence Post. G.. A.
r., of KeOkUk. Iowa, have seeded and
formed Il veterans league TO which Cath
clics and colored men will not be adj
mt1ed.
The Fraker insurance case at Kansas
| City has been decided in favor of the heirs
who will receive $44,6j5 from the five
companies which issued policies on the
doctors lfe.
An Indiana farmer foiled train rob
bers who had placed Instructions on the
| Baltimore and Ohio tracks by setting fire
to his shirt and using it as Il torch to stop
| an express
Inquiry into the cause of the recent
| tunnel accident in Chicago disclosed the
| fact that the grip was out of order and
| that the conductors had disobeycd orders
| in leaving the brake.
Jonathan Crumbacker aged Ga. a we'll
! TODD farmer who lived near Bristol. Ind.
was murdered 10y unknown highwaymen
on the public road half mile from his
| residence and robbed of $50 and a silver
| watch.
AZ Marshalltown, Iowa. the dry-housc
of the Firminich glucose plant was
| burned with its contents. Adjoining
buildings were badly damaged. The loss
will probably reach 100000; insurance
| about $4,000.
n young man claiming to be Il Russian
and resident of New York, entered the
private Office of g. W. Davis, President
of the Second National Band of Toledo
Ohio. demanded money, which was re-
fused him, and threatened to blow up
the institution. The bomb he dis
played was found to be an orange
wrapped in paper.
Mrs. A. L Jordan, Chicago widow, is
in Minneapolis to see if she can discover
any remnant of a fortune of 100000
which she invested in Minneapolis
through the agency of Louis <. Menage
and George Morse. both of whom are
row fugitiyes in Guatemala. The mort
cages in which Mrs. Jordan is interested
are now being forecloscd, and her attor-
neys~believe the property will not sell now
for more than the taxes amount to.
The st. Paul and Kansas City limited
had hardly left the Sioux City Union
station Friday morning when four men
entered the first day coach. They called
out. Every one keep still, we are just
looking for package" and separating
two men started down one side of the
coach and two on the other. They COM
PEELED man named Harvey IversOn to
stand up and went through him. getting
so in cash and some other property. lie
made a fight and this brought in Sheriff
Davenport, who was in another car. He
drew his revolver and started after the
men, when they jumped off in the dark
ness and escaped in the yards. A Mil
waukee train was next entered and the
men started through the coaches in the
same way. They got clear through one
coach before the train got into the heart
of the city and took small amounts from
every one of the twentyfour passengers
on the train. They then jumped off and
escaped. They were no masks and still
the passengers are unable TO give good de-
scrptions of them and the officers have
little to work on.
The Iowa Supreme Court Thursday
rendered final decision ending the fam
GUS Jones County calf case The plain
tiff was Robert Johnson. who had been
charged with stealing 81 calf The case
was an action for malicious prosecution
begun in Jones County, Iowa. on May %,
1873, against T.. V. Miller, David Fall,
George W. Miller, Abe Miller, John Fore
man, $. ID. Porter and Herman Kellar.
The sixth trial of this case was had in
the District Court of Black Hawk Coun-
ty and resulted in verdict in favor of
the plaintiff and against all of the de-
PENDANTS, except Kellar. The other de-
PENDANTS filed a motion for arrest of
judgment against plaintiff on the ground
that the special findings were in conflict
with the general verdict Both motions
were overruled. The case was heard in
several relations, such rs appOrti rnment
of costs. The present appeal is upon eX
ceptance to the Judgment against the six
defendants other than Kellar for the full
amount of the costs in said action, being
S2.SS6.S4. and the verdict of the District
Court was affirmed.
The Auditor of Illinois may receive an
acquisition to his Deposit Fund" of
many hundred thousands of dollars, and
an advantage long enjoyed by trust COM
panies created under the laws of other
States over Illinois and Chicago trust
companies may disappear, in consequence
of points raised in the complicated North
ern Pacific railroad lawsuits. Attorney
Cromwell for the Northern Pacific Com
pany made the surprising claim that the
mortgage for $40.000,O00 was void. be-
cause the Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany, trustee of the mortgage, had in
validated its own act by neglecting to
comply with the law of Illinois. This law
says in Sec s: 1T shall not be lawful
for any such company to accept any trust
or deposit rs hereinbefore provided, after
the passage of this act, without first pro-
curing from the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts certificate of authority stating
that such company has complied with the
requirements of this act, in respect 10
such deposit See. q of the act stipu- |
lates that the deposit shall be 100000. |
Mr.. Cromweii's statement meant that the |
Farmers Loan and Trust Company had
not deposit the 100000 required by
the act. In financial circles it is said a
good many foreign trust companies, act