Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-04-05

Store and understands the business and
will treat all his customers with fair
ness.
alert bicycles are made and sold by
Underwood 4 Walls, Center street, near
! TT. Wayne tracks. Call and see them
before buying your mount for 1895. The
celebrated ''Spaulding" wheel and other
makes, also sundries of all kinds on
hand.
Joseph Jackson. a prominent LaPorte
citizen, committed suicide last week by
shooting himself in the head He had
been out of employmet for some time,
and this is supposed to have led to the
act. lie was quite prominent in
Masonic circles.
Bremen and Argos telephone lines
are now in successful operation. The
telephone exchange list has materially
increased there now being 1O5 actual
subscribers, which makes larger num-
Der of telephone users in this city. than
in any other city of its size in the state.
CreamO.
The soda fountains which have been
alternating all winter are coming out
of the cellars like the ground hog out
of his hole, and are just now being
FURNISHED and polished and cleaned
and getting ready for the fizZ and foam
of soda water as soon as sugar time is
over.
Sheriff Smith was in South Bend on
Tuesday and brought the five Bremen
rioters to the county jail. On Wednes-
day, at the preliminary hearing before
Judge Cspron, they were acquitted on
the charge of assault with intent to kill
with the exception of Chas. Cooper, the
leader, who will be tried on April 15
Through the courtesy of o. f. Ketch-
ain, secretary of our Business Mems
Association, we are favored with a copy
of the Indiana State Board of Com
merce, which gives full account of its
citation will do a great deal for the
advancement of our state, and the good
work already done begins to bear fruit.
Among the new residences to be
built in Plymouth this spring is one by
Mr. E. c. Martindale on CAIRO street.
The building will be frame one built
in a modern style and will make one of
the finest residences in town. The car
penter work will commence about May
1st, and will be done by Moon & Grant
"a guarantee that it will be done
artistically and iii the best manner
possible.
Monday last was the first day of
April, commonly known as April Fool S
Day. The liverymen remembered it
when five or six of them drove up to
Blain's drug store early in the morning
with their best rigs to take passengers
to different parts of the United States
and Canada. Some one had sent for
them by telephone, but deponent sayeth
not who the guilty party was. After a
merry "April fool" the livery took their
carriages back to the barn.
"Some time ago. said the lady from
Chicago, "my coachman, who is
Swede, and understands and talks Eng
lish imperfectly, was down town and
dropped in at Salvation Army meet
ing. When he came home he told me
about it. He said: a womans comes
up to me and asks how | like to work
for Yesus' And what did you tell
herr 1 inquired, The man scratched
his head a minute and then he said:
Il say no; yot ayob NIT Mrs. Evans.T
Passengers and loungers at the Fort
Wayne depot Monday morning were
given the privilege of seeing the car of
Hermann, the great wizard. Some of
the more daring ones even declare that
they saw the long black mustache and
goatee of the great man through the
car window. Hermann was on his way
from Chicago to Fl. Wayne, where he
appeared Monday night. He had his
private car attached to the 1875 train
and it was gayly decorated with banners
and picture of the great wizard him.
self.
Astronomers say that on Good Friday,
a week from to-day, the heavenly bod
les which gravitate around the sun will
be in exactly the same position they
occupied in the armament the day
Chyist died on the cross. 1t will be the
first time such thing has occurred
since that great day, just 1862 years ago.
That was the thirty-third year of the
Christian Era, which dates from Christ's
birth. At IL 30 p. m., on April II, New
Y ork time, the neon will pass before
Virginus, Spacio, and hide that conStel-
latiOn for over an hour
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