Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-09-20
WESTERN.

! VIM. ConnOr. IL well-drcSSed stranger.
called upon the sheriff ut lEdianauoliS.
Ind. demandin" protection from his enc
mics. He WAS detained az an insane per-
son. He gave his home as Pullman. Ill.,
| Winnie Andrews. Il Port Townsend.
Wash. nurse girl. received Il letter mott
! flying her of the death Of her grand
mother. who died in Boston leaving SO
600. She has quit work and will go East
To get the money
-Four masked men compelled section
hands 10 tear NJ part of the track Of the
Southern Kansas Railroad ut Curtis.
o. T., and when the west-bound passen-
ger train was brought to stop the ban
dts riticd the express ear and escaped
X. &. Meade. the Atchison. Kan. in
surance agent who absconded few years
ago with about 10000 which had been
intrusted TO him. has been located in
New York. and telegram has been sent
ordering his arrest. Meade was prom
inent church member. \ biz reward was
offered for his apprehension.
The lay electoral conference at Ann
Arbor. Mich. of the Detroit Methodist
Conference allowed eleven women To be
seated. practically without any opposition
The Committee on Credentials made no
objection whatever To the women taking
their seats. and the conference ratified the
action by adopting the report on an almost
unanimous vote
Mrs. Hiram Place and Mrs a. c. An
derson. of Santa Cruz. Cal. are among
the heirs TO the Leake estate of New
York. valued ut S2O00O0.O0O. Claim
MT - "a.
sion Of the estate for forty years After
Leake's death the property eschcatcJ to
the State of New York. The heirs reside
i'll Kentucky, Missouri and on the Pa
cific coast.
Passenger trains Nos. and 8 on the
Great Northern had IL head-end collision
near Mclby. Mimi. Wednesday morning.
five trainmen being killed. Both trains
were running at a high rate of speed and
came together with terrific force. Five
are injured. including three mail clerks.
one brakeman and one passenger Just
how the wreck happened does not appear
1t was on n heavy grade. and how the
death list is SO small is miraculous, as
both engines. mail and baggage ears are
complete wrecks. All the dead were res
idents of st. Paul. Mail Agent Fleck
SttIu lie ulu Eol see HOW the mali agents
escaped death. as ut the point where the
accident took place it was always custom
airy for an agent Of each train TO he
sleeping.
The feverish spasm of high temperature
which afflicted Chicago in common with
most of the area of the Mississippi Val
ley relaxed about 10 o'clock Thursday
when. on Il shift of the wind to the
northeast, the mercury i'll the thermome-
tiers began to descend. and during a quar-
ter of an hour declined at the rate IF
one degree Il minute. 80 rapid Il change
in temperature has seldom been noted by
the weather observers. The pronounced
alterations of the temperature of the air
may be accounted for OH the theory that
the unreasonable and unreasonable
weather of the last three days was caused
by unusual meteorological conditions held
in such unstable relation that the return
of the normal was sudden, once the ten
sion was removed.
Passenger boats from Michigan all had
tempestuOus voyages Thursday night.
All cs them passed through the ordeal
without serious mishap, however, and
were not over an hour or SO late on ar
irving. Had it been any other time of
the year than the height of the fruit sea
son, it is likely that some of the steam
ers would not have started out, but 10
have remained in port made such an inn
mense loss on their fruit cargoes that
they put out regardless of the furioi is
norther. The City of Kalamazoo took
i'm to Chicago from South Haven the big
gest cargo of peaches ever shipped from
that place. 1t consisted of II, 100 has
Eafs inn, oh
ed all the freight room and crowded the
passenger cabin, the steamer went
through all right, without damaging any
of the fruit.
Mrs. Olstrom, wife of a section Gore
man, saved the west-bound fast mail