Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-05-10
Minor State News.

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WM. WALKER. Jacksonville, has been
acquitted of killing Eugene Iogue.
HOMER THOMAS was thrown from a
horse at ElwOod, and fatally injured.
SURVEY for the new electric road be-
tween ElwOOd and Anderson has begun.
Mrs. ELIZABETH PYIEs, Is, was kicked
to death by fractions horse at Columbus.
EARLHAM college museum has received
tremendous alligator from Florida
friend.
HENRY county fair association has de-
cided to build half mile track at New
Castle.
FRED YEAroN. of Indianapolis, was
seriously injured in runaway accident at
Columbus.
THE barn and four horses of Reuben
Pierce Of Sullivan burned. Loss, $3.50;
TO insurance. II
IMMENSE flow of water was struck 10
feet down, at Danville. VIII be used for
water works.
BoDY of an unknown man about % years
of age, was found hanging to tree near
FarmerSburg.
were destroyed by fire recently, for the
second time since construction. Loss 500
300.
WABASH road has paid Mrs. George
Jones, Wabash. $500 for the killing of
her husband by Geo. GOuld's special train,
last October.
HOMER THOMAS. Is years old, while
horseback riding two miles east of Alex
andria. was thrown from his horse and
fatally injured.
A PIECE of watch case has been
ploughed up in LapOrte county 40 rods
from the spot where man named Fletcher
was blown up by dynamite eight years
ago.
Mrs. BxNTA's three children played
with kerosine at Washington, and one of
them struck match. The house was
destroyed and one of the children fatally
burned.
JAMES HARDING. farmer near Nashville,
Brown County. was found dead with both
feet and one hand burned off. Supposed
he was overcome by heat while fighting
forest fires.
THE reunion of the Sixty ninth Regiment
will be held in Richmond the last week IN
September or the first week i'm October.
There are now probably 30 survivors of
this regiment. and nearly all of them are
expected TO be present.
NEAR Ekin, Upton County. wOrkmen
who were boring for gas were ast0niShed To
see the drill sink while in hard rock 500 feet
below the surface. 1t was removed and
constant stream of water fifty feet high
burst loose with a roar that could be heard
a mile.
JAMES ii. CHANDLER. running res
taurant at indianapolis, was appealed
to by a chambermaid for protection against
three drunken fellows. Chandler under
took to demonstrate with his customers,
and was hurled down steep flight OF steps,
fatally iracturing his skull.
JOHN SHUTTRTNPF, a CaSS County shoe
rai1er. incurred his first wife as missing,
eighteen years ago. Eight years ago he
married again and, the other day, his first
wife made her appearance. Shuttrunpf
E.lStled around and GOT divorce after
eight years of illegal welded bliss.
EZRA SBARLEs. of Muncie, has mort
gagged his property for $500 and gone 10
New York to try and get his son, Arthur
SearleS, out OF prison by making good the
money the young man received by
fraudulently representing himself to be an
agent of an indianapolis newspaper.
AN enraged turkey gobbler tore the nose
and part of the upper lip OF and destroyed
an eve of small child belonging TO George
r. Cutter of English. The babe was IN
the yard dressed in n red gown. which
enraged the bird. DrS. Brent and Halle
wood hope 10 restore the nose and lip by
stitching, but the eye is torn from the
socket.
VETEEIN ARIANs are advised of the APP
pearance of new and peculiar insect
which is alarming horsemen in the eastern
part of Indiana. In appearance il Is said
TO resemble a mosquito, though about
three times as large. IL attacks the horses
DUNG the warm part of the day. singing
them on the inner membrane OF the ears.
The membrane becomes very sore, and in
NEST instances the horses are untitled for
work for several days. No one has been
able to name the pest thus far.
JOSEPHINE Mccoy, the young daughter
of J. b. Mccoy. of North New Jersey street,
Indianapolis, was burned to death in a ceiler.
Her clothes caught fire from a natural gas
furnace. In attempting TO save her the
mother was badly burned.
THE other night Mrs. Savanna Dugan,
who deserted her husband i'm Ohio five
years ago, died in Fort Wayne. She was
alone with William Newman, her lover, at
the time. The coroner's inquest developed
the fact that the woman's neck was broken,
and while the funeral was i'm progress
Newman was placed under arrest on
suspicion of being the cause of her death.
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