Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
Minor state Items.

Minor State Items.
WORK has been begun on Washing.
tons new electric street railway sys-
TEN.
Mrs. w. S. SMITH, aged -, one OF
Flkhart's oldest pioneers, was found
dead in chair. Heart disease.
THOMAS HUFFMAN. near Hunting
ton, was fatally injured in runaway
accident He is wealthy farmer.
A HEAVY iron cross beam on a new
bridge at Marion fell on Emanuel
Duke, workman, and crushed both
legs.
CHARLES PACKwOOD, aged p, was
killed near POrden, by MonOn train.
He was intoxicated and fell asleep on
the track.
AN emery wheel in the Iron1ale
steel works. Anderson broke. enc of
the pieces struck Ed Kline on the
head infi ting fatal in uries.
THIEVES at Wakarusa sto'e two
horses, surrey and got away with
over So worth oftlothing rom the
branch store of II. Dembuf ky 81 Co.
JACOB KLINGLER. a driver in the
Briar Hill mine, Clay City, was caught
between bank car and post ana
crushed to death. He was unmarried.
JOHN Fl. JONES. "a -four and feed
merchant OF Indianap lis, died of in
iuries received some months ago, when
he was sandbagged and robbed by foot
pads.
/ LVWIS LORENZEN, who had q leg
crushed VIII lie at work in the Ameri-
can tin plate factory. ElwOod. has
/ brought $4,000 damage suit against
the company.
ROBERT VANCE, aged IS, while
/ hunting near Darlington. fell down an
embankment, causing his gun to be
discharged The load went through
/ his Il light arm.
BILLIARD TABLES form most of the
! equipment of South Bend s fashionable
/ homes, and the game is growing in
/ popularity. There are several fine
lady billiardists in that city.
! A YOUNG man in the southern part
of the State nut a package of powder
and some matches in the same pocket
and started on a hunting trip. The
/ funeral was largely attended.
IN wi ked Fort Wavne. Miss Blanch
Hart, after posing for severa living
pictures in the nude, bias sworn out an
displaying the picture in his gallery.
TGRRE HAUTE business men are
unanimously in favor of adopting a new
city charter. One of the strongest rea-
sons urged for the change Is the up
roofing of the metropolitan police law.
WHILE Peter SOmers. a brakeman
on the Fort Wayne. Cincinnati & Louis
vile Railroad was coupling cars at
! Montpelier he was killed. His home
was at Fort Wayne. He was married.
JOHN SAMMONE, a laborer, employed
in the packing house at Hammond, has
received notice that by the death of
relative in Australia he was one of four
heirs to an estate valued at S3,000,000.
GEORGE STULTZ, who killed Frank
! Bailey. miner, at a settlement in
| Vigo County the night before the cleo
ton, has been acquitted, on the ground
that he did the shooting in self
! Tense.
CHICAGO and Greenwood capitalists
are trying to secure the right of way
! In johnson County to construct an
electric railway from Franklin to In
/ dianapolis, with an extension to Green
wood.
JAMES SMITH, aged %, was instantly
/ killed while hauling sawlogs, three
miles northwest of Laporte. The log
rolled from the wagon, striking him in
| the aldo zen and completely crushing
! his body. He leaves young wife and
/ infant child
JESSE, son of Steven Conn, residing
north Of Muncie, was killed in Grant
| County. near Marion, while loading a
! log on wagon. 1t was being pulled
upon the wagon W hen it rolled back on
/ the Young man, killing him instantly.
! He was 20 years old. and had been
married but short time.
MRS. THOMAS WILLIAMS, wife of a
farmer wing near Monroe City, was
! burned to death. Mr.. Williams was
at work in the field, and when he went
! hol G to.dinner he found that his wife
hal prepare he monday meal and
had fallen into the fire and was burned
to death. Her body was a crisp.
LIEUTENANT DEGREES, of the Gov
ernors staff, is preparing a report of
! the Indiana militia for the last year.
The report is to be submitte to AID ut
ant-General Ruggles, OF the United
! States Army. and will contain a com
plete history OF the militias summer
campaign in Sullivan and Daviess
/ Counties and at Harmon.
! GOVERNOR MATTHEW'S is giving much
thought to the threatened outbreak or
/ lawlessness at Roby. He said that he
had again received a letter from one
of its prominent members assuring
him that the place would be run on an
eminently respectable basis, and that
the stock used in the races would be
of sportsmanlike quality. The racing
he was assured, would be fair ana
square. Governor Matthews replied
in corching vein. rebuking the cor
respondent for presuming to try to
make him believe such misrepresen-
tation. He said that the racing would
! be orGel and brutal on the horses, aud
would be nothing more than an at
traction during the winter of the
gamblers, thieves, thugs, and prost;-
tutes of Chicago. disgracing the local
| ity as well as all concerned in it. He
plainly tod the Roby hacker that he
would su press the place if possible to
do SO within the law, and he thought
it was possible.
WHILE three men were WORKING In a