Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-09-27
Condensed state News.
Minor state News.

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man. lost a hand while making a coupling
at RockpOrt.
The total amount given away to the poor
! by Indiana township trustees during 1894
was $3.50 223322.227
John Leisure, Of Arlington, was kicked
to death by horses after being jolted from
his seat on a wagon.
Henry Hale. who has been missing at
Goshen, has been found dead in the woods.
He committed suicide.
knightStown is enjoying an oil boom.
Major DoXey of Anderson, is said to have
made Il rich strike there.
The old Masonic Temple at LOganSpOrt
was torn down. and several old coins were
found liz tile corner stone.
Fort Wayne will celebrate her centen-
nail anniversary, Oct. -, 10, Il, and Is,
and will celebrate it right.
August RoSencranz. a Laporte carpen-
ter. hanged himself. He had been married
three times, and leaves two children.
John Baliilo ana Michael s,abo employed
/ by the Standard OH Works at Whiting,
were suffocated by escaping gas.
Terre llautc coal dealers have raised the
prices of anthracite - cents ton and it is
expected that they Will advance the rate of
soft coal
The American Plate Glass Works at
Alexandra. the largest plant outside the
trust. has resumed operations with 600
hands.
An epidemic of diphthera is prevailing
in Yorktown, and The opening of the pub
4s.,s+ fl,
pOned.
The Home Land and Improvement Com
pany, with a capital stock of S60, 900, has
been incorporated 10 build houses at Alex
andria for factory employees.
The Supreme Court, in an opinion by
Judge Hackney, held that the statute
under which the humane societies of the
State Kill horS 5 and other animals is in
valid.
BY a surgical operation H-year-old
Blanche Bigham Of Laporie, was relieved
OF a hair-pn that had found lodgment in
her body, causing her acute suffering for
ten years
A small child of Mr.. and Mrs Samuel
Bishop, of Ewood. while playing around
a tub half filled with scalding water,
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manner.
Mrs FoutS, the first female white child
born III Wayne county, still lives on the
old FOutS farm. five miles from Richmond.
She is lightweight years old and in very
good health.
The City Council of Elwood passed an
ordinance compelling the railroad cOmpa-
Mos N maintain fla oman at all croccipnc
and limiting speed of trains within the
corporate limits.
There has been fair strike of petrol
cum near Upland by the Upland Gas and
Oil Company. Two wells have been
drilled in there within the last week. each
yielding about fifty barrels of high grade
oil daily.
Andrew Wallis was run over at Fort
Branch while trying TO board the midnight
+. X I. ii. train. He had both legs ground
TO pieces. He was taken to st. Mary'S
Hospital, Evansville, :and the legs ampu-
tated, death following in two hours.
The entire family of Charles S. Kruger.
of Michigan City, father, mother and five
children now lie buried in the cemetery.
The family was poisoned by eating dis
eaSed pork, and one after another they
succumLed, the last one dying this week.
y curious accident occurred al the Ma
rion fruit jar works. The bottom dropped
out of large tank, Spilling and rendering
worthless d mass of molten glass weighing
100 tons. 1t will be necessary for the fac
tory TO shut down two weeks for repairs
A welltOdO farmer near Eminence. was
run over by a wagon and almost instantly
killed. He was hauling his winter coal
home, and in going down hill his hand
slipped from the brake, throwing him I'M
der the wheels. He leaves large family.
a man 10y the name of Anderson and
two young women were probably fatally
injured in a runaway at WiliamstOwn.
The team dashed down hill, throwing
the party out and iniuring all three The
horses were ruined and the vehicle
wrecked.
Well drllers near BrOwnsburg drilled
through twenty layer of substance
resembling India rubber. At depth of
50 feet they struck piece of pine timber
in good preservation, then came black
deposit resembling very coarse gunpOwder,
followed by an indigO-b blue substance, the
water also being blue.
Van Buren, between the Grant County Oil
Company and the Ohio Oil Company.
Both companies claim a particular lease,
and both have rugged timberS. The first
named company took out ten teams to re-
move the opposition cOmpany's timbers,
but were repulsed with shOtguns.
Patents have been issued to Indianans
as follows: James b. Baird, Elwood.
Timing machine: John j. GaynOr, Indiana
polls, self binding attachment for reaping
machines; George Cross, Plymouth. BIZ
cycle frame and finishing; Emsley Har-
per, Lawrence, earth auger; Francis A.
Hedges, Vera Cruz, bundle binder; John
HetheringtOn, Porter, insect powder
distributor. Albert III. Kennedy, Rock
port, ball bat: Thomas Nelson, emboss-
ing machine: Johl K. ROuth, Jefferson
vile, mail bag carrier; Washington +.
Walb, Greencastle, harness.
Roscoe kimble, receiver of the Citizens
Bank, of Converse which went to the wall
In June, 1898, has declared a dividend of
fifteen per cent. to depOstOrs, payable
Sept. 81. This will make total of 81 I-2 |
per cent. paid thus far, and there are
enough assets TO pay all claims in full.