Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-09-20
Minor State News.

operations and SEQ men are employed.
The business men Of Logamsport are
protesting against the erection of telephone.
poles in the streets.
The ThirtysiXth Indiana REGIMENT viii
hold IFS annual reunion at Cambridge city
on Sept. % and 81.
Delaware County Commissioners refused.
pool and billiard privileges to - saloon
applicants at Muncie.
\ beer war is on at LOgaRSN0rt with
prospects of the stuff becoming cheap
enough to sprinkle the streets with.
David Markland. Kokomo. having Z
preSentiment OF sudden death arose IA
bed, kissed his wife and fell back dead
John Graham has filed suit against &c.
prominent Burlington citizens. asking
$1,000 from each for destroying his saloon
with dynamite.
Winamac has no jail and the Git Marshal
has been using Panhandle box-car to
lock prisoners in. He locked several in the
car. and a freight train hauie. CIR and all
away.
At Goshen. Miss katherine S.utsman,
aged o.. tripped as she was crossing her
kitchen floor and fell. death resulting in Il
juries.
John C. Stone. of Chicago, one of
trio of crooks who had desperate battle
with Deputy SheriffS in Fort Wayne on
May %. WAS sentenced 10 serve - years IT.
Michigan City Penitentiary.
BY reason OF the Nicholson law nine
saloons have 50 far been forced out of
business in Clinton County. Two with
drew at kirkln. one at Sedalla. one at
ColfaX and three al Frankfort.
John Leisure. aged 81 years. while haul
inc school desks near Arlington. struck a
rock and was thrown from the spring seat
of the wagon under the horses feet They
began kicking and ,rampled him 20 death.
Miss Mary Ward. school teacher near
Farmland, was struck by lightning. II
struck her on the forehead crcling the
head. and then shot down the backbone to
her feet. tearing her shoes off. Her recov-
cry is doubtful.
At Nashville. Jesse Williams. 4 box was
leading a COW 10 pasture and became en-
tangled in the rope. frightening the COW.
1t began TO run and dragged the boy sew
eral blocks. iniurng him seriously about
the head and shoulders.
iiiN 1ANh. Alui l-!lt, Dt>tui Oi Tic
NJ. T.. Church nj Farmland having been
elected State Organizer of the Patriotic
Order Sons OF America. Will resign fro.n
the ministry. and remove 10 indianapolis
for permanent residence.
At Diamond Lake. about thirty miles
from South Bend, a pleasure steamboat.
the Leo Roy, had on board q party of peo-
pie from Mishawaka. and when out IL
mid-lake the boat sprang Il leak. The
captain ran her into shallow water Just as
she sank and saved the lives o. nose Oh
board, who were taken 10 land H. a row
beat.
Thomas Cook, aged II. WHO was sent to
prison for one year from Greene County.
has been part0ncd by Governor Matthews.
Cook was convicted last February on The
charge of enlightenment. lie was guardian
for several heirs. and when he made his
settlement he WAS $1,000 Sh0rt. lie dis
appeared for two months ana his friends
that his mind was unbalanced
The Judge and Jury that tricd him eXcr;ed
all influence in behalf of the pardon.
An accident occurred at the iiods0n
gravel pit, near RuSsiavile. resulting i'm
the death OF Alexander James. who was
working in the pit shoyeling sand. lie
was getting his sand from under a high
bank, which caved in and buried him
alive. His son-in- law. who was with him.
worked almost an hour in removing the
earth and sand. and found tie Old gentleman
still conscious. He was taken IA town.
but died in the wagon. He was - years
old.
Cora Teal. - years old. daughter OF
Squire u. j. Teal. of Oakland, was
afflicted. and the death which
came to her few days ago was relief
from terrible suffering. Her head had
grown enormously, weighing, perhaps.
more than all the rest of he body COM
bined. She had never stood upon her feet
Turing her lifetime. as the weight Of her
head over balanced her. Her arms and
hands were normal, but the lower limbs
lid not grow correspondingly.
indianapolis capitalists are said to be
behind an enterprise for tl,e construction
Of an electric railway line from huntington
10 Ligonier, by way of Columbia City
Ruch Bros. of the latter place. who
represent the Indianapolitans have applied
o the Common Council of Columbia City
Tor right of way through the streets of
that place and the franchise was readily
granted. The object of building the line
S TO tap fine summer resort region. the
territory for miles on either side of the pro-
posed line being dotted with beautiful
axes. The distance between Huntington
md Ligonicr is about forty miles.
The grand jury at Rockville has returned
IN indictment against Daniel kellar. Nan
lie. his wife. and Mag gie, his sister. charg-
NJ them Jointly with the murder of Clara
,hanks, July &. The motive for the crime
Vas jealousy on the part of Mrs. kellar,
who suspected her husband of intimacy
with the girl. II is supposed the girl went
o the Kellar house, where fight ensued.
n winch the girl was killed. Her body
was concealed until night, when it was
carried and thrown into a pool. where it
was discovered early next morning. Sui
idle was the first theory. This is dSproved
~ wounds afterward found on the body.
The first annual picnic Of the farmers OF
Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan
vas held at South Bend with an attend
ince of about 5000. Hon. Alpha MeSSer
If Vermont, Worthy Lecturer OF the Ma
ional Grange, delivered an address.
Lewis Allen accidentally shot ana killed