Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
Minor State News.

OMlNG 10 Il balbefS war at bDSilcsi "a
hair cut costs but tea cents.
THE latest Improvement tailed of fer
South Bend is a Slee.t hotel.
Ell WEST Of Falkland, was sunsiruclI
while fishing lie is in prccariOus condi-
ton.
Mrs.. Jomy York. Peru. by mistake
gaze her two children kerosene to drink.
Nay prove fatal.
IL the last few days food of counter
felt ten-cent-pieces have found their way
into circulation at ElwOOd.
JESSE CIRCUIT. 1o-year-cld son CT !.
Group. fell iir the Elkhart River while fish,
inc at Goshen and was drowned.
DOPE CECIL. young farmer near Farm
land, was in lis barn when il was struck
by lightning. lie was instantly killed. =
IT is estimated that the wheat crop in
Hamilton county viii not average a buShel
10 the acre. and bat little viii be harvested.
Met KERNAI. OF Rockport. aged Is, was
accidentally shot and killed by Robert
Meyers. aged l.. The boys were shooting
birds.
\ NUMBER of heirs 10 Lord Autrim's
estate in ireland. valued at S75,o01.c0o, re-
side near Elwood. They will push their
claims.
JDIMY BEGGS went into White River at
Columbus. fer ire purpose OF drowning
two cats. lie was seized with cramps and
lost his life.
Louis ASIwoETI. young farmer liv-
ing near Alpine. was fatally kicked in the
stomach by horse which became fright
ened at passing bicycle.
SUIT for $1,000 has been filed against the
Panhandle railway al kokolao 10y the adj
ministrator of the estate of Oscar Romick.
Romick WAS killed while unloading goods
from a car.
MORGAN BLACK rode up TO George Fish
erS house. near Nj. Vernon, and shot him
dead. Fisher kept company with Blacks
sister and Black suspected that something
was Wr0ng.
WILLIAM McDoSALD. a taller. who had
iust returned from 4 three weeks unsuc-
ccssful hunt for work. committed sulcr.e
at Kokomo with laudanun, leaving wife
and two children.
JAMES RUMDAUGU. farmer near La
porte. allowed a stranger to make him be-
lieve that lie was a cousin of his and then
gave him - and signed a paper. The ia'-
ter turns cat To be note.
ALvARADo IioM,,EII. Madison. has re-
ceiyed a white cap notice. saying that
he will suffer bodily harm unless he exc
cutes deed FOR graveyard plat lie
owns tie ground lIt refuses TO sell.
FRED SMcck. a farm hand near Terre
Uaute. while returning from a call on
Farmer Penninglon'S daughter, was shot
by some unknown person and dangerously
wounded. The assailaat is supposed 10 be
jealous rival.
JOHN Cook. a colOred barber, aged 20,
ATTEMPTED TO crawl under a freight train
at a street crossing on the Big -Four road at
Muncie, and beth legs We're mashed 80
badly that ampuiaiion al the hips was nee
cssary. He died three hours later.
CHRIS MEIER barn, near Jacksonville,
was struck by lightning and destroyed.
| His daughter. who was alone II home,
succeeded in rescuing seven head of hCrseS.
The barn contained several fine buggies.
surveys. etc. and The loss VIII reach - 900.
Ina weeds near .IoneSville. sam Smalt-
wood. of that place. while squirrel hunting,
was almost instantly killed 10y the acct
dental discharge of bis gun. Smallwood
is the third son of the family to meet death
in an unnatural way. one son died from
the effects Of eating poisonous herb and
another was killed in railroad wreck.
CHARLES Stout. a well known resident
of Monroe Township. Howard County, who
/ has been Ill, left his room and went cut on
the second story VeTanda TO get breath of
| fresh air. While there he tainted and fell
off the structure TO the ground. In the fall
his head struck a step. tearing his scalp of
and iniiicting other injuries from which he
will probably die.
A PETITION IS being circulated at Bra
I'll. and literally signed, asking the Gov
ernor TO pardon James Booth. aged ~,
/ Robert Rankin, aged Is, and William VIII
son. aged Il. who are now serving two
year sentences for the murder of Engineer
| William Barr OF the Nandalia, on June 6,
1894. The prisoners were strikers, and
stoned Barr, who was a nOn-union engi-
neer, TO death.
MARION SHIDELER. a farmer aged 20,
residing three miles northwest of Cam
bridge City, was thrown from a load Of
straw and died from his injuries. lie
was crossing the Lake Erie and Western
tracks. his horses became frightened by
Big Four train using the tracks, and the
team ran away. Rounding a correr, Dir.
Shideler was thrown Oft the hay. against \
tree and his skull fractured.
OK May p. Mrs. Mary Day Of Green
castle, widow, placed s3o in paper money
on stove in an ordinary purse. She
placed the top of the stove over the same
for safe keeping. The next morning was
chilly one and she built fire in the stove,
which burned her pocketboOk and money
into an unrecOgnizable mass of ashes. The
wreck was gathered up 10y a newspaper
reporter. who. rs an experiment. took the
| same 10 the Central National Bank 10 for
ward TO Washington. This was done to-
| gether with a statement of the circum-
stances, and the other day Mrs. Day re-
ceived a draft for her so. How the money
was identified is a mystery 10 one unac-
Quaintcd with the system employed by the
government as the bills were nothing but
ashes when removed and could not be told
from the other ashes of the burned book.
A FAST fruit train ON the Wabash struck
and killed William kuyjah in the yards at
Logansport. The victim was 53 years old,
and was on his way To the home OF Miss
| Minnie Goldsmith 10 whom he was 10 be