Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-08-16
EASTERN.

The will Of the Duchess of Castellucia,
Just filed in New York, contains this queer
paragraphs: Having already given my
husband, Edward l.. Dwyer, at various
times, money and other property, L here
by give to him the sum of $40, and no
more" She left an estate worth $319,-
600.
Early Friday morning fire started in the
lumber piles of the Skillings, Whitney "
Barnes Lumber Company at Ogdensburg,
~ " At o'clock the department from
Prescott, Ont, arrived in response 10 IN
appeal for assistance. but from ten TO
twelve million feet of pine lumber was
destroyed. 1t is valued at 100000.
Judge O'Br,en. of the Supreme Court
at New York, appointed Courtlandt e..
Clark receiver of the Lockwood Munufac
turing Company, manufacturers of build
ers' hardware at South NOrwalk. Conn.
in suit brought by William Z. Foss for
a dissolution of the corporation. The liz
bilities of the corporation amount to
$3.50, 900.
Wilmington, Del. is fairly flooded with
counterfeit silver dollars. About ten days
ago one was presented at the Farmers
Bank by depositor and detected. Since
then the banks have been on the lookout
and dozens have been found and TUNED
down. They were presented by innocent
depositors, who had accepted them in the
course of business. The spurious coins
are thicker than the genuine dollars, but
of lighter weight. The composition of
which they are made is soft and can be
readily cut with Il knife.
A Washington dispatch says: The
Philadelphia Lexow Committee has begun
it's work. Senator Quay has evidence in
his possession strong enough to send to
the penitentiary fifty of the men who are
fighting him hardest in the Quaker City
under the banner of reform The bulk
of this evidence relates to frauds in con-
nection with the construction of the new
city building. which has already cost $780,
00O.O 900. and TO the aqueduct and other
contracts. IT will show how contractors
have been obliged for years to make out
bills for double the amounts actually
earned and pay over the stolen half to
members of the ring now clamoring for
reform.
A telegram from Bailey's Island, Maine,
announced Wednesday the sudden death
of George Frederic Root, whose home for
many years had been at Hyde Park, H..
and who had composed the music for more
than score of the most popular songs
that have ever been enshrined in the
hearts of the American people. His death
is a tremendous blow to the musical cir
clcs of the entire country, but it is the
whole people who will mourn his loss rs
Il national calamity. On the field of bat
tie his war songs of Just Before the Bat
tie, Mother" Tramp, Tramp. Tramp."
GLORY, Glory. Hallclujah!' and rally
Round the Flag, Boys" have nerved the
weary feet of marching thousands and
turned victory into defeat in many hot
charge.
The report of the Fab River, Mass,
mill returns for the July quarter shows it
has been prosperous. Thirty corporations
representing SO, 10000 in capital paid
regular dividends amounting to $3JS, 40.
an average of Isl per cent. The average
for the April quarter was LIP per cent.
The Border City mills paid an extra divl-
dend of 10 per cent, 100000. and the
Sycamore mills an extra dividend of 5
per cent, $4,000. from the surplus funds.
The Annawan Manufacturing Company,
Barnaby Manufacturing Company, and
Stevens Manufacturing Company passed
their dividends. The Bourne mill paid
dividends amounting to per cent. The
Troy paid q per cent. the Union 3 per
cent. and ten corporations paid 2 per
cent. each.
Three persons were killed and two Sc
riously injured in Philadelphia Friday
morning. A wagon driven by William
Hasson was struck by n PENNSYLVANIA
Railway locomotive OH the outskirts of the
city at Il grade crossing. The vehicle was
smashed and Hasson was instantly killed.
Edward Miskell and John Husson. a
younger brother of William, were serious
ly injured internally. They were taken
to hospital, where the physicians say
their condition is critical. About the
same time, in another section of the city.
Martin Erwin, while crossing the tracks of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, was
struck by a locomotive and instantly
killed Willie II. Stanley, 6 years old,
was ground to pieces under the wheels
IF a fast-fying trolley car near his home
West Philadelphia.