Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-30
Minor State Items.

VII pOhANN AOt1A i AHNA
BARNEY HOAR, track Waterman, was
struck by train at Centerville and
killed.
MICHIGAN CITY papers are urging
that ladies remove their hats in the
theater.
PAOII is congratulating herself on
the successful completion of system
of water works.
ARTHUR JONES was thrown from
passenger train near Morristown. and
seriously in ured.
THOMAS CHRISTIANS 6-year-old
child, while playing a out a bonfire
near Marion, was fatally burned.
SIMEON BAKER. old farmer near
Boonville, was accidentally shot and
killed by his son-in-law while hunting.
WILLIAM FOUTZ. a Montgomery
County farmer received fatal injuries
in runaway and died twelve hours
later.
THREE shots were fired at Editor L.
S. Boots. of the Greenfield Herald,
while he was in his Office. The bullets
flew wide.
WoODFIELD MOODY, aged 10, while
working in an elevator at Fishers Sta
ton. was caught IN the machinery and
fatally injured.
n PASSENGER train was fred on near
Columbus. The bullets crashed
through window and came near
striking Andy" Beck.
PETER HEsH. aged 80, living three
miles east of Goshen. died OF rabies re-
sulting from the bite O. mad dog in
fiicted eiphteen years 400
AT Clymers, the Swear old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaiah Reed, was
fatally burned. her clothing taking fire
from a match with which she was
playing.
MELVIN MORGEN of Hebron, aged
years. had his right arm taken off by
a Cornhusklng machine which he was
operating. Two years ago he lost his
left arm in the same manner
THOMAS SAMSEL, an old-time switch
man employed by the Nandalia, was
run over and instantly killed at Terre
Haute. He leaves awife. His parents
live at Logansport. He was a member
of the Brother hood of Trainmen.
LAST April Wabash man wrote on
an egg requesting the consumer to
notify him when and where the egg
was cracked. He has just received a
note from a Hartford, Conn.,, woman,
dated Nov. ), ana stating she had that
day purchased the egg at grocery.
THE New York Bowery Insurance
Company. OF New York, has been for
hidden 10 do business by the Auditor
of State. Ii is announced that this
company had Withdrawn from the
State and afterward solicited insurance.
The policies were to be written in New
York and thus avoid taxes in Indiana.
PHILIP MARKEY. a young man who
came to Brazil few days ago from St.
Louis, was instantly killed in the yards
of the Chicago and Indiana Coal road.
He was walking in front of a switch
engine which he did not observe. A
friend warned him of his danger, and
in attempting to escape he fell and was
cut in two. He Is a single man.
PATENTS have been granted to the
following Indiana citi ems: Lewis T.
Ambrose, Center Point. carpet fast
ener: Albert L. Bemis, Indianapolis,
brick dryer car: John Brown, WalcOtt,
frame for hay stacks; Pinkney Davis,
Frankfort. butchering apparatus: John
Mccullough, Charlottesville, straw
stacker: Clement Neidim, Bourbon,
folding umbrella; l.. r. Reeves, Co
lumbus, windlass: James Wood, Fort
Wayne, armature core.
"JACK the Splitter" is being watched
for by the Muncie police. For ten DAYS
past women have complained that some
vagrant along the streets delights in
squirt ng tobacco Juice on their dresses
He has been seen standing in dark
alleys. hut disappears and cannot be
caught. The other evening the
knights of Pythias ball and reception
kept him busy. rs a result of his ac-
tons some of the women were COM
PEELED to retire from the ballroom and
changed their elegant silk gowns.
THE special convocation of the Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite Masons of the
Valley OF Fort Wayne was made mem
orable 10y the presentation to Thrice
Potent Grand Master William Geake
of a gold watch, chain and a charm
and thirty -third-degree coat jewel.
II. c. Hanna, 5 eaking Tor the men,
bers of tort Wayne Lodge of Perfec-
tion, placed to his creJIt the organiza-
ton and building up of the Scottish
Rite in Northern Indiana, which has
proved such a success. and compli-
mented him on his zeal for Masonic
work in all degrees.
A TELEGRAM from r. 7. Mcdonald
at New York. states that he has Just
secured absolute control of the Fort
WAYNE Electric Light Works, has sew
cred his connection with the Central
Electric Company, and VII devote his
energies hereafter to the building up
in Fort Wayne of great institution
for the manu- acture of machinery and
appliances whose atterns and patents
are owned 10y the local concern. This
is good news to hundreds of employees
of the establishment at Fort WAYNE as
well as to the people generally, for it
means the end OF litigation and the be-
ginning of IA new era of prosperity in
an institution that has been hampered
in its progress 10y manipulation of the
managers of the Eastern Company,
whose interests have never been in the
line of advancing he local company.
FREDERlCK II )USF. in cutting down
a tree on the farm of James Thompson,
near Craw 'ordsville. was struck on the
head by limb and instantly killed.
He was married, and leaves several
g. hi l1ran