Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-07
WESTERN.

money in sight, SLIGO.
Myron Il. Kent has been convicted of
the murder of his wife near Mandan. S.
D., and sentenced to dea<h.
The fire in Fowler Bros packing
house. at Kansas City, was eXtinguished
after causing a loss of 100000.
Brady, convict in Missouri State Prison
at Jefferson City, beat Rosemeyer fellow
convict, to death with bucket.
new cylinder for the torpedo boat
Ericsson is under construction at the
Iowa Iron Works, Dubuque, Iowa.
Flames starting in barn threatened
to destroy the town of Audubon, Iowa,
but were finally got under control.
The Eastern Illinois Nashville limited
ran into q coal train at Beecher. The
passengers escaped with shakineup.
Fire at Murdoch, Mimi, destroyed
three general stores. the postoffice. bank,
hardware store and the Review office.
j. NJ. RAPPORT, who says he has walked
across the continent from New York on a
bet of $1,000, has arrived ut San Fran
cisco.
Il. c.. Flower, eX-preacher and Chris
tian scientist, is in Jail in Chicago on
charge of obtaining $4,000 by false pre-
lenses
Alix, Directly. Robert j.. John II. Gen
try and other trotting and pacing stars
have gone to California to take part in
winter meeting.
=. Z. HOLSTER has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Lyle Safe and Lock Com
pany, Cincinnati. Assets, $4,000; liza
bilities, S51 900.
The Rev. John Denny, a Springfield
(NlO) preacher, pleaded guilty to horse
stealing and was sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary.
While Mr.. and Mrs. August Miller
were doing chores on their farm near
Gettysburg. 5. d., their house burned,
crematins their three young children.
John Millgan. the murderer under SEN
tence to be hanged Jan. IL at Oklahoma,
Ok, for the murder of Gabe Clark, his
wife and child, and who escaped from
Jail, has been recaptured.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Mrs. Phalinda
Loving, an aged colored woman, lay
down on her bed and went to sleep with
her lighted pipe in her mouth. The pipe
set the clothes afire and the old lady was
burned to death.
Twenty-Five thousand bicycles were
destroyed at the burning of the Lozer
Manufacturing Company at Toledo, .,
The total loss was 100000, insurance
$3.50 600. Five hundred employees were
thrown out of work.
n Maple Leaf passenger train was
thrown down a twenty-foot embankment
l.x-f ha hra L of vi iatt
Creek, Mo. The conductor and brake
man were injured. but the passengers es-
capped with slight bruises
T. G. Kennedy, John Buckley, Bert
Heath, Joseph Collins, William Kidd,
and others were taken to Grand Forks,
n. d.. by United States Marshals, having
been indicted for par. .cipating in driving
Deputy Marshals out of town last July.
At Boise City, Idaho, in a hole being
bored to explode for placer gold below the
false bedrock the drill has struck gold
ledge. The rock assays three ounces of
gold and twenty eight ounces of silver per
ton. The discovery was made ut depth
of 40 feet.
Charles Geska, who has been held Mt
Elyria, o., for two weeks charged with
the murder and cremation of William
Gletzer near Copopa, Nov. H. has made
n confession which proves that the MUIR
der was one of the most atrOcious in the
annals of crime
Heavy rains for the past week brought
barge rise" in the Ohio, and between
5000. 900 and 100000 bushels of coal
started from Pittsburg for southern ports.
There are 13.00O,000 bushels in the har-
Dor, and should the rise reach boating"
stage the entire fleet of coal boats will go
down the river with all the coal they can
manage.
Five miles cast of Muncie, Ind, Eaton
LOriaux, of Hartford City, was found in
the woods with hole through his heart.
Twenty feet away lay his gun. Near by
sat his dog. The dog would not permit
the searchers to come near, they shot
him. Loriaux was Belgian window
glass blower. who formerly worked in
Muncie.
Il. st. John, who for number of years
has held the position of general manager
of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad, with headquarters in Chicago,
was elected vice-president of the Sea-
board Air Line, with general Offices in
Baltimore, which position he has accept
ed His resignation as an officer of the
Rock Island Road has been forwarded to
President X. II. Cable, and special
meeting of the directors will probably be
held soon to take action upon its accept
ance.
University of Michigan defeated the
University of Chicago at football by a
score of TO 4, at Chicago. The Chicago
Athletic Association eleven defeated
Dartmouth College team by score of