Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-01-18
Condensed state News.

NArPANE>E people are anxious for an
opera house.
TIE business portion OF Carpcntersville
was visited by a 5000 fire.
THE Columbia Rifles of Anderson viii
rcmUster in the State militia.
HUNDREDS of people have signed the
pledge III &c Charlottesville temperance re
vival.
THE Soldiers Home at Marion i 50
crowded that not another man can be re-
ccved
AN unknown bencfactor of a Catholic
church in Hammond has donated an $500
altar u the church.
\ Gas well urst iis anchorage at FL
wood and hurled tie casing out. causing
considerable damage.
ALRERT MAR8EREY has been arrested
at Ard .rSon charged with stealing two gold
baptiSmal cups from the altar of II. Mary's
Catholic Church. lie confessed his guilt.
Two CoIoREo men entered a South Bend
hardware store. the other day. ANA asked
10 see some rcyoycrS and cartridges. They
loaded the weapons. covered the proprietor,
looted the money drawer ana skipped.
TIE .JeiferSOnyilie Board of Police Com
missioner, has decided that. in the future,
all saloons must d. closed on sunday. \
demand to this effect was made on the
Commissioners several days since by
cOmmitte OF the ministers. This will lead
TO bitter fight. as il is expected that the
saloon keepers viii retaiiatc and demand
that business of al kinds DE entirely Sus-
pended on sunday.
TIE two-story frame farm residence of
David Darrah. four miles southeast Of
Noblesville. was badly wrecked ny an ex-
plOSi0n of natural Gas which had accumu-
lated from leaky pipes in the cellar. VIM
dows were blown out. doors blown from
hinges and the building generally wrecked.
Mrs. Darrah and her Step-sOn. Roy Oar
rah. If years old. were badly burned and
otherwise injured. The full extent of their
injuries is not known, but they are re-
ported serious.
NEW YEARS evening AmSie Burke,
Stanley RusSey. and Albert johnson. clerks
in grocery at Muncie. made a wager
which if Observed will prevent any Of them
from partaking of food or any kind of
nOurishment except milk during the pres
ent year 1t is given out 10y medical 3I-
thority that such feat is possible if the
young men do not get sick of the nourish-
ment. If they succeed the total cost Of
their food fer the year Will be less than So
They are not allowed To drink over half
pint OF milk each hour.
THE boiler in the saw-mill of Charles
Davis. at RoSStOn. ten miles east of Leba-
non. exploded. The escape of the FIVE en-
ployes was the remarkable thing about il.
They were called cut into the mill yard TO
assist in rolling a log and had gone but a
ST whom ~ pN al an "a
One side of the building was blown fully
200 feet, while part of the machinery was
thrown much farther. Although the de-
bris fell all around the men in the yard,
not one was seriously injured. The mill
was completely wrecked.
THERE was a touching funeral cOrtege
arrived at Beech Grove Cemetery. at Mun-
Gle. recently. The child of poor family
i'm a remote part of the city died. and the
family could not afford a funeral. Tie
father made a neat box in which the child
was placed and it was conveyed to the
cemetery on a small hand sled drawn by
two brothers. who had dug the
little grave. The father and mother
walked along behind the sled. The burial
was conducted by the family, with no other
spectator except Sexton .Iewett.
ers of Montgomery County brought suit
against Charles +. Davis. Sheriff. for fail
ure To pay the fees collected 10y him. a
Sheriff, into the county treasury. and 10
make Il report to the County Auditor. as
provided for by the fee and salary law Of
1891. Davis claimed that under the recent
decision of the Supreme Court. in relation
TO treasurerS. recorders. and auditors, the
10, j. l,t,f
that the part of the law fixing the fees to Toe
taxed is valid, and he. Therefore. claimed
that. as the law fixing the salary was void,
the fees taxed belonged 10 him. and that the
board had no right to require him to pay
this money into the county treasury or TO
make him report 10 the County Auditor.
The case was up before Judge Harvey and
he sustained Sheriff Davis. ruling that. by
reason of the recent decision of the SUI
preme Court the salary part of the law is in
operative and void. He holds that the law
is so connected together that if the salary
part of the law is unconstitutional as 10
these officers, il cannot be enforced against
the Sheriff or Clerk.
PATENTS have been awarded 10 residents
of Indiana as follows: James NJ. Allison,
indianapolis. aSSignor of one-fourth To A.
A. Banks, Marion County. illuminated
street car sign; William ii. Bailey, Muneie,
annealing box; William A. Cochran. as
signor of one-half TO VI. Clune, Indiana
polls. curtain stretcher; George l.. Coils
Muncie. machine for Strengthening and set
ting aXles; Frederick L. Maus, Greenfield,
assgnOr of One-half 10 +. b. Whitehead,
INDIANAPOLIS, rolls for reducing railway
rails. etc: Artemus +. McNaughton, JEFF
H.,
Grove, dust separator: Edward :. Morgan,
Richmond. assignor 10 III. Cochrane, Cleye-
land, Ohio. anc G.. Cochran1. ST. Thomas.
Canada, wire weaving fence machine;
James Nortney. New Albany, and +.
Schefold, Pa kersburg, Va, electric lamp
supporter: John Pfender, Evansville,
pump; Francis W. Robinson, assignor 10
Robinson & Co. Richmond. thrashing ma
chine and stacker attachment therefor;
Frank Schefold and j. Nortney. New Al
bany. electric lamp support: William III.
Sholl and j. Schneider, Valparaiso. whiffie-
tree: Charles ". Woodbury., Mishwaka,