Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-03-29
WESTERN.

Al Judd. Des Moines gambler. was
shot and killed by Mrs. HALEY Miller at
Denver.
Charles f. Watkins is under arrest
at Denver, Colo, charged with stealing
81 400 in money and gold nuggets from
lbs employer in Chicago.
S. W. Currler and George Perkins have
been arrested for counterfeiting at Butte,
Mont. A perfect set of dies for SO
gold piece of 1853 and for a silver 81 of
1890 were captured.
fremont and Scion McCloskey, broth
ers, employed by the Union Mining Com
pany, at Cripple Creek. have been ar
rested char god with stealing between SJO,-
600 and 100000 worth of ore.
Bob billiard and Frederick de Belle
VILE members of the WAR of Wealth"
company. had Il lively battle on the stage
of a St Louis theater. De Belleville re-
scented billiards. criticism of his acting
and there is talk of duel.
The Supreme Court of the National
Fraternal Union closed its sixth annual
session iS Cincinnati after making many
constitutional amendments and institut-
ing two new degrees. The supreme ott
GERS were elected for four years.
The discovery is announced of n grand
daughter of James q. Fair, who may
play an important part in the will litiga-
ton The child is about > years cid and
is the daughter of James Fair, the ex-
Senator's eldest son. ard Mary Ellen
Lampman. who, ii is asserted, was prob
ably married to young Fair III 1883.
The State of Missouri is in danger Of
being left without citizen Goldiers within
the next three months. The National
Guard of Missouri is in serious financial
straits, and as the Legislature has re-
fused to pass bill granting liberal appr0-
priaticns for maintaining the militia or
carnations, the soldiers are preparing
their designations.
Mrs William Tregear, wife of Il we'll
to do Butte (Mont.) mining man, ran away
from home in company with n married
sister, and taking with her all of her hus-
bands savings and their 6-year-old boy.
She left note behind, telling her husband
that she left him for good because he
would not buy her bicycle. Her sister
also deserted a husband.
Civil service reform for Chicago is now
assured. The Shanahan bill passed the
Illinois Senate with the emergency clause
attached-yeas. IS: nays, II. The Chi
cago citizens who have worked so jealous
ly for the bill are in high feather over
their victory. and predict that civil SER
vice reform will be in practical operation
in Chicago city departments before the
year is out.
The majorty report of the Committee
on Elections and Suffrage was presented
to the Constitutional convention ut Salt
Lake. Utah. The report recommends
woman suffrage in the exact language as
carried in the Constitution of Wyoming.
One section of the report provides that
no person shall have n right 10 vote who
shall not be able to read the Constitution
,f the United States.
The packing houses of Reid Bros. mt
Armourdale, Kan, were damaged $780,
600, fully covered by insurance. Seven
persons were rescued from a burning reg
idence in Baltimore. One of them, a
woman, will probably die of injuries.
Three persons were injured, one of Their
fatally. ut fire in the residence of Fred
erick Klosman, of Philadelphia. -Four
firemen lost their lives in the Denver
hotel fire.
Cornelius Lamenyon, q wealthy farmer
OF La Grange, Ind, called his wife and
children into his room and compelled
them by threats of instant death TO re-
main while he removed one shoe and
stocking, seated himself i'm Il chair. placed
gun to the side of his head and pulled
the trigger with his great toe. The
charge mangled his head into shapelesss
mass. He was addicted 10 the use of
liquor.
by an explosion of gas in the Rocky
Mountain Coal and Iron Company's
mine No. ) at Red Canon, several miles
from Evanston, Wyo., seventeen men
are known to have been killed, and it is
feared the list will comprise at least fifty
when the details of the horror are known.
From twenty-five to fifty men were in the
pit at the time of the explosion and none
of them have been rescued alive, SO it is
feared all are dead. Eight men known
to have been i'm the mine have not yet
been accounted for. The mine was con-