Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-09
WESTERN.

MISS ELLEN STUBBLEFIELD, who
claimed to be 116 years old. died at
Atchison. Kan.
CITIZENS o. Cushing, Ok, have
jailed Joseph and Patsy Beck, identi-
fed as Red Rock ira n robbers.
HOTEL BELvIDERE, family hotel
at lith street and Washington avenue,
st. Louis, was almost entirely destroyed
by fire. l., SIS between So, 900 and 49,
600. All guests escaped.
THE body of Horace Clark, 1-year-
old Peoria boy for whom searching
parties have been looking in the be-
lief that he had been abducted, was
found in the Illinois river
JEALOUSY caused George Kirt of
Chicago to shoot Mrs. Florence
Schultz and then put bullet into his
own brain. He was instantly killed.
but Mrs. Schultz may recover.
DIR. GEORGE w. PHINNEY, husband
of Mrs. Phinney, who is President of
the National Non artisan Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, died at
his residence in Cleveland of heart dis
ease.
WEST J. ROBINSON. prominent in
Atchison. Kas.. has just been found at
Benton Harbor. Mich. He was board
ing there quietly, and kept his where
abouts f ON his relatives Just to satisfy
a within.
A MAIL POUCH supposed to have
contained large amount of money in
registered letters was stolen from the
mail carriers wagon while en- route
from the depot to the postotiice in
Grand Forks, y. ID.
DIR. c. f. SIMMONS. President of the
Simmons Medicine Company and SUI
perintendent Of the Centenary Meth
odist Sunday-school, ST. Louis, Mo.
was convicted of assault to kill John
McRane, clerk in his employ. The
punishment was fixed at three years in
the penitentiary.
THOMAS III. WICKES. Second Vice
President of Pullmans Palace Car
Company, is defendant in bill for
divorce, filel in the Circuit Court at
Chicago by Laura NJ. Wickes. The
/ ground on which the decree is asked
is cruelty. the formal charge only
being made. and no specific acts set
| forth in the bill
! PRESIDENT ANGEL. of the Michi-
gan State University, has been promi-
/ nently mentioned as Professor Swings
succe ssor in the great Peoples Church
at Chicago. lie was asked TO preach
sermon. The President. however, will
/ remain i'm Ann ArbOr. He has declined
to pre- CHI even once. This is not my
vocation" said he. AM. a. for the
rumOr that | am II take his place for
good. il is utterly unfOundcd. and |
would not do so under any circum-
stances.
a TELEGRAM from Paulding. Ohio,
reports the murder of IL boy, aged :,
and his sister, aged >, the children of
Samuel Good, prosperous farmer
children started to school, but not re-
turning at dark searching parties went
out. At daylight the little bodies were
found in a brush heap. The boys
throat was cut. the girl was decapitated
and diSemboweled, the weapon being
an AK. An attempt had been made to
burn the brush heap, but it was too
wet.
THE tears of pretty Maudc Cullen
were the cause of strike of 250 girls
employed as packers in the Detroit
pearl button factory Friday afternoon.
The factory has been having trouble
with its employees, about 100 Of its men
now being out on strike. An effort to
get the girls 20 strike failed until the
foreman ordered Maude to pack some
buttons that had been finishef by non
union hands. She re used, whe eupOn
he ordered her to quit We TX altOgeth-
err. She dOnncd her wraps and then
sat down at her place and had good
cry. Over go girl workers imme-
diately surrounded her, and after a
brief Indignation meeting walked ont
OF the factory. Another 200 girls
joined them in the morning The
primary cause of the trouble is the
discharge of foreman whom all the
employees liked.
EARLY Friday morning fire broke
out in Hammond's big packing plant
at South Omaha, and by 8 o'clock had
gained such Roadway that it seemed
nothing short o. miracle could keep
the flames from sweeping ali the build
ings away. and it was also feared the
tire would reach the immense Cudahy